Younis Tirawi | يونس sur X :
▻https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1785075803870404644
Israeli minister in defence and finance minister Smotrich tonight:
“Moments before redemption, we must not hesitate. We must destroy Rafah, Nusseirat, & Dir al-Balah ’wipe out the memory of #Amalek! …There’s no half- measure. Rafah, Dir al-Balah Nusseirat absolute destruction!”
Ça inquiète le Haaretz… apparemment parce que ça la fout mal par rapport à la CIJ.
Haaretz Editorial | Smotrich Must Pay the Price for His Repeated Calls for Genocide of Palestinians
▻https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2024-04-30/ty-article-opinion/smotrich-must-pay-the-price-for-his-repeated-calls-for-genocide-of-palestinians/0000018f-3084-d0b5-a59f-31c5ca320000
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a member of the security cabinet, ought to be fired immediately over his latest remarks. That’s how any properly run country would act, and all the more so a country against which the International Court of Justice in The Hague has issued provisional measures requiring it to refrain from genocide, including one requiring it to deal properly with incitement to genocide.
Pour ceux qui ne suivent pas : Smotrich avait précédemment menacé de faire sauter la coalition de Netanyahu s’il acceptait un accord sur les otages. Ce type est taré, mais ce type est indispensable à la survie politique de Netanyahu.
Par exemple ici il y a 3 jours :
▻https://www.leparisien.fr/international/israel/reddition-humiliante-liberation-des-otages-deux-responsables-israeliens-a
Talia Jane sur X :
▻https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1785090324399784030
Palestinian students at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany received an email from the school that they’ve been recategorized as “stateless” due to governmental “changes in the statistical requirements.”
Germany no longer recognizes Palestinian as a nationality.
Prem Thakker sur X ▻https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1785397144515469402
Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body.
SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand.
One doctor told him he’s lucky to be alive.
▻https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1785395358073266176/pu/vid/avc1/480x270/UgOa5f9xdZH0be1Z.mp4?tag=12
Jeet Heer sur X ▻https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1785436629655572647
A question I’d ask the American political elite is how many students and professors are you willing to beat into a pulp in order to shield Israel from perfectly legitimate criticism based on widely shared principles ?
« Apologie du terrorisme » : la journée kafkaïenne de La France insoumise
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/politique/300424/apologie-du-terrorisme-la-journee-kafkaienne-de-la-france-insoumise
Mardi, au même moment que Rima Hassan, Mathilde Panot, présidente du groupe LFI à l’Assemblée nationale, était elle aussi convoquée par une brigade criminelle pour une plainte similaire. Les raisons de son audition ? Avoir diffusé un communiqué de presse le 7 octobre dans lequel, comme le lui ont indiqué les policiers, le mot « terrorisme » ne figurait pas - le parti avait alors préféré employer l’expression « crime de guerre » pour qualifier la tuerie en Israël.
C’est, littéralement, être poursuivie pour quelque chose qu’on n’a pas dit.
Ah mais, si j’ai bon souvenir, concernant ce mot qu’on serait sommé de prononcer, Amnesty International a eu aussi son lot de calomnies dans la « politico-médiasphère » :
Faute d’une définition unanimement consacrée en droit international - boussole de notre organisation -, la politique d’Amnesty International est d’éviter de qualifier un groupe de « terroriste » sauf lorsque nous citons d’autres sources, comme par exemple des documents issus des Nations unies.
▻https://www.amnesty.fr/presse/face-a-une-inquietante-vague-de-denigrement-amnesty-international-france-rap
La même, dans l’article d’à côté :
Jusqu’où ira ce pouvoir ? Vont-ils convoquer pour apologie du terrorisme l’ONU, l’AFP ou encore Amnesty International qui refusent de qualifier de terroristes les organisations pour rester dans le cadre du droit international ?
►https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/politique/010524/mathilde-panot-denonce-une-fuite-en-avant-autoritaire
La brigade criminelle m’a tendu un tweet reprenant le communiqué du groupe parlementaire du 7 octobre 2023. J’ai demandé quelles phrases, mots, seraient concernés par une accusation aussi grave. Il m’a été répondu que c’était l’ensemble du communiqué. Dire « Israël/Palestine : pour une paix juste et durable. Stop à l’escalade » ou « il faut obtenir le cessez-le-feu » relèverait-il maintenant de l’apologie du terrorisme ?
[...]
je rappelle que les parlementaires sont protégés des poursuites depuis la Révolution française, non comme un privilège, mais pour assurer leur liberté de parole, l’indépendance de leur mandat et les protéger des pressions de l’exécutif.
Vous avez raison de pointer l’approche des élections européennes. La plainte à mon encontre date du 11 octobre, le lendemain de la parution de la circulaire d’Éric Dupond-Moretti qui incitait les parquets à poursuivre pour apologie du terrorisme les propos « même prononcés dans le cadre d’un débat d’intérêt général et se revendiquant comme participant d’un discours de nature politique ». Si j’avais vraiment commis une apologie du terrorisme, aurait-il attendu quasiment sept mois pour me convoquer ? Personne n’y croit. Cette convocation comme celle de Rima Hassan interviennent donc dans le cadre d’une instrumentalisation de la justice et de la police en vue d’un résultat électoral.
Je croyais que cette loi était réservée aux « terroristes » dits islamistes, mais il faut croire que ça ne sert surtout qu’a tenir le méchant peuple. Le prétexte du terrorisme est bien pratique..
asad abukhalil أسعد أبو خليل
▻https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1785418321405599883
No, you are the fluent Arabic speaker, so please inform us.
Et à nouveau, constater l’ubiquité des talking-points sionistes. La focalisation sur le terme « intifada » pour dénoncer les mouvements de protestation sur les campus apparaît exactement au même moment aux États-Unis, en Grande-Bretagne et en France. Piers Morgan utilise le même argument tout pété que Jean-Michel Apathie quasiment le même jour…
C’est absolument magique.
L’indispensable Caisses de grève rappelle à Françoise Degois qu’elle a bien dit ce qu’elle prétend n’avoir pas dit :
►https://twitter.com/caissesdegreve/status/1785416820989604179
▻https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1785416710792544256/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/xGs1oL_04Q4YuELU.mp4
Parmi les fondamentaux que cette période nous rappelle : le sionisme ne peut survivre que par le mensonge. Tout témoignage de la vérité fait immédiatement ressortir son illégitimité, parce que son application pratique conduit irrémédiablement au génocide de la population arabe palestinienne (dont le premier épisode de grande ampleur a été la nakba de 48) – donc on ment. Tout le temps.
