Agrégateur de flux

From Arlene Kushner:
July 2, 2015
Facing Down ViolenceAs has become my practice of late, I’m going to start with a good news item, saving the somber stuff for later.  Here we have a brief video that should put a smile on your face and a touch of hope in your heart:

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));

הרפורמציה הפרוטסטנטית החלה במאה ה-16 ונמשכה גם למאה ה-17.היא החלה כמחאה ואי קבלה של הכנסיה הקתולית ומרותה שכן רבים הרגישו כי האליטה השלטת אופיינה בשחיתות וריקבון. המנהיג הבולט ביותר של הרפורמה הזו היה הכומר מרטין לותר שיזכר לדורות כפורץ דרך אמיץ. בתקופה ההיא, היו המון נוצרים שהאמינו באדיקות בדתם, אך לא הסכימו לשחיתות ולטרור שהושלט ע״י הכנסייה הקתולית (מסעות הצלב והאינקוויזיציה בין היתר). כך החל תהליך של שינוי שגרר גם תגובת נגד מצד הזרם הקתולי. הזרם הקתולי הבין שאם לא תהיה רפורמה גם שם, הם יאבדו את כל המאמינים שלהם לטובת הפרוטסטנטיים.ככה התמתנה הדת הנוצרית והפכה סובלנית יותר כפי שאנחנו מכירים אותה היום.בדיוק את אותו התהליך גם האסלאם צריך לעבור.כשנתקלים במישהי מדהימה כמו שרה זועבי, זה מחזק את האמונה שהתהליך הזה בוודאות יקרה.השינוי יכול להגיע רק בזכות אנשים אמיצים כמוה, כמו הבן שלה וכמו רבים שאוהבים את דתם אבל סולדים מהשחיתות והטרור שהשתלטה עלייה.מי שסובל בעיקר היום מהטרור המוסלמי, הם המוסלמים עצמם. במזרח התיכון הם סובלים ממשטרים טוטאליטריים שמענים את עמם ואף מוציאים להורג ללא משפטבמדינות ערב מתחילה להתעורר איסלאמופוביה שפוגעת גם במוסלמים שלווים.המוסלמים הם הראשונים שאמורים לצאת נגד האיסלאם הקיצוני.לגבי המציאות הישראלית,הגאולה לא תבוא מארגונים קיצוניים שרצים לפרלמנטים אירופאיים בשביל להציג מצגי שווא ולהתחנף ע״י הלשנה מסולפת על מנת להכריח את עמם לפעולות לא הגיוניות על פי דעת הרוב. הגאולה גם לא תבוא מגזענים חשוכים שחושבים שהפתרון הוא סילוק כל מי שלא חושב כמוהם או נמנה ביו בני דתם המונעים משנאה בוערת. הגאולה תבוא אך ורק מאנשים אמיצים ופורצי דרך כאלו שהדבר המהותי שמניע אותם היא גאווה ואהבה לכל הזהויות שלהם.הדו קיום היפה הזה ששרה זועבי מציגה בצורה מושלמת, לא אומר לוותר על הזהות שלך. יש פה עיקרון של שפע. שרה זועבי מצליחה להעביר מסר חד וברור של אהבה וגאווה ללאום שלה עם היכולת לקבל את האחר, להכיל אותו ולמזג בין התרבויות בלי לגרוע מאף אחת מהן.היא ערבייה מוסלמית בהוויתה ויחד עם זאת ישראלית ציונית גאה. אין פה שום סתירה בין הזהויות. יש פה מיזוג מרהיב של שתי תרבויות יפות והבסיס הוא אהבה לשתיהן.העולם המערבי בכלל והחברה הישראלית בפרט צריכה ללמוד לאזן בין חמלה לכוח.אנחנו חייבים מצד אחד לאמץ לחיקינו את האנשים המדהימים האלו ולעזור להם להתמודד עם הקשיים הנוראיים שהם עוברים בשל היותם פורצי דרךומהצד השני אנחנו חייבים להראות אפס סובלנות לטרור ותומכיו.חלק מהעיקרון של אפס סובלנות לטרור בין היתר כולל לא למסור שטחים לטרור ולא לאפשר לו להשליט את המשטרים האפלים והמדכאים שלהם שם. ישראל חייבת לשמור על גבולותיה הרמטיים ולחנך את האזרחים בגבולות האלו מהי אהבת חינם. אין לי ספק שהשינוי הזה יקרה. אי אפשר לדעת כמה זמן זה יקח, אבל זה בוודאות יקרה וזה יקרה הודות לאנשים כאלו.Sara ZoabiMuhammad Zoabi
Posted by Miri Lavi on Wednesday, June 24, 2015
~~~~~~~~~~

We had better hold fast to that hope, because there’s a whole lot that is very ugly facing us at the same time.  In recent weeks, we have seen an increase in the number of attacks in Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem:


[] Early last week, outside the Damascus Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem, a terrorist critically stabbed a border police officer in the neck and chest.  The officer, in spite of his wounds, managed to shoot the terrorist before collapsing.
Credit: flikr

[] Last Saturday night, terrorists shot at a civilian ambulance traveling on a road adjacent to Beit El, in Samaria.  Bullets hit the vehicle, but thank Heaven no one was injured.

[] Then Monday, a woman soldier at a checkpoint outside of Rachel’s Tomb, which is near Bethlehem in Judea, was stabbed in the neck several times by a knife-wielding female terrorist.  The soldier (shown below with the prime minister and minister of defense) was seriously wounded but has stabilized.Credit: GPO

The terrorist was found to be carrying two knives in addition to the one she used.  She told the Shin Bet that she had come to that checkpoint to kill a soldier.

[] This was followed by another incident Monday night, when terrorists fired upon a car near Shvut Rachel, in the Binyamin area of Samaria.  Four people were wounded, one critically.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/197464#.VZU005sVjIV

