Thursday, December 24, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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Monday, November 2, 2009
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- I sometimes find myself reading more books at once
- I happen to underline, take notes, write sentences of other authors
- I happen to write the date and place of purchase, as want me to remember that moment
- I happen to take them with me, traveling by car, purse, without necessarily .. read
- I happen to browse the old ones, such as seeing a photo album .. my past, I realize how much they have changed and heard
sometimes do not distinguish whether it is a passion or a disease ...
I console myself by remembering that if a sentence I read on the ceiling of the Feltrinelli di Mantova:
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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with the typical red canvas on the windows, the walls that collect around the old town, the Palazzo dei Diamanti, the Cathedral and the many bicycles (5 € for a day rental) whizzing the streets of the city with one of Italy's largest pedestrian areas.
is always a pleasure to breathe the air and enjoy the atmosphere of this city and I could not miss the appointment with "international Ferrara" for years in the program the first weekend of October, a 3-day they meet and discuss the journalists around the world
meetings that were held as usual at various sites of the old town, and offered the opportunity to visit theaters, palaces and cloisters are not accessible for free in the rest of the year.
the influx, as usual, very high. was not expected to offer everyone the opportunity to listen to the conference, especially the most "popular" s that were held at the Teatro Comunale. Apollo was the only film with a giant screen outside. long tails, sometimes double in the hot sun of an October that seemed to open up the summer than autumn. a shame for people who had done hundreds of miles to reach the festival.
why I missed the meeting with Saviano, Sergio Romano, Bill Emmott, Paul Ginsborg and many more .. Interesting
however those who are able to assist:
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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was a long time I wanted to hear live Fiorella Mannoia.
was a wonderful evening ...
a strong voice and emotional traits, in which the music was absent on the voice was even more beautiful and sincere.
the concert opened with this beautiful song by Ivano Fossati, the first note a shiver shook me starting on the back.
the meaning ...
perhaps never in love that nothing is obvious, indeed, is something that must be cultivated every day, like a flower. if you ignore may wither. recalls perhaps even "love that exempts no one beloved from loving" Dante: If you love, we too in our time we will be loved in return .. fse through other avenues, other people, but we recognize the love and donate to us.
are texts that I feel close, fse because it tells of men and women who are living their lives fully, addressing all the complexities, not being afraid to say what they reveal the thoughts. I really liked as a person and not just as an interpreter. has interspersed the songs with reflections on the problems of our society. is sincere, simple, true, without falsehood and smiles of fact, I like it.
************************************************ ******************************** before the concert I got to visit this small town in the province of Padua (near the beautiful castle of Bevilacqua) surrounded by medieval walls intact (perhaps because a stranger to hot zones in peiodi of war). ways reminiscent of the typical agricultural town in Veneto. if avrte at divisitarla do not go without tasting cake prosciutto Montagnana, the schizzotto (Venetian bread is so called because it is not crushed as yeast), and is a must to taste the Durello. I leave you some pictures of the Gothic cathedral artfully illuminated for the evening:
Saturday, September 26, 2009
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Montagnana (PD) - Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II
Hours: 21:00
free concert
Monday, September 21, 2009
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the month when I was born
always new and full of surprises and shoot ...
to work but with a new energy charged
to kick off new projects
new hopes new dreams ...
is also the month of the Festival of Culture
an appointment to which are attached ...
Festival Literature - Mantua, 13 September
I heard the poet Maura del Serra Arce in the Hall of the Palazzo Ducale. Interestingly her latest collection "The work of the wind." What struck me in particular this "Ode to the Wind":
with strings of elements dissolved in dance, you do
air and water entry keypad
fantastic chills, tree darker
a juggler fearless, eloquent glory
we tend, live, to death and the dead seasons
intangible overs emphasis;
Anemos, you are see the soul of the world,
and turned us into your current scatter;
tremble in childhood sealed it as green, blue
in febrile young, close your eyes
the conscious memory
extreme, and between the walls of the dunes
thirst awakens the deaf warbling of a nomadic aviary.
Philosophy Festival - Carpi, September 18
h. 22:00, readings and musical Vinicio Capossela
I love the singers in the texts of which are interwoven with music and text references to poetry, and literature. The song then becomes a esto up to search the origin, history texts ... never dull, to be studied and that enriching on many levels. In Carpi
a beautiful late summer, a piazza Garibaldi overflowing with young and old, Vinicius spoke of Communities' (theme of festtival 2009) starting with the history of people of the province of a small one from which he comes ( born in Germany to parents of Irpinia, but grew up in Scandiano) and called "The Spoon River of the Living." These stories remind me of Bruce Sprengsteen songs that tell stories of people of the province and country without sperdutie that his songs would fall into oblivion. He sang songs incorporating stories of two books in particular "Tales of Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson and "Milk Wood" by Dylan Thomas.
