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标 题: Antisemitism -- By Oriana Fallaci
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年01月24日12:45:04 星期五), 站内信件
Saturday, April 13, 2002
I just got back from a two-week trip to Italy, during which I was finally ab
le to purchase a copy of the book-length version of Anger and Pride. (About
which more later.) Literally moments before getting on the plane to return h
ome, I picked up a copy of the Corriere only to see la Fallaci herself on th
e front page. She has published a new article on European antisemitism. As u
sual, she does not pull any punches. (Note: I myself saw--and was appalled a
t--the newspaper article she refers to with its comparison of Israeli deaths
from terrorism to auto fatalities. It appeared in the Corriere itself.)
Oriana Fallaci on Antisemitism
(April 12, 2002)
I find it shameful that in Italy there should be a procession of individuals
dressed as suicide bombers who spew vile abuse at Israel, hold up photograp
hs of Israeli leaders on whose foreheads they have drawn the swasitka, incit
e people to hate the Jews. And who, in order to see Jews once again in the e
xtermination camps, in the gas chambers, in the ovens of Dachau and Mauthaus
en and Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen et cetera, would sell their own mother t
o a harem.
I find it shameful that the Catholic Church should permit a bishop, one with
lodgings in the Vatican no less, a saintly man who was found in Jerusalem w
ith an arsenal of arms and explosives hidden in the secret compartments of h
is sacred Mercedes, to participate in that procession and plant himself in f
ront of a microphone to thank in the name of God the suicide bombers who mas
sacre the Jews in pizzerias and supermarkets. To call them “martyrs who go
to their deaths as to a party.”
I find it shameful that in France, the France of Liberty-Equality-Fraternity
, they burn synagogues, terrorize Jews, profane their cemeteries. I find it
shameful that the youth of Holland and Germany and Denmark flaunt the kaffia
h just as Mussolini’s avant garde used to flaunt the club and the fascist b
adge. I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe Pales
tinian students sponsor and nurture anti-semitism. That in Sweden they asked
that the Nobel Peace Prize given to Shimon Peres in 1994 be taken back and
conferred on the dove with the olive branch in his mouth, that is on Arafat.
I find it shameful that the distinguished members of the Committee, a Commi
ttee that (it would appear) rewards political color rather than merit, shoul
d take this request into consideration and even respond to it. In hell the N
obel Prize honors he who does not receive it.
I find it shameful (we’re back in Italy) that state-run television stations
contribute to the resurgent antisemitism, crying only over Palestinian deat
hs while playing down Israeli deaths, glossing over them in unwilling tones.
I find it shameful that in their debates they host with much deference the
scoundrels with turban or kaffiah who yesterday sang hymns to the slaughter
at New York and today sing hymns to the slaughters at Jerusalem, at Haifa, a
t Netanya, at Tel Aviv. I find it shameful that the press does the same, tha
t it is indignant because Israeli tanks surround the Church of the Nativity
in Bethlehem, that it is not indignant because inside that same church two h
undred Palestinian terrorists well armed with machine guns and munitions and
explosives (among them are various leaders of Hamas and Al-Aqsa) are not un
welcome guests of the monks (who then accept bottles of mineral water and ja
rs of honey from the soldiers of those tanks). I find it shameful that, in g
iving the number of Israelis killed since the beginning of the Second Intifa
da (four hundred twelve), a noted daily newspaper found it appropriate to un
derline in capital letters that more people are killed in their traffic acci
dents. (Six hundred a year).
I find it shameful that the Roman Observer, the newspaper of the Pope--a Pop
e who not long ago left in the Wailing Wall a letter of apology for the Jews
--accuses of extermination a people who were exterminated in the millions by
Christians. By Europeans. I find it shameful that this newspaper denies to
the survivors of that people (survivors who still have numbers tattooed on t
heir arms) the right to react, to defend themselves, to not be exterminated
again. I find it shameful that in the name of Jesus Christ (a Jew without wh
om they would all be unemployed), the priests of our parishes or Social Cent
ers or whatever they are flirt with the assassins of those in Jerusalem who
cannot go to eat a pizza or buy some eggs without being blown up. I find it
shameful that they are on the side of the very ones who inaugurated terroris
m, killing us on airplanes, in airports, at the Olympics, and who today ente
rtain themselves by killing western journalists. By shooting them, abducting
them, cutting their throats, decapitating them. (There’s someone in Italy
who, since the appearance of Anger and Pride, would like to do the same to m
e. Citing verses of the Koran he exorts his “brothers” in the mosques and
the Islamic Community to chastise me in the name of Allah. To kill me. Or ra
ther to die with me. Since he’s someone who speaks English well, I’ll resp
ond to him in English: “Fuck you.”)
