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« Avec Maître, je joue toujours les amantes délaissées. »

–- elle convainc son avocat de lui envoyer un mandat au nom de sa mère

Cavale #avocat #jeu #déguisement #théâtre #rôle #identité

« Mon bavard se flingue, mais il fait ce que je veux ; il m’aime bien, je dois le changer un peu de sa clientèle habituelle. Toujours ces voleurs, assassins et autres figures patibulaires, ça l’ennuie, sûr. Moi, je fais ma petite moyenne dans la malhonnêteté, bien sûr ; mais ça ne m’empêche pas de recevoir mon bavard en nattes et petit col blanc, ni de lui dessiner des en-têtes fleuris sur ses bafouilles. »

#avocat #identité #déguisement

Botched Israeli operation in Gaza endangers human rights groups - Palestinians

If it turns out that the IDF invented a fictitious aid group for the operation, from now on it can be expected that every real new organization will find it difficult to be trusted by the authorities and residents in the Gaza Strip

Amira Hass
Nov 25, 2018

▻https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/.premium-botched-israeli-operation-in-gaza-endangers-human-rights-groups-1.

If members of the Israeli special operations force that Hamas exposed in the Gaza Strip this month indeed impersonated aid workers, as Walla news and the Israel Television News Company reported, it will reinforce and even retroactively justify Hamas’ longtime suspicions.
Hamas has in the past claimed that, consciously or not, international humanitarian organizations assist Israel’s Shin Bet security service and the Israeli military.
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This is exactly what the employees of foreign aid organizations, as well as Palestinian ones with some foreign staff, fear. A senior employee in one of these organizations told Haaretz that if Israel has abused the network of international or local aid groups, it could undermine the critical activities of organizations large and small: The Hamas government that controls the Gaza Strip might take precautions that will interfere with their entry into the Strip and their work.
“No one will listen to the protest of a small organization on the exploitation of humanitarian activity,” he said. “Large organizations need to make their voices heard.”

The bodies of four of the six men killed during an Israeli raid on Khan Younis in a hospital morgue in Gaza, on Sunday, November 11, 2018AFP
Foreigners who entered the Gaza Strip last week reported more exacting questioning than usual at Hamas’ border control position and strict identity checks of passengers at checkpoints within the Strip.

A Westerner who visits the Strip frequently told Haaretz they sense some suspicion on the part of ordinary Gazans toward foreigners — and not for the first time.
What is interesting is that Palestinian media outlets did not publish the suspicions about the Israel special force impersonating aid workers: In other words, Hamas did not raise this claim publicly.
According to versions heard in the Gaza Strip, the members of the unit carried forged Palestinian ID cards, presumably of Gazans, and said they had food distribution coupons. It also seems they spent a number of days in the Strip before they were exposed.
Working for an aid organization is a logical and convenient cover story. As part of the strict limits on movement by Israel, foreigners and Palestinians who are not residents of the Strip, who work for international aid organizations (and foreign journalists) are among the few who receive entry permits into the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian militants of Hamas’ military wing attend the funeral of seven Palestinians, killed during an Israeli special forces operation in the Gaza, in Khan Younis, on November 12, 2018.AFP
Hamas senior official Moussa Abu Marzouk was quoted as hinting that the entry of the unit was made possible through a checkpoint of the Palestinian Authority, at the Erez border crossing.
His statement fed the constant suspicions against the PA’s security services of cooperation and help for the Israeli security forces. But knowing how the official entry process into the Gaza Strip from Israel works raises doubts about the feasibility of this scenario.
In addition to navigating the bureaucracy of Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories to obtain an entry permit from Israel, foreigners seeking to enter the Gaza Strip must also coordinate their travel in advance with the Hamas authorities.
To enter officially through the Erez crossing, you must submit full identification details, including details on the purpose of the visit and the organization and identity of contact persons inside the Gaza Strip.
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The military unit’s entry through Erez would have required Israel to use the name of a well-known aid organization, which would not raise any suspicions. Did the Israel Defense Forces use the name of an organization such as UNRWA or an Italian aid group funded by the European Union, for example?
And if it turns out that to carry out the mission, the IDF invented a fictitious aid group a long time ago, and in doing so received the help of COGAT, from now on it can be expected that every real new organization will find it difficult to be trusted by the authorities and residents in the Gaza Strip.
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On entry to the Gaza Strip, those who receive permits go through four checkpoints: On the Israel side of the crossing, at the first registration position of the PA on the other side of the crossing, at the checkpoint of the PA police, which was once the Hamas checkpoint and was handed over to the PA about a year ago when it was attempted to establish a reconciliation government, and at the new registration position of Hamas, which has restarted operations these last few months.
Even those bearing Palestinian identity cards — which according to reports the members of the unit carried — must pass through the posts of the PA and Hamas and answer questions. At the Hamas position, suitcases are not always checked, but a person who often enters the Gaza Strip told Haaretz that the check — even if only to search for alcohol — is always a risk to be taken into account.
It is hard to believe that the members of the Israeli military unit would have entered Gaza without weapons, on one hand, or would have risked exposure, on the other, he said. 
One gets the impression from media reports that Hamas and the IDF are both busy competing over who was humiliated more by the exposure of the unit’s operations. What is certain is that making humanitarian aid into a tool in the service of Israeli military intelligence contributes to the feeling of vulnerability and isolation of the Strip.

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Napoléon raconte une anecdote : comment joindre les patriotes dispersés dans le maquis corse ? Malheureusement, Paoli est plus fort que lui.

