Norway, Israel and the Jews
Wednesday, 03rd of March 2011. Editorials as follows: Dagbladet and Aftenposten regret that the gov’t has decided on building the “monster pylons” (electricity pylons in the nature area of Hardanger). VG: “Stop Gaddafi!” Dagsavisen on the postponement of the gov’t “moon landing project” – catching and saving CO2 from the gas plant at Mongstad. Vårt Land on...
It has been brought to our attention that we, in a post observing that Harald Stanghelle hugged Yassir Arafat in Tripoli in Lebanon in 1984, erroneously wrote that Harald Stanghelle today is the editor of Klassekampen (Class struggle). We apologize for our mistake. Harald Stanghelle, who has stated that the Jerusalem Post is a...
Minister of Development Erik Solheim (Socialist Left) recently stated that Deng Xiaoping deserves a “peace and development prize”. Solheim now adds that futhermore, he does not mind being compared with Deng Xiaoping. These statements would worry the Norwegian population more if we were less used to them. It would not be so bad if...
Odd-Bjørn Fure, director of the Center for Holocaust Studies, is furious with Manfred Gerstenfeld, an Israeli expert on contemporary anti-Semitism. Having previously accused Gerstenfeld of being part of an “Israeli propaganda-offensive” (Gerstenfeld has written a book on anti-Semitism in Norway) the angry director now takes his campaign up a notch by saying that Gerstenfeld...
The Norwegian left-of-centre has two sets of standards for the world: a very high standard for Israel and a far slacker one for everybody else. Make no mistake, if Libya was Israel, people would be marching in the streets of Oslo by now. Today’s editorials: Dagbladet elaborates on terrorism on the occasion of the...