13.07.2016, Tlaxcla
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All Israelis who break the silence
about the occupation and other crimes are doing their patriotic, human and
moral duty. That’s why the Yesh Atid leader is so afraid of them.
The discussion
on the occupation can only be held abroad. Such a debate requires the existence
of a free democratic society where people know what’s going on. So the
discussion can’t be held in Israel, just as the discussion on the Yazidis can’t
be held in Iraq and the discussion on gay people and journalists can’t be held
in Russia.
Breaking the Silence activists hold signs
saying 'this is what the occupation looks like' at a rally against incitement,
Tel Aviv, December 2015. Photo Moti Milrod
Under Israeli
rule live two societies that are incapable of holding a discussion on the
occupation. There’s the Jewish society that lives in denial and repression,
knowing nothing and not wanting to know anything; and the Palestinian society
that
knows everything but has no rights.
In a situation where one society has the
power to influence but does not recognize reality, while the other knows but no
one asks for its opinion, it’s imperative to take the discussion outside, to
make sure the world knows what the Israeli occupation looks like and to make its
crimes known. That’s the way to end them.
The argument that this is an undemocratic
step is one of the most brazen, hypocritical statements ever made in Israel.
It’s saying that the occupation is democracy, and that reporting to the world
about its crimes is anti-democracy. There’s no limit to the hypocrisy and
impudence.
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid also wants to
settle matters at home, as they do at the Ger Hasidic court, as they once did
on the kibbutzim and as they do in crime families.
“Breaking the
Silence is not interested in influencing Israeli society from within, but
prefers to slander us abroad,” Lapid has written on Facebook, later retracting a
marginal part of the post.
To him, Haaretz’s
English edition is a partner
to the smear crime. Yair McCarthy is waging a no-holds-barred war against the
English edition; he even brings up the husband of the English edition’s next
editor.
The soldiers
and veterans in Breaking the Silence have a duty to tell everyone, and Haaretz
has a duty to report to everyone – in Israel and especially around the world.
The occupation’s crimes must be told everywhere. Things cannot be settled “at
home” because at home there’s a brainwashing, crime-sanitizing system that’s
hitting a new high – not only aren’t there any crimes, there isn’t any
occupation. You can’t hold a discussion with people cut off from reality, and
the reality is that the occupation’s crimes are horrific and getting worse.
The world must be told of every execution,
and of the apartheid in water distribution, which cries out to the heavens. It must be
told about the mass arrests – 4,800 people have been arrested in the current
wave of violence, 1,400 of them children. In the second Intifada 80,000
Palestinians were imprisoned, and 24,000 orders were issued to lock up tens of
thousands of people without trial.
Not tell the world about this? Whom can we
tell? The Israelis who see every Palestinian as a terrorist and every terrorist
as someone who must die? Not tell the world that almost a million Palestinians
have been imprisoned by Israel since the beginning of the occupation? Not tell
that 60 Palestinian lawmakers have been arrested in a country that allegedly
doesn’t make arrests on a political basis?
And it’s a country where people are abducted
from their beds every night, without a court order, sometimes for no reason at
all. So if we don’t tell about all this, who’ll know? And if nobody knows, how
will it ever end?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine [???
Tlaxcala's note] wasn’t an internal Russian matter, nor was
apartheid in South Africa, whose opponents traveled the world to tell about its
crimes. Spreading the word is the way to get the international community involved,
which is sometimes the only resort.
All people who break the silence in Israel
are doing their patriotic, human and moral duty. Lapid knows that Breaking the
Silence and Haaretz wouldn’t exist if they weren’t reporting the truth. The
Lapids know that these reports are true; this is why they’re so afraid of them
and why they’re fighting them so fiercely.
But at least one modest achievement has been
made. The mere knowledge that something is burning under the Lapids’ feet, or
shall we say over their heads, gives rise to a little hope.
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