Israel tells itself it sanctifies life to dehumanize Palestinians
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- Written by Rogel Alpher
- Category: Opposizione israeliana
Haaretz, Feb. 28, 2016
Here are some excerpts from a speech by Miriam Peretz — who lost two sons in war — and is the current spokeswoman for the ethos of Israeli bereavement: “I had the privilege of seeing Uriel and Eliraz pray beside the Western Wall. I saw them marching in IDF [Israel Defense Forces] uniform. And I saw them wrapped in a tallit and the Israeli flag being carried to their eternal resting place. At that ceremony, I felt the spirit of the nation of Israel reawaken to life. Facing the coffins of my sons, I raised my eyes to heaven and cried aloud, ‘The nation of Israel lives’ ...
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Israel dramatically ramping up demolitions of Palestinian homes in West Bank
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- Written by Amira Hass
- Category: Opposizione israeliana
Haaretz, Feb. 20, 2016
One European organization calculated that the demolition rate had increased 230 percent over last year, and 689 percent for European-funded buildings.
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For Religious Zionists, Israeli-Palestinian conflict is holy war, scholar says
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- Written by Ayelett Shani
- Category: Politiche israeliane
Haaretz, Dec. 17, 2016
I recently received a phone call from a mother who told me that her daughter, who serves on a training base, was asked to sleep fully clothed in the girls’ dormitory, for reasons of modesty. These things stem from the fact that rabbis are telephoning commanders and appearing in person on IDF bases. This is [...] infiltration by halakhic [religious-law] authorities into the army. This is theocratization.
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In the rubble of a Palestinian home, I saw the occupation’s evil with my own eyes
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- Written by Moriel Rothman-Zecher |
- Category: Opposizione israeliana
Haaretz, Feb 9, 2016
Jinba, South Hebron Hills —
“They came on Tuesday, and destroyed it. The Jews,” said the boy, Hamudi, holding a jagged block of concrete in each hand, and looking at me, “Curse their fathers.”
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A colonialist project of dispossession in the occupied territories
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- Written by Daniel Blatman
- Category: Opposizione israeliana
Haaretz, Feb. 01, 2016
In Israel, as in other places that developed through colonialist settlement and dispossession (North America, Australia, South Africa, Namibia), this colonialism did not begin with aspirations of sovereignty. The early Jewish settlers came here for economic reasons, to escape anti-Semitic persecution, or out of some romantic fantasy of building a new society.
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