• Pour rappel, ce n’est pas totalement la première fois que des responsables israéliens rencontrent des difficultés pour voyager parce que la justice s’intéresse à leurs crimes.

    [Décembre 2009] Israel fury at UK attempt to arrest Tzipi Livni
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8413234.stm

    The warrant, granted by a London court on Saturday, was revoked on Monday when it was found Ms Livni was not visiting the UK.

    Ms Livni was foreign minister during Israel’s Gaza assault last winter.

    It is the first time a UK court has issued a warrant for the arrest of a former Israeli minister.

    Ms Livni said the court had been “abused” by the Palestinian plaintiffs who requested the warrant.

    “What needs to be put on trial here is the abuse of the British legal system,” she told the BBC.

    “This is not a suit against Tzipi Livni, this is not a law suit against Israel. This is a lawsuit against any democracy that fights terror.”

    She stood by her decisions during the three-week assault Gaza offensive which began in December last year, she said.

    [Janvier 2017] L’ex-ministre israélienne Tzipi Livni renonce à une visite en Belgique
    https://www.rfi.fr/fr/europe/20170121-belgique-israel-tzipi-livni-renonce-voyage

    L’ancienne ministre de la Justice a décidé pour raisons personnelles ou de santé, selon les versions, de ne pas venir à Bruxelles ce lundi. Certains estiment cependant qu’elle avait eu vent des intentions de la justice belge. Les enquêteurs avaient en effet cherché à confirmer sa venue.

    Le parquet fédéral de Belgique confirme que la justice avait l’intention de profiter du déplacement de Tzipi Livni dans le royaume pour « faire avancer le dossier ». Du coup, l’ancienne ministre échappe à la honte d’être interpellée pour interrogatoire et, par contrecoup, la Belgique et Israël s’évitent un nouvel incident diplomatique grave.

  • Arnaud Bertrand sur X : https://x.com/rnaudbertrand/status/1792748783996207206?s=48&t=Iwn4bpiKIJHEjLmmCl0aaQ

    This is incredible, but sadly unsurprising.

    When he received threats not to go after Israel, @KarimKhanQC reveals “a senior leader” told him the ICC “is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin”, and not for the West and its allies.

    https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1792728168744296448/pu/vid/avc1/960x540/NZ2Qd_-fvMQa2xDw.mp4?tag=12

    #génocidaires #sans_vergogne #CPI

  • Indeed, there is no comparison: Israel’s crimes are far worse than Hamas’
    https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/indeed-there-is-no-comparison-israels
    https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F

    There is one thing we should all be able to agree with Benjamin Netanyahu on: Any comparison between Israel’s war crimes and those of Hamas is, as the Israeli prime minister put it, “absurd and false” and a “distortion of reality”.

    Here’s why:

    Israeli war crimes have been ongoing for more than seven decades, long predating Hamas’ creation.

    Israel has kept the Palestinians of Gaza caged into a concentration camp for the past 17 years, denying them connection to the outside world and the essentials of life. Hamas managed to besiege a small part of Israel for one day, on October 7.

    For every Israeli killed by Hamas on October 7, Israel has slaughtered at least 35 times that number of Palestinians. Similar kill-ratios grossly skewed in Israel’s favour have been true for decades.

    Israel has killed more than 15,000 Palestinian children since October – and many tens of thousands more Palestinian children are missing under rubble, maimed or orphaned. By early April, Israel had killed a further 114 children in the West Bank and injured 725 more. Hamas killed a total of 33 Israeli children on October 7.

    Israel has laid waste to Gaza’s entire health sector. It has bombed its hospitals, and killed, beaten and kidnapped many hundreds of medical personnel. Hamas has not attacked one Israeli hospital.

    Israel has killed more than 100 journalists in Gaza and more than 250 aid workers. It has also kidnapped a further 40 journalists. Most are presumed to have been taken to a secret detention facility where torture is rife. Hamas is reported to have killed one Israeli journalist on October 7, and no known aid workers.

    Israel is actively starving Gaza’s population by denying it food, water and aid. That is a power – a genocidal one – Hamas could only ever dream of.

    Israel has been forcibly removing Palestinians from their lands for more than 76 years to build illegal Jewish settlements in their place. Hamas has not been able to ethnically cleanse a single Israeli, nor build a single Palestinian settlement on Israeli land.

    Some 750,000 Palestinians are reported to have been taken hostage and jailed by Israel since 1967 – an unwelcome rite of passage for Palestinian men and boys and one in which torture is routine and military trials ensure a near-100% conviction rate. Until October 7, Hamas had only ever managed to take hostage a handful of the Israeli soldiers whose job is to oppress Palestinians.

    And, while Hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by western states, those same western states laud Israel, fund and arm it, and provide it with diplomatic cover, even as the World Court rules that a plausible case has been made it is committing a genocide in Gaza.

    Yes, Netanyahu is right. There is no comparison at all.

