Anti-Defamation League critica Netanyahu per l'accusa di pulizia etnica verso gli ebrei in Cisgiordania
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L' Anti-Defamation League
ha duramente criticato l'affermazione di primo ministro Benjamin Netanyahu
: i palestinesi puntano alla "pulizia etnica" degli ebrei in
Cisgiordania, sostenendo che il termine è inadeguato per descrivere la
rimozione dei coloni e che la sua tesi è irragionevole.
In un editoriale , Jonathan Greenblatt
, ha scritto che Netanyahu
avrebbe potuto criticare l'Autorità Palestinese per altri motivi , invece "ha
scelto di sollevare un inutile polverone per quanto riguarda la
politica palestinese verso gli insediamenti israeliani. Il termine 'genocidio'e il termine
'pulizia etnica' devono essere utilizzati solo per descrivere realtà atroci e non distorcerne il significato per fini politici".
Il responsabile dell' ADL ha anche confutato l' equiparazione del primo ministro tra i
coloni israeliani in Cisgiordania ei cittadini arabi di Israele: "non è stata mai posta in discussione la legittimità della presenza
arabo-israeliano all'interno della società democratica di Israele".
L'ADL aveva precedentemente criticato un altro commento di Netanyahu : "Il primo ministro, suggerendo che fu il mufti a suggerire a Hitler l'eliminazione degli ebrei europei , banalizza o sminuisce il ruolo di Adolf Hitler
nell'orchestrare la soluzione finale"
Jonathan
Greenblatt says the term the prime minister used was inappropriate to
describe the Palestinian demand to remove settlers from the West Bank.
haaretz.com
The head of the Anti-Defamation League
harshly criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that
Palestinians supported the "ethnic cleansing" of Jews in the West Bank,
saying the term was inappropriate to describe the removal of settlers
and that his argument was unreasonable.
In an op-ed penned for Foreign Policy, Jonathan Greenblatt
said that while there were real and legitimate issues Netanyahu could
have criticized the Palestinian Authority for, he instead "chose to
raise an inappropriate straw man regarding Palestinian policy toward
Israeli settlements."
Last Friday, Netanyahu accused the Palestinian leadership of wanting to ethnically cleanse
the future Palestinian state of Jews in an English-language video
message posted on his Facebook page. Israel shows that it is ready for
peace, Netanyahu said, while a Palestinian state with the precondition
of no Jews amounts to ethnic cleansing.
Greenblatt
said that "like the term 'genocide,' the term 'ethnic cleansing' should
be restricted to actually describing the atrocity it suggests – rather
than distorted to suit political ends."
"Israel
has many legitimate concerns about Palestinian policies and behavior,
not the least of which is Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s rash
accusations that Israel commits acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians. However, the charge that the Palestinians seek 'ethnic
cleansing' of settlers is just not one of them," Greenblatt wrote.
The
ADL chief also refuted the prime minister's equating between Israeli
settlers in the West Bank and Arab citizens of Israel, saying that
"there never has been a question about the legitimacy of the
Israeli-Arab presence within Israel’s democratic society."
The
last time the ADL took issue with Netanyahu's comments was when he
claimed it was the mufti that convinced Hitler to annihilate European
Jewry. At the time, Greenblatt tweeted that
“Even if unintended, the prime minister, by his words, plays into those
who would trivialize or understate Adolf Hitler’s role in orchestrating
the Final Solution.”
In
his video, Netanyahu criticized the common argument that settlements in
the West Bank are an obstacle to peace and stated, "No one would
seriously claim that the nearly two million Arabs living inside Israel –
that they're an obstacle to peace."
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