#wag_the_dog

Une première : un forum des candidats à la présidentielle des Etats Unis va se tenir à l’étranger à Jérusalem en Israël du 2 au 4 novembre 2015
par Natasha Srdoc, The Huffington Post (USA) 23 octobre 2015 traduit de l’anglais par Djazaïri
traduit par Mounadil al Djazaïri
▻https://mounadil.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/des-candidats-a-la-presidentielle-americaine-dans-un-forum-polit

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Les candidats à la présidentielle américaine ont été conviés à participer au premier forum des candidats à la présidence des Etats Unis jamais tenu à l’étranger, qui est centré sur les questions de politique étrangère et de défense. Depuis Jérusalem, Israël, chaque candidat à la présidentielle aura une opportunité de présenter leurs points de vue surla politique étrangère américaine, les relations israélo-américaines, les menaces qui planent sur les alliés des Etats Unis en Europe et en Asie, l’instabilité au Moyen Orient, le terrorisme et les solutions pour améliorer le bien-être économique et la sécurité des Américains aux Etats Unis et à l’étranger.

Over one quarter of Netanyahu’s speech to Congress consisted of applause and standing ovations (#wag_the_dog)
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/netanyahus-consisted-standing

In Netanyahu’s pep rally, rather speech before the US legislative branch, Congress interrupted to applaud 39 times. 23 of these were standing ovations. 10:55 of the 40:30 of Netanyahu’s exhortation consisted of applause. In other words, 27% was Congress applauding and doing standing ovations.

I repeat: Over one-fourth of Netanyahu’s speech consisted of Congress applauding and doing standing ovations.

Lindsey Graham in Jerusalem: Senate vote coming on Iran sanctions bill
▻http://www.jta.org/2014/12/28/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/sen-graham-senate-will-vote-on-iran-sanctions-bill

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said in Jerusalem that the Senate will vote on an Iran sanctions bill next month.

Graham (R-S.C.), who is expected to take over as chairman of the Foreign Appropriations Subcommittee when the Republicans assume control of the Senate in January, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Israeli capital on Saturday night.

Graham told Netanyahu that “the Congress will follow your lead” and will want to have a say about any final deal.

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Syrian ’hero boy’ video faked by Norwegian director
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-30057401

Since being uploaded to YouTube on Monday the video has been watched more than five million times and inspired thousands of comments.

#fake #réalité #fiction #manipulés #manipulables

Quiz cruel sur The Intercept : 16 déclarations plus ignobles les unes que les autres qu’il faut attribuer à Hillary Clinton ou à Benjamin Netanyahu : Quiz : who said this ? Hillary Clinton or Benjamin Netanyahu ?
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/11/quiz-said-hillary-clinton-benjaim-netanyahu

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« Le texte de soutien de Hollande à Israël a été élaboré après des démarches insistantes du cabinet de Netanyahou » - Benjamin Barthe - Le Monde

▻http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2014/07/12/l-embarras-international-face-a-l-escalade-a-gaza_4455919_3218.html

John Kerry apologises for Israel ’apartheid’ remarks (tu connais mon hashtag pour ça : #wag_the_dog)
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/john-kerry-apologises-israel-apartheid-remarks

Without denying he used the word “apartheid”, the statement insisted on Kerry’s history of support for Israel over the past 30 years.

“I will not allow my commitment to Israel to be questioned by anyone, particularly for partisan, political purposes, so I want to be crystal clear about what I believe and what I don’t believe,” Kerry said after members of Congress and pro-Israel groups criticised him, with some demanding his resignation or at least an apology.

“First, Israel is a vibrant democracy and I do not believe, nor have I ever stated, publicly or privately, that Israel is an apartheid state or that it intends to become one,” he said.

S6438-2013 - NY Senate Open Legislation - Prohibits the use of state aid by colleges and universities to fund or provide membership in certain academic institutions - New York State Senate
▻http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S6438-2013

TITLE OF BILL: An act prohibiting the use of state aid by colleges and universities for certain academic institutions

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill would prohibit any college from using state aid to fund an academic entity, to provide funds for membership in an academic entity, or fund travel or lodging for any employee to attend any meeting of such academic entity if that academic entity has undertaken an official action boycotting certain countries or their higher education institutions.

New York bill to punish ASA over Israel boycott picks up 48 supporters
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2014/01/israel-boycott-supporters.html

A New York bill to cut off state funding to the American Studies Association over its Israel boycott has the support of 48 lawmakers. That means that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who authored the bill, is just 28 members short of garnering a majority of the state assembly to back the legislation targeting the ASA.

