Norway, Israel and the Jews
If Norway’s foreign policy were hammered out from a humanitarian perspective, Norway would chastise UAE, whose humanitarian record is abysmal, and laud Israel, which is a democracy. When we see the opposite, perhaps that indicates that Norway’s foreign policy in the middle east is less idealistic than our red-green government would have us believe....
Aftenposten is one of Norway’s two largest newspapers. Aftenposten’s chief editor Hilde Haugsgjerd is a former Maoist. One of the newspapers journalists covering the Middle East is a former member of Palestinakomiteen. Today Aftenposten endorses Vibeke Løkkeberg’s movie “Tears of Gaza”, which focuses on the horrors of war. But not any old war. Israel’s...