The power of the threat of the popular majority against the government are harbingers of the danger that the coming elections will be called off.
25 july 2011, Haaretz הארץ (Israel)
By Sefi Rachlevsky
Anyone who was present at the demonstration of the tens of thousands of people roaring "Bibi go home" on Saturday should understand the intensity of the threat against the present government. Anyone who heard Yehuda Alush shouting "We're tired of this" at the fat belly of the government knows that it is in fact the vulnerable belly of right-wing rule. The protest is speaking "Likudese." It was this language that helped spur the victory of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin - with "The Likud has cut itself off from the people." Using those materials the tent protest is once again asserting: "The government has abandoned the people."
Anyone who saw the joy with which the Knesset celebrated the Boycott Law should understand what kind of governmental determination and aggressiveness we are facing. Without blinking an eye, it crushed one of the very foundation stones of democracy. The prolonged price in global terms - exemplified in last week's editorial in The New York Times, which expressed doubt as to the democratic nature of Israel - was known. But the gang of democracy-crushers have no god. Nor do they have any intention of removing their talons from the government.
Anyone who listened to Dafni Leef, the organizer of the test protest, describing the National Housing Committees Law - due to be enacted now - as a wicked and cynical law, should understand what kind of a government we are confronting. This legislation is reminiscent of a situation where an abusive husband tries to claim that the real problem is the police who disturb him. With utter cynicism, the removal of restrictions to loot land from the citizens is being presented as an act designed to help them. As in the case of the land itself, the Netanyahu gang is planning to speculate with democracy as well. Like the ghost neighborhoods in Jerusalem, in which the world's wealthy are the owners of empty apartments instead of Israelis occupying them - the country is liable to be stolen from those living in it.
The power of the threat of the popular majority that is taking shape against the government - in addition to the anti-democratic determination to maintain control of it - - are harbingers of the danger that the coming elections will be called off. The first part of the plan, which is the process of being implemented, is enacting the law to enable voting abroad. In a country that many have chosen to leave and in which Jews receive citizenship on the spot, this means a de facto cancellation of the elections.
The law has three right-wing "teeth" to bolster it: First, most former Israelis who chose to move to a place without hamsins, missiles and an alienated government support the right and its adventures from a safe distance. Second, under cover of the Law of Return, tens of thousands of religious Jews who visit Israel can receive citizenship for the purpose of long-distance voting, so as to help choose the government in a country where they don't live. Lastly, the Interior Ministry has the power to create hundreds of thousands of "Pollards": Just as the incarcerated Jonathan Pollard received long-distance citizenship by means of a temporary order, it will be possible to add to the voter registration lists hundreds of thousands of Haredim from Brooklyn, who haven't even bothered to visit here.
This is not some summer hallucination. It is for the purpose of this "looting law" that Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz's special governance committee was established, and is awaiting an anti-democratic legislative blitz when it becomes necessary.
That is "only" the beginning. The same number of people voted in the 1999 and the 2009 elections. Since Defense Minister Ehud Barak's targeted assassination of hope, there has been a sharp decline in the voting percentages of the non-right in Israel. One million people with the right to vote have joined the electorate since 1999, but they didn't actually cast ballots.
Based on past voting percentages, that means 800,000 voters - the vast majority of whom are supporters of the non-right. When they arise against the government to demand their country back, they will constitute a clear majority. And now they are rising up. The young people of the tent protest won't be satisfied with a protest and this time will come to the polls. Furthermore, Israeli Arabs are also capable of translating their anger over racism into a winning protest vote.
A chilling governmental idea is now facing the awakening majority. If the Supreme Court is deterred from acting, what may succeed is a plot to invalidate a party such as Balad. The objective of such a cynical move would be to spur Israel's Arab citizens to protest and not come to the polls. Thus the "ideal" situation would be created: By means of Jews and former Israelis who don't live here, the country would be stolen away from a clear majority of its citizens, who are tired of the right-wing government and want a welfare state that can live in peace.
Against the determination of those entrenching themselves in the government, Israeli citizens must join Leef and her friends in counter-determination - one that will stop the de facto cancellation of democratic elections. That will help rescue Israel at the polls.
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FLOTTILLE : LA GUERRE DE LA COMMUNICATION
21 Juillet 2011, Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS) http://www.france-palestine.org (France)
Céline Lussato - Le Nouvel Observateur
Des Israéliens ou des pro-Palestiniens, qui a gagné le combat des mots et des images ?
Après l’arraisonnement, le 31 mai 2010, du Mavi Marmara, l’un des bateaux de la flottille pour Gaza, lors duquel neuf passagers avaient été tués par l’armée israélienne, 48 heures d’une guerre de communication sans merci avait opposé Israéliens et pro-Palestiniens. Chacun se renvoyant la responsabilité de la mort des militants présents sur le bateau.
La guerre des mots et des images est capitale pour les deux parties. L’opération même, qui consiste à briser le blocus de Gaza imposé par Israël en envoyant des bateaux chargés de nourriture et de biens de consommation est, en elle-même, une opération de communication. Certes ces bateaux sont chargés de ces produits dont manquent les Palestiniens de Gaza, mais l’organisation dépolît des moyens de communication considérables afin d’alerter au travers de leur action le regard du monde sur Gaza. L’opération de l’année dernière avait d’ailleurs abouti à l’allègement du blocus par Israël .
Communication maximum
L’édition 2011 n’a donc pas échappé à la règle. Les organisateurs ont déployé tous les moyens à leur disposition pour faire parler de leur entreprise. Et le gouvernement israélien a mis en œuvre les siens pour tenter d’étouffer dans l’œuf le projet.
Comptes Twitter pour suivre la préparation de l’équipée puis les participants venus du monde entier, pages Facebook, sites internet, la campagne a été très visible cette année sur le Net. Les équipes ont également convoqué la presse à plusieurs conférences lors des semaines qui ont précédé le départ. La participation de plusieurs élus, représentants syndicaux et associatifs a également renforcé la médiatisation.
Bloqués en Grèce par les autorités qui leur refusaient le départ vers Gaza, les organisateurs ont fait tout leur possible pour essayer de maintenir une pression médiatique : points presse quotidiens, visite des bateaux organisée pour les journalistes, dénonciations des sabotages des bateaux… tout est utilisé pour tenter de maintenir autant de pression médiatique possible.
Etouffer l’initiative
Pour Israël, évidemment, l’enjeu est inverse. Très critiqué en 2010 après le fiasco de la gestion de la précédente flottille, le dossier était donc encore plus sensible cette année. Le but de l’Etat hébreu était certes d’empêcher la rupture du blocus de Gaza, mais sans faire de vague.
