lifted from ynetnews.com Who are the extremists? Op-ed: Norwegian citizen says it’s time to confront anti-Israel activists with some tough questions Andreas Fagerbakke Why do we always have to defend our opinions? Why must we always be on the defensive?…
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NTB’s incomplete version of history II
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A follow up of Kafka’s earlier story, here is the NTB article fully translated: HAMAS WILL EDUCATE GAZAN CHILDREN IN HEBREW Aftenposten 2012 05 25 NTB The Hamas government in the Gaza strip will introduce education in Hebrew in Palestinian…
Morgenbladets ugly morning face
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On August 5, readers of this exotic mini-magazine were delighted with this editorial, a highbrow piece of cultural understanding. HOW The long term way of honoring the victims is to expose the kind of thoughts that poisoned the mind of the…
Støre: DMT is my alibi (+ a bit of Hilde Henriksen Waage)
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Clearly, we have underestimated Støre’s political acumen. In Dagsnytt 18, he (of course) expressed great consternation at reports of antisemitism but (of course) wanted to separate antisemitism and anti-Israeli attitudes. It was for the sake of the Norwegian Jews, he…
Støre’s terms of endearment
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Morten Høglund in the Progress Party posed a perfectly reasonable question to foreign minister Støre, namely whether the Norwegian government would demand from both the provisional Hamas-Fatah government, and a future Palestinian government, that it comply with the quartet requirement…
Israel MFA on Støre: ‘Misnaming things adds to the misery of the world’
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Norway FM Støre acknowledges that Hamas has carried out terrorist actions but refuses to “label” Hams as a terror-organization. Not everybody finds such discrimination wise. Israel’s MFA is not alone in seeing newspeak and doublethink where Norwegian apparatchiks see reason.…
Not in Norwegian news
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Hamas flaunts just about all rules and blows up 13 compatriots, including at least 5 children and three women at Kassam training center. None of the relevant Norwegian media outfits finds this remotely intersting, but NRK ought to be congratulated…
Vilified: telling lies about Israel
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Here is a film clip which comes warmly recommended by Ilya Meyer, a former member of Peace Now.
Sweden sees jewbaiting in “larger context”
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From the blog Islam in Europe: —–Excerpt begins—– “That is, in spite of the calls for “killing the Jews”, these statements are not a crime in the legal sense in Sweden, because of the current conflict in the Middle East, according…
Islamic cleric reinterpreted
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On February 16th several major Norwegian newspapers told their readers about how Yusuf al-Qaradawi, to whom many Norwegian moslems look for guidance on religious matters, had stated that the holocaust was a divine punishment and that Adolf Hitler had “put…
Iran not a threat
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In today’s Aftenposten, Daniel Heradstveit comments on Iran’s development of rocket systems. Heradstveit, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, says the west must not understand Iran’s president literally in his repeated threats to “erase Israel from the map”.…
Lady of peace
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Norway’s leading business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv runs a two-page interview with the new leader for the Committee for Palestine, Mrs.Line Khateeb. The interview is titled “Lady of peace” and is a cordial affair where Mrs. Khateeb expresses concern over the…
Hamas – back or forth?
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In a letter to Aftenposten today, a reader comments upon the newspaper’s use of statistics: —–Excerpt begins “In an editorial on Febuary 9th, Aftenposten writes that the war in Gaza, according to a recent opinion poll “has radicalized the population of…