Today Gaza, tomorrow Masada?
Pedagogy black leaders is suicidal Israeli
by Rony Brauman doctor, he was president of Doctors without Borders until 1994.
source: http://www.causeur.fr/aujourdhui-gaza-demain-massada, 1680
"Once admitted under the boots of seven leagues, everything follows with perfect logic, the shortness of the ogre as the speed of Tom Thumb. "(G. Burdeau, policy in Wonderland, PUF 1979.)
What is a" proportionate response "? Military action to the extent of the attack to which it responds. Humanitarian law prohibits practices causing victims among the civilian population and damage to civilian objects is excessive in relation to "concrete and direct military advantage anticipated". Agree at the outset that we would be hard to define the limits beyond which the principle of proportionality, which seeks to limit the destruction and human losses "useless", is violated, whether in Gaza or elsewhere. Restraint in the conduct of war is an elementary principle of humanity, but it is true that once the hostilities in the definition of fair proportionality remains a deal for less fuzzy, subject to interpretations and paradoxes of infinities. Still, the ratio of one to one hundred from the dead on each side, not to mention injuries and destruction, said the enormity of the operation Cast Lead. In the absence of what would be a fair share, everyone can see what a loss of all sense of proportion. The "third phase" which begins as of this writing should not be less cruel than the first two. But perhaps the Israeli security cabinet he would take, given the international reaction, that its goals were achieved and he will put an end to the slaughter more early.
Butcher. The angry word "friends" of Israel that recall happy we have not seen so many protesters protests or other conflicts (Chechnya, Darfur, Congo, Tibet's most mentioned) have caused much more dead and compassion for the victims of the Israeli army is suspected to be selective force. According to them, solidarity with the Palestinians is merely a pretext for attacking the Jews and their state. We do not deny that this is a well established record as reflected in particular Dieudonne and his followers. Anti-Semitism can disguise herself as anti-Zionism, the case is heard, but also note that the main movements of Solidarity with the Palestinians to ensure grain carefully. Still, the mortality of the fifteen-day offensive on Gaza is at the highest level recorded during the various conflicts mentioned above, exceeded only by the bombing of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya in 1999. And we remain stunned at hearing that the Israeli army is waiting to be commended for having warned by leaflet and by telephone tens of thousands of people of imminent bombing of their neighborhood. The recipients of these calls "humanitarian" had of course no possibility of escape for shelter and they could not deduce one thing: staying put, they became legitimate targets, puisqu'informées. Three hundred children were killed in less than two weeks. That this killing is comparable in intensity to extreme violence seen elsewhere, and it is insidiously or actively justified by some on behalf of the democratic character of Israel and its right to defend itself, that's probably the aspect The most outrageous situation.
Most shocking but not the most disturbing. Most disturbing is found intact the issues most annealed Israeli political discourse, people Israel out of his hat, war after war, wrote Tom Segev in Ha'aretz immediately after the offensive, despite their constant checking. The synthesis is simple: peace is through the liquidation of the infrastructure and terrorist leaders. Terrorism is not a political issue for Israel, the occupation of Palestinian territories and the deterioration of the lives of its inhabitants, but a police-military problem. This explains that the only topic of discussion with Mahmoud Abbas is the policing of anti-Israeli violence in the scraps of land that was entrusted to him (and we regret that it has agreed to play this intermediary role of occupation until almost total discrediting of his "authority"), while colonization is growing day after day in the West Bank. This also explains that no proposal for resolving the conflict based on the Armistice Line of 1949 (the "green line") has never received any attention from any government of Israel although it agreements internationally recognized (see resolutions 242 and 338 of the UN, still to be discussed soon forgotten). Nobody wants to recent examples that the unilateral withdrawal by Ehud Barak, the Taba talks in January 2001, the appeal of the Arab League summit in 2002, indirect statements, but clearly pointing in this direction recently and repetitions of part of Hamas, retaining only a few recent items. Long ago that the phrase "territories against peace" is no longer an option for Israelis who confuse methodically (innocently?) Negotiation and diktat. It took forty years to be recognized, with the first intifada, the Palestinian national fact. Since then, with the notable exception of Rabin, the various prime ministers have sought to demonstrate that they are the only masters of the political calendar.
