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L’extrême droite européenne et israélienne : l’alliance toxique

Far-right Europeans and Israelis : this toxic alliance spells trouble | Rachel Shabi | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/06/israel-rightwing-europeans-migration-toxic

Migrants everywhere need to be wary when European fascists and far-right Israeli nationalists use the same racist rhetoric

Last month, demonstrations against African refugees in Tel Aviv turned violent. Protesters looted shops, broke windows and firebombed buildings, including a nursery. Days ago, arsonists torched the home of 10 African migrants in Jerusalem, injuring four, and leaving the unequivocal graffiti: “Get out of the neighbourhood.”

Segregating Gazans has made them easier to demonise | Amira Hass (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/08/segregating-gazans-demonise

Separating Israelis and Palestinians has broken the bonds between us, making Gazans easier to target in the Israeli press (...) Source: The Guardian

Confessions of a recovering Objectivist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/10/confessions-recovering-objectivist-ayn-rand

When, as a self-absorbed college freshman, I first came across the Russian emigre author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, she seemed like the coolest thinker ever – what selfish person doesn’t want to hear that being selfish doesn’t just feel good, but actually is good, too?

#ayn_rand #neocon

The crisis in Syria is reopening Lebanon’s old war divisions

Clashes in Lebanon are symptoms of underlying tensions that are worryingly close to those that started the country’s civil war

Clashes between Sunnis and Alawites in Lebanon are not merely a case of the Syrian crisis “spreading” – underlying them are dynamics that hark back to the period leading to the Lebanese civil war in 1975. Like the old war game, Lebanon’s new war game revolves around divisions regarding foreign actors, sectarianism and mistrust of state institutions.

In the 1970s, Lebanese political groups were sharply divided over support for the Palestinians. Today, it is the Syrian regime and their opposition who have assumed this role of foreign catalysts, with Hezbollah supporting the former and the March 14 coalition, led by Saad Hariri, the latter.

To read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/09/crisis-syria-lebanon-clashes