Written by Ilan Pappe *
My visit back home in Galilee, coincided with the genocidal Israeli attack against Gaza. The state, through its media and with the help of academics, issued a unanimous voice - even stronger than that heard during the criminal attack against Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Israele è ancora una volta divorata da una furia sacrificale che traduce in politiche distruttive nella Striscia di Gaza.
Questa autogiustificazione spaventosa per l’inumanità e l’impunità non è soltanto sconcertante, ma è un argomento sul quale soffermarsi se si vuole comprendere l’immunità internazionale per il massacro che infuria a Gaza. E’ anzitutto fondata su bugie pure e semplici trasmesse con una neolingua che ricorda i giorni più bui dell’Europa del 1930. Ogni mezz’ora un bollettino d’informazioni su radio e televisione descrive le vittime di Gaza come terroristi e le uccisioni di centinaia di persone come un atto di autodifesa. Israele presenta sé stessa al suo people as the sacrificial victim who defends himself against a great evil.
The academic world is recruited to explain the demonic and monstrous is the Palestinian struggle, whether it is led by Hamas. These are the same scholars who demonized the last Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the first period and delegitimize his Fatah movement during the second Palestinian intifada. But the lies and distorted representations are not the worst part of all this.
What angers most is the direct attack on the last traces of humanity and dignity of the Palestinian people. The Palestinians in Israel have shown their solidarity with the people of Gaza and are now branded as a fifth column in the Jewish state, their right to remain in their country is called into doubt because of their lack of support for Israeli aggression.
Those who have accepted - wrongly, in my opinion, to appear in the local media have questioned and questioned, as if they were prisoners in the prisons of the Shin Bet. Their appearance was preceded and followed by humiliating and racist remarks are subject to accusations of being a fifth column, a fanatical and irrational people. And yet this is not the most vile practice. There are a few of the Occupied Territories Palestinian children treated for cancer in Israeli hospitals. God knows what price they have to pay to be able to shelter their families. Israeli radio go every day in hospitals to ask the poor parents to tell listeners what has Israel in its right in his attack on Israel and Hamas is as demonic in his defense.
There are no limits to hypocrisy that produces a sacrificial fury. The speeches of the generals and politicians are moving erratically between complacency on the one hand humanity shows that the army in its operations "surgical" and the other on the need to destroy Gaza once and for all, of course, in a way human. This sacrificial fury is a constant phenomenon in the Israeli expropriation, and even before the Zionist Palestine. Every action, be it ethnic cleansing, occupation, the killing or destruction was always represented as morally correct and how the simple act of self-defense committed by Israel against his will in the war against the worst kind of human beings. In his excellent book "The results of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Culture in Israel," Gabi Piterberg examines the ideological origins and the historical progression of this fury. sacrificial.
Today in Israel, from right to left, from Likud to Kadima, from academia to the media, you can listen to this sacrificial fury of a state that is much more busy than any other state in the world and resulting in the destruction of a population native. It 's very important to examine the ideological origins of this behavior and to derive from its wide dissemination, the necessary political conclusions. This fury is a sacrificial shield for society and for politicians in Israel from censure or external criticism. But even worse, is always translated into policies of destruction against the Palestinians. With no internal mechanism of criticism and without any external pressure, any Palestinian becomes a potential target of this fury. Given the firepower of the Jewish state can only end in more massive killings, massacres and ethnic cleansing.
The absence of any morality is a powerful act of self-denial and justification. This explains why the Israeli society can not be changed by words of wisdom, logic or persuasion of diplomatic dialogue.
And if you do not want to use violence as a means of opposition, there is only one way forward: challenges head-on this absence of morality as an evil ideology intended to hide human atrocities. Another name for this ideology is Zionism and the only way to counter this lack of morality is to blame the international Zionism, not only of particular Israeli policies.
We must try to explain not only the world but also to the Israelis that Zionism is an ideology that involves ethnic cleansing, occupation, and now massive massacres.
What is needed now is not so much a condemnation of this massacre. but also the de-legitimization of the ideology that has produced such policy and the morally and politically justified. We hope that important voices in the world can say that this ideology of the Jewish state and the overall conduct of the state is intolerable and unacceptable and that as long as they continue, Israel will be banned and subject to penalties. But I'm not naive. I know that the massacre of hundreds of innocent Palestinians will not be sufficient to produce this change in Western public opinion, it is even more unlikely that the crimes committed in Gaza move European governments to change their policy towards Palestine.
But we can not let 2009 be another year, significantly less than in 2008, the year of commemoration of the Nakba, which has failed to realize that we all had high hopes for its potential to transform the behavior of the western world towards Palestine and the Palestinians. It seems that even the most horrendous crimes, like genocide in Gaza is treated as a separate event, unrelated to anything that has already happened in the past and is not associated with an ideology or a system.
In this new year, we have groped to relocate the public understanding of the history of Palestine and the evils of the Zionist ideology as is the best means to explain the operations as the genocide in Gaza is to prevent the worst things in the future.
This has already been done at an academic level. Our biggest challenge is to find an effective way to explain the connections between the Zionist ideology and policies of destruction of the past with the present crisis. It may be easier to do while in these terrible circumstances, the world's attention is directed once again to Palestine.
could be even more difficult when the situation seems to be "calmer" and less dramatic.
In moments "quiet", the attention of short-term Western media would put the edge once again the Palestinian tragedy is disregard for the horrific genocide in Africa or the global economic and ecological doomsday scenarios for the rest of the world.
While the Western media do not seem very interested in the historical dimension, only through a historical analysis can show the size of the crimes committed against Palestinians in the past sixty years. Therefore, the role of alternative media activists and scholars is right in insisting on these historical contexts. These actors should not stop educating public opinion and, hopefully, to influence politicians, more honest look at the facts in a historical perspective più ampia.
Allo stesso modo, noi possiamo essere in grado di trovare un modo più adeguato alla gente comune, distinto dal livello accademico degli intellettuali, per spiegare chiaramente che la politica di Israele - nei sessanta anni trascorsi - deriva da un’ideologia egemonica razzista chiamata sionismo, difesa da infiniti strati di furia sacrificale.
Nonostante l’accusa scontata di antisemitismo e cose del genere, è tempo di mettere in relazione nell’opinione pubblica l’ideologia sionista con il punto di riferimento storico e ormai familiare della terra: la pulizia etnica del 1948, l’oppressione dei palestinesi in Israele durante i giorni del governo militare, la brutale occupazione della Now the West Bank and Gaza massacre. Like the ideology of apartheid has explained very well the policies of government oppression in South Africa, this ideology - in its most simplistic and reflected variant, allowed all Israeli governments, past and present, to dehumanize the Palestinians wherever they were and fight to destroy them.
The means have changed from one period to another, from one place to another, as did the narrative that has hidden these atrocities. But there is a clear pattern that can only be discussed in academic ivory towers but must become part of political discourse in contemporary reality della Palestina di oggi. Alcuni di noi, in particolare quelli che si dedicano alla giustizia e alla pace in Palestina, inconsciamente evitano questo dibattito, concentrandosi, e questo è comprensibile, sui Territori Palestinesi Occupati (OPT) - la Cisgiordania e la Striscia di Gaza. Lottare contro le politiche criminali è una missione urgente.
Ma questo non dovrebbe trasmettere il messaggio che le potenze occidentali hanno adottato volentieri su suggerimento israeliano, che la Palestina è soltanto la cisgiordania e la Striscia di Gaza e che i palestinesi sono solo la popolazione che vive in quei territori. Dovremmo estendere la rappresentazione della Palestina geograficamente e demograficamente raccontando la narrazione storica dei fatti dal 1948 onwards and seek equal civil and human rights for all people who live, or who were accustomed to living in what is now Israel and the Occupied Territories.
placing in relation the Zionist ideology and policies of the past with the atrocities of this, we will be able to give a clear and logical explanation for the campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions. With non-violent means to challenge a state ideology that is morally self-justifying, which allows, with the help of a silent world, to expropriate and destroy the native population of Palestine, a cause is just and moral.
E 'is also an effective way to stimulate public opinion not only against the current genocidal policies in Gaza, but, hopefully, also to prevent future atrocities. Even more important than anything else, this should vent fury sacrificial suffocating the Palestinians whenever swells. This will help to end the immunity of the West against the impunity of Israel. Without this immunity, it is hoped that more and more people in Israel start seeing the true nature of the crimes committed in their name and their fury could be directed against those who have them and the Palestinians trapped in this cycle of unnecessary bloodshed and violence. * Ilan Pappe
(http://ilanpappe.com http://electronicintifada.net) teaches in the Department di storia dell’Università di Exeter, Inghilterra
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