company:the times

  • Against Chelsea Clinton
    https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/chelsea-clinton-office-democratic-party-foundation-avenue-capital

    McKinsey (2003–2006)

    After graduating high school, Chelsea goes to Stanford and gets a degree in history and then goes to Oxford and gets a degree in international relations. So far, so banal.

    But after Oxford, Chelsea Clinton signed up with McKinsey, a consulting company known as an elite business training corps. She was the youngest in her class, hired at the same rank as those with M.B.A. degrees. Her interview was more like a conversation, said D. Ronald Daniel, a senior partner. “That’s why she was a good consultant, because we are professional question-askers and professional listeners,” Mr. Daniel said.  —  New York Times

    Despite having no background in business, statistics, or any other related field, Chelsea gets hired by McKinsey straight out of Oxford alongside elite business school graduates. The interview process for that was “more like a conversation.”

    Avenue Capital Group LLC (2006–2009)

    After three years at McKinsey, Chelsea moves on to Avenue Capital Group LLC, a hedge fund run by Marc Lasry. The Times describes Lasry as “a loyal donor to Democratic causes generally, and Clinton-related ones specifically.” Bloomberg calls Lasry “close to the Clinton family and a long-time donor to Democrats.”

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  • How the New York Times Is Using Strategies Inspired by Netflix, Spotify, and HBO to Make Itself Indispensible
    https://www.wired.com/2017/02/new-york-times-digital-journalism

    Sulzberger, like more than three dozen other executives and journalists I interviewed and shadowed at the Times, is working on the biggest strategic shift in the paper’s 165-year history, and he believes it will strengthen its bottom line, enhance the quality of its journalism, and secure a long and lasting future.

    The main goal isn’t simply to maximize revenue from advertising—the strategy that keeps the lights on and the content free at upstarts like the Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and Vox. It’s to transform the Times’ digital subscriptions into the main engine of a billion-dollar business, one that could pay to put reporters on the ground in 174 countries even if (OK, when) the printing presses stop forever. To hit that mark, the Times is embarking on an ambitious plan inspired by the strategies of Netflix, Spotify, and HBO: invest heavily in a core offering (which, for the Times, is journalism) while continuously adding new online services and features (from personalized fitness advice and interactive newsbots to virtual reality films) so that a subscription becomes indispensable to the lives of its existing subscribers and more attractive to future ones. “We think that there are many, many, many, many people—millions of people all around the world—who want what The New York Times offers,” says Dean Baquet, the Times’ executive editor. “And we believe that if we get those people, they will pay, and they will pay greatly.”

  • Tzipi Livni sera-t-elle la première Israélienne à être chef-adjoint de l’ONU ? | The Times of Israël
    http://fr.timesofisrael.com/tzipi-livni-sera-t-elle-la-premiere-israelienne-a-etre-chef-adjoin

    Antonio Guterres, le secrétaire général des Nations unies, aurait proposé le post de secrétaire générale adjointe à Tzipi Livni, ancienne ministre israélienne des Affaires étrangères.

    Selon le quotidien Haaretz, Guterres a demandé lui-même ce week-end par téléphone à Livni, qui dirige à présent le parti Hatnua et est la numéro deux du groupe parlementaire de l’Union sioniste à la Knesset, de rejoindre l’institution internationale.

    Sa nomination devrait être approuvée par le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies.

    Cette offre a été faite en plein conflit aux Nations unies sur une proposition de nommer l’ancien Premier ministre de l’Autorité palestinienne (AP) Salam Fayyad envoyé de l’organisation pour le conflit libyen. (...)

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    Libye : Washington bloque à l’Onu la nomination d’un ex-dirigeant palestinien
    L’Orient-Le Jour | AFP | 11/02/2017
    https://seenthis.net/messages/569025

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    L’Israélienne Tzipi Livni aurait dû être interpellée lundi à Bruxelles
    Baudouin Loos | Mis en ligne jeudi 19 janvier 2017
    Le parquet fédéral belge le confirme : dans le cadre d’une enquête pour crimes de guerre commis à Gaza en 2008-2009, l’ex-ministre israélienne Tzipi Livni devait être interpellée lundi à Bruxelles pour audition.
    https://seenthis.net/messages/562266

  • HOW THE TIMES FAILED YOU
    Current Affairs | Culture & Politics
    https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/01/how-the-times-failed-you

    An incident revealing of the papers’ attitudes occurred in March, when the paper ran a news analysis piece titled “Bernie Sanders Scored Victories for Years via Legislative Side Doors.” The piece went through Sanders’ record in the Senate, showing him to be a pragmatic legislator, who, contrary to conventional wisdom, was actually very good at achieving specific policy objectives.

    The article was surprising, in that it was both in the New York Times and didn’t trash Bernie Sanders. Sure enough, later in the day the article was updated with a series of editorial changes, making it clear that while Bernie Sanders might have a decent record of senatorial accomplishments, he was still a pie-in-the-sky dreamer with no ability to achieve the meaningful changes he promised. The Times assured its readers that “there is little to draw from his small-ball legislative approach to suggest that he could succeed [as president]… Mr. Sanders is suddenly promising not just a few stars here and there, but the moon and a good part of the sun.”

    Later, after complaints had been made to the Public Editor, it transpired that the article was revised by “senior editors” who “thought it should say more about his realistic chances” of enacting his agenda (because no one is a more credible expert on realism than someone who apparently thinks the moon is bigger than a star).

    #New_York_Times #MSM « #progressistes »

  • Did Human Rights Watch Sabotage Colombia’s Peace Agreement? | The Nation
    https://www.thenation.com/article/did-human-rights-watch-sabotage-colombias-peace-agreement

    “No” won because the right wing, led by former President Álvaro Uribe, was able to turn a vote that was supposed to be on peace into a vote on the FARC. The geographic breakdown of the referendum indicates that “no” won in areas where Uribe and his political party have their support. Take a look especially at the department of Antioquia, where Uribe got his political start as a champion of paramilitary death squads. Sixty-two percent of Antioquia’s voters cast “no.” In the department’s capital, Medellín, a city that has been sold in the United States as a neoliberal success story—Modern! Urbane! Fun! Come visit!—63 percent of voters said “no” (for Medellín’s neoliberal “makeover,” see this essay by Forrest Hylton).

