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Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
![[Crop of Image of Negev Nuclear Research Center at Dimona, photographed by an American reconnaissance satellite in 1960. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_Nuclear_reactor_in_dimona_(israel).jpg "[Crop of Image of Negev Nuclear Research Center at Dimona, photographed by an American reconnaissance satellite in 1960. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu seemed inspired by the Road Runner cartoons, Glenn Beck and Reverend Gene Scott. The bizarre, almost hand drawn, “bomb” in one of his hands was complemented by the red marker in another: man enough, Bibi suggested, to draw his own red lines. He does not need the Americans. The last time someone came to the UN General Assembly and did one of these amateur presentations, the US went to war. Poor Colin Powell would come to regret his 5 February, 2003 speech where he laid out one exaggeration and falsehood after another that led to the US war on Iraq. As Powell put it two years later, “I’m the one who presented it on behalf of the United States ...
Keep Reading »Anne and Rachel: a Legacy of Two Martyrs
![[Rachel Corrie nonviolently blocks Israeli bulldozers from destroying Palestinian homes on 16 March 2003. Note that this photo is from earlier in the day; not the incident of her death.]](/content_images/3/sm_Rachel_Corrie_2003_March_16.jpg "[Rachel Corrie nonviolently blocks Israeli bulldozers from destroying Palestinian homes on 16 March 2003. Note that this photo is from earlier in the day; not the incident of her death.]")
Sixty-Seven years after the end of World War II, a team of researchers and cameramen from the Anne Frank House in Holland showed up at the Capitol Lakes retirement center in Madison, Wisconsin to interview my father-in-law, Fritz Loewenstein. Fritz is the only known person still living who had been boyhood friends with Anne Frank’s “secret annex” companion, Peter van Pels (known in the Diary as Peter van Damm). The oral historical account Fritz gave lasted over two hours, the interviewers – including Teresien da Silva, head of collections at the Anne Frank House in the Netherlands, who traveled to Madison personally – asked probing and thorough ...
Keep Reading »“There Are No Civilians In Wartime.” Rachel Corrie’s Family Confronts The Israeli Military In Court
![Cindy, right, and Craig Corrie, center, sit together with their daughter Sarah in the court room just before the district court's ruling in Haifa, Israel, Aug. 28, 2012. Image by Ariel Schalit/AP Photo.]](/content_images/3/sm_AP72794913428.jpg "Cindy, right, and Craig Corrie, center, sit together with their daughter Sarah in the court room just before the district court's ruling in Haifa, Israel, Aug. 28, 2012. Image by Ariel Schalit/AP Photo.]")
In a small courtroom on the sixth floor of Haifa’s District Court, a colonel in the Israeli engineering corps who wrote a manual for the bulldozer units that razed the Rafah Refugee Camp in 2003 offered his opinion on the killing of the American activist Rachel Corrie. “There are no civilians during wartime,” Yossi declared under oath. Yossi made his remarkable statement under withering cross-examination by Hussein Abu Hussein, the lawyer for the family of Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah on 17 March 2003. Rachel’s parents, Craig and Cindy, and her sister, Sarah, stood in the back of the courtroom to witness the 2010 proceedings. ...
Keep Reading »Trying to Understand MUJWA
![[Map of the Tuareg rebellion in Azawad, Northern Mali showing rebel attacks as of 5 April 2012. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-08-24at12.31.09PM.png "[Map of the Tuareg rebellion in Azawad, Northern Mali showing rebel attacks as of 5 April 2012. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
Since it first burst onto the scene in December 2011, the Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (generally MUJWA in English, or MUJAO in French) has been a difficult group to pin down. The group was originally characterized as a “dissident” faction of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), though its actions have raised a number of possible contradictions and open questions (laid out admirably along with excellent background here, here, and here by Kal over at The Moor Next Door). Recently, some local and international actors have taken in particular to questioning MUJWA’s actions, and speculating that MUJWA, believed to be ...
Keep Reading »Anamorphosis
![[Shrouded corpses of Haditha massacre victims. Photo from Hammurabi Human Rights Group]](/content_images/3/sm_sinanimcomingin.jpg "[Shrouded corpses of Haditha massacre victims. Photo from Hammurabi Human Rights Group]")
Anamorphosis I. Nov 19, 2005 Haditha, Al-Anbar Province, Iraq Kilo Company, Third Battalion, First Marine Division . . . Twenty-four unarmed Iraqi civilians Including: A seventy-six year old amputee In a wheelchair Holding a Qur’an A mother and child bent over Six children ranging in age from one to fourteen . . . Execution style II. December 2005 The U.S. military paid $2,500 (condolence payments) per victim to families of fifteen of the dead Iraqis. A total of $38,000. III. “Shoot first, ask questions later” were Sgt. Wuterich’s orders to his men as they searched nearby homes after a roadside bomb attack killed one Marine and injured two ...
