The Great March of Return
A história se repete também em 2019.
E a fachada democrática que Israel divulga na grande mídia soa extremamente vazia.
É preciso lembrar que a Grande Marcha Palestina do Retorno é um movimento não-violento e os participantes estão desarmados. No aniversário do dia 30 de março, três menores e um rapaz de 20 anos foram mortos pelos soldados israelenses que feriram gravemente cerca de 300 dos milhares de manifestantes que comemoraram a data pacificamente.
The United Nations recently released statistics stating that the Israeli army has killed 195 Palestinians since March 30 2018 only in Gaza. 41 of which were children. Around 29.000 Palestinians were wounded, 25% of them with live fire. One Israeli soldier was killed and 50 Israelis were reported injured by Palestinian actions in the same period
It is crucial to remember that the Palestinian Great March of Return is a non-violent protest and demonstrators are unarmed.
Land Day is a yearly event during which Palestinians commemorate the Israeli government’s confiscation of thousands of dunums of land from Palestinian citizens of Israel in 1976, and the killing of six Palestinians in the protests that followed.
This year, protesters also came out in support of Gaza and to mark the one-year anniversary of the Great March of Return. The series of marches and protests started one year ago to protest the blockade and demand the Palestinian right of return, to which Israeli soldiers have responded with lethal force.
Last month, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) published a damning indictment of Israeli forces' conduct in suppressing the protests.
According to the COI, Israeli soldiers have been deliberately shooting civilians, killing and maiming protesters - including children, as well as journalists and medics.
The COI's findings were welcomed by human rights groups who last year unsuccessfully challenged the army's rules of engagement and its shooting policy in Israel's Supreme Court.
Those rules permit soldiers to target so-called "main inciters" - civilians deemed to be encouraging protesters to approach the fence.
"Israel has simply invented the concept of 'main inciters,'" said Professor Kevin Jon Heller, associate professor of public international law at the University of Amsterdam. "No such status exists under international humanitarian law (IHL) or international human rights law (IHRL). Under IHL, you are either a combatant or a civilian. Under IHRL, force of any kind requires the target to pose some kind of actual threat. You can't simply shoot someone in the leg because you think they are leading a demonstration. And lethal force requires the target to post an imminent threat to life."
No, you can't; no civilized army can; except the rogue IDF of Israel. And Nothing happens. No sanctions, No restrains. No intervention whatsoever.
More than 250 Palestinians have been killed since the protests began and thousands more have been injured.
In its new report, the UN found that 189 Palestinians were killed between March 30 and December 31 last year.
Israel's response to the Great March of Return protests is only the latest in a series of actions in Gaza that have drawn international condemnation.
During the 50-day offensive in 2014, for example, Israeli officials were slammed for a policy that saw Palestinian family homes repeatedly targeted over supposed links to armed faction members.
"Israel constantly stretches the limits of IHL and IHRL to justify its use of force against Palestinians," said Heller.
Legal opinion confirmed by a B'Tselem spokesperson: "Instead of using international law as a minimal standard designed to protect civilians, Israel uses it as a 'war manual' ... looking for loopholes and basing its actions on unreasonable and legally flawed interpretation, founded on a morally repugnant world view. "This is not a legalistic or theoretical issue: this guise of legality legitimizes Israel's immoral, lethal policies in the eyes of both the Israeli public and the international community, which allows Israel to persist in its action with their fatal outcomes."
And the hasbara - vile propaganda - too is a lethal weapon. At first, it was a rocket, Israel claimed, which prompted another round of bombing of the civilians in the Gaza Strip. After damaging 500 Palestinian homes, and with talk of the Zionist state increasing its military presence on the nominal Gaza borders, the first anniversary commemorating the Great March of Return protests on 30 March is being cited as the next stage for the colonial entity’s premeditated bloodshed.
Former Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Chief Benny Gantz is still pushing for more violence and has, once again, mentioned a return to targeted assassinations of Palestinians if he is elected next month.
Over half of Israelis believe that Israel’s recent attack on the Gaza Strip was too weak, while only three per cent thought it constituted an excessive approach.
The poll – which was published by Israel’s public broadcaster Kan this morning – found that 53 per cent of respondents think Israel’s attack on Gaza in the past few days was “too weak”. Only three per cent said Israel’s response was “excessive”, while 29 per cent said Israel’s response was “sufficient without being excessive,” Arutz Sheva reported.
The poll also found that Israelis were divided over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s performance throughout the attack, with only 24 per cent of Israelis characterising his performance as “good”. A further 33 per cent said it was “poor”, while 33 per cent gave the prime minister a “moderate” rating.
This comes after Israel on Monday launched an attack on the already-besieged Gaza Strip, continuing to bombard the coastal enclave throughout the week. In what the Israeli army claimed to be a response to a rocket fired from Gaza at a town north of Tel Aviv, Israel sent two army brigades – amounting to over 1,000 soldiers – to the Gaza fence and called up reservists from aerial units in preparation for air strikes.