#wag_the_dog

Pour le maire de New York, Bill de Blasio, « une partie de mon mandat est d’être un défenseur d’Israël… » :
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2014/01/blasio-description-defend.html

“Part of my job description is to be a defender of Israel… City Hall will always be open to AIPAC. When you need me to stand by you in Washington or anywhere, I will answer the call and I will answer it happily, because that’s my job.”

Comme le commente Ali Abunimah, il n’est pas difficile d’imaginer le scandale si un élu américain déclarait qu’une partie de son mandat consistait à être un défenseur de la France ou du Canada :
▻https://twitter.com/aliabunimah/status/427484950598672384

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Kerry urges EU to postpone funding ban in Israeli-occupied territories
▻http://www.news-republic.com/Web/ArticleWeb.aspx?regionid=3&articleid=12810593

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged the European Union on Saturday to postpone a planned ban on EU financial assistance to Israeli organisations in the occupied Palestinian territories, a U.S. official said.

Kerry made the request at a meeting with EU foreign ministers at which he also called on them to support Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, which resumed on July 29 after a nearly three-year hiatus.

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Nouvelle ambassadrice des États-Unis à l’ONU : Samantha Power. La seule question qui a intéressé les élus étatsuniens pour sa nomination a concerné… sa fidelité à Israël. #wag_the_dog
▻http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/17/samantha-power-and-israel-on-the-hill.html

Power did have to dance a little to the Republican tune on the infallibility of Israel and the presumed moral problem of questioning its policies: In her opening statement about the benefits and problems of the United Nations, she referred to the Holocaust and “unacceptable attacks against the State of Israel” and said the U.S. “has no greater friend in the world than Israel.” (Though she was certainly correct about the U.N.’s consistent and extra efforts to condemn Israel.) When asked how she would handle Palestinian efforts at the U.N. to obtain international recognition for statehood outside of negotiations with Israel, she said the U.S. needs to “deter” such unilateral efforts.

▻http://www.7sur7.be/7s7/fr/1505/Monde/article/detail/1679923/2013/08/02/Samantha-Power-nouvelle-ambassadrice-des-Etats-Unis-a-l-ONU.dhtml

Au cours de son audition devant le Sénat, à la mi-juillet, Samantha Power avait affirmé qu’elle défendrait « sans relâche » Israël à l’ONU et qu’elle se battrait pour que le pays puisse siéger au Conseil de sécurité en tant que membre non-permanent.

Après sa nomination, Samantha Power avait été critiquée pour avoir suggéré, en 2002, de suspendre l’aide militaire à Israël et d’investir, à la place, des milliards dans les territoires palestiniens. Elle a dit regretter ses propos sur l’influence excessive du lobby pro-Israël aux Etats-Unis.

Bill Clinton takes a cool half-million from Jewish National Fund for speech in Israel
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/clinton-million-national.html

The scandal that is never a scandal in the American press. Bill Clinton’s foundation has been given $500,000 by the Jewish National Fund, which has long been involved in taking Palestinian land and giving it to Jews. Is Hillary running for president? Where does she expect to raise her money? Will she ever oppose Jewish colonization in Palestine?

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Penny Pritzker’s support for Israel played crucial role in Obama’s rise
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2013/05/pritzkers-support-crucial.html

The press anticipates controversy over Obama’s appointment of Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker to be Commerce Secretary— because she tried to get around banking regulations, opposed unions and is a fatcat. But no one is talking about another potential source of controversy: Pritzker’s support for Israel, which played a crucial role in Obama’s rise.

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Susan Rice Says Defending Israel Key Part of U.N. Job
▻http://forward.com/articles/175279/susan-rice-says-defending-israel-key-part-of-un-jo

Susan Rice said a major part of her work as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is defending Israel’s legitimacy.

“It’s a huge part of my work to the United Nations,” Rice said Sunday evening, launching this year’s Consultation on Conscience, an event for Reform movement social activists organized by the Religious Action Center.

She likened the volume of work to her efforts to coordinate Syria’s isolation and to contain violence and abuses in Sudan.

She said she often works in “lockstep” with the Israeli delegation.

“We will not rest in the crucial work of defending Israel’s security and legitimacy every day at the United Nations,” Rice said.

Il me semble que ce n’est pas la première fois qu’elle fait une telle déclaration. En tout cas, c’est un magnifique #wag_the_dog

Bon, on a bien compris maintenant que le nouveau gouvernement israélien veut renforcer la colonisation de la Cisjordanie et que rien ne peut l’en empêcher aujourd’hui.

