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Coexistence Créative & Constructive

Coexistence Créative & Constructive

Résistance Non-Violente

selon Martin Luther King

Il y a plus de vingt ans, nous avons édité et publié un petit livre rouge en deux versions bilingues, anglais-arabe et anglais-hébreu, qui ont été utilisées dans des écoles et des universités en Israël (Jérusalem et Saint-Jean d’Acre) et en Palestine (de Jénine et Naplouse à Gaza).

https://messageriesdelapaix.org/index.php/2025/02/21/annotated-martin-luther-king-bilingual-books/

Suite aux désastres post-2023 et à leurs conséquences actuelles, nous le rééditons, autrement organisé :

I- LA COMMUNAUTE HUMAINE

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Creative & Constructive Coexistence

Creative & Constructive Coexistence

Non-Violent Resistance

in Martin Luther King’s words

Over twenty years ago we edited and published a little red book in two bilingual versions, English-Arabic and English-Hebrew, that were used in schools and universities in Israel (from Jerusalem to Acre) and in Palestine (from Jenin and Nablus to Gaza).

https://messageriesdelapaix.org/index.php/2025/02/21/annotated-martin-luther-king-bilingual-books/

Given the post-2023 disasters and their ongoing consequences, we are re-editing it, differently organized :

I- COMMUNITY OF MAN

1. Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theories of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.

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2. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity.

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3. As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way the world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.

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4. All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labour to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally “in the red”. We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women. When we rise in the morning, we go into the bathroom where we reach for a sponge which is provided for us by a Pacific islander. We reach for soap that is created for us by Europeans. Then at the table we drink coffee which is provided for us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African. Before we leave for our jobs we are already beholden* to more than half of the world.

* beholden : indebted

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5. I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for the mind, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn
down, other-centered men can build up.

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6. What is needed today […] is a committed altruism which recognizes this truth. True altruism is more than the capacity to pity; it is the capacity to empathize. Pity is feeling sorry for someone; empathy is feeling sorry with someone. Empathy is fellow feeling for the person in need – his pain, agony, and burdens.

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7. An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

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8. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgement. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?

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9. The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbour will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.

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10. Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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11. Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. [Many] men who cherish [high] and noble ideals hide them […] for fear of being called different.

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12. For years now we have heard the word “Wait!”. It rings in the ear of every Negro piercing familiarity. Perhaps it is easy for those who have never fel the stinging darts of segregation to say, “Wait”. But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate-filled policemen curse, kick, and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of our twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society… when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodiness” – then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.

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II- CIVIL RIGHTS, JUSTICE & FREEDOM

13. There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by oppression. There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice. The story of Montgomery is the story of fifty thousand such Negroes who were willing to substitute tired feet for tired souls, and walk the streets of Montgomery until the walls of segregation were finally battered by the forces of justice.

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14. The deep rumbling of discontent that we hear today is the thunder of disinherited masses, raising from dungeons of oppression to the bright hills of freedom, in one majestic chorus the raising masses singing, in the words of our freedom song, “Ain’t gonna let nobody turn us around”. All over the world, like a fever, the freedom movement is spreading in the widest liberation in history. The great masses of people are determined to end the exploitation of their races and land. They are awake and moving toward their goal like a tidal wave. You can hear them rumbling in every village, street, on the docks, in the houses, among the students […] and at political meetings. These developments should not surprise any student of history. Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

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15. There comes a time when a moral man can’t obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. And the important thing is that when he does that, he willingly accepts the penalty because if he refuses to accept the penalty, then he becomes reckless, and he becomes an anarchist. There were those individuals in every age and generation who were willing to say, “I will be obedient to a higher law”. It is important to see that there are times when a manmade law is out of harmony with the moral law of the universe.

