Uns historia de dos terrorismos

Gracias a Omar Arach por el envío.
http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/the-boston-marathon-and-u-s-drone-attacks-a-tale-of-two-terrorisms/

Israelíes en huelga de hambre a favor de Samer Issawi

firmar apoyo

http://www.causes.com/actions/1746588-israelis-on-hunger-strike-for-issawi?utm_campaign=activity_mailer%2Fcustom_activity_mail&utm_medium=email&utm_source=causes&token=ATdIZrHPNZagWT8avLV6bH2m

Carta de Samer Issawi a los israelíes, tras 8 meses consecutivos de huelga de hambre

http://hyas.ps/en/index.php/en/k2-category/palestinian-affairs/item/148-hunger-speech-by-samer-issawi

Regreso a clases en Gaza

Gracias a Inés Westphalen por el envío
 http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/885427.html

Otra nota sobre el arresto de los 27 niños

Gracias a Eduardo Mosches por el envío

http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=cf2b03c2e5&id=bd77dc22c3&e=d4ed2840ab

Niños de segundo grado de primaria de Hebron: detenidos.

La mamá de Ahmed Abu Rimaileh, de 8 años, le había encargado llevarle algo a su abuelo.
Nota de Guideon Levy y Alex Levac
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/twilight-zone/aged-eight-wearing-a-mickey-mouse-sweatshirt-and-placed-in-israeli-custody.premium-1.512461

AIC Fotos: niños de Gaza protestaron ante la visita de Obama

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/features/up-close/6156-photos-gaza-kids-protest-on-eve-of-obama-visit-

Reporte de UNICEF sobre maltrato a niños palestinos

Gracias a Inés Westphalen por el envío.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/14-3

Traducción en http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=165325

Testimonio de Sheikh Jarrah, asedio y solidaridad

Gracias a Inés Westphalem por el envío.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/mar/17/my-neighbourhood-palestinian-israeli-video

Exposición de fotos sobre la vida en Gaza, Tanya Habjouqa

http://mashallahnews.com/?p=9574

In memoriam: Akiva Orr

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/

Miles protestan en Gaza por la detención de Arafat Jaradat

sospechoso de tirar piedras durante el ataque israelí de 2008-2009...
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/features/6017-photos-thousands-in-gaza-protest-death-of-arafat-jaradat.html

De Uri Avnery sobre la imposición de que los religiosos ortodoxos se enrolen en el ejército

Gracias a Eduardo Mosches por el envío

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1361400972/

en hebreo:
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/he/channels/avnery/1361400403/

Shovrim shtikah: fotos 2003-2013

Traducción: Durante la última jornada miles de personas, en Israel y en el mundo, vieron la foto "compartida" que se encuentra a la derecha: un soldado israelí apuntó su arma contra un niño, lo fotografió y subió la imagen en instagram. En unas cuantas horas la foto se difundió ampliamente en las redes sociales, mientras más y más personas se rebelan contra una manifestación semejante, en la que un ser humano puede apuntar un arma contra un niño sólo para hacer algo "gracioso" y subirla a la red. La foto de la izquierda fue tomada por soldados en Hebrón en 2003 y fue exhibida por "Shovrim shtikah" (rompiendo el silencio), También allí un soldado israelí apuntó su arma contra un niño y lo fotografió con su cámara personal como recuerdo: un gesto que proviene de un sentimiento de poder infinito relacionado con el dominio sobre otro pueblo. Pasaron 10 años. Los artefactos y las aflicciones cambiaron, los sistemas para compartir fotos cambiaron. La sensación de poder extendida (diseminada) y el desprecio punzante por la vida humana y el respeto del ser humano permanecen.
Así se ve la ocupación, así se se veía hace una década y así se ve hoy. Así se ve el dominio militar sobre una población civil.

ביממה האחרונה צפו אלפי אנשים, בישראל ובעולם, 

בשיתופים של התמונה מימין: חייל ישראלי כיוון נשק אל ילד, צילם והעלה לאינסטגרם.

