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#CDG_Express et #RER_B : Pécresse restera « inflexible » sur sa position
▻https://www.latribune.fr/regions/ile-de-france/cdg-express-et-rer-b-pecresse-restera-inflexible-sur-sa-position-804789.ht

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Dans ses vœux prononcés dans la soirée du 21 janvier, la présidente de l’autorité organisatrice de transports Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM, ex-STIF) réaffirme son attachement à cet axe de 32 kilomètres : « Oui, nous avons besoin de cette liaison directe ! Elle est complémentaire du RER B et nous permettra de le désaturer car une personne avec des valises prend la place de trois. » Valérie Pécresse ajoute : « En termes d’attractivité, c’est capital ! 50 millions de touristes chaque année, cela nécessité qu’on les accueille dignement. »

Puis, conformément à ses déclarations de la mi-décembre, la présidente du conseil régional francilien appelle l’État à ne pas oublier les 900.000 voyageurs quotidiens du RER B.
« Nous voulons que les travaux soient réalisés sans dégrader la qualité du service. J’attends les conclusions du préfet Cadot pour avril [mais] je resterai inflexible sur cette position », a conclu Valérie Pécresse.
[…]

La prise de parole de la patronne de la région a été suivie ce mardi 22 janvier d’un courrier adressé au préfet de Paris, préfet d’Île-de-France. Selon l’agence de presse Reuters, des députés, des sénateurs, plusieurs dizaines d’élus municipaux, dont les maires d’Aubervilliers et de Saint-Denis, ainsi que des syndicalistes et des représentants d’associations d’usagers ont en effet demandé au représentant de l’État « d’abandonner au plus vite le CDG Express. »

« Les impacts sur les RER sont en tout point contraires à la politique annoncée par l’exécutif de donner la priorité aux transports du quotidien », écrivent-ils.

Selon les estimations officielles, le projet doit coûter 2,1 milliards d’euros, dont 400 millions provenant des actionnaires du gestionnaire d’infrastructure (Groupe ADP, SNCF Réseau et la Caisse des dépôts et consignations).

» Israeli Minister Calls for Expulsion of International Observers from Hebron
IMEMC News - January 22, 2019 4:16 AM
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Israel’s Minister of Internal Security, Gilad Erdan, has called for international observers to be expelled from Hebron, claiming the mission is “hostile to Israel rather than a neutral force, and harmful to both the Israeli soldiers stationed in Hebron and the Jewish settlers that live there”.

Erdan sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding that he end the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH), sending him a secret police report “with data to back up his assertion”.

The letter read:

“It is no wonder that a force, composed of policemen from a hostile Islamic state such as Turkey and pro-Palestinian countries that sponsor boycotts [of Israel] such as Sweden and Norway, interferes with IDF soldiers and police, creates friction with the settlers, cooperates with radical organizations and promotes the delegitimization of Israel.”

Erdan continued: “It is [therefore] right and proper for the Israeli government to prevent the continued activity of this ‘temporary’ force acting to harm Israel.”

In November, Netanyahu said he would review the mission’s status in December.

The TIPH – a civilian observer mission which has been present in Hebron since 1997 – has a mandate which is renewed every six months by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel. The mission’s current mandate ends in 14 days, which likely explains the timing of Erdan’s appeal. In doing so, he joins the right-wing campaign led by Deputy Foreign Minister, Tzipi Hotovely, to pressure Netanyahu to end the mission’s mandate. It was formed in the aftermath of a massacre committed by Jewish extremist rabbi, Baruch Goldstein, who killed 30 Palestinian worshippers during their morning prayers at the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron.

Palestinian Authority tells U.S. it will stop taking aid to avoid multi-million dollar lawsuits - U.S. News - Haaretz.com

▻https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-pa-informs-u-s-it-will-stop-receiving-aid-to-avoid-multi-million-d

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WASHINGTON – The Palestinian Authority informed the Trump administration that it will stop taking any form of government assistance from the United States at the end of the month, as a result of legislation passed last year by Congress.

The law that led the PA to make this decision is the “Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act”, known as ATCA, which makes it possible for U.S. citizens to sue foreign entities that receive U.S. assistance for past acts of terrorism.

The Palestinian decision could lead to the end of the U.S. support for the PA’s security forces. These forces work regularly with the Israeli military to thwart terror attacks. In his last appearance before the Israeli government last week, outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot said that the security coordination between Israel and the PA’s forces helps save lives and maintain stability in the region.

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During 2018, the Trump administration cut all forms of U.S. civil assistance to the Palestinians, but it did not touch the security assistance, stating that the security coordination between the PA and Israel serves American foreign policy interests. Now, however, U.S. support for the PA security forces could end at the end of January, putting at risk the continuation of efficient security coordination.

The ATCA bill, which the PA blamed for its decision, was promoted last year in Congress in response to rulings by U.S. courts that rejected multi-million dollar lawsuits against the PA. These lawsuits were filed by American citizens who were injured or lost loved ones in terror attacks committed by Palestinians, mostly during the Second Intifada. The Supreme Court in Washington affirmed a ruling by a lower court that the American legal system does not have jurisdiction to deal with such lawsuits.

