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Norway up in arms after author asserts Israel has lost right to exist

By Assaf Uni, Haaretz Correspondent

An article in a leading Norwegian newspaper last weekend lambasted Israel and Judaism and said Israel has lost its right to exist in its present form.

Entitled "God's chosen people," the article by author Jostein Gaarder in Aftenposten is raising a storm in Norway. Gaarder, author of the book "Sophie's World," links the Israel Defense Forces' acts in Lebanon to Jewish history and foresees the coming dismantling of the state as it exists today, with the Jews becoming refugees.

In an interview with Haaretz Gaarder said Thursday that he was misunderstood. "As John Kennedy declared in Germany 'I am a Berliner' ¬ I say now 'I am a Jew,'" he said.

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The article compares Israel's government, the Afghan Taliban regime and South African apartheid, and states, "We no longer recognize the State of Israel" and "the State of Israel in its current form is history."

"We call child murderers 'child murderers,' and will never accept that they have a divine or historic mandate excusing their outrages," Gaarder writes. "Shame on ethnic cleansing, shame on every terrorist strike against civilians, be it carried out by Hamas, Hezbollah or the State of Israel!"

Gaarder repeatedly refers to the role Judaism plays in Israel's territorial aspirations, writing, "We don't believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this nation's fancies and weep over its misdeeds."

He writes, "It is the State of Israel that fails to recognize, respect or defer to the internationally lawful Israeli state of 1948. Israel wants more; more water and more villages. To obtain this, there are those who want, with God's assistance, a final solution to the Palestinian problem."

The article has triggered off thousands of comments and dozens of stormy debates in the Norwegian media. It also has sparked off a debate about Gaarder's alleged anti-Semitic tendencies and the right to criticize Israel.
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.'"

"We're dealing with an ignorant man, a hate-filled man who derides Judaism," she said in an interview from Oslo. Levin said it was unacceptable that a man of such international repute (26 million copies of his book have been sold) could attack an entire ethnic group and that politicians would remain silent.

"This is a classic anti-Semitic manifesto, which cannot even disguise itself as criticism of Israel," said Professor Dina Porat, head of the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University.
"The writer does not address the conflict in its contemporary context but reaches back thousands of years to assert that the Jewish people have traits of cruelty that have remained unchanged and account for the current war," she says.

Porat says that according to the European Union, denying Israel's right to exist ¬ arguing that its existence is racist ¬ is an anti-Semitic statement. She also finds in Gaarder's text the use of classic anti-Semitic symbols, like infanticide.

"I've been head of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism for 15 years and it's not every day that I get to read such a radical document, in terms of its content and rhetoric," she said.

Gaarder writes, among other things, "We do not believe that Israel mourns 40 killed Lebanese children more than it has lamented for more than 3,000 years 40 years in the desert. We note that many Israelis celebrate such triumphs like they once cheered the scourges of the Lord as 'fitting punishment' for the people of Egypt."

He writes that the first Zionist terrorists started operating in the days of Jesus.

Speaking to Haaretz on Tuesday, a day before he stopped talking to the media, Gaarder said he was misunderstood and emphasized that he is a friend of Israel and the Jews.

"I think what Hezbollah is doing is terrible," he said, adding that he supports Israel's right to exist as a national homeland for the Jews since 1948.

Gaarder said he does not question Israel's right to exist, "but not as an apartheid state." He said he could understand how his article could be interpreted as "anti-Jewish" and admitted that if he were to rewrite it, he would change a few things.

He is aware he has hurt the Jews in Norway, he said, adding that he would make sure the article is not translated into other languages. However, Gaarder refused to retract publicly his main theme.

Aftenposten's political editor Harald Stanghelle said he saw no problem publishing Gaarder's article.

"Of course I don't agree with what he says," he said. "But an open debate on the issue is better than a covert one.

"Gaarder's voice is important in the Norwegian discourse and it was right to publish the article," he said.

Meanwhile, the furor over Gaarder's article coincides with a series of anti-Semitic incidents in Norway, including the desecration of an Oslo Synagogue and cemeteries and the assault and battery of a skullcap-wearing youngster.

