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Architect Einar Krog Grimsgaard (84) is not just a "watch SF" who started subscribing to Orientering in February 1953. Four years earlier, he started his radical career with Johan Galtung, studying mathematics. He is now ready to celebrate the newspaper's 60 anniversary.

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The battle for the words

Both Israel friends and the Palestinian Committee believe Espen Barth Eide is far more Israel-friendly than what Jonas Gahr Støre was. AUF leader Eskil Pedersen calls for clearer criticism of Israel.

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Comment: Clear the arms exports!

"The world's strictest. No, Europe's strictest. No, wait ... Just take these weapons, you! ”That Norwegian authorities carry countries with weapons via exporting countries abroad is a poor solution.

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Active pending

This week was one year since the rebellion against the Assad regime began. While Sweden and Canada react with their own foreign policy, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry is waiting for the EU. Norway was country number 46 to recognize the opposition in Libya. The red-green government promised in Soria Moria to stay ahead. After the Hamas dialogue in 2006, Norway has now finished among the last, researchers point out.

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Norway's solidarity victory

The Norwegian Gaza doctors, led by Mads Gilbert, have contributed to a more positive view of Norway in the Arab world. Many people here are talking about a Gilbert effect.
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Leader: Towards one solution

60 years after Israel's creation, it is time for Einstein's, Gandhi's and Buber's thoughts: We need one state, not two.
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Omits the fate of the Jews in Norway

A new history book for the secondary school does not mention the Jewish section, the extermination of Jews in Norway or the Jews as a minority. Holocaust Center Director Odd-Bjørn Fure thinks the school book should be stopped.
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The innocent victims of war

Israel uses new and more damaging weapons against Gaza and Lebanon. The children must suffer for that. At least two out of five people killed in Lebanon are children. Israel uses the precision weapon Hellfire with Norwegian high explosives. Still, there are major civil losses in the war.
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Palestinian cinema

The Academy had to recognize Palestine as a nation. Only then could Hany Abu-Assad's film Paradise be nominated.
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The rights of the Palestinians

The State of Israel has a lot to thank the UN for. As a thank you, they should follow international law.
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Middle East and the other

Israeli and Palestinian archaeologists have been digging for decades for evidence that their site has more right to the area than the other. Edward Said and Sigmund Freud are also archaeologists, in a transferred sense, and they show another way to look: Instead of throwing away what does not fit, it is precisely what does not fit that should be lifted up and regarded as important "findings", writes Stian Bromark in this essay.
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The narrator as a guru

Memory retains identity.
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The dream that burst

In fifty years, Israel has the entire Mediterranean-Jordan area. There was never any Palestinian state.
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The Norwegian honor

A peace scientist has poked the national symbol "the Oslo process". This is how it gets into trouble.
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Said's legacy

Edward W. Said will probably continue to influence the debates of his new exile.
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Israel's new low target

Israel has reached a new low in its fine-tuned abuse policy.
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