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lunes, 20 de marzo de 2017

La ejemplar renuncia de una mujer digna ante el racismo israelí



Carta de dimisión de Rima Jalaf, jefa de la Comisión Económica y Social para Asia Occidental de las Naciones Unidas 


Notas del Editor:

  1. Las razones de la renuncia que usted leerá a continuación, están basadas en la censura a que estuvieran publicadas en la página oficial de las Naciones Unidas, las pruebas de que Israel es un Estado Medieval que trata a los palestinos como vasallos inferiores ¿pero cuántas personas tienen acceso a la página de la ONU? Enfrentemos la censura haciendo viral esta carta de dignidad que es realmente ejemplar. Difundámosla en redes sociales y por cuanto medio esté a nuestro alcance.
  2. Fue gracias a la presencia árabe de varios siglos en lo que sería después el estado español, que en occidente pudimos conocer las ideas de los filósofos griegos y latinos, que esos países bárbaros aprendieron matemáticas, arquitectura y otras artes. El Estado israelí quiere aplastar esa cultura favoreciendo en cambio la de los terroristas, fanáticos religiosos y "jihadistas" musulmanes para hacernos sentir miedo, para que los consideremos bárbaros y aceptemos el apocalipsis. Difundir esta carta de dignidad ejemplar, puede ayudarnos a dar un paso adelante en la construcción de la paz. Leela y decide. 


Estimado señor secretario general: 


He reflexionado largamente después de leer su carta,  y que vaya por delante que no cuestiono su derecho a impartir las  ordenes de retirar el informe insertado en la página web de la ESCWA , tampoco tengo duda 

de que nosotros los funcionarios de la Secretaria General, estamos obligado a acatar las órdenes del secretario general. Sé muy bien, su compromiso con los derechos humanos en general, y su posición respecto a los derechos del pueblo palestino; especialmente, comprendo su preocupación por las situaciones que atravesamos en estos complicados 
días que no le dejan muchas opciones.  



Me constan las presiones y amenazas que se ejercen sobre la Naciones Unidas, y sobre su persona, por estados influyentes, y prepotentes, a raíz del informe de (ESCWA) titulado los (Acciones de Israel contra el 
Pueblo Palestino, y la cuestión del apartheid). 



No me extraña que dichos estados, regidos en la actualidad por gobiernos insensibles a las normas del derecho internacional y los 
valores de los derechos humanos, recurran a las amenazas y al miedo,cuando se muestran incapaces de defender sus políticas y tapar sus violaciones del derecho internacional, acudir a estos tipos de presiones. Resulta lógico que el criminal agrede a todo el que 
defienda la causa de la víctima. A pesar de todo yo no estoy dispuesta a someterme a estas presiones.



No solo por mi condición de funcionaria internacional, sino además por ser un ser humano justo, al igual que usted, convencida de los valores, principios humanos supremos, que han sido  motor de las fuerzas que han luchado y siguen luchando por el bien a lo largo de la Historia, son los mismos valores sobre los cuales se fundó nuestra Organización de las Naciones Unidas. Estoy absolutamente convencida,igual que usted también, que la discriminación entre seres humanos por razón de su religión, color de piel, género o raza, es algo inaceptable. No es posible renunciar a esto por motivos políticos, o por el imperio de la fuerza. Estoy persuadida de que decir la verdad 
ante el opresor, déspota, no es solo es un derecho de todos sino un deber también. 



En el plazo de menos dos meses fue ordenada para retirar dos informes emitidos por la ESCWA , no por faltas defectos de fondo,  y ni porque usted necesariamente disiente del contenido, sino como consecuencia de 
presiones políticas ejercida por estados responsables de graves violaciones de los derechos de los pueblos de la región, y contra humanidad en general. 



He visto con mis propios ojos como los moradores de esta región atraviesan un periodo de sufrimiento y dolor, sin precedentes en la historia moderna. La catarata de catástrofes que les invade en estos tiempos, es consecuencia de una serie de injusticias, que no solo no fueron atendidas debidamente, sino que fueron acalladas, incluso instigadas y con la participación de gobiernos dominantes y poderosos en la región o fuera de ella. Estos mismos gobiernos son los que le presionan a usted en estos momentos para acallar la voz de la justicia, y los llamamientos a implementarla que contiene el informe. 



En consideración de todo lo dicho, no puedo más que reiterar las conclusiones del informe de la ESCWA, que acusan a Israel de fundar un régimen de segregación racial, apartheid, con la intención de imponer un grupo étnico sobre otro. 



Las pruebas que contiene el informe son concluyentes, me basta señalar en esta ocasión que ninguno de los que arremetieron contra el informe, cuestionaron un solo punto del contenido. 


