Hassan Nasrallah van de Libanese bevrijdingsbeweging Hezbollah veroorzaakte in Israël minstens zoveel ophef met zijn toespraak over Israëlische lichaamsdelen als Geert Wilders hier doet met zijn provocerende uitspraken. Voor het overige vergelijk ik Nasrallah echter liever met Hitler.
In Israël kan menigeen Nasrallah's bloed wel drinken, en dat is geen antisemitische fabel maar een natuurlijke menselijke reaktie:
Nasrallah has got "body parts" of Israeli soldiers. Not just regular body parts, he says. Special ones. Heads, hands, legs. Probably other parts too. Trading in body parts and boasting about body parts is the trademark of a barbaric culture.
Palestine police reports -- and photographs -- recorded how Arab terrorists used to rearrange body parts of Jewish victims creatively - it is a specialty of the wonderful Islamic culture: genitals in eye sockets and mouth.
Does anyone want some body parts from Nasrallah? Indeed, he has body parts too - Nasrallah has a head for example. At present, it is attached to his body. Would the Lebanese people, Israel and the entire Middle East suffer if Nasrallah's head was no longer attached to his body? Is it a really evil suggestion? Is Nasrallah's life more important than those of the Lebanese legislators he helped to kill?
Should we trade those body parts that Nasrallah has for something? How about body parts for body parts?
Nasrallah has got "body parts" of Israeli soldiers. Not just regular body parts, he says. Special ones. Heads, hands, legs. Probably other parts too. Trading in body parts and boasting about body parts is the trademark of a barbaric culture.
Palestine police reports -- and photographs -- recorded how Arab terrorists used to rearrange body parts of Jewish victims creatively - it is a specialty of the wonderful Islamic culture: genitals in eye sockets and mouth.
Does anyone want some body parts from Nasrallah? Indeed, he has body parts too - Nasrallah has a head for example. At present, it is attached to his body. Would the Lebanese people, Israel and the entire Middle East suffer if Nasrallah's head was no longer attached to his body? Is it a really evil suggestion? Is Nasrallah's life more important than those of the Lebanese legislators he helped to kill?
Should we trade those body parts that Nasrallah has for something? How about body parts for body parts?
Wouter
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Provocative trade in corpses
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Provocative trade in corpses
By Haaretz Editorial
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/946522.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/946522.html
The responses to Hassan Nasrallah's speech stating that Hezbollah was in possession of the remains of Israel Defense Forces soldiers who died in the Second Lebanon War range from demands by ministers and Knesset members to assassinate Nasrallah to an attempt to interpret his comments as an expression of weakness. The voices of the relatives of abducted IDF soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser could also be heard amid the tumult, saying that as long as the Hezbollah leader was not offering negotiations for their release, he should be ignored.
Nasrallah, the father of the theory that Israel is weaker than a spider's web, has already proven that he is attentive to the mood of Israeli society and knows how to get on its nerves and generate debate among its leadership on all matters related to the redemption of captives, whether alive or dead. In stating that his organization has the body parts of soldiers killed in battle, Nasrallah has hit at the heart of Israeli sensitivity.
The Israeli attitude toward the dead and dead bodies is loaded and complex. The dignity afforded the dead and the consideration granted to the family of the dead are indeed important values, for the sake of which the IDF and the State of Israel invest a lot of resources into identifying corpses. Nonetheless, conducting negotiations with Hezbollah as a result of a blatant provocation would be a serious deviation from the list of appropriate acts carried out in the name of these values. It would even be a serious distortion, undermining Israeli society's self-confidence and dragging it into a depressing and futile deal in death.
Most of the cabinet ministers have so far been wise not to cooperate with Nasrallah's provocative trafficking in bodies and emotions. A few did get swept away in their reactions, but ultimately, it's clear that Israel will not let itself fall into the new abyss toward which Nasrallah wants to drag it.
Even if the government encounters pressure from those who rely on halakha (Jewish religious law) and the obligation of the living to bury their dead, it must understand that they are mistaken and misleading. As in other matters concerning the dead, such as organ donation and autopsies, the halakha regarding burying the dead is used as though it provided a definitive answer - even though the determining halakhic principle regarding live captives and certainly regarding corpses and body parts is that they should not be redeemed at an excessive cost.
Former IDF chief rabbi Brigadier General (res.) Yisrael Weiss expressed this in a reserved and balanced way yesterday, saying in an Army Radio interview that while we should try hard to bury the body parts of the dead, it should not come at any price. He supported a proposal made in Jerusalem whereby Israel will discuss the body parts only in the context of the ongoing negotiations for the release of Regev and Goldwasser.
The government would do well to stick to that position and treat Nasrallah with the repugnance due him, while ignoring - in the name of the dignity of the dead and the living - his recent macabre call for opening additional negotiations.
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