Akiva Elder : l'eredità di Netanyahu : dividere gli Ebrei, unire i Musulmani
Sintesi personale
Durante l'epoca romana il monte del Tempio svolse un ruolo centrale nella strategia di "dividi e comanda" .
Nel primo secolo aC il governatore romano ripristinò John
Hyrcanus come sommo sacerdote del tempio ebraico, ma consegnò gran parte
del potere di governare la provincia a un gruppo di nobili rivali.
Per quanto riguarda l'epoca moderna il primo ministro israeliano
Benjamin Netanyahu verrà ricordato nella storia come il politico che ha
costruito una magnifica carriera politica creando inimicizia, edificando mura all'interno del popolo d'Israele - tra destra e sinistra, tra gli ebrei , tra gli arabi, religiosi e
secolari, tra gli attivisti dei diritti umani e i media.
I libri di storia lo menzioneranno anche per il risultato singolare di
unificare arabi e musulmani contro Israele e il popolo ebraico.
Per anni i palestinesi hanno cercato con successo molto limitato di
unificare arabi e musulmani attorno alla loro lotta per il
diritto all'autodeterminazione.: Le bandiere israeliane si sono diffuse su dozzine di nuovi
avamposti invasivi nella Cisgiordania occupata, ma e bandiere
di Giordania e di Egitto continuano a sventolare sulle loro ambasciate in
Israele.
Gli stati del Golfo sono impegnati nello Yemen , si delinea con evidenza il conflitto con il Qatar ,i sunniti e gli sciiti sono divisi tra loro .
Inoltre gli alleati del presidente palestinese Mahmoud Abbas, quando si
allontanano dalla loro rivalità con Hamas nella Striscia di Gaza,
cercano rifugio in Dahlan abbandonando Abbas. Questo è tutto senza nemmeno menzionare le guerre in Siria e in Iraq.
Per anni i palestinesi si sono rivolti a
Washington e alle maggiori capitali europee per coinvolgerli . Attualmente Donald Trump a malapena
può guidare la politica interna americana, il presidente francese Emmanuel Macron sta concentrando la maggior parte delle sue energie sulle questioni interne,il cancelliere tedesco Angela Merkel è in campagna elettorale,il primo ministro britannico Theresa May ha i suoi problemi con l'Unione europea,il movimento di boicottaggio contro i prodotti israeliani non sta andando troppo bene.
Ora, anche sei Palestinesi non sono santi, la loro pazienza è stata premiata.
Il governo israeliano con Netanyahu al timone ha fatto il lavoro per
loro, trasformando la loro lotta nazionale in un feudo
religioso incendiario. Il governo ha obbedientemente eseguito quanto volevano i tre arabi israeliani
che hanno assassinato due poliziotti israeliani il 14
luglio.
.La foto di una telecamera di sicurezza "ebraica" o di un metal detector sul sito aggrega manifestanti
sulle strade di Ramallah, Gaza, Amman e il Cairo molto più di centinaia di palestinesi uccisi negli scontri con le
truppe israeliane. Mobilita anche l'estremismo musulmano
. Quando " Al-Aqsa è sotto assedio
" Al-Qaeda invita i suoi aderenti a cancellare la presenza di qualsiasi ebreo,
americano o europeo nelle sacre moschee di Gerusalemme.
Assurdamente Netanyahu ha danneggiato la pretesa alla sovranità
israeliana sul monte del Tempio bloccando le porta ai musulmani e ai visitatori ebrei.
La marcia della follia del primo ministro non si è fermata alle mura della città vecchia di Gerusalemme.Egli è riuscito ad erigere un ponte di ferro tra i palestinesi in Israele e quelli in Cisgiordania. Il canale Israel Channel 2 ha riportato il 27 luglio che Netanyahu aveva proposto di scambiare
le città arabe e villaggi arabi del Wadi Ara i con gli insediamenti della Cisgiordania che
sarebbero stati annessi ad Israele. Si è allineato quindi con Avigdor Liberman e Yisrael Beitenu, che puntano al trasferimento degli arabi israeliani .
