Sonntag, März 17, 2002

Sir, It's The Wrong War!
Uri Avneri, einer der wichtigsten Israelischen Oppositionspolitiker, schreibt eine kurze, aber treffende Notiz, die die Aufmerksamkeit genau dort hinführt, wo Israel offensichtlich ein großes Verständnisproblem hat.
(...)the brigade commander appeared on television and said that he had expected the Palestinians to fight like tigers, but that they behaved like pussycats. This is a frightening sentence, because it discloses a startling fact: the Brigade commander does not understand in what kind of campaign he is engaged. He has to be told, with all due respect: "Sir, you are fighting the wrong war!" Clearly, he believes that he is engaged in a conventional war between armies. The enemy is supposed to stand up and fight like men, assault rifles against tanks and fighter planes. The commander (...) would be well advised to read a good book about guerilla warfare.
(...)Sharon and Ben-Eliezer declare that if the Palestinians are made to suffer more and more, they will eventually surrender and agree to live in several Ghettos, as proposed by Sharon.
In practice, the opposite is happening: the more the pressure on them mounts, the more their unity grows, their methods of resistance improve and their readiness to suffer and not to surrender increases.
Thousands of Palestinians are ready to undertake actions leading to certain death, and their number is growing. How many Israelis are ready to go into action if there is no chance at all of coming out alive? Palestinians know full well that they are fighting for their very existence; Israelis know that they are fighting for the settlements and bankrupt politicians. The Israeli government cannot win this struggle. After paying a terrible price - slaughter and destruction - this will become clear to the public, the government will fall and we shall make peace according to the Saudi Crown Prince's excellent proposal.

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