Taxpayer funded propagandists.
UPDATE: The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs(MFA) attacks the whistle blower instead of the root of the problem. (NIJ blog)
For the MFA it is apparently more severe that the director of Palestinian Media Watch has an address the Norwegian government disapproves of, than Norwegian tax money going to reward the men and women who deliberately and with pride have killed Jews – the more killed the greater the reward. The attack on Itamar Marcus is very undignified.
It’s well known that the Norwegian state
propaganda machine has been arrayed against the Jewish state of Israel
(facilitated by it’s taxpayer funded mouth organ, NRK) for decades. That
well funded apparatus has maintained a campaign of vilification against
Israel, largely for being having cast as the guilty party in the gross
failure of the Oslo Accords.
According to a study of the Holocaust
Center 38% of the Norwegians consider that what Israel does to
Palestinians, is equal to what the Nazis did to the Jews. It’s
universally recognized that the Nazis are the symbol of absolute evil.
Norway has a population of 5 million. If you deduct children, that means
at least 1.5 million Norwegians have a devilish view of the Jewish
state.
They are people with dark minds who lie
with those in the Middle Ages who accused the Jews of having killed God,
who were then at the time, the symbol of absolute evil. In the below
article, a researcher, Hilde Henriksen Waage and Norwegain FM, Espen
Barth Eide help spread these devilish views by their fallacies. Their
thinking is in lockstep with that of the present Finnish FM, Erkki
Tuomioja, whose identical nonsense was debunked by none other than Prof.Efraim Karsh.
Who promotes these fallacies: nobody else but the NRK
- Eide does not say a word about how before the intifada, Israel helped the Palestinians to improve their economy.
- No mention of any Palestinian leadership culpability for any of the failures connected to the Oslo peace process
- The intifada degraded their economy.
- The direct role of political violence in place of direct negotiations to solve workable problems
- The role of Islamic/Muslim antisemitism has played in inciting the Arabs to maintaining a high level of hatred for Jews in general
- The inclusion of anti-Israel rhetoric within schoolbooks, making it very unlikely that the P.A. is preparing its people for an eventual peace with Israel
- Nor of any of the incitment against Israel within its state media, TV and radio prgramming.
There is no reason for the Arab
Palestinians to admit to anything, its failures to create a civil
society, it’s promotion of hatred and terror and subsequent subversion
of the ‘peace process’, when you have Nordic states such as Norway (and
Sweden) running a propaganda campaign whitewashing the historical
record.
Norway and other states that are
involved in protecting the totalitarian minded thugs that run the
Palestinian Arab enclaves of the PA and Gaza Strip, are in fact the ones
giving hope to the voices of genocide of the Jews, that one day, they
will be in fact successful in destroying the Jewish state of Israel.
NOTE: I am once again
reminded of the former Israeli ambassador to Finland, Avi Granot, who
schooled faux historian and scholar, Avi Shlaim, who failed to recognize
any Arab culpability in their conflict with the Jews in his half an
hour rant. NRK, the Norwegian media and the Norwegian body politic,
could learn a few things from this film clip I took a few years ago at
Helsinki University.
And the flow of money has increased each year since the agreement was signed in Oslo: In 1993, Norway 46 million assistance. In 2012, this figure increased to 655 million.
- When things go bad with peace, so paying more for Norway both wanted peace and present position. We
have always thought that only we provide enough financial aid,
establishing infrastructure and institutions, it would contribute to the
goal: a Palestinian state. We thought that we could buy peace, said Waage.
- But there is no doubt that when it comes to peace that nothing has improved in the last 20 years. Everything is rather getting worse. The wealth of the individual may have increased somewhat in the West Bank. But peace has already been worse, she adds.
Most money
According to Norad live the 4.2 million Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. That means that every single Palestinian gets over 150 million of Norway. It put the Palestinians on the Norwegian aid top, if one looks at the development of each individual citizen. By comparison, receives an Afghan 22 million. Other countries receive far less per capita.
- Norway is caught in its own peace process. They feel obligated to pay more the worse it goes with peace. Norway has become his catch in this game. The
goals that were once set to reach the Palestinian state is not true:
There is no agreement on water, land, borders and resources, said Waage.
- My research shows that from 1993 the harder it was to get others to pay, the more you choose Norway to pay. For political reasons choose Norway to pay so much, she adds.
Budget support
Norway billion has also been used to build Palestinian institutions. Around 2 billion Norway has spent on good governance in the Palestinian territories according to Norad.
It’s more money than anyone in Lillehammer paid in taxes last year.
Norway has also in recent years poured money directly into the Palestinian budget. PalestiniansSalam Fayyad has received 300 million a year directly into the national wallet since he became prime minister.
Norway has also in recent years poured money directly into the Palestinian budget. PalestiniansSalam Fayyad has received 300 million a year directly into the national wallet since he became prime minister.
The money has given
the Palestinians some results: The Palestinian institutions are better
than in many other countries as independent states. Both
the World Bank, the UN and the International Monetary Fund believes the
Palestinians are ready to take over management entirely in their own
country.
- State-building has gone very well, while the economy is very bad. And there is a reason – and that is the Israeli occupation, says Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide.
- Are we to pay for Israel’s occupation?
- We are not there now
because this is part of a state-building project, but the message is
that if we are at a standstill this year after year after year from now,
then one might eventually end up there. But I believe
strongly that we are not there today, but I feel it is very important to
confront the Israelis that there is an obvious risk, respond Eide.
Self-government
During the last meeting of the
donor group AHLC Eide took up precisely this fear that Palestinians will
be forever dependent on aid.
- Our task will not be completed until the Palestinian economy can flourish and ensure economic independence. The
Palestinian Authority will not be a perennial permanent client of the
international donor community, Eide said during his opening speech.
He emphasized that while Norway
and donors’ goal should be the establishment of an independent,
democratic and viable Palestinian state that will live side by side with
Israel.
- They should live within mutually
recognized borders in peace and security, and in a way that both
Palestinians and Israelis to realize their national aspirations, says
Barth Eide.
It Henriksen Waage not believe that will ever happen:
- It is clear to everyone that peace project has failed. There is no Palestinian state. There are few institutions in the West Bank, but there is no clear to take over and run a state. It’s harder than ever, says Henriksen Waage.
- Do you have any solutions to the conflict?
- No. I’ve stopped believing. The only small hope I have is that Israel itself looks best served by something other than the current solution. Perhaps it may be forced now when the window is different for Obama. But I’m not sure whether he will put his political career on the line for peace in the Middle East, responds Henriksen Waage.
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