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05. May 2006

'The country that wouldn't grow up'

 
Israel
Den amerikanske akademiker Tony Judt mener, at Seksdageskrigen i 1967 og den påfølgende erobring af bl.a. Vestbredden og Gaza var Israels egen nakba, palæstinensernes ord for den katastrofe i form af etnisk udrensning og massakrer, der banede vejen for skabelsen af staten Israel - i det israelske tilfælde en moralsk og politisk katastrofe, der lægger gift ud for enhver legitimitet eller moralsk ret, Israel tidligere kunne gøre krav på.

Således skrev han 2. maj i den israelske avis Ha'aretz:
Dead Israelis - like the occasional assassinated white South African in the apartheid era, or British colonists hacked to death by native insurgents - are typically perceived abroad not as the victims of terrorism but as the collateral damage of their own government's mistaken policies.

Such comparisons are lethal to Israel's moral credibility. They strike at what was once its strongest suit: the claim of being a vulnerable island of democracy and decency in a sea of authoritarianism and cruelty; an oasis of rights and freedoms surrounded by a desert of repression. But democrats don't fence into Bantustans helpless people whose land they have conquered, and free men don't ignore international law and steal other men's homes.
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