Che cosa c'entra Elie Wiesel? (1) DUE PESI DUE MISURE
Secondo il noto "guru dell'Olocausto" Elie Wiesel, "le nazioni che
tacquero" durante l'Olocausto "dovrebbero star zitte anche adesso"
dinanzi al genocidio attuato contro il popolo palestinese dal governo
di Ariel Sharon. Vale a dire: la politica criminale del governo
israeliano non si puo' criticare.
Lo stesso personaggio, insignito del premio Nobel per la Pace nel
1986, e' stato invitato al "Tribunale" dell'Aia per i crimini commessi
sul territorio della ex-Jugoslavia a meta' dicembre 2002, con una
funzione evidentemente solo simbolica e mediatica. Elie Wiesel ha
partecipato volentieri al grande show auto-assolutorio sulla
Jugoslavia, organizzato dalla NATO all'Aia, puntando il dito
accusatore esclusivamente contro le dirigenze politiche serbe. I serbi
svolgono oggi infatti per l'opinione pubblica occidentale la stessa
funzione che gli ebrei svolsero per l'opinione pubblica tedesca sotto
il nazismo: quella dei capri espiatorii. Stavolta pero' Goebbels si
chiama Wiesel.
(I. Slavo)
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>
> An article appeared one month ago on December 17 in the Jerusalem
> Post (as seen below) where Elie Wiesel stated that "nothing can
> justify a crime against humanity" and that crimes against humanity
> are unpardonable. At the time, he was testifying from Paris at the
> trial of a Bosnian Serb political leader who was being tried before
> a UN court for "crimes against humanity", which included the
> following:
>
> "...forced transfer or deportation, unlawful detention and killing,
> cruel and inhumane treatment and inhumane conditions in detention
> facilities, destruction of cultural and sacred objects, plunder,
> wanton destruction, forced labor and use of human shields."
>
> Practically all of the above are exactly the crimes which Israel
> commits against the Palestinian people, yet Mr. Wiesel feels that
> these crimes are pardonable and justified as long as it is the state
> of Israel who is committing them. For this, Mr. Wiesel is a
> hypocrte of the worst kind who has no moral conscience and is
> certainly no humanist. His comments are unpardonable.
>
>
*********************************************************************
>
> Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel testifies at sentencing of former
> Bosnian Serb president
> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
> December 17,2002
>
>
> Elie Wiesel, who survived the horrors of Nazi death camps, told a UN
> court Monday crimes against humanity are unpardonable, and the
> sentence handed down against a Bosnian Serb political leader will
> set a standard for centuries.
>
> The Noble Peace laureate, testifying at a sentencing hearing by the
> UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, said the remorse
> expressed by Biljana Plavsic must be balanced against the suffering
> of hundreds of thousands of victims of "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia.
>
> Plavsic, once known as Bosnia's "iron lady," pleaded guilty to the
> persecution of Muslims and Croats during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. In
> exchange, prosecutors dropped seven other war crimes charges,
> including two counts of genocide.
>
> "If all the pain and suffering of all the victims were to be placed
> on one set of scales, how many years of prison would it take on the
> other to achieve justice?" Wiesel asked the three-judge panel who
> will hand down their sentence some time next year.
>
> "Nothing can justify a crime against humanity," he said, speaking by
> a live video link from Paris.
>
> Wiesel warned the judges their decision would "reverberate across
> national and ethnic borders ...(and) be studied and remembered far
> beyond frontiers and far across the centuries."
>
> Plavsic, 72, listened intently to Wiesel from the dock, with her
> head high, her lips pursed, and her jaw firmly set.
>
> Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Alex Boraine,
> former vice chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation
> Commission, were scheduled to testify later in the three-day
> hearing.
>
> Wiesel, a US citizen who grew up in Romania, won the Nobel Peace
> Prize in 1986.
>
> Plavsic, a wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was indicted for
> planning the purge of non-Serbs from Serb-dominated areas of Bosnia
> along with her friend Radovan Karadzic, who is now the tribunal's
> most wanted fugitive.
>
> But Plavsic, who had been a biology professor before the war, broke
> with Karadzic and became a key figure in implementing the 1995
> Dayton peace agreement that ended the bloodiest conflict in Europe
> since World War II.
>
> Plavsic was president of the Serb region of Bosnia created under the
> Dayton plan, in 1996-1998, and became friends with Albright while
she
> was touring the region.
>
> After Wiesel testified, Plavsic's lawyer Eugene O'Sullivan called
> Milorad Dodik, a former prime minister of the Bosnian Serb republic,
> to testify that Plavsic had risked her political career to save the
> Dayton agreement in early 1998 by dissolving parliament and calling
> for early elections.
