Young Diplomats

Facebook users can now view gay-friendly with a rainbow sky filter applied to their profile picture. Something that many of the  Russian Internet users do not like. They decided to use a A Russian Flag rather than the “Gay” Flag.

In solidarity with the many Gay Pride and to celebrate the legalization of gay marriage in the US, Facebook launched a new option. Now it is possible for users to add a filter to the colors of the rainbow sky. Mark Zuckerberg started it, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, however critic of gay marriage when he was governor of California, passed.

But the Russians do not necessarily see this enthusiasm favorably. “Netizens have launched their own filter, white-blue-red, the colors of the Russian flag,” announces the Russian newspaper Vzgliad. They are so many thousands to have colored their profile photo using this filter. The initiator of the movement is called Oleg Tchoulakov, artistic director on his own. On his website, he has made available a software that just drag his picture to get the desired result.

“Proud to be straight”

The option is declined with the Ukrainian and Belarusian flag. “In addition, it is possible to add hashtags ‘Proud to be Russian” and “Proud to be straight,'” adds Vzgliad. Oleg Tchoulakov explains: “The tricolor flag [ru], it is a symbol, so I decided to launch this action. It should not confuse the values ​​of LGBT [lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans] and ours. My action is good as it promotes good values

More than a week after the parliamentary elections, Danemark has a government without a majority. Although the extreme right has made a significant score, the People’s Party did not belong.

In the Danish elections of 18 June, the People’s Party (far right) has become the largest right-wing party. Yet it shall not enter the government, reports the Danish newspaper Politiken.

Denmark will be managed by a government led by the liberal party, Venstre, which won only 34 seats in Parliament, but without a majority. For the latter, or 90 seats, the Liberal Party should rally behind him right number of MPs, including much of those of the People’s Party.

The extreme right is now the second largest party in Denmark

In the eyes of the leader of the extreme right party, Kristian Dahl Thulesen, strengths will have more influence by staying outside government. As for the new Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, he must navigate to find a majority to pass each reform.

Now Politiken believes, “the big question will be how the party leaders can prevent the People’s Party continues coasting

The attack against a Shiite mosque in Kuwait on June 26 announced the continuing clashes between Sunnis and Shiites throughout the Gulf region , analyzing the local press.

” The fire of Daesh (ISIS) extends to the Gulf,” wrote Ibrahim Badr, Saudi specialist of communautarism in Al-Araby Al-Jadid. “Before the attack against the Shiite mosque in Kuwait that killed 27 people Friday, June 26, there was the antichiites attacks in Saudi Arabia on 22 and 29 May It did not take long before, on social networks, the unanimity convictions yields again to the exchange of insults, revealing the real climate of sectarian tensions “in the Gulf.

“The source of the problem goes beyond the religious textbooks, books, writings and lectures about preachers who promote – especially on television – sectarianism,” writes the author. “This is a crisis of identity that extends from those who claim moderate to non-practitioners, even to atheists.” He concluded: “Sunnis and Shiites have a common destiny in the region, and we must avoid at all costs civil war in Syria and Iraq could spread to the Gulf countries. ”

Shave your beards!

The attack “challenge the modus vivendi between the communities in Kuwait, extremely fragile country in terms of security,” the Lebanese newspaper L’Orient-Le Jour. “This attack is proving once again that the era of stability in the Gulf countries has ended. Daech [acronym in Arabic for the organization Islamic State] is pursuing a strategy of destabilization [in these countries], where she has contacts in Salafist circles and circles close to power, and where she enjoys complicity within certain police or army. ”

The Liberal Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas abounds in the same direction: “Extremism was encouraged by the media and put into the heads of children by the education system since 1976, when the regime suspended the constitution and dissolved parliament. Since then, Kuwait has relied on the reactionary religious groups to buy social peace “concluded:”. Shave your beard and get rid of all signs of support and convenience with this form of religiosity. For forty years, extremism has deeply taken root. We must recognize the seriousness of the problem. It will not happen to face in trading or taking the problem piecemeal. It should be a real turning point and be done with all the signs of official bigotry that our governments have adopted since 1976. ”

“For years, we have seen other countries sink into violence, from Afghanistan to Somalia through Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen. We always thought that this was far from us, “writes Mansour Al-Jamri, editor of the Bahraini newspaper Al Wasat. “However, not only these countries are close to us but, what is more, many of the ideas of intolerance and speech justifying such killings took, and continue to have, to source the Gulf. It was only a matter of time before the same violence from spreading at home. “

The Greek debt drama is nearing its climax after five years, led by a colourful cast of characters ranging from a novice prime minister keen to prove his mettle to a steely IMF chief set on more austerity.

Here is a look at the cast:

– Alexis Tsipras

Five months into the job as Greece’s first radical left leader, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, 40, faces a seemingly impossible choice between applying his government’s anti-austerity mandate and safeguarding the country’s future in the eurozone. He is under pressure from hardliners in his Syriza party, who want the government to reject the demands of Greece’s EU-IMF creditors.