This led members of Congress to promote the ATCA bill, which states that U.S. courts will have jurisdiction to hear terrorism-related lawsuits against any foreign entity reviving U.S. government assistance. This means that if the PA will receive even one dollar of U.S. funding, it could face lawsuits asking for hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation. The law has also created concern in other countries in the Middle East that rely on U.S. assistance. It would not apply to Israel, however, because of the specific sources of funding through which Israel receives U.S. security assistance.
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Only after the bill passed Congress and was signed into law by President Trump, senior administration officials became aware of its possible impact on security coordination. In recent months, the administration tried to negotiate a “fix” to the law together with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. As reported in Haaretz two weeks ago, these efforts have stalled because of the ongoing government shutdown.

The PA’s letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, which was first reported over the weekend by NPR, could create a sense of urgency in Washington to solve the security assistance question.

Two sources who are involved in the negotiations on the subject told Haaretz that a possible solution could emerge with the involvement of the CIA or the Pentagon, but its exact mechanism hasn’t yet been drawn in full. “Everyone wants a fix, but it’s still not clear how we can get it,” explained one of the sources, who asked not to be named in order to discuss politicallly-sensitive negotiations.

Une activiste israélienne qui a giflé le procureur d’Ahed Tamimi veut un procès politique
Oren Ziv, +972, le 14 janvier 2019
▻https://www.aurdip.org/une-activiste-israelienne-qui-a.html

Yifat Doron dit qu’elle a giflé le procureur de l’IDF pour défendre son amie. « Nous ne sommes pas punis de la même manière que les Palestiniens pour les mêmes actions. »

#Palestine #Ahed_Tamimi #Yifat_Doron #prison #criminalisation_des_militants #prisonniers_politiques #enfants #Justice #Injustice

« Les salariés à temps partiel ne tireront que peu, voire pas, d’avantage de la réforme de la prime d’activité », François Bourguignon, Paul Champsaur, ex-présidents du groupe d’experts sur le smic, et Gilbert Cette, le président actuel,
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2019/01/16/les-salaries-a-temps-partiel-ne-tireront-que-peu-voire-pas-d-avantage-de-la-

Tribune. Le gouvernement a souhaité répondre à la demande de hausse du pouvoir d’achat exprimée ces dernières semaines par le mouvement des « gilets jaunes » en préférant la défiscalisation des heures supplémentaires et le relèvement de la #prime_d’activité à une hausse du smic.

Le groupe d’experts sur le smic a souligné à plusieurs reprises que le salaire minimum n’était pas, en effet, un instrument efficace pour soutenir le pouvoir d’achat des personnes à bas revenus salariaux.
D’une part, ses effets sur l’emploi risquent d’être contre-productifs.
D’autre part, c’est un instrument mal ciblé pour lutter contre la pauvreté des travailleurs et, a fortiori, des personnes sans emploi. Une rémunération au smic ou à un taux proche ne signifie pas nécessairement que la famille concernée soit au-dessous du seuil de pauvreté. Il n’est pas rare en effet qu’un autre membre bénéficie d’un revenu supérieur, qui permet à la famille de dépasser ce seuil.

Par ailleurs, divers transferts sociaux (prime d’activité, aides au logement, certaines aides locales) sont sous conditions de ressources ou diminuent avec la hausse du revenu d’activité : les effets d’une hausse du smic sur le revenu des ménages éligibles à ces transferts sont donc considérablement réduits.
Ainsi, les simulations publiées dans les rapports du groupe d’experts ont montré qu’une hausse de 1 % du smic augmentait le revenu disponible moyen des 30 % des ménages les moins aisés de moins de 0,15 %, tandis qu’une hausse de la prime d’activité conduisant au même revenu agrégé de l’ensemble des ménages l’augmentait d’environ 0,4 %, la différence reposant essentiellement sur un meilleur ciblage de la prime d’activité vers le bas de la distribution.

Bonus variable
En revanche, ces mesures négligent les personnes et familles dont les revenus d’activité viennent d’un emploi salarié à #temps_partiel, souvent contraint, qui, par définition, ne font pas d’heures supplémentaires et qui sont peu, voire pas concernées par le relèvement de la prime d’activité.
En effet, le relèvement annoncé de la prime d’activité, pour parvenir à une hausse de 100 euros du pouvoir d’achat au niveau du smic (une fois prise en compte la hausse réglementaire du smic au 1er janvier), ne concerne que la partie « bonification » de cette prime. Car la prime d’activité est constituée de deux parties distinctes.

D’une part un montant forfaitaire : le montant de base est égal au RSA socle, soit 550 euros par mois pour un célibataire et plus selon la composition familiale, mais il est diminué de 38 % des revenus d’activité du ménage. Il s’amenuise donc au fur et à mesure de la hausse de ces revenus, jusqu’à disparaître lorsque le revenu atteint, pour une personne seule à temps plein, 1,2 smic.
D’autre part, la prime d’activité comprend un bonus mensuel variable, destiné à inciter les salariés à travailler à plein-temps. Dans le barème de 2018, il est en effet versé à partir de 0,5 smic, atteint un maximum de 70 euros à 0,8 smic, puis diminue progressivement à partir de 1,2 smic pour disparaître à 1,3 smic.
La nouvelle bonification est toujours nulle au-dessous de 0,5 smic, mais elle augmente fortement à partir de 0,8 smic. Le bonus atteint 90 euros au niveau du smic, puis reste constant avant de s’annuler progressivement entre 1,3 et 1,5 smic – il est encore de 45 euros à 1,4 smic. Les autres paramètres de calcul de la prime d’activité restent inchangés.

