Une pile de Palestiniens morts entrave le processus de paix en
raillant insensiblement le monopole juif sur l'agonie.
raillant insensiblement le monopole juif sur l'agonie.
Les militaires sionistes, en ouvrant le feu sur les manifestations du Sud du Liban, dans la bande de Gaza et les hauteurs du Golan occupées, ont fait tomber en martyrs, au moins 20, personnes
Gaza: 45 Palestiniens blessés par des tirs à la frontière avec Israël (médecins)
Nakba: Damas dénonce comme "criminels" les actes d'Israël au Golan et au Liban
Nakba 63, c’est le moment du retour : Tsahal tue et blesse de tous les côtés
VIDEO - Video of Golan Heights, West Bank clashes as Israeli forces repel protesters - RT
Four killed in Lebanon as Israeli forces fire across border
Israeli troops kill 10 protesters along Lebanon border
'Israel tanks heading towards Lebanon'
Violence erupts in Israel: Syria border breached, truck attack in Tel Aviv Hundreds of Arabs from Syria stormed across the border into Israel on Sunday, prompting Israeli troops to respond with live fire that killed at least four people.
Israeli forces, tanks cross into Gaza
CHAOS, GUNFIRE AND BLOODSHED ALONG ISRAEL'S BORDERS ON NAQBA DAY
Israeli massacre at Lebanon border
Reports: 20 ‘Nakba’ Protesters Killed as Israeli Troops Attack
Gaza: 45 Palestiniens blessés par des tirs à la frontière avec Israël (médecins)
Israeli shells injure at least 30 demonstrators in Gaza
Palestinian 'nakba' protests turn deadly. Israel sees Iran's 'fingerprints.'
‘Nakba’ Killings: Israeli Envoys Told to Blame Syria
Israel to file UNSC complaint against Syria, Lebanon: Livni: Attempt to infiltrate into Israel is "clear manifestation of lack of acceptance of Israel's sovereignty"; Lebanon also submits complaint.
Ils sont en train de nous faire croire que la "Révolution Arabe" frappe à la porte d'Israël et que cela met Israël en danger... Ça leur donne un bon prétexte pour poursuivre leur politique du sionisme catastrophique (la survie d'Israël nécessite la guerre perpétuelle avec ses voisins).
Début des commémorations de la "Nakba" palestinienne, heurts à Jérusalem-Est
La-Croix / AFP
Vendredi 13 mai 2011
Les Palestiniens ont commencé vendredi à commémorer la "Nakba" (catastrophe), la création d'Israël en mai 1948 et leur exode, avec des manifestations émaillées d'incidents à Jérusalem-Est, en Cisjordanie, et des rassemblements de solidarité en Jordanie et en Egypte.
A Jérusalem, au moins une dizaine de Palestiniens, dont un adolescent de 16 ans, ont été blessés lors de heurts avec les forces israéliennes.
Dans le quartier de Silwan, théâtre de violences quasi quotidiennes, un jeune manifestant a été grièvement blessé dans des circonstances encore non éclaircies et hospitalisé.
Un porte-parole du Croissant-Rouge a confirmé neuf blessés, dont Milad Saïd Ayache, 16 ans, apparemment blessé par balle, ainsi qu'un autre jeune de Silwan, touché par des balles caoutchoutées.
Une source hospitalière palestinienne a fait état d'une trentaine de blessés dans les incidents qui ont éclaté après la prière musulmane du vendredi, dans les quartiers entourant la Vieille ville, ainsi que dans le camp de réfugiés de Chouafat.
Au total, 34 Palestiniens ont été arrêtés dans la région de Jérusalem, a indiqué le porte-parole de la police israélienne Micky Rosenfeld, assurant que les forces israéliennes, qui ont eu trois blessés légers, n'avaient pas tiré à balles réelles.
A Hébron (sud de la Cisjordanie), quelque 500 militants et sympathisants du mouvement islamiste Hamas ont défilé dans le secteur autonome de la ville mais la police palestinienne a empêché les manifestants de marcher vers un barrage israélien.
La police a déployé des milliers d'hommes en renfort à Jérusalem-Est et dans le nord d'Israël, où est concentrée la majorité de la population arabe, l'armée mobilisant de son côté sept bataillons supplémentaires en Cisjordanie occupée, avec des consignes de retenue pour éviter des effusions de sang.
Dans la Jordanie voisine, qui accueille le plus important contingent de réfugiés palestiniens, des milliers de personnes ont manifesté à Karameh, dans la vallée du Jourdain, en faveur du "droit au retour" des réfugiés, brandissant des drapeaux palestiniens et jordaniens, ainsi que plusieurs centaines dans la capitale Amman.
