Netanyahu betrays, deceives, commits war crimes.
Will Western countries let him procede?
ONU deixará Netanyahu continuar seus crimes?
A eleição em Israel parecia empatada até a véspera quando Binyamin Netanyahu rasgou o verbo e conseguiu distanciar-se de seus concorrentes com palavras mágicas de rascismo e promessas de arrepiar. Um delas, aplaudidíssima, foi categórica: "Comigo no comando, não haverá Estado da Palestina". Assim definiu seu próximo mandato, acrescentando complôs internacionais contra seu país e ofensas aos 20% de "concidadãos" palestino-israelenses. Um colega do Haaretz deu o tom: Netanyahu resorts to race-baiting to win elections.
Portanto, em seu 4° mandato, o 34° Primeiro Ministro de Israel desde sua auto-determinação em 1948, vai deve cumprir sua promessas ipsis litteris. Embora, a posteriori, tenha engolido o sapo de balbuciar o contrário a fim de não alienar o padrinho estadunidense.
Diga o que disser, ninguém duvida que seu instinto criminoso impere no "novo" governo.
Será que Barack Obama acabará dobrando-se ao lobby sionista e mordendo a isca? Será que voltará a estender a mão para que Netanyahu a morda e o esbofeteie rapidinho?
Os boatos que vazam levam a crer que os líderes ocidentais estão pouco dispostos a engolir mais sapo desse indivíduo pouquíssimo recomendável. Porém, quando se trata de Israel, do lobby sionista e sua força econômica, nunca se sabe se o bom senso de justiça vai durar nos palácios presidenciais e se resultará em medidas concretas que invertam o status quo israelense da ocupação e da limpeza étnica da Palestina.
Esta coalizão governamental que Netanyahu está formando é a décima primeira desde que os Estados Unidos começaram a "patrocinar" o famigerado "peace process" 24 anos atrás.
24 anos de expansão e de massacres intermitentes dos palestinos na Cisjordânia e na Faixa de Gaza. Até quando vai durar? Até quando a Háguia deixará este malfeitor infringir as leis que regems a justiça internacional?
Os governos de Israel duram uma média de dois anos. É quanto dura estas coalizões heterogêneas em que todos só concordam em um tema: a limpeza étnica da Palestina. Os meios variam em menos ou mais violentos dos que Netanyahu emprega; e aí brigam, o Primeiro Ministro convoca novas eleições (são sua prerrogativa) e recomeça o mesmo ciclo com o líder legitimizado pelas urnas que revelam a crescente fascização do país.
The Nakba that continues / A Naqba contínua
Não adiantou nada. Os israelenses decidiram pela terceira vez seguida: Netanyahu! Que a Naqba continue até a "solução final". Termo que alguns israelenses já usam sem escrúpulo.
Para mim, a vitória de Netanyahu não foi surpresa. Desde a ascensão do Likud ao poder em 1977 que a Direita vem ganhando terreno assutadoramente, até em Tel Aviv. Ariel Sharon e Binyamin Netanyahu são os in/dignos representantes desse partido e atraíram uma carrada de simpatizantes com seus crimes de guerra e suas infrações às leis internacionais.
Todos os Primeiros Ministros israelenses tentaram e conseguiram ganhar terreno e jamais respeitar as fronteiras palestinas delimitadas pelas Nações Unidas. Apesar de não ter parado a colonização judia na Cisjordânia, Yitzhak Rabin foi o único que entendeu que os palestinos precisavam de um Estado delimitado para todos viverem, progredirem e dormirem em paz. Os demais não fizeram nenhum esforço nem de dialogar. As "negociações de paz" foram sucessivas mascaradas para ganhar tempo para expandir sua dominação e enganar os países ocidentais.
E depois desta mensagem clara de guerra que os israelenses enviaram, Obama comentou que "the possibility seems dim for the Israelis and Palestinians to agree to live side-by-side in peace and security. We can't continue to premise our public diplomacy on something that everybody knows is not going to happen, at least in the next several years." Completando que "ninguém" espera a criação de um Estado da Palestina "overnight", mas que o objetivo é dar esperança aos palestinos "for a secure state adjoining Israel". É a chamada "double-talk". Nega a possibilidade de Estado em uma frase e dá esperança em outra para os palestinos ficarem quietinhos deixando Israel tomar-lhes tudo a passos largos e quando chegar a tal hora, nos "next several years" se encontrarem sem nada.
RT, Naomi Dann do Jewish Voice : Netanyahu wins, apartheid continues
Se a União Sionista tivesse levado a melhor, a política de ocupação continuaria em meio a negociações intermináveis e os palestinos ficariam ao Deus dará. Pois a União Sionista, apesar do nome radical, gozava de simpatia na Europa e nos EUA e os presidentes desses países poderiam ter continuado a ser enganados sem indignar a opinião pública internacional.
A vitória de Netanyahu não deixa margem a hesitação e nem a esperanças infundadas. Todos sabem que apesar de voltar atrás no discurso após ser repreendido pelo Presidente dos Estados Unidos, o Primeiro Ministro cumprirá sua palavra de riscar a Palestina do mapa porque é isso que pensa, é isso que deseja febrilmente e foi por isso que o bilionário gringo Sheldon Adelson financiou sua campanha e deu-lhe apoio midiático em seu jornal gratuito Yisrael Haynom - Israel Today (Blogs 25/02/2015 e 08/03/205) .
A União Europeia e os demais países têm de resolver o problema que causaram após darem a judeus uma terra que pertencia a outro povo.
