11-Septembre : La chaine publique italienne RAI-2 donne une leçon de journalisme aux autres grands médias

Dans sa très populaire émission "La Storia siamo Noi" (L’Histoire, c’est nous) sur la 2e chaine publique italienne RAI-2, le célèbre journaliste italien Giovanni Minoli a diffusé ce 26 août de longs extraits du film "Loose Change – An American Coup" en appuyant par ses commentaires les principales questions posées par le Mouvement pour la vérité sur le 11/9. Après chaque extrait, le journaliste commente les points posant problème : l’effondrement aussi unique qu’étonnant des Tours Jumelles ; les "martyrs de l’islam" accros à l’alcool et au sexe ; les avions qui se volatilisent ; le passeport retrouvé intact avant(1) l’effondrement des Tours ; les explosions dans le bâtiment 7 ; mais surtout "ces coïncidences, ces événements étranges, ces contradictions, et ces témoignages qui se contredisent…". Un sacré pavé dans la mare médiatique italienne à quelques jours de la commémoration des 10 ans des attentats.

11/9 : La télé publique italienne remet en cause... by ReOpen911 Extraits vidéos de l’émission sous-titrés en français Montage de Massimo Mazzucco suite>>

Agrexco, 1er exportateur israélien de fruits, va mettre la clé sous la porte

Le groupe Agrexco-Carmel, principal exportateur israélien de fruits et légumes et cible de campagnes de boycott en Europe, va mettre la clé sous la porte la semaine prochaine, rapporte mercredi le quotidien des affaires israélien TheMarker. Selon le journal, cette entreprise coopérative est endettée à hauteur de 160 millions de shekels (31 millions d’euros) et sa liquidation devrait être prononcée le 11 septembre par un tribunal de commerce.
TheMarker cite la juge du tribunal Varda Alshech attribuant les difficultés d’Agrexco à des gaspillages et à une mauvaise gestion. "La compagnie a investi massivement dans des navires, ce qui a largement contribué à son naufrage dans les eaux profondes de la faillite", a affirmé la juge citée par le journal. En février, des associations françaises pro-palestiniennes avaient accusé le groupe israélien d’exporter illégalement des produits provenant des implantations de Judée-Samarie. suite>>

Switzerland will not release frozen Egyptian assets before Mubarak is sentenced

Confusion surrounds the validity of a new Swiss law dealing with the return of illegal assets in the case of Egypt

The Swiss embassy in Cairo has stated that for frozen Egyptian assets held in Switzerland to be returned, ousted president Hosni Mubarak, and other members of his regime suspected of corruption, will have to be tried and convicted.
Egyptian officials have recently stated that a judicial commission is being formed to start talks with Switzerland. The commission was meant to reach an agreement with Switzerland to see 412 million swiss francs, previously held in the accounts of former Egyptian regime figures, are refunded to Egypt.

According to the new Swiss law, which dictates that illegal assets can be refunded, Egyptian officials believed they could secure for Egypt the return of its assets. more>>

Flexions sur la question juive

Le Man Booker Prize 2010 arrive en France. C'est «La Question finkler», un roman maniaque frappé au coin du nonsense. Fameux.

Howard Jacobson © Jenny Jacobson

La «question juive» n'a rien d'une question, notamment parce qu'elle n'appelle aucune réponse. Howard Jacobson, décrit abusivement comme le Philip Roth anglais (lui qui préférerait être le «Jane Austen juif»), retourne cette fameuse «question» dans tous les sens avec «la Question finkler», roman maniaque qui puise autant dans la minutie rabbinique que dans l'absurde British.
Ce pilpoul frappé au coin du nonsense, couronné par le Man Booker Prize, répond à la question juive par une question: pose-t-on jamais la même question juive que son voisin? Celle de Marx n'est pas celle de Sartre. Celle de Julian Treslove, le protagoniste, qui n'est pas juif, est formulée ainsi: «Suis-je juif?» Il doute de sa non-judéité depuis qu'une femme lui a volé son portefeuille en le traitant de «youpin». C'est du moins ce qu'il a voulu entendre. suite>>
 

Promoting Middle Eastern Food, Culture

In these parts – "these parts" being McLean and Vienna – Labor Day weekend is more than barbecues and pool parties. It also brings the area’s largest food festival, a celebration of traditional Middle-eastern delicacies, and music and dance, augmented with pony rides and moon bounces for children, vendors and tours of the Byzantine-styled church. On Sept. 3 and 4, Holy Transfiguration Melkite Greek-Catholic Church hosts its 18th annual Middle Eastern Food Festival on the church’s grounds.

“I really believe what distinguishes us from other festivals are our people, their enthusiasm,” said Protodeacon and festival chairman, David Baroody. “It’s really their enthusiasm and hospitality, and welcoming nature to everybody. Everyone who comes is welcomed in the same manner of warmth.”

Outside on the back lawn, volunteers grill chicken, beef and lamb. In the kitchen, volunteers prepare stuffed grape leaves and authentic Middle Eastern side dishes from handed-down recipes. The recipes, Baroody said, have been in families for generations, as are many of the cultural traditions.

Forget the diet … the Middle Eastern pastries — gooey, syrupy, nutty — would make the sugar plum fairy swoon. Baklawa, maamoul — date-filled shortbread cookies — and other typical Middle Eastern sweets, line tables across the hall. They partner with American favorites, from cakes and cookies to brownies and fudge. more>>

"Shoah", l'embarrassante offensive de Lanzmann

Le cinéaste s'insurge contre la disparition supposée, dans les manuels scolaires, du terme que son film à popularisé.

