Middle East Watch

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• B’tselem : Gaza, 95% of factories are closed, 93% of water is polluted

  14 juin 2010, par Haitham Sabbah
  Most of Gaza’s factories have closed and its water is polluted as a result of Israel’s siege policy, according to a new report being released today by the Israeli Human Rights group – B’tselem. The siege policy has "led to economic collapse in Gaza," B’tselem noted in a 44-page report (PDF) that looked at Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem during the period from January 2009 to the end of April 2010. Following is a summery of this report : * The prohibition on bringing in raw (...)  suite
  

• A powerful but masochistic expression of gratitude by the USA to Israel

  par Mark Glenn
  Today, while driving through town, I wound up behind a minivan that had a big sticker on the back. The sticker had an Israeli flag in the middle of it and under it the quotation from the book of Genesis that reads "I will bless those who bless thee." I would like to take this time to list my own reasons for thanking and blessing Israel, our lone ally in the Middle East, for everything she has done for us, since I am quite sure most Americans are unaware of just what kind of friend she has (...)  suite
  

• Israel’s Policy of Killing Civilians

  2 juin 2010, par Paolo Barnard
  Translated in English from Italian by Gulagnik’s Diego Traversa for http://gulagnik.wordpress.com and www.palestinethinktank.com Killing civilians has been State policy in Israel since 1948 (and, prior to that, of Zionism). It’s not about “tragic mistakes”, there’s no “deep regret for the incident”. Killing civilians is what Israel has founded itself on with the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and this is what allows it to live. What is to be added to this is the outright impunity Israel enjoys due (...)  suite
  

• Le chemin de justice

  4 juin 2010, par Dominique de Villepin
  L’arraisonnement brutal du Mavi-Marmara, chargé de civils, dans les eaux internationales, semble nous prouver une fois de plus l’impuissance du droit et de la raison. Derrière ce drame, se pose à nous la question occultée du sort de Gaza. Rien ne saurait justifier qu’on prenne en otage une population d’un million et demi d’hommes, de femmes, d’enfants dans une ville asphyxiée. Censé discréditer le Hamas, le blocus n’a fait que renforcer l’image de martyr dont se pare le mouvement. La marginalisation (...)  suite
  

• Western leaders are too cowardly to help save lives

  1er juin 2010, par Robert Fisk
  Has Israel lost it ? Can the Gaza War of 2008-09 (1,300 dead) and the Lebanon War of 2006 (1,006 dead) and all the other wars and now yesterday’s killings mean that the world will no longer accept Israel’s rule ? Don’t hold your breath. You only have to read the gutless White House statement – that the Obama administration was "working to understand the circumstances surrounding the tragedy". Not a single word of condemnation. And that’s it. Nine dead. Just another statistic to add to the (...)  suite
  

• Nakbah 2010

  27 mai 2010, par Ilan Pappe
  La dépossession du peuple palestinien qui a commencé avec les massacres et les expulsions de 1948 se poursuit aujourd’hui avec le siège de Gaza et la « judaïsation » de Jérusalem et de la Cisjordanie. Tout suit un plan de « nettoyage ethnique », écrit Ilan Pappe dans cette tribune libre. Plus les années passent, plus il devient clair que le plus grand défi auquel nous sommes confrontés est la triste réalité que la Nakbah n’est pas terminée. Et quand je dis « nous » je veux dire tous ceux qui (...)  suite
  

• NATO’s other member state

  26 mai 2010, par David Cronin
  Israel’s worst-kept secret has finally been revealed. Documents published in recent days show that Israel not only has nuclear weapons — something it has never officially acknowledged — but that it considered selling them to South Africa’s white minority government in 1975. The evidence — contained in Sasha Polakow-Suransky’s new book The Unspoken Alliance : Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa — appears strong and credible. But will it cause Europe and America to rethink (...)  suite
  

• "L’embargo accentue le fossé entre la population palestinienne et le monde occidental"

  25 mai 2010, par Christophe Oberlin
  Interview réalisée par Belkacem Adda Benyoussef et Chris Den Hond, avril 2010. "Trois fois par an, depuis 9 ans, je me rends à Gaza avec mes équipes. C’est pour travailler, mais à chaque fois, on prend un peu la température de l’opinion et on voit cette opinion se modifier au fait des mois et des années. Et actuellement la température de l’opinion à Gaza n’est pas très bien retranscrite dans nos médias. Le grand clivage, le décalage s’est constitué très précisément à partir de février 2006, quand le (...)  suite
  

• Israel’s Nukes Out of the Shadows

  26 mai 2010, par Jonathan Cook
  Israel faces unprecedented pressure to abandon its official policy of “ambiguity” on its possession of nuclear weapons as the international community meets at the United Nations in New York this week to consider banning such arsenals from the Middle East. Israel’s equivocal stance on its atomic status was shattered by reports on Monday that it offered to sell nuclear-armed Jericho missiles to South Africa’s apartheid regime back in 1975. The revelations are deeply embarrassing to Israel given (...)  suite
  

• In the Zionist Entity:The Authorities and the Public would prefer to outlaw Human Rights Organizations !!!

  25 mai 2010, par Adib Kawar
  “Promised Land”– news and opinion from Israel – Ma’ariv (p. 12) by Arik Bender, wrote an article dated April 29th 2010 entitled Knesset moves to outlaw human rights organizations in Israel, “Something very troubling is happening to “the only democracy in the Middle East”. “More than 20 MKs, including members of opposition party Kadima, proposed a new bill which will make it possible to outlaw important human rights groups in Israel. Among the organizations mentioned in the proposed bill are Doctors (...)  suite