Letter to a Jewish friend about the Nazis
L ***,
Thank you for your message. I do not share their goals, but I'm glad, however, that has served as a reason to return briefly in better touch with many friends Zamora.
When I say I do not share their goals'm not talking about the Palestinian conflict. I, as I suppose you, as I think everyone should be respectful of fundamental rights and freedoms, I am a convinced Zionist-naive of me-only approve the establishment of an indivisible, secular law in Palestine, where Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together regardless of their religions. And of course you do not need any powerpoint to convince the overwhelming sadness that's behind the terrible images that reach us. Palestinian conflict would be much to discuss, for example, why Israelis maintain a fence like the one held in Gaza and not in the West Bank.
Anyway, those pictures you sent me what they mean and mean no more than what they mean. I think we do a disservice to those who want and need a reasonable debate and a reasonable context for this debate broadcasting a powerpoint matching sepia photos of the thirties and forties Germans with color photos of the XXI century Gaza. Photos all denote a violent inhuman and reprehensible as it is exerted on defenseless civilians. But there is one key element that makes the comparison explicit liar of the Jewish genocide do with the Israeli occupation of Gaza and West Bank, while the extermination of German Jews was an end in itself, carried out within a system totalitarian actions through carefully planned and inspired by a racist ideology, the state repression of Israel imposed on Gaza is not intended to exterminate the Palestinians, but the defeat of terrorist militias like Hamas, or based on the exaltation of racial hatred, but in a strictly defensive strategy (is not it time to assess what means the State of Israel for self-defense, or what it means every sector of Israeli society), nor the state to repress the Palestinians is a dictatorship, but the only democracy in the Middle East, a democracy where, incidentally, every day there are demonstrations against the blockade of Gaza and against the government of Netanyahu and nothing happens, a democracy where Muslims can go to college, to benefit public health, to be members of Parliament ... The pairing of black and white photographs and color is extremely efficient from the standpoint of propaganda, but it is absolutely false and in no way help resolve the conflict. Rather I am convinced that the less informed poison, which will conclude that today the Israelis actually behave like the Germans in 1939. If that was the goal of the dissemination of these photographs paired (drag to the spirits less critical by the most thoughtless), the authors of the assembly receive my congratulations saddened.
Another element that bothers me the anti-Israeli campaign. According to the documents I've read or referred to, the sequence is as follows: some Islamists are trying to break the naval blockade of Gaza, since they have declared humanitarian intentions, they are offered a way (the port of Ashdod and a land crossing) to deliver food and other humanitarian aid so that both parties can certify, but they refuse, because in private, as well as singing in chorus the extermination of the Jews, have expressed their desire to break the lock or die as martyrs and go to paradise rights houris; unarmed Israeli soldiers boarded the ships (in international law, it is arguable that Israel has no right to do so and several internationalists have already positioned themselves for the approach) and the radicals beat up and stabbed until the soldiers pulls out and defend themselves, killing several of them continued to act triggered an international campaign against Israel in the context of which the English left is particularly combative.
And I wonder: where was the English left a few weeks ago, when Maoist terrorists killed 150 people on a train in India? Why no demonstrations? I wonder again: what was said when the English left behind some of the numerous executions of adulterers, homosexuals, Christians or democrats in Iran and other Islamic countries? Also: why the left English-the same that supported Judge Garzon's crusade against a dead dictator for thirty-five years has not ever said against the proven, effective daily and repression of the Castro regime against the most basic rights and freedoms of Cubans?
The questions are rhetorical, because I have the answer. The reason is that the English left, just like the English right and honorable exceptions-that is, it is extremely sectarian and prefers to cling to their prejudices and mythologies rather than face a reality that would divide up their deepest convictions. And so we look hair. Sectarian manipulations as I attached powerpoint serve no positive. The nuances, in which the Arab-Israeli conflict abounds, are necessary for understanding, and match one of the warring parties with the Nazi regime is less nuanced than I think.