Keep Reading »Syria: Prospects for Intervention
![[Protester in support of intervention in Saqba. Image by Manuel via Google Images]](/content_images/3/sm_arton2717-7401e.jpg "[Protester in support of intervention in Saqba. Image by Manuel via Google Images]")
[The following report was issued by Chatham House.] Syria: Prospects for Intervention Introduction This is a summary of discussions that took place in a closed-door study group bringing together experts from Chatham House's Middle East and North Africa, International Law and International Security programmes. With little or no prospect for a negotiated end to the civil conflict in Syria, the discussion focused on the prospects for foreign intervention across a range of options, taking into account the current diplomatic stalemate, existing lines of support to conflicting parties, and alternative international approaches that may emerge as the situation ...
Keep Reading »Photos of War Torn Abyan, Southern Yemen
![[Abyan. Image by Woman from Yemen]](/content_images/3/sm_abyan4.jpg "[Abyan. Image by Woman from Yemen]")
[The following photos were posted by Woman from Yemen on 24 July 2012.] Earlier this month I had a brief visit in the warn torn Southern province of Abyan. Like any war, the impact on civilians and residents is often ignored. The war in Abyan has killed innocent civilians and displaced hundreds. Schools have been closed, and the main hospital was bombed. Many have lost family members, and many others are wounded. Their homes have been destroyed, and basic necessities are non-existant. Residential buildings, hospitals, and schools were hit by air strikes. With no compensation, and no way to seek justice, residents ...
Keep Reading »Syria's Mutating Conflict
![[Classroom of teacher Ghaleb Radi in Al-Qusair after mortar shelling. 31 July 2012. Via Lens Young Homsi.]](/content_images/3/sm_schoolcopy.jpg "[Classroom of teacher Ghaleb Radi in Al-Qusair after mortar shelling. 31 July 2012. Via Lens Young Homsi.]")
[The following report is the latest from the International Crisis Group (ICG) on Syria.] Syria's Mutating Conflict Executive Summary At a distance, Syria’s conflict can resemble a slow, painful slog, punctuated by intermittent accelerations and apparent tipping points, influenced by international activity. Zoom in, and one can cast such impressions aside. Diplomatic manoeuvrings have ended up being little more than inertia masquerading as motion. The West used them to pretend it was doing more than it was; Russia exploited them to feign it backed the Syrian regime less than it actually did. Meanwhile, in Syria, one sees neither deadlock nor abrupt ...
Keep Reading »يوم ودعنا البحر
![[صورة بالقمر الصناعي للكويت. تصوير: جاك ديسكلواتر]](/content_images/3/sm_kuwait.jpg "[صورة بالقمر الصناعي للكويت. تصوير: جاك ديسكلواتر]")
تلين لنا المقادير أحياناً، فتحيل أحلامنا واقعاً مبهجاً. تعاندنا في أحيان أخرى فتخذلنا الأيام، وقد تقسو علينا فتهب رياحها عاتية مزمجرة، تتقاذفنا في ظلمات البحر، فتخلع القلوع من صواريها، وتلقي بمراكبنا مجروحة مبعثرة الأخشاب على مرسى غريب لا يعرفها. آويت إلى فراشي في ذلك الأربعاء، الأول من شهر آب، مبكراً فلدي موعد في صباح اليوم التالي لاستلام البطاقة المدنية الجديدة التي صدرت لي بعد تجديد إقامتي في الكويت. كنت قد أخذت درساً واحداً في الفصل الصيفي في جامعة الكويت ضمن برنامج دراستي للهندسة الميكانيكية. وما بين غمضة عين ويقظتها في تلك الليلة طوى القدر صفحة كاملة، لا من حياتي فقط ، إنما من حياة المنطقة بأسرها. استيقظت في الصباح الباكر فزعاً على صوت أبي وهو يقتحم غرفتي ...
Keep Reading »Reports of Cluster Munitions Use in Syria
![[CMC logo. Image from stopclustermunitions.org]](/content_images/3/sm_cmclogo.png "[CMC logo. Image from stopclustermunitions.org]")
[The following statement was released by the Cluster Munitions Coalition on 12 July 2012.] If confirmed, reports would mark first use of these indiscriminate arms by Syria. The Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) is deeply concerned by reports that Syrian government forces have used cluster munitions after submunitions were reportedly found in Jabal Shahshabu, near Hama. This evidence came to light as two videos were posted online showing at least fifteen unexploded submunitions and a large cluster bomb canister. The CMC is calling on Syria to investigate these reports and to make the findings publicly known. CMC member Human Rights ...
