dijous, 26 de març del 2009
Les xifres de Gaza
És una llista depurada, amb noms i amb les circumstàncies rellevants de cada cas, extreta de diverses fonts d'informació, contrastades per múltiples bandes.
En contra d'allò publicat per la propaganda de Hamas, i recollit acríticament per bona part de la premsa del nostre país, les xifres que presenta l'exèrcit d'Israel són les següents:
1.166 morts en total.
D'aquests, 709 són combatents de Hamas i altres organitzacions àrabs.
De la resta, 295 són no combatents. D'aquests, 89 persones són menors de 16 anys. Dels no combatents, hi ha identificades 49 dones.
Finalment, queden 162 persones, tots homes i en edat de poder ser combatents (més grans de 16 anys i menors de 65), que no està clara la seva atribució a una de les dues categories anteriors.
Amb el temps, la veritat s'acabarà imposant.
No obstant, també pot ser lícit preguntar-se a qui li importa.
dimecres, 4 de març del 2009
Pepe Garriga i la mentida de les noves construccions
Estaria bé que a la propera crònica oferís la versió del Govern d'Israel i desmentís l'ONG. Així mateix, fes una repassada al nombre de míssils que han estat llançats des de Gaza...
divendres, 20 de febrer del 2009
Jabalya i Hamas: la veritat està emergint
L'exèrcit d'Israel ja negà els fets. Els soldats havien respost amb foc a un atac previ provinent de la zona.
Per a molts, Israel no té la pressumpció d'innocència. Té la pressumpció de culpabilitat.
Ara, poc a poc, va emergint la realitat.
Segons informacions de l'exèrcit d'Israel, s'estan recollint el nom i totes les dades possibles de totes les víctimes mortals d'aquests combats. L'exèrcit té un llistat de més de 1.200 noms i amb molta informació d'allò succeït en cada cas. De moment, les xifres són prou clares. Els morts no combatents serien aproximadament una quarta part del total. Els no combatents són persones menors de 15 anys, majors de 65 i dones. A més, també s'hi inclouen alguns homes que se sap, consta, que eren no combatents.
Dels combatents, n'hi ha uns 700 plenament identificats, fins i tot, respecte al grup al qual pertanyien.
Els pendents de classificar, uns 300, són tots homes entre 15 i 65 anys.
El cas més evident de distorsió dels fets és el bombardeig de l'escola de l'ONU.
Se sap que era una escola, però que no funcionava com a tal.
Se sap, i així ho ha reconegut la mateixa ONU, que els projectils van caure fora de l'escola.
Se sap que dins de l'escola no hi hagué morts. Hi hagué alguns ferits de metralla.
Se sap que hi havia combats al voltant.
Se sap que els morts no van ser 42, com van dir els de Hamas i gairebé tothom s'ho va empassar.
Se sap que els morts van ser 12.
Se sap que 9 eren combatents. L'IDF n'ha publicat noms, edats i filiació (Hamas).
Se sap que 3 eren no combatents.
Se sap, doncs, que Jabalya serà un altre exemple (i en van molts, massa) de manipulació i distorsió.
Ara només cal esperar que els mitjans de comunicació catalans en diguin alguna cosa.
Juguesca: probabilitats que facin alguna rectificació? Probabilitats que n'expliquin les novetats del cas?
dissabte, 7 de febrer del 2009
Sobre el "bloqueig" a Gaza
1) El govern d'Israel ha transferit (literalment, perquè els diners arriben en "cash") a la Franja de Gaza 175 milions de shekels. Són diners corresponents a impostos de l'ANP i que serviran per pagar sous de funcionaris.
2) Hamas ha robat 200 tones de menjar i material. En conseqüència, la UNWRA ha decidit aturar l'entrada d'aquest tipus de material. A veure què acaba passant.
3) Egipte manté tancada la frontera de Rafah. Només l'obrirà excepcionalment per raons humanitàries.
Mentrestant, uns pocs catalans (i assimilats) fent l'idiota al Palau Blau Grana.
Mentrestant, l'ambaixador d'Israel havent d'explicar obvietats.
dijous, 5 de febrer del 2009
Els ONGs i la guerra de Gaza
1) la UNRWA ja ha reconegut que les FDI NO van atacar directament l'escola on diuen les fonts palestines que hi va haver 43 morts. Els projectils de morter van caure fora de l'escola. A l'escola hi va haver alguns ferits de metralla, però cap mort. Els morts van ser tots a fora de l'escola. A banda, hi ha analistes que dubten que 3 impactes de morter puguin fer tants morts i, en proporció, tants pocs ferits. Això no acostuma a passar així, les ràtios entre morts i ferits és de 1 a 3, aprox.