    Uribe served as president from 2002 to 2010. He is best thought of as a Colombian Andrew Jackson, riding to the top office of his country on the wings of mass murder, rural ressentiment, and financial speculation. As an ex-president, he has been toxic, doing everything he could to keep the war going.

    The Colombian elite, especially the retrograde sector Uribe represents, has much to lose with peace: The end of fighting would create a space in which the country’s many social conflicts—having to do with land, labor, and resource extraction—could be dealt with on their own terms, rather than distorted through counterinsurgent politics. And peace would be costly for some sectors, especially for all those Colombians in the “security” business who for years have fed off the Plan Colombia trough.

    Polls show that a majority of Colombians favor peace. But Uribe and his allies in the media and congress lied, obfuscated, and scared. They managed to convince a small minority (the 54,000-vote victory margin for “no” is about a quarter of the number of civilians killed or disappeared by the state since the start of the civil war) that the agreement was a giveaway to the FARC and that Santos was “delivering the country to terrorism.” The Times identifies Uribe and the “far right” as the “biggest winner.” The former president “had argued that the agreement was too lenient on the rebels, who he said should be prosecuted as murderers and drug traffickers. ‘Peace is an illusion, the Havana agreement deceptive,’ Mr. Uribe wrote on Twitter on Sunday after casting his ‘no’ vote.” Thus Uribe has forced himself on the bargaining table, with Santos saying, as paraphrased by the Times, that he would be “reaching out to opposition leaders in the Colombian Congress like former President Álvaro Uribe,” with the Times adding that “experts predicted a potentially tortured process in which Mr. Uribe and others would seek harsher punishments for FARC members, especially those who had participated in the drug trade.”

    The campaign to keep Colombia’s war going had an unlikely ally: Human Rights Watch. José Miguel Vivanco, the head of HRW’s Americas Watch division, emerged as an unexpected player in Colombian politics when he came out strongly against the “justice” provisions of the peace agreement. Vivanco agreed with Uribe by offering the most dire reading of the agreement possible, saying that perpetrators—in the FARC and the military—of human-rights violations would receive immunity. Vivanco was all over the press in Colombia, with his comments used to build opposition to the accords. Once it became clear that he was lining up too closely with Uribe, he staged a mock public dispute with the former para-president, even while continuing to basically support Uribe’s position (h/t Alejandro Velasco).

    • Et au Brésil: Is Human Rights Watch Too Closely Aligned with US Foreign Policy?
      http://cepr.net/publications/op-eds-columns/is-human-rights-watch-too-closely-aligned-with-us-foreign-policy

      Part of that right-wing agenda is a close alliance with the United States and its Cold War strategy of “containment” and “rollback” with respect to the left governments in Latin America. And that is where Human Rights Watch, the most prominent US-based human-rights organization — its Americas Division in particular — comes in. HRW abstained from offering the slightest criticism of the impeachment process; even worse, the executive director of its Americas Division, José Miguel Vivanco, was quoted in the Brazilian media — on the day that the Brazilian Senate voted to permanently oust the president — saying Brazilians “should be proud of the example they are giving the world.” He also praised the “independence of the judiciary” in Brazil. Sérgio Moro, the judge investigating the political corruption cases, has been far from independent. He had to apologize in March for leaking wiretapped conversations to the press between former president Lula da Silva and Dilma; Lula and his attorney; and between Lula’s wife and their children.

  • Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html

    On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has sold himself as a businessman who has made billions of dollars and is beholden to no one.

    But an investigation by The New York Times into the financial maze of Mr. Trump’s real estate holdings in the United States reveals that companies he owns have at least $650 million in debt — twice the amount than can be gleaned from public filings he has made as part of his bid for the White House. The Times’s inquiry also found that Mr. Trump’s fortunes depend deeply on a wide array of financial backers, including one he has cited in attacks during his campaign.

  • Coach parties of Chinese tourists leave village baffled | News | The Times & The Sunday Times

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/coach-parties-of-chinese-tourists-leave-village-baffled-27bwtpcsd

    They come in their hundreds. Coachloads of Chinese tourists are deposited in the high street of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, and fan out to traipse across gardens, peer into the windows of redbrick 1970s bungalows and take selfies with road signs in perfectly ordinary suburban streets.

    Just why they are there, nobody knows, and neither the visitors nor their tour guides speak English. Residents say that there is nothing remarkable about Kidlington, apart from the fact it was once reputed to be the largest village in England.

    #tourisme #touristes_chinois_en_angleterre

  • In response to Elie Wiesel advertisement comparing Hamas to Nazis, 327 Jewish Holocaust survivors and descendants publish New York Times ad accusing Israel of ’ongoing massacre of the Palestinian people.’
    Holocaust Survivors Condemn Israel for ’Gaza Massacre,’ Call for Boycott - Diplomacy and Defense - Haaretz