Lieberman says will oppose settlement freeze - Israel News, Ynetnews
▻http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4357839,00.html

Ahead of Obama visit, Yisrael Beiteinu chair says Israel-Palestinian conflict can’t be solved, stresses party will oppose any type of construction freeze in West Bank

Le Canada punira les Palestiniens s’il leur venait l’idée de faire respecter les Droits de l’Homme par Israël :
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/03/06/pol-cp-baird-fantino-palestinian-speech.html

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has told a powerful pro-Israel lobby that Palestinians will feel “consequences” from Canada if they pursue the Jewish state at the International Criminal Court.

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Voilà qui est proprement invraisemblable : Le mot malheureux de François Hollande sur la « sincérité » de Stéphane Hessel
▻http://www.politis.fr/Le-mot-malheureux-de-Francois,21253.html

Alors qu’il rendait un hommage solennel à Stéphane Hessel, jeudi matin dans la cour des Invalides, François Hollande a cru devoir porter un coup de griffe inattendu en cette circonstance au grand résistant disparu : « Il pouvait aussi porter une cause légitime comme celle du peuple palestinien, qui suscitait parfois l’incompréhension de ses propres amis. J’en fus. La sincérité n’est pas toujours la vérité ».

Hollande, en bon gangster sioniste (#zionist_hoodlums), rejoint donc ostensiblement Richard Prasquier dans l’indigne :
▻http://www.ujfp.org/spip.php?article2616

La dépouille de Stéphane Hessel n’est pas encore en terre, comme il se doit dans notre tradition – mais en as-tu la moindre notion, Richard Prasquier ? - profite de ces quelques jours pour te recueillir et réfléchir sur la vie du défunt et du message qu’il nous a transmis.

#wag_the_dog via @rezo

Le vice-Président américain a fait son speech devant l’AIPAC où il a amené une magnifique innovation argumentative : la seule chose qui garantit la sécurité des juifs aux États-Unis, c’est l’existence d’Israël. Le vice-Président étatsunien affirme donc que son propre pays serait capable un jour, si Israël n’existait pas, d’éliminer ses ressortissants juifs dans des chambres à gaz.
▻http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/03/04/remarks-vice-president-aipac-policy-conference

But my education started, as some of you know, at my father’s dinner table. My father was what you would have called a righteous Christian. We gathered at my dinner table to have conversation, and incidentally eat, as we were growing up. It was a table — it was at that table I first heard the phrase that is overused sometimes today, but in a sense not used meaningfully enough — first I heard the phrase, “Never again.”

It was at that table that I learned that the only way to ensure that it could never happen again was the establishment and the existence of a secure, Jewish state of Israel. (Applause.) I remember my father, a Christian, being baffled at the debate taking place at the end of World War II talking about it. I don’t remember it at that time, but about how there could be a debate about whether or not — within the community, of whether or not to establish the State of Israel.

My father would say, were he a Jew, he would never, never entrust the security of his people to any individual nation, no matter how good and how noble it was, like the United States. (Applause.)

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Ça c’est excellent : l’émission humoristique américaine Saturday Night Live avait un sketch de six minutes parodiant l’invraisemblable focalisation de l’audition de Chuck Hagel devant le Sénat américain sur la seule « sécurité » d’Israël.

Du coup… l’Anti-Defamation League accuse le sketch de « possible » promotion de l’antisémitisme, au motif que le sketch pourrait suggérer, auprès de spectateurs influençables, qu’il y aurait un lobby israélien très puissant aux États-Unis (admire comment je te me conditionnelle tout ça).

L’accusation de l’ADL est d’autant plus savoureuse que le sketch n’a finalement pas été diffusé à la télévision. Hum… #wag_the_dog

▻http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/11/snl-lands-in-hot-water-with-anti-defamation-league-over-hagel-sketch.

“[T]here inevitably will be those who say, ‘Yeah, it’s funny, but there’s some truth to all of this,’” Foxman wrote in a letter Monday to SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels. “And for a smaller minority among those individuals, elements of the skit could play into the worst kind of ideas, even reinforcing pernicious notions of Jewish control of government in the vein of those routinely espoused by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites by suggesting that U.S. officials would even engage in public sex acts if asked to do so by Israel.”

Impossible de voir le sketch sur le site de la NBC si on n’est pas aux États-Unis. Mais il est reproduit dans cet article du Daily Beast.

Imagine: No Israel Lobby | MJ Rosenberg
▻http://mjayrosenberg.com/2013/02/08/imagine-no-israel-lobby

The Hagel hearing, on the other hand, wasn’t really a hearing at all. For the senators it was just an opportunity to audition in front of current or potential donors.

