Teresa de Angulo.Artículos e intervenciones referentes a análisis histórico y diálogo para la paz
martes, 26 de noviembre de 2013
DALAI LAMA
We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.
martes, 19 de noviembre de 2013
NOSOTROS EL PUEBLO
De las muchas interpretaciones torticeras de la realidad,probablemente las más hirientes son todas las referidas a la interpretación y mal uso de las leyes.
Para todos aquellos ciudadanos de aquí y allí, que son zaheridos continuamente con el desfile de trampas legales,omisiones y dilaciones propias de estos tiempos,la situación es insostenible.
No se puede seguir manteniendo una ley como la de desahucios,la anterior y esta.
Tampoco se puede admitir la privatización unilateral de bienes comunes,llámese Sanidad,Pensiones,Trabajo,Huelga.
No se pueden permitir todos estos desmanes que pagan los ciudadanos,mientras casos sangrantes como los de la financiación de Partidos,Urdangarin y compañía,signos externos de lujo por parte de empleos públicos con cargo a las cuentas del Estado,financiación de los robos de unas cuantas empresas y medios económicos.En fin,no se puede admitir la convivencia de los ladrones y las víctimas,estén donde estén,sean quienes sean.
No se entiende tanto respeto ajeno y tan poco respeto a los propios derechos.
El espíritu de la Ley,desde Aristóteles hasta hoy,esta ahí,no ha muerto,aunque muchos deseen verla muerta y enterrada.
Cada día me siento más republicana,por algo tan básico y elemental como es LA IGUALDAD DE TODOS LOS CIUDADANOS ANTE LA LEY.
Pero hay más,por contra a tanto desmán,los ciudadanos,nosotros,el pueblo,cada día somos más conscientes de nuestros derechos,y no renunciamos,y denunciamos,y continuaremos así todo el tiempo que sea necesario.
lunes, 18 de noviembre de 2013
FASCISMOS REPUGNANTES
Hace ya años,en los tiempos en que Rafael Alberti y yo vivíamos en la Torre de Madrid y Princesa 3,solíamos pasear por la tarde haciendo lo que llamábamos la vuelta al ruedo,calle Princesa,Plaza de España,la calle de los cines Renoir y Ventura Rodríguez,Rafael hacía poco ejercicio y le convenía caminar.Ibamos charlando de todo,en aquella época comenzaba a descubrir la historia familiar,la que me ocultaron durante 27 años,y me ponía muy pesada pidiendo datos de la anteguerra y la guerra civil,siempre con minúscula,él me iba contando con paciencia y cariño lo que recordaba,además,estaba ya escribiendo sus Memorias,en las que tan involucrada estuvo parte de mi familia en los tiempos de la República.
Un día,después de una larga explicación le pregunté que como era posible que siendo intelectual,libre,hubiese podido colaborar con el marxismo-leninismo de entonces,su respuesta fue muy clara,Teresa,yo no era comunista,era antifascista.La misma contestación dada por mi padre años después,yo no era fascista,era anticomunista.
Y esa es nuestra tragedia,aquellos intelectuales de entonces fueron bastante ingenuos en algunos de sus planteamientos,no supieron ver los muchos vericuetos y trampas que tenían ambas doctrinas,no profundizaron lo bastante en la situación,porque la Historia les iba por delante,y había que parar aquel infierno.
Uno y otro se equivocaron,pero rectificaron y enmendaron el error.Y pagaron.
Hoy,la situación no es tan extrema globalmente,pero los tentáculos del monstruo siguen ahí,y se reproducen cuando cortas uno.
Los fascistas al estilo Osmond Mosley continúan pululando por las calles.Se ponen cuchillas en las verjas,y como colofón a esta ignomínia,hoy conocemos que la guardia civil devuelve con nocturnidad y alevosía a los pobres infelices que consiguen saltar la verja,sin respetar leyes,sin dar al menos la posibilidad de identificación.
E la nave va.
Estos guardias que dan la orden son culpables,pero los que lo mandan están más arriba,y apestan,apestan a sepulcro blanqueado,a podredumbre de siglos,a seres rastreros y del todo despreciables.
Los Mosley de hoy se disfrazan mejor,pero son igualmente repugnantes,y no tiene la excusa de vivir en los turbulentos años 20 del siglo pasado.Con ellos la Historia no tendrá compasión,la Historia científica.otra cosa será la lectura mendaz que hagan algunos.
Las fronteras caerán,ya no son necesarias,el mundo lleva una nueva deriva.