Quotes from article were taken from an unofficial translation

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1.	website -read the article	10:04	\|	Duncan	11/08/06

2.	West Bank	10:39	\|	Michael	11/08/06

3.	Well, Gaarder is right about one thing:	10:39	\|	A Bethlehemite	11/08/06

4.	a war for making peace!!!!!	10:52	\|	Jessica	11/08/06

5.	Shall we set fire to Norwegian flags?	10:53	\|	FOX	11/08/06

6.	Israel, time to honesty!!!!	11:00	\|	Observer	11/08/06

7.	Fashion	11:25	\|	Niall	11/08/06

8.	GOD`S F-16 AND LASER GUIDED BOMBS	11:26	\|	indrajaya	11/08/06

9.	"These settlements don`t hurt anyone"	11:27	\|	David	11/08/06

10.	Nordic eneffiency against Jews	11:31	\|	A Finnish Jew	11/08/06

11.	Jessica	11:32	\|	Connie	11/08/06

12.	Gaarder is indeed anti-Semitic!	11:49	\|	Chris Stuart	11/08/06

13.	God & F16s Indrajaya	11:51	\|	Niall	11/08/06

14.	Olmert/Perez failed to provide legitimate leadership for Israel	11:52	\|	Bennie	11/08/06

15.	gaarder is a great friend of Israel	11:54	\|	yodel	11/08/06

16.	# 3 Bethlehemite	12:00	\|	ChanahS	11/08/06

17.	Bethlehemite # 3 con`t	12:04	\|	ChanahS	11/08/06

18.	Church going Scandanavians	12:06	\|	Palestinian	11/08/06

19.	Is Israel a racist state	12:06	\|	santik	11/08/06

20.	Great FOX, blame Norway for all conflict!!!	12:07	\|	lorrypf	11/08/06

21.	Fox# 5	12:12	\|	Mawt	11/08/06

22.	A country of anti----	12:19	\|	Norwegian	11/08/06

23.	To Fox	12:28	\|	Norsk	11/08/06

24.	Just one more reason why	12:29	\|	Nechama	11/08/06

25.	to #23 weapens	12:40	\|	Chris Stuart	11/08/06

26.	Bias	12:41	\|	Heinrich	11/08/06

27.	Right	12:59	\|	Michael	11/08/06

28.	Norsk # 23	13:02	\|	ChanahS	11/08/06

29.	to 23	13:10	\|	Norsk	11/08/06

30.	To connie	13:11	\|	imad	11/08/06

31.	gaarder``s article	13:11	\|	hans zivony	11/08/06

32.	Mona Levin: Gaarder not antisemite	13:15	\|	Boreas	11/08/06

33.	Santik - Name one arab country with rights to migrate	13:16	\|	Jabadini	11/08/06

34.	Freedom just under your eyes.	13:30	\|	make your own opinio	11/08/06

35.	Nechama	13:34	\|	Magne	11/08/06

36.	Norway up in arms	13:36	\|	a wandering Jew	11/08/06

37.	Philosophy	13:40	\|	VHJM van Neerven	11/08/06

38.	in need of honest debates	13:46	\|	Bru	11/08/06

39.	Gaardner puts himself back into the Middle Ages	13:49	\|	Alex	11/08/06

40.	anti-semitic?	15:05	\|	Johan	11/08/06

41.	Bru - these are your answers	15:08	\|	Jabadini	11/08/06

42.	mythology	15:14	\|	Honi	11/08/06

43.	Time for the Israeli myth to be shattered	15:18	\|	jac	11/08/06

44.	Name calling	15:24	\|	Chris Delzio	11/08/06

45.	The world of Gaarder	15:30	\|	Gunnar	11/08/06

46.	to JABADINI	15:32	\|	santik	11/08/06

47.	Lets face it....the world hate Jews.....time to ignore the bigots	15:33	\|	Rory	11/08/06

48.	To the "Christian" hans zivony	15:35	\|	Christian	11/08/06

49.	#2	15:35	\|	sniper	11/08/06

50.	anti-semitism	15:43	\|	Max	11/08/06

51.	to FOX	15:47	\|	Yos	11/08/06

52.	Write to the King of Norway and to PM	15:50	\|	Jonathan	11/08/06

53.	anti semitic	15:50	\|	elie	11/08/06

54.	1 Duncan - The answer is blowing in the Wind	15:50	\|	S Judah	11/08/06

55.	# 40 Chris	15:51	\|	ChanahS	11/08/06

56.	Big Deal?	15:52	\|	David Oberlander	11/08/06

57.	you have to give him a thumbs up at least for this paragraph:	15:55	\|	manyook	11/08/06

