Source : Rebelion | 12 April 2012

¿Por qué no hay compasión para los palestinos?
Tariq Ali
CounterPunch
Traducido del inglés para Rebelión por Germán Leyens

El escritor alemán Günter Grass (El tambor de hojalata) ya había predicho la reacción a su poema en Süddeutsche Zeitung . No hay motivo para sorprenderse, pero hay todos los motivos para disgustarse. Dentro de Alemania tanto la elite como una capa de la población, por sus palabras y acciones, parecen haber aceptado la ignominiosa tesis de Goldhagen por la cual todos los alemanes son culpables de los crímenes del Tercer Reich. Ahora esa tesis se ha llevado más lejos: todos los alemanes son culpables de aquí a la eternidad de los crímenes del Tercer Reich.

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Source : Rebelion | 08 April 2012

Desde la cárcel, Marwan Barghouti llama al pueblo palestino a la confrontación pacífica y decidida contra el poder sionista

Uri Avnery
zope.gush-shalom.org
Traducido para Rebelión por LB

Marwan Barghouti ha hablado. Tras un largo silencio ha enviado un mensaje desde la cárcel.

Para los oídos israelíes su mensaje no suena agradable, pero para los palestinos y los árabes en general tiene sentido.

Su mensaje puede convertirse perfectamente en el nuevo programa del movimiento de liberación palestino.

Conocí a Marwan en el período de apogeo del optimismo post-Oslo. Por aquel entonces se estaba convirtiendo en un líder de la nueva generación Palestina, constituida por jóvenes activistas formados dentro de la propia Palestina, hombres y mujeres que habían madurado en la primera Intifada.

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Source : Gara | 05 April 2012

OCUPACIÓN DE PALESTINALa Organización para la Liberación de Palestina (OLP), negó haber reiniciado las conversaciones de paz con Israel en Ammán, como han difundido hoy medios jordanos.

AMMAN-. "No se han reiniciado conversaciones de ningún tipo. (El jefe negociador de al Autoridad Palestina [ANP], Saeb) Erekat no estuvo ayer en Jordania y no ha mantenido ningún encuentro con (el jefe negociador israelí, Isaac) Moljo ni allí ni en ningún otro lado", ha asegurado a Efe Xavier Abu Eid, portavoz de la OLP en Ramallah.

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Source : Murad Tamimi | 01 February 2012

One door opens in the narrow roads can take you to multiple houses belonging to many families

وأنت تعود إلى البيت ,, بيتك،، فكر بغيرك

لا تنس شعب الخيام

وأنت تنام وتحصي الكواكب،، فكر بغيرك

ثمة من لم يجد حيز للمنام،

"محمود درويش"

‏When you are coming back to your home, think of the others

‏Don’t forget the camp people

‏When you are sleeping and counting stars think of others

‏There are people don’t have place to sleep

Mahmoud Darwish

When we study the modern architectural models, full of all excitement and suspense elements, where all the modern planning theory are applied, where there are important green areas, surrounded by home-gardens, models which are so suitable environmentally, we always got confusing answers about the size of the people belonging for the place. Therefore many times we found that citizens of the modern sustainable cities don’t belong very well for these spaces, and they have major problems in their ability to fully integrate there. On the other hand when we take a look to places where poverty, deprivation and suffering reign, we are totally surprised by the ability of the people there: they belong to those places fully.


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Source : Today's Zaman | 15 December 2011

AP, RAMALLAH
Vandals set fire to another mosque in the West Bank on Thursday and defaced it with Hebrew graffiti. Suspicion fell on Jewish extremists widely assumed to be behind stepped-up violence against Palestinians and the Israeli military.
The governor of Ramallah, Laila Ghanam, said arsonists doused the mosque in the village of Burqa with gasoline, then set it afire.
The Hebrew words for "war" and "Mitzpe Yitzhar" were painted in red on a wall, and the Israeli military said carpets and chairs were burned.
Mitzpe Yitzhar is an unauthorized Jewish settlement outpost in the West Bank where Israeli security forces demolished two structures early Thursday.
In recent years, settlers have attacked Palestinian and Israeli military targets in retaliation for Israeli government operations they see as overly sympathetic to Palestinians.

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Source : Hürriyet Daily News | 13 December 2011

PARIS - Agence France-Presse
 

Palestinians wave their national flag in front of the headquarters of UNESCO during a march to mark the 1947 UN partition plan for Palestine, which led to the creation of the state of Israel, on November 29, 2011 during the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. AFP Photo
The Palestinian flag was raised for the first time on Tuesday above a UN agency, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, in a diplomatic victory won despite stiff resistance from the US and Israel.
President Mahmud Abbas looked on as the flag was raised and the Palestinian anthem played, just weeks after Palestine won admission to UNESCO in move that sparked fury and reprisals from Washington and Israel.
"President Abbas wants to show the importance he attaches to UNESCO," a Palestinian diplomat said ahead of the ceremony. "And this is the first time that the flag will be flown at the headquarters of a UN institution." UNESCO said the flag-hoisting was a symbolic ceremony "to mark Palestine's admission to the organisation" that takes place each time a new member joins.

