Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Nessuno dica "Io non c'ero"

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9002.shtml
The Israeli cabinet has voted to declare the occupied Gaza Strip a
"hostile entity," thus in its own eyes permitting itself to cut off
the already meagre supplies of food, water, electricity and fuel that
it allows the Strip's inmates to receive. The decision was quickly
given backing by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Israel is the occupying power in the Gaza Strip, despite having
removed its settlers in 2005 and transforming the area, home to 1.5
million mostly refugee Palestinians, into the world's largest open-air
prison which it besieges and fires into from the perimeter. Under
international law Israel is responsible for the well-being of the
people whose lives and land it rules.
There have been barely audible bleats of protest from the UN Secretary-
General Ban Ki-moon ("Such a step would be contrary to Israel's
obligations towards the civilian population under international
humanitarian and human rights law") and the European Union ("The
[European] Commission hopes that Israel will not find it necessary to
implement the measures for which the [cabinet] decisions set the
framework yesterday."
What? It hopes that Israel will not find it necessary to cut off water
supplies to 1.5 million people of whom half are children?
These statements serve only to underline that Israel operates in a
context where the "international community" has become inured to a
discourse of extermination of the Palestinian people -- political and
physical.
Yossi Alpher, for example, a former director of the Jaffee Center for
Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and once a special adviser to
former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, argued coolly this week that
Israel should murder the democratically-elected leaders who won the
Palestinian legislative election in January 2006 -- calling for
"decapitating the Hamas leadership, both military and 'civilian.'"
True, he admitted, there would be a possible downside: "Israel would
again undoubtedly pay a price in terms of international condemnation,
particularly if innocent civilians were killed," and because "Israel
would presumably be targeting legally elected Hamas officials who won
a fair election." Nevertheless, such condemnation would be quickly
forgotten and, he argued, "this is a mode of retaliation and
deterrence whose effectiveness has been proven," and thus, this is "an
option worth reconsidering."
Alpher incited the murder of democratically-elected politicians not in
a fringe, right-wing journal, but in the European Union-funded online
newsletter Bitterlemons, which he co-founded along with former
Palestinian Authority minister Ghassan Khatib. What journal would
publish a call by a Palestinian -- or anyone else -- to murder the
Israeli prime minister? Alpher presumably does not worry that he will
be denied visas to travel to conferences in the European Union, or
will fail to receive invitations to American universities. History
tells us that he can feel confident he will suffer no consequences.
Indeed, in the current political climate, any attempt to exclude
Alpher might even be cast as an attack on academic freedom!
Declarations that reduce Palestinians to bare biological life that can
be extinguished without any moral doubt are not isolated exceptions.
In May, as reported by The Jerusalem Post, Israel's former Sephardic
Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu issued a religious ruling to the prime
minister "that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the
indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive
military offensive on Gaza aimed at stopping the rocket
launchings" (See "Top Israeli rabbis advocate genocide," The
Electronic Intifada, 31 May 2007). I could find no statement by any
prominent Israeli figure condemning Eliyahu's ruling.
And, in a September 6 blog posting, an advisor to leading US
Republican Presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani argued for "shutting
off utilities to the Palestinian Authority as well as a host of other
measures, such as permitting no transportation in the PA of people or
goods beyond basic necessities, implementing the death penalty against
murderers, and razing villages from which attacks are launched." This,
the advisor stated, would "impress Palestinians with the Israeli will
to survive, and so bring closer their eventual acceptance of the
Jewish state." (See: "Giuliani Advisor: Raze Palestinian Villages," by
Ken Silverstein, Harper's Magazine, 14 September 2007) Giuliani faced
no calls from other candidates to dismiss the advisor for advocating
ethno-religiously motivated war crimes. Indeed the presence of such a
person in his campaign might even be an electoral asset.
The latest Israeli government declaration comes as Palestinians this
week marked the 25th anniversary of the massacres in Sabra and Shatila
refugee camps in Beirut, in which the Israeli occupation army and
political leadership were full participants. We can reflect that
Israel's dehumanization of Palestinians and other Arabs, its near
daily killing of children, destruction of communities and racist
apartheid against millions of people has been so normalized that if
those massacres occurred today Israel would not need to go through the
elaborate exercise of denying its culpability. Indeed, the
"international community" might barely notice.
Co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah is author of One
Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
(Metropolitan Books, 2006).

 
Infatti io c'ero ..... e quel *PIRLA* di un Torrieri ha postato un
articolo della solita *MERDA* scritta da persone che non sanno un ca**o
di cio' di cui parlano
-Stefano

 Ali Abunimah is author of One  Country:
insomma, un realista.

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avresti definito così anche i sionisti di inizio '900?