الرئيسة صحافة عالمية الشرق الأوسط في عيون الصحافة الأجنبية (12-7-2016)
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الشرق الأوسط في عيون الصحافة الأجنبية (12-7-2016)

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إيان بلاك- الجارديان: حديث “الفيصل” عن “تغيير النظام” في إيران يُصَعِّد العداء لمتسويات جديدة

قال مراسل صحيفة الجارديان البريطانية إيان بلاك: إن تصريحات الأمير تركي الفيصل عن “تغيير النظام” في إيران تمثل تصعيدًا للعداء بين الرياض وطهران إلى مستويات غير مسبوقة، ويؤكد التنافس الاستراتيجي بين البلدين.

يأتي ذلك في إشارة إلى التصريحات التي أدلى بها “الفيصل” خلال مشاركته في في المؤتمر السنوي لمنظمة مجاهدي خلق الإيرانية المعارضة.

ووصف الكاتب البريطاني “الفيصل” بأنه رجل متواضع، بالنظر إلى كونه أميرًا سعوديًا، حيث يصر دائمًا على أنه لا يمثل أحدًا إلا نفسه، وبالتأكيد لا يمثل العائلة الحاكمة. مضيفًا: “لكن رجل المخابرات السعودي السابق، وسفير المملكة لدى واشنطن معتاد على إحداث موجات من التأثير كلما ظهر علنًا”.

وكان الفيصل قد قال في كلمته: “الانتفاضة اشتعلت، ونحن في العالم الإسلامي نقف معكم قلبا وقالبا، نناصركم وندعو الباري أن يسدد خطاكم”. وهي المشاركة التي وصفها مسؤول العلاقات العامة في الحرس الثوري الإيراني، العميد رمضان شريف، بـ الخطوة “الوقحة”.

كيفن باريت– فيتيرانس توداي: داعش على وشك الانهيار في العراق وسوريا.. رغم الخطة الإسرائيلية لبلقنة المنطقة

تحت عنوان “داعش على وشك الانهيار في العراق وسوريا” نقل موقع فيتيرانس توداي تصريحا أدلى به كيفن باريت لقناة برس تي في الإيرانية، أعرب فيه عن اعتقاده في “أننا سنشهد تحسنًا كبيرًا في المستقبل القريب” بالنظر إلى انهيار داعش، وفقدانها المصداقية.

لكنه رأى أننا لا نزال في خضم الفوضى، التي يراها تعود إلى أوائل الثمانينيات، حيث عقدت خطة عوديد ينون الإسرائيلية العزم على زعزعة استقرار المنطقة، وبلقنتها، وإسقاطها، خاصة الدول المجاورة؛ عبر تقسيمها على أسس طائفية وعرقية.

وتابع: “وُضِع هذا البرنامج في حالة تأهب قصوى مع انطلاق العلاقات العامة للحرب على الإرهاب. ولم يتم الانتهاء من هذه الخطة حتى الآن. لذلك نحن بحاجة إلى إدراك احتمالية حدوث المزيد من الأذى الصهيوني. بيد أنني أعتقد أن داعش في مراحلها الأخيرة، وهي لا تحظى بأي دعم في أنحاء العالم الإسلامي، وليس لها مستقبل، وأعتقد أن سوريا والعراق سيشهدان أياما أفضل مستقبلا”.

رمزي بارود- جالف نيوز: التطبيع التركي-الإسرائيلي ضربة لآمال الفلسطينيين المحاصرين

كتب رمزي بارود مقالا في صحيفة جالف نيوز هاجم فيه تطبيع العلاقات بين تركيا وإسرائيل، ووصفه بأنه يمثل ضربة لآمال الفلسطينيين المحاصرين في غزة، في وقتٍ كانوا يعوِّلون على أن حصارهم أوشك على الانتهاء.

