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zondag 24 december 2023

Israëlische zionisten inhumaan? Een kerstvertelling uit de Gazastrook

(On the top right hand side of this page you can choose for a translation in the language of your choice in Google Translate)


(als je het Engels niet machtig bent, zet dan de tekst om in Nederlands met behulp van Google translate dat je rechts bovenaan deze pagina ziet staan, klik eerst in het menu op 'Engels', waarna je weer kan klikken op die vertaalapp, daarna zie je bovenaan in het menu 'Nederlands' staan >> klik daarop en de hele tekst staat vervolgens in het Nederlands, de vertaling is van een redelijk goede kwaliteit.)


Het hieronder weergenomen artikel werd op Substack gepubliceerd door Chris Hedges, verdere woorden zijn overbodig:   


The Cost of Bearing Witness

There are scores of Palestinian writers and photographers, many of whom have been killed, who are determined to make us see the horror of this genocide. They will vanquish the lies of the killers.

CHRIS HEDGES

23 DEC 2023

Bearing Witness - Mr. Fish

Writing and photographing in wartime are acts of resistance, acts of faith. They affirm the belief that one day - a day the writers, journalists and photographers may never see - the words and images will evoke empathy, understanding, outrage and provide wisdom. They chronicle not only the facts, although facts are important, but the texture, sacredness and grief of lives and communities lost. They tell the world what war is like, how those caught in its maw of death endure, how there are those who sacrifice for others and those who do not, what fear and hunger are like, what death is like. They transmit the cries of children, the wails of grief of the mothers, the daily struggle in the face of savage industrial violence, the triumph of their humanity through filth, sickness, humiliation and fear. This is why writers, photographers and journalists are targeted by aggressors in war — including the Israelis — for obliteration. They stand as witnesses to evil, an evil the aggressors want buried and forgotten. They expose the lies. They condemn, even from the grave, their killers. Israel has killed at least 13 Palestinian poets and writers along with at least 67 journalists and media workers in Gaza, and three in Lebanon since Oct. 7.

I experienced futility and outrage when I covered war. I wondered if I had done enough, or if it was even worth the risk. But you go on because to do nothing is to be complicit. You report because you care. You will make it hard for the killers to deny their crimes. 

This brings me to the Palestinian novelist and playwright Atef Abu Saif. He and his 15-year-old son Yasser, who live in the occupied West Bank, were visiting family in Gaza — where he was born — when Israel began its scorched earth campaign. Atef is no stranger to the violence of the Israeli occupiers. He was two months old during the 1973 war and writes “I’ve been living through wars ever since. Just as life is a pause between two deaths, Palestine, as a place and as an idea, is a timeout in the middle of many wars.”

During Operation Cast Lead, the 2008/2009 Israel assault on Gaza, Atef sheltered in the corridor of his Gaza family home for 22 nights with his wife, Hanna and two children, while Israel bombed and shelled. His book “The Drone Eats with Me: Diaries from a City Under Fire,” is an account of Operation Protective Edge, the 2014 Israeli assault on Gaza that killed 1,523 Palestinian civilians, including 519 children. 

Memories of war can be strangely positive, because to have them at all means you must have survived,” he notes sardonically.

He again did what writers do, including the professor and poet Refaat Alareer, who was killed, along with Refaat’s brother, sister and her four children, in an airstrike on his sister’s apartment building in Gaza on Dec. 7. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that Alareer was deliberately targeted, “surgically bombed out of the entire building.” His killing came after weeks of “death threats that Refaat received online and by phone from Israeli accounts.” He had moved to his sister’s because of the threats.

Refaat, whose doctorate was on the metaphysical poet John Donne, wrote a poem in November, called “If I Must Die,” which became his last will and testament. It has been translated into numerous languages. A reading of the poem by the actor Brian Cox has been viewed almost 30 million times. 

If I must die,

you must live

to tell my story

to sell my things

to buy a piece of cloth

and some strings,

(make it white with a long tail)

so that a child, somewhere in Gaza

while looking heaven in the eye

awaiting his dad who left in a blaze—

and bid no one farewell

not even to his flesh

not even to himself—

sees the kite, my kite you made,

flying up above

and thinks for a moment an angel is there

bringing back love

If I must die

let it bring hope

let it be a tale.

Atef, once again finding himself living amid the explosions and carnage from Israeli shells and bombs, doggedly publishes his observations and reflections. His accounts are often difficult to transmit because of Israel’s blockage of Internet and phone service. They have appeared in The Washington PostThe New York TimesThe Nation and Slate.

On the first day of the Israeli bombardment, a friend, the young poet and musician Omar Abu Shawish, is killed, apparently in an Israeli naval bombardment, though later reports would say he was killed in an airstrike as he was walking to work. Atef wonders about the Israeli soldiers watching him and his family with “their infrared lenses and satellite photography.” Can “they count the loafs of bread in my basket, or the number of falafel balls on my plate?” he wonders. He watches the crowds of dazed and confused families, their homes in rubble, carrying “mattresses, bags of clothes, food and drink.” He stands mutely before “the supermarket, the bureau de change, the falafel shop, the fruit stalls, the perfume parlor, the sweets shop, the toy shop — all burned.”

