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Les médias palestiniens ont annoncé dimanche que les forces israéliennes ont distribué des bonbons portant des messages politiques contre le Hamas dans les villes de toute la Cisjordanie.
 
 Selon l’agence de presse Maan, les Palestiniens de Ramallah et Naplouse ont été surpris de découvrir le premier jour de Ramadan des sucettes avec une note en arabe  « Joyeux Ramadan, un peu de douceur après que le Hamas a rendu la vie amère en Cisjordanie ». « L’utilisation erronée du mot arabe pour « amer » – marmarat, plutôt que jaalat mor – a amené les Palestiniens à la conclusion avec quasi-certitude que le message avait une origine israélienne plutôt que palestinienne.
 
 « Après les avions et les chars, Israël utilise des bonbons dans sa guerre contre le Hamas », a titré Maan.
 
 Safa, une agence de presse liée au Hamas, a indiqué que des boîtes d’allumettes avaient été distribuées il y a quatre jours par l’armée israélienne, avec un morceau de papier sur lequel était écrit : « Attention ! Le Hamas est en train de mettre la Cisjordanie à feu ».
 
Ce n’est pas la première fois l’armée israélienne utilise la guerre psychologique dans sa lutte contre le Hamas. Au cours de l’opération Plomb durci à Gaza en 2008-2009, l’unité de guerre psychologique de l’armée (connue sous son acronyme hébreu Malat) a lancé des centaines de brochures dénigrant les capacités de combat du Hamas et a pris le contrôle des médias du Hamas pour diffuser des messages israéliens.
 

 « Votre mort est proche ; vous n’avez aucune chance contre les unités spéciales de l’armée israélienne et ses armes. Vos dirigeants ont fui et vous abandonné seuls sur le terrain », pouvait-on lire dans ces brochures en arabe.
 
 Un officier de l’armée israélienne à la retraite qui a participé à la création d’un comité de la guerre psychologique en Cisjordanie au cours de la première Intifada en 1987 était sceptique quant à l’efficacité de ces messages simplistes imprimés sur les sucettes et les boîtes d’allumettes.
 

 « Je pense que cela reflète la pensée occidentale dans une société orientale », a déclaré l’officier, qui a parlé au Times of Israel sous condition d’anonymat par fidélité à son ancien poste. « Nul doute que ça fait les grands titres des journaux. Peut-être que cela donne aux Israéliens l’impression d’une guerre psychologique efficace. Je préfère des méthodes différentes. »
 
 Ces « méthodes différentes », dit-il, pourraient inclure des messages diffusés par des brochures et en ligne.
 
 Parralèlement, Samih Hammoudah, un professeur de sciences politiques à l’université de Bir Zeit, a déclaré que les messages de sucettes israéliens risquent de se retourner contre leurs auteurs.
 
 « C’est un non-sens ; cela n’apportera rien à Israël », a déclaré Hammoudah au Times of Israel
 
 « Au contraire, il va provoquer une réaction de sympathie envers le Hamas. Les Palestiniens sont en colère contre la politique israélienne et seront du côté de ceux qui se dressent contre Israël. »
 

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Yesterday, Israeli defence minister and former Israeli Defence Force (IDF) chief of staff Moshe Ya'alon announced that Operation Protective Edge marks the beginning of a protracted assault on Hamas. The operation "won't end in just a few days," he said, adding that "we are preparing to expand the operation by all means standing at our disposal so as to continue striking Hamas."
 
This morning, he said:
 
"We continue with strikes that draw a very heavy price from Hamas. We are destroying weapons, terror infrastructures, command and control systems, Hamas institutions, regime buildings, the houses of terrorists, and killing terrorists of various ranks of command… The campaign against Hamas will expand in the coming days, and the price the organization will pay will be very heavy."
 
But in 2007, a year before Operation Cast Lead, Ya'alon's concerns focused on the 1.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas discovered in 2000 off the Gaza coast, valued at $4 billion. Ya'alon dismissed the notion that "Gaza gas can be a key driver of an economically more viable Palestinian state" as "misguided." The problem, he said, is that:  
 
"Proceeds of a Palestinian gas sale to Israel would likely not trickle down to help an impoverished Palestinian public. Rather, based on Israel's past experience, the proceeds will likely serve to fund further terror attacks against Israel…  
 
A gas transaction with the Palestinian Authority [PA] will, by definition, involve Hamas. Hamas will either benefit from the royalties or it will sabotage the project and launch attacks against Fatah, the gas installations, Israel – or all three… It is clear that without an overall military operation to uproot Hamas control of Gaza, no drilling work can take place without the consent of the radical Islamic movement."
 
Operation Cast Lead did not succeed in uprooting Hamas, but the conflict did take the lives of 1,387 Palestinians (773 of whom were civilians) and 9 Israelis (3 of whom were civilians).
 
Since the discovery of oil and gas in the Occupied Territories, resource competition has increasingly been at the heart of the conflict, motivated largely by Israel's increasing domestic energy woes.  
 
Mark Turner, founder of the Research Journalism Initiative, reported that the siege of Gaza and ensuing military pressure was designed to "eliminate" Hamas as "a viable political entity in Gaza" to generate a "political climate" conducive to a gas deal. This involved rehabilitating the defeated Fatah as the dominant political player in the West Bank, and "leveraging political tensions between the two parties, arming forces loyal to Abbas and the selective resumption of financial aid."
 
