Puisqu'on parle beaucoup de l'affaire Clearstream2 en ce moment ce blog qui devrait faire paraître plus de commentaires en français se met à la tâche. En fait, ce blog s'est très tôt lassé de la république Sarkozyste; les français, ayant perdu les pédales, se coltinent Sarkozy pour au moins cinq ans. Circulez, il n'y a rien à faire.
Je crois cependant que l'affaire Clearstream2 déterminera le futur politique de Sarkozy, père et fils, car on fait face ici à une dynastie montante. Alors je m'y intéresse à Clearstream2 et je m'y amuse... Je ne vais pas répéter ce que Marianne ou Mediapart, pratiquement les seuls journaux à ne pas répéter mot pour mot les communiqués de Sarkozy, partie 'hyper-civile' dans l'affaire de liquidation politique au grand jour qu'est devenue l'affaire Cleastream, via le système judiciaire français.
Je vais seulement signaler un fait que je crois aucun journal n'osera signaler. Imad Lahoud, qui a été décrit à maintes reprises comme d'origine libanaise, est juif. Le fait qu'il soit juif n'exclut pas qu'il soit libanais ni vice versa, bien au contraire. Imad a le meilleur des deux mondes. Cependant, alors que la tension monte et que tous les indices se tournent vers lui comme étant le principal outil de règlement de comptes politiques, on a mentionné, comme ça, en passant, que M. lahoud était absent du tribunal lundi 28 septembre pour cause de Yom Kippur...
Comme au septième jour Dieu se reposa après avoir créé la terre, au septième jour Lahoud et ceux qui veulent le remercier de ses services rendus à la république (bananière) vont prononcer ce mot magique 'anti-sémistisme'. Actuellement tous les indices semblent indiquer que ce sera la seule porte de sortie de Lahoud.
Lahoud sera-t-il le nouveau Dreyfus ? Très probable. Et pour ne rien enlever à l'honneur du capitaine, l'époque étant ce qu'elle est, et l'anti-sémitisme n'étant plus ce qu'il était, chaque époque a le Dreyfus qu'elle mérite...
Qui est Imad Lahoud ? Les données occultées du procès Clearstream.
Imad Lahoud sur Juif.org
27.9.09
Sleeping with the ennemy
Having sex with an Arab is considered as a psychological anomaly in Israel.
A local authority in Israel has announced that it is establishing a special team of youth counsellors and psychologists whose job it will be to identify young Jewish women who are dating Arab men and “rescue” them.
24.9.09
Spain expels Israeli scientists from state funded competition
Spain's government today said it had expelled a group of Israeli scientists from a state-funded solar energy competition because they were based in occupied areas of the West Bank.
..."This university is in the occupied territories and all the ministry has done is apply the policy of the European Union," a housing ministry spokesman said. "The EU does not recognise the occupation of the West Bank which is where this university is."
13.9.09
As Israel Expands Settlements Only A One State Solution Can Still Achieve A Just Peace
The two state solutionis still theoretically possible but only theoretically. Zionist facts on the ground are making it presently impossible. And anybody who still defend this solution is either willingly or unwillingly blind or hypocrite. Where were they those who defend the two state solution against the one state for Palestinian and Jews when Israel willingly ignored international law ? Why are they just waking up today to the two state solution ?
A more likely alternative to the present debacle is one state, which is obviously the goal of Israeli leaders who insist on colonizing the West Bank and East Jerusalem. A majority of the Palestinian leaders with whom we met are seriously considering acceptance of one state, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. By renouncing the dream of an independent Palestine, they would become fellow citizens with their Jewish neighbors and then demand equal rights within a democracy. In this nonviolent civil rights struggle, their examples would be Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.
The New Israel Lobby
When Walt and Mearsheimer published the 'Israel lobby' and when subsequently talking about the lobby became mainstream and not even taboo as it used to be, I predicted that there will be a new Israel lobby. Here it is...
In October 2007 I wrote in one of my posts on the lobby:
Change may be coming to the ME if this new lobby is to succeed but definitely not to US-Israel's relations. US policy in the ME will always be cooked by the lobby...
In a way or another, there will always be a lobby for Israel in Washington. In fact, the Israel lobby is the only one as powerful as the health and pharmaceutical industries and it operates exactly the same way, by financing and endorsing US elect or to be elect politicians. The new lobby is operating exactly the same way...
