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Subject: "I accuse ..." By Professor Baruch Kimmerling of Hebrew University
I ACCUSE
By Professor Baruch Kimmerling*
[Kol Ha'Ir (Israeli Hebrew Weekly), 1 February 2002]: I accuse
Ariel Sharon of creating a process in which he will not only
intensify the reciprocal bloodshed, but is liable to instigate a
regional war and partial or nearly complete ethnic cleansing of the
Arabs in the "Land of Israel."
I accuse every Labor Party minister in this government of cooperating
for implementation the right wing's extremist, fascist "vision" for
Israel.
I accuse the Palestinian leadership, and primarily Yasir Arafat, of
shortsightedness so extreme that it has become a collaborator in
Sharon's plans. If there is a second Naqba (Palestinian Holocaust),
this leadership, too, will be among the causes.
I accuse the military leadership, spurred by the national leadership,
of inciting public opinion, under a cloak of supposed military
professionalism, against the Palestinians. Never before in Israel
have so many generals in uniform, former generals, and past members
of the military intelligence, sometimes disguised as "academics,"
taken part in public brainwashing. When the judicial committee of
inquiry is established to investigate the 2002 catastrophe, they too
will have to be investigated alongside the civilian criminals.
I accuse the administrators of Israel's electronic media of giving
various military spokespeople the access needed for an aggressive,
bellicose, almost complete takeover of the public discourse. The
military is not only controlling Jenin and Ramallah but the Israeli
radio and television as well.
I accuse those people, of all ranks, who order the black flag hoisted
above them, and those who follow their unlawful orders. The late
philosopher Yeshayahu Leibovitz was right-the occupation has ruined
every good part and destroyed the moral infrastructure upon which
Israeli society exists. Let's stop this march of fools and build
society anew, clean of militarism and oppression and exploitation of
other people, if not worse.
I accuse everyone who sees and knows all of this of doing nothing to
prevent the emerging catastrophe. Sabra and Shatilla events were
nothing compared to what has happened and what is going to happen to
us. We have to go out not only to the town squares, but also to the
checkpoints. We have to speak to the soldiers in the tanks and the
troop carriers-like the Russians spoke to their soldiers when they
were ordered to retake control in
Red Square-before entry into Palestinian cities turns into a
murderous urban warfare.
And I accuse myself of knowing all of this, yet crying little and
keeping quiet too often.
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* Baruch Kimmerling is a professor of sociology at Hebrew
University.
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