It also locked down the Strip, closing the Kerem Shalom (Karm Abu Salem) and Erez (Beit Hanoun) crossings – which allow goods and medical supplies into Gaza – and reduced the fishing zone it imposes off the Strip’s Mediterranean coast.
This was followed by a series of intense bombardments of Gaza which saw multiple buildings destroyed, including a mosque and the office of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas which governs the enclave. Images of the destruction have since revealed that, contrary to the Israeli army’s claims to have only targeted military positions, civilian infrastructure including Palestinians’ homes was also hit. Palestine’s Public Works Minister, Mufeed Al-Hasayneh, announced that in only one day “30 houses were completely destroyed and 500 houses were damaged” across Gaza.
One of the Palestinian teenagers killed by Israeli occupation forces in the Palestinian occupied territories, was a volunteer medic in Bethlehem, in the West Bank.
Sajid Muzher, 18, was shot while trying to treat wounded Palestinians, during a predawn raid of Dheisheh camp by the Israeli army.
In Israel, election campaigns like the one that is going on thoughtlessly celebrate the privileges of those eligible to vote, while showing almost complete apathy to the exclusion of millions of subjects. Palestinians, of course, have no need to be reminded of their condition — they are well aware of the reality in which they live. But even so, a situation in which every few years Israelis spend months wondering exactly how they should continue to control the lives of others marks a nadir in the violence we have internalized.
Whether public discourse during the elections includes a debate on these issues, or whether politicians and the public do everything they can to avoid mentioning the occupation, the political choices Israelis make determine how to entrench the occupation regime. Israeli Jews are the ones that determine how they will manage the enormous prison that is the Gaza Strip from the outside; how many homes they will demolish and how many communities they will displace in the West Bank; and how many Palestinian families will be deprived of their homes in East Jérusalem.
Immediately after the election Campaign, and in the intervening years before the next one, Israeli Jews will rely on these "democratic elections" to both justify what Israel does to the people it subjects on both sides of the Green Line as well as to market this reality as an acceptable one.
In this way, the election actually forms a vital component in legitimizing the ongoing control of Israell's crimes againts the people whose country they occupy.
After all, every Israeli decision, no matter how arbitrary, is seen as the product of these elections. This is an inherently violent situation, since it is impossible to justify the ongoing ethnic cleansing along with land-house-natural ressources theft without being part of these crimes itself.
Israeli violence is manifed not only when a soldier shoots or beats a Palestinian. It is there every time a lawyer in Israel's State Attorney's Office closes a file of a Killing, or when a official prevents another Palestinian student from travelling abroad to continue their studies or deny sick or wounded Palestinians the right to treatment, or hold 2 million Palestinians in a concentration camp which has bein called an open air prison which they bomb once in a while while starving the human beings they see as disposable animals.
Every single Palestinian life lies in the hads of the Israeli Jewish citizens and they Apply this violence through a slow, protacted and arbitrary bureaucracy.
Moreover, the presence of "democratic elections" is of great importance not only in terms of image and propaganda, but also as a crucial valve that hinders assertive action by the international Community that would, at last, express its rejection of this horrendous reality.
Bottomline, Israel upcoming elections in April are just a sham.
A way to hide the crimes of a Jewish supremacist society, as says Norman Finkelstein.
Immediately after the election Campaign, and in the intervening years before the next one, Israeli Jews will rely on these "democratic elections" to both justify what Israel does to the people it subjects on both sides of the Green Line as well as to market this reality as an acceptable one.
In this way, the election actually forms a vital component in legitimizing the ongoing control of Israell's crimes againts the people whose country they occupy.
After all, every Israeli decision, no matter how arbitrary, is seen as the product of these elections. This is an inherently violent situation, since it is impossible to justify the ongoing ethnic cleansing along with land-house-natural ressources theft without being part of these crimes itself.
Israeli violence is manifed not only when a soldier shoots or beats a Palestinian. It is there every time a lawyer in Israel's State Attorney's Office closes a file of a Killing, or when a official prevents another Palestinian student from travelling abroad to continue their studies or deny sick or wounded Palestinians the right to treatment, or hold 2 million Palestinians in a concentration camp which has bein called an open air prison which they bomb once in a while while starving the human beings they see as disposable animals.
Every single Palestinian life lies in the hads of the Israeli Jewish citizens and they Apply this violence through a slow, protacted and arbitrary bureaucracy.
Moreover, the presence of "democratic elections" is of great importance not only in terms of image and propaganda, but also as a crucial valve that hinders assertive action by the international Community that would, at last, express its rejection of this horrendous reality.
Bottomline, Israel upcoming elections in April are just a sham.
A way to hide the crimes of a Jewish supremacist society, as says Norman Finkelstein.
