26-07-2011, 08:48 AM
"... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said the actions of a Norwegian terrorist whose views were apparently influenced, in part, by anti-Muslim voices in the U.S. are a reminder that hateful ideologies and lone-wolf terrorism remain a "serious and potent" threat.
"The attacks in Norway are a stark reminder of the broad range of violent terror threats faced around the world and in the United States," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "These attacks underscore the serious and potent threat of violence posed by a variety of dangerous extremists from across the ideological spectrum. This includes the 'lone-wolf' extremists, who have access to extremist ideologies on the Internet from around the world."
http://thisiszionism.blogspot.com/2011/0...ed-by.html
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"It's the Zionism, Stupid"
"... Breivik is part and parcel of the whole zionist-inspired anti-Islam hate campaign that is orchestrated by Zionists like Geller, Spencer and the rest of the gang. *That is why the media won't delve into it. The *effect of Israeli anti-Muslim propaganda *is *huge and the media knows to avoid looking at any of the real underlying causes in part because the media is one of those underlying causes....."
http://mantiqaltayr.wordpress.com/2011/0...sm-stupid/
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"... The professional Islamophobes seamlessly shifted from blaming the attack on Muslims to saying the attack was inspired by attacks by Muslims. We must never, ever forget that his kind of terrorism was invented by the Jews in their attacks in Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s...."
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/07/camp-play.html
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Here's a previously-and-repeatedly noted article ["The Quislings of Noway"] at David Horowitz' "FrontPageMag.com"
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/20/the-q...of-norway/
"During the Nazi occupation of Norway, nearly all Jews were either deported to death camps or fled to Sweden and beyond. Today, Norway is effectively under the occupation of anti-Semitic leftists and radical Muslims, and appears willing to help enable the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel."
We also see the Holocaust denial card played here by the author, Joseph Klein.
Israel circled its wagons some time ago in terms of denouncing and defending the "delegitimization" of the State of Israel.
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Here, Pam Geller's "Atlas Shrugged"
[ http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas...erday.html ] :
"While the leftist and Islamic supremacist ghouls rush to portray Norway mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik as a Christian and even as an anti-jihadist, the unanswered questions multiply. Why did a jihad group take credit for the atrocities, and then retract? And who altered the murderer's Facebook page? Yesterday, at the time that his name was released, his Facebook page looked like this (hat tip Vivien for the screenshots):..."
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Here, Vijay Prashad's article "Palestine's Norwegians: Marxist-Multiculturalists for BDS": http://www.counterpunch.org/prashad07252011.html
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The initial reaction in the West was that the attacks had been conducted by Muslim jihadis. This has become a habit after the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, CBS's Jim Stewart said, "The betting here is on Middle East terrorists." Of course this was more Mid-West than Mid-East, but there was no apology from the media to the Muslims in America.
The first reports from the New York Times suggested that the Oslo bomber was a jihadi (Professor Will McCants tweeted that the perp was Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, something repeated by the Times, who later said that "the group was previously unknown and might not even exist"). When the fog of Islamaphobia partly cleared, and the Norwegian police was allowed its moment, they revealed that the actual killer was a Nazi, Anders Behring Breivik, who could very well have been a character from a Dahl novel.
A few hours later, Breivik's manifesto began to appear on various websites. Here Breivik fulminated against "Marxist-Multiculturalists." This has become a familiar refrain among the defenders of Fortress Europe: they want to secure their continent from the re-conquest of the Moors. The tendency is hateful toward immigrants and Islam. But these are not marginal socio-paths. Their views flow down the center of the stream of European conservatism. InOctober of last year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that multiculturalism "has utterly failed." Immigrants needed to be force-marched into German culture, and if this is not possible, they should not be allowed to enter the country....
On July 20, days before the shooting, the leader of the AUF Eskil Pederson gave an interview to the tabloid Dagbladet. The AUF had held a rally for the boycott of Israel at Utøya Island, and it had strengthened its position vis-à -vis the BDS campaign (Boycott-Divest-Sanctions). Pederson told the tabloid that he believed that "the time has come for more drastic measures against Israel." He wanted the Norwegian Foreign Ministry to impose an economic boycott against Israel. "We in the Labour Youth will have a unilateral economic embargo of Israel from the Norwegian side."
Norway has a very advanced position on the international campaign against the Occupation of the Palestinian people. The Norwegian trade union federation (LO), which includes a fifth of the country's population, divested from a series of Israeli firms, such as Africa Israel Investments,Danya Cebus, and Elbit Systems. This is one of the largest sovereign funds in the world, and its move puts pressure on other funds. Norway also has an arms ban on Israel. [COLOR="red"]Norwegian civil society has been very active in pushing for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel [/COLOR](support comes from 42% of the population, including the Norwegian soccer coach Egil 'Drillo' Olsen, who is a member of the Norwegian Worker Communist Party). Last year, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry refused to allow the Germans to test submarines that are slated for sale to Israel in Norwegian waters. A few days before the shooting, Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre visited the AUF youth, who told him that they wanted the boycott strengthened. A picture of Støre at the AUF camp walking past a sign that said "Boikott Israel" ran in the tabloids.
Støre's visit to the AUF camp came just after he met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmud Abbas to reaffirm Norway's support of the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations later this year. It is significant that Oslo was the home to the Israel-Palestinian peace accords in 1993. Israel's obduracy since then has changed the equation. "I don't think that any Palestinians or anybody around the world are in doubt that Norway supports Palestinians' right to statehood," Støre said....
