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Dialogue with Hamas is only path to peace, urges novelist
Israeli writer who lost son in Lebanon accuses his countrymen of 'cruelty'
By Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
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David Grossman, the renowned Israeli novelist, issued a pained rebuke to his
countrymen over the Gaza invasion yesterday and called for the immediate
opening of talks with the militant Hamas movement.
Embarking on what he conceded would be a daunting dialogue with Hamas, which
refuses Israel's right to exist, "will contribute more to our security than a
hundred planes dropping bombs on a city and its inhabitants", the dovish author
wrote in a front-page article in the daily Haaretz.
Grossman accused Israelis of using "sophisticated defence mechanisms and
self-righteousness" to avoid recognising the scope of the killing and
destruction the army has wrought on Gaza. When this subsides, perhaps Israelis
will realise there is "something deep and basic in our behaviour in the region,
for time immemorial, that is mistaken, immoral and unwise and that time and
again fans the flames that are consuming us", he wrote.
The writer has for many years been a voice of a humanistic Zionism that is
often on the defensive in a militarised society. Yesterday was not the first
time he has emerged as a statesman of the Israeli left. He lost his son Uri,
20, a tank commander, in fighting viewed by some as unnecessary at the close of
Israel's last war, with Hizbollah in 2006, a conflict that had striking
parallels to the most recent one: overwhelming use of Israeli force that took a
heavy toll on civilians and enemy rocket fire that in the minds of most
Israelis justified such retaliation.
Two months after the 2006 war, Grossman accused the country's leadership under
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of being "hollow". A year later, he refused to shake
Mr Olmert's hand as he received a prestigious writers' award. Palestinian
civilian deaths and suffering received little coverage in the Israeli media,
with news focusing on incoming rockets and many reports being aired of wounded
soldiers anxious to rejoin their units in Gaza. At the height of the fighting,
eight Israeli human rights organisations wrote a letter to Israeli newspapers
and broadcast outlets complaining that space was not being given to items or
opinions that did not support the army and government.
In an article on 30 December, three days after the war was launched, Grossman
called for a unilateral ceasefire and warned against harm to the Palestinian
civilian population Yesterday, he said the Palestinians could not be exempted
of responsibility for Hamas's "crimes" of firing rockets and launching suicide
attacks. But he stressed that Israel's leaders were oblivious to their own role
in stoking violence with overwhelming military force.
The war has been depicted by Israeli politicians and military leaders as a
correction of the 2006 conflict. This time, the army and home front worked well
and Israel won, says the official version. Defence Minister Ehud Barak, in a
self-congratulatory victory speech, said that bravery by the home front during
the war had "restored the beautiful land of Israel of yore".
Grossman painted a very different picture. "Alongside the satisfaction over
correcting the failures of the second Lebanon war, it is desirable to listen to
a voice which says that the gains of the Israel Defence Forces are not decisive
proof that Israel was right in launching such an operation of vast scale and
certainly do not justify the way Israel behaved during its course. The gains
only confirm that Israel is simply stronger than Hamas and in some situations
she can be adamant and very cruel, in her way."
David Grossman: 'Mistaken, immoral, unwise'
"When the guns becomecompletely silent, and the full scope of the killing and
destruction becomes known, to the point where even the most self-righteous and
sophisticated of the Israeli psyche's defence mechanisms are overcome, perhaps
then some kind of lesson will imprint itself on our brain. Perhaps then we will
finally understand how deeply and fundamentally wrong our actions in this
region have been from time immemorial, how misguided, unethical, unwise and
above all, responsible, time after time, for fanning the flames that consume us.
Obviously, the Palestinians cannot be let off the hook for their crimes and
mistakes... Yet even when the Palestinians act with indiscriminate violence,
when they use suicide bombings and Qassam rocket fire, Israel is stronger than
them, and it can have a tremendous impact on the level of violence in the
conflict as a whole, and hence on calming it down and even bringing it to an
end.
The current confrontation has not shown that anyone in the Israeli leadership
really grasps the critical significance of this aspect of the conflict in any
fully conscious or responsible way. One day, after all, we will seek to heal
the wounds we inflict today. How will that day ever come if we do not
understand that our military might cannot be the primary instrument for carving
out a path for ourselves in this region?
We must speak to the Palestinians: That is the most important conclusion from
the most recent round of bloodshed. We must speak also to those who do not
recognise our right to exist here. Instead of ignoring Hamas at this time, we
would do better to take advantage of the new reality that has been created by
beginning a dialogue with them immediately, one that would allow us to reach an
accord with the whole of the Palestinian people.
We must speak, even if dialogue seems hopeless from the start. In the long run,
this stubbornness will contribute much more to our security than hundreds of
planes dropping bombs on a city and its inhabitants."
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