Gaza's children: 'Israel is creating a new generation of enemies' | World news
She seemed to represent the collective suffering of Gaza's children: a little girl, eyes cast down, a tear edging beneath her lashes, blood smeared over her forehead, anguish written into her face. Her picture was taken in the aftermath of the shelling of what was supposed to be a refuge from war, a UN school in Jabaliya. "The world stands disgraced," declared a shocked UN chief after 15 people died and more than 100 were injured. The girl whose image spread around the world is Najia Warshagha, who at the age of nine is already a veteran of three bloody and devastating conflicts in Gaza. Over four weeks of this war, at least 447 children have been killed and 2,744 injured, according to the UN. Thousands more – Najia among them – are deeply traumatised. Najia Warshagha was treated for injuries caused by an Israeli strike at a UN school in Jebaliya refugee camp, in Beit Lahiya, Gaza. Does she still think about it? Her mother, Majdolen, 31, fills in the gaps of Najia's spare account.
Biographie Theodor Herzl
L'Internaute > Dictionnaire > Noms Propres > Biographie > Theodor Herzl Theodor Herzl Né à Budapest (Hongrie) le 02/05/1860 ; Mort à Edlach (Autriche) le 03/07/1904 Theodor Herzl, écrivain juif d'origine hongroise, pense d'abord que l'assimilation des juifs aux différents peuples d'Europe se fera progressivement. Cependant, il considère à la suite de l'Affaire Dreyfus que cela ne pourra pas arriver. Lire la suite Theodor Herzl : 2 Dates
Genèse du conflit israélo-palestinien
Du mouvement sioniste aux Intifadas, en passant par la guerre des Six Jours et celle du Kippour, le conflit israélo-palestinien marque l'actualité depuis des décennies. Mais pourquoi le territoire de la Palestine historique est-il le théâtre d'autant de violence? Les tensions entre Israéliens et Palestiniens s'imbriquent dans un conflit qui tire son origine de la volonté de deux peuples d'occuper un même territoire, aujourd'hui divisé entre l'État d'Israël et les territoires palestiniens (la Cisjordanie et la bande de Gaza). La Palestine, une région du Moyen-Orient dont les frontières ont été modifiées à de nombreuses reprises au cours de l'histoire, a été habitée par plusieurs peuples depuis la préhistoire, dont les ancêtres des Juifs et des Arabes, qui revendiquent aujourd'hui le droit d'occuper cette terre. Vers la fin des années 1800, la région de la Palestine est sous l'administration de l'Empire ottoman et habitée principalement par des Arabes.
Why British people are protesting about Gaza, not Iraq | Lindsey German
The hundreds of thousands who have taken to the streets of Britain over the past month in support of and solidarity with the people of Gaza have seen their protests denounced by neocons and rightwingers because they aren’t about some other group of people, somewhere else. The “why don’t they march against something else” crowd accuse us of silence on those atrocities. There are certainly many terrible humanitarian disasters in the world, most recently that of the Yazidis in Iraq, about which we must all feel anguish. Last Saturday’s demonstration was the biggest ever pro-Palestine protest at 150,000. Why do people feel strongly enough to take to the streets over Gaza but not over other issues? Our former prime minister and absurdly named envoy for peace in the Middle East, Tony Blair, supports Israel’s foreign policy. Contrast this with Cameron’s support for intervention elsewhere and look at the consequences of those interventions.
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Nobel peace laureates and celebrities call for military embargo on Israel | Palestine Legal Action Network
An abridged version of this letter calling for the UN and governments to impose a military embargo on Israel was published in the Guardian on July 19 2014. The letter is signed by six Nobel peace laureates: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Adolfo Peres Esquivel, Jody Williams, Mairead Maguire, Rigoberta Menchú and Betty Williams. Other signatories include Noam Chomsky, Roger Waters from Pink Floyd, playwright Caryl Churchill, US rapper Boots Riley, João Antonio Felicio, the president of the International Trade Union Confederation, and Zwelinzima Vavi, the general secretary of the Confederation of South African Trade Unions. TAKE ACTION NOW - add your name to the call for a military embargo Nobel laureates, artists and public intellectuals call for immediate military embargo on Israel “With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Israel is one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of militarized drones. Signed by:
