12 juillet 2011, Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS) http://www.france-palestine.org
BNC
Alors que la pression monte pour mettre fin à l’impunité d’Israël, la société civile palestinienne appelle à un embargo militaire complet sur Israël
• La société civile palestinienne appelle à un embargo militaire complet sur Israël. • Les activistes de mouvements de jeunesse délivrent un appel et la preuve de la collusion militaire avec Israël à l’ONU.
• Les organisations qui représentent des millions de personnes à travers le monde entier ainsi que Prix Nobel Desmond Tutu ont exprimé leur soutien à l’appel à l’embargo palestinien.
Le Comité National palestinien Boycott Désinvestissement et Sanctions (BNC), la plus grande coalition palestinienne englobant tous les partis politiques palestiniens, des syndicats, des ONG et des organisations de masse, a appelé à un embargo immédiat et global militaire sur Israël.
"Un embargo militaire complet sur Israël est attendu depuis longtemps. Ce serait une étape cruciale vers la fin de l’utilisation illégale et criminelle par Israël de la force contre le peuple palestinien et d’autres peuples et Etats de la région, et elle constitue un moyen efficace et non-violent pour faire pression sur Israël afin qu’il respecte ses obligations en vertu du droit international », dit l’appel à l’embargo du BNC.
Des militants palestiniens avec le mouvement de jeunesse d’Hirak Shababi se sont rassemblés ce matin devant le bureau des Nations Unies à Ramallah pour lancer symboliquement l’appel et mettre en évidence la collusion militaire internationale avec Israël.
Cet appel intervient alors que la pression croît pour tenir Israël responsable devant le droit international, notamment avec la deuxième Flottille de la Liberté et l’action « Fly-in » « Bienvenue en Palestine » menée à l’aéroport de Tel-Aviv le 8 juillet.
Parmi les partisans de l’appel à un embargo militaire figurent les Prix Nobel de la Paix l’archevêque Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, et Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. Les gagnants du Prix Nobel Alternatif Walden Bello et Chico Whitaker et l’écrivain best-seller et journaliste canadienne Naomi Klein, ont également appuyé les demandes de l’appel.
« Je souscris à cet appel à un embargo sur les armes parce que nous désirons la paix et la justice pour les Palestiniens et les Israéliens à travers des moyens non violents", a déclaré l’archevêque Tutu. Naomi Klein explique : « Cet embargo militaire bien mérité est une étape cruciale vers la fin de l’impunité d’Israël."
Des organisations de la société civile représentant des millions de personnes de partout dans le monde, y compris les confédérations syndicales telles que la COSATU en Afrique du Sud et la CUT brésilienne, les réseaux et campagnes contre le commerce des armes, pour la justice et la solidarité, ont annoncé leur soutien à l’appel à l’embargo militaire contre la Israël et les actions qui seront entreprises pour mettre en œuvre la campagne.
L’appel a été publié à l’occasion du septième anniversaire de la décision de Cour internationale de justice confirmant l’illégalité du mur israélien de l’apartheid en Cisjordanie et le sixième anniversaire de l’appel de la société civile palestinienne pour le Boycott, le Désinvestissement et les Sanctions (BDS) contre Israël jusqu’à ce qu’il respecte le droit international.
La BNC a publié une analyse juridique détaillée et politique des relations internationales militaires avec Israël et leur impact.
Une copie complète de l’appel à l’action du BNC et l’analyse de fond détaillée sur le commerce des armes avec Israël est disponible sur www.bdsmovement.net.
Le document d’information publié par le BNC affirme que la coopération militaire avec Israël est une des principales formes de complicité internationale avec les violations israéliennes du droit international. En 2010, environ 80% de la production militaire d’Israël a été exportée, et les exportations par les entreprises s’élèvent à 7,2 milliards de dollars d’armes israéliennes. De 2000 à 2009, les Etats-Unis ont donné à Israël 24.1 milliards de dollars d’aide militaire. En utilisant ces fonds publics, les Etats-Unis ont livré des armes et des équipements connexes d’une valeur de 18.9 milliards de dollars pendant la même période. De 2003 à 2008, l’Union européenne et ses États membres ont approuvé des licences pour une valeur de plus 1 milliard d’euros de ventes d’armes à Israël relayé par l’association belgo-palestinienne http://www.association-belgo-palest...
