O Mal em forma de Estado

"This is not merely a fight between Israel and the US. Nor is it only a fight between the White House and Congress. It is also a battle between intellectual titans.             
On the one side there are the two renowned professors, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. On the other, the towering international intellectual Noam Chomsky.
It’s all about whether the dog wags the tail or the tail wags the dog.

Six years ago the two professors shocked the US (and Israel) when they published a book, “The Israel lobby and US Foreign Policy”, in which they asserted that the foreign policy of the United States of America, at least in the Middle East, is practically controlled by the State of Israel.
To paraphrase their analysis, Washington DC is in effect an Israeli colony. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives are Israeli occupied territories, much like Ramallah and Nablus.
This is diametrically opposed to the assertion of Noam Chomsky that Israel is a US pawn, used by American imperialism as an instrument to promote its interests.
I commented at the time that both sides were right, and that this is a unique dog-tail relationship. I even quoted the old Jewish joke about the rabbi who tells a plaintiff that he is right, and then says the same to the defendant. “But they can’t both be right!” remonstrates his wife. “You are right, too!” he answers."

Comecei o blog de hoje com palavras do jornalista israelense Uri Avnery porque o ano de 2013 terminou mal, mais uma vez, para a Palestina. E ninguém melhor do que Uri para pôr os pingos nos iis sem correr o risco de ser tachado de anti-semita.
O que segue é reflexão minha. Da qual estão isentas pessoas como Uri Avnery e milhares de israelenses que discordam da política expansionista dos sucessivos governos ultra-sionistas. Que fique claro.
Quando Ariel Sharon dava as cartas, dizia-se que era ele (ou esperava-se que fosse ele) o Mal encarnado e que sem ele os israelenses parariam a expansão territorial, cairiam na real, deixariam a exterminação étnica dos palestinos de lado e viveriam em seu próprio Estado deixando os nativos em paz.
Talvez esta demonização de um indivíduo, no caso o general Ariel Sharon, fosse cômoda, inclusive para mim (embora continue achando que ele era um ser abominável), por causa da rejeição natural das pessoas civilizadas à cumplicidade coletiva de atos bárbaros.
Na Alemanha nazista, na Itália fascista, era melhor pôr toda a culpa em Hitler e Mussolini sem pensar que para que eles existissem era preciso que a maioria absoluta de seus concidadãos apoiassem seus atos com ações ou com mutismo. Por ideologia, comodismo, covardia ou indiferença alienada.
O Mal de então acabou sendo derrotado, os executores dos planos diabólicos foi julgada, condenada, punida pelos vencedores, assim como os colaboradores também, por suas próprias consciências culpadas (para os que tinham alguma) e a grande maioria calada pelos ditadores foi perdoada, passou-se a borracha, e a Europa reconciliou-se até formar a União atual.
Os alemães se redimiriam com mea culpa e educação anti-nazista de base que não permitisse o esquecimento e impedisse a repetição dos fatos, e foram perdoados. 

Em 1945, ao descobrir-se os horrores dos campos de concentração, as abomináveis estrelas que os sobreviventes carregavam no peito da cor correspondente ao "crime" intrínseco do qual eram acusados: comunistas, deficientes mentais e físicos, homossexuais, judeus, e outras coisas mais - os ciganos eram tão desprezados que eram executados na hora para não darem trabalho de ser transportados - a palavra de ordem que saiu da boca dos aliados indignados foi: Nunca mais!
Nunca mais?
Acabou a II Guerra Mundial, o Mal mudou de cara, disfarçou-se em procedimento securitário, as vítimas viraram verdugos, e a História repetiu-se alhures.

