Mensagem original do grafista francês Joachin Roncin,
diretor artístico do jornal parisiense Sylist
Inadmissível tentar calar a imprensa com armas!
One can dislike Charlie Hebdo...
But the fact that you deslike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.
"Freedom is indivisible"
JE SUIS GAZA / PALESTINE
AUSSI
Update do dia 12/01/15
CHUTZPAH! A presença na Marcha Republicana do dia 11 em Paris do primeiro ministro de Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, acusado de crimes contra a humanidade mancha a memória dos nossos colegas assassinados. François Hollande não deveria ter se dobrado à decisão de Binyamin Netanyahu de vir à Marcha contra sua vontade.
Além de não convidar o Primeiro Ministro israelense, o Presidente da França lhe havia dito por vias diplomáticas diretas que não fosse. Ele bateu o pé e foi. Persona non grata, foi gelado pelos outros chefes de Estado que não queriam ser fotografados de braço dado com este colega acusado de criminoso de guerra que ninguém suporta ver nem pintado.
O objetivo de Netanyahu era ganhar pontos na campanha eleitoral israelense. Porém, o tiro saiu pela culatra, como mostra o artigo de seu compatriota Asher Schechter abaixo. Perdeu pontos em Israel, mas ganhou em vários países ocidentais cuja imprensa ignora ou irreleva os fatos, inclusive na França, nos EUA e no Brasil, onde foi até cumprimentado por sua presença próximo de Mahmoud Abbas. Surreal. A história de sua ida a Paris e à Marcha está longe de ser um ato desinteressado louvável.
Além de não convidar o Primeiro Ministro israelense, o Presidente da França lhe havia dito por vias diplomáticas diretas que não fosse. Ele bateu o pé e foi. Persona non grata, foi gelado pelos outros chefes de Estado que não queriam ser fotografados de braço dado com este colega acusado de criminoso de guerra que ninguém suporta ver nem pintado.
O objetivo de Netanyahu era ganhar pontos na campanha eleitoral israelense. Porém, o tiro saiu pela culatra, como mostra o artigo de seu compatriota Asher Schechter abaixo. Perdeu pontos em Israel, mas ganhou em vários países ocidentais cuja imprensa ignora ou irreleva os fatos, inclusive na França, nos EUA e no Brasil, onde foi até cumprimentado por sua presença próximo de Mahmoud Abbas. Surreal. A história de sua ida a Paris e à Marcha está longe de ser um ato desinteressado louvável.
During the march, which followed last week’s terror attacks in the French capital that left 17 people dead, the Lib Dem MP for Bradford East tweeted: “#Netanyahu in Paris march – what!!! Makes me feel sick” and “Je suis #Palestinian." Comment that his 'boss' Nick Clegg condemned, after Israeli ambassador wrote to Lib Dem leader to complain.
French President Francois Hollande did not want Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to take part in the mass unity rally held in protest at recent killings in Paris.
Ahead of the march, when the French government had begun sending messages to different world leaders inviting them to attend, authorities then reached out to Israel’s government to deter Prime Minister Netanyahu from joining on Sunday.
According to Israel’s Channel 2 and a source spoken to by Israeli news site Haaretz, François Hollande sent a message to Netanyahu, asking him not to participate in the unity march as he believed the Israeli premier’s presence there would be “divisive.”
Reports claim that Mr Hollande’s national security advisor Jacques Audibert contacted his Israeli counterpart, Yossi Cohen, to say that the French leader would prefer Mr Netanyahu not attend.
Netanyahu at first accepted France’s request on Saturday, but he changed his mind later in the day after Israeli Minister for Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett , his contenders on coming elections, announced they would attend the protest rally in the French capital.
When Netanyahu informed Paris of his decision to join the event, France responded by saying it was sending an invitation to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as well.
Therefore, the unity rally in Paris, fronted by more than 50 world leaders who all linked arms as they led the march from the Place de la République in eastern Paris, displayed an unprecedented "show of solidarity", the Israeli Prime Minister was seen marching just four people apart from Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, while Prime Minister David Cameron’s appearance marked his first ever street march.
The Israeli premier was initially situated in a second row of leaders, but he shimmied his way into the front row, alongside Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, EU Council President Donald Tusk and Abbas.
A source who spoke to PressTV claims that one of the French concerns - which was not conveyed to Israel - was that Mr Netanyahu would use the rally as an opportunity to campaign. Which he did. And angered by Netanyahu’s move, Hollande reportedly made an early exit as soon as Netanyahu took the podium to address a ceremony following the march on Sunday.
To make a long story short, Netanyahu was the same wicked malicious person that he is.
