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Official documents prove: Israel bans young Americans based on Canary Mission website - Israel News - Haaretz.com

Some Americans detained upon arrival in Israel reported being questioned about their political activity based on ’profiles’ on the controversial website Canary Mission. Documents obtained by Haaretz now clearly show that is indeed a source of information for decisions to bar entry

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Oct 04, 2018

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The Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy Ministry is using simple Google searches, mainly the controversial American right-wing website Canary Mission, to bar political activists from entering Israel, according to documents obtained by Haaretz.
>>Israeli court rejects American visa-holding student’s appeal; to be deported for backing BDS
The internal documents, some of which were submitted to the appeals tribunal in the appeal against the deportation of American student Lara Alqasem, show that officials briefly interviewed Alqasem, 22, at Ben-Gurion International Airport on her arrival Tuesday night, then passed her name on for “continued handling” by the ministry because of “suspicion of boycott activity.” Israel recently passed a law banning the entry of foreign nationals who engage in such activity.

>> Are you next? Know your rights if detained at Israel’s border

Links to Canary Mission and Facebook posts are seen on an official Ministry of Strategic Affairs document.
The ministry then sent the officials at the airport an official report classified “sensitive” about Alqasem’s supposed political activities, which included information from five links – four from Facebook and one, the main source, from the Canary Mission site, which follows pro-Palestinian activists on U.S. campuses.
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A decision on Alqasem’s appeal against her deportation was expected Thursday afternoon.
Canary Mission, now the subject of major controversy in the American Jewish community, has been collecting information since 2015 about BDS activists at universities, and sends the information to potential employers. Pro-Israel students have also criticized their activities.

Lara Alqasem.
This week, the American Jewish news site The Forward reported that at least $100,000 of Canary Mission’s budget had been contributed through the San Francisco Jewish Federation and the Helen Diller Family Foundation, which donates to Jewish education. The donation was handed to a group registered in Beit Shemesh called Megamot Shalom, specifically stating that it was for Canary Mission. A few hours after the report was published, the federation announced that it would no longer fund the group.
Over the past few months some of the Americans who have been detained for questioning upon arrival in Israel have reported that they were questioned about their political activity based on “profiles” about them published on Canary Mission. The documents obtained by Haaretz now show clearly that the site is indeed the No. 1 source of information for the decision to bar entry to Alqasem.
According to the links that were the basis for the decision to suspend the student visa that Alqasem had been granted by the Israeli Consulate in Miami, she was president of the Florida chapter of a group called Students for Justice in Palestine, information quoted directly from the Canary Mission. The national arm of that organization, National Students for Justice in Palestine, is indeed on the list of 20 groups that the Strategic Affairs Ministry compiled as criteria to invoke the anti-boycott law. However, Alqasem was not a member at the national level, but rather a local activist. She told the appeals tribunal that the local chapter had only a few members.

Canary Mission’s profile of Lara Alqasem.
The ministry also cited as a reason for barring Alqasem’s entry to Israel a Facebook post showing that “In April 2016 [her] chapter conducted an ongoing campaign calling for the boycott of Sabra hummus, the American version of Hummus Tzabar, because Strauss, which owns Tzabar, funds the Golani Brigade.” Alqasem told the tribunal that she had not taken an active part in this campaign. Another link was about a writers’ petition calling on a cultural center to refuse sponsorship by Israel for its activities. Yet another post, by the local Students for Justice in Palestine, praised the fact that an international security company had stopped operations in Israel. None of these links quoted Alqasem.
She told the tribunal that she is not currently a member of any pro-boycott group and would not come to study for her M.A. in Israel if she were.
The Strategic Affairs Ministry report on Alqasem is so meager that its writers mentioned it themselves: “It should be noted that in this case we rely on a relatively small number of sources found on the Internet.” Over the past few months Haaretz has been following up reports of this nature that have been the basis for denying entry to activists, and found that in many other cases the material consisted of superficial Google searches and that the ministry, by admission of its own senior officials, does not collect information from non-public sources.
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The ministry’s criteria for invoking the anti-boycott law state clearly that in order to bar entry to political activists, they must “hold senior or significant positions in the organizations,” including “official senior roles in prominent groups (such as board members).”
But the report on Alqasem does not indicate that she met the criterion of “senior” official in the national movement, nor was this the case for other young people questioned recently at the airport. In some cases it was the Shin Bet security service that questioned people due to past participation in activities such as demonstrations in the territories, and not BDS activities.
“Key activists,” according to the ministry’s criteria, also means people who “consistently take part in promoting BDS in the framework of prominent delegitimization groups or independently, and not, for example, an activist who comes as part of a delegation.” In Alqasem’s case, however, her visa was issued after she was accepted for study at Hebrew University.

