By Gideon LevyJanuary 30, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - In a
flimsy hospital gown, injured, barefoot and
confused, without food or water, with a catheter
attached and wearing a diaper, Gaza resident Omar
Abu Jeriban was tossed on the side of the road on
June 13, 2008 and left to die. Chaim Levinson
reported the story in Haaretz at the time, David
Grossman was appalled by it.
The other day, the entire
Palestinian people became Abu Jeriban. The role
of the police who tossed out a wounded man in the
middle of the night was taken by the American
president, Donald Trump, and the Israeli prime
minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The role of the
hospital that just stood by was taken by the world.
In 2008 it was a human tragedy; two days ago, it
was a national tragedy: The White House declared the
start of the third Nakba. The Palestinians were
tossed by the side of the road and abandoned to
their fate. Right-wing Israel is delighted,
left-wing Israel is lost as usual, and the world is
silent. It’s the end of the world.
The White House looked like Habayit Hayehudi the
other day, awash in kippot and Yiddishkeit. Does one
have to be an anti-Semite to wonder about this? With
all the wheeler-dealer peacemakers – all these
Friedmans, Adelsons, Greenblatts, Kushners and
Berkowitzes, these supposedly fair and unbiased
mediators, it’s impossible to even think about the
start of a fair accord.