Trucks bringing bodies and detainees into Gaza hold up aid, says UNRWA – Middle East Monitor
▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240430-trucks-bringing-bodies-and-detainees-into-gaza-hold-up-a
UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, told journalists on Tuesday that aid supplies into Gaza had improved in April but listed a series of ongoing difficulties, including regular crossing closures “because they (Israel) are dumping released detainees or dumping sometimes bodies taken to Israel and back to the Gaza Strip.”
Asked for more details, UNRWA spokesperson, Juliette Touma, said that Israel had sent 225 bodies to Gaza in three containers since December that were then transported by the UN Agency to local health authorities for burial, shutting the crossing temporarily. She did not have details of the circumstances of their deaths and said it was not UNRWA’s mandate to investigate.
WATCH: Palestine This Week: Committing national suicide to support a genocide
On the detainee transfers, some of which have been previously reported by Reuters, she said that they had been transferred from Israel back to Gaza “dozens of times”.
The US student Intifada: Palestine’s new soft power leverage
▻https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24649
Decades of Tel Aviv’s “nation branding” or soft power initiatives in the west, geared at deeply entrenching the notion of Israel as “the only democracy” in West Asia that shared the occident’s “Judeo-Christian values,” aimed to justify Washington’s unconditional support for the occupation state.
It took a show of Palestinian hard power, however, to unlock that narrative stranglehold in the west. Within weeks of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, western populations began for the first time to see the real face of Zionism – unleashed in an overwhelming military assault on Gaza’s hospitals, universities, infrastructure, and civilian populations.
Had Tel Aviv not reacted with unhinged “hard power,” western sentiment may have remained firmly with Israel. Instead, today, western populations have interacted profoundly with these horrifying scenes and with actual Palestinians on the ground in Gaza, galvanizing “soft power” support for the Palestinian cause across the globe.
West Asian wars could not achieve what footage out of Gaza has done: Not only are the two-state solution and the Palestinian cause back at the top of the international agenda, but the very viability of Israel’s colonial project is being discussed widely, and in incautious language, for the first time in the state’s short history.
Recognizing Palestine as a state
In the realm of soft power, the Palestinian resistance put Palestine back on the map. Today, Spain, Ireland, Malta, Slovenia, and Norway have shown a willingness to recognize the State of Palestine, a pivotal shift influenced by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the strategic failure of the once-vaunted Israeli military machine.
None of these diplomatic developments would have unfolded without Operation Al-Aqsa Flood triggering subsequent events.
Citing two US officials, Axios reports that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has asked the State Department to “conduct a review and present policy options on possible US and international recognition of a Palestinian state” after the war in Gaza.
Although no significant changes are expected anytime soon, the outlet notes that this signifies a possible shift in US foreign policy.
Even Britain, responsible for establishing the mandate that led to the creation of Israel, has expressed its readiness to recognize a Palestinian state soon after a ceasefire in Gaza without awaiting the conclusion of prolonged peace talks.
The impact of the Gaza war is further highlighted by the contrast in the UN Security Council’s votes: from a draft resolution in 2014 that received minimal support to a strong majority favoring Palestine’s full membership in April 2024 - with the US as the sole dissenting vote.
الضفة.. طلاب جامعيون يطردون وفدا أوروبيا من المتحف الفلسطيني | رأي اليوم
▻https://www.raialyoum.com/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b6%d9%81%d8%a9-%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d8%ac%d8%a7%d9%8
Des nouvelles du « reste du monde » :
Des étudiants palestiniens chassent une délégation diplomatique européenne hors du musée national à Ramallah (l’ambassadeur allemand était particulièrement visé).
L’autre extrait (sous l’autre lien) !
Les étudiants de Birzeit chassent l’ambassadeur allemand à cause du soutien de son pays au génocide à Gaza.
(Mais pourquoi nous haïssent-ils, comme se demandait l’orientaliste US Bernard Lewis ?)
طرد طلاب جامعيون، الثلاثاء، وفدا دبلوماسيا أوروبيا بينهم ألمان من مبنى المتحف الفلسطيني في بلدة بيرزيت قرب رام الله وسط الضفة الغربية، احتجاجا على دعمهم لإسرائيل في حربها ضد قطاع غزة.
وقال عمرو كايد مسؤول القطب (الذراع) الطلابي للجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين في جامعية بيرزيت، إن “عشرات الطلبة طردوا وفدا دبلوماسيا أوروبيا بينهم ألمان من مبنى المتحف الفلسطيني القريب من الحرم الجامعي”.
وأضاف كايد للأناضول، أن “المستهدف من الاحتجاج هو الوفد الألماني تحديدا لدوره الداعم لإسرائيل في حربها على قطاع غزة، وارتكابها الإبادة الجماعية”.
▻https://www.raialyoum.com/%d8%b7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d8%ac%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d9%8a%d8%b
طلاب جامعة بيرزيت بالضفّة يطردون السفير الألماني بفلسطين لموقف بلاده الداعم للإبادة الإسرائيلية في غزّة.. برلين زادت دعمها للكيان بحربه بعشرة أضعافٍ.. عندما طُرِد رئيس الوزراء الفرنسيّ من بيرزيت اعتذر له عرفات (فيديوهات)
La CPI va-t-elle émettre un mandat d’arrêt contre Nétanyahou ?
▻https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/conflit-la-cpi-va-t-elle-emettre-un-mandat-d-arret-contre-net
Israël était déjà visé par une procédure lancée par l’Afrique du Sud devant la Cour internationale de justice. Désormais, les responsables politiques et militaires israéliens craignent de faire sous peu l’objet de mandats d’arrêt émis par la Cour pénale internationale. Le quotidien israélien “Ha’Aretz” fait le point.
L’information selon laquelle Karim Khan, procureur général de la Cour pénale internationale [CPI], à La Haye, serait sur le point d’émettre des mandats d’arrêt contre de hauts responsables israéliens soupçonnés de crimes de guerre à Gaza, n’aura sans doute pas surpris outre mesure Gali Baharav-Miara, la procureure générale d’Israël. D’autant que cela fait plusieurs semaines que le ministère de la Justice [israélien] et les juristes de Tsahal se démènent pour empêcher que cela ne se produise.
Le Premier ministre, Benyamin Nétanyahou, le ministre des Affaires stratégiques, Ron Dermer, les États-Unis et d’autres États occidentaux [alliés d’Israël] s’efforcent eux-mêmes et par des manœuvres dilatoires de convaincre Karim Khan de reporter, voire d’empêcher, l’émission de mandats d’arrêt internationaux. Mais il n’est pas sûr que ces efforts portent leurs fruits.
