The Olive Branch
▻https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=67747&lang=it
[2015] Tiré de l’album Rallumeurs d’étoiles
Armoured dove with olive branch by Banksy.
La chanson...
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The Olive Branch
La chanson « The Olive Branch » est en anglais, car elle s’inspire du discours historique de Yasser Arafat à la tribune de l’ONU (▻https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat%27s_1974_UN_General_Assembly_speech), le 13 novembre 1974 et en reprend les principaux éléments de language.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oaY2svEsK8&t=116s
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I am a rebel, and freedom is my cause
My only struggle is for peace and justice
War is not my choice
I’ve come to you bearing an olive branch
And a freedom fighter’s gun
I really do not wish,
Even one drop of blood to be shed
So do not let the olive branch fall from my handDon’t let the olive branch fall from my hand
Don’t let the olive branch fall from my hand
Don’t let the olive branch fall from my hand
Don’t let the olive branch fall from my handSince 1948, how many thousands of martyrs
And how many wounded and imprisoned
Offered in sacrifice
For how long shall my people remain
Refugee in its own homeland
How long before we can end
all this suffering and all this pain
Shall we ever see again our peaceful JerusalemDon’t let the olive branch fall from my hand
Don’t let the olive branch fall from my hand
Don’t let the olive branch fall from my hand
Don’t let the olive branch fall from my handAll lovers of freedom and justice
would understand me
All we wanna be :
We wanna be free ! We wanna be free !
We still stand up
And fight with utmost dignity
We’ll bring out our dream
Into a bright reality
So please …Don’t let the olive branch fall from my hand
Don’t let the olive branch fall from my hand
Don’t let the olive branch fall from my hand
Don’t let the olive branch fall from my hand#chanson #musique #musique_et_politique #nakba #Palestine #rameau_d'olivier #Yasser_Arafat
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Oslo 30. L’illusione della pace
Il 13 settembre 1993, sul prato della Casa Bianca, a Washington, viene scattata una storica fotografia: i due nemici, #Ytzhak_Rabin, primo ministro israeliano, e #Yasser_Arafat, leader dell’Olp, l’Organizzazione per la liberazione della Palestina, si stringono la mano, dopo aver firmato i cosiddetti Accordi di Oslo. Trent’anni dopo, che cosa resta del processo di pace che avrebbe dovuto cambiare il Medio Oriente e non solo? Come sarebbe dovuta andare e soprattutto come è andata a finire, invece, tra Israele e Palestina?
▻https://altreconomia.it/oslo30
#accord_d'Oslo #illusion #paix #Palestine #Israël #podcast #audio #Rabin #Arafat #accords_d'Oslo -
Palestine : Mahmoud Abbas dit savoir qui a « tué » Arafat - Monde - tdg.ch
10 novembre 2016
▻http://www.tdg.ch/monde/mahmoud-abbas-dit-savoir-tue-arafat/story/12405018Le président Mahmoud Abbas a déclaré jeudi qu’il savait qui avait « tué » son prédécesseur et leader historique des Palestiniens Yasser Arafat, sans préciser le nom de l’auteur du meurtre présumé.
« Vous me demandez qui l’a tué, je sais - mais mon seul témoignage ne suffit pas », a ainsi affirmé M. Abbas en prenant la parole devant des milliers de personnes rassemblées à Ramallah, en Cisjordanie occupée, pour marquer le 12e anniversaire de la mort d’Arafat.
« Une commission d’enquête est en train d’approfondir les choses, mais vous serez informés à la première occasion et serez surpris quand vous saurez qui l’a fait », a-t-il dit. « Je ne veux pas citer de noms parce que ces noms ne méritent pas d’être rappelés, » a-t-il ajouté.
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Israeli forces injure 4, detain 2 Palestinians after student march erupts into clashes in Ramallah
Nov. 10, 2016 6:28 P.M. (Updated: Nov. 10, 2016 6:30 P.M.)
▻http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773912RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces Thursday injured four Palestinian teenagers with rubber-coated steel bullets, and detained two others, during clashes that erupted in eastern Beituniya city near Israel’s Ofer detention center in the occupied West Bank district of Ramallah.
