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  • Avec une régularité d’horloge, un officiel israélien fait des menaces extrêmement violentes contre le Liban, et tout le monde s’en fout.
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-press-review-new-poll-shows-rampant-racism-israel-227749167

    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.

  • Israeli lawmaker’s attack on celebrity Jewish-Arab marriage echoes Nazi ideology

    MK Oren Hazan accused TV anchor Lucy Aharish of seducing Fauda actor Tzahi Halevi in order to hurt Israel – and Netanyahu said nothing

    Yossi Verter SendSend me email alerts
    Oct 11, 2018

    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-mk-s-attack-on-celebrity-jewish-arab-marriage-echoes-nazi-ideology

    Knesset Member Oren Hazan (Likud), he of the infamous selfie celebrating the passing of the nation-state law, has identified a terrorist cell. This cell has a single member – TV anchorwoman Lucy Aharish.
    This week the Arab journalist carried out a terrorist act intended to lower the Jewish birthrate when she married actor Tzahi Halevi. “She seduced a Jewish soul with the aim of harming our country and preventing more Jewish offspring from perpetuating the Jewish line,” the racist, ignorant and repulsive MK tweeted.
    Substitute the word “German” for “Jewish” here and you’ve got the Nazi racial doctrine. Talk of racial purity, prevention of “assimilation,” seduction of the male and hostile exploitation of his fine, pure seed for nationalist purposes. In the name of such an ideology, six million Jews were murdered in Europe.

    Next week, the Knesset opens its winter session. The Likud MK will address the parliament from the podium. He will vote in committees. No boycott will be imposed on his party faction. He will not be penalized. He will exchange high-fives and pats on the back with the gang who appeared in the selfie. They deserve each other.

    Tzachi Halevy and Lucy Aharish.Vered Adir, David Bachar
    But something can still be done. A few months from now, when an early election is announced, Likud will hold a primary for its slate for the 21st Knesset. Like the rest of the bunch who were elected on the basis of their districts in the last primary, this time Hazan will have to run on the national list. There the hurdle is much higher. The last time around, when he ran in the Samaria district, he needed just 2,000 or 3,000 votes. This time he’ll need 20,000 to gain a top-20 slot (the district winners will be ranked after them). Whoever marks Hazan’s name on the ballot despite this repugnant tweet and everything else we now know about the guy will directly harm Likud.
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    In any event, given the party’s primary system, at least a third of the current MKs will likely be gone in the next Knesset. The math is simple: Twenty-nine will run for re-election (all but Benny Begin). Plus, four candidates not currently in the Knesset are likely to be elected to the list: Gideon Sa’ar, Danny Danon, Yoav Galant and Nir Barkat. That makes 33. The national list that comprises the top 20 will include no more than 18-19 of these people. In other words, we’ll have to bid farewell, happily or otherwise, to some 15 MKs.
    On Thursday we waited in vain for the Likud chairman (and Hazan’s selfie buddy) to denounce the disgusting tweet. Netanyahu chooses his condemnations carefully. What starts with “droves of Arabs are streaming to the polls” culminates in the seduction by Arab women of Jewish men so as to suppress the Jewish birthrate.
    We also waited in vain for any fatherly scolding from the prime minister of his elder son Yair for his hateful, invective-filled Facebook post aimed at Television News Company analyst Amnon Abramovich. No point expecting any such thing from Netanyahu. They are all his sons.