proof that Israelis are not monsters hungry for death that yesterday Rachel Corrie was taken without shedding any blood, because, unlike the Mavi Marmara , did not travel aboard a rather radical organized to provoke confrontation. No doubt the Israelis are not going to shake his hand to defend their interests, and they will always understand that this guarantee defense, and indeed must be claimed responsibility for every crime and every abuse they commit. But comparing the Holocaust with Israel's fight against Hamas is, frankly, not telling the truth or ignore it. The State of Israel will or will not be right in their positions, but in no way comparable to the feudal hordes of Hamas and, of course, Hitler's Germany. Comparing them is lying and deprived of any right to those who do. I repeat: I never understood that the English left (as secular, as an advocate for minority rights) is very sensitive to violence collateral (if I may discredited term) engaged the Israelis in Palestine and, instead, is shown as tolerant and respectful of cultures in a non-collateral, but legal and exemplary, sealing the anus of homosexuals, stoning women for disobeying the brother who sells them and consider them unclean by menstruation, a left as critical of the walls of Gaza, and yet so inclined to Alliance of Civilizations with infamous medieval tyrants whose country is not that Christians or Jews can not go to college or to Parliament, no, is that there are because their services are prohibited, I have been killed or have fled. What strange fetish satisfied Islam to the English left, who daily forgives him a hundred times more violence than all that Israel can not forgive? Is the mark of anti-Western than it prestige in their eyes? Is that a speech so silly, so very lacking in nuance and, therefore, as harmful as aliquot and should receive some attention from us? I think not, so I will try to remain anti-Zionist, not Jewish, but not anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic, that then becomes what happens and will continue to happen, at least, several decades.
Finally, L ***, it says: a pleasure to hear from you although we disagree. A hug to you and everyone. Digital Journalist. The Balearic Lighthouse .
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Wording For Phantom Of The Opera Invitations
I can not sign for
Receipt of these invitations Avaaz.org. This campaign has 150,000 signatures "demanding to ensure the independence of the judiciary and respect for the laws applicable in the case against Judge Garzon, signatures will be delivered in the day in the Supreme Court and the Supreme Judicial Council . I have replied to the sender the following paragraphs, which summarize my position on this sad case.
------ Dear Luis (and co-Avaaz):
presented the case as if Garzon was the victim of an arbitrary perpetrated for ideological reasons. Nothing is further from the truth.
is not true that, as they say, international law aside the Human Rights Act 1977 amnesty. At that time Spain had not ratified any treaty or convention that obliges the state to prosecute those crimes, so that the amnesty law was perfectly valid at the time and extinguished the corresponding criminal liability. The Constitution, moreover, provides arguments against the repeal of the Amnesty Law, Article 9.3 provides the non-retroactivity of punitive provisions are not favorable or restrictive of individual rights. The Constitutional Court has never doubted the constitutionality of the amnesty law, which still is valid for all purposes under views and opinions. English all the signs were the generous amnesty law as an end to war and dictatorship. A law which, incidentally, was in his day with the congratulations of people suspected of sympathy as little as Santiago Carrillo Franco and allowed direct his life in a democracy to former criminals on both sides. Nobody is going to justify the crimes of war and the Franco regime, but in the transition we found an instrument of mutual forgiveness Spain has brought very positive results.
anyway If not, Garzón not be the only judge to be perceived. Missing Garzon, the judicial system will provide an alternate process may continue open. Forgive me, but suggest that it Garzon suspended to prevent the investigation of the plot Gürtel insults the intelligence of the citizens.
The truth is that Judge Garzon has to ride roughshod law. There is no crime worse than that committed by those who, having committed to enforcing the law, knowingly violate them. It is called transgression, and if there does not matter who has said a group of right-wing, ultra-left group or association stamp. Transgression will be or not according to objective criteria, not ideological. Personally I think Garzón has done great services to Spain, but also that it has been thought over of law and decorum. Order the death certificate of Francisco Franco was just the funniest episode of madness.
Moreover, there is nothing more undemocratic than questioning the legitimacy of the institutions if their actions do not match our vision of things, and pretend that a popular change the course of a judicial process is simply a coup. The rule of law requires, precisely, that the law is enforced even when we do not like the consequences. So sometimes an ETA is free that no one understands that it is free, but if we are a democracy, laws must be fulfilled in all cases. With an ETA or a judge Franco. In fact, items footnotes of your message may add hundreds of articles by experts who claim processing impeccable judge. In any case, democracy does not consist in the fact that everyone thinks of what you do not understand, but that all institutions abide by what we found that among all handed down on what is in its strict knowledge and competence. The asamblearismo is never democratic. One million persons charged sentimental reasons but ignorant of the law demonstrated outside the door of the Supreme Court would not change one iota the legitimacy of this or the truth of his statements.