A student march commemorating the 12th anniversary of the death of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat erupted into clashes with Israeli forces as the march headed to the Ofer detention center to support child prisoners held in Israeli detention centers.
Palestinian demonstrators threw rocks at Israeli soldiers, while Israeli military vehicles chased the protesters, injuring four, and detaining and assaulting two others.
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Il est écrit ici aussi que Mahmoud Abbas avait déjà accusé Mohamed Dahlan :
Palestine : de l’Etat introuvable à la nation en déroute - A quoi servent les dirigeants palestiniens ?
Laetitia Bucaille, Etudes du CERI (n°224 / Octobre 2016)
►https://seenthis.net/messages/539233#Palestine #Autorite_Palestinienne #Democratie #Mahmoud_Abbas #Mohamed_Dahlan #Yasser_Arafat #Assassinat #Empoisonnement
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The Infamy of the Palestinian #Elites: An Imminent Split within Fatah?
▻http://www.ramzybaroud.net/infamy-palestinian-elites-imminent-split-within-fatahDahlan is involved in various “charity projects” including financing mass weddings in impoverished Gaza. But it is not Dahlan’s money that Hamas is seeking; rather the hope that he mediates with Egypt to ease movement on the Rafah-Egypt border.
With a growing clout and rising number of benefactors, Dahlan’s resurrection is assured, but imposing him on an embattled Fatah faction in the West Bank remains uncertain.
To preclude Dahlan’s attempt at regaining his status within Fatah, Abbas’s PA forces in the occupied West Bank have been conducting arrests of Dahlan’s supporters. The latter’s armed men are retaliating and clashes have been reported in various parts of the West Bank.
Moreover, Abbas has called for the seventh Fatah conference to be held sometime later this month, where the Abbas faction within Fatah is likely to rearrange the various committees to ensure Dahlan’s supporters are weakened, if not permanently removed.
Considering Dahlan’s strong support base and his ability to win followers using his access to wealth and regional allies, a move against his followers is likely to backfire, splitting the party, or worse, leading to an armed conflict. Despite Israel’s intentional silence, there are also reports that Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who was tied to Dahlan repeatedly in the past, is keen on ensuring the return of Dahlan at the helm of Fatah.
Tragically, the power struggle rarely involves ordinary Palestinian people, who remain alone facing the Israeli military machine, the growing illegal Jewish settlements, the suffocating siege, while persisting under an unprecedented leadership vacuum.
This is one of the enduring legacies of the Oslo Accords, which divides Palestinians into classes: a powerful class that is subsidised by “donor countries” and is used to serve the interests of the US, Israel and regional powers, and the vast majority of people, barely surviving on handouts and resisting under growing odds.
This strange contradiction has become the shameful reality of Palestine, and regardless of what the power struggle between Abbas and Dahlan brings, most Palestinians will find themselves facing the same dual enemy, military occupation, on the one hand, and their leadership’s own acquiescence and #corruption, on the other.
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On this land, there’s what’s worth crying over
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/land-theres-whats-worth-crying-overLebanon’s Ain al-Hilweh #Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of the southern city of #Saida. Al-Akhbar/Marwan Bou Haidar #Lebanon's Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of the southern city of Saida. Al-Akhbar/Marwan Bou Haidar
As you return home, to your home, think of others Do not forget those who live in tents As you sleep and count the stars, think of others Those who have nowhere to sleep Think of Others – Mahmoud Darwish
May Khatib
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#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY digest : Blogging gold of 2014
▻http://africasacountry.com/africa-is-a-country-digest-blogging-gold-of-2014Over the years we’ve developed a somewhat undeserved reputation as purveyors of angry hatchet-jobs. We do our share of take-downs, but most of our content isn’t really like that, even.....
