Les Israéliens avaient annoncé un gel des constructions en Cisjordanie ? Eh ben non !
Report : Israel approves new settler homes in West Bank | Maan News Agency
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=593668
Les Israéliens avaient annoncé un gel des constructions en Cisjordanie ? Eh ben non !
Report : Israel approves new settler homes in West Bank | Maan News Agency
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=593668
How a German Elementary School Taught Sex Ed [Graphic] - Lindsay Abrams - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/how-a-german-elementary-school-taught-sex-ed-graphic/275344
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Actual studies have proven that six-year-olds’ imaginations can be just as graphic as the images in Wo kommst du her?, only less anatomically accurate:
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/food/wajs_a_650970_o_f0002g.jpg
That’s from a 2012 study that asked children in the U.S., the Netherlands, England, and Sweden to draw pictures explaining where babies come from. The Dutch boy who drew the above picture did better than most — American kids got nowhere near as close to understanding what was going on, and invariably invoked God in their explanations. One U.S. boy said, “I think [babies] are made by a mom and a dad, but I am not sure how; maybe during special time when they are alone.”
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Fi Blog | USAToday.com: Redesigning One of America’s Most Popular News Sites
http://blog.f-i.com/usatoday-com-redesigning-one-of-americas-most-popular-news-site
This is the story behind Fi’s re-imagination of how news content is consumed on the web.
Australian Report on Israel’s ’Prisoner X’ Suggests Melbourne Man Was Mossad Agent - NYTimes.com
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/australian-report-on-israels-prisoner-x-suggests-melbourne-man-was-mossad-agent/?smid=tw-share
Last Updated, 2:53 p.m. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday that a man referred to in Israel as “Prisoner X,” who was jailed and died under mysterious circumstances in 2010, might have been an Australian-born Israeli who worked for Israel’s secret service, the Mossad.
According to the ABC, an unnamed source “with connections to Israel’s security establishment” claimed that the prisoner — whose detention and suicide at the high-security Ayalon Prison outside Tel Aviv was briefly reported on an Israeli news site in December 2010 despite a gag order — was named Ben Alon. That same month, the network reported, a man from suburban Melbourne, Ben Zygier, who had emigrated to Israel 12 years ago and changed his name to Ben Alon, died in Israel.
Although the Australian state broadcaster published video and a complete transcript of the 28-minute report online, Israeli news sites removed articles describing the ABC investigation after editors were summoned to an emergency meeting by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, Reuters reported.
via Ayman Mohyeldin https://twitter.com/AymanM/status/301421111223152640
Israel censors its Media over Australian Report on ’Prisoner X’ That Suggests Melbourne Man Was Mossad Agent http://nyti.ms/WHbmIR But why?
Prisonnier X, le détenu secret qui embarrasse Israël
http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20130212.OBS8645/prisonnier-x-le-detenu-secret-qui-embarrasse-israel.html
Selon l’enquête réalisée par Trevor Borman pour l’émission Foreign Correspondent, Ben Zieger était issu d’une famille connue de la communauté juive de Melbourne, en Australie. « Monté » en Israël au début des années 2000, alors qu’il était âgé d’une vingtaine d’années, il aurait été recruté par le Mossad. Marié en 2006 à une Israélienne et père de deux enfants, il vivait à Raanana, dans le centre du pays, non loin de l’état-major des services secrets israéliens.
En avril 2010, il aurait été incarcéré, révèle ABC, à la prison de haute sécurité de Ayalon, près de Tel Aviv, pour un motif inconnu. Mais le régime de confidentialité exceptionnel auquel il était soumis ne se justifierait, selon les experts interrogés par la télévision australienne, que pour trahison au bénéfice d’une puissance étrangère. Il était ainsi incarcérée dans la cellule n°15, construite pour accueillir Yigal Amir, l’assassin d’Itz’hak Rabbin, et véritable prison à l’intérieur de la prison. Surveillé en permanence et « hermétiquement » isolé des autres détenus ainsi que du monde extérieur, il était une énigme, y compris pour ses gardiens qui ignoraient son identité. C’est là qu’il aurait été retrouvé pendu, en décembre 2010, après s’être semble-t-il suicidé. Le 22 décembre 2010, son corps avait été rapatrié en Australie pour être enterré dans le cimetière juif de Melbourne.
