Merci pour votre intervention. Vous posez des questions fondées. Je tente d’y répondre en sachant que nous aurons l’occasion de développer un peu plus pour préciser les choses.
"Il conviendrait pour autant de ne pas perdre de vue le deuxième terme qui prévoit le droit pour Israel de vivre en paix, dans des frontières sûres et reconnues."
je suis de ceux qui se rappellent que le parlement palestinien a définitivement reconnu ce droit, du temps des accords d’Oslo.
Concernant la corruption du gouvernement palestinien il y a encore plus de choses à dire que ça. Il en va de même pour le peu de cas qui est fait en palestine de la démocratie. sans parler des jugements expéditifs, executions sommaires. Un excellent essai va sortir bientôt à ce sujet aux éditions américaine Harper et Collins.
il ne faut pas mettre pourtant la charrue avant les boeufs. Dans un contexte de résistance, de violation continuelle des traités signés (la croissance du nombre des colonies sous tous les gouvernements israeliens)de non application des résolutions Onusiennes, de destruction systématique des innstitutions étatiques (écoles, ministères, commissariats, prisons, etc), d’executions sommaires surnommées éliminations de terroristes, comment les palestiniens, à supposer qu’ils le veuillent je vous le concède, pourraient-ils mettre en place quoi que ce soit ?
De même j’ai lu récemment un article sur Haaretz où l’auteur expliquait qu’il préférait Netanayahou à Sharron. le premier étant un politique tout à fait capable de virer de bord pour assouvir ses aspirations politiques alors que le second est un idéologue doublé d’un boucher : "Because Netanyahu is an unprincipled politician, ready to change his
positions any time." "Sharon is very different : he has a rigid outlook, which he has not changed
for decades."
Pour ce qui est de l’antisémitisme en France, je vous renvoie à l’article paru à ce sujet dans le diplo, de même qu’au propos trés intelligents de Mr Theo Klein.
Vous avez tout à fait raison de ne déceler chez nous aucune forme d’antisémistisme larvé. il n’y en a pas. Nous ne faisons aucune concession aux fascismes. Qu’ils viennent du sionnisme ou d’ailleurs. et nous souscrivons à votre appel : HALTE AU MANICHEISME !
Cordialement
Analyse de la conjoncture électorale en Israël(Uri Avnery)
Uri Avnery (Gush-shalom)
30.11.02
Why Does the Leopard Hide his Spots ?
I loath Binyamin Netanyahu, and therefore I hoped that he would be elected
leader of the Likud. I am sorry that Sharon won the primary election
instead.
How’s that ? After all, Netanyahu presented himself as a man of the extreme
right and demanded to "expel" (the code-word for "kill") Yasser Arafat. He
is ready to fight to the last drop of (our) blood against the creation of a
Palestinian state. Unlike Sharon, who says that he is ready to accept a
Palestinian state and does not talk anymore about expelling Arafat.
So why did I prefer Netanyahu ?
Because Netanyahu is an unprincipled politician, ready to change his
positions any time. He reminds me of Groucho Marx, who once declared : "These
are my views. If you don’t like them, I have others, too." He could easily
exchange his rightist slogan for leftist ones.
Sharon is very different : he has a rigid outlook, which he has not changed
for decades. He resembles an IDF bulldozer in Jenin, destroying walls on his
way and demolishing houses on top of their inhabitants. His aim in life is
to destroy the Palestinian entity and imprison the Palestinians in isolated
enclaves, until the time is ripe for their expulsion from the country
altogether. Nowadays he hides his unwavering attachment to this plan behind
the mask of a benevolent, moderate grandfather, who has settled down and
wants nothing more than to crown his career by making peace.
I prefer at the head of the Likud an unprincipled politician to a disguised
true believer. He would have been easier for Mitzna to defeat.
In the competition for the Likud leadership, Netanyahu was a sheep in wolf’s
clothing, while Sharon was a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The Likud members
preferred the clothing of the sheep to that of the wolf. And that is
significant.
Netanyahu did not understand that the mood of the Likud members has changed.
He made a big mistake - one of many - when he decided, in the middle of the
campaign, to adopt ultra- right positions, demanding Arafat’s expulsion and
coming out against a Palestinian state. It appears that most of the Likud
members do not believe anymore that that is practical - a conclusion
confirmed the next day by a public opinion poll that showed that half of the
Likud members accept a Palestinian state and agree to evacuate settlements.
Sharon, on the other hand, knows how to read maps. He pretends to accept a
Palestinian state and to make "concessions that hurt". This, of course, is a
mere make-believe. He made his acceptance of the Palestinian state dependent
on so many impossible "ifs" that it has been emptied of any content. Sharon
remains the same Sharon and will never be anything but the same Sharon. The
leopard will not change his spots*, but he understands that he has to hide
them. To the trusting public he presented himself as a moderate, as against
the extreme Netanyahu. And, wonder of wonders, the Likud, the party of the
extreme right, preferred the candidate posing as a moderate to the candidate
posing as an extremist.
This is not the only miracle : a few days before, something very similar
happened in the Labor party, when Binjamin Ben-Eliezer was trounced by Amram
Mitzna.
There is some similarity between the two Binyamins : Ben-Eliezer, like
Netanyahu, is a man without principles, who is ready to change his views
like socks. Mitzna, on the other side, is a man of clear principles.
Mitzna is a declared dove. As against the right-wing line of Ben-Eliezer, he
presents to the voters a clear, left-wing alternative : negotiations with
Arafat, evacuation of most settlements, immediate withdrawal from the whole
Gaza strip, compromise over Jerusalem, a Palestinian state. Yet by an
overwhelming majority, the Labor party voters chose him over Ben-Eliezer.
Let there be no mistake : Mitzna is not a Gush Shalom member. Some of his
slogans are anathema to me. But he is firmly located on the left of the
political arena. If one does not grasp the significance of his election as
Labor leader, one does not understand what’s happening under the surface of
Israeli society.
One miracle can be accidental. Two testify to a tendency. If in both the big
parties - Likud and Labor - the candidates with the more "leftist" program
defeats the candidates with a more "rightist" one, it proves that new public
currents are at work.
One may add the happenings in the National Religious party. Once upon a
time, this was a very moderate party. In the 50s, when the moderate Moshe
Sharett was struggling against the extremist line of David Ben-Gurion, it
generally supported Sharett. Since then it has - like almost the whole
religious camp - moved steadily to the extreme right. A year ago it crowned
as its leader Effi Eytam, compared to whom Haider and Le Pen look like
bleeding-heart liberals. Yet lo and behold : this week, when choosing its
candidates for the Knesset elections, it turned against its new leader and
filled the most coveted spots on the list with people who are
(comparatively) more moderate.
If one puts all these facts together, what do they say ? They say that the
whole system is slowly moving to the left. The public is fed up with the
war, the unceasing bloodshed, the economic crisis and the social breakdown.
People want a solution. They are looking for compromise. They are ready to
pay for it.
This gives Mitzna a chance. It will be very difficult for him to win, but it
is definitely possible. And even if he does not succeed this time, he can do
it the next time, which may be in a year or so. Provided, of course, he does
not fall into the trap of a National Unity government.
Something is changing in the country. People are speaking again about things
which had seemingly died : the Green Line, evacuation of (most) settlements,
exchange of territory, speaking with Arafat, the Taba and Clinton plans,
international monitors.
Ahead of us the tunnel is still dark. But after two years of anguish and
despair, it seems that at least a small light has appeared at the end of the
tunnel.
To quote Winston Churchill once more : "This is not the end. It is not even
the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
* Jeremia, 13, 23.
Gush Shalom