>
> Plavsic, the only woman among more than 100 men indicted by the
> tribunal, faces possible life imprisonment. The UN tribunal does not
> issue death sentences.
>
> In changing her plea in October, she acknowledged
> responsibility for the crimes listed in the indictment,
> including "forced transfer or deportation, unlawful detention and
> killing, cruel and inhumane treatment and inhumane conditions in
> detention facilities, destruction of cultural and sacred objects,
> plunder, wanton destruction, forced labor and use of human shields."
>
> At the time, Plavsic "fully and unconditionally"
> expressed remorse in a written statement and said she hoped it
> would "offer some consolation to the innocent victims - Muslim,
Croat
> and Serb."
>
> In an interview published Sunday in Belgrade, she denied she had
> struck a deal with prosecutors to receive a reduced sentence in
> exchange for her guilty plea, and rejected speculation she had
> agreed to testify against former Yugoslav President Slobodan
> Milosevic, the tribunal's highest ranking defendant. Milosevic is
> being tried separately on war crimes charges in Croatia, Bosnia and
> Kosovo.
>
> "What's a 10-year sentence to me? It is the same as a life in
> prison," she told a reporter for Politika during her flight from
> Belgrade to The Hague on Saturday. "My only condition was that I
> don't testify in other cases."
>
> UNchief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte told the court in opening remarks
> that Plavsic's admission of guilt was an "important step" toward
> establishing the truth about atrocities committed by Serb forces in
> a war where over 200,000 Bosnians died.
>
> O'Sullivan urged the court to consider several mitigating factors,
> including her voluntary surrender for trial, her guilty plea, and
> her remorse.
>
> Plavsic gave herself up immediately after her secret indictment was
> unsealed in January 2001. For nine months, she was kept in a special
> wing of the UN detention unit separate from male detainees.
>
> She was then released under her own recognizance and allowed to
> await her trial at home. Last October, she was allowed to change her
> plea by video linkup from Belgrade.
>
> Presiding judge Richard May cautioned her that her provisional
> freedom was no indication of leniency when it came to sentencing.
>
> Sentences have ranged from 5 years to 40 years in other cases at the
> tribunal where suspects have pleaded guilty.
>
> http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?
> pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull%26cid=1040011601060
>
>
>
>
> --- In This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Hanini <Hanini@c...> wrote:
> >
> > Elie Weisel says world has no right to criticize Israel
> >
> > Occupied Jerusalem: 16 January, 2003 (IAP News)
> >
> > Elie Weisel, a fervent defender of Israeli oppressive measures
> > against the Palestinian people, has criticized the modest
> > international efforts
> > aimed at protecting the defenseless Palestinian people from
> > Israel's American-supplied death machine.
> >
> > In an interview published in the latest issue of the Jewish
> > magazine, Tikkun, Weisel, who markets himself as a "humanist,
> > moralist, and universalist," was quoted as saying that " the
> > nations that kept silent
> > during the holocaust ought to keep silent now as well."
> >
> > Weisel added that the international community had no right to
> > judge Israeli irrespective of what Israel is doing to the
> > Palestinians.
> >
> > "The world that then condemned itself by its silence has lost all
> > right to judge Israel now."
> >
> > Weisel has constantly and consistently defended Israel's Nazi-like
> > repression of the Palestinians, suggesting that this was necessary
> > for Israel's survival.
> >
> > Many Jewish intellectuals around the world have castigated the
> > present Israeli rampage of murder and terror against Palestinian
> > population centers.
> >
> >
> >
> > Mike..." A seed in the Fruit of Palestine"
> >
> > http://www.pcwf.org/ The link to the website of Palestine
> > Children's Welfare Fund
> >
> > Click to buy Palestinian embroidery online, sponsor a Palestinian
> > child, buy a flag or a Kuffiya to feed one, or donate books for
> > the children of the refugee camps and BirZeit University.
> >
> > "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity,"
> > ,Horace Mann " We can not educate for freedom with methods of
> > slavery."Horace Mann
> >
> > STOP the Occupation NOW ! NO SETTLEMENTS =NOSETTLERS=PEACE...Human
> > RIGHTS are for all NOT just the "chosen few"...
>
>
>
> West Bank and Gaza Emergency Relief Fund:
> http://al-awda.org/wb_fund.htm
> Write your representative today!:
> http://congress.cfl-online.org
> =================================================================
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> FREEZE AID TO ISRAEL NOW!!
> Sign the protest letter online at:
> http://al-awda.org/terminate_aid_petition.htm
> =================================================================
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Secondo il noto "guru dell'Olocausto" Elie Wiesel, "le nazioni che
tacquero" durante l'Olocausto "dovrebbero star zitte anche adesso"
dinanzi al genocidio attuato contro il popolo palestinese dal governo
di Ariel Sharon. Vale a dire: la politica criminale del governo
israeliano non si puo' criticare.