« J’essayai néanmoins. Je fis le choix d’un paysan rusé, alerte ; je l’affublai des plus mauvais haillons que je pus trouver, et le lançai à travers les montagnards. Arrêté de poste en poste, il les joua longtemps. Il posait sa gourde à terre, il excitait, facilitait la recherche ; il n’avait d’autre but que d’obtenir quelques secours pour soutenir sa vie. Il arriva ainsi jusqu’à Corte, dont la gendarmerie, moins confiante, dépeça ses habits, sa coiffure, et jusqu’à la semelle de ses souliers. On ne trouva rien ; on allait le relâcher losrqu’on s’avisa qu’il fallait rendre compte à Paoli. « Un misérable qui court les champs pour demander l’aumône, dans les circonstances où nous sommes ! c’est un émissaire. Allez, cherchez, il y a quelque message. »– Impossible ; nous avons tenu ses vêtements fil à fil, nous avons tout désassemblé. – Sa mission est donc verbale, car il en a une, cherchez, questionnez encore. – Nous avons tout épuisé. – Qu’a-t-il sur lui ? – Une petite gourde. – Cassez-là. On le fit. On trouva les commissions. Paoli n’était pas un homme facile à surprendre. »

Petite histoire des costumes des chefs d’Etat : L’establishment anglais, Khadafi, Moubarak, Mao et ses copains

via la liste de géographie critique :

Hillary Shaw de l’Harper Adams University se pose une question :

Ever noticed that most politicians on the TV screen seem to look exactly like each other. Same hairstyle, same clean-shaven look, and above all the same uniform suits. Almost all men’s suits are now in a narow range from dark grey to very dark grey to charcoal grey/black. (at least this is true in the UK, any other obesrvations from crit geoggers elsewhere welcome).

This is backed up by Google. Search under ’mens suits 2010’ and look at Images. Note the (lack of) colour variation. Then go back in ten year steps, 2000, 1990, 1980 etc The colour range expands noticeably with each decade back. The 2000 image shows paler grey, and 1990 you have some beige and blue too. 1980, 70, 60, each snapshot gives a wider range. You have to go back to 1920 or even 1910 to get a narrow colour range once more, and that’s probably due to the lack of colour photography for those times. But even then there was more style variation than now.

When we have a more diverse society (in many ways), when clothes have got cheaper so more styles should be accessible, why has the range narrowed so much? Has this style-narrowing occurred in countries where suits are not customary male business-wear (e.g. Iran, Saudi Arabia). And why, anyway, has the suit and tie (the former invented by a louche syphiltic called Beau Brummel, the latter popularised by a French dictator - Napoleon - who lived the Croat (Hravat) neckwear) become popular, not just in the West but across most of thwe world, including places where the climate is too hot, humid, so not ’suited’ (sorry) to the suit? Any fashion geographers (sure there are some) able to enlghten?

Adam Ramadan ajoute :

This is one of the less explored dimensions of the recent popular uprisings that have shaken the Arab world. One of the defining chants of the 2011 protests in Tahrir Square, for example, was ’the people demand dark grey suits’ - seemingly a direct response to President Mubarak’s overly liberal sartorial choices (check Google Images for Mubarak, and you’ll see a dizzying array of greys, browns and even his infamous ’Mubarak pinstripe’).

Similarly, Muammar Gaddafi’s eclectic wardrobe of military uniforms, Bedouin jalabiyas and African robes was a key driver
of the Libyan uprising. This popular rejection of his fashion tastes was driven home most forcefully during Gaddafi’s brutal death - it is notable that rebel fighters stripped off Gaddafi’s clothes as they sodomised him with bayonets, all the while chanting ’no more colourful suits’.

In light of all this, it’s no wonder political leaders everywhere are increasingly taking safer choices of greys, charcoals and blacks. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Marijn Nieuwenhuis de l’Université de Warwick conclut :

I remember reading about the infamous Mao suit (Zhongshan zhuang) and its current use in critical works of art in China. It is actually still in use by contemporary leaders :
▻http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90785/6775781.html

#apparence #paillette #costumes #déguisement #marketing #image etc...

Ce matin, #carnaval de l’#école-maternelle du fils.

Parmi les #garçons, je note une assez grandes variétés de #déguisements. Ils ont des goûts différents représentants plein de facettes :
– des métiers (pompier, militaire...)
– des héros ou personnages (Spiderman, cow boy, indien, Zorro, pirate, Dark Vador, lutin — génial celui là —, chevalier...)
– des animaux (tigre, lion, panthère, tyrannosaure...).

Parmi les #filles : 95% (au moins) de princesses/fée. Une Minnie, deux robes chinoises, une danseuse de flamenco.

Alors certes, en plus de ça, la plupart des garçons avaient des choses toujours en rapport avec la virilité (métiers physiques, guerriers, prédateurs). Mais ce qui m’a le plus choqué et sauté aux yeux, c’est avant tout l’absence de diversité chez les filles : un seul rêve : princesse !

Car même en restant dans la dichotomie des rôles sexistes, il y aurait eu moyen d’avoir des héroïnes, ou personnages, ou métiers qui font envie, plus variés que ça du côté des filles. Même si je suis d’accord que dans la mythologie, la culture populaire ou les métiers valorisés, il y a beaucoup moins de choix en féminin qu’en masculin, il y a quand même une variété possible. Mais non, rien, quasiment toutes pareilles. Une seule chose les fait rêver.

Les garçons ont le droit / sont poussés à avoir de multiples envies, et les filles ont un modèle unique. Et tous les parents : « oh c’est trop mignon ». C’est à pleurer, désespérant.

#genre #sexisme

(Le mien devait être en kangourou avec le bébé dans la poche, mais après avoir changé quatre fois, il s’est décidé pour être fauconnier, et s’occupait donc de son cheval et son pyguargue.)