2) diverses ONG diuen que cal investigar si Israel ha comès crims de guerra. Per això cal veure què ha fet i si es pot analitzar segons l'article 3 de la Convenció de Ginebra. Diuen que és clar que Israel no ataca volgudament civils, però cal aclarir-ho tot. En canvi, les mateixes ONG diuen que les accions de Hamas no cal que siguin investigades perquè és evident que es tracta de crims de guerra. Els fets de no diferenciar (ni diferenciar-se) civils de combatents o de disparar contra civils són crims de guerra perfectament tipificats.
3) les ONG també han estat al seu torn analitzades sobre el seu capteniment durant la guerra. S'ha vist que han fet un tractament criminalitzador d'Israel i molt més tolerant amb Hamas.
dimarts, 27 de gener del 2009
Dershowitz: una reflexió interessant
Double Standard Watch: Israel, Gaza and International Law
The cease fire on the ground has not ended the war of words against Israel. Indeed, efforts to charge Israel with war crimes and other violations of international law are escalating. The time has come, therefore, for a common sense legal and moral analysis of the events in Gaza and southern Israel.
Let us begin with an argument that is frequently made against Israel. It is pointed out by supporters of Hamas that the official governing authority of Gaza is Hamas, because Hamas won the election. To the extent this is true, however, it is an argument in justification of Israel's actions. If Hamas is the official government of Gaza and if Hamas ordered the firing of more of than 6,000 deadly rockets at Israeli civilians, then it follows that the government of Gaza has engaged in an armed attack against Israel under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. In other words, the government of Gaza has declared war against the government and people of Israel. This should not be surprising, since the Hamas Charter calls for the military destruction of Israel.
Under international law, and under the UN Charter, Israel has the right to respond to these thousands of armed attacks. Indeed every rocket fired into Israel is an armed attack and Israel is entitled to take whatever military actions is deemed reasonably necessary to stop these armed attacks from occurring. If Hamas were merely a small terrorist gang operating from Gaza but without the approval of the government, it would be more difficult to justify a military response that destroyed government buildings and targeted police. Israeli military actions resulted in civilians dying. Precisely how many is hotly disputed: a study conducted by the Italian Newspaper Corriere Del Sera disputed Hamas figures and put the total number of Palestinians killed, including Hamas terrorists, at less than 600. The sad reality is that people who voted for and actively support a terrorist government bear more responsibility for the actions of their government than they would for a gang operating against the wishes of the government. Surely the voters in Germany who elected Hitler bore more responsibility for Nazi atrocities than the people of Iraq did for the atrocities of the dictator Saddam Hussein, who was never fairly elected.
Israel clearly had to right to take whatever military action was necessary to stop the Hamas government from playing Russian roulette with the lives of its children. So far, no problem under international law. But here's the rub. International law also requires that Israel's actions must not be disproportional to its military aims and it also prohibits the willful targeting of Palestinian civilians.
To make things even more complicated, international law prohibits the use of human shields to protect combatants from lawful military actions taken by those against whom it has waged an armed attack. And there can be absolutely no doubt that it is the official policy of Hamas to use children, women, schools, mosques, hospitals and other civilian institutions and areas as shields to protect its combatants from legitimate Israeli military actions. In addition to the video evidence showing Hamas fighters deliberately placing their rockets adjacent to UN schools, mosques and to residential areas, there are the express statements of officially-elected Hamas leaders both before and during the fighting. Consider the following public statement delivered by a Hamas legislator, transmitted on Hamas television and widely circulated by video. The legislator's name is Fathi Hammad and here is what he said:
[The enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: 'We desire death like you desire life.'"
There are videos available for all to watch in which Al-Aqsa TV news broadcasts a report showing a crowd of civilians gathered on the roof of a home that was a military target. Indeed those who arranged for these human shields to protect that military target do not shy away from actually using the term "human shield." On another occasion, Hamas leader, appearing on television demands that "the people of Palestine should gather as one to protect the Jihad warriors' house," calling for these civilians to "die as warriors."
So here is the legal dilemma faced by democracies such as Israel. They have every right under international law to take whatever military actions are necessary to stop the rockets randomly fired at their civilians. Their enemy uses human shields to prevent Israel from destroying the rockets without also killing Palestinian civilians. All the law requires under these circumstances is that Israel take reasonable precaution to minimize enemy civilian deaths in order to prevent the murder of its own civilians. Has Israel taken such precautions? Let retired British colonel Richard Kemp answer that question as he did in a recent BBC interview. He said that there has been "no time in the history of warfare when an army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties and the deaths of innocent people than the [Israel Defense forces did in Gaza.]" To accuse Israel of "war crimes" under these circumstances is to distort international law and expose the bias of the accuser.
diumenge, 25 de gener del 2009
Les condicions de Hamas
Hamas diu, a més, que només podria negociar un alto-el-foc temporal, no una treva indefinida.
