position:prime minister

Syrian opposition considers sacking its U.S.-backed interim leader | McClatchy
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/17/191618/syrian-opposition-considers-sacking.html

Résultat de la rivalité qataro-saoudienne, la carrière de Ghassan Hitto menacée,

Hitto’s ouster after just two months would deal a double blow to the State Department, which has spent more than $60 million to boost the credibility of the Syrian opposition. (...).

U.S. diplomats have been pushing the fragmented anti-Assad movement toward a single body that would be poised to take over in the event of regime collapse and had hoped to identify credible, moderate partners to represent the opposition at the peace conference it hopes will take place next month in Geneva. The deep disarray that a leadership change is likely to engender could derail both those initiatives.

(...)

Two members of the Syrian Opposition Coalition separately confirmed to McClatchy what Arabic-language news reports have said for days: that Hitto is at great risk of being pushed out because his post has become mired in a tug of war between Saudi Arabia and Qatar over Syria’s future. The two Persian Gulf countries are major financiers of the opposition, but the Saudis have balked at Qatar’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that dominates the political opposition.

“There are some regional powers who are not in favor of appointing Mr. Hitto,” Walid Saffour, the opposition coalition’s political representative in Britain, said in a phone interview from London. “For now, he’s the elected prime minister, but I don’t know what will happen next week.”

For weeks, State Department officials have talked up Hitto, saying he’d sacrificed a comfortable life in Texas to join the fight against Assad and praising his willingness to cross into rebel-held territories in Syria when many exiled opposition figures won’t. However, the internal election that brought Hitto to power in March was problematic from the start, with many complaining that he was imposed by some combination of the Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar and the United States.

Les capitalistes ne sont pas rassasiés : il leur faut de plus détruire l’europe :

EU energy policy must shift towards diversifying supply, with natural shale gas likely to be part of the mix, EU leaders said at a summit in Brussels on Wednesday (22 May).

http://euobserver.com/news/120202

Greenpeace collecting signatures against projected nuclear plant | The Jordan Times
http://jordantimes.com/Greenpeace+collecting+signatures+against+projected+nuclear+plant-59855

“Within two weeks, more than 8,157 people signed the petition. Once we reach our goal, we will send the petition to the prime minister and ask him to issue a decision that stops plans to establish a nuclear power plant,” Jayoussi told The Jordan Times over the phone.

Greenpeace Jordan seeks to prove to decision makers that thousands of people are against the construction of nuclear power plants in Jordan, she added.

“There are claims that only a minority of people stand against the nuclear programme. This petition will show that actually thousands are against it,” Jayoussi noted.

She underscored that the petition will be addressed to the Prime Ministry because the government is continuing with the nuclear programme although the Lower House voted against it last year and called for its suspension.

http://static.jordantimes.com/uploads/repository/1e416c1718e316598dbcb016382fe51dc9f9dc89.jpg
#energie
#Jordanie
#nucléaire

Far-right Japan Restoration Party defends wartime abuse of “comfort women” - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/23/osak-m23.html

Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, a leader of the far-right Japan Restoration Party (JRP), set off a firestorm in Asia and within Japan last week, by declaring that the Japanese army’s policy of keeping thousands of women as sex slaves throughout Asia during World War II was necessary.

#extrême-droite #japon

Islamist Threat Constrains Jordan’s Syria Policy - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/05/jordan-islamists-syria-civil-war.html

King Abdullah II is no longer hiding his worries about the fate of post-Assad Syria and the danger of it falling into the hands of Islamists, specifically the Muslim Brotherhood, the king’s discomfort toward whom is locally and regionally well known. American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in The Atlantic, quoting the Jordanian monarch’s criticism of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who are brought together by a background of political Islam. Despite the king’s position stemming from foreign concerns, it also figures into the domestic equation.

Je fouille mes archives: tiens, que devient la «Brigade Rafik Hariri» évoquée ici: Citing U.S. Fears, Arab Allies Limit Aid to Syrian Rebels (octobre 2012)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/world/middleeast/citing-us-fears-arab-allies-limit-aid-to-syrian-rebels.html?pagewanted=all&

One group, in an almost comical bid for support, named itself the Rafik Hariri brigade, after the former Lebanese prime minister and Saudi ally who is believed to have been assassinated by the Syrians, and whose son Saad is influential in doling out Saudi support to the rebels.