The action in Utøya was not the act of a madman, and it was not a human tragedy. It was an act of political murder against people who had committed themselves to a convivial world not only for their beloved Norway, but also for those who live under Occupation elsewhere.
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Here is Gilad Atzmon's article "Empire and Zionism":
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/07/empire-and-zionism/
"Yet, unlike the Left thinking that is in constant danger of structural and intellectual stagnation, Zionism has proved to be an inherently dynamic political movement: it has never stopped evolving and reinventing itself. The history of Zionism reveals a clear success story. Within just six decades, Zionism fulfilled its initial promise and founded the Jews only' State, at the expense of the Palestinians. It achieved its initial goal with the vast support of the world's richest nations and leading superpowers. By 1967 it had managed to mobilise the entirety of world Jewry, and had transformed Jewish elites into a fierce fist of Jewish power. By then, Zionism had also changed its course instead of schlepping Jews to Palestine, it gathered that Israel would actually benefit if Diaspora Jews stayed exactly where they were, and mounted pressure on their respective governments. By the end of the 20th century, Israel has managed to transform the English-speaking empire into an Israeli mission force. In 2003 Britain and the USA sent their sons and daughters to destroy Iraq, the last fierce enemy of Israel in the region. And yet, at the time there was hardly any critical theory that could shed light onto the immense power of Israel and its lobbies within the Anglo-American political world...."
"In recent years we have seen a few successful attempts to break away from the traditional Left, materialist and modernist political analysis of Zionism and Israeli politics. James Petras, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt were among the first to publish academic work on the immense and disastrous impact of the Israeli Lobby' (a politically correct wording for Jewish power). Two years ago Shahid Alam published Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilising Logic of Zionism, an incredibly courageous scholarly attempt to grasp the destructive role of Jewish power in America and beyond. Petras, Mearsheimer, Walt, and Alam operated out of the box: their criticism of Israel, Zionism and Jewish power was not restricted by a party-line or by any given political consensus or paradigm. Quite the opposite, their work broke away from their contemporaneous paradigms and brought into life a new discourse that now shapes itself into an extensive body of thought, as well as providing politically pragmatic applications.5 As one may expect, Petras, Mearsheimer and Walt were criticised by elements within the Left, and especially by prominent Jewish voices within the Left. But they prevailed. Wisdom and true intellectual insights cannot be contained. At the most, these voices can be silenced or suppressed for a short while but they always hit back with much greater rigour.
This week we saw the publication of Eric Walberg's Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games (Clarity Press), a substantial addition to the aforementioned and precious out of the box' category.
The book sketches a fascinating historical journey that provides Walberg with the necessary means to unveil the unique particularity of the postmodern conditions we are subject to. Walberg provides us with an extensive expose of the depth of the Zionist penetration into Western thought and the destructive power of Israeli imperial wars.
In order to achieve his goal, Walberg sets an historical template. He identifies three crucial phases in the past and recent imperial affairs: Great Game I (GGI) refers to classical imperialism' with competing empires vying for territories and resources.
Great Game II (GGII) refers largely to the cold war and the alliance of formerly competing Western empires under US hegemony in an attempt to restrain communism and contain its influence.
Great Game III (GGIII) is where we are nowthe postmodern phase. It starts roughly with the collapse of the Soviet block. It can be described broadly in Neo-conservative terms as American unilateral world domination through absolute military superiority. But such a definition would be misleading. In reality we encounter the total Israeli-fication of America and its elites. In practice what we see is America willingly lending its might to a miniature Jewish state.
GGIII is the victorious march of Israeli, Zionist, and Jewish power. Walberg's analysis is there to explain the shameless reaction of American senators and congressmen to Netanyahu's speech recently. It explains why America, once regarded as a leader of the free world, is now lending its destructive might to the miniature Jewish state. The frightening truth is that [B]Israel is now an Empire and-a-Half' as Walberg calls it. It has, at its disposal, the world's only superpower that fights its wars by proxy and provides for its needs. Devastatingly enough, America doesn't find within itself the power to liberate itself. The world's single super power's elite is practically held hostage by a miniature state and its supportive lobbies.....[/B]
Walberg produces a thorough reading of the various elements that made Israel into an Empire and-a-Half'. Fearlessly he looks into Judaism: he examines scholarly works dealing with the complex relationship between Jews and the state', he elaborates on Jewish and Zionist ideologies, he unveils the role of Jewish oligarchs. Walberg also examines the tactics and strategies that are put into action by Israel and its supporters: global wars, nuclear armament, soft power, sayanim, spies and gatekeepers. He elaborates on the Israeli Lobby and their media manipulation. He also discloses the role of some Jewish elements within the Left in stifling free discourse and diverting attention from the real issues.
Towards the end of the book Walberg reveals the bitter truth: Israel is actually far more independent than America, its supportive backing empire: "Despite the continuation of its special relationship with the US, Israel is playing an increasingly independent role in GGIII around the world, with its government, corporations and kosher nostra working with whatever states and non-state actors are willing to condone its deadly games, selling arms, smuggling drugs, buying blood diamonds from Africa, conducting covert operations to subvert governments, assassinating opponents, forging passports… Its Diaspora community and Chabad network, found in virtually every corner of the globe, facilitate its game plan, keeping ahead of US plans and technology through its American Sayanim, operatives, spies and powerful lobby." (p. 235.)....
