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Een artikel op de Miftah website (de organisatie van Hanan Ashrawi): Singing in the rain<\/strong>. Het betoog: met de invasie in de Gazastrook wordt de aandacht weggetrokken van het feit dat Hamas en Fatah het eens waren geworden over het ‘gevangenen document’ (tekst ook te lezen op de Miftah website) en Israel daarmee een excuus kwijt waren om niet met ‘de andere kant’ te gaan praten. Een fragment: Singing in the Rain What a political\/diplomatic disaster it could have been for Israel: all Palestinian factions agreeing to fundamental principles which would have at least given some hope to reviving a stalled peace process, and re-injecting momentum into the resumption of negotiations. Instead, Israel has chosen to fight to the bitter end in order to ensure that \u201cTHERE IS NO PARTNER ON THE PALESTINIAN SIDE,\u201d thereby sustaining its unilateralist\/expansionist policy without challenge, particularly from the international community, and guaranteeing that its delusional narrative continues to be the governing dynamic of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Hele artikel: Het is nooit antisemitisch om tegen onrecht te zijn<\/strong>. Een artikel van Ted Schmidt. Een fragment:<\/p>\n There is a splendid Talmudic saying that a single life is a universe. As I write, the awesome military might of the world’s fourth largest army is mobilized to secure the release of a young Israeli soldier. On the one hand we can applaud the primacy of a human life, its inherent dignity. Yet we should be appalled at the ongoing collective punishment of an entire civilian population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Voor het hele artikel: Een andere stem uit Sderot. <\/strong> A DIFFERENT VOICE FROM SDEROT<\/strong> I have been living in Sderot for almost twenty years. For five years I have been \u00b3breathing\u00b2 Qassams. Some of them fell a few meters from my home, and for the first time in my life I comprehended the emotional meaning of the expression: \u00b3Victims of Shock and Anxiety\u00b2. All the daily worries that were Nevertheless I want to voice a slightly different voice. I will not say here anything new or original that was not already ground to dust before me. The only validity to my words is the fact that I am a resident of Sderot. I am not leaving the town for no Qassam. I am not returning to Sheinkin at the end of the day.<\/p>\n Let me start by saying, the repeated calls \u00b3to destroy Beit Hanoun\u00b2. \u00b3to raze Gaza\u00b2, \u00b3to black out cities\u00b2 and to \u00b3turn off the water\u00b2. These calls are horrifying when they are uttered by a frustrated public. They are even more horrifying when they are stated by public figures, ministers and journalists who express empathy. There are calls for whom there cannot be Sderot is a multicultural city, multi tribal. Journalists must act extra cautiously when they presume to reflect the \u00b3Feelings of the residents\u00b2. Not all the residents of Sderot seek revenge. Not all the residents of Sderot wish to \u00b3Raze Beit Hanoun\u00b2. Not all wish to be rejuvenated by rivers of Palestinian blood. We have enough on this account. Too many years, too much blood.<\/p>\n Just because I belong to those who believe in a proper welfare state, it is important for me to say: \u00b3The State of Israel did indeed absolve itself of responsibility to many areas of the economy but it did not absolve itself of the responsibility to Sderot. The media did not forget Sderot. The Israeli public did not remain indifferent. The army did not pump itself less because I did not fall off my chair when I heard Shimon Peres chiding us to maintain restraint, for which he received the headline: \u00b3Kassam Shmassam\u00b2. The wording certainly did not shine with political wisdom, but the content and the criticism were certainly worthy of examination. What Peres essentially Leadership does not need to promote hysteria, it needs to calm. It does not need to aid hyperventilating, it needs to help all of us to live in a complex reality in which there are no magic solutions, and certainly no power ones. A leadership does not need to black out a city and block the entrances, it must continue the routine of life and to broadcast stability. The media coverage during the past month raised my disgust threshold to high levels. It reinforced emotions, and fanned instincts and creatively orchestrated an endless number of dramas without blinking and without checking. The settlements of the \u00b3Gaza wraparound\u00b2 who are in the same boat as Sderot are almost forgot. Sderot became a nickname for hysteria and In the beginning of June the \u00b3Festival of Southern Cinema\u00b2 took place in Sderot. An uplifting experience that somehow did not rate media coverage. In the darkened halls, David Ben Shitrit\u00b9s jolting movies about the refugee experience of Palestinian women were screened. Also the story of the \u00b3Refusenik\u00b2 