****************************************************************************** Please visit the controversial LIBERTY LIBRARY BOOKSTORE ONLINE! The store now has the full Liberty Library catalog and a shopping cart system! http://www.spotlight.org/store/commerce.cgi? ****************************************************************************** In this issue: Israeli Soldiers Targeting Youth Of Palestine How Much Money Will it Take to Stop Mideast Bloodshed? Mideast Region Erupts Into All Out Warfare Israeli Soldiers Targeting Youth Of Palestine Palestinian kids have be come the latest innocent targets of Israeli soldiers. Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT By Christopher Bollyn Israeli soldiers have been “shooting to kill”—or maim—young Palestinians pro test ing the Zionist occupation of their homeland. Evidence strongly suggests that the Israeli army has commanded its troops to “aim for the whites of their eyes” leaving many Palestinian children blinded for life. Ziad Ahmed Farrah, 20, clearly remembers being 100 yards away from Israeli soldiers in Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem when one of them fired a rubber-coated steel bullet into his left eye. “I was hit in my eye and my arm,” Ziad said. “My friends carried me about 50 me ters to the ambulance. I arrived at the eye hospital at exactly 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 30.” Ziad is one of many patients who have come to St. John’s Opthalmologic Hos pital in East Jerusalem since Friday, Sept. 29, with eye injuries sustained in Israeli attacks against Palestinians. “All we can do for him now is to repair the fractures and fit him for an artificial eye,” one of the nurses explained. “We will try to match the color of the other eye.” Khaled Abu Aker, a Palestinian journalist in Jerusalem told The SPOTLIGHT on Oct. 11 that more than 25 Palestinians—12 in Jerusalem alone—have lost their eyes as a result of being hit with rubber-coated steel balls. The so-called “rubber bullets” are actually marble-sized metal balls with a thin rubber coating. A 12-year-old child, Ala’ Mad, is at St. John’s after being shot in the eye with a rubber-coated steel bullet. The hospital report states that his left eye “was perforated twice, with the contents expelled, and the bullet caused fractures in the medial aspect and floor of the orbit. It has lodged in the maxillary sinus and could be seen in the upper jaw, protruding behind the teeth.” This is the kind of catastrophic damage that “rubber” bullets inflict when fired from close range at a person’s face. By Oct. 5 more than 12 children were in the hospital with injuries from Israeli bullets and a total of nine patients had lost their eyes. Among them is Ramadan Salwat, 15, who lost one eye while the other was seriously injured by a rubber-coated bullet. Doctors are trying to repair the injured eye, but it is likely that Ramadan will remain blind. Other patients shot in the eye include Abdel-Rahman An-Nadi, 12; Ibrahim Abu-Mursa, 12; Amjad Mazeed, 12; Taher Awad, 13; and Ahmad Abed, 14. In all of these cases, the doctors say the injuries could only have been inflicted by bullets fired at the heads of the children. Ziad is upset over the loss of his eye, but is even more offended by the military assault on Palestinian children: “I want to say to the soldiers who shot me, ‘You would not want someone to shoot your son, so you should not shoot a young person who is someone else’s son.’ ” Reports issued by the Palestinian hospitals indicate that 60 percent of the 3,300 wounded are children. Further more, 77 percent of the injuries were in the upper body, i.e. above the waist. Nine ty-two percent of the victims were under 30 years of age. Most of the Palestinians killed were shot in the head or the chest. The high number of dead indicates Israel’s intent to kill Palestinian demonstrators, rather than to merely disperse them. A great number of the Palestinians killed during the first week of protests were children, including six who were 18 years old, 13 who were under 18, and some as young as 12. The great majority were unarmed civilians. How Much Money Will it Take to Stop Mideast Bloodshed? U.S. taxpayers are expected to bear the brunt of the cost for any Mideast “peace.” Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT By Martin Mann The rehabilitation of Martin Indyk, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, whose security clearance was suspended last month—only to be restored by the White House on Oct. 10—was only the first among a long list of concessions being held out by President Clinton in order to persuade the Israeli government to halt the shoot-to-kill tactics it has been using against Palestinian protesters. U.S. officials said that Indyk’s security clearance was reinstated for the duration of the Mideast conflict. After that, according to officials, his status would be “reevaluated.” After days of ferocious firefights, the top leaders of the warring nations—the historic Arab people of the Near East and Pa les tine’s Zionist occupying forces—flew to Paris for a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Instead of turning to negotiations with each other, Palestine Authority Chairman Yassir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak gave priority to talks with American officials, including long, frequent telephone palavers held by both sides with President Bill Clinton. “In the course of the Mideast peace negotiations earlier this year, Clinton offered both antagonists enormous payoffs in return for a deal,” said Dr. Herman Knorr, a former U.S. State Department intelligence analyst. “Now Arafat and Barak are telling Albright they want to make sure they have some of those billions in hand before they settle their differences.” The bloodletting American taxpayers are about to suffer as the latest price of Ameri ca’s stupid meddling in Palestine runs into billions of additional dollars. Israel is asking for a special “strategic assistance package” to cover the cost of its military withdrawal from Lebanon, its planned “strategic redeployment” on the Syrian frontier, expensive new electronic se curity installations to protect its flanks from “surprise attack” and a squadron of the latest U.S.