Archivo etiqueta «Israel»
Por Shlomo Ben Ami, ex ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de Israel y ahora vicepresidente del Centro Internacional para la Paz de Toledo. Es autor de Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy. Traducido del inglés por Carlos Manzano (Project Syndicate, 03/11/11):
El intercambio de prisioneros entre enemigos es con frecuencia un preludio para la reconciliación política. Lamentablemente, el reciente intercambio entre Israel y Hamás, en el que la organización islamista se llevó la parte del león de más de 1.000 prisioneros a cambio del soldado israelí Gilad Shalit, no es un buen augurio para las posibilidades de … Seguir leyendo
By Richard J. Goldstone, a former justice of the South African Constitutional Court who led the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict of 2008-9 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/11/11):
The Palestinian Authority’s request for full United Nations membership has put hope for any two-state solution under increasing pressure. The need for reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians has never been greater. So it is important to separate legitimate criticism of Israel from assaults that aim to isolate, demonize and delegitimize it.
One particularly pernicious and enduring canard that is surfacing again is that Israel pursues “apartheid” policies. In … Seguir leyendo
By Dimi Reider, a contributor to +972 Magazine, an Israeli journalist and photographer (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/11/11):
On Sunday, the Tel Aviv District Court sentenced Anat Kamm, a 24-year-old journalist and former soldier, to four and a half years in prison for leaking documents containing evidence of what she suspected might be war crimes committed by her commanders.
Uri Blau, a prominent Israeli investigative reporter at Haaretz who received the documents from Ms. Kamm, is now waiting to hear whether the attorney general will indict him.
Meanwhile, the commanders implicated in the leaked documents were cleared by … Seguir leyendo
By Robert D. Blackwill, deputy national security advisor for strategic planning in the George W. Bush administration and Walter B. Slocombe, undersecretary of defense for policy in the Clinton administration. Both are authors of the new report Israel: A Strategic Asset for the United States (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy) (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 31/10/11):
American leaders have traditionally explained the foundations of the U.S.-Israel relationship by citing shared democratic values and the moral responsibility America bears to protect the small nation-state of the Jewish people. Although accurate and essential, this characterization is incomplete because it fails … Seguir leyendo
Por Ziad Darwish, analista palestino y responsable de la emisora de radio Todos por la Paz (LA VANGUARDIA, 30/10/11):
Una multitud de preguntas aparecieron y siguen apareciendo, tanto entre los palestinos como en el seno de la comunidad internacional, en relación con el acuerdo de intercambio completado hace poco entre Hamas e Israel. Son preguntas que intentan comprender las circunstancias y las condiciones del acuerdo.
1. ¿Debe considerarse lo conseguido como un gran logro nacional? Se trata sin duda de un gran logro de Hamas. La liberación de un gran número de presos y en especial de los sentenciados … Seguir leyendo
By Ronald R. Krebs, associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. A longer version of this article appears in the November/December 2011 issue of Foreign Affairs (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 25/10/11):
As the Palestinian quest for statehood grinds on at the United Nations, those who really hold the Palestinians’ fate in their hands — the people of Israel — are more pessimistic than ever about the prospects for peace.
According to a survey published in late September, two thirds of Israelis hold no hope of ever achieving peace with the Palestinians. But the poll also revealed … Seguir leyendo
By Danny Danon, deputy speaker of the Knesset (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 21/10/11):
For more than 60 years, the American-Israeli relationship has by and large been incredibly close. Most of us, on both sides of the Atlantic, assumed that the election of Barack Obama three years ago would assure the continuation of this long-standing friendship. Unfortunately however, American and Israeli supporters of this special relationship quickly began to notice a subtle but noticeable change in the dynamics between the two administrations. This change points to a fundamental misunderstanding of the moral and strategic reasoning behind the relationship. More important, this … Seguir leyendo
Por Abraham B. Yehoshúa, escritor israelí, impulsor del Movimiento Paz ahora (LA VANGUARDIA, 21/10/11):
Tanto es el entusiasmo en Israel por la liberación de Gilad Shalit que parece como si el Gobierno israelí no hubiese pactado con Hamas sino que se hubiera enviado a un israelí a Marte y ahora se estuviese celebrando su regreso.
