Twitter/X mener et veggmaleri i Dublin av den 6-årige drepte palestiner Hind Rajab er "støtende materiale". Og som der med ikke vises direkte på plattformen.
Her er min kommentar om dette til Conrad Myrland :
Conrad, det rare er at Twitter/X har advart mot bildet av #HindRajab i Dublin med denne teksten:
"Vis flere svar, inkludert svar som kan inneholde støtende materiale".
6 år gammel.
Og allerede:
#StøtendeMateriale#Gaza
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I hemmelighet har en gruppe amerikanske milliardærer diskutert og og planlagt støtte for Israel mht Gaza-krigen. Påvirkning av New York's borgermester, med både penger og folk, er vist i artikkel i Washington Post:
"Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show" "A WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy Americans after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack reveals their focus on Mayor Eric Adams and their work to shape U.S. opinion of the Gaza war."
Netanyahu nekter å forholde seg til hva "dagen derpå" i Gaza betyr. Dette blir tydeliggjort i en artikkel i Washington Post 16. mai 2024, se Kilde. Der sier Netanyahu:
"Instead, he said a path forward in Gaza might be Palestinian administration, similar to what now exists on the West Bank, with Israel retaining “certain sovereign powers,” including all military and security functions and control over what and who crosses Gaza’s borders."
Det er tydelig hva Netyanyahu ønsker seg i Gaza: "Oslo 3". Da får han samme vellykkede, for Israel, ordning som på Vestbredden.
For
anyone who wanted to see, the truth was already abundantly clear in
1955: "They treat the Arabs, those still here, in a way that in itself would be enough to rally the whole world against Israel," wrote Hannah Arendt.
A displaced Palestinian woman dresses a child at a camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday.Credit: AFP
For anyone who wanted to see, the truth was already abundantly clear in
1955: "They treat the Arabs, those still here, in a way that in itself
would be enough to rally the whole world against Israel," wrote Hannah
Arendt.
But that was 1955, barely a decade after
the Holocaust – our great catastrophe, and at the same time, Zionism's
protective suit. So no, what Arendt saw in Jerusalem didn't suffice at
the time to rally the world against Israel.
Almost
70 years have passed since then. Meanwhile, Israel has become addicted
to both the regime of Jewish supremacy over the Palestinians and its
ability to leverage the memory of the Holocaust so that the crimes it
commits against them won't mobilize the world against it.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn't inventing a thing: not the
crimes, and not the exploitation of the Holocaust to silence the world's
conscience. But he's been the prime minister for almost a generation.
During this period, Israel, under his leadership, took another big step
toward a future in which the Palestinian people are erased from the
stage of history – certainly if the stage in question is Palestine,
their historical homeland.
All this was not only carried out gradually – another dunam and another
goat, another outpost and another farm – but in the end it was also
declared publicly, from the 2018 Basic Law on Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish people,
to the basic policy of the current government, and first and foremost
the statement: "The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable
right to all parts of the Land of Israel." And the truth is that the
consensus is far broader and more sweeping than support for Netanyahu
himself. After all, who in Israel didn't like the brilliant move, on the
eve of October 7, 2023, of normalization with Saudi Arabia, in order to
etch into the awareness of the Palestinians the fact that they're a
defeated nation?
Charred
cars sit at the entrance of the occupied West Bank village of Duma, in
the aftermath of an Israeli settler attack, in April.Credit: Zain JAAFAR / AFP
But the Palestinians, those stubborn people, didn't leave the stage.
Somehow, through all the years and the oppression and the settlements
and the pogroms in the West Bank, and the "rounds" of conflict with Gaza
and the violence of the army and the absence of accountability and the
expropriation in Jerusalem and the Negev and the Jordan Valley, and in
effect wherever a Palestinian tries to hold onto his land, after many
years and a lot of blood and a lot of crimes, the recycled trick of Israeli hasbara, or
public diplomacy, has begun to lose its sting, since the trivial truth
is that no, not everyone who sees the Palestinians as human beings with
rights is an antisemite.
Meanwhile, came the war in Gaza, with the destruction of biblical proportions
that we have brought upon the Strip and upon the tens of thousands of
dead Palestinian. There has been so much blood and destruction that the
question of whether this is genocide began to be seriously discussed at
the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
In Arendt's words, what we're doing to the
Palestinians – those who are still in Gaza – is still not rallying the
world against Israel. But the world is already permitting itself to
think about it aloud.