Une voix dissonante dans la presse israélienne (qui acclame en rangs serrés le rapport) :

« Report on IDF shooting of Muhammed al-Dura may cause Israel more damage than good » | By Barak David (Haaretz)

Publishing the report 13 years after the incident took place and accompanying it with a government PR campaign is not only surreal, but could backfire by awaking sleeping dogs.

►http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/diplomania/report-on-idf-shooting-of-palestinian-boy-during-intifada-may-cause-israel-

The report on the investigation of the Mohammed al-Dura affair is probably one of the least relevant documents written by the Israeli government in recent years.

The report, entitled “French TV station France 2’s coverage of the Mohammed al-Dura affair, its results and implications”, was presented to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 13 years after the events it describes took place, making its submission today surreal.

In its wake, Netanyahu recited slogans about “a campaign of de-legitimization directed against Israel” and Strategic and Intelligence Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz, who had no part in preparing the report, muttered a few words about “blood libel”, and everyone present felt very righteous.

The person who advocated for setting up the committee, who also became its chairman, was Yossi Kuperwasser,

Yossi Kuperwasser, director general of the Strategic and Intelligence Affairs Ministry, advocated for the establishment of an investigative committee and became its chairman. Kuperwasser, who was the intelligence officer at the Israel Defense Forces GOC Southern Command and later head of research and analysis for IDF intelligence, has been waging a 13-year-long public relations campaign against the Palestinians. For better or worse, his attention to the al-Dura affair became an obsession, leading to a suspicion that there might be a conflict of interest. (...)

It seems as though the report was written for use within Israel alone. The evidence and arguments that were presented might convince the already convinced, but no more than that. The committee could not present any “smoking gun” evidence showing the 25 year old al-Dura sunbathing on a Gaza beach. Not even close. Any thought of getting such a report to change the globally accepted narrative after 13 years is akin to trying to put the toothpaste back into the tube.

The report also appears to be a campaign of revenge launched by the State of Israel against a single French journalist, Charles Enderlin, who first reported Mohammed al-Dura’s death. Committee members tried to saddle Enderlin, an Israeli Jew who has been living here for over 30 years, with all of Israel’s problems and those of the Jewish people.

#Israël #Affaire_Al-Dura #Palestine #2e_Intifada #Enderlin

Le Sharenting en question - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/may/18/pros-cons-of-sharenting

Les « sharents » (néologisme formé du mot parent et share, partage) sont les parents qui bloguent, tweetent et publient des photos de leurs #enfants... Mais comment ce partage parental affecte les enfants à mesure qu’ils grandissent ? Ne pas différencier ce qui est public de ce qui doit rester privé, demeure un problème, estiment certains psychologues. Les parents qui ne mentionnent pas leurs enfants sur l’internet ne sont-ils pas en passe de devenir de mauvais parents ? Pour beaucoup, les avantages (...)

#vieprivee #famille

Si l’on en croit cet article d’Al Monitor, en Turquie, il y a deux camps : Erdogan d’un côté, et des malades mentaux antisémites de l’autre. Erdogan Confronts the Near Insanity Of His Opposition. Ambiance.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/05/reyhanli-bombing-watershed-moment-for-turkey.html

However, Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has had a different take on Reyhanli since the beginning. Spokesmen for the party, whose sympathies for the Assad regime — for ideological and sectarian reasons — have only been thinly veiled, rather implied that the Syrian opposition must be behind the bombings. One CHP speaker, Nihat Matkap, even offered a bizarre conspiracy theory by claiming that “there were strangely no Syrians on the streets right before the bombing.” In other words, he implied that Syrian refugees in Reyhanli were somehow informed about the bombing, and thus were collaborators of the crime. (To me, he sounded like a lunatic, similar to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists who keep claiming that Jews did not go to work in New York’s World Trade Center on 9/11.)
Soon, CHP’s leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu made another accusation, this time to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “The murderer of [the people of] Reyhanli,” he bluntly said, “is none other than Erdogan.” (A few days later, Erdogan sued Kilicdaroglu for these words, claiming that this is a personal insult.)

A more dramatic Kilicdaroglu statement came out in Europe and caused a political scandal. Speaking at a press conference during a visit to Brussels on May 15, Kilicdaroglu claimed that both Assad and Erdogan are “dictators,” and the difference between them is “only a nuance.” In the face of this claim — whose pro-Assadism was probably more intolerable than its anti-Erdoganism — Hannes Swoboda, president of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, who was supposed to meet Kilicdaroglu, canceled the meeting.