 Le cinéaste et écrivain Claude Lanzmann, auteur du film "Shoah", en 2009. © Sipa 

"Un mauvais coup", "négationniste" ; une "action néfaste", menée "d'une façon particulièrement perverse" "à la faveur de l'été". Lundi, Claude Lanzmann signait dans Le Monde une tribune dans laquelle il s'insurgeait violemment contre une circulaire, "parue dans le Bulletin officiel n° 7 de septembre 2010" et appliquée pour la première fois à la rentrée 2011, demandant que soit remplacé dans les manuels d'histoire le terme de "Shoah" par celui d'"anéantissement des Juifs et des Tsiganes". Ce "bannissement" du mot doit en effet, selon lui, être rapproché de deux autres faits : l'introduction, dans l'un des nouveaux manuels d'histoire de première, du terme "naqba", par lequel les Palestiniens désignent l'expulsion de leurs terres au terme de la première guerre israélo-arabe de 1948 (et qui, comme "shoah" en hébreu, signifie en arabe "catastrophe") ; et d'autre part la procédure disciplinaire engagée il y a plusieurs mois contre une enseignante d'histoire, Catherine Pederzoli, "au prétexte qu'elle avait utilisé quatorze fois le terme de Shoah dans son cours". Autant d'épisodes où Claude Lanzmann voit une sournoise "guerre du nom". suite>>

Turquie: Un pas positif envers les minorités

Les organisations non musulmanes de Turquie vont enfin retrouver les biens dont elles ont été spoliées en 1936. Grecs, Arméniens et Juifs saluent cette décision, prise le 27 août par le gouvernement d'Ankara.

Le gouvernement turc, dirigé par l'AKP, a publié, le 27 août, un décret qui va permettre que soient rendus aux minorités non musulmanes de Turquie (Arméniens, Grecs et Juifs) les biens immobiliers que l'Etat turc leur a confisqués en 1936, année où toutes les organisations non musulmanes ont été obligées de présenter les listes de ce qu'elles possédaient. Si ces biens ont été vendus, le gouvernement s'engage à verser une compensation aux intéressés. Cette décision, attendue depuis longtemps, a suscité des réactions très positives dans les communautés concernées ainsi que dans la presse turque. suite>>

Democracy 101 for Egypt

sent by Elie Mangoubi

Tonight’s class at the School for Politics, in the Egyptian Democratic Academy (EDA), focuses on socialism versus liberalism and the meaning of a civil state. The students are men and woman in their 20s or beyond, who’ve arrived at the end of their work or university day to spend the next four hours on a balcony turned classroom. The heat is only occasionally broken by a single rotating fan, and the noise from the traffic below is relentless. But no one seems to mind, and all eyes are on Esraa Nouh, the 25-year-old teacher. She wants to know: what have her students heard about liberalism? continued on thenation>>

Mondialisation : la fin des religions ?

envoyé par Lily Khodara

Vouées à s’opposer entre elles, toutes les religions monothéistes se rejoignent toutefois sur un point. A l'aune de la mondialisation, elles perdent de leurs valeurs, juge Elie Arié qui observe qu'il ne leur restera bientôt que des attributs artificiels : rituels et autres signes extérieurs d’appartenance...

 (Béatification de Jean Paul II - Wikimedia - Gabriella C. Marino)

Toutes les religions ont été, à leur origine, l’équivalent de nos Constitutions actuelles : des systèmes de valeurs dirigeant le fonctionnement d’une société. Les chefs de l’exécutif ne pouvaient l’être que de droit divin. Elles ne peuvent être qu’intransigeantes, incompatibles avec leur remise en question, et vouées à s’opposer entre elles et à tout autre système de valeurs. Les compromis tels que la tolérance mutuelle, les ébauches d’œcuménisme ne pouvant jamais aller bien loin, la marginalisation de leurs courants intégristes néanmoins toujours tolérés, ou l’acceptation, de mauvaise grâce, de la laïcité ne sont que des paix armées imposées par les rapports de force du moment et toujours susceptibles d’être remis en question. suite>>

Egyptian Billionaire Sentenced To Jail For Financial Irregularities

A Cairo court accused Samih Sawiris, a member of Egypt’s wealthiest family, of providing conflicting information regarding his holding company’s ownership in its subsidiary Orascom Hotels and Development. It sentenced him to two years in jail, and ordered him to pay fines and bail. The company and Sawiris claim the allegations are unfounded. This past Saturday, Sawiris paid $3,376 in bail, and the company appealed the decision. Orascom says the judgment has been suspended, and it is currently trying to settle charges.  more>>

September Program Highlights at the Center for Jewish History

September 2011

September Program Highlights
Welcome to a New Season!
Thursday, September 15, 6:30pm
Center for Jewish History presents:
Genesis: Imagining the Beginning of Time

Lecture     The approach of the New Year heightens our awareness of the cycle of Jewish time and its distinctive nature.  Elisheva Carlebach, Salo W. Baron Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, will give an illustrated talk in honor of the coming New Year on Jewish conceptions of time and how these are interwoven with the Jewish sense of history and represented in Jewish imagery.  Her most recent book is Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe.
Admission: Free; reservations required at SmartTix
Click here to make reservations for this event. A Continuing Conversation: Moses Mendelssohn and the Legacy of the Enlightenment

Courtesy Leo Baeck Institute, New York.

