Want to End the Violence in Gaza? Boycott Israel. Naomi Klein
Og der er tegn på, at det begynder at kunne mærkes. Glem ikke, at Motorola, Caterpillar, Veolia, the Tesco supermarket chain, bl.a. handler meget med Israel. Men vi mangler stadig de danske havnearbejdere og sømænd.
Fornuftige jøder i Israel - der er stadig mange - bør læse, og handle udfra den udtalelse figuren Bernard giver i André Brinks Rumours of Rain.
Netanyahu er utroligt dygtig til den ædle sport at blæse og have mel i munden. Han klager over at Palæstinenserne er splittede, så han ikke har nogen at forhandle med OG siger samtidigt til Abbas, "Du kan vælge mellem fred med Israel eller fred med Hamas" !
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Hatet mot muslimer. NIKLAS ORRENIUS, i SYDSVENSKAN, Lördag 22 januari 2011 Interview med Mattias Gardell, professor i religionshistoria. "-Efter kalla krigets slut och kommunismens fall behovde västvärlden en fiende. Muslimer fyller den rollen. ...Det finns en sorts frampiskad antimuslimsk stämning i vårt samhälle, som hårdast drabbar "synliga" muslimer: män med fotsida kaftaner och kvinnor med slöja." Jeg havde vel ventet, at religionshistorikeren ville have peget på den århundredgamle tradition for at kæmpe mod /hade muslimer. - men det er måske journalisten, der ikke har fundet det aspekt interessant. På samme måde undgår han at nævne.at Israel har sin egen interesse i det had. Vest verdenens fjendebehov har 2 kilder, 1. behovet for at stjæle arabernes olie og kapitalismens system, der er så menneskefjendsk og ustabilt, at det kun kan opretholdes, hvis "vi" har en fjende at skjule systemet bag.
160112, Haaretz, One U.S. family is responsible for half of Netanyahu's donations. Four members of the Falic family from Florida are responsible for contributing some NIS 165,000.
250511, Francis Boyle - Jewistan: Finally Recognizing Israel as the Jewish State. ... [Benjamin Netanyahu] The Palestinians must recognize Israel as "the Jewish State.". .... Of course such demands are racist and premeditated non-starters to begin with. Netanyahu's racist ultimatum would lead to the denationalization of the 1.5 million Palestinians who are already less than third-class citizens of Israel and set the stage for their mass expulsion to the Palestinian Bantustan envisioned by Netanyahu as the "final solution" to Zionism's "demographic problem" created by the very existence of the Palestinians. This racist and genocidal demand would also illegally terminate the well-recognized Right of Return for five million Palestinian refugees living around the world as required by U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194(111) of 1948, by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 13(2) (1948), and by general principles of public international law, international humanitarian law, and human rights law. This would doom all prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians forever, and pave the way for the creation of "Greater Israel" dominating the entire former Mandate for Palestine, both of which objectives have been the intention of Netanyahu and Likud all along. ... Under basic principles of international law, every state is free to change its own name if it so desires: e.g., from Congo to Zaire then back to Congo. Therefore Israel is free to change its name to Jewistan - the State of the Jews. ... In fact, Israel has never been anything but a Bantustan for Jews setup in the Middle East by the White racist and genocidal Western colonial imperial powers in order to serve as their racist attack dog and genocidal enforcer against the Arab and Muslim world. ... In either event, when this Israeli Bantustan for Jews predictably collapses as a State, all he Palestinian refiigees living in their Diaspora around the world will be able to return to their homes as guaranteed by Resolution 194.
080511, Haaretz, Report: Bin Laden warned U.S. over security of Palestine in final tape An Islamist website said that Osama bin Laden warned the United States they would not be secure until Palestine is secure, AFP news agency reported on Sunday. According to the news agency, the al-Qaida website Shamikh1.net quotes bin Laden as saying "America will not be able to dream of security until we live in security in Palestine. It is unfair that you live in peace while our brothers in Gaza live in insecurity."
060511, People's Daily Online, Israeli PM's military attache skips UK visit for fear of arrest. ... Pro-Palestinian groups have filed a suit in Britain against Maj.-Gen. Yohanan Locker for his involvement in alleged war crimes committed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Operation Cast Lead, the large-scale militaiy offensive against the Gaza Strip in early 2009. ... He called off plans to accompany Netanyahu on his trip to meet British Prime Minister David Cameron after officials at Israel's foreign and justice ministries determined he stands a chance of being issued an arrest warrant upon landing in London.
050511, ynetnews, Report: Qatar offering Israel gas. According to Arab media, Qatari industry minister tells Israeli counterpart his country ready to supply natural gas to Jewish state 'for an unlimited period of time and below market prices'
110411, Morning Star, Call for no-fly zone over Gaza. The Arab League said on Sunday that it would ask the United Nations to impose a no-fly zone over the Gaza Strip to protect civilians against Israeli air strikes. The league said it would ask for an emergency meeting of the UN security council to discuss Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza, to lift the siege and and impose a no-fly zone against the Israeli Defence Forces. ... The statement insisted that the security council and the Quartet - the United States, European Union, Russia and the UN - bear responsibility for halting the attacks and protecting for Gaza's unarmed Citizens. [En sådan zone kan netop der gennemføres uden bivirkninger, Palæstinenserne har intet antiluftskyts, som man først skal bombe !!!! OJ]
Boyle anfører (p. 60) Over 114 States have already recognized the newly proclaimed state of Palestine, which is more than he 93 that maintain some form of diplomatic relations with Israel. Furthermore, on December 15,1988, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 43/177, essentially recognizing the new State of Palestine and according it observer-state status throughout the United Nations Organization.That resolution was adopted by a vote of 104 in favor, the United States and Israel opposed, and 44 states abstaining.
Kampagnen skrider langsomt frem. Det er interessant at bemærke, at Latin Amerika, der tidligt var tvunget til at tage stilling til i hvilken udstrækning man skulle rette sig efter USA, fører. Se også Chomsky.
Fremtidige forhandlinger mellem Israel og Palæstina må baseres UNGA resolution 181 og føres i FN-regi. Der er også basis for, at Palæstina anklager Israel ved ICC for Genocid.
070511, Maan News Agency::. Norway joins ranks supporting unified Palestine RAMALLAH (Ma'an) - Hours after a historie unity deal was inked between rival Palestinian factions under heavy pressure from Israel to drop the deal, Norway came out in support of a new Palestinian Authority government. The Nordic nation joins South Africa and European socialist parties in Its public calls for support of the unified Palestinian government, and told PA officials that the nation would continue its financial support to the annual budget. ... and Israel already announced that it would withhold tax revenues collected from Palestinians on behalf of the PA.
070511, Haaretz, Hamas chief: We will coordinate all decisions regarding Israel with Fatah. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Hamas leader defends his organization's right to wage an armed struggle against Israel. ... Meshal stressed in the interview that "negotiations with Israel, domestic governance, foreign affairs, domestic security and resistance and other field activities" against Israel, would be reached in consensus with the Fatah. Meshal also defended the Hamas' right to wage an armed struggle against Israel, which includes firing rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel. ... Western powers have always refused to deal with Hamas because of its refusal to recognize Israel and renounce violence. Hamas won the last Palestinian legislative elections held in 2006 and a new ballot is months overdue. Israel is worried such a vote could hand Hamas control of the West Bank, which is run by Abbas and his more secular supporters. ... Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu .... There is no possibility for peace with both," ...Both Hamas and Fatah dismissed Netanyahu's ultimatum.
070511, Haaretz, Former Mossad chief: Israel air strike on Iran 'stupidest thing I have ever heard'. In first public appearance since leaving post as Mossad chief, Meir Dagan warns of regional war if Iran is attacked; says fall of Assad regime would benefit Israel. ... Dagan said that Iran has a clandestine nuclear infrastructure which functions alongside its legitimate, civil infrastructure. It is the legitimate infrastructure, he said, that is under international supervision by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Any strike on this legitimate infrastructure would be "patently illegal under international law," according to Dagan. ... The Iranians have the capability to fire rockets at Israel for a period of months, and Hizbollah could fire tens of thousands of grad rockets and hundreds of long-range missiles, he said.
020511, PressTV - 'Israeli jets prepare in Iraq to strike Iran'. Israeli jet fighters have reportedly conducted drills at a military base in Iraq in order to strike targets inside Iran. A considerabie number of Israeli warplanes were seen at al-Asad base in Iraq, reported a source close to prominent Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sader's group. ... The warplanes carried out their week-long exercises at nights, the same source added. The drills were reportedly aimed at preparing to strike Iran's air defense systems, disrupt Iran's radars and affack targets deep inside Iran.
020511, BBC, Egypt urges US to back Palestinian state declaration. The Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Araby has urged the United States to support the declaration of an independent Palestinian state. The call comes after the reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah brokered last veek by Egypt. Both Israel and the US have said they will not deal with Hamas, and have untll now opposed a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood. ... Both Israel and the US have insisted they will not deal with any side that includes Hamas, which they regard as a terrorist group. ... This policy change is popular in Egypt, but it is not without risks. It will be very unpopular in the US Congress, where the substantial annual aid ackage to Egypt must be approved. Egypt is also seeking additional financial support from western and Gulf states, to help cover the immense cost to its economy of this year's upheavals.
010511, Haaretz. Hamas leader Meshaal in Cairo to sign unity deal ... Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal arrived in Cairo on Sunday to sign an Egyptian-brokered deal to end a rift between his Palestinian group and President Mahmoud Abbas' rival Fatah, Egypt's state news agency reported. Egypt has invited Palestinian leaders, including Meshaal, to Cairo for the signing ceremony, due later this week. ... Israeli leaders have slammed the accord and said that Abbas must choose between reconciliation with Hamas or peace with the Israel. ... A future peace between Israel and the Palestinians will be created "only with those who want to be on our side,[sic] and not those who want our annihilation,''Netanyahu said.
290311, Haaretz.Israel threatens unilateral steps if UN recognizes Palestinian state. Israel informed the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council last week, as well as several other prominent European Union countries, that if the Palestinian Authority persists in its efforts to gain recognition in September as a state within the 1967 borders, Israel would respond with a series of unilateral steps of its own. Senior Foreign Ministry officials said the ministry's director general, Rafael Barak, sent a classified cable last week to more than 30 Israeli embassies, directing them to lodge a diplomatic protest at the highest possible level in response to the Palestinian efforts to gain international recognition for statehood at the UN General Assembly session in September. The Israeli diplomatic corps conveyed the message that support for international recognition, particularly by most of the members of the European Union, encouraged the Palestinians to forgo negotiations with Israel and to move more quickly toward recognition at the UN of Palestinian statehood. Israeli diplomats stressed that such a move violates the Oslo Accords and will not lead to a Palestinian state even if the General Assembly grants recognition, but could lead to violence on the ground. European diplomats have confirmed to Haaretz that such a message was conveyed several days ago. One diplomat said his country did not receive a serious response when asked what unilateral steps Israel might take. Another diplomat, from a European country, said in light of the current deadlock in negotiations, international recognition of Palestinian statehood appeared unavoidable in September. ... Ideas have been floated on the right wing of the political spectrum in recent weeks, suggesting, for example, that Israel might apply Israeli law to the West Bank or annex major settlement blocs to Israel. .... Abbas told Beilin that it would be possible to engage in three months of talks in an effort to achieve progress before September, but Netanyahu would have to suspend construction in the West Bank settlements during that period.
280311, Xinhua, Drafting Palestinian constitution prepares for establishment of independent state -- In a remarkable step, Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday ordered a committee to start to draft a constitution and complete it before September. ... This request was made in accordance with what the Palestinians are seeking to achieve in September. They want to establish an independent Palestinian state, although the peace talks with Israel have been stalled since last October, just one month after it was launched in Washington. .... The constitution committee, which was founded in 1999 upon the request of the Palestinian National Council (PNC), the PLO parliament, managed to make a first draft of the onstitution shortly before it was frozen in 2005. .... A.fter Israel refused to freeze settlement construction, the Palestinians threatened that if the peace process fails, they would use other diplomatic options, such as to demand an international recognition of a Palestinian state on the lands occupied by Israel in 1967. 'What the Palestinian side is seeking for in September basically aims at putting the international community before its responsibilities. By September, we will finalize the onstitution, building up the Palestinian state and becoming a member of the U.N.," Abu Yousef said.
Abna.ir. Israel cuts ties with PA if new unified government formed. Israel will cut ties with the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it brings Hamas into the formation of the new unified national government, the Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. ... "We must deal with the changes in the region and confront together the challenges facing the Palestinians; first and foremost the continued Israeli aggression and threats to launch a fresh attack on the Gaza Strip," Abbas was quoted as saying. He told Hamas officials that it was important to abide by a cease-fire in order not to give Israel an excuse to pursue its threats and to tackle the difficult internal situation facing the Palestinian cause, especially with regards to the September deadline, when the Palestinians are scheduled to seek UN recognition of a Palestinian state. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked the PA, few days ago, to choose between either peace with Hamas, and peace with Israel.
180111, Creators, Patrick J. Buchanan, Who Lost the Middle East? ... For when autocrats fall, it is not always democracy that rises. And in the Middle East, democracy is not necessarily America's ally. ... The message from the Mideast has been consistent and clear: When elections are held, or monarchs and autocrats overthrown, the masses will turn to leaders who will pull away from America and stand in solidarity with the Palestinians. ... George H.W. Bush abjured "the vision thing." But George W. had a road-to-Damascus experience during 9/11. He became a true believer that the security of his country and the peace of the world depended on a global conversion to democracy. And he would do the converting. This is the ideology of democratism. .... Dwight Eisenhower preferred the shah to Mohammad Mossadegh, though the latter had been elected. Ike backed the coup. Richard Nixon preferred Gen. Augusto Pinochet to Chile's pro-Castro President Salvador Allende, who was elected. The general was with us. ... In the 19th century, European monarchs disliked our republic, but their people loved us. Through World War II and much of the Cold War, the peoples of the Middle East saw America as the champion of liberation from imperial rule. We were first to throw the British out. Perhaps we have lost the people of the Middle East, while winning the allegiance of their autocratic rulers, because we, too, have become an empire - and no longer see ourselves as others see us.
Aldrich, kap. 12 handler om Palestine, kap. 21: Defeat in the Middle East: Iran and Suez,
Middle East Media Research institute (MEMRI) anmeldes af Brian Whitaker i The Guardian, 120802.
Norman Finkelstein's web site: www.NormanFinkelstein.com.
Bagdadpagten: Irak, Tyrkiet, Iran, Pakistan og UK.
Israel har altid henvist til FN-pagtens artikel 51 om retten til selvforsvar. Ikke engang USA accepterede det (artiklen forudsætter et væbnet angreb), altså før Reagan, 1981.
Kibya massakren Deïr Yassine massakren Sabra og Chatila Amnon Rubinstein om racisme og Sabra/Chatila Kapeliouk, Amnon, Sabra og Chatila Rapport om en massakre
Israel gør hvad de kan for at aflede opmærksomheden fra massakrerne - bl.a. ved at dyrke Holocaust. Et kneb de har lært af Goebbels og Hitler. Men selv enkelte drab af ubevæbnede civile er en krigsforbrydelse. Israel får hjælp hertil at villige lakejer som Obama og Persson.
010411, Washington Post - Richard Goldstone, Goldstone Whitewashes Own Report On Israeli War Crimes [Det må da være en aprilsnar !!!! OJ] Israel urges UN to retract Goldstone Report: ... Krengel give South Africa's Jews credit for the battle against Goldstone.
220311, Haaretz Turkey group plans new Gaza flotilla with at least 15 ships - Israel will launch a public campaign on Tuesday against a plan by the Turkish organization IHH and several left-wing European groups to send a flotilla to the Gaza Strip this May, a year after another IHH flotilla resulted in bloodshed that prompted widespread international condemnation of Israel. ... Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon will summon foreign ambassadors to the ministry today to seek heir help in stopping this year's flotilla. ... Over the last two months, the Foreign Ministry has asked several governments, induding those of Spain, Britain, Ireland and Sweden, to ublish travel advisories warning their Citizens against sailing to Gaza. Britain and Ireland have in fact done so. ... When the president of Cyprus, Demetris Christofias, visited Israel about 10 days ago, the flotilla was a key topic of discussion. Christofias stressed that the order he issued a year ago banning ships from sailing to Gaza from Cypriot ports remains in force.
220311 Democracy Now, U.N. Investigator Accuses Israel of "Ethnic Cleansing'. A top United Nations investigator has called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to investigate Israel's continued expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, described Israel's actions as a form of ethnic cleansing.
Richard Falk: "As the report illustrates, the continued pattern of settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, combined with forceful eviction of long-residing Palestinians, are creating an intolerable situation that can only be described in its cumulatlve impact as a form of ethnic cleansing."
190311, Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Revolutions and Unrest in Arab Countries : Hezbollah Chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah Speech, Video. Any accusation that the US manufactured and launched these revolutions is unjust speech toward these peoples, especially that we are talking about regimes which are allied with the USA, serve the American project and pose no threat to Israel. ... - Our gathering today is to voice our support for our Arab people and their revolutions and sacrifices, especially in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen. .. We have to stress that these revolutions are the will of the people themselves. ... It is a divine law that when a people comes with this level of will, sacrifice and patience, it cannot be met with defeat - not by America, Israel, or any tyrannical regime anywhere in the world. ... - A great victory was achieved in Egypt and Tunisia. Libya entered civil war, and in Bahrain and Yemen the regimes put their own peoples on the brink of civil war. - We should contemplate the US and Western performance. We can understand the US policy toward the revolutions via multiple scenarios. [At first maybe] it is possible to preserve the puppet-regime by making some superficial reforms or giving the regime a chance to abolish the revolution. When it starts to cost the US, its administration asks the puppet rulers to go into exile and send the people to their homes without realizing their demands. - In all this, the US administration is trying to look like it supports the Arab revolts, but this will not be believed by our peoples who are aware enough of the US policies. They know that their regimes are made in the US and have enjoyed US protection for decades. ... The Arab peoples should keep their eyes on Palestine. We can review our stance on the US administration if the administration itself changes its policy toward the Palestinian cause. ... The US and the West gave the Libyan regime time to smash the revolt, but the people stood firm. If this people collapsed, then the world would have sat down with Qaddafi and negotiated with him. Qaddafi's money would have gone into the pockets of figures in the EU and elsewhere. .. The greatest crime against Lebanon, Jerusalem and Palestine is the Qaddafi's kidnapping of Imam Moussa Sadr. This remains subject to condemnation. Qaddafi's last speech, in which he praised Sadr and said that Sadr visited Libya and was martyred by the verdicts of the Libyan judiciary, is all lies. We are looking forward to the day when Sadr can be liberated from this dictatorial tyrant.
- In Yemen there are many complications, but no doubt that we absolutely cannot be silent about the murder and crimes that are occurring. We salute the resistance of the Yemeni people and their commitment the peacefulness of their movement. The Yemeni people is armed, yet they show awareness by staying calm, keeping the movements peaceful, and not going to civil war.
-Conceming Bahrain, we all saw what happened in Bahrain. There is a special unjustice. As you know Bahrain is a small island and its people are fewer than one niillion. The people came out asking for rights in a peaceful way. ..The [regime] sought help from armies against them and killed, wounded, and detained. Here there is strange irony: the Arab League and the Arab peoples, faced with the situation in Libya, did not say a word and did not send any army to defend the people. Yet in Bahrain they sent armies to defend a regime that was not threatened with collapse. The regime in Bahrain was not threatened and the resistance was peaceful, yet the army was used against it. This is a first. We heard that some arrested opposition leaders had their houses demolished. This is Israeli style, by the way. They demolished Pearl Square the same way. ... The biggest injustice was to blockade these people and wound them under the banner of sectarianism. Here I salute all the Sunni movements, and I should salute the expressive stance of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyep Erdogan]. ... We stood as Shia and Sunnis with the Palestinian people. No one asked about the religion or sect of he Palestinian, Egyptian, Tunisian or Libyan people. We all stood with them, and this is our duty. The [Iranian Supreme Guide] Imam [Ali] Khamenei stood with the Tunisian, Egyptian and Libyan peoples, not to mention his historic stand with the Palestinian people, Does this stance have a sectarian background, or a humanitarian one? ... what is the difference between the Khalifah family in Bahrain, the Mubarak family in Egypt, and Qaddafi's regime in Libya? ... To the leaders of Libya, Bahrain and Yemen: how can you remain on your thrones after all these crimes? As a result of the abandonment of the Arab leaders, or the majority of them, the door has been opened to foreign intervention in Libya and in every Arab country. This brings us back to the era of direct colonialism. In this fateful phase, every able side should intervene to find a solution. Where is Arab mediation and where is the mediation of the Organization of the Islamic Conference? Then ... Moreover, the Amal Movement and Hezbollah were partners with the LAF day and night to protect whoever attacks the Resistance. We found nothing to debate or discuss in the content. ... The most recent result was the dismantling of an espionage device. This will not decrease the faith of the Resistance's supporters - rather, it will increase it. ... - WikiLeaks show the hopes hung on the [Israeli] attack [of July 2006] and show the size of March 14's disappointment in the [Resistance's] victory. We will wait until the documents finish. .... However, the second section is not analysis, but requests. Someone asked the US ambassador to ask Israel to invade Bint Jbeil and to not stop the war unless these conditions were fulfilled: the deployment of UNIFIL. This is a call for the enemy to kill and destroy Lebanon and a part of its people, Resistance and army. These are not emotions. - In this section, there are people who reviewed their stances, changed their political path, and stood vith the resistance; and there are others who are still saying the same things and doing what they did during the July 2006 war: calling for the destruction of Lebanon for political purposes. In fact we are preparing a judicial file in a civilized way, especially when one of them comes and says "bomb them [the Resistance]" after July 15. .... - I stood in the victory ceremony and said let us rebuild Lebanon together with those who plotted against us and participated in killing our women and children. We all knew then what had happened and who plotted against us, but today everything is in the newspapers and the Internet. We will deal with this in a modern way: we will prepare a judicial file and prosecute the people who participated in killing us. - The majority should be counted after the Bristol conference and March 14's refusal to participate in the cabinet. Of course there are many questions. There are pressures on the cabinet formation and its ministerial statement. The issue is not intemal - [although] there are legitimate internal requests - but rather the issue is that March 14 is asking for a cabinet of technocrats. Did you accept a centrist premier in order to form a cabinet of technocrats? The PM-designate is under much pressure, and if someday we have to tell details, we will say them. Hopefully the new majority will work to form a cabinet headed by PM-designate Najib Mikati and this is a political challenge which we will withstand
270211, aljazeera, Israeli airstrike hits Palestinians. One killed in renewed Israeli bombing campaign against the densely populated coastal region. ... Sunday's attack followed a series of bombing raids carried out by Israeli fighter jets on Saturday, in which a baby and a Palestinian man were wounded, Reuters news agency reported. .... A statement from the ruling Hamas movement earlier on Sunday denied its armed factions had been behind projectile fire from the strip on either February 25th or 27th. 'Over the past days, the Israeli occupation has been publishing lies on the firing of projectiles from Gaza toward Israel, in order to create excuses to prepare world public opinion for an escalation against Gaza," read the statement.
040111, ICH, Noam Chomsky: Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlock. While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as 'delegitimation" - that is, objections to its crimes and withdrawal of participation in them - and a parallel campaign of legitimation of Palestine. The "delegitimation," which is progressing rapidly, was carried forward in December by a Human Rights Watch call on the U.S. "to suspend financing to Israel in an amount equivalent to the costs of Israel's spending in support of settlements," and to monitor contributions to Israel from tax-exempt U.S. organizations that violate international law, "including prohibitions against discrimination" - which would cast a wide net. Amnesty International had already called for an arms embargo on Israel. The legitimation process also took a long step forward in December, when Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil recognized the State of Palestine (Gaza and the West Bank), bringing the number of supporting nations to more than 100. International lawyer John Whitbeck estimates that 80-90 percent of the world's population live in states that recognize Palestine, while 10-20 percent recognize the Republic of Kosovo. The U.S. recognizes Kosovo but not Palestine. ... Therefore those concerned with Palestinian rights should call for Israeli takeover of the entire West Bank, followed by an anti-apartheid struggle of the South African variety that would lead to full citizenship for the Arab population there. ... One analogy between Israel and South Africa merits attention. Once apartheid vas implemented, South African nationalists recognized they were becoming international pariahs because of it. In 1958, however, the foreign minister informed the U.S. ambassador that U.N. condemnations and other protests were of little concern as long as South Africa was supported by the global hegemon - the United States. By the 1970s, the U.N. declared an arms embargo, soon followed by boycott campaigns and divestment. South Africa reacted in ways calculated to enrage international opinion. In a gesture of contempt for the U.N. and President Jimmy Carter - who failed to react so as not to disrupt worthless negotiations - South Afiica launched a murderous raid on the Cassinga refugee :amp in Angola just as the Carter-led "contact group" was to present a settlement for Namibia. The similarity to Israel's behavior today is striking - for example, the attack on Gaza in January 2009 and on the Gaza freedom flotilla in May 2010. When President Reagan took office in 1981, he lent full support to South Africa's domestic crimes and its murderous depredations in neighboring countries. The policies were justified in the framework of the war on terror that Reagan had declared on coming into office. In 1988, Nelson Mandela's African National Congress was designated one of the world's "more notorious terrorist groups" (Mandela himself was only removed from Washington's "terrorist list" in 2008). ... The most outspoken support for Israeli crimes comes from the business world. U.S. high-tech industry is closely integrated with its Israeli counterpart. To cite just one example, the world's largest chip manufacturer, Intel, is establishing its most advanced production unit in Israel. A U.S. cable released by WikiLeaks reveals that Rafael military industries in Haifa is one of the sites considered vital to U.S. interests due to its production of cluster bombs. ... To break the logjam it will be necessary to dismantle the reigning illusion that the U.S. is an "honest broker" desperately seeking to reconcile recalcitrant adversaries, and to recognize that serious negotiations would be between the U.S.-Israel and the rest of the world.
jan 2011, BBC News - Abbas suspends Dahlan from Fatah over 'coup plot' ... Mohammed Dahlan has been suspended from Fatah's central committee pending an investigation into the allegations, which he describes as "fantastical". ... Mr Abbas has also reportedly ordered an internal investigation into embezzlement, which could focus on Mr Dahlan's multi-million dollar fortune. [!!!]
091210, Miami New Times, Miami-Dade police buy drones (44 lande bruger dem i militæret Israel er et af dem. ... Amnesty International recently condemned Israel's smothering use of drones for surveillance in Gaza.
Netanyahu saboterer - som forventet - fredsforhandlingerne endnu inden de er kommet igang. Derudover har han indbygget to "landminer" i sin udtalelse. At forlange, at en fremtidig Palæstina-stat skal være uden militær er jo ganske urimelig - og hvor er grænsen til politiet. Og så er der det sædvanlige umulige og urimelige krav om, at Palæstina skal godkende/anerkende Israel som en jødisk stat. Israel skal da være - og anerkendes - som en selvstændig stat for alle sine indbyggere - som alle andre stater !!! Vi har ingen brug for racisme eller apartheid - uanset, hvem der har magten !!! Israelerne er frygteligt gode til at formulere sig, så det for en overfladisk betragtning kan se rimeligt ud.
161210, Haaretz, Gideon Levy, The Farce of a Secular and Democratic Jewish State: ... The question whether military or civilian rabbis will determine who is a Jew is marginal. Rafi Peretz or Shlomo Amar, who cares? Ten times more significant is the question whether we happen to be living in the only country on earth here clerics determine the right to citizenship. No less important, how do we are continue deceiving ourselves that this is a secular and democratic state? The rabbis are Israel's gatekeepers. What most of them believe became painfiilly evident recently when they published a ruling that prohibits renting apartments to Arabs and foreigners. ... The conversion debate raises another, deeper question: according to the bill, Judaism is a religion, solely a religion and not a nationality or people. ...How can we claim that Judaism is both a faith and nationality if joining it is based solely on Jewish law and rulings of rabbis? ... It's time to admit that this approach can only be called racist. ... Sufficiently rooted already, Israel must continue to be a home and shelter for every Jew, but by no means just for them.
161210, Haaretz, Barak Ravid, Israel condemns Norway's upgrade of Palestinian standing in Oslo to 'diplomatic delegation'. Naor Gilon, who heads the Western Europe division at the Foreign Ministry, summoned the Norwegian chargé d'affaires in Tel Aviv for a conversation, telling him the Norwegian move is not acceptable and is a step that will harm the peace process. .... Over the past four months several countries have upgraded the standing of Palestinian representatives. The first country to have done so was none other than the United States. After the US, France, Spain, and Portugal also took similar steps. Despite this, the Foreign Ministry has yet to condemn these moves until now.
141210, Haaretz, Hamas leader in Gaza vows group will never recognize Israel. ... A poster at the rally featured photographs of Hamas leaders assassinated by Israel in the last 10 years.
131210, Haaretz, EU to wait until 'appropriate' to recognize Palestinian state. The European Union decided Monday not to recognize unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state, as such a move could harm efforts to resume the Middle East peace process. The 27 EU foreign ministers were meeting in Brussels a day after chief Palestinian negotiator 5aeb Erekat wrote a letter to foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, urging the body to back its efforts to rope in the international community. ... 'Our views on settlements, induding in East Jerusalem, are clear: they are illegal under international law and an obstade to peace," the ministers said in their statement. ... The EU reiterates its call for the immediate, sustained and unconditional opening of crossings for the flow of humanitarian aid, commercial goods and persons to and from Gaza," the EU foreign ministers said. .... Argentina and Brazil earlier this month did in fact recognize a Palestinian state within the 1967 lorders, a move that Israel described as "highly regrettable" in the face of stalled peace talks.
131110, Salon, Glenn Greenwald, Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance. "Eric stressed that the new Republican majority will serve as a check on the Administration and what has been, up until this point, one party rule in Washington," the readout continued. "He made clear that the Repubhcan majority understands the special relationship between Israel and the United States, and that the security of each nation is reliant upon the other." ... So extraordinary is Cantor's pledge that even the Jewish Telegraph Agency's Ron Kampeas -- himself a reflexive American defender of most things Israel -- was astonished and wrote: I can't remember an opposition leader telling a foreign leader, in a personal meeting, that he would side, as a policy, with that leader against the president. ...What makes Cantor's behavior all the more remarkable is that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which the Obama administration is ostensibly attempting to resolve is, as Gen. David Petraeus himself pointed put, a direct threat to U.S. interests and security. ... Cantor last month proposed that money to Israel not be classifed any longer as "foreign aid" -- in order to shield it from all cuts. ... in 2007, Nancy Pelosi visited Syria. ... Cantor wrote: "Several leading legal authorities have made the case that [Pelosi's] recent diplomatic overtures ran afoul of the Logan Act, which makes it a felony for any American 'without authority of the United States' to communicate with a foreign government to influence that government's behavior on any disputes with the United States." [godt eksempel på det perfekte hykleri i amerikansk politik].
081110, Press TV, 'Bibi Can Take US Into War With Iran'. "On Iran, there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans. They're very comfortable with the idea that a foreign leader like [Benjamin] Netanyahu can take 300 million Americans to war whenever he wants," said counterterrorism expert Michael Scheuer, who has worked with the Central Intelligence Agency for more than 20 years. "The election was a disaster in terms of increasing the chances of another war that we don't have the resources to fight, and we won't have the will to win," Newsmax quoted Scheuer as saying. ... "They're still fighting an enemy that doesn't exist, an enemy they believe is attacking us because we have elections.
081110, ICH, Maidhc Ò Cathail, The Parcel Bomb Plot, Al-Qaeda's Latest Christmas Gift to Israel. While Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) may have claimed responsibility for the parcel bomb plot, it's worth considering how this latest Yemen-linked terror scare has been a gift to their avowed enemies. Equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, the Fox News owner [Rupert Murdoch] smeared he growing worldwide condemnation of Israel's rogue behaviour as an ongoing war against the Jews.'' ... Ever since an Israeli firm let the Christmas Day crotch bomber "slip through" security at Schiphol Airport without a passport, a few influential voices with close ties to Israel have been instrumental in making Yemen ''the new buzzword." ... 'The US may be walking into a bit of a trap," warns Gregory Johnsen, a Yemen expert and doctoral candidate at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies. ... Israel must be very grateful indeed for this latest terror scare. If Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula did not exist, they might have to invent it.
150910, ICH, Alan Hart, Does the Palestinian Diaspora Care Enough To Become Engaged? iVill future historians conclude that the Palestinian diaspora betrayed its 3ccupied and oppressed brothers and sisters? ... There's no mystery about the Arab (regime) betrayal. ... When Yasser Arafat, Abu Jihad and a few others lit the slow buming fire of the regeneration, it was the security services of Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon which took the lead in trying to put it out. .. (Before Sharon sent the IDF all the way to Beirut to exterminate the PLO's leadership and destroy its infrastructure, Gulf Arab leaders met in secret, without advisers present, in order to agree a message to the Reagan administration. The message was to the effect that they would not intervene in any way when Sharon made his move. ... If this claim [of justice] was properly presented and pressed by a credible Palestinian leadership, by definition a democratically elected leadership duly authorized to represent the views of all Palestinians, it would be more difficult for the governments of the major powers, the one in Washington DC especially, to go on refusing to use the leverage they have to end Israel's Occupation of Arab land grabbed in the Zionist state's 1967 war of aggression. (Not self defense as Zionism asserts).
150910, Gulf News/Philippine Times, Nasouh Nazzal, Homes For 27,000 Constructed During Israeli Settlements Freeze. 'The population of the Jewish West Bank colonies was less than 300,000 people on the day the moratorium was imposed and now the number has risen to 320,000. The Israeli population of [occupied] East Jerusalem was 193,000 he day of moratorium was imposed and today the number exceeds 200,000," Al Tafakji said. [the head of the Maps and Colonies Department in East Jerusalem]. ... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand that Israel be recognised as a Jewish state had "never been raised in any previous round of negotiations", the official said.
050910, Haaretz., Yossi Melman, Foreign report: Israel has one of world's largest 'eavesdropping' intel bases. The base, near Kibbutz Urim, is central to the activities of the main Israel Defense Forces signals intelligence unit, 8200, according to report in Le Monde Diplomatique. ... According to the report, the base has 30 antennas and satellite dishes of different sizes and types, capable of eavesdropping on telephone calls and accessing the e-mail of "governments, international organizations, foreign companies, political groups and individuals." One of the base's main purposes is to listen to transmissions from ships passing in the Mediterranean, the report says. The base is also the center of intelligence activity that "taps underwater communication cables, mostly in the Mediterranean, connecting Israel with Europe." ... The author of the article, Nick Hager, is a New Zealand investigative reporter specializing in intelligence and technology related stories involving signals intelligence. In 1996 he wrote a book on the role of New Zealand in international intelligence gathering, and discussed cooperation between New Zealand, the U.S., Britain, Australia and Canada.
[Artiklen er baseret på en artikel på Monde Diplomatique's website: http://blog.mondediplo.net/2010-08-30-Un-tour-du-monde-des-stations-d-ecoute ]
040910, Marwan Barghouthi: Unity trumps peace talks: Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti told Reuters that Palestinian infighting should be the current priority, and not peace talks, which he said were destined to fail.
040910, "Settlers" reveal deep disdain for events in Washington: Yaniv Mor, 30-year-old father of a one-month-old baby girl, and a settler was blunt: "We don't care about Washington. Nothing will come out of it, like always. This is a war of religions - we want everything, they want everything. There is no way there will ever be agreement. That is the reality."
040910, EU trade chief apologizes for Jewish comments: The European Jewish Congress, an umbrella group, had demanded a retraction of De Gucht's remarks in which he maintained that Israel frustrates U.S.-led peace efforts and warned not to "underestimate the Jewish lobby on Capitol Hill."
030910, Haaretz, Yossi Sarid, Fascism is already here. Israeli democracy is mainly for decoration, like a tree grown for its beauty, not to bear fruit. Few people actually use it or the rights it affords. Many are merely happy that they can vote in the Knesset elections, and even this number is getting smaller.
030910, Haaretz, AP, UN nuclear chief asks Israel to join nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. New IAEA report reveals agency chief Yukiya Amano, during his visit to the region last month, asked Israel to place its nuclear facliities under IAEA safeguard. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency asked Israel to consider signing up to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, a report said Friday. ... In his talks with officials, Amano also asked Israel to place all its nuclear facliities under comprehensive IAEA safeguards and conveyed the General Conference's concern about the Israeli nuclear capabilities, the report said.
250810, Al Jazeera, Boats reach Gaza despite blockade. Two Vessels carrying 46 international human rights activists have reached the Gaza Strip, despite Israel's strict 14-month siege of the Palestinian terrltory. The end of the mission to symbolically break the siege came after Israel backed down from an earlier warning to the 'Free Gaza' protest group not to breach the blockade. ... The boats set sail on Friday on a 370km voyage from the Mediterranean Island of Cyprus carrying activists from 17 countries, including Israel, with the aim of drawing attention to Israel's blockade of Gaza and its affect on the people there. The boats sailed through choppy waters into Gaza City's main port on Saturday, ... Haniya said that it was time for Egypt to reopen the Rafah crossing and end the siege once and for all. Egypt reopened the crossing last January after Palestinians blew up part of the border barrier, allowing thousands to stock up on supplies from border towns. Cairo sealed the crossing three days later under pressure from both the United States and the Israeli government, to "protect its own sovereignty.' [???!!!] ... "The two boats defiance the of the Israeli blockade is a glimmer of hope that could be an opening of an end of the siege", the former Palestinian security chief told Al Jazeera in an interview from the West Bank of Ramallah. ...'Now we will go back to Cyprus and organise another trip," Mumcie said, adding the group would continue Its activities until Israel's siege of Gaza was lifted. ... Aviv Sharon, an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, earlier said: "They want provocation at sea, but they won't get it. ... Sharon had said earlier in the day that "all options" were being considered to prevent the ships from entering embargoed waters. ... Mostly American and British, they included Lauren Booth, the sister-in-law of Tony Blair, the former British prime minister who is now a Middle East envoy. Many of the activists said they had received death threats before they set sail, leading some to drop out.
240810. The Independent, UN official criticises Israel over flotilla probe. Israel is not co-operating with the UN Human Rights Council's probe of May's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a UN official said today. Juan Carlos Monge said the fact-finding mission is speaking to witnesses and government officials in Turkey and Jordan. But Mr Monge said Israel has not granted the team an invitation.
220810, Telegraph, Benjamin Netianyahu rejects demands to continue settlement freeze. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, threw hopes for a smooth resumption of Middle East peace talks into turmoil by rejecting demands to continue a freeze on settlement building in the West Bank. ... But its chief negotiator Saeb Erekat linked the success of the discussions with a continuation of the building freeze. "If the Israeli government decides to announce new tenders on September 26th, then we won't be able to continue with the talks," he warned. ... Mr Netanyahu said any deal must provide real security for Israel, provide a solution to the refugee problem within a future demilitarised Palestinian state, and must include Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and an 'end of conflict' clause.
040810, KUNA, Israel says won"t allow int"l cmte interrogation of Citizens. Although Israel has agreed to cooperate with a UN probe on the raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla 1 May, it will not allow the committee to interrogate Israeli officers, civilians or soldiers, according to officials ... the source said. "We could have been considered naysayers, or we could have done what we did, which was to take part in determining the mandate that will be given to the committee and affect its program," he added ... committee" would not receive testimony from any Israeli Citizen or military official, and would have to make do with documents. At most it will be permitted to interrogate state leaders. ... The team is expected to be headed by New Zealand's former prime minister Geoffrey Palmer and include representatives of the United States, the UN, Israel, and Turkey. [hvorfor er USA med - var de der ? OJ]
280710, ICH, Alan Hart, Time for the Palestinians to Call Israel's Bluff? ... But let's now leave fantasy land and acknowledge that the hallmark of Zionisn in action is saying one thing to the world and doing the opposisite. ... So a question. Is there now case for saying that the time has come for the Palestinians to call Israel's bluff? They could do so with a joint Fatah-Hamas statement to something like this effect: "We cannot and will not recognise Israel's "right" to exist because it has no such right, but we are a pragmatic people and we hereby declare that we are prepared to recognise and live in permanent peace with the reality of an Israel inside its horders as they were on the eve of the 1967 war, with Jerusalem an open, undivided city and the capital of two states..... We further declare that our pragmatism extends to accepting that the right of the dispossessed Palestinians to return must and will be confined to the Palestinian state, which means that many of those who wish to return will have to settle for compensation for the loss of their homes and their land.'' ... If a most explicit joint declaration by Fatah and Hamas failed to trigger new politics in Israel, it would prove what Larry Derfner said in article for the Jerusalem Post on 23 Julv: "Politically, Israelis now operate strictly on fear and aggression; look at them cross-eyed and they think Hitler's back and they're ready to drop the big one. Politically they're nuts. A danger to others and themselves." ... Caveat I am fully aware that a two-state solution which restricted the right of return to a Palestinian mini state on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip would not come close to providing justice for the dispossessed Palestinians.
280710, Haaretz, Amira Hass, The Palestinian Authority is Imprisoning Gazans. The same government that includes a call to end the blockade on Gaza, in practice aids in imprisoning the Gazans by preventing them from holding valid Palestinian passports. ... The Hamas government, which won the majority of the vote in democratic Palestinian legislative elections, is not recognized by most countries. Yet these countries warmly accept the Palestinian Authority government, which was appointed by the president and leader of the party that lost the election, Fatah. ... Security forces in the West Bank continue to arrest people identified with Hamas. The fact that the vast majority of these people are imprisoned for extended periods without a trial or any charges brought against them, raises the suspicion that this practice is not meant to foil security risks, but to actually take revenge for Fatah's defeat in Gaza and to repress its political opponents. ... Take Murad Amira, for example, from the village of Na'alin. ... These are the same security authorities that have won praise from the occupier for the quiet they've achieved while the occupier acts: confiscating land, demolishing homes, expelling people, arresting children, preventing free movement and killing. The lies that accompany these activities and their close affiliation with Fatah cast a shadow over the trustworthiness of the leadership in he eyes of its people.
230710, Haaretz, Avraham Burg, A new party of good tidings. In almost every area of the Israeli rift we need a new and clean political ocean: on issues of war and peace, in the realm between religion and the state, In the spaces between the insensitive Jewish majority and the oppressed minorities. There is also a gap between the rich who grow richer and the have-nots who have less and less all the time. ... The challenge of the Israeli Arabs has been stagnating since 1948. And very soon Israel will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the occupation and its injustices. There is an abundance of passionate history, while the offerings of the present are poor. The greatest internal threat to Israel's existence is the erosion of Israeli democracy, which has already lost its internal substance - the values of freedom and total commitment to all its Citizens. The time has come for a new proposal, one that is exciting and challenglng. The time has come for an Israeli party, a Jewish-Arab party, that will carry the banner of total commitment to equality, without a trace of discriminatlon and racism. It will be without Meretz's complications and Hadash's emotional baggage. A party that will sail far beyond the paradigms of classic Zionism, which to this day ignores the place of Israel's Arabs. A party that will demand full equality for all Israel's citizens, the kind of equality we demand for the Jews in the Diaspora wherever they live. ... It will be the party of those who are committed to the supreme universal and Israeli cultural values of human dignity, the search for peace and a desire for freedom, justice and equality. [GODT BRØLT, AVRAHAM !!]
220710, PressTV, 'Israel needs war to exist'. It Is only constant confrontations and standoffs which keep the Israeli society from falling apart, said Ilan Pappe, who used to work as a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa in northern Israel. ... Israel waged two wars against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006, with the second round of offensives killing about 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians. The forces, however, withdrew on both occasions without having achieved any of their objectives. ... An outspoken anti-Zionist, Pappe taught at the university from 1984 to 2007, when he was effectively fired from the university after his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine hit the shelves. The publication states that ' the unwersify afler his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine hit the shelves. The publicatton states that Israel's formation was pre-planned and based on rendering Palestinians homeless.
190710, Haaretz, Alleged Mossad agent fights extradition to Germany. Uri Brodsky, suspected of involvement in Hamas chief killing in Dubai, appeals Polish court decision that he be extradited to Germany. ... Brodsky is wanted in Germany for allegedly spying and helping to falsely obtain a German passport allegedly used in connection with the assassination of the Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Manhouh in a Dubai hotel in January. He was arrested on a European warrant in June at Warsaw's international airport, and on July 7 was ordered extradited to Germany by Warsaw's district court. The judge ordered his extradition on the forgery charges only, however, meaning that under that decision he could also only be tried in Germany on forgery and not spying. That decision would have spared Israel a potentially embarrassing high-profile espionage trial. Now the outcome of the case remains unclear because both Brodsky's lawyers and prosecutors - who want him extradited on the entirety of the charges - have appealed the court's July 7 ruling. ... In two court appearances in Warsaw to date, Brodsky concealed his appearance, pulling a hooded jacket around his face as much as possible and covering the rest with his hands. It's also not clear if Brodsky is his real name. ... Among the faked passports, according to Dubai police, was one issued by the German city of Cologne with Brodsky's alleged involvement. Der Spiegel, a German weekly magazine, says the passport was issued to a man named Michael Bodenheimer, the descendent of a German Jew living in Israel.
190710, Xinhua, PNA aided Israel in arresting Hamas militants. ... who had reportedly killed an Israeli policeman in the West Bank last month. The Palestinian security services in the West Bank "are no more than a wing of the Zionist security services," Hamas spokesman Salah Al-Bardaweel said.
160710, Haaretz, EU's Ashton: Israel must open all Gaza border crossings. European Union's FM says ahead of three-day visit to the region that the organization has been calling for 'fundamental' changes of policy regarding Gaza blockade. ... Ashton also reportedly plans to visit UNRWA projects sites in Gaza on Sunday. ... Large quantities of building materials are to be brought in for projects with PA approval such as schools, clinics and water and sewage infrastructure. Building materials for homes in Khan Yunis and other Gazan towns will also be allowed in. All constructlon projects are to be under close UN supervision to ensure that Hamas does not use he building material for fortifications and bunkers.
160710, Press TV, Lebanon nabs 3rd suspected spy. Lebanon has captured a third person on suspicion of spying for Israel after it arrested two others in a telecommunications company. ... All the three suspects worked for state-owned Alfa firm, one of Lebanon's two mobile service providers.
150710, Ya Libnan UN: No evidence to support Israeli claims over Hezbollah arms."UNIFIL has found nothing to support these Israeli claims," Michael Williams, said in an interview with Al-Akhbar daily. ... Williams said that trouble between U.N. peacekeepers and villagers in southern Lebanon is over. On July 3, a UNIFIL patrol was attacked and overpowered by residents in the southern village of Kabrikha. Officials said the Villagers, after one of them had been arrested, pelted UN troops and seized their weapons. ... The U.N. envoy said he and UNIFIL Commander had met Lebanese military officials and political leaders, including Hezbollah. "In the course of those meetings, we heard that they would do everything possible to prevent a recurrence of those incidents." Williams said negotiations with Israel over the occupied village of Ghajar were "taking too long."
150710, Haaretz, Jack Khoury, Lieberman thanks top Egypt official over Libya-chartered Gaza aid ship. In a phone conversation with Omar Suleiman, Lieberman says Cairo's assistance aided in resolving situation with out necessitating the use of force. ... Lieberman also updated Suleiman on Israel's new policy regarding Gaza, and the two agreed to meet during Suleiman's next visit to Israel, when Lieberman will present him with new information. The phone conversation between the two top officials came as the London-based A-Sharq al-Awsat reported that a deal had been struck between Israeli and Egyptian officials, enabling the ship to change course and dock peacefully at an Egyptian port. ... The Amalthea thus unloaded its cargo in El-Arish from where the goods will be trucked via the Rafah crossing to Gaza. ...According to Thursday's report in A-Sharq al-Awsat, Israel has agreed to let Gadhafi's organization begin a project to rebuild the ruins in Gaza. His organizatlon and the United Nations Works and Relief Association will soon begin to send some 50 million Egyptian pounds into the coastal territory to get the project rolling. Gadhafi told the newspaper that the arrangement was reached between Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Egyptian intelligence chief Omer Suleiman, and that he himself was privy to every detail of the deal.
150710, Haaretz,- Gideon Levy, Tricky Bibi. ... The real (and deceitful) face of Binyamin Netanyahu. Broadcast on Friday night on "This Week with Miki Rosenthai," it was filmed secretly in 2001, during a visit by Citizen Netanyahu to the home of a bereaved family in the settlement of Ofra, and astoundingly, it has not created a stir .... What is there to discuss with a huckster whose sole purpose is "to give 2 percent in order to prevent 100 percent," as his father told him, quoting his grandfather. ... No more claims that the Palestinians are to blame for the failure of the Oslo Accords. Netanyahu exposed the naked truth to his hosts at Ofra; he destroyed the Oslo accords with his own hands and deeds, and he's even proud of it. After years in which we vere told that the Palestinians are to blame, the truth has emerged from the horse's mouth. And how did he do it? He recalled how he conditioned his signing of the 1997 Hebron agreement on American consent that there be no withdrawals from "specified military locations," and insisted he choose those same locations, such as the whole of the Jordan Valley, for example. "Why is that important? Because from that moment on I stopped the Oslo Accords," he boasts. ... the government of Israel is led by a man who doesn't believe the Palestinians and doesn't believe in the chance of an agreement with them. who thinks that Washington is in his pocket and that he can pull the wool over its eyes. ... If he had said so honestly, as he did when he thought the camera in Ofra was turned off, then he could have been forgiven for his extreme positions. .. But when Netanyahu hides his real positions under camouflage netting and entangles them in webs of deceit, he not only reduces the chances of reaching an agreement, he also damages Israel's political culture.