La force a donc fait place dans une certaine mesure cette année à la diplomatie. Israël a déployé tous ses efforts diplomatiques pour convaincre la Grèce de retenir les bateaux de la flottille. Une opération réussie puisque seul un navire français, le Dignité al-Karama, prit la mer avant d’être arraisonné dans les eaux internationales le 19 juillet par les forces israéliennes. Une opération sans heurts, presque pacifique au regard de celle qui fit l’année précédente neuf morts.
Et le gagnant est…
Alors qui, d’Israël ou des organisateurs de la flottille a gagné ce combat de la médiatisation ? Indéniablement, Israël a mieux géré l’opération que l’année dernière. Mieux également, d’un point de vue médiatique, que la flottille aérienne. Cette opération, qui visait à envoyer vers l’aéroport israélien Ben Gourion des militants pro-palestiniens souhaitant rejoindre la Cisjordanie, a en effet valu de nombreuses critiques envers le gouvernement Netanyahou.
A leur arrivée au port d’Ashdod, les 16 passagers du bateau français arraisonné se sont même vu offrir boissons et nourriture avant être interrogés et remis aux services du ministère de l’Intérieur et de l’immigration avait indiqué l’armée israélienne.
Mais de leur côté, les organisateurs de la flottille ont gagné leur pari en focalisant sur eux une forte attention médiatique. Ils n’ont certes pas ébranlé le blocus de Gaza, mais ont réussi à alerter l’opinion publique plusieurs semaines.
Céline Lussato - Le Nouvel Observateur
Des Israéliens ou des pro-Palestiniens, qui a gagné le combat des mots et des images ?
Après l’arraisonnement, le 31 mai 2010, du Mavi Marmara, l’un des bateaux de la flottille pour Gaza, lors duquel neuf passagers avaient été tués par l’armée israélienne, 48 heures d’une guerre de communication sans merci avait opposé Israéliens et pro-Palestiniens. Chacun se renvoyant la responsabilité de la mort des militants présents sur le bateau.
La guerre des mots et des images est capitale pour les deux parties. L’opération même, qui consiste à briser le blocus de Gaza imposé par Israël en envoyant des bateaux chargés de nourriture et de biens de consommation est, en elle-même, une opération de communication. Certes ces bateaux sont chargés de ces produits dont manquent les Palestiniens de Gaza, mais l’organisation dépolît des moyens de communication considérables afin d’alerter au travers de leur action le regard du monde sur Gaza. L’opération de l’année dernière avait d’ailleurs abouti à l’allègement du blocus par Israël .
Communication maximum
L’édition 2011 n’a donc pas échappé à la règle. Les organisateurs ont déployé tous les moyens à leur disposition pour faire parler de leur entreprise. Et le gouvernement israélien a mis en œuvre les siens pour tenter d’étouffer dans l’œuf le projet.
Comptes Twitter pour suivre la préparation de l’équipée puis les participants venus du monde entier, pages Facebook, sites internet, la campagne a été très visible cette année sur le Net. Les équipes ont également convoqué la presse à plusieurs conférences lors des semaines qui ont précédé le départ. La participation de plusieurs élus, représentants syndicaux et associatifs a également renforcé la médiatisation.
Bloqués en Grèce par les autorités qui leur refusaient le départ vers Gaza, les organisateurs ont fait tout leur possible pour essayer de maintenir une pression médiatique : points presse quotidiens, visite des bateaux organisée pour les journalistes, dénonciations des sabotages des bateaux… tout est utilisé pour tenter de maintenir autant de pression médiatique possible.
Etouffer l’initiative
Pour Israël, évidemment, l’enjeu est inverse. Très critiqué en 2010 après le fiasco de la gestion de la précédente flottille, le dossier était donc encore plus sensible cette année. Le but de l’Etat hébreu était certes d’empêcher la rupture du blocus de Gaza, mais sans faire de vague.
La force a donc fait place dans une certaine mesure cette année à la diplomatie. Israël a déployé tous ses efforts diplomatiques pour convaincre la Grèce de retenir les bateaux de la flottille. Une opération réussie puisque seul un navire français, le Dignité al-Karama, prit la mer avant d’être arraisonné dans les eaux internationales le 19 juillet par les forces israéliennes. Une opération sans heurts, presque pacifique au regard de celle qui fit l’année précédente neuf morts.
Et le gagnant est…
Alors qui, d’Israël ou des organisateurs de la flottille a gagné ce combat de la médiatisation ? Indéniablement, Israël a mieux géré l’opération que l’année dernière. Mieux également, d’un point de vue médiatique, que la flottille aérienne. Cette opération, qui visait à envoyer vers l’aéroport israélien Ben Gourion des militants pro-palestiniens souhaitant rejoindre la Cisjordanie, a en effet valu de nombreuses critiques envers le gouvernement Netanyahou.
A leur arrivée au port d’Ashdod, les 16 passagers du bateau français arraisonné se sont même vu offrir boissons et nourriture avant être interrogés et remis aux services du ministère de l’Intérieur et de l’immigration avait indiqué l’armée israélienne.
Mais de leur côté, les organisateurs de la flottille ont gagné leur pari en focalisant sur eux une forte attention médiatique. Ils n’ont certes pas ébranlé le blocus de Gaza, mais ont réussi à alerter l’opinion publique plusieurs semaines.
sexta-feira, 10 de junho de 2011
Gaza: A View From the Ground -- A South African Perspective
8 June 2011, Global Research http://www.globalresearch.ca (Canada)
By Prof. Patrick Bond*
Here in Palestine, disgust expressed by civil society reformers about Barack Obama's May 19 policy speech on the Middle East and North Africa confirms that political reconciliation between Washington and fast-rising Arab democrats is impossible.
Amidst many examples, consider the longstanding U.S. tradition of blind, self-destructive support for Israel, which Obama has just amplified. Recognizing a so-called ‘Jewish state’ as a matter of U.S. policy, he introduced a new twist that denies foundational democratic rights for 1.4 million Palestinians living within Israel. For a Harvard-trained constitutional lawyer to sink so low on behalf of Zionist discrimination is shocking. For although Obama mentioned the “1967 lines” as the basis for two states and thereby appeared to annoy arch-Zionist leader Benjamin Netanyahu, this minimalist United Nations position was amended with a huge caveat: ‘with land swaps.’