Anyway, the extremists wanted to bring France to its knees. They brought Europe to its feet and Israel to the summit.
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| Jornal israelense ultra-ortodoxo Hamevaser apaga as mulheres de sua foto e 'engrandece', fisicamente, Binyamin Netanyahu |
Netanyahu's Paris appearance was a PR disaster: He finds out he missed the bus. An uncomfortable look at the prime minister’s embarrassing trip to France. By Asher Schechter | Haaretz, Jan. 12, 2015 | 10:10 PM
The Paris trip was supposed to be good for Benjamin Netanyahu. The anti-terrorism march, heldon Sunday in Paris in the wake of last week’s gruesome attacks and which broke attendance records,alongside solidarity marches across France, with an estimated 3.7 million participants, was supposed to provide the Israeli prime minister with plenty of opportunities to present himself at his diplomatic best: marching shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, holding hands with leaders of the free world, positioning himself as one of the leaders in the battle against global terrorism. This was all supposed to remind the world of Netanyahu as powerful, authoritative, internationally-renowned.
That was not at all what happened. Netanyahu’s trip to Paris turned into a series of unfortunate humiliations. First, there was the fact that he had been asked, by French President Francois Hollande, not to attend the march in an effort to keep the Israeli-Palestinian conflict out of Europe’s show of unity. Netanyahu initially planned not to go, but he changed his mind after learning that his two main competitors in the upcoming election for the votes of the Israeli right-wing, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Economy Minister Naftali Bennet, would be attending.
Then there was the matter of the march itself, which supplied Netanyahu’s political rivals with a enough images, videos, gifs and memes for four election campaigns, not one.
Netanyahu was captured by news cameras elbowing his way into the front row, gently pushing aside the President of Mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The French weekly Paris Match later reported that Netanyahu’s place in the front row (alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) was in fact determined by the organizers of the rally, but by that point the videos showing Netanyahu’s break into the first row were already out. The damage was done.
During the march Netanyahu was caught off-guard again, waving to the crowd in response to a pro-Israel shout from the audience, looking rather cheerful in comparison to his grim and somber compatriots, who kept their cool and did not respond to the crowd.
Of course, Netanyahu’s biggest humiliation was a video that has since gone viral, in which he is seen waiting for a bus to take him to the rally, after missing the bus that ferried other world leaders to the march.
The footage, captured by a French TV station, is remarkable: The prime minister of Israel looks nervous, dejected, beaten down, surrounded by his security detail yet still standing in the middle of the street, looking exposed to danger in a way world leaders should never be. Netanyahu appears furious, annoyed, confused, trying to busy himself with talking on his phone or fixing his hair, constantly looking over his shoulder to check whether his bodyguards are still there. Even the French news anchors had to sympathize with his distress.
In no time, Netanyah’s anguish over the bus like was memefied and joked about. His gauche waving became the subject of scorn and derision, his apparent shoving the subject of intense criticism.
“Such behavior as cutting in line, sneaking onto the bus by pushing and shoving, using elbows to get to the front at some event is so Israeli, so us, so Likud Party Central Committee, that I want to shout: “Je suis Bibi! ”wrote my Haaretz colleague columnist Yossi Verter.
Netanyahu’s Paris disaster could be seen as a campaign stunt that backfired. Lieberman and Benne
Netanyahu, after all, is not a private person. He is an elected official, the elected leader of the State of Israel. Gauche manners aside, the way that world leaders treat him is a reflection of what the world thinks of Israel. It wasn’t just Netanyahu who was excluded from the bus — it was Israel itself. Or, more accurately, its current policies — its constant building in West Bank settlements, its disregard for human rights, its unwillingness to negotiate with the Palestinians, its narrowing democracy — of which Netanyahu is the chief representative.
The France that left Netanyahu out in the cold is, after all, the same France that has repeatedly condemned Israel in the past 12 months, over its construction in East Jerusalem and its conduct during this summer’s Gaza war. It was only a month ago that Netanyahu himself called Hollande and beseeched him to halt the French initiative to have the UN Security Council set a two-year timetable for reaching a permanent agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, including a Palestinian state. (France eventually sided with the Palestinians). The Palestinians’ Security Council bid ultimately failed, but the animosity toward Netanyahu among European nations (and the Obama administration) remained.
Even if what happened to Netanyahu in Paris was not deliberate — and given the obvious security hazards, it is more plausible that it was not — it is still a stunning metaphor for the depths of isolation Israel has reached in recent years. One video of Israel’s prime minister, waiting in the cold for a bus that’s not coming, speaks more loudly than a hundred resolutions recognizing a Palestinian state.
