"With Israel for Peace" is a non-religious, Norwegian
pro-Israel organization. Our website in Norwegian attracted more than 200.000
visitors last year. (Photo: Mark Neyman, GPO)The case for Israel in Norwegian
Friends of Israel in Norway will claim that Israel's best arguments often
are left out or minimized in the general Norwegian media. We are told
what Israel does, with a great emphasis on the negative things, but not
why they do things.
This is why Med Israel for fred ("With Israel
for Peace") and our Norwegian website www.miff.no
exist. We try to adjust the picture by giving news and comprehensive background
information about the Middle East conflict.
MIFF was founded in 1978. Our purpose from day one was to convey the viewpoints
held by most people in Israel.
MIFF is a non-religious organization with support across the political
spectrum in Norway. Our main financial support comes from a few thousand
supporters from different religious and political background in Norway.
More about MIFF
How to do a donation
The Gateway to the Middle East
MIFF's newssite Porten til Midtøsten
("The Gateway to the Middle East") was established in January 2001. MIFF
had already been represented on the World Wide Web since the middle of
the 1990s.
Today www.miff.no is the most popular
website about Israel and the Middle East conflict in Scandinavia.
This website in English gives only a very few samples of all the material
we have in Norwegian. You will also find information about our organization
in Swedish, Danish
and Hebrew.
A defence of the Jewish state
The Jews have rights to the land
It should have been obvious, as late as when the Arab countries expelled
and froze out all their Jews, that the game is now over. The Jewish refugees
took the place of the Arabs in Israel, and the Palestinian refugees have
no "right of return".
Israel consits of less than 0,2 percent of the "Arab
homeland"
Israel is a harbor of refuge
The majority of the Jews that have come to Israel did so because they
had to, and not so much because they really wanted to come.
The have only one country
Did you know...
...that the Jews didn't get one rifle or any ammunition from any Western
country when it was established in 1948?
...that almost all the Jews have fled from Arab countries?
...that more Jews have fled from Arab countries than Arabs from Israel?
...that Israel is ahead of Hong Kong, Greece and Singapore as number 22
on the U.N. Human Development Index (2004)?
...that Israel is the only free democracy in the Middle East?
...that male Arab citizens of Israel have higher longevity than Danish
men?
...that Israel has the highest density of high-tech companies in the world?
Israel and Australia are good friends. PM Ariel
Sharon greets PM John Howard in New York in September 2005. (Photo: Ohayon
Avi, GPO)Diplomatic relations with 160 countries
Israel maintains diplomatic relations with nations worldwide.
Photo gallery: Israel among the nations
In August 2005 all the Israeli settlers in Gaza
were withdrawn in Israel's disengagenment plan. (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom,
GPO)Out of Gaza and northern West Bank
Israel withdrew its military forces and settlers from Gaza and some parts
of the northern West Bank in August and September 2005.
Photo gallery: Disengagement
Yitzhak Rabin hesitated, but gave Yasser Arafat
his hand in 1993. The Israeli people do not believe there would have been
peace today, even if Rabin still was alive. (Photo: File, MIFF)Israel remembers Rabin
It is ten years since PM Yitzhak Rabin was murdered.
Photo gallery: Yitzhak Rabin's life