The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب

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  • Oh, un stand-up libanais sur Netflix, en arabe dis-donc, et enregistré au Casino du Liban. Choueeeeeette !

    Bon, au bout de 10 minutes, le type en est encore à sa première blague, sur la façon de se faire la bise au Liban, et je suis déjà à me demander comment Netflix est parvenu à dénicher le seul comique pas drôle du Liban.

  • Le premier ministre libanais, Saad Hariri, annonce sa démission
    http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2017/11/04/le-premier-ministre-libanais-saad-hariri-annonce-sa-demission_5210238_3218.h

    Le premier ministre libanais, Saad Hariri, a annoncé sa démission, samedi 4 novembre, à la surprise générale. Il a accusé le Hezbollah chiite et son allié iranien de « mainmise » sur le Liban et a affirmé avoir peur d’être assassiné.

    « J’annonce ma démission du poste de premier ministre », a ainsi déclaré M. Hariri, qui se trouve actuellement en Arabie saoudite, dans un discours retransmis par la chaîne satellitaire Al-Arabiya. Selon les informations du Monde, un des conseillers de M. Hariri lui avait déjà suggéré de démissionner il y a quelques semaines, mais l’idée avait alors été écartée.

    « L’Iran a une mainmise sur le destin des pays de la région (…). Le Hezbollah est le bras de l’Iran non seulement au Liban mais également dans les autres pays arabes », a dénoncé le premier ministre démissionnaire. Et « ces dernières décennies, le Hezbollah a imposé une situation de fait accompli par la force de ses armes », a-t-il ajouté.

    Bien entendu, le Monde-avec-AFP (ainsi que l’ensemble des médias francophones) qualifie la démission de Hariri de « totalement inattendue »… Si ces gens faisaient un tout petit peu leurs devoirs, ils sauraient que le renversement du gouvernement et la mise en accusation du Hezbollah ont été très clairement annoncés lundi par les Séoudiens :
    https://seenthis.net/messages/641376
    que Hariri s’était déjà rendu en Arabie séoudite ce même lundi, et y et retourné hier :
    https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1081985/hariri-se-rend-a-nouveau-en-arabie-saoudite.html

    Le chef du gouvernement libanais se rend à Riyad pour une visite de travail. Lors de son dernier déplacement, il avait été reçu par le prince héritier saoudien, Mohammad Ben Salmane. M. Hariri avait affirmé être totalement en phase avec Riyad pour ce qui a trait à la stabilité du Liban.

    • L’aspect évidemment ridicule de l’événement, c’est que Saad se rend deux fois en Arabie séoudite en quelques jours, applique ce qui a été annoncé par un ministre séoudien en début de semaine, rencontre le nouveau Séoud-en-chef ben Salmane et dans la foulée annonce sa démission depuis l’Arabie séoudite, tout ça paraît-il pour dénoncer la « mainmise » de l’Iran sur le Liban.

    • Malgré cet aspect ridicule, on peut être particulièrement inquiet. Que l’Arabie séoudite décide de porter (à nouveau) son affrontement régional sur la scène libanaise ne présage d’absolument rien de bon pour le pays (tu as vu l’état des pays où l’Arabie a prétendu « contrer » l’influence iranienne ?).

    • http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=772730
      Commentaire des Iraniens : "La démission de Hariri a été arrangée par Trump et Muhammad ben Salmane, en fionction d’une décision manifeste des Saoudiens de s’en prendre au Hezbollah."
      طهران : استقالة الحريري جاءت بترتيب من ترامب ومحمد بن سلمان وبقرار سعودي واضح لمواجهة “حزب الله”

    • November 2, 2017
      Targeting Lebanon Again
      Edito d’ABA. Cela date du 2 novembre mais, comme c’est en anglais, je suppose que cela a dû être publié un peu avant.
      http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=771836

      We do not know what instructions Hariri was given when he met Saudi strongman Crown Prince Muhammad bin-Salman. But it would not come as a surprise to learn that he was told either to withdraw from the government or sack its Hezbollah ministers in order to create another government crisis in Lebanon. Hariri would have no option but to comply. That would mean the collapse of the hard-won political accommodation that enabled him to return to office and Gen. Michel Aoun to be elected president.

    • Angry Arab: Hariri resignation in Beirut
      http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/11/hariri-assassination-in-beirut.html

      It is funny: people of the Saudi and Israeli lobbies on social media are jubilant about Saad Hariri’s resignation (from Riyadh, no less and through Saudi regime media) and treating the matter as if it was a purely Lebanese matter. The resignation was days in the making. Saudi minister (for Gulf affairs but he also seems to be in charge of Lebanese affairs as well) has been threatening the Lebanese people and government for many days and warning of an impending action. In fact, he threatened hours before Hariri resignation that Saudi Arabia will “cut off” the hands of Iran—which was the same expression used by Hariri in the speech which was prepared for him. Hariri was sitting with Hizbullah ministers and defending the political arrangement in which all parties were represented against critics in his quarters. He also met with a senior Iranian delegation HOURS before his resignation (above) (the delegated was headed by Ali Akbar Welayeti, who said after the meeting that it was “constructive”). Just after the meeting, Hariri was summoned to Riyadh and he took a selfti with Minister Sabhan (the latter posted it on Twitter (above) and said it was after a long meeting), and then the speech of resignation was aired on Saudi media. Its text was counter to all the speeches that Hariri has been giving for many months. The best part is that Saudi regime media announced that there was an assassination attempt on Hariri’s life just before he departed for Saudi Arabia. The pro-Saudi branch of the Lebanese security services promptly told Lebanese media that they never heard of any of that and that they were not sources for this fable.