Temps partiel contraint
En conséquence, la hausse de pouvoir d’achat sera nulle pour les personnes qui ne travaillent qu’à mi-temps ou moins, et minime juste au-dessus. Les salariés à temps partiel réduit ne tireront donc que peu, voire pas, d’avantage de la réforme de la prime d’activité. Or, cette population est loin d’être négligeable : la proportion de l’emploi salarié travaillant à mi-temps ou moins pour qui la réforme n’apportera rien est de 11 % pour les femmes et de 4 % pour les hommes. Rappelons en outre que près de 45 % du temps partiel est contraint, et que ce chiffre est beaucoup plus élevé dans certains métiers – les caissières de supermarché par exemple.

Il aurait été possible de jouer sur les autres paramètres de la prime d’activité pour atteindre l’objectif d’une hausse du pouvoir d’achat de 100 euros au niveau du smic, tout en améliorant celui des travailleurs à temps partiel. On aurait pu aussi simplifier l’ensemble du dispositif de la prime d’activité, dont la complexité et l’opacité contribuent sans doute à un taux encore élevé – environ 30 % – de non-recours.
Souhaitons que ces limitations de la prime d’activité et plus généralement la complexité du système redistributif français figurent en bonne place parmi les questions à aborder dans le grand débat qui s’engage. Souhaitons aussi que, dans ce grand débat, ne soit pas oublié le fait que la France est l’un des rares pays développés à souffrir encore de chômage massif et que la priorité y reste la création d’emplois, la baisse du #chômage et celle de la #précarité.

Chroniques françaises , par Toni Negri
14 Décembre 2018

Nous proposons ici la traduction d’une contribution rédigée par Antonio Negri au lendemain du discours d’Emmanuel Macron du 10 décembre dernier. Il s’agit d’un texte d’analyse (...) qui avance (...) des pistes de lecture intéressantes, notamment pour ce qui est des clivages classe/peuple, de l’impossibilité de médiation et de l’épuisement de la gouvernance, mais aussi de la question de la socialisation du salaire et de l’enjeu de la prolifération des foyers des luttes.

▻http://www.platenqmil.com/blog/2018/12/14/chroniques-francaises

#giletsjaunes #fédéralisme #municipalisme #macron #salaire #salaire_social #classe #peuple #multitude #médiation #représentativité #néolibéralisme #Macron #giletsjaunes #gilets_jaunes #Negri

Israeli forces shoot, kill Palestinian attacker
Dec. 13, 2018 10:49 A.M. (Updated : Dec. 13, 2018 12:23 P.M.)
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RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A 29-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces, on late Wednesday, near Surda village, north of the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah.

The Israeli army announced that Saleh Amer Saleh al-Barghouth i, 29, a resident from Kobar village, in Ramallah district, was shot and killed by Israeli special forces.

Earlier this week, al-Barghouthi carried out a drive-by shooting attack near the illegal Israeli settlement of Ofra, injuring seven Israeli settlers, including a 21-year-old pregnant woman, who was in critical condition and delivered the baby prematurely in an emergency procedure.

#Palestine_assassinée

Les intermittents et précaires n’appellent pas au calme - CIP-IDF
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Communiqué de l’A.G. de la Colline du 10 décembre 2018

À l’unanimité l’Assemblée Générale des intermittent.e.s, intérimaires, chômeur.se.s, précaires, professionnel.le.s du spectacle et de l’audiovisuel permanents ou non, réunie le lundi 10 décembre 2018 au Théâtre de La Colline à Paris, se réjouit du mouvement des Gilets Jaunes de son ampleur et de sa détermination.

Avec une régularité d’horloge, un officiel israélien fait des menaces extrêmement violentes contre le Liban, et tout le monde s’en fout.
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Israel minister threatens Lebanon

An senior Israeli minister and member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet says he is confident that once the Israeli army has a pretext for a war with its neighbour to the north, it “will return Lebanon to the Stone Age”, Channel 10 News reported.

Responding to a panelist who questioned whether the recent alleged discovery of tunnels on the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon might mean that Israeli deterrence power has decreased, Construction Minister Yoav Galant threatened to destroy Lebanon itself – not only Hezbollah.

“I presume that when we have the reasons, then we will know what to do,” said Galant, a former top general in the Israeli army. “I propose that we trust in the IDF and in its power; we know what to do. That doesn’t mean that we want a battle or a war everyday. But if, regretfully, we get to war, we will return Lebanon to the Stone Age – no less than that.”

