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    THREAD: Who was there first? The short answer is that the question is irrelevant. Claims of ancient title (“This land is ours because we were here several thousand years ago”) have no standing or validity under international law.

    For good reason, because such claims also defy elementary common sense.

    Neither I nor anyone reading this post can convincingly substantiate the geographical location of their direct ancestors ten or five or even two thousand years ago. If we could, the successful completion of the exercise would confer exactly zero property, territorial, or sovereign rights.

    As a thought experiment, let’s go back only a few centuries rather than multiple millennia. Do South Africa’s Afrikaners have the right to claim The Netherlands as their homeland, or even qualify for Dutch citizenship, on the basis of their lineage?

    Do the descendants of African-Americans who were forcibly removed from West Africa have the right to board a flight in Atlanta, Port-au-Prince, or São Paolo and reclaim their ancestral villages from the current inhabitants, who in all probability arrived only after – perhaps long after – the previous inhabitants were abducted and sold into slavery half a world away?

    Do Australians who can trace their roots to convicts who were involuntarily transported Down Under by the British government have a right to return to Britain or Ireland and repossess homes from the present inhabitants even if, with the help of court records, they can identify the exact address inhabited by their forebears? Of course not.

    In sharp contrast to, for example, Native Americans or the Maori of New Zealand, none of the above can demonstrate a living connection with the lands to which they would lay claim.

    To put it crudely, neither nostalgic attachment nor ancestry, in and of themselves, confer rights of any sort, particularly where such rights have not been asserted over the course of hundreds or thousands of years. once again be speaking Arabic.

    If they did, American English would be the predominant language in large parts of Europe, and Spain would once again be speaking Arabic.
    Nevertheless, the claim of ancient title has been and remains central to Zionist assertions of not only Jewish rights in Palestine, but of an exclusive Jewish right to Palestine.

    For the sake of argument, let’s examine it. If we put aside religious mythology, the origin of the ancient Israelites is indeed local.

    In ancient times it was not unusual for those in conflict with authority or marginalized by it to take to the more secure environment of surrounding hills or mountains, conquer existing settlements or establish new ones, and in the ultimate sign of independence adopt distinct religious practices and generate their own rulers. That the Israelites originated as indigenous Canaanite tribes rather than as fully-fledged monotheistic immigrants or conquerors is more or less the scholarly consensus, buttressed by archeological and other evidence. And buttressed by the absence of evidence for the origin stories more familiar to us.

    It is also the scholarly consensus that the Israelites established two kingdoms, Judah and Israel, the former landlocked and covering Jerusalem and regions to the south, the latter (also known as the Northern Kingdom or Samaria) encompassing points north, the Galilee, and parts of contemporary Jordan. Whether these entities were preceded by a United Kingdom that subsequently fractured remains the subject of fierce debate.

    What is certain is that the ancient Israelites were never a significant regional power, let alone the superpower of the modern imagination.

    There is a reason the great empires of the Middle East emerged in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Anatolia – or from outside the region altogether – but never in Palestine.

    It simply lacked the population and resource base for power projection. Jerusalem may be the holiest of cities on earth, but for almost the entirety of its existence, including the period in question, it existed as a village, provincial town or small city rather than metropolis.
    Judah and Israel, like the neighboring Canaanite and Philistine entities during this period, were for most of their existence vassal states, their fealty and tribute fought over by rival empires – Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, etc. – rather than extracted from others.

    Indeed, Israel was destroyed during the eighth century BCE by the Assyrians, who for good measured subordinated Judah to their authority, until it was in the sixth century BCE eliminated by the Babylonians, who had earlier overtaken the Assyrians in a regional power struggle.

    The Babylonian Exile was not a wholesale deportation, but rather affected primarily Judah’s elites and their kin. Nor was there a collective return to the homeland when the opportunity arose several decades later after Cyrus the Great defeated Babylon
    and re-established a smaller Judah as a province of the Persian Achaemenid empire. Indeed, Mesopotamia would remain a key center of Jewish religion and culture for centuries afterwards.

    Zionist claims of ancient title conveniently erase the reality that the ancient Israelites were hardly the only inhabitants of ancient Palestine, but rather shared it with Canaanites, Philistines, and others.

    The second part of the claim, that the Jewish population was forcibly expelled by the Romans and has for 2,000 years been consumed with the desire to return, is equally problematic.