Blood was everywhere, along with bits of kids’ toys, cans from the supermarket, smashed fruit, broken bicycles and shattered perfume bottles,” he writes. “The place looked like a charcoal drawing of a town scorched by a dragon.”

I went to the Press House, where journalists were frantically downloading images and writing reports for their agencies. I was sitting with Bilal, the Press House manager, when an explosion shook the building. Windows shattered, and the ceiling collapsed onto us in chunks. We ran toward the central hall. One of the journalists was bleeding, having been hit by flying glass. After 20 minutes, we ventured out to inspect the damage. I noticed that Ramadan decorations were still hanging in the street.”

The city has become a wasteland of rubble and debris,” Atef, who has been the Palestinian Authority’s minister of culture since 2019, writes in the early days of the Israeli shelling of Gaza City. “Beautiful buildings fall like columns of smoke. I often think about the time I was shot as a kid, during the first intifada, and how my mother told me I actually died for a few minutes before being brought back to life. Maybe I can do the same this time, I think.”

He leaves his teenage son with family members.

The Palestinian logic is that in wartime, we should all sleep in different places, so that if part of the family is killed, another part lives,” he writes. “The U.N. schools are getting more crowded with displaced families. The hope is that the U.N. flag will save them, though in previous wars, that hasn’t been the case.”

 On Tuesday Oct. 17 he writes:

I see death approaching, hear its steps growing louder. Just be done with it, I think. It’s the 11th day of the conflict, but all the days have merged into one: the same bombardment, the same fear, the same smell. On the news, I read the names of the dead on the ticker at the bottom of the screen. I wait for my name to appear.
In the morning, my phone rang. It was Rulla, a relative in the West Bank, telling me she had heard there’d been an airstrike in Talat Howa, a neighborhood on the south side of Gaza City where my cousin Hatem lives. Hatem is married to Huda, my wife’s only sister. He lives in a four-story building that also houses his mother and brothers and their families.
I called around, but no one’s phone was working. I walked to al-Shifa Hospital to read the names: Lists of the dead are pinned up daily outside a makeshift morgue. I could barely approach the building: Thousands of Gazans had made the hospital their home; its gardens, its hallways, every empty space or spare corner had a family in it. I gave up and headed toward Hatem’s.
Thirty minutes later, I was on his street. Rulla had been right. Huda and Hatem’s building had been hit only an hour earlier. The bodies of their daughter and grandchild had already been retrieved; the only known survivor was Wissam, one of their other daughters, who had been taken to the ICU. Wissam had gone straight into surgery, where both of her legs and her right hand had been amputated. Her graduation ceremony from art college had taken place only the day before. She has to spend the rest of her life without legs, with one hand. “What about the others?” I asked someone.
We can’t find them,” came the reply.
Amid the rubble, we shouted: “Hello? Can anyone hear us?” We called out the names of those still missing, hoping some might still be alive. By the end of the day, we’d managed to find five bodies, including that of a 3-month-old. We went to the cemetery to bury them.
In the evening, I went to see Wissam in the hospital; she was barely awake. After half an hour, she asked me: “Khalo [Uncle], I’m dreaming, right?”
I said, “We are all in a dream.”
My dream is terrifying! Why?”
All our dreams are terrifying.”
After 10 minutes of silence, she said, “Don’t lie to me, Khalo. In my dream, I don’t have legs. It’s true, isn’t it? I have no legs?”
But you said it’s a dream.”
I don’t like this dream, Khalo.”
I had to leave. For a long 10 minutes, I cried and cried. Overwhelmed by the horrors of the past few days, I walked out of the hospital and found myself wandering the streets. I thought idly, we could turn this city into a film set for war movies. Second World War films and end-of-the-world movies. We could hire it out to the best Hollywood directors. Doomsday on demand. Who could have the courage to tell Hanna, so far away in Ramallah, that her only sister had been killed? That her family had been killed? I phoned my colleague Manar and asked her to go to our house with a couple of friends and try to delay the news from getting to her. “Lie to her,” I told Manar. “Say the building was attacked by F-16s but the neighbors think Huda and Hatem were out at the time. Any lie that could help.”

Leaflets in Arabic dropped by Israeli helicopters float down from the sky. They announce that anyone who remains north of the Wadi waterway will be considered a partner to terrorism, “meaning,” Atef writes, “the Israelis can shoot on sight.” The electricity is cut. Food, fuel and water begin to run out. The wounded are operated on without anesthesia. There are no painkillers or sedatives. He visits his niece Wissam, racked with pain, in al-Shifa Hospital who asks him for a lethal injection. She says Allah will forgive her.

But he will not forgive me, Wissam.”

I am going to ask him to, on your behalf,” she says.

