Cartoon of Israeli Prime Filled with Blood, Be Censured by the British Jews

Caricature of Netanyahu (Photo: Sunday Times)

LONDON - A British newspaper publish caricatures of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are in a condition covered in blood the palestinian citizens. This caricature getting censure of Jews in Britain.

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, also apologized for cartoons that issued hers newspaper. The cartoon it published in the Sunday Times newspaper, right on the day warning incident the Holocaust. The cartoon itself is made by a cartoonist named Gerald Scarfe.

"Gerald Scarfe cartoon does not show position the newspaper of the Sunday Times. We apologize for the publication of cartoons that make many citizens feel offended, "Murdoch said in his Twitter account, as quoted by AFP on Tuesday (01/29/2013).

Murdoch also send one of the editors of the Sunday Times to meet with Jewish groups in the UK and provide an apology directly to them. British Jewish groups condemned the cartoon it had that are considered them inappropriate and disgusting.

Jewish group mentions publishing cartoons it similar to slander which are oftentimes be accepted the Jews in the past. In time ago, the Jews oftentimes accused of being a people bloodthirsty and likes to kidnap the children to drink its blood. Jewish groups also, deplore publishing a cartoon that coincide with Holocaust Warning Day, Sunday January 27 last.

Censure also given by the politicians in Israel. Israeli Parliament Speaker Reuven Rivlin said the cartoons were reminiscent of the Jews on the days when discrimination and slander is oftentimes accepted the Jews in Western countries.

Source:  AFP

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Russian PM: Alien Landing in Our Country

Photo: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (AFP)

MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Russian officials had documents that outside of the armed creatures (aliens) landed in the land of the Red Bear. The document is a confidential document.

After the Prime Minister of Australia speaks about the Mayan apocalypse, now turn to Medvedev talked about the presence of aliens in Russia. Words just jokes Medvedev expressed in a television interview.

Medvedev said, there are two files that show about aliens landing in Russia. Medvedev also said that the aliens that live and settle in Russia.

"I can not explain to you about the number of them, because it could lead to panic," Medvedev told Ren TV presenter, Sunday (09/12/2012).

After that, Medvedev said that the details of the alien presence can be found in the film by Barry Sonnenfeld, Men In Black. Former Russian president added that agents Men In Black "K" and "J" began to recruit a new agent of Russia.

Medvedev is known as a politician who has a sense of humor is quite high. However, a sense of humor man who served as President of Russia in 2008 ago it was much more subtle than Vladimir Putin.

A sense of humor Putin rated slightly more rugged than Medvedev. Putin joked when talking about the rape case involving former Israeli President Moshev Kastav and female staff.

At the time, Putin was talking to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and are not aware if there is a microphone in front of him on. Putin calls Kastav as a mighty who can overpower 10 women. All men of course shocked and feel envious Kastav.

After the incident took place, a spokesman for Putin immediately explain that remark was just a joke. Peskov also said Kastav was never found guilty of anything.

Source:  Ren TV

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Russia: U.S. Wants New Cold War

Photo: Russian military (IST)

MOSCOW - Russia has accused the United States (U.S.) trying to generate a new Cold War after the U.S. Congress passed legislation that would prohibit Russian citizens entering the United States. The question is a Russian citizen suspected of violating their human rights.

"Apparently, Washington will have forgotten this year and they thought that the Cold War is still going on," the Russian foreign ministry said, as quoted by the Telegraph, Saturday (12/08/2012).

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov affirmed that his country ready to respond to U.S. actions by imposing similar policies. Russia may impose a ban on visas for U.S. citizens who violate human rights.

Legislation that passed the U.S. Congress referring to incidents of death Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer involved in the issue of tax scandal. According to the Kremlin human rights council, confirmed Magnitsky died because he was beaten in prison.

Magnitsky was a lawyer at the law firm Firestone Duncan in Moscow. Magnitsky client is an asset management company from the UK, Hermitage Capital Management, which operates in Russia.

Hermitage Capital Management could provide information to the media about the alleged corruption in a number of Russian officials. In 2007, the office of Hermitage and Firestone Duncan in Moscow searched by police. Magnitsky finally came to investigate the incident.

The idea arcing legislation was initiated by Arizona Senator John McCain. McCain is a man who has always opposed the Russians, especially President Vladimir Putin.