Walberg's Postmodern Imperialism is a landmark text, written at a crucial moment in time. For the West, America and Americans, this may be a final wake-up call. For Israel, Israelis and their supporters around the world, this text is a red alert. Israel urgently needs to find the way to restrain its global expansionist enthusiasm' before it is too late. In fact, it may be too late already."
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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO AMERICAN VALUES?
"... In the 44 years since the bombing of the USS Liberty, we have undergone a day-by-day hemorrhaging of our national integrity. This was probably inevitable once AIPAC got its parasitic tentacles around us, but the result is that today the U.S. and Israel have become hideous mirror images of each other...."
http://leftwing-christian.net/2011/07/25...px?ref=rss
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Muslims Bombed Norway! Where's the Apology?
"Forgotten is that Zionist terrorists and Israel introduced terrorism to the world of car bombings, hijacking of and shooting down of civilian planes, introduction of letter bombs, assassination of UN representatives, manufacturing deceitful bombings blamed on Arabs to inflame the U.S. such as the Lavon Affairs and the USS LIberty, the impunity of constant wars and attacks upon civilians, Lebanon multiple times, Sabra and Chatils, the multiple attacks on Gaza, imprisonment and torture of Palestinian women and children, and the total defiance of the UN and humiliation of U.S. Presidents."
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2011/07/25...y-apology/
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MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011
Possible Israeli Connection to Oslo Attacks
by Stephen Lendman
"... "Norway will support Palestinians who are set to press for recognition of the independence of their state by the United Nations, says the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store."
In January, Store said:
"Norway will be among the first (European) states (to) recognize (an independent) Palestin(e) when there is an act as an international team" to do it.
He also said:
"We are working to develop the economy of Palestine," and believe the political process toward peace can be successful."
Heading a committee in charge of raising international aid for Palestine, he added that Norway is committed to rallying donor help to build Palestinian institutions.
His July comment followed talks with Palestinian National Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, adding he believes independence is no hindrance to Middle East peace.
Earlier in July, Norway's Dagbladet newspaper quoted Labour Party-affiliated Workers Youth League (AUF) leader Eskil Pedersen saying:
The "time has come for more drastic measures against Israel, and (he) wants the Foreign Minister to impose an economic boycott against the country," adding:
"The peace process goes nowhere, and though the whole world expects Israel to comply, they do not. We in the Labour Youth will have a unilateral economic embargo of Israel from the Norwegian side."
Dagbladet said:
"The AUF has long been a supporter of an international boycott of Israel, (and) the decision at the last congress demands that Norway impose a unilateral economic embargo....and it must be stricter than before."
In 2009, Norway's pension fund divested in Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense electronics firm, because of its involvement in building Israel's illegal Separation Wall.
On March 29, 2011, EuropeNews headlined, "Norway: Socialist Left Party to Vote on Motion Calling for Bombing Israel if it Acts against Hamas in Gaza," saying:
Former Finance Minister, now Education Minister Kristin Halvorsen's Socialist Left Party (SV), (part of Norway's three party ruling coalition with the Centre Party and the Labour Party) supports a measure supporting military action against Israel if it attacks Hamas. Part of its statement said:
"The credibility of the world community in its confrontation with (Gaddafi) is undermined when there is no reaction against other states in the region (that) commit injustices against (their) civil population. The greater world community must therefore also react against Israeli air attacks on the Gaza strip."
The proposal didn't get majority support but shows Norwegian concern for Palestinian rights. It suggests why Breivik targeted Labour Party children on Utoeya island. The previous day, they held a pro-Palestinian rally. Foreign Minister Store met with them, and while there, children told him Norway must recognize Palestine. In response, he said:
"The Palestinians must have their own state. The occupation must end. The wall must be demolished, and it must happen now."
... Derailing Palestinian independence and de jure UN membership, as well as retaliating against Norway's backing both, its divestment of Israeli assets, and its criticism of Israeli policies combines a trio of reasons perhaps behind the Oslo attacks.
Increasingly, it looks like Mossad's fingerprints are all over them, perhaps cooperatively with CIA and/or MI6. Massive car bombs are one of their specialties. They're experts at these type operations, using convenient stooges for plausible deniability, usually without their knowledge.
Spread the word, and keep the pressure on Israel and its Washington paymaster/partner, masters of mass murder crimes."
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/07/po...-oslo.html
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Arab world outraged by Norway attack allegations
Prior to killer's apprehension, local, international media blamed Islamists for carnage, triggering Arab media's furor. Meanwhile, Muslim web surfers accuse 'terrorist Zionist state' for attack
".... "A criminal operation of this magnitude is not carried out without the support and planning of a terrorist state, which stakes out opportunities to shuffle the deck. It is the Zionist state, in collaboration with the extremist Zionist Christians, that wants to hurt Islam in its ally, Norway," a surfer named Omar Ali commented on Al Jazeera's website. "It's not al-Qaeda. The Zionists carried out the attack to punish Norway for supporting Gaza."
Another web user accused the Israeli secret service for the attack, and explained why: "Before Europe and the US rush to blame us for terrorism, know that the body behind this operation is none other than the Mossad. And why the Mossad? Because Norway recognized the Palestinian state two days ago, and what does it mean when a gas- and oil-rich nation like Norway supports the Palestinians? Israel would never allow it."