will understand that it can not sign or spread your proposal. It seems a step in the drift guerracivilista our politicians, especially those on the left, have undertaken since our foolish president of government was determined to return to 1936. There are crises and corruption that impairs our democracy, because both can fight from strong institutions, is the weakness of institutions and our immaturity as a nation which puts us on the brink of banana republic, and the crisis and corruption are largely consequences. A great demonstration of that immaturity is precisely the systematic questioning of the highest courts in recent years by individuals and institutions with varied ideological reasons (Where statute, case Garzón).
I can not sign and, moreover, I urge you to reconsider and withdraw the initiative, if you care more about peace and justice than revenge.
Best Regards. Digital Journalist .
Receipt of these invitations Avaaz.org. This campaign has 150,000 signatures "demanding to ensure the independence of the judiciary and respect for the laws applicable in the case against Judge Garzon, signatures will be delivered in the day in the Supreme Court and the Supreme Judicial Council . I have replied to the sender the following paragraphs, which summarize my position on this sad case.
------ Dear Luis (and co-Avaaz):
presented the case as if Garzon was the victim of an arbitrary perpetrated for ideological reasons. Nothing is further from the truth.
is not true that, as they say, international law aside the Human Rights Act 1977 amnesty. At that time Spain had not ratified any treaty or convention that obliges the state to prosecute those crimes, so that the amnesty law was perfectly valid at the time and extinguished the corresponding criminal liability. The Constitution, moreover, provides arguments against the repeal of the Amnesty Law, Article 9.3 provides the non-retroactivity of punitive provisions are not favorable or restrictive of individual rights. The Constitutional Court has never doubted the constitutionality of the amnesty law, which still is valid for all purposes under views and opinions. English all the signs were the generous amnesty law as an end to war and dictatorship. A law which, incidentally, was in his day with the congratulations of people suspected of sympathy as little as Santiago Carrillo Franco and allowed direct his life in a democracy to former criminals on both sides. Nobody is going to justify the crimes of war and the Franco regime, but in the transition we found an instrument of mutual forgiveness Spain has brought very positive results.
anyway If not, Garzón not be the only judge to be perceived. Missing Garzon, the judicial system will provide an alternate process may continue open. Forgive me, but suggest that it Garzon suspended to prevent the investigation of the plot Gürtel insults the intelligence of the citizens.
The truth is that Judge Garzon has to ride roughshod law. There is no crime worse than that committed by those who, having committed to enforcing the law, knowingly violate them. It is called transgression, and if there does not matter who has said a group of right-wing, ultra-left group or association stamp. Transgression will be or not according to objective criteria, not ideological. Personally I think Garzón has done great services to Spain, but also that it has been thought over of law and decorum. Order the death certificate of Francisco Franco was just the funniest episode of madness.
Moreover, there is nothing more undemocratic than questioning the legitimacy of the institutions if their actions do not match our vision of things, and pretend that a popular change the course of a judicial process is simply a coup. The rule of law requires, precisely, that the law is enforced even when we do not like the consequences. So sometimes an ETA is free that no one understands that it is free, but if we are a democracy, laws must be fulfilled in all cases. With an ETA or a judge Franco. In fact, items footnotes of your message may add hundreds of articles by experts who claim processing impeccable judge. In any case, democracy does not consist in the fact that everyone thinks of what you do not understand, but that all institutions abide by what we found that among all handed down on what is in its strict knowledge and competence. The asamblearismo is never democratic. One million persons charged sentimental reasons but ignorant of the law demonstrated outside the door of the Supreme Court would not change one iota the legitimacy of this or the truth of his statements.
will understand that it can not sign or spread your proposal. It seems a step in the drift guerracivilista our politicians, especially those on the left, have undertaken since our foolish president of government was determined to return to 1936. There are crises and corruption that impairs our democracy, because both can fight from strong institutions, is the weakness of institutions and our immaturity as a nation which puts us on the brink of banana republic, and the crisis and corruption are largely consequences. A great demonstration of that immaturity is precisely the systematic questioning of the highest courts in recent years by individuals and institutions with varied ideological reasons (Where statute, case Garzón).
