Why go through Israel?

http://www.haaretz.com/1.626441

Security risk.

I would not be comfortable flying on the same plane as this dude.

He has been identified as a security risk, hopefully the USA also reacts to the threat as appropriately as Israel has here.

Gaza , Australia Canada and the UK

From post #8 you seem to be implying that Dr. Mads Gilbert is going to conduct some sort of terrorist attack. Maybe I'm reading incorrectly. Could you take a paragraph or two to explain what you're saying?

Supported the terror attacks of 9-11 .

Slippery slope , he's definitly a risk.

Of anyone but especially a security risk.

Are there any other opinions you feel warrant a ban for entry?

The man is a DR.only putting the Palestinians who were blown up by the IDF back together? Yeah thats a real terrorist.

About his support for September 11 terrorists and the attack.

Yep a real upstanding doctor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Gilbert

Dangerous.

at least from corners here in the US

You agree with what this dude said about 9-11 ?
Think it was justified in ANY context?

His statement to Dagbladet was: "The attack on New York did not come as a surprise with the politics the West has followed the last decades. I am upset by the terrorist attack, but I am at least as upset over the suffering that the US has caused. It is in this context that 5000 dead has to be seen. If the U.S. government has a legitimate right to bomb and kill civilians in Iraq, the oppressed has a moral right to attack the U.S. with the weapons they may create as well. Dead civilians are the same whether they are Americans, Palestinians or Iraqis." When asked if he supported a terrorist attack against the US he answered: "Terror is a poor weapon, but my answer is yes, within the context I have mentioned."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Gilbert

I can understand quite fully where some might disagree about dead civilians especially Arab/Palestinian

Let's hope they taking the same precautions as Israel is .

No need to take chances.

I'm pretty sure he would not be the 1st foreign supporter of the 9-11 attack to be barred from the USA .

Why would he be granted a visa after what he has said to the press? It's not worth the potential risk.

no terror plots or attacks even remotely linked to him


On U.S. Tour, Dr. Mads Gilbert Gives Eyewitness Account of Gaza Massacre

http://www.wrmea.org/2009-july/on-u.s.-tour-dr.-mads-gilbert-gives-eyewitness-account-of-gaza-massacre.html

I'm pretty sure they missed the pertinent info tho..

could it be his statement to Dagbladet, I do understand how some would be upset at his equating dead Palestinian/Arab civilians to dead US citizens

His statement to Dagbladet was: "The attack on New York did not come as a surprise with the politics the West has followed the last decades. I am upset by the terrorist attack, but I am at least as upset over the suffering that the US has caused. It is in this context that 5000 dead has to be seen. If the U.S. government has a legitimate right to bomb and kill civilians in Iraq, the oppressed has a moral right to attack the U.S. with the weapons they may create as well. Dead civilians are the same whether they are Americans, Palestinians or Iraqis." When asked if he supported a terrorist attack against the US he answered: "Terror is a poor weapon, but my answer is yes, within the context I have mentioned."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Gilbert

Where you get that from?

But if someone is a fan of 9-11 terror he's a threat to all of us in the USA .

Carry in if you wish but I'm done , I think it's pretty obvious to all.

CYa

and why attack and dash? unless CYa wasn't a personal attack on me as it appears to be intended along with an accusation of being a fan of terror, I have nothing to cover for though

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cya

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113487643#post31

Was talking about Mads Gilbert being a fan of 9-11 terrorists, not you.

And surely you don't believe Obama micromanage everyone allowed into the country ?

Hopefully he is barred from traveling here now.

Cheers , now I'm outta here.

Like in the bombing of Mikes Place ,they came from the UK....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike's_Place_suicide_bombing

Norwegian has worked in Gaza for 15 years and will resist attempts at stopping him returning there

Israeli officials told Mads Gilbert that he was banned indefinitely when he tried to re-enter Gaza via the Erez crossing last month. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images

A Norwegian trauma surgeon and activist who helped provide life-saving medical care during this summer’s 100-day war in Gaza has said he will defy an Israeli ban on his return.

Chief surgeon Mads Gilbert, 67, has spent 15 years treating patients in Gaza and spent 51 days in Shifa hospital earlier this year treating many of the 11,000 Palestinians who were wounded in the war between Hamas and Israel.

When he returned last month to try and enter Gaza via the Erez crossing in Israel he was denied entry indefinitely.

The Israeli government now says Gilbert is banned from entering Gaza for security reasons. The Norwegian embassy in Tel Aviv has taken up Gilbert’s case on his behalf after he was refused entry in October.

“When we came back to the Erez border station the Israeli soldiers told me I was not allowed to go into Gaza,” he told media.

“I had a valid permit for multiple entries, an invitation from the Palestinian Ministry of Health and a recommendation from the director at my hospital.”

In a written statement, Norway’s Secretary of State, Bard Glad Pedersen, said: “From the Norwegian perspective, we have raised Gilbert’s exclusion from Gaza and asked Israel to change their decision. The humanitarian situation is still difficult and there is a need for all health workers.”

Norwegian authorities confirmed Gilbert had been banned “indefinitely” by Israel.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/15/mads-gilbert-surgeon-gaza-israel

JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israel has blocked Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert from entering the country and thereby accessing the Gaza Strip, but denied Monday it had imposed a lifelong ban on the outspoken medic.

"He has been banned from entering Israel," foreign ministry spokesman Paul Hirschson told AFP, categorically denying reports Gilbert had been blocked from entering Gaza.

Access to the Gaza Strip, which has been under an Israeli blockade since 2006, is possible only through the Erez crossing from Israel, or the Rafah terminal on the Egyptian border.

But Rafah has been blocked by Cairo since a deadly suicide bombing in the northern Sinai on October 24, leaving Erez as the only point of entry to the Palestinian territory.

News of the ban was first reported last week by Norwegian media which said Israel had barred Gilbert from Gaza for life.

The trauma specialist -- who has worked in the Palestinian territories for three decades -- accused Israeli authorities of backtracking Monday, following calls from Norway to reconsider the ban.

'Don't kill the messenger'

"They have a little trouble explaining if I'm banned from Gaza or Israel," he told AFP, adding that he was allowed into Israel in October but denied entry to Gaza by Israeli soldiers and later informed that the ban was "infinite".

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=740573