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Les crimes arbitraires sont monnaie courante en territoires occupés. Il y a également un racisme féroce a l’égard des arabes. Les propos tenus sont effrayant et choque même le raciste ordinaire.Donc le crime est banalisé.L’occupation est un facteur aggravant et ajoute a la discrimination raciale.Tel est le quotidien des palestiniens.Le dire ce n’est pas être anti-sémite,c’est être en accord avec sa conscience. 

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Hebron disengagement and violence begin
Press Release, ISM/Tel Rumeida Project, 13 January 2006

A group of settler girls in Hebron (Mamoun Wazwaz/MaanNews Network)

TEL RUMEIDA, HEBRON -- A mob of 30 female settler teenagers rampaged through Tel Rumeida on Thursday, 12 January. Ten of them wore black ski masks to hide their identities, and attacked everyone they encountered, including IDF soldiers and Israeli police officers, with spit, paint bombs and insults, and surrounded a human rights worker, violently stealing the battery of his camera.

Six male settlers have begun attempts to illegally occupy an empty Palestinian home located on the path near a Palestinian girls' school. Settlers entered the home on Tuesday, 10 January, cleaned out two rooms and broke a hole in a wall to access other rooms. Police were called and made the settlers leave but they have returned periodically to continue their preparations to occupy the house. Palestinian girls are already routinely stoned and harassed on their way to the school located near this home. The attacks will only increase if they had to pass directly in front of a settler-occupied home.

Human rights workers who live in Tel Rumeida witnessed the arrival of approximately 60 settlers on Wednesday, 11 January. These settlers were the first to respond to a call by Hebron's settlers for Israelis "to flock to Hebron" to resist the planned disengagement of the illegally-occupied Palestinian wholesale market in Hebron's Old City. Settlers arrived with belongings meant for a long stay in response to the call sent out by email to "bring sleeping bags, warm clothing for an extended stay and a strong spirit."

Brian, a human rights worker living in Tel Rumeida, said "It is a very dangerous situation. Many of the settlers who live here are members of Kahane, an organization which Israel has declared racist and illegal. We see their violent hatred on a daily basis. We call on the international and Israeli community to pressure the police and IDF to enforce the law against violent settlers immediately; stop them, arrest them and prosecute them."

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz stated that the removal of the settlers from the wholesale market will be completed by the 15 February. Settlers were ordered to leave the Palestinian-owned shops by 15 January, or face forcible eviction. Settlers have already clashed violently with police and the IDF when eviction orders were issued on 3 January, injuring four police officers, including a policeman who was hurt by a liquid that burned his eyes. Violent resistance from the settlers between these dates is expected and could be worse than the Gaza pullout due to Hebron's religious significance to settlers. This is a threat to both Palestinian residents and IDF soldiers in the area.

US Neocons Accuse Chavez of Anti-Semitism

By Jim Lobe

Inter Press Service

16 January 2006

http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=8390

Despite objections by major Jewish organizations in Venezuela and the United States, some influential U.S.

neoconservatives are charging President Hugo Chavez with anti-Semitism, which they say is consistent with the country's friendly relations with Iran.

In what appears to be a new line of attack against the populist leader, two of the White House's favorite publications this week ran articles denouncing remarks made by Chavez in a televised address to the nation Christmas Eve as anti-Semitic.

Quoting Chavez as declaring that "minorities, the descendants of those who crucified Christ, have taken over the riches of the world," the Wall Street Journal's "Americas" columnist, Mary Anastasia O'Grady, charged that his words constituted an "ugly anti-Semitic swipe that was of a piece with an insidious assault over the past several years on the country's Jewish community."

Following the shocking decision by the International Atomic Energy Agency to refer Iran’s nuclear case to the UN Security Council, which can impose sanctions against Tehran, it is essential to bear in mind a number of points;

1- Attempts by the United States and the European Union to stop Iran’s nuclear program is unfair. Iran has an "inalienable right" to peaceful nuclear technology as a signatory to the NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY. Countries that possess sufficient nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over didn’t sign this pact. Washington and its European allies have for decades turned a blind eye to Israel. To the Iranians, it seems like some people have sovereignty while others do not.

"Our nation can't give in to the coercion of some bully countries who imagine they are the whole world and see themselves equal to the entire globe," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said as the EU circulated the UNSC referral resolution at the IAEA.

2- Iran, which signed additional protocols and volunteered to suspend nuclear activities during talks with the European Union, has gone beyond its obligations under the NPT to assure the West of it's peaceful intentions. Yet the United States and the European Union asked the IAEA to send its dossier to the Security Council for “violating its nuclear obligations”. In fact, it is the U.S. and other nuclear powers that have not fulfilled their obligations under the NPT, including those stated in Article VI: “Each of the Parties to the Treaty undertakes to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.” It is no surprise then when Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki describes the recent IAEA vote as “illegal”, and says that it is "the result of a political will based on U.S. hostility" toward Iran.

3- Although the Iranian government said that it will end its voluntary suspension of industrial-scale uranium enrichment, a process that generates fuel for nuclear reactors or a nuclear bomb - depending on the level of enrichment, it is still a long way from the production of atomic weapons.