 

תוך כמה שעות הצילום הגיע לתפוצה רחבה בכל הרשתות החברתיות, כשעוד ועוד אנשים מתקוממים כנגד מפגן הכח הזה, שבו אדם מסוגל לכוון נשק אל ילד רק כדי לעשות "קטע" ולהעלות לרשת.
התמונה משמאל צולמה על ידי חיילים בחברון ב-2003 והוצגה בתערוכה הראשונה של "שוברים שתיקה". גם שם, חייל ישראלי כיוון נשק אל ילד וצילם במצלמתו האישית למזכרת, מחווה של תחושת כוח אינוספית שקשורה בשליטה על עם אחר.
עשר שנים עברו. המכשירים והאפליקציות השתנו, המערכות לשיתוף תמונות השתנו.
תחושת הכוח המופרזת והזילזול הבוטה בחיי אדם ובכבוד האדם נשארו.

ככה נראה כיבוש, כך הוא נראה לפני עשור וכך הוא נראה היום. ככה נראית שליטה צבאית על אוכלוסיה אזרחית

El fotógrafo sueco Paul Hansen gana el World Press Photo

Gracias a Inés Westphalen por el envío
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2013/02/15/actualidad/1360920399_506600.html

De la UACM contra el antisemitismo

Gracias a Eduardo Mosches por el envío.

El pasado 22 de enero, el Posgrado en Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, y el colectivo Palestina ya, llevaron a cabo un acto  en solidaridad con el pueblo palestino en la sede Del Valle de la UACM.En dicho acto, una de las integrantes del público, Raquel Rodríguez –, no se desempeña como profesora en nuestra institución- expresó irresponsablemente que “el holocausto fue una gran mentira. Si hubieran matado a seis millones de judíos ya tendríamos la suerte de que no hubiera judíos en este planeta”. La afirmación, además de falsa, es antisemita y tiene que ser rechazada de manera contundente: el odio hacia los judíos, no es una forma cualquiera de racismo; es el antecedente directo de la ignominia nazi.

No hay antisemitismo en las declaraciones de nuestros colegas del Posgrado y rechazamos las calumnias de que han sido objeto. Nos parece, sin embargo, que no fueron suficientemente claros en deslindarse de la señora Rodríguez. El sionismo, por lo menos en sus tendencias dominantes, es una práctica colonial en perjuicio del pueblo palestino. Pero sionismo no es sinónimo de judaísmo.

La negación del exterminio de millones de judíos es una ideología de extrema derecha que en nada ayuda a la causa palestina, sino que, más bien, favorece a los gobernantes de Israel. Repudiamos todos los colonialismos y todos los racismos. Denunciamos, por tanto, cualquier acto de masacre contra los seres humanos: contra los palestinos, por supuesto, pero también contra los judíos, contra los esclavos africanos, contra los indígenas de América, en fin, hacia demás oprimidos de la tierra.

Suscita hilaridad que la rectora Orozco, a quien la Comisión de Derechos Humanos del DF acusa de implementar políticas xenofóbicas, afirme ahora que “la xenofobia es deplorable” lanzando acusaciones estrafalarias contra “el grupo parista”. Rechazamos este nuevo intento de criminalizar a nuestro movimiento e invitamos a la opinión pública a no dejarse confundir.

Manuel Aguilar Mora, Claudio Albertani, Jesús Anaya, Juan Blejer, Mariana Elkisch, Francesca Gargallo, Adriana González Mateos, John Hazard, Auxilio Heredia, David Huerta, Daniel Maisner, Eduardo Mosches, Javier Marmolejo, Fabiana Medina, Norma Mogrovejo, Daniela Rawicz, Ana Zoebisch.

Entrevista a Lev Grinberg en Página 12

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elmundo/4-213180-2013-02-04.html

