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giovedì 21 agosto 2014

World Dictionary New Words and Meaning: Communist

An image to express love for communism.
An image to express love for communism. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a common way to express a feeling against someone. Communist and communism have lost the original meaning to be used, nowadays, as a synonymous of

“Bad Guy that is against Freedom, Truth, Democracy, Life, God and everything holy and so, as a matter of fact, terrorist, killer and all the worse”

After the end of the so-called “cold War” and the downfall of the former USSR what is left is just an abused and empty word “communism” still used as a propaganda flag to show the “enemy” in a general way.

If you’re against me so you’re “communist”, so it happen to watch television or read internet comments and finding out that we have communism everywhere in the world, opposite party, Obama administration, protesters in Ferguson MO, Putin, the Sunnis insurgents in Iraq of the self-proclaimed Islāmic Caliphate, the Hamas movement and so on.

At least this is what I found out reading comments on news and pictures coming from Social networks as LinkedIn, Google+ or Twitter.

I suspect that there are also people saying that the actual roman catholic pope “Francesco” (read here) (read here) and some cardinals as Desmond Tutu () that have expressed some political or social comments on the actual world situation are communists.

But “communist” is widely used also locally in europe to address the political counterpart.

Beside the “Obama administration” communist reference, so loved by the so-called “Tea Party” guys and gals and the local declinations due to internal political propaganda the most of the communist are the non-western counterparts of the world.

It’s really an amusing way to define people, and could not be more far from the real meaning of the word “communist”. But probably we should get used to a completely new meaning of the most world used words that have a little or nothing to do with the previous or native meaning.

It’s amazing, just say the magic word “communist” and you do not have to explain anything else, you just found the bad and the guilty, no more proof of evidences are required.

Well may be someone still remember the real meaning of the word

 

Cheers

 

 

World Dictionary New Words and Meaning: Communist

An image to express love for communism.
An image to express love for communism. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a common way to express a feeling against someone. Communist and communism have lost the original meaning to be used, nowadays, as a synonymous of

“Bad Guy that is against Freedom, Truth, Democracy, Life, God and everything holy and so, as a matter of fact, terrorist, killer and all the worse”

After the end of the so-called “cold War” and the downfall of the former USSR what is left is just an abused and empty word “communism” still used as a propaganda flag to show the “enemy” in a general way.

If you’re against me so you’re “communist”, so it happen to watch television or read internet comments and finding out that we have communism everywhere in the world, opposite party, Obama administration, protesters in Ferguson MO, Putin, the Sunnis insurgents in Iraq of the self-proclaimed Islāmic Caliphate, the Hamas movement and so on.

At least this is what I found out reading comments on news and pictures coming from Social networks as LinkedIn, Google+ or Twitter.

I suspect that there are also people saying that the actual roman catholic pope “Francesco” (read here) (read here) and some cardinals as Desmond Tutu () that have expressed some political or social comments on the actual world situation are communists.

But “communist” is widely used also locally in europe to address the political counterpart.

Beside the “Obama administration” communist reference, so loved by the so-called “Tea Party” guys and gals and the local declinations due to internal political propaganda the most of the communist are the non-western counterparts of the world.

It’s really an amusing way to define people, and could not be more far from the real meaning of the word “communist”. But probably we should get used to a completely new meaning of the most world used words that have a little or nothing to do with the previous or native meaning.

It’s amazing, just say the magic word “communist” and you do not have to explain anything else, you just found the bad and the guilty, no more proof of evidences are required.

Well may be someone still remember the real meaning of the word

 

Cheers

 

 

giovedì 31 luglio 2014

Israel will destroy Hamas tunnels no matter what

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will not end its operation in Gaza until Hamas tunnels have been destroyed. Hamas has used an extensive network of tunnels to launch attacks on targets in Israel. Netanyahu maintains that Israel will push forward with efforts to destroy the tunnels “with or without a ceasefire.”

Meanwhile, Israeli shelling continues unabated. Nearly 100 people died in Gaza on Wednesday, including 16 who were killed when Israeli artillery hit a UN-run school in Jabaliya district of Gaza City.

