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LeMonde
2 days ago
- Politics
- LeMonde
Israeli writer Etgar Keret: 'The war in Gaza must stop now'
The war in Gaza must stop now. It should have ended over a year ago, in the early months of the war, when there was an offer for a comprehensive hostage deal on Netanyahu's desk. Stopping the war will put an end to the daily killing and starvation of Gazans, and bring the Israeli hostages home. All polls show that an overwhelming majority of Israelis support a permanent ceasefire. And they're not the only ones. The whole world appears to want an end to this horror: from Europe and the U.S., to Australia and China, people see the famine and death in Gaza and they want it over. But Netanyahu is staying the course. After promising his voters fifteen months ago that he was "a mere step from total victory," he is now leading us toward what some members of his messianic government ecstatically call "eternal war." The war in Gaza must stop now. As he continues to drag Israel into committing war crimes in the name of democracy, Netanyahu has seized international attention, but as far as he's concerned, everyone can keep barking. From mass protests on Israeli streets to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the voices of opposition seem powerless to stop the crimes and injustices. When the minister of defense, the chief of staff, the director of security service, and the Supreme Court of Israel, as well as every head of state in Europe, demand a plan or an explanation, there's always an easy solution: the ministers and the generals and the directors can be fired, and the European leaders can be told – as Netanyahu's own son so tactfully put it – to fuck off [in a message posted on the social network X addressed to Emmanuel Macron, after France recognized the State of Palestine].
Middle East Eye
04-08-2025
- Politics
- Middle East Eye
Israeli government votes to fire prosecutor in Netanyahu corruption case
The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voted unanimously on Monday to fire attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara, who is prosecuting him in a corruption case involving bribery, fraud and breach of trust. The Supreme Court of Israel immediately blocked the decision, and Baharav-Miara will keep her job until an appeals process concludes.
Calgary Herald
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Calgary Herald
What the world is getting wrong on Israel: An interview with Natasha Hausdorff
Natasha Hausdorff, the British barrister who has become an outspoken defender of Israel's legal rights on global news networks, warns that a 'vicious cycle of disinformation' — fuelled by media self-censorship and terrorist propaganda — has warped the world's understanding of the Gaza conflict, and put Jewish lives at risk. Article content More notably, the expert in international law has popularized one such law, Uti possidetis juris. It states that newly formed sovereign countries should retain the borders that their preceding area had before their independence. Therefore, at the time Israel declared itself a state, Mandatory Palestine – which included what today is known as Israel, Judea and Samaria (a.k.a. the West Bank) and Gaza – would by law be legal territorial boundaries of Israel. It is a lynchpin argument, she believes, against the charges of 'illegal occupation' and 'illegal settlements.' Article content Article content Article content She regularly briefs politicians and international organizations and has spoken at parliaments across Europe. Article content Article content After her law degree at Oxford University, she clerked for the president of the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem in 2016. In 2018, Hausdorff was a Fellow at Columbia Law School in the National Security Law Program. Article content Dave Gordon interviewed Hausdorff prior to a talk she delivered at Toronto's Nova Exhibition on June 12, hosted by StandWithUs Canada. Article content I can fully appreciate that Israel's official stance is constrained by diplomatic operations and political pressures. It's a rule that applies automatically, whatever Israel says about the situation. Article content There are other examples of Israel not standing on ceremony, as far as international law is concerned. One of those relates to Egypt's obligation to open the border to Palestinian civilians, fleeing civil disorder in Gaza. That's in accordance with Egypt's obligation under the Organization of African Unity Convention on (governing the specific aspect of) Refugees, which it signed in 1980. Article content Article content This is a convention that has a much broader definition of refugee than the international convention. Nobody has been calling on Egypt to open the border from October 2023. But Israel can't pressure (that), because Egypt threatened to tear up the peace agreement with Israel. Article content If the BBC were reporting from North Korea, there would be some indication somewhere that we are not free to report without censorship — controlled in what we're able to say by the regime. I have not seen a single piece of reporting from Gaza that has acknowledged that: nothing comes out of the Gaza Strip that is not controlled by Hamas.