The clash between the U.S. and Russia resumed recently. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also began making his criticism of Russia's ambitions to build Eurasian Union. For Clinton, it is a step in Russia's ambition to revive the Soviet Union.

Source:  Telegraph 

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Israeli Ambassador thrown eggs

Photo: Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators in Ireland (demotix)

DUBLIN - Ireland's Palestinian sympathizers staged a rally of anti-Israel. They also pelted Israel's ambassador to Ireland Boaz Modaee with eggs.

Modaee saved from protesters throw eggs, but the eggs were broken when the body hit Modaee aide. At first, the demonstration was a peaceful demonstration pro-Israel, but Palestinian sympathizers approximately 100 people came to oppose the action of the demonstration.

Tensions increased when Palestinian sympathizers arrive at the same place as pro-Israel. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators carrying signs that read criticism of Israel. They also oppose Israeli aggression in Gaza. Similarly, as reported by Arutz Sheva, Monday (26/11/2012).

A few weeks ago, Israel was also upset with the City Council Dublin, Ireland, for his anti-Israel. They equate Israel with Nazi. Two pro-Palestinian sympathizers eventually arrested after the demonstration took place.

Police officers in Dublin did not explain the details of the riots that occurred in the city. The incident happened just when one of Israel's supporters make speeches Humpreys Richard Ward.

"Today is a day of solidarity, friendship and dialogue with Israel. Rights of Israel to stand as a country should be recognized as a Jewish State in the world and the only liberal secular democratic state in the Middle East," said Ward.

Supporters of Israel are also carrying flags indicating pictorial star David emblem Jewish State. Own pro-Israel demonstrators numbered approximately 250 people. 

Source:  Arutz Sheva

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Turkey: We Continue to Support Palestinian Seconds Till Last Breath!

Istanbul - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmad Davud Oglu asserted that his country would continue to support the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to end the Israeli occupation La'natullah

This was said in the meeting Oglu as Arab foreign ministers who visited the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh with PM. He said, "Turkey will continue to support the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Al-Quds, to end the Israeli occupation and the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital al-Quds."

He added, "God is a witness that we will not leave you, your pain is our pain, your destiny is our destiny and your future is our future." He considered its presence in the Gaza Strip is a message that the history and the conscience of humanity will not be forgive Israel for what he did, despite trying to justify what he did.

To Gaza and its fighters, Turkish foreign minister said, "You do not defend your honor alone, but to defend our honor and all humanity." He confirmed that work together Arabs and Muslims will continue until ending tyranny is happening in the Gaza Strip.

He reiterated demands Turkey to blockade of the Gaza Strip were released. He stressed the importance of not letting the Zionist entity Israel to change Gaza Strip into an open prison.

He said, "We will continue to struggle along with the Arab countries to the blockade of the Gaza Strip were released." He ended his claim by saying, "To the citizens of Gaza I remind you that an hour before dawn is the darkest time, a moment later came the dawn. We spoke during the welcome that we will wake up at dawn for your freedom. "

Source:  Reuters

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English wants to send fighter jets to the Persian Gulf

Photo: English PM David Cameron (AP)

LONDON - English considering putting warplanes in the Persian Gulf. The plan comes as the simmering confrontation with Iran over its nuclear program.

Eurofighter Typhoon jets would be deployed by the British after the British negotiations with the United Arab Emirates. Prime Minister David Cameron will announce the time to send fighter planes to the Middle East.

The presence of British fighter jets would make Iran furious assessed, because Iran has always said that the foreign military presence in the Gulf will cause instability security. Although the UK explained that the presence of fighter jets was not intended to attack Iran, tensions will certainly take place.

So far, the UK intends to put fighter jets in Abu Dhabi which is also a haven military emnjadi United States (U.S.) and French. On Wednesday, British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond also expressed urgency will close relationship of Europe and the Middle East.

"European countries should be ready to emmainkan role in relation to North Africa and the Middle East," Hammond said, as quoted by The Independent on Saturday (11/03/2012).

The deployment of fighter jets was also part of the exercise routine and a British military commitment to the United Arab Emirates to ensure security in the Middle East. Britain insists his country was ready guarantee security and stability of the countries Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

Source: AP

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Threat to global security comes from russia

Even the Russian military cyber 
security experts are often overwhelmed 
by the increasingly sophisticated 
hackers to carry out the action.

MOSCOW - Cyber ​​attacks are now considered as dangerous as terrorism and nuclear proliferation. Russia and China are the most serious cyber threats, according to a recent NATO.