Lo stesso personaggio, insignito del premio Nobel per la Pace nel
1986, e' stato invitato al "Tribunale" dell'Aia per i crimini commessi
sul territorio della ex-Jugoslavia a meta' dicembre 2002, con una
funzione evidentemente solo simbolica e mediatica. Elie Wiesel ha
partecipato volentieri al grande show auto-assolutorio sulla
Jugoslavia, organizzato dalla NATO all'Aia, puntando il dito
accusatore esclusivamente contro le dirigenze politiche serbe. I serbi
svolgono oggi infatti per l'opinione pubblica occidentale la stessa
funzione che gli ebrei svolsero per l'opinione pubblica tedesca sotto
il nazismo: quella dei capri espiatorii. Stavolta pero' Goebbels si
chiama Wiesel.
(I. Slavo)
----- Original Message -----
From: <falasteensadiqa04@...>
To: <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 12:39 AM
Subject: [AL-AWDA] Re: Elie Weisel says world has no right to
criticize Israel
>
> An article appeared one month ago on December 17 in the Jerusalem
> Post (as seen below) where Elie Wiesel stated that "nothing can
> justify a crime against humanity" and that crimes against humanity
> are unpardonable. At the time, he was testifying from Paris at the
> trial of a Bosnian Serb political leader who was being tried before
> a UN court for "crimes against humanity", which included the
> following:
>
> "...forced transfer or deportation, unlawful detention and killing,
> cruel and inhumane treatment and inhumane conditions in detention
> facilities, destruction of cultural and sacred objects, plunder,
> wanton destruction, forced labor and use of human shields."
>
> Practically all of the above are exactly the crimes which Israel
> commits against the Palestinian people, yet Mr. Wiesel feels that
> these crimes are pardonable and justified as long as it is the state
> of Israel who is committing them. For this, Mr. Wiesel is a
> hypocrte of the worst kind who has no moral conscience and is
> certainly no humanist. His comments are unpardonable.
>
>
*********************************************************************
>
> Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel testifies at sentencing of former
> Bosnian Serb president
> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
> December 17,2002
>
>
> Elie Wiesel, who survived the horrors of Nazi death camps, told a UN
> court Monday crimes against humanity are unpardonable, and the
> sentence handed down against a Bosnian Serb political leader will
> set a standard for centuries.
>
> The Noble Peace laureate, testifying at a sentencing hearing by the
> UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, said the remorse
> expressed by Biljana Plavsic must be balanced against the suffering
> of hundreds of thousands of victims of "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia.
>
> Plavsic, once known as Bosnia's "iron lady," pleaded guilty to the
> persecution of Muslims and Croats during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. In
> exchange, prosecutors dropped seven other war crimes charges,
> including two counts of genocide.
>
> "If all the pain and suffering of all the victims were to be placed
> on one set of scales, how many years of prison would it take on the
> other to achieve justice?" Wiesel asked the three-judge panel who
> will hand down their sentence some time next year.
>
> "Nothing can justify a crime against humanity," he said, speaking by
> a live video link from Paris.
>
> Wiesel warned the judges their decision would "reverberate across
> national and ethnic borders ...(and) be studied and remembered far
> beyond frontiers and far across the centuries."
>
> Plavsic, 72, listened intently to Wiesel from the dock, with her
> head high, her lips pursed, and her jaw firmly set.
>
> Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Alex Boraine,
> former vice chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation
> Commission, were scheduled to testify later in the three-day
> hearing.
>
> Wiesel, a US citizen who grew up in Romania, won the Nobel Peace
> Prize in 1986.
>
> Plavsic, a wartime leader of the Bosnian Serbs, was indicted for
> planning the purge of non-Serbs from Serb-dominated areas of Bosnia
> along with her friend Radovan Karadzic, who is now the tribunal's
> most wanted fugitive.
>
> But Plavsic, who had been a biology professor before the war, broke
> with Karadzic and became a key figure in implementing the 1995
> Dayton peace agreement that ended the bloodiest conflict in Europe
> since World War II.
>
> Plavsic was president of the Serb region of Bosnia created under the
> Dayton plan, in 1996-1998, and became friends with Albright while
she
> was touring the region.
>
> After Wiesel testified, Plavsic's lawyer Eugene O'Sullivan called
> Milorad Dodik, a former prime minister of the Bosnian Serb republic,
> to testify that Plavsic had risked her political career to save the
> Dayton agreement in early 1998 by dissolving parliament and calling
> for early elections.
>
> Plavsic, the only woman among more than 100 men indicted by the
> tribunal, faces possible life imprisonment. The UN tribunal does not
> issue death sentences.
