Norman Finkelstein Norman Finkelstein, es un judío que defiende la causa palestina. Sus padres, ambos, estuvieron en campos de concentración nazi durante la segunda guerra mundial. Norman no tuvo una formación religiosa judía; sus padres se volvieron ateos después de la guerra—seguramente se preguntaron: ¿Qué dónde estuvo Dios para ayudar a todos esos judíos?
Sé que me estoy adelantando, pero, veamos que dijo este medio-judío en los siguientes párrafos, durante su visita a Palestina el año 1988; que quizás nos acerque otro poco a la verdad:
Paradoxical as it may sound, I never feel more at ease as a Jew among non-Jews than when I am in the company of Palestinians. If they hate Jews, I just assume it's because Jews have treated them miserably. If they doubt the Nazi holocaust happened, I just assume it's because Jews have used it as a weapon to oppress them. (I leave aside that even to those steeped in the subject the Nazi holocaust seems beyond belief.)Al parecer los judíos no han tratado bien a los palestinos... Al menos, se vislumbra el asidero de donde pueden estar originándose las aseveraciones del presidente de Irán.
Should it really surprise when Palestinians reason that if Jews have flagrantly lied about Palestinians, maybe Jews are also lying about what they endured in World War II; that if Jews carried on in Europe the way they do in the Middle East, maybe they got what they deserved? (By equating Arab enmity with that of the Nazis, isn't Israel effectively rationalizing Nazi anti-Semitism—and promoting Arab identification with the Nazis?)
In short, Palestinian insensitivity, hatred, and denial are, if lamentable, nonetheless altogether understandable. It's not anti-Semitism in the sense of an irrational hatred, but rather common sense based on real life experience. Lest this sound like special pleading, it bears emphasis that I'm simply applying a single moral standard: just as my parents hated Germans and Poles—all Germans and Poles—and I never begrudged them this hatred, much as I would have preferred were it otherwise, so I won't begrudge the hatred of Jews by many Palestinians, much as I would prefer were it otherwise.
Yet, because the animus Palestinians direct toward Jews seemed rational, it also seemed susceptible to rational melioration. Act decently and, hopefully, this decency will be reciprocated. As it turned out, although the fact that I was a Jew was a controversial novelty during my first couple of stays in Palestine, it eventually ceased to be a subject of interest—and accordingly a subject of reflection in this memoir. Palestinians would simply remark, "Norman's back." Just as many blacks in the American South welcomed white supporters of the Civil Rights movement, so many Palestinians welcome Jews from around the world demonstrating solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.
It merits notice that perhaps as many as a third of the courageous International Solidarity Movement volunteers who daily risk their lives to protect Palestinians from Israeli depredations are Jewish—a fact that deeply touches me. Although it would be naïve to believe that all residues of mistrust simply vanish in the face of these acts of solidarity, it would be equally mistaken to believe that Palestinians blindly loathe Jews.
Israeli elites (and their repellent supporters in the U.S.) have a stake in portraying Palestinians as driven by an irrational and ineradicable anti-Semitism: how else to justify subjugating them? But Palestinians have no stake in believing that all Jews are evil. My experience has been that if a Jew forthrightly acknowledges the colossal wrongs done, shows compassion, and demonstrates solidarity, then mutual respect and understanding, even friendship alongside disagreement, are possible.
Whereas Jews showing solidarity with Palestinians often stand accused of betraying their "people," it is probably closer to the truth that they are vindicating the name of the "Jewish people" who, in the eyes of so many Arabs—as well as non-Arabs—have come to symbolize arrogance and heartlessness. They are also vindicating the memory of the Nazi holocaust which has been polluted by Israel's exploitation of it: Jews who show solidarity in the name of Jewish suffering show Palestinians that Jewish suffering needn't be discounted.
Sigo adelantándome… y mucho…
Hasta el momento me parece que es claro que el estado de Israel se asienta en el derecho que dan los armisticios; los turcos perdieron Palestina en la primera guerra mundial a los británicos. Luego, los británicos—o más bien las Naciones Unidas—les cederían estas tierras a los judíos definitivamente después del término de la segunda guerra mundial en el 1947… Lucharon judíos y palestinos el año 1948, debiendo los palestinos aceptar los términos judíos al concluir esta guerra.
Puede que no les haya gustado a los palestinos; pero, tampoco le gustó a los judíos cuando los romanos les pasaron por encima. O, cuando los españoles conquistaron la Araucanía le gustó a los araucanos...
Tenemos que ser prácticos, cuando se firma un armisticio, es que hay un bando que para detener la guerra que los está destruyendo, acepta las condiciones de la rendición. Es el bando ganador quien moralmente está sujeto a que estas condiciones no sean exageradamente dañinas para el derrotado. Comparen el tratado de Versalles, que muchos creen llevó a Alemania a la segunda guerra mundial, versus, el plan Marshall de EEUU para la reconstrucción de Europa y Japón.
Por eso insisto, ¿cómo los judíos trataron a los palestinos residentes? es el cuesco del durazno. (…casi los puedo oler)
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