Gideon Levy : Before the Israeli Right Rejoices Over Paris
The
Israeli right will say: We told you so. That is how the Palestinians
are, that is how the Muslims are - bloodthirsty animals. The conclusion:
There is no partner. This is of course a propagandist house of cards.
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Just before the right in Israel begins to
celebrate, we must tell them: There is no connection whatsoever between
the child with a knife from Hebron and the French Muslim with a suicide
bomb in Paris.
Just before the right in
France and all of Europe starts to celebrate, we must tell them: Don’t
you dance on the blood as well. The nationalism, hatred of foreigners,
racism, deportation of refugees, isolationism and the war against Islam —
your magic solutions will not solve anything. The rejoicing calls of
“we told you so” from Israel and the European right are already being
sounded loudly.
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and Marine Le Pen are once again those who are profiting the
most from the terror. We must not fall into their trap.
The
Israeli right will say: We told you so. That is how the Palestinians
are, that is how the Arabs are, and that is how the Muslims are -
bloodthirsty animals. The conclusion: There is no partner. We will
forever live by our swords. Now Europe is experiencing what we have been
experiencing for years. Now Europe will take steps toward a war on
terror — the same steps which it condemned when we took them. Now Europe
may leave us alone; after all we have a common enemy. Let’s see them
labeling products now, let’s see it condemning the settlements.
Our daring raids on the
al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron and the primary school in Silwan in Jerusalem
are part of the war of civilizations which West is fighting, and which
Israel is so proud to belong to. Whoever does not invade al-Ahli is not
fighting terror. Whoever does not shoot a young woman holding a knife at
a checkpoint gets Paris. The law for Ahmed Manasra (the 13-year-old
Palestinian boy who stabbed an Israeli boy) is the same law as that for
Jihadi John. Hamas is the Islamic State organization and the same goes
for Hezbollah, Mahmoud Abbas, (Islamic Movement leader)Sheikh Ra’ad
Salah, Joint List Members of Knesset Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi —and all
of them are ISIS, all the Arabs.
This is of course a
propagandist house of cards, which is completely unrelated to reality.
The goal of the knife wielder from Hebron is completely different from
that of the jihadist from Stade de France, and so is their worldview.
Here the Palestinian is battling for his land and country, for his
liberation from occupation, for self-determination and freedom — and
there the game is destroying Europe and taking control of it. Here the
main motive is national and political, and there it is religious
fundamentalism.
But the truth is that
the Israeli right is not completely wrong. In the end, its prophesy
will be self-fulfilling. If Israel continues with its policies, the
child stabber from Hebron will turn into the adult suicide bomber of
ISIS. Already today he is looking with eager eyes at the success of his
big brothers. His despair leaves him little other hope.
ISIS is still not here yet,
but it is possible to count on Netanyahu and his ilk to bring them here.
The occupation has already given birth to Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. A
desperate West Bank and an imprisoned Gaza Strip are the appropriate
fertile grounds for growing them. The storm troopers of the occupation
and the assassins in the hospitals provide the particle accelerators for
ushering in jihadists.
The European right is wrong
too. After all, the tens of thousands of the Muslim refugees knocking on
the gates of Europe are trying to flee for their lives, escaping the
very terror of the jihadists who are now attacking Europe. They are
fleeing from the people who earlier destroyed their homelands and are
now perpetrating a massacre in the Bataclan Theater. Closing the doors
in their faces, inflaming the hatred of foreigners in Europe, along with
the continued Islamophobia and the rise of the extreme right, will only
play into the hands of ISIS.
There are now quite a few
Israelis who are rejoicing in their hearts (or on the social networks)
in light of the events in Paris. In addition to the perverseness of
rejoicing over the death of other human beings, this is also a
celebration of the blind. The correct lesson from what happened in Paris
is that there are no longer any local wars. The world cannot continue
to shut its eyes in the face of what is happening in Syria, and also not
in the face of the Israeli occupation. When the world pulls itself
together from the shock, maybe it will also free itself from the
paralysis and understand that it must harness itself to find a solution
to these conflicts, both in war-torn Syria as well as in the
occupied Palestinian territories. Then let's see the Israeli right.
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