Pernah baca buku terkenal DUNIA SOPHIE? (Diterjemahkan MIZAN ke dalam bahasa
Indonesia.) Buku tsb menghebohkan dan telah diterjemahkan ke 53 bahasa.
Kali ini pengarangnya yang bikin heboh, karena kritiknya yg tajam atas negara
Israel, di koran harian Oslo/Norwegia, Aftenposten.
Jostein Gaarder kemudian merasa menyesal jika melukai hati pemeluk agama
Yahudi. Namun demikian ia tetap pada pendiriannya yang mengecam keras perang
Israel.
Aku pribadi sih sebagian besar setuju sama JG, memang agama kalau dijadiin
alat politik ya gitu, membikin rumit masalah. Sayangnya di Indonesia masih
banyak yang ngotot dgn Syariah, sama seperti kelompok Zionis dg ayat-ayat suci
mereka. Orang-orang Indonesia ini paling tidak suka sama Zionis, tapi pandangan
keagamaannya mirip sekali. Aneh bukan.. tanya KENAPA?? he.he.he. kaya iklan
rokok..
Tabik
Bobby B
Jostein Gaarder, the author of the global literary phenomenon Sophie's World
(printed in 26m copies in 53 languages), launches a scorching attack on Israel
in Aftenposten, Norway's paper of record. Gaarder, a historian of ideas,
describes himself as a friend of the Jewish people but doubts whether Israel
truly is the same. Suffice it to say that this will not appear in the New York
Times anytime soon.
The form of Gaarder's condemnation is inspired by Amos, the first Judaic
prophet whose message is preserved in scroll (ca. 750 B.C.). Quoting Wikipedia:
"The central idea of the book of Amos according to most scholars is that Yahweh
puts his people on the same level as the nations that surround it -- Yahweh
expects the same morality of them all."
God's chosen people
Jostein Gaarder, Aftenposten 05.08.06
From the Norwegian by Sirocco
There is no turning back. It is time to learn a new lesson: We do no longer
recognize the state of Israel. We could not recognize the South African
apartheid regime, nor did we recognize the Afghan Taliban regime. Then there
were many who did not recognize Saddam Hussein's Iraq or the Serbs' ethnic
cleansing. We must now get used to the idea: The state of Israel in its current
form is history.
We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this
people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is
not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.
Limits to tolerance
There are limits to our patience, and there are limits to our tolerance. We
do not believe in divine promises as justification for occupation and
apartheid. We have left the Middle Ages behind. We laugh uneasily at those who
still believe that the God of flora, fauna, and galaxies has selected one
people in particular as his favorite and given it funny stone tablets, burning
bushes, and a license to kill.
We call child murderers 'child murderers' and will never accept that such
have a divine or historic mandate excusing their outrages. We say but this:
Shame on all apartheid, shame on ethnic cleansing, shame on every terrorist
strike against civilians, be it carried out by Hamas, Hizballah, or the state
of Israel!
Unscrupulous art of war
We acknowledge and pay heed to Europe's deep responsibility for the plight of
the Jews, for the disgraceful harassment, the pogroms, and the Holocaust. It
was historically and morally necessary for Jews to get their own home. However,
the state of Israel, with its unscrupulous art of war and its disgusting
weapons, has massacred its own legitimacy. It has systematically flaunted
International Law, international conventions, and countless UN resolutions, and
it can no longer expect protection from same. It has carpet bombed the
recognition of the world. But fear not! The time of trouble shall soon be over.
The state of Israel has seen its Soweto.
We are now at the watershed. There is no turning back. The state of Israel
has raped the recognition of the world and shall have no peace until it lays
down its arms.
Without defense, without skin
May spirit and word sweep away the apartheid walls of Israel. The state of
Israel does not exist. It is now without defense, without skin. May the world
therefore have mercy on the civilian population. For it is not civilian
individuals at whom our doomsaying is directed.
We wish the people of Israel well, nothing but well, but we reserve the right
not to eat Jaffa oranges as long as they taste foul and are poisonous. It was
endurable to live some years without the blue grapes of apartheid.