Ottawa Citizen
21-06-2025
- Politics
- Ottawa Citizen
What the world is getting wrong on Israel: An interview with Natasha Hausdorff
Article content Natasha Hausdorff, the British barrister who has become an outspoken defender of Israel's legal rights on global news networks, warns that a 'vicious cycle of disinformation' — fuelled by media self-censorship and terrorist propaganda — has warped the world's understanding of the Gaza conflict, and put Jewish lives at risk. Article content More notably, the expert in international law has popularized one such law, Uti possidetis juris. It states that newly formed sovereign countries should retain the borders that their preceding area had before their independence. Therefore, at the time Israel declared itself a state, Mandatory Palestine – which included what today is known as Israel, Judea and Samaria (a.k.a. the West Bank) and Gaza – would by law be legal territorial boundaries of Israel. It is a lynchpin argument, she believes, against the charges of 'illegal occupation' and 'illegal settlements.' Article content Article content Article content She regularly briefs politicians and international organizations and has spoken at parliaments across Europe. Article content Article content After her law degree at Oxford University, she clerked for the president of the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem in 2016. In 2018, Hausdorff was a Fellow at Columbia Law School in the National Security Law Program. Article content Dave Gordon interviewed Hausdorff prior to a talk she delivered at Toronto's Nova Exhibition on June 12, hosted by StandWithUs Canada. Article content I can fully appreciate that Israel's official stance is constrained by diplomatic operations and political pressures. It's a rule that applies automatically, whatever Israel says about the situation. Article content There are other examples of Israel not standing on ceremony, as far as international law is concerned. One of those relates to Egypt's obligation to open the border to Palestinian civilians, fleeing civil disorder in Gaza. That's in accordance with Egypt's obligation under the Organization of African Unity Convention on (governing the specific aspect of) Refugees, which it signed in 1980. Article content Article content This is a convention that has a much broader definition of refugee than the international convention. Nobody has been calling on Egypt to open the border from October 2023. But Israel can't pressure (that), because Egypt threatened to tear up the peace agreement with Israel. Article content If the BBC were reporting from North Korea, there would be some indication somewhere that we are not free to report without censorship — controlled in what we're able to say by the regime. I have not seen a single piece of reporting from Gaza that has acknowledged that: nothing comes out of the Gaza Strip that is not controlled by Hamas.
LeMonde
13-06-2025
- LeMonde
Two Jewish sisters' fight to honor the couple who hid them during the Holocaust
Arlette Testyler often says she was born twice. First in 1933, in Paris, a year after her sister Madeleine. The second time was in Vendôme, in 1942. Their parents, Polish Jews, had come to France to work and start a family, believing they would be safe far from the pogroms already ravaging their homeland. In 1941, their father, Abraham Reiman, who had enlisted in the French army two years earlier, was arrested by the police after being summoned for an identity check. In 1942, he was deported and murdered at Auschwitz. On July 16, Arlette, her sister and their mother were also arrested by the French police and held in inhumane conditions at the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium in Paris during the mass round-up that led to the arrest of nearly 13,000 people. "It was Dante's inferno," she often says. They remained confined for three days before being transferred to the Beaune-la-Rolande camp, ahead of deportation to Poland. But, by a miracle unique to those tragic times, all three managed to escape and return to Paris before ending up in Vendôme, in central France, where many families had organized to hide Jewish children. It was there that Arlette and her sister found new life, hidden and saved, along with their mother. On Monday, June 16, the town will host a most unusual ceremony. Jeanne and Jean Philippeau, born in 1913 and 1910 and who died in 1992 and 1993, will be honored by the State of Israel. Both will receive the highly prestigious title of Righteous Among the Nations, awarded by the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem and the Supreme Court of Israel. The couple will be honored for saving the lives of the two girls as well as a boy, Simon Windland, now dead, "without any personal gain," as specified by the French Committee for Yad Vashem – a prerequisite for the award.