Keep Reading »Damascus Developments [Updated]
![[Instructions for Damascenes on how to prepare if violent clashes and attacks come to their neighborhoods.]](/content_images/3/sm_July21D.png "[Instructions for Damascenes on how to prepare if violent clashes and attacks come to their neighborhoods.]")
In Damascus, members of various local coordinating committees have been organizing for three days to find shelter for residents of areas of the city which have witnessed heavy clashes between the the Syrian regime army and the Free Syrian Army. Activists have been circulating maps on social networking sites showing refugees the best paths to schools that have been reopened in the past few days as shelters. They have mostly been bringing people to safety on foot, as there is very little petrol left for cars. [Map circulated on 21 July of safe shelters in Abasseen Square.] ...
Keep Reading »المعارضة السورية تطالب أمريكا بتسليحها وتجاوز مخاوفها من الإسلاميين
![[مصدر الصورة موقع يورو ٢٠١١]](/content_images/3/sm_syriaaaaaaop.jpg "[مصدر الصورة موقع يورو ٢٠١١]")
طالبت بعض فصائل المعارضة السورية الولايات المتحدة الأحد بالبدء بتسليحها "لإظهار الرغبة بالتخلص من نظام الرئيس السوري بشار الأسد"، وحضتها على "تجاوز مخاوفها" من وجود إسلاميين على الأرض قالت إنهم يقاتلون في صفوف المعارضين. فقد نقلت وكالة رويترز للأنباء عن معارضين سوريين وقادة في "الجيش السوري الحر" المعارض قولهم إن مقاتلي المعارضة "يحتاجون إلى أسلحة، كالصواريخ المضادة للدبابات وطائرات الهليكوبتر التي يستخدمها الأسد في إخماد الانتفاضة، ويمكن للولايات المتحدة أن تقدم أسلحة لأجنحة من المعارضة تقبلها واشنطن بدرجة أكثر من الإسلاميين". وأشاروا إلى أن "الإسلاميين يمثلون أحد المكونات الأكثر تأثيرا ضمن مقاتلي المعارضة، وأن على واشنطن ...
Keep Reading »في الذكرى الثلاثين لمجزرة صبرا وشاتيلا: السينما الوثائقية والمجزرة
بمناسبة الذكرى الثلاثون لمجزرة صبرا وشاتيلا، سأستعرض في هذا المقال فيلمين وثائقيين غير اعتياديين حول هذه المجزرة البشعة، والتي نُفذت على مدى ثلاثة أيام ( من الخميس 16 أيلول1982 وحتى السبت 18 ايلول). الفيلم الأول بعنوان "مجزرة" إخراج الألمانية مونيكا بورغمان ولقمان سليم وهيرمان ثايسن ( 99 دقيقة.إنتاج ألماني/ لبناني . 2005) وهو فيلم لم يحظ بالاهتمام الذي يستحقه، أما الفيلم الثاني فهو "رقصة فالس مع بشير" للإسرائيلي آري فولمان ( 90 دقيقة. إنتاج إسرائيلي/غربي .2008 ) وهو ...
Keep Reading »السلاح في العراق: موت صامت ...موت مباح
بغداد مضمّخة برائحة البارود الذي خلّفته العبوات الناسفة والسيارات المفخخة والمسدسات الكاتمة. الحيرةُ ترتسم على ملامح قوّات الشرطة والجيش المنتشرة في نقاطِ تفتيشٍ تمتدُّ من شارعٍ إلى آخر: من أين وكيف تمرُّ هذه السيارات والعبوات؟ السياسيون ورجالات الحكم منقسمون بين من يلقي بالاتهام على تنظيم القاعدة وفلول البعث، وهو اتهام أصبح غير صالح للاستهلاك الإعلامي لنفاد صلاحيته، وآخرون يتقاذفون الاتهامات في ما بينهم. كيف يستتبّ الأمن في بلد نائب رئيس جمهوريته متهم بالإرهاب وكذلك حفنة من وزرائه ومن أعضاء برلمانه؟ في ...
Keep Reading »The Economic and Human Toll of Syria's Worsening Refugee Crisis: Democracy Now! Interview with Omar Dahi
The following interview was conducted with Omar Dahi, a Syrian professor of economics at Hampshire College on August 14th, 2012 regarding the economic consequences of the uprising in Syria, especially in terms of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The escalating conflict in Syria has magnified the refugee crisis, both internally and in neighboring countries. More than 4,000 people entered Turkey in recent days, bringing the total number of Syrian refugees there close to 60,000. There are tens of ...