58.	Sniper # 45	15:55	\|	ChanahS	11/08/06

59.	make a trial first	16:05	\|	Frank	11/08/06

60.	Norway? Oh my!	16:07	\|	FOX	11/08/06

61.	Now It Can Be Told	16:09	\|	Erik	11/08/06

62.	Re: #23 Norsk	16:13	\|	Illini	11/08/06

63.	Free Speech...or Anti-semite	16:13	\|	Ram	11/08/06

64.	THIS DOESN`T BOTHER ME	16:14	\|	PHILLY JEW	11/08/06

65.	Israel right to exist	16:19	\|	john	11/08/06

66.	Norsk # 23 (TO FOX)	16:22	\|	Diana	11/08/06

67.	Magne #35	16:22	\|	Nechama	11/08/06

68.	Further to my first Post!	16:24	\|	Benzaquen	11/08/06

69.	Wake up and look in the mirror	16:26	\|	Chris	11/08/06

70.	ChanahS	16:27	\|	dichtus	11/08/06

71.	to Santik	16:28	\|	joe	11/08/06

72.	Indrajaya #8	16:33	\|	Diana	11/08/06

73.	To Diana	16:48	\|	Norsk	11/08/06

74.	TO JOHAN in NORWAY	16:49	\|	Philly Jew	11/08/06

75.	NORWAY--RICH, BORED, AND LACKING JEWS	16:52	\|	Philly Jew	11/08/06

76.	antisemitism	16:52	\|	antonio baptista	11/08/06

77.	Norway up in arms	16:52	\|	meastern	11/08/06

78.	he is damn right	16:54	\|	alex	11/08/06

79.	Diana (Indrajaya #8)	17:04	\|	dichtus	11/08/06

80.	When Norwegian embassies burn	17:06	\|	Elvis Scudbubble	11/08/06

81.	Israel Hypocrisy	17:09	\|	Heidi	11/08/06

82.	ISRAEL NOT RACIST STATE #19	17:11	\|	TOBIA	11/08/06

83.	Chosen to ignore UN resolutions	17:13	\|	dragon	11/08/06

84.	At least we don`t threaten fatwas !	17:16	\|	jordan	11/08/06

85.	Europe	17:19	\|	Gabriel	11/08/06

86.	# 60 Norway? Oh My...	17:22	\|	Max Zinger	11/08/06

87.	To the Palestinian	17:27	\|	Israeli	11/08/06

88.	Haaretz` skewed criticism (3rd try)	17:30	\|	Bor de Wolf	11/08/06

89.	Elvis Scudbubble	17:31	\|	dichtus	11/08/06

90.	Gaarder wants to save the children!	17:33	\|	Jarle	11/08/06

91.	to Heidi	17:36	\|	Joe	11/08/06

92.	Morten Levin agreed with Gaarder.	17:39	\|	sakrayami	11/08/06

93.	No right to how to exist?	17:39	\|	Issam	11/08/06

94.	# 86 - Offensive content	17:50	\|	Jarle	11/08/06

95.	Rioting over his article?	17:51	\|	Andrew	11/08/06

96.	TO JOE	17:54	\|	santik	11/08/06

97.	TO JOE	17:54	\|	santik	11/08/06

98.	Norwegians Famous Antisemites / Quislings	17:55	\|	Semsem	11/08/06

99.	to Philly Jew	17:55	\|	Sefan Gramm	11/08/06

100.	The default refuge of Zionist Scoundrels	17:55	\|	Lazarus Plato	11/08/06

101.	Is this Anti Semetic	17:56	\|	human	11/08/06

102.	SAD	17:57	\|	Andrew	11/08/06

103.	#32 Yes Article was Worse than Excrement on Synagogue	17:58	\|	Laila	11/08/06