Obama thus implicitly endorses illegal Israeli settlements (with their half-million reactionary residents) that pock the West Bank, confirming its status as a Bantustan for 2.5 million people, far more fragmented than even the old South African homelands. Another 1.6 million suffer in the isolated Gaza Strip.
(Map of Israel)
Obama also claimed, “America values the dignity of the street vendor in Tunisia more than the raw power of the dictator,” stretching credulity.
The Arab Spring Gets In The Way
“He was with the dictators until the very last minute,” rebuts Ramallah-based liberation activist Omar Barghouti, regarding both Tunisia's Ben-Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. “He's missed the point of the Arab Spring. It's not just about the street vendor, it is about social justice. The pillage of the resources of the region by the U.S. has to come to an end.”
Resource extraction and Israeli empowerment explain Obama's recent flirtation with unreformable Libyan and Syrian tyrannies, as well as ongoing U.S. sponsorship of brutal regimes in Yemen, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. So it was impossible for the U.S. president to avoid a subtle confession: “There will be times when our short-term interests don't align perfectly with our long-term vision of the region.”
“There will be times”? That's the understatement of the year, considering “short-term interests” reflect the corrupted character of corporate-purchased U.S. politicians. (Obama needs to raise $1-billion to finance his re-election campaign next year.) Pursuit of such narrow interests gets Washington into perpetual trouble, including bolstering Israeli aggression, becoming dependent upon oil from despotic regimes, and dogmatically imposing free-market ideology on behalf of U.S.-dominated multinational capital.
I am witnessing the results firsthand in Gaza and the West Bank, and was lucky to even get here, for last Tuesday, the day after I arrived at the main regional airport in TelAviv (with my white skin, multiple passports and non-Muslim surname), my friend Na'eem Jeenah also tried to enter Israel en route to Palestine with South African papers. For four hours the Israeli border police detained Jeenah, a Johannesburg leader of the Palestine Solidarity Committee. Intervention by concerned SA diplomats couldn't appease immigration officials, who forced him to board a flight to Istanbul where he waited for another day before returning home.
Apartheid – Israeli Style
South Africans who get through immigration invariably confirm conditions here that deserve the label ‘Israeli apartheid.’ Last month, Judge Richard Goldstone's reputation-wrecking reversal on the UN Goldstone report, regarding the Israeli army's intentional killing of Gaza civilians during the January 2009 “Operation Cast Lead” invasion, cannot disguise 1400 dead, of which no more than half were Hamas-aligned officials.
That massacre was, according to Israeli journalist Amira Hass, a chance for the army to practice high-tech urban warfare against a caged populace, replete with white phosphorous, combat robots, drones and other terror weapons.
Just as I crossed Gaza's northern Erez border post last Friday, Israeli Defense Force soldiers fired on unarmed marchers who are Palestine's unique contribution to the Arab Spring, leaving two wounded. The Sunday before, tens of thousands of these brave people, especially refugees, mobilized using FaceBook and walked to several 1967 lines, resulting in fifteen murders by trigger-happy Israeli soldiers.
Along with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions non-violent struggle against Israeli power, this Satyagraha-style movement, adopting strategies and tactics pioneered in Durban, South Africa by Mahatma Gandhi a century ago, must strike fear in the hearts of Tel Aviv securocrats. No longer can they portray their enemies as rocket-launching Islamic fundamentalists who worship Osama bin Laden.
What I also learned from Palestinian civil society activists is that the pillaging of this region by the West is being planned by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, following similar support to dictators last year – though with unintended consequences! – in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
Evidence includes two documents presented by the IMF and World Bank to an April 13 Brussels donor conference, spelling out Palestine's wretched economic fate in technocratic terms. The IMF insists on lower civil service wages, electricity privatization, subsidy cuts and a higher retirement age. The World Bank advocates a free-trade regime which will demolish the tiny manufacturing base.
In his speech last Thursday, Obama endorsed an IMF/Bank document on the regional economy to be tabled at this week's G8 meeting of industrial powers in France. Although Washington promised $1-billion in debt relief, it comes with conditions such as “supporting financial stability, supporting financial modernization and developing a framework for trade and investment relations with the EU and the USA.”
Go ahead and snigger, but absurd as this sounds in the wake of the recent U.S.-centred world financial meltdown, Obama's gift is actually an “attempted bribe of the Egyptian democratic revolution,” says Barghouti. In any case there is another $33-billion of Mubarak's “Odious Debt” yet to be cancelled, and reparations to be paid.
Concludes Barghouti, “If anything, the U.S. has played a very negative role. The best thing Obama can do for the region is leave it alone. We've seen U.S. democracy-building in Afghanistan and Iraq, so no thank you.” •
Patrick Bond is based at the UKZN Centre for Civil Society, Durban, South Africa, and traveled to Palestine courtesy of TIDA-Gaza and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. His full report on the dangers of neoliberal influence in Palestine is available on the palestine.rosalux.org website.
By Prof. Patrick Bond*
Here in Palestine, disgust expressed by civil society reformers about Barack Obama's May 19 policy speech on the Middle East and North Africa confirms that political reconciliation between Washington and fast-rising Arab democrats is impossible.
Amidst many examples, consider the longstanding U.S. tradition of blind, self-destructive support for Israel, which Obama has just amplified. Recognizing a so-called ‘Jewish state’ as a matter of U.S. policy, he introduced a new twist that denies foundational democratic rights for 1.4 million Palestinians living within Israel. For a Harvard-trained constitutional lawyer to sink so low on behalf of Zionist discrimination is shocking. For although Obama mentioned the “1967 lines” as the basis for two states and thereby appeared to annoy arch-Zionist leader Benjamin Netanyahu, this minimalist United Nations position was amended with a huge caveat: ‘with land swaps.’
Obama thus implicitly endorses illegal Israeli settlements (with their half-million reactionary residents) that pock the West Bank, confirming its status as a Bantustan for 2.5 million people, far more fragmented than even the old South African homelands. Another 1.6 million suffer in the isolated Gaza Strip.
(Map of Israel)
Obama also claimed, “America values the dignity of the street vendor in Tunisia more than the raw power of the dictator,” stretching credulity.
The Arab Spring Gets In The Way
“He was with the dictators until the very last minute,” rebuts Ramallah-based liberation activist Omar Barghouti, regarding both Tunisia's Ben-Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. “He's missed the point of the Arab Spring. It's not just about the street vendor, it is about social justice. The pillage of the resources of the region by the U.S. has to come to an end.”
Resource extraction and Israeli empowerment explain Obama's recent flirtation with unreformable Libyan and Syrian tyrannies, as well as ongoing U.S. sponsorship of brutal regimes in Yemen, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. So it was impossible for the U.S. president to avoid a subtle confession: “There will be times when our short-term interests don't align perfectly with our long-term vision of the region.”
