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Depuis quelques mois, les Etats unis entendent relancer le processus de paix. D’une conférence organisée à Tel Aviv le 27 mai sur l’Initiative de Paix arabe, Shlomi Eldar (Al-Monitor) a tiré les conclusions suivantes :
– La plus grande victoire de la droite israélienne n’est pas la colonisation mais le fait qu’elle a réussi à rendre les Israéliens apathiques et léthargiques et qu’elle a toujours repoussé les efforts internationaux de paix. Elle a délégitimé tout effort de paix.
– Si l’une des raisons est que la guerre en Syrie et le nucléaire iranien ont fait passer au second plan la question de Palestine, la véritable explication est qu’aucune force politique israélienne n’avait, et n’a toujours pas, réagi à l’offre de paix arabe qui date de 2002 et qui est régulièrement renouvelée par la Ligue arabe depuis cette époque. Cette offre n’est pourtant pas éternelle.
– Israël est incapable de concevoir une initiative arabe.
– Les Israéliens ne se rendent pas compte qu’il est dans leur intérêt d’accepter l’Initiative de paix arabe. Ils ne peuvent compter sur leur classe politique pour changer d’avis.
– En fait, les dirigeants israéliens repousseront toute initiative de paix pour faire admettre que le statut quo est préférable à un plan de paix.

By: Shlomi Eldar for Al-Monitor Israel Pulse Posted on May 31
Shlomi Eldar is a contributing writer for Al-Monitor’s Israel Pulse. For the past two decades, he has covered the Palestinian Authority and especially the Gaza Strip for Israel’s Channels 1 and 10 and has reported on the emergence of Hamas. In 2007, he was awarded the Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most important media award, for this work

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The greatest achievement of the Israeli right is not the settlement enterprise. The greatest achievement of the Israeli right is its success in making most of the Israeli public lethargic and apathetic.
Earlier this week (May 27), there was a conference in Tel Aviv dedicated exclusively to the Arab Peace Initiative. The conference was organized by the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue of the Netanya Academic College, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Yisrael Yozemet (Israeli Peace Initiative), which is a group founded to promote the Arab Peace Initiative. The conference had a large turnout that included academics, economists and people who were once senior figures in the Israeli political system.
The only Knesset members who attended were Erel Margalit and Meirav Michaeli, both from the Labor Party. The organizers invited Knesset members from the right as well, but the invitations were turned down. These days, the Israeli political system looks dimly at the Arab world in general and the Palestinians in particular. There is almost no one who wants to begin any sort of dialogue whatsoever or to make any effort to resolve the conflict (…)

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Palestine/ Israël.
Le livre du Dr Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish, « Je ne haïrai point », a été adapté à la scène au théâtre national Habima (Théâtre national « La Scène » à Tel Aviv). Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish est ce médecin palestinien qui a perdu ses trois filles lors des opérations israéliennes « Plomb durci » sur Gaza en 2009.

The Gaza Doctor’s Story On Israeli Stage

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By: Michal Aharoni for Al-Monitor Israel Pulse Posted on April 21 (2013)

“The theater’s job is to peel away stereotypes. We don’t know the story of Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish, we only know its end. We have no idea what it’s like living 80 kilometers from Tel Aviv,” says Shay Pitowski, director of the play I Shall Not Hate currently being staged by Habima.

The play is based on the autobiography of Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish, the Gaza doctor whose three daughters were killed by a stray shell fired by the IDF during Operation Cast Lead [2009]. Abu al-Aish, known as “the doctor from Gaza,” worked for years as a gynecologist in Israel. Seconds after the shell hit his house he called journalist Shlomi Eldar at Israel’s Channel 10 news studio. Eldar hit the speaker button on his cell phone and broadcast live the agony of the man whose three daughters lay dead on the floor in front of his eyes. His cries of anguish, in Hebrew, resonated in Israel and around the world. Twenty-four hours later a cease-fire was reached and the operation was brought to an end.

But despite the great tragedy that befell him, Dr. Abu al-Aish refused to give in to hate. The man who led his whole life between two worlds — one foot here, the other there — continued to see both sides. Despite the horrible tragedy that befell him, he continued to talk peace. At a time when so many people sanctified death, the gynecologist who helped so many women give life continued to sanctify life. (…)