Israel begins 2015 with its international status at a record low, its supporters dwindling. It is a liability, a burden. Netanyahu, as prime minister, put it there.
Unfortunately, the joke isn’t just on Netanyahu. It’s on the country that elected him and that might soon reelect him."
That was not at all what happened. Netanyahu’s trip to Paris turned into a series of unfortunate humiliations. First, there was the fact that he had been asked, by French President Francois Hollande, not to attend the march in an effort to keep the Israeli-Palestinian conflict out of Europe’s show of unity. Netanyahu initially planned not to go, but he changed his mind after learning that his two main competitors in the upcoming election for the votes of the Israeli right-wing, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Economy Minister Naftali Bennet, would be attending.
Then there was the matter of the march itself, which supplied Netanyahu’s political rivals with a enough images, videos, gifs and memes for four election campaigns, not one.
Netanyahu was captured by news cameras elbowing his way into the front row, gently pushing aside the President of Mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The French weekly Paris Match later reported that Netanyahu’s place in the front row (alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) was in fact determined by the organizers of the rally, but by that point the videos showing Netanyahu’s break into the first row were already out. The damage was done.
During the march Netanyahu was caught off-guard again, waving to the crowd in response to a pro-Israel shout from the audience, looking rather cheerful in comparison to his grim and somber compatriots, who kept their cool and did not respond to the crowd.
Of course, Netanyahu’s biggest humiliation was a video that has since gone viral, in which he is seen waiting for a bus to take him to the rally, after missing the bus that ferried other world leaders to the march.
The footage, captured by a French TV station, is remarkable: The prime minister of Israel looks nervous, dejected, beaten down, surrounded by his security detail yet still standing in the middle of the street, looking exposed to danger in a way world leaders should never be. Netanyahu appears furious, annoyed, confused, trying to busy himself with talking on his phone or fixing his hair, constantly looking over his shoulder to check whether his bodyguards are still there. Even the French news anchors had to sympathize with his distress.In no time, Netanyah’s anguish over the bus like was memefied and joked about. His gauche waving became the subject of scorn and derision, his apparent shoving the subject of intense criticism.
“Such behavior as cutting in line, sneaking onto the bus by pushing and shoving, using elbows to get to the front at some event is so Israeli, so us, so Likud Party Central Committee, that I want to shout: “Je suis Bibi! ”wrote my Haaretz colleague columnist Yossi Verter.
Netanyahu’s Paris disaster could be seen as a campaign stunt that backfired. Lieberman and Benne
Netanyahu, after all, is not a private person. He is an elected official, the elected leader of the State of Israel. Gauche manners aside, the way that world leaders treat him is a reflection of what the world thinks of Israel. It wasn’t just Netanyahu who was excluded from the bus — it was Israel itself. Or, more accurately, its current policies — its constant building in West Bank settlements, its disregard for human rights, its unwillingness to negotiate with the Palestinians, its narrowing democracy — of which Netanyahu is the chief representative.
The France that left Netanyahu out in the cold is, after all, the same France that has repeatedly condemned Israel in the past 12 months, over its construction in East Jerusalem and its conduct during this summer’s Gaza war. It was only a month ago that Netanyahu himself called Hollande and beseeched him to halt the French initiative to have the UN Security Council set a two-year timetable for reaching a permanent agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, including a Palestinian state. (France eventually sided with the Palestinians). The Palestinians’ Security Council bid ultimately failed, but the animosity toward Netanyahu among European nations (and the Obama administration) remained.
Even if what happened to Netanyahu in Paris was not deliberate — and given the obvious security hazards, it is more plausible that it was not — it is still a stunning metaphor for the depths of isolation Israel has reached in recent years. One video of Israel’s prime minister, waiting in the cold for a bus that’s not coming, speaks more loudly than a hundred resolutions recognizing a Palestinian state.
Israel begins 2015 with its international status at a record low, its supporters dwindling. It is a liability, a burden. Netanyahu, as prime minister, put it there.
Unfortunately, the joke isn’t just on Netanyahu. It’s on the country that elected him and that might soon reelect him."
On the other hand Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP as the branch is known, appeared in an 11-minute video posted online on Wednesday, saying that the massacre at Charlie Hebdo was in "vengeance for the prophet".
Al-Ansi said that France belongs to the "party of Satan" and warned of more "tragedies and terror". He said that Yemen's al-Qaida branch "chose the target, laid out the plan and financed the operation".
The publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad is considered an insult to Islam.
On Saturday, another senior AQAP member Harith al-Nadhari also claimed responsibility for the attack in an audio recording, saying the shooting was an operation to teach the French the limits of freedom of expression.
Shame on them all.