  • Imaginez les réactions si le Hamas avait tué une Israélienne enceinte et son nourrisson. Mais Inas et Bayan n’étaient que des Palestiniennes de Dir al-Balah… –
    Gideon Levy traduction : Pour la Palestine - Publié le 12 août 2018
    http://www.pourlapalestine.be/imaginez-les-reactions-si-le-hamas-avait-tue-une-israelienne-enceint

    Alors que la soif de sang a submergé les médias sociaux [israéliens] ; tandis que le commentateur Shimon Riklin a tweeté : « Nous voulons que vous tuiez des terroristes, et autant que possible, jusqu’à ce que les cris de leurs familles couvrent leurs appétits criminels » ; tandis que le ministre Yoav Galant 1, un homme aux mains couvertes du sang de Gaza, déclarait avec un lyrisme biblique : « je poursuivrai mes ennemis et les attraperai, je ne reviendrai pas avant d’avoir fini » ; alors que Yair Lapid 2 écrivait, « Les FDI doivent les frapper de toutes leurs forces, sans hésiter, sans réfléchir » – alors que tout cela se passait, Inas et Bayan Khammash ont été tués. (...)

    traduction de l’article signalé ici : https://seenthis.net/messages/714487

  • The late Inas and Bayan Khammash
    Haaretz.com - Gideon Levy - Aug 12, 2018 2:50 AM
    Imagine the reaction if Hamas had killed a pregnant Israeli woman and her baby daughter. But Inas and Bayan were Palestinians from Dir al-Balah

    https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-late-inas-and-bayan-khammash-1.6365468

    For Uri Avnery

    While the thirst for blood overtook social media; while commentator Shimon Riklin tweeted, “We want you to kill terrorists, and as many as possible, until the cries of their families overcome their sick murderousness”; while Minister Yoav Galant, a man whose hands are stained with a great deal of Gazan blood, declared with Biblical lyricism, “I’ll pursue my enemies and catch them, I won’t come back until they’re finished”; while Yair Lapid was writing, “The IDF must hit them with all its force, without hesitating, without thinking” – while all this was happening, Inas and Bayan Khammash were killed.

    They were mother and daughter. Inas was 23, in her ninth month of pregnancy; Bayan was an 18-month-old baby. They were killed when a missile hit their home, a rented apartment in a one-story building in Dir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. The father of the family, Mohammed, was seriously wounded.

    Their killing didn’t slake the thirst for blood on social media in the slightest. It barely earned a mention in the mainstream Israeli media, which were far more concerned by the cancellation of a wedding in Sderot. That’s always Israel’s order of priorities.

    It’s not that the suffering of residents of Israeli communities near Gaza shouldn’t be given abundant coverage, but the complete disregard for the victims on the other side, even the killing of a pregnant mother and her daughter, is an act of collaboration with wartime propaganda. The complete public indifference to every killing, coupled with the thirst for blood that has become politically correct, is also evidence of an unparalleled nadir.

    It’s not hard to imagine what would have happened, both in Israel and abroad, if Hamas had killed a pregnant Israeli woman and her baby daughter. But Inas and Bayan were Palestinians from Dir al-Balah.

    Are there still any Israelis who glanced for a moment at their own loved ones and imagined the atrocity of killing a pregnant mother with her baby in her arms? Does the thought still pass through anyone’s mind here that Inas and Bayan were a pregnant mother and her baby daughter, like the neighbors across the way? Like your daughter and granddaughter. Like your wife and daughter.

    Can thoughts like these still arise even for a moment, given the onslaught of dehumanization, propaganda and brainwashing, which justifies any killing and blames the entire world, with the sole exception of those who committed it? Given the media, most of which just wants to see more and more blood being spilled in Gaza, and even does everything in its power so that blood will actually be spilled? Given the usual excuses that the Israel Defense Forces never intend to hit a pregnant woman and her daughter, they merely happen to do so, again and again and again and again?

    Given all this, is there still any chance that the killing of a mother and daughter will shock anyone here? That it will touch anyone?

    For almost 12 years, Gaza has been closed to Israeli journalists on Israel’s orders, and Israel’s fighting media accepts this submissively, even gladly. How badly I wish I could go to Inas and Bayan’s house right now, to tell their story and, above all, to remind the reader that they were human beings, people – a very difficult thing to do in the atmosphere of today’s Israel.

