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Human Rights Violations, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
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Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN
EDITORs' NOTE: In early January Kristin Halvorsen, current Norwegian Finance
Minister and leader of the Left Socialist Party (a member of the current
three-party governmental coalition), expressed her personal and party support
for a Norwegian boycott of Israeli goods and services. Almost immediately the
Israeli ambassador to Norway protested and Condoleezza Rice threatened Norway
with "serious political consequences" if Halvorsen's statement represented
the policy of the current government. Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr
Støre then dashed off a letter to Rice (addressed "Dear Condi"), assuring her
that the Left Socialist Party's position on a economic boycott of Israel "has
never been and will never be" the policy of the Norwegian government. For her
part Halvorsen distanced herself from her previous statements, as top leaders
of the foreign affairs department criticized her and drew parallels between a
boycott of Israeli goods and the Nazi boycott of Jewish shops. Finklestein's
piece was published in Norway's most influential newspaper Aftenposten this
past week.
www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein01182006.html
