Bradley Burston : con Benjamin Netanyahu nulla cambierà nè in iran, nè ad Hebron

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Questo mese Benjamin Netanyahu ha reso ufficiale il suo pensiero : Non è cambiato nulla . Nulla cambierà . Non a Teheran , non a Hebron . In  nessuna parte .
Sul fronte nucleare , piuttosto che aspettare e vedere ciò che potrebbe  portare di nuovo il  presidente iraniano Hassan Rohani  alle Nazioni Unite , ha già dichiarato :

"Uno stato  che sviluppa o acquisisce armi di distruzione di massa è molto probabile che le userà "Poi c'è Hebron.  Domenica sera  un cecchino ha ucciso un soldato israeliano in servizio nella città della West Bank , dove meno di un migliaio di ebrei vivono  fortemente protetti in mezzo  a un quarto di milioni di palestinesi .  Netanyahu ha ordinato che i coloni potevano   occupare  una casa di Hebron da dove  l'IDF li aveva forzatamente  espulsi tempo fa .Questi non sono gli atti di  una nazione  guidata verso un futuro  da un condottiero vigoroso . Questi sono gli atti di un vecchio uomo amareggiato , il suo futuro è sempre dietro di lui .Questo è il messaggio di Netanyahu per il mondo  e per noi:L'obiettivo dell'Iran è quello di essere il nemico mortale di Israele , un Hitler con  un turbante , quello  di Hebron è l'incitamento  all'odio . L'obiettivo  di Israele non è quello di diventare un  luogo  economicamente  sicuro , democratico per ebrei e arabi  ,di  vivere entro confini riconosciuti dal mondo e dal suo unico vero alleato .No , lo scopo  di questa  Israele è  costituito dalla   Cisgiordania e da  Gerusalemme Est , anche se questo significa stabilirsi su terre di proprietà palestinesi  Anche se questo significa costringere i beduine e altri arabi  ad andare via dalle loro terre  distruggendo le loro abitazioni traballanti, lasciando  i coloni accovacciati illegalmente su terre non loro , edificando   le loro case con i mattoni   e acqua  . Anche se questo significa alienarsi gli Stati Uniti e la maggior parte dei suoi ebrei , allontanando ulteriormente  Israele dall'Europa , e  all'ONU  trascinare  Israele sempre più nel fango, nel disprezzo e nell' isolamento internazionale. Anche se questo significa sempre più ampi boicottaggi .
Questa è ora la situazione:  le abitazioni  sono molto meno conveniente di quanto non fossero durante le proteste sociali , a meno che uno non sia  un colono , naturalmente . La  coalizione di governo israeliano è  in rivolta aperta contro i negoziati di pace  e  con l'  Iran proving increasingly uncooperative with the image of the New Nazi. Netanyahu farebbe bene ad aprire un nuovo capitolo . Una scossa finale, forse . Forse qualcosa di reale , qualcosa che ha a che fare con la speranza.Either that, or he may find that his place in history, in the end, turned out to be on the Remaindered shelf.

A Special Place in Hell

by Bradley Burston

Reviling peace. Hating Iran. Heating Hebron. Bibi as a bitter old man

I've found myself spending a lot of time lately thinking about Benjamin Netanyahu. I can't help it. He runs my life. And not well.

By Bradley Burston | Sep. 24, 2013 | 6:30 PM | 14

Even when I look for an escape – to the local book store, say - I find that I can't get away. For example, when I looked at the store's prominent discount display of Fiction and Children's Books, the first work I saw there, bearing a large Fiction sticker, was "Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle."

Which brings us back to Bibi. And the idea that if you don't keep up with the times, the truths you may fervently believe to be eternal, may very soon deserve the designation Fiction.
This month, Benjamin Netanyahu made it official: Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. Not in Tehran, not in Hebron. Nowhere. Not on his watch.
On the nuclear front, rather than wait and see what new ground Iranian President Hassan Rohani might break in a visit to the United Nations this week, Netanyahu chose a truly inauspicious time to shelve himself near a copy of The Emperor's New Clothes:
Setting out sweeping conditions which Iran will certainly reject, and which even friends of Israel may view as intentionally unrealistic - conditions far beyond the "red line" he drew at the United Nations a year ago - Netanyahu told his cabinet:
"A recalcitrant state that develops or acquires weapons of mass destruction is certainly likely to use them. It is possible to say that ultimately it will use them."
Then there's Hebron, the Dimona Reactor of fundamentalist Jewish extremism. On Sunday evening, a sniper shot dead an Israeli soldier on duty in the West Bank city, where less than a thousand Jews live in heavily guarded compounds surrounded by a quarter of a million Palestinians.
Taking swift action which even the Israeli right knew to be suspect and likely empty of authority – except for its capacity to incite further violence – Netanyahu ordered that settlers be allowed to move back in to a Hebron house from which the IDF had forcibly expelled them not long ago.
In remarks widely compared and contrasted to those of Yitzhak Rabin, who pledged to pursue peace as if there were no terrorism, and pursue terrorists as if there were no peace process, Netanyahu declared:
"We will continue to fight terrorism and strike at terrorists with one hand, and strengthen settlement with the other."
These are not the acts of a vigorous leader heading a nation toward a better future. These are the acts of a bitter old man, his future increasingly behind him.
This is Netanyahu's message to the world, and to us:
The purpose of Iran is to be Israel's mortal enemy, Hitler in a turban. The purpose of Hebron is incitement. And the purpose of Israel is not to find a safe, democratic, affordable place for Jews and Arabs to live within borders recognized by the world and, for that matter, by its only real ally.
No, the bottom-line purpose of this Israel is to settle the West Bank and East Jerusalem, even if that means settling on Palestinian-owned land. Even if that means forcing Bedouin and other Arabs off their lands and destroying their rickety dwellings while leaving illegally squatting settlers in place, building their homes with brick, mortar, and government sanctioned water. Even if that means alienating the United States and the majority of its Jews, further alienating Europe, and daring – begging - the United Nations to mire Israel ever deeper in isolation and international scorn. Even if that means ever wider boycotts.
Even if – especially if - that means no peace.
For years, suggesting a product-unrealized Start-Up Nation software CEO, the prime minister's toyed with the idea of a grand exit strategy – as in the Hebrew understanding of "Exit" – making an enormous high-tech killing in one stroke. Sealing your place in history overnight. Clinching a master stroke that redeems you for all that time you've wasted and the ideas that went nowhere and the supporters now disenchanted and gone.
Like bombing Iran.
Or making peace with the Palestinians.
Or even, and at the very least, fostering affordable housing.
As things stand now, however, with housing much less affordable than it was during the social protests two years ago – unless you're a settler, of course; with an Israeli governing coalition in open mutiny against peace talks; and with Iran proving increasingly uncooperative with the image of the New Nazi, Netanyahu would do well to open a new chapter. A shock ending, perhaps. Maybe something real, something that has to do with hope.
Either that, or he may find that his place in history, in the end, turned out to be on the Remaindered shelf.