    By the time the Romans conquered Jerusalem during the first century BCE, established Jewish communities were already to be found throughout the Mediterranean world and Middle East – to the extent that a number of scholars have concluded that a majority of Jews already lived in the diaspora by the time the first Roman soldier set foot in Jerusalem.

    These communities held a deep attachment to Jerusalem, its Temple, and the lands recounted in the Bible. They identified as diasporic communities, and in many cases may additionally have been able to trace their origins to this or that town or village
    in the extinguished kingdoms of Israel and Judah. But there is no indication those born and bred in the diaspora across multiple generations considered themselves to be living in temporary exile or considered the territory of the former Israelite kingdoms rather than their lands of birth and residence their natural homeland, any more than Irish-Americans today feel they properly belong in Ireland rather than the United States.
    Unlike those taken in captivity to Babylon centuries earlier there was no impediment to their relocation to or from their ancestral lands, although economic factors appear to have played an important role in the growth of the diaspora.

    By contrast, those traveling in the opposite direction appear to have done so, more often than not, for religious reasons, or to be buried in Jerusalem’s sacred soil.

    Nations and nationalism did not exist 2,000 years ago. Nor Zionist propagandists in New York, Paris, and London incessantly proclaiming that for two millennia Jews everywhere have wanted nothing more than to return their homeland, and invariably driving home rather than taking the next flight to Tel Aviv. Nor insufferably loud Americans declaring, without a hint of irony or self-awareness, the right of the Jewish people to Palestine “because they were there first”.

    Back to the Romans, about a century after their arrival a series of Jewish rebellions over the course of several decades, coupled with internecine warfare between various Jewish factions, produced devastating results.

    A large proportion of the Jewish population was killed in battle, massacred, sold into slavery, or exiled. Many towns and villages were ransacked, the Temple in Jerusalem destroyed, and Jews barred from entering the city for all but one day a year.

    Although a significant Jewish presence remained, primarily in the Galilee, the killings, associated deaths from disease and destitution, and expulsions during the Roman-Jewish wars exacted a calamitous toll.

    With the destruction of the Temple Jerusalem became an increasingly spiritual rather than physical center of Jewish life. Jews neither formed a demographic majority in Palestine, nor were the majority of Jews to be found there.

    Many of those who remained would in subsequent centuries convert to Christianity or Islam, succumb to massacres during the Crusades, or join the diaspora. On the eve of Zionist colonization locally-born Jews constituted less than five per cent of the total population.

    As for the burning desire to return to Zion, there is precious little evidence to substantiate it. There is, for example, no evidence that upon their expulsion from Spain during the late fifteenth century, the Sephardic Jewish community,
    many of whom were given refuge by the Ottoman Empire that ruled Palestine, made concerted efforts to head for Jerusalem. Rather, most opted for Istanbul and Greece.
    Similarly, during the massive migration of Jews fleeing persecution and poverty in Eastern Europe during the nineteenth century, the destinations of choice were the United States and United Kingdom.

    Even after the Zionist movement began a concerted campaign to encourage Jewish emigration to Palestine, less than five per cent took up the offer. And while the British are to this day condemned for limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine during the late 1930s, the more pertinent reality is that the vast majority of those fleeing the Nazi menace once again preferred to relocate to the US and UK, but were deprived of these havens because Washington and London firmly slammed their doors shut.

    Tellingly, the Jewish Agency for Israel in 2023 reported that of the world’s 15.7 million Jews, 7.2 million – less than half – reside in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
    According to the Agency, “The Jewish population numbers refer to persons who define themselves as Jews by religion or otherwise and who do not practice another religion”.

    It further notes that if instead of religion one were to apply Israel’s Law of Return, under which any individual with one or more Jewish grandparent is entitled to Israeli citizenship, only 7.2 of 25.5 million eligible individuals (28 per cent) have opted for Zion.

    In other words, “Next Year in Jerusalem” was, and largely remains, an aspirational religious incantation rather than political program. For religious Jews, furthermore, it was to result from divine rather than human intervention.

    For this reason, many equated Zionism with blasphemy, and until quite recently most Orthodox Jews were either non-Zionist or rejected the ideology altogether.

    Returning to the irrelevant issue of ancestry, if there is one population group that can lay a viable claim of direct descent from the ancient Israelites it would be the Samaritans, who have inhabited the area around Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus, without interruption since ancient times.

    Palestinian Jews would be next in line, although unlike the Samaritans they interacted more regularly with both other Jewish communities and their gentile neighbors.

