F35-300x241Riportiamo volentieri questo articolo di Manlio Dinucci dal Manifesto di alcuni giorni fa.
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(il manifesto, 3 dicembre 2011)
Tranquilli, al futuro ci pensa il nuovo F-35
La crisi economica, documenta il Censis, ha colpito in Italia soprattutto i giovani, un milione dei quali ha perso il lavoro negli ultimi tre anni. Aumentano quindi le preoccupazioni per il futuro. Tranquilli, a loro e ai loro figli ci pensa la Lockheed Martin: «Proteggere le generazioni di domani – assicura nella sua pubblicità – significa impegnarsi per la quinta generazione di oggi». Si riferisce all’F-35 Lightning II, «l’unico velivolo di quinta generazione in grado di garantire la sicurezza delle nuove generazioni».
Israel’s violations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights with regard to the human rights to water and sanitation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
I had been using the spring waters for crop irrigation since 2007 (...). The occupation forces tore up my pipeline and damaged it completely, leaving me with no water resource to irrigate my land. (...) I was then left with no option but to resort to buying tanker water from Ein al-Bayda and Bardala costing about 21 NIS71 per cubic meter. This was very expensive, considering that the spring water I used to use cost me very little. Gradually when my expenditure on irrigation increased and I could not afford farming anymore, I was forced to abandon my land. Thus, we were stripped of our family's main source of income, despite Mekorot's water pipeline systems passing right through my land to supply settlements such as Rotem and Shilo among many others. The Israeli occupation refuses to allow al-Aghwar's Palestinian farmers from extending any water lines from the pipes running through our own agricultural lands. (...) Israel's policies of depriving farmers from utilizing water resources for irrigational purposes has already forced many in al-Aghwar to abandon their agricultural lands. If these violations and practices continue, there will be no more farmers in al-Aghwar and agricultural lands will turn barren. Imagine how settlement pipelines pass right through our lands, but we – the Palestinians – cannot receive a single drop.
A Palestinian child in Gaza City sits beside the wreckage of a building destroyed in Israel's 2008/2009 assault on Gaza. / Photo Courtesy of Andreas Lunde
The situation in Israel/Palestine is not Apartheid. It is not a racist regime. It is precisely because Israel has not established a blatantly rigid regime that discriminates against all Palestinians equally, and because some of them have certain rights, that Israel has managed to present itself as a democracy and to justify the military occupation as legitimate defense. Politically speaking this is worse than Apartheid. It is worse because it is more sophisticated and flexible, much more easily adaptable to change. It is worse because it manages to divide and rule the Palestinians in a much more effective way. It is worse because the Palestinians cannot develop an effective and legitimate struggle: when they use violence, it is illegitimate, and when they use diplomacy, it is ineffective. And it is worse because it is impossible to even imagine a peaceful future based on justice and equality.
IN THE middle of the '80s, a German diplomat conveyed to me a surprising message. A member of the Jordanian Royal family would like to speak with me in Amman. At the time, Jordan was still officially at war with us.
Somehow I obtained official permission from the Israeli government. The Germans generously provided me with a passport that was not strictly accurate, and so, with much turning of blind eyes, I arrived in Amman and was lodged in the best hotel.
A Nahal Haredi soldier. The ultra-Orthodox nationalists, or Hardalim, have a lust for battle and a willingness to 'die for our country.'
Photo by: Archive: Eyal Warshavsky / BauBau
We could have clung to the historical, secular explanations for our ingathering in this land (briefly, the "final solution" of that same civilized Christian West, which also expelled us from the countries of the Diaspora ). This would have committed us to the humanitarian and earthly values and perceptions that have emerged from every struggle against ethnic persecution and oppression. But the historical explanation would also have obliged us to admit our similarity to other colonialist movements, and to understand that what was possible in the 18th and 19th centuries in America and Australia is not possible here and now.