104.	A Victim of Propaganda	18:06	\|	Ed	11/08/06

105.	The charge of "racism" is just cynical Arab propaganda	18:06	\|	DavidAK	11/08/06

106.	Gaarder is 100% accurate in his article	18:06	\|	Rana	11/08/06

107.	TO JOE and HEIDI	18:06	\|	santik	11/08/06

108.	Jarle	18:07	\|	Nina	11/08/06

109.	Blame the Jews, Blame the Jews	18:08	\|	Jon	11/08/06

110.	Anti-semitic??	18:15	\|	Jacob	11/08/06

111.	Santik	18:16	\|	Joe	11/08/06

112.	Alex in Athens, you don`t know your history	18:16	\|	DavidAK	11/08/06

113.	Gaarder is a product of the Norwegian society	18:18	\|	Jesper Jensen	11/08/06

114.	ADDRESS TO READ THE ARTICLE IN ENGLISH	18:18	\|	------------	11/08/06

115.	norway	18:22	\|	michael livingston	11/08/06

116.	Now Norway has lost its right to exist!	18:23	\|	DavidAK	11/08/06

117.	Gaarder`s opinion..not Norways!!!	18:23	\|	Håvard	11/08/06

118.	Friends	18:27	\|	Olle	11/08/06

119.	To #98	18:27	\|	sakrayami	11/08/06

120.	# 98 - So little knowledge...	18:29	\|	Jarle	11/08/06

121.	let`s riot	18:29	\|	ross	11/08/06

122.	#13 God & F 16	18:30	\|	golden	11/08/06

123.	To Chris	18:37	\|	Jeff	11/08/06

124.	So much ignorance here...end the Palestinian myth	18:38	\|	David	11/08/06

125.	Let him reside in Iran...	18:41	\|	Micha	11/08/06

126.	Gaarder	18:42	\|	Trond	11/08/06

127.	Who cares about Norway?	18:44	\|	Arie	11/08/06

128.	A modest proposal...	18:44	\|	Jonathan Swift	11/08/06

129.	Fox, you`re AWESOME!	18:44	\|	Tali	11/08/06

130.	Nina - let`s save all the children	18:45	\|	Jarle	11/08/06

131.	Is Israel ...?	18:48	\|	Witek	11/08/06

132.	Norway	19:03	\|	Philippe	11/08/06

133.	Jesper: I suppose all Danes support the Mohammed cartoons?	19:03	\|	Jarle	11/08/06

134.	3 A Bethlehemite	19:06	\|	KUTW	11/08/06

135.	Norway`s importaent role i WWII	19:25	\|	GhostMan	11/08/06

136.	to GhostMan	19:46	\|	Alex from Boston	11/08/06

137.	The Majority Of Europeans Aren`t Anti-Semitic	19:47	\|	Bernard Lewis	11/08/06

138.	Dear Mr. FOX	19:48	\|	Øyvind	11/08/06

139.	Dichtus #78 Part 1	19:53	\|	Diana	11/08/06

140.	norway	19:53	\|	phil	11/08/06

141.	How true	20:08	\|	MA	11/08/06

142.	An annonymous norwegian`s point of view	20:31	\|	doesntmatter	11/08/06

143.	# 98 Semsem and # 120 Jarle	20:31	\|	Another Norwegian	11/08/06

144.	reply to #137	20:31	\|	Ibn Khaldoun	11/08/06

