Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Colonial Zionism

"They know how to exploit democratic institutions, but they ignore human 
rights and recognize only the rights of the Jews."
Chi vi ricorda questo atteggiamento tra i cosiddetti "sionisti" che 
girano da queste parti?
A me un po' tutti.
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Colonial Zionism
By Zeev Sternhell
Tags: Settlements, Israel News
For the past 30 years I have considered the settlements a destructive 
phenomenon that raises a large question mark over Israel's future. In 
fact, the settlement enterprise is an ideological, political and social 
phenomenon that has succeeded in creating an original androgynous 
creation: colonial Zionism.
There have already been variations of Zionism: general, revisionist, 
socialist, with or without quotation marks. Now we also have colonial 
Zionism, based on ethnic and religious inequality, which considers 
itself the exclusive emissary of Jewish history. The Divine promise and 
not the natural rights of human beings to freedom, independence and 
self-government is, in its eyes, the one and only source of legitimacy 
for the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel. According to this 
viewpoint, the land belongs not only to living Jews, but to all the past 
generations and those yet unborn; therefore, members of the present 
generation have no right to share possession of the land with members of 
another nation.
As a matter of course, when we speak of "the settlements" we are not 
referring to that vast majority of Israelis who are living in the West 
Bank for reasons of convenience or necessity (cheap and improved 
housing). In addition, we do not talk about each settler separately: We 
talk about the settlement enterprise the way one talks about 
"socialism," "conservatism" or "nationalism;" in other words, about that 
which is essential to the ideology and the movement, and typifies it.
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Even the ideological core, which is in essence "the settlement 
movement," is not all of one stripe. Between the hilltop youth and many 
of their parents there is a large gap, not only in patterns of behavior 
but also in the degree of connection to universal values.
However, overall, they are all nurtured by the same principles and 
aspire to the same goals. Since this small minority is convinced that it 
owns the absolute truth, it considers itself permitted to force it on 
all of society.
Therefore its leaders and spokespersons show disdain for both the weak 
politicians and the basic tenets of democracy itself. They know how to 
exploit democratic institutions, but they ignore human rights and 
recognize only the rights of the Jews. Since the High Court of Justice 
decision on Elon Moreh in 1979, in which the court ruled that seizing 
private lands is illegal, they have been attacking this basic 
institution of Israeli democracy, the guardian of individual rights.
Despite the power he has acquired thanks to the cowardice of the 
government, the ideological settler always wears the mantle of a martyr, 
persecuted by the left-wing elite and the media it ostensibly controls. 
Although he controls the territories, he likes to be portrayed as a 
perpetual victim of leftist conspiracies. Although for almost four 
decades the ideological settler has created a reality about which 
Israeli voters have never been called on to decide, and in subversive 
ways has turned the military occupation into civilian control that 
contradicts every accepted norm in the Western world, he does not cease 
to cry that he has been robbed.
In Hebron a situation has been created that is a national disgrace, a 
genuine sin and crime: Apartheid, as legal scholar Boaz Okun wrote in 
the weekly Yedioth Ahronoth last week, is already here. But not only in 
Hebron: The situation in the territories in general and the lawless 
outposts in particular, along with the theft of private lands, is 
testimony to the bankruptcy of the state when faced with the daring of 
the settler and his determination not to retreat before ethical or legal 
obstacles. In that way the settlement movement is perforce creating 
daily violations of the law and a culture of violence: Ofra and Beit El 
may be quiet and pleasant places settled by idealists, but together with 
their satellite outposts, Amona, Beit Hagedud and Ofra Northeast, Beit 
El East and Hill 909, they have seized an area that, according to aerial 
photos and information conveyed to the Peace Now monitoring committee by 
government authorities, over 90 percent of which is composed of private 
Palestinian land (figures from October 2006).
Finally, I would like to make one point clear once and for all, without 
any connection to the attempt to hurt me, an attempt whose perpetrators 
could belong to any faction of the extreme right, and not necessarily 
the settlement movement. In three articles I wrote in May and June of 
2001, one of which included a paragraph that was not properly worded, I 
explained my position regarding the settlers: The lives of Jews living 
on both sides of the Green Line are "equally precious."
And in another place: "The settlement movement is a historical disaster, 
but for now there are people living there whose lives must be 
protected." In fact, the distinction between individuals whom we must 
take care of as long as they are there - and the emphasis is on the 
dimension of temporariness - and the settlement enterprise as an 
historical phenomenon is essential.
I have already written in the past in this newspaper, and I repeat it 
today: If Israeli society is unable to muster the courage necessary to 
put an end to the settlements, the settlements will put an end to the 
state of the Jews and will turn it into a binational state.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1029366.html

