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’Do US Jews need a Jewish state?’ debate begins at last in wake of Netanyahu victory
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/begins-netanyahu-victory

Denying Israeli atrocities, denying the existence of apartheid, denying the existence of the Israel lobby– this work does a lot of damage to people’s sensibility and intelligence. Dana Milbank once smeared Walt and Mearsheimer as “Teutonic” — i.e. Nazis — just for questioning the power of the Israel lobby. This is a Jewish tragedy. Black people didn’t choose the Marcus Garvey option; many supported it for understandable reasons, but in the end it didn’t happen. Meantime, the Jewish community bought totally into the Marcus Garvey option, and now we have a situation where many in the American Jewish community are devoted 24/7 to protecting Israel and denying the persecution of Palestinians.

#Israël #Palestine #judaïsme

J Street’s Ben-Ami tells Netanyahu: You don’t speak for us - Jewish World News - Israel News | Haaretz
▻http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.648176

Ben-Ami, for his part, delivered a fiery address to an appreciative audience, telling the prime minister: "We say to Netanyahu, who claims to speak for all the Jews of the world - you do not speak for us.” He said that J Street is not only feeling disappointment at the election results - “It’s anger and it’s pain that we’re feeling at having watched the Prime Minister of Israel use fear mongering and scare tactics tinged with racism to claw his way to 23 per cent of the vote.”

Ben-Ami also blasted Netanyahu, Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer and House Speaker John Boehner for the “partisan gamesmanship” that enabled Netanyahu’s speech to Congress – and damaged U.S.-Israeli relations, according to Ben Ami.

Ben-Ami told his audience “being pro-Israel doesn’t mean you have to be anti-Palestinian.” He said that J Street would urge U.S. leaders to declare the settlements illegal, to publish a set of parameters for a two-state solution and to support a United Nations Security Council resolution that would provide guidelines for reaching a final settlement.

Jacobs, for his part, blasted the Jewish establishment’s rejection of J Street, saying that he was “stunned at the vituperative criticism of some who seem to imply that the greatest threat facing Israel and the Jewish people is not Iran, Hamas, or Hezbollah’s missiles but rather this pro-peace, pro-Israel group known as J Street.”

LIVE BLOG: Netanyahu to Fox News: I didn’t retract support for two-state solution - Israel election 2015 - Israel News | Haaretz
►http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/1.647966

“I didn’t retract any of the things I said in my speech six years ago, calling for a solution in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes a Jewish state,” Netanyahu said to Megyn Kelly, host of “The Kelly File.” "I said that the conditions for that, today, are not achievable for a simple reason: [Mahmoud Abbas], the leader of the Palestinians, rejects consistently the acceptance of a Jewish state. He’s made a pact with the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas, that calls for our destruction. And the conditions in the Middle East have changed to the point where any territory we withdraw from is immediately taken up by Iranian-backed terrorists or by ISIS."

Netanyahu’s Win Is Good for #Palestine - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/opinion/netanyahus-win-is-good-for-palestine.html

Replacing Mr. Netanyahu with his challenger, Isaac Herzog, would have slowed down the B.D.S. movement and halted pressure on Israel by creating the perception of change. A new prime minister would have kick-started a new “peace process” based on previous failed models that would inevitably fail again because of a lack of real pressure on Israel to change its deplorable behavior.

The re-election of Mr. Netanyahu provides clarity. Two years ago Secretary of State John Kerry declared that the maximum time left for a two-state solution was two years. Mr. Netanyahu officially declared it dead this week in order to drive right-wing voters to the polls. The two-state solution, which has seen more funerals than a reverend, exists today only as a talking point for self-interested, craven politicians to hide behind — not as a realistic basis for peace.

The old land-for-peace model must now be replaced with a rights-for-peace model. Palestinians must demand the right to live on their land, but also free movement, equal treatment under the law, due process, voting rights and freedom from discrimination.

Mr. Netanyahu’s re-election has convincingly proved that trusting Israeli voters with the fate of Palestinian rights is disastrous and immoral. His government will oppose any constructive change, placing Israel on a collision course with the rest of the world. And this collision has never been more necessary.

The election results will further galvanize the movement seeking to isolate Israel internationally. B.D.S. campaigns will grow, and more countries will move toward imposing sanctions to change Israeli behavior. In the past few years, a major Dutch pension fund divested large sums from Israeli banks active in the West Bank, and hundreds of millions of dollars have been divested from companies, like G4S and SodaStream, that operate in occupied territory.