    Claims of Israelite descent made on behalf of Jewish diaspora communities are much more difficult to sustain. Conversions to and from Judaism, intermarriage with gentiles, absorption in multiple foreign societies, and related phenomena over the course of several thousand years make it a virtual certainty that the vast majority of Jews who arrived in Palestine during the late 19th and first half of the 20th century to reclaim their ancient homeland were in fact the first of their lineage to ever set foot in it.

    By way of an admittedly imperfect analogy, most Levantines, Egyptians, Sudanese, and North Africans identify as Arabs, yet the percentage of those who can trace their roots to the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula that conquered their lands during the seventh and eighth centuries is at best rather small.

    Ironically, a contemporary Palestinian, particularly in the West Bank and Galilee, is likely to have more Israelite ancestry than a contemporary diaspora Jew.

    The Palestinians take their name from the Philistines, one of the so-called Sea Peoples who arrived on the southern coast of Canaan from the Aegean islands, probably Crete, during the late second millennium BCE.

    They formed a number of city states, including Gaza, Ashdod, and Ashkelon. Like Judah and Israel they existed primarily as vassals of regional powers, and like them were eventually destroyed by more powerful states as well.

    With no record of their extermination or expulsion, the Philistines are presumed to have been absorbed by the Canaanites and thereafter disappear from the historical record.

    Sitting at the crossroads between Asia, Africa, and Europe, Palestine was over the centuries repeatedly conquered by empires near and far, absorbing a constant flow of human and cultural influences throughout.

    Given its religious significance pilgrims from around the globe also contributed to making the Palestinian people what they are today.

    A common myth is that the Palestinian origin story dates from the Arab-Muslim conquests of the seventh century. In point of fact the Arabs neither exterminated nor expelled the existing population, and the new rulers never formed a majority of the population.

    Rather, and over the course of several centuries, the local population was gradually Arabized, and to a large extent Islamized as well.

    So the question as to who was there first can be answered in several ways: “both” and “irrelevant” are equally correct.
    Indisputably, the Zionist movement had no right to establish a sovereign state in Palestine on the basis of claims of ancient title, which was and remains its primary justification for doing so.

    That it established an exclusivist state that not only rejected any rights for the existing Palestinian population but was from the very outset determined to displace and replace this population was and remains a historical travesty.

    That it as a matter of legislation confers automatic citizenship on millions who have no existing connection with the land but denies it to those who were born there and expelled from it, solely on the basis of their identity, would appear to be the very definition of apartheid.

    The above notwithstanding, and while the Zionist claim of exclusive Israeli sovereignty in Palestine remains illegitimate, there are today several million Israelis who cannot be simply wished away.

    A path to co-existence will need to be found, even as the genocidal nature of the Israeli state, and increasingly of Israeli society as well, makes the endeavor increasingly complicated.

    The question, thrown into sharp relief by Israel’s genocidal onslaught on the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip, is whether co-existence with Israeli society can be achieved without first dismantling the Israeli state and its ruling institutions. END

    @johannes_rath 2. While the circumstances of their arrival in the western hemisphere are fundamentally different, their situation today is not all that different from e.g. Italian-Americans or Japanese-Americans.

    @johannes_rath 3. Unlike Palestinians, African-Americans have neither asserted claims or rights to their former homes and homeland, nor sought to have these recognized, nor achieved an internationally-recognized right of return

    • Contrairement aux Australiens et Africains les Allemands et les juifs sionistes ont le droit de réclamer leurs terres et maisons historiques après la disparition des entités légales qui protégeaient ses habitants récents.

      Do Australians who can trace their roots to convicts who were involuntarily transported Down Under by the British government have a right to return to Britain or Ireland and repossess homes from the present inhabitants even if, with the help of court records, they can identify the exact address inhabited by their forebears? Of course not.

      Voilà moment cela s’est passé en Allemagne.

      En 1948 et 1990 respectivement les habitants de la Palestine et de la #RDA perdaient le droit à leur propriété ou leur appartement loué si un propriétaire suivant le droit d’un état historique y réclamait ses terres, son château où sa maison.

      En Allemagne en 1990 l’état bourgeois agissait suivant la devise « restitution avant dédommagement » et obligait un nombre important d’institutions sociales et d’individus à quitter leurs locaux et habitations. Les nouveaux anciens propriétaires furent de riches capitalistes, nobles et héritiers dont beaucoup de juifs qui avaient préféré rester aux USA ou en Israël plutôt quede récupérer leurs biens après 1945/1949.