وأضاف: “مع ذلك، ربما الاتفاق هو في الواقع دعوة للاستيقاظ.. يجب على الفلسطينيين الاعتماد على أنفسهم أولا وقبل أي شيء، وتحقيق وحدتهم المستعصية، والتماس التضامن من مختلف أنحاء العالم، وليس فقط من أنقرة”.

تركيا تحذر الناتو: إما تحمل المسئولية الآن أو انتظار مشكلات أكبر بكثير مستقبلا في أوروبا

حثت تركيا مرة أخرى الناتو على توفير الدعم لتركيا في جهودها لمواجهة مشكلات الشرق الأوسط، وحذرت من أن الحلفاء الأوروبيين سوف يواجهون مشكلات أكبر في المستقبل، إذا لم يتخذ الحلف خطوات سريعة الآن، بحسب موقع جورنال أوف تركيش ويكلي.

وقال رئيس الوزراء التركي، بن علي يلدرم، خلال اجتماعه البرلماني الأسبوعي: “إذا لم يتحمل الناتو مسئولياته الآن، ينبغي أن يدرك أن مشكلات أكبر بكثير تنتظر أوروبا”.

وهو التصريح الذي اعتبره الموقع التركي صدى للتحذير السابق الذي أطلقه الرئيس رجب طيب أرودغان خلال قمة حلف شمال الأطلسي في وارسو الأسبوع الماضي.

إلين ليبسون- وورلد بوليتيكس ريفيو: تركيا والعراق.. وجهان مختلفان لمشكلة الرجل القوي

نشر موقع وورلد بوليتيكس ريفيو مقالا لـ إلين ليبسون رأى فيه أن العراق وتركيا يمثلان وجهان لمشكلة الرجل القوي في الشرق الأوسط، لكن بطريقتين متعارضتين.

ورأى المقال أن تركيا تشهد ديمقراطية معيبة لكنها تعمل منذ أكثر من عقد، وهي الآن تعود إلى نموذج أكثر سلطوية. بينما في العراق ذهب الزعيم القوي وحل مكانه زعيم سياسي أكثر تقليدية بدرجة أثارت الحنين إلى النظام القديم.

ويضيف: “لدى الولايات المتحدة بعض النفوذ لدفع الدولتين إلى تحقيق التوازن الصحيح بين التفريط  في التحقق بالقوة أو الإفراط في استخدامها.

جوزيف أولمرت– هاف. بوست: الفلسطينيين والأردنيين يعلنون حربا دينية ضد اليهود

اعتبر الدكتور جوزيف أولمرت أن الفلسطينيين والأردنيين يعلنون حربًا دينية ضد اليهود- وهو أمر خطير- في إشارة إلى التصويت المرتقب للجنة التراث العالمي الثقافي التابعة للأمم المتحدة على مسودة مشروع قرار لا تتطرق إلى الرابط اليهودي بالبلدة القديمة في مدينة القدس والحرم القدسي، وتدعو إلى العودة إلى الوضع الراهن التاريخي.

وأضاف مستنكرًا في مقاله المنشور على موقع هافنجتون بوست: “حقًا؟ هل أصبحت الأمم المتحدة تتخذ قرارات بشأن الأماكن الدينية المقدسة؟ هل فكرت الأمم المتحدة أبدًا في الأماكن المقدسة الإسلامية أو الكاثوليكية أو البروتستانتية أو البوذية أو السيخية (واعذروني إن نسيت أحدًا). إنها فقط ضد اليهود. وهذا ما يمكن أن يطلق عليه معاداة السامية، بوضوح وبساطة. إنها إبادة جماعية ثقافية/دينية ضد اليهود وتاريخهم ودينهم”.

