Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: spaienza beduina

http://fresnozionism.org/2010/06/some-bedouin-wisdom/
NY Times:
     JERUSALEM — Israel worked Wednesday to defuse rising international 
anger by agreeing to a rapid release of all detainees — including those 
suspected of attacking its soldiers — taken after the deadly nighttime 
raid of six ships seeking to break its blockade of the Gaza Strip…
     The release seemed most immediately aimed at repairing dangerously 
eroding ties with Turkey, Israel’s main ally in the Muslim world [where 
has the Times been for the last few years?], as demands continued to 
intensify around the world to end a blockade that critics say has kept 
Gazans isolated and impoverished…
     Still, Turkey, which withdrew its ambassador to Israel, continued 
to press for an end to the blockade as a condition for restoring full 
diplomatic relations.
Why is it so hard to see that this won’t work?
It’s not possible to appease them. In the Middle East — in fact, in life 
in general — the weak guy loses. When you back down in front of your 
enemies, they don’t say “you are being reasonable, we’ll be fair to 
you.” On the contrary, they say “you’re weak, you can’t protect 
yourself, so we’ll take even more.”
Israel’s soldiers were beaten up, humiliated. Now isn’t the time to let 
their assailants go free. On the contrary, now is the time to be 
tougher. Now is the time to humiliate the enemy, to re-establish deterrence.
The Times calls it “a bid to quell anger.” Anger? Israel should be angry 
that its soldiers were hurt. Turkey should be relieved that its ship 
wasn’t torpedoed. The Turks should be the ones trying to “defuse anger.”
All the jackals are circling now. The Obama Administration, famously 
never allowing a crisis to go to waste, is preparing to sink its teeth 
into the juicy carcass as well.
NY Times again:
     WASHINGTON — The Obama administration considers Israel’s blockade 
of Gaza to be untenable and plans to press for another approach to 
ensure Israel’s security while allowing more supplies into the 
impoverished Palestinian area, senior American officials said Wednesday.
     The officials say that Israel’s deadly attack on a flotilla trying 
to break the siege and the resulting international condemnation create a 
new opportunity [!] to push for increased engagement with the 
Palestinian Authority and a less harsh policy toward Gaza.
     “There is no question that we need a new approach to Gaza,” said 
one official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the policy 
shift is still in the early stages. He was reflecting a broadly held 
view in the upper reaches of the administration.
“Increased engagement with the Palestinian Authority,” of course, means 
things like extending the construction freeze and humiliating Israel 
further by damaging its sovereignty in Jerusalem. And “a less harsh 
policy toward Gaza” means empowering Hamas, politically and physically.
This is precisely the opposite of the approach that Israel should take.
Perhaps it’s not surprising that the academics of the Obama 
Administration don’t understand this, but surely Netanyahu and Barak, 
who live in the real Middle East should.
Here is what is supposed to be an old Bedouin story:
There once lived a rich and powerful man. One day, bandits stole a water 
jug; but instead of taking it back and punishing the bandits — which 
would have been easy, since he had many sons — he said “it’s only a jug, 
it’s not worth a fight. Anyway, I have more jugs.” Then they took  a 
goat. “Oh well, I have more goats, and after all the bandits were 
hungry,” he said. One day he woke up to find that they’d killed his 
sons, taken his camels, his tent and his wives to boot. Then, since he 
had no goods, no sons and no honor, they killed him.
The moral of the story, of course, is this: do not allow your enemies to 
humiliate you, because it weakens you and strengthens them. And always 
maintain a credible deterrent.

 tougher. Now is the time to humiliate the enemy, to re-establish deterrence.
Sparare su civili armati di spranghe e farne fuori nuove aumenta la
deterrenza? Forse non me ne intendo, di deterrenza, ma penso proprio
di no.
PP

 maintain a credible deterrent.
Mah. Apparire furbi e cazzuti è la miglior forma di dieterrenza. Non
credo che mandare in merda l'abbordaggio di navi cariche di pacifisti
di tale messaggio.
E sopratutto non credo che trattenere centinaia di attivisti
supllirebbe a tale defaillance.
Insomma, IL ha commesso una boiata e ha fatto una figuraccia:
seppellirla al più presto possibile mi pare nel suo stesso
interesse....