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Israël zegt geen sorry meer
Per 1 juli 2017 kreeg Derk Walters geen nieuwe werkvergunning meer van de Israëlische autoriteiten, waarmee er een einde kwam aan zijn tijd als buitenlandcorrespondent voor NRC Handelsblad. De krant schreef het besluit niet anders te kunnen zien dan als "een poging van Israël om vrije en kritische nieuwsgaring over dat land te belemmeren'.
In zijn boek beschrijft Walters zijn uitzetting als een goed voorbeeld van Israëls toenemende zelfverzekerdheid. Zo schaamt het land zich niet langer voor de bezetting, maar zegt het nu openlijk: de Westelijke Jordaanoever behoort ons toe. Voor een buitenlandse journalist betekent dit extra inzet en scherpte, meedogenloosheid wat betreft de feiten en een rechte rug. In Israël zegt geen sorry meer schrijft Derk Walters aan de hand van zijn eigen ervaringen over de druk die wordt uitgeoefend door de autoriteiten, en op de sociale media. Israël levert een continue pr-strijd, die volgens het land zelf letterlijk van levensbelang is. Maar waar brengt dit Israël naartoe?
In zijn boek beschrijft Walters zijn uitzetting als een goed voorbeeld van Israëls toenemende zelfverzekerdheid. Zo schaamt het land zich niet langer voor de bezetting, maar zegt het nu openlijk: de Westelijke Jordaanoever behoort ons toe. Voor een buitenlandse journalist betekent dit extra inzet en scherpte, meedogenloosheid wat betreft de feiten en een rechte rug. In Israël zegt geen sorry meer schrijft Derk Walters aan de hand van zijn eigen ervaringen over de druk die wordt uitgeoefend door de autoriteiten, en op de sociale media. Israël levert een continue pr-strijd, die volgens het land zelf letterlijk van levensbelang is. Maar waar brengt dit Israël naartoe?
352 pages, Paperback
First published May 24, 2018
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August 20, 2021
In general good book and a critical voice against Israeli racist regime, but I did have some problems with some biased language of the author.
For examples: Every time that Walters writes about israeli atrocities the next sentence will be something like "But Palestinians aren't saint either" like his book didn't include also very-much-detailed reporting about "terror attacks". That is also a thing, there are some numbers in the book but it is always X jewish israelies were murdered in the period between Y and Z, but never how many Palestinians were murdered, killed and executed at that time. Even when he mentioned the jewish terrorist Baruch Goldstein he writes that Goldstein conducted a blood bath but doesn't mention any numbers (29 killed, 125 wounded), nor the fact that the victims were slaughtered inside a mosque.
When Walters wrote about the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian village Umm al-Hiran he mentioned that a villager and an israeli policeman *died* in the evacuation in 2017 but failed to mention that the villager who had a name, Yacoub Abu Al-Qia'an (it's also a thing that all israeli victims are mentioned not only with name but he also tells the reader what their names mean in Hebrew!) was shot by israeli forces WHILE DRIVING AWAY from the scene and the accident that killed the policeman was because, well, a dead driver.. Walters also doesn't think the campaign to vilify the 47-year-old school teacher Yacoub Abu Al-Qia’an as terrorist affiliated with the Islamic State and that it took 3 years to clear his names from the broadly media unfounded accusations were worth mentioning.
Other example are:
1. calling the slaughters of Gaza "the war with Hamas" and also numerous times he writes that Hamas is basically "the boss of Gaza", why not use the politically correct term Government? Hamas is Gaza's Administration.
2. He writes a couple of times that Palestinians attacking/stabbing civilians aren't justified by the international right of occupied people to resist occupation but a couple of times he writes that attacking soldiers isn't justified by the international right of occupied people to resist occupation. a change of one word "civilians" vs. "soldiers" and you get propaganda because attacking military force IS justified by the international right of occupied people to resist occupation
3. The only examples of BDS that Walters mentioned in the books are of Palestinian doctors whose articles are not published in every medial journal because they work in israeli universities so the only voice about BDS is "boycott harms the Palestinians"
The last part "Geen sorry meer" (="No more sorry") is quite good and important. The analyse of how the Status Que is not static and actually changes and how Trump administration was a momentum moment for israel is very good and depressing. It is good to have a dutch reporter admits the 2 state solution is not only dead, but actually killed by israel's settlement project. However, Walters dismiss the One democratic state solution too quickly.
For examples: Every time that Walters writes about israeli atrocities the next sentence will be something like "But Palestinians aren't saint either" like his book didn't include also very-much-detailed reporting about "terror attacks". That is also a thing, there are some numbers in the book but it is always X jewish israelies were murdered in the period between Y and Z, but never how many Palestinians were murdered, killed and executed at that time. Even when he mentioned the jewish terrorist Baruch Goldstein he writes that Goldstein conducted a blood bath but doesn't mention any numbers (29 killed, 125 wounded), nor the fact that the victims were slaughtered inside a mosque.
When Walters wrote about the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian village Umm al-Hiran he mentioned that a villager and an israeli policeman *died* in the evacuation in 2017 but failed to mention that the villager who had a name, Yacoub Abu Al-Qia'an (it's also a thing that all israeli victims are mentioned not only with name but he also tells the reader what their names mean in Hebrew!) was shot by israeli forces WHILE DRIVING AWAY from the scene and the accident that killed the policeman was because, well, a dead driver.. Walters also doesn't think the campaign to vilify the 47-year-old school teacher Yacoub Abu Al-Qia’an as terrorist affiliated with the Islamic State and that it took 3 years to clear his names from the broadly media unfounded accusations were worth mentioning.
Other example are:
1. calling the slaughters of Gaza "the war with Hamas" and also numerous times he writes that Hamas is basically "the boss of Gaza", why not use the politically correct term Government? Hamas is Gaza's Administration.
2. He writes a couple of times that Palestinians attacking/stabbing civilians aren't justified by the international right of occupied people to resist occupation but a couple of times he writes that attacking soldiers isn't justified by the international right of occupied people to resist occupation. a change of one word "civilians" vs. "soldiers" and you get propaganda because attacking military force IS justified by the international right of occupied people to resist occupation
3. The only examples of BDS that Walters mentioned in the books are of Palestinian doctors whose articles are not published in every medial journal because they work in israeli universities so the only voice about BDS is "boycott harms the Palestinians"
The last part "Geen sorry meer" (="No more sorry") is quite good and important. The analyse of how the Status Que is not static and actually changes and how Trump administration was a momentum moment for israel is very good and depressing. It is good to have a dutch reporter admits the 2 state solution is not only dead, but actually killed by israel's settlement project. However, Walters dismiss the One democratic state solution too quickly.
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