Allerede i 1995 tegnet Sara Roy et bilde av den økonomiske tilstanden for folket i Gaza. Da hadde hun allerede studert utviklingen i Gaza siden 1985. For å beskrive den israelske politikken overfor folket på Gazastripen introduserte hun et nytt uttrykk ... "De-development" i sin bok fra 1995: "The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development"
I den siste ajourførte utgaven fra 2016 skriver forlaget: "In the final edition of Roy’s ground-breaking work, she argues
that Gaza’s trajectory over the last 48 years has reconstructed the
territory from one that had been economically integrated and deeply
dependent upon Israel and strongly tied to the West Bank, to an isolated
and disposable enclave cut off from the West Bank as well as Israel and
subject to ongoing military attacks."
Sara Roy er ansatt ved Harvard. Fra beskrivelse av henne der: "Dr. Roy began her research in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in 1985 with a
focus on the economic, social and political development of the Gaza
Strip and on U.S. foreign assistance to the region. Since then she has
written extensively on the Palestinian economy, particularly in Gaza,
and on Gaza’s de-development, a concept she originated."
Dr Sara Roy fastholder at den planmessige israelske politikken mht Gaza er: "De-development".
Netanyahu Told Jordan Peterson Arabs Expelled Jews From the Land of Israel – Historians Say He Is Distorting Facts
In
2015 Netanyahu corrected himself after falsely claiming Hitler decided
to exterminate the Jews only after he met with the former mufti Hajj
Amin al-Husseini during World War II
Prime Minister-designate Netanyahu speaking with Jordan Peterson.Credit: Screenshot from Jordan Peterson's Youtube page
Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this month in an interview with Jordan
Peterson in Canada that the Arabs dispossessed and kicked out the Jews
from the Land of Israel after they conquered the area in the seventh
century C.E.
A number of historians Haaretz spoke with
denied these claims and said Netanyahu's claims are 'amusing', and they
misrepresent and distort history.
In an interview on Peterson’s podcast conducted two weeks ago, Netanyahu spoke about his version of the history of the Jews in the Land of Israel.
"For
the first two millennia of their 3,500-year history, the Jewish people
have lived in the Land of Israel, fought off conquerors, sometimes were
conquered but stayed on their land,” said Netanyahu. “The loss of our
land actually occurred when the Arab conquest took place in the seventh
century.”
The
Arabs did something that no other conqueror had done – “they actually
started taking land from Jewish farmers. They brought in military
colonists that took over the land and gradually over the next two
centuries the Jews became a minority in our land. So it is under the
Arab conquerors the Jews lost their homeland," said Netanyahu. "The
Arabs were the colonialists and the Jews were the dispossessed natives,"
he added.
The Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem's Old City December 4, 2017Credit: RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS
Throughout the interview, Netanyahu repeated the narrative that the
Arabs expelled the Jews from their historic homeland, and used a number
of different words to describe it, including: expelled, dispossessed,
kicked out, and threw out.
Historian Dr. Milka Levy-Rubin of the
Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, who specializes in the early
Islamic period in Israel, said Netanyahu’s statements are “a mistaken and distorted picture” of history.
Prof. Yehoshua Frenkel of the department of Middle Eastern history at
the university of Haifa said: “His words are amusing, like a time
capsule from before World War I that was forgotten on the shelf.”
Netanyahu
made a number of mistakes during the interview: First, he ignored that
the Jews had been exiled and suffered from foreign invasions a number of
times throughout history before the Islamic conquest. “As for earlier
periods, of course during the First Temple period the 10 tribes were
exiled from the land, and let us not forget the Babylonian exile, too,”
said Levy-Rubin.
Muslim worshippers and Israeli police clashes at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, February 24, 2012. Credit: Reuters
“As for the Second Temple period and the Bar Kokhba revolt
– the Romans ‘only’ destroyed the temple, burnt down Jerusalem and
emptied the entire land of Judea of its Jewish residents. Moreover –
they imposed a sweeping ban on Jews entering Jerusalem, a ban that was
left standing until the end of the Byzantine period,” added Levy-Rubin.
She also completely rejected Netanyahu’s
claims about the Islamic conquest of the land of Israel: “I am not
familiar with any sources showing the exiling of Jews or others from the
land during the Arab conquest or of any testimonies of such an
expulsion. There is no archaeological evidence that points to
destruction or devastation, [in fact] the opposite.”
Frenkel
reinforced what Levy-Rubin said and explained that the victory of the
Arab tribes over the Byzantines and the growth of Islam did not cause
devastation. Not a single archaeological site has signs of destruction
and burning, but in fact many testimonies from Eilat to the Golan
Heights show continuity, he said.
“At the time, the Muslim interest was to
continue and conquer and levy taxes from the local residents. At the
first stage of the conquest the Muslim conquerors already preferred
generous capitulation and surrender offers over fighting,” added
Levy-Rubin.