Russian hackers who do not want to be identified told the Russian Today that his work is very simple.

"Customers may differ from schoolchildren to entrepreneurs. Amount order depending on what you are doing and professionalism," said the hacker. "I do not feel any particular danger from the authorities, both domestically and from abroad. Hackers will always be one step ahead of the law. It's always been this way and will continue to do so."

It's not just about hacking into the personal lives - cyber attacks have the ability to make the entire country offline.

In Estonia in 2007 and in Georgia during the war in 2008, hackers were able to freeze all Internet activity and refused to crucial services to the banking system and government. Many have accused the Russian government of orchestrating cyber attacks, a claim denied by Moscow, although the history of hacking in Russia longstanding and well-established.

A famous group known as the RBN, or Russian Business Network, established in St. Petersburg in late 1990. In addition to launching denial of service, known as Distributed Denial of Service, and phishing attacks, the group also said to have a host of more than 1,500 child pornography websites.

Under pressure from the Russian government and the IT expert, RBN officially collapsed in 2007, but none were caught. Instead, the organization moved operations to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, UK and U.S. - and is still considered very dangerous.

Jart Ahmed of the RBNExploit say how the hackers are very sophisticated organized.

"Basically, it's like the whole country offline and disconnected from the Internet connection," said Ahmed told RT. "This is why NATO is now felt that the RBN is a threat and a Russian hacker community is a common threat."

The main obstacle lies in the cyber criminals freeze on Russian law - for the police to begin the process, they need a statement from the affected person, which is rare. IT specialists such as Alexander Gostev of Kaspersky Lab also blamed a lack of international cooperation.

"We need to create a sort of Interpol who could coordinate the work of agencies such as cyber," said Gostev. "These measures are taken, there is an organization called IMPACT established by us that have formed close relationships with several law enforcement agencies around the world."

And this kind of framework which experts say is very important, because fighting global threats will only work with global collaboration.

In August last year, Russia also accused of hacking action 'destruction' of the popular social media sites, Facebook and Twitter. The reason is that the hackers wanted to target bloggers Georgia.

Georgia is a blogger who uses the name maya Cyximu, a region in Georgia, who often wrote a scathing writings related to the war that has been raging between Georgia and Russia.

Since then the hackers who do not like writing the 34-year-old professor, bombarding Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Live Journal with an attack technique among hackers known as Distribute Denial of Service (DDOS).

Cyxymu popular among bloggers will its pro scathing criticism against Georgia and Russia over the war between Russia-Georgia in August 2008. This fact has prompted some speculation that the attacks originated from Russia and is a way to silence the internet activist.

The most surprising part of this story may not be a cyber attack itself, but the repercussions across the world which is still audible. And the main topic Cyxymu blog seems to be the reason. Someone who is not famous at all suddenly become very popular in a short time. With leading newspapers from around the world who wrote the story and interview-such as the Washington Post and the New York Times from the U.S., the Daily Mail of Canada, from the UK Guardian, Liberation of France, El Pais of Spain, Yomiuri of Japan, and many the other - the number of people who heard about Cyxymu and thoughts increased rapidly to hundreds of millions.

Meanwhile, in addition to DDoS techniques, the hackers also take action on behalf of millions of spam emails Georgi to a number of targets. The goal is clearly to bring down the image of Georgi as spammers. Not only Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal were targeted, some Georgian government sites also came under attack from hackers.

Source:  Reuters

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English: The Iraq war is the Crusades!

To broaden the coalition and win
approval, we need to understand 
the Muslim world better, 
Miliband says.

LONDON - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said On Sunday, May 8 that the Iraq war created a prejudice against the country just as the crusades and the failure of the colonial powers to create two states in Palestine.

"The decision that was taken several years ago at the King Charles felt still in sight the Middle East and South Asia," he said in a keynote speech at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (Oxcis) On Tuesday, October 29.

"The destruction of the palace of the Crusades remain as poignant monuments to the religious atrocities of the Middle Ages."

Crusade is a series of military campaigns of a religious character are being implemented by European Christians during 1095-1291.

The campaign, which most of them doubted by Pope Roman Catholic Church, has a goal to take back Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim rule.

"The lines were drawn on maps by colonial forces succeeded, many of which, by the failure - it must be said not just ours - to bring the two states in Palestine," Miliband said.

