lørdag 25. februar 2023

- Trump, Putin og Netanyahu: - Løgn, Løgn og Løgn

Løgn som politisk virkemiddel diskuteres i en artikkel i Jerusalem Post 24. februar:

"Is Israel's judicial crisis part of the Trumpist epoch?"

"MIDDLE ISRAEL: The lying that accompanies the Levin Plan is part of the global war on truth."

 Utdrag:
"The war on truth"
THE WAR on truth, as argued here in the past (“The Second War on Truth,” 22 October 22, 2020), is about the lie’s deployment by governments as a matter of strategy.

"Putin has to lie about his war; otherwise, the people will know it was his idea, and now is their defeat. Trump has to lie about his electoral defeat and the assault on Capitol Hill; otherwise, people will know he waged war on the American people, and lost.
And Netanyahu must lie about the Levin Plan, or the people will know it is designed to bully the judges he faces in court."

 

Trump, Putin og Netanyahu - løgnene angis av Amitz Asa-El å være en del av disses politiske strategi.
Og med løgner er det moralske forfallet i god gang.
Da er veien videre til angrep på demokratiet i full gang.

Og neste fase venter ... her har Putin og Trump allerede gått foran.

EDIT:
27. februar 2023
Melding fra USA's Utenriksdepartement:

Aqaba Joint Communique
At the invitation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Jordanian, Egyptian, Israeli, Palestinian and U.S. Senior Officials met in Aqaba, Jordan today, 26 February 2023.

Following comprehensive and frank discussions, the participants announced the following:

Så følger 8 punkter om hva partene var enige.
MEN, straks etterpå melde Netanyahu at Israel IKKE hadde var bundet av det man var enige om i Aqaba.


Skudeneshavn  25. februar 2023 / 27. februar 2023

Jan Marton Jensen

 
På Twitter:
24. februar 2023
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1629185174951845889

25. Februar 2023
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1629417968101646337

 

Ny Info:
26. februar 2023
https://www.state.gov/aqaba-joint-communique/

Kilde:
24. februar 2023
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-732580

 

23. februar 2023
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-02-23/ty-article/.premium/israel-advancing-plans-for-housing-units-in-west-bank-settlements-legalizing-outposts/00000186-800f-d525-a9ef-96bf4ee00000

onsdag 22. februar 2023

Israel 2012: "- Apartheid uten skam og skyldfølelse"

Vi skriver 2023.
Da er spesielt å finne igjen denne mer enn 11 år gamle artikkelen fra Gideon Levy i Haaretz.
Han kommenterer en MENINGSMÅLING om politiske holdninger i Israel:

Haaretz 23. oktober 2012:
"Apartheid Without Shame or Guilt"

"We're racists, the Israelis are saying, we practice apartheid and we even want to live in an apartheid state. Yes, this is Israel."

Gideon Levy går gjennom meningmålingen grundig.
Og er, som angitt, klar i sin konklusjon ... den gangen i 2012.

Det er spesielt å bli minnet om, gitt dagens politiske situasjon, at dette var holdningene allerede  for 11 år siden.
Hva vil de neste 10 år bringe?


Skudeneshavn  22. februar 2023

Jan Marton Jensen

På Twitter:
22. februar 2023
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1628453022081728514

Kilde:
23. oktober 2012
https://www.haaretz.com/2012-10-23/ty-article/.premium/gideon-levy-racists-without-shame/0000017f-f561-d887-a7ff-fde5f7b60000

søndag 19. februar 2023

Peter Beinart:" - You Can’t Save Democracy in a Jewish State"

 Peter Beinart kommenterer den politiske sistuasjonen i Israel, der det nå protesteres mot Netanyahus regjering ... "for å berge demokratiet"

Benhart er klokkeklar:
"You Can’t Save Democracy in a Jewish State"

 Beinhart påpeker at palestinernes situasjon og okkupasjonen IKKE er inkludert i protestene.
Og han gir en rekke eksempler på dette.

Beinhart konkluderer slik:
"Ultimately, a movement premised on ethnocracy cannot successfully defend the rule of law. Only a movement for equality can."

Skudeneshavn  19. februar 2023

Jan Marton Jensen


Kilde:

19. februar 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/opinion/israel-democracy-protests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

HELE artikkelen i NY Times 19. februar 2023:

You Can’t Save Democracy in a Jewish State

Mr. Beinart is a journalist and commentator who writes frequently about Israel.

Woman with her fist raised shouting in front of signs that read, in Hebrew, “Israeli students fighting for democracy” and “There is no academy as tool of democracy.”

