Sunday, August 27, 2006

Les articles d'Amira Hass

Juste une note pour dire que j'ai rajouté un lien vers les articles d'Amira Hass, une journaliste israélienne qui habite à Gaza depuis 1991 et qui travaille pour le journal Ha'aretz. Voici ce lien:
http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/customSearch.php?sMask=ynnnnn&wMask=yyy&lv=1s1&d0=1&d1=n&w5=amira+hass&o1=n

Ses articles sont une bouffée d'air frais dans la couverture médiatique de l'occupation israélienne et du conflit permanent au Proche-Orient. Il y a beaucoup d'articles, mais je vous invite à lire peut-être les plus récents. Elle a aussi écrit "Boire la mer à Gaza", un livre excellent qui éclaire vraiment la compréhension de la vie quotidienne dans la bande de gaza.

Je vous en mets un extrait:

More than anyone, Israelis should understand Nasrallah's claims that this was unintended," identify with the primacy he attaches to the "unintendedness" relative to the fatal results, and identify with the disjunction he creates between the rationale that is inherent in the war machine he has built and his subjective will. "We didn't mean to" is a mantra that is frequently recited in Israel when there is a discussion of the number of civilians - among them many children - who are killed by the Israel Defense Forces. To this, the claim that "they" (Hezbollah and the Palestinians) cynically exploit civilians by locating themselves among them and firing from their midst is automatically added. (...)


"We didn't mean to" is the cousin of "I didn't know," and both of them are close neighbors of the double standard. What is permitted to us is forbidden to others. What hurts us does not hurt others (because they are "other").

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