Hearing these songs full of poetic references, I have come to mind other talented songwriters that included literary references in their songs ...
Venditti with his "this unbearable lightness of being" the title of a famous scirtto by Milan Kundera, De Andrè "not the money, not to heaven or" where the player recalls Jones dell'Antologia Spoon River or Roberto Vecchioni "love letters" that incorporates "Todas as cartas de amor" by Alvaro de Campos, Fernando Pessoa's alter ego.
these texts open up a pit full of history, of lives and culture, like a sculpture that comes to light, gradually removing the dust from the marble to rediscover the vitality and meaning.
vNIC Bravo!
Festival of Philosophy - Modena, September 19
distributors of words ...!
I attended the conference of Carlo Galli and Roberto Esposito, but in my opinion are boring and limited to proposing a sterile technique and lesson University. I believe that when a philosopher aims at a festival, should be aware that (and here I speak mainly of Gauls) to talk to people (most of which is not part of the employees) must have charisma and you need to leave home the arrogance of the learned philosopher who isolates himself from his peers.
my respect goes to who knows how to disseminate knowledge and not to those who use it to show off. The festival is disclosure lesson!
Philosophy Festival - Modena, September 20
Unfortunately I could only hear part of the conference on Nostalgia for "Avishai Margalit:
remember a sentence on Nostalgia ... nostalgia is the desire to transform a person or thing in a sense of belonging, of feeling.
Obviously I could not miss the lecture by Umberto Galimberti "Erotica"
hour before I arrived at the Piazza Grande and I struggled to find a place on your feet!
follow him for several years and never boring. His words teach me something new. this took over parts of his lecture held in Verona this spring that "Fantasia" held at the Gran Guardia.
the speech was built on the skeleton of the narrative of Plato's Symposium:
- eros is none other than the mediator between our unconscious (our crazy part) and our rational side. if you want to talk about love you must deploy the rgione (which is the place of the self, individualism).
we fall in love with the reflection of our crazy part that is reflected from the other person, that makes us know and get in touch with our crazy part:
EROTICA is just that, self-knowledge because of the other. For this to happen we must have confidence in the lobby (this came the shame). with each other we must let go, we must give the reason, taking leave from the ego, because of the other we have the ability to leave and return to our IO. Then
Jung recalls, however, saying that not all ports are open.
- fans are saying what is not to say, resco, the discourse of love because it fails to start rational, fact fans have a dark and enigmatic language. language is a small part of love, because then intrviene the language not of words but of the body:
with sensuality, sexuality reassembled the unit, is the memory of this old unit.
then we get ourselves through eroticism.
- Galimberti said then that the teaching of the things you love women, because woman while the man is a duality.
duality because the woman is a relationship, self and other. man is more focused on themselves and on their IO QDI. 2 because the woman is also begets life.
kidding Galimberti ch says a woman is defined through relations (love, amiglia, friendship, solidarity), while the man realizes and establish a relationship :-)
- in the Symposium Plato says that love is the son of Penia, which is the absence, the absence of the other . There is more distance between desire and satisfaction, most born Psyche. feeds on the psyche eros, and eros of lack. if space is cre abolishes qsto a vacuum of Psyche:
glaring example of the children who give themselves too many ... too many gifts gifts kill desire and everything is discounted, the same thing happens in the easy sex of young people today that do everything at once, are addicted to sex and they do not know what desire is.
but the desire is the spring of life, otherwise lie with the boredom and the community would be an apathetic community, without stimulation and creative vitality.
- love stories have a sense of time qualified. When they finish, taking Socrates is accomplished MAIEUSIS:
QDO we enter a story and we go out, I will go out with another, we are not ourselves, we have generated. Every story we are born anew.
- then concludes by saying that individualism is prevalent today is the perversion of the report:
the person, as the Greeks said, is a relationship, you see, hear, help and love others that are in front of me; while today the majority does not trust and do not even trust you with friends or relatives. without friends and family do not know themselves and can not be happy. Perhaps that is why many in the world today are depressed, living a private life and little public Toppo, not for socializing, to the report. we do not live close in on ourselves and we do not grow.
report ... life is as Aristotle said:
man is a social animal! so we have to leave us and trust in others.
this was really a lecture, was the lesson of a man who spread knowledge of current events and anchored to reality, giving us an education and a possible way to face life.
during the day I met a person who is approaching a new profession, he sees philosophy as a tool to help people: the
FOLOSOFIA PRACTICE and I think the lesson Galimberti it is a useful example!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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Everywhere protect the sensibilities of every heart ...
nothing more sweet, tender, pure and exciting.
protect the hugs,
unique fusion of expressive ability than any other gesture.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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He or she who shuns passion,
the kind that make your eyes sparkle,
error and feelings.