En Egypte, les autorités ont fermé l'accès à la péninsule du Sinaï, frontalière de la bande de Gaza, ne laissant passer que les résidents de cette région, pour empêcher une marche devant rallier Le Caire au territoire palestinien.
Plusieurs dizaines d'Egyptiens ont manifesté devant l'ambassade d'Israël au Caire en réclamant l'expulsion de l'ambassadeur et la rupture des relations diplomatiques.
"Il y a des préparatifs de manifestations vers les frontières palestiniennes", dimanche 15 mai, date anniversaire de la "Nakba", a souligné jeudi un haut responsable palestinien, Nabil Chaath.
"Ce sera probablement plus facile en provenance du côté égyptien", par rapport aux autres pays limitrophes, a-t-il estimé.
La "Nakba" s'est traduite par l'exode de quelque 760.000 Palestiniens, point de départ de la question des réfugiés, actuellement au nombre de 4,8 millions avec leurs descendants, répartis pour l'essentiel entre la Jordanie, la Syrie, le Liban et les territoires palestiniens.
La résolution 194 de l'ONU dispose que "les réfugiés qui désirent rentrer dans leurs foyers et vivre en paix avec leurs voisins devraient y être autorisés le plus vite possible".(...)
Vendredi 13 mai 2011
Les Palestiniens ont commencé vendredi à commémorer la "Nakba" (catastrophe), la création d'Israël en mai 1948 et leur exode, avec des manifestations émaillées d'incidents à Jérusalem-Est, en Cisjordanie, et des rassemblements de solidarité en Jordanie et en Egypte.
A Jérusalem, au moins une dizaine de Palestiniens, dont un adolescent de 16 ans, ont été blessés lors de heurts avec les forces israéliennes.
Dans le quartier de Silwan, théâtre de violences quasi quotidiennes, un jeune manifestant a été grièvement blessé dans des circonstances encore non éclaircies et hospitalisé.
Un porte-parole du Croissant-Rouge a confirmé neuf blessés, dont Milad Saïd Ayache, 16 ans, apparemment blessé par balle, ainsi qu'un autre jeune de Silwan, touché par des balles caoutchoutées.
Une source hospitalière palestinienne a fait état d'une trentaine de blessés dans les incidents qui ont éclaté après la prière musulmane du vendredi, dans les quartiers entourant la Vieille ville, ainsi que dans le camp de réfugiés de Chouafat.
Au total, 34 Palestiniens ont été arrêtés dans la région de Jérusalem, a indiqué le porte-parole de la police israélienne Micky Rosenfeld, assurant que les forces israéliennes, qui ont eu trois blessés légers, n'avaient pas tiré à balles réelles.
A Hébron (sud de la Cisjordanie), quelque 500 militants et sympathisants du mouvement islamiste Hamas ont défilé dans le secteur autonome de la ville mais la police palestinienne a empêché les manifestants de marcher vers un barrage israélien.
La police a déployé des milliers d'hommes en renfort à Jérusalem-Est et dans le nord d'Israël, où est concentrée la majorité de la population arabe, l'armée mobilisant de son côté sept bataillons supplémentaires en Cisjordanie occupée, avec des consignes de retenue pour éviter des effusions de sang.
Dans la Jordanie voisine, qui accueille le plus important contingent de réfugiés palestiniens, des milliers de personnes ont manifesté à Karameh, dans la vallée du Jourdain, en faveur du "droit au retour" des réfugiés, brandissant des drapeaux palestiniens et jordaniens, ainsi que plusieurs centaines dans la capitale Amman.
En Egypte, les autorités ont fermé l'accès à la péninsule du Sinaï, frontalière de la bande de Gaza, ne laissant passer que les résidents de cette région, pour empêcher une marche devant rallier Le Caire au territoire palestinien.
Plusieurs dizaines d'Egyptiens ont manifesté devant l'ambassade d'Israël au Caire en réclamant l'expulsion de l'ambassadeur et la rupture des relations diplomatiques.
"Il y a des préparatifs de manifestations vers les frontières palestiniennes", dimanche 15 mai, date anniversaire de la "Nakba", a souligné jeudi un haut responsable palestinien, Nabil Chaath.
"Ce sera probablement plus facile en provenance du côté égyptien", par rapport aux autres pays limitrophes, a-t-il estimé.
La "Nakba" s'est traduite par l'exode de quelque 760.000 Palestiniens, point de départ de la question des réfugiés, actuellement au nombre de 4,8 millions avec leurs descendants, répartis pour l'essentiel entre la Jordanie, la Syrie, le Liban et les territoires palestiniens.
La résolution 194 de l'ONU dispose que "les réfugiés qui désirent rentrer dans leurs foyers et vivre en paix avec leurs voisins devraient y être autorisés le plus vite possible".(...)