    On one of our last trips to Gaza, in September 2006, photographer Miki Kratsman and I went to the Hammad family’s house in the Brazil refugee camp in Rafah. A huge crater had opened up a few hundred meters from the miserable tin shack we entered. In the dim room, we saw nothing but a crushed wheelchair and a crippled woman lying on the sofa.

    A few nights earlier, the family heard airplanes overhead. Basma, then 42 and completely paralyzed, was lying in her iron bed. She quickly told her only daughter, 14-year-old Dam al-Iz, to rush to her so she could protect the girl with her own body. A concrete roof crashed down on them and killed Dam, her only daughter, who was lying curled up in her mother’s arms.

    Ever since Inas and Bayan were killed, I’ve been thinking about Dam al-Iz and her mother again.

  • Une guerre au profit de l’État sioniste
    par Abdel Bari Atwan –
    11 avril 2018 – Raï al-Yaoum – Traduction : Chronique de Palestine

    Trump semble avoir l’intention de lancer une guerre majeure, et le rôle d’Israël est central.

    Nous avions d’abord supposé que l’attaque que le président américain Donald Trump a l’intention de lancer sur la Syrie à tout moment serait tripartite : impliquant la France et la Grande-Bretagne aux côtés des Américains. Mais les dernières menaces d’Israël d’anéantir le régime du président Bachar al-Assad si l’Iran lance une attaque de représailles depuis le territoire syrien montrent clairement que l’État sioniste est au cœur de la nouvelle coalition dirigée par les États-Unis et jouera un rôle clé dans son agression.

    Et il n’est pas improbable que l’Iran et le Hezbollah soient aussi en tête de la liste des cibles.

    Israël a placé ses forces en état d’alerte en prévision d’éventuelles représailles iraniennes pour la mort de sept Iraniens, tués lors de la frappe de missiles israéliens sur la base aérienne T-4 syrienne près de Homs, il y a deux jours. Mais il se prépare aussi à des représailles de la Syrie et du Hezbollah en raison de son rôle central dans la prochaine agression américaine – surtout après que le ministre israélien Yoav Galant ait déclaré que le moment était venu de « tuer Assad ».

    Le président russe Vladimir Poutine a appelé Binyamin Netanyahu pour le mettre en garde contre une implication israélienne dans la prochaine guerre.

    (...)

    • Une base syrienne visée par des missiles, Moscou accuse Israël
      Reuters 9 avril 2018
      https://fr.news.yahoo.com/une-a%C3%A9rienne-larm%C3%A9e-syrienne-frapp%C3%A9e-par-des-missiles-

      AMMAN (Reuters) - Plusieurs missiles ont frappé tôt lundi matin une base aérienne de l’armée syrienne dans le gouvernorat de Homs, rapporte la télévision d’Etat syrienne au surlendemain d’une attaque chimique présumée contre la ville rebelle de Douma, dans la Ghouta orientale.

      La Russie a attribué la responsabilité de ce raid à Israël. Le ministère russe de la Défense a déclaré que deux avions de combat F-15 israéliens avaient tiré huit missiles sur la base à partir de l’espace aérien libanais. Cinq des huit missiles ont été abattus par la défense anti-aérienne syrienne, a précisé le ministère.

      La Syrie a formulé peu après les mêmes accusations, après avoir dans un premier temps pointé du doigt les Etats-Unis, qui ont démenti toute implication.

      L’Etat hébreu n’a fait aucun commentaire dans l’immédiat.

      Selon la télévision de Damas, l’attaque a visé la base de Tiyas, également appelée T-4, entre les villes de Homs et Palmyre, dans le centre du pays, et elle a fait plusieurs morts et blessés.

      L’Observatoire syrien des droits de l’homme (OSDH) a rapporté qu’au moins 14 personnes avaient été tuées par ces frappes, dont plusieurs combattants de diverses nationalités, allusion aux membres des milices chiites soutenues par l’Iran et alliées au régime de Bachar al Assad, qui viennent principalement d’Irak, d’Iran et du Liban.

