lørdag den 17. januar 2009
Britisk MP Gerald Kaufman opfordrer til våbenembargo mod Israel
Fundet her: Jews sans frontieres
"(...) A Nazi soldier shot [my grandmother] in bed
My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza.
The current Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt among gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.
On Sky News a few days ago, the spokeswoman for the Israeli army, Major Leibovich, was asked about the Israeli killing of, at that time, 800 Palestinians. The total is now 1,000.
She replied instantly that '500 of them were militants'. That was the reply of a Nazi. I suppose the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw ghetto could have been dismissed as militants.(...)"
fredag den 16. januar 2009
De døde begraver de levende
Byen Sderot er et hovedmål for de meget omtalte raketangreb, der fra Gaza er blevet rettet mod Israel, og som leverer den officielle begrundelse for den massakre, der for tiden foregår mod Gazas befolkning. At raketangrebene - trods deres beskedne ødelæggelseskraft - må fordømmes, er der ingen tvivl om. Men lige så klart er det, at de på ingen måde kan retfærdiggøre de aktuelle forbrydelser mod menneskeheden fra israelsk hold.
Det argumenterer jeg gerne for i en anden post (selvom sagen sådan set er lysende klar i sig selv), men her er det en anden vinkel, det kunne være interessant at anlægge. En vinkel, der oftest overses i de aktuelle meningsudvekslinger, er de dybereliggende, historiske årsager til de nuværende blodsudgydelser. Og for at forstå dem kommer man ikke udenom at forholde sig til zionismen og til den etniske udrensning, som er en logisk og højst praktisk konsekvens af den ideologi.
Ifølge Wikipedia stammer Sderots befolkning især fra Marokko, Kurdistan og Østeuropa, og repræsenterer således forskellige flygtningegrupper, der gennem de sidste godt 50 år har bosat sig i byen og her forsøgt at skabe sig en tilværelse. Hvis der nu blot var tale om "landet uden folk til folket uden land", så skulle ingen kat jo kunne gø over det. Men for at forstå konflikten må det med i historien, at Sderot (ifølge Wikipedia) er grundlagt på jord der tidligere tilhørte landsbyen Najd. Den 13.maj i 1948 blev denne landsby angrebet af Negev Brigaden (en zionistisk militærenhed), hele befolkningen blev etnisk udrenset og landsbyen jævnet med jorden. Landsbyens beboere blev således berøvet både deres levebrød og deres hjem. I Gaza i dag sidder sandsynligvis en del af disse oprindelige beboere og deres efterkommere - ikke meget mere end et stenkast ("less than a mile") fra deres oprindelsessted, men i 60 år berøvet retten til så meget som et besøg. Samtidig har de måttet se på, at mennesker, der er født tusinder af kilometer fra landsbyen uden videre har fået "retten" til at slå sig ned på dens jord.
Bare på denne enkelte lokalitet kan man altså iagttage den nuværende konflikts rødder: Den zionistiske drøm om en ren jødisk stat har skabt et uforsonligt forhold mellem mennesker, der ellers intet udestående skulle have med hinanden. De fleste indbyggere i Sderot har ingen andel haft i den oprindelige fordrivelse af landsbyens indbyggere, men må naturligt opfattes som uretmæssige kolonisatorer af netop disse oprindelige beboere.
I dag dræbes så mennesker i stor stil for at konsolidere den etniske udrensning, og for at sikre at de fordrevne opgiver enhver drøm om at vende tilbage. Historiens døde bruges som begrundelse for at myrde de levende. At vejen frem er de to gruppers anerkendelse af hinandens ret til et liv i sikkerhed skulle være indlysende - selvom det i disse dage bliver demonstreret skræmmende tydeligt, hvilken gruppe der har det mest påtrængende sikkerhedsbehov (hvilken eufemisme!), så er det et helt basalt behov alle mennesker burde have krav på.
Men her viser netop eksemplet Sderot/Najd hvordan zionismens ekskluderende natur står i vejen for en retfærdig fred. Eller som det formuleres så klart af International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network:
"....the violence in Gaza today is the inevitable outcome—the latest link in a chain of terror—that results from an ideology based on the dispossession of the indigenous people of Palestine in favor of European Jews. Just as the ideology of White racism was the backbone of Apartheid in South Africa, so the ideology of Zionism explains the history of violence in Palestine, the ethnic cleansing of 1948, the occupation of the West bank and Gaza in 1967, and the many massacres that Israel perpetrated periodically since 1948 to the present one in Gaza. The maintenance of the Israeli state as a state founded on and perpetuating Jewish privilege requires the denial and attempted annihilation of the Palestinian people."