O sonho ariano foi substituído pelo sonho sionista, as estrelas foram trocadas por carteiras de identidade que tolhem a liberdade dos ocupados, os campos de concentração tomaram forma de cidades com casas cercadas de muros e arame farpado à moda recém-passada, mas aprimorados com tecnologia contemporânea, e a Besta imunda foi crescendo, engordando, se fartando, se esbaldando e os que tinham dito Nunca mais! em vez de encará-la chocados, viram nela o que não era, a imagem de David. Não o David do Antigo Testamento que trai o amigo para ficar com a mulher dele, que mata o palestino Golias de maneira traíra, e sim o renascentista valente e valoroso que o grande Michelangelo esculpiu em mármore.
E talvez por isso - se não tiver sido por causa do vil metal de lobbies malígnos - ficaram pasmos admirando a Besta hedionda como se estivessem hipnotisados.
Os anos se sucederam, quase seis décadas passaram e a Besta virou uma potência destemida que desafia até o padrinho que sempre o cobriu de cuidados e presentes.
E de repente, o protetor ingênuo cai das nuvens e descobre "surpreso" que o Mal não estava alojado apensas em Ariel Sharon. O Mal se aloja em Ehud Barak, em Binyamin Netanyahu, em qualquer que seja o dirigente eleito democraticamente. A conclusão óbvia é que o Mal se aloja na maioria dos israelenses, já que eles próprios se vangloriam de sua democracia e da liberdade da qual beneficiam.
Não que os israelenses sejam majoritariamente maus. De jeito nenhum. E sim por causa da educação Shabak que já descrevi neste blog em dezembro de 2010 no prólogo de nossa História de Israel vs Palestina.

Uri Avnery acha que o mal está só nos dirigentes e diz: "The greatest danger to Israel is not the putative Iranian nuclear bomb. The greatest danger is the stupidity of our leaders.              
This is not a uniquely Israeli phenomenon. A great many of the world’s leaders are plain stupid, and always have been. Enough to look at what happened in Europe in July 1914, when an incredible accumulation of stupid politicians and incompetent generals plunged humanity into World War I.

But lately, Binyamin Netanyahu and almost the entire Israeli political establishment have achieved a new record in foolishness...
...We need a change of leadership, like the one Iran has begun to embark on. Unfortunately, all Israeli politicians, left and right, have joined the March of Fools. Not a single establishment voice has been raised against it. The new Labor Party leader, Yitzhak Herzog, is part of it as much as Ya’ir Lapid and Tzipi Livni.
As they say in Yiddish: The fools would have been amusing, if they had not been our fools."

Eu acho que toda população tem o dirigente que merece. Tanto em regime autoritário quanto democrático, pois no fundo, é o que a maioria prefere.
As razões que engrossam o Mal nas veias dos israelenses são tão variadas quanto as origens sociais de seus recipientes.
Uns praticam ou ignoram os efeitos tenebrosos do Mal por ideologia, outros por pragmatismo irresponsável, outros por serem venais, outros por simples maudade, e muitos por realmente considerar-se acima do bem e do mal, superiores aos demais e intocáveis. Talvez por causa da "má-educação" recebida na escola, na sociedade e em casa.