All
this still isn't making us rethink the way we "treat the Arabs."
Instead, we are once again trying to breathe new life into the used
hasbara balloon. If in 2019 Netanyahu declared that the investigation at
the International Criminal Court is an "antisemitic decree" (that
didn't stop the investigation) and in 2021 he asserted that this was
"pure antisemitism" (and that didn't stop the investigation), then a
week ago he started to shout about an "antisemitic hate crime."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Yad Vashem this week.Credit: Olivier Fitoussi
Netanyahu, as usual, embeds a few words of truth between one lie and the
next. In his speech on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad
Vashem Holocaust memorial, it was true when he described the
International Criminal Court as a body "established in response to the
Holocaust and other horrors, to ensure that 'Never Again.'" But with
exceptional chutzpah, if you think for a moment about the setting and
the timing, everything Netanyahu said surrounding this statement was a
lie, especially when he asserted that if an arrest warrant is issued
against him, "This step would put an indelible stain on the very idea of
justice and international law."
The truth is that the stain that is shaking the foundations of
international law is the fact that even after years of investigation, as
far as we know, there has yet to be an arrest warrant issued against
Netanyahu or other Israeli war criminals. That's in spite of the fact
that for decades, Israel has been perpetrating, in broad daylight,
crimes against the Palestinians, crimes that are government policy,
crimes that are approved by the High Court of Justice, which are
protected by the opinions of attorney generals and whitewashed by
military advocate generals – although all that is overt and known,
reported and published, nobody is being held to account for it, neither
in Israel nor abroad, at least so far.
We're approaching the moment, and perhaps it's already here, when the
memory of the Holocaust won't stop the world from seeing Israel as it
is. The moment when the historic crimes committed against our people
will stop serving as our Iron Dome, protecting us from being held to
account for crimes we are committing in the present against the nation
with which we share the historical homeland.
Even if that moment is delayed, it's time
for it to arrive. Israel will be without the Holocaust, but its image
will be protected by the Arab Israeli hasbara genius Yoseph Haddad and the content creator Ella Travels.
Come on. Maybe we would do better to open our eyes and adopt a different attitude toward the Palestinians: to see them as equal human beings. That certainly a far better lesson for the Holocaust. Arendt would probably agree.
Mer ulovlig israelsk bygging på Vestbredden planlegges:
"Gallant declares support for new city in Samaria"
"There needs to be a large and significant city developed there," stated the defense minister.
"Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on
Thursday declared his support for establishing a large new city east of
Ariel, the capital of Samaria, with the goal of further connecting the
area to the center of the country.
The statement came as Gallant inaugurated
an expansion of a security checkpoint on Route 5, a major traffic artery
connecting central Israel with northern Samaria and the Jordan Valley.
The multi-million-shekel project aims to
alleviate severe congestion at the security barrier, which poses a
security threat, by adding an extra lane to ease the passage of tens of
thousands of daily commuters."
Videre: "Gallant’s proposal to build a new city adds to the rapidly expanding Jewish population in Judea and Samaria.
According to an annual report based on Interior Ministry data, the
population in the region grew by nearly 15,000 last year alone and had
an increase of over 15% since 2019.
The report, released in January, projects
that this number will swell to more than 600,000 by 2030 and potentially
exceed 1 million by 2047."
Konklusjon: Mens det drepes palestinere i Gaza skal Israel øke de ulovlige bosettingene, nå med nye byer på Vestbredden. Målet er 1 million israelere der ......
Den kjente palestinske legen i Gaza Adnan Al-Bursh er erklært død etter 4 måneder i israelsk fangenskap, ref Haaretz 12. mai 2024 (HELE artikkelen nederst under Kilde):
"A Senior Gazan Doctor Died During Israeli Detention. Officials Refuse to Explain How"
Israel vi ikke svare på hva som skjedde. Artikkelen i Haaretz viser at Adnan Al-Bursh ble torturert ihel.
Dette må media skrive om. Det fortjener denne legen.
A Senior Gazan Doctor Died During Israeli Detention. Officials Refuse to Explain How
Dr.