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Source : Rebelion | 21 November 2011

Rashad Abu Shawer
Al-Quds al-Arabi
Traducción del árabe de Antonio Martínez Castro

En mi primera visita a la República Popular y Democrática de Yemen, después de aterrizar el avión del ALYEMDA (Democratic Yemen Airlines) en el aeropuerto internacional de Adén y de un duro viaje desde Damasco pasando por Kuwait que duró muchas horas, el afecto que le teníamos a la RPD de Yemen, que la izquierda árabe mimaba y llamaba la “Cuba árabe”, hizo que no nos sintiéramos cansados. Tras el caluroso recibimiento de los camaradas del Partido Socialista, que tratan siempre a los invitados con generosidad y hospitalidad inolvidables, me llamó la atención la densidad de cuervos por el cielo y por la tierra a las afueras del aeropuerto.
Al dejar el hotel con nuestro acompañante yemení, me asombré aún más con el impresionante despliegue de cuervos que te sorprendía allá donde pusieses los ojos, en el cielo, en la tierra, planeando sobre las cimas de las negras montañas volcánicas cuyos bordes, rocosos, afilados, brillantes como el cristal, inspiraban temor.

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Source : alakhbar english | 18 November 2011

 
(Photo: Toufic Haddad)

By: Toufic Haddad

After 33 years in captivity, Fakhri Barghouti returned to his people and his family as part of the Gilad Shalit deal last month. He shared with al-Akhbar the painful memories of a lifetime of loss, struggle, hope, and defiance.

Toufic Haddad: How did you get involved in the national movement? What were the motivating factors in your life that led to this life choice?
Fakhri Barghouti: No one starts off being a national devotee. It’s not like this is something that comes pre-packaged, but is rather something that takes place slowly with the accumulation of experience as one’s individual awareness of life under occupation comes into focus.
The first thing that planted a seed in my head was the death of my brother Ribhi [Ribhi was one of the Palestinian fedayeen based in Lebanon and died in events known as the Battle of Arqoub in 1970.] At the time, he had made plans to marry a woman from our village. On the night of her sending off, we held a wedding celebration for her, because most of us in the village would not be able to attend the actual wedding, and our house was busy preparing festivities for her departure.
I was 16 at the time. Around dusk, a vegetable vendor came by the village in his truck with the bad news, but saw that a wedding was taking place. Ashamed to approach our family directly, he went instead to a relative’s house next door, and told them that our brother had been killed, and that the wedding should be stopped. There was no point in the bride going across the bridge to Jordan the next day, as her groom was dead.
To this day this experience is etched in my memory: my sister noticed that the neighbors were not acting normally, and persisted in whispering amongst themselves. She approached them and was about to ask what had happened, and they took note and approached her instead. It was then that she realized that they knew it was something to do with our family, with one of the women eventually plucking up the courage to tell her.

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Source : Al Jazeera | 08 November 2011

Two boats of solidarity activists on their way to Gaza were intercepted by the Israeli navy in international waters
Robert Naiman and Medea Benjamin

Israel blockades Gaza's borders, as well as controlling the territory's coastline and airspace [GALLO/GETTY]

Two boats full of courageous passengers were on their way to Gaza when they were intercepted by the Israeli military in international waters on Friday, November 4.
We call the passengers courageous because they sailed from Turkey on November 2 with the knowledge that, at any moment they might be boarded by Israeli commandos intent on stopping them - perhaps violently, as the Israeli military did in 2010 when they killed nine humanitarian aid workers on the Turkish boat named Mavi Marmara.
The boats - one from Canada and one from Ireland - were carrying 27 passengers, including press and peace activists from Ireland, Canada, the United States, Australia and Palestine. They were unarmed, and the Israeli military knew that. They were simply peace activists wanting to connect with civilians in Gaza, and the Israeli military knew that. Yet naked aggression was used against them in international waters - something that is normally considered an act of piracy.

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Source : Al Jazeera | 03 November 2011

Israeli navy says it will stop two boats carrying pro-Palestinian activists from reaching blockaded territory

Israel has announced that its navy will attempt to stop two boats carrying pro-Palestinian activists bound for the Gaza Strip, in the latest attempt by activists to break the four-year Israeli blockade against the territory.
The Israeli military spokesman's office said the country's navy was "prepared to contact" the vessels and had "completed the necessary preparations in order to prevent them from reaching the Gaza Strip".
The Canadian boat Tahrir and the Irish boat MV Saoirse left the port of Fethiye in southwest Turkey on Wednesday after Turkish authorities gave them permission to sail to the Greek island of Rhodes.

Al Jazeera's Casey Kauffman, on board one of the ships, said that in total it would be a 50-hour journey, and they were currently one-fifth of the way there.

"Everyone on the boat wants to get to Gaza," he said, adding that while the activists are prepared for the possibility of an Israeli interception, the initiative will not be wasted.
"It will still bring attention to the situation in Gaza, and the blockade of the Gaza Strip."
Lieutenant-Colonel Avital Leibovich, an Israeli military official, would not say how the boats might be stopped, saying only "we will have to assess and see if we are facing violent passengers."
Describing their journey as a "provocation", she said Israel would offer to unload any aid supplies on board and deliver them to Gaza.

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