Presented by the Center for Jewish History
with the Leo Baeck Institute and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU:

Symposium
Sunday, September 18, 12:30pm - 6pm

A day of discussion and debate devoted to exploring the thought and legacy of Moses Mendelssohn, the 18th-century founder of modern Jewish thought. A group of international scholars will highlight recent scholarship related to contemporary issues in religion, secularism, politics, culture, language and identity.
Admission: $20 general; $15 CJH, LBI members, $8 seniors, students
Click here to make reservations for this event

Exhibition
September 12 - December 31, 2011

This exhibition explores the theme of conversation in Mendelssohn’s life and legacy, including in his relationships, his writings, and his concepts of Judaism and the Enlightenment.  This treasure trove of images, documents, personal ephemera and first editions in several languages is taken primarily from the archives of the Leo Baeck Institute with contributions from the YIVO Institute and the American Sephardi Federation.  Organized by the Leo Baeck Institute and the Center for Jewish History.  Free admission. For more details on the Mendelssohn Symposium and Exhibition, please visit www.cjh.org/mendelssohn.

Mais où est Kadhafi ?

Israel sends 2 warships to Egyptian border

JERUSALEM: The Israeli military says it has sent two more warships to the Red Sea border with Egypt following warnings that militants are planning another attack on southern Israel from Egyptian soil.
Earlier this week, Israel's military ordered more troops to the border following intelligence reports of an impending attack.
Israel's home front minister said Tuesday that militants from the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad are in Egypt's Sinai peninsula waiting to attack

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Aug-30/147596-israel-sends-2-warships-to-egyptian-border.ashx#ixzz1WWb86Kd9
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15 of the First Female Professors in History

There are more female professors today than there ever have been at any point in history, but academia still remains a man’s world — especially in majors like philosophy, engineering and computer science, where female professors are few and far between. While there is undeniably room for improvement, that shouldn’t overshadow the amazing achievements of women who fought a long, hard battle to win a place in the hallowed halls of colleges and universities around the world. Here are some amazing women from history — who today’s professors can thank for paving the way — who earned a professorship job despite a wide range of gender-based obstacles and prejudices against them.

 Arria (2nd-3rd century AD)

1. Not a lot is known about Arria, and much of what is comes through the writings of Galen, a Greek physician and philosopher who greatly admired her. Arria is said to have been a philosophy professor (and possibly also taught mathematics and astronomy), and was likely very similar to Hypatia in her beliefs and teaching methods. Whoever she was, she must have been doing something right, as Diogenes dedicated his text Lives of the Philosophers to her.

2. Hypatia (400 AD)

   Daughter of Theon of Alexandria, a mathematics professor and librarian at the Library of Alexandria, Hypatia was familiar with the academic world from a very early age. As she grew up, she would become a renowned scholar in her own right and eventually became the head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, teaching mathematics, philosophy and astronomy. She was such an important scholar that some historians even claim her death (murder at the hands of a mob of monks) marked the beginning of the end for Classical thought. continued>>

You’ve Got The Beat!

A Cultural History Behind the Music of Sephardi/Mizrachi Selichot

By Atara Arbesfeld

It's that time of year again. Jews around the world are encouraged to reflect and repent the month before the start of the Jewish New Year, from the beginning of Elul until Rosh Hashana. Other than listening to the almost daily shofar blasts, many Jews of Sephardi and Mizrachi origin have the tradition of reciting the Selichot service during Shacharit prayers for the entire month before Rosh Hashana.

The custom of Selichot originated in the Aggadah. Tanna De'vei Eliyahu, Chap. 23 tells us that King David cried before G-d and pleaded with Him to find a way for the Jewish people to attain atonement for their sins. G-d responded that if the Jewish people would gather together, confess their sins following the order of the prayers of teshuvah, they would be forgiven. According to Sephardi tradition, since we are very fearful to receive G-d's judgment on Rosh Hashanah, we repent and confess our sins before that day. more>>

Reflections in the Water

By Lauren Sherman

August 6, 2011 is Jamaican Emancipation Day. This day marks the Jamaican peoples' freedom from slavery 177 years ago. Its memory lies in the rain that keeps the land lush and green. Today, it is raining in Jamaica. It is the kind of tropical rain that does not discriminate; it pours equally on everything. It pours on the heads of the rich and poor, both of whom have been taxed by the recent economic times here, in reminder that we are all alike. It pours on the resorts built on former sugar plantations, on the many former slave huts dotting the landscape along the roadside, and runs through the meager villages into the blue Caribbean ocean like rivers of sorrow. It sparkles like tears of joy bringing hope as Jamaica celebrates Emancipation Day.

I visited the small Jewish Cemetery in Lucea, a little town in the Hannover Parrish close to Negril. Jews and Jamaica are a love affair that tells a story of flight from persecution and a new beginning. Most Jews left to the States, including Alexander Gabay, perhaps no relation, who according to the Ellis Island records arrived on the Princess May on November 20, 1922, from Montego Bay.
Despite the fact that I have been to cemeteries several times over the years, I could sense something was different about this one, located along the main road between Montego Bay and Negril. This cemetery tells the story of its people: tombstones bear the names of Sephardic Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition to the New World, as well as Ashkenazi Jews who arrived in the late nineteenth-century. more>>

Pouvoir et Religion - Partie 1

Cet article, initialement destiné à faire le point sur le rôle et l'impact religieux dans la société israélienne, a quelque peu dérapé de son objectif initial lors de son écriture, le sujet traité passant de l'analyse sociale à l'analyse politique. J'assume pleinement la partialité dont d'aucuns m'accuseront, à tort je le précise bien, l'analyse factuelle réservant souvent quelques surprises.
Histoire de bien fixer les idées et dissiper toute incompréhension ou malentendu, cet article sera suivi d'une analyse des trois courants fondamentaux que sont le Sionisme, le Néo-Sionisme et le Post-Sionisme, avec l'impact qu'a la religion juive sur eux.

