http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac5ir0CJOXE&feature=related
F.d. israelisk militär ställer några frågor till Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfnPjzOGB5s
Ett brev från Frankrike
Good morning,
I won't bother you further but I wished to send you hereunder the letter communicated by L Michael Hager to the Washington Post after receiving my text and our exchanges. It was published yesterday.
I imagine that, in the absence of a full military protection of the civilian population of Gaza, for instance by the Arab air and naval forces or by international forces, it is international and internal (in Israel) pressure that impacts a bit on the criminal policy of this rogue State. I am not convinced that the immediate priority is supporting the population with money; but with the arms of law and media; or arms tout court as said Victor Hugo in his poem on L'enfant de Chios "the child of Chios". It is a pity that I could today begin this poem as follows:
"Les Israeliens ont passé là. Tout est ruine et deuil." and continue: "Bel enfant, que te faut-il donner
Pour rattacher gaîment et gaîment ramener en boucles sur ta blanche épaule? (...) Que veux-tu ? fleur, beau fruit, ou l'oiseau merveilleux ?
- Ami, dit l'enfant Palestinien, dit l'enfant aux yeux verts,
Je veux de la poudre et des balles. "
Grov översättning av Victor Hugos dikt i sin nya tappning:
"Israelerna har varit här. Allt är ruiner och sorg.
Du vackra barn ... Vad vill du? En blomma, en härlig frukt eller den fantastiska fågeln?
- Min vän, svarade det palestinska barnet, barnet med de gröna ögonen.
Jag vill ha krut och gevärskulor."
BEGIN TEXT in the Washington Post
Wednesday, January 7, 2009; Page A14
On the Jan. 2 op-ed page, Charles Krauthammer ["Moral Clarity in Gaza"] lauded the "moral scrupulousness of Israel," while Michael Gerson ["Defining Victory for Israel"] asserted: "There is no question -- none -- that Israel's attack on Hamas is justified."
Portraying the Israelis as victims ignores the fact that Israel has unleashed overwhelming force against a densely populated area in which the inhabitants have been under virtual siege for months. Were the United States under a similar blockade, who would decry the deployment of rockets against the blockaders?
Collective punishments leveled against a civilian population violate international law and deserve universal condemnation. The U.S. government should not only distance itself from Israel's reprehensible actions but should also use its diplomatic clout to secure a cease-fire and broker a sustainable peace.
L. MICHAEL HAGER
Washington
The writer is a former director of the International Development Law Organization in Rome.
Have we forgotten the 17,500 dead – almost all civilians, most of them children and women – in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon; the 1,700 Palestinian civilian dead in the Sabra-Chatila massacre; the 1996 Qana massacre of 106 Lebanese civilian refugees, more than half of them children, at a UN base; the massacre of the Marwahin refugees who were ordered from their homes by the Israelis in 2006 then slaughtered by an Israeli helicopter crew; the 1,000 dead of that same 2006 bombardment and Lebanese invasion, almost all of them civilians?
Lördagen den 10 januari demonstreras till stöd för Gaza
på en rad orter i Sverige.
STOCKHOLM lördagen den 10/1 kl 13.00 på Sergels torg.
Demonstrationen går till Israels ambassad.
BORÅS lördagarna den 10/1 och 17/1 kl 12.00 på Stora torget
GÖTEBORG lördagen den 10/1 kl 14.00 på Götaplatsen
HALMSTAD lördagen den 10/1 kl 12.00 på Stora torget
LUND varje lördag kl 12.00 på Stortorget
NORRKÖPING lördagen den 10/1 kl 12.00
Avgång från Tyska torget mot Hörsalsparken.
VÄSTERÅS lördagen den 10/1 kl 13.00 på Fiskartorget-Sigmatorget
ÖREBRO lördagen den 10/1 kl 13 utanför Skattehuset