Protesters in Tel Aviv hold placards that say “Israeli students fighting for democracy” and “Without democracy there is no academy.”Credit...Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The warnings come every day: Israeli democracy is in danger.

Since Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government announced plans to undermine the independence of Israel’s Supreme Court, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated in the streets. All of Israel’s living former attorneys general, in a joint statement, have warned that Mr. Netanyahu’s proposal imperils efforts to “preserve Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.” Liberal American Jewish leaders are cheering on the protests. Earlier this month, Alan Solow, the former head of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said he and other American Jewish notables “share the concerns of tens of thousands of Israelis determined to protect their democracy.” In a public declaration, Mr. Solow and 168 other influential American Jews warned that “the new government’s direction mirrors anti-democratic trends that we see arising elsewhere.”

The problem runs deeper than just these politicians. When American Jewish leaders like Mr. Solow express solidarity with those “Israelis determined to protect their democracy,” they are not only deluding themselves about Mr. Netanyahu’s leading opponents. They are deluding themselves about Jewish statehood itself.

A man holding a Palestinian flag at a protest at night in Tel Aviv, Israel, last month.

A protester holding a Palestinian flag in Tel Aviv at a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government.Credit...Tsafrir Abayov/Associated Press

For most of the Palestinians under Israeli control — those in the West Bank and Gaza Strip—Israel is not a democracy. It’s not a democracy because Palestinians in the Occupied Territories can’t vote for the government that dominates their lives. When Mr. Gantz sends Israeli troops to shut down their human rights groups, West Bank Palestinians can’t punish him at the ballot box. They can complain to the Palestinian Authority. But the P.A. is a subcontractor, not a state. Like other Palestinians, its officials need Israeli permission even to leave the West Bank. In Gaza, too, Israel determines, with help from Egypt, which people and products enter and exit. And Gaza’s residents, who live in what Human Rights Watch calls “an open-air prison,” can’t vote out the Israeli officials who hold the key.

This lack of democratic rights helps explain why Palestinians are less motivated than Israeli Jews to defend Israel’s Supreme Court. As the Israeli law professors David Kretzmer and Yael Ronen note in their book, “The Occupation of Justice,” “in almost all of its judgments relating to the Occupied Territories, especially those dealing with questions of principle, the Court has decided in favor of the authorities.” Enfeebling the court would undermine legal protections that Israel Jews take for granted but most Palestinians did not enjoy in the first place.

To be fair, roughly 20 percent of the Palestinians under Israeli control enjoy Israeli citizenship and the right to vote in Israeli elections. Yet it is often these Palestinians who protest most vociferously against Israel’s democratic credentials. In 2009, Palestinian Knesset member Ahmad Tibi quipped that Israel was indeed “Jewish and democratic: Democratic toward Jews, and Jewish toward Arabs.” To many liberal Zionists, that might sound churlish. After all, Mr. Tibi has now served in Israel’s parliament for almost 25 years. But he understands that the Jewish state contains a deep structure that systematically denies Palestinians legal equality, whether they are citizens or not.

Consider how Israel allocates land. Most of the land inside Israel proper was seized from Palestinians during Israel’s war of independence in the late 1940s, when more than half the Palestinian population was expelled or fled in fear. By the early 1950s, the Israeli government controlled more than 90 percent of Israel’s land. It still does. The government distributes that land for development and leases it to citizens through the Israel Land Authority. Almost half the seats on its governing council are reserved for the Jewish National Fund, whose mission is “strengthening the bond between the Jewish people and its homeland.”

This helps explain why Palestinians comprise more than 20 percent of Israel’s citizens but Palestinian municipalities, according to a 2017 report by a variety of Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups, encompass less than 3 percent of Israel’s land. In 2003, an Israeli government commission found that “many Arab towns and villages were surrounded by land designated for purposes such as security zones, Jewish regional councils, national parks and nature reserves or highways, which prevent or impede the possibility of their expansion.” Unable to gain permission, many Palestinian citizens build homes illegally — which are therefore subject to government demolition. Ninety-seven percent of the demolition orders in Israel proper between 2012 and 2014, according to the 2017 report, were against Palestinians.

This isn’t an accident. It’s the logical outgrowth of Israel’s self-definition. Israel is not a “state for all its citizens,” a concept Mr. Lapid said in 2019 that he has opposed “my entire life.” In 2018, when several Palestinian lawmakers introduced legislation “to anchor in constitutional law the principle of equal citizenship,” the Knesset’s speaker ruled that it could not even be discussed because it would “gnaw at the foundations of the state.” That same year, the Knesset passed legislation reaffirming Israel’s identity as the “nation-state of the Jewish people,” which means that the country belongs to Jews like me, who don’t live there, but not to the Palestinians who live under its control, even the lucky few who hold Israeli citizenship. All this happened before Mr. Netanyahu’s new government took power. This is the vibrant liberal democracy that liberal Zionists want to save.

