Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale.israele
Titolo: gli Israeliani e il "Libanese"

Ora credo si possa parlare anche degli aspetti meno drammatici della
faccenda...c'è un legame forte tra i popoli del Medio Oriente,
qualcosa che trascende ogni odio atavico o nuovo e ogni necessità di
farsi la guerra: la cannabis e i suoi derivati. In questo gustoso
articolo del Guardian trovate tutti i dettagli.
Daphna Baram
Tuesday August 22, 2006
Guardian (UK)
Forward, a Jewish publication based in New York, had one of
these "aren't we cool, look what we are writing about" items
last week, informing its readers of an Israeli "phenomenon".
Apparently, "activists" have decided to boycott hashish
originating from Lebanon, in order to avoid indirect
sponsorship of Hizbullah, who are believed to be involved in
smuggling the drug over the Israeli border.
This news originated in the blog of a well-meaning bloke
calling himself Anarchist Orthodox, who announced his
intention to stop buying Lebanese hash, "effective
immediately". This act of selflessness is obviously aimed at
making Sheikh Nasrallah and his ilk think twice before
messing with Israel. Furthermore, Anarchist Orthodox called
for the legalisation of marijuana, which, he explained,
would cut our dependency on imported goods.
One needn't be a Middle East expert to recognise the holes
in this idea. Even moderate experience of being a pothead,
or an Israeli, would suffice. It is true that Nasrallah has
his ear tuned to the finest details of Israel's leisure
culture. The man made a career based on the idea of Israel
being a "spider web society", soaked so deeply in hedonism,
decadence and debauchery that it is ripe and ready to
crumble at the touch of a broomstick. Indeed, it seems that
the hash-boycott sanction stands little chance of success.
Israelis are infamous for being rubbish at alcohol
consumption, but what we forgo in booze we more than
compensate for with the spliffy side of things. It is almost
unthinkable for Israelis to come home after a hard day's
work and pour themselves a glass of wine, but among secular
Israelis from the ages of 20 to 45, rolling a joint under
such circumstances is not generally frowned on. Unlike
Britons, Israelis are not keen on cocaine. We have little
need or desire to consume a drug that makes us even cockier
and more arrogant. It is chilling out a bit, relaxing,
calming down, that we crave.
Like anywhere else in the world where marijuana is banned by
law, however, Israelis don't purchase their gear in
air-conditioned supermarkets. Tel Aviv may be one of the
hippest cities around the Mediterranean, and it is open 24
hours, but it is not Amsterdam. One basically smokes what
one can get from that friend of a friend who knows a sort of
a dealer who knows a real dealer and the supply is dependent
on activity in neighbouring countries. So when the Egyptian
police raid the fields of northern Sinai and demolish the
livelihood of the nomad Bedouins there, there will be a
shortage of weed; when the border with Lebanon is tense and
heavily patrolled by the police, there will be less hashish.
Such is the uncertainty of supply that the chances of a
pothead (or satlan, as they are known in Hebrew) halting
pre-inhalation to check the origins of the stash are as
ludicrous as the idea that an hour later, when succumbing to
a full-on attack of the munchies, he or she would reject a
bar of chocolate because its packaging was tested on
animals. No way, man.
It seems, at any rate, that if there is a drug-related
problem with Israel's recent invasion of Lebanon, it does
not have much to do with the hash coming in from Lebanon,
but with the fungi seemingly mushrooming around the Cabinet
buildings. Because only hallucinogens could have invoked the
notion that another "limited" invasion and air blitz on
Lebanon could solve Israel's problems with its neighbours.
[Quest'ultima allusione ai funghetti (psylocibe) merita una
spiegazione. Tel Aviv è una delle capitali mondiali della trance
techno e della club culture in generale, e i funghetti (pitriyot) hanno
da metà anni '90 una diffusione particolarmente importante in Israele
(prendendo un po' il posto dell'MDMA).]
Il blog citato ha questo url: 
http://www.orthodoxanarchist.com/
Decisamente antisionista, decisamente anarchico, decisamente ebraico,
non mi vede d'accordo sull'antisionismo (e scrive una grossa cazzata
storica nel post "it must be purim...", uno degli ultimi) ma lo trovo
molto arguto. Il post sul boicottaggio dell'hash è del 17 luglio.
Aggiungo solo che la droga fa male e in più è illegale <g>
 
ciao
JG

 Decisamente antisionista
falso, ho letto di fretta. Ad ogni modo la sua è una posizione non
facilmente schematizzabile, molto interessante, di cui parla nell'altro
post che ho linkato. Avevo chiesto alla gentile moderatrice di
correggermi ma sono stato troppo lento, o lei è troppo rapida...o sono
finito in wishlist, baruch hashem?
ciao
JG

 finito in wishlist
Io, comunque, non ti compro
Tb
-- 
:> [Tb] : Il dovere di un comunista sarebbe quello di formare un cordone
sanitario attorno alla feccia nazi
: [.sergio.] : No
Il mio blog: 
www.tonibaruch.blogspot.com

 Io, comunque, non ti compro
per carità, immagino tua abbia già le tue marchette :>
ciao
JG