Aliás, eu duvido da possibilidade de imparcialidade da maioria absoluta dos judeus, qualquer que seja o país de sua nacionalidade, quando se trata do assunto Israel. Justamente por causa da lavagem cerebral que sofre desde a infância com a vitimização doentia na qual é criado na família e em sua comunidade fechada, e, no caso específico de Israel, porque os dirigentes e os lobbies israelenses conseguem convencer até cristãos mal informados que a base do conflito é religião. Ou seja, judeus contra muçulmanos. Não, o conflito não é de religião. E se fosse, ter-se-ia de incluir na parte palestina, os cristãos.
Uri Avnery exprimiu-se sobre a questão sensível da neutralidade. Extratos seguem abaixo.
"A former Israeli army Chief of Staff, a man of limited intelligence, was told that a certain individual was an atheist. “Yes,” he asked, “but a Jewish atheist or a Christian atheist?”
Lenin, in his Swiss exile, once inquired about the party affiliation of a newly elected member of the Duma. “Oh, he is just a fool!” his assistant asserted. Lenin answered impatiently: “A fool in favor of whom?”
I am tempted to pose a similar question about people touted to be neutral in our conflict: “Neutral in favor of whom?”
The question came to my mind when I saw an Israeli documentary about the US intermediaries who have tried over the last 40 years or so to broker peace between the Palestinians and us.
For some reason, most of them were Jews.
I am sure that all of them were loyal American citizens, who would have been sincerely offended by any suggestion that they served a foreign country, such as Israel. They honestly felt themselves to be neutral in our conflict.
But were they neutral? Are they? Can they be?
My answer is: No, they couldn’t.
Not because they were dishonest. Not because they consciously served one side. Certainly not. Perish the thought!
But for a much deeper reason. They were brought up on the narrative of one side. From childhood on, they have internalized the history and the terminology of one side (ours). They couldn’t even imagine that the other side has a different narrative, with a different terminology.
This does not prevent them from being neutral. Neutral for one side.
By the way, in this respect there is no great difference between American Jews and other Americans. They have generally been brought up on the same history and ideology, based on the Hebrew Bible.
Let us take the latest example. John Kerry is carrying with him a draft plan for the solution of the conflict.
It was prepared meticulously by a staff of experts. And what a staff! One hundred and sixty dedicated individuals!
I won’t ask how many of them are fellow Jews. The very question smacks of anti-Semitism. Jewish Americans are like any other Americans. Loyal to their country. Neutral in our conflict.
Neutral for whom?
Well, let’s look at the plan. Among many other provisions, it foresees the stationing of Israeli troops in the Palestinian Jordan valley. A temporary measure. Only for ten years. After that, Israel will decide whether its security needs have been met. If the answer is negative, the troops will remain for as long as necessary – by Israeli judgment.
For neutral Americans, this sounds quite reasonable. There will be a free and sovereign Palestinian state. The Jordan valley will be part of this state. If the Palestinians achieve their long-longed-for independence, why should they care about such a bagatelle? If they are not considering military action against Israel, why would they mind?
Logical if you are an Israeli. Or an American. Not if you are a Palestinian.
Because for a Palestinian, the Jordan valley constitutes 20% of their putative state, which altogether consists of 22% of the territory they consider their historical homeland. And because they believe, based on experience, that there is very little chance that Israelis will ever willingly withdraw from a piece of land if they can help it. And because the continued military control of the valley would allow the Israelis to cut the State of Palestine off from any contact with the Arab world, indeed from the world at large.
And, well, there is such a thing as national pride and sovereignty.
Imagine Mexican – or even Canadian - troops stationed on 20% of the territory of the USA. Or French troops in control of 20% of Germany. Or Russian troops in 20% of Poland. Or Serbian troops in Kosovo?
Impossible, you say. So why do American experts take it for granted that Palestinians are different? That they wouldn’t mind?
Because they have a certain conception of Israelis and Palestinians.
The same lack of understanding of the other side is, of course, prevalent in the relations between the two sides themselves.
On the last day of anno 2013, Israel had to release 26 Palestinian prisoners, who had been held since before the 1993 Oslo Accord. This was part of the preliminary agreement achieved by John Kerry for starting the current negotiations.
Every time this happens, there is an outcry in Israel and rejoicing in Palestine. Nothing exemplifies the mental gap between the two peoples more clearly than these contrasting reactions.
For Israelis, these prisoners are vile murderers, despicable terrorists with “blood on their hands”. For Palestinians, they are national heroes, soldiers of the sacred Palestinian cause, who have sacrificed more than 20 years of their young lives for the freedom of their people.
For days, all Israeli networks have reported several times a day on demonstrations of bereaved Israeli mothers, clutching in their hands large photos of their sons and daughters, crying out in anguish against the release of their murderers. And immediately after, scenes in Ramallah and Nablus of the mothers of the prisoners, clutching the portraits of their loved ones, dancing and singing in anticipation of their arrival.
Many Israelis were cringing at this sight. But the editors and anchormen would be astonished if they were told that they were inciting the people against the prisoner release, and – indirectly – against the peace negotiations. Why? How? Just honest reporting!
This revulsion at the other side’s rejoicing seems to be an ancient reaction. The Bible tells us that after King Saul was killed in the war against the Philistines, King David lamented: “Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon (both Philistine towns); lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.” (II Samuel. 1:20)
...The prisoners themselves, when interviewed by Israeli TV immediately after their release, argued in excellent Hebrew (learned in prison) that the main thing was to achieve peace. When asked, one of them said: “Is there a single Israeli, from Netanyahu down, who hasn’t killed Arabs?”
This gap of perceptions is, to my mind, the largest obstacle to peace.
...John Kerry does not need 160 or 1600 experts, neutral or otherwise. He needs one good psychologist. Or maybe two...
Only if the American intermediaries, neutral or otherwise, understand both can they contribute to furthering peace."

