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Max Blumenthal on "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel"
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ゴリアテにパレスチナをダビデに喩えて、イスラエルの現状について書かれた本の著者のインタビュー
he appears in my book as the salesman, and he markets himself as a man who can go to the U.S. and market a lemon, who can sell a lemon to the American public, because he speaks English perfectly, he was educated at MIT, he worked at Boston Consulting with Mitt Romney.
I went into Netanyahu’s early writings, when he was just emerging on the world stage, in my book, and I dissect them, and I talk about how he says that, you know, "It doesn’t matter if your position is just; you have to depict your position as just." He actually understands that Israel is committing human rights crimes in the West Bank, but he is completely focused on the West, and the world does matter to him.
According to a poll by Camille Fuchs, who’s one of the most reputable pollsters in Israeli society, a majority of secular Israeli youth, high-schoolers, say that they would refuse to have an Arab neighbor. A majority of Tel Aviv residents favor the total expulsion of African migrants from Tel Aviv. Forty-eight percent of Israelis, according to a Ynet poll, which is a poll conducted by Israel’s most popular newspaper, favor―are in support of settler price tag attacks―in other words, settler terrorism. A majority of Israelis―
AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean, "price tag attacks"?
MAX BLUMENTHAL: Price tag attacks are basically vigilante attacks carried out by settlers against the Palestinian population in the West Bank. And whenever a settler outpost is demolished, there will be a retaliatory attack with graffiti on the Palestinian home that says "price tag." Only 33 percent of Israelis in this poll oppose that. A majority of Israelis in another poll agreed with the statement by Miri Regev, who’s a rising star in the Likud party, that Africans are a cancer in Israel’s body. So this is the kind of racism coursing through the heart of Israeli society, and it’s encouraged from the―by the central institutions of Israeli society.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: You’ve also talked about the ethnic cleansing policies of Netanyahu with the Bedouins.
MAX BLUMENTHAL: Yes.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Could you talk about that, as well?
MAX BLUMENTHAL: Yeah, there are 80,000 Bedouins living in the Negev desert who are Israeli citizens, who serve in the Israeli army. They live in unrecognized communities. Because they’re not Jewish, they can’t hook up to the electricity grid, they can’t get public services, they can’t have health clinics. And now, under a new plan called the Prawer Plan, which was just approved in the Israeli Knesset, 40,000 of them will be removed from their homes, ethnically cleansed, and forced into communities where they’ll be "concentrated" ― this is the government’s language, to "concentrate the Bedouin" ― in these Indian reservation-style communities.
I was most surprised at the banality of the racism and violence that I witnessed and how it’s so―it’s so widely tolerated, because it’s so common. And I’m most surprised that, you know, in my reporting on this, it hasn’t made its way to the American public. And so, that’s why I did this book. When we hear about this kind of daily violence, you don’t read about it on the pages of The New York Times.
イスラエルで行われている、人種差別、暴力、”民族浄化”政策について語っている。
こうした非道な状態が継続しているにもかかわらず、ネタニアフ首相の巧みな英語と、自分の立場を正義として演出するレトリックの上手さなどのせいか、いまだに、その実態が世界には伝わっていない、と。
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