position:chef

51 dont 11, une nouvelle province

China #H7N9 bird flu spreads to new province - FRANCE 24
▻http://www.france24.com/en/20130414-china-h7n9-bird-flu-spreads-new-province

China’s H7N9 bird flu virus spread to a new province on Sunday, with state media reporting two human cases in central Henan just west of the area where the disease has been centred.

(…)

One patient, a 34-year-old male chef, remains in critical condition since falling ill on April 6. The other, a 65-year-old male farmer who had regular contact with poultry, has stabilised since developing symptoms on April 8.

NB : je ne trouve pas la dépêche AFP en français. C’est celle en allemand qui a attiré mon attention.
▻http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jMXj2WCXUwaw-AxX696JDfZbrKaw?docId=TX-PAR-SXN99

Syrie. Propos sans surprise de Haytham al-Manna, chef du Comité National de Coordination des Forces de Changement Démocratique en Syrie (CNCD) : une solution militaire ne résoudrait rien ; la Syrie doit choisir entre solution politique ou somalisation ; les opposants au régime n’ont pas la possibilité de l’emporter par des moyens militaires ; Assad ne s’est pas résolu à négocier ; le régime est capable de supporter encore deux années d’affrontement. Il est également convaincu que le départ d’Assad ne mettrait pas fin à la violence et que les Frères Musulmans ne renonceront pas à leurs privilèges.

Syrian Opposition: Assad’s Overthrow Wouldn’t End Violence

By: Mohammad al-Shazli Translated from Al-Hayat
Posted on : April 9 2013

▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2013/04/syria-violence-assad-departure.html

The head of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change (NCC) in exile, Haytham al-Manna, said that the Syrian regime is seeking to “clone the Algerian solution” to solve the crisis in the country. He called on “friends” of the regime to pressure the regime for serious negotiations that can “rescue those whose hands haven’t been stained with the blood of Syrians.”

In an interview with Al-Hayat, Manna added that the conflict could not be solved militarily. He said, “We have the choice of either the somalization of the country or a political solution. We blame the regime for wanting to clone the Algerian solution; it will not succeed.” He added that the opposition “will not succeed in reaching a military solution.”

“Thus far, the regime has not made any progress toward serious negotiations," he said. “It is focusing on public relations and agreeing to anything it is offered. However, when it comes to implementation, there is no practical element to this approval.”

#Syrian_National_Coalition #somalization #Lakhdar_Brahimi #political_solution #transitional_government #Haytham_al_Manna #Muslim_Brotherhood #National_Coordination_Body_for_Democratic_Change

Palestiniens.
Important texte de Khaled Mechal, Chef du bureau politique du Hamas qui vient d’être reconduit à son poste (Le Caire, 1er avril 2013), publié par l’Afro-Middle East Centre/ AMEC (Johannesburg). Il s’agit d’un texte révisé dont la première mouture remonte à novembre 2012.

Political thought and strategies of Hamas in light of the Arab uprisings
By Khalid Mish’al
Created on Monday, 01 April 2013 13:21

▻http://amec.org.za

“In August 2010, AMEC published the English translation of an interview with Khalid Mish’al, head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). The interview laid out the vision and strategies of Hamas at the time. A few months later, uprisings began in North Africa and spread across the Middle East and North Africa, changing the nature of politics and the balance of power in the region. In November 2012, the Beirut-based Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations hosted a conference with the theme ‘Islamists in the Arab World and the Palestinian Issue in Light of the Arab uprisings’ at which Mish’al presented a paper outlining the views of his movement regarding the uprisings and how they affect Hamas’ plans for the future. The paper was rewritten by Mish’al, published in Arabic by Al-Zaytouna Centre and translated into English by Middle East Monitor (MEMO). We publish an edited version here, in terms of a partnership agreement with Al-Zaytouna, in order to expose English-speaking audiences to the views and strategies of Hamas, a critical player in the Palestinian-Israeli context. The paper is an important document reflecting the views of an important player in Palestinian and broader Middle Eastern politics and is therefore an important reference document. It explores Hamas’ vision and the practical application of its strategies. (…)”

Ahmed Errachidi, chef cuisinier, était à Guantanamo.

Ahmed Errachidi: ’We shared one thing in Guantánamo Bay – pain’ | Q&A | World news | The Observer
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/30/ahmed-errachidi-guantanamo-bay-author-chef

During your time there you were subjected to constant, often astonishing cruelty by the US soldiers – beatings, sleep deprivation, forced nudity. Do you feel contempt for them now?

The ordinary soldiers were executing orders. They were very cruel, but they were being used as well. They were told that we were terrorists who had been trained not to feel pain. If I was to meet them today, I would tell them that what they did was wrong, but I would forgive them. But the politicians, the generals in charge – I will never forgive those people. I believe they need to stand trial.

CIA director faces a quandary over clandestine service appointment - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-director-faces-a-quandary-over-clandestine-service-appointment/2013/03/26/5d93cb10-9645-11e2-9e23-09dce87f75a1_print.html

Via ▻http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/document-friday-%E2%80%9Cthe-heat-from-destroying-the-torture-v

Non content de ne pas tenir ses engagements concernant Guantanamo, Obama promeut une tortionnaire en chef qui avait de surcroît fait fi des injonctions du Congrès (1)

As John Brennan moved into the CIA director’s office this month, another high-level transition was taking place down the hall.

A week earlier, a woman had been placed in charge of the CIA’s clandestine service for the first time in the agency’s history. She is a veteran officer with broad support inside the agency. But she also helped run the CIA’s detention and interrogation program after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and signed off on the 2005 decision to destroy videotapes of prisoners being subjected to treatment critics have called torture.

(1) Voir : La Maison Blanche et la CIA ont dissimulé à la Commission du 11 septembre les vidéos relatives à la torture lors d’interrogatoires
▻http://www.wsws.org/francais/News/2008/jan08/comp-j04.shtml

Tomatoes, peppers, strawberries in Greenland’s Arctic valleys | Reuters

▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/26/us-greenland-climate-agriculture-idUSBRE92P0EX20130326

On the Arctic Circle, a chef is growing the kind of vegetables and herbs - potatoes, thyme, tomatoes, green peppers - more fitting for a suburban garden in a temperate zone than a land of Northern Lights, glaciers and musk oxen.

#arctique #agriculture

Un petit point sur l’une des deux raisons invoquées pour la démission de Mikati :

– Le général Achraf Rifi, chef des Forces de sécurité intérieure, atteint l’âge de la retraite ; l’homme est très proche du 14 Mars. Prochainement également, le chef de l’armée, Jean Kahwagi semble-t-il apprécié du Hezbollah.

Le Futur a proposé une loi pour prolonger les deux mandants :
▻http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2013/Mar-22/211132-rifi-downbeat-over-term-extension-prospects.ashx

The Future parliamentary bloc has written an urgent draft law to change the mandatory retirement age for several high-ranking security officials who are set to reach mandatory retirement age this year, including Rifi and Lebanese Army Commander Gen. Jean Kahwagi.

– Pas question pour le Hezbollah et les aounistes de prolonger Rifi, qui est leur bête noire dans plusieurs affaires :
▻http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/Derni%C3%A8res+Infos/article/806628/Prorogation_du_mandat_de_Rifi_%3A_vers_une_demission_du_gouvernement_

Le ministre d’Etat, Ahmad Karamé, a averti vendredi que le gouvernement pouvait tomber si le mandat du général Achraf Rifi à la tête des Forces de sécurité intérieure (FSI) n’était pas prorogé lors du Conseil des ministres qui se tient cet après-midi.

Pour Kahwagi, le Hezbollah serait favorable, mais pas Aoun :
▻http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Mar-19/210664-future-seeks-extension-of-rifi-kahwagi-terms.ashx

Both Hezbollah and ally Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun oppose extending Rifi’s term, given his affiliation with the Future Movement.

Similarly, some March 14 groups are said to oppose lengthening Kahwagi’s term because of his perceived closeness to Hezbollah. The Islamist party backs adding to Kahwagi’s mandate, but Aoun does not.

Je n’ai pas trouvé les raisons de l’opposition des aounistes à Kahwagi.

– Joumblatt prétend qu’il était prévu de remplacer Rifi par le général Ali Hajj, bête noire du clan Hariri :
▻http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/76691-jumblat-reveals-plan-to-replace-rifi-with-ali-hajj-it-s-all-about-pr

He revealed a plan that consists of replacing Internal Security Forces chief Asraf Rifi with General Ali Hajj.

Hajj a déjà 58 ans, alors pour remplacer Rifi qui atteint les 59 ans fatidiques le 1er avril, je ne vois bien pas l’intérêt de provoquer des tensions énormes pour seulement quelques mois à la tête des FSI.

– Pour succéder à Rifi, Roger Salem : « mais Salem est grec catholique ».
▻http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2013/Mar-19/210664-future-seeks-extension-of-rifi-kahwagi-terms.ashx

If Rifi’s term is not extended, ISF Deputy Commander Brig. Roger Salem will become acting head of the ISF until a new director-general is appointed, although Salem too will reach retirement age in only three months. Custom dictates that a Sunni holds the top post at the ISF, but Salem is a Greek Catholic.

Et pour remonter plus loin sur le background de l’affaire :
– Achraf Rifi bloquant l’accès du ministre des télécoms, puis refusant d’obéir aux ordres directs du ministre de l’intérieur ; sur fond de réseau téléphonique suspect :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/18989
– le #cablegate révélait comment Achraf Rifi était très impliqué dans la création de la milice de Saad Hariri :
►http://seenthis.net/messages/15268

The second issue Jumblatt raised was Saad’s reported training of Sunni militias in Lebanon (allegedly 15,000 members in Beirut and more in Tripoli). In establishing his own “security agencies” in Beirut and Tripoli, Saad was being badly advised by “some people,” Jumblatt said, such as ISF General Ashraf Rifi. In his meeting with Jumblatt, Hassan admitted having knowledge that members of Saad’s Future Movement were being trained. Hassan reportedly opposed such training, but “people around Saad” (i.e., Rifi) were telling him to go ahead.

L’homme est donc particulièrement central pour les projets américains au Liban, et il semble tout de même totalement inimaginable que le bonhomme bénéficie du moindre traitement de faveur de la part d’un gouvernement auquel il a déjà très ouvertement désobéi (allant jusqu’à la confrontation physique avec un ministre).

Harlem shit ?

« The Harlem Shake: What’s in a meme? » | The Economist

YouTube causes upset on 125th street

►http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21573168-youtube-causes-upset-125th-street-whats-meme

http://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full-width/images/print-edition/20130309_USP004_0.jpg

But this is not the true Harlem Shake, say many in Harlem. Chef Jones, who is in her 50s, remembers the original version. “That’s not authentic. It can’t compete with the Harlem Shake I know,” she says as she moves her shoulders and arms to demonstrate the original move on Harlem’s busy 125th Street. A-tone, a hip-hop historian, says “they share the name but that’s it.” The original dance was created by the late Albert Leopold Boyce (Al B) on Harlem’s basketball courts three decades ago in the early days of hip hop. Sandra Boyce, mother of the original’s creator, bears no animosity toward the meme, however. “Let them do their thing.”

Others in Harlem are angry about it. One fellow, who goes by “CJ”, played on those courts and knew Boyce well. “It’s a disservice to him and to Harlem,” he says. Derek Watson and Patrick Johnson, two residents, concede the meme is funny, but also say “it is a mockery.” Some teenagers uploaded a clip of themselves performing the “Real, Real, Real Harlem Shake” to highlight the difference between the original and what people are doing now. It got a paltry 1.6m views.

#Internet #Harlem_Shake #Harlem #hip-hop #US

Argo fuck yourself: Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage movie is the worst. - Slate Magazine
▻http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/01/down_with_argo_ben_affleck_s_iran_hostage_movie_is_the_worst.html?wpisrc=most

Perhaps my disgust wouldn’t be as intense if it weren’t for the potentially great film suggested by Argo’s opening sequence: a history of pre-revolutionary Iran told through eye-catching storyboards. The sequence gives a compelling (if sensationalized) account of how the CIA’s meddling with Iran’s government over three decades led to a corrupt and oppressive regime, eventually inciting the 1979 revolution. The sequence even humanizes the Iranian people as victims of these abuses. This opening may very well be the reason why critics have given the film credit for being insightful and progressive—because nothing that follows comes close, and the rest of the movie actually undoes what this opening achieves.

Instead of keeping its eye on the big picture of revolutionary Iran, the film settles into a retrograde “white Americans in peril” storyline. It recasts those oppressed Iranians as a raging, zombie-like horde, the same dark-faced demons from countless other movies— still a surefire dramatic device for instilling fear in an American audience. After the opening makes a big fuss about how Iranians were victimized for decades, the film marginalizes them from their own story, shunting them into the role of villains. Yet this irony is overshadowed by a larger one: The heroes of the film, the CIA, helped create this mess in the first place. And their triumph is executed through one more ruse at the expense of the ever-dupable Iranians to cap off three decades of deception and manipulation.

ARABES ISRAELIENS.
L’enfer est pavé de bonnes intentions. Le révisionniste Zeev Jabotinsky, chef de l’Irgoun, pour l’égalité des droits entre juifs et arabes israéliens ?!!!? Allez, zy va !!

Include Arab party in coalition - Israel Opinion, Ynetnews
▻http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4342861,00.html

Will the third Netanyahu government also be about the political survival of the man at its helm? Should he include an Arab party in the coalition, Netanyahu will be able to form a government that will carry a message. “In every cabinet where the prime minister is a Jew, the vice-premiership should be offered to an Arab, and vice versa.” These words were written by none other than Ze’ev Jabotinsky.

Autre information trouvée à ce propos dans un vieux Jerusalem Post

▻http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=289593
In 1934, Jabotinsky wrote a draft constitution for the Jewish state which declared that the Arab minority would be on an equal footing with its Jewish counterpart “throughout all sectors of the country’s public life.” He also proposed that in every cabinet where the prime minister is a Jew, the vice-premiership should be offered to an Arab and vice versa.

#irgoun #arabes israéliens #

2012 11 15

Bonsoir à tous,

Un article du rédacteur en chef du quotidien libanis Al-Akhbar, Ibrahim Al-Amin qui estime que l’agression israélienne de Gaza est un test décisif aux frères musulmans d’Egypte et de Palestine (Hamas)

►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/gaza-questions-egypt-and-hamas

<blockquote>Was Israel’s assessment based on accurate information reassuring that neither Egypt nor the MB leadership are prepared to take any radical action toward creating new realities in Palestine and the region? [...]The first Brotherhood-ruled Arab country, the MB as an organization, and the bereaved Hamas, are facing their toughest test. It will not be the last, but it is the toughest. Will the upshot of the Arab Spring be that Palestine is forgotten and Israel is left to ravage it undeterred? Or will the Arab Street in general, and the Palestinians in particular, sense that a positive change has occurred?[...]But the real challenge is for the Hamas leadership. If it opts to go along with the line of the worldwide MB, it will court an explosion within its own ranks. This is a serious prospect. It has been raised in internal discussions which showed that differences between Hamas’ various factions are not superficial, with the military wing – and Jaabari in particular – opposed to any truce with the enemy.</blockquote>

En 1970, Cat Stevens (aka Yusuf Islam) composa ce chef d’œuvre :

« Where Do The Children Play ? »

►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a4DCxAi020&feature=player_embedded#

Well I think it’s fine, building jumbo planes.
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train.
Switch on summer from a slot machine.
Yes, get what you want to if you want, ’cause you can get anything.

I know we’ve come a long way,
We’re changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass.
For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas.
And you make them long, and you make them tough.
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can’t get off.

Oh, I know we’ve come a long way,
We’re changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well you’ve cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air.
But will you keep on building higher
’til there’s no more room up there?
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?

I know we’ve come a long way,
We’re changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?

#Cat_Stevens #Zique

Très important : le Akhbar publie une interview avec le chef de la branche armée du Courant du Futur de Saad Hariri : Exclusive : The Man Behind Hariri’s Secret Army
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/amid-hammoud-leading-future-army

In his first interview with the press, former Lebanese Army Colonel Amid Hammoud, the commander of the Future Movement military wing, denies any role in the recent violence that has rocked Beirut and Tripoli, but admits he would not hesitate to arm Sunnis as he believes it is their right to protect themselves.

Pour « le chef de l’opposition » israélienne, le gouvernement d’extrême-droite de Netanyahu n’est pas assez dur avec Gaza. Il y a donc en Israël deux camps politiques aux alternatives radicalement opposées : le camp qui souhaite massacrer à Gaza, et le camp qui souhaite massacrer à Gaza.
►http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=289082

Opposition Leader Shaul Mofaz denounced Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for not acting decisively against Hamas.

“The government under Prime Minister Netanyahu has been stuttering for 4 years,” he said. “They need to put Hamas in their sites.”

“This stuttering has a price,” the Kadima leader continued. “The decisions taken against Hamas in recent years have not been decisive enough.”

The Age of the New Takfiris | Al Akhbar English
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/age-new-takfiris

est-il encore possible de discuter de la Syrie sans caricature ? Non, répond le rédacteur en chef d’un quotidien libanais.

The problem is not only the total one-sidedness, but the readiness to twist demonstrable truths when necessary. Thus we hear from those aspiring to be installed as leaders that Syria never supported the resistance and only wants to use it as a proxy. Or that Syria was never a state, but always a private estate ruled by the Baath and the Assad family, as testified by everyone from former vice-president Abdul-Halim Khaddam to defected general Manaf Tlass. The truth-twisting extends to holding the regime responsible for every act of killing that takes place in Syria, while insisting that there is no civil war going on, no sectarian conflict or confessional tensions, and no differences between people in rural and urban areas.

Joumblatt a encore une idée qu’elle est bonne : plus de guerre pour éviter trop de guerre !
►http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/Liban/article/773498/Joumblatt_appelle_le_monde_a_agir_pour_%3C%3C+eviter_une_possible_par

Les pays étrangers doivent faire davantage pour aider les révolutionnaires syriens à renverser le président Bachar el-Assad et éviter une « guerre civile sans fin et une possible partition », a déclaré hier le chef du Front de la lutte nationale, Walid Joumblatt, dans un entretien accordé à Reuters.

Tu te souviens de l’idée du même Joumblatt (et Hamade, et leurs copains de l’ONU) pour sauver le Liban de la destruction en 2006 ? Je t’aide : « plus de destructions pour éviter trop de destructions ».
►http://www.al-akhbar.com/node/6742

While expressing deep concern about some of the Israeli targetting, Jumblatt and Hamadeh expressed their hope that Israel would continue its military operations until Hizballah’s military infrastructure was seriously damaged even if it meant a ground invasion into southern Lebanon. Jumblatt said that publicly he must call for a cease-fire, but he saw the fighting as an opportunity to defeat Hizballah. After Jumblatt and company departed, Larsen said he agreed that an Israeli invasion might be positive. Pederson added that Hizballah called him several times on July 16, and seemed desperate for mediation.

Ça, ça reste un des grands mystères libanais : comment se fait-il qu’on continue de publier les déclarations de ce gars comme s’il était un intellectuel ?

La mort de Helen Gurley Brown, auteure en 1962 de « Sex and the Single Girl » et ancienne rédactrice en chef de « Cosmopolitan » –
The Original ‘Fun Fearless Female’ | Into The Gloss
►http://intothegloss.com/selects/2012/08/the-original-fun-fearless-female-helen-gurley-brown

►http://intothegloss.com/wp-content/uploads2/2012/08/helen-gurley-brown-3.jpeg

R.I.P. Helen Gurley Brown, who edited Cosmopolitan magazine from 1965 to 1997 (publishing several books along the way, such as 1962′s Sex and the Single Girl, which anticipated Sex and the City by about three decades), and passed away today, at age 90. Brown was an avid fan of beauty, never shying away from hairpieces and custom-cut false eyelashes, not to mention exotic prints, minidresses, fishnet stockings, and big jewelry. “You cannot sit around like a cupcake asking other people to come and eat you up and discover your great sweetness and charm,” Brown told Nora Ephron in a 1970 Esquire profile. “You’ve got to make yourself more cupcakeable all the time so that you’re a better cupcake to be gobbled up.”

#presse_féminine

« Don’t let money change us ». Le chef d’œuvre :

Blackalicious - Deception - YouTube
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A0BmbiM53Q&feature=player_embedded

Chef d’œuvre méconnu.
Delroy Wilson : Better must come
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xyvxPBbuGU&feature=player_embedded

Le rédacteur en chef du Akhbar juge qu’il est temps pour le Hezbollah de quitter le gouvernement libanais. Article très dur.
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/time-hezbollah-quit-lebanese-government

What is the use of remaining in a government that won’t help build a wall in a village, dig a water-well, repair a school, mend a road, or do something for agriculture, commerce or industry? Why remain in a system that includes everyone who has been robbing the country since the start of the civil war?

Why should the resistance continue providing a cloak of integrity for corrupt partners, be they close or distant, and selling its soul in their service as a trade-off for not conspiring against? What is gained from remaining in a government that does not distinguish between right and wrong?

Defense minister, Assad brother-in-law killed in Damascus blast
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/state-tv-suicide-bomb-targets-damascus-security-base

Syrian Defense Minister Daoud Abdullah Rajiha and Assef Shawkat, President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law, have been killed in an apparent suicide attack on a key security building in Damascus on Wednesday, Syrian and Lebanese media reported.

En français:
►http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/la-revolte-syrienne/20120718.OBS7525/syrie-guerre-civile-a-damas-deux-ministres-tues-dans-un-attenta

Selon les mêmes sources, le ministre de la Défense, le général Daoud Rajha, a été tué dans l’attaque. Selon elles, ce dernier est « tombé en martyr » lors de cet attentat qui s’est produit lors d’une réunion de ministres et responsables de la sécurité. Assef Shawkat, chef du Renseignement et beau-frère du président Assad, est également mort dans l’attentat, annonce la chaîne du Hezbollah, al-Manar.

Syrie : un groupe de pèlerins chiite libanais enlevés dans le nord du pays
►http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/topnews/20120522.AFP6975/syrie-un-groupe-de-pelerins-chiite-libanais-enleves-dans-le-nor

Un groupe de pèlerins chiite libanais a été enlevé mardi par les rebelles en Syrie, a indiqué l’agence officielle libanaise, poussant le chef du mouvement chiite Hezbollah à appeler à la retenue au Liban, où les tensions entre pro et anti-Assad se multiplient.

Treize Libanais de confession chiite ont été enlevés par l’Armée syrienne libre (ASL, composée en majorité des déserteurs) mardi dans la province d’Alep (nord) alors qu’ils revenaient dans leur pays après un pèlerinage en Iran, a rapporté ANI.

#Israël #Iran #nucléaire
Un jour, le premier ministre, le suivant, le chef d’état-major et le troisième, le ministre de la défense.
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/world/middleeast/ehud-barak-adds-to-israels-recent-mix-of-messages-on-iran.html

Mr. Netanyahu (…) told CNN on Tuesday that he would not count on Iran’s rational behavior.

In an interview published Wednesday in the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz, General Gantz described the Iranian government as very rational.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak, said Thursday that the chances appear low that the Iranian government would bow to international pressure and halt its nuclear program.

C’est tellement énorme que tu n’en entendras jamais plus parler : le chef du Mossad a visité New Delhi quelques jours avant l’attentat contre des officiels israéliens
►http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-mossad-chief-visited-new-delhi-days-before-attack-on-israeli-officia

Mossad chief Tamir Pardo visited New Delhi just days before an attack on Israeli officials in the Indian capital this week, Indian media reported on Thursday, highlighting the extent to which Israeli intelligence was in the dark regarding possibility of a terror attack taking place in the country.

On Monday, the wife of an Israeli diplomat was moderately wounded when a car bomb exploded outside of Israel’s embassy in New Delhi.

Le hashtag qui va bien : #affaire_lavon
►http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Lavon

Le Hezbollah révèle de nouvelles "informations" sur la CIA | À La Une | L’Orient-Le Jour
►http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/À+La+Une+(Slideshow)/article/735579/Le_Hezbollah_revele_de_nouvelles_"informations"_sur_la_CIA.html

Dans une émission diffusée vendredi soir sur sa chaîne al-Manar et postée samedi sur son site Internet, le Hezbollah cite le nom présumé du « chef de la CIA au Liban » et celui de son prédécesseur, affirmant en outre que l’agence siège dans un bâtiment de l’ambassade américaine à Awkar, au nord de Beyrouth, . « Il s’agit d’un centre d’opération permanent qui gère de larges réseaux d’informateurs sur le territoire libanais dans les domaines politique, social, éducatif, médical, sécuritaire et militaire », affirme le parti chiite, qui est soutenu par l’Iran et la Syrie.

Selon le Hezbollah, une équipe de dix officiers, hommes et femmes qui viennent pour des périodes de trois ans, gère ces réseaux sous couvert du titre de diplomates. Les informateurs sont souvent des fonctionnaires, des militaires ou des journalistes.

« Les recrutements se font à l’intérieur de l’ambassade et les rencontres ont lieu dans des restaurants ou des cafés comme McDonald’s, Pizza Hut et Starbucks », poursuit le parti, ajoutant que les officiers de la CIA « empochent une grande partie de l’argent destiné aux agents ».

Évidemment, L’Orient-Le Jour met « informations » entre guillemets. Des fois que le Hezbollah soit incapable de réellement livrer des informations, et que L’Orient-Le Jour le pourrait…