Not
only did the Arabs not expel the Jewish residents, but Frenkel says
“the Muslims are the ones who allowed the Jews to return and live in
Jerusalem, and the Jews were even [allowed to participate] in the
building of the Dome of the Rock, and it seems that in the could also participate in the ritual and service there in the early stages, and they had great influence on the Muslims during the period of the conquest and for decades afterward,” said Frenkel.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, in a meeting with Hitler in 1941.
Because of the agreements with the occupiers, the residents could remain
in place and continue to run their lives as they had until then,
"including their religious rituals – without any limitations", said
Levy-Rubin. At the same time, these agreements allowed those who wanted
to leave to do so along with their property. Only in later periods, from
the eighth century and on, were various regulations enforced gradually,
which restricted the lives of the non-Muslim population in the public
sphere.
Netanyahu also said the Arabs kept the land
barren and empty, a “wasteland,” and built just a single new city –
Ramle. Levy-Rubin said this claim is distorted too.
The
Umayyad Caliphate (from 661 to 750 C.E.) invested a lot in the land of
Israel. “First and foremost in Jerusalem – we all know the mosques on
the Temple Mount, but also in a lot more places they invested in
development, including in Tiberias, the Hebron Hills region, the Negev,
and of the course the coastal strip where the Muslims encouraged
settlement.”
Netanyahu
quoted famous travelers to the Holy Land during the podcast, none less
than Mark Twain, who described the land as “a vast wasteland” and
“barren” before the Jews returned.
Mark Twain's visitors pass to Palestine issued by the Ottomans.Credit: Shapell Manuscript Foundation
“The fact that the land [of Israel] in general was settled sparsely does
not prove anything. There was a continuity of Muslim settlement since
the conquest,” said Levy-Rubin. In the interview, Netanyahu attacked the
Palestinians for distorting and misrepresenting history, and said it's
quite amazing that none of the facts he put forward in his books “has
ever been challenged… I make an effort to be very rigorous about the
facts,” he said.
Frenkel added that Netanyahu lectures
without getting into or spending too much time on complex facts, but
reality is much more complex and not one-dimensional.
In
2015, Netanyahu also distorted other periods of Jewish history, when he
said Hitler decided to exterminate the Jews only after he met with the
former mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini during World War II. After drawing
criticism, Netanyahu corrected himself.
Earlier
this month, Netanyahu said former U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt
said “over my dead body” when he was asked why he would not bomb
Auschwitz during the Holocaust. In this case too, historians said he was
distorting reality and proposing an alternative reality.
"Toka": Nytt cybervåpen, som hacker seg inn på overvåkingskameraer, sjekker det som der finnes, og kan forandre historikken ... uten å etterlate seg spor:
"Revealed: The Israeli Firm Selling ‘Dystopian’ Hacking Capabilities"
Meet
Toka, the Israeli cyber firm founded by Ehud Barak, that lets clients
hack cameras and change their feeds – just like in Hollywood heist
movies" (Haaretz 23. 12. 2022)
IDF under søker seg selv mht til klager. Og resultatet er:
"Watchdog: Under 1% of Israel Army Probes Yield Prosecution"
"Only
11 investigations for the period of 2017-2021 yielded indictments
against soldiers, showing the IDF's failure to credibly prosecute
itself, say rights groups." (Haaretz 22. desember 2022).
Fra artikkelen: "B’Tselem, a leading Israeli watchdog, grew so frustrated with the system
that in 2016 it dismissed the probes as a whitewash and halted its
decades-long practice of assisting investigations."
Allerede i 2016 sluttet den israelske menneskerettsorganisasjonen BTselem å bidra med sine undersøkelser. Man konkluderte at IDF bedrev hvitvasking.
Case fra North Carolina. Statens Høyesterett har slått ned et GOP-vedtak som ugyldig ifølge statens lover.
Saken er nå oppe i USAs Høyesterett: Moore v Harper
Guardian-artikkel av 16 desember med fokus på store mengder "mørke penger" fra konservative donorer som søker påvirke USAs Høyesterett i denne saken: "Conservative donors pour ‘dark money’ into case that could upend US voting law" "Groups submitting amicus briefs to supreme court case in support of Republican lawmakers received $90m in anonymous donations"
Hellas er blitt infisert av israelske aktører innen spionvare:
Haaretz 14. desember 2022: "Report: Police Raid Israeli Spyware Company's Offices in Greece" "The
raids on Intellexa were triggered after revelations that dozens of
political, military, and media figures were under surveillance.
"Greece's Watergate" erupted when Predator spyware was found on
journalist and opposition leader's phones"
Ikke bare er opposisjonen i Hellas spionert på av greske myndigheter:
"On Sunday, Greek newspaper Documento released a dossier revealing that
dozens of acting ministers, military leaders, businessmen and media
figures were also under surveillance."
Aktørene har også eksportert spionvare til Madagaskar og militia i Sudan.
Når "demokratiets vugge" er infisert ... Hva blir da det neste?