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SHAVUOT 2011: OBSCENITIES AS WORDS OF TORAH
This isn't the Torah we received. Since that time, Israel has been swallowed up by the Land of Israel and disappeared inside its maw.
7 June 2011, Haaretz הארץ
By Yossi Sarid
Go to your computer right now and watch the frightening video clip posted on YouTube as a memento of Jerusalem Day (it's called "Yom Yeru 2011" ). Not a handful, but hundreds of young people high on hard-core nationalism wave blue-and-white flags; may their eyes grow dim.
"Death to the Arabs, death to the leftists," they chanted. "The Temple will be rebuilt, the mosque will be destroyed." "Kahane lives, Mohammed is dead." "Itbach al-Arab" ("Death to the Arabs" in Arabic ). Thus they elevate Jerusalem as their chief sin: May their tongues cleave to their palates.
While I was roaming Jerusalem's streets, another mob was gathering at the city's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, with rabbis Shmuel Eliyahu of Safed and Dov Lior of Hebron among the guests. The former demands Israel be purged of Arabs, while the latter endorses a book that justifies killing gentiles, urges soldiers to disobey orders and refuses to show up for questioning by the police.
Nowadays, every obscenity is treated as 'words of Torah.' A bill was even submitted for discussion to the cabinet that would permit incitement by rabbis, and rabbis only. And MK Michael Ben Ari (National Union ) was also among the guests.
The guest of honor was the prime minister; lift up your heads, O ye gates. "I see you as an elite Torah combat unit," the king of glory - and of shame - said fawningly. Now the Torah, too, has its own elite combat unit.
Jerusalem Day ends, and Shavuot arrives - the holiday I once loved above all others for its graciousness and compassion. This is the time of the giving of our Torah, "a Torah of life I gave to you." But this isn't the Torah we received. Since that time, Israel has been swallowed up by the Land of Israel and disappeared inside its maw.
Our education minister, Gideon Sa'ar, is also living in the Book of Joshua, as if the Torah had no other books - as if we had no children here, but only our distant forefathers. Of all the possible nationwide school trips, he chose to join the first visit by students to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, to support his new program, "Visits to the Land of Our Fathers." A few months ago, he threatened a principal with dismissal because he proposed teachers take a tour of army checkpoints. But what is permissible for an emperor is forbidden to the flea in his ear.
As a part-time civics teachers when he deems the occasion right, Sa'ar surely explained to the visiting students how the Jewish settlement was established in "Kiryat Arba, which is Hebron" as a plot against the government; how the settlers there beat up soldiers and policemen and spat on their neighbors; how the people who dwell by the Cave of the Patriarchs make pilgrimages to the grave of the Jewish murderer Baruch Goldstein, and sanctify his name in public; how the Torah handed down at Sinai authorized us to dispossess, deport and seal houses; and why a Hebron market street stands empty.
Shavuot is blessed with a beautiful megillah, the Book of Ruth. I sometimes wonder how Ruth managed to worm her way into the Book of Books; perhaps the Song of Songs paved the way for her. It could never happen today. The Education Ministry and Mercaz Harav would never consent, and the Culture and Sports Ministry would disqualify its candidacy for the Zionist Artwork Award.
That's all we need: For a complete goy - a Moabite, on top of all her other problems - to marry Mahlon, who, even though he has fallen low, is still a Jew. By what right did she cleave to Naomi - a healthy woman, after all, who doesn't need a Filipina in constant attendance - so that she could later seduce another wealthy Jewish man, thus enabling her to remain without a permit from the rabbis and without even a pro forma conversion? And how did it happen that "all the people" were happy and supportive, without a single opponent?
After all, even back then, they could have deported her as a foreign agricultural worker who had infiltrated into Israel by means of dubious paperwork.
And they would have left her great-grandson, David, without a chance of even being born, much less later being anointed as Israel's king.
As the holiday approached, I telephoned the Bialik-Rogozin School and asked to speak with Ruthie. She's an 11-year-old girl, a sixth-grader, with Ghanaian parents who work as cleaners. But don't think they - her mother and father - are innocents. For it's not by chance that they named their daughter Ruthie - Ruth, of all things - in order to remind us of, and make us mourn, what we have lost.