Map of the Israeli Apartheid Wall in the West Bank / Mapa do Muro e quanta terra surrupia
Mahmoud Abbas não tem mais condições políticas para continuar a ajudar Israel na coordenação da segurança interna, responsável pela escravização crescente dos palestinos na Cisjordânia .
Resta saber como os palestinos, o povo oprimido, reprimido e enjaulado há décadas na Cisjordânia e na Faixa de Gaza reagirá a este status quo definitivo que representa Netanyahu. Sujeitar-se-ão ao regime de Apartheid que representa a "solução" da Palestina incorporada ao grande Estado judeu de Israel onde os nativos cristãos e muçulmanos viveriam sob o jugo dos judeus imigrantes? Ou recorrerão a uma forma de resistência direta que obrigue Israel a acordar sob o barulho de uma terceira intifada?
A escolha é deles. Viver livre ou como escravo. O preço da liberdade é alto, a curto prazo, e o da escravidão atual já é caríssimo e incomensurável a médio e longo prazo.
An angry White House vows to confront Netanyahu.
But will it end key U.S. upport for Occupation?
Em outras palavras, os palestinos poderão, eventualmente, em alguns anos, ter seu Estado, porém, não em terras contínuas e sim em retalhos, para que Israel mantenha suas colônias na Cisjordânia intocáveis. A Faixa de Gaza ganharia o que a Cirjosdânia perderia e a IDF se retiraria. E Hebron, como é que fica?
Resta Abu Mazen-Mahmoud Abbas botar o keffieh de Abu Ammar-Yasser Arafat partir para a luta sem se deixar intimidar nem enrolar. Pois já cedeu demais. Respeitou todos os compromissos que lhe foram exigidos durante as tais negociações de paz enquanto Ehud Olmert e Binyamin Netanyahu quebraram todas suas promessas de imediato.
Eis o que John Locke tem a dizer sobre isso em seu livro Second Treatise of Government.
Eis o que John Locke tem a dizer sobre isso em seu livro Second Treatise of Government.
On Israel's illegal occupation: "In all states and conditions, the true remedy of force without authority, is to oppose force to it. The use of force without authority, always puts him that uses it into a state of war, as the aggressor, and render him liable to be treated accordingly."
On Israelis 'negotiating' with Palestinians: "Should a robber break into my house, and with a dagger at my throat make me seal deeds to convey my estate to him, would this give him any title?"
After Netanyahu wins Israel votes with racism
and vows of permanent occupation,
How will world respond?
Como o mundo responderá ao plano macabro de Netanyahu?
Netanyahu contará com 67 dos 120 deputados do Knesset. Todos eles, mais alguns da União Sionista, devem aprovar com aplausos suas leis pró-apartheid.
É bem provável que uma série leis anti-democráticas sejam aprovadas e incrementadas. Dentre elas, as que monitoram e limitam o financiamento de ONGs de Direitos Humanos, as que restringem a liberdade de expressão, que reduzem a autoridade da Supreme Court, a que cancela o estatuto oficial do árabe e a pior de todas, a nation-state law.
Esta lei nation-state foi apresentada por um deputado do Likud no ano passado. Ela define jewishness (intraduzível) como identidade prioritária na nação, em qualquer circunstância, legal e legislativa. O que significa que as leis que garantem igualdade de direitos a todo cidadão israelense a despeito de sua religião podem ser derrubadas sob pretexto que violam o caráter predominante de Estado Judeu. Esta lei só garante direitos comunitários aos judeus. Portanto, nega aos cidadãos palestinos cristãos e muçulmanos naconalidade e direitos. Significa concretamente que os 20% de palestino-israelenses ficariam/rão abstratamente apátridas dentro do país em que nasceram, Israel - que foi a Palestina de seus ancestrais antes da Naqba.
Além destas leis anti-democráticas e "eugenistas", há expectativa de implementação de um grande leque de medidas discriminatórias, tais como uma variante do Prawer Plan que tenciona "relocalizar" na marra milhares de beduínos palestinos para roubar sua terra milenar.
Com certeza, Sheldon Adelson e seus cúmplices continuarão infringindo as leis internacionais investindo milhões de dólares na expansão de colônias/invasões judia ilegais na Cisjordânia.
Com certeza, os sequestros, assassinatos, prisões, "poda de grama" e bloqueio da Faixa de Gaza serão presentes em 2015, 2016, até a ONU forçar que o ocupante pare seus crimes e respeite as leis internacionais.
Dê uma olhada no vídeo abaixo o que os palestinos cristãos e muçulmanos
que fincaram pé em Nazaré sofrem no quotidiano.
Netanyahu's fear materializes as joint list wins 3rd in Israeli :
Arabs voted in Droves
E mais importante, o argumento usado nos EUA que Israel é a única democracia do Oriente Médio está desmascarado pela verdade nua e crua de ser meia-verdade, atualmente, e em breve, nem isso, quem sabe?
Pois não há como ser uma democracia para os judeus sionistas e ser um regime repressivo para os israelenses liberais, ativistas e os palestinos.
Democracia relativa não existe. Sobretudo quando se sabe que a "oposição" é representada por três arabofóbicos - Tzipi Livni, Ala Herzog e Yair Lapid. Ora, um dos baners da campanha da União Sionista era uma foto de Netanyahu e Naftali Bennet com o aviso "With Bibibennet we will remain stuck with the palestinians for eternity" "Com Bibibennet ficaremos presos aos palestinos eternamente". Desconsiderando o fato de 20 por cento da população ser composta da palestinos cristãos e muçulmanos.