Thatcher ga skattelette ved UKs nye oljerikdom. Pengene gikk til eiendomsinvesteringer i London.
I velferdssamfunnet Norge derimot, får velstående familier premie for å
eie hus: Lav ligningsverdi, fullt rentefritak, skattefri gevinst,
skattefri utleie i egen bolig. (Kjetil Rolness 6. april 2019)
Den ameikanske senator Chris van Hollen er intervjuet i Haaretz 8. desember 2022:
The Senator Pushing Action on Abu Akleh Case Has a Message for Netanyahu's Allies Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen is leading congressional efforts calling for accountability over the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. He explains why it matters and warns of tensions between Washington and Jerusalem once Netanyahu's far-right allies take power
Utdrag, der van Hollen uttaler seg om de nye ministrene Ben-Gvir og Smotrich:
“These are avowed racists who have been very involved in inciting
violence against Palestinians,” Van Hollen says. “We often say that one
of the important things that unite the people of the United States and
the people of Israel is shared values. You now have individuals in this
Israeli government who clearly do not share values of racial, ethnic and
religious tolerance in any way."
Klartale fra van Hollen: - Han vil ha klarhet i Abu Akleh-saken - Han er klar mht hva som er "delte verdier" landene imellom
Tydelighet fra politikerne er ønskelig i denne konflikten. Chris van Gollen viser han står for.
Som far så sønn. Det forstår man av de to artiklene nedenfor:
1) Artikkel ved far Benzions død i 2012:
"Benzion Netanyahu, Father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Dies at 102" "The
elder Netanyahu was a prominent Israeli historian and a leader in the
Revisionist Zionism movement, under its founder Ze'ev Jabotinsky."
(Haaretz 30. april 2012)
2) Artikkel som analyserer Bibi Netanyahu ut fra hans ferske selvbiografi: "Benjamin Netanyahu: What drives Israel's incoming prime minister?" "A look at the incoming prime minister’s new biography and what it tells us about Israel’s longest-serving leader and the ideology that guides him." (Jerusalem Post 9. desember 2022)
Benjamin Netananyahu vidererfører farens syn at mulige katatrofer må være drivkraften for Israels politikk. Og at dette er overordnet alt annet.
Homesh hotspot: - Ulovlig israelsk utpost på palestinsk eid område. - Evakuert av Arile Sharon i 2005. - Men stadig besøkt ulovlig av ivrige israelske såkalte "nybyggere", som vil ha en religiøs skole, yeshiva, der - Og nå godkjent av Netanyhu for å få politisk tilsutning fra Itamar Ben-Gvir for å danne regjering:
"Israeli Settlers Pepper-spray Baby Near West Bank Outpost, Says Father" "Palestinian
father says four settlers pepper-sprayed him, his wife and
two-month-old baby as they stood in line at a military checkpoint in the
West Bank" (Haaretz 24. mai 2022)
"Why is Homesh the latest Israeli-Palestinian hotspot? - 8 takes" "Some 200 settlers in 2005 might have tearfully bid goodbye to the picturesque community which they thought of a 'little Switzerland,' but many of them never gave up on the vision of a return." (Jerusalem Post 14. jan 2022
"Netanyahu agrees to Ben Gvir demand to legalize dozens of outposts, Homesh yeshiva" "After politicians sit down for talks, Likud says deal reached to legalize West Bank outposts within 60 days of government being formed, amend Disengagement Law to legalize Homesh"
(Times of Israel 16. november 2022)
Hundreds of Israelis Attend Jewish Ceremony in Illegal Settlement of Homesh The
inauguration of a Torah scroll at a Yeshiva in the illegal settlement
of Homesh, which was evacuated by Israel in 2005, was not approved by
the army (Haaretz 8. desember 2022)
Kommentator Yossi Klein har en ytring om demokrati i Israel i Haaretz 25. november:
"Opinion | "Israel's Democracy Makes Way for Its Jewish Identity"
Han graver dypt i hva flertallet i Israel nå står for "demokratisk".
Og hvilke utfordringer det gir.
To setninger fra Yossi Klein: (HELE artikkelen nederst under Kilde)
"It’s time to separate “democratic” from “Jewish.”"
"We know what democracy is, and we know we don’t have it."
Og så en sterk melding om hva lærerne står ovenfor: "What will teachers who see their profession as a calling do? Their job
is frustrating enough as it is: In the morning, they teach the opposite
of what their students see on the news at night. They have to lie to
themselves and their students, to pray that no smart-aleck asks about
the “occupation” and then brush them off with a ton of words verbiage
and a few reasons that conceal the truth, because the truth is that
they’ll be fired if they tell the truth."
Yossi Klein: - Lærerne vil bli sparket hvis de forteller sannheten.
Opinion | Israel's Democracy Makes Way for Its Jewish Identity
It’s time to separate “democratic” from “Jewish.” It would be merely
symbolic, since no official document defines Israel as a “democracy.”