Dito isso, apesar do Bem afluir cá e acolá em vários indivíduos como Uri Avnery, no Oriente Médio, o Mal de Estado tem o nome de Israel.
Estado auto-proclamado que nem é árabe, "preguiçoso", "desarrumado", "atrasado", e o regime dele sempre foi orgulhosamente democrático.
Nele o Mal impera, prospera, se expande de maneira desvairada e seu governo nem se dá mais ao trabalho de esconder sua vileza atrás de enredos e promessas esfarrapadas.
O afilhado mimado chegou a tal ponto de escárnio que terminou o ano dando um tapa na cara do padrinho de quem recebe benefícios inesgotáveis.
E olha que os Estados Unidos pediam pouquíssimo. Como nos Acordos de Oslo patrocinado por Bill Clinton, Barack Obama só pedia um faz de conta para fechar os mandatos com aparência digna. John Kerry diminuiu, diminuiu, diminuiu suas expectativas de justiça até sugerir aos palestinos que esperassem mais uma década de negociações infrutíferas para eventualmente terem um Estado - como se Oslo já não tivesse previsto o mesmo enredo fictício e só os ter despojado.
Como se daqui a dez anos em vez de invadir toda a Cisjordânia como os ex-primeiros ministros fizeram e Binyamin Netanyahu está fazendo a toque de caixa, os gananciosos sionistas estivessem dispostos a recuar e ficar de seu lado da Linha Verde em prol de uma paz que não é seu objetivo, pois estão nadando de braçada na situação atual, sem nenhum ônus, com todos os privilégios.

Neste tópico, eis o que pensa Uri Avnery.

"So here comes John Kerry again, for the umpteenth time (but who is counting?) to make peace between us and the Palestinians.                
It is a highly laudable effort. Unfortunately, it is based on a false premise. To wit: that the Israeli government wants peace based on the two-state solution.
Unwilling – or unable – to recognize this simple truth, Kerry looks for a way around. He tries approaches from different directions, in the hope of convincing Binyamin Netanyahu.
So here he comes with a new idea: to start by solving Israel’s security problems and doing away with its worries.
Let’s not talk for now about the other “core problems”, he says. Let’s look at your concerns and see how to meet them.
This approach is based on the false premise – the offspring of the overall premise – that the “security concerns” cited by our government are genuine. Kerry is expressing the basic American belief that if reasonable people sit around a table and analyze a problem, they will find a solution.
So there is a plan. General John Allen, a former commander of the war in Afghanistan, puts it on the table and explains its merits. It addresses many worries. The main subject is the insistence of the Israeli army that whatever the borders of the future State of Palestine, Israel must continue for a long, long time to control the Jordan valley.
Since the Jordan valley constitutes about 20% of the West Bank, which together with the Gaza Strip constitutes altogether about 22% of the former country of Palestine, this is a non-starter.
For our government, that is its main value.
Today, the Jordan valley is practically Arab-free. From time to time the few remaining Palestinians are mistreated by the army, in order to convince them to go away.
There are several Jewish settlements along the valley, put there by the Labor Party when it was still in power. The inhabitants don’t employ labor from the neighboring Palestinian villages, but cheaper and more efficient workers from Thailand. The very hot climate – the entire valley lies below sea level – allows for the growing of tropical fruit.

The only remaining Palestinian township is Jericho, a green oasis, the lowest town on earth.
Assuming for a moment that the [american] general convinces Netanyahu that his security plan is wonderful and solves all our military problems, what difference would it make?
None whatsoever.
Instead, other “concerns” would come to the fore. There is an inexhaustible supply.
The same goes for the other story that fills Israel’s newspapers and TV programs these days: the expulsion of the Bedouins in the Negev.
The Bedouins have inhabited that Sinai-Negev desert since times immemorial. Ancient Egyptian stone paintings show their characteristic beards (the same beard I brought home from the 1948 war, after fighting in the Negev).
During the first years of Israel, entire Bedouin tribes were displaced and expelled. The pretexts sound eerily familiar: to forestall an Egyptian attack from the south.
The real reason was, of course, to get them off their land and replace them with Jewish settlers. US history buffs will be reminded of the treatment of the native Americans. The Army (our army) conducted several major operations, but the Bedouins are multiplying at a ferocious rate, and now they are back up to a quarter of a million.
Being Bedouins, they live dispersed with their goats over large areas. The government is trying (again) to get them out. The bureaucrats want to “Judaize” the Negev (while trying at the same time to “Judaize” the Galilee). But they are also inimical to the idea that such a relatively small number of people is occupying such large tracts of land, even barren land.
Planners in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv are drawing up all kinds of schemes to concentrate the Bedouins in townships, contrary to their traditional way of life. On paper, the plans look reasonable. In reality, they are designed to achieve the same as the plans for the Jordan valley: take land away from the Arabs and turn it over to Jewish settlers.
Call it Zionist, nationalist or racist, it is hardly an attitude conducive to peace. That should be the real concern of John Kerry and John Allen."

