Feliz Aniversário, Israel!
Data do post: 29 de abril de 2009
Em homenagem aos 61 anos de independência do Estado de Israel, comemorados hoje, vamos ler o que realmente importa e o que é realmente sério por dois especialistas no assunto:
- O primeiro, óbvio, é David P. Goldman, a.k.a. Spengler, que novamente escreve um post em seu novo blog na First Things, com direito a um trecho digno do melhor do ”humor judaico”:
If any of you are depressed, morose, despondent, pessimistic, and glum, I have a cost-effective solution. For the price of a dozen sessions with a medicore therapist, you can get on a plane and go to Israel. That will cheer you up. Trust me. Insecurity doesn’t make you unhappy. This life isn’t secure. Shut yourself up in a cave ten miles under the earth with all the distilled water and freeze-dried food you can hoard, equip it with an intensive care unit and a dozen physicians… you still are going to die. Being alive is a very insecure condition as the probability of becoming dead at some future point is — let me check the chart — 100%. Care will slip in through the keyhole, no matter how secure you try to be. But the Israelis have something better than security. They have faith. That’s true even of secular Israelis, for to be an Israeli is a statement of faith.
(E, sim, prefiro continuar a indicar Spengler e não falar da cantora “desculpem-me-as-feias-mas-a-beleza-é-fundamental” Susan Boyle)
- O outro craque é o scholar Richard Landes que, em seu blog The Augean Stables, dá uma aula sobre o conflito Israel-Palestina, sem recorrer às ideologias políticas e atacando quem deve ser atacado, sem o medo de perder a lucidez e o bom senso:
Here, I think the only viable explanation is to understand the blow to Arab/Muslim honor at the creation of a free and independent state run by non-Muslims in Dar-al-Islam. (For a larger discussion of this, see here.) As the Athenians explained to the Melians: “It’s not so terrible to be conquered by those who should rule (like the Spartans, or in this case the Christians), but it is unbearable to be defeated by those who should be subject (like the Melians or, in this case, the Jews).”
If you don’t know about the Muslim principles of Dar-al-Islam (the realm of submission where Muslims rule) and Dar-al-Harb (the land of the sword, with which Muslims are at war), you can’t possibly understand either the permanent hostility of the Arabs to Israel (including their refusal to recognize her), or the willingness of the Arabs to keep the Palestinians suffering in refugee camps so that they can be used as a weapon against Israel.
By Muslim standards, the very existence of Israel is a theological blasphemy and an unbearable affront to their honor. That’s what the Naqba is about. If it were about the terrible suffering of the Palestinians who had to flee as a result of the war (which is what the “pro-”Palestinian would have us believe), then the Arabs and Palestinian leaders would have done something to make their lives better (including using a tiny fraction of the trillions of petrodollars Arab countries have taken in in the last half-century). Instead they confined them to permanent refugee camps (no cement floors allowed, they had to live in tents and the mud for years)
E, last but not least, dêem uma olhada na revista Azure, em que, entre outras coisas mui interessantes, há um artigo que mostra que Slavoj Zizek (o queridinho da alta intelectualidade paulistana, junto com o delator do Zigmunt Bauman) não passa de um epígono que deseja nada mais nada menos que um governo totalitário.
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E viva a diáspora!
Data do post: 22 de julho de 2008
João Pereira Coutinho, hoje na Folha, em um dos textos mais corajosos que já li, mostra qual é a verdadeira solução que sobrou para o território de Israel – a única que pode fazê-lo escapar do Holocausto previsto (além de, claro, me dar um novo motivo para reler “Operação Shylock”, do Philip Roth).
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