150710, Haaretz, Yossi Melman, Israel's nuclear program implicated in U.S. investigation. According to Institute for Science and International Security researchers U.S. based Israeli company Pelogy violated export regulations. Israel's nuclear program has been implicated in an investigation conducted in the United States by the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), according to a report published on Wednesday by the researchers of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS). The investigation began in spring 2010 when the BIS charged Pelogy, a U.S. based Company and its Belgian affiliate, with violating U.S. export administration regulations by attemptlng to export controlled goods to Israel, India, China and South Africa.
140710, ICH, Jonathan Cook in Nazareth, Israel's New 'Video Game' Executions. Soldiers kill bv remote control. It is called Spot and Shoot. Operators sit in front of a TV monitor from which they can control the action vith a PlayStation-style joystick. The aim: to kill terrorists. Played by: young women serving in the Israeli army. ... The female soldiers, located far away in an operations room, are responsible for aiming and firing remote-controlled machine-guns mounted on watch-towers every few hundred metres along an electronic fence that surrounds Gaza. ... Rafael armaments company, ... According to Giora Katz, Rafael's vice-president, remote-controlled military hardware such as Spot and Shoot is the face of the future. He expects that within a decade at least a third of the machines used by the Israeli army to control land, air and sea will be unmanned. The demand for such devices, the Israeli army admits, has been partly fuelled by a combination of declining recruitment levels and a population less ready to risk death in combat. ... Rapid progress with the technology has raised alarm at the United Nations. Philip Alston, its special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, warned last month of the danger that a "PlayStation mentality to killing" could quickly emerge. [!!!!] According to analysts, however, Israel is unlikely to turn its back on hardware that it has been at the forefront of developing - using the occupied Palestinian territories, and especially Gaza, as testing laboratories. [!!!!]
110710, Haaretz - Gideon Levy, Israel Prefers Real Estate to Peace. A Peace Crime. [En af Gideons gode, korte og præcise sider - SKAL LÆSES]. - It couldn't have been spelled out more explicitly, clearly and emphatically. Read and judge for yourselves: "Our position is clear: When Israel returns the entire Golan Heights, of course we will sign a peace agreement with it.- what's the point of peace if the embassy is surrounded by security, if there is no trade and tourism between the two countries? That's not peace. That's a permanent cease-fire agreement. This is what I say to whoever comes to us to talk about the Syrian track: We are interested in a comprehensive peace, i.e., normal relations." Who said this to whom? Syrian President Bashar Assad to the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir last week. .... How long must he knock in vain on Israel's locked door? And if that were not enough, he also called on Turkey to work to calm the crisis with Israel so it can mediate between Israel and Syria. ... True, Assad also said other things. Other? Not really. He said that if he does not succeed through peace, he will try to liberate the Golan through resistance.
110710, Haaretz, Ora Coren, Ireland seeks to block Israel access to data on EU Citizens. Irish government retaliates over use of forged Irish passports by alleged Mossad spies in Dubai assassination. ... Under a plan put forward at the beginning of the year, the European organizations for protecting indlvlduals' privacy agreed that Israeli companies and European companies should be able to exchange information about customers. [!!!????]. For example, this would mean that an Israeli customer of a local cell phone company, say, Pelephone, would be able to use his phone to connect to the Internet, say, in Italy, and the Italian telecom would be able to receive his personal data from Pelephone and charge his account accordingly. The same would be true for people with European cell phones in Israel who wanted to use Israeli networks. In addition, multinational corporations would be able to entrust Israeli companies to secure their databases, and the data could be stored on servers in Israel. [Det er jo at levere materiale til misbrug, som det i Dubai-mordet. OJ]
090710, AlJazeera, West Bank barrier a 'health hazard'. ... The report, prepared by the Office of the Co-ordinator for Humanitarian Affairs, found that thousands of Palestinians have limited access to East Jerusalem hospitals because of the barrier. Ambulances are routinely delayed at checkpoints, and Palestinian vehicles are not allowed to pass through barrier checkpoints, forcing sick or elderly patients to walk. ... In many cases, it is also difficult for parents of sick children or for family mennbers to obtain permits to escort patients to Jerusalem." Israel's civil administration told Al Jazeera that 84 per cent of Palestinians who apply are granted permits to access hospitals or other medical facilities. Friday is the sixth anniversary of an International Court of Justice ruling that declared the security barrier illegal. The court called on Israel to dismantle the barrier and to compensate Palestinians affected by its constructlon. [!!!!!!] ... Hundreds of farmers own land that sits between the barrier and the Green Line, the ceasefire line drawn at the end of the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli war. [altså står hegnet på palæstinensisk jord !!!!!] Those farmers need to obtain permits to work their own land, and can only access their property through one of 57 barrier gates. ... "Farmers are not permitted to stay on their land over night and must return at the last gate opening time." .... In fact, the Israeli government has taken steps which suggest the barrier will not be short-lived. Earlier this year, for example, Israeli officials said they were designing electronic key cards that farmers could use to access their land.
090710, Haaretz, 'Unprecedented police brutality' at East Jerusalem protest. Left-wing activists protest weekly alongside Arab residents of Sheikh Jarrah over settlers' takeover of locals' homes. ... Every weekend, Israeli protesters demonstrate alongside the Arab locals against settler activity in the Arab neighborhood. The demonstrators decry the settlers' takeover of several homes in the area. ... Gal-On added that former attorney general Michael Ben-Yair pleaded with the police to calm the situation, but they were uncooperative. [Det er vigtigt at huske, at også i Israel findes, de gode jøder, de kultiverede, retsindede - som vi har så megen gavn af i Danmark].
090710, Press TV, Libyan aid convoy to break Gaza siege. The Tripoli-based Gaddafi International Charity and Development Association will send the aid ship to Gaza. ... The Moldova-flagged cargo ship Amalthea. ... [T]he charity, headed by Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. .... The Gaddafi Association added that the ship would also be carrying "a number of supporters who are keen on expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people in the plight amidst the siege imposed on Gaza." [Her er vist lagt op til ballade].
080710, Huffington Post - Paul Wachter, US Treasury Grants Tax Exemptions to Funders of Illegal Israeli Settlements. A New York Times investigation revealed Tuesday that he U.S. Treasury is helping to promote illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank by granting tax exemptions to U.S. groups that funnel money into them. These specific settlements aren't only illegal under international law, but also under Israeli law. ... "For example, when Israeli authorities suspended plans for permanent homes in Maskiot, a tiny settlement near Jordan, in 2007, two American nonprofits - the One Israel Fund and Christian Friends of Israeli Communities - raised tens of thousands of dollars to help erect temporary structures, keeping the community going until officials lifted the building ban." Many of the American groups consist of evangelical Christians, who believe that Jews securing the Holy Land is a prerequisite to Armageddon.
080710 The Independent, Catrina Stewart in Jerusalem and David Usborne, Exposed: The Truth About Israel's Land Grab In The West Bank. The jurisdiction of some 200 settlements, illegal under international law, cover much more of the occupied Palestinian territory than previously thought. And a large section of the land has been seized from private Palestinian landowners in defiance even of an Israeli supreme court ruling, the report said, a finding which sits uncomfortably with Israeli claims that it builds only on State land. Drawing on official Israeli military maps and population statistics, the leading Israeli human rights group, B'Tselem, compiled the new fmdings. ... the revelations in the B'Tselem report suggest that despite Mr Netanyahu's stated desire for peace, his policy on settlements remains a dangerous obstacle to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and therefore to a durable peace. They cast an uncompromising spotlight on Israeli practices in the Palestinian territories that lave long drawn international criticism for establishing "facts on the ground" hampering the reation of a viable Palestinian state. ... And despite the outlawing by Israel of settlement expansion on private Palestinian land, settlers lave seized 21 per cent of land that Israel recognises is privately-owned. B'Tselem alleged that Israel had devised an extensive system of loopholes to requisition Palestinian land. At the same time, Israel has built bypass roads, erected new checkpoints, and taken control of carce water resources to the benefit of the settlers. The measures have effectively created Palestinian enclaves within the West Bank, the report said. Under international law, any Jewish settlements built on occupied territory are illegal. These include all the settlements in the West Bank, and thousands of Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, ... Despite firm commitments from successive Israeli governments to dismantle illegal outposts built after 2001 and to cease expansion of the settlements, Israel has provided millions of dollars worth of incentives to encourage poorer families to move into the West Bank. ... The Palestinians continue to refuse direct talks with Israel while new settlement construction is allowed. Settlement activity continues in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians aim to include in a new state.
juli 2010, Ynetnews. Gazans: We were used as 'human shields'. A report exclusive to Ynet reveals testimonies of Strip residents who claim soldiers used them as 'human shields' during Operation Cast Lead. IDF denies allegations; Military Police investigating [artiklen har et illustrerende billede]. ... The report ... was compiled by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) and Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. ... The testimonies recount times when prisoners were kept either out in the open, underground or in over-crowded rooms, and incidents when they were not given enough food or water, or sufficient access to lavatories. Other testimonies detailed acts of violence against Palestinian detainees and acts of torture during field and Shin Bet interrogations.
060710, Press TV, 5 EU States call for end to Gaza siege ... Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and Britain ... The five countries also said they hoped "the measures announced by the government of Israel will soon be implemented," [DET ER DE ALTSÅ STADIG IKKE !! OJ] ... However, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has said that Israel has decided to lift restrictions on the entry of a trickle of_consumer goods into Gaza in order to reduce the pressure from the international community in the wake of the attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla.
050710, Chris McGreal, The Guardian - US Questions its Unwavering Support for Israel. There are questions that rarely get asked in Washington. For years, the mantra that America's intimate alliance with Israel was as good for the US as it was the Jewish state went largely unchallenged by politicians aware of the cost of anything but unwavering support. ... Israel - or, at the very least, its current government - endangering US security and American troops? ... General David Petraeus who has commanded US forces in both wars, have identified Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian land as an obstacle to resolving those conflicts. ... He wrote that the US will not abandon Israel because it has a moral commitment to ensure he continued survival of the Jewish state. "At the same time, the depth of America's moral commitment does not justify or excuse actions by an Israeli government that unnecessarily make Israel a strategic liability when it should remain an asset. ... The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that at a meeting between the two men. Biden angrily accused Israel's prime minister of jeopardising US soldiers by continuing to tighten the Jewish state's grip on Jerusalem. .... Obama's chief political adviser, David Axelrod, said the settlement construction plans 'seemed calculated to undermine" efforts to get fresh peace talks off the ground and that "it is important for our own security that we move forward and resolve this very difficult issue".
050710, Press TV, 'Israel preparing to occupy Lebanon'. Israel troops are conducting military drills to get prepared for being deployed in Lebanon, in a move Tel Aviv ays is aimed at preventing "rocket attacks by Hezbollah," Israeli sources say.
030710, Haaretz.Com, Report: Abbas agrees to Israeli control over Jewish holy sites in Jerusalem. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has given U.S. special envoy George Mitchell a list of written proposals for reaching a peace agreement with Israel, which indudes leaving the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem and Western Wall under Israeli control, Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat reported on Saturday. ... Abbas is said to have proposed the creation of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, but with a land swap encompassing 2.3 percent, which would leave larger settlement blocs such as Gush Etzion, Pisgat Ze'ev and Modi'in Hit in Israel's hands, along with a swathe of land overlooking Ben-Gurion International Airport. In return, the Palestinians would get land bordering the southern West Bank in addition to land for a passageway between the West Bank and Gaza. The report also said Abbas presented a softened stance on East Jerusalem, which would become the future capital of the Palestinian state. Abbas reportedly proposed that Israel would retain control over the Old City's Jewish Quarter and Western Wall, while the rest of East Jerusalem would be open to worshippers of all religions. Palestinian sources told Al-Hayat that Netanyahu has only responded to Mitchell by saying that he vants face-to-face talks with Abbas. The Palestinians have been wary of direct negotiations, fearing that Netanyahu wants to bring them to the table in order to decrease international pressure on Israel with no intention of signing a deal.
230610, Aljazeera om angrebet på Gaza January 2009. Case filed over Gaza assault. The complaint seeks charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during Israel's war on Gaza in January 2009, Georges-Henri Beauthier, lawyer for the group filing the complaint, said on Wednesday. Blandt anklagepunkterne er bombning af Ibrahim al-Maqadna moskeen og anvendelse af fosfor-brandbomber mod en olivenlund. (Husk det tager en menneskealder inden et oliventræ bærer frugt). Sagen anlægges af belgiske borgere (af palæstinensisk oprindelse) i Belgien. Efter sagen mod Sharon i 2001, ændrede Belgien lovgivningen om universel retsforfølgelse af krigsforbrydelser, så sag kun kan rejses af belgiske borgere !!!
220610, ICH, Richard Forer, Commit Yourself To The Truth, Cutting through the Confusion About Israel/Palestine. En rigtig god, rimelig kortfattet sammenfatning. Er du f.eks. gymnasieelev og skal skrive stor opgave herom, er det et godt udgangspunkt !! Et centralt citat: "We do not have to like the other but we have to recognize that he is just as entitled to self-determination as us, that he has the same human needs for respect and dignity as do we." ... Some of their friends are militant Jews from Hebron and other messianic communities, who believe that the sixth commandment, which they translate as "Thou shalt not commit murder," cannot be violated by killing any Arab, since Arabs are inherently predisposed to want to murder Jews; and Arabs are not human anyway. ... [Benny] Morris ... says in Righteous Victims, p. 138: [Weizmann and Ben-Gurion] saw partition as a stepping stone to further expansion and the eventual takeover of the whole of Palestine. ... Also, you should know that Israel fortified public buildings and constructed shelters to protect its Jewish population in the line of rocket attacks. You should also know that Israel did nothing to protect its Palestinian-Israeli Citizens in their villages in the line of these same attacks. ... Israel has a National Information Directorate whose purpose is to coordinate the various sectors of the government apparatus into disseminating self-serving messages (propaganda) to the public.
Forer citerer Former Israeli Chief of Military Intelligence, General Yehoshafat Harkabi: for følgende: "We must define our position and lay down basic principles for a settlement. Our demands should be moderate and balanced, and appear to be reasonable. But in fact they must involve such conditions as to ensure that the enemy rejects them. Then we should manoeuvre and allow him to define his own position, and reject a settlement on the basis of a compromise position. We should then publish his demands as embodying unreasonable extremism." ... In 1948 Jews owned about 6% of the land of Palestine. They now control 78% of the land outright, which both the PLO and Hamas have de facto accepted as irreversible. Additionally Israel has illegally seized or controls about half of the West Bank. And Israel maintains land, sea and air control over the Gaza Strip. In short the Palestinians subsist on about 10% of their indigenous homeland. Mostly Ashkenazi Jews fought the British and the Arabs for a Jewish National Home. Their connection to the land called Palestine was far less than the connection Palestinians had and still have to that same land. ... Israel did kill almost 400 children in Operation Cast Lead. I am not saying that Israel's leaders said "let's go kill Palestinian children" but there is no question that Israel's leaders knew perfectly well that hundreds of Palestinian children and other civilians would die. ... [Gaza] Its Citizens have nowhere to go to flee Israeli bombs and rockets. ... As General Gadi Eisenkot said after Lebanon: ["]We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases. This isn't a suggestion. This is a plan that has already been authorized."
Israel's most eminent military strategist, Zeev Schiff said: "the Israeli Army has always struck civilian populations, purposely and consciously... the Army ... has never distinguished civilian [from military] targets... but] purposely attacked civilian targets."...
[Mordecai Gur] was responsible for the murders of hundreds of Egyptian POWs at at the end of the Suez War. ... Operation Cast Lead was not "a reaction due to the Islamic Resistance Movement." It was collective punishment designed to intimidate a people into rejecting Hamas; and it was a reestablishment of the deterrent force Israel relinquished to a certain extent in Lebanon. Ephraim Halevy, former head of Mossad and former National Security Director said: "If Israel's goal were to remove the threat of rockets from the residents of southern Israel, opening the border crossings would have ensured such quiet for a generation.
Yuval Diskin, head of Shin Bet, acknowledged that Hamas is willing to accept a long-term ceasefire on the 1967 borders.
Amira Hass reported in Haaretz: "The Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Saturday his government was willing to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 horders." ...
Regarding Hamas's use of hospitals the Goldstone report states: "The Mission did not find any evidence to support the allegations that hospital facilities were used by the Gaza authorities or by Palestinian armed groups to shield military activities and that ambulances were used to transport combatants or for other military purposes.' ... You are correct that "Eighty percent of the weapons used were precision guided, and 99% of all strikes hit their targets." Yes, these precision guided rockets destroyed or killed civilians, whole neighborhoods, minarets where there was no room for any fighter to hide and launch rockets, and UN buildings. B'Tselem reported: "Whole families were killed; parents saw their children shot before their very eyes; relatives watched their loved ones bleed to death; and entire neighborhoods were obliterated." ... ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross): "The Israeli military 'failed to meet its obligation under international humanitarian law to care for and evacuate the wounded.' Israel made no effort to allow civilians to escape the fighting." The Goldstone report is particularly damning. Again, please read through it. Goldstone rejected the HRC's request to investigate possible war crimes by Israel until they altered the wording to include Hamas as a possible perpetrator. ... Regarding rocket and mortar fire, from 2000 through 2008 Palestinian groups launchched 8,088 unsophisticated rockets and mortars against Israel. From 2001 through 2008 eighteen Israelis were killed as a result of these attacks. Contrast those figures with the 7,700 sophisticated rockets that Israel launched against Gaza in nine months, between September 2005 and June 2006. From 2005-2007, 1,290 Gazans, including 222 children, were killed as a result of these kinds of attacks. ... Hamas is not monolithic, is not particularly corrupt as is Fatah, and is not a collaborator with the Israeli government. That is why they were elected and that is why Israel wants them removed. ... [June to December easefire between Hamas and Israel] Hamas was careful to maintain the ceasefire." Israel never really adhered to the ceasefire. They only allowed the average number of trucks entering Gaza to increase from seventy per day to ninety, not the five hundred per day that crossed before Israel instituted its blockade. ... It also paints Judaism, once known for its commitment to ethics and justice, as a religion and culture of hypocrisy and bigotry. [!!!!]
180610, PressTV, Lebanon, Egypt condemn Israeli threat. The Lebanese and Egyptian premiers have xndemned a new Israeli threat against Beimt, saying it "might have dire consequences" for Tel Aviv. .ebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Nazif took the stance after Israeli Oefense Minister Ehud Barak wamed the Beirut ivemment against allowing an aid ship to depart ebanon for the besieged Gaza Strip.
170610, Dissident Voice - Roger Tucker, The One State Solution Sounds Like a Good Idea, But... [indeholder en link til: The Iron Wall: By Vladimir Jabotinsky. Der er det ideologiske grundskrift bag zionisternes etniske udrensningspolitik]. It is becoming clear even to very slow learners that a European settler-colonialist society based on ethnocentric identity, established in the middle of the 20th Century no less, in the midst of people with whom they have little or nothing in common, aggressively alienating their new neighbors through the establishment of an Apartheid state based on blatant racism, and carving out ever more territory for itself through ethnic cleansing and remorseless enocide, never really had much of a future. ... This support, [from the West] in turn, has been the result of intense pressure brought to bear by a relatively small number of wealthy and powerful Zionist Jews, the Israel Lobby, particularly in the English speaking democracies. ... So is there a way out of this increasingly intolerable and dangerous situation? Of course there is; it's been there from the beginning, and in fact it was the mainstream Zionist policy for nearly eighty years prior to the rise of Nazi Germany. Various configurations were envisioned, but what it boiled down to was sharing the land with its existing inhabitants, the Palestinians, on the basis of justice and equality. ... Although Israel forcibly evacuated its settlers from Gaza, hoping thereby to consign the inmates of what then became an open air concentration camp to oblivion or, they hoped, rule by the Egyptian dictatorship (who declined the offer), the residents, mostly refugees since the Nakba, refused to accept their fate. In response, the government has chosen to lay a medieval siege to the area, employing the ancient strategy of literally starving the besieged into submission. ... There is a third segment of the Palestinian population, the Diaspora, the most numerous of the three groups, living in refugee camps in Lebanon, in Syria, as well as constituting nearly half the population of Jordan, and spread out across the globe, with many of them in the U.S. and the U.K. They have steadfastly refused to give up their right of return, a right that is not based on an ancient story, like the one that forms the core of the Jewish narrative, but is early historical, quite recent, and deeply enshrined in international law. .... The real existential threat to us. the rest of the worid, is the Israeli proclivity to act on its paranoia regardless of consequences, to rely on its overwhelming military superiority (built from the largesse of U.S. taxpayers) to its perceived enemies. .. The bottom line, the reason that the story herein described is so vital to understand, is the likelihood that Israel, if allowed to continue on its path unchecked, will inevitably provoke a nuclear war, a catastrophe that life on this planet might very well not survive. ... The two State solution proposes that an independent Palestinian state be created in the West Bank and Gaza within the horders that existed prior to the 1967 war. Such a state would have territorial integrity, a protected land corridor between the two sections the rights and privileges of any member of the United Nations, provide a home for all Palestinian refugees and have its capitol in East Jerusalem. Makes sense, doesn't it? Actually no - it's pure fantasy. ... What the Israelis mean when they talk about the two state solution is the legitimization of the Matrix of Control that they have designed and mostly already constructed. It consists of about a dozen isolated bantustans, surrounded by barbed wire, checkpoints and guards. These "self-governing" labor camps would not only supply very cheap labor for the Israeli economy, but would have to support their entire infrastructure and administrative budget from such meager revenues through intemal taxation. Collectively they would have the status of being a "Palestinian State." What a deal! It would also erase the bottom line of the Palestinian struggle, which is the Right of Return to he land from which they were and are being expelled. ... There are clear and obvious reasons why the various elites are promoting the idea of the two state solution. For Israel, the "peace process" provides public relations cover for its ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. ... Moreover, Zionism is a textbook example of ethnocentric fascism, almost identical to Nazism, merely having a different tribal identity. ... This is particularly true in the case of Israel for a number of reasons. One of the main ones is that the Jewish population of Israel is a hodgepodge of different peoples, a true melting pot of cultures that have little in common with one another except for the notion that they are "Jewish." [og en meget orthodox sekt, som demonstrerede i Jerusalem og blev behandlet på sædvanlig (ubehagelig) vis af politiet, råbte racistiske skelsord efter strømerne, som var JØDER fra Ethiopien]. ... The strategy is, and always has been, to rid the land of non-Jews, using whatever neans are available, but limited by the constraint that Israel vitally needs the support of the West, at the very least American support. ....The fact is that most of the now resident Jewish Israelis were born there. ... Those who have an actual stake in solving the conflict, and thereby achieving the universal goals of human rights, peace and justice, are ordinary Israelis, Jews everywhere, the Palestinians and the population of the West, not to mention the Umma, the Islamic world - actually, all of us. All of which brings us to the third alternative, the only one that is not only actually possible in the long term, but is the only proposal that actually solves the problem - the replacement of the existing political configuration by a single democratic, pluralistic state. ... As Gideon Levy put it last year in one his pieces for Haaretz, "the only recognition that is needed now is Israel's recognition of the Palestinians as human beings. If this is obtained, all the rest will be relatively easy." [!!!!!] ... Barring relatively brief eruptions of tribal and religious strife, like the Crusades, the siblings of the Abrahamic tradition (outside of Europe at least) have gotten along rather swimmingly for the last 1,500 years, i.e., since the birth of Islam, which has traditionally respected and been hospitable to both Christians and Jews. ... Realistically, the Jews, after eventually becoming a minority of the population, but a very substantial minority, would largely retain economic control, as well as dominance in many other ways. South Africa stands as just such an example of the more things change, the more they remain the same." ... It should be noted that among all the Islamic peoples the Palestinians are the most secular and the most highly educated. ... In Gaza they are cut off, unable to come and go; in the West Bank they are under an oppressive regime consisting of self-interested Quislings under the military command of an American General, and otherwise they are scattered around the world, many in refugee camps, in no position to even begin to formulate their collective will, if there is such a thing. ... If one agrees that One Democratic State is the only conceivable solution, then, you, dear reader, must act. As is frequently said, silence is complicity. And as mentioned earlier, we canot look to the powers that be to accomplish this. .... The craven, hypocritical politicians have been bought and are terrified of the Israel Lobby. The Zionists own the mainstream media and are in firm control of the universities. This will be more of a challenge than Apartheid in So. Africa or overcoming Jim Crow and segregation in the US was, but we the people can do it, and it has to be done.
160610, TRIBUNE-REVIEW, Richard Gazarik, Possible Western Pennsylvania Link to Israeli Nukes Boosted. A recently declassified federal report bolsters a long-simmering Cold War theory that uranium was illegally shipped from an Armstrong County plant in 1965 to Israel to support its nuclear arms efforts. The once-secret report by the General Accounting Office reveals the FBI initially refused to investigate the disappearance of 206 pounds of weapons-grade uranium-235 from the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corp. -- known as NUMEC - in Apollo. That refusal led to widespread speculation the uranium, enough to build five nuclear weapons, was diverted to Israel with covert U.S. government assistance, the report states. ... The release of this once top-secret report gives the first official glimpse into the government's handling of "The Apollo Affair." ... Inspectors said NUMEC had the largest highly enriched uranium inventory loss of all U.S. commercial sites, with a 590-pound loss reported before 1968 and 170 pounds after that year, according to the GAO findings. ... The FBI and CIA blocked efforts to release the GAO report in 1978, the report states. Even today, portions were blacked out for security reasons. ... Nearby residents endured 14 years of litigation seeking damages for cancer and other illnesses they contend were caused by radiation exposure.
070610, www.csmonitor.com/ Alfonso Daniels, Why some Jews would rather live in Siberia than Israel. ... seven time zones east of Moscow [there] is a Jewish republic. The Jewish Autonomous Region [Birobidzhan] was created by Stalin 75 years ago as an alternative to the Zionist project in Israel. ... But the Jewish dream in Siberia is not quite dead yet, and the region is now experiencing a small revival, thanks to Jews arriving from Israel. ... In the early days before Stalin turned on the community, Jews arrived from around the world to build their own version of a worker's paradise and share Yiddish, the now vanishing blend of Hebrew and German that uses Hebrew characters and was once spoken by millions of European Jews.
080610, AP, Karin Laus, Anxious Gazans trying to leave blockaded territory. Hundreder af Gaza-borgere, - heraf mange der søger medicinsk behandling i Ægypten - venter ved Rafah crossing, ofte i flere dage. Ægypten har lovet at holde overgangen åben hver dag -og ikke bare som hidtil indimellem. Det gælder stadig kun bestemte grupper, folk med udenlandsk pas, behandlingssøgende, studerende.
070610, The Independent, Ilan Pappe, The Deadly Closing of the Israeli Mind. - At the top of Israel's political and military systems stand two men, Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu, who are behind the brutal attack on the Gaza flotilla that shocked the world but that seemed to be hailed as a pure act of self-defence by the Israeli public. ... At one time, Ehud Barak was Benjamin Netanyahu's commanding officer in the Israeli equivalent of the SAS. More precisely, they served in a similar unit to the one sent to assault the Turkish ship last week. ... And it is a simple take on reality. Hamas, although the only govemment in the Arab world elected democratically by the people, has to be eliminated as a political as well as a military force. ... But it is mainly due to its political opposition for the kind of "peace" Israel wants to impose on the Palestinians. The forced peace is not negotiable as far as the Israeli political elite is concerned, and it offers the Palestinians a limited control and sovereignty in the Gaza Strip and in parts of the West Bank. ... The blockade imposed in 2006 is supposed to lead the Gazans to replace the current Palestinian government with one which would accept Israel's dictate - or at least would be part of the more dormant Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. ... As in the case of the flotilla, there are alternative ways for releasing the captive soldier, such as swapping the thousands of political prison[er]s Israel is holding with Shalit. Many of them are children, and quite a few are being held without trial. The Israelis have dragged their feet in legotiations over such a swap, which are not likely to bear fruit in the foreseeable future. ... Prime Minister, David Cameron, who remarked at Prime Minister's Questions last week that the Israelis' policy, in fact, strengthens, rather than weakens, the Hamas hold on Gaza. ... This is not surprising. The Barak-Netanyahu-Avigdor Lieberman govemment does not know any other way of responding to the reality in Palestine and Israel. The use of brutal force to impose your will and a hectic propaganda machine that describes it as self-defence, while demonising the half-starved people in Gaza and those who come to their aid as terrorists, is the only possible course for these politicians. ...It would be wrong, however, to assume that American support and a feeble European response to Israeli criminal policies such as one pursued in Gaza are the main reasons for the protracted blockade and strangulation of Gaza. What is probably most difficult to explain to readers around the world is how deeply these perceptions and attitudes are grounded in the Israeli Psyche and mentality. ... Thus even before one discusses either an alternative solution - a single democratic state for all, which I support - or explores a more plausible, two-state settlement, one has to transform fundamentally the Israeli official and public mindset. This mentality is the principal barrier to a peaceful reconciliation in the torn land of Israel and Palestine.
070610, Morning Star Four Palestinians slain off Gaza coast ... On Sunday French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to accept an international Inquiry. And Mr Sarkozy reportedly stressed the "urgent need" for a solution to end Israel's blockade of Hamas-administered Gaza in a way that would also "guarantee Israel's security." ... ICTU assistant general secretary Peter Bunting said: "The safe return of these brave and peaceful activists is to be welcomed, but we must express our outrage at the fact that they were arrested in the first place and their ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, is still in the hands of those who have illegally seized it and its contents.
Mellemøsten - og måske i lidt mindre grad - resten af den 3, Verden er kendt for korruption. Se her hvorfor.
Tony Cliff: Roots of Israel's violence (1982) Giver en god, oplevet beskrivelse af den faktiske apartheid i Israel. "Now Israel is collaborating with the Phalangists in Lebanon, an openly fascist organisation. I'm not surprised. I remember the 1930s when Begin's (now Israel's prime minister) organisation, the Irgun, used the Hitler salute and wore the brown shirts.
Figure 8 ARMS DELIVERIES TO THE MIDDLE EAST BY MAJOR SUPPLIER, 1995-2002, Klare, p. 176-7.
Ayad, Christophe: Géopolitique de L'Egypte p.132. Mitterand (1981) ændrede balancen i den franske udenrigspolitik i Israels favør, men konsulterer stadig Ægypten i væsentlige sager.
Alfred M. Lilienthal, What Price Israel? (1953). In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson sent the King-Crane Commission (30) to Palestine and other places in the Near East for an American survey of conditions in the former Ottoman Empire. On its return, the Commission declared that a "National home for the Jewish people is not equivalent to making Palestine a Jewish State" and that such a "State could not be erected without the gravest trespass upon the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine." This report was the only official American study of the Palestine problem until 1946. ... The end of World War II - if end it did - created in Europe that epitome of distress, the Displaced Person. These refugees from Hitler's gas chambers were actually, not theoretically, homeless. They came from many lands: Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and the Baltic Countries. They were of all faiths: about 500,000 Catholics, 100,000 Protestants, and 226 000 Jews. (31) Of these last, some 100,000 were in the assembly camps of Germany, Austria and Italy; 50,000 undetained in the United Kingdom; 12,000 in Sweden; 10,500 in Switzerland; the rest scattered över the Continent. Og så beskriver han, hvordan zionisterne forhindrede en humanitær indsats og monopoliserede katastrofesituationen og udnyttede den for Israel !!!
Problemerne startede med at briterne åbnede deres mandatområde, Palæstina, for jødisk indvandring. Formentlig var det led i en sædvanlig britisk del - og hersk strategi - der så løb ud af kontrol, fordi zionisterne havde været med før. Se bl.a. kap 12 hos Aldrich, p. 256-267. Det er interessant, at sammenligne den britiske tilbageholdenhed i Palæstina med fremfærden i f.eks. Kenya under Mau Mau opstanden. Og bemærk, at tilbageholdenheden gælder på et tidspunkt, hvor man skulle tro, at England gik efter alle sine fjender ! Da man endelig tager fat, så er det til gengæld så umenneskeligt som i Kenya. I 1949 skyder israelerne engelske spionfly ned.
hentet 060110, irish4palestine. UPDATE VIVA PALESTINA TROUBLE AT AL ARISH Ok I wanted to get confirmation a 2nd time before posting this. Here's the story I got. The convoy vehicles are in a fenced, locked and gated compound at Al Arish. The convoy members are WITH the vehicles inside this locked gated compound and are currently locked inside the compound. Negotiations were going on between the Viva people and the Egyptians, I don't know what that was about, but the members were trapped inside this compound and not being allowed out with or without their vehicles. Then, negotiations broke down between the VP people and Egyptians. At that point people inside the compound began to make their voices heard by chanting and shouting etc And trying to get out of the locked compound. A convoy vehicle hit the gate, At that point 300+ riot squads encircled the compound and brought in huge military water cannon type vehicles to keep the members and vehicles inside this gated compound and locked inside.
010110, The Scotsman, Orthodox Jews and Palestinians join forces to protest over Gaza blockade. About 600 people gathered on the Gazan side of the border, chanting slogans and carrying signs condemning the blockade. Among them were a small number of Jews from the small Neturei Karta sect, which denounces Israel's existence.... Some 1,400 activists from 43 countries had gathered in Cairo to mark the first anniversary of the offensive.
010110, yalibnan.com, Turkish ship to carry Viva Palestina convoy to Egypt. ... According to Turkish news agency AA correspondent, a Ro-Ro ship is expected to reach the Port of Latakia Saturday afternoon. worldbulletin
211209, Jimmy Carter, ICH, Gaza Must Be Rebuilt Now. We can wait no longer to restart the peace process. The human suffering demands urgent relief. Et godt råb fra den amerikanske præsident, der kunne have fortjent en Nobel fredspris !! Despite offers by Palestinian leaders and international agencies to guarantee no use of imported materials for even defensive militarry purposes, cement, lumber, and panes of glass are not being permitted to pass entry points into Gaza. The US and other nations have accepted this abhorrent situation without forceful corrective action. ... Israel has long argued that it cannot negotiate with terrorists, yet has had an entire year without terrorism and still could not negotiate. .... One recent glimmer of life has been the 8 December decision of EU foreign ministers to restate the long-standing basic requirements for peace commonly accepted within the international community, including that Israel's pre-1967 boundaries will prevail unless modified by a negotiated agreement with the Palestinians.... a logical step is for all Quartet members (the US, EU, Russia and UN) to support the Obama proposal by declaring any further expansion of settlements illegal and refusing to veto UN security council decisions to condemn such settlements. This might restrain Israel and also bring Palestinians to the negotiating table. At the same time, the Quartet should join with Turkey and invite Syria and Israel to negotiate a solution to the Golan Heights dispute.
211209, Al Jazeera, Israel admits to organ thefts. Den historie i Aftonbladet, som Bildt var lige ved at sige undskyld for, bekræftes nu på israelsk TV. The admission follows the release of an interview with Jehuda Hiss, the former head of Israel's forensic institute, in which he said that workers at the institute had harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers. In the interview, which was conducted in 2000 when Hiss was head of Tel Aviv's Abu Kabir forensic institute, he said: "We started to harvest corneas ... Whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family." ...The practice is said to have ended in 2000. ... [Man må jo undre sig over om muslimske/kristne legemsdele er kosher]. Bostrom said that there is no proof that people were killed for their organs but that an investigation is needed to find out whether there was a policy in place or if the bodies used were random. ... Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who conducted the interview, t ... is a professor of anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley. ... "He did it informally and without permission, and it was technically illegal," she said.
181209, Seumas Milne The Guardian, The Impunity of Israel and its Allies Will Carry a Price. When evidence of war crimes is produced, you might expect states that claim to defend the rule of law to want those crimes investigated and the perpetrators held to account. Not a bit of it ... Of course, it would make more sense if Israel itself held an independent investigation into its soldiers' conduct in the Gaza war. That was what the UN's Goldstone report called for, on both sides - failing which, other states should start their own investigations. Instead, Israel is demanding Britain change its laws without delay, and the British government is falling over itself to oblige. ... [universal jurisdiction] This was a principle that was apparently only intended to apply to countries that challenge western power or African states, not a "strategic partner" and "close fiiend", as Miliband described Israel this week. ... The rockets that were supposed to be the justification for Gaza's devastation have been virtually silent all year, as they were for much of the six months before the assault, policed by Hamas. In fact, armed resistance throughout the occupied Palestinian territories has been minimal. So eviidently that's not the block on achieving a just peace, as often claimed. But the barbaric siege of the Gaza strip continues unabated, backed by the US, Britain and the European Union, leaving 70% of Gazans living on less than a dollar a day, without clean water or the means to rebuild the 21,000 hornes, 280 schools and 16 hospitals partially or completely estroyed last December and January. That might be thought repugnant and insufferable. But far from encouraging the easing of the blockade to reward the ceasefire, the US has prevailed on Egypt to build a new wall on its border with Gaza to prevent the tunnel-smuggling that keeps Gazans from utter destitution.
051209, PressTV, Israel refuses Irish FM permission to visit Gaza.
111109, Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, Israeli Jews and the One-state Solution."Anyone who rejects the two-state solution, won't bring a one-state solution. They will instead bring one war, not one state. A bloody war with no end." - Israeli President Shimon Peres, 7 November 2009. [Hvori adskiller det sig fra tilstanden nu ?? OJ] ... I have long argued that the systems in post-apartheid South Africa (a unitary democratic state), and Northern Ireland (consociational democracy) offer hopeful, real-life models. ... In 1994, white-minority rule - apartheid ~ came to a peaceful, negotiated end, and was replaced (after a transitional period of powersharing) with a unitary democratic state with a one person, one vote system. Before this happened, how likely did this outcome look? ... A 1988 study by political scientist Pierre Hugo documented the widespread fears among South African whites that a transition to majority rule would entail not only a loss of political power and socioeconomic status, but engendered "physical dread" and fear of "violence, total collapse, expulsion and flight." Successive surveys showed that four out of five whites thought that majority rule would threaten their "physical safety." ... What did change for South Africa, and what all the weapons in the world were not able to prevent, was the complete loss of legitimacy of the apartheid regime and its practices. Once this legitimacy was gone, whites lost the will to maintain a system that relied on repression and violence and rendered them international pariahs; they negotiated a way out and lived to tell the tale. ...Zionism - as many Israelis openly worry - is suffering a similar, terminal loss of legitimacy as Israel is ever more isolated as a result of its actions. Israel's self-image as a liberal "Jewish and democratic state" is proving impossible to maintain against the reality of a militarized. ultra-nationalist Jewish sectarian settler-colony that must carry out frequent and escalating massacres of "enemy" civilians (Lebanon and Gaza 2006, Gaza 2009) in a losing effort to check the resistance of the region's indigenous people. Zionism cannot bomb, kidnap, assassinate, expel, demolish, settle and lie its way to legitimacy and acceptance. ... The Economist clarified the use of such language at the time, stating that "One of the weirder products of apartheid is the crippling of language in a maw of hypocrisy, euphemism and sociologese. You talk about the Afrikaner 'right to self-determination' ~ meaning power over everybody else." [Glem ikke, at EU og USA har godkendt et selvstændigt Kosova. Rusland et selvstændigt Sydossetien.]
111109, Israeli flights over Lebanon break resolution: UN:
111109, Israel wants answers from Solomon Islands over UN vote:
111109, Counterpunch - Ellen Cantarow, 1948 Again, in Sheikh Jarrah. Heroism in a Vanishing Landscape. "Disputed" is a word often used about East lerusalem and homes in Sheikh Jarrah. Would the international community have considered the homes of American blacks attacked by the Ku Klux Kla as "disputed"? Or those of Jews ejected by Brown Shirts in the early 1930s? The rule of law exists to protect the victims of war and occupation by imposing sanctions and responsibilities on invaders. It is not to be stretched for the convenience of the US at Guantanamo, Russia in Chechnya, Israel in Gaza, or in East Jerusalem. Under the law East Jerusalem and all the Arab homes it contains are part of the occupied West Bank. Despite endless palm-greasing, casuist apologetics, semantic distortions and brute force, Israel's responsibilities towards the territories it occupies remain articulated in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and Chapter 5 of the 1907 Hague Convention IV. Occupying states are forbidden to seize the land and property of those they occupy, and forbidden to settle their citizens on occupied soil ... The usual courtesy cups of strong Arabic coffee aren't offered here; the family has none. For nearly eleven weeks they have been living on the street opposite the house that was theirs for 53 years. On August 2 Israeli soldiers threw them out; minutes later, settlers from the violent organization Kach ("Thus", founded by the late Meir Kahane), moved in and have been there ever since. ... In 1948 Ghawe's grandparents fled from Ein Sfarand near Lydda. Ein Sfarand was bulldozed into the ground along with over 450 other Arab villages. ... The Ghawes fled to East Jerusalem where UNWRA (The United Nations Works Relief Agency) housed them as refiigees. In 1956 they returned their refugee cards and rented house from a local Palestinian builder. There they stayed in peace for nearly twenty years. In the early 70s settler organizations began trying to seize the homes of the Ghawes and those of over two dozen other Sheikh Jarrah families including the Hannouns who lived down the street and around the comer. For 37 years the families staved the settlers off in court. In 2006 the Ghawes were evicted but settlers didn't move in; the Israeli police simply put locks on the doors. The Ghawe family shattered the locks and moved back in....Today's visitors to central Hebron can observe the results: the central Palestinian market lies emptied and closed after years of settler pogroms. One of many hate-filled graffiti reads: ARABS TO THE GAS CHAMBERS. ... Thirty years ago Kach was considered a pariah organization. (In 1988 Israel barred Kach from elections because of Kach's stated desire to expel all Arabs from Israel. In 1994 the US declared it a terrorist group). Gush Emunim was also considered "lunatic fringe". But Labor and Likud alike bowed to Gush demands, enabling settlements like Gush Etzion, Kiryat Arba and Elon Moreh. ... Sharihan said the army arrived at five in the morning August 2nd. One of the police shoved a gun through a window. He shouted, "Open the door!" "They break the door," said Sharihan, "broken everything they see, threw all the tables, the chairs, and then come to me and hit me with a gun. Even my little brother, they put a gun in his back. My father say, 'Don't touch my son, he's only eight years old.' But they threw my father and my little brother outside and then go to my mom room. She say, 'Let me wear my clothes, I cannot be in the street in pajama... [But] they refused. And they let her to walk on the broken glass 'cause they broken everything they see... I sat and I put my arms around the door. [I said], 'This is my house, I will never leave.' But [the soldier's] body is strong. He beat me." In the street, their cell phones and cameras confiscated, the family watched as the soldiers displayed their "purity of arms": they tossed out all the furniture. .... they eating my little brother chocolate and playing football.
111109, Stephen M. Walt, Cut Off Economic and Military Aid to Israel? Department of Meaningless Gestures. And the issue will gradually shift from the creation of a viable Palestinian state - which was the central idea behind the Oslo process and the subsequent "Road Map" ~ to a struggle for civil and political rights within an Israel that controls all of mandate Palestine. And on what basis could the United States oppose such a campaign, without explicitly betraying its own core values?
101109, Scoop: UN Calls for Israel to Open Crossing for Goods "With winter rains and cold weather now imminent, the people of Gaza are even more desperately in need of construction materials such as cement, roofing tiles and glass to build and repair homes destroyed and damaged in the Israeli military offensive of 2008-2009, as well as of regular supplies of fuel, electricity and clean water.'
101109, Haaretz, French FM: It seems Israel no longer wants peace. France fears that Israel no longer desires a Middle East peace deal, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Tuesday, adding that Paris remained deeply opposed to settlement building in the West Bank. ...before there used to be a great peace movement in Israel. There was a left that made itself heard and a real desire for peace," Kouchner said ... this desire has completely vanished, as though people no longer believe in it," he added.
061109, Haaretz, U.S. State Department: Israel is not a tolerant society. Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department. Despite boasting religious freedom and protection of all holy sites, Israel falls short in tolerance toward minorities, equal treatment of ethnic groups, openness toward various streams within society, and respect for holy and other sites. ... State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, says Israel discriminates against groups including Muslims, Jehova's Witnesses, Reform Jews, Christians, women and Bedouin. ... Non-Jewish holy sites do not enjoy legal protection under it because the government does not recognize them as official holy sites." At the end of 2008, for example, all of the 137 officially recognized holy sites were Jewish. ... Among other examples, the report notes that more than 300,000 immigrants who are not considered Jewish under rabbinical law are not allowed to marry and divorce in Israel or be buried in Jewish cemeteries.
Benjamin Netanyahu heckled at major US Jewish Conference: Protestors shouted "Peace for everyone, shame on you!" as they were escorted out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9fzNItwPRU&feature=player_embedded
061109, Haaretz, Report: U.S. stopped Israel from attacking 'Hezbollah arms ship'. The United States informed Israel of a ship carrying tons of weapons allegedly en route from Iran to Hezbollah, but vetoed Israel's plans to attack, the A-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Friday. Israel raided the ship in the waters off the coast of Cyprus earlier this week and redirected it to the Ashdod port, where it unloaded 500 tons of weapons. The ship was released back onto its route to Turkey and Egypt late Wednesday, after Israel confirmed that the crew was not connected to the cargo found aboard. ... The cargo - which, according to a ship manifest, was destined for Syria - was unloaded in Egypt, and then loaded three days later onto the Francop, a German-owned ship operated by a Cypriot company. The ship's crew reportedly did not know what the containers really held. The navy, which tracks suspicious activity at sea along known smuggling routes in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, located the Francop shortly after it left Damietta on Tuesday on its way to Limassol, Cyprus, and thence to Syria, Toward evening, an Israeli navy missile boat made contact with the Francop and asked to conduct a routine inspection of its cargo, Israeli naval commandos boarded at around midnight on Tuesday, in rough seas, and met with no resistance from the ship's crew of 11. ... The cargo included thousands of medium-range 107- and 122-millimeter rockets, armor-piercing artillery, hand grenades and ammunition for Kalashnikov rifles. Even with all the cargo not yet unloaded, the navy estimated that the haul included more than 3,000 rockets and a total of 300 tons of weaponry. This compares to only 40 tons seized in 2002 on the Karine A, whose weapons were destined for the Palestinians. ... The rockets and artillery shells on the Francop were mostly manufactured over the past two years, and though they had English-language markings, intelligence officials believe that most were manufactured in Iran - other than the 122-millimeter rockets which are apparently of Russian manufacture. Because of the manner in which the crates were hidden, the army is convinced that the weapons were destined for Hezbollah in Lebanon. [Sikke en historie, skibets navn, estimated, believe that, is convinced - og så sørøveri].
031109, Information Clearing House, Alan Hart, Israel's Right To Exist? Netanyahu again called on this leadership to agree to recognise Israel as a Jewish state, saying this was, and remains, the key to peace. And he went on and on and on about it. HVORFOR ?: According to history as written by the winner, Zionism, Israel was given its birth certiflcate and thus legitimacy by the UN Partition Resolution of 29 November 1947. This is propaganda nonsense. In the first place the UN without the consent of the majority of the people of Palestine did not have the right to decide to partition Palestine or assign any part of its territory to a minority of alién immigrants in order for them to establish a state of their own. Despite that, by the narrowest of margins, and only after a rigged vote, the UN General Assembly did pass a resolution to partition Palestine and create two states, one Arab, one Jewish, with Jerusalem not part of either. But the General Assembly resolution was only a proposal - meaning that it could have no effect, would not become policy, unless approved by the Security Council. The truth is that the General Assembly's partition proposal never went to the Security Council for consideration. Why not? Because the U.S. knew that, if approved, it could only be implemented by force given the extent of Arab and other Muslim opposition to it; and President Truman was not prepared to use force to partition Palestine. So the partition plan was vitiated (became invalid) and the question of what the hell to do about Palestine - after Britain had made a mess of it and walked away, effectively surrendering to Zionist terrorism - was taken back to the General Assembly for more discussion. The option favoured and proposed by the U.S. was temporary UN Trusteeship. It was while the General Assembly was debating what do that Israel unilaterally declared itself to be in existence - actually in defiance of the will of the organised International community, including the Truman administration. The truth of the time was that the Zionist state, which came into being mainly as a consequence of pre-planned ethnic cleansing, had no right to exist and, more to the point, could have no right to exist UNLESS ... Unless it was recognised and legitimized by those who were dispossessed of their land and their rights during the creation of the Zionist state. In iternational law only the Palestinians could give Israel the legitimacy it craved. DERFOR det evige krav om at anerkende Israel som en JØDISK stat. Derfor er svaret et demokratisk PALÆSTINA med lige ret for jøder, muslimer og kristne.