I can not sign and, moreover, I urge you to reconsider and withdraw the initiative, if you care more about peace and justice than revenge.
Best Regards. Digital Journalist .
Friday, March 5, 2010
Red And White Diet Pills From Brazil
Garzón against the fascists, more freedom
Facebook I announced in my next visit to Palma Rosa Díez: Thursday 11 give a lecture at the Club Opinion Diario de Mallorca and Friday 12 make a statement about political corruption doors Parlament de les Illes Balears. A friend in the network, one of those who call themselves progressive and do not understand the essential freedoms that applied to the good, but not to bad, he writes in the comments a question: "Will you give a lecture at the Casa Gallega?" referring to some absurd and interested controversy around some words of Rosa that any child at the breast without ill faith and without manipulation would have understood in the right direction.
But no. I have answered that the conference would give Rosa today in the Faculty of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and some "students" nationalists have popped it, she and the students who wanted to hear, with an incredible violence. How would that have had to give the video on the news of Antena 3, Cuatro, Telecinco and La Sexta, normally do not talk about Rosa Díez even if they are paid. I wonder will he condemn the Galician Parliament this fact or is reserved for colloquial expressions out of context? "Condemn the violence if instead of pointing fingers Rosa as a gun she had been called" Basque in the pejorative sense? Do we condemn the perpetrators of Roberto Blanco Valdés, who plant bombs at the door of his house in Santiago to defend freedom? Games progressives can see the video and follow horny, because it is very funny to see how buffeted by Rosa and his companions and threw red paint, how to fly paper in its path, how threaten it, as clubbing and dented his car to break the headlights. Hilarious. May continue to comment on stories taken out of context, by pandering to the only political leader to put in place to demagogues. That should be a lot smarter and more courageous to stand up for freedom of expression. For what concerns me in this particular debate, I'm with Rosa Diez and Roberto Blanco Valdés, whose serenity lesson I would be worthy, I'm with freedom, with the future of my children, with those who fight for can not be citizens first and second, citizens can voice their ideas peacefully, and citizens who have to leave escorted to a room called academic shameful that some people consider their ideas violence prosecuted with impunity while others look away. And I'm not the fascists, but even with those who look the other way, much less with those who laugh at the joke. There are jokes that are not funny. Digital Journalist. Libertad Balear .
Facebook I announced in my next visit to Palma Rosa Díez: Thursday 11 give a lecture at the Club Opinion Diario de Mallorca and Friday 12 make a statement about political corruption doors Parlament de les Illes Balears. A friend in the network, one of those who call themselves progressive and do not understand the essential freedoms that applied to the good, but not to bad, he writes in the comments a question: "Will you give a lecture at the Casa Gallega?" referring to some absurd and interested controversy around some words of Rosa that any child at the breast without ill faith and without manipulation would have understood in the right direction.
But no. I have answered that the conference would give Rosa today in the Faculty of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and some "students" nationalists have popped it, she and the students who wanted to hear, with an incredible violence. How would that have had to give the video on the news of Antena 3, Cuatro, Telecinco and La Sexta, normally do not talk about Rosa Díez even if they are paid. I wonder will he condemn the Galician Parliament this fact or is reserved for colloquial expressions out of context? "Condemn the violence if instead of pointing fingers Rosa as a gun she had been called" Basque in the pejorative sense? Do we condemn the perpetrators of Roberto Blanco Valdés, who plant bombs at the door of his house in Santiago to defend freedom? Games progressives can see the video and follow horny, because it is very funny to see how buffeted by Rosa and his companions and threw red paint, how to fly paper in its path, how threaten it, as clubbing and dented his car to break the headlights. Hilarious. May continue to comment on stories taken out of context, by pandering to the only political leader to put in place to demagogues. That should be a lot smarter and more courageous to stand up for freedom of expression. For what concerns me in this particular debate, I'm with Rosa Diez and Roberto Blanco Valdés, whose serenity lesson I would be worthy, I'm with freedom, with the future of my children, with those who fight for can not be citizens first and second, citizens can voice their ideas peacefully, and citizens who have to leave escorted to a room called academic shameful that some people consider their ideas violence prosecuted with impunity while others look away. And I'm not the fascists, but even with those who look the other way, much less with those who laugh at the joke. There are jokes that are not funny. Digital Journalist. Libertad Balear .
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