Permission to Narrate

Démontage de cinq « éléments de langage » israéliens (traduction d’un article de « The Nation »)
▻http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/18758/cinq-points-de-discussion-isra%C3%A9liens-sur-gaza_d%C3%A9my

Israël met en avant que ses guerres actuelles et passées contre la population palestinienne de Gaza sont une réponse aux tirs de roquette. Une preuve empirique de 2008, 2012 et 2014 réfute cette allégation. D’abord, selon le ministère des Affaires étrangères d’Israël, la plus grande réduction des tirs de roquette a été obtenue par la voie diplomatique et non par des moyens militaires. Ce graphique (▻http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2014/07/gaza-cease-fire-dynamics-explained-what.html) démontre la corrélation entre les attaques militaires d’Israël sur la bande de Gaza et l’activité militante du Hamas. Les tirs de roquettes du Hamas augmentent en réaction aux attaques militaires israéliennes et décroissent en corrélation directe avec elles. Les cessez-le-feu ont apporté la sécurité la plus grande à la région.

Pendant les quatre mois du cessez-le-feu sous négociation égyptienne en 2008, les militants palestiniens ont ramené le nombre de tirs de roquettes à zéro, ou à un seul chiffre, dans la bande de Gaza. En dépit de cette sécurité et de ce calme relatifs, Israël a brisé le cessez-le-feu pour se lancer dans cette bien connue offensive aérienne et terrestre qui a tué 1400 Palestiniens en vingt-deux jours. En novembre 2012, l’assassinat extrajudiciaire par Israël du responsable de la branche militaire du Hamas à Gaza, Ahmed Jabari, alors même que celui-ci était chargé d’examiner les conditions pour une solution diplomatique, a brisé une fois encore le cessez-le-feu et précipité l’offensive aérienne de huit jours qui a tué 132 Palestiniens.

Immédiatement avant la plus récente des opérations d’Israël, les attaques de roquettes et de mortier du Hamas ne menaçaient pas Israël. Israël a délibérément provoqué cette guerre avec le Hamas. Sans fournir la moindre parcelle de preuve, il a accusé la faction politique de l’enlèvement et du meurtre de trois colons près d’Hébron. Quatre semaines et plus de 700 vies plus tard, Israël n’a toujours pas apporté la moindre preuve démontrant l’implication du Hamas. Durant les dix jours de l’opération Gardien de nos frères en Cisjordanie, Israël a arrêté environ 800 Palestiniens, sans inculpation ni jugement, il a tué neuf civils et pillé près de 1300 bâtiments résidentiels, commerciaux et publics. Son opération militaire a ciblé les membres du Hamas qui avaient été libérés lors de l’échange de prisonniers avec Gilat Shalit, en 2011. Ce sont ces provocations israéliennes qui ont précipité les tirs de roquettes, lesquels selon Israël ne lui auraient laissé d’autre choix que cette opération militaire épouvantable.

#Israël #Palestine #Gaza

Carte zoomable des conquêts israéliennes 1947-1949

Très très intéressant et détaillé

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►http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2014/05/explaining-max-fishers-missing-maps.html

#israël #palestine #cartographie #visualisation

40 Maps That Explain The Middle East
►http://www.vox.com/a/maps-explain-the-middle-east#top

Mis à part le fait que la définition du Middle-East est aussi étasusnienne qu’extensive, que la carte du conflit syrien est déjà dépassée et que sur la Palestine on a évité les cartes trop désagréables, le dossier est à marquer d’un signet (malgré également la curieuse carte 37 sur un hypothétique redécoupage de la « Syraquie »).

Spike Lee and the Bogarting of #Palestine
▻http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2014/02/spike-lee-and-bogarting-of-palestine.html

Yesterday I became aware of Spike Lee’s emphatic response to a question posed to him at an event in Brooklyn about #gentrification. The questioner asked about the “good side of gentrification”. Well, Spike Lee, a Brooklyn native, wasn’t buying into the argument at all. The notion that anyone would put a positive spin on gentrification was so insulting to Lee that he gave an emotional, expletive-laden reply.