Pero mientras,aquí y ahora,salgamos a las calles y plazas a gritar,a protestar contra estos engendros de la naturaleza que continúan alimentando a la Hidra.
Malditos sean.
domingo, 17 de noviembre de 2013
Y EL EMPERADOR SIGUE DESNUDO,PERO AHÍ VA
Mézclese un cuarto de inanidad,un tercio de estulticia,otro de sinvergonzonería y la tradicional guinda o aceituna,y aquí tenemos el panorama completo de la clase política y económica de España y Europa y otras hierbas.
Lo de Bruselas es de libro,el austericidio, una de las más notables estupideces de tiempos recientes.Se lo han demostrado los hechos.Se ha comprobado el error inicial del planteamiento,pero amigo,sostenella y no enmendalla.
Poco importa que economistas de la talla de Krugman o Stiglitz demuestren con su saber y experiencia lo equivocado y peligroso del panorama actual,y lo peor,las consecuencias que lleva aparejadas.
No,en este desideratum,a pesar de que están condenando en un próximo futuro a la juventud que ha de sostenerles,por no hablar de la tragedia actual,ahí siguen,fieles servidores de sus amos,que no se sabe bien si son sus bancos,intereses económicos aún más amplios,o la pura y simple cabezonería de quien no quiere dar su brazo a torcer.
Puestos a opinar,es más sensato pensar que es una mezcla de todos estos ingredientes.
Y allí van ellos.ridículos en su empecinamiento,obtusos y cómicos,lo que no tendría mayor importancia si no fuese porque nos arrastran a todos en su locura.
En estas ocasiones recuerdo especialmente a los maestros Locke,Russeau y Schopenhauer.Este último,en sus Aforismos,decía que quien no vale para otra cosa se dedica a la política.
Pues eso.
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2013
DR.HENRY SIEGMAN.NETANYAHU IS DESTROYING KERRY'S PEACE PROCESS-AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL
destroying Kerry’s peace process - and the State of Israel" by Henry Siegman
No one familiar with Secretary of State John Kerry‘s many years of service to the nation would dare underestimate his intelligence or diplomatic skills. Yet no one familiar with the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the failure of half a century of negotiations to produce anything other than Israeli measures intended to create irreversible facts on the ground in order to prevent a two-state outcome, can believe that the peace process Kerry managed to relaunch against all odds can succeed.
The reason failure is foreordained is painfully obvious, if unacknowledged. Previous peace initiatives did not fail because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict uniquely defies solution. They failed because the overriding strategic goal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and of most previous Israeli heads of state, has been and continues to be Israel’s permanent control of all of Palestine.
There have been reports that members of Kerry’s team have detected changes in Netanyahu’s attitude toward the emerging danger of Israel’s international isolation and toward his legacy as a peacemaker. But that is the height of wishful thinking. The only “legacy” aspired to by the man who opposed every peace initiative supported by his predecessors in office, including the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal of settlements from Gaza, is to be remembered as the Israeli leader who secured Greater Israel.
Why else would Netanyahu have rejected every measure urged by Kerry to help assure the resumed peace talks’ success, including acceptance of Israel’s internationally recognized 1967 border as the starting point for these talks, or a freeze on further settlement construction? Would that not have helped assure popular Israeli support for the change of course he was allegedly contemplating?
Instead of addressing the reality of Netanyahu’s opposition to Palestinian statehood the resumed peace talks continue to be based on the illusion that Netanyahu is committed to a two-state solution, and that U.S. “mediation” is needed only to help the parties fashion compromises that will help them reach their shared goal. Given Netanyahu’s repeatedly demonstrated intention to drive the settlement project to its intended conclusion, including his recent announcement of massive new construction in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, negotiations over the permanent status issues could not be more irrelevant.
While compromises could have been reached over every one of the permanent status issues, there can be no compromising Netanyahu’s lifelong determination never to allow the “independent, viable, sovereign” Palestinian state called for in the Roadmap for Middle East Peace. It most certainly cannot happen within the framework of a peace process that is based on the lie that he seeks a two-state solution and on the pretense (for domestic political reasons) that the U.S. believes him.
Netanyahu has added to his previous demands - for Palestinian territorial concessions and for security arrangements that would empty the Palestinian state of every vestige of sovereignty - a new demand to which no Palestinian leader could accede. He is now insisting that Palestinians not only yield to Israeli control of major parts of the West Bank, including the entire Jordan Valley, and of all of the Palestinian state’s borders with the outside world, but that Palestinians also affirm the Zionist principle that Palestine is the historic national homeland of the Jewish people.
