Independent: Israel, a Terrorist State Like No Other
By Foreign News Desk
Thursday, July 27, 2006
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British newspaper, The Independent, continuing its commentary on the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, published an article condemning the Tel Aviv administration.
In the article written by Dr. Oren Ben-Dor, who teaches the philosophy of law and political philosophy at the University of Southampton, he asks: “Who are the real terrorists in the Middle East?” to which he answers, “Israel.”
Dr. Ben-Dor defends that it is ‘the nature of the Israeli state’ that Israel is trying to protect by carrying out this military offensive; not its citizens as the Israeli administration claims.
Dr. Ben-Dor argues, “Israel's statehood is based on terrorism and 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,” he writes.
“In 1948, most of the non-Jewish indigenous people were ethnically cleansed from the part of Palestine which became Israel. […] Surely Holocaust memory and Jewish longing for Eretz Israel would not be sufficient to justify ethnic cleansing and ethnocracy,” he stresses.
The article highlights that Israel breeds the conditions of violence in an effort to preserve the impression of being a peace-seeking victim which has "no partner for peace," and that it continually carries out efforts to displace indigenous Palestinians; leaving them no option but to resort to violent resistance.
Ben-Dor wrote that the recent violence in the region reinforces the Israeli victim mentality and 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.”
The writer, calling on the international community to raise its voice against the continuing Israeli violence, ends the article with a warning: “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.”
Thursday, July 27, 2006
zaman.com
British newspaper, The Independent, continuing its commentary on the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, published an article condemning the Tel Aviv administration.
In the article written by Dr. Oren Ben-Dor, who teaches the philosophy of law and political philosophy at the University of Southampton, he asks: “Who are the real terrorists in the Middle East?” to which he answers, “Israel.”
Dr. Ben-Dor defends that it is ‘the nature of the Israeli state’ that Israel is trying to protect by carrying out this military offensive; not its citizens as the Israeli administration claims.
Dr. Ben-Dor argues, “Israel's statehood is based on terrorism and 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,” he writes.
“In 1948, most of the non-Jewish indigenous people were ethnically cleansed from the part of Palestine which became Israel. […] Surely Holocaust memory and Jewish longing for Eretz Israel would not be sufficient to justify ethnic cleansing and ethnocracy,” he stresses.
The article highlights that Israel breeds the conditions of violence in an effort to preserve the impression of being a peace-seeking victim which has "no partner for peace," and that it continually carries out efforts to displace indigenous Palestinians; leaving them no option but to resort to violent resistance.
Ben-Dor wrote that the recent violence in the region reinforces the Israeli victim mentality and 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.”
The writer, calling on the international community to raise its voice against the continuing Israeli violence, ends the article with a warning: “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.”
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 9:02 PM
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