Innlegg fra 2009 av Max Hastings.
Han er født 1945 og er en kjent britisk redaktør og historiker.
Hans nedenstående artikkel fra 2009 er basert på nært kjennskap til Israel.
Etterhvert er han blitt skeptisk:
"The paradox of Israel's pursuit of might"
"Forty years ago, I was enraptured by Israel's courageous sense of mission. For me today, as for many, that idealism has palled."
En grundig artikkel som inneholder skarp analyse.
Etter en gjennomgang av Israels hardhendte politikk overfor de okkuperte palestinerne gjennom tidene, avslutter han med:
"For someone like me, who enjoyed a love affair with Israel 40 years ago,
it is heart-breaking to see the story come to such a pass. It is
because so many of us so much want to see Israel prosper in security and
peace that we share a sense of tragedy that 61 years after the state
was born amid such lofty ideals, it should be led by such a man as Bibi
Netanyahu, committed to policies which can yield nothing honourable or
lasting."
Spesielt er han direkte mht til Netanyahu:
"I also became dismayed by the naked imperialism displayed by Israel's
rightwing zealots. One night at a dinner party in Jerusalem in 1977, I
heard a young Israeli talking about the Arabs in terms which chilled my
blood. "In the next war," he said, "we've got to get the Palestinians
out of the West Bank for good."
"By a curious quirk, that young Israeli whom I heard enthuse about
emptying the West Bank of Arabs was Binyamin Netanyahu, today his
country's prime minister."
Her er mye stoff til ettertanke om utviklingen i Israel.
Et forvarsel fra 2009, som er blitt tydeligere nå i 2023.
Skudeneshavn 8. november 2023
Jan Marton Jensen
På Twitter:
8. november 2023
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Kilde:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hastings
9. mai 2009
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/may/09/israel-middle-east-max-hastings
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