Thursday, June 14, 2007

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Epilogue: Gaza, june 2007

There are things you can not keep silent and continue the meditation. At the end of the Republic also takes stock on the last forty years of Palestinian history ... you could see from afar, is now probably too late. It 's very painful. The following article by Viola (also linked) and obviously do not agree with the third and pen'ultima line (on the other hand the Republic is a newspaper of government, and we arrived and we still follow this line ). ---

FOREIGN
GAZA, PALESTINE AND THE MADNESS OF FORTY YEARS OF MILITARY OCCUPATION
SANDRO PURPLE

Mahmud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian right: what is happening in Gaza is "crazy." A civil war, which instead of involving, as usual in civil wars, social classes, economic interests in conflict, pushed over the precipice of the same mass of beggars crazy. The one and the other, those of Fatah and those of Hamas, without work for years, kept alive by the UN food aid, with mountains of garbage and threats of epidemics on the doorstep, a great deal without water light.

A mass of desperate people who vie for power in a landscape of tremendous misery. In quell'anus mundi which is now the Gaza Strip. I had said days ago, and it is worth repeating. The Palestinians appear to be incorrigible. Invece di proporsi verso Israele e la comunità internazionale come interlocutori credibili in un negoziato di pace, essi forniscono pretesti e ragioni a quella parte della società israeliana che non vuole trattative, compromessi, accordi, sostenendo appunto che sul versante palestinese "non c'è nessuno con cui negoziare". E quindi sono loro, i dirigenti e i seguaci di Fatah e di Hamas, i responsabili dei combattimenti di strada in corso da giorni, delle vittime, del caos che stanno sconvolgendo Gaza.

Loro i responsabili di quella che sembra ormai la vera e più drammatica conseguenza dello scontro: il disfacimento dell'Autorità palestinese. Il vuoto politico, l'anarchia forse senza scampo in cui versano ormai i territori Palestine occupied by Israel four decades ago.

all the fault of radical Islam in Palestine led by Hamas, and then triggered the divisions in Palestinian society (once the most secular part of the Arab world) dall'irrompere of religious fanaticism? No, only in part. There are other sins, other responsibilities that led to the formation of social and political context in which today we see a flare beginning of civil war. This is the point to highlight: the context, the context in which they arrived at the point of explosion rivalries, internecine anger, "madness" of the Palestinians.

Reconstructing Step by Step, episode by episode, il formarsi del contesto da cui sono scaturiti i combattimenti di Gaza, sarebbe lungo.
Bisognerà quindi limitarsi ad elencare le tappe, i fatti principali. Intanto l'occupazione. Che cosa hanno prodotto nelle menti, nell'animo dei palestinesi, quattro decenni di occupazione militare israeliana? Quarant'anni di terre espropriate, di acque deviate verso le piscine delle colonie ebraiche, di ulivi dei contadini palestinesi tagliati alla base durante i raid dei coloni più estremisti, di rappresaglie devastanti, di code interminabili ai posti di blocco dell'esercito.

È mai stata fatta giustizia, da parte israeliana, dei soprusi dei coloni, delle inutili violenze dell'esercito ai posti di blocco, delle partorienti che rischiavano to give birth in the street and under the blazing sun, and more than three hours of a student will need to overcome the network of checkpoints and reach his school or university a few miles from home? You never sought justice from the international community for "targeted killings" that the army and air force of Israel do for years, and its true death sentences without the shadow of an investigation or a trial? Yes, the Palestinian is a folly and an episode of yesterday - two women, one pregnant, who were trying to cross into Israel loaded with explosives to blow himself up in a crowded place - is a significant detail in the fall of reason Palestinian world. But look

the "context" to see if it has come some of the causes of this madness, some of the causes of its outbreak, is a duty. It is necessary to ask what other people have endured without losing the reason the Palestinians have lived for forty years. It's true: they, with their suicide bombers, to impress one of the turning to the most tragic and brutal conflict that opposes them to Israel. But even here the "context" suggests something that should be borne in mind.

The suicide bombers of Hamas appeared in 2001, thirty years after the start of employment. There were no suicide bombers before. As for Hamas, those who know the events in occupied Palestine knows how much the Israelis have had in the settlement degli islamisti a Gaza e in Cisgiordania. Come nella seconda metà degli Ottanta fossero visti, da Ariel Sharon in particolare, quali utili contendenti dell'Olp di Arafat. Come ne vennero favorite la crescita e le attività, così da produrre due risultati: uno certo, l'indebolimento dell'Olp, e un altro auspicabile, lo scontro interno tra le due fazioni. Non c'è dubbio: oggi hanno ragione gli israeliani che sostengono l'assenza di interlocutori affidabili sul versante palestinese. Con chi si dovrebbe negoziare: con le bande armate di Hamas, con quelle della Jihad islamica, con i resti delle forze fedeli a Mahmud Abbas? No, con questi, a questo punto, non è possibile trattare.

Ma il "contesto" ci serve anche to see how they were burned by Israel who perhaps could be the reliable partners. Arafat earlier, discredited, ridiculed by the siege placed by Sharon, for a year and a half, at his headquarters in Ramallah, and Hamas to convince the Palestinians that the only way out were the attacks by the occupation and intransigence towards "Zionist entity." And Mahmoud Abbas, who was also burned by Sharon at the time of the withdrawal from Gaza. Unilateral withdrawal, without that Abbas had no role there, and that there was even a symbolic delivery of the Strip to the Palestinian Authority. Perhaps the most important act for the victory of Hamas in Palestinian elections in March 2006.

And finally sarà bene non dimenticare la sospensione degli aiuti e dei finanziamenti all'Autorità palestinese, decretati dagli Stati Uniti e dall'Unione europea dopo la formazione del primo governo Hamas, e in larga parte ancora mantenuta nei confronti del governo di unità nazionale Hamas-Fatah. Certo, sembrò giusto tagliare i fondi ad un'organizzazione come Hamas, che non ha mai rinunciato al terrorismo e non intende riconoscere Israele. Ma oggi bisogna forse parlare d'un errore. La povertà a Gaza è aumentata, la disperazione ha spento gli ultimi barlumi di ragione, e questo ha certamente avuto un peso nell'innesco dello scontro intestino.

Ecco, il "contesto" non va dimenticato. Quando si critica la politica dei governi israeliani, we must always keep in mind that Israel is the only state where any part of the world still debates about its legitimacy, its borders, and indeed the one and other contests. This leads one to justify, from time to time, even the most serious errors of Israeli politics. But then, how to bypass those errors which were also to produce "madness" Palestinian?

( June 14, 2007 )