Mythen om en shiitisk halvmåne er netop en mythe (Jean-Pierre Filiu. JUIN 2007- Le Monde diplomatique, p. 32)
Et interview med Al Jaziras chefredaktør, Ahmed Sheikh, dec. 2006. Som sædvanlig er intervieweren ganske fordomsfuld ! "In many Arab states, the middle class is disappearing. The rich get richer and the poor get still poorer. Look at the schools in Jordan, Egypt or Morocco: You have up to 70 youngsters crammed together in a single classroom. How can a teacher do his job in such circumstances? The public hospitals are also in a hopeless condition."
GCC: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia og United Arab Emirates.
1967-krigen behandles af Henry Laurens, Dominique Vidal, Alexis Berg, Bassma Kodmani & Meron Rapoport i et antal artikler i Le Monde diplomatique, juin 2007. Det israelske militær presser regeringen til angrebet (Sharon truer med militærkup). Det var Israel, der begyndte krigen, alligevel skriver France-Soir (og resten af den vestlige prsse) det modsatte. De "moderate" arabiske regeringer ser hellere Nasser banket af Israel end af udefra kommende ! Israel 4-dobler sit territorium. Kodmani skriver: "Mouvement intellectuel et politique au premier chef, l'islamisme radical n'a jamais été l'apanage des classes défavorisées. Ses dirigeants, aussi bien ceux des gamaat à partir de 1967 que, plus tard, ceux d'Al-Qaida, sont des intellectuels de la bourgeoisie éduquée et aisée." Han mener, at Hamas og Hezbollahs tiltrækningskraft skyldes en ny strategi overfor Israel. Den nye strategi har jeg svært ved at se. Mon ikke snarere, de 2 bevægelser bliver populære på at bekæmpe korruptionen ! Artikelserien ledsages af en historisk oversigt. Meron Rapoport skriver: "En quarante ans, Israël est passé des kibboutzim collectivistes à une économie capitaliste mondialisée, et d'une société relativement égalitaire à l'une des plus inégalitaires de l'Occident.... Certes, même avant la guerre des six jours, les nouveaux immigrants originaires des pays arabes jouissaient de droits inférieurs à ceux des Juifs arrivant d'Europe; et les Palestiniens vivant en Israël étaient encore plus défavorisés...[Israels] dirigeants n'ont plus le courage de travailler à une solution réelle du conflits. L'occupation a fini par envahir Israël. " Forsvarsminister (1967) Dayan beordrer ødelæggelse af de syriske landsbyer på Golan-højden for at åbne for en israelsk koloni. Kolonierne på Vestbredden er oprettet efter en plan, så palæstinensiske samfund isoleres fra hinanden. Der er nu 250.000 kolonister. De israelske ledere, inkl. Sharon erkender, delvist også offentligt, at kolonierne er hovedhindringen for at indgå en fredsaftale med araberne.
081109, Haaretz, PM heads to U.S. under threat of Palestinian statehood declaration. Concerns are growing in Israel's govemment over the possibility of a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence within the 1967 borders, a move which could potentially be recognized by the United Nations Security Council. ... The reports indicated that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has reached a secret understanding with the Obama administration over U.S. recognition of an independent Palestinian state. Such recognition would likely transfonn any Israeli presence across the Green Line, even in Jerusalem, into an illegal incursion to which the Palestinians would be entitled to engage in measures of self-defense. ... In late August Fayyad presented the International community with a detailed plan for building up Palestinian Authority institutions and set a timetable of up to two years for its implementation. Senior Israeli officials said Fayyad's plan initially met with positive reaction in Jerusalem for its emphasis on institution-building and making security services more efficient. ... The plan specifies that at the end of a designated period for bolstering national institutions the PA, in conjunction with the Arab League, would file a "claim of sovereignty" to the UN Security Council and General Assembly over the borders of June 4,1967 (before the outbreak of the Six-Day War, during which Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza). Fayyad is also seeking a new Security Council resolution to replace Resolutions 242 and 338 in the hope of winning the international community's support for the borders of a Palestinian state and applying stronger pressure on Israel to withdraw from the West Bank. Several Israeli officials told Haaretz that Fayyad had spoken to them of positive responses he had received over the plan from prominent EU member states, including the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Sweden. ... Israeli sources said Netanyahu discussed the proposal in meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and special Mideast envoy George Mitchell and requested that the U.S. tell Fayyad that it would not support his proposal and would veto it in the Security Council. Netanyahu has yet to receive a clear response from Washington on its stance on Fayyad's plan.
Det var da ellers en fredelig, rimelig løsning. Og så viser den jo klart, hvem der ønsker FRED. Sørgeligt men typisk,at Israel opfatter det som en trussel !!!
081109, JTA - Jewish & Israel News Norway dröps war crimes case against Israel (artikel 1088994). Chief prosecutor Siri Frigaard said last Friday that she is dismissing the complaint because "there is no good reason" for Norwegian authorities to investigate further and Norway should be judicious in deciding when to investigate alleged war crimes by individuals with no connection to the country. A group of lawyers had lodged the complaint April 22 under Norway's universal jurisdiction law. The 2008 law allows foreigners to face charges in Norway for war crimes committed anywhere in the world. Sørgeligt, at man vedtager en lov, der kunne bidrage til en mindskelse af antallet af krigsforbrydelser - og så alligevel ikke vil bruge den !!! Nordmænd er åbenbart ikke så modige, som vi lærte, da jeg gik i skole lige efter krigen !
061109, ips. U.N. Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report. The vote was 114 in favour and 18 against, with 44 abstentions. The 18 countries that voted against the resolution included the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Israel. .. Among the abstentions were Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Denmark [for dårligt !!] and Greece. ... The Assembly requested Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to report within three months on :he implementation of the resolution. ... U.S. Ambassador Alejandro Wolff ... said the United States was fully committed to a two-state solution - Israel and Palestine - and will do nothing to hinder it. [det lyder lovende, se under 081109] ... Nadia Hijab, senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for Palestine Studies, told IPS he importance of the Goldstone Report is evident given the amount of effort Israel, the United States and their allies are investing in trying to bury it. [!!!!!]
061109, New York Times bringer 051109 fhv. præsident James Carters udtalelse om Goldstone and Gaza. It is good to remember that Judge Goldstone, from South Africa, is one of the world's most widely respected jurists, with an impeccable record of wisdom, honesty and integrity. He is a devout Jew and has long been known as a fervent defender of Israel's right to peace and security. In April 2008 I personally visited Sderot and Ashkelon, Israeli communities near enough to have been hit by rockets fired from within Gaza. While there, I condemned these indiscriminate attacks on civilians as acts of terrorism, and I consider their condemnation by Judge Goldstone to be justified. A year later, after the Israeli attack on Gaza, I was able to examine the damage done to the small and heavily populated area, surrounded by an impenetrable wall, with its gates tightly controlled. ... Again, the criticism of Israel in the Goldstone report is justified. ... Another winter is now approaching, and neither the Israelis nor the international community has taken steps to alleviate the Gazans' plight. United Nations agencies and leaders in the European community have offered to provide an avenue of channeling funds and building materials directly to the people in need, completely bypassing the Hamas political leaders. These officials, both in Gaza and in Damascus, have assured me that they would accept this arrangement. There would be no chance for the misuse of such assistance for weapons, military fortifications, or other non-humanitarian purposes. ... Without ascribing blame to either of the disputing parties, it is imperative that the United States and the international community take steps to assure that the rebuilding of Gaza be commenced, and without delay. The cries of homeless and freezing people demand relief
051109, Haaretz, U.S. dodges UN debate on Goldstone Gaza report. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice skipped the discussion and sent her deputy, Alejandro Wolff, as an observer instead. .... Most members of the 27-nation European Union were likely to abstain, although diplomats said negotiations were underway with the Arabs to agree a text the Europeans could support. The diplomats said the EU opposed the resolution's implicit endorsement of the Goldstone report, which Western states have called flawed, although making important points. Representing the EU, Ambassador Anders Liden of Sweden, the bloc's current president, called the report serious and urged Israel and the Palestinians to launch "appropriate, credible and independent investigations" into its charges. ... Goldstone's report urged the Security Council to order both sides to carry out credible investigations into alleged abuses during the conflict and to follow that up with legal action where necessary. If either side refuses, the panel said, the Security Council should forward the evidence to the International Criminal Court, the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, for prosecution. ... Of 36 incidents in Gaza investigated by Goldstone, "with only one exception, the facts prove that there were no military targets that could jusfify such attacks by the Israeli occupying forces," Mansour said. ... [The resolution] also asks Ban to submit the report to the Security Council. But diplomats said all five veto-wielding permanent council members opposed council involvement, so it was unlikely the 15-nation body would take action.
051109, Informati0n Clearing House, Gilad Atzmon, Pornographic Past vs Murderous Present. I myself saw recently saw two short videos that left me puzzled. The first was an ABC News televised interview with Herman Rosenblat. "The twinkly-eyed American pensioner who came forward with a story so magical that it lifted the heart of every cynic in New York," was nothing but that of a compulsive liar. Once Rosenblat was confronted as a hoaxer he told the camera. "It wasn't a lie. It was my imagination. I believed my imagination, I believe my mind, I believe it now. ... I guess that no one can argue with such an advanced post modernist argument. ... Katsoulis exposes a perverse tendency in the midst of our Western discourse. It is proved beyond doubt that our freedom to speak, and even to think, is under severe assault, I would take it one step further and argue that the Holocaust religion is the biggest current assault against humanity and humanism. First, it stops us from revisiting and revising our own living memory. Second, it stops us from drawing a universal ethical lesson from history and third, it leads to more and more genocidal crimes. Instead of a revenge-driven doctrine, what we really want is grace and compassion. Rather than a singular monolithic belief system promoting a deceptive notion of freedom centred on Jewish pain, what we really want is real pluralism and tolerance that would accept more than just one truth and encourage belief systems to respect each other. In fact, the Jews, should have been the first to grasp it all. As Emmanuel .Levinas suggested after WWII, Jews should have located themselves at the forefront of the battle against evil and racism. [Det ville jo også være i god overensstemmelse med den jødiske religion og tradition. Den Danmarks modstandbevægelse støttede ved at hjælpe jøder til Sverige.] Despite there being a handful of Jewish 'self haters' who are committed to the exposure of the Zionist crime, this never happened. Not only did it not happen, the Jewish state is the ultimate example of a racist nationalist terrorist state. ... Katsoulis offers some criticism of the "unregulated Holocaust "industry", where victimhood is rewarded by money and fame."
021109, PRESSTV, Falk: Gaza report puts Israeli officials on trial. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says the Goldstone Gaza report paves the way for indictment of Israeli officials by International courts. ... The top UN official, however, predicted that the United States will try its best to influence the International Criminal Court not to bring Israeli officials to the dock. [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] spare no efforts to convince his European counterparts to oppose its adoption. His attempts have however proved futile. ... The 575-page account asserts seven incidents in which Palestinian civilians were shot while leaving their homes, trying to run for safety or waving white flags. The report says Israel targeted a mosque at prayer time, killing 15 people, and shelled a Gaza City house where soldiers had forced Palestinian civilians to assemble. These attacks constituted war crimes, the report pointed out. ... Palestinians in addition were forced to walk ahead of Israeli soldiers searching civilian neighborhoods.
121009, Endnu en gang rammer Paul Craig Roberts hovedet på sømmet. War Crimmals Are Becoming The Arbiters Of Law. "This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We're entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defense. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism." Og så er det endda et citat fra Jerusalem Post. Roberts understreger også at den slags læser man ikke i amerikanske aviser. Vel heller ikke i europæiske !? "Britain's ambassador to the United Nations, John Sawers, stepped into the hate crime arena vhen he told Israel Army radio that the Goldstone report on Israel's military assault on Gaza contains "some very serious details which need to be investigated." ...In the meantime, however, the Israeli government put Sawers and the UK government on notice that British support for the Goldstone Report would result in the destruction of the double standard that protects the West and Israel and create a precedent that would place the British in the dock for war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
010608, ICH, Mike Whitney Tutu's Trip to Gaza Censored by the US media. ""There can be no justice, no peace, no stability, not for Israel, not for the Palestinians, without accountability for human rights violations." Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Like former president Jimmy Carter he was shunned by the Israeli govemment and refused entry into Gaza. Bishop Tutu had to go through Eqypt to get to Beit Hanoun [massakre nov. 2006].
250307, Al-Ahram, Robert Fisk, Fingerprints Of History. Gamal Nkrumah and Mohamed El-Sayed gauge the state of the world's most troubled region - the Middle East - with eminent author Robert Fisk " It is Pakistan, not Iran or Iraq, that serves as a true barometer for the future of the region, according to Robert Fisk...Will the truth of the [Hariri] assassination ever come out? I think one reason why the Syrians are cooperating [in the investigation] is that the Syrians are pretty sure of what exactly happened, for they have a very good intelligence service. My interpretation is that it wasn't a state murder. Since the assassination and up until now I still feel it was a branch of Syrian Baath security... The United Nations said that in 2001, under Taliban rule, drug production fell by 45 per cent. [Afghanistan]...Ironically, it was the Islamist Iranian Revolutionary Guard that was against Iran going nuclear: "When the Islamic Revolution took place in Iran, revolutionaries decided to close the nuclear facility because they said 'it's a work of the devil'."
040407, ICH, James Petras, US Empire and the Middle East: Zionism, Puppet Regimes and Political Allies.
151106, The Independent, Robert Fisk: "Conflict in the Midlle East is Mission Implausible". Skarp og velargumenteret. Fisk når han er bedst !! "UNIFIL er ikke længere den venlige, neutrale, bløde hær det plejer at være, bakket op af indiske styrker (blandt de bedste) og nepalesere (de værste) og fijianere (de venligste) og ghanesere, men en "robust" hær - for nu at bruge Tony Blairs tydelige urobuste semantik - med NATOsoldater, trænet i at skyde tilbage og ikke acceptere pjank fra militserne i Sydlibanon eller fra Israel. Det kan man kun sige Ho hum til." De franske tropper har besvær med at forhindre deres automatik i at skyde mod udisciplinerede israelske piloter. Folk i Sydlibanon, kristne og muslimer, ved at styrken er der til forsvar af Israel !...De eneste våben der transporteres er Hezbollah-raketter, der sendes til Syrien til sikker deponering - ikke netop Israels version ! ..Nasrallah forlanger flere ministerposter og er klar til næste krig med Israel... Frankrig hsr bedt Bush stoppe de israelske overflyvninger...Hos sunni libanesere er der familier, der sender deres sønner til Iraq for at slås mod amerikanerne. UNIFIL gør lidt gavn ved at handle i Sydlibanon...Og Hezbollah kontrollerer alle biler der kører syd for Litani. De vil ikke risikere, at rn selvmordsbomber giver sig på franskmændene. De ved hvem der får skylden.
050906, Daily Ireland, Patrick Seale: "Four American allies in deep trouble" Det drejer sig om Islamabad, Kabul, Baghdad og Jerusalem, hvor regeringsledere har problemer p.g.a. deres nære alliance med USA. Taliban kan nu stille med battalioner op til 400 mand, trods USAs luftherredømme. Baluchistan leverer 45 % af Pakistans gas.
Jonathan Cook: "[T]he conflict is less about the specific circumstances thrown up by the 1967 war and more about the central tenets of Zionism as expressed in the war of 1948 that founded Israel and the war of 1967 that breathed new life into its colonial agenda."
Gary Leupp, historieprofessor i CounterPunch, 091205: "tro ikke, at Bush regeringens troværdighed er så lav, at den ikke kan igangsætte en ny krig - baseret på løgne... Hvis der kommer et angreb på Syrien eller Iran, kan det komme meget pludseligt med forklaringer bagefter."
U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel, der er en liste hos http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/UN/usvetoes.html Man kan også se Danmarks stemmeafgivning i et antal tvivlsomme tilfælde.
010107, ICH, K Gajendra Singh The US-Saudi-Wahabi Nexus! En grundig gennemgang - set fra Indien (og Tyrkiet). "Middle East Oil History ; A study of western imperialism since end 19th century underlines the importance of oil and wars waged to acquire and protect these wells of power. The secret British 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France divided the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East with the British c everly keeping oil producing territories and even creating an artificial state like Kuwait.... Its goals were expressed in a 1953 internal U.S. document: "United States policy is to keep the sources of oil in the Middle East in American hands."... In 1958, a secret British document described the principal objectives of Western policy in the Middle East "to ensure free access for Britain and other Western eountries to oil produced in States bordering the Gulf; (b) to ensure the continued availability of that oil on favourable terms and for surplus revenues of Kuwait; (c) to bar the spread of Communism and pseudo-Communism in the area and subsequently to defend the area against the brand of Arab nationalism...The Saud-Wahab nexus was simple when the Kingdom was poor...when petty Indian Muslim Nawabs ... gave petty sums to top office holders in Jeddah, Mecca, Medina and Riyadh. The revenues earned from the annual Hajj pilgrimages was a major source of livelihood fo for the Kingdom's citizens and rulers ... Saudi Arabians, like others, have been affected by imports from the West with many ardent advocates of modernization running headlong into problems of identity and authenticity, which generates a strong reaction..., In exchange for security of the dynasty the peninsula's oil wealth and revenues have been handed over for exploitation and benefit of the West led by USA. This nexus has stood the test of time with Washington doing everything possible to maintain the feudal regime with mediaeval practices. The regime controls "the largest family business" in the world without any popular mandate or accountability.... US troops on the sacred Saudi soil, a major cause of anguish and deep resentment among conservative Saudi Muslims led by Osama ben Laden...Between 1990 to 2004, Saudi Arabia spent a whopping $ 268.6 billion dollar on Arms (United Arab Emirates; $38.6 billion with population of 2.6million.).. "
040107, Michel Chossudovsky: Demonization of Muslims and the Battle for Oil. En grundig artikel med gode kort og tabel over oliereserver i.h.t. forskellige opgørelser. Som olieland er Danmark nr 37. Muslimske lande har over 60 % af reserverne. Det er forklaringen på det nuværende korstog med dets skabelse af borgerkrige, der skal splitte lande, så de bliver lettere at udplyndre. (Ralph Peters: MAP OF THE NEW MIDDLE EAST, gengives i artiklen).
1917, 2.nov. afgav Lord MONTAGUE A Dissenting Note on the Balfour Declaration, med titlen: On the Anti-Semitism of the Present Government. Montague var på det tidspunkt den eneste jøde i det engelske ministerium. Udtalelsen er absolut værd at læse, historisk væsentlig og på centrale punkter forudsagde den de senere begivenheder.
1946, Menachem Begins organisation, Irgun, laver en plan om at myrde den engelske udenrigsminister, Ernest Bevin. (The Times, 050306)
juli 1946, det britiske hovedkvarter på King David Hotel i Jerusalem bombes af en af de underjordiske jødiske grupper (Irgun, Stern, Hagana). Attentatmændene er forklædt som arabere. 91 døde (heraf 28 briter) (The Times, 050306).
Sidste uge af april 1948. Irgun og Haganah driver palæstinenserne ud af Jaffa. De kan kun flygte over havet, mange drukner. Igennem 1948 gennemføres over 50 massakrer og et antal landsbyer ødelægges, så befolkningen ikke kan komme tilbage. NAKBA. (120506, Karma Nabulsi, The Guardian)
1956, Suezkrigen. Kolonimagterne, England og Frankrig ville lære "fejlfarverne", hvor skabet skal stå. De glemte bare, at kolonitiden var under afvikling og USA havde interesse i ikke at skubbe de nye lande, der var på vej over til Sovjetunionen. Eden undlod at indhente en officiel rådgivning fra Attorney General (Sands, p. 1)
220606, ICH, Prof. Francis A Boyle: Public Lecture ved Perdana Global Peace Forum 2006 i Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, "The Middle East Agenda: Oil, Dollar Hegemony & Islam". "Now the topic today is the Middle East Agenda: Oil, Dollar Hegemony and Islam. So, I'm only going to limit my comments to that subject. We have to begin the story with the Arab oil embargo in nineteen seventy-three. As you know in nineteen sixty-seven, Israel launched an illegal and preventive war against the surrounding Arab states, stole the land and ethnically cleansed the people. But eventually Egypt offered a Peace Treaty to Israel which Israel rejected and the Egyptians and the Arab states decided to use force to recover their lands. Israel almost collapsed, the United States and Europe came to their support by providing weapons and in reaction the Arab states imposed an oil embargo on the United States and Europe , and brought their economies to their knees. Whereupon, the then U.S Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger threatened them and said, this will never happen again, and if you do, we will prevent it. And it was not just a threat. The United States government then at that time, planned, prepared and conspired, to steal the oil of the Persian Gulf. They did not have the military capability to do this at that time, to carry out the Kissinger threat, which was also then repeated by the Ford administration, and the Carter administration under Harold Brown and Brzezinski. So they put into planning an interventionary force, designed expressly for the purpose of stealing Arab oil fields, and that was called the rapid deployment force. And it took ten years of training, planning, positioning and supply to build that interventionary force of that capability and eventually it was called the U.S. Central Command. The purpose of the U.S. Central Command is to steal and control and dominate the oil and gas resources of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. And that's exactly what the U.S. Central Command proceeded to do in the Bush Sr. war against Iraq, their first military expedition."
020906, Dissident Voice, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed: "US Army Contemplates Redrawing Middle East Map to Stave-off Looming Global Meltdown". Ahmed refererer en artikel fra begyndelsen af august i Armed Forces Journal, af fhv. Major Ralph Peters. Peters citeres for "at etnisk udrensning virker". Og "et frit Kurdistan fra Diyarbakir til Tabriz vil være den mest provestlige stat mellem Bulgarien og Japan. Det kommende sammenstød bliver mellem "dem-der-har" og "dem-der-ikke-har". Artiklen citerer en anden kilde: "The source also revealed that US generals had repeatedly war-gamed a prospective conflict with Iran, but consistently found that the simulations predicted "an absolute nuclear disaster", from which no clear winner would emerge. The scenarios gamed were so dismal, he said, that the generals briefed administration officials to avoid such a war at all costs. Men uanset militærets advarsler fortsætter regeringen ad den vej.
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Israel slipper godt fra krigsforbrydelser og menneskerettighedskrænkelser, bl.a. gennem et velorganiseret net af læserbrevsskribenter, se Hvad sker der, når man kritiserer Israel ?
Israel og zionisterne har lært meget af nazisterne, både m.h.t. etnisk udrensning og propaganda, ikke mindst propagandaen overfor den egne befolkning. Se bl.a. 131009, Gilad Atzmon, From Delusion to Vindictiveness Interpreting the Zionist Dream. The Independent har den 111009 historien Israeli officials warn against support for UN report. (Goldstones rapport om Gaza)
060406, Al Jazira, En israelsk soldat myrdede kameramanden James Miller siger St Pancras Coroner's Court in London.
300406, Washington Times. Tyrkiet vil lave en undervandsolierørledning (og ferskvandsledning) til Israel. [Energimæssigt er det klart bedre med en rørledning end med skibstransport - men den økologiske risiko ved undervandsolierørledninger er meget stor, OJ]
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200306, The Guardian, Jimmy Carter It's not too late for lasting peace in the Middle East. [Som bekendt skal man være "forhenværende" for at kunne sige noget, der ikke passer Israels regering, godt så, at fhv. præsident Carter tør, OJ]. Israel skal trække sig tilbage fra de besatte områder og så skal dets ret til at eksistere godkendes af alle arabere. Carter understreger, at siden Eisenhowers regeringstid har det været amerikansk politik, at Israels grænser er de grænser, der blev fastlagt i 1949 og som i 1967 blev fastslået i FNs Sikkerhedsråds resolution 242., som også pålagde Israel at trække sig tilbage fra de besatte områder. [Det er prisværdig klar tale. Man kan kun anbefale Hamas, der har tilkendegivet samme holdning vedrørende grænser og fred, at forsøge at samle alle arabiske lande bag en godkendelse af dette forslag, OJ].
Carters Center har med Israels godkendelse overvåget alle 3 palæstinensiske valg og konstateret, at de alle var ærlige og fredelige - og både vindere og tabere har da også godkendt dem. "The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonisation of Palestine." Da Carter blev præsident var der nogle hundrede bosættere på Vestbredden og i Gaza, under Clinton voksede antallet til over 225000, uden at Østjerusalem regnes med. Israels bedste tilbud til dato har været at trække 20 % af dem tilbage, altså efterlade 180000 i 209 bosættelser på 5 % af det besatte område. De 5 % er imidlertid et netværk over hele det besatte område, ikke en samlet bid.
131009, Gilad Atzmon, From Delusion to Vindictiveness Interpreting the Zionist Dream. Early Zionism was indeed a cheerful dream, it was all about the transformation of the 'Jew' into a 'civilised, respectful and authentic human being'. The founders of Zionism were inspired by the notions of 'people like any other people' and 'nation amongst nations'. Reading early Zionists such as Nordau, Borochov and Gordon provides us with some very contemptuous references to Jewish character and identity that would make Nazi ideology look mildly liberal. ... One may wonder what kind of people dream of 'becoming human beings'. Can anyone imagine a French, English or Chinese man or woman who dreams of becoming an ordinary 'human'? Atzmon har senere en beskrivelse af israelsk blindhed overfor Palæstina, palæstinenserne og Nakba. En blindhed, der ligner tyskernes overfor nazi-forbrydelserne og amerikanernes overfor resten af verden !
271005, Arutz Sheva, et britisk parlamentsmedlem, Phyllis Starkey, foreslår at EU indfører handelssanktioner mod Israel på grund af muren m.m.
120406, Arutz Sheva, et britisk parlamentsmedlem, Gerald Kaufman, foreslår sanktioner mod Israel, hvis Israel ikke udleverer de soldater, der er ansvarlige for drabene (Gaza, 2003) på James Miller og Tom Hurndall til retsforfølgelse.
100506, Kevin Zeese, CounterPunch. USA arbejder med en Middle East Free Trade Area, MEFTA, der skal sikre USAs dominans. Den giver toldfri adgang for medlemmernes varer til USA, hvis en vis procent af varens værdi kan henføres til Israel.
011105. The Guardian. Osama Saeed, der er talsmand for Muslim Association of Britain: "The return of the caliphate". Saeed er [som jeg, OJ] forundret over at det skulle være fundamentalt for vor civilisation at modsætte sig enhver genskabelse af det ismiske kalifat (det sagde Charles Clarke sidste måned i Heritage Foundation i USA). Kalifatet ødelagdes af UK i 1924, efter at have bestået - og sikret stabilitet i området - i 1350 år. Afløsningen var en række kunstige grænser trukket af kolonimagterne, såman kunne holde de indfødte opsplittede og svage. Et genskabt kalifat vil selvfølgelig ligne det gamle lige så lidt, som det engelske monarki idag ligner [kong Knud den Stores]. Det kan sagtens forenes med parlamentariske og demokratiske former. Islamisk rets mål er ikke dødsstraf og amputering af lemmer, men at skabe et fredeligt og retfærdigt samfund. Islamiske lærde gennem århundreder gengiver dets kerneværdier som: friheden til religionsudøvelse, retten til livet, bevarelse af fornuften, opretholde slægtslinien og individuelle rettigheder. Dette kunne blive grundlaget for en islamisk menneskerettighedslov.
Sergei Blagov skriver i Asia Times 230205, at mens Bush er på krigsstien mod Iraq, Syrien, Iran (Who is next ?) så arbejder Rusland på at forbedre sine relationer til landene i Mellemøsten. Det gælder opbygningen af kernekraft i Iran, hvor en aftale om at alt genereret affald tilbageleveres til Rusland, fjerner alle saglige indvendinger fra USAs side. Det gælder salget af Strelets antiluftskytsraketter til Syrien, hvor man understreger, at de ikke er enkeltmandsvåben (som de Stingers, USA leverede til Taliban m.fl. i Afghanistan). Blagov mener, at de USA skabte kup fra Srbija over Georgien til Ukraine har irriteret Putin så meget, at han nu handler. Han mener ikke det er klogt - [det kan der være delte meninger om, OJ].
201005, Washington Times: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that it was always the Bush administration's intent to redesign the Middle East after the September 11 attacks, which exposed a "deep malignancy growing" in the region, and that the Iraq war was part of that plan.
Jeff Halper: "Israel as an extension of American empire", CounterPunch, 071105.
131005, New York Times: 300103 omfattede Bush' liste over problemlande: Saudi Arabien, Pakistan og så de kendte Iraq, Iran og Nord Korea.
071005, Asia Times, Pepe Escobar, "War on Terror" revisited: "For Washington, the real enemy is not Islamic fundamentalism: it's Arab nationalism. For decades the ultimate target of Israeli foreign policy has been to sow disunion among Arabs. Secular Arab nationalism is the ultimate threat to Israel, thus to the US, in neo-con thinking, The crux is not religious: it's political."
Al Ahram Weekly, 765, medio oktober 2005: "..Arab regimes, which it classifies not in accordance with some democratic standard but, as Bush's recent speech demonstrated, on the basis of whether they are friendly or hostile, moderate or radical."
011105, Antiwar, Jorge Hirsch. Når Ahmedinejad siger at Israel skal udslettes var kun tilsyneladende uheldigt. Budskabet i klartekst lyder: "bomber I os med atomvåben, så ved verden nu, at I gør det fordi Iran støtter palæstinenserne". Derfor er USAs reaktion på udtalelsen meget behersket, man vil ikke have for meget opmærksomhed om netop det.
050705, Information Clearing House, Noam Chomsky: "It's Imperialism, Stupid" citerer Brzezinski for at USAs faste greb om Mellemøsten sikrer det en indirekte men politisk kritisk indflydelse på de europæiske og asiatiske økonomier.
220605, har parret Christison (begge tidligere CIA medarbejdere) i CounterPunch en artikel om Israel-lobbyen ud fra et konkret eksempel, den anbefales meget.
260205, skriver Haaretz at udenrigsminister Sergei Lavrov siger at Rusland overvejer at genoptage våbensalg til Palæstina. Der tales bl.a. om pansrede mandskabsvogne.
220205, Daily Times. Fortæller, at Philip Giraldi i sit "Intelligence Brief" citerer Seymour Hersh for at Pentagon har fået tilladelse til at operere ensidigt i: Algeriet, Sudan, Yemen, Syrien, Malaysia og Tunesien.
Ibtissam Al Bassam: Why do they hate us ? En kultiveret arabisk kvindes overvejelser, findes på Arab News, 220704.
Meir Pa'il skriver meget fornuftigt i Reform Judaism, som anbefales til dem, der har glemt, at der findes bedre og klogere - mere fremsynede - jøder end Sharon: "Vi jøder har et legitimt krav på Jerusalem; det samme har kristne og muslimer. Derfor må vi forkaste bygningen af en mur, der isolerer Jerusalem fra de muslimer og kristne, der lever i byens nordlige, østlige og sydlige periferi. Det er uklogt, ja farligt, at afskære dem fra deres hellige steder og de fleste af deres indkomstkilder".
Hanna Braun: "From idealism to brutality - From liberation to oppression" - a personal journey to try and help to explain how so many of us fell for the zionist myth and how difficult it was - and still is - to see the truth beyond it, 130205. Har en gennemgang af Palæstinas historie. Omtaler racismen i Israel - nyfødte klassificeres som jøde, araber eller druzer, hvor kun de første har fulde borgerrettigheder.
The Guardian, 120802, gør opmærksom på at Middle East Media Research Institute, MEMRI, ikke er uafhængigt, men ledes af Yigal Carmon, der har en fortid på 22 år i den israelske militære efterretningstjeneste. Medstifter er Meyrav Wurmser (se bushemændene).
Francis A Boyle: "Palestine should sue Israel for genocide before the International Court of Justice, MediaMonitors, 1997.
Gerald Kaufman, Labour MP har et godt indlæg i The Guardian, 120704, som jeg har oversat til dansk. (EU har truffet en politisk beslutning, som man sikkert hverken kan eller vil kontrollere overholdes: varer produceret i (ulovlige) israelske bosættelser på palæstinensisk territorium accepteres ikke under den toldfrie handelsaftale, Reuters, 060804.
"A shiite - sunni islamist "high command" may be forming", The Daily Star, Lebanon, 041004.
Mahdi Elmandjra, Muhammad 5.s universitet i Rabat, Marokko, skriver på Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research i Lund, 250904: "Hvordan skal araberne blive i stand til at styre deres egen uafhængige udvikling": Der er 22 lande, 300 millioner mennesker, 80% af dem bor i 7 lande, 7 andre har kun 2 %. Opsplitningen er et resultat af den engelsk-franske kolonialistiske deling af byttet efter ødelæggelsen af det ottomanske imperium. Derfor er olien og befolkningen skildt. Og derfor kan der ikke blive en rigtig arabisk uafhængighed før man får en samlet uafhængig arabisk olieadministration. Intet arabisk land er i dag uafhængigt. Første priotitet må være selv at opbygge demokratier - ikke importere "fast-food" demokrati udefra [i lyset af det amerikanske præsidentvalg er det en vigtig pointe, OJ]. En rigtig fundamental ændring må vente til den nuværende mega-imperiemagts herredømme er brudt og Kina og Indien kommer til i løbet af 15 - 20 år.
Når USA er en så trofast støtte af Israel kan det skyldes "lig i lasten" - manglen på vilje til at købe jøderne fri, da Hitler ville sælge dem på Evian-konferencen, amerikanske soldaters tyveri af jødiske ejendele fra Wehrmacht under krigen (f.eks. http://haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=517040 ).
141204, MehrNews omtaler "Forum for the Future" i Rabat. 20 udenrigs- og finansministre fra Mellemøsten og G8 skulle diskutere USAs plan "The Broader Middle East" om politiske, økonomiske og kulturelle reformer. Solana sagde, at reformer i arabiske lande er et indre anliggende. [Bare han kan holde fast på det]. Mødet sluttede uden nogen fælleserklæring.
230405, Endelig vedtog den engelske Association of University Teachers at boykotte Haifa og Bar-Ilan universiteterne i Israel, fordi de er medskyldige i regeringens forbrydelser på det besatte område.
Juillet 2005. Monde Diplomatique, Dossier om Mellemøsten:
Walid Charara: Effervescence au Proche-Orient. Instabilité constructive.
Gilbert Achcar: Chances et aléas du printemps arabe
grafer fra UNDP om tillid og om afvisningen af baser (over 80 % imod i alle undersøgte lande)
Samis Aita: Aux origines de la crise du régime baasiste de Damas
Benjamin Barthe: Dans Naplpouse, Laboratoire de la troisième Intifada
Ahmad Salamatian: Les Chiites écartelés entre Téhéran et Baghdad. (med mellemøstkort med olie, religion og ustabilitetsområder)
I henhold til The Telegraph, 270805, frygter det amerikanske militær at Cindy Sheehans aktion slider USAs kampvilje ned. Derfor er general Richard Myers sendt i pressen.
September 2005, David S Robarge: "CIA Analysis of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war."
Generals Baräk and Sharon deliberately killed off Oslo on 28 September 2000 when they knowingly instigated the Al Aqsa Intifada by desecrating the Haram-Al-Sharif. Boyle, 130.
Islamic Organization for Palestine
B=Tselem Israeli information center for human rights in occupied areas
RamallahOnline, Palestine
International Press Center, Palestine
The Guardian med mange god links
og Arafa t wants international protection
Israel's Use of Chemical Weapons
Paix Juste au Proche-Orient, carried primo 2004 a Call for European Boycott of Research and cultural links with Israel
Palestinian National Authority
Israel/Palæstina centeret for forskning og information
Neturei Karta, International Jews united against zionism.
Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel
http://electronicintifada.net/new.shtml , ei Electronic Intifada
Israel har politikere med direkte fascistiske holdninger. National Jewish Fronts leder Baruch Marzel taler for at den israelske hær skal myrde Uri Avnery, der leder Gush Shalom, Fred Nu bevægelsen. Haaretz, 210306.
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/
M Shahid Alam, der underviser i økonomi på et universitet i Boston skriver, 292005, i CounterPunch om oprindelsen til fjendtlighederne. Israel er enestående på 2 måder. De jøder, der skabte den uafhængige stat Israel stammede ikke fra Palæstina (90 % af dem var indvandrede efter den britiske erobring i 1917). De israelske jøder gjorde heller ikke det, kolonisterne ellers gør, der hvor et koloniseret lands hvide gør sig selvstændige, nemlig at lade landets oprindelige indbyggere arbejde for dig. De ville have landet for sig selv og smide de oprindelige indbyggere ud [som de nybyggerne i Amerika gjorde det !, OJ].
Gilad Atzmon: "The case of Amir Peretz" en præsentation af det israelske arbejderpartis nye leder - det giver et lille håb. 141105, dansk oversættelse.
FF130405, Tagesspiegel. Vom Missbrauch der Geschichte. Om polemikken mellem Alan Dershowitz og Norman Finkelstein om Israels brug/misbrug af Holocaust.
050405, The Guardian. De engelske universitetslærere overvejer igen boycot af 3 israelske universiteter og de af deres lærere, der ikke tager afstand fra den israelske regerings optræden i de besatte områder.
Shamai Leibowitz, skriver i The Nation, 150305, en menneskelig og moralsk opfordring til økonomisk boykot og tilbagetrækning af investeringer fra Israel - baseret på hans erfaringer som israelsk soldat i de besatte områder. Han opfordrer også til domme over de skyldige i krigsforbrydelser, som i Rwanda, Bosnien, Kosovo & Sydafrika, f.eks.
Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation har afsløret en israelsk "Sex spy ring", Sunday Mail, 130205. (Amir Lati) (New Zealand har udvist Eli Cara og Uriel Kelman)
september 1999, ambassadør James Akins: The Attack on the USS Liberty and its cover-up.
Feb. 2001, Congres Watch: USAs bidrag til Israel siden 1949: 91 milliarder USD.
Retsgrundlag
UNGA res 194, 111248, art 11 palestinske flygtninge "wishing to return to their homes should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss or damage of property".
UNSC res 242, 221167, article 2b reaffirms "the necessity for achieving a just settlement of the refugee problem"
Den internationale Domstols dom af 9.juli 2004 om Israels mur på palestinsk territorium/The verdict of the International Court of Justice on the Separation Wall Israel is building on Palestinian territory. (PDF-file >500 KB).
I 1948 ødelagde den israelske hær 470 palæstinensiske byer og landsbyer. Befolkningen har siden levet i flygtningelejre i Jordan. Libanon, Gaza og Syrien.
I 1967, da Israel besatte resten af Palestina udvidedes husødelæggelsen og man formoder, at op til 40000 hjem i Gaza og på Vestbredden er ødelagt på de 37 år, der er gået siden, Al Ahram Weekly.
250503, The Lancet, (2003, 361,1826 - 1828) har en brevveksling om den israelske lægeforenings holdning til tortur, lægers deltagelse i tortur, lægeløftet og World Medical Association.
Linda Grant skriver, 080404, skriver om konfliktens samfundsmæssige og personlige følger for israel og israelerne.
En artikel om Israel, Judaism and Zionism af Rabbi Ahron Cohen: "The orthodox Jewish concept of nationhood however, is a specific people with a specific religion. It is the religion that establishes the national identity. They may or may not have a land, the land is immaterial to the Jewish national identity."
En engageret artikel om slagtningen af palæstinensere
Amir Oren i Haaretz om ændringer i USAs forhold til Israel 1980 - 2003
Artikel fra Washington Post om Sharons taktik, Jackson Diehl: Diplomacy by Assassination, 130603, page A29
Brian Whitaker, har i The Guardian, 120404, en god gennemgang af situationen.
Omar Barghouti skriver et godt åbent brev til den amerikanske offentlighed, 210504 og Marwan Bishara har i Intenational Herald Tribune, 070604 i anledning af dommen over Marwan Barghouti en gennemgang af hans rolle og holdninger.
Noah Cohen: "Noam Chomsky and "left" apologetics for injustice in Palestine", 210804
Teksten til våbenhvileerklæringen fra Hamas og Islamic Jihad, 290603.
Fhv. CIA medarbejdere Kathleen & Bill Christison, gennemgår i "The Bush Administration's Dual Loyalties" problemet i den manglende balance i den amerikanske kurs (131202).
Nock Pretzlik, Dissident Voice, 150404, "..relentless Israeli spin and reacist ropaganda have substantially succeeded in dehumanizing Palestinians".
En belgisk ret har åbnet sag mod Amos Yaron, den israelske general, der var hærchef under masakren i Sabra og Shatila.
Uri Avnery skriver i "Children of Death", 150603: "[On the killing of Hamas leaders]. Such a campaign is, of course, the outcome of long preparations, which take weeks and months. It was evidently planned even before the Aqaba summit conference convened, but postponed by Sharon in order to afford President Bush his moments of photographic glory on the shore of the Red Sea.
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The killing of the Hamas leaders (together with their wives, children and casual bystanders) is intended to attain the following results: (a) acts of revenge by Hamas, i.e. suicide bombings, (b) the failure of the Palestinian Authority's efforts to secure the agreement of Hamas to a cease-fire, (c) the destruction of Abu Mazen's political standing right from the start, (d) the demolition of the Road Map, (e) compensation for the settlers after the removal of some sham 'outposts'.
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If so, who took the decision ?
That is no secret. The decision was taken by five generals: The Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, a retired two-star general; The Minister of defense, Shaiul Mofaz, a retired three-star general; The Chief-of-Staff, Moshe Yaialon, a serving three-star general; The Mossad chief, Meir Dagan, a former one-star general; the Security Service chief, Avi Dichter, with a rank equivalent to a three-star general."
Vi kan altså konstatere at Israel ledes af en militærjunta (OJ).
Uri Avnery, 230603, "The best show in town". The confrontation between settlers and IDF at Mitpe - Yitzhar was a TV show, to impress Americans, that Sharon really did offer the Palestinians something.
Uri Avnery, Antiwar.com 210904, skriver om den religiøse baggrund og betydning af en undergrundsorganisations plan om at bombe Haram al Sharif.
Prodi disagrees with Bush about Hamas and Hezbollah, Sam Hamod, june 2003.
AP, Gavin Rabinowitz, beretter fra Jerusalem, 290603, at Israel indrømmer at drive et hemmeligt fængsel, hvor palæstinensiske fanger holdes uden mulighed for kontakt til omverdenen, facility 1391.
I Haaretz skriver Gideon Levy i "The real fist in the face of the Palestinians" om roadblocks og IDFs indsats for at genere palæstinenserne.
I Toronto Star skriver Mitch Potter, 020903, om Israels arabere og diskrimineringen af dem.
Coalition af Women for Peace, Tulkarm, september 2003
Om konflikten lige nu: (fra Projectcensored.org):
Planned Dependence
Toward Freedom, June/July 2000
Author: Barbara Aziz
Student Researcher: Erich Sommer
During the 1990s, the economy of Palestine has rapidly declined. New facts regarding the Palestinian economy have emerged since the creation of the Palestinian
Authority (PA). As unproductive negotiations stretch out, the Palestinian economy is sliding backward and is becoming weaker and more dependent on Israel
than ever before. Here are some of the facts:
-Per capita GNP has fallen more than 21 percent since the signing of the Oslo accord, despite $3 billion in aid.
-Unemployment has increased 139 percent since 1993
-Per capita consumption as declined 14 percent since 1992.
The agricultural sector is the foundation of the economy. In 1970, during the early years of occupation, it provided 42 percent of the GNP of Palestine. By
1994 it had dropped to 24 percent. Israeli suppliers who can lower prices because of government farm subsidies undercut most fresh produce (once the pride of
Palestinian farmers). As a result, the salaries of the Palestinians, especially the middle class, go back into Israel.
Some of the reasons Palestinians can't compete include bureaucratic and security obstacles. In addition, a maze of roadblocks and other communication problems
are in part responsible for the general deterioration of the Palestinian industrial sector. Bypass roads, military areas, and Jewish settlements separate Arab towns
and villages from one another.
Avraham Burg: The end of zionism
Israel har en meget aktiv kreds af venner, som ikke beskæftiger sig med meget andet end at forsvare Israel i pressen. Altid med kampråbet ANTISEMIT mod enhver nok så berettiget kritik. Som f. eks. mod det liberaldemokatiske MP i England, Jenny Tonge, da hun sagde, at hun kunne forstå de palestinænsiske selvmordsbombere. The Guardian havde, som den sjældne undtagelse, en god, velformuleret leder (240104), der forsvarer nogen (her Jenny Tonge) mod disse hadske angreb.
Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco giver i "The strategic functions of US aid to Israel" en god gennemgang med mange tal
Israels program for udvikling af ukonventionelle våben er referet hos Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Gush Shalom kalder drabet på Sheikh Jassin for en "mad provocative act", og beder alle fornuftige og ansvarlige kræfter i det internationale samfund om at gribe ind, hurtigt og kraftfuldt. Også European Jews for a Just Peace fordømmer og beder om et effektivt pres på den israelske regering for at få standset overtrædelsen af international ret.
Den israelske højesteret har givet hæren besked på at sikre de palæstinensiske civile "liv og værdighed" under sine aktioner. Hæren er ansvarlig for at levere mad, vand og medicin. Reuters, 310504
Noam Chomsky (A wall as a weapon, 230204) skriver, at ingen ville kunne have nogen indvending, hvis Israel byggede en sikkerhedsmur på israelsk territorium. Han understreger USAs rolle i spillet. ICJs dom bekræfter netop dette. Den internationale Domstols dom af 9.juli 2004 om Israels mur på palestinsk territorium/The verdict of the International Court of Justice on the Separation Wall Israel is building on Palestinian territory. (PDF-file >500 KB).
Ken O'Keefe, fhv. US marine og leder af den gruppe af menneskelige skjolde, frivillige som forsøgte at standse krigen i Iraq, forsøger nu at samle 10000 vesterlændinge til et international observatørkorps i Palæstina, Islamonline, 100604, dokumentet kan ikke længere findes på Islamonline.
210604, Seymour Hersh skriver i The New Yorker, at Israel allerede i juli 2003 advarede amerikanerne om stigende modstand i Iraq. De foreslog en lukning af grænsen mod Iran. Da israelerne indså, at de ikke kunne få USA til at gå i krig med Iran også, genoplivede de deres gamle kontakter med kurderne.
Tyrkiets premierminister Recep Tayyip Erdogan kalder Israel en terrorist stat, Al Jazira, 270504 og 080604
Sadi Baig: "Middle East: A clean break for Israel" i The Asian Times, hentet 300604 giver en analyse af samarbejdet mellem USA og Israel, af Neocons arbejde for Netanyahu og senere indsats i den amerikanske regering, meningen med og begrænsningerne for samarbejdet med kurderne og antyder at Israel stod bag bombningerne af FN i Baghdad og ajatolla Baqir al Hakim.
I Jordan Times (hentet 240704) skriver Roger H Lieberman om Sharon i 1950'erne (Unit 101, Qibya m.m.)
170704, David Hirst i The Guardian, "Don't blame Arafat - Camp David failed because Israeli hardliners manipulated intelligence". Man skal ikke glemme, at Arafat skulle have vredet armen om af Clinton for overhovedet at deltage - han vidste der var et mediekup planlagt. Clinton lovede, ikke at give ham skylden, hvis mødet mislykkedes - men gjorde netop det alligevel. Clinton's rådgiver, Robert Malley, har medgivet at Barak bidrog mere til sammenbruddet end Arafat. Den hårde israelske kerne vill fremprovokere Intifadaen. Og gjorde siden hvad den kunde for at blæse den op med hårdhændede indgreb mod fredelige demonstranter. Amos Malka, på den tid chef for det israelske militære efterretningsvæsen fortæller nu, at den vurdering af Arafats intentioner, som Barak og siden Sharon byggede på var fejlagtig og kom fra Amos Gilad, leder af det militære efterretningsvæsens forskningsafdeling - og hans bidrag kom kun mundtligt ! og stred mod hans kontors skriftlige bidrag. Hirst anbefaler James Bamford: Pretext for War.
110804, Etgar Keret beretter i The Guardian om tonen ved et israelsk checkpoint "Speak Hebrew or shut up". Beretningen illustrerer, hvad der sker, når man udstyrer unge mænd med våben og magt.
200904, John Pilger sammenligner i New Statesman beskrivelsen i den vestlige presse af israelsk og palæstinensisk vold. Under "en forholdsvis rolig periode" på 5 måneder op til 7. september blev 400 palæstinensere dræbt, heraf 73 børn. Han beretter også at israelske tanks skyder på den demonstration, som Gandhi d.y. har organiseret og dræber 8.
I en kommentar til Den Internationale domstols dom af 090704 skriver Ghada Karmi, 170704, i Counter Punch, at Israel i forbindelse med invasionen af Libanon i 1982 fjernede vognlæs af palæstinske arkiver fra PLOs forskningscenter i Beirut. De gjorde det samme, da de i 2002 invaderede Ramallah. Blandt det stjålne er folkeregister, bygge- og grundejerregistre, statistik o.s.v. Som Karmi skriver: palestinænsernes kollektive hukommelse og historie.
En af de få fornuftige kommentarer til Den internationale Domstols afgørelse af 090704 fandtes i Asian Times (hentet 150704), skrevet af Ian Williams. Han understreger, at vist er dommen ikke bindende, men det er da kun et problem, hvis man ikke accepterer at være bundet af international ret. Og retten opfordrede Sikkerhedsrådet og FNs generalforsamling til at stoppe murens bygning. Så nu må alle lovlydige borgere og alle lovlydige lande anvende alle de midler, der står til deres disposition for at tvinge Israel tilat rette sig efter domme - er de vilde med den grimme mur, kan de jo bare bygge den i Israel. Nu er det tid til boycot og sanktioner, som i sin til mod apartheidstyret, som også fik en dom i ICJ.
