#syrian et thèmes voisins

The Wannabe - Daily News Egypt
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/06/17/the-wannabe

One of the few remaining benefits of living in Egypt these days is the ridiculous amount of entertainment that our Islamist rulers provide.  In a scene that’s beyond parody, a number of Islamists held a massive conference to support Syria, which in their world means “Let’s kill those Shi’a Infidels”. In the first ever display of state-sponsored-Jihad-promotion in Egypt’s modern history, a number of Islamists, alongside our great ruler Mohamed Ibn Morsi the first, called upon the Nation’s Muslims to support Syria and, if possible, go fight Jihad there, because, after two years of inaction, they suddenly realised that there was a conflict there and on one side there was some non-Sunni Muslims fighting some Sunni Muslims. Gasp and horror.

In case you didn’t know, that’s completely unacceptable of course. Non-Sunni Muslims have no business being alive to begin with, or at least that’s what the speeches of the day implied. Sectarian rhetoric got spewed for two hours on live television, proving that Morsi doesn’t only have a “Christian problem”, but a “down with anything other than Sunni Muslims” problem, which should console our Christian brothers in so far that it’s not only them he dislikes. Today’s article should then bemoan the first Egyptian democratically elected openly sectarian president. If only it was that simple…

Did you know that when Morsi went to beg Russia for money and wheat, he openly declared that his position is in complete alignment with the Russian position, which is pro-Assad, just because they promised him they might think of lending him money or wheat? Did you know that this conference took place, not two days after the Obama administration’s announcement that they will fund and arm Syrian rebels? Did you know that this conference got held exactly two weeks before the 30 June demonstrations, at a time when the Muslim Brotherhood is desperate for any Islamist support to cling to power? Did you know that in Morsi’s 6th of October speech last year, he managed to fill the 80,000 seats of the Cairo stadium with his supporters, but in this speech he opted for the covered dome, which only holds 16,000 seats?  Also, did you know that opposing the ruler in Egypt is against religion and God, but opposing the ruler in Syria is holy Jihad?

How can one not love this mess?

Analysis - Saudi role in Syria driven by fear of Shi’ite ’full moon’ | Reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/06/18/uk-syria-crisis-saudi-analysis-idUKBRE95H0WQ20130618

Although the Saudi air force is well equipped, it performed poorly in a brief border war with a Yemeni rebel group in 2010, U.S. embassy cables released by WikiLeaks said at the time. [ les milliards de dollars d’achat d’armes ne servent qu’aux commissions ]

And, while Saudi forces engaged Iraq’s army in the 1991 Gulf War, they fought only on Saudi soil. Striking an Arab, Muslim country is problematic for the birthplace of Islam, which aims to be perceived as neutral custodian of Islam’s holy places [ farce- Ils financent des substituts dans les autres pays arabes ].

With limits on what it can do itself, it needs Washington to help fight its battles.

Le #Vatican et la #propriété_intellectuelle (intervention du 18 juin 2013 à la conférence diplomatique de l’OMPI pour un traité pour les aveugles)
http://keionline.org/node/1752

Intervention of the Holy See : WIPO Diplomatic Conference on a Treaty for the Blind | Knowledge Ecology International

In the Developed countries as well visually impaired individuals have access to only 5 percent of published books. Such a situation has been appropriately called a “book famine”. In fact, many visually impaired learners and university students in developing countries lack access to textbooks.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes the right of all individuals to freely participate in the cultural life of the community and to enjoy the arts (Art. 27).
(...)
Twenty or thirty years ago little could be done about the “book famine”. Printing braille books was time-consuming and resource-intensive. Technology has brought about important changes. Today visually impaired people can read books on computers using text-to-speech technology magnification, by means of so-called braille displays, or by listening to normal audio books. Now every book on the planet can quite easily be made accessible to blind users; instead of the 1% or 5% access of the past, today’s technical capacity allows close to 100%. Our goal, then, is not just a treaty, but rather a treaty that will resolve obstacles to access.
While new technologies make it possible to imagine a world where visually impaired persons can access a broad variety of documents just as sighted people can do, the out-of-date legal environment is a barrier. The protection of intellectual property is an important value, which we must respect. However, there is a social mortgage on all property, including intellectual property. The very creative and innovative thrust, that the intellectual property rights system offers, exists primarily to serve the common good of the human community.