After airstrikes he joins the rescue teams “under the cricket-like hum of drones we couldn’t see in the sky.” A line from T.S Eliot, “a heap of broken images,” runs through his head. The injured and dead are “transported on three-wheeled bicycles or dragged along in carts by animals.”

We picked up pieces of mutilated bodies and gathered them on a blanket; you find a leg here, a hand there, while the rest looks like minced meat,” he writes. “In the past week, many Gazans have started writing their names on their hands and legs, in pen or permanent marker, so they can be identified when death comes. This might seem macabre, but it makes perfect sense: We want to be remembered; we want our stories to be told; we seek dignity. At the very least, our names will be on our graves. The smell of unretrieved bodies under the ruins of a house hit last week remains in the air. The more time passes, the stronger the smell.”

The scenes around him become surreal. On Nov. 19, day 44 of the assault, he writes:

A man rides a horse toward me with the body of a dead teenager slung over the saddle in front. It seems it’s his son, perhaps. It looks like a scene from a historical movie, only the horse is weak and barely able to move. He is back from no battle. He is no knight. His eyes are full of tears as he holds the little riding crop in one hand and the bridle in the other. I have an impulse to photograph him but then feel suddenly sick at the idea. He salutes no one. He barely looks up. He is too consumed with his own loss. Most people are using the camp’s old cemetery; it’s the safest and although it is technically long-since full, they have started digging shallower graves and burying the new dead on top of the old—keeping families together, of course.

On Nov. 21 after constant tank-shelling, he decides to flee the Jabaliya neighborhood in the north of Gaza for the south, with his son and mother-in-law who is in a wheelchair. They must pass through Israeli checkpoints, where soldiers randomly select men and boys from the line for detention.

Scores of bodies are strewn along both sides of the road,” he writes. “Rotting, it seems, into the ground. The smell is horrendous. A hand reaches out toward us from the window of a burned-out car, as if asking for something, from me specifically. I see what looks like two headless bodies in a car — limbs and precious body parts just thrown away and left to fester.”

He tells his son Yasser: “Don’t look. Just keep walking, son."

In early Dec. his family home is destroyed in an airstrike.

The house a writer grows up in is a well from which to draw material. In each of my novels, whenever I wanted to depict a typical house in the camp, I conjured ours. I’d move the furniture around a bit, change the name of the alley, but who was I kidding? It was always our house.”

All the houses in Jabalya are small. They’re built randomly, haphazardly, and they’re not made to last. These houses replaced the tents that Palestinians like my grandmother Eisha lived in after the displacements of 1948. Those who built them always thought they’d soon be returning to the beautiful, spacious homes they’d left behind in the towns and villages of historic Palestine. That return never happened, despite our many rituals of hope, like safeguarding the key to the old family home. The future keeps betraying us, but the past is ours.”

Though I’ve lived in many cities around the world, and visited many more, that tiny ramshackle abode was the only place I ever felt at home’” he goes on. “Friends and colleagues always asked: Why don’t you live in Europe or America? You have the opportunity. My students chimed in: Why did you return to Gaza? My answer was always the same: ‘Because in Gaza, in an alleyway in the Saftawi neighborhood of Jabalya, there stands a little house that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.’ If on doomsday God were to ask me where I would like to be sent, I wouldn’t hesitate in saying, ‘Home.’ Now there is no home.”

Atef is now trapped in southern Gaza with his son. His niece was transferred to a hospital in Egypt. Israel continues to pound Gaza with over 20,000 dead and 50,000 wounded. Atef continues to write.

The story of Christmas is the story of a poor woman, nine months pregnant, and her husband forced to leave their home in Nazareth in northern Galilee. The occupying Roman power has demanded they register for the census 90 miles away in Bethlehem. When they arrive there are no rooms. She gives birth in a stable. King Herod - who learned from the Magi of the birth of the messiah - orders his soldiers to hunt down every child two years old and under in Bethlehem and the vicinity and murder them. An angel warns Joseph in a dream to flee. The couple and infant escape under the cover of darkness and make the 40-mile journey to Egypt. 

I was in a refugee camp in the early 1980s for Guatemalans who had fled the war into Honduras. The peasant farmers and their families, living in filth and mud, their villages and homes burned or abandoned, were decorating their tents with strips of colored paper to celebrate the Massacre of the Innocents.

Why is this such an important day?” I asked.

It was on this day that Christ became a refugee,” a farmer answered.

The Christmas story was not written for the oppressors. It was written for the oppressed. We are called to protect the innocents. We are called to defy the occupying power. Atef, Refaat and those like them, who speak to us at the risk of death, echo this Biblical injunction. They speak so we will not be silent. They speak so we will take these words and images and hold them up to the principalities of the world — the media, politicians, diplomats, universities, the wealthy and privileged, the weapons manufacturers, the Pentagon and the Israel lobby groups — who are orchestrating the genocide in Gaza. The infant Christ is not lying today in straw, but a pile of broken concrete.

Evil has not changed down the millenia. Neither has goodness.

