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refugees, who were kicked out of their homes by force in 1947 and 48 and again in 1967 after the 67 war. I personally agree with that. I think that to be turfed out of where you have lived and where your family have lived for hundreds of years is wrong.Loud applause.So thats it in a nutshell...I have engaged in a correspondence with some of Radiohead, and they seem to have decided that theyre going to go ahead and do a concert in Tel Aviv, so theres very little more that I can say on the matter. They have to make up their own minds about what they decide to do with their lives and they have to go wherever their conscience lead them. So Im not going to sit here and badmouth them or harangue them. My personal view is that theres a valid and legitimate picket line that has been organized by BDS, and I would prefer it if colleagues in my business do not cross that picket line. But if people choose to, that is entirely a matter for them and their own consciences.More applause.One more (question). I hope its musical! Pareles says.Good for the Times for staging the Waters event, with the inevitable risk that he would come forth with such an eloquent statement, and folks would applaud him. Another sign of breakage. A lot of the comments at Youtube are pro-Israel, and scorbutic.Now: Look at that letter Waters co-signed urging Radiohead to stay home. Look at the signatories. Geoff Dyer, Juliet Stevenson, James Schamus, Bella Freud, Mike Leigh, Eve Ensler, Julie Christie, Remi Kanazi, Desmond Tutu, Alice Walker and others. That is some collection of serious folks.. Richard Falk: Israels New Cultural War of Aggression. . E.I.:France's Macron dumps parliamentary candidate after Israel lobby pressure. . Aida Qasim: A poem on the 25th day of the Palestinian prisoner hunger strike. . Lisa Goldman: Israeli sniper shoots dead unarmed Palestinian at West Bank demonstration. . Breaking the Silence: If you served in the army, you know: Breaking the Silence is telling the truth about the occupation. Leading Christian cleric joins Palestinian prisoners' hunger strikeOCHA Palestinian Center for Human RightsInternational Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. FreedomBreaking the Silence BRASIL - DIRETAS, JA!Caros Amigos The Intercept Brasil Jornalistas Livres (@j_livres) | Twitter. Um ano de Temer em 10 ataques a Constituicao
are violentlydispersed by the military forces. Within the Green Line, themilitarized Israeli police force often treats Palestinian protestors moreharshly than it does their Jewish counterparts, executing mass arrests andusing violence to suppress demonstrations. More recently, the March of Return,which takes place every year to commemorate the Nakba, was almost canceledby the police. They claimed technical issues, when in reality,the reasons were more likely political, as the Nakba and its commemoration areconsidered a taboo in Israeli political culture." Fady Khoury is a human rights lawyer and a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School. The Deportees . Jordan Stapleton: My first trip to Palestine.. Jonathan Cook: Israel Tutors Children in Fear and Loathing. . Asa Winstanley: Refugee return to Palestine is practical as well as just.. Ylenia Gostoli: How Israel is targeting Palestinian institutions.B'Tselem: Israel controls all West Bank entrance and exit points, so any Palestinian departure from the West Bank requires Israeli approval. As Israel autjorities by and large deny Palestinians international travel via its sea ports or its airport, the only avenu available to them is the Allenby Bridge Border Crossing, located about 5 km east of Jericho. Even with the free pass, no Palestinian can be sure of being able to cross. Afterwards, the Palestinian traveller meets trouble to come back home. Many never manage.Inside Story: What is behind Palestinians hunger strike?OCHA Palestinian Center for Human RightsInternational Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. FreedomBreaking the Silence A depiction of Palestinian reality under the Israeli occupation, the need to end the longest occupation in modern history. It's time to recognize the State of Palestine in the 1967 frontier.BRASIL - DIRETAS, JA!Caros Amigos The Intercept Brasil Jornalistas Livres (@j_livres) | Twitter. Um ano de Temer em 10 ataques a Constituicao Quem ainda nao viu, veja(Nao que a Globo tenha virado anti-golpista, e sim que deu-se conta que embarcou em uma canoa furadisima e agora esta querendo livrar sua barra e substituir o Temer por alguem de aparencia menos desrespeitavel, Henrique Meirelles, sobre quem grandes duvidas sobre o BNDS pairam.)