Asked if he meant Lebanon, the country, or Hezbollah, Galant said: “Both of them. It is unacceptable [that] Israeli citizens, Israeli children, Israeli women are threatened in our cities, and in Lebanon, it’s business as usual. When I say to return the Stone Age, I mean what I say.”

When the show’s host pivoted to Galant’s political patronage, the minister affirmed he was still number two on the list of the Kulanu faction of the government, but hinted that he might switch to Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, since he shares its hawkish views on security.

“I never hid that my opinions on politics and security are identical to those of the Likud. And by the way, I’m the not the only one in the Kulanu party who holds those views,” Galant said.

Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz similarly threatened to send Lebanon back to “the Stone Age” in 2014 and to “the age of cavemen” in April of this year, according to Israeli reports.

Tract antirepression
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fédérer les colères

Nantes, Paris, Forcalquier, Toulouse, Orléans, Bordeaux, Dijon, Clermont-Ferrand, Saint-Gaudens, Amiens, Foix, Rouen, Saint-Girons, etc : messages de solidarité avec les lycéens de Mantes-la-Jolie. L’humiliation est devenue fierté, le stigmate, signe de reconnaissance et de ralliement.
Qu’aux quatre coins du pays, on s’identifie et rende hommage aux enfants des quartiers populaires, c’est important, peut-être décisif.
La violence de Macron et son monde, leur mépris de classe, la tournure fascisante, policière, que prend aujourd’hui le néo-libéralisme vont peut-être parvenir à fédérer les colères...

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Pushing for an Israeli victory is the only way to end the conflict with the Palestinians

Il faut lire ce point de vue d’un néoconservateur américain car il reflète une partie de la pensée de la droite pro-israélienne

Lieberman and Bennett failed to impose a new paradigm on how to deal with Hamas, but more and more people in Israel are recognizing that compromises and concessions have only led to more violence

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Dec 02, 2018 4:04 PM
▻https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-an-israeli-victory-is-the-only-way-to-end-the-conflict-with-the-pa

From a practical political point of view, Avigdor Lieberman, Naftali Bennett, and their idea to take a tougher stand toward Hamas just went down to defeat, if not humiliation. 
That’s because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again showed his political skills; the first is now ex-defense minister, the second failed to become defense minister.
>> ‘Get used to the rockets’: What Netanyahu should tell Israelis living near Gaza | Opinion
From a longer-term point of view, however, the duo raised an issue that for decades had not been part of the Israeli political discourse but, due to their efforts, promises to be an important factor in the future: that would be the concept of victory, of an Israeli victory over Hamas and, by extension, over the Palestinian Authority and Palestinians in general.
Victory – defined as imposing one’s will on the enemy so he gives up his war goals - has been the war goal of philosophers, strategists, and generals through human history. Aristotle wrote that “Victory is the end of generalship.” Karl von Clausewitz, the Prussian theorist, concurred: “The aim of war should be the defeat of the enemy.” Gen. James Mattis, the U.S. secretary of defense, finds that “No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.” 
Palestinians routinely speak of achieving victory over Israel, even when this is fantastical: to cite one example, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas called his Hamas counterpart, Ismail Haniyeh, after eight days of violence with Israel that left Gaza badly battered in November 2012 to “congratulate him on the victory and extend condolences to the families of martyrs.”

Contrarily, in Israel, the notion of victory has been sidelined since at least the Oslo Accords of 1993, after which its leaders instead focused on such concepts as compromise, conciliation, confidence-building, flexibility, goodwill, mediation, and restraint. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert immemorially articulated this attitude in 2007 when he stated that "Peace is achieved through concessions.”
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>> Israel is incomparably stronger than Hamas – but it will never win: Interview with Hamas leader in Gaza
his perverse understanding of how wars end led Israel to make extraordinary blunders in the 15 years after Oslo, for which it was punished by unremitting campaigns of delegitimization and violence, symbolized, respectively, by the Durban conference of 2001 and the Passover Massacre of 2002. 
Such nonsense ended during Netanyahu’s near-decade-long term as prime minister, but it has not yet been replaced by a sturdy vision of victory. Rather, Netanyahu has put out brush fires as they arose in Sinai, Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, Syria, and Lebanon. While agreeing with the concept of an Israeli victory when personally briefed, he has not spoken publicly about it.
Meanwhile, other leading figures in Israel have adopted this outlook. Former deputy chief of staff Uzi Dayan called on the army “to return the path of victory.” Former education and interior minister Gideon Sa’ar has stated that “The ‘victory paradigm,’ like Jabotinsky’s ‘Iron Wall’ concept, assumes that an agreement may be possible in the future, but only after a clear and decisive Israeli victory ... The transition to the ‘victory paradigm’ is contingent upon abandoning the Oslo concept.”
In this context, the statements by Lieberman and Bennett point to a change in thinking. Lieberman quit his position as defense minister out of frustration that a barrage by Hamas of 460 rockets and missiles against Israel was met with a ceasefire; he called instead for “a state of despair” to be imposed on the enemies of Israel. Complaining that “Israel stopped winning,” Bennett demanded that the IDF “start winning again,” and added that “When Israel wants to win, we can win.” On rescinding his demand for the defense portfolio, Bennett emphasized that he stands by Netanyahu “in the monumental task of ensuring that Israel is victorious again.”
>> Netanyahu’s vision for the Middle East has come true | Analysis
Opponents of this paradigm then amusingly testified to the power of this idea of victory. Ma’ariv columnist Revital Amiran wrote that the victory the Israeli public most wants lies in such arenas as larger allocations for the elderly and unbearable traffic jams. Meretz leader Tamar Zandberg, replied to Bennett that for her, a victorious Israel means winning Emmy and Oscar nominations, guaranteeing equal health services, and spending more on education.
That victory and defeat have newly become a topic for debate in Israel constitutes a major development. Thus does the push for an Israeli victory move forward.
Daniel Pipes is president of the Middle East Forum think tank, which promotes Israel Victory, a project to steer U.S. policy toward backing an Israeli victory to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians. Follow him on Twitter @DanielPipes