Nakba: Des dizaines de milliers commémorent en Jordanie
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Nakba: Des dizaines de milliers commémorent en Jordanie
Des Palestiniens soulignent leur déracinement par des manifestations aux frontières
Hundreds in Jaffa take to the streets to mark Nakba Day Israeli Arabs participate in protests to mark Palestinian day of mourning of establishment of Israel; some 2,000 people carry Palestinian flags and call out, 'the Israeli government - a terror government.'
Célébrer 63 années de nettoyage ethnique...
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For Palestinians, every day is Nakba Day
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‘Israel killed 1,335 Palestinian kids’
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Jerusalem’s mayor says the holy city cannot be divided and will stay Israeli
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Pourquoi il n'y aura pas d'État palestinien
Israeli military attaché skips UK visit for Fear of Arrest as War Criminal
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Mike Huckabee removed a statement from his website warning Israel and the Jews "not to insult" the friends they have.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has declared May Birthright Israel month. (Birthright Israel = Bronfman. Ainsi Bloomberg se rapproche toujours plus de la candidature présidentielle...)
$5 million lawsuit targets Jimmy Carter for ‘attacking Israel’
Netanyahu: Hamas-Fatah unity pact is a victory for terrorism
Netanyahu To Pressure Cameron On Palestinian Recognition
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Canada's staunchly pro-Israel Prime Minister Stephen Harper was re-elected by a wide margin
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Israeli Policewoman charged with assaulting Palestinian posted anti-Arab comments on Facebook
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Fayyad urges international intervention over Israeli freeze on Palestinian taxes
'Soldiers abused Palestinian' Two Border Guards indicted over checkpoint incident during which they beat 17-year-old
Israeli rabbi calls for Israel’s Palestinian citizens to be “encouraged” to move to Saudi Arabia and Libya
Egyptian youth call for million-man marches to support Palestinians
Hamas makes its position clear: Group leader Haniyeh says Israeli presence 'on our land illegal, cannot be recognized.'
US lawmakers warn against Palestinian unity
Israel FM says Palestinian deal crosses ‘red line’
Egypt warns Israel: Don't interfere with opening of Gaza border crossing
Israel “concerned” over Egypt’s policy on Gaza, Hamas
L’Égypte réaffirme son rôle dans la réconciliation palestinienne
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ISRAEL’S LATEST PSYCHOSIS ~~ PEACEOPHOBIA
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AFP Podcast interviews the main organizer of Move Over AIPAC!, who discusses the upcoming conference in Washington, D.C., designed to loosen the stranglehold AIPAC has on the U.S. Congress.
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Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is an appealing candidate to many conservatives, but he has does have a dark side. Although he fervently declared in 2006 that “the American people have always rallied to the cause of freedom,” just a few years earlier Santorum planned a war against a traditional American liberty — freedom of speech.
In 2003, Santorum planned to introduce “ideological diversity” legislation that would cut federal funding for American universities found to be permitting professors, students and student organizations to openly criticize Israel. Santorum considered criticism of Israel to be “anti-Semitism.”
Santorum wanted to rewrite the federal funding formula under Title IX of the Higher Education Act to include “ideological diversity” as a prerequisite for federal funding. Joining Santorum was another pro-Israel ideologue, then-Sen. Sam Brownback (RKan.), who had his own scheme to institute a federal commission — critics called it a “tribunal” — to be established under Title IX to “investigate” anti-Semitism on American campuses.
Although the average student or academic had not heard of the scheme, Wayne Firestone, director of the Center for Israel Affairs for the Hillel Foundation, said that “Everywhere I go, this is the lead topic. This is drawing a lot of interest.”
It was Hillel — a national network of pro-Israel student- manned “campus police” — that first leaked word of Santorum’s scheme. Further details appeared onApril 15, 2003 in The New York Sun, a pro-Israel daily published by a clique of billionaire financiers.
Hillel told supporters that Santorum and several GOP senators — including Brownback (now governor of Kansas) — had invited representatives of a number of Jewish organizations to attend a private meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss concerns about growing criticism of Israel on campuses.
At the meeting were the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith, the Zionist Organization of America, the American Jewish Committee and Hillel.
In the meantime, word of the Santorum initiative was spreading as a result of an exposé by AMERICAN FREE PRESS (AFP). Widely circulated on the Internet, the AFP report arrived in the emails of educators across the United States and around the globe. As a consequence of growing concern about the scheme, the pro-Israel lobby began denying Santorum had proposed such legislation, claiming the AFP story was a lie.
Ultimately, the New York-based Jewish Week reported on May 9, 2003 that the State Department had contacted senators to advise them that Palestinian newspapers were carrying the story about Santorum and asking if the story was true.
