UN report on last summer's Gaza conflict out - guess whom they consider a reliable source...
The United Nations 'human rights council' report on last summer's Gaza conflict is out.
How bad is it? Well,
paragraph 591 cites
Mads Gilbert as a reliable source....
Labels: Mads Gilbert, NGO Monitor, Operation Protective Edge, United Nations Human Rights Council, William Schabas
It's a Mads Mads world - UPDATED
I worry when I see the likes of
Mads Gilbert being taken seriously (Hat Tip:
Memeorandum, without which I would not have touched this post with a ten-foot pole, because it's so absurd as to be unworthy of a response). .
Renowned Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert,
who witnessed the horrific injuries caused by DIME bombs during
Israel’s 2009 Gaza onslaught, told The Electronic Intifada over the
phone from al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City that patients are showing up
with DIME-related injuries.
“A good number of the injuries seen here are consistent with the use
of dense inert metal explosives, or DIME, that we saw during the 2009
attack and also in 2006,” said Gilbert. “The bodies are pretty much
destroyed by enormous energy released by the explosives that are shot
near them or at them.”
Gilbert first witnessed the effects of DIME munitions on the human
body during Operation Summer Rains, Israel’s 2006 months-long attack on
the Gaza Strip that killed more than four hundred Palestinians.
“Large chunks of flesh, of muscles were cut away. We didn’t find any
shrapnel and [the wounds] were delivering a strange fume. Gradually we
came to understand these must have been the new DIME weapons developed
by the US Air Force together with the Israelis,” he said.
The experimental weapon was used on a larger scale during Operation
Cast Lead, Israel’s attack on Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009, which
killed 1,400 Palestinians, including 352 children.
“We had a large number of patients who came in with these horrendous
injuries where arms and legs were cut off as though a huge axe had
chopped off their limbs with a direct immense force, cutting through
skin, muscles and bones. Bones would be shattered and completely cut
off,” Gilbert recounted. “In addition we saw very, very destructive
burns coming from some extreme temperature that turned skin, muscle and
even bones into charcoal.”
Who is
Mads Gilbert and is he credible? This is from Professor Gerald Steinberg at NGO Monitor.
"We urge media outlets and human rights
organizations to treat Dr. Gilbert's comments and assessments from Gaza
with great caution," said NGO Monitor' president, Prof. Gerald
Steinberg. "By justifying terror, supporting Hamas and fueling the
conflict, NORWAC and Mads Gilbert have violated the Hippocratic Oath -
'first, do not harm'."
In 2009, Dr. Gilbert traveled to Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital as a member of the Norwegian Aid Committee, NORWAC, an
NGO funded by the Norwegian government ostensibly to provide health
care services in partnership with the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
During the fighting and afterward, Gilbert repeatedly and falsely accused Israel of deliberately targeting civilians and invented allegations of use of illegal weapons, while making no mention of evidence that
Al-Shifa hospital had been used for military purposes and also shielded
the Hamas leadership. There is also evidence that he helped stage emergency room scenes for a "propaganda effect."
...
In addition, the centrality of his ideology
was highlighted in comments following Al-Qaida's terrorist attacks on
USA on September 11, 2001, in which Dr Gilbert expressed sympathy with
the terrorists. Days after the atrocity, in an interview for the
Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet Gilbert said "The
attack on New York did not come as a surprise after the policy that the
West has led during the last decades...The oppressed also have a moral
right to attack the USA with any weapon they can come up with." When
asked directly in the same interview, "Do you support a terror attack
against the USA?," Gilbert replied, "Terror is a bad weapon but the
answer is yes within the context which I have mentioned."
Ben Cohen writes that Gilbert is part of the
Hamas propaganda machine.
One does not, however, have to dig very deep to discover that the
halo effect around Gilbert masks some very disturbing affiliations. To
begin with, Gilbert is an active member of Norway’s Red Party, a Maoist organization formed in 2007, which begs the question as to how someone who perpetuates the ideology of a tyrant who murdered 45 million
of his own people over four years can be described as a “humanitarian.”
Nor does Gilbert have a track record of helping anyone other than the
Palestinians; as the journalist Benjamin Weinthal revealed on Twitter,
his emails and phone calls to Gilbert asking the doctor why he wasn’t
treating victims of the slaughter in Syria were met with silence.
Gilbert’s reputation is derived not from his medical work, but from
his frequent verbal assaults on Israel and the United States, which
stretch back to the early 1980s, when he became active in Palestinian
solidarity work....
None of this has eroded Gilbert’s celebrity; arguably, it’s enhanced
it. When he and his colleague Erik Fosse visited Gaza during Israel’s
Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09, their expenses were covered by a
Norwegian NGO that is funded by the Norwegian government. While the two
doctors were in Gaza, spending an inordinate amount of time talking to
journalists about Israeli “war crimes,” they received a phone call from
no less than Jens Stoltenberg–then Norway’s prime minister, now the
incoming secretary-general of NATO–who assured them
that “all of Norway is behind you.” A subsequent book about their
experiences in Gaza was praised by Norway’s Foreign Ministry, which said
that conveying their impressions was “not their duty, but their
responsibility,” given that in such dire situations, “civilians become
voiceless.”
No wonder, then, that Gilbert now feels licensed to elevate the
political goals of his current Gaza mission above any medical
considerations. Speaking to a reverential Amy Goodman on the left-wing Democracy Now! show,
Gilbert went so far as to say, “As a medical doctor, my appeal is don’t
send bandages, don’t send syringes, don’t send medical teams. The most
important medical thing you can do now is to force Israel to stop the
bombing and lift the siege of Gaza.”