Slowly dies who does not overthrow the table
sensible advice.
Dies slowly he who destroys self-esteem, who does not accept help;
Dies slowly he who abandons a project before starting it,
We avoid death in small doses,
reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater
the simple act of breathing.
a wonderful happiness.
(P. Neruda - M. Medeiros)
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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Friday, August 7, 2009
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hello to
all the time I arrived
qulache second only to greet all ...
but not as I wanted.
I apologize to all those pr I have e-mailed and commented on my posts these days .. unfortunately mno work has allowed me to be here on the blog.
a hug to all of you bring some with me!
will tell you to return!
affectionately
Sara
Monday, July 20, 2009
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dawn ... The art of the word greet the sunrise.
consider him a wild on stage, enchants me, dragging me, fascinates me.
who you are? Marco Paolini on this date will be with us "Par vardar. Poets and crags."
first solution to reach the Ciampedie
from Vigo di Fassa Ciampedie to the cable car at the rose garden is open from 3:30 am to at 6 am and 0.30 am then walk walk
second solution (in my opinion the most striking)
with mountain guides (free) meeting at 4 o'clock in Vigo di Fassa to the parking lot of the district, near the hotel at 1:45 am Crescenzia hiking, 680 meters, and difficulty
and the way to the emotions with the rising of the sun. ..
you can find the entire program on its Web site, full of lots of music and poetry.
Monday, May 11, 2009
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Everything happens and everything remains,
but ours is to pass,
spend on roads, paths
the sea.
Traveler, your footprints
the way and nothing more;
traveler, there is no path,
is made by walking.
By walking the path
and look back
is the path that never
has walked again.
Caminante no hay camino
but wakes in the sea ...
some time ago there
where the forests are dressed in thorns
heard the voice of a poet cry
"Caminante no hay camino,
is made by walking. .. "
-A.Machado-
logore Scarpe, scarpe
stanch
mie
and walked
pilgrim with my footprints behind and in front
only one path which is not, has not yet
you do ... go with the
Pilgrim in my shoes worn
Monday, March 30, 2009
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
The Myths Of An Itchy Nose
the cause of the economic boycott against Israel - recalls Klein - have joined in recent days about 500 Israeli artists and scholars. These "have sent a letter asking for foreign ambassadors to urge their governments to restrictive measures and sanctions." "The South Africa boycott - goes on to cite the letter - it was effective. But Israel is treated with kid gloves. This international support should cease. " "Many of us - still reflects Klein - still fail to embrace this cause. The reasons are complex, emotive and comprehensible. But simply not worth enough. Economic sanctions are the most effective weapon in the arsenal of non-violence. "
Naomi Klein goes on to analyze and refute four possible objections to the economic boycott of Israel. The first: "The punitive measures alienate rather than persuade Israel." The 'constructive engagement "that the world takes in against Israel - here, Klein notes - is tragically failed. " In fact the last time Israel has enjoyed strong growth of its diplomatic relations, cultural and trade links with a variety of allies. " 'E' in this context that Israeli leaders have begun their last war, with the certainty that they would not have faced significant reactions. "
Second objection:" Israel is not South Africa ". Naomi Klein cites in this regard to the opinion of Ronnie Kastrils, a South African politician. They noted that "the architecture of segregation seen at work in the West Bank and Gaza is infinitely worse that of apartheid. " "The boycott - adds the Canadian artist - not a dogma, it is a tactic in a country so small and dependent on trade can work."
Third objection: "The boycott restricts communication and we need more dialogue." Naomi Klein cites personal experience in this regard: he says he stopped publishing his books in Israel with the publisher Babel and chose instead the smaller independent Andalus, "a militant publishing house, deep in convolta movement against the occupation, the only publishing house that translated texts Israeli Arabs in Hebrew. "Our little plan to publish - yet Klein says - has prompted dozens of calls, sms and email exchanges between Tel Aviv, Ramallah, Toronto, Paris, and Gaza City. I mean, just start a boycott strategy dialogue grows so strong. The argument that the boycott produces a separation is specious given the availability of low cost technology that we have in our hands. " The last objection
analyzed by Naomi Klein is this: "Do you not know that many of these tech toys come from his Israeli research centers, world-leading information technology"? Klein, in this regard, cites the case of Richard Ramsey, head of a British company specializing in Internet technologies. After the start of the assault on Gaza, Ramsey broke relations with the Israeli company MobileMax with this email: "Due to the action of the Israeli government in recent days we are not longer in a position to do business with you or with any another Israeli company. " "Ramsey - explains Klein - said that his was not a political decision, just do not want to risk losing customers." Klein concludes, "It 'was this kind of cold business calculation that led many industries to break off relations with South Africa, twenty years ago. It is precisely this calculation represents our most realistic hope of making the justice for Palestine that was so long denied. "
[Naomi Klein]
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and politics nothing but medicine on a large scale"
[R. Virchow]
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Ayman H. Daraghmeh, a member of Hamas, has just been elected spokesman of the Islamic movement in the West Bank. The appointment has little to do with his career as a parliamentarian of the Palestinian Legislative Council. Daraghmeh is one of the few Members Hamas remained at liberty, as his predecessor was arrested by Israeli police, in the silence of Fatah, the day before. The same Daraghmeh, from day to day, may follow his fellow party members. If
were offered a possibility, in two words, explain how the movement of Hamas?