“Democracy” was first mentioned in Israeli law just 30 years ago.
Separating “Jewish” and “democratic” would reflect the spirit of the new
nationalist government that couldn’t give a hoot about the rest of the
world. It’s time to drop the fake, unnecessary millstone that was only
meant to deceive the naive goyim. We always knew it was fake, until we
suddenly began to believe our own lie.
We know what democracy is, and we know we don’t have it.
It does not appear in our holy Torah, or in the Balfour Declaration, or
in that folkloristic curiosity called Israel’s Declaration of
Independence. Erasing the word change a thing. It’s not as if we have a
democratic tradition. We didn’t come here to live in a democracy, we
came here to live in a state of Jews. In the contest between Jewish
religious law and democracy, it’s clear who will win. The courts of the
rebbes and the central committees of the political party are the proof:
Democracy is not for us.
The coupling of “Jewish” with “democratic” is
a bone in the throat of the religious fascists and a pain in the ass of
the enlightened secular folks. All agree: We don’t have a democracy.
Everyone knows: We can’t have that sort of thing here. Not to mention
that the Judaism of Arye Dery and Bezalel Smotrich is not the Judaism of
Maimonides or Yeshayahu Leibowitz; it has nothing in common with
“democratic.” It is violent, ignorant and corrupt, without a shred of
democracy.
We are in a transition period. From a government that is not entirely light to one that is entirely darkness, one that views Breaking the Silence as a terrorist organization
and democracy as an existential threat. This is the time for passive
resistance to a hostile regime. Artists, journalists and judges will
learn to live in such a regime.
In such a regime, public schools will be asked to reinvent democracy,
which was invented 2,500 years ago. Or Kashti reported recently
(Haaretz, Nov. 13) on this latest version, but even three years ago the
Education Ministry issued a civics teachers’ manual specifying that
“Others believe that the principle of the rule of law is separate from
the principle of human rights ” (Or Kashti, Oct. 26, 2019), in other
words the law and human rights are not the same thing, and the former is
not obliged to uphold the latter. And the teacher’s guide commissioned
in 2015 by then-Education Minister Naftali Bennett said that a
democratic political culture “is not a necessary condition for defining a
state as democratic” (Or Kashti, Nov. 15, 2015). Is that clear,
children?
From now on, a nondemocratic state can also
call itself a “democracy.” What are civics teachers supposed to say if
the new education minister (whoever it turns out to be) says: Get this
straight, we are a Jewish and nondemocratic state. Got it? Only Jewish,
we have enough democracy in our Judaism already.
What will teachers who see their profession as a calling do? Their job is frustrating enough as it is: In the
morning, they teach the opposite of what their students see on the news
at night. They have to lie to themselves and their students, to pray
that no smart-aleck asks about the “occupation” and then brush them off
with a ton of words verbiage and a few reasons that conceal the truth,
because the truth is that they’ll be fired if they tell the truth. Don’t
feel sorry for them. Under Miri Regev they’ll do what they did under
Gideon Sa’ar, that is to learn to live a lie, to cover up, to teach that
our democracy rests on two words: majority rule.
How
is such a teacher to maintain a clear conscience in a Jewish state? How
will judges, prosecutors and journalists respond if they are required
to go against their conscience and forgo human rights, freedom of
expression and equality before the law? And how will a reporter for a
commercial station interview a cabinet member whom he scorns personally
and despises professionally? Will he let him pour out his poison because
that’s the correct move professionally, or will he rip him to shreds as
his conscience dictates?
And what will they do when the keys to the art gallery, theater or film
studio are in the hands of those who would gladly piss on them? Martin
Luther King Jr. said a time comes when silence is betrayal. The question
is whether to speak out when it could cost you your job and your
livelihood. I ask myself what I would do if faced with such a
Mephistophelian dilemma. Only total despair or a burning passion for the
homeland and fierce faith in a better future could lead the average
person to sacrifice their profession, their livelihood and possibly
their freedom for it.
I UK opphevet man normale innkjøpsprosedyrer under Korona-krisen.
Etterpå er søkelyset på hvorfor noen firmaer fikk store kontrakter:
The Guardian 24. mars 2022:
"Private emails reveal Gove’s role in Tory-linked firm’s PPE deals"
"Exclusive: Tory peer Michelle Mone used private email addresses to contact Gove and another cabinet minister about PPE offer"
"The correspondence threatens to embroil Gove in the deepening controversy surrounding PPE Medpro, the company awarded government contracts worth £203mafter it was referred to the “high-priority lane”for well connected companies."
EDIT 24. november 2022
The Guardian 24. november 2022 "Michelle Mone PPE firm revelations prompt anger in Commons"
"The urgent question was triggered by a report in the Guardian on Wednesday. Mone and her children secretly received £29m originating from the profits of PPE Medpro, a company that was awarded large government contracts after she recommended it to ministers, documents seen by the newspaper indicate."