7 June 2011, Haaretz הארץ
By Yossi Sarid
Go to your computer right now and watch the frightening video clip posted on YouTube as a memento of Jerusalem Day (it's called "Yom Yeru 2011" ). Not a handful, but hundreds of young people high on hard-core nationalism wave blue-and-white flags; may their eyes grow dim.
"Death to the Arabs, death to the leftists," they chanted. "The Temple will be rebuilt, the mosque will be destroyed." "Kahane lives, Mohammed is dead." "Itbach al-Arab" ("Death to the Arabs" in Arabic ). Thus they elevate Jerusalem as their chief sin: May their tongues cleave to their palates.
While I was roaming Jerusalem's streets, another mob was gathering at the city's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, with rabbis Shmuel Eliyahu of Safed and Dov Lior of Hebron among the guests. The former demands Israel be purged of Arabs, while the latter endorses a book that justifies killing gentiles, urges soldiers to disobey orders and refuses to show up for questioning by the police.
Nowadays, every obscenity is treated as 'words of Torah.' A bill was even submitted for discussion to the cabinet that would permit incitement by rabbis, and rabbis only. And MK Michael Ben Ari (National Union ) was also among the guests.
The guest of honor was the prime minister; lift up your heads, O ye gates. "I see you as an elite Torah combat unit," the king of glory - and of shame - said fawningly. Now the Torah, too, has its own elite combat unit.
Jerusalem Day ends, and Shavuot arrives - the holiday I once loved above all others for its graciousness and compassion. This is the time of the giving of our Torah, "a Torah of life I gave to you." But this isn't the Torah we received. Since that time, Israel has been swallowed up by the Land of Israel and disappeared inside its maw.
Our education minister, Gideon Sa'ar, is also living in the Book of Joshua, as if the Torah had no other books - as if we had no children here, but only our distant forefathers. Of all the possible nationwide school trips, he chose to join the first visit by students to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, to support his new program, "Visits to the Land of Our Fathers." A few months ago, he threatened a principal with dismissal because he proposed teachers take a tour of army checkpoints. But what is permissible for an emperor is forbidden to the flea in his ear.
As a part-time civics teachers when he deems the occasion right, Sa'ar surely explained to the visiting students how the Jewish settlement was established in "Kiryat Arba, which is Hebron" as a plot against the government; how the settlers there beat up soldiers and policemen and spat on their neighbors; how the people who dwell by the Cave of the Patriarchs make pilgrimages to the grave of the Jewish murderer Baruch Goldstein, and sanctify his name in public; how the Torah handed down at Sinai authorized us to dispossess, deport and seal houses; and why a Hebron market street stands empty.
Shavuot is blessed with a beautiful megillah, the Book of Ruth. I sometimes wonder how Ruth managed to worm her way into the Book of Books; perhaps the Song of Songs paved the way for her. It could never happen today. The Education Ministry and Mercaz Harav would never consent, and the Culture and Sports Ministry would disqualify its candidacy for the Zionist Artwork Award.
That's all we need: For a complete goy - a Moabite, on top of all her other problems - to marry Mahlon, who, even though he has fallen low, is still a Jew. By what right did she cleave to Naomi - a healthy woman, after all, who doesn't need a Filipina in constant attendance - so that she could later seduce another wealthy Jewish man, thus enabling her to remain without a permit from the rabbis and without even a pro forma conversion? And how did it happen that "all the people" were happy and supportive, without a single opponent?
After all, even back then, they could have deported her as a foreign agricultural worker who had infiltrated into Israel by means of dubious paperwork.
And they would have left her great-grandson, David, without a chance of even being born, much less later being anointed as Israel's king.
As the holiday approached, I telephoned the Bialik-Rogozin School and asked to speak with Ruthie. She's an 11-year-old girl, a sixth-grader, with Ghanaian parents who work as cleaners. But don't think they - her mother and father - are innocents. For it's not by chance that they named their daughter Ruthie - Ruth, of all things - in order to remind us of, and make us mourn, what we have lost.
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