Did IDF admit giving weapons to Islamists in Syria? Explosive Israeli news report vanishes — RT World News
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One of at least seven groups believed to have received weapons from Israel, Fursan al-Joulan, or ‘Knights of Golan,’ reportedly participated in the Israeli-led operation to evacuate hundreds of members of the controversial White Helmets group out of Syria. The group is also believed to have received upwards of $5,000 per month from Israel.

The deleted report comes on the heels of another major disclosure: On Monday the IDF announced that Israel has carried out more than 200 strikes in Syria in the past year and half.

The Israeli military usually declines to comment on missile strikes attributed to Israel, although Tel Aviv has repeatedly claimed that it has the right to attack Hezbollah and Iranian military targets inside Syria. Damascus has repeatedly claimed that Israel uses Hezbollah as a pretext to attack Syrian military formations and installations, accusing Tel Aviv of “directly supporting ISIS and other terror organizations.”

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#israël #syrie

Israël financerait discrètement des groupes de rebelles syriens dans le Golan — RT en français – 19 juin 2017, 15:52
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Selon le Wall Street Journal, l’armée israélienne fournirait de manière confidentielle de l’aide humanitaire et financière à plusieurs groupes de rebelles syriens installés dans le Golan, notamment afin de permettre aux combattants de s’armer.

Une enquête du Wall Street Journal révèle qu’Israël fournit de l’aide à plusieurs groupes de rebelles syriens, dans la région frontalière du plateau du Golan, occupé depuis 1967 par Israël. Citant des membres de ces groupes de combattants ainsi que des responsables israéliens informés des contours de cette aide très discrète, le journal affirme qu’Israël finance la lutte de ces derniers contre Bachar el-Assad.

Selon les journalistes, Israël a ainsi mis sur pied une unité dédiée à cette mission en 2016. Son objectif serait de coordonner le transfert d’argent et de matériel humanitaire permettant à ces groupes rebelles de rémunérer leurs soldats, d’acheter des armes et des munitions, ainsi que de se soigner. Certains groupes percevraient ainsi 5 000 dollars mensuels pour régler ces dépenses de fonctionnement nécessaires à la poursuite de leurs activités.

Décrit comme un « engagement secret », le déploiement de cette stratégie s’inscrit dans la ligne de la politique étrangère israélienne dans la région, marquée par une défiance vis à vis de l’Iran, allié du gouvernement syrien, et un conflit ouvert contre le Hezbollah, qui combat lui aussi l’Etat islamique aux côtés des troupes de Bachar el-Assad et de ses alliés.

« Israël nous apporte une aide héroïque », s’enthousiasme un représentant du groupe Fursan al-Joulan (également connu sous le nom de Moatasem al-Golani, (les Chevaliers du Golan) et qui compte près de 400 combattants), selon des propos rapportés par le Wall Street Journal. « Nous n’aurions jamais survécu sans Israël », estime-t-il. Selon Liwaa Ousoud al-Rahman, combattant au sein d’une autre organisation, « la plupart des gens veulent coopérer avec Israël » parmi les groupes rebelles.

De fait, la coopération entre Israël et ces combattants opposés au gouvernement syrien aurait débuté en 2013, selon Abou Souhayb, pseudonyme d’un des représentants de ces groupes rebelles. D’abord limitée à l’aide humanitaire, l’action d’Israël se serait ensuite étendue à un soutien financier, avant de susciter l’intérêt d’autres formations, qui se sont à leur tour, tournées vers l’Etat voisin.

En réponse à ces révélations, l’armée israélienne a réagi. Sans démentir ni confirmer, un porte parole de Tsahal a déclaré au Times of Israel qu’Israël était « engagé dans une opération de sécurisation de ses frontières », avec pour but la neutralisation d’éventuelles cellules terroristes dans cette zone. « Par ailleurs, nous fournissons de l’aide humanitaire aux Syriens qui vivent dans la région », a-t-il ajouté.

#Israël–Syrie
Israël aide en secret des groupes rebelles syriens (média US)
▻https://www.i24news.tv/fr/actu/international/moyen-orient/148265-170619-israel-aide-en-secret-des-groupes-rebelles-syriens-medias-us

▻https://seenthis.net/messages/608029

Un long et très intéressant article sur le blog de Joshua Landis pour démonter la thèse «Assad a fabriqué ISIS»: Is Assad the Author of ISIS? Did Iran Blow Up Assef Shawkat? And Other Tall Tales
▻http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/assad-author-isis-iran-blow-assef-sawkat-tall-tales-ehsani2