  • #SNCF is stopping sales of most international tickets – a decision rooted in incompetence, and communicated with malevolence

    If you want to travel on 22nd May 2024 from Paris to Berlin (Germany), Verviers (Belgium) or Luzern (Switzerland), the app and website for SNCF ticketing, #SNCF_Connect, will show you prices and sell you a ticket. Try the same on 24th May 2024 and it will not. Here are the screenshots to prove it:

    Even connections to towns just the other side of the border – like Mouscron (Belgium) or Rastatt (Germany) are no longer available for purchase:

    As this explanation page on the SNCF website outlines, from 23rd May only a very limited selection of international tickets are available for sale from SNCF. There’s also a map listing what is available that looks like it was made in MS Paint.

    Let’s not play down the significance of this.

    SNCF Connect could until now sell you a ticket to any station in Netherlands (now reduced to just Amsterdam, Schiphol and Rotterdam), any station in Belgium (now just Antwerpen, Bruxelles, Liège), any station in Germany (now just the few stations directly served by cross border ICEs and TGVs), any station in Switzerland (now just anything served by TGV Lyria), any station in Italy (now just Ventimiglia, Torino, Milano) and any high speed station in Spain (now just Barcelona, Girona, Figueres).

    What the website of course does not say is why the change happened.

    So I set about getting to the bottom of the issue.

    On Monday 13th May I was travelling through Strasbourg so headed to the Grandes Lignes ticket office to ask. These conversations were in French, translated into English here.

    Me: “I want to take a train from Strasbourg to Berlin in mid-June, but I cannot get a price in SNCF Connect, can you help me?”
    SNCF employee: “It’s not possible any more”
    Me: “Really? Why is that?”
    SNCF: “It’s the fault of Deutsche Bahn!”
    Me (somewhat surprised at this point): “But other railways manage to sell Deutsche Bahn tickets still.”
    SNCF: “It’s Deutsche Bahn”

    I tried again at Grandes Lignes at Paris Austerlitz on Friday 17 May.

    Me: “I cannot manage to book a ticket on SNCF Connect from Paris to Berlin in June”
    SNCF: “It’s not possible any more. You will have to try with Deutsche Bahn or Trainline”
    (bit of a jaw drop here – Trainline, SNCF’s main ticket sales competitor?)
    Me: “Sorry, but I would like to know why this is.”
    SNCF: “It’s Europe’s fault”
    Me: “So please tell me this. If Deutsche Bahn can still sell SNCB tickets, ÖBB can still sell Trenitalia, but SNCF cannot sell any of these any more, then how can it be Europe’s fault that SNCF cannot sell these tickets?”
    SNCF: “But it is international agreements!”

    And that was then I broke, and told the employee what the actual reason is. Because Le Figaro has the gist of it, and I have had this confirmed to me by sources in other rail firms. SNCF’s IT system for these sales – #Résarail – is outdated and being closed down, and the new system is not yet available. And in the meantime sales of these tickets are simply not possible. Incompetence in other words. There is a financial consequence too – it is rumoured that railways receive a 10% commission on these sales amongst themselves. Bang goes that income for SNCF.

    But the communication about why this is the case crosses over into malevolence. Rather than facing up to the problem, SNCF resorts to finger pointing – at Deutsche Bahn, Europe, and international agreements. None of which are the reason.

    Also what SNCF is doing here is precisely the opposite of what it says it wants to do in its European Parliament election manifesto (full PDF here): “To attract more passengers, we are constantly seeking to improve the quality of our service and are investing heavily in all aspects of customer satisfaction. We have also made a joint commitment with our European partners to improve international ticketing“. If we are to believe the Community of European Railways – of which SNCF is a member – it is only a matter of time before state owned railway firms in Europe sort out these cross border ticketing headaches – while the actual behaviour of one of Europe’s largest railway companies is precisely the opposite.

    The likes of Trainline, Omio, SNCB International and Deutsche Bahn will pick up most of the slack, but not all. Passengers unable to book online and who previous relied on purchasing these tickets at ticket offices in France will be left stuck.

    None of this is clever or sensible, but sadly that is what you get from SNCF when it comes to anything international.

    https://jonworth.eu/sncf-is-stopping-sales-of-most-international-tickets-a-decision-rooted-in-i
    #France #mensonge #incompétence #chemins_de_fer #international #billets_internationaux #technologie #on_marche_sur_la_tête

    via @freakonometrics

  • How Gaza War Threatens to End Netanyahu’s Career
    https://sputnikglobe.com/20240519/israeli-crisis-may-lead-to-military-coup-and-palestinian-state-creatio

    Des dirigeants israéliens traités comme de vulgaires chefs de milices terroristes (⸮) et maintenant des experts israéliens qui parlent de coup d’Etat militaire dans leur pays...