The Gurdian 24. november 2022 "The Guardian view on crony capitalism: a moral corruption stalks parliament - Editorial"
29 millioner pund bare for å anbefale en leverandør. Og der store mengder av innkjøpt verneutstyr ikke kunne brukes og er fortsatt lagret i Kina.
Siste ord er neppe sagt i denne saken. Selv om The Guardian er klar i sin fordømmelse i lederartikkelen 24. november 2022.
Yuval Noah Harari er israelsk historiker og professor ved Hebrew University. I et intervju med CNN sier ifølge han Haaretz 24. november 2022:
"Yuval Noah Harari: Israelis Support ‘Three-classes Solution’ to Palestinian Conflict"
"The
prominent Israeli public intellectual says in CNN interview that
Israelis have dropped the notion of a two-state solution and largely
embraced a multi-tiered class system where Jews are on top
"This includes, he contended, “Jews, who have all the rights; some Arabs,
who have some rights; and other Arabs, who have very little or no
rights.”
Harari iflg Haaretz: 1. klasse: "Jews, who have all the rights" 2. klasse: "some Arabs,
who have some rights;" 3. klasse: "other Arabs, who have very little or no
rights.”
Det sies at et demokrati kjennes ved hvordan flertallet behandler mindretallet. Og at rettigheter sikres ved en grunnlov.
Vil Hararis vurderinger påvirke politikerne noe sted? Må det gå 50 nye år før bildet er klart?
Daniel Pipes (JPost 7. oktober 2020): "In response to Oslo’s failure, I developed the Israel Victory concept in early 2001".
I 2017 ble Israel Victory Project etablert som"caucus", dvs vennegruppe, i USAs kongress, etter initiativ av Bill Johnson,, republikaner Ohio, og Ron de Santis, repunlikaner Florida. "The Israel Victory Project seeks to resolve the Israel-Arab conflict by
convincing Palestinians that the Jewish state is tough, determined, and
enduring, so that they give up their century-long war against it. The
project draws on Israel's pre-1993 policy of deterrence."( Israel Victory Project)
Jewish Currents 30 juli 2020: The Settlers’ Man in Florida The Republican Party in the era of Trump has become the party of the Israeli settler right, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis its most devoted champion.
"ELECTED TO CONGRESS in 2012 with significant support
from Tea Party groups, DeSantis quickly established himself as a
favorite of the pro-settlement right. In 2017 and 2018, he presided over
Congressional hearings on recognizing Israeli control of the occupied
Golan Heights (where over 20,000 settlers live)
and on moving the US embassy to Jerusalem—both actions that the Trump
administration eventually took. The hearings signaled that DeSantis was
not simply a run-of-the-mill pro-Israel politician, but a supporter of
the settlers’ goal to gain US support for Israel’s formal annexation of
the occupied Palestinian territories. “He was that committed to doing
the right thing for Israel,” said Mort Klein, head of the far-right
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), who DeSantis invited to testify
at both hearings. The ZOA awarded DeSantis their Zionist Hero Award in
December of last year."
"As DeSantis looks to move up the Republican Party ranks, his
pro-settlement record will ensure he can keep raising money from some of
the GOP’s biggest donors. In return, the settler right will have in
DeSantis a valuable ally to guarantee that settlements like Ariel stay
where they are, forever. "
EDIT 21. november 2022 MIFF: "De Santis sier Judea og Samaria er ikke okkupert, men "omstridt"". Jeg har svart MIFF med nedenstående Twittermelding av 21. november 2022
EDIT 9. januar 2023 Daniel Pipes intervjues i Jerusalem Post: "How can Israel win the Palestinian conflict? Historian explains" American historian Daniel Pipes recently visited Israel to meet with key people and also discuss his visions for Israel’s victory in its current conflict."
Skudeneshavn 17. oktober 2022 / 21. november 2022 / 9. januar 2023
East Jerusalem Palestinian Families Set to Be Evicted From Homes 30
Palestinian families from an East Jerusalem neighborhood were sent
eviction notices even though a 1980s document from the Israel Lands
Administration shows the land is owned by Palestinians (Haaretz 20. november 2022)
Dokumentene som viser palestinsk eierskap er utstedt av Israel Lands Administration i 1982.
Dokumentene som beviser jødisk eierskap er hemmelige. Og det er disse israelske myndigheter legger til grunn: "The administrator general’s office said that the classified proceeding
was legal and it was unaware of any claims that the land had been
registered as Palestinian-owned."
Kahanist Rabbi Addresses Israeli Army Reserve Battalion in Hebron
Rabbi
Baruch Marzel, the successor to Meir Kahane, lectured army reservists
on Hebron’s history, in what IDF says was an unapproved event
Israeli army officers invited Baruch Marzel, a far-right activist and
Kahanist, to give two lectures on the West Bank city’s history to
reservists serving in Hebron. Marzel, who lives in a Hebron settlement
himself, last week gave what was supposed to be the first lecture to
members of the Alexandroni Brigade’s 8180 Battalion. Following protests
by some of the soldiers, the second lecture, scheduled for Tuesday, was
canceled. (Haaretz 20. november 2022)
I lys av det som skjer om dagen i Hebron er det ikke overraskende at IDF-soldater der får opplæring av en religiøs ekstremist som Baruch Marzel.
