HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- subject: RadioHC News Jan 7. The Middle East Genocide continues Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:43:21 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Radio Havana Cuba-07 January 2002 To: undisclosed-recipients:; Radio Havana Cuba-07 January 2002 Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 07 January 2002 *Viewpoint: THE MIDDLE EAST GENOCIDE CONTINUES Huge losses in human life and economic stability characterized the Middle East over 2001. The spiral of violence that once again took the lives of so many appears to have dimmed the prospects for peace in a region that has seen only war for decades. Since the provocation of today's Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, in September of 2000, in which he and a large contingent of soldiers violated the holy Muslim site of Al Aqsa in Jerusalem, a new Intifada has been in effect. The Intifada is not a holy war, as portrayed by many, but a stand for the sovereignty of the people of Palestine in the face of oppression and death. Sharon's right wing government which took power in the wake of the violence its leader caused, has unleashed further horrors in the region killing by year's end some 750 Palestinians - many of them children. Economic losses for Palestinians are estimated at $3.2 billion. According to the United Nations, based on World Bank figures, the number of Palestinians that live beneath the poverty line has risen to a full 46 percent of the population - like the killings, double that of the previous Intifada. The level of unemployment has also doubled to 25 percent of the workforce in Gaza and the West Bank, due to a rigid blockade imposed on the territories by Israeli troops preventing Palestinian workers from going to their jobs in Israel. Adding to the mayhem, Sharon has openly and proudly advocated the selective assassination of Palestinian leaders, drawing condemnation from across the globe and sucking the region into the morass of vengeance killings. In response to Israeli killings, actions perpetrated by extreme elements of the Islamic Jihad and Hamas - neither of which operate under the Palestinian National Authority led by Yasser Arafat - have been a pretext for Sharon to devastate areas of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank including Arafat's Gaza headquarters. The Palestinian leader is currently under effective house arrest at his headquarters in the West Bank blockaded by the Israeli army under the orders of Sharon who will not meet with him. In its destruction of Palestinian lives and property, Tel Aviv has been able to use the highest technology of killing supplied by the United States, which gives more money and goods to Israel than to any other nation on the planet. F-16 fighter aircraft, Apache helicopters, biological and chemical weapons - you name it, they've been used against the people of Palestine. The United States, except for the odd comment of concern in an appearance of hardening its will against Tel Aviv, fully supports - both militarily and politically - the actions that Israel continues to take against the people of Palestine. It continues to block resolutions against Israel in the United Nations Security Council - in spite of the fact that almost the whole world condemns Sharon - who like many Israeli leaders has a bloody terrorist background. As the new year begins it is a terrible continuing irony that the country with which the word "genocide" is correlated - many of whose inhabitants strongly protest the actions of their government against Palestine - is engaged in its own genocide in a racist and brutal war of attrition. (c) 2002 Radio Habana Cuba, NY Transfer News. All rights reserved. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================================antinato, ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://TOPICA.COM/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================ |