Det argumenterer jeg gerne for i en anden post (selvom sagen sådan set er lysende klar i sig selv), men her er det en anden vinkel, det kunne være interessant at anlægge. En vinkel, der oftest overses i de aktuelle meningsudvekslinger, er de dybereliggende, historiske årsager til de nuværende blodsudgydelser. Og for at forstå dem kommer man ikke udenom at forholde sig til zionismen og til den etniske udrensning, som er en logisk og højst praktisk konsekvens af den ideologi.
Ifølge Wikipedia stammer Sderots befolkning især fra Marokko, Kurdistan og Østeuropa, og repræsenterer således forskellige flygtningegrupper, der gennem de sidste godt 50 år har bosat sig i byen og her forsøgt at skabe sig en tilværelse. Hvis der nu blot var tale om "landet uden folk til folket uden land", så skulle ingen kat jo kunne gø over det. Men for at forstå konflikten må det med i historien, at Sderot (ifølge Wikipedia) er grundlagt på jord der tidligere tilhørte landsbyen Najd. Den 13.maj i 1948 blev denne landsby angrebet af Negev Brigaden (en zionistisk militærenhed), hele befolkningen blev etnisk udrenset og landsbyen jævnet med jorden. Landsbyens beboere blev således berøvet både deres levebrød og deres hjem. I Gaza i dag sidder sandsynligvis en del af disse oprindelige beboere og deres efterkommere - ikke meget mere end et stenkast ("less than a mile") fra deres oprindelsessted, men i 60 år berøvet retten til så meget som et besøg. Samtidig har de måttet se på, at mennesker, der er født tusinder af kilometer fra landsbyen uden videre har fået "retten" til at slå sig ned på dens jord.
Bare på denne enkelte lokalitet kan man altså iagttage den nuværende konflikts rødder: Den zionistiske drøm om en ren jødisk stat har skabt et uforsonligt forhold mellem mennesker, der ellers intet udestående skulle have med hinanden. De fleste indbyggere i Sderot har ingen andel haft i den oprindelige fordrivelse af landsbyens indbyggere, men må naturligt opfattes som uretmæssige kolonisatorer af netop disse oprindelige beboere.
I dag dræbes så mennesker i stor stil for at konsolidere den etniske udrensning, og for at sikre at de fordrevne opgiver enhver drøm om at vende tilbage. Historiens døde bruges som begrundelse for at myrde de levende. At vejen frem er de to gruppers anerkendelse af hinandens ret til et liv i sikkerhed skulle være indlysende - selvom det i disse dage bliver demonstreret skræmmende tydeligt, hvilken gruppe der har det mest påtrængende sikkerhedsbehov (hvilken eufemisme!), så er det et helt basalt behov alle mennesker burde have krav på.
Men her viser netop eksemplet Sderot/Najd hvordan zionismens ekskluderende natur står i vejen for en retfærdig fred. Eller som det formuleres så klart af International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network:
"....the violence in Gaza today is the inevitable outcome—the latest link in a chain of terror—that results from an ideology based on the dispossession of the indigenous people of Palestine in favor of European Jews. Just as the ideology of White racism was the backbone of Apartheid in South Africa, so the ideology of Zionism explains the history of violence in Palestine, the ethnic cleansing of 1948, the occupation of the West bank and Gaza in 1967, and the many massacres that Israel perpetrated periodically since 1948 to the present one in Gaza. The maintenance of the Israeli state as a state founded on and perpetuating Jewish privilege requires the denial and attempted annihilation of the Palestinian people."
tirsdag den 13. januar 2009
Fogh lyver om Gaza
Fogh fortsætter sin løgnagtige fremfærd, som vi kender så godt fra fx Irakkrigen. Han udtalte i dag på et pressemøde: "Vi skal huske, at det er Hamas, der har startet det her ved at sende missiler ind over Israel, og intet land kan se passivt til, at det bliver beskudt. Derfor har Israel ret til at forsvare sig, inden for de internationale regler, der findes på det område" (se: Fogh: Urimeligt at kritisere Israel alene )
Bortset fra det groteske i at tale om konflikten som en konflikt mellem to lige parter, så er den bemærkning i sig selv en gentagelse af israelsk spin til forsvar for krigsforbrydelserne. Sagens rette sammenhæng blev fx gengivet således forleden:
"But on June 19, 2008, Hamas and Israel commenced a six-month truce. Neither side complied perfectly. Israel refused to substantially ease the suffocating siege of Gaza imposed in June 2007. Hamas permitted sporadic rocket fire -- typically after Israel killed or seized Hamas members in the West Bank, where the truce did not apply. Either one or no Israelis were killed (reports differ) by rockets in the half year leading up to the current attack.
