person:remi brulin

  • Le rejet du terrorisme, « valeur partagée » entre les États-Unis et Israël ?
    Rémi Brulin > 4 avril 2019
    https://orientxxi.info/magazine/le-rejet-du-terrorisme-valeur-partagee-entre-les-etats-unis-et-israel,29
    https://orientxxi.info/local/cache-vignettes/L800xH399/b4ccd1ec8ba718ea0751e0d979da4e-2a8fa.jpg?1554282242

    Les « valeurs partagées », notamment la lutte contre le terrorisme, seraient le socle de l’alliance stratégique entre les États-Unis et Israël. Elles permettraient de tracer une ligne claire entre critique légitime et illégitime de la politique israélienne. Une telle illusion ne résiste pas à la réalité des faits.

  • Remi Brulin sur Twitter : "Anti-semitism thrives on disgusting conspiracy theories about “Jewish elites &money,” "Jewish elites &media," etc When US media covers up revelations about past Israeli crimes (eg “terrorist” car bombing campaign in 80s) it FUELS conspiracy theories &gives anti-semites ammunition https://t.co/yfgHhb9D0n" / Twitter
    https://twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1096416763548454912

    #antisémitisme #Israel #MSM

  • Remi Brulin sur Twitter : "One lesson 2018 has taught me: When it is revealed (by well-known Israeli journalist) that Israeli senior officials created & ran a “terrorist” group that used car bombs to kill hundreds of civilians in 1980s, US media &"terrorism experts" can be trusted to remain SILENT about it" / Twitter
    https://twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1079790656078467072

    #leçon (quand on ne peut pas traiter quelqu’un de complotiste on tait ce qu’il révèle)

  • Did IDF admit giving weapons to Islamists in Syria? Explosive Israeli news report vanishes — RT World News
    https://www.rt.com/news/437677-israel-weapons-jerusalem-post-idf
    https://cdni.rt.com/files/2018.09/article/5b8fec8ffc7e937a6a8b45a4.png

    One of at least seven groups believed to have received weapons from Israel, Fursan al-Joulan, or ‘Knights of Golan,’ reportedly participated in the Israeli-led operation to evacuate hundreds of members of the controversial White Helmets group out of Syria. The group is also believed to have received upwards of $5,000 per month from Israel.

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

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

    Le lien vers l’article en cache : https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5JDOiVV-EgUJ:https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/IDF-confirms-Israel-provided-light-weapons-to-Syrian-reb

    #israël #syrie

    • Le Wall Street Journal en parlait l’an dernier,
      https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-gives-secret-aid-to-syrian-rebels-1497813430

      Report: Israel Gives Secret Aid to Syrian Rebels | Israel Defense
      http://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/30036

      “Israel stood by our side in a heroic way,” a spokesman for the rebel group #Fursan_al-Joulan, or Knights of the Golan, Moatasem al-Golani, told the Journal. “We wouldn’t have survived without Israel’s assistance.”

      Abu Suhayb, a nom de guerre of the commander who leads the group, told the newspaper he receives approximately $5,000 a month from Israel. According to the report, the group made contact with Israel in 2013 after a raid on regime forces and turned to Israel for help with its wounded. The group said it was a turning point as Israel then began sending funds and aid, assistance soon extended to other groups.

      In response to the Wall Street Journal report, the IDF said Israel was “committed to securing the borders of Israel and preventing the establishment of terror cells and hostile forces… in addition to providing humanitarian aid to the Syrians living in the area.”

    • U.S. Ambassador Dean Ambushed in Lebanon, Escapes Attack Unhurt - The Washington Post
      https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/08/28/us-ambassador-dean-ambushed-in-lebanon-escapes-attack-unhurt/218130c3-6d7e-438f-8b0c-a42fc0e5eb57

      1980

      U.S. Ambassador John Gunther Dean escaped unharmed tonight after gunmen in a speeding Mercedes attacked his bulletproof limousine as he was leaving his Hazmieh residence in a convoy.

      The ensuing battle between the ambasador’s bodyguards and the gunmen left the embassy car demolished on the passenger side, with window glass shattered and tires flat, embassy sources said.