As the events in Daraa unfolded, the President invited key figures from the town to see what can be done to calm the demonstrations. One such figure was cleric Sayasneh. One of the consistent demands of such meetings was the release of prisoners. It was no different when Douma joined the uprising. Foreign Embassies were also pushing the Syrian State to release what it called political prisoners. People like Zahran Alloush were sentenced to seven years in prison when he was arrested with a group of 40 people on the charge of promoting Wahhabi ideology and gun possession. They had not killed anyone or even fired a shot. Yet, they were sent to prisons like Sednaya and kept there beyond the end of their sentence on the whim of one of the security agencies. It was in this context when the residents of Douma demanded the release of prisoners from their districts. The Syrian leadership was under intense pressure to calm the crisis. The people of Douma promised to do their job at calming their own streets if some of those prisoners were released. Zahran and many others like him were released under this rationale. This is not too dissimilar to the way the American prisons in Iraq worked. Zarqawi, Baghdadi and Golani were all released from those prisons either when their terms ended or when the local populations demanded their release. Just like in Syrian prisons, the prisoners in American jails were also indoctrinated with jihadist ideology. Syria erred by releasing Alloush and Abboud who would go on to form Jeish al Islam and Ahrar just like the U.S. erred when it released Baghdadi who would go on to form ISIS.

نعم.. القصف الامريكي للقوات السورية في دير الزور كان متعمدا.. والهدف نسف اتفاق الهدنة.. والجولاني كشف المستور في مقابلته مع “الجزيرة”.. لماذا اقدمت امريكا على هذه الخطوة؟ وكيف سيكون الرد الروسي على هذه الاهانة؟ | رأي اليوم
▻http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=524108

Le pont de vue d’ABA sur la balourdise des USA à Deir-Ezzor.

"Oui, le bombardement américain des forces syriennes était prémédité. Avec pour but de torpiller l’accord de cessez-le-feu. Al-Golani l’a révélé lors de son entretien sur Al-jazeera. Pourquoi l’Amérique a-t-elle agi ainsi ? Quelle sera la réaction russe au regard de cet affront ?"

En résumé, plus ou moins : Difficile de croire à une méprise quand Rumsfled se vantait lors de la campagne d’Irak des satellites US capables de lire la taille des slips de Saddam Hussein. Les faucons US ont voulu ce raid, espérant une réaction violente des Russes et des Syriens, qui s’en gardent car ils tiennent à cet accord.

Certains affirment que ce raid avait pour but de faire passer de prochains bombardements sur les jihadistes extrémistes. Sauf que les US n’ont aucune envie de mettre en oeuvre l’aspect de l’accord qui implique de séparer rebelles extrémistes et modérés, ces derniers en particulier refusant énergiquement cela. Les Russes le savent très bien, eux qui ont piégé les USA sur cet accord difficile à mettre en oeuvre compte-tenu de la complexité de la situation sur le terrain. C’est ce qui ressort des propos d’Al-Golani, le chef de Fath al-sham, sur la chaîne Al-Jazzeera. Il parle d’une répétion du scénarion irakien il y a 20 ans, aux dépens de l’opposition syrienne qui devrait se soumettre au régime syrien. Acculés dans une impasse, les USA ont pensé qu’une renégociation de l’accord avec les Russes [suite au bombardemnt et à la réaction russe espérée] serait une solution. Il va falloir que ça discute entre Russes et Américains... Sauver l’accord implique des concessions russes, et l’accord qui volera en éclats si les deux partis restent sur leurs positions. En pareil cas, ce serait le retour à une guerre par procuration entre les deux grandes puissances sur le sol syrien, ce que ni l’une ni l’autre ne veulent vraiment. Obama peut faire une action en Syrie pour tenter de voler au secours de Clinton, comme il a donné 38 miliards de dollars pour les votes sionistes ("juifs" dit le texte mais je suis politiquement correct). Affaire à suivre, et qu’est-ce qu’on peut faire d’autre conclut ABA !

#syrie

The Ever-diminishing Dissonance of Being a Religious Soldier in Israel’s Secular Army - Books
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A timely question raised in the book is whether the religious community is plotting to take control of the army. Magal believes that some members of the community indeed wish for this, and many would like, for example, to see a religious chief of staff, but the author also lets the figures speak for him. According to the statistics he cites, 35 percent of the graduates of the Officers Training School (Bahad 1) are religiously observant (three times their proportion in the population), and almost a quarter of the soldiers from the settlement of Efrat, outside Bethlehem, enter an officers course. No fewer than 70 percent of those serving in the Maglan Special Forces unit are religious. Of the IDF’s five infantry brigades, Golani has the highest proportion of observant soldiers and officers, followed by Paratroops, Givati, Kfir and Nahal. It’s estimated that some 40 percent of the command staff in the Paratroops are religious.

The bottom line is clear and unequivocal: The religious-Zionist movement is exercising a decisive influence on the IDF. It’s unlikely that the case of the religious cadets, who were expelled from Bahad 1 in September 2011 because they left the auditorium when a female singer took the stage, will repeat itself in an era in which the commanders of officers training courses themselves are, in growing numbers, wearing kippas.