145.	MEL GIBSON	20:37	\|	Abe Foxman	11/08/06

146.	#127 Arie: famous Norwegians (2nd try)	20:38	\|	Bor de Wolf	11/08/06

147.	so many weapons	20:39	\|	DannySteel	11/08/06

148.	to Fox and all commenting on him	20:41	\|	T	11/08/06

149.	lost the touch to reality to T from Montreal	21:18	\|	Ben	11/08/06

150.	Norway`s Anti-Zionism is not Anti-Semitism	21:20	\|	Joe	11/08/06

151.	about the articale	21:23	\|	Noam	11/08/06

152.	Now is Norway your new enemy?	21:25	\|	Franz	11/08/06

153.	Gaarder	21:30	\|	V	11/08/06

154.	#2 Michael	21:31	\|	JayUK	11/08/06

155.	Gaerder and Mel Gibson	21:33	\|	John Harm	11/08/06

156.	to Alex	21:33	\|	GhostMan	11/08/06

157.	antisemitism	21:35	\|	Michael	11/08/06

158.	Diana 139 Part1	21:37	\|	dichtus	11/08/06

159.	Norway	21:38	\|	Oda	11/08/06

160.	the article	22:00	\|	M	11/08/06

161.	Norwegian Jew	22:01	\|	David	11/08/06

162.	Haaretz wants inflammatory statements	22:04	\|	Try2bIntellectual	11/08/06

163.	To Niall	22:09	\|	M	11/08/06

164.	Thanks David from London	22:13	\|	M	11/08/06

165.	Who says Israel is loosing the war?	22:18	\|	Alex	11/08/06

166.	To Connie answering Jessica	22:18	\|	M	11/08/06

167.	Euro PC fascists using Islamists to finish Hitler`s job	22:18	\|	Dave Loev	11/08/06

168.	Ignorants if we know the Truth? Reply to #124	22:22	\|	Christian	11/08/06

169.	to Norsk and Oda	22:22	\|	Another Norwegian	11/08/06

170.	Diana 139 Part2	22:24	\|	dichtus	11/08/06

171.	Norwegian Jew	22:25	\|	Jew in Norway	11/08/06

172.	To bennie: legitimate leadership of israel	22:26	\|	Ran	11/08/06

173.	Re: To the "Christian" hans zivony	22:28	\|	Rose	11/08/06

174.	David from London	22:29	\|	Eugene	11/08/06

175.	#150 Joe	22:29	\|	Bob M	11/08/06

176.	To ChanahS	22:31	\|	yuv	11/08/06

177.	Whatever happened to freedom of speech	22:34	\|	Baz Mann	11/08/06

178.	wake up V	22:38	\|	ben	11/08/06

179.	to all jews and hans zivony	22:42	\|	Hammad	11/08/06

180.	to Norwegians	23:12	\|	Alex	11/08/06

181.	Duncan in langley	23:12	\|	rich	11/08/06

182.	Indrahahahah	23:13	\|	Larry	11/08/06

183.	to Jew in Norway	23:17	\|	GhostMan	11/08/06

184.	santik	23:18	\|	rich	11/08/06

185.	How about those nurturing Viking dudes	23:21	\|	Michael Korn	11/08/06

186.	gaarder´s article lacks scientific rigor	23:25	\|	christine beaufour	11/08/06