    Haaretz Aug 23, 2014
    read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.612072

    http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.612072

    Hundreds of Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors have signed a letter, published as an advertisement in Saturday’s New York Times, condemning “the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza” and calling for a complete boycott of Israel.
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    According to the letter, the condemnation was prompted by an advertisement written by Elie Wiesel and published in major news outlets worldwide, accusing Hamas of “child sacrifice” and comparing the group to the Nazis.
    The letter, signed by 327 Jewish Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors and sponsored by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, accuses Wiesel of “abuse of history” in order to justify Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip:
    “…we are disgusted and outraged by Elie Wiesel’s abuse of our history in these pages to justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the murder of more than 2,000 Palestinians, including many hundreds of children. Nothing can justify bombing UN shelters, homes, hospitals and universities. Nothing can justify depriving people of electricity and water.”
    The letter also blames the United States of aiding Israel in its Gaza operation, and the West in general of protecting Israel from condemnation.
    “Genocide begins with the silence of the world,” the letter reads.
    The letter ends with a call to bring the blockade of Gaza to an immediate end, and for a full boycott of Israel. “Never again” must mean NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!,” the letter concludes.
    Full text of letter:
    "Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
    "As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine. We further condemn the United States for providing Israel with the funding to carry out the attack, and Western states more generally for using their diplomatic muscle to protect Israel from condemnation. Genocide begins with the silence of the world.
    "We are alarmed by the extreme, racist dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli society, which has reached a fever-pitch. In Israel, politicians and pundits in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post have called openly for genocide of Palestinians and right-wing Israelis are adopting Neo-Nazi insignia.
    "Furthermore, we are disgusted and outraged by Elie Wiesel’s abuse of our history in these pages to justify the unjustifiable: Israel’s wholesale effort to destroy Gaza and the murder of more than 2,000 Palestinians, including many hundreds of children. Nothing can justify bombing UN shelters, homes, hospitals and universities. Nothing can justify depriving people of electricity and water.
    “We must raise our collective voices and use our collective power to bring about an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. We call for an immediate end to the siege against and blockade of Gaza. We call for the full economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel. “Never again” must mean NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!”
    For full list of the letter’s signatories, click here

    • Des survivants de l’Holocauste condamnent Israël pour le massacre de Gaza et appellent au boycott
      Déposé par VB dans 26 août 2014
      http://www.gauche-anticapitaliste.ch/old/?p=12348

      Nous publions, dessous, un article paru le 23 août dans le quotidien israélien Haaretz portant sur une lettre rédigée par 327 juifs et descendants de survivants de l’Holocauste qui condamnent le massacre en cours à Gaza et appellent au boycott d’Israël.

      Des centaines de survivants et descendants de survivants de l’holocauste ont signé une lettre, publiée sous forme de publicité dans le New York Times de samedi, condamnant « le massacre des Palestiniens de Gaza » et appelant à un boycott total d’Israël.

      Selon la lettre, la condamnation a été motivée par une annonce écrite sous forme d’une publicité par Elie Wiesel et publiée dans les principaux organes de presse du monde entier, accusant le Hamas de « sacrifice d’enfants » et comparant le groupe aux nazis. Le chapeau de l’encart publicitaire que s‘est payé Elie Wiesel (prix Nobel de la paix, rescapé du nazisme) annonçait de façon plus que provocatrice « Les juifs ont rejeté le sacrifice des enfants il y a de ça 3,500 ans. A présent c’est au tour du Hamas ». La lettre, signée par 327 survivants et descendants de survivants de l’Holocauste juif et parrainée par le réseau international juif anti-sioniste, accuse Wiesel « d’abus de l’histoire » afin de justifier les actions d’Israël dans la bande de Gaza :

      « Nous sommes dégoûtés et scandalisés par la violence d’Elie Wiesel qui abuse notre histoire dans ces pages pour justifier l’injustifiable : l’effort systématique d’Israël à détruire Gaza et à assassiner plus de 2.000 Palestiniens, dont des centaines d’enfants. Rien ne peut justifier le bombardement des abris de l’ONU, les maisons, les hôpitaux et les universités. Rien ne peut justifier de priver les gens de l’électricité et de l’eau ». La lettre accuse également les Etats-Unis d’aider Israël dans son opération de Gaza, et l’Occident en général de protéger Israël de la condamnation. »Le génocide commence par le silence du monde », dit la lettre. Elle se termine par un appel à mettre immédiatement un terme au blocus de Gaza et à un boycott total d’Israël. La lettre conclue par « Never again » (ndlr : « Plus jamais ça ») doit signifier « Plus jamais ça pour qui que ce soit ! »

      Le texte intégral de la lettre :

      « Les survivants et descendants de survivants et victimes du génocide nazi condamnent sans équivoque le massacre des Palestiniens à Gaza.

      Comme survivants et descendants de survivants juifs et des victimes du génocide nazi, nous condamnons sans équivoque le massacre de Palestiniens à Gaza, l’occupation continue ainsi que la colonisation de la Palestine historique. Nous condamnons en outre les États-Unis pour fournir à Israël le financement nécessaire pour mener à bien cette attaque, et les pays occidentaux plus généralement, pour peser de tout leur poids diplomatique afin de protéger Israël de la condamnation. Tout génocide commence par le silence du monde.

      Nous sommes alarmés par l’extrême et très raciste déshumanisation des Palestiniens dans la société israélienne, qui a atteint un paroxysme. En Israël, les politiciens et les experts dans le Times d’Israël et le Jerusalem Post ont appelé ouvertement au génocide des Palestiniens, tandis que la droite israélienne arbore désormais publiquement des insignes néo-nazi.

      En outre, nous sommes dégoûtés et scandalisés par la violence d’Elie Wiesel pour justifier l’injustifiable : l’effort de guerre d’Israël consiste à détruire Gaza et à assassiner plus de 2.000 Palestiniens, dont des centaines d’enfants. Rien ne peut justifier le bombardement des abris de l’ONU, des maisons, des hôpitaux et des universités ! Rien ne peut justifier de priver les gens d’électricité et d’eau !

      Nous devons élever nos voix et utiliser notre pouvoir collectif pour mettre un terme à toutes les formes de racisme, y compris le génocide en cours du peuple palestinien. Nous demandons la fin immédiate du siège et du blocus de Gaza. Nous appelons au boycott économique, culturel et académique d’Israël. « Never again » doit signifier PLUS JAMAIS POUR PERSONNE ! »

    • Clinton Campaign Slams Max Blumenthal for Accusing Eli Wiesel of ’Inciting Hatred’

      ’Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel,’ policy adviser says.
      JTA Jul 07, 2016 2:19 PM
      read more: http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.729514

      (...) Secretary Clinton emphatically rejects these offensive, hateful, and patently absurd statements about Elie Wiesel,” Jake Sullivan, a policy adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, said in a statement shared with JTA on Wednesday. “She believes they are wrong in all senses of the term.”