It was like getting a speaking role at the AIPAC annual conference, an opportunity to demonstrate that a legislator was 100% for whatever the lobby is for.

[…]

No, it was all about Israel, actually not so much Israel as the Israel lobby. […] Graham, no special fan of Israel, is concerned about a challenge from a Tea Party candidate in 2014 and is eager to raise money from AIPAC-associated donors to help him withstand the challenge

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Quand le sous-comité parlementaire étatsunien sur le Moyen Orient consacre une séance à « la réconciliation entre le Fatah et le Hamas », il titre d’office « une menace pour les perspectives de paix ». Surtout, il n’interroge ni membre du Fatah, ni membre du Hamas, ni Palestinien, ni arabe en général. Non, il reçoit uniquement trois membres des lobbys israéliens de Washington (deux membres du Washington Institute for Near East Policy, un membre du American Enterprise Institute).
▻http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/hearing-fatah-hamas-reconciliation-threatening-peace-prospects

Il me semblerait plutôt que la réconciliation entre le WINEP et l’AEI constitue l’une des principales menaces pour la paix au Moyen Orient, mais bon… #wag_the_dog

Hagel Hearing: The War Party’s Waterloo by Justin Raimondo
▻http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/01/31/hagel-hearing-the-war-partys-waterloo

We have to be thankful to Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of our more theatrical solons, for dramatizing the way in which the Israel lobby intimidates members of Congress: by asking Chuck Hagel if he could name a single Senator who was so intimidated he merely underscored how thoroughly each and every one of them is cowed. The whole spectacle of this public interrogation, with its tiresomely repetitive demands for pledges of undying loyalty to Israel, brought home the truth of Hagel’s remark.

Of course Hagel couldn’t say that, but the ugly reality resonated in the immense silence that followed this exchange. Interestingly, Hagel didn’t back down: He said “I don’t know.” As to what motivates any particular member of Congress on any specific “dumb thing” they do – well, he couldn’t know, could he? But of course, everybody knows about the Israel lobby: and if its power and vindictiveness were ever in danger of being forgotten, then surely the battle over Hagel’s confirmation has reminded us.

To anyone who lives outside the Washington bubble, there was something profoundly weird about the ritualistic invocations of undying loyalty to Israel, a country mentioned 135 times in the course of the hearing: Afghanistan only merited 27, while al Qaeda got 2 and Mali one. One would have thought Hagel had been nominated for Israeli Defense Minister instead of the top civilian in the Pentagon. As he faced the pro-Israel “inquisitors” – as Sen. Angus King put it – the educational value of this political drama was worth far more than all the books and articles one could possibly read.

Et maintenant, la couverture américaine. Tu m’étonnes qu’Israël viole le droit international à chaque fois que possible :
▻http://news.yahoo.com/us-warns-syria-not-transfer-weapons-hezbollah-052920656.html

In the warning, White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said ’Syria should not further destabilise the region by transferring weaponry to Hezbollah.’

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Israël demande aux États-Unis d’« intervenir » dans la rédaction de la nouvelle constitution tunisienne pour en faire supprimer l’article qui prévoit d’interdire la normalisation. #wag_the_dog

Signalé par Angry Arab, derrière le paywall de Haaretz :
►http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-foreign-ministry-u-s-ignored-arab-radicalization.premium-1.465210

L’article est reproduit par exemple sur ce site grave :
►http://israelmatzav.blogspot.fr/2012/09/israeli-foreign-ministry-us-buried-its.html

A similar pattern emerged as to Israeli efforts to prevent a clause being added to the new Tunisian constitution outlawing normalization or contacts with Israel. The Foreign Ministry asked the United States to intervene, but was not satisfied by the response. “They told us, ‘Don’t worry, it’s going to be all right, the clause will be left out,’ but the clause is still in there,” the official said.

Les sous-marins de classe Dolphin livrés par l’Allemagne à Israël seront équipés d’armes nucléaires, et les Allemands le savaient. #wag_the_dog
►http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4237408,00.html

The magazine said that its research into the matter, which spanned sources in the United States, Germany and Israel, “Leaves no room for doubt. This naval technology will enabled Israel to create a floating nuclear weapons cache in the Middle East.”
 
Israel’s Dolphin-class submarines are meant to give it second-strike capabilities in case of a major attack. According to the report, Berlin’s defense officials were aware of the subs nature and future role, but chose to look the other way out of commitment to Israel’s security and the understanding of Jerusalem’s need to keep its security concerns clandestine.

Sur ces sous-marins, petite fiche Wikipédia :
►http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_Dolphin