Jabotinsky ueber die eiserne Mauer
Geschrieben von JeFra am 01. Juni 2002 05:18:34:
Als Antwort auf: Da hab ich auch noch was geschrieben von franke43 am 31. Mai 2002 08:03:36:
Eine strikte Trennung der Streithähne wäre hilfreich.
Das hat Jabotinsky schon in den zwanziger Jahren gesehen, wobei er in wünschenswerter Klarheit festgestellt hat, daß das in der Natur der Dinge begründet liegt und daß jedes andere Volk genauso reagieren würde wie die Araber. Der Aufsatz versucht zwar überwiegend, an der (meiner Ansicht nach geheuchelten) Illusion eines von den Juden diktierten Friedens zwischen den beiden Völkern festzuhalten, was sich Jabotinsky so vorstellt:
But the only path to such an agreement is the iron wall, that is to say the strengthening in Palestine of a government without any kind of Arab influence, that is to say one against which the Arabs will fight. In other words, for us the only path to an agreement in the future is an absolute refusal of any attempts at an agreement now.
Wenigstens eine Stelle kann man so interpretieren, daß selbst das nur ein temporäres Ziel und auch die bescheidenste Rücksichtnahme auf die Interessen der Araber von den Umständen diktiert ist:
Obviously, Zionists today cannot dream of expelling or suppressing the Arabs, or even of setting up a Jewish state. Clearly, in this period they are interested in only one thing - that the Arabs not interfere with Jewish immigration. Further, the Zionists have pledged to control immigration in accordance with the country's absorptive economic capacity. But the Arabs have no illusions, since no other conditions permit the possibility of immigration.
Die Hervorhebungen sind von mir. Natürlich gibt Jabotinsky nicht offen zu, daß es letztlich doch um die Austreibung der Araber gehen wird, aber sonst ist etwa der Vergleich mit dem Schicksal der Nordamerikanischen Indianer von wünschenswerter Klarheit. Es geht bei der Landnahme in Israel um Kolonialisierung, und das gibt Jabotinsky auch offen zu:
... Colonization itself has its own explanation, integral and inescapable, and understood by every Arab and every Jew with his wits about him. Colonization can have only one goal. For the Palestinian Arabs this goal is inadmissible. This is
in the nature of things. To change that nature is impossible.
... Thus we conclude that we cannot promise anything to the Arabs of the Land of Israel or the Arab countries. Their voluntary agreement is out of the question. Hence those who hold that an agreement with the natives is an essential condition for Zionism can now say "no" and depart from Zionism. Zionist colonization, even the most restricted, must either be terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the native population. This colonization can, therefore, continue and develop only under the protection of a force independent of the local population - an iron wall which the native population cannot break through. This is, in toto, our policy towards the Arabs. To formulate it any other way would only be hypocrisy.
Jabotinsky erklärt auch ganz offen, was von einem Volk zu halten wäre, das sich gegen derartige Pläne nicht wehrt:
As long as there is a spark of hope that they can get rid of us, they will not sell these hopes, not for any kind of sweet words or tasty morsels, because they are not a rabble but a nation, perhaps somewhat tattered, but still living. A living people makes such enormous concessions on such fateful questions only when there is no hope left. Only when not a single breach is visible in the iron wall, only then do extreme groups lose their sway, and influence transfers to moderate groups.
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JeFra