Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Un ottimo articolo di Shulamit Aloni

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1082174.html
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Shulamit Aloni / Sadly, Israel is no longer democratic
By Shulamit Aloni
Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin and philosopher Asa Kasher, two respected men
around here, published an article entitled: "A just war of a
democratic state," (Haaretz, April 24, Hebrew).
A remark about the first part: There are wars that are necessary for
self-defense or to fight injustice and evil. But the expression "just"
is problematic when speaking of war itself - which involves killing
and destruction and leaves women, children and old people homeless,
and sometimes even kills them.
Our sages have said: "Don't be overly righteous." And there is
absolutely no question that dropping cluster bombs in an area
populated by civilians, as we did in the Second Lebanon War, does not
testify to great righteousness. The same thing can be said of using
phosphorus bombs against a civilian population.
Apparently, according to the Yadlin and Kasher definition of justice,
in order to eliminate terrorists it is just to destroy, kill, expel
and starve a civilian population that has no connection to the acts of
terror and no responsibility for them. Perhaps had they adopted a more
decent and less arrogant approach they would have tried to explain the
reasons for the fury and intensity that brought about the shocking
killing and destruction, and even apologized for the fact that these
exceeded any reasonable necessity.
But after all, we are always right; moreover, these things were done
by "the most moral army in the world," sent by the "democratic" Jewish
state - and here is the meeting point of the two concepts in the title
of Yadlin and Kasher's article.
As for the army's morality, it would have been better had they
remained silent and thereby been considered wise. This is because the
statistics on the destruction and harm to civilians in the Gaza Strip
are familiar to everyone, and not divorced from the oh-so-moral
behavior of our army in the occupied territories. In the context of
this behavior, for example, the army operates with great efficiency
against farmers who demonstrate against the theft of their lands, even
when the demonstrations are not violent.
The long-term evidence of abuse by soldiers against civilians at the
checkpoints - including repeated instances of expectant mothers who
are forced to give birth in the middle of the road, surrounded by
armed soldiers who laugh wickedly - is no secret either. Day after
day, year after year, the most moral army in the world helps to steal
lands, uproot trees, steal water, close roads - in the service of the
righteous "Jewish and democratic" state and with its support. It's
heartbreaking, but the State of Israel is no longer democratic. We are
living in an ethnocracy under "Jewish and democratic" rule.
In 1970 it was decided that in Israel religion and nationality are one
and the same (that is why we are not listed in the Population Registry
as Israelis, but as Jews). In 1992 it was determined in the Basic Law
on Human Dignity and Liberty that Israel is a "Jewish state." There is
no mention in this law of the promise that appears in the state's
formative document, the Declaration of Independence, to the effect
that "The State of Israel will ensure complete equality of social and
political rights to all its inhabitants, irrespective of religion,
race or sex." The Knesset ratified the law nonetheless.
And so there is a "Jewish state" and no "equality of rights."
Therefore some observers emphasize that the Jewish state is not "a
state of all its citizens." Is there really a democracy that is not a
state of all its citizens? After all, Jews living today in democratic
countries enjoy the full rights of citizenship.
Democracy exists in the State of Israel today only in the formal
sense: There are parties and elections and a good judicial system. But
there is also an omnipotent army that ignores legal decisions that
restrict the theft of land owned and held by people who have been
living under occupation for the past 42 years. And since 1992, as we
mentioned, we also have the definition "Jewish state," which means an
ethnocracy - the rule of an ethnic religious community that strictly
determines the ethnic origin of its citizens according to maternal
lineage. And as far as other religions are concerned, disrespect for
them is already a tradition, since we have learned: "Only you are
considered human beings, whereas the gentiles are like donkeys."
From here it is clear that we and our moral army are exempt from
concerns for the Palestinians living in Israel, and this is even more
true of those living under occupation. On the other hand, it is
perfectly all right to steal their land because these are "state
lands" that belong to the State of Israel and its Jews.
That is the case even though we have not annexed the West Bank and
have not granted citizenship to its inhabitants, who under Jordanian
rule were Jordanian citizens. The State of Israel has penned them in,
which makes it easy to confiscate their land for the benefit of its
settlers.
And important and respected rabbis, who are educating an entire
generation, have ruled that the whole country is ours and the
Palestinians should share the fate of Amalek, the ancient tribe the
Israelites were commanded to eradicate. At a time when a "just war" is
taking place, racism is rife and robbery is called "return of
property."
We are currently celebrating the 61st anniversary of the State of
Israel. We fought in the War of Independence out of a great hope that
we would build a "model society" here, that we would make peace with
our neighbors, work the land and develop the Jewish genius for the
benefit of science, culture and the value of man - every man. But when
a major general and a philosopher justify - out of a sense of moral
superiority - our acts of injustice toward the other in such a way,
they cast a very heavy shadow on all those hopes.
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Ciao.

  our acts of injustice toward the other
nella contorta mente del Crocetta "the other" sono i veronesi
cattolici e non gli ebrei Reform.

Israel is no longer democratic
ma che terribile notizia, davvero
Ma a te cosa te ne importa, vorrei capire?
Cosa fa s� che tu ti interessi di pi� a Israele che - per dire - alla Corea 
del Nord?
Spiegaci, cha magari riusciamo a capire 

 rule were Jordanian citizens.
Puttanata di fantasia tipica di un *COGLIONE* che non sa di cosa parla.
-Stefano 

 degli "ebrei".
pezzo di merda cagato per forza, sciacquati la bocca prima di dare
dell'antisemita a un monumento della politica israeliana come Shulamit
Aloni, che è donna. A ulteriore dimostrazione che non hai la minima
idea di cosa stai parlando.