Known for his refusal to wear ties to European summits, the boyish Tsipras has showed a willingness to compromise in talks with his counterparts, only to take a much tougher line once back in Athens. It is unclear whether he can sway his party, with the threat of new elections looming.

– Yanis Varoufakis

The wildcard of the Greek debt talks, motorbike-riding Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, 54, has become a household name with his untucked shirts, bald pate and acerbic attacks on austerity.

Previously an international economist of some renown, the self-described “erratic Marxist” seems more at ease chatting with unemployed anarchists than with fellow European finance ministers, who have often deplored his blunt negotiating tactics.

But after receiving intense media exposure that included a middle finger involving Germany and a controversial glossy magazine photo shoot, Varoufakis has been forced to take a back seat in the talks to less provocative negotiators.

– Mario Draghi

Italy’s Mario Draghi, 67, heads the European Central Bank, which is not only an Athens creditor but most crucially maintains a financial lifeline to Greek banks.

“Super Mario”, as he is dubbed by analysts, plays a key role but has been very careful not to appear too involved in the Greek crisis, insisting that the ECB “is not a political institution”.

The elegantly dressed former academic and international banker says he wants a “solid” agreement, not just a quick fix. But he is under pressure, with a growing number of central bank governors beginning to question the continued support for Greece. At the same time, a “Grexit” would take the eurozone into uncharted waters that Draghi has no wish to explore.

– Angela Merkel

Europe’s most powerful leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, 60, has put her shoulder to the wheel of negotiations in recent weeks, frequently in tandem with French President Francois Hollande.

Merkel has been closely associated with the rescue of the eurozone since 2010 — she is one of the few players who was already in office at the time and has come to personify pro-austerity policies.

A break-up of the monetary union would be a horror scenario for Merkel and she is understood to be prepared to budge in the talks with Athens, but not too much. German public opinion is ill-disposed towards Greece and her conservative party is growing impatient.

– Christine Lagarde

Stylish International Monetary Fund boss Christine Lagarde, 59, has increasingly been playing “bad cop” in the negotiations with Greece.

The former French economy minister has been trying to foster harmony between the Greeks and European lenders, but must represent the interests of the Washington-based IMF’s 188 member-states.

Accused of taking a tough line, the IMF in recent weeks has pressed both the Greeks and the Europeans to take “hard decisions”: for Athens to accept new reforms, and for the Europeans to slash Greece’s debt.

Backing Lagarde is the real architect of Greece’s programme, Poul Thomsen.

A 30-year IMF veteran, Thomsen was mission chief in Athens at the height of the crisis but can no longer go to the country without a bodyguard. With his bushy eyebrows and messy hair, Thomsen is the IMF’s enforcer at day-to-day talks in Brussels.

– Jean-Claude Juncker / Jeroen Dijsselbloem

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, 60, has been a key broker in the talks with Tsipras but has seen his efforts fail so far.

The chain-smoking former Luxembourg prime minister and former head of the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers is a veteran of backroom Greek talks.

In recent weeks he has applied charm, pressure and even hugs and kisses for the camera in his efforts to win Tsipras over to his proposed reforms, so far to no avail.

Juncker’s successor as head of the Eurogroup is Jeroen Dijsselbloem, 49, the quietly efficient Dutch Finance Minister.

It is officially up to Dijsselbloem to seal any final deal with Athens but he has clashed with Varoufakis during the talks.

The 63rd annual meeting of the secretive Bilderberg group started, Thursday, June 11, in a luxury hotel in the Austrian Alps. The 131 participants from the economic, political, academic and media debate among themselves the economic and geopolitical situation in the world, referring in particular topics such as terrorism, the Greek economy, Iran or Russia. Discovery of this annual forum in camera that feeds numerous fantasies.

What is this group?

The Bilderberg Group is an annual forum for discussion between diverse backgrounds personalities: they are mainly from the economic environment (bosses and representatives of major groups, investment funds, etc.), but also belong to the political, academic circles or media.

It was created in 1954 in the hotel “De Bilderberg” in Oosterbeek in the Netherlands center. It was Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands who is originally he wanted to “encourage dialogue between Europe and North America,” while anti-Americanism was developing on the Old Continent during the war cold. Political, military and economic then met for informal discussions and, given the success of the forum, the initiative has been introduced every year.

The themes of the discussions vary with each new edition. This year, not surprisingly, topics such as terrorism, cyber security, the Middle East, Iran and Greece are on the agenda, the more political issues such as US elections, the “European strategy” or the NATO and Russia. A few months before the crucial Paris Conference on Climate Change (COP21), the environment does not appear.

The group has no institutional power and formula officially no recommendations.

Who is involved?

A steering committee of 34 people

The Bilderberg group has no permanent member, but only a “steering committee” made up of 34 people and elected for four years by its former members. Their main tasks are to determine the next conference program, and the establishment of the guest list – consulting the guests of each session on the personalities “emerge” in their country. Currently, the French Henri de Castries, CEO of the AXA insurance group, who chairs the steering committee where 19 nationalities are represented – the Americans are there large majority with 11 members.