>
> In changing her plea in October, she acknowledged
> responsibility for the crimes listed in the indictment,
> including "forced transfer or deportation, unlawful detention and
> killing, cruel and inhumane treatment and inhumane conditions in
> detention facilities, destruction of cultural and sacred objects,
> plunder, wanton destruction, forced labor and use of human shields."
>
> At the time, Plavsic "fully and unconditionally"
> expressed remorse in a written statement and said she hoped it
> would "offer some consolation to the innocent victims - Muslim,
Croat
> and Serb."
>
> In an interview published Sunday in Belgrade, she denied she had
> struck a deal with prosecutors to receive a reduced sentence in
> exchange for her guilty plea, and rejected speculation she had
> agreed to testify against former Yugoslav President Slobodan
> Milosevic, the tribunal's highest ranking defendant. Milosevic is
> being tried separately on war crimes charges in Croatia, Bosnia and
> Kosovo.
>
> "What's a 10-year sentence to me? It is the same as a life in
> prison," she told a reporter for Politika during her flight from
> Belgrade to The Hague on Saturday. "My only condition was that I
> don't testify in other cases."
>
> UNchief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte told the court in opening remarks
> that Plavsic's admission of guilt was an "important step" toward
> establishing the truth about atrocities committed by Serb forces in
> a war where over 200,000 Bosnians died.
>
> O'Sullivan urged the court to consider several mitigating factors,
> including her voluntary surrender for trial, her guilty plea, and
> her remorse.
>
> Plavsic gave herself up immediately after her secret indictment was
> unsealed in January 2001. For nine months, she was kept in a special
> wing of the UN detention unit separate from male detainees.
>
> She was then released under her own recognizance and allowed to
> await her trial at home. Last October, she was allowed to change her
> plea by video linkup from Belgrade.
>
> Presiding judge Richard May cautioned her that her provisional
> freedom was no indication of leniency when it came to sentencing.
>
> Sentences have ranged from 5 years to 40 years in other cases at the
> tribunal where suspects have pleaded guilty.
>
> http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?
> pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull%26cid=1040011601060
>
>
>
>
> --- In This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Hanini <Hanini@c...> wrote:
> >
> > Elie Weisel says world has no right to criticize Israel
> >
> > Occupied Jerusalem: 16 January, 2003 (IAP News)
> >
> > Elie Weisel, a fervent defender of Israeli oppressive measures
> > against the Palestinian people, has criticized the modest
> > international efforts
> > aimed at protecting the defenseless Palestinian people from
> > Israel's American-supplied death machine.
> >
> > In an interview published in the latest issue of the Jewish
> > magazine, Tikkun, Weisel, who markets himself as a "humanist,
> > moralist, and universalist," was quoted as saying that " the
> > nations that kept silent
> > during the holocaust ought to keep silent now as well."
> >
> > Weisel added that the international community had no right to
> > judge Israeli irrespective of what Israel is doing to the
> > Palestinians.
> >
> > "The world that then condemned itself by its silence has lost all
> > right to judge Israel now."
> >
> > Weisel has constantly and consistently defended Israel's Nazi-like
> > repression of the Palestinians, suggesting that this was necessary
> > for Israel's survival.
> >
> > Many Jewish intellectuals around the world have castigated the
> > present Israeli rampage of murder and terror against Palestinian
> > population centers.
> >
> >
> >
> > Mike..." A seed in the Fruit of Palestine"
> >
> > http://www.pcwf.org/ The link to the website of Palestine
> > Children's Welfare Fund
> >
> > Click to buy Palestinian embroidery online, sponsor a Palestinian
> > child, buy a flag or a Kuffiya to feed one, or donate books for
> > the children of the refugee camps and BirZeit University.
> >
> > "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity,"
> > ,Horace Mann " We can not educate for freedom with methods of
> > slavery."Horace Mann
> >
> > STOP the Occupation NOW ! NO SETTLEMENTS =NOSETTLERS=PEACE...Human
> > RIGHTS are for all NOT just the "chosen few"...
>
>
>
> West Bank and Gaza Emergency Relief Fund:
> http://al-awda.org/wb_fund.htm
> Write your representative today!:
> http://congress.cfl-online.org
> =================================================================
> TERRORIST ASSETS!
> FREEZE AID TO ISRAEL NOW!!
> Sign the protest letter online at:
> http://al-awda.org/terminate_aid_petition.htm
> =================================================================
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network of grassroots activists dedicated to Palestinian human rights.
Al-Awda develops, coordinates, supports and guides as needed global
and local grassroots initiatives for action related to Palestinian
refugee rights.
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of their authors and not necessarily those of Al-Awda. This list's
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