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Zie ook: 'Het is geen antisemitisme om kritiek te uiten op de oorlogsmisdaden van Israël: intussen bijna 20.000 Palestijnse doden waaronder 9.000kinderen.....' En zie de berichten onder de links in dat schrijven!!

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Let op!! De ruimte om reacties weer te geven werkt niet, zo merkte ik onlangs. Als je commentaar hebt doe dit dan via het mailadres trippleu@gmail.com, ik zal deze dan opnemen onderaan in het bewuste artikel, althans als je geen geweld predikt, voorts plaats ik jouw reactie ook al staat deze diametraal tegenover dat bericht. Alvast mijn dank voor jouw eventuele reactie, Willem.

vrijdag 28 augustus 2020

ICC heeft lijst met minstens 200 vooraanstaande Israëliërs die zich schuldig hebben gemaakt aan oorlogsmisdaden en mensenrechtenschendingen

Aanklager Fatou Bensouda van het Internationaal Strafhof (International Criminal Court, ofwel: ICC) begon afgelopen december met een onderzoek naar oorlogsmisdaden en mensenrechtenschendingen tegen het verdrukte Palestijnse volk door Israëlische politici en officieren van het Israëlische leger.


WADR

Dit wekte zo'n grote woede in Israël en de VS, dat de laatste sancties instelde tegen leden van het ICC en hun familie, e.e.a. verwoord door opperploert en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo, die vicepresident mag spelen onder de andere grote oorlogsmisdadiger, president Trump..... Dacht eigenlijk zelf dat het ICC verder had afgezien van vervolging n.a.v. deze sancties, maar 'godzijdank' gaat de vervolging van Israël gewoon door. (wel stopte het ICC onderzoek naar oorlogsmisdaden begaan door de VS in Afghanistan......*)

De rapportages die intussen zijn gedaan door het ICC zorgen voor groeiende onrust in Israël, rapporten die figuren noemen als de fascistisch psychopathische Palestijnenslachter Netanyahu en zijn collega Gantz die een afwisselend premierschap zullen vervullen, de eerste 1,5 jaar de misdadiger Netanyahu en daarna Gantz, al evenzo een misdadiger van formaat.

Ongelofelijk trouwens dat het ICC Fatou Bansouda heeft aangesteld als aanklager, daar deze een smerige rol heeft gespeeld in Gambia, waar zij van 1998 tot 2000 minister van justitie was onder dictator Yahya Jammeh en zij de sharia wetgeving heeft geïntroduceerd in dat land..... Hoe dom moet je zijn om zo'n figuur aan te stellen als aanklager, daar komt op zeker stront van en ze wordt tot nu toe al meermaals genoemd als niet objectief (en gezien de feiten niet geheel ten onrechte; wat moet die figuur bij het ICC???)...... 

List of Israeli targets leaked: Tel Aviv fears the worst in ICC  investigation of war crimes
'Echte helden' van het Israëlische leger die een Palestijns jongen hebben gearresteerd......

Echter de feiten spreken voor zich en er is geen enkele twijfel aan de schuld van opvolgende Israëlische regeringen, de legertop en politie aan oorlogsmisdaden, misdaden tegen de menselijkheid, mensenrechtenschendingen en grove schendingen van kinderrechten, dit alles bij de vervolging van Palestijnse mensen....... Een vervolging waarbij vorig jaar nog grote aantal vreedzaam demonstrerende Palestijnen, kinderen, vrouwen, medisch hulpverleners en journalisten werden vermoord door militairen van de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël.......  

Zoals zo vaak op deze plek verzucht, ieder ander land dat als Israël zo zou omgaan met een minderheid, was al lang onderwerp van sancties geweest....... Dan te bedeneken dat Israel in feite illegaal is gesticht en dat hoofdzakelijk op de grond van verdreven Palestijnen, die daar al generaties en eeuwen woonden..... De Verenigde Arabische Emiraten (VAE), moeten zich als Saoedi-Arabie en Egypte doodschamen dat men handelt met terreurstaat Israël...... (hoewel de genoemde staten zelf ook terreurstaten zijn....)

Het volgende artikel werd geschreven door Ramzy Baroud en werd op Information Clearing House gepubliceerd (onder het artikel kan je klikken voor een 'Dutch vertaling' dit neemt wel enige tientallen seconden tijd in beslag):

List of Israeli Targets Leaked: Tel Aviv Fears the Worst in ICC Investigation of War Crimes
 
By Ramzy Baroud
July 31, 2020 "Information Clearing House" - When International Court of Justice (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, confirmed last December that the Court has ample evidence to pursue a war crimes investigation in occupied Palestine, the Israeli government responded with the usual rhetoric, accusing the international community of bias and insisting on Israel’s ‘right to defend itself.’

Beneath the platitudes and typical Israeli discourse, the Israeli government knew too well that an ICC investigation into war crimes in Palestine could be quite costly. An investigation, in itself, represents an indictment of sorts. If Israeli individuals were to be indicted for war crimes, that is a different story, as it becomes a legal obligation of ICC members to apprehend the criminals and hand them over to the Court.