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16. Human progress is never automatic nor inevitable. Even a superficial look at history reveals that no social advance rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Without persistent effort, time itself becomes an ally of the insurgent and primitive forces of irrational emotionalism and social destruction. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

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17. The hope of the world is still in dedicated minorities. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been in the minority. That creative minority of whites absolutely committed to civil rights can make it clear to the larger society that vacillation and procrastination on the question of racial justice can no longer be tolerated. It will take such a small committed minority to work unrelentingly to win the uncommitted majority.

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18. When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love. When evil men would seek to perpetrate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

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Media November 2026

They Once Commanded Israel’s Army. Now They Protect Palestinians From Masked Soldiers and Settlers
Noa Limone, Haaretz, November 6, 2026

Like Trump, Netanyahu Finds the Limits to Fear-Mongering
Roger Cohen, The New York Times, November 6, 2026

Palestinians push anti-Israel UN resolutions as EU struggles to agree
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, November 6, 2026

Omer Bartov: Genocide has become the continuation of politics by other means
Interview, L’Orient Today, November 6, 2026

Diaries from Gaza: Was I wrong to bring another child into the world?
Noor Alyacoubi, L’Orient Today, November 5, 2026

Political Losses Deepen the Stakes as Trump Contemplates Renewed Iran Attack
David E. Sanger, The New York Times, November 5, 2026

Israeli settlers move into homes near West Bank city
L’Orient Today, November 5, 2026

Iran is Reviewing ‘Concrete Proposals’ on Nuclear Program, Officials Say
Adam Rasgon, Vivian Nereim, Tyler Pager, Farnaz Fassihi, The New York Times, November 5, 2026

People aren’t leaving, but bags are packed: Beirut’s southern suburbs brace for the worst
Tasnim Chaaban, L’Orient Today, November 5, 2026

Gunfire damages tents at Rafah displacement site in Gaza, as aid teams prepare for winter storms
UN News, November 4, 2026

For Israelis, U.S. Midterms Show How Far Their Star Has Fallen in America
Isabel Kershner, The New York Times, November 4, 2026

US midterm voters deliver brutal verdict on Trump
AFP, L’Orient Today, November 4, 2026

October 7: New details reveal five red-hot Hamas warnings Israel missed
Nadav Eyal, Elisha Ben Kimon, YNet News, November 4, 2026

Trump to stop $4 billion in annual funding for Israeli arms purchases
The Washington Post, November 3, 2026

We Send Soldiers Into Gaza’s Hell, and Hell Comes Home With Them
Dmitriy Skulskyi, Haaretz, October 31, 2026

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MEDIA

“Newspapers engender lies, hatred, greed, envy, suspicion, fear, malice. We don’t need the truth as it is dished up to us in the daily papers. We need peace and solitude and idleness.”
The Colossus of Maroussi
Aware of this fact, we proceed with a vigilant selection of “everything that’s really fit to post.”
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Lettre de Liaison 154 – 11 octobre 2026

JOUD  6 Ans

Orphelin sous une tente

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NOHA  7 Ans

Orpheline sous une tente

N’oubliez pas que nous agissons sur quatre niveaux :

  • quotidiennement, une information précise et ouverte, via les media d’une dizaine de pays (Israël, Liban, Jordanie, Egypte, Arabie Saoudite, Qatar, Iran, Chine, Etats-Unis, Nations Unies, Angleterre…) Media October 2025 – Peace Lines
  • par nos campagnes régulières avec les Prix Nobel du monde entier NOBEL CAMPAIGNS – Peace Lines
  • par la tenue de notre site LETTRES DE LIAISON – Peace Lines – où la fréquentation en France a doublé en septembre, passée de 10 à 20%, derrière Chine et Singapour (54%), mais devant les Etats-Unis (16%) pour la première fois.
  • Et, enfin, par le soutien à ces familles de réfugiés de Gaza, qui ont tant la terrible sensation d’être abandonnés du monde entier, encore plus depuis un an.
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Lettre de Liaison 153 – 28 septembre 2026

Mahmoud 9 ans

 

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Mustafa 7 ans, Tasneem 5 ans

Trois ans sans école, sous les bombes, les missiles, sur les routes, d’un camp à un autre. L’école aujourd’hui ? Ce sont beaucoup de tentes avec cinquante enfants ou plus, assis par terre, et deux classes en même temps.