As Operation Protective Edge enters its second week, we can expect
Gilbert to make ever more outlandish statements the longer he remains in
Gaza. But that won’t stop media organizations from trumpeting Gilbert’s
medical credentials–as did Britain’s Channel 4 News, which billed him
as “a Norwegian volunteer surgeon at Shifa Hospital in Gaza,” thereby
encouraging its audience to take the good doctor at his word–while
ignoring the fact that he is an integral element of the Hamas propaganda
network.
But that, ironically, is what underlies Gilbert’s appeal. He tells
Europeans what they want to hear: that Israel has made Gaza into a
prison camp, and that nothing is more noble than the Palestinian
determination to resist. Once you succeed in getting that message
across, what does it matter whether Hamas rejects a ceasefire, or
invites a firm Israeli response by sending even more missiles over the
border?
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met on Wednesday with Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende. During the meeting, which was in Ashkelon, the two were forced to flee into an
underground bomb shelter. We can only hope that Lieberman at least asked Brende to stop Norwegian government support for Mads' Madness. But even if he did, I doubt it would make a difference. The Norwegian government is
anti-Semitic.
UPDATE 10:54 PM
Some people have given Mads
the respect he deserves.
Labels: Gaza, Hamas, Hamas rockets, lies, Mads Gilbert, Norway, Operation Protective Edge, Palestinian lies
Norway has banned Kosher animal slaughter since before the Nazis
The Norwegian government may be sorry today that they
messed with Caroline Glick. And although she explicitly did not ask for one, they might consider an apology. Glick gives us a contemporary history lesson about
Norwegian anti-Semitism.
In a 2006 report on Jew hatred in contemporary Norwegian caricatures published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Erez Uriely noted among other things that Norway banned kosher ritual slaughter in 1929 – three years before a similar ban was instituted in Nazi Germany.
And whereas the ban on kosher ritual slaughter was lifted in post-war Germany, it was never abrogated in Norway.
As Uriely noted, Norway’s prohibition on Jewish ritual slaughter makes Judaism the only religion that cannot be freely practiced in Norway.
Fascism was deeply popular in Norway in the 1930s.
In the wake of the Nazi invasion, Norwegian governmental leaders founded and joined the Norwegian Nazi Party. Apparently, sympathy for Nazi collaborators is strong today in Norway.
As the JCPA’s Manfred Gerstenfeld noted in a report on the rise in Norwegian anti-Semitic attacks during 2009, two years ago the Norwegian government allocated more than $20 million in public funds to commemorate Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun [pictured. CiJ] on the occasion of the Nobel laureate for literature’s 150th birthday. As The New York Times reported, in February 2009, Norway’s Queen Sonja opened the, “year-long, publicly financed commemoration of Hamsun’s 150th birthday called ‘Hamsun 2009.’” But while Hamsun may have been a good writer, he is better remembered for being an enthusiastic Nazi. Hamsun gave his Nobel prize to Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels. During a wartime visit to Germany, Hamsun flew to meet Adolf Hitler at Hitler’s mountain home in Bavaria.
And in 2009, Norway built a $20 million museum to honor his achievements.
...
Israel’s dovish Kadima government only began the operation in Gaza because it had no choice. For months then prime minister Ehud Olmert sat on his hands as southern Israel was pummeled with unprovoked barrages of thousands of missiles and rockets from Gaza. Olmert was forced to take action after Hamas massively escalated its rocket and missile attacks in November and early December 2008.
While silent about Palestinian aggression, Norway’s government attacked Israel for defending itself. As Store put it, “The Israeli ground offensive in Gaza constitutes a dramatic escalation of the conflict. Norway strongly condemns any form of warfare that causes severe civilian suffering, and calls on Israel to withdraw its forces immediately.”
Two of Store’s associates, Eric Fosse and Mads Gilbert, decamped to Gaza during Cast Lead and set up shop in Shifa Hospital. The two were fixtures in the Norwegian media, which constantly interviewed them throughout the conflict, and so spread their libelous charges against the IDF without question.
Fosse and Gilbert never mentioned that Hamas’s high command was located at the hospital in open breach of the laws of war.
When they returned home, they co-authored a book in which they accused the IDF of entering Gaza with the express goal of murdering women and children.
Store wrote a blurb of endorsement on the book’s back cover.
...
It is a fact that the day before Breivik’s massacre of teenagers at the Labor Party’s youth camp on Utoya Island, Store spoke to them about the need to destroy Israel’s security fence. The campers role-played pro- Hamas activists breaking international law by challenging Israel’s lawful maritime blockade of the Gaza coastline.
They held signs calling for a boycott of Israel.
Read the whole thing.
Norwegians believe that terrorism is sometimes okay, especially when its targets are Israelis and it is perpetrated by 'Palestinians.' Anders Behring Breivik got that message. But he also decided that terrorism was okay at a time when it was wrong, even according to Norwegians. Instead of soul-searching, Norwegians are accusing. That is wrong.
UPDATE WEDNESDAY 12:09 AM
I just received the email below from reader
Eliana:
Carl, the photo you're showing of Knut Hamsun is Max von Sydow who stared in a movie about the man.
The movie's name was "Hamsun" and it was produced in 1996.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsun_%28film%29
Okay, I'll leave this picture here for now and grab another one if I need it.
Labels: Anders Behring Brievik, Caroline Glick, Eric Fosse, Jonas Gahr Store, Knut Hamsun, Mads Gilbert, Norwegian anti-Semitism, Utoya massacre