Obama : Striking Syria risks hitting chemical weapons sites
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/06/18/Obama.html

La partie la plus significative à mon avis,

“We can’t have the situation of ongoing chaos in a major country that borders a country like Jordan which in turn borders Israel,” he said, adding Washington has “serious interests there and not only humanitarian interests.”

AL Watan au Koweit, 14 June 2013

“Walid al-Tabtaba’i Tells Al-Watan: I am planning to fight in Syria.”

Former MP Walid al-Tabtaba’i has stated that he is planning to join the fighting raging in Syria alongside the Free Syrian Army [FSA] to liberate this country, as he put it, from the armies of Iran, Hezbollah, and Bashar al-Asad.

In a statement to Al-Watan, Al-Tabtaba’i reported that he had attended the meeting held by the Union of Muslim Scholars in Cairo, which called for waging jihad with oneself and one’s money and fighting against the tyrants.

Al-Tabtaba’i will take part, as he said, in organizing convoys from outside Syria for jihad. He stressed that he will personally join in the convoys for the purpose of fighting.

Commenting on a picture posted on certain websites showing him wearing military uniform, Al-Tabtaba’i said that the snap goes back to last September, when he visited the liberated areas in northern Syria, more specifically Idlib Governorate.

During this visit, Al-Tabtaba’i met with FSA commanders in liberated Syrian territory that the warplanes of Bashar al-Asad were bombarding at the same time.

Al Tabtaba’i is among the founders of the Scientific Salafism in Kuwait

Bad Idea, Mr. President
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/bad-idea-mr-president.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

Interventionists tend to detach their actions from longer-term consequences. This myopia is often coupled with a prevalent misunderstanding of the political and cultural context of where they want to intervene. Both problems are present in the current American approach to Syria.

The Syrian revolution isn’t democratic or secular; the more than 90,000 fatalities are the result of a civil war, not a genocide — and human rights violations have been committed on both sides.

Moreover, the rebels don’t have the support or trust of a clear majority of the population, and the political opposition is neither credible nor representative. Ethnic cleansing against minorities is more likely to occur under a rebel-led government than under Mr. Assad; likewise, the possibility of chemical weapons’ falling into the hands of terrorist groups only grows as the regime weakens.

And finally, a rebel victory is more likely to destabilize Iraq and Lebanon, and the inevitable disorder of a post-Assad Syria constitutes a greater threat to Israel than the status quo.

Not since the 2003 invasion of Iraq has American foreign policy experienced a strategic void so pervasive.

La conclusion:

Syria is like Iraq, except worse.

Suck my glock, le #magazine_féminin #viriliste (via @thibnton) http://smg.ouvaton.org/dl/smg1.pdf

Suck My Glock !, le premier magazine féminin viriliste, est un zine écrit pour des filles, par des filles (qui assument d’aimer les trucs de gros gars). Il a pour objectifs :
• d’alimenter les débats au sein des milieux féministes et transpédégouines en arborant un ton provocateur et décalé ;
• de proposer des conseils pratiques sur le maquillage, la coiffure, les docs et les bagnoles ;
• de pratiquer le paradigme de l’empowerment et de la réappropriation antiparastasique pour essayer de justifier qu’on aime les films bourrins.

