I've heard here and there that Israel is "concerned" the wind of democracy blowing in the Arab world.
understand that concern.
I know that at least two occasions, Algeria, 1991, and Gaza, 2006 - Free elections engendered the worst nightmare possible.
And I'm too aware of the fact that in this area, Israel can not afford the slightest mistake, much less take lightly the risk of seeing the revolutions Egyptian, Libyan and maybe tomorrow, Syrian result a world more dangerous.
Concern, however, is something that requires clarity, distrust and surveillance lyrical illusions.
But excessive caution, timidity and disapproval move will place the heirs of the Zionist dream in an untenable position and unworthy of their history.
hard to imagine, in fact, that a country that prides itself for so long, and rightly, of being the only democracy in the Middle East hesitate to welcome their neighbors as they seek to embrace, at the expense of heroic fighting, values \u200b\u200bthat he exemplified.
I can not imagine that Israel, alone among the great democracies, is locked in the reservation and do not know what feed suspicion (because God knows that the rumors, theories plotters and, therefore, suspicion, moving quickly in this part of the world) to have bet the wrong horse for fear of an uncertain future and "unforgivable error in the ruthless world of realpolitik- have sided with the losers.
And what image would then give himself a people who, rightly again, keeps repeating: "Our problem is not the Arab peoples (with whom, a little also they want it, we are willing to live in peace and harmony), but neo-Nazis (Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.) "and yet, at the time stands a young, immature, no doubt, but, apparently, willing to choose liberty against all dictatorships (including the Muslim Brotherhood and other Fascislamism) doubted in to shake hands and give at least a chance?
But there's more.
Whatever the merit of Hosni Mubarak, who succeeded in maintaining the peace treaty signed by Anwar Sadat, his predecessor, but there is a simple law constant: how fragile is a contract that only depends on the will of one man-one dictator, moreover, that not only mortal but, as we know now, vulnerable, how solid is the same contract if, as seems the case in Cairo is validated, ratified and legitimized by the elites, the army and maybe tomorrow, a middle class which will no longer be presented as an obligation, a bad shot, punishment. Whatever
order to succeed the disorder and arbitrariness that until now prevailing in Libya, whatever the level of persistence of anti-Semitism whose slogans were insistently repeated by a regime that, for long and calamitous decades, neither deprived disseminate its literature (The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, bestseller in all libraries ...), I think we have extremely short memory, then, ultimately, can have a worse solution for Israel that Gaddafi, who has financed terrorism has been blown up synagogues, has been granted political asylum or discrimination to more infected deniers and, recently, and although some believed he had moderated, has multiplied provocations and threats? (Two examples among thousands: the episode of the new boat to Gaza on 10 July sent to "avenge" to "humanitarian fleet" Turkish and a month later, during the inauguration of the African Union summit in Tripoli, the speech in which the guide thundered that the Israelis are a "gang" responsible for "all the ills of Africa" \u200b\u200band have to close their embassies urgently and force.)
And considering that these Arab revolutions have already produced another effect at least as important as the possible manipulation of the movement for an Iran whose goings-on, by the way, a war is a war geopolitics geopolitics -, nothing prevents us from opposing without delay: the men subjugated and subjected for 42 years to a deadly bombing disinformation, these people we convinced that all the misfortunes of the world came from a methodical demonized Israel, are discovering that they had another infinitely more formidable opponent and it was their own and their mercenary brutality.
Suddenly, that changes everything.
This return to a real world in which an Arab leader promises to drown his "brothers" in "rivers of blood" is a tragic event, but significant. And without venturing
what the future may bring, without excluding other demagogues invoke again any day bogeyman, I tend to think that we have crossed a threshold and that, henceforth, will be more difficult in this aspect and Others deceive a people who have discovered the truth in combat.
If you've taken the side of free Libya, was first and foremost for the love of law and hatred of tyranny.
But also because, as I said in the same Benghazi before some audiences to which I never hid my membership in one of the world's oldest tribes, I think this revolution serves the cause of peace.
Source: elpais.com
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