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Norwegian ME pundits agree that the upcoming talks will fail. Here is how and why they might be right, for the wrong reasons. According to conventional Norwegian wisdom, the logic runs like this: The Middle East peace talks can only be successful only IF Obama applies pressure to Netanyahu BUT if Obama applies pressure to [...] Roger Hercz is to the newspaper Dagsavisen what Tzipi Livni said she refused to be for Netanyahu – a fig leaf of decency. In today’s paper he claims that Norway plays a larger role in the Middle East now than ever – as a midwife to the Palestinian state, and that in emphasizing [...] Norway’s interests lie in the nordic region, with the EU, USA and with Russia. As for the Middle East, we obviously need to cooperate with OPEC. But how is it noble and necessary of Norway to seek to be the midwife of a Palestinian state? What psychological and political mechanisms are at work here? Aftenposten today [...] Screenshot from Development Today, July 2nd 2010 The screenshot above is from an article on Burma in Development Today. As we can read, Norway is preparing to invest in Burma through Norfund. Let us compare this to Norwegian politics on Israel: Norway has divested from Israeli Elbit, the government has forced the Armed Forces College [...] In Development Today’s April edition (Screenshot above), Professor Nina Witoszek comments on the ease with which the Norwegian public dismisses facts that contradict Norway’s public image. One readily available example, unrelated to the exact topic of Professor Witoszek’s piece as it may be, is found in how Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld, who has [...] Aftenposten.no today runs the article “Worst attacks since Gaza war” by journalist Lars Akerhaug. Prior to becoming a journalist, Mr.Akerhaug led the Palestine Committee and raised funds for groups in Iraq fighting against the Americans. A few years ago Mr.Akerhaug was instrumental in inviting two Hamas representatives to Oslo. The article is structured so the reader [...] Money can help you accomplish great things. It can also cause a lot of damage. Perhaps we Scandinavians ought to use our riches with a little less abandon. From NGO Monitor: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland contribute millions of dollars annually to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that include some of the most radical groups operating in Israel and [...] The article above is from Bistandsaktuelt, March 11th 2010, and titled: “Norway gives 240 million to the Abbas government“. In it we learn that the government is doing exactly what the heading says, and that Kjersti Gravelsæter Berg, a researcher at the University of Bergen, states the following about Norwegian aid to Palestine: If the money [...]
Doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse worked in Shifa hospital during the Gaza war, and also doubled as news reporters. After the war they proceeded to publish the best-selling book “Eyes of Gaza”, now in its fourth edition, in what with certainty must be deemed the most spectacular public relations endeavour to be [...] A corporate flowchart of Norwegian development aid. From Norsk Utviklingshjelps historie, by Kjerland et al. The flowchart above is from Norges Bistandhistorie (A history of Norwegian development aid) by Kjerland, Liland, Ruud and Simonsen. The flowchart illustrates the Norwegian development aid sector as it was understood by the company Statskonsult in 1997. Why is only [...] From: Development Today If you want to understand Norwegian foreign policy, Development Today is an absolute must. The journal asks some of the right questions and picks up on issues that Akersgata is unable to attend to. In No.16/2009 (above) DT observes that Labour is assuming control of a larger proportion of the development aid [...] Money is power. Norway has more of it than you would estimate from the size of our population (approx.4,6 million). Now investing money wisely, as Mr.Murdoch will tell you, is no easy task. How to make sure the money is invested for good, rather than evil? Excerpt from Development Today: Three Nordic governments dominate the top spots [...] Norway supports the Palestinian people (pr.capita) more than any other people on earth. Yet this support appears to be completely unrelated to the actual behavior of the regimes of Hamas and Fatah. Blatant racism and incitement to murder goes virtually unnoticed by the red-green coalition government, although it has been questioned by the opposition (Progress [...] The red-green government has been a staunch supporter of the PA, Hamas and the UNRWA. Yet when it is revealed that Hamas rejects tuition on the Holocaust in Gaza-schools, the red-green government is silent. Perhaps Norwegians should take the criticism from Sri Lanka to heart – perhaps Solheim the Silent is indeed a fitting nickname [...] Two days ago Aftenposten’s ME correspondent Jørgen Lohne wrote about how Hamas rejects Holocaust-education in Gaza-schools. Seeing as how Norway not only heads the ITF this year but also is one of the PA’s, Hamas’ and UNRWA’s greatest sponsors, one would expect the government to react. Alas, the red-green coalition government has so far not [...] |
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