E’ molto presto quando il telefono comincia a squillare. Ci strappa dal sonno meritato dopo questi giorni intensi, in cui cerchiamo di capire qualcosa in più del fantasma che si aggira minaccioso su queste terre: l’evacuazione di 8 villaggi per fare spazio alla Firing Zone 918.
E’ presto e la vita del paese deve ancora cominciare ma, mentre A. risponde e cerca di capire la voce concitata dall’altra parte del telefono noi, annusando casini, siamo già pronti.
Avevano formato un cordone, una barriera umana che non permettesse a nessuno di entrare.
Tutti potevano assistere all’orrore della distruzione, ma nessuno poteva avvicinarsi.
Pensavo durasse poco. Quanto ci vorrà a buttarla giù? – mi chiedevo. Massimo dieci minuti – rispondevo.
EU committee of Middle East experts recommends move in response to a report on settler violence showing their increasing strength and impunity.
by Barak Ravid – Nov. 26, 2012
The European Union is recommending a blacklist of “known violent settlers” who will be blocked from entering EU member states, a Western diplomat told Haaretz.
The diplomat said no final decision has been made at the foreign ministers level, but that the EU’s committee of Middle East experts has recommended going ahead with the process. The issue is expected to come up for discussion at one of the upcoming EU foreign ministers meetings.
In January of this year, the consuls general of the EU countries in East Jerusalem and Ramallah wrote a report dealing with settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, especially the incidents the settlers refer to as “price tag” revenge attacks.
As she listens to the rockets mortar bombs raining in her yard, a resident of Kibbutz Kfar Aza asks the government to rethink its operation on the Gaza Strip.
I am sitting in my safe room in Kibbutz Kfar Aza and listening to the bombardment of the all-out war outside. I am no longer able to distinguish between “our” bombardments and “theirs.” The truth is that the kibbutz children do this better than I do, their “musical ear” having been developed since they were very young, and they are able to differentiate between an artillery shell and a missile fired from a helicopter and between a mortar bomb and a Qassam. Good for them.
Is this what “defending the home” looks like? I don’t understand – did all our leaders sleep through their history classes? Or maybe they studied the Mapai school curriculum or that of Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar (to my regret, the difference is not all that great) – and have wrongly interpreted the word “defense”? Does defending the well being of citizens mean a war of armageddon every few years? Hasn’t any politician ever heard of the expression “long-term planning?”
Posted on November 14, 2012
I am free.
My body has followed, now, to where I sought to keep my soul throughout this process, and I am free.
Inaspettatamente Ramallah.
Inaspettatamente la potenza di un comitato di resistenza popolare entra nelle stanze del potere. Inaspettatamente travolge i ben vestiti fantocci dei partiti, ruba loro le sedie, la parola, lo spazio politico e si riappropria del diritto a esprimere le proprie esigenze senza intermediari, nella forma più alta di democrazia, laddove uno Stato non esiste.
At-Tuwani – La mattina del 6 novembre l’esercito israeliano ha demolito una casa e una stalla nel villaggio palestinese di Ad Deirat; in seguito ha demolito una casa e una cisterna per l’acqua nel villaggio palestinese di Jawwaya, nelle colline a sud di Hebron, Cisgiordania.
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