      En ce qui concerne l’Israël l’histoire est encore plus absurde et injuste car après 2000 ans il n’y a plus de cadastre ou hêritier direct pouvant réclamer un bien précis.

      L’état bourgeois allemand a suivi les revendications des associations juives de restituer les biens des familles juives éteintes à des associations juives sans autorité légale. On ne sait d’ailleurs pas bien qui a touché les sommes importantes après la vente des biens immobiliers par ces associations.

      On trouve de nombreux cas pour ce type d’enrichissement des nantis en cherchant pour « Rückgabe vor Entschädigung ».
      https://de.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=R%C3%BCckgabe+vor+Entsch%C3%A4digung&title=Spezial%

      #Allemagne #Wiedervereinigung #DDR #BRD #capitalisme #Volkseigentum #propriêtê #contre-révolution

  • L’Afrique du Sud poursuit ses citoyens qui ont servi dans l’armée israélienne
    Par Middle East Eye, le 13 mars 2024 - Agence Media Palestine
    https://agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2024/03/14/lafrique-du-sud-poursuit-ses-citoyens-qui-ont-servi-dans-larmee

    La ministre sud-africaine des relations internationales et de la coopération, Naledi Pandor, a déclaré que les ressortissants sud-africains ayant servi dans l’armée israélienne seraient poursuivis à leur retour dans le pays, alors qu’Israël poursuit sa guerre dévastatrice contre la bande de Gaza pour le sixième mois.

    « J’ai déjà publié une déclaration pour alerter ceux qui sont sud-africains et qui combattent aux côtés ou dans les forces de défense israéliennes. Nous sommes prêts. Lorsque vous rentrerez chez vous, nous vous arrêterons », a déclaré Mme Pandor lors d’une réunion du Congrès national africain en début de semaine.

    Dans son discours réaffirmant la solidarité de son pays avec la Palestine, la ministre sud-africaine a fait référence à ses déclarations antérieures de décembre, dans lesquelles elle avertissait que les citoyens sud-africains qui servent dans l’armée israélienne pourraient être traduits en justice. (...)

  • Israël-Palestine. Le plan d’assujettissement des Palestiniens se poursuit
    Amira Hass | Haaretz le 12 mars 2024 ; traduction rédaction A l’Encontre
    http://alencontre.org/moyenorient/palestine/israel-palestine-le-plan-dassujettissement-des-palestiniens-se-poursuit.
    source : https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-12/ty-article/.premium/the-plan-to-subjugate-the-palestinians-goes-ahead/0000018e-32ae-d606-a5ff-7fbf31c80000

    (...) Il y a sept ans, au printemps 2017, Smotrich – alors encore député au sein du parti Habayit Hayehudi-Le Foyer juif – avait présenté dans des cercles sionistes religieux fermés son plan pour un Etat de la rivière à la mer, pour un seul peuple [voir Haaretz, 22 mai 2023]. Le peuple juif. Certains en ont conclu que le massacre d’enfants et de femmes palestiniens était inclus dans sa troisième option : une guerre totale contre les Palestiniens qui refusent d’émigrer ou de rester et d’accepter la non-réalisation de leurs droits nationaux dans ce pays.

    Dans une réponse aux critiques de son plan dans Haaretz, il a réfuté entièrement l’interprétation extrême donnée à ses propos, et semble-t-il au fait qu’il s’est appuyé sur des messages envoyés par Joshua bin Nun [Josué le prophète successeur de Moïse dans la conduite vers la Terre promise], selon un midrash [exégèse biblique], aux habitants de la terre qu’il s’apprêtait à conquérir, selon la Bible (Haaretz, « I didn’t call for the wholesale killing of all Palestinians » – « Je n’ai pas appelé au massacre de tous les Palestiniens », 4 juin 2017).

