Dear Mikael,
Here it goes...below, click the link!
Abrazo
Azril

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you might find this one interesting too:



http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2015/01/slavoj-i-ek-charlie-hebdo-massacre-are-worst-really-full-passionate-intensity



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Dear friends!

In my view the best reflection on the recent Paris Massacre by Uri Avnery,
a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (alternative peace nobel price),
an over 90 young years-old israeli retired militar and one of the most
important progressive living peace activists in the world.

Abrazos

Azril

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Saturday, 17 January 2015

*Worlds in movement, worlds of movement…*

Here is a thought-provoking essay on Paris and its aftermath from the
perspective of a peace activist in Israel - arguably the world’s second
greatest terrorist state ? -, Uri Avnery, leader of the Israeli peace
movement Gush Shalom, earlier a soldier in the Israeli war of independence,
and who has served in the Israeli Knesset :











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*Uri Avnery*

*January 17, 2015*



*Waving in the first Row**   (Reflections on the recent Paris Massacre and
Zionism) *



*THE THREE Islamic terrorists could have been very proud of themselves, if
they had lived to see it.*



*By committing two attacks (quite ordinary ones by Israeli standards) they
spread panic throughout France, brought millions of people onto the
streets, gathered more than 40 heads of states in Paris. They changed the
landscape of the French capital and other French cities by mobilizing
thousands of soldiers and police officers to guard Jewish and other
potential targets. For several days they dominated the news throughout the
world.*



*Three terrorists, probably acting alone. Three!!!*





*FOR OTHER potential Islamic terrorists throughout Europe and America, this
must look like a huge achievement. It is an invitation for individuals and
tiny groups to do the same again, everywhere.*



*Terrorism means striking fear. The three in Paris certainly succeeded in
doing that. They terrorized the French population. And if three youngsters
without any qualifications can do that, imagine what 30 could do, or 300!*



*Frankly, I did not like the huge demonstration. I have been in many
demonstrations in my time, maybe more than 500, but always against the
powers that be. I have never participated in a demonstration called by the
government, even when the purpose was good. They remind me too much of the
late Soviet Union, Fascist Italy and worse. Not for me, thank you.*



*But this particular demonstration was also counterproductive. Not only did
it prove that terrorism is effective, not only did it invite copycat
attacks, but it also hurt the real fight against the fanatics.*



*To conduct an effective fight, one has to put oneself first into the shoes
of the fanatics and try to understand the dynamic that pushes young
local-born Muslims to commit such acts. Who are they? What do they think?
What are their feelings? In what circumstances did they grow up? What can
be done to change them?*



*After decades of neglect, that is hard work. It takes time and effort,
with results uncertain. Much easier for politicians to march in the street
in front of the cameras.*





*AND WHO marched in the first row, beaming like a victor?*



*Our own and only Bibi.*



*How did he get there? The facts came out within record time. Seems he was
not invited at all. On the contrary, President Francois Hollande sent
explicit messages: please, please don't come. It would turn the demo into a
show of solidarity with the Jews, instead of a public outcry for the
freedom of the press and other "republican values". Netanyahu came
nevertheless, with two extreme rightist ministers in tow.*



*Placed in the second row, he did what Israelis do: he shoved aside a black
African president in front of him and placed himself in the front row.*



*Once there, he began waving to the people on the balconies along the way.
He was beaming, like a Roman general in his triumphal parade. One can only
guess the feelings of Hollande and the other heads of state – who tried to
look appropriately solemn and mournful – at this display of Chutzpah.*



*Netanyahu went to Paris as part of his election campaign. As a veteran
campaigner, he knew that three days in Paris, visiting synagogues and
making proud Jewish speeches, were worth more than three weeks at home,
slinging mud.*





*THE BLOOD of the four Jews murdered in the kosher supermarket was not yet
dry, when Israeli leaders called upon the Jews in France to pack up and
come to Israel. Israel, as everybody knows, is the safest place on earth.*



*This was an almost automatic Zionist gut reaction. Jews are in danger.
Their only safe haven is Israel. Make haste and come. The next day Israeli
papers reported joyfully that in 2015 more than 10,000 French Jews were
about to come to live here, driven by growing anti-Semitism.*



*Apparently, there is a lot of anti-Semitism in France and other European
countries, though probably far less than Islamophobia. But the fight
between Jews and Arabs on French soil has little to do with anti-Semitism.
It is a struggle imported from North Africa.*



*When the Algerian war of liberation broke out in 1954, the Jews there had
to choose sides. Almost all decided to support the colonial power, France,
against the Algerian people.*



