Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Israel Walls Itself In

Chi disponga di una pur minima capacità di raziocinio e di capacità di 
valutare la realtà per ciò che essa è si rende conto che la via 
isolazionista intrapresa dalla dirigenza "sionista" non solo non 
assicura il futuro di Israele, al contrario: costruisce i presupposti 
per la sua fine.
Eppure, a quanto sembra, la maggior parte degli israeliani e dei 
"sionisti" della diaspora non sono in grado di trarre questa semplice e 
razionalmente inevitabile conclusione.
 
Questa incapacità a me appare come una manifestazione di nevrosi collettiva.
 
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Israel Walls Itself In
Analysis by Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
 
JERUSALEM, Jul 20 2012 (IPS) - As Israel continues to build walls and 
fences along virtually each of its borders, analysts say the country’s 
isolationist policies and unwillingness to deal with the Palestinians 
and other Arab neighbours through anything other than forceful means 
spells disaster.
 
“On the one hand we’re walling the Palestinians in but on the other hand 
if you kind of zoom out and look at the Middle East, you’ll see that 
Israel is the one that’s walled in. It’s this island that is losing 
touch with its neighbours,” says Israeli academic and author Neve Gordon.
 
Israel’s eight-metre high “Separation Barrier” with the West Bank – 
referred to by most Palestinians as the Apartheid Wall – is now in its 
tenth year of construction. As of April 2012, 434 kilometres, or almost 
62 percent of the total length of the wall, had been completed.
 
In June, Israel announced that construction would resume on a section of 
the wall in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc near the West Bank city 
Bethlehem. Building of the section around Ma’ale Adumim near Jerusalem, 
one of Israel’s largest settlements, is expected to start next year.
 
“Whatever is on the other side of the wall is a monster, is an unknown, 
is something you fear. So it does definitely increase the level of 
animosity, hate and so forth because it is an unknown and it’s a 
frightening unknown,” Gordon tells IPS.
 
The Israeli government promotes the wall as a way to protect Israeli 
civilians from Palestinian violence. Palestinians say that the wall, 
which cuts deep into the occupied West Bank, is a means for Israel to 
seize more Palestinian land.
 
When finished, the wall is expected to annex 530 square kilometres of 
Palestinian land, equivalent to the area of Chicago, the United States’ 
third largest city, according to the Palestinian human rights group Al Haq.
 
But Israel’s push to erect walls and fences around itself doesn’t end at 
the Separation Wall; construction of a 230-kilometre fence along 
Israel’s southern border with Egypt is moving forward at a frantic pace, 
in an attempt to keep African asylum seekers out.
 
Ironically, asylum seekers in Israel who now number approximately 60,000 
are themselves involved in the building of the fence and its 
infrastructure. Most of them have reached Israel through the Egyptian 
Sinai desert.
 
“I feel like I’m doing something against myself,” says 29-year-old 
Mohammad Anur Adam, a refugee from Darfur who spent eight months 
building a road that the Israeli army and police will use to patrol the 
fence.
 
“There is no work, that’s why,” Adam tells IPS from his home in Eilat, 
Israel’s southernmost city, only a few kilometres from the Egyptian border.
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the fence is necessary to 
maintain peaceful relations with Egypt. “To continue the peace, there 
must be security and to this end a fence is necessary,” he has said. 
“Its rapid construction is important for both peace and security.”
 
Netanyahu announced early this year that once the fence along the 
Egyptian border is completed, Israel would build one along the Jordanian 
border.
 
Even before this announcement, Jordanian King Abdullah II said in 
interview with the Wall Street Journal in September last year that 
“Israel has to decide; does it want to be part of the neighbourhood or 
does it want to be fortress Israel?”
 
Israeli historian Ilan Pappe says Israel’s “fortress” mentality is 
nothing new, and is a product of early Zionist thinking.
 
“The main Zionist and later Israeli impulse was not to be part of the 
Middle East but to belong to Europe,” Pappe tells IPS in an e-mail 
interview. “Whether they have real or imaginary enemies in their own 
state or on the state’s borders, the Israeli Jewish society voluntarily 
wishes to be gated so as not blend with the ‘primitive’ Palestinian or 
Arab environment.”
 
Pappe says the Israeli siege mentality forces the state to deal with its 
neighbours only through force, which in turn isolates it even more from 
the larger Middle East.
 
“Breaking down the real and imaginary walls can only be done when 
Israel, absurdly the strongest military power in the region, will be 
courageous enough to give (up) some of its privileges and make Israel 
and Palestine a more equal state and accept that (it is) part of the 
Middle East, its problems and solutions.”
 
In June, the Israeli authorities completed construction of a seven-metre 
high wall separating the country from Lebanon. The wall equipped with 
cameras and motion detection sensors covers approximately 1,200 metres.
 
http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/israel-walls-itself-in/
 
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 per la sua fine.
 
un altro testimone di geova...

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Credo il riferimento siano gli avventusti del settimo giorno.
 
La realtà è quella di un povero pirla che vive sperando. Mentre quello che
crolla sono le dittature fasciste nemiche di Israele.
 
Da ciò un certo isterismo, in aggravamento
 
 
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