    The plan in question involves the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip and the creation of a multinational civilian administration.
    While Gantz set the deadline for this plan at June 8, Netanyahu claimed that acquiescing to these demands would result in a defeat for Israel.
    Commenting on this development, Tel Aviv-based international relations expert Dr. Simon Tsipis explained that Gantz’s plan, if adopted, would ultimately result in the creation of a Palestinian state – something that Zionist factions who currently control the Israeli government vehemently oppose.
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018 - Sputnik International, 1920, 19.05.2024
    World
    Netanyahu Barred Israeli Intel Security Heads From Talking to US Officials - Reports
    Yesterday
    Netanyahu thus finds himself in quite a predicament as giving concessions to Gantz and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who previously urged Netanyahu to declare that Israel has no intent to establish military control over Gaza, would cause Zionist leaders like Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir to pull out of the government coalition, and vice versa.
    “This is clearly the biggest crisis in Israel’s history,” Dr. Tsipis remarked, arguing that the Israeli government now finds itself on the brink of collapse.
    He also highlighted another aspect of the problem: both Gantz and Gallant are former Israeli generals.
    “There may be a risk of a military coup, because if Gantz and Gallant – they are former generals and former heads of the general staff – if they decide to seize power and call upon their former colleagues, then this move would mean a military coup in Israel, the ouster of Benjamin Netanyahu by convincing him to relinquish his power,” Dr. Tsipis speculated.
    Furthermore, agreeing to Gantz’s proposal would also be problematic for Netanyahu because the former would then likely call for snap elections – elections that Netanyahu would inevitably lose if no foul play were to be involved, the expert suggested.

    • Et comme le signale Arno, la femme du mec qui faitla pub pour Nespresso s’y met elle aussi (https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240520-amal-clooney-backs-icc-call-for-arrest-warrant-for-netan):

      Explaining her reason for agreeing to take on this role when she was approached by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan four months ago, Clooney explained: “As a human rights lawyer, I will never accept that one child’s life has less value than another’s. I do not accept that any conflict should be beyond the reach of the law, nor that any perpetrator should be above the law.”

      “I hope that justice will prevail in a region that has already suffered too much.”

      Clooney, who is of Lebanese origins, has faced months of criticism of failing to speak out against Israel’s genocidal bombing campaign in Gaza which has killed more than 35,500 Palestinians to date.

  • State Department cracks down on Gaza-related leaks – Politico — RT World News
    https://www.rt.com/news/597939-state-department-leaks-israel

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has directed his aides to stop the leaks of confidential discussions related to the Israel-Hamas conflict to the media, an unnamed State Department official told Politico.

    Reuters got a hold of an internal State Department memo at the end of April, showing that several officials had advised Blinken that Israel’s assurances about US-supplied weapons were not “credible or reliable.” Someone at Foggy Bottom has also leaked details of proposals to broker a ceasefire and free the Israelis held captive by Hamas.

    Blinken criticized the department leadership at a meeting earlier this month and said the leaks made diplomacy more difficult, but also “eroded trust within the State Department that documents or details of closed-door conversations wouldn’t find their way to a reporter,” according to Politico’s description.

  • Amal Clooney Publishes Expert Report Supporting ICC Arrest Warrant Applications for Crimes in Israel and Palestine
    https://cfj.org/news/amal-clooney-publishes-expert-report-supporting-icc-arrest-warrant-applications

    “More than four months ago, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court asked me to assist him with evaluating evidence of suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel and Gaza. I agreed and joined a panel of international legal experts to undertake this task. Together we have engaged in an extensive process of evidence review and legal analysis including at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

    The Panel and its academic advisers are experts in international law, including international humanitarian law and international criminal law. Two Panel members are appointed as expert ‘Special Advisers’ by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Two Panel members are former judges at criminal tribunals in The Hague.

    Despite our diverse personal backgrounds, our legal findings are unanimous. We have unanimously determined that the Court has jurisdiction over crimes committed in Palestine and by Palestinian nationals. We unanimously conclude that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, including hostage-taking, murder and crimes of sexual violence. We unanimously conclude that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity including starvation as a method of warfare, murder, persecution and extermination.

    • Depuis plusieurs mois, Ama Clooney était critiquée pour son silence concernant Gaza. Apparemment ce silence était justifié par le fait qu’elle était impliquée dans le travail du bureau du procureur de la CPI.

    • Amal Clooney: Critics humbled as role in Israel-Hamas ICC arrest warrant request revealed
      21 May 2024 14:02 BST
      https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/amal-clooney-critics-humbled-role-israel-hamas-icc-arrest-warrant?nid

      Hundreds of social media users have taken to the internet to apologise to prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney after learning that she is advising the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders.

      For months, Clooney, a British barrister of Lebanese and Palestinian descent, drew widespread criticism from commentators on social media who accused her of silence over Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza.

      That changed on Monday after ICC prosecutor Karim Khan said he had filed an application for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif.

      It soon emerged that Amal Clooney had played a role in the case.

      Clooney co-authored a column with five other international lawyers in the Financial Times, which revealed that Khan “asked us to advise whether there was sufficient evidence to lay charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity".

  • Forensic Architecture
    @ForensicArchi
    7:30 PM · 15 mai 2024
    https://twitter.com/ForensicArchi/status/1790796901123559572

    NEW: Our analysis of reported data identifies at least 80 separate attacks by Israel on aid in Gaza since January. The frequency and widespread nature of these attacks suggests that Israel is systematically targeting aid.