family visits once every two weeks. However, in reality, because Palestinians from the Occupied Palestinian Territories must apply for permits to enter Israel, they can visit much less frequently. The Israeli Prison Service regulations also allow the authorities to rescind a prisoners right to family visits on security grounds. Gaza prisoners continue to be most affected by Israeli restrictions as the Israeli military grants permits to families from the Strip only once every two months. This policy affects around 365 prisoners from Gaza currently detained in Israel.In addition, Hamas prisoners along with other prisoners living in the same prison wings, are only permitted one monthly visit, irrespective of where they come from.Palestinian Children Prisoners: Stone Cold Justice Former Northern Irish hunger strikers explain how hunger strikes work and the goals they set to achieve throughout. Thanks to Middle East Eye for publishing this post: Former Israeli Defense Minister confirmed Israeli collaboration with ISIS in Syria. Bogie Yaalon served as defence minister in the current Israeli government till he had a falling out with Netanyahu in May 2016. In the midst of complaining about the Islamist threat to Israel and the world, Binyamin Netanyahu conveniently forgets that his own country enjoys a tacit alliance with ISIS in Syria. It is an alliance of convenience to be sure and one thats not boasted about by either party. But is not terribly different from one than Israel enjoys with its other Muslim allies like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. Na Argentina, Ilan Pappe resume a hasbara - legendado em espanholOCHA Palestinian Center for Human RightsInternational Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. FreedomBreaking the Silence BRASIL - DIRETAS, JA!Caros Amigos The Intercept Brasil "Vou condenar Jose Dirceu mesmo sem provas, porque a literatura me permite" Lancamento do Projeto Brasil NacaoE Luiz Lindbergh puxa o PT para a esquerda
of communication and, at times, negotiation around complex issues replete with risk for hosts and guests alike. After all, when these channels close, civilians die and refugees flee by the millions only to become stateless... and vulnerable for generations to come. It is the nature of todays political warfare by proxy.Indeed, Doha has long been home to the political leadership of Hamas, a resistance movement seen throughout the region, and much of the world, not as a terrorist group but rather a national liberation movement. Doha has also developed increasing ties to Iran as a result of a mutual security agreement signed in 2010. . . and a joint economic venture involving natural gas.In other ways, Qatar has proven itself light years ahead of its contemporaries. Rich with integrated universities, controversial academics, human rights groups and foundations, its efforts to rebuild ravaged communities throughout the region have been second to none. While many have mourned the repeated destruction of Gaza by Israel, few have opened their hearts and pockets to its rebuilding. Qatar has done so time and time again... working with Hamas in that effort.Ultimately, the measure of any societys wealth is its vision for the future. Here, too, Qatars outlook is bright. Its young walk with great pride and dignity as they pursue an opportunity to learn who it is they wish to become and, then, set off to chase that dream unencumbered by the rigidity of family or tradition.For many in the West, the Middle East and Gulf has always been a mystery... one wrapped in a blanket of great trepidation fueled by ignorance and uncertainty. From the comfort and safety of our homes, we see painful mayhem throughout the region yet fail to fully understand it is driven largely by two burning, but connected, issues of the day... sectarian tension between Arab States and Iran and the seventh unbroken decade of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians at the hands of Israel.Today, with a convenient shout throughout the halls of Washington & Israel and their Arab proxies, can be heard the echo of Qatar as the state funder of terrorism. Though it flies in the face of the reality of decades of efforts and evidence to the contrary, the claim draws traction from those rogue states that seek to build a united front on behalf of dangerous supremacists that stoke the fires of opposition to Iran.One can but wonder what might happen if Qatar ceases its long term efforts to build detente with Iran and abandons its commitment to the resistance in Palestine. History, ever a portent of what is to come, will not leave this question unanswered.There are provocative, if not dangerous, crossroads in history which can easily take us down either smart or dim-witted paths. I suspect the recent break in relations with Qatar announced by KSA, UAE and Egypt . . . and with the full blessing, if not lead, of the White House and Israel... will prove to be one such weighty moment.It was Saudi Arabia, along with Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain that insisted
