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E' moro Uri Avnery, l'israelita ottimista che aveva giocato a scacchi con Arafat
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Of ROBERT FISH
www.independent.co.uk
It seemed somehow fitting that the first news of Uri Avnery's passing came to me from one of Israel's staunchest enemies, the leader of the Lebanese Druze Walid Jumblatt. A legend that brings sad news of another legend, a socialist preparing to mourn a fellow socialist, which expresses its condolences for the ninety-four-year-old Israeli political philosopher. The same philosopher who, a time, he had been a German Jewish schoolboy, Helmut Ostermann, who refused to give the Nazi salute to Hitler at school, but what it had become, according to the message I had received from Jumblatt, “a mind absolutely indispensable for the understanding of fascism, the greatest destructive factor of the 20th century.” Words by Jumblatt. “Avnery,” he then added [Jumblatt], “he also understood the meaning of Zionism, another ignoble theory based on apartheid, nothing more than an offshoot of fascism.”
Uri Avnery he had a very serious heart attack over the weekend and died on Monday morning. He considered himself a Zionist, or at least a believer in a left-wing Israel, courageous but humble “beacon of light among the nations,” a type of nation to which, in our hearts, I'd like to believe. He was among those Israelis who we, liberals with a tender heart, we hurried to visit as soon as we got in Israel, because they said what we wanted to hear. Read More

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Actuality | WORLD CONFLICT

How much longer will we continue to pretend that the Palestinians are not a people?
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Of Robert Fish
How much longer will we continue to pretend that the Palestinians are not a people?
Source: Comedonchisciotte
Monstrous. Frightening. Wicked. It's strange like today, in Middle East, the words are simply missing. Sixty Palestinians dead. In one day. Two thousand four hundred injured, more than half from live ammunition. In one day. These numbers are an outrage, an escape from morality, a source of infamy for every army.
And we should believe that the Israeli army is that of the “purity of weapons”? And we have another question to ask. If I'm there this week 60 Palestinian deaths per day, what will happen if there are any next week 600? O 6.000 next month? Israel's squalid justifications (and the crude American response) they raise exactly this question. If we can now accept a massacre of this magnitude, how long our immune system can handle in the days, in the weeks and months to come? Read More

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Non c'è stato alcun attacco chimico in Siria
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Of Robert Fish
There was no chemical attack in Syria
Source: Megachip
From the reportage of the famous and historic war reporter Rober Fisk it is clear that there was no attack with chemical weapons in Douma. Fisk's version may be contested. Vero, but since the governments of USA, France and Britain attacked Syria as they received information dai social network of the use of gas by the Syrian army, why you shouldn't believe an internationally renowned reporter who has more than 40 For years he has been producing reports from the battlefields? Fisk's article acquires greater authority since he cannot be defined as an Assad sympathizer at all. From the article, here in the original, emerge. Full translation follows. [The Anti-Diplomat] This is the story of a city called Douma, a devastated, smelly place of destroyed apartment blocks – and of an underground clinic whose images of suffering allowed three of the Western world's most powerful nations to bomb Syria last week. There is also a friendly doctor in a green coat who, when I track him down at the same clinic, he cheerfully tells me that the recovery of “gas” which horrified the world – despite all the doubters – it is perfectly genuine. Read More

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The hypocrisy of chemical weapons
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Of Robert Fish
The hypocrisy of chemical weapons
Source: Comedonchisciotte
The hypocrisy of it all. These ignoble intentions. The carelessness. The shameful lies and excuses.
I'm not talking about the US president with hasty and impulsive tweets and his desires to escape police raids on his lawyer's office - obviously there is a connection with Russia.
And I'm not talking about his latest scandal. It's possible that life with Melania isn't going swimmingly at the moment. Better to talk about this than to sit with generals and ex-generals and seriously discuss Russia and Syria.
I'm not talking about Theresa May, who wants to avoid the Brexit discussion through every type of distraction possible: the Salisbury attacks, Douma -also Trump. So when the poor lady thought she had gotten the consent of the US President, Trump called Macron. What is all this nonsense? Read More

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