    • Au sujet de la prétendue tentative d’assassinat contre Hariri, le démenti des FSI (généralement pro-séoudienne et proches du camp Hariri) :
      http://nna-leb.gov.lb/fr/show-news/83957/Les-FSI-mentent-les-rumeurs-sur-la-tentative-39-assassinat-jou-contre-Sa

      La direction générale des FSI a démenti, ce samedi dans un communiqué, les informations qui circulent dans les médias, réseaux sociaux et sites électroniques, selon lesquelles son service de renseignements aurait déjoué une tentative d’assassinat contre le Premier ministre démissionnaire Saad Hariri.

      « La direction des FSI précise que ces informations sont erronées, qu’elle n’a fourni aucun détail et qu’elle ne dispose d’aucune donnée à cet égard », précise le communiqué.

    • Saad Hariri Quits as Lebanon Prime Minister, Blaming Iran - The New York Times
      https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/world/middleeast/saad-hariri-lebanon-iran.html

      On en est là, il faut lire un article du NYT pour se rendre compte combien les articles des MSM français et les reportages de France 24 sur le sujet sont lamentables.

      The surprise announcement — which shocked even his own staff — was an ominous sign of the escalating regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, analysts said, indicating the growing dominance of Iran and Hezbollah as well as the Saudis’ increasingly assertive response.

      Lebanese and regional analysts, whether supporters or opponents of Hezbollah, said it appeared that Mr. Hariri had been pressured to resign by his patrons, the Saudis , as they and the United States ratchet up efforts to counter Iranian influence. The resignation came after weeks of sharp American and Saudi condemnations of Iran, including from President Trump, and new American sanctions against Hezbollah.

      By pushing out Mr. Hariri, analysts said, Saudi Arabia could deny Hezbollah a credible Sunni governing partner — an attempt to isolate it and deny it the fig leaf of a national unity government.

      “They concluded that Hariri was serving as more of a cover for Iranian and Hezbollah influence than as a counterweight to them,” said Rob Malley, a former special Middle East adviser to President Barack Obama and the vice president of the International Crisis Group.

      Yet the resignation also shows how few options Iran’s opponents have. Without Mr. Hariri in power, the United States and Saudi Arabia lose their main partner in the Lebanese government.

      Across the political spectrum, analysts and officials said the resignation ushered in new dangers. If the next government is more pro-Hezbollah, they said, that could lead to devastating sanctions. It could even increase the chances of a new war with Israel, which would see added justification for its argument that there is little distinction between Hezbollah and the Lebanese state.

      Mr. Hariri even raised the specter of internal violence. [si jamais des attentats contre le camp du 14 mars reprennent on aura été averti] He compared the atmosphere in Lebanon now to the days before the 2005 assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, saying he believed his own life was in danger. “I sensed what’s being woven in secret to target my life,” he said.

      Mr. Hariri’s father was killed when his motorcade was bombed on Beirut’s seafront. Several Hezbollah members are being tried in absentia in a special United Nations-backed tribunal in The Hague, although the militant group has denied involvement in the assassination.

      [...]

      Mr. Hariri headed a 30-member national unity cabinet that was crafted to protect the country from any spillover from the multisided war in neighboring Syria, where Iran backed the government and Saudi Arabia backed the insurgents.

      That mission has largely been successful , even though Hezbollah has sided with the Syrian government, Lebanese Sunni militants have joined insurgents there, and well over one million refugees flooded this small Mediterranean country.

      In Lebanon’s political system, power is divided between a prime minister, who must be Sunni; a president, who must be Maronite Christian; and a speaker of Parliament, who must be Shiite.

      The exercise of real power in the country is a more complicated affair of alliances, rivalries and division of spoils between the leaders of sectarian groups, including former warlords from Lebanon’s civil war.

      Hezbollah, which rose to prominence fighting the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon, is the strongest because of its powerful militia, which can act independently of the state and in recent years has served as an expeditionary force across Syria.

      In recent years Lebanon’s rival blocs have essentially agreed to confine their fight to Syria. But tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have only increased.

      In addition to Hezbollah’s decisive role in helping President Bashar al-Assad of Syria hold on to power, Iran has supported several militias in Iraq that have managed to defeat Islamic State forces in that country and remain a fighting force.

      Iranian leaders say their interference is needed to stop terrorism, and to create a security zone for their country. The country’s influence started to rise after the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in 2011, leaving behind an incomplete army and a pro-Iranian government.

      Iran’s filling of the vacuum created by the departure of the United States military has been an extremely worrying development for Saudi Arabia and some other Arab states, who have seen their efforts to fight proxy wars with Iran largely fail.

      And now that the Syrian war seems to be entering a new phase, with Mr. Assad still ruling a devastated country, there are fears that tensions that had been pushed to the back burner — inside Lebanon, between Hezbollah and Israel, and elsewhere — could re-emerge.

      The United States has stepped up sanctions on Hezbollah in recent weeks after President Trump criticized Iran and the landmark nuclear deal it reached under Mr. Obama.

      “It signals a new phase of escalation,” said Ali Rizk, a pro-Hezbollah Lebanese analyst, adding that the imminent defeat of Islamic State by the United States would put new pressure on what it sees as Shiite extremists. “Lebanon is in for a hard time,” Mr. Rizk said.

      The resignation brought sharp words from Israel and Iran. Bahram Ghasemi, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, said Mr. Hariri’s speech was driven by a Saudi, American and Israeli effort aimed at “creating tension in Lebanon and the region.”