~~~~~~~~~~

The young man who was critically injured in the Shvut Rachel attack, Malachi Rosenfeld, 26, of Kochav Hashachar, succumbed to his wounds the following day.  At his funeral,  yesterday, his father sang a heart-rending song of faith:

"Even in the most concealed​​ of concealed​​ moments, certainly​ G-d, blessed be He`1, is also found there."Even behind the most difficult things that happen to you, He (still) stands, He stands - and we will stand, we will stand with G-d."Once again, I am awed by the strength of a grieving parent.  The video:


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/197557#.VZVv_JsVjIV~~~~~~~~~~
And what is thought to be the reason for this increase in violence?

Ramadan.

That is, the Islamic holy month that we are in the midst of right now.  Fasting is required from sunup to sundown. This is supposed to be a time for spirituality and introspection, traditionally marking the receiving of the Koran by Muhammad.

However, Ramadan is typically accompanied by increased violence (called Ramadan rage), including Muslim on Muslim violence and a spike in crimes.  There are different explanations I’ve encountered, but the most frequent one is that the day-time fasting repeated day after day takes a toll on the body and makes people respond more irritably.

My thought: there is irritable and then there is violent.  Physical stress leads to violence in this context, it seems to me, because we are talking about an essentially violent culture.

~~~~~~~~~~

And what does Israel institute before the beginning of Ramadan?  “Good will gestures,” such as removing checkpoints to make it easier for people to get the Temple Mount for prayers.  There was even a decision to allow buses from Ramallah and Bethlehem to take people straight to the Old City.

Isn’t that nice of us?

Are we crazy?

Because of rockets launched from Gaza recently, a decision to allow 500 Arabs from Gaza to travel to the Temple Mount over Ramadan was revoked.

Now Minister Naftali Bennett is calling on Netanyahu to "cancel the exemptions granted to the Palestinians for Ramadan as they have become life threatening...Bayit Yehudi will not ignore the murder of Jews.”

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4675282,00.html

I totally concur with him here.  And so do a majority of Israelis, according to a recent poll:  51% want to remove leniencies for Palestinian Arabs with regard to their freedom of movement.

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Poll-Majority-wants-to-remove-leniencies-on-Palestinians-407870

~~~~~~~~~~

I find that members of Habayit Hayehudi – Bennett and others - most frequently advance positions that project clarity regarding our need to protect ourselves.

Minister Uri Ariel called on the prime minister to take more stringent action in the face of terror: “The terrorist organizations must receive the message that the blood of Israeli citizens, especially residents of Judea and Samaria, cannot be shed with impunity.”

And MK Bezalel Smotrich declared, “Too many steps have been taken to improve the lives of the Palestinian population at the expense of Israeli citizens.”

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Bayit-Yehudi-threatens-coalition-crisis-over-terror-attack-407719

And yet there is something else Bennett said that troubles me:

He called for government approval "for construction in Judea and Samaria and strengthening of the settlements.”