Israel remained publicly composed, even after Bensouda, last April, elaborated on her December decision with a 60-page legal report, titled: “Situation in the State of Palestine: Prosecution Response to the Observations of Amici Curiae, Legal Representatives of Victims, and States.”

In the report, the ICC addressed many of the questions, doubts and reports submitted or raised in the four months that followed her earlier decision. Countries such as Germany and Austria, among others, had used their position as amici curiae – ‘friends of the court’ – to question the ICC jurisdiction and the status of Palestine as a country.

Bensouda insisted that “the Prosecutor is satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to initiate an investigation into the situation in Palestine under article 53(1) of the Rome Statute, and that the scope of the Court’s territorial jurisdiction comprises the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza (“Occupied Palestinian Territory”).”

However, Bensouda did not provide definitive timelines to the investigation; instead, she requested that the ICC’S Pre-Trial Chamber “confirm the scope of the Court’s territorial jurisdiction in Palestine,” an additional step that is hardly required since the State of Palestine, a signatory of the Rome Statute, is the one that actually referred the case directly to the Prosecutor’s office.

The April report, in particular, was the wake-up call for Tel Aviv. Between the initial decision in December till the release of the latter report, Israel lobbied on many fronts, enlisting the help of ICC members and recruiting its greatest benefactor, Washington – which is not an ICC member – to bully the Court so it may reverse its decision.

On May 15, US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, warned the ICC against pursuing the investigation, targeting Bensouda, in particular, for her decision to hold war criminals in Palestine accountable.

The US slapped unprecedented sanctions against the ICC on June 11, with President Donald Trump issuing an ‘executive order’ that authorizes the freezing of assets and a travel ban against ICC officials and their families. The order also allows for the punishing of other individuals or entities that assist the ICC in its investigation.

Washington’s decision to carry out punitive measures against the very Court that was established for the sole purpose of holding war criminals accountable is both outrageous and abhorrent. It also exposes Washington’s hypocrisy – the country that claims to defend human rights is attempting to prevent legal accountability by those who have violated human rights.

Upon its failure to halt the ICC legal procedures regarding its investigation of war crimes, Israel began to prepare for the worst. On July 15, Israeli daily newspaper, Haaretz, reported about a ‘secret list’ that was drawn up by the Israeli government. The list includes “between 200 and 300 officials”, ranging from politicians to military and intelligence officials, who are subject to arrest abroad, should the ICC officially open the war crimes investigation.
Names begin at the top of the Israeli political pyramid, among them Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his current coalition partner, Benny Gantz.

The sheer number of Israeli officials on the list is indicative of the scope of the ICC’s investigation, and, somehow, is a self-indictment, as the names include former Israeli Defense Ministers – Moshe Ya’alon, Avigdor Lieberman and Naftali Bennett; current and former army chiefs of staffs – Aviv Kochavi, Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot and current and former heads of internal intelligence, the Shin Bet – Nadav Argaman and Yoram Cohen.

Respected international human rights organizations have already, repeatedly, accused all these individuals of serious human rights abuses during Israel’s lethal wars on the besieged Gaza Strip, starting with the so-called ‘Operation Cast Lead’ in 2008-9.

But the list is far more extensive, as it covers “people in much more junior positions, including lower-ranking military officers and, perhaps, even officials involved in issuing various types of permits to settlements and settlement outposts.”

Israel, thus, fully appreciates the fact that the international community still insists that the construction of illegal colonies in occupied Palestine, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the transfer of Israeli citizens to occupied land are all inadmissible under international law and tantamount to war crimes. Netanyahu must be disappointed to learn that all of Washington’s concessions to Israel under Trump’s presidency have failed to alter the position of the international community and the applicability of international law in any way.

Furthermore, it would not be an exaggeration to argue that Tel Aviv’s postponement of its plan to illegally annex nearly a third of the West Bank is directly linked to the ICC’s investigation, for the annexation would have completely thwarted Israel’s friends’ efforts aimed at preventing the investigation from ever taking place.

While the whole world, especially Palestinians, Arabs and their allies, still anxiously await the final decision by the Pre-Trial Chamber, Israel will continue its overt and covert campaign to intimidate the ICC and any other entity that aims to expose Israeli war crimes and to try Israeli war criminals.

Washington, too, will continue to strive to ensure Netanyahu, Gantz, and the “200 to 300” other Israeli officials never see their day in court.

However, the fact that a “secret list” exists is an indication that Tel Aviv understands that this era is different and that international law, which has failed Palestinians for over 70 years, may, for once, deliver, however a small measure of justice.

Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books. His latest is “These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons” (Clarity Press, Atlanta). Dr. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA), Istanbul Zaim University (IZU). His website is www.ramzybaroud.net


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* Zoals ook de oorlogsmisdaden van de VS en haar NAVO partners in voormalig Joegoslavië, niet werden vervolgd, terwijl Servië wel werd verolgd....... Voor het onderzoek van het ICC naar oorlogsmisdaden van de VS in Afghanistan zie: 'Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) stopt na bedreigingen met onderzoek naar VS oorlogsmisdaden.....' (en zie de links in dat bericht) en: 'VS wordt eindelijk aangeklaagd voor oorlogsmisdaden bij Internationaal Strafhof (ICC)'


Zie ook:
'Israël heeft afgelopen nacht de Gazastrook voor de vierde nacht op rij aangevallen met straaljagers, drones, helikopters en tanks' (terreurstaat Israel heeft dit meer dan een week lang volgehouden en dat tegen Palestijnse mensen die zitten opgesloten in een grote openluchtgevangenis.......)

'Mahmoud Nawajaa, een geweldloze Palestijnse activist om 3 uur 's nachts opgepakt door Israëlische militairen'

'Terwijl het aantal besmettingen op de West bank toeneemt, heeft Israël een Palestijns COVID-19 testcentrum vernietigd'

'Palestijnse volk wordt verdrukt met hulp van zionistische leugens'

'Israël vernielt een Palestijnse Coronavirus noodkliniek........'

'Puma beklaagt zich over een boycotoproep vanwege haar steun voor illegale Israëlische nederzettingen'

'Palestijnen en hun kinderen nog eens nageschopt door BBC's Stephen Sackur' (en zie de links in dat bericht, anders dan de hier getoonde)

''Deal of the Century' niet genoeg voor Israël dat dit meer dan belachelijke verdrag nu al schendt'

'Studente Mays wordt gemarteld in Israëlische gevangenis

'Trump en Netanyahu komen met 'vredesplan' voor Israël, waar de Palestijnen zoals gewoonlijk het nakijken hebben' ('Deal of the Century')

'Albert Einstein, één van de vooraanstaande Joden die al in 1948 grote vraagtekens bij de staat Israël zette'

'Israël wil Shuhada Street in Hebron vernietigen voor nieuwe Joodse nederzetting....'

'Israël gebruikt alweer nazi misdaden tegen het Palestijnse volk'

'Israëlische rechter wijst directeur Human Rights Watch het totaal absurde 'democratische' land uit'

'Israël steelt Palestijnse grond, als 'vergoeding krijgen' Palestijnen traangas, made in USA'

'Mike Pompeo (VS minister van BuZa): nederzettingen op de West Bank gaan niet per se in tegen internationale rechtsregels'

'Een volk dat leeft onder bezetting heeft het recht gewapend verzet te plegen, ook het Palestijnse volk' Je zou zelfs kunnen zeggen dat een ieder die onder illegale bezetting leeft, de plicht heeft verzet te plegen, denk daarbij ook aan de nazi-Duitse bezetting van Nederland tijdens WOII >> de link naar dat bericht op Facebook werd door deze organisatie eerder geblokkeerd....

'Al wat nog over is zijn hun schooluniformen: Israël vermoordt 8 Palestijnen'

'"Israël heeft afgelopen nacht in de Gazastrook opnieuw luchtaanvallen uitgevoerd op terreurorganisatie Islamitische Jihad..." ahum....'

'Palestijnse kinderen hebben recht op leven, vrij van onrecht en onderdrukking'

'Israël: het vormen van een kabinet zou al lang rond zijn als de grootste Palestijnse politieke partij een kans zou krijgen mee te regeren'

'Jackie Walker, een joods journalist, spreekt over de met beschuldigingen van antisemitisme gevoede heksenjacht op Labour en haarzelf' (ook van belang voor dit bericht)

'Israëlische 'Friends Tweet' komt als een boemerang terug met de gruwelen die Israël begaat tegen het verdrukte Palestijnse volk'

'Israël valt doelen aan in Libanon, Syrië en Irak >> oorlogsmisdaden, zonder één woord van kritiek uit het westen'

zaterdag 15 augustus 2020

Israël heeft afgelopen nacht de Gazastrook voor de vierde nacht op rij aangevallen met straaljagers, drones, helikopters en tanks

Voor de vierde nacht op rij heeft de Israël de Gazastrook aangevallen, volgen Israël zijn doelen van Hamas aangevallen, dit vanwege het 'lanceren van ballonnen' uit de Gazastrook die branden zouden hebben veroorzaakt aan de Israëlische kant van de barrière die Israël heeft opgeworpen tussen 'haar land' en getto (openluchtgevangenis) Gazastrook...... De Israëlische aanvallen worden uitgevoerd met straaljagers, gevechtshelikopters, drones en tanks...

Israel attacks Gaza Strip from air, land for 2nd night in row ...

Volgens Palestijnse bronnen werden veel meer doelen aangevallen dan alleen van Hamas, zoals de al zeer spaarzame hoeveelheid landbouwgrond, woonhuizen en een school van de VN, waar een onontplofte raket werd gevonden...... Heb overigens geen atikelen gevonden die over dodelijke slachtoffers spreken.