En privé, de nombreux dirigeants israéliens admettent craindre que ces mandats d’arrêt soient émis dès cette semaine contre Nétanyahou, le ministre de la Défense, Yoav Gallant, et le chef d’état-major de Tsahal, Herzi Halevi. Les responsables de rang inférieur seraient, quant à eux, épargnés.
Contrairement à la Cour internationale de justice [CIJ], qui a entendu la plainte déposée par l’Afrique du Sud contre Israël et qui traite les différends entre États, la CPI traite les procédures contre des personnes. À l’instar des États-Unis, de l’Inde, de la Chine, de la Russie, de l’Iran et de la plupart des États arabes, Israël reconnaît la compétence de la CIJ mais pas celle de la CPI.
Pas moins de 124 États contre Israël ?
Si des mandats d’arrêt sont émis, les États qui reconnaissent la compétence de la CPI seront théoriquement tenus d’appréhender les accusés s’ils entrent sur leur territoire et de les livrer à La Haye. À ce jour, 124 pays reconnaissent la CPI, parmi lesquels tous les États membres de l’Union européenne, la plupart des États africains et latino-américains, l’Australie et la Nouvelle-Zélande, ainsi que deux États arabes : la Jordanie et la Tunisie.
Aucun mandat d’arrêt international n’a jamais été émis contre des responsables israéliens. Mais, aujourd’hui, selon l’ancien procureur général adjoint d’Israël Roy Schondorf, “ce risque est devenu plus crédible et pourrait en outre déboucher sur des mesures concrètes à l’encontre d’Israël, comme un embargo sur les armes ou des sanctions économiques”. (...)
#CPI
ICC faces threats from Congress over Israeli arrest warrants
►https://www.axios.com/2024/04/29/icc-congress-netanyahu-israel-gaza
The International Criminal Court is being warned by members of Congress in both parties that arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials will be met with U.S. retaliation — and legislation to that effect is already in the works, Axios has learned.
Si Karim Khan fait ça, ça sera un splendide cas de « From Zero to Hero ». (Même si j’en doute un peu, le gars est inexistant sur Gaza depuis des mois.)
J’ai du mal à trouver des sources sur ces arrestations. Et même quand c’est sourcé (« des responsables israéliens », les types disent plutôt s’« attendre », « craindre » ou « se préparer », mais pas être au courant de manière définitive).
Ils s’énervaient moins quand la CPI s’en prenait à Poutine !
▻https://spanish.almanar.com.lb/965252
Michael McCaul, presidente del Comité de Asuntos Exteriores de la Cámara de Representantes, también anticipó la presentación de un proyecto de ley de la Cámara que refleja la propuesta del senador Tom Cotton de imponer sanciones a los funcionarios de la CPI que forman parte de investigaciones dirigidas a EEUU y sus socios, dijo a Axios.
El representante Brad Sherman también dijo que EEUU debería “pensar si seguimos siendo signatarios” del Estatuto de Roma, el tratado que estableció la CPI. “Tenemos que pensar en hablar con algunos de los países que han ratificado (el tratado) para ver si quieren apoyar a la organización”, dijo.
Los legisladores demócratas proisraelíes, el representante Ritchie Torres y el senador John Fetterman, también han expresado su preocupación por posibles órdenes judiciales, instando a que tanto el Congreso como el presidente estadounidense Joe Biden tomen medidas para bloquearlas.
“Sé que el Congreso garantizará consecuencias para una decisión tan absurda”, dijo Sherman en una publicación en una plataforma de redes sociales.
El presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de EEUU, Mike Johnson, ha criticado las posibles órdenes de arresto calificándolas de “vergonzosas” e “ilegales”, advirtiendo sobre graves repercusiones si no se abordan.
“Si la administración Biden no la cuestiona, la CPI podría crear y asumir un poder sin precedentes para emitir órdenes de arresto contra líderes políticos, diplomáticos y personal militar estadounidenses”, dijo Johnson.
Instó a la administración Biden a “exigir inmediata e inequívocamente que la CPI se retire” y “utilice todas las herramientas disponibles para prevenir tal abominación.”
Israel’s war on Gaza live: 34 killed in Gaza strikes amid ceasefire talks | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera
▻https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/30/israels-war-on-gaza-live-34-killed-in-gaza-amid-ceasefire-negotiations
Journalism professors call on New York Times to review October 7 report
Fifty-nine journalism professors from top US universities have called on the New York Times to address questions about a report that described a “pattern of gender-based violence” in the October 7 attacks on Israel.
The professors said they felt the need to issue a letter to the newspaper after coming across “compelling reports” challenging the integrity of the story.
“The Times’ editorial leadership appears to have largely dismissed these reports and remains silent on important and troubling questions raised about its reporting and editorial processes,” they wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained and posted online by the Washington Post.
“We believe this inaction is not only harming The Times itself, it also actively endangers journalists, including American reporters working in conflict zones as well as Palestinian journalists (of which, the Committee to Protect Journalists estimates, around 100 have been killed in this conflict so far),” the professors said.
A spokeswoman for the Times said that the paper has “reviewed the work that was done on this piece of journalism and [we] are satisfied that it met our editorial standards”, the Post reported.
“We’ve Become Addicted to Explosions” The IDF Unit Responsible for Demolishing Homes Across Gaza - bellingcat
▻https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/29/weve-become-addicted-to-explosions-the-idf-unit-responsible-for-demolish
The constant repetition of images of destruction inside Gaza, where entire neighbourhoods have been turned into rubble, can result in desensitisation about the impact of the offensive.
Yet behind each ruined building, each demolished minaret, each pile of rubble, there is a decision and an action which has been carried out by a specific unit or person.
We used social media to track a single IDF combat engineering battalion, 8219 Commando, as they moved across Gaza, demolishing tunnels, houses, and mosques.
8219 Commando is a combat engineering battalion associated with 551 Commando Brigade and - as one of its members asks journalists to report - part of the 98th Division. We noticed that soldiers from 8219 openly posted about their experiences inside Gaza, providing a window into military operations that rarely opens when looking at official sources.
One member of 8219, a captain, wrote posts about his experience in the form of a war diary, noting where they were, and what they destroyed. These posts, combined with social media posts by other members of 8219, include videos, pictures and statements describing the unit’s experience of war. We geolocated each video or image of a demolition, verifying exactly where it took place. We then used satellite imagery from Planet Labs to determine when the demolition had occurred.