The rise of the religious community in the IDF was made possible in large measure by the fact that many members of Israel’s secular society began to ascribe less importance to military service than previously. The place of those who once proudly hoisted high the Zionist banner and achieved great things under it, is now being taken by those who view the Jewish people’s revitalization in the Land of Israel as part of fulfilling a divine imperative.

The Latest: 18 US-backed rebels killed in Syria car bomb
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Quneitra-based opposition activist who goes by the name of Abu Omar al-Golani says that 20 fighters were killed in the blast, including the commander of the Syria Revolutionaries Front, Capt. Abu Hamza al-Naimi.

He says the blast went off when several commanders were meeting at the group’s office in Asheh.

Peu connue par ici, mais assez courante dans le monde arabe, l’accusation selon laquelle le Qatar finance Nousra en lui versant des rançons mirifiques : Qatar’s channel to militants possibly dangerous, possibly useful
▻http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0U11O220151218

Doha, which sees Nusra Front as one of the most effective fighting forces in Syria, has tried to push the group to adopt a more moderate Islamist platform in the hope it could eventually split from al Qaeda and be supplied with arms.

That hope remains unfulfilled. The group’s leader, Abu Mohamad al-Golani, said in remarks broadcast on Saturday he remained loyal to al Qaeda and had no interest in joining the process in Riyadh which he called a “treason” against Syrian youth.

Nusra on Dec. 1 released 16 Lebanese soldiers and policemen as part of a prisoner exchange brokered by Qatar, a deal that a Saudi-owned news site said included a $25 million cash payment, which Qatar has denied.

Vidéo : « J’ai tué pour vous, avec les mains que voici ! » explique le soldat israélien aux députés | par Ali Abunimah | Publié le 1er décembre 2015 sur The Electronic Intifada | traduction Jean-Marie Flémal
▻http://www.pourlapalestine.be/video-jai-tue-pour-vous-avec-les-mains-que-voici-explique-le-soldat-

« J’ai tué pour vous, et avec les mains que voici ! Et vous parlez de terroristes qui ont du sang sur les mains ? Moi, j’ai tué plus de 40 personnes pour vous ! Je les ai tuées ! »

Cet aveu tranchant venait d’Ido Gal Razon, un ancien soldat israélien, que l’on voit sur la vidéo ci-dessus alors qu’il parle devant une commission du Parlement israélien, la Knesset, le 11 novembre dernier.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=156&v=6TkKm2eEV1A

Razon n’exprimait nullement ses remords pour ces homicides, mais se plaignait de ce qu’on ne lui eût pas proposé de traitement suite au grave impact psychiatrique qu’avait exercé sur lui la boucherie qu’il avait perpétrée au service d’Israël.

« Personne ne me donne une thérapie et je le déplore ! Je crie ! », dit-il. « Je fais pipi la nuit, avec ce traumatisme. Il s’amène près de moi et il me dit : ‘Pourquoi m’as-tu tué ? Pourquoi m’as-tu tué ? »

On ne voit pas très bien qui vient hanter Razon la nuit, mais il pourrait faire allusion à chacune de toutes les personnes qu’il a tuées.

Razon explique qu’il a été blessé alors qu’il faisait partie du 51e bataillon de l’armée israélienne, la brigade Golani, alors qu’il participait à l’Opération Clair comme du Vin – une attaque contre les Palestiniens dans la partie centrale de la bande de Gaza, le 20 décembre 2007.

Video: “I killed for you, with these hands,” Israeli soldier tells lawmakers | The Electronic Intifada
▻https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-i-killed-you-these-hands-israeli-soldier-tells-lawmakers
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Israeli soldier tells lawmakers

Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 1 December 2015

“I killed for you, with these hands! You say, ‘Terrorists with blood on their hands?’ I killed more than 40 people for you! I murdered!”

This stark admission was made by Ido Gal Razon, a former Israeli soldier, seen in the video above speaking to a committee of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, on 11 November.

Razon wasn’t expressing remorse for the killings, but complaining that he has not been offered treatment for the severe psychiatric impact the butchery he committed in service of Israel has had on him.

“No one gives me therapy, and I complain! I shout,” he says. “I pee at night from post trauma. He comes to me and says: ‘Why did you kill me? Why did you kill me?’”

It’s not clear who is haunting Razon at night, but he could be referring to any of the people he says he killed.

Razon says he was injured while a member of the 51st battalion of the Israeli army’s Golani Brigade when he took part in Operation Clear as Wine – an attack on Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip on 20 December 2007.

Israeli mob attacks dying Eritrean refugee after soldier is killed | The Electronic Intifada
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Rania Khalek Rights and Accountability 19 October 2015

Warning: This article contains video and images of extreme violence.

