#culte_de_la_force

La partialité systématique des #médias_occidentaux trouve un écho dans la réaction symétrique du #monde_arabe et d’une bonne partie des pays du #Sud, où le soutien de l’#Occident à la résistance de l’Ukraine contre l’agression russe, alors qu’il refuse de reconnaître l’agression d’Israël contre les #Palestiniens sous #occupation, a déjà suscité des accusations d’hypocrisie (une division qui rappelle les fractures de 1956, lorsque les peuples des « pays en voie de développement » étaient solidaires de la lutte de l’Algérie pour l’autodétermination, tandis que les pays occidentaux soutenaient la résistance de la Hongrie à l’invasion soviétique).

... Les fantasmes ethno-tribalistes de la #gauche_décoloniale, avec ses invocations rituelles de Fanon et son exaltation des guérilleros en parapente du Hamas, sont en effet pervers. Comme l’écrivait l’écrivain palestinien Karim Kattan dans un essai émouvant publié par le journal Le Monde6, il semble être devenu impossible à certains amis autoproclamés de la Palestine de dire tout à la fois que « les massacres comme ceux qui ont eu lieu à la rave party du festival Tribe of Nova sont une horreur indigne » et qu’« Israël est une puissance coloniale féroce, coupable de crimes contre l’humanité ».

... Quant aux habitants de #Gaza, ils sont non seulement contraints de payer pour les actions du Hamas, mais aussi, une fois de plus, pour les crimes d’Hitler. Et l’impératif d’invoquer la Shoah est devenu le véritable « dôme de fer » idéologique d’Israël, son bouclier contre toute critique de ses actions.

... La vérité incontournable, c’est qu’Israël ne peut pas plus étouffer la résistance palestinienne par la violence que les Palestiniens ne peuvent vaincre dans une guerre de libération de type algérien : juifs israéliens et Arabes palestiniens sont « coincés » dans une relation inextricable — à moins qu’Israël, de loin le plus fort des deux adversaires, ne pousse les Palestiniens à l’exil pour de bon. La seule chose qui puisse sauver les peuples d’Israël et de Palestine et empêcher une nouvelle Nakba — laquelle est devenue une possibilité réelle, alors qu’une nouvelle Shoah n’est qu’une hallucination d’origine traumatique — est une solution politique qui accorde aux deux peuples un égal droit de citoyenneté et leur permette de vivre en paix et en liberté, que ce soit dans un unique État démocratique, dans deux États ou dans une fédération. Tant que la quête de cette solution sera refoulée, la dégradation continue de la situation est pratiquement garantie, et avec elle la certitude d’une catastrophe encore plus terrible.

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#Israël #Palestine ##Franz_Fanon #vengeance #luttes_de_libération_nationale #extermination_des_juifs_par_les_Nazis #dôme_de_fer_idéologique_d’Israël #pathologie_de_la_vengeance #culte_de_la_force #crimes_de_guerre #crimes_contre_l’humanité

Determined to overcome its humiliation by Hamas, the IDF has been no different from – and no more intelligent than – the French in Algeria, the British in Kenya, or the Americans after 9/11. Israel’s disregard for Palestinian life has never been more callous or more flagrant, and it’s being fuelled by a discourse for which the adjective ‘genocidal’ no longer seems like hyperbole.

In just the first six days of air strikes, Israel dropped more than six thousand bombs, and more than twice as many civilians have already died under bombardment as were killed on 7 October. These atrocities are not excesses or ‘collateral damage’: they occur by design .

As Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, puts it, ‘we are fighting human animals and we will act accordingly.’ ( Fanon: ‘when the colonist speaks of the colonised he uses zoological terms’ and ‘refers constantly to the bestiary ’.)

Fanon : « le colonisé est un persécuté qui rêve constamment de devenir persécuteur. »

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It is, of course, true that Fanon advocated armed struggle against colonialism, but he referred to the use of violence by the colonised as ‘disintoxicating’, not ‘cleansing’, a widely circulated mistranslation. His understanding of the more murderous forms of anti-colonial violence was that of a psychiatrist, diagnosing a vengeful pathology formed under colonial oppression, rather than offering a prescription. It was natural, he wrote, that ‘the very same people who had it constantly drummed into them that the only language they understood was that of force, now decide to express themselves by force’. Evoking the phenomenological experience of anti-colonial fighters, he noted that in the early stage of revolt, ‘life can only materialise from the rotting cadaver of the colonist.’

But Fanon also wrote hauntingly of the effects of war trauma – including the trauma suffered by anti-colonial rebels who killed civilians. And in a passage that few of his latter-day admirers have cited, he warned that

racism, hatred, resentment and the ‘legitimate desire for revenge’ alone cannot nurture a war of liberation. These flashes of consciousness which fling the body into a zone of turbulence, which plunge it into a virtually pathological dreamlike state where the sight of the other induces vertigo, where my blood calls for the blood of the other, this passionate outburst in the opening phase, disintegrates if it is left to feed on itself. Of course the countless abuses by the colonialist forces reintroduce emotional factors into the struggle, give the militant further cause to hate and new reasons to set off in search of a ‘colonist to kill’. But, day by day, leaders will come to realise that hatred is not an agenda.

To organise an effective movement, Fanon believed, anti-colonial fighters would have to overcome the temptations of primordial revenge, and develop what Martin Luther King, citing Reinhold Niebuhr, called a ‘spiritual discipline against resentment’. In line with this commitment, Fanon’s vision of decolonisation embraced not only colonised Muslims, freeing themselves from the yoke of colonial oppression, but members of the European minority and Jews (themselves a formerly ‘indigenous’ group in Algeria), so long as they joined the struggle for liberation. In A Dying Colonialism, he paid eloquent tribute to non-Muslims in Algeria who, together with their Muslim comrades, imagined a future in which Algerian identity and citizenship would be defined by common ideals, not ethnicity or faith. That this vision perished, thanks to French violence and the FLN’s authoritarian Islamic nationalism, is a tragedy from which Algeria still has not recovered. The destruction of this vision, upheld by intellectuals such as Edward Said and a small but influential minority of Palestinian and Israeli leftists, has been no less damaging for the people of Israel-Palestine.

‘What fills me with dread,’ the Palestinian historian Yezid Sayigh told me in an email,

is that we are at an inflection point in world history. Deep ongoing shifts over at least the past two decades that have been giving rise to right-wing and even fascist movements (and governments) were already building up, so I see Hamas’s slaughter of civilians as roughly equivalent to Sarajevo 1914 or maybe Kristallnacht 1938 in accelerating or unleashing much broader trends. On a ‘lesser scale’, I’m furious at Hamas for basically erasing all we fought for over decades, and aghast at those who can’t maintain the critical faculty to distinguish opposition to Israeli occupation and war crimes, and who turn a blind eye to what Hamas did in southern Israeli kibbutzim. Ethno-tribalism.

The ethno-tribalist fantasies of the decolonial left, with their Fanon recitations and posters of paragliders, are indeed perverse. As the Palestinian writer Karim Kattan wrote in a moving essay for Le Monde, it seems to have become impossible for some of Palestine’s self-styled friends to ‘say: massacres like those that took place at the Tribe of Nova festival are an outrageous horror, and Israel is a ferocious colonial power.’ In an age of defeat and demobilisation, in which the most extreme voices have been amplified by social media, a cult of force appears to have overtaken parts of the left, and short-circuited any empathy for Israeli civilians.

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