The large majority of the economic world

The big bosses or representatives of major multinationals are widely majority among participants of the Bilderberg Group. During the 2015 edition, they constitute more than half of the 131 guests (68), followed by politicians (26) – This year, there are particular Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, the Belgian Prime Minister, Charles Michel, Austrian President Heinz Fischer, or the minister of the German defense, Ursula von der Leyen.

A more western global forum

Apart from the members of the Steering Committee, the conference guests change every year and are handpicked. In fact, it is not a global forum but a Western forum. Americans are the most represented each year: about 131 participants from raw 2015, they are 34, ahead of the British (12) and French (10). Surprisingly, it does not include any Chinese national, yet second world power – they were both last year and already absent in 2013. Similarly, no Japanese (3rd world power) or Indian (8th) has attended the forum in the last six editions.

France, the third most represented nation in the Bilderberg Group

There are 10 French from the list of the guests of the forum in 2015, against 34 Americans, 12 Britons … and no Chinese. The chart below lists the 15 most represented countries.

10 French

Of the 10 French nationals, include general economic adviser Francois Hollande, Laurence Boone, former prime minister and mayor of Bordeaux, Alain Juppé, head of the Directorate General of Internal Security (ISB), Patrick Calvar, CEO Michelin Group, Jean-Dominique Senard, or the old journalist, former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy and current chair of the domain of Versailles, Catherine Pégard.

Why so secretive?

A protest near the venue of the 2015 meeting of the Bilderberg group, denouncing the “new world order”.

The Bilderberg group feeds many fantasies. Some see a group of “masters of the world” in a small group deciding the fate of the planet. The main reason is the confidentiality of the proceedings: unlike the Davos Economic Forum, which is held every year beginning in Switzerland, the press is kept away except media group leaders invited by the Steering Committee and some journalists to write of the minutes of discussions which remain confidential. Participants are required to stay in the hotel for two days and may be accompanied or their spouses or assistants.

The group defends the “private nature of the conference,” which, according to him, “the participants not to be bound by the conventions of their duties or not the positions that we would agree in advance”. That is, for example, the word of a minister not commit his government and is not necessarily restricted by the official position of his country.

The suspicion of the Bilderberg Group is notably fueled by books like The Masters of the world, test the Spaniard Luis M. Gonzalez-Mata published in 1979, or The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, Daniel Estulin. They describe an opaque particular group would be decided where a “new world order” by the game support or opposition to governments, decision coups … But nothing has so far helped to support the real influence of this group, especially compared to other informal exchanges spaces (like the forum in Davos) or officials (such as the G7, G8 or G20) – which include, themselves, emerging markets.

BDS and the Boycott of Israel has been a recent issue these last years. It has been used as a weapon by the Palestinian Authority and has become the main battlefield for Israeli Diplomacy that is fighting growing Israeli Isolation.

Anti-racism and tradition of the boycott

The 1930s were marked by large demonstrations of anti-Jewish boycott in Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, Romania, Germany …). In late March 1933, great anti-Hitler meetings in the United States give the kickoff of a great movement of boycott of Germany worldwide. Everywhere Jewish community and those horrified Nazi antisemitism following suit with instructions relayed by militant organizations. In France, the International League against Antisemitism (LICA) is the association that shows the most obstinate in a campaign to convince the ordinary citizen but also economic actors and public authorities of the need to break all relations with Germany. The initiatives are global, even feed the fantasy of solidarity and occult Jewish power. The newspaper LICA explains: “Hitler’s Germany must understand that the moral blockade, the economic boycott can be dangerous, if not fatal, for her. Despite appearances, we are at even strength. Prove it! ”

 Unfair but pragmatic

The use of this means of action from 1933 to 1939, raises inevitable misunderstandings, resistance and criticism. Even within the French initiators of the movement, one wonders about the collective dimension of the penalty that hits all the Germans, when only the Nazis found guilty. Speaking on behalf of the Central Committee, Charles-Auguste Bontemps justify the action required by pragmatism:

“The boycott, certainly, can do in the near time, the difficult living conditions of the German people is not responsible for any integer. But it is today that the persecution of Jews made life impossible for thousands of men, women and children. Hitler may retain the boycott as a reason for its inability to reduce unemployment. But the excess of misery that led to power can also bring him to capitulate. “(DDV, May 1933)

The Right to Live, July-August 1933

The conviction is therefore that the suffering application of some moral principles can be quickly paid off. LICA frameworks agree to see in boycotting the only means of civil action likely to have effective impact. “How good indeed the only protests against Hitler? Practically nothing, “said one activist. Finally, we must put the measure in a context of war declared between Jews and Hitler’s regime, which provides a key to this action expresses appearance and another activist in May 1933: “The boycott is another war, say- they. And they are right. But this is an economic war that it is impossible not to deliver. ”