Hamas is a resistance movement, fighting for freedom under international law. International law that seeks to do the independent state of Palestine on the 1967 borders, Jerusalem as its capital, the release of political prisoners and the return of refugees. Historically, Palestine and the Palestinians, but we accept a compromise on these conditions with politics.
recognize Israel's existence? The Palestinians will decide, but for some time Hamas leaders said they were willing to review the positions of the past if Palestinian rights will be respected.
We should talk about politics and democracy, but it is difficult in these conditions. Another Palestinian parliamentary arrested are 45 deputies in jail.
We started our democratic process in 2006, in elections that the international community has considered valid. Former U.S. President Carter has defined one of the best elections in the world, in terms of transparency. Only Israel did not like the result, boycotting the result of the polls and giving way to the violation of respect for the sovereignty of the people of Palestine. Because they do not like, because the result was not good for Olmert or Condolezza Rice. So what is this democracy? The Palestinians have elected their deputies, no one can believe that they are not going well. Yet no one has forced Israel to comply with our elections. None. As no one calls on Israel to respect UN resolutions, the 1967 borders or the status of Jerusalem. None. Israel blatantly violates international law and claims to speak for the peace process while handling the situation on the ground, changing the tables in his favor. Let me give an example: after the Oslo accords 1993, hailed by many as a step toward peace, Israel has allowed the establishment of half a million settlers in the West Bank. This is not peace. Peace is not building a wall. They say it is for their safety, but they build on our land. The same goes for natural resources, water in particular. The Palestinian people are held in prison. Yes, in these conditions it is hard to talk about democracy. Especially now, considering the carnage in Gaza, where innocent civilians are killed without guilt. And the international community does not move a finger. As always happened, even during the Second Intifada. Israel does not want peace. That's it. Because Israel is a democracy.
These days, collecting the testimonies of many Palestinians, it is not clear, however, given the international situation, why launching rockets at Israeli towns you continue to provide a pretext for operations such as Gaza.
The issue revolves around the Mecca agreement. With popular support we have agreed a truce to allow the civilian population of Gaza to improve their living conditions. Under the agreement, in exchange for the suspension of attacks against Israel, the effective opening of the Gaza crossings, so that they could get essential supplies to civilians. In exchange for these guarantees would have suspended the launch of rockets. The Israeli government has breach of this Agreement taking into sealed the Gaza Strip, bringing the civilian population at its lowest. It also continuing attacks against civilians. The same in the West Bank. We do not use the rockets because we have to do to combat the siege and occupation. Bush, when he was elected, he promised that he would not leave the White House without bringing peace to this region. If it were true, he was born a state of Palestine, we would not need no rocket, trust me. We would have offered Bush the honorary chairmanship of Palestine! If you have all this willingness to peace, and complain of our rockets, do not understand why they filled the arms of Palestinian security forces, those close to Fatah, weapons that are been used against Hamas in the West Bank. This is peace? No, this is an agreement with the Palestinians that is convenient for Israel, but that does not represent the Palestinian civilian population. I think it is increasingly clear that the project is often leaked from the Israeli diplomacy: Egypt annexed the Gaza Strip and the West Bank annexed to the realm of Amman. We oppose this plan.
What are now the relations between Hamas and Fatah?
all know the reality, although many try to mystify. Hamas has suffered a coup by Fatah. The Bush administration and Israel are responsible for what happened. There is evidence of support for Fatah to overthrow the result of the polls against us. In another context, it should go to court because those responsible are punished. Instead, the coup took place, dividing the population and tightening the siege on Gaza. Now the situation is one we all know and have daily contact. It is not easy, because international pressure does not facilitate an agreement, but at least in Gaza has resumed dialogue between us and Fatah, because there are many Fatah fighters who have joined the resistance. The political divisions are overshadowed because our people ask us to stop this massacre. I will never share the political vision of Abbas, flat line across the Egyptian therefore more interested in western priority to those Palestinians, but offers a truce to the civilian population. Now this is the priority and Fatah and Hamas knows it.
believe that without tighter controls exercised in recent days by Fatah in the West Bank there would be a general uprising? Would begin the Third Intifada?
do not know, because people in the West Bank have been denied the right to demonstrate freely. Only a few people, very controlled. Many were arrested and threatened, even tear gas were used against the demonstrations of solidarity with the civilian population of Gaza. But it will not last long. If this continues massacre, the population will rise. Even against Fatah.