A gunman opened fire at the central bus station in Bir al-Saba (Beer Sheva), a city in the south of present-day Israel, on Sunday evening, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding up to 11 other people.

The assailant shot and killed a soldier and then “snatched his M-16 rifle” before opening fire on the others, most of whom were “members of Israel’s security forces,” Israel’s Ynet reported. Walla! News reported that four of the injured were soldiers.

Israeli police shot and killed the assailant.

Israeli media named the dead soldier as 19-year-old Sergeant Omri Levi. He was a member of the Israeli army’s Golani brigade, a unit involved in numerous war crimes against Palestinians.

Both Reuters and Ynet, citing Palestinian media, claimed that the assailant was Isam al-Araj from Shuafat, a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem whose Palestinian residents have frequently been targeted with violence by Israeli occupation forces and settlers. This information had not been confirmed by any official source. It was also not apparent which Palestinian media had reported the claim.
Death-chanting mob

During the incident, a security guard shot 29-year-old Haftom Zarhum, an Eritrean refugee who was “misidentified” as a “terrorist,” according to Haaretz. Zarhum later died of his injuries.

Zarhum came to Beer Sheva on Sunday to procure a visa.

Video captured by bystanders and posted to social media shows a mob of onlookers, including Israeli soldiers and police, kicking Zarhum in the head, pinning him under a chair and throwing a bench at him as he writhes on the floor, clearly in pain and bleeding severely.

Will Israel invade West Bank? (Al-Monitor, 9 juillet)

Israeli-Palestinian relations are back to square one as Israel recently threatened to invade and occupy the West Bank.

▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/07/israel-palestine-west-bank-threats-occupation.html

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« The current field situation in the West Bank is proof of the quasi-absolute security control imposed by the Israeli army. The latter breaks into any camp or village whenever it pleases through coordination with Palestinian security services, and it arrests wanted people by conducting night raids, the most recent of which took place June 1 in different West Bank areas, including Bethlehem, Nablus and Hebron. According to a May report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, the Israeli army has 361 mobile checkpoints in the streets of the West Bank, and 96 fixed checkpoints inside the West Bank. (...)

In April 2015, the Israeli army sent the elite Golani Brigade to the West Bank, after a three-year absence, in response to armed attacks against Israeli settlers; the army did not mention the duration of the brigade’s stay in the West Bank. (...)

Wassef Erekat, a retired major general from the Palestinian Authority, told Al-Monitor, “The recent Israeli military measures reflect aggressive Israeli intentions aiming at a new escalation in the West Bank, because the Golani Brigade’s job is to face armies and military operations, and not to confront unarmed civilians.” (...)

The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, published in 2011 a survey showing the geographic spread of the Israeli army camps in the West Bank. According to the survey, the Israeli camps are set up in east, west, north and south West Bank, which makes the possibility of Israel invading it again a probable option for the army. Al-Monitor obtained an internal security document from the Palestinian Authority prepared by unknown parties in recent weeks, but still not published in the media as it was only circulated to a limited extent between Palestinian officers in the West Bank. The document read, “The question that preoccupied Palestinian decision-makers is not about the possibility of Israel implementing its threats to invade the West Bank or not. The question is when will the invasion take place, which region would it reach and how long will it last?” »

#Palestine #Cisjordanie #Israël #occupation #Autorité_palestinienne #coordination_sécuritaire #Wassef_Erekat #dip

Syrian Killed in Attack by Golani Druze Was Islamist Fighter, Not Civilian as IDF Claimed
▻http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/06/26/syrian-killed-in-attack-by-golani-druze-was-islamist-fighter-not

Israel regularly evacuates Islamist fighters wounded in the fighting against the regime in the region. Angry local Druze intercepted an IDF ambulance carrying two wounded Syrians, whom the IDF claimed were civilians. They beat the army medics, who were forced to flee. They then beat one of the wounded Syrians to death and severely wounded the other, before the authorities intervened and rescued him.

Munther Khalil: the IDF’s Faux Syrian “Civilian”

Syrian Islamists calling themselves the Revolutionary Command Council in Quneitra and the Golan, published a Facebook memorial to the victim who was killed in the attack. The page says in Arabic:

Munther Khalil – the wounded man who was killed by Druze people from Majdal Shams in Israel

May Allah have mercy on you, and accept you as one of the Shahids

His picture features him brandishing a gun in full rebel garb. He is clearly not a civilian.

El-Jazeerra fait la propagande d’Enusra de Syrie
▻http://www.argotheme.com/organecyberpresse/spip.php?article2535

Faut-il encore plus d’explications, pour prouver la connivence des médias qataris, donc des dirigeants de la monarchie, avec le terrorisme qui sévit dans certains pays arabes ? La chaîne Al-Jazeera a diffusé un interview d’un certain Mohamad al-Golani, visage caché, parlant au nom de Djabhet Enusra qui sévit en Syrie. Cette organisation est à l’origine de l’exode des syriens, fuyants crimes et atrocités de hordes déchaînées... Le Front al-Nosra (en arabe Jabhat al-Nosra : جبهة النصرة لأهل الشام) (...)