Clearly, I am not opposed to construction in Judea and Samaria.  But this should be advanced as a matter of right, and not presented after terror attacks as a sort of retribution.  Building as a punishment for terror gives the wrong message.

~~~~~~~~~~

Egypt yesterday endured an enormous blow when an affiliate of ISIS, located in the northern Sinai, attacked in at least 15 different locations simultaneously, killing some 100 people, including 50 security personnel.

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Egyptian-security-sources-At-least-30-killed-in-Sinai-terror-attacks-407664

Egypt’s battle is hardly over yet, and what goes on in the Sinai impinges directly on Israel: ISIS is at our door.  We are solidly with Egypt in this fight, and have given permission for Egyptian forces in excess of what is permitted by treaty to enter the Sinai.

There are indications that radical forces in Gaza are cooperating with ISIS, and there are weighty ramifications in this regard as well.

The Israeli borders with the Sinai and Gaza have been closed.

~~~~~~~~~~

Hamas is known to be attempting to rebuild its strength in Judea and Samaria, after it was severely weakened by the IDF last summer.  In recent comments, Defense Minister Ya’alon confirmed this fact, saying that Hamas had outside support, including from Iran:
"There's Iranian funding. [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei has declared that terrorists in Judea and Samaria must be funded and armed."http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=26605

~~~~~~~~~~

© Arlene Kushner. This material is produced by Arlene Kushner, functioning as an independent journalist. Permission is granted for it to be reproduced only with proper attribution.  
-----
If you found this post interesting or informative, please it below. Thanks!

Technorati Tag: Israel and Gaza and Hamas and Egypt.

SOMMAIRE :  Actualité :- Erythrée : un Etat totalitaire qui exporte sa population en Europe- Comprendre la question du Mali
Prospectives : Algérie : le scénario de l'apocalypse
Histoire : Le premier conflit mondial en Afrique : L'Afrique de l'Est

Editorial de Bernard Lugan :Réflexions sur le phénomène des « migrants » africains
Parlons vrai :
- La vague migratoire africaine que subit actuellement l'Europe se fait par l'entonnoir libyen.
- Ce dernier fut créé par ceux qui déclenchèrent une guerre insensée contre le colonel Kadhafi qui avait fermé son littoral aux passeurs-esclavagistes.
- Face à la déferlante, les forces navales européennes recueillent les clandestins... pour les transporter jusqu'en Italie. La différence avec le prophétique Camp des Saints de Jean Raspail est que chez ce dernier, les migrants débarquaient en Europe alors qu'aujourd'hui ils y sont débarqués... pour y être installés.
- Les responsables de l'ectoplasme bruxellois ont comme seule préoccupation de répartir ces intrus dont les indigènes ne veulent pas entre les pays de l'UE, ne voyant pas qu'ils vont ainsi amplifier le phénomène en créant une pompe aspirante.
- Cette migration-peuplement est essentiellement la conséquence d'une démographie devenue folle qui tue l'Afrique à petit feu, lui interdit tout développement et exacerbe ses conflits[1].
- Or cette explosion démographique s'explique parce que les missionnaires, les religieuses soignantes, les médecins et les infirmiers coloniaux ont, hier, au nom de leur « amour des autres », délivré les Africains de la lèpre, de la rougeole, de la trypanosomiase, du choléra, de la variole, de la fièvre typhoïde ; cependant que les militaires les libéraient de l'esclavage arabo-musulman. 
Résultat : en un siècle, la population du continent a presque été multipliée par 10. De 100 millions d'habitants en 1900, elle était passée à environ 275 millions dans les années 1950-1960, puis à 640 millions en 1990 et à un milliard en 2014. Dans les années 2050 les Africains seront entre 2 et 3 milliards (dont 90% au sud du Sahara), puis 4,2 milliards en 2100 ; ils représenteront alors 1/3 de la population mondiale. En 2050, 40% des naissances mondiales seront africaines[2], ce qui, ajouté à la baisse heureuse de la mortalité infantile en raison des campagnes de vaccination menées par les ONG et de l'annonce d'un prochain vaccin contre le paludisme, va conduire à un cataclysme encore plus destructeur que l'actuel.
Comment espérer alors que les migrants cesseront de se ruer vers un « paradis » européen non défendu et peuplé de vieillards ? Un paradis où, par hédonisme, les femmes ne font plus d'enfants ? Un paradis où les hommes s'interrogent sur leur identité sexuelle et où toute attitude virile est considérée comme machiste, autant dire fascisante ? 
Désarmés par l'hystérie émotionnelle de la classe politique et des médias ainsi que par la compassionnelle sollicitude des clercs, les Européens sont sommés de devoir accepter de subir. Un ancien Premier ministre de « droite » est même allé jusqu'à proposer que les forceurs de frontière soient envoyés repeupler les campagnes françaises. Là où les « aides » en tous genres ont depuis longtemps fait taire les salutaires cris de « Haut les fourches »...
Bernard Lugan

[1] Voir à ce sujet mon dernier livre Osons dire la vérité à l'Afrique. Le Rocher, 2015.[2] Unicef Afrique/Génération 2030. Août 2014, 68 pages.