Me veo en el deber de arrojar luz sobre la verdad y no omitirla bajo un tupido velo, ni acallar los testimonios y las pruebas. La dolorosa realidad es que el régimen de apartheid sigue vigente en el siglo XXI,esto es algo inaceptable bajo ningún concepto, y no se puede justificar éticamente de ningún modo.



Yo, personalmente no presumo de tener una ética superior a la suya,señor secretario general, ni de tener una vista de lince más amplia que la de usted. La razón (de mi postura) puede ser fundamentada en la vida entera que pase en esta región, atestiguando las nefastas consecuencias, de reprimir a la 
gente, impidiendo se canalicen sus sentimientos de injusticia con medios pacíficos. 



Por todo lo dicho, y después de una larga reflexión, he llegado a la conclusión que no contemplo la retirada, una vez más, de un informe de las Naciones Unidas, absolutamente y exquisitamente documentado, sobre violaciones graves de los derechos humanos, por otro lado soy consciente de que las claras órdenes del secretario general deben ser cumplidas, en consecuencia llegamos a un nudo irresoluble que solo puede ser desatado, más que apartándome, permitiendo que otros hagan lo que en conciencia no puedo hacer. Sé que me restan dos semanas para finalizar mi trabajo, lo digo para que sepa que mi dimisión no pretende ser una forma de presión política sobre usted. 



Sencillamente dimito por responsabilidad, compromiso con los pueblos con los que trabajamos,  con la ONU, y con mi propia conciencia.. No puedo omitir la verdad sobre un crimen flagrante, que provoca todo este sufrimiento a un gran número de seres humanos. 



Por todo dicho le comunico mi dimisión de las Naciones Unidas 


Traducción fiel al texto en árabe escrito por la señora Rima Jalaf ( Khalaf).

martes, 14 de julio de 2015

A un año del asesinato de los niños palestinos en la Playa de Gaza no castigan crimen de guerra

 
 
 
 
 
Naomi Zeveloff, Corresponsal de Forward, publicación progresista de la comunidad judía en Estados Unidos
Muhammad Subhi Bakr was once an avid fisherman. But now the 53-year-old can barely bring himself to go to the Gaza City beach, where his family has run a fishing business for generations.
That was where his son Ismail died in an Israeli strike last summer during Israel’s 51-day war with Hamas. Ismail was one of four young cousins aged 9 to 11 killed while playing on the beach July 16 in one of the most high-profile incidents of the war. The event became instantly emblematic of the high civilian death toll on the Palestinian side. More than 2,200 Palestinians, including hundreds of children, were killed in the war. Sixty-six Israeli soldiers and six civilians also died.
READ: At Kibbutz Near Gaza, Wounds Are Still Healing 1 Year After War
In June, an Israeli military investigator concluded that the incident did not warrant criminal charges because the soldiers had mistaken the boys for Hamas fighters as they played in an area “utilized exclusively by militants.” Meanwhile, a United Nations report found “strong indications” that Israel failed to uphold international law in this case by not taking all feasible measures to protect civilians. Based on the report, the United Nations Human Rights Council recently adopted a resolution condemning Israel’s actions during the war.
When I met with members of the Bakr family in May, they had no comment on the probes, still ongoing at the time. They held out hope that Israel would be tried for war crimes in the International Criminal Court. Yet the investigations are a distant backdrop to their day-to-day grief. One year since the incident, the Bakrs continue to mourn for their young sons, who would have been fisherman, now laid to rest in a cemetery by the Mediterranean.
Muhammad Bakr said he wanders the beach looking in vain for his son’s body parts in a grim mourning ritual. Once the source of his livelihood, the Gaza port has become the scene of his nightmares.
“We were devoted to the sea,” he said, “but not anymore.”
The Bakrs live a few minutes’ drive from the beach, in a Gaza City neighborhood known as Bakr Land, home to some 3,000 members of the clan. Unlike the many Gazans who came to the strip as refugees from the Arab-Israeli war in 1948, the Bakrs have lived in Gaza for hundreds of years. Family lore has it that they journeyed to Gaza from Saudi Arabia, where they were also fishermen. Longtime supporters of Fatah, the Bakrs have sometimes had a tense relationship with Hamas, Fatah’s rival Palestinian faction that rules Gaza.
On a humid afternoon in May, I visited several members of the Bakr family at the home of Muhammad Bakr’s sister, Salwa Bakr. Her son, also named Muhammad, was one of the four killed that day. When I arrived at the three-room apartment, two boys were outside leaning over a concrete barrier that had been draped with green foam pallets. These pallets were the children’s mattresses.
Inside, a young girl was slipping across the linoleum floor in adult-size gold high heels. Soon, another daughter walked in with two corncobs wrapped in paper, which Salwa Bakr split among the children. Yet despite the activity, the apartment had a muted air.
Salwa Bakr sat on a chocolate-brown couch in the front room. Before the interview began, she requested that I not ask her to take me to the cemetery, as other journalists had done. With the one-year anniversary of the deaths nearing, the family was receiving journalists constantly, reliving that day in a harrowing loop.
Communal Loss: Adults from left, Muhammad Subhi Bakr, Ramez  Bakr, Ahed Bakr, Salwa Bakr, five of the parents of the four boys who were killed while playing on the beach in Gaza City, gather in the family compound.
Image: Naomi Zeveloff
Communal Loss: Adults from left, Muhammad Subhi Bakr, Ramez Bakr, Ahed Bakr, Salwa Bakr, five of the parents of the four boys who were killed while playing on the beach in Gaza City, gather in the family compound.

