La Razón habla - I

Decido inaugurar esta nueva sección, que consistirá de alguna opinión que me parezca exprese un punto completamente razonable, y de una forma tan clara y precisa, que sea digna de respeto.

Uso la palabra razonable en un sentido práctico, esto es, que discurra sobre un tema moral.


La primera entrega de esta ya aclamada saga, contará con la última pronunciación política del excelente filósofo y pacifista, Bertrand Russell, de hace casi 39 años, justamente sobre un tema que se mantiene actual; hablo del lamentable conflicto de Israel y Palestina. Veamos.

The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was "given" by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East. We are frequently told that we must sympathise with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. [...] What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy.