La culpa

Una de las cosas más impresionantes que le ocurren a uno cuando abandona la adolescencia política es comprender cuán injusto ha sido con Israel. De hecho, la capacidad de una persona de discernir que los palestinos y sus defensores más acérrimos participan en buena medida en el destino miserable de los primeros es la garantía de que ha abandonado la época de las ensoñaciones románticas y su fascinante desfile de héroes y villanos.
Hasta un medio digital tan sectario como el Huffington Post parece comprenderlo. Ya que, el pasado Marzo, los editores de esta web aflojaron su política editorial y permitieron que se publicase este artículo, de la egipcia Nonie Darwishque, cuyo padre murió luchando contra el ejército israelí, que pone radicalmente en entredicho la historia del conflicto palestino-israelí en que la mayoría de lo lectores del Huffington creen a pies juntillas:

...Rarely a week goes by without a politician or organization deploring the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. But I do not hear anyone describe its root cause: 60 years of Arab policy aimed at maintaining Palestinians as stateless refugees in order to pressure Israel
[La actual situación de Gaza] is the legacy of the Arab world's Palestinian refugee policy, started 60 years ago, when the Arab League implemented special laws regarding Palestinians that all Arab countries had to abide by. Arab countries could not absorb Palestinians. Even if a Palestinian married a citizen of an Arab country, that Palestinian could not become a citizen of his or her spouse's country. A Palestinian can be born, live and die in an Arab country, but never gain its citizenship. Even now I receive e-mails from Palestinians telling me they cannot have a Syrian passport, for example, and must remain Palestinian even though they have never set foot in the West Bank or Gaza. Forcing the Palestinian identity on them is designed to perpetuate the Palestinian refugee status. Palestinians have been used and abused by Arab nations, and by Palestinian terrorists, for the purpose of destroying Israel...