#Achal_Prabhala #AP #Ben_Carrington #Best_of_2014_on_AIAC #Burkina_Faso #Busisiwe_Deyi #Ed_Pavlic #Ishtiyaq_Shukri #Israel #James_Baldwin #Jeffrey_Gettleman #Julius_Nyerere #Nathan_Chiume #Neelika_Jayawardane #Neymar #Palestine #Paul_Simon #Paula_Akugizibwe #Pieter_Hugo #Siddhartha_Mitter #Sisonke_Msimang #Steven_van_Zandt #Stuart_Hall #Suchitra_Vijayan #Thabiso_Sekgala #Ts'eliso_Monaheng #Yasser_Arafat
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Ten years since Arafat’s death: Lost hope as the illusion of temporary #occupation fades - Middle East Israel News | Haaretz
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.625283On Wednesday evening, as young Palestinians were sparring with the Israel Police in East Jerusalem neighborhoods, a documentary about the life of #Yasser_Arafat was being shown at the Mahmoud Darwish Museum in #Ramallah. The museum’s Galilee Hall was filled with members of the PLO and Fatah — high-ranking and lower-ranking, well-known and not so well-known, old and young. There were more men than women. They applauded when, on-screen, Arafat declared the establishment of a Palestinian state on November 15, 1988.
The people in attendance, like the rest of the residents of the Palestinian Authority’s de facto capital, followed Wednesday’s events in East Jerusalem, “the capital of the Palestinian state,” 10 to 15 kilometers away. They “followed” the demonstrations and clashes as opposed to “participated” or “expanded” them to other areas of the occupied West Bank.
This is because the identifying feature of Palestinian society today is the split into local units, where dramatic incidents that take place in some units — war in Gaza, mass arrests in Hebron, conflicts with the Palestinian police in Jenin — don’t affect the rest. The mental distance between one geographic unit and the next is several times greater than the physical distance — not only when it comes to Gaza and Jerusalem, where Israel’s policy of closure and movement restrictions cut people off physically from the West Bank, or in the villages behind the separation barriers such as Bart’aa, Nabi Samwil and Nuaman.
The common objective reality — a foreign rule that the Palestinians experience as a colonialist system working to displace and dispossess them — is broken down into separate components with ostensibly different experiences for each.
The choice of the anniversary of Arafat’s death to discuss the changes in Palestinian society contains the assumption that the presence or absence of the late PLO chairman had an effect on these changes. There is no doubt that Arafat, in going to #Oslo or signing the agreement for gradual progress toward a goal never explicitly defined with the occupying state, had a hand in creating the geographic #fragmentation that so profoundly affected the societal fragmentation (the West Bank’s temporary division into areas A, B and C, which became permanent).
But in Arafat’s defense, let it be said that Israel began fragmenting Palestinian society in the territories that it occupied in 1967 even before the #Madrid Conference or the Oslo talks. The regime of movement permits that Israel created cut Gaza off from the rest of Palestinian society in January 1991; with East Jerusalem this process began in March 1993. Since then, the political, economic, religious and cultural Palestinian capital has undergone a process of withering, withdrawal and return to the un-national and segregating spheres of influence of the extended families.
The sociologist Jamil Hilal says that had it not been for Arafat’s death, the political split between Gaza and the West Bank never would have happened, and two competing Palestinian governments would not have been created. If that’s true, this is an area where Arafat’s absence had a direct effect on the negative and far-reaching developments in Palestinian society.
Hilal told Haaretz it’s very likely Arafat would not have agreed to hold the 2006 Palestinian election, based on the belief that the vote would have legitimized the occupation (which, according to the Oslo Accords, was supposed to have ended in 1999). Without an election, the deep sociopolitical split in Palestinian society never would have happened. With an election under Arafat, Hilal believes Fatah would have won because Arafat would have risen above the internal splits and rivalries.
The geographic fragmentation has been complemented over the years by a process of atomization, or – in Hilal’s words - individualization.
“The spread of individualism means that more and more Palestinians are legitimating, promoting, and protecting their personal interests and concerns above the collective interests and concerns of the community. This is the outcome of a number of factors,” Hilal wrote in an article asking what was stopping the third intifada. The article was published in May on the website of Al-Shabaka, an independent think tank of Palestinians without borders — in Palestine, in the diaspora and in exile.
The PA (under Arafat and even more strongly after his death) adopted a neoliberal economic regime in which, Hilal writes, “the private sector was granted the determining role in shaping the Palestinian economy and the PA’s dependency on external aid and on Israeli tax transfers was cemented. This dependency has made the PA vulnerable to political pressure and made the employees of its large public sector wary of any change that could jeopardize their sources of livelihood.”
