Posted on 07/12/2002 2:43:48 PM PDT by knighthawk
OSLO, July 12 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The youth wing of Norway's main opposition Labor Party has filed a court action against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon accusing him and other Israelis of human rights abuses, the group announced Thursday, July 11.
"There is proof that the Israeli army has committed murders and destroyed property," Eva Kristin Hansen, head of the Norwegian Labor Youth told the public radio and television network NRK.
Asked whether she was optimistic regarding the chances of success in the case, Hansen said it would have been "more naive" not to have tried "when you see what's happening" in the Middle East, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.
The organization filed the action Wednesday, July 10, saying in a statement that Sharon and other Israelis should be held responsible for the murders of civilian rescue workers and other civilians in the Palestinian territories.
The case had been presented to Norwegian state prosecutor in an individual manner by the young activists and had been done without consulting the parent party, the group said.
The Norwegian action follows similar court proceedings which have been launched against the Israeli prime minister in Belgium and Sweden, AFP said.
Many previous lawsuits have been files against Sharon in Belgium and Sweden for his war crimes such as the massacres committed against Palestinians in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982 in Lebanon.
However, the Belgium court did not accept the lawsuits presented against the Israeli Prime minister by a number of Palestinians, who then commented that the court refusal gave the Israeli Prime Minister the green light for his current military atrocities against the Palestinians.
Norway Trade Body Calls For Boycotting Israeli Products (by labeling them with YELLOW stickers!!!)
And encourage Russia, China & India (who have their own problems with the concept) to do the same.
Otherwise every backwater country on the face of the planet will be crying about "war crimes" and trying to win in the courtroom what they can't dream of on the battle field.
And didn't Sonja Hiene save her Norwegian home from Nazi confiscation by pictures of herself with Hitler all over the place?
At least she will be pointed to her place in society:
Hadith Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 48, Number 826: Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
The Prophet said, "Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?" The women said, "Yes." He said, "This is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind."
What infuriates me is the fact that the article by Mr. Epstein in the earlier FR thread you linked puts blame on "right-wing extremists" and doesn't really even mention the fact the political left is behind the anti-Israel campaining in Norway! Furthermore, Mr. Epstein very unfairly paints Norwegians as some kind of neo-Nazi sympathizers when in fact Quisling and other German collaborators during WW2 are universally hated in Norway. When will people like Mr. Epstein learn that the anti-Israel idiocy in Europe has very little to do with any traditional anti-Semitism and much more to do with left-wing hatred of anything Western?
Last year, a Norwegian ''labor youth movement'' organized a campaign to ban Israeli singers from the Eurovision song contest.
How many combat divisions, sea-lift capability and airpower does this Norwegian Court have in order to enforce it's verdict?
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