We used all these sources to build up a picture of where 8219 went, what it demolished and why.
[ …]
We asked Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on adequate housing and the Professor of Law and Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about the demolitions carried out by 8219 Commando. He told us that these demolitions were relevant to the ICJ case on genocide, supporting South Africa’s case that Israel was, in effect, rendering Gaza uninhabitable. He noted that even if it was not possible to establish genocidal intent, widespread destruction rendering a place uninhabitable could still amount to a crime against humanity.
Further, he noted that the “buffer zone” being cleared by the IDF along the border with Gaza doesn’t fit the definition of such zones within the Geneva Conventions and is effectively a “land-grab” taking approximately 16% of Gaza’s land.
[ …]
We asked the IDF about each one of these incidents. They did not respond to specific questions nor did they provide evidence showing why the buildings we highlighted were demolished. They told us the IDF is “destroying terror infrastructures” embedded in civilian areas and said that in certain cases large parts of neighbourhoods are converted into combat complexes. They said the IDF is operating in the Gaza Strip to prevent Hamas activity threatening Israeli citizens and implementing a defence plan to improve security in southern Israel. IDF actions are based on military necessity and in accordance with international law, they said.
“There is no IDF doctrine that aims [at] causing maximal damage to civilian infrastructure regardless of military necessity,” they said. Adding that exceptional incidents occurring during the war will be examined by the General Staff’s Fact-Finding and Assessment Mechanism. “The IDF addresses exceptional incidents that deviate from the order and expected values of IDF soldiers by examining such events and implementing command and disciplinary measures as necessary.”
je ne suis pas toujours fan de #bellingcat mais ils savent assembler les informations open source et les présenter, ici, (pour une fois ?), un ton « neutre »
Cerfia sur X : "🇨🇵🎙️FLASH | « On nous fait la guerre, il faut répondre par la guerre. » Frank Tapiro a annoncé la création d’une « armée citoyenne de défense de la diaspora juive » sur le sol français et partout ailleurs, avec l’aide d’un ministre israélien. " / X
▻https://twitter.com/CerfiaFR/status/1784217211449524536
▻https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1784172778029043712/pu/vid/avc1/1280x716/PzNSOr7w6hs5-x0i.mp4?tag=12
Médias : Apologie du terrorisme en continu - Contre Attaque
▻https://contre-attaque.net/2024/04/27/medias-apologie-du-terrorisme-en-continu
« On nous fait la guerre, il faut répondre par la guerre. J’ai décidé, et on est très nombreux en France, et avec le ministère israélien de la diaspora, de lancer la première armée citoyenne de défense de la diaspora juive ». Ce sont les mots de Frank Tapiro sur Radio J le samedi 27 avril 2024.
Daniel Schneidermann sur X : « Des nouvelles de Radio Mille Collines. » / X
▻https://twitter.com/d_schneidermann/status/1784818216335777795
Ah, y a pas que moi qui a la ref en tête chaque jour .
Israel uses foreign mercenaries in Gaza — Strategic Culture
▻https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/04/27/israel-uses-foreign-mercenaries-in-gaza
Des mercenaires kurdes à côté de l’ADI à Gaza ? (???)
Intending to use them in tunnels of Hamas, Israel offers Kurdish PKK terrorists $ 2,200 to join the frontlines in its genocidal war against Palestinians with thousands of terrorists and mercenaries already transported to Israel.
The Israeli government made a contract with PKK terrorists, with whom they agreed to a salary of 9 thousand Israeli shekels ( $2,200 ) in addition to $25,000 of compensation in case of death or injury.
Israel intends to use PKK terrorists in its land attack on Gaza as it does not want to send its own soldiers into the tunnels of Hamas. Nearly 2,000 terrorists and mercenaries from Europe, Iraq, Syria and the US have moved into Israel. Peshmerga forces from northern Iraq have also been sent to the frontlines in Israel.
Calls are being made to recruit militants to fight for Israel, and many organizations have been carrying out extensive activities, such as: the “Kurdish-Israeli Friendship Union” founded by Mordehay Zaken, the “Kurdish Institute” and the “Israeli Jewish Kurds” organization.
Israeli organizations have been negotiating with Peshmerga to send Kurds from northern Iraq to Israel, reminding them of the support given by the Tel Aviv regime to them since 1958.
In Ayn al-Arab, an Israeli colonel and his team of seven people have been carrying out activities to find people experienced in urban warfare. The mercenaries recruited from Iraq and Syria were given Israeli citizenship identities. These were then transported to Israel by three planes. The last flight took off on October 29 from Erbil. Eight of those whom Israel sent to the front were killed in Gaza.
Kurdish singer and actor, Idan Amedi, who plays in the Netflix TV series “Fauda”, announced that he voluntarily joined the IDF and shared images from the Gaza Strip. The IDF are using social media influencers like Amedi. Images of Amedi calling Kurds to kill Palestinian are broadcast on Israeli television. Meanwhile, Duran Kalkan, one of the ringleaders of the PKK in Qandil, blamed Hamas and made statements in favor of Israel.
There are a total of 4,600 foreign volunteers in the ranks of the Israeli forces, in addition to many dual citizens from all over the world, whether in active or reserve service.
Israel relies on private security contractors, most notably the local company Global CST. The mercenaries working for this company are accused of committing crimes against humanity in the conflicts in which they participated in Latin America, South Ossetia and Africa.
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said they have sent 2,000 mercenaries to Israel to fight in Gaza. The PKK is an international recognized terrorist organization which has killed over 30,000 people in Turkey over three decades.
The IDF are afraid to enter the tunnels dug by Hamas, and fear that they will not emerge from the tunnels alive, and for this reason they use PKK and other mercenaries for this purpose, and mercenary fighters from European countries, Iraq, Syria, and America have arrived in Israel.
The Kurdish PKK members sent to Israel are mainly from northern Iraq, and were sent with the help of Masoud Barzani. It is estimated that there are about 200,000 Kurdish Jews in the area, some of whom have been sent
The Curious Case of the Freedom Flotilla - Craig Murray
▻https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/04/the-curious-case-of-the-freedom-flotilla
In the 2010 Freedom Flotilla, the vessel Mavi Marmara was boarded by Israeli troops and ten aid workers were executed in cold blood. Just days before sailing, the Mavi Marmara had changed its flag from Turkey to the Comoros Islands.
On a vessel at sea outside the twelve mile territorial limit of a state (as the Mavi Marmara was when boarded), the law that applies is that of the flag state. Had the vessel still been Turkish flagged, the murderers would have been within Turkish jurisdiction and subject to investigation by Turkey and prosecution in Turkish courts.