      L’agence de presse iranienne Fars a porté à quatre le nombre de « défenseurs de sanctuaires » iraniens tués dans l’attaque menée par « les avions du régime sioniste » contre la base aérienne en Syrie. Le ministère iranien des Affaires étrangères a condamné l’attaque, parlant d’une « violation flagrante du droit international » de nature à compliquer la crise syrienne et les équations régionales.

  • Yoav Galant lance un projet immobilier à Jérusalem et au-delà de la Ligne verte
    Le ministre du Logement planifie la construction de 25 000 unités d’habitation dans différents quartiers de Jérusalem
    Times of Israel Staff 28 avril 2017, 13:02
    http://fr.timesofisrael.com/yoav-galant-lance-un-projet-immobilier-a-jerusalem-et-au-dela-de-l

    Le ministère du Logement et de la Construction a planifié un important projet de développement d’appartements englobant différents quartiers à travers Jérusalem, à la fois au-delà de la Ligne verte et dans les lignes d’avant-1967 d’Israël.

    Selon un reportage de la Deuxième chaîne, le projet comprend 10 000 unités d’habitation dans la ville et 15 000 unités supplémentaires au-delà de la Ligne verte, dont 10 000 dans le quartier autour de l’ancien aéroport de Jérusalem à Atarot, au nord de la ville.

    Le ministre du Logement, Yoav Galant, est derrière le projet immobilier et cherche à obtenir le soutien de la municipalité et du gouvernement avant la visite du président américain Donald Trump qui aura lieu à la fin du mois de mai.

    Le coût global, selon la Deuxième chaîne, est estimé à environ 4 milliards de shekels, soit un peu plus d’un milliard de dollars.

  • Israel’s masters of war set their sights on Gaza - again -
    Gideon Levy Feb 12, 2017 12:30 PM
    http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.771142

    Gaza cries out, but the warmongers don’t listen. For them, the Strip is just an opportunity to advance their careers.

    “Come you masters of war, … I can see through your masks… You lie and deceive, a world war can be won, you want me to believe, but I see through your eyes, and I see through your brain. … You’ve thrown the worst fear that can ever be hurled, fear to bring children in to the world.” (From Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War”)

    And look, they’re back, our masters of war. Here they come, those warmongers. They don’t pass up a single chance to grab a microphone and threaten to push toward another war. Yet no one asks them: Why? What for? The north is quiet, as is the south, relatively speaking.

    But it’s been two and a half years since the last war in Gaza and the Israeli DNA demands another round of bloodshed. And their current jobs – construction minister or education minister – are also boring for those with a mind for it. Encouraging high school students to take advanced math or building new public housing is deadly dull. They need another war, after which they may get the positions they covet.

    The Gaza Strip is dying. Its inhabitants have just three years to live, according to a United Nations report that predicted that in 2020, Gaza will cease to be a place fit for human life. It has long ago become a cage unfit for life. But when they’re not shooting at Israel from Gaza, no one takes an interest in its fate. Hamas is holding its fire, but it’s enough for two rebel rockets to be fired to prompt 19 (!) Israeli aerial attacks and to extract all of our warmongers from their holes.

    Construction and Housing Minister Yoav Galant’s eyes lit up and the color seemed to return to his face when he talked about Gaza. “I believe we should be prepared by spring,” determines this master of war, who dreams of returning to Gaza and killing more, as he did so well in Operation Cast Lead eight year ago. Why in the spring? Don’t ask. There’s a reason you don’t know. Maybe it’s because Charles Aznavour sang about returning in the spring.

    Last week, Galant didn’t pass up a single media opportunity anywhere but on the Kol Hamusica classical music station to fan the flames and push for a war. And who would bother interviewing this failing, boring construction minister whose party colleague Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon also detests him if it were not about Gaza? Since he has not chalked up accomplishments in building, Galant, a former military man is trying to get back to destroying. The Likud party is waiting for him.

