L’objet du présent article est d’éventer une manipulation médiatique délibérément exploitée à des fins de démonisation à l’encontre du régime du Président iranien, M. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Il ne constitue cependant en rien une défense de ce régime, ni de ses abus ou exactions réels. La conclusion même de cet article qualifie le régime d’Ahmadinejad d’ « arriéré » et, établissant un parallèle avec une citation (réelle, celle-ci) d’Ahmadinejad, de « cruel » et d’ « oppressif ». (…)
Arash Norouzi, Traduit et présenté par Xavier Rabilloud (Tlaxcala)
Jan 29, 2007
http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node%2F5892
via JAB
Swedish Radio reported on 23 June that home furnishings retail giant IKEA in Israel discriminately ships to Israel’s illegal settlements but not Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank.
Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 5 July 2010
“IKEA violates UN code of conduct”
The Swedish professor of international law, Mr Ove Bring claims that the Swedish international furniture giant IKEA discriminate against Palestinians since they deliver furniture to Israeli settlers on the West Bank but not to Palestinians. IKEA claims this is because of local rules and that local transport companies are doing the deliveries.
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/about_IKEA/pdf/SCGlobal_IWAYSTDVers4.pdf
Just Released: Unedited Footage from Mavi Marmara of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Gaza sinks slowly
by Alain Gresh
Will Israel have to pay a price for its latest assault? Despite international opinion and damage to relations with Turkey and the Arab world, the answer is likely to be no
Protest in Lebanon
by Sabah Haider
L’assaut donné le 31 mai à l’aube par l’armée israélienne contre la flottille de bateaux transportant une aide humanitaire à Gaza aurait fait une vingtaine de morts. Cette attaque s’est déroulée dans les eaux internationales. Elle a suscité de nombreuses condamnations, y compris de pays européens et du gouvernement français. Bernard Kouchner a déclaré que « rien ne saurait justifier l’emploi d’une telle violence, que nous condamnons ». Plusieurs pays, dont la Suède, l’Espagne, la Turquie et la France ont convoqué l’ambassadeur israélien. La Grèce a suspendu des manœuvres aériennes avec Israël et annulé une visite du chef de l’armée de l’air israélienne. (…)
« Les grandes puissances se discréditent » auprès de l’opinion publique en ignorant l’initiative irano-turco-brésilienne, a déclaré Ali Akbar Salehi, chef de l’organisation iranienne de l’énergie atomique (AFP, 19 mai). C’est « un camouflet pour les puissances émergentes », a insisté pour sa part l’ancien ambassadeur de France à Téhéran François Nicoullaud, sur RFI, le 19 mai. Pour l’éditorialiste du New York Times Roger Cohen (« America Moves the Goalposts », 20 mai), « le Brésil et la Turquie représentent le monde émergent post-occidental. Et il va continuer à émerger. Hillary Clinton devrait être moins irresponsable en torpillant les efforts de Brasilia et d’Ankara et en rendant hypocritement hommage à leurs efforts sincères. » La capacité des Etats-Unis à imposer leur solution, poursuit-il, est sérieusement érodée. (…)
François Nicoullaud, ancien ambassadeur de France en Iran
Caricato da rfi. – Video notizie in tempo reale
Iran’s political turmoil has prompted a growing number of the country’s officials to defect or leak information to the West, creating a new flow of intelligence about its secretive nuclear program, U.S. officials said. (…)
L’utilisation de quatre passeports français par le commando qui a assassiné un responsable du Hamas à Dubaï n’a pour l’instant suscité qu’une enquête de police. (…)
Mouammar Kadhafi, mauvais payeur ? Le tribunal du district de Columbia (Washington) se saisira bientôt d’un étonnant dossier mettant aux prises l’Etat libyen et son avocate “historique”, Anne Sefrioui. La juriste française a assigné, le 6 avril, l’Etat libyen pour lui réclamer le paiement de quelque 3,7 millions € d’honoraires ! (…)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/opinion/l18brooks.html
To the Editor:
Re “The Tel Aviv Cluster” (column, Jan. 12):
David Brooks correctly points out that the unique religion, culture and history of the Jewish people have contributed to Israel’s economic success. By underscoring Israel’s financial dominance in the Middle East, Mr. Brooks raises an interesting possibility.
While Israel’s political and military leaders have been unable to end the violent conflicts with the Arabs that have plagued their nation since its birth, perhaps Israel’s private sector can bridge this longstanding divide.
Israel’s increasing number of entrepreneurs and technological innovators should seek partnership opportunities to engage the Palestinians and the surrounding Arab countries economically (instead of militarily), with the goal of establishing a shared purpose that could lead to stability and peace.
