The Norwegian ambassador to Israel, Svein Sveje, has gone out of his way to emphasize the difference between the attacks on Norway by Breivik, who killed 76 people in a shooting spree and bomb attack, and the terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas. He stated explicitly that Norwegians believe that the terrorist attacks on Israel are brought on by Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. He did not offer an explanation for Breivik’s attack. When the Jerusalem Post suggested in an editorial that …More

When news of the terrorist attack on Norway broke, the first thing I thought was, “why would anyone attack Oslo?” Then I tensed up, praying that it wasn’t a Muslim who did it. There was a dangerous outcry brewing in the air in the wake of breaking news on the bomb attack in Oslo and the massacre at a summer camp 19 miles away from the capital; you could just tell that people were ready to lash out at the first hint that the attacker was a Muslim terrorist sponsored by al-Qaeda. Muslim immigrants …More

Israel has extended offers of help to the government of Norway after a shooting spree at a Norwegian Labor party summer camp and a bomb attack in Oslo left up to 98 people dead in an act of domestic terrorism. It took an hour and a half for a police SWAT team from Oslo to arrive at the camp, located about 19 miles away from the city center, to seize the alleged gunman Anders Behring Breivik. After his arrest, police looked into Breivik’s blogs which denounced immigration and Islam in particular, although …More

Israel has extended offers of help to the government of Norway after a shooting spree at a Norwegian Labor party summer camp and a bomb attack in Oslo left up to 98 people dead in an act of domestic terrorism. It took an hour and a half for a police SWAT team from Oslo to arrive at the camp, located about 19 miles away from the city center, to seize the alleged gunman Anders Behring Breivik. After his arrest, police looked into Breivik’s blogs which denounced immigration and Islam in particular, although …More