Como estou em uma onda positiva, ainda estou saboreando a satisfação destes 20 por cento terem respondido presente à lista árabe única e votado em massa elegendo 14 representantes parlamentares. Quase 25 por cento a mais do que na eleição passada e por isso passaram a representar a terceira coalizão política do Knesset.
Os palestinos-israelenses consideram o chefe desta coalizão, Ayman Odeh, um verdadeiro líder. É verdade que é incisivo, sagaz e domina a ironia como meio de calar seus detratores. Um comentarista israelense chegou a considerá-lo uma ameaça: "He's really dangerous. He projects something every Israeli can relat to." A ameaça à qual se refere é a visão igualitária do futuro que Ayman passa. Visão que no contexto do governo autoritário atual é utópica e pode ser esmagada com decretos e armas.
West Bank, a haven for Jewish settlers
Cisjordânia, paraíso para os invasores judeus
Mas os palestinos resistem à espoliação, na medida do im/possível
The Occupation and its Resistance
‘The election of Netanyahu is the best thing for the Palestinian people': An audience with Khaled al-Batsh the leader of Islamic Jihad. Kim Segupa, no Independent, March 25th, 2015.
and they deserve him
"If after everything, the Israeli phoenix rises from the ashes and gets reelected, something is truly broken, possibly beyond repair.
The first conclusion that arose just minutes after the announcement of the exit polls was particularly discouraging. The nation must be replaced.
Not another election for the country's leadership, but general elections to choose a new Israeli people – immediately. The country urgently needs that. It won’t be able to stand another term for Benjamin Netanyahu, who emerged last night as the man who will form the next government.
If after six years of nothing, if after six years of sowing fear and anxiety, hatred and despair, this is the nation's choice, then it is very ill indeed.
If after everything that has been revealed in recent months, if after everything that has been written and said, if after all this, the Israeli phoenix succeeded in rising from the ashes and getting reelected, if after all this the Israeli people chose him to lead for another four years, something is truly broken, possibly beyond repair.
Netanyahu deserves the Israeli people and they deserve him. The results are indicative of the direction the country is headed: A significant proportion of Israelis has finally grown detached from reality.
This is the result of years' worth of brainwashing and incitement. These Israelis voted for the man who will lead the United States to adopt harsh measures against Israel, for the man whom the world long ago grew sick of.
They voted for the man who admitted to having duped half the world during his Bar-Ilan speech; now he has torn off his mask and disavowed those words once and for all. Israel said "yes" to the man who said "no" to a Palestinian state.
Dear Likud voters, what the hell do you say "yes" to? Another 50 years of occupation and ostracism? Do you really believe in that?
On Tuesday the foundations were laid for the apartheid state that is to come. If Netanyahu succeeds in forming the next government in his spirit and image, then the two-state solution will finally be buried and the struggle over the character of a binational state will begin.
If Netanyahu is the next prime minister, then Israel has not only divorced the peace process, but also the world. Piss off, dear world, we're on our own. Please don't interfere, we're asleep, the people are with Netanyahu.
The Palestinians can warm the benches at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, the Israel boycotters can swing into high gear and Gaza can wait for the next cruel attack by the Israeli army.
The battle for all these has yet to be officially decided. The next prime minister will be crowned by Moshe Kahlon and the heads of other small parties. At the time of this writing, Kahlon has yet to declare his intention. The ball is in these parties' court; they will decide if Netanyahu continues.
Most of them despise him, but it's doubtful whether they will have the courage to turn their backs on the public. That will be their test. That will be the test of their courage and integrity. Moshe Kahlon and Aryeh Dery, do you truly believe Netanyahu is better than Isaac Herzog for the society and social welfare you purport to care for?
Does the country's decent and courageous president, Reuven Rivlin, believe Netanyahu will be a better prime minister than Herzog? There is a lot resting on his shoulders now – but the fact that a figure like Netanyahu and a party like Likud succeeded in maintaining power as the country's leading faction already says a great deal.
Netanyahu is threatening to surpass David Ben-Gurion as Israel's longest running leader. He is already in second place, and yet it's hard to think of one significant achievement on his part.
The list of damage he has done is long. But he is the nation's, or much of the nation's, chosen one. That choice must be respected, even if it makes it difficult to hope for a good outcome.
The only consolation is that another Netanyahu term will prompt the world to act. That possibility is our only refuge". Gideon Levy . Haaretz
The first conclusion that arose just minutes after the announcement of the exit polls was particularly discouraging. The nation must be replaced.
Not another election for the country's leadership, but general elections to choose a new Israeli people – immediately. The country urgently needs that. It won’t be able to stand another term for Benjamin Netanyahu, who emerged last night as the man who will form the next government.
If after six years of nothing, if after six years of sowing fear and anxiety, hatred and despair, this is the nation's choice, then it is very ill indeed.
If after everything that has been revealed in recent months, if after everything that has been written and said, if after all this, the Israeli phoenix succeeded in rising from the ashes and getting reelected, if after all this the Israeli people chose him to lead for another four years, something is truly broken, possibly beyond repair.
Netanyahu deserves the Israeli people and they deserve him. The results are indicative of the direction the country is headed: A significant proportion of Israelis has finally grown detached from reality.
This is the result of years' worth of brainwashing and incitement. These Israelis voted for the man who will lead the United States to adopt harsh measures against Israel, for the man whom the world long ago grew sick of.