Adnan Al-Bursh was arrested at a hospital in the Gaza Strip last
December, with his death at an Israeli prison quietly announced four
months later. Palestinian detainees who saw him say it was clear he had
gone through hell, but the Israeli army and prison service have declined
to disclose any details
Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, who was the head of orthopedics at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Among the incidents in which Palestinians
were arrested in Gaza, taken to a detention facility and died in Israeli
custody during the war, the case of Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh raises many
questions.
Earlier
this month, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society announced that Al-Bursh,
the head of orthopedics at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, died at Ofer
Prison in the West Bank on April 19. The circumstances of his death are
unknown and the Israeli authorities have not informed his family about
them. The Israel Defense Forces and Israel Prison Service refused to disclose any details of his case to Haaratz.
Palestinians who met Al-Bursh in prison
said he was in a very poor medical condition, and his family is
convinced he died as a result of torture. The Palestinian Prisoners'
Service said Israel has yet to release his body.
Al-Bursh, 50, was working at Al-Shifa Hospital when the war commenced last October. When Israeli forces reached it, targeting it as an alleged Hamas command center,
he went north to the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia. When that too
became a battlefield, he went to the Al-Awda Hospital in the Jabalya
refugee camp north of Gaza City.
Al-Bursh's wife, Yasmin, told Palestinian journalists that her husband
only returned from the Jabalya hospital during the weeklong cease-fire
at the end of November, after which he went back to work. "He spoke with
me by phone when possible and asked about our six children," she
recounted. "I asked him to come home, but he insisted on staying with
the patients."
Israelis protesting against the alleged abuse of Palestinian detainees at the Sde Teman camp in southern Israel, last month.Credit: Eliyahu Hershkovitz
In circumstances that remain unclear,
Al-Bursh was detained by the IDF last December. According to witnesses
who spoke with his family, when the Israeli forces reached Al-Awda
Hospital, he was ordered to go down to the hospital courtyard, after
which he was not seen again in Gaza. The IDF told Haaretz he was
detained on suspicion of involvement in terrorism.
According
to the IDF spokesperson's unit, Al-Bursh was documented at an IDF
detention facility on December 19, before being transferred the next day
to the Kishon detention facility for security prisoners, near Haifa.
"He has not been the IDF's responsibility since then," the spokesperson
said.
According to security sources who spoke
with Haaretz, after being questioned by the Shin Bet security service at
the facility, Al-Bursh was transferred to Ofer Prison, which is run by
the Israel Prison Service. One source added that Al-Bursh did not die
during questioning.
The
prison service refused to confirm or deny any details about the
orthopedic surgeon, saying merely that it did not comment on the
circumstances of the death of detainees or security prisoners who are
not Israeli citizens.
As a result, no answer has been given as to
whether an autopsy was performed on Al-Bursh's body, as is the norm
following the death of any prisoner at a prison service facility. The
service's official response was: "Contact the authorized party."
Testifying
about Al-Bursh's condition, Palestinian detainees who were released
back to Gaza after questioning, including several doctors, told his
family and Haaretz that they had encountered him at a detention facility
near Be'er Sheva, southern Israel.
"I barely recognized him," one doctor said.
"It was clear he had been through hell – torture and humiliations – and
sleep deprivation. He was in pain and suffered from a severe lack of
food. We tried to talk to him and calm him, but he was in shock and
sounded scared and in pain. He was a shadow of the man we knew."
Before
his detention, one doctor added, Al-Bursh had no medical problems and
liked to swim and keep fit. The physician said he was convinced Al-Bursh
died as a result of the conditions of his detention.
"For
us, Dr. Al-Bursh was a symbol, a role model and source of inspiration,"
said one colleague. "We suddenly see a broken man who barely speaks or
understands what is happening around him. And then we receive a vague
announcement that he died in prison."
Al-Bursh was a relative of Gazan Health Ministry Director General Dr.
Munir Al-Bursh, who told a representative of Physicians for Human Rights
that he tried to get information about Adnan's fate after his
detention. The only information he received was confirmation of his
death from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society. This in turn was based on
information from the Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (part
of Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories),
which works with representatives of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza.
