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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.

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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.

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The Hariri case shakes ... Western journalists

After a period of attention extraodinaire, following the murder of Rafik Hariri, with daily news analysis of Syrian involvement, the case has more or less sunk into oblivion.

past few weeks, a series of events relayed by the news agencies have landed in the newsroom. The Western reader will however have to follow these new twists as short articles, but it is really possible to follow a certain continuity.

But despite a series of twists that turn the thing in the bazaar's most comprehensive, in recent days is a single article of Spiegel that our media have decided to relay.

1 March 2009, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) began its work .

Marwan Hamadeh said:

This court is a major turning point for Lebanon and an example for the entire region because it will demonstrate that impunity has ended.

But four days earlier, a passionate information does not geo-strategists of our media:

The Lebanese judiciary has decided to release on bail the brothers Mahmoud and Ahmad Abdel Aal and the Syrian Ibrahim Jarjoura, suspected to have ignored information and misled the investigators error after the attack that claimed the life of former Prime Minister.

is sufficiently large so that our media would contrefichent. Why release just before the start of the court who are accused of having directed the investigation into the Syrian track by false testimony, false testimony, many of whom say they were bought by the "majority" in Lebanon?

Despite the subject (the release of men accused of having borne false testimony involving the four Lebanese generals and authorities Syrian, perhaps bribed by relatives of Saad Hariri), the article addresses only the Libe charges against Lebanese generals (the four generals were indicted for "premeditated murder", "attempted murder premeditation "and" terrorist acts "), and repeat the accusations against Syria (" The first two reports of the Commission of Inquiry of the UN, created two months after the murder of wealthy businessman had found "converging evidence" about the involvement of information Syrian and Lebanese and cited the names of relatives of President Bashar al-Assad. "). Charges which, at this moment, the only "evidence" known are the false testimony of three men who have just been released dramatically just before the establishment of the STL.

March 2, full insurance, Laurent Joffrin is some evidence of its :

Anyone who approached a little bit the folder Rafik Hariri know that the Syrian secret services are involved, very much or a little further in the assassination of Lebanese leader. That belief, in any case, investigators who have succeeded to solve the crime. This is the rationale for the international tribunal which has just set up in the Netherlands. In this case, as in many other criminal events in Lebanon, all roads lead to Damascus.

Next Joffrin that explicitly defines perfect as "investigation against him", Jean-Pierre Perrin him, we lay a folder full of accusation in the same issue: "An attack the Syrian .

In a very dramatic, not only Laurent Joffrin knows that after the murder Syrians are behind it without the need for an international tribunal, but Jean-Pierre Perrin said bluntly that everyone knew they were the murderers even before the attack was committed.

And there patatra, April 29, " The Special Tribunal for Lebanon orders release of four generals .

The four subjects are the general Jamil Mohamad Amin El Sayed, Ali Salah al-Din al-Hajj, Raymond Azar and Mostafa Fouad Hamdan Fehmi, the court said in a statement.

Again, it is huge, and our media have difficulty summarize the situation. There is more "Syrian track" (at least publicly known), since the four unique charged with the murder just been released. As for those who had borne false witness against them, they were released by the Justice Lebanonization late February (we shall therefore do not further the sponsors and the reason for the false testimony).

Western media are struggling to write it: there are no more accused, indicted or jailed in the Hariri case. Can you imagine a worse situation? Joffrin Laurent and Jean-Pierre Perrin are candidates to suicide by the ridiculous (unfortunately, it is a form of suicide, particularly long and painful, which can last a lifetime).

In Lebanon, Hamadeh and Saad Hariri claim to trust in international justice, and that kind of nonsense. But Robert Fisk explicit, April 30, the new propaganda of the "anti-Syrian majority" in The Independent .

Once More The A donkey clip-clopping it to the World stage after The Murder of Mr Hariri, has Been Proved a mule. [...] Barack Obama's new friendship With President Bashar al-Assad of Syria must be going great guns. [...] So Who Killed Rafiq Hariri? Until yesterday, the Lebanese, whose protests after the massacre forced the Syrian army out of Lebanon, thought they knew. And who was it who wanted, as President of the United States, to open a new door to the Syrians? President Obama. And who was it who stood next to Rafiq Hariri's son, Saad, in Beirut, three days ago, to assure him of US support? Why, Mr Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, of course.

On se frotte les yeux. Selon la propagande haririenne, désormais: la Tribunal international est instrumentalisé politiquement par les États-Unis, et les États-Unis ont décidé de vendre le Liban à leurs nouveaux amis syriens. Évidemment, si vous aviez prétendu, quelques semaines earlier, that the international inquiry was politically manipulated by the Americans, you were a terrible propaganda of the Iranian-Syrian axis.

Since, of course, all alternative theories resurface.

The most spectacular are the statements Wayne Madsen on Russia Today . He claims it is a "death squad" the orders of Dick Cheney who committed the crime. It would be based on revelations to come from Seymour Hersh. The latter has denied it a few days ago, having made the statements attributed to him (which seemed yet quite clear: Hersh is not born of the last rain of the kind to tell his scoops "off" before he finished writing a book or an article). But the video and these "revelations" have already made the rounds of Internet Lebanese for example on this site Belgian Aounist movement.

Ignoring even the court's decision to release Lebanese generals, Georges Malbrunot are hot on the trail of "Islamist performers" from Saudi Arabia and Iraq (April 29). Performers who would therefore Islamist Sunni groups linked to already known in Lebanon. Despite references to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Sunni Salafists, Malbrunot still arises the question:

What can be the instigators of this crime? Syria? Iran? The two, assisted by Hezbollah?

May 15, Syria Comment advantage of this "Islamist track" to drive the point and explain that "theory easiest " is that these Islamist groups had their own motives to assassinate Hariri and that 'they may well have acted on their own.

