A Norwegian group is traveling in Israel during Sukkoth, visiting cities and towns in Gaza and Judea and Samaria from Sept 22nd to Oct 6th. The purpose of their visit is to show solidarity with Jews living in places where terror often strikes and where the future is uncertain.
Building bridges between Christians and Jews is important to turn European hostility to Jews to a new, more positive trend, and to show that Norwegians are not a bloc of anti-Semites.
Even though Norway is stamped as a country hostile to Israel, and is associated with the disastrous Oslo Accords, many Norwegians support Israel's freedom and right to existence within secure borders. They are fighting anti Semitism wherever they can. They do this in the media by distributing facts to counteract the lies disseminated by the Arabs in their war against the region?s only democracy, Israel.
In April, thousands of friends of Israel, mostly Christians, rallied in front of the Norwegian Parliament building with Israeli flags and blue balloons, listening to and clapping for speeches by representatives from present and former parliamentarians. (Approximately 25 representatives out of 167 in the Norwegian Parliament have joined "Friends of Israel"). The demonstrating Israel supporters marched from the Parliament building, up the main street in the direction the Royal Castle and the Israeli embassy behind it. The participants came from all over south Norway, with some traveling all night by charter bus, to participate 550 km from their hometown.
Now, during Sukkoth, a group of Norwegians are in Israel to show sympathy and support for the Jewish people, to meet with families who have suffered from Arab terror, and share something more positive for Israel than the other Norwegian ?contributions? to conflict solving, personified by Terje Larsen and his ambassador wife, Mrs. Juul.
They intend to demonstrate quietly at their embassy in Tel Aviv, on September 25th at 12.00. There the group plans to give the ambassador a letter stating that the Norwegian foreign policy, both in the past under the Labour government, and present under the Christian Centrum-Right coalition, has put too much weight on self inflicted Arab suffering instead of supporting the only democracy in the Middle East.
The group will visit the cities and towns in Gush Katif, Hebron, Kfar Etzion and Gush Etzion, Ariel, the mountain of Garizim, the military base at Bet El and other biblical and historical sites in Israel.
Building bridges between Christians and Jews is important to turn European hostility to Jews to a new, more positive trend, and to show that Norwegians are not a bloc of anti-Semites.
Even though Norway is stamped as a country hostile to Israel, and is associated with the disastrous Oslo Accords, many Norwegians support Israel's freedom and right to existence within secure borders. They are fighting anti Semitism wherever they can. They do this in the media by distributing facts to counteract the lies disseminated by the Arabs in their war against the region?s only democracy, Israel.
In April, thousands of friends of Israel, mostly Christians, rallied in front of the Norwegian Parliament building with Israeli flags and blue balloons, listening to and clapping for speeches by representatives from present and former parliamentarians. (Approximately 25 representatives out of 167 in the Norwegian Parliament have joined "Friends of Israel"). The demonstrating Israel supporters marched from the Parliament building, up the main street in the direction the Royal Castle and the Israeli embassy behind it. The participants came from all over south Norway, with some traveling all night by charter bus, to participate 550 km from their hometown.
Now, during Sukkoth, a group of Norwegians are in Israel to show sympathy and support for the Jewish people, to meet with families who have suffered from Arab terror, and share something more positive for Israel than the other Norwegian ?contributions? to conflict solving, personified by Terje Larsen and his ambassador wife, Mrs. Juul.
They intend to demonstrate quietly at their embassy in Tel Aviv, on September 25th at 12.00. There the group plans to give the ambassador a letter stating that the Norwegian foreign policy, both in the past under the Labour government, and present under the Christian Centrum-Right coalition, has put too much weight on self inflicted Arab suffering instead of supporting the only democracy in the Middle East.
The group will visit the cities and towns in Gush Katif, Hebron, Kfar Etzion and Gush Etzion, Ariel, the mountain of Garizim, the military base at Bet El and other biblical and historical sites in Israel.