Bella intervista di Uri Avnery ad Haaretz.
Quando si arriva a una certa età, si può essere molto espliciti e parlare senza timori.
The heritage that Arafat is leaving after him will prevent the Palestinian people from capitulating to Sharon’s plan. It is precisely by his death that Arafat is consolidating the boundary of the Palestinian concessions. Now no Palestinian leader will dare to cross that boundary. The dead Arafat will not permit the concessions that the living Arafat might have made.”
Aren’t you completely ignoring the fact that the man was a terrorist?
“I was a terrorist, too. When I was 16, if my commander in Lehi had given me an explosive belt I would have taken it and I would have blown myself up amid civilians without any problem. So I don’t have a sentimental attitude toward this matter of terrorism. I understand what violence is. And I know that a nation that is not offered a political solution resorts to violence. Therefore it was always clear to me that Arafat would resort to all means to realize the longings of the Palestinian people. He was not a violent person. I think he was a nonviolent person. But it was always clear to me that, as a national leader, he would resort to violence if the road of peace was blocked for him. I find that self-evident.”
And the tragedy of Camp David? Does Arafat not bear any responsibility at all for the collapse of the peace process?
“It is Ehud Barak who bears that responsibility. Barak is the arch-idiot of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is also the arch-criminal. A normal statesman, a statesman who is not a psychopath, would not say after the failure of the conference that there is no partner. He bears the main responsibility for the terrible loss of human life in the past few years. He is worse than Sharon.”
(Sempre di Uri Avnery, un altro intervento – in italiano – ripreso da Gianna.
Ecco la commemorazione che ne fa Ihath, come al solito vale la pena leggerla:
http://www.ihath.com/2004/11/yasser-man-of-hour.html
Ciao vecchio presidente senza terra, anziano capo di un popolo prigioniero, capo di un armata senza armi…
Da solo, con la forza della ragione e della sagezza sei riuscito, arrampicandoti sugli specchi della dipolomazia internazionale, a “contenere” i tuoi nemici e i nemici del tuo popolo, nei loro “ghetti” a ringhiare la loro rabbia e a sputare il loro veleno.
Da solo, e disarmato, hai costretto pi? volte alla ritirata uno degli eserciti pi? armati del mondo, un esercito composto da beceri militari nazisti, di un popolo nazista per comportamenti e mentalit?!
Da solo, senz’armi….
Oggi, anche da morto, il tuo nome f? paura ai tuoi nemici.
La Capitolazione del Coraggio.
Vilmente la Storia, ancora una volta elegge i suoi padrini fra coloro che si adoperano per la sua cancellazione.
E nuovi capitoli di tenebra si stagliano all’orizzonte.
I Bush permangono
e gli ArAfat svaniscono.
…….