Voici Zara, sept ans. Son père travaillait dans un centre commercial. Il a été tué par un tir en juillet 2025, alors qu’il se rendait à un poste américain de distribution d’aide. Il voulait rapporter du pain.

Mustafa et Tasneem (tout en haut de la page à droite), vous les voyez sur le chemin des classes – Tasneem au jardin d’enfants, Mustafa en CE1. Leur père a été tué en octobre 2023, dans un bombardement, alors qu’il marchait dans la rue. Ils vivent avec leur mère sous une tente.

Wateen, sous Yara, a quatre ans. Son frère, Moath, cinq ans. Leur père était chauffeur de taxi. Inutile de dire qu’il n’y a plus de taxis à Gaza ?

Enfin, le septième, en jaune (photo en bas de la page), c’est Hassan, six ans, dont le père était appariteur en faculté. C’est simple, lumineux. Leurs sourires, à Mustafa et Tasmeen sur le chemin de l’école, à Yara, Wateen et son frère Moath, nous sont adressés, photographiés par notre ami Nour. Le père de Nour, vous l’avez vu dans la Lettre de juillet. Il enseignait la littérature anglaise du dix-neuvième siècle, à l’université (rasée fin 2023).

Le guetteur, Mahmoud, neuf ans, sur la première photo (tout en haut de la page), est le fils d’un pharmacien.

Pour que vous sachiez : il y avait des chauffeurs de taxi, des enseignants, des vendeurs, des appariteurs, des pharmaciens, des mères de famille dévouées à leurs enfants – et qui le restent. Tous ils sont sans ressources depuis trois ans, sans perspectives.

Parrainer un de ces sept enfants, cela pourrait se faire à raison d’un euro par jour, simplement. Comme un trait d’union.

Parti du cœur, sans plus. Dites-nous ce que vous en pensez.

Pour retrouver un autre niveau d’énergie, ensemble.

ByPeace lines

Media October 2026

October 16 : As media threaten us all with the Mother Of All Bombs, and its many ripple effects, trust the wisdom of the powers that be – they’re still human, rational, aren’t they – and let it all flow by. Retreat into silence. Within.

We shall reconnect later.

Retired US generals call on Pentagon to cancel ‘barbaric’ execution livestream
Max Matza, BBC, October 15, 2026

From Destruction to Reconstruction: Israeli Firms Eye Billions in Gaza
Hagai Amit, Haaretz, October 15, 2026

US CONSIDERING USING ‘MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS’ AGAINST IRAN – REPORTS
China Global TN, October 15, 2026

US military weighs using ‘mother of all bombs’ in potential future strikes on Iran: Report
Al Arabiya, October 15, 2026

Report: Israel blocking construction of Gaza base for Board of Peace
Israel National News, October 15, 2026

IDF chief warns of ‘potential for escalation’ across all fronts, decries settler violence
Nava Freiberg, The Times of Israel, October 15, 2026

UN raises concerns over continued Israeli attacks on civilians in occupied Palestinian territory
China Global TN, October 15, 2026

Israeli settlers set fire to mosque in occupied West Bank
The Jordan Times, October 14, 2026

Ultra-Orthodox extremists storm building housing IDF cybersecurity program that recruits Haredim
Shilo Freid, YNet News, October 14, 2026

‘You live from one deployment to the next’: Israeli reservists struggle to rebuild their lives
Gal Ganot, YNet News, October 14, 2026

Mirjana Spoljaric: If You Torture Your Enemies, You Dehumanize Yourself
The New York Times, October 14, 2026

