person:mehdi hasan

Mehdi Hasan sur Twitter : “1) it’s not a border, 2) #Gaza is occupied territory according to international law 3) it’s 10-20 people trying to ‘breach’, not 40,000 4) they seem to have stones not grenades (!) 5) why do you keep shooting people in press jackets & medical white coats far away from the fence? ▻https://t.co/a0bK0lGLcv” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1112030200299175941

#sionisme #impunité

La liste des motifs de destitution de Trump s’écrit toute seule, rappelant de plus en plus le cas Richard Nixon. Par Mehdi Hasan
▻https://www.les-crises.fr/la-liste-des-motifs-de-destitution-de-trump-secrit-toute-seule-rappelant-

Il y a eu une caricature récemment qui disait quelque chose du genre : « il faut expulser les immigrés, sinon les gens voteront pour des fachos qui expulseront les immigrés ». Aujourd’hui in real life, la candidate qu’elle aurait été drôlement mieux que Trump : Hillary Clinton : Europe must curb immigration to stop rightwing populist
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/hillary-clinton-europe-must-curb-immigration-stop-populists-trump-brexi

Europe must get a handle on immigration to combat a growing threat from rightwing populists, Hillary Clinton has said, calling on the continent’s leaders to send out a stronger signal showing they are “not going to be able to continue to provide refuge and support”.

Faire face aux conséquences de la politique étrangère d’Obama, par Mehdi Hasan
▻https://www.les-crises.fr/faire-face-aux-consequences-de-la-politique-etrangere-dobama-par-mehdi-ha

Cher haut fonctionnaire anonyme de l’administration Trump, votre lâche éditorial ne vous conduira à aucune rédemption. Par Mehdi Hasan
▻https://www.les-crises.fr/cher-haut-fonctionnaire-anonyme-de-ladministration-trump-votre-lache-edit

Why Is Nancy Pelosi So Afraid of Socialism ? | Mehdi Hasan
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/07/06/nancy-pelosi-democratic-socialism

Socialism is not as foreign to American politics as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi might have you believe. Source: The Intercept

Pourquoi tant de monde dénonce l’autoritarisme de Trump et de Poutine mais pas celui de Benjamin Netanyahou en Israël ? Par Mehdi Hasan
▻https://www.les-crises.fr/pourquoi-tant-de-monde-denonce-lautoritarisme-de-trump-et-de-poutine-mais

Mehdi Hasan - on the button, as ever.

“We hear a great deal from liberals in the West these days about the rise of authoritarian and illiberal governments across the world: from Putin’s Russia to Orbán’s Hungary; from Trump’s America to Erdogan’s Turkey; from Modi’s India to Duterte’s Philippines.

We don’t hear so much about Netanyahu’s Israel — despite the fact that the country, as former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami has conceded, “is succumbing to its deepest ethnocentric impulses” and is “now well on its way to joining the growing club of illiberal democracies, and it has Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to thank.””

▻https://theintercept.com/2018/04/30/israel-palestine-netanyahu-idf-gaza

Deconstructed Podcast: Israeli Activists Speak Out Against the Occupation of Gaza
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/04/27/deconstructed-podcast-israeli-activists-speak-out-against-the-occupati

https://theintercept.imgix.net/wp-uploads/sites/1/2018/04/gaza-feature-1524764069.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&q=90&fit=crop&w=1200&h=800

For the last four weeks, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been engaged in massive protests along the Israeli border. Israel has responded with force, killing at least 40 Palestinians (including two journalists) and wounding thousands. B’Tselem, a Jerusalem-based nonprofit documenting Israeli human rights violations, recently called on IDF soldiers to refuse orders to shoot demonstrators. On episode 6 of Deconstructed, B’Tselem’s executive director, Hagai El Ad, joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the border violence and the broader situation in Palestine. And Avner Gvaryahu, former Israeli paratrooper and executive director of Breaking the Silence, a group which documents the stories of IDF soldiers about their activities in the occupied territories, talks about his own time as a soldier in the West Bank.

