Avevo già parlato della cosa nel post sulla demonizzazione di Arafat montata dai servizi segreti israeliani come indispensabile premessa alla carneficina che avremmo visto in seguito.
Post, a proposito, i cui commenti erano un po’ andati fuori tema, a un certo punto.
Adesso vorrei segnalare un interessante articolo di Aljazeera.net che riporto integralmente, ché i loro link tendono a volte a sparire.
Dice cose che a me sembrano ovvie da anni, l’articolo. La novità è che si tratta di cose che, forse ma forse, cominciano a diventare sempre più difficili da insabbiare pure in Israele.
Israel’s hawkish Chief of Staff Moshe Ya’alon last week lashed out at the Knesset’s influential committee on defence and foreign affairs, accusing some members of disclosing “classified army secrets”.
Ya’alon scolded the committee for revealing that the Israeli occupation army effectively provoked the Palestinians into escalating the violence during the first few months of the second intifada in order to give the army a pretext to hit hard on the Palestinian society and bully it into unconditional surrender.
Earlier, an acrimonious debate ensued between Israel’s current military chief, Amos Gilaad, and the former chief, Amos Malka, who held conflicting assessments of Palestinian intentions on the eve of the outbreak of the uprising in September 2000.
Malka, in an interview with the Israeli paper Ha’aretz on 14 June, revealed that during the first few days of the intifada, Israeli occupation soldiers fired 1,300,000 bullets on Palestinian population centres and other targets.
This massive firepower, which had no operational justification given the Palestinians’ inherently inferior firepower (they possessed only light firearms and in limited numbers), showed that the Israeli army was interested more in decimating and harming the Palestinians and less in ending the violence.
Incitement
According to Israeli sources, then-Chief of Staff and now Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz didn’t plan to bring about the end of the conflict.
Instead, he thought he had finally seized the opportunity to “beat and vanquish” the Palestinians in order to “burn into their consciousness” and make them “internalise their weakness and inferiority vis-a-vis Israel’s strength”.
Mofaz’s ultimate aim, of which he later convinced Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was to hector Palestinians into negotiations in a weakened and exhausted state whereby they would have no choice but to accept Israel’s dictates and demands.
The new revelations, Palestinian officials argue, prove that the escalation of violence during the first few months of the intifada was, first and foremost, Israel’s responsibility.
“This is what we have been saying all along that this is not about Israeli security but rather about Israel’s terrorising the Palestinian people for the purpose of arrogating their land and rights. Israel is now admitting that,” said Michael Tarazi, adviser to Palestinian Authority leader Yasir Arafat.
“The question is what the international community is going to do about it.”
Human bombers
He told Aljazeera.net that Israel was responsible for the escalation of violence, including the appearance of the human bomber phenomenon.
“From the very inception, the Israeli army goal was to bully the Palestinians into submission and coerce them into signing any piece of paper Israel would throw on to them. It was as simple as that.”
Tarazi, a US-trained lawyer, suggested that Israel’s exaggerated violence against Palestinians effectively made the appearance of the bombing phenomenon inevitable.
This assessment is accepted by at least some Israeli commentators, who have pointed out that in the first three months of the intifada.
On 29 June, for example, Reuven Pedatzur wrote in Ha’aretz that the number of Israeli casualties was so low that the army proudly cited the disproportionately large number Palestinians killed and maimed by Israeli forces as evidence “of the military victory and correctness of the policy of massive use of force”.
Little choice
Two years ago, former Hamas Gaza leader, Abd al-Aziz Rantisi, who was assassinated by Israel in April, justified human bombings against Israel saying they were the “weapons of the last resort”.
“Israel is offering us two choices, either to die a meek lamb’s death at the slaughter house or as martyr-bombers,” he used to tell foreign reporters, defending the phenomenon which claimed the lives of hundreds of Israeli soldiers, settlers and civilians.
Israel eventually manipulated the graphic images of such bombings to vilify the Palestinian resistance movement, overlooking the much superior and deadlier Israeli violence meted out to the Palestinians.