Netanyahu e seus cupinchas correram para oficilializar a ocupação ilícita como se John Kerry a tivesse autorizado nas entrelinhas de sua conciliação discursiva.
O ogro atual anunciou planos de expansão das invasões judias, chamadas colônias ou assentamentos para amenizar o crime de usurpação, e pior do que isso, a Comissão Legislativa Ministerial de Israel "aprovou" (como se tivesse poderes para tal) a anexação permanente do Vale do Jordão ao Estado de Israel.
Este foi o primeiro voto de desafio contra Barack Obama, embora o presidente dos Estados Unidos já tenha recebido várias bofetadas prévias. Mas como se diz na nossa terra, mulher de malandro gosta de apanhar e quanto mais apanha mais se arrasta diante de quem abusa dela.
Enquanto Obama coça a cabeça procurando uma saída honrosa, Abu Mazem veste cada vez mais amiúde a casaca de Muhammad Abbas e quase tira as calças renunciando às fronteiras de 1967.
Cadê o homem de Estado que foi à ONU e à UNESCO reivindicar os direitos naturais de seu povo?
E os sionistas se regozijam e gritam: Viva o Estado único de Israel e o apartheid legal!
Xô, Satanás!! replicam os humanistas.

Além de Uri Avnery e da Gush Shalom, há muitas ONGs pacifistas e humanitárias em Israel, que provam que embora seja uma minoria, há muitos israelenses boa gente. B'tselem, Breaking the Silence, etcétera, e o PCATI (Public Committee Against Torture in Israel).
Aliás, o ultimo relatório de 2013 da PCATI chamou a atenção da mídia internacional no dia 31 de dezembro, pois confirma revelações terríveis sobre o tratamento que os meninos palestinos recebem  quando são presos.
Eis abaixo extratos do mesmo:

31 December 2013                                                              Childhood is not a Privilege but a Right!

The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) Notes with increasing alarm and condemnation Israel's failure to protect Palestinian children from direct and indirect torture and ill treatment

Torture Destroys Childhood, Families, Society

With the Israeli Knesset's Public Petitions Committee (being held today) meeting on "Conditions of arrest and imprisonment of Palestinian youth in East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria (sic)" PCATI reminds Knesset Members and their constituents that torture and ill treatment are absolutely prohibited and that Israel's legislature must anchor this prohibition in its domestic law.

The Istanbul Protocol Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture Raises the following issues regarding torture and children which must be understood:

"Perpetrators [of torture] often attempt to justify their acts of torture and ill-treatment by the need to gather information…One of the central aims of torture is to reduce an individual to a position of extreme helplessness and distress … Thus, torture is a means of attacking an individual’s fundamental modes of psychological and social functioning. The torturer attempts to destroy a victim’s sense of being grounded in a family and society as a human being with dreams, hopes and aspirations for the future. In addition, torture can profoundly damage intimate relationships between spouses, parents, children, other family members and relationships between the victims and their communities (Para. 235)… Torture can impact a child directly or indirectly. The impact can be due to the child’s having been tortured or detained, the torture of parents or close family members or witnessing torture and violence. When individuals in a child’s environment are tortured, the torture will inevitably have an impact on the child, albeit indirect, because torture affects the entire family and community of torture victims… Adolescence is a turbulent developmental period. The effects of torture can vary widely. Torture experiences may cause profound personality changes in adolescents resulting in antisocial behaviour. Alternatively, the effects of torture on adolescents may be similar to those seen in younger children (Para. 310 &312)."

