"Jim: All Britain's relations with anyone are going to be to some extent 'political & business based' by their very nature, aren't they"
Thank you for making my point for me Mile
Keith has listed these countries and claimed support for Israel's policies because of their silence on Israel' atrocities - this and his denials of those atrocities are the only defence he has put forward
Jim Carroll

Norway and Israel Relations
Norway understands this terrifying crisis subjected to Palestine, foreseeing even more imminent disaster, Norway has taken steps to reassure aid and dissemination of the Neo-Nazi Israeli regime, to the point of demanding a return of tax revenues. Two months ago Norway demanded Israel return the palestinian tax revenues generated by the Palestinian economy. According to James Petras (2006) in The Power of Israel in the United States:

On January 25, 2006 the Palestinian people voted overwhelmingly in favor of Hamas in the cleanest election to take place in any Arab Middle Eastern country. The Israeli government immediately refused to recognize the democratic outcome. It refused to turn over Palestinian tax revenues, deliberately blocked all trading outlets to drastically reduce what was already Palestinian subsistence living, and began an intense and prolonged series of violent assaults on Palestinian cities and villages, killing and maiming hundreds.
In response to this evident crisis, Norway proceeded to a press releases urging Israel to return those tax revenues:
"This money belongs to the Palestinians. Israel just administers these funds on behalf of the Palestinian Authority according to an agreement. Withholding these funds undermines President Abbas and other Palestinian political forces that are pursuing a peaceful solution," said Mr Støre.
We are seeing the persistence of Israel's "Final Solution", Ehud Olmert stated after Hamas's democratic election: "I want nobody to sleep at night in Gaza" (July 2, 2006), reinforced by Labor Party Minister Yitzak Rabin:
Israel will create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to Jordan.