artykuł izraelskiego dziennikarza Uri Avnery'ego w Counterpunch (
"Hidden Agenda. Manifest Destiny and Israel").
Avnery pisze o grze pozorów uprawianej przez rząd Izraela re
negocjacje pokojowe z Palestyńczykami, i równoczesnej rozbudowie
izraelskiej infrastruktury na Terytoriach Okupowanych.
O kwestii granic mających dzielić w przyszłości oba państwa pisze,
co nastepuje:
<<WHAT IS the heart of peace? A border.
When two neighboring peoples make peace, they fix, first of all, the
border between them.
And that is precisely what the Israeli establishment opposes,
because it negates the basic ethos of the Zionist enterprise.
True, at different points in time the Zionist movement has drawn up
maps. [...]>>
<<But all these maps were only games. The real Zionist vision does
not recognize any maps. It is a vision of a state without borders -
a state that expands at all times according to its demographic,
military and political power. The Zionist strategy resembles the
waters of a river flowing to the sea. The river snakes through the
landscape, goes around obstacles, turns left and right, flowing
sometimes on the surface and sometimes underground, and on its way
takes in more springs. In the end it reaches its destination.
That is the real agenda, unchanging, hidden, conscious and
unconscious. It does not need decisions, formulations or maps,
because it is encoded in the genes of the movement. This explains,
among other things, the phenomenon described in the report of senior
prosecution lawyer Talia Sasson on the settlements: that all the
organs of the establishment, the government and the military,
without any official coordination but with miraculously effective
cooperation, acted to set up the "illegal" settlements. Every one of
the thousands of officials and officers who spent decades involved
in this enterprise knew exactly what to do, even without receiving
any instructions.
That is the reason for David Ben-Gurion's refusal to include in the
Declaration of Independence of the new State of Israel any mention
of borders.>>
Pod koniec artykułu oczywistość - dla wielu zdaje się "nie-oczywista
oczywistość":
<<Approaching the 60th anniversary of the state, we must draw a line
under this chapter of our history, exorcise the dybbuk and say
clearly: yes, we have ended the chapter of expansion and settlement.
This will enable us to change the course of the river. To put an end
to the occupation. To dismantle the settlements. To make peace. To
effect a reconciliation with the neighboring people. To turn Israel
into a peaceful, democratic, secular and liberal state, that can
devote all its resources to the creation of a flourishing, modern
society.
And first of all: to agree on a border.>>
www.counterpunch.org/avnery04152008.html
