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Norwegians File Lawsuit Against Sharon For His War Crimes
Islam Online ^ | July 12 2002

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lefties; losers; norway; sharon; socialists
Where the word "Labor" is used, you can also replace it by Hitler.

Norway Trade Body Calls For Boycotting Israeli Products (by labeling them with YELLOW stickers!!!)

1 posted on 07/12/2002 2:43:48 PM PDT by knighthawk
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2 posted on 07/12/2002 2:44:22 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
So when are you moving to US? :)
3 posted on 07/12/2002 2:45:52 PM PDT by BrooklynGOP
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To: BrooklynGOP
I will visit NY in September though. That's a start.
4 posted on 07/12/2002 2:48:25 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
This is why we need to send a strong message to the ICC.

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.

5 posted on 07/12/2002 2:56:39 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: knighthawk
Eva may find the burqa comfortable during those cold Norwegian winters. She might be able to get a fur-lined one.
6 posted on 07/12/2002 3:11:09 PM PDT by Savage Beast
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To: knighthawk
Wasn't Kirstin Flagstad Norwegian? She had such a beautiful voice. She brought down the house when she sang for Hitler at Beyreuth.

And didn't Sonja Hiene save her Norwegian home from Nazi confiscation by pictures of herself with Hitler all over the place?

7 posted on 07/12/2002 3:16:40 PM PDT by Savage Beast
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To: Savage Beast
...by plastering pictures of herself...
8 posted on 07/12/2002 3:18:13 PM PDT by Savage Beast
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To: Savage Beast
Maybe the beatings she will recieve from her husband honoring sura 4:43 of the koran will keep her warm too.

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."

9 posted on 07/12/2002 3:23:57 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
I have to comment on one thing here.

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?

10 posted on 07/12/2002 3:44:42 PM PDT by Truthsayer20
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To: knighthawk
Quisling would be proud! I guess I'm not going to buy sardines!
11 posted on 07/12/2002 3:52:00 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Truthsayer20
He mentions it indeed only once, he even puts it in quotation marks.

Last year, a Norwegian ''labor youth movement'' organized a campaign to ban Israeli singers from the Eurovision song contest.

12 posted on 07/12/2002 3:57:53 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
It's just that American ignorance of European politics sometimes gets on my nerves. Especially when the result is that the whole situation ends up being is mis-characterized as in this case.
13 posted on 07/12/2002 4:14:29 PM PDT by Truthsayer20
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To: Joe Montana
ping
14 posted on 07/12/2002 6:41:12 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: knighthawk
Norwegians File Lawsuit Against Sharon For His War Crimes

How many combat divisions, sea-lift capability and airpower does this Norwegian Court have in order to enforce it's verdict?

15 posted on 07/12/2002 6:56:15 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: knighthawk
Well Mohammed was generally full of horsesh!t, but in the case of Eva, he was right. ("Even a clock that's not working is right twice a day".)
16 posted on 07/12/2002 8:16:31 PM PDT by Savage Beast
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