de Alon Ben-Meir

PERPETUATING HISTORIC VICTIMHOOD BREEDS NEW VICTIMS Jan 23, 2013 Even a cursory review of the Israeli and Palestinian political landscape conspicuously and sadly reveals the overall self-resignation and apathy expressed by many on both sides, strongly suggesting that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simply beyond resolution. The sorry truth is that while polls consistently show that a majority of Israelis and Palestinians believe that only the co-existence of two independent states offers a viable solution, they still refuse to divorce themselves from a deep sense of victimhood. Both parties continue to define themselves as historic victims, and to nourish a kind of vicarious victimhood which ultimately serves to justify the policies and goals they pursue, however counterproductive they may be to a solution. The genocide perpetrated during the Holocaust was surely something new in history: never before had a powerful state turned its immense resources to the industrialized manufacturing of corpses; never before had the extermination of an entire people been carried out with the swiftness of an assembly line. The question, however, is: does the Jewish people’s unprecedented historical suffering somehow transform them from “victims” to “Victims,” guaranteeing them, and by extension the State of Israel, an unconditional status of moral untouchability? The French philosopher Alain Badiou is right to suggest that we need to question the presumption “that, like an inverted original sin, the grace of having been an incomparable victim can be passed down not only to descendants and to the descendants of descendants but to all who come under the predicate in question, be they heads of state or armies engaging in the severe oppression of those whose lands they have confiscated.” The Israelis’ sense of being Victims has led to a lack of empathy towards the Palestinians’ plight. It has further manifested itself through the usurpation of Palestinian land and a shirking of Israeli responsibility toward the refugee problem, all the while promoting self-righteousness. Israelis who would continue occupying land belonging to a future Palestinian state must realize that we do not and cannot honor the dead when we use their memory, and what they suffered, to dishonor and disinherit the living. For the Palestinians, the experience of the Nakba (the “catastrophe”), precipitated by the 1948 war, was no less calamitous. From their perspective, they were living for centuries in their own land and are absolutely convinced that during the 1948 war, they were forced out of their homes by Israelis– a tragedy that has lasted for decades and which they continue to endure to this day, leaving an indelible impression on their psyche. This traumatic experience has served to bind Palestinians together in the same way that the Jews coalesced following the Holocaust, with each side believing that their tragic historical experiences are unparalleled in scope and magnitude. The Palestinians, as a result, have hardly made any serious effort to appreciate the psychological implications of the Jews’ historical experience. They have either denied the Holocaust altogether, or bemoaned that if it did happen they should not be held responsible or pay any price for the Jews’ historic tragedy—an attitude reinforced by Israel’s building of settlements on their land. Israelis and Palestinians alike (especially those who, like Hamas, seek the destruction of Israel) must become more self-critical in their use of victimhood; both sides need to realize that neither has a monopoly on the position of “the victim,” and neither is granted a morally unimpeachable status as a consequence of their historical experiences or the changed reality on the ground. Israel’s national security concerns, however legitimate, have been used as an excuse for the expropriation of land and expanding the settlements under the guise of creating defensible borders. Successive Israeli governments continue to occupy Palestinian territory and by its own actions offers no sign that the occupation will end any time soon, thereby denying the Palestinians not only a contiguous land mass but also the right to live in freedom and dignity. The Palestinians too (Hamas in particular) must understand that their belief in some day recapturing all of Palestine is an illusion, as is the return of nearly 5 million Palestinian refugees (since that would mean the obliteration of Israel through demographics). Such hopes then cannot be fulfilled if the Palestinians want to coexist peacefully and forsake the use of violence to achieve their political objectives. Neither side’s sense of victimhood can be mitigated by reverting to their historical experiences. It is this state of mind that continues to haunt the majority in both camps while allowing the extremist minority to manipulate the conflict in order to stifle any progress. Together, these sentiments and mindsets inherently endure, particularly when reinforced by Israeli and Palestinian officials’ public narrative that openly promotes the rejection of the other’s claim and rights. Perhaps this explains why Israeli and Palestinian leadership have devised policies and made demands that the other could not accept without abandoning decades-old self-serving political agendas (however skewed) to justify their actions. Moreover, being that Israel and the Palestinians are politically factional, coupled with the lack of visionary and courageous leaders around which they can coalesce, there is little hope that their current leadership, which has lost its moral compass, can change course and accept not only each other’s reality but each other’s rights. For these reasons, the task must now fall on the shoulders of the silent majority in both camps; it is they who must leave complacency behind, go out to the streets by the hundreds of thousands, loudly and clearly proclaim that enough is enough and that the conflict must come to an end. The time has come for the Israeli and Palestinian masses to engage in collective civil disobedience, lasting as long as it takes to force the leadership in both camps to change course and seek a peaceful solution to the conflict. This means, of course, that both sides must break with the mechanical way of reacting to injury or harm; namely, by nursing the hurt and resolving to hurt the other in return. Palestinians and Israelis must forsake, once and for all, this logic of revenge, which insists on holding on to the hurt (the sense of victimhood) and in refusing to let it go traps us in the past. If revenge involves taking a bit of the past and letting it determine our future, in effect we have no future; the success, then, of non-violent resistance absolutely rests on its peaceful nature. The smallest violent incident distracts from the purpose of the message and allows extremists on both sides to exploit such incidents to their advantage. Although civil disobedience must not be limited to women, imagine the impact that tens of thousands of Israeli and Palestinian women demonstrating in every major city will have domestically and internationally. The women who no longer want to see their young children die in vain or deprived of a bright future only to serve a blind cause that has long since lost not only its merit but has been rendered morally bankrupt. Although civil disobedience is essential, it may well be that the Israelis and the Palestinians can no longer resolve their conflict on their own and need an outside power or powers to mediate, pressure, coerce or even threaten both parties to change course before it’s too late. The United States, which has a tremendous stake in the Middle East and enjoys great influence on Israel and the Palestinians, remains pivotal to helping them reach an agreement. Led by Germany, UK and France, the European Union is already preparing a proposal that provides the basis for the immediate resumption of peace negotiations. Outside powers, particularly the US, will have far more leeway and justification to push for a peace plan when tens of thousands of Israelis and Palestinians are on the street demanding the same. Indeed, unless the people who are paying with their own blood, who are making the sacrifices and suffering for it; the fathers and mothers who want their children to grow up in peace, who seek a better future, better prospects and an opportunity to prosper and flourish; those who want to chart their own destiny; they, all, Israelis and Palestinians alike, have the inherent right to dream, hope and live in peace. The United States must support collective acts of civil disobedience by making every effort to facilitate peace. This is what the Israeli and Palestinian silent majority needs and hopes for, but they must first do their share by going to the streets and making their voices heard. The continuation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is now creating a third generations of victims—not the victims of the Holocaust or the victims of el-Nakba but the victims of misguided leaders. So-called leaders, like Prime Minister Netanyahu (who may well form the next government and continue to lead the Israelis astray), are bringing them ever closer to the precipice-- he and his like on the Palestinian side, such as Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh, must be stopped by the public outcry to head off a potentially catastrophic development.