On Thursday, the U.N.’s top human rights official, Navi Pillay, accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes. By placing and firing rockets within heavily populated areas both sides, according to Pillay, are committing “a violation of international humanitarian law, therefore a war crime.” Around 1,300 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 59 Israelis, mainly soldiers, have been killed in the latest violence.

Israel will destroy Hamas tunnels no matter what

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will not end its operation in Gaza until Hamas tunnels have been destroyed. Hamas has used an extensive network of tunnels to launch attacks on targets in Israel. Netanyahu maintains that Israel will push forward with efforts to destroy the tunnels “with or without a ceasefire.”

Meanwhile, Israeli shelling continues unabated. Nearly 100 people died in Gaza on Wednesday, including 16 who were killed when Israeli artillery hit a UN-run school in Jabaliya district of Gaza City.

On Thursday, the U.N.’s top human rights official, Navi Pillay, accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes. By placing and firing rockets within heavily populated areas both sides, according to Pillay, are committing “a violation of international humanitarian law, therefore a war crime.” Around 1,300 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 59 Israelis, mainly soldiers, have been killed in the latest violence.

mercoledì 30 luglio 2014

L'equivoco su Hamas

Usualmente non sono accondiscendente con le motivazioni Israliane nel conflitto Israelo-Palestinese.

Non si tratta di essere antisemtia o antisionista, ma semplicemente di essere critico verso le operazioni israliane in terra palestinese perchè le ritengo inutili dal punto di vista degli obiettivi che vengono ufficialmente dichiarati e inaccettabili da un punto di vista di un esponente della civiltà occidentale.

Ho scritto più volte che l’atteggiamento sprezzante di Israele nei confronti della comunità internazionale e delle risoluzioni dell’ONU, il comportamento della stessa Israele nei territori occupati e quelli limitrofi (dal controllo delle fonti di approvigionamento idrico agli insediamenti e via dicendo), porta ad una sempre maggiore radicalizzazione del conflitto, non certo alla sua soluzione.

Non sono neanche da sottovalutare gli atteggiamenti apertamente razzisti di alcune frange radicali dei vari movimenti ebraici che sono anche al governo. Valutazioni che vanno dal fatto che gli Arabi e tutti i gentili esistono solo per servire gli ebrei, alle dichiarazioni che i palestinesi dovrebbero essere tutti sterminati fatte da alcuni esponenti religiosi (potete fare riferimento al mio articolo in inglese “A neverending Chain of Hate” per qualche indicazione in merito).

Ma capiamoci, per fare la pace occorre essere in due, ed atteggiamenti apertamente contrari alla possibile formulazione di una pace stabile sono presenti anche dall’altro lato, Hamas ne è un esempio lampante.

La radicalizzazione del conflitto è visibile sopratutto in termini della radicalizzazione ideologica che ha preso piede da entrambe le parti e di cui la escalation militare è una diretta conseguenza. La cosa è abbastanza evdente se si da una occhiata alla trasformazione dei movimenti palestinesi che da movimenti prevalentemente laici con ramificazioni filo comuniste si sono trasformati in movimenti a forte caratterizzazione religiosa, come appunto Hamas.

Hamas è un movimento Islamico-Sunnita con un braccio armato che è, di fatto, il responsabile del lancio di razzi contro Israele degli ultimi anni.

La caratterizzazione Islamico-sunnita non è da sottovalutare sopratutto se consideriamo quello che sta avvenendo nelle rimanenti aree del medio oriente fra le componenti sciite e sunnite, e può aiutare a capire quali siano ramificazion e contatti del gruppo Hamas o il perchè nella sua agenda non rientri la pace con Israele. Un atteggiamento non molto differente da quello di alcune frange estreme in Israele. L’obiettivo di Hamas non è certamente quello di creare un rapporto di mutuo riconoscimento tra Israele e uno stato palestinese ma eventualmente di creare uno stato palestinese di matrice islamica.

