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and apartheid policies". Whether or not an ideology can actually be eliminated remains to be seen, but without a doubt, political Zionism is both the root of the problem and the Achilles heel of the Israeli state. OCHA Palestinian Center for Human RightsInternational Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. FreedomB'TselemBreaking the Silence Khaled Meshaal leaves his markBRASIL - DIRETAS, JA!Caros Amigos The Intercept Brasil"Os trabalhadores brasileiros estao de parabens. Tambem os militantes politicos, os ativistas sociais, sindicatos e movimentos sociais. Assim como os estudantes e a juventude.Hoje e um dia historico.Nesses dias dificeis, a luta pela democracia e a defesa das conquistas sociais sao dever de todos nos. O povo brasileiro foi as ruas para dizer que nao aceita a perda de seus direitos.Foi as ruas contra um governo golpista que promove o mais brutal ataque aos direitos dos trabalhadores. E que compromete o futuro dos nossos filhos e netos, com um retrocesso na previdencia que e perverso e sombrio.Por isso, o Brasil parou. A greve geral aconteceu, apesar de setores da imprensa e dos golpistas que tentaram ocultar e reprimiram a acao corajosa dos que lutam contra o retrocesso na previdencia e destruicao dos direitos trabalhistas.Essa greve e simbolo de coragem. E um momento de esperanca e resistencia. Trinta e cinco milhoes de brasileiros cruzaram os bracos para fortalecer a democracia no Brasil.Essa greve e uma homenagem a todos que trabalham dias e dias, ao longo dos anos, dedicados brasileiros e brasileiras, incansaveis cidadaos que com seu esforco constroem o nosso pais.Estamos do lado certo. Meu coracao se enche de esperanca. Vamos em frente. A luta por dias melhores para todos os brasileiros esta apenas comecando. A ampliacao da democracia nos levara a vitoria. O povo brasileiro mostra sua coragem: nao vai desistir nunca. Vai lutar pelas suas conquistas e por mais avancos". #BrasilEmGreve. Dilma, 28/04/2017 Deputada cearense em Brasilia, constata, no aeroporto, sucesso da greveBrasil Paralyzed by Nationwide Strike: Fora Temer! Sucesso da Greve Geral no Brasil contra o Golpe!Jornal Nacional teve de agasalhar a greveComo dizia Camoes, mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades... O IBOPE Inteligencia perguntou aos brasileiros o potencial de voto e a rejeicao dos possiveis pre-candidatos a presidencia da Republica nas eleicoes de 2018. Dentre os nomes pesquisados, o ex-presidente e o que possui o maior potencial de votos. Lula tem, hoje, um potencial de voto de 47% dos eleitores brasileiros: 30% dizem que votariam com certeza - o maior dentre todos os nomes pesquisados - e 17% declaram que poderiam votar nele para presidente em 2018. Na sequencia, aparecem Marina Silva com 33% (9% com certeza votariam e 24% poderiam votar), Jose Serra com 25% (7% e 18%), Geraldo Alckmin com 22% (7% e 15%), Aecio Neves tambem com 22% (6% e 16%), Joaquim Barbosa com 24% (12% e 12%), Ciro Gomes com 18% (5% e 13%), Bolsonaro com 17% (8% e 9%) e Joao Doria com 16% (6% e 10%). Enquanto isso, o Francisco lembra os egipcios, e o mundo, que cristinaismo nao rima com conflito Inside Story: What can Pope Francis achieve in Egypt?