“There will be times”? That's the understatement of the year, considering “short-term interests” reflect the corrupted character of corporate-purchased U.S. politicians. (Obama needs to raise $1-billion to finance his re-election campaign next year.) Pursuit of such narrow interests gets Washington into perpetual trouble, including bolstering Israeli aggression, becoming dependent upon oil from despotic regimes, and dogmatically imposing free-market ideology on behalf of U.S.-dominated multinational capital.
I am witnessing the results firsthand in Gaza and the West Bank, and was lucky to even get here, for last Tuesday, the day after I arrived at the main regional airport in TelAviv (with my white skin, multiple passports and non-Muslim surname), my friend Na'eem Jeenah also tried to enter Israel en route to Palestine with South African papers. For four hours the Israeli border police detained Jeenah, a Johannesburg leader of the Palestine Solidarity Committee. Intervention by concerned SA diplomats couldn't appease immigration officials, who forced him to board a flight to Istanbul where he waited for another day before returning home.
Apartheid – Israeli Style
South Africans who get through immigration invariably confirm conditions here that deserve the label ‘Israeli apartheid.’ Last month, Judge Richard Goldstone's reputation-wrecking reversal on the UN Goldstone report, regarding the Israeli army's intentional killing of Gaza civilians during the January 2009 “Operation Cast Lead” invasion, cannot disguise 1400 dead, of which no more than half were Hamas-aligned officials.
That massacre was, according to Israeli journalist Amira Hass, a chance for the army to practice high-tech urban warfare against a caged populace, replete with white phosphorous, combat robots, drones and other terror weapons.
Just as I crossed Gaza's northern Erez border post last Friday, Israeli Defense Force soldiers fired on unarmed marchers who are Palestine's unique contribution to the Arab Spring, leaving two wounded. The Sunday before, tens of thousands of these brave people, especially refugees, mobilized using FaceBook and walked to several 1967 lines, resulting in fifteen murders by trigger-happy Israeli soldiers.
Along with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions non-violent struggle against Israeli power, this Satyagraha-style movement, adopting strategies and tactics pioneered in Durban, South Africa by Mahatma Gandhi a century ago, must strike fear in the hearts of Tel Aviv securocrats. No longer can they portray their enemies as rocket-launching Islamic fundamentalists who worship Osama bin Laden.
What I also learned from Palestinian civil society activists is that the pillaging of this region by the West is being planned by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, following similar support to dictators last year – though with unintended consequences! – in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
Evidence includes two documents presented by the IMF and World Bank to an April 13 Brussels donor conference, spelling out Palestine's wretched economic fate in technocratic terms. The IMF insists on lower civil service wages, electricity privatization, subsidy cuts and a higher retirement age. The World Bank advocates a free-trade regime which will demolish the tiny manufacturing base.
In his speech last Thursday, Obama endorsed an IMF/Bank document on the regional economy to be tabled at this week's G8 meeting of industrial powers in France. Although Washington promised $1-billion in debt relief, it comes with conditions such as “supporting financial stability, supporting financial modernization and developing a framework for trade and investment relations with the EU and the USA.”
Go ahead and snigger, but absurd as this sounds in the wake of the recent U.S.-centred world financial meltdown, Obama's gift is actually an “attempted bribe of the Egyptian democratic revolution,” says Barghouti. In any case there is another $33-billion of Mubarak's “Odious Debt” yet to be cancelled, and reparations to be paid.
Concludes Barghouti, “If anything, the U.S. has played a very negative role. The best thing Obama can do for the region is leave it alone. We've seen U.S. democracy-building in Afghanistan and Iraq, so no thank you.” •
Patrick Bond is based at the UKZN Centre for Civil Society, Durban, South Africa, and traveled to Palestine courtesy of TIDA-Gaza and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. His full report on the dangers of neoliberal influence in Palestine is available on the palestine.rosalux.org website.
Gaza, the most Facebook friendly place on earth
Social media sites are a force to reckon with in the Palestinian territories, says former PA communications minister, adding that if a new uprising erupts, that is where it will begin to brew.
5 June 2011, Haaretz הארץ (Israel)
By Natasha Mozgovaya
WASHINGTON - Although his father Mamdouh Saidam was one of the founders of Fatah, Dr. Sabri Saidam, deputy secretary general of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, entered the political arena at the relatively late age of 34. It was then that he was appointed minister of communications and information technology in the Palestinian government. Today, no longer in government, the former "Mr. Technology" of the Palestinian Authority prefers the hat of researcher and Palestinian Internet guru. He is also one of the activists behind the establishment of the Palestinian domain ps.
"Coming from the IT field, I can tell you honestly that I've always felt as if I were carving in stone - getting computers or talking about e-government in Palestine was mission impossible," he says in an interview with Haaretz. "Now all the politicians are meeting bloggers and talking to them. There was no party interested in these people until the events in Tunisia and Egypt. They were considered to be time-wasters, kids."
Saidam is in Washington now working with the Aspen Institute to promote entrepreneurship among young Palestinians. "All of a sudden, everybody wants to know and have a private session to talk about Facebook and how they can open an account," he says.
Half of Palestinian households in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have computers, according to Saidam, and about 30 percent are connected to the Internet.
"When the demonstrations started in Tunisia, there were 600,000 Palestinian Facebook users, and 200,000 of them were posting about politics. Each one of these 200,000 Facebook users is influencing five people around him. We're talking about over a million Palestinians over the age of 18. In terms of population size, that's 33 percent. In Egypt, that would be 28 million Egyptians, but there it took only 2,890 bloggers and computer activists to do what was done. The moral of the story is that there is a critical mass of Palestinians waiting to see how things are going to swing."
Saidam believes that all those who stormed Israel's borders on Nakba Day were simply in rehearsal mode. "Those who have broken the fear barrier, will be willing to do it again," he says. "Israel focuses on September, but they ought to focus on the 5th of June, the anniversary of the Six-Day War. There are already increased calls to march into the borders again."
There are two schools of thought on the matter, he says. "There's one that says: 'You've done it once, thank God there weren't more casualties, but don't do it again. Go to the borders, amass as many people as you can, but don't cross, because Israel has now learned the lesson. They can go and camp for a while, and this camping will send a message to Israel and the world, and it will help the Palestinians to build up pressure as preparations are made for September.' The other school of thought says: 'No, let's break fences and charge.' There are more supporters of the second approach."
