Thursday, September 3, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Israel summons Norway envoy to protest divestment from arms firm - '...Norway's finance minister, Kristin Halvorsen, announced at a press conference in Oslo earlier in the day that the divestment was due to Elbit's involvement in the construction of the West Bank separation fence..."We do not wish to fund companies that so directly contribute to violations of international humanitarian law," said the minister. She said the shares were sold secretly ahead of the announcement. Elbit manufactures a monitoring system installed on several parts of the separation fence...' [Separation fence? That's Haaretz for you. To sum up: Protecting yourself from suicide bombers = Human Rights Violation. Suicide bombing itself? Not so much.]