187.	DavidAK #105	23:34	\|	TonyL	11/08/06

188.	Israel`s rights, according to PC Establishment	23:34	\|	Dave Loev	11/08/06

189.	Response to Oywind in Norway #138	23:43	\|	FOX	11/08/06

190.	NORSK @ #73	23:48	\|	Diana	11/08/06

191.	@167	23:51	\|	pravda	11/08/06

192.	To T. and all those who fear my words	23:52	\|	FOX	11/08/06

193.	website - read the article replied	23:59	\|	Alon	11/08/06

194.	Dichtus @# 158	00:01	\|	Diana	12/08/06

195.	Garder in Middle age, no no	00:01	\|	Adrian	12/08/06

196.	islamic terrorism	00:03	\|	Missy Cat	12/08/06

197.	Right To Exist	00:03	\|	Marc	12/08/06

198.	FOX	00:03	\|	Jarle	12/08/06

199.	To #135: "Norway`s important role in WW-2"	00:04	\|	Arie	12/08/06

200.	The Chosen people	00:04	\|	bpaul	12/08/06

201.	To Rich 181	00:05	\|	Duncan	12/08/06

202.	Don`t talk about US media control	00:05	\|	bschnider	12/08/06

203.	The Nazi in the Nobel Peace Prize	00:07	\|	Born in Norway	12/08/06

204.	The bottom line	00:13	\|	Frank Baginski	12/08/06

205.	Sick and tired ...lets close the internet.	00:20	\|	Fjordmann	12/08/06

206.	The anti-semite cop-out	00:23	\|	Andrew James	12/08/06

207.	to Christian #168	00:23	\|	Alex from Boston	12/08/06

208.	# 180 - to Alex in Israel	00:25	\|	Another Norwegian	12/08/06

209.	The Jews in Muslim Spain	00:29	\|	Mike	12/08/06

210.	to bschnider	00:30	\|	Alex from Boston	12/08/06

211.	#196 Which word of God?	00:36	\|	Modafir	12/08/06

212.	To Norwegian Jew	00:36	\|	Mike	12/08/06

213.	#195 Arie - still spreading lies about Norway	00:37	\|	Bor de Wolf	12/08/06

214.	Norway up in arms...	00:37	\|	Shmuelshachor	12/08/06

215.	weakness	00:39	\|	bernie	12/08/06

216.	reactions to unjustice	00:41	\|	Peter	12/08/06

217.	Does Gaarders view represent the view of jews?	00:44	\|	Carl	12/08/06

218.	To Andrew Jones	00:48	\|	Mike	12/08/06

219.	To Naill - you are wrong	00:49	\|	Ali	12/08/06

220.	Response to Arie	00:51	\|	Carl	12/08/06

221.	to #195 "Norway`s important role in WW-2"	01:03	\|	GhostMan	12/08/06

222.	Duncan in Langley	01:06	\|	rich	12/08/06

223.	to all my dear fellow Norwegians (& others) -	01:33	\|	Ivo	12/08/06

224.	to the finnish jew	03:54	\|	abe	12/08/06

225.	SANTIK	04:05	\|	KOKIN	12/08/06

226.	Freedom of expression?	04:06	\|	Sbrindolin	12/08/06

227.	Gaarder????	04:20	\|	lovelee	12/08/06

228.	Israeli Racism	04:22	\|	JOJO	12/08/06

229.	#37 Gaarder & philosophy	04:24	\|	philosansfrontieres	12/08/06

230.	IISRAELI RACISM	04:29	\|	JOJO	12/08/06

231.	Hey, This guy makes sense.	04:55	\|	Horst Wessel	12/08/06

232.	Israel has lost its morality	05:03	\|	Joe	12/08/06

233.	TO: # 86 - Offensive content	05:34	\|	JEW	12/08/06

234.	To Ali	05:36	\|	John	12/08/06

235.	To Peter	05:39	\|	French Hipocrates	12/08/06

236.	To John- Israel right to exist	05:39	\|	Upside Down	12/08/06

237.	\What a LOSER	05:44	\|	One who knows better	12/08/06

238.	Norway up in Arms? Give Me a Break!	05:46	\|	Tod Zuckerman	12/08/06

239.	Wake up and look in the Mirror	05:46	\|	Upside Down	12/08/06

240.	To Joe	05:51	\|	Tim	12/08/06

241.	#5 Re: Flag burning -Israeli	05:59	\|	Observer	12/08/06

242.	land and nation	06:09	\|	tim nexdah	12/08/06

243.	Gaarder is anti semitic	06:27	\|	Billy	12/08/06

244.	Norway has no right to exist!	06:47	\|	Remy	12/08/06

245.	What did you expect?	07:18	\|	Will	12/08/06

246.	ISRAEL`S SHAMEFUL GREED FOR PALESTINIAN LAND	07:31	\|	Dutch	12/08/06

247.	TO RICH LONDON	07:41	\|	santik	12/08/06

248.	Murdering Jews	07:41	\|	John	12/08/06

249.	TO KOKIN	07:48	\|	santik	12/08/06

250.	Jostein Gaarder	07:57	\|	Robert	12/08/06

251.	#241- Burning Israels flag by observer	08:00	\|	Diana	12/08/06

252.	Is Israel a racist state? to #19	08:01	\|	Viktor	12/08/06

253.	TO PRAVDA (TRUTH) @191	08:10	\|	JEW	12/08/06

254.	Joe #232	08:12	\|	Diana	12/08/06

255.	jac	08:19	\|	Jasmine	12/08/06

256.	Jarle	08:20	\|	Jew	12/08/06

257.	Chris Delzio	08:23	\|	Margie in Tel Aviv	12/08/06

258.	is this the only language u understand at foxs	08:53	\|	shame on you fox	12/08/06

