Israeli official: Norway Israel's worst enemy
An Israeli unnamed official source claims that Norway is the country in the world that is most unfriendly towards Israel.
These allegations come after Jostein Gaarder's article in Aftenposten, which was written as a spontaneous response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon, as well as other critical remarks made by Norwegian officials and public figures.
Norwegians and Norwegian media are generally critical of Israel and their hard-line crackdown on the Palestinians and Lebanese, and rightfully so, in my opinion. Israel's response to the Hezbollah's bombs was excessive. Palestinians in the Gaza strip are suffering, and Israel's "eye-for-an-eye" policy probably creates more terrorists, just as the US invasion of Iraq has been proven to do. I'm not saying Israel can't respond to terrorist attacks. The Palestinians and Hezbollah has a lot to answer for, and going after terrorists is a legitimate policy. But not in the way Israel is currently doing it.
Disagreeing with the policy of another country is nothing new in international politics, but when Israel is criticised, they are far too quick to call the critique "thinly-veiled anti-semitism". This is a common response when a minority group feels threatened, or fails to achieve their goals. When it happens within a country, it is annoying and tiresome. But when a country starts thinking that way, dangerous things can happen...
Should Israel's actions be excused because of the Holocaust? Is the international society to close its eyes to the way Israel is oppressing Palestine? Or should we see Israel's actions today in the same light as we see other countries?
These allegations come after Jostein Gaarder's article in Aftenposten, which was written as a spontaneous response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon, as well as other critical remarks made by Norwegian officials and public figures.
Norwegians and Norwegian media are generally critical of Israel and their hard-line crackdown on the Palestinians and Lebanese, and rightfully so, in my opinion. Israel's response to the Hezbollah's bombs was excessive. Palestinians in the Gaza strip are suffering, and Israel's "eye-for-an-eye" policy probably creates more terrorists, just as the US invasion of Iraq has been proven to do. I'm not saying Israel can't respond to terrorist attacks. The Palestinians and Hezbollah has a lot to answer for, and going after terrorists is a legitimate policy. But not in the way Israel is currently doing it.
Disagreeing with the policy of another country is nothing new in international politics, but when Israel is criticised, they are far too quick to call the critique "thinly-veiled anti-semitism". This is a common response when a minority group feels threatened, or fails to achieve their goals. When it happens within a country, it is annoying and tiresome. But when a country starts thinking that way, dangerous things can happen...
Should Israel's actions be excused because of the Holocaust? Is the international society to close its eyes to the way Israel is oppressing Palestine? Or should we see Israel's actions today in the same light as we see other countries?
posted by Unknown | 10:55 am
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