Pour certains en Israël, l’émancipation de l’homme se conjugue avec la disparition pure et simple de la religion et que la religion est un ensemble de superstitions dont seuls les humains dépourvus de raison ont besoin. Comme partout, les laïcs dénient tout rôle politique à la religion qui ne doit avoir aucune légitimité publique reconnue par l'état, les laïcs garantissant une liberté égale à toutes les religions.
Ils ne tiennent pas à mêler l’idée de Dieu à l’évolution de la société des hommes, la pratique religieuse étant un acte de foi personnel et non l'exercice d'un pouvoir temporel. Il en découle que la volonté de centralité de la religion juive en Israël tend à s’interpréter comme une faiblesse du pouvoir politique.

Pour la majorité des religieux, l’État d’Israël jouerait sa cohésion et son existence s’il devait permettre un moindre recul de la religion. Les religieux orthodoxes exigent de l’autorité pour imposer un rôle primordial à la religion dans la vie politique parce que le judaïsme moderne, trop assimilé à leurs yeux, risque une disparition prématurée. En fait ils feignent d’ignorer que le judaïsme religieux renait depuis une vingtaine d’année essentiellement en tant que forme d'affirmation. en savoir plus>>

Voir la suite avec Partie 2

"DSK et les juifs", le CSA examine le cas de Sud Radio

La radio a lancé, le 22 août, un débat auprès de ses auditeurs sur la question de savoir si DSK était soutenu par les juifs.

Sitôt revenus de vacances, les Sages du CSA se penchent sur un sondage ultra-polémique lancé à l'antenne de Sud Radio. Le 22 août dernier, lors d'une émission de libre antenne, l'animateur Éric Mazet rebondit sur l'affaire DSK pour demander aux auditeurs si, selon eux, DSK est soutenu par les juifs. Dès mardi, Rachid Arhab présidera un groupe de travail sur la déontologie afin d'examiner les suites à donner à ce qui apparaît comme un dérapage.

Éric Mazet a provoqué le malaise, y compris chez son co-animateur, Michel Cardoze, qui a tenté de cadrer le débordement. "C'est une phrase absolument horrible, insupportable", rétorque Cardoze, manifestement gêné par l'initiative de son collègue. Le matin même, sur Sud Radio, l'animateur Robert Ménard avait lui-même recadré les propos d'un auditeur qui évoquait les "amis juifs" de Dominique Strauss-Kahn. suite sur lepoint>>

Rembrandt Chose Jewish Models To Depict a More Realistic Jesus

wikiCommons Jewish Jesus: Rembrandt’s ‘Hundred Guilder Print’ is one of several paintings in which he used Jewish models to depict Jesus, a striking departure from the practice of his time. 

 
By Menachem Wecker

Sometime in the mid-to-late 1640s or early 1650s, a young Jewish man — probably of Spanish-Portuguese descent — seems to have taken what would likely have been a short walk from his home in Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter to Jodenbreestraat (“Jewish Broad Street”) 4, where Rembrandt van Rijn lived. Inside the three-story home, which Rembrandt purchased for the whopping sum of 13,000 guilders in 1639, the young man posed for several studies that he surely must have known were going to become portraits of Jesus. Was the young man so desperate for ducats that he talked himself out of any discomfort about his unusual modeling gig, which his peers surely would have considered sacrilege? Or was the young man one of the many people in 17th century Holland who were dazzled by interfaith dialogue? Was he, perhaps, considering converting to Christianity?
Read more: http://www.forward.com/articles/142039/#ixzz1WWJ89BFg

Rare sea turtle spared from Egypt butcher block

A sea turtle swims with scuba divers in the depth of Ras Mohammed protection area near Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, July 6, 2005. (AFP/Getty Images) 

CAIRO - Health and food inspectors in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria found a vendor offering to slaughter a rare sea turtle more than 90 years old. After getting a tip, the inspectors rescued the 550-pound turtle from the butcher block and turned it over to the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries. It now is on display at Alexandria's aquarium. According to a report by Egypt's MENA news agency on Monday, the vendor also violated fishery laws when he caught the turtle. © 2011 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved

Could This Christian, Billionaire Art Collector Be The Next President of Egypt?

by Abigail R. Esman,

Image via Wikipedia

In June, he tweeted a cartoon of Minnie Mouse in a burqa, and Islamists worldwide threatened him with death.
Now, as Egypt wavers between an Islamist and a democratic future, billionaire telecom scion and art patron Naguib Sawiris wants to be his country’s next leader – and he’s founded a political party – the Free Egyptian Party — as he prepares to do just that.
According to The Art Newspaper, Sawiris, who stands at number 310 on the Forbes Billionaire list (he’s #2 in Egypt, just behind his father, Onsi, and one ahead of his younger brother), aims not only to establish a secular democratic government in Egypt, but to crown his plans with a national museum that will house his own collection of modern and contemporary art. (Many in the global art world may also recognize him as the one who pledged a $175,000 reward for the return of Van Gogh’s Poppies” stolen from Cairo’s Mahmoud Khalil Museum in August, 2010 – a  museum that also reportedly housed works by other major 19^th century masters like Renoir, Gauguin, and Monet.) continued on forbes>>
 