تايم: 16 مصورًا يرشحون صورًا من حرب لبنان في ذكراها العاشرة

بمناسبة مرور عشر سنوات على حرب لبنان 2006، طلبت مجلة تايم الأمريكية من 16 مصورا ترشيح أبرز الصور التي التقطوها لتغطية الحرب، فكانت الاختيارات التالية:

This was different from any other war. I lived in Beirut. For the first time in my life, I truly understood what it was to be a civilian caught in conflict, because I was one. Being in Lebanon wasn't like being in Afghanistan or Iraq. I had no psychological protection, no place of safety to look forward to returning after my assignment. Day after day, Israel bombed infrastructure across the country, dropping massive bombs into densely populated urban neighborhoods just a couple of miles from my apartment. Each time my body would grow tense and I would cover my ears. I even removed the windowpanes on one side of my flat for fear the glass would shatter. There was often no electricity or fuel for generator power. I resorted to buying truck batteries to power my computer. In the dark, I would listen to the news while transmitting my pictures to the outside world. Lebanese teens watch Israeli airstrikes from a hilltop overlooking Beirut at the start of the 2006 Lebanon War.One of the things that stood out about the Israel-Lebanon War was the access that was possible. It felt like three wars going on. From Israel, to the bombardments in the suburbs of Beirut, to the bombings that were happening in the south of Lebanon, where I was working. Because of that access, there were a lot of photographers, and that may have saturated an already weary audience of seeing another conflict. These conflicts tend to go in cycles. Look at what has happened over the years in the Gaza Strip, or the prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which are continuing in different ways today and have turned into different types of conflict. And of course Syria, Libya- these countries have become extremely difficult to work in. The war in Lebanon was one of the last places I've worked where you could move freely and document the conflict from all sides. That is something we always strive for, and always hope for, and almost never have the luxury to do. Residents of Aitaroun, in southern Lebanon, take advantage of a temporary halt in Israeli airstrikes to flee their village, Aug. 2006.This image I took, as the only embedded photographer with the IDF, depicts a classic "sacrifice" visual narrative of a hero giving his life for his nation. I was told by several people that it was ’very Vietnam’. Since this image was not overtly gruesome and since the soldier survived his injuries, it could be prominently displayed. I later learned that this scene actually represents a victim of a friendly fire incident, though it had already circulated and had been published with the caption that this soldier had been wounded in a Hezbollah attack. Because I insisted that information be included in the caption, the image lost value as a propaganda tool. This soldier was inconveniently hit by the wrong explosives. I have come to believe that embedded ‘war photography’ simplifies the brutal ambiguity of conflict into well-worn and widely recognized visual templates. We, “war photographers,” help in reinforcing masculine myths of war as a purging experience. As it stands, I believe my images did a great disservice to the people who died or participated in this unnecessary and farcical demonstration of force in 2006, which besides claiming the lives of more than one hundred Israeli soldiers, also killed almost 30 times more Lebanese civilians than the 44 Israeli civilian dead. This conditioned Israeli public opinion to accept similar carnage in Gaza in 2009 and 2014 as a reasonable response.Many Left Dead And Wounded After Air Attack In Southern Region Of TyreThere's no oneIn the villageNot a humanNor a stoneThere's no oneIn the villageChildren are goneAnd a mother rocksherself to sleepLet it come downLet her weepThe dead lay in strange shapesSome stay buriedOthers crawl freeBaby didn't make itScreaming debrisAnd a mother rocksHerself to sleepLet it come downLet her weepThe dead lay in strange shapesLimp little dollsCaked in mudSmall, small handsFound in the roadTheir talking aboutWar aimsWhat a phraseBombs that fallAmerican madeThe new middle eastThe rice woman squeaksThe dead lay in strange shapesLittle bodiesLittle bodiesTied head and feetWrapped in plasticLaid out in the streetThe new middle eastThe rice woman squeaksThe dead lay in strange shapesWater to wineWine to bloodAhh QanaThe miracleIs loveThis was was my first conflict. I was thirty at the time and had visited Lebanon in 2004 and 2005. Because I knew people there, I felt the urge to cover this story. I arrived in Beirut at the beginning of the conflict and I travelled to Tyre, in the south of the country, with Paolo Pellegrin who guided me into the world of conflict journalism. I have two distinct memories of the situation. My first impression was that in Tyre there was no front line. Soldiers did not face each other in combat. Israel