Ultime notizie (nefandezze) da Israele

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Sommario:

Israele al Presidente Mahmoud Abbas (il Kapò della Cisdordania):

"O tu chiedi all'ONU di rimandare il voto sul Rapporto Goldstone o noi riduremmo la tua Cisdordania in una nuova Gaza."

Naturalmente il Kapò ha ubbidito.





Last update - 03:57 17/01/2010

Diskin to Abbas: Defer UN vote on Goldstone or face 'second Gaza'

By Akiva Eldar

Tags: Israel news, Abbas

The request by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the United Nations Human Rights Council last year to postpone the vote on the Goldstone report followed a particularly tense meeting with the head of the Shin Bet security service, Haaretz has learned. At the October meeting in Ramallah, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told Abbas that if he did not ask for a deferral of the vote on the critical report on last year's military operation, Israel would turn the West Bank into a "second Gaza."

Diskin, who reports directly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, threatened to revoke the easing of restrictions on movement within the West Bank that had been implemented earlier last year. He also said Israel would withdraw permission for mobile phone company Wataniya to operate in the Palestinian Authority. That would have cost the PA tens of millions of dollars in compensation payments to the company.

A PA official close to Abbas told Haaretz that Diskin came to the Muqata compound in Ramallah in October with a foreign diplomatic delegation, and that a senior Israel Defense Forces officer made similar threats to other PA leaders at around the same time.

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The Shin Bet said in response that it does not comment on Diskin's schedule or meetings.

Abbas told a Palestinian commission of inquiry investigating the vote's deferral that he accepted responsibility for the decision, and denied that his choice was a result of outside pressure.

Commission chairman and PA legislator Azmi Shuaibi told Al-Watan TV at the time that in a three-hour session Abbas admitted to the panel that he had made a mistake in asking the UN body to defer the vote and said he was sorry that the affair had been exploited for political ends.

Thirty-three of the UN council's 47 members supported the PA's initial endorsement of the Goldstone report. The matter was slated to be transferred from the UN General Assembly to the Security Council, when to the surprise of diplomats on all sides the PA delegation agreed at the last moment to defer the vote until March 2010.

The Goldstone commission recommended that Israel be given until March to complete an independent inquiry into its conduct during the offensive and to try any figures suspected of war crimes. Failure by either Israel or Hamas to conduct an open inquiry into their conduct would result in the case being referred to the International Criminal Court.

The United States is now seeking to persuade Israel to conduct such an investigation, and to release its findings on a number of incidents in which civilians were killed during the fighting.

Diskin to Abbas: Defer UN vote on Goldstone or face 'second Gaza' - Haaretz - Israel News

 

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Le donne ebree etiopi vengono sterilizzate perchè (secondo gli ebrei bianchi Askenazi biondi con occhi azzurri) sono primitive e incapaci di gestire la loro sessualità.


In Israele solo ebrei bianchi di razza Ariana ops. scusate di razza Kazhara.



Israel’s treatment of Ethiopians ‘racist’
Jonathan Cook
The National
January 06. 2010

NAZARETH, Israel // Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women’s groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies.

The contraceptive, known as Depo Provera, which is given by injection every three months, is considered by many doctors as a birth control method of last resort because of problems treating its side effects.

However, according to a report published last week, use of the contraceptive by Israeli doctors has risen threefold over the past few years. Figures show that 57 per cent of Depo Provera users in Israel are Ethiopian, even though the community accounts for less than two per cent of the total population.

About 90,000 Ethiopians have been brought to Israel under the Law of Return since the 1980s, but their Jewishness has subsequently been questioned by some rabbis and is doubted by many ordinary Israelis.

Ethiopians are reported to face widespread discrimination in jobs, housing and education and it recently emerged that their blood donations were routinely discarded.

“This is about reducing the number of births in a community that is black and mostly poor,” said Hedva Eyal, the author of the report by Woman to Woman, a feminist organisation based in Haifa, in northern Israel. “The unspoken policy is that only children who are white and Ashkenazi are wanted in Israel,” she said, referring to the term for European Jews who founded Israel and continue to dominate its institutions.

Women’s groups were alerted to the widespread use of Depo Provera in the Ethiopian community in 2008 when Rachel Mangoli, who runs a day care centre for 120 Ethiopian children in Bnei Braq, a suburb of Tel Aviv, observed that she had received only one new child in the previous three years.