A third commentator said that it was clear to him that an intelligence agency, like the Mossad or the CIA was behind the attack. Yet another surfer, from Jordan, accused the US, adding that "as usual, the American intelligence is pressing Norway to declare that Muslims carried out the bombing."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,...61,00.html
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Israel looking into revoking Oslo Accords in response to Palestinian UN bid
A team headed by National Security Adviser Ya'akov Amidror is looking into calling off the Oslo Accords in response to the Palestinian Authority's unilateral plan to gain United Nations recognition for an independent state.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/new...d-1.375060
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Iceland Accused Of Anti-Semitism
Iceland's support for Palestinian statehood at the UN is part of a long history of anti-Semitism in the island nation, according to an Israeli-born political activist who heads a political think tank.
"Relations between the two countries under the present left-wing government of Iceland are plainly bad," writes Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) Chairman, Manfred Gerstenfeld in a July 18 editorial published in Ynet News.
Gerstenfeld notes that when Icelandic Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson announced his country's support for a Palestinian state during the early part of July, he did so after a trip to Gaza that "studiously avoided any diplomatic contact with Israel." During his trip, the FM also called on Israel to end its blockade of Gaza. Adding to the insult, MP Birgitta Jonsdottir "was the first parliamentarian of any country to visit participants of the failed second Gaza flotilla" shortly before Skarphedinsson's trip....
"Iceland is a nation of 320 000 people just to remind you how many experts on Jews and Anti-Semitism must one have?," Hauptmann asks in her piece.
While noting that "many Icelanders are quite xenophobic and there is quite a lot of room for improvement" based on her own personal experiences as a foreigner living there, Hauptmann notes that "it almost seems as if he [Gerstenfeld] wants people to be anti-Semitic. What a pity."
"To conclude, Mr. Gerstenfeld's so called "opinion piece" is nothing but a patronizing, paranoid and polemic piece of propaganda that is unfair and offensive to the people of Iceland.
"The fact that the Icelandic government may have issues with Israel's treatment of Palestine has nothing at all to do with anti-Semitism."
http://www.therightperspective.org/2011/...-semitism/
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Indian leader suspects Mossad-CIA handiwork in Mumbai blasts to derail Indo-Pak dialogue
An Indian leader on Sunday suspected Mossad-CIA handiwork in Mumbai serial blasts that killed 20 people and injured more than 100.
In an exclusive interview with IRNA, Asif Mohd Khan, MLA of Delhi Assembly said: "Israeli and American intelligence agencies connections can't be ruled out in coordinated bomb attacks at three different locations on Wednesday evening in India's business capital, Mumbai".
While explaining his suspicion, Indian lawmaker was of the view that Mossad and CIA wanted to derail the on-going dialogue process between India and Pakistan, which was stalled after 2008 Mumbai attack in which 166 persons were killed by 10 gunmen.
"They (Mossad-CIA) wanted to destabilize the region by driving India and Pakistan to war with each other. Somehow they have succeeded in destabilizing Pakistan and now wanted to create instability in India also," Asif noted.....
http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newsp...k-dialogue
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Deep Parallels Surface Norway, 9/11, 7/7 and Bali
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By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
The greatest controversy in the world today is Israeli involvement in 9/11.* Israeli terrorists were captured with explosives in New York on 9/11, others with electronics gear.* A planeload were flown out of the country on presidential order the next day but, in the end, Muslims were blamed and two "revenge" wars buried America.
In fact, then Mossad operations chief Mike Harari, who escaped Norwegian police in 1973, after murder charges were leveled against him for killing an innocent Muslim he misidentified as a terror suspect, is the same Mike Harari who confessed to organizing the 9/11 attacks while having breakfast with VT staffer, Dimitri Khalezov on September 12, 2001 in Bangkok...
Only hours after the police announced that they had captured the "lone gunman," 6 accomplices were arrested.* They have since disappeared.
One accomplice was seen on the island, a fact pushed out of police statements but which has resurfaced.* More are sought but, more likely, the real accomplices are in government itself, inside the security services and the police.* It was that way in 1973, according to the Guardian, and it is likely that way still.
Israel's intelligence service, Mossad, acted without Norwegian help in a botched 1973 assassination in the ski resort of Lillehammer, a national commission concluded yesterday.Norwegians have long speculated about involvement by their own police or intelligence service in the killing, which has been shrouded in secrecy for 27 years, and which has been a sore point in otherwise warm relations between Norway and Israel
The killers in 1973 were released, unpunished.* The real planners of this weeks mass murder are probably already out of the country and will remain unpunished.
Mike Harari escaped prison and planned both 9/11 and the Bali bombing that we know of.* He is one of Israel's greatest national heroes.
Who are the secret heroes this week?"
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/25/norways-911/
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Wayne Madsen (Washington)
Child deaths of 9/11: The dead included 8 children: 5 on American 77 ranging in age from 3 to 11, 3 on United 175 ages 2, 3, and 4. The youngest victim was a 2 year-old child on Flight 175.
April 9, 1948: A combined force of Irgun and Stern Gangs committed a brutal massacre of 260 Arab residents of the village of Deir Yassin. Most of whom were women and children.
Israel's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza: 280 children killed.
Not to mention the kids left parent-less as a result of the Zionist bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on July 22, 1946. Note the date.....
