Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Palestinesi moderati e capacità d'immedesimazione

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/15/palestinian-doctor-izzeldin-abuelaish-gaza-war
On a cool but sunny December day in Gaza, Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish took his 
eight children to the beach for the simple pleasures of paddling in the 
Mediterranean and playing in the sand.
Two months earlier, the children's mother had died from acute leukaemia, and 
Abuelaish was comforted to see his older daughters laughing and chatting as 
they wrote their names in the damp grains close to the water's edge: Bessan, 
Maya, Aya. "It was as close to heaven and as far from hell as I could get 
that day," he later wrote.
But within five weeks the Abuelaishs were to suffer a second tragedy: those 
three girls, aged 13, 15 and 21, were killed, and another daughter, Noor, 
17, seriously injured, when an Israeli shell was fired at the family home 
during the brief but bloody war in Gaza in 2008-9. One of Abuelaish's nieces 
also died; a fifth girl, another niece, suffered terrible injuries.
Many in his situation would have descended into a dark, lonely pit of grief 
and bitterness. But Abuelaish not only rebuilt a life for himself and his 
surviving five children, he has written a moving and powerful book about his 
experiences with a central message of hope and reconciliation.
I Shall Not Hate - published in Canada in April, and out in Britain in 
January - has had an extraordinary impact. Sitting in the home of his 
extended family in Jabalia, northern Gaza, Abuelaish - back on a month-long 
visit from Canada where he now lives and works - reads out emails on his 
BlackBerry from strangers expressing their sympathy, gratitude and support.
The book has been translated in 13 languages, from Finnish to Turkish - but 
most importantly copies are available in Hebrew or Arabic. A book tour in 
the US is scheduled for January; proceeds from sales and appearances will go 
to Daughters for Life, the charitable foundation Abuelaish set up.
He explains his choice of title. "I'm against any violence. Violence and the 
military approach proved its failings decades ago and that will never, ever 
change. No one evaluates; we just continue blindly.
"As Palestinians and Israelis we have failed to change course. We just 
continue with the same approach which aggravates, escalates and widens the 
gap of hatred and bloodshed. It's easy to destroy life but very difficult to 
build it."
Would it not be understandable to feel hate after what has happened to him? 
"There is a difference between anger and hate. Anger is acute but transient; 
hate is a poison, a fire which burns you from the inside. We need to be 
angry, but direct it in a positive way."
Abuelaish, an obstetrician and gynaecologist specialising in infertility, 
spent years working in Israeli hospitals where, he says, patients were 
surprised to find a Palestinian doctor delivering Jewish babies. After his 
wife, Nadia, died in September 2008 he went back to work following 
encouragement from his elder daughters, returning to his family in Gaza at 
weekends.
He was at home when the onslaught on Gaza began on 27 December that year. 
There was a "symphony of weapons, shelling" around the extended family's 
home in northern Gaza, where much of the action was concentrated. Everyone's 
nerves and emotions were constantly on edge, he says.
Throughout the conflict, Abuelaish was in regular contact by phone with 
Israeli friends, including journalists. His accounts, in fluent Hebrew, of 
what was happening inside Gaza - closed at the time to foreign journalists - 
were broadcast in Israel and beyond.
On 16 January 2009, at 4.30pm, a shell struck the house. He ran to the room 
that had been hit. "I saw my girls drowning in a pool of blood," he says, 
tears in his eyes. "I saw their body parts, a decapitated head, brains on 
the ceiling." A second shell followed.
Desperate for medical assistance, he called his friend Shlomi Eldar, a 
presenter on Channel 10 in Israel. His cries for help in a mixture of Hebrew 
and Arabic were broadcast live. Within an hour, with the help of his Israeli 
friends, Abuelaish's injured daughter and niece were evacuated from Gaza.
At the time, he could only think of the catastrophe that had befallen his 
family. Later he realised the impact of that live phone call. "It opened the 
eyes of the Israeli public. The secret about the war in Gaza was disclosed," 
he says.
The then Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, watched the broadcast. "I read 
that he said: 'Who can see Izzeldin and not cry?'" says Abuelaish. "Two days 
later he announced the ceasefire. I hope that at least the blood of my 
daughters was not in vain, that it saved others."
The doctor was already considering a job offer in Toronto and within six 
months he had begun a new life as a professor in global health at the city's 
university. Back home for the summer holidays, Abuelaish says Gaza is 
"getting worse and worse".
"People are frustrated and hopeless. Wellbeing is not just dependent on 
having food. We are hungry for freedom, a brighter future, a secure life, 
for feeling our humanity."
But, he says, Gazans must not simply blame others, but take responsibility 
themselves. "Everything is possible in life, even peace. The only thing that 
is impossible is to bring my wife and daughters back. You have to keep 
moving. Tragedy does not define my life, but these tragedies have made me 
move faster."
Abuelaish's book and the foundation are his monument to his dead daughters. 
"I swore to God that one day I will meet my daughters and tell them their 
blood was not wasted," he says.
The foundation is dedicated to promoting health and education among girls 
and women in the Middle East. "My life is in debt to my mother, my wife, my 
daughters," he says. "All change starts first with the mother. If we want to 
change, we must start with women."
Abuelaish thinks back to the day on the beach, a picture from which graces 
the cover of his book. "Two weeks before the war came, [the girls] wrote 
their names in the sand. Where are their names now? Written in stone on 
their tombs. But I tell you one day their names will be written in metal and 
stone at schools and medical institutions dedicated to their memory. Words 
are stronger than bullets. We have to offer a message of hope to those who 
believe in hate and revenge." 

