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To keepthe current carnage of Palestinians and the ongoing racist
partitioning
of the Israeli/Jewish Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in
perspective, its imperative
that we remember truths from the recent past and
share them with the uninformed. A few
of those truths:
1) In 1983, General Raphael (Raful) Eitan
who, with today's provocateur at the Holy Shrine, Ariel Sharon, was one of the
masterminds of the 1982 genocidal invasion and siege of Lebanon and the
massacres in the Sabra and Chatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, made the
following statement before the Knesset in keeping with the Zionist's
unwavering long range plans for Palestine and the indigenous population::
"When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will
be able to do about it
will be to
scurry around like drugged roaches in a bottle."
Source: "Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land." David K.
Shipler.
Penguin Books 1986. page 235)
2) According to the United Nations:
"The Palestinian death toll from
1948 to 1991 was 261,000,
with 186,000 wounded and 161,140 disabled.
The refugees displaced in 1948
and 1967, and their descendants,
numbered 5.4 million by the early
1990s."
Source: "Secret Channels." M. Heikal, Harper Collins.1996. page 7.
Distribution suppressed in the U.S.)
3) Summer 1993 the American Israeli Civil Liberties Coalition
(Suite 1776, 275 Seventh Ave.,
Ny. NY. 10001)
reported the following
"In February 1993 the number of the
wounded by firearms and treated in local hospitals was 630,
including 134 children under 16. Also, 182
were treated for injuries caused by beating and
and
196 for tear gas afflictions; this amounts to a total of 1018 injured."
"In March 1993 the number of the killed
reached 17, including 6 children aged 8 to 16.
627 were wounded by fire arms, among them at
least 140 children under 15. In addition
399 persons were treated for beatings and 78
for tear gas induced afflictions, which brings
the total of the injured treated in the local
hospitals and clinics to 1104."
"In April 1993, 12 Palestinians
including 4 children died after having been shot, 1270 were
reported treated in the local hospitals and
clinics. Of these, 608 were wounded by firearms
and 662 beaten.
TOTAL Wounded, Gassed and Beaten
February through the first part of April 1993 was 3,382.
The total number of the killed was not reported.
During this same period multiple Palestinian towns
and villages were put under military siege, families
were evicted from their homes and their homes
demolished by the IDF, leaving hundreds of
Palestinian men, women and children homeless and destitute.
4) All the members of the U.S. "Honest Broker"
team working with Israel to force their
version of a "peace"
(separation and subjugation) "Settlement" upon the Palestinians are
Jewish-American "Friends of Israel."
Personal Note: The totally astounding part of Israel's history
of carnage, brutality and crimes against inhumanity
against the Palestinians
is that no leaders/officials of the U.S. government, of the Jewish
State of Israel,
or from the widely publicized and powerful
American./or/International Jewish Organizations
publicly acknowledge/admit
any anti-Arab racism or bigotry, or express any remorse, guilt, regret, or moral
or financial responsibility for the intentional, methodical,
systematic dehumanization, demonization and destruction/elimination of the
non-Jewish indigenous ARAB population of historic Palestine.
Is it possible that a
vast majority of the Israelis and their political and religious (Jewish
and
Christian) supporters in the U.S. approve of and support (both politically and
financially) these
cruel and inhuman policies and activities by the
Jewish/Zionist State?
It
appears that the Israelis still spell the word "peace" W A R.
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Rick Rozoff wrote:
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[Imagine for a moment what the U.S. response, including that of
Madeleine Albright, quoted below, would be if the butchery described
below had been perpetrated by the govenment of Yugoslavia. Or Venezuela.
Or Haiti. Or any other nation on the State Department's hit list. But as
long as it's conducted by U.S. strategic ally and the largest single
recipient of American military aid in the world, Israel, then it gets
Clinton's and Albright's blessings. Has the world ever witnessed such
abject cynicism and hypocrisy?]
Saturday September 30 1:38 PM ET
12 Palestinians Killed in Clashes
By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli troops
battling several gunmen and thousands of
rock-throwing Palestinians opened
fire on the rioters Saturday, killing
12 Palestinians and wounding 523 in
the bloodiest confrontations in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip since 1996.