Les enjeux du pétrole et du gaz au coeur de la crise géopolitique proche-orientale
Lebanon : The Oil & Gas Week, June 17, 2013 | Middle East Strategic Perspectives
http://www.mestrategicperspectives.com/2013/06/16/lebanon-the-oil-gas-week-june-17-2013

The energy dimension is increasingly being highlighted by the Iran/Syrian Regime/Hezbollah axis. In an interview published by Lebanese daily al-Akhbar on 10/06, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that western countries are offering to invest tens of billions of dollars in post-war reconstruction on condition their oil companies get a stake in Syrian offshore petroleum resources. Assad said he rejected the offer (including a $21 billion loan from the World Bank), and announced that he awarded a production license to a Russian company. Four days later, on 14/06, al-Akhbar reported that al-Assad is insisting, during his meetings, on the challenges that the discovery of petroleum resources poses for Lebanon and Syria, and the need to “protect the oil.” According to the Syrian president, the next battle will be the “battle of oil” since the oil and gas wealth in the Gulf is controlled by the US, and is being used to “destroy our countries”. He added that Lebanese and Syrian offshore and onshore resources must be protected, and their proceeds must be used to ensure development and to finance the conflict with Israel. In a televised speech aired on 10/06, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah emphasized the role of the resistance group in protecting Lebanon and its resources, a fact that will allow the country to exploit its oil and gas wealth in the near future. If it weren’t for the Resistance, he said, Lebanese gas would have been under Israeli control.

La participation turque à la prospection au Liban est également au centre de contestations populaires à cause de sa médiation partiale dans l’affaire des kidnappings d’otages chiites en Syrie
#Liban
#Syrie
#Turquie
#Russie
#pétrole
#gaz

Interview de Chomsky à la Une du Akhbar : Noam Chomsky Interview : Sykes-Picot Is Failing
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/noam-chomsky-interview-sykes-picot-failing

MZ: What do you think of the Hezbollah intervention in Syria?

NC: They are in a very difficult position. If the rebels win in Syria, they become very exposed. That may mean their demise. There is reason behind it, I am not sure this is the right one, you could argue about it, but it is understandable.

MZ: Are you going to meet Nasrallah this time?

NC: No, I do not know if it is possible. But it is deeply in mind. It is difficult.

MZ: If you meet him again, what would you tell him?

NC: I would like to meet him, but just to find out more about their thinking and their plans. They are not coming to me for advice. You know.

Twitter / jenanmoussa :
https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/346303844977893376

I’ve a big exclusive coming out tonight @akhbar about Libyan heavy weapons shipped from #Libya to #Syria opposition. Details soon.

New Texts Out Now: Thomas Pierret, Religion and State in Syria
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/12187/new-texts-out-now_thomas-pierret-religion-and-stat

The conclusions I draw from my book lead me to take issue with widespread narratives about the current rise of Sunni Islamism, and in particular of Salafism in Syria. This phenomenon is usually perceived in a negative way, that is, as an expression of sectarian radicalization against religious communities. There is undeniably some truth in that, but it is a partial view of the problem. There is also a “positive” dimension to it: the expression of an identity that has been suppressed for decades, notably, as I show in the book, by imposing severe restrictions on religious practices and symbols that are considered as perfectly harmless in most other Muslim countries.

In my view, this is one of the reasons that explains why several of the first insurgent battalions established by defector officers in 2011 were given Islamic names, despite the fact that they were not displaying any specifically Islamist agenda. The army is probably the most aggressively anti-religious institution in the Syrian regime, which means that for defectors, choosing religious names for their battalions was part of a paradigmatic, revolutionary break with the past. Later on, in liberated areas, growing a beard, adopting a Salafi style, and raising the black and white banner of the Prophet have been part of a process of self-assertion that does not necessarily amount to declaring war against those who do not share that religious identity, although of course this can be the case.

The rise of Salafism is also part of what I would call the “religious empowerment” of the Syrian peripheries (suburbs, small towns, and villages). Until 2011, the religious center— that is, the scholarly elite I study in the book—was very much rooted in traditional-Sufi Islam, and this was the case for both pro-regime and independent ulama. As for Salafi Islam, including its dominant quietist wing, it suffered genuine persecution at the hands of the regime and only survived in a kind of semi-underground fashion, often in the peripheries mentioned above. Seen from that point of view, the current rise of Salafism is not only a revenge against the regime and/or Alawite domination, but also a revenge of the social and geographical margins against the center. To a large extent, this is what this uprising is about.

