Norway, Israel and the Jews
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...
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 carried...
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 one people singled out on it? linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor =...
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 budget, leaving...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This year Norway heads the ITF for Holocaust Remembrance. Norway is also one of UNRWA’s largest sponsors, which do not teach about the Holcaust in their Gaza-schools. Why? Hamas won’t allow it. Perhaps Erik Solheim should pop over to Gaza and lay down the law? linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF";...
Unauthorized translation from DagenMagazinet: Aftonbladet is Sweden’s largest newspaper. On August 17th the newspaper, in its culture section, printed a long “article” by freelance journalist Donald Boström. The article was a disgusting anti-Semitic brew. Aftonbladet’s editors should have discovered that at first glance. But when this obviously did not happen, it begs the question...
Norwegian dog lovers hoping to hear more about Aftenposten’s ME correspondent Jørgen Lohne’s family dog – a five year old golden retriever by the name of Maja – were disappointed this morning when Mr. Lohne failed to mention Maja with as much as a word. Instead Mr.Lohne writes about the infamous NORWAC doctor Mads...
Jerusalem Post August 19th – Gerald Steinberg writes the article Swedish government funds anti-Semitic NGO’s. As any Scandinavian will tell you, Sweden and Norway are in many ways very similar – we speak more or less the same language, hold few and shallow grudges against our neighbors, are dedicated to the idea of wealth...
From the pages of With Israel for Peace (MIFF), Norway’s largest pro-Israel organization. Numbers from NORAD. We see that Norway provides the PA with increasing amounts of money. We also know that Norwegian newspapers write more about Israel than they do about Norway’s own war in Afghanistan. We furthermore know that during the May...
Trust is a survival mechanism with the power to destroy you. This is the basic gist of R.M. Kramer’s article “Rethinking trust” in the June edition of Harvard Business Review. Upon reading it, any Norwegian reader of the article will be hard pressed not to immediately think of Norway’s Minister of Development Erik Solheim,...
July 2nd, 2009: the journal Development Today prints the article “Donors consider crisis package for Palestinian Authority”. The article discusses how Norway tries to get Saudi Arabia onboard for a crisis packaget to the PA, how Norway is the second largest Western donor to the Palestinian areas, and how Jonas Gahr Støre, Norway’s Minister...
Norway’s most prominent political historian, Jens Arup Seip, always told his students that in order to understand history they were only to follow the money and they wouldn’t go wrong. But that was back in the sixties when money was scarce. Today Norway is awash with cash and we use a full 1% of...
In an op-ed to Dagens Næringsliv – Norway’s leading business newspaper – on Friday, June 26th, Henrik Wiig from the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research comments upon unintended consequences of Norwegian development aid. Unauthorised translation below from the subheading: Around 50 Peruvian indians and policemen were killed in battles over resources in...
As mentioned earlier Norway provdes the Palestinian Authorities (PA) with more development aid pr.capita than any other recipient (Read here and here). In total, Norway has provided the PA with NOK 5 billion since 1993. It is increasingly important to ask whether these funds are being put to good use. According to the Palestinian...
Unauthorized translation from the webpages of With Israel for Peace (MIFF), Norway’s largest pro-Israel organization: Palestinians receive far more Norwegian support than any other nation Published: Friday December 21.st 2007 By: Conrad Myrland Each Palestinian on the Gaza-strip and Westbank received NOK 156 in Norwegian support in 2006. No African nation received more...
After Aftenposten shut down its News in English, Norway is about as accessible for foreigners as North Korea. The articles are still accessible on the web, and are much preferable to sites such as this one: Norway, Israel and the jews. Here is an excerpt from the article “Israel says Norway finances terrorism” from...