Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Bibi "Totò" Netanyahu e il "secondo Messico"

http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/07/netanyahus-warning-to-america-palestinian-statehood-will-lead-to-second-mexico-inside-u-s/
Netanyahu's Warning to America: Palestinian Statehood Will Lead to "Second 
Mexico" Inside U.S.
When Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the White House this week, he may wish he 
was meeting with President Lou Dobbs instead of Barack Obama. The dire 
warning Netanyahu issued to Americans in his 1993 book, "A Durable Peace," 
would have resonated much more strongly with the nativist Dobbs than Obama.
According to Netanyahu, the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank 
would have grave repercussions in the United States, provoking the Latino 
minority to demand a state of its own in the Southwest - a hostile "second 
Mexico" that will make Anglos fear for their lives. To avoid this "potential 
nightmare," America has only one choice: join Israel in stifling the 
Palestinians' national ambitions.
How did Netanyahu justify his seemingly paranoid logic? At the time he 
published his book (with considerable help from neocon former Deputy 
Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, as he notes in his 
acknowledgments), the Palestinians comprised a bare minority between the 
Jordan River and the Mediterranean. For this reason, Netanyahu characterized 
them as "a minority" no different than the Mexican-American citizens of the 
US.
In Netanyahu's view, the Palestinians had stubbornly refused to give up 
their national ambitions and take up citizenship in Jordan, a move that he 
claimed would allow them to become resident foreign nationals under Israeli 
law. He claimed this proved "they were not interested in civil rights.the 
Palestinians demand unlimited self-determination, with no limitation of 
potentially destructive sovereign powers." He called this, "the Palestinian 
Principle."
Netanyahu resented international acceptance of the Palestinian demand for 
statehood, lamenting that "Israel is now being told by virtually the entire 
world that it must accept a confined and stifling existence on the narrow 
shoreline dominated by a hostile, Judenrein Palestinian state on these same 
mountains, the very heart of the Jewish home."  So much for the "two-state 
solution;" in Netanyahu's Holocaust-obsessed worldview, Palestinian 
statehood was a recipe for wide-scale pogroms.
To convince his American counterparts that crushing Palestinian national 
ambitions was in their best interest, Netanyahu linked Palestinian statehood 
to American anti-immigrant fears.
On pages 164-165, Netanyahu wrote:
"The United States is not exempt from this potential nightmare. In a decade 
or two the southwestern region of America is likely to be predominately 
Hispanic, mainly as a result of continuous emigration from Mexico. It is not 
inconceivable that in this community champions of the Palestinian Principle 
could emerge. These would demand not merely equality before the law, or 
naturalization, or even Spanish as a first language. Instead they would say 
that since they form a local majority in the territory (which was forcibly 
taken from Mexico in the war of 1848), they deserve a state of their own. 
'But you already have a state - it's called Mexico,' would come the 
response. 'You have every right to demand civil rights in the United States, 
but you have no right to demand a second Mexico.' This hypothetical exchange 
may sound far-fetched today. But it will not necessarily appear that way 
tomorrow, especially if the Palestinian Principle is allowed to continue to 
spread, which it surely will if a new Palestinian state comes into being."
Was Netanyahu sincere in arguing that US interests dovetailed with those of 
Israel? Not really. Later on in his book, in a chapter entitled "Jewish 
Power," Netanyahu assailed Israeli policy makers who had attempted to meet 
American land-for-peace demands, describing them as weaklings bent over in a 
"submissive posture."
"It does not cross the minds of these advocates of capitulation," Netanyahu 
wrote, "that the task of Israel's leaders is to try to convince the American 
government that it is in the interest of the United States to follow 
policies that cohere with Israeli interests, not vice versa."
For the Israeli prime minister, his meeting with Obama represents a test of 
wills, not a negotiation between allies. As Netanyahu wrote, "In 
international politics, in fact in domestic politics too, strength attracts 
and weakness ultimately repels." In his mind, to "convince" Obama is to 
defeat him. Considering his ravings about the danger of a Palestinian state, 
his mind may not be functioning on the most rational level. 

 would have resonated much more strongly with the nativist Dobbs than Obama.
riminchia! E allora perche' non ricordare anche che da bambino Netanyahu 
ha probabilmente preso a calci il giovanissimo Amos Oz?
(il libro del 1993, mammamia, ma davvero non ci si puo' attaccare a 
nulla di piu' serio?)

 (il libro del 1993,
Ma continua a far ridere generazioni di lettori. E poi, ora che ci penso, 
questa storia de "La Palestina c'� gi�: � la Giordania" l'ho sentita pi� di 
recente: chiss� da chi? Oh, beh, mi torner� in mente...
Namib 

 recente: chissà da chi? 
probabilmente e' una citazione del trattato di sanremo. Che dovrebbe 
essere valido, no?