Mmegi, The Reporter, Gaborone, Botswana, skriver 140704, "som sædvanlig, hvor amerikanske interesser er indblandet, gælder der et sæt ef spilleregler for Amerika og dets venner og et andet for resten af verden" - det er det vi skal se at få ændret !!!
Gerald Kaufman, leverer i The Guardian, 120704: "The case for sanctions against Israel" - som jeg helt tilslutter mig.
Indresikkerhedsminister Tzahi Hanegbi citeres for at anledning af de palæstinensiske fangers sultestrejke at have sagt: "for min del, kan de sulte sig ihjel", Al Ahram Weekly, sept. 2004.
Professor Todd May argumenterer, 090904, for sin nyopnåede opfattelse, at man må skabe en enkelt demokratisk sekulær stat for jøder og palæstinensere.
150904, Alison Weir, If Americans Knew, giver en fortrinlig gennemgang af den meget skæve - især i USA - pressedækning af Israel - Palæstina problemerne.
USA vil sælge Israel bomber for 319 millioner USD, inkl. 500 "bunker busters", Reuters, 210904
220904, Jonathan Power i International Herald Tribune: Israels kernevåben er det, det retfærdiggør Irans. Israel på står, at de behøver kernevåben mod Ægypten og Syrien, MEN Ægypten brød ikke sin fredstraktat, da Israel angreb Syrien og Libanon i 1982. Syrien brød ikke våbenstilstandsaftalen af 1974, selvom dets styrker blev direkte angrebet. Ægypten, Syrien og Jordan overholdt også alle traktatlige bestemmelser under den 2. intifada. Ægypten bruger under 3 % på forsvar, Syrien under 7 %. Ægyptens, Syriens, Jordans og Libanons samlede forsvarsudgifter udgør 58 % af Israels !!
230904, The Guardian fortæller om Labour MP Ian Gibson, som måtte vente i mere end en time og blev tvunget til at skifte fra palestinensisk til israelsk ambulance ved et checkpoint.
240904, Maariv har en historie, angiveligt hentet fra Dar al Hayat om at Ægyptens hemmelige tjeneste har leveret information om Hamas, herunder lokalisering af ledere, til Israels hemmelige tjeneste, Mossad. (Den slags kan være disinformation for at så splid i den arabiske lejr - men det kan udmærket også være sandt. Motivet skulle i givet fald være, at Mubarak gjorde sig fortjent til en gentjeneste fra Bush).
Marc Perelman skriver 240904 i Forward om Israel's bestræbelser på at undgå en fordømmelse fra FNs generalforsamling og/eller Sikkerhedsrådet for bygningen af muren på palæstinensisk jord. Specielt søger man at præparere EU.
Perelman fremhæver også at udenrigsminister Shalom roser Ægypten og Mubarak, se også artiklen i Maariv, ovenfor.
Det ser ud til, at de amerikanske kirker er ved at få moralske skrupler m.h.t. støtten til Israel. The Presbyterian Church har besluttet og The Episcopal Church (= Anglicans) er ved at beslutte at flytte deres kapital fra investeringer i Israel, WorldNetDaily, 240904.
250904, rapporterer Haaretz om en rapport givet af juraprofessor John Dugard (Sydafrika) til FNs generalforsamling på vegne af FNs menneskerettighedskommission. Dugard understreger at de opgivne sikkerhedsmål kunne opnås ved at placere muren på grænsen mellem Israel og de besatte palæstinenskiske områder og at "rigt landbrugsland og vandressourcer er blevet inkorporeret i Israel" ved murens linjeføring.
011004, Forward skriver at Presbyterian Church (USA) har besluttet at gå videre med en plan om at flytte sine investeringer bort fra Israel - det samme har den Anglikanske kirke besluttet - som protest mod overgrebene på palæstinenserne.
011004, UNRWA, Press release No HQ/G/30/2004 fra Generalsekretær Peter Hansen afslører Israel's video med forsøg på at beskylde en UNRWA ambulance for transport af en raket. Israel vil meget gerne være fri for uafhængige vidner til deres krigsforbrydelser. Den sag belyses grundigere af Uri Avneri, på Information Clearing House, 121004.
061004, Haaretz beretter at Sharon's rådgiver Dov Weinglass i et interview siger, at meningen med Sharons "disengagement" plan for Gaza er at sætte "fredsprocessen" i stå for at forhindre oprettelsen af en palæstinensisk stat. I International Herald Tribune gennemgår Henry Siegman, tidligere forretningsfører for American Jewish Congress samme sag, men med flere detaljer. Han er behageligt kritisk over for den israelske regering.
Om Amnesty's dobbeltmoral - der er særlig tydelig vedrørende Israels besættelse af Palæstina - se Paul de Rooij, 131004.
251004, Israel har bedt FN fyre sin specielle rapportør om retten til mad, schweizeren Jean Ziegler, fordi han har opfordret EU til at lægge pres på Israel gennem associeringsaftalen, vedrørende ernæringssituationen for børn i de besatte områder.
Ramzy Baroud gennemgår på RamallahOnline, 271004, de israelske politiske manøvrer gennem de sidste år og den chokerende grad af følgagtighed overfor Israel's historier, som pressen udviser.
101104, Electronic Intifada har en Arafat nekrolog. Et godt personligt billede af Arafat giver journalisten og diplomaten Eric Rouleau i Monde Diplomatique, Decembre 2004, p. 4.
121104, News24 citerer en jordansk neurolog, som Arafat har konsulteret tidligere, for at forgiftning er sandsynlig og for at forlange en obduktion.
161104, Robert Fisk, The Independent, understreger at ikke en af Oslo aftalens territorieoverdragelser er opfyldt, at antallet af ulovlige bosættere er steget fra 80.000 til 150.000. Og så spørger han: hvad døde Arafat egentlig af ?
181104, Seumas Milne skriver i The Guardian, at Bush/Blair mener noget andet med ordet demokrati end resten af verden, når det er dem ligegyldigt, at Arafat var valgt deokratisk med overvældende flertal i internationalt overvågede valg. Han var tydeligvis - som så mange andre - den forkerte type af demokratisk valgt leder. Imens behøver præsidenterne i Ægypten, Pakistan og Uzbekistan ikke at bekymre sig for amerikansk pres for demokratisering. USA/UK har været medskyldige i den oprindelige fordrivelse og etniske udrensning i 1948, besættelsen af Gaza og Vestbredden i 1967 og har vendt det blinde øje til 37 års ulovlige israelske bosættelser på besat område.
201104, Uri Avnery, fortæller, at Sharon vil gøre hvad han kan for at sabotere de palæstinensiske valg.
011204, Hasan Abu Nimah, (har været FNambassadør for Jordan) "Why they love Mahmoud Abbas", simpelthen fordi han kan forventes at give efter. "Voldsanvendelse er et privilegium for USA og dets lakejer - og Israel".
Decembre 2004, Amnon Kapeliouk: Les dessous du désengagement israélien - Plan d'évacuation de Gaza, Monde Diplomatique, Decembre 2004, p. 8, god artikel med et udmærket kort over Gaza.
161204, Haaretz, rapporterer at Leib Kohn, forretningsmand i NY City har tilstået at have eksporteret raket- og kampflykomponenter til Israel - som siden har eksporteret dem til Iran.
231204, Haaretz beskriver udsagn fra en "ekspert" i en retssag, der klart demonstrerer, det nære slægtsskab mellem Nazityskland og Israel: "arabisk mentalitet er karakteriseret ved en offer-mentalitet", "patologisk antisemitisme" (sic) "en tendens til at leve i verden af illusioner", "de fleste arabiske landsbyer er mere snavsede" o.s.v.
030105, Det palæstinensiske internationale presse center udsender sin rapport over fangernes forhold i de israelske fængsler.
Jerri Bird skriver i "Foreign Service Journal" om at selv arabere med amerikansk borgerskab løber ind i problemer i Israel, inklusive tortur !
200105, Mail & Guardian, Sydafrica: "Bush forces UN refugee chief to go". Peter Hansen, UNRWA, fyret. Det er meget forbudt at kritisere Israel åbenbart også for forsøg på mediefup (at kalde en båre for en raket).
220105, Haaretz, Mohammad al Hindi fra Islamic Jihad siger, at man ikke har indgået en aftale om våbenhvile med Mahmoud Abbas. Man forlanger, at Israel standser sine angreb og sætter fangerne fri. Hamas har udsendt et politisk dokument, hvor man accepterer 1967 grænserne og går ind for en palæstinensisk stat med Jerusalem som hovedstad.
260105, International Herald Tribune, Henry Siegman: 080704 vedtog den israelske regering at lade Absentee Property Law af 1950 gælde i ØstJerusalem. Herved konfiskeres et stort palæstinensisk ejet område - uden erstatning. Beslutningen er aldrig offentliggjort - men skulle alligevel være gyldig. HS, der er tysk jøde, sammenligner med tyske beslutninger i 1930erne.
170205, Alison Weir, i CounterPunch henleder opmærksomheden på israelsk/jødisk indflydelse i russisk økonomi. 6 af de 7 oligarker, der styrede det meste af russisk økonomi under Yeltsin er jøder og israelske statsborgere. Bl.a. Boris Berezovsky. Oligarkerne fik ødelagt Alexander Lebed og den fred, han havde sluttet i Chechnya - måske fordi Berezovsky har en plan om en olierørledning derigennem, foruden at der er mineraler.
280205, Diana Johnstone har i CounterPunch et bidende indlæg om censur, selvcensur og jagten på israelkritikere med påstand om, at de er antisemiter. En tendens, der er mest markant i USA, men kendes i det mindste i hele vesten.
030305, Dissident Voice. Den israelske hær overholder våbenhvilen ved at dræbe 7 palæstinensere, heraf 3 børn. Men hovedparten af Israels krigsførelse mod palæstinenserne sker uden et skud. Over 40 % af Vestbredden er taget med pennestrøg og buldosere, mure og gift, bosættelser, veje tunneler, arrestationer og lidt juridisk fup.
040305, Ken Livingstone, The Guardian. "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism". KL gennemgår udviklingen i hans forhold til Board of Deputies of British Jews. En god artikel om den omvendte racisme, der ofte kommer til udtryk.
050305, Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews.com beretter at 2 Mossad agenter er taget i Irland for forsøg på at myrde Jihad Jaarah, som skulle være medlem af Al Aqsa martyrerernes brigade.
220305, KUNA. Frankrig hilser overdragelsen af sikerhedskontrollen til palæstinenserne i visse Vestbredområder velkommen og advarer Israel om, at visse bosættelsesinitiativer strider mod Road Map ligesom Murens forløb er et problem.
250305, The Guardian om rabbi Erik Ascherman, der som jøde, rabbi og zionist demonstrerer mod ødelæggelsen af palæstinensiske huse, bygningen af muren etc. udfra synspunktet, at "vi skal være bedre". I henhold til B'Tselem er mere end 16000 palæstinensiske boliger ødelagt over de sidste 18 år. Uden at regne Gaza med. Der er tale om, at man ikke giver byggetilladelse og derefter river de "ulovlige" boliger ned. Sidst blev Ascherman arresteret da han protesterede mod, at hæren bandt en palæstinenser fast foran på en jeep som skjold.
250305, Reuters. EUs "høje repræsentant" for udenrigspolitik Javier Solana, udtrykker bekymring fordi Israel bryder aftalen om "Road Map" den stribe af handlinger, der skal lede til fred. Konkret drejer det sig om E1 projektet i Maaleh Adumim, altså et nyt byggeri på palæstinensisk jord.
marts 2005 ??, Junaid Alam, Lefthook. Om den heksejagt, der i USA drives på alle, der ikke er zionister. Han omtaler både forholdene i de besatte områder og Israels historie. Gode referencer.
050405, PBS. Israels næste krig. Militante jøder, herunder Meir Kahane tilhængere vil bl.a. sprænge Tempelbjerget i luften.
080405, ICH, Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan's tale til Europaparlamentet. Hun er mor til Smadar, der som 13-årig blev dræbt af en selvmordsbomber i Jerusalem. Hendes tale er fantastisk god. Et eksempel: "Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan women are my sisters because we are all at the grip of the same unscrupulous criminals who call themselves leaders of the free enlightened world and in the name of this freedom and enlightenment rob us of our children."
090405, Counter Punch, William A Cook, gennemgår det ameikanske udenrigsministeriums janusansigt når det gælder menneskerettighedsforholdene i Israel.
090405, International Press Center, Palæstina. En øjenvidnerapport i anledning af 57-året for Deir Yassin.
100405, Haaretz. Tidligere chef for Mossad, parlamentsmedlem (arbejderpartiet) Danny Yatom siger at han frygter et højrekup i Israel.
110405, Human Rights Watch forlanger af Bush, at han giver Israel klar besked om, at fortsat besættelsespolitik er uacceptabelt. Der er også en almindelig opfordring til "det internationale samfund" om at holde Israel ansvarlig for dets forpligtelser i henhold til 4. Geneve konvention.
140405, Tanya Reinhardt i Yediot Aharonot/ZNet. FNs tal viser, at 237000 palæstinensere vil blive fanget mellem muren og den Grønne Linie (den internationale grænse). 160000 vil blive afskåret fra deres jord. Sharon forsøger fortsat at presse så mange palæstinensere som muligt ud af Israel og Palæstina.
240405, Observer. Den israelske hær prøvede at fuske med sin rapport om drabet på den engelske filmmager James Miller, 030503.
290405, Gulfnews. Patrick Seale omtaler Helevy's bog: "13 years that Changed the World" om Mossads rolle og en artikel i Haaretz. I artiklen giver Halevy udtryk for, at Saudi Arabien er kandidat til en amerikansk intervention. Det vil nødvendiggøre genindførelse af værnepligt i USA.
010505, Yahoo News. Israelske tropper er trængt in i Tulkarem. Det strider mod aftalen i forbindelse med overdragelsen af kontrollen over byen til palæstinenserne i marts. Aftalen var i øvrigt at palæstinenserne skulle få kontrollen med 5 byer, men kun Tulkarem og Jericho er overdraget.
070505, Palestinechronicle. Som et led i aftalerne efter Arafats død lovede Bush Palestinian Authority 200 millioner USD. Nu viser det sig selvfølgelig, at 150 millioner skal gå via amerikanske hjælpeorganer, NGOer og filantropiske grupper. 50 millioner går til Israel til at lave en forbindelse mellem Gaza og Vestbredden for palæstinensere og til terminaler og checkpoints. 2 millioner til sundhedsformål skal gå gennem Hadassah, en amerikansk zionistisk kvindeorganisation. 5 millioner skal bruges til en uafhængig revision af PAs regnskabsprocedurer. Det river i høj grad tæppet væk under Abu Mazen, betalingen for imødekommenhed forsvinder næsten totalt !!
170505, CounterPunch. Ramzy Baroud gør opmærksom på, at en præsident for Palestinian Authority, uanset med hvilket flertal han er valgt, ikke repræsenterer palæstinenserne i udlandet - som ikke har haft valgret. Derfor kan han heller ikke give afkald på flygtningenes ret til at vende tilbage. En ret de har i.h.t. international ret og FNs resolution 194 af 111248, og flere senere resolutioner.
Han forudser, at muren og de landran, der fulgte deraf, kun er begyndelsen til nye israelske overtagelser af palæstinensisk jord, med påfølgende ny Intifada.
200505, Al Jazira. Hamas tager ansvaret for et angreb på en bosættelse i Gaza, efter at Shaul Mofaz, forsvarschefen, har beordret hærem til at bruge alle midler til at stoppe angreb på ulovlige bosættelser.
Amnesty International. Rapport, for 2004, Israel and the occupied territories. Udover de dræbte (se tabellen) så har den israelske hær ødelagt mange hundrede palæstinensiske huse, store landbrugsområder og infrastruktur. Den israelske plan om rømning af Gaza indeholder opretholdelse af kontrollen med indrejse fra land og vand og med hele luftterritoriet. 120 palæstinensere er dræbt ved egentlige udenretslige henrettelser, heraf 30, der bare røg med. Kollektiv afstraffelse og spærring af adgangen til andre dele af Palæstina og med murin i mange tilfælde til egen dyrkningsjord er udbredt. 1500 palæstinensere tilbageholdes uden lov og dom.
010605, International Herald Tribune. Haim Yavin, der stod for det israelske TV 1 nyhedsprogrammer i næsten 40 år fra 1968 har lavet en dokumentarudsendelse "Yoman Masa" (Dagbog fra en rejse). Han har selv filmet med håndholdt kamera på Vestbredden og i Gaza. TV1 ville ikke udsende den, men den er vist på TV2. Han siger om bosætterne "De er idealister. Men de tager fejl og de bringer os i farezonen".
010605, The Independent. 1000 palæstinensere står over for at få ødelagt deres huse i det største ødelæggelsesprojekt omkring Jerusalem siden 6 dages krigen. Det drejer sig om 88 huse i dalen Al Bustan i Silwan. Ødelæggelses"tilladelserne" er udstedt i henhold til en lov, der tillader ødelæggelse, hvad enten husene er lovligt opført eller ej.
ca. 040605, Al Ahram. Jamal Juma: Israeli Apartheid. Om Verdensbanken, den internationale hjælp og bantustaniseringen af Palæstina. Bl.a. om hvordan såvel den amerikanske hjælp som Verdensbankens lån hjælper med at fastlåse Palæstina i afhængighed, bl.a. ved at sikre, at der mangler landbrugsland.
070605, Venezuela har standset en sending raketdele på vej fra Colombia til Israel. Samme på VHeadline, 080605.
090605, Haaretz. Israels højesteret besluttede (med 11 dommere deltagende) at Vestbredden og Gaza er områder opnået gennem krig og ikke dele af Israel. Samtidig afvistes et antal klage fra modstandere af rømning. Rømningsplanen er lovlig siger retten.
130605, Reuters.co.uk. Mohammed Assadi, Den palæstinensiske udenrigsminister Nasser al Kidwa understreger, at det palæstinensiske folk har ret til at modsætte sig besættelsen og kæmpe imod den. Man vil derfor ikke afvæbne de militante, men man vil forhindre dem i at udføre angreb på Israel.
ca. 150605, Haaretz, Amiram Cohen: USA har bedt Israel undersøge mulighederne for at pumpe olie fra Iraq til raffinaderierne i Haifa. Det kræver Jordans godkendelse. Tyrkiet har anmeldt en protest. Indtil 1948 var der en rørledning fra Mosul til Haifa.
220605, International Middle East Media Center. Palæstinenseren Salama Mohammad Rashaida mistede synet under tortur i Asqalanfængslet i maj.
220605, IPS gennemgår HRWs rapport: "Promoting impunity: The Israeli Military's failure to investigate wrongdoing".
Sami Moubayed, Asia Times, 280605, Den israelske hær ødelagde i 2002 for 1.2 millarder USD infrastruktur i PAadministreret Palæstina. Colin Powell tilbød sent i 2003 29 millioner USD for at fremme en fredelig kultur hos araberne. !!!!! I 1948 var der 475 landsbyer i Paæstina, 385 af dem er bulldozet af Israel.
Juli 2005, Hjælp (Dansk Røde Kors), p. 13. Generalsekretær Jørgen Poulsen: "Terror har forfærdelige konsekvenser. Og Israel har ret til at opføre en mur, hvis man tror, det er den rigtige løsning. Men ligesom jeg ikke kan bygge et hegn inde på naboens grund, kan Israel ikke opføre muren inde på palæstinensisk område. Det har man gjort. Videre afskærer man store dele af den palæstinensiske befolkning fra at kunne leve et normalt liv. Og det er klart i strid med Genève-konventionerne."
020705, Gush Shalom, Uri Avneri. Der er sandelig forskel på den måde der reageres mod arabiske vejblokeringer (for 5 år siden) og den, der bruges når der er tale om israelske settlere. Ligesom bulldozerne kører forskelligt om det er Rachel Corrie eller settlerungdom, der forsøger at satndse dem. Hele cirkuset med settlerprotesterne er Sharons spil og handler om at forhindre tilbagetrækning fra Vestbredden.
hentet 060705, AlAhram Weekly. Beskriver mødet mellem Mahmoud Abbas og Sharon 210605. "The answer is NO"
080705, Kuna. Journalister uden grænser fordømmer som uakceptabel Israels beslutning 030705 om ikke at tillade den franske journalist Huda Ibrahim adgang til den palæstinensiske vestbred i forbindelse med et ugekursus for palæstinensiske journalister arrangeret af det franske udenrigsministerium i Bethlehem, Ramallah og Bir Zeit.
130705, Gulf Times, Doha, Qatar genopliver påstanden om at Arafat blev forgiftet. Og støtter sig på Farouq Kaddoumi i Tunis.
180705, WaronWant henvender sig til Barroso, EC og Straw, UK og spørger, hvad de gjort for at mindske menneskerettighedskrænkelserne i de besatte områder efter Den internationale Domstols underkendelse af Israels mur. Man opfordrer til suspension af Israels aftale med EU.
230705, Reuters. Udenrigsminister Rice siger i Ramallah at USA vil sikre sig, at Israel ikke holder Gaza lukket efter sin forventede tilbagetrækning. Der skal være passage mellem Gaza og Vestbredden og bevægelsesfruhed for det palæstinensiske folk.
250705, Information Clearing House, Uri Avneri. Sammenligner de orange skjorter, som settlerne anvender i deres demonstrationer med de brune skjorter. N.B. det er settlerne, der begyndte med holocaust symbolik, de anvender gule jødestjerner og skriver identitetsnumre på armene som man fik dem i Auschwitz, de kalder regeringen Judenrat. De er en åbenbar trussel mod demokratiet - og ingen af de ledende intellektuelle og heller ingen af de større offentlige organisationer står op til forsvar for demokratiet - kort sagt, det ligner Weimarrepublikken.
Aout 2005, Monde Diplomatique, Meron Rapoport: Quitter Gaza pour mieux garder la Cisjordanie. Med godt kort over Gaza og luftfotos, nuni 2001, oktober 2004, juni 2005.
hentet 010805 på Ynetnews.com: Israels tidligere undervisningsminister Shulamit Aloni kritiserer premierminister Sharon for storhedsvanvid. Og kalder Israel for en racistisk stat som tyr til terrorisme, der er meget værre end palæstinensernes. Hun taler om en israelsk hærenhed af religiøse fanatikere, der optræder som dyr. Hun siger at regeringen og settlere vil forsøge at skabe et nationalistisk shock i forbindelse med tilbagetrækningen for at overbevise verden om det umulige i en tilbagetrækning fra Vestbredden. Venstrefløjen findes ikke, tidligere premierminister Ehud Barak dræbte den. Der var flere grunde til venstrefløjens kollaps, inkl. Arbejderpartiets deltagelse i den forrige Sharonregering. (1,1206,L-3119885,00.htm).
040805, Albawaba. En ekstremistisk settler, soldat i den israelske hær, skyder 4 buspassagerer i en druzisk bydel i Shfaram.
040805, Amira Hass, Haaretz: "Israels Borgerskabslov og loven mod Intifada strider mod europæiske standarder for at modarbejde racisme og diskrimination. Derfor er det hyklerisk, at Israel for lov at deltage i sportkonkurrencer og har tæt samarbejde med Europa økonomisk, videnksabeligt og kulturelt - som om landet opfyldte kriterierne i Det Europæiske Menneskeretscharter.
hentet 050805 på Ynetnews: I h.t. en Verdensbankrapport er korruptionen i Israel i stadig vækst siden 2000. Også iøvrigt tildeles den israelske regering lave karakterer. (1,2506,L-3122015,00.html).
100805, peacepalestinedocuments. Lana Habash skriver om menneskerettigheder for palæstinensere. Et grundlæggende problem er, at man ser bort fra de menneskerettighedskrænkelser, der skete i tiden inden FNs godkendelse af oprettelsen af staten Israel i 1947.
120805, Al Jazira. Israels ulovlige anstrengelser siden 1967 krigen på at fylde Vestbredden og Gaza med jøder har ført til et netværk på 142 bosættelser med næsten 240.000 mennesker. Nu vil man bruge 2 milliarder USD på at rømme 25 af disse. Det giver anledning til at spekulere over, hvor kom pengene til oprettelsen fra. Peres vurderer, at Israel har anvendt 50 milliarder USD på oprettelsen. Artiklen argumenterer for at det er lavt regnet. Samtidig med arbejdet med rømningen opretter man nye bosættelser i strid med den aftalte køreplan for fred. En regeringsnedsat kommission til undersøgelse af bosættelserne beskriver regeringens medskyld i oprettelsen af forposter for bosættelser som ulovlig.
I besættelsens første 12 år konfiskerede militæret mere end 4000 ha af sikkerhedsgrunde. En dom i Israels højesteret i 1979 strammede kravene for dette. Men alligevel er tusinder af ha siden konfiskeret og videregivet til bosættelser. Samtidig køber Jewish National Fund jord - gennem mellemmænd fra arabere. Ofte til meget lavere priser end jorden koster i Israel.
120805, Telegraph, London. En israelsk soldat fik 8 års fængsel for at dræbe en engelsk fredsaktivist. Det er første gang en israelsk soldat dømmes for at dræbe en civil. Det lykkedes kun, at få retssagen gennemført på grund af en ihærdig indsats fra fredsaktivistens familie og hæren forsøgte først at dække over sagen.
150805, Kathleen Christison, fhv. politisk analytiker for CIA, gennemgår på CounterPunch, det komplot, som Arafat var ude for i Camp David. Meget læseværdig.
180805, Information Clearing House: Gazarømningen er fup. Muren er en realitet. Tul Karem blev rømmet for 14 dage siden, men få dage senere var de israelske tanks tilbage. Den israelske hær vil bygge en ny mur rundt om Gaza (220 USD). Gaza bliver bare en stor koncentrationslejr.
200805, Haaretz. I må læse Sharons tale. Han sagde sandhedens ord, som ingen premierminister før ham har vovet det. Årsagen til hans ændrede holdning, med evakuering af Gaza, findes i folketallene. Med Gaza udgør jøderne 49 % af befolkningen mellem Middelhavet og Jordanfloden. Når de 1.3 millioner palæstinensere i Gaza fraregnes, er der stadig jødisk flertal i Israel. Han talte også om de usle forhold palæstinenserne lever under og at forskellen i levevilkår ville ende med en eksplosion, et blodbad. Og så åbnede han faktisk døren for en fortsættelse af processen. Tilbagetrækningen skulle også åbne muligheden for at koncentrere sig om den økonomiske politik og en krig mod fattigdommen i Israel.
210805, Projo.com. Vestbredden og Gaza - der blev besat i 1967 - udgør 22 % af det historiske Palæstina. Og alle 450000 israelske bosættere er ulovlige. Gazabosætterne bliver for en dels vedkommende sendt til Negev, hvor de vil fordrive palæstinensiske beduiner. 530 palæstinensiske landsbyer og byer er rømmede af de israelske militær - uden den internationale presses nærvær. Skyldes forskelsbehandlingen forskelle i hudfarven ? Palæstinenserne er mørkere end de ashkenaziske jøder, der oven i købet ofte taler amerikansk.
220805, CounterPunch. Efter Gazas rømning kontrollerer det israelske militær stadig vandforsyningen, færdslen gennem checkpoints og luftrummet. Israel kontrollerer de 3 vandårer og palæstinenserne skal have tilladelse til at grav en brønd. Israelerne bruge 80 % af vandet.
240805, The Guardian. Tidligere forhandler for palæstinenserne Ahmad Samih Khalidi overvejer mulighederne efter Gazas rømning. Han foreslår, at man dyrker "parallel unilateralisme". Sharon har hele vejen igennem handlet uden forhandlinger, unilateralt. Det kan palæstinenserne også gøre - så er man ikke bundet af modpartens betingelser o.s.v. Da der alligevel ikke kan blive en rigtig stat, og da Gaza kun er 6 % af det landområde Israel tog ved 1967 krigen og da der ikke er udsigt til andet end nogle små spredte områder på Vestbredden, er det bedst bare at udøve sin autoritet i de frigivne områder uden aftaler.
240805 har Stop The Wall en analyse fra "The Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign". Sætter "Sejren i Gaza" i perspektiv. Israel kontrollerer stadig havadgangen, grænserne, vandet, elektriciteten. Gazas befolkning, Vestbreddens befolkning og 120.000 indbyggere i Jerusalem bliver hegnet inde.
260805, Al Jazira. Israels muslimer beskylder regeringen for at opmuntre jødiske ekstremisters angreb på moskeer.
020905, Haaretz. PAs vicepremierminister Nabil Sha'at tilkendergiver, at Pakistans villighed til at optage diplomatiske relationer med Israel kommer for tidligt. Hamas' leder Khaled Mashal siger at det er en kniv i ryggen på det palæstinensiske folk. Musharraf citeres for, at man ikke vil anerkende Israel før en palæstinensisk stat er oprettet. Men samtidig kalder han Sharon en stor soldat og modig leder.
hentet 040905, Al Ahram. Nader Fergani, Almishkat Research Center, understreger, at Israels tilbagetrækning fra Gaza ikke er enden på besættelsen. Israel kontrollerer stadig al adgang til Gaza. Så de 1.4 millioner indbyggere lever bare i et stort åbent fængsel.
060905, United Civilians for Peace. En europæisk delegation ledet af prof., fhv. premierminister Andreas van Agt har besøgt Israel og Gaza for at vurdere situationen efter fjernelsen af bosætterne. Man konkluderer, at der ikke er oprettet en selvstændig Palæstinastat, at end ikke besættelsen af Gaza er slut, fordi alle ydre grænser kontrolleres af Israel, at freden ikke er nær. Det er nødvendigt med en international indgriben for at få Israel til at overholde international ret. Man konstaterer, at handlingsplanen mellem EU og Israel ikke indeholder de nødvendige krav om overholdelsen af de menneskelige rettigheder som en forudsætning for udvidede begunstigelser. Man opfordrer EU og medlemsstaterne til at leve op til deres forpligtelser i.h.t. den Internationale Domstols Dom om Muren til at tvinge Israel til at standse bygningen af muren på palæstinensisk jord og til at bede FNs Sikkerhedsråd gribe ind med samme mål. EU bør også afbryde alt militært samarbejde med Israel og enhver eksport til Israel af våben og man skal tvinge Israel til at slutte sin bosættelsespolitik og straks udelukke bosætterfirmaer fra handel med EU medlemsstater. EU skal aktivere menneskerettighedsklausulen i sin associeringsaftale med Israel og suspendere denne, hvis Israel ikke lever op til sine forpligtelser.
100905, Gush Shalom, Uri Avneri: "Who murdered Arafat ?".
110905, Haaretz. General Doron Almog skulle have været arresteret for krigsforbrydelser i Heathrow søndag. Arrestordre var udstedt efter anmodning fra Hickman & Rose, specialister i menneskeretslovgivning. Anklagen omfatter i første omgang kun ødelæggelsen af 1 hus i Rafah. Den israelske ambassadør fik imidlertid et tip - og lod det gå videre, så generalen blev på flyet.
170905, Palestine Media Center. Om hvordan Sharon saboterer Abbass anstrengelser for at holde lov og orden. Der bygges ny mur på palæstinsk jord ved Gaza, Israel vil sabotere palæstinske valg, hvis Hamas deltager og også Vestnredsmuren bygges der videre på. Der er kaos ved grænsen mellem Gaza og Ægypten.
170905, Norman Finkelstein fik afvist sin omtale af sin bog "Beyond Chutzpah: on the misuse of anti-semitism and the abuse of history" fra New York Times med flere. I omtalen skriver han om Israels hærs løgn i forbindelse med nedskydningen af 5 palæstinensere. Om de ødelæggende økonomiske forhold for Gaza, om at den ulovlige mur medfører konfiskering af 10 % af den palæstinensiske vestbred, inklusive de mest frugtbare områder, o.s.v.
190905, Palestine Media Center. Bush har givet Sharon en ny "Balfour-erklæring" ved at sige, at en tilbagevenden til 1949grænserne er utænkelig og at USA ikke vil støtte en ret til at komme tilbage for palæstinensiske flygtninge.
260905, The Independent. Har interviewet anonyme israelske soldater om deres handlinger i de besatte områder og om hærens implicitte og explicitte forholdsordrer.
280905, ICH. Fortæller om Israels anvendelse af et nyt terrorvåben - lydbomber. Anvendt over Gaza, nu hvor bosætterne er ude
201005, Newsday. Israel er efter amerikansk pres bakket ud af en aftale om modernisering af Venezuelas F-16 jagere.
201005, The Independent. Anmelder en bog af Ghada Karmi, der skriver om sin flugt fra Palæstina for 57 år siden - og kræver sin ret til at vende tilbage.
211005, Financial Times. Så bakker Bush væk fra sin tidsplan for en Palæstinensisk Stat.
sidst i oktober, Al Ahram Weekly. Abu Mazens tur til Bush blev en skuffelse. USA står ikke længere bag sin egen løreplan (Road Map). Det eneste positive er, at Wolfensohn på vegne af kvartettet har kritisiret Israels manglende åbning af Rafah grænseovergangen il Ægypten. Sharon fremturer med at forbyde palæstinensisk privattrafik på vejene på Vestbredden [som tilhører Palæstina og er besat af Israel, OJ]. Og man fortsætter med at myrde palæstinensiske ledere, som man ikke bryder sig om. [Det er også en krigsforbrydelse, OJ].
311005, KUNA. Den arabiske liga protesterede mandag mod det internationale samfunds manglende handling mod Israels voldelige forholdsregler overfor palæstinenserne. Ligaens talsmand kritiserer og FNs Sikkerhedsråd for dobbeltstandard, når man altid er parat til at indføre sanktioner mod arabiske og islamiske nationer, men er helt tavs overfor Israels hensynsløse handlinger mod palæstinenserne.
011105, Al Jazira. Det Palæstinensiske Selvstyre har appelleret til det internationale samfund om at tvinge Israel til at standse opskæringen af det besatte område på Vestbredden i små - indhegnede - områder. Der skulle nu være en aftale om åbning af en grænseovergang i Rafah, men Israel vil ikke tillade udlændinge at krydse grænsen der !!
i begyndelsen af november, 2005. Al Ahram Weekly. "Caging up the Palestinians in the occupied territories is not a temporary but a permanent Israeli policy." Gennemgår besættelsesmagtens uhyggelige politik med at spærre palæstinenserne inde i reservater.
141105, ICH. Uri Avnery hilser valget af Amir Peretz til ny leder for det israelske Arbejderparti velkomment. Peretz er Østlig jøde (altså kommet fra et af de nordafrikanske, arabiske lande). Denne gruppe har hidtil betragtet Arbejderpartiet, venstrefløjen og fredsbevægelsen som et fænomen for de fine vestlige, europæiske jøder. Det har betydet, at Likud har fået mange proteststemmer fra fattige østlige jøder - efter samme model som Dansk Folkeparti er Danmarks næststørste arbejderparti, og med samme racistiske undertoner. De, der økonomisk står lige over araberne, er de største araberhadere. Det at der nu er valgt en af dem til leder af Arbejderpartiet - og det er ikke nogen onkel Tom - giver nye muligheder. Peretz har tilmed ikke som alle tidligere Arbejderpartiledere en fortid i hæren eller det militære etablissement. Og hans dagsorden er social og økonomisk.
251105, Forward. US Army War College, HenrySokolsky og Patrick Clawson har skrevet en rapport: "Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran", heri foreslår de, at Israel skal tage det første skridt mod kernevåbenafrustning i Mellemøsten og lægge Dimona i mølpose. Naturligvis kun som led i en aftale. [Det lyder usædvanligt fornuftigt, står der noget med småt i rapporten ? OJ]
251105, The New Zealand Herald. EUs udenrigsministre har i denne uge diskuteret en rapport, fra deres topdiplomater i Jerusalem, med forslag om, at EU skal gå aktivt ind og forhindre den udbygning af jødiske bosættere, der kombineret med Muren skal forhindre, at Øst Jerusalem nogensinde kan blive Palæstinas hovedstad. Rapporten er skrevet i oktober og skulle have været offentliggjort efter ugen møde - men de turde de alligevel ikke. Det foreslås bl.a. at EU skal yde støtte til Palæstinenseres retssager mod husødelæggelser og i sager om nægtet byggetilladelse; at EU mødes med den palæstinensiske ledelse i Jerusalem for at understrege, at byen internationalt er anerkendt som Palæstinas, ikke Israels, hovedstad.
251105, The Guardian har samme historie. Det eneste nye i forhold til ovenstående er, at det var Italien, der blokerede offentliggørelsen.
301105, Al Jazira. Israel truer med at lukke Rafahgrænseovergangen mellem Palæstina og Ægypten igen, fordi man har ladet en broder til Hamaslederen Mahmoud Zahar komme ind den vej. Derudover truer man med at lukke overgangene fra Israel. [Så bliver Gaza da en fangelejr, OJ]
301105, Xinhuanet. Marwan Barghouti, der stadig sidder i israelsk fængsel, kan forventes nomineret til Mahmoud Abbas' stedfortræder.
301105, Online Journal. Joshua Frank: "Howard Dean's blunt message: Forget Palestine". Trods Israels manglende efterkommelse af adskillige FN Sikkerhedsrådsresolutioner, bl.a. 1402, der forlanger al israelsk militær ud af palæstinensiske byer, så støtter formanden for det demokratiske partis nationalkomite stadig al hjælp til Israel.
011205. Bloomberg. Generalforsamlingen (191 medlemmer) vedtog 6 resolutioner om Palæstina/Israel. Herunder to der kræver israelsk rømning af hhv. Vestbreden og Golanhøjderne. USA og 6 andre (Ž[vistnok for første gang Canada, ellers kun stillehavsøer, og så Israel selv] stemte imod, for stemte op til 160 lande.
primo dec. 2005, JTA fortæller, at Israel foretrækker at beholde Bashir Assad. Fjerner man ham er der 3 muligheder: kaos, et islamistisk styre eller en anden stærk mand fra samme sekt Alaviterne.
011205, al Jazira. Israels justitsminister Tzipi Livni siger, at Muren kan blive den fremtidige grænse mellem Israel og Palæstina.
031205, Pakistans Daily Times skriver, at fhv. amerikansk ambassadør til Indien, John Gunther Dean, mener, at det var Mossad, der skød general og præsident Zia ul Haqs fly ned i 1987. FBI fik aldrig lov (af USA) til at undersøge sagen.
031205, The Independent. 3000 arabiske beduiner i Bir al Mshash i Negevørkenen, har ikke i sinde at stemme til det israelske valg. Politiet har netop bragt meddelelse om, at 12 huse skal fjernes. Beduinerne frygter at det er første led i plan for deres fjernelse.
051205, Xinhuanet. USA overvejer at frigive den israelske spion Jonathan Pollard mod at Israel frigiver Marwan Barghouti.
101205, Haaretz. Ikke engang USA må kritisere Israel, eller bare en enkelt israeler. Det israelske udenrigsministerium fordømmer en civil retssag anlagt i USA mod tidligere Shin Bet chef Avi Dichter for drabet på 14 palæstinensiske civile, som blev dræbt, da Israel dræbte det ledende Hamas medlem Salah Shehadeh i 2002. [Havde der været krig, og havde målet været 1 mand, og indsatsen mod ham, som her en bombe på 1 ton, og 14 civile blev dræbt, så havde det været en soleklar krigsforbrydelse. OJ].
111205, The Times. Der er giver ordre til det israelske militær om at være klar til et angreb på iranske atomanlæg i marts 2006. Man opererer allerede i det små fra sin base i Kurdistan ! I oktober opsendte Iran sin første satellit. Der er valg i Israel 280306.
141205, Al Jazira. Marwan Barghouti danner sit eget parti af udbrydere fra Fatah. Hans kone Fadwa har anmeldt det til valgkommissionen. Fatah forsøger at hele sårene ved at give ham en høj placering på deres liste. Men bedømt efter de øvrige på Barghoutis liste er den alvorligt ment, Mohammed Dahlan, Jibril Rajoub m.fl.
270106, Reuters Alertnet præsenterer 6 Hamasledere.
270106, Ramallah Online. Mustafa Barghouti. Så er Israel ikke længere det eneste demokrati i Mellemøsten.
270106, The Guardian. Jonathan Steele, Palæstinensernes demokratiske valg må respekteres. Herudover en venlig omtale af Mahmoud Zahar. "Murdering a Palestinian politician by a long-range attack that is bound also to kill innocent civilians is morally and legally no better than a suicide bomb on a bus."
280106, Pat Buchanan stiller spørgsmålet om Bush doktrinen fører til islamisme og advarer at forlange frie valg og så kun ville godkende valgte, der "deler vore synspunkter og værdier".
280106, Robert Fisk, The Independent, om Hamas valgsejr og om, at i 1983 talte Hamas med israelerne (i hvertfald med Peres).
290106, ICH, Mohamed Khodr om Israels Hamasteri. "April 27, 1949, Truman became livid when he saw the truth of Israels brutality, defiance of the United Nations Partition Resolution, and force expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees. He sought to curtail Israels expansionistic conquests of more Palestinian land beyond the U.N. mandate and allow for the retum of the refugees as the U.N. Resolutions demanded... He convened a peace conference in Lausanne, Switzerland to impose the U.N. partition plan and return Israel to its U.N. borders, allow for retum of Palestinian refugees, and establish Jerusalem as an International city. "
290106, Haaretz. Avi Dichter, fhv, Shin Bet chef siger, at Hamasmedlemmer - uanset om de skulle være regeringsmedlemmer i PA - er mål for mordgrupper, hvis Israel mener de har udført eller planlægger terrorhandlinger.
300106, The Guardian. Azzam Tamimi, Hamas er mere interesseret i at være accepteret af det palæstinensiske folk and af Israel og USA. Men det, at man ikke vil anerkende Israels legitimitet betyder ikke, at der ikke kan indgås en fredsaftale. Der kan indgås en våbenhvile, der kan vare en hel generation. Hvis Israel tilbagegiver det landområde, man erobrede i 1967 og frigiver alle palæstinensiske fanger, så vil Hamas opgive den væbnede kamp. "Well, let the Palestinians dream of the end of Israel and let the Israelis dream of Eretz Yisrael from the Nile to the Euphrates, but lets negotiate an end to the violence."
300106, International Herald Tribune. Anatol Lieven ser på afstanden mellem USAs udtalelser og handlinger. "The most important lesson of the elections is that the United States cannot afford to use the rhetoric of spreading denrocracy as an excuse for avoiding dealing with pressing national grievances and wishes. If the United States pursues or supports policies that are detested by a majority of ordinary people, then these people will react accordingly if they are given a chance to vote."
300106, If Americans Knew, om hvad Israel koster de aerikanske skatteydere. Richard H Curtiss: Israel BNP i 1995 var 15800 USD/person. Det er mindre end UK (19500), men mere end Eire (15400). Han sammenregner bidraget fra de amerikanske skatteydere til 83 milliarder USD, hvilket giver over 14.000 USD/israeler.
310106, Al Jazira. EU ville have valg i Palæstina. Nu har de fået det resultat de bad om, sagde fyrst Saud al Faisal i Malaysia. Hamas lover at budget og regnskab skal være åbent for udefrakommende revisorer.
310106, EUobserver. EUs udenrigsministre besluttede at fortsætte hjælpen til Palestinian Authority, men begrunder det med frygt for, at ellers ville Iran og Saudiarabien træde til. Hamas afviser at anerkende Israel og siger: "The quartet should have demanded an end to (Israeli) occupation and aggression ... not demanded that the victim should recognise the occupation and stand handcuffed in the face of the aggression" [og det er da et rimeligt synspunkt. Og et fornuftigt EU standpunkt ville være at forlange, at Israel rømmer det, man har besat i 1967, overgiver alle palæstinensiske fanger i EUs varetægt, ICC afgør om nogen af fangerne har begået handlinger, som er forbudt i international ret, kun de, der dømmes holdes derefter fangne. Jerusalem gøres til international by. EU betaler en rimelig erstatning til de fordrevne. Herefter må Hamas de facto anerkende Israel.
ca. 050206, El Ahram, Khaled Amayreh. Det er Israel, ikke Hamas, der er problemet. Siden Oslo aftalerne for 10 år siden har Israel konfiskeret over 50 % af Vestbredden og etableret dusinvis af kolonier med jødiske fanatikere, der betragter ikke jøder som laverestående. Israel berøver palæstinenserne deres frihed og menneskelige rettigheder og holder titusinder indespærret uden anklage eller dom. Israels bekymring er, at Hamas ikke vil være så svag og eftergivende som Fatah. Hamas vil stå fast på kravet om rømning af de områder, der besattes i 1967.
[Og Hamas vil have den styrke et solidt folkeligt mandat giver, OJ]
Le Monde diplomatique, Février 2006, Dominique Vidal, Saint Sharon. 2 franske selskaber, Alstom og Connex, bygger sporvognsforbindelse mellem 2 illegale bosættelser ved Jérusalem, Pisgat Zeev og French Hill. 090704, kender den internatioale domstol (ICJ) i Haag Israels mur ulovlig og forlanger den revet ned. 200704 vedtager FNs generalforsamling det samme med 150 stemmer for, 6 imod og 10 undlader at stemme. Ellers listes Sharons krigsforbrydelser.
Le Monde diplomatique, Mars 2006, Georges Corm, De la PALESTINE À L'IRAN, Révoltes et refus au nom de l'islam. Dov Weisglass: "Ideen er at sætte palæstinenserne på diet, men ikke lade dem dø af sult".
060206, Truthout. Ray McGovern understreger, at selvom Bush m.fl. altid kalder Israel "our ally", så er der ikke og har aldrig været nogen traktat mellem USA og Israel. Israel vil ikke risikere at blive bundet op på nogen betingelse, f.eks. fastlagte grænser. Israel er allergisk overfor forslag/krav om en mellemøstlig atomfrizone, som Iran f.eks. forlanger det.
060206, 070206, The Guardian. Chris McGreal: "Worlds apart". McGreal har rapporteret fra Jerusalem i 4 år og før det et tiår i Johannesburg. Han beskriver ligheder og forskelle mellem de 2 samfund. En lang og fantastisk god baggrundsartikel. Belyser bl.a. byplanlægningens rolle i apartheiden. Et citat: "There are few places in the world where governments construct a web of nationality and residency laws designed for use by one section of the jopulation against another. Apartheid South Africa was one. So is Israel." Han har en oplysende historie om Arthur Goldreich, der som dreng boede i Pietersberg i 1940, hvor Sydafrika var i krig med Nazityskland. Og hvor Nationalistpartiet pludselig ville indføre sproget tysk i undervisningen. Goldberg ville hellere lære hebræisk. Fra 1948 til 54 var han i Israel og deltog også i den væbnede kamp. I 1954 tilsluttede han sig ANC og var med i Umkhonto we Sizwe og blev taget til fange i 1963 sammen med Walter Sisulu. Goldreich bor nu Herzliya og protesterer mod bantustanismen i Israel. Jøder, der var med i ANC: Helen Suzman, Arthur Goldreich, Ronnie Kasriels, Joe Slovo, Ruth First (absolut et mindretal). Israel hjalp med opbygningen af den Sydafrikanske våbenindustri, deltog som rådgivere i Angola. Atombombeudviklingen var et samarbejde. Det fælles for Apartheid og Zionisme er at man bemægtiger sig den gode jord. 6 millioner israelere har 85 % af jorden, 3œ million palæstinensere 16 %.
070206, Sydney Morning Herald. Den palæstinensiske revision og justitsministeriet har arresteret 25 embedsmænd, som mistænked for at have tilvendt sig 700 millioner USD. Der er yderligere 10 mistænkte i udlandet. Abbas støtter udrensningen. Israel genåbnede søndag Karni grænseovergangen til Gaza, der var holdt lukket i 3 uger, hvad der medførte fødevare og medicinmangel for 1.3 millioner palæstinensere i det Gaza, som israelerne rømmede med så stor presseopmærksomhed.
070206, Arabic News. Amerikanske og EU diplomater mødes hemmeligt med Hamas.
080206, The New Zealand Herald. Shin Bet direktør Yuval Diskin siger at jøder, der udøver terrorisme, er mere af end kræft end araber. Han anerkender også at retsvæsenet diskriminerer.
080206, The Guardian. Olmert vil annektere hele Jordandalen. Så kan Palæstinenserne få resten af Vestbredden, som vil ligge helt omsluttet af Israel ! Israel har dræbt 9 palæstinensere i denne uge.
120206,AlJazira. Endelig noget positivt om det israelske militær. De fjernede graffiti som settlere havde lavet på en moske på Vestbredden. Det var professionelt og det er også professionelt, at Al Jazira rapporterer det.
120206, PeacePalestine. Om hvorfor Hamas vand og Fatah tabte. Udover de kendte argumenter anføres: Det palæstinensiske poltiske system er præsidentielt. Præsidentens magt regulere af en statut, fastsat af lovgivningsrådet. Det mindste man kan forlange af Israel er, at det fastlægger sine grænser. Indenfor PA må man skabe klarhed om følgende organers status og profil: PA, PLO, Fatah, det lovgivende råd og nationalrådet. Indenfor Fatah savner man klarhed over generalkongressens, centralkomiteens og det revolutionære råds kompetencer.
