(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #250 - international:
Israel: The flight into apartheid (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
The victory of the Israeli right mask unanimism Zionists of all persuasions to bury any
hope for just and lasting peace. The only solution for qu'advienne true equality of rights
remains the abandonment of the perspective of a "Jewish state." ---- The latest polls had
raised hopes ungovernable Knesset, which would have been the least bad outcome for the
Palestinians. It has not happened. With 67 seats out of 120, the far-right coalition
headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has a free hand to govern. ---- The failure of Obama ----
Large beaten, it is the Labour allies Tzipi Livni (twenty four to forty seats with
potential allies). Do we have regrets? No. There is not a single crime against the
Palestinian people in which the nickname "Zionist Left" is not involved: the Nakba in
1948, colonization after 1967, the massacre of Cast Lead in Gaza or the Wall of apartheid.
The Labour leader Herzog has also campaigned by displaying on the walls: "With Netanyahu
and Bennet, you will live with the Arabs, we were guarantees separation. "
The Allied Labor Tzipi Livni is a former Mossad specialist targeted killings and ruled the
country at the time of the Cast Lead massacre (2008-2009, died 1400). The Palestinian
activist Ali Abunimah recalls that if the Herzog-tandem Livni had won, the Palestinians
would have been drawn into the pseudo-negotiations, as always, were the capitulation
requirements. With Netanyahu who said that "there will be no Palestinian state and no
withdrawals from the West Bank" and multiplies new construction in the settlements, there
will be no negotiations.
For Obama, who had been repeatedly humiliated by Netanyahu, that outcome is bad news. His
willingness to put pressure on the Zionist leadership without ever resorting to sanctions
has failed. Obama has given more than $ 3 billion in military aid to Israel in 2014,
allowing the attacker to renew its stock of ammunition. Finally, it has reinforced Israeli
voters in the idea that everything was permitted to them.
Netanyahu why he was able to rally the hesitant? Because the Israelis are afraid of not
being afraid. Yet there has been little question of Palestine during the election
campaign. What's the point? Colonization, settlement expansion and new construction appear
to be consensus. Why change of policy since the country not punished, do not suffer the
consequences?
The occupation has killed all political solutions: two states, it is impossible. The Green
Line (the internationally recognized border) no longer exists. A state where rights are
equal, that is impossible with Zionism.
So the Israelis who came more and more consciously in the institutional apartheid no
longer see how to change policy. They still hope that in time, the Palestinians become the
"Indians" of the Middle East, parked in their reserves or "transferred" beyond the Jordan.
They imagine that the colonial fait accompli will be legalized. Netanyahu managed to scare
a racist electorate, explaining that his opponents could not govern without the support of
the "Arabs".
Netanyahu has not only been the voice of the settlers and the extreme right. It has
rallied many of the voices of the Oriental Jews who are the first victims of its
ultraliberal politics. The proportion of Israeli Jews living under the poverty line rose
to 21%.
Eschewing the geopolitical developments
Netanyahu lived in the United States. It is linked to the Republican right. He sees Obama
as an anomaly and he acts as if eternally, Israel was to benefit the American umbrella and
be a Western aircraft carrier in the Middle East. But the world moves. Netanyahu has
always campaigned by demonizing Iran and advocating a "preventive war" that would ignite
the region and would forget the Palestinian issue.
Netanyahu posturing is all the more indecent when he accuses Iran of wanting to build the
atomic bomb that the countries in the region that has known many nuclear warheads, while
having energetically refused to sign any international treaty on this issue is Israel.
The rapprochement between Iran and the United States taking shape seems irreversible
because there is a common enemy (Daech). So the Netanyahu bet, which is to continue to
fold the US leadership becomes risky.
In the months leading up to the vote, Netanyahu was alarmed BDS (international campaign of
boycott, divestment and sanctions). This movement continues to achieve success. Thus, the
French company Poma had been approached for the construction of a cable car in Jerusalem,
was quickly withdrawn.
The accession of Palestine to the International Criminal Court announced perhaps lawsuits
against Israeli leaders. It is foolhardy in these conditions to oppose the American protector.
In the fragmentation of Palestine carried out by decades of occupation, violence and
apartheid, we often forget the Palestinians of Israel who represent over 20% of the
population and suffer, "legally", numerous discriminations in a state that defines itself
as "Jewish." Until then, they abstained or had heavily fragmented. The fascist Lieberman,
to remove them from the Knesset, had the idea to bring to 3.25% the threshold for MPs.
Hope: the common list
Suddenly, the Palestinian parties united (also with Hadash, far-left party bringing
together Jews and Palestinians). The common list they presented, also included three
Jewish candidates. With fourteen seats, she became the third force in the country. It has
reduced the withholding and allowed a Palestinian unity ever done before.
Among élu.es, activist Haneen Zoabi, present on the Mavi Marmara during the Gaza flotilla
in 2010 and subjected to threats and violence in parliament. The bad thing is the weakness
of the Jewish vote for this list. The break with Zionism is the key issue for a peace
based on equal rights.
Pierre Stambul (French Jewish Union for Peace and friend of AL)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Israel-La-fuite-en-avant-dans-l