What do you think the statements of some leaders of his party than the presidential term of Abbas? It 's still its president, or deemed to be exhausted the mandate?
As I have said so far is not the fact of the matter. Its mandate has expired, but he insists on staying. But I think we have more urgent things take care of them now.
What will happen now? The Gaza Strip is broken, a thousand dead and thousands injured. What do you think of doing in Gaza and the West Bank?
The situation is dramatic. The Palestinian population continues to live in inhuman conditions, prisoner as a people, whose existence is marked by check - Israeli point.
I believe that, sooner or later it will come to a new truce. The works for this president Abbas to suspend attacks and to alleviate the conditions of the population. But in the long run I do not have high expectations, because I do not share the enthusiasm of many for the election of Obama in the United States. You can change anything in Iraq but in Palestine, the U.S. attitude will remain the same. One day, I am sure, although I do not know when we will have independence, and then no more talk of rockets.
Christian Elia Peacereporter
Friday, January 9, 2009
Milena Velba Billeder
The statements International Red Cross on the Gaza Strip:
"Their bodies were lying because they stank, where there were dead too long.
The children were weak, too weak even to stand, because without the assistance of the left their mothers death.
A woman, cut in two by the stroke of a tank.
Two women killed by a missile in the courtyard of their home. "
"We pulled out of their homes more than 90 people who were trapped in the house. They looked horrible remained without water and without food for days. The show was presented to the people of Red Cross was devastating. We asked for a safe passage to the Israeli army since Saturday, but we were given permission only today. "
"Rather than get out of here
rather than leave to the satisfaction
decided to totally change my position
it's just that I lost
And again yesterday
considered
that if you were not there I. ..
but it is thought unnecessary
but yes yes I know but what was the exact way to get back all
it's just that I lost
And who knows
each has its own small rocket launched into the blue
space
into fragments with self
already eh
But yes yes I know but I should get
and challenge the world
it's just that I lost
But you know there
that if each has its own small rocket
I must have lost touch and now
forgive me if I was left only
the worst part of me "
[I lost, Daniele Silvestri]
Thursday, January 8, 2009
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From an article of my prof., Angelo Stefanini
Riguarada to boycott the book fair.
extension of the boycott: boycott and sanctions by Electronic Intifada (I do not recognize the links, this is the address http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/boycott-divestment-sanctions.shtml ) and list of products to boycott
The arguments raised against the possibility of a boycott of the Turin Book Fair are the most varied and stem from considerations of morality, expediency and effectiveness of such an instrument.
first need to distinguish between boycott and censorship. The boycott is institutional, that is what is targeted is the decision of an institution (such as Book Fair) to celebrate an event (60 years after the birth of the State of Israel), controversial and provocative, because offensive to an entire people, the who had to make room for the violence of the new state. Censorship, however, affects people, individual intellectuals who express personal ideas, perhaps even unpopular, but with every right to do so. The boycott does not intend to remove the right of expression but to the person objects to the exploitation of another end in sight (which is not cultural but political propaganda or otherwise). The same things that Israeli writers intend to say in the context of celebration of the fair, they could say in the next room, before the same audience, but without directly or indirectly contribute to the celebratory event that benefits only the image of Israel and of its current government. Opposing the boycott groped means to avoid the debate and contribute to maintaining the status quo. Every opportunity which excites the debate, were rather controversial, thus helping the cause of peace.
The boycott is morally justifiable?
When the boycott of a state becomes morally justifiable?
When the State has expelled and forced to abandon their land, the majority of the population, denying them internationally recognized rights to return to their homes? Israel did it.
When has expropriated thousands of homes without compensating landlords now refugees in conditions that are often subhuman? Israel did it.
When he systematically tortured prisoners, many of them detained without trial? Israel did it.
When he murdered his opponents (by executing death sentences without trial), including those living in occupied territory? Israel did it.
When he demolished thousands of houses belonging to another people and settled hundreds of thousands of its citizens (450,000 in 149 settlements) in the land of that people, uprooting olive trees centenarians? Israel did it.
When has militarily occupied territories of others as the West Bank, Gaza and part of Syria in violation of international law? Israel did it.
When he built a separation barrier with the territory of another nation not respecting international borders, but subtracting land, crops, separating families each other in the neighboring country? Israel did it.
When he violated the law International and arrogantly ignored dozens of resolutions condemning the United Nations? Israel did it.