The #New_York_Times on Twitter: “Breaking News: The Senate easily confirmed Mike Pompeo as the nation’s 70th secretary of state, elevating the foreign policy hawk from CIA director ▻https://t.co/63wBaqrbAn”
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/nytimes/status/989548207112892422

Mehdi Hasan on Twitter: "This is why the liberal media fails minorities time and again. The problem with Pompeo isn’t just that he’s a “hawk”, it’s that he is a card-carrying #bigot and ally of the fringe far-right. ▻https://t.co/c3C2rMxkke"
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/989556470046916608

#euphemisme #MSM

“Nous savons où vivent vos enfants” : Comment John Bolton a menacé un fonctionnaire international. Par Mehdi Hasan
►https://www.les-crises.fr/nous-savons-ou-vivent-vos-enfants-comment-john-bolton-a-menace-un-fonctio

Gaza: un #journaliste palestinien parmi les neuf tués de vendredi - Libération
▻http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2018/04/07/gaza-un-journaliste-palestinien-parmi-les-neuf-tues-de-vendredi_1641791
▻http://md1.libe.com/photo/1111688-gaza.jpg?modified_at=1523101761&picto=fb&ratio_x=191&r

Yasser Mourtaja a été touché par balle lors de la « marche du retour », malgré son gilet « #presse », alors que l’armée israélienne assure ne tirer que sur les « meneurs » des « émeutes » et les Palestiniens cherchant à passer les barbelés.

Mehdi Hasan on Twitter: “Remember how outraged we were when Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was killed by the Syrian government? Will we hear similar howls of outrage in the West over the killing of Palestinian journalist Yasir Murtaja by the Israeli government?

I think we all know the answer.”
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/982633602553925633

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaLboczUMAAtBJo?format=jpg#.jpg

#Gaza #assassinats #Israel

Hey Muslims, Let’s Join the NRA. We Could Help Solve Gun Violence. | Mehdi Hasan
▻https://theintercept.com/2018/02/17/nra-membership-muslim-florida-shooting

If millions of Muslims joined the NRA and owned guns, might Republicans rethink their unqualified support of the Second Amendment? Source: The Intercept

Un ex-responsable nord-coréen témoigne : « Kim Jong-un sait que son système est en crise »
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/010617/un-ex-responsable-nord-coreen-temoigne-kim-jong-un-sait-que-son-systeme-es

Kim Jong-un observant à la jumelle la Corée du Sud. © Reuters Il est l’un des plus hauts responsables nord-coréens à avoir fait défection. À l’été 2016, le diplomate #Thae_Yong-ho est passé au Sud. Dans cet entretien exclusif, il explique pourquoi la #Corée_du_Nord ne renoncera jamais à son programme #nucléaire et balistique. Désormais basé à Séoul, ce dissident milite pour un effondrement du régime de l’intérieur.

#International #Kim_Jong-Un #missiles_balistiques

Like Saudi Arabia, #Israel Has a Soft Spot for Sunni Extremism
►https://28pages.org/2017/01/31/like-saudi-arabia-israel-has-a-soft-spot-for-sunni-extremism

Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan asked Efraim Halevy why Israel would give medical aid to wounded members of al Qaeda—and return them to jihad in Syria—but not to the wounded of Hezbollah, the Iran-allied Shi’a militant group in Lebanon that has often clashed with Israel and has been linked, sometimes dubiously, to terror attacks.

“We have a different account with Hezbollah. A totally different account. Al Qaeda, to the best of my recollection, has not attacked Israel,” he said.

Incredulous, Hasan replied, “It has attacked your number one ally and protector and sponsor, the United States of America!”

“Israel was not specifically targeted by al Qaeda, and therefore it’s a different kind of account than we have with Hezbollah,” replied Halevy.

« #humanitaire »

Lire absolument: Louis Allday, “Controlling the Narrative on Syria”
▻http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2016/allday131216.html

One of the many fallacies that predominate in this prevailing narrative is that the West has not intervened in the conflict in Syria. For instance, Amnesty International has recently described the UK as “sit[ting] on the sidelines” of the conflict. This fundamentally false position ignores several years of the West and its regional allies (primarily Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar) arming, funding and training rebel groups, the crippling economic sanctions imposed against the Syrian Government, ongoing airstrikes, special forces operations, and a host of other diplomatic, military and economic measures that have been taken. Not only has the West (primarily the US) intervened, it has done so on a very large scale. For instance, in June 2015, it was revealed that the CIA’s involvement in Syria had become “one of the agency’s largest covert operations” in which it was spending roughly $1bn a year (about $1 for every $15 in the CIA’s announced budget). At that time, this operation based out of Jordan had already “trained and equipped nearly 10,000 fighters sent into Syria over the past several years”. As Patrick Higgins has remarked, “[i]n other words, the United States launched a full-scale war against Syria, and few Americans actually noticed”. It is vital to place this aggression in the context of long-standing US animosity to the Syrian Government. As diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed, since at least 2006, the US has consistently sought to undermine it “by any available means”, utilising a variety of techniques including an effort — in co-ordination with Saudi Arabia — to encourage Islamic fundamentalism and sectarianism in the country by playing on fears of Iranian influence. Indeed, although it is rarely mentioned, a senior US intelligence official is on record in a televised interview with Mehdi Hasan confirming that facilitating the rise of ISIS and other Islamic extremist groups in Syria and Iraq was a “wilful decision” on behalf of the Obama administration. The BBC has recently reported that ISIS use ammunition bought legally in Eastern Europe by the US and Saudi Governments that is then transported via Turkey into Syria and Iraq, “sometimes only two months from leaving the factory”.