      The statement was in response to a series of tweets over the weekend by Max Blumenthal, a journalist who often writes critically about Israel. Although Blumenthal has no connection to the Clinton campaign, he is the son of Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidante and adviser to the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate. The connection is mentioned frequently by other journalists when writing about Max Blumenthal.

      Just hours after Wiesel’s death on Saturday, Max Blumenthal wrote a flurry of tweets insisting Wiesel should not be be honored because of his unwavering support for Israel.

      “Elie Wiesel is dead. He spent his last years inciting hatred, defending apartheid & palling around with fascists,” Blumenthal wrote.

      “Elie Wiesel went from a victim of war crimes to a supporter of those who commit them. He did more harm than good and should not be honored.”

      In his response, Sullivan said Blumenthal and others “should cease and desist” from criticizing the Auschwitz survivor and author.

      “Elie Wiesel was a hero to her as he was to so many, and she will keep doing everything she can to honor his memory and to carry his message forward,” Sullivan wrote of Clinton.

      Responding to the campaign’s statement, Max Blumenthal accused Clinton of remaining silent when Wiesel accused Palestinians of “ritual child sacrifice.” He was referring to an advertisement in 2014 by The Jewish Values Network in which Wiesel spoke out against Hamas and allegations that it had intentionally placed munitions and fighters in areas near children.

      Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who heads The Jewish Values Network, has called Blumenthal an “informal adviser” to Clinton, which the campaign categorically denies.(...)

  • How US-Backed War on Syria Helped ISIS – Daniel Lazare
    https://consortiumnews.com/2016/03/31/how-us-backed-war-on-syria-helped-isis

    Since the Times claims to have “several hundred” surreptitious contacts inside Syria, the charge that Assad’s troops fled without a fight may conceivably be correct. But it’s hard to square with reports that the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh) had to battle for seven or eight days before entering the city and then had to deal with a counter-offensive on the city’s outskirts. But even if true, it’s only part of the story and a small one at that.

    The real story began two months earlier when Syrian rebels launched a major offensive in Syria’s northern Idlib province with heavy backing from Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Led by Al Nusra, the local Al Qaeda affiliate, but with the full participation of U.S.-backed rebel forces, the assault proved highly successful because of the large numbers of U.S.-made optically guided TOW missiles supplied by the Saudis. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Climbing into Bed with Al-Qaeda.”]

    The missiles gave the rebels the edge they needed to destroy dozens of government tanks and other vehicles according to videos posted on social media websites. Indeed, one pro-U.S. commander told The Wall Street Journal that the TOWs completely “flipped the balance of power,” enabling the rebels to dislodge the Syrian army’s heavily dug-in forces and drive them out of town. Although the government soon counter-attacked, Al Nusra and its allies continued to advance to the point where they posed a direct threat to the Damascus regime’s stronghold in Latakia province 50 or 60 miles to the west.

    Official Washington was jubilant. “The trend lines for Assad are bad and getting worse,” a senior official crowed a month after the offensive began. The Times happily observed that “[t]he Syrian Army has suffered a string of defeats from re-energized insurgents … [which] raise newly urgent questions about the durability of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule.”

    Assad was on the ropes, or so everyone said. Indeed, ISIS thought so as well, according to the Associated Press, which is why it decided that the opportunity was ripe to launch an offensive of its own 200 miles or so to the southeast. Worn-out and depleted after four years of civil war, the Syrian Arab Army retreated before the onslaught.

    But considering the billions of dollars that the U.S. and Saudis were pouring into the rebel forces, blaming Damascus for not putting up a stiffer fight is a little like beating up a 12-year-old girl and then blaming her for not having a better right hook.

  • While ’open’ #Guardian faces financial meltdown, paywalled Times is breaking even | Press Gazette
    http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/why-financial-meltdown-guardian-could-signal-victory-19th-century-pa

    "In 2014, then Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger described The Times #paywall as a “19th century business model”, saying The Guardian’s “open” online system was “light years” better. But he said it was still difficult to say which system worked better … Tags: #presse Guardian #modèle #revenu paywall #clevermarks

  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب : Take Two : How New York Times justified the placement of Alawite civilians in cages to be used as human shields
    http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2015/11/take-two-how-new-york-times-justified.html