They voted for the man who admitted to having duped half the world during his Bar-Ilan speech; now he has torn off his mask and disavowed those words once and for all. Israel said "yes" to the man who said "no" to a Palestinian state.
Dear Likud voters, what the hell do you say "yes" to? Another 50 years of occupation and ostracism? Do you really believe in that?
On Tuesday the foundations were laid for the apartheid state that is to come. If Netanyahu succeeds in forming the next government in his spirit and image, then the two-state solution will finally be buried and the struggle over the character of a binational state will begin.
If Netanyahu is the next prime minister, then Israel has not only divorced the peace process, but also the world. Piss off, dear world, we're on our own. Please don't interfere, we're asleep, the people are with Netanyahu.
The Palestinians can warm the benches at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, the Israel boycotters can swing into high gear and Gaza can wait for the next cruel attack by the Israeli army.
The battle for all these has yet to be officially decided. The next prime minister will be crowned by Moshe Kahlon and the heads of other small parties. At the time of this writing, Kahlon has yet to declare his intention. The ball is in these parties' court; they will decide if Netanyahu continues.
Most of them despise him, but it's doubtful whether they will have the courage to turn their backs on the public. That will be their test. That will be the test of their courage and integrity. Moshe Kahlon and Aryeh Dery, do you truly believe Netanyahu is better than Isaac Herzog for the society and social welfare you purport to care for?
Does the country's decent and courageous president, Reuven Rivlin, believe Netanyahu will be a better prime minister than Herzog? There is a lot resting on his shoulders now – but the fact that a figure like Netanyahu and a party like Likud succeeded in maintaining power as the country's leading faction already says a great deal.
Netanyahu is threatening to surpass David Ben-Gurion as Israel's longest running leader. He is already in second place, and yet it's hard to think of one significant achievement on his part.
The list of damage he has done is long. But he is the nation's, or much of the nation's, chosen one. That choice must be respected, even if it makes it difficult to hope for a good outcome.
The only consolation is that another Netanyahu term will prompt the world to act. That possibility is our only refuge". Gideon Levy . Haaretz
Gideon Levy, most hated man in Israel
Gideon Levy, o israelene mais odiado pelos compatriotas
IS NETANYAHU’S VICTORY A CLARIFYING MOMENT?
Jamie Stern-Weiner. March 19, 2015.
"The Messiah hasn't come and Bibi hasn't gone. That's the sad outcome.
Sad, but not the end of the world...
The battle for the salvation of Israel must start right now.
Jamie Stern-Weiner. March 19, 2015.
Israelis living in a Bubble - a "bolha" Tel Aviv
Uma das provas do desespero da situação de Israel é a ilusão de um punhado de liberais-democratas que o Partido Trabalhista ainda representa valores democráticos, humanistas, e pragmáticos (digo pragmáticos porque é claro que a solução dos dois Estados é, a longo prazo, fundamental para a existência pacífica até de Israel).
O artigo (abaixo) de Uri Avnery - a consciência moral da inteligentzia israelense - mostra quão iludido está este grupo; com raríssimas excessões, como a de Gideon Levy e outros poucos jornalistas lúcidos (vítimas de ostracismo e constantes insultos).
Mas como acho importante divulgar o que os israelenses anti-ocupação e anti-limpeza étnica pensam, eis o que que crê (será?) o mais respeitado deles. A postura de Gideon já vimos nos vídeos e artigo acima.
Sad, but not the end of the world...
The battle for the salvation of Israel must start right now.
Some people say that the best course now is a so-called National Unity Government.
Looks like a nice idea. Unity always sounds nice.
I can muster some good arguments for it. The combination of the two major parties creates a bloc of 54 seats (of 120). Such a coalition needs only one other party to form a majority. There are several possibilities, headed by Moshe Kahlon's 10 seats.
The advocates of this choice have one good argument: it's the Lesser Evil. The only other possibility is an extreme right-wing-religious government, which will not only stop any step towards peace, but also expand settlements, enact more laws to choke democracy and impose reactionary religious laws.
It's a good argument, but it has to be rejected outright.
The Unity Government would be dominated by the Right. At best it would be a government of total immobility. It would be unable and unwilling to make even the slightest move towards ending the historic conflict, terminating the occupation and recognition of Palestine. Settlements would expand at a frantic pace. The chances of an eventual peace would move even further away.
It would do a lot of harm. The Labor Party would be obliged to justify and beautify this disastrous course, disarm the Obama administration and progressive Jewish forces throughout the world. It would be a huge fig leaf for evil.
It would also leave Israel without an effective opposition. If the government coalition broke up somewhere along the way, the Labor party would be too besmirched to constitute a credible alternative. The initial success of Yitzhak Herzog in rousing the old party from its comatose state cannot be repeated a second time. Labor would become a spent force, a vegetable.
Fortunately for the Labor Party, this possibility died almost immediately after the election. Netanyahu killed it with one stroke.
By the way, a curious side effect of a National Unity Government would have been that the leader of the (Arab) Joint List, Ayman Odeh, would have become Leader of the Opposition.
By law, the title is bestowed automatically on the chief of the largest opposition party. It confers on its holders many of the privileges of a cabinet minister. The Prime Minister is obliged to confer with them regularly and share government secrets with them.
But even if there is no Unity Government, and Herzog becomes Leader of the Opposition, one outstanding result of the election is the changed situation of the Arabs in the Knesset.