#Syrie
#Islam
#salafisme
#islamisme

L’Égypte coupe toute relation avec Damas, annonce Mohamed Morsi - ÉGYPTE - FRANCE 24
http://www.france24.com/fr/20130615-legypte-coupe-definitivement-tout-lien-damas-annonce-mohamed-mors

« Le Hezbollah doit quitter la Syrie et ce ne sont pas des paroles en l’air. Il n’y a pas de place pour le Hezbollah en Syrie. »

Egypt cuts relations with Syrian government - Associated Press - POLITICO.com
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/egypt-cuts-syria-government-relations-92851.html

Egypt’s Islamist president announced Saturday that he was cutting off diplomatic relations with Syria and closing Damascus’ embassy in Cairo, decisions made amid growing calls from hard-line Sunni clerics in Egypt and elsewhere to launch a “holy war” against Syria’s embattled regime.

...

The rally that Morsi addressed on Saturday was called for by hardline Islamists loyal to the Egyptian president to show solidarity with the people of Syria. However, Morsi also used the occasion to warn his opponents at home against the use of violence in mass protests planned for June 30, the anniversary of his assumption to power.

Deux sujets d’Arte sur Bakou et l’Azerbaïdjan, il y a un an, à l’occasion de l’Eurovision.

Bakou : une ville en plein essor, coûte que coûte
http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/bakou-une-ville-en-plein-essor-coute-que-coute--6668106.html

Azerbaïdjan : le pétrole - une manne qui ne profite qu’à quelques personnes
►http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/azerbaidjan-le-petrole-une-manne-qui-ne-profite-qu-a-quelques-personnes-

Nouvelle intervention de Nasrallah à la télévision. Saad Hariri ayant décidé d’expédier une « lettre aux Libanais » juste avant, le discours était attendu, pour partie, comme une sorte de réponse.

Un point important : Nasrallah insiste très clairement sur le fait que, pour le Hezbollah, le conflit syrien n’est pas de nature confessionnelle, mais que tout est fait pour faire accroire que c’est le cas.

Sayyed Nasrallah : Mistaken Who Thinks That Takfiris Can Change Our Position
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=97620&cid=23&fromval=1&frid=23&seccatid=14&s1=1

Clear View for the Crisis in Syria

Sayyed Nasrallah said that since the start of the crisis in Syria Hezbollah had a clear view that there was a scheme that has repercussions on Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, the region, the Muslims, the Christians, the Sunnites and the Shiites.

His eminence pointed out that the resistance through its decisions is defending Lebanon, its land and its state.

The resistance leader stressed that what’s coming on in Syria is not between a regime and people, saying: “This issue is over. There are sides who don’t care for the people killed, they just want for the regime to fall. They imagine that the alternative for this regime is another one. However the alternative is the chaos.”

His eminence noted that the Syrian people are parted, some is with the regime and the other is against it, adding: “And we are with the regime. We are also with reforms.”

“We are with people who call for reforms, whether they are with the regime or against it. However we are against those who are destroying Syria,” Sayyed Nasrallah told crowds.

On the other hand, he said that talks about starting to arm the Syrian opposition is false since providing arms to the foreign-backed militants who are fighting the Syrian government is taking place since long ago.

Hezbollah The Latest Side to Take Part in Syria Fight

Meanwhile, Sayyed Nasrallah said that Hezbollah was the latest Lebanese side to take part in the Syrian fight, noting that many other parties have been engaged in the Syrian crisis even before Hezbollah was.

 “We didn’t keep our participation in the Syrian fight a secret. We didn’t say that we are offering milk and blankets,” Sayyed Nasrallah said, referring to al-Mustaqbal party MP Oqab Saqr who denied that his party is engaged in the Syrian crisis.

