Lifted from Timesofisrael.com And they want to liberate the whole land… Excuse me, Mr. Foreign Minister, can you please take a moment to condemn this too? 3,000 Gaza teens graduate Hamas terror school Islamist PM hails first products of high…
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Tromsø gets some feedback
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DISAPPOINTED OVER NEGATIVE REACTIONS Nordlys 2013 01 17 Sondre Flægstad Koren Summary. Ambassador Araidi comments upon certain reactions in Tromsø: “I am disappointed with the reactions which have come. If somebody holds the opinion I should not be allowed to…
Not in Norwegian news: How Abbas rejects his own people for the sake of “return of refugees”
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Hey, FM Eide! Can you please instruct your diplomats in Ramallah to tell Abbas it simply is not done to reject Israeli offer to allow fellow Palestinians in dire danger of persecution, starvation, death in Syria entry to West Bank…
Palestine… where is it?
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As one could expect, Norway was all too eager to nail the final nail in the coffin of the already moribund “Peace process” – perhaps just as well that “we” were the ones to finally slit the throat of an…
Gaza flare-up as reflected in Norway
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In Aftenposten today the recently appointed Norwegian Foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, was interviewed after the killing of Ahmed Jabari, head of the Hamas movement’s Military wing who was hit in his car by an Israeli missile. There is…
FM Eide slams Israel over construction in J’lem, is only concerned regarding rockets from Gaza
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Norway concerned over violence in Gaza – The increasing violence in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip is very worrying and I urge all parties to refrain from further acts of violence, says Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide. Over the…
Hanne Nabintu Herland’s lecture at JCPA in Jerusalem: How the Radical Left turned Norway into the most Anti-Semitic country in the West
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Ms Herlands lecture in full: How the Radical Left turned Norway into the most Anti-Semitic country in the West The Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affair, 5.11.2012 Lecture by: Hanne Nabintu Herland, Norwegian historian of…
Norwegian MP en route to Gaza to buy iPhone 5
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Among the crew of really useful idiots en route to Gaza on the ship Estelle, is the Norwegian MP Aksel Hagen from the moribund Socialistic Left Party. I note that the MP is traveling during the regular session of the…
Støre has some explaining to do
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FM Støre has not had a very good year so far in 2012; his unusual way of distributing public funds among close friends had him appear in front of the Parliamentary Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs Committee (which sort of just…
Støre in cloud cuckoo land: thinks the PA takes anti-Semitic incitement seriously
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Unless of course, we have misunderstood, and that the PA takes it very seriously indeed, throwing all their efforts behind it. MP Syversen asked Støre what precautions the Government would take in the wake of the book; Deception, betraying the…
MIFF packs an impressive punch. Kol hakavod!
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The past weekend has been one jubilant event for the hard working people at MIFF, as they celebrated their annual conference. Not only could they celebrate an impressive growth in members and new local chapters, but it must have been…
Not in Norwegian News – the invented financial crisis in the PA
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lifted from the gatestoneinstitute.org Norway is one of the biggest contributors to the PA – it has long been recognized that monies disappear into a diverse set of pockets, yet Norwegian politicians and enthusiastic pro-Palestine activists refuse to deal with…
The cheek of the Ambassador
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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…
FM Jonas Gahr Støre’s 1st of May speech in Stavanger
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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,…
To Norway, terror attacks and rockets over Israeli civilian population is not the most important impediment to peace, Israeli construction is.
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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…
Not in Norwegian news – how the PA radicalizes the Palestinians
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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…
Newly minted minister wants to let the Palestinians have a say at the Rio conference
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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…
Norwegian media: Israel attacked Gaza, killed Palestinians, no mention of safety instructions in place for hundreds of thousands of Israeli civilians
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Norwegian media has mentioned the flare up of violence in Southern Israel after Gaza terrorists have launched more than 100 rockets over densely populated civilian areas. NRK for instance calls it the bloodiest day in three years and offers details…
AUF leader says it is tasteless to draw parallels between terror in Israel and 22/7
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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…
Støre fears two state solution is dead, suggests Israel will be an apartheid state
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In spite of all the money and political stunts Norway has poured into the ME peace process, the process for the time being is going nowhere. And it is unlikely to move even a millimeter for as long as the…