Un filmato recuperato dall’esercito israeliano durante le operazioni nella Striscia di Gaza mostra sei ostaggi israeliani mentre cercano di accendere le candele della festa di Hanukkah in un tunnel con scarso ossigeno. I sei ostaggi sono Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23 anni, Eden Yerushalmi, 24 anni, Ori Danino, 25 anni, Alex Lobanov, 32 anni, Carmel Gat, 40 anni, e Almog Sarusi, 27 anni. Il filmato risale al dicembre 2023. Otto mesi dopo, il 29 agosto 2024, all’approssimarsi delle Forze di Difesa israeliane al tunnel sotto il quartiere di Tel Sultan, a Rafah (Striscia di Gaza meridionale), tutti e sei gli ostaggi furono assassinati con un colpo alla testa dai terroristi palestinesi.
Un articolo di Alan Dershowitz sulla proposta di cancellare il Giorno della Memoria perché La Stampa non lo pubblica in Italia ?
Testata:Informazione Corretta Autore: la redazione Titolo: «Un articolo di Alan Dershowitz sulla proposta di cancellare il Giorno della Memoria»
Il 21 settembre 2005 il "Times" di Londra ha pubblicato un puntuale articolo di Alan Dershowitz sulla proposta di abolire la ccommemorazione della Shoah in Gran Bretagna in quanto "offensiva per i musulmani" e di introdurre una commemorazione dei "genocidi", tra cui quello (immaginario) "contro i palestinesi".
Di seguito riportiamo l'articolo, in inglese: A painful absence of balance
ON THE DAY of Simon Wiesenthal’s death, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain, could be found in The Guardian proposing the abolition of Holocaust Memorial Day because it is offensive to Muslims.
Sacranie and his allies propose Genocide Day, a holiday devoted to recognising, among other genocides, the "mass murder of Muslims in Palestine".
The double bigotry reflected in this proposal should be evident to all people of good will. First, I can understand why commemoration of the Holocaust should be offensive to those Muslims and others who supported Nazi victory over Britain and Nazi genocide against the Jews and others.
And there were many such Muslims, led by the leader then of the Palestinian people Haj Amin al-Husseini, who urged Hitler to extend the final solution beyond Europe’s borders to Jewish refugees who had reached Palestine.
Secondly, there has been no genocide against the Palestinian people. When Palestinian bombers target Israeli civilians, Israel refrains from targeting Palestinian civilians in turn. Many Palestinian civilians have died during the many Arab-Israeli wars and intifadas of the past several decades. But that number is dwarfed by the number of Palestinians and Arabs killed by Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Iran during the same period.
During its occupation Israel provided social security, built and supported schools, and maintained vehicle, water and electrical infrastructures for residents of the West Bank and Gaza. The Egyptian and Jordanian occupations that preceded Israel were far less benign, but of course no one accused those Arab countries of genocide.
This is not to justify Israel’s occupation. Even though it was the Arab offensive in 1967 that created the Israeli occupation, when the Six-day War ended I argued in favour of Muslim self-determination and partition of Israel and Palestine. Opposition, though, should be grounded in facts and tempered by fair-mindedness.
The Israeli occupation is not a genocide, and those who would conflate the two are more interested in demonising the Jewish state than in achieving Palestinian statehood and a just peace, based on compromise, between the two nations. Chiediamo ai lettori italiani di segnalare questo articolo alla STAMPA, che detiene in Italia i diritti degli articoli di Dershowitz chiedendo che venga tradotto e pubblicato. Cliccando sul link sosttostante si aprirà una e-mail già pronta pe resere compilata e spedita.