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Israel Secretly Arrests Golani Druze, Accusing Him of Exposing Rebel-IDF Collaboration
▻http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/02/28/israel-secretly-arrests-golani-druze-accusing-him-of-exposing-al

Though Israeli security services haven’t offered any reason for his arrest, it’s likely they’re angered because a week ago he followed Syrian rebels to a meeting inside Israeli-occupied territory. The rebels met with IDF forces who’ve previously been shown to receive logistical and intelligence support from Israel in previous reports here and in Israel and foreign media. Al Maket filmed a video while the meeting was underway, in which he described what he saw and offered it to Syrian TV. It was aired to the entire nation and likely monitored by Israeli security.

The Shin Bet doesn’t want any further leaks about such collaboration because it allows the Syrian regime to paint the rebels as Israeli stooges.

The Dahiya Doctrine, Proportionality, and War Crimes | The Institute for Palestine Studies
▻http://palestine-studies.org/jps/fulltext/186668

On 19–20 July 2014, elements of the elite Golani, Givati, and paratrooper brigades launched an assault along three axes into the Shuja‘iya district of #Gaza City on the eastern side of the city center. The Golani brigade in particular met fierce and unexpected #resistance that resulted in thirteen Israeli soldiers being killed and perhaps a hundred wounded. According to American military sources, over a period of twenty-four hours during this operation, eleven Israeli artillery battalions, employing at least 258 of these artillery pieces, fired over seven thousand shells into this single neighborhood. This included forty-eight hundred shells during one seven-hour period: nearly seven hundred shells an hour, or over eleven per minute. A senior Pentagon official “with access to the daily briefings” called this amount of firepower “massive” and “deadly.” He described this “huge” amount of firepower as that which would normally be used by the U.S. Army in support of two entire divisions comprising forty thousand troops. Another, a former American artillery commander, estimated that the U.S. military would employ that number of guns only in support of an army corps of several divisions. A retired American lieutenant general described the bombing frenzy as “absolutely disproportionate.”4 It bears repeating that this enormous amount of firepower was used in the span of about twenty-four hours for an artillery bombardment of just one Gaza neighborhood that was simultaneously being pounded by massive air strikes.

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Random occurrences cannot explain such devastation, nor can this honestly be called regrettable “collateral damage.” To believe that is to willfully suspend belief and to ignore the nature of the weapons used—and, equally important, it is to ignore Israel’s established military doctrine. The wholesale killing and mangling of over thirteen thousand people, most of them defenseless civilians, and the wanton destruction of the homes and property of hundreds of thousands of people, are in fact fully intentional. They are the fruits of a sinister strategy implemented by the Israeli military at least since the 2006 assault on Lebanon, which goes by the name “Dahiya doctrine.” (...) After an entire southern suburb of Beirut, known as the Dahiya, had been devastated from the air by troops under his command using two-thousand-pound bombs and other similar ordnance, #Eizenkot explicitly laid out what this doctrine entailed in 2008. He stated: “What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on. . . . We will apply disproportionate force on it and cause great damage and destruction there. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, they are military bases . . . . This is not a recommendation. This is a plan. And it has been approved.”6
 
Not only was the strategy precisely the one Israel used in Lebanon in 2006, it is the very same that has now been deployed against Gaza for the third time in the past six years. (...) Not surprisingly, one found little mention of the Dahiya doctrine whether in statements by U.S. politicians, or in the reporting of the war by most of the mainstream American media, which dwelt on the description of Israel’s actions as “self-defense.”

