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Giampiero Ruani Lettera al Quotidiano Haaretz I.S.M.N. - C.N.R. Bologna - Italy http://www.bo.ismn.cnr.it/staff.php?idcur=2 Dear Editor, We have learned about the past night umpteenth raid of the Israeli army in the village of Bil'in, in West Bank. In this raid the army tried to arrest one of the members of the Popular Committee that hare carrying forward a non-violent struggle against the construction of the wall in their lands. Despite of the non-violent of their activity, many people of the Popular Committee, in the past months, have been arrested. Looking at the past, the "unarmed" first intifada have been suffered as a moral defeat by Israel, in fact, for the first time the State of Israel appeared to the rest of the world not in character of David but of Goliath. On the other hand, the second intifada, despite Israel suffered the dead of many people , have been considered an opportunity to say to the world "the military occupation is to protect ourself", and the world countries almost agree with this forgetting about the existence of the right of a population under occupation and forgetting the continuous violation of international laws. With this perspective, an external observer, could deduce that the attempt to defeat the non-violent movement to stop the construction of the wall that separate the people from their land is, in reality, the attempt to push again Palestinians to take arms against the occupation. Such a solution will certainly constitute the complete defeat of the Palestinian people but also the end of any hope for peace and justice for Israel and the rest of the world. Regards Giampiero Ruani -- |