PCATI has received in its offices dozens of complaints of torture and ill treatment from children in the last 10 years. Currently PCATI is actively working on cases concerning children's complaints of torture and ill treatment at the hands of Israeli soldiers and interrogators.[This includes threats and acts of sexual violence]  PCATI is gravely concerned by reports from  NGOs such as Psychoactive, Military Court Watch, Breaking the Silence,  DCI Palestine, the Israeli Public Defenders office, B'Tselem and other organizations in civil society, of torture and ill treatment of children which included caging prisoners in iron cages (including children), abusive interrogations, detentions and arrests.

PCATI emphasizes that failure to allow the arrested child or minor to full enjoyment of his or her rights, including the failure to allow for an attorney or accompanying adult at the time of arrest and interrogation places the child in a state of helplessness, distress and increases the pressure being applied to the child by the security forces in order to achieve a confession or information during the interrogation.

PCATI applauds the recently announced efforts of (Defense of Children International) DCI-Palestine and Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) to initiate a "know your rights campaign".  PCATI similarly points out that the threshold in which an act of abuse would be considered torture in the situation of an adult must be lowered when it comes to children.  PCATI further emphasizes that children and adults have the right to rehabilitation and to have their complaints fully examined including by forensic experts as well as the right to be accompanied by a representative of their choosing when giving testimony to an Israeli investigator. PCATI continues to work to insure respect for these principles.

DCI-Palestine and LPHR Write:

"Israel is the only nation to automatically and systematically prosecute children in military courts that lack basic and fundamental fair trial guarantees. Around 500-700 Palestinian children, some as young as 12 years old, are arrested, detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military detention system each year. The majority of Palestinian child detainees are charged with throwing stones, and 74 percent experience physical violence during arrest, transfer or interrogation, according to evidence collected by Defence for Children International Palestine. No Israeli children come into contact with the military court system."

PCATI reiterates that the right to be free from torture and ill treatment is absolute and calls on the Public Petitions Committee to demand that the right to be free from torture be anchored in Israeli domestic law and that it include specific provisions for the protection of all children who come into contact with any arm of Israel's security forces.

We wish the public a 2014 of peace and full enjoyment of human rights for all.

For further Comment:

Adv. Shahrazad Odeh: 02-6429825

Concluo com uma nota otimista.
Em setembro de 2013 o cineasta britânico Ken Loach, a atriz Maxine Peake, o escritor Ahdaf Soueif, o cartunista Steve Bell, a estilista Bella Freud (bisneta de Sigmund) encabeçaram um manifesto em forma de carta aberta assinada por 120 políticos, cantores, escritores, intelectuais e artistas, publicada em jornais londonianos que dizia o seguinte:

We support the campaign by Action for Palestinian Children to ensure the rights of Palestinian children are upheld in accordance with international human rights treaties and international law.
We call on Israel to implement these recommendations:
1) An end to Israel's nighttime raids and shackling of Palestinian children;
2) Audio-visual recordings of all interrogations;
3) Parents given the right to be present during questioning and the child's right to access to a lawyer before their interrogation respected;
4) An end to the transfer of children to prisons inside Israel in breach of article 76 of the fourth Geneva convention;
5) An end to the use of solitary confinement.
We call on Israel to implement all recommendations made in the independent report Children in Military Custody.
A situação não mudou desde então, mas os manifestantes não entregam os pontos. Continuam ativando as consciências entorpecidas. Pois o  relatório do Defence for Children International, Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted: Children Held in Military Detention explicita os abusos, inclusive sexuais, de menores palestinos detidos e informa que nos últimos 11 anos, 7.500 meninos entre 12 e 17 anos foram presos e interrogados dentro do sistema carcerário israelense. 
Ou seja, uma média de 500-700 meninos por ano.
Ou seja, quase dois por dia.
Nós, cidadãos comuns, temos como fazer pressão exercendo nosso direito de boicote, reclamando dos comerciantes que vendem produtos das colônias judias ilegais na Cisjordânia e passando a informação pra frente.
Ativismo pacífico e eficiente.
Foi assim que a África do Sul ficou livre do apartheid. Com pressão da opinião pública internacional que manifestava contra o regime inclusive em estádios, como fazem os irlandeses e os australianos contra os atletas israelenses, que no fundo, são cúmplices passivos do sistema de ocupação e limpeza étnica que seu governo vem procedendo há quase setenta anos na Palestina.   
Ando ouvindo cada vez mais a teoria de Estado único de Israel que aglutina a Palestina. Discordo totalmente, pois um Estado único condena os nativos, palestinos, a serem eternos cidadãos de segunda classe. O que além de absurdo e cruel, é inviável a médio e longo prazo.
Esta israelização da Palestina pode ser conquistada subrepitciamente com a colonização judia bárbara e com armas altamente sofisticadas, porém, a médio prazo...
Os israelenses, assim como os judeus estrangeiros que os apoiam a 100 ou 50 por cento com a bênção das poderosas franquias evangélicas (!), têm de entender que o único jeito de garantir segurança e paz durável é com justiça; e esta só será efetiva com a autonomia e soberania total do povo israelense e do povo palestino em dois Estados, e quem quiser ficar em Estado alheio ter de submeter-se à lei local.
Sei que pedir respeito aos palestinos é pedir demais, pelo menos antes do Shabak mudar seus ensinamentos e tantos israelenses deixarem de ver os palestinos como animais, mas espero que 2014 traga bom senso, compreensão e lucidez ao povo israelense. Também um pouco da compaixão que o mundo inteiro sentiu pelos judeus vítimas do holocausto, não seria nada mal.   
Se não, nem com cumplicidade estadunidense a História perdoará o que Israel vem fazendo na Palestina sem vergonha, à vista do mundo inteiro que cruza os braços. 
O perdão é intrínseco ao cristianismo. Entretanto, para obtê-lo, há de se reconhecer o erro, desculpar-se, redimir-se, e corrigir o mal feito. 
Neutralidade não existe em casos como este.  

IDF e a tortura de menores palestinos de até 12 anos 

Reservistas da IDF, forças israelenses de ocupação,

Shovrim Shtika - Breaking the Silence 

"I think that… the reason I'm sitting here and talking to you, well, lots of things made me sit and talk to you. It's not one specific event, but I think the first case that really turned some warning on in my mind… It wasn't the first, but was relatively the first in my time as an officer, a commander, but now, while I sit here and think about it, I realize there were earlier instances that made me understand I'm doing things that are wrong. … We got to the edge of the village, there were two houses and we took out the people there and began to question them. No, I mean what happened was that I told my soldiers to cover and we asked the father and the adults there to go outside and they were interrogated. This was still legitimate, and we had a common language because the scouts spoke Arabic [scouts in the IDF are Bedouin]. and they really did question the people and it was carried out… It was relatively reasonable...

There were Border Patrol troops and the regional forces and our own unit and others. An extremely large show of armed soldiers in the middle of the village. Then the battalion commander arrives and says words that I'll never forget, I can quote him. I mean, I remember it with full certainty. He says, "Okay, guys, enter the houses so they'll understand. Make them understand." These were the two phrases uttered, this was the order. To my utter amazement, this was the order. Forces take off immediately, as if they know what… I don't know, to me this order sounded very bizarre. I mean, to do what? I find myself actually yelling, "Wait a minute! I don't really understand the order. What? To do what? Enter a house? Not enter a house? Take people out? Not take them out?" He tells me, "No, no, make them understand." He was very determined and angry, and said, "Make them understand." … There were forces that had already gone ahead, they didn't wait one moment. This didn't sound strange to them. I had half a Border Patrol force under my command, I mean I wasn't really their commanding officer but the battalion commander somehow told me,"You take charge of them", because of my experience or maturity or something. In fact I go out and say, "Okay, you take this part of the street and I'll take that row of buildings of this street". And then I began to realize what's happening as soon as I enter the home of the first family. I go in there and suddenly see myself there with a gang of thugs, when I say "thugs", I mean these are excellent, obedient soldiers standing behind me all wrapped up in bullet-proof vests and masses of mud on our feet. Incredible. The staircase is already full of mud, to say nothing of the carpets. I enter the apartment and begin to use mime so they'll understand. I mean, I want them to understand what's happened and I can't manage to communicate with them. I don't speak Arabic. No one spoke Arabic, no one understood Arabic. So I don't understand what they want. I sense their panic. I sense my own panic, because I have to be aggressive, and I am. I have to watch out for myself and I do. On the other hand, they are scared. And I think to myself, for heaven's sake, what am I doing? I don't explain, I'm not functioning properly, I don't know what to do, and I am very aggressive, I dirty up their place, and it's two o'clock in the morning. I decide to leave the family.