Emma aus Lyon in Frankreich wollte wissen: "Finden wir in Europa Fleisch oder Milch von geklonten Tieren auf unseren Tellern?". Euronews hat ihre…

At a busy e-Learning tradeshow at London Olympia in the spring of 2014, over a hundred companies exhibited innovative learning technologies for corporate and public sector clients. But only 3 or 4 had prior experience in doing work for the military. This was understandab

Opinión - 3/7/2015
Miguel Otero-Iglesias
Pese a las críticas a la actitud de Tsipras, la mayoría de los españoles parecen entender su lógica.

DRAFT RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council and Commission decision on the conclusion by the European Union of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement establishing a Partnership between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, of the other part
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Barbara Lochbihler

Source : © European Union, 2015 - EP

Source : © European Union, 2015 - EP

Written by Suzana Elena Anghel, Stanislas de Finance, Ralf Drachenberg

This 25-26 June 2015 summit witnessed an intense debate. While the agenda originally covered Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), the digital single market and the European Semester, in addition to a presentation from David Cameron, United Kingdom Prime Minister to outline his vision on renegotiating his country’s relationship with the EU, the summit became a crisis Council. Many discussions again focused on the situation in the Mediterranean, with several lively exchanges. The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel described the issue as the ‘biggest challenge’ Europe had faced during her time in office.

The Council’s conclusions nevertheless managed to address all issues on the agenda. The Heads of State or Government concentrated on three key dimensions of the European Commission’s agenda on migration: the relocation/resettlement of migrants; their return/readmission/reintegration; and cooperation with countries of both origin and transit. Clear differences in opinion persisted on the voluntary or mandatory nature of the relocation scheme, but agreement was reached on ‘the temporary and exceptional relocation, over two years, from the frontline Member States: Italy and Greece, to other Member States of 40 000 persons in clear need of international protection’.

Although the debate on CSDP fell short of its original ambition, the Council conclusions included a statement that the European Council ‘will keep security and defence policy on its regular agenda’, thereby clearly underlining the future importance of CSDP.

United Kingdom Prime Minister, David Cameron’s presentation of his vision on renegotiation of the UK’s relationship with the EU, did not outline any specific details, however, it provided an impetus for European level discussions on this issue, with Council President Donald Tusk seeing it as ‘the first step in a longer process that will also end at the European Council’. This issue is certain to reappear on the agenda for the Council meeting in December 2015.

The significantly shortened debate on the Commission communication on a Digital Single Market strategy for Europe, nevertheless led to Council conclusions calling for the rapid adoption of the Telecommunications Single Market Regulation, the Directive on Network and Information Security, and the Data Protection package. Heads of State or Government also stressed that action must be taken on key components of the Commission communication, such as eliminating mobile roaming charges. On this issue, on 30 June 2015, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, reached agreement to end roaming surcharges by 15 June 2017.

The EPRS publishes briefings on the European Council before summits, and European Council outcome briefings (next to be issued just after the European Council of 15-16 October 2015).

Read this Briefing on Outcome of the 25-26 June European Council in PDF
Filed under: BLOG, Institutional and Legal Affairs, Policy Cycle Tagged: briefings, CSDP, digital agenda, economic governance, EPRS briefings, European Council, migration, Post-European Council Briefing, Ralf Drachenberg, Stanislas de Finance, Suzana Elena Anghel Gavrilescu

Retrouver 지식 경제 la note Économie de la connaissance de Idriss J. Aberkane en version coréenne. Elle est également disponible sur notre site en version anglaise. Idriss J. Aberkane, est chercheur affilié au Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory de l’université de Stanford. Crédit photo home : Flickr-CC – Michael Novelo

Cet article Retrouver 지식 경제 la version coréenne de la note « Économie de la connaissance » de Idriss J. Aberkane est apparu en premier sur Fondapol.

6000 éve a Szaharában terült el a Föld legnagyobb édesvizű tava: a ma már csak egykori vízfelületének 5%-val rendelkező Csád-tó valaha nagyobb volt, mint az észak-amerikai Nagy-tavak területe összesen.

When Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras decided to unilaterally abandon negotiations over Greece’s so-called ‘bailout programme’ and to propose a referendum on the latest offer that Greece had been made, he employed a tactic that is common in negotiations in the European Union (EU): using difficulties with domestic ratification of EU agreements to extract concessions. Paradoxically, no agreement was reached in this particular case, but Mr. Tsipras believes that once the Greek people have rejected the latest offer of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the three ‘institutions’ will have to make them a better one. As he put it: ‘The day following the democratic choice, and a proud “No” to subjugation and to indignity, our country will have a much stronger negotiating position, and it will be the moment of truth for the creditors. They will finally understand that Greece is not going to surrender, that Greece is not a game that is over’.

Prior to Mr. Tsipras’ announcement regarding the referendum, the ratification difficulties that he has tried to use were real. The constituency in favour of the policies that Greece’s two bailout programmes included was never particularly large. The (partial) implementation of the two programmes reduced its size further. Many of those whom the two programmes have left worse off and supporting Mr. Tsipras’ Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) used to feel that they have nothing left to lose and that anything would be better than the continuation of austerity. As one of them put it: ‘[A choice] between more austerity or chaos? Chaos’.

The irony for Mr. Tsipras is that as soon as he made his announcement regarding the referendum, ratification of any agreement on any offer that the three ‘institutions’ might make Greece became less difficult. Ratification difficulties diminished as the Greek people caught a glimpse of the alternative to non-agreement/non-ratification. Queues outside banks, in supermarkets and at petrol stations and living in fear of banks running out of money and of shortages of food and fuel. ‘Chaos’, it seems, is no longer preferable to austerity. Opinion polls showing the ‘Yes’ vote ahead have already been reported. Mr. Tsipras has hinted that he will resign if the Greek people vote ‘Yes’. Rightly so. A ‘Yes’ vote will mean either that Mr. Tsipras has failed to implement the mandate that he has been given or that the Greek people have rescinded their mandate. If this proves to be the case, the announcement regarding the Greek referendum will have been the beginning of the end for Mr. Tsipras.

 

Kyriakos Moumoutzis is a Lecturer in European and International Politics at King’s College London.

The post The Beginning of the End for Mr. Tsipras appeared first on Ideas on Europe.

What would a third bailout for Greece look like? The International Monetary Fund has provided the first public insight into how much it could cost, and it will be expensive. According to IMF estimates, over the next three years, Greece will need €52bn in new bailout financing.

That is close to an estimate we came up with in February. But that may not even be enough. The new IMF debt sustainability analysis, which we’ve posted here, assumes the money in the EU bailout that just disappeared would be used to cover Greek needs through October. That cash, about €16.3bn, is now gone. So the total price tag could go up to close to €70bn.

But that’s not all. The IMF report also assumes the budget targets and economic growth projections made during the recent negotiations still hold. Under that plan, Greece would post a primary budget surplus – revenues minus expenses, when interest on debt isn’t counted – of 1 per cent of gross domestic product this year, rising gradually to 3.5 per cent in 2018.

It also assumed no economic growth this year, but a return to 2 per cent growth next year and 3 per cent in 2017 and 2018.

Given Greek banks have been closed for a week and its economy is in free-fall, those targets are, in all likelihood, becoming more outdated by the minute.

Read more

Does anyone remember wonderful suggestions from Mikhail Khodorkovsky to give Russian nuclear weapons away to the United States to write off Russian debts that Putin subsequently repaid by the way? Does anyone remember Khodorkovsky's another suggestion to sell a half of the Russian oil industry to American oil giants?

Le 27 juin, Alexis Tsipras a décidé de l'organisation d'un référendum, prévu pour le dimanche 5 juillet, afin de consulter le peuple sur une nouvelle série de réformes structurelles, demandées par les créanciers du pays. Le Premier ministre et son gouvernement ont depuis multiplié les appels à voter "non" afin de renforcer leur position face à la Commission européenne, la BCE, le FMI et certains Etats membres, dont l'Allemagne. De ces réformes structurelles dépend le versement d'une nouvelle aide financière, indispensable à la Grèce pour éviter le défaut de paiement. Depuis le 30 juin, le pays est en effet dans le rouge, n'ayant pu honorer une créance de 1,6 milliard d'euros au FMI. Le 20 juillet prochain, Athènes doit en outre rembourser 3,5 milliards d'euros à la BCE. En cas de blocage persistant au-delà du 5 juillet, une sortie de la Grèce de la zone euro – Grexit – deviendrait donc de plus en plus probable. Quels sont les scénarios envisageables ? Quelles seront les conséquences d'un "oui" ou d'un "non" au référendum ? Découvrez notre datavisualisation !

Les conditions d'obtention de la nationalité dans l'Union européenne varient beaucoup d'un Etat membre à un autre. Le mariage reste un moyen reconnu dans la plupart d'entre eux. En 2013, 984 600 personnes ont obtenu la nationalité d'un Etat membre de l'Union européenne. Ce nombre représente une hausse de 20 % par rapport à l'année précédente.