      Later this evening, Dean appeared at the gate of the embassy and waved to bystanders but refused to make a statement on the incident. He showed no signs of injury. [The Associate Press, quoting security sources, said Dean’s wife Martine and daughter Catherine also were unharmed.]

      It was the first attempt on an American ambassador’s life in Lebanon since June 16, 1976, when ambassador Francis E. Eloy, economic counselor Robert O. Waring and their chauffeur were kidnaped and killed on their way from West Beirut to East Beirut during the civil war.

      [Several hours after the attack on Dean, gunmen with automatic rifles dragged the Spanish ambassador and his wife from their car and drove away in the embasy vehicle. Ambassador Luis Jordana Pozas told the Associated Press. Jordana said five men pushed them from the car in mostly Moslem West Beirut. There was no indication whether the theft of Jordana’s car was related to the attack on the American diplomat.]

      Today’s attack came just hours after Dean said the United States was working with Israel and the United Nations to end the violence among Christian militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon. It was his first public statement since Aug. 21, when he created an uproar by condemning an Israeli raid on Palestinian guerilla strongholds in the area. The U.S. State Department later disavowed the statement.

      There were conflicting reports about the kind of explosive that was aimed at the ambassador’s car. Some local radio stations said it was a rocket, while others said it was a rifle grenade. None of the reports could be confirmed.

      The shooting took place as Dean was driving to Beirut. Excited security guards outside the U.S. Embassy told reporters that a spurt of machine-gun fire followed the explosion.

      The attackers, who abandoned their car, fled into the woods on the side of the highway, Beirut’s official radio said.

      Lebanese Army troops and internal security forces were quickly moved to the ambush site and an all-night search was begun to track down the would-be killers. Reliable police sources said two Lebanese suspected of being linked to the assassination attermpt were taken in for questioning.

      Following a meeting with Lebanese Foreign Minister Fuad Butros today, Dean stressed that "American policy includes opposition to all acts of violence which ignore or violate the internationally recognized border between Lebanon and Israel.

    • The remarkable disappearing act of Israel’s car-bombing campaign in Lebanon or : What we (do not) talk about when we talk about ’terrorism’
      Rémi Brulin, MondoWeiss, le 7 mai 2018
      https://seenthis.net/messages/692409

      La remarquable occultation de la campagne israélienne d’attentats à la voiture piégée au Liban ou : Ce dont nous (ne) parlons (pas) quand nous parlons de terrorisme
      Rémi Brulin, MondoWeiss, le 7 mai 2018
      https://seenthis.net/messages/695020

    • Inside Intel / Assassination by proxy - Haaretz - Israel News | Haaretz.com
      https://www.haaretz.com/1.5060443

      Haaretz 2009,

      Did Israel try to kill the U.S. ambassador in Lebanon in the early 1980s?Haggai Hadas’ experience is not necessarily an advantage in the talks over Gilad Shalit’s release The Israeli intelligence community has committed quite a number of crimes against the United States during its 60-year lifetime. In the early 1950s it recruited agents from among Arab officers serving in Washington (with the help of military attache Chaim Herzog). In the 1960s it stole uranium through Rafi Eitan and the Scientific Liaison Bureau in what came to be known as the Apollo Affair, when uranium was smuggled to Israel from Dr. Zalman Shapira’s Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation - in Apollo, Pennsylvania). In the 1980s it operated spies (Jonathan Pollard and Ben-Ami Kadish), and used businessmen (such as Arnon Milchan) to steal secrets, technology and equipment for its nuclear program and other purposes.

      Now the Israeli government is being accused of attempted murder. John Gunther Dean, a former U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, claims in a memoir released last week that Israeli intelligence agents attempted to assassinate him. Dean was born in 1926 in Breslau, Germany (today Wroclaw, Poland), as John Gunther Dienstfertig. His father was a Jewish lawyer who described himself as a German citizen of the Jewish religion who is not a Zionist. The family immigrated to the U.S. before World War II. As an adult Dean joined the State Department and served as a diplomat in Vietnam, Afghanistan and India, among other states.