I flew to Izmir to investigate the case and I concluded that it was Turkish security services who had obliged the change of flag to the Comoros Islands, thus facilitating the Israeli murderous attack.
Plainly the Mavi Marmara incident should indicate to organisers of aid to Gaza the vital necessity of having a vessel registered to a flag state which would be able to react strongly to an attack by Israel on its ship, and indeed whose flag might deter Israel from such an attack.
So it makes no sense to me that the organisers intended to proceed under the flag of Guinea Bissau.
On 8 April I received a Whatsapp message from organisers asking me to publicise the flotilla. This was my reply.
Hi Irfan and thank you. May I ask what are the flag states of the four vessels?
This is extremely important.
The Mavi Marmara organisers made the literally fatal mistake of allowing the ship to reflag to the Comoros Islands before sailing. Outside the 12 mile territorial sea the vessels are under the law of and entitled to the protection of the flag state
After a holding reply I received
Sorry for the late reply. It is still to be confirmed sir
I reiterated
OK, I am very keen that people understand that it is crucially important.
I have always believed pro Israeli security services influenced the change of flag of the Mavi Marmara.
Any Israeli forces boarding the ships beyond the 12 mile territorial limit are subject to the law of the flag state of the vessel. I should be grateful if you confirm to me the organisers fully understand this.
The reply was simply
Thank you sir
I am therefore entirely perplexed that the organisers went with Guinea Bissau as the flag state rather than a state likely to stand up to Israel and the US. Of course it failed.
Is the problem incompetence, or is it again security service influence?
I should make plain that I absolutely support the aims and the strategy of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. I have several friends on board, and I believe my good colleague Ann Wright is among the organisers. I am however intensely frustrated.
“These Thankless Deserts” - Winston Churchill and the Middle East : An Introduction
▻https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-196/churchill-and-the-middle-east-an-introduction
Voici le point de vue de la société Winston Churchill. A noter : La Déclaration Balfour de 1917 était le résultat d’une intrigue de Dr. Chaim Weizmann
Wikipedia nous informe que
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9claration_Balfour_de_1917#Contexte_strat%C3%A9gique_internation
Dès 1903 Herzl avait obtenu une lettre officielle du Foreign Office déclarant que la Grande-Bretagne acceptait un accord sur la création d’une colonie juive sous administration juive, document que Yoram Hazony juge « surpassant même la Déclaration Balfour ».
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Hazony (2007), p. 180 : « Lord Landsdowne est prêt à envisager favorablement ... un projet dont les caractéristiques principales sont l’octroi d’un vaste territoire, la nomination d’un responsable juif à la tête de l’administration (ayant) carte blanche en matière d’administration municipale, religieuse et purement intérieure » (voir lettre de Sir Clement Hill (en) à Leopold Greenberg (en), 14 août 1903. Repris in Die Welt, 29 août 1903)..
Churchill étant proche des sionistes travaillait depuis ce moment et jusqu’à la fin de sa vie en faveur de la colonisation juive d’une partie du territoire arabe sous mandat britannique. L’article contient quelques éléments qui ont pu le motiver à prendre cette position.
10.7.2023 by David Freeman - Finest Hour 196, Second Quarter 2022
During the First World War, the United Kingdom went to war against the Ottoman Empire, which had allied itself with the Central Powers of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Ottoman Empire traced its origins and its name back to the thirteenth-century Turkish Sultan Osman I.
Although once a great power controlling large sections of Europe, Africa, and Asia, the Ottoman Empire by the twentieth century had become known as the “sick man of Europe” and was much reduced in size. Nevertheless, the Turks still controlled nearly all of the lands of Arabia, including the Moslem Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. For centuries, the office of Sultan had been combined with that of the Caliph, the spiritual leader of the Moslem world.
All of this came to an end with Turkish defeat in the Great War. In 1915, the British attempted a quick thrust at the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (now known as Istanbul) with a plan strongly supported by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. The Dardanelles (or Gallipoli) campaign ended in failure. The British then turned to attacking the Turks from further out, along the frontiers of Arabia.
In control of Egypt since 1882, the British used the ancient land to launch an offensive against Gaza, which lay in Turkish-controlled Palestine near the Sinai border with Egypt. At the same time, the British opened talks with Emir Hussein ibn Ali Al-Hashimi, the Sharif of Mecca. The Sharifate included Mecca and Medina, both located in the western regions of Arabia known as the Hejaz. Although an Arab, Hussein served the Turks, his title of Sharif indicating descent from the Prophet Mohammad.
In 1916, the British induced Hussein to declare independence and establish himself as King of the Hejaz. In doing this, the British hoped to bring down the Ottoman Empire from within and minimize the resources they would need to commit to the region. The “Arab Revolt,” however, failed to attract the sort of support for which the British had been hoping.
Much more powerful among the Arabs than Hussein was Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, the dominant chieftain in the Nejd, the large, barren region of eastern Arabia. Ibn Saud was much more concerned with defeating his chief rival in the Nejd than making war against the Turks. And so, in the end, the British had to do most of their own fighting in the Middle East, using forces from Britain, India, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
Hussein had several sons. Of these, the one who worked most closely with the British during the war was Feisal, known variously as “Emir Feisal” and, after his father proclaimed himself king, “Prince Feisal.” In return for Arab support, the British made ambiguous promises about supporting the creation after the war of independent states, including the region of Palestine, which was vaguely understood to be the land around the Jordan River.
In the search for victory, however, the British also made promises in other directions. In 1916, Britain and France entered into an agreement that became known as the Sykes-Picot Treaty. The two imperial powers decided to carve up the Arab lands once the Turks were defeated. The French would take the northern regions of Syria and Lebanon, which might include Mosul and parts of Palestine, but which would definitely include Damascus. The British would take most of Palestine and Mesopotamia.
In 1917, the British entered into yet another potentially conflicting agreement. Even before 1914, the World Zionist Congress had begun to establish new settlements in Palestine, the ancient homeland of the Jewish people. During the war, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, a naturalized British citizen and a research chemist, provided vital assistance to the war effort as Director of the British Admiralty Laboratories (see FH 195). Weizmann skillfully used his influence to induce the British government to issue the Balfour Declaration, a letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild pledging support for the establishment “in Palestine for a national home for the Jewish people.”
