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From: MiD-EasT RealitieS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Intifada Anniversary
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 7:36 AM
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past, especially as many readers have only joined MER in recent months.
In fact it was two years ago this month that we first began to regu-
larly publish MER. The article below was published last year on this
date, the all but forgotten anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada.
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GHETTOS AND RESERVATIONS FOR PALESTINIANS
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INTIFADA ANNIVERSARY:
Fate of the Palestinians
G H E T T O S A N D R E S E R V A T I O N S ?
MER - Washington - 10 December 1997:
At this time of the 10th anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada
the basic issue of what is happening to the Palestinians as a result of
the American/Israeli/Arab regimes "Peace Process" should be confronted
and reevaluated.
Since Madrid and Oslo the Palestinian standard of living, already
low, has declined about 10% yearly; while the gap between rich and poor
has continually grown. The situation is worst of all in Gaza where
Arafat's cronies have built multi-million dollar mansions while poverty
and hunger have expanded all around them.
Since Madrid and Oslo Palestinians have been further dispossessed
of their lands and further displaced by still-expanding Israeli
settlements and military areas. The ruse of land being "returned" to
Palestinians is clearly a subterfuge attempting to mask what is
actually happening to them as in reality they are surrounded by Israeli
settlements and controlled by Israeli military restrictions.
The overall reality is that Palestinians are being continually
pushed onto modern-day reservations in the name of a duplicitous "peace
process" that is but a continuation of the tricks and deceptions that
go back throughout most of this century. And at the same time these
"Palestinian population centers" are more and more taking on the
classic characteristics of encircled ghettos.
This MER Editorial was originally published last February and is
particularly fitting to recall at this time of the 10th anniversary of
the "uprising".
JEWS GHETTOIZE PALESTINIANS IN A TRAGIC
REVERSAL OF THEIR OWN HISTORY
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[MER Editorial - 2/26/97]
The pattern is now so clear that it's quite amazing how few see it
clearly and how few are willing to speak up honestly. As Israeli
settlement "thickening" (i.e., expansion) continues throughout the
occupied territories and especially in the ever-expanding Jerusalem
area, the Israelis make more and more threats against all Palestinians
should anyone dare to speak up or otherwise react. At the same time
the Israelis (with unprecedented encouragement form the United States
whose Middle East policies are practically dictated by the Jewish
lobby) increasingly twist Yasser Arafat more and more into playing the
role of "collaborator" (Edward Said), "vassal" (Naseer Aruri), "warden"
(Mark Bruzonsky) and "client" (Noam Chomsky). Their goal is clearly to
use him, abuse him, and so fracture and demoralize Palestinian society
that he will be totally discredited and maybe assassinated, while the
PLO and the Palestinian national movement are dealt what this time
might be a lethal series of blows.
The latest Israeli Jerusalem expansion has now officially begun --
after all kinds of meaningless and non-credible threats from Arafat's
naive crony representative in Jerusalem, Feisal Husseini. What is
really going on -- as we have previously commented on (see
http://www.MiddleEast.org/jerusal1.htm) -- is specifically designed to
all but terminate any possibility of Palestinian resurgence in the
Jerusalem area. The Palestinians of Jerusalem are simply to be penned
up in their few remaining enclaves -- a kind of shrinking, isolated,
economically deprived Arab ghetto within an expanding Jewish Jerusalem.
Since 1993 in fact -- thanks to Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres --
Palestinians from outside Jerusalem cannot even visit the city without
special passes and still-tightening restrictions.
According to a Reuters report today, Israeli "sources estimate that
the Palestinian reaction to a decision to build on Har Homa (a formerly
Arab area of expanded Jerusalem) will not be extensive, and certainly
not on the scale of the intifada. They feel that Yasser Arafat will not
allow it so soon before his visit to the United States, following
warnings from the Administration to the Palestinians not to react with
violence."
Furthermore, according to the Reuters report, "Israel has warned the
Palestinian Authority that if there is an outbreak of hostilities, the
first stage of the upcoming withdrawals -- scheduled for next month --
will be postponed."
Additionally, it has been learned that when Arab students at Haifa
university published a flyer calling for the Palestinians to confront
Israel's policies, threats of expulsion from the university have
resulted against the Arab student leaders.
Overall, it is a masterful policy of intimidation and blackmail that
the Israelis use -- with help of different kinds from the Americans,
the Arab "clients-regimes" and the so-called "Palestinian Authority" --
and it is directly against all Palestinian institutions and
organizations with increasingly ferocity and effectiveness. How
tragic, and how frightening, that more and more what the Jews are doing
to the Palestinians is reminiscent of what was done to them in the
ghettos of Europe of old. And maybe, indeed likely, sometime in the
future, there will be a horrible price to be paid.
For the brutal reality of today's situation is that in the name of
"peace process" the Palestinians are being ground and crushed into
submission. Middle Eastern apartheid -- complete with "Jews only"
settlements and by-pass roads and "Palestinian-only" ghettos and pass-
laws -- marches forward.
MAB
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