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Titolo: Legittimita' dello stato etnico, decretata dai discriminati

La patente della (non)discriminazione la puo' dare solo il
discriminato.
E' la comunita' Ebraica in Iran a poter decidere se e quanto
antisemita e' la societa' Iraniana.   Sono i Musulmani Inglesi ad
avere la voce in capitolo su se l'Inghilterra sia nei loro confronti
uno stato di Polizia o una societa che rispetta i loro diritti.
Sono i neri in Alabama, i Ceceni in Russia, i Russi in Estonia, i Rom
in Italia...
Stessa cosa vale per gli Arabi in Israele: Se Israele sia una vera
democrazia egualitaria,
(e se _possa_ esserla malgrado il suo esplicito carattere "etnico" e
le priorita' "demografiche") o un'Apartheid cammuffato da democrazia,
lo possono decidere solo i cittadini Arabi, non certo i propagandisti
Italiani che postano sui forum.
E a detta di questo articolo, lo hanno gia' deciso.   E hanno proprio
deciso l'ovvio, e cioe' che uno stato "Ebraico" non e' e non potra'
mai essere qualcosa di diverso da uno stato razzista verso i non
Ebrei.   L'articolo e' comparso su Ha'aretz, ma non e' mai stato
tradotto in Inglese (vedi qui sul perche: 
http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h100202.html
Le edizioni In inglese e Ivrit sono molto diverse).
Party for Jews Only
by Ehud Oshri
from Haaretz (Hebrew version)
Sunday December 9, 2007
As things appear right now, the 60th anniversary of the state will be
celebrated solely by its Jewish citizens.  Heads of the Arab community
have announced to Ruhama Avraham, the minister responsible for the
celebrations, that they intend to boycott the events and not
participate in the activities planned in the Arab locales.  If the
boycott takes place, it will be a personal slap in the face for
minister Avraham after all the enticements she has showered on them,
but that's nothing compared with the public blow Israeli democracy
will suffer precisely on the day she intended to emphasize the unity
between all sectors of the population.
The trouble is that the state has only itself to blame.  For 59 years,
it has discriminated against the Arab population (about half of it is
to be found below the poverty line), treated it as a "strategic
threat," attacked its leaders, and comes the 60th year, the state
suddenly tries to convince this sector to join the independence
party.  The state is even ready to change its tactics from the stick
to the carrot - heads of the Arab public were promised that the
celebrations would include large financial investments in the
infrastructure of their towns.  What should have been theirs by right
suddenly had become a holiday gift, if they would only help the state
present the appearance of equality and democracy.
Besides the financial enticement, Avraham also presented a national
inducement - the common denominator chosen for the 60 years
celebrations was "Children of Israel," a general motif with which all
levels of the population could identify.  The problem was that when
Avraham says "Children of Israel," what she means is the children of
Jewish Israel.
For example, one of the climactic events of the celebrations is
installing a national corner in every school, in which the state flag
will be placed and where there will be a symbolic signing of the
Israeli declaration of independence by the children.  The declared
objective of the plan is "to help all Israeli youth, Jews, Muslims,
Christians, Druze, and others, to serve as a model of the vision of
the state of Israel as a 'Jewish and democratic' country."  But the
question arises as to why Muslim, Christian, and Druze youngsters
should want to adopt the vision of a Jewish state, especially one that
sees them as second-class citizens.  Why should they agree to sign the
declaration that sets up the return of the Jewish people to its land
when they are not a part of it?
Ruhama Avraham would come and say - because Israel is a democratic
country.  It's a fact that the declaration of independence promises
"total equality of social and political rights of all its citizens no
matter what their "religion, race, or sex," and it even exhorts its
Arab population to "take part in building the state on the basis of
full and equal citizenship."  What's the problem with signing it?Even
Meir Wilner, a member of the Maki faction and eventually the general
secretary of the Israeli Communist party, signed it.
For this, the Arabs have two replies.  Those who are more separatist,
members of the Balad party, say that with all due respect to Wilner,
the declaration of independence commemorates the establishment of the
Jewish state on the ruined lives of its indigenous inhabitants, the
Palestinian Arabs.  From their point of view, that event was a
"Naqba," a disaster.  It would have been different had the state
recognized its historical responsibility and the Arab identity
dilemma, and had interwoven, for example, the alternative narrative in
the education system, but there was no way that was going to happen,
so why should the Arabs participate in the independence celebrations?
The more moderate among them, representing the majority, that is,
those wanting to integrate into Israeli society, point out the two
concepts of "equal rights" and "full and equal citizenship" and they
ask where do they fit into those concepts.  As they see the situation,
Arab citizens would have had good reason to take part in the events if
the state had only taken the trouble to implement these slogans in
practice.  Until such time, any participation would be coerced and
artificial.
It's hard to argue with these reservations.  The alienation and
discrimination felt by the Arabs cry out all around us.  The hostile
declarations of top-level politicians and defense officials
consistently call into question their legitimacy, ignore the position
of the Arab majority, and cause even the moderates to doubt their
identification with the state.  it is enough to see their low voting
percentage, 53% in the most recent elections, to understand how deep
the crisis is and how perverted the attempt to expect their
participation in the 60-years celebrations.  Instead, we need to flip
the record and start treating the Arabs as equal citizens.  Perhaps
then we will be able to celebrate together when the 70-years
celebrations come along, insh-allah.

 in Italia...
Il principio mi pare giusto, mi rimane pero' qualche difficolta' per i
bergamaschi in Italia.
Palmiro Pangloss

in Italia...
E gli ebrei in Italia?
No cosi' per capire.
MMAX
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 MMAX
Escludendo la vergognosa parentesi delle leggi razziali, gli ebrei sono
gli italiani pių italiani! Sai che ruolo di primo piano hanno avuto nel
processo di unificazione, purtroppo finito in regno, ma meglio che niente.
gus
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 Palmiro Pangloss
#_Zitto "aretino"!
Non ti venisse in mente di varcare la soglia di Cortona!
G. 

 gli italiani più italiani!
Quoto.
MG

of it?
Perche' tale stato e' stato creato proprio a tale scopo dalle Nazioni
Unite?
Si chiama *STORIA* e magari l'autore farebbe bene a studiarla un po'.
<CUT resto delle stronzate>
-Stefano