What made me function properly was the way I was trained - I had excellent training as a soldier - and the soldiers behind me. I was there with a group of twelve men. I mean, the forces were split up.

So how many soldiers were your subordinates?

Officially, fifteen men at the time.

How many were your subordinates but not from your own unit?

 And as I was going out, I saw Border Patrolmen banging at someone's door and yelling violently, terrible banging. With soldiers who… This was two o'clock at night, people don't just open their door straight away. It's not like you knock on a door and immediately someone's going to open it for you. After all, two a.m. So I run over to them, I leave my soldiers behind, telling them to cover me. I run over to those guys and say, "Wait a minute…" No, before I run over there, there is horrible banging on the door and yelling, "Come on, move it! Move it!" The door was not opened very fast. So a soldier was already running –without being ordered to, things I'm really not used to – and shattered a window... I say, "Hey, take it easy. Slow down. Let them open their door, let them… No one is firing at us." and he says, "No, no, no" and the havoc continues. The soldiers get people out of their houses in their underwear, and I am registering this… When I say a 'house", I don't mean a house where three people live. It's a building with three families and everyone's outside, and the soldiers are conducting searches. I yell, "Wait, explain to them. Let them know what happened, so they'll understand", and I realize no one is listening. Suddenly I look back and notice I still have these soldiers of mine to take care of... I was stunned. So were my soldiers. I saw them stunned. They were right across the street, they saw it all. I go back and explain to the soldiers, "Guys, we have a mission. We need to carry it out. Like the battalion commander defined it for me – to explain to the people. We'll go in and clear things up.", and I continue to enter house after house. All in all, we went over five houses, or buildings rather. Later when I asked, "How many buildings did you do?" there were people there who had managed five times four, so that was twenty buildings, and woke everyone up. Actually, the entire village woke up. And the other scene there was at the same time, we got to another house and I … there was a sequence of events there and I must retell them. That was the night that broke the camel's back... I go in and there's this old woman and I ask her, "Where is the man of the house?" No one understands anyone. Then I see some mattress covered with a blanket. The blanket is moving as if in some earthquake, and I… I don't know, maybe he's hiding in there. I ask my soldier, "Go quickly, see what's under that bed" and he tries to pull the blanket, and no, it's… finally he grabs that blanket. I realize… I counted eight on one double mattress, eight children held together in some… dying of fright. Looking at us as if the next moment I'm going to do I don't know what. Each hiding behind the other's back. Like little cubs hiding… One behind the other, the other exposed so he scurries over and they all move… And I say, God almighty...

Once more I go out. I come out of there in shock. I feel I lost this one. I'm defeated and the army is defeated. I mean, it's not I who lost. There's a whole village here that woke up at two o'clock in the morning. I think 90% of them didn't know why. I felt we did just the opposite here. All the looks I got were enough for me to understand that I did just the opposite. Regarding the Border Patrolmen, do you think that what you saw was… That's just the point...  I look at my mates, who are looking just as stunned as I am. So a soldier catches the two of us and says, "Guys, get used to it. This is how it is. That's it."

What soldier?

A commander. Some sergeant from the Army, not Border Patrol, the regional brigade. He says to me, "Guys, cheer up. That's how it is. Nothing you can do about it. That's how it's done. That's what needs to be done."

... It was one of the worst nights. … On our way (to the village) I was not with him, but a friend of mine was, and the battalion commander was very agitated. He suddenly stopped his jeep, caught a (Palestinian) transit van, told the driver, "Show me your IDs". The guy handed him the IDs. "What's this, why are you driving around at such an hour?" and all. He began to rip the whole upholstery inside the car. He trashed the vehicle, found nothing, let him go.

A lieutenant-colonel. A lieutenant-colonel in the Israeli army. A battalion commander, responsible for hundreds of soldiers."

Depoimento de um capitão reservista da IDF baseado em Ramallah