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Novela gráfica y cómic

Gracias a Inés Westphalen por los envíos

Crónicas de Jerusalén
 (ed atisberri 2012)

Novela gráfica del dibujante canadiense Guy Delisle sobre Jerusalén, su vida allí y el eterno conflicto entre Israel y Palestina. Leer a Guy Delisle tiene la mágica recompensa de trasladarnos de primera mano a una zona y poder conocer esas pequeñas situaciones que acontecen en el día a día. La mirada de Delisle va acompañada de una mezcla entre la realidad del lugar y de sus gentes con la experiencia que tienen tanto él como su familia viviendo en un país extranjero. La combinación entre los dibujos y el texto hace siempre imprescindible y extraordinaria la obra de Delisle .

Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, originally published in French asChroniques de Jérusalem, is a graphic novel  written and illustrated by Guy Delisle

Otra:

ítulo: Palestina: en la franja de Gaza
Autores: Joe Sacco
Edita: Planeta-DeAgostini Comics.
Formato: Obra completa. Tomo tapa dura con sobrecubierta, 304 pgs b/n. Colección Trazado.
Info: Incluye un extenso prólogo (5 pgs) de Edward Said, profesor de literatura comparada en la Universidad de Columbia y autor de varios libros relacionados con el conflicto palestino, así como un breve prólogo del autor (1 pág.). 

Autobiográfico. Joe Sacco, periodista de profesión, nos narra en forma de cómic el viaje de dos meses que hizo a Palestina durante el invierno de 1991-92, durante la primera intifada contra la ocupación israelí. A modo de "diario de viaje", Sacco nos muestra la situación que encontró en la zona y los testimonios de la gente que conoció, mostrando en sus viñetas el miedo, la tristeza, la frustación, la desesperación e incluso, a pesar de todo, la esperanza de los que viven allí.

La obra ha atraido la atención de círculos ajenos al mundo del cómic, como lo demuestra que en 1996 fuera galardonada con uno de los prestigiosos American Book Awards y que este 2002 (de nuevo de actualidad por el recrudecimiento del conflicto en Palestina) haya recibido el premio a la Mejor Novela Gráfica en la Book Expo America. 

(Palestine is a graphic novel written and drawn by Joe Sacco about his experiences in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in December 1991 and January 1992.)

de Juan Gelman sobre el odio a los judíos negros en Israel

http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/contratapa/13-212234-2013-01-20.html