Comme aux premiers jours de l’invasion russe de l’Ukraine, une foule de sentiments parfois contradictoires m’habite, et pour contenir ces affects, un des mécanismes de défense est de plonger dans l’information et de lire, lire, lire, et écouter. Des voix dissidentes, des opinions minoritaires, des propos nuancés ou radicaux, et des discours officiels seulement pour en comprendre le sous-texte et la traduction potentielle en actes de violence. Consommer le moins possible d’images montrant de la souffrance, le plus souvent inutiles à visionner, mais plutôt des textes qui conjuguent rage et rigueur intellectuelle, perspectives historiques et ressenti immédiat.
De savoir des proches impliqués professionnellement, de connaître des ami.e.s qui partagent des liens familiaux, amicaux, amoureux avec des personnes sur ces territoires, penser à des zones assiégées, des villes et villages que j’ai eu l’étrange privilège de connaître en 2008-2009, rend plus urgent encore mon souhait de développer une compréhension critique et précise de la situation qui nous concerne tous-tes. Le soi-disant Canada, lui-même état colon génocidaire, n’a bien sûr aucune leçon à donner, et ce n’est pas un hasard si le sort passé et présent des personnes autochtones en Amérique du Nord est parfois brandi comme un modèle vertueux.
S’il peut être difficile de s’exprimer publiquement à ce sujet, et désormais impossible de partager directement des liens sur ce réseau, n’hésitez pas à indiquer des sources utiles, commentaires non-haineux et opinions qui vous ont interpellés dans les dernières heures. (FB, 9 octobre 2023)
حرروا فلسطين
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𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝐻𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑠’𝑠 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 – 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑆𝑒𝑛 (𝐴𝑙 𝐽𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑎)
« International law prohibits states from “any military occupation, however temporary”. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 37/43 also reaffirms that people struggling for independence and liberation from colonial rule have the right to do so using “all available means, including armed struggle”. In other words, Operation Al-Aqsa Flood is part of the armed Palestinian struggle provoked by the Israeli occupation and colonialism. »
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𝐿𝑎 𝑁𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒́𝑒 – 𝑁𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑂𝑟 (𝐿𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛)
« Le corps des femmes est toujours une arme de guerre, un objet qu’on parade. (…) Je ne peux croire que les femmes de Gaza ne ressentent pas leur chair de femme se déchirer devant ce supplice. (…) La source de toute cette violence est le gouvernement israélien, n’oublions pas que le Hamas en est l’enfant monstrueux, leurs existences sont liées par le sang – et la destruction du père mettrait fin à l’existence du fils. Ces deux entités sont les ennemies du peuple palestinien et de tous ceux qui souhaitent vivre. »
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𝐴 𝑁𝑢𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑆𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 – 𝐽𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 (𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝐼𝑛𝑐.)
« I feel that it is necessary to understand Israel as a whole as a settler-colonial project, and Zionism as a colonial movement for Jewish supremacy. We would be remiss to ignore the long history of Israeli ethnic cleansing, which resulted in the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel, known as the Nakba. The Gaza Strip today, a fraction of the pre-1948 Gaza district of Palestine, is home to refugees from 94 villages and towns in the historic district that were completely depopulated. Today, 80% of the Strip’s residents are refugees, besieged in the world’s largest open-air prison. The towns that were taken or attacked by Palestinians at the beginning of the current fighting are some of the depopulated towns that some those these refugees were dispossessed of. »
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𝑊𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 : 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑠𝑟𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑎𝑟. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑟 – 𝑂𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑁𝑜𝑦 (𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛)
« It is important not to minimise or condone the heinous crimes committed by Hamas. But it is also important to remind ourselves that everything it is inflicting on us now, we have been inflicting on the Palestinians for years. (…) I maintain that there are crimes of abundance and there are crimes of hunger, and we have not only brought Gaza to the brink of starvation, we have brought it to a state of collapse. Always in the name of security. How much security did we get? Where will another round of revenge take us? »
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𝐼𝑠𝑟𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝐻𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑂𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑊𝑎𝑟 𝐶𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑎 – 𝐴𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖 (𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡)
« Israel certainly cannot claim the upper moral hand. Israeli government ministers now calling to kill, destroy, crush and even starve the residents of Gaza forget that this is already Israeli policy, the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem echoed in a statement. Intentional attacks on civilians are prohibited and unacceptable. There is no justification for such crimes, whether they are committed as part of a struggle for freedom from oppression or cited as part of a war against terror. »
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𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑎 𝐼𝑠 𝑎 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑇𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑊𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 – 𝑀𝑜ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑅. 𝑀ℎ𝑎𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ (𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛)
« To try and live through war never gets easier. My family and I have suffered through previous Israeli wars on Gaza, but that has not lessened the terror we feel now. It has not dulled the sharp pain in our chests that comes with every air strike. It has not made our lungs more able to handle the suffocating smoke that the constant jet raids leave in their wake. Instead, we are feeling an unprecedented level of fear. There is more horror, louder explosions. The ground is shaking like never before. It is a newer, worse version of the same challenge we have been facing for years: basic survival. (…) The current conflict may come to an end if Palestinians manage to secure temporary conditions that meet their strategic needs, like lifting the Gaza blockade, easing the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank, and halting the aggression against Palestinians in the Al-Aqsa Mosque. But the underlying conflict will end only when the occupation ends, when apartheid ends, and when all of Palestine is free. (…) The question, then, isn’t why Palestinians are fighting. Rather, it is how they will continue to resist the occupation until they achieve their ultimate goal of liberation. »
”En fondant son administration sur la mise en tension des groupes majoritaires et minoritaires dans les sociétés vaincues et en édifiant un système inégalitaire fondé sur des catégories raciales, le colonialisme français agit comme un accélérateur de cette séparation. Le décret Crémieux – imposé aux juifs indigènes algériens majoritairement réticents à jeter leur arabité aux oubliettes –, comme toute la politique raciste de civilisation des Juifs nord-africains menée sous l’administration française, se donne à voir comme l’un des indices témoignant de la capacité de destruction et d’atomisation du colonialisme sur les sociétés colonisées.”
Berbères juifs. À propos d’un livre de Julien Cohen-Lacassagne (Contretemps)
(1) 1946 “Palestine” map sheet at 1:250,000 scale, produced by the British mandate “Survey of Palestine”.
(2) 1951 “Israel” map sheet produced by the “Survey of Israel” based on the earlier map.
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”Nobody likes to argue with a mystic who uses providence to cover up the weakness of his politics or to cut through the Gordian knot in which he got them entangled. Surely without transformation there can be no mastery of the future: Zionism needs badly to be mindful of its religious problems; it needs historical consciousness and criticism of its activities and slogans. But just as it will not end its salvation, its tikkun, in the wild apocalypticism of the Revisionists, it must not give way to a politics of mysticism which uses the most profound symbols of our inner life to usurp a power which others have fought for and have sacrificed themselves to firmly establish—which uses these symbols to subjugate a way of life whose development the adherents of that politics have followed with nothing but excommunications, maledictions, and hate.”
The Politics of Mysticism : Isaac Breuer’s New Kuzari, trans. Michael A. Meyer, in The Messianic Idea in Judaism and Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality, New York : Schocken Books, 1971.
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