Per aquests posicions, i d'altres, molts israelians ja tenen coll avall que les hostilitats a Gaza es reprendran més aviat que tard.
dijous, 22 de gener del 2009
Les xifres de víctimes, inflades?
Comença a planar l'escàndol de Jenin. De les més de 500 morts a mans d'Israel, a 50.
Per la seva banda, des de les Forces de Defensa d'Israel s'apunta que la xifra de 1.300 persones és versemblant. On hi ha discrepància amb les fonts de Hamas és en el nombre de milicians i de civils. En un llistat de 900 noms que tenen les FDI, uns 750 correspondrien a milicians (Jerusalem Post, 22/01/2009).
En els propers dies, tot l'abast de la tragèdia humana s'anirà aclarint.
dimecres, 21 de gener del 2009
Israel: Estat de dret
El Tribunal Suprem d'Israel ha vist el cas dels dos partits àrabs i la seva participació a les eleccions del 10 de febrer d'enguany. L'apel·lació que havien presentat contra la decisió del comitè que els havia prohibit presentar-s'hi ha estat acceptada. Per tant, a aquestes eleccions, els ciutadans d'Israel podran votar, si volen, aquests partits.
Per la seva banda, des de Gaza tornen a venir notícies preocupants. No només es van sabent més coses sobre la repressió de Hamas contra membres d'Al Fatah (tortures, execucions, desaparicions), sinó també relatives al fet que s'ha reiniciat l'ús dels túnels que connecten la Franja amb Egipte.
dimarts, 20 de gener del 2009
Boicot als dels boicot
La comunitat universitària solvent ja s'ha pronunciat en contra de fer cap tipus de boicot.
Per contrarestar aquests boicotejadors, està funcionant una associació, "Scholars For Peace in Middle East" (www.spme.net), que aplega professors d'arreu del món que han signat el següent manifest (de moment ja en són 19.000):
To: To Academic and Professional Colleagues From Around The World
"We are academics, scholars, researchers and professionals of differing religious and political perspectives. We all agree that singling out Israelis for an academic boycott is wrong. To show our solidarity with our Israeli academics in this matter, we, the undersigned, hereby declare ourselves to be Israeli academics for purposes of any academic boycott. We will regard ourselves as Israeli academics and decline to participate in any activity from which Israeli academics are excluded. " *
* May, 28, 2008... Statement Originally Composed June 4, 2007. Alan Dershowitz, Harvard University School of Law, Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize Laureate, University of Texas, and Edward S. Beck, Walden University, President, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
A continuació, un llistat d'alguns dels seus signants:
Nobel Prize - Physics
Distinguished Scientist
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Loren J. Anderson
President
Pacific Lutheran University
Kenneth Arrow
Nobel Prize-Economics
Stanford University
Lawrence S. Bacow
President
Tufts University
David Baltimore
Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine
Past President,
California Institute of Technology
Esther Barazzone
President
Chatham University
Henry S. Bienen
President
Northwestern University
Leon Botstein
President
Bard College
William R. Brody
President
Johns Hopkins University
Hank Brown
President
University of Colorado
Robert Brown
President
Boston University
Tom Buchanan
President
University of Wyoming
Nancy Cantor
Chancellor and President
Syracuse University
Robert Carothers
President
University of Rhode Island
Gerhard Casper
President Emeritus
Stanford University
Jean-Lou Chameau
President
California Institute of Technology
David Clary
President
Magdalen College
Oxford University
Claude Cohen- Tannoudji
Nobel Prize- Physics
Laboratoire de Physique de L'Ecole Normale Superieure
Paris, France
Saul B. Cohen
Jared Cohon
President
Carnegie-Mellon University
Irwin Cotler
Professor of Law,
McGill University [on leave],
M.P. and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Scott Cowen
President
Tulane University
Michael Crow
President
Arizona State University
Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte
President Emeritus and Professor
Florida State University
Alan Dershowitz
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
Harvard University
Stanley Deser
Dirac Medal
Ancell Professor of Physics
Brandeis University
Steven J. Diner
Chancellor
Rutgers-The State University
(added 5.30.08)
Gail Dinter-Gottlieb
President and Vice Chancellor
Arcadia University
Canada
James Doti
President
Chapman University
Robert C. Dynes
President
University of California
Allen K. Easley
President and Dean
William Mitchell College of Law
Alfred Ebenbauer (1945-2007)
Former Rector,
University of Vienna, Austria
Mark Emmert
President
University of Washington
Robert F. Engle
Nobel Prize Economics
New York University
Daniel Mark Fogel
President
University of Vermont