The transparent purpose of this new demand is to enable Netanyahu to blame Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas for the failure of the renewed talks that Netanyahu is so methodically orchestrating. What is not so self-evident is the hypocrisy of this latest demand. For if Palestinians were to accede to it, Netanyahu would have to reciprocate by affirming the legitimacy of those parts of the West Bank constituting the Palestinian state as the historic home of the Palestinian nation. No conceivable inducement could wring such an affirmation out of Netanyahu’s mouth.
Speaking of hypocrisy, in his address to the Jewish Federations of North America earlier this week Netanyahu declared that just as he has stood up and recognized the Palestinian right to a state, Abbas must stand up and similarly say “I accept the Jewish state.” I have news for Netanyahu. Abbas will gladly stand up and make that statement if like Netanyahu he too can confiscate large parts of territory beyond his county’s internationally recognized borders for the establishment of Palestinian settlements.
The imminent failure of the resumed peace talks will not be just another setback in the long history of such failures. The despair caused by the ever-increasing disenfranchisement and dispossession of Palestinians and by the newest Israeli encroachments just announced for East Jerusalem and the West Bank, in combination with demographics that will create an Arab majority in the de facto Greater Israel, is changing Israel in ways that are making the country no longer recognizable to many of its own citizens and to much of world Jewry, as well as to the international community.
Israel is increasingly seen not as a democracy but as anachronistic ethnocracy, not much different from the Serbs during their war in Bosnia whose politicians and generals were received with adulation by Serbian Orthodox clergy when they returned from the carnage they inflicted on Bosnia’s Muslim population in Sarajevo and other cities.
Israel’s public seems anesthetized to a disaster in the making, foolishly relying on their country’s vast military superiority over the Palestinians to preserve the status quo. But it is only a matter of time before Palestinians engage in a struggle to undo that status quo, one that will undoubtedly entail prolonged upheaval and suffering for their people as well as for Israel’s population.
Netanyahu is destroying Kerry’s peace process - and the State of Israel
Kerry’s peace relaunch was based on the lie that Netanyahu seeks a two-state solution; its painful failure means the Palestinian fight back is only a matter of time.
The reason failure is foreordained is painfully obvious, if unacknowledged. Previous peace initiatives did not fail because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict uniquely defies solution. They failed because the overriding strategic goal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and of most previous Israeli heads of state, has been and continues to be Israel’s permanent control of all of Palestine.
There have been reports that members of Kerry’s team have detected changes in Netanyahu’s attitude toward the emerging danger of Israel’s international isolation and toward his legacy as a peacemaker. But that is the height of wishful thinking. The only “legacy” aspired to by the man who opposed every peace initiative supported by his predecessors in office, including the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal of settlements from Gaza, is to be remembered as the Israeli leader who secured Greater Israel.
Why else would Netanyahu have rejected every measure urged by Kerry to help assure the resumed peace talks’ success, including acceptance of Israel’s internationally recognized 1967 border as the starting point for these talks, or a freeze on further settlement construction? Would that not have helped assure popular Israeli support for the change of course he was allegedly contemplating?
Instead of addressing the reality of Netanyahu’s opposition to Palestinian statehood the resumed peace talks continue to be based on the illusion that Netanyahu is committed to a two-state solution, and that U.S. “mediation” is needed only to help the parties fashion compromises that will help them reach their shared goal. Given Netanyahu’s repeatedly demonstrated intention to drive the settlement project to its intended conclusion, including his recent announcement of massive new construction in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, negotiations over the permanent status issues could not be more irrelevant.
While compromises could have been reached over every one of the permanent status issues, there can be no compromising Netanyahu’s lifelong determination never to allow the “independent, viable, sovereign” Palestinian state called for in the Roadmap for Middle East Peace. It most certainly cannot happen within the framework of a peace process that is based on the lie that he seeks a two-state solution and on the pretense (for domestic political reasons) that the U.S. believes him.
Netanyahu has added to his previous demands - for Palestinian territorial concessions and for security arrangements that would empty the Palestinian state of every vestige of sovereignty - a new demand to which no Palestinian leader could accede. He is now insisting that Palestinians not only yield to Israeli control of major parts of the West Bank, including the entire Jordan Valley, and of all of the Palestinian state’s borders with the outside world, but that Palestinians also affirm the Zionist principle that Palestine is the historic national homeland of the Jewish people.