Someone wants a war in the Middle East

by Frida Ghitis

Something extremely important and exceedingly dangerous is unfolding in a most explosive part of the globe, but it is receiving only minimal attention by the media and by world leaders. An outbreak of violence in Southern Israel, Gaza, and along the Egyptian border, triggered by a recent attack against Israelis civilians, could easily escalate into much more serious fighting.
A new war between Israelis and Palestinians right now would have immediate, horrific repercussions for the people who live there. It would also have potentially disastrous consequences for those who want freedom and democracy in the Middle East, as well as those in the West who would like to see a moderate Arab world emerge from the regional wave of popular uprisings.
It began on Aug. 18, when an attack against an Israeli passenger bus — terrorism by any definition— killed eight Israelis, four of them members of the same family

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/30/3100584/commentary-someone-wants-a-war.html#ixzz1WWFnGP6m

The actor Hussein Fahmi rare interview

sent by Elie Mangoubi

Television interview in which the artist Fahmi Farouk speaks about King Farouk , his opinion regarding the Revolution and changes in Egypt. Since this was taped in 2009, the Revolution they talk about is Nasser's, and as expected the interviewer has no clue that this was a military coup. In Arabic with English subtitles.

La plume du poète

Cinq fois par jour©
Ecrit le 14 aout 2011)

Cinq fois par jour

Ils font leurs ablutions

Et expriment leurs soumission

A Allah pour qu'il vienne à leurs secours.

Cinq fois par jour

Le muezzin du haut de son minaret

Appelle les fidèles à témoigner

Que Allah est grand, sa justice sans recours.

Cinq fois par jour

Le sang coule, la violence continue

A quand le règne de la tolérance et de l'amour.

Cinq fois par jour

Je souhaite voir la fin des religions

Meurtrières et l'appel à la paix du haut de la tour.

Elie Mangoubi aux Editions Publibook 

http://www.publibook.com/boutique2006/auteur.php?auteur=11357

Israël et la Libye

Maintenant que le régime de Kadhafi est tombé, le gouvernement israélien espère un rapprochement avec le Conseil national de transition. La Libye a toujours eu une attitude ambiguë vis-à-vis d’Israël, en soufflant le chaud et le froid dans ses relations. Le régime de Kadhafi et les rebelles qui viennent de prendre le pouvoir à Tripoli ont tous deux approché le gouvernement israélien pour obtenir un appui politique et matériel. Le paradoxe tient au fait que, durant ses quatre décennies au pouvoir, le colonel Kadhafi s’était montré l’un des plus virulents critiques de l’État juif. Le jeune colonel avait d’ailleurs reçu une leçon en public du vieux président tunisien Bourguiba , qui lui avait déjà conseillé de voir du côté d’Israël. suite sur jforum>>

7 hurt in attack outside Tel Aviv nightclub

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Seven people were wounded early Monday when a Palestinian crashed a stolen taxi into a group of border guards outside a Tel Aviv nightclub, then attacked them with a knife, police said. Four border guards and two would-be club goers were hurt in the attack which took place outside HaOman 17 nightclub in south Tel Aviv, police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP, saying one was critically injured and two others were in serious condition.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Aug-30/147547-7-hurt-in-attack-outside-tel-aviv-nightclub.ashx#ixzz1WT3OXICx

De Gaulle sur Israël

envoyé par Elie Mangoubi

la vidéo dure 15 minutes

De Gaulle sur Israël by Antipenseunique

Can Sephardic Judaism be Reconstructed?

by Daniel J. Elazar

After a thousand years in which the principal division in world Jewry was between Ashkenazim, the Jews who lived north of the Alps in lands predominantly Christian, and the Sephardim, Jews who lived south of the Alps in lands predominantly Muslim, that division is disappearing as such because both populations have ceased to live in their original regions. As the dust of the great migrations has settled, the majority of the Sephardim are to be found in Israel or France, where they have formed local majorities, while the majority of the Ashkenazim live in the United States and Eastern Europe, where they also form local majorities. Even in those cases, however, what survives from their respective Jewish subcultures is for most merely fragmentary cultural baggage with little meaning beyond the reality that everyone carries such baggage which influences behavior and attitudes, even when people are unaware that it does, without necessarily being a conscious creative force.

The only sector of the Jewish world in which those two traditions remain consciously creative forces as such is in the religious one, particularly among its Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox segments. In that sector, a combination of factors has given the Ashkenazim almost an iron grip which only serves to increase the gap between the most energetic Jewish religious movements and the lives of most Jews and to weaken the relationship of Jews with the rest of the world. That, indeed, is their intent. What is missing from the Jewish religious picture is an active, articulate expression of the Sephardic way -- classic rather than romantic, Mediterranean rather than Eastern European, cosmopolitan rather than parochial -- that has as its goal the linkage of all this through a common religious framework and the involvement of Jews in the world without sacrificing their Jewishness. more>>

Livres: Sur Amazon

envoyé par Elie Mangoubi

The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn by Lucette Matalon Lagnado (Sep 6, 2011)

Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere by Andre Aciman (Sep 27, 2011)

Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on September 27, 2011.