Katz threatens to strike Beirut’s southern suburbs and expand Israel’s occupation if Hezbollah and Iran attack Israel
L’Orient Today, October 14, 2026

Jewish extremist attacks surge in West Bank: officials accuse ministers of backing rioters
Elisha Ben Kimon, Idan Bloemhof, YNet News, October 14, 2026

The Oct. 7 Attack Changed Israel, but Not Its Politics
Isabel Kirshner, The New York Times, October 13, 2026

‘We Will Not Forgive’: Gazans Rage at Hamas for the October 7 Gamble
Amira Hass, Haaretz, October 13, 2026

On ceasefire anniversary, US claims ‘real progress’ made in demilitarizing Gaza
Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg, Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, October 13, 2026

Netanyahu has lost Trump, and Israel has lost America
Orly Azoulay, YNet News, October 13, 2026

Israelis aren’t afraid of Iran, they’re afraid of supermarket prices, Zelekha says – interview
Shir Perets, The Jerusalem Post, October 13, 2026

I.M.F. Warns Mideast War Will Widen Gap Between Rich and Poor Countries
Patricia Cohen, The New York Times, October 13, 2026

Smotrich: ‘Complete lie’ that IDF troops are burdened because of Haredi exemption
Ariela Karmel, The Times of Israel, October 13, 2026

Do Jewish Parents Know What Their Children Are Doing in the West Bank?
Tamer Nafar, Haaretz, October 13, 2026

US Gaza educational group condemned over AI monitoring plan
China Global TN, October 13, 2026

War against the Houthis: Riyadh rejects Tehran and Tel Aviv, seeks answers from Beijing
Mounir Rabih, L’Orient Today, October 13, 2026

EU Council approves ‘support mission’ in Lebanon for initial 3-year mandate
L’Orient Today, October 12, 2026

‘Gaza’s Christians Are Tired. They Want to Leave’: A Palestinian Bishop on Survival, Settlers and Reconciliation
Esther Solomon, Haaretz, October 12, 2026

One year into ceasefire, vexed Gazans say they’re still living like war never ended
Nurit Yohanan, The Times of Israel, October 12, 2026

UN Report: Displaced Women in Gaza Face Rape, Sexual Abuse and Forced Marriage
Amira Hass, Haaretz, October 12, 2026

One year after Gaza ceasefire: A truce without a clear path to peace
China Global TN, October 11, 2026

One year after Trump’s Gaza ceasefire, questions remain about possible next steps – analysis
Seth J. Frantzman, The Jerusalem Post, October 11, 2026

UN, EU leaders slam Houthi attack on Riyadh airport
Al Arabiya, October 11, 2026

Trump urges Ukraine to change president as Zelenskyy feels ‘betrayed’ by diesel deal
China Global TN, October 11, 2026

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef slams media: They are the draft evaders
Israel National News, October 11, 2026

UN head says ‘deeply shocked’ by attack on Riyadh airport
China Global TN, October 11, 2026

One in five Israelis ‘still struggling to function’ since Oct. 7 – new study
Diana Bletter, The Times of Israel, October 11, 2026

Sustaining livelihoods amid crisis in Gaza
UN News, October 11, 2026

Netanyahu’s government is stalling Trump’s Gaza plan, US general warns
Yonah Jeremy Bob, The Jerusalem Post, October 11, 2026

Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize: when anti-Israel hate becomes a virtue
Ben-Dror Yemini, YNet News, October 11, 2026

Goebbels Isn’t Applauding Navi Pillay. He’s Applauding What Israel Has Become
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, October 10, 2026

She’s Been to Gaza. She Met With the Iranians. Now She Has a Warning.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro, The New York Times, October 10, 2026

From Athens to Anger
Seyed Mohammad Torabi, The Tehran Times, October 10, 2026

Pentagon Again Increases Number of U.S. Casualties in Iran War
John Ismay, The New York Times, October 10, 2026