Rabbi Yeshayahu Rotter, the founder of Rotter.net, Israel’s major news and gossip portal, wrote a column in HaKol Hayehudi, a website maintained by the extremist Yitzhar yeshiva run by Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg (co-author of Torat HaMelech, which advocates murdering Palestinian children since they’ll grow up to murder Jews). In the column, he endorses the price tag strategy of the most extreme of the Hilltop Youth. Keep in mind that his endorsement comes directly on the heels of some of the most incendiary acts of violence in the entire history of price tag activities: a few days ago settlers directly attacked an IDF West Bank outpost and threw a brick at a senior IDF officer in his vehicle, injuring him. This follows three mosque arson attacks, repeated death and bomb threats against Peace Now leaders, sexual assaults against peace activists and much more.
«Che c...zo hai da guardare, negro di m...da?». La prima volta, la stessa frase, quei ventenni l'avevano detta giovedì pomeriggio in autobus. Ma poi l'avevano piantata lì. Era rivolta a un tredicenne di origine srilankese che vive con la sua famiglia a Veronetta e che era con alcuni compagni di scuola sull'autobus. Il giorno dopo, venerdì pomeriggio la storia si ripete: i giovani si incontrano di nuovo, ma i quattro non si fermano a pronunciare la frase quando il ragazzo con altri suoi compagni viene trovato in via IV Novembre. Lo spintonano, prendono una spranga di ferro da un motorino e lo picchiano. Uno di loro ha una bottiglia di birra in mano e la versa sulla faccia del ragazzino che viene buttato a terra e poi i quattro delinquenti cercano di farlo rotolare sotto un'auto in transito, ma per fortuna non ci riescono.
Un rapport d'Addameer, le groupe de soutien aux prisonniers palestiniens, révèle que depuis l'échange de prisonniers conclu par le gouvernement sioniste et les autorités du Hamas, et qui a vu la libération, en échange du soldat Shalit, le 18 octobre dernier, de 477 prisonniers politiques palestiniens, le chiffre effarant de 470 Palestiniens ont été arrêtés à ce jour. L'Etat sioniste a donc "récupéré" pratiquement le nombre de détenus libérés
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470 Palestiniens arrêtés par les forces de l'occupation israélienne en deux mois, depuis la libération des 477 prisonniers politiques
De plus, les prisonniers libérés ont été soumis au harcèlement des forces d'occupation, avec des descentes à leurs domiciles, le harcèlement des membres de leurs familles, des convocations des services secrets et même des re-arrestations.
L'occupation a continué d'employer ses méthodes brutales d'arrestation, souvent pratiquées par les forces clandestines, les infâmes musta'arabeen, des hommes en civil placés en embuscade pour arrêter les Palestiniens sur leurs lieux de travail ou dans la rue. Dans de nombreux cas, les arrestations ont eu lieu lors de raids nocturnes pendant lesquels les soldats ont délibérément détruit le contenu des maisons qu'ils fouillaient.
The Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association denounced the Israeli Army for the daily kidnappings of children and youth at the Shu’fat refugee camp, in occupied East Jerusalem, adding that the army kidnapped more than 21 youths, including 11 children in the last 15 days.
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Lawyer of Ad-Dameer stated that the arrests are directly connected to the demand that Israel opens the Shu’fat terminal that is leading to the isolation of 50.000 Jerusalemite Palestinians from the city.
Soldiers based at the terminal only allow those who carry a Jerusalem ID cards, or a special permit to cross, therefore many youths who live there, and are not granted permits, and are frequently arrested.
I have just been released from jail, after three days inside. I was arrested last Friday, together with 22 others, in the village of Nabi Saleh, during a demonstration commemorating the murder of Mustafa Tamimi. Our arrest took place as we peacefully protested near the entrance to the Jewish-only settlement of Halamish, which is built on lands stolen from Nabi Saleh.
Minutes after we got to the gate, Israeli Border Police officers moved in to remove us from the scene. Palestinians, Israeli and international activists, we were all shackled and dragged away into military jeeps that transported us to the adjacent military base, which is in fact part of the settlement.
