DOMENICA 15 APRILE 2012
Sintesi personale Non c’è nessun paese come Israele. Gli Stati Uniti si domandano quanti americani saranno disoccupati e quanti avranno l’assicurazione sanitaria, l’Europa si sta chiedendo quanti altri immigrati arriveranno e se l’euro resisterà entro il 2022. In Israele i problemi esistenziali sono incommensurabilmente più profondi e ampi, ma nessuno si preoccupa di affrontarli.Qualcuno sa se Israele resterà una democrazia nel prossimo decennio? Sarà uno stato laico o uno stato basato sulla legge ebraica? Sarà un welfare state o uno stato capitalista? Tutto è aperto, fluido , allarmante e fragile. Uno Stato senza un (chiaro) futuro che sguazza nel passato e si concentra sul presente corrisponde a uno Stato a breve termine . La settimana scorsa mi sono unito ai i pellegrini diretti ad Hebron la vigilia di Pasqua.Nel bus, uno di loro, utilizzando un termine dispregiativo per gli arabi ,disse ad alta voce: “Tutta la Arabushim , appena nata ,deve essere inviata ai frantoi di pietra direttamente dall’ospedale” Last week I joined the pilgrims to Hebron on Passover eve. In the bus, one of them, using a derogatory term for Arabs, said loudly: “All the Arabushim should be sent to the stone crushers straight from the hospital, as soon as they’re born.” The whole bus roared with laughter. Some passengers muttered at us, a reporter and a photographer, the only secular people on the bus: “Collaborators, there are collaborators on the bus.” Nobody protested, naturally. ” L’autobus intero scoppiò a ridere. Alcuni passeggeri mormorarono contro di noi, un giornalista e un fotografo, le uniche persone secolari sul bus: “Collaboratori, ci sono collaboratori “. Nessuno protestò, naturalmente. Le migliaia di pellegrini a Hebron con le loro miriadi di sostenitori, appartengono a un’altra nazione, senza alcuna connessione o somiglianza con la nazione di Tel Aviv. Ogni società ha una estrema destra oggi, ma in una piccola, fragile società come la nostra , questo potrebbe diventare fatale. Qualcuno può garantire che il tono ostile non si trasformerà nel tono prevalente? Chiaramente stiamo andando in questa direzione ,ma nessuno sta facendo nulla per fermare lo sfacelo della democrazia , nessuno ferma questa Israele che si avvia a diventare una paria, ancor più di quanto non lo sia già. Oggi, quando 650 agenti di polizia coraggiosamente si precipiteranno a bloccare una manciata di attivisti dei diritti umani colpevoli solo di aver cercato di recarsi a Betlemme , poche persone protesteranno per fermare la vergogna.L’immagine di Israele viene plasmata senza alcuna discussione. La maggiora parte, se è ancora maggioranza, tace .La domanda dove stiamo andando rimane senza risposta.
Articolo originale: A lack of vision is making Israel a short-term state
Published 01:04 15.04.12 Latest update 01:04 15.04.12
Nobody is doing anything to stop democracy from rupturing, nobody is stopping Israel on its way to becoming a pariah, even more than it is already.
By Gideon Levy
The prime minister talks as if his problems were of the European kind (not including the Iranian nuclear hysteria ), yet much more fateful issues remain open and somehow nobody discusses them. Israel is 64 years old and the issues remain pending, as if the state had been established yesterday and there are no answers.
Who will be the majority in 10 years – another question you won’t hear anywhere else – and what will the borders be? That question, too, is raised only in Israel, the only borderless state.
Everything is open, fluid and alarmingly fragile. The three future scenarios for Israel as an occupation state – continuing the status quo forever, two states or one – appear groundless, and people have stopped addressing them, as if the absence of discourse will produce a feasible solution. But all other critical questions have no real answer either and hardly appear on the agenda, even though Israelis should focus on them.
A state without a (clear ) future, wallowing in the past and focusing on the present, is tantamount to a short-term state. Even on the eve of our national days of pathos, nobody asks what Israel will be like in a decade, which is no time at all in historical terms.
Last week I joined the pilgrims to Hebron on Passover eve. In the bus, one of them, using a derogatory term for Arabs, said loudly: “All the Arabushim should be sent to the stone crushers straight from the hospital, as soon as they’re born.” The whole bus roared with laughter. Some passengers muttered at us, a reporter and a photographer, the only secular people on the bus: “Collaborators, there are collaborators on the bus.” Nobody protested, naturally.
The thousands of pilgrims to Hebron, with their myriads of supporters, belong to another nation, with no connection or resemblance to the nation of Tel Aviv. Every society has an extreme right wing today, but in a small, fragile society like ours, this could become fatal. The United States can afford its dark Christian right and remain a democracy. Israel cannot. Can anyone guarantee that the hostile tone from the fortified bus to Hebron won’t turn into the prevailing tone? Clearly things are heading in that direction and nobody is doing anything to stop it.
Nobody is doing anything to stop democracy from rupturing, nobody is stopping Israel on its way to becoming a pariah, even more than it is already. Today, when 650 police officers will bravely storm a handful of human rights activists and harshly turn them away from Ben-Gurion International Airport, solely for seeking to visit Bethlehem in a display of solidarity, few people will protest or stop them. Neither the mobilized media nor the flaccid justice system will do anything to stop the disgrace.
This is how things stand regarding several other events and developments shaping Israel’s image, without any real discussion. The strong, not necessarily the many, triumph, battle by battle, and the majority, if it still is a majority, is silent. The question where we are heading remains unanswered.
Israel is paranoid about pro-Palestinian activists
http://frammentivocalimo.blogspot.it/2012/04/gideon-levy-la-mancanza-di-prospettive.html
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