Rescuers and medics searching for dead bodies inside the damaged Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City last month.Credit: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters
Nearly 500 deaths
Adnan
Al-Bursh was an orthopedic surgeon who specialized in joints and
compound factures. His colleagues said that, since the outbreak of the
war, he devoted all his time to treating the many wounded from the
Israeli bombing, which has brought the health system in Gaza to the
brink of collapse. He was lightly wounded in a strike near the
Indonesian Hospital and returned to work after being treated.
According
to figures released earlier this month by the health ministries in Gaza
and Ramallah, 496 doctors and medical/first aid staff have been killed
since the outbreak of the war, a further 1,500 wounded and 309 detained
by security forces.
Haaretz has previously reported that some 30 Gazans have died in Israeli detention facilities since the start of the war, 27 at military detention facilities such as Sde Teman
in southern Israel. Autopsies were performed on at least six of the
bodies to verify the cause of death. Two others, including Al-Bursh,
died while being held by the Israel Prison Service.
The
Palestinian Prisoners' Society said it has asked the United Nations and
Red Cross to immediately intervene against what it called the "criminal
conduct" of the Israeli authorities with respect to Palestinian
detainees, including medical staff.
Bryter USA's leveranse av våpen ti Israel amerkansk e lover? Ja, sier eksperter i USA:
"Biden’s weapons sales to Israel breach legal limits, former officials say"
"While the administration has expressed alarm over civilian casualties in Gaza, former officials say it has sidestepped laws governing foreign arms transfers."
"President Biden’s striking admission this week that American weapons are killing civilians in Gaza appeared to mark a turning point in U.S. policy toward Israel — coming days after the Israeli military made its first move on Rafah and before a highly anticipated government report on Israel’s adherence to the laws of war.
While the Biden administration has repeatedly expressed alarm over civilian casualties in Gaza, some former officials say it has drawn out the implementation of laws and policies intended to prevent American weaponry from being used in violation of international humanitarian law."
Og så gir disse ekspertene en rekke eksempler i en grundig gjennomgang. Se artikkelen for mer info.
Anklagene om systematiske voldtekter utført av Hamas-krigere den 7. oktober blir diskutert. En avisartikkel i NY Times "Screams without Words" er i fokus.
Nå har 59 professorer innen journalisme i USA skrevet motsvar til NY-Times-artikkelen. Dette motsvaret fra de 59 omtales i Israel i Haaretz i denne artikkelen: Opinion | Laurel Leff:
Hats off to those ethical journalists! There can be little doubt that
there is no solid evidence for the rape claims that were used to make
Palestinians into savages, against whom a genocidal assault could be
thus justified. Gettleman signed onto a project that relied upon ZAKA
types who made up wild claims about a baby in an oven, babies hung on
clotheslines, 40 beheaded babies, etc. Two of those claims now have
been thoroughly debunked, one due to the fact that Gal Abdush's husband
was texting and on the phone after she was killed, as was Gal Abdush
herself until moments before her death. That was the lead case in the
article.
The whole "systematic rape' claims were just classic "they are savages!" war propaganda.
That article made me understand what the New York Times really is--the
American Pravda, with Gettleman their new Judith Miller.
Dormus Jessop
05:36
Maybe because US journalists of truth know how ACCUCATIONS of rape was
used as an excuse to lynch blacks! The Horror, the horror of Black men
soiling white women in a racist state of Jim Crow USA is the same
HORROR Israeli's have of hate imbedded into Israeli women and
nightmares! It has justified the murder of over 40,000 Palestinian's
and maiming of 75,000 more and counting! FDR's old saying "The only
thing to fear is fear itself" has been turned on its head in Zionist
Israel! Fear is taught since birth, Fear is uncompromising and
psychotic, Fear makes Genocide allowable, Fear makes war crimes and
murder into sick Hero worship! Fear makes Orwell's War is Peace
believable, Fear makes Israel a perpetual victim, Fear turns enemies
into Human Animals, Fear gives IGNORANCE STRENGTH! Fear will make the
Samson Option and Armageddon inevitable!
Innsenderne bruker utrykket ... "i skyggen av Gaza-krigen".
Rettere er å si at DAGLYSET har vist verdivalg, som her:
"23. feb. 2024 ... A new Israeli Democracy Institute survey shows that 68% of Jewish Israelis oppose “the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza residents.”