Hitting stomach

Despite its ineffectiveness over Nazi Germany, anti-racist activists will remember the method in the postwar period. With its policy of apartheid implemented in 1948, the South African Republic shares with Hitler’s Germany a racist ideology, supremacist and segregationist, which deprives a considerable part of the population of its rights. In June 1952 launched a campaign of civil disobedience in the initiative of the African National Congress and the Indian Congress. The Right to Live, body LICA immediately affects the watchword to his A “Boycott South Africa! “Commenting on the action of the Torch Commando, organization of former fighters led by white Sailor Malan (namesake of” Nazi “Daniel François Malan, Premier instigator of the policy of segregation) opposed to apartheid, Le Droit de Vivre wrote: “It’s a real moral uplift that we are witnessing to disobey intolerance. “(June 1952). Continuity with the fight against Nazi Germany seems obvious as evidenced this regard in April 1953: “We will push the Nazis in South Africa only by the stomach. It would be a heavy responsibility for all forget. ”

The boycott of Jews to Israel boycott

French in Algeria in the 1930s, actions organized by anti-Semitic activists, European and Arab, hit the Jews. In active campaigns targeting shops owned by Jewish merchants. Anti-Zionism booming then inspires Arab and Muslim activism that is a source of concern incidents and the French authorities. On the walls, in the department of Constantine, we find butterflies on the following model: “O Arabs, on each piece of five francs you will pay to Jews under five go to Palestine to be used to purchase weapons to kill Arabs. ”

The creation of the Arab League in 1945 causes the enlargement of a movement that takes a radical turn after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. Israel aversion, entity outside the Arab world, and the will to eradication, control exceptional measures: boycott of businesses owned by Jews around the world, Israeli closures of branches, air and sea blockade … A boycott committee moved to Damascus, which coordinates the activities of the League members .

The hard-line Arab League

The Arab League has a real economic blackmail. The originality of his boycott lies in the definition of different circles of application: prohibition of relations with Israel and Israeli firms, inclusion on a black list of foreign companies that trade with Israel, blacklisting of actors Economic maintaining relations with the latter list. This pressure cascade deflects many companies. The Mediterranean Club can be upheld in Egypt after organizing summer camps in Israel. Companies give in to blackmail. Air France offers its passengers to Cairo a form in which they must certify that they are not Jewish. The Renault company closes its plant in Haifa in 1959 … December 17, 1964, the newspaper Le Monde announced that “2,262 companies would be subject to the rules of Arab boycott of Israel.” Of these, 143 are French. The Yom Kippur War in 1973 causes an oil embargo against the countries supporting Israel.

The Right to Live, July 1977

At the same time, laws make it illegal boycott in the United States but also in France where anti-boycott law is voted on 7 June 1977. Its Article 32 extends the application of the law against racism (Pleven law ) 1 July 1972 as it reaffirms the principle of freedom of economic activity and that of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality, membership or not with “ethnic group”, a “race” or religion.

From the 1980s, boycotts undergoes multiple sprains. Many Arab countries renounce it.

Abusive Filiations

The campaign Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) was launched in 2005 by Palestinian civil society to protest against the occupation of Palestinian territories since the Six Day War (June 1967). It is this campaign that today its toll against Israel with economic, cultural and academic implications. Its advocates, who readily describe the country of “fascist” or “Nazi”, willingly emphasize the historical continuity with the past boycott of South Africa. The occupation of Palestinian territories and the settlement policy can very rightly attract criticism and protests; they can not however be based on fanciful historical heritage, clean feeding violence – so quick to be triggered – against a State and its citizens.

Israel shares with the National Socialist regime and the regime of apartheid or the ideological principles nor the exclusion and segregation laws. The weaknesses of this democracy (inequality, discrimination, corruption …) not different from those of other democracies. Territorial disputes, human and moral cost of security policy, the rule of law to exist, are, to varying degrees, and in other configurations, batch and law common to all nations. Yet its particular history makes Israel in the eyes of some, the absolute guilt – beyond unacceptable what supposed to be the presence of a Jewish state in “land of Islam” – the “entity” that we can hate and condemn unencumbered details. Between normality and denied paradoxical stigmatized, Israel’s adversaries seek to kill the space allotted to legitimate criticism, reasoned and constructive which should apply to any State. The determination and the logic of war by economic, against the Jewish state in their wake the Israeli people, despite its heterogeneity, its internal oppositions and disagreements, and all those across the world, Jews or non-Jews can not resign themselves to extremism.

Ten years after the release of “Zeid report” which explored concrete measures to eliminate cases of sexual exploitation in the context of UN peacekeeping operations, nothing has alsmot changed. “UN peacekeepers exchanged money, jewelry, perfume, phones against sexual favors,” notes a report by the office of internal investigations by the UN, to be published next week. The organization’s code of conduct strictly prohibits Yet sex in exchange for food, money or other material assets. The institution also strongly disapproves since 2003 sexual relations between peacekeepers and the populations they are supposed to protect, but not ban, which leaves room for interpretation to the soldiers deployed in the field.