No country with similar responsibilities in protesting against it may be boycotted. The neighborhood of Beverly Hills is mobilizing to impose sanctions on Iran without the latter's never attacked or occupied its neighbors, but only because he was suspected of aspiring to the same nuclear weapons that Israel possesses a number of at least one hundred titles. In 1991 the international community went to war against Iraq, then also subjected to 10 years of economic sanctions (which caused almost a million dead, many of whom children without arousing much protest), for having invaded Kuwait. Israel is illegally occupying Palestine for 40 years and part of Syria, but no one thinks it must invade or subject to penalties.
I wonder how many of those who ardently condemn the idea to boycott an event which celebrates the birth of the State of Israel, an event that inevitably contribute to the acceptance of the status quo and the normalization of Israel's colonial policy, have visited the occupied Palestinian territory, its inhabitants and have encountered firsthand the conditions of the Palestinian people, also documented from various sources about what happened in that region in 1948 and beyond. In other words, how many really know the facts, according to some, also necessitates a hateful and extreme as the boycott?
In the language of international humanitarian law, neutrality means not siding with any party, or take no position as to the correctness or validity of a particular case. Fairness means treating the contenders in the same way, using the same evaluation criteria to evaluate the actions of both parties offer no benefits to either party. In the case of the Palestinian question is difficult to be consistent with these principles, and the behavior of the international community is a clear example. However, if one part impartiality can be seen as a realistic goal to be achieved, the other the principle of neutrality shows all its limits.
The most shocking reality that meets those who must move in the TPO and that forces anyone to assist you in taking a position are the checkpoint. It 'so hard a time with seemingly benign convey the full horror of such a place. Never seen a fence chock full of animals with a single exit gate controlled by a shepherd armed with a stick? Well, the minister put in place an Israeli soldier with a rifle and, instead of animals, the Palestinians. Code, sometimes very long in the hot sun or rain, where one by one, people show the documents, is questioned, someone is passed, someone else sent back, depending on the mood of the soldier. Screaming, shoving, women and children crying, humiliated men face tense. The explanation that these checkpoints serve to security is an obvious lie: it is situated between Palestinian towns and villages and between Palestine and Israel.
From 2002 to April 2007, 68 women were forced to give birth at a checkpoint, 4 of them and 34 babies have died http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit / 68births.html . Many of the children born in such conditions have suffered severe brain damage. Imagine the humiliation of a husband or son, powerless in front of his wife or his mother, forced to endure the pain of childbirth outside, armed with a callow soldier who assists indifferent, and perhaps you can understand how suicide bombers are born .
There is a group of Israeli women http://www.machsomwatch.org/en who spend whole days to check how they behave those who might be their children, grandchildren or siblings Israeli military. Equipped with portable seats, in the morning going to the checkpoint assigned, sit and observe quietly. Most of the time the young soldiers, clearly embarrassed and afraid of being rebuked by these courageous women, taking a conciliatory behavior with people waiting in line.
Since 1967 Israel has demolished 18,000 homes, often on the heads of its occupants ( http://www.icahd.org/eng ). The reason given? Safety. The truth is that if a Palestinian owns a piece of land to build or extend an existing dwelling to ask a question of the cost of $ 20,000, and then always rejected, if the family grows, she is forced to build without a permit. Then comes the bulldozer. The Palestinians, after the damage, they must also suffer the insult of having to remove the debris themselves and the Israeli Government to pay the cost of demolition.
not boycott culture!
One of the crucial points of debate is that culture is a symbolic of the few places where you can true dialogue and constructive. Academic freedom and free speech, it is argued, may represent the Israeli intellectuals for the strength to press Change of Israeli politics and thus to end the occupation of Palestinian territory.
What is not said, however, is that without real freedom of speech for Palestinian intellectuals and without freedom of education of Palestinian students can not conceive of a constructive dialogue that leads to a long-term solution of conflict. If freedom of expression and education means anything, must apply to everyone.
No one has ever protested against the violation of academic freedom, study, speech perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian universities and schools. In Gaza, 200,000 students have started this school year without textbooks because Israel maintains that this strip of land in the open-air prison conditions, such as paper and ink is not considered "fundamental human rights." No defender of Israel, not even his most progressive intellectuals have protested for the rights of Palestinian children to culture.
under Israeli occupation, all 11 Palestinian universities were closed at different times, that of Birzeit University for four years from 1988 to 1992, to Hebron for 8 months in 2003. The University of Tel Aviv is located on what was a Palestinian village, Muwannis Sheikh, whose inhabitants were expelled by Jewish militias in March 1948 and are denied the right to return to their homes. The Hebrew University in Jerusalem occupies over three acres of land illegally expropriated private Palestinian citizens after the 1967 war. The Bar Ilan University has a campus in illegal settlements in the West Bank. The same applies to the University of Ariel inside the barrier built by Israel (and not along the border) of Palestinian territory lies on the Israeli side and then decreed the next inevitable incorporation into Israel. This university accepts international students who are only Jews.