In 1917, the then Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour sent a letter to Baron Rothschild said that the UK government considers the goodwill establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.

In 1948, Israel was created on the ruins of Palestine, forcing thousands of people out of their homes.Miliband puts Iraq in the same context as the Crusades and colonialism.

"More recently, the invasion of Iraq, and as a result, generate a sense of bitterness, distrust and resentment. Ornag When people hear about Britain, too often they think about these things," he said.These events are associated with a history of relations between Europe and the Islamic world have been categorized by conquest, conflict and colonialism. "

In 2003, Prime Minister Tony Blair to part with some of its European allies in support of President George Bush's decision to invade Iraq without a UN mandate.

Coalition Agreement

Miliband underlined that the need for a new pendekatann to build a broader coalition and agreement among ordinary Muslims.

He insisted that the British should find common ground with the Muslim community and understand its complexity.

"To broaden the coalition and win approval, we need to understand the Muslim world better, or we will risk underestimating our own force of the argument, as I sometimes have to do when using the label moderate and extremist" he admits.

"We must hold fast to our values ​​sesndiri and support those who seek to apply them, or we will be guilty of the hypocrisy and we need to share their efforts to file grievances, socio-economic and political, which are perceived to make Muslims fall, and in fact is the case. "

Miliband asked for the largest possible coalition and political movements, knowing this means prepared to encourage reconciliation with organizations with different values.

"Widest possible coalition will in time include groups whose aims we do not share, whose values ​​we find deplorable, that we think the methods are dubious. However would be unlikely to win the approval of the people if we can not demonstrate consistency and certainty in the application of our values. "

He was asked to draw a line between all of the treatment for those who believe in political violence.

"If we respect all the political treatment, support the implementation of the democratic values ​​of our own and help resolve grievances, including the Palestinians, we can forge a new coalition and win approval."

The top-level diplomat believes that British Muslims are nearly two million has a valuable role to play in building a new partnership.

"In the majority of British Muslim citizens, we have a huge resource, combining the values ​​that bind Britain together as a liberal democracy, with their particular religious identity," he stressed.

"And the merger identity is a valuable lesson when we forge coalitions in the Muslim world."

Crusade began in 1095 at Clermont in southern France, which was declared by Pope Urban II, who urged all Christians to unite and fight under the symbol of the cross to save Jerusalem from the Muslims Ras Arab Criminals. He lectured that God will forgive and redeem the sins of their past if they managed to conquer the Holy Land.

When the city was conquered Maarrat Numan, 100,000 people were killed and burned the town until exhausted. On July 15, 1099, the Crusaders conquered Jerusalem and massacred 65 000 inhabitants in the al-Aqsa Mosque. Piles of heads, hands and feet can be seen on the streets and in the city field[History of the Arabs by PK Hitti]

Between the years 1095-1270, eight Crusades waged war and all ended with the victory of Muslims.In 1917, when the French army entered Damascus, they went to the tomb commander Salahuddin and kicked him and said: Nous revoila, Saladin or we have returned! Hi Saladin.[Christian and Islam by John McManners p.194]

Nearly a century after the Crusades in Jerusalem, emerging new Crusade with purpose and reason. Under the banner of the Cross are worn out their fighting and massacring Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Source:  Reuters

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Opponents book Gaza, Israeli-Jewish European Duo 'Attack' Norwegian Foreign Minister

Loay Soboh, a 10 year old Palestinian 
 boy, was at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza 
 before being transferred to Saudi 
Arabia to undergo further treatment in 
 October 2012 ago. According to the 
doctor, Soboh lost his eyes due to a
 brutal attack Israel. Support Foreign
Minister of Norway to the book Eyes 
of Gaza angered Israel and the Jewish
 community of Europe.

OSLO - The messages of support written on the back cover of a book has caused polemic in Norway. The article exposes Israel massacres committed atrocities against civilians in Gaza last year, it makes cash Norwegian Foreign Minister, Jonas Gahr Store, reaping a lot of criticism from politicians and - was predictable - Jewish groups.

"It became a problem because a representative of a democratic government it reveals things like that," said Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told Haaretz.

Store writes on the back cover of a new book on the Israeli massacre in Gaza during the three-week written by two Norwegian doctors.

In a book titled "Eyes in Gaza", the authors mention Israel has committed a barbaric massacre, systematic and thorough review of the civilians of Gaza.

"When the first war raging, civilians silenced his mouth," wrote Store on the back cover of the book.