Polémique en Israël autour du mystérieux suicide d’un détenu australien
http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/%C3%80+La+Une/article/800625/Polemique_en_Israel_autour_du_mysterieux_suicide_dun_detenu_australie
En Australie, le chef de la diplomatie Bob Carr a ordonné un examen de l’affaire. Il a affirmé qu’il n’hésiterait pas à demander des explications à Israël « sur ce qui s’est passé » tout en précisant que ses services n’avaient pas été contactés par la famille de Ben Zygier et qu’il n’y avait eu « aucune demande d’assistance consulaire durant la période de sa détention présumée ».
Israël confirme avoir détenu un étranger pour des raisons sécuritaires
http://www.romandie.com/news/n/_Israel_confirme_avoir_detenu_un_etranger_pour_des_raisons_securitaires_29
Les procédures concernant le prisonnier ont été suivies par les plus hautes autorités au ministère de la Justice, et ses droits individuels ont été respectés conformément à la loi, conclut le communiqué.
Israël : la polémique enfle après la mort mystérieuse d’un prisonnier australien
par RFI, De notre correspondant à Jérusalem, Michel Paul
http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20130214-israel-polemique-enfle-apres-mort-mysterieuse-prisonnier-australien-ben
Il existe trois façons d’empêcher la publication d’informations en Israël. Deux remontent au mandat britannique, donc bien avant la création même de l’Etat hébreu : la censure militaire et la commission des rédacteurs en chef. La troisième, plus contemporaine, consiste à demander au tribunal l’interdiction pure et simple d’une publication. Ce que l’on appelle en droit anglo-saxon le gag order. Mardi 12 février, ce sont les trois systèmes qui ont été combinés. Le but était d’empêcher de parler du fameux prisonnier X, Ben Zygier. Et c’est l’effet contraire qui a été obtenu.
Israël : l’avocat abasourdi quand il a appris la mort du prisonnier X
http://www.romandie.com/news/n/_Israel_l_avocat_abasourdi_quand_il_a_appris_la_mort_du_prisonnier_X_RP_14 ?
EILAT (Israël) - L’avocat du mystérieux prisonnier israélo-australien incarcéré pour des raisons de sécurité en Israël en 2010 a déclaré jeudi à l’AFP qu’il avait été abasourdi lorsqu’il avait appris la mort du détenu après l’avoir rencontré la veille de son décès.
A aucun moment, durant toute la conversation, je n’ai eu l’impression qu’il s’agissait d’une personne qui était sur le point de se supprimer, a témoigné Avigdor Feldman, un avocat spécialiste des droits de l’Homme, dans un entretien avec l’AFP à Eilat (sud d’Israël).
Je dois dire que j’ai été abasourdi quand j’ai appris (sa mort), a-t-il souligné.
J’ai rencontré (...) un homme émotionnellement stable, a ajouté l’avocat en précisant que le détenu était alors confronté à un choix cornélien entre négocier une peine —soit un certain nombre d’années en prison— ou bien continuer à se défendre lors d’un procès difficile qui, en cas de culpabilité, aurait pu aboutir aussi à une détention prolongée.
Ben Zygier aurait (voulu) révélé la manière dont le Mossad utilise les passeports étrangers (et a pu être suicidé) http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/15/183294/ben-zygier-israels-prisoner-x.html
In late 2009, it appeared that Zygier was on the verge of disclosing secrets about Israel’s use of dual nationals in its spy operations.
He “may well have been about to blow the whistle, but he never got the chance," Fairfax Media reported, quoting what it described as an Australian security official with knowledge of the case. Fairfax publishes Australia’s two largest newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age..
After a visit to Australia, Zygier was arrested in Israel in February 2010. Australian newspapers have reported that Israel informed Australia’s secret service of the arrest on Feb. 24, 2010, eight days after Dubai police revealed that Mossad agents had used foreign passports – including Australian and British – to enter Dubai and assassinate a leading official of the Hamas movement, Mahmoud al Mabhouh.
One Israeli official familiar with the case, who spoke to McClatchy on the condition that he not be identified because of the gag order, confirmed that Zygier had intended to reveal sensitive details about the Mossad’s use of foreign passports that would have harmed Israel’s diplomatic relations with Western countries.
