{"id":501,"date":"2002-03-06T16:48:50","date_gmt":"2002-03-06T16:48:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2002-03-06T16:48:50","modified_gmt":"2002-03-06T16:48:50","slug":"there-is-no-generous-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.danpal.dk\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Generous Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nir Bir’am, Ma’ariv<\/div>\n

There Is No Generous Occupation<\/h3>\n

By Nir Bir’am A Leftist Israeli Writer Ma’ariv 5 August 2001<\/p>\n

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When Rene Des Cartes discovered himself as a speculative suspicious thinker he enthused, with certain logic, facts that doubted the existence of God. One such evidence is the principle of cause and outcome. Des Cartes thought a grand outcome would not result of a trivial cause and vise versa. Des Cartes is truthful yet wrong at the same time. Here is a contradicting example. The cause: Yehuda ‘Atzion + 12 weird men with a blonde woman = One. The outcome: Chaos, bullets, rocks and more. This is a significant incident where the outcome is grand compared to the trivial cause. Unfortunately, Des Cartes did not have the honor of knowing Yehuda ‘Atzion.<\/p>\n

We needed Des Cartes because of this new fashion, known as the Left, spreading in the Israeli context. This new fashion is based upon looking at things from a very narrow angle and persistently striving to get in the limelight.<\/p>\n

Question: How many cases of tormenting Palestinians do we remember during the last decade? Answer: Dozens plus hundreds that we were not aware of.<\/p>\n

The shock by their behavior was behind the blame directed at soldiers from Samson unit. Only the na\u00efve believe insults, punches and oppression are the norm under occupation. Why can’t the Palestinians travel on selected highways? Why do they stand in long queues at roadblocks? Simply, because the army must separate them from settlers!<\/p>\n

Only the good-natured prefer getting touched by a single incident projected by the media. But the Palestinians are discriminated against every day regardless of the current Intifada. Discrimination against the Palestinians began ever since Israelis settled there and will continue until they leave the settlements.<\/p>\n

Attackers commit suicide inside Israel and the army assassinates those wanted. Palestinians meet Israeli soldiers at roadblocks in a suffocating atmosphere for both. Another insult, a curse, more despair and another mourning. The killing of Arabs and Jews continues and hatred grows until it explodes. Things, simply, are just like that.<\/p>\n

There is no enlightening, generous or kind occupation. Occupation breeds many such cases. But we only care to be touched by selected incidents and then condemn soldiers and leaders, the Left and the Right together. These are not cruel words. It is an anticipated outcome of brutality in the first place.<\/p>\n

The Left does not seem shocked by settlers appropriating highways -Yes, before the current Intifada- nor by raids on homes in the night or by the prevailing anguish and poverty. The Left seem to be shocked only when the mask falls off the real face of occupation, when the illusion of enlightening occupation evaporates or when our wailing is heard from Gaza to Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

As long as the army’s goal is to protect settlers -which should be as long as they live in their settlements- there will be more strikes and more insults. The army is a Jewish one committed to discriminate, insult and strike the Palestinians in order to protect those Jews living amongst Palestinians on Palestinian land.<\/p>\n

Every thing is abusive, frustrating and painful for every Palestinian. It is meaningless to talk about one kind of pain. The situation will continue to be as such as long as our soldiers and settlers are suffocating them. Occupation has none but one face.<\/p>\n

We could simply be like the Right and reject the vision. But we cannot look at the occupation through a microscopic lens that only concentrates on a single point to the extent that the general picture -that of occupation as seen by the whole world- gets distorted or fades in the muse of Ron bin Yashai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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