Jerome Friedman
Nobel Prize-Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alice P. Gast
President
Lehigh University
Carol Garrison
President
University of Alabama
G. David Gearhart
Chancellor-Elect
University of Arkansas
(added 6.5.08)
Sheldon Lee Glashow
Nobel Prize-Physics
Boston University
Donald A. Glaser
Nobel Prize Physics
University of California at Berkeley
Clive W.J. Granger
Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
University of California, San Diego
David Gross
Nobel Prize Physics
Director,Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics
University of California at Santa Barbara
Amy Gutmann
President
University of Pennsylvania
Ann Weaver Hart
President
Temple University
Herbert A. Hauptman
Nobel Prize- Chemistry
Medical Foundation of Buffalo
James J. Heckman
Nobel Prize Economics
University of Chicago
Alan Heeger
Nobel Prize-Chemistry
University of California-Santa Barbara
John L. Hennessy
President
Stanford University
Richard Herman
Chancellor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dudley R. Herschbach
Nobel Prize Chemistry
Harvard University
Avram Hershko
Nobel Prize Chemistry
Distinguished Professor at the Unit of Biochemistry
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine
Technion
(Israel Institute of Technology)
Susan Hockfield
President
MIT
Roald Hoffmann
Nobel Prize-Chemistry
Frant H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters
Cornell University
Tim Hunt
Nobel Prize - Physiology/Medicine
Cell Cycle Control Laboratory
London Research Institute
Clare Hall Laboratories
Elfriede Jelinek
Nobel Prize Literature
Austria
Richard M. Joel
President
Yeshiva University
Daniel Kahneman
Nobel Prize - Economics
Professor of Psychology
Princeton University
Eric R. Kandel
Nobel Prize - Medicine
University Professor
Columbia University
Shirley Strum Kenny
President
Stony Brook University
State University of New York
Steven Knapp
President
George Washington University
Walter Kohn
Nobel Prize Physics
University of California-Santa Barbara
Helmut Konrad
Former Rector, University of Graz
Graz Austria
Arthur Kornberg**
Nobel Prize- Medicine
Emeritus Pfeiffer Merner Professor of Biochemistry
Stanford University School of Medicine
Roger Kornberg
Nobel Prize- Chemistry
Professor of Structural Biology
Stanford University
Leon Lederman
Nobel Prize-Physics
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
University of Chicago
Anthony Leggett
Nobel Prize-Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ronald D. Liebowitz
President
Middlebury College
David McClain
President
University of Hawaii System
Joseph M. McShane, SJ
President
Fordham University
James Moeser
Chancellor
University of North Carolina
C.D. Mote Jr.
President
University of Maryland
Marshall W. Nirenberg
Nobel Prize- Medicine
Biochemical Genetics
National Institutes of Health
Ross Paul
President
University of Windsor
David Politzer
Nobel Prize-Physics
California Institute of Technology
G. David Pollick
President
Birmingham Southern College
Rajendra Prasad
Rector
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi
Stuart Rabinowitz
President
Hofstra University
Jehuda Reinharz
President
Brandeis University
Richard J. Roberts
Nobel Prize- Physiology/Medicine
New England Biolabs
Richard L. Rubenstein
President Emeritus and
Distinguished Professor of Religion
University of Bridgeport
Cecil Samuelson
President
Brigham Young University
Andrew V. Schally
Nobel Prize Physiology or Medicine
Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
Wolfgang Schütz
Rector
Medical University of Vienna
Beheruz N. Sethna
Professor & President
University of West Georgia
Donna E. Shalala
President
University of Miami
Robert N. Shelton
President
University of Arizona
Lee Shulman
President
Carnegie Foundation
Ralph Snyderman
Chancellor Emeritus
Duke University
Graham Spanier
President
Penn State University
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
President
The George Washington University
Harold Varmus
Nobel Laureate Physiology or Medicine
President
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Leslie Wagner
Chancellor
University of Derby, UK
Steven Weinberg
Nobel Prize-Physics
Josey Regental Professor of Science
University of Texas, Austin
Elie Wiesel
Nobel Peace Prize
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
Boston University
Frank Wilczek
Nobel Prize-Physics
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kevin Wildes, S.J.
President
Loyola University
New Orleans
Robert E. Witt
President
University of Alabama
Henry T. Yang
Chancellor
University of California-Santa Barbara
Mark G. Yudof
Chancellor
University of Texas
Daniel Zajfman
President and Professor of Physics
Weizmann Institute of Science
Vladimir Zakharov
Dirac Medal in Theoretical Physics
Regent Professor of Mathematics
University of Arizona
** Deceased