“Its unclear how far he went and therefore what the crimes were that he is being accused of committing,” he said.
The official version of Zygier’s death – that he hanged himself in his cell on Dec. 15, 2010 – is being greeted with widespread skepticism as details about his life become known.
A quoi sert la pagination sur le web ?
►http://www.internetactu.net/2012/10/22/a-quoi-sert-la-pagination-sur-le-web
Stop Pagination Now
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/10/website_pagination_stories_should_load_into_a_single_page_every_time_.single.
“La pagination”, écrit Farahad Manjoo, “est, en termes de design et d’usage, le pire péché sur le Web. Elle est la preuve d’un mépris constant et silencieux pour ceux qui devraient être la cible privilégiée des sites d’informations : à savoir les gens qui veulent les articles jusqu’au bout. La pagination persiste parce que diviser un article en deux pages peut, en théorie, doubler la place pour les publicités. Alors qu’en pratique, la plupart des lecteurs ne cliquent jamais sur la deuxième page. La pratique de la pagination est devenue tellement courante qu’on a l’impression qu’elle a toujours été la norme sur le Web.”
Or c’est faux, rappelle Manjoo. “Les premiers sites d’information ne paginaient pas, et cette pratique est vieille d’à peine dix ans, répondant à la pression de l’industrie publicitaire. Et il pourrait en être autrement, et d’ailleurs, quelques-unes des publications les plus intéressantes et les plus lues, comme BuzzFeed ou the Verge, s’en passent très bien.”
+ Je découvre ce qu’est un first world problem : http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/first-world-problems
#tout_a_fait_d_accord #design #web #lisibilité #first_world_problem
Iran accuses Siemens of selling sabotaged nuclear equipment
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/iran-accuses-siemens-selling-sabotaged-nuclear-equipment
Iranian MP Aladin Borujerdi has accused the German firm Siemens of having sold Iran nuclear equipment rigged with mini-explosives, which were allegedly discovered and removed by the Iranians, Press TV reported on Sunday.
Borujerdi, who chairs the parliamentary national security and foreign policy commission, made the allegation in an interview with parliament’s ICANA news site.
Siemens : des terminaux piégés en Iran ?
http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/2012/09/23/97002-20120923FILWWW00089-siemens-des-terminaux-pieges-en-iran.php
Un influent député iranien, Alaeddine Boroujerdi, a accusé le géant industriel allemand Siemens d’avoir vendu à son pays des équipements munis de mini-explosifs qui ont été repérés par les services secrets iraniens et retirés.
Interrogé par l’AFP, un porte-parole de Siemens, Alexander Machowetz, a catégoriquement démenti ces accusations, affirmant : « Siemens n’entretient aucune relation commerciale en lien avec le programme nucléaire iranien et ne livre aucun équipement à cet effet ». Il n’y a donc eu « aucune livraison » qui aurait pu être piégée.
Alaeddine Boroujerdi, qui préside la commission parlementaire de la Sécurité nationale et des Affaires étrangères, a porté cette accusation lors d’un entretien avec le site d’informations du Parlement Icana.
« Les services de renseignements et de sécurité ont découvert des explosifs dans les équipements qui nous avaient été fournis pour nos activités nucléaires », a-t-il affirmé. Les charges « devaient exploser (...) pour perturber l’ensemble du système. Mais, des experts iraniens ont réduit à néant le complot de l’ennemi », a-t-il affirmé à Icana. « L’entreprise Siemens, qui a fourni cet équipement, devra répondre de cette action », a-t-il martelé. La chaîne iranienne Press TV a fait état de cette accusation.
U.S. journalist attacks Lebanon-based news site for pro-Assad slant
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/06/22/221982.html
Max Blumenthal publicly announced that he would no longer contribute to Al Akhbar English, accusing the news site of “defending the Syrian regime behind the cover of leftist ideology,” in a blog entry he wrote on his own website on Wednesday.
The journalist referred to “pro-regime op-eds” recently published on the site and writers who have “thrown their weight behind [Syrian President Bashar] al-Assad’s campaign of brutality.”
Blumenthal wrote that Al Akhbar English had recently featured “an attack on Arab Third Wayers (supporters of the anti-imperialist, anti-authoritarian political tendency)” in a recent opinion piece, which he deemed to be in line with the “Syrian regime’s long record of exploiting the Palestinian struggle to advance its narrow self-interests.”