“I started to think about how strange the situation was after I had to send back donated baby clothes because there was no one in the community to give them to,” she said.

She approached a local health clinic serving the 55 Ethiopian families in Bnei Braq and was told by the clinic manager that they had been instructed to administer Depo Provera injections to the women of child-bearing age, though he refused to say who had issued the order.

Ms Mangoli, who interviewed the women, said: “They had not been told about alternative forms of contraception or about the side effects or given medical follow-ups.” The women complained of a wide range of side effects associated with the drug, including headaches, abdominal pain, fatigue, nausea, loss of libido and general burning sensations.

Depo Provera is also known to decrease bone density, especially among dark-skinned women, which can lead to osteoporosis in later life. Doctors are concerned that it is difficult or impossible to help women who experience severe side effects because the drug is in their system for months after it is injected.

The contraceptive’s reputation has also been tarnished by its association with South Africa, where the apartheid government had used it, often coercively, to limit the fertility of black women.

Traditionally, its main uses have been for women who are regarded as incapable of controlling their own reproduction or monitor other forms of birth control, and for women who suffer severe problems during menstruation.

Ms Eyal said she had been denied co-operation from government ministries, doctors and most of the health insurance companies while conducting her research.

Clalit, the largest health company, however, did provide figures showing that 57 per cent of its Depo Provera users were Ethiopian compared with a handful of women in other ethnic groups.

The health ministry was unavailable for comment.

When first questioned about Depo Provera in June 2008, the health minister of the time, Yaacov Ben Yezri, said the high number of Ethiopians in Israel using the drug reflected a “cultural preference” for injections among Ethiopians. In fact, according to figures of the World Health Organisation, three-quarters of women in Ethiopia using birth control take the oral pill.

“The answers we received from officials demonstrated overt racism,” Ms Eyal said. “They suggested that Ethiopian women should be treated not as individuals but as a collective group whose reproduction needs controlling.”

When Woman to Woman conducted an experiment by sending five non-Ethiopian women to doctors to ask for Depo Provera, all were told that it was prescribed only in highly unusual cases.

Ms Mangoli said it was extremely difficult to get immigrant Ethiopian families to speak out because they were afraid that their Jewishness was under suspicion and that they might be deported if they caused trouble.

However, women interviewed anonymously for the report stated that officials at absorption centres in Ethiopia advised them to take Depo Provera because there would be no funds to support their children if they got pregnant in Israel.

This policy appears to conflict with the stated goals of the country’s Demography Council, a group of experts charged with devising ways to persuade Jewish women to have more babies.

The council was established in response to what is widely seen in Israel as a “demographic war” with Palestinians, or the need to maintain a Jewish majority in the region despite high Palestinian birth rates. In a speech marking the council’s reconvening in 2002, the then social welfare minister, Shlomo Benizri, referred to “the beauty of the Jewish family that is blessed with many children”.

Yali Hashash, a researcher at Haifa University, said attempts to restrict Ethiopian women’s fertility echoed practices used against Jewish women who immigrated to Israel from such Arab countries as Iraq, Yemen and Morocco in the state’s early years, in the 1950s and 1960s.

Many, she said, had been encouraged to fit IUDs when the device was still experimental because Israel’s leading gynecologists regarded Arab Jews as “primitive” and incapable of acting “responsibly”.

Allegations of official racism towards Ethiopians gained prominence in 2006 when it was admitted that for many years all their blood donations had been discarded for fear that they might be contaminated with diseases.

There have also been regular reports of Ethiopian children being denied places in schools or being forced to attend separate classes.

In November a survey of employers in the main professions showed that 53 per cent preferred not to hire an Ethiopian.

Ruth Sinai, an Israeli social affairs reporter for Haaretz newspaper, wrote recently that the discrimination faced by the country’s 120,000 Ethiopians reflected in particular “doubts on the part of the country’s religious establishment about their Jewishness”.







http://www.jkcook.net/Articles3/0444.htm

 

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Soldati bianchi mentre meditano sul mein kampf, scusate volevo dire, sulla legge mosaica la Torah durante una tregua del massacro di civili semiti musulmani e cristiani a Gaza.

