In genere, la pace si fa col nemico, diceva anche (o forse soprattutto?) Henry Kissinger. E per fare la pace bisogna avere un obiettivo. E’ la sostanza non solo di un numero sempre più alto di commenti in giro per Italia, Europa, Stati Uniti, ma anche di un numero crescente di intellettuali israeliani. Compreso Shlomo Ben Ami, ex ministro degli esteri, che il 6 marzo ha scritto un commento per il libanese Daily Star (e questo, nonostante Libano e Israele siano ancora paesi in conflitto). Scrive (via la Washington Note di Steve Clemons): “Israel must change its strategic objective in Gaza from toppling Hamas to rescuing the Annapolis process, and with it the last chance for a two-state solution. This requires not only a cease-fire with Hamas, but also a return to a Palestinian national unity government that alone can offer the peace process the vital legitimacy that it lacks today. Without the resurrection of the Mecca agreement, which put Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization in a coalition government, Hamas cannot expect to secure its control of Gaza and the PLO cannot deliver a peace settlement with Israel.
The notion, dear to the architects of the Annapolis process, that peace can be achieved only when a wedge is driven between Palestinian “moderates” and “extremists” is a misconception. A Palestinian national-unity government would not impede a settlement for the simple reason that the moderates now negotiating with Israel must in any case strive for an agreement that the extremists could not label as a treacherous sell-out. Hence, the difference between the Palestinian positions in the current negotiations and those they may hold when a unity government is restored would only be very minor”.