    Forensic Architecture
    @ForensicArchi
    7:30 PM · 15 mai 2024
    https://twitter.com/ForensicArchi/status/1790796903854027081

    Reports indicate at least 37 attacks on civilians seeking aid, all near the Israeli-controlled checkpoints on Salah al-Din Street and al-Rashid Street.

    Forensic Architecture
    @ForensicArchi
    7:30 PM · 15 mai 2024
    https://twitter.com/ForensicArchi/status/1790796906714546514

    These findings are preliminary and non-exhaustive. We will update the map as our research progresses on Israel’s systematic attack on aid. See our interactive map on aid attacks here:
    https://gaza-aid-attacks.forensic-architecture.org

    Attacks on Aid
    https://gaza-aid-attacks.forensic-architecture.org

  • Casus Belli - X
    Le drone turc Akıncıretourne desormais chez lui
    https://x.com/casusbellii/status/1792399082704789594

    Le drone turc Akinci retourne desormais chez lui après avoir assisté les équipes de recherche et avoir trouvé le site du krach iranien. Probablement un des meilleurs coup de marketing du complexe militaro industriel turc.

    https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baykar_Bayraktar_Ak%C4%B1nc%C4%B1 (Attaquant, Raider sur WP[en]

  • Israeli abuse of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti ‘amounts to torture’ | Palestinian territories | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-abuse-of-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-amounts-to-

    Marwan Barghouti spends his days huddled in a cramped, dark, solitary cell, with no way to tend to his wounds, and a shoulder injury from being dragged with his hands cuffed behind his back.

    Barghouti holds almost mythic status within Palestinian politics, seen as a figure whose potential to unify different factions has only grown during his 24 years in prison.

    The books, newspapers and tele­vision that he used to be able to access have been gone since last October, along with any former cellmates. The lights that flicker in his cell each evening are intended to make sleep near impossible.

    “Mentally he’s a very strong person, but physically his condition is deteriorating, you can see it. He’s struggling to see out of his right eye, as a result of one of the assaults,” said his lawyer Igal Dotan, who visited Barghouti in Israel’s Megiddo prison two months ago. “He has lost weight – he doesn’t look good. You wouldn’t recognise him if you compare his current appearance with the famous photos of him,” he said.

    (...) Barghouti told his lawyers during their visit to Meggido in March that earlier that month he was dragged to an area of the prison without security cameras and assaulted. He recalled bleeding from the nose as he was dragged across the floor by his handcuffs, before he was beaten unconscious.

    Dotan counted bruises in at least three places on Barghouti’s body when he visited weeks later, adding that he probably has a dislocated shoulder from the assault and is in constant pain, but prison officials have refused a full medical examination of his injuries.

    He has been moved to three different detention facilities since October, each time held in solitary confinement. Last December in Ayalon prison, “he was beaten on several occasions,” said Dotan, including an incident where guards swore at him while Barghouti was “dragged on the floor naked in front of other prisoners”.

    “What Barghouti has endured amounts to torture, but that has become standard across all detention facilities since 7 October,” said Tal Steiner, of the rights group the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. Both PCATI and the International Committee of the Red Cross have been denied formerly routine visits to Israeli prisons since last October.

    Steiner added that PCATI collected 19 testimonies from prisoners describing physical assault, sexual or other types of humiliation as well as sleep, food and medical deprivation.

    “If this is how they allow themselves to treat high-profile prisoners like Barghouti, imagine what they do to detainees who don’t have the same profile,” she said, describing the overall level of abuse as “unprecedented”.

    The Israeli chapter of Physicians for Human Rights detailed at least 10 deaths in detention since October, including five where their doctors attended the autopsies. Two autopsies recorded “severe signs of violence and assault”, while in another their physician “found that the specific cause of death was medical neglect”. (...)

  • Gadi Kedem interrogé sous caution après avoir été battu par un extrémiste - The Times of Israël
    https://fr.timesofisrael.com/gadi-kedem-interroge-sous-caution-apres-avoir-ete-battu-par-un-ext

    Israël en proie à ses démons... (Au passage, on notera que c’est la victime de l’agression que est interrogée par la police !)

    Gadi Kedem, qui a perdu six membres de sa famille le 7 octobre et qui a vraisemblablement été brutalisé samedi par des militants de droite qui portaient une pancarte sur laquelle on pouvait lire « traîtres de gauche », a été interrogé par la police sous caution pour suspicion d’agression lorsqu’il est allé déposer une plainte, a rapporté dimanche la Douzième chaîne.

    L’incident a eu lieu la veille lors d’un rassemblement de manifestants anti-gouvernement, dont des familles en deuil et des familles d’otages.

    Reuma, l’épouse de Kedem, a déclaré que des militants partisans de la ligne radicale du gouvernement du Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu lui ont dit qu’elle était « une dégénérée, une gauchiste puante, et que c’était une bonne chose que vos enfants soient morts ».