 

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La Bibbia sulla capocchia di uno spillo
Esperti israeliani di nanotecnologia sono riusciti a stampare l’intero “Antico Testamento” in ebraico su un chip di silicio “più piccolo della capocchia di uno spillo”, riferisce la rivista on-line Science Daily. Hanno potuto realizzare l’impresa bombardando la superficie del chip rivestita d’oro con un fascio concentrato di particelle minuscole: ioni di gallio. “Il progetto della nano-Bibbia dimostra le capacità di miniaturizzazione a nostra disposizione”, spiega il prof. Uri Sivan dell’Istituto di Tecnologia Technion-Israel. Apre inoltre la strada all’“immagazzinamento di informazioni in pochissimo spazio”.



“Isolate dal resto del mondo”
Alcuni scienziati israeliani ritengono di aver scoperto in una grotta otto nuove specie di invertebrati che da molti secoli “erano rimaste isolate dal resto del mondo”, dice il Jerusalem Post. Gli addetti agli scavi che lavoravano in una cava hanno trovato una piccola apertura da cui si scendeva in una grotta, della lunghezza complessiva di circa due chilometri e mezzo, dove c’era una cavità con un lago. Le nuove specie, alcune delle quali somigliano a scorpioni, includono due crostacei d’acqua salata, due crostacei d’acqua dolce e quattro specie terrestri.



Un seme germoglia dopo 2.000 anni
Le antiche palme da dattero della Giudea, apprezzate per la loro bellezza, l’ombra che offrono e le loro proprietà medicinali, furono distrutte dai crociati durante il Medioevo. Ora, però, “alcuni medici e scienziati israeliani sono riusciti a far germogliare un seme che risale a quasi 2.000 anni fa”, riferisce il New York Times. “Questo seme, soprannominato Matusalemme, è stato ricuperato nel corso di uno scavo fatto a Masada”, la fortezza espugnata dai romani nel 73 E.V. La dott. Elaine Solowey, esperta di agricoltura nelle terre aride, è riuscita a far germogliare il seme ma osserva che ci vorranno anni prima che la piantina produca qualche frutto, e questo solo se si tratta di una pianta femminile. “Se è maschile”, dice, “rimarrà solo un fatto curioso”.




“Le più antiche citazioni bibliche che si conoscano”
VENTICINQUE anni fa alcuni archeologi israeliani fecero una scoperta sensazionale. In una grotta funeraria sulle pendici della valle di Innom a Gerusalemme ritrovarono due piccoli rotoli d’argento su cui erano riportati alcuni versetti biblici. I rotoli risalivano a un periodo anteriore al 607 a.E.V. quando Gerusalemme fu distrutta dai babilonesi. Vi erano citate in parte le benedizioni che si leggono in Numeri 6:24-26. Geova, il nome proprio di Dio, compariva varie volte in entrambi i rotoli. Queste iscrizioni sono state definite “i più vecchi manufatti del mondo antico contenenti brani della Bibbia ebraica”.
Alcuni studiosi, però, hanno contestato questa datazione, sostenendo che i rotoli siano stati scritti nel II secolo a.E.V. Questa divergenza di opinioni era dovuta al fatto che la qualità delle fotografie originali di questi minuscoli rotoli non consentiva un esame abbastanza minuzioso dei particolari. Per risolvere il problema della datazione un’équipe di studiosi li ha esaminati nuovamente, utilizzando le più recenti tecnologie in fatto di fotografia e di elaborazione elettronica delle immagini per ottenere immagini digitali ad alta risoluzione dei rotoli. I risultati sono stati pubblicati di recente. A quali conclusioni sono pervenuti questi studiosi?
Prima di tutto essi evidenziano che, in base ai dati archeologici, i rotoli risalgono a una data anteriore all’esilio babilonese. Le rilevazioni di natura paleografica — la datazione di scritti in base a forma delle lettere, stile, posizione, ordine e direzione di ciascun tratto delle lettere — indicano lo stesso periodo di tempo, cioè la fine del VII secolo a.E.V. E infine, considerando l’ortografia, questa équipe conclude: “I dati ortografici delle lamine [rotoli] concordano con le prove archeologiche e paleografiche per quanto riguarda la datazione delle iscrizioni”.
Riassumendo lo studio dei rotoli d’argento, chiamati anche iscrizioni di Ketef Hinnom, un periodico dice: “Possiamo pertanto avvalorare la conclusione a cui è pervenuta la maggioranza degli studiosi: nelle iscrizioni trovate su queste lamine sono conservate le più antiche citazioni bibliche che si conoscano”. — Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.