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  • Le maire de Tel Aviv impute l’attaque meurtrière contre un café à l’occupation israélienne
    MEE | 9 juin 2016
    http://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/reportages/le-maire-de-tel-aviv-927730193

    Ce jeudi, le maire de Tel Aviv a attribué à l’occupation israélienne des territoires palestiniens l’attaque meurtrière menée par deux Palestiniens armés qui a tuée quatre Israéliens dans cette ville de la côte méditerranéenne.

    Le maire travailliste Ron Huldai (71 ans) a déclaré à la radio de l’armée israélienne que l’occupation était responsable de l’attaque de mercredi soir, au cours de laquelle deux Palestiniens armés, originaires des alentours de Hébron dans le sud de la Cisjordanie, sont entrés dans un café populaire et ont ouvert le feu sur des personnes faisant la fête.

    « Nous sommes sans doute le seul pays au monde, où une autre nation est sous occupation sans aucun droit civique », a-t-il déclaré. « Vous ne pouvez pas maintenir les gens dans une situation d’occupation et espérer qu’ils vont conclure que tout va bien. »

    Ron Huldai a ajouté que « personne n’a le courage » de faire la paix avec les Palestiniens et il a demandé de tenter de conclure un accord lorsque les attaques se seront calmées.

    « Il y a eu une occupation qui dure depuis 49 ans, dont j’ai fait partie, et dont je connais la réalité, et je sais que les dirigeants ont besoin de courage pour ne pas se contenter de parler.

    « Nous devons montrer à nos voisins que nous avons véritablement l’intention de revenir à une réalité avec un État juif plus petit, avec une nette majorité juive. »

    Le vice-ministre de la Défense Eli Ben-Dahan a répondu à Ron Huldai, qualifiant ses remarques d’« étranges » et « délirantes ».

    • Reste à convaincre Obama, Hollande, Juppé, Fillon, Merkel et entre 50 à 90% (estimation perso ;-) ) des juifs-israéliens.
      Et la poignée de salopards de familles juives américaines qui, depuis leur loft à New York financent l’extrême droite et les colons extrémistes en Israël.
      Facile

    • Tel Aviv mayor says the occupation is a cause of Palestinian terror
      By Edo Konrad |Published June 9, 2016
      http://972mag.com/tel-aviv-mayor-says-the-occupation-is-a-cause-of-palestinian-terror/119936

      (...) Huldai is a former Israeli Air Force pilot and a Labor Party stalwart, through and through, and his comments come at a time of crisis for both Labor and the Israeli Left at large. Labor Chairman Isaac Herzog is in dire straits with his party after repeatedly taking hawkish positions vis-a-vis the Palestinians and what can only be described as groveling at the feet of Prime Minister Netanyahu to join his far-right coalition.

      Herzog’s sycophantic behavior did little to bolster his support. On the contrary, it only widened an already existing chasm between the right and left flanks of the Labor Party. Enter Huldai, whose comments on the source of Palestinian violence can be viewed as the opening shot in his race for the Labor leadership. Like Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat — who seems to be perpetually mulling a run against Prime Minister Netanyahu to lead Likud — Huldai could be playing the long game.

      Huldai’s comments come at a time when the occupation has all but disappeared from the Israeli public consciousness, and Palestinian violence is seen as senseless and random. However, they also harken back to a time when Israeli leaders and public figures were able to speak more frankly about what drives Palestinians to terrorism and armed struggle. Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak once famously stated that if he were a Palestinian of the right age, he would have joined a terrorist group. Alan Dershowitz wrote an entire book on why terrorism — and specifically Palestinian terrorism — actually made gains for the Palestinian cause, and was thus a rational, thought-out strategy. Saying anything to that effect in Israel’s current political climate is a recipe for suicide.

      Ron Huldai is not the savior of the Israeli Left. He is, regardless of political opportunism, simply speaking the truth in a country where the idea that 50 years of military dictatorship might just have something to do with Palestinian violence is now popularly viewed as something akin to treason. And for that he is to be commended.

  • Extremism & Incitement to Racial Hatred: Senior Israeli Officials in Their Own Words
    http://imeu.org/article/extremism-incitement-to-racial-hatred-senior-israeli-officials-in-their-own

    “A Jew always has a much higher soul than a gentile, even if he is a homosexual.”
    – Then-deputy minister of religious services and current deputy minister of defense, Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, 2013.

    “I am happy to be a fascist!”
    – Miri Regev, current minister of culture and sport, 2012.

    “[There are] 92,000 families in Israel in which one of the partners is not Jewish - we have a real problem that we have to deal with."
    – Tzipi Hotovely, current deputy foreign minister, 2011.

    “The Palestinian threat harbors cancer-like attributes that have to be severed. There are all kinds of solutions to cancer. Some say it’s necessary to amputate organs but at the moment I am applying chemotherapy.”
    – Then-general and current defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, 2002.

    “[The way to deal with Palestinians is to] beat them up, not once but repeatedly, beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it’s unbearable.”
    – Benjamin Netanyahu, current prime minister, while in the opposition following his first term as prime minister, caught on video speaking to Israeli settlers, 2001.

    #sionisme #sioniste #Israel #Israël #etat_raciste

  • CQFD — s’il en était encore besoin...

    « Next head of ‘Civil Administration’ said Palestinians are sub-human » (+972, 8 mai)

    After the Oslo Accords, the Israeli army renamed the Military Government of the West Bank the Civil Administration. MK Eli Ben-Dahan was just appointed to oversee the Administration, which oversees the theft of Palestinian land, settlement expansion and controls the movement of millions of Palestinians.

    http://972mag.com/next-head-of-civil-administration-said-palestinians-are-sub-human/106533

    “[Palestinians] are beasts, they are not human.” — MK Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, Aug 1, 2013. (Hebrew)

    “A Jew always has a much higher soul than a gentile, even if he is a homosexual.” — MK Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, Dec 27, 2013. (Hebrew/English)

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finalized the formation of a new government this week when he signed a coalition agreement with far-right settler party Jewish Home. As part of the agreement, Rabbi Ben-Dahan will be Israel’s next deputy defense minister, responsible for the army’s “Civil Administration.”

    The Civil Administration is responsible for all aspects the occupation that don’t involve boots-on-the-ground security operations — it administers planning, building, and infrastructure for both Jews and Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank. It also administers the Palestinian population database and is responsible for granting and revoking entry and travel permits for Palestinians, controlling every aspect of their movement.

    In other words, the man slated to take charge of an organization entrusted with supervising the theft of Palestinian land and supervising Palestinians’ lives, is a racist who said he does not see them as human, but rather as animals (nothing against animals, of course, but we can be fairly certain Ben-Dahan didn’t mean it as a compliment). That’s more or less like appointing a member of the local Klu Klux Klan chapter to investigate claims of violence and discrimination against the Baltimore Police Department — that is, if Baltimore residents were deprived of citizenship and the right to vote.

    #Palestine #Palestiniens #Cisjordanie #Israël #Eli_Ben-Dahan #sionisme #colonisation #racisme #extrême_droite #fascisme #occupation #dip