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Haaretz | Thursday, January 23, 2014 5 Haaretz | Thursday, January 23, 2014 5 HAARETZ Gideon Levy Editor: Aluf Benn Let’s save English Edition Editor: Charlotte Hallé Managing Editor: Simon Spungin the Palestinians Deputy Publisher: Guy Rolnik Managing Director, Haaretz Group Rami Guez in Yarmouk Managing Director, English Edition Let's save Aviva Bronstein an olive for Yair Lapid his article will surely half alive; lines of women and Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. fall on deaf ears, even old people crowded for hours in 21 Schocken St.,Tel Aviv 61350 Israel. more than others of hopes of obtaining a serving of Tel: 03-5121212 Fax: 03-6810012 T mine. Still, it must be written. food or dose of medicine; and Customer Service Tel: 03-5121750 Fax: 03-5121703 I can’t forget the images from the terrible hopelessness of E-mail: [email protected]. Advertising: 03-5121774, 03-5121112 Letters to the editor: [email protected] or fax: 03-5121156 the Yarmouk camp for Pal- thousands of people under siege estinian refugees. Among all whose homes have been demol- the victims of Syria’s horrors, ished and worlds destroyed. these people should touch Is- A few days ago my col- raelis’ hearts. league Zvi Bar’el described Israel is morally responsible the situation in the camp. The for what happens in this camp, camp’s coordinating commit- albeit indirectly. First, it bears tee called on residents to drink historical responsibility for the a liter of water with a teaspoon Strong fate of the camp’s residents – of salt, and after that a liter of Palestinian natives of Israel water with a teaspoon of sugar, who were forced to flee and if available. democracies their descendants. Bar’el was restrained as he Second, many Israeli Arabs referred to Yarmouk as resem- and Palestinians in the terri- bling a World War II ghetto, Eran Wolkowski | [email protected] tory of the Palestinian Author- and even this description fell don’t brag ity have relatives in Yarmouk, on deaf ears. Only 20,000 sometimes even of the first people remain in the camp, Israel’s right-wing government has found a new degree. Siblings, grandpar- where 150,000 lived before point of reference – Syria, a country groaning un- ents and cousins are starving the civil war. Only the weak der a bloody civil war. Every time an Arab Knes- Ari Shavit to death, and dozens have al- and helpless remain – to live set member tries to criticize something in Israel, ready died. in destruction under siege. The the ministers immediately suggest that he “go to We could draw a parallel. An rest have suffered their second Syria.” Every time a right-wing minister or MK atrocity takes place dozens of expulsion. wants to boast about Israeli democracy, he com- kilometers from the country’s pares it to what’s happening under Bashar Assad’s The city in white borders, and relatives of Jewish regime. Israelis are starving to death The latest example took place this week. After and dying for lack of medicine Israel should declare Deputy Knesset Speaker Ahmed Tibi and col- WASHINGTON, DC - A mood. Everything here is re- The neocon looked at me Washington is now a post- and supplies, wandering around leagues protested against the speech by Cana- heavy snow fell this week served and restrained - with- as if he were looking at a traumatic capital. It does not emaciated and being shot like that its gates are dian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Prime Min- on Washington. The White out clarity, without visibility, country bumpkin who didn’t believe in big ideas and does stray animals. Would Israel re- open for the 20,000 ister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium and House was even whiter, as without passion. understand how things work not believe in big struggles main complacent? Wouldn’t it bragged to the visitor about Israeli democracy. were Capitol Hill and the During the first spring of in the big city. America is and does not believe in itself. take action to save them? besieged residents “In our parliament,” Netanyahu said, “anyone glorious Washington Monu- the Iraq War, I conducted a not Israel, and America is America shies away from It’s easy to dump responsi- to reunite with can say anything they want. This is not possible ment, Jefferson Memorial comprehensive and inten- not the America of Vietnam, anything that reeks of ma- bility for Yarmouk on the Ar- in Damascus.” In another Knesset debate about a and Lincoln Memorial. Traf- sive tour of a much different he answered. It has enough chismo and anything that is abs: the Assad regime, which their families. month ago, Culture Minister Limor Livnat taunted fic was nearly