259.	Gaarder	09:22	\|	Fleur	12/08/06

260.	you lack some info, i think	09:23	\|	Jak	12/08/06

261.	Observer #241 & Israeli flags on fire	09:28	\|	Observer	12/08/06

262.	Norway lost right to exist	10:01	\|	Swede	12/08/06

263.	Jak: a world rushing to judgement	10:11	\|	watcher	12/08/06

264.	Civilian casualties	10:16	\|	Inna	12/08/06

265.	to watcher:	11:03	\|	Jak	12/08/06

266.	Cute, Jarle	11:14	\|	FOX	12/08/06

267.	Inna- Civilian casualties	11:17	\|	Lara	12/08/06

268.	Inna- San Fransisco-Interesting article indeed	11:32	\|	Diana	12/08/06

269.	i wonder	12:05	\|	a human	12/08/06

270.	Israels right to exist,,,,	12:13	\|	Ronny	12/08/06

271.	Gaarden	12:25	\|	Fleur	12/08/06

272.	Theology, cultivation & Anti-Semitism	12:31	\|	Witte	12/08/06

273.	to Swede 262	13:22	\|	simon	12/08/06

274.	Fleur - no flowers from me...	13:25	\|	Jarle	12/08/06

275.	to fleur	13:29	\|	Jak	12/08/06

276.	Jak #260, 265: you don`t see why the article is scandalous -	13:33	\|	Ivo	12/08/06

277.	#18 the truth you find at response # 5	13:34	\|	Brumle	12/08/06

278.	Sheeba	13:46	\|	Juri	12/08/06

279.	He tells what everyone believes	13:57	\|	Soren Bendtsen	12/08/06

280.	Civilized Syrians in Akzion	14:05	\|	ayse basyse	12/08/06

281.	# 274 - correction Jarle	14:16	\|	walkabout	12/08/06

282.	Norway up in arms. August 12	14:17	\|	Robert	12/08/06

283.	People come back to reality	14:29	\|	ben	12/08/06

284.	#275 To Jak / Fleur	14:36	\|	SG	12/08/06

285.	Can Israel be racist when there are at least 10 Arabs in Knesset?	14:40	\|	Po`el Zion	12/08/06

286.	The root of problems is the existance of Jews.	14:47	\|	to Observers	12/08/06

287.	Gaarder --no wonder,predessessors were all in SS	14:50	\|	Sal	12/08/06

288.	Israel racist?	14:56	\|	Sir	12/08/06

289.	To Another Norwegian,No 169	15:10	\|	Lebanese Norwegian	12/08/06

290.	Gaader predecessors SS ? Gunter Grass was	15:21	\|	Serge	12/08/06

291.	to JOE, 232	15:32	\|	Joe	12/08/06

292.	Gaarden	16:15	\|	Fleur	12/08/06

293.	Anti-semitism- It should be an olympic sport	16:26	\|	Avrum	12/08/06

294.	Jarle #274 (& Jak #275): on killing the children & war crimes	16:26	\|	Ivo	12/08/06

295.	Norway ? I thought there`s a war in the Middle-East !	16:32	\|	alex - Holland	12/08/06

296.	Antisemitism	16:35	\|	Jewish doctor.	12/08/06

297.	Norway NOT up in arms!	16:41	\|	Bernard Ross	12/08/06

298.	Jarle #274 (& Jak #275): on killing the children & war crimes - 2	16:54	\|	Ivo	12/08/06

299.	274 no flowers	16:54	\|	Fleur	12/08/06

300.	walkabout: on educating children...	17:00	\|	Jarle	12/08/06

301.	# 289 - Lebanese Norwegian	17:03	\|	Another Norwegian	12/08/06

302.	ANTISEMITISME OLD FASHION ARGUMENT	17:06	\|	FAYROUZ	12/08/06

303.	Aftenposten	17:09	\|	Gilberto	12/08/06

304.	Right of Norway to exist	17:37	\|	Mike	12/08/06

305.	Alex #295: the article may be more important than you think	18:24	\|	Ivo	12/08/06

306.	I have to laugh ,,,but itis not funny	18:32	\|	Avrum	12/08/06

307.	to Ivo	18:32	\|	Jak	12/08/06