      And in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the resignation “a wake-up call for the international community to take action against the Iranian aggression.”

      The pressure now is on the Lebanese president, Mr. Aoun, who will hold consultations with Parliament about appointing a caretaker government, said Imad Salamey, an analyst at the American University of Beirut.

      “If he indeed is going to bring in a pro-Hezbollah government, then he has to face the consequences,” such as new sanctions, Mr. Salamey said. “It will be a massive U.S. and Saudi response. The economy will collapse for sure.”

      In his speech, Mr. Hariri said he wanted to unite Lebanon and free it from outside influence. He pronounced himself “full of optimism and hope that Lebanon will be stronger, free, independent, with no authority over it except that of its own great people.”

      But in the streets of Tariq al-Jdeedeh, a mostly Sunni neighborhood of Beirut that is part of Mr. Hariri’s political base, anger and confusion contrasted with the posters of Mr. Hariri that festooned the buildings.

      “Hariri didn’t do this for Lebanon, he did this for Saudi against Iran,” said Nabil Idriss, who was tending his son’s fabric shop. “Now with this move, the picture is more transparent than ever. Saad Hariri was never in control.”

      #Liban #Hezbollah #Israel #Etats-Unis #Arabie_saoudite

  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: On Human Rights Watch’s report on Saudi regime hate speech
    http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/10/on-human-rights-watchs-report-on-saudi.html

    I heard from Saudi citizens inside the kingdom. They have major complaints about the report by Human Rights Watch on Saudi regime’s hate speech: they said that the organization only focused on Islamists in the kingdom totally ignoring the fact that Saudi liberals are most guilty in the hate speech campaign (see this article by a Saudi regime liberal). Critics of the report rightly point out that the report basically blamed the weakest element: the religious establishment while totally exonerating the Saudi regime and its liberal establishment inside the kingdom. One critic said: “the report said 99 correct things but only to promote one falsehood”.

    #HRW #arabie_saoudite

  • Pour mémoire, car on pourrait bien en reparler, l’édito d’ABA sur le discours de Nasrallah à l’occasion de la Achoura. Le titre : "Quand Nasrallah ’conseille’ aux juifs à l’occasion de la Achoura de quitter la Palestine occupée tout de suite. La guerre est-elle imminente ? Quels secrets le leader du Hezbollah est-il le seul à connaître ? Si la guerre éclatait, serait-ce en réponse à la partition de l’Irak et à l’émiettement de la région ? au retrait par Trump de l’accord sur le nucléaire ?

    عندما “يَنصح” السيّد نصر الله اليهود في ذِكرى عاشوراء بمُغادرة فِلسطين المُحتلّة فورًا.. هل نقول أن الحَرب باتت وشيكةً؟ وما الذي يَعرفه زعيم حزب الله من أسرار لا يَعرفها غَيره؟ وهل سَتكون إذا اشتعلت ردًّا على تقسيم العِراق وتَفتيت المَنطقة؟ أم انسحاب ترامب من الاتفاق النّووي؟ | رأي اليوم
    http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=752914

    De larges extraits du discours, pas toujours très bien traduits, ici : http://french.almanar.com.lb/592018

    Commentaire de Angry Arab (http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/10/nasrallahs-speech-against-anti-semitism.html) qui insiste sur la distinction faite par Nasrallah entre sionism et judaïsme, et sur "l’appel direct impressionnant" à l’opinion israélienne à laquelle Nasrallah prédit que Nétanyahu la conduit à se perte.

    Quant à ABA, il est visiblement impressionné sur ce discours, dont il pense qu’il repose sur des analyses précises du Hezbollah où il n’y a pas que des amateurs...

  • Deux stars de la prédication islamique auraient été emprisonnées en Arabie saoudite pour avoir exprimé des positions trop favorables au Qatar. Très important si confirmé.

    انباء عن اعتقال السلطات السعودية سلمان العودة وعوض القرني بعد تغريدات بشأن أزمة قطر أثارت ردودًا غاضبة في المملكة | رأي اليوم
    http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=741098

    #nuit_torride

    • http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/09/arrest-in-saudi-arabia-in-anticipation.html
      There is quite a bit of nervousness on the part of the Saudi regime: it could be due to the impending coronation of Muhammad bin Salman. Salman Al-Awdah has been arrested and there are reports that Awad Al-Qarni was also arrested. This came days after reports that dissident Prince, Abdul-Aziz bin Fahd, was also arrested when he returned to the Kingdom for the Hajj (although he posted pictures with the king in Mecca). MbS seems increasingly politically insecure and I can’t see how this can continue especially if dissent grows within the royal family. And the presence of King Salman shields him up to a point, but he will lose that cover when he becomes King himself. Foes of the royal regime in SA are counting on MbS to bring down House of Saudi, once and for all.

  • Le Musée de l’Holocauste retire une étude sur l’inaction d’Obama en #Syrie | The Times of Israël
    http://fr.timesofisrael.com/le-musee-de-lholocauste-retire-une-etude-sur-linaction-dobama-en-s

    Le rapport [...] a déterminé qu’une intervention américaine après l’attaque chimique de 2013 contre Ghouta n’aurait pas réduit les atrocités dans le pays et aurait même pu y contribuer, selon Tablet.