Liberal Egyptian party secures 100,000 members amid fear of Islamist state after elections

The party is led by telecoms tycoon Naguib Sawiris. (File photo)

A liberal Egyptian party led by a Christian telecoms tycoon has positioned itself as the main challenger to Islamist parties in parliamentary elections in November, analysts said on Wednesday.

The al-Masreyeen al-Ahrar (Free Egyptians) party, founded after President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a popular uprising in February, said it had reached a milestone figure of 100,000 members, making it the largest party after the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s best organized political force.

Many liberals have been concerned Islamists, including the Muslim Brotherhood, may try to turn Egypt into an Islamic state if they secure a majority in parliament, which will give them a free hand in drafting a new constitution. more>>

The reason why the Egyptians hate us

By Gideon Levy

The Israeli flag that was taken down by a young Egyptian from the window of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo was faded and worn, flying from an old, nondescript office tower, invisible from the street to the naked eye. A great deal of murky water has flowed through the Nile since the flag was first unfurled; people who think that the hatred for Israel that is now boiling over is a divine edict, fate or the wrath of nature, should think back to the early days of peace between Israel and Egypt. Then, in the carefree 1980s, tens of thousands of Israelis streamed to Egypt and were welcomed with open joy. It was a pleasure to be an Israeli in Cairo in those days; sometimes even a great honor.

The masses demonstrating against Israel now are the same masses who once welcomed the Israelis. Even if Friday's "million-man rally" against Israel only became a thousand-man march, the hatred has sparked. But it does not have to be this way. more on Ha'aretz>>

Washington pressures Egypt to release alleged Israeli spy

Informed sources have said that some members of the US Administration are threatening to reduce US aid to Egypt if the latter fail to release Ilan Grapel, an alleged Israeli spy who was arrested in June. “Israel is behind that, so as to pressure Egypt to reduce its demands regarding the border incident,” said security expert Hamdi Bekheit, in reference to the killing of 5 Egyptian soldiers by Israeli forces on 18 August.

source: almasryalyoum

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Vision d'horreur à Tripoli

Les forces rebelles qui s'efforcent de prendre le contrôle des derniers recoins de la capitale libyenne ont découvert vendredi soir les corps carbonisés de dizaines de prisonniers à proximité d'un camp militaire situé dans le sud-est de la ville.

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par Marc Thibodeau

Les forces rebelles qui s'efforcent de prendre le contrôle des derniers recoins de la capitale libyenne ont découvert vendredi soir les corps carbonisés de dizaines de prisonniers à proximité d'un camp militaire situé dans le sud-est de la ville.
Selon des témoins rencontrés sur place, les victimes ont été froidement exécutées par les troupes kadhafistes à l'aide de mitraillettes et de grenades avant d'être brûlées dans un petit bâtiment métallique à la façade encore fumante.
«On a tenté à plusieurs reprises de venir après avoir entendu mardi soir des coups de feu et des explosions, mais c'est la première fois (vendredi matin) que nous entrons ici», a expliqué un résidant du secteur, Salem Rajab. suite sur cyberpresse.ca>>
 

Slaughter in Gaza Amid World Silence

By Richard Lightbown

In the words of Julie Webb-Pullman (reporting from Gaza) 'civilians are once again being slaughtered by Israel in a blatant act of collective punishment for the Eilat crimes they did not even commit'. Indeed, as politicians and the military in Israel and Egypt seem unsure of how to react to the attacks of 18 August, they do at least seem confident in being able to turn the screws on the captive population of the Palestinian enclave. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak is reported saying “This is a delicate situation and there is a real risk of endangering the [1979 Egyptian-Israeli] peace treaty, which is a precious strategic asset for Israel". Egypt remains rankled by the incident in which five members of its security forces were killed in two separate incidents by Israeli forces, while its popular opinion at least is also concerned about attacks in Gaza. One Israeli soldier was killed during the shootouts by ‘friendly fire’. continued>>

Manifestation à Paris contre les attaques terroristes contre Israël

Des centaines de membres de la communauté juive de France se sont rassemblées dimanche près de l’ambassade d’Israël à Paris pour protester contre les attaques "terroristes" et "soutenir Israël et son peuple", a constaté un journaliste de l’AFP. Les manifestants se sont regroupés en fin d’après-midi à proximité de l’ambassade, dont les abords étaient bloqués par une dizaine de fourgons de police, après qu’un colis piégé eut été signalé aux alentours, nécessitant l’intervention d’une équipe de déminage. Arborant des drapeaux israéliens et français, les manifestants ont brandi quelques pancartes sur lesquelles on pouvait lire : "La France doit combattre les islamistes en Afghanistan, en France et à Gaza" ou "les terroristes ne sont jamais des activistes". suite>>

Egypt's Supreme Military Council: promises kept, broken, deferred

Over six months ago the Supreme Military Council issued Communiqué #1, pledging support for the revolution; its most recent communiqué numbered 72. Below Ahram Online provides a SCAF balance sheet

 General Ruwaini of SCAF addressing Tahrir revolutionaries last winter (Photo: Reuters)

The following are the main pledges made by the ruling military council in communiqués on their official Facebook page and in widely repeated statements on television and via other media outlets.