“… And if our fighters are killed in the battle in Syria we don’t burry them there and silence their families in Lebanon,” Sayyed Nasrallah added.

Sayyed Nasrallah also assured that the struggle in Syria is not sectarian, noting that those who are presenting it as a sectarian struggle are weak. He called for exerting efforts in a bid to face some Arab channels which are inciting for sedition and giving the struggle sectarian explanations through fabrications.

“We won’t change our position through fabrications, killing and terrifying,” his eminence said, noting that post-Qusayr is the same stage as pre-Qusayr.

He said that the other side of the struggle is determined to go ahead with it, stressing that the resistance is to be where it should be as it will hold the responsibility it had held from the beginning of the crisis.

Sayyed Nasrallah also pointed out that Hezbollah is ready to debate over Syria, noting in this context that some sides are offering initiatives that need to be discussed.

Why Obama is arming Syria’s rebels: it’s the realism, stupid. | Daniel W. Drezner
http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/06/14/why_obama_is_arming_syrias_rebels_its_the_realism_stupid

To your humble blogger, this is simply the next iteration of the unspoken, brutally realpolitik policy towards Syria that’s been going on for the past two years.  To recap, the goal of that policy is to ensnare Iran and Hezbollah into a protracted, resource-draining civil war, with as minimal costs as possible.  This is exactly what the last two years have accomplished.... at an appalling toll in lives lost.   

This policy doesn’t require any course correction... so long as rebels are holding their own or winning. A faltering Assad simply forces Iran et al into doubling down and committing even more resources.  A faltering rebel movement, on the other hand, does require some external support, lest the Iranians actually win the conflict.  In a related matter, arming the rebels also prevents relations with U.S. allies in the region from fraying any further.

So is this the first step towards another U.S.-led war in the region?  No.  Everything in that Times story, and everything this administration has said and done for the past two years, screams deep reluctance over intervention.  Arming the rebels is not the same thing as a no-fly zone or any kind of ground intervention.  This is simply the United States engaging in its own form of asymmetric warfare.  For the low, low price of aiding and arming the rebels, the U.S. preoccupies all of its adversaries in the Middle East.

(Il y a un mois) Selon l’Observatoire syrien des Droits de l’Homme, entre la moitié et le tiers des tués en Syrie seraient alaouites.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/syria-death-toll-120000_n_3272610.html

At least 94,000 people have been killed during Syria’s two-year conflict, but the death toll is likely to be as high as 120,000, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.

The group said that at least 41,000 of those confirmed killed were Alawites, the sect of President Bashar al-Assad.

Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the Observatory, said that the Alawite death figures were confirmed by eight different Alawite sources in coastal cities and in Homs.

À rapprocher de l’affirmation du même observatoire, cité le mois suivant, selon laquelle 43% des tués sont des soldats ou combattants du régime :
http://seenthis.net/messages/144656

Comme tout le monde, j’ai du mal à admettre ces chiffres, et je pensais qu’il s’agissait d’une citation erronée (ou inventée) de cet Observatoire, mais là on a deux citations différentes sur des informations différentes mais concordantes.

Ami lecteur, si tu as d’autres sources, je suis vraiment preneur, parce qu’en dehors de ces deux billets (eux-mêmes cités comme uniques sources par Wikipédia…), je n’ai rien trouvé d’autre.

Syria: Inventing a Religious War by Toby Matthiesen | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jun/12/syria-inventing-religious-war

This is not a fight purely or even primarily about Islam; it is a war about the future of the Middle East. Unfortunately, however, all the talk about sectarian war is fast becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. And by misunderstanding the complicated history of Syria’s alliances with Shia groups, we may contribute to the very sectarian tensions that are tearing the region apart.