    Un message publié sur le site du musée indique que « la semaine dernière, le Centre Simon-Skjodt pour la prévention des génocides du Musée mémorial de l’Holocauste a publié une étude qui examinait plusieurs décisions prises pendant le conflit syrien. Depuis sa publication, plusieurs personnes avec qui nous avons étroitement travaillé sur la Syrie depuis l’éclatement du conflit ont fait part de leur inquiétude au sujet de cette étude. Le Musée a décidé de supprimer l’étude de son site internet le temps que nous examinions ces retours. »

    Here Is the Syria Report the Holocaust Museum Unpublished
    http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/09/here-is-the-holocaust-museum-syria-report.html

  • « La salle d’opération » qui a tenté de discréditer la victoire du Liban contre Daech.. dans les fuites des Tweets d’un ministre émirati – Site de la chaîne AlManar-Liban
    http://french.almanar.com.lb/552257

    Particulièrement mal écrit/traduit mais intéressant tout de même sur le démontage de la campagne de désinformation à propos de l’accord sur l’évacuation des combattants du Jurd lilbanais.

    #désinformation

    • Angry Arab: The Saudi regime chorus in Lebanon
      http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/08/the-saudi-regime-chorus-in-lebanon.html

      If Hizbullah fights Israel, they say: it is dragging Lebanon into a war. If it does not fight Israel, they say: it is an under-the-table agreement with Israel. If it fights ISIS and Al-Qa‘idah, they say: where are the human rights? Hizbullah is killing civilians. If it does not fight ISIS and Al-Qa‘idah they say: there is an under-the-table agreement between them. If Hizbullah fights and defeats ISIS and Al-Qa‘idah and expels all their fighters from Lebanon, the same chorus says: why didn’t Hizbullah kill and exterminate all the 1100 fighters?

    • Angry Arab : Hizbullah against ISIS
      http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/09/hizbullah-against-isis.html

      When you read Western media accounts (like this one by Liz Sly of the Post) you would not know that Hizbullah bombed the hell out of ISIS AND Nusrah front on the Lebanese-Syrian borders and forced them to submission and managed to expel them out of Lebanon. Notice that all the accounts manage to focus on side-issues or to exaggerate the role of the insignificant Lebanese Army. If this defeat and explosion of ISIS AND Nusrah was not by an enemy of Israel, there would be street rallies in the US, and Western media would be cheering the anti-ISIS forces on the front pages.

  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب : And now a Kuwait-Saudi rift
    http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/08/and-now-kuwait-saudi-rift.html

    The GCC will never be the same and it will never recover from the splits and divisions which came out in the open in full force during the recent crisis. Yesterday, Kuwait banned the mouthpiece of King Salman, Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, from entering Kuwait due to series of articles (especially the last one) in which `Abdul-Rahman Al-Rashid (who emerged lately as the one who gives the earliest signals about the shifts and turns in Saudi foreign policies). Al-Rashid has been criticizing Kuwait for its “neutrality” and reminding it—over and over again—that it had a debt toward Saudi Arabia because the rightly Saudi army liberated Kuwait in 1991.

    1001 #nuit_torride

  • Etonnant développement de la #nuit_torride ! L’ambassadeur des Emirats aux USA eplique sur une télé nordaméricaine que l’objectif des pays qui s’en prennent au Qatar est de mettre en place "des gouvernements séculiers (laïcs)"
    “ما تريده الإمارات والسعودية والأردن ومصر والبحرين للشرق الأوسط هو حكومات علمانية”
    Tempête de protestations sur les réseaux sociaux, y compris de la part de membres de la famille royale saoudienne.

    ردًّا على تصريحات سفير الإمارات في واشنطن بشأن علمانية حُكومات الدول المُقاطعة لقطر.. أُمراء سعوديون غاضبون من مُستقبل مملكتهم | رأي اليوم
    http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=718594

    • http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/07/gcc-is-split-forever.html
      GCC is split forever
      You may think that the split of the GCC is now only between Qatar and the rest. In fact, there are several camps already: Saudi and UAE regimes are one front (Bahrain automatically follows SA), while Qatar is another front. Kuwait and Oman constitute a separate neutral front but is more inclined toward Qatar. Saudi regime started to take swipes at Kuwait neutrality. Also, the split between Saudi and UAE regimes is not new. There has been a very popular hashtag in the last two days saying “Son of Fahd (in reference to Prince Abdul-Aziz bin Fahd) whips UAE, again” (it is in Arabic). This Saudi prince has basically been tweeting strong denunciations of the UAE and of Muhammad bin Zayid personally. This prince has also been very vocal in support of the Palestinians and even of “Jihad” on behalf of the Palestinians and is invoking past policies of the Saudi regime. This is a clear swipe at his own government. There also has been a very popular hashtag among Saudis saying: "Al-Utaybah wants Saudi Arabia to be secular", this was a swipe at the UAE ambassador in DC as he said this week that Saudi Arabia wants to be secular. People were furious at this and Abdul-Aziz bin Fahd has the power to express opposition.  Not sure how long Muhammad bin Salman will tolerate the opposition of this influential prince.  It is said that Ahmad bin Abdul-Aziz is now the center of the royal opposition but publicly it has been Abdul-`Aziz.

  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب :
    http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2017/07/i-dont-like-flags-i-dont-like.html

    I don’t like flags, I don’t like nationalism, I am not a man of religion but...for Palestine and the Palestinians anything and everything

  • "Roman", la dernière chanson du groupe alternatif (?) libanais Mashrou’ Leila, fait beaucoup parler.

    أغنية « رومان » من « مشروع ليلى »… السردية النسوية العربية على إيقاع الروك رند صباغ | القدس العربي Alquds Newspaper
    http://www.alquds.co.uk/?p=759321

    Certains, comme dans le papier donné en lien, saluent la volonté de promouvoir une femme libre, y compris des clichés occidentaux sur la liberté de la femme. D’autres (http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/07/mashru-layla.html) y voient une énième reprise des fantasmes orientalistes sur les Arabes tels que les imaginent les Occidentaux.