Israel is not interested in the Golan Heights for security
VENEZUELA
Venezuela is the first new country hit by the Trump administration’s indispensable need to establish its American-exceptionalist, “Presidentialist,” bona fides. It is the Goldilocks target.
Not too small: It is, in fact, a significant country with world’s largest oil reserves, and a proclaimed socialist government that’s been a thorn in the gringo boot on Latin America for almost twenty years.
Not too big: It’s no military match for U.S. & Latin American proxy armed forces, and nobody will start WWIII to defend it.
Just right: A decisive win, at little apparent cost. And just the kind of amuse-boucheneeded to get the U.S. population’s juices flowing for a more costly and difficult attack on the ultimate target—Iran. At least, that’s the way they think.
It seems that very few statements from anti-intervention organizations and individuals do not include some kind of disclaimer that distances the writer, organization or speaker from the Maduro government. Many of these disclaimers call Maduro a dictator. Others have used essentially racist tropes by comparing Maduro to “the kind of guy who tied ladies to railway lines in silent movies.”
And there are those writers and folks who are opposed to US intervention in Venezuela but tend to emphasize how much they do not like Maduro as much if not more than their opposition to the coup and sanctions. I can’t help but be reminded of the proverb: “Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.”
In other words, if one doesn’t consider the United States to be a weird democracy then they would be hard-pressed to label Venezuela as a dictatorship. The only reasoning that would allow this distortion would be one that sees the United States as an exemplary exception to the rest of the world.
It would be a perception that ignored the fact of Trump’s installation in the White House despite losing the popular vote.
It would be a perception that ignored the fact that the US Senate guarantees an unequal representation that has historically granted the monied right-wing elements of the US polity more power than the majority. Besides the almighty influence of the Zionist lobby AIPAC.
It is a perception that ignores the fundamental inequality based on class and race that is part and parcel of US history. In other words, it is American exceptionalism, a myth that too many on what passes for the US liberals have accepted as reality.
PALESTINA
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NO to Eurovision in Tel Aviv
Ainda há tempo de ativar um comitê em sua cidade, escola, universidade.
Para organizar as manifestações político-culturais, entre em contato com o BDS Brasil (https://bdsmovement.net/pt) ou acesse diretamente o link internacional apartheidweek.org e organize as atividades de solidariedade com o povo palestino há 71 anos ocupado.
O tema deste ano é "Parem de armar o Colonialismo".
E não se esqueça de checar a origem dos produtos que consome para boicotar Israel, inclusive Hewlett Packard.
Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events that seeks to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid regime over the Palestinian people and build support for the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. It now takes place in over 200 cities across the world, where events such as lectures, film screenings, direct action, cultural performances, postering, among many more help in grassroots organizing for effective solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle.
Israel is able to maintain its illegal occupation and apartheid regime over Palestinians partly due to its arms sales and the military support it receives from governments across the world. The United States alone is the single largest supplier of arms and military aid to Israel, followed by European states. These directly sustain Israel’s oppression and human rights violations.
In the Global South, Israel has been known to supply weapons to genocidal regimes in Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and elsewhere. Presently, Israel is a major arms exporter to right-wing, authoritarian regimes from Brazil to India, the Philippines and beyond. These weapons are promoted as ‘field-tested’, which means they have been used to kill or injure Palestinians. In fact, Israel is already promoting the technology it has used to repress the Great March of Return in Gaza calling for the right of refugees to return home and an end to the siege. These arms deals finance Israel’s apartheid regime and its illegal occupation while simultaneously deepening militarization and persecution of people’s movements and oppressed communities in countries where they are bought.
The Palestinian-led BDS movement has reiterated the demand for a military embargo on Israel in the light of Israel’s violent repression of the Great March of Return. International human rights organizations such as Amnesty International have also responded to the Israeli massacre in Gaza with this demand. The UK Labour Party, in its conference in September 2018, passed a motion condemning Israel’s killing of Palestinian protesters in Gaza and called for a freeze of arms sales to Israel.
Ending arms trade, military aid and cooperation with Israel will undercut financial and military support for its regime of apartheid, settler-colonialism and illegal occupation. It will also end the flow of Israeli weapons and security technology and techniques to governments that suppress resistance of their own citizens, people’s movements and communities against policies that deprive them of fundamental rights, including the right to the natural resources of their country.
A military embargo on Israel is a measure for freedom and justice of Palestinians and oppressed peoples in many parts of the world. It can successfully be achieved with massive grassroots efforts, similar to the sustained global mobilization that eventually compelled the United Nations to impose a binding international military embargo against South Africa’s apartheid regime.
Israeli Apartheid Week 2019 will be an important platform for building the campaign for a military embargo on Israel. We invite progressive groups to organize events on their campuses and in their cities to popularize and build momentum in this direction.
If you would like to organize and be part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2019 on your campus or in your city, check out what events are already planned at apartheidweek.org, find us on Facebook and Twitter, register onlinehttp://apartheidweek.org/organise/ and get in touch with IAW coordinators in your region.
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