There are two ways to produce an atomic weapon: using either highly enriched uranium, or separated plutonium. According to the influential London-based think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Iran isn’t capable of pursuing either or both routes. Moreover, IAEA chief Mohamed El-Baradei assured the world on December 6, 2005 when he said that the IAEA has found no "smoking gun" in Iran that would indicate a nuclear weapons program.

4- "Yesterday we had two options. One was the option of resistance and the other was surrender," Mottaki said following news of Iran’s referral to the UN Security Council.

"We chose resistance." Why and how does Iran resist? The West fails to realize that Iran’s current power in the region is a direct result of the invasion of Iraq and the rise of a Shia-dominated government in Baghdad. The growing pressures against Iran over its NUCLEAR PROGRAM have more to do with Tehran’s close ties with the Iraqi government and the future consequences of such relations.

5- Asked whether Congress had the political will to use military force against Iran if necessary, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said: "The answer is yes, absolutely… We cannot allow Iran to become a nuclear nation… We need to use diplomatic sanctions. If that doesn't work, economic sanctions, and if that doesn't work, the potential for military use has to be on the table."

Also Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld didn’t rule out using military force against Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions. "All options, including the military one, are on the table," he recently said. But warmongers fail to realize that any diplomatic escalations, economic sanctions or military decisions will directly affect the ordinary Iranians, who have nothing to do with their fears, much like what happened to the Iraqis who were the real victims of years of sanctions against Saddam’s regime and who bore the brunt of the attacks following the illegal 2003 invasion.

6- Iran needs the nuclear technology to generate electricity. Some argue that it doesn’t need nuclear power as it has the world’s second largest oil and gas reserves. But global oil production is expected to peak in 5 to 25 years, and demand is expected to exceed supply sometime after that.

Therefore, it makes sense for Iran to look toward alternative means for generating electricity. Tehran has a good reason to preserve oil for other purposes including increasing revenues from export.

7- If Iran were to obtain nuclear weapons, it would pose a real threat to its regional neighbors, not the United States. Israel could defend itself because it is the only nuclear-armed country in the Middle East. It is believed to have more than 200 nuclear weapons, the missiles to deliver them to Iran, and it is no secret that it has been threatening strikes on Iran's nuclear sites, just as it launched an unprovoked attack on Iraq's, Osiraq nuclear electric power plant in 1981. Even if Iran poses a direct threat to the U.S., so is North Korea. Moreover, a military attack against Iran wouldn’t be consistent with the U.S.’s reaction to the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Pakistan.

Singling out Iran for military action or trade sanctions under such circumstances, especially after the U.S.‘s failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, would inflame anti-American sentiments in other countries, particularly in the Islamic world, making it even more difficult to gain support for other U.S. foreign policies.

“Thirty years ago, Iran developing a nuclear capacity caused no problems for the Americans because, at that time, the Shah was seen as a strong ally, and had indeed been put on the throne with American help”, Tony Benn, Britain's secretary of state for energy from 1975-79, was quoted as saying.

"There could hardly be a clearer example  of double standards than this, and it fits in with the arming of SADDAM to attack Iran after the Shah had been toppled, and the complete silence over Israel's huge nuclear armory“.

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Congratulations, we did it!!! And we couldn't have done it without you. Thanks to the amazing efforts of CODEPINK women and devoted peacemakers all over the world, we reached our goal of 100,000 signatures on the Women Say NO To War call. As of March 8, International Women's Day, there were 103,000 signers!

Every single signature counted-we thank you from our hearts…From the masses of pink postcards arriving from Boscobel, Wisconsin to the signatures mailed in all the way from Greece and Japan, each name was represented today at over 100 actions around the globe. Our voice was loud and clear as we delivered the Women's Call for Peace to the US government offices around the world!!! (Click here for updates and pictures of March 8th actions and events.) We will continue to update the website as you send us your pictures and e-mails.

In Washington DC this morning, hundreds of women in pink - led by our courageous Iraqi women's delegation-gathered at the Iraqi Embassy and marched to the White House to turn in the petitions (link to photos and news stories). These amazing Iraqi women shared their experiences living in a nation reeling from war, and spoke passionately of their desire to end the occupation. While Congress was considering the Bush administration's request for $70 billion more for war, American and Iraqi women were walking arm-in-arm, chanting "Money for health care and education, not for war and occupation."

It was a week of great emotions-highs and lows. One of the saddest moments in our campaign was on March 6 in New York, when Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan and CODEPINK Co-Founder Medea Benjamin, along with two other women, were arrested and jailed as they tried to deliver the signatures to the US Mission to the United Nations. Dragged away while sitting on the steps of a public building, they spent an uncomfortable night on the floor of the city lock-up. They received messages of outrage and support from all over the world. Thank you for all of your concern and well wishes. Although they were treated harshly during their arrest, their spirits are strong.

As we end this historic International Women's Day, we are energized by the example of our Iraqi sisters and determined to continue to organize and mobilize until all troops are out of Iraq. We look forward to the days when we join with our Iraqi friends, not to mourn the dead, but to rejoice in our common bonds and join hands to rebuild their country.

With hope for peace in the world,
Allison, Eman, Entisar, Dana, Gael, Faiza, Farida, Jodie, Medea, Meredith, Nadje, Nancy, Rae, Sureya & Tiffany