    A vous de juger !

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF__cpsDmZk

    • Synopsis: The video self-consciously toys with the intersection of gender with race by celebrating and championing a coalition of Arab and Muslim women, styled to over-articulate their ethnic background, in a manner more typically employed by Western media to victimise them.
      This seeks to disturb the dominant global narrative of hyper-secularised (white) feminism, which increasingly positions itself as incompatible with Islam and the Arab world, celebrating the various modalities of middle-eastern feminism.
      The video purposefully attempts to revert the position of the (male) musicians as the heroes of the narrative, not only by subjecting them to the (female) gaze of the director, but also by representing them as individuals who (literally) take the backseat as the coalition moves forward.
      So while the lyrics of the verses discuss betrayal, struggle, and conflict, the video revolves around the lyrical pivot in the chorus:
      ‘aleihum (charge!)
      treating oppression, not as a source of victimhood, but as the fertile ground from which resistance can be weaponised.

      Lyrics:
      I don’t intend to swallow your lies
      The words would sting my throat.
      I won’t dissect your intentions;
      Leave your tongue in its cage.
      You can keep the time I gave you;
      Strangle what self I was for you,
      But before you lay me to rest,
      Tell me what cost I came at.

      Charge
      Charge
      Charge
      Charge

      Worms sculpt my body now.
      The earth cradles my skin.
      Why’d you sell me to the romans?
      Worms sculpt my body now.
      The earth cradles my skin.
      How’d I lose you to the romans?

      Charge
      Charge
      Charge
      Charge
      Why’d you sell me to the romans?
      How’d I lose you to the romans?

  • Jordan demands Israel turn over embassy guard over deadly shooting incident
    July 24, 2017 5:37 P.M. (Updated: July 24, 2017 5:43 P.M.)
    http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=778321

    BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Jordanian government has reportedly issued a judicial order banning the Israeli security guard who was involved in a deadly shooting at the Israeli embassy in Jordan on Saturday night from leaving Jordan.

    Government sources told Ma’an that Jordan was demanding that Israeli authorities hand over the guard, who shot and killed two Jordanian carpenters in unclear circumstances, to Jordanian authorities for interrogation and legal procedures.

    Sources stressed that Jordan will “escalate diplomatic steps” if the guard was not turned in to Jordanian authorities.

    Israel has been refusing to allow Jordanian authorities to question the injured Israeli security guard, citing his immunity under the Vienna Convention, while all security personnel and diplomatic employees were confined to the embassy compound, according to reports.

    On Sunday, Haaretz reported that Israel had decided to immediately evacuate all Amman embassy staff, fearing that the incident would lead to riots and attempts to attack the embassy.

    On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Twitter that he had spoken twice with Israeli Ambassador to Jordan Eynat Schlein overnight Sunday, and with the security guard.

    “I gained the impression that she (Schlein) is managing matters there very well. I assured the security guard that we will bring him back to Israel,” Netanyahu said, adding that “I told them that we are holding ongoing contacts with security and government officials in Amman on all levels, to bring the incident to a close as soon as possible.”

    #Amman #Ambassade_israélienne
    https://seenthis.net/messages/617083
    #Jordanie #Ziv

    • Reports: Israeli, US officials travel to Jordan to discuss Al-Aqsa, embassy security guard
      July 24, 2017 10:15 P.M. (Updated: July 24, 2017 10:15 P.M.)
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=778330

      BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli media reported on Monday evening that during a “dialogue” between Israeli and Jordanian authorities, Jordan “did not condition the release of an Israeli embassy security guard back to Israel on the removal of the metal detectors at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.”

      Israel’s Channel 10 reported that the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the dialogue went “well,” and that United States envoy Jason Greenblatt would be heading to Amman from Jerusalem, where he arrived earlier Monday, “to convince the King to end the crisis of the embassy guard.”

      Earlier Monday, Jordanian government sources told Ma’an that the Jordanian government issued a judicial order banning the Israeli security guard who was involved in a deadly shooting at the Israeli embassy in Jordan on Saturday night that left two Jordanians dead, from leaving Jordan.

      Government sources said that Jordan was demanding that Israeli authorities hand over the guard, who shot and killed two Jordanian carpenters in unclear circumstances, to Jordanian authorities for interrogation and legal procedures.

      Sources stressed that Jordan will “escalate diplomatic steps” if the guard was not turned in to Jordanian authorities.

      Israel has been refusing to allow Jordanian authorities to question the injured Israeli security guard, citing his immunity under the Vienna Convention, while all security personnel and diplomatic employees were confined to the embassy compound, according to reports.

      Prior to Channel 10’s report, Israeli media had reported that Netanyahu would be calling the Jordanian King to discuss the issue of the embassy security guard, as well as the ongoing crisis surrounding the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where tensions have continued to rise since Israel installed metal detectors and security cameras inside the compound following a deadly shoot out at the holy site on July 14.

      Israeli media had reported that chief of the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal intelligence agency, Nadav Argaman was sent to Jordan, and that Israel would be removing all metal detectors and replacing them with thermal cameras, a report that could not be verified by Ma’an (...)

      .

    • Israel rules to replace contested Al-Aqsa metal detectors with ’smart’ surveillance
      July 25, 2017 11:03 A.M. (Updated: July 25, 2017 11:03 A.M.)
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=778334

      BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli security cabinet decided during a meeting late on Monday night to remove metal detectors, which had recently been installed at the entrances of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, only to replace them with more advanced surveillance technology in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem.

