{"id":65414,"date":"2003-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/01\/07\/avant-gout-du-desordre\/"},"modified":"2003-01-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-07T00:00:00","slug":"avant-gout-du-desordre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/01\/07\/avant-gout-du-desordre\/","title":{"rendered":"Avant-go\u00fbt du d\u00e9sordre<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Avant-go\u00fbt du d\u00e9sordre<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t7 janvier 2003 Cet article de Norton-Taylor, du Guardian<\/em>, que nous avons signal\u00e9 hier<\/a>, est certainement pr\u00e9monitoire. Le m\u00eame Guardian<\/em> se montre particuli\u00e8rement incisif \u00e0 propos du grave incident entre Isra\u00ebl et le Royaume-Uni,<\/a> suite \u00e0 la d\u00e9cision de Sharon de bloquer le d\u00e9part des d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9s palestiniens \u00e0 la conf\u00e9rence de paix organis\u00e9e par Blair \u00e0 Londres, \u00e0 la fin du mois. Le journal parle de \u00ab furious row<\/em> \u00bb entre Isra\u00e9liens et Britanniques, \u00e0 propos de cette affaire (\u00ab Britain and Israel in furious row as Blair peace talks are scuppered<\/em> \u00bb).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab The British and Israeli governments were engaged in a full-scale row yesterday after Ariel Sharon banned Palestinians from attending a peace conference in London next week. The conference, a pet project of Tony Blair, is now almost certain to be postponed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Mr Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, who controls the movement of all Palestinians in and out of the West Bank and Gaza, imposed the travel ban as part of punishment measures after suicide bombings killed 22 in Tel Aviv on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, had fiery exchanges with his Israeli counterpart, Binyamin Netanyahu, yesterday morning. Mr Netanyahu further inflamed the situation by publishing extracts of the private conversation between the two men, an unusual breach of diplomatic etiquette.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The row marks a distinct cooling in British-Israeli relations. Until now, Israel has viewed Mr Blair as being one of their few dependable supporters in Europe.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00bb Mr Straw, angry that Israel had not informed him of the decision, which he had only heard about on the radio news, called Mr Netanyahu to express his regret at the ban. He asked Mr Netanyahu to reconsider but there is little expectation that Israel will back down.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Mr Netanyahu, according to the Israeli transcript, told Mr Straw that the bombings ruled out \u00a0\u00bbbusiness as usual\u00a0\u00bb and he urged Britain to adopt the position of the US president, George Bush, \u00a0\u00bbthat leaders compromised by terror cannot be partners for peace\u00a0\u00bb. He added: \u00a0\u00bbYou in Britain are doing the exact opposite.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Mr Straw countered, according to the transcript: \u00a0\u00bbNo, it is Israel that is doing the opposite. Instead of concentrating on dealing with terrorism, it is striking at [Palestinian] delegates.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> \u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tSi l’on veut, cet incident et le torpillage probable de la conf\u00e9rence de la paix de Londres qui devrait \u00eatre ainsi accompli sont une sorte d’avant-go\u00fbt de ce qui attend la diplomatie britannique, entre autres certes, avec le conflit irakien. Selon des sources diplomatiques europ\u00e9ennes, il ne fait aucun doute que \u00ab Sharon attendait depuis que ce projet de conf\u00e9rence a \u00e9t\u00e9 lanc\u00e9 par Blair, une occasion pour prendre la mesure qu’il a prise. Le programme de Sharon est clair: tout faire pour torpiller toute possibilit\u00e9 d’arrangement avec les Palestinien,s pour lier inextricablement ce conflit isra\u00e9lo-palestinien avec la guerre contre l’Irak, et donc avoir un soutien \u00e0 100% des Am\u00e9ricains<\/em> \u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPour refl\u00e9ter l’\u00e9tat d’esprit isra\u00e9lien \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard, on mentionnera cette remarque, o\u00f9 le langage diplomatique d’un porte-parole laissant imaginer ce que doit \u00eatre le sentiment r\u00e9el de l’\u00e9quipe Sharon : \u00ab Jonathon Peled, an Israeli foreign ministry spokesman, said: \u00a0\u00bbTony Blair’s initiative is something we accepted half-heartedly. We were not invited to it and we had our reservations.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tD’autre part, d’un point de vue plus conjoncturel Sharon n’a pas le choix. Il est engag\u00e9 dans une campagne \u00e9lectorale tr\u00e8s difficile, il perd beaucoup de terrain dans les sondages \u00e0 cause de vilaines affaires de corruption. Une seule tactique pour lui : jouer \u00e0 fond la carte de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9, de la r\u00e9pression, du durcissement, etc.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tUn autre aspect pr\u00e9occupant pour les Britanniques, et qui va de soi, est que Sharon a quasi-certainement agi avec le soutien concert\u00e9, \u00e0 100%, de ses amis am\u00e9ricains, les neo-conservatives<\/em> (Perle, Wolfowitz) qui constituent l’aile marchante radicale de l’administration GW. Cela signifie une attitude au moins r\u00e9serv\u00e9e de Washington, en face d’\u00e9ventuelles demandes britanniques pour faire pression sur Sharon. L\u00e0 aussi, Blair est isol\u00e9, avec son projet de conf\u00e9rence sans doute irr\u00e9m\u00e9diablement compromis, sur lequel il comptait pour renforcer l’image d’une diplomatie moins partisane et anti-arabe que la r\u00e9putation lui en est faite aujourd’hui.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCette tension entre Isra\u00ebl et le Royaume-Uni vient effectivement comme une confirmation des avertissements sans nombre que le personnel diplomatique britannique adresse actuellement au Premier ministre, selon Norton-Taylor dans l’article mentionn\u00e9 plus haut. La querelle avec Isra\u00ebl doit en \u00eatre plac\u00e9e imp\u00e9rativement dans le cadre de la d\u00e9stabilisation que les analystes du personnel diplomatique du Foreign Office craignent de voir \u00e9clater \u00e0 l’occasion de la guerre contre l’Irak.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPour rappel, les indications principales donn\u00e9es par Richard Norton-Taylor dans son article, lequel repr\u00e9sente effectivement un texte important pour faire mesurer les tensions internes actuelles du gouvernement du Royaume-Uni.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Telegrams from British embassies and missions around the world are urging Tony Blair to step up pressure on President Bush to pull back from a war against Iraq. In what amounts to a collective cri de coeur, our envoys congregating in Whitehall today for an unprecedented Foreign Office brainstorming session are warning of the potentially devastating consequences of such an adventure, including its impact on a greater threat than Saddam Hussein: al-Qaida-inspired terrorism. The warnings are not just coming from our envoys and defence attaches in Arab capitals. They are also, I am told, coming from Washington. This, our diplomats suggest, could be one of Blair’s and Britain’s finest hours, a unique opportunity to make a constructive contribution to world affairs. They also know, not least from American opinion polls, that the Bush administration needs Britain onside. Our contribution would be a token one in military terms, but significant politically. That gives Britain leverage.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Avant-go\u00fbt du d\u00e9sordre 7 janvier 2003 Cet article de Norton-Taylor, du Guardian, que nous avons signal\u00e9 hier, est certainement pr\u00e9monitoire. Le m\u00eame Guardian se montre particuli\u00e8rement incisif \u00e0 propos du grave incident entre Isra\u00ebl et le Royaume-Uni, suite \u00e0 la d\u00e9cision de Sharon de bloquer le d\u00e9part des d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9s palestiniens \u00e0 la conf\u00e9rence de paix… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[705,2774,3197],"class_list":["post-65414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faits-et-commentaires","tag-blair","tag-israel","tag-sharon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}