I didn’t grow up in Brooklyn and haven’t ever lived there (though I make a point to visit for better than decent shawarma) but something about the question and Spike Lee’s response was so familiar to me. The offense and anger so profoundly felt in his comments was not only something I could sympathize with, but something I could empathize with. Why was this the case? I couldn’t tell right away.

Here is the question as it was posed to Spike Lee:

You mentioned gentrification with some slightly negative connotations, but I wonder if you have ever looked at it from the other side, which is that if your family was still in that forty-thousand dollar home, it is now worth three and a half/ four million dollars.

Why did this sound so familiar? This morning, while rereading some documents I hadn’t reviewed in some time it hit me. Zionist leader #Theodore_Herzl wrote to Yusuf Diya-uddin Pasha al-Khalidi who was, in 1899, mayor of Jerusalem. Khalidi had written to the Chief Rabbi of France that the Zionist movement’s interest in Palestine would cause major conflict because Palestine was already inhabited. “In the name of God,” Khalidi wrote to the Rabbi, “Let Palestine be left alone.” Herzl, who saw the letter responded. Here is an excerpt:

You see another difficulty, Excellency, in the existence of the non-Jewish population in Palestine. But who would think of sending them away? It is their well-being, their individual wealth which we will increase by bringing in our own. Do you think that an Arab who owns land or a house in Palestine worth three or four thousand francs will be very angry to see the price of his land rise in a short time, to see it rise five and ten times in value perhaps in a few months? Moreover, that will necessarily happen with the arrival of the Jews.

There are countless Palestinian refugees who will never see their homes again because entire villages - hundreds of them - have been razed to the ground. An entire society, millennia in the making, was torn apart by Zionism. The smooth talk of a real estate agent is never going to make that appealing.

Gentrification is horrible to see, but colonization, depopulation and enforced exile are worse by an immeasurable factor. Take the anger you heard from Spike Lee, multiply it by whatever you think that factor really is and then maybe, maybe, you can understand the way Palestinians feel about Zionism.

Give me my modest home, my olive trees, my ziet and zaatar and keep your francs - all of them.

As Spike said, you can’t just come and bogart.

#colonisation #sionisme

ScarJo, BDS and the Economic Impact of Israeli Settlements
▻http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2014/01/scarjo-bds-and-economic-impact-of.html

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... one of the most pernicious responses in this debate from the anti-BDS crowd has been to claim that such a boycott would hurt Palestinian workers employed at SodaStream’s factory in the illegal Israeli colony of Mishor Adumim. (...)

Yes, a Palestinian working in a settlement may not otherwise have a job. Unemployment in the West Bank is above 20%. The problem is that the settlements and the system they are part of reinforce the economic realities that force Palestinians into choosing working within the very system that oppresses them.

The problem is that many Palestinians are confronted with the choice of seeking livelihood within this system or having no livelihood to speak of. This is a reflection of the captive labor market dynamics of the occupation. Palestinians should have the choice to work for and within their own independent economy but they don’t. That is the problem here and it is a problem that is created, enforced and supported by Israeli settlements.

Yes, a small number of Palestinians may derive their livelihood from work on a settlement, but a much more significant number is suffering because of these settlements. To use the former to justify the later is absurd and yet it is precisely what Sodastream and the anti-BDS chorus has done in this case.

How do Israeli settlements impact the Palestinian Economy? The list is long and devastating but here are a few of the ways.

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#Israël #raisonnement_absurde #bds #Palestine

Ariel SHARON : une vie comme une traînée de sang
11 janvier 2014 | Par RAOUL MARC JENNAR

►http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/raoul-marc-jennar/110114/ariel-sharon-une-vie-comme-une-trainee-de-sang

Les propos de François Hollande suite à la mort d’Ariel Sharon sont conformes au parti-pris du PS en faveur des politiques menées par le gouvernement d’Israël. Les commentaires d’un grand nombre de médias gomment bien entendu ce qui fut pourtant la réalité de la vie de cet homme qui aurait dû être jugé pour crimes contre l’humanité. Mais qui, comme tout Isrélien responsable de ce crime de masse, bénéficie scandaleusement de l’impunité la plus totale et de la complaisance d’un très grand nombre de journalistes.