That violence, or state terror as many around the world including Israel itself call it, effectively pushed the Palestinians to the edge.
Strategy of violence
This is the view of Elan Pappie, professor of political science at Haifa University.
He told Aljazeera.net that Israel’s “harsh and criminal” response to the Palestinian uprising was “deliberate and calculated”.
“Barak [former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud] offered the Palestinians a take-it or leave-it deal at Camp David. The Palestinians didn’t take it, and the Israeli response was: If you don’t accept our offer, you are going to get crushed and severely punished. This explains the Israeli army brutality and ruthlessness since September 2000.”
Pappie concurred with Tarazi that the Palestinians would have preferred a low-combustion intifada with as little violence and bloodshed as possible had it not been for Israel’s harsh response.
“The Palestinians did try to conduct the Aqsa Intifada along the lines of the former intifada (1987-92). But the Israeli army left them no choice but to react to the much deadlier and superior Israeli violence.”
Pappie believes that the Israeli army was more interested in “imposing the fait accompli” on the Palestinians than in restoring calm for the possible resumption of negotiations.
“The army view was like this: we are powerful, they are weak, therefore, we must be allowed to crush them and impose Israeli will on them, unfortunately, the government adopted this view.”
Above politics
A spokesman for the Israeli army refused to answer questions on whether Israel has been deceiving the world by claiming that its repression of Palestinians is in response to Palestinian violence, not in fulfilment of a well thought out plan aimed at bringing Palestinian society to its knees.
However, Mohammed Barakeh, an Arab member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has no doubt that this is exactly what Israel has been doing.
He told Aljzeera.net that the Israeli military establishment viewed itself as above everybody else, including the parliament.
“The army doesn’t want to be answerable to the parliament. Ya’alon wants to shut our mouths and prevent us from criticising the army.”
Barakeh agreed that Israeli “military crimes” against the Palestinians was responsible for the continuation and escalation of violence inevitable.
“Israel sought to and almost succeeded in convincing the world that its violent onslaught against the Palestinian society was in reaction to Palestinian terror. This simplified and erroneous claim ignores the simple fact that Israel’s violent and racist occupation of the Palestinian homeland is the root cause of all violence.”
“You just can’t remove the effect without removing the cause first. When the occupation ends, so will the violence and the resistance.”
Aljazeera
gtraina
Segnalo un buon articolo su vignette e satira.
andrea
S?, Al Jazeera sul terrorismo: sarebbe come chiedere una consulenza legale a Jack lo Squartatore!
Segnalo il caso di Saidan Sadun, ex ostaggio saudita in Iraq, sfuggito ai suoi rapitori e tornato nella sua casa in Kuwait, che ora denuncia: “C’? una connivenza tra Al Jazeera e i criminali che mi hanno rapito”. In un’intervista al quotidiano arabo Al Sharq al-Awsat, Saadun d? una versione inquietante della sua prigionia.
“I miei carcerieri – racconta – contattarono telefonicamente l’ufficio di Al Jazeera fornendo l’indirizzo della casa dove ero rinchiuso e chiesero di inviare un operatore per filmare mentre leggevo una dichiarazione”.
Quel cameraman sarebbe stato complice dei sequestratori, accusa il saudita, perch? non ha denunciato alle forze di sicurezza irachene o alle autorit? della coalizione il luogo della prigionia che si trovava a Falluja, e perch? sarebbe stato il regista del video con cui la Brigata islamica di Al Wiqas rivendicava il rapimento. Il filmato ? stato trasmesso da Al Jazeera il 5 giugno, e all’epoca la tv non aveva rivelato la fonte da cui aveva ricevuto la videocassetta. ? stato mostrato anche da altre tv arabe e dalla tv britannica Bbc. Nelle immagini l’uomo diceva di trasportare rifornimenti alle truppe Usa, e che il suo camion era stato attaccato dai mujahiddin vicino Bagdad. Poi prometteva di non collaborare pi? con gli americani e diffidava gli iracheni dal fornire qualsiasi collaborazione agli “occupanti infedeli”. Intorno a lui si vedevano uomini armati e incappucciati…
Per conoscere il resto della storia:
http://www.repubblica.it/2004/f/sezioni/esteri/iraq26/aljazeeracomplice/aljazeeracomplice.html
lia
Dov’?? Non vedo il link.
