You don’t have to read Norwegian newspapers for a long time to realize that NTB functions a bit like the political commisariate for the press here. Their releases read like political talking points for the editors who reprint things. NTB…
Tag Archive for Gaza
Gaza promotional video starring Mads Gilbert
by admin • • 5 Comments
Here is a promotional video from Gaza showing us a very different picture from the one we are accustomed to. The Norwegian Palestine-lobby is ignoring the fact that the maghreb and middle east is in flames for reasons which have…
Støre warns own Gaza activists: ‘What comes by sea is most likely to enter a Hamas controlled economy’
by admin • • 0 Comments
Change is in the air: Now FM Jonas Gahr Støre is warning over participation in the “Gaza convoys”. Communist Klassekampen (Class war) is seething with anger. Verdens Gang runs the article “Støre issues warning to his own Gaza activists“, by…
Vårt Land on Gaza activism
by admin • • 0 Comments
Vårt Land is one of the smaller Norwegian newspapers. Today’s editorial is on Gaza-activism in Norway. The editorial correctly points out that although Gaza-activism in Norway sails under a humanitarian flag, it’s true purpose is to break the isolation of…
Goldstone retracts Cast Lead report, says it was wrong
by McGonagall • • 4 Comments
All around the world, news papers, blogs are abuzz with the unexpected about face from Judge Goldstone, he now says that if he had known then what he knows now, the findings of his scandalous report would have exonerated Israel…
‘Food smuggled into Egypt from Gaza’
by admin • • 2 Comments
If food is being smuggled out of Gaza and into Egypt, that might indicate that there is less food in Egypt than there is in Gaza. Which begs the question: how come we haven’t been told about this before? Mohammed…
Gaza makes front page of Klassekampen… again.
by admin • • 0 Comments
Only yesterday Gaza found its way to the front pages of Aftenposten. Today Gaza runs on the front pages of communist Klassekampen. It’s a funny thing, Aftenposten is still perceived as the antithesis of Klassekampen. Yet Aftenposten’s chief editor Hilde…
Aftenposten Wikisquad finds Coca-Cola smut on… Israel
by admin • • 0 Comments
Aftenposten, having gained access to the latest batch of Wikileaks documents, today gloatingly reveals a minor case of coca-cola related smut on Israel. NOTE: Professor Gonagall has already covered this issue, see below. Too fast, that Gonagall. Too fast. The…
Gaza lacks construction material?
by McGonagall • • 4 Comments
Or so we are told by organizations(Amnesty International, Christian Aid, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam International and Save the Children UK) who claim that Israel is not living up to Gaza promises. Here are two excerpts from the article in JP:…
‘Their blood cries out’ – but not to Norwegian journalists
by admin • • 0 Comments
On the basis of the findings of a soon-to-be PhD, two Norwegian newspapers have once again disseminated the theory that Israel is to blame for the plight of Palestinian Christians. In contrast we see books such as “Their blood cries…
NTB article on ‘humanitarian’ ship to Gaza
by admin • • 2 Comments
Dagbladet today runs an NTB article on the Libyan ship Amalthea, which is said to be carrying 2000 tons of aid to Gaza. The ship is financed by a humanitarian organization bearing the name of Moamar Gadaffi. The article reminds…
Israelphobes receive Hamas-affiliate with open arms
by admin • • 2 Comments
If an Israeli dignitary were to visit Norway he would be met with demonstrations and demands for boycott. Now Norway is visited by a Gaza-mayor who most certainly will be affiliated with, if not a member of, Hamas. He is…
Sidsel Wold discovers literary vein in self
by admin • • 0 Comments
Sidsel Wold is NRK’s correspondent to the Middle East. Since she is terrified of the Janjaweed however, Sudan is off. And since the gulf states are despotic regimes where information is hard to come by and women are treated like…
‘Supplyship’ Mavi Marmara evokes memory of ‘supplyship’ Tali
by admin • • 0 Comments
So the Mavi Marmara was infiltrated by militant activists who used the peaceniks as a shield, just like the Taliban does in Afghanistan where they are fighting Norwegians soliders. And as for the goods onboard the Mavi Marmara, the Hamas…
Klassekampen exaggerates shortages in Gaza
by admin • • 0 Comments
The screenshot above is from Sissel Henriksen’s article “These goods are not allowed into Gaza” in Klassekampen, a communist daily. The article seems angled in such a manner as to cast Israel in as negative a light as possible and…
Labor parlamentarian says will sail to Gaza
by admin • • 0 Comments
Anette Trettebergstuen represents Labor in Parliament, where she has founded the group “Friends of Palestine”. This group is backed by government and both outnumbers and outguns the “Friends of Israel” which is backed by parts of the opposition. Now VG reports…
Blockade of Gaza same as roadblocks in Afghan
by admin • • 0 Comments
Is obesity still a problem in Gaza?
by admin • • 24 Comments
The table above is from The Economist and shows 2004 figures for obesity, with men and women in Gaza and the Westbank ranking #8 and #3 respectively. Now a lot can happen over six years so in terms of nutrition…
Is Afghanistan like Warsaw?
by admin • • 1 Comment
During Cast Lead, Hamas successfully hid behind their own civilian population. Their diabolical strategy left approximately 1400 Palestinian civilians dead. Now Norwegian politician Bjørnar Moxnes from Red (Rødt) claims in an op-ed in Dagsavisen that 2500 Afghan civilians have been…
On the use of white phosphorus
by admin • • 1 Comment
Several Norwegian news-sites are following up on Haaretz story “IDF denies disciplining top officers over white phosphorous use in Gaza war“. Dagbladet‘s Jonas Sverrison Rasch writes (unauthorized translation): According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz the Israeli forces are denying that…