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Titolo: Il prezzo dell'ignoranza

Un pesante articolo di Gideon Samet sul come e perché molti Palestinesi
diventano terroristi. E su come gli Israeliani non se ne rendono conto.
Ciao.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/376717.html
      The price of ignorance
      By Gideon Levy
      The suicide bomber at the Geha Junction, Shehad Hanani, was from
Beit Furik, one of the most imprisoned villages in the territories that
is surrounded by earth roadblocks on all sides. It's a place where women
in labor and the sick have to risk walking through fields to get to the
hospital in adjacent Nablus. At least one woman in labor, Rula Ashatiya,
gave birth at the Beit Furik checkpoint and lost her infant. Few
Israelis are capable of imagining what life is like in Beit Furik: the
almost universal unemployment, poverty, endless siege and humiliations
of life inside a prison. A young man like Hanani, who was 21, had no
reason to get up in the morning other than to face another day of
joblessness and humiliation.
      However, Israelis have little interest in knowing the lay of the
land from which terror springs. The Israeli media have next to nothing
to say about life in Beit Furik. By the same token, few Israelis heard
about the killing of the suicide bomber's relative, Fadi Hanani, 10 days
ago in Nablus, just as they hadn't heard about all the killings of
Palestinians in the past few months. Life in Beit Furik and the killing
in Nablus do not justify a suicide bombing at a bus station, but whoever
wants to fight terror must first and foremost improve life in Beit
Furik.
      Israel counted "81 days of quiet" without terrorist attacks. But
there is no greater lie than this. The quiet was only here. During this
"quiet," dozens of Palestinians were killed, and almost no one bothered
to report it. That is how it becomes possible to speak of quiet and then
claim that the Palestinians disturbed it. The fact that the media does
not speak of Palestinian deaths does not mean that they did not happen.
The eight Palestinians who were killed last week in one day at Rafah,
for example, killing along the lines of a medium-sized terror attack,
together with destruction that is to an extent unknown in Israel,
weren't enough to generate any interest here last week. They barely got
a mention. The international community dealt prominently with this
frightening killing, and the United Nations secretary-general issued a
special statement condemning them. There was only one place where the
entire event was ignored - the country whose soldiers perpetrated the
killing. The images of giant bulldozers and tanks demolishing more and
more houses, and the scenes of the dead and 42 wounded, among them women
and children, being taken to hospitals in Rafah were hardly shown in
Israel.
      The mass-circulation daily Yedioth Ahronoth, for example,
mentioned the killing in Rafah in a sub-headline to a very small item on
an inside page that dealt with the minor injuries sustained by a settler
couple in the Gaza Strip settlement of Nisanit as a result of a Qassam
rocket. This is how the national agenda is determined. Such disgraceful
coverage of such a lethal operation by the IDF might evoke other
regimes, in which the public is shown only what the authorities want it
to see.
      This has nothing to do with media critique; it's about our image.
A society that disregards loss of human life, caused by its own
soldiers, is a tainted society. A society that conceals from its
citizens vital information of this kind is undercutting their sense of
judgment. The situation is further compounded when one examines the
attitude of the Israeli society toward its victims: there aren't many
societies that immerse themselves in bereavement so intensely. What we
have, then, is a dual morality: we count only our own dead, all the rest
don't exist.
      Concealing information has another ramification: if we don't know,
there is no one to ask why. The eight Palestinians were killed in Rafah
during the destruction of the tunnels without the question being asked
as to whether this mission was justified at any means, at any price.
      This is a deliberate aim. It permits presenting the Palestinians
as the only guilty party, and it falls on fertile ground. The majority
of the public doesn't want to know what the IDF is really doing in the
occupied territories. But the media, therefore, are in serious breach of
their duty. Both those who support the occupation and those who are
against it are entitled to get complete information about the price it
exacts. The presentation of killing as such a marginal matter also sends
a dangerous message to Israeli soldiers: there is nothing terrible about
killing more and more Palestinians
      On Thursday, 15 passersby were wounded in the targeted killing of
Islamic Jihad activist Makled Hamid in Gaza. Last week, three children,
one of them five years old, were killed in Balata refugee camp, near
Nablus. The week before, three children were killed on one Saturday in
Jenin and in nearby Burkin. Two Palestinians were killed recently along
the fence in Gaza, trying to enter Israel to find work. Six Palestinians
were killed in Rafah in the previous tunnel operation in the middle of
the month. Increasing numbers of children were shot to death near the
Qalandiyah refugee camp. All of these cases rated barely a mention in
the media. But behind each Palestinian victim is family and friends, and
hatred springs up from their graves.
      Ibrahim Abd el Kadr, from Qalandiyah, who a few months ago lost
his eldest son, Fares, when the fourteen-and-a-half-year-old was shot in
the head by soldiers, swore to take revenge. Is it so difficult to
understand him?
      There is, therefore, an Israeli price to the many concealed
Palestinian dead. They are incentives to terrorism. Their exclusion from
our agenda cannot make the results of their killing disappear as well.
Would Hanani have carried out his killing operation at Geha Junction if
he had grown up in humane conditions and if his relative had not been
assassinated? That question should be very disturbing to us. In the
meantime, though, it's not even on the agenda.
--
ICQ# 193805427 - bSanhedrin 34b - Gregorius Magnus (1:7:8)
Chaim Potok: "We offer ourselves grim consolation: all the wars have
cost us less than three days at Auschwitz".

       By Gideon Levy
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La firma è di Gideon Levy, che mi pare si distingua spesso per le sue 
prese di posizione filo-palestinesi, una volta hai anche postato un 
articolo di critica allo stesso Levy. Samet non l'ho mai sentito 
nominare.
Btw, a parte le conclusioni sul "come si diventa kamikaze" (troppa  
superficialità), credo che, se è vero ciò che scrive, sia preoccupante 
la situazione descritta. E fa il paio con quello sulle regole 
d'ingaggio e sull'armamento dei soldati israeliani, di cui si parla 
solo perché i feriti erano un israeliano e un americano.
Ne approfitto per ringraziare te, Picard e gli altri perché postate 
articoli che in questo periodo non avrei altro modo di leggere.
Auguri a tutti,
AleX

 nominare.
C'è un Gideon Samet ad Ha-Aretz. Ho semplicemente confuso i due cognomi.
Scusa e ciao.
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