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以色列阳光下的葡萄干

Mar 23, 2015 Anne-Marie Slaughter

华盛顿—几时年来，降低醉驾死亡人数的努力在美国造就了一个咒语：“让人醉驾的朋友不是真朋友。”上周以色列选举结束后，全世界的以色列朋友应该把这个咒语改一改：“让朋友盲目统治的不是真朋友。”

以色列的盲目完全是自找的。以色列政府无法用以色列的条件解决与巴勒斯坦人的冲突，于是干脆装作整个问题根本不存在的样子。令人震惊的是，当其总理内塔尼亚胡本月早些时候在美国国会发表演讲时，他39分钟时间大谈伊朗对以色列造成的生存威胁，根本没有提到巴勒斯坦人民。但是，在国内选战中，他只谈及某些巴勒斯坦人现在给以色列安全所造成的威胁，完全不提其他巴勒斯坦人为明天的和平所提供的机会。

以色列选民选择了恐惧的政治，而没有选可能性的政治。选择右翼还是中左翼是一个与选择枪炮还是黄油、选择安全还是繁荣相当的经典选择。

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Anne-Marie Slaughter

Writing for PS since 2006
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Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former director of policy planning in the US State Department, is CEO of the think tank New America, Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, and the author of Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics (Princeton University Press, 2021).

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Eusebio Manuel Vestias pecurto vestias Mar 29, 2015

President Netanyahu should respect people who seek peace in the Middle East and the world
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j appelbaum Mar 29, 2015

What a totally laughable perspective reflecting zero comprehension of Palestinian position and Middle East politics. And Slaughter was a State Dept. official? And a professor of International Affairs at Princeton. Government and academic standards must be very low.
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Curtis Carpenter Mar 25, 2015

"It's perfectly obvious to anybody with half a brain and no agenda that, to paraphrase what Netanyahu actually said, there can be no two-state solution until the PLA renounces its commitment to the destruction of Israel."

"Netanyahu is simply being a realist. There cannot be an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians because that is not the Arab end game. They do not want peace with Israel -- they want the destruction of Israel and the total exclusion of Jews from the Middle East."

As one of the "leftists" Mr. Birnbaum mentions below whose head has not yet exploded, I find myself wishing that the political Right's legions of self-proclaimed experts could at least get a consistent story lined up for a change.

Meanwhile, one of the "facts" that needs to be absorbed by many of the commenters here is that Israel has lost a lot of traditionally reliable support from the left in the last month. We'll have to see if that matters.
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Andrew Allison Mar 24, 2015

What utter nonsense. It's perfectly obvious to anybody with half a brain and no agenda that, to paraphrase what Netanyahu actually said, there can be no two-state solution until the PLA renounces its commitment to the destruction of Israel.
- Marc-André Roche Jun 18, 2015
  
  I'm not sure of what you mean. If there is no two-State solution, then the solution is one-State? You realize that Jews will be a minority in that State, do you?
  
  Or you think that a 50 year long occupation is not enough and, maybe, Palestinians will suddently fall in love with their occupyer after 60 or 70 years of occupation so let's wait and see and occupy for one more generation?
  
  But when does it end? And how?
  
  Besides saying that the Palestinians form a bad people that doesn't deserve to have its country, I don't understand what kind of future you foresee and what you propose.
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Eric Birnbaum Mar 24, 2015

Ms. Slaughter says: "Israel is a special and vibrant country, filled with talented, hard-working, and committed people who have much to contribute to the world". Then why is it that she thinks she knows what's best for Israel despite the overwhelming verdict just rendered by the Israeli public? It's because like most of the leftists whose heads are now exploding over King Bibi's resurrection, she is a narcissistic ideologue, who, when facts contradict their ideology, chose to ignore the facts.