Ora i due leader politici di Israele stanno giocando in mano di
fanatici religiosi e fanno sembrare i cittadini arabi d'Israele, che cercano di
integrarsi nella società israeliana ,utili idioti.
Said Abu Shakra che organizza mostre di artisti arabi e ebrei israeliani alla galleria da lui fondata a Umm al-Fahm, mostra ad Al-Monitor la copia
di una lettera che ha mandato di recente al primo ministro : "Ti invio questa lettera come persona nata e vissuta in questo stato. Una persona le cui radici sono piantate in questo terreno. Una persona che vuole garantire il futuro delle prossime generazioni. Una persona da tempo attiva per organizzare incontri multiculturali e superare le reciproche divisioni .
Una persona che continua a lavorare con
determinazione per la convivenza ".
Abu Shakra accusa Netanyahu di alimentare la discordia tra ebrei e arabi.
Egli ricorda il famoso avvertimento agli elettori israeliani nel
marzo del 2015 per invitarli a uscire da casa e a recarsi a votare : : "gli arabi stanno recandosi in massa
nelle stazioni elettorali". Termina la sua lettera con una promessa : lui e molti intorno a lui vogliono una nuova realtà per le generazioni future, una
realtà dove gli arabi e gli ebrei possano vivere in pace.
La questione è quanto sangue sarà versato fino ad allora nella lotta
nazionale tra due popoli che da miscredenti sono trascinati
in un conflitto tra due religioni.
Netanyahu’s legacy: dividing Jews and uniting Arabs
During the Roman era, the Temple Mount played
a central role in the empire’s “divide and rule” strategy. In the first
century B.C., the Roman governor Gabinius reinstated John Hyrcanus as
high priest of the Jewish Temple, but handed over much of the power to
rule the province to a group of rival noblemen. As concerns the modern
era, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will go down in history
as a politician who built a magnificent political career on foundations
of enmity, on walls he erected between the people of Israel — between
those on the right and the left, Jews and Arabs, the religious and
secular, between ordinary Israelis and human rights activists
and the media. History books will also credit him with the singular
achievement of unifying the Arab and Muslim worlds against Israel and
the Jewish people.
For years, the Palestinians have been trying with very
limited success to unify the Arab and Muslim worlds around their
struggle for the right to self-determination. Even as Israeli flags are
unfurled over dozens of new, invasive outposts in the occupied West
Bank, however, the flags of Jordan and Egypt continue to fly over their
embassies in Israel. The Gulf states are tied up in a war in Yemen and a
conflict with Qatar, while the Sunnis and Shiites are busy with mutual
bloodletting. In addition, when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas'
allies take time off from their rivalry with Hamas in the Gaza Strip,
they seek shelter from the plots being hatched
by former senior Fatah member Mohammed Dahlan and his people to
dethrone Abbas. This is all without even mentioning the all-out wars in
Syria and Iraq.
For years, the Palestinians also set their sights on Washington and
major European capitals to convince of their cause. With few options
left, they even initially had high hopes for US President Donald Trump, a
man who can barely keep things together at home. French President Emmanuel Macron, newly settled in the Elysee Palace, is focusing most of his energies on domestic issues. German Chancellor Angela Merkel
is in the throes of an election campaign. British Prime Minister
Theresa May has troubles of her own with the European Union. The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
movement against Israeli products is not doing too well, either. For
every singer who boycotts Israel, a dozen others — singers, dance and
theater troupes — flock there. In addition, the number of Israeli
artists — a group considered a bastion of the left — who refuse to
perform in Israeli West Bank settlements is a drop in the bucket
compared to the number of performances being staged at the culture
centers in the settlement towns of Ariel and Kiryat Arba.