was bombing the south of Lebanon from planes and neither the local population, nor the journalists, could anticipate when that would happen. After an explosion, there was smoke, and the reporters, mostly all together, scrambled to report what was happening. Journalists in conflict areas, I then discovered, tend to stick together, share information as much as possible, move in small groups, cover the same events, and in some cases take more or less the same pictures. I suspected, and I learned. that this is what you are supposed to do. I took this picture of a woman desperate to flee Ramesh, Lebanon at the border with Israel. The village was isolated for over a week or so, due to Israeli bombing. The population was stuck in the village without water and food. When the news reached journalists, a large group decided to drive there despite the risk of being hit by an Israeli bomb on the road. Once we arrived, the situation was tense and surreal. The population was desperate to flee. The few locals with cars were offering rides out of the village for $100 per person. Journalists and photographers were running around to get the most poignant pictures, the best quote. We were pressed for time and had to leave to file the news and pictures. I must confess - I was excited, scared and shocked, all at the same time. Probably, this was less about the the real situation, and more about my being there. Ten years later I still sometimes wonder what I was really doing there.I spent four weeks in Lebanon in 2006. I have bad memories of this trip. I was always late, always on the side of events, never in the right place. As a relatively young photographer, I was selfishly running after action and strong images- without ever reaching them. The culmination of this quest was the march towards Bint Jbeil, the besieged city that was copiously bombed by the Israeli Air Force. At 12 kilometers away, we could see and hear the F-16s dropping their bombs on the martyred city. No one could enter or leave. It was all that was needed to stimulate my imagination. I decided to walk for 12 km with another photographer and a peaceful white sheet fixed to a stick. Surrounding us, was the invisible buzz of a drone. The first burst of Israeli artillery was falling quite far from us. In a field, the earth absorbed the explosion. We were less than 500 meters from the entrance of Bint Jbeil. I decided to continue. I saw silhouettes of buildings through smoke and dust from the explosions. I could see a portrait of Hassan Nasrallah, and a few trees. The second salvo of artillery fell close enough to us that stones and earth fell on our helmets. There was half a second of fear and hesitation. It was too late to run to the city center. The next salvo would be for us. We left in the opposite direction, defeated and disappointed. There was not even a picture. Frustrated, I was missing the essential: understanding and accuracy.I remember the 2016 war in Lebanon as pretty much driving and wandering around a certain Mediterranean picturesque but empty normality, suddenly interrupted by the extreme brutality of the war. The two pictures that stick in my mind are the red-lit family living room. A bomb had hit not far away, and had blown out the windows. The family was gone. The place was totally quiet and eery. And the other extreme: screaming, shouting, shoving. Lebanese forces had evacuated the dead from an Israeli air raid. And suddenly they carried out these two little boys, brothers? I don't think more needs to be said.The most frantic time in a war zone is often when there is a lull in fighting. A scramble for resources, quick burial of the dead, and displaced people fleeing for safer refuge can create a chaotic scene where there was a ghost town of rubble just minutes before. Carloads of people, who had been cut off from all communication in the village of Bent Jbeil for days, as heavy fighting destroyed their village, were using such a lull to escape on July 27, 2006. Visibly dehydrated children peered out of mosquito netting that covered the blown out windows of the car in which they fled. The driver slowed to ask New York Times journalist Anthony Shadid about what had been happening in the rest of Lebanon, and where they should go. I only had a beat or two to make this photograph before the car moved on. We didn't have much to suggest to them. They were stuck, as the poor and less able-bodied often are in war. Those in power, those who fought, and even those who covered the war (of which there were many in 2006), all knew their roles at this point. The displaced people were extras in that play, being herded from one dark corner of war to another. The momentary ceasefire was over as quickly as it started. Munitions rumbled up the valley, and the streets emptied again. I look back at this picture and shake my head at how I took for granted my ability to photograph the victims of conflict in the early 2000s. Many colleagues, including Shadid, have since died in the region as it has become prohibitively