ebrei contro l'occupazione

01.08.10

We have a new "traitor." Please welcome Haim Ramon. How horrible: Ramon thinks the Palestinians shouldn't negotiate with Benjamin Netanyahu.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas must not join the masquerade known as direct negotiations with the current prime minister. Not only will it not advance anything, it could cause harm to Abbas, the Palestinians, to peace and also to Israel. Another failure in the longest and most futile peace process in history, as we have learned, could lead to another round of bloodshed. (...)

A prime minister who says, as published in Haaretz, that a continued freeze on building in the settlements "is politically impossible" because it will lead to the breakup of his coalition government, is a prime minister who is derelict in his duty. Didn't Netanyahu commit in his Bar-Ilan University speech to two states? If he admits that he can't get his government to back a move so minuscule, so preliminary, so self-evident as a building freeze, as a step to carrying out his commitment, why do we need his government? It would be better if it fell. If he still stays in office, he is betraying his mission and his commitment.

No, Abbas must not lend a hand to this illusion. The issue is not only his shaky position, which would be further undermined if he joins the talks - a development that would run counter to Israel's interest. The issue is also not just another round of nothing, more time wasted on nothing. The issue is cooperation with an Israeli diversion tactic which is meant to lull the entire world.

Netanyahu and his government, most of whose members don't believe even for a minute in the chances of the peace process - and some have said so explicitly - want to deceive everyone and gain time and quiet so they can bolster the settlements even more. How else can the opposition to extending the freeze be interpreted? Why build if you intend to evacuate? And why do you think Netanyahu is so eager to hold direct talks, courting Abbas with sweet-talk, if not to please the Americans? If there are negotiations, there won't be international pressure. Quiet, we're in discussions, settlement can go on uninterrupted. That is why futile negotiations are dangerous negotiations. (...)

So here, not in a whisper and not in a hotel, I humbly add my voice to Ramon's: Abbas, don't go there.

... se Repubblica mostra un video per il quale vale ebrei = ADL = islamofobi, tace pure se su Libero Farrell scrive che lo sterminio degli ebrei (che è, secondo lui, 'di sinistra') equivale al divieto di fumare.