Video de propagande du Hizbollah indiquant les cibles (avec leur coordonnées) de la riposte au cas ou l’état d’Israel attaquerait le Liban :
الميادين | الاعلام الحربي : إن تجرّأتم ستندمون
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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.
>> How Hamas sold out Gaza for cash from Qatar and collaboration with Israel | Opinion
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.

How Hamas sold out Gaza for cash from Qatar and collaboration with Israel

Israel’s botched military incursion saved Hamas from the nightmare of being branded as ’sell-outs’. Now feted as resistance heroes, it won’t be long before Hamas’ betrayal of the Palestinian national movement is exposed again

Muhammad Shehada
Nov 22, 2018 7:04 PM

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Earlier this month, Hamas was confronted by one of its worst nightmares. The Palestinian mainstream began to brand Hamas with the same slurs that Hamas itself uses to delegitimize the Palestinian Authority. 
"They sold us out!” Gazans began to whisper, after Hamas reached a limited set of understandings with Israel in early November. Its conditions required Hamas to distance Gazan protesters hundreds of meters away from the separation fence with Israel and actively prevent the weekly tire-burning and incendiary kite-flying associated with what have become weekly protests.
In return for this calm, Israel allowed a restoration of the status quo ante – an inherently unstable and destabilizing situation that had led to the outbreak of popular rage in the first place. 

Other “benefits” of the agreement included a meaningless expansion of the fishing zone for few months, restoring the heavily-restricted entry of relief aid and commercial merchandise to Gaza, instead of the full-on closure of previous months, and a tentative six-month supply of Qatari fuel and money to pay Hamas’ government employees. Basically, a return to square one. 
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The disaffected whispers quickly became a popular current, which took overt form when the Qatari ambassador visited Gaza. He was met with angry cries of “collaborator,” as young Gazans threw stones at his vehicle after the ambassador was seen instructing a senior Hamas leader with the words: “We want calm today...we want calm.”
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Hamas leaders didn’t dare show their faces to the people for several days following, and the movement’s popular base had a very hard time arguing that the agreement with Israel - which offered no fundamental improvement of condition – and sweetened by Qatari cash wasn’t a complete sell-out by Hamas. 
Inside Hamas, there was evident anxiety about public outrage, not least in the form of social media activism, using Arabic hashtags equivalents to #sell-outs. One typical message reads: “[Suddenly] burning tires have became ‘unhealthy’ and [approaching] the electronic fence is suicide! #sell-outs.”

Social media is clearly less easy to police than street protests. Even so, there was a small protest by young Gazans in Khan Younis where this “sell-out” hashtag became a shouted slogan; the demonstrators accused Hamas of betrayal.
But relief for Hamas was at hand – and it was Israel who handed the movement an easy victory on a gold plate last week. That was the botched operation by Israel thwarted by Hamas’ military wing, the al-Qassam brigade, which cost the life of a lieutenant colonel from an IDF elite unit.
The ensuing retaliation for Israel’s incursion, led by the Islamic Jihad (prodded into action by Iran), who launched 400 improvised rockets into Israel, was intended to draw a bold red line of deterrence, signaling that the Israeli army cannot do as it pleases in Gaza. 
For days after this last escalation, Hamas leaders rejoiced: that exhibition of muscle power proved their moral superiority over the “collaborationist” Palestinian Authority. Boasting about its heroic engagement in the last escalation, Hamas easily managed to silence its critics by showing that the “armed resistance” is still working actively to keep Gaza safe and victorious. Those are of course mostly nominal “victories.”

But their campaign was effective in terms of changing the political atmosphere. Now that the apparatus of the Muqawama had “restored our dignity,” further criticism of Hamas’ political and administrative conduct in Gaza was delegitimized again. Criticism of Hamas became equivalent to undermining the overall Palestinian national struggle for liberation.