The transparent purpose of this new demand is to enable Netanyahu to blame Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas for the failure of the renewed talks that Netanyahu is so methodically orchestrating. What is not so self-evident is the hypocrisy of this latest demand. For if Palestinians were to accede to it, Netanyahu would have to reciprocate by affirming the legitimacy of those parts of the West Bank constituting the Palestinian state as the historic home of the Palestinian nation. No conceivable inducement could wring such an affirmation out of Netanyahu’s mouth.
Speaking of hypocrisy, in his address to the Jewish Federations of North America earlier this week Netanyahu declared that just as he has stood up and recognized the Palestinian right to a state, Abbas must stand up and similarly say “I accept the Jewish state.” I have news for Netanyahu. Abbas will gladly stand up and make that statement if like Netanyahu he too can confiscate large parts of territory beyond his county’s internationally recognized borders for the establishment of Palestinian settlements.
The imminent failure of the resumed peace talks will not be just another setback in the long history of such failures. The despair caused by the ever-increasing disenfranchisement and dispossession of Palestinians and by the newest Israeli encroachments just announced for East Jerusalem and the West Bank, in combination with demographics that will create an Arab majority in the de facto Greater Israel, is changing Israel in ways that are making the country no longer recognizable to many of its own citizens and to much of world Jewry, as well as to the international community.
Israel is increasingly seen not as a democracy but as anachronistic ethnocracy, not much different from the Serbs during their war in Bosnia whose politicians and generals were received with adulation by Serbian Orthodox clergy when they returned from the carnage they inflicted on Bosnia’s Muslim population in Sarajevo and other cities.
Israel’s public seems anesthetized to a disaster in the making, foolishly relying on their country’s vast military superiority over the Palestinians to preserve the status quo. But it is only a matter of time before Palestinians engage in a struggle to undo that status quo, one that will undoubtedly entail prolonged upheaval and suffering for their people as well as for Israel’s population.
But in the end, having been denied even a pathetic statelet of their own, Palestinians will have their state, and it will encompass all of Palestine. For in this day and age, the State of Israel that started out as a democracy but has evolved into an ethnocracy (with a Prime Minister’s Office on Conversions that sponsors religious conversions to Judaism as a path to Israeli citizenship) cannot prevail over a majority of its population that insists on its dignity and its rights.
How sad that a people that produces so disproportionate a number of Nobel laureates cannot grasp so simple a truth.
Henry Siegman is the president of the U.S./Middle East Project. He served as a Senior Fellow on the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations and as a non-resident research professor at the Sir Joseph Hotung Middle East Program, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
miércoles, 6 de noviembre de 2013
ESTO DICE PALESTINA
PLO Executive Committee
30 octubre 2013
“Israel is willfully and flagrantly
violating international law and the requirements of peace in its latest
escalation of settlements expansion. This includes a total of 3,700 new units
at Ramat Shlomo settlement (Jerusalem District), 296 in Beit El settlement
(Ramallah District), 162 in Yakir settlement (Qalqilya District), 95 units in
Shilo settlement (Nablus District) and 31 units in Al Mog settlement (Jericho
and the Jordan Valley District). The announcements also include a Parking for
settlers’ use in Silwan and a national park nearby the Mount Scopus – Wadi El
Joz area, both in Occupied East Jerusalem”
“The
Israeli occupation is exposing its true intentions of creating ‘greater
Israel’ rather than a two-state solution. The Israeli government has proven
once again that it is not a partner for peace nor a member of the
international community that respects the global rule of law. Today’s
announcements are the latest affront directed at Secretary Kerry and the US
administration’s efforts. We call upon the US to end Israel’s culture of
impunity, exceptionalism and entitlement. Such dangerous policies are liable
to destroy the chances of peace and to provoke parallel violence and
extremism throughout the region. We call upon the members of the international
community to hold Israel accountable by upholding their own national laws and
international obligations.”
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martes, 5 de noviembre de 2013
A VISTA DE PÁJARO
En algunos momentos el escribir se convierte más en una paliza que en algo positivo,pero el silencio puede ser aún más negativo.
Paso a vuela pájaro sobre la morralla de gobierno-s que sufrimos.Sanidad,educación,pensiones,corrupción,robos a mansalva,abusos varios de los más poderosos hacia los más indefensos.
Europa.
Que les voy a decir,nos inundan todos los días con un aluvión repelente de degeneración que tiene múltiples facetas.
