[Marxism] the price of the evacuation is raised and the next evacuation is prevented

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For several months, the media has devoted inflated coverage to the
suffering of the evacuees, and we are subject to heartrending and
senseless descriptions. Every teenage girl from Gush Katif who pours
out her heart in a diary is awarded a tear-jerking column, every rabbi
becomes a profound philosopher and every housewife an angry prophet.
Every piece of land cultivated by Palestinian and Thai workers employed
under disgraceful conditions becomes part of the sacred homeland, and
the relocation of inhabitants under deluxe terms is presented as
uprooting and rending. The evacuators and evacuees are described as
"weeping together." Soldiers who destroyed and killed in the
territories without inhibition are suddenly in need of emotional
support. In this way, the price of the evacuation is raised and the
next evacuation is prevented. There is no proportion between the
suffering of the evacuees - to whom the state is extending generous
assistance in every area - and the lamentation over them. These spin
doctors, the settlers, pluck every string, from their children to the
graves of their family members, to create an image of victimhood. It is
no wonder the country is painted orange.

Suddenly we are showing a rare sensitivity for human suffering. Tens of
thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homes, as their
homes, with all of their possessions, were crushed by Israel Defense
Forces bulldozers, without warning, without compensation, without
evacuation. The hundreds of families whose homes were expropriated for
various purposes, the farmers dispossessed of their lands, the uprooted
trees and the children who silently witnessed the brutality - these
were never given even a fraction of the media coverage the settlers
have received.

Foreign workers who are hunted as animals and violently deported, and
even the impoverished in Israel - those evacuated from their homes,
with their children, due to debt and mortgages, the unemployed who are
down to their last loaf of bread, and miserable homeless people who
roam the streets - can only dream of such broad and sympathetic media
coverage.

On the other hand, the dark side is concealed. How much, if at all, has
the Israeli public been shown the hundreds of homes in Khan Yunis,
those surrounding Gush Katif, that were destroyed only because of the
Gush's existence? Or the acts of vengeance and the terrorizing of olive
harvesters in northern Samaria? Or the abuse of cave dwellers in the
southern Hebron Hills? Or the behavior of settlers at IDF checkpoints?
Who knows how much money was channeled to their enterprise over the
years?

FULL AT
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/595104.html


forwarded by Brian Shannon


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