Monthly Archives: May 2011

Gaza-Chaudhry decides to stay home after all

by McGonagall • May 31, 2011 • 2 Comments

Happy news from VG today: The vice president of the Parliament Akhtar Chaudrhy wont go to Gaza after all: FM Jonas Gahr Støre has previously warned against participating in the convoy. He thinks that the red-green politicians who participate int…

by Kafka • May 31, 2011 • 5 Comments

Sidsel Wold is triumphant these days. After her jury nullification acquittal by the Broadcasting Council and a flurry of awards and nominations, she obviously feels she can let loose on the home stretch. Her latest rant is an attempt at…

by admin • May 31, 2011 • 4 Comments

The opposition keeps demanding straight answers from FM Støre on the situation in the Middle East. Støre has now replied to a question posed by parliamentarian Hans Olav Syversen (Christian Peoples’ Party). Notice that Støre, while not willing to call…

by McGonagall • May 29, 2011 • 2 Comments

The season of festivals is upon us and in the UK that means a lot of fun and provocations. This weekend, festival goers to Hay-on-Wye literature festival got a bit of everything, starting with a scientist who presented credible studies…

by admin • May 29, 2011 • 1 Comment

The weekly summaries are supplied by Normakor. Norwegian media memes on Israel, Jews, and the Middle East Week of May 22, 2011 Aftenposten’s article titled “Rich Jews Threaten Obama” (reported here last week) created a bit of a stir-up, prompting…

by Kafka • May 28, 2011 • 2 Comments

You don’t have to read Norwegian newspapers for a long time to realize that NTB functions a bit like the political commisariate for the press here. Their releases read like political talking points for the editors who reprint things. NTB…

by McGonagall • May 27, 2011 • 1 Comment

Several human rights organizations has asked the Crown Prince of Norway, Haakon, to not go on an official visit to Azerbaijan, according to Vårt Land. His Royal Highness is going to represent Norwegian business interests at the opening of the…

by admin • May 27, 2011 • 0 Comments

When Aftenposten published the “Rich Jews threaten Obama” headline, they did not understand how that was wrong until first their readers and then the world reacted. Aftenposten’s completely uncritical coverage of how an art project allowed youngsters to spray-paint “Free…

by admin • May 27, 2011 • 4 Comments

We Norwegians are obsessed with Israel. Always something, and so rarely anything good. NRK offers a lengthy article by journalist Dan Robert Larsen, on the situation of the bedouin on the West Bank. This is run of the mill bad-news…

by Kafka • May 26, 2011 • 2 Comments

Foreign minister Støre wrote an article for Dagsavisen that was also published on the government website. Here follows an unauthorized translation: Dialogue: upheavals in the Arab world could also provide a framework for a new spring between Palestinians and Israelis.…

by admin • May 26, 2011 • 0 Comments

Life in Norway is not all sunshine and roses. Sometimes tough decisions need to be made. As luck has it, the Norwegian media corps usually manages to stay on top of the situation. Verdens Gang journalist Anders Park Framstad reports:…

by admin • May 26, 2011 • 8 Comments

When times in Norway were hard, the USA took in our emigrants. When Norway was occupied during WWII, the USA stepped in to stop the nazi aggression. All through the cold war, the USA kept the wolf from our door.…

by McGonagall • May 26, 2011 • 0 Comments

Following story that the MoD and the defense establishment are not too keen to let the public know what our boys actually do in our name in Libya, VG now reports that army chief Harald Sunde says that the army…

by McGonagall • May 26, 2011 • 2 Comments

Who would have thought it? Norway, or to be precise, the current political leadership, who is always harping on about Israel and her obligation to be transparent in all she does, is more than reluctant to let us Norwegians in…

by McGonagall • May 26, 2011 • 0 Comments

The ministry of finance in cooperation with the ministry of foreign affairs are tabling a proposal to ban tax deductions for donations to West Bank construction. Our always ethically minded FM Støre, you know the one who thinks its OK…

by admin • May 25, 2011 • 8 Comments

To what extent is anti-Semitism a problem here in Norway? Jüdische Allgemeine tries to make sense of things. Excerpt from article titled “So verbreitet ist die Angst“: Sie haben ihm einen gelben Stern auf den Rücken geklebt und ihn als…

by admin • May 25, 2011 • 0 Comments

It is no news that Norway is one of the Palestinian people’s main financiers, but here is a recent example of how things work up here. The municipality of Rana has decided to throw some spare cash to the Palestinians.…

by admin • May 25, 2011 • 0 Comments

Jay Nordlinger at the National Review is one of the few foreigners who pays any attention to Norway. Let us hope that he continues to do so. This time Nordlinger has picked up on Aftenposten’s “Rich Jews threaten Obama” story.…

by Kafka • May 25, 2011 • 0 Comments

Norwegian punditry has had some serious indigestion lately. As much as they revere Barack Obama and despise Netanyahu, it takes a lot of work to parse the language of each to make sure that they appear to be of entirely…

by McGonagall • May 25, 2011 • 3 Comments

As our unelected Parliamentary Vice president Akhtar Chaudry (Socialist Left) prepares his bags to travel to the opening of the new swish shopping mall in Gaza (there cannot possibly be any other reason to go, the Red Cross has cancelled the…

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