UPDATE: Morton Klein, the president of the zionist organisation of America, has statistics that prove that JStreet is far from being representative of US liberal Jews, which tend to prove my point that Jstreet will prove itself probably to be a smokescreen or just a superficial conversion of the Israel lobby in the US.
In October 2007 I wrote in one of my posts on the lobby:
There is no denying that Walt and Mearsheimer have become a reference on the lobby and at the same time a useful Watch chronicling the lobby.It seems now that other friends of Israel from the American Jewish diaspora had taken upon them the task to a new way of Israeli lobbying in Washington: one that is comfortable with the critique of israel, at least to a certain extent. The critique of Israel in the US prompted by the publication of the W$M paper made this step absolutely necessary. The new Israel lobby was born in the same year the paper went out. That leads to question the motives of the New Israel Lobby. These people felt comfortable with what Israel was doing as long as the US public was silent. But when the taboo of criticising Israel was broken and when many in the US were convinced that the war in Iraq was the making of Israel's friends in the white house, they rushed to form the new lobby.
There is no way out for the lobby because the more it surveys and smears Politicians and organisations for criticising Israel and the more it will confirm Walt and Mearsheimer's thesis. I think the process has attained a critical point. What will come after depends on the mindset of the few people who manage the lobby. Either they are pragmatic and the lobby will mutate into something else more respectable and more credible, at least on the surface, or they are not pragmatic, and this is likely to be the scheme, most of them being extreme ideologues greedy for what they want for Israel and sure to obtain it, and the lobby will push for more radicalisation of public opinions worldwide against Islam and Arabs, hoping to hide Israel's and the lobby's misdeeds.
Change may be coming to the ME if this new lobby is to succeed but definitely not to US-Israel's relations. US policy in the ME will always be cooked by the lobby...
In a way or another, there will always be a lobby for Israel in Washington. In fact, the Israel lobby is the only one as powerful as the health and pharmaceutical industries and it operates exactly the same way, by financing and endorsing US elect or to be elect politicians. The new lobby is operating exactly the same way...
UPDATE: Morton Klein, the president of the zionist organisation of America, has statistics that prove that JStreet is far from being representative of US liberal Jews, which tend to prove my point that Jstreet will prove itself probably to be a smokescreen or just a superficial conversion of the Israel lobby in the US.
No Celebration Of Occupation: The global Israel PR campaign should stop
Toronto International Film Festival is being complicit in a million-dollar ‘Brand Israel’ PR campaign to change negative perceptions of the state of Israel by deciding to spotlight the city of Tel Aviv and the work of 10 Israeli filmmakers.
The Toronto declaration accusing TIFF of participating in the branding of the state of Israel came after Canadian filmmaker John Greyson decided to withdraw his documentary from the festival to protest the festival's decision to put a spotlight on Tel Aviv.
Among those who protested are Ken Loach, Jane Fonda, Danny Clover, and Canadian and Toronto born Naomi Klein. Klein said in a statement: “ it strains credulity” to think that TIFF’s decision to spotlight Tel Aviv was not connected to the Israeli PR campaign. Such a programming decision “feeds Israel’s foreign policy goals and presents Israeli society as more diverse and open than it actually is,” she said.
Covered, Greyson's documentary, and its relation to his decision to withdraw, by his own words: ''It's a doc about the 2008 Sarajevo Queer Festival, which was cancelled due to brutal anti-gay violence. The film focuses on the bravery of the organizers and their supporters, and equally, on the ostriches, on those who remained silent, who refused to speak out: most notoriously, the Sarajevo International Film Festival and the Canadian Ambassador in Sarajevo. To stand in judgment of these ostriches before a TIFF audience, but then say nothing about this Tel Aviv spotlight -- finally, I realized that that was a brand I couldn't stomach.''
Read here Greyson's letter to TIFF's organizers
The Boycott and Divestment Campaign
And the Zionists respond.
Norway fund sells Israeli shares on ethical ground.
The Toronto declaration accusing TIFF of participating in the branding of the state of Israel came after Canadian filmmaker John Greyson decided to withdraw his documentary from the festival to protest the festival's decision to put a spotlight on Tel Aviv.
Among those who protested are Ken Loach, Jane Fonda, Danny Clover, and Canadian and Toronto born Naomi Klein. Klein said in a statement: “ it strains credulity” to think that TIFF’s decision to spotlight Tel Aviv was not connected to the Israeli PR campaign. Such a programming decision “feeds Israel’s foreign policy goals and presents Israeli society as more diverse and open than it actually is,” she said.