joined by a growing number of voices worldwide.I am not old enough to remember how the Six-Day War was reported at the time, but I did a close reading of the subject and learned enough to understand how the hasbara worked at the time. Just as it is still working now with Iran and Palestine.Just about everything people were told then was wrong, as the major historians of the period all acknowledge today. Let's start with how the crisis was reported as it supposedly happened, 50 years ago: Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of Egypt, was portrayed as a dangerous demagogue, widely popular across the Arab world, who wanted to destroy Israel. The Western press regularly demonized him, and he was easily the most recognized Arab leader until Saddam Hussein. In May 1967, Nasser made his move. He ordered the United Nations to remove peacekeeping troops from the Sinai peninsula, where they had been serving as a tripwire to prevent conflict between Egypt and Israel. Next, Nasser escalated by closing the Straits of Tiran to international shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat, which started to strangle the country. Meanwhile, Nasser was plotting with other Arab states, chiefly Syria and Jordan, to launch a joint invasion and push Israel into the sea. Fortunately, despite the odds against Israel, it won in only 6 days! To protect itself against another onslaught, Israel occupied the Sinai, the Golan heights, and Palestine. The occupation was the purely accidental consequence of a fight for Israeli survival. The New York Times even stated as fact that in 1967 "Israel defied annihilation by its Arab neighbors." That is what the hasbara made international public opinion believe at the time, and tries to make you believe now.The truth of the facts as they really happened is that Nasser and the other Arab leaders had absolutely no intention of invading Israel in June 1967 and Israel's existence was never in the slightest doubt, as both Israeli and American leaders knew that Israel could easily crush any coalition of Arab states.To understand the Six-Day War one must go back 11 years, to the 1956 Suez Crisis, when Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal - and Israel, Britain and France launched an unprovoked joint invasion of Egypt to seize the waterway back.That time, the United States, under the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, opposed the attack and pressured the tripartite invasion force to withdraw and leave the Canal to Egypt - the US President and his influential Secretary of State John Foster Dulles loathed Nasser and wanted to dispose of Nasser just as much as anyone else; they just didn't think the timing was right for an armed attack. So, Suez was a big failure for all invading nations, and British prime minister Anthony Eden was forced to resign. meanwhile, Nasser's reputation in the Arab world, and across Africa, Asia and Latin America, rose to new heights.The fact of the matter is that Israel could not resign itself to Eisenhower's decision and yearned to complete its failed mission of 1956. To that end, Israel's first
goal was to neuter Nasser, to deliver a death blow to these uppity Arabs that they so much despised, and finish off what was called "radical Arab nationalism"; and the second goal was to conquer the lands they had coveted but didn't manage to seize during the massacres of the Nakba in 1948: the Syrian Golan and Palestine - the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and most of all, East Jerusalem.Israeli leaders only doubt was what would the USA do if it attacked the Arabs. Would Washington humiliate them again by forcing them to back down as in 1956 or would look the other way as it had been doing lately, as Israel had not been minding its own business, but instead regularly and violently provoking its Arab neighbours.Actually, in November 1966, in the largest military action since the Suez invasion, Israel had even attacked the West Bank town of Samu, then under Jordanian rule, killing 18 Jordanian soldiers and destroying 125 homes. So Israel continued instigating along its border with Syria in April 1967, triggering an aerial battle in which 6 Syrian planes were shot down, including one over Damascus. Voices in the Arab world started to accuse Nasser, the leader of the Arabs, of standing by and doing nothing.So Nasser did something. He told the United Nations to remove the peacekeeping troops from Egyptian Sinai, mainly so he could be seen to be taking some action, knowing that Israel could ask for UN peacekeepers to be placed on its side of the border, which would have maintained the tripwire. However, Israelis did no such thing because they had just what they were hoping to achieve with their provocations - an excuse to attack playing the victim.Even though Nasser's closing of the Straits of Tiran was a legal right, and he certainly did not intend to maintain the closure, as he offered to take the dispute to the International Court of Justice - which Israel refused. And furthermore, Israel would not have choked overnight - it got 95 percent of its imports through its other ports and had a several months' reserve supply of oil.The only thing that Israel needed was a green light from Washington to trigger a military operation against the Arabs, knowing that Nasser had no plans to attack and even if it did, Israel would easily defeat Egypt on the battlefield, either alone or with any combination of other Arab nations. This time, it wasn't difficult to convince the US to tacitly give Israel permission to start the war and assure Tel Aviv that the White House would not repeat Eisenhower's repudiation after the 1956 Suez invasion.Once things were settled with the USA, Israel attacked first, backed by England and France. To make a long story short, the "Six-Day War" should be called "Operation Six-Minutes". Once Israeli planes in a surprise blitzkrieg (lightning war - Nazi tactical and operational methodology used during World War II to annihilate the defense forces of its preys) knocked out the Egyptian air force still parked on the ground, the war was