Angelo
No, resisto alla tentazione… non dico nulla…
giulio romano
Ma questi… (censura) … ?@?!!??###!!… criptato censurato!
gtraina
Riproviamo. Il link ? questo.
gtraina
Non c’? verso: http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/acheter.cgi?offre=ARCHIVES&type_item=ART_ARCH_30J&objet_id=859038
lia
E’ che sei troppo sofistificato per il programma: basta mettere l’indirizzo, senza tag. :)
ENZINO
A dire che in una guerra i torti difficilmente stanno tutti da una parte sola, posso pure concordare con te. Ma difendere o giustificare chi si fa saltare nelle pizzerie o con gli scuolabus affollati di ragazzini, mi sembra francamente una causa persa.
La responsabilit? principale della dirigenza palestinese – checch? ne dicano quelli di Aljazira – ? stato l’inimicarsi pressoch? totale dell’opinione pubblica internazionale; dopo decenni di solidariet? con la lotta del popolo palestinese (me li ricordo bene gli anni 70 e 80), il ricorso esclusivo al terrorismo ha condannato il popolo palestinese all’isolamento, e perseverare nella sua giustificazione come si fa nell’articolo segnalato dal post secondo me non ? un buon servizio alla causa di un popolo che deve avere la sua terra.
ENZINO
lia
Tutti sicuri di capire l’inglese? S?, eh?
giulio romano
Per Enzino, Isdraele ha il controllo armato della palestina.
Se i turchi dovessero occupare l’Italia, ti portano via la terra, la casa, ti sbattono oltre confine o in un carcere che ? pi? simile ad un lager…
Tu che faresti?
Io non discuterei nemmeno e con nessuno; sicuramente avrei una vita brevissima, ma un paio di loro li porterei all’inferno con me.
Scusatemi.
ENZINO
X LIA: Mi riferivo alla parte dell’articolo in cui vengono riportate varie opinioni a sostegno del fatto che: “Israele ? responsabile dell’escalation della violenza, incluso l’affermarsi del fenomeno degli uomini-bomba”; oppure che: “l’eccesso di violenza di Israele contro i palestinesi ha reso sostanzialmente inevitabile l’affermarsi del fenomeno” dei kamikaze. A me pare una chiara giustificazione degli atti di terrorismo, o no? Uno sforzo di deresponsabilizzazione che non ? utile alla causa palestinese (“il male che ti faccio io ? il risultato del male che mi fai tu”) e che non porta da nessuna parte (se non, nella “migliore” delle ipotesi, alla distruzione reciproca).
X GIULIO ROMANO: Che tu la pensi come dici, nessuno pu? impedirtelo; ma se allo stesso modo tuo la pensassero oggi i leader del popolo palestinese… beh, allora sarebbe un vero disastro. Secondo me, quei leader dovrebbero sforzarsi di trovare soluzioni di pace, non di guerra: per ottenere solidariet? e appoggio dal resto del mondo e dagli ambienti democratici isareliani; e anche perch?, sul piano della guerra, si rischia di rafforzare le fazioni pi? oltranziste di Israele. Vedi, Giulio Romano, far scoppiare le bombe ? molto pi? facile che far scoppiare la pace.
ENZINO
giulio romano
Per enzino:
… Che cistanno a fare gli Israeliani a casa dei palestinesi?
… Che ti vuoi ragionare con quelli?
… Quelli hanno aerei, cannoni, l’atomica, tutto il mondo occidentale che li sostiene, i palestinesi sono … soli e disperati.
… Che vuoi ragiona? ( come dicono a Roma)