Monthly Archives: February 2012

The Ramallah station raid: NRK’s version and Ynetnews version

by McGonagall • February 29, 2012 • 49 Comments

Hmmm, which one to believe? So difficult, so difficult… Perhaps I should go with the NRK on this one, after all, they got it right on the Jenin “massacre”, which the then reporter Jan Sigurd Sunnanå claimed had cost 1000…

by McGonagall • February 29, 2012 • 14 Comments

PM slams Abbas in meeting with Norwegian FM By: Herb Keinon Netanyahu brands Abbas’s J’lem comments “junk” and “libelous,” says int’l community should tell PA president to “cut it out.” Using especially harsh language against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas,…

by McGonagall • February 28, 2012 • 7 Comments

Apart from a fairly well written and well researched article in Aftenposten on ultra orthodox Jews in Israel and how they somehow scavenge on the secular Israelis – which raises the question – why are we being told that somehow…

by McGonagall • February 27, 2012 • 2 Comments

A 24 year old Palestinian man, who according to NRK is stateless, but with psychiatric problems hijacked a bus this evening, throwing the passengers off, while forcing the driver of the bus to continue to another location, threatening them with…

by McGonagall • February 25, 2012 • 28 Comments

Yesterday I wrote about the thieving socialists and the scandal that has developed under the auspices of the Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion, Audun Lysbakken. While skeletons keep falling out of the closet, threatening to derail Broiler Lysbakken’s…

by McGonagall • February 24, 2012 • 5 Comments

This must really be galling for the fanatical haters. And finally a moment of honesty from Mr. Finkelstein. A small fig leaf, but at least is provides some modest evidence of decency!

by McGonagall • February 24, 2012 • 4 Comments

A political scandal has exploded, involving the leader in waiting of the Socialistic Left party, and current minister of Children, Equality and Social inclusion. Mr. Lysbakken has used the public purse to fund the youth organization of his party, that…

by McGonagall • February 22, 2012 • 4 Comments

NAÏVE PRAYERS OVER SYRIA Aftenposten 2012 02 21 p 6, Helge Lurås Summary. Helge Lurås of NUPI expresses deep skepticism over the Syrian opposition, admitting the Assad regime is not exactly being a model of democracy of human rights and…

by McGonagall • February 22, 2012 • 14 Comments

Norwegian media continue to make a feast out of Israel’s difficulties in finding a suitable venue for its embassy, which both takes security concerns and costs into consideration. Maybe we shall remind the ironic commentators that there is a very…

by McGonagall • February 22, 2012 • 2 Comments

Some of you may remember an entry from December last year, at a time when Norway had suffered several set-backs reputation wise. A substantial part of that entry was dedicated to an oped by the great grandson of Alfred Nobel,…

by McGonagall • February 21, 2012 • 3 Comments

As Kafka says, Norway isn’t very keen on being a good host – but then I suppose Norway is very happy with the arrangement for our own embassy in Tel Aviv, situated on top of a fancy shopping center in…

by Kafka • February 21, 2012 • 14 Comments

Almost as certain as death and taxes, NRK will not let any opportunity pass by to portray Jews as victims or Israelis as whiners. NRK Østlandssendingen headlines a piece with “The Israeli embassy feels discriminated,” and goes on to cover…

by McGonagall • February 20, 2012 • 10 Comments

Aftenposten today published an oped by Martin Bodd, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, responding to a proposal by Aftenposten’s editor for culture and debate Knut Olav Åmås to name a square after one of the Jewish children we sent off…

by McGonagall • February 20, 2012 • 1 Comment

Dagsavisens forum for polite debate can from time to time look surprisingly like the inside of the head of a person with very unstable hormones, or perhaps neurons like over-ripe camembert cheese. Or, like a grotty catacomb where no air…

by McGonagall • February 19, 2012 • 6 Comments

I wonder if the powers that be in Norway have put similar travel warnings in place for anybody going to Sweden, specifically to Malmø? Norway Says Israel Dangerous, Won’t Allow Shooting Team to Visit Norway’s security authorities rule that Israel…

by McGonagall • February 17, 2012 • 4 Comments

Lifted from Jerusalem Post French court acquits Israeli in al-Dura libel case Dr. Yehuda David had been convicted for refuting claimsthat a former patient of his was injured by IDF gunfire in iconic second Intifada incident. A French appeals court on…

by McGonagall • February 17, 2012 • 2 Comments

TERRORISM AND GENUFLEXION Verdens Gang 2012 02 17 p 27, Peder Nøstvold Jensen, a.k.a “Fjordman”. Not Online Author Øyvind Strømmen has been referred to by the media as an expert post 22/7; though it is rather vague what he is…

by McGonagall • February 17, 2012 • 7 Comments

FM Støre is beyond belief – contrary to the many warnings issued by the USA before that ill-fated vote to grant Palestinians full membership in UNESCO, that by Law, USA would have to block funding to this body, as specified…

by McGonagall • February 17, 2012 • 8 Comments

Upcoming conference on conflicts in the Middle East. Iranian journalist and human rights activist Asieh Amini may find that the Norwegian view to her nation’s plight is pretty much a non-issue, unless it can be seen under the prism on…

by McGonagall • February 17, 2012 • 0 Comments

In recent weeks, newspapers have provided extensive cover of the Israel-Iran conflict. Many are prepared to place a bet that Israel will attack Iran over the nuclear issue. They do however, often leave out of the context Iran’s repeated threats…

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