By throwing something positive into the basket for the intnl. community; the withdrawal from the WB and a future two-state solution with separated societies.
Maybe he miscalculated the response of the rwingers at home, who now sees a way to diminish his power after giving him full support for anything he would in Lebanon.
I don't know what to think about this guy, but I do have some information about the Israeli-Norwegian relationship, pointing to a longer campaign (info-campaign) and a switch in the internal political arena of who 'talks' to Israel, and it's the fundie Christians who have taken over there. That does not point to a moderate leader in the other end, in Israel. Besides, a story just broke in Norway that Norwegian Fundies works in tracking down Russian Jews, and pay them to move to the West Bank.
"Norwegian Christians works to track down Jews all over the world, and make them move into the illegal settlements in the West Bank.
This year alone, they collected 40 million NOK (app. 5 mill. USD). The people who gives can get a tax redux of 12.000 NOK.
Israel's Norwegian troops are on the offensive, writes the Dagens Næringsliv (Daily Finance).
There are more than 30 organizations in Norway working with support for Israel. The biggest is the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (Ikaj), who has headquarters in Jerusalem.
Much of the money are collected in the small Christian communities at Sørlandet and Vestlandet, and despite the fact that about five million NOK of the collected money goes to the illegal setlements in the West Bank, up to 12.000 NOK are tax deductible. Several of the Israel-organizations, among them Ikaj, is on a list of accepted organizations for tax deduction by gifts to idealist organizations.
The Norwegian branch of Ikaj is the most sucessful of Ikaj's 80 departments all over the world in raising money, and the increase since last year is 17%.
It is mainly in the former Sovjet Union that Ikaj works to visit Jews and pay them to move to Israel. Also in Germany, where the Russian-Jewish community counts about 340.000, the Ikaj calls everyone with a Jewish-sounding name to implore them to go to Israel.
The Israel organizations are convinced that Israel is given to the Jews by God, and that the real Israel must cover all land «from the river of Egypt to Eufrat» in Iraq. They don't accept that the West Bank is occupied and that the occupation, the settlements and those parts of the Wall built on Palestinian territory, are in breach of international law, concluded by a long string of UN resolutions and the UN Court in Hague."
(This is a translation, the article is in Norwegian)
http://www.dn.no/forsiden/utenriks/article841785.ece
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