The adoption of neoliberal thinking is not surprising, says Hilal: The PA was established at the peak of a global neoliberal era and was supported from the start by the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, donor countries and NGOs that themselves relied on donations from abroad.
Another "factor related to the process of individualization has been the decline in the influence and credibility of political organizations and the buildup of the PA bureaucracy [and also that of Hamas] and formal institutions under the illusion that this would soon lead to an independent Palestinian state,” writes Hilal.
“The largely egalitarian political culture ‘of brothers and comrades’ and the relatively easy access to leaders by the rank and file that existed before the Oslo Accords has been replaced by pseudo-state institutions with their rigid hierarchical structures and discourse. There are now ministers, director generals, and other civilian and military ranks, each with its own special privileges and job description.”
Economic gaps have widened among the regions, cities, villages, refugee camps and extended families. Hilal told Haaretz that before the Oslo Accords, when the number of workers in Israel was high and movement into Israel was unrestricted, workers’ salaries were even higher than those of the middle class.
In recent years, the middle class that is dependent on the PA, its security agencies and the private sector, which is motivated by profit, has expanded. The main interest of this class — represented by fairly strong professional associations, unlike the workers and the farmers, who are not organized properly — is not to rock the boat, not to break the status quo.
The sociologist Hunaida Ghanem, who runs MADAR, the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies, described the Palestinian hierarchical structure as follows: “There is a small elite that established [the new Palestinian city of] Rawabi, and there are those who got rich from the Oslo process. There is the middle class of Ramallah, who live in a bubble and in an illusion that their situation is good because they live on bank loans. And there is the majority of the people, who don’t live in a bubble and suffer from the existing reality.”
As Ghanem told Haaretz, “The middle class chases personal security and car loans — not even in Tel Aviv and New York do you see cars like the ones here in Ramallah. This is a middle class under occupation that lives in nonprofits, academia, the schools, the government ministries. It used to be the avant-garde of national action, of resistance and the national project. Now it is busy with repaying debts. Those who work in nonprofit organizations are busy with pleasing the donors.”
The reality of the separate units, created when the Oslo process began, calls to mind the PLO’s experience in Jordan and Lebanon. There, too, it worked in a scattered Palestinian society that lacked space and territorial contiguity, but the common experience of being a refugee nation and the struggle overcame the lack of contiguity. So maybe that is why Arafat wasn’t worried by the imposed geographic fragmentation into areas A, B and C in 1995. He saw it as something that would end no later than 1999.
“Arafat and many others in the Palestinian community bought the temporariness that Israel sold,” said Ghanem. “But Israel created the largest settlements under the umbrella of temporariness. Arafat, as a Ben-Gurionist, believed in his ability to maneuver what existed toward a defined goal: the establishment of a state in the West Bank and Gaza.”
Arafat, said Ghanem, symbolized for the Palestinians hope, various possibilities and an alternative — if a given method failed. “During Arafat’s time, when people said ‘peace process,’ people trusted in his ability to lead to a breakthrough. They believed it wouldn’t be a static situation.” Today, without him, Palestinian society has lost its hope and horizon.
Palestinians are well aware of the internal contradiction; this, too, is a prominent feature. On the one hand, as Hilal puts it, the Israeli occupation provides all the objective and unifying conditions for a third intifada. On the other, the reality of Oslo (which is part of those objective conditions) created subjective conditions of social stratification, economic disparities and discipline-imposing security agencies that are subject to the will of the donor countries. All this prevents or delays the next uprising.
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« Je n’entrerai pas dans l’histoire des #arabes en tant que traître. »
▻http://levant.tumblr.com/post/94203310168“Je n’entrerai pas dans l’histoire des Arabes en tant que traître.” - #arafat...
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#Tanzania and the Palestinian Struggle
▻http://africasacountry.com/tanzania-and-the-palestinian-struggleThe current conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has once again brought to the forefront the suffering of the Palestinian people. It has reignited the debate on collective punishment they are made to endure as well as the unequal application of firepower by #Israel. After close to 20 days of Israeli air raids followed by a […]
#General #HISTORY #POLITICS #Bernard_Membe #diplomacy #diplomatic_relations #Gaza #Kenya #Mwalimu_Nyerere #Palestine #Palestine_Liberation_Organisation #PLO #Yasser_Arafat
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Is Football Federation chief al-Rajoub a Qatari-backed successor to Abbas?
