Israel

Espero que com o cessar fogo as pessoas não se esqueçam de que os palestinianos vão continuar a sofrer as brutalidades e as humilhações da extrema direita israelita. Se indiquei (num dos comentários abaixo) o texto de Sarah Roy é porque ele refere a parte mais importante desta história, a que os media nunca referem: os palestinianos foram desumanizados e equiparados a 'terrotistas'. Sarah Roy lembra-nos que não é justo falarmos deste conflito como se houvesse simetria entre o exército de ocupação e os ocupados. O texto é de 2002, mas aplica-se perfeitamente:

"Within the Jewish community it has always been considered a form of heresy to compare Israeli actions or policies with those of the Nazis, and certainly one must be very careful in doing so. But what does it mean when Israeli soldiers paint identification numbers on Palestinian arms; when young Palestinian men and boys of a certain age are told through Israeli loudspeakers to gather in the town square; when Israeli soldiers openly admit to shooting Palestinian children for sport; when some of the Palestinian dead must be buried in mass graves while the bodies of others are left in city streets and camp alleyways because the army will not allow proper burial; when certain Israeli officials and Jewish intellectuals publicly call for the destruction of Palestinian villages in retaliation for suicide bombings, or for the transfer of the Palestinian population out of the West Bank and Gaza; when 46 percent of the Israeli public favors such transfers and when transfer or expulsion becomes a legitimate part of popular discourse; when government officials speak of the "cleansing of the refugee camps "; and when a leading Israeli intellectual calls for hermetic separation between Israelis and Palestinians in the form of a Berlin Wall, caring not whether the Palestinians on the other side of the wall may starve to death as a result."