silenced, and city: a Washington rejoicing power to replace the regime reminiscent of Rambo. The cruelly prevents supplies from MK Mohammed Barakeh. “I’ll send you to Assad’s the snow-covered streets on in battle. Cherry trees blos- in Iraq and to carry on with worst nightmare of all is the reaching the besieged residents regime,” she said. “There you can talk about en- the banks of the chilly Po- somed in pink, and on every Iran, too, and change the nightmare of boots on the for many weeks; the armed Israel doesn’t lift a finger. Is- lightenment and culture.” Tibi responded: “It’s tomac accentuated the re- street corner red white and face of the Middle East. ground. Palestinians, who intervened rael even cynically sends back won’t do that every time an Arab MK comments strained beauty and power blue tom-tom drums rang President George W. Bush The American capital is in the civil war and sounded into the inferno the few wound- on something you’ve said, you bring up Syria.” of the capital of the Western out. The little Churchills be- is a man of principles and on guard not to repeat that the camp’s death knell; radical ed Syrians it does treat, amid Pandemonium erupted. world. lieving in the big war strode character who will instigate scenario. Thus, its current Islamist organizations, whose its nauseating self-congrat- The comparisons to Syria and the statements Where is America head- behavior in the world is the cruelty tops that of the regime; ulations. While Syria’s other about sending Arab MKs there are shameful and ed? To a great degree, Amer- way one who leads in snow and the Arab states that didn’t neighbors, Jordan and Turkey, intolerable. More than once, Arab MKs have ica is going nowhere. It is behaves: slowly, carefully, do enough to solve the refugee are bursting with millions of spoken out against the dictatorships in the Arab wrapped within itself and America shies away from anything that without making any sharp problem (even if relatively refugees, Israel doesn’t even world, including Syria’s. They’re members of the licking its wounds without reeks of machismo. The worst nightmare of turns and without galloping speaking they improved the consider absorbing the few Knesset, not any other parliament. This is their making any firm decisions uninhibited toward any de- refugees’ lot in Syria). wounded Syrians who manage place – by right, not by any favor or benevolence about its future. all is the nightmare of boots on the ground. sired goal. And yet the moral respon- to reach it. on the part of the right wing. No one is precisely sure Israel loves America, and sibility still lies with Israel, After the terror of Yarmouk, The need to make comparisons at the expense about the economic situa- Israel is dependent upon whose establishment led to the Israel should show a measure of of the bloody Syrian regime reflects Israeli de- tion - whether it is gradu- in the halls of power. Even a democratic revolution in America, but Israel doesn’t existence of these refugees humanity. It should try to save mocracy’s weakness, certainly not its strength. ally recovering or if there the liberal media and the the Arab world and establish always understand America. and exiles. As best it could, this the 20,000 besieged residents – Strong, stable democracies, like those in properly is an illusory recovery. No Democratic Party sounded a new world order that the For too long, Jerusalem de- country should try to save the natives of this land, remember run countries, don’t need to compare themselves one is precisely clear about like they never had since the United States will lead. luded itself that Washington families of its citizens, even – and declare that its gates are to the worst regimes in order to be extolled. the strategic situation - Iran, bright days of JFK and LBJ. The cherry trees have is a Republican Washington. if they’re Arabs. An example open to them to reunite with Does Israel really want to be compared favor- Syria, Russia and China all I will never forget a pro- blossomed 10 times since It is not. is the elderly Lutafia, a camp their families. ably to murderous Syria? Does it really want to be look gloomy for the moment. found conversation I had then, and have withered 10 For too long, Jerusalem as- resident whose brother Abed Such a step would probably mentioned in the same breath as the Arab tyran- No one has a clear hold on with a brilliant, senior neo- times, and the city is cov- sumed that Washington lay Abadi is a prize-winning artist be rejected by the Syrians, but nies? Israel’s system of government is immeasur- what the political future conservative then among the ered in white.
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