    Take Two: How New York Times justified the placement of Alawite civilians in cages to be used as human shields
    1) Typical of the New York Times: Alawite sect is always referred to as “Bashshar Al-Asad’s sect”, as if he is its prophet or as if he owns it. This is bigotry in the extreme and has provided justification and jubilation for war crimes by Syrian rebels. It would be disgusting anti-Semitism if one were to refer to Judaism as “the religion of Ariel Sharon” or to refer to Islam as “the religion of ISIS”.
    2) Like the HRW statement (see below) the article immediately gives readers justification of the cage war crime: “Two days after Syrian government forces shelled a rebel-held suburb of the capital, Damascus, killing at least 40 people in a market”. That is it: the reader is immediately persuaded to sympathize with the war crimes of the rebel by telling them that the Syrian regime started this. Notice that New York Times has been doing this constantly and it is a propaganda service that the New York Times has never rendered except to Israeli occupation forces. You will look in vain to find any reference to a war crime by the regime in which a sentence is inserted to remind readers of a war crime by Syrian rebels.
    3) Instead of condemning the act, the article in fact makes an effort to blatantly justifiies it and does not even refer to its practice as human shields: “apparently to shield the area from further bombardment”.
    4) Wait: how were they able to capture “army officers” with their families? The officers were on the battle fields with their families? “the prisoners were captured army officers from President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect and their families.” Another desperate attempt to provide justifications.
    5) Joshua Landis is wrong: it is not uncommon for Syrian rebels to impose Sunni-style veiling on Alawite women: “Joshua Landis, a Syria expert at the University of Oklahoma, suggested that some of the women appeared to be Sunni Muslims.”
    6) The NYT even tries to present the leader of the group which committed those war crimes in a positive light: “The Army of Islam, a group with financial backing from Saudi Arabia, is led by Zahran Alloush, a Sunni commander who seemed to back away from sectarian anti-Alawite statements in an interview with an American journalist, Roy Gutman, in May.” That is all what it takes for NYT to be convinced that he is no more anti-Alawite? I am sure that Times would have been impressed with Ribbentrop statements in Nuremberg as well.
    7) Obama’s administration is in contact with this war criminal: “Mr. Alloush, who said his faction had been in direct contact with Daniel Rubinstein, the Obama administration’s special envoy for Syria”.
    8) Another attempt by Alewives to justify indiscriminate war crimes against all Alawites: “Alawites from the Assad family have ruled Syria for decades, even though most Syrians are Sunnis.” Imagine how the NYT would be outraged if an Arab were to insert a statement about the murder of Jews by Palestinians to the effect that: “Jews have ruled Palestine since 1948”: such a reference would be categorized as anti-Semitism in a sentence about violence.
    9) Another justification in the same article for the cage war crime: “The rebel stronghold of Eastern Ghouta has been under intense bombardment since the insurgents managed to block the main northern entrance to Damascus”.
    10) They managed to even Skyped with someone to give them another justification: ““It’s to protect the civilians,” Bilal Abu Salah, a media activist from Douma, said in a Skype interview on Sunday.” And by referring to this supporter of war crimes as “media activists” they only lend his voice credibility.
    11) Then a medication justification for the cage war crime: “A paramedic from Douma who asked to be identified only by his first name, Ahmad, said the casualties of the recent strikes there “were women and kids mostly.””
    12) Another justification: “said the Sunni Islamist group had copied the strategy of using “kidnapped people — including whole families — as human shields,” seen earlier in Alawite-majority towns seeking to deter shelling by insurgents.” Where did the Times correspondent see that in Alawite-majority towns? Why not name them and provide readers with pictures?

    Excellente analyse de texte, en en l’occurrence un article du NYT, par Angry Arab. Pas suffisant malheureusement pour convaincre ceux qui s’obstinent encore à applaudir à la révolution syrienne.

    #syrie

  • Hurricane Katrina migration : Where did people go ? Where are they coming from now ? | NOLA.com

    http://www.nola.com/katrina/index.ssf/2015/08/hurricane_katrina_migration_di.html

    Voici une question qu’on a souvent évoqué sans avoir les chiffres. Les chiffres sont maintenant consolidés et les cartes établies, pour donner une image d’une décade d’exode.

    In the decade since the levees broke, the story of the Katrina diaspora has evolved into a tale of post-Katrina transplants.

    NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune has created a New Orleans migration map using Internal Revenue Service records to show where families relocated after the storm — and where new arrivals are coming from in recent years.

    #katrina #nouvelle_orléans #mississippi

  • 8月7日のツイート
    http://twilog.org/ChikuwaQ/date-150807

    Papier is out! paper.li/ChikuwaQ/13277… Stories via @mckenziewark @osmnhyk @_omr posted at 09:17:57

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    Top story: André Gunthert (...)

  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Dia Hadid of the New York Times
    http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2015/06/dia-hadid-of-new-york-times.html

    So this token Arab correspondent at the Times is allowed to cover Palestinian suffering but only when the suffering can be blamed on Palestinians themselves. That is her gig.

  • Kerry détenait jusqu’à un million de dollars de parts en gaz israélien | The Times of Israël
    http://fr.timesofisrael.com/kerry-detenait-jusqua-un-million-de-dollars-de-parts-en-gaz-israel

    Kerry détenait apparemment entre 500 000 et 1 million de dollars d’actions de Noble Energy et a vendu au moins certaines d’entre elles en 2015, lorsque la valeur a chuté.

    Le diplomate américain aurait contribué à mettre sur pied en septembre 2014 une entente entre le gouvernement jordanien et les propriétaires israéliens du champ de gaz Leviathan.

    En décembre, il a poussé le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu à signer des accords d’approvisionnement énergétique dans la région impliquant Noble, après l’échec de l’accord avec la Jordanie.

    Ennuyeux cette affaire ;-)

    #Israël #Kerry

  • ‘Assad is abandoning us to be slaughtered. To Isis, we are infidels’ | The Times
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article4468813.ece

    ‘Assad is abandoning us to be slaughtered. To Isis, we are infidels’

    La bonne vieille technique (déjà utilisée 100 fois mais ça marche toujours) : si les « révolutionnaires syriens » (si si ) avancent et massacrent, c’est de la faute à Assad, mais s’il les bombarde, il massacre son peuple et/ou est la marionnette des odieux chiites iraniens.

    Heuseusement, Zorro est là : Israël devrait se porter au secours des Druzes syriens, « pour des raisons morales » et même s’ils sont d’affreux supporters du régime. http://www.isracast.com/article.aspx?ID=1638&t=ISRAEL-SHOULD-DEFEND-DRUZE-FROM-ISIL-ONSLAUGHT-IN-S

    « Israel is facing a major moral and strategic dilemma - whether or not to defend the hundreds of thousands of Druze civilians in Syria who are now under dire threat from the relentless advance of the Islamic State. Make no mistake, the Druze are strong supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad, a bitter enemy of Israel. »

    • Ah non mais de toute façon c’est en passe d’être réglé cette histoire, le « malheureux incident » n’avait pas reçu l’aval du Front démocratique, laïque et féministe d’Al-Nosra , qui s’apprête à châtier les contrevenants : http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/929572/al-nosra-veut-sanctionner-les-coupables-de-lassassinat-de-druzes-a-id

      « Des éléments d’al-Nosra ont participé à l’incident de Qalb Lozé sans l’aval de leurs dirigeants, a expliqué le groupe jihadiste dans un communiqué. Des délégations d’al-Nosra se sont tout de suite dirigées sur place afin de constater l’état des lieux et rassurer les habitants. Nous allons sanctionner les coupables car ce qui s’est passé est une faute injustifiée et le village est sous notre protection. Les responsables seront traduits devant un tribunal religieux afin de répondre de leurs actes ».

