If Americans Knew - what every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine Occupy AIPAC! | Home Palestine, Israël, foi chrétienne « évangélique » et objectivité – lettre à un pasteur évangélique (première partie) Bloggeur invité ; en français dans le texte. Cora a passé près d’une année à Bethlehem vivant et travaillant comme volontaire pour une organisation caritative dans un camp de réfugiés palestiniens. Elle a réalisé un documentaire sur la mémoire des évènements de 1948 : naissance d’un état pour les Israéliens ; «nakba » ou catastrophe pour les Palestiniens. Lorsqu’elle partage ses observations avec son pasteur (Serge-- nom changé pour préserver son anonymat) resté en France, Cora est confrontée par la difficulté de Serge à réconcilier la réalité que présente Cora de façon humaine et historique avec les présupposés plutôt traditionnels de la « pensée évangélique » par rapport à Israël, le « peuple de Dieu » et peut-être le future pré-ordonné et « apocalyptique » que doit connaitre la Terre Sainte. Les éléments de la réponse de Cora qui nous sont confiés ci-dessous sont une illustration de la nécessité de l’honnêteté quelque soit le rôle que nous avons — aussi modeste soit il. Elrig
The Israel Lobby Finds a New Face: Black College Students When Vincent Evans arrived as a bright-eyed first-year at Florida A&M, the country’s largest historically black university, he knew he wanted to get involved in politics. So when an older student leader approached him one afternoon after a student government meeting to ask if he wanted an all expenses paid trip to D.C., Evans jumped at the opportunity. The trip, it turned out, was sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, the country’s most powerful pro-Israel lobbying outfit. Israel is under growing attack from Palestinian and international activists who call the country a racist apartheid state. In response, its staunchest U.S. lobby is recruiting black students as moral shields to make the case for Israeli impunity. In his four years in college, Evans traveled to D.C. at least 10 times on AIPAC’s dime. “Within the program,” says Evans, “they make a concerted effort to reach out to HBCU and majority Hispanic schools.”
Evangélisme et sionisme préparent la guerre des civilisations… Charles Saint-Prot, historien, essayiste, géopolitologue et directeur de l’Observatoire d’Études Géopolitiques. Evangélisme et sionisme préparent la guerre des civilisations… La secte évangéliste et le jeu des Etats-Unis dans le monde arabe (Par Charles Saint-Prot, octobre 2005) Depuis quelques années, l’extrémisme religieux, c'est-à-dire l’instrumentalisation de la religion à des fins politiques, est devenu l’un des éléments essentiels de la géopolitique au Proche-Orient. Alors que certains milieux et médias ne cessent d’accuser l’Islam de tous les maux, les commentateurs restent discrets sur la responsabilité des sectes protestantes qui contribuent à radicaliser le conflit. On sait l’importance prise par la secte des évangélistes, dite « revivaliste », aux Etats-Unis où elle influence considérablement la politique de l’administration Bush. Dans le monde arabe, l’action de la secte évangéliste se présente sous un triple aspect: Source : Observatoire d'Études Géopolitiques
MJ Rosenberg: AIPAC's "War With Iran" Bill Passes House Committee Wasting no time after its success in getting the administration to oppose Palestinian statehood at the United Nations, and still celebrating the UNESCO funding cut-off, AIPAC has returned to its #1 priority: pushing for war with Iran. The Israelis have, of course, played their own part in the big show. In the last few weeks, it has been sending out signals that it is getting ready to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities (and embroil the United States in its most calamitous Middle East war yet). But most observers do not believe an Israeli attack is imminent. Naturally, the United States Congress, which gets its marching orders on Middle East policy from the lobby which, in turn, gets its marching orders from Binyamin Netanyahu, is rushing to do what it is told. Accordingly the House Foreign Affairs Committee hurriedly convened this week to consider a new "crippling sanctions" bill that seems less designed to deter an Iran nuclear weapon than to lay the groundwork for war. It reads:
Neocons: "Jesus Camp" (ou comment les enfants sont endoctrinés par les évangélistes aux Etats-Unis) (documentaire VOSTF Reportage d''Heidi Ewing et Rachel Grady "Nous nous sommes demandé ce que la montée en puissance du courant évangélique signifiait aux yeux d’Américains, qu’ils se définissent comme des humanistes laïques, ou des croyants convaincus que la séparation entre l’Eglise et l’Etat est un fondement de notre démocratie. Nous avons cherché à comprendre en quoi toute cette génération d’enfants endoctrinée par l’idéologie évangélique va peser sur l’avenir des Etats-Unis lorsqu’elle aura atteint l’âge adulte." (suite: Voir aussi: Photo: Url de cet article: Partager l'article ! inShare
Does AIPAC want war? Washington, DC - For all it has done to promote confrontation between the United States and Iran, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has worked to avoid the public perception that AIPAC is openly promoting war. In AIPAC's public documents, the emphasis has always been on tougher sanctions. (If you make sanctions "tough" enough - an effective embargo - that is an act of war, but it is still at one remove from saying that the US should start bombing.) But a new Senate effort to move the goalposts of US policy to declare it "unacceptable" for Iran to develop a nuclear weapons capability - not a nuclear weapon, but the technical capacity to create one - gives AIPAC the opportunity to make a choice which all can observe. Sponsors of the Lieberman resolution deny that it is an "authorisation for military force", and in a legal, technical sense, they are absolutely correct: it is not a legal authorisation for military force. The phrase "vital national interest" is a "term of art".