Covered from John Greyson on Vimeo.
Covered, Greyson's documentary, and its relation to his decision to withdraw, by his own words: ''It's a doc about the 2008 Sarajevo Queer Festival, which was cancelled due to brutal anti-gay violence. The film focuses on the bravery of the organizers and their supporters, and equally, on the ostriches, on those who remained silent, who refused to speak out: most notoriously, the Sarajevo International Film Festival and the Canadian Ambassador in Sarajevo. To stand in judgment of these ostriches before a TIFF audience, but then say nothing about this Tel Aviv spotlight -- finally, I realized that that was a brand I couldn't stomach.''
Read here Greyson's letter to TIFF's organizers
The Boycott and Divestment Campaign
And the Zionists respond.
Norway fund sells Israeli shares on ethical ground.
7.9.09
Iraq: The Destruction Of A Civilization
By James Petras, Global Research.ca
Thanks Homeyra for the link.
The most important political force was also the least openly discussed. The Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC), which includes the prominent role of long-time, hard-line unconditional supporters of the State of Israel appointed to top positions in the Bush Pentagon (Douglas Feith and Paul Wolfowitz ), key operative in the Office of the Vice President (Irving (Scooter) Libby), the Treasury Department (Stuart Levey), the National Security Council (Elliot Abrams) and a phalanx of consultants, Presidential speechwriters (David Frum), secondary officials and policy advisers to the State Department. These committed Zionists ‘insiders’ were buttressed by thousands of full-time Israel-First functionaries in the 51 major American Jewish organizations, which form the President of the Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO). They openly stated that their top priority was to advance Israel’s agenda, which, in this case, was a US war against Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, occupy the country, physically divide Iraq, destroy its military and industrial capability and impose a pro-Israel/pro-US puppet regime. If Iraq were ethnically cleansed and divided, as advocated by the ultra-right, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu and the ‘Liberal’ President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and militarist-Zionist, Leslie Gelb, there would be more than several ‘client regimes’.
Top pro-Israeli policymakers who promoted the war did not initially directly pursue the policy of systematically destroying what, in effect, was the entire Iraqi civilization. But their support and design of an occupation policy included the total dismemberment of the Iraqi state apparatus and recruitment of Israeli advisers to provide their ‘expertise’ in interrogation techniques, repression of civilian resistance and counter-insurgency. Israeli expertise certainly played a role in fomenting the intra-Iraqi religious and ethnic strife, which Israel had mastered in Palestine. The Israeli ‘model’ of colonial war and occupation – the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 – and the practice of ‘total destruction’ using sectarian, ethno-religious division was evident in the notorious massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, which took place under Israeli military supervision.
...Israeli advisers have played a major role in instructing US occupation forces in Iraq on the practices of urban counter-insurgency and repression of civilians, drawing on their 60 years of experience. The infamous massacre of hundreds of Palestinian families at Deir Yasin in 1948 was emblematic of Zionist elimination of hundreds of productive farming villages, which had been settled for centuries by a native people with their endogenous civilization and cultural ties to the soil, in order to impose a new colonial order. The policy of the total deracination of the Palestinians is central to Israel’s advise to the US policymakers in Iraq. Their message has been carried out by their Zionist acolytes in the Bush and Obama Administrations, ordering the dismemberment of the entire modern Iraqi civil and state bureaucracy and using pre-modern tribal death squads made up of Kurds and Shia extremists to purge the modern universities and research institutions of that shattered nation.
Thanks Homeyra for the link.
6.9.09
Revealed: how Israel helped Idi Amin to take power in order to punish Sudan
But why was Israel so interested in a landlocked country in Central Africa? The reason is spelt out by Slater in a later telegram. Israel was backing rebellion in southern Sudan to punish Sudan for supporting the Arab cause in the Six-Day War. "They do not want the rebels to win. They want to keep them fighting."...Amin had his own motive for helping them: many of his own people, the Kakwa, live in southern Sudan. Obote, however, wanted peace in southern Sudan. That worried the Israelis and they were even more worried when, in November 1970 Obote sacked Amin. Their stick for beating Sudan was suddenly taken away.
3.9.09
Israel: The time is ripe for sanctions to force Israel to respect international law
Le Monde Diplomatique
Jews Sans Frontières has two interesting links at the end of a recently posted blog on the subject including one website that lists the companies who profit from the occupation.