Israel then broke the truce on Nov. 4, raiding the Gaza Strip and killing a Palestinian. Hamas retaliated with rocket fire; Israel then killed five more Palestinians. In the following days, Hamas continued rocket fire -- yet still no Israelis died. Israel cannot claim self-defense against this escalation, because it was provoked by Israel's own violation." GEORGE E. BISHARAT, professor ved Hastings College of the Law i San Francisco i Israel Is Committing War Crimes
Der er ikke meget tvivl om, at Israels aktuelle adfærd er planlagt for længst, og at den skal ses som en logisk fortsættelse af årtiers politik for kolonisering og etnisk udrensning. Som Jonathan Cook skriver i dag: Blueprint for Gaza attack was long planned. Denne vurdering understøttes ligeledes af Ilan Pappés analyse allerede fra juni 2008: The Israeli Recipe For 2008: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Foghs kommentar viser ham ikke blot som en lydig medløber for krigsforbryderne i Mellemøsten, men understreger ligeledes hvor uegnet han vil være som generalsekretær for NATO - hvis altså denne organisation vil andet end genoplive kolonialisme og imperialisme i forhold til Europas naboregion.
P.S.: Også tidligere præsident Jimmy Carter gør opmærksom på Israels ansvar for krigen i kraft af både den udmarvende blokade og angrebet d.4.november: An Unnecessary War
Bortset fra det groteske i at tale om konflikten som en konflikt mellem to lige parter, så er den bemærkning i sig selv en gentagelse af israelsk spin til forsvar for krigsforbrydelserne. Sagens rette sammenhæng blev fx gengivet således forleden:
"But on June 19, 2008, Hamas and Israel commenced a six-month truce. Neither side complied perfectly. Israel refused to substantially ease the suffocating siege of Gaza imposed in June 2007. Hamas permitted sporadic rocket fire -- typically after Israel killed or seized Hamas members in the West Bank, where the truce did not apply. Either one or no Israelis were killed (reports differ) by rockets in the half year leading up to the current attack.
Israel then broke the truce on Nov. 4, raiding the Gaza Strip and killing a Palestinian. Hamas retaliated with rocket fire; Israel then killed five more Palestinians. In the following days, Hamas continued rocket fire -- yet still no Israelis died. Israel cannot claim self-defense against this escalation, because it was provoked by Israel's own violation." GEORGE E. BISHARAT, professor ved Hastings College of the Law i San Francisco i Israel Is Committing War Crimes
Der er ikke meget tvivl om, at Israels aktuelle adfærd er planlagt for længst, og at den skal ses som en logisk fortsættelse af årtiers politik for kolonisering og etnisk udrensning. Som Jonathan Cook skriver i dag: Blueprint for Gaza attack was long planned. Denne vurdering understøttes ligeledes af Ilan Pappés analyse allerede fra juni 2008: The Israeli Recipe For 2008: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Foghs kommentar viser ham ikke blot som en lydig medløber for krigsforbryderne i Mellemøsten, men understreger ligeledes hvor uegnet han vil være som generalsekretær for NATO - hvis altså denne organisation vil andet end genoplive kolonialisme og imperialisme i forhold til Europas naboregion.
P.S.: Også tidligere præsident Jimmy Carter gør opmærksom på Israels ansvar for krigen i kraft af både den udmarvende blokade og angrebet d.4.november: An Unnecessary War
mandag den 12. januar 2009
Stop Anders Fogh Rasmussen
According to International Herald Tribune the danish prime minister is a front-runner for the post as NATO secretary general. But that choice would be a catastrophe.
Say NO to Mr. Rasmussen, because:
1) He has made enough trouble already in the state of Denmark by dismantling human rights and promoting racism.
2) His unconditional support for the idiotic and criminal colonial adventures of President Bush in Iraq makes him a dangerous person on any political post, let alone the number one spot in NATO.
3) He has done absolutely nothing to promote european commitment in Denmark. In fact his close cooperation with the neofascist party of Pia Kjærsgaard has set back the european integration for decades in this country.
4) It would make a mockery of the alleged democratic aspirations of NATO to promote this particular person who has shown nothing but contempt for basic democratic values.
So STOP HIM
Eigil Møller, Denmark
Say NO to Mr. Rasmussen, because:
1) He has made enough trouble already in the state of Denmark by dismantling human rights and promoting racism.
2) His unconditional support for the idiotic and criminal colonial adventures of President Bush in Iraq makes him a dangerous person on any political post, let alone the number one spot in NATO.
3) He has done absolutely nothing to promote european commitment in Denmark. In fact his close cooperation with the neofascist party of Pia Kjærsgaard has set back the european integration for decades in this country.
4) It would make a mockery of the alleged democratic aspirations of NATO to promote this particular person who has shown nothing but contempt for basic democratic values.