Now, although Abbas and his entourage are hardly saints, their
patience has been rewarded. The Israeli government with Netanyahu at the
helm has done the job for them, turning their waning national struggle
into an incendiary religious feud. The government obediently played the
role in which it was cast by the three Israeli Arabs
who murdered two Israeli police officers on the Temple Mount July 14.
The three knew what they were doing when they picked the site, holy to
both Jews and Muslims.
It is well-known that even a hint of a Jewish plot to chip away at
Muslim control over what to them is the Haram al-Sharif mobilizes Muslim
communities around the world. One photo of a “Jewish” security camera
or metal detector at the site brings out many more demonstrators onto
the streets of Ramallah, Gaza, Amman and Cairo than thousands of words
written about the hundreds of Palestinians killed in clashes with
Israeli troops. The three terrorists from Umm al-Fahm knew very well
that there is hardly a more flammable spot on earth.
The Palestinian issue, with the Al-Aqsa Mosque at its center, made it
back not only into world headlines but also onto the websites and other
platforms of global jihad. When “Al-Aqsa is under siege,” al-Qaeda
calls on its adherents to wipe out any Jew, American or European
standing in its way to the sacred mosques of Jerusalem.
The unilateral Israeli decision to install metal detectors at the
entrance to the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif compound after the killing
of the two policemen there, touched one of the neighbors’ most sensitive
spots. Absurdly, Netanyahu damaged his claim to Israeli sovereignty
over the Temple Mount, given that when all the gates were locked to
Muslims, they were not open to Jewish visitors, either.
The prime minister’s march of folly did not stop at the walls of
Jerusalem’s Old City. He managed also to erect an iron bridge between
the Palestinians in Israel and those in the West Bank. Israel Channel
2 reported July 27 that Netanyahu had proposed swapping
the Israeli Arab towns and villages in the predominantly Arab Wadi Ara
northern region in exchange for West Bank settlements that would be
annexed to Israel. The prime minister did not deny the reported
proposal, which aligns him with Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman's
radical party, Yisrael Beitenu, which espouses the transfer of Israeli Arabs.
Now Israel's two top political leaders are playing into the hands of
religious zealots and making Arab citizens of Israel seeking to
integrate into Israeli society look like useful idiots.
Said Abu Shakra,
who displays works by Israeli Arab and Jewish artists at the gallery he
founded and runs in Umm al-Fahm, gave Al-Monitor a copy of a
heart-wrenching letter he recently sent the prime minister. Among the
choice excerpts, he wrote, “I am turning to you in this personal letter
as a person born and living in this state; a person whose family was
born here and whose roots are planted deep in its soil; a person for
whom it’s important to ensure the future of the next generations; a
person who has long been active for the sake of multicultural gatherings
and the healing of rifts within Israeli society; a person who often
deals with the severest crises of trust experienced by Israeli society,
yet one who keeps on working with determination for coexistence.”
Abu Shakra accuses Netanyahu of sowing discord between Jews and
Arabs. He reminds him of his famous warning to Israeli voters in March
2015, exhorting them to get out and vote because “the Arabs are flocking in droves
to the polling stations.” He wanders with bitter irony, “Maybe you’d
like to say that Umm al-Fahm is flocking in droves for Jerusalem?” He
ends his letter with a promise that he and many around him will stand
firm to create a new reality for the sake of future generations, a
reality in which Arabs and Jews live side by side in peace.
The question is how much blood will be spilled until then in the
national struggle between two peoples that is being turned by miscreants
and fools into a conflict between two religions.
Akiva Eldar is a columnist
for Al-Monitor’s Israel Pulse. He was formerly a senior columnist and
editorial writer for Haaretz and also served as the Hebrew daily’s US
bureau chief and diplomatic correspondent. His most recent book (with
Idith Zertal), Lords of the Land, on the Jewish settlements, was on the
best-seller list in Israel and has been translated into English, French,
German and Arabic.
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