Israël/ Syrie/ Russie.

Article apocalyptique de Ben Caspit (Al-Monitor) pour conjurer la guerre au Proche Orient.

Résumé : Poutine a mis en garde Netanyahou contre toute nouvelle attaque en Syrie. Au lendemain de la visite à Moscou du premier ministre israélien, la Russie a annoncé que des missiles S-300 seraient livrés à Assad [missiles anti-aériens commandés depuis deux années].

Israël examine les options à sa disposition dans l’hypothèse où la livraison se ferait. Détruire les missiles pendant leur acheminement ou à leur arrivée en territoire syrien ? Ce serait jouer avec le risque de provoquer la réaction de Damas, du Hezbollah et/ou de l’Iran ? Quelle serait l’attitude de la Russie ? Accepter la présence de ces missiles ferait peser une menace inacceptable sur l’aviation israélienne. Israël est dans un cercle vicieux. Tout le monde fait pression sur tout le monde. Une explosion régionale n’est pas à exclure. « Telle est l’image du Moyen Orient à la mi 2013. Israël se trouve au beau milieu d’un conflit régional, national, religieux, ethnique et tribal impliquant tout le monde, et ne sait même pas rendu compte de ce qui arrivait ». Sans compter les incertitudes sur l’après-Assad, à supposer qu’il quitte le pouvoir.

Au fond, l’imbroglio actuel en Syrie, où régime et oppositions s’épuisent dans un conflit sanglant, est la moins mauvaise des solutions pour Israël.

Will Israel Take OutThe Russian Missiles in Syria ?

By : Ben Caspit for Al-Monitor Israel Pulse Posted on May 17 (2013)

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/05/israel-versus-the-russian-syrian-alliance.html#ixzz2TcLq9c9A

Japan Courts Growth While Europe Keeps Up Austerity - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/world/europe/japan-courts-growth-while-europe-keeps-up-austerity.html?nl=todaysheadlines

Even as Europe fell deeper into what just became its longest recession since World War II, Japan posted an unexpectedly robust growth rate of 3.5 percent under the bold new stimulus measures championed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — precisely the medicine many have urged European leaders to take.

“The elites in Europe don’t learn,” said Stephan Schulmeister, an economist with the Austrian Institute of Economic Research. “Instead of saying, ‘Something goes wrong, we have to reconsider or find a different navigation map, change course,’ instead what happens is more of the same.”

#japon #économie #miracle

Egypt : Prime Minister Says Only Tahrir Square Is Unstable

http://allafrica.com/stories/201305170482.html

He insisted that other cities including the touristic Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada resort areas are stable.

In a meeting with members of parliament on Thursday, Kandil added, “We will not fool ourselves and say that everything is perfect, but we expect positive results by the end of the year.”

The PM added that he is following up on this morning’s kidnapping of seven security officers.

“We will soon hear good news on the brave officers,” he added.

Je me demandais d’où le Akhbar avait tiré une phrase délirante de Benjamin Netanyahu. Il s’agit d’une interview de Glenn Beck du 17 novembre 2006.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/17/gb.01.html

NETANYAHU: Iran is Germany, and it’s 1938, except that this Nazi regime that is in Iran, that’s a religious kind of fanaticism, but it wants to dominate the world, annihilate the Jews, but also annihilate America. Remember, we’re the small Satan. You’re the big Satan.

BECK: Right.

NETANYAHU: We’re just the first way station en route to you. So there is this fundament fanaticism that is there. It’s a messianic cult. It’s a religious messianic cult that believes in the Apocalypse, and they believe they have to expedite the Apocalypse to bring the collapse of the West.

BECK: See, nobody is saying — why isn’t George Bush saying this? Why is it nut jobs like me who is saying this? Why isn’t the media bringing this stuff out?

Au R.-U. plus de la moitié des cas de démence ne sont pas diagnostiqués.
Le gouvernement britannique fixe un objectif quantitatif : 160 000 diagnostics à établir dans les deux ans, soit la moitié des cas non diagnostiqués.
David Cameron compte profiter de sa présidence du G8 pour faire avancer la coordination internationale sur le sujet.