EDIT 1 5. mai 2024 Dagbladet har fulgt opp: "Palestinsk lege dødei israelsk fengsel"
"En ledende ortoped
på Shifa-sykehuset i Gaza, Adnan Al-Bursh, er erklært død i israelsk
fengsel. - Jeg håper han blir utlevert sånn at vi får vite hva som har
skjedd, sier norske Geir Stray Andreassen."
EDIT 2 12. mai 2024
Ny artikkel i Haaretz: "A Senior Gazan Doctor Died During Israeli Detention. Officials Refuse to Explain How"
Det er tydelig at Al-Bursh ble torturert til døde. Det er også tydelig at Israel vil tie den saken ihjel.
Men derfor må det skrives om skjebnen til Adnan Al-Bursh. Det fortjener denne legen.
Ja, med Lawrence of Arabia og Hussein Ibn Ali har du markert en sentral del av historien. Og vi må ta med den såkalte Hussein-MacMahon-korrespondansen fra 1915-1916.
Araberne ble lurt av Sykes-Picot- avtalen fra 2016, og Balfour-erklæringen fra 1917.
UK drev dobbeltspill, helt uten moral.
Lawrence of Arabia ble en filmhelt, men selv fulgte han nok mest på sviket:
Avslørende artikkel i Washington Post om IDFs drap på journalister i Gaza 7. januar 2024:
"Drone footage raises questions about Israeli justification for deadly strike on Gaza journalists"
"JERUSALEM — On Jan. 7, the Israeli military conducted a targeted missile strike on a car carrying four Palestinian journalists outside Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Two members of an Al Jazeera crew — Hamza Dahdouh, 27, and drone operator Mustafa Thuraya, 30 — were killed, along with their driver. Two freelance journalists were seriously wounded. They were returning from the scene of an earlier Israeli strike on a building, where they had used a drone to capture the aftermath. The drone — a consumer model available at Best Buy — would be central to the Israeli justification for the strike."
Så langt innledningen av artikkelen. Deretter gjør WaPo en grundig gjennomgang av saken, og sentral her er minnekortet i den palestinske dronen. Den viser at IDFs forklaringer ikke holder stikk.
Artikkelen i WaPo er særdeles grundig.Og IDF blir avkledd. Her har man faktisk en sak som minner Abu Akleh: IDF går etter journalister.
Artikkel i The Guardian 29. april 2024 av Jo-Ann Mort:
"Zionism can – and must – be about liberation of Jews and Palestinians"
"We are entwined and must be liberated together. We must work to end the war and bring safety and security to both peoples"
Hun angir 2 typer av sionisme, den første nedfelt i erklæringen ved Israels etablering i 1948. Den andre typen tar hun sterk avstand fra: "The second is woefully apparent in today’s Israeli government, a messianic all-mighty Zionism, a Jewish supremacist ideology forged against the Palestinians who also live there. It is an horrific belief system, worth opposing for sure, because it privileges one group of people – one nation – at the expense of another. It is an extreme religious vision of Jewish power steeped in an anti-modern ideology, versus a shared society and accommodation between Jewish and Arab citizens inside of Israel and between a Jewish and a Palestinian state."
Og hun har klar melding om "sionisme under Netanyahu": "A full 16 years of rule by the rightwing populist Benjamin Netanyahu have severely damaged the essence of the state, and now, daily bring horrors to the Palestinians inGazaand the West Bank. They have gravely endangered Israelis themselves – most obviously those attacked on 7 October, but day-in and day-out, through policies that are discriminatory and racist, the Netanyahu regime shows an ugly face of Israel to the world."
Hun avslutter slik:
"There is a fierce ideological battle indeed – a battle to determine which Zionism will win out. This struggle will determine not only the future of Israel but the future of the Jewish people, and the future of the Palestinian people. We are entwined and we must be liberated together. We must work together to end the war, to bring safety and security to both peoples. We must seek our joint liberation."
USA vil sanksjonere en enhet i IDF. Israelske politikere protesterer, de sier IDF kan ordne opp selv. Men Sami Peretz påpeker at det var nettopp israelske politikere som overstyrte IDF i saken med Elor Azaria i 2016. (HELE artikkelen nederst under Kilde).
Saken med Elor Azaria er skjellsettende i Isralels historie. Her flyttet de ansvarlige politikerne, med Netanyahu i spissen, grensene for hva IDF kan gjøre: Å henrette en forsvarsløs og uskadeliggjort fange med et hodeskutt.
