Overview
En 1944, la corriente sionista europea estaba a punto de lograr el objetivo de fundar su propio Estado en territorio palestino. Fueron muchos los intelectuales que participaron de este planteamiento, entre ellos Hannah Arendt, quien elaboró un breve estudio acerca de la viabilidad del proyecto, posicionándose a favor de la creación del Estado de Israel, aunque con ciertas reticencias: este asentamiento no debía realizarse sin establecer las condiciones con claridad, debido al peligro de desembocar en una convivencia truncada y hostil. Advirtió, además, de que Estados Unidos podría aprovecharse de la situación para apropiarse del petróleo de la región.
Sobre Palestina alberga una funesta premonición que había permanecido inédita hasta hoy. Tanto en el prólogo como en el epílogo, el filósofo Thomas Meyer da cuenta del contexto del manuscrito de la pensadora judía y del porqué de que nunca se publicara, amén de las presiones recibidas por parte de los comités de apoyo sionista. En este volumen también se incorpora el memorándum titulado "El problema de los refugiados palestinos", redactado por varios autores en 1958 -entre los que figura, a disgusto de ella, Hannah Arendt- y publicado por el Institute for Mediterranean Affairs, un estudio en forma de esclarecedor catálogo de cuestiones acerca del conflicto palestino, redactado diez años después de que el Estado de Israel se hiciera realidad, del modo en que Arendt había temido y pronosticado.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A valuable and unpublished contribution by Hannah Arendt to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In 1944, the European Zionist current was about to achieve the objective of founding its own State in Palestinian territory. Many intellectuals participated in its planning, among them Hannah Arendt, who elaborated a brief study about the viability of the project, leaning in favor of creating the State of Israel, though with certain reservations: this settlement should not be built without establishing clear conditions, due to the dangers that it could disembogue in a curtailed and hostile interaction. She also warned that the United States might try to take advantage of the situation to get hold of the region’s oil.
On Palestine harbors a fateful premonition that had been kept unpublished till today. In both the prologue and the epilogue, philosopher Thomas Meyer gives account of the context of the manuscript by this Jewish thinker and why it was never published, aside from the pressure by Zionist support committees. This volume also includes the memorandum entitled “The Problem of Palestinian Refugees,” written by several authors in 1958—featuring, to her disgust, Hannah Arendt—and published by the Institute for Mediterranean Affairs, a study in the form of an enlightening catalogue of issues regarding the Palestinian conflict, written ten years after the State of Israel became a reality, in the way Arendt had feared and predicted.
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