Saidam says that the PA is beginning to understand the power of the Internet, and many of its members now want to meet with bloggers and open an account. "But there is no Palestinian Wael Ghonim [the young Google marketing executive who became a symbol of the revolution] . . . It's the issue of getting bored of the fact that they see leaders who existed for dozens of years. They don't want any leaders."
The trigger, he says, were the demonstrations held in the West Bank on March 15, when young Palestinians marched and called for an end to the rift between Hamas and Fatah. Abu Mazen then announced that he would be willing to go to Gaza, and an agreement was hammered out. "The young people felt they had some influence on the decision," says Saidam. "And I am telling my peers that they should not only passively listen but allow young blood to flow into the decision making of the parties."
Saidam notes that even Abu Mazen has a Facebook account. "He has a page where he posts all his meetings at president.ps. He is interested, but he is overwhelmed. Whenever I talk to him about computers, he is extremely supportive, but he doesn't have time to surf the Internet. He has a lot on his plate."
Saidam finds it amusing that a member of Congress recently asked whether the Palestinians use the Internet: "Do Palestinians use the Internet? Who is to blame for this Congressman not knowing whether we use Internet or not? No wonder they gave Netanyahu 29 standing ovations . . . they are totally ignorant. I've been in meetings in Congress, and there is a major problem, and it's a problem of education. If they visit Palestine, it's usually a courtesy visit of two hours."
Gaza a Facebook champion
Per capita, says Saidam, the largest number of Facebook users in the world is in Gaza.
"That's one thing people don't know," he says. Per capita, the largest number of video conferencing in the world is also in the Palestinian territories. "The legislative council used to meet through video conferencing in the West Bank and Gaza," says Saidam.
"There were medical exams conducted over the Internet. My mother, who lives in Gaza, has a heart problem. She comes to Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem for treatment. And in so many cases, she was refused permission to go back to Gaza after treatment. That's one of the reasons I was trying to promote Internet treatment so people wouldn't have to travel. People takes it for granted because the culture of IT is so embedded in society, but there are economic hardships that prevent people from acquiring technology, even though 94 percent use cell phones."
Several weeks ago, Saidam launched a project in the territories in which experienced Internet users volunteer to teach parents, especially stay-at-home mothers, to use the computer and to surf the Internet. Every Monday he has a radio program in which he advises listeners about what should not be publicized on Facebook. If they surf in other countries, he tells them, they need to bear in mind that the boss has the ability to surf their page, and in the case of Palestinians, so does the Shin Bet security service.
Another problem he cites is that Palestinians telecommunications services are provided by Israeli companies. "This is a prime source of intelligence for the Shabak [Shin Bet], Mossad and whatever," he says. "Everybody here publishes his or her beliefs and opinions and pictures and family news - everything. I tell them: You are the owner of the information. Whatever you are hesitant about - don't release it."
According to Saidam, Palestinian politicians are afraid of the Internet because they have no control over those who surf it. "But then they came to realize that it's something that is totally out of the censorship scissors, nobody can gag anybody else, it's a free world."
The Third Intifada Facebook page, he notes was created in Lebanon - not in the West Bank or Gaza Strip. Facebook, under Jewish pressure, decided to close it. But being controversial is being famous. After Facebook closed it, there were several new pages."
Saidam says that young Palestinians are more committed than most would believe. "When you have a kid coming to his parents at Yarmouk refugee camp [in Syria], telling them he's going to have dinner in Jaffa, and they laugh at him and don't take him seriously. And then he ends up going with Israeli peace activists to Jaffa, has dinner there, gives an interview to Channel 10 and then gives himself up to the Israeli police. I think any Israeli general should worry.
"I lived in Gaza and the West Bank and have seen every adventure you can imagine, but to have this level of commitment, to come all the way to Jaffa, that's what makes me think that the 5th of May was only a rehearsal. Most young people are not talking about the peace process or the Arab initiative or the 1967 borders. If a new revolution erupts, it will be a revolution led by more sophisticated minds than those in the second intifada."
Right-wing domination
Unlike Netanyahu, he says, the Palestinians did not say "no" to everything. But Netanyahu's speech has, for all intents and purposes, eliminated the possibility that the PA will renege on its plans to ask the United Nations to vote on Palestinian statehood in September. "Our feeling is that Israeli society is dominated by right-wingers," he says. "I believe Netanyahu is receiving intelligence reports that the Palestinians won't make any further noise."
Still, the situation on the ground has changed, he says. The Palestinians have never enjoyed more support and have finally succeeded in building a consensus. The Israeli leadership, he notes, initially said that there was nothing to discuss because there was no unity among the Palestinians, and now it says that there is nothing to discuss because there is unity.
Saidam has the following to say about Hamas: "Nobody wants them to be part of the government, and they know it. Two things they won't do - they won't sit in the government, and they won't conduct the negotiations. And they know there will be a referendum."
Saidam thinks that Palestinian unity is a good thing. "We had our worst brain drain, not during the 40 plus years of occupation, but during the time of Palestinian disunity. Hamas, despite all the negative things, stands for 1967 borders, for the same political vision as Fatah."
Saidam lives in Ramallah with his two children. He has a doctorate from a British university but has never considered leaving his home. "My father was the deputy commander of the Palestinian forces in Jordan. He was diagnosed with cancer. He passed away during the conflict in 1971. I was four months old, and I had taken it upon myself that upon concluding my studies, I would go back to Palestine. In December 1995, I went to visit my family in the refugee camps of Gaza. I was encouraged to come back and live in Palestine and fulfill my dream. I have two kids, they are in Ramallah. No matter what happens, we are not leaving. I think even if we get slaughtered in our homes, we will not leave."
Every Palestinian who has lost a loved one in the conflict has a personal dilemma, he says. "In order to achieve peace with the Israelis, they have to understand our lives on the other side of the fence, how my mother spends 36 hours without electricity in Gaza, how people who need dialysis can't leave, how civilians are paying the price of the conflict. My oldest son, who is 8 years old, understands the connection. I caught him talking to his mother about the Jewish man on TV. His mother said, 'It's a Jewish man' and he said, 'This can't be, don't all Jews wear military outfits?' This is all he sees. He sees Israelis only at the checkpoints. He doesn't see them in my home. He doesn't go to their homes."
5 June 2011, Haaretz הארץ (Israel)
By Natasha Mozgovaya
WASHINGTON - Although his father Mamdouh Saidam was one of the founders of Fatah, Dr. Sabri Saidam, deputy secretary general of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, entered the political arena at the relatively late age of 34. It was then that he was appointed minister of communications and information technology in the Palestinian government. Today, no longer in government, the former "Mr. Technology" of the Palestinian Authority prefers the hat of researcher and Palestinian Internet guru. He is also one of the activists behind the establishment of the Palestinian domain ps.