Once they are thru with their post-election hissy-fit, know-nothing whiners like Ms. Slaughter will hopefully fade back into the woodwork, and Israelis can continue to build their world-class democracy.
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j. von Hettlingen Mar 23, 2015

Anne-Marie Slaughter is right about "it is too late for clarifications". Palestinians will not forget what Benjamin Netanyahu said last week. Although he has retracted some politically harmful statements and apologised for some - viewed by Arab Israelis as - disdainful remarks, he can't just adopt the business-as-usual mode again, as if nothing had happened. The "tragedy" is that it could drive "both sides into a cycle of action and reaction that ultimately will make impossible a negotiated two-state solution". If the conflict drags on, Palestinians "will most likely turn again to violence: a third intifada".
There are good reasons to fear that a third intifada could be far more bloody than the uprisings that we have seen before. This means both Palestinian and Israeli leaders should prevent it from happening. Unfortunately Netanyahu's recent rhetoric had only inflamed it.
Some of the outward signs are not encouraging. Politicians like Avigdor Lieberman sees Israel's 1.4 million Arab citizens as the "fifth column" and continues to push them into a corner. Gaza had been bombed to smithereens and more than 2,000 Palestinians were killed and 18,000 homes destroyed. Six months after the ceasefire between the Israel and Hamas tens of thousands of people still have no shelter and lack essential amenities like water and electricity. In October last year, international donors pledged billions of dollars for rebuilding Gaza, but little of the money has arrived. Israel has expressed concern that the money would be used by Hamas to rearm and to rebuild tunnels. And it's policy of building settlements in occupied territory continues.
Many of Netanyahu's right-wing supporters had demanded the re-conquest of Gaza. This would escalate the conflict. Although airstrikes last summer had destroyed much of Hamas military capabilities, it would not be a problem for them to relaunch rockets on their enemies. "Israel will have no option but to repeat the horrors of recent Gaza wars on a much larger scale". With violence spiralling out of control, Israel will only face more international condemnation and isolation.
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Berman Hudson Mar 23, 2015

Netanyahu is simply being a realist. There cannot be an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians because that is not the Arab end game. They do not want peace with Israel -- they want the destruction of Israel and the total exclusion of Jews from the Middle East. How may time during the 20th century did Palestinians balk at the last minute when a deal had been crafted? Unfortunately, as this article shows, they are losing the propaganda battle. It would help if, while chastising Israel, Ms. Slaughter and her ilk at least mention the intransigence of Palestinians as an obstacle to peace.
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hari naidu Mar 23, 2015

The state of Palestine - like Kurdistan - will inevitably become a political reality in the short term; Bibi will no longer make Obama suffer the fools errands of Likud Party and its leadership.
The cat is finally out of the bag - no more Palestine!
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Paul Daley Mar 23, 2015

Good advice is wasted on Israel. A bit more coercion in the form of sanctions and indictments at the ICC will be far more effective in encouraging civilized behavior.
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Jaap Bosma Mar 23, 2015

Rights should be the basis of negotiations, not demands. The Palestinians have a right to the 1967 borders, a right to East Jerusalem, and a right of return for the victims of Israel's ethnic cleansing of 1948.
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Jaap Bosma Mar 23, 2015

The good new for Palestinians is that Netanyahu won. He is a wulf, while the Israeli left is a wulf in sheepskin, it wants peace, but it always lets Zionist ideology prevail. The Zionist Camp slaughtered Palestinians in 2008/9 just like Netanyahu did in 2014.
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JOHN FARLEY Mar 23, 2015

Israel may or may not be increasingly isolated in the world community. For me that remains to be seen. What is absolutely clear is that the US government allows for Israel to continue its policies barely without censure and certainly not restricting the absolutely massive funds awarded to the state of Israel. The words of peace rarely translate into action reconciliation and genuine hope.
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Sheikh Belal Mar 23, 2015

Thanks for speaking of our hearts.....the world needs a peaceful Israel as we all are, near or far, somehow linked with peace in that part of the world.
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John Simke Mar 23, 2015

I missed the second and third scenarios unless hey were implied. What about the scenario of a one-state solution, initially with no political rights for Palestinians (in other words more or less the status quo) , but ultimately, through internal and international pressure, a single state with political and human rights for all, maybe 10-15 years from now? Let's forget the two state fantasy. It's not going to happen and it does not make geographic, economic or hydrologic sense. The end game is a one state solution and no purely Jewish state. Get used to it
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