    • Remi Brulin on Twitter: "Shlomo Ilya was, in the early 1980s, the head of the IDF liaison unit in Lebanon. He is also (in)famous for declaring, at the time, that he only weapon against terrorism is terrorism, and that Israel had options for “speaking the language the terrorists understand.” https://t.co/TKx02n2SpA"
      https://mobile.twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1001904259410071552

  • La remarquable occultation de la campagne israélienne d’attentats à la voiture piégée au Liban ou : Ce dont nous (ne) parlons (pas) quand nous parlons de terrorisme

    Par Rémi Brulin, MondoWeiss (USA) 7 mai 2018 traduit de l’anglais par Djazaïri
    https://mounadil.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/le-terrorisme-sioniste-et-ses-mystifications-un-texte-important-

    (...) En effet, de 1979 à 1983, soit précisément la période située entre les conférences de Jérusalem et de Washington, de très hauts responsables israéliens ont mené une vaste campagne d’attentats à la voiture piégée qui a tué des centaines de Palestiniens et de Libanais, pour la plupart civils. En fait, au moment où sa tribune libre était publiée dans le New York Times, Sharon dirigeait personnellement cette opération « terroriste » depuis une année entière. Fait encore plus remarquable, l’un des objectifs de cette opération secrète était précisément d’inciter l’OLP à recourir au « terrorisme » afin de fournir à Israël une justification pour envahir le Liban.

    Ces assertions ne sont pas le produit d’un esprit enfiévré et conspirationniste. Une description détaillée de cette opération secrète par Ronen Bergman, un journaliste israélien très respecté, a été publiée par le New York Times Magazine le 23 janvier 2018. Cet article a été adapté de Rise and Kill First : L’histoire secrète des assassinats ciblés d’Israël, où est fourni un compte rendu beaucoup plus détaillé de l’opération, entièrement basé sur des entretiens avec des responsables israéliens impliqués ou au courant de l’opération à l’époque.

    Comme l’explique Richard Jackson dans « Writing the War on Terrorism » (Écrire la guerre contre le terrorisme), un discours politique est une façon de parler qui cherche à donner un sens aux événements et aux expériences à partir d’un point de vue particulier. Analyser le discours sur le « terrorisme », affirme Jackson, implique « l’identification des règles guidant ce qui peut et ne peut pas être dit et de découvrir ce qui a été omis ainsi que ce qui a été inclus. » « Les silences d’un texte » ajoute-t-il « sont souvent aussi importants que ce qu’il dit. »

    L’opération secrète d’attentats à la voiture piégée menée par les autorités israéliennes au Liban au début des années 1980 représente un exemple historique remarquable de tels « silences » et des « règles » qui sous-tendent le discours sur le « terrorisme » et confirme que certaines choses ne peuvent tout simplement pas être dites. « Certains faits ne sont tout simplement jamais mentionnés .Rise and Kill First a reçu des éloges de la part de la critique dans la presse américaine. Au cours des trois derniers mois, son auteur a participé à d’innombrables interviews avec les médias et a donné des conférences publiques très remarquées dans tout le pays. Et pourtant, dans ces revues critiques, ces entretiens et ces discussions publiques, cette opération secrète n’a pas été mentionnée une seule fois. En fait, la discussion publique qui a entouré la publication de Rise and Kill First a eu lieu comme si les révélations contenues dans ce livre n’avaient jamais été publiées.

    Notre » opposition au « terrorisme » se base sur des principes et est absolue. « Nous » par définition ne recourons pas au « terrorisme ». Si et quand une preuve du contraire est présentée, la réaction est : le silence. (...)

    traduction française de l’article cité par @nidal : https://seenthis.net/messages/692409

    • C’est tellement #énorme comme information. Tellement #énorme... Comment cet état faussaire pourra-t-il se sortir d’un passif si #énorme ? Toutes les narratives de cet état sont faussaires, toutes. L’histoire qui s’écrit avec 30 ou 40 ans de retard nous dit que cet état a provoqué ceux qu’il décidait être ses ennemis et à chaque fois de la pire façon, tout en affirmant l’absolu contraire, tout en feignant l’innocence.