C’est bien pour échapper à la Justice et protéger Sharon que les USA et Israël ont exercé des pressions intenses sur la Belgique afin qu’elle vide de son sens sa loi dite de compétence universelle qui aurait permis à des survivants des massacres de Sabra et Chatile d’obtenir justice devant les tribunaux belges. C’est bien pour que les crimes commis par l’armée israélienne au Liban et dans les territoires palestiniens occupés échappent à toute justice que les USA ont exigé que la Cour Pénale Internationale ne puisse être compétente que pour des faits commis après sa création alors que le droit pénal international consacre l’imprescritpibilité des crimes de génocide, crimes de guerre et crimes contre l’humanité. Des USA qui, comme Israël, ont finalement refusé de ratifier le traité créant la CPI.
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The NY Times’ #Incorrections
▻http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2014/01/the-ny-times-incorrections.html

Recently the #New_York_Times published an article about Mohamad Assaf, the young Palestinian star from Gaza who’s vocal talents were recognized throughout the Arab world after winning Arab Idol. In the original text published on December 19th, the following was included:

And the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, included in a message to Secretary of State John Kerry a YouTube video of Mr. Assaf singing longingly about cities in Israel that were once Palestinian. Mr. Netanyahu wrote, “Incitement and peace cannot coexist.”
And....

Mr. Assaf grew up in the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza, an area that often has shortages of water, gas and electricity because of restrictions imposed by Israel.

Well, on Dec. 31st, the New York Times ran a long correction:

An article on Dec. 19 about Mohammed Assaf, a Palestinian singer from Gaza who has become a star in the Arab world after winning the “Arab Idol” competition, referred incorrectly to cities in Israel Mr. Assaf sings about. While they had largely Arab populations before Israel became a state in 1948, they were not “Palestinian” in the sense of being part of a Palestinian political entity. The article also referred incorrectly to shortages of water, gas and electricity in Gaza. While Israel places restrictions on some goods coming into Gaza, and many Palestinians blame Israel for shortages, they were worsened by Egypt’s closing of smuggling tunnels and by a tax dispute between the militant Hamas faction, which governs Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority. The article also referred incorrectly to Mr. Assaf’s travels to Cairo for “Arab Idol” auditions. The Sinai Desert is part of Egypt; he rode for hours through the Sinai from the border with Egypt, not to the border.

Corrections are supposed to happen in newspapers when they print factually incorrect information or perhaps because of failures in copy editing like typos, misspellings and so on. What seems to have happened here is that someone complained that the New York Times would refer to cities in Palestine as Palestinian. So by making this correction what the New York Times is saying is that prior to Israel, there was no “Palestinian political entity” that these cities were a part of and thus referring to the cities as Palestinian is wrong.

Well, that sure seems like news to the New York Times of yesteryear. Calling cities in Palestine “Palestinian cities” wasn’t a problem for the New York Times 1927 or in 1929 for example. Nor was it odd for the paper that today says those cities were not part of a “Palestinian political entity” to refer regularly to a “Palestine Government.”

It is true that the native population of Palestine during that time did not have self-determination (also, they still don’t today) but does that mean there was no political entity there in Palestine? Yes, Palestine was under a British Mandate then, but does that make Palestine’s cities British? Syria was under French Mandate in the 1920s, does that mean Damascus was a French city? Was it not a Syrian city? Of course these were Syrian cities, and the New York Times reported such at the time.

So why the correction when it comes to Palestinian cities? Its clear here that the editors chose to appease what was likely a disgruntled pro-Israel reader who was displeased at the very notion that the New York Times might mention a historical reality they reported on at the time today when a Zionist narrative has made significant strides in altering the discourse.

As far as the correction regarding the siege on Gaza goes, yes, Egypt is playing a role, but to even put it remotely on par with the role Israel is playing in the siege is dishonest. Israel controls all entry and exit ports for commerce in Gaza. They control the ability of Palestinians in Gaza to enter the West Bank. They enforce a naval blockade. Egypt does none of this. It is Israel of course, not Egypt, which confirmed to US officials on “multiple occasions” that “as part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza...they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge” and that “they intend to keep the Gazan economy functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.”

In the updated version of the Assaf story, the line about the siege has been edited to the following:

Mr. Assaf grew up in the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza, an area that often has shortages of water, gas and electricity.

