Archivo etiqueta «Israel»
Por Gabriel Albiac, filósofo (ABC, 03/02/12):
«Pon tu bandera a media asta, / recuerdo. / A media asta / el día de hoy y siempre». En la penumbra de la biblioteca y en voz alta, releo el Shibbolethde un Paul Celan siempre acosado por la fuga de muerte y humo que danza sobre la música más alta o la más alta poesía. Y es Israel lo que retorna en la herida enigmática del poeta. Y en la mía, y en la de cualquier hombre de nuestro siglo que no apueste por ser asesino o imbécil. No es política. Es … Seguir leyendo
By Chuck Freilich, a senior fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School and a deputy national security advisor in Israel during Labor and Likud governments (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 02/02/12):
In the end it will come down to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His senior officials will make their cases, but he alone will have to make one of the most critical decisions inIsrael’s history: whether to attackIran’s nuclear program. I do not envy him.
There has been much media speculation lately about possible Israeli military action, largely from those who have never borne the crushing weight of momentous national decisions. Israel has … Seguir leyendo
Por Yossi Beilin, exministro de Justicia israelí, arquitecto del proceso de paz de Oslo (LA VANGUARDIA, 29/01/12):
Aparentemente, la situación política en Israel es tranquila: tres años de gobierno de Beniamin Netanyahu gracias a una coalición de partidos no muy grande pero estable. Al menos, eso demuestra el hecho de que la mitad de sus miembros se siente en los consejos de ministros del mayor gobierno de Israel en toda su historia y no tengan prisa en abandonarlo. Estamos hablando de un gobierno, formado por personas de la derecha conservadora y por religiosos ultraortodoxos, con un elemento en común: … Seguir leyendo
By Dov Linzer, an Orthodox rabbi, the dean of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/01/12):
Is it possible for a religious demand for modesty to be about anything other than men controlling women’s bodies? From recent events in Israel, it would certainly seem that it is not.
Last month, an innocent, modestly dressed 8-year-old girl, Naama Margolese, living in Beit Shemesh, described being spat on and vilified by religious extremists — all men — who believed that she did not dress modestly enough while walking past them to … Seguir leyendo
By Shibley Telhami, a professor of government at the University of Maryland and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 17/01/12):
The debate over how to handle Iran’s nuclear program is notable for its gloom and doom. Many people assume that Israel must choose between letting Iran develop nuclear weapons or attacking before it gets the bomb. But this is a false choice. There is a third option: working toward a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East. And it is more feasible … Seguir leyendo
Por Alon Liel, embajador israelí en Suráfrica entre 1992 y 1994 y director general en el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Israel. Traducción de M. Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (EL PAÍS, 21/12/11):
Cuando asumí el puesto de embajador israelí en Suráfrica, en 1992, la historia estaba ya cambiando en favor de la democracia. Sin embargo, seguían en vigor numerosas leyes del apartheid, aunque ya no se aplicaban de forma estricta. Recuerdo, en especial, las leyes concebidas para incapacitar a la sociedad civil, destruir las organizaciones de la comunidad y sofocar los derechos humanos. Entre ellas estaban las que impedían la … Seguir leyendo
By Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, a Washington-based nonprofit that advocates a diplomatic resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the author of A New Voice for Israel (THE WASHINGTON POST, 17/12/11):
Advocates of strong U.S.-Israel relations have aimed for decades to keep Israel from being a divisive issue in American politics. Yet Israel is one of very few foreign policy issues already rating attention in the 2012 presidential election.
Republican candidates recently staked their claim to the “pro-Israel” mantle in front of the Republican Jewish Coalition Forum. President Obama made his case on Friday to 6,000 Reform … Seguir leyendo
By Ron Prosor, Israel’s permanent representative to the United Nations (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 09/12/11):
Silence. Just silence from the U.N. Silence from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. And silence from major media outlets throughout the world.
