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To pp37, 2002_04_28 - 2003_06_25

Adora Terror Attack

Why thus? Why these?
In general I'm mad at Israel's settlement policy,
and I'm mad at the settlers: "they deserve it".

But the 300 people that live at Adora, about fifty families,
seem to be far from fundamentalist right-wing ideology.

The families of the dead were new immigrants
who either were too naive to understand,
what place to live in was proposed to them
or wanted to find a place to work the land.

And the warriors?
After they celebrated their victory over the refugee camp in Jenin,
("Victory": for about 10 days there haven't been any terror attacks),
Palestinians dressed as soldiers
- the image of Israel's so-called security -
just cut through the fence,
though it was probably threefold and heavily barbed
as all the fences around the settlements in occupied country
and even around most of the non-urban communities inside Israel.

All the heavy security and police forces
in front of every bank, restaurant and supermarket,
every cinema, government office or municipality,
every central busstation and every kindergarden,
and even the Democratic School of my grandchildren

could not prevent the murder of a little girl.

What shall we, the clever survivors, do now?
Put a policeman in front of every bedroom?
And what if the policeman will be shot, like in Erfurt?

I remember the first major terror attack after the 1967 war,
on the campus of the Hebrew university in Jerusalem.
It was then that they started to install watchmen at such public places.
I thought: "What a success!"
A handful of Palestinian fighters are able
to sow fear and terror in the hearts of so many people,
who cannot enter the university freely anymore as I could do in 1960/61.

In the bus from Modi'in to the Salt Sea early in the morning:
the checkpoint at the entrance to Jerusalem from North-West

It's true: We've come here not as colonialist or conquerors.
A nano percentage from among the few million Jews dispersed over the earth
made up their mind to stop victimization and victimhood,
to not wait any longer for the Messiah to save them,
or for the world's nations to let them belong to them,
but to become master of their destiny.

Until 1948 land was bought legally and the soil was tilled
by people who for centuries had been forbidden to own land.

For 3 years I was teaching - and thus learning - the history of Zionism.

I was and still am astounded at the miracles those people performed:
How they transformed from pale city employees or employers
into robust, wholly committed tillers of the land,
and how they taught their children Biblical Hebrew,
a dead language they surely hadn't been brought up in.

I saw them - though mostly unconsciously - applying,
what the Bible and ancient Jewish thought had been teaching me:
that we are responsible for what happens to us.
They gave me the last boost to step into the arena myself.
How could I teach and not do what they taught me?

We, the Jews from Exile, and the indigenous "Arab" people here,
have even the same ancestry:
at least part of the "Arabs", now called Palestinians,
descended from those Jews
who had been living in the Byzanthine province Palestine
until the Arab occupation in the 7th century,
which either made them leave or made them assimilate to Islam.

But the "Arabs" who had gone on living in the Land of Israel,
felt that we were just these,
colonialists and conquerors.
Out of their own Cain-pain.
By viewing us as superior,
they created their own reflection,
and instead of healing their feeling of inferiority,
they fought their reflection.

But we fell into their trap, collaborated by fighting back,
forgetting that the popular wisdom -
"Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stark"
"What doesn't break me, makes me stronger" -
applies not only to us, but also to them.

We created thus the reflection of our own non-wholeness,
our terror of not having a secure place to live on this planet,
scars of having been humiliated and outcast for milleniums
and hidden guilt, that by finally taking care of ourselves,
we might have no choice but squashing someone else.

Instead of taking care of the consequences of our justified actions,
we have not only been pounding our chests,
"I have a right to live, I have a right to live",
but drunken with victory and power,
we continued to occupy a territory not needed for our survival.
We learnt to dominate, humiliate and murder conquered people.
We keep provoking them by building ever new settlements,
while reiterating, "every nation has a right to defend itself".

Had Gadia

 

 

26 years ago, 1975_05_29, I saw a documentary
about the Peace Conference in Lausanne in 1949
in what was then the only TV channel of Israel.
I immediately wrote down the info contained in it:

After the successful armistice talks in Rhodos, it was hoped
that the peace conference in Lausanne would bring about complete peace.
The Israeli delegation, Eliahu Sason, Yehoshua Palmon, Gershon Avner and Walter Eitan
got no guidelines from home.
The Primeminister of the new State, Ben-Gurion, just told them:
"Hear, what the Arabs have to say, send us telegrams and we'll tell you what to do."
Telegrams were sent but never answered.

