* Uri Avnery skriver om den sionistiska rörelsen och den historiska kampen för att rättfärdiga och förställa en kolonial statsbildning och ockupation – och det förtryck som springer därur. En process som nu gör en cirkelrörelse och når en sorts slutpunkt i och med inlemmandet av det pågående övergreppet mot palestinierna i ett regellöst, avhumaniserande ”civilisationskring”. Medan argumentationen, som Avnery visar, har sina konjunkturer, finns det en inneboende rörelseriktning i den koloniala ”andrafieringen”. Så kunde till exempel samarbetet mellan Israel och Sydafrika spira och finna näring i det som Sydafrikas regering kunde beskriva så här i slutet på 1970-talet: ”Israel and South Africa have one thing above all else in common: they are both situated in a predominantly hostile world inhabited by dark peoples”. Så här avslutar Avnery sin artikel:
In his book “Der Judenstaat”, Theodor Herzl, the official Israeli “Prophet of the State”, prophesied this development, too.Läs hela.
This is what he wrote in 1896: “For Europe we shall constitute (in Palestine) a part of the wall against Asia, we shall serve as a vanguard of culture against barbarism.”
Herzl was thinking of a metaphoric wall, but in the meantime we have put up a very real one. For many, this is not just a Separation Wall between Israel and Palestine. It is a part of the world-wide wall between the West and Islam, the front-line of the Clash of Civilizations. Beyond the wall there are not men, women and children, not a conquered and oppressed Palestinian population, not choked towns and villages like Abu-Dis, a-Ram, Bil'in and Qalqilia. No, beyond the wall there are a billion terrorists, multitudes of blood-thirsty Muslims, who have only one desire in life: to throw us into the sea, simply because we are Jews, part of Judeo-Christian Civilization.
With an official position like that - who is there to talk to? What is there to talk about? What is the point of meeting in Annapolis or anywhere else?
And what is left to us to do - to cry or to laugh?
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