There is a certain humor to this. It was Avigdor Lieberman, the almost pathological Arab-hater, who induced the Knesset to raise the minimum threshold to 3.25%. This was intended to eliminate the three small Arab parties (including the Communists, who also have some Jewish voters), who responded by overcoming their mutual disagreements and animosities and forming the joint list. Lieberman had great difficulties in crossing his own threshold, and Eli Yishai's party, which includes the heirs of the fascist Meir Kahane, was – thank God - left outside the Knesset.
It is to be hoped that the Joint Arab List will not break up. Odeh represents a new generation of Arab citizens, which is much more willing to integrate in Israeli society. Perhaps next time the old taboos will at long last disappear and the Arab citizens will become a real part of Israel's political life. This time, Labor did not yet dare to accept it as a full-fledged member of a Leftist coalition.
I don't like to say "I told you so". It does not make one more popular. This time I cannot avoid it, because there is a lesson to be learned.
At the beginning of the election campaign I wrote two articles in Haaretz, suggesting that the initial momentum created by the Herzog-Livni union should be continued and intensified by creating a much larger Unity List, including the "Zionist Camp" (Labor) , Meretz, Lapid's Yesh Atid and, if possible, even Moshe Kahlon's new party.
The response? None whatsoever. None of the parties even took official notice.
The idea was that such a united front would create an irresistible momentum and attract voters who would not vote for any of these parties individually (or not vote at all). Together with the joint Arab list they would have created a blocking force that would have made a Likud comeback impossible.
I added that if the proposal was not accepted, all the parties involved may.
The morning after the elections, Meretz leader Zehava Galon resigned. It was the honorable thing to do.
Meretz barely overcame the threshold clause and shrunk to four seats, though many voters (including me) rallied to its help at the last moment.
The party has suffered from a long line of lackluster leaders. But its malaise goes much deeper. It is existential.
From its very beginning, Meretz was a party of the Ashkenazi intellectual elite. It says the right things. But it is resented by the masses of the Oriental community, hated by the religious, pushed away by the Russian immigrants. It lives on an isolated island, and its members give the impression of being quite happy to be among themselves, without all the riff-raff.
Zehava Galon is a very good person, honest and well-meaning, and her resignation (immediately after the first results came in and it seemed that Meretz had shrunk to 4 seats) does her credit. But the party has become – well – boring. Nothing new from it for a long, long time. Its message is right, but stale.
Meretz needs a leader – an inspiring person who arouses enthusiasm. But most of all it needs a new attitude – one that allows it to come out of its shell and actively appeal to voters who shun it now. It needs to work very hard to appeal to Orientals, Russians, Arabs and even the moderately religious.
But it is unfair to demand this only of Meretz. It applies to the entire social and liberal part of Israel, the camp for peace and social justice.
The election results have shown that the dark prophecies about a decisive, irreversible shift of Israel to the right are unfounded. The dividing line runs through the middle, and can be shifted.
(The general picture has not changed. The right-wing (Likud, Bennet, Lieberman) has gained only one single seat: from 43 to 44. The center-left (Zionist Camp, Meretz, Lapid has lost 8 seats: from 48 to 40, but most of them went to Kahlon, who gained 10. The orthodox went from 17 to 14. The Arabs gained 2 – from 11 to 13. The false impression of a huge change was created by the advance polls with their artificial dramas.)
But in order to effect this, there must be a readiness to start from the beginning.
The present setup of the Israeli left will not do. That is the simple truth.
The most outstanding fact of this election is that the outcome reflects exactly the demographic composition of Israeli society. Likud won decisively within the Oriental Jewish community, which includes the lower socio-economic strata. Likud also retained its partial foothold in the Ashkenazi community.
The Zionist Camp and Meretz won decisively within the well-situated Ashkenazi public – there, and nowhere else.
The attitude of the Likud people to their party resembles the attitude of football fans to their team. It has a big emotional content.
I was always convinced that election propaganda and all the media hullabaloo of the election carnival have little, if any effect on the outcome. It is the demographic facts that are decisive.
The left must invent itself anew according to this reality. Otherwise it has no future.
If one of the existing parties can do it, fine. If not, a new political force must be formed. Now.
Non-party organizations, with which Israel is lavishly endowed, cannot do the job. They can, and do, try to remedy many existing faults. Their activists fight for human rights, propagate good ideas, highlight abuse. But they cannot do the main job: change the policy of the state. For this we need a political party, one that can win elections and set up a government. That is the most important requirement. Without it, we are heading for disaster.
First of all, our failures must be clearly analyzed and admitted. The fateful failure to win over a large part of the Oriental Jewish community, even the second and third generation. This is not a fact ordained by God. It must be recognized, analyzed and studied. This can be done.
The same, and even more so, goes for the immigrants from the former Soviet Union. They are totally estranged from the Left. There is no reason for that in Israel today. The second and third generation can and must be won over.
The taboo that prevents the Jewish left from uniting with the Arab political forces must be broken. It is an act of self-castration (on both sides) and dooms the left to impotence.
There is no reason for the complete break between the secular left and even moderate religious forces. The provocative anti-religious stand that is typical for some parts of the center and left is plain stupid.
So what to do?
First of all, a new leadership must be encouraged to emerge. Zehava Galon's (first) laudable example should be followed by others and by herself. Really new leaders must come forward, who are not a replica of the old.
The greatest danger is that after the first shock, everything will settle down again to the old ways, as if nothing had happened.
A determined effort must be made to pinpoint the frictions between the Left and the estranged sectors. Test groups must be set up in order to get to the roots – conscious and unconscious, practical and emotional - of the estrangement.