    • Ah et puis évidemment, profitons de notre visite hebdomadaire à l’OLJ pour signaler ceci (je ne prends même pas la peine de lire...) : http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/928283/assad-veut-il-punir-les-druzes-de-syrie-.html

      Assad veut-il punir les druzes de Syrie ?

      Il semble qu’il y ait une politique délibérée de la part du régime pour encourager l’avancée des jihadistes de l’EI afin de sanctionner les druzes de Soueida pour leur manque de coopération.

    • On en parle en ce moment sur al-mayadine,

      Retired Syrian General Mobilizing the Druze of Sweida to Defend the Province
      http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/retired-syrian-general-mobilizing-the-druze-of-sweida-to-defend-the-pr

      Over the last five days, General Al-‘Aaql has been able to recruit 6,000 men and women to join his National Defense Forces unit that was specifically formed to protect the province from the Islamist rebels and the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) in the northeastern countryside of Al-Sweida.

      Reports of more civilians joining the ranks of General Nayaf’s civil defense unit have begun to surface on Sunday, as throngs of supporters have chosen to stand their ground in the face of looming danger.

  • Top US official says Iran has met interim obligations | The Times of Israel
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/top-us-official-says-iran-has-met-interim-obligations

    Deputy secretary of state tells Jewish group that many concerns about the emerging nuclear deal are ‘more myth than fact’

    La pub pour les Nike, c’est gratis ?

  • Adelson organise une réunion pour endiguer la marée BDS sur les campus | The Times of Israël
    http://fr.timesofisrael.com/adelson-organise-une-reunion-pour-endiguer-la-maree-bds-sur-les-ca

    Sheldon Adelson sera l’hôte d’une réunion privée de philanthropes et d’organisations juifs à Las Vegas destinée à contrer la hausse de l’activité anti-Israélienne sur les campus universitaires.

    La réunion pour trouver des idées et des stratégies de fond aura lieu ce week-end au casino Venetian Adelson, a indiqué Forward. Aux côtés d’Adelson, on retrouvera le magnat du divertissement d’Hollywood, Haim Saban, le promoteur immobilier israélien, Adam Milstein, et la femme d’affaires canadienne, Heather Reisman.

    Parmi les organisations juives qui ont été invitées, il y a Hillel, StandWithUs, l’Anti-Defamation League et les Fédérations juives d’Amérique du Nord. Le groupe JStreet U, qui se décrit lui-même comme « pro-Israël et pro-paix » et qui s’oppose au mouvement de Boycott, Désinvestissement et Sanctions, n’a pas été invité.

    Les philanthropes ont organisé la réunion alors que l’influence de BDS croît sur les campus.

    Dans la dernière année, les conseils des étudiants de 15 universités américaines ont adopté des résolutions appelant leurs écoles à se désinvestir de compagnies jugées comme étant complices de l’occupation par Israël des Territoire palestiniens.

    Saban, un milliardaire qui a des liens étroits avec la candidate démocrate à la présidentielle Hillary Clinton, continue d’aborder le sujet depuis plus d’un an avec les responsables israéliens comme Michael Oren, l’ancien ambassadeur aux États-Unis qui est aujourd’hui un membre de la Knesset (sous les couleurs de Koulanou), selon Forward.

    #BDS

  • 10,000 Arabs driven out by Kurd ethnic cleansing | The Times
    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article4456567.ece

    Thousands of civilians have fled their homes in northern Syria as Kurdish forces carry out what appears to be a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Sunni Arabs.

    A source from one of the largest humanitarian organisations working inside Syria told The Times that the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) — the West’s closest allies in the war against Islamic State — have been burning Arab villages in areas of northeastern Syria that are under their control.

  • The Power of Maps - Part Two

    http://www.timesatlas.com/category/The+Power+of+Maps+-+Part+Two

    In 1973 Peters called for a ‘new cartography’ to challenge what he regarded as neo-imperialist world mappings, noting the importance of showing continents in their true size relative to each other, to ensure the developing world was treated fairly. To make his point he inevitably contrasted his equal-area map with those based on the standard Mercator projection – which greatly exaggerates the size of land masses in the higher latitudes, at the expense of those in the tropical regions, home to the majority of developing countries – and rejected the use of other equal-area maps which used curved lines of longitude. His projection certainly draws attention to the global ‘South’, specifically Africa, due to the distinctive shapes given to the continents. However, it has almost invariably been published with Europe as top-centre and cannot really be said to subvert hegemonic representations. Despite the fact that the projection was not particularly innovative (being just one of a family of equal-area maps), Peters managed to convince many charities and even the United Nations to adopt it as the politically correct map for development education.

    #cartographie #atlas #projections #pouvoir

    • Et bien sur :

      The Power of Maps - Part One

      http://www.timesatlas.com/category/The+Power+of+Maps+Part+One

      The Power of Maps - Part One

      Published 23rd April 2015 by The Times Atlas

      Maps are an extremely powerful form of graphic representation. Maps define territory – they tell of ownership and dominion, they marshal spatial information. They can also subvert and propagate alternative world-views. All maps serve an interest and work through two main forms of power.

      First, the external power of their creators, often governments or their agents, who control the content of maps both in terms of what is included and what is withheld, and thereby broadcast a particular viewpoint. Second, the internal power of maps themselves – the perception of maps as precise, objective and accurate representations of reality which convey an image of geographical order.

      Maps are still regarded by many people as dispassionate representations of the external world. However, this has been challenged in recent decades as their political and cultural connotations are revealed and become more widely understood.

  • Birds have fundamental rights, can’t be kept in cages: HC - The Times of India
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Birds-have-fundamental-rights-cant-be-kept-in-cages-HC/articleshow/47314976.cms

    Birds have the fundamental right to “live with dignity” and fly in the sky without being kept in cages or subjected to cruelty, Delhi High Court has said while holding that running their trade was a “violation of their rights”.