From burning Sardis to bombing Tehran: What Rubio got wrong about Persia
Touraj Daryaee interview, The Tehran Times, October 10, 2026

Israeli attacks continue across southern Lebanon, with airstrikes, shelling and demolitions
L’Orient Today, October 10, 2026

‘Peace is not in people’s minds’: October 7 scars take center stage for first-time voters
AFP, The Times of Israel, October 10, 2026

Almost all Gaza residents need shelter as El Niño threatens flooding, UN agency says
Reuters, Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, October 9, 2026

Haredi anti-enlistment protesters clash with cops, block highways in Bnei Brak, Jerusalem
Noam Lehmann, The Times of Israel, October 8, 2026

Palestinian factions agree to hold national dialogue
Al Arabiya, October 8, 2026

No Government, No Reconstruction and No Hope on the Horizon: The Gaza Strip, One Year After the Cease-Fire
Jack Khoury, Haaretz, October 8, 2026

Don’t use my mother’s name to justify killing in Gaza, says son of peace activist killed Oct. 7
Sheena Goodyear, CBC, October 7, 2026

My Mother Was a Peace Activist Killed on October 7. Don’t Use Her Name to Justify Mass Killing
Yonatan Zeigen, Haaretz, October 7, 2026

3 years of war: Data shows IDF hit 100,000 targets as 31,500 projectiles fired at Israel
Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, October 7, 2026

Human cost of war: 30,000 wounded since Oct. 7, 63% face psychological trauma
Gal Ganot, YNet News, October 6, 2026

Two Mothers, Two Tragedies, a Shared Choice to Reject Hatred
Brandon Kramer, Haaretz, October 6, 2026

UN chief calls for Gaza ceasefire ahead of Oct 7 anniversary
AFP, The Jordan Times, October 6, 2026

Three years after Oct. 7, Palestinians caught between fragile hope and devastating loss
Emmanuel Haddad, L’Orient Today, October 6, 2026

Hundreds of Haredi protesters clash with police, thwart arrest of draft dodger in Modiin
Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, October 6, 2026

After 53 years behind the wheel, Nir Oz ambulance driver returns to rebuild his shattered kibbutz
Nir Oz Wasn’t a Battle, It Was a Systematic Massacre
YNet News, October 6, 2026 / Nir Hasson, October 20, 2023

Israeli settlers beat AFP photographer covering West Bank
L’Orient Today, October 6, 2026

‘We will get every last one’: IDF says two-thirds of Oct. 7 terrorists eliminated, 2,000 remain
Iramar Eichner, YNet News, October 5, 2026

Why Saudi Arabia’s Last War in Yemen Turned Into a Quagmire
Ismaeel Naar, The New York Times, October 5, 2026

Israeli strikes on Kfar Tibnit, Wadi Hujeir; Israel targets Majdal Zoun with phosphorus bombs
L’Orient Today, October 5, 2026

‘Evil incarnate’: Israel’s top forensic pathologist reveals unseen Oct. 7 evidence | Content warning
Ariela Ayalon, Oren Rice, YNet News, October 5, 2026

Israelis Are Exhausted. There Is a Way Out.
Yonatan Touval, The New York Times, October 4, 2026

Israel’s religious turn risks transforming the conflict into a religious war
Dr Michael Milshtein, YNet News, October 4, 2026

Anti-Zionist terrorism is hurting Israel from within — and the world is watching
Ben-Dror Yemini, YNet News, October 4, 2026

Father of Nova victim slams Simchat Torah celebration at site: ‘Even the German Nazis don’t dance at Auschwitz’
The Times of Israel, October 4, 2026

‘I Was Going to Die’: Flydubai Captain Recounts Fighting off Omani Co-Pilot
Haaretz, October 4, 2026

Flydubai co-pilot attacked captain with axe, UAE official says
Ella Kipling, BBC, October 4, 2026

After three years of war, Israeli kids bear the brunt of still-rising mental toll
Diana Bletter, The Times of Israel, October 4, 2026