Some Jews may worry that by advocating genuine liberal democracy — and thus exposing themselves to accusations of anti-Zionism — Mr. Netanyahu’s critics will marginalize themselves. But if they widen their vision they’ll see that the opposite is true. By including Palestinians as full partners, Israel’s democracy movement will discover a vast reservoir of new allies and develop a far clearer moral voice. Ultimately, a movement premised on ethnocracy cannot successfully defend the rule of law. Only a movement for equality can.

Peter Beinart (@PeterBeinart) is a professor of journalism and political science at the Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He is also editor at large of Jewish Currents and writes The Beinart Notebook, a weekly newsletter.

 

lørdag 18. februar 2023

Spørsmål til MIFF om "Sann informasjon"

 Innlegg på Twitter til MIFF om "Sann informasjon".

Prisverdig at: "unge Israelvenner skal treffe hverandre og få opplæring og oppmuntring til å spre sann informasjon om Israel der de befinner seg."
Her en samling SANN INFORMASJON fra eksperten Adam Raz:
haaretz.com/ty-WRITER/0000
#Israel
#Palestina
 
Lenken til artiklene fra Adam Raz gir fyldig dokumentasjon om mange viktige, historiske saker i Israel.
Han er eksert i å finne materiale i arkiver og publisere dette.

Skudeneshavn  18. februar 2023
Jan Marton Jensen

torsdag 16. februar 2023

Sudans militærkupp: Al-Fattah søker mot Israel og Russland for å konsolidere sitt diktatur

13. februar 2023 i Aljazeera:
"Sudan: Burhan dismisses sanctions threats, lauds ties with Israel"

"Military leader says intelligence sharing between Tel Aviv and Khartoum helped arrest suspected fighters in Sudan."

Utdrag:
"He also lauded ties with Israel, saying intelligence sharing between the two former adversaries helped arrest suspected fighters in his country.

Protesters have been on the streets for months since Burhan led a military coup in October last year that ended a civilian-military partnership that was meant to lead to democratic elections, a move that was also widely condemned by the international community.

US officials have said they are looking into options to respond to the killing of at least 79 protesters, according to a toll by medics, and to moves to impede civilian-led government".

 9. februar 2023 i Aljazeera:
"Russia’s Lavrov visits Sudan on diplomatic push in Africa’s Sahel"
"Lavrov arrived in Khartoum seeking to bolster the two countries’ economic ties, especially in infrastructure."

Al-Fattah berømmer sikkerhetssamarbeidet med Israel.
Rimeligvis betyr dette tilgang til overvåking av Al-Fattah's motstandere.


Skudeneshavn   16. februar 2023

Jan Marton Jensen


På Twitter:
16. februar 2023
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1626309273700511744

16. februar 2023
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1626336729555689472


Kilde:

13. februar 2023
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/13/sudans-burhan-lauds-ties-with-former-foe-israel

9. februar 2023
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/9/russias-lavrov-visits-sudan-on-diplomatic-push-in-africas-sahel

"Opinion | The Disgraceful Death of Harun Abu Aram"

I Haaretz 16. februar 2023, minneord av Gideon Levy om en trist palestinsk skjebne:

"The Disgraceful Death of Harun Abu Aram"

Lam i to år, fra nakken og ned, etter å ha blitt skutt i hodet av en IDF-soldat.
Liggende i en hule i Masafer Yatta, der IDF raserer de palestinske bygningene.

En tragisk skjebne, som illustrerer hvor umenneskelig det her blir.


Skudeneshavn  16. februar  2023

Jan Marton Jensen

På Twitter:
16. februar 2023
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1626274312989683712

Kilde:
Søk på Startsiden med "Harun Abu Aram" gir mange artikler:
https://www.startsiden.no/sok/?q=harun+abu+aram&engine=startsiden

16. februar 2023
Gideon Levy: "Opinion | The Disgraceful Death of Harun Abu Aram"
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-02-16/ty-article-opinion/.premium/the-disgraceful-death-of-harun-abu-aram/00000186-56eb-d4f9-abe7-d7efb49b0000

1. januar 2021
https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-in-critical-state-after-being-shot-at-close-range-in-spat-with-idf/