Norway, Israel and the Jews
The mind boggles. Does His Excellency really think that newspaper readers around the world suffer from some massive reading comprehension deficit, or is he just trying to take the mickey? Whereas I too, am proud of my country, and sincerely believe that the anti-Israeli sentiments expressed by our political echelons (as well as a...
Norwegians are so damn touchy. Svein Sevje, the Norwegian ambassador to Israel’s largest city (the Norwegian government knows better than the Israeli people where Israel should have its capital), presents a litany of complaints to the Jerusalem Post. He complains bitterly that the Post “persists in regularly publishing strongly anti-Norwegian articles.” He thinks it...
This is how the Secretary of the Labour Youth Organization in Hedmark chose to reflect on the May day celebrations. Syria? what Syria? PALESTINE-THE CONFLICT WE WILL NOT FORGET! AUF-Flammen i Rosa 2012 05 02 John Magne Pedersen Tangen The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian land areas must cease, now! In the spirit of...
The reader should read previous post on Political violence in Norway to appreciate the context in which our FM addressed the unionists However, and to be fair, Jonas Gahr Støre was interviewed by the local paper Aftenbladet, where not surprisingly, the main focus was on the Labour Youth Organization. In relation to the slogans...
This is official Norwegian policy: rockets and terror attacks against Israel is unacceptable, but the biggest impediment to peace is Israeli construction. I wonder what, or how Støre might react when he finds out that some of the building he so vehemently protests actually take part in areas where Jews have lived for thousands...
Lifted from Document.no Palestinian Authority Radicalizing Palestinians, Dragging Them Towards War by Khaled Abu Toameh On the same day that two Palestinian officials met in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the Palestinian Authority issued an order banning Palestinians from making direct contact with Israeli authorities in the West Bank. The new order is...
Lifted from Jerusalem Post PA donors warn Abbas not to replace Fayyad By KHALED ABU TOAMEH04/24/2012 05:45 Donors aware of Abbas’s repeated attempts to remove Fayyad from power and seize control of Finance Ministry, diplomat says. Donor countries have warned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas against trying to replace Prime Minister Salam Fayyad or...
FM Støre, or as we call him here, Teflon-Støre, now has found himself in a bit of a pickle; In 2008, the Foreign Ministry awarded NOK 6 million for a development project in the High North, ostensibly initiated by the Norwegian Shipowners Association, but in reality a project where his close friend was CEO...
The folly of the Socialistic Left party seems to be never-ending. No sooner have they chosen a new leader who prior to this had to step down as Minister for Children, Equality and Social Inclusion for deeply unethical, if not criminal habits with the public purse, and who, as item number one in his...
I wonder how Støre sleeps at night? Dishing out public money to close personal friends, essentially mum on the blood bath in Syria, but Israel continues to be the perfect whipping boy. lifted from the official MFA site: Press release, 10.04.2012 Norway deplores expansion of Israeli settlement “Norway deplores the announcement by the Israeli...
Norway is officially on Easter holiday, with most Norwegians safely tucked away at remote cabins, looking for snow so that they can re-connect with their inner Norwegian, the one on skis, a lone figure, braving storms and avalanches as he or she crosses endless mountain plateaus. Therefore, the newspaper silly season has an early...
A Norwegian beauty shop chain, Vita, has decided to boycott Israeli products, claiming that they stem from an illegal settlement: Vita boycotts Ahava Vita does not want to trade in goods from the occupied territories in the West Bank, and therefore stops selling beauty products from Ahava. Ahava loses therefore its most important client in Norway. According to Norwegian People’s Aid, Ahava’s production of beauty products...
I have mentioned previously, in passing, that our FM Støre is currently involved in a scandal where he, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have donated large sums of money to a project where one of Støre’s close friends is CEO and director of the board (a very lucrative affair related to developing the...
We should have known it, when FM Støre met with a Palestinian business executive who warned that the massive aid packages in fact stifle economic growth for Palestinians, and promised something would be done about it, Støre in fact meant to use it as a stick to beat Israel with. In stead of taking...
For some time now, representatives of the African Union have tried to drive home the message to aid groups, that trade is better than aid. This has been a difficult lesson to learn for ‘aid’ specialists, who after all have carved out a nice living for themselves based on other people’ needs. Very few...
Don’t get me wrong, casualties of war is always a tragedy, regardless of where you stand in a conflict, the loss of life is sad, utterly destructive. Yet, when somebody points a gun (rockets, threats of genocide, etc) at me or somebody I love, I have no compunction in protecting my own life, first...
While more than 500000 Israeli citizens have been told to stay indoors, and 200000 kids prevented from going to school and life disrupted for many hundreds of thousands more in Southern Israel, the NPA’s man in Gaza does his very best to remove all doubt; the NPA has no interest in helping contain the...
While Socialist Left party representative Audun Lysbakken has had to step down as Minister for Children, Equality and Social Inclusion over a scandal where he has dished out over NOK 50 million to “special projects”, riding roughshod over rules that require qualifying NGOs to bid for funds in an open and public process, the...
AUF leader Eskil Pedersen is indignant that it could occur to anybody that AUF might better understand the need for a balanced approach to the ME debate after the horrific terror attacks that brutally took away the best of our youth last summer. ISRAEL EXPERIENCE 22/7 ON A WEEKLY BASIS NRK Norge 2012 03...
The mind boggles… Is this a sample of critical and independent journalism? Aftenposten does not receive direct financial support over the press support system, but gets massive indirect support through VAT exemption Støre’s Diplomatiathlon Norway, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Tunis. Algeria, Morocco Kjetil Østli, Tekst Foto After traveling with Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre...