niech wasner skomentuje po swojemu!
Adam Tomaszewski
By Yitzhak Laor
Tags: Apartheid in Israel
The shock that gripped the shrunken peace camp following Hillary
Clinton's statement that the settlement construction freeze is not
what we thought it would be, but rather what Benjamin Netanyahu
thought it would be, is reminiscent of other shocks generated by
American peace plans ever since the 1960s.
Had the educated people of this camp not outnumbered its foot
soldiers, this shock and amazement could be compared to other
superstitions, like the correlation between rainfall and women's
fertility.
But precisely because the Israeli intelligentsia is always coming up
with prophecies about "American pressure," it would not be
unreasonable to assume that we can once again expect expert
regurgitation of speculations about a "first-term president" versus a
"second-term" one, and about when he stops being an "incoming"
president and starts being a "lame duck."
Advertisement
The truth is simpler. Regardless of whether there is a Democrat or a
Republican in the White House, the United States became a distinctly
pro-Israel world power after the 1967 war. It has no intention of
being a "balanced mediator" when it comes to the conflict with the
Palestinians.
Barack Obama's public relations moves in the Arab world have
frightened many average Israelis. But Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, allies
of the final takeover of the West Bank, know very well that U.S.
policy has not changed. It doesn't take a genius to read the working
papers of past prime ministers.
The prevailing attitude of all U.S. administrations was drafted by
Henry Morgenthau, and was later updated by Kenneth Waltz. One line
guided all of them - Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk, George Mitchell -
essentially, that any possible settlement must match the positions of
the stronger party.
This is how the Americans abandoned the refugee issue, and this is why
they abandoned the opposition to settlements. Netanyahu is no genius.
He is simply not interested in saying good-bye to the occupation. That
is all. After all, he came to power because of this. To complain about
him is to complain about November rain.
The Israeli public's choice is a different matter. The spokesmen of
the dovish camp tell us horror stories about a future binational
state. But the binational state is already here. It has a rigid
apartheid legal system, as the High Court of Justice fades away.
The system preserving this apartheid is more ruthless than that seen
in South Africa, where the black were a labor force and could
therefore also make a living. It is equipped with the lie of being
"temporary." Occasionally, Israel's indifference comes up with
allegations against the Palestinians.
Abba Eban captured the allegation by coining a phrase repeated by the
doves of all parties, who never really went to battle over Israel's
future and allowed the "settlement project" to spread. After all,
occupation makes Israelis richer. Why oppose it?
Yaakov (Jack) Teitel is the American aid secured by moderate Israel.
What Yitzhak Rabin failed to do after the massacre by the last import,
Baruch Goldstein - to uproot the Jewish settlement in Hebron - will
not happen now either. Shvut Rachel, Tapuah or any other such town
will not be moved, nor will the smaller "illegal" outposts.
Beyond the two Palestinians whose murders were never really
investigated, and past what Ami Ortiz or Professor Ze'ev Sternhell
went through, Teitel is a Made-in-the-U.S.A. reminder that "no one
will do for you what you fail to do for yourselves."
How to do what needs to be done? Surely, not through the rules drafted
back in the 1970s, when "we" were in power and "they" were the
opposition. The settlers are in power. The Shin Bet security service
and Obama will not fight them.
Bogusław_Siędziwiłł
Adam Tomaszewski <atomas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Adam Tomaszewski, ale wiesz, ze Twoja matóla robiła za pfeniga laske kazdego rzóla?
I to na Bahnhof Zoo