Revaluando el sionismo y la causa palestina: intelectuales argentinos frente al conflicto árabe-israelí. Recepción y debates durante la Guerra de los Seis Días (1967)

Abstract

Las páginas que siguen se proponen hacer un relevamiento de aquellas intervenciones en función de pensar qué otras dimensiones del escenario internacional movilizaron los debates en el plano local. Los intercambios en torno a la legitimidad del sionismo y la causa palestina permitirán advertir las múltiples dimensiones que interpelaba el desarrollo de un nuevo episodio bélico en Medio Oriente: aspectos identitarios, agendas políticas, trayectorias y posiciones al interior del campo intelectual argentino, entre otras. En ese sentido, el artículo intenta sopesar de qué modo los debates en torno a un conflicto extra-territorial constituyeron, a la vez, una plataforma en la cual vehiculizar posiciones en torno a la agenda política e intelectual de carácter nacional. A través del análisis específico de los debates que precipitó esta contienda, el artículo hipotetiza que la recepción de conflictos internacionales constituyen un escenario sobre el cual los actores introducen, también, sentidos, prácticas y representaciones en torno a la arena política local.

One of the representations commonly held about the 1960’s is the enshrinement of the public intellectual as one of the period’s most prominent figures. The paths, programs and positions assumed by those personalities who encouraged the public debate, contemplating a stage with diverse alternatives to foster “liberation” (be it international, national or individual), was one of the period’s characteristic traits. At the national level, most studies enshrined a certain figure of the public intellectual, defined by the positions assumed with regards to a specific agenda focused on issues such as the redefinition of the relationship between Peronism and the left; and —in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution— the option for guerrilla warfare as a valid alternative in the struggle for a more egalitarian society. However, many of the intellectuals who participated in those debates —as well as many who did not, or at least never received much academic recognition— also took positions on a broader universe of topics, which were particularly significant in that historical context. Such was the case, for example, of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the tensions arising around the Palestine cause and Zionism. This paper proposes to draw a map of those interventions, trying to evaluate the ways in which these debates on an extra-territorial conflict became a platform for conveying positions that were in fact stemming from the political and intellectual agenda at the national level.