There won’t be real change on the ground or at the polls without further pressure on Israel. And now, that pressure will increase. For this, we have Mr. Netanyahu to thank.

The Joint Arab List: Seven new MKs, two women and a lot of hope - Israel News, Ynetnews
▻http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4638619,00.html

The party has seven new MKs, among them the head of the Joint Arab List Aiman Uda, a resident of Haifa. The other new members include Aida Touma-Sliman (Akko), engineer Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya (Tayibe), Dr. Yosef Jabareen (Umm al-Fahem), lawyer Osama Sa’adi (Arraba), and Dr. Abdullah Abu Maaruf (Yarka).
 
The Joint Arab List includes two women and 12 men.
 
New MKs plan out Knesset term
“I hope these results will be a lever for continued cooperation with the (Arab) sector, in order to serve it in all sorts of areas, even outside of the Knesset,” said MK Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya.
 
“There are a lot of social causes that the Joint Arab List can contribute to. The results of the elections are not a surprise to us, but it is good news. The comments made by Netanyahu against the Arab sector in the last days of the campaign did not make a big impact, but the warning Netanyahu made is very dangerous for the continuation of co-existence,” said Hajj Yahya.
 
The Arab Israeli politician has already begun to plan his term in the next Knesset. “I am going to serve the Arab sector on central issues such as planning and construction law, in light of the problems we have in planning, industrial areas and building without a permit,” he said. “I will also take care of the advancement of local authorities because in my opinion authorities which plan to rehabilitate have not failed, but rather it shows that there is something in the government’s policy that needs to change.”
 
New MK Aida Touma-Sliman hopes to represent women. “I would like to deal with social issues in the next Knesset and the civil rights of the Arab population along with women’s rights which I have been occupied with for more than 20 years and will continue to be occupied with in the future.”
 
“Likewise, I will focus on the employment of Arab women and legislation to protect women from violence. Of course the diplomatic issue cannot be ignored and the aspects of political activity,” she added.
 
Regarding the election results, Touma-Sliman said: “Our results provide happiness and strengthen us. The public gave us its wide confidence and clearly said that it supports the approach of unity and the attempt to gain power and protect ourselves from the waves of racism that are washing over Israel.”
 
New MK Osama Sa’adi was disappointed with the change that did not end up coming: “The national right-wing camp and Netanyahu came out with a surprise and kept their reign. We are the third largest faction and this is the first time something like this has happened in history. We achieved another goal – the Yachad faction along with Eli Yishai and the racist Baruch Marzel are outside of the Knesset. Now the work begins to impact and bring about achievement for the sector that sent us.”
 
Sa’adi continued and said: “I want to work in my field, which is the Law and Justice Committee, to prevent racist legislation and to work for fair legislation for the Arab sector.”
 
Sa’adi also said he would like to work on the issue of Palestinian detainees which he says is “a subject that has been close to my heart for over 25 years.” Sa’adi also plans to work on subjects such as land confiscation and housing demolitions.
 
Regarding fears the list will separate once the new government forms, Sa’adi said, “We promised we would create a joint list and we created it, therefore the trust that the Arab sector gave us commits us to continue to work as one faction, there is no reason to break it down. We will not let the Arab public down.”
 
Dr. Yosef Jabraan, another new addition to the Joint Arab List, said that the party will focus on issues that were the basis of their election to the Knesset. “Education, housing and violence are the main issues that I want to deal with. These are the issues that our voters clearly brought up during the campaign,” he explained.

 
“The advancement of Arab education, including higher education, will be my priority, including the allocation of resources, including changing the curriculum to include the Arab-Palestinian identity as well as the restructuring of the system so that it will be managed by Arab educators. Without substantial reform of the education system, we cannot promote and advance the stance of the Arab citizens in Israel.”

New York Times published piece about Netanyahu’s racism, then rewrote all of it
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/published-netanyahus-rewrote

On March 17, the day of the 2015 Israel election, Prime Minister Netanyahu warned Jewish Israelis that Arabs were voting “in droves” (alleging, in a conspiratorial manner reminiscent of white supremacists in the US Jim Crow South, that “Left-wing organizations are busing them out”). Second-class Palestinian citizens voting is supposed to be a very bad thing in Israeli democracy.

The New York Times published an article about the incident—and more generally about Netanyahu’s bigoted, jingoistic, far-right tactics to attract more votes—titled “Netanyahu Expresses Alarm That Arab Voter Turnout Could Help Unseat Him.” The piece was written by Isabel Kershner and Rick Gladstone. At least, for the moment, that was the case.

