Saturday, June 27, 2009

3rdbirthday Quotation

The incredible scatological obsession of the Israeli soldier

Jean-Pierre Perrin compiles, in a note Liberation June 25, a list of "humiliation" suffered by the French diplomatic corps, inflicted by Israeli soldiers. And this particular lese flag perfectly filthy :
But the most shocking incident was the occupation of the residence of French consular agent, Majdi Chakkour in Gaza during the Israeli attack in January . In his absence, Israeli soldiers have completely ravaged places - yet reported to the Israeli army - a large sum of stolen money, jewelry of his wife, his computer and destroyed the theory upon which he worked. And they defiled with excrement the French flag.
This last sentence brings back memories of discussions with a Lebanese friend. Telling me (again - Arabic is whining) countless atrocities during the Israeli invasion of 1982, my friend told me about the propensity of soldiers to the Jewish state defecate everywhere. In the long wave of robberies, murders, looting ... this story seemed to defecate face of this trend throughout the Mediterranean romantic exaggeration.

But over time I realized that this aspect of the scatological "interventions" Israel was widely circulated among my Arab interlocutors, and totally unknown to the side of my house. To a famous article of Amira Hass in Haaretz in 2002, which introduced the issue related to the comfort of the Israeli soldier.

is fairly typical kind of "myth" that Palestinians and Lebanese know and have been reporting for years, but the Western media completely obscure because it is probably a lie invented by the Arab anti-Semitic. Until the day it's published in an Israeli newspaper, and then this "myth" Palestinian finally reached the status of historical truth. A bit like the famous "Nakba", which the Palestinians have so hackneyed long ears, until, finally, the "new historians" we Israelis have discovered in the late 80's that the Arabs had known since 1948.

skuas IDF adventures are documented in English, so fragmentary, and almost no French. So here I give you a review of this subject sickening. The translations are my own, the reader is invited as always to read the original texts in English to avoid repeating my errors of translation.

begin this tale of the brave Israeli soldier in a hostile environment by memories of Jean Said Makdisi, Beirut Fragments :
After the departure of the Israelis (Beirut 1982), we have begun to hear the most extraordinary aspects of the occupation. The arrests, harassment, shootings, looting: it was what everyone expected, and indeed, this had occurred. But the most unexpected thing, when you heard about it for the first time, caused a hesitant laugh. Gradually, we discovered that what seemed initially an isolated incident, was actually a brand name and had taken much larger size.

Israeli soldiers, wherever they lived, had defecated in selected venues. On books, furniture, clothing, carpets; on the floor bedrooms near toilets and in bathtubs, on the desks of schools and into shop windows, people have found rotting feces. Someone swore she knew a house near the airport where the housewife in distress had discovered feces in her washing machine and dishwasher. We heard that a man went to his office and saw these stinking manure and offensive to all offices, except on his own. Triumphantly, he moved to his office and bragged of his unfortunate colleagues. Then he opened his drawer and there, carefully installed in the middle of his files, was the legacy of the Israeli army.

