23 de Gener de 2009

Visió contrària per a educar els nostres polítics

Istvan Simon ha publicat a WAIS:

(...) the hypocrisy of the non-response to Russia wiping out 40,000 Chechens, versus the reaction to Israel killing 1,200 Gazans, 2/3 of whom are recognized to be Hamas militants even by the biased source of these statistics.

(...) point was also made by Haim Harari. In 2006 he wrote:

"Thousands of Iraqis are murdered by other Muslims and hundreds of thousands of Sudanese are slaughtered by Arabs in Darfur, but Europe is up in arms about one thousand dead Lebanese, half of whom are Hizbullah terrorists. It is not the dead people who matter to Europe. It is who killed them. If it is other Muslims, send it to page 10. If it is Israel, in self-defense, it is a front page 'war crime'."

The quote is from the introduction to Haim Harari's excellent book on terrorism in its Italian edition, entitled Dear Europe, and was written at the time of the Israel/Lebanon war two years ago. Haim Harari  addressed his remarks to Europe two years ago (...)

Here is another quote from the opening paragraphs of the same remarks by Haim Harari:

Dear Europe,

There is a tiny holy land in the Middle East, which has largely been the cradle of your moral values, ethics and religion, and which has always been in the eye of the storm. The darkest stains in your history, but also some of your greatest intellectual giants, relate to the people originating from this land. As a true friend, familiar with your continent and with your culture, please allow me to address you with a mélange of experience, passion and hope: Experience acquired by my family, which has lived in the "eye of the storm" since the days when Giuseppe Garibaldi was a child; passion of someone who believes that Western Civilization has much to offer to the world and that Israel has a lot to offer to its neighbors; hope of an eternal optimist, who knows that you and we will prevail, but prefers that it happens sooner, rather than later.

Dear Europe, when you are sick, a denial syndrome can be dangerous, even deadly. To ignore the symptoms of a serious illness, in spite of its rapid spread and progress, can kill anyone. Early detection and resolute treatment can save your life, as well as the lives of others who might be infected. In the name of Western Civilization: Do not wait any more. Open your eyes. Wake up!

Are you waiting until traveling by air can be done only in underwear and being tied to your seat, because of new sickening terrorist plots? Are the new habits of searching your luggage, removing your shoes, denying you hand luggage, forbidding fluids and waiting hours in security lines not enough? Are you waiting until fanatics will explode themselves simultaneously in the crowded check-in areas of ten different European airports, in the peak summer travel season, killing thousands of people? Are you waiting for the Iranian embassy to bring rockets in their diplomatic mail, hide them literally under the beds of some of your Muslim citizens and start shelling your cities from the backyards of predominantly Muslim neighborhoods, or from mosques, as they do in Gaza and in Lebanon? Are you waiting until you will have to enclose terrorist infested neighborhoods in your cities and countries by high separating walls? What more should happen before you wake up?

Harari's text in its entirety can be found on

http://www.zchor.org/israel/war.htm#roi