Afgelopen donderdag heeft Israël de levering van brandstof aan de Gazastrook stilgelegd, in feite een misdaad tegen de menselijkheid als je nagaat dat de temperaturen daar 30 graden Celsius of hoger zijn en men door een tekort aan brandstof geen airco's en ventilatoren kan gebruiken*. Het was overigens al zo dat men in de Gazastrook dagelijks een paar uur de beschikking had over elektriciteit, waar dit nu nog verder wordt beknot...... (de Palestijnen zijn afhankelijk van brandstof- en elektriciteitsleveringen uit Israël, nadat het Israelische leger een grote energiecentrale heeft vernietigd, een oorlogsmisdaad van 'formaat', daarnaast valt Israel regelmatig plekken aan waar generatoren draaien voor enrgieleveringen)

Ongelofelijk dat er op de nationale radiozenders hier, in Duitsland en in Groot-Brittannië de laatste dagen geen aandacht is voor de Israëlische aanvallen op de Gazastrook....... Dezelfde mediaorganen die elke kritiek op Israël afdoen als antisemitisme.......

De werkloosheid in de Gazastrook is enorm hoog en de frustratie is groot over de al jaren durende Israëlische blokkade van de Gazastrook..... Niet vreemd dus dat bijvoorbeeld jongeren ballonnen en vliegers gebruiken om Israëliërs te laten weten dat men niet lijdzaam toeziet hoe het Palestijnse volk in de Gazastrook wordt behandeld als dieren door de eerste beste dierenbeul uit de intensieve martelveehouderij...*  

Bij vooral geweldloze protesten de laatste jaren aan de grens met Israël, NB op Palestijns grondgebied, heeft het Israelische leger een enorm aantal Palestijnen vermoord, inclusief kinderen, duidelijk zichtbare medisch hulpverleners en journalisten......

Als het Syrische bewind op een degelijke manier met een minderheid zou omgaan was de wereld te klein geweest voor de enorme verontwaardiging die dit in het westen teweeg zou brengen en zou men de (illegale) sancties tegen dat land verder aanscherpen, blijkbaar ziet men in het westen Palestijnen niet als mensen...... 

Het volende artikel werd eerder gepubliceerd op Geopolitics Alert:

Israel Launches Air and Ground Attacks Against Gaza Strip Second Night in Row

By: Almasirah On: August 13, 2020


Gaza City (AMA) – The Israeli military has launched aerial and ground attacks against targets across the Gaza Strip for the second night in a row, while Tel Aviv tightens its grip on the blockaded territory’s fishing activities and fuel imports.
It claimed in a statement that warplanes, attack helicopters, and tanks struck a number of positions belonging to the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, which runs the territory, early Thursday.

Reports coming out of Gaza and videos of the strikes that circulated online, however, showed residential buildings and agricultural land have also been hit.

Gaza-based media said the strikes hit targets across the Gaza Strip from Rafah in the southern part of the occupied territory to Beit Hanoun in the north.

The Israeli military said the strikes were in response to the launch of incendiary balloons from Gaza over the past several days.

According to the report, dozens of balloon-borne devices were launched into southern parts of the occupied territories on Tuesday and Wednesday, igniting over 80 fires.

Flying fiery kites and balloons has become a new mode of protests by Gazans since March 2018, when the Tel Aviv regime began a crackdown against anti-occupation demonstrations near the fence separating Gaza from the Israeli-occupied land, killing and injuring many people.

Israel, however, blames the launch of incendiary balloons on Hamas.
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* We weten na de 'lange hittegolf' hier wat dit betekent, een hittegolf die in de Gazastrook heel normaal is en veel langer aanhoudt....... Het is dan ook een feit dat als hier, in de Gazastrook veel ouderen en zwakke mensen sterven ten gevolge van zo'n veel langere hittegolf, ofwel met het afknijpen van brandstof- en elektriciteitsleveringen, vermoordt Israel Palestijnse mensen...... 

donderdag 13 augustus 2020

Human Rights Watch liegt er weer eens op los: moedige Cubaanse artsen die o.a. het Coronavirus elders bestrijden zouden slaven zijn

Te schandalig voor woorden: Human Rights Watch (HRW) dat de laatste jaren al menig leugen in de media bracht, zoals leugens over de situatie in Syrië en in Latijns-Amerikaanse landen die niet aan de hand van het Vierde Rijk (de VS) wensen te lopen, komt nu met de smerige leugen dat de moedige Cubaanse artsen die meer dan 60 jaar lang in 164 landen arme mensen medisch hebben geholpen, slaven zouden zijn van de Cubaanse overheid.........

Met haar leugens en optredens in de media steunt HRW de ongebreidelde VS terreur en speelt daarmee de oorlogsmisdadige Trump administratie in de kaart, anders gezegd HRW maakt de weg vrij voor de VS om elders in te grijpen en is daarmee een oorlogshitser van formaat!! Bovendien 'rechtvaardigt' HRW met haar leugens de vreselijke terreur die de VS op de volkeren van diverse landen doet neerdalen.......