      Israeli authorities installed metal detectors, turnstiles, and additional security cameras in the compound following a deadly shooting attack at Al-Aqsa on July 14 — sparking protests from Palestinians, who said the move was the latest example of Israeli authorities using Israeli-Palestinian violence as a means of furthering control over important sites in the occupied Palestinian territory and normalizing repressive measures against Palestinians.

      In a statement, the security cabinet said it had “accepted the recommendation of all of the security bodies to incorporate security measures based on advanced technologies ("smart checks") and other measures instead of metal detectors in order to ensure the security of visitors and worshipers in the Old City and on the Temple Mount” — using the Israeli term for the Al-Aqsa compound.

      Religious leaders in Jerusalem were scheduled to hold a meeting Tuesday to discuss the new Israeli plan, as Islamic endowment (Waqf) official Sheikh Raed Daana told Ma’an that both religious leaders and the Palestinians wouldn’t accept any changes to the status quo.

      “We won’t accept cameras or (metal) posts,” Daana said on Monday evening.

      The plan will reportedly take up to six months to implement, and cost an estimated 100 million shekels ($28 million).
      (...)
      According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, at least 1,090 Palestinians had been injured since July 14 during demonstrations which were violently repressed by Israeli forces across the occupied Palestinian territory. According to Ma’an documentation, 11 Palestinians and five Israelis have been killed since July 14.

    • Israeli embassy staff, including guard who killed 2, leave Jordan amid investigation
      July 25, 2017 3:46 P.M. (Updated: July 25, 2017 7:54 P.M.)
      http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=778337

      BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Staff members of the Israeli embassy to Jordan, including a security guard who killed two Jordanians, returned to Israel on Monday night after a day of tensions between the two countries over the deadly shootout.

      A Jordanian investigation into the shooting, in which Muhammad Zakariya al-Jawawdeh, 17 , and Bashar Hamarneh were killed, revealed that the deadly incident started off as a professional dispute, official Jordanian news agency Petra reported on Monday.

      According to Jordanian police, al-Jawawdeh had accompanied a relative delivering furniture to the security guard’s apartment in the Israeli compound in Amman, when an argument over alleged delays turned physical.

      Witnesses said that al-Jawawdeh attacked the Israeli security guard — whom Israeli media have referred to as Ziv — with a screwdriver, after which the Israeli shot at him and Hamarneh, the apartment building owner.

      Petra reported that the case had been referred to a prosecutor for further legal steps, as Jordan and Israel have sparred over whether the security guard should be handed over to Jordanian custody.

      Israel, meanwhile, has refused to allow Jordanian authorities to question the injured Israeli security guard, citing his immunity under the Vienna Conventions — a body of international law which Israel has been accused of regularly violating.

      Nadav Argaman, the director of Israel’s intelligence service, the Shin Bet, traveled to Jordan in an attempt to resolve the situation, whereas Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a phone call with Jordan’s King Abdullah over the case.

      The Israeli security guard thanked Netanyahu for helping him leave Jordan without facing interrogation or criminal charges.

      "I know an entire country stands behind us. You told me yesterday I’d return home, and you calmed me down, and then it happened. I thank you wholeheartedly,” Israeli news outlet Ynet quoted him as saying.

      Despite reports that Israeli authorities would remove metal detectors at the entrance of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem in exchange for securing the return of the security guard, Netanyahu denied that such an agreement had taken place.

      #Ben_voyons

    • Tuesday, July 25, 2017
      http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/07/from-funeral-of-muhammad-jawawdeh-16.html

      From the funeral of Muhammad Jawawdeh, 16, who was shot by an Israeli embassy terrorist in Amman

      It says “death to Israel”.
      Posted by As’ad AbuKhalil at 8:38 AM

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      Tuesday, July 25, 2017
      Netanyahu warmly welcomes the terrorist who shot a 16-year old Jordanian
      http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/07/netanyahu-warmly-welcomes-terrorist-who.html

      When will they stop teaching and practicing hate? Who will change their curricula?
      Posted by As’ad AbuKhalil at 11:17 AM

    • Investigation into Israeli embassy shooting completed
      http://petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?lang=2&site_id=1&NewsID=311051&CatID=13

      Amman, July 24 (Petra) — The Public Security Department (PSD), said Monday evening that the investigation launched into a shooting incident inside the Israeli embassy compound in Amman on Sunday was completed.

      A statement released by the PSD said the investigation was completed after collecting information from the crime scene and listening to a number of eyewitnesses, who were present at the scene.

      A PSD special investigation team has found that there was a prior agreement between people working in carpentry to supply bedroom furniture for an apartment rented by an Israeli embassy employee, the statement indicated, adding that two people came to furnish the bedroom of the Israeli employee’s apartment inside the compound.

      During the process, a dispute has erupted between one of the carpenters, who was the furniture shop owner’s son, and the Israeli diplomat. The two had a verbal argument as the Israeli diplomat claimed that there was a delay in completing the agreed upon work on time.

      The altercation escalated to physical confrontation where the carpenter attacked and injured the Israeli diplomat who in turn shot the carpenter and the apartment’s owner, who and the building’s doorman were present at the scene, the statement added, citing the testimony given by the other person who came with the carpenter.

      The team also listened to the doorman’s testimony, who corroborated the story as mentioned in the investigation.

      Then case has been referred to the competent prosecutor for further legal action.

      //Petra// AF

      25/7/2017 - 12:00:24 AM

  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Syrian regime and Hizbullah are not on the same page regarding the assessment of the Arab uprisings
    http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/06/syrian-regime-and-hizbullah-are-not-on.html

    Hasan Nasrallah just said: “What happened in the Arab world [in the last few years] was a popular authentically patriotic movement and not the product of an international conspiracy”. This runs counter to the view of the Syrian regime and some of its allies.