July 25, 2011 -- OFF-TOPIC DAILY CHAT Blog
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20110725_2
"The attacks in Norway are a stark reminder of the broad range of violent terror threats faced around the world and in the United States," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "These attacks underscore the serious and potent threat of violence posed by a variety of dangerous extremists from across the ideological spectrum. This includes the 'lone-wolf' extremists, who have access to extremist ideologies on the Internet from around the world."
http://thisiszionism.blogspot.com/2011/0...ed-by.html
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"It's the Zionism, Stupid"
"... Breivik is part and parcel of the whole zionist-inspired anti-Islam hate campaign that is orchestrated by Zionists like Geller, Spencer and the rest of the gang. *That is why the media won't delve into it. The *effect of Israeli anti-Muslim propaganda *is *huge and the media knows to avoid looking at any of the real underlying causes in part because the media is one of those underlying causes....."
http://mantiqaltayr.wordpress.com/2011/0...sm-stupid/
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"... The professional Islamophobes seamlessly shifted from blaming the attack on Muslims to saying the attack was inspired by attacks by Muslims. We must never, ever forget that his kind of terrorism was invented by the Jews in their attacks in Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s...."
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2011/07/camp-play.html
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Here's a previously-and-repeatedly noted article ["The Quislings of Noway"] at David Horowitz' "FrontPageMag.com"
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/07/20/the-q...of-norway/
"During the Nazi occupation of Norway, nearly all Jews were either deported to death camps or fled to Sweden and beyond. Today, Norway is effectively under the occupation of anti-Semitic leftists and radical Muslims, and appears willing to help enable the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel."
We also see the Holocaust denial card played here by the author, Joseph Klein.
Israel circled its wagons some time ago in terms of denouncing and defending the "delegitimization" of the State of Israel.
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Here, Pam Geller's "Atlas Shrugged"
[ http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas...erday.html ] :
"While the leftist and Islamic supremacist ghouls rush to portray Norway mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik as a Christian and even as an anti-jihadist, the unanswered questions multiply. Why did a jihad group take credit for the atrocities, and then retract? And who altered the murderer's Facebook page? Yesterday, at the time that his name was released, his Facebook page looked like this (hat tip Vivien for the screenshots):..."
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Here, Vijay Prashad's article "Palestine's Norwegians: Marxist-Multiculturalists for BDS": http://www.counterpunch.org/prashad07252011.html
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The initial reaction in the West was that the attacks had been conducted by Muslim jihadis. This has become a habit after the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City, CBS's Jim Stewart said, "The betting here is on Middle East terrorists." Of course this was more Mid-West than Mid-East, but there was no apology from the media to the Muslims in America.
The first reports from the New York Times suggested that the Oslo bomber was a jihadi (Professor Will McCants tweeted that the perp was Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, something repeated by the Times, who later said that "the group was previously unknown and might not even exist"). When the fog of Islamaphobia partly cleared, and the Norwegian police was allowed its moment, they revealed that the actual killer was a Nazi, Anders Behring Breivik, who could very well have been a character from a Dahl novel.
A few hours later, Breivik's manifesto began to appear on various websites. Here Breivik fulminated against "Marxist-Multiculturalists." This has become a familiar refrain among the defenders of Fortress Europe: they want to secure their continent from the re-conquest of the Moors. The tendency is hateful toward immigrants and Islam. But these are not marginal socio-paths. Their views flow down the center of the stream of European conservatism. InOctober of last year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that multiculturalism "has utterly failed." Immigrants needed to be force-marched into German culture, and if this is not possible, they should not be allowed to enter the country....
On July 20, days before the shooting, the leader of the AUF Eskil Pederson gave an interview to the tabloid Dagbladet. The AUF had held a rally for the boycott of Israel at Utøya Island, and it had strengthened its position vis-à -vis the BDS campaign (Boycott-Divest-Sanctions). Pederson told the tabloid that he believed that "the time has come for more drastic measures against Israel." He wanted the Norwegian Foreign Ministry to impose an economic boycott against Israel. "We in the Labour Youth will have a unilateral economic embargo of Israel from the Norwegian side."
Norway has a very advanced position on the international campaign against the Occupation of the Palestinian people. The Norwegian trade union federation (LO), which includes a fifth of the country's population, divested from a series of Israeli firms, such as Africa Israel Investments,Danya Cebus, and Elbit Systems. This is one of the largest sovereign funds in the world, and its move puts pressure on other funds. Norway also has an arms ban on Israel. [COLOR="red"]Norwegian civil society has been very active in pushing for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel [/COLOR](support comes from 42% of the population, including the Norwegian soccer coach Egil 'Drillo' Olsen, who is a member of the Norwegian Worker Communist Party). Last year, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry refused to allow the Germans to test submarines that are slated for sale to Israel in Norwegian waters. A few days before the shooting, Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre visited the AUF youth, who told him that they wanted the boycott strengthened. A picture of Støre at the AUF camp walking past a sign that said "Boikott Israel" ran in the tabloids.
Støre's visit to the AUF camp came just after he met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmud Abbas to reaffirm Norway's support of the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations later this year. It is significant that Oslo was the home to the Israel-Palestinian peace accords in 1993. Israel's obduracy since then has changed the equation. "I don't think that any Palestinians or anybody around the world are in doubt that Norway supports Palestinians' right to statehood," Støre said....