Ex-IDF hostage chief criticizes ‘total victory’ rhetoric, calls for ‘different leadership’
YNet News, October 3, 2026

Ex-hostage point man says Israel could have returned all Oct. 7 captives a year earlier
The Times of Israel, October 3, 2026

IDF strike on Hamas’s Gaza chief kills 5, including mother and daughter; his fate unclear
Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel, October 3, 2026

‘The Gaza War Has Permanently Changed Israeli Society. Solidarity Is Unraveling’
Itay Mashiach, Haaretz, October 3, 2026

They work, raise kids — and use drugs until ‘their heart explodes’ | Israel’s ‘high-functioning addicts’
Tal Amodai, YNet News, October 3, 2026

Five charged in France over alleged Hamas founding
Al Arabiya, October 3, 2026

Reports: 8 killed in Israeli airstrikes on several areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn today
China Global, October 3, 2026

Israeli strike kills 5 people in Gaza, claims to have ‘eliminated’ 2 Islamic Jihad leaders
L’Orient Today, October 3, 2026

‘It’s been hard’: families await the return of the USS Abraham Lincoln
Anna Betts, The Guardian, October 3, 2026

U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
Anton Troianovski, Eric Lipton, The New York Times, October 3, 2026

US-Russia talks on Ukraine involve multi-billion dollar oil deal: Report
Al Arabiya, October 3, 2026

U.S. Weighing Sanctions on Israel Over West Bank Settler Violence, Sources Say
Amos Harel, Haaretz, October 2, 2026

‘West Bank is Israel’s weak point’: US sanctions pressure grows ahead of Israeli election
Itamar Eichner, YNet News, October 2, 2026

Gaza: WHO appeals for massive aid influx ahead of winter
Daniel Johnson, UN News, October 2, 2026

Ukraine war ‘a human rights catastrophe’ that must end, says Türk
UN News, October 2, 2026

How can Jordan respond to Israel’s escalation across the West Bank?
Samir Habashneh, Al Jazeera, October 2, 2026

Three aircraft carriers, up to 10,000 more troops: US expands military presence around Iran
L’Orient Today, October 2, 2026

Escalating fighting in Yemen deepens food security crisis
Daniel Johnson, UN News, October 2, 2026

European boycott of israeli settlement goods gains momentum
Najla M. Shahwan, The Jordan Times, October 1, 2026

Let Gaza Be: Israel Must Abandon Its Fantasy of Destroying Hamas
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, October 1, 2026

‘Distorted, misleading, and disingenuous’: IDF publishes full response to ‘NAZA’ film
The Times of Israel, October 1, 2026

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Lettre de Liaison 152 – 11 septembre 2026

PEACE LINES

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1) Le 11 septembre 2001, je me souviens exactement où j’étais quand un ami, de Sézanne, m’a appelé pour partager  l’incroyable nouvelle. Les Tours Jumelles, je connaissais, d’être monté à leur sommet en ascenseur rapide, avec d’autres, dont un petit garçon.

Le 11 septembre, hier comme maintenant, on peut le voir d’au moins deux façons :

idéologique (pro ou anti-américain), ou humain.

Le 12 septembre 2001 je donnais des cours du soir gratuits (municipaux) à des adultes, un public majoritairement musulman, en banlieue de la capitale. Ils exultaient. Pour eux, c’était un “juste retour des choses”. Cela m’a révulsé. Je leur ai demandé comment ils pouvaient, un seul instant, oublier que c’étaient des êtres humains ordinaires, comme eux et moi, qui avaient ce jour-là suffoqué à mort, brûlé vif, sauté par les fenêtres ?

Il va y avoir des élections parlementaires le 27 octobre. Que vont-elles changer ?

