"Get Indignant!" - Another member of the Youth Club: Stéphane Hessel (93)

[CANAAN51USA - Alfred De Grazia]

"Get Indignant!" - Another member of the Youth Club: Stéphane Hessel
(93)

"When a poisonous snake is endowed with a good conscience, like the
named Hessel, it is understandable that one feels the urge to crush
his head." Thus French neo-con philosopher and Zionist Pierre-André
Taguieff about Stéphane Hessel, former French Ambassador to the UN,
former inmate at Buchenwald and secretary to René Cassin, at the time
when he was co-writer of UN's Universal Declaration of the Rights of
Man (1949). Stéphane Hessel has spoken out in support of the boycott
of products from the Jewish colonies of the West Bank, which attracted
the wrath of Mr. Taguieff.

Pierre Puchot, journalist at Mediapart, asks Stéphane Hessel:
Where does your involvement in favor of the Palestinian population
come from?

"Originally, it was some Israelis, among the most dissident, who
addressed the Diaspora (my father was Jewish) considering that we were
Jews who must, as they said, realize what is becoming out of the state
which we have supported when it was created: "You should come and have
a look at what the successive Israeli governments have brought us to."
I answered their call. I have been there for the first time in the
1990s. I have returned several times and I have indeed come to realize
that the Palestinian cause was badly defended, and the Israeli side
free to act in total impunity. As I am rather an International Law
man, I sustained that we, members of the United Nations, have
obligations towards the Palestinian people and I started to defend the
idea that to leave Israeli politics unpunished was contrary to
International Law. This was a rather recent path for me to tread, for
twenty years ago, I occupied myself little with the Palestinian
problem. But since the end of the nineties, I have gone there at least
six times and I realized that it was only possible to to understand
some things when one was on the spot. It's only when being on the spot
that one can understand how the Israeli policies have been nefarious
to the Palestinian people, contrary to International Law, and
contrary to the well understood interest of the Israeli people
themselves..."

In your "brochure," Get Indignant, you notably call for "a pacific
insurrection." What do you mean?

"I refer to what the Palestinians are doing in a village close to that
famous wall built by Israel on Palestinian land, of which they are
therefore the victims and who, in protest, organize every Friday a
march which they want to be pacific, as they forbid kids to throw
stones. Generally, they are greeted by Israeli soldiers who don't
hesitate to use teargas, and even rubber bullets. This is what I call
pacific insurrection. This is what the Israelis have had the nerve to
call "non-violent terrorism" as if one could be in the same time non-
violent and a terrorist. As all violence calls for violence in return,
this is never a good way to resolve a problem."

As to M. Taguieff's call to crush his snake's head, Stéphane Hessel
commented: "That I should be attacked, why not? But let it be done
with a minimum of courtoisie, please!"




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