Churchill and the Middle East
British map appended to 1921 Cabinet Memorandum showing proposed Mandates
In the final year of the war, British forces made major progress against the Turks. Starting from Basra, at the head of the Persian Gulf, the British swept up the valley of Mesopotamia and captured Baghdad. Under the leadership of Gen. Sir Edmund Allenby, the British Army finally took Gaza and pushed through to Jerusalem. In the interior, meanwhile, Arab forces carried out a guerrilla campaign against the Turks, assisted to a degree by a young archaeologist turned intelligence officer turned commando, T. E. Lawrence (see FH 119).
In the fall of 1918, the Ottoman Empire finally collapsed. Turkish forces remaining in Arabia hastily retreated, creating a vacuum. The Allies had not anticipated this, and Feisal seized the opportunity to establish himself in Damascus with the intention of ruling a new kingdom from the world’s oldest continually inhabited city. The French, however, insisted on their “rights” under the Sykes-Picot agreement, and the British had to acquiesce on the grounds that amity with the French was more important to the United Kingdom than amity with the Arabs.
The French, however, were not to be altogether satisfied. President Wilson of the United States insisted that the Allies were to gain no territory from the defeated Central Powers. Instead the former colonies of Germany and Turkey would come under the authority of the League of Nations, which would assign the various territories to member states with a “mandate” to assist the native populations towards self-government. At least in theory, French and British authority in the Middle East was supposed to be only temporary.
For the most part, the British were anxious to exit their mandates as soon as possible. British forces in Mesopotamia were made unwelcome by the locals, who were also bitterly divided against one another. Chaos prevailed, and British troops were regularly ambushed and killed in what Churchill called “these thankless deserts.” The cost of military operations became a primary concern to Churchill after the Armistice, when he became Secretary of State for War and was told by Prime Minister David Lloyd George that his paramount responsibility had to be reduction of expenditure.
By 1920, Churchill came to believe that reducing military spending in the Middle East required the establishment of an Arab Department within the Colonial Office, which could work to settle the grievances of the Arabs and thereby reduce hostilities in the region. He lamented the price in blood and treasure that Britain was paying to be “midwife to an ungrateful volcano” (see FH 132). After Lloyd George agreed to Churchill’s proposal, the Prime Minister invited his War Secretary to move to the Colonial Office and supervise the settlement process himself.
Churchill became Secretary of State for the Colonies early in 1921 and immediately called for a conference to take place in Cairo that March. Altogether forty key people involved with Britain’s Middle Eastern affairs gathered for what Churchill jestingly called a meeting of the “forty thieves.” Out of this emerged what became known as the “Sharifian” solution.
Hussein would continue to be recognized as King of the Hejaz. His son Feisal, driven from Damascus by the French, would be set up in Baghdad as King of Iraq, as Mesopotamia was formally renamed. Palestine would be divided along the line of the Jordan. The eastern side, or “Trans-Jordania” (later shortened to Jordan), would become an Arab kingdom under Feisal’s elder brother Abdullah. Churchill argued that the advantage of this would be that pressure applied in any one of the three states would also be felt in the other two. Ibn Saud, to keep the peace, would be given a healthy subsidy by the British government.
The western side of Palestine remained under British mandate authority so as to fulfill the pledge made by the Balfour Declaration. Although the Arabs of Palestine (i.e., the Palestinians) protested against this, Churchill curtly rejected their representations during a visit to Jerusalem after the Cairo Conference ended. Churchill did not foresee Jewish immigration overtaking the Palestinian population and naively believed that the two groups, along with Arab Christians, would work together to create a peaceful, prosperous, secular Palestinian state. Churchill was not always right.
In June 1921, Churchill made a lengthy speech to the House of Commons in which he outlined his settlement and the reasons behind it (see p. 38). This would be the longest statement Churchill ever made about the Middle East and its peoples. Over the following year and a half, he supervised the implementation of the decisions made at Cairo and approved by Parliament. The process was not without incident—Feisal was in a precarious position in Baghdad and constrained to demonstrate his independence—but went generally according to plan before Churchill and his Liberal party were driven from power late in 1922.
Churchill’s most dedicated period of involvement with the Middle East ended with his tenure at the Colonial Office, but he continued to monitor events. The short-lived Kingdom of Hejaz ended when it was overrun in 1924 by the forces of ibn Saud, who unified the region with the Nejd to create the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Hussein went into exile, later to be buried in Jerusalem. After returning to Parliament as a Conservative, Churchill remained a supporter of Zionism and strongly objected when the government of Neville Chamberlain acted to restrict Jewish immigration into Palestine, even as Nazi Germany was forcing Jews in Europe to flee for their lives.
During the Second World War, the Middle East became a critical zone for the Allies. The Suez Canal linked Britain with India and the Antipodes, and Egypt was a base from which to fight the Axis powers directly when first Italy and then Germany began offensive operations in North Africa. As Prime Minister, Churchill travelled to Cairo several times during the war. In 1945 it was where he last met with President Roosevelt and first met with ibn Saud. After a cabal of pro-fascist army officers seized control of the government in Baghdad in 1941, Churchill supported a bold and successful move to reestablish an Iraqi government friendly to Britain.
Although out of office when Israel declared independence in 1948, Churchill expressed the view to his old friend and fellow Zionist Leo Amery that it was “a big event…in history” and “all to the good that the result has come about by fighting” (see FH 178). It also pleased Churchill that Weizmann became the first President of Israel and that the nation’s leading technical university chose to name its auditorium for the former British Prime Minister who had supported Zionism at a crucial moment (see FH 195).
One hundred years on, the decisions that Churchill made about the Middle East continue to affect the world today.
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April 26, 2023
Winston Churchill’s 1922 White Paper for Palestine
Finest Hour 196, Second Quarter 2022
Page 32 - By Sarah Reguer
▻https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-196/we-tender-our-most-grateful-thanks/?highlight=Dr.+Chaim+Weizmann
(...) At the end of 1921 Churchill did act on issues connected with the Palestine garrison, but High Commissioner Samuel kept writing about the need for a clear political policy, since the political status was still not regularized by a formal document, either a British one or one from the League of Nations.
Memoranda arrived from Samuel, from leading members of the Colonial Office’s advisory board, from Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, and from the Arab delegation. On 11 August, Churchill wrote an introduction to a Palestine memorandum that was not very encouraging nor optimistic. “The situation in Palestine causes me perplexity and anxiety,” he began.1 “The whole country is in a ferment. The Zionist policy is profoundly unpopular with all except the Zionists.” Both sides were arming, elective institutions were refused in the interests of the Zionist policy, “and the high cost of the garrison is almost wholly due to our Zionist policy.”2 Meanwhile, even the Zionists were discontented at the lack of progress and the “chilling disapprobation” of the British officials and the military. (...)