130206, Al Jazira. Hamas protesterer mod at det afgående palæstinensiske parlament gav Abbas magten til at udpege en grundslovsdomstol, og gav ham nye beføjelser, samt lagde radio- og TV under præsidentens kontor.
170206, Deutsche Welle. EU og USA risikerer at puffe palæstinenserne i armene på Iran ved at tilbageholde støtte.
190206, The Times. Israelske og palæstinske forhandlere (under ledelse af Jibril Rajoub) har holdt hemmelig samtaler i USA om at svække Hamas ! "Rajoub is understood to have claimed that Hamas's natural support stands at no more than 15%. "I believe that we can turn the clock back"." Haniyeh, som Hamas foreslår som premierminister blev af Israel forhindret i at rejse fra Gaza til parlamentsmødet i Ramallah !
200206, The Local. Sverige (SIDA) har lovet 50 millioner SEK ekstra til FNs humanitære arbejde i Palæstina.
210206, Israel Broadcasting Network. William M. Arkin: "Code Names" giver information om mindst 5 amerikanske baser på hemmelige steder i Israel. Baserne er udrustede med køretøjer etc. for marines, special forces og luftvåbnet. Der er også amerikanske baser i Ægypten, Jordan, Saudiarabien, Oman og Golfstaterne.
220206, Daily Star, Libanon. "It's the Jordan Valley's turn to be swallowed whole by Israel" Palæstinenserne må ikke komme i Jordandalen. De må ikke sælge landbrugsprodukter direkte til israelske handlende. Hyrderne må ikke komme der med sine flokke.
230206, Sydney Morning Herald. Irans nationale sikkerhedsråds sekretær Ali Larijani lover økonomisk hjælp til den palæstinensiske regering. Ægypten nægter at støtte USAs finansboykot af Hamas.
240206, International Herald Tribune afslører at USAs trofaste EUmedarbejder, Javier Solana, har fundet på at man kan give EUs støtte til palæstinenserne direkte til Mahmoud Abbas. Som et led i bekæmpelsen af korruption - og i USA/Israels bekæmpelse af Arafat - havde man ellers lige fået decentraliseret PA. "Many Palestinians already regard the effort as a cynical effort to undenmine their democratic choice. [Det kan man da ikke fortænke dem i !, OJ]
250206, Christian Today. Ærkebiskoppen af Canterbury finder det nødvendigt at understrege, at generalsynodens beslutning om at trække kirkens investeringer ud af de firmaer, der tjener på den israelske besættelse af Palæstina "er etisk begrundet".
250206, Ynetnews. Ismail Haniyeh: Hvis Israel trækker sig tilbage til 1967grænserne (det er de internationalt anerkendte grænser) kan vi etablere en trinvis fred.
260206, Observer bringer et nyt eksempel på, at kunstnerisk frihed kun gælder så længe man ikke kritiserer Israel. Nu er det filmen Paradise Now, som er nomineret til en Oscar. Problemet er, at den som hjemland opgiver Palæstina - og det eksisterer jo ikke. Den er filmet i Nablus. Der er altså et kraftigt pres for at få den diskvalificeret !
260206, Gilad Atzmon har endnu et eksempel. Ken Livingstone, Londons borgmester, blev i går suspenderet med fuld løn, fordi han fornærmede en journalist fra en jødisk avis ved at sammenligne ham med en koncentrationslejrvagt.
280206, UPI. En dommer har udsat suspenderingen af Ken Livingstone. Den berørte jødiske reporter var Oliver Finegold fra Evening Standard.
010306, Islam Online. Israel har dræbt Khaled Al-Dahduh, leder af Al Quds brigaderne med et ubemandet fly i Gaza by. 2 af Hamas' nyvalgte parlamentsmedlemmer, Mohammad Abu Teir og Mohammed Totah tilbageholdes af IDF i Østjerusalem. Mahmoud Abbas har bedt om et særligt møde i FNs Sikkerhedsråd for at få styr på Israel.
030306, Uri Avnery i Outlook India. Every time when I am in Bil'in and other places in occupied Palestine, I can't help thinking what a paradise this country would be if there were peace, peace based on justice and mutual respect.
030306 ?, Rafah Notes. Haniyeh fortalte ved sidste fredagsbøn, at han afviser den sædvanlige løn på 4000 USD/måned fra PA. Han har brug for 1500 for at forsørge sin familie, det vil han have. (Hamas er jo valgt på at være imod korruption og anden ragen til sig. En pressetalsmand for PA har sagt, at en sådan udtalelse ikke er passende for en premierminister !
Forelagt krav om anerkendelse af Israel og indgåede aftaler med Israel, svarer han: Har Israel overholdt aftalerne ? Lad Israel anerkende palæstinensernes legitime rettigheder. Og hvad er det for et Israel vi skal anerkende, det fra 1917, fra 1936, 1948, 1956 eller det fra 1967 ? Hvilket Israel, med hvilke grænser ? Israel kan begynde med at anerkende Palæstina og dets grænser, så ved vi da, hvad vi taler om.
Spurgt om han anerkender Oslo aftalerne, svarer han, at de bestemte, at der skulle være etableret en palæstinensisk stat i 1999. Har Oslo aftalen givet Israel ret til at genbesætte Vestbredden, til at bygge Muren, til at udvide bosættelser, til at gøre hele Jerusalem jødisk, til at standse arbejdet på havnen og lufthavnen i Gaza eller til at belejre Gaza og tilbageholde den skat man har opkrævet ?
Og så gør han opmærksom på, at Israel stadig vil fortsætte sine udenretslige henrettelser også af valgte parlamentarikere.
040306, ICH, prof. Ilan Pappe, Haifa universitet. Taler om konflikten, zionismen, etnisk udrensning, arbejderklassen og det kommunistiske parti i Israel, massakren i Tantura i 1948, ytringsfrihed og akademisk frihed i Israel, ønsket om en sekulær demokratisk stat, AUTs (aflyste) boykot, apartheid i Israel og ejendomsretten til jord, Histadrut.
050306, Al Ahram. Khaled Amayreh. Hamas siger, at skal de anerkende Israel, så skal Israel anerkende Palæstina. [Det er jo ganske rimeligt, OJ].
050306, ICH. Uri Avnery. Så kom Putin ind i Det store Spil (mellem Rusland og den ledende europæiske magt) igen - ved at invitere Hamas til samtaler. Avnery har en konkret plan for hvordan Israel kunne få Hamas ind på en fredskurs: 1. find en diskret måde at overføre pengene på. 2. Acceptere en erklæting om, at den nye palæstinensiske regering bygger på Osloaftalerne. 3. Accepter en Hudna/våbenstilstand for overgangsperioden [hvilken tænker han på ?] og undlad al voldsanvendelse og frigiv fangerne.
120306, Al Jazira. Hamas udkast til regeringserklæring slår fast, at beslutningen om anerkendelse af Israel ligger hos folket, ikke hos et parti i parlamentet.
140306, Reuters. Israel blev forhåndsorienteret af USA om, at de udenlandske observatører ville forlade fængslet i Jeriko. USUK havde skrevet et brev herom til Abbas, 080306, fordi Hamas ville have løsladt Ahmet Saadat.
Israel besatte fængslet og bortførte Saadat og 5 andre fanger og dræbte en vagt. Fængslet var overvåget af USUK i henhold til en aftale af 2002 mellem Israel og PA.
140306, Al Jazira. Six Palestinian fighters inside a West Bank prison in Jericho have surrendered to Israeli forces, almost 10 hours after Israeli troops i laid siege to the compound. IDF buldozede fængslet. Aftalen om USUK overvågning handlede om at finde en afslutning på Israels belejring af Arafat i Ramallah i april 2002 og indgikkes mellem Bush og Sharon.
160306 (?) Jordan Times. 'Israel subjected US detainees to traumas'
160306, IPC, Palestine. Human Rights Report: Palestinian Human Rights Activists and Journalists Asserts Israel and US are Above Law
170306, AlJazira. Fatahs centralkomite har foreslået Abbas at opløse Palestinian Authority, gå af og overlade ansvaret til besættelsesmagten. Meningen i 1994 var, at PA skulle klare problemerne i en overgang til en egentlig stat. Efter Abbas afgang kan PLO bede FN om at gøre noget for at få slut på Israels besættelse.
230306, Genevieve Cora Fraser, på www.dissidentvoice.org Hamas krav om palæstinensiske rettigheder er rimeligt. Israel er et racistisk samfund. Planlægningslovgivningen og lovgivningen om fraværendes ejendom er underkendt af FN og betyder konfiskering af arabisk ejendom. I 1948 tog man også palæstinensernes bankkonti ! Hamas skal ikke anerkende Israel før Israel anerkender menneskelige rettigheder for de af sine borgere, der ikke er jøder.
230306, The New York Sun, Så tager Harvard afstand fra sin dekans papir om Israel lobbyen (Stephen Walt & John Mearsheimer, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"
240306, Huffington Post, Jonathan Tasini, "Why Jews Must Speak Out on Palestine", tale ved protestarrangement mod aflysningen af "My Name is Rachel Corrie". Tasini forsøger at blive demokratisk kandidat til senatet.
310306, Mosnews.com. I 1947 mistænkte en MI5 analytiker, at Begin søgte økonomisk hjælp fra sovjetiske hemmelige tjenester viser frigivne dokumenter.
310306, ICH, James Petras: "Record Profits and Rising Authoritarianism" The Ascendancy of Finance Capital. Det var ikke olieselskaberne (men den pro-israelske lobby) der virkede for krigen mod Iraq. Krigen har skadet olieselskabernes interesser i Mellemøsten. Det ses tydeligst i kampagnen mod Iran, hvor olieselskaberne må sætte store investeringer på vågeblus.
310306 Middle East Online. Hamas tilbød Israel en 30 års våbenstilstand i 1997. Men Mossad forsøgte at dræbe Khaled Meshaal i Jordan.
310306, The Guardian. Et lille indlæg fra Ismail Haniyeh, den nye palæstinensiske statsminister. "Do policymakers in Washington and Europe ever feel ashamed of their scandalous double standards? Before and since the Palestinian elections in January, they have continually insisted that Hamas comply with certain demands. ....But we have not heard a single demand of the Israeli parties that took part in this week's elections, though some advocate the complete removal of the Palestinians from their lands."
april 2006, The Scotsman. Avisen er blevet beskyldt for racisme for at kritisere The Jewish National Fund. JNF er en vigtig del af det system, der skal holde israelske arabere borte fra ejendomsret til jord. JNF har del i administrationen af 93 % af Israels jord og deltager også i udviklingen af rent jødiske bosættelser i de besatte områder - i.h.t. international ret en ulovlig aktivitet. Det meste af den jord JNF besidder er taget fra arabere. Fonden sælger ikke, men lejer jorden ud - dog ikke til arabere (20 % af Israels befolkning).
april 2006, Al Ahram Weekly. Khaled Amayreh og Erica Silverman '"Democracy" at work' Gennemgår med nogen ironi den påfaldende kendsgerning, at Norge, Danmark, Holland og England allerede har fuldt USAs og EUs opfordring til at standse al hjælp til den palæstinske regering. [Det er jo også en yderst besynderlig demokratiopfattelse, der kommer til udtryk heri. Der er ingen Grundtvig i den reaktion. - Føj, Fogh !!!! Der e ikke engang tale om en balanceret holdning , f.eks. med krav om, at Israel skal anerkende en palæstinensisk stat, fastlægge sine grænser i aftale med Palæstina, eller bare overlevere den skat, man har opkrævet på Palæstinas vegne. OJ]. USA hsr advaret banker mod at handle med den palæstinensiske regering !! idet de ellers vil blive beskyldt for at hjælpe terrorister. Arab Bank i Jordan har allered givet efter for det pres. Resultatet kan blive "the all-out collapse of the PA on the ground that the world is not willing to accept the outcome of democracy in Palestine, and that Palestinians refuse to act as pliant quislings for the Israeli occupation and its American supporters, guarantors and bankrollers...One of the gravest blunders Hamas has made, which is about to cost the movement a real embarrassment, to say the least, is the inherently false assumption that a govemment can function properly under such an intensely oppressive military occupation. Indeed, experience garnered over the past two weeks has convinced many Palestinians that a govemment functioning under the Israeli occupation has to choose between becoming either a quisling entity or putting itself on a collision course with the occupying power and its supporters - in this case the US and EU."
April 2006, The Progressive Jon Elmer: An interview with Hanan Ashrawi. Ashrawi er valgt til parlamentet for Den 3. Vej. Valget var fair og frit; men alligevel ikke - det foregik jo under besættelse. Der var 80 % valgdeltagelse. Der var klart tale om at folk ville straffe Farah for korruption og uduelighed. Fredsprocessens og fredskræfternes manglende resultater betød, at der kun var den ene mulighed. Traditionelt er det palæstinske folk åbent og ikke-religiøst. Det er ganske urmeligt at straffe det palæstinske folk for at udøve sin demokratiske ret. Olmerts tilkendegivelse af at ensidigt ville fastlægge de fremtidige grænser er bare en fortsættelse af Sharons politik.
030406, ICH, Amir Riaz Israel and The Palestinians I januar 1976 blokerede et amerikansk veto en sikkerhedsrådsresolution om en 2 stats løsning indenfor 1967-grænsen. Rabin ønskede ikke en 3. stat mellem Israel og Jordan. Begins invasion af Libanon i 1982 handlede om at blokere fredsprocessen. PLO var med på en 2 statsløsning, der var Israel ikke.
Israel finansierede i 1970erne Hamas for at svække PLO.
Osloaftalerne gav Palestinian Authority 3 %af det gamle Palæstina i 200 separate enklaver. Knap 70 % af Vestbredden forblev under ren israelsk kontrol.
030406, International Middle East Media Center Mandagens mord på modstandslederenr Raed Obayat var en ren henretning.
070406, AlJazira. Ghazi Hamad talsmand for den nye palæstinske regering siger, at EUs indstilling af hjælpen er afpresning.
070406, Democracy Now, Interview med Robert Fisk og Noam Chomsky, "ROBERT FISK; Well, this is my point, that it's not correct. What's happened is that the wa[ll], which we prefer to call a security barrier or a fence - see you New York Times - it has taken away 10% of the 22% of mandate Palestine was left to negotiate over for the Palestinians. The Jordan Valley has gone. The roads that run like conerete ribbons across the territory, which is the socalled viable Palestinian state to come, are not going to be moved. And the major Jewish settlements or colonies, which is what they would - colonie in French - at least they use the right words in the French press - are going to remain. Ma'aleh Adumim, this vast concrete semi-circle which divides East Jerusalem - or what was Arab East Jerusalem -- off in the West Bank, that, ' effectively, along with the wall -- and it is a wall as tall, if not taller than the Berlin Wall or the "Berlin Fence," as they would have called it if built by the Israelis. This effectively means there is not going to be a Palestinian state. So the idea that Mr. Olmert is going to suddenly invent new frontiers, and we're all going to accept it, is pie in the sky. I can't see how the U.N. can accept a new frontier. I can't see how the E.U. can. I can't see how even our own dear Mr. Blair is going to accept that. I'm sure Mr. Bush will manage a way, though...NOAM CHOMSKY: There is a certain principle that we should adhere to. The principle is that invading armies have no rights whatsoever. They have responsibilities."
110406, The Guardian. England må søge rejst krigsforbrydelsesanklage mod israelske soldater, der dræbte en engelsk fredsaktivist og en engelsk journalist i Gaza. I begge sager har ligsynsdommeren fastslået, at der var tale om bevidst drab.
110406, Haaretz. Det indkommende Knesset medlem Hanna Swaid fra Hadash siger, at Israels lovgivning, specielt planlovene, går ud på at få arabere til at emigrere.
110406, UN News Centre Efter at Gazas grænseovergang til Israel er lukket truer en farlig mangel på mad siger UNRWA.
140406, Reuters. "U.S. blocks UN draft pressing Israel to end attacks". De arabiske lande har i den sidste uge forsøgt at få en udtalelse gennem Sikkerhedsrådet. Udtalelsen kræver at Israel skal standse sine angreb på palæstinensiske mål. Det har man opgivet og i stedet forlangt et åbent møde om Mellemøsten, som vil finde sted mandag, 2. påskedag.
150406, CounterPunch. WILLIAM A. COOK An Israel Accountability Act Et måske ikke helt vellykket forsøg på ironi. Men det illustrerer udmærket urimeligheden i Palestine Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006.
150406, Al Jazira. Rusland tilbyder hjælp til Palestinian Authority. Måtte de snart levere den !
190406, Reuters. "France rules out cutting off Palestinian relief aid". Udenrigsminister Philippe Douste-Blazy citeres for, at det vil være ganske udelukket at afskære hjælpen.
190406, IRNA. Det engelske liberaldemokratiske europaparlamentsmedlem Chris Davies fordømmer Israels apartheid-politik. Han var med en repæsentativ delegation fra Europaparlamentet på Vestbredden. ""Palestinian land is being carved up and communities isolated. The people liken themselves to hamsters kept in cages connected by tubes that are opened and shut at the whim of their Israeli masters." De fleste kommentarer og spørgsmål under besøget handlede om EUs dobbeltmoral, at straffe palæstinenserne uden at gøre noget som helst mod Israels ovetrædelser af international ret.
230406, Jurist. En israelsk ret (Jerusalem District Court) siger i en kendelse, at Palestinian Authority opfylder de juridiske betingelser for at anerkendes som stat, derfor har domstolen intet at sige om en jordstrid i et område A territorium på Vestbredden.
230406, Al Jazira. Hamas rejects bin Laden message. Sami Abu Zuhri siger, at Hamas' ideologi er helt forskelig fra bin Ladens. Hamas vil meget gerne have gode forbindelser med Vesten.
Ahmed Hussein, fra Justice and Equality Movement, en af de sudanske oprørgrupper afviser også bin Laden. I Sudan er det en muslimsk regering, der dræber andre muslimer.
250406, KUNA. Ahmad AI-Yaqoubi chefen for den palæstinensiske vandforsyning siger at Israel stjæler 80 % af Palæstinas vand.
270406, Arutz Sheva, Sverige har trukket sig ud af en international militær luftøvelse i Italien, fordi der deltager en stat, der ikke er med Partnership for Peace. Denne stat er Israel. [Godt brølt Björklund ! Der er sammenhænge, hvor det er vigtigt at holde på formaliteterne. OJ].
280406, Khaleej Times. Chirac foreslår en Verdensbankkonto til at kanalisere hjælp til palæstinenserne udenom Hamas regeringen. Det har han aftalt med Mahmoud Abbas. [Det er da godt, hvis der kommer hjælp frem til palæstinenserne. Men at hjælpe præsidenten med penge udenom den lovlige og valgte regering, det er støtte til et kup og forbudt i international ret. Det er på tide, at vi anerkender palæstinensernes valg - også i samarbejdspraksis, OJ]
020506, Khaleej Times. James Wolfensohn, der netop er trådt tilbage som "kvartettens" udsending i Mellemøsten, stiller alvorlige spørgsmålstegn ved det hensigtsmæssige i at afbryde hjælpen til den Hamasledede palæstinske regering. Man har brugt 1 milliard USD på at opbygge en regeringsadministration og økonomi, som er nødvendig for en levedygtig palæstinensisk stat, skal det bare smides overbord. Det vil næppe give gevinst, at få alle børnene ud af skolen og sulte palæstinenserne. Lokale, regionale og internationale banker frygter sanktioner fra USA, hvis de overfører midler til den palæstinske regering. Og Karni grænseovergangen for gods har været lukket halvdelen af de dage den skulle have fungeret. Der er kommet 23 lastbillæs over pr. dag, mod de 150, der var farudsat i aftalen.
070506, F. William Engdahl, "America's Geopolitical Nightmare and Eurasian Strategic Energy Arrangements" Part I: The disintegration of the Bush Presidency Omtaler: Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, med bl.a. Kissinger, Brzezinski og Scowcroft som medlemmer, men også Mearsheimer og Walt. Koalitionen advarer mod imprislistiske tendenser i USAs udenrigspolitik [??!!, OJ]. Engdahl forventer en bølge af tilbagetrækninger blandt ledende embedsmænd. Part II: Disintegration of US Eurasia Strategic Influence.
070506, International Herald Tribune, Jimmy Carter: Punishing the innocent is a crime. "It is almost a miracle that the Palestinians have been able to orchestrate three elections during the past 10 years, all of which have been honest, fair, strongly contested, without violence and with the results accepted by winners and losers. Among the 62 elections that have been monitored by us at the Carter Center, these are among the best in portraying the will of the people. One clear reason for the surprising Hamas victory for legislative seats was that the voters were in despair about prospects for peace. With American acquiescence, the Israelis had avoided any substantive peace talks for more than five years, regardless of who had been chosen to represent the Palestinian side as interlocutor...The additional restraints imposed on the new government are a planned and deliberate catastrophe for the citizens of the occupied territories, in hopes that Hamas will yield to the economic pressure. With all their faults, Hamas leaders have continued to honor a temporary cease-fire, or hudna, during the past 18 months, and their spokesman told me that this "can be extended for two, 10 or even 50 years if the Israelis will reciprocate."... The Israelis are withholding approximately S55 million a month in taxes and customs duties that, without dispute, belong to the Palestinians. Although some Arab nations have allocated funds for humanitarian purposes to alleviate human suffering, the U.S. government is threatening the financial existence of any Jordanian or other bank that dares to transfer this assistance into Palestine...Israelis and Palestinians both want a durable two-state solution, but depriving the people of Palestine of their basic human rights just to punish their elected leaders is not a path to peace."
080506, The Guardian. EU planlægger at støtte palæstinenserne uden om FN og kvartetten.
100506, AlterNet. John Mearsheimer og Stephen Walt svarer på kritikken. [se Koalitionen for en realistisk udenrigspolitik]. "These countries did not need a lobby because close ties with each of them were in America's strategic interest. By contrast, as Israel has become a strategic burden for the United States..." De beskriver også Baraks løfter i Camp David: " Barak himself acknowledges that "the Palestinians were promised a continuous piece of sovereign territory, except for a razor-thin Israeli wedge running from Jerusalem... to the Jordan River." ... Given all this, it is not surprising that Barak's foreign minister, Shlomo Ben-Ami, who was a key participant at Camp David, later admitted: "If I were a Palestinian, I would have rejected Camp David as well."
100506, AlJazira. På Conference of Islamic Scholars in support of Palestine i Doha, Qatar i onsdags opfordrede en ledende muslimsk gejstlig til boykot af de arabiske banker, der efterkommer amerikanske opfordringer til at blokere overførsler til Palæstina.
120506, Karma Nabulsi, The Guardian, Nakba genopleves nu. Der er skabt mere end 10.000 nye flygtninge ved murbyggeriet. Og udsultningen, der gennemføres via USAs blokade af bankoverførsler til Palæstina vil yderligere fordrive nogen. Udsultningen kan kun ske fordi besættelsesmagtens udgangsforbud, kontrolposter og lukningen af grænseovergange har gjort befolkningen afhængig af nødhjælp. Som en yderligere hån, så stilles der ikke de modsvarende krav om godkendelse af modparten til Israel. Ligesom man tilsyneladende har glemt at en Sikkerhedsresolution af 1967 har forlagt Israel ud af de besatte områder, som det så iøvrigt også er aftalt i 1993 i Osloaftalen.
160506, Arabic News, Fatah ofidal: Israel poisoned Arafat who sought peace Israel har oprettet 155 større og mindre boligområder på Vestbredden med 43000 israelere.
170506, Arutz Sheva. Fhv. præsident Carter siger at Olmerts såkaldte konvergensplan er ulovlig og et brud på de Camp David aftaler, han formidlede mellem Begin og Sadat i 1978. Israel bør forhandle med Mahmoud Abbas i stedet. En aftale ville fjerne en væsentlig årsag til international terrorisme.
190506 ?, Al Ahram Weekly. Khaled Amayreh "Managing cruelty" Om udsultningen af palæstinenserne fra de besatte områder. Hamas står stærkt, folket forstår at USAs og Israels mål er, at få dem til st opgive håbet om et Palæstina med Jerusalem som hovesstad, om flygtningenes ret til tilbagevenden. Hamas er i overensstemmelse med det såkaldt Arabiske Initiativ parat til en normalisering af forholdet til Israel, baseret på UNSC 242 og 338, altså Israels fuldstændige tilbagetrækning fra de besatte områder og en retfærdig og ligelig løsning for de fordrevne i overensstemmelse med UNSC 194.
190506, The Guardian. Ronnie Kasrils (Chef for efterretningstjenesten i ANCs væbnede gren under kampen mod Apartheid) og Victoria Brittain: "Israel should face sanctions". Apartheidstaten Israel skal have samme boykot og sanktioner som apartheidstaten Sydafrika. De vestlige ledre trodser demokratiske valg i Palæstina og bruger kollektiv afstrafning, økonmisk belejring og udsultning som politiske våben for at gennemtvinge deres forretningsbetingelser overfor Israel. Klar tale er derfor nødvendig. Israel har bygget/bygger 390 miles af mur på palæstinsk territorium, trods en kendelse i Den internationale Domstol om at den er ulovlig. Dertil anvendes 10 % af Palæstinas jord - noget er gået til udvidelse af ulovlige jødiske bosættelser. 50.000 palæstinensere er spærret inde på den israelske side af muren. 65 % skal dagligt passere 11 porte igennem muren. Byerne Qalqilya og Jayyous er muret inde med frugtbar agerland og vandressourcer og drivhuse på den israelske side af muren. Og Israel tilbageholder 50 millioner USD/måned, som er opkrævet i skat/told til PA.Derfor må Annan foreslåsanktioner. Og vi må have en global Palæstina solidaritetsbevægelse, som anti-apartheidbevægelsen i 1980erne.
200506, 14 arabiske lande har holdt et 4 dages møde om intensivering af boykotten af Israel. Amerikanske allierede som Iraq, Marocco, Saudi Arabia, Qatar og Kuwait deltog.
220506, Jerusalem Post. Verdenskirkerådet fastslår, at Israel har ansvaret for den nuværende krise i Mellemøsten. Handlingerne mod palæstinenserne kan hverken forsvares i forhold til loven eller moralsk. Man opfordrer sine 340 medlemskirker og 550 millioner kristne til at bruge lovliuge former for pression for t fremme freden og standse ulovlige aktiviteter. WCC roser den presbyterianske kirkes initiativ om at drage sine investeringer ud af Israel.
260506, Full Text of the National Conciliation Document of the Prisoners. By Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails (representing FATEH, HAMAS, Islamic Jihad, PFLP, and DFLP).
260506, Conservative Voice, Patrick J. Buchanan, Retningen er: en tredje intifada. Israel vil ensidigt fastlæge grænserne, og USA vil anerkende dem. Det får Hamas tilabge til terror og den 3. intifada kan begynde. "Rightly, Americans say we will not let Israel be destroyed. But why must we acquiesce in Israel's annexations of Arab land? Why must we remain silent to her deprivations of the Palestinians ?"
260506, Justin Raimondo, Antiwar: "Enough Is Enough, People have had it up to here with The Lobby" Ser på den jødiske lobby i Washington. Og citerer medlem af repræsentanternes hus for Minnesota, Betty McCollum: "During my nineteen years serving in elected office, including the past five years as a Member of Congress, never has my name and reputation been maligned or smeared as it was last week by a representative of AIPAC," McCollum goes on to say in a letter to AIPAC President Howard Kohr that "until I receive a formal, written apology from your organization I must inform you that AIPAC representatives are not welcome in my offices or for meetings with my staff."
Monde Diplomatique, Juin 2006, p. 8 - 9, Wendy Kristianasen: Le Hamas à l'épreuve du pouvoir. Hamas vil anerkende Israel, hvis Israel overholder UNSC 242.
020606. The Daily Star, Libanon. Den palæstinensiske udenrigsminister siger på et kinesisk-arabisk samarbejdsmøde i Beijing at det Arabiske Freds Initiativ af 2002 ikke er et praktisk initiative.
020606, The Jewish Week. Israelerne er bange for flere krigsforbrydersager, som den, der fik general Doron Almog, til at blive på flyet i London.
030606, Forward. Det varede ikke længe inden McCollum gav sig.
030606, CounterPunch. ROSEMARY RADFORD RUETHER "We Have No One to Talk To" "For more than thirty years it has been Israel's policy to assassinate or otherwise eliminate popular Palestinian leaders who were independent and had wide trust of the people, while seeking to construct a subservient leadership with whom it could negotiate "peace" on Israel's terms." I 1976 fik de palæstinensiske byer lov til selv at vælge borgmestre. Da posterne blev vundet af PLO startede en israelsk mordkampagne mod dem. Og i 1982 blev de afsat. Fra 290900 til 150506 har Israel dræbt 233 "militante". Bare i den uge Ruether var i Ramallah var besættelsesmagtens styrker 50 gange inde på Vestbredden.
040606, The Onserver. Israeli secret agent threatened to kill me, says Briton. Vist drejer det sig om en engelsk-araber, der arbejder for en arabisk hjælpeorganisation - men den gør det i samarbejde med Britain's Department for International Development. [Betænkeligt, at der gik 5 dage inden ambassaden besøgte ham, OJ].
050606, Patrick J. Buchanan skriver i The American Conservative "The Persecution of the Palestinians": "For a textbook example of why we are hated, consider Gaza and the West Bank. There, a brutal Israeli/US.-led cutoff in aid has been imposed on the Palestinians for voting the wrong way in a free election.... Terrorism has been described as waging war on innocents to break their political leaders. Is that not a fair description of what we are doing to the Palestinians ? No wonder they hate us."
060606, Robert Fisk, The Independent, sætter et ersonligt ansigt på en palæstinensisk "martyr".
070606, CounterPunch. LAURA RIBEIRO Can the Anti'Boycotters Please Stand Up? The Israeli Boycott of Palestinian Education. Om Israels mange former for chikane mod udenlandske forskere i Palæstina, mod palæstinensiske studenter og forskere etc. Med en opfordring til israelske forskere om nu at stå op for den akademiske frihed - som israelere gerne påberåber sig, når vi vil boykotte dem !! I alt 11 palæstinensiske højere læreanstalter har tidsvis været lukket af israelerne. Der er stadige visumproblemer og trakasserier. Selvom besættelsesmagten har pligt til at opretholde undervisningen.
090606 ?, Ynetnews.com South African union joins boycott of Israel. Congress of South African Trade Unions tilslutter sig Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)s boykot mod Israel som en apartheidstat. "Medisha further accuses world powers are turning a blind eye from such injustices because they "are seduced by apartheid Israel's justification of brutality through the pretext of 'security'." He claims that the West silences any criticism of Israel citing anti-Semitism. "It is time for the global workers movement to stand firm and principled against hypocrisy and double standards. We cannot remain silent any longer. There will be no peace in this region and in the world, without justice".
100606, Btselem. 5 israelske menneskerettighedsorganisationer appelerer til Israels premier- og forsvarsministre om straks at standse drabene på civile. Der er tale om en meget fornuftig udtalelse, som jeg meget anbefaler enhver at læse. Den står på det ideologiske grundlag, som jeg altid har opfattet som det jødiske - det som også optoges i de senere afarter, kristendommen og islam. TAK skal de 5 organisationer have !!!
110606, Reuters Alert Net. us, EU spar over Palestinian aid plan - diplomats. EU foreslår, at man betaler lønnen til palæstinske sundhedsarbejdere og måske andre. Ialt 30 millioner USD, 25 % af PAs lønudbetalinger. USA forhaler beslutningen med [urealistiske] ændringsforslag - [imens sulter Palæstina !!!, Nu må vi fortælle bankerne, at de har at udbetale de bevilgede midler - og blæse på USAs trusler om blokade. En lodret ordre fra EUkommissionen, så kan bankerne vælge, hvem de vil lystre - og det kan man jo f.eks. offentliggøre. OJ].
120606 ?, Al-Ahram Weekly: "Dahlan vows to decimate Hamas" Dahlan er ikke israeler, men Fatahs tidligere sikkerhedschef. Det lover ikke godt ! (Udtalelserne blev optaget før eller efter et officielt interview).
120606, Haaretz. Report: Israeli spy network in Lebanon uncovered. Mahmoud Qassem Rafa, 59, fhv. politimand og hans gruppe indrømmer drab på Mahmoud og Nidal al-Majdoub (Islamic Jihad) og Ali Salah (Hezbollah) med flere.
130606, Haaretz. Lebanese Man Confesses To Killings On Behalf Of Israel. Mahmoud Rafeh som arresteredes i sidste uge for drabene på 2 medlemmer af Islamisk Jihad, 260506, har indrømmet 7 års forbidelser til Mossad, drabene på Abu og Nidal Hamze, Ali Hassan Deeb (1999) og Jihad Jibreel -søn af Ahmed Jibreel, PFLP-GCs leder, (2002). Forskeligt terroristudstyr forevistes i TV af den libanesiske hær.
150606, electronicintifada, Congress grossly misled about plight of Palestinian Christians. "In a letter to the American Congress on 13 June, Open Bethlehem's chief executive Leila Sansour, a Christian from Bethlehem, expressed her community's shock at the gross misrepresentation of the threat facing the Christians of the Holy Land. She urged Congress to pay heed to the plight of the oldest Christian community in the world..... In the Holy city of Bethlehem, the wall forcefully expropriates most of Bethlehem's valuable land and historic landmarks depriving many Christian families from their homes, links to their community in Jerusalem and their income...Between the years 2000 and 2004, 357 Christian famiiies (10% of the Christian population) emigrated from Bethlehem alone... This flight is primarily a result of the fear generated by repeated Israeli military incursions, and has been exacerbated by the economic devastation of Bethiehem due to the Israeli closure imposed on the city. "
160606, Times of Oman, Court orders Israel to tear down West Bank barrier. Den israelske højesteret har beordret nedrivning af 5 km af adskillelsesmuren efter en sag rejst af en palæstinænsisk landsby.
160606, BBC, EU endorses Palestinian aid plan. Man vil hjælpe Abbas og forbigå den valgte regering (Hamas).
190606, The Electronic Intifada, ISRAEL LOBBY WATCH, Former Dutch Ambassador Calls for Sanctions if Israel Refuses to Comply with International Law. "Some weeks ago I heard Jan Wijenberg, a retired Dutch Ambassador speak about what the International Community could do to break with its complicity to the ongoing violations of international law and human rights by the Israeli regime...In 2005 Ehud Barak stated on Dutch te!evision2 that - in a secret and illegal retaliatory campaign against the Palestinian hostage takers at the Munich Olympic Winter Games - he personally had murdered thirteen innocent citizens...The annexation of East Jerusalem by Ehud Olmert while he was the mayor of West-Jerusalem can according to the Fourth Geneva Convention be interpreted as a war crime...Israeli policies are driven by the Zionist ideal of creating a Jewish state, including the Palestinian territories. Israel is aiming systematically at destroying the identity of the Palestinian people...Israel is the world's sole remaining occupying colonial power. It systematically sabotages all international efforts to end the occupation. In its capacity of occupying power Israel violates numerous obligations emanating from Security Council Resolutions and the Geneva Conventions. It also breaches the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights... Israel has adopted as a strategy the execution of land and water grabs, the destruction of Palestinian infrastructure (including in education and health), the carrying out of extraterritorial executions, torture, and collective punishments and keeping thousands of Palestinians imprisoned indefinitely without charge or prosecution... With referral to the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice of 9 July 2004 Wijenberg calls upon the Dutch ministers to show the world that they are serious about international law, justice and democracy."
200606, The Guardian, Max Hastings, Israel Can No Longer Rely On The Support Of Europe's Jews. The feeling is growing that Jewish honour and heritage have been more convincingly preserved in the diaspora. "We may hope that it will never become respectable to be anti-semitic. However, Israel is discovering that it can no longer frighten non-Jews out of opposing its policies merely by accusing them of anti-semitism.... David Goldberg, the former rabbi of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London, has just published a book that will rouse plenty of wrath in Israel. Entitled The Divided Self, its theme is that in modern times the Jews of the diaspora have preserved the honour and heritage of the Jewish people far more convincingly than Israel's citizens."
210606, Reuters AlertNet, U.N. again urges Israel to cease targeted killings.
290606, Guardian, Seizure of Hamas MPs raises international alarm. Siger G8. "The 57-nation Organisation of the islamic Conference condemned israel's "criminal" seizure of Palestinian ministers and said diplomacy was needed to release the Israeli soldier. "These Israeli measures do not only constitute a flagrant violation of international law and signed agreements but are also a brutal crime and aggression against democracy and the representatives of the Palestinian people," the Saudi-based organisation said."
300606, Haaretz Editorial, The Government Is Losing Its Reason.
010706, "Information Clearing House" <ei nyhedsbrev: "Rabbi Michael Lemer: When Will They Ever Learn?: Those who care about the Jewish people, want to preserve it and protect it, want to see a safe and secure Israel and a safe and secure Jewish people all around the world, have to shout out now in very clear words: "Stop what you are doing, Israel, not just at the moment, but in the essence of your policies. http://www.informationclearinphouse.info/article13810.htm
060706, KUNA. Israel has pounded 1500 rounds of artillery on Gaza - UN official. Algerian ambassador to the UN Idriss Jazairy, udtrykker på vegne af den afrianske gruppe indignation og fordømmelse.
060706, The Guardian, Jonathan Steele: "Europe's response to the siege of Gaza is shameful". Kun Schweitz - der er befriet for EU medlemsskab - hsr fordømt Israels fremfærd i Gaza. At tage strømforsyningen fra 750.000 mennesker er ikke tiladeligt. Ligesålidt som at kidnappe en halv regering og et kvart parlament.. En stat, der gør det adskiller sig ikke fra en terrororganisation ! (Citat fra Gideon Levy). Nu må EU afbryde sin unyttge politik med total opslutning omkring USA og Israel. "Whether the ultimate agenda is to starve a Palestinians into fleeing to Egypt, Jordan and even further afield, or merely to keep Gaza as a prison of the unemployed and the West Bank as a bunch of Bantustans, Israeli policy mocks every UN resolution on the conflict."
070706, The Asian Age, India votes against Israel at UNHRC. 29 lande forlanger, at Israel standser sin militære aktion i de besatte områder og straks frigiver de arresterede palæstinensiske ministre og parlamentsmedlemmer. De 29 lande: Algeria, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Uruguay og Zambia.
090706, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) skriver til FNs sikkerhedsråds m3edlemmer om den dramatiske og beklagelige situation i det besatte palæstinensiske område og opfordrer til umiddelbar indgriben. De israelske styrkers "Operation Summer Rains" er i hvert fald krigsforbrydelser, måske endda forbrydelser mod menneskeheden. Overtrædelserne gennemgås summarisk. Aktioner direkte mod civilbefolkningen er "kollektiv afstraffelse" og strider således mod artikel 33 i 4. Genevekonvention.
Det europæiske Råd kritiseres for at have afbrudt sin hjælp til den palæstinensiske regering og derved at have udløst en humanitær krise. FIDH mener at Sikkerhedsrådet i henhold til sin egen resolution 1674/2006 on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts, vedtaget 280406 bør reagere med en interventionsstyrke.
100706, UPI, "Intl. Intelligence Israeli use of poisonous material alleged" Det palæstinensiske sundhedsministerium beskylder Israel for at anvende en ny type ammunition med giftigt materiale. "The report indicated that "most casualties who were submitted to surgeries were caused by strong explosions that led to the amputation and carbonization of limbs while shrapnel caused small openings in the body through which internal parts, including intestines and spleen, are burned.
100706, MediaLens. "Blaming the victim in Gaza". Gennemgår et antal eksempler på den vestlige presses fantatiske ensidighed til fordel for Israel. Citerer Norman Finkelstein for at siden sept 2005 har Israel skudt mellem 7000 og 9000 rigtige, militære granater ind i Gaza. Palæstinensere har skudt 1000 små hjemmelavede (Kassam)raketter ind i Israel. Ca. 80 palæstinensere er dræbt, 8 israelere. 9000 palæstinensere holdes fangne i Israel, palæstinenserne holder 1 israelsk soldat. Israel har afbrudt Gazas forsyning af såvel mad som vand og ødelagt kraftværket. Og det kalder New York Times, 030706, for en "relativt moderat" operation. Kun det schweitziske udenrigsministerium har klart udtrykt, at det er en klar og bastant overtrædelse af Genevekonventionerne. 314 artikler i den engelske presse i de sidste 14 dage har ordet Gaza, men kun 12 af dem nævner "Geneva conventions".
130706, ICH, Prof. Tanya Reinhart What Are They Fighting For. Ikke for Gilad Shalit. Angrebet er planlagt for måneder siden. Målet er at ødlægge Hamas infrastruktur og regering. Eskalationen begyndte 080806, med mordet på regeringsmedlemmet Abu Shamhadana. 280606 fulgte store ødelæggelser og tilbageholdelse af Hamasledelse på Vestbredden. [Sharons] tilbagetrækning fra Gaza forudsate at Gaza forblev under fuldstændig Israelsk kontrol. Ikke en eneste af de vilkår man blev enige om i aftalen om grænseovergange i november 2005 er opfyldt. Israel har byttet en dyr besættelse til en billig fangelejr helt isoleret fra Verden [sagde nogen KZ, OJ]. Israel vil ikke overveje en afslutning på besættelsen. Derfor skal de sultes, bombes, terroriseres med jetflybrag indtil de forstår at oprør er udsigtsløs. I Israels version styres Gaza af bander i ledtog med fangevogterne [som i et rigtigt fængsel, OJ]. "From this perspective, it is necessary to feed the Palestinians in Gaza so that it would be possible to continue to kill them undisturbed."
140706, Payvand. "US Vetoes UN Resolution Condemn Israel's Gaza offensive", 4 nationer undlod, herunder Danmark !!!
150706, Statement from the General Secretary of Hizballah His Excellency Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah To the Nation, the Lebanese people, the resistance fighters, the Zionists, and the Arab leaders. Hovedbudskabet er, at det israelske angreb handler om, at genoprette situationen fra før Hezbollah fordrev besættelseshæren fra Libanon. Det budskab bekræftes i STRATFORs analyse - i helt andre ord, så vist.
150706, Stratfor: Israel is preparing the battlefield. Udover at udrydde Hezbollah vil Israel gå efter Syrien, selvom man ikke vil have det syriske styre udskiftet. Der er 25.000 amerikanere i Libanon. Og en Marine Expeditionary Force på 2200 til at hjælpe dem ud.
160706, IRNA. Præsident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opfordrer Verden til ikke at lukke øjnene for zionisternes aggression. Han opfordrer zionisterne til at sige undskyld, så vil de hæderlige nationer i området se bort fra fortiden. Svarer zionisterne ikke fornuftigt på denne invitation må de forvente en grum skæbne.
160706, The Independent, Robert Fisk. Der ligger måneders planlægning bag - på begge sider. Beskriver "the massacre of Marwaheen". Det er ikke så sikkert, at Israel vinder. Det vellykkede raketangreb på et israelsk krigsskib peger i en anden retning. Et ubemandet Hezbollah fy har fotograferet Israels tophemmelige militære lufttrafikkontrolcenter i Miron. Israelerne prøvede med den amerikanske strategi med at have journalister inkorporeret i hærens enheder (embedded). Hezbollahs Al Manar TV kunne således sende billeder direkte fra det ramte skib.
160706, Aljazeera: "we are just at the beginning," Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said.
190706, The Guardian, US will back demands for ceasefire - after a few more days of carnage. Israel skal helst nå at udrydde Hezbollah. Amerikanerne har givet Israel grønt lys og forhindrer FN i at kræve våbenstilstand. Blair støtter dette og saboterer den europæiske enighed om Mellemøsten.
190706, The Daily Star, Libanon. Mkhaimar Abusada: "The unfair politics of Paiestinian prisoner releases". Siden 1967 har Israel haft 650.000 palæstinensere fængslet i kortere eller længere tid. Og hver dag kommer nye til. Alene i år er 3000 palæstinensere fængslet. Efter PLOs underskrivelse af Osloaftalerne i september 1993 skulle der have været en frigivelse af flertalle af disse fanger - som aldrig kom. Børn af de palæstinensere, der sidder i Israels fængsler har i de sdiste par uger forlangt en fangeudveksling, deres forældre for Shalit. Professor Abusada tilslutter sig denne tanke, men understreger, at en gentagelse af Netanyahus manøvre med kun at frigive kriminelle fanger vil være uakceptabel.
200706, swissinfo - Calls mount for Switzerland to stop its military collaboration with Israel.
250706, AFX. FNs humanitære koordinator Jan Egeland kritiserer Israels bombning sidste måned af elværket i Gaza. Her er der klart tale om umådeholden magtanvendelse.
270706, The Guardian. Palestinians killed as israeli army moves in. Mindst 21 palæstinensere dræbt i Gaza og den israelske hær fortsætter med at trække træer op [Ofte handler det om 100 år gamle oliventræer].
270706, AFP, "US Blocks Security Council Statement On UN Peacekeepers Death." Frankrig og Kina fordømmer drabene. Kineserne siger, at når man ikke til enighed får det indflydelse på andre drøftelser i Sikkerhedsrådet. Artiklen omtaler flere henvendelser til israelerne under den 6 timer lange beskydning. Canadas premierminister Harper taler om en tragedie. [Han tør ikke tydeligvis ikke sige noget !]
270706, Zaman. Selcuk Gultasli, "Belgian Jewish Leader: Israel Committing War Crimes". Det drejer sig om formanden for Union of Belgian Jewish Progressives Dr. Jacques Ravedovitch. "[I]t is a shame that Jews who were once exposed to the holocaust are doing the same evil things against another nation today."
280706, Skånska Dagbladet. Alf Ronnby har et af sine gode indlæg: "En trojansk häst". "Israel är en misslyckad statsbildning vars tillkomst grundades i terrorverksamhet....Irans president Mahmoud Ahmadineiad lar en poäng, när han säger att européerna borde gett judarna ett land i Europa (tex i östra Tyskland) för att lätta sitt dåliga samvete efter förintelsen....Tyvärr har politiken och strategin att skapa ett Palestina för både judar och araber hamnat på soptippen. Visst, den kan idag te sig helt orealistisk, men är förmodligen den enda lösningen, som på sikt är hållbar. "Tvåstatslösningen" är det sannolikt inte.... Och flatheten hos europeiska ledare inför allt detta är vämjelig."
280706, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) Down the Memory Hole. Israeli contribution to conflict is forgotten by leading papers.
310706, The Guardian, Deported MP attacks 'outrageous' treatment by Israeli officials. Labour parlamentsmedlemmet Lynne Jones var sammen med 8 andre som repræsentanter for en britisk hjælpeorganisation på vej med bøger til et børnebibliotek i Ramallah. Hun blev afvist ved grænsen i Tel Aviv lufthavn efter 11 timers forhør (uden mad og drikke). Besøget var planlagt et år forvejen, den israelske ambassade i London fuldt informeret. Parlamentsmedlemmet deltog fordi gruppen sidste år var blevet afvist på samme måde.
Monde Diplomatique, Août 2006, p. 6 - 7, Gadi Algazi: La Cisjordanie, nouveau "Far Est" du capitalisme israélien. Kort med muren ved Bilin. Israel optræder som kolonimagt. Mange huse bygges ulovligt, men lovliggøres efterfølgende. Spildevandet afledes så det forurener en flod - der anvendes til drikkevand (formentlig, men det siges ikke direkte, af palæstinensere). Sharons gamle projekt med kolonier på den anden side af "den grønne linie" er genoptaget og forstærkes ved annektion i forbindelse med murbyggeriet.
020806, Truthdig, Robert Scheer, Israel's Dependency on the Drug of Militarism. En reel fredsproces, som hver eneste amerikansk præsident siden Truman har stået for, blev opgivet af Bush, til fordel for en bizar tro på, at man kan omskabe Mellemøsten i en mere USAvenlig skikkelse.
080806 fandt jeg en interessant (lang) artikel af Joel Bainerman: "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Arab-Israeli Conflict - Why The Middle East Conflict Continues To Exist". Hans tese er, at arabere er ikke Israels værste fjender, israelere er ikke de arabiske landes værste fjender. Det er en 3. spiller, den fremmede elite, der gør Mellemøsten ustabil. Konflikten ville forlængst være slut, hvis ikke de fremmede (USA, England, Kina, Frankrig, Tyskland) holdt den ved lige. Israelere og arabere har altså en fælles fjende. Det handler om kontrol med olien, kontrol med petrodollars og om at sælge våben. Midlerne er de internationale medier og korrupte nationale ledere på begge sider.
"This collection of observations was compiled to help Jews and Arabs understand why the Middle East conflict continues to fester. The intention is to promote the realization that these two peoples are not each other's worst enemy; a third player, the Foreign Elite (FE), is why the Middle East remains unstable. A truly objective analysis of this subject, without the baggage Jews and Arabs have been fed via their national leaderships, reveals that the Middle East conflict would have ended decades ago had foreigners not kept it alive. The continuation of the conflict serves their interests i.e. oil supplies, recycling petrodollars, or multi-billion dollar weapons sales. The Palestinian-Israeli "situation" is thus merely a fig leaf for the FE, allowing their other agendas can be pursued undetected."