Doctors told to improve dementia diagnosis rates | Society | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/15/doctors-told-improve-dementia-diagnosis

Doctors will be set a target to diagnose another 160,000 dementia sufferers in a government drive to tackle the incurable brain condition. Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, says the NHS has shockingly low dementia diagnosis rates, with 350,000 of the estimated 670,000 people with dementia unknowingly living with the condition.
(…)
The prime minister David Cameron said he was determined to use Britain’s chairmanship of the G8 to forge a more co-ordinated international approach to the problem.

A summit on dementia will be held in London in September, bringing together health and science ministers, senior industry figures and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Tunisie : Tunisie : recours inéluctable au nucléaire, à l’avenir, pour produire de l’électricité - L’Economiste Maghrébin
http://www.leconomistemaghrebin.com/2013/05/08/la-tunisie-obligee-a-lavenir-davoir-recours-a-lenergie-nucleai
Une reprise de l’offensive nucléaire ? Les commerciaux d’AREVA/EDF/GDF sont ils de sortie après la relance enregistrée en Turquie ? (cf.https://seenthis.net/messages/135800)

Il a souligné que la communauté et les organisations internationales concernées par l’énergie nucléaire ne se sont pas opposées aux recherches réalisées par la Tunisie en vue d’installer des réacteurs nucléaires dédiés à la production de l’électricité, d’autant que le pays ne constitue pas un danger pour la paix internationale. « La Tunisie, qui souffre d’un déficit énergétique, dispose de cadres compétents« , a-t-il ajouté.

Tout cela à un moment où une orientation plus nette en faveur des #énergies #renouvelables est en discussion (https://seenthis.net/messages/134995)
#Tunisie
#nucléaire
#électricité

La saison de la question parlementaire est rouverte à Koweit, avec le ministre du pétrole dans le retentissant scandale de Dow Chemicals (une rupture par Koweit d’un contrat de JV avec l’Aéricain DC qui lui a valu une amende de 2.2 milliards de $) et le ministre de l’intérieur, accusé -par des parlementaires chiites- de manque de coopération avec les EAU dans l’affaire du démantèlement des cellules des FM ...et mieux encore du vol de M16 automatiques +munitions dans un lieu de stockage du ministère

"“The Dow Chemical deal is one of the biggest financial crimes in the history of Kuwait,” said the grilling."

http://gitm.kcorp.net/index.php?id=648101

Three MPs yesterday filed to grill Oil Minister Hani Hussein over a variety of violations and misconduct, mainly on the payment of the $ 2.2 billion penalty to US Dow Chemical after the government pulled out of a joint deal. Two other MPs meanwhile filed a second request to grill Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Sabah alleging his failure to cooperate with the National Assembly and attempting to cover up a Kuwaiti “terror” cell having links with Islamists under trial in the United Arab Emirates.

The submission of the two grillings came after a morning of drama yesterday as MPs had initially planned to file three grillings against the oil minister, all focusing on the payment to Dow besides other alleged violations. But after a brief discussion, the three teams agreed to file one grilling to be signed by MPs Saadoun Hammad, Yacoub Al-Sane and Nasser Al-Marri, which highlighted four major violations with the Dow payment remaining the main issue. Besides the Dow issue, MPs also accused the minister of allowing commercial deals with Israel, not taking any action to prevent the sale of alcohol at Kuwait-owned petrol stations in Europe and approving illegal staff promotions at state-owned oil companies.

The three MPs also accused the minister of failing to take action to stop the sale of alcohol at thousands of petrol stations in Europe owned by Kuwait Petroleum International, a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC). He also failed to punish officials who were responsible for maintaining Kuwaiti investments in a company in Europe even after an Israeli company bought a stake in it. The three MPs also accused the minister of approving a large number of staff promotions at oil companies that were in violation of Kuwaiti laws. [...]

Meanwhile, MPs Safa Al-Hashem and Youssef Al-Zalzalah filed to grill the interior minister over allegations he is not fully cooperating with the Assembly and over the theft of thousands of bullets from ministry stores. The two lawmakers called on the minister to resign because they have solid evidence about the accusations they made in the grilling. They charged that the minister failed to cooperate with MPs by first failing to implement a number of recommendations and also by not answering their questions as he only answered less than half of the questions.

They held the minister responsible for the robbery of thousands of bullets and even M16 automatic rifles from Interior Ministry stores and that he has failed to maintain law and order in the country, besides failing to implement thousands of court verdicts. But the main issue the lawmakers highlighted are accusations that the minister has refused to supply UAE authorities with information about a number of Kuwaiti Islamists – members of the Muslim Brotherhood – who have links with a group of Emirati Islamists on trial on charges of plotting to overthrow the government.