Ya'alon's comments in 2007 illustrate that the Israeli cabinet is not just concerned about Hamas – but concerned that if Palestinians develop their own gas resources, the resulting economic transformation could in turn fundamentally increase Palestinian clout.
 
Meanwhile, Israel has made successive major discoveries in recent years - such as the Leviathan field estimated to hold 18 trillion cubic feet of natural gas – which could transform the country from energy importer into aspiring energy exporter with ambitions to supply Europe, Jordan and Egypt. A potential obstacle is that much of the 122 trillion cubic feet of gas and 1.6 billion barrels of oil in the Levant Basin Province lies in territorial waters where borders are hotly disputed between Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Cyprus.
 
Amidst this regional jockeying for gas, though, Israel faces its own little-understood energy challenges. It could, for instance, take until 2020 for much of these domestic resources to be properly mobilised.
 
 
 
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According to Anais Antreasyan in the University of California's Journal of Palestine Studies, the most respected English language journal devoted to the Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel's stranglehold over Gaza has been designed to make "Palestinian access to the Marine-1 and Marine-2 gas wells impossible." Israel's long-term goal "besides preventing the Palestinians from exploiting their own resources, is to integrate the gas fields off Gaza into the adjacent Israeli offshore installations." This is part of a wider strategy of:  
 
"…. separating the Palestinians from their land and natural resources in order to exploit them, and, as a consequence, blocking Palestinian economic development. Despite all formal agreements to the contrary, Israel continues to manage all the natural resources nominally under the jurisdiction of the PA, from land and water to maritime and hydrocarbon resources."
 
For the Israeli government, Hamas continues to be the main obstacle to the finalisation of the gas deal. In the incumbent defence minister's words: "Israel's experience during the Oslo years indicates Palestinian gas profits would likely end up funding terrorism against Israel. The threat is not limited to Hamas… It is impossible to prevent at least some of the gas proceeds from reaching Palestinian terror groups."
 
The only option, therefore, is yet another "military operation to uproot Hamas."
 
Unfortunately, for the IDF uprooting Hamas means destroying the group's perceived civilian support base – which is why Palestinian civilian casualties massively outweigh that of Israelis. Both are obviously reprehensible, but Israel's capacity to inflict destruction is simply far greater.
 
In the wake of Operation Cast Lead, the Jerusalem-based Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (Pcati) found that the IDF had adopted a more aggressive combat doctrine based on two principles – "zero casualties" for IDF soldiers at the cost of deploying increasingly indiscriminate firepower in densely populated areas, and the "dahiya doctrine" promoting targeting of civilian infrastructure to create widespread suffering amongst the population with a view to foment opposition to Israel's opponents.
 
This was confirmed in practice by the UN fact-finding mission in Gaza which concluded that the IDF had pursued a "deliberate policy of disproportionate force," aimed at the "supporting infrastructure" of the enemy - "this appears to have meant the civilian population," said the UN report.

Sauf annulation de dernière minute par la municipalité de Tel-Aviv en cas de dégradation de la situation, le bal populaire, organisé à l’occasion de la fête nationale française et en solidarité avec les populations du sud, aura lieu comme prévu  
 
Nous vous invitons donc au défilé de la fanfare sur le boulevard Rothschild à partir de 19h30 au coin des rues Sheinkin/Rothschild, et à partir de 20h sur la place en face de l’Institut français.  
 
Ce bal sera dédié aux populations du sud d’Israël, qui font face depuis de nombreux jours à des tirs de roquettes extrêmement fréquents.

hird, the French government has demonstrated its absolute determination to fight anti-Semitism by every conceivable means. As President François Hollande put it in simple terms recently: “The French government will tolerate nothing” when it comes to hatred.
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The No. 1 priority is to ensure the physical security of the Jewish community through the protection of schools and places of worship. We are using the full extent of French laws that prohibit all forms of anti-Semitic expression and Holocaust denial. In January, French courts upheld the decision by the government to ban a series of performances by a so-called comic, Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, with clear anti-Semitic undertones.  
 
We are also opening new fronts in cyberspace. Last year, we negotiated an agreement with Twitter to remove illegal content and anti-Semitic hashtags.
 
Another key priority is education, to continue the long-term decrease in anti-Semitic prejudices. The teaching of Holocaust history, in particular, is compulsory in primary, middle and high schools.  
 
On the international front, France is leading efforts to fight terrorism and fanaticism. In Africa, our forces crushed Al Qaeda in northern Mali. In the Middle East, we have joined forces with the United States on current conflicts, such as the one in Syria, that have attract jihadists who might return home and perpetrate anti-Semitic crimes.  
 
In that multi-front campaign against anti-Semitism, the key is working with all possible partners, in particular the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions, an umbrella organization. As its president, Roger Cukierman, also a vice president of the World Jewish Congress, recently underscored in New York City, the French government is firmly standing by the country’s Jews. Our partnerships with anti-racist groups and American Jewish organizations are also growing stronger every year.

Diversity is a point of pride for France, but it comes with challenges, especially in times of hardship. The crisis that hit Europe in 2008 was accompanied by a rise of extreme-right populism and tensions among populations of different origins, including communities originating from North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

Sinon tu connais Gaza ? c'est 300m² avec une densité d'habitants au m² parmi les plus élevées au monde.