Shimon Peres, the last member of Israel’s founding generation, was feted internationally as a visionary man of peace. His legacy is in fact far more complex, and often nefarious. He bears prime responsibility for the Oslo Accords, which created a Palestinian Authority without authority and enshrined Israeli control over all aspects of life in occupied Palestine. He launched the military operation that resulted in the Qana massacre of civilians in Lebanon, and sold nuclear weapons to the South African apartheid regime.
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Israel: The other, darker legacy of Shimon Peres
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USA: NY Governor Cuomo Announces Anti-BDS Legislation
9 June 2016, by siawi3New legislation prohibits New York’s public bodies from working with BDS, divest from companies and organizations advocating for them; UN Ambassador Danny Danon welcomes legislation, says it constitutes important blow to BDS movement.
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Palestine: Shimon Peres From The Perspective Of His Victims
1 October 2016, by siawi3The verdict on his life is very clear and was already pronounced by US President Barack Obama: Peres was a man who changed the course of human history in his relentless search for peace in the Middle East. My guess is that very few of the obituaries will examine Peres’ life and activities from the perspective of the victims of Zionism and Israel.
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Antisémitisme : le grand retour ? – « L’un des principaux vecteurs politiques des variantes ’postmodernes’ du populisme réactionnaire et autoritaire »
14 septembre 2016, par siawi3Depuis la création d’Israël, la propagande officielle, le discours du mouvement sioniste et des institutions représentatives des communautés juives ont toujours assimilé à de l’antisémitisme toute remise en cause radicale de cet Etat (que ce soit le fait de son existence, sa légitimité, les aspects religieux et ethnicistes de sa constitution).
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Israeli hysteria over UN vote is solidifying country’s new status, as a rogue state
29 December 2016, by siawi3President Obama’s decision to allow passage of a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements as illegal has done more to change the shape of the conflict than any other action in the last ten years.
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Isarël: An international consensus - settlements are illegal and harmful
2 January 2017, by siawi3At the Security Council, a rare international consensus was achieved. It was clearly and unequivocally resolved that the establishment of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is an impermissible act, contrary to International Law, and that the State of Israel must cease immediately and completely construction and expansion of settlements.
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Israël: Demonstrations this evening in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
18 January 2017, by siawi3Biased and tendentious media reports, couched in inciting and inflammatory tones – refusing to recognize that the residents were protesting the destruction of their village and homes, and labeling them as “terrorists " - are a direct continuation of the police violence on the ground.
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Israel : L’ancienne ministre israélienne Tzipi Livni interceptée en Belgique pour crimes de guerre ?
20 janvier 2017, par siawi3La justice belge tiendra-t-elle ses engagements ?
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Israel : Vives critiques de la communauté internationale après l’annonce d’une nouvelle colonie approuvée par Israël
1er avril 2017, par siawi3Israël a déclenché de vives réactions de la communauté internationale en approuvant, jeudi 30 mars, la création d’une colonie en plein cœur de la Cisjordanie occupée, la première établie par un gouvernement israélien depuis plus de 25 ans.L’arrivée au pouvoir de Donald Trump, considéré comme plus favorable aux positions israéliennes que son prédécesseur Barack Obama, a déjà donné lieu de la part d’Israël à cinq annonces d’extension de colonies portant sur plus de 6 000 logements en Cisjordanie et à Jérusalem-Est occupées.
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UN: Head of UN agency resigns after refusing to retract report calling Israel an ‘apartheid regime’
22 March 2017, by siawi3“The secretary-general demanded yesterday that I withdraw the report, and I refused,”
“It was expected that Israel and its allies would put enormous pressure on the United Nations secretary general to renounce the report.”
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