  • Israel on losing end in Gaza war: Former Mossad deputy chief
    https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-on-losing-end-in-gaza-war-former-mossad-deputy-chief/3223179

    Israeli Knesset member and former Mossad deputy chief Ram Ben-Barak on Saturday said that the ongoing war in Gaza is “futile,” asserting that Israel is on the losing end and facing economic collapse.

    “This war lacks a clear objective, and it’s evident that we’re unequivocally losing it,” Ben-Barak told the Israeli public radio.

    “We are forced to engage in fighting in the same areas and end up losing more soldiers,” he said.

    “We’re also facing setbacks on the international stage, with our relations with the United States deteriorating significantly, and the Israeli economy in decline,” he said, adding: "Show me one thing we have succeeded in.”

    Daily, Palestinian factions report the killing and injury of Israeli soldiers along with the destruction of military vehicles often sharing video clips documenting their operations.

    Locally, Israeli authorities face accusations of concealing a higher number of casualties and injuries within the army’s ranks.

    The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, said on Saturday that they killed 15 Israeli soldiers east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

    They also stated on Friday that over the past 10 days, they targeted 100 different Israeli military vehicles across all fronts of the conflict.

  • The way forward after strike vote by 48,000 California academic workers against police crackdowns - World Socialist Web Site
    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/17/pers-m17.html

    The impulse for this strike vote came from the 48,000 rank-and-file members of United Auto Workers Local 4811, not the UAW bureaucracy, which has endorsed “Genocide Joe” Biden and delayed the vote itself as long as it could. The vote occurred as more than 3,000 students nationwide have been arrested and many more beaten, while the media and political establishment slander them as “antisemites” and call for bringing in the National Guard.

    The vote is a call for a political strike—that is, for the working class to intervene to halt the state repression and the US-backed genocide. The working class is being drawn into open political conflict with the Biden administration and the two corporate parties.

  • Gaza : du déni à l’occultation. Retour sur un entretien du Monde avec Eva Illouz et Derek Penslar
    par Yazid Ben Hounet 7 mai 2024
    https://www.contretemps.eu/israel-palestine-deni-naufrage-illouz-penslar

    Si certain·es journalistes du Monde ont pu accomplir un travail remarquable sur la Palestine et le colonialisme israélien, en particulier Clotilde Mraffko et Benjamin Barthe, le quotidien a publié ces derniers mois des entretiens et des tribunes allant de l’inepte à l’abject, au regard de la guerre de nature génocidaire que mène Israël depuis sept mois contre les Palestinien·nes de Gaza.

    C’est le cas d’un entretien avec Eva Illouz et Derek Penslar, publié récemment, dans lequel ces derniers·ères réitèrent leurs attaques contre la gauche, accusée de complaisance à l’égard de crimes contre l’humanité. Ces accusations participent du climat maccarthyste qui sévit actuellement en France et légitiment une criminalisation croissante des mobilisations, des organisations et des personnalités solidaires de la Palestine.

    L’anthropologue Yazid Ben Hounet analyse cet entretien en soulignant le déni du fait colonial qui le sous-tend, et l’occultation du sort des Palestinien·nes auquel il conduit.

    #manipulation #double-standard #Palestine #Israël #Gaza #génocide

  • Le nom de Rima Hassan et de députés LFI sur un missile israélien ? Tsahal dénonce un « civil » agissant « sans permission »
    https://www.bfmtv.com/politique/la-france-insoumise/le-nom-de-rima-hassan-et-de-deputes-lfi-sur-un-missile-israelien-tsahal-denon

    la Fédération internationale pour les droits humains (FIDH) fait référence en février à l’une de ses publications, datée de janvier, en le décrivant comme un « soldat franco-israélien engagé dans l’armée israélienne ».

  • The Israel-Affiliated Organization Leading the Backlash Against Student Protests
    [The Israeli-American Council has worked in tandem with Israeli intelligence agencies for years. Last month, its leaders vowed to shut down the encampment at UCLA.]
    https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/israeli-american-council

    Key to their US operations was a highly sophisticated intelligence unit that targeted innocent Americans around the country. It was described to the IAC members in 2016 by Sagi Balasha, a former senior Israeli official who was the CEO of the IAC from 2011 to 2015. He then moved back to Israel and took over Concert, a secretive front organization operated by the Ministry of Strategic Affairs where he calls Vaknin-Gill, “my partner.” And among its projects was Israel Cyber Shield. “We started to establish a project called Israel Cyber Shield,” he said. “This is actually a civil intelligence unit that collects, analyzes and acts upon the activists in the BDS movement, of its people, organizations, or events. And we give it everything we collect. We are using the most sophisticated data system, intelligence system in the Israeli market.”

    And everything they collect, according to Vaknin-Gil, includes surveillance on students, churchgoers, and laborers around the country—any group that might support or be sympathetic to the Palestinian and boycott causes. Describing the various elements of the covert operations, she said, “The first one is intel, intelligence.… What we’ve done is mapped and analyzed the whole [pro-Palestinian] phenomena globally. Not just the United States, not just campuses, but campuses and intersectionality, labor unions and churches.” And secrecy was critical. “We are a different government working on a foreign soil, and we have to be very, very cautious,” she said.

    There was good reason for Israel’s secrecy. Among the key targets was Linda Sarsour, a leader in both the Palestinian movement and Black Lives Matter, which endorsed the boycott in 2016. She was also one of the primary organizers of the Women’s March following President Donald Trump’s inauguration. According to an investigation by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, among the material the Cyber Shield unit was able to secretly obtain from Sarsour was a password-protected file “containing information on her parents, and another file with more than 10 pages all marked ‘Confidential.’… The dossier concluded with an executive summary that highlighted her apparent weak points.” Once collected, the data was then turned over for use by another secretive Israeli unit targeting Americans, one known as Act.IL, that could then exploit Sarsour’s “weak points.” Act.IL had an unusual birth.

  • خطة عربية - أميركية لـ« اليوم التالي » : عودة السلطة إلى غزة... وتطبيع سعودي - إسرائيلي
    https://al-akhbar.com/Palestine/382069

    Les idées des pro-occidentaux pour l’après-guerre à Gaza. (J’aime beaucoup la photo, qui vient apparemment du Département d’Etat US ! #clichés_arabes)

    أما بالنسبة إلى أهداف المرحلة الثانية، فهي التي تهمّ الأميركيين بشكل خاص، والتي تتساوق مع رؤيتهم المعلنة لـ«الحل السياسي» للصراع الفلسطيني - الإسرائيلي. كما أن فيها ما كان يسعى الأميركيون إلى تحقيقه قبل الحرب، ولا يزالون يصرّون عليه، وإن باتت أثمانه أكبر وتعقيداته أصعب، وهو اتفاقية التطبيع بين دولة الاحتلال والسعودية. وترى الإدارة الأميركية الحالية، أن إنهاء الحرب وتحقيق اتفاق تطبيع سيكونان بمثابة مكسب استراتيجي لواشنطن، وذخر انتخابيّ كبير، هو أمسّ ما يحتاج إليه بايدن في حملته الانتخابية. كذلك، حاولت الإدارة، خلال المرحلة الماضية، إقناع الحكومة الإسرائيلية بأن تطبيعاً مع السعودية سيكون «جائزة ترضية» مناسبة لها، مقابل فشلها في تحقيق أهداف الحرب، وهو ما سيتيح لها تحمّل عبء الهزيمة أمام الجمهور. وبالتالي، قامت المرحلة الثانية على أساسين - يُفترض أنهما متلازمان -، هما إطلاق عملية التطبيع، وتفعيل مسار المفاوضات في إطار «حلّ الدولتين». وبحسب الوثيقة، فإن أهداف المرحلة الثانية، هي:
    1) إطلاق عملية السلام بما في ذلك (التطبيع) مع السعودية.
    2) إعادة تأهيل وإعمار غزة.
    3) العودة إلى مفاوضات الوضع النهائي (قضايا الوضع النهائي وهي: اللاجئون، القدس، المستوطنات والدولة).
    4) تنشيط «منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية» والمصالحة الفلسطينية الداخلية، بما في ذلك نزع السلاح والتسريح وإعادة الإدماج ودمج «حماس».
    وبالنسبة إلى البند الرابع والأخير في المرحلة الثانية، فهو يقضي بشكل واضح لا لبس فيه، بوجوب حلّ حركة «حماس»، بجناحيها السياسي والعسكري، واستبدال حكمها في قطاع غزة بحكم السلطة الفلسطينية، والعمل على دمج جسمها السياسي في «منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية»، وحلّ الجناح العسكري ودمج عناصره ضمن موظّفي السلطة في القطاع. وهذا الإجراء الذي ورد في الوثيقة باللغة الإنكليزية (DDR)، ورد أيضاً في محاضر الاجتماعات التحضيرية لـ«اتفاقية أوسلو - 1993»، بين «منظمة التحرير» والعدو، حيث جرى الاتفاق على تطبيقه في الضفة الغربية بشكل خاص، عبر حلّ الأجنحة العسكرية للفصائل، وخصوصاً حركة «فتح»، ودمج العناصر المسلحين (سابقاً) ضمن الأجهزة الأمنية الرسمية، وإخضاعهم لبرامج تخوّلهم ما يُسمى «الاندماج في المجتمع» والمساهمة في «عملية السلام».

  • Craig Murray: Active Participants in Genocide
    https://consortiumnews.com/2024/05/17/craig-murray-active-participants-in-genocide

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    No. 5). The endgame is becoming very apparent. The United States is completing its floating harbour for Gaza, and Israel has gained control of the Rafah crossing into Egypt, giving the U.S. and Israel total control of entry points into Gaza.

    Israel has announced that the Rafah crossing is to be handed over to a U.S. mercenary force. The U.S. can then say it is complying with U.S. President Joe Biden’s pledge not to put U.S. forces’ boots on the ground in Gaza, while actually taking control.