The action in Utøya was not the act of a madman, and it was not a human tragedy. It was an act of political murder against people who had committed themselves to a convivial world not only for their beloved Norway, but also for those who live under Occupation elsewhere.
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Here is Gilad Atzmon's article "Empire and Zionism":
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/07/empire-and-zionism/
"Yet, unlike the Left thinking that is in constant danger of structural and intellectual stagnation, Zionism has proved to be an inherently dynamic political movement: it has never stopped evolving and reinventing itself. The history of Zionism reveals a clear success story. Within just six decades, Zionism fulfilled its initial promise and founded the Jews only' State, at the expense of the Palestinians. It achieved its initial goal with the vast support of the world's richest nations and leading superpowers. By 1967 it had managed to mobilise the entirety of world Jewry, and had transformed Jewish elites into a fierce fist of Jewish power. By then, Zionism had also changed its course instead of schlepping Jews to Palestine, it gathered that Israel would actually benefit if Diaspora Jews stayed exactly where they were, and mounted pressure on their respective governments. By the end of the 20th century, Israel has managed to transform the English-speaking empire into an Israeli mission force. In 2003 Britain and the USA sent their sons and daughters to destroy Iraq, the last fierce enemy of Israel in the region. And yet, at the time there was hardly any critical theory that could shed light onto the immense power of Israel and its lobbies within the Anglo-American political world...."
"In recent years we have seen a few successful attempts to break away from the traditional Left, materialist and modernist political analysis of Zionism and Israeli politics. James Petras, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt were among the first to publish academic work on the immense and disastrous impact of the Israeli Lobby' (a politically correct wording for Jewish power). Two years ago Shahid Alam published Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilising Logic of Zionism, an incredibly courageous scholarly attempt to grasp the destructive role of Jewish power in America and beyond. Petras, Mearsheimer, Walt, and Alam operated out of the box: their criticism of Israel, Zionism and Jewish power was not restricted by a party-line or by any given political consensus or paradigm. Quite the opposite, their work broke away from their contemporaneous paradigms and brought into life a new discourse that now shapes itself into an extensive body of thought, as well as providing politically pragmatic applications.5 As one may expect, Petras, Mearsheimer and Walt were criticised by elements within the Left, and especially by prominent Jewish voices within the Left. But they prevailed. Wisdom and true intellectual insights cannot be contained. At the most, these voices can be silenced or suppressed for a short while but they always hit back with much greater rigour.
This week we saw the publication of Eric Walberg's Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games (Clarity Press), a substantial addition to the aforementioned and precious out of the box' category.
The book sketches a fascinating historical journey that provides Walberg with the necessary means to unveil the unique particularity of the postmodern conditions we are subject to. Walberg provides us with an extensive expose of the depth of the Zionist penetration into Western thought and the destructive power of Israeli imperial wars.
In order to achieve his goal, Walberg sets an historical template. He identifies three crucial phases in the past and recent imperial affairs: Great Game I (GGI) refers to classical imperialism' with competing empires vying for territories and resources.
Great Game II (GGII) refers largely to the cold war and the alliance of formerly competing Western empires under US hegemony in an attempt to restrain communism and contain its influence.
Great Game III (GGIII) is where we are nowthe postmodern phase. It starts roughly with the collapse of the Soviet block. It can be described broadly in Neo-conservative terms as American unilateral world domination through absolute military superiority. But such a definition would be misleading. In reality we encounter the total Israeli-fication of America and its elites. In practice what we see is America willingly lending its might to a miniature Jewish state.
GGIII is the victorious march of Israeli, Zionist, and Jewish power. Walberg's analysis is there to explain the shameless reaction of American senators and congressmen to Netanyahu's speech recently. It explains why America, once regarded as a leader of the free world, is now lending its destructive might to the miniature Jewish state. The frightening truth is that [B]Israel is now an Empire and-a-Half' as Walberg calls it. It has, at its disposal, the world's only superpower that fights its wars by proxy and provides for its needs. Devastatingly enough, America doesn't find within itself the power to liberate itself. The world's single super power's elite is practically held hostage by a miniature state and its supportive lobbies.....[/B]
Walberg produces a thorough reading of the various elements that made Israel into an Empire and-a-Half'. Fearlessly he looks into Judaism: he examines scholarly works dealing with the complex relationship between Jews and the state', he elaborates on Jewish and Zionist ideologies, he unveils the role of Jewish oligarchs. Walberg also examines the tactics and strategies that are put into action by Israel and its supporters: global wars, nuclear armament, soft power, sayanim, spies and gatekeepers. He elaborates on the Israeli Lobby and their media manipulation. He also discloses the role of some Jewish elements within the Left in stifling free discourse and diverting attention from the real issues.
Towards the end of the book Walberg reveals the bitter truth: Israel is actually far more independent than America, its supportive backing empire: "Despite the continuation of its special relationship with the US, Israel is playing an increasingly independent role in GGIII around the world, with its government, corporations and kosher nostra working with whatever states and non-state actors are willing to condone its deadly games, selling arms, smuggling drugs, buying blood diamonds from Africa, conducting covert operations to subvert governments, assassinating opponents, forging passports… Its Diaspora community and Chabad network, found in virtually every corner of the globe, facilitate its game plan, keeping ahead of US plans and technology through its American Sayanim, operatives, spies and powerful lobby." (p. 235.)....