    Déjà dans un entretien franc qu’il a accordé à Ravit Hecht il y a plus de sept ans (Haaretz, 3 décembre 2016), Smotrich a mentionné Josué et ses lettres. « [N]ous décidons du conflit : je détruis leurs espoirs [des Palestiniens] d’établir un Etat », a-t-il affirmé à Ravit Hecht. Quand elle a posé la question « comment ? », il a répondu : « Lorsque Josué est entré dans le pays, il a envoyé trois lettres à ses habitants : ceux qui veulent accepter [notre domination] accepteront ; ceux qui veulent partir partiront ; ceux qui veulent se battre se battront… Ceux qui veulent partir, et il y en aura, je les aiderai. Quand ils n’auront plus d’espoir ni de perspectives, ils partiront, comme ils sont partis en 1948. »

    Ce n’est pas une coïncidence si, depuis le début de la guerre, Smotrich fait partie des membres du gouvernement et des hommes politiques qui ont présenté avec enthousiasme la solution « humaine » pour les non-combattants de Gaza : le transfert volontaire de population. Les frappes aériennes y contribuent. En effet, chaque jour, même des plus braves patriotes de Gaza quittent le territoire, fuyant les horreurs de la destruction et de la mort, s’ils ont l’argent ou les bonnes relations.

    Revenons à 2016. Smotrich a déclaré à Ravit Hecht : « Ceux qui ne partent pas accepteront la domination de l’Etat juif, auquel cas ils pourront rester, et quant à ceux qui ne le font pas, nous les combattrons et les détruirons. » A l’époque, le jeune membre de la Knesset s’était concentré sur la Cisjordanie et avait présenté son annexion, l’expansion de la colonisation et l’augmentation du nombre de colons comme l’arme principale du processus d’assujettissement. Aujourd’hui, la défaite et l’assujettissement sont le mot d’ordre s’imposant dans tous les territoires.

    La Cisjordanie, qui était déjà coupée en deux, est encore plus fragmentée par les barrages routiers, les points de contrôle et les grillages verrouillés à la sortie des villages et des villes, ainsi que par les nouvelles routes que les colons ont ouvertes. L’administration civile, l’armée et les colons ostensiblement organisés continuent d’expulser les Palestiniens de leurs terres. Les mesures économiques de vengeance, orchestrées par Smotrich, ont appauvri les habitants dans une mesure qu’ils n’avaient pas connue depuis de nombreuses années. Dans le même temps, le gouvernement approuve de plus en plus d’habitations pour les Juifs. La fin de cette guerre sanglante dans la bande de Gaza n’est pas en vue. (...)

    • https://twitter.com/RukumisG/status/1768240823898906655

      Depuis 80 ans, l’Occident fait la leçon au reste du monde sur les droits humains, la démocratie et le respect de la vie humaine. Aujourd’hui, la situation s’est retournée contre eux, révélant leur vrai visage. Le reste du monde essaie de convaincre l’Occident de respecter l’humanité, mais il ne s’entend pas lui-même. Un échange stupéfiant à Berlin entre le chancelier allemand Scholz et le premier ministre malaisien Anwar Ibrahim montre que nous vivons dans un monde nouveau. L’Allemagne n’a tout simplement pas compris le message. Le contraste en matière d’art oratoire est également frappant.
      Le Premier ministre malaisien a refusé d’accepter l’injustice occidentale et a au contraire dit la vérité et s’est exprimé au nom de la majorité.
      Voici ce qu’il a dit :
      « On ne peut pas trouver de solution en étant aussi unilatéral, en se concentrant uniquement sur une question particulière et en effaçant 60 ans d’atrocités. La solution ne consiste pas seulement à libérer les otages. Qu’en est-il des colonies ? Qu’en est-il du comportement des colons aujourd’hui ? Il se poursuit quotidiennement ! Qu’en est-il de la dépossession ? Leurs terres, leurs droits, leur dignité, leurs hommes, leurs femmes, leurs enfants ? Cela ne nous concerne-t-il pas ? Où avons-nous perdu notre humanité ? Pourquoi cette hypocrisie ? »

  • US port plans in Gaza have ’hidden objectives’: Expert
    https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-port-plans-in-gaza-have-hidden-objectives-expert/3160210

    ’A floating port off the shores of Gaza is a humanitarian facade hiding voluntary migration to Europe,’ and ’undermines enclave’s sovereignty,’ Jordanian expert tells Anadolu

    #nettoyage_ethnique #états-unis # « #migration_volontaire »
    #gaza

  • Arnaud Bertrand sur X : "This is an amazing nugget. This is Hubert Védrine, one of France’s longest serving Foreign Minister and National Security Advisor (under both Mitterrand and Chirac). He recounts a conversation with Madeleine Albright where she accused him of “betraying Lafayette” (the famous…" / X
    https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1767760335623352414
    https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1767759818423681024/pu/vid/avc1/1206x708/9N53Hmhq04CyKXgW.mp4?tag=12

  • En Cisjordanie, les enfants palestiniens meurent aussi | Mediapart
    https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/130324/en-cisjordanie-les-enfants-palestiniens-meurent-aussi

    Depuis le 7 octobre 2023, les enfants de Cisjordanie et de Jérusalem-Est occupées voient leurs droits encore plus malmenés qu’avant. « 128 enfants palestiniens » y ont été tués depuis cinq mois, indique Ayed Abu Eqtaish, de l’ONG Défense des enfants International.