But the report notes that two holding peace operations in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and Liberia (UNMIL) “show that these exchanges are widespread sexual nature, underestimated and not sufficiently reported. “According to the document, 231 Haitian women reported having sex with peacekeepers in exchange for material goods. The report notes that the conditions that encourage this type of operation are “hunger and shortage of essential commodities and medicines.” Only seven women were aware of the “zero tolerance” policy of the United Nations on sexual abuse. And none knew of the existence of a telephone line to denounce such abuses.

“Naming and shaming”

According to another survey conducted in Monrovia (Liberia) with a sample of 489 women aged 18 to 30 in 2012, “more than a quarter (…) had engaged in transactional sex with the peacekeepers, generally for money. “The report also believes that the number of condoms distributed to avoid risk of HIV infection suggests that” sexual relations between peacekeepers and the local population are widespread. ”

Between 2008 and 2013, 480 cases of abuse or sexual exploitation have been identified within the United Nations, and one third of these cases involves minors. For the first time in a report, the Bureau of Internal Investigations practice the policy of “naming and shaming” of naming and denouncing the countries whose nationals are guilty of such acts. Four countries are particularly affected: Pakistan, Uruguay, South Africa and Nigeria. These accusations are aimed primarily military. But civilians (17% of mission personnel), account for 33% of the charges.

“Despite a continued decline in the number of complaints, which is partly explained by an underestimation of the number of cases the effectiveness of the fight against the sexual exploitation and abuse is hampered by a complex organization and slow the organization to investigate and help the victims, “says the office of internal investigations.

The report estimates that the investigations into the accusations are “too much time” (sixteen-month average period). The UN must also rely on the country of origin of the perpetrators and the national courts for sanctions, leading to “very large disparities between states.” Civilians are often dismissed as soldiers and policemen are sent home and banned from participating in another UN mission. This survey comes at a time when the UN is heavily criticized for its handling of child rapes committed in the Central African accusations by French soldiers, Chad and Equatorial Guinea. But she does not come back on this case.

“Fauda” in the daily life of  IDF officers

For the first time, an Israeli series shows the lives of members of the Israeli army infiltrated into the Occupied Territories. Tour largely in Arabic, it presents the Palestinian fighters from an unusual day.

A warning before all twelve episodes of Fauda saying it is “a work of fiction, based on any real facts.” Which, of course, can only encourage viewers not to believe in a word and seek truth bursts into what is told him. In Arabic, fauda means “chaos”.

Prior to 1987, the term designated generally the situation prevailing in the occupied territories, until it degenerates into Intifada. But it is also the code name used by members of a certain Israeli undercover unit operating in the Occupied Territories when they want to report that their cover is blown and must either take action or flee immediately. Which in both cases means that they have kits to hell. It is well known, at least since the mid-1990s, that to maintain control of the Palestinian territories, the Israeli army multiplies covert operations.

Volunteers who served in elite units and willing to pose as Arabs – with the false biography, the alias, language, customs and physical appearance must be adopted for this – go live in the West Bank and infiltrating the population to gather first-hand information and deliver a mortal wound if necessary. Of course, these units are anything but secret, since their existence is openly acknowledged, but they definitely fall into the category of those things that are said “secret” by the nature of their activities. It is on this fertile ground has germinated the first season of Fauda, ​​which just ended on Israel’s Channel Yes Action. A second season is in preparation and negotiations are underway for the series to be broadcast as it is – not in the form of remakes – the US and Europe. Do not be discourage to look for fear of not able to follow the dialogue in Hebrew.

Anyway, since more than half of the characters are Palestinian and that the story takes place in the Palestinian Territories, most of the plot takes place in Arabic with subtitles in Hebrew. This is also where one of the singularities of the series in the Israeli television offer: for the first time, we showed the Israeli viewer, and an hour of prime time, not too distorted mirror of its reality in a language which, unfortunately, is perceived as threatening by many Israeli ears.

A reality that most Israelis prefer not to see

Two men are behind the project: Lior Raz (main writer and character of the series) and Avi Issacharoff (a former journalist with Haaretz, which specializes in Palestinian issues). They each have a sacred city to counter double and triple lives led on the other side of the border: Raz because he was part of one of these famous secret and Issacharoff units because he reported to the newspaper of the extremely confused situation prevailing in this part of the world. They say they wanted to describe this reality that most Israelis prefer not to get up close and, instead of simplifying it with a picture in black and white, show it as it is – composed of more than fifty shades of too human gray, which can explode at any time in the most crimson. Fauda tells the story of a stalker. The leader of a secret unit operating in Palestine (Doron Kavillio, played by Raz) retired after murdering a Hamas wicked big, Abu Ahmed, aka “Panther”.

He leads a modest life of wine, surrounded by his family. When he learned that the Panther is still alive and is planning a new wave of atrocities against Israelis, Doron succumb to the temptation to resume service and murder a second time this enemy, he now sees as his enemy staff. This, in theory at least, was a national security cases with kind and villains – our camp is “good” and “the other”, Palestinian, “the villain” – eventually became a complex history involving stage characters who are all, in their way, very human, that is very imperfect.