    Justice Manmohan Singh expressed anguish that instead of being allowed to fly free, they were “exported illegally to foreign countries without availability of proper food, water or medical aid”.

    “I am clear in mind that all the birds have fundamental rights to fly in the sky and all human beings have no right to keep them in small cages for the purposes of their business or otherwise,” the judge said.

    #oiseaux #droit_de_voler_dans_le_ciel #Inde

  • Israel’s secret weapon in the war against Hezbollah: The New York Times -
    Israel is turning to the media and diplomacy to head off an almost inevitable new round of confrontation with Hezbollah. Its message: Israel won’t be able to avoid attacks on Lebanon’s civilians so long as the Shi’ite militias use them as human shields.
    By Amos Harel | May 15, 2015 | | Haaretz
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.656516

    In a prominent article on Wednesday, The New York Times reported detailed Israeli allegations about Hezbollah’s military deployment in Shi’ite villages in southern Lebanon. The paper cited a briefing by Israeli military officials as its source, added an evasive response from “a Hezbollah sympathizer in Lebanon,” and noted that the Israeli claims “could not be independently verified.”

    The Times cited data, maps and aerial photographs provided by the Israel Defense Forces in regard to two neighboring villages, Muhaybib and Shaqra, in the central sector of southern Lebanon. The former, according to Israeli military intelligence, houses “nine arms depots, five rocket-launching sites, four infantry positions, signs of three underground tunnels, three antitank positions and, in the very center of the village, a Hezbollah command post” – all in a village of no more than 90 homes. In the latter village, with a population of 4,000, the IDF claims to have identified no fewer than 400 Hezbollah-related military sites.

    Throughout southern Lebanon, Israel has identified thousands of Hezbollah facilities that could be targeted by Israel, according to the report by Isabel Kershner.

    Israel, Kershner writes, is preparing for what it views as “an almost inevitable next battle with Hezbollah.” According to the IDF, Hezbollah has significantly built up its firepower and destructive capability, and has put in place extensive operational infrastructure in the Shi’ite villages of southern Lebanon – a move which, Israel says, “amounts to using the civilians as a human shield.”

    Although Kershner’s Israeli interlocutors don’t claim to know when or under what specific circumstances war will erupt, they pull no punches about its likely consequences. In such a war, the Times report says, the IDF will not hesitate to attack targets in a civilian setting, with the result that many Lebanese noncombatants will be killed. That will not be Israel’s fault, an unnamed “senior Israeli military official” says, because “the civilians are living in a military compound.” Israel “will hit Hezbollah hard,” and make “every effort to limit civilian casualties,” the military official said. However, Israel does “not intend to stand by helplessly in the face of rocket attacks.”

    The Times reports that Hezbollah, as part of the lessons it drew in the Second Lebanon War, in 2006, moved its “nature reserves” – its military outposts in the south – from open farmland into the heart of the Shi’ite villages that lie close to the border with Israel. That in itself is old news; Hezbollah began redeploying along these lines immediately after the 2006 war (as reported in Haaretz in July 2007.

    In July 2010, Israel presented similar data to the local and foreign media, which revealed in great detail Hezbollah’s military infrastructure in southern Lebanon. The village that was singled out then was Al-Hiyam.

    On all these occasions, Israel made it clear that in the event of a war it would have to operate in the villages, and that civilians would inevitably be harmed. In the current incarnation of warnings, as conveyed in this week’s Times report, the potential consequences of the situation are noted by two former senior officials of the defense establishment.

    Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, a former director of Military Intelligence, is quoted as saying that the residents of villages in southern Lebanon do not have full immunity if they live close to military targets. Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, formerly head of the National Security Council, asks why the international community is doing nothing to prevent Hezbollah’s arms buildup. A few years ago, at the instruction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Amidror, as head of the NSC, presented similar aerial photographs and maps from Lebanon to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

    Why again now?

    The question is: Why again now? The IDF says that the briefing by the senior officer, together with the information provided to the Times, is intended to reinforce the ongoing Israeli messages to Hezbollah and to the international community. The essence of those messages is that Hezbollah is continuing to violate UN Security Council Resolution 1701 by smuggling increasing quantities of arms into Lebanese territory and by deploying its forces south of the Litani River; that Hezbollah’s military infrastructure is an open book to Israeli intelligence and that the IDF can inflict serious damage on it when needed; and that, because Hezbollah chooses to shelter among a civilian population, strikes at its military targets will entail the non-deliberate killing of innocent persons.

    An additional explanation for why these points were emphasized in the briefing to the Times lies in the spirit being dictated to the IDF by the new chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot. In his view, the army’s mission, under his leadership, is “to distance war.” This involves preparing the IDF as thoroughly as possible for the next possible confrontation – alongside an active effort, in the sphere of public diplomacy and to a degree even in the state-policy realm, to prevent war. This is the reason for the frequent emphasis on training as the IDF’s first priority, following a lengthy period of compromises and budget cuts in that sphere. Recent weeks have seen a fairly extensive series of training exercises by the ground forces, a trend that is slated to continue in the months ahead.

    Proper management of the daily risks to Israel, most of which stem from possible indirect consequences of the region’s chronic instability, could reduce the danger of an all-out war. At the same time, a higher level of fitness and readiness displayed by the IDF could help deter Hezbollah – at present, the most dangerous and best-trained enemy Israel faces – from setting in motion a deterioration of the situation that would lead to war.

    Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon also hinted at this, in a talk he gave at a meeting of officials from regional councils on Tuesday. Ya’alon warned that “Israel could unite all the forces in the region against it, if it acts incorrectly.” Israel’s approach, he said, consists of “surgical behavior based on red lines, and those who cross them know we will act.” Those lines include “violation of sovereignty on the Golan Heights, the transfer of certain weapons.”

    Israel is apparently deeply concerned by Hezbollah’s effort to improve the accuracy of its rockets. The organization has in its possession vast numbers of missiles and rockets – 130,000, according to the latest estimates – but upgrading its capability is dependent on improving the weapons’ accuracy, which would enable Hezbollah to strike effectively at specific targets, including air force-base runways and power stations.