Et resolusjonsforslag framsatt av Egypt er behandlet i FNs 3. komite: "Third Committee Approves Draft Resolution on the Right of Palestinian People to Self-determination"
"A draft on the right of Palestinian people to self-determination was
approved in a recorded vote of 167 in favour to 5 against (Nauru,
Marshall Islands, United States, Israel, Micronesia), with 7 abstentions
(Cameroon, Kiribati, Guatemala, Palau, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Togo)."
Avstemmingsresultat: FOR: 167 land MOT: 5 land (USA, Israel, Marshall-øyene, Micronesia, Nauru)
Vedtaket går nå videre til UNGA for behandling der.
Norge blant de 52 som avsto fra å stemme: "Norge avsto fra å stemme over Israel-resolusjon i FN" (Nettavisen 13. nov 2022)
Men med 98 stemmer for går det mot at ICJ tar fatt i saken.: "The resolution asks the ICJ to advise on "the legal consequences arising
from the ongoing violations by Israel of the right of the Palestinian
people to self-determination from its prolonged occupation, settlement
and annexation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967."
Israel er i harnisk: "The
Palestinians are exploiting the ICJ as a Weapon of Mass Destruction in
their Jihad War of Israel Demonisation" - Gilad Erdan, Israel's
ambassador to the UN."
Men hvor galt er det å søke å løse en konflikt med fredelige midler? Det blir hovedspørsmålet når Israels statsminister truer med "eskalering": "Lapid: UN Vote Calling for Int’l Court Opinion on Israeli Occupation ‘Could Lead to Escalation’" (Haaretz 12. nov 2022)
I en ekspedisjon i 1897 i nåværende Nigeria ble kunstskatter stjålet der av det britiske militære.
Nå er kunstskattene på vei hjem, tilbake der de ble stjålet fra. Flere museer i USA og Europa returnerer det som er kjent som "Benin Bronzes":
"It’s about ethics’: Nigeria urges British Museum to follow US and repatriate bronzes" "Culture minister says UK institution ‘should learn from what has happened’ as Smithsonian returns 29 Benin artefacts". ( The Guardian 11. oktober 2022)
"Digital Benin project reunites bronzes looted by British soldiers" "Comprehensive database of Benin bronzes held by museums raises questions about where they belong" (The Guardian 10. november 2022)
En digital database "Digital Benin" viser hvor omfattende kunstsamlingen opprinnelig har vært.
Kunsttyveri av samleobjekter fra andre kulturer har vært omfattende, spesielt av de europeiske koloni-maktene. Og slikt pågår den dag idag ... ofte i et svart marked.
Men dette er tyveri. Og ikke bare av objektene: Men også innsikt og forståelse av den kultur og den kunst- og håndtverkskunnsakp man har hatt i det land der kunstobjektene stammer fra.
IDF skyter på en bil og dreper de to palestinske ungdommene i forsetet. Han som satt i baksetet blir skadet ... arrestert som terrorist ... tatt til sykehus i Jerusalem. Der etter hvert frigitt uten anklager. IDF har nok skjønt at han snakket sant ... at de tre kom fra nattskiftet på en pizzeria.
Men IDF fastholder at de to drepte i forsetet var terrorister. Mens han som satt i baksetet "ikke hadde kommunisert" med de to foran ... og således gikk fri.
En utrolig IDF-historie der detaljene er skremmende: “He asked me how many children I have. Then he said: ‘Now you have one less.'” After shooting three Palestinians, two fatally, the Israeli army misled their mothers about which of their sons was dead, and refuses to return the bodies." ( 972mag 8. november 2022)
Det går fra vondt til verre med IDF. Derfor må saker som dette ettergås ved innsats fra Israels venner. Ellers fortsetter myrderiene av uskyldige.
Og ikke minst brukes det penger ... millioner på å støtte ekstremistiske repulikanere, gitt at disse støtter Israel foran alt annet:
"Why pro-Israel lobby group Aipac is backing election deniers and extremist Republicans"
"The
group places support for Israel over all over considerations, endorsing
extreme rightwing candidates in the midterm elections
The US’s largest pro-Israel lobby group is
backing dozens of racists, homophobes and election deniers running for
Congress next month because they have pledged to defend Israel against stiffening criticism of its oppression of the Palestinians." (The Guardian 18. oktober 2022)
AIPAC vil ikke vinne amerikanske hjerter på dette. Snarere tvert imot.
World Bank: Israel must give Palestinians 4G so economy can thrive
Israel is preparing to upgrade its
telecommunications system from a 4G to a 5G network, while Palestinians
in Gaza use mostly a 2G system and a 3G one in the West Bank.