"Coming from the IT field, I can tell you honestly that I've always felt as if I were carving in stone - getting computers or talking about e-government in Palestine was mission impossible," he says in an interview with Haaretz. "Now all the politicians are meeting bloggers and talking to them. There was no party interested in these people until the events in Tunisia and Egypt. They were considered to be time-wasters, kids."
Saidam is in Washington now working with the Aspen Institute to promote entrepreneurship among young Palestinians. "All of a sudden, everybody wants to know and have a private session to talk about Facebook and how they can open an account," he says.
Half of Palestinian households in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have computers, according to Saidam, and about 30 percent are connected to the Internet.
"When the demonstrations started in Tunisia, there were 600,000 Palestinian Facebook users, and 200,000 of them were posting about politics. Each one of these 200,000 Facebook users is influencing five people around him. We're talking about over a million Palestinians over the age of 18. In terms of population size, that's 33 percent. In Egypt, that would be 28 million Egyptians, but there it took only 2,890 bloggers and computer activists to do what was done. The moral of the story is that there is a critical mass of Palestinians waiting to see how things are going to swing."
Saidam believes that all those who stormed Israel's borders on Nakba Day were simply in rehearsal mode. "Those who have broken the fear barrier, will be willing to do it again," he says. "Israel focuses on September, but they ought to focus on the 5th of June, the anniversary of the Six-Day War. There are already increased calls to march into the borders again."
There are two schools of thought on the matter, he says. "There's one that says: 'You've done it once, thank God there weren't more casualties, but don't do it again. Go to the borders, amass as many people as you can, but don't cross, because Israel has now learned the lesson. They can go and camp for a while, and this camping will send a message to Israel and the world, and it will help the Palestinians to build up pressure as preparations are made for September.' The other school of thought says: 'No, let's break fences and charge.' There are more supporters of the second approach."
Saidam says that the PA is beginning to understand the power of the Internet, and many of its members now want to meet with bloggers and open an account. "But there is no Palestinian Wael Ghonim [the young Google marketing executive who became a symbol of the revolution] . . . It's the issue of getting bored of the fact that they see leaders who existed for dozens of years. They don't want any leaders."
The trigger, he says, were the demonstrations held in the West Bank on March 15, when young Palestinians marched and called for an end to the rift between Hamas and Fatah. Abu Mazen then announced that he would be willing to go to Gaza, and an agreement was hammered out. "The young people felt they had some influence on the decision," says Saidam. "And I am telling my peers that they should not only passively listen but allow young blood to flow into the decision making of the parties."
Saidam notes that even Abu Mazen has a Facebook account. "He has a page where he posts all his meetings at president.ps. He is interested, but he is overwhelmed. Whenever I talk to him about computers, he is extremely supportive, but he doesn't have time to surf the Internet. He has a lot on his plate."
Saidam finds it amusing that a member of Congress recently asked whether the Palestinians use the Internet: "Do Palestinians use the Internet? Who is to blame for this Congressman not knowing whether we use Internet or not? No wonder they gave Netanyahu 29 standing ovations . . . they are totally ignorant. I've been in meetings in Congress, and there is a major problem, and it's a problem of education. If they visit Palestine, it's usually a courtesy visit of two hours."
Gaza a Facebook champion
Per capita, says Saidam, the largest number of Facebook users in the world is in Gaza.
"That's one thing people don't know," he says. Per capita, the largest number of video conferencing in the world is also in the Palestinian territories. "The legislative council used to meet through video conferencing in the West Bank and Gaza," says Saidam.
"There were medical exams conducted over the Internet. My mother, who lives in Gaza, has a heart problem. She comes to Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem for treatment. And in so many cases, she was refused permission to go back to Gaza after treatment. That's one of the reasons I was trying to promote Internet treatment so people wouldn't have to travel. People takes it for granted because the culture of IT is so embedded in society, but there are economic hardships that prevent people from acquiring technology, even though 94 percent use cell phones."
Several weeks ago, Saidam launched a project in the territories in which experienced Internet users volunteer to teach parents, especially stay-at-home mothers, to use the computer and to surf the Internet. Every Monday he has a radio program in which he advises listeners about what should not be publicized on Facebook. If they surf in other countries, he tells them, they need to bear in mind that the boss has the ability to surf their page, and in the case of Palestinians, so does the Shin Bet security service.
Another problem he cites is that Palestinians telecommunications services are provided by Israeli companies. "This is a prime source of intelligence for the Shabak [Shin Bet], Mossad and whatever," he says. "Everybody here publishes his or her beliefs and opinions and pictures and family news - everything. I tell them: You are the owner of the information. Whatever you are hesitant about - don't release it."
According to Saidam, Palestinian politicians are afraid of the Internet because they have no control over those who surf it. "But then they came to realize that it's something that is totally out of the censorship scissors, nobody can gag anybody else, it's a free world."
The Third Intifada Facebook page, he notes was created in Lebanon - not in the West Bank or Gaza Strip. Facebook, under Jewish pressure, decided to close it. But being controversial is being famous. After Facebook closed it, there were several new pages."
Saidam says that young Palestinians are more committed than most would believe. "When you have a kid coming to his parents at Yarmouk refugee camp [in Syria], telling them he's going to have dinner in Jaffa, and they laugh at him and don't take him seriously. And then he ends up going with Israeli peace activists to Jaffa, has dinner there, gives an interview to Channel 10 and then gives himself up to the Israeli police. I think any Israeli general should worry.
"I lived in Gaza and the West Bank and have seen every adventure you can imagine, but to have this level of commitment, to come all the way to Jaffa, that's what makes me think that the 5th of May was only a rehearsal. Most young people are not talking about the peace process or the Arab initiative or the 1967 borders. If a new revolution erupts, it will be a revolution led by more sophisticated minds than those in the second intifada."
Right-wing domination
Unlike Netanyahu, he says, the Palestinians did not say "no" to everything. But Netanyahu's speech has, for all intents and purposes, eliminated the possibility that the PA will renege on its plans to ask the United Nations to vote on Palestinian statehood in September. "Our feeling is that Israeli society is dominated by right-wingers," he says. "I believe Netanyahu is receiving intelligence reports that the Palestinians won't make any further noise."