Israel rebukes US calls for investigation into mass graves in Gaza - POLITICO
▻https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/26/israel-mass-graves-gaza-00154696
Israel’s military says it already looked into reports of mass graves and found no wrongdoing by its forces, even as the Biden administration calls for an investigation into the matter.
Over the past few days, U.S. officials, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan, have called for Israel to “thoroughly and transparently” investigate reports of mass graves at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which Israeli forces last raided in February. The State Department came under fire from advocates for refusing to call for an independent investigation, instead saying the U.S. will press Israel for information.
When POLITICO asked Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Nadav Shoshani whether Israel plans on investigating, he at first waived off the question, calling the reports “fake news.”
Asked if that means Israel won’t investigate the mass grave reports, Shoshani said: “Investigate what?” He then added that Israel has already looked into the matter and found that there was no wrongdoing. “We gave answers. We don’t bury people in mass graves. Not something we do.”
Shoshani didn’t provide details of that investigation or who Israel provided answers to specifically.
“The Israelis have told us privately what they’ve said publicly, that they totally reject the allegations,” said a U.S. official, granted anonymity to detail private conversations. “We aren’t in a position to validate that, and would like a thorough and transparent investigation into the reports.” The White House and the State Department declined to comment.
At least two of the three burial sites were dug prior to Israeli troops arriving, The New York Times reported. But the Gaza Civil Defense said only about 100 people were buried in graves before the IDF raid, and a total of 392 bodies were recovered.
Lebanon: Ministerial Decision Advances Justice | Human Rights Watch
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/27/lebanon-ministerial-decision-advances-justice
Lebanon’s Council of Ministers issued a decision on April 26, 2024, instructing the Foreign Affairs Ministry to file a declaration with the International Criminal Court (ICC) registrar accepting the court’s jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute crimes within the court’s jurisdiction on Lebanese territory since October 7, 2023.
Johann Soufi - X :
▻https://twitter.com/jsoufi/status/1783999652582379867
Politiquement cela signifie que le Hezbollah a donné son accord, car ses membres seraient aussi susceptibles d’être poursuivis pour des crimes relevant du Statut. Si la déclaration se confirme, c’est un développement considérable pour la justice internationale au Moyen-Orient !
Gaza, 1956 le constat du général Moshe Dayan. - Diversité performance
▻https://diversite-performance.com/2024/03/30/gaza-1956-le-constat-du-general-moshe-dayan
Pour ne pas risquer de tomber sous le coup de l’apologie du terrorisme, citez Moshe Dayan...
“Ne blâmons pas ces meurtriers aujourd’hui. Que pouvons-nous dire à l’encontre de leur haine terrible envers nous ? Depuis huit ans maintenant, ils restent dans le camp de réfugiés de Gaza et nous voient transformer sous leurs yeux leur terre et leurs villages, où leurs ancêtres et eux-mêmes résidaient auparavant, pour en faire notre foyer.
▻https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Dayan
Enfance
Moshe Dayan naît dans le kibboutz Degania, situé en Palestine alors sous domination ottomane, non loin du lac de Tibériade. Ses parents, Devorah et Shmuel Dayan, étaient des juifs ukrainiens de Jachkiv, ville située alors dans l’Empire russe. À l’âge de 14 ans, il rallie la Haganah puis est affecté aux « Special Night Squads » dans les rangs desquels il sera marqué par l’influence du major Orde Charles Wingate, un officier britannique pro-sioniste, et qui instillera à l’embryon d’armée juive la doctrine visant à « porter le combat au cœur du secteur d’activité de l’ennemi » plutôt que de privilégier la « défense statique ».
Premiers combats
Au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est intégré dans les forces britanniques durant deux ans, puis intégré dans la 7e Division d’infanterie australienne, qui combat les forces de Vichy en Syrie. C’est durant cette période qu’il perd l’usage de son œil gauche, par l’enfoncement du binoculaire de ses jumelles, atteint par une balle ennemie. Après cette blessure, il porte un cache-œil. Dayan est décoré à l’issue de la guerre, par l’armée britannique.
Lecture du journal d’un Gazaoui interdite par la Direction Académique du Gard | Le Club
▻https://blogs.mediapart.fr/enerv/blog/270424/lecture-du-journal-dun-gazaoui-interdite-par-la-direction-academique
Ainsi donc, la Direction Académique du Gard a décidé de priver les étudiants et les étudiantes du lycée hôtelier Marie-Curie de St-Jean-du-Gard, de la lecture d’extraits du journal de Hossam Al-Madhoun, publié sous le titre de Je vous écris de Gaza sous les bombes.
Ainsi donc, cette Direction a estimé qu’un témoignage spontané, sans intermédiaire, d’un homme relatant ses souffrances, ses angoisses, son désespoir et souvent sa révolte devant le sort que lui, sa famille, sa femme, sa mère, sa fille subissent depuis 150 jours, sous les bombes qu’ils fuient par tous les moyens imaginables, ne devait pas être transmis à des jeunes gens et jeunes filles que l’Education nationale a pourtant la mission de former.
Ainsi donc, le récit de la lutte opiniâtre au jour le jour, de cet homme pour survivre dans une guerre qu’il n’a ni engagée, ni voulue ne peut être porté à l’éveil et à la conscience d’élèves adolescents.
Ainsi donc, relater les ravages de la barbarie, d’où qu’elle provienne, est proscrit ? On ne pourrait s’y attacher qu’en opposant et en mesurant des barbaries réciproques, équivalentes… peu ou prou justifiées ? Est-ce ainsi que les hommes vivent ? Est-ce ainsi qu’il faut faire l’impasse sur l’humanité ?
Qui est Hossam Al-Madhoun ? Un intellectuel gazaoui d’une cinquantaine d’années, comédien, metteur en scène depuis des décennies, membre, avec son épouse Abeer, d’ONG qui s’attachent à apporter un soutien quotidien, psychologique et culturel à une jeunesse de Gaza confrontée, sans cesse, à des conditions de vie écrasantes.
En soi, Hossam est un homme dont l’action, si elle se passait ici, en France, serait saluée, applaudie. C’est cet homme-là que la Direction Académique a décidé de censurer.
Et au nom de quels arguments ?
« De la délicatesse du sujet » !
(...)
Signataires :
Jean Delval, Philippe Lefevre, Danièle Ricaille, Dominique Roland, René Vincendet
UK forces may be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid
▻https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68909511
En toute innocence.
British troops could be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid via a new sea route, the BBC has learned.