When US intervention in Syria is acknowledged, it is regularly portrayed as having been small-scale and insufficient. Professor Gilbert Achcar of SOAS has remarked that “Washington’s support to the opposition is more the stuff of jokes than anything serious”. Given that Achcar made this observation six months after the revelations concerning the enormous scale of the CIA’s Syria operation, it is hard to imagine exactly what level of military support would be required in order to be considered more than a ’joke’. This misleading narrative of non-existent or inadequate US intervention, coupled with a propensity to defend it with insults, is extremely common, including among commentators who write for ostensibly left-leaning publications. Some pundits such as Murtaza Hussain of The Intercept have recently even gone so far as to claim that the US is in fact intervening in Syria, but “in favor of Assad”, an absurd argument that Glenn Greenwald has also expressed.

Ephraïm Halevy, ex-chef du Mossad (1998-2002), admet dans une interview sur al-Jazeera english avec Mehdi Hassan qu’Israël a consciemment apporté une assistance médicale à al-Nousra.
C’est la première fois, à ma connaissance, qu’un type de ce niveau admet que l’aide apportée par Israël à al-Nousra n’était pas accidentelle mais a été faite en toute conscience et pour des raisons tactiques. Jusqu’ici le discours servi par Israël était que cela était peut-être arrivé mais seulement parce qu’Israël soignait, pour des raisons évidemment humanitaires, les rebelles modérés sur le Golan et que certains de Nousra se trouvaient peut-être parmi eux :
Ex-Mossad head on Israel medical aid to al-Nusra Front
►http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2016/05/mossad-head-israel-medical-aid-al-nusra-front-160531081744269.html

The former head of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad defends the country’s treatment of al-Nusra Front fighters on the Syrian border.
In this web extra, Efraim Halevy tells Mehdi Hasan that he is not concerned that Israel had treated fighters in Syria from al-Nusra Front, which some say is al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch.
“It’s always useful […] to deal with your enemies in a humane way,” Halevy says.
When pressed on whether he believed the assistance was purely humanitarian, Halevy responds, “I didn’t say there’s no tactical [consideration]. I said the main consideration, the immediate consideration is humane.”
Halevy also says he would not support the treatment of wounded Hezbollah fighters because Israel had been targeted by Hezbollah, but “not specifically targeted by al-Qaeda”.

Bien sûr cet aveu demi-officiel est encore probablement loin de décrire l’étendue de cette coordination Israël/Nousra qui a probablement aussi consisté non seulement en des livraisons d’armes (caisses mystérieuses qui passent la ligne de démarcation dont ont témoigné des casques bleus de l’ONU dans un rapport au CS) mais aussi du renseignement et de la planification dans la détermination des cibles militaires (régime et ses alliés) selon le témoignage de rebelles :
►http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/01/syria-opposition-daraa-israel-communication-nusra.html

Inside Israel’s Mossad: Efraim Halevy on UpFront
We speak to the ex-Mossad chief about the prospect of a two-state solution, Israeli politics and his time in the Mossad.
28 May 2016
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2016/05/israel-mossad-efraim-halevy-upfront-160527134610649.html

Former Mossad director Efraim Halevy has been an outspoken critic of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and once said that Jewish extremism was a bigger threat to Israel than nuclear Iran.

In this week’s Headliner, Mehdi Hasan asks Halevy about the country’s shift to the right, his time in the Mossad, and the prospect of peace in the region.

On Lieberman’s appointment, Halevy says that “the events of the last few days ... heralds the beginning of a countdown of the end of the administration of Mr Netanyahu”.

The former Israeli intelligence chief says he believes there will be “no two-state solution in the foreseeable future”, adding that he doubts such a solution will take place under Prime Minister Netanyahu’s leadership.

Halevy also reiterates that Israel should open dialogue with Hamas, revealing that some of Israel’s top generals believe having Hamas in Gaza “is the best situation for Israel”.

