Ami Ayalon, ancien chef du Shin Bet : « Si nous refusons la paix, ce qui nous attend sera pire que le 7 octobre »
►https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/01/24/ami-ayalon-ancien-chef-du-shin-bet-si-nous-refusons-la-paix-ce-qui-nous-atte
Ami Ayalon, ancien chef du Shin Bet : « Si nous refusons la paix, ce qui nous attend sera pire que le 7 octobre »
►https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/01/24/ami-ayalon-ancien-chef-du-shin-bet-si-nous-refusons-la-paix-ce-qui-nous-atte
a propos du Shin Bet (ou Shabak) :
▻https://mondoweiss.net/2021/04/the-history-of-the-shin-bets-use-of-torture-and-what-it-says-about-israe
Since 2001 around 1,200 complaints of allegations of agents using violence during Shin Bet interrogations have been filed, yet there have been no indictments, according to the Israeli Committee Against Torture. The group estimates that it takes around 39 months for each claim to be processed, which is done by an evaluation of statements from the complainant and the interrogator. The Shin Bet does not record or keep records of tactics used during interrogation.
The volume of complaints quadrupled between 2012 and 2015, according to information supplied by the Israeli government to its high court. The influx came after the court allowed for allegations of torture to be perused in criminal proceedings. Even so, a group of human rights organizations representing Palestinians in torture cases, logged over 850 torture complaints that were sent to the attorney general between 2001 and 2014, of which were not investigated.
Unfortunately, the Shin Bet did not heed the advice of these ex-heads, and human rights abuses continued. Philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s eminent 1968 prediction of Israel’s occupation careening the country towards authoritarianism resonates today. He prophesied, “A state ruling over a hostile population of 1 million foreigners will necessarily become a Shin Bet state.”
The construction of Israel’s Gaza concentration camp is complete
Israel announced the completion of an underground wall and maritime barrier surrounding the besieged Gaza Strip. Not a single mainstream media outlet used the term “concentration camp” to report on it but they should have.
▻https://mondoweiss.net/2021/12/the-construction-of-israels-gaza-concentration-camp-is-complete
#underground #sous-terrain #verticalité #murs #barrières_frontalières #Israël #Palestine #Gaza #barrière_maritime #mur_maritime
The banning of human rights defenders: Israel and South Africa compared – Mondoweiss
▻https://mondoweiss.net/2021/11/the-banning-of-human-rights-defenders-israel-and-south-africa-compared
Even the apartheid regime in South Africa never outlawed human rights defenders in the manner that Israel just did when it declared six Palestinian organizations to be “terrorist organizations.”
Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian
Reflections on what the putative assassin of Robert F. Kennedy has meant to my generation of Arab Americans.
By Steven Salaita September 17, 2021 – Mondoweiss
▻https://mondoweiss.net/2021/09/sirhan-sirhan-the-palestinian
Convicted of murdering Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Sirhan Sirhan is one of those rare figures whose name everyone knows, but whom nobody much discusses. Recently, however, he has been in the news again.
I remember being a kid, maybe an early teenager, sitting at the table with my father. He was cheerful that afternoon, a rare occasion in those days. He was my hero, but my insistence on doing poorly in school had caused lots of strain and we spent much of our time at loggerheads. He greeted rebellion with even more severe punishment. My father was kind and decent, but relentlessly confident in his idea of discipline.
But on that afternoon we were relaxed. We connected well through my burgeoning curiosity about the world, the Middle East in particular. It was before the internet and satellite TV, and dad hated talking on the phone, especially long distance (which was expensive in the old days), yet he always seemed to know what was going on back home. We were nibbling at nuts and olives and chitchatting without any of the usual tension.
I mentioned Sirhan Sirhan, whom I’d recently learned about from a news story. I thought it was hilarious that he had the same first and last name.
“He’s an Arab, you know,” my father said. His tone was one of both dignity and regret.
“He is?”
“From Palestine.”
“I didn’t know that.”
“A Christian, too.”
Same tone. (...)
Coming face to face with Zionist fragility | Ali El-Sadany and Aidan Place
▻https://mondoweiss.net/2021/06/coming-face-to-face-with-zionist-fragility
The Israel Fellow for Carnegie Mellon Hillel flew into a rage when two Muslim student leaders refused to endorse a propaganda-filled “fact finding” trip to Israel. They say the fellow’s response serves as a microcosm of Zionist behavior and attitudes. Source: Mondoweiss
The war in my head
Reporter Tareq Hajjaj shares how his family barely escaped two Israeli attacks in Gaza, revealing the trauma reporters experience when they cover the wars they are also trying to survive.
By Tareq S. Hajjaj - June 4, 2021 – Mondoweiss
▻https://mondoweiss.net/2021/06/the-war-in-my-head
For the first time, I’m not sure I can manage to finish a dispatch. Last month, death loomed closer than a walk to the bathroom. It did not matter where I was inside Gaza, every place in this small territory of 140.9 square miles was proximal to shelling and airstrikes.
Hostilities escalated on May 10, 2021, and came to a close in a ceasefire brokered by Egypt 11 days later, but I am still thinking about the six days after I fled my home in Shuja’iyya, a neighborhood in the east of Gaza. In total, my family and I were uprooted twice during the fighting. Each time with more relatives in tow, we rushed out the door with only a moment’s notice and joined the exodus in the streets that spanned as far as the eye could see across Gaza’s flat roads.
I live in a residential area that is adjacent to the buffer zone with Israel. Days into what started as strikes from Israeli jets and rockets from Gaza, Israeli forces opened fire from the ground and sea. Explosives rained from the west and east, and of course the sky. My sister, who lives closer to the border, came to take shelter in my home.
In the first days of the war, the adults and older teenagers taught the kids a few tricks to attempt to block out the sounds of the blasts. We could dilute the noise, but the impact shook the walls and floors and us on them. (...)
#GAZA
Coexistence in Israel’s ‘mixed cities’ was always an illusion – Mondoweiss
▻https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/coexistence-in-israels-mixed-cities-was-always-an-illusion
In a sign of the growing dangers, the Israeli media reported this week that applications for gun licenses – usually available only to Jewish citizens – had risen seven-fold.