"Netanyahu and His Nightmare Coalition Are the 'New Antisemites'"
B. Michael går i rette med Netanyahu & Co, som han i sterke ordelag mener er de nye "Nye antisemitter", og som med sin ekstreme politikk ødelegger for alle jøder, også de i diaspora.
"The 1956 Massacre That Haunts a Palestinian Village in Israel Makes It to the Screen"
En tragisk hendelse som Ben Gurion prøvde å dekke over.
Nå dokumentert ved film, etter at hemmeligholdelsene av statsarkiv-informasjon om saken ble opphevet i 2022: "Two years ago, the transcripts from the trial of the 11 Israeli
officers, which was held the following year, were finally released. The
authorities said they had been kept under wraps because the severity of
the details would jeopardize Israel's national security. The filmmakers
have made the decision to reenact segments of those transcripts in the
new documentary."
HELE artikkelen om Kafr Qasem 26. mai 2024 i Haaretz:
At a time when Israel demands that the
world constantly be reminded of the unimaginable horrors of October 7,
one of the most talked about documentaries screened at Tel Aviv's
DocAviv festival (May 24-June 1) dares to examine the atrocities of a
massacre which many young Israeli know very little about.
On Friday, dozens of viewers from the Palestinian-Israeli village Kafr Qasem
arrived to Tel Aviv on private buses. They all came to watch the new
documentary "The 1957 Transcripts," (called "Black Flag" in Hebrew), on
the October 29 massacre which took place in their village 67 years ago.
The documentary, a production of Yes Docu,
was made by three Israeli women: director Ayelet Heller, producer Osnat
Trabelsi and editor Hadas Ayalon. Using archival material, reenactments
and interviews with survivors and relatives of victims, the three tell
the story of that bloody day, which was etched in the memory of
Israeli-Palestinians to this day.
Between
the establishment of Israel in 1948 and 1966, Kafr Qasem was under
Israeli military rule, along with all other Palestinian villages which
ended up inside Israel. The residents weren't allowed to move around
freely, and were put under curfew every night.
On that historical day, dozens of Kafr Qasem's residents went out to
work in the fields not knowing that the curfew would begin at an earlier
hour than usual. Everyone who returned to their homes after 5 PM was
shot by members of Israel's Border Police; 49 Palestinian women,
children and men died on the spot or eventually succumbed to their
wounds. David Ben-Gurion's government tried its best to hide the event's
details from the Israeli public, but they were leaked weeks later.
Two years ago, the transcripts from the trial of the 11 Israeli
officers, which was held the following year, were finally released. The
authorities said they had been kept under wraps because the severity of
the details would jeopardize Israel's national security. The filmmakers
have made the decision to reenact segments of those transcripts in the
new documentary.
Filmmaker Ayelet Heller at the screening of he documentary film 'The 1957 Transcripts' at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, on Friday.Credit: Hadas Parush
"The 1957 Transcripts,"
which will be screened again on Monday, manages to expose the huge gaps
in the narratives of the two sides. More than anything, it spotlights
an idea that a lot of Israelis still believe in, which made the tragic
events possible: that the Palestinians in Israel are a fifth column, and
a constant threat that must be contained, controlled and repressed.
The film's final edit was done in September 2023, and Heller, the
director, was afraid nobody was going to be interested in seeing it at a
time of war. Many people advised her to wait for better timing. But
current events only make this important film more relevant than ever.
'The
central bonfire this year in Rafah,' Israeli journalist Yinon Magal
said of an Israeli strike in Rafah in southern Gaza that killed at least
35, according to Palestinian health workers
Two right-wing journalists reacted to the
death of scores of Palestinians killed in Gaza on Sunday night by making
a joke likening footage of the fires caused by the Israeli airstrike
that killed them to the traditional bonfires lit on the Jewish holiday
of Lag Ba'Omer, which also took place Sunday night.
As of Monday morning, Palestinian health workers said that at least 35 people were dead,
with "numerous" others trapped in flaming debris as a result of Israeli
airstrikes on Rafah. Hamas' Health Ministry said women and children
made up most of the dead and dozens of wounded.
Journalist Yinon Magal –
who hosts the popular panel show The Patriots on Israel's
pro-government news outlet Channel 14 – and news columnist and frequent
Channel 12 panelist, Naveh Dromi, tweeted two versions of the same
reaction to the unfolding tragedy in Rafah to their social media
accounts. Magal posted a video of fires blazing in Rafah as emergency
personnel and civilians worked to rescue the injured under the caption,
"The central bonfire this year in Rafah."