Still, the situation on the ground has changed, he says. The Palestinians have never enjoyed more support and have finally succeeded in building a consensus. The Israeli leadership, he notes, initially said that there was nothing to discuss because there was no unity among the Palestinians, and now it says that there is nothing to discuss because there is unity.
Saidam has the following to say about Hamas: "Nobody wants them to be part of the government, and they know it. Two things they won't do - they won't sit in the government, and they won't conduct the negotiations. And they know there will be a referendum."
Saidam thinks that Palestinian unity is a good thing. "We had our worst brain drain, not during the 40 plus years of occupation, but during the time of Palestinian disunity. Hamas, despite all the negative things, stands for 1967 borders, for the same political vision as Fatah."
Saidam lives in Ramallah with his two children. He has a doctorate from a British university but has never considered leaving his home. "My father was the deputy commander of the Palestinian forces in Jordan. He was diagnosed with cancer. He passed away during the conflict in 1971. I was four months old, and I had taken it upon myself that upon concluding my studies, I would go back to Palestine. In December 1995, I went to visit my family in the refugee camps of Gaza. I was encouraged to come back and live in Palestine and fulfill my dream. I have two kids, they are in Ramallah. No matter what happens, we are not leaving. I think even if we get slaughtered in our homes, we will not leave."
Every Palestinian who has lost a loved one in the conflict has a personal dilemma, he says. "In order to achieve peace with the Israelis, they have to understand our lives on the other side of the fence, how my mother spends 36 hours without electricity in Gaza, how people who need dialysis can't leave, how civilians are paying the price of the conflict. My oldest son, who is 8 years old, understands the connection. I caught him talking to his mother about the Jewish man on TV. His mother said, 'It's a Jewish man' and he said, 'This can't be, don't all Jews wear military outfits?' This is all he sees. He sees Israelis only at the checkpoints. He doesn't see them in my home. He doesn't go to their homes."
quinta-feira, 2 de junho de 2011
Coldplay endorses 'Freedom for Palestine' single on Facebook page
1 June 2011, Haaretz הארץ (Israel)
U.K. music bestsellers provide link to official 'Freedom for Palestine' website, a project supported by groups such as Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, and Friends of Al Aqsa.
British music giants Coldplay have endorsed an upcoming musical collaboration called "Freedom for Palestine," released as a single by the War on Want and One World foundations.
Writing on their official Facebook page on Wednesday, Coldplay referred fans to the "Freedom for Palestine" page, saying: Some of our friends are involved in OneWorld's new 'Freedom for Palestine' single," providing a link to the official "'Freedom for Palestine" website.
The single features a collaboration of several prominent U.K. musicians, such as Maxi Jazz and Dave Randall of the dance band Faithless, and Jamie Catto of 1 Giant Leap.
According to the "Freedom for Palestine" website, the project is supported by groups such as Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, A Just Peace for Palestine, Friends of Al Aqsa, and more.
The project and its subsequent endorsement by Coldplay comes amid an ongoing debate on whether or not to impose a cultural boycott of Israel as a way to pressure Israel into striking a peace deal with the Palestinians.
While many artists have chosen to perform in Israel despite reported attempts to sway them from doing so, several have cancelled planned Israel shows, citing political pressure. The most prominent of those have been musical duo Leftfield, Elvis Costello, The Pixies, the late Gill Scott Heron, Santana, The Klaxons and the Gorillaz Sound System.
U.K. music bestsellers provide link to official 'Freedom for Palestine' website, a project supported by groups such as Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, and Friends of Al Aqsa.
British music giants Coldplay have endorsed an upcoming musical collaboration called "Freedom for Palestine," released as a single by the War on Want and One World foundations.
Writing on their official Facebook page on Wednesday, Coldplay referred fans to the "Freedom for Palestine" page, saying: Some of our friends are involved in OneWorld's new 'Freedom for Palestine' single," providing a link to the official "'Freedom for Palestine" website.
The single features a collaboration of several prominent U.K. musicians, such as Maxi Jazz and Dave Randall of the dance band Faithless, and Jamie Catto of 1 Giant Leap.
According to the "Freedom for Palestine" website, the project is supported by groups such as Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, A Just Peace for Palestine, Friends of Al Aqsa, and more.
The project and its subsequent endorsement by Coldplay comes amid an ongoing debate on whether or not to impose a cultural boycott of Israel as a way to pressure Israel into striking a peace deal with the Palestinians.
While many artists have chosen to perform in Israel despite reported attempts to sway them from doing so, several have cancelled planned Israel shows, citing political pressure. The most prominent of those have been musical duo Leftfield, Elvis Costello, The Pixies, the late Gill Scott Heron, Santana, The Klaxons and the Gorillaz Sound System.
segunda-feira, 23 de maio de 2011
Marcelo apoia palestinos e é cortado da Seleção: Coincidência?
23 maio 2011/Vermelho http://www.vermelho.org.br (Brasil)
Marcelo, jogador do Real Madrid e considerado por muitos torcedores e comentaristas como o melhor lateral esquerdo esquerdo brasileiro em atividade no mundo está fora da seleção. Marcelo se envolveu em polêmica por ter declarado apoio à causa palestina. Seria isso uma simples coincidência? Artigo de Raphael Tsavkko no Diário Liberdade
Marcelo Vieira é lateral-esquerdo do Real Madrid (time conhecido por sua torcida fascista e por ter sido time do coração de Francisco Franco) e, até ontem, era dado como certo para disputar a Copa América e para os amistosos contra a Romênia e Holanda no começo do próximo mês.
O corte na seleção seria algo normal se o jogador não tivesse se envolvido em uma polêmica recentemente por apoiar a causa palestina.
No dia 15 de maio, dia da Nakba, ou Grande Catástrofe, a criação oficial do Estado Nazi-Sionista de Israel, Marcelo postou em seu Facebook uma foto de um militante palestino com a frase "My heart with Palestinian now as they fighting with Israel” ["Meu coração está com os palestinos em sua luta contra Israel", em tradução literal]. Foi o suficiente para que o Facebook apagasse o perfil de Marcelo Vieira depois de pressão de sionistas.
Interessante é a ausência total de repercussão do caso no Brasil, assim como em blogs pelo mundo. O jornal israelense YNET divulgou o caso e alguns poucos blogs repercutiram:
"Os comentarios na pagina do facebook nao demoraram a chegar. O status de Marcelo recebeu 544 "Curtir" - "Like" e 351 comentários (em pouquissímo tempo), parte dos internautas de países Árabes agradeceram a Marcelo pelo apoio. Um homem chamado Tahrir Rajab escreveu: "Todos os palestinos te amam, Marcelo".