    Je ne sais pas d’où vient la citation, mais c’est intéressant. #printemps_arabe

  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: House of Saudi: those who oppose them are cheering
    http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/06/house-of-saudi-those-who-oppose-them.html

    House of Saudi: those who oppose them are cheering
    No one has ever shaken the usually united Saudi Family like this Muhammad bin Salman. Opponents of the regime are counting on him to bring the regime down. March on.

    Je partage très fort !

  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب
    http://angryarab.blogspot.fr

    #catastrophe_arabe (1)

    Franchement, c’est très compliqué. Si j’ai bien suivi la chose, et je vais essayer de donner quelques éléments : un jour après le grand show Trumpien en arabie saoudite, les équilibres politiques dans le Gofe semblent voler en éclats. En cause, une violente dispute, sur les médias et via les agences de presse, entre le Qatar d’un côté et l’Arabie souadite (Egypte, Emirats, Bahreïen) de l’autre.

    Le Qatar se fâche très fort parce qu’on l’accuse de (soutien au) terrorisme (notamment parce qu’il s’obstine à conserver des liens, même ténus, avec l’iran). Des nouvelles ont circulé selon lesquelles le Qatar retirait ses ambassadeurs des pays mentionnés, puis la nouvelle a été démentie. Au milieu d’une vraie bataille médiatique de la part des chaînes arabes, le Qatar - si j’ai bien compris - a levé le drapeau blanc en disant que le site de l’Agence de presse officielle a été hacké. Naturellement, on “explique” déjà que ce sont les Iraniens qui ont fait le coup.

    Ci-dessous, un bricolage de liens :
    Le 1er signalement chez Angry Arab : Qatari-Saudi feud out in the open
    So what happened today: the Qatari News Agency was hacked and it posted statements by the Qatari Emir in which he criticized US policies and declared that Hamas and Hizbullah are resistance movement and had warm words about Iran. Al-Arabiyya TV (owned by the deputy Crown Prince) went berserk: it unleashed on the Qatari regime and hosted various guests to attack the Qatari regime even AFTER the Qatari regime issued a statement denying that the Emir made those statements.

    PS Wow. Al-Arabiyya can’t stop. They are still unleashing against the Qatari regime. More fun in inter-Arab relations is ahead of us.

    Un autre, trois heures plus tard : What is happening in Qatar?
    Qatari foreign minister now says that his statements were misinterpreted and that he did not call for recall of Qatari ambassadors in GCC countries (except Oman) and Egypt.

    Et, parmi toute une série, le dernier, 5 heures après le premier : Stupid Western media theories about the origins of the Saudi-Qatari rift
    Of course, it will start now: that Iran will be blamed for hacking the Qatari News Agency website and starting the rift between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Only those who don’t know a word of Arabic and who has not read or watched the media of the two regimes in the last 12 hours will believe this. It was clear that Saudi regime was prepared for this in advance: the column already appeared in the morning papers against Qatar, and the guests were already lined up to voice criticisms of the Qatari regime and its Emir. It makes more sense that the Saudi regime was behind the hacking if there was any hacking. The statements of the Emir sounded true to me, and they are in line with the previous stances of Qatar. So either there was an inside sabotage within the Qatari regime or the Saudis were behind the hacking with the assistance of their friends the Israelis. And if Iran was behind the hacking, why were the statements about Iran not far more favorable?

  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب : Welcoming Trump in Riyadh
    http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/05/welcoming-trump-in-riyadh.html

    On attend Trump au Royaume des hommes. « Together we prevail » (en arabe العزم يجمعنا quelque chose comme la volonté nous réunit).

    J’ai un peu de mal avec le zigouigoui en blanc au milieu : une association du waw (et) et de & ?

    #clichés_arabes

  • #seenthis_fonctionnalités : les référencements négatifs

    D’accord, ce n’est pas une « fonctionnalité », mais c’est encore une caractéristique fondamentale de Seenthis : Seenthis est un outil qui permet et favorise le référencement d’articles pour en dire du mal de manière argumentée. Dans une logique similaire, l’outil est également conçu pour pouvoir référencer un article pas tellement bon, mais permettant d’expliciter un point positif qu’on en a tiré qui justifie le référencement.

    Ce n’est pas une conséquence de la forme de Seenthis, c’est au contraire un élément qui a déterminé la forme de Seenthis de manière centrale…

    Ça semble évident, mais pourtant les autres outils ne sont vraiment pas pratiques pour ça. Sur Twitter, 140 caractères ne permettent pas d’expliquer un référencement négatif, on ne peut que s’indigner d’un article évidemment navrant. Sur Facebook, le milieu et la forme (et le principe initial de « Like », d’ailleurs) ne favorisent pas non plus les référencements négatifs au-delà de l’indignation évidente. Et Delicious ne me semblait franchement pas le bon outil non plus. Et, pour l’outil qu’on avait alors à notre disposition : Rezo.net ne le permet pas non plus, en dehors de l’évidente parodie (« l’édito à 2 balles »).

    Or c’est un besoin incontournable. Maintenant qu’on le fait ici, c’est évident, mais je vais tout de même t’exposer le cheminement intellectuel qui m’y a poussé.