-made warplanes, the so-called “joint strike fighters,” to patrol them. The cost: an estimated $55 billion. Part of the “special security assistance” program is the installation of “death-ray” laser batteries at strategic points in and around Israel. This apocalyptic weapon has the capability of blinding enemy troops at extended distances, reportedly over a mile. There are no known goggles or filters to protect against the instant and permanent blinding of infantrymen. The laser was developed by the U.S. De fense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the Pentagon under a variety of code names and innocuous descriptions. Now, in order to persuade Barak to stop the massacres of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators and to rejoin the “peace process,” the delivery of the “death-ray” laser, to be installed in Northern Israel by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has been “prioritized” to begin in next month. “Indyk has been abruptly rehabilitated because he is the indispensable dealmaker who arranged the ‘pay-for-peace’ strategy of appeasing hawkish Israeli leaders with huge handouts funded by U.S. taxpayers” says Dr. Francois Khouri, a Lebanese diplomatic historian. A seasoned Israeli agent of influence at the time he was taken aboard by the incoming Clinton administration in early 1993—and an alien who was granted instant U.S. citizenship by special dispensation of the White House and Congress—Indyk became the key go-between in the tortuous negotiations held by Clinton with a succession of Zionist leaders skilled at extortion, well-placed observers say. “It was Indyk who laid out the plan for the unprecedented giveaways the U.S. is supposed to dole out to Israel for its agreement to grant the Palestinian Arabs some living space, a limited measure of autonomy, and ‘peace,’ ” explained Khouri, who now teaches in Washington. The Palestine Authority, on the other hand, is faced with the need to do something about the nearly 4 million Arab refugees hounded from their homeland. Behind closed doors, Clinton and Arafat have been negotiating a compromise under which Palestinian refugees willing to waive their right of return would be paid “compensation” or “restitution” at some $15,000 per head. Mideast Region Erupts Into All Out Warfare A group of Palestinians who captured and killed three Israeli military hit men is just the tip of the iceberg in a region spiraling out of control. Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT By Martin Mann Three of the four Israeli soldiers in civilian clothes and an unmarked car, who were stopped by Palestinian police in the Arab city of Ramallah on Oct. 12, were put to death by an irate crowd which assumed them to be members of an undercover Is raeli assassination unit. Known as Sayaret Matkal, the killer squad has murdered do zens of suspected Islamic freedom fighters, intellectuals and activists in recent years. The other Israeli soldier has been reported “missing.” “It’s no wonder the anger of the Arab street exploded,” says veteran UN correspondent Jean-Luc Bouchar don, who recently returned to New York after several weeks spent in the Middle East. “To Pa lestinians, an en counter with an unmarked car bearing four Israeli soldiers disguised as civilians means only one thing: Sayeret Matkal, the hated military hit squad.” This special unit of the Israeli defense forces is almost unknown in the United States; its existence has never been officially recognized. But in Palestine, it is notorious for its lethal forays against suspected Arab militants, Middle Eastern diplomatic sources at UN headquarters have told The SPOTLIGHT. The Hebrew word sayeret means reconnaissance or commando forces, matkal is a designation suggesting that one contingent among these elite formations is assigned to performing “special tasks” un der the command of the chief of staff of Israel’s army. Those “special tasks” are assassination assignments, these sources have confirmed. They listed the noted Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani; Kamal Nasser, a longtime spokesman for the Palestine Liber ation Organization; and Muham mad Naj jar, a leading Arab activist, as among the best-known victims of Sayeret Matkal “termination” teams. “But these commando units were often sent out in teams of four, disguised as a civilians, to hunt and kill lower-ranking Pa lestinian militants and suspected freedom fighters in the streets,” related Bouchardon. “They also do hits for the Mossad [Israel’s secret service].” The operations officer in charge of Sayeret Matkal has been identified as Israeli Major General Avraham Arnan by knowledgeable diplomatic sources, who added that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a retired (and lavishly decorated) general, himself served with a Sayeret Matkal unit as a young army officer. *************************************************************************** ADVERTISMENT STANFORD COINS AND BULLION (J&S) 1-800-627-3015 FREE Monthly Newsletter - Complete Price List GOLD - SILVER - PLATNUM *************************************************************************** ADVERTISEMENT HOW TO STAY OUT OF THE HOSPITAL! 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