Op basis van leugens demoniseert HRW de Cubaanse overheid, geen flinter aan bewijs, maar als je iets maar lang genoeg herhaalt geloven vooral mensen die zich niet verdiepen in wat er gebeurt over de wereld, wat HRW hen voorschotelt, 'immers HRW is toch een mensenrechtenorganisatie en waarom zou zo'n organisatie liegen??? Simpel: HRW is een van de duizenden organisaties op gebied van mensenrechten, met één groot verschil: het is als Amnesty International een grote organisatie die een loodzware top heeft wat betreft het inkomen en deze organisaties graaien maar wat graag subsidies binnen van regeringen die hen welgevallig zijn, in dit geval de VS Trump administratie...... En tja, 'dat is wel een leugentje waard....' 

Nobel for Cuban doctors campaign launch! | National Network on Cuba
Cubaanse artsen die zich ook inzetten voor de bestrijding van het Coronavirus 

Je zal HRW dan ook niet horen over de sancties van de VS tegen Cuba en Venezuela, die in het laatste land al aan bijna 50.000 mensen het leven hebben gekost, ofwel deze mensen zijn vermoord met sancties (gesteund door de EU en daarmee in feite door ons....) waardoor voedsel, medicijnen en medische apparatuur niet of zeer moeilijk zijn te krijgen..... Het is als een middeleeuwse belegering van een stad, waar men de bevolking uithongerde in de hoop op overgave, of dat men zo verzwakt raakte dat weerstand tegen een aanval bijna niet meer mogelijk was..... Tegenwoordig noemen we dat een zware misdaad tegen de menselijkheid en in feite een uiterst grove schending van mensenrechten en dat interesseert Human Right Watch geen ene zier, terwijl het grootste deel van haar naam bestaat uit de Engelse vertaling van wat wij mensenrechten noemen!!!! 

Vergeet naast het voorgaande niet dat sancties en blokkades ten koste gaan van de volksgezondheid in het land dat slachtoffer is van deze westerse terreur (onder leiding van de VS, de grootste terreurentiteit ter wereld) en dat ten tijde van de Coronacrisis....... (terwijl bekend is dat m.n. verzwakte mensen het slachtoffer worden van het virus....)

Lees en teken de petitie ajb, waarmee van HRW wordt geëist haar leugens over de Cubaanse artsen in te trekken. Bij Zipcode moet je dan je volledige adres weergeven, uiteraard met de toevoeging 'Netherlands' en geeft het door!!

Lof voor de Cubaanse artsen!! (en boycot geldinzamelingsacties van Human Rights Watch!!)

Who watches Human Rights Watch?

Leonardo, CODEPINK

Tell HRW to retract its flawed report about Cuba’s medical missions!

Human Rights Watch published a misleading, error-filled report about Cuba’s medical missions that plays into the hands of the Trump administration’s campaign to label these brave doctors as slaves. Tell HRW to retract its report!

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a misleading, error-filled report about Cuba’s medical missions, calling them “repressive” and asking governments receiving the doctors to “press for change.” Yes, these are the same missions for which Cuban doctors have volunteered to give poor people medical attention in 164 countries over the past 60 years, and that are now fighting COVID-19 in nearly 40 countries. 

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HRW presents itself as a global leader in the defense of human rights, yet it has a history of pushing for regime change and sanctions against Latin American countries. Let HRW know that they are being watched, that their work has been fact checked and that we won’t stand for a “human rights” organization that maligns an inspiring medical program that is saving lives all over the world. 

The report distorts some of the rules governing the missions, uses flawed sources and relies on a tiny sample size of disgruntled professionals to draw generalized conclusions of the medical mission program as a whole. The report has been thoroughly refuted by an analysis from the Organizing Committee of the Nobel for Cuban Doctors Campaign that also calls out HRW for ignoring the biggest violation of the human rights of Cubans: the illegal blockade imposed by the U.S. since 1960. 

HRW has shamefully joined in on a campaign led by the Trump administration and his Republican allies, Senators Marco Rubio, Rick Scott and Ted Cruz, to demonize this amazing example of international solidarity. The medical professionals who work in Cuba’s medical missions are volunteers and get a salary boost when they go abroad. To characterize them as victims of human trafficking is to ignore the deep humanism that moves many of them. It is shameful that HRW would publish a flawed report that seeks to pressure countries for receiving Cuban aid in the middle of a pandemic!

CODEPINK is proud to be part of a coalition that wants to nominate Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade (HRIMB) for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. That is why we were so incensed to read a report with so many errors and misrepresentations. The full rebuttal to this report is available on the Cuba Nobel website, click here to read it. 

In solidarity,
Leonardo, Michelle, Teri and Medea

P.S. There are two great webinars coming up that you won’t want to miss. On this week’s WTF webinar, airing Wednesday at 12pm ET, Teri Mattson will interview Carlos Lazo - an doctor who just biked 3,000 miles to build bridges of love between Cuba and the US. 

On Tuesday, August 18, at 7 pm ET, Leonardo Flores will be joined by Dr. Adrienne Pine and human rights lawyer Dan Kovalik to discuss the latest in the plot to overthrow the Venezuelan government. Click here to register!
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