    D’abord parce que notre vieille militance sur le Web est largement influencée par la critique sociale et de gauche des médias (Chomsky, Bourdieu…) et que référencer des médias sans pouvoir y associer la critique, c’est pas trop l’idée…
    http://www.uzine.net/article60.html

    Parce qu’uZine était, largement, un média critique (au sens où une grosse partie des articles étaient la critique d’une autre position ou le démontage d’une banalité médiatique)… Et parce que l’important travail éditorial ouvert et semi-public de préparation des articles dans son espace privé (au sens de SPIP) permettait largement d’apporter et commenter des sources.
    http://www.uzine.net

    Et parce qu’une partie très riche mais rigoureusement invisible de Rezo.net consiste en d’épisodiques échanges pour supprimer un référencement ou justifier un référencement qui déplaît.
    https://rezo.net
    Même s’il y règne une ambiance de cellule maoïste revendiquant fièrement le droit à l’éradication de la déviance petite-bourgeoise (et donc la pratique assumée d’une forme de censure totalitaire qui ne souffre nulle contestation), quand les gens ne sont pas d’accord sur un article, ça donne lieu à des échanges que j’ai toujours trouvés passionnants : la personne qui critique explique pourquoi tel article devrait être retiré, et souvent la personne qui a référencé explique que, certes c’est pas totalement glorieux comme article, mais que tel point original en particulier l’a intéressé.e. Et parfois encore plusieurs intervenants répondent pour aller dans un sens ou dans l’autre, suggèrent des articles alternatifs sur le même sujet, développant le point intéressant sans les défauts du premier, etc. Je pensais qu’on avait besoin d’un espace pour que de tels échanges soient publiés.

    Pour la forme, j’étais aussi très influencé par le blog d’un certain « Angry Arab », dont l’activité quotidienne consiste à critiquer absolument tout ce que les médias publient sur le monde arabe :
    http://angryarab.blogspot.fr

    Au final, ce sont ces besoins de référencement critique qui ont orienté les principales fonctionnalités de Seenthis :
    – des messages structurés autour d’un lien hypertexte, avec un extrait mis en évidence pour faire ressortir le point à critiquer, ou au contraire le point intéressant, et un commentaire tout aussi important pour expliquer le pourquoi du référencement (négatif, ou parce qu’un détail est intéressant),
    – et, comme dans un échange de messages internes à Rezo, des forums « à égalité » avec le message initial pour que différents points de vue se répondent.

    • J’adore que finalement partant de fonctionnalités techniques tu finisses par parler de l’aspect politique de ton projet, #Agora grecque of course et #philosophie d’autre part, ça rafraichit !
      Quoique le maoïsme …
      Ne connaissant pas les arcanes de rezo.net, à mon premier abord de seenthis il m’a semblé que l’intérêt était d’avoir des discussions plus riches médiatiquement parlant mais du même type des classiques forums publics des débuts d’internet (que l’on s’interdit aujourd’hui à cause de la maintenance épouvantable des spammeurs et des trolls et des serveurs qui tombent …) comme l’affaire danone, d’ailleurs n’est-ce pas le forum internet qui est à la base de la présentation des pages de seenthis ? avec en sus une réappropriation (si propriété il y a) du texte premier.
      (Et du coup en tentant de reprendre le code, je me suis emmêlée à comprendre pourquoi ce ne pouvait pas être le même objet.)
      C’est certain que ceux qui te rétorquent ah mais je ne lis jamais les forums sous l’article ont tout faux :)

    • J’ai souvent pensé que ce qui m’a permis de croire en seenthis relevait plus de sa population que de son fonctionnement.
      Mais à présent, je vois que son fonctionnement est ce qui m’a vraiment permis d’y rester.

      Seenthis est absent de Wikipédia. Sa « notoriété » est faible (inexistante d’après wiki). C’est un deepweb qui plaît aux connaisseurs (mais apparemment pas aux journalistes ni aux mainstreameux).

      https://seenthis.net/messages/571252

      Les questions que tu soulèves dans ta chronique #seenthis_fonctionnalités laissent entrevoir comme il est important de se questionner à ce point sur les objectif d’un réseau social, de sa conception à son utilisation. C’est un boulot de documentation tellement énorme.

      On en parlera à notre prochain atelier informatique lillois anarco-autonomico-libéralo-nimportequoitesque Atelili n°18 :
      https://atelili.tuxfamily.org/wiki/atelier:18

      Dont voici un plan temporaire :
      https://atelili.tuxfamily.org/wiki/themes#utiliser_facebook_intelligemment_ou_bien_ses_alternatives

  • The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب : A shift in Saudi policy toward Syrian regime
    http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/04/a-shift-in-saudi-policy-toward-syrian.html

    A shift in Saudi policy toward Syrian regime
    There are signs of a significant shift in Saudi policies toward Syria: the shift was evident in the statement by the Arab League last week. And Ali Shihabi (childhood friend and head of a new pro-Prince Muhammad bin Salman think tank in DC), said to CNN that Syria is “a lost cause” (he later denied or corrected the statement). And now this: `Abdul-Rahman Al-Rashid (the influential propagandist of King Salman and his sons) says that Gulf regimes are likely to “adjust” (the words he used were “to deal favorably with the new political reality”—in reference to US policy of leaving Asad in power). He also looks back favorably at Hafidh Al-Asad and praised him. It seems that the new policy of Saudi regime toward Syria is reduced to calling on an end to Iranian presence there. I feel sorry for all the Syrians and the supporters of the Syrian “revolution” who—BIZARRELY—counted on the House of Saud to save their “revolution”. I also feel sorry for the leftists around the world who treated Gulf regimes as the true sponsors of “revolution”.

    (Ce qui à mes yeux explique le soudain battage autour des attaques chimiques, mais je dois être cynique.)

    #syrie