Akiva Elder : l'illusione di poter sostenere l'occupazione senza alcun costo per Israele.
I regimi dell' Egitto e della Giordania non potevano
ignorare ciò che il pubblico arabo percepisce come mancato rispetto all'Islam.
Il posizionamento di rivelatori metallici alle porte del complesso di
Haram al-Sharif equivale ad un invito per i fanatici religiosi in Medio Oriente ad alimentare le critiche ai leader arabi sospettati di essere troppo intimi
con Israele.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan ha impiegato poche ore per immergersi in queste acque salmastre.
L'Europa, alle prese con il terrorismo islamico, non può guardare la conflagrazione lasciando fare a Israele quello
che vuole a Gerusalemme.
Anche il presidente degli Stati Uniti Donald Trump, che ha promesso di
portare avanti un accordo di pace israelo-palestinese, è stato costretto
a cercare un compromesso .
Naturalmente, qualsiasi compromesso comporterebbe un accordo
equilibrato che rifletta il consenso internazionale sul fatto che
Israele non è sovrano di Gerusalemme Est dove si trova il Monte del
Tempio.Il premier continua a pretendere che il mondo faccia affari con Israele come se non fosse un potere occupante. Alla riunione del 19 luglio a Budapest con i leader di Ungheria, Polonia, Slovacchia e Repubblica ceca, Netanyahu ha rimproverato l'Unione europea , in quanto condiziona i rapporti con Israele in base alle sue politiche.
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Netanyahu non ha detto ai suoi quattro interlocutori che per
due anni la Cina ha deciso di stipulare un accordo per fornire a Israele
migliaia di lavoratori migranti e l'ha firmato solo dopo aver ricevuto l'assicurazione che nessun lavoratore cinese sarebbe stato inviato oltre la linea verde .
Allo stesso modo il primo ministro ha probabilmente dimenticato che
Israele ha difficoltà a convincere gli investitori stranieri, compresi
quelli cinesi, a presentare un'offerta per la costruzione del secondo sistema ferroviario leggero di Gerusalemme perché il suo percorso pianificato attraversa il territorio che Israele ha conquistato nel 1967.
Quanti sanno che i sistemi israeliani Egged Bus hanno perso un'offerta
a maggio per gestire un sistema di autobus nei Paesi Bassi per un
valore di 190 milioni di euro (221 milioni di dollari) in 10 anni?
Gli attivisti del BDS hanno presentato prove che dimostrano che i
proprietari dell'azienda operano nei territori occupati
e i passeggeri israeliani sono separati dai palestinesi. Il boicottaggio economico non ha fatto male all'economia di Israele e al
benessere dei suoi residenti ,ma di tanto in tanto, tuttavia, si manifestano sintomi di lebbra.
Così, per esempio, il produttore di SodaStream ha spostato la
sua fabbrica dalla Cisgiordania al territorio sovrano israeliano.
La compagnia aerea belga Brussels Airlines ha deciso lo scorso anno di eliminare dal menù Achva , lo spuntino halva Israel, dopo aver appreso che è stato fatto in Cisgiordania (ma da allora è stato ripristinato). Le associazioni degli insegnanti e dei docenti in Europa hanno tagliato i legami con le loro controparti israeliane.
Durante i colloqui di Netanyahu a Budapest il primo ministro ha detto: "[Israele] fa parte della cultura europea . L'Europa finisce in Israele.. "Nella stessa riunione stampa ha
anche rimproverato l'UE, dichiarando:" Penso che l'Europa deve decidere
se vuole vivere e prosperare o se vuole scomparire ". Beh,
l'Europa Ha deciso 37 anni fa nella Dichiarazione di Venezia che vuole promuovere la fine dell'occupazione israeliana e di Gerusalemme Est. Tutte le recenti amministrazioni degli Stati Uniti hanno anche cercato di portare avanti una soluzione a due stati.
Se Israele vuole prosperare come uno stato ebraico e democratico i
suoi leader devono capire che vivono in un Medio Oriente musulmano
volatile.
Se vuole far parte della cultura europea deve porre fine
all'occupazione e dire basta ai piromani che occupano la Knesset.
Netanyahu's dangerous delusion
The Israeli right no longer bothers to
conceal its abhorrence of a two-state solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would provide the Palestinians with an
independent state alongside Israel. It also rejects a one man, one vote
solution, the fundamental principle of democratic rule, for one
binational state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
Instead, the right boasts of its ability to manage the conflict with
reasonable or negligible cost to Israel’s diplomacy, security or
economy. It argues that Israel can manage quite well without resolving
the conflict and by accelerating development of its settlements on
occupied Palestinian territory. The crisis that unfolded after the July
14 terror attack on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif that left two Israeli police officers dead has so far cost the lives of five Israelis
and four Palestinians (excluding the attackers). It proves that even in
managing the conflict, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government
has been conducting itself like a bull in a china shop.