Imagine for just a moment if this were happening to cities in, say, Texas. Imagine that the citizens of El Paso, Laredo and San Antonio have to stay inside their homes. Schools are closed, businesses are shut and people have to suspend their lives. Not because of some natural disaster or a nuclear or chemical accident, because groups in Mexico have purchased and are firing … Seguir leyendo
Por Abraham B. Yehoshua, escritor israelí, impulsor del movimiento Paz Ahora (LA VANGUARDIA, 04/12/11):
Hace unos meses Dan Merón, uno de los mayores expertos en literatura israelí, me dio un libro que había escrito sobre la obra literaria de Zeev Jabotinsky, el fundador e ideólogo de la derecha israelí. Se le considera el padre espiritual de Menahem Beguin, Isaac Shamir o del actual primer ministro, Netanyahu. Jabotinsky nació en Odessa y era novelista, poeta, traductor, dominaba varias lenguas y era un gran admirador de la cultura italiana, e incluso llegó a simpatizar en los años 20 con el régimen … Seguir leyendo
By Gershom Gorenberg, an Israeli journalist and historian and the author of The Unmaking of Israel (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 26/11/11):
“Clearly, there’s a war here, sometimes even worse than the one in Samaria,” the yeshiva student said. “It’s not a war with guns. It’s a war of light against darkness.”
We were sitting in the mixed Jewish-Arab town of Acre in Israel. The war he described was another front in the struggle he knew from growing up in a settlement in the northern West Bank, or Samaria: the daily contest between Jews and Palestinians for control of the … Seguir leyendo
By Sarah Schulman, a professor of humanities at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/11/11):
“In dreams begin responsibilities,” wrote Yeats in 1914. These words resonate with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people who have witnessed dramatic shifts in our relationship to power. After generations of sacrifice and organization, gay people in parts of the world have won protection from discrimination and relationship recognition. But these changes have given rise to a nefarious phenomenon: the co-opting of white gay people by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim political forces in Western Europe and Israel.… Seguir leyendo
Par Thierry Coville, chercheur à l’IRIS, professeur à Novancia (LE MONDE, 17/11/11):
Tout d’abord, la question me gêne car il est difficile d’expliquer pourquoi un pays, Israël, qui dispose d’un arsenal nucléaire militaire (de 100 à 300 ogives nucléaires) s’arrogerait le droit d’attaquer un autre pays, l’Iran, signataire du Traité de non-prolifération (TNP), parce qu’il le soupçonne d’avoir l’intention de militariser son programme. L’argument qu’Israël n’a pas signé le TNP est peu recevable. Cela crée un véritable déséquilibre stratégique dans la région et que n’a-t-on pas écrit sur le refus des Etats-Unis de ratifier le traité de Kyoto alors … Seguir leyendo
Par Camille Grand, directeur de la Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (LE MONDE, 17/11/11):
Les récents développements autour du programme nucléaire militaire iranien ont relancé le débat en Israël sur l’opportunité de frappes militaires, à travers des déclarations des plus hautes autorités du pays. Si ce débat n’est pas nouveau en Israël, il prend un relief particulier dans le contexte du nouveau rapport de l’AIEA qui confirme en s’appuyant sur des éléments matériels très forts et très précis, la finalité militaire du programme nucléaire iranien.
Le débat israélien sur l’option militaire se déroule dans un environnement radicalement différent de … Seguir leyendo
By Marvin Zonis, professor emeritus at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 13/11/11):
Speculation over an Israeli bombing mission to destroy Iran’s nuclear program is at fever pitch.
The consequences of such a strike would be staggering. Iran has vast retaliatory capacity. Missiles would be sent into oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. Hezbollah would launch thousands of missiles against Israel from southern Lebanon. Iran’s proxies in Iraq would mount new terror campaigns against withdrawing American troops.
And these are just for starters.
Worse, any Israeli strike would set back Iran’s program, but … Seguir leyendo
By Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace and Michael Mansfield QC, an English barrister (THE GUARDIAN, 03/11/11):
Opportunities to break seemingly intractable and deadlocked situations are rare – especially on a scale which has rapidly developed this year from the beleaguered cries of citizenry across North Africa and the Middle East. There is a palpable consensus that the provenance of this movement is lodged firmly in the fundamental prerequisite for meaningful democracy: self-determination. All conventions on human rights have this tenet as a core rationale. Where it is repeatedly denied and suppressed there will … Seguir leyendo