Unsurprisingly that silenced the popular outrage about Hamas’ initial agreement of trading Gaza’s sacrifices over the last seven months for a meager supply of aid and money. The few who continued to accuse Hamas of selling out were promptly showered by footage of the resistance’s attacks on Israel, or reports about Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s resignation, for which Hamas claimed credit, coming as it did a day after a Hamas leader demanded he resigned. 
Mission accomplished, a piece of cake. Now it was time for Hamas to return to business, strengthened by a renewed shield of resistance-immunity that branded criticism as betrayal.
Although Hamas leaders have admitted the reality: no more fundamental cease-fire is being negotiated, and so no fundamental improvements for Gaza can be expected - it continues to sell Gazans the delusion that their decade of endurance is finally bearing fruit and soon, more prosperity, employment and hope will trickle down to the masses.
What has actually trickled down so far are temporary and symbolic painkillers, not an actual end to Gaza’s pain.

Hamas agreed to give a small share of the Qatari spoils to 50,000 poor Gazan families; $100 for each household. They agreed to creating temporary employment programs for 5,000 young university graduates with the aspirational title of Tomoh ("Ambition"). They promised to keep up the fight until Gaza is no longer unlivable, and Hamas leaders pledged with their honor to continue the Gaza Great Return March until the protests’ main goal - lifting the blockade - was achieved.
But does that really mean anything when the protests are kept at hundreds of meters’ distance from the fence, essentially providing the “Gazan silence” Netanyahu wants? When no pressure is applied anymore on the Israeli government to create a sense of urgency for action to end the disastrous situation in Gaza? And when Hamas continues to avoid any compromises about administering the Gaza Strip to the PA in order to conclude a decade of Palestinian division, and consecutive failures?
That Hamas is desperately avoiding war is indeed both notable and worthy, as well as its keenness to prevent further causalities amongst protesters, having already suffered 200 deaths and more than 20,000 wounded by the IDF. That genuine motivation though is mixed with more cynical ones – the protests are now politically more inconvenient for Hamas, and the casualty rate is becoming too expensive to sustain.
Yet one must think, at what price is Hamas doing this? And for what purpose? If the price of Gaza’s sacrifices is solely to maintain Hamas’ rule, and the motive of working to alleviate pressure on Gaza is to consolidate its authority, then every Gazan has been sold out, and in broad daylight.

Only if Hamas resumes the process of Palestinian reconciliation and a democratic process in Gaza would those actions be meaningful. Otherwise, demanding that the world accepts Hamas’ rule over Gaza as a fait accompli – while what a Hamas-controlled Gaza cannot achieve, most critically lifting the blockade, is a blunt betrayal of Palestinian martyrdom.
It means compromising Palestinian statehood in return for creating an autonomous non-sovereign enclave in which Hamas could freely exercise its autocratic rule indefinitely over an immiserated and starving population.
Which, according to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, is what Hamas has always wanted since rising to power in 2009: an interim Palestinian state in Gaza under permanent Hamas rule, not solving the wider conflict but rather obliterating in practice the prospect of a two state solution.
It remains to be seen if the calls of “sell-outs” will return to Gaza’s social networks and streets, not least if Hamas’ obduracy and appetite for power end up selling out any prospect of a formally recognized State of Palestine.
Muhammad Shehada is a writer and civil society activist from the Gaza Strip and a student of Development Studies at Lund University, Sweden. He was the PR officer for the Gaza office of the Euro-Med Monitor for Human Rights. Twitter: @muhammadshehad2

Muhammad Shehada

#Didier_Porte carbure au diesel et à la Gauloise blonde
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Ami abonné, nul doute qu’à toi aussi, il a dû t’arriver de te poser la question : « À quoi sert donc France 3 Île-de-France ? ». Eh bien la réponse se trouve dans ce 51ème numéro de Vive les #Médias, la revue de presse en image décomplexée de Là-bas si j’y suis, journal en ligne qui ne respecte rien ni personne, sauf ses abonnés bien sûr, particulièrement ceux qui s’apprêtent à offrir un abonnement à leurs proches pour Noël. Elle est la suivante (la réponse !) : Fr3 IDF sert à diffuser des documentaires dont aucune autre chaîne n’a voulu parce qu’ils sont trop politiquement incorrects. En effet, quoi de plus (...) Continuer la (...)

#Vidéo #Environnement

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Dans l’Internet des flics haineux - VICE
▻https://www.vice.com/fr/article/439vbq/dans-linternet-des-flics-haineux

Appels au meurtre et insultes racistes : bienvenue sur le 18-25 de la Police Nationale.

Sur le cliché, le jeune homme a le visage ensanglanté mais reste parfaitement reconnaissable. La légende le présente comme un « apprenti black bloc » interpellé lors de la manifestation du 9 octobre car il aurait « jeté des projectiles » de la taille d’un paquet de cigarette. Bravant le secret de l’instruction, l’auteur stipule également le lieu d’habitation approximatif du suspect hébété et écrit : « Nous nous considérons [qu’il est] une vermine au même titre que bien d’autres ». L’un des proches du blessé photographié, avec qui VICE a discuté, dit : « On a eu peur que des keufs aillent devant chez lui pour se venger ». Car l’image a été publiée le soir du 11 octobre par une page Facebook publique intitulée « Collectif autonome de policiers d’Île-de-France » (CAP IDF), qui réunit plus de 7 000 utilisateurs.

