Les “indignés” israéliens et leurs références

Les “indignés” israéliens et leurs références

Les événements israéliens avec le surgissement d’un mouvement d’“indignation”, – mot-code désormais classique pour désigner une certaine forme de résistance au Système, – sont de plus en plus interprétés avec à l’esprit la référence du “printemps arabe”. Divers slogans adoptés par les protestataires (“Walk Like an Egyptien”) y font directement allusion. Le Miami Herald reprend ce thème dans un article du 10 août 2011.

Le reportage ne limite d’ailleurs pas la référence au “printemps arabe” mais également à d’autres mouvements de type “indignation”, comme celui d’Espagne. Cela permet de mieux encore saisir l’originalité de ces connexions, en éliminant complètement toutes les références politiques favorisées par le Système pour entretenir les antagonismes construits sur ses propres intérêts et les tensions artificielles qui vont avec. Il s’agit d’évoluer vers la perception que tous ces mouvements, au-delà des situations locales et régionales, témoignent d’une réaction commune, à la mesure de la crise générale, d'un caractère anti-Système (type système antiSystème, selon une dynamique de chaîne crisique). Dans ce cas, l’acte même de l’“indignation”, avec les effets psychologiques impliqués et sa concordance avec le mouvement métahistorique de la crise générale, importe infiniment plus que les résultats qu’on peut en attendre ou en espérer.

«Israelis, living in an island of relative freedom and comfort and surrounded by countries they generally view with disdain, are not accustomed to taking their cues from Arabs. So the idea that the eruption of a mass movement protesting Israel's corrosive social inequality could have been influenced – even inspired – by the Mideast's Arab Spring revolts, for many Israelis, just doesn't compute.

»But the traces of influence were there as a quarter million Israelis took to the streets last weekend to protest a stratospheric cost of living, poor public services and one of the highest income gaps in the developed world. Chants echoed those that rang out in the streets of Arab capitals, and tent protest camps on the style of those in Cairo's Tahrir Square have arisen in the streets of Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities.

»Both movements also shared a dramatic suddenness: Much like Arabs had for decades seemed resigned to dictatorships, Israelis had taken economic divisions as a fact of life, until each decided they had had enough.

»The Israelis aren't calling for regime change, and their country already has a democracy. But some Israelis embrace the connection and even find a pleasant surprise in the thought that, despite decades of hostility and distrust, the Mideast antagonists share similar hopes for a better life. “It's definitely not an accident,” said Iddo Felsenthal, a 27-year-old school teacher and protester. “I personally hope that it would lead to a better understanding between Arabs and Jews.”

»Felsenthal was sitting in Jerusalem's downtown Independence Park, where protesters camped in some 30 tents. Men and women sat in the shade. Some scrawled signs. A man worshipped among them, swaying as he recited prayers. A dog pestered protesters to toss him a ball. Children played on the grass. A slogan, “The tent city is just the beginning,” was emblazoned in Hebrew on a large sheet. […]

»The wider public who dove into the moment in recent days may not feel inspired by the Arab Spring, but some of those who initially organized Israel's protests acknowledge the influence, in some cases citing also Spain – where young people have been protesting rampant joblessness for months, in some cases erecting tent camps and scuffling with police.

»“People saw that other people managed to leave their houses and demand their rights. People here were quite desperate – but quiet and even numb,” said protest leader Stav Shaffir. “But in Spain ... and the Arab countries – to demand their rights and cope with violence and challenges was of course a great inspiration,” she said.

»In Cairo's Tahrir Square, where hundreds of thousands demonstrated until President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, the signature chant was, “The people demand the fall of the regime.” The same cadence is in the Israelis' chant, “The people want social justice.”

»One sign in the Tel Aviv demonstration Saturday scrawled the Arabic word and anti-Mubarak slogan, “Irhal” – “Leave.” Underneath, the protester wrote in Hebrew, “Egypt - it's here.”»

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