The right to resist is universal: A farewell to Al Akhbar and Assad’s apologists
http://maxblumenthal.com/2012/06/the-right-to-resist-is-universal-a-farewell-to-al-akhbar-and-assads-a
Following her vehement defense of the Syrian dictator’s use of surgery metaphors to refer to his security forces’ brutal crackdowns, Al Akhbar English featured Ghorayeb’s daftest work to date: an attack on Arab Third Wayers (supporters of the anti-imperialist, anti-authoritarian political tendency) in which she asserted that “the real litmus of Arab intellectuals’ and activists’ commitment to the Palestinian cause is no longer their support for Palestinian rights, but rather, their support for the Assad leadership’s struggle against the imperialist-Zionist-Arab moderate axis’ onslaught against it.”
Ghorayeb’s rant, rightly condemned by As’ad Abu Khalil as an “outrage,” was of a piece with the Syrian regime’s long record of exploiting the Palestinian struggle to advance its narrow self-interests. For me, it was the final straw. Had Al Akhbar’s editorial leadership provided a platform to Ghorayeb and other apologists because of the quality of their writing or because of their willingness to defend the regime behind the cover of leftist ideology? This had become a salient question.
I was forced to conclude that unless I was prepared to spend endless stores of energy jousting with Assad apologists, I was merely providing them cover by keeping my name and reputation associated with Al Akhbar. More importantly, I decided that if I kept quiet any longer, I would be betraying my principles and those of the people who have encouraged and inspired me over the years. There is simply no excuse for me to remain involved for another day with such a morally compromised outlet. And so, instead of preparing to throw up in my own mouth each time I click on one of the pro-regime op-eds appearing with regularity on Al Akhbar English’s home page, I am washing my hands of the whole operation.
The Angry Arab News Service: Enough grandstanding on the Syrian question: Al-Akhbar English versus Aljazeera.net
http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2012/06/enough-grandstanding-on-syrian-question.html
PS In other words, AlAkhbar (accused of a pro-Asad slant) publishes articles calling for Asad’s downfall. When the Arab oil and gas media call for the downfall of the Saudi or Qatari royal regimes, we can talk, or when the Western liberal media, like the Nation, dare publish an article calling for the demise of Israel.
Al-Akhbar and Syria: No Room for Silence
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/al-akhbar-and-syria-no-room-silence
Media organizations, including Al-Akhbar, failed to deliver proper journalistic coverage of Syria. Unreliable sources, inaccessibility of troubled areas and many other factors may be used to rationalize this shortcoming. While the debate regarding a clear editorial line was ongoing, the publication that prides itself on doing things differently found itself partner in a collective media failure in dealing with Syria.
Fifteen months into the events, Al-Akhbar’s editorial policy is that it stands for the basic rights of the Syrian people, for a united and free Syria, and against violence, hatred, destruction and civil unrest. The Syrians must have full sovereignty in deciding their political path without any foreign interference. All crimes should be investigated and all perpetrators, irrespective of their positions, should be held accountable by an independent judicial authority. This applies to all without exception.
However, the collective media failure has laid the groundwork for a situation that is dire in Syria, where only absolutes are tolerated – an absolute crushing of an uprising, or a complete destruction of a regime. Clarity is sought in the most murky of environments. But absolute answers do not exist. Just like there is no black and white in Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and other places, the political landscape in Syria is also painted with shades of gray.
Bashar al-Assad shouldn’t go today. Bashar al-Assad should have never been president. After all, countries are not personal assets that are passed on as inheritance.