Fulfilled promises
“Rebuild the church in Atfeeh, Helwan before Easter”
In early March, the church in Sol, Atfeeh in the governorate of Helwan was set ablaze and demolished as a result of sectarian tensions. After mass protests, the armed forces pledged to rebuild the church before Easter. The task was completed on time and the new church is said to be finer than what preceded it.
Status: Fulfilled; Source: Media release

See the entire listing on ahramonline>>

Tripoli : Où sont les scènes de liesse monsieur Sarkozy ?

Depuis les rares images de la prise éclaire de Tripoli, le 22 août 2011, (ce qui fait des cadres rebelles des génies de l’histoire militaire compte tenu de la faiblesse des effectifs et de l’ampleur du résultat), et les fameuses vues truquées de la « Place Verte » libérée par les rebelles de Benghazi, plus rien si ce n’est quelques images de combattants débraillés en guise d’information par les grands médias. Où sont les scènes de liesse accueillant les libérateurs ? Rien en une semaine ! Pas une seule effusion de joie à Tripoli !

On nous dit que Kadhafi a fuit, que Tripoli est tombé à 95%, que le régime s’est effondré, que le peuple s’est libéré tout seul, que c’est enfin la liberté retrouvée. Où sont les scènes de liesse ? La Lybie était le pays d’Afrique avec le plus haut niveau de vie par habitant, les écoles et les universités gratuites, les soins également. Maintenant grâce à Sarkozy, BHL et aux islamistes de Benghazi, ça va être encore mieux ? Où sont les scènes de liesse ?

Chaque image de Tripoli montre des jeunes en tee-shirt mal armés et tirant debout dans le vide. Mais aucun civil dans les rues. Aucun ! Ces jeunes devraient être fêtés comme des héros par la ville de Tripoli libérée de 42 ans de dictature, mais on voit bien qu’ils sont accueillis par un grand et lourd silence de la part de la population. suite sur Agoravox>>

This Week From Peace X Peace

Connection Point

Lebanon Is Not a Feminist Paradise

An interview with Farah Salka about her feminist collective, why feminism is a dirty word in Lebanon, and why she prefers a collective to traditional hierarchy.

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Voices From the Frontlines

Put Politics Aside; Send Food Aid to North Koreans

Jeongsoo Kim reports from South Korea, where she works to get food aid to the starving civilian population in North Korea.

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Helene Is a Survivor, Not a Victim

The story of Helene Wamuzila, a rape survivor in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Be the Change

In an Upside-down World, Getting by with a Little Help from Our Friends

Patricia Smith urges readers to reach out to friends and hold to them during a time of global chaos.

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Catalyst: An Israeli Voice on the Far Left

Check out the latest Catalyst video, which brings us the voice of Nurit Peled.  

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L’AP : «Ce n'est pas aux Palestiniens de définir la nature de l'Etat d'Israël ni de dire si Israël est un Etat juif ou non»

La cheffe de la diplomatie de l'Union européenne, Catherine Ashton, a rencontré dimanche 28 août 2011 plusieurs dirigeants israéliens, pour discuter du processus de paix, à quelques semaines de la demande d'adhésion d'un Etat palestinien à l'ONU, après s'être entretenue la veille avec les Palestiniens. « La contribution de l'Europe au processus de paix, alors que nous nous approchons de l'Assemblée générale (de l'ONU), est très importante », a estimé le ministre de la Défense Ehud Barak avant de recevoir Catherine Ahston. « Nous pensons que la démarche des Palestiniens à la fois auprès du Conseil de sécurité et de l'Assemblée générale est une initiative malheureuse et improductive », a ajouté Ehud Barak. suite>>

Palestine should tell Ahmadinejad to shut up

By Dale McFeatters

 

If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not on Israel's payroll, he should be.

On Quds Day, when Iran officially mourns the loss of Jerusalem to Israel, the Iranian president repeated in media interviews Iran's determination to eradicate Israel.

Once a Palestinian state is established, he said, Israel will be eliminated and all its lands restored to Palestine. He did not mention what would happen to the Jewish inhabitants of the former Israel, but given Iran's treatment of its own religious minorities like the Baha'is, it's not a happy thought to dwell on.

Ahmadinejad's periodic versions of "wiping Israel off the map" could be dismissed as his usual rote ravings, except that Palestine has high hopes for laying the groundwork for an independent state at next month's meeting of the United Nations.

Palestine had planned to get a resolution before the U.N. Security Council. But the U.S. has said it would veto any such resolution, citing the continuing presence of Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinians' refusal to restart peace talks with Israel. continued>>
 

Jules fête ses 105 ans aux côtés de la petite fille juive qu'il asauvée ...

Chaque année, ils se retrouvent. Gilberte Stemmer ne manque pas un anniversaire de celui qui lui a sauvé la vie pendant la 2e guerre mondiale. La petite Juive avait 4 ans quand elle est arrivée chez Jules et Odette Hébrard, en 1942. Elle sera hébergée deux ans à Lasalle, un village des Cévennes (Gard). À ceux, Allemands et Français, qui s’interrogeaient sur la présence de la fillette ; le métayer répondait que c’était sa nièce. Soixante-dix ans plus tard, Gilberte considère toujours Jules comme son "tonton". Gilberte Stemmer : "Si je suis là aujourd’hui, c’est grâce à lui" suite>>

On parle antisémitisme, lobby juif et affaire DSK

On parle antisémitisme, lobby juif et affaire... by enquete-debat

Egypt arrests brother of Sadat’s assassin as he returned from Iran

Mohammed Shawqi al-Islambuli was sentenced to death in absentia in 1992 for plotting from abroad to overthrow the state. (File photo)

Police arrested one of Egypt’s most wanted Islamist militants as he arrived back in the country on Sunday following an order to leave Iran, airport security sources and state media said.