The failed management
of the recent crisis peeled off the Band-Aid that the right has been
working so hard to keep on the bloody conflict, exposing the wounds of
the occupation to the glare of the international community and forcing
it to get involved. Thus, the right-wing government provided non-Jewish
politicians a foothold in Jerusalem — “Israel’s eternal and united capital,”
in Netanyahu's words. This is the same Jerusalem that leads Netanyahu
to fire off the hackneyed response that there is no difference between
building in Jerusalem and building in Tel Aviv whenever a foreign leader
dares criticize construction for Jews in the city's eastern,
predominantly Palestinian areas. One can easily imagine Netanyahu’s
incensed reaction had the “leftists” dared to discuss with foreign
officials the removal of the contentious metal detectors that generated
Muslim fury when Israel installed them at the entrance to the Temple
Mount compound after the July 14 attack.
The regimes in Egypt and Jordan,
with which Netanyahu describes relations as idyllic, could not ignore
what the Arab public perceives as disrespect toward Islam. Placing metal
detectors at the gates to the Haram al-Sharif compound is tantamount to
an invitation to religious zealots in the Middle East to pounce on Arab
leaders suspected of being overly intimate with Israel.
It only took Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
a few hours to plunge into these brackish waters. Europe, dealing with
Islamist terrorism, cannot stand idly by either, watching the
conflagration and letting Israel do whatever it wants in Jerusalem. Even
US President Donald Trump, who promised to push forward an
Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, was forced to join in the effort to find
a face-saving compromise for both sides. Naturally, any compromise
would entail a balanced arrangement, reflecting the international
consensus that Israel is not sovereign over East Jerusalem, which
includes the Temple Mount.
Four days after realizing that the metal detectors were themselves a ticking time bomb,
the prime minister was still signaling business as usual. In
Netanyahu-speak, that means the world should be doing business with
Israel as if it were not an occupying power. At a July 19 meeting in
Budapest with the leaders of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech
Republic, Netanyahu reprimanded the European Union,
that “crazy” group that “conditions the relations with Israel … on
political conditions. The only ones!” This is unlike China, India,
Russia and African states, he remarked, and even the Arabs, “who talk to
us about technology and all the other things that we’re discussing
here.”
In other words, support for the Palestinian struggle against occupation, even using the economic tools
of the Boycott, Disinvestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, are not in the
interest of any sane state. Netanyahu did not tell his four
distinguished interlocutors that for two years, China put off signing an
agreement to provide Israel with thousands of migrant laborers and only
signed it after receiving assurances
that no Chinese workers would have to cross the Green Line into
occupied territory. Similarly, the prime minister probably forgot that
Israel has a hard time convincing foreign investors, including Chinese
ones, to bid for construction of Jerusalem’s second light rail system because its planned route goes through territory that Israel captured in 1967.
Israelis cheered on July 18 when Radiohead performed at Tel Aviv’s
Yarkon Park. The cheering was interlaced with malicious joy at singer
and musician Roger Waters’ failure to convince the band’s lead singer,
Thom Yorke, to boycott Israel. How many of the 50,000 concertgoers know
that the Israeli Egged Bus Systems lost a bid
in May to operate a bus system in the Netherlands worth 190 million
euros ($221 million) over 10 years? BDS activists presented evidence
showing that the company’s owners operate bus routes in the occupied
territories and separate Israeli and Palestinian passengers.
Israel’s foreign trade figures suggest that the economic boycott has
not hurt Israel’s economy and the well-being of its residents. From time
to time, however, symptoms of leprosy show up. Thus, for example, the
drinks maker SodaStream moved its plant from the West Bank to sovereign
Israeli territory. The Belgian airliner Brussels Airlines, which
operates 46 aircraft and two daily flights from Israel, decided last
year to remove Achva,
the Israel halva snack, from its menu after learning that it was made
in the West Bank (but has since reinstated it). Associations of teachers
and lecturers in Europe have cut ties with their Israeli counterparts.
During Netanyahu's talks in Budapest, the prime minister said, “[Israel is] part of the European culture.
Europe ends in Israel. East of Israel there’s no more Europe.” At the
same press meeting, he also reprimanded the EU, stating, “I think Europe
has to decide if it wants to live and thrive or if it wants to shrivel
and disappear.” Well, Europe decided 37 years ago in its Venice Declaration that it wants to promote the end of the Israeli occupation, including of East Jerusalem. All recent US administrations have also tried to push forward a two-state solution.
If Israel wants to thrive as a Jewish and democratic state, its
leaders must understand that they live in a volatile, Muslim Middle
East. If it wants to be part of European culture, it has to put an end
to the occupation and rein in the pyromaniacs who have settled around
the Cabinet table and occupy the benches of the Knesset.
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