A massive crowd of Haredim, or ultra-Orthodox Jews, at a protest against attempts to draft their community.Les deux partis extrémistes sont représentés par treize députés à eux deux. L’opposition en compte soixante, la moitié exactement, d’où l’instabilité (due au système de pleine proportionnalité).

Sur les sept millions de citoyens juifs, un million et quart sont très religieux, et refusent tout service militaire, manifestent régulièrement, avec force, contre tout enrôlement dans l’armée.

On comprend dès lors qu’il ne s’agit pas d’un conflit « religieux » (entre juifs d’Occident et musulmans d’Orient), puisque les plus religieux des juifs israéliens ne veulent ni armée ni guerre.

Rodent Outbreak Hits Israeli Gaza Border Communities, Up to 100 Caught in Some Homes

5) Ce qui nous occupe, maintenant, c’est la survie en paix, puis la coexistence quotidienne des deux peuples, des trois religions, et des autres (bouddhistes, athées…).

Ce qui nous occupe, c’est le sort des réfugiés de Gaza, plus de deux millions, sans accès à l’eau courante, à une électricité régulière, dans les 365 km carrés qui ont été dévastés.

Dans notre dernière Lettre (Lettre 151, du 6 juillet 2026), nous vous informions que les habitants de Gaza assez chanceux pour avoir retrouvé des murs ne trouvaient que des rouleaux de plastique et des tasseaux pour leurs réparations. Les autres, plus d’un million, vivent sous des tentes, dans des camps « temporaires », les pieds dans le sable ou la boue. Bientôt, la saison des pluies revient, d’ici deux mois. Ils seront alors inondés.

Ici, nous ne nous bouchons pas les yeux. Nous ne distribuons pas de points.

Vous qui lisez ces lignes, la plupart vous n’êtes pas informés par les mass media. Vous ne savez donc rien. « La guerre à Gaza est finie depuis un an », croyez-vous.

Non. On compte plus de mille trois cents personnes tuées depuis le cessez-le-feu d’octobre 2025. Un bus de Médecins Sans Frontières, ce 13 septembre, a été frappé en « dommage collatéral » à Gaza, avec dix volontaires humanitaires à bord. L’un d’eux a été blessé.

Un bus de MSF transportant 10 travailleurs humanitaires endommagé par une frappe israélienne à Gaza-ville

Et il n’y a pas que Gaza. En Cisjordanie, plus de mille cent personnes ont été tuées depuis octobre 2023.

Au Liban, ce sont plus de quatre mille personnes qui ont été tuées de mars à fin juin 2026.

Gaza – Cisjordanie – Liban – Iran – Yémen (cent mille personnes ont fui leur foyer dernièrement)… Tout se tient, tout est lié. Les trois premiers sont les plus touchés.

6) Ce que nous vous proposons : parrainer, chacun, un enfant de Gaza. Par un virement régulier. Si modique soit-il, ce sera une ligne de vie pour son destinataire. Vous pouvez le faire par notre intermédiaire, ou bien directement – nous avons évoqué le sort de Yara, orpheline, de Moath et Wateen, nous pourrons vous en nommer d’autres, dont nous partagerons avec vous le parcours.

Non des mots, des discours, mais des actes, simples, vitaux.

A titre d’information : le kilo de sucre coûte trois euros. Le thé, pour une boîte de cent sachets, huit euros. La menthe, un euro pour dix tiges – ceux qui connaissent le rituel du thé a la menthe en orient en comprennent l’importance. Davantage encore, dans les ruines.

Le prix d’un kilo de pain : trois euros, comme le sucre.

Trente œufs (rares à trouver) : dix euros.

Un kilo de légumes, de fruits (tomates, oignons, carottes, bananes, pommes, citrons) : six euros.

Un kilowatt d’électricité (intermittente) : vingt-cinq euros.

Vous savez que les salariés du secteur public n’ont reçu aucun salaire depuis trois ans. Il n’y a pas de revenus à Gaza, en dehors des transactions alimentaires, et quelques petits stands.

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