    The U.S. has justified the Israeli attack on Rafah as a “limited military operation,” thus claiming it does not violate Biden’s purported “red line,” even though Israel has ordered over a million displaced people in Rafah to evacuate again, to nowhere.

    The only possible conclusion from all of the above is to reinforce my analysis that the Zionist political and media classes in the West, including Biden, Starmer, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, are active and willing participants in a programme of genocide.

    They had numerous opportunities to turn back. We all saw what was happening months ago.

    The endgame remains the processing of the remaining Palestinian population out of Gaza through the U.S.-controlled points of the Rafah crossing and the floating harbour, primarily into camps in the Sinai desert. The Western powers are doubling down on their genocide and on their colonial project.

    I see nothing whatsoever that indicates they can have any other long-term objective in mind than the complete Israeli annexation of Gaza minus its civilian population. What do you see?

  • Israël pris pour cible par un drone porteur de roquettes lancé par le Hezbollah
    http://french.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/05/17/725747/Isra%C3%ABl-pris-pour-cible-par-un-premier-drone-porteur-de-roquettes

    Pas une bonne nouvelle pour les forces israéliennes...

    Les médias israéliens rapporte qu’un drone armé est entré en Palestine occupée depuis les frontières nord et qu’après avoir tiré deux roquettes, il s’est écrasé sur une autre cible.

    La chaîne Telegram Al-Alam Al-Harbi appartenant à la Résistance islamique du Liban a publié des images de l’opération de ses combattants visant la base sioniste d’al-Mutla avec un drone d’attaque équipé d’une roquette de précision S5.

    C’est la première fois que le Hezbollah utilise un drone armé de roquettes. L’arme utilisée lors de cette attaque est la roquette S5, qui est généralement tirée par des hélicoptères et des chasseurs.

  • Farkha, le village Palestinien écolo et autogéré qui résiste aux colons - MOUAIS
    https://mouais.org/farkha-le-village-palestinien-ecolo-et-autogere-qui-resiste-aux-colons

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    C’est que le petit village de Farkha, 1 800 habitants, est devenu une flamme ardente socialiste dans une Palestine ravagée par l’occupation israélienne, les colonies et le néolibéralisme de l’Autorité Palestinienne. « On est le premier écovillage du pays depuis 2019, grâce à notre coopérative oléicole, notre éco-ferme communale, notre coopérative des femmes, nos jardins urbains… On est devenus autosuffisants et autogestionnaires », explique Mostafa autour d’un feu de camp en bas de la maison familiale. « Chaque habitant s’aide lui-même et les autres, on ne dépend plus des Israéliens ni du gouvernement palestinien. Même la police est partie il y a trois ans, car on gérait tous les problèmes nous-mêmes et qu’ils n’avaient plus rien à faire » ajoute-t-il, amusé.
    Économie de la résistance et démocratie directe

    Plantés sur 4 hectares, 10 000 oliviers communaux produisent une huile certifiée biologique et Fairtrade, exportée vers des boutiques solidaires à l’étranger. Elle permet de financer les autres projets municipaux, comme la ferme de panneaux solaires qui alimentent un tiers des foyers et toutes les installations de la commune. L’éco-ferme « Qamar al-Ard » (« Lune de la terre ») regorge de fruits et légumes locaux, bio eux-aussi. « C’est une expérimentation, et la transition n’était pas facile. Beaucoup d’agriculteurs étaient sceptiques au début, mais on veut montrer l’exemple », explique Mostafa. Son père Baker, maire avant lui, avait sillonné l’Europe et le monde à la rencontre d’autres écovillages et éco-fermes pour apprendre les méthodes de production naturelles.

    « Fellah » désigne le paysan qui cultive un lopin de terre pour sa famille, mais par extension, la tradition agricole palestinienne – et une identité paysanne enracinée et résistante. À Farkha, on baigne en plein dedans : quasiment chaque famille a sa propre « mazraa manzaliyé » (ferme domestique ou jardin urbain), parfois avec des chèvres ou des moutons. « Nous pratiquons ainsi l’iqtisad al-muqawama (économie de la résistance), qui nous permet de boycotter toutes les autorités coloniales et les bailleurs de fonds internationaux », explique le maire.

    La politique locale est tout aussi collective et horizontale : le conseil municipal est doublé de comités dédiés aux différentes facettes de la vie quotidienne. Chaque habitant de Farkha est membre d’un moins un comité, qui se réunissent chaque semaine. Et tous les vendredis, ils participent à une journée de travaux collectifs : récoltes, rénovations, constructions… « En ce moment, on répare les maisons abandonnées du vieux village de l’époque ottomane. Le but c’est d’y déménager la mairie, d’y installer une maison d’hôtes, une presse d’huile d’olive… » s’enthousiasme Mostafa. Les murs du village sont ornés de graffitis de la faucille et le marteau, mais aussi du drapeau kurde ou catalan, avec des slogans internationalistes.

