Letter to the Star - Sept.4 2009

It is interesting that Norway's Pension Fund has discontinued its investment in the Israeli company Elbeit Systems because it participated in building the wall and because the Internatioanl Court ruled that the barrier violated the law. According to Wikipedia, there are 23 other separation walls in the world, 22 built by countries, including the U.S., Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan, and one built by the U.N between Iraq and Kuwait. The legality of these other walls has not been taken before the international court. Why not? If the Norway fund has "ethical concerns" about Israel's wall, separating it from the West Bank, why doesn't it also have "ethical concerns" about all the other separation walls? Perhaps Norway is just succumbing to political pressure from its Islamists. However it is more likely that Norway is following the current politically correct agenda to be anti-Israel. Doesn't equivalency or at least common sense kick in here somewhere?