tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437359859068435113.post5528444365065862499..comments2024-03-24T16:27:11.673+01:00Comments on Abu Pessoptimist: Gemengd nieuws van een weekend in Israel/PalestinaAbu Pessoptimisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03717200416051685243noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437359859068435113.post-29934123335979248292013-05-26T13:00:25.795+02:002013-05-26T13:00:25.795+02:00Tja Jennifer,...misschien wel, volgens de criteria...Tja Jennifer,...misschien wel, volgens de criteria van het CIDI?Abu Pessoptimisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03717200416051685243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437359859068435113.post-41125776158684352102013-05-26T12:48:52.786+02:002013-05-26T12:48:52.786+02:00" Dit plan voorziet in de afbraak van alle zo..." Dit plan voorziet in de afbraak van alle zogenoemde 'niet-erkende' dorpen en stadjes in de Negev en gedwongen verhuizing van de bewoners naar een aantal grote stedelijke agglomeraties waarin de Bedoeïenen bijeen worden gedreven." <br /><br />Ben ik een antisemiet (denk aan de CIDI-test) als deze grote stedelijke agglomeraties me erg doen denken aan een ghetto van bedoeïenen?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00651814621239010449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8437359859068435113.post-37856292727913149932013-05-26T08:26:07.029+02:002013-05-26T08:26:07.029+02:00Abu,
Met aandacht las ik het commentaar over een b...Abu,<br />Met aandacht las ik het commentaar over een boek “The Wall”, geschreven door William Sutcliffe. Ik breng dit graag onder je aandacht. Het raakt me, door haar mooie inhoud en ingesloten boodschap. Hieronder een extract uit TOI. <br /><br />“The Wall.” A novel.<br />The barrier’s effect on the Israeli psyche is the subject of Sutcliffe’s new novel. “It is set up to allow you to continue in a state of complete denial.” His main thesis is that the wall allows Israelis on both sides of the Green Line to ignore the Palestinians unless they are a security threat, and remain completely, and wilfully, oblivious to the effect of the occupation on their daily lives. “… it has also turned into a psychological wall. It signifies a cultural shift, in terms of wanting to make [the Palestinian] people invisible, wanting to make their problems invisible, and also maybe a way of dealing with a certain amount of guilt associated with the way the Palestinians have been treated.”<br /><br />Playing soccer with a friend, 13-year-old Joshua accidentally discovers a tunnel under the security fence and crawls through it, conscious that he is otherwise unlikely to see the other side until his military service. Once there, he is given shelter by a young Arab girl, to whom he becomes attached. The encounter sets Joshua on a collision course ….<br /><br />In his scheme, it is the settlers who are living in a fantasy, the fantasy that the other side can be completely ignored. As Joshua says in the opening, “even though they’re living right next door, it feels like they aren’t really there. Actually, that’s not right. You know they’re there….<br /> “In South Africa, staying with my grandparents as a child, it was again the same. You’re in a comfortable house, and in the backyard there’s the servants’ quarters. As a kid it was like it didn’t exist but afterwards you think back: the guy who brought me my food, where was he living? And you vaguely remember the concrete hut. “There’s a mindset you get into, living like that. When you’re in it, it’s very easy to be blind to it.”<br />“I have no idea what to do with the wall,” he says. “The whole question of what’s the solution – if that’s the only question posed, it’s a good reason for doing nothing because there is no answer. <br /><br />Author William Sutcliffe. Growing up in a secular home, he says he was “more or less neutral towards Israel.” ‘we the Jews built this wonderful country out of nothing, look what they did…’ You come away feeling a sense of pride.” At the same time, there was “a certain uneasiness,”.<br />“I wasn’t a Zionist but I wasn’t an anti-Zionist either,” he adds. “I became aware of the positive and negative side of Israel at once.”<br />“It would have been very easy to have written a book that would have gone down well with the ‘I hate Israel brigade,’ but that’s not what I wanted to do at all,” he says. “It was very important to me the book has Jewish readers. I want the Jews to read it and think about it, just think about what’s really happening. If you want to support [the wall], support it, if you want to be against it, be against it. But I don’t think it’s right to just ignore it, to pretend it isn’t happening.” <br />http://www.timesofisrael.com/an-animal-farm-style-modern-fable-built-around-israels-security-barrier/Bennoreply@blogger.com