"Exactly where in Israel is Brooklyn?" My question to you is exactly where is Tromsø, Norway and what business do you have in a region you obviously have so little knowledge of? Must be real boring drinking tea in Tromsø during those awful , looooong cold winters. My advise to you my friend is to find another indoor hobby like chess or indoor badminton. Norway has been irrelevant ever since the Quisling days....

the euros have only to read israeli press to find excuses for their unending hatred of the jews--in the case of the economy once again euros cannot compete so they are wanting a boycott and have only to look at anti idf and anti religious and pro plo media in israel to find it

The world forgets how many times Israel has had to fight for its survival. It forgets that Israel has in the past given back land "for peace". Yet there is no peace. Israel needs to tell the PA that if there is no peace, then the PA gets no land.

Max, I am an investor with 0% of my assets invested within the EU. Most of my cash is deployed in Asia (Singapore, Macao, Australia), USA and even a bit in Israel - TEVA comes to mind). Sorry to say this but Europe currently has no leadership nor any convincing plans on how to save itself from her multicultural socialist dream. The EU would be bankrupt today if it were not for the US security umbrella so generously provided by hardworking Americans. All I can see ahead how the corrupt EU leadership plans on forcing the hard working Germans to bail out the PIIGS. In the meantime, it seems to me that Israeli R&D and technological innvations seems to advance despite a few bumps here and there. Good luck Europe, the free world needs you to get your act together. We cannot afford another 500 million cronic welfare dependees much longer

Intedi, sorry but you seem quite uneducated to be posting here. How long did it take Europe to reach the current income levels that you have today? 1,500 years or so? Arabs have been around for 1,400 years and if it was not for their oil, they would have the living standards of Sudan and Yemen at best. It might surpise you that Israel was created from literally nothing 60 years ago. A reasonable intelligent 7 year old would find it logical for Israel to surpass EU GNP per capita within our lifetime. That said, Nensack, you can also help Israel surpass your adopted country by encouraging more immigration of uneducated Muslims.

Europe's crumbling social system, demography, and almost no natural resources makes its future much more questionable than Israel's my friend (and after almost two years living here, I can say that its people have almost minimum ability to innovate and change, which will greatly hamper its development in the future). Europe is actually falling apart, not Israel!

I don't buy their claims that they only boycott Israel goods because of the occupation. The boycotter exploit the opportunity to get rid of their Israeli competitor.Especially the academic boycott is so despicable!

how can you encourage a boycott of the Jewish people? what's next, burning "zionist" books! you are fool!

it's that kind of logic that lead to our destruction in the Holocaust- the "sit on you hands and God will help;" you have a pathetic Diaspora ghetto jewish mentality thank God for Israel and Israelis!

In the meantime, qatari and saudi investment funds are joining forces with Dankner, betting on Israel's edonomic future. Seems the Arabs are not as dumb as european politically correct bigots or Harvad eggheads.

BOYCOTT OR NOT THE LAND OF ISRAEL BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL !!! KAPIS ?

First of all. Sweden - 2% arabs.. Israel - 20% arabs. Is there really any question who is in deeper s**t here? Someone as clueless like you is the last person who should accuse others of being uneducated. Europe has had to start over from scratch many times, with some exceptions of course (Sweden, Switzerland). The wealth of Europe took about a decade to build up, after being completely obliterated in the world wars. For it to take 60 years to come even close to countries like Greece and Portugal, is not even slightly impressive. Particulary when you consider that Israel has always, and still do, recieve economic aid from both Europe(notably Germany whose guilty conciense they exploit despite hardly any victims or culprits remain in life today) and America. It's highly unlikely Israel will surpass EU GNP / Capita within our lifetime (or ever). Secular israelis are already more or less on the same level economically as the west, much like whites in South Africa. There's just not enough of them to lift the whole country up to western standards, and they never will since muslim and haredi birthrates are so high.

# 33: Even though I guess we're on different sides on this - you do have a valid point. I.e. the withdrawal by The Norwegian Oil Fund, is not a boycott. The left wing in Norway calls for a full boycott, but the decission made by the ethics commity does not represent Norway as such. It is a decission purely made from the guidelines they have to follow. You'll probably find many more on the list, of which are US companies, but this doesn't constitute any boycott of the US. The left wing, of which a small part is in government (Socialist Left), is still opposed by both Labour (a part of the government coalition) and the right in the matter of a boycott of Israel. Labour finds the full boycott sollution both complicated, and little constructive. I do believe we still eat loads of Jaffa oranges in Norway, even though they have been targeted by those who support a full boycott. I guess you sell more papers, if you use expressions like "European boycott" - even when it's used inaccurate. #43 Dear Rune, thanks for a polite and fact based answer (if one regards religious books as historical documents - to some degree they are applicable). I don't totally agree with your reasoning - all though the land is "rightfully" theirs after peace agreements after failed invasion attempts by their neighbors, there are ways to go about this. Removing the people residing on the land is hardly a way to go. Anyway, in recent history, Israel didn't exist as a country before declaring independence in 1948 - so even if the Books talk about it - in recent history they have as much right of the land as those they want to remove from it. And to the biblical references, there are parts the hasidic community that doesn't recognize the state of Israel, since the coming of the Messiah hasn't happened yet. But as I said, appreciate your comment (and this is not meant as sarcasm). :) #61: I have the same right to interpret the information available to me, to make up my mind and care about a situation, while sitting in Norway, as somebody sitting in Brooklyn (and I'm guessing that is Brooklyn, NY - should I be wrong, then I apollogize). The difference between me and Ephraim as I perceive it, is that he speaks as if he's Israeli. I've never given any pretence about being anything other than somebody from Norway, with an opinion based on what information has been available to me. Hey, for all I know, Ephraim is just on holiday in the US - and my conclusions might be way off - but the way i read it, he implies he's Israeli. I don't regard all Jews as Israelis to be clear on that point, just as I don't regard Norwegian decendants living in Minnesota as Norwegians. And your comments about me drinking tea, and Norway only relevant as a 60 year old historical reference in the history books - well, I guess that speaks more of you, than of me. If the standard of life I experience should exclude me from taking part in a debate (which includes the country I live in) - then there wouldn't be many left to talk with. I could even go as far as saying only the people of Gaza would be eligeble since they've had it worse - does that sound sensible to you? And your Quisling comment... Come on, you can do better than that. You can ask the employees of the companies that has been divested from, how relevant Norway is with regards to their job security. Not saying they're particularly happy with us - probably the opposite - but in that lies a clear point to how relevant or irrelevant Norway might be. And how come a small, backwater country, with just under 5 million people make it to the headlines of serious global news providers? Going to blame it on the radical lefties? (Not trying to piss people off here - this is just a reply to #61 - neither am I trying to elevate Norway to any sort of super power status, we aren't!)