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Titolo: In Libano e Iraq, dalla resistenza alla risoluzione

Articolo di George Galloway, un parlamentare Inglese che, in suo onore,
non ha mai avuto paura di dire ad alta voce la verita', anche quando ha
rischiato grosso per farlo.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1861527,00.html
Hizbullah's victory has transformed the Middle East
The defeat of the regional superpower could yet open the way to a wider
settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict
George Galloway in Beirut
Thursday August 31, 2006
The Guardian
As the smoke clears from the battlefield of the 34-day war in Lebanon,
it would be a mistake to count the cost only in fallen masonry and
fresh graves. All is changed, changed utterly, by the defeat that the
whole of Israel is now debating, from the cabinet through the lively
press to the embittered reservists at the falafel stall. Practically
the only person in the world who claims Israel won the war is George
Bush - and we all know his definition of the words "mission
accomplished".
Reports that the Hizbullah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, expressed regret
this week at having underestimated Israel's reponse to the capture of
two of its soldiers were misleading. In fact, Nasrallah thanked God
that the attack came when the resistance movement was prepared, as he
was convinced Israel would have otherwise invaded later in the year at
a time of its choosing.
If the fierce thicket of the Iraqi resistance stopped the Bush war
spreading to Syria then the extraordinary Hizbullah victory has surely
made the world think again about an attack on Iran. But the main - and
maybe the most welcome - shift in the 40-year-old paradigm of the
Israeli-Arab conflict is the puncturing of the belief in a permanent
and unchallengeable Israeli military superiority over its neighbours
and the hubris this has induced in Israeli leaders - from the sleek
Shimon Peres through the roughhouse of Binyamin Netanyahu to the
stumbling Mr Magoo premiership of Ehud Olmert.
The myth of invincibility is a souffle that cannot rise twice. Over the
past week I have picked my way through the rubble of Dahia in downtown
Beirut, now resembling London's East End at the height of the blitz,
and across the south of Lebanon in towns such as Bint Jbeil whose
centres look as if they have been hit by an earthquake. Here the litter
of banned weapons lies like a legal time bomb - evidence of war crimes
alleged by the UN and Amnesty International that in a genuine system of
international justice would put Israel in the dock at The Hague. This,
together with the beating Israel has received in international public
opinion, is the collateral damage suffered alongside military
humiliation.
Israel announced the capture of Bint Jbeil several times, but in truth
it never held the town - or anywhere else for that matter - throughout
the war. Despite raining down thousands of tons of high explosive on
homes, schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, ambulances, UN posts, oil
storage depots, electricity plants and virtually every petrol station
south of Beirut (the bombers seemed to have a crazed thirst for petrol
stations, while telling the world that they were kindly inviting the
residents of south Lebanon to get into their cars and leave their homes
for a little while), the Israelis were given a severe mauling by
Hizbullah fighters when it came to boots on the ground.
Paradoxically, some believe that all this has blown open a window in
which it is possible to glimpse the possibility of a comprehensive
settlement of the near-century-old conflicts which lie behind the
recent war. Now that the status quo ante has been swept away, we may
even see an FW de Klerk moment emerge in Israel (and among its
indispensable international backers).
The leader of the white tribes of apartheid South Africa waited until
the critical mass of opposition threatened to overwhelm the position of
the previously invincible minority, and sold the transfer of power on
the basis that a settlement later, under more severe duress, would be
less favourable. Israel's trajectory is now heading towards such a
moment.
A comprehensive settlement now would of course look much like it has
for decades: Israeli withdrawal from land occupied in 1967; respect for
the legal rights of Palestinian refugees to return; the emergence of a
real Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital - a
contiguous state with an Arab border, with no Zionist settlements and
military roads, and with internationally guaranteed Palestinian control
over its land, air, sea and water. In exchange there would be Arab
recognition, normalisation and, in time, acceptance of Israel into the
Middle East as something other than a settler garrison of the imperial
west.
Just as you can't be a little bit pregnant, a settlement can't be a
little bit comprehensive. Attempts - like the one more than a decade
ago in Oslo - to obfuscate, shave and sculpt such a package to the
point of unrecognisability will founder on the new reality.
The Arab world is waking up to its potential power. It has seen the
Iraqis confound Anglo-American efforts to recolonise their country, the
unbreakability, whatever the cost, of the Palestinian resistance, and
now the success of Hizbullah. If there is no settlement there can only
be war, war and more war, until one day it is Tel Aviv which is on fire
and the Israeli leaders' intransigence brings the whole state down on
their heads. Nor is it only Israel that will pay the price for
continued conflict: the enduring injustice of Palestinian dispossession
has already poisoned western-Muslim relations and helped spill violence
and hatred on to our own streets. There is still time to choose peace.
But make no mistake, with the victory of Hizbullah, a terrible beauty
is born.
· George Galloway is the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow

anche quando ha rischiato grosso per farlo.
Brrr.... :)
*ROTFL*
Perdere la poltrona ed essere buttato fuori dal partito perche' si e' un
*COGLIONE* non e' "rischiare grosso", caro *FESSO* di un Torrieri :)
-Stefano

 Articolo di George Galloway
ROTFL!
Tb

 *COGLIONE* non e' "rischiare grosso", caro *FESSO* di un Torrieri :)
No, c'e anche
rischiare l'arresto e la detenzione senza processo negli USA, quando si
e' recato personalmente nel congresso e, per una volta nella storia di
quell'istituzione, ha chiamato le menzogne dei congressisti col loro
nome.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4556113.stm
GT


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4556113.stm
E dov'e' il grande "rischio" povero *FESSO* di un Torrieri? :)
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He is not accused of any criminal act and is not thought likely to face
court action as a result of the committee's hearings but he has said he
is anxious to clear his name.
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-Stefano