The US has said no American forces would go ashore and an unnamed “third party” would drive trucks along a floating causeway onto the beach.
The UK is understood to be considering tasking British troops with this when the aid corridor opens next month.
Whitehall sources said no decision had been made and the issue had not yet crossed the prime minister’s desk.
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt sur X :
▻https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/1784001112124932600
An NBC News investigation into seven deadly airstrikes has found Palestinians were killed in areas of southern Gaza that the Israeli military had explicitly designated as safe zones.
@HalaGorani reports from Israel.
▻https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1783996784525918208/vid/avc1/1280x720/_2G6BfEBdHsgmrwA.mp4?tag=14
UK military support for Israel’s genocide was pre-planned
▻https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-military-support-for-israels-genocide-was-pre-planned
Since the onslaught began, the Royal Air Force has flown dozens of spy missions over Gaza and at least six Israeli military personnel have received training in the UK.
Nine Israeli military planes have visited Israel, with the British government refusing to say what is on board. Declassified has also found that the US military has been supplying weapons to Israel using the UK’s base on Cyprus.
None of this has troubled the UK national media. But all of it is consistent with the pledges contained in the Roadmap.
This month, the RAF even flew to Israel’s defence by shooting down drones from Iran – which were launched in retaliation for Israel’s illegal attack on Iran’s consulate in Damascus, Syria.
In a separate section on Iran, the Roadmap states that “we work closely to counter the current threat from Iran” and that “we will seek to counter Iran’s destabilising regional activity”.
“We will work to ensure Iran never has nuclear weapon capabilities”, adds the accord between the two nuclear weapons powers.
Protecting Israel globally
The 2023 Roadmap goes way beyond a previous memorandum of understanding between the UK and Israel signed in 2021.
It explicitly states the two countries are “natural allies” – ignoring Israel’s pariah status among much of the rest of the world due its illegal occupation of the West Bank and “apartheid” system discriminating against Palestinians.
Notably, the Roadmap has a section entitled “Antisemitism, delegitimisation, and anti-Israel bias” whose wording directly prophesies Britain’s extraordinary apologias for Israel’s Gaza atrocities in international fora.
It calls for “tackling the disproportionate focus on Israel in the UN and other international bodies, including attempts to delegitimise it or deny its right to self-defence. All states have a duty to comply with their obligations under international law, but scrutiny must be measured, impartial and proportionate.”
Since Israel’s attacks, British ministers have thoroughly put this into practice. They have consistently apologised for Israel’s atrocities in the name of “self-defence” and have repeatedly point blank refused to condemn Israel’s violations of international law.
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The Coming Arab Backlash : Middle Eastern Regimes—and America—Ignore Public Anger at Their Peril
▻https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/coming-arab-backlash
Je n’ai repris que la fin de cet article exceptionnellement important. A mes yeux, Marc Lynch est un des tous meilleurs analystes étasuniens sur le monde arabe. Ces analyses sur les révoltes arabes de 2011 ont démontré leur pertince.
The Arab media, which had been badly fragmented and politically polarized during the previous decade’s intraregional political wars, has largely reunited in defense of Gaza. Al Jazeera is back, reliving its glory days through round-the-clock coverage of the horrors there, even as its journalists have been killed in action by Israeli forces. Social media is back, too—not the corpse of Twitter or the woefully censored Facebook and Instagram, so much as newer apps such as TikTok, WhatsApp, and Telegram. The images and videos emerging from Gaza overwhelm the spin offered by Israel and the United States and easily bypass soft-pedaled coverage by Western news outlets. People see the devastation. Every day they confront scenes of unbelievable tragedy. And they know victims directly. They do not need the media to understand WhatsApp messages from terrified Gazans or to view the horrifying videos widely circulating on Telegram.
Arab activists and intellectuals have been developing powerful arguments about the nature of Israel’s domination of the Palestinian territories and these are entering the Western discourse in new ways. The case South Africa brought to the International Court of Justice, alleging an Israeli genocide in Gaza, introduced many of those arguments into circulation across the global South and within international organizations. It did so by referencing not only the statements of Israeli leaders but also conceptual frameworks about occupation and settler colonialism developed by Arab and Palestinian intellectuals. The war of ideas that the United States sought to wage in the Muslim world after 9/11, claiming to bring freedom and democracy to a backward region, has reversed course, with the United States on the defensive because of its hypocrisy in demanding condemnation of Russia’s war on Ukraine while supporting Israel’s war on Gaza.
A REGION ADRIFT
This is all happening in an era characterized, even before the Israel-Hamas war, by the declining primacy of the United States and the rising autonomy of regional powers. Leading Arab states have increasingly sought to demonstrate their independence from the United States, building strategic relations with China and Russia and pursuing their own agendas in regional affairs. The willingness of Arab regimes to defy U.S. preferences was a hallmark of the previous decade, as Gulf states ignored American policies toward democratic transition in Egypt, flooded weapons into Syria despite Washington’s caution, and lobbied against the nuclear agreement with Iran. This willingness to flout the United States’ wishes has become even more apparent following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The past two years have seen most Middle Eastern regimes refusing to vote with Washington against Russia, and Saudi Arabia declining to follow the United States’ lead on oil pricing.
Washington’s unblinkered support for Israel in its devastation of Gaza, however, has brought long-standing hostility toward U.S. policy to a head, and triggered a crisis of legitimacy that threatens the entire edifice of historic U.S. primacy in the region. It is difficult to exaggerate the extent to which Arabs blame the United States for this war. They can see that only U.S. weapons sales and United Nations vetoes allow Israel to continue its war. They are aware that the United States defends Israel for actions that are the same as those the United States condemned Russia and Syria for. The extent of this popular anger can be seen in the disengagement of a large number of young workers in nongovernmental organizations and activists from U.S.-backed projects and networks built up over decades of public diplomacy, a development cited by Annelle Sheline in her principled resignation from her post as a foreign affairs officer at the State Department in March.
The White House is still acting as if none of this really matters. Arab regimes will survive, anger will fade or be redirected to other issues, and, in a few months, Washington can get back to the important business of Israeli-Saudi normalization. That is how things have traditionally worked. But this time may well be different. The Gaza fiasco, at a moment of shifting global power and changing calculations by regional leaders, shows how little Washington has learned from its long record of policy failures. The nature and degree of popular anger, the decline of U.S. primacy and the collapse of its legitimacy, and Arab regimes’ prioritization of their domestic survival, as well as regional competition, suggests that the new regional order will be much more attentive to public opinion than the old. If Washington continues to ignore public opinion, it will doom its planning for after the war ends in Gaza.