The attack of the peace activists should certainly create deep
anxiety for the Israeli government. That is because behind this attack,
whether it is called a flotilla or a flytilla, is a point of view that
Israel has been trying for years to eradicate. It is the position
holding that Israel is not immune to international pressure, that it is a
Western state like any other, where public opinion influences the
government and whose central political stream, at least, welcomes the
international peace activists as an alternative to a mad policy. This
worldview genuinely believes that when Israel declares itself to be the
only democracy in the Middle East it means it, and that human rights -
including those of humans living under occupation - are an integral part
of its influential public debate.
Those "dangerous invaders," who are always
characterized as "deluded," just as the Israeli left was termed "loony,"
that is "crazy" or at the very least ignorant of the world in which it
lives, insist on changing a situation and policy that even superpowers
like the United States and the European Union have failed to change.
Person | About | Day |
---|---|---|
نسرین ستوده: زندانی روز | Dec 04 | |
Saeed Malekpour: Prisoner of the day | Lawyer says death sentence suspended | Dec 03 |
Majid Tavakoli: Prisoner of the day | Iterview with mother | Dec 02 |
احسان نراقی: جامعه شناس و نویسنده ۱۳۰۵-۱۳۹۱ | Dec 02 | |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Prisoner of the day | 46 days on hunger strike | Dec 01 |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Graffiti | In Barcelona | Nov 30 |
گوهر عشقی: مادر ستار بهشتی | Nov 30 | |
Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | Activist denied leave and family visits for 1.5 years | Nov 30 |
محمد کلالی: یکی از حمله کنندگان به سفارت ایران در برلین | Nov 29 | |
Habibollah Golparipour: Prisoner of the day | Kurdish Activist on Death Row | Nov 28 |