  • At least one UNRWA staff killed when Israeli Forces hit UNRWA centre used for food and lifesaving supplies
    13 March 2024 | UNRWA
    https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/least-one-unrwa-staff-killed-when-israeli-forces-hit-unrwa-centre-used

    AMMAN, 13 March 2024 - At least one UNRWA staff member was killed and another 22 were injured when Israeli Forces hit a food distribution centre in the eastern part of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

    “Today’s attack on one of the very few remaining UNRWA distribution centres in the Gaza Strip comes as food supplies are running out, hunger is widespread and, in some areas, turning into famine. Every day, we share the coordinates of all our facilities across the Gaza Strip with parties to the conflict. The Israeli Army received the coordinates including of this facility yesterday,” said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.

    Since the war began five months ago, UNRWA has recorded an unprecedented number of violations against its staff and facilities that surpass any other conflict around the world.

    · At least 165 UNRWA team members killed including while in the line of duty;

    · More than 150 UNRWA facilities were hit, some totally destroyed, among them many schools;

    · More than 400 people killed while seeking shelter under the UN flag;

    · Tunnels have reportedly been found under UNRWA facilities and installations used for military activities;

    · UNRWA staff have reportedly been mistreated and humiliated while in Israeli detention centres.

    “The United Nations, its personnel, premises and assets must be protected at all times. Since this war began, attacks against UN facilities, convoys and personnel have become commonplace in blatant disregard to international humanitarian law. I am calling once again for an independent inquiry into these violations and the need for accountability,” added Lazzarini.

    #génocide

  • Traverser la rue pour manger sainement
    https://blog.ecologie-politique.eu/post/Traverser-la-rue-pour-manger-sainement

    Le premier des obstacles pour choisir une alimentation saine est le prix. En 2017, le quart des ménages les plus pauvres (1) consacre 18 % de son revenu à l’alimentation. C’est le second poste seulement, avec un point de plus que la part qu’y consacre la moyenne des ménages. Ce n’est peut-être pas assez pour certain·es en valeur absolue mais c’est déjà beaucoup en proportion, d’autant que d’autres dépenses sont, elles, incompressibles. Comme le logement, une dépense qui n’est pas choisie et qui est le premier poste du budget des 25 % les plus pauvres d’entre nous, qui exige jusqu’à 45 % de leur justement nommé « taux d’effort » (2). (J’ajoute qu’avec 6 € d’un abonnement Netflix mensuel, on peut s’acheter entre huit et dix pommes bio, soit environ un quartier de pomme par jour. Merci pour le conseil.)

    D’autres barrières sont les conditions matérielles d’accès à une nourriture saine : habiter suffisamment près d’un magasin bio ou d’une offre alimentaire variée, avoir une cuisine suffisamment grande pour traiter des légumes (3), posséder des feux et un four. Ce qui est tenu pour acquis dans certaines classes sociales ne l’est pas dans d’autres, je parle d’expérience, ayant été mal logée. De plus, les associations qui travaillent sur ces questions nous disent le manque de temps pour cuisiner qu’ont les travailleuses et travailleurs pauvres, les plaisirs plus immédiats du sucré et du gras quand on a par ailleurs des vies difficiles et stressantes, sans filet de sécurité, ou bien le fait que personne ne sait si vous avez sauté un repas alors que l’incapacité à effectuer certaines dépenses vous met en marge de la société, symboliquement et parfois même matériellement quand l’accès aux droits passe par une connexion Internet et que le moyen le plus simple et le moins cher de vous connecter est un smartphone.

    Malgré tout, l’aspiration à bien se nourrir existe, les produits bio (et locaux), les fruits et les légumes sont identifiés dans toutes les classes sociales comme une alimentation désirable, bonne pour la santé et pour le milieu naturel.

    #Aude_Vidal #alimentation #agriculture #santé #Macron

  • Largement évitables, les émissions de méthane de l’industrie fossile restent à des niveaux record | Connaissances des énergies
    https://www.connaissancedesenergies.org/afp/largement-evitables-les-emissions-de-methane-de-lindustrie-

    (...)