dangerous to cover. Although quick and largely forgotten, the 2006 war was a critical crossroads of what had been happening in Iraq and Palestine, and what has since happened in Syria. It is nearly impossible to properly document conflict in the Middle East. There are millions of displaced, injured, and killed civilians that the world will never see.A woman stands in disbelief among the remains of where her house once stood in the village of Aita Chaab, southern Lebanon. It was quite shocking to see how destructive this very short war was between Hezbollah and Israel. The village was first bombed, and then the Israeli army brought bulldozers to completely flatten it. This was ten years ago. It is depressing how much the situation in the Middle East has deteriorated since then.I'm a mother of two young boys now. I understand this photograph in a way that I wasn't capable of when I took it. We all took advantage of a temporary halt in Israeli air strikes in the middle of the war. Journalists were finally safer to drive around, and those trapped in bombarded villages were given an opportunity to escape. We entered Aitaroun and found people emerging out of a flattened village. It was a moment of chaos as people realized it was quiet and safe to flee. At the time, there were only enough vehicles to evacuate women and children. It was a moment of true fear, as these boys knew they were leaving their father behind.Families from the border towns of Lebanon flee through the very dangerous coastal road between Tyre and Sidon.When the Israel-Lebanon war started, I was an Israeli photographer living in New York. Many people thought this would be another news story that goes away in a few days, but when my friends and family called from Israel and said they had been drafted, it was not only personal, but it was also the moment I knew it was time to go home and cover this war. Remember this was a time when social media wasn't pervasive and the immediacy of pictures getting to mass populations around the world existed through print magazines and newspapers, more than through internet channels. In the Middle East, wars go from zero to a hundred faster than anywhere in the world. This war became proof of that. While most people will remember the devastation in Lebanon, I remember Israel being bombarded like I had never seen before. I remember the daily deaths, the constant bombing, and the endless numbers of soldiers walking past the border north into the ugliness of war. It wasn't long before those same soldiers would return in body bags, at least a few each day. Funerals became a daily routine. Often, they would be interrupted by sirens announcing incoming artillery. As the war continued, we photographed funerals less, as they had become old news, and a too The 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon proved one of the only times in my career when I have covered both sides of a war, across sovereign borders. Frontlines, visas, security, suspicion, broken infrastructure and travel bans generally make it extremely difficult for a journalist to cover two nations at war within the span of a few weeks. I was in Angola when the fighting began, and by the time I made my way to the region, I was assigned to northern Israel for The New York Times. A few weeks later, I was sent to Lebanon to cover the ceasefire. The first image is of Israeli troops loading artillery, and firing their tanks into Lebanon in retaliation for Hezbollah rockets streaming into civilian areas across Israel. The second image is from south Beirut, as families made their way through the decimated southern suburbs of Hezbollah territory.I took this picture 5-10 minutes after the bombing in a neighborhood in southern Beirut because I had been taking pictures there. I got to the sight immediately with the Red Cross and there was nothing to be found. It was August 13, at the very end of the war. There was no reason for the Israeili Air Force to bomb that place. I assume that people from Hezbollah were living there. They leveled eleven big buildings, including a school. There were many casualties, and it was was a very big shock. This was basically a war fought against a non-threatening country that was laid to rubble. It was for the benefit of the right wing Israeli policy to dominate. ItÕs a cycle for no other reason than to consolidate the system that is in place.It was the summer of 2006. The war between Israel and the Hezbollah had ceased, leaving ruins, destruction and death. Lots of families had been displaced. Their towns, villages and homes were turned into ruins. Despite the truce and an Israeli ban on vehicles in the southern part of the country, some had decided to take the road back to a place they called home. It was very difficult for me to take pictures of another war in my own country. I wanted to show the absurdity of war and the resilience of the people. I feel like we live in a doomed region where war will never end.Oded Balilty—AP

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