And during that time, Lebanon is stop over stop spies in the service Mossad. And "Tracking the Mossad" in the Hariri case is, of course, essential in Lebanon (and not, as is imagined liberation because of morbid paranoia Hezbollah).

Labévière Richard is back and publishes The Killing of Ehden and curse of Christian Arabs , in which he accused the Mossad of having organized the massacre perpetrated by the clan Frangieh Samir Geagea in 1978. Nothing to do with the Hariri case, but since Geagea is still there, that the Mossad also ...

short, It's the cure: the thesis previously supported by the West and its allies in Lebanon has (at least apparently) collapsed, and theories more or less opposite, more or less credible, sprouting like mushrooms. With parliamentary elections in June.

All these alternative theories have been carefully removed from the ears of poor citizens (because why not). It has already done a walk once, it will perhaps be careful now.

Except. Der Spiegel published an article in German announcing new "evidence" a new "track": the international inquiry holds evidence of direct culpability of Hezbollah, and refuses to make public the evidence for unknown reasons. Hezbollah denies, AFP is a telegram.

The article was republished May 23 in English and French media seized these "revelations" (the Journal of the World, tonight on LCI, offered as a daily show itself staggering) .

Liberation :

The commission of inquiry to shed light on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is now directed to a track leading to the Shiite movement Hezbollah, says the German weekly Der Spiegel.

When the Figaro, it does not conditional in its title: " Hariri Assassination: The investigation accuses Hezbollah "

The main concern with this article from Der Spiegel is right able to present new evidence as a turning point in the investigation, the exact content of an article previously published by George Malbrunot in the Figaro ... August 19, 2006, entitled "The Shadow Hezbollah on the assassination of Hariri .

Not only is the track itself (Hezbollah), but how to solve the case and track down those responsible are exactly identical. We have a group of users of mobile phones, used to track the movements of Rafik Hariri, then these phones are no longer used from the day of the attack. But the error of one of its members is precisely to make a single phone call, allowing investigators to trace the entire network.

This scenario is identical to the version of Malbrunot in Le Figaro, 19 August 2006 (that would include "a close to Saad Hariri) and the version of Der Spiegel May 23, 2009.

Three years apart, the same scenario, just add the words "New Evidence", "new and explosive results" and "Intensive investigations in Lebanon are all pointing to a new conclusion" ... so that all the French media resume, including Le Figaro, Le Figaro that had already published as revelations "reliable source".

And George Malbrunot, yet continues to write to the Figaro, was unaware that his "track Hezbollah" would be warmed by the Germans when he evoked recently, the track of "performers Islamist (Sunni).

I'm not totally upset that the media here do not mention any alternative theories about the murder of Rafik Hariri. Step back and investigate before publishing anything does not hurt. Unfortunately, the sudden enthusiasm for the new "revelations" of Spiegel shows that this was not a concern back and kept our investigative journalists.

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How to prevent Syria and Iran to censor the Web?

regularly friends of democracy who run Syria find a good reason to cut off access to Facebook. Today it is friends of democracy who rule Iran which cut off access to Facebook. In a less publicized, sometimes friends of democracy who lead the UAE also cut access to Facebook.

this subject between the two right in our concerns for civil liberties in love what Nicolas Sarkozy:

- Carla denounce censorship when it is practiced by countries that did not please George W. Bush

- institute control of the Internet scale in France without being taken for a terrible Islamofascists.

Two ideas seem hard to reconcile, the World Company which Microsoft has yet to find a brilliant solution: Internet censorship in countries of the Axis of Evil before they can themselves the do!

Microsot decided this week to put out its Windows Live service Messene from five countries: Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan and North Korea. These five countries have little in common, except that Microsoft is apparently concerned that the U.S. imposes a embargo. Users of these countries are showing the following error: "810003c1: We Were Unable to sign you in to the. NET Messenger Service." The user is not informed of the real reason for the blockage. Currently, it is unclear the extent of blockade or duration.

Is not it great? One stone two birds were censored at the source of the internet service, and at the same time it mocks the critics who have no means to do so themselves.

And that with Hadopi was thought to nose at Ricans!

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Those who want to burn books

I quote MYSELF: A movement

similar occurred to boycott the book fair in Paris. Question that had no media coverage, but a "preparation" upstream, against the boycott. February 16, regarding the boycott of the Turin Salon, Marek Halter as his Le Monde: " Help, burning books! . The article was hallucinating, so that certainly they burn books, but TF1 does not make the front page of tomorrow. March 13, Inauguration Day, everything is ready for the World, which is suddenly the subject that everyone knew the theme of his editorial, "The Fair hostage" (the call for a boycott is called "fatwa": "Boycotting books, or even challenge a language, has always been the weapon of dictators. "), and complete with a pathetic article Fourest Caroline," Israel, boycotts and reason "(do not go to the Book Fair" remember when books were burned and Jews after having boycotted ). The same evening, inaugurating the fair, Shimon Peres, without any consultation with this broad movement of international outrage against the boycott, being totally original comment: "Those who want burn books, boycott wisdom, prevent reflection, block freedom to condemn themselves to be blind, lose freedom . What is called a communication perfectly controlled. So here

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Israeli police closed down the Palestinian National Theatre in East Jerusalem, Saturday, May 23, to prevent the holding of the Palestine Festival of Literature , reported the Guardian and the Telegraph Palestine.

The festival, which lasted all weekend, greets Palestinian and international authors, including Henning Mankell, Michael Palin and Ahdaf Soueif. Minutes before the opening of the cultural event, police has closed the theater, saying it was a manifestation of a political nature, linked to the Palestinian Authority, reports the Guardian. The festival is funded by UNESCO and Britain, among others.