    “There are some things for which we take responsibility and others for which we don’t, but we do not intervene in internal conflicts unless our red lines are crossed,” Ya’alon reiterated. In other words: Israel is upset at the smuggling of weapons by the Assad regime in Syria to Hezbollah, but understands that launching a lengthy, systematic series of attacks is liable to affect the delicate balance in the north, generate a confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah, and, as a consequence, foment a change in the civil war in Syria. Israel does not wish to see any such change, preferring a continuation of the status quo.

    Ratcheting up the risk

    In recent weeks, the Arab media have been flooded with reports and conjectures about the imminent fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Israeli intelligence is voicing more cautious appraisals, to the effect that the war in Syria has not yet been decided. If the regime does fall, it’s likely that Hezbollah will greatly step up its efforts to smuggle out from Syria the advanced weapons systems that remain in its hands there. That scenario would ratchet up immensely the risk of a confrontation with Israel, as the latter is likely to launch a broad effort to disrupt the smuggling efforts, while Syrian rebel organizations intensify their pressure on Hezbollah and the Assad camp.

    In any event, even without the war in Syria being decided, it’s clear that a confrontation of tremendous intensity is under way, in which all the parties involved are making immense efforts, and that the clash of the blocs in the Arab world over Syria, Lebanon and also in Yemen is overshadowing other issues, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that appeared so central in the past.

    Israel is not alone in having to walk a thin line in the north. Hezbollah, too, is obliged to preserve a deterrent image: outwardly, in order to ensure that Israel does not act as it pleases in its backyard (which is apparently how Hezbollah perceived several assassinations and attacks on convoys that it attributed to Israel); and inwardly, to rebuff criticism within Lebanon that it is an emissary of Iran and is involving Lebanon needlessly in the war in Syria.

    An occasional terrorist attack of limited scope, on the Golan Heights or in the Har Dov area near the Lebanese border, could serve its purposes. Nor is it certain that, from Hezbollah’s point of view, accounts have been settled regarding the events on the Golan Heights in January, when six Hezbollah personnel and an Iranian general were killed in an attack on a convoy that was attributed to Israel. Ten days later, an officer and a soldier from the IDF’s Givati infantry brigade were killed in the Har Dov area when their vehicle was struck by antitank missiles during a Hezbollah ambush.

    Nevertheless, Israel is now a secondary front for Hezbollah. The organization’s main force is deployed in Syria, particularly in the fighting in the Kalamun Hills, on the border with Lebanon. Dozens of combatants from both sides are being killed there every day in battles being fought by the Syrian army and Hezbollah against the organizations of Sunni rebels. Even though Hezbollah tried to conceal its losses in Syria (the IDF estimates that more than 600 of its personnel have been killed), the casualty rate is now probably too high to keep secret.

    Last week, a mass funeral was held in Beirut for Hezbollah fighters who have been killed in the Kalamun battles, among them, according to reports, a colonel. The Arab media are describing the campaign there as “battles of retreat and advance”: one step forward, two steps back. The two sides are deployed on adjacent ridges, and at this stage, neither is apparently able to gain a significant advantage.

    The fighting at Kalamun, an important area because it is a corridor for the transfer of reinforcements and arms between the Assad regime and Hezbollah, is only a small part of the overall picture in Syria. Most of the attention lately has been devoted to the decline in Assad’s status and to speculation that he will ultimately have to flee Damascus under rebel pressure, and focus on defending the Alawite region in the north of the country. Concurrently, however, another important process is taking place. Iran is now the salient master of the Assad camp and is dictating the military strategy of the gradually collapsing regime.

    Together with thousands of fighters from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and from Hezbollah, tens of thousands of members of Shi’ite militias are pouring into Syria to take part in the religious war against the Sunnis. Those combatants are more likely to heed the Iranian Guards than the Assad regime, which is rapidly losing its reserves of potential soldiers from among the Syrian population.

    There’s an extra benefit here for Iran: Its involvement in the fighting affords it a presence in the northern Golan Heights, creating a type of border with Israel by means of which it can take action against Israeli targets.

    In the civil war in Syria, Hezbollah is the spearhead of the Shi’ite armies, and Iran’s behavior is disturbing to all the Sunni Arab states. So much so that even U.S. President Barack Obama, when opening the conference of leaders of Persian Gulf states that he convened this week at Camp David, lashed out at Iran for the negative role it is playing in the wars in the Middle East.

    #propagande #hasbara

  • Hamas, beholden to Iran, lets Shiite group operate in Gaza: For the first time, a Shiite Islamist movement began operating in the Gaza Strip last month, with full Iranian sponsorship, The Times of Israel has learned. The movement is named “A-Sabrin” — from the Arabic word for patience. A-Sabrin runs several Shiite charity organizations, which benefit from full Iranian support and encourage the spread of Shiite Islam. The presence of such a movement in the Gaza Strip is unheard-of, as is the fact that the Sunni Hamas movement – apparently due to the financial support it receives from Shiite Iran — has been tolerating its presence. Still, the number of Palestinian Muslims, the vast majority of whom are Sunnis, to convert has been limited. (While there have been Sunni families from Bethlehem in the West Bank who converted to Shiite Islam, it a highly unusual occurrence in the Strip.) The Times of Israel has obtained photographs documenting the charitable works of some of A-Sabrin’s organizations. Signs hanging in the background clearly show the name of Iran’s late supreme leader, ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and reference the 1979 Islamic Revolution. One of the signs reads, “Congratulations to the Iran-Jerusalem axis.” (Time of Israel)

    • en fait, il s’agit d’un groupe né en 2012 : l’essentiel de ses membres sont des anciens du Mouvement du Jihad islamique en Palestine. Le Hamas, contrairement à la version du Times of Israël, n’a pas vraiment de responsabilités, ni de près ni de loin, dans sa création... le mouvement reste vraiment minuscule, par ailleurs...