Several hours later, the NYT published a rewrite of the article—a rewrite not just of parts of it, but of all of it. According the the website NewsDiffs which tracks edits to “highly-placed articles on online news sites,” between 5:13 pm and 9:08 pm on March 17 100% of the article was re-written to mostly erase the focus on Netanyahu’s racism.

#flagrant_délit

Netanyahu a définitivement pété les plombs: il a déclaré qu’il n’y aurait pas d’Etat palestinien s’il venait à être élu, ce pour attirer les voix de Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi). Au moins, c’est clair...

L’écart entre le Likoud et le camp des anciens travaillistes continue à se creuser. Le likoud est aujourd’hui accrédité de 21 sièges contre 25 pour l’Union sioniste. La liste unie Hadash et partis arabes reste toujours en troisième position avec 13 sièges. Intéressant et nouveau pour ce qui concerne les partis arabes israéliens, même si l’espoir d’une paix et l’établissement d’un Etat palestinien ne sont pas à l’ordre du jour

Netanyahu: If I’m elected, there will be no Palestinian state - Israel election 2015 - Israel News | Haaretz
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/1.647212

Netanyahu: If I’m elected, there will be no Palestinian state
In a definitive disavowal of his Bar-Ilan two-state speech, prime minister makes last-minute attempt to draw voters from Bennett’s Habayit Hayeudi.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau said Monday that if he were to be reelected, a Palestinian state would not be created, in a definite disavowal of his 2009 speech, in which he had voiced support for the principle of two states for two peoples.

Netanyahu’s remarks in an interview with the NRG website - which is owned by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and tied with the settler newspaper Makor Rishon - were a last-minute attempt to pull right-wing voters away from Habayit Hayehudi.

“I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel,” Netanyahu said. The left has buried its head in the sand time and after time and ignores this, but we are realistic and understand."

During the interview, Netanyahu declared that if the Zionist Union were to win the elections, “it would attach itself to the international community and do they bidding,” including freezing construction in West Bank and East Jerusalem settlements, and cooperate with international initiatives to return Israel’s borders to the 1967 lines.

During a visit to the East Jerusalem settlement of Har Homa earlier Monday, Netanyahu warned that if he were not elected, “Hamastan B.” would be established in Jerusalem. “If Tzipi [Livni] and Bougie [Isaac Herzog] form a government, Hamastan B will be established here.”

He also slammed Jewish-American businessman Danny Abraham, one of the primary financiers of the V-15 campaign to flip the Israeli government. Netanyahu did not mentioned Abraham by name, but said that the primary financier of V-15 has come to his office in the past and tried to convince him not to build in East Jerusalem.

“I said to him – have you ever been in Har Homa? He said no, and that it was a dangerous settlement. I suggested he go there and said he would make it in time, that he wouldn’t be late to the meeting. They took him to the car, returned to the office, and rolled on the floor with laughter. The man was prepared to go to Sinai and couldn’t believe that the car stopped after seven minutes and that he had reached his destination. These are the people telling us who needs to be in government, these are the people who think Har Home is in Sinai.”

Face aux sondages catastrophiques pour lui et à quelques jours seulement des élections, Netanyahu se livre à son jeu préféré : la théorie du complot contre lui :
le camp sioniste aurait orchestré une campagne contre le Likoud et contre lui, en collaboration avec des organisations et ONG avec le soutien de gouvernements étrangers, notamment pour promouvoir un retrait d’Israël aux lignes de 1967, la division de Jérusalem, la création d’un « Hamastan B » sur les hauteurs de Tel Aviv et l’acceptation par Israël d’un Iran nucléarisé)… Quand on pense que des Israéliens boivent les discours empoisonnés de cet homme...

Netanyahu accuses leftists, media of conspiring to bring him down - Israel election 2015 - Israel News | Haaretz
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/1.646800

“Numerous testimonies by Yedioth Ahronoth employees that have reached us recently indicate that [Yedioth Ahronoth publisher] Noni Mozes is leading an orchestrated campaign against the Likud and against me, in collaboration with organizations and NGOs that are acting for that purpose with the support of tycoons in Israel and abroad and also the support of foreign governments,” Netanyahu wrote.

He went on to accuse the newspaper of “cooperating and coordinating fully” with the leaders of Zionist Union. The Zionist Union platform, he added, “implicitly commits” the party to closing down Yisrael Hayom, a newspaper that supports the prime minister.

“The public needs to know the truth,” Netanyahu wrote. “Noni Mozes is leading a campaign against the Likud and against me out of commercial interests, with the objective of reviving the dangerous and undemocratic monopoly it enjoyed in the past.”