Since 2000 185 Palestinian schools have been bombed and dozens of professors and students injured, killed or arrested. Over 500 checkpoints and roadblocks, along with a complicated system of permits needed to be able to move, block access to schools and universities for students and teachers. This also means that students are limited in their choices of courses and teaching institutions to attend. The obstacles placed by the procedures necessary to be able to study or work in Palestinian universities are often huge and insurmountable. The systematic obstruction of Palestinian education system not only violates the human rights of those involved but also undermines the roots of the possibility of development of Palestinian society as a whole. And so, as Israeli academics and politicians are engaged in mobilizing the world to protect freedom of speech of their intellectual and other academic institutions, academic researchers and students who seek to exercise their freedom of speech and of the study are in fact boycotted and are prevented from doing so.
Freedom of speech for intellectuals, freedom of movement of culture is a crucial value for the development and growth as human beings to defend with force. But it is not an absolute value taking precedence over everything else, has nothing sacred or otherwise inherently superior to the other freedoms. And anyway, is always accompanied by the duty to respect the other freedoms. The values \u200b\u200bof life and human dignity are the ultimate goals and sometimes can not be completely compatible with full academic freedom.
Freedom of speech is also limited in practice not only when trying to pass off the criticism of Israeli government policy as an anti-Semite, but also with the use of instruments of pressure and conditioning more veiled but not less violent as personally threatening phone calls received by the writer. The accusation of anti-Semitism at those who criticize Israel is absurd and offensive, and assumes an identity of interests between the Government of Israel and all Jews of the world. This is clearly false: there are countless groups and Jewish organizations strongly critical of the Israeli occupation and in favor of the boycott.
Who is the tool against the boycott, but acknowledges the violence of occupation and the profound injustice which the Palestinian people is subjected by Israel has a moral duty to indicate an alternative that is as feared, and then potentially very effective to change the behavior of those who are made subject. In 2005, Palestinian civil society has launched a campaign international boycott, divestment and sanctions as a tool for non-violent pressure that Israel respect international law. Dozens of religious, civic, Jewish and Palestinian secular organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations and universities have been active and are working in this direction.
Why Israel? Why pick on just with Israel when there are so many other governments that should be punished?
The tactic of the boycott is based not only on a question of principle but also on strategic considerations: Israel (as at the time South Africa) aims to be seen as part Western to be accepted but must comply with international rules. You can not have two weights and two measures. Israel cares about its public image and order has created a dense network of economic and cultural relations in the West. In this sense did not mean boycotting of third world dictators and regimes (such as Pol Pot), because certainly not interested in being accepted into the civil forum.
Israel presents itself as the bastion of democracy in the Middle East, the defender of Western civilization in the face of the increasing horde of Islamic fundamentalism and the alleged inevitable clash of civilizations. Israel is a shining example of enterprise and ingenuity, discipline, courage, willpower, determination and so on. It 'was the last victim of the last people, the noblest, the one who suffered longer, the most persecuted, the most intelligent, the Chosen by God then Israel can not be judged on more than one standard any other state since it presents the world with these credentials are accepted without question by crowds of fascinated generations. Israel has managed to escape to fierce criticism that the countries considered equally famous bastions of civilization and have instead agreed to recognize: the U.S. for the massacre of My Lai and the Vietnam War, Germany for the Nazis, France for torture in Algeria. Of these countries, we can ask: What went wrong? How did it happen that they come about? With Israel no, you can not. The atrocities of which we have evidence (from the violent expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their land with massacres such as Deir Yassin in 1948, to terrorist acts like the slaughter of the King David Hotel in 1946 made by the future prime minister Menachem Begin) belong to normal, the tradition to which Israel is based and which is fair.
Only Israel can defy with impunity whenever the United Nations, the global forum established to regulate its members, and refuse to obey with its resolutions. Israel has the capacity to prevent and silence any criticism: not just bombing "targeted" with many collateral victims, ambulances hit or blocked, fruit trees and olive trees uprooted, destroyed, sewers, curfews lasting weeks, roadblocks with food left rot, five times more water allocated to the settlers illegally established on Palestinian land that the Palestinians that the land has been confiscated, attacks on hospitals, schools and universities.
against its allies, it does not even pretend the retention of a minimum of embarrassment. In fact, it almost seems to try to humiliate those satisfaction 'Stupid American' and the entire West, saying: "We know that you do not like what we do not give a damn because we do not conform to the your own rules. The rules we do for others "(M. Neumann, Counterpunch, July 6, 2002). Israel is protected by a steel shield of impunity that has not only meant that the U.S. government has vetoed 41 resolutions condemning the Security Council (half of all used by the U.S. veto at the UN) but also that the President Bush has announced an increase in military aid to Israel up to $ 30 billion over the next 10 years.