Outros comentarios foram do estilo: "Marcelo, você é demais". Outros usuarios aproveitaram a oportunidade para se lançaram contra Israel: "Morte aos Sionistas", "Morte a Israel".
Chegaram a apelidar e "honrar" o jogador com o apelido "Haj* Marcelo".
No fórum do Hamas, tambem se orgulharam da noticia sobre o comentário, e um dos internautas afirmou que o ato do jogador do Real Madrid comprova que a questao palestina, e uma questão humanitaria que afeta todos os homens livres por todo o mundo. Outro usuário, até ligou o apoio de Marcelo aos palestinos com o gol que marcou contra o time Villarreal, no 37º campeonato da liga espanhola", diz o site YNET
O primeiro absurdo do caso é o fato do Facebook deletar a conta de um usuário por este manifestar solidariedade ao povo palestino. Que direito tem o Facebook de deletar a conta de alguém, sem aviso, por defender uma causa política legítima? Não é a primeira vez que o Facebook deleta contas de militantes políticos ligados à causa palestina ou mesmo à causa basca, movimentos sociais, de esquerda e etc.
O segundo absurdo vem da CBF e do corte do jogador logo depois de suas declarações. Será mera coincidência?
No Brasil, o caso não mereceu uma linha de destaque. Veja a opinião de colunista do GloboEsporte http://globoesporte.globo.com/platb/olhotatico/2011/05/21/ausencia-de-marcelo-na-selecao-e-injustificavel/ que critica Mano Menezes mas nada informa sobre a eventual censura da CBF.
"É legítimo que o técnico selecione atletas de sua confiança, ainda mais para uma competição que ganha importância pela ausência do Brasil nas Eliminatórias e que terá o grupo reunido por um período mais longo. No entanto, Marcelo não tem histórico recente de indisciplinas graves nem atitudes irresponsáveis. E considerando apenas os aspectos técnicos e táticos, que devem prevalecer na análise de qualquer jogador, deixar o lateral-esquerdo do Real Madrid de fora é injustificável. A primeira grande bola fora de Mano Menezes na seleção".
*Haj - santificado. Haj é um titulo dado no Islã a todo homem que já visitou Meca. O título garante status de sacerdote e todos que o receberam podem ser reconhecidos atraves de sua vestimenta (bata) e de sua cabeça sempre coberta.
Com informações adicionais do YNET reproduzidas pelo Vermelho
Marcelo, jogador do Real Madrid e considerado por muitos torcedores e comentaristas como o melhor lateral esquerdo esquerdo brasileiro em atividade no mundo está fora da seleção. Marcelo se envolveu em polêmica por ter declarado apoio à causa palestina. Seria isso uma simples coincidência? Artigo de Raphael Tsavkko no Diário Liberdade
Marcelo Vieira é lateral-esquerdo do Real Madrid (time conhecido por sua torcida fascista e por ter sido time do coração de Francisco Franco) e, até ontem, era dado como certo para disputar a Copa América e para os amistosos contra a Romênia e Holanda no começo do próximo mês.
O corte na seleção seria algo normal se o jogador não tivesse se envolvido em uma polêmica recentemente por apoiar a causa palestina.
No dia 15 de maio, dia da Nakba, ou Grande Catástrofe, a criação oficial do Estado Nazi-Sionista de Israel, Marcelo postou em seu Facebook uma foto de um militante palestino com a frase "My heart with Palestinian now as they fighting with Israel” ["Meu coração está com os palestinos em sua luta contra Israel", em tradução literal]. Foi o suficiente para que o Facebook apagasse o perfil de Marcelo Vieira depois de pressão de sionistas.
Interessante é a ausência total de repercussão do caso no Brasil, assim como em blogs pelo mundo. O jornal israelense YNET divulgou o caso e alguns poucos blogs repercutiram:
"Os comentarios na pagina do facebook nao demoraram a chegar. O status de Marcelo recebeu 544 "Curtir" - "Like" e 351 comentários (em pouquissímo tempo), parte dos internautas de países Árabes agradeceram a Marcelo pelo apoio. Um homem chamado Tahrir Rajab escreveu: "Todos os palestinos te amam, Marcelo".
Outros comentarios foram do estilo: "Marcelo, você é demais". Outros usuarios aproveitaram a oportunidade para se lançaram contra Israel: "Morte aos Sionistas", "Morte a Israel".
Chegaram a apelidar e "honrar" o jogador com o apelido "Haj* Marcelo".
No fórum do Hamas, tambem se orgulharam da noticia sobre o comentário, e um dos internautas afirmou que o ato do jogador do Real Madrid comprova que a questao palestina, e uma questão humanitaria que afeta todos os homens livres por todo o mundo. Outro usuário, até ligou o apoio de Marcelo aos palestinos com o gol que marcou contra o time Villarreal, no 37º campeonato da liga espanhola", diz o site YNET
O primeiro absurdo do caso é o fato do Facebook deletar a conta de um usuário por este manifestar solidariedade ao povo palestino. Que direito tem o Facebook de deletar a conta de alguém, sem aviso, por defender uma causa política legítima? Não é a primeira vez que o Facebook deleta contas de militantes políticos ligados à causa palestina ou mesmo à causa basca, movimentos sociais, de esquerda e etc.
O segundo absurdo vem da CBF e do corte do jogador logo depois de suas declarações. Será mera coincidência?
No Brasil, o caso não mereceu uma linha de destaque. Veja a opinião de colunista do GloboEsporte http://globoesporte.globo.com/platb/olhotatico/2011/05/21/ausencia-de-marcelo-na-selecao-e-injustificavel/ que critica Mano Menezes mas nada informa sobre a eventual censura da CBF.
"É legítimo que o técnico selecione atletas de sua confiança, ainda mais para uma competição que ganha importância pela ausência do Brasil nas Eliminatórias e que terá o grupo reunido por um período mais longo. No entanto, Marcelo não tem histórico recente de indisciplinas graves nem atitudes irresponsáveis. E considerando apenas os aspectos técnicos e táticos, que devem prevalecer na análise de qualquer jogador, deixar o lateral-esquerdo do Real Madrid de fora é injustificável. A primeira grande bola fora de Mano Menezes na seleção".
*Haj - santificado. Haj é um titulo dado no Islã a todo homem que já visitou Meca. O título garante status de sacerdote e todos que o receberam podem ser reconhecidos atraves de sua vestimenta (bata) e de sua cabeça sempre coberta.
Com informações adicionais do YNET reproduzidas pelo Vermelho
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