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• “I fought South African apartheid. I see the same brutal policies in Israel”
  15 April 2019, by siawi3

  Ethnic cleansing, land seizure, home demolition, military occupation, bombing of Gaza and international law violations led Archbishop Tutu to declare that the treatment of Palestinians reminded him of apartheid, only worse.

• Israel: state and religion
  29 November 2010, by siawi2
  http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1290871909
  The Original Sin
  Uri Avnery
  27/11/10
  A FRIEND of mine in Warsaw told me about a Polish journalist who visited Israel for the first time. On his return he reported with great  (...)
• Tensions in Israel over funding of ultra-Orthodox schools
  30 October 2010, by siawi

  During its six decades of existence, Israel has maintained a shaky alliance with its ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority that allowed most religious men to avoid military service, attend separate schools and get paid by the state to study the Bible instead of entering the work force.

  But this system is coming under new scrutiny, pressured by a series of Supreme Court rulings, an ambitious education minister and the hugely unpopular cost of sustaining a fast-growing ultra-Orthodox population that has few skills for the 21^st century and now accounts for one in four Jewish first graders — and growing.

• Tension between the religious and the secular in Israel
  8 October 2010, by siawi

  JUST 42% of adult Israeli Jews define themselves as secular, according to recent official figures. The rest range from mildly to devoutly religious. And because the most religious seem to have the most children, the secular figure is likely to keep shrinking. In this demographic and cultural scene, politics is more than ever a matter of finely calibrating a religious-secular balance. The latest effort to tip things the religious way comes from Eli Yishai, leader of the largest Orthodox party, Shas, who is minister of the interior. He wants his ministry’s computers to rest on the Sabbath. Specifically, he wants to prevent people paying their bills online on a Saturday.

• Israel/France: Support to boycott activists / Soutien aux militants du boycott
  13 October 2010, by siawi2
  Tomorrow (October 14) is the opening of the trial of French MP Alima Boumediene-Thiery. Like other BDS activists in France, she is accused of “inciting racial hatred” because of her support for the BDS campaign to end the occupation. In recent  (...)
• FRANCE/ISRAEL: Anti-Palestinian lobbyists attack a journalist
  14 October 2010, by siawi2
  Charles Enderlin, victime d’une campagne d’ intox
  Source: L’Humanité , 11 Octobre, 2010
  Le journaliste publie Un enfant est mort, où il veut comprendre la campagne de haine qu’il endure depuis dix ans à la suite des images de France 2 de la mort du  (...)
• Iran, Israel & the U.S.: The Slide To War
  24 February 2012, by siawi3

  If there was a war... Iran will be the victim here, but there will be some who
  would take advantage of a war. An attack would unify the
  country around what is now a rather unpopular government,
  allow the Revolutionary Guard to crush its opposition, and
  give cover to the current drive by the Ahmadinejad
  government to cut subsidies for transportation, housing and
  food. A war would cement the power of the most reactionary
  elements of the current regime.

• Is Israel giving in to Jewish fundamentalism?
  4 December 2013, by siawi3

  There’s an urgent need to separate real people from those pretending to be speaking for the people. I fear those it-has-to-be-the-Israel-we-want fundamentalists more than I fear all others.

• Jews and Fundamentalism
  4 December 2013, by siawi3

  The fundamentalist view is that there is a single truth, that the people who share this truth are tied in an unbroken chain to the past, and that this truth is not limited to the private domain but can and should be imposed on the public square. Came the emergence of study in Israeli yeshivas and women’s seminaries or midrashot as an essential part of Orthodox education for American Jews - something that began as a kind of extra insurance against the seductions of American contemporary culture that the young were expected to encounter in college. This further helped transform the modern Orthodox into a more fundamentalist mode. Those who came back home came back ready to transform the Orthodox world into a far more fundamentalist one.

• Israël : le réveil des laïcs n’est pas une garantie pour la paix
  9 décembre 2013, par siawi3
  http://www.lefigaro.fr/mon-figaro/2013/01/23/10001-20130123ARTFIG00602-israel-le-reveil-des-laics-n-est-pas-une-garantie-pour-la-paix.php
  Israël : le réveil des laïcs n’est pas une garantie pour la paix
  Mots clés : Législatives israéliennes,  (...)

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