“The goal of Mozes is to bring about the rise of the left. He is joined by left-wing elements in Israel and abroad who are streaming tens of millions of dollars to NGOs running an ’Anyone but Bibi’ campaign in its various guises.”

The reason for the mobilization of the unnamed NGOs, the prime minister said, was not social or economic – but diplomatic: To bring about “a withdrawal to the ’67 lines, the division of Jerusalem, the establishment of Hamastan B on the heights overlooking Tel Aviv and Ben-Gurion Airport and Israeli acceptance of a nuclear Iran.”

En Israël, le discours de Netanyahu au Congrès américain semble avoir été plutôt contre-productif, alors qu’il pensait en faire le levier essentiel de sa victoire aux prochaines élections.

En venant dicter aux sénateurs américains (et aux juifs des US) leur politique sur le nucléaire iranien alors qu’ils sont en pleine tractation diplomatique, il a tout d’abord servi les intérêts des opposants à un accord et non le peuple israélien.

Mais rien n’est encore perdu pour Netanyahu, car le Likoud pourrait encore constituer une coalition et gouverner sans être le premier parti du pays.

On apprend aussi que la campagne israélienne dépasse ses frontières nationales et que des fonds américains viennent alimenter la campagne des opposants de Netanyahu (certains de ses proches soutiennent que les groupes qui ont organisé les grands rassemblements anti-Netanyahu sur la place Yitzhak Rabin de Tel Aviv seraient financés par des hommes d’affaires étrangers).

A force d’agiter le drapeau de la menace iranienne au lieu de répondre aux réelles préoccupations des Israéliens, dégringolade de leur pouvoir d’achat, hausse de l’immobilier, etc., Netanyahu s’est infligé une claque à lui-même.

Senior Likud sources : Netanyahu may not win election - Israel election 2015 - Israel News | Haaretz
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/1.646390

“There is a huge global effort to bring down the Likud government,” Netanyahu told supporters at a meeting Monday in the Haifa Bay suburb of Kiryat Motzkin. “This is a very close battle,” he added. “Nothing is assured.”

Over the past few days members of Netanyahu’s inner circle have echoed his charges, citing foreign businesspeople who have invested funds to bring about a change of government in Israel, by funding organizations like V15, which is conducting a campaign against Netanyahu, or One Million Hands, the group that organized the anti-Netanyahu protest in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday night.

Political parties in Israel are banned from accepting money directly from overseas donors during an election campaign. But such funding is allowed under Israeli law for non-profit organizations espousing political viewpoints, and U.S. consultants have advised Israeli candidates for years.

Strategic and Intelligence Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz spoke on the same issue on Tuesday, enumerating what he believed were the elements stacked up against Netanyahu: “The media is enlisted against him, the Palestinian Authority as well as elements in the United States. I see something that looks like support for the other side.”

Speaking in an online chat on Tuesday with Haaretz readers, Steinitz said: “All these forces come to bring about the absurd situation in which Netanyahu gives up his place to someone who has never proven anything,” he said.

“I think that most of the opinion polls show that despite this delegitimization, most of the public still prefers Netanyahu and his leadership talents,” said Steinitz.

Underneath electoral hype, Israel’s ethnic divide | Middle East Eye
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/underneath-electoral-hype-israel-s-ethnic-divide-604876824

The reason Israelis are still talking about the rally days later is not because of a passionate speech delivered by the former chief of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, Meir Dagan, but rather because of a highly embarrassing - and potentially, electorally damaging - speech by an artist and frequent Haaretz contributor, Yair Garboz.

Garboz opened the rally by describing how he viewed Israel with Netanyahu at the helm, indulging in a popular habit of attributing the most extreme aberrations and abuses of powers to a tiny, unrepresentative minority.

“They told us that the man who killed the [former] prime minister [Rabin] was part of a delusional, tiny handful of individuals,” he said. “They told us he was under the influence of rabbis detached from reality, part of the crazy margins. They said those of yellow shirts with black badges, who shout “death to Arabs”, are a tiny handful. They told us the thieves and the bribe takers are only a handful. That the corrupt are no more than a handful…. the talismans-kissers, the idol-worshippers and those bowing and prostrating themselves on the tombs of saints - only a handful… then how is that this handful rules over us? How did this handful quietly become a majority?”