It is now clear that the objective Israel is making Palestine a Jewish state with a presence as possible of the Palestinian population problem as a major concern of the current Israeli leadership. Hence the ever more explicit policy of ethnic cleansing carried out by Israel. The message proposed to run from the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe is that jew "in the XXI century a state that is based on this ideology can not be accepted as a member of the community of civilized nations. The boycott is the best non-violent, to send out the message that we recognize this ideological infrastructure of the Israeli state. "Just as had happened with apartheid South Africa.
The boycott tactic is a simple, non-violent weapon available to individual members of civil society. It 's just a form of protest, many of those who adopt are also active in other campaigns and movements against war, against the unethical practices of multinationals, against the death penalty. No one asks those campaigning against the occupation of Tibet by China, "why not Israel?" Nor deny that Israel participates in the boycott of Cuba The question then is not so much "Why focus on Israel when other governments deserve to be boycotted? "but" Why Israel is not it? "Other countries are currently subject to boycott (Cuba) and others were (Iraq) without the adverse effects caused too have broken the international community. The tool of the boycott, economic sanctions and other equipment is also included (Art 41 UN Charter) in the way that member states of the United Nations at their disposal to take action against those who violate international law.
The tactic of the boycott has the great merit of being non-violent and provide a way in which each of us, even the most gentle and timid person may express a moral commitment. The immediate effect of this mobilization has on the individual involved is no less important than its actual effect on the case itself (to change policy to the government of Israel) will take a long time to succeed. The boycott is an instrument inevitably divisive, cruel and that charges costs to those who do not deserve to be punished. Maybe they should the same Israeli intellectuals invited to Turin to make the choice not to accept being exploited to celebrate an event that if a party has given a land to a people, the other has been the catastrophe of another people. In this way they would make the best service to freedom of culture of all.
dismiss as anti-Semitism the critique of colonial and racist policies of Israel is a meanness which shows the inability to face facts and ideas. Such an attitude also ends up deeply devalue the very meaning of anti-Semitism in this powerful term to be reserved only to those who show contempt and prejudice against Jews as a group and as individuals, wherever they live, not because of what they do but for what am. The abuse of this word brings dangerously to the progressive dilution of its meaning and its symbolic power explosive.
Why not invite Palestinian intellectuals?
The objective conditions of "occupier" and "busy", and the obvious asymmetry between Israel and Palestine in terms of socio-economic power in the international community, media penetration and impact of events on world opinion (compare the noise that follows a journalist dead Israel killed over a Palestinian Authority), also make it problematic reconciliation efforts between the two sides that some propose. These attempts are usually built on the premise that, by facilitating joint action in key areas, such as cultural, health or social, you can create an independent channel of dialogue that leads to greater mutual understanding. Against such an approach and 'siding a large part of Palestinian society accusing its promoters, however well intentioned, do not know to discern the ambiguity and hypocrisy inherent in external initiatives that seek to offer solutions to problems created Israeli occupation, which do not reflect the priorities of the supposed beneficiaries, who do not take into account the guilty indifference of the scientific and cultural Israeli, and claiming to be apolitical when in fact most of the benefits in terms of image and power ends inevitably only be made to one of the contenders.
Those who suggest the possibility of a rapprochement not conditional on the common respect for international humanitarian law and human rights and the recognition of equal humanity are either naive or dishonest. If such equality does not pre-exist, and report any interaction is reduced to simply an exercise in asymmetrical negotiations between oppressor and oppressed. The mutual recognition of equal dignity of both parties have to be a necessary pre-condition for dialogue and not a consequence of it. It is not doing justice to the Palestinians ask to pay in advance the "political price" to sit at the table in terms of "moral equivalence" magnanimous in return for recognition by Israel of a skimpy set of "rights" (such as permission to pass a checkpoint, or going to school).
Conclusion
Many, many (no doubt many more than those who have the courage to expose themselves publicly and say their opinion) recognize the seriousness of the violations of international law by Israel. The challenge now is to do something that has an effect in practice, which shifts the deadlock in which we live. Only the pressure that Israel fears so that he could not disguise the fear of suffer them (ie those that put in crisis its membership of the forum of "civilization" west) can achieve this outcome.
The facts and numbers here recounted, though seldom mentioned by the most common media, are in the public domain and easily accessible. To those who, while sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, oppose the boycott address the following question: What would you do for the Palestinians, boycotted and left to themselves for so long by the world?