#Syrie
#Liban
#irak
#Iran
#chiisme

Joseph E. Scwartzberg - Creating a World Parliamentary Assembly - An Evolutionary Journey
http://www.pressefederaliste.eu/Creating-a-World-Parliamentary-Assembly

Joseph E. Scwartzberg - Creating a World Parliamentary Assembly - An Evolutionary Journey - Préface de Daniele Archibugi - éd. Committee for a Democratic U.N. - Berlin - 2012 pp. 124 Traduit de l’anglais par Damien Boureille - Lyon Les modèles et principes pour l’établissement et l’évolution d’un parlement mondial sont l’objet d’une nouvelle étude présentée mardi à une audience de spécialistes internationaux participant au congrès mondial du WFM-IGP, un réseau international dédié au renforcement du (...)

#Numéro_159_—_mars_2013 #UNPA #Un_peu_de_lecture_fédéraliste

Un expert refuse de quitter l’ONU pour avoir critiqué Israël - Le Nouvel Observateur
http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20130611.OBS2799/un-expert-refuse-de-quitter-l-onu-pour-avoir-critique-israel.ht

Un représentant controversé de l’ONU qui accuse Israël de mauvais traitements à l’encontre des Palestiniens a déclaré mardi 11 juin qu’il refusait de démissionner, assurant du bien-fondé de ses critiques envers l’Etat hébreu. "Je n’ai pas l’intention de démissionner", a dit à des journalistes le Rapporteur spécial des Nations unies sur la situation des droits de l’Homme dans les territoires palestiniens occupés, Richard Falk, en poste depuis 2008.

Il a fustigé les attaques dont il est la cible, les qualifiant de « diversion ». Dans ses rapports faits au Conseil des droits de l’Homme de l’ONU, cet Américain âgé de 82 ans et ancien professeur de droit international a notamment qualifié de crimes contre l’humanité l’offensive israélienne sur Gaza en 2008 et a appelé au boycott des entreprises aidant Israël à la mise en place des implantations dans les territoires palestiniens.

Juif, il se défend de tout antisémitisme

Ces vives critiques à l’encontre de l’Etat hébreu lui ont valu d’être à son tour vilipendé par Israël, le Canada et les Etats-Unis, qui l’ont appelé à démissionner. En avril, le Canada a ainsi demandé au Conseil des droits de l’Homme de l’ONU de démettre de ses fonctions Richard Falk, lui reprochant des « propos antisémites » pour des commentaires dans un article susceptibles d’être interprétés comme établissant un lien entre l’attentat de Boston et la politique américaine à l’égard d’Israël.

L’ambassadrice américaine auprès du Conseil, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, a dénoncé vendredi pour sa part le fait que cet expert réclame une enquête sur l’ONG « UN Watch », l’accusant d’être un « lobby pro-israélien ». De son côté, Richard Falk a indiqué qu’il n’allait pas se laisser intimider et s’est défendu d’être antisémite, soulignant avec ironie qu’il était lui-même juif. Dans son rapport présenté lundi, l’expert a demandé une enquête sur les milliers de prisonniers faits par Israël parmi les Palestiniens.

Environ 750.000 Palestiniens ont été détenus depuis 1967 et 5.000 d’entre eux - dont des enfants - sont actuellement incarcérés par Israël, selon ce rapport. En avril, 236 enfants palestiniens, dont 44 ayant moins de 16 ans, se trouvaient dans des centres de détention militaires israéliens, a indiqué pour sa part mardi une porte-parole du Fonds des Nations unies pour l’enfance (Unicef), citant des statistiques de l’ONG israélienne B’tselem.

Old article, announcing what’s to happen in Syria :(
US government implicated in planned theft of Iraqi artistic treasures - World Socialist Web Site
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2003/04/loot-a19.html

The ACCP’s ideas represent the interests of particularly rapacious sections of the US ruling class, who operate on the principle that everything—even an object of priceless artistic or scientific value—is defined by its “market value”.