*That had a historical background. In 1870, the French minister of justice,
Adolphe Cremieux, who happened to be a Jew, conferred French citizenship on
all Algerian Jews, separating them from their Muslim neighbors.*



*The Algerian Liberation Front (FLN) tried very hard to draw the local Jews
to their side. I know because I was somewhat involved. Their underground
organization in France asked me to set up an Israeli support group, in
order to convince our Algerian co-religionists. I founded the "Israeli
Committee For A Free Algeria" and published material which was used by the
FLN in their effort to win over the Jews.*



*In vain. The local Jews, proud of their French citizenship, staunchly
supported the colonists. In the end, the Jews were prominent in the OAS,
the extreme French underground which conducted a bloody struggle against
the freedom fighters. The result was that practically all the Jews fled
Algeria together with the French when the day of reckoning arrived. They
did not go to Israel. Almost all of them went to France. (Unlike the
Moroccan and Tunisian Jews, many of whom came to Israel. Generally, the
poorer and less educated chose Israel, while the French-educated elite went
to France and Canada.)*



*What we see now is the continuation of this war between Algerian Muslims
and Jews on French soil. All the four "French" Jews killed in the attack
had North African names and were buried in Israel.*



*Not without trouble. The Israeli government put great pressure on the four
families to bury their sons here. They wanted to bury them in France, near
their homes. After a lot of haggling about the price of the graves, the
families finally agreed.*



*It has been said that Israelis love immigration and don't love the
immigrants. That certainly applies to the new "French" immigrants. In
recent years, "French" tourists have been coming here in large numbers.
They were often disliked. Especially when they started to buy up apartments
on the Tel Aviv sea front and left them empty, as a kind of insurance,
while young local people could neither find nor afford apartments in the
metropolitan area. Practically all these "French" tourists and immigrants
are of North African origin.*





*WHEN ASKED what drives them to Israel, their unanimous answer is:
anti-Semitism. That is not a new phenomenon. As a matter of fact, the vast
majority of Israelis, they or their parents or grandparents, were driven
here by anti-Semitism.*



*The two terms – anti-Semitism and Zionism – were born at almost the same
time, towards the end of the 19th century. Theodor Herzl, the founder of
the Zionist movement, conceived his idea when he was working in France as a
foreign correspondence of a Viennese newspaper during the Dreyfus affair,
when virulent anti-Semitism in France reached new heights.  (Anti-Semitism
is, of course, a misnomer. Arabs are Semites, too. But the term is
generally used to mean only Jew-haters.)*



*Later, Herzl wooed outspoken anti-Semitic leaders in Russia and elsewhere,
asking for their help and promising to take the Jews off their hands. So
did his successors. In 1939, the Irgun underground planned an armed
invasion of Palestine with the help of the profoundly anti-Semitic generals
of the Polish army. One may wonder if the State of Israel would have come
into being in 1948 if there had not been the Holocaust. Recently, a million
and a half Russian Jews were driven to Israel by anti-Semitism.*





*ZIONISM WAS born at the end of the 19th century as a direct answer to the
challenge of anti-Semitism. After the French revolution, the new national
idea took hold of all European nations, big and small, and all of the
national movements were more or less anti-Semitic.*



*The basic belief of Zionism is that Jews cannot live anywhere except in
the Jewish State, because the victory of anti-Semitism is inevitable
everywhere. Let the Jews of America rejoice in their freedom and prosperity
– sooner or later that will come to an end. They are doomed like Jews
everywhere outside Israel.*



*The new outrage in Paris only confirms this basic belief. There was very
little real commiseration in Israel. Rather, a secret sense of triumph. The
gut reaction of ordinary Israelis is: "We told you so!" and also: "Come
quickly, before it is too late!"*





*I HAVE often tried to explain to my Arab friends: the anti-Semites are the
greatest enemy of the Palestinian people. The anti-Semites have helped
drive the Jews to Palestine, and now they are doing so again. And some of
the new immigrants will certainly settle beyond the Green Line in the
occupied Palestinian territories on stolen Arab land.*



*The fact that Israel benefits from the Paris attack has led some Arab
media to believe that the whole affair is really a "false flag" operation.
Ergo, in this case, the Arab perpetrators were really manipulated by the
Israeli Mossad.*



*After a crime, the first question is "cui bono", who benefits? Obviously,
the only winner from this outrage is Israel. But to draw the conclusion
that Israel is hiding behind the Jihadists is utter nonsense.*





*The simple fact is that all Islamic Jihadism on European soil hurts only
the Muslims. Fanatics of all stripes generally help their worst enemies.
The three Muslim men who committed the outrages in Paris certainly did
Binyamin Netanyahu a great favor.*

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