Overbearing attitudes must be shed. No one sector has an exclusive right to the state. Everybody has a right to be listened to and to express their deeper feelings and aspirations. Exclusiveness, often unconscious, must be replaced with inclusiveness.
To my mind, it is a mistake to try to hide our convictions. On the contrary, the fact that the words "peace" and "Palestine" were not mentioned at all in the campaign did not help the Left. Honesty is the first requisite for convincing people.
In short, if the Left wants to win next time - which may come much sooner than expected - it must start to reform itself and overcome the reasons for its failure.
It can be done. The time to begin is right now."
Uri Avnery, 21/03/15.
Cross Talk: Bibi's Back (25')
The Israeli Salvation Front
"The 2015 election was a giant step towards the self-destruction of Israel.
The decisive majority has voted for an apartheid state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, in which democracy will slowly disappear.
The decision is not yet final. Israeli democracy has lost a battle. It has not yet lost the war.
If it does not draw the lessons, it will lose the war, too.
All the justifications and alibis of the Israeli Left are useless. It's the bottom line that counts.
The country is in existential danger. Not from the outside, but from the inside.
An Israel Salvation Front is needed now.
We have no other country.
First of all, the full extent of the debacle must be acknowledged and full responsibility must be taken.
The leaders who lost must go. In the struggle for the life of the state, there is no second opportunity.
The struggle between Isaac Herzog and Binyamin Netanyahu was a match between a lightweight boxer and a heavyweight.
The idea of a National Union government must be rejected and roundly condemned. In such a government, the Labor Party would again play the contemptible role of a fig leaf for the policy of occupation and oppression.
Now a new generation of leaders is needed, young, energetic and original.
The election pitilessly exposed the deep chasms between the different sectors of Israeli society: Orientals, Ashkenazis, Arabs, "Russian", orthodox, religious and more.
The Salvation Front must encompass all sectors.
Every sector has its own culture, its own traditions, its own faith(s). All must be respected. Mutual; respect is the foundation of the Israeli partnership.
The foundation of the Salvation Front needs a new authentic leadership that must emerge from all sectors.
The State of Israel belongs to all its citizens. No sector has exclusive ownership of the state.
The huge and growing gap between the very rich and the very poor, which largely parallels the gap between the ethnic communities, is a disaster for all of us.
The salvation of the state must be based on a return to equality as a basic value. A reality in which hundreds of thousands of childre live under the poverty line is intolerable.
The income of the upper 0.01%, which reaches to the heavens, must be brought down to a reasonable level. The income of the lowest 10% must be raised to a humane level.
The almost total separation between the Jewish and the Arab parts of Israeli society is a disaster for both and for the state.
The Salvation Front must be based on both peoples. The chasm between them must be eliminated, for the good of both.
Empty phrases about equality and fraternity are not enough. They lack credibility.
There must come into being a sincere alliance between the democratic forces on both sides, not only in words but in actual daily cooperation in all areas.
This cooperation must find expression in frameworks of political partnership, joint struggles and regular joint meetings in all areas, based on respect for the uniqueness of each partner.
Only a permanent joint struggle can save Israeli democracy and the state itself.
The historic conflict between the Zionist movement and the Palestinian Arab national movement now threatens both peoples.
The country between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River is the homeland of the two peoples. No war, oppression or uprising will change this basic fact.
If this conflict continues without end, it will endanger the existence of both peoples.
The one and only solution was and is their co-existence in two sovereign states: a free and independent State of Palestine side by side with the State of Israel.
The two-state solution is not a recipe for separation and divorce. On the contrary, it is a recipe for close co-existence.
The 1967 borders, with mutual agreed changes, are the basis of peace.
The co-existence of the two states in the joint homeland does necessitate frameworks of partnership at the highest level, as well as open borders for the movement of people and goods. It also needs solid security arrangements for the good of both peoples.
Jerusalem, open and unified, must be the capital of both states.
The painful tragedy of the Palestinian refugees must find its just solution, agreed upon by the two sides. This solution will include return to the Palestinian state, a limited symbolic return to Israel and the payment of generous compensation by international funds to all.
Israel and Palestine shall work together so as to achieve a return of Jewish property left in Arab countries or the payment of generous compensation.
The State of Palestine will keep its affinity with the Arab world. The state of Israel will keep its affinity with the Jewish people in the world. Each of the two states will have sole responsibility for its immigration policy.
The problem of the Jewish settlers in Palestine will find its solution in the framework of agreed border changes between the two states, the inclusion of some settlements in the Palestinian state with the agreement of the Palestinian government and the re-settlement of the rest of the settlers in Israel.
Both states shall cooperate in the creation of a democratic regional partnership, in the spirit of the "Arab Spring", while resisting anarchy, terrorism and religious and nationalistic fanaticism throughout the region.
The masses of Israelis and Palestinians will not believe in the chances of peace and co-existence if there is no real and open partnership between the peace camps of both peoples.
To establish such a partnership, organizations and individuals of both sides must start right now to conduct joint political action, such as constant consultation and joint planning on all levels and in all areas.
The jewish character of the State of Israel finds its expression in its culture and its affinity with the Jews throughout the world. It must not express itself in its interior regime. All citizens and all sectors must be equal.
The democratic forces within the Jewish and the Arab public must join hands and work together in their daily actions.
International pressure by itself will not save Israel from itself. The salvation forces must come from within.
World-wide pressure on Israel can and must assist the democratic forces in Israel, but cannot take their place.
Basic values do not change. However, the ways of talking about them with the public must change.
The old slogans are ineffective. The values must be re-defined and re-formulated in up-to-date language, in line with the concepts and language of a new generation.