Chris Hedges
Arabs got talent 2015
Fellow professional journalists around the world,
I may not agree with what you have to say,
but I'll defend to the death your right to say it,
as long as you are sincere and don't comply with lobbies
Untouchables? Love is stronger than hate
Intocáveis? O Amor é mais forte do que o ódio
Au revoir! Charb e a inteligência de sua irreverência determinada; Honoré e sua ironia fina; Bernard, economista atípico altermundialista; generoso Cabu e sua genialidade humilde; patrono Wolinski; alegre Tignous; Elsa, Michel, Mustapha; l'agent d'entretien Frédéric; les policiers Ahmed et Franck, assassinés par les deux lâches barbares.
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Toute ma solidarité émue à la rédaction de Charlie Hebdo et mes condoléances aux familles des victimes de ce carnage.
O jornalismo engajado está de luto fechado.
O jornalismo engajado está de luto fechado.
Don't touch my freedom of expression!
Não toque na minha liberdade de expressão!
Prefiro morrer de pé do que viver de joelhos.
I rather die standing than live kneeling
O horrível ataque ao jornal francês Charlie Hebdo ("Pasquim" francês) não é dissuasivo e sim um motor à minha certeza da necessidade de combater a ignorância, a intolerância, o obscurantismo, o fanatismo e a injustiça.
Eu não concorcadava com a parcialidade da redação, porém, nada justifica combater palavras ou charges com armas.
Por outro lado, há de se evitar o amálgama entre estes psicopatas que semeiam morte e os muçulmanos normais, moderados, que vivem em paz. Há de se evitar a radicalização que estes bárbaros buscam com seus atos.
Charlie Hebdo é um jornal de esquerda. Que facções de direita aproveitem este crime hediondo contra um órgão de imprensa que detestavam para fazer uma caça às bruxas seria/será desonrar a memória dos jornalistas mortos. Uma vergonha imperdoável.
Patrick Pelloux, um dos jornalistas do Charlie que se salvou por estar atrasado para a reunião de redação, afirmou que a revista sairá na próxima semana normalmente nem que tenham de fazê-la em casa. Não será preciso. Le Monde, France Télévision, Radio France, Canal +, Google France e o Grupo Lagardère puseram à disposição da equipe da revista que sobreviveu ao massacre todos os meios humanos e técnicos necessários à publicação do jornal na quarta-feira que vem normalmente.
O Charlie Hebdo, que estava em péssima situação financeira há meses, conseguiu cerca de 500.000€ para continuar funcionando e todo profissional que exerce na França se dispôs a trabalhar de graça para que o semanário circule, como dizia Cabu, melhor do que nunca a fim de provar a esses covardes bárbaros que Charlie caiu de pé e mais forte.
Charlie Hebdo estará nas bancas no dia 14 em uma tiragem histórica na mídia mundial: 5 milhões de exemplares - a renda será doada às famílias das vítimas.
A corrente na França é para que os cidadãos contribuam individualmente fazendo assinatura do jornal cujo número custa 3€. O custo mensal da assinatura é baixo comparado com o valor da defesa da liberdade.
A equipe sobrevivente lançou um apelo a doações, ao qual algumas empresas acederam, e o jornal francês de esquerda, Libération, a acolheu em sua redação como fizera no atentado precedente para que Charlie siga em frente. Seria bom que seguisse, com uma linha editorial equilibrada e imparcial.
Ahmed was killed by false Muslims'
Eu não concorcadava com a parcialidade da redação, porém, nada justifica combater palavras ou charges com armas.
Por outro lado, há de se evitar o amálgama entre estes psicopatas que semeiam morte e os muçulmanos normais, moderados, que vivem em paz. Há de se evitar a radicalização que estes bárbaros buscam com seus atos.
Charlie Hebdo é um jornal de esquerda. Que facções de direita aproveitem este crime hediondo contra um órgão de imprensa que detestavam para fazer uma caça às bruxas seria/será desonrar a memória dos jornalistas mortos. Uma vergonha imperdoável.
Patrick Pelloux, um dos jornalistas do Charlie que se salvou por estar atrasado para a reunião de redação, afirmou que a revista sairá na próxima semana normalmente nem que tenham de fazê-la em casa. Não será preciso. Le Monde, France Télévision, Radio France, Canal +, Google France e o Grupo Lagardère puseram à disposição da equipe da revista que sobreviveu ao massacre todos os meios humanos e técnicos necessários à publicação do jornal na quarta-feira que vem normalmente.