Utviklingen i IDF viser at man har tatt signalet. Både i Gaza og på Vestbredden vises hvordan IDF opptrer nå i 2024.
U.S. Sanctioning an IDF Unit Is the Rotten Fruit of the Elor Azaria Affair
Netzah Yehuda base, in 2022.Credit: Emil Salman
The U.S. administration is considering imposing sanctions on the IDF's
Netzah Yehuda battalion, due to what it perceives as human rights
violations by its soldiers in their confrontations with Palestinians.
The administration has for some months been
taking action against violent settlers and other right-wing elements
through the imposition of sanctions, but so far, this has been directed
against civilians or civil bodies.
The
significance of sanctions against civilians is that the U.S. does not
have confidence in Israel's law enforcement agencies when it comes to
Palestinian victims. But a sanction against a military unit
demonstrates that the Americans do not trust the military either,
believing that the army is too lenient in dealing with soldiers who
committed offenses.
The U.S. intention has vexed the entire political system, from Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, to
cabinet members Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot as well as opposition
leader Yair Lapid, all of whom came to the defense of the battalion,
telling the Americans that there is no justification for imposing
sanctions on a military unit.
They submissively accept U.S. demands to send humanitarian aid to Gaza,
to establish a dock in Gaza for offloading aid shipments and a demand
to postpone a campaign in Rafah, but when the U.S. starts marking
military units and imposing sanctions against them, this is perceived as
intrusive intervention in the management of tactical military echelons.
This move undermines the IDF command hierarchy and casts a heavy shadow over the IDF's judicial system,
portraying senior commanders as turning a blind eye to rogue soldiers.
In fact, it presents the Netzah Yehuda battalion as a kind of militia or
a military arm of the Otzma Yehudit party.
More than it impacts the unit itself,
it puts the IDF's top brass to shame, presenting IDF leaders as people
who have surrendered to political pressure. This pressure has increased
in recent years and has been particularly exacerbated since the
establishment of the current right-wing government, in which extremists
such as Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir play major roles.
The fact that the Americans suspect that
the IDF is buckling under pressure and is not acting with resolve
against rogue soldiers obliges political echelons to put in order their
relations with the army with regard to enforcing military discipline.
In fact, Israel's political establishment is contending with the rotten fruit of the Elor Azaria affair.
Azaria was a soldier who in 2016 shot and killed a wounded terrorist,
even though the terrorist was no longer posing a danger to anyone.
Elor Azaria in court, May 8, 2017.Credit: Moti Milrod
Azaria was contravening the rules of engagement and IDF values. Instead
of allowing the military to investigate and try Azaria, the incident was
taken out of the army's hands, becoming a public political affair. On
one side stood then-Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and Defense Minister
Moshe Ya'alon, with many politicians on the opposing side, including
Avigdor Lieberman, Naftali Bennett and Itamar Ben-Gvir (before he was
elected to the Knesset).
The
former believed this was a serious incident which did not reflect IDF
values. They expressed concerns that it could ignite the Palestinian
arena. The latter tried to make political mileage of the affair among
right-wing voters. They were joined by Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, who at first condemned the shooting but then lined up with
his voter base.
Turning a military incident into a
political matter in which politicians encourage a soldier who had erred,
instead of letting the army handle the case, now returns like a
boomerang to hit politicians. They are annoyed at the American
intervention into the inner workings of the IDF, but they did just that
in the Azaria affair, exerting political pressure while trying to take
the decision on what to do away from the military.
Anyone
poking his nose into professional and value-associated military affairs
even though this is not his role, only so as to garner public support,
should not be surprised when the U.S. does the same thing. Preventing
American sanctions against an IDF unit requires primarily desisting from
applying local political pressure on the army, while bolstering its
independence in relation to command structure, justice and discipline.
Begrepet folkemord er i løpet av den siste tiden blitt del av vår dagligtale. Sør-Afrika harstevnet Israelfor den Den Internasjonale domstolen (ICJ) i Haag for folkemord. Det samme har Ukraina gjortmed Russland.
"Over 30 land har erkjent folkemordet på armenerne. [...] Men ikke Norge. Det er flaut og uforståelig."
Fortsettelse i Kilde.
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