#doctrine_dahiya #Liban #Israel #crimes #Israël #victimes_civiles

Une nouvelle unité des forces spéciales du Hezbollah aurait reçu de l’équipement russe high-tech selon une note du CF2R, s’appuyant sur un article russe repris par la presse libanaise :
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Un site internet d’information libanais a publié une photo d’un homme masqué, le présentant comme un membre d’une unité méconnue des forces spéciales du Hezbollah. Cette unité aurait été aperçue cette semaine dans la banlieue sud de Beyrouth, à l’occasion de la fête religieuse chiite d’Achoura. L’article présente cette formation comme l’équivalent de l’unité de reconnaissance EGOZ de la brigade Golani ou des groupes SWAT américains.
Selon une source proche du parti, cité par la presse du pays de cèdres, cette unité ferait partie des « Brigades militaires Redwan ». Anciennement appelée « Forces d’intervention », elle regroupe les soldats d’élite du Parti de Dieu. Elle a été restructurée pendant le conflit de juillet 2006 par l’ancien chef militaire du Hezbollah, Imad Mughniyeh, tué en Syrie en 2008 lors d’une opération attribuée au Mossad israélien. La brigade porte d’ailleurs l’un des noms de guerre de Mughniyeh, qui se faisait appeler - entre autres - Hajj Redwan. [...]
Une unité équipée par la Russie
Les hommes armés et masqués apparus lors du dernier discours de Nasrallah ont attiré l’attention des observateurs sur leur matériel, notamment un casque équipé de lunettes électroniques. La raison de leur apparition pourrait être un message adressé aux adversaires du Parti pour montrer sa capacité opérationnelle et surtout ses moyens techniques.
A la suite de cette démonstration, plusieurs journaux libanais ont fait état d’un accord secret entre le Parti de Dieu et l’industrie de l’armement russe portant sur la livraison de 500 casques avec lunettes électroniques que certains membres de l’unité de protection de Nasrallah portaient. La particularité de ces casques serait leur capacité à détecter des explosifs dans leur champ de vision. Le montant de cette transaction n’a pas été communiqué par la Pravda, le journal russe qui a révélé l’information, reprise par la presse libanaise. Mais la presse libanaise a désigné Wafiq Safa comme le responsable de cette transaction.

Analysis / Brazen Hezbollah renews operations along Israel border - Israel must reexamine the prevailing assumption that Hezbollah is still deterred by the IDF following the 2006 war and is not interested in a confrontation.
By Amos Harel | Oct. 20, 2014 Haaretz
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A recent article in Al-Akhbar, the Lebanese newspaper considered close to Hezbollah, seems to back Israeli claims that the Shi’ite organization has resumed overt military activity along the Israeli border – a clear violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the Second Lebanon War in 2006. This, along with taking responsibility for the two explosive devices that blew up on Mount Dov two weeks ago, may reflect a worrisome change in Hezbollah policy that in the long term could have problematic ramifications for Israel.

On October 7, Hezbollah activated two explosive devices alongside a group of the Golani Brigade’s Egoz unit and an Engineering Corps bomb squad operating along the Lebanese border. Two Israel Defense Forces sappers were wounded.

Hezbollah later announced that the operation was in response to the explosion of an Israeli spy installation that a Hezbollah sapper was trying to dismantle in south Lebanon on September 5.

Resolution 1701 (from August 2006) forbids armed Hezbollah fighters south of the Litani River. Hezbollah’s claim of responsibility for the explosion is a blatant admission that it violated the resolution, which until now the group had been careful to publicly uphold. In mid-September, the IDF distributed photos in which Hezbollah fighters could be seen near the border fence, presumably gathering intelligence on IDF troop movements.

The Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors Arab media outlets, posted on its website a translation of the article from Al-Akhbar that appeared on October 8, the day after the explosions. The article states that the group has resumed operations south of the Litani, similar to its operations between the years 2000-2006 after the IDF had withdrawn from the security zone.

The newspaper describes Hezbollah’s activities as a necessary response to the joint efforts by Israel and Sunni opposition groups on the Golan Heights working to depose the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The report, based on unidentified Lebanese sources, claims that Israel has intensified its cooperation with various opposition groups (including, it claims, even the Nusra Front, the extremist Sunni group identified with Al-Qaida). It warns that Israel is encouraging Sunni extremists to enter Lebanon through the Hermon region, and that it is planning to stir up residents of the Syrian Druze villages near Mount Hermon, which are trying to stay neutral in the civil war.

The argument is that Israeli meddling in events in the tri-border region obligates Hezbollah to take extraordinary defensive measures. Accordingly, the explosive devices planted at Mount Dov were aimed at an IDF tank and were meant to warn Israel that it would pay a price for changing the rules of the game in Lebanon.

The explosive charges that went off on Mount Dov were more sophisticated and deadly than those Hezbollah detonated there in March, when an IDF vehicle was damaged but there were no casualties. If the IDF forces had not acted carefully when approaching the devices this time, the incident could have ended with several deaths.

These developments require that Israel reexamine the prevailing assumption that Hezbollah is still deterred by the IDF following the 2006 war, is further deterred by Israel’s display of military prowess in Gaza this summer, and, in general, is not interested in a confrontation with Israel because it is deeply entrenched in the Shi’ite-Sunni wars in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.

But the recent explosions were a gamble for Hezbollah. Assuming the group’s leadership expected the attack to succeed, it means Hezbollah was prepared to absorb at least one round of violence with Israel (based on its expected response to the deaths of its soldiers), if not an all-out war. This indicates Hezbollah’s self-confidence is growing, probably because its fighters are accumulating valuable battle experience in the Syrian civil war.