No mention of Israel’s role in creating these shortages exists anymore.

Corrections are meant to get a story that was factually wrong right. In this case, the New York Times’ correction only managed to succeed at obfuscation, distortion and probably at appeasing pro-Israel readers at the cost of the truth.

Picking Apart the NYT/Zionist Narrative on the Nakba- ▻http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2011/05/picking-apart-nytzionist-narrative-on.html

The Zionist narrative on the Nakba goes something like this: New born and defenseless Israel was attacked by 5 Arab armies the day after it’s birth, and refugees may have been created during the fighting, but tough luck since the Arabs started the war and David defeated Goliath.

You can see this narrative uncritically repeated in the mainstream American press. Take for example this recent article by Ethan Bronner in the New York Times:

After Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, armies from neighboring Arab states attacked the new nation; during the war that followed, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were driven from their homes by Israeli forces. Hundreds of Palestinian villages were also destroyed. The refugees and their descendants remain a central issue of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict .

The timeline begins at May 14th, 1948 (...) You see, had Ethan Bronner or the editors of the Times actually read their own newspaper’s reporting on this issue at the time, they likely would not have presented such a distorted representation of the facts. (This certainly isn’t the first time the NYT contradicts itself either)....

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Permission to Narrate: Eying Ethnic Cleansing from the Sky
►http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2013/05/eyeing-ethnic-cleansing-from-sky.html

Despite this many Israelis do not see the ghosts before them in plain site. Or perhaps, they don’t want to see them. Early this morning and in response to a Ghost of the Nakba tweet I sent about Kafr Saba, Barak Ravid, an journalist for the Israeli Daily Haaretz replied:

He has since deleted this tweet.

Of course, Kafr Saba did exist. It doesn’t today. But it was located right here. You can see an odd area in brown which stands out because it literally looks like something had been there before being erased from sight. That was Kfar Saba.

Ravid noted he had been mistaken after several tweeters informed him he was wrong. But this begs the question, just how much do Israelis actually know, or care to know, about the society that was destroyed to make way for the state they live in today? How much do they know or care to know about the Ghosts of the Nakba all around them? How can they not but feel responsibility for the dismembering of a society, a dismemberment that continues today in the West Bank?

Permission to Narrate: Eying Ethnic Cleansing from the Sky
►http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2013/05/eyeing-ethnic-cleansing-from-sky.html

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He has since deleted this tweet.

Of course, Kafr Saba did exist. It doesn’t today. But it was located right here ▻https://maps.google.com/maps?q=32.18126639%0934.9372798&hl=en&ll=32.180816,34.944592&spn=0.0059

. You can see an odd area in brown which stands out because it literally looks like something had been there before being erased from sight. That was Kfar Saba.

You Have The Right To Remain Occupied (Permission to Narrate)
►http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2011/04/you-have-right-to-remain-occupied.html

[Home settler violence You Have The Right To Remain Occupied
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Last week a number of white students were found dead in a dorm room at Columbia University in New York. The police arrived on the scene and the mayor soon declared that he would stop at nothing to find the black murderer. Shortly thereafter, the army was called in and the neighboring Harlem neighborhood, where it was claimed the alleged perpetrator must have came from or fled to, was encircled and besieged. (...)

Cet excellent billet recense tous les #cablegate connus à ce jour dans lesquels la bande de #Gaza est évoquée.

Permission to Narrate : Who Remembered Gaza in Wikileaks ?
►http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2010/12/who-remembered-gaza-in-wikileaks.html

Regardless of the depressing humanitarian and economic situation in Gaza, regional leaders depart once again from their publics in the way they view Gaza. For the average Arab - Palestinian or otherwise - Gaza has an emotional connotation of sympathy for a besieged people. For most leaders and officials, Gaza is seen through a self-interested prism of security and/or regional hegemony; everything else is secondary.

#Palestine

Top 10 #Wikileaks Palestine Nuggets
►http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2010/11/top-10-wikileaks-palestine-nuggets.html

“There is very little here that should come as a surprise to those closely following the international relations of the Middle East and the politics around Palestine. These documents do, however, provide interesting context and color to these relations that were previously unavailable.”

#Egypt, #Fateh, #Hamas, #Palestine, #US_Foreign_Policy