Een opiniestuk door Gideon Levy , columnist voor de Israëlische krant Haaretz.: It is all about dehumanization. As long as Israelis dont perceive Palestinians as equal human beings, there will never be a real solution. Unfortunately, dehumanizing the Palestinians has become the best tool to strengthen the occupation, to ignore and deny its crimes and enable the Israelis to live in peace, without any moral dilemmas. If the Palestinians are not human beings, there is no question about human rights. This process climaxed in this war and this is the real basis for the moral blindness which has covered Israel. One of Israels greatest assets -- as well as the source of its greatest pride -- has been our liberal, democratic and free society. But what were doing to ourselves now is a greater threat to our existence than Hamas rockets could ever be. Israel likes to describe itself as the only democracy in the Middle East, but its really only a democracy for its Jewish citizens who are quick to fall in line with the mainstream every time Israeli tanks roll across the border. It may not have always been this way, but I fear that this new phenomenon is here to stay. There is no one to stop it. The Israeli media, commercial and free, is collaborating with it; the legal and legislative systems are stepping back, and so is the political system. We will carry the scars of this summer with us from now on. The people who were too afraid to speak out against Israeli aggression this time around wont be any more likely to stand up next time. Can you think of any worse news out of Israel?
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 00:53:17 +0000
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