And so, after the destruction and tragedy, after the destruction and suffering, death and dying, their bodies slashed and eyes blinded, their faces burned and disfigured, widows and orphans - after all this, all that remained was a large pile of excrement. The fires were extinguished, smothered by a pile of manure. A terrible joke, a symbol of defiance than a cosmic stench had become a monument to the memory of those months of agony.
Noam Chomsky also mentions this aspect of the invasion of Beirut in The fateful triangle :
In the same building, Israeli soldiers broke into the apartment of Professor Khalidi, who holds Chair of the Department of Biochemistry, American University of Beirut. They have completely looted, stealing objects of art, ancient pottery, kitchen utensils, tools, etc.. Sculptures were thrown into the street. The lecture notes and books that were not stolen were thrown to the ground, then the soldiers "have defecated above "and" smashed raw eggs on the stack. "
Farther:
Berber At the hospital, the Israelis had bombed several times, "the clinic physicians and apartments were looted during the four days of Israeli occupation, according to the doctors present." Chairs were broken, garbage and food scattered everywhere, soldiers were drawn on the carpet with lipstick have defecated in pots and pans, stolen tapes, conferences, cameras, etc.. A mosque on the main axis east-west was desecrated. "Many of the carpets were stolen, it has defecated on others, and cans of beer were spilled, according to witnesses living near the mosque.
Another time, same morals. This tradition is mentioned in 1995 in Palestine in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law :
48. Even in my city [Ramallah], a family was awakened Wednesday, October 19, 1994 at two o'clock in the morning by a group of officers (four or five according to the testimony of the occupants) using a megaphone to order all residents to leave the house. They came to arrest a suspect who turned out to be a child of the family, a young student. Leaving the family outside the group of officers entered the house and systematically ransacked every room: armchairs, sofas and beds were ripped open, cupboards emptied and their contents thrown on the ground, destroyed the kitchen, appliances into pieces and broken, food containers returned, including jars of olives that have been emptied on the terrace, notebooks and textbooks torn. To top this feat military, one of the men defecated in the hall and threw his feces on the beds. This happened seven hours before the attack in Tel Aviv on the same day and can in no way be considered an act of revenge.
Seven years later, in December 2002, Samah Jabr tells the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs :
We've all been subjected to pornographic images broadcast by the Israelis when they occupied stations Palestinian television. These soldiers did not hesitate to urinate and defecate all over Palestinian properties in the offices and the apartments they occupied.
The article has made it known abroad this strange form of "warfare" of the most ethical army in the world was published by Haaretz in 2002 under the pen Amira Hass, the title leaves little to the imagination: " Someone even managed to defecate into the photocopier . It describes the behavior of the Israelis during the siege of Arafat's offices in April 2002. After they left, Palestinians resume possession of the Ministry of Culture.
In other offices, all high-tech equipment and electronics were destroyed or disappeared - computers, photocopiers, cameras, scanners, hard drives, mounting hardware worth several thousand dollars, television sets . The broadcast antenna on the roof of the building was destroyed.

The boxes have disappeared. A collection of Palestinian art (mostly handmade embroidery) disappeared. Perhaps these objects have been buried under piles of documents and furniture, perhaps they have been stolen. Furniture were fired from one place to another, broken by the soldiers, and put in batteries. Gas stoves for heating were overturned and thrown on the pile of scattered papers, books thrown, disks and disks, and windows shattered.

In the department for the promotion of art with children, the soldiers were stained walls with gouache paintings they found there, and destroyed the children's paintings hanging there.

In every room of the various departments - literature, cinema, children's culture and children's books, records, pamphlets and papers were piled up, soiled with urine and feces.

There are two toilets on each floor, but the soldiers urinated and defecated everywhere else in the building, several rooms where they had lived for about a month. They made their needs on the ground, in empty flower pots, even in drawers out of business.

They defecated in plastic bags, and they were scattered in several places. Some of them broke. Someone even managed to defecate into a photocopier.

The soldiers urinated into empty mineral water bottles. These have been scattered by the dozens in all parts of the building, in cardboard boxes, piles of garbage and rubble, on desks, in offices, in the furniture smashed, between books for children who thrown to the ground.

Some bottles were opened and the yellow liquid had spilled and left the spot. It was particularly difficult to penetrate in two stages the building because of the acrid smell of feces and urine. Soiled toilet paper was also scattered everywhere.

In some parts, near the pile of feces and toilet paper, scraps of rotting food were scattered. In a corner in the room where someone had defecated in a drawer full of boxes of fruit and vegetables had been abandoned. The toilets were overflowing with abandoned bottles filled with urine, feces and toilet paper.
As is very well explained in the Jerusalem Post :
"What our camp be pure." This is the philosophy of my fighters.

Not only because it sums up our teaching, but because it constitutes the essence of their belief and their national heritage. A belief and a legacy we all share: religious and secular Israelis, right and left, the army and elsewhere. It is a source of pride and confidence, even in difficult times.
But then, enlighten us, Danny Zamir, you who "direct [z] program premilitary Itzhzak Rabin, this unbelievable scatological obsession of your "fighters", that they come from? It comes from their "philosophy" and "our teaching" and "the essence of their belief," or their "national heritage"?

Or is it just their what they eat?

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Aishwarya Rai House Internal Fetures

Hezbollah and Aoun have lost with ... 54.8% of the votes cast

In a short note of June 10, Angry Arab response to a note by Thomas Friedman in The New York Times. As is typically the kind of approximate analysis also found in French newspapers, I think a translation of this short note will be of interest.