Walberg's Postmodern Imperialism is a landmark text, written at a crucial moment in time. For the West, America and Americans, this may be a final wake-up call. For Israel, Israelis and their supporters around the world, this text is a red alert. Israel urgently needs to find the way to restrain its global expansionist enthusiasm' before it is too late. In fact, it may be too late already."
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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO AMERICAN VALUES?
"... In the 44 years since the bombing of the USS Liberty, we have undergone a day-by-day hemorrhaging of our national integrity. This was probably inevitable once AIPAC got its parasitic tentacles around us, but the result is that today the U.S. and Israel have become hideous mirror images of each other...."
http://leftwing-christian.net/2011/07/25...px?ref=rss
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Muslims Bombed Norway! Where's the Apology?
"Forgotten is that Zionist terrorists and Israel introduced terrorism to the world of car bombings, hijacking of and shooting down of civilian planes, introduction of letter bombs, assassination of UN representatives, manufacturing deceitful bombings blamed on Arabs to inflame the U.S. such as the Lavon Affairs and the USS LIberty, the impunity of constant wars and attacks upon civilians, Lebanon multiple times, Sabra and Chatils, the multiple attacks on Gaza, imprisonment and torture of Palestinian women and children, and the total defiance of the UN and humiliation of U.S. Presidents."
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2011/07/25...y-apology/
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MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011
Possible Israeli Connection to Oslo Attacks
by Stephen Lendman
"... "Norway will support Palestinians who are set to press for recognition of the independence of their state by the United Nations, says the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store."
In January, Store said:
"Norway will be among the first (European) states (to) recognize (an independent) Palestin(e) when there is an act as an international team" to do it.
He also said:
"We are working to develop the economy of Palestine," and believe the political process toward peace can be successful."
Heading a committee in charge of raising international aid for Palestine, he added that Norway is committed to rallying donor help to build Palestinian institutions.
His July comment followed talks with Palestinian National Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, adding he believes independence is no hindrance to Middle East peace.
Earlier in July, Norway's Dagbladet newspaper quoted Labour Party-affiliated Workers Youth League (AUF) leader Eskil Pedersen saying:
The "time has come for more drastic measures against Israel, and (he) wants the Foreign Minister to impose an economic boycott against the country," adding:
"The peace process goes nowhere, and though the whole world expects Israel to comply, they do not. We in the Labour Youth will have a unilateral economic embargo of Israel from the Norwegian side."
Dagbladet said:
"The AUF has long been a supporter of an international boycott of Israel, (and) the decision at the last congress demands that Norway impose a unilateral economic embargo....and it must be stricter than before."
In 2009, Norway's pension fund divested in Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense electronics firm, because of its involvement in building Israel's illegal Separation Wall.
On March 29, 2011, EuropeNews headlined, "Norway: Socialist Left Party to Vote on Motion Calling for Bombing Israel if it Acts against Hamas in Gaza," saying:
Former Finance Minister, now Education Minister Kristin Halvorsen's Socialist Left Party (SV), (part of Norway's three party ruling coalition with the Centre Party and the Labour Party) supports a measure supporting military action against Israel if it attacks Hamas. Part of its statement said:
"The credibility of the world community in its confrontation with (Gaddafi) is undermined when there is no reaction against other states in the region (that) commit injustices against (their) civil population. The greater world community must therefore also react against Israeli air attacks on the Gaza strip."
The proposal didn't get majority support but shows Norwegian concern for Palestinian rights. It suggests why Breivik targeted Labour Party children on Utoeya island. The previous day, they held a pro-Palestinian rally. Foreign Minister Store met with them, and while there, children told him Norway must recognize Palestine. In response, he said:
"The Palestinians must have their own state. The occupation must end. The wall must be demolished, and it must happen now."
... Derailing Palestinian independence and de jure UN membership, as well as retaliating against Norway's backing both, its divestment of Israeli assets, and its criticism of Israeli policies combines a trio of reasons perhaps behind the Oslo attacks.
Increasingly, it looks like Mossad's fingerprints are all over them, perhaps cooperatively with CIA and/or MI6. Massive car bombs are one of their specialties. They're experts at these type operations, using convenient stooges for plausible deniability, usually without their knowledge.
Spread the word, and keep the pressure on Israel and its Washington paymaster/partner, masters of mass murder crimes."
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/07/po...-oslo.html
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Arab world outraged by Norway attack allegations
Prior to killer's apprehension, local, international media blamed Islamists for carnage, triggering Arab media's furor. Meanwhile, Muslim web surfers accuse 'terrorist Zionist state' for attack
".... "A criminal operation of this magnitude is not carried out without the support and planning of a terrorist state, which stakes out opportunities to shuffle the deck. It is the Zionist state, in collaboration with the extremist Zionist Christians, that wants to hurt Islam in its ally, Norway," a surfer named Omar Ali commented on Al Jazeera's website. "It's not al-Qaeda. The Zionists carried out the attack to punish Norway for supporting Gaza."
Another web user accused the Israeli secret service for the attack, and explained why: "Before Europe and the US rush to blame us for terrorism, know that the body behind this operation is none other than the Mossad. And why the Mossad? Because Norway recognized the Palestinian state two days ago, and what does it mean when a gas- and oil-rich nation like Norway supports the Palestinians? Israel would never allow it."