that Qatar was the destabilising influence in the region. (They themselves are naturally innocent of that.) All land, air and sea traffic shall be halted with the state, while diplomatic missions shall be removed. Qatari citizens shall also be given their marching orders, having to leave within 14 days.Disagreements between Doha and Riyadh are far from new. Being eager practitioners of censorship and media control, Riyadh has shown little time for such bold media efforts as Al-Jazeera. Bristling at what it has deemed negative coverage, officials in Riyadh have repeatedly insisted that Qatar be rebuked for backing its own horses in the Islamist struggle, much of this borne by the rumblings of the Arab Spring.The Islamic Brotherhood is top of that list, and what is not surprising by looking at the list of states intent on strangling Qatar is that they have taken a dim view about the populist aspirations of the Muslim Brotherhood.In Egypt, an elected head of state from the organisation was deposed in a coup that re-established the primacy of the military. Qatars backing of Mohamed Morsis short stint at the helm was well and truly noted. In a measure of placation, Qatar closed down Al Jazeera Mubashir Misr, its twenty-four hour news channel in Cairo.Since then, spats have grown in number. Ambassadors have been sporadically recalled. In September 2002, Saudi Arabia did so over what it regarded as unfavourable coverage of a Saudi plan which entailed normalising ties with Israel in exchange for a peace deal with the Palestinians.More recently, Qatars efforts to secure the release of a group of falconers, among them members of the royal family, captured by a Teheran-backed Shia group in Iraq, drew attention from Abu Dhabi and Riyadh. The intended ransom could well have run into a billion dollarsThe isolating move has trigged obvious consequences. Qatar has become a place of strategic importance for various powers. The US, for one, has its largest airbase in the Middle East located in the state - one wonders if it has not become a Trojan Horse. On the other hand, the move of the golf states against Qatar goes beyond political alienation. Qatars flag carrier, Qatar Airways, has had to re-route flights over Turkey, Iran and Oman, given the forced closure of airspace to their planes. On Tuesday, 70 flights were grounded. Other airline carriers were delighted by the move, given the relentless rise and appropriation of key routes of travel from Europe to Asia and Australasia by the Middle Eastern carriers. The gesture of isolating Qatar is looking, at best, one of economic self-harm, affecting such carriers as Bahrains Gulf Air, Dubais Emirates, Saudi Arabias Saudia and Abu Dhabis Etihad Airways. The demands for resolving this monumental tiff are bound to be even steeper than they were in 2014, when they alienated Qatar for a few weeks. Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi makes his own hazard at a set of guesses, and it involves a conventional, authoritarian ploy: muzzle media coverage, entailing the shuttering of the Al Jazeera TV Network before any mediation can take place (Newsweek,
Jun 5).That will just be the beginning. The main course will feature the expulsion of Hamas figures and affiliates, along with such undesirables as Islamist writer Yasser Al-Zaatra and Azmi Bishara. For dessert, the Egyptians will wish for a cessation of any pro-Morsi coverage, while the entire collective will push for shackles to be placed on charitable organisations. Such demands are what is conventionally called unwarranted interference in the internal affairs of another state, but the despots of the Gulf are bound to miss that irony. What Qatar is accused of will not only be matched but surpassed. Worst of all, The USA, Israel, Egypt and Saoudi Arabia might succeed on shuting up Al Jazeera. The most reliable source of information and investigative