Recent months have not seen the best of times between the Norweigan and Israeli governments.

- Norway’s 400-billion sovereign wealth fund divested from Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd, due to the fact that the firm supplies surveillance for Israel’s Wall which encompasses 8% more Palestinian land. The Israeli foreign ministry called the Norweigan ambassador to publicly complain.

- Israeli foreign minister and far-right, neo-fascist party leader Avigdor Lieberman recently called Norway “low” for not walking out on a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (who has publicly denied the Holocaust).

- Norway’s decision to honor a late Noble-winning writer (an icon in the country) by bestowing a stamp in his image sparked protest from Israel because the man was a supporter of the Nazis.

Such a reality is a far cry from the early years of Israeli relations. Back in the 1970s, an Israeli Mossad unit was on the search for a (innocent) Palestinian they (wrongly) suspecting of plotting the Munich attacks. Two Mossad terrorists accidentally killed a Moroccan waiter while he sat at a pool next to his pregnant wife. This ostenisbly skilled intelligence agency was infiltrated by Norweigan intelligence and the two Israeli terrorist-agents were arrested. In a secret deal with the Israeli government, they were then released. It is not surprising that Norway would release Israeli agents during that time. Jews were just killed in Germany and Israeli was milking Munich for all the propaganda value it would get and once again playing on Western Holocaust guilt. Of course, the ones who pay the price are Arabs but the White Man gets to feel better about himself. It is unthinkable that Norway would behave in similar fashion today and not prosecuate the Israeli terrorist-agents. Most of the West has learned about the true nature of Israel and treats it accordingly so.

Relations between both nations do not look set to improve anytime soon:

The university of Trondheim in Norway may become the first university in the West to adopt an academic boycott of Israel, if a majority of its board votes in favor of the move at a meeting on the subject next month. Three days prior to the November 12 vote by the board of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the institution will host a lecture on Israel’s alleged use of anti-Semitism as a political tool.

Israelis may dismiss Norway and take confidence in their relationship with the world’s sole superpower. But Europe is Israel’s biggest trading partner and the world is increasing becoming post-American and multipolar. The winds blowing from Scandinavia are not to be ignored.