Pero no es eso lo más importante,con serlo y mucho.
Lo que sucede en Oriente Medio,el eje de todas las políticas, es lo realmente llamativo.
Primero se rodea de un total silencio el inicio de negociaciones de paz,y todos esperamos expectantes la noticia de avances significativos.Hay esperanza.
Ahora,en otra vuelta de tuerca,el gobierno israelí,pasando por encima de los intereses de su pueblo,los reales,no los ficticios,vuelve al órdago de más asentamientos,de más abusos.
Para los que intentamos estar desde hace muchos años en un lugar equidistante de las partes en litigio,esto resulta descorazonador.
Hablamos de PAZ,JUSTICIA,DIÁLOGO,AVANCE SOCIAL PARA TODOS.
El día que un extremista israelí asesinó a Isaac Rabin quedó claro que el camino estaría sembrado de muchos más muertos de los que se habían producido anteriormente.
Las casualidades no existen.
No puedo evitar pensar en el cúmulo de "extrañas" coincidencias que vivimos de un tiempo a esta parte en el panorama internacional.No engañan ya a nadie.
Y va por todos.
Recuerdo y tengo la esperanza de que las personas de buena voluntad que viven en Israel y Palestina, tengan pronto un motivo cierto para tenerla,la misma que muchos nos resistimos a dejar morir.
Salam-Shalom-Paz.
sábado, 2 de noviembre de 2013
DE GENEALOGíAS Y OTRAS MENTIRAS MORTALES.
Da lo mismo hacia donde miremos o a que tiempo histórico.
En nombre de la tribu,el clan,la etnia o la situación geográfica,el sometimiento de unos pueblos por parte de otros desde casi el comienzo de los tiempos es brutal,vejatorio,asesino,mentiroso.
Ignoro si todo el mundo conoce que el origen del árbol genealógico aparece en la Biblia como una forma de memoria para el llamado a si mismo "pueblo elegido"
Desde aquellos tiempo el sistema tuvo un éxito notable.
Todos se ha matado en nombre de esos ancestros más o menos ilustres.La justificación perfecta,marcar la diferencia para excluir...y ocultar muchas miserias.
En origen,sirvió para mantener viva la memoria de un pueblo continuamente desplazado,actualmente,esta tan insertado en el inconsciente colectivo,que nos parece natural,y algunos hasta lo justifican,el levantar vallas de alambre y cuchillas para excluir a los" Otros"
Da lo mismo que se trate de estos infelices que mueren en el desierto o tratando de salvar vallas físicas.
Es similar para aquellos que se mueren en cárceles de Oriente Medio, en nombre de unos supuestos derechos de tierra por parte del pueblo errante.
Hablemos del brutal colonialismo de Occidente,depredador,sangriento,excluyente.
Recordemos el origen de Norteamérica,fabricado sobre la destrucción de muchos pueblos aborígenes.
Hagamos memoria de nuestros primos europeos,asiáticos,africanos,llevados allí en circunstancias siempre trágicas.Esto es América.
Negarlo,ocultarlo,es criminal,porque solamente conociendo estas circunstancias se puede comprender la situación actual.
La conducta de Europa respecto a sus colonias pretéritas es tan criminal como lo fue el nazismo en su momento.
Atizamos la diferencia como un factor de riesgo para la sacra Europa y por extensión a Occidente.
Espionajes,gendarmes de la pureza,razones estratégicas,daños colaterales.La mentira total como forma de gobierno.La manipulación como estrategia permanente.
Se miente tanto y desde hace tanto tiempo que no hay quien nos saque del laberinto.
Reniego total y absolutamente de esta forma de vida,Apoyo,me solidarizo con las incontables víctimas de tanto crimen.
No se puede mantener la violencia como forma de vida,sería como convertirnos en cómplices de los verdugos.Pero comprendo y acepto que en determinadas circunstancias es legítima.
La gran pregunta es saber que piensa la Humanidad respecto a esto.
El campo de concentración,la expulsión sistemática como forma de gobierno,con la violencia que lleva aparejada.O una nueva forma de vida,integradora,dialogante,con un reparto justo de formas de riqueza que garanticen el futuro a TODOS.
Lo sé,dificil, a medio plazo,pero posible.
No creo que a estas alturas de curso nadie se llame a engaño sobre nuestra deriva,pero para los que están desinformados,para los ignorantes por motivos diversos,el futuro próximo esta ya a las puertas,y es de todo menos sano y libre.
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