Der ligger megen sandhed i den observation. God gammel imperialistisk, kolonialistisk "del og hersk"politik. Jeg har kun læst de første 3 kapitler, der er en del gentagelser, men hovedlinien or sund.
080806, Petition for U.S. Jewish Solidarity with Muslim and Arab Peoples of the Middle East. En rigtig god udtalelse. Den er baseret på den jødiske humanisme. "Vi er rasende, me ikke overraskede over Israels brutalitet - og USAs støtte hertil...ingen retfærdighed, intet demokrati, ingen fred kan komme af en sådan brutalitet...Israels taktik kan ikke sikre jødisk sikkerhed men udgør en livsfare for israelske borgeres og jøders liv i hele verden.
090806, MotherJones, Tariq Ali: Toward A New Radical Politics. A lion of the literary left on the war in Lebanon, U.S. imperialism, and the prospects for reform in the Middle East. Jeg har altid ment, at enten fik palæstinenserne en rimelig stat eller også skal der en en-statsløsning til. Efter at det er blevet klart for palæstinenserne, at Osloaftalerne var en farce og at ingen israelsk regering er parat til at gennemføre bare de små indrømmelser de gav heri, er det kun et spørgsmål om tid. Israelernes sidste handlinger viser, at en enkeltstatsløsning er den eneste mulige... Aggressionen i Libanon skulle aflede opmærksomheden fra den langtids praksis militært, økonomisk og geografisk, der som mål har likvideringen af den palæstinske nation...Der har været små, men vigtige, demonstartioner mod krigen i TelAviv, Haifa og Jerusalem... Der er en analogi til Sydafrika, hvor de hvide også hen af vejen opdagede, at det ikke forsætte...Vi må beskytte folk ret til modstand, også når det gælder folk vi i øvrigt ikke sympatiserer med. "Interviewer: To judge from your writings you don't appear to place much stock in the potential of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to effect change. Tariq Ali: I don't. In the first place, I don't call them NGOs, I call them WGOsWestern Governmental Organizations. Some of them do decent work but by and large what they do is to buy up lots and lots of people in these countries who are not then engaged in any form of political activity or social movements, who basically pay themselves salaries, run small offices, and go on demonstrations chanting, "Another world is possible...Where there is a different model emerging is not in the Islamic World but in Latin America. This is a continent where you have Ja giant social movements from below pushing a whole range of politicians and political leaders to power through democratic elections and then putting pressure on them to fulfill their promises-and in Venezuela and Bolivia the leaders are beginning to do so." Det giver et attraktivt forbillede for resten af Verden.
100806, William Bowles, "THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE ZIONIST STATE OF ISRAEL...?". Der er 2 mulige konsekvenser. Een palæstinastat for alle eller katastrofe for alle. Hezbollah har ikke bevæbnet sig for at udrydde Israel, men af samme grund som Nasser i sin tid bevæbnede Ægypten. For at et angreb på hhv. Hezbollah/Libanon og Ægypten ikke skulle være uden omkostninger. Israel har bevidst gjort hvad man kunne for at have et højt spændingsniveau i området. Dette for at kunne opretholde hæren og militærudgifterne på det høje niveau. Der tale om fascisme.
110806, Jerusalem Post, "Haredi rabbis seek 'hudna' with Hamas". Endelig en positiv nyhed fra Mellemøsten. Haredi er en meget orthodox jødisk gruppe. Hudna betyder på arabisk nærmest våbenhvile, men uden våbenhvilens aspekt af kortvarig.
110806, The Guardian. Leader. The search for an exit. Efter lederen skulle det hele nu dreje sig om at redde Israels og Olmerts ansigt. De skal have en chance for at klatre ned uden i alt for høj grad at se ud som tabere. Samtidig understreger lederen de store ødelæggelser, tabene af menneskeliv, drabene på mindst 200 i Gaza. Ødelæggelsen af Israels renomé og den israelske hærs funktion som afskrækkelse nævnes også. På den baggrund var det da rimeligt, at forlange, at nogen blev draget politisk til ansvar - men det ligger tydeligt redaktionen fjernt. Og den debat, som redaktionen mener Israel har behov for, må da også, hvis den skal lede frem - især hvis den skal lede frem til fred - indeholde et opgør med krigspolitikerne og krigspolitikken.
120806 ?, Al Ahram, Erica Silverman: "Plain genocide". Om Israels 7 uger lange offensiv i Gaza. Israelerne laver husundersøgelser, arresterer, bulldozer huse, høster/ødelægger afgrøder og ødelægger infrastruktur. An Najar hospitalet i Rafah mangler forsyninger og man står med mange ofre for statsterrorismen, som skal amputeres. Der anvendes nye typer af våben, beskrivelsen tillader ingen sikker konklusion om arter udover at et af våbnene må være en fragmentationsbombe, formentlig den type amerikanerne kalder "daisycutter", de mange brandsår kunne tyde på fosfor.
120806 ?, Al Ahram, Azmi Bishara: "Self-fulfilling prophecy". It is symptomatic of Western racism that Israel and its sympathisers are blind to what it is ordinary Arabs find admirable in Hizbullah. "Collateral damage" is used to refer to the civilian casualties in the war against tenorism, or the war against those who target civilians. Generally the victims of collateral damage far outnumber the victims of actual terrorist attacks. ... In like manner, the victims of bombs are divided into individual human beings and statistical estimates based on scattered body parts amidst the rubble, the former being the victims of terrorism the latter of collateral damage...The awkward fact for Israel is that Hizbullah, in its long war against Israel, never made a policy of targeting civilians, except in retaliation for Israel's targeting of Lebanese civilians. This, moreover, is a recent development. Throughout the 17 years of its fight against the Israeli occupation of Lebanon, Hizbullah killed only 20 Israeli civilians as opposed to the thousands of Lebanese killed by Israel....These statements, and others, [by] Israeli politicians and military officials reflect a belief that the Arabs do not have to be treated according to the rules that apply to other peoples and nations.
Den af Frankrig og USA fremlagte Sikkerhedsrådsresolution synes at være i stand til at forandre den imaginære kulturkonflikt til en selvopfyldende profeti. Uanset den politiske stillingstagen, der ligger bag nså er den som litterært dokument Israels fortælling. Israel, siger den, er truet af Hezbollahs raketter. Hvis Israel skal standse sit bombardement, skal Hezbollah først holde op med at sende raketter ind i Israel. Enhver ved, at Israel betragter den blotte eksistens af raketter, der kunne true lsndets byer, som en aggressionshandling, der skal besvares. Det er Israels ret, at true Libanon; ikke Libanons ret at true Israel.... Resolutionen slutter med at opfordre til Hezbollahs afvæbning. Det var Israels oprindelige mål...De arabiske folk beundrer Hezbollah... netop fordi organisationen adskiller sig fra arabiske regimer og samtidigt fra organisationer som Al Qaeda. Hezbollah er ikke korrupt og impotent som de arabiske regimer og organisationen går ikke krysteragtigt efter civile som terrororganisationer. Faktisk kæmpede den en modig kamp direkte mod den israelske hær...Hezbollah anser ikke libanesiske civiles blod for at være mindre værd end israelske civiles.
The Arabs admire Hizbullah for the same qualities that Americans or Europeans would admire a political party that led them in a struggle against a foreign enemy, valour, courage, persistence, organisational skill, modesty in words, strength in action, a strong grassroots base, a desire to help the needy and other manifestations of a social conscience.
150806, Guardian, George Monbiot, In a military democracy [Israel], it is the warriors who call the shots. Monbiot rejser spørgsmålet om Israel var ude efter at gennemføre Ben Gurions plan om et Israel fra Litanifloden til Sharm el Sheikh.
160806, .haaretz. IDF troops kill 5 Hezbollah gunmen in south Lebanon. Israel har fremskyndet planerne for tilbagetrækning fordi "markstyrkerne er lette ofre for Hezbollah-angreb" Libanons forsvarsminister, Elias Murr, siger at hæren ikke skal afvæbne Hezbollah, ikke gøre det Israel ikke klarede. Modstandsbevægelsen samarbejder til det yderste og så snart hæren kommer til syden vil der ikke være andre våben end hærens. Den libanesiske hær vil kun blive udstationeret ved grænsen efter at FNstyrken har sikret sig, at alle israelske styrker er ude af Libanon.
160806, Al Jazira, Hamas: Mossad assassination bid fails. Det handler om mordforsøg på Khalid Mishaal. De forsøgte det allerede i 1997 i Jordan. Også den gang uden held.
160806, Guardian, Suzy Wighton, "Blair's Middle East policy has driven me to return my MBE" (Member of the Order of the British Empire, en engelsk orden).
190806, ICH, Punyapriya Dasgupta: "Israel: A state Built On Lies" Balfour erklæringen, 1917, var den første større fjer i Chaim Weizmanns hat. Han hjalp englænderne under 1. Verdenskrig. Albert Einstein var imod oprettelsen af Israel og spurgte angiveligt Weizmann "hvad med araberne ?". Israel blev optaget i FN på betingelser. Man skulle erklære sig bundet af 2 generalforsamlingsresolutioner, nov.1947 om delingen af Palæstina og dec. 1948 om de palæstinensiske flygtninges ret til at vende tilbage, eller få kompensation.
200806, New York Times, "Israel Committed to Block Arms and Kill Nasrallah". Lørdag arresterede Israel den palæstinensiske vicepremierminister, Nasser al - Shaer.
210806, AlterNet, Larry C. Johnson, Uncomfortable Truths about Israel. "The time has come to look to the past for some answers. When Israel kidnapped Adolf Eichmann, the mastermind of the Final Solution, in the 1960s, the Israelis gave the Nazi a defense counsel, a public trial, and a chance to confront his accusers. That was a moment of greatness for Israel because it provided a graphic demonstration of the differenee between a terrorist state and a civilized nation. Israel gave a mass murderer due rocess and, in the course of events, provided the ultimate condemnation of the Nazi regime."
280806, ICH, Immanuel Wallerstein: "What Can Israel Achieve ?" Israel has always depended on its own military strength and an outside force - first the Soviet Union, then France, and now the United States - to achieve its security. Israel had better understand that it needs Hamas and Hezbollah if it is to survive. Synspunktet er, at de 2 organisationer er så forankrede i den arabiske befolkning, at de kan levere fred - i modsætning til diverse korrupte regeringer.
280806, haaretz, Amora Hass: "A policy of no-return". Siden april d.å. har Israel blokeret for tilbagevending af palæstinensere med vestligt borgerskab også de, der har levet på Vestbredden i mange år (og måttet rejse ud og forny deres visum med jævne mellemrum). Ægtefæller til palæstinensere blokeres også. Siden 2000 har borgere fra arabiske lande været blokeret.
sept. 2006, Forced Migration Review 26: Palestinian displacement: a case apart ? Understreger, at Israels krybende overtagelse af land stadig foregår ukontrolleret.
090906, The Guardian, Ismail Haniyeh: "A policy of punishment". Efter alt, hvad palæstinenserne har lidt fra engelsk side, havde man ventet at en ny politikergeneration ville bryde med fortiden "Regrettably, however, the last decade has witnessed the most unfair and one-sided British policy towards the region since the creation of the state of Israel in our homeland close to 60 years ago..., During July and August, Israeli occupation troops killed 251 Palestinians, about half of them civilians - without a word of criticism from the British government....For him[Blair], three captured Israeli soldiers are far more important than 10,000 Palestinian detainees...We know why our people are being collectively punished. It is because we refuse to give up our right to freedom and independence...It is only through justice that peace will prevail in our region and Muslims, Christians and Jews once again live in harmony."
120906, CounterPunch, Kathleen Christison: "The Moral Bankruptcy of Israel's Founding Idea" The Coming Collapse of Zionism. Hun ser hovedproblemet som, at Israel bygger på en racistisk tanke. Zionismens hovedide er, at jøderne har en overordnet national, menneskelig og naturlig ret til landet. Den accepterer ingen begrænsninger i sin adfærd og ingen territorial begrænsning. Den ubeherskede anvendelse af "cluster"bomber viser, Israels hensigt: at rense, i det mindste det sydlige, Libanon for arabere og sikre at landet kun fungerer på Israels nåde. FN opgør, at der stadig ligger op til 100.000 stykker ueksploderede småbomber, som vil dræbe ikke mindst mange børn i måneder fremover. At udlægge anti-person ammunitions er ikke præcisionsbombning, men etnisk udrensning. De fleste af disse bombninger skete i de sidste 72 timer inden våbenhvilen.
140906, Sydney Morning Herald, "Israel will fight court order to free Hamas MPs" Det er en militærret, der beordret deres frigivelse.
140906, Jerusalem Post, "US moves to scuttle Arab plan for international peace conference". De arabiske lande vil bruge FNs generalforsamling til st tvinge Sikkerhedsrådet ind i en nøglerolle i indkaldelsen af en international fredskonference.
200906, Middle East Times, Israel seizes $lmn in bank raids across West Bank. Israels hær har beslaglagt over 1 million USD samt computere og dokumenter fra banker udover Vestbredden.
240906, Observer, We're back to zero, Abbas admits. Det siger han, efter at Haniyeh har sagt nej til at lede en regeringskoalition, der anerkender Israel. Hamas har sagt ja til en national enhedsregering for en Palæstinensisk stat "ved siden af Israel". [Der er altså kun tale om vestlig udpresning og internt ordkløveri. OJ].
250906, Saudi prince may have held secret meeting with PM envoi.
260906, Al Jazira, Gaza a prison, says UN envoy. Det er FNs specielle rapporteur om menneskerettigheder i de besatte palæstinensiske områder, John Dugard, der siger det. "He said; "In other countries this process might be described as ethnic cleansing but political correctness forbids such language where Israel is concerned."
270906, WorldNetDaily, Criminal charges recommended against Olmert. Det handler om hans huskøb i 2004 og om 2 andre ejendomshandler og så politiske udnævnelser mod modydelser.
270906, New York Times, Combative Bush Releases Parts of Terror Study. Det handler om: "Declassified Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate "Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States" dated April 2006", der findes som pdf fil på nettet. Citat: "We assess that the global jihadist movement is decentralized, lacks a coherent global strategy, and is becoming more diffuse. New jihadist networks and cells, with anti-American agendas, are increasingly likely to emerge. The confluence of shared purpose and dispersed actors will make it harder to find and undermine jihadist groups." Der er 4 faktorer, der stimulerer jihad bevægelsens vækst, korruption, uretfærdighed og vestlig dominans i den arabiske verden, Iraqkrigen, manglen på virkelige og varige økonomiske, sociale og politiske reformer i mange muslimsk-dominerede samfund og en udstrakt antiamerikanisme. Jihadisternes sårbarhed vurderes [og det er formentlig ganske korrekt, OJ] til at være deres tro på sharia-baseret lovgivning, som ikke er særlig populær. Papiret fastslår, at der skal mere til at bekæmpe bevægelsen end at fange eller dræbe nogen terroristledere. Men i det offentliggjorte afsnit mangler en beskrivelse af hvad, dette mere er. Det vil jeg gerne hjælpe CIA, Negroponte og Bush med - men kun fordi løsningen vil give mulighed for en reel fredeliggørelse af Verden.
Lad de vestligt støttede arabiske og øvrige muslimske styrer falde. Lad landenes befolkninger frit vælge deres regeringer - også regeringer USA ikke kan lide. Støt de kræfter, der virker mod korruption og for økonomiske, sociale og politiske reformer. Yd også et økonomisk bidrag til en positiv økonomisk udvikling, der hvor olien ikke uden videre kan finansiere den. Og så selvfølgelig hjem med alle vestlige soldater. Så har vi fjernet de 4 stimulansfaktorer. Så mit forslag bygger helt enkelt på NIEs egne konklusioner. Og det vil være en hel del billigere end krig og soldater !!
280906, Time, TONY KARON Why Hamas Resists Recognizing Israel. "Yasser Arafat and the PLO recognized the State of Israel in the Oslo agreement and what did they gain from that ?".
280906 ?, Elias Davidsson, Thinkpiece, The return of Palestinian refugees is an existential necessity for Israeli Jews. " There is, however, no particular reason to believe that such a return would physically endanger Israeli Jews, if the consequent population movement is properly organized in order to ensure the availability of housing and work opportunities...Zionism, Israel's official ideology, is predicated upon the necessity for Jews to remain in control of their state. This means that it must at all times and by all means ensure that Jews remain a demographic majority within their state... Economic and cultural intercourse between Israel and its neighbouring Arab states would bring Israelis to Arab capitals and Arab businessmen, tourists, workers and students to Israel. From a Zionist perspective, such a scenario is a threat, as it would dilute the Jewish character of the state, culturally and demographically...There is no reason to believe that Jews cannot live with full rights within predominantly Muslim societies, which have traditionally been less discriminatory towards Jews... The return of Palestinian refugees will create for Israeli Jews unique opportunities to demonstrate their will to live in peace and equality with Arabs within a democratic unitary state." [og det burde være den rigtige løsning, 2 religiøse samfund med samme rettigheder i et verdsligt samfund med lige respekt for begge, OJ].
280906, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), OPT: Palestinian agricultural losses top US $1. Det er så oven i alle de andre fortrædeligheder.
280906, ICH, James Petras: "Challenging the Power of the Israel Lobby: What Should Be Done ?" Indeholder 18 konkrete forslag. De 2 første er specifikke for USA og det 3. er ubehageligt - politisk registrering.
011006, ZNet, The ethnic cleansing of Palestine, 2006. Boganmeldelse. Ilan Pappes bog gennemgår Israels/zionisternes udrensningskrig fra 1940erne.
021006, MehrNews, The threat of civil war in Palestine. USA, Israel og EU gør hvad de kan for at skabe borgerkrig i Palæstina. Og det ser ud som om, de har held med det. Israels tilfangetagelse af palæstinensiske parlamentsmedlemmer, har berøvet det palæstinensiske parlament så mange medlemmer, at man ikke længere er beslutningsdygtige i.h.t. forretningsordenen.
041006, Lawrence of Cyberia: "Specialty Chemicals". Om El Al cargo flight LY1862, 041092, og dets styrt 10 minutter efter starten fra Schiphol i Amsterdamforstaden Bijlmermeer, og om dens ladning. OJ synes, at det virkelige problem er myndighedernes fortielser !!!
081006, zmag, Tanya Reinhart, The Road Map to Nowhere - Israel/Palestine since 2003; Introduction to new book. "In the present political atmosphere in the US and Europe, anybody who expresses criticism of Israel's policies is immediately silenced as an anti-Semite...During the war of 1948, more than half of the Palestinian population at the time -1,380,000 people - were driven off their homeland by the Israeli army.... Sharon started a massive project of ethnic cleansing in the areas of the West Bank bordering Israel...- the road map. The Palestinians accepted the plan and declared a cease fire, but as we will see, while the Western world was celebrating the new era of peace, the Israeli army under Sharon intensified its policy of assassinations, maintained the daily harassment of the occupied Palestinians, and eventually declared all-out war on Hamas, killing all its first-rank military and political leaders...(The book surveys in detail the close relations of Barak and Sharon both before and during that period.) I contend that the Oslo accords in 1993...were in effect the realization of Labor's long standing Alon plan, by which Israel would keep about 40 per cent of the West Bank's land... Both Barak end Sharon had expressed vociferous opposition to the Oslo agreements from the outset. [Baraks] "generous offer" in the July 2000 Camp David summit, which, as I show in detail in Israel/Palestine, was nothing but a fraud....In a World Bank report of April 2005, Israel was found to be one of the most corrupt and least efficient in the Western world...In fact, there is a wide consensus in Israeli society that peace with the Palestinians and other Arab neighbours requires withdrawal from the occupied territories and the evacuation of settlements... with all polls showing that close to two thirds of the Israelis support withdrawal and evacuation of West Bank settlements... Since 1999, all Israeli leaders (including Sharon, as we shall see) have promised huge concessions for peace in their election campaigns, only to do the opposite when elected. With the collapse of the political system, the army remains the body that shapes and executes Israel's policies...Basic concepts like justice, international law, solidarity with the oppressed, have disappeared from mainstream political discourse, but they are present in people's minds...[12] For example, on April 12 2002, following Israel's atrocities in the Jenin refugee camp, Ha 'aretz innocently reported what "military sources" had told the paper: "The IDF [Israeli army] intends to bury today Palestinans killed in the West Bank camp... The sources said that two infantry companies, along with members of the military rabbinate, will enter the camp today to collect the bodies. Those who can be identified as civilians will be moved to a hospital in Jenin, and then on to burial, while those identified as terrorists will be buried at a special cemetery in the Jordan Valley." (Anat Cygelman, Amos Harel and Amira :iass.) Apparently, no one in Israel was particularly concerned at the time about issues of international law, war crimes and mass graves. The evening before, Israeli TV even showed refrigerator trucks that were waiting outside the Jenin camp to transfer bodies to "terrorist cemeteries". It was only after international attention began to focus on Jenin that this information was quickly concealed and reinterpreted using any absurd reasoning to explain that nothing of the sort had ever happened. This is how the respectable analyst Ze'ev Schiff of Ha'aretz later summarized the event: "Toward the end of the fighting, the army sent three large refrigerator trucks into the city. Reservists decided to sleep in them for their air conditioning. Some Palestinians saw dozens of covered bodies lying in the trucks and rumors spread that the Jews had filled trucks full of Palestinian bodies." (Back to Jenin, Ha 'aretz, July 17 2002).
081006, palestine-info.co.uk, America trains Abbas' loyalists in secret camp in Jericho. USA forsøger at starte en palæstinensisk borgerkrig. Israel giver ammunitions til Abbas' styrker. USA betaler halvdelen af omkostningerne, Europa og nogle arabiske lande, skal betale resten.
121006, Haaretz. Rights group [Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)]: Shin Bet denies vital treatment to Palestinians
131006, Jerusalem Post, UK NGOs call for Israel arms embargo. Det koordineres af The Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) i samarbejde med mange andre NGOer gennem , "Stop Arming Israel".
111006, Haaretz, Meron Rapoport, "Italian TV: Israel used new weapon prototype in Gaza Strip". IDF anvendte Dime. Det førte til mange amputationer. Splinter kan ikke lokaliseres med røntgen [??? wolfram burde kunne, kulpartiklerne kan ikke, OJ]. I denne artikel hedder det, at der fandtes et pulver på ofrenes kroppe og i deres indre organer. [Det passer jo med en kulkapsel indeholdende sprængstof og wolframstøv og giver en rimelig forklaring til de tidlige beskrivelser, hvor man fik indtryk af forstøvede organer, OJ]. Våbnet er ikke forbudt - det er nemlig ikke færdigafprøvet !!! Det formodes at være carcinogent [?] og miljøskadeligt.
151006, Observer, US 'plot to force out Hamas' Hamas beskylder USA for at skabe intern strid blandt palæstinenserne. Det fremgår af den korte artikel, at USA har igangsat den sædvanlige farveladerevolutionsproces. Men suppleret med militær træning og våben til Fatah.
Palestine - Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture Vol. 13 No. 2, 2006, "Talking with Marwan Barghouthi", 'Going It Alone? Unilateralism vs. Negotiation' Barghouti er medlem af Fatahs revolutionære råd og sidder i israelsk fængsel. Chancerne for at vende tilbage til fredsprocessen er næsten forsvundet. Ensidige skridt kan ikke føre til stabilitet, sikkerhed eller fred. Barghouti håber båse Hamas og Islamic Jihad vil melde sig ind i PLO for de har en vigtig rolle at spille i de palæstinensiske institutioner. Der er enirghed mellem alle palæstinensiske kræfter at målet nu er en fuldt selvstændig stat indefor 1967grænserne med Jerusalem som hovedstad. Og med alle palæstinenseres ret til at komme tilbage. Han foreslår kønskvotering i PLC ! Det vigtigt, at Palæstina selv kontrollerer sine grænser, lufthavnen og havnen.
161006, iafrica. Israel, Palestine 'should Be One'. Den palæstinensiske ambassadør i Sydafrika, Ali Ahmed Halimeh sagde på et møde i Cape Town, at den palæstinensiske stat allerede har accepteret en to-stats løsning, hvor man kan leve i fred med staten Israel. Men den bedste løsning ville være en fælles stat for både arabere og jøder. Sydafrikan har vist vejen til at forsone to fjendtlige folk i en stat. Israel kunne starte med at frigive de 10.000 palæstinensiske fanger. Og standse angrebe på uskyldige palæstinensere.
161006, MercuryNews, Israel rejects Syrian offer on the Golan Heights. Den syriske præsident Bashar Assad har tilbudt at afslutte konflikten med Israel, hvis man tilbageleverer den besatte del af Golanhøjderne. [Det har hele tiden været Syriens politik, OJ]. Olmert vil ikke, men Uri Savir, Israels forhandler ved Osloaftalerne, anbefaler. Den syriske udenrigsminister Walid Moallem siger, at tilbuddet kun vil stå åbent i få måneder, derefter kan der blive tale om at angribe Israel.
171006, Palestine Observer to UN Warns of Israeli Major Military Offensive
171006, Guardian Gaza doctors say patients suffering mystery injuries after Israeli attacks. Der er tale om store skader med små indgangshuller. Der kan være tale om et nyt våben, Dense Inert Metal Explosive (Dime). Det beskrives som havende en kapsel af kulfibre indeholdende små Wolframpartikler. [Et våben med de specifikationer og en rimelig sprængkraft, kan tænkes at give store indre skader. Men beskrivelsen af brændskader og forstøvning af indre organer tyder snarere på et fosforholdigt projektil. OJ]
201006, Haaretz, Peace Now: Most outposts partly built on private Palestinian land.
221006, Weary Israel loses faith in its leaders. Det skyldes bl.a. den tabte krig mod Hezbollah, men også præsidentens voldtægter, korruption m.m. Der er en Movement for Quality Government in Israel med 20.000 medlemmer. Måske en ide for Sverige efter det nye moderate arbejderpartis valgsejr og efterfølgende afsløring af sin moral.
221006, Scotland on Sunday, Israel founded using fake British banknotes. Det drejer sig om 130 millioner GBP, som nazisterne lod jødiske koncentrationslejrfanger fremstille i den hensigt at ødelægge den engelske økonomi, [solgt også i Danmark, mellem 1944 og 1948, OJ]. I efterkrigskaoset sikrede jødiske flygtninge fra koncentrationslejrene sig dem og anvendte dem på deres rejse til Israel og til våben. Når man tænker på Englands (og USAs) holdning til at "købe" jøderne fri, da Hitler tilbød det på Evian-konferencen (1938 ?) og på at England gjorde alt for at forhindre jødisk indvandring i sit palæstinensiske mandatområder, så er der vel ingen anledning til forargelse over dette. I kommentarerne til artiklen (nr. 13, Paranoid fra Canada) citeres Rabin for ""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." [Jeg vil gerne have en mere officiel kilde til denne udtalelse]. Her er jo tale om klart udtalt etnisk udrensning og den er jo de facto sket og sker stadig, lige siden.
231006, Global Research, Michel Chossudovsky, "Military Build-up in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf: Israel and NATO sign Framework Agreement" En sådan aftale blev underskrevet 161006 !!! Ser man NATOlandes optræden med "fredsbevarende" flåde- og hærstyrker i det østlige Middelhav i det lys, så er det en meget ensidig fredsbevarelse ! Chossudovsky nævner, at NATO siden 040203 har patruljeret og eskorteret skibe gennem Gibraltarstrædet (Er der nogen der kan forklare vitsen i det ? Det kan da ikke tage mange minutter at komme igennem - og hvad truer passagen ?). Overvågningen i det østlige Middelhav begyndte i oktober 2001 og i 2004 var 41000 skibe kontrolleret, 37 blev bordet.
231006, ICH newsletter Mossad angry over British espionage series ? British daily 'The Sunday Express' reports senior Israeli agents arrived in London to view episode of BBC drama 'Spooks' where Mossad agents are depicted shooting bound prisoners in the back. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3318106,00.html De israelere er meget sarte overfor kritik !
231006, ICH newsletter Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ob Monday condemned the IDF's killing of six Palestinians in the northem Gaza Strip, describing the incident as a "criminal massacre.", http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3318516,00.html
231006, ICH, "Under Occupation". An American who was kidnapped in West Bank shares his experience. Phillips underviser i Nablus. "Most Palestinians eagerly embrace Americans like me. They are anxious to tell their story, hoping I will tell others. My kidnapping, perhaps ironically, has not diminished my resolve to do just that."
261006, Reuters, Report says Israel violates Palestinian prisoner rights. Det er B'Tselem, der har lavet en sådan rapport (53 sider). Besættelsesmagten må ikke bare føre folk ud af deres land. Og besøgsrejser er de rene mareridt.
271006, DemocracyNow, "Breaking the Silence: Fmr. Israeli Soldier Tours U.S. to Expose Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Military. Et interview med den pågældende soldat, der beretter om sine erfaringer. Han er medstifter af "Breaking the Silence" en gruppe af fhv. soldater, der især vil oplyse de civile israelere om forbrydelserne, der begås mod palæstinensere. Da Israel ikke kan gøre noget uden amerikansk opbakning, er han sendt rundt for også at oplyse amerikanere om forholdene. "[T]here is only one eountry in the world that, you know, the chief of staff and the prime minister of Israel has to report in the end of the day, and that's the United States of America." Han beskriver levende det chock han fik, da han i slutningen af sin soldatertid begyndte at overveje sit kommende liv som civil og derfor så tilbage på soldaterlivet.
271006, International Herald Tribune, Patrick Seale: "Israel's scandalous siege of Gaza". Over de sidste 6 år har Israel dræbt 2300 Gazaboere ! Hvorlænge vil "Det internationale Samfund" tillade denne nedslagtning at fortsætte ? Der er et umiddelbart behov for indgreb. Måske en international styrke på begge sider af grænsen mellem Israel og Gaza. [Jeg skulle mene, at den bør sættes hele vejen rundt om Palæstina - og bevogte palæstinensernes vej ud, så den bliver uafhængig af Israel - det er jo faktisk aftalt ! De 528 militære kontrolposter bør også have internationale observatører, OJ]. Israels regering planlægger et angreb på Gaza. Den nye minister Lieberman har engang foreslået at bombe Assuan-dæmningen !
301006, Guardian, Israeli barrier and settlement to leave West Bank village with nowhere to go. Landsbyen Wadi Fukin klemmes mellem en [ulovlig] israelsk bosættelse og [den ligeså ulovlige] mur. 1200 palæstinensere er ved at blive tvunget bort. Bl.a. udleder bosættelsen urenset spildevand over landsbyen marker.
301006, ZMag: Interview by Stephen R. Shalom: "Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice By Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar. Edited by Stephen R. Shalom. Boulder, CO; Paradigm Publishers, 2006.
hentet 011106, Al-Ahram Weekly, Khaled Amayreh: "Third Intifada coming". Israel forsøger at presse palæstinenserne til en 3. intifada. På 5 dage har Israel dræbt 29 palæstinensere, de fleste uskyldige civile. Et kvindeligt medlem af parlamentet blev bombet alene fordi hun støttede Hamas.
hentet 011106, Al-Ahram Weekly, Erica Silverman: "Fatah's US saviour". Som i farvelade-revolutionerne støtter USA Fatah som parti forud for de nyvalg, som USA også presser på for. Hjælpen gives på vilkår, der er afvist af Palestinian NGOs' Network (PNGO). Den måde at give hjælp på, kan nemt give bagslag, derved at Hamas kommer til at fremstå som de eneste rene og ukompromiterede. Det er jo allerede billedet, men amerikansk hjælp direkte til Fatah og Abbas kan mudre deres billede yderligere. Silverman omtaler også RAIs rapport om DIME.
031106, Middle East Online (id=18132) Israel kills 25 Palestinian in 72 hours. Både Mahmud Abbas og Ismail Haniyeh fordømmer de israelske myrderier. En Hamas minister er arresteret af israelerne i PAs "hovedstad" Ramallah.
071106, Information Clearing House skriver i sit nyhedsbrev: The Hidden Horrors Of Israel's Attack On Palestinian Civilians In Gaza. Images that the Israeli and U.S. government's don't want you to see. Click to view http://www.infomationclearinghouse.info/articlel5522.htm
071106, Haaretz, Hundreds of Ethiopians protest in Jerusalem / Blood demo becomes anti-racism rally
091106, Al Jazira, Israel accused of 'state terrorism' efter et angreb i Gaza, der dræbte 18 civile. Sikkerhedsrådet holdt møde om sagen på begæring af Den arabiske Liga, Organisationen for den Islamiske Konference og Den Ikke-alierede Bevægelse.
111106, UNITED NATIONS (AFP). US Vetoes UN Draft Condemning Israel's Killing Of Civilians. France's UN Ambassador Jean-Mare de La Sabliere: "I think the text was a balanced one and (its) adoption would have sent the right signal to both parties that the Security Council is really concerned about what is happening in Gaza, really concerned about the deaths of civilians and the protection of civilians." 10 medlemmer stemte for resolutionen, 4 lakejer undlod at stemme, herunder Danmark - jeg skammer mig !!! Mon ikke hovedanstødsstenen for Israel og USA var, at resolutionen indeholdt et pålæg til FNs generalsekretær om inden 30 dage at have sendt en undersøgelsesmission til Beit Hanoun. Det kan Generalforsamlingen vel så vedtage at gøre !
121106, Observer, How Israel put Gaza civilians in firing line. Military chiefs were warned that change of safety margin for gunners risked killing the innocent
The warning, delivered in Israel's high court by six human rights groups, came after the Israeli Defence Force reduced the so-called 'safety range' in Gaza from a 300-metre separation from built-up areas to just 100 metres...According to Human Rights Watch, since September 2005 Israel has fired about 15,000 rounds at Gaza while Palestinian militants have fired around 1,700 back....As a point of comparison, between June 2004 and July 2006,14 civilians (six of them minors) were killed by Qassam gunfire fired by Palestinians into Israeli territory and at settlements in the Gaza Strip. In the four weeks from 26 June - 24 July this year, however, IDF actions in the Gaza Strip to end the Qassam rocket fire caused the death of 126 Palestinians.
131106, CounterPunch, Norman G. Finkelstein, Peace Not Apartheid - Jimmy Carter's Roadmap. Gengiver nogen af Carters punkter. De fleste arabiske lande er med i en fælles udtalelse fra 2002, som tilbyder fred og normale forbindelser med et Israel inenfor dets internationalt anerkendte grænser og i overensstemmelse med FNs Sikkerhedsråds resolutioner ! Sheba Farms er libanesisk. "The best offer to the Palestinians [at Camp David in December 2000] - by Clinton, not Barak - had been to withdraw 20 percent of the settlers, leaving more than 180,000 in 209 settlements, covering about 10 percent of the occupied land, including land to be "leased" and portions of the Jordan River valley and East Jerusalem....A new round of talks was held at Taba in January 2001, during the last few days of the Clinton presidency, between President Arafat and the Israeli foreign minister, and it was later claimed that the Palestinians rejected a "generous offer" put forward by Prime Minister Barak with Israel keeping only 5 percent of the West Bank. The fact is that no such offers were ever made....The Palestinians accepted the road map in its entirety but the Israeli goverment announced fourteen caveats and prerequisites, some of which would preclude any final peace talks...The area between the segregation barrier and the Israeli border has been designated a closed military region for an indefinite period of time. Israeli directives state that every Palestinian over the age of twelve living in the closed area has to obtain a "permanent resident permit" from the civil administration to enable them to continue to live in their own homes. They are considered to be aliens, without the rights of Israeli citizens." Ca. 20 % af den palæstinensiske befolkning har været tilbageholdt af israelerne på et eller andet tidspunkt. Den største hindring for en fredsaftale er Israels besættelse af palæstinensisk område.
181106, Al-Ahram, Joseph Massad: "Fateh's Unholy Alliance". Massad sammenligner situationen i Palæstina med situationen i Chile før 110973. Han samenligner Abbas med Pinochet. Selvom det måske er noget overdrevet, er der jo et samspil mellem Abbas og USA/Israel. Massad mener at Israela arrestationer af Fatah medlemmer har været koncentreret om dem, der var kritiske mod Abbas og hans linie. Amerikanske, britiske, ægyptiske og jordanse militære instruktører har trænet Abbas præsidentielle garde i Jeriko. Og Israel har godkendt overførsel af rifler fra Ægypten til denne garde.
181106, Calcutta News, Bolton In Extraordinary Outburst Against United Nations. UNGA vedtog med 156 mod 7 (USA, Israel, Australia og 4 amå østater i Stillehavet) beklagelse over Israels massakre mod Beit Hanoun. EU, inkl. UK stemte for.
181106, Dawn, UN asks Israel to vacate Gaza: US opposes, EU backs resolution. Gengiver resolutionen omtalt i Calcutta News, uden at det ses, at der er dækning for overskriften.
261106. Global Research, Michel Chossudovsky, Debating "War and Peace" behind Closed Doors: NATO's Riga Security Conference. "The venue is being held in a former Soviet Republic, regrouping for the first time all 26 members of the enlarged NATO, including countries previously in the geopolitical orbit of the Soviet Union: Poland, Roumania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, the Czech republic. (Complete List) The Venue directly challenges Moscow's influence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It signifies to Moscow that NATO enlargement is proceeding on Russia's doorstep. Although Israel will not be represented at the Summit, NATO has developed in the last two years a close working relationship with Tel Aviv, which in practical terms provides Israel with a "de facto associate membership" within the Atlantic Alliance....The European military-industrial complex will be represented by key figures from the Franco-German aerospace conglomerate EADS, Italy's Finemecanica. Lockheed Martin's European President Scott Martin, among others will also be attending."
291106, AJC, John Dugard, Apartheid: Israelis adopt what South Africa dropped. "Many aspects of Israel's occupation surpass those of the apartheid regime. Israel's large-scale destruction of Palestinian homes, leveling of agricultural lands, military incursions and targeted assassinations of Palestinians far exceed any similar practices in apartheid South Africa. No wall was ever built to separate blacks and whites."
291106, Adalah, Bedouin citizens of Israel denied water as means of transfer. (Negev).
301106, Al Jazira, Laila El-Haddad at the Rafah crossing, UN: Israel breaks border agreement.
021206, Haaretz, New UN resolutions back Palestinian right to a state. FNs Generalforsamling vedtog 6 resolutioner om Palæstina mod USAs og Israels stemmer. UNGA understregede det palæstinensiske folks ret til selvbestemmelse og til en uafhængig stat. (157 for, 7 imod, 10 undlader at stemme). Imod alle 6 resolutioner stemte: USA, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, og Palau.
061206, Albawaba, Israel destroys homes of Palestinian Bedouins. Det drejer sig om over 42000 hjem i Negev. Mange bygget før 1948. De er dømt illegale.
081206, CounterPunch, Norman Finkelstein, Words Even an Ex-President Can't Say in America; The Media Lynching of Jimmy Carter. " However, Carter's analysis of the impasse in the "peace process" as well as his description of Israeli policy in the West Bank is accurate - and, frankly, that's all that matters."
111206, The Guardian, A rogue 51st state. Israel ser ud til at forsøge at skrotte Baker-gruppens plan. Gruppen siger, at der skal en fornyet og vedholdende amerikansk indsats til i atriden mellem Israel og araberne. Det passer ikke Olmert.
111206, Haaretz, Gideon Levy, No one is guilty in Israel." Therefore it takes considerable gall and cynicism to dare to claim that the Israel Defense Forces did not intend to kill inhabitants of Beit Hanun. Even if there was a glitch in the balancing of the aiming mechanism or in a component of the radar, a mistake in the input of the data or a human error, the overwhelming, crucial, shocking fact is that the IDF bombards helpless civilians. Even shells that are supposedly aimed 200 meters from houses, into "open areas," are intended to kill, and they do kill. In this respect, nothing new happened on Wednesday morning in Gaza: The IDF has been behaving like this for months now. But this isn't just a matter of "the IDF," "the government" or "Israel" bearing the responsibility. It must be said explicitly: The blame rests directly on people who hold official positions, flesh-and-blood human beings, and they must pay the price of their criminal responsibility for needless killing... There are people who are clearly responsible for it, and they must be brought to justice. The fact that the International Court of Justice in The Hague still looks very far from Israel, and the various "Halutzes" and "Galants" can still move around freely in the world, because in Israel they forgive nearly everything, does not mean that war crimes are not being committed. The IDF may well be a big gun, but an army that is responsible for needless killing in such large dimensions, as in recent months in Lebanon and in Gaza, is a failed and dangerous army that must urgently be repaired. The Defense Forces are not only killing Arabs for no reason, they are also directly endangering Israel's security, disgracing it in the world and embroiling it again and again."
131206, Consortium News, Robert Parry, A Way Forward, a Look Back. Fyrst Turki al Faisal, Saudiarabiens USAambassadør og fhv. efterretningschef, er trådt tilbage efter kun 15 måneder. Det skulle være en markering af saudisk utilfredshed. Saudierne er utilfredse med den proisraelske politik. . Sammenkædningen af USAs og Israels holdninger har været til skade for Israels sikkerhed. Parry foreslår en fredsaftale mellem Israel og araberne med amerikanske styrker på Golan og Vestbredden. Og at Israel, samen med Indien og Pakistan skal udgøre grundstammen i en Nærøst kernevåbenfri zone.
181206, Interview with Hamas-Leader Khaled Meshaal. Hamas ready for peaceful coexistence with Israel within the borders of 1967. Meshaal overlevede et israelsk arrentatforsøg i Amman (Jordan) i 1997. Der foreligger stadig en officiel israelsk regeringsordre om at myrde ham. Han lever under særlige beskyttelsesforanstaltninger i Damascus (Syrien).
Der er en positiv atmosfære mellem Hamas og Fatah om at skabe en national samlingsregering. Men udenlandsk indblanding skaber stadig nye hindringer. Først et forsøg på at danne en "teknokratregering". Nu kniber det med garantier for, at en samlingsregering vil medføre at blokaden hæves. Hamas vil kun acceptere en to stats løsning baseret på 1967 grænserne med (Vest)Jerusalem som hovedstad og Palæstina omfattende Vestbredden. Den ret nægter Israel os. Mere end halvdelen af den palæstinensiske befolkning lever i udlandet, fortrinsvis i flygtningelejre. De har ret til at komme tilbage.
Hamas har ikke som mål at dræbe jøder. I århundreder har arabere i Palæstina levet fredeligt sammen med jøder og kristne. Vi bekæmper Israel fordi det har besat vort land og undertrykker vort folk. Vi vil ikke anerkende Israel, men kan leve fredeligt med Israel - som Taiwan og Kina lever fredeligt sammen.
Der er folk i Fatah, der arbejder for USA og Israel, men flertallet er nationalister og de er vore partnere i modstandsbevægelsen. Vi tager afstand fra terrorisme, vor modstand er legitim. Tysk original (Junge Welt).
231206, The Independent, Robert Fisk. Banality And Barefaced Lies. Fisk skriver om den amerikanske modtagelse af Carters bog. En fordømt - hvis overhovedet omtalt - bestseller ! "applause here, by the way, for the great American public that bought the book instead of believing Mr Foxman."
271206, www.reliefweb.int, Source: Agence France-Presse (AFP): EU calls new Israel West Bank settlement illegal under intemational law.
010107, ICH, K Gajendra Singh The US-Saudi-Wahabi Nexus! En grundig gennemgang - set fra Indien (og Tyrkiet). "Following the First World War and creation of states by capncious British and French colonial masters, very little has changed in the arbitrary borders of the countries in the Middle East, except for the creation of the state of Israel, basically a compensation to the European Jewry at the cost of Palestinians, for the crimes in which the majority of European states led by Nazi Germany participated. (min understregning, OJ)"
020107, Haaretz, Hamas accepts Israeli offer of 450 Palestinian prisoners for Shalit. Handelen er aftalt gennem Ægypten og er endnu ikke helt færdig.
050107, Guardian, 'My crime was to protest at Israeli assassinations' "They said they wanted to teach her [Tali Fahima] to be a "good Jew" as she sat with her arms handcuffed to the legs of her chair for 16 hours a day." Hun sad i 30 måneder ! [Den eksisterende apartheidstat tåler tydeligvis ikke protest, OJ].
130107, Al Jazira, Israeli Arabs 'racially profiled'. Internationale lufthavne har en aftale med de israelske sikkerhedstjenester om, at de kan gennemføre deres egen ekstra sikkerhedskontrol ved El Al flyafgange. Det kan vel være rimeligt nok. Der er jo faktisk en ekstra risiko. Og man vælger selv, om man vil flyve med det selskab. Det er mere tvivlsomt, at denne ekstra kontrol udøves på et racistisk grundlag. Det forhold har 2 israelske menneskerettighedsgrupper lavet en rapport om: "Suspected Citizens".
140107, New York Times, Palestinian Opposes Provisional State. "Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, .. rejected suggestions for establishing a temporary state within provisional borders...we are waiting for the application of our agreements. [med Israel]...But a spokesman for Mr. Abbas, Mohamed Edwan, gave a far more pessimistic review of talks between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Mr. Edwan said that several agreements emerging from the Abbas-Olmert session, including a review of cheekpoints and establishing a process for releasing pnsoners, had languished, and he complained that a meeting that produced promises with no subsequent progress could only serve to weaken Mr. Abbas. It "hurts him rather than benefits him," Mr. Edwan said."
180107, Washington Post, Jimmy Carter, A New Chance for Peace? Carter understreger, at den megen diskussion om hans bog har handlet om titlen og ikke om de 2 forslag han stiller: genoptagelse af fredsforhandlingerne (Carter roser de 23 arabiske nationers forslag fra 2002 med fuld anerkendelse af Israel baseret på tilbagevenden til de internationalt anerkendte grænser) og afslutningen af den tragiske forfølgelse af palæstinenserne. ". The situation in the occupied territories will be a crucial factor, and it would be helpfiil for both the House and Senate to send a responsible delegation to the West Bank and Gaza to observe the situation personally, to meet with key leaders and to ascertain the prospects if peace talks can be launched."
180107, Electronic Intifada, Ilan Pappe, Palestine 2007: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank.
180107, ICH, John Pilger, Terror and starvation in Gaza.
200107, The Nation, Robert Dreyfuss, Agents of Influence. FBI undersøger en interessant sag i Washington. "It's not a routine spy case. According to sources familiar with the investigation, the FBI is looking at a group of neoconservatives who have occupied senior posts at the White House, the Pentagon and in Vice President Cheney's office. It's not that they are supporters of Israel - no crime there - but that some of them might be conspirators in a clandestine operation launched by Sharon's Likud Party. They make up the very network of ideologues - from civilians at the Defense Department to fellow travelers at right-wing think tanks - who have been accused of pushing George W. Bush into war. The point of the probe, sources believe, is not to examine the push to war but rather to ascertain whether Sharon recruited or helped place in office people who knowingly, and secretly, worked with him to affect the direction of US policy in the Middle East." Larry Franklin er en lille del af den sag.
210107, Jerusalem Post, New proposal: Transfer-for-cash plan. Knesset medlem B Elon og Rabbi Shiomo Aviner foreslår at betale palæstinensere for at emigrere. Arabere, lover at standse al terrorisme og som accepterer et andenrangsborgerskab kan få lov til at blive.
220107, Information Clearing House Blog, K Gajendra Singh, Persian Chess Moves. Som sædvanlig en lang og grundig artikel. "Yuval Diskin, the head of Israel's secret service, Shin Bet, warned that international sanctions against the authority were forcing Hamas into a closer relationship with Iran....As for Rice's attempt at rejuvenating the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the Arab media simply described it as an attempt to change the subject...It was Pakistani Brigadier Zia-ul- Haq who organized the military operation against PLO guerillas in Jordan and expelled hem to Lebanon in 1977. "
230107?, YnetNews, 250,000 Palestinians fenced in, says report. Separation fence closes off 21 Palestinian enclaves, some completely cut off. I h.t. en rapport fra menneskerettighedsorganisationen, "Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights". "The report said there were 21 such enclaves and that 8,000 Palestinians lived in "seam enclaves" stuck between the Green Line and the separation fence...This forms a horrible situation in which a man living in his home for decades is forced to get a periodic permit in order to be in the area were he lives. Without this permit, he is is subject to the penalties of the law - up to five years in prison or a heavy fine," the report said."
230107, The Independent, Israeli separation barrier is cutting off Palestinians from their livelihood. "A British govenunent-funded report... produced by the Israeli planning and rights organisation Bimkom."
280107, Financial Times, Gaza violence threatens peace talks. ""You have to put weapons away from streets and you have to end all forms of tensions," Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister, said on Sunday.
280107, Information Clearing House Blog, Uri Avnery, "If Arafat were Alive..." "Sharon asked for permission to kill Arafat and Bush gave it to him, with the proviso that it must be done undetectably.. In the 80s, the Israeli army sent officers to North Iraq in order to help Mustafa Barzani to tear the Kurdish region away from Saddam's country."
Février 2007, Monde Diplomatique, kort over en del af Vestbredden og over Øst-Jerusalem. Dominique VIDAL og Philippe Rekacewicz om hvordan Israel konfiskerer den palæstinske østlige del af byen. Amnon Kapeliouk anmelder Tolerance-Museet. 24 etager, som Simon Wiesenthal centeret vil placere på den antikke muslimske kirkegård, Mamillah.