      Ça me ferait peur, de vivre de cette façon. Me dire qu’un jour peut-être, je devrais rendre des comptes pour toutes ces horreurs accomplies. Ça n’a pas de sens, cette histoire de « rendre des comptes ». Le plus fort ne rend jamais de comptes. Mais reste-t-on toujours le plus fort indéfiniment ? Est-il raisonnable de faire comme si on le restera indéfiniment ?

  • The remarkable disappearing act of Israel’s car-bombing campaign in Lebanon or: What we (do not) talk about when we talk about ’terrorism’
    http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/remarkable-disappearing-terrorism

    Indeed, from 1979 to 1983, that is to say precisely the period between the Jerusalem and Washington conferences, very senior Israeli officials conducted a large-scale campaign of car-bombings that killed hundreds of Palestinians and Lebanese, most of them civilians. In fact, by the time his New York Times OpEd was published Sharon had been personally directing this “terrorist” operation for a full year. Even more remarkably, one of the objectives of this covert operation was precisely to goad the PLO into resorting to “terrorism” so as to provide Israel with a justification to invade Lebanon.

    These claims are not the product of a feverish, conspiratorial mind. A barebones description of this secret operation was published by Ronen Bergman, a well respected Israeli journalist in the New York Times Magazine on January 23, 2018. This article was adapted from Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, where a much more detailed account of the operation, entirely based on interviews with Israeli officials involved in or aware of the operation at the time, is provided.

    As Richard Jackson explains in Writing the War on Terrorism, a political discourse is a way of speaking that attempts to give meaning to events and experiences from a particular perspective. Analyzing the discourse on “terrorism,” Jackson argues, involves “appreciating the rules guiding what can and cannot be said and knowing what has been left out as well as what has been included.” “The silences of a text,” he adds, “are often as important as its inclusions.”

    The secret car-bombing operation Israeli officials conducted in Lebanon in the early 1980s represents a remarkable historical example of such “silences,” and of the “rules” that underlie the discourse on “terrorism” and ensure that certain things simply “cannot be said,” certain facts simply aren’t ever mentioned. Rise and Kill First has received the highest praise from reviewers in the American press. Over the last three months, its author has participated in countless media interviews and given high profile public talks around the country. And yet, in these reviews, interviews and public talks this secret operation has not been mentioned a single time. In fact, the public discussion that has surrounded the publication of Rise and Kill First has taken place as if the revelations contained in that book had never been published.

    “Our” opposition to “terrorism” is principled and absolute. “We” by definition do not resort to “terrorism.” If and when evidence to the contrary is presented, the reaction is: silence.

    Et donc: How Arafat Eluded Israel’s Assassination Machine - par Ronen Bergmanjan, 23 janvier 2018
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/magazine/how-arafat-eluded-israels-assassination-machine.html

    The nation’s security forces tried for decades to kill the P.L.O. leader. Now, former officials tell the story of how they failed — and how far they almost went to succeed.

  • En Israël, les ventes d’armes au régime birman sont considérées comme un secret d’Etat
    LE MONDE | 29.09.2017 | Par Piotr Smolar (Jérusalem, correspondant)
    http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2017/09/29/en-israel-les-ventes-d-armes-au-regime-birman-sont-considerees-comme-un-secr

    Un secret à verrous multiples. Voilà comment pourrait se résumer l’union sacrée entre la justice et le gouvernement israélien, pour tirer un rideau d’acier sur les ventes d’armes de l’Etat hébreu à la Birmanie. Mercredi 27 septembre, la Haute Cour de justice a rendu une décision concernant ces exportations, contestées par une plainte de l’avocat Eitay Mack et d’un collectif citoyen. Mais la décision a été couverte par un « gag order », soit une interdiction de révélation, faisant de ces ventes d’armes un secret d’Etat assumé. Le gouvernement, pour sa part, a même souhaité que l’ensemble de la procédure judiciaire soit scellé et censuré, y compris les propos tenus lors de l’audience publique, le 25 septembre. Une décision hors norme.

