Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Jeremiah, here and now

Quello di cui tratta l'articolo mi sembra un tema importante: 
l'autoreferenzialità, una mitologica promessa divina, la forza delle 
armi sono tutti elementi che portano a dimenticare alcune realtà 
fondamentali: uno stato non ha alcuna garanzia di sopravvivenza se non è 
effettivamente in grado di provvedere a se stesso; se la sua 
indipendenza, la sua sicurezza, la sua economia dipendono dal sostegno e 
dalla protezione interessata di potenze straniere; se non costruisce 
rapporti autonomi e pacifici con i suoi vicini.
La chiave per ottenere tutto questo è la pace con i palestinesi e uno 
stato per loro.  Dopo si potrebbe scoprire che per gli ebrei non era 
necessario essere sovrani su Giudea e Samaria per poterle abitare e 
percorrerle.
A sessanta anni dalla sua fondazione Israele non ha ancora nemmeno 
iniziato ad affrontare il suo problema capitale.
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Jeremiah, here and now
Israel is full of prophecies of wrath that warn us of the dangers of 
going against the international community. Today, too, we attack the 
messengers instead of heeding the message.
By Yair Sheleg
The fast of Tisha B’Av is the bastard stepchild of the Israeli calendar. 
By law, it must be observed through the closure of restaurants, cultural 
venues and other places of entertainment, but most Israelis do not feel 
a connection to the fast day. What does mourning the destruction of the 
holy temples thousands of years ago have to do with us, they want to 
know − not recognizing that the grief is not only over the destruction 
of a site of worship but also over the national and human destruction 
that followed in its wake. Millions of Jews became helpless victims 
because the Jewish people had no sovereign homeland.
As if that were not enough, it seems that Tisha B’Av has taken on a 
contemporary political significance as well in recent years. For at the 
center of the biblical narrative of the destruction of the First Temple 
is the figure of Jeremiah, the prophet of wrath who did not hesitate to 
warn his people against rebelling against Babylon, for which he was 
jailed, though events proved him right.
Today, too, Israel is full of prophecies of wrath that warn us of the 
dangers of going against the international community. Today, too, we 
attack the messengers instead of heeding the message. We have progressed 
over time and no longer throw them in jail, but we do mark them out as 
“defeatists” who are “anti-Israel.” Moreover, leading the charge against 
the contemporary followers of Jeremiah are religious Jews, precisely the 
people who should be most familiar with the story of the prophet. 
There are a number of possible reasons for this. The simplest is the 
fundamental human dislike of criticism and doomsayers of all stripes, a 
dislike that leads to the tendency to want to kill the messenger rather 
than heed his message. The second possibility is the feeling, which 
definitely has a foundation, that it is unfair to demand that we, who 
have been attacked repeatedly, should be the ones to make concessions in 
the Israeli-Arab conflict. It should be remembered, however, that the 
sense of justice behind this also impelled the rebels in Babylon in the 
days of Nebuchadnezzar and those who rebelled against Rome at the end of 
the Second Temple era. But it did not help them. 
A third possible reason has to do with the message that the destruction 
of the ‏(Second‏) Temple was caused by sinat hinam, baseless hatred. 
That message played an important educational role during the exile that 
followed, which by its nature was meant to separate and disperse the 
Jewish people. But in the age of renewed sovereignty, that is actually a 
dangerous message, because it presumes that if we only come together 
then nothing could overcome us, and that any problems that do occur can 
be blamed on the “traitors” in our midst who undermine the unity of the 
people. 
Fourth, the Jews’ success in getting through 2,000 years of exile, 
albeit with many disasters, causes many of us to think that the laws of 
history ‏(and of international relations‏) do not apply to us. Whatever 
we do, “we have been promised” that the Third Commonwealth shall stand 
forever. Herein lies the paradoxical danger: Taking the wrong lesson 
from Judaism’s achievements during the exile could cause us to lose our 
sovereignty again. We might be able to survive thousands of years of 
exile once more, but is that the “achievement” we would wish for 
succeeding generations?
One last thing. It cannot be denied that the character of today’s 
prophets of wrath has something to do with the rejection of their 
prophecies. Unlike Jeremiah, too many of them do not deliver their 
message of rebuke as a form of tough love. For too many, their message 
is rooted not in a great love and concern for their people, but in a 
sense of disdain for and alienation from their “nationalist” brothers, 
and in a desire for acceptance by “the enlightened world.” History 
teaches that even if their methods were different, their message would 
not necessarily be accepted. But it is clear that if their methods don’t 
change, they will have no chance of being heard.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/jeremiah-here-and-now-1.302729?localLinksEnabled=false

 iniziato ad affrontare il suo problema capitale.
...disse il *PIRLA* in una delle sue profezie... :)
-Stefano