Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Netanyahu, Barak, and Mofaz are delegitimizing Israel

Come al solito Gideon coglie il punto con lucidità, non rileva invece un 
ulteriore questione. Da due decenni ormai la superlobby neocon - 
"sionista" sta perseguendo l'obiettivo di svuotare il termine 
"legittimità" dal suo significato proprio, e lo sta facendo a livello 
mondiale.
 
Non ci sarebbe modo, infatti, di imporre la leadership statunitense al 
mondo intero se prima non si abbattesse il baluardo costituito delle 
norme del diritto internazionale; analogamente non sarebbe possibile 
realizzare il progetto della Grande Israele se prima non fossero 
annientati i principi giuridici che vi si oppongono.
 
Per fare questo occorre annientare la credibilità del Diritto agli occhi 
dei cittadini del mondo, occorre una campagna disinformativa che ne 
metta in discussione gli stessi presupposti, occorrono azioni eclatanti 
che ostentatamente ne prescindono, mettendolo in ridicolo, facendolo 
apparire inutile e superato.
 
E' esattamente quello che il Potere sta facendo.
 
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Published 05:14 10.05.12  Latest update 05:14 10.05.12
 
Netanyahu, Barak, and Mofaz are delegitimizing Israel
Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Mofaz are telling their nation and the world: 
We are leaders in a country of dwarfs, its citizens are all boors and 
idiots, and we can sell them any lie.
By Gideon Levy
 
The delegitimization of Israel has been accelerating at a dizzying pace 
these past couple of weeks − only this campaign is being waged here, in 
Israel, not by critics abroad.
 
This latest attack of delegitimization is much more serious than what 
goes on in the rest of the world. This time the country is being 
delegitimized in the eyes of its own people. In the end, not only will 
the world stop believing Israel, Israelis themselves will stop believing 
in it or its institutions.
 
So the international organizations are asked to hold their fire. The 
people at the top here are doing the work for them. A line, albeit a 
crooked one, connects the mischief leading to the “unity” government to 
the state’s mischief in the case of Beit El’s Ulpana neighborhood, and 
this line spells out only one thing to Israelis, particularly younger 
ones: Fraud and lies are the way to go.
 
Those clucking their tongues at the wildness of today’s young people 
might want to remember that the rot starts at the top. The next time a 
teenager exits a courtroom, he can say what he learned from his prime 
minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that he’ll “consider” and “think about” 
what he’ll do in view of the verdict; and the next time someone is 
accused of fraud, he can point to his role model, Shaul Mofaz.
 
These two have shattered the fragile structure of Israeli governance 
more than any of Israel’s critics have done. The damage they’re causing 
doesn’t just harm our image; it gnaws at our essence. This required 
class on fraud and crime proves our country’s leaders are not just 
cynical figures, but anti-educational. Too bad we cannot remove them 
from our curriculum.
 
Civics teacher Benjamin Netanyahu has been giving a lesson on the rule 
of law. He’s teaching his students that after a final court ruling, the 
convicted party decide how to respond. The court doesn’t decide, the 
guilty one decides. His colleague in the teachers’ room, his new deputy 
Shaul Mofaz, says that he “believes in the rule of law,” as if the rule 
of law is a matter of faith, and if you don’t believe, you need not obey.
 
The Israel Police has also been conducting anti-civics lessons, teaching 
us that protesters are enemies. After they jailed demonstrators who 
hadn’t even left their offices on the eve of Independence Day, they 
behaved violently at Monday’s demonstration against the new government. 
What will young people think about their country? What do they have to 
look forward to?
 
But these were just a prelude to the most anti-educational lesson of 
all: Presenting the inclusion of Mofaz in the coalition as a step that 
will benefit the country. This blatant lie is apparently being 
accompanied by illegally hiding secret clauses in the new coalition 
agreement.
 
How fascinating that this process was cooked up by Natan Eshel, 
Netanyahu’s former top aide who allegedly sexually harassed a co-worker. 
Once upon a time, someone in his situation would seclude himself at home 
in shame; now he gives television interviews. A private attorney is 
managing the so-called negotiations with the Palestinians and a 
disgraced former aide is putting together Israeli governments. What 
stellar examples of the delegitimization of government institutions.
In 1956, Rahamim Kalanter, a Jerusalem city councilman, agreed to remain 
in the governing coalition even though his party, the National Religious 
Party, walked out, and in return he was named deputy mayor for religion 
and sanitation. Since then, the act of crossing party lines in exchange 
for government goodies has been called “Kalanterism.”
 
In 2005, Alex Goldfarb bolted his party, Tsomet, and cast one of the 
votes that allowed the Oslo II accords to pass by two votes. In return 
he was given a government post that came with a big car.
 
Kalanter and Goldfarb were once symbols of shame. But now we must 
apologize to them. Mofaz managed to go much further than either of them; 
he joined the government just to assure another year-and-a-half in the 
Knesset for himself and Kadima colleagues such as Ronit Tirosh, and no 
one will even bother making up derogatory terms for this.
 
But the biggest damage of all here is the message that emerges from 
these scandals: Your leaders, dear citizens of Israel, take you for 
fools. Is there any more serious delegitimization of a country that this 
affront to its people? If this is what Israel’s leaders think of their 
countrymen, then what will they say in New York or London?
 
Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Mofaz are telling their nation and the world: 
We are leaders in a country of dwarfs, its citizens are all boors and 
idiots, and we can sell them any lie. If we tell them day is night and 
spitting is rain, they’ll believe it.
 
We are also leaders of a country where court verdicts are merely 
suggestions. Now we are not only flouting international law, but our own 
law.
And if that isn’t delegitimization, then what is?
 
-- 
Sostieni Rete ECO
 
http://rete-eco.it/it/sostienici.html
 
 

 Come al solito Gideon
 
Mi piace questa familiarità di Persio con l'editorialista di un giornale.
Dà veramente l'idea di un grosso pirla.
 
 
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