Utdrag:
"Israel has “decision-making power over the frequency spectrum, and so
far has refused to allocate the necessary spectrum to Palestinian
telecom operators to deploy 4G frequencies,” the World Bank stated.
It
also has restricted the import of telecommunications equipment and
access to infrastructure and transmission sites in Area C, the report
said.
Palestinian
companies must work in partnership with Israeli companies to “access
international submarine cables” that would allow them to connect to the
global infrastructure, the report explained.
Bandwidth
is set and sold by Israel, the report noted, adding that Palestinian
telecommunication companies are charged a higher price than their
Israeli competitors.
Palestinian
telecommunication companies can not be competitive with their Israeli
counterparts, the report said, adding that these companies are forced to
offer more limited services at higher prices."
............
Kommentar:
Telekom for palestinerne styres av Israel. Det er en del av okkupantens virkemiddel for å hindre utvikling i de palestinske områdene.
Slik reduseres mulige palestinske arbeidsplasser. Og palestinerne forblir billig arbeidskraft.
Umm al-Hiran versus Mitzpe Kramim? Ta Mitzpe Kramim først: der har Israels Høyesterett nettopp godkjent at denne ulovlige nybyggingen på privat palestinsk land kan bestå. Den ER ulovlig ... men er opprettet i god tro. Da er det greit.
Motsatt med Umm al-Hiran: Her har israelske beduiner blitt TILVIST et område av ISRAELSKE myndigheter, så langt tilbake som i 1956. Men underveis har området og landsbyen blitt kalt "not recognized", dvs den eksisterer formelt ikke ifølge myndighetene ... har derfor ingen bevilgninger til infrastruktur. og lenge har israelske myndigheter villet rasere bygninger i Umm al-Hiran, og flytte innbyggerne der til et annet sted , der det fattigdom og elemndighet fra før, og ikke landområder beduinene kan bruke.
Istedet skal det etableres en jødisk landsby, Hiran, der Umm al-Hiran er nå: "Israel Resumes Construction of Jewish Town Planned Over Ruins of Yet-to-be-demolished Bedouin Village" The unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert has been fighting state-ordered demolitions for two decades, which Israeli land authorities hope will clear the way for the planned Jewish town of Hiran. (Haaretz 7, november 2022)
JNF - "Jewish National Fund" er en av aktørene for å tvinge beduiner bort fra Negev-området. Da bruker man treplanting som begrunnelse. Til og med i Munchen reageres det på denne politikken: "Munich’s Jewish Museum calls Negev forests ‘settlement policy,’ sparking outcry" (Times of Israel 12. juli 2019)
En artikkel i 972mag fra 2. august 2022 tar opp sammenligningen mellom Umm al-Harin versus Mitzpe Kramim. Der er konklusjone klar: Det ER forskjell på folk.
Den palestinske aktivist Amro Issa har opplevd det. At hans HJEM i Hebron av IDF blir erklært: "Lukket militært område".
Og da har bare han selv lov å være der. Dette er den måte IDF nå tyr til for å hindre Amro Issa å ha møter i sitt hjem:
"Israeli Army Declares Palestinian Activist's Home Military Zone After Complaints of Settler Attacks" "Prominent Palestinian activist says settlers 'don’t want me to speak to foreign and Israeli audiences about the apartheid and the Israeli occupation'" (Haaretz 3. november 2022, HELE artikkelen nederst under Kilde).
Den israelske advokat Michael Sfard mener IDF her opptrer ulovlig. Og krever begrunnelse for beslutningen om å gjøre noens hjem til et lukket, militært område.
Israeli Army Declares Palestinian Activist's Home Military Zone After Complaints of Settler Attacks
Prominent
Palestinian activist says settlers 'don’t want me to speak to foreign
and Israeli audiences about the apartheid and the Israeli occupation'
A roadblock in Hebron, last year.Credit: Amira Hass
The Israeli army declared the Hebron home
of a well-known West Bank Palestinian human rights activist and the
surrounding area a closed military zone, after he complained of settlers
violently targeting him and his colleagues.
The
order, issued by IDF Brigade Commander Yehuda Yishai Rozolio, bars
anyone from entering the area of the home other than the activist, Issa
Amro, himself. Amro had previously set up quarters for an organization
called Youth Against Settlements, which hosts visitors from Hebron and
overseas on the house's lower level.
Amro’s lawyer, Michael Sfard,
requested a criminal investigation of Rozolio over the order, claiming
that the commander was abusing his authority. In a letter to the army,
Sfard stated that prior to the issuance of the order Amro and his
colleagues had been attacked at the house, that access to the house had
been obstructed and that one person’s cellphone was stolen and another's
damaged.
Some
incidents were caught on video, including one in which an activist was
kicked and beaten, stones were thrown at the house and the cellphone was
taken, all while soldiers were in the vicinity.
