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Titolo: Almeno questo parla chiaro

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/opinion/israels-settlers-are-here-to-stay.html
 
 
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Israel’s Settlers Are Here to Stay
By DANI DAYAN
Published: July 25, 2012
 
WHATEVER word you use to describe Israel’s 1967 acquisition of Judea and 
Samaria — commonly referred to as the West Bank in these pages — will 
not change the historical facts. Arabs called for Israel’s annihilation 
in 1967, and Israel legitimately seized the disputed territories of 
Judea and Samaria in self-defense. Israel’s moral claim to these 
territories, and the right of Israelis to call them home today, is 
therefore unassailable. Giving up this land in the name of a hallowed 
two-state solution would mean rewarding those who’ve historically sought 
to destroy Israel, a manifestly immoral outcome.
 
Of course, just because a policy is morally justified doesn’t mean it’s 
wise. However, our four-decade-long settlement endeavor is both. The 
insertion of an independent Palestinian state between Israel and Jordan 
would be a recipe for disaster.
 
The influx of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from Syria, 
Lebanon, Jordan and elsewhere would convert the new state into a hotbed 
of extremism. And any peace agreement would collapse the moment Hamas 
inevitably took power by ballot or by gun. Israel would then be forced 
to recapture the area, only to find a much larger Arab population living 
there.
 
Moreover, the Palestinians have repeatedly refused to implement a 
negotiated two-state solution. The American government and its European 
allies should abandon this failed formula once and for all and accept 
that the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria are not going anywhere.
 
On the contrary, we aim to expand the existing Jewish settlements in 
Judea and Samaria, and create new ones. This is not — as it is often 
portrayed — a theological adventure but is rather a combination of 
inalienable rights and realpolitik.
 
Even now, and despite the severe constraints imposed by international 
pressure, more than 350,000 Israelis live in Judea and Samaria. With an 
annual growth rate of 5 percent, we can expect to reach 400,000 by 2014 
— and that excludes the almost 200,000 Israelis living in Jerusalem’s 
newer neighborhoods. Taking Jerusalem into account, about 1 in every 10 
Israeli Jews resides beyond the 1967 border. Approximately 160,000 Jews 
live in communities outside the settlement blocs that proponents of the 
two-state solution believe could be easily incorporated into Israel. But 
uprooting them would be exponentially more difficult than the evacuation 
of the Gaza Strip’s 8,000 settlers in 2005.
 
The attempts by members of the Israeli left to induce Israelis to 
abandon their homes in Judea and Samaria by offering them monetary 
compensation are pathetic. This checkbook policy has failed in the past, 
as it will in the future. In the areas targeted for evacuation most of 
us are ideologically motivated and do not live here for economic 
reasons. Property prices in the area are steep and settlers who want to 
relocate could sell their property on the free market. But they do not.
 
Our presence in all of Judea and Samaria — not just in the so-called 
settlement blocs — is an irreversible fact. Trying to stop settlement 
expansion is futile, and neglecting this fact in diplomatic talks will 
not change the reality on the ground; it only makes the negotiations 
more likely to fail.
 
Given the irreversibility of the huge Israeli civilian presence in Judea 
and Samaria and continuing Palestinian rejectionism, Western governments 
must reassess their approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian 
conflict. They should acknowledge that no final-status solution is 
imminent. And consequently, instead of lamenting that the status quo is 
not sustainable, the international community should work together with 
the parties to improve it where possible and make it more viable.
 
Today, security — the ultimate precondition for everything — prevails. 
Neither Jews nor Palestinians are threatened by en masse eviction; the 
economies are thriving; a new Palestinian city, Rawabi, is being built 
north of Ramallah; Jewish communities are growing; checkpoints are being 
removed; and tourists of all nationalities are again visiting Bethlehem 
and Shiloh.
 
While the status quo is not anyone’s ideal, it is immeasurably better 
than any other feasible alternative. And there is room for improvement. 
Checkpoints are a necessity only if terror exists; otherwise, there 
should be full freedom of movement. And the fact that the 
great-grandchildren of the original Palestinian refugees still live in 
squalid camps after 64 years is a disgrace that should be corrected by 
improving their living conditions.
 
Yossi Beilin, a left-wing former Israeli minister, wrote a telling 
article a few months ago. A veteran American diplomat touring the area 
had told Mr. Beilin he’d left frightened because he found everyone — 
Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Saudi Arabia — content 
with the current situation. Mr. Beilin finds this widespread 
satisfaction disturbing, too.
 
I think it is wonderful news. If the international community 
relinquished its vain attempts to attain the unattainable two-state 
solution, and replaced them with intense efforts to improve and maintain 
the current reality on the ground, it would be even better. The 
settlements of Judea and Samaria are not the problem — they are part of 
the solution.
 
Dani Dayan is the chairman of the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in 
Judea and Samaria.
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Namib
--
I have examined maps of the city with the greatest care, yet have never 
again found the Rue d'Auseil (HPL)

Hai bisogno di una confessione per credere a quello che la realtà ti rivela?
 
Ti sarebbe bastato prendere atto dei dati numerici sul costante aumento 
dei coloni nei Territori Occupati, anche durante gli strombazzati 
Colloqui di Pace, per sapere con certezza e autonomamente quello che ora 
viene "rivelato" da più parti.
 
Temo che tu non abbia nemmeno una vaga idea di cosa sia in realtà quello 
che si fa chiamare "sionismo".
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Sostieni Rete ECO
 
http://rete-eco.it/it/sostienici.html
 
 

 Colloqui di Pace,
 
veramente c'è stata una pausa, 20 anni fa. Chi l'ha ordinata è finito
ammazzato, da uno di loro. Dopodichè nessuno li ha più fermati. Bella,
l'unica democrazia del Medio Oriente.

 l'unica democrazia del Medio Oriente.
 
Già, il "sionismo" non ha nulla a che fare con la democrazia: nessuno 
dei suoi obiettivi strategici e nessuno dei suoi metodi ha a che fare 
con essa.
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