So STOP HIM
Eigil Møller, Denmark
fredag den 9. januar 2009
torsdag den 8. januar 2009
Ilan Pappé minder om årsagen til de israelske forbrydelser: Den zionistiske ideologi
Ilan Pappé tilhører en lille gruppe israelske historikere, der bruger deres fag til at dekonstruere de officielle israelske narrativer om statens oprindelse og historie. Han lever nu i eksil i Storbritannien, og hans værker om den israelsk-palæstinensiske konflikt er meget anbefalelsesværdige og forbilledlig som historisk videnskab. Læs fx den vigtige: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
I en aktuel kommentar (2.jan, 2009) gør han opmærksom på ondets rod. Skal de aktuelle forbrydelser og den israelske selvretfærdighed forstås, så kommer man ikke uden om direkte at konfrontere den zionistiske ideologi:
The self-righteousness is a powerful act of self-denial and justification. It explains why the Israeli Jewish society would not be moved by words of wisdom, logical persuasion or diplomatic dialogue. And if one does not want to endorse violence as the means of opposing it, there is only one way forward: challenging head-on this righteousness as an evil ideology meant to cover human atrocities. Another name for this ideology is Zionism and an international rebuke for Zionism, not just for particular Israeli policies, is the only way of countering this self-righteousness. We have to try and explain not only to the world, but also to the Israelis themselves, that Zionism is an ideology that endorses ethnic cleansing, occupation and now massive massacres. What is needed now is not just a condemnation of the present massacre but also delegitimization of the ideology that produced that policy and justifies it morally and politically. Let us hope that significant voices in the world will tell the Jewish state that this ideology and the overall conduct of the state are intolerable and unacceptable and as long as they persist, Israel will be boycotted and subject to sanctions.
(...)
Similarly, we may be able to find the popular, as distinct from the high brow academic, way of explaining clearly that Israel’s policy — in the last 60 years — stems from a racist hegemonic ideology called Zionism, shielded by endless layers of righteous fury. Despite the predictable accusation of anti-Semitism and what have you, it is time to associate in the public mind the Zionist ideology with the by now familiar historical landmarks of the land: the ethnic cleansing of 1948, the oppression of the Palestinians in Israel during the days of the military rule, the brutal occupation of the West Bank and now the massacre of Gaza. Very much as the Apartheid ideology explained the oppressive policies of the South African government, this ideology — in its most consensual and simplistic variety — allowed all the Israeli governments in the past and the present to dehumanize the Palestinians wherever they are and strive to destroy them. The means altered from period to period, from location to location, as did the narrative covering up these atrocities. But there is a clear pattern that cannot only be discussed in the academic ivory towers, but has to be part of the political discourse on the contemporary reality in Palestine today.(...)
Hele kommentaren kan læses på Pappé's hjemmeside: Israel’s righteous fury and its victims in Gaza
I en aktuel kommentar (2.jan, 2009) gør han opmærksom på ondets rod. Skal de aktuelle forbrydelser og den israelske selvretfærdighed forstås, så kommer man ikke uden om direkte at konfrontere den zionistiske ideologi:
The self-righteousness is a powerful act of self-denial and justification. It explains why the Israeli Jewish society would not be moved by words of wisdom, logical persuasion or diplomatic dialogue. And if one does not want to endorse violence as the means of opposing it, there is only one way forward: challenging head-on this righteousness as an evil ideology meant to cover human atrocities. Another name for this ideology is Zionism and an international rebuke for Zionism, not just for particular Israeli policies, is the only way of countering this self-righteousness. We have to try and explain not only to the world, but also to the Israelis themselves, that Zionism is an ideology that endorses ethnic cleansing, occupation and now massive massacres. What is needed now is not just a condemnation of the present massacre but also delegitimization of the ideology that produced that policy and justifies it morally and politically. Let us hope that significant voices in the world will tell the Jewish state that this ideology and the overall conduct of the state are intolerable and unacceptable and as long as they persist, Israel will be boycotted and subject to sanctions.
(...)
Similarly, we may be able to find the popular, as distinct from the high brow academic, way of explaining clearly that Israel’s policy — in the last 60 years — stems from a racist hegemonic ideology called Zionism, shielded by endless layers of righteous fury. Despite the predictable accusation of anti-Semitism and what have you, it is time to associate in the public mind the Zionist ideology with the by now familiar historical landmarks of the land: the ethnic cleansing of 1948, the oppression of the Palestinians in Israel during the days of the military rule, the brutal occupation of the West Bank and now the massacre of Gaza. Very much as the Apartheid ideology explained the oppressive policies of the South African government, this ideology — in its most consensual and simplistic variety — allowed all the Israeli governments in the past and the present to dehumanize the Palestinians wherever they are and strive to destroy them. The means altered from period to period, from location to location, as did the narrative covering up these atrocities. But there is a clear pattern that cannot only be discussed in the academic ivory towers, but has to be part of the political discourse on the contemporary reality in Palestine today.(...)
Hele kommentaren kan læses på Pappé's hjemmeside: Israel’s righteous fury and its victims in Gaza
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