Se Hamas non ha  in agenda nessuna concessione alla pace, se non tramite la “sconfitta” del nemico risulta evidente che le attività di “terrorismo” attuate hanno lo scopo di perpetuare lo scontro fino alla soluzione finale. Questa situazione trova la controparte ideale in Israele dove la continua espansione del territorio a discapito della popolazione palestinese tramite gli insediamenti dichiarati illegali più volte dalla comunità internazionale non fa altro che alimentare le ragioni della estremizzazione.

La strategia di Hamas risulta però comprensibile solo se si analizzano anche i suoi metodi all’interno dei territori ove si è insediata. Per sua natura, di movimento islamico e militare, Hamas fa del reclutamento lo strumento primo necessario ad ingrossare le proprie file, a differenza di uno stato sovrano che può utilizzare un esercito regolare, hamas alimenta la sua struttura militare facendo affidamento ad adesione spontanea e pressione psicologica. Il risultato è duplice,da un lato si ottiene una forza militare più estremizzata (si pensi ai suicidi) dall’altra si crea un legame particolamente forte sul territorio, legame che è strumento indispensabile alla strategia di Hamas.

Internamente Hamas opera con due facce, da un lato si preoccupa di attivare attività “caritatevoli”, fornire istruzione e “sicurezza” nei confronti della popolazione, dall’altro attraverso la struttura armata alimenta la condizione di disagio che facilita la sua attività di reclutamento ed indottrinamento continuando a “stuzzicare” Israele con uno “stillicidio” continuo..

Da questo punto di vista, pace e prosperità sono i nemici più pericolosi per hamas, dal momento che sottrarebbero le principali basi del consenso ideologico su cui basa il suo potere.

Per “fortuna” della dirigenza di Hamas Israele non perde occasione, con le sue azioni, per alimentare la propaganda di Hamas e favorirne il radicamento nei territori.

Ovviamente in tutto questo quadro coloro che vengono a pagare il prezzo più alto sono i palestinesi stessi.

Perche Hamas si nasconde tra i civili?

Ecco una domanda che sento spesso, cerchiamo di capire cosa significhi questo “nascondersi tra i civili” od “usare i civili come scudo” e via dicendo.

Dobbiamo innanzi tutto distinguere almeno 3 distinti livelli:

  • ci sono i leader politici\militari
  • ci sono le strutture di Hamas
  • ci sono le strutture militari nascoste.

per quello che concerne la leadership di Hamas, è impensabile che questa non viva nella stessa zona dove vivono i “civili”. Innanzi tutto perchè sono civili anche loro (e forse qualcuno potrebbe ricordare anche che sono stati eletti democraticamente, per quanto si possa parlare di democrazia nell’area), in secondo luogo un movimento come Hamas che, ricordo, non è ne uno stato ne un partito politico ma un movimento di ispirazione religiosa estremista, non può prescidere dal territorio. Reclutamento, indottrinamento e attività varie non hanno senso se non fatte nel territorio, che è la base del consenso di Hamas.

Ogni bomba che cade, consente ad hamas di intervenire a supporto della popolazione dal punto di vista medico e “umanitario” dando di se l’immagine del protettore della causa e della gente.

Per quanto comprensibile la propaganda Israiliana in questo senso è propaganda, anche i capi militari e politici israiliani vivono in città come cittadini, non certo in enclavi separate.

Le strutture di Hamas, parimenti sono obbligatoriamente oggetti presenti nel territorio, una scuola coranica, una mensa per i poveri, una moschea non possono certo essere messe al di fuori del perimetro cittadino.

Un discorso particolare va fatto però per le strutture militari, molte di queste hanno in realtà funzioni ibride di rifugio e\o base di attacco. Come i tunnel servono alla duplice finzione di perpetrare azioni di guerra e consentire l’aggiramento di un embrago economico che ha strangolato la popolazione civile.

Oggettivamente è difficile immaginare che hamas possa scegliere strategie diverse per quello che concerne le strutture militari, anche per la modalità con cui queste strutture vengono integrate nel territorio. Del resto in assenza di un esercito regolare non è pensabile di mettere le strutture militari in maniera visibile e facilmente rintracciabile.

