Battleangel

A rather insignificant incident (I didn’t pick up on it until today) was all of a sudden transformed into a major international incident, thanks to the efforts of the US State Department.

Aftenposten - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Norway with “serious political consequences” after Finance Minister and Socialist Left Party leader Kristin Halvorsen admitted to supporting a boycott of Israeli goods.

The reaction was reportedly given to the Norwegian embassy in Washington DC, and it was made clear that the statements came from the top level of the US State Department, newspaper VG reports.

VG claims that two classified reports promised a “tougher climate” between the USA and Norway if Halvorsen’s remarks represented the foreign policy of the new red-green alliance of the Labor, Socialist Left and Center parties.

Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonas Gahr Støre, responded immediately with written explanations to both Israel and the USA, clarifying the government’s stance, while Halvorsen distanced her party’s policy from that of the government’s.

For a recap of Zionist infiltration of the US government Kurt Nimmo’s Another Day in the Empire posted a story (Condi Rice: Christian-Zionist Pit Bull), in part based on the same incident, yesterday.

Naturally the fraudsters at the Wiesenthal Center stepped in as well, probably hoping someone could be huckstered for money or power. The rhetoric of course being the same dull catchphrases, using Holocaust-related material to put on the same old show.

(International Solidarity Movement) Norman Finkelstein weighs in as well with Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified, originally posted in the January 14 issue of Aftenposten. He argues effectively that Israel’s shoddy Human Rights practises do indeed warrant an economic boycott and that such a boycott may be one of the only civilized measures left to prod Israel closer to some sort of closure, given the dismal record of trying to sway Israel with diplomacy.

Also found on Google news and sort of related: Blood breeds blood, a review of Spielberg’s latest film (”Munich”) that claims he brings “attention to the moral costs - the impact not so much on the Palestinians, but on the Jewish soul.” It obviously smacks of arrogance. Many reviewers have pointed to the very same thing, namely that the soul searching to find the rationale behind Black September is non-existent, as with many Hollywood renderings of the “enemy.” And for all the sobriety and “political meditation” still misses out on some of the facts. Yet it seemed like a clever way to defuse a tense topic, even if it ends up as one big whitewash. Bottom line, don’t replace real history lessons with movies.