They celebrate their triumphs
We do not believe that Israel mourns forty killed Lebanese children more than
it for over three thousand years has lamented forty years in the desert. We
note that many Israelis celebrate such triumphs like they once cheered the
scourges of the Lord as "fitting punishment" for the people of Egypt. (In that
tale, the Lord, God of Israel, appears as an insatiable sadist.) We query
whether most Israelis think that one Israeli life is worth more than forty
Palestinian or Lebanese lives.
For we have seen pictures of little Israeli girls writing hateful greetings
on the bombs to be dropped on the civilian population of Lebanon and Palestine.
Little Israeli girls are not cute when they strut with glee at death and
torment across the fronts.
The retribution of blood vengeance
We do not recognize the rhetoric of the state of Israel. We do not recognize
the spiral of retribution of the blood vengeance with "an eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth." We do not recognize the principle of one or a thousand Arab
eyes for one Israeli eye. We do not recognize collective punishment or
population-wide diets as political weapons. Two thousand years have passed
since a Jewish rabbi criticized the ancient doctrine of "an eye for an eye and
a tooth for a tooth."
He said: "Do to others as you would have them do to you." We do not recognize
a state founded on antihumanistic principles and on the ruins of an archaic
national and war religion. Or as Albert Schweitzer expressed it:
"Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose."
Compassion and forgiveness
We do not recognize the old Kingdom of David as a model for the 21st century
map of the Middle East. The Jewish rabbi claimed two thousand years ago that
the Kingdom of God is not a martial restoration of the Kingdom of David, but
that the Kingdom of God is within us and among us. The Kingdom of God is
compassion and forgiveness.
Two thousand years have passed since the Jewish rabbi disarmed and humanized
the old rhetoric of war. Even in his time, the first Zionist terrorists were
operating.
Israel does not listen
For two thousand years, we have rehearsed the syllabus of humanism, but
Israel does not listen. It was not the Pharisee that helped the man who lay by
the wayside, having fallen prey to robbers. It was a Samaritan; today we would
say, a Palestinian. For we are human first of all -- then Christian, Muslim, or
Jewish. Or as the Jewish rabbi said: "And if you greet your brethren only, what
do you do more than others?" We do not accept the abduction of soldiers. But
nor do we accept the deportation of whole populations or the abduction of
legally elected parliamentarians and government ministers.
We recognize the state of Israel of 1948, but not the one of 1967. It is the
state of Israel that fails to recognize, respect, or defer to the
internationally lawful Israeli state of 1948. Israel wants more; more water and
more villages. To obtain this, there are those who want, with God's assistance,
a final solution to the Palestinian problem. The Palestinians have so many
other countries, certain Israeli politicians have argued; we have only one.
The USA or the world?
Or as the highest protector of the state of Israel puts it: "May God continue
to bless America." A little child took note of that. She turned to her mother,
saying: "Why does the President always end his speeches with 'God bless
America'? Why not, 'God bless the world'?"
Then there was a Norwegian poet who let out this childlike sigh of the heart:
"Why doth Humanity so slowly progress?" It was he that wrote so beautifully of
the Jew and the Jewess. But he rejected the notion of God's chosen people. He
personally liked to call himself a Muhammedan.
Calm and mercy
We do not recognize the state of Israel. Not today, not as of this writing,
not in the hour of grief and wrath. If the entire Israeli nation should fall to
its own devices and parts of the population have to flee the occupied areas
into another diaspora, then we say: May the surroundings stay calm and show
them mercy. It is forever a crime without mitigation to lay hand on refugees
and stateless people.
Peace and free passage for the evacuating civilian population no longer
protected by a state. Fire not at the fugitives! Take not aim at them! They are
vulnerable now like snails without shells, vulnerable like slow caravans of
Palestinian and Lebanese refugees, defenseless like women and children and the
old in Qana, Gaza, Sabra, and Chatilla. Give the Israeli refugees shelter, give
them milk and honey!
Let not one Israeli child be deprived of life. Far too many children and
civilians have already been murdered.
http://www.boomantribune.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2006/8/5/122335/1324
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