La polemica sugli “scudi umani” è quindi abbastanza risibile dal punto di vista militare, Hamas fa quello che deve fare per perseguire il suo obbiettivo, che per inciso non comprende ne la salvezza del popolo palestinese ne la ace con Israele.

Se Hamas non si nascondesse tra i civili non sarebbe Hamas, avrebbe una agenda diversa e probabilmente avrebbe lavorato per la pace e non per il mantenmento di uno “status quo” che serve solo a pochi dirigenti di entrambe le parti ad alimentare le ragioni del loro potere e della loro ideologia.

Hamas è la resistenza palestinese?

Difficile dare una risposta ad una domanda del genere. Innanzi tutto occorrerebbe capire se esiste oggi una resistenza palestinese e se si con che agenda. Detto questo Hamas ha tratto vantaggio dalla situazione in cui si trova la Palestina e la striscia di Gaza in particolare, giustificandosi come resistenza leggittima agli occhi della popolazione interna ma agendo in maniera alquanto discutibile.

Sarei tentato, ma questa è una mia opinione, a dire di no. ma non perchè Hamas sia una organizzazione terroristica, tutti i movimenti di resistenza sono chiamati “terroristi” dall’estabishment al potere, ma perchè la resistenza di una popolazione di solito non ha una connotazione religiosa o politica, ma sociale e nazionalistica.

 

venerdì 18 luglio 2014

A neverending chain of Hate

Today has been dedicated to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, dedicated because for some reasons I received some messages on the subject and I read some thread that made me think about this sad war.

The first thing come to my attention has been a thread on twitter related to this pic. Is just me that I am naïve or there is something wrong with this Facebook page?

PIC-large

This disgusting page comes from Facebook, those are the comments after that Israel artillery shot and killed some children in Palestine. There is no right that can justify such comments, they are disgusting for their very nature, they’re simply telling that not all human is worth to live.

The thing looks to me pure barbarity by itself.

This is not being pro or against Israel, not being pro or against Palestine. Both have reasons, both made mistakes, both hands are red by innocent blood.

Both are simply not looking at ending this endless war.

But this is a conflict that is based also on words and there are some very disturbing moments in this war that hurt me.

The very idea that a civilized and modern country, a “democratic” one allow the use of hate speech and use lousy propaganda make me feel like nothing has changed in the last 1000 years.

wafa-al-bassJust to be clear I will state here that I have No doubt Hamas agenda is to destroy Israel, this agenda is related more to keep power and misconceived religion believes than real care of the Palestinian population. But honestly I do not expect Hamas to be democratic and civil in our western terms, and this is a very bad thing.

The way Hamas is conducting the war is clear, using people  to commit suicide, weapon, rocket and explosives targeting directly civilians, without any kind of respect or consideration.

Leveraging the holy war flag, the jihad, they’re simply moving the bar to a point where there would be other chances but the annihilation of the enemy. Hiding between the population is part of the very essence of the group, they want to be considered leader inside the population not an external source.

The way Hamas talk about Israel is quite self-explanatory, no doubt that we cannot trust Hamas as a partner for peace, see thi link http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/24375/Default.aspx

At the same time it is quite clear that there is no agenda for peace also in the other part, political speeches, comment like the ones before, and videos like this one make clear the point:

http://youtu.be/GdtGOY8T5XE

the so-called 10 misconception named in the video are one of the “finest” propaganda video I’ve ever seen. Just let represent reality in a slightly different way and, voilà, here you are the good one against the ugly guy. Those are not the basis for a peace, I strongly doubt that something good could come from a lie and this is a great example. Anyone with a minimum knowledge of history and facts would argue that this is no more than a ridiculous way to present Israel as a holy people who did everything possible to make peace.

The truth is quite different, and facts are far more complex. So if the history of how Israel got the land is just “simplified” other points are questionable as the comment on economic situation (partially true but would be good to discuss the part Israel played in blocking economic development of a Palestinian territory) or Palestinian children are feed with hate against Israel in a way that seems that hate is only from one side.