O Charlie Hebdo, que estava em péssima situação financeira há meses, conseguiu cerca de 500.000€ para continuar funcionando e todo profissional que exerce na França se dispôs a trabalhar de graça para que o semanário circule, como dizia Cabu, melhor do que nunca a fim de provar a esses covardes bárbaros que Charlie caiu de pé e mais forte.
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| Capa do número histórico do dia 14/01/15 "Está tudo perdoado" |
A equipe sobrevivente lançou um apelo a doações, ao qual algumas empresas acederam, e o jornal francês de esquerda, Libération, a acolheu em sua redação como fizera no atentado precedente para que Charlie siga em frente. Seria bom que seguisse, com uma linha editorial equilibrada e imparcial.
Luz explica como "pariu" a capa acima
Ahmed was killed by false Muslims'
Brother of a police officer shot dead at the scene of the Charlie Hebdo attack appeals for calm
Mensagem de Anonymous no WEB em francês
em resposta aos ataques terroristas em Paris
"...Decidimos declarar guerra a vocês terroristas, vocês mataram inocentes... Nós vamos vigiar suas atividades na internet,... fecharemos suas contas, suas redes... vocês não encontrarão abrigo em lugar nenhum... esperem sua destruição... Não os deixaremos impor suas charias em nossas democracias. Não deixaremos sua imbecilidade matar nossa liberdade de expressão. Nós os perseguiremos no NET inteiro... Não tememos seu Estado islamical, Al Qaeda; esperem nossa vingança.
Não perdoamos. Não esquecemos. Contem conosco."
Não perdoamos. Não esquecemos. Contem conosco."
Hacktivist group Anonymous has vowed to attack terrorist websites and social media accounts in revenge for the killing of Charlie Hebdo journalists.
O grupo hacktivista Anonymous prometeu atacar websites e contas de mídia social terroristas em vingança pela morte dos jornalistas do Charlie Hebdo.
The group also posted a message to Pastebin, also in French and addressed to the "enemies of the freedom of expression".
Anonymous is a large online activist and hacker group that has previously launched attacks on companies and other groups that it perceives to be in the wrong.
Anonymous é um amplo coletivo de hackers ativistas online que já lançou vários ataques contra firmas e outros grupos que eles consideram estar fazendo coisas erradas.
Homenagens ao Charlie Hebdo
de cartunistas conhecidos e desconhecidos
de cartunistas conhecidos e desconhecidos
Não há liberdade sem liberdade de imprensa
There's no freedom without press freedom
Isto não é uma religião
Uderzo, um dos dois criadores de Asterix, se irrita acima
e abaixo, reverencia seus colegas e amigos assassinados
Al Jazeera entrevista Charb
após o atentado anterior em 2011 contra o Charlie Hebdo
e abaixo, reverencia seus colegas e amigos assassinados
após o atentado anterior em 2011 contra o Charlie Hebdo
Joe Sacco on the limits of satire - response to Charlie Hebdo's attack
O cartunista referido acima é SINÉ, demitido por Philippe Val (diretor e sobrevivente ao ataque ao Charlie Hebdo) por "anti-semitismo" alegando na época que o célebre Siné "foi longe demais" em um comentário que fez sobre Jean Sarkozy casar-se com uma milionária judia, herdeira Darty, dizendo que o filho do ex-presidente "iria longe".
Siné alegou que se referia ao golpe do baú, mas foi crucificado assim mesmo. Com judaísmo e judeu não se brinca.
http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2008/07/17/sine-vire-charlie-hebdo-en-deuil-philippe-val-dans-la-tourmente
http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2008/07/17/sine-vire-charlie-hebdo-en-deuil-philippe-val-dans-la-tourmente
Listening Post: Reactions to the Charlie Hebdo attack (10/01/15)
Listening Post: The return of Charlie Hebdo (17/01/15)
"Three terrorists, probably acting alone. Three!!!By committing two attacks (quite ordinary ones by Israeli standards) they spread panic throughout France, brought millions of people onto the streets, gathered more than 40 heads of states in Paris. They changed the landscape of the French capital and other French cities by mobilizing thousands of soldiers and police officers to guard Jewish and other potential targets. For several days they dominated the news throughout the world.
For other potential Islamic terrorists throughout Europe and America, this must look like a huge achievement. It is an invitation for individuals and tiny groups to do the same again, everywhere.
Terrorism means striking fear. The three in Paris certainly succeeded in doing that. They terrorized the French population. And if three youngsters without any qualifications can do that, imagine what 30 could do, or 300!
Frankly, I did not like the huge demonstration. I have been in many demonstrations in my time, maybe more than 500, but always against the powers that be. I have never participated in a demonstration called by the government, even when the purpose was good. They remind me too much of the late Soviet Union, Fascist Italy and worse. Not for me, thank you.