No es la primera vez que se libera a soldados o ciudadanos israelíes secuestrados por organizaciones terroristas. Y siempre se aplicó el mismo principio por el que se canjeaban unos pocos soldados israelíes a cambio de cientos o miles de presos o prisioneros de … Seguir leyendo
By Uri Dromi, the spokesman of the Rabin and Peres governments from 1992 to 1996 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/11/10):
The exchange of more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners for one Israeli soldier was brokered by a German mediator and by Egypt, because Israel regards Hamas as a terrorist organization with which it will not negotiate.
But the fact remains that this was a deal Israel cut with Hamas. The question now is whether this show of pragmatism can lead to further developments, with broader ramifications for the Arab-Israeli conflict.
When Hamas took power more than five years ago, … Seguir leyendo
By Walter Reich, a psychiatrist and a professor of international affairs at George Washington University, director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1995 to 1998 and the editor of Origins of Terrorism (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19/10/11):
Almost every day, during a recent stay in Jerusalem, I walked past the tent that the parents of Sgt. First Class Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was captured in 2006 by Hamas, had pitched near the residence of Israel’s prime minister. Theirs was a long vigil.
Distraught but dignified, and most of the time not knowing whether their son … Seguir leyendo
Por Adolfo García Ortega, escritor y editor (EL PAÍS, 18/10/11):
Algunos medios se empeñan en llamar aislamiento de Israel a lo que también es un acoso ideológico de arcano aroma tercermundista. En llamar antisionismo (como si el sionismo siguiera existiendo hoy en día y no fuese una corriente nacionalista, tan legítima como la italiana o la catalana, que dio forma a una variante innovadora del socialismo, por ejemplo) a lo que rezuma “antisemitismo orgánico”. Y en situar a Israel en el centro de la injusticia frente a los palestinos como si los palestinos no tuvieran nada que ver con … Seguir leyendo
By Abraham Rabinovich, a Jerusalem-based journalist (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 13/10/11):
For five years, the image of captured soldier Gilad Shalit returning home has been the national daydream in Israel, engraved on T-shirts and bumper stickers and graffiti in every town and hamlet in the country. Now that it is actually about to happen, that daydream is seen to be embedded in a nightmare. The public understands that as Sgt. Shalit walks in the front door to be embraced by family and friends, 1,027 killers who have been broken out of high-security prisons, will be setting up camp in … Seguir leyendo
By Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States (THE WASHINGTON POST, 13/10/11):
The claim of Israel’s isolation, echoed by Democratic and Republican leaders alike, is gaining status as fact. “Israel finds itself increasingly isolated, beleaguered, and besieged,” John Heilemann wrote recently in New York magazine. The Economist reported that “Israel’s isolation has . . . been underlined by the deterioration of its relations with Turkey and Egypt.” New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “isolating his country,” while Thomas Friedman described Israel as “adrift at sea alone.”… Seguir leyendo
Por Ian Buruma, profesor de Democracia y Derechos Humanos en el Bard College y autor de Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents (Project Syndicate, 07/10/11):
En una rara incursión fuera de su Texas natal, el gobernador Rick Perry acusó al presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, de “apaciguamiento” hacia los palestinos. El ex alcalde de la ciudad de Nueva York Edward Koch respaldó a un candidato parlamentario republicano y católico contra un demócrata judío en Nueva York, porque el republicano respalda a Israel contra viento y marea -y porque Obama había manifestado reservas sobre la expansión … Seguir leyendo
By Scott MacLeod, a professor at American University in Cairo and managing editor of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs. He was Time magazine’s Middle East correspondent from 1995 to 2010 (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 06/10/11):
Egyptians have hardly noticed as the 30th anniversary of Anwar Sadat’s death approached this week. It isn’t only because they’re too busy with ongoing political protests and labor strikes as the country zigzags toward democratic elections.
They just don’t care.
To the young people who made the January 25 “revolution” in Tahrir Square, Sadat is a figure from a distant past. If they think … Seguir leyendo