"(They) tell me what they saw. What they do is not a duty, but an obligation," said Store, referring to the two authors, Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse.

"When military force has silenced all the votes are there, the strengths and interests of the few voices left will be multiplied."

Israeli troops slaughtered more than 1,400 Palestinians, including 313 people including children, and wounded thousands of others in the brutal aggression on the Gaza Strip that lasted for three weeks.

Zionist attack on Gaza was devastated infrastructure, creating 20,000 units of houses and thousands of schools, hospitals, and mosques in the area was destroyed and reduced to rubble.

A UN fact-finding committee, headed by the famous judge, Richard Goldstone, said that Israel had committed war crimes committed in the attack on the Gaza Strip.

Cash only, European Jewish Congress and vent his anger boiling to the top diplomat of the Norwegian government.

President of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, said that he was very disappointed with the support provided by the Store to a "one-sided slander and unfounded".

"I hope that Norway keep your distance and not too close to" terrorism ", they should know that these statements are worded such that it will help and strengthen the terrorists," said IOL News.

However, the authors of the book is to defend the minister of Norway, Israel has them in the analysis were merciless massacres against Palestinian civilians helpless.

"That is true. Indeed, there has been a massacre," they wrote in the book.

"No doubt it has happened, the carnage is done through a military operation planned and systematically arranged by the Israeli military."

When the massacre of Gaza began on December 27, 2008, two men rushed to the doctor stuck the area to provide assistance to the civilian population of Gaza who are helpless and need assistance.

In Gaza's main hospital, al-Shifa, they witnessed horrific sights with my own eyes. They see first hand the Palestinian people who suffer with the body had been burned, torn flesh, and even that his body was no longer intact due to the lower body was crushed.

"Israel knew exactly what they were doing," said the two doctors.

"The goal is to impose collective punishment of the entire Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip by merciless slaughter of men and women, young or old, even of the children."

Source:  Reuters

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Reuters Deny Use Anti-Israel Rhetoric In The news

Several Israeli soldiers armed to block 
a Palestinian carrying his country's 
flag in a weekly protest in the village 
of Bilin on 20 October 2012. 
(Photo: Getty Images)

LONDON - Global news agency Reuters deny using the terminology associated with the anti-Israel activists after Israeli soldiers called the "Israeli occupation forces" in his report at the weekend.

Reporting attack in Itamar on Friday night, where two and three of their children were killed, Reuters states: "Soldiers of the Israeli occupation forces put up a barrier and is investigating the area around the settlement of Itamar, Palestinian, near the city of Nablus, for the suspect."

The phrase was later removed from the next edition of the news.

"Israeli Occupation Forces" or the abbreviation "IOF" is often used by activists to refer to the Israeli military.

News editor Alastair Macdonald, editor localized at Reuters world news in London and a former Reuters bureau chief in Jerusalem. He edited from reports from Gaza, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Washington.

He told the The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that he did not use the capitalized phrase or acronym.

Macdonald says the phrase is the one that tried to avoid by Reuters, "especially when capitalized or used by the acronym 'IOF,' which is a term associated with the language used by those in favor of one side of this conflict."

"We certainly did routinely refer to 'Israeli occupation of the West Bank', Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and other permutations terms to explain to readers the political status of the region and Israeli troops mission there," he said.

Meanwhile, the BBC has been accused of burying the Itamar attack, with the focus instead on the settlement issue.

Media watchdog organization based in Jerusalem, Honest Reporting, says that most major media focus on the attack while the BBC focuses on solving the problem without special reports devoted to the attack.

Honest Reporting Abuse BBC said the incident as "shocking" and accused the news organization was "insensitive," said that when the news cycle moves, most of the media giving so much focus on the attack though as part of a settlement related news.

"But the BBC is almost buried the Fogel family massacre, once again demonstrates the obsession with the settlement issue above all other issues related to the Arab-Israeli conflict," read a statement by Honest Reporting.

"There is no specific reports of the attack displayed on the site. Instead, the story was included in a settlement story, and even then only a few lines. Yet the BBC, reported that the attack" has shocked many Palestinians. "

This is not the first time Israel has accused Reuters that act as anti-Israel. After the Gaza flotilla attack from Turkey, a blogging site, Little Green Football, sparked anger on the Internet after they accused the Reuters news service accidentally cut one detail in photos taken aboard the Mavi Marmara ship that tried to breach the blockade Israel in Gaza.