070207, Guardian Muslim protests as Israel digs at holy site. Det drejer sig om Haram al Sharif/Tempelbjerget.
090207, Guardian/AP, Palestinian Deal Troubles U.S.. Man er ikke tilfreds med tilkendegivelsen om, at den nye regering vil respektere indgåede aftaler. [Problemet er nok, at den aftale vil øge presset for at godkende den palæstinensiske regering og genoptage nødhjælpen, måske endda tage Hamas af terrorlisten. Indyk (Clintons ambassadør til Israel) siger noget i den retning. Nu må vi - altså EU - da tage sig sammen til at sige til USA, at vi accepterer den palæstinensiske regering og hjælper den palæstinensiske befolkning - ganske uanset, hvad USA gør, OJ]
090207, www.ynetnews.com Worldwide events mark ; 'Israeli Apartheid Week'. Det arabiske Knesset medlem Zahalka taler i Montreal.
090207, Time, U.S. the Big Loser in the Mecca Deal? Tidl. ambassadør Indyk siger at mod Bushregeringens forventninger valgte Abu Mazen, saudierne og ægypterne at forlige sig med Hamas i stedt for konfrontation.
130207, INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER, President Abbas; Israel Has No Right to Reject Mecca pact. Aftalen har skabt en enhedsregering i PA.
150207, Santa Barbara News Press, U.S. officials tell Abbas they'll shun future Hamas-Fatah coalition, aides say. Og det er Abbas' medarbejdere, der siger det.
160207, ITAR-TASS, Russia to support Palestinian national unity government.
160207, Khaleej Times Online, OIC supports Iran's quest to go nuclear. Organisation of the Islamic Conference beder FNs Sikkerhedsråd standse israelsk byggearbejde nær Al Aqsa moskeen i Jerusalem.
220207, Israeli Arabs demand binational state.
230207 ?, Al Ahram, Jonathan Cook, Apartheid looks like this. " Machsom Watch. The grassroots organisation founded by Israeli women in 2001 monitors the behaviour of soldiers at a few dozen of the more accessible checkpoints (machsom in Hebrew). Checkpoints came to dominate Palestinian life in the West Bank (and, before disengagement, in Gaza too) long before the outbreak of the second Intifada in late2000 and even before the first Palestinian suicide bombings. They were Israel's responseTo the Oslo Accords, which created a Palestinian Authority to govern limited areas of the occupied territories. Israel began restricting Palestinians allowed to work in Israel to those issued with exit permits; a system enforced through a growing network of military roadblocks. Soon the checkpoints were also restricting movement inside the occupied territories, ostensibly to protect the Jewish settlements built on occupied territory...As a result, moving goods and people from one place to the next in the West Bank has become a nightmare of logistics and costly delays. At the checkpoints, food spoils, patients die and children are prevented from reaching their schools. The World Bank blames checkpoints and roadblocks for strangling the Palestinian economy... the vast majority of checkpoints are not even near the Green Line, Israel's internationally recognised border until it occupied the West Bank and Gaza in 1967. Some are so deep inside Palestinian territory that the army refuses to allow Machsom Watch to visit them..."They know that these checkpoints violate international law and that they are complicit in war crimes. Many of the soldiers are scared of being photographed." " [min fremhævelse, OJ].
240207, The Australian, Israeli rule 'like apartheid'. Det er konklusionen på en FNrapport skrevet af John Dugart - en sydafrikansk advokat, som arbejdede mod apartheid i 1980erne.
270207, RIA Novosti - Russia to support Palestinians, urge blockade lifted - FM Lavrov
020307, RIA Novosti, Russia wants Israel to join NPT - FM Sergei Lavrov. Herudover vil Rusland have Israel og alle arabiske stater med i Konventionen mod Kemiske Våben. [Det ville jo være en rigtig god løsning på problemet med Irans eventuelle atomvåbenprofekt, at vi fik en atomvåbenfri zone i Mellemøsten - og bare fint, hvis den også kunne være fri for kemiske våben, OJ]
070307, ICH, K. Gajendra Singh, Some Movements At ME Quartet in Berlin. "The Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group (ISG) had recommended last December that "The United States cannot achieve its goals in the Middle East unless it deals directly with the Arab-Israeli conflict and regional intability....The 'realist' faction in the Bush administration, led by Secretary of State Condi Rice appears to be gaining ground....[Dugards] : report stated that it is "grossly inaccurate" to say Israel's 2005 removal of settlers and soldiers from Gaza constituted an end to its occupation of that territory, captured from Egypt in the 1967 war. "Israel retained control of Gaza's air space, sea space and external borders, and the border crossings," "Gaza became a sealed off, imprisoned and occupied territory." [ A veritable Ghetto]...A senior Palestinian official who attended the summit said: "Olmert told Abbas during the meeting, 'you cheated me' by reaching the deal with Hamas. President Abbas responded (by saying), 'you gave me nothing and didn't ceep your promises."...Israel is angry that Abbas dared sign the Mecca deal, which represents a return of Saudi Arabia in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Many Palestinian see the Mecca deal as a Saudi endorsement of Hamas in the government and the reported promise of $1 bn for the Palestinians from the Saudi government could ease their misery."
120307, Haaretz, UN committee: Israel should let Palestinians return to their land. UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) anbefalede det i sin erklæring fredag. Man skal sikre, at definitionen af Israel som en jødisk stat ikke resulterer i systematisk udvælgelse, udelukkelse, begrænsning eller fortrinsstillling på basis af race, farve, afstamning, national eller etnisk oprindelse. Israel er med i konventionen og skulle aflevere en statusrapport hvert andet år. Det er nu 9 år siden sidste !!!
200307, DissidentVoice, bringer en tale af den israelske "ny" historiker, Ilan Pappe, professor i Politisk Videnskab ved Haifa Uniersitet. Talen holdte på Tokyo universitet og beskriver hans personlige udvikling - choket ved at studere i Oxford. Han konstaterer, at allerede i 1930erne planlagde zionister en aktiv fordrivelse af palæstinenserne, at i 1948 var den israelske hær både større og bedre udrustet end den arabiske. " 5. The Arab world talked a lot, still does today, but doesn't do much when it comes to the Palestine question. And therefore they sent a very limited number of soldiers into Israel, and basically for most of the time, the Jewish army had the upper hand in terms of the numbers of soldiers, the level of equipment, and the training experience." Og den israelske regering afviste alle fredsforhandlinger. Israels behandling af de jøder, der kom fra de arabiske lande, beskrives. Den anden Intifada havde samme effekt i Israel, som 9/11 i USA. Og Verden vidste fra Israels spæde begyndelse, at det indeholdt en fordrivelse af arabere (etnisk udrensning er en forbrydelse mod menneskeheden, juridisk) - og Verden tav !! DET er kernen i Mellemøstproblemet.
290307, PressTV. Iran, UN to probe Israeli crimes in Palestine. "UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) har vedtaget at sende to undersøgelseshold til det besatte Palæstina for at undersøge israelske menneskerettighedsforbrydelser. Rådet protesterer også over Israels forhindring af tidligere undersøgelsesudvalg, hvor John Dugard og Desmond Tutu blev nægtet adgang.
290307, BBC, Palestinians ding to 'right of return' Referat af en udsendelse fra Al Amari flygtningelejren. De arabiske ledere har gentaget deres fredstilbud til Israel af 2002. 750.000 palæstinensere blev fordrevet. De er nu blevet til godt 4 millioner. Og de vil tilbage til deres egen jord - som vel de fleste fordrevne bønder vil !
010507, Foreign Policy In Focus, Stephen Zunes, U.S. Blocks Israel-Syria Talks. I 2003 tilbød Bashar al Assad genoptagelse af fredsforhandlingerne med Israel. Der foreligger en næsten-aftale fra 2000. Den blokeres af USA. [The] "problem with U.S. policy is not that it is too "pro-lsrael," but that it is anti-peace."
010507, The Daily Star, Libanon, Jordan censors story on dissolving Haniyya legislature. Palæstinas præsident, Mahmoud Abbas, har en plan om at opløse det palæstinensiske parlament, fyre Haniyas regering og udskrive valg i efteråret. Den jordanske sikkerhedstjeneste - som censurer aviserne inden de udkommer - forbød omtale af planerne.
170507, ICH, James Petras The Pro-Israel Lobby and US Middle East Policy: The Score Card for 2007. En grundig gennemgang, omtaler "a major document on human and civil rights in Israel issued by the United Nation's Committee on the Elinination of Racial Discrimination (published March 9,2007). The study compiled by two-dozen experts offered 19 recommendations for Israel to comply with in 25 areas of racial discrimination against Arab citizens of Israel...Saudi Arabia's proposal [was] approved by the Arab League offering Israel recognition and normal relations in exchange for abiding by UN resolutions and returning territory seized in 1967. (Det vil betyde, at œ million fanatiske settlere skal flyttes til Israel fra de besatte områder)." Petras mener, at den zionistiske magtstruktur i USA er årsagen til den ubetingede støtte til Israel. [Jeg ser den snarere som midlet til at skaffe flertal i kongressen til denne politik - som jeg mener tjener imperiets interesse i at opretholde krig og splittelse i Mellemøsten for at muliggøre den imperialistiske kontrol med området og olien. OJ] Petras beskriver - uden nærmere bevisførelse - Iraq under Saddam, som en magtfuld finansiel og politisk støtte for Palæstina. [Jeg mindes ikke at have set noget, der reelt pegede i den retning. Men Iraq, Saudiarabien og Iran er vel de eneste stater, der kunne udgøre en militær hindring for Israel. OJ] "(No wonder Buchanan and others call the Congress 'Israeli-occupied territory')."
220507, International Herald Tribune, U.S. reaffirms its policy against targeted assassinations. I anledning af Israels trusler mod Haniyeh. Men det er vist desværre bare det man "over there" kalder "to pay lip service", altså noget man siger, men ikke agter at gøre noget ved.
220507, Al Jazira, Profile: Fatah Al-Islam. Denne gruppe, der kæmper med den libanesiske hær i Nahr al-Bared flygtningelejren er en af landets nyeste palæstinensiske grupper. Den bekendtgjorde sin opståen i november 2006, kort tid efter at 2 medlemmer var taget. Lederen Shaker Abssi, var fængslet i Syrien i 3 år, måske fra 2003. Damascus efterlyser ham stadig. Fatah afviser at have forbindelse med gruppen. Al Jaziras korrespondent "Bishara says that fatah al-Islam is paradoxical. "It is not a resistance group and it is not an insurgency...It is what we call an assymetrical group, it is like the groups found on the fringes of the Colombian capital, in the outskirts of Casablanca," og andre lovløse områder.
220507, the raw story, Hersh: Bush administration arranged support for militants attacking Lebanon. Denne artikel forklarer paradokset med, at den libanesiske regering tidligere støttede sunni-gruppen Fatah al-Islam i overensstemmelse med en samlet plan for støtte til anti-shia sunni grupper, aftalt mellem CIA og Bandar bin Sultan [Saudi arabien. Denne plan er underkendt af kong Abdullah. OJ]
220507, The Independent, Robert Fisk, A front-row seat for this Lebanese tragedy. Det er sunni i Libanons hær, der kæmper mod sunni i Fatah al-Islam. "And the Lebanese army can't storm into Nahr el-Bared. That would be a step far greater than this government can take....The Lebanese army is on the streets of Beirut to defend Siniora, on the streets of Sidon to prevent sectarian disturbances, on the roads of southern Lebanon watching the Israeli frontier and now, up here in the far north, besieging the poor and the beaten Palestinians of Nahr el-Bared and the dangerous little groupuscule which may - or may not - be taking its orders from Damascus. "
280507, The Independent, Rapid-fire Israeli air strikes kill five Gaza Palestinians. "Ceasefire prospects shaky after military seizes Hamas cabinet minister in Jenin."
300507, Electronicintifada, Israel's house of horrors. Ali Abunimah beskriver, hvordan den israelske regering diskuterer handlinger i klar modstrid med Genevekonventionerne. Diskussionen refereres åbent i pressen. Og "det internationale samfund" er helt tavst !!
310507, Haaretz, Report: Shin Bet, police severly tortured Palestinian suspects. "The report says the doctors at the hospitals and prisons ignore the prisoners' complaints or treat them with contempt, thus enabling the security services to continue torturing the prisoners....The report says Ashkar's legs are paralyzed due to the spinal damage caused by the torture....The Shin Bet responded that its methods were "legal" in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling."
010607, The Telegraph, Israeli agents 'helped Entebbe hijackers'. It [this claim] came via David Colvin, the first secretary at the British embassy in Paris, according to a newly released National Archives file. He heard it from a contact in the Euro-Arab Parliamentary Association three days after the Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris was seized in mid-air by Palestinians and German terrorists on June 27,1976. Mr Colvin told his superiors that his source suggested that the attack was carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with help from the Israeli Security Service, the Shin Bet...Frank Wheeler, the first secretary, reported that there was abundant evidence of Ugandan collaboration with the hijackers. Palestinians had been brought from Mogadishu in President Amin's private jet to join the hijackers, according to the file"
130607, The Guardian, Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem and Ian Williams in New York, Secret UN report condemns US for Middle East failures. Envoy's damning verdict revealed as violence takes Gaza closer to civil war. [om Alyaro de Soto's end of mission report]. "The highest ranking UN official in Israel has warned that American pressure has "pummelled into submission" the UN's role as an impartial Middle East negotiator in a damning confidential report....this position "effectively transformed the Quartet from a negotiation-promoting foursome guided by a common document [the road map for peace] into a body that was all-but imposing sanctions on a freely elected government of a people under occupation as well as setting unattainable preconditions for dialogue".
160607, The Independent, Robert Fisk, Welcome to 'Palestine'. And so today, we are supposed to talk to our faithful policeman, Mr Abbas, the "moderate" (as the BBC, CNN and Fox News refer to him) Palestinian leader, a man who wrote a 600-page book about Oslo without once mentioning the word "occupation", who always referred to Israeli "redeployment" rather than "withdrawal"...I recall years ago being summoned to the home of a PA official whose walls had just been punctured by an Israeli tank shell. All true. But what struck me were the gold-plated taps in his bathroom. Those taps - or variations of them - were what cost Fatah its election. Palestinians wanted an end to corruption....Yes, and we love King Abdullah's unconstitutional monarchy in Jordan, and all the princes and emirs of the Gulf, especially those who are paid such vast bribes by our arms companies that even Scotland Yard has to close down its investigations on the orders of our prime minister....If only the Arabs - and the Iranians - would support our kings and shahs and princes whose sons and daughters are educated at Oxford and Harvard, how much easier the "Middle East" would be to control. For that is what it is about - control....How do we deal with a coup d'etat by an elected government? "
200607, CounterPunch, OMAR BARGHOUTI, A Secular-Democratic State Solution. The Light at the End of the Gaza-Ramallah Tunnel. "Furthermore, any decent legal expert will readily admit that the so-called "emergency government," declared by the Palestinian Authority chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, in response to Hamas's take-over in Gaza, violates several articles in Basic Law, the equivalent of the PA's constitution....the PLO must be resuscitated and remodeled to embody the claims, creative energies, and national frameworks of the three main segments of the Palestinian people: Palestinians in the OPT, Palestinian refugees, and Palestinian citizens of Israel....As to resistance strategies, one cannot and should not strictly separate nneans from ends. If the struggle for freedom in Algeria, Northern Ireland and South Africa taught us anything, it is this fact. Irrespective of the right of Palestinians to resist foreign occupation by all means, as granted in international law, we have a moral duty to avoid tactics that indiscriminately target innocent civilians and inevitably corrupt our own humanity....The young Palestinian campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, modeled after the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, has already shown annple evidence that it has the potential of unifying Palestinians and international solidarity movements in a resistance strategy that is moral, effective and sustainable....With its wanton destruction of Palestinian infrastructure, willful killing of civilians, particularly children, apartheid wall, Jews-only colonies and roads, incessant confiscation of land and water resources, and horrific denial of freedom of movement to millions under occupation, Israel has shown the international community its total disregard to international law and fundamental human rights...many Palestinians are now seriously questioning the wisdom of the two-state mantra and considering to repose their plight as one for equal humanity and full emancipation, within the framework of a unitary, democratic state solution in historic Palestine...The demise of the two-state solution should not be mourned. Besides having passed its expiry date, it was never a moral solution to start with. In the best-case scenario, if UN 'esolution 242 were meticulously implemented, it would have addressed most of the egitimate rights of less than a third of the Palestinian people over less than a fifth of heir ancestral land.... [it] was primarily intended to induce Palestinians to give up the inalienable right of their refugees to return to their homes and lands from which they were ethnically cleansed by Zionists during the 1948 Nakba."
200607, ICH, Mike Whitney The CIA and Fatah; Spies, Quislings and the Palestinian Authority. " Former Middle East CIA operations officer Robert Baer, who was interviewed in the article, said that the discovery of the documents was "a major blow to Fatah" and will show "a record of training, spying on Hamas"...It's no secret that the Bush administration has been funneling money to Palestinian militias that are preparing to overthrow Hamas.... Carter said that Hamas, besides winning a fair and democratic mandate that should have entitled it to lead the Palestinian government and that the Bush administration's refusal to accept the 2006 election victory of Hamas was 'criminal.'...Three days ago Abbas disbanded the Hamas-dominated parliament and sacked Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. Abbas had no legal justification for this action. In fact, the "Basic Law" which applies to this case stipulates that "The President cannot suspend the legislative Council during a state of emergency" and there is "no provision whatsoever for an emergency government". The president does not even have the authority to "call for new elections...If Bush didn't want democracy, then why did he force it on the Palestinians?...Hamas has kept its word and refrained from suicide bombings in Israel even though hundreds of Palestinian civilians have been killed or injured during that same time. In fact, there has NOT BEEN ONE HAMAS-BACKED SUICIDE BOMBING SINCE THE PARTY TOOK OFFICE...Haniyeh answered, "We do not have any feelings of animosity toward Jews. We do not wish to throw them into the sea. All we seek is to be given our land back, not to harm anybody... The Israeli political establishment is resolutely against peace talks or negotiations. Unlike the vast majority of Israeli citizens - Israel's ruling elite reject the principle of "land for peace!"...The military occupation and settlement activity will continue until US support dries up and Israel is forced to the bargaining table. Until hen the onslaught will continue...We thought our pride in conducting the fairest elections in the Arab world might resonate with the United States and its citizens."
230607, Independent, Robert Fisk, How can Blair possibly be given this job ? "Here is a politician who has failed in everything he has ever tried to do in the Middle East.... The Palestinians held elections - real, copper-bottomed ones, the democratic variety - and Hamas won. But Blair will presumably not be able to talk to Hamas."
260607, Ireland.com, Britain 'colluding' in Israel oppression. "Britain is "colluding" with Israel in oppressing the Palestinians by giving it privileged trade access, former British international development secretary Clare Short said today....Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells rejected the charge of collusion, however. ..Ms Short ...told ...Israel was guilty of "bloody, brutal and systematic annexation of land, destruction of homes and the deliberate creation of an apartheid system," she said. "The EU and Britain are colluding in this operation and the building of a new apartheid regime." She said trade treaties with Israel included human rights clauses and complained: "Why are these not being enforced?
260607, ICH, Jonathan Cook, Can the Arab world be turned into Gaza's jailers? "Is this [Iraq] the model for Gaza now and the West Bank later?...It is worth recalling that neither Israel nor the US pushed for an easing of the sanctions on the Palestinian Authority after the national unity government of Hamas and Fatah was formed earlier this year. In fact, the US and Israel could barely conceal their panic at the development. The moment the Mecca agreement was signed, reports of US efforts to train and arm Fatah forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas became a newspaper staple...By engineering the destruction of the unity government, Israel and the US have ensured that there is no danger of a new Palestinian consensus emerging, one that might have cornered Israel into peace talks...That is exactly how Israel wants it, because it has no interest in meaningful peace talks with the Palestinians or in a final agreement. It wants only to impose solutions that suit Israel's interests, which are securing the maximum amount of land for an exclusive Jewish state and leaving the Palestinians so weak and divided that they will never be able to mount a serious challenge to Israel's dictates...But Olmert may believe he has found a way to silence his domestic critics. For the first time he seems genuinely keen to get his Arab neighbours involved in the establishment of a Palestinian "state". As he headed off to the Sharm el-Sheikh summit with Egypt, Jordan and Abbas this week, Olmert said he wanted to "jointly work to create the platform that may lead to a new beginning between us and the Palestinians"...But now the Israeli Prime Minister's Office is talking openly about getting the Arab world more directly involved, not only in its usual role as a mediator with the Palestinians, nor even in simply securing the borders against smuggling, but also in policing the territories."
290607, (Chomsky), Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities. "A few years earlier, U.S. intelligence had warned of popular feelings that oil is a "national patrimony" exploited by the West by unjust arrangements imposed by force. Israel's Service to the United States, its Saudi ally, and the energy corporations confirmed the judgment of U.S. intelligence in 1958 that a "logical corollary" of Opposition to Arab nationalism is reliance on Israel as "the only strong pro-Western power in the Middle East," apart from Turkey, which established a close military alliance with Israel in 1958, within the U.S. Strategie framework."
140707, CounterPunch, RANNIE AMIRI, Language as an Instrument of Crime A Primer on Israeli Doublespeak. "More telling is where the barrier is being built. According to the UN report, 80% of it on West Bank land...The Sunday Times had already arrived at the same conclusion in June 1977: "Torture of Arab prisoners is so widespread and systematic that it cannot be dismissed as 'rogue cops' exceeding orders. It appears to be sanctioned as deliberate policy." Whenever a detainee died under torture, it was dismissed as an unfortunate "work accident." It took a ruling by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1999 to ban the practice. Unfortunately they have now reversed themselves. A judgment issued this past June allows Shin Bet to use methods regarded by PCATI as torture when in a "ticking bomb" situation....The Absent Present This bizarre term was used describe those Palestinians who were not driven out of Palestine in 1948, but remained within what was to later become Israel. If they temporarily left their homes or were away from their land during the war, they were prevented from reclaiming it. Confiscation of the property of the "absent present" was then permitted {Haaretz, January 14, 1955). "
150707, ZNet, Ron Jacobs, Architecture as Military Strategy: A Review of Eyal Weizman's Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation (Verso 2007). "In fact, many of these settlements are begun where they are precisely because their presence serves a uniquely military purpose....the Israeli Knesset is currently debating a bill that would declare Gaza a foreign entity. If passed, this law would allow the Israeli military to do whatever it wants to Gaza and its inhabitants and not owe them a schekel for reparations. Under the current status, Tel Aviv is supposed to pay the owners of the homes they destroy...Yet, this bill would make everything Israel does legal (and without any legal repercussions), just like the expulsions of Jews carried out by he Nazis and the arrests of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
hentet 160707 på Ynetnews.com, Ali Waked, Kuwaiti newspaper report says France received intelligence according to which Mossad is pianning to kidnap members of Shiite group participating in conference of Lebanese groups near Paris. "The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Seyassah reported Saturday that the French government told Israel an attempt to harm any of the Hizbullah delegates would hinder relations between the countries. - According to the report, the warning was issued after French intelligence received information saying Mossad was planning to attack Hizbullah and Amal (Lebanese Resistance Detachments) representatives at the conference."
180707, The Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, Overcoming the conspiracy against Palestine. "Be certain that Yasser Arafat's final days are numbered, but allow us to finish him off our way, lot yours. And be sure as well that... the promises I made in front of President Bush, I will give my life to keep." Those words were written by the Fatah warlord Mohammed Dahlan, whose US- and Israeli-backed forces were routed by Hamas in the Gaza strip last month, in a 13 July 2003 letter to then Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz and published on Hamas' website on 4 July this year....Dahlan writes of his fear that Arafat would convene the Palestinian legislative council and ask it to withdraw confidence from then prime minister Mahmoud Abbas...This letter is a small but vivid piece of evidence to add to the existing mountain, of the conspiracy in which the Abbas leadership is involved... Israel needs the fig leaf of a Palestinian sovereign to take millions of Palestinians off its books, the way apartheid South Africa attempted to deploy the cover of "independent Black homelands" - Bantustans - to prolong white rule and give it a veneer if legitimacy....Under the present conditions we cannot establish a state of our own, and what remains for us is to demand civil rights in the country that is our homeland."
190707, NOVOSTI, Russia's Lavrov warns against isolating Hamas. "the international community should respect the Islamic group as a parliamentary majority party. In an interview on Mideast issues with the Kuwait News Agency, Sergei Lavov also defended Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy, and urged for a consensus between sectarian groups in Iraq. "
200707, .haaretz.co A racist Jewish state. "This week, the line was crossed. If the Knesset legal counselor did not consider the bill entitled "the Jewish National Fund Law" as sufficiently racist to keep it off the agenda, it is hard to imagine what legislation she will consider racist....In 1995 the Supreme Court rescued the state from callously discriminating against its Arab citizens through the Ka'adan case, which prohibited the Israel Lands Administration from discriminating against non-Jews by leasing land through the Jewish Agency. Since then the attorney general has stated that such discrimination is unacceptable - also when it is carried out through the Jewish National Fund. The MKs were unable to accept this egalitarian ruling, and on Wednesday a large majority of 65 voted in favor of a preliminary reading permitting such discrimination."
240707, The Guardian, Wanted, for crimes against the state. Azmi Bishara medlem af Knesset gennem 10 år, katolsk, venstreorienteret, højlydt talsrør for Israels arabere er nu efterlyst og efterforsket af politiet. Bishara kritiserede Israels angreb på Libanon og havde kontakt med libanesere mens angrebet foregik. Han besøgte straks efter krigen både Syrien og Libanon og kritiserede der Israel. Han var på rejse i Jordan, da man lækkede, at han var under efterforskning. Han beskriver Loven om retten til at vende tilbage som et problem. Den giver jøder (mindst 1 bedsteforældre jødisk), specielt fra Europa, ret til at vende tilbage, men ikke fordrevne arabere. Han siger, at Israel kan ikke både være jødisk og demokratisk. Han går ind for en demokratisk stat med ligeret. Og den opfattelse får nu støtte, dels fra Adalah, en menneskerettighedsorganisation, dels fra gamle Avraham Burg, fhv. formand for Knesset, som siger "To define the state of Israel as a Jewish state is the key to its end."
270707, ARTHUR NESLEN, CounterPunch, Turning Palestine's Most Valuable Natural Resource into a Political Tool. "In the near future, a $4bn deal to exploit Gaza's offshore gas reserves will be signed by the Israeli government, Britain's BG Group (BG), the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s investment arm, the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) and Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC). Environmental considerations notwithstanding, an injection of this kind of capital into the occupied territories could transform the political landscape...In the summer of 2005, when Sharon was focused on "disengagement" from Gaza, BG signed a memorandum with the Egyptian company EGAS to sell the gas there. But the deal was scuppered a year later, when Tony Blair intervened at the last minute to plead the Israeli government's case to BG, allegedly following a request from Ehud Olmert...If the benefits of the deal to Tony Blair's future career and BG's public image would have been dear in 2006, the advantages to Israel were clearer still. As well as diversifying the country's energy supplies, the project could provide up to 10% of the country's energy needs, at around half the price the same gas would cost from Egypt. One well-placed Palestinian source told me there was "an obvious linkage" between the BG-Israel deal and attempts to bolster the Olmert-Abbas political process." Herudover har Neslen lidt om efterretningstjenester og virksomheder.
hentet 310707, Al Jazira English, Mark Seddon, US state department 'funding Blair' "There are questions emerging over Tony Blair's appointment as tne Quartet's [the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia] Middle East envoy. The uncertainties start with funding, who is paying the bills for the former British prime minister's new job as special representative for the diplomatic grouping ?"
030807, ICH, Jonathan Cook, Israel's Jewish problem in Tehran. So why hasn't Iran started by wiping its own Jews off the map ? Israel har travlt med at lægge Iran og Ahmedinejad for had. Vore dages Hitler o.s.v. Men der bor 25000 jøder i Iran. Og trods tilbud om kontanthjælp fra Israel og amerikanske jøder, har de ikke travlt med at flytte til Israel. Society of Iranian Jews har udtalt, at deres nationale identitet ikke er til salg. Cook nævner tidligere eksempler (Ægypten, Baghdad) hvor man endte med at støtte jødiske terroraktioner med det resultat, at der opstod et nyt jødehad, da det blev afsløret.
August 2007, Le Monde Diplomatique, Regis Debray, Pour une cure de vérité au Proche-Orient. English version, THE WORLD BACKED ITSELF INTO A CORNER Palestine: a policy of deliberate blindness. En meget væsentlig artikel ! Alle FNprotester forbliver bare ord. Israelerne annekterer i mellemtiden bare landet, bid for bid. Og den metode har de brugt bevidst hele tiden. Der er nu 438000 kolonister. "Could not at least one European government convey to our Israeli friends that we )re not all taken in by the deception, and that those who deceive may not be be its first victims - but will certainly be its last?"
040807, The Independent, Robert Fisk, Bravery, Tears And Broken Dreams. Mount Ararat, towering symbol of Armenia, is an awful reminder of wrongs unrighted. "When a people claim to have settled again in their ancestral lands - the Israelis, for example, at the cost of "cleansing" 750,000 Arabs who had perfectly legitimate rights to their homes - the world becomes misty eyed."
050807, Kuna.net.kw, Not acknowledging Hamas-led Palestinian gov"t a "mistake" -- Russian FM.
050807, Gulfnews: Chirac knows what killed Arafat, says [Arafat's] ex-aide, Bassam Abu Sharif.
070807, Paklribune, Kathleen Christison, The Attempted Murder of Palestine, Siren Song of Elliott Abrams. Ser på anvendelsen af ordet "kup" i forbindelse med Hamas Fatah opgøret; USAs/Israels manipulationer; Alvaro de Soto's afslutningsrapport.
080708, THE JERUSALEM POST, British Gas, Israel to freeze Hamas out of $4b. gas deal Israel and the British natural gas company BG Group Plc will move ahead with controversial plans to drill for natural gas in the Gaza Marine field, despite Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip last month, The Jerusalem Post learned on Thursday. The two sides have arrived at an "understanding" that will transfer funds intended for the Palestinian Authority's Palestinian Investment Fund into an international bank account, a BG source told The Post.... According to the original bilateral arrangement between Israel and the PA, some 60 percent of the revenues from the sale of the gas will go to BG; 30% will go to BG's partner in the deal, the British energy company CCC, and 10% of the revenue, estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year, is to be designated for the PA's Palestinian Investment Fund, under the auspices of the office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. ... "There are already clear intentions as to how to handle the Hamas situation, and plans have already been worked on regarding the construction of the pipeline, now we just need to finalize a price," he said. ... Soonafter, BG broke off talks with Israel and said that it preferred bringing gas to Egypt to be liquefied and then shipped by tankers to the US, Europe and the Far East. The talks resumed in July 2006 and in April of this year the cabinet voted 21-to-three to grant a negotiating team formal permission to hold talks with BG on the purchase of gas from the Gaza Marine field.
hentet 130807, ynetnews.com, Report: Israelis fighting guerillas in Colombia. "Colombian paper quotes local defense minister as confirming ex Israeli officers helping government in battle against guerillas, drug lords, while guerrilla group FARC claims Israeli commandos also fighting them in jungles ...Colombia weekly Semana recently reported. The paper added that the Israelis were hired by the Colombian Defense Ministry in order to improve the army's intelligence gathering capabilities and the command and control structure within the military. ...The contract between the Israeli advisors and the Colombian Defense Ministry was signed in April this year, and sources in the country said that it stood at $10 million. ...The Israeli group, reportedly made up of three senior generals, a lower ranking officer and three translators, is highly esteemed by the Colombians. "They are like psychoanalysts; they ask us the material questions and help us see all the problems we weren't aware of before"...In recent years, Israel has become Colombia's number one weapon supplier, with the arms mainly used to battle drug lords. These weapons include drones, light arms and ammunition, observation and communication systems and even special bombs capable of destroying coca fields. Israel's methods of fighting terror have been duplicated in Colombia," a senior defense official said Thursday. [Er det tortur og etnisk udrensning, de underviser i ? OJ].
150807, Khaleej Times, Abbas decree excludes Hamas from elections. Handlingen er ikke i overensstemmelse med den palæstinensiske grundlov.
270807, CounterPunch, Bill Christison, Why the US and Israel Should Lose Middle East Wars. ". The unspoken but real purpose of his [Bush'] efforts has been and will be to concentrate increasing power over the Middle East in the hands of the small group of rich and greedy elites who rule the U.S. and Israel today, and perhaps he will achieve this goal. The more important result, however, will be the elimination of any movement toward greater global justice, stability, and peace in the world for decades to come..."[N]either the Republican or Democratic Parties in the U.S., any political parties in Israel, the military-industrial complexes of the U.S. and Israel, the Israel lobby in the U.S., the U.S. Protestant Christian Right, the Catholic Church, or the ruling elites of any EU states will bring one jot of meaningful pressure to bear on the Israeli or the U.S. government to change their policies...Let's say it bluntly. War with Iran is inevitable before January 2009 unless Jush and Cheney are both impeached first. New Israell-U.S. hostilities in Lebanon are also likely. Either warfare or covert actions conducted by the U.S. and/or Israel to bring about regime change in Syria are also probable...Peace above all is for those who support the status quo, but if you're in that category you're in a small minority. So let's banish the peace movement and get a global justice movement going.s"
280807, KUNA, Arab League strongly condemns international silence about [Israeli] massacres [in Palestinian areas].
hentet 310807, Al Ahram, 2007/860, Saleh Al-Naami, 'No elections if Hamas will win'. In a radical departure from the position he has held since Hamas took over Gaza, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas now maintains that legislative and presidential elections should not be held until the West Bank and Gaza are reunited under a single leadership...That the call for early elections began within a month of the legislative elections that brought Hamas into power proves that the people behind this call had but one aim in mind, which was to "countermand the free will of the Palestinian people...A poll appearing in Al-Quds, a Fatah mouthpiece funded by the Palestinian office of the presidency, indicated that Ismail Haniyeh would come out miles ahead of any other presidential candidate. According to the poll, if elections were held now, 51.38 per cent of the electorate would elect him, whereas only 13.37 per cent would vote for Abu Mazen, 12.62 per cent for Fatah leader Marawan Barghouti and a mere 4.99 per cent for Salam Fayyad, head of the current emergency government...One possibility, according to a recent leak from within Fatah, is Abu Maher Ghneim, head of the movement's organisational committee. Yet the prospect of Ghneim's candidacy is difficult to imagine, firstly because he is vehemently opposed to Oslo and secondly because he refuses to return to the West Bank as long as it is under Israeli occupation... Israeli Interior Minister Avi Dichter was very clear on this point. On Friday he told Israeli army radio, "we will not approve of the elections until we can be sure that Hamas won't win.""
hentet 310807, Al Ahram, El-Amir, The colonial mistake. "The US and Israel adamantly fought against a definition of terrorism that excluded national resistance against foreign military occupation because it was contrary to Israeli designs for Palestinian land. The Bush administration distorted the standards of international law that were developed to legitimise armed resistance against Nazi Germany's military invasion and occupation of European territories....However, the historical background to modern fundamentalist terrorism should be traced back to medieval European interChristian, Catholic-Protestant wars, to the 200-year-long Crusades against Muslims of the Levant and to European colonialist expansion, of which Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine is the last vestige. Since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the secular national liberation struggle that was often sustained by Marxist-Leninist ideology was replaced by the more powerful ideology of jihad against the Soviet infidels in Muslim Afghanistan. That strategy was developed jointly by Saudi Arabia and the US to defeat and expel the Soviet Union from Afghanistan....The Crusades, which were incited and fuelled by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095, were the beginning of a long and troubled relationship that persisted for almost 1,000 years between West and East. In mobilising an army of paid mercenaries to launch the first Crusade the Pope granted absolution from all sins to those who may die in the battle for the Holy Land, or even while on the way to it -- a mediaeval concept of martyrdom. [min fremhævelse, OJ].... But the manipulation of religion for colonial purposes underlies the creation of a national home for Jews in the biblical land of Palestine as much as it justified the Crusaders conquest 900 years earlier....When the former US president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had his historical meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud aboard the SS Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake of he Suez Canal in 1945, one of his requests to cement US-Saudi partnership was for the king to use his influence to facilitate the settlement of Jews in Palestine. The king's answer was, "Give the Jews and their descendants the choicest lands and homes of the Germans who had oppressed them." He refused to cooperate....Maverick fundamentalist concepts are rife among many Muslim groups today and they entail many acts of unjustified, un-Islamic violence. But many would agree that it originated in Afghanistan through the manipulation of Muslim religious instincts as a potent weapon for political purposes - to drive the Soviet Union out of that illegally occupied country in the interests of the US.... Zealous jihadist Islam has now come back to haunt its instigators."
hentet 010907, hos www.ynetnews.com Israel slams UN-sponsored Palestinian conference
Le Monde diplomatique - septembre 2007, Mariano Aguirre, Israël, l'antisémitisme et l'ex-président James Carter. Howard Dean og Nancy Pelosi har taget afstand fra Carter i anledning af Palestine : Peace not Apartheid. Carter understreger i bogen, at siden Camp David-aftalen er det den israelske regering, der hver gang har blokeret fredsprocessen. Carter har også i et interview sagt, at Israel opretholder et apartheidsystem i de besatte områder.
070907, Haaretz, Russia calls on Israel to honor int'l law. "Russia on Thursday called on Israel to respect international law following an alleged violation of Syrian airspace. The country expressed "exteme concern" in the wake of Syrian claims that its military fired on an Israel Air Force warplane that had entered its airspace and "dropped munitions.""
210907, The Independent, Fury as Netanyahu confirms Syria strike. "Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Opposition party Likud, was chacteristically at the centre of a controversy yesterday after appearing to be the first Israeli politidan to confirm an air strike against Syria two weeks ago...Meanwhile the European Union is calling on Israel to consider tighter sanctions on Gaza by cutting power and fuel in response to Qassam rocket attacks. Javier Solana. the EU foreign affairs chief, said: "We join the call by the secretary general of the United Nations for the Israeli govemment to reconsider its decision."
210907, ireland.com, Iran, Israel clash at UN watchdog debate (i IAEA). "During the debate, Arab countries and Iran railed at "international double Standards and silence" over Israeli nuclear exclusivity in the Middle East....Iranian Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh said: "This is Strange, the Israeli prime minister acknowledged having nuclear weapons, now we hear this is a lie. "The only way for the international Community to know the truth is to authorise the IAEA to send inspectors to Israel and verify the truth.... At the annual 149-nation IAEA gathering yesterday, Arab and other Islamic nations pushed through a milder resolution targeting Israel by calling on all Middle East nations to apply IAEA safeguards and renounce nuclear weapons. The non-binding vote, which upset the lAEA's traditional consensus culture, was 53-2 with 47 abstentions by Western and developing states."
240907, Guardian, comment is free, Chris Doyle, Life behind the wire. "Imagine if, after an IRA bombing, a British prime minister declared Catholic areas in Northern Ireland to be hostile territory, and threatened to reduce or cut off goods, water, fuel and electricity supplies. It sounds implausible but the one and a half million residents of the Gaza Strip, an area the size of the Isle of Wight, may soon face this scenario." 69 israelske soldater er såret af Qassam-raketter fra Gaza. "Apologists for Israel argue that, since the removal of Israeli forces from inside Gaza in 2005, it is no longer occupied. This is far from the case, as acknowledged by the UN. Gazans are denied any sovereign control over their territory as Israel controls all entry and exit to Gaza by air, land and sea....Gazans are not sentenced criminals. They are not all supporters of Hamas or Islamic jihad. Over 50% of the population are children under the age of 16....Israel has declared "hostile" a piece of territory, even though it is responsible for its population under international law.... Last year, the then UN special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, John Dugard castigated the international community for this, saying: "In effect, the Palestinian people have been subjected to economic sanctions the first time an occupied people has been so treated.... British government ministers condemn boycotts of Israel, but cannot even muster a word of condemnation of Israeli practices that actually endanger hundreds of thousands of lives. The hypocrisy is not lost on millions of Arabs and Muslims."
250907, Haaretz, Carlo Strenger, On the way to a pariah state. "Henry Kissinger used to say that Israel has no foreign policy, only internal politics....Walt & Mearsheimer... published a paper claiming that U.S. Middle Eastern policy, including the misguided Iraq war and its unqualified support for Israel over the last decades, has run counter to true U.S. interests....W&M paint Israel as a rogue state that does not abide by international law, and is not up to the standards expected of a Western state.... My point is that their anti-Israeli stance is the tip of a growing iceberg that is simply disregarded by Israel's decision makers....My point is simple: the day we are no longer judged by the standards of the West is the beginning of Israel's end...Behaving in a manner befitting the standards of the Western world is far more important for Israel's long-term survival than gaining a few square miles here and there...Many of us believe that Israel's moral fiber has been fatally harmed by the occupation and by the two Lebanon wars. The result is that both morally and strategically, the continued occupation and subjugation of the Palestinian people has put us on the wrong side of history."
250907, GEORGE JAHN, A: Israel seeks exemntion from atomic rules. Israel vil have samme undtagelse fra ikke-spredningsaftalen, som Indien fik ved sin aftale med USA - det må være rent formelt - reelt har de jo hele tiden været undtaget. "The new push is reflected in papers Israel presented earlier this year to the "Nuclear Suppliers' Group" - 45 nations that export nuclear fuel and technology under strict rules meant to lessen the dangers of proliferation and trafficking in materials that could be used for a weapons program. The initiative appeared to be linked to a U.S.-India agreement that would effectively waive the group's rules by allowing the United States to supply India with nuclear fuel despite its refusal both to sign the nonproliferation treaty and allowing the IAEA to inspect all of its nuclear facilities...Among the hurdles still to be cleared before the U.S.-India pact becomes reality is NSG approval of an exemption for India from group restrictions. Critics have warned that the deal, if it goes through, will deal a blow to efforts to contain the spread of nuclear arms by effectively rewarding a country that has developed nuclear weapons while evading the nonproliferation pact....The most recent tensions over Israel's nuclear capabilities surfaced at the IAEA's 148-nation general conference. On Thursday, the Vienna meeting's penultimate day, only the U.S. and Israel voted against a critical resolution implicitly aimed at the Jewish State for refusing to put its nuclear program under international purview."
270907, ICH, Jonathan Cook, Why Did Israel Attack Syria? "From the leaks so far, it seems that more than half a dozen lsraeli warplanes violated Syrian airspace to dröp munitions on a site close to the border with Turkey. We also know from the US media that the raid occurred in close coordination with the White House. But what was the purpose and significance of the attack? ... The reasoning was simple: before an attack on Iran could be countenanced, Hizbullah in Lebanon had to be destroyed and Syria at the very least cowed. The plan was to isolate Tehran on these two other hostile fronts before going in for the kill....The immediate fallout of the failed attack [sidste sommer i Libanon] was an apparent waning of neocon influence. The group's program of "creative destruction" in the Middle East - the encouragement of regional civil war and the partition of large states that threaten Israel - was at risk of being shunted aside...Israel's leadership understood the gravity of the moment. In January 2007 the Herzliya conference, an annual festival of strategy-making, invited no less than 40 Washington opinion-formers to join the usual throng of Israeli politicians, generals, journalists and academics. For a week the Israeli and American delegates spoke as one: Iran and its presumed proxy, Hizbullah, were bent on the genocidal destruction of Israel. Tehran's development of a nuclear program -- whether for civilian use, as Iran argues, or for military use, as the US and Israel claim - had to be stopped at all costs.... and Israel started upping the pressure on several tens of thousands of Jews in Tehran to flee their homes and come to Israel....For some time Syria had been left in no doubt of the mood in Washington. It failed to end its pariah status in the post-9/11 period, despite helping the CIA with intelligence on al-Qaeda and secretly trying to make peace with Israel over the running sore of the occupied Golan Heights. It was rebuffed at every turn. So as the clouds of war grew darker in the spring, Syria responded as might be expected. It went to the arms market in Moscow and bought up the displays of anti-aircraft missiles as well as anti-tank weapons of the kind Hizbullah demonstrated last summer were so effective at repelling Israel's planned ground invasion of south Lebanon....It was at this point - with tensions simmeringly hot -- that Israel launched its strike, sending several fighter planes into Syria on a lightning mission to hit a site near Dayr a-Zawr....One point that none of the pundits and analysts have noted was that, in attacking Syria, Israel committed a blatant act of aggression against its northern neighbor of the kind denounced as the "supreme international crime" by the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal. [Min fremhævelse, OJ]....The other justification for the attack was at least based in a more credible reality: Damascus, Hizbullah and Iran undoubtedly do share some militar resources. But their alliance should be seen as the kind of defensive pact needed by vulnerable actors in a Sunni-dominated region where the US wants unlimited control of Gulf oil and supports only those repressive regimes that cooperate on its terms. All three are keenly aware that it is Israel's job to threaten and punish any regimes that fail to toe the line....That these stories appear to have been planted in the American media by neocon fanatics like John Bolton is warning enough -- as is the admission that the only evidence for Syrian malfeasance is Israeli "intelligence", the basis of which cannot be questioned as Israel is not officially admitting the attack....Syria, meanwhile, is fighting back, as it has been for some time, with the only means available: the diplomatic offensive. For two years Bashar alAssad has been offering a generous peace deal to Israel on the Golan Heights that Tel Aviv has refused to consider. This week, Syria made a further gesture towards peace with an offer on another piece of territory occupied by Israel, the Shebaa Farms. Under the plan, the Farms -- which the United Nations now agrees belongs to Lebanon, but which Israel still claims is Syrian and cannot be returned until there is a deal on the Golan Heights -- would be transferred to UN custody until the dispute over its sovereignty can be resolved. Were either of Damascus' initiatives to be pursued, the region might be looking forward to a period of relative calm and security. Which is reason enough why Israel and the neocons are so bitterly opposed. Instead they must establish a new reality - one in which the forces of "creative destruction" so beloved of the neocons engulf yet more of the region. For the rest of us, a simpler vocabulary suffices. What is being sold is catastrophe. [Også min fremhævelse, OJ].
280907. CounterPunch, KATHLEEN and BILL CHRISTISON, See No Evil. The Teflon Alliance with Israel. "Israeli warnings against an attack on Iraq were "pervasive" in Israeli communications with the administration during early 2002, according to Vilkerson....Alan Greenspan in his just-released memoir, The Age of Turbulence, that "it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."...Greenspan said he believed the "size of the threat" that Saddam posed "was scary" because "he could have essentially also shut down a significant part of economic activity throughout the world.".... Greenspan's statements further raise the question of why, given his claimed knowledge of Saddam's "30-year history" and given the interest of earlier adnninistrations in Iraq's nuclear ambitions, he began to feel Saddam's removal was "essential" only when the Bush administration began planning for war. And none of what Greenspan said explained why Iraq would have shut down its economy by blocking its own oil exports....remarks by a man concentrated on economics with little political acumen, who went along with the war because of its presumed benefits in safeguarding oil markets but with no concern about the broader consequences of the war and little or no interest in its political motivations or its geostrategic implications beyond what he saw as its global economic goal.... The U.S. political right does not, of course, want to acknowledge that the relationship with Israel has grown so close that the U.S. would actually go to war at the behest of or for the benefit of Israel....In July,4Heclgeswrotea hard-hitting article for Truthdig, subsequently widely circulated, saying that the war, was strongly shaped by the notioh that what is good for Israel is good for the United States."... Scott Ritter, who served as a weapons inspector in Iraq during the 1990s, paints a somewhat more complex picture in his 2006 book Targeting Iran. He makes it clear, supporting Wilkerson's Statement, that over the years of weapons inspections, Israel had come to regard Iraq as a diminishing threat (unlike Greenspan, apparently), whereas Iran was increasingly viewed as a new looming danger....Israeli intelligence "pressed home to [the U.S.] the notion that the upcoming U.S. invasion of Iraq must serve as a springboard transformation within the Middle East, one that swept away not only Saddam Hussein, but also anti-Israeli elements in Syria, Palestine, and, of course, Iran." De neokonservatives "clean break" papir til Netanyahu kommer her tilbage til USA. Papirets første punkt var at sabotere fredsprocessen mellem Palæstina og Israel. [Det klarede Israel selv, OJ]...The disadvantages to the industry of turmoil in the region are evident. Energy companies, they make clear, do not like wars in oil-rich areas. Nor do they like such other recent "staples of U.S. Middle East policy" as sanctions and regime change, because each of these actions "threatens access to oil and gas reserves and thus [the oil connpanies'] ability to make money... In the end, the authors conclude, the "wealthy Arab governnnents and the oil lobby exert much less influence on U.S. foreign policy than the Israel lobby does, because oil interests have less need to skew foreign policy in the directions they favor and they do not have the same leverage."... It matters, most fundamentally, because, if there is ever to be a course correction and a return to some kind of policy sanity that will prevent similar future disasters, it is necessary to understand how this disaster arose in the first place.... Global sanity and global security demand that the U.S. not invade other countries to obtain control over their natural resources or gain huge corporate profits through oil concessions. Global sanity and security also demand that the U.S. cease trying to expand its imperial reach. And, perhaps most important, it is absolutely vital that the U.S. not so subordinate what should be its true interests to those of another nation that it can be led into wars anywhere, but particularly in the most sensitive area of the world, at the behest or for the benefit of Israel. If going to war to secure huge profits for oil companies is obscene, how much more obscene is going to war for the benefit of a foreign power because we are no longer able to distinguish our interests from theirs? "
290907, The Independent, Richard Garner, Lecturers' plans to boycott Israeli universities 'illegal'. The University and College Union har vedtaget en sådan boycot. Fagforeningens advokater har udtalt, at det vil være ulovligt. Der er intet i artiklen om efter hvilken lovgivning. Og fagforeningens enkelte medlemmer må da stadig have deres demonstrationsfrihed ? Universitetsrektorernes organisation er imod boycot. "Our view was, and remains, that any such boycott would be inimical to academic freedom - including the freedom of academics to collaborate with other academics, regardless of nationality and location." Spøjs argumentation, friheden må da også gælde, at man kan være fri for at samarbejde med f.eks. dem, der vil lave giftgas, tror på/ikke tror på Vorherre etc. Friheden er da individuel, svarende til et individuelt ansvar, jvf. Nürnberg-dommene.
hentet 011007, Democracy Now The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States Samtale med Ervand Abrahamian, Iran expert and CUNY Distinguished Professor of History at Baruch College, City University of New York og Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council. "But he [Ahmadinejad] begins from the premise that no one in their right senses would think of attacking Iran..... During the 1980s, in spite of the Iranian Revolution, in spite of Ayatollah Khomeini's many, many harsh remarks about Israel, far, far worse than what anything Ahmadinejad has said so far, Israel at the time was the country that was lobbying the United States to open up talks with Iran to try to rebuild the US-Iran relations, because of strategic imperatives that Israel had. Israel needed Iran, because it was fearing the Arab world and a potential war with the Arabs, After 1991, '92, that's when you see the real shift in Israeli-Iranian relations, because that's when the entire geopolitical map of the Middle East is redrawn. The Soviet Union collapses. The last standing army of the Arabs, that of Saddam Hussein, is defeated in the Persian Gulf War. And you have an entirely new security environment in the Middle East, in which the two factors, the Soviets and the Arabs, that had pushed Iran and Israel closer together suddenly evaporate...., So throughout the '50s, '60s and '70s, the Iranians and the Israelis were working very, very closely together, had a very robust alliance. They tried to keep it secret. It wasn't necessarily very secret, but Iran never recognized Israel de jure....But the Iranian prime minister was eager to be able to get rid of Khomeini, fearing -- thinking that by Khomeini being eliminated, the revolution would be able to move in a different direction. And he asked the Israelis if they could do it, because Khomeini at the time was in Paris; the Iranians did not have the ability to do anything, but they thought that perhaps the Israelis would..... After the first Persian Gulf War, there was a thinking in Israel at the time that Saddam had now been weakened, he was no longer a real threat, and at the end of the day the real potential threat in the future, the rising power, was Iran. So the Israelis were trying to find different ways of being able to find some sort of a modus vivendi with Saddam Hussein. This significantly angered the Clinton administration, that was pursuing a policy of isolating both Iran and Iraq at the same time."