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/20119FIFA President Sepp Blatter (C-L) and the head of the Palestinian Federation of Football Jibril Rajoub (C-R) watch a training session at a football academy named after Blatter, in Al-Bireh, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on May 27, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Abbas Momani) FIFA President Sepp Blatter (C-L) and the head of the Palestinian Federation of Football Jibril Rajoub (C-R) watch a training session at a football academy named after Blatter, in Al-Bireh, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on May 27, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Abbas Momani)
Who could have ever imagined that football would become a cover for politics, especially with regards to the Palestinians whose leaders have historically clung to power until death? (...)
#Palestine #Abu_Mazen #Articles #Emir_Prince_Tamim #Fatah #Hamas #Jibril_al-Rajoub #Mahmoud_Abbas #Qatar #Yasser_Arafat
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Palestinian reconciliation: A history of documents
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/palestinian-reconciliation-history-documentsPalestinian #Fatah delegation chief Azzam al-Ahmed (L) speaks with #Hamas prime minister in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniya in Gaza City on April 23, 2014 after West Bank and Gaza Strip leaders agreed to form a unity government within five weeks. (Photo: AFP-Said Khatib) Palestinian Fatah delegation chief Azzam al-Ahmed (L) speaks with Hamas prime minister in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniya in Gaza City on April 23, 2014 after West Bank and Gaza Strip leaders agreed to form a unity government within five weeks. (Photo: AFP-Said Khatib)
Last week officials from rival Palestinian factions announced a national reconciliation agreement. This is not the first time such an announcement has been made. For nearly a decade, various (...)
#Palestine #Articles #benjamin_netanyahu #Cairo_Accords #Doha_Agreement #EU #Ismail_Haniyeh #Israel #Khaled_Meshaal #Mahmoud_Abbas #Mecca_Agreement #Mohammed_Dahlan #Mohammed_Mursi #Palestinian_Authority #PLO #Salam_Fayyad #US #Yasser_Arafat
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PA presidency: Can Dahlan beat Abbas?
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/pa-presidency-can-dahlan-beat-abbas-0Palestinian President #Mahmoud_Abbas attend the 25th Arab League summit at Bayan palace in Kuwait City on March 26, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Yasser al-Zayyat) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attend the 25th Arab League summit at Bayan palace in Kuwait City on March 26, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Yasser al-Zayyat)
The #Palestinian_National_Authority's (PNA) internal disputes became local news in Lebanon following the assassination of #Fatah-linked al-Awda Brigade’s commander Ahmed Rashid and his two brothers by Ansarullah, a group led by Jamal Suleiman who is close to Hezbollah. However, Fatah remained calm, unlike other occasions when its leaders are merely threatened.
Abdul Rahman Jasem (...)
#Opinion #Articles #Hamas #Israel #Mintar_Crossing #Mohammed_Dahlan #Palestine #US #Yasser_Arafat
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Scientist puts in doubt French report ruling out Arafat poisoning
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/scientist-puts-doubt-french-report-ruling-out-arafat-poisoningAiling Palestinian leader #Yasser_Arafat says goodbye to well-wishers as he boards a Jordanian army helicopter at dawn at the Muqatta, his West Bank offices in Ramallah 29 October 2004, en route for Amman, from where he would fly to Paris to seek medical treatment. (Photo: AFP - Odd Andersen)
A French report ruling out poisoning in Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death has a glaring inconsistency, the co-author of a Swiss probe said Thursday, sticking by his team’s conclusion that the Palestinian leader was likely killed. “Our data lean more towards the thesis of poisoning than in the opposite direction,” Professor François Bochud, head of the Lausanne Institute of Applied Radiophysics, told AFP. read (...)
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« Israël est le seul suspect dans la mort de Yasser #arafat en #2004 »
▻http://levant.tumblr.com/post/66657207864“Israël est le seul suspect dans la mort de #yasser_arafat en 2004” - Tawfik Tirawi
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Le rapport russe sur la mort d’Arafat n’est pas concluant - Yahoo Actualités France
►http://fr.news.yahoo.com/le-rapport-russe-sur-arafat-pas-concluant-sur-111421955.html(...) « Les conclusions du rapport exhaustif sur les niveaux de polonium 210 et l’évolution de sa maladie n’apportent pas de preuves suffisantes pour étayer la thèse selon laquelle le polonium 210 a provoqué un syndrome de radiation aigu débouchant sur la mort », a déclaré le Dr Abdoullah Bachir en citant les conclusions de l’enquête russe.