Compassion

There are members of the team Doron – a group of close-knit men – and their families and loved ones, responsible for providing all the expected emotional charge. There is a woman, as it should be in any good action series: Nurit, played by Rona-Lee Shimon. There Palestinians with their rival political factions and their family ties, especially intertwined that some of the characters [terrorist hunted down by Israel] live underground and constant fear. Waves of personal and political confusion pounding incessantly from one side or the other, and the viewer is constantly tempted to identify with the side that is not his.

This series does not attempt to present a vision “balanced” of the conflict. It assumes – rightly, in my view – that for Israeli viewers, the chips are in favor of the Israeli team. In turn, the viewer can sometimes feel that the Palestinian side of the story is presented with an extra dose of compassion and understanding. But if that is the case, this is a belated recovery and much needed: it is high time that the Israelis concede that the other side also, there are human beings. Fauda was shot in Israel in Hebrew and Arabic, and with a team of Israeli and Palestinian actors during the war last summer in Gaza.

The American series production teams Tyrant and Dig [both created by Israeli Gideon Raff, the showrunner of Homeland], which also take place in the region, fled. But of Fauda continued to run in Kafr Qassem [a village in central Israel, theater in 1956 of a massacre of Israeli Arabs by the Israeli border police] as to show that, although it says “fictional” story very well told and brilliantly played extremely compelling and terribly depressing, is based on real facts and painful. And while we watch, hell continues to lash around us.

An event series

Released in February and May 2015, Fauda created the event on Israeli television. Never a program had attracted so many viewers to Yes Action fifteen years that the chain exists. “Magazines weekend dedicated their covers to the series of characters. The various twists of the plot, including anything that may compose the nightmares of the Middle East, suicide bombings in the negotiations on the hostages, were the subject of heated debate around the water coolers in businesses or in the bars in the country, “says Foreign Policy. The American magazine echoes rave reactions from the Israeli press: “‘Fauda is more than a television event, it is also a political event,” wrote the daily Yediot Aharonot:’ this program is that a successful series. It is genuine, honest and painful. ‘The series was praised by almost all TV critics in the country. Even the Israel Hayom, a pro-Netanyahu newspaper, praised production of relevant, accurate and exciting. ‘”Viewers, meanwhile, were likely to react on the Facebook page of the series. Among them Israeli Arabs and some Palestinians.

 Suriname is a small country on the northeastern coast of South America. It’s defined by vast swaths of tropical rainforest, Dutch colonial-era architecture and a melting-pot culture

According to preliminary results, the National Democratic Party won  on the 25^th of May, the absolute majority in the Surinamese parliament, with 27 of 51 seats in contention. the dictator presiding former Dutch colony should be re-elected without difficulty to a second term by the new Parliament.

On October 13, 2015 Desi Delano Bouterse President will celebrate its 70 years, a few months after the elections in Suriname, which took place on May 25 The National Assembly will renew its 51 seats [according to preliminary results, the party won 27 seats] and will elect the President of the Republic in July or August. The Megacombinatie, Bouterse coalition [led by his National Democratic Party (NDP)], is likely to win, and his second term as president seems guaranteed.

In legal terms, it has not to worry. His conviction for drug trafficking will soon be prescribed.  The Arms trafficking which he is suspected was never really proven. For the massacres in December 1982, he cannot be judged because of the amnesty law of 2012 and its presidential immunity.

Finally, the case of the slaughter of Moiwana [39 innocent civilians killed by troops of Bouterse] in 1986 during the civil war, has not been fully elucidated. It alone can put a spoke in the wheels is Chandrikapersad Santokhi, the former police chief and former Minister of Justice. He leads V7, a coalition of traditional parties and factions. Bouterse adopts towards Santokhi condescending and sometimes threatening attitude. And when the president makes playing air I Shot the Sheriff at a gathering, everyone knows who the referred “Sheriff” is the nickname of Santokhi.

A friendly dictator

Nina Jurna was RTL’s correspondent in Paramaribo [the capital of Suriname] for ten years. She had extensive talks with Bouterse in 2005 in his property in the south of the country, Broko Braka. As the subtitle of his book, Desi Bouterse is “a Surinamese reality”: we can fight it, but we can never get rid of.

According to Nina Jurna five factors explain this reality: Bouterse, himself Indian and Creole, is one of the few people able to overcome ethnic divisions among Javanese, Indians, Creoles and natives. The NDP and Megacombinatie, with whom he won the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2010 are genuine multicultural parties. Moreover, Bouterse has no equal playing on populist tendencies Surinamese, and arms of honor towards the Netherlands [former colonizer] make it always score points.

In addition, Bouterse knows the poor neighborhoods of Paramaribo and remote areas of Suriname better than other politicians. Finally, any election rally or gathering on the lawn in front of his headquarters is a party where there is enough food and drink, with music and dance. Bouterse is a friendly dictator uncle that everybody would like to have. If he had not been in politics, he would have pierced as a humorist, according to Nina Jurna. Certainly it has committed atrocities. Journalist juxtaposes these crimes and the continuing popularity of Bouterse, but does not explain how these two realities are able to coexist.