But the family also sees the media as an integral part of bringing the case to light. The attack took place just outside Al Deira Hotel, where many journalists were staying during the war. Several reporters were firsthand witnesses to the event, and some performed first aid.
“We were lucky that it was captured by international media,” Muhammad Bakr said. “Otherwise, Israelis would have said it was ‘resistance’ on the beach.”
The boys — Muhammad, Zakaria, Ismail and Ahed — were a tight-knit quartet who often spent the night together and once built themselves a play area out of concrete. The elder Muhammad Bakr said that he had a special kinship with the foursome, who used to rollick at his home.
“We feel that since, we have lost the spirit and the soul of our house,” he said.
Ismail was his healthiest child. Because Muhammad Bakr’s vision problems made it difficult for him to work, Ismail quit school and began selling tea and coffee at the Gaza Seaport to earn money for the family. He also fished with his brothers, catching sardines in the Mediterranean.
“My child was a man who sacrificed his future just because he knew that the family wanted help,” he said, gesturing with a cigarette as he spoke.
On the day his son died, Muhammad Bakr said that Ismail had asked his wife, Sahar Bakr, to make maftoul , Palestinian couscous, for the Ramadan evening meal. Ismail went grocery shopping with her to purchase chicken and vegetables. When they returned home he played soccer in the street with his cousins. Later in the day the boys went to the beach to cool down. Muhammad Bakr said that on their way a journalist warned them that the beach was dangerous, but they continued, intent on kicking a ball in the sand. Just after 4:00 p.m., an initial blast sent the boys running in the direction of Al Deira Hotel when another Israeli missile targeted them.
Muhammad Bakr was lying down at home when he heard a woman outside screaming his son’s name. He rushed out of bed, dressing himself as he ran downstairs. He saw on television that four boys had died in an Israeli strike, but his neighbors couldn’t tell him who they were. He jumped onto a horse-drawn cart with his wife and sped toward the morgue.
There were more than 400 Bakrs there. Bakr soon learned that Ismail was one of the four who had died. As he made his way through the morgue, people begged him not to look under the sheet covering Ismail’s small form. He went into the street, where men were fainting and women slapping their own cheeks. There were hundreds of cameras. Bakr said he lost consciousness. The Bakr boys were buried that afternoon.
Salwa Bakr cannot stop replaying that day in her mind. Hours before her son Muhammad died, she woke him up to run an errand for her. Another son was in the hospital with a heart condition, and the doctors needed paperwork from her. She sent 10-year-old Muhammad with the papers, and when he returned he began to play soccer with his cousins.
“I woke him up to get him killed,” she said over and over again.
Now, Salwa Bakr has stopped taking care of her appearance, she said; her old routines feel meaningless. Her mornings are filled with housework and child care, and her afternoons are often spent meeting with journalists.
“I just live because I have no other choice,” she said.
Muntasser, the 12-year-old brother of Zakaria, was injured in the attack and lives with deep emotional wounds. His father, Ahed Bakr, said that Muntasser lashes out at his young cousins and wets his bed. At night he dreams that he is playing with the other children. When he sees a report about his cousins on television, his limbs go limp in shock. His family has difficulty affording his powerful antipsychotic medications. Usually, Hamas provides money to “martyrs” who died at Israel’s hands. But the Bakr family said they have not received the money.
“I can evaluate Hamas’s performance and assistance by saying they did zero for us,” Ahed Bakr said.
After the interview, Salwa Bakr gave me a brief tour of the family home. One corner of the living room had been turned into a memorial for her son. She stopped by a shelf where there were four plaques honoring Muhammad: two from Islamic Jihad and two from Fatah.
Picking up one, she smiled at her son’s photograph and kissed it three times.
 
Contact Naomi Zeveloff at Zeveloff@forward.com or on Twitter, @naomizeveloff


Read more: http://forward.com/news/311710/one-year-later-the-bakrs-continue-to-mourn/#ixzz3ftASzTSE

 



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