In the heated discussion that ensued, Garboz insisted he wasn’t referring to anyone of any particular ethnic origin. But to most Israelis, the phrase about “talisman-kissers” and “tomb worshippers” was as much dogwhistle politics as American lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s remarks a few weeks earlier about Obama “not being brought up like we were” was to black Americans. Some Ashkenazi Jews do all of the above too, usually in connection to the tomb of the 19th century Rabbi Nachman of Breslaw in Uman, Ukraine. But talismans and pilgrimages are a well-known staple in the lives of Jews from Middle Eastern and North African countries – also known as Mizrachim.

#israel #ethnies

gary’s choices - Netanyahu’s Speech
▻http://garysick.tumblr.com/post/112663431728/netanyahus-speech

1. Iran has dramatically reduced its stockpile of enriched uranium. Remember Bibi’s cartoon bomb that was going to go off last summer? Well, it has been drained of fuel, and that will probably continue to be true indefinitely. No mention.

2. Inspections will continue long after the nominal 10-year point, contrary to his claim that everything expires in ten years. No mention.

3. The heavy water reactor at Arak will be permanently modified, so it produces near zero plutonium. Not only did he not mention it, but he listed the reactor and plutonium as one of his threats.

4. His repeated assertion that Iran is actively seeking nuclear weapons ignores the judgment “with high confidence” of both American and Israeli intelligence that Iran has taken no decision to build nuclear weapons. It also contradicts the repeated findings of the IAEA that no materials have been diverted for military purposes.

5. All the major countries of the world are co-negotiators with the United States, so a U.S. congressional intervention that killed the deal will not only affect us but all of our major allies. If we stiff them, there is no reason to believe the international sanctions will hold for long. No mention.

Over one quarter of Netanyahu’s speech to Congress consisted of applause and standing ovations (#wag_the_dog)
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/netanyahus-consisted-standing

In Netanyahu’s pep rally, rather speech before the US legislative branch, Congress interrupted to applaud 39 times. 23 of these were standing ovations. 10:55 of the 40:30 of Netanyahu’s exhortation consisted of applause. In other words, 27% was Congress applauding and doing standing ovations.

I repeat: Over one-fourth of Netanyahu’s speech consisted of Congress applauding and doing standing ovations.

A relationship beyond Obama and Netanyahu
▻http://blogs.reuters.com/data-dive/2015/03/02/a-relationship-beyond-obama-and-netanyahu

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For all of the personal rancor, it’s still business as usual.

South Africa Spy Leaks: An Overview — News from Antiwar.com
▻http://news.antiwar.com/2015/02/23/south-africa-spy-leaks-an-overview

Mossad Concludes Netanyahu Wrong About Iran’s Nuclear Program
Stories : al-Jazeera, The Guardian

In 2012, Netanyahu declared Iran was a year away from nuclear weapons. Remember the iconic photo of Netanyahu at the UN with the ridiculous cartoon bomb? Weeks later Mossad shared information with the South African government that contradicted the claim, said Iran wasn’t even attempting to produce nuclear arms, and had never tried to enrich any uranium to anywhere near weapons grade.

Of course we knew all that long before Netanyahu made the claim. It seems like Mossad knew it too, but Netanyahu wasn’t going to let facts get in the way of a good speech.

Israel Stole South African Missile Technology
Story: al-Jazeera

In 2010, documents reveal, Israel acquired stolen South African anti-tank missile plans. South African intelligence helped to cover up the theft, and kept prosecutors from releasing information about Israeli involvement when charging the thieves .

South African officials told reporters at the time that Israel had been approached but “was not interested.” The leak shows that not only was Israel interested, it bought the blueprints and Mossad got ahold of them. Mossad agreed to return the plans after they were caught, but only on the condition that Israeli middlemen involved would not be charged.

Abbas Tries to Kill the Goldstone Report
Stories: al-Jazeera, The Guardian

After the 2008-09 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, Judge Richard Goldstone was charged with investigating and reporting on the war crimes therein. You may remember this, as Israeli officials threatened the UN over the report and accused Goldstone, a South African Jew, of being an anti-semite.

South African cables report that even though Abbas did not, and indeed could not, publicly take a stand, he was privately lobbying against the Goldstone Report, fearing Israel would use it as an excuse to kill the peace process, and also fearing that pointing out war crimes committed against Hamas territory would strengthen Hamas’ bargaining position.

Iran Is No Threat to South Africa, But US Still Forced Them to Monitor Iranian Dealings
Stories: al-Jazeera, The Guardian

Even though South African intelligence openly confirmed Iran posed no “discernible threat” to South African interests, Heavy US pressure forced them to follow through on dubious sanctions, and to dedicate huge amounts of resources to spying on every Iranian diplomat in the nation, as well as a large number of ethnic Persians.