Mais cet enquêteur palestinien a ajouté que les rapports suisse et russe avaient conclu à la présence de « grandes quantités » de cet isotope radioactif dans le corps d’Arafat.
Les conclusions des enquêteurs russes sont nettement plus prudentes que celles des experts suisses qui ont été publiées mercredi par Al Djazira sur son site internet.
Pour les enquêteurs suisses, les éléments recueillis appuient l’hypothèse d’un empoisonnement au polonium et justifient une enquête judiciaire sans toutefois permettre de certitude. (...)
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La France complice de l’assassinat de Yasser Arafat
Neuf ans après la mort du dirigeant palestinien en France, des experts suisses confirment qu’il a bien été empoisonné au polonium. Le quotidien nationaliste panarabe Al-Quds Al-Arabi se demande si en 2004 les Français n’ont pas maquillé la vérité.
* Al-Quds Al-Arabi / ►http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2013/11/08/la-france-complice-de-l-assassinat-de-yasser-arafat
La question qui se pose désormais est de savoir pourquoi on n’a pas su la vérité dès 2004, année du décès d’Arafat dans un hôpital parisien. Les médecins français qui l’ont veillé ont dû recevoir des instructions de la part des autorités françaises, en collaboration avec les Américains et les Israéliens, afin de cacher la vérité.
Ces raisons politiques de ce maquillage de la vérité valables en 2004 le sont toujours aujourd’hui. A savoir protéger Israël contre l’éventualité d’une enquête criminelle et éviter les conséquences que cela pourrait avoir sur les négociations avec les Palestiniens.
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PA says #Israel “only suspect” in Arafat poisoning
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/pa-says-israel-only-suspect-arafat-poisoningTawfiq Tirawi, center, Palestinian inquiry chief into the death of Palestinian leader #Yasser_Arafat, speaks during a press conference in Ramallah, accompanied by Dr. Abdullah Al-Bashir, President of the Medical Committee, left, and Ali Muhanna Chairman of the Legal Committee on November 8, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Abbas Momani)
Palestinian investigators accused Israel of being the “only suspect” in Yasser Arafat’s death on Friday, a day after Swiss laboratory experts (...)
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#PLO calls for investigation into Arafat death after polonium diagnosis
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/plo-calls-investigation-arafat-death-after-scientists-confirm-poiPalestinians walk past a mural of late Palestinian leader #Yasser_Arafat in Gaza City on November 7, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Mohammed Abed)
Updated at 1:20pm: A PLO official on Thursday called for an international inquiry into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a day after Swiss scientists said he probably died from polonium poisoning. "The (test) results proved Arafat was poisoned by polonium, and this substance is owned by states, not people, meaning that (...)
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IMEU: Israel’s History of Assassinating Palestinian Leaders
►http://imeu.net/news/article0024562.shtmlIsrael’s History of Assassinating Palestinian Leaders
The IMEU, Nov 6, 2013On November 6, several news outlets reported that the widow of former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat announced that the results of a Swiss investigation into her late husband’s death concluded he was poisoned with polonium, a radioactive substance.
In November 2012, Arafat’s body was exhumed in order for medical examiners to take samples of his remains to test for polonium, part of a murder investigation launched by French authorities at the request of Suha Arafat following the discovery last summer of traces of the highly toxic substance on some of his personal effects. In October 2004, after enduring a two-year siege by the Israeli military in his West Bank headquarters, Arafat fell seriously ill. Two weeks later he was transported to a French military hospital where he died. Doctors concluded he died from a stroke caused by a mysterious blood disorder.
At the time, many Palestinians suspected that Arafat was murdered. Over the years, he had survived numerous assassination attempts by Israel, and just six months before his death then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that an agreement he had made with US President George W. Bush promising that Israel wouldn’t kill Arafat was no longer valid, stating: “I released myself from the commitment in regard to Arafat.”
