Wednesday 29 July 2009

Norwegian diplomat posted cartoon showing Israeli PM "deadly intestinal gas"

"While we would like to think that the e-mail incident was just a mistake and that Mrs. Lilleng is no more anti-Israeli than anyone else in the Norwegian Foreign Department, these three shots from her now closed blog tell us otherwise." (Norway, Israel and the Jews blog)

"Olmert's flatulence: Certain foods counteract the production of Ehud Olmert's deadly intestinal gas, most notably U.S. dollars." (Carlos Latuff)

Background to this story:
Wiesenthal Center urges Norwegian FM to reprimand senior diplomat for antisemitic email

These drawings were posted by Norwegian diplomat Trine Lilleng on her blog and are by cartoonist Carlos Latuff. The idea that a European diplomat chose to post a drawing showing an Israeli P.M. destroying Gaza by breaking wind and defecating is appalling. Even more so because it is the work by Carlos Latuff who entered and won second prize in the 2006 viciously antisemitic Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Competition.

Close ups of drawings posted by the Norwegian diplomat on her now closed blog:

Latuff's explation : "Olmert's flatulence Certain foods counteract the production of Ehud Olmert's deadly intestinal gas, most notably U.S. dollars."
From her blog where just after showing so much compassion for the Palestinians and anger at Israel she writes about a "A Saudi Friday brunch on 77th floor" and about her deliciously glamorous abaya :

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