over. The war lasted longer only because Israel wanted to conquer the Egyptian Sinai, the Jordanian West Bank, and the Syrian Golan heights.A word about Nasser who is still the most famous Arab leader, with Saddam Hussein. Nasser was a galvanizing, mesmerizing, orator, who tapped into popular aspirations for a better, more dignified life. It was the era of the Nonaligned Movement, of hopes and expectations as the former European colonies gained independence after World War II. The heads of these newly independent states convened at the Bandung conference in 1955 and the leading and representative figures were the Egyptian Nasser, the Yugoslavian Tito and the Indian Nehru. Nasser was as prominent figure all over the world and the US hoped it could buy him off and rein him in until the Kennedy administration. JFK finally dispaired of trying to bribe him as he was proving too independent, intractable, unpredictable. So Israel got what it wanted, but also did Lyndon Johnson, for a short time. Incidentally, 67 didn't sit easily as the Israel lobby soon imposed on Washington a foreign policy alien to American national interests. I think that just like the world, Israeli public did believe the mainstream narrative, took to heart the lies and distortion of their government was feeding the mainstream media, and genuinely feared the Arab states wanted to push them into the sea. It was Tel Aviv's way of making the Israeli people give their all if they feared their backs were up against the wall. Israeli leaders who produced this narrative were culpable twice over; they provoked the crisis and then launched an unprovoked attack.Once the "war" ended, in the United States it was treated as a lark, a thrilling adventure. After Israel occupied the Egyptian Sinai, jokes circulated: "See the Pyramids. Visit Israel."But it was no joke for the at least 18.000 people who died in the fighting: 10 to 15.000 Egyptians; 6.000 Jordanians; 1.000-2500 Syrians. Even Israel lost 1000 people on its operation of conquest. But it did win its immediate war objectives. Nasser was severely damaged, and he died three years later with his brand of Arab nationalism greatly discredited. And the IDF (Israeli Occupation Forces) did occupy the Sinai, the Golan and Palestine.Without the "Six-Day War" there would certainly not be ISIS or Al-Qaeda, not mentioning the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Because the Arabs would have had the emancipation they craved for.Whether the occupation, now shuddering int its 51st year, has been good for Israel is still to be decided by history.But for Palestinians, it is a tragedy known as the Naksa.UPFRONT: After 50 years of occupation, is the Two State solution a fantasy?True, I have devoted this blog mostly to support Palestinian struggle to achieve what they rightfully deserve: Freedom and Dignity. In spite of this commitment, I have tried to abstain from giving the Palestinians advice. I have expressed my views and voiced them many times, but from that point to giving advice, the distance is great.Now, too, I am not ready to give advice to the Palestinians in general,
colonies of Germans all over the territory to grab french land and did not wall them in open air prisons.How would the French have reacted if the Nazis had occupied their country forever? How to survive year after year, decade after decade, on your knees and without hope of ever be able to stand up?Not long ago, a leader of the Israeli fascist right, Betsalel Smotrich, a deputy chairman of the Knesset, published an ultimatum to the Palestinians: to leave the country, to live in the country without citizenship rights or to rise up in arms - and then the Israeli army "would know how to deal with them". In simple words: the choice is between (a) the mass expulsion of seven million Palestinians from the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), Israel proper and the Gaza Strip, which would amount to Genocide, (b) life as a people of slaves under an Apartheid regime and (c) simple genocide.The One State solution constitutes, in practice, the second choice. Which is a dramatic suicide. After all these years, the only practical solution remains as it was at the beginning: two states for two peoples. Without walls and without the Israeli colonies in the West Bank. Two states that will live side by side in peace, perhaps even in friendship. I can't see any other viable solution.The fact of the matter is, how to achieve it fairly without pushing Israel to the edge? Jeremy Corbin might bring the solution we are hoping for. A decision by Donald Trump last Thursday proved fateful for the immediate future of Jerusalem, the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the region.He decided to renew a presidential waiver that expired on June 1. The six-month waiver delays implementing a law passed by Congress in 1995 that requires the U.S. to recognize occupied Jerusalem as Israels capital and relocate its embassy there from Tel Aviv.It is a law every president for the past 22 years has balked at. It would pre-empt the Oslo accords and negate Washingtons assumed role as honest broker. Carrying out Congresss wish would deny the Palestinians East Jerusalem, the only credible capital of a future Palestinian state.But equally significantly, the law would recognise Israels efforts to claim sovereignty over the Old Citys holy places, which means all Christian churches and sites, and the incendiary site of Al Aqsa mosque. That could provoke a conflagration both locally, among Palestinians, and more generally in the Middle East.Trumps key advisers were reported to be bitterly divided and Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his allies in the US Congress, even after the deal was done, are still doing their best to pressure Trump in the opposite direction.Last Sunday, Netanyahu staged a provocative stunt, holding his weekly cabinet meeting in a tunnel under Al Aqsa mosque compound to announce measures to bring millions more Jewish visitors to the occupied Old City, including a new cable car to the edge of the mosque.It was Netanyahus decision to open the Western Wall Tunnel in 1996, when he first became prime minister, that brought the Oslo process