They said that the prime minister has acknowledged the information but the interior minister still told UAE authorities that there was no Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait, thus undermining the security of Kuwait and its Gulf partner UAE. The two grillings are expected to be debated after two weeks unless the Assembly decides to delay the debate or for any other reason like a government resignation, the ministers’ resignations or others.

127 000 $ : c’est le prix que paient les Israéliens pour une « chambre » d’avion de leur président. Ca tombe juste au moment où Yaïr Lapid impose de sévères coupes budgétaires !
Netanyahu spends $127,000 of Israeli taxpayers’ money on airplane ’resting chamber’ - National Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/netanyahu-spends-127-000-of-israeli-taxpayers-money-on-airplane-resting-cha

After report in Channel 10, the Prime Minister’s Office responded saying that the prime minister needed to rest after a hectic day and before representing Israel at international forums.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent $127,000 of Israeli taxpayers’ money on a “resting chamber” that was especially constructed for him and his wife on their five-hour flight to London last month, Channel 10 reported on Friday.

Once Netanyahu was informed of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s death, he announced that he would travel to the funeral with his wife Sara. According to the report, his office issued a tender to Israeli airlines to charter a jet for 75 passengers to take the Netanyahus to London and return them to Israel the next day.

The Prime Minister’s Office asked that the plane be fitted with 22 business class seats and a resting chamber – a double bed surrounded by four walls and a door. This request was especially costly because only El Al’s larger planes are fitted to allow for such arrangements. El Al won the tender with a bid of $427 thousand.

If the Prime Minister’s Office were to forgo the resting chamber, Israel’s smaller airlines such as Arkia and Israir could have participated in the tender. A simple calculation showed that the resting chamber raised the price of the flight by $127,000.

“The protocol for flying the prime minister to meetings abroad hadn’t changed and is the same as was during previous administrations. In accordance to security directives, the Israeli premier only travels with Israeli airlines,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement. “In accordance to the prime minister’s orders, the cost of the trip, which lasted less than 48 hours, was minimized.”

Netanyahu’s office went on to explain the necessity of the room, citing his hectic schedule.

“The prime minister left for London at the end of Independence Day after he attended a reception for exceptional soldiers, the International Bible Contest, a reception for foreign diplomats, and the Israel Prize ceremony. The flight was scheduled for midnight, after a long day at these events. The next day, the prime minister was to represent the State of Israel in a number of official international events, including a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron. With this in mind, it is warranted that the prime minister be given an opportunity to sleep during the night between these two busy days,” the Prime Minister’s Office explained.

Boston Review — Wajahat Ali: Against the Brahmins (#Pankaj_Mishra)
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR38.3/wajahat_ali_pankaj_mishra.php

Wajahat Ali : Reflecting on recent events, could an argument be made that the disastrous Iraq War and the 2008 financial crisis have shifted the axis of power from the United States to rising Asia?

Pankaj Mishra : I don’t think Asians and South Asians have much cause for celebration if power is indeed shifting to the East due to the disastrous blunders of the United States. One still has to ask, whose power? And to whom is it shifting and who in Asia will it eventually benefit? We Asians have shown ourselves very capable of making the same kind of mistakes. I write from Japan, which has its own history of militarism and imperialism, and where the ghost of nationalism is yet to be exorcised. And we know about South Asia’s inability to defuse its toxic nationalisms or provide a degree of social and economic justice to its billion-plus populations.

Marche contre l’austérité en Israël
10 000 personnes à Tel Aviv selon Charles Enderlin
1/2 million d’après TV5 monde

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/05/2013511201215743489.html

About 2,000 Israelis have marched in central Tel Aviv to protest against an expected austerity budget, police have said.

The protesters rallied on Saturday against proposed income tax and VAT rises and government spending cuts due for cabinet debate on Monday.

They directed their ire at Yair Lapid, who became finance minister after January’s election where his Yesh Atid party became the second-largest party in parliament and a partner in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government.

Recession is a good time to exploit cheap labour, says Cameron aide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/11/young-recession-cheap-labour

The prime minister’s adviser on enterprise has told the cabinet that the economic downturn is an excellent time for new businesses to boost profits and grow because labour is cheap, the Observer can reveal.

Lord Young, a cabinet minister under the late Baroness Thatcher, who is the only aide with his own office in Downing Street, told ministers that the low wage levels in a recession made larger financial returns easier to achieve. His comments are contained in a report to be published this week, on which the cabinet was briefed last Tuesday.