    Environ les deux tiers du méthane émis par l’industrie fossile « proviennent de seulement dix pays », a souligné Christophe McGlade, expert énergie à l’AIE. La Chine est « de loin » le premier émetteur pour le méthane issu du charbon, les Etats-Unis sont en tête pour celui lié au pétrole et au gaz, « suivis de près par la Russie ».

    (...)

    Ouf, céléchinois.

  • Norman Finkelstein sur X :
    https://twitter.com/normfinkelstein/status/1767578915340460112

    UN Special Representative Pramila Patten states in her report that her mission viewed fully 5,000 photographs and 50 hours of footage of the October 7 attack supplied to her by the Israeli government and available in open sources. This digital evidence, from every conceivable angle and by every conceivable electronic device (bodycams, dashcams, individual cellphones, CCTV, and traffic surveillance cameras) DIDN’T YIELD ONE SINGLE IMAGE OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE. The report also states that it COULDN’T LOCATE ANY FORENSIC EVIDENCE of sexual violence. The report also states that it was UNABLE TO MEET A SINGLE SURVIVOR of sexual violence on October 7. What does Patten then conclude? “There are reasonable grounds to believe that multiple incidents of rape, including gang rape, occurred.” Isn’t it time for UN Secretary-General Guterres to appoint a Special Representative to investigate Pramila Patten?

  • Je crois que #Goebbels peut aller se rhabiller

    Marc Owen Jones sur X :
    https://twitter.com/marcowenjones/status/1767493669790077050

    This is obviously an Israeli state encouraged campaign (published by official accounts like @Israel and @EylonyLevy ) and pro-Israel Disinfluencers like @visegrad24. Someone from the @FDD even chimed in.

    They are trying to monopolise, dominate, and appropriate the meaning of ’red-hands’, (they’re not even red they’re actually orange) as being a sinister or callous attack on Israel. In fact, coloured hands (red or otherwise) have been used in multiple protest movements across the world, from campaigns against child soldiers to violence against indigenous women. It’s a good example of the epistemic violence being waged by Israel.

    They’re trying to prescribe their own subjectivity to have an objective, universal and singular meaning- in this case, a symbol advocating peace as being tacitly supporting or ’reminding’ people of killing Jews and Israelis.

    The pin could have been a rabid badger and propagandists would have somehow found a way to trace its meaning back to being a celebration of ’terror’ or criticism of Israel. The simple fact of the matter is that Israel’s hasbara is raging that high profile celebrities are calling for a ceasefire, and must be smeared, disparaged, and made to feel antisemitic.

    TLDR; Israeli propaganda is trying to redirect focus from the campaign’s call for a ceasefire and make it about how Israel is the real victim of the campaign. They really hate high profile criticism of the IDF’s genocidal campaign

  • Gaza medics tell BBC that Israeli troops beat and humiliated them after hospital raid
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68513408

    Ahmed Abu Sabha, a doctor at Nasser hospital, described being held for a week in detention, where, he said, muzzled dogs were set upon him and his hand was broken by an Israeli soldier.

    His account closely matches those of two other medics who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.

    They told the BBC they were humiliated, beaten, doused with cold water, and forced to kneel in uncomfortable positions for hours. They said they were detained for days before being released.

    The BBC supplied details of their allegations to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). They did not respond directly to questions about these accounts, or deny specific claims of mistreatment. But they denied that medical staff were harmed during their operation.

    They said that “any abuse of detainees is contrary to IDF orders and is therefore strictly prohibited”.

    #sionisme #criminel #mensonger

    • Les camions sont entrés dans Gaza, toutefois non pas pour extraire les blessés et les martyrs des décombres. Non, les familles doivent déterrer leurs morts à mains nues.

      Ce mécanisme vise à mettre en œuvre le corridor maritime américain et à imposer une base militaire américano-israélienne.