Dromi
retweeted another user's post which also showed a fire in Rafah, adding
her own "Happy Holidays." Both have since deleted their tweets, but not
before they were shared widely across the platform, with some users
praising the sentiment.
Still, condemnation of the pair was swift and broad across social media,
with many responding both in Hebrew and in English with harsh criticism
of the crude joke. Ami Dror, one of the leaders of Israel's anti-government protest movement
posted a screenshot of Magal's tweet with the response, "Netanyahu and
his messianic, racist and corrupt government must be immediately
impeached! They are committing war crimes, and such reference from their
inner circle only emphasizes that intention."
Yinon Magal, the TV host of the most popular TV show on "Netanyahu's TV" (controlled by Russian oligarch, that used to work with Putin and Prigozhin) referred to the unfolding tragedy in Rafah as the "central bonfire of Lag Baomer." (Jewish holiday).
Netanyahu and his messianic, racist and corrupted government must be immediately impeached! They are committing war crimes and such reference from their inner circle only emphasizes their intention.
#BringThemHome#GazaWar#warcrime#netayahu
Professor Idan Landau, who managed to
capture Dromi's tweet before she deleted it, lambasted both her and
Avichai Shorshan, who posted the original photo. "Avichai Shorshan is a
Kfar Adumim security officer who routinely abuses the residents of Khan
al-Ahmar, with a special fondness for abusing children," Landau stated.
"Naveh Dromi is a woman who delights in the sight of women and children
engulfed in flames. (I forgot the name. What are these people called
again?)."
"As is the way of these far-right studio stars – be warned and shrug it off," Landau added, "she deleted the tweet."
Later in the video, the man threatened that "100,000" reservists,
according to his estimation, will refuse to surrender to the orders of
IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi or Defense MinisterYoav
Gallant. Magal shared the video, which resulted in the masked man's
dismissal from the military, under the caption "This is how we think and
feel in Gaza."
Diskusjon i Aftenposten etter ICJs dom 24. mai 2024 om IDFs Rafah-operasjon.
Min kommentar til debatten:
"Som forventet av ICJ, gitt den forrige ICJ-dommen. Det tragiske er USA ved Biden, som opprinnelig sa at et angrep på Rafah var en RØD LINJE hvis IDF satte igang en større operasjon i Rafah. DET har IDF gjort.
Ny melding om forholdene ved israelske interneringsfengsler:
"Whistleblowers allege widespread abuses at Israeli detention camp"
"Sources describe Palestinian inmates being beaten, kept shackled to hospital beds or made to stand for hours"
Lugubre forhold. Fengselsbemanningen bruker maske pga illeluktende inneklima. De innsatte er kategorisert som "unlawful combatant", og har dermed mistet rettsbeskyttelse.
Det er israelske fangevoktere som anonymt har gitt informasjonen som The Guardian her publiserer.
‘Finishing the Enterprise’: Israel's Admission to the United Nations"
"Abstract"
"During 1948–9, Israeli leaders placed
considerable importance on the country's efforts to secure membership in
the United Nations (UN). Israel's foreign relations at the time,
however, were complicated not only by the country's lack of UN
membership. Israel was also at war with its Arab neighbours, and the
newly created state was thus without clear borders and faced with
several unresolved political problems with clear international
ramifications: the future status of Jerusalem and the growing
Palestinian refugee problem. Despite this, and despite the international
pressure these unresolved issues triggered, Israel succeeded in
securing UN membership in May 1949, which entailed a de facto
international recognition of the new state. How might a political
achievement of such magnitude be explained? Looking in greater detail at
how Israel argued for its admission to the UN, and how it successfully
countered the arguments voiced internationally against its application
for membership, this article shows how Israel was able to achieve its
goal of UN membership without making any concessions on its positions on
territory, Jerusalem, or the question of the Palestinian refugees. In
essence, it was able to do this by holding the Arab–Israeli peace
process hostage to its UN admission."
BBC gir en rekke eksempler der IDF-soldater og befal håner palestinske fanger. Dette fortsetter selv etter at IDF-ledelsen har lovet bedring:
"Israel troops continue posting abuse footage despite pledge to act"
BBC-artikkelen inneholder en rekke konkrete eksempler der navngitte soldater/befal legger ut på TikTok sin håning av fanger .... Det er spesielt når BBC Verify refererer "Breaking the Silence": "The culture in the military, when it comes to Palestinians, is that
they are only targets. They are not human beings. This is how the
military teaches you to behave."
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
Ser du galskapen?
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.