Ivan R. Novich
Summit, N.J., Jan. 13, 2010
Every once in a while, some left-wing Jewish writer will take a deep breath, open up his (or her) great big heart, and tell us that criticism of Israel or Zionism is not antisemitism. Silently they congratulate themselves on their courage. With a little sigh, they suppress any twinge of concern that maybe the goyim–let alone the Arabs–can’t be trusted with this dangerous knowledge…[counterpunch.org]
On September 4, 1972, the novelist and futurist Fereidoun M. Esfandiary published an editorial on the op-ed page of The New York Times concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict. Titled “A Plague on Both Your Tribes,” it announced that the situation had become a “monumental bore”: that the leadership had failed, and the antagonists, “acting like adolescents, refuse to resolve their wasteful 25-year-old brawl,” even as other nations of the world were “rapidly patching up their differences.” Esfandiary decried the violent stalemate over territory, especially since the world was, in any case, “irreversibly evolving beyond the concept of national homeland.” Citing a recent United Nations study on global youth, he extolled a “new kind of population, more resilient and adaptable than their elders,” with a “feeling of world solidarity and a sense of common responsibility to achieve peace.” In a future that was just around the corner, today’s youth would take care of the Arab-Israeli problem—in part by realizing that it was already obsolete. He concluded the piece with an exasperated injunction: “Let us get on with it.”
Fin avril, à Luxembourg, le conseil des affaires générales et relations extérieures de l’Union européenne (UE) a préféré attendre avant de renforcer les relations de l’Europe avec Israël. Décidée durant la présidence française de l’Union européenne le 8 décembre 2008, la mise en chantier de ce « rehaussement » a été de facto interrompue à l’issue de l’offensive meurtrière israélienne contre la bande de Gaza de décembre et janvier derniers. De nouveau, le 15 juin 2009, le conseil – en marge duquel se tenait la neuvième session du conseil d’association entre l’UE et Israël- a réaffirmé cette orientation. Ce choix marque-t-il seulement une pause conjoncturelle dans l’approfondissement des relations entre Bruxelles et Tel-Aviv, ou esquisse-t-il un réel tournant de la politique européenne au Proche-Orient ? (…)
La valise diplomatique
par Isabelle Avran
Calls for investigation into Gaza attacks
Israel blamed its earlier wars on the threat to its security, even that against Lebanon in 1982. However, its assault on Gaza was not justified and there are international calls for an investigation. But is there the political will to make Israel account for its war crimes?
by Richard Falk [mondediplo.com]
Philippe Rekacewicz — janvier 2009
[monde-diplomatique.fr]
By 14 January Israeli troops had killed more than a thousand Palestinians confined to a narrow strip of land and subjected to land, sea and air bombardment by one of the most formidable armies in the world. A Palestinian school converted into a United Nations refuge had been bombed (1), a resolution – issued by the only organisation that really represents the “international community” people are so fond of talking about – had called in vain for a halt to the military operations in Gaza. So, on 14 January, the European Union showed just how firmly it was prepared to react to this mixed display of violence and arrogance. It decided to suspend the process of rapprochement with Israel! But to lessen the impact of what might, even so, have been seen as gentle reproach to Tel Aviv, it explained that this was a “technical”measure, not a “political”one. And that the decision was taken by “both parties”. [continue...]
by Serge Halimi [mondediplo.com]
Translated by Barbara Wilson
An Opec for gas?
Russia and Ukraine fell out over the price of gas, and people in eastern Europe suffered the consequences. But the dispute affects countries further down the pipeline – particularly in Europe, which seems unable to formulate its gas consumption policy
By Rafael Kandiyoti
[mondediplo.com]
The strange tale of Iran and Israel
The early Zionists never believed they would be accepted in the Arab world and pinned their hopes on the non-Arab periphery instead, particularly Iran. Israel reversed that policy by opening talks with a weakened Arafat in the early 1990s. But peace with the Palestinians did not happen and the ‘radicals’ grew more radical
By Alastair Crooke
[mondediplo.com]
Comment le virus Conflicker a paralysé les armées
Depuis deux semaines, les réseaux informatiques du ministère de la défense sont infectés par un virus qui a immobilisé certains systèmes d’armes, à l’instar des Rafale de l’Aéronavale – L’origine et les caractéristiques exactes de ce virus restent encore inconnues, mais la crise – dont Intelligence Online révèle l’ampleur – pose de sérieuses questions sur la sécurité des réseaux militaires français et leur capacité à faire face à une cyber-attaque d’envergure.
[intelligenceonline.fr]
- L’entrée en fonction de M. Barack Obama confirmera une triple rupture. Serge Halimi
– Les Etats-Unis humiliés par leur allié israélien
[monde-diplomatique.fr]
Already able to count on active backing in the U.S. Congress, the opposition Iranian movement People’s Mujahedin has its friends in the European Parliament, too. [intelligenceonline.com]
What Nato failed to understand
Afghanistan: the neo-Taliban campaign
The attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on 20 September, killing some 60 people, was compared to 9/11 in Pakistan and could be a turning point in the conflict in this region. President Bush has authorised ground operations against Taliban bases in Pakistan, which has now become the main theatre in the ‘war on terror’. Meanwhile, the neo-Taliban, operating an al-Qaida franchise there and in Afghanistan, have controlled the escalation of guerrilla resistance in a sophisticated military strategy based on the conduct of the Vietnam war. [mondediplo.com]
Pakistan: Hello al-Qaeda, goodbye America
MIRANSHAH, North Waziristan – With a truce between the Pakistani Taliban and Islamabad now in place, the Pakistani government is in effect reverting to its pre-September 11, 2001, position in which it closed its eyes to militant groups allied with al-Qaeda and clearly sided with the Taliban in Afghanistan. [atimes.com]
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