Years of investigations turned up very little, and ended with the conclusion that Iran must not consider Africa a high priority.

CIA Tries to Get Access to Hamas
Story: The Guardian

Even though the US government had banned all contact with Hamas, the CIA sought South African help in establishing contact with Hamas, asking the South African SSA to assist them in gaining access.

MI6 Blocked a South African Company’s Deal With an Iranian Petrochemical Company
Story: The Guardian

South African company Electric Resistance Furnaces (ERFCO) was blocked from a contract with an Iranian petrochemical company by British MI6, which claimed the company was trying to buy equipment for rocket production. ERFCO was never given evidence that the company was doing anything illegal, but was heavily pressured by British intelligence to stop the deals, which they did.

Netanyahu humiliated after he tries to play down wealth with video recorded in his decrepit home... which is revealed to be his servants’ quarters
| Daily Mail Online
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2957942/Netanyahu-s-campaign-hit-expenses-claims.html

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Netanyahu’s wife Sara bemoans the state of their kitchen in a home remodelling show. However, it has emerged the kitchen is used by administrative staff, not the the Netanyahus themselves.

Les eniemes #mensonges de #Netanyahu

Ceci circule beaucoup (sur le thème « le début de la fin » du soutien américain à Israël ?) : CNN/ORC poll : Majority of Americans oppose Netanyahu invite
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/17/politics/poll-netanyahu-speech-opposition/index.html

The nationwide poll, released Tuesday, shows 63% of Americans say it was a bad move for congressional leadership to extend the invitation without giving President Barack Obama a heads up that it was coming. Only 33% say it was the right thing to do.

[…]

But Americans overall believe the U.S. should stay out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with 66% in the new poll advocating the U.S. remain neutral. Of those who do support picking a side, the majority, 29%, back Israel, while only 2% support Palestine.

Even Republicans, typically seen as the party offering the strongest defense of Israel, are split on whether the U.S. should officially support Israel in the conflict. Forty-nine percent support backing the nation, while 47% say the U.S. should stay out of it.

And a significant age gap suggests U.S. sentiment may, in the long term, be moving further in favor of neutrality in the conflict. While 56% of those age 50 or older believe the U.S. should stay out of the Israeli-Palestinian fight, that number skyrockets to 75% of Americans under age 50.

Netanyahu speaks for all Jews whether they like it or not
▻http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/jerusalem-babylon/.premium-1.642297

If the Jews living outside of Israel didn’t want Netanyahu speaking and acting on their behalf, they should have called him out years ago, privately and if necessary also in public. Save for a few commentators and fringe organizations, they were silent. At the same time, they feted Netanyahu at every opportunity and acquiesced to hiring like-minded figures, who rarely if ever criticized him in public, to head major national and international Jewish organizations.

Remi Brulin sur Twitter : "Why Netanyahu’s claims to “moral clarity” on “terrorism” & how it is defined are not credible, in 2 quotes"
▻https://twitter.com/RBrulin/status/560513960940961792

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VIDEO - Marche républicaine: quand #Netanyahu attend le bus
▻http://www.bfmtv.com/societe/marche-republicaine-quand-netanyahu-attend-le-bus-856814.html

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On peut y voir le Premier ministre israélien, à quelques centimètres de la caméra de BFMTV, s’étonner de n’avoir pu prendre place dans le premier bus devant lui, quelques secondes après avoir court-circuité la file d’attente devant lui.

Netanyahu’s Paris appearance was a PR disaster - Diplomacy and Defense Israel News | Haaretz
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.636737

Netanyahu was captured by news cameras elbowing his way into the front row, gently pushing aside the President of Mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The French weekly Paris Match later reported that Netanyahu’s place in the front row (alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) was in fact determined by the organizers of the rally, but by that point the videos showing Netanyahu’s break into the first row were already out. The damage was done.

During the march Netanyahu was caught off-guard again, waving to the crowd in response to a pro-Israel shout from the audience, looking rather cheerful in comparison to his grim and somber compatriots, who kept their cool and did not respond to the crowd.

Of course, Netanyahu’s biggest humiliation was a video that has since gone viral, in which he is seen waiting for a bus to take him to the rally, after missing the bus that ferried other world leaders to the march.

The footage, captured by a French TV station, is remarkable: The prime minister of Israel looks nervous, dejected, beaten down, surrounded by his security detail yet still standing in the middle of the street, looking exposed to danger in a way world leaders should never be. Netanyahu appears furious, annoyed, confused, trying to busy himself with talking on his phone or fixing his hair, constantly looking over his shoulder to check whether his bodyguards are still there. Even the French news anchors had to sympathize with his distress.