Jewish Week’s story — titled “Diversity Disinformation”— declared a “rumor of pending legislation barring campus criticism of Israel [was] sweeping Arab and left-wing media.” The article asserted that “the story originated with . . . conspiracy theorists and Holocaust revisionists.” Obviously, this was a lie, since AFP’s report was based on a story in a pro-Israel newspaper.
Despite this, Jewish Week said the story “has become an article of faith throughout the Arab world and in some U.S. left-wing circles,” and asserted that “to pro-Israel leaders and leading members of the Senate, it’s a dangerous urban legend at best, deliberate disinformation at worst.”
The article in the pro-Israel Sun stated flatly, in discussing the Capitol Hill meeting where the scheme originated:
In 2003, Santorum planned to introduce “ideological diversity” legislation that would cut federal funding for American universities found to be permitting professors, students and student organizations to openly criticize Israel. Santorum considered criticism of Israel to be “anti-Semitism.”
Santorum wanted to rewrite the federal funding formula under Title IX of the Higher Education Act to include “ideological diversity” as a prerequisite for federal funding. Joining Santorum was another pro-Israel ideologue, then-Sen. Sam Brownback (RKan.), who had his own scheme to institute a federal commission — critics called it a “tribunal” — to be established under Title IX to “investigate” anti-Semitism on American campuses.
Although the average student or academic had not heard of the scheme, Wayne Firestone, director of the Center for Israel Affairs for the Hillel Foundation, said that “Everywhere I go, this is the lead topic. This is drawing a lot of interest.”
It was Hillel — a national network of pro-Israel student- manned “campus police” — that first leaked word of Santorum’s scheme. Further details appeared onApril 15, 2003 in The New York Sun, a pro-Israel daily published by a clique of billionaire financiers.
Hillel told supporters that Santorum and several GOP senators — including Brownback (now governor of Kansas) — had invited representatives of a number of Jewish organizations to attend a private meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss concerns about growing criticism of Israel on campuses.
At the meeting were the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith, the Zionist Organization of America, the American Jewish Committee and Hillel.
In the meantime, word of the Santorum initiative was spreading as a result of an exposé by AMERICAN FREE PRESS (AFP). Widely circulated on the Internet, the AFP report arrived in the emails of educators across the United States and around the globe. As a consequence of growing concern about the scheme, the pro-Israel lobby began denying Santorum had proposed such legislation, claiming the AFP story was a lie.
Ultimately, the New York-based Jewish Week reported on May 9, 2003 that the State Department had contacted senators to advise them that Palestinian newspapers were carrying the story about Santorum and asking if the story was true.
Jewish Week’s story — titled “Diversity Disinformation”— declared a “rumor of pending legislation barring campus criticism of Israel [was] sweeping Arab and left-wing media.” The article asserted that “the story originated with . . . conspiracy theorists and Holocaust revisionists.” Obviously, this was a lie, since AFP’s report was based on a story in a pro-Israel newspaper.
Despite this, Jewish Week said the story “has become an article of faith throughout the Arab world and in some U.S. left-wing circles,” and asserted that “to pro-Israel leaders and leading members of the Senate, it’s a dangerous urban legend at best, deliberate disinformation at worst.”
The article in the pro-Israel Sun stated flatly, in discussing the Capitol Hill meeting where the scheme originated:
By the end of the meeting yesterday, Mr. Santorum was talking about introducing legislation that could cut federal funding to colleges where anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiments are prevalent — or more generally, where “ideological diversity” is lacking.
Yet, now that the story had been unveiled, Jewish Week contradicted the Sun and claimed that “No such legislation has been introduced or even contemplated.”
According to an un-named source, cited by Jewish Week, the Capitol Hill meeting featured “many presentations from different groups,” failing to mention that the “different” groups were all pro-Israel organizations.
The “new” version of events, as outlined by Jewish Week, never mentioned that Santorum’s colleague, Brownback, had urged formation of a federal commission to “investigate” so-called anti-Semitism on campus.
So, if the story was an “urban legend,” why did a pro- Israel newspaper publish the story in the first place?
As a candidate for president, Santorum should be forced to address the controversy surrounding this matter.
According to an un-named source, cited by Jewish Week, the Capitol Hill meeting featured “many presentations from different groups,” failing to mention that the “different” groups were all pro-Israel organizations.
The “new” version of events, as outlined by Jewish Week, never mentioned that Santorum’s colleague, Brownback, had urged formation of a federal commission to “investigate” so-called anti-Semitism on campus.
So, if the story was an “urban legend,” why did a pro- Israel newspaper publish the story in the first place?
As a candidate for president, Santorum should be forced to address the controversy surrounding this matter.
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Déni de l'holocauste palestinien (Nakba) et criminalisation de sa mémoire par Israël
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À quand une nuit de cristal pour casser ce réseau d'espionnage mondial?
Jérusalem occupée par l'Anti-Christ