Mehdi Hasan sur Twitter :
▻https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/713361161161408512

I asked the Saudi ambassador to the UN why he supports democracy in Syria but not in Saudi Arabia - @AJUpFront clip:

▻https://amp.twimg.com/prod/multibr_v_1/video/2016/03/25/04/713213488412377090-libx264-main-2028k.mp4?P%2FNbX5WO4a96YH8WKH%2BA4CuOF6X

Noam Chomsky on the U.S. Presidential Election and the Rise of Islamophobia
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/noam-chomsky-on-the-us-presidential-election-and-the-rise-of-islamop

Renowned political theorist Noam Chomsky is often cited for his criticism of the US political system. In the second of a special two-part interview, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss...

“I AM a rambo b**ch”: Meet the drone defender who hates neo-cons, attacks Glenn Greenwald — and may have conflicts of her own
▻http://www.salon.com/2015/11/04/i_am_a_rambo_bch_meet_the_drone_defender_who_hates_neo_cons_attacks_glenn_gre

In a debate on the Al Jazeera program UpFront in October, Fair butted heads with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, a prominent critic of the U.S. drone program. Fair, notorious for her heated rhetoric, accused Greenwald of being a “liar” and insulted Al Jazeera several times, claiming the network does not appreciate “nuance” in the way she does. Greenwald in turn criticized Fair for hardly letting him get a word in; whenever he got a rare chance to speak, she would constantly interrupt him, leading host Mehdi Hasan to ask her to stop.

The lack of etiquette aside, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Shadi Hamid remarked that Fair’s arguments in the debate were “surprisingly weak.”

Important: Rise of Islamic State was ‘a willful decision’: Former DIA Chief Michal Flynn
▻http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2015/08/07/rise-of-islamic-state-was-a-willful-decision-former-dia-chief-

http://cdn8.foreignpolicyjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/GenFlynn-Aljazeera.jpg

n Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting the West’s backing of an Islamic State in Syria when it came across his desk in 2012, but even asserts that the White House’s sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIL and Nusra) against the Syrian regime was “a willful decision.” [Lengthy discussion of the DIA memo begins at the 8:50 mark.]
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/headtohead/2015/07/blame-isil-150728080342288.html

Amazingly, Flynn actually took issue with the way interviewer Mehdi Hasan posed the question—Flynn seemed to want to make it clear that the policies that led to the rise of ISIL were not merely the result of ignorance or looking the other way, but the result of conscious decision making:

Hasan: You are basically saying that even in government at the time you knew these groups were around, you saw this analysis, and you were arguing against it, but who wasn’t listening?

Flynn: I think the administration.

Hasan: So the administration turned a blind eye to your analysis?

Flynn: I don’t know that they turned a blind eye, I think it was a decision. I think it was a willful decision.

Hasan: A willful decision to support an insurgency that had Salafists, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood?

Flynn: It was a willful decision to do what they’re doing.

Meet Mehdi Hasan, Britain’s go-to guy for all things Islam
By Anshel Pfeffer
Haaretz Daily Newspaper

▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/meet-mehdi-hasan-britain-s-go-to-guy-for-all-things-islam.premium-1.527055

These are very busy days for Mehdi Hasan. Since May 22, the main story in the British media has been the barbaric killing of a soldier in south London. And since the two suspected murderers are Muslim converts and claimed to be acting in the name of Allah, it’s hardly surprising that television producers and newspaper editors have Hasan’s number on speed-dial.

In a relatively short amount time, Hasan, 33, has established himself as the most prominent public voice of Britain’s Muslims. Currently the political director of the Huffington Post’s U.K. operation, Hasan is one of a tiny handful of visible Muslims in Britain’s national media, and he feels an obligation to articulate his community’s concerns.

Mehdi Hasan: Extremists Point to Western Foreign Policy to Explain Their Acts. Why Do We Ignore Them?
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mehdi-hasan/woolwich-attack-western-foreign-policy_b_3357794.html

Did you know that the alleged ringleader in the 11 September 2001 attacks had originally planned to land one of the hijacked US airliners and give a speech to the assembled press corps? Can you guess what he wanted to rant about, live on Fox News? Seventy-two virgins in heaven? Nope. The need for sharia law? Guess again. According to the report of the official 9/11 commission, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had intended to “deliver a speech excoriating US support for Israel... and repressive governments in the Arab world”.

Syria has made a curious transition from US ally to violator of human rights | Mehdi Hasan (The Guardian)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/19/syria-us-ally-human-rights

In the war on terror America was happy to send suspects to Syria. Now the US cries torture Source: The Guardian