In no time, Netanyah’s anguish over the bus like was memefied and joked about. His gauche waving became the subject of scorn and derision, his apparent shoving the subject of intense criticism.

“Such behavior as cutting in line, sneaking onto the bus by pushing and shoving, using elbows to get to the front at some event is so Israeli, so us, so Likud Party Central Committee, that I want to shout: "Je suis Bibi!” wrote my Haaretz colleague columnist Yossi Verter.

Les sites « anti-conspis » ont été rapides à dénoncer les « théories du complot » qui auraient surgi après le massacre à Charlie Hebdo ; dans le même temps, rien sur cette « autre » théorie du complot… (Attention, c’est du lourd, et heureusement que ce gars revendique toujours son passé avec Yitzhak Rabin.) : The Muslim occupation of Europe – Eitan Haber
▻http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4612790,00.html

But France will not say out loud what millions in Europe are thinking in their hearts: It’s either them, the Muslims, or us, the Europeans (most of whom are Christian Catholic).
 
The Muslim empire struck again on Wednesday, and it will strike the European community, which it envies, again and again. Millions of Muslims have already occupied a significant part of Europe’s countries a long time ago.
 
The Muslim invasion of the continent requires every European politician to consider the many voices of the Muslim population. Even a European politician who despises the Muslims, their religion and their lifestyle would be unwilling to risk making harsh comments, although he is expected to make them, at least today.
 
The Muslims didn’t just murder 12 people on Wednesday, but a cultural movement which has developed in France since the student revolt in 1968 and has captured many hearts. Even those who do not belong to the left became fond of the anarchistic, uninhibited style of the popular weekly newspaper.

Kerry meets with Netanyahu ahead of Palestinian push for UN resolution | Al Akhbar English
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/kerry-meet-netanyahu-ahead-palestinian-push-un-resolution-end-occ

It is worth noting that numerous pro-Palestine activists support a one-state solution in which Israelis and Palestinians would be treated equally, arguing that the creation of a Palestinian state beside Israel would not be sustainable. They also believe that the two-state solution, which is the only option considered by international actors, won’t solve existing discrimination, nor erase economic and military tensions.

In the past, the US has consistently used its power of veto at the UN to block moves it sees as anti-Israel.

But US officials said Kerry was seeking to learn more about the European position, adding there did not appear to be a European consensus on any resolution.

Chemi Shalev sur Twitter : “Kerry: We heard Netanyahu’s words (to restore calm) and they were spoken sincerely, but the test is in the actions that will be taken”
▻https://twitter.com/ChemiShalev/status/532991955148750848

Laura Rozen sur Twitter : “@ChemiShalev wow”
▻https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/532992422729756672

Chemi Shalev sur Twitter : “@lrozen He said the same is true of Abbas, of course”
▻https://twitter.com/ChemiShalev/status/532992550379225089

Laura Rozen sur Twitter : “@ChemiShalev yes.”
▻https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/532992647611568128

“#approche_équilibrée”

Fevrier 2013:
Tzipi Livni ’won’t be fig leaf’ for Netanyahu if he doesn’t want peace | World news | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/on-the-middle-east/2013/feb/20/israel-palestinians-livni-netanyahu-abbas

Livni’s defence was to insist that she was not prepared to serve as a “fig leaf” for policies she disagreed with

Netanyahu dénonce auprès de Ban l’enquête de l’ONU
▻http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2014/10/01/netanyahu-denonce-aupres-de-ban-lenquete-de-lonu

Netanyahu & UN Head Clash Over Inquiry Into Israeli Military Actions in Gaza
▻http://jpupdates.com/2014/10/02/netanyahu-un-head-clash-inquiry-israeli-military-actions-gaza

Both United Nations diplomats and Israeli officials reported that a major portion of the meeting focused on the situation in Gaza and the coordination of a UN inquiry board. The discussion rapidly turned into an argument between Netanyahu and Ban, as each flatly rejected the other’s position and the tension rose.

As reported exclusively by Haaretz, an Israeli official stated that Ban spoke quite emotionally about the civilian casualties in Gaza and the crucial nature of devising a solution to the conflict with the Palestinians. The UN leader contended that Israel had acted disproportionately toward the Palestinians in Gaza.

