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2006-08-11 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Norwegian author says Israel has lost right to exist

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Posted by leroidavid 2006-08-11 05:39|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Due to the current rate of immigration there will be an Israel long after Norway is just a memory.

This will be unfortunate as Aboriginal Norwegians are great people.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-08-11 08:48|| 2006-08-11 08:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Gaarder said he was misunderstood and emphasized that he is a friend of Israel and the Jews.

Was he riding shotgun with Mel Gibson? Looks like they've got their stories straight.
You lose the right to exist when you aren't willing to fight for it. Israel knew that from the beginning. The Europeans appear to have forgotten it and, unfortunately for them, will probably realize it the hard way soon.

Posted by tu3031 2006-08-11 09:00|| 2006-08-11 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 26 million copies of his book have been sold

This must be the best selling book by a Norwegian by at least an order of magnitude. I wonder who bought it?

Otherwise, if Israel has lost it's right to exist in its present form then the solution is a bigger Israel. At least more Arabs will get to enjoy legal due process and civil rights.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-08-11 09:03|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-08-11 09:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Who the hell asked him?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-08-11 10:33|| 2006-08-11 10:33|| Front Page Top

#5 That's because Israel = zionism, zionism = racism, and racism = nazism.
Hence, israeli are nazis, paleos are WWII jews, and this free us europeans from the neurotic Holocaust guilt we've been forcefed... thus allowing progressives to be antisemite again, even though this is a big no-no (rightwing antisemitism is a serious thoughtcrime, but antizionism is not, in fact it's progressive).

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-08-11 14:37|| 2006-08-11 14:37|| Front Page Top

#6 The Jewish journalist and music critic Mona Levin spoke out in public against Gaarder and said she was shocked by the Norwegian government's silence. She blasted the cabinet for not denouncing what she described as "the most appalling thing I've read since 'Mein Kampf.'"

No offense to the other posters here, and I agree with you, but I'm a LOT more concerned with the antizionism of Ahmadinijad. He actually intends to do something about it. I guess his speeches aren't "written down" so that doesn't count like this goon's book.

Posted by BA 2006-08-11 14:54|| 2006-08-11 14:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Sophie's World has to be the most tedious book I've given up on.

Not to bore you with the details, but all the previous problems in the world existed because there wasn't a United Nations and women didn't have rights.

Preachy and dull: a painful combination.

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-08-11 15:33|| 2006-08-11 15:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Norwegian author says Israel has lost right to exist

That's why Israel has a formidable military and a second strike nuclear capability - so that its citizens don't have to rely on the protection and help of Norwegians to survive...

Posted by john 2006-08-11 16:45|| 2006-08-11 16:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Um, no. Israel has not lost the right to exist.

A state has the right to exist for as long as it can defend itself. The moment that it can no longer do so, the moment that someone else's army is able to march in and take over - that's when a state loses the "right" to exist. You cannot take that right away, and it is intrinsic to all states - despicable ones like Iran included.

Posted by The Doctor">The Doctor 2006-08-11 16:49|| 2006-08-11 16:49|| Front Page Top

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