Israel Palestine Infos
Uri
Avnery
September
22,
2012
A
Message
from
Romnyahu
ONCE
UPON
a
time,
President
Richard
Nixon
wanted
to
appoint
a
certain
lawyer
to
the
“But
the
man
is
a
complete
moron!”
one
senator
exclaimed.
“So
what,”
answered
another,
“There
are
a
great
many
morons
in
the
Perhaps
the
United
Morons
of
Some
people
say
that
So,
with
all
my
misgivings
(and
I
have
a
lot)
about
Barack
Obama,
I
very
much
hope
that
he
will
be
reelected.
IN
HIS
latest
seizure
of
wisdom,
Romney
did
not
only
disclose
that
47%
of
Americans
are
parasites,
but
also
that
“the
Palestinians”
want
to
destroy
I
wonder
where
he
got
this
last
piece
from.
In
Nazi
That
was
before
the
Internet
and
fax.
Nowadays,
the
Prime
Minister’s
office
faxes
a
daily
‘page
of
messages”
to
Netanyahu’s
ministers
and
other
stooges,
telling
them
what
messages
they
are
to
spread.
I
strongly
suspect
that
Romney
read
this
page
of
messages
just
before
he
met
his
audience,
composed
of
billionaires
(or
mere
millionaires).
After
all,
he
couldn’t
have
invented
these
astounding
pieces
of
insight
all
by
himself,
could
he?
“THE
PALESTINIANS”
means
“all
Palestinians”.
All
nine
million
of
them
in
the
West
Bank,
East
Jerusalem,
the
Gaza
Strip,
Israel,
not to forget
the
refugees
around
the
world.
Well,
I
suppose
that
if
by
divine
intervention
Alas,
such
fantasies
belong
to
the
realms
of
dreams
and
nightmares.
In
the
real
world,
peoples
do
not
disappear
even
after
gruesome
genocides,
nor
can
states
which
possess
nuclear
bombs
be
eradicated
by
foreign
enemies.
I
know
quite
a
number
of
Palestinians,
and
not
one
of
them
believes
that
The
present
government
of
One
of
the
fathers
of
this
slogan
is
Ehud
Barak.
After
the
failed
2000
Netanyahu
gratefully
picked
up
Barak's
cry,
and
now
the
great
majority
in
“No
solution”
gives
an
impression
of
“everything
will
remain
as
it
is”.
That
is
a
mistake.
Nothing
remains
as
it
is.
Things
move
all
the
time,
settlements
expand,
Palestinians
will
rise
up,
the
world
is
in
flux,
the
Arab
world
changes,
some
day
an
American
president
will
put
the
interests
of
the
US
ahead of
those
of
Israel.
Where
will
we
be
then?
THE
GIST
of
Romney’s
message
is
that
the
two-state
solution
is
dead.
This
reminds
me
of
Mark
Twain’s
famous:
“The
report
of
my
death
was
an
exaggeration.”
It
is
now
in
fashion
to
say
so.
Quite
a
trend.
However,
different
people
have
different
reasons
for
believing
that
the
two-state
solution
is
dead.
Parents,
teachers,
pedophiles
and
cannibals
all
say
they
love
children.
But
their
motives
are
not
the
same.
This
is
also
true
for
the
would-be
undertakers
of
the
two-state
solution.
They
include:
One:
Idealists,
who
wish
for
people
of
different
nations
to
live
together
in
harmony
and
equality
in
one
state.
(I
would
like
them
to
study
the
history
of
the
Soviet
Union,
Two:
Arabs,
who
really
believe
that
this
is
a
peaceful
way
to
get
rid
of
Three:
Settlers,
who
want
to
turn
the
whole
of
historical
Four:
Israelis,
who
believe
that
the
settlements
have
created
a
situation
that
is
“irreversible”.
(Meron
Benvenisti,
a
former
deputy
mayor
of
Jerusalem,
coined
this
phrase
already
in
the
early
1980s,
when
there
were
less
than
100
thousand
settlers.
I
told
him
then
that
nothing
was
irreversible
except
death.
Situations
created
by
human
beings
can
be
changed
by
human
beings.)
Five:
Anti-Zionists,
including
Jewish
anti-Zionists,
who
hate
Zionism
indiscriminately,
with
all
its
good
and
bad
aspects,
and
for
whom
the
very
existence
of
a
“Jewish”
state
is
an
abomination.
Six:
Muslim
fanatics,
who
believe
that
Seven:
Jewish
fanatics,
who
believe
that
all
of
Eretz-Israel,
from
the
Nile
to
the
Euphrates,
has
been
promised
to
the
Jews
by
God,
so
that
conceding
any
part
of
it
to
non-Jews
is
a
deadly
sin.
Eight:
Christian
fanatics,
who
believe
that
the
second
coming
of
Jesus
Christ
will
be
possible
only
after
the
ingathering
of
all
the
Jews
in
this
country
(with
no
place
in
it
for
anyone
else.)
Sorry
if
I
have
forgotten
someone.
SOME
OF
these
people
have
invented
something
called
the
“one-state
solution”.
That
is
an
oxymoron.
There
is
a
one-state
problem,
there
is
no
one-state
solution.
From
time
to
time
it
is
worthwhile
to
come
back
to
the
basic
facts
of
our
life:
There
are
two
peoples
living
in
this
country.
Neither
of
the
two
will
go
away.
They
are
here
to
stay.
While
the
Arab
Palestinians
living
in
the
country
are
still
a
minority,
they
will
constitute
the
majority
quite
soon.
Both
peoples
are
intensely
nationalistic.
The
two
peoples
have
different
cultures,
languages,
religions,
historic
narratives,
social
structures,
standards
of
living.
At
present,
after
some
130
years
of
continuous
conflict,
there
is
intense
hatred
between
them.
The
possibility
that
these
two
peoples
could
live
peacefully
in
one
state,
serving
in
the
same
army
and
police,
paying
the
same
taxes
and
abiding
by
the
same
laws
enacted
by
the
same
common
parliament,
is
nil.
The
possibility
that
these
two
peoples
could
live
peacefully
side-by-side
in
two
states,
each
with
its
own
flag
and
its
own
elected
government
(and
its
own
soccer
team),
does
exist.
Such
co-existence
can
take
different
forms:
from
a
loose
confederation
with
open
borders
and
free
movement
to
closer
forms
of
evolving
structures,
like
the
European
Union.
I
hope
that
this
is
not
too
complicated
for
Mitt
Romney
to
understand.
But
this
may
become
irrelevant
if
–
as
I
fervently
hope
–
he
is
not
elected.
I
would
hate
for
an
ignoramus
to
be given the opportunity to
learn
world
affairs
on
our
backs.