Détruire la Palestine ou comment terminer la guerre de 1948 - Middle East Watch Depuis l’occupation de 1967, les responsables politiques et militaires israéliens débattent de la meilleure façon de conserver le maximum de terres avec le minimum de Palestiniens. Les dirigeants de la "génération de 1948", Alon, Sharon, Dayan, Rabin, Pérès ont été élevés dans le mythe de la rédemption de la terre. Sharon, dans un entretien étonnamment candide avec Ari Shavit (Haaretz, supplément hebdomadaire, 13 avril 2001), a donné un aperçu de la vision du monde qui avait cours dans le Palmach (organisation militaire formée avant la création de l’Etat) et qui a essaimé depuis lors dans tout le système militaire du pays. Dans cet univers, tout baigne dans un cadre romantique, les champs, les vergers en fleurs, la charrue et la guerre. " Dans un interview de 1976, Moshé Dayan, qui était ministre de la Défense en 1967, exposa les raisons qui avaient alors poussé à attaquer la Syrie. La guerre de 1967 avait permis de gagner beaucoup de terres (et d’eau) .
Al Jazeera: What role does AIPAC play in US elections? | Occupy AIPAC! The American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the most powerful pro-Israel lobby in the US, is holding its biggest annual conference yet with around 13,000 delegates in Washington. For all those bidding to become the next US president, it has become an essential campaign stop. The group has strong ties to the religious right and evangelical voters. Demonstrators from the occupy movement held a small protest outside the event urging no war on Iran and no US tax dollars for Israel. On Sunday, Barack Obama, the US president, took to the stage and told the audience that Israel had never had a better friend in the White House. Three of the four Republican candidates bidding to unseat the US president addressed the conference on the biggest day of the nomination battle so far – ‘Super Tuesday’. Rick Santorum flew in especially for the event before heading back to Ohio, while Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich appeared via satellite link.
Russia, Israel and Media Omissions As is often the case with AP’s coverage of news having to do with Israel, there’s a serious omission in its reporting on the Russia-Israel connection even when it involves oil and the United States. The day after the State of the Union Address, two Interpol fugitives attended the "National Prayer Breakfast" held in Washington DC. The day before that, these fugitives from the law were the guests of honor at an hour-long meeting of the International Relations Committee on Capitol Hill, invited by ranking Democrat Tom Lantos (Calif.) You would think it would be hot news when wanted men being hunted by European police suddenly pop up in the US particularly on Capitol Hill and at events attended by the US president. Yet, there was not a single AP story in the US on any of this. [1] Not a single national network television or radio news program even mentioned these facts. Who are these fugitives from the law, wanted by Interpol, who are meeting at the highest levels of the US government?
Obama's Aipac speech – read the full text | World news Thank you. Well, good morning, everyone. Rosy, thank you for your kind words. I have never seen Rosy on the basketball court. I'll bet it would be a treat. Rosy, you've been a dear friend of mine for a long time and a tireless advocate for the unbreakable bonds between Israel and the United States. I want to thank the board of directors. I'm glad that my outstanding young ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, is in the house. Every time I come to Aipac, I'm especially impressed to see so many young people here. Shimon was born a world away from here, in a shtetl in what was then Poland, a few years after the end of the first world war. In his life, he has fought for Israel's independence, and he has fought for peace and security. Shimon once described the story of the Jewish people by saying it proved that, "slings, arrows and gas chambers can annihilate man, but cannot destroy human values, dignity, and freedom". For over six decades, the American people have kept that faith.