lifted from jpost.com PM: If quiet in South violated we’ll respond strongly By HERB KEINON, YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST.COM STAFF 04/03/2013 20:32 “The security of Israel’s citizens is my chief concern and we will know how to defend the security of our…
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Progressive Party: Norway should threaten to withhold funding for Palestinians
by McGonagall • • 4 Comments
lifted from aftenposten.no (Bad google translate…) Progress Party: Norway should threaten to withhold funding for Palestinian The Progress Party requires that Norway freezes transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority. The party believes that money ends up as wages to…
The stuff we wont talk about in Norway
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lifted from Israelnationalnews.com Op-Ed: Preaching Israel-Hatred at Norway’s Terror Island Published: Sunday, January 27, 2013 10:40 PM Interview with Ivar Fjeld, Norwegian journalist who wrote a book on the Utoya Island massacre:”The Red youth movement invited youngsters from the Palestinian…
A difficult day for Prime Minister Stoltenberg – the 22/7 commission lands the blame for failure to implement security measures on his door step
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Yesterday must have been a surreal day for the Labor Party, waking up to a commission report that places the political responsibility for the security failings that were so tragically exposed after the 22/7 terror bombing and shooting in Oslo…
An Olympic Shame: PA thanks IOC for refusing Munich victims memorial
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PA thanks IOC for refusing Munich victims memorial By KHALED ABU TOAMEH07/26/2012 17:21 Olympic c’tee rejects minute of silence at opening ceremony; PA official: Palestinians oppose Israeli attempt to exploit Games. The Palestinian Authority has thanked the International Olympic Committee…
“Minister of justice” to Jews in Oslo: too bad
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The synagogue in Oslo – already one of the most fortified structures in Norway – applied to the government for additional funds to secure its congregation. They asked for NOK 21 million but got NOK 7 million. After all the…
22/7/11 – on heroism, leadership and cowardice
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I have just listened to a most remarkable radio documentary – the helpers – an NRK production detailing the experiences and thoughts of one family who were thrown into the drama of July 22. The family consists of a septuagenarian…
The Breivik trial has started
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lifted from the local.no Trial begins of Anders Behring Breivik The long-awaited trial of right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who massacred 77 people in twin attacks in Norway last July, opens on Monday with proceedings set to focus on whether…
VG in the Middle East continues to shed light on grim reality for Israeli school kids
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lifted from VG. School kids learn to tackle rocket attacks By Erlend Skevik Photo: Harald Henden ASHDOD: Here, Israeli school kids rehearse how to seek protection from enemy rocket attack All Israel is now preparing a new war that may come in the next…
A political science researcher first says it is OK to threaten to kill Jews but not to burn down the Synagogue, then retracts, claiming that he merely referred to a supreme court decision
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Its quite appropriate to incite terror (NTB excerpts from article in Vaart Land). The Norwegian political science researcher Kristian Skagen Ekeli thinks it’s outright reasonable that extreme expressions and incitement to terror take place in a democracy. Kristian Skagen Ekeli is…
Jewish congregation in Oslo demands that hate crimes against Jews are registered
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Lifted from Vårt Land In 2010, Sweden had registered 161 cases of anti-Semitic hate crimes. Germany had 1,268 cases. And Norway? Nobody knows. Norwegian authorities do not keep, in fact, statistics on anti-Semitic hate crimes. This provokes Ervin Kohn, head of the Jewish…
Pearls of wisdom from Norwegian clergy
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Anyone with a memory that goes back more than 2 weeks will remember how the Norwegian General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Olav Fykse, stepped right into the dog toffee with his claim that Jerusalem for Jews, is…
VG: Israel ready for big war with iron dome
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Israel’s super shield ready for major war ASHDOD (AP) The last few weeks of fighting with Palestinian groups in Gaza have given the Israeli military with valuable experience in front of a war with Iran. – We have learned very…
The Jewish children in Toulouse (and children every where else)
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Was it really only yesterday that the Sandler family and Monsonego families had their lives brutally torn in thousand un-mendable pieces? I struggle to get my head around this one. One minute they are here; giggly, chubby, little budding humans,…
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…
Thieving Socialist Youth are not only deeply dishonest, they engage in hate crime too
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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…
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…
Palestinian refugee hijacked bus
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A 24 year old Palestinian man, who according to NRK is stateless, but with psychiatric problems hijacked a bus this evening, throwing the passengers off, while forcing the driver of the bus to continue to another location, threatening them with…
The Israel-Iran conflict seen from the Norwegian media
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In recent weeks, newspapers have provided extensive cover of the Israel-Iran conflict. Many are prepared to place a bet that Israel will attack Iran over the nuclear issue. They do however, often leave out of the context Iran’s repeated threats…
Støre defends Muslim Jerusalem
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While Syrians who had hoped for a bit of humanism and help from Norway, our friend Jonas Gahr Støre, the FM of Norway, has the following response town oped questioning his attitude to Palestinian incitement after Jerusalem mufti’s call for…