But this particular demonstration was also counterproductive. Not only did it prove that terrorism is effective, not only did it invite copycat attacks, but it also hurt the real fight against the fanatics.
To conduct an effective fight, one has to put oneself first into the shoes of the fanatics and try to understand the dynamic that pushes young local-born Muslims to commit such acts. Who are they? What do they think? What are their feelings? In what circumstances did they grow up? What can be done to change them?
After decades of neglect, that is hard work. It takes time and effort, with results uncertain. Much easier for politicians to march in the street in front of the cameras.
And who marched in the first row, beaming like a victor?
Our own and only Bibi.
How did he get there? The facts came out within record time. Seems he was not invited at all. On the contrary, President Francois Hollande sent explicit messages: please, please don't come. It would turn the demo into a show of solidarity with the Jews, instead of a public outcry for the freedom of the press and other "republican values". Netanyahu came nevertheless, with two extreme rightist ministers in tow.
Placed in the second row, he did what Israelis do: he shoved aside a black African president in front of him and placed himself in the front row.
Once there, he began waving to the people on the balconies along the way. He was beaming, like a Roman general in his triumphal parade. One can only guess the feelings of Hollande and the other heads of state – who tried to look appropriately solemn and mournful – at this display of Chutzpah.
Netanyahu went to Paris as part of his election campaign. As a veteran campaigner, he knew that three days in Paris, visiting synagogues and making proud Jewish speeches, were worth more than three weeks at home, slinging mud.
The blood of the four Jews murdered in the kosher supermarket was not yet dry, when Israeli leaders called upon the Jews in France to pack up and come to Israel. Israel, as everybody knows, is the safest place on earth.
This was an almost automatic Zionist gut reaction. Jews are in danger. Their only safe haven is Israel. Make haste and come. The next day Israeli papers reported joyfully that in 2015 more than 10,000 French Jews were about to come to live here, driven by growing anti-Semitism.
Apparently, there is a lot of anti-Semitism in France and other European countries, though probably far less than Islamophobia. But the fight between Jews and Arabs on French soil has little to do with anti-Semitism. It is a struggle imported from North Africa.
When the Algerian war of liberation broke out in 1954, the Jews there had to choose sides. Almost all decided to support the colonial power, France, against the Algerian people.
That had a historical background. In 1870, the French minister of justice, Adolphe Cremieux, who happened to be a Jew, conferred French citizenship on all Algerian Jews, separating them from their Muslim neighbors.
The Algerian Liberation Front (FLN) tried very hard to draw the local Jews to their side. I know because I was somewhat involved. Their underground organization in France asked me to set up an Israeli support group, in order to convince our Algerian co-religionists. I founded the "Israeli Committee For A Free Algeria" and published material which was used by the FLN in their effort to win over the Jews.
In vain. The local Jews, proud of their French citizenship, staunchly supported the colonists. In the end, the Jews were prominent in the OAS, the extreme French underground which conducted a bloody struggle against the freedom fighters. The result was that practically all the Jews fled Algeria together with the French when the day of reckoning arrived. They did not go to Israel. Almost all of them went to France. (Unlike the Moroccan and Tunisian Jews, many of whom came to Israel. Generally, the poorer and less educated chose Israel, while the French-educated elite went to France and Canada.)
What we see now is the continuation of this war between Algerian Muslims and Jews on French soil. All the four "French" Jews killed in the attack had North African names and were buried in Israel.
Not without trouble. The Israeli government put great pressure on the four families to bury their sons here. They wanted to bury them in France, near their homes. After a lot of haggling about the price of the graves, the families finally agreed.
It has been said that Israelis love immigration and don't love the immigrants. That certainly applies to the new "French" immigrants. In recent years, "French" tourists have been coming here in large numbers. They were often disliked. Especially when they started to buy up apartments on the Tel Aviv sea front and left them empty, as a kind of insurance, while young local people could neither find nor afford apartments in the metropolitan area. Practically all these "French" tourists and immigrants are of North African origin.
When asked what drives them to Israel, their unanimous answer is: anti-Semitism. That is not a new phenomenon. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of Israelis, they or their parents or grandparents, were driven here by anti-Semitism.
The two terms – anti-Semitism and Zionism – were born at almost the same time, towards the end of the 19th century. Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, conceived his idea when he was working in France as a foreign correspondence of a Viennese newspaper during the Dreyfus affair, when virulent anti-Semitism in France reached new heights. (Anti-Semitism is, of course, a misnomer. Arabs are Semites, too. But the term is generally used to mean only Jew-haters.)