What they mean is price, since the real value of the objects stolen from the Museum of Baghdad and the Iraqi National Library is incalculable. These are quite literally people who understand the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Separated, asylum-seeking children in European Union Member States
Comparative report

The arrival of thousands of separated children in the European Union from third countries poses a serious challenge to EU institutions and Member States, since, according to the EU charter of fundamental rights and the UN convention on the rights of the child, they have a duty to care for and protect children. This report examines the experiences and views of 336 separated, asylum-seeking children and those of 302 adults responsible for their care across 12 EU Member states. It looks at their living conditions as well as the legal issues and procedures which concern them. The different findings correspond to the various settings in which these children live, thereby addressing the need to incorporate children’s views and experiences into work that seeks to inform policy action. The challenge for the EU and its Member States is how to deal with this issue effectively, while fully respecting fundamental rights and acting in the best interests of each child

http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/separated-asylum-seeking-children-in-european-union-member-states-pb

#mineurs #migration #asile #réfugiés #enfants

For second time, Palestinians from Syria torch Hezbollah aid
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2013/Jun-06/219614-for-second-time-palestinians-from-syria-torch-hezbollah-aid.ash

Some 1,500 packages of food aid donated by Hezbollah were burned by Palestinian refugees from Syria and local residents in the Bekaa Wednesday, the second such incident in a week. Omar Halabi, the head of the Saadnayel Youth League, told The Daily Star that a truck with boxes of aid was unloaded in the morning at the offices of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Halabi said when the aid was distributed, the refugees noticed the labels attached to each package explaining that the aid was a gift from the “Islamic Resistance in Lebanon to our brethren, the displaced Palestinians from Syria.”

“When the refugees realized that the aid was from the same party which is killing their people in Qusair and in other places, they, with dozens of locals, took the boxes from the Palestinian Cultural Center and burned them,” Halabi said.

[…]

Last Thursday, Palestinian refugees from Syria set fire to humanitarian aid donated by Hezbollah in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp, citing their anger over the party’s role fighting alongside the Syrian regime.

Refugees gathered in front of the camp’s Kifah School holding banners explaining their decision to destroy the aid, which the party is distributing across a number of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.

GCC to take measures against Hezbollah loyalists
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Jun-11/220010-gcc-to-take-measures-against-hezbollah-loyalists.ashx

The Gulf Cooperation Council announced Monday it would take measures against Hezbollah loyalists’ residencies as well as against their financial and trade transactions. The GCC urged the Lebanese government to “shoulder its responsibilities” regarding “Hezbollah’s behavior and its illegal and inhumane practices in Syria and the region.”

Évidemment, il est impossible de savoir qui est « fidèle » au Hezbollah en Arabie séoudite (sauf à lire dans la tête des gens), donc cette mesure, comme d’habitude, consistera simplement à expulser et/ou humilier les expatriés chiites libanais qui travaillent dans le Golfe.

Voir mon billet d’il y a une semaine :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/144350

Dans la foulée de la visite du Prince héritier à Wahsington

Congressional Members Urge Bahraini King to Open Kingdom to U.N.’s Mendez, Outside Observers | Human Rights First
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2013/06/10/congressional-members-urge-bahraini-king-to-open-kingdom-to-u-n-’s

Washington, D.C. –Twenty Members of Congress are urging Bahrain’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa to reconsider his decision to postpone indefinitely the visit of  United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Méndez, who has twice been denied access to the Kingdom since protests there began in February 2011.   In a letter sent June 10, they called on him to “demonstrate your commitment to help put an end” to abusive practices, including torture.

L’UE exprime sa préoccupation à la suite de la destruction de maisons et du déplacement de population en Palestine. briser la vie d’une famille pour rien, c’est « préoccupant ». Merde. <---- Comment voulez-vous ne pas avoir la haine après ça ?

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Palestine: EU concerned about recent demolition and population displacement

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10-06-2013

EU diplomats and the UN have visited Nuwei’ma and Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley to express solidarity with the communities affected by recent demolition, and express strong concern over the impact of demolishing humanitarian assistance. Nine residential structures and three animal structures have been demolished in 2013 in Jiftlik, resulting in the displacement of 56 people. Some of these structures were provided through EU funding.