According to the blog, photos of Israel's military assault was released by the Turkish daily Hurriyet published by the Associated Press and untouched, but cut by Reuters to remove knives in the hands of an activist from one of the images, and a knife and pool of blood elsewhere.

 
According to the founder of Little Green Footballs, Charles Johnson, "Most people would consider that knife an important part of the context. There is great controversy over whether the activists armed or not. Cutting knife picture, the photo shows a soldier who had apparently been stabbed, seems like a very odd editorial decision. "

Source:  Reuters

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Apparently the Israel settlements Company Funded Europe!

One of the luxury housing in Israel. 
Settlement was funded by the Belgian
company. (Reuters)

Brussels - Belgian financial group - France, Dexia announced he would no longer help fund Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel through the branches of Dexia Israel. This is the result of a long-running campaign in Belgium, supported by NGOs, political parties, local government, trade unions and other organizations. Dexia's management stated that financing Israeli settlements is indeed against the code of ethics and the bank will stop giving credit for this.

In 2001 Dexia Group, which bought the Israeli bank Otzar Hashilton Hamekomi and renamed Dexia Public Finance Israel. Just like other subsidiary Dexia, Dexia Israel special finance municipalities and other local authorities.

It might take until October 2009 for several solidarity groups Belgian Dexia Israel to discover that not only Israel ordinary city finance but also provide loans to illegal settlements in the Palestinian territories. In the documents of the Knesset (Israel's parliament), the director of Dexia Israel, David Kapah, confirmed that the bank does have to give credit to the seven settlements in the three areas occupied West Bank between 2005 and 2008.

Clear evidence was followed by a campaign that is quickly growing in Belgium. Uniting under the slogan 'Israel invaded, Dexia finance', the campaign to get his first success. In the following months launched petitions, lawmakers held accountable and local actions begin to be implemented. support from local Belgian authorities, such as city and province, are so important because they hold a number of shares of Dexia Group.

Today's action platform consists of 61 organizations Belgium, gathered more than 4,000 signatures and got 29 local authorities to sign a resolution. They all asked Dexia break with settlements and stop funding their work immediately.

For several months the government of Belgium and Dexia management never really answer the needs of those actions. But once the campaign began to get more media coverage and the pressure begins to rise, something changed. On October 20, the activists were able to voice the demands of the campaign at the annual meeting of shareholders of Dexia Group in Brussels.

In response, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Dexia's board chairman and former Belgian prime minister, acknowledged that the bank had extended loans to Israeli colonies. He stressed that, since September 2009, there is no additional funding for this or any other colony.

Dehaene declared new loans will not be given to the settlement. He added that credit be given prior to the settlement will not soon be discontinued, they will not be replaced by a similar loan.

Dehaene: "In the past, Dexia Israel to lend 5 million euros to the settlement, it is only 1% of the total budget of Dexia Israel. Loans to the city of Jerusalem was not included in this number, because the Dexia Group feels that Jerusalem is not contested territory."

However, East Jerusalem belongs to the Palestinians. Israel unilaterally seized East Jerusalem in June 1967, and to extend the laws, jurisdiction and administration of Israel to the part of the city. In response, the Security Council adopted resolution 252 that "(UN Security Council) considers that all legislative acts by Israel, including expropriation of land and properties, which tend to change the legal status of Jerusalem are invalid and can not change the status."

In 1980 Israel declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel, including East Jerusalem. In the same year the UN Security Council adopted resolution 476 the Security Council "Reconfirms that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, which purport to alter the character and status of Jerusalem is invalid and a violation of the law against Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War and also constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive peace, and justice in the Middle East ".

Dexia's financial support to the city of Jerusalem can be considered as a support to the occupation of East Jerusalem.

Dehaene also stated that the activities of Dexia Israel is not the core-business of Dexia Group again, and added: "Do not be surprised that at one point, Dexia Dexia Group will sell Israel".

Promotion has been successful, but this is not the end.

According to Mario Franssen, a spokesman of the platform action, the campaign will continue until Dexia has officially announced and provide proof of dismissal of the total funding of the settlement, including the disputed loans to Jerusalem. Franssen explained that the action has not satisfied the action platform, but this concession from Dexia is a good start. "We are demanding a halt to all relationships between Dexia and the colony complete makeover and soon. Dexia guilty of financing the occupation, and this has come to an end," he added.

Source:  Reuters

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