Is there anything more annoying than a Western correspondent parachuted into a foreign country that offer - just hours after his arrival - wise advice and analysis on this country? And who can compete with Thomas Friedman superficiality in this area? Really.

He said: "Firstly, a solid majority of Lebanese Christians voted against List of Michel Aoun, who wanted to bring their community on the Shiite party Hezbollah, Iran and tacitly, because it was considered best able to protect the interests of Christians - not the West . "Of course, he is mistaken in its reference to Christian voters. In fact, Aoun is not only the person with the largest Christian bloc in parliament (in fact, its power has grown since 2005), but overall, he received some 50% of the vote against 49% of votes if one measures only the Christian vote nationally. And the main areas where Aoun has lost (as Zahle), this was due to Sunni votes. (That said, I am opposed to the small electoral division and I think that Lebanon should be a single electoral unit and proportional representation should be adopted: it would strengthen the secular forces at the national level, who are now disadvantaged marginalized).

He then said: "Secondly, a large majority of all Lebanese - Muslims, Christians and Druze - have voted for the March 14 coalition led by Saad Hariri, son of assassinated Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . 'Eh Well, sorry to disappoint you, but if you measure popular vote in the election he was in favor of the opposition: "losers" have collected 54.8% of the total votes (839,371 votes ) and the "winners" are 45.2% of the vote (692,285 votes) . "

He then added:" The ballots were the only weapons the coalition was March 14 against alliance Iran-Syria-Hezbollah ... "Well, yes: the ballots and: 1) the money from Saudi Arabia and the West, 2) mobilization and sectarian unrest that acute Zarqawi would have been proud; 3) Hariri's money, 4) the intervention of the President of Lebanon against Aoun, and 5) the intervention of the Maronite Church for March 14, among other factors. Oh, yes.

He then said: "I looked Levot in a school in the mountain village of Brummana. People came by car, wheelchair, walking - young, old and sick. "Do not get me wrong: Thomas Friedman can not write that recycled cliches, but is it possible to find a more well-worn cliche on the election than this one? I mean, you can search for this phrase on Google and you will find descriptions of all elections around the world, and I doubt that he really saw what he said he saw when he was breaking everything for two minutes.

He then said: "It struck me how the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, are proved conciliatory concession speech." I bet he does not judge from the Listening direct speech (in Arabic), but just by looking, because MEMRI has not yet provided an extract of the speech with subtitles.

Friday, June 5, 2009

How To Change A Manfrotto Head

Who participates in the killing of Lebanese and Palestinians?

is decidedly not interested in the subject that our media. I had already addressed by the end of August 2006: France, Israel and the arms market . Beyond the vague statements of principle displayed by the French and European, that in practice we should judge these "principles".

A recent report by the Centre for Documentation and Research on Peace and Conflict , presented in late May 2009, has been the subject of an article IPS News. The report does not appear available on the Internet (but you can order it here ) I offer a translation house section of IPS.
Between 2003 and 2007, France has issued licenses to more than 446 million euros (623 million dollars) for arms exports to Israel. This makes France by far the largest arms supplier to Israel in the European Union.

Patrice Bouveret, the French Centre for Peace Research (conflicts CRDPC) in Lyon, said that these sales are in contradiction with the code of conduct issued by the Union for a decade as exports of weapons. Officially declared binding by EU governments this year Last, the code prohibits arms sales in cases where they might exacerbate regional tensions or when there is a strong likelihood of being used in violation of human rights.

Speaking Thursday on the occasion of the publication of his new report on Israeli involvement in the arms trade, entitled "Arming Israel and Hamas?" Bouveret rejected repeated assurances by the government French exports to that question are usually only components of military items rather than complete weapons systems. "Even if they are only components, they are used directly by the Israeli army, "he added.

According to a study published by Amnesty International in February, electrical components inscroption bearing the "Made in France" were found in the ruins of buildings destroyed by the Israeli army during the offensive launched against the Gaza Strip last year. The elements are part of Hellfire missiles AGM manufactured by U.S. company Hellfire [Hellfire, NDT] Systems, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

Bouveret also argued that Israel is willing to strengthen its military cooperation with Europe to reduce its dependence on the United States.

