Norway’s double standard against Israel is anti-Semitic – Document

What evil must it take to have as its only strategy to build hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, between 60 and 70% larger than the entire London Underground, under Gaza’s schools, mosques, hospitals, daycare centers and homes, just so that Israel will be forced to kill civilians to get to them?

Then to carry out the most grotesque attack on Jews since the Holocaust with the promise to do it again and again until Israel is exterminated, thus forcing Israel to respond.

If I were to stop here, I would be inclined to think that the crime of Hamas against the Palestinian people is greater than their crime against Israel.

But the people of Gaza knew what Hamas was when they elected them in 2005. They allowed Hamas to carry out the coup against collaborator Fatah and others in 2006. They never rebelled against the dictatorship. And they allowed 18 years of Hamas indoctrination in the schools, exactly the time it takes to educate an entire generation of sociopaths. Funded via UNRWA by Norwegian taxpayers.

And the government continues its demonization of Israel. Norway is considered the most Israel-hostile country in Europe. So it is not Hamas’s dictatorship and terror that is the problem, but Israel’s self-defense!

We hear that Israel is committing genocide, that it is a war crime and genocide to attack Hamas when they are hiding behind civilians. That Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not in line with the international law of war. That there is an illegal mismatch between the number of dead in the attack on 7 October and the number of dead so far in the war against Hamas. Both the prime minister and the foreign minister say in breath and out that Israel has gone too far. But that is not true.

The chief judge in the ICJ case, Joan O’Donoghue, has denied in HARDtalk on the BBC that they have said that it is plausible that Israel is committing genocide:

https://twitter.com/UKLFI/status/1785305902276301019

This is therefore a matter of procedure, that they can process the case, not that there is a plausible breach of the convention. Yet not a single denial in the Norwegian media or by Norwegian “experts”.

When the US coalition bombed ISIS in Raqqa, 80% of the buildings were damaged or destroyed. In Mosul, 70% of buildings were damaged or destroyed. When Russia bombed Aleppo, 50-65% of the buildings were damaged or destroyed. In comparison, 35% of the buildings in Gaza are damaged, of which 1/3 of this is again destroyed, according to the UN satellite agency UNOSAT.

Hamas further claims that 34,000 have died in the Gaza Strip. But the Ministry of Health has admitted in a series of reports that more than 15,000 of the death figures do not originate from the health system itself, but from “reliable media sources” and that 11,000 of these have not been verified. A third or more of the ministry’s data is thus at best incomplete and at worst fictitious. We are thus potentially down to 23,000. Expected deaths per year in peacetime in Gaza is approx. 4500, i.e. 2600 in 7 months. The IDF estimated in March that they have killed 13,000 terrorists. Potentially 7,400 civilians have thus been killed by Israeli acts of war. In addition, all those whom Hamas itself has executed or have been killed by the 20% of Hamas’ own rockets that hit Gaza. The combatant to civilian death rate is perhaps less than 1:1. The UN, EU and others usually estimate 80-90% civilian deaths in urban warfare, i.e. 1:9. Even if we factor in Hamas’ figures and subtract the number of terrorists, the death rate is still 1:3.

Abraham Wyner, professor of statistics, has reviewed the Ministry of Health’s ongoing reporting and concluded that the figures are not likely, either in number or composition.

The bottom line is that no one knows how many civilians have died in this war. And blindly following Hamas’s total numbers because activists in NGOs vouch for them is unsustainable journalism and contrary to the Beware poster. As an absolute minimum, we must be able to demand that when the media refer to the death toll from Hamas, that they also simultaneously refer to the estimate of dead terrorists.

West Point professor Jon Spencer, considered the world’s leading expert on urban warfare, says Israel has taken more precautions to prevent civilian deaths than any other army in history, far beyond what international law requires, and that civilian deaths are largely due to Hamas’s above strategy.

There is no obligation under the Geneva Convention to evacuate civilians. Art of the Convention. 28, 51.7 and 57c, on the other hand, are explicit that the presence of civilians does not protect areas for military operations, and that the requirement is only notification if possible.

Yet Israel evacuated 70-90% before beginning the ground invasion. https://twitter.com/SpencerGuard/status/1786612888498581891 the US did not do this in the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Vietnam Tet counter-offensive (Hue), Korean War (Seoul), Philippines (Manila), nor the attacks during counter-insurgency campaigns against ISIS, such as the 2016-2017 Battle of Mosul (civilians were initially asked to stay) and Raqqa in 2017.

Israel provided safe routes and a humanitarian zone for the evacuation of civilians. They notified with flyers, phone calls, text messages and voice messages. They have implemented several hours of daily pauses in all combat operations to allow civilians to evacuate. They have distributed military maps directly to civilians to alert them of day-to-day operations, information that goes directly to Hamas. They also use “roof knocking” to warn before bombing targets, and they have developed a method to track civilian presence in real time to limit where the IDF can operate. The US and NATO have never done anything like this.

Israel has employed legal advisers at low levels (lower than standard US operations) and directly in the targeting process, and has imposed restrictions on the use of force. A tactic is used where the area is surrounded and civilians are given the opportunity to flee via facial recognition technology to identify Hamas members who try to mix with the evacuating civilians, a practice that puts its own soldiers at risk.

Israel is the only country in the world that is not allowed to win a war, but is only allowed to fight ceasefires. And when the government, point by point, holds Israel to a different standard than all other countries in the world, they better be honest and admit that they do not want Israel to win, and that the Norwegian government must therefore endure accusations of anti-Semitism.

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