Amro called the police following the incidents, and according to
Sfard’s letter, tried to file a complaint with the Hebron police three
times. He was told each time that there was no police investigator to
take it on, Sfard wrote.
In another incident caught on video, four
Israelis lit a bonfire on Amro’s property, near his house. When police
were called, Amro was told that the matter would have to be handled by
the army.
Later,
soldiers arrived with the order declaring the area a closed military
zone, while an English lesson for Palestinians was being held on the
lower level of the house. The soldiers directed the individuals there to
leave the premises.
The
order has been extended twice. Amro was first presented with an
official document and then, on Wednesday night, verbally informed that
it had been extended again. He was not provided with anything in writing
despite the regulations requiring it.
In his letter demanding a criminal
investigation, Sfard called the order “so arbitrary that there is no
doubt that [it was not the product of] good faith or a mistake in
judgment but rather signed with the knowledge that it was not directed
at the person who has been disturbing the peace and was meant to satisfy
the thugs who had initiated the attacks and ‘friction.’”
For
his part, Amro alleged that for quite some time, settlers had sought to
influence the army to shut his house and the activities hosted in it
down. “They don’t want me to speak to foreign and Israeli audiences
about the apartheid and the Israeli occupation,” he said, adding that he has been left alone in his house and is afraid to leave it due to threats that he has received.
Masked
Jewish settlers stand with Israeli soldiers during clashes with
Palestinians, outside of the West Bank village of Asira Qibliya and the
Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, in 2010.Credit: Nasser Ishtayeh / AP
It’s Election Day. Today we’ll all go to the polls with a serious
demeanor, a profound awareness of our burden of responsibility and a sweet sense of exercising a civic duty. The results won’t start
filtering in until tonight, but there’s no cause for suspense. The real
winners are already known. They’re the ones who have been winning for
the 55 past years: the bullying settler enterprises, and the Haredi
ignorantism enterprises.
The sad truth is that we, the excited voters, are not choosing a leader
today. We’re not even choosing a party. We’re only choosing who holds
the purse strings. The person who will continue to cut the checks that
will funnel more and more money to the settlers and the Haredim. Nothing
more.
Does it really matter whether it’s Yair Lapid or Benjamin Netanyahu? Benny Gantz
or Itamar Ben-Gvir? Yitzchak Goldknopf or Avigdor Lieberman? Not
really. None of them will stop the monster that’s been created here over
the past 50 years, none of them will even dare to try to stop it. They
are all its servants. And we are all its financiers.
The Haredi ignorantism
enterprises were founded not long after the state. Money and privilege
bought their votes, and slowly but surely an interdependence was created
between the Haredi electorate and whatever party was in power. Does
Mapai hold the purse strings? We’ll go with it. The purse strings passed
to the right? We’ll go with it; why not? And so the Haredim became
addicted to the government money that funds their caprices. And the
government became addicted to the Haredi electorate that keeps it in
power.
The reciprocal corruption was not long in coming. The “seculars” ran roughshod over all their lofty declarations about equality, human rights, freedom of
religion and freedom from religion. And the Haredim abandoned all the
ethics of their forefathers: They became ultranationalists,
greedy and power-hungry, arrogant and of course licensed dealers of
illiteracy. A surefire recipe for raising tame legions of submissive,
obedient voters.
The settler thuggery enterprise was born in 1967. The parents listed on the birth certificate are Moshe Levinger
(on God’s side) and Yigal Allon (from the side of the goat and the
dunams). This infant was disturbed from the moment of birth. Raging with
hormones seeking an outlet, violent, unrestrained, bridled, giving vent
to all his instincts under cover of carrying out a divine mission. They
too received grotesque amounts of public money to nurture and maintain
the “enterprise,” which lacks even an iota of logic, importance,
usefulness or need. Only foolishness and wickedness and hallucination.
With considerable alacrity the Haredim joined the settlers, and gave
rise to the Hardalim (ultra-Orthodox Zionist). From that moment
everything was foreseen, and permission was in fact granted: permission
to give vent to passions, to hate, to practice racism, to be cruel and
to condescend. Is it any wonder the Hardalim grew and swelled
like yeast dough? Because who doesn’t want to be naval birshut hatorah –
a scoundrel who nevertheless observes Jewish religious law – and an
idler at the state’s expense?
After 50 years of destruction, this pair of enterprises controls us entirely. Not only has the leadership become corrupt, so has the electorate. As a result, the
only thing that will be established here is a government that will
continue to be the enslaved treasurer
of the Haredim and the settlers. They are the crime and the punishment,
presumably by divine decree. And the punishment is not a light one: the
steady continuation of the disintegration. It won’t be the first time
in history that the citizens of a country pay for its destruction from
their own pockets.
But nevertheless we shall go out and vote. And that will probably be
very effective. Like kapparot before Yom Kippur and tashlich on Rosh
Hashanah. Like cupping therapy on a rotting corpse.