Later, Herzl wooed outspoken anti-Semitic leaders in Russia and elsewhere, asking for their help and promising to take the Jews off their hands. So did his successors. In 1939, the Irgun underground planned an armed invasion of Palestine with the help of the profoundly anti-Semitic generals of the Polish army. One may wonder if the State of Israel would have come into being in 1948 if there had not been the Holocaust. Recently, a million and a half Russian Jews were driven to Israel by anti-Semitism.
ZIONISM was born at the end of the 19th century as a direct answer to the challenge of anti-Semitism. After the French revolution, the new national idea took hold of all European nations, big and small, and all of the national movements were more or less anti-Semitic.
The basic belief of Zionism is that Jews cannot live anywhere except in the Jewish State, because the victory of anti-Semitism is inevitable everywhere. Let the Jews of America rejoice in their freedom and prosperity – sooner or later that will come to an end. They are doomed like Jews everywhere outside Israel.
The new outrage in Paris only confirms this basic belief. There was very little real commiseration in Israel. Rather, a secret sense of triumph. The gut reaction of ordinary Israelis is: "We told you so!" and also: "Come quickly, before it is too late!"
I have often tried to explain to my Arab friends: the anti-Semites are the greatest enemy of the Palestinian people. The anti-Semites have helped drive the Jews to Palestine, and now they are doing so again. And some of the new immigrants will certainly settle beyond the Green Line in the occupied Palestinian territories on stolen Arab land.
The fact that Israel benefits from the Paris attack has led some Arab media to believe that the whole affair is really a "false flag" operation. Ergo, in this case, the Arab perpetrators were really manipulated by the Israeli Mossad.
After a crime, the first question is "cui bono", who benefits? Obviously, the only winner from this outrage is Israel. But to draw the conclusion that Israel is hiding behind the Jihadists is utter nonsense.
The simple fact is that all Islamic Jihadism on European soil hurts only the Muslims. Fanatics of all stripes generally help their worst enemies. The three Muslim men who committed the outrages in Paris certainly did Binyamin Netanyahu a great favor."
Uri Avnery, 17/01/15
For other potential Islamic terrorists throughout Europe and America, this must look like a huge achievement. It is an invitation for individuals and tiny groups to do the same again, everywhere.
Terrorism means striking fear. The three in Paris certainly succeeded in doing that. They terrorized the French population. And if three youngsters without any qualifications can do that, imagine what 30 could do, or 300!
Frankly, I did not like the huge demonstration. I have been in many demonstrations in my time, maybe more than 500, but always against the powers that be. I have never participated in a demonstration called by the government, even when the purpose was good. They remind me too much of the late Soviet Union, Fascist Italy and worse. Not for me, thank you.
But this particular demonstration was also counterproductive. Not only did it prove that terrorism is effective, not only did it invite copycat attacks, but it also hurt the real fight against the fanatics.
To conduct an effective fight, one has to put oneself first into the shoes of the fanatics and try to understand the dynamic that pushes young local-born Muslims to commit such acts. Who are they? What do they think? What are their feelings? In what circumstances did they grow up? What can be done to change them?
After decades of neglect, that is hard work. It takes time and effort, with results uncertain. Much easier for politicians to march in the street in front of the cameras.
And who marched in the first row, beaming like a victor?
Our own and only Bibi.
How did he get there? The facts came out within record time. Seems he was not invited at all. On the contrary, President Francois Hollande sent explicit messages: please, please don't come. It would turn the demo into a show of solidarity with the Jews, instead of a public outcry for the freedom of the press and other "republican values". Netanyahu came nevertheless, with two extreme rightist ministers in tow.
Placed in the second row, he did what Israelis do: he shoved aside a black African president in front of him and placed himself in the front row.
Once there, he began waving to the people on the balconies along the way. He was beaming, like a Roman general in his triumphal parade. One can only guess the feelings of Hollande and the other heads of state – who tried to look appropriately solemn and mournful – at this display of Chutzpah.
Netanyahu went to Paris as part of his election campaign. As a veteran campaigner, he knew that three days in Paris, visiting synagogues and making proud Jewish speeches, were worth more than three weeks at home, slinging mud.
The blood of the four Jews murdered in the kosher supermarket was not yet dry, when Israeli leaders called upon the Jews in France to pack up and come to Israel. Israel, as everybody knows, is the safest place on earth.
This was an almost automatic Zionist gut reaction. Jews are in danger. Their only safe haven is Israel. Make haste and come. The next day Israeli papers reported joyfully that in 2015 more than 10,000 French Jews were about to come to live here, driven by growing anti-Semitism.
