صحفى يهودى أمريكى.. ينتقد موقف بوش المؤيد لإسرائيل خيارات

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لماذا يجب أن تنسحب إسرائيل من الأراضى الفلسطينية

مقال بقلم : توماس فريدمان, الصحفى الأمريكى اليهودىنيويورك تايمز

America's insane policy on Israel

January 21, 2004


It is dangerous for the US to continue doing nothing to end the Middle East conflict, warns Thomas L. Friedman.Let's not mince words. American policy today towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is insane.Can anyone look at what is happening - Palestinians, gripped by a collective madness, committing suicide, and Israelis, under a leadership completely adrift, building more settlements so fanatical Jews can live in the heart of Palestinian-populated areas - and not conclude the following:That these two nations are locked in an utterly self-destructive vicious cycle that threatens Israel's long-term viability, poisons America's image in the Middle East, undermines any hope for a Palestinian state and weakens pro-American Arab moderates. The Bush team, backed by certain conservative Jewish and Christian activist groups, believes that the correct policy is to do nothing. Well, that is my definition of insane.Israel must get out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip as soon as possible and evacuate most of the settlements. Otherwise, the Jewish state is in peril. The United States should be forcing it.


Why? First, because the Arab-Muslim world, which for so long has been on holiday from globalisation, modernisation and liberalisation, is realising that the holiday is over. There is not enough oil wealth any more to cushion or employ the huge population growth happening in the region. Every Arab country is going to have to make a wrenching adjustment. Israel needs to get out of the way and reduce its nodes of friction with the Islamic world as it goes through this unstable and at times humiliating catch-up. Second, three dangerous trends are converging around Israel. One is a massive population explosion across the Arab world. The second is the worst interpersonal violence ever between Israelis and Palestinians. And the third is an explosion of Arab multimedia. What's happening is that this Arab media explosion is feeding the images of this Israeli-Palestinian violence to this Arab population explosion - radicalising it and melding in the heads of young Arabs and Muslims the notion that the biggest threat to their future is JIA - "Jews, Israel and America".Israel's withdrawal is not a cure-all for this. Israel will still be despised. But if it withdraws to an internationally recognised border, it will have the moral high ground, the strategic high ground and the demographic high ground to protect itself. Demographically speaking, if Israel does not relinquish the West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinians will soon outnumber the Jews, and Israel will become either an apartheid state or a non-Jewish state. An Israeli withdrawal will strip the worst Arab leaders of an excuse not to reform, it will create more space for the best Arab leaders to move forward and it will give Palestinians something to protect. In sum, Israel should withdraw from the territories, not because it is weak, but because it must remain strong; not because Israel is wrong, but because Zionism is a just cause that the occupation is undermining; not because the Arabs would warmly embrace a smaller Israel, but because a smaller Israel, in internationally recognised boundaries, will be much more defensible; not because it will eliminate Islamic or European anti-Semitism, but because it will reduce it by reducing the daily friction; not because it would mean giving in to an American whim, but because nothing would strengthen America's influence in the Islamic world, help win the war of ideas and therefore better protect Israel than this. The Bush team rightly speaks of bringing justice to Iraq. It rightly denounces Palestinian suicide madness. But it says nothing about the injustice of the Israeli land grab in the West Bank. The Bush team has not persuaded Israel to give up one settlement in three years. To think that America can practise that sort of hypocrisy and win the war of ideas in the Arab-Muslim world is a truly dangerous fantasy.Thomas L. Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist of The New York Times, where this article first appeared.

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الغريب أن توماس فريدمان لم يوجه اللوم لإسرائيل , بل ألقى بالمسؤولية كلها على إدارة بوش ... فهل المغزى الأساسي من المقال هو إنتقاد سياسة بوش ؟ ..

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عزيزى سيفوود

هذا الكاتب الأمريكى اليهودى ينتقد سياسة بوش كما يراها معظم الأمريكيين, وهو لم يهاجم إسرائيل لأن الإعلام الأمريكى يسمح بمهاجمة رئيس الدولة, و لكن لا يسمح بالهجوم على إسرائيل,

فكما تعلم , فالإعلام الأمريكى تسيطر عليه الصهيونية العالمية, و هى وراء نجاح بوش, و سوف تكون أيضا سبب سقوطه, فكل شيئ مباح, إلا الهجوم على إسرائيل.

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دائما تجد اليهود في أي نزاع حتي لو كان قضيه تخصهم في كلا الصفين او بمعني اصح لهم نفوذ في المعسكرين. طريقه سياسيه ناجحه ولذلك دائما تجدهم مع الفائز ولهم نصيب في الغنائم.

فريدمان هذا شخصيه محيره قد قرأت له اول كتبه من بيروت الي القدس "From Beirut To Jerusalem" ,ولم افهم اذا كان مع العرب او عليهم. الغريب ان كتاباته ومقالته اصبحت تنشر في صحفنا العربيه بصفه مستمره.

من اظرف ماكتب هي خطاباته بإسم الحكام العرب الي كلينتون سأبحث عنها وانشرها بإذن الله.


عمر بيك

(أسم مستعار)

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أنا من قراء توماس فريدمان ويمكننى الاستنتاج أنه كاتب ليبرالى متفتح وليس يهودياً بالمعنى الخرافى الشهير عن اليهود ، واستبعد أن يكون له أى علاقة بالـ "صهيونية العالمية" وأخواتها .

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عزثزى الأخ جميل,

أنا أيضا أقرأ لفريدمان كثيرا, و لم أقل أنه على علاقة بالصهيونية العالمية, بل لا أعتقد أنه يحبذها.