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إسرائيل
وغزة وصيف الحرب؟ بقلم:
حاييم بارام نيوسايتمان
- 21/6/2007 ان خلق دولة إسلامية تحت حكم
حماس هو نتيجة للحرب
الإسرائيلية و الفساد
الفلسطيني و فشل التجربة
الأمريكية
الديمقراطية و التي تهدد
الشرق الأوسط بأكمله Published
The
creation of an Islamic Bantustan under Hamas is the
result of Israeli belligerence, Palestinian corruption
and a failed US experiment in democracy that threatens
the whole of the Middle East, argues Haim Baram, while Zaki Chehab argues that
Gaza risks becoming the world's new pariah state On
Sunday morning, the proprietor of a smart but tiny
coffee house in central " Their
indifference to the predicament of Palestinians was not
accompanied by any empathy with the Jewish settlers.
Like most members of For
most well-to-do Israelis, Hamas represents not just
another hostile Palestinian group harbouring a profound
hatred of the Jewish state; it is a vivid symbol of the
threatening Islamic world. A decade of concerted
vilification of Muslims has created a sense of
collective paranoia in Some
of the bewilderment and sagging morale can be attributed
to the Second Lebanon War (as it is now officially
termed). Last year's botched invasion gave Israelis a
sense, for the first time in their country's history,
that their armed forces are not invincible. At the same
time, it strengthened the quest for leaders with
military experience and weakened beyond recognition the
already dwindling ranks of social reformers. The defeat
in Lebanon - widely blamed on the prime minister, Ehud
Olmert, the former defence minister Amir Peretz and the
former armed forces chief of staff Dan Halutz - and now
the Hamas victory over Fatah in Gaza have restored the
old politics of fear. The
immediate response of Olmert, who has hung on against
all the odds, was to reshuffle his cabinet, replacing
Peretz with Ehud Barak. A former prime minister, Barak
had just ousted Peretz from the leadership of As
ever during crises, Israelis stay glued to their
television sets. Reports of Hamas "atrocities"
in While
some public opinion expresses sympathy for the plight of
Gazans, the weight of sentiment, on the internet and in
newspaper and TV interviews, is overwhelmingly hostile.
Here is a sample. Yaacov Amidror, a retired general and
leading light of the Israeli intelligence community,
wrote in the tabloid Yediot Aharo not on 17 June:
"The price for boycotting Hamas will be exacted
from the local Palestinian population. But since the
citizens of This
is by far the majority view, but other voices are still
heard. Shulamit Aloni, a former minister of education
and veteran human rights activist, called on Israeli
radio and in Yediot Aharonot for urgent
humanitarian aid with no strings attached. She pleaded
with the Israeli government to allow free passage from Meanwhile,
the ever-surprising Maariv newspaper published
extracts from the blogs of four Palestinian girls from If
Aloni represents the pangs of conscience among
"soft Zionists", the rest of public opinion is
divided between the Confrontational Category, led by the
Likud supremo Binyamin Netanyahu, and the Nationalist
Centre, led by Olmert and his new ally, Barak. Writing
in Yediot (also on 17 June), Netanyahu displayed
his characteristic view of The
ultra-rightist MK (member of parliament) Aryeh Eldad
called on the government to refrain from sending to Despite
their personal rivalry, Netanyahu and Barak share
similar world views, moulded by military experiences in
the same elite commando unit. Barak declared on his
first day in office that his main goal is to encircle For
the moment, the Olmert-Barak government is trying out a
new variant of divide and rule, avidly supported by the
White House and the EU, manoeuvring between the two very
different Palestinian entities that have emerged as a
result of the Hamas coup in And
yet, in this configuration, one point is conveniently
forgotten. It was largely at the demand of the Now,
in a suffocating and small strip of land, with a
population that has been trapped and embittered for two
generations, this organisation for the first time enjoys
political hegemony. Haim
Baram is a writer and journalist based in Jerusalem http://www.newstatesman.com/200706250016 ----------------- نشرنا
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