Monthly Archives: January 2011

Academic vs “academic”

by McGonagall • January 31, 2011 • 0 Comments

I just read a very interesting OpEd by social anthropologist Unni Wikan, a true academic with feet firmly planted in reality to judge both by her CV and published material. Unni (I am sure she wont object to this familiarity,…

by admin • January 31, 2011 • 0 Comments

Following a number of anti-Semitic incidents and international criticism, the Holocaust Centre is being given funds to survey anti-Semitism in contemporary Norway. But is the leader of the Holocaust Centre, Odd-Bjørn Fure, the right man for the job? We need…

by admin • January 31, 2011 • 0 Comments

Norwegians are being fed shoots from the demonstrations in Cairo around the clock these days, but how large are the demonstrations really? Oslo har a population of approx. 600 000. Cairo has a population well in excess of 15 000…

by admin • January 31, 2011 • 0 Comments

Hans Olav Syversen (Christian Democrats) is a well-mannered gentleman who can always be counted on in the fight anti-Semitism. Verdens Gang publishes an article today where Syversen makes his mind known on Hizb ut Tahrir and Qaradawi. A few quotes:…

by McGonagall • January 31, 2011 • 0 Comments

As the riots in Egypt reach day 7 and no signs of any of the parts yielding to pressure, media outlets around the world seem to be in the mood for a little fantasy, to stoke the flames of discontent…

by admin • January 30, 2011 • 5 Comments

Norway is doing well. Jeffrey Sachs is warning us not to let our successes go to our heads. Dagens Næringsliv published two pages on Sachs’ warnings yesterday (Saturday January 29th). Sachs points out that Norway is not immune to the…

by admin • January 30, 2011 • 3 Comments

When Israel enforced its blockade of Hamas-run Gaza in May last year, prominent Norwegians went berserk with rage over the death of nine cudgel-wielding activists. Meanwhile on the streets of Cairo, the despotic regime of Egypt’s Mubarak has killed one…

by admin • January 30, 2011 • 1 Comment

An article in Stavanger avisen (SA) warns about the development of religiously-based ghettos in Denmark. The SA article is based on an article in the well-reputed Danish newspaper Politiken. Unauthorized translation below: Politiken writes, that they fear that Denmark’s ghettos…

by admin • January 29, 2011 • 0 Comments

TV2′s interview with Khaled Mashaal makes it obvious that whatever Støre’s motivation was for telephoning Khaled Mashaal, Mashaal is using Hamas’ contacts with Norway as a ladder to respectability and acknowledgement. Today Dagfinn Høybråten, leader of the Christian Democrats, states…

by admin • January 29, 2011 • 0 Comments

This weekend state broadcaster NRK was silent on Støre’s talks with Hamas. This is not good news. The editorial in Dagsavisen, formerly more aptly named Arbeiderbladet (Labor-magazine), applauds Støre and condemns the opposition for criticzing him. While the editorial is…

by admin • January 29, 2011 • 0 Comments

DagenMagazinet’s editorial today is on Støre’s talks with Hamas. It criticizes Støre’s ME politics and praises TV2 for its journalism. Unauthorized translation: “Norway has put herself on the sidetracks in any negotiation in the Middle East. We are no more…

by admin • January 29, 2011 • 0 Comments

VG’s editorial today was on Støre’s telephone chats with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal. In an interview with TV2 Støre first denied having had any, then came around and admitted that he had. Unauthorized translation: STØRE AND HAMAS Editorial FM Jonas…

by admin • January 29, 2011 • 6 Comments

Five years after having written one of the most ludicrously anti-Semitic op-ed’s in Norwegian history, Jostein Gaarder still considers it to have been an expression of “legitimate Israel-criticism”. In 2006, author and academic Mr. Jostein Gaarder wrote one of the…

by admin • January 28, 2011 • 0 Comments

There is much to be said for Jonas Gahr Støre. There is much to be said for the political elite to which he belongs. But he has, albeit perhaps unwillingly, being giving out the wrong signals to Hamas and thereby…

by admin • January 28, 2011 • 2 Comments

Most Norwegians would not like it if Lieberman chit-chatted with the Taliban, who are trying to kill our soldiers in Afghanistan. Especially if we first had explicitly asked him not to do so. Now Norway’s post-realist politics have led our…

by admin • January 28, 2011 • 0 Comments

Many Norwegians would resent it if Lieberman were to jaw-jaw with the Taliban. Now Støre has been chattering with Hamas. Aftenposten.no quotes from an Israeli embassy press release in the article “All contact with Hamas is damaging“: – Israel’s position…

by admin • January 28, 2011 • 0 Comments

Yesterday TV2 confronted FM Jonas Gahr Støre with his telephone conversations with Hamas. The MFA has rushed in a press release to explain. Now Støre probably had the best of intentions in mind when he picked up the telephone. He…

by admin • January 28, 2011 • 0 Comments

Below: TV2 article: “Støre has had secret talks with Hamas“. Above: The israelwhat.com take on the Støre-Hamas affair: We got to keep them separated! TV2 publishes the article Secretly, FM Jonas Gahr Støre has been in talks with the top…

by admin • January 28, 2011 • 0 Comments

Norway FM has been very naughty and admits to have enjoyed telephone-chats with Hamas leader Mashaal in Damascus in 2007. In Dagbladet above we see Støre trying to conclude the interview as he is confronted with the issue of the…

by McGonagall • January 28, 2011 • 0 Comments

TV 2 brought shocker news that FM Støre has had direct phone contact with Hamas leadr Mashaal in Damascus in 2007. He has the audacity to claim that this probably helped set up a unity government in PA/Gaza. This is…

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