The truth is that  Israeli rhetoric against Palestine and Arab (But I should add Muslim and, generally speaking, the gentile which is everyone that is not a believer) is equally hard and brutal then the Arab’s:eli-ben

Just take a look also at this article:

http://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/examples-of-hate-speech-by-israel-against-palestine

bbc-rabbi-extermination.

 

 

 

The sad conclusion that comes out is, sadly, that neither part want to stop this war because, at the end, both are gaining visibility, power and the justification of their existence one from the other.

Turning the question into a religious war allow both parties to be way more effective in feeding this never-ending conflict.

And using the propaganda from both sides allow to justify acts and words that would have been considered “barbarian” in other contexts.

yitzchak ginsburgh9

 

A neverending chain of Hate

Today has been dedicated to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, dedicated because for some reasons I received some messages on the subject and I read some thread that made me think about this sad war.

The first thing come to my attention has been a thread on twitter related to this pic. Is just me that I am naïve or there is something wrong with this Facebook page?

PIC-large

This disgusting page comes from Facebook, those are the comments after that Israel artillery shot and killed some children in Palestine. There is no right that can justify such comments, they are disgusting for their very nature, they’re simply telling that not all human is worth to live.

The thing looks to me pure barbarity by itself.

This is not being pro or against Israel, not being pro or against Palestine. Both have reasons, both made mistakes, both hands are red by innocent blood.

Both are simply not looking at ending this endless war.

But this is a conflict that is based also on words and there are some very disturbing moments in this war that hurt me.

The very idea that a civilized and modern country, a “democratic” one allow the use of hate speech and use lousy propaganda make me feel like nothing has changed in the last 1000 years.

wafa-al-bassJust to be clear I will state here that I have No doubt Hamas agenda is to destroy Israel, this agenda is related more to keep power and misconceived religion believes than real care of the Palestinian population. But honestly I do not expect Hamas to be democratic and civil in our western terms, and this is a very bad thing.

The way Hamas is conducting the war is clear, using people  to commit suicide, weapon, rocket and explosives targeting directly civilians, without any kind of respect or consideration.

Leveraging the holy war flag, the jihad, they’re simply moving the bar to a point where there would be other chances but the annihilation of the enemy. Hiding between the population is part of the very essence of the group, they want to be considered leader inside the population not an external source.

The way Hamas talk about Israel is quite self-explanatory, no doubt that we cannot trust Hamas as a partner for peace, see thi link http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/24375/Default.aspx

At the same time it is quite clear that there is no agenda for peace also in the other part, political speeches, comment like the ones before, and videos like this one make clear the point:

http://youtu.be/GdtGOY8T5XE

the so-called 10 misconception named in the video are one of the “finest” propaganda video I’ve ever seen. Just let represent reality in a slightly different way and, voilà, here you are the good one against the ugly guy. Those are not the basis for a peace, I strongly doubt that something good could come from a lie and this is a great example. Anyone with a minimum knowledge of history and facts would argue that this is no more than a ridiculous way to present Israel as a holy people who did everything possible to make peace.

The truth is quite different, and facts are far more complex. So if the history of how Israel got the land is just “simplified” other points are questionable as the comment on economic situation (partially true but would be good to discuss the part Israel played in blocking economic development of a Palestinian territory) or Palestinian children are feed with hate against Israel in a way that seems that hate is only from one side.

The truth is that  Israeli rhetoric against Palestine and Arab (But I should add Muslim and, generally speaking, the gentile which is everyone that is not a believer) is equally hard and brutal then the Arab’s:eli-ben

Just take a look also at this article:

http://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/examples-of-hate-speech-by-israel-against-palestine

bbc-rabbi-extermination.

 

 

 

The sad conclusion that comes out is, sadly, that neither part want to stop this war because, at the end, both are gaining visibility, power and the justification of their existence one from the other.

Turning the question into a religious war allow both parties to be way more effective in feeding this never-ending conflict.

And using the propaganda from both sides allow to justify acts and words that would have been considered “barbarian” in other contexts.

yitzchak ginsburgh9