021007, Baltimore Sun, New revelations in attack on American spy ship. Tribune Special Report: The Strike on USS Liberty. Den 8. juni deklassificeredes et sæt dokumenter i sagen, de findes på http://www.nsa.gov/liberty . "The documents also suggest that the U.S. government, anxious to spare Israel's reputation and preserve its alliance with the U.S., closed the case with what even some of its participants now say was a hasty and seriously flawed investigation."
021007, Guardian, We will not be silenced. The cancellation of the Palestinian academics' UK speaking tour amounts to censorship and bullying, writes Amjad Barham. "We are disappointed to see that the leadership of the UCU has failed to defend the right of its members to engage in unfettered discussions on this or any other matter of concern to academics....Given that the same suppression of academic freedom has been proliferating among US campuses for quite some time, one cannot escape the conclusion that an abhorrent wave of new McCarthyism has perhaps crossed the pond....By muzzling debate and free discussion on the boycott, the lobby and its supporters within the UCU are suppressing academic freedom in the most crude manner. They are proving once again that they were never concerned about the alleged "infringement" of the boycott on academic freedom; rather, their only concern has always been how to shield Israel's unique form of apartheid from scrutiny and censure."
051008, Haaretz, Amos Harel, ANALYSIS / IDF plans to use disproportionate force in next war [se hvad det blev til under januar 09]. Following on the Israel Defense Forces' failure in the 2006 Second Lebanon War, the army is likely to resume fortifying its maneuvering capability, represented by the Armored and Infantry Corps, at the expense of its firepower, particularly that of the Air Force. ... "We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective, these are military bases," he said. "This isn't a suggestion. This is a plan that has already been authorized." ... The answer ... is "a disproportionate strike at the heart of the enemy's weak spot, in which efforts to hurt launch capability are secondary. [Og det er en krigsforbrydelse !!!, OJ] ... Eiland recommends preemptive action; that Israel pass a clear message to the Lebanese government, as soon as possible, stating that in the next war, the Lebanese army will be destroyed, as will the civilian infrastructure. ... Eisenkot's "Dahiyah Doctrine" also raises a number of questions about a Dossible International backlash, which could end the conflict under onditions favorable to the enemy.
051208, The Times, Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shells (article5447590.ece) Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza Strip yesterday. The weapon, used by British and US forces in Iraq, can cause horrific burns but is not illegal if used as a smokescreen.
Israel admitted using white phosphorus during its 2006 war with Lebanon.
The Geneva Treaty of 1980 stipulates that white phosphorus should not be used as a weapon of war in civilian areas, but there is no blanket ban under International law on its use as a smokescreen or for illumination.
The Israeli army also suffered its first fatality of the offensive when one of its soldiers was killed by mortar fire. More than 30 soldiers were wounded by mortars, mines and sniper fire.
101208, Richard Falk UNSpecial Rapporteur & TFFAssociate. Silence is not an option http://www.transnational.org/
151208, Per Gahrton, TFFAssociate, Israel will now be co-writing the European Union's Middle East policies, TFF, se link ovenfor.
161208, UN News Centre Israel's detention of UN expert 'unprecedented' - rights chief
Forslaget om, at FNs Generalforsamling nedsætter en særdomstol - er næsten godt. Det er nemlig nødvendigt, at tage rettens vej mod alle krigsforbrydere, hvad enten vi kan lide dem eller ej ! Særdomstole er noget skidt såvel nationalt som internationalt. De nedsættes oftest fordi man vil undgå, at de dømmer, den del af skurkene, som man i øvrigt sympatiserer med. Vi har ICC. Den er lavet til krigsforbrydere. Nu må Philippe Sands, Francis Boyle eller en anden af de jurister, der beskæftiger med den slags, anlægge en sag mod Israel ved ICC. De må gerne også tage Anders Fogh med for dansk deltagelse i Iraq og Afghanistankrigene. Ægypten, Mubarak, må anklages for medvirken i folkemord, ved ikke at åbne grænsen til Gaza for mad, medicin, brændsel i det mindste !
241208, Jerusalem Post, Rattling the Cage: Accept Hamas's offer. Hamas is offering Israel a cease-fire if Israel lifts the siege on Gaza - and Israel should take it.
It would have heen nice if we had been heen the ones to make the offer. Then we, not Hamas, would have been the ones calling the shots. But apparently we're too full of ourselves to admit that we, too, are up a tree, so it's Hamas, not us, thats putting out the ladder for us both to climb down and avoid a new, terrible Middle East war....There is a way out, but it requires Israel to admit that it made a huge mistake, a mistake borne of arrogance and blindness going back at least to the disengagement a little over three years ago. Right then, right after we got our soldiers and settlers out of the Strip, we should have offered the Palestinians the deal that Hamas is offering us now - you don't bother us, we won't bother you. You don't fire rockets at Sderot, we won't blockade Gaza, just like nobody blockades Israel or any other free country. ... The Kassams have terrorized the 25,000 people in Sderot and its environs, but have caused very, very few deaths or serious wounds. By contrast, Israel has terrorized 1.5 million Gazans, locked them inside their awfully narrow borders, throttled their economy, and killed and seriously wounded thousands of them.
261208, PressTV, Hamas holds UN liable for Israel crimes. "Ban Ki-moon's comments are dangerous. Not only they do not reflect realities on the ground, they portray the occupants as victims, as if the Palestinians were the occupiers," he said.
281208, Press TV Arab World Losing Tolerance For Indifferent Leaders. More than 30,000 people crammed into the main Yemeni soccer stadium [in Sana'a]. He wanted to see action against Israel ... These sentiments soon spread around the enormous stadium and before long the speakers' voices were being drowned out amid pro-Islam, pro-Hamas, pro-jihad slogans.... More anger was reserved for Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the secular Palestinian Fatah faction, who has made it clear that he would like to wrest control of Gaza from the elected Hamas government. Those Arab governments like Jordan and Mauritania, who are on friendly diplomatic terms with Israel, came in for yet more criticism.
281208, Paul Craig Roberts May We No Longer Be Silent. The title of my article comes from the sermon of the Episcopal Bishop of Washington DC. John Bryson Chane. delivered on October 5. 2008, at St. Columba Church. The bishop's eyes were opened to Israel's persecution of Palestinians by his recent trip to Palestine.
281208, Anarchy In The UK (and the birth of SGS - STOP GAZA SLAUGHTER) [I]n truth I thought around 30 of us might turn up to respond ... there must be 3,000 here now," said one police officer. ... Crimes against humanity are being carried out by Israel and I refuse to be silent.
291208, PressTV, Nasrallah slams Arab, zionist collaboration. "What is going on in Gaza right now is in a very clear way a permanent American and Israeli scheme in the region to impose a humiliating settlement with Israeli and American conditions on the rest of the Arabs.... Meanwhile he pointed to the negative role of some Arab countries in what was happening in Gaza and said, "There are some Arab regimes who are truly partners of this project, especially those who signed peace treaties with Israel. They are supporting (the US-Israeli project) politically, psychologically, militarily and culturally through the media... They are contributing to impose the conditions of surrender on the rest of the resistance groups."
Nasrallah said that there are documents that show that some Arab regimes are calling on Israel to destroy Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.
"It is not only the responsibility of the people of Gaza, it is the responsibility of the governments in Arab and Islamic nations. ... "In this period the United States of America and the Europeans are suffering from financial and economic crisis. But we in the Arab world, we have oil, we have money, we have political stands, our governments and regimes with very little effort, can very easily stop the Zionist assault on the people In Gaza," he said.
291208, Amira Hass Gaza strike is not against Hamas, it's against all Palestinians. At noon Sunday, the Israel Air Force bombed a compound belonging to Gaza's National Security Service. It houses Gaza City's main prison. Three prisoners were killed. Two were apparently Fatah members; the third was convicted of collaborating with Israel. Hamas had evacuated most of the Gaza Strip's other prisons, but thought this jail would be safe.
311208, Francis A. Boyle, Global Research, An Israeli War Crimes Tribunal (ICTI) May be he Only Deterrent to a Global War.
311208, The Guardian, Israel ordered to let international media into Gaza, Israel's supreme court today ordered the government to allow the international media into Gaza to report on the effect of the air strikes on Palestinians. ... Israel has closed the border completely since it began bombing the besieged Palestinian territoty on Saturday.
However, the supreme court told the government it must allow up to 12 journalists to enter whenever it opens the Erez crossing, a passenger gateway, for humanitarian reasons.
"There are several countries in this world, such as North Korea, Zimbabwe and Burma, that ban press coverage in conflict zones. Israel is a democracy with a free liberal press and it should stay so, even in times of crisis and danger."
010109, The Independent, Hamas accuses senior Palestinian aides of spying for Israelis. (Mohammed Dahlan) ... Fatah had formed a cell ... The cell was under the leadership of a senior Abbas adviser, Tayeb Abdul-Rahim, and information gathered would be passed on "through the channels of security co-operation with the enemy,"
010109, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, The Gaza solution lies in Egypt. Today, brothers and sisters, let me speak openly about certain aspects of this confrontation that I left unsaid in the July War. I well understand the situation faced by our brothers in Gaza. Their situation is more difficult than our situation [in the July War]. .. It is clear that America and Israel are pursuing a project in the region that seeks to impose an unequal settlement on the rest of the Arab world. ... We have heard, and this is very unfortunate, that Israeli officials say that the magnitude of Arab support for the war on Gaza well exceed the support they extended for the Israeli war on Lebanon in July 2006. No one asked these Arab regimes in the July 2006 war nor today in the Gaza Strip to fight for the Lebanese or the Palestinians but only to adopt a fair and appropriate political stand on media issues to say the least. Yet again, as in the July War, we find the Arab regimes hold the victims responsible. First of all, today the Arab world possesses oil, money and political strength and with modest efforts can stop the aggression against our people and the people in Gaza.
Secondly, the Arab and Muslim worlds must demand that the Egyptian regime, which has a crucial role in what is happening in Gaza today, not to enter war but to simply open the (Ratah) crossing tor food, medicine. water and even weapons to reach our people in Gaza. ... This is where we must acknowledge Syria for its assistance that led to our victory in the July war, because despite repeated aerial bombardment of all our border crossings and the main roads, Syria did not close its border with us. ... If you do not open the Rafah border crossing, if you do not come to the rescue of your brothers in Gaza, then you are have a hand in the siege and the killing and in causing the Palestinian tragedy. ... That is what rulers of the Arab world and the Egyptian peoples must demand from the rulers of Egypt. If the Rafah crossing is opened for water, medicine. food, money and weapons to our people in Gaza, the epic victory that took place in Lebanon will be once again be repeated. We are confident of this victory despite all the harsh conditions of our people in the Gaza Strip.
Brothers and sisters, should Gaza endure this onslaught for days or weeks, the aggression will stop, as this enemy does not endure a war of attrition nor withstand the long days of war. This enemy will eventually end the aggression; it will fail in its objectives and with that their leaders who wanted to take political power by shedding Palestinian blood will fail.
Have the Israelis ever made any concessions until now, in Lebanon, Palestine or anywhere for that matter?
Brothers and sisters, what happened and is still happening today in Gaza, and what took place during the July 2006 aggression should be enough to convince each and every Arab and every patriot living in his homeland that what can protect our people and restore our rights is resistance and jihad. All other options are mere illusions!
Today, they sent calls to the settlers in occupied northern Palestine to prepare and equip their shelters.
The first is that everything the Israelis say or do in the northern occupied region of Palestine may be preventative precautions to deal with any developments on the Lebanese front.
The Israelis may take advantage of this situation in the world to strike Lebanon as they are in need of creating such a situation to gain political leverage in their elections or to restore its deterrent image.
For instance, one issue is of the missiles discovered eight days ago and just before the military attack on Gaza! I would like to ask: Who placed these missiles where they were before the war began?
When several Katyusha rockets were discovered in al-Naqoura, some Lebanese figures made statements and pointed the finger of blame at us. So much so that one of them even said that no one can make moves in that region, but Hizbullah. Yet, we did not hear these same figures say anything when the Zionists kidnapped the two Tarraf brothers from the Southern Blida within this same period. Their was no evidence of their patriotic concern and bleeding hearts for Lebanon when this happened.
I would like to say to them that Hezbollah possesses the courage to take responsibility for any action we take. We do not hide or shy away from our responsibilities as some do!
Can those many individuals and networks in Lebanon that collaborate with Israel not have carried out such acts to provide a justification for Israel to launch an aggression against Lebanon'.?' Unfortunately, those politicians provided a justification and helped engineer up When they condemned the Katyusha thev said that this provides a pretext for Israel to attack Lebanon! Who says it provides a pretext?!
010109, Al Jazeera, Iran Urges Arabs to Act on Gaza. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, has told the Arab League it should take action "quickly" to end the Israeli attacks on Gaza. ... Jordan's Prince El Hassan Bin Talal told Al Jazeera he believed that action from league members was "overdue" and that more demonstrations would be held across the Arab world in protest against Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
I think the need for the organisation of an Islamic conference position is long overdue and one of an Arab League position is also overdue," he said.
010109, McKinney to Obama: "Say Something" About Gaza Humanitarian Crisis. A CNN reporter who accompanied the passengers and crew of the Dignity confirmed that the boat "was sailing with full lights" when "one of the Israeli patrol boats, with no lights on, rammed the Dignity, hard."
Israel blames the collision on the relief vessel.
Said McKinney: "Our boat was rammed three times, twice in the front, once on the side.... What the Israelis are saying is outright disinformation."
010109, Dennis Rahkonen, 'Online Journal', The Truth About Those Hamas Rockets. "The [Palestinian] Kassam [rockets] have terrorized the 25,000 people in Sderot and its environs, but have caused very, very few deaths or serious wounds. By contrast, Israel has terrorized 1.5 million Gazans, locked them inside their awfully narrow borders, throttled their economy, and killed and seriously wounded thousands of them... As Gazan hospitals and morgues fill beyond capacity because of an ongoing air assault that cruelly began at precisely the hour when countless children were heading home from school, we're expected to believe that small craters mostly in empty Israeli fields constitute this terrible episode's chief sin.. ... At any point during the past six decades, Israel could have had peace, simply by assenting to the great moral imperative of our time, namely the Palestinians' right to their own, unitary, sovereign homeland.
020109, The Times, /article5433528.ece, Protests against Gaza attack sweep across the world Thirty new Israeli raids struck the Gaza Strip today as thousands of Hamas supporters attended the funeral of Nizar Rayan, the most senior Hamas victim of the offensive. He was killed with his four wives and 11 of his children in another Israeli raid yesterday. [Betragter man sagen som en krig mellem Israel og Hamas, hvilket er det israel-venligste, er det stadig en krigsforbrydelse at slå 15 uskyldige civile ihjel. Det kan man ikke kalde målrettet "targeted" og slet ikke "precision". OJ]
020109, PressTV, Egypt refuses to open Rafah border. Egypts foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Glieit says his country will not open Rafah border amid escalating humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. ... unless Abbas' Palestinian Authority - which runs the West Bank -- controls he crossing and international monitors are present.
020109, United Nations Human Rights Council, Prof. Richard Falk, Israel Violates International Humanitarian Law. The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian lau as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war.
020109, 'Information Clearinghouse, James Petras, The Politics of An Israeli Extermination Campaign: Backers, Apologists and Arms Suppliers. IsraePs crimes against humanity demand a public response: social action, which will force it to cease and desist from its campaign to exterminate the people of Gaza. Because the Jewish state has assaulted a vast array of Palestinian social institutions, which resonate with those in our own society, we can and should mobilize them to condemn and boycott their counterparts in Israel: We should urge the entire academic community to denounce Israel's bombardment of the Islamic University of Gaza and the tota! destruction of all of its science facilities. ... All American health workers, doctors, nurses, technicians, should organize and denounce Israel's medical embargo against the 1.5 million Palestinians crowded into the Gaza Strip. They must condemn Israel's bombardment of Gaza's Children's Hospital, the neighborhood pharmacies and the attacks on any transport of those critically wounded Palestinian victims of its aerial and missile attacks.
030109, Press TV - Barak warns Lebanon, Nasrallah upbeat
040109, True Torah Jews comment on THE TORAH POSITION ON THE CURRENT CONFLICT IN GAZA What more proof does one need than the fact that for centuries, Jews have lived peacefully in Arabic countries, enjoying the respect and friendship of their neighbors? The tragedy of Zionism changed all of that. The painful truth is that in the eyes of the Zionist government, Jews are merely the cannon-fodder needed for the State of Israel to achieve its agenda. .... The following explanation clarifies this issue beautifully: Would the Jews be held responsible in a conflict between North Korea and South Korea? Obviously not! In the same way, Jews should not be held responsible for the Zionists' conflicts with their leighbors. The state of Israel has as much to do with Jews and Judaism as does New Zealand or Zimbabwe," said Rabbi Hersh Lowenthal.
May it be clear to every nation, to every person in the entire world: JEWS ARE NOT ZIONISTS!
The Zionists are neither our representatives nor our spokesmen. They have absolutely no right to speak in the name of world Jewry. It is a terrible mistake to confuse Jews with Zionism, or to blame Jews for Zionist actions. We truly wish to live in peace with every nation in the world. We pray for our Jewish brethren as well as for the non-Jews in the Middle East, that they may be saved from danger and peril. Amen [skriver de - og siger jeg !! OJ]
040109, The Independent, Robert Fisk, The Rotten State of Egypt is too Powerless and corrupt to Act. Egyptians demand that Mubarak open the Rafah crossing-point into Gaza, break off diplomatic relations with Israel, even send weapons to Hamas. And there is a kind of perverse beauty in in listening lo the response of the Egyptian govemment: why not complain about the three gates which the Israelis refuse to open? And anyway, the Rafah crossing-point is politically controlled by the four powers that produced the "road map" for peace, including Britain and the US. Why blame Mubarak?
To admit that Egypt can't even open its sovereign border without permission from Washington tells you all you need to know about the powerlessness of the satraps that run the Middle East for us.
And amid all this, Egyptians have to live amid daily slaughter by their own shabby infrastructure. Alaa al-Aswani wrote eloquently in the Cairo papcr Al-Dastour that the regime's "martyrs" outnumber all ihe dead of Egypt's wars against Israel - victims of railway accidents, ferry sinkings, the collapse of city buildings, sickness, cancers and pesticide poisonings - all victims. as Aswani says, "of the corruption and abuse of power".
050109, guardian, commentisfree, Gary Younge, Israel has yet to learn the US lesson, that the war on terror was a failure. A recent Rasmussen poll shows the American public far less indulgent of Israeli aggression than many previously believed. Opinion on the bombing of Gaza is fairly evenly divided, showing 44% supporting Israel's military action against the Palestinians and 41% saying it should have tried to find a diplomatic solution to the problems.
050109, Al Jazeera, Mahathir blames US for Gaza war.
050109, Press TV, Ron Paul: Israel had US OK for War on Gaza. The Texas congressman said the Israeli attack on the impoverished Gaza Strip shapes a bleak future for the whole world as it means that, "the whole idea of preemptive or preventive war is spreading."
050109, Worldpress.org Chris Gelken, Iran Threatens to Break Israel's Gaza Blockade The knee-jerk reaction of Israel and the US to isolate a democratically elected government -- simply because it didn't follow an "Israel-first" agenda -- made a mockery of the so-called democracy that Washington claims to promote in the Middle East. ... In fact, a well-placed source in Egypt ... pointed to the fact that while there have been Israeli settlers living in Golan and previously in Sinai and Gaza, the level of infrastructure development in those regions has never matched the widespread construction and permanent settlement activity seen in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The reason, he said, is simple.
Israel always planned to give back Golan and Sinai in return for peace with the nation states of Syria and Egypt. The West Bank is, and will always remain, under Israeli occupation.
060109, Haaretz, Over 2,000 take to streets of Haifa to protest IDF Gaza operation
060109, Press TV, Venezuela expels Israel! envoy
060109, Counterpunch, The Real Estate War in Gaza, The History and "Morals" of Ethnic Cleansing. Albert Einstein grasped this fallacy a long time ago. A short time after WWI "Einstein complained that the Zionists were not doing enough to reach agreement with the Palestinian Arabs...He favored a binational solution in Palestine and wamed Chaim Weizmann against Prussian style" nationalism" ... However it seems evident to the author of this artide, as to many othcrs. that the survival of the Jewish community in this country depends on establishing viable mechanisms of coexistence with the Palestinians. Thus, under the slogan of "fight for existence", the State of Israel is pursuing an essentialiy suicidal project. ... During the 1948 war, about two-thirds of the Palestinians who would become refugees were in fact expelled from their homes by the nascent Israeli army, and one-third became refugees while escaping the dangers of war. All these people, 0.75-1 million of them, were prevented from returning to Israel after the armistice agreement, while their homes and property were demolished or appropriated by the State of Israel.... "(a) The New York Times quoted Prime Minister Menachem Begin's (1977 - 83) August, 1982 speech saying: In June, 1967, we had a choice. The Egyptian Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that (President Gamal Abdel) Nasser (1956 - 70) was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.' Two-time Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1974 - 77 and 1992 - 95) told French newspaper Le Monde in Februarx, 1968: I do not believe Nasser wanted war. The two divisions which he sent into Sinai on May 14 would not have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it." ... Ben-Gurion: "Just as I do not see the proposed Jewish state as a final solution to the problems of the Jewish people, so I do not see partition as the final solution of the Palestine question. Those who reject partition are right in their claim that this country cannot be partitioned because it constitutes one unit, not only from a historical point of view but also from that of nature and economy". .. However, since the beginning of the Intifada (a year and a half before the first Palestinian rocket landing across the border) the Israeli army embarked on the systematic destruction of the Strip incursions were carried out every few weeks and included the destruction of factories and workshops, roads, agricultural land, homes, and whatnot.... Finally, a truce with Hamas was negotiated. Since the beginning of the truce defense minister Barak commenced preparations for a massive attack on Gaza.
070109, Time (010109), Tony Karon interview med Avram Burg en af "de gamle", der stadig har bevaret sund jødisk fornuft. Then we come to the Sinai covenant, which is a key moment not just for Jewish theology, but for Christian belief as well: The Ten Commandments is the first human-to-human constitution, setting out the relations among humans on the basis of laws. And then you come to the Prophets, and its amazing that they're calling so clearly for a just society. And then, in the Middle Ages, you listen to Maimonides say he's waiting for redemption of the world without oppression between nations. So, in the Jewish story over so many centuries, there has always been a higher cause, not just for the Jews, but for all of humanity.
Even in the Holocaust, the lesson is "Never Again." But this doesn't mean just never again can genocide be allowed to happen to the Jews, but never again can genocide be allowed to happen to any human being. So, the Holocaust is not just mine; it belongs to all of humanity.
The Holocaust is a very real trauma for many peopie in Israel, and nobody can argue with that. But... when I hear someone like Benjamin Netanyahu, who is a very intelligent person, say of [Iran's President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad, "It's 1938 all over again,"I say, is it?! Is this the 1938? Did we have the unequivocal support in 1938 of all the important superpowers in the world? No, we did not. And when you compare Ahmadinejad to Hitler, don't you diminish Hitler's significance?
You argue that the purpose of the Yad Vashem visit is to silence criticism. It's an emotional blackmail that says to people, this is what we have experienced, so shut up and help us... When the sages created the national holiday of Tisha Be'av, they made it the single day on which we commemorate all the traumas of our history, from the destruction of the first temple to the Spanish expulsion. These events did not all happen on this exact date; the founders of Jewish civilization confined the memory of the traumas of our history to one day, to allow us the rest of the year to get on with being Jewish, rather than letting sorrow take over our entire existence... To make our contribution to humanity, we have to free ourselves of the obsession with the trauma. ... My idea of Judaism can be represented through a classic Talmudic dilemma: You are walking along by the river and there are two people drowning. One is Rabbi [Meir] Kahane, and the other is the Dalai Lama. You can only save one of them. For whom will you jump? If you jump for Rabbi Kahane because genetically he's Jewish, you belong to a different camp than mine. because I would jump for the Dalai Lama. As much as he's not genetically Jewish, he's my Jewish brother when it comes to my value system. That's the difference between me and the Jewish establishment in Israel and America. ... Many people say to me, "What about Gaza? Don't have so much compassion for them, don't tell the Israelis to be nice there, tell [the Palestinians] to be nice there. And I say Gaza is a nightmare, and it's a stain on my conscience. And I'm very troubled by the attitude of Israelis against Israeli Arabs. It's a shame. It's a black hole in my democracy.
Det var dejligt Avram !!! Det er dig og dine ligesindede - desværre altfor sjældent hørte - der er de sande jøder. OJ
070109, Press TV, US Troops 'Monitoring Rafah Crossing'
070109, The Independent, Robert Fisk, Why Do They Hate The West So Much, We Will Ask. So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school. ... After Israeli artillery had fired shells into the UN base at Qana in 1996, the Israelis claimed that Hizbollah gunmen were also sheltering in the base. It was a lie. ... Israel claimed the bodies of children killed in a second Qana massacre may have been taken from a graveyard. It was another lie.
Yes, Israelis deserve security. Twenty Israelis dead in 10 years around Gaza is a grim figure indeed. But 600 Palestinians dead in just över a week, thousands over the years since 1948 - when the Israeli massacre at Deir Yassin helped to kick-start the flight of Palestinians from that part of Palestine that was to become Israel - is on a quite different scale.
070109, Press TV, Saudis reject oil embargo on Israel
080109, The Guardian, Avi Shlaim, How Israel Brought Gaza to the Brink of Humanitarian Catastrophe. The only way to make sense of Israel's senseless war in Gaza is through understanding the historical context. Establishing the state of Israel in Maj 1948 involved a monumental injustice to the Palestinians. British officials bitterly resented American partisanship on behalf of the infant state. On 2 June 1948. Sir John Troutbeck wrote to the foreign secretarv, Ernest Bevin, that the Americans were responsible for the creation of a gangster state headed by "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". I used to think that this judgment was too harsh but Israel's vicious assault on the people of Gaza, and the Bush administration's complicity in this assault, have reopened the question.
I write as someone who served loyally in the Israeli army in the mid-1960s and who has never questioned the legitimacy of the state of Israel within its pre-1967 borders. What I utterly reject is the Zionist colonial project beyond the Green Line, The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the June 1967 war had very little to do with security and everything to do with territorial expansionism ... Gaza's prospects were never bright, Gaza, however, is not simply a case of economic under-development but a uniquely cruel case of deliberate de-development. ... In Gaza. the Jewish settlers numbered only 8,000 in 2005 compared with 1.4 million local residents. Yet the settlers controlled 25% of the territory, 40% of the arable land and the lion's share of the scarce water resources. ... Sharon staged a unilateral Israeli pullout from Gaza, wilhdrawing all 8,000 settlers and destroying the houses and farms they had left behind. [my emphasis, OJ]. ... Israel's settlers were withdrawn but Israeli soldiers continued to control all access to the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air. Gaza was converted overnight into an open-air prison. From this point on, the Israeli air force enjoyed unrestricted freedom to drop bombs, to make sonic booms by flying low and breaking the sound barrier, and to terrorise the hapless inhabitants of this prison. ... Israel likes to portray itself as an island of democracy in a sea of authoritarianism. Yet Israel has never in its entire history done anything to promote democracy on the Arab side and has done a great deal to undermine it. Israel has a long history of secret collaboration with reactionary Arab regimes to suppress Palestinian nationalism. Despite all the handicaps, the Palestinian people succeeded in building the only genuine democracy in the Arab world with the possible exception of Lebanon. ... , A surreal situation thus developed with a significant part of the international community imposing economic sanctions not against the occupier but against the occupied, not against the oppressor but against the oppressed. ... In March 2007, Hamas and Fatah formed a national unity government that was ready to negotiate a long-term ceasefire with Israel. Israel, however, refused to negotiate with a govemment that included Hamas.... Under the circumstances. Israel had the right to act in self-defence but its response to the pinpricks of rocket attacks was totally disproportionate. The figures speak for themselves. In the three years after the withdrawal from Gaza, 11 Israelis were killed by rocket fire. On the other hand, in 2005-7 alone, the IDF killed 1,290 Palestinians in Gaza, including 222 children. ... It is difficult to see how starving and freezing the civilians of Gaza could protect the people on the Israeli side of the border. But even if it did. it would still be immoral, a form of collective punishment that is strictly forbidden by international humanitarian law, The brutality of Israefs soldiers is fully matched by the mendacity of its spokesmen. Eight months before launching the current war on Gaza, Israel established a National Information Directorate. .... The problem with israel's concept of security is that it denies even the most elementary security to the other community. .... This brief review of Israel's record over the past four decades makes it difficult to resist the conclusion that it has become a rogue state with "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". A rogue state habitually violates international law, possesses weapons of mass destruction and practises terrorism - the use of violence against civilians for political purposes. Israel fulfils all of these three criteria; the cap fits and it must wear it.
080109, John Pilger, Holocaust Denied, The lying silence of those who know. They know that the horror now raining on Gaza has little to do with Hamas or, absurdly. "Israel's right to exist." They know the opposite to be true: that Palestine's right to exist was canceled 61 years ago and the expulsion and, if necessary, extinction of the indigenous people was planned and executed by the founders of Israel. They know. for example. that the infamous "Plan D" resulted in the murderous depopulation of 369 Palestinian towns and villages by the Haganah (Jewish army) and that massacre upon massacre of Palestinian civilians in such places as Deir Yassin, al-Dawayima, Eilaboun, Jish, Ramle and Lydda are referred to in official records as "ethnic cleansing." ... The order to expel an entire population "without attention to age' was signed by Yitzhak Rabin, a future prime minister promoted by the world's most efficient propaganda as a peatemaker. ... Every subsequent "war" Israel has waged has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native peopie and the theft of more and more land. ... It beggars belief that President-elect Obama was not informed. Outspoken on Russias war in Georgia and the terrorism in Mumbai, Obama's silence on Palestine marks his approval, which is to be expected, given his obsequiousness to the Tel Aviv regime and its lobbyists during the presidential campaign and his appointment of Zionists as his secretary of state, chief of staff and principal Middle East advisers.
080109, ICH, Paul Craig Roberts, America's Shame. Why does Israel have a right to exist, but Palestine doesn't? This is the question of our time. For sixty years Israelis have been stealing Palestine from Palestinians. There are maps available on the Internet and in Israeli publications showing the shrinkage over time of what was once Palestine into what Palestine is today -a small number of unconnected ghettos or bantustans. .... While the rest of the world condemns Israers inhumanity, the US Congress - I should say the US Knesset - rushed to endorse the Israeli slaughter of the Palestinians in Gaza.
080109, Global Research, Michel Chossudovsky, War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields. The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. This is a war of conquest. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline. ... It should be noted that 60 percent of the gas reserves along the Gaza-Israel coastline belong to Palestine. ... The death of Yasser Arafat, the election of the Hamas government and the ruin of the Palestinian Authority have enabled Israel to establish de facto control over Gaza's offshore gas reserves. ... The election of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2001 was a major turning point. Palestine's sovereignty over the offshore gas fields was challenged in the Israeli Supreme Court. Sharon stated unequivocally that "Israel would never buy gas from Palestine" intimating that Gaza's offshore gas reserves belong to Israel. ... In 2006, British Gas "was close to signing a deal to pump the gas to Egypt." (Times, May, 23, 2007). According to reports, British Prime Minister Tony Blair intervened on behalf of Israel with a view to shunting the agreement with Egypt. ... Israefs intent was to foreclose the possibility that royalties be paid to the Palestinians. In December 2007, The BG Group withdrew from the negotiations with Israel and in January 2008 they closed their office in Israel.(BG website). ... The decision to speed up negotiations with British Gas (BG Group) coincided, chronologically, with the planning of the invasion of Gaza initiated in June. It would appear that Israel was anxious to reach an agreement with the BG Group prior to the invasion, which was already in an advanced planning stage. ...The military occupation of Gaza is intent upon transferring the sovereignty of the gas fields to Israel in violation of International law.
090109, Alternet, Naomi Klein, The Nation, Want to End the Violence in Gaza? Boycott Israel. Every day that Israel pounds Gaza brings more converts to the BDS cause, and talk of cease-fires is doing little to slow the momentum. Support is even emerging among Israeli Jewss. In the midst of the assault roughly 500 Israelis, dozens of them well-known artists and scholars, sent a letter to foreign ambassadors stationed in Israel, It calls for "the adoption of immediate restrictive measures and sanctions" and draws a clear parallel with the antiapartheid struggle. ... In the first nine months of 2008, Israeli exports to Canada went up 45 percent. A new trade deal with the European Union is set to double Israel's exports of processed food. And on December 8. European ministers "upgraded" the EU-Israel Association Agreement, a reward long sought by Jerusalem. ... And there are indeed deeply distressing echoes of South African apartheid in the occupied territories: the color-coded ID's and travel permits, the bulldozed homes and forced displacement, the settler-only roads.... But when I published The Shock Doctrine, I wanted to respect the boycott. On the advice of BDS activists, including the wonderful writer John Berger, I contacted a small publishcr called Andalus. Andalus is an activist press, deeply involved in the anti-occupation movement and the only Israeli publisher devoted exclusively to translating Arabic writing into Hebrew, We drafted a contract that guarantees that all proceeds go to Andalus's work, and none to me. In other words, I am boycotting the Israeli economy but not Israelis.
090109, The Times Online, Gaza Victims' Burns Increase Concern Over Phosphorus The Times has identified stockpiles of white phosphorus (WP) shells from high-resolution images taken of Israel Defence Forces (IDF) artillery units on the Israeli-Gaza border this week. The pale blue 155mm rounds are clearly marked with the designation M825A1, an American-made WP munition.... there is great concern that Israel is failing to take all feasible steps to avoid civilian loss of life and property by using WP in densely populated urban areas This concern is amplified given the technique evidenced in media photographs of air-bursting WP projectiles at relatively low levels, seemingly to maximise its incendiary effect," .. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian war surgery specialist working in Gaza, told The Times that he had seen injuries believed to have resulted from Israefs use of a new "dense inert metal explosive" that caused "extreme explosions". He said: "Those inside the perimeter of this weapon's power zone will be torn completely apart. We have seen numerous amputations that we suspect have been caused by this."
090109, BBC, Israelis 'Bombs Civilian Shelter' Kills 30 People The UN Oftice for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) called it "one of the gravest incidents" since the beginning of the offensive.
"According to several testimonies, on 4 January Israeli foot soldiers evacuated approximately 110 Palestinians into a single-residence house in Zeitoun (half of whom were children) warning them to stay indoors," the OCHA report said.
"Twenty-four hours later, Israeli forces shelled the home repeatedly, killing approximately 30."
090109, Counterpunch, RANNIE AMIRI, What Humanitarian Crisis? Livni's Big Lie - In 1925, Adolf Hitler, writing in Mein Kampf, defined 'The Big Lie'. He called it a lie so enormous that people "...would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." ... "There is no humanitarian crisis in the [Gaza] Strip.', Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, 1 January 2009.
090109, James Zogby: How Israel's Propaganda Machine Works, http://www.huffingtonpost.com. Han ved, hvad han snakker om !
100109, PNN - Palestine News Network - MP Zahalka: Israeli military abducting as many Gaza youth as possible for information. Hundreds of Palestinians have become the captives of Israeli forces during the current military operation in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset and head of the parliamentary assembly, Dr. Jamal Zahalka, said Friday that the detainees were moved to a military camp northwest of the Israeli city of Beerseba. ...Zahalka noted that "most of the detainees are civilians, according to Israeli law." He said, "The detainees from the Gaza Strip were not considered prisoners of war because they are not part of the regular army." ... The MP pointed out that Israeli soldiers are trying to capture the largest possible number of young people in the Gaza Strip in order to obtain information from them through coercion and torture. The Israeli administration is also using extortion and people as bartering tool with the Hamas govemment, despite the fact that the Israelis have imposed a news blackout on the subject. ...these alestinians are not being treated as normal prisoners of the occupation of which there are 11,000.
100109, The Independent, Robert Fisk, Wherever I go, I Hear the Same Tired Middle East Comparisons. In Ireland, my favourite journalistic justification for this bloodbath came from my old mate Kevin Myers. "The death toll from Gaza is, of course. shocking. dreadful, unspeakable." he mourned."Though it does not compare with the death toll amongst Israelis if Hamas had its way." Get it'.' The massacre in Gaza is justified because Hamas would have done the same if they could, even though they didn't do it because they couldn't. [!!!!!]
It took Fintan O'Toole, The Irish Times's resident philosopher-in-chief. to speak the unspeakable. "When does the mandate of victimhood expire?" he asked. "At what point does the Nazi genocide of Europe's Jews cease to excuse the state of Israel from the demands of International law and of common humanity?" [Min fremhævelse, OJ] ... the Israeli seizure of Arab land in the West Bank had more in common with the 17th-century Irish Catholic dispossession than sectarianism in Belfast. ... My favourite moment came when I pointed out that journalists should be on the side of those who suffer. If we were reporting the 18th-century slave trade, I said. we wouldn't give equal time to the slave ship captain in our dispatches. If we were reporting the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp, we wouldn't give equal time to the SS spokesman. At which point a journalist from the Jewish Telegraph in Prague responded that "the IDF are not Hitler". Of course not. But who said they were?
100109, Global Research, Prof. Francis A. Boyle, The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians. Since the outbreak of the first Intifada in 1987, the world has seen those heinous war crimes inflicted every day by Israel against the Palestinian people living in occupied Palestlne: e.g., willful killing of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army and by Israel's illegal paramilitary settlers. ... the formal determination by the U.N. Human Rights Commission that Israel has inflicted "crimes against humanity" upon the Palestinian people. ... Certainly, Israel and its predecessors-in-law-the Zionist agencies, forces, and terrorist gangs - have committed genocide against the Palestinian people that actually started on or about 1948 and has continued apace until today in violation of Genocide Convention Artides II(a), (b), and (c). ... and the Great Powers on the U.N. Security Council would not even dispatch a U.N, Charter Chapter 6 monitoring force to help protect the Palestinians, let alone even contemplate any type of U.N. Charter Chapter 7 enforcement actions against Israel. .... What the world witnesses here is (yet another) case of "dishumanitarian intervention" or "humanitarian extermination" by the United States and Israel against the Palestinians and Palestine.
110109, Press TV, Hamas targets Israeli aircraft
110109, al jazeera, Israel advances on Gaza City. Israeli ground forces are advancing on Gaza City and facing strong resistance from Palestinian fighters on the 16th day of the assault on the besieged territory, ....Phase three could be very dangerous for the Israeli soldiers. Hamas. ... Israel claimed it shelled about 60 targets throughout the Gaza Strip overnight. hitting weapons depots, tunnels and a mosque. ... An humanitarian corridor into the Gaza Strip was opened by Israel between 0900GMT and 1200GMT, but reports of strikes in Jabalya and other areas continued during this period. ... However, there remain barriers to distribution of such aid once inside the Strip, with agencies' security being poorly assured. Last week a UN employee was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier, forcing the organisation to temporarily suspend work in the region.
110109, Global Research, Michel Chossudovsky, Unusually Large U.S. Weapons Shipment to Israel: Are the US and Israel Planning a Broader Middle East War? "Shipping 3,000-odd tons of ammunition in one go is a lot," one broker said, on condition of anonymity.' It is worth noting that a similar unusually large shipment of US ordinance to Israel was scheduled in early December. ... Whether these weapons will be used or not is not known. The central question, in this regard, is whether the Gaza invasion is part of a broader military adventure directed against Lebanon, Syria and Iran, in which heavier weaponry including US made bunker buster bombs will be used. ... They are guided by an existing Israeli satellite usedi by the military. ... The large shipments of US ordinance, slated to arrive in Israel after the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States and Commander in Chief are part of the broader program of US-Israeli military cooperation in relation to Iran.
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120109, JERUSALEM POST PM: Rice left embarrassed in UN vote. The Security Council resolution passed on Friday calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza was a source of embarrassment for US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who helped prepare it but ultimately was ordered to back down from voting for it and abstain, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday. ...Rice did not end up voting for Resolution 1860, thanks to a phone conversation he held with US President George Bush shortly before the vote, Olmert told a meeting of local authority heads in Ashkelon as part of a visit to the South. Upon receiving word that the US was planning to vote in favör of the resolution - viewed by Israel as impractical and failing to address its security concems - Olmert demanded to get Bush on the phone, and refused to back down after being told that the president was delivering a lecture in Philadelphia. Bush interrupted his lecture to answer Olmert's call, the premier said. America could not vote in favör of such a resolution, Olmert told Bush. Soon afterwards, Rice abstained when votes were counted at the UN.
120109, UN News Centre UN human rights body to send fact-finding mission to Gaza -The United Nations Human Rights Council today adopted a resolution strongiy condemning the ongoing Israeli military operation in Gaza, and decided to dispatch a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations committed in the territory. Canada cast the only negative vote for the non-binding resolution, which received the support of 33 of the Council's 47 members, while 13 countries abstained.
120109, Commondreams, Mohammed Fares Al Majdalawi, Gaza is Sinking in a River of Blood: A Message from a Gazan to the World
120109, UN News Centre Gaza: UN Official Reports Horrific Hospital Scenes of Casualties. Mr. Ging paid tribute to "the heroes," the Palestinian hospital staff who have been working round the clock and have lost track of time, and the 40 expatriate medical staff who have joined them from Norway, the Netherlands, Egypt and Jordan, among other places. ... Speaking in New York, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes told the news conference the UN had been unable to independently verify the casualty figures given by the Palestinians but they seemed plausible. As of today, there were 884 dead, 275 of them children and 93 women (42 per cent). "I am appalled that violence on this scale is still continuing in Gaza and horrified at the human cost of all this," ....Mr. Holmes said more food supplies were getting through and power supply had improved because of infrastructure repairs and some fuel getting through, but the situation was still not satisfactory even if better than before.
120109, .al jazeera, Mark LeVine, Who will save Israel from itself? The argument that this is a purely defensive war, launched only after Hamas broke a six-month ceasefire has been challenged, not just by observers in the know such as Jimmy Carter, the former US president who helped facilitate the truce, but by centre right Israeli intelllgence think tanks.
The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, whose December 31 report titled "Six Months of the Lull Arrangement Intelligence Report," confirmed that the June 19 truce was only "sporadically violated, and then not by Hamas but instead by ... "rogue terrorist organisations".
Indeed, in reviewing statements by Israeli military planners leading up to the invasion, it is clear that there was a well thought out decision to go after Gaza's civilian infrastructure - and with it, civilians.
Major-General Gadi Eisenkot: "We will wield disproportionate power against every village from which shots are fired on Israel, and cause immense damage and destruction. From our perspective these [the villages] are military bases," he said.
Fellow Haaretz columnist and daughter of Holocaust survivors, Amira Haas writes of her late parents disgust at how Israeli leaders justified Israel's wars with a "language laundromat" aimed at redefining reality and Israel's moral compass. "Lucky my parents aren't alive to see this," she exclaimed.
Third, as Israel brutalises Palestinians, it brutalises its own people. You cannot occupy another people and engage in violence against them at this scale without doing even greater damage to your soul.
130109, Reuters AlertNet - Iran says Israel stops its aid ship to Gaza.
130109, Press TV, Israel rains bombs on 'own soldier'. Four Hamas fighters and the soldier were targeted ... "The planes of the Zionist enemy bombed the house and destroyed it completely, thus putting an end to the life of its soldier," the statement continues.... Many Israelis believe the war on Gaza is a clear subjugation of Corporal Shalifs safety to broader military goals.
130109, Spiegel, 'The Mass Murdering Must Come to an End', Spiegel Interview With Iranian Foreign Minister. Mottaki: If Hamas and the people of Gaza back an initiative to end the crisis, we will support the outcome of the talks. ... Our position in this matter is very clear: Israeli troops must withdraw from Gaza. In addition, the blockade on the Gaza Strip must be lifted.... The peoples of the region no longer accept the old hegemony of the USA and its retainer regimes, like the Israeli government. ... Until now, US presidents have only caused problems in the Middle East. ... We will calmly wait and see what course the new administration will take in the Middle East. Then we will react accordingly.
140109, al jazeera, Egypt rejects Arab summit call. Egypt and Saudi Arabia fear a summit would produce little in the way of results and would make Arab leaders appear ineffective,[!!!! my exclamation marks, OJ] diplomats said. ... Friday's meeting will "examine the developments relating to Israel's refusal to abide by UN Security Council Resolution 1860 calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, he told reporters. ... "The key issues are that Hamas, from its point of view, is being asked to raise the white flag as a condition to reach an agreement which is much more detrimental to it than the ceasefire that it agreed to last year_which wasn't respected by Israel. So, at this point, there are key issues in the proposa! that [Hamas] cannot accept. ...Hamas says Israel must pull back all its troops under a ceasefire and end the blockade of the Gaza Strip that it tightened after the group seized the coastal enclave from forces loyal to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestlnian president, in 2007.
140109, http://palestinethinktank.com , Gilad Atzmon - Israel Has Managed to Lose Again. Haaretz reported today that IDF Senior officials "believe that Israel should strive to reach an immediate ceasefire with Hamas, and not expand its offensive against the Palestinian Islamist group in Gaza." This shouldn't take us by great surprise. Though Israel has proved beyond doubt that it is rather capable of conducting large-scale genocide, it also proved that its military forces do not have the answer to Islamic resistance. The Israeli chief military officials admitted as well that "Israel achieved several days ago all that it possibly could in Gaza." The IDF, so it seems, finished its role in Gaza. It turned its neighbourhoods into piles ot rubble. Relentlessly, it even murdered the civilian population in broad daylight by means of air raids and attacks from warships. Images of white phosphorus artillery shells bursting over schools and hospitals are now part of our collective memory. Tanks firing into schools loaded with evacuees seeking refuge from the bombing of their buildings is now the image associated with the Hebraic soldier and yet, the Israelis failed to achieve any of their objectives. I must admit that it must take a special talent to be an Israeli general. As much as they are good in committing war crimes, they somehow fail in everything else. .... Israel is desperate for an exit strategy. I learned today that Defence Minister Barak is looking for a week long humanitarian ceasefire. ... As if this is not enough, the many tons of bunker buster bombs which Israel was using day and night have shaken the foundations of every building in Gaza and the question looms large as to whether Gazan houses that are still standing will be safe to live in. EU officials raised the question today wondering who is going to pay for the reconstruction of these eradicated towns, camps and villages
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