pilots. This looked almost hallucinatory. Outside the Qassams are whistling and on the screen endless Palestinian suffering is splashed. The Media narrative has been addicted for years to the Power Paradigm. Our screens expose, one after the other, non-smiling and non-apologetic marching security types, who expose before us hypnotic plans to defeat the Qassams through deep penetrations, daring commando operations and a host of other I am revolted by our Palestinian neighbors who recycle again and again historical errors and are not succeeding in building a Riviera in Gaza instead of shooting Qassams at us. By doing so they are passing a verdict on millions of \u00b3Non-Combatants\u00b2 to live in a more horrible squalor than the one they already live in. But he who sows wind during forty years of occupation Every time when a little quiet sets in the past few years, or some understandings were achieved, comes the next \u00b3focused liquidation\u00b2 of a senior wanted person or a junior wanted person and Sderot immediately assumes an absorption stance. Who benefited from all these liquidations? Amir Peretz whom I respect took a brave step as Minister of Defense. He reintroduced the moral discussion into the narrative. The very morality that was pushed many years ago to the outskirts of the public debate. If and when it was mentioned, it was generally only in a soft tone and mumbling Amir Peretz, you have heard many voices in Sderot recently, it behooves you to hear this voice too. I am approaching you because I do not have another address. Olmert\u00b9s ears are blocked to the following message: Break this crazy \u00b3Had Gadia\u00b2 paradigm. Stop the liquidations policy. Cease this massive Propose a creative policy. Speak to them already!! Through overt channels or covert ones. Break the deceiving myth of \u00b3There is nobody to talk to\u00b2 with which we are being drugged time and time again by cynical politicians and their loyal spokespersons in the media. Listen to the voices of the A few hours after this article was sent to the editorial office, the Kerem Shalom incident triggered a tragic escalation and, at once, toppled the entire deck of cards. The abducted soldier, the shot boy. Dead and injured soldiers. Summer rains in Gaza. On the background of last week\u00b9s events this article looks irrelevant and out of context. On a temporal dimension it is Na\u00b9amika Zion, Sderot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Voor wie nog meer achtergrond en commentaar wil lezen: Een artikel op de Miftah website (de organisatie van Hanan Ashrawi): Singing in the rain. Het betoog: met de invasie in de Gazastrook wordt de aandacht weggetrokken van het feit dat … Lees verder
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\nIsrael\u2019s grotesquely dubbed military assault against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, Summer Rain, has apparently salvaged the Israeli government and spared it the obligation of having to deal with a wilfully unnoticed paradigm shift in Palestinian politics; namely widespread endorsement by Palestinian political factions (including Hamas) of the National Conciliation Document of the Prisoners (the prisoners\u2019 document), which implicitly recognizes Israel\u2019s \u201cright to exist\u201d and clearly adopts the June 1967 boundaries (22% of historical Palestine) as the territorial borders of the future Palestinian state, hence a national Palestinian consensus which clearly meets Israel\u2019s alleged demands. <\/p>\n
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\nSderot is het Israelische stadje aan de andere kant van de grens met Gaza, dat in de afgelopen jaren het meest te maken kreeg met de afgeschoten Kassem-raketten. Maar niet alle bewoners zijn het er mee eens dat zij gebruikt worden door de Israelische regering om de repressie in de Gazastrook op te voeren. Het artikel integraal:<\/p>\n
\nNa\u00b9amika Zion
\nA proper exposure:<\/p>\n
\ngenerously exported to the public are familiar to me too. All the rituals that were built around the anxieties: \u00b3To jump in response to any unusual noise\u00b2, \u00b3To watch the sky while walking in the city\u00b2, to bolt out of bed like an automaton at three in the morning and run to the fortified room. To tensely wait for the boom, to verify that everybody is okay, and so on
\nagain.<\/p>\n
\nempathy!! When one repeats so many times the same call, it becomes inadvertently legitimate, part of the daily agenda. What singed the ear five years ago is suddenly transformed into acceptable music and then to sweet music. One gets habituated. This process of habituation scares me even more
\nthan the Qassams.<\/p>\n
\nwe are residents of the periphery rather then of Ramat Aviv C. The opposite. The media grabbed Sderot in an empathetic and suffocating hug. The public and all its sections expressed concern and solidarity and poured on us a rain of gestures and gifts. The IDF pounded the Gaza strip, day and night.