Apparently, there is a lot of anti-Semitism in France and other European countries, though probably far less than Islamophobia. But the fight between Jews and Arabs on French soil has little to do with anti-Semitism. It is a struggle imported from North Africa.
When the Algerian war of liberation broke out in 1954, the Jews there had to choose sides. Almost all decided to support the colonial power, France, against the Algerian people.
That had a historical background. In 1870, the French minister of justice, Adolphe Cremieux, who happened to be a Jew, conferred French citizenship on all Algerian Jews, separating them from their Muslim neighbors.
The Algerian Liberation Front (FLN) tried very hard to draw the local Jews to their side. I know because I was somewhat involved. Their underground organization in France asked me to set up an Israeli support group, in order to convince our Algerian co-religionists. I founded the "Israeli Committee For A Free Algeria" and published material which was used by the FLN in their effort to win over the Jews.
In vain. The local Jews, proud of their French citizenship, staunchly supported the colonists. In the end, the Jews were prominent in the OAS, the extreme French underground which conducted a bloody struggle against the freedom fighters. The result was that practically all the Jews fled Algeria together with the French when the day of reckoning arrived. They did not go to Israel. Almost all of them went to France. (Unlike the Moroccan and Tunisian Jews, many of whom came to Israel. Generally, the poorer and less educated chose Israel, while the French-educated elite went to France and Canada.)
What we see now is the continuation of this war between Algerian Muslims and Jews on French soil. All the four "French" Jews killed in the attack had North African names and were buried in Israel.
Not without trouble. The Israeli government put great pressure on the four families to bury their sons here. They wanted to bury them in France, near their homes. After a lot of haggling about the price of the graves, the families finally agreed.
It has been said that Israelis love immigration and don't love the immigrants. That certainly applies to the new "French" immigrants. In recent years, "French" tourists have been coming here in large numbers. They were often disliked. Especially when they started to buy up apartments on the Tel Aviv sea front and left them empty, as a kind of insurance, while young local people could neither find nor afford apartments in the metropolitan area. Practically all these "French" tourists and immigrants are of North African origin.
When asked what drives them to Israel, their unanimous answer is: anti-Semitism. That is not a new phenomenon. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of Israelis, they or their parents or grandparents, were driven here by anti-Semitism.
The two terms – anti-Semitism and Zionism – were born at almost the same time, towards the end of the 19th century. Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement, conceived his idea when he was working in France as a foreign correspondence of a Viennese newspaper during the Dreyfus affair, when virulent anti-Semitism in France reached new heights. (Anti-Semitism is, of course, a misnomer. Arabs are Semites, too. But the term is generally used to mean only Jew-haters.)
Later, Herzl wooed outspoken anti-Semitic leaders in Russia and elsewhere, asking for their help and promising to take the Jews off their hands. So did his successors. In 1939, the Irgun underground planned an armed invasion of Palestine with the help of the profoundly anti-Semitic generals of the Polish army. One may wonder if the State of Israel would have come into being in 1948 if there had not been the Holocaust. Recently, a million and a half Russian Jews were driven to Israel by anti-Semitism.
ZIONISM was born at the end of the 19th century as a direct answer to the challenge of anti-Semitism. After the French revolution, the new national idea took hold of all European nations, big and small, and all of the national movements were more or less anti-Semitic.
The basic belief of Zionism is that Jews cannot live anywhere except in the Jewish State, because the victory of anti-Semitism is inevitable everywhere. Let the Jews of America rejoice in their freedom and prosperity – sooner or later that will come to an end. They are doomed like Jews everywhere outside Israel.
The new outrage in Paris only confirms this basic belief. There was very little real commiseration in Israel. Rather, a secret sense of triumph. The gut reaction of ordinary Israelis is: "We told you so!" and also: "Come quickly, before it is too late!"
I have often tried to explain to my Arab friends: the anti-Semites are the greatest enemy of the Palestinian people. The anti-Semites have helped drive the Jews to Palestine, and now they are doing so again. And some of the new immigrants will certainly settle beyond the Green Line in the occupied Palestinian territories on stolen Arab land.
The fact that Israel benefits from the Paris attack has led some Arab media to believe that the whole affair is really a "false flag" operation. Ergo, in this case, the Arab perpetrators were really manipulated by the Israeli Mossad.
After a crime, the first question is "cui bono", who benefits? Obviously, the only winner from this outrage is Israel. But to draw the conclusion that Israel is hiding behind the Jihadists is utter nonsense.
The simple fact is that all Islamic Jihadism on European soil hurts only the Muslims. Fanatics of all stripes generally help their worst enemies. The three Muslim men who committed the outrages in Paris certainly did Binyamin Netanyahu a great favor."
Uri Avnery, 17/01/15
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