Since a seven-year embargo on arms sales to Israel was lifted by the French government in 1974, the Jewish state turned to France to buy lasers and specialized equipment for the recognition he has been unable to obtain U.S..

The overall value of permits issued by the EU governments for arms sales to Israel amounted to 846 million euros between 2003 and 2007. After France, the most important exports from Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic.

Ten of the 27 EU member state official, however, they do not sell weapons to Israel. These include Portugal, Ireland, Finland and Denmark.

Caroline Pailhe GRIP, a Belgian organization which monitors the arms trade, said at the presentation of the report in Brussels on Thursday that Israel's attack against Lebanon in summer 2006 seems to have been "no real impact" on military exports to Israel. The value of licenses approved by the EU countries has fallen to 127 million euros in 2006 compared to 145 million euros a year earlier. But then rose to 199 million euros in 2007.

Israel is becoming a major player in the global defense industry. It is both the sixth largest importer and fourth largest exporter. Last year was a record year for the industry. During the first six months, Israel sold $ 5.3 billion worth of weapons abroad, compared to $ 4.7 billion for all of 2007, according to the Chamber of Commerce Franco-Israeli.

The development of this industry was heavily subsidized by the U.S. during the period 1951-2006, the U.S. has provided Israel with $ 162 billion. In comparison, the entire sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest region of the world, received only 88 billion.

About 75 percent of bilateral aid from the United States to Israel has been provided by the through two programs: the Foreign Military Financing [Foreign Military Financing] to subsidize the sale of American weapons, and the Economic Support Fund [Economic Support Fund], which allocates grants to strategic allies.

Gerald Loftus, a former U.S. diplomat, said he expects that President Barack Obama does not reduce the magnitude of aid to Israel.

But Leila Shahid, the chief representative of the Palestinian Authority in Brussels, makes a distinction between the tone of foreign policy advocated by Obama and that carried by his predecessor George W. Bush. "Fear has been the leitmotif of all the policies of President Bush," she said during the presentation of the report. "He used fear against Islam and fear of a clash of civilizations. Obama rejected the idea of manipulating fear. "

Meanwhile, the former president of the Israeli Knesset Colette Avital has criticized the restrictions imposed by his government on the delivery of goods to Gaza.

Pharmacists in the Gaza Strip say they are unable to sell treatments against head lice in children sell braces for knees to those injured in the leg, and various medications, because Israel does not allow these items to be transported in the band. Books and newspapers were also banned from entering the Gaza Strip.

Avital, a leading member of the Israeli Labour Party, told IPS that she would support to ensure that equipment that could be used as an explosive is prevented from entering the Strip Gaza, but denied access to products that are available elsewhere are "counterproductive."

"I do not see the purpose of not allowing certain goods that are not destructive," she said during a visit to Brussels this week. "The books and medicines must pass."
I think we have the right, as French citizens to be informed of these facts by our media. And in the meantime to be outraged.

can also note this :
Israel is the number one partner of India in the field of defense. A contract of 1, 4 billion dollars was signed between the two countries to purchase anti-missile systems responsible for protecting the Indian coastline.

Guysen News:

Considered one of the largest agreements signed between the two countries is also the largest Indian military partnership agreement with a foreign country, to Russia, Sweden, Great Britain, France and the United States.
"We have a very special relationship in the defense field with India," said Udi Shani recently the General Director of the agency 'Sibat export' Ministry of Defence.

Last year, an arms contract of $ 2.5 billion had been reached between the two countries.
Meanwhile, the evil Russian :
Russia froze a contract to deliver MiG-31E fighter interceptors to Syria under pressure from Israel , said Wednesday the Russian daily Kommersant quoted sources in the military-industrial complex.

The contract, signed in Damascus in early 2007, provided for the sale to Syria of eight units for a total of 400-500 million dollars. It should be realized by the Sokol aircraft plant based in Nizhny Novgorod (Volga), the newspaper said.

According to a source close to Rosoboronexport, the Russian public corporation responsible for arms sales, the decision was taken under pressure from Israel, Syria's neighbor with which the Jewish state remains officially at war.