308.	Norway has no right right to exist	18:34	\|	Born in Norway	12/08/06

309.	there is no doubt that 90% of the european	20:10	\|	thucydides	12/08/06

310.	tod zuckerman	20:12	\|	thucydides	12/08/06

311.	i was about to make a particularly nasty	20:16	\|	zadok the priest	12/08/06

312.	Who gave this arrogant imbecile the right to dictate us?	20:16	\|	Isaac	12/08/06

313.	duncan from langley	20:21	\|	zadok the priest	12/08/06

314.	observer of beirut and "honesty"	20:27	\|	thucydides	12/08/06

315.	wolf the bore 211th try	20:29	\|	zadok the priest	12/08/06

316.	Why should I care?	20:51	\|	Jeannette	12/08/06

317.	#309 Thucydides " If truth be known"	20:56	\|	Diana	12/08/06

318.	If...	20:57	\|	Omar	12/08/06

319.	HE IS RIGHT 100%	21:00	\|	Omar	12/08/06

320.	The True Meaning	21:00	\|	John S	12/08/06

321.	He didnt attack Jews	21:02	\|	Omar	12/08/06

322.	to #305 - the article may be more important than you think	21:59	\|	alex - Holland	12/08/06

323.	I almost said friggin	22:43	\|	termite, a `lil bug	12/08/06

324.	Alex #322: on the importance of Norway	22:52	\|	Ivo	12/08/06

325.	Norwegian Pink (Red)	23:19	\|	Erik	12/08/06

326.	Please feyrouz what are stooling rights	23:19	\|	Mickey	12/08/06

327.	Sure Omar	23:23	\|	Mickey	12/08/06

328.	#180 - To Alex	23:26	\|	Kristin	12/08/06

329.	179 hammad	23:30	\|	Jeff	12/08/06

330.	Scandinavians and the Middle East	23:35	\|	Shani	12/08/06

331.	#317 be truthfull diana	23:37	\|	truthfinder	12/08/06

332.	A Free Israel?	23:41	\|	Funny	12/08/06

333.	norway up in arms	23:50	\|	D2	12/08/06

334.	ARROGANT amoral lefties who discover "morals" with Israel only.	03:37	\|	PETER SM	13/08/06

335.	Gaarder article	03:39	\|	James Meddle	13/08/06

336.	norway author	03:41	\|	f. deisler	13/08/06

337.	Is the obsession with Anti-Semitism the most stupid desease ever?	03:59	\|	Michael	13/08/06

338.	The self-chosen people	04:24	\|	No name	13/08/06

339.	A bethlehemite	08:21	\|	Mickey Mantle	13/08/06

340.	To Niall	08:22	\|	WB	13/08/06

341.	To Niall	08:22	\|	WB	13/08/06

342.	To Niall	08:22	\|	WB	13/08/06

343.	THE PALESTINIAN MYTH A MUST READ	08:33	\|	JOSH	13/08/06

344.	THE PALESTINIAN MYTH A MUST READ cont...	08:34	\|	JOSH	13/08/06

345.	#168 christian	08:39	\|	JOHN	13/08/06

346.	Free Speech	09:15	\|	Elly Sorensen	13/08/06

347.	# 330. To Shani....You are absolutely wright	09:23	\|	Elly Sorensen	13/08/06

348.	Jak #307	09:27	\|	CHGODMK	13/08/06

349.	sometimes you must fight in order to survive	09:49	\|	Andrew	13/08/06

350.	sometimes you must fight in order to survive	09:50	\|	Andrew	13/08/06

351.	MEL GIBSON	10:00	\|	DW	13/08/06

352.	to #1: why Israel has settlements	10:27	\|	Bezalel	13/08/06

353.	hans zivony comments	10:30	\|	Yvonne	13/08/06

354.	Gaarder`s	10:35	\|	Luke	13/08/06

355.	Be truthful Diana #331	10:35	\|	Diana	13/08/06

356.	survival	10:38	\|	Ruth	13/08/06

357.	Christian #168	11:50	\|	Diana	13/08/06

358.	to the "bleeding heart" Jessica from Lebabon and for the rest	11:51	\|	David	13/08/06

359.	DID THE JEWS FLY INTO THE WTC`S?	11:55	\|	loke