La suppression du post la nuit-même par les modérateurs de Facebook leur donne du grain conspirationniste à moudre. « Nos ennemis planqués ou officiels seraient-ils tentés de nous museler ? », interroge l’animateur du groupe avant de suggérer qu’il s’agit peut-être d’un coup du ministère de l’Intérieur « qui n’apprécie pas que les choses soient dites ». La photo est à nouveau mise en ligne le lendemain, et 154 variations de « La prochaine fois, dans les canons à eau, mettez de l’acide pour ces trous du cul », défilent en commentaire. L’administrateur de la page écrit à l’attention des antifas : « Les flics n’aiment pas se faire canarder de boulons, nous vous le prouverons par des réponses comme celle[-ci] (...) Nous ne communiquerons ni l’identité ni l’adresse [du blessé], [nous savons] que, tôt ou tard, les chemins se rejoignent ».

#police

Israel Sabotages Ceasefire Talks, Assassinating Hamas Commander, IDF Senior Commander Also Killed - Tikun Olam תיקון עולם

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Today, IDF commandos invaded Gaza in a night-time raid and murdered seven Hamas operatives, including the commander responsible for the tunnel defense system maintained by the Islamist rulers of the enclave. According to various media sources, the raid was exposed and Palestinian militants fought back fiercely. In order to free the IDF forces, the Israelis had to lay down a massive drone and air attack which permitted them to withdraw back to Israel.

Israeli senior IDF officer killed Gaza
The Israeli military censor has prohibited domestic media naming the Israeli commando who was killed. But an Israeli source has informed me he is Lt. Col. Mahmoud Kheireddine from the Druze village of Hurfeish. Another officer who was wounded is from Isfiya. They both served in Sayeret Matkal, Israel’s equivalent of the Navy SEALs. Kheireddine was deputy commander of the unit. Given the death of so high-ranking an IDF officer, something went terribly wrong on this mission.

In response, Hamas has launched missiles into southern Israel and driven hundreds of thousands into air raid shelters. Once again, just as both sides thought they might be close to a ceasefire and/or a prisoner exchange, Israel rescued defeat from the jaws and victory and almost guaranteed a new escalation, if not war, against Gaza.

A former IDF general has suggested that the raid was not an assassination attempt, but an attempt to capture the Hamas commander:

Maj. Gen. (res.) Tal Russo, a former commander of the IDF Southern Command, indicated that the operation was likely an intelligence-gathering mission gone wrong, rather than an assassination.

portrait du grand patron des concepts et d’un gardien du phare artistique en briseurs de grève :

CIP-IDF > A propos de la grève à la Commune - CDN d’Aubervilliers
▻http://www.cip-idf.org/spip.php?page=imprimer&id_article=9037

Western hypocrisy: Khashoggi and Murtaja two deceased journalists but the world will only remember one – Middle East Monitor
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Yaser Murtaja was a Palestinian photojournalist who had gone to the Gaza fence with Israel to cover the second Friday of the Great Return March. He was killed by an IDF sniper on 7 April. There was modest coverage of his death coming on the second Friday of the Great Return March. The world was troubled by the deliberate targeting by highly trained Israeli snipers of Palestinian civilians who posed no threat, but Western governments were hesitant about criticising Israel for targeting men, women, children, medics and journalists. The young medic, Razan Al-Najjar was shot and killed weeks later while tending to the wounded at the Gaza fence. At the same time, Nikki Haley was plotting to scupper a UN Security Council resolution to protect Palestinian civilians.

#indignation_sélective

Discours de Hagai El-Ad au Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies, le 18 octobre 2018
AURDIP | 20 octobre | B’Tselem |Hagai El-Ad
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Hagai El-Ad, Directeur exécutif de B’Tselem, a pris la parole devant le Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies ce soir, à la session trimestrielle prévue par la résolution 2334.

Merci, Monsieur le Président,

Merci, membres du Conseil de Sécurité,

Il est très difficile, voire impossible, de décrire l’indignité, l’outrage et la souffrance d’un peuple privé de droits pendant plus de cinquante ans. Ici, dans ces locaux, il est difficile de donner corps aux vies que les Palestiniennes endurent sous occupation. Mais bien plus grande que cette difficulté, est celle de faire face à une existence intolérable au quotidien, d’essayer de vivre, de fonder une famille, de développer une communauté dans ces conditions.

Cela fait bientôt deux ans que j’ai eu l’honneur d’être convié à témoigner devant ce Conseil. Deux ans de plus d’occupation, deux ans durant lesquels la routine des 49 années d’occupation s’est prolongée. Depuis ma dernière présentation ici, 317 Palestiniens ont été tués par les forces de sécurité israéliennes, et treize Israéliens ont été tués par des Palestiniens. Israël a démoli 294 maisons palestiniennes, et a continué d’effectuer des arrestations quotidiennes, notamment de mineurs. Des colons israéliens ont vandalisé et déraciné des milliers d’oliviers et de vignes. Les forces de sécurité israéliennes ont continué, sur une base régulière, d’entrer dans des maisons palestiniennes, parfois au milieu de la nuit pour réveiller des enfants, noter leurs noms et les prendre en photo. Les Palestiniens ont perdu d’innombrables heures à attendre aux check-points, sans explications. Et ainsi se poursuit la routine de l’occupation. (...)