The two-state vision was defined after the 1948 war by a small group of path-blazers. Since than, huge changes have taken place in the world, in the region and within Israeli society. While the vision itself remains the only practical solution of the historic conflict, it must be poured into new vessels.
There is a need for political unity, a unifying salvation front that brings together all the forces of peace, democracy and social justice.
If the Labor Party is able to re-invent itself from the bottom up, it can constitute the basis of this camp. If not, an entirely new political party must be formed, as the core of the Salvation Front.
Within this front, diverse ideological forces must find their place and engage in a fruitful internal debate, while conducting a unified political struggle for the salvation of the state.
The regime within Israel must assure complete equality between all Jewish ethnic communities and between the two peoples, while safeguarding the affinity of the Israeli-Jewish public with the Jews in the world and the affinity of the Israeli-Arab public with the Arab world.
The situation in which most of the resources are in the hands of 1% of the population at the cost of the other 99%, must come to an end. A reasonable equality between all citizens, without connection with their ethnic origin, must be restored.
There is no social message without a political message, and there is no political message without a social message.
The Oriental Jewish public must be full partners in the state, side by side with all other sectors. Their dignity, culture, social status and economic situation must be accorded their proper place.
The religious-secular confrontation must be postponed until after peace is achieved. The beliefs and ceremonies of all religions must be respected, as well as the secular worldview.
The separation of state and religion – such as civil marriage, mass transportation on Shabbat - can wait until the struggle for existence is decided.
The protection of the judicial system, and above all the Supreme Court, is an absolute duty.
The various associations for peace, human rights and social justice, each of which conducts its laudable independent struggle in its chosen field, must enter the political arena and play a central role together in the unified Salvation Front."
Uri Avnery. 28/03/15
The decisive majority has voted for an apartheid state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, in which democracy will slowly disappear.
The decision is not yet final. Israeli democracy has lost a battle. It has not yet lost the war.
If it does not draw the lessons, it will lose the war, too.
All the justifications and alibis of the Israeli Left are useless. It's the bottom line that counts.
The country is in existential danger. Not from the outside, but from the inside.
An Israel Salvation Front is needed now.
We have no other country.
First of all, the full extent of the debacle must be acknowledged and full responsibility must be taken.
The leaders who lost must go. In the struggle for the life of the state, there is no second opportunity.
The struggle between Isaac Herzog and Binyamin Netanyahu was a match between a lightweight boxer and a heavyweight.
The idea of a National Union government must be rejected and roundly condemned. In such a government, the Labor Party would again play the contemptible role of a fig leaf for the policy of occupation and oppression.
Now a new generation of leaders is needed, young, energetic and original.
The election pitilessly exposed the deep chasms between the different sectors of Israeli society: Orientals, Ashkenazis, Arabs, "Russian", orthodox, religious and more.
The Salvation Front must encompass all sectors.
Every sector has its own culture, its own traditions, its own faith(s). All must be respected. Mutual; respect is the foundation of the Israeli partnership.
The foundation of the Salvation Front needs a new authentic leadership that must emerge from all sectors.
The State of Israel belongs to all its citizens. No sector has exclusive ownership of the state.
The huge and growing gap between the very rich and the very poor, which largely parallels the gap between the ethnic communities, is a disaster for all of us.
The salvation of the state must be based on a return to equality as a basic value. A reality in which hundreds of thousands of childre live under the poverty line is intolerable.
The income of the upper 0.01%, which reaches to the heavens, must be brought down to a reasonable level. The income of the lowest 10% must be raised to a humane level.
The almost total separation between the Jewish and the Arab parts of Israeli society is a disaster for both and for the state.
The Salvation Front must be based on both peoples. The chasm between them must be eliminated, for the good of both.
Empty phrases about equality and fraternity are not enough. They lack credibility.
There must come into being a sincere alliance between the democratic forces on both sides, not only in words but in actual daily cooperation in all areas.
This cooperation must find expression in frameworks of political partnership, joint struggles and regular joint meetings in all areas, based on respect for the uniqueness of each partner.
Only a permanent joint struggle can save Israeli democracy and the state itself.
The historic conflict between the Zionist movement and the Palestinian Arab national movement now threatens both peoples.
The country between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River is the homeland of the two peoples. No war, oppression or uprising will change this basic fact.
If this conflict continues without end, it will endanger the existence of both peoples.
The one and only solution was and is their co-existence in two sovereign states: a free and independent State of Palestine side by side with the State of Israel.
The two-state solution is not a recipe for separation and divorce. On the contrary, it is a recipe for close co-existence.
The 1967 borders, with mutual agreed changes, are the basis of peace.
The co-existence of the two states in the joint homeland does necessitate frameworks of partnership at the highest level, as well as open borders for the movement of people and goods. It also needs solid security arrangements for the good of both peoples.
Jerusalem, open and unified, must be the capital of both states.
The painful tragedy of the Palestinian refugees must find its just solution, agreed upon by the two sides. This solution will include return to the Palestinian state, a limited symbolic return to Israel and the payment of generous compensation by international funds to all.
Israel and Palestine shall work together so as to achieve a return of Jewish property left in Arab countries or the payment of generous compensation.
The State of Palestine will keep its affinity with the Arab world. The state of Israel will keep its affinity with the Jewish people in the world. Each of the two states will have sole responsibility for its immigration policy.
The problem of the Jewish settlers in Palestine will find its solution in the framework of agreed border changes between the two states, the inclusion of some settlements in the Palestinian state with the agreement of the Palestinian government and the re-settlement of the rest of the settlers in Israel.