“A missed opportunity”

“Behind all his friendliness, Suriname is a hard society where it’s every man for himself. There is no common idea for the future of the country. “Says the young historian Pepijn Reeser. He adds that Bouterse is both a product of colonialism – which explains his aversion to the Netherlands but also for corrupt politicians Surinamese – and “a missed opportunity”. He was a charismatic young and vigorous man who could have changed the Suriname sustainably after his coup of 25 February 1980. But he descended into violence and nepotism.

In the book, Pepijn Reeser analyzes the roles that Bouterse endorsed, the revolutionary dictator, the sponsor of the opportunist and commander of the accused to the statesman. Bouterse was an idealist who wanted to move towards national unity of his country and to end two evils Suriname: ethnic partition and corruption. More than twenty-five years later, the first has diminished, but not the second. Pepijn Reeser also discusses the strange period of the 1990s, where Bouterse, who was raised in the Catholic tradition, has suddenly taken a great religious fervor. Historians think he was not quite believe.

At the time, Bouterse was under the influence of the Protestant pastor of an evangelical commune, Steve Meye, which played a role in the election of his protege in 1996 [unsuccessfully]. Three years later, Bouterse has confessed his sins during a mass rally of the Church and from that day he preaches reconciliation. This did not last very long. Bouterse lose the sense of proportion when in 1999, a Good Friday, the president of Suriname Jules Wijdenbosch revokes his position as state councilor. Bouterse feels “crucified”. In November of the same year, evangelical chain portrays the new believer, who calls himself “master” by the Surinamese. “But who is the master of Bouterse?” Asked the presenter. “My younger daughter: I can not refuse him anything,” jokes Bouterse. “But I mean religiously,” insisted the presenter. Bouterse resumed his seriousness, “Oh, that’s what you mean. Seen like that, my master is God, of course.

“Friends and comrades! ” the Municipal Theater of Chelmsford (Essex) was a stage where a lot of artists performed , but they probably never used  this formula. ” Comrades! “: You do not even need to whisper that word! “Exults one of thundering unionists that heated the crowd. September 2, the 87th campaign meeting of Jeremy Corbyn, 66, MP from the British radical left, completely unknown until this summer,  was elected Saturday the head of the Labor Party last year in September 2015.

At first sight, difficult to understand why this  fair speaker that looks like a bearded old teacher, this vegetarian activist, pacifist and pro-Palestinian triggered such  enthusiasm in the youth, a “corbynmania”  that stunned and appalled that the media which are still working on it to decrypt it. Why this old-school meeting contrary to all rules of communications , where the speakers speak behind a simple table, without sounds systems or live tweets equipement and without catchy expressions such as “Yes We Can”. This provokes an energy that is disturbing the Establishment that is taking place in the Labor Party, and that might provokes a Seism in British Politics such as Podemos in Spain or Syriza in Greece.

Even the British Tabloids, usually so efficient  to spy in private sphere of politics didn’t found anything interesting or catchy.

But the speeches of Jeremy are so full of hope and so radically different from the mix of insipid , formatted and conformist speeches of its three competitors that the inflamed reactions from its listeners make sense. “He believes in what he says, it is authentic, and it changes the politicians in Westminster, marvels Brendon Tiwary, 19, a student of history and politics, forgetting that Jeremy Corby is now a Parliament Member for now thirty two years. He listens to people , and nothing is more important in politics.”

Left Wing of the Left Wing

What are this man ideas, this man who keep being reelected by the popular electors of Islington, in the North of London, now for 32 years in a row? Corbyin is saying that the drastic austerity policy conducted since 2010 by the Conservatices and supported by most of the Labor Party, amounts to ” charging the poorest , brutalize them, to punish them’ and that ‘ there is an alternative to this important budgetary cuts”, that there is ” another way to treat economic affairs”. That the ” Employees are not responsible for the crisis” and  that there is a need to stop massive cuts in social benefits by increase taxes for the rich and invest in the industry and infrastructures. 

Jeremy Corbyn calls for the renationalization of the railways, for a large national program of social housing construction, to “restore safety nets against the scandal of poverty”. A shock in a country where since Margaret Thatcher, the State disengagement movement never stopped.  “We must regain the vision that had our parents after 1945, recreate their vision of a more just society. ” he declared at the end of his speech.

Child of the immediate postwar period, Jeremy Corbyn is a self-taught activist who stopped studying at 18 years. Contradicting its competitors for the Labor primary, from Cambridge or the London School of Economics. The books – classics of socialist literature as Robert Tressell and George Orwell – that his mother, a professor of math, peace activist, offered him, prompted him to do politics. “I have few degrees, but I never stopped to devour books, he says before the meeting. I go through life with the conviction that the people I meet can teach me something. ”

He attended classes in the struggle against the Vietnam War and apartheid, and in solidarity with Latin America; he was street educator in Jamaica, union representative, Councillor and MP in 1983, just after joining the Socialist Campaign Group, founded by Tony Benn, then leader of the left wing of Labor. He never directed anything, and the only distinction he has received is the “Medal worst dressed MP” mock his critics who consider it “totally ineligible” as Prime Minister.