#pique #fourche #rizière #goudron

PM says Hawking needs to study facts about Israel | JPost | Israel News
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/PM-says-Hawking-needs-to-study-facts-about-Israel-312664

Netanyahou donne des leçons de science à Stephen Hawking

Asked by The Jerusalem Post about Hawking’s boycott at a press briefing, Netanyahu said, “He should investigate the truth, he is a scientist. He should study the facts and draw the necessary conclusions: Israel is an island of reason, moderation and a desire for peace.”

Netanyahu said that Hawking knows that there are many false théories in science. “There are also false theories in politics, and this [the slandering of Israel] is one of them, maybe the foremost among them,” he said.

Australia’s Defence White Paper and the US “pivot” to Asia - World Socialist Web Site

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/10/pers-m10.html

Australia’s Defence White Paper and the US “pivot” to Asia
10 May 2013

The 2013 Defence White Paper, which defines the Australian government’s strategic military orientation, codifies its unconditional support for the Obama administration’s “pivot” to Asia. The document asserts that “the relationship between the United States and China will determine the outlook for our region”, over the coming decades, and foreshadows that Australia will serve as the military adjunct and physical base for US efforts to dominate the entire “Indo-Pacific”. It stresses the importance of collaboration with the US, as well as states such as India, in controlling the key maritime trade passages between

#asie_pacifique #australie #géostratégie_américaine #asie #géopolitique

Amid public uproar, Royal Jordanian forced to disavow sponsorship of Israel tourism conference- http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/amid-public-uproar-royal-jordanian-forced-disavow-sponsorship-is

La normalisation a du mal à se dévoiler.

Royal Jordanian has disavowed sponsorship of an Israeli government tourism conference to be held in occupied Jerusalem later this month amid public uproar in Jordan that the airline’s logo appeared on the “supporter” page of the conference’s official website.

The Royal Jordanian logo appeared alongside those of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Turkish Airlines. The website also reveals that the conference is sponsored by the Israeli prime minister’s office and the Jerusalem occupation municipality.

Both the Royal Jordanian and Turkish Airlines logos have now been removed after users on Twitter objected to the companies’ sponsorship of the conference.

Turkish Twitter mounted a campaign calling on their country’s airline to pull out of the conference using the hashtag #İsrailinSponsoruTHYyeBoykot.

One of the speakers at the conference is Sheldon Adelson, the American billionaire and financial backer of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who notoriously claimed that Palestinians are an “invented people.”

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

Le physicien Stephen Hawking soutient le boycott académique d’Israël
►http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2013/05/08/le-physicien-stephen-hawking-soutient-le-boycott-academique-d-israel_3173677

(...) Dans une déclaration publiée avec son accord, le Comité britannique pour les universités palestiniennes (CBUP), qui soutient ce boycott et s’oppose à l’occupation des territoires palestiniens, explicite « sa décision prise en toute indépendance de respecter le boycott, sur la base de sa connaissance de la Palestine et des conseils unanimes de ses contacts académiques là-bas », rapporte le Guardian . Au sein de l’université britannique de Cambridge, où M. Hawking travaille depuis 1962, on la justifie en revanche par des « problèmes de santé ». Atteint de sclérose latérale amyotrophique (maladie de Charcot), Stephen Hawking se serait vu déconseiller par ses médecins de prendre l’avion.

UNE DÉCISION POLÉMIQUE

Depuis l’annonce de sa participation à cette conférence, il y a quatre semaines, Stephen Hawking croulait sous les messages venus de Grande-Bretagne et d’ailleurs pour l’enjoindre à rejoindre la campagne BDS. Désormais, ce sont les accusations d’antisémitisme qui s’accumulent dans les boîtes e-mail du physicien. On ne lui prête pourtant aucun propos de cette nature en public. Depuis sa visite en 2006 dans des universités israéliennes et palestiniennes, le scientifique aurait durci sa position à l’égard d’Israël. En 2009, le physicien a dénoncé l’opération Plomb durci menée pendant trois semaines par Israël dans la bande de Gaza, qualifiant de « disproportionnée » la réponse apportée par l’Etat hébreu aux tirs de roquettes palestiniens. « La situation ressemble à celle qui prévalait en Afrique du sud avant 1990 et ne peut continuer », avait-il déclaré sur la chaîne Al-Jazira .