In May, Jewish organisations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. This is understandable in the context of centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust. Nevertheless, we are Jews who will not be celebrating. Surely it is now time to acknowledge the narrative of the other, the price paid by another people for European anti-semitism and Hitler's genocidal policies. As Edward Said emphasised, what the Holocaust is to the Jews, the Naqba is to the Palestinians. (...)
We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.
fonte The Guardian
mercoledì 30 aprile 2008
domenica 27 aprile 2008
BREAKING THE SILENCE
L'associazione Breaking the Silence (Rompere il silenzio) ha pubblicato online le testimonianze sugli abusi subiti da civili palestinesi fornite da 39 soldati israeliani che hanno prestato servizio a Hebron tra il 2005 e il 2007.
Qui il documento in pdf (in English).
Qui il documento in pdf (in English).
venerdì 18 aprile 2008
The Israeli 'settler' serving in Italy's parliament
un'intervista al neodeputato Fiamma Nirenstein ... che vive a Gilo, un settlement israeliano in terra palestinese ...
Almost 50,000 people live in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, one of the largest in Israel. Up until now, it had no representative in parliament. As of this week, it does. Fiamma Nirenstein, a neighborhood resident for 10 years, was just elected to the Italian parliament. If we stick to the definitions of the UN, which views Gilo, on the capital's southern edge, as a settlement, one could say that Nirenstein is the first settler to be a member of a non-Israeli parliament. (...)
fonte Haaretz
Almost 50,000 people live in Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, one of the largest in Israel. Up until now, it had no representative in parliament. As of this week, it does. Fiamma Nirenstein, a neighborhood resident for 10 years, was just elected to the Italian parliament. If we stick to the definitions of the UN, which views Gilo, on the capital's southern edge, as a settlement, one could say that Nirenstein is the first settler to be a member of a non-Israeli parliament. (...)
fonte Haaretz
martedì 15 aprile 2008
democrazia
La prima visita da premier per Silvio Berlusconi sarà in Israele. «Olmert mi ha invitato, sarò lietissimo di andare in Israele e dare il mio supporto all'unica democrazia mediorientale», ha spiegato il Cavaliere a "Matrix".
fonte L'Unità
... che bello ...
fonte L'Unità
... che bello ...
lunedì 14 aprile 2008
shame
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mercoledì 2 aprile 2008
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