Newsgroup: it.cultura.horror
Titolo: A volte ritornano

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-nightmare-of-netanyahu-returns-1547608.html
This is a man calling for the violent re-occupation of Gaza to "liquidate" 
its elected government. This is a man who says he will "naturally grow" the 
West Bank settlements. This is a man who says he will "never" negotiate over 
Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights, or control of the West Bank water 
supply.This is a man who says establishing a Palestinian state would leave 
Israel with, "an existential threat and a public relations nightmare 
reminiscent of 1938 Czechoslovakia". This is a man who Yitzhak Rabin's widow 
said helped create a climate of hate that led to his murder.The political 
beneficiaries of Operation Cast Lead have been Israel's hard-right. The 
opinion poll numbers have surged for Netanyahu's Likud and for the even more 
extreme Avigdor Lieberman. They say the only problem with the 23-day bombing 
of Gaza - killing 410 children, and hugely strengthening support for Hamas - 
is that it did not go far enough. The world urgently needs to look at these 
individuals - and ask how this came to pass.The key to understanding 
Netanyahu lies with his father, Benzion. He is a distinguished scholar of 
medieval history who believes the world is eternally and ineradicably 
riddled with genocidal anti-Semitism. When he arrived in British Mandate 
Palestine, he declared that the majority of Jews there were naïve and 
idealistic. They had to immediately seize the entire Biblical land of 
Israel - taking all of the West Bank and stretching right into present-day 
Jordan. There could be no compromise, ever, with the Arabs, who only 
understand force. The man he calls his mentor, Abba Ahimeir, described 
himself proudly as "a fascist".Today, Benzion's son routinely compares 
dealing with the Palestinians to dealing with the Nazis. He can only 
understand their anger as a resurfacing of Europe's irrational, murderous 
hate. He insists they have no right to a share of the land because they 
"stole" it - in 636AD. Accordingly, Netanyahu rubbishes every peace 
initiative offered by Israel. His reaction to Yitzhak Rabin's decision to 
sign the mild and moderate Oslo accords with Yasser Arafat reveals the depth 
of his opposition to compromise. He warmly addressed crowds that chanted 
"Rabin is a Nazi" and "through blood and fire, Rabin shall expire". He 
called the former prime minister "a traitor", shortly before Rabin was 
murdered by a Jewish fundamentalist who agreed.The other person who has 
surged ahead in the polls - and looks likely to be Netanyahu's coalition 
partner - is Avigdor Lieberman, a Russian ex-nightclub bouncer who says the 
model for dealing with the Palestinians should be Vladimir Putin's 1990s 
bombardment of Chechnya, which caused the death of a third of the entire 
population. He wants the political parties elected by Israeli Arabs to be 
criminalised, snapping that they should be dealt with "like Hamas".Perhaps 
even more depressing than their rise is the flat and flat-lining response 
form the other parties. Both Kadima and Labour militantly defend the 
blockade and bombing of Gaza, not least because their leaders - Tzipi Livni 
and Ehud Barak - led the charge in Cabinet. Even Barak has picked up the 
comparison to Putin and started approvingly quoting the new Tsar of Russia. 
The brave pro-peace parties like Meeretz are shunted far to the margins of 
the debate.How did this happen? It is essential to remember that the 
Israelis didn't end up in the Middle East out of a wicked desire to colonise 
and kill, as some people now gleefully claim. They are there because they 
were fleeing genocidal Jew-hatred. That doesn't justify a single crime 
against a single Palestinian - but if we forget this, and the unimaginably 
vast trauma that lies behind it, we cannot understand what is happening 
now.Over the past few months, I keep returning to an extraordinary essay 
written by the great Israel novelist Amos Oz in 1982. The Likud Prime 
Minister Menachem Begin had compared the Palestinian leadership to Adolf 
Hitler, so Oz wrote: "You display an urge to resurrect Hitler from the dead 
so you may kill him over and over again each day... Like many Jews, I feel 
sorry I didn't kill Hitler with my bare hands. But there is not, and there 
never will be, any healing for the open wound. Tens of thousands of dead 
Arabs will not heal that wound. Because, Mr Begin, Adolf Hitler is dead. He 
is not hiding in Nabatiyah, in Sidon, or in Beirut. He is dead and burned to 
ashes."Israeli society consists, Oz says, of "a bunch of half-hysterical 
refugees and survivors". The 2,000-year trauma of the blood libel, the 
Inquisition, the pogroms, Auschwitz and Chelmno and the Gulag Archipelago, 
have produced a distorted vision, where every shriek of pain directed at 
Israel can sound like the rumble beginning in the massed crowds at 
Nuremberg. This means that Israel is missing opportunities for peace. Even 
much of Hamas - an Islamist party I passionately oppose - is amenable to a 
long ceasefire along the 1967 borders. That isn't my opinion; it is the view 
of Yuval Diskin, the current head of the Israeli security service Shin Bet. 
He told the Israeli Cabinet before the bombing of Gaza that Hamas would 
restore the ceasefire if Israel would only end the blockade of the Strip and 
declare a ceasefire on the West Bank. Instead, they bombed, and the offer 
died.The former head of Mossad, Ephraim Halevy, says that Hamas, "will have 
to adopt a path that could lead them far from their original goals" if only 
Israel will begin the path of compromise. This would drain support for 
rejectionists such as Osama Bin Laden and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and make it 
easier to build international coalitions.Instead, too many Israelis - 
imprisoned by their history - seem determined to choose the opposite path: 
of Netanyahu and Lieberman and ramming an endless alienating boot on to the 
throat of the Palestinians. It doesn't have to be like this. We can only say 
to them with Amos Oz, as urgently as we can: Adolf Hitler is not hiding in 
Gaza City, or Beit Hanoun, or Hebron. Adolf Hitler is dead.

 its elected government.
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