Netanyahu urges Ban to postpone probe into shelling of UN facilities in Gaza
UN chief and Israeli PM clash over issue civilian casualties in Gaza and investigative committee, an Israeli official said.
▻http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/.premium-1.618747

Netanyahu à Obama : ne laissez pas l’Iran devenir une puissance nucléaire - Libération
▻http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2014/10/01/netanyahu-a-obama-ne-laissez-pas-l-iran-devenir-une-puissance-nucleaire_1

(...) M. Obama a de son côté souligné mercredi qu’il entendait évoquer à la fois la reconstruction de Gaza mais aussi les moyens de trouver « une paix plus durable » entre Israéliens et Palestiniens.

« Nous devons trouver les moyens de faire évoluer le statu quo pour que les citoyens israéliens chez eux, comme les enfants à l’école, soient à l’abri d’un tir de roquette, mais également que nous ne soyons pas confrontés à la tragédie d’enfants palestiniens tués », a déclaré le président américain en présence de M. Netanyahu.

Le dernier cycle de négociations, qui a duré neuf mois sous les auspices du secrétaire d’Etat John Kerry, a capoté fin avril.

Dans un discours musclé devant les Nations unies, le président palestinien Mahmoud Abbas a accusé vendredi Israël d’avoir mené « une nouvelle guerre de génocide » à Gaza, promettant de tout faire pour châtier les coupables. Les Etats-Unis ont fustigé un discours « offensant » et des déclarations « provocatrices ».

Selon un projet de résolution obtenu mercredi par l’AFP, les Palestiniens entendent demander au Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU d’exiger la fin de l’occupation israélienne au plus tard en novembre 2016. Si ce texte de quatre pages a très peu de chances d’être adopté, il place cependant la Conseil dans une position inconfortable.
AFP

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et sur l’autre journal du franco-Israélien Patrick Drahi :

ONU : projet de résolution pour "un retrait total d’Israël des Territoires"

Si les Américains apposent leur veto, Abbas se tournera vers la Cours pénale internationale
▻http://www.i24news.tv/fr/actu/israel/diplomatie-defense/45736-141001-pourparlers-secrets-entre-l-ap-et-israel-sur-gaza

Le brouillon d’une motion conjointe palestino-arabe demandant l’évacuation totale d’Israël de Cisjordanie et de Jérusalem-Est d’ici novembre 2016, a été déposé mercredi sur le bureau du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies.

Ce projet de résolution devrait être prochainement soumis au vote du Conseil de sécurité, apprend-on mercredi.
Le texte de la motion établit que l’évacuation israélienne doit se dérouler « le plus rapidement possible dans la cadre du délai imparti, n’excédant pas le mois de novembre 2016 avec l’indépendance et le souveraineté de l’Etat de Palestine et le droit à l’autodétermination du peuple palestinien ».
Le projet demande à « toutes les parties de respecter leurs obligations en vertu du droit internationel humanitaire, y-compris la Convention de Genève relative à la Protection des civils en temps de guerre datant d’août 1949 ».

Il exige également « la fin de toutes les opérations militaires israéliennes, des représailles, des déplacements forcés de civils, de tous les actes de violence et des hostilités ».
Le groupe arabe qui a rédigé le texte pourrait néanmoins décider de ne pas le soumettre au vote du Conseil de sécurité s’il estime, ce qui risque fort probablement d’être le cas, que les Etats-Unis y apposeront leur veto.

Le président palestinien Mahmoud Abbas s’est dit déterminé à passer outre les objections américaines à ses projets diplomatiques concernant « l’occupation israélienne », même si la relation avec Washington est déjà tendue.

M. Abbas, de retour de New York où il a évoqué lors d’un discours véhément devant les Nations unies son intention d’en finir avec le fonctionnement ancien des discussions de paix avec les Israéliens, a ainsi prévenu qu’il ne « renoncerait pas », malgré la réprobation américaine, à adhérer à la Cour pénale internationale en cas de « veto américain à une future résolution sur la fin de l’occupation israélienne ».

« Les relations avec l’administration américaine sont tendues », a-t-il dit dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi à des journalistes au siège de l’Autorité palestinienne à Ramallah (Cisjordanie). Il a qualifié de partiale la réaction américaine à son discours à l’ONU.

Les Etats-Unis ont jugé offensant son discours réclamant « la fin de l’occupation israélienne et l’indépendance de l’Etat de Palestine et accusant Israël de génocide et d’apartheid ».

« La direction palestinienne subit de fortes pressions pour ne pas aller au Conseil de sécurité et adhérer à des organisations internationales, la première de ces pressions portant sur l’aide », a dit M. Abbas. « Les Palestiniens reçoivent chaque année 700 millions de dollars des Etats-Unis », a-t-il dit.