 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
che bella storia, proprio da Guardian.
E ora loeggiamo questa.
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/saving-mohammed-abu-mustafa-1.299481?trailingPath=2.169,2.212,2.213
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 che bella storia, proprio da Guardian.
Dalla quale apprendi che esistono Palestinesi moderati. Anche per oggi hai 
imparato qualcosa.
Namib 

 letto. A meno che il tuo vero nome non sia Flash Gordon.
Postalo su un apposito thread, e lo leggerň. P.S. Il velocista dei fumetti č 
Flash, non Flash Gordon.
Namib 

 Postalo su un apposito thread, e lo leggerò. 
sguish
 > P.S. Il velocista dei fumetti è
namib. E gli piacciono le storie in cui ci sono palestinesi buoni. 
Quelle in cui sono madri palestinesi che sognano il martirio dei figli 
gli piacciono un po ' meno.
Israele pero' cura sia i figli dei primi che delle seconde. Ma Namib, 
lui, ha la attenzione selettiva.
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 Israele pero' cura sia i figli dei primi che delle seconde.
E, qualche volta, uccide sia i figli delle prime che delle seconde.
Avendo premura di mandargli prima un LeMay leaflet.
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IMe 

 Avendo premura di mandargli prima un LeMay leaflet.
perfidi giudei, davvero.

 perfidi giudei, davvero.
Mi fa specie che tu scriva una cosa simile.
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IMe 

 Mi fa specie che tu scriva una cosa simile.
sopravvivero' senza fare bella impressione su uno che sostiene che i 
kamikaze li uccide Israele.  Prova a riciclare a Logi questa storia, 
probabilmente lui la pensa come te
ah, magari gli interessa leggere questo:
http://rehovnahum.blogspot.com/2010/08/4-memorie-di-un-ciber-rivoluzionario.html

 tu poco sopra hai scritto che lo tira Israele.
Israele non manda i suoi figli e le sue figlie ad ammazzare civili
palestinesi? Direi che i kamikaze hanno molto più coraggio....

 kamikaze li uccide Israele.
Spero che non ti stia riferendo a me, perchè sono sicuro di non aver mai 
scritto niente del genere.
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IMe 


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 ah, magari gli interessa leggere questo:
http://rehovnahum.blogspot.com/2010/08/4-memorie-di-un-ciber-rivoluzi.
..
"una spiegazione surreale. Alcuni terroristi sauditi si sono
schiantati con aerei contro le torri gemelle perche' in Palestina gli
ebrei stanno massacrando i bambini arabi"
  Gli attentati dell'11 settembre hanno avuto un effetto benefico per
Israele. A dichiararlo è stato il leader del Likud Benjamin Netanyahu
nel corso di una conferenza all'università Bar Ilan, secondo quanto
riporta oggi il quotidiano Ma'ariv.
GAME OVER


Se l'accusa non fosse così grave, la tua sintesi grossolana non meriterebbe 
nemmeno una risposta.
Se vogliamo essere precisi tu parlavi di "madri che sognano il matririo dei 
figli", hai scritto che "Israele li cura" ed io ho aggiunto che "qualche 
volta li uccide". E questo mi sembra un dato di fatto.
Quando fai esplodere una bomba in una zona abitata puoi uccidere le madri 
che sognano il figlio kamikaze, quelle che sognano il figlio ingegnere ed i 
rispettivi figli indipendentemente dal fatto che abbiano in mente di fare il 
kamikaze, l'ingegnere o che non abbiano nemmeno l'età per porsi il problema.
Come scriveva LeMay sui suoi bigliettini "le bombe sono cieche".
Per tornare alla tua accusa: in nessun modo la mia frase può essere 
interpretata come "i kamikaze li uccide Israele" perchè è talmente evidente 
che quelli si uccidono da sè che qualsiasi distinguo sarebbe pleonastico.
Se hai informazioni diverse sarò ben felice di conoscerle.
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IMe 

 che succede solo, come hai scritto tu, "qualche volta".
no, imbecille. Qualche volte Israele uccide le madri che sognano i
figli kamikaze, non qualche volta Israele uccide i kamikaze. Meglio
così, comunque, Se nel tuo cervello più di una lingua non ci sta, più
conoscerai l'ebraico meno scasserai la minchia su IPI

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:i4ckc6$8is$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
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Sciocchezze.
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IMe 

volta li uccide". E questo mi sembra un dato di fatto.
ma pure gli rispondi? E' il solito tarocco di un mentecatto xenofobo
che ha l'onestà intellettuale di un capezzone israeliano.