I find it shameful that almost all of the left, the left that twenty years a
go permitted one of its union processionals to deposit a coffin (as a mafios
o warning) in front of the synagogue of Rome, forgets the contribution made
by the Jews to the fight against fascism. Made by Carlo and Nello Rossini, f
or example, by Leone Ginzburg, by Umberto Terracini, by Leo Valiani, by Emil
io Sereni, by women like my friend Anna Maria Enriques Agnoletti who was sho
t at Florence on June 12, 1944, by seventy-five of the three-hundred-thirty-
five people killed at the Fosse Ardeatine, by the infinite others killed und
er torture or in combat or before firing squads. (The companions, the teache
rs, of my infancy and my youth.) I find it shameful that in part through the
fault of the left--or rather, primarily through the fault of the left (thin
k of the left that inaugurates its congresses applauding the representative
of the PLO, leader in Italy of the Palestinians who want the destruction of
Israel)--Jews in Italian cities are once again afraid. And in French cities
and Dutch cities and Danish cities and German cities, it is the same. I find
it shameful that Jews tremble at the passage of the scoundrels dressed like
suicide bombers just as they trembled during Krystallnacht, the night in wh
ich Hitler gave free rein to the Hunt of the Jews. I find it shameful that i
n obedience to the stupid, vile, dishonest, and for them extremely advantage
ous fashion of Political Correctness the usual opportunists--or better the u
sual parasites--exploit the word Peace. That in the name of the word Peace,
by now more debauched than the words Love and Humanity, they absolve one sid
e alone of its hate and bestiality. That in the name of a pacifism (read con
formism) delegated to the singing crickets and buffoons who used to lick Pol
Pot’s feet they incite people who are confused or ingenuous or intimidated
. Trick them, corrupt them, carry them back a half century to the time of th
e yellow star on the coat. These charlatans who care about the Palestinians
as much as I care about the charlatans. That is not at all.
I find it shameful that many Italians and many Europeans have chosen as thei
r standard-bearer the gentleman (or so it is polite to say) Arafat. This non
entity who thanks to the money of the Saudi Royal Family plays the Mussolini
ad perpetuum and in his megalomania believes he will pass into History as t
he George Washington of Palestine. This ungrammatical wretch who when I inte
rviewed him was unable even to put together a complete sentence, to make art
iculate conversation. So that to put it all together, write it, publish it,
cost me a tremendous effort and I concluded that compared to him even Ghadda
fi sounds like Leonardo da Vinci. This false warrior who always goes around
in uniform like Pinochet, never putting on civilian garb, and yet despite th
is has never participated in a battle. War is something he sends, has always
sent, others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. Thi
s pompous incompetent who playing the part of Head of State caused the failu
re of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton’s mediation. No-no-I-want-Jerusa
lem-all-to-myself. This eternal liar who has a flash of sincerity only when
(in private) he denies Israel’s right to exist, and who as I say in my book
contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, l
ies even if you ask him what time it is, so that you can never trust him. Ne
ver! With him you will always wind up systematically betrayed. This eternal
terrorist who knows only how to be a terrorist (while keeping himself safe)
and who during the Seventies, that is when I interviewed him, even trained t
he terrorists of Baader-Meinhof. With them, children ten years of age. Poor
children. (Now he trains them to become suicide bombers. A hundred baby suic
ide bombers are in the works: a hundred!). This weathercock who keeps his wi
fe at Paris, served and revered like a queen, and keeps his people down in t
he shit. He takes them out of the shit only to send them to die, to kill and
to die, like the eighteen year old girls who in order to earn equality with
men have to strap on explosives and disintegrate with their victims. And ye
t many Italians love him, yes. Just like they loved Mussolini. And many othe
r Europeans do the same.
I find it shameful and see in all this the rise of a new fascism, a new nazi
sm. A fascism, a nazism, that much more grim and revolting because it is con
ducted and nourished by those who hypocritically pose as do-gooders, progres
sives, communists, pacifists, Catholics or rather Christians, and who have t
he gall to label a warmonger anyone like me who screams the truth.
I see it, yes, and I say the following. I have never been tender with the tr
agic and Shakespearean figure Sharon. (“I know you’ve come to add another
scalp to your necklace,” he murmured almost with sadness when I went to int
erview him in 1982.) I have often had disagreements with the Israelis, ugly
ones, and in the past I have defended the Palestinians a great deal. Maybe m
ore than they deserved. But I stand with Israel, I stand with the Jews. I st
and just as I stood as a young girl during the time when I fought with them,
and when the Anna Marias were shot. I defend their right to exist, to defen
d themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time. And disgu
sted by the antisemitism of many Italians, of many Europeans, I am ashamed o
f this shame that dishonors my Country and Europe. At best, it is not a comm
unity of States, but a pit of Pontius Pilates. And even if all the inhabitan
ts of this planet were to think otherwise, I would continue to think so.
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