General’s final confession links 1956 massacre to Israel’s secret plan to expel Arabs - Israel News - Haaretz.com
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“’Yiska’ Shadmi, the highest IDF officer tried for the Kafr Qasem massacre, admitted before his death that his trial was staged to protect military and political elites. Historian Adam Raz believes that behind the horrific 1956 event was a secret plan to transfer Israel’s Arabs

[...]

I was surprised to discover that it’s easier to write about the history of Israel’s nuclear program than about Israel’s policies regarding its Arab citizens.” The court has yet to hand down its judgment, but Raz’s Hebrew-language book “Kafr Qasem Massacre: A Political Biography,” is being published this month by Carmel Press. It is the first such comprehensive study of the affair.

#sionisme #massacre #crimes #impunité

A propos de la grève à la Commune - CDN d’Aubervilliers, CIP-IDF ▻http://www.cip-idf.org/article.php3?id_article=9037

Un conflit entre l’équipe de la Commune d’Aubervilliers et sa direction a donné l’occasion de diverses prises de positions publiques que nous publions ci-dessous.

Deux de ces tribunes soutiennent la direction : celle de M. Badiou et celle de M. Tackels. Une soutient les gréviste, elle est signée par M. Neveux.

Une manifestation de soutien aux grévistes aura lieu ce mercredi 3 octobre entre 18h et 20h30 devant le bâtiment du théâtre. [1]

Le contenu des tribunes de M. Tackels et de M. Badiou est suffisemment préoccupant pour nous inciter à rappeler certains points qui ne sont pas des détails.

Le droit de grève est indiscutable, et sa remise en cause est inadmissible. Quelles que soient leurs raisons pour le faire, les salariés d’un Centre Dramatique National jouissent de ce droit à l’instar de n’importe quel salarié. Contrairement à ce qu’écrit M. Tackels, les grèves de 2003 ne furent pas une répétition de l’incendie de la bibliothèque d’Alexandrie. Elles furent un événement décisif qui permit d’établir un rapport de force dont jouissent tous les intermittents depuis lors.

Nous sommes fiers de nous être mis en grève en 2003, de l’avoir refait en 2014. Et nous sommes prêts à le refaire en 2018 et 2019 et après, si les droits des chômeurs, précaires, intermittents et permanents devaient être à nouveau mis en cause.

L’actuelle directrice de La Commune, Marie-Josée Malis, doit le savoir, puisqu’elle était gréviste en 2014 au festival d’Avignon. Ni sa nomination à la direction d’un CDN, ni son élection à la présidence du Syndéac (Syndicats des directeurs de théâtres publics) n’ont pu nettoyer sa mémoire de combien la grève est difficile à décider, mais vitale à organiser et à tenir.

Dans une autre tribune, M. Badiou, dénonçant le travail de sape d’une partie de l’équipe du théâtre opposée à la direction, appelle à ce que le CDN d’Aubervilliers devienne « plus homogène encore à son goût du travail, de l’art théâtral et de l’amitié politique. ». Nous n’avons pas la même conception ni du travail, ni de la démocratie, ni du théâtre : si un directeur de théâtre est encarté dans quelque parti, tous les artistes, techniciens, personnels administratifs doivent-ils lui emboîter le pas dans ses convictions ?

Le dialogue ne se fait pas qu’entre amis, heureusement, le travail non plus, c’est une évidence. Nier cette vérité, c’est penser qu’on est libre de licencier, ou d’obliger autrui à se taire ou se démettre.

Le droit de grève, le droit du travail, les droits syndicaux, c’est - entre autres choses - ce que nous sommes nombreux à défendre et à avoir défendu dans des collectifs ou dans les têtes de cortèges contre la loi Travail et son monde.

#théâtre #entreprise #grève

Vélorution | Rayons Libres
▻https://cause-commune.fm/podcast/rayons-libres-25

Olivier Gombert, de @velorutionParis IdF. Avec lui, nous parlons du vélo à Paris et en banlieue, des masses critiques, du #VAE, des plans Vélo parisien, régional, national. Durée : 51 min. Source : Cause commune

▻https://cause-commune.fm/podcast-download/5280/rayons-libres-25.mp3

Notes sur l’“arrogance israélienne” et conséquences
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Notes sur l’“arrogance israélienne” et conséquences

26 septembre 2018 – Pour mieux appréhender les derniers développements entre la Russie et Israëlaprès la destruction de l’Il-20 dans les conditions qu’on sait, ce texte(ci-dessous) de E.J. Magnier nous paraît intéressant. Il y a d’abord la compétence, l’expérience et les sources du commentateur, que nous connaissons bien ; mais il y a aussi et surtout son point de vue, qui nous permet de mieux éclairer la situation en Syrie.

Magnier, en effet, perçoit la position de Poutine et l’intervention russe en Syrie d’une manière qui est assez peu habituelle aux commentateurs occidentaux, et notamment aux antiSystème pro-Poutine, et notamment à ceux que nous avons nommés affectueusement “hyper-antiSystème”. Pour lui, Poutine est beaucoup moins un allié de la Syrie (...)