A third commentator said that it was clear to him that an intelligence agency, like the Mossad or the CIA was behind the attack. Yet another surfer, from Jordan, accused the US, adding that "as usual, the American intelligence is pressing Norway to declare that Muslims carried out the bombing."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,...61,00.html
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Israel looking into revoking Oslo Accords in response to Palestinian UN bid
A team headed by National Security Adviser Ya'akov Amidror is looking into calling off the Oslo Accords in response to the Palestinian Authority's unilateral plan to gain United Nations recognition for an independent state.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/new...d-1.375060
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Iceland Accused Of Anti-Semitism
Iceland's support for Palestinian statehood at the UN is part of a long history of anti-Semitism in the island nation, according to an Israeli-born political activist who heads a political think tank.
"Relations between the two countries under the present left-wing government of Iceland are plainly bad," writes Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) Chairman, Manfred Gerstenfeld in a July 18 editorial published in Ynet News.
Gerstenfeld notes that when Icelandic Foreign Minister Ossur Skarphedinsson announced his country's support for a Palestinian state during the early part of July, he did so after a trip to Gaza that "studiously avoided any diplomatic contact with Israel." During his trip, the FM also called on Israel to end its blockade of Gaza. Adding to the insult, MP Birgitta Jonsdottir "was the first parliamentarian of any country to visit participants of the failed second Gaza flotilla" shortly before Skarphedinsson's trip....
"Iceland is a nation of 320 000 people just to remind you how many experts on Jews and Anti-Semitism must one have?," Hauptmann asks in her piece.
While noting that "many Icelanders are quite xenophobic and there is quite a lot of room for improvement" based on her own personal experiences as a foreigner living there, Hauptmann notes that "it almost seems as if he [Gerstenfeld] wants people to be anti-Semitic. What a pity."
"To conclude, Mr. Gerstenfeld's so called "opinion piece" is nothing but a patronizing, paranoid and polemic piece of propaganda that is unfair and offensive to the people of Iceland.
"The fact that the Icelandic government may have issues with Israel's treatment of Palestine has nothing at all to do with anti-Semitism."
http://www.therightperspective.org/2011/...-semitism/
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Indian leader suspects Mossad-CIA handiwork in Mumbai blasts to derail Indo-Pak dialogue
An Indian leader on Sunday suspected Mossad-CIA handiwork in Mumbai serial blasts that killed 20 people and injured more than 100.
In an exclusive interview with IRNA, Asif Mohd Khan, MLA of Delhi Assembly said: "Israeli and American intelligence agencies connections can't be ruled out in coordinated bomb attacks at three different locations on Wednesday evening in India's business capital, Mumbai".
While explaining his suspicion, Indian lawmaker was of the view that Mossad and CIA wanted to derail the on-going dialogue process between India and Pakistan, which was stalled after 2008 Mumbai attack in which 166 persons were killed by 10 gunmen.
"They (Mossad-CIA) wanted to destabilize the region by driving India and Pakistan to war with each other. Somehow they have succeeded in destabilizing Pakistan and now wanted to create instability in India also," Asif noted.....
http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newsp...k-dialogue
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Deep Parallels Surface Norway, 9/11, 7/7 and Bali
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By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
The greatest controversy in the world today is Israeli involvement in 9/11.* Israeli terrorists were captured with explosives in New York on 9/11, others with electronics gear.* A planeload were flown out of the country on presidential order the next day but, in the end, Muslims were blamed and two "revenge" wars buried America.
In fact, then Mossad operations chief Mike Harari, who escaped Norwegian police in 1973, after murder charges were leveled against him for killing an innocent Muslim he misidentified as a terror suspect, is the same Mike Harari who confessed to organizing the 9/11 attacks while having breakfast with VT staffer, Dimitri Khalezov on September 12, 2001 in Bangkok...
Only hours after the police announced that they had captured the "lone gunman," 6 accomplices were arrested.* They have since disappeared.
One accomplice was seen on the island, a fact pushed out of police statements but which has resurfaced.* More are sought but, more likely, the real accomplices are in government itself, inside the security services and the police.* It was that way in 1973, according to the Guardian, and it is likely that way still.
Israel's intelligence service, Mossad, acted without Norwegian help in a botched 1973 assassination in the ski resort of Lillehammer, a national commission concluded yesterday.Norwegians have long speculated about involvement by their own police or intelligence service in the killing, which has been shrouded in secrecy for 27 years, and which has been a sore point in otherwise warm relations between Norway and Israel
The killers in 1973 were released, unpunished.* The real planners of this weeks mass murder are probably already out of the country and will remain unpunished.
Mike Harari escaped prison and planned both 9/11 and the Bali bombing that we know of.* He is one of Israel's greatest national heroes.
Who are the secret heroes this week?"
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/25/norways-911/
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Wayne Madsen (Washington)
Child deaths of 9/11: The dead included 8 children: 5 on American 77 ranging in age from 3 to 11, 3 on United 175 ages 2, 3, and 4. The youngest victim was a 2 year-old child on Flight 175.
April 9, 1948: A combined force of Irgun and Stern Gangs committed a brutal massacre of 260 Arab residents of the village of Deir Yassin. Most of whom were women and children.
Israel's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza: 280 children killed.
Not to mention the kids left parent-less as a result of the Zionist bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on July 22, 1946. Note the date.....
July 25, 2011 -- OFF-TOPIC DAILY CHAT Blog
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20110725_2
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