Middle East Watch

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• Rachel Corrie Family Finally Puts Israel in Dock

  10 mars 2010, par Jonathan Cook
  Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today. A judge in the northern Israeli city of Haifa was due to be presented with evidence that 23-year-old Corrie was killed unlawfully as she stood in the path of the bulldozer, trying to prevent it from demolishing Palestinian homes in Rafah. Corrie’s parents, Craig and Cindy, who arrived in Israel on Saturday, said they hoped (...)  suite
  

• U.S. gave Israel green light for East Jerusalem construction

  13 mars 2010, par Akiva Eldar
  The apology offered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Interior Minister Eli Yishai recalls the joke about the servant who pinched the king’s bottom. En route to the gallows, the servant apologized : He thought it was the queen’s bottom. The statement issued by Netanyahu’s bureau said that in light of the ongoing dispute between Israel and the United States over construction in East Jerusalem, the plans for new housing in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood should not have been approved this (...)  suite
  

• Colonisation à Jérusalem-Est : les condamnations pleuvent sur Israël

  10 mars 2010,
  Le vice-président américain, Joe Biden, a réaffirmé hier le soutien des États-Unis à un État palestinien « viable » lors d’une déclaration au côté du président Mahmoud Abbas à Ramallah, en Cisjordanie. « Tout le monde doit savoir qu’il n’y a pas d’alternative », a plaidé M. Biden au cours d’une visite dans les territoires palestiniens, en promettant à ses hôtes que « les États-Unis soutiendront ceux qui prennent les risques que requiert la paix ». Comme la veille, le dirigeant américain a accusé le gouvernement (...)  suite
  

• Peace not wanted

  4 mars 2010, par Gideon Levy
  Israel does not want peace with Syria. Let’s take off all the masks we’ve been hiding behind and tell the truth for a change. Let’s admit that there’s no formula that suits us, except the ludicrous "peace for peace." Let’s admit it to ourselves, at least, that we do not want to leave the Golan Heights, no matter what. Forget about all the palaver, all the mediations, all the efforts. Let’s face it, we don’t want peace, we want to run wild, to paraphrase an Israeli pop song from the ’70s. Don’t (...)  suite
  

• UN official to Haaretz : Israel ’nourishing despair’ in Gaza

  5 mars 2010, par Akiva Eldar
  The combination of diplomatic caution and British understatement threatened to turn my interview with John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, into a trap of boredom. However, perhaps due to his approaching retirement, Holmes came out with several incisive, even scathing remarks. This summer, after three and a half years in office, Holmes will return to Britain to head an important research institute. He no longer has to fear the (...)  suite
  

• A RENEWED ICAHD CALL FOR BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT AND SANCTIONS

  10 février 2010,
  The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) was one of the first Israeli organizations to endorse a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign, issuing its to the international community already in January, 2005. Over the past decade and a half ICAHD has played a key role in expanding the BDS campaign and working with groups around the world in identifying effective targets. This revised statement reaffirms ICAHD’s support for BDS as an instrument of Palestinian liberation (...)  suite
  

• Building international solidarity during Israeli Apartheid Week

  1er mars 2010, par Ilaria Giglioli
  In March 2005, a group of activists from the Arab Student Collective at the University of Toronto launched the first Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). The aim of the week was two-fold. On one hand, it sought to break the wall of silence and misrepresentation around what was happening in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip at the time of the second Palestinian intifada. On the other hand, it aimed to situate direct military violence against Palestinians within the broader context of Israel’s (...)  suite
  

• Bil’in, cinq ans de résistance au mur

  22 février 2010, par Sophie Janel
  Vendredi 19 février. Le soleil brille au-dessus du village de Bil’in, dans les territoires palestiniens occupés. Sur les toits des maisons, des enfants agitent des drapeaux palestiniens. À l’ombre de son keffieh rouge et blanc, lunettes de vue sur le nez, Amjed explique que « tous les vendredis, nous manifestons pour dénoncer le mur, mais aussi les colonies illégales et les actions de l’armée israélienne contre les Palestiniens ». En face de lui, deux affiches habillent une maison. L’une fait référence (...)  suite
  

• The Tide Has Changed

  par Gilad Atzmon
  London is ‘angry’ over the use of stolen identities by the Dubai assassins and points its finger at the Jewish state and its notorious Mossad espionage agency. The Israeli ambassador to Britain, Ron Prosor, was summoned yesterday by the foreign minister to “share information”. In practice Britain has stopped short of accusing Israel of involvement in the scandalous assassination, however to signal its displeasure the Foreign Office ignored an Israeli plea to keep the summons secret. "Relations (...)  suite
  

• Questioning the "Special Relationship" with Israel

  15 février 2010, par Stephanie Westbrook
  A "regional economic power." That’s how ANIMA, the Euro-Mediterranean Network of Investment Promotion Agencies encompassing 70 governmental agencies and international networks, described Israel in its January 2010 Mediterranean Investment Map. The report analyzed the economies of the 27 European Union countries as well as 9 "partner countries." And who can argue. Touting an annual GDP growth rate around 5% for the years 2004 to 2008, Israel was also ranked 27 out of 132 countries in the (...)  suite