The aptly named "Operation Lead Cast responds, after many others, this desire for inculcation. The offensive "has enabled us to achieve goals that no one would have dreamed a fortnight ago. On blows to Hamas, they have not yet realized. They understand when they come out of hiding. Council Decision Security We have not tied the hands ", welcomed a high-ranking officer.
Beyond any moral to the appalling waste of human potential which we are all shocked and helpless witnesses, we must ask when Israeli leaders are aware of the devastating effects of this black pedagogy. How many vocations to the suicide bombing were born these days? The "operation" could be as bloody and we know that if it continues, further massacres will occur because it can not be otherwise. Then there will be a cease-fire and other attacks follow, and others, turning up the balance of power that is sure to occur. Israel will then, perhaps, an object of compassion. The growing excitement of the myth of Samson and Masada martyrs in this context takes the shape of a prophecy being self-realization.
Israel's friends are those that link the final perspective and lead to a reversal of the fundamental assumptions of Israeli politics. We are more likely to think it is a matter of life or death for the Israelis.
Analysis of the sequence Hamas' indiscriminate fire on southern Israel and the inevitable responses of the IDF is a fruitless exercise. Some fought back in the blockade, others fought back with responses, we choose the version according to his camp. Still, said the blockade is an Israeli decision and no country in the world can not tolerate being - literally - made entirely in prison. Remember that Israel has the Palestinian Authority in Gaza offside. For what purpose if not to have Hamas in power and continue his eternal lesson in making this area a self-managed prison, where successive punitive operations?
The firing of rockets and missiles into Israel are a source of anxiety for a growing number of Israelis, and it is only fair to condemn Hamas on this point. But to pretend that Hamas represents a threat to the existence of Israel is not serious. Ehud Barak when he was prime minister, expected his Palestinian interlocutors that they recognize not only the Israeli state, but its legitimacy as a Jewish state. He asked them, in other words, to be Zionists if they wanted to be full partners, then feel sorry for not having a partner.
The bad habit of successive Israeli governments to choose and dismiss at will the representatives of their opponents is entirely in their design exclusively for military security. They can not, therefore, give it to others and understand them. But what are the premises of this argument needs to be reviewed. The security council resolution calling on Jan. 9 for a cease-fire immediately and return the two sides back to back is a diplomatic setback for Israel because the U.S. felt they could not oppose it. Hope that this failure is understood as a blank signal and regret that it is the opposite message that has hitherto been always addressed to Israel, not only from Washington but also from Europe. Thus, it is certain that the security of Israel must be recognized as an imperative for Europe, but no more nor less than the safety of Palestine on its territory. This is perhaps obvious, but would be much better to say, this is not the case. It rejects any dialogue with Hamas because it did not recognize the earlier treaties, does not abandon violence and does not recognize Israel. Either. But do we think that the reasoning applies de facto identically in reverse? Obviously not, since the European Parliament has, for example, to vote a raise in the Association Agreement with Israel, making it a quasi-member of the EU Petitions calling for the suspension of these agreements circulate, readers of talker, I am, here are invited to sign and sign ...
engaged in this laudable movement to recall a practical wisdom and conviction of military-technological hubris, going a step further and ask for the urgent replacement of Tony Blair, the Quartet's current delegate. His predecessor, former president of the World Bank James Wolfensohn, resigned in large part because of reluctance of Israel to comply with agreements reached under the auspices of the United States. Tony Blair, the man who made possible the war in Iraq (and, let us note, seems exempt from any responsibility in the disaster that followed), embodies the policy of "W" in this region. There is nothing to wait, while a credible international engagement is urgent. The weapon of mass destruction threatening the entire region is the status quo. Beyond the cease-fire, the lifting of the blockade and recovery links between Gaza and the West Bank are the first policy response to Hamas' grip on Gaza. The second will be to negotiate without preconditions with the representatives that the Palestinians will be given. Note that since Rabin, nobody seriously considered this option, including the alternative is mutually assured destruction.
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