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Titolo: Elezioni in Israele

Il 19 si terranno le elezioni in Israele, la cui importanza penso sia chiara
a tutti, il destino dell'area e degli equilibri mondiali e' in gioco.
Secondo alcuni, sarebbe la causa per cui gli americani pospongono l'attacco
all'Iraq.
Da Haaretz leggo questo articolo che ho trovato molto interessante, e' in
inglese, lo tradurro' stasera, nel pomeriggio,
per restare in tema, mi vedro' Intervento Divino di elia Suleiman.
Without fear or compromise
By Ze'ev Sternhell
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The one act that is to the credit of the Labor Party at
the end of the two dark years in which it served Ariel
Sharon loyally and obediently is that it toppled the
government that is responsible for the worst period in
Israeli history to date. What now remains for the
party's rank-and-file membership is to defeat Benjamin
Ben-Eliezer, the party's leader, in the primaries on
November 19, so that in the campaign leading up to
election day early next year, the positions will be
uncompromisingly and sharply distinct. Only if a
polarized alternative is put forward against the Likud
will the public know exactly what the meaning of its
vote is.
Indeed, in this election race two camps and two camps
only have to take each other on: the right-wing bloc,
which views Sharon's policy as being good and perhaps
even as too moderate, must be challenged by a left-wing
bloc that will fight with all its strength for a
comprehensive alternative, at both the ideological and
the political levels. There will no longer be any place
here next year for interim solutions and for escaping
responsibility by fleeing into some virtual center. The
debate must be unequivocal in character - not over an
outpost or two, not over imaginary "painful concessions"
of one kind or another, and not even over the budget for
the settlements, but over the very goals of Zionism.
It was the veteran settler activist Daniella Weiss who
in the course of the melee that accompanied the
pointless evacuation of Havat Gilad, an illegal settler
outpost in the West Bank, threw down the gauntlet: here,
she said, is where the battle for the future of the
Jewish people is being fought. These are in fact the
categories in which the hard core of the settlers speak
and this is the source of its strength. These men and
women are convinced that they carry on their shoulders
the entire burden of the nation's past and future alike.
In their eyes, they are the representatives of the
generations gone by, they are the bearers of the
standard of continuity and they are laying the
foundations for the future.
It is therefore pointless to talk to them in the
language of legal formalism or in the terms of the
pragmatism of the Knesset cafeteria, beloved by the
politicians of the so-called moderate left. There is no
point in bemoaning the collapse of the rule of law, or
calling for international resolutions to be respected,
or threatening that American pressure will be brought to
bear. The leaders of the settlers are contemptuous of
this hypocrisy, and rightly so. After all, when exactly
did Israel under the leadership of Mapai in any of its
incarnations, successors (notably the Labor Party) or
allies ever respect laws and resolutions that it found
inconvenient? Since when have those who are known as
battlers for human rights become saints? And what, after
all, is the weight of the ephemeral interest of this
generation, including its well-being and its standard of
living, when pitted against the entire course of Jewish
history?
Therefore, the struggle against the right in all its
forms - which is today dominated by radical elements
such as never existed in the period of the veterans of
Etzel and Lehi, the pre-state breakaway underground
movements - must be waged in the same terms with which
the leaders of the right wing view themselves and their
role.
They are correct in saying that the campaign for the
future is being fought on the hilltops of the West Bank:
if we continue holding those hilltops, we will lose the
future. The Jewish national movement will not be able to
withstand occupation, annexation or expulsion. Each of
these possible solutions that is being proposed by the
right wing will constitute a deathblow to our future. It
follows that the left must convince the public of its
seriousness and its readiness to fight for its
convictions with no less tenacity than the right; but
above all, it must demonstrate its willingness to
translate into action its intellectual content and its
moral values.
The left will not put up with the brutalization of the
society. Who among all those who served in the old
Israel Defense Forces can forget the smiling and amused
face of the young army sniper who was interviewed on
television and between one guffaw and the next could no
longer say whether the two people they killed were armed
or if only one of them was armed. Contrary to what the
heads of the Yesha Council of settlements and the
inhabitants of the mobile homes on the hilltops believe,
the person who is secular by awareness, liberal in his
political outlook and faithful to the principle that all
human beings have equal rights, attaches the same
meaning to his worldview as the religiously observant do
to Jewish religious law. Human rights and norms of
universal ethics are no less sacred to him than the Ten
Commandments.
The immediate political ramification of this approach is
that the era of compromise and unity, which always meant
surrender by the left, has to come to an end. The right
always believed that it is easier for the left to make
concessions and that it can therefore demand everything
from the left, which in any case has no tenets or
principles of its own. That awareness has been
intensified in the past two years, and with good reason.
Therefore, the Labor Party politicians who were part of
the Sharon government and only brought shame and
disgrace on the entire camp must disappear as though
they were blown away by the wind. Adherence to
principles of universal validity and the revamping of
the Labor Party leadership are the two mutually
complementary developments in the effort to get back
into the game.
The coming election campaign will be one of the toughest
and most violent yet. We will not endure by means of
tricks, shticks, advertising agencies and American
experts, but only by holding fast to a clear-cut
ideology and deep inner conviction.

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