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This month the UN will publish the findings of its inquiry into Israel’s possible war crimes in Gaza in 2008-9. These are unlikely to lead to legal proceedings, so there are calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions to force Israel to comply with international law
The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel has gained momentum after four years of near silence. It was launched on 9 July 2005 by a group of Palestinian organisations, a year after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled, in an advisory opinion, that the wall built in the occupied Palestinian territories was illegal. It is a protest against Israel’s failure to honour its international obligations...
...On 30 March 2008 the BDS movement organised a global day of action, a move decided a few weeks earlier at the World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil. Calls to support this day of action were heard from Jewish communities everywhere and even from within Israel.
The boycott, within this non-violent resistance strategy, calls on consumers not to buy products made in Israel (whether by local or foreign companies) or in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Lists of goods (fruit, vegetables, fruit juice, cut flowers, tinned fruit, biscuits, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics) and their barcodes have been published, especially in Europe. Other tactics include publicity campaigns, petitioning of store managers to withdraw blacklisted products, awareness campaigns directed at central purchasing agencies, and disruption operations in supermarkets...
...There are also campaigns by organisations for the suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement, on the grounds that Israel has failed to observe article 2, which requires “respect for human rights and democratic principles”. This agreement, which was signed in 1995 and came into force in 2000, exempts Israeli goods from EU customs duties. There is a traceability problem: many goods declared by Israel as Israeli are produced in Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
A survey reveals that 21% of Israeli exporters have had to cut their prices as a result of the boycott, after a significant loss of market share, especially in Jordan, the UK and Scandinavia...
...The boycott of Israeli goods is the aspect of the BDS campaign that has received most coverage, but other attempts have been made to isolate and bring pressure to bear on Israel. There have also been cultural, academic, diplomatic and sporting boycotts. And an Israeli tourism fair in Paris in January was cancelled; Israeli tourism posters were removed from the London underground in May; Hertz, the car rental market leader, declined to have its name associated with a promotional offer by El Al; and Sweden refused to join international air manoeuvres because Israel would be taking part.
The divestment element of the campaign, aimed at companies doing business in the Middle East, is beginning to take effect. A campaign to force the Franco-Belgian bank Dexia to withdraw from Israel, with the slogans “Dexia, get out of Israel!” and “Israel Colonises, Dexia Finances”, led 14 Belgian municipalities to leave the bank, which was financing Israeli settlements in the occupied territories through its Israeli subsidiary.
The French power and transport group Alstom has also been targeted and was excluded from Sweden’s AP7 national pension fund portfolio in early 2009. The fund’s decision followed the example of the Dutch financial institution ASN Bank, which took action against another French firm, Veolia Transport, in 2006. Participating in the construction of a tramway in Jerusalem has deprived these multinationals of a number of contracts: in France, the Greater Bordeaux urban community cancelled Veolia’s contract for waste management, worth $53.3m; in the UK, Sandwell borough council excluded Veolia from the bidding for a waste collection and recycling contract worth $1bn; and in Sweden, Stockholm council cancelled its contract for operating the city’s metro system, worth $2.5bn...
...What of sanctions against the Israeli state? Bogged down in arguments, the UN has difficulty in acting as a guarantor of the international rule of law. Although many other states are subject to sanctions, and though they proved their worth during the struggle against apartheid, sanctions have yet to be applied to Israel...
...The Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS), supported by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), has been pursuing in the French courts, since 2007, against Alstom, Alstom Transport and Veolia Transport. In 2004 CityPass Limited, a consortium governed by Israeli law in which Veolia Transport and Alstom Transport had minority interests of 5% and 20% respectively, signed a concession contract with the Israeli government for the construction and operation of the tramway that would serve Jerusalem and part of the West Bank, as mentioned above. The court case aims to prove that the contract is illegal.
The companies contested the subpoena, arguing that the Nanterre high court, before which the case had been brought, was materially and territorially incompetent; and that the petitions were not admissible since the AFPS and PLO were not qualified to act as complainants, and their interests were not affected by the contract. The court still ruled on 15 April that the AFPS could bring a valid action against the three French companies, since the execution of the contract would harm the collective interests that it defends. The court also dismissed the argument that Israel fell outside its jurisdiction. Israel is not a party to the court proceedings but is considered as an occupying power in the area of the West Bank where the disputed tramway is being built and will be operated. Alstom decided to appeal, Veolia decided not to...
Jews Sans Frontières has two interesting links at the end of a recently posted blog on the subject including one website that lists the companies who profit from the occupation.
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