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Skriven 2006-08-01 08:48:16 av BOB SAKOWSKI (1:123/140)
Ärende: Opinion
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Oren Ben-Dor: Who are the real terrorists in the Middle East?

What exactly is being defended? Is it the citizens of Israel 
or the nature of the Israeli state?  Published: 26 July 2006

As its citizens are being killed, Israel is, yet again, 
inflicting death and destruction on Lebanon. It tries to 
portray this horror as necessary for its self-defence. 
Indeed, the casual observer might regard the rocket 
attacks on Israeli cities such as Haifa and my own 
home town, Nahariya, as justifying this claim.

While states should defend their citizens, states which 
fail this duty should be questioned and, if necessary, 
reconfigured. Israel is a state which, instead of 
defending its citizens, puts all of them, Jews as 
well as non-Jews, in danger.

What exactly is being defended by the violence in Gaza 
and Lebanon? Is it the citizens of Israel or the nature 
of the Israeli state? I suggest the latter. Israel's 
statehood is based on an unjust ideology which causes 
indignity and suffering for those who are classified 
as non-Jewish by either a religious or ethnic test. 
To hide this primordial immorality, Israel fosters 
an image of victimhood. Provoking violence, consciously 
or unconsciously, against which one must defend oneself 
is a key feature of the victim-mentality. By perpetuating 
such a tragic cycle, Israel is a terrorist state like 
no other.

Many who wish to hide the immorality of the Israeli state 
do so by restricting attention to the horrors of the 
post-1967 occupation and talking about a two-state 
solution, since endorsing a Palestinian state implicitly 
endorses the ideology behind a Jewish one.

The very creation of Israel required an act of terror. 
In 1948, most of the non-Jewish indigenous people were 
ethnically cleansed from the part of Palestine which 
became Israel. This action was carefully planned. 
Without it, no state with a Jewish majority and character 
would have been possible. Since 1948, the "Israeli Arabs", 
those Palestinians who avoided expulsion, have suffered 
continuous discrimination. Indeed, many have been 
internally displaced, ostensibly for "security reasons", 
but really to acquire their lands for Jews.

Surely Holocaust memory and Jewish longing for Eretz Israel 
would not be sufficient to justify ethnic cleansing and 
ethnocracy? To avoid the destabilisation that would result 
from ethical inquiry, the Israeli state must hide the core 
problem, by nourishing a victim mentality among Israeli Jews.

To sustain that mentality and to preserve an impression of 
victimhood among outsiders, Israel must breed conditions 
for violence. Whenever prospects of violence against it 
subside, Israel must do its utmost to regenerate them: 
the myth that it is a peace-seeking victim which has 
"no partner for peace" is a key panel in the screen 
with which Israel hides its primordial and continuing 
immorality.

Israel's successful campaign to silence criticism of its 
initial and continuing dispossession of the indigenous 
Palestinians leaves the latter no option but to resort 
to violent resistance. In the wake of electing Hamas - 
the only party which, in the eyes of Palestinians, has 
not yet given up their cause - the Palestinian population 
of Gaza and the West Bank were subjected to an Israeli 
campaign of starvation, humiliation and violence.

The insincere "withdrawal" from Gaza, and the subsequent 
blockade, ensured a chronicle of violence which, so far, 
includes Palestinian firing of Kasem rockets, the capture 
of an Israeli soldier and the Israeli near re-occupation 
of Gaza. What we witness is more hatred, more violence from Palestinians,
more humiliation and collective punishments 
from Israelis - all useful reinforcement for the Israeli victim mentality
and for the sacred cow status of Israeli statehood.

The truth is that there never could have been a partition 
of Palestine by ethically acceptable means. Israel was 
created through terror and it needs terror to cover-up 
its core immorality. Whenever there is a glimmer of 
stability, the state orders a targeted assassination, 
such as that in Sidon which preceded the current Lebanon 
crisis, knowing well that this brings not security but more 
violence. Israel's unilateralism and the cycle of violence 
nourish one another.

Amidst the violence and despite the conventional discourse 
which hides the root of this violence, actuality calls 
upon us to think. The more we silence its voice, the more 
violently actuality is sure to speak.

In Hebrew, the word elem (a stunned silence resulting from 
oppression or shock) is etymologically linked to the word 
almut (violence). Silence about the immoral core of Israeli 
statehood makes us all complicit in breeding the terrorism 
that threatens a catastrophe which could tear the world apart.

okbendor@ yahoo.com

The writer teaches the philosophy of law and political philosophy at
University of Southampton
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