    • https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1767098823636046322.html

      America’s goal in establishing a seaport is primarily military & political, not humanitarian:
      – Gain control over Gaza’s gas resources
      – Establish US-Israel military presence
      – Dismantle UNRWA & have aid distributed through local militias.
      – Isolate Gaza from the Palestinian body
      Gaza City has a long history as a crossroad of regional trade & travel. As a port city, Gaza was a stop on the Incense Road. In more recent history, until WWI, Gaza seaport was a main hub for import & export trade to southern Palestine, & its hinterland, including Jordan and Iraq
      Since 1967, Israel has exercised full control of Gaza’s 43km coastline and territorial waters, blocking ships from reaching the city. Gaza seaport is the only Mediterranean port closed to shipping, because of Israeli colonization and continued destruction.
      Between 1967 and 1994, the existing infrastructure was severely neglected. Railways, air and seaports were no longer at the free disposal of Palestinians and were only there to serve Israel, its army and its settlers.
      As part of the 1993 Oslo Accords, the Netherlands & France governments committed $42.8m to the reconstruction of the Gaza seaport and to the training of port personnel. A Dutch-French consortium that specialises in seaports signed a construction contract in July 2000 with the PA.
      The seaport was scheduled to be completed by August 2002. But Israel being Israel, in 2000, Israel halted any construction & in 2002, Israeli navy attacked the PA naval patrol boats in Gaza, causing extensive damage and no further implementation of the project was allowed.
      Since 2007, Israel has repeatedly bombed Gaza’s seaport, which only now serves Palestinian fishermen. It has repeatedly shot & killed fishermen and destroyed their boats. Israel is also imposing a maritime sea blockade on Gaza for more than 60 years. Israel is cutting life short.
      In June 2010 the EU Parliament urged EU Member States to “take steps to ensure the sustainable opening of all the crossing points to and from Gaza, including the port of Gaza, with adequate international end-use monitoring”.
      Establishing a maritime window from Gaza to the outside world is possible, if the focus is put on ending Israel’s state violence, war crimes & genocide. What the Americans are now doing isn’t providing LIFE to Palestinians, but actually entrenching Israeli colonization.

    • Il me semble que @gonzo avait référencé le plan (considéré alors comme extrémiste) selon lequel les israéliens voulaient construire un tel « terminal portuaire ». Et c’était dans les premières semaines des bombardements.

      Quelqu’un retrouverait ça ?

  • Le nietzschéisme social
    https://laviedesidees.fr/Porcher-La-question-Nietzsche

    Peut-on faire de #Nietzsche un penseur du social ? Entre #critique sociale et critique du social, les traditions herméneutiques de France et d’Allemagne qui ont pu se réclamer de lui invitent à réviser le jugement hâtif que certaines lectures marxistes ou anti-postmodernes ont accréditées. À propos de : Frédéric Porcher, La « question-Nietzsche ». Les normes au carrefour du vital et du social, Vrin

    #Philosophie #Double_Une
    https://laviedesidees.fr/IMG/docx/202403_nietzscheisme.docx
    https://laviedesidees.fr/IMG/docx/20240312_nietzscheisme.docx
    https://laviedesidees.fr/IMG/pdf/20240312_nietzscheisme.pdf

    • L’État s’attaque à l’évasion fiscale (spoiler : non)
      La chronique de Waly Dia - 10 mars 2024
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jebqxDgDn2g

      Waly Dia commente l’actualité, entre l’IVG inscrite dans la Constitution, le décompte des morts à Gaza, Macron qui veut la guerre avec la Russie ou Aya Nakamura aux JO. Mais l’information la plus importante à retenir, selon lui, c’est la réduction des dépenses de l’État concernant tous les secteurs.

  • Gaza : à Amsterdam, des manifestants protestent contre la présence du président israélien
    https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/03/10/gaza-a-amsterdam-des-manifestants-protestent-contre-la-presence-du-president

    Isaac Herzog était venu assister à l’inauguration, dimanche, d’un nouveau Musée national de l’Holocauste.

    Rien sur sa rencontre avec Geert Wilders

    Geert Wilders sur X :

    “I just had a great meeting in Amsterdam with the President of Israel Isaac_Herzog. I told him I am proud that he visits the Netherlands and that Israel has, and always will have, my full support in its fight against terror. #Israel #Herzog” / X

    https://twitter.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1767084417455960177

  • إسرائيل تدرس تعيين مدير مخابرات السلطة الفلسطينية حاكما لغزة بعد انتهاء الحرب | أخبار | الجزيرة نت
    https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2024/3/12/%d8%a5%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%8a%d9%84-%d8%aa%d8%af%d8%b1%d8%b3-%d8%a

    Comment mieux faire passer l’Autorité palestinienne pour un nid de collabos ? Les Israéliens souhaiteraient placer à Gaza Majed Faraj, le chef des renseignements à Ramallah.