Two years prior to that statement, in an interview published in February 2002, Sharon told an Israeli journalist that he regretted not killing Arafat when he had the chance during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, stating: “I am sorry that we did not liquidate him.’’ In 2002, current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then in the opposition following his first term as prime minister (1996-1999), told the Likud party Central Committee: “We must completely and totally eradicate Arafat’s regime and remove him from the vicinity... This one thing must be understood: If we do not remove Arafat and his regime, the terror will return and increase. And only if we do remove them is there any chance of turning a new leaf in our relationship with the Palestinians.” When Arafat died, Netanyahu was serving as Minister of Finance in Sharon’s government.
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Liste non exhaustive des assassinats de dirigeants palestiniens par Israël
source : IMEU / Traduction en français : JPP pour l’Agence Média Palestine▻http://www.agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2013/11/11/liste-non-exhaustive-des-assassinats-de-dirigeants-palestiniens
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Forensics reveal Arafat was killed with polonium, widow says
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/forensics-reveal-arafat-was-killed-polonium-widow-saysA September 28, 1998 file photo shows Palestinian leader #Yasser_Arafat addressing the 53rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. (Photo: AFP - Timothy A. Clary)
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband’s corpse. “We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination,” she told Reuters in Paris. (...)
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Arafat empoisonné? Un labo lausannois confirme
▻http://www.tdg.ch/monde/asie-oceanie/Arafat-empoisonne-Un-labo-lausannois-confirme/story/16318804Les analyses des échantillons prélevés sur la dépouille du dirigeant historique palestinien Yasser Arafat confortent l’hypothèse d’un empoisonnement au polonium, selon une copie du rapport médical diffusée mercredi par la chaîne Al-Jazeera. Les analyses ont été effectuées par le laboratoire de radiophysique de Lausanne
Les causes de la mort d’Arafat le 11 novembre 2004 dans un hôpital militaire français n’ont pas été élucidées, et nombre de Palestiniens soupçonnent Israël, qui a toujours nié, de l’avoir empoisonné.
« Les résultats soutiennent modérément l’hypothèse que la mort a été la conséquence d’un empoisonnement au polonium-210 », concluent les dix médecins et praticiens, pour la plupart de l’Institut de radiophysique de Lausanne
Taux jusqu’à 20 fois supérieur à la moyenne
« Nous avons mesuré des activités de polonium-210 dans les os et les tissus qui étaient jusqu’à 20 fois supérieures aux références de la littérature » médicale, selon le rapport daté du 5 novembre.
« Le fait qu’elles ne soient pas homogènes est compatible avec une absorption de polonium-210 survenue lors de l’apparition des premiers symptômes (octobre 2004) », remarquent-ils, évoquant le cas d’Alexandre Litvinenko, un ancien membre des services secrets russes réfugié à Londres, assassiné en 2006 avec cette substance.
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►http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20131106-piste-empoisonnement-expliquer-mort-yasser-arafat-refait-surface
Yasser Arafat s’adresse aux délégués de l’Organisation de l’Unité africaine en Juillet 1972 à Kampala. (AFP)Une toxicité extrême renforcée par le fait qu’il n’existe aujourd’hui aucun traitement connu pour l’évacuer de l’organisme. C’est donc le poison imparable. D’après ces analyses des scientifiques suisses, le corps de Yasser Arafat contenait au moins 18 fois la dose tolérée, accréditant ainsi la thèse de l’empoisonnement.
Un empoisonnement très difficile à réaliser. Produire une quantité mortelle de polonium demande de l’argent, un laboratoire nucléaire et un équipement extrêmement sophistiqué pour manipuler ce produit hautement toxique sans s’empoisonner soi-même.
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#Palestinian_Authority receives forensics reports on Arafat’s death
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/palestinian-authority-receives-forensics-reports-arafats-deathPalestinian authorities have received the reports of Swiss and Russian forensic investigations into the 2004 death of #Yasser_Arafat, an official said Tuesday, without disclosing the findings. “The report was delivered” by the Swiss laboratory, Tawfiq Tirawi, who heads the Palestinian investigation into Arafat’s death, told AFP. When contacted, the Swiss lab declined to comment on the matter. read (...)