Keep Reading »Case Review: Pardoning Protestors against the Disengagement from Gaza
HCJ 1213/10, Eyal Nir, et al. v. Speaker of the Knesset, et al (decision delivered 23 February 2012) "Within the Hebrew language's concept of amnesty," wrote former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohen, "there has long been an element of free and unrestricted will, even of arbitrariness" (AD 13/60, The Attorney General v. Matanah). The Supreme Court’s decision rejecting the petition against the “Termination of Proceedings and Deletion of Records in the Disengagement Plan ...
Keep Reading »ما هو الاستعمار الاستيطاني؟
في أسبوع الرابع من تموز في كل عام تقريباً تقوم عائلتي برحلة الساعات الإثنتي عشرة من منزلهم في ميشيغان إلى مكان يسمونه "المزرعة". امتلكت أسرتي هذه الأرض منذ أن أنشئت محمية " قبيلة باد ريفر" على بحيرة سوبيرير بموجب معاهدة 1854 بين أوجيبوي والولايات المتحدة. تملك عائلتي وثائق تثبت حقها في الأرض التي تحاذي نبع بير، ولكن، وحسب نصوص المعاهدة، فإن الولايات المتحدة تحتفظ بالملكية الكاملة للأرض وقد قامت بتأجيرها للسكان الأصليين وورثتهم مدى الحياة، طالما أن هؤلاء الورثة لم يخرقوا أياً من شروط ...
Keep Reading »Syrian Inmate Describes Fatal Assault on Prisoners
[The following statement was issued by Human Rights Watch on 27 July 2012.] The Syrian government should immediately grant United Nations observers full access to Homs and Aleppo central prisons to check on prisoners who may be at risk of violent reprisals following prison riots, Human Rights Watch said today. “Samir,” an inmate in the old section of the Homs central prison, told Human Rights Watch by phone that a riot broke out on 21 July 2012, and that prisoners took over parts of the prison. ...
Keep Reading »Understanding the Standoff in Mali
The standoff between Mali’s government and the armed Islamists who control two-thirds of the country is unlikely to resolve peacefully, and the prospects for a new war in the Sahel appear increasingly probable. In January, a disciplined Tuareg separatist group, the Movement for the National Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), initiated a rebellion that eventually forced Mali’s corrupt and weak military to withdraw from the northern part of the country in April. Militant Islamist groups—Ansar Dine ...
Keep Reading »Israel’s Nukes Derail U.S. Nonproliferation Goals
How Israel Torpedoes Nonproliferation Strengthening the international nonproliferation regime is one of President Obama’s key foreign policy goals. During a speech in Prague, in April 2009, he announced his “intention to seek a world free from the threat of nuclear weapons.” He argued that because the United States was the “only power to have used a nuclear weapon” he and his fellow countrymen had a “moral responsibility to act” by leading the disarmament agenda. The US Government’s failure to ...
Keep Reading »Weaponizing Tear Gas: Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians
[The following report was issued by Physicians for Human Rights on 1 August 2012.] Weaponizing Tear Gas: Bahrain's Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians The Bahrain government’s indiscriminate use of tear gas as a weapon has resulted in the maiming, blinding, and even killing of civilian protesters and must stop at once while the government reassesses its use, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) declares in a report issued today. “So-called tear gas, often considered a ...
Keep Reading »Syrian Refugees: Anxious Neighbors Stretched Thin
[The following report was issued by Refugees International on 10 July 2012.] Syrian Refugees: Anxious Neighbors Stretched Thin Since early 2012, Lebanon and Jordan have seen a dramatic increase in the number of refugees crossing their borders as the Syrian government intensifies its crackdown on opposition groups. Despite the fact that neither country has signed the 1951 Refugee Convention or the 1967 Protocol, both have accommodated those fleeing Syria, providing services and assistance ...
Keep Reading »Surviving Massacre: Hagop Arsenian’s Armenian Journey to Jerusalem, 1915-1916
These pages are excerpted from Hagop Arsenian’s diary of his deportation from his native village of Ovajik in Turkey and his harrowing journey to Jerusalem (1915-1916). After months of hardship in Meskene, “one of the most infamous stations of the Armenian deportation,” where he and his family barely escape massacre, Arsenian’s status as a professional pharmacist finally allows him to leave for Aleppo. He and his family ultimately find refuge in Jerusalem – where, in a twist of fate, he is inducted into ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (2 July)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "Sudan Deports Egyptian Journalist and Detains Bloggers as Protests Continue”, Robert Mackey In response to mass demonstrations against ...
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