  • Evolution and Debates about the Concept of Terrorism
    By #Remi_Brulin
    http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/20574/evolution-and-debates-about-the-concept-of-terrori

    The Unresolved Issue of State Terrorism

    On 4 October 1985, by a vote of fourteen yeses and with the United States abstaining, the Security Council adopted Resolution 573, which “condemned vigorously the act of armed aggression perpetrated by Israel against Tunisian territory.” That time, Washington did not use its veto but, as Vernon Walters explained, it continued to “recognize and strongly supported the principle that a State subjected to continuing terrorist attacks may respond with appropriate use of force to defend itself against further attacks.” As the outcome of that vote makes clear, Israel and the United States continued to stand squarely outside the international consensus on the illegality of the use of force against third-party states to avenge acts of terrorism. But international disagreements ran deeper: to non-Western countries, Israel’s raid amounted to “state terrorism” and should be condemned just as strongly as acts of “terrorism” by non-state actors.

    Thus, after noting that his country had “often unequivocally condemned terrorism of every kind and from whatever source,” the Tunisian representative insisted that “nothing can justify this act of terrorism committed by and duly acknowledged by the Government of a Member State against another Member State.”

    Over the next couple days, all non-Western members of the Security Council similarly argued that Israel’s raid was criminal, contrary to international law and an act of “state terrorism.” Indeed, the initial draft of the October 1985 resolution contained an explicit condemnation of Israel’s raid as a form of “state terrorism.” It was only under the threat of a US veto that these words were removed from the final text, as were the call for sanctions and, remarkably, an explicit reference to “Tunisian and Palestinian civilian casualties.”

    When the question of “international terrorism” was first put on the agenda of the General Assembly in late 1972, discussions focused on the absence of a clear, agreed-upon definition of “terrorism.” Non-western countries expressed worry that, if the term was left undefined, it would be used by Israel, the United States, apartheid South Africa, Portugal (which still retained colonial possessions in Africa), and others as a way to de-legitimize any and all uses of force by “national liberation movements” while justifying their own uses of military force. They insisted that efforts to fight terrorism required that the concept be defined, and that such definition should apply to all political actors, covering violence against civilians by states as well as non-state actors. This would remain their position for the following decades.

    #histoire #terrorisme #terrorisme_d'etat #Etats-Unis #victimes_civiles

  • #Remi_Brulin
    http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rkf8l6

    The old “terrorism has nothing to do with our policies: we are attacked because of who we are” line, from 1984:

    “[We must] clear our heads of the confusion about terrorism, in many ways the moral confusion, that still seems to plague us, […] Legitimate causes can never justify or excuse terrorism. […] We cannot afford to let an Orwellian corruption of language obscure our understanding of terrorism. We know the difference between terrorists and freedom fighters, and as we look around the world, we have no trouble telling one from the other. […] We have to rid ourselves of this moral confusion which lays the blame for terrorist actions on us or on our policies. […] We are attacked not because of what we are doing wrong but because of what we are doing right. We are right to support the security of Israel, and there is no terrorist act or threat that will change that firm determination. We are attacked not because of some mistake we are making but because of who we are and what we believe in.”
    Secretary of State George Schultz, Oct. 25, 1984

  • Remi Brulin on State Secrecy and Targeted Assassinations, from Operation Condor to the Obama Administration | The Drone Fallacy
    http://dronefallacy.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/remi-brulin-on-state-secrecy-and-targeted-assassinations-fro

    The problem with drones has never been with the technology itself. Certainly, drones have brought the vision of an Orwellian dystopia to the forefront of our minds. And yes, the administration has often tried to justify its use of drone strikes with the explanation that they are “surgical” and “precise” weapons of war. But the true threat to the people of this world lies not with the proliferation of drone warfare, but with the associated policies of states who choose to use them for their own purposes. The prevarication, the secrecy, the outright lies, and the arbitrary killing of individuals with no legal process undermine the very notions of accountability and democratic governance.

    In a guest piece for today, Remi Brulin takes a cold hard look at one of the most egregious examples of this secrecy and state-sponsored terrorism in which the US is culpable, Operation Condor – an internationally-coordinated program between several Latin American regimes to actively suppress and “disappear” political opponents under the guise of fighting “terrorism” - while highlighting the secrecy still surrounding the United State’s exact role in this “international terrorist network” and the dangerous historical precedent thus being set.