 Bank for reasons of convenience or necessity
orpo. Ma allora la maggioranza dei coloni sono motivati dalla
situazione economica. Informate Persio che ha appena fatto una figura
da pirla.

 da pirla.
Dove avrei detto il contrario?

 inducendola anzi a sostenerla.
Persio tu sei seriamente pirla e di una malafede talmente beota che anche 
lio figlio di 5 anni la noterebbe.
.
Posti un articolo di grande forza, chiaro, limpido, cristallino di un 
teorico della sinistra israeliana e sionista fino al buco del culo.
Se non ti fosse chiaro la sinistra israeliana il suo progetto ce l'ha e 
si chiama due popoli e due stati, pace [prima] in cambio di territori nei 
confini del 67.
Assieme a Kadima, mediando in un governo dato che la democrazia è fatta 
di numeri, tenta  di conseguire l'obiettivo piu' prossimo alla sua ormai 
trentennale proposta eternamente boicottata o da logiche terrorista alla 
Hamas e i suoi mandanti o da soloni trasudanti di pregiudizio di cui tu 
sei non un esponente [dato che hai la levatura politica di 
un'oloturia]..ma il prodotto piu' banale [e pirla]
MMAX
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http://bloggoanchio.splinder.com

 teorico della sinistra israeliana e sionista fino al buco del culo.
a dire il vero dice anche qualcosa di molto sgradito per la sinistra
israeliana, ovvero che al di là della retorica socialista non lo è mai
stata, in quanto sin dalla nascita il nazionalismo è stato prevalente
sul socialismo, visto che per i futuri laburisti viene prima
l'interessa nazionale di quello di classe. E dice pure che le
conquiste del '67 sono imperialismo allo stato puro, che fa a pugni
col preteso socialismo dei padri fondatori dello stato:
No leader was capable of saying that the conquest of the West Bank
lacked the moral basis of the first half of the twentieth century,
namely the circumstances of distress on which Israel was founded. A
much-persecuted people needed and deserved not only a shelter, but
also a state of its own. [...] Whereas the conquests of 1949 were an
essential condition for the founding of Israel, the attempt to retain
the conquests of 1967 had a strong flavor of imperial expansion
Nationalist socialism was an autonomous system that could both develop
in a totalitarian direction and refrain from taking this path. The
Eretz Israeli version did not become totalitarian, but nevertheless
remained distinct from democratic socialism
the Zionist leadership in the 1930s had enough power to try develop a
social policy, but that they "refused to make the Histadrut economy
pay the cost" and "did not even attempt to pursue a social policy for
the assistance of the poorer segments of society". The reason for this
was their elitist perception of social action: it was not relevant for
"the consolidation of national strength".
In the first twenty-five years of Israel's existence the same elite
consciously neglected the underprivileged. Secondary education was
inaccessible to large segments of the manual workers and new
immigrants. "Until the revolt of the 'Black Panthers' at the beginning
of the 1970s, Israel did not have any social policies at all."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Founding_Myths_of_Israel
e non solo, ha detto pure che i palestinesi dovrebbero smetterla di
fare attentati in Israele per concentrare la RESISTENZA armata contro
i coloni:
"Many in Israel, perhaps even the majority of the voters, do not doubt
the legitimacy of the armed resistance in the territories themselves.
The Palestinians would be wise to concentrate their struggle against
the settlements [and] avoid harming women and children"
e che le colonie sono la fine dello stato ebraico, perchè
sostituiscono il sionismo coloniale al vero sionismo:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1029366.html


Libro di un autore sionista, di sinistra e contrario agli
insediamenti. Il quale autore sta leggendo la traduzione dei tuoi post
e agrees nel definirti fool.

 israeliana e quella della Diaspora,
E se lo dice un *PIRLA* lobotomizzato allora .....!!!!
*LOL*
-Stefano