    The Defense Ministry is also coveted by Education Minister Naftali Bennett. Getting there, however, requires fanning the flames. No official report about the failure to deal with Hamas tunnels in Gaza will suffice, so Bennett is also dreaming about another war. “The next round of war is approaching,” he said, making a prediction that always comes true in Israel. He hasn’t concealed the extent to which he is in a hurry to return to the killing fields of Shujaiyeh and the confidential briefings with army officers.

    And then, of course, there is the current defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, who even in his new temporary role as a moderate, also won’t pass up a chance. “Until the other side cries gevalt, we’re not stopping,” said the minister of arrogance. Again came the hollow promises of decisive victory that will never come about and yet again everyone is willing to buy the argument. Again everyone is waiting for the next war, as if it were fate handed down by the almighty when it isn’t even handed down from Gaza.

    Gaza actually is crying gevalt, but none of the warmongers are listening. Gaza for them is an opportunity to advance their careers, to get the forces moving and to conceptualize a war against an enemy that is nothing but an army of hooligans, nothing but an assault on the powerless. Gaza would bring the warmongers back into the headlines, back into their glory, the return of the good old days of combat jackets. Otherwise, there would be no reason to embark on another attack on Gaza.

    The deterioration could be quick. Just another few declarations of war, another few disproportionate responses by the Israel Defense Forces for every cap gun or kite fired from Gaza and we’re there. Israel also pushed for the wars in Gaza in 2008 and 2014 more than Gaza did. Before you can say “cigars and champagne,” the IDF is in Gaza.

    And there is no one to yell “stop,” no one to say that those who don’t want war in Gaza should open it rather than destroy it a third, fourth and fifth time. But saying so requires courage, which is the quality most lacking among our masters of war, whom, as Dylan’s lyrics state, will never be forgiven.

    #GAZA

    • Comment les Pays-Bas (et l’UE) sont-ils le plus impliqués dans le soutien au complexe de l’industrie militaire israélienne ? Par leurs subsides et financements, leur recherche scientifique, leurs sites de production mondiaux, leurs achats de produits et services militaires israéliens, ou leur fourniture de paradis fiscaux au profit des sociétés ?

      Tout ce que vous venez de citer, mais la complicité ne consiste pas simplement à aider au financement de l’industrie israélienne de l’armement, mais aussi à la légitimer. Quand les politiques hollandais et européens lancent des projets de coopération sécuritaire avec Israël, ils sont parfaitement conscients du fait que l’industrie israélienne de l’armement se construit sur son expérience militaire dans les Territoires Palestiniens Occupés, des technologies développées au cours de la répression de la résistance palestinienne et du contrôle sur une large population privée de ses droits fondamentaux. Par conséquent, tous ces liens entre les sociétés d’armement européennes et israéliennes envoient un message comme quoi l’Europe accepte l’occupation israélienne et cherche même à y puiser de l’expérience. C’est ce qu’a dit le général Yoav Galant (actuel ministre israélien du Logement), que « les gouvernements étrangers sont hypocrites. D’une part ils critiquent ce que nous faisons, mais ensuite ils viennent nous voir pour apprendre comment nous nous y prenons ».

  • Leaked Israeli documents prompt suspicion from Hamas - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
    http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/04/hamas-israel-avowal-defeat-gaza-war.html

    He was preceded by Yoav Galant, the former head of the Israeli army’s Southern Command. On March 7, Galant accused the Israeli government of failing to deal with the Hamas tunnels issue.

    This is while on April 6 Israeli Channel 10 broadcast a video on the military investigation into the strike that hit the armored personnel carrier at the beginning of the Gaza war in the Shajaiya neighborhood on July 20, 2014.

    Interestingly, the Hamas-affiliated media outlets have quickly circulated these avowals, which have become the talk of the hour in Gaza, as the Israeli reports — which have been translated into Arabic — have shown the Israeli army’s weakness and the courage of the Palestinian fighters, as revealed in several reports.

    Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/04/hamas-israel-avowal-defeat-gaza-war.html#ixzz3Xw3wO1A7