journalism may be taken away from us. Tel Aviv has not digested the report on the Israeli Lobby in the United Kingdom and wants its revenge, badly.Blog 11/01/2017 Eu tenho a impressao que o mundo em geral, e Australia, Europa e America em particular, incluindo a parte que nos cabe, quando olham para os paises arabes e para o Oriente Medio em particular, enxergam mal, veem tudo atraves de um veu que varia entre fino e espesso dependendo do olhar e da posicao em que o australiano, europeu e americano se coloca para espiar com temor ou desprezo mais do que para olhar com interesse despreconceituoso. Hoje eu queria falar sobre a derrota vitoriosa de Jeremy Corbyn, o unico politico que conheco idoneo, mas o que esta acontecendo hoje nos paises arabes do golfo e um precedente historico que pode ter consequencias dificilmente remediaveis e podem levar a conflitos que afetarao todos nos, inclusive os que fazem de conta que esses paises ficam longe demais para chegar em nosso belo litoral.A dominacao da Arabia Saudita em cumplicidade com Israel e os Estados Unidos e o problema internacional mais grave da atualidade e deveria ser encarado com seriedade em vez de virar simples mancetes de jornais que levam a pensar que nao passa de uma rixa entre principes arabes.Primeiro, esta rixa nao e entre pricipes e sim entre paises. A Arabia Saudita, em 2013, ja tinha interferido na politica interna qatari forcando o emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani a abdicar em favor do filho, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, ocupante atual do trono em Doha.Ha anos que a tensao entre a Arabia Saudita e seu minusculo vizinho e paupavel. Hoje, os gataris temem ate uma invasao militar patrocinada pela Casa Branca com o apoio e o incentivo de Tel Aviv.Tamim apelou para outro vizinho maior do que ele e Erdogan acabou de mobilizar tropas em direcao do Qatar para proteger o pais da invasao. Logo apos a abdicacao forcada de Hamad, Tamim, mais esperto do que o pai, entendeu que a bola da vez poderia ser ele em poucos anos e autorizou a Turquia a construir uma base militar em seu territorio logo depois de tomar posse. A cooperacao militar entre Ankara e Doha comecou em 2007, mas foi aumentando concomitantemente ao crescimento da ameaca de Ryad. Em 2014 comecou a
construcao da base, em marco de 2015 os dois paises assinaram um tratado de cooperacao que unia os dois paises a "inimigos comuns", sem nomear nenhum, e o embaixador da Turquia em Doha, anunciou para quem quisesse ouvir que seu pais manteria cerca de 3.000 soldados na base. Ate o ano passado, a quantidade era inferior, mas desde a semana passada, outras centenas foram postas na estrada e mais devem chegar.Nesse interim, um numero consideravel de soldados das Tropas Iraquianas de Mobilizacao Popular foram movidos em direcao da fronteira entre Iraque e Arabia Saudita porque Bagda sabe, melhor do que ninguem, que as acusacoes da Arabia Saudita de que o Qatar financia o terrorismo foram feitas para tampar o sol com a peneira, ja que e Ryad que vem semeando furacoes para colher tempestades que a transformem NA capital arabe incontornavel. Mesmo sendo a que mais infringe as leis internacionais, os direitos humanos e a moral.No pior cenario, ou seja, que a Arabia Saudita passe da hasbara (propaganda em hebraico) aprendida com Netanyahu ao ato.Por que uma uniao entre esses dois paises que parecem ser culturalmente distantes?Porque em ambos a Irmandade Muculmana predomina em versao light e sentem que estao sendo isolados cada vez mais pelas ambicoes sauditas regionais e sua relacao doentia e insana com Washington e Tel Aviv.Primeiro foi o golpe de estado que derrubou em 2013 Mohammed Morsi, presidente eleito do Egito apos a destituicao de Hosni Moubarak no levante popular que ficou conhecido como a Primavera Arabe (que no final das contas nao levloou nem democracia nem prosperidade aos jovens revolucionarios).No ano seguinte foi a operacao militar israelense Protective Edge contra o Hamas, a derrota dos aliados de Qatar e Turquia na Libia e o isolamento gradual da Irmandade Muculmana na Siria.Nesse interim, a Arabia Saudita estreitava seus lacos com o general Sissi, ditador egipcio, e seus alidos na Libia e na Siria.A morte do idoso monarca da Arabia Saudita em 2015 e a ascensao ao trono do novo rei Salman cuja primeira medida foi inventar uma guerra conra o Yemen, o pais mais pobre da regiao. A agressao militar nao foi contra o pais mais pobre da regiao e