into almost terminal crisis at an early stage. Three days of clashes killed more than 100 Palestinians and 17 Israeli soldiers.The day after Trumps departure from Israel a few days ago, Netanyahu exploited the presidents attendance at the wall to further damage prospects for peacemaking. He made a provocative speech to mark Jerusalem Day, Israels annual show of strength in East Jerusalem.He claimed that Trump had disproved the lies promoted by the United Nations cultural body, Unesco, when it voted this month to re-state that Jerusalem is occupied.In truth, it was Netanyahu who indulged in gross mendacity, claiming that East Jerusalem had been desolate and neglected before its occupation. Israel had redeemed the city, he said, while Al Aqsa mosque would always remain under Israeli sovereignty.His supporters tried to give that claim concrete expression by staging the largest-ever march through the Old City on Jerusalem Day. Palestinians were forced into hiding or fled early as police allowed 60,000 Jewish ultra-nationalists to besiege the heart of East Jerusalem.In a sign of the power balance in Israel, a small group of 50 left-wing Jews many from the U.S. linked arms to try to block the march at the Old Citys entrance. Footage showed police brutally arresting them, grabbing them in chokeholds and breaking one womans arm.Jerusalem is the most intractable of the final-status issues set out in the Oslo process. Those expecting miracles of Trump are going to be disappointed. His commitment to pressuring Netanyahu is weak, while the Israeli prime ministers commitment to making concessions is non-existent.Ilan Pappe: The Myth of Israel . Read Roger Waters' Response to Thom Yorke. Gush Shalom: Settlement Products Wikia . Haaretz: Israel is not a democracy - Six-Day War 50 years.. Charlotte Silver: Israel main cause of Palestinian suffering, UN says.. Mondoweiss : The responsibility of non-Zionist Jews during the 'year of Zionist anniversaries. . Hamas New Charter: Meshaals Gamble on The Losing Horse. Football in the Holy Land: The Superstar . Concordo plenamente que "a ignorancia 'astravanca' o progresso", mas este caso e engracado. Uma companhia aerea estadunidense upgrade um advogado palestino para a classe executiva em um assento vizinho do minstro israelense Naftali Bennett que adora contar quantos palestinos ele matou quando servia a IDF. Como o palestino tem a nacionalidade israelense, nao foi revistado no check in e nem foi suspeitado de nada: A Palestinian's first-class seat next to Naftali Bennett.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) | Twitter.Temer reprime. Indignacao popular aumenta Let's have some fun with UK & USA bad applesWatch Stuart Jones, a high-level acting official in the USA State Dept., reacting to the question why they criticize Iranian elections while supporting Saudi Arabia rogue regime. Capitain SKA exposes Theresa May
Russian military inspect suspected chemical weapons workshop in AleppoIs the situation with the chemical attack in Syria's Idlib gradually clearing up?It's not certain, even though the UN demanded those responsibles for the use of chemical weapons should be found."Every time we have a moment in which the international community is capable of being together, there is someone, somehow that tries to undermine that feeling of hope by producing a feeling of horror and outrage," UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said. "But we are not going to give up. On the contrary, we make use of all these horror moments to show they cannot prevail."However, despite the campaign to put the blame on Bashar el-Assad, many experts say that his troops could not conduct such an attack. At least not on purpose.Contrary to Western assumption, Russia says that it was either terrorists or the Syrian opposition who could use chemical weapons.Nevertheless, Western mainstream media keeps trumpeting that it was Assad's troops that used chemical weapons in Idlib. Which is hard to believe when one knows that it is Russian headquarters that supervise all combat actions in the region. Assad is not able to use any aircraft unless the Russian command in Hmeymim gives permission for this. Therefore, some might say that it was the Russians, who used chemical weapons, but those who say this need to have their heads examined immediately. Concerning the turnover of WMDs, there are authoritative international agreements that only WWIII can break.In the meantime, a Russian journalist based in Syria, gave a the following assessment to the situation: "I was on the outskirts of Hama when government troops repulsed Islamists' attack and went on an offensive to Idlib. Khan Sheikhun has blocked the road from Damascus to Aleppo, the main highway in the country, a road of strategic importance. There are no tactical or informational reasons for Syrian government troops to use gas. The offensive continues. It is hard to imagine why Assad would want to set himself up like that.So far, all confirmed facts of the use of chemical warfare agents are associated with the actions of the opposition only. The Syrian government delivered all of its chemical weapons to the international commission two years ago - 1.300 tonnes of sarin nerve gas and its precursors. There were many incidents, when traces of chemical substances would be found on territories liberated from terrorists."This version sounds truthful. The information about the attack on terrorists' positions was officially confirmed. It was reported that government forces carried out an air strike on the outskirts of the settlement of Khan-Sheikhun in the province of Idlib, where terrorists' ammo depot and military equipment was located. On the territory of the warehouse, there were shops for the production of landmines filled with poisonous substances. Chemical weapons would then be delivered to Iraq. One may assume that explosions in the warehouse led to the leak of toxic substances and numerous victims.One must keep in mind that it was the White Helmets (Blog 19/10/16) and the National Coalition of Opposition and Revolutionary Forces of Syria