Mohammed Shawqi al-Islambuli, brother of Khalid al-Islambuli who killed former President Anwar al-Sadat in 1981, was sentenced to death in absentia in 1992 for plotting from abroad to overthrow the state.

He was sentenced again in 1999 in a landmark trial of more than 100 suspected members of the Gama’a al-Islamiya movement blamed for a massacre of tourists in the southern city of Luxor, an embassy bombing in Pakistan and a series of killings and assassination attempts including one against Sadat’s successor Hosni Mubarak. continued>>

Abraham Kefeli. Karaite composer and pianist

sent by Elie Mangoubi

"Abraham Kefeli. Composer & Pianist"

1. Tahanun symphony (2002) based on Egyptian-Karaites Yom-Kippur motive, 3 parts:

a. Allegro - 9:16

b. Passion - 5:50

c. Presro - 6:18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLJ3KCFjT0

2. Sonata for violin solo, 4 parts:

a. Allegro - 5:56

b. Lyric Pasionate - 4:59

c. Allegretto

d. Presto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuGQJ463EZ0

3. Piano sonata, 2 parts:

a. Allegro

b. Presto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fags2UO4EgQ

Boris Ponomaryov-Karnelio, violin; Abraham Kefeli, piano; Valery Hlebnikov/Academic State Symphonic Orchestra of Rostov-na-Donu

(ABCD Music: MFEK 0103, 2004)

http://www.youtube.com/user/kefeli72

Who funds Muslim-baiting in the US?

by MJ Rosenberg
  

The report, "Fear Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America," demonstrates that a small group of self-proclaimed experts (Frank Gaffney, David Yerushalmi, Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, and Steve Emerson) backed by a host of foundations and donors (many of which also fund the lobby) have put Islamophobia on the map.

It has been just about a decade since Islamophobia exploded in this country. That was of moment that the World Trade Center and Pentagon were hit by al Qaeda terrorists. It existed prior to 9/11, but the losses that day and the general terror it inflicted upon this country made many, many Americans much more wary of Arabs and, fairly quickly, fearful of the religion the terrorists professed.

 Some US politicans have tried to stoke fear against Muslim communities [GALLO/GETTY]

The first sign that 9/11 would be exploited to advance various agendas came from Binyamin Netanyahu, who was quoted in the New York Times as saying the attacks would be good for Israel:

Asked tonight [September 11, 2001] what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, replied, ''It's very good.'' Then he edited himself: ''Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.'' He predicted that the attack would ''strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we've experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror."

continued on aljazeera>>

Aznavour, 87 ans, prix de l'"Eternelle jeunesse" à la Forêt des Livres

Le chanteur Charles Aznavour, 87 ans, s'est vu remettre le prix de l'"Eternelle jeunesse" dimanche à la "Forêt des Livres" en Touraine pour son dernier ouvrage qui sort jeudi, après un nouveau disque et à la veille d'un passage à l'Olympia.
 
Le prix lui a été décerné au début de la 16e édition de cette manifestation culturelle où cette année environ 150 auteurs sont venus dédicacer leur dernier livre à l'ombre des platanes du pittoresque village de Chanceaux-près-Loches (Indre-et-Loire), 125 habitants. lire la suite>>

11 Septembre : la CIA savait, mais pourquoi n'a-t-elle rien fait ?

Dans son livre, le journaliste Fabrizio Calvi montre que les attentats auraient pu être évités si le FBI avait été averti. Extraits.
Dix-huit mois avant les attaques du 11 septembre 2001 la CIA suivait deux des futurs pirates de l'air, les Saoudiens Khalid Al-Mihdhar et Nawef Al-Hazmi. Elle savait qu'ils étaient aux États-Unis et a tout fait pour empêcher le FBI de le découvrir.
Dix ans après les attaques, l'ancien responsable de l'antiterrorisme de la Maison Blanche, Richard Clarke, pose une question essentielle :
« Pourquoi la CIA n'a-t-elle pas prévenu le gouvernement américain de la présence sur notre sol de deux agents d'Al-Qaïda réputés dangereux ? C'est un des grands mystères du 11 Septembre. »
De nouveaux éléments recueillis au terme d'une enquête de trois ans permettent cependant d'affirmer que cette surveillance était une opération majeure de la CIA contre Al Qaeda. suite>>

The bitter fruit of revolt: Armed violence and mob behavior in Egypt

One of the dark aspects of Egypt's January 25 Revolution was the absence of law that swept the country and lasted for over a fortnight. By the end of 28 January, the “Friday of Rage” where hundreds of thousands — some say millions — demonstrated peacefully in Tahrir Square, the police had all but disappeared from the streets having tried and failed to forcibly disperse protesters with tear gas and live rounds. That evening, countless police stations were set ablaze and a multitude of firearms stolen.
The security situation across the country collapsed, forcing citizens to prepare to battle thugs on the street. Neighbors stayed in the street overnight, setting up checkpoints and brandishing any weapon available to protect their homes. Some police returned to work in the latter days of the popular uprising, but they were not able to end the security vacuum. Meanwhile, the military was deployed but largely kept out of law and order issues.
To date, security remains lacking, while the streets increasingly see unlicensed guns for sale and mob behavior materializing. With the police short-staffed, many have resorted to self-reliance for self-defense. continued>>