There could be other reasons for Hezbollah’s actions. It might want to deflect attention from the internal struggles in Lebanon, in which the group has suffered losses at the hands of extremist Sunni groups like Islamic State. Hezbollah might also have been trying to establish a new deterrent balance with Israel, so the latter will stop attacking the group in Lebanese territory.

According to the U.S. administration and Arab media, over the past two years the Israel Air Force has attacked several weapons convoys going from Syria to Lebanon; the most recent time, last February, the attack was on Lebanese soil. Now Hezbollah has raised the bar, Israel may have to rethink how to respond in the future.

The question remains: what did Hezbollah expect to achieve with a direct attack on the IDF like the one at Mount Dov? Is the military experience it has gained in Syria being translated into new combat techniques and a different battle plan if there’s a flare-up with Israel? How will the group approach such a campaign, given its massive rearming with short-term rockets with large warheads over the past year – a move that could be evidence of a readiness to heavily bombard the border region?

A whole line of senior Israeli defense officials say they do not, at this stage, see any change in Hezbollah’s interests or plans, and maintain that the group is not seeking a confrontation with the IDF. Still, it’s hard to forget that overconfidence led Hezbollah to make a bad move in 2006, when it kidnapped reserve soldiers on the border and sparked a war. One can’t rule out the possibility that such bad judgment could repeat itself.

L’armée la plus morale au monde,
▻http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=369102

On July 20, a Golani infantry force sent to search for tunnels came under a massive attack by Hamas’s Shejaia Battalion. This Hamas battalion is the largest in its guerrilla army, made up of between 800 to 900 highly trained armed men.

The Golani Brigade in Shejaia began sustaining heavy losses, the source recalled, after Hamas intelligence units mapped out its location. Hamas sent the information to terrorists in tunnels.

In a coordinated fashion, the terrorists emerged from “the metro under Shejaia,” the source said, referring to the tunnels, and launched a massive wave of anti-tank, mortar, sniper, and automatic gun fire from buildings surrounding the Golani force.

Casualties were mounting on the Israeli side, the source said. “I saw that enemy cells had come to within 40 meters of our forces,” he added.

At this stage, the Artillery Corps mapped out the location of enemy forces, in Gazan civilian residential buildings - areas where the IDF had previously told civilians to evacuate.

The Artillery Corps Support Unit watched the battle with alarm, and took drastic action, the source said. “Otherwise, I knew we would be getting 600 body bags back.”

It instructed all of the Golani soldiers to enter their Namer armored personnel carrier [APC], and launched a wave of shelling, some of which fell on the Namers, which are built to withstand such strikes. Three artillery battalions rained down fire on Shejaia, in a bid to rescue the Golani soldiers. As this occurred, the source said, Hamas continued to blast the soldiers with mortars from all around the neighborhood.

“We heard them say over the radio: Fire is coming down on us,” the source said. After twenty minutes of shelling, silence ensued. “There were no more Hamas mortars, no more anti-tank missiles, no more automatic weapon fire,” the source said.

Ten buildings lay in ruins.

“I can say that we did everything we could to warn the civilian population before the war began,” the source said. “My heart aches for the noncombatants who were killed . This is a war in every way, not an operation. I visited our forces in Shejaia, and saw what I did with my own eyes,” the source said. “And what we did there was nothing less than close support for the [infantry] corps.”

Condoléances de l’Ambassade de France suite au décès de Jordan (...) - La France en Israël - Ambassade de France à Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv, le 22 juillet 2014
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C’est avec une profonde tristesse que l’Ambassade de France en Israël a appris la mort de Jordan Benshemoun, 22 ans, sergent-chef de l’unité d’élite « Egoz » au sein de la brigade Golani, dans le cadre de l’opération Bordure Protectrice à Gaza.

Alors que Jordan sera enterré ce soir, nous tenons à adresser à sa famille ainsi qu’à ses proches, nos plus sincères condoléances.

Treize soldats israéliens tués dans l’opération à Gaza
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Jérusalem - Treize soldats israéliens de la brigade Golani ont été tués ces dernières 24 heures dans la bande de Gaza où l’armée israélienne mène une offensive, portant à 18 le nombre de morts au sein de l’armée.

Depuis hier soir, 13 combattants de la brigade Golani ont été tués en combattant les terroristes du Hamas, a indiqué l’armée sur son compte Twitter, un bilan confirmé par une porte-parole à l’AFP.

L’armée avait déjà annoncé la mort de cinq soldats depuis jeudi et le début de l’offensive terrestre dans l’enclave palestinienne, ce qui porte à 18 le bilan des morts au sein des forces israéliennes.

Aucune précision n’a été donnée sur les circonstances de la mort des treize militaires, le travail d’identification étant encore en cours.

Les terroristes seraient donc ceux qui luttent contre les soldats d’élite de l’armée d’occupation qui eux tuent des civils.