Theory is simple and beautiful and can even be principled – reality, not so much
Media restrictions and Al-Akhbar
http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2012/06/media-restrictions-and-al-akhbar.html
Max, I noticed, did not complain at all about censorship because I believe he has the freedom to write what he wanted: I believe that this is the strength of Al-Akhbar in relative terms: editorial control is most lax compared to all Arab media and even to Western media. There are articles in Al-Akhbar Arabic and English that are very critical of the Syrian regime and that call for its overthrow. […] But if Max is unhappy to write alongside people who support the Syrian regime (with whom I disagree of course), how will he feel about writing for, say, Huffington Post where there are apologists for Israeli war crimes? Or for Aljazeera.net? In the Huffington Post Max is writing alongside Abe Foxman, for potato’s sake. Does that bother him? […] Al-Akhbar is a work in progress and our efforts can strengthen the project. It is a least centralized media that I know of and departments are quite independent (sometimes that is good and sometimes that is not but it is not tightly controlled like most Arab media). […] There are yet things in the paper that I don’t like: on Syria or on Lebanon but what is important (and here is something that Max may not see because he does not read Arabic) is that the paper is pioneering on secularism and on challenging religious authorities (Sunnis and Shi`ite and Christian and even published an article about corruption of Hizbullah clerics). The culture section is promoting sexual liberties and homosexual rights: no other Arab media—NONE—dare do that. If there is a freer and better alternative to Al-Akhbar, I don’t know it because there is none.
Tunisian Jews Respond to Silvan Shalom’s Post Arab Spring Call for Them to Immigrate to Israel : Tunisia Live (via @angryarab)
http://www.tunisia-live.net/2011/12/08/tunisian-jews-respond-to-silvan-shaloms-post-arab-spring-call-for-them
Some members of Tunisia’s small Jewish community have responded after Israeli Vice-Prime Minister Silvan Shalom made another call on the Tunisian Jewish community to immigrate to Israel, this time in a Jerusalem ceremony in honor of Tunisian victims of the holocaust on December 7th.
According to the Tunisian news site “Business News” the Gabes, Tunisia born Israeli Vice-Prime Minister said, “I call on the Jews living in Tunisia to come and live in Israel as soon as possible.” But getting the nearly 1,800 strong Tunisian Jewish community to “make aliyah” or immigrate to Israel may not be an easy task for Shalom for now.
The owner of La Goulette’s Kosher restaurant, Mame Lilly, and former Constituent Assembly candidate Jacob Lellouche insisted that to him, Shalom’s comments were shallow. “Silvan can say whatever he wants. I am Tunisian, this is my country. I will stay here. Silvan can not tell me where to live.”
He added that the only fear he had of the Islamists currently in Tunisia’s government was that they would not succeed in improving Tunisia’s situation. “I fear for Islamists that god will turn against them,” he joked with a tint of sarcasm.
Avraham Chiche, is the director of the Jewish Old Age home in La Goulette. His family immigrated to Tunisia over 500 years ago from Spain during the Spanish inquisition. Chiche feels that Shalom’s comments have been political and he has no plans to leave Tunisia.
“Silvan Shalom needs to mind his own business and let us choose to live where we want to live, instead of making publicity statements for Israel,” said Chiche.
Une autre affaire de fausse blogueuse arabe.
Twitter investigation uncovers another Middle East hoax
http://thenextweb.com/me/2011/08/02/twitter-investigation-uncovers-another-middle-east-hoax/?awesm=tnw.to_1ADbJ
So who is Liliane Khalil? According to the report she has gone by the names Victoria Nasr, Gisele Mizrahi, Gisele Azrahi, Victoria Khedouri, and of course Gisele Cohen’s name has been thrown into the mix. The investigation is ongoing, and is attracting attention on Twitter, under the hashtag, LilianeKhalil.
(Je rappelle à tout hasard que malgré mon pseudonyme arabe, je suis français et je vis à Paris.)
New Statesman - How Israel’s left is missing the point
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/07/israel-law-palestinian-state
Where is the outrage over a law that was greeted by the right-wing news site Israel National News with the headline: “Cabinet Extends Measure Preventing ’Invasion by Marriage’”? Why, for Avnery and others, is the anti-boycott law — and not the legally-sanctioned separation of Palestinian spouses — the final straw? The key difference seems to be that the former will affect Jewish Israelis.
The ban on family unification is just one example, of course — Israel’s "vibrant democracy’"has long meant something rather different for Palestinians. But its renewal at the same time as the anti-boycott law dominated the headlines highlights the problematic politics of a mainstream Israeli left that seems more invigorated by a perceived urgency to “save Zionism” (i.e. through two-state ethnic separation) than by a fight against colonial occupation.
Voir mon commentaire de la semaine dernière :
http://seenthis.net/messages/28546
What newsrooms can learn from tech startups - 10,000 Words
http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/what-newsrooms-can-learn-from-tech-startups_b2585
quelques idées pas con
News as software