Both states shall cooperate in the creation of a democratic regional partnership, in the spirit of the "Arab Spring", while resisting anarchy, terrorism and religious and nationalistic fanaticism throughout the region.
The masses of Israelis and Palestinians will not believe in the chances of peace and co-existence if there is no real and open partnership between the peace camps of both peoples.
To establish such a partnership, organizations and individuals of both sides must start right now to conduct joint political action, such as constant consultation and joint planning on all levels and in all areas.
The jewish character of the State of Israel finds its expression in its culture and its affinity with the Jews throughout the world. It must not express itself in its interior regime. All citizens and all sectors must be equal.
The democratic forces within the Jewish and the Arab public must join hands and work together in their daily actions.
International pressure by itself will not save Israel from itself. The salvation forces must come from within.
World-wide pressure on Israel can and must assist the democratic forces in Israel, but cannot take their place.
Basic values do not change. However, the ways of talking about them with the public must change.
The old slogans are ineffective. The values must be re-defined and re-formulated in up-to-date language, in line with the concepts and language of a new generation.
The two-state vision was defined after the 1948 war by a small group of path-blazers. Since than, huge changes have taken place in the world, in the region and within Israeli society. While the vision itself remains the only practical solution of the historic conflict, it must be poured into new vessels.
There is a need for political unity, a unifying salvation front that brings together all the forces of peace, democracy and social justice.
If the Labor Party is able to re-invent itself from the bottom up, it can constitute the basis of this camp. If not, an entirely new political party must be formed, as the core of the Salvation Front.
Within this front, diverse ideological forces must find their place and engage in a fruitful internal debate, while conducting a unified political struggle for the salvation of the state.
The regime within Israel must assure complete equality between all Jewish ethnic communities and between the two peoples, while safeguarding the affinity of the Israeli-Jewish public with the Jews in the world and the affinity of the Israeli-Arab public with the Arab world.
The situation in which most of the resources are in the hands of 1% of the population at the cost of the other 99%, must come to an end. A reasonable equality between all citizens, without connection with their ethnic origin, must be restored.
There is no social message without a political message, and there is no political message without a social message.
The Oriental Jewish public must be full partners in the state, side by side with all other sectors. Their dignity, culture, social status and economic situation must be accorded their proper place.
The religious-secular confrontation must be postponed until after peace is achieved. The beliefs and ceremonies of all religions must be respected, as well as the secular worldview.
The separation of state and religion – such as civil marriage, mass transportation on Shabbat - can wait until the struggle for existence is decided.
The protection of the judicial system, and above all the Supreme Court, is an absolute duty.
The various associations for peace, human rights and social justice, each of which conducts its laudable independent struggle in its chosen field, must enter the political arena and play a central role together in the unified Salvation Front."
Uri Avnery. 28/03/15
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Comunicado de Imprensa do Al Mezan Human Rights Center
In the early morning hours of Sunday, 22 February 2015, and for the second time in two months, the Israeli authorities opened the floodgates of a dam in the Gaza Valley, which flows into the Gaza Strip from the east. As a result, dozens of Palestinian houses and properties were damaged. The Israeli authorities constructed the floodgate that restricts the natural flow of rainwater into Gaza and depletes Gaza’s aquifer.
Al Mezan’s monitoring shows the water level at about three meters above the level of the valley, resulting in the flooding. The homes of residents of the valley’s watercourse were also flooded, where water flowed 200 meters deep. Dozens of poultry and livestock died, and personal belongings were damaged, including furniture, as people were taken by surprise by the sudden wave of water. Travel between Al Nuseirat refugee camp, Al Zahra Town, and Al Moghraga areas was stopped.
The mayor of the Al Moghraga Municipality, Yousif Abu Hweshel, told Al Mezan Center for Human Rights that approximately 50 houses were flooded, dozens of poultry and livestock were killed, and personal belongings were damaged; people were surprised by the sudden flow of water. About 30 families left their homes and sought shelter at Al Wafa Association for Elderly People.
Al Mezan condemns the Israeli conduct that came without prior warning or coordination with Gaza’s local authorities or international organizations working in Gaza. Israeli surveillance of Gaza ensures that Israeli authorities are aware of the consequences of initiating a huge, sudden flow of water into the Strip. Similar conduct was carried out in past few years and hundreds of dunams of agricultural lands, livestock, and houses were affected. The Israeli authorities put in place preparatory precautions on their side of the border; however, Palestinian authorities, with whom Israel had regular coordination, were not informed.
In the light of the above, Al Mezan asserts that the Israeli authorities bear the responsibility for damages resulting from Gaza Valley’s flooding. Al Mezan calls upon the international community to take effective steps to halt the Israeli violations against Gaza’s population, which include the policy of preventing the natural flow of water into the Gaza Strip amid an acute shortage in drinking water for Gaza’s population.
No Daily Show, Jon Stewart ironiza a vitória de Netanyahu
Após anos de censura à verdade, de apoio incondicional aos governos sucessivos de Israel, até o New York Times está abrindo os olhos / Even the New York Times is swinging away from Israel.
Em 2013, o jornalista Max Blumenthal explicou à Real News a afinidade
entre a Direita, o Centro e a "Esquerda" israelense. 
https://boycottisraeltoday.wordpress.com/boycott-israel/
PS. Exemplo de decência, Grécia: Greek Prime Minister Aircraft Used for Sick Child’s Transfer to Germany. by Philip Chrysopoulos,
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