    « Même si je suis maire, je ne prends aucune décision sans l’approbation des habitants, ma fonction est surtout symbolique. En vérité, les gens s’administrent tous seuls ». L’inspiration pour ce modèle politique vient des années 50. À l’époque, le Front Populaire pour la Libération de la Palestine (FPLP, communiste-nationaliste) et le Parti Populaire de Palestine (communiste-internationaliste) règnent en maître dans la région de Selfit, la grande ville voisine. « On l’appelait ‘petite Moscou’ », s’amuse Mostafa. « Aujourd’hui encore, des gens s’appellent Lénine ou Guevara, même s’ils ne sont plus communistes ». Farkha a conservé son ancrage, même si une grande partie des habitants soutient aussi le Fatah de Mahmoud Abbas ou d’autres partis. « L’idée, c’est de prendre notre propre destin en mains », explique-t-il. Musulmans ou athées, politisés ou pas, de gauche ou pas : les habitants partagent en commun l’identité paysanne et solidaire du village.

    Contre la corruption et le collaborationnisme de l’Autorité Palestinienne, crée lors des Accords d’Oslo en 1993 et dirigée par Mahmoud Abbas, Farkha oppose un idéal politique utopique. « Nous n’avons aucune haine envers le peuple juif et ne comprenons pas la leur. Nous rêvons d’un état démocratique laïc, partagé, avec les mêmes droits pour tous », affirme le maire – tout comme la totalité des Palestiniens rencontrés lors de mon séjour d’un mois. Pour lui, l’attaque du Hamas est le résultat logique du siège israélien total de 17 ans sur Gaza. « Je ne voterais jamais pour eux et ne crois pas en leur projet politique. Mais aujourd’hui, ce sont les seuls qui se battent encore, et une explosion était devenue inévitable ». Impossible, ici, de parler du 7 octobre sans aborder les 76 longues années écoulées depuis la Nakba de 1948 : L’occupation israélienne, les massacres, l’apartheid, et la colonisation soutenue par l’État.

    Résister à l’expansion coloniale

    Une menace palpable plane sur les collines d’oliviers de Farkha. Elle devient visible quand Mostafa et moi montons sur le toit d’une maison du vieux village, perchée en hauteur. Il me faut quelques secondes pour comprendre ce que voient mes yeux. À l’horizon, la mer Méditerranée scintille d’argent et d’azur. Peu avant, les gratte-ciels et la pollution de Tel Aviv, métropole coloniale. Puis, à quelques kilomètres de nous, une masse grise : les usines d’Ar’iel, la 4e plus grande colonie israélienne, désignée comme « capitale de la Samarie » par Benjamin Netanyahu. Industries, aires résidentielles s’étendent sur 15 000 km2 de terres confisquées aux Palestiniens depuis 1978. Et le monstre de béton continue de s’étendre. « On a perdu l’accès à 1200 dunums [1,2 hectares] et un millier d’oliviers, cela représente une perte de 135 000 shekels [35 000€] par an juste en huile d’olive », se désole Mostafa. « Mais le problème n’est pas tant l’argent : c’est notre culture qui est sous assaut. Je préfère qu’ils me tuent plutôt que ce qu’ils abattent un seul de mes arbres », dit-il.

    La tactique des colons est bien rodée. D’abord, un berger vient avec son troupeau à un point d’eau ou sur une colline, chasser les Palestiniens aux alentours. Il installe une cabane ou un avant-poste, le connecte à une route, à l’eau. Puis, la cabane devient maison, village, ville. « Ils veulent toute la terre, ils pensent qu’elle leur appartient depuis des millénaires », soupire-t-il. « Doucement, ils grignotent nos terres, se rapprochent du village. Il n’y a plus qu’une seule colline entre eux et nous », soupire-t-il. Nous partons à la rencontre de Bassem Rizkallah, un agriculteur dont la ferme, au creux d’une vallée, est entouré par les colons – qui le harcèlent. « La dernière fois, mes caméras de sécurité ont filmé comment ils ont volé deux vaches », témoigne-t-il. À l’entrée de sa ferme, une plaque en marbre commémore un « martyr » tué par l’armée israélienne dans les années 2000.

    « Il y a eu plusieurs morts ici pendant les deux intifada. Depuis, l’Autorité Palestinienne nous a confisqué nos armes et tout moyen de résister, c’est la deuxième force occupante qui collabore avec Israël », lance un Mostafa écœuré. « Maintenant, tout ce que nous pouvons faire, c’est nous interposer et espérer qu’ils ne nous tirent pas dessus ». C’est que, après le 7 octobre, le gouvernement d’extrême-droite de Benjamin Netanyahou, dominé par deux ministres colons (Bezalel Smotrich et Itamar Ben Gvir) a distribué des milliers de fusils d’assaut aux colons, qui se sont constitués en milices – portant même l’uniforme de l’armée. « Nous ne savons plus si ce sont des soldats ou des colons qui nous attaquent. Bon, cela ne fait plus vraiment de différence, puisque l’armée et la police participent maintenant activement à leurs côtés », se désole le jeune maire.

    Depuis le 7 octobre, la situation est passée de mauvaise à catastrophique.

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