\nGovernment ministries poured money here, lots of money. That was how the State was supposed to continue until things would get better. But, \u00b3Where is the money\u00b2? screamed, two week ago, high risk youths whose support structures were closed and they were thrown into the street during these hard times of all times. This is the real important question which remained
\nechoing in space without an answer. Where did the money go to? What are the priorities? Does the municipal structure provide a true and correct response to the needs of this exhausted city? The Qassam produces true anxieties and mental burnout, but it also provides a dangerous screen to economic and social problems which are not less deep and which the city must deal with.<\/p>\n
\nsaid was that Panic is not a work plan. That destruction of Palestinian cities is not an agenda. It is better for us to focus on the defense and strengthening of Sderot rather then grab some short term media profits at the expense of the real tasks. The town is indeed exhausted but it is not under an existential threat.<\/p>\n
\nIt does not need to rush and close the education system, it needs to nurture and strengthen it. After all, the kids that are wondering outside are less protected and are more traumatized than children who are inside a stable and supportive fraamework. A brave leadership can go far by transforming the
\ncalls for the blood of Palestinians into extraordinary initiatives such as meetings between youth from Sderot and Gaza.<\/p>\n
\nfainting. Take for example the sweeping wording for the strange initiative to blackout the city. \u00b3Sderot is in total darkness\u00b2 screamed the headlines. After all, every child knows that the houses of the residents cannot be blacked out, only the street lighting. The \u00b3Blackness\u00b2, therefore, was relative at best but the political or populist goal was accomplished.<\/p>\n
\nMany spectators bolted out of the theatre. They did not want or could not allow the images to crack their defense mechanisms. The cultural building of the power ethos and the victim mentality that we get intravenously injected with after out first breath on earth is so deep that, at times, it appears
\nimpenetrable. For me it was a most powerful moment. This is a Sderot I want to live in. A Sderot that does not forget that on the other side of the equation there is human suffering as well.<\/p>\n
\ncreative ideas that seem to have been taken from the operational arsenal of \u00b3Fatal Mission 2\u00b2 or \u00b3Rambo 3\u00b2. One after the other they emerged this month in Sderot where the microphone caught their deliberations with uninhibited commitment. Even the Hebrew language was long since recruited and, in turn, created an inventory of proper terms that were cleansed of unnecessary sentiments and thus allowed the selective reporting of what had happened in the territories. The media collaborated obediently and the Hebrew language
\nwas reborn, cleansed and easy to pronounce. \u00b3Exposure\u00b2, \u00b3Engineering Operations\u00b2, \u00b3non-combatants\u00b2.<\/p>\n
\nis destined to reap a storm, and it is occurring in front of our eyes and it doesn\u00b9t let go. Yes, even after the disengagement. Reality is becoming increasingly more complicated and the State of Israel is heavily responsible, too heavily responsible for this quagmire.<\/p>\n
\nWhat kind of security did we buy for ourselves, at the end of the day, save for the next barrage? After that comes the Big Blitz. For months we did not close our eyes, not only because of the Qassams. The IDF pounded the \u00b3Launching areas\u00b2 24 hours a day from the sea, the air and the ground.
\nRestless nights for Sderot and the neighboring villages. A nightmare for the residents of the Gaza strip. An endless and useless bombardment. On whom? For what? For what purpose? Who did it benefit? What security achievements were ascertained?<\/p>\n
\napologetics that were whispered only after all the advantage calculations and image problems were reviewed. Not what we did and not how we will look to the world. However, the person that reintroduced the moral discussion into our narrative is building in the past few weeks a cemetery in his heart
\nwhere dozens of bodies of innocent Palestinian children and civilians are lying. \u00b3I am stepping on my own soul\u00b2 once said Yitzhak Ben A\u00b9haron. Amir Peretz is in my eyes almost a tragic hero. In the past few weeks he is stepping on his own soul. Or at least that is how I wish to see it. One whose heart did not turn to stone and that the IDF power did not cause him total drunkenness.<\/p>\n
\nbombardment. Do not lead us under the populist deception of \u00b3more force and more force\u00b2. It is not calming, it provokes panic. Everything was already tried ad nauseam. \u00b3The butcher already slaughtered the bull and the fire did burn the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the lamb\u00b2. Only the water did not yet extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n
\nprisoners, the voices of the moderates, to Abu Mazen and to the voice of the Islamic Jihad who is ready to stop the fire if the liquidations will cease. Do not close any window of opportunity deliberately, and don\u00b9t abolish any initiative in its infancy only in order to maintain a fossilized thought paradigm. Try at least, but honestly, without fear and preconditions, the political option. It is your moral duty!! If not, Hava Alberstein\u00b9s binding
\ntranscription to the ubiquitous Had Gadia song will exemplify our reality as I complete this article: \u00b3Once again we start from the beginning\u00b2.<\/p>\n
\npossible that it is VERY relevant. One think is painfully certain in the midst of the oppressive uncertainty: Hava Alberstein\u00b9s prophecy is now a reality and the Had Gadia is a continuing history.<\/p>\n