Why Israel is compared to the Nazis?

I hate politics and that's why I write about it. I write about everything I dislike. That's including women, books, travel and terrorism. stuff that no matter how hard you try to ignore it, are always there in your face. As much as I hate all the above, the one thing I hate even more is lies.

The Gaza war between Israel and the Hamas controlled Gaza had a terrible consequences to the people of both sides. Never the less Israel took most of the blame for it. Than came the Goldstone report who gave it an official UN seal and pointed out the Israel has conducted war crimes against the people of Gaza. The Israeli government tried unsuccessfully to put the blame on Hamas for shooting for years missles directd on town across the border with Gaza and on the same time, for using civilian population as a human shield.

Israel accused and explained but nobody really listened, they were too busy blaming Israel. It appeared that is was a lot more convenient to the world to put the blame on the Jewish state. Than one day (which is actually today), came up the same man who was the chairman of the infamous report called under his name and said that if he knew than what he know now about the Gaza war, his report would be different. His name was Richard Goldstone.

"Israeli evidence that has emerged since publication of our report doesn’t negate the tragic loss of civilian life, I regret that our fact-finding mission did not have such evidence explaining the circumstances in which we said civilians in Gaza were targeted, because it probably would have influenced our findings about intentionality and war crimes."

It was too little too late, the damage was done and most of you would probably never hear about it, unless you are subscribed to this fantastic blog (thanks you!) but that's how things are. Nobody really cares, unless Israel kills somebody.

Comparison between Israel and the Nazis.

Benjamin Netanyahu the Israeli prime minister in occasion or two got to the core of the problem, to why is it that the world is so quick to criticize the Jewish state and why even among countries who suffered the atrocities of extreme Islamic terrorism people are more likely to identify themselves with the enemies of Israel. Netanyahu is also discussing why Israel is compared so often to the Nazis and the pathologies of the Christian west world in their view of the modern Jewish state in light of the past.

In an interview at HBO from 2006 Bill Maher tells Netanyahu: "It's always amaze me that among all the nations in the world, the one that gets compared to the Nazis the most, in the world press is actually Israel." Watch his answer, starting minute 10:00.

Simple tale of snow

Ólafsvík under snow

It's been too fucking long since I visited this place. Last time I visited this blog I thought I was dead or at least in a catatonic state of mind. The truth is much simpler and lot less morbid. I am too busy working on my other Icelandic website, soon the summer is here and there's a lot to be done.

Anyway, Snow finally decided to stop, after two long weeks of constant white powder falling for the sky, now it's raining. It will take the snow approximately 3 days to completely disappear and than it will probably snow again...whatever. After four year on the rock you staring to get used stuff like this, but still it doesn't stop you from complaining. Complaining in good, it makes you feel alive, and not so long ago I thought I was dead. I guess I'm not...at least not yet.

many things happened in the world since the last time I wrote here. The Arab world as we know it is collapsing. [No complaining here] like a domino cubes the old dictators are being kick out by there own people. Than there was the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, gosh what a disaster...and many more horrible things that probably mattered so much to so many people worldwide, but are things that you really don't give a damn about when you live in Iceland. If you'll ask me, snowing for two weeks is bad enough.

Hey, It looks like I'm back!

About the biased Icelandic media covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Guest blog by Arnar Ingi Saemundsson.

As you can see from my name that I am an Icelander, and I am a supporter of Israel´s fight against the terrorist organization Hamas. It irritates me tremendously when I hear government ministers and the media laying the blame for the current situation in Gaza and the West Bank almost solely on Israel.

Ministers and the media are always quick to point out the number of deaths of Palestinians compared to Israeli deaths as a way of showing who is the victim.
What they never mention is that Israel takes enormous steps to minimize civilian deaths in any military operation it undertakes, but it is very difficult when hamas uses civilians as human shields and fires rockets from schools and mosques.

The problem with this skewed view held by many Icelanders is as I see it not antisemitism, though i don't deny that it exists in Iceland.

The reasons for this skewed view in my opinion are as follows:

1. A biased media that too often neglects to report on the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas, not only on Israelis but also fellow Palestinians, like their persecution of members of any opposition to their rule, Their intentional targeting of civilians and their fetish for killing Jews.
2. Failing to hold Hamas to the same standard of conduct as they do the Israelis, this was demonstrated when our foreign minister condemned Israel for the Mavi Marmara "Incident" before any investigation into the matter had been undertaken and failing to retract his statement when footage showing the Turkish crew members attacking Israeli soldiers armed with paint ball guns with rebars and knives and continuing to attack one soldier while he was down.
3. A lack of real debate on the issues.

I hope that one day Iceland will come to realize that Israel is a friend, a friend facing a real threat from people that wish to destroy not just Israel, but everything Israel holds dear: Democracy, free speech, equal rights regardless of gender, sexual preference, race and religion.