Its almost monastic appearance – white goatee, shirt open over a T-shirt, leather sandals back – and lifestyle – no cars or alcohol, the lowest budget of Westminster – is consistent with the cliché of the old leftist ascetic. And when a reporter asked him a scornful tone: “Really, you think you can lead the Labor Party? “He replies calmly, almost amused, but forgetting that he voted 533 times against the positions of his party since the election of Tony Blaire in 1997.” I’m Labor, I am a socialist. I spent all my life in this party, I have always been accustomed to speak on his behalf. “Alex Burghart, who was his Conservative opponent resolved in the parliamentary elections of May, credited him with at least one virtue: perseverance. “It takes nerves of steel to hold the same ideas for thirty years while everyone around you telling you that you are mistaken. ”

Questions about his person are annoying  Jeremy Corbyn, who is only “us” in meeting campaigns . He does not conduct an individual adventure, but to challenge the Labor route by building a movement from the base, he assures the chagrin of fellow members he intends to stop the rule if elected. “I wish that Labor becomes an open house where people want to come to make their voices heard, instead of waiting for all of a omniscient leader”, the favorite dream of the primary.

“Politicians are all the same, but since Corbyn, we now have a different opinion” Josephine Pickart talking on behalf of British Students

Even the tabloid press, very effective to dig into private lives, did not find much to put in their mouths. Three marriages and two divorces “that surprise, given the seriousness of his behavior,” thinks he can write the Daily Mail, which published the photo of his current wife, Laura Alvarez, a twenty-year-old Mexican younger than him “The important coffee fair “of his country. But especially popular newspapers accuse Jeremy Corbyn to be anti-monarchist, for bringing a red blazer during the eulogy of the Queen Mother in 2002 and have maintained contacts with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams before the Irish 1998 Peace Accords.

The bookies did not give his chances expensive – 200 against 1 – when, in mid-June to run for the Labor leadership obtained at the last second the thirty-five deputies sponsorship required. Most elected officials had checked his name just to give an image of openness and weaken their opponents. But the alibi candidate of the left wing, accustomed to ridiculous scores and regarded the party as a has-been total took off, to everyone’s surprise, in July to become the favorite polls.

The new designation system that has deprived the parliamentary rule and allowed their supporters to vote, upon payment of 3 pounds (4.10 Euros), opened the ballot by 554,000 people. Among the “voters to 3 pounds,” a crowd of young people, often students, disgusted with politics and abstainers, attracted by the different and radical sixties speech activist. In the meetings, this new generation blends with union activists whose main organizations have dubbed Corbyn and fund essentially his campaign to the extreme left militants and old party members who were removed from the refocusing operated in 1994 by Tony Blair with his New Labor.

Radical positions

“The irony is that Jeremy Corbyn is as a new leader as he is a survivor of years before Blair, when leaders of the Labor preferred to defend the principles of hardcore socialism, rather than win elections . This position led to Thatcher’s triumph in 1979. He has not changed since then, said Steven Fielding,
professor of political history at the University of Nottingham. Today, that Labor lost the election in May because they have seduced the voters of the center, yet Corbyn attributed the defeat to quitting socialist project. He is the champion of “old Labor”. “

No doubt the radical positions of the Labour monk will detonate in the British political landscape marked by moderation, consensus on austerity and reverence toward the army. Jeremy Corbyn chairs the Stop the War Committee, which led the fight against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. “Yet another tragedy,” he said in 2011 about the killing of Osama bin Laden in a US raid, regretting that he had not been tried. It does not mean that Tony Blair had to answer in court for war crimes in connection with the invasion of Iraq.

Jeremy Corbyn is also in favor of unilateral nuclear disarmament, while the British Parliament to vote in 2016 to renew credits deterrent Trident. He will not campaign out of the EU, but denounces the economic liberalism and Europe should show little enthusiasm to support a yes vote on maintaining the Union advocated by David Cameron.

About Ukraine, the member also criticized the “excessive and obsessive expansion of NATO since 1990,” considering that the military organization “should have died with the Cold War.” “Clearly, it’s an extremist, totally disconnected from the aspirations of our citizens,” Alex Burghart slice. “His election would be excellent news for the continued rule of the Tories. But Jeremy would cause great harm to the country and would not last long at the head of Labor, “he said, before his election.

Accident-lived linked to a primary or uncontrolled turning of the British political history? Jeremy Corbyn shakes the landscape marked by the defeat of Labor in the parliamentary in May, said the “all-austerity” does not fall under the need and gives hope to some disappointed with politics. “My friends said,” Politicians are all the same. “Since Corbyn, they changed their minds: he is the only one not to indict the unemployed and immigrants, to show that austerity, the contracts at midnight and poverty are not destiny, “says Josephine Pickard, a history student of 22 years, which distributes badges and round red beer” Cheers Jeremy! “To the input of Chelmsford meeting. The theater of the small town of Essex with red velvet curtains will take part in the ascension of the most leftist leader that Labor will be given since the 1930s.