There were 7 delegations of refugees, 4 as part of the 4 Arab nations and 3 independent.
Of the latter the most important was from the Ramallah conference.
(Ramallah was still not annected to Jordan then)
Their spokesman Aziz Shehadeh said:
"We lost hope, we didn't want any longer that others would determine what is good for us."
They sent representatives from all refugee camps to the conference.
But "never were we recognized as an official delegation."

Even the reconciliation committee in Lausanne gave them only partial recognition,
"therefore neither did we need to recognize them", said Palmon in the TV documentary,
"for if we had reconciled with them
it would have been a reconciliation not in frame."

"We were lacking in courage.
We were afraid that they wouldn't receive us into the United Nations.
Or: "What will the Americans, or the French say?" (Palmon)

This is in line with what the Aaron Cohen, the Israeli historian of the Jewish-Arab conflict tells
(the quotes in Hebrew are in my archive. p. 468-72 in Cohen's book, the title of which I didn't note here)

The lawyer Muhammed Nimr El-Hawaari told that Eliahu Sason said to them:
"Who are you and what is your value?
What is your weight and your influence?
Did you forget that you talk with the young State of Israel?
Do you ignore, that we came here to talk with recognized states?
For Israel, like any other State, does not talk with individuals or institutions,
unless it's in her interest!
What interest could Israel possibly have in talking with the refugees and their representatives?"

Despite their disappointment they asked for an official meeting with the delegation
and this took place with three persons present from each side.
At the meeting the spokesman of the Arabs said:

"Now is the chance for you to get to an understanding with us.
In the past you called us to sit with you ...
there were moderate people among us,
but they couldn't stand up to the extremists...
today the number of the moderate has grown...
do justice to yourself and to us and put an end to all resistence and extremism,
you'll encourage the elements of peace and understanding
and will help to multiply them and to strengthen their status.
And if not -
if you distance yourself from this moderate layer,
then from sheer survival instinct it will become the spearhead of the extremists...

"You want ... to build your state
and to turn to your settlement policy,
so you can stand as a state of importance among the nations.

"The stumbling block on your way are the refugees ...
they will wait for opportunities to fall over you and attack you,
to undermine your security
they will infiltrate, be expelled, will return, will murder and will murder ..

"Imagine the danger on the borders of your state ...
and your enemies will play with them and will find in them fertile ground ...
If the refugees will stay outside
they will be the greatest motive for the awakening of the Arabs,
a motivation full of threat and revenge.
This will strike all nations, but mainly us and you."

What can I say but cynically: "I rest my case?"

 

I now found an article on the Internet, which supports this reminiscenses.
I'll quote part of it, without comment on my part.

1949 Lausanne Conference Seals Fate of Palestine

"The United States "favors
incorporation of greater part of Arab Palestine in Transjordan.
The remainder might be divided
among other Arab states as seems desirable."
In other words, the United States
did not support self-determination for the Palestinians
or an independent Palestinian state.
In Washington's view,
the Palestinians were not a separate people
deserving the Wilsonian right to determine their own fate.

"The most immediate problem ... was the desperate situation of the refugees.
Israel was totally unyielding on the issue,
yet the refugees urgently needed food and housing simply to survive another day.
Hundreds were dying daily.
It was clear that unless their long-term plight was alleviated
they would be an unrelenting source of instability,
not to say a humanitarian disgrace.
But Israel refused to admit
that it had any responsibility for the refugees
and refused to allow them to return to their homes
or to compensate them.

"As early as March 28, 1949, Ethridge [the U.S. delegate] reported to the State Department
that "Failure of Jews to do so [settle the refugee problem]
has prejudiced the whole cause of peaceful settlement in this part of world."

"On April 11 he wrote a personal letter to his friend Truman:

The Arabs have made what the Commission considers very great concessions;
the Jews have made none so far.'

"By late April, Israel's stands on the issues at Lausanne had become so inflexible
that its rigid position became the subject of news stories.
An April 28 report in The New York Times said:

"As the Lausanne talks move slowly through their preliminary stages
it seems to some observers

The observers reason as follows:
Israel is occupying territory, notably western Galilee,
that has been repeatedly assigned to the Arabs in various partition plans.
Israel is acting as if Jerusalem were to be incorporated fully into the new state.
Israel is encouraging further immigration of Jewish settlers
while rejecting responsibility
for the re-establishment of 600,000 to 1,000,000 Palestine Arabs
displaced from their former homes."