sim uma mensagem macabra a Turquia, Qatar e Ira. Tudo isso abencoado pelo governo de Barack Obama.A mesma coisa com sua intervencao material em favor dos "rebeldes" sirios.Porem, nem Obama nem Salman contavam com o componente Putin. Moscou enxerga os leoes invisiveis e viu que essa alianca saudi & estadunidense & israelense favorizava os grupos terroristas direta e indiretamente e que mais cedo do que tarde eles chegariam as suas fronteiras e seria tarde demais para conte-los. E o que fez o Tzar? Resolveu aniquilar o perigo enquanto estava perto de sua base militar e nao de suas cidades. E fez isso com o apoio de quem? De Teera e do Hizbollah, e mais tarde, de Ankara. Erdogan demorou a entrar na danca moscovita. Mas quando se deu conta que apostara no cavalo errado indispondo-se com Moscou, aproveitou os lacos que criara com Doha por precisar de seu
petroleo para pedir que Salman intermediasse sua reaproximacao do Kremlin. Pronto, outra alianca foi formada, a vitoria no Yemen se mostrou ilusoria, Bashar el-Assad foi se reforcando com a ajuda do Tzar em vez de ser enxotado pelo Estado Islamico e o Al-Qaeda que seus inimidos patrocinavam e a sorte que o rei Salman forjara com a ajuda de Tel Aviv e Washington virou azar e comecou a custar cara demais. A economia do pais declinou perigosamente, sem perturbar o padrao de vida bilionario dos principes e princesas, mas atingindo as classes populares, grandemente majoritarias. A situacao periclitou ao ponto de Ryad conjeturar uma reestruturacao da industria petroleira e Salman e seu herdeiro viraram motivo de jacota nas outras capitais arabes petroleiras.Enquanto a Turquia e o Qatar se aproximavam de Moscou, a Arabia Saudita ia pedir benca a Casa Branca fabricando com Barack Obama uma pseudo alianca Saudi-Otan contra o Ira e a Irmandade Muculmana, que era de fato a Tuquia e o Qatar, que foi se reforcando ate chegar a apoteotica tentativa de isolar o Qatar e de demonizar o Ira. Por duas razoes interligadas. A primeira e o medo dos sauditas da perspectiva da teoria islamica iraniana proxima da democracia (com eleicoes e jurisprudencia) e que rejeita as ditaduras hereditarias que predominam nos paises arabes e em Ryad. O regime iraniano e um exemplo de uma democracia alternativa, nao secular e sim religiosa, mas com um governo para o povo eleito pelo povo. A Irmandade Muculmana tambem e anti-monaquica. Dai o medo do Qatar, que e o pais mais liberal do golfo e cujo emir consegue conciliar sua monarquia com uma ideologia islamica mais liberal da Irmandade. Portanto, tanto o Ira quanto o Qatar ameacam a sobreviencia das ditaduras monarquicas linha dura.A partir desta linha comum chegamos a segunda razao da hasbara saudita, que e a aproximacao do Qatar com o Ira. Os dois paises compartilham a maior reserva de gas natural do mundo, 9.700 km2. E como diz o ministro das relacoes exterioress iraniano Jawad Zarif, "Nao ha como mudar a Georgrafia" em relacao aos recursos naturais e a sua aproximacao com o Qatar. Proximidade que so ficou clara no ano passado quando juntos mediaram cessar-fogos em varias cidades sirias, evitando mais derramamento de sangue. O que foi muito bom para a Siria, mas nao para a Arabia Saudita e para Israel, que querem extinguir totalmente o pais. Alias estes dois enxeridos perigosos comecaram a arquitetar a substituicao de Morsi pelo general Sissi quando o presidente do Egito foi a Teera - o primeiro lider egipcio a fazer essa visita.Barack Obama, por ignorancia regional, mundial ou simplesmente por pragmatismo imediato irresponsavel ou por pressao de Israel, ja tinha facilitado a megalomanizacao saudita. Preparou a cama e Trump deitou nela junto com Netanyahu e em sua viagem a Arabia Saudita impos as condicoes de Washington e Tel Aviv a seu apoio incondicional a seu regime ditatorial-terrorista: Livre-se do Qatar e do Ira para nos e suas financas vao prosperar assim como seu regime ditatorial.E de repente, a maior ameaca mundial
occupation is a symptom, not source, of Israel's racist system. . When will the Israeli Left accept the occupation tarted inh 1948 and not in 1967?. Palestinian Childrens Lives Are Shaped By 50 Years of occupationWhat really happened in 1967?AddameerOCHA Palestinian Center for Human RightsInternational Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. FreedomBreaking the Silence BRASIL - DIRETAS, JA!Caros Amigos The Intercept Brasil Jornalistas Livres (@j_livres) | TwitterEm Paris, Henrique Meirelles e tratado do que e: Golpista!