Among those killed in the second day of deadly clashes was a 12-year-old
boy who was caught in the cross fire and screamed in panic as shots hit
a wall just inches above his head.
The trigger for the violence was a
dispute over a bitterly contested
Jerusalem shrine sacred to Muslims and
Jews. Six Palestinians were
killed and almost 200 were injured in clashes
at the compound on Friday.
``The battle over Jerusalem has begun,�� said
Bassem Naim, a
Palestinian activist, as thousands of protesters chanting
the Muslim
battle cry ``Allahu Akbar,�� or God is Great, marched toward an
Israeli army position.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak asked
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
to try to restore calm. However,
Palestinian officials said emotions
were running high among Palestinians
and that the heavy-handed response
of Israeli troops made matters worse.
The violence further dimmed
prospects of an Israeli-Palestinian peace
treaty.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in Iceland on Saturday
during a
trip to Europe, said she had spoken to leading parties on both
sides in
an effort to ease tensions.
``We are very concerned about the
violence. It is clearly
counterproductive in the peace process,�� Albright
said. ``There is
danger of a cycle of violence developing. The talks are
at a very
delicate stage and it is important that the violence stops.��
>From the town of Jenin in the northern edge of the West Bank to
Jerusalem's Mount of Olives and the dusty refugee camp of Khan Yunis at
the end of the Gaza Strip, similar scenes were replayed over and over
Saturday.
Palestinian youths hurled rocks, some twirling slingshots
for a longer
aim. Others stuffed gas-soaked rags into bottles and threw
them at
Israeli soldiers, who fired rubber-coated steel pellets and live
rounds
from behind walls and jeeps.
Streets were littered with rocks,
garbage bins overturned and plumes of
black smoke from burning tires rose
into the sky. In Hebron, rioters
running out of rocks had them ferried to
the scene in taxis.
The Palestinian Authority said 12 Palestinians were
killed and four were
brain dead as a result of army fire. Another 523 were
injured, said
Palestinian Health Minister Riad Zanoun. The Israeli army
said six
soldiers were injured.
In two spots - an army outpost outside
the Jewish settlement of Netzarim
in Gaza and south of the West Bank town
of Nablus - several
Palestinians, some masked, exchanged fire with Israeli
soldiers.
``The Israelis must understand that Palestinians can also shoot
and
kill,�� said a 25-year-old gunman armed with an M-16 assault rifle
who would not give his name.
In Netzarim, 12-year-old Rami Aldura and
his father, Jamal, were caught
in the cross fire. The boy screamed in
panic as bullets hit a nearby
wall, just inches above their heads. At one
point, the father raised his
head above the metal barrel that served as
their cover and shook his
finger, as if to admonish those firing at him.
Moments later, Rami
slumped to the ground, fatally hit, and the father,
gravely wounded,
lost consciousness.
In addition to Rami, two other
Palestinians died in the clash, including
an ambulance driver who tried to
rescue him and a Palestinian policeman.
The deadliest confrontation
erupted in Nablus, where eight Palestinians,
including two policemen and a
16-year-old boy were killed in a
protracted firefight. Gunmen, their faces
covered by checkered
headscarves and black ski masks, shot from olive
grove at Israeli
soldiers crouching behind jeeps.
The 16-year-old
victim was Khaled Bazyan, who had dropped out of high
school three days
ago and taken a job at a car wash near the site of the
clashes. ``When the
Israeli army withdrew from Nablus, we felt
safe,�� said Bazyan�s father,
Adli. ``But today, we felt that the
occupation is still here, on our
land.��
Palestinians say the trigger for the violence was a visit Thursday
by
Israel's hawkish opposition leader, Ariel Sharon, to the disputed
Jerusalem hilltop known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as
Haram as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary.
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
are hung up because of rival sovereignty
claims to the shrine, which was
once home to the biblical Jewish Temple,
Judaism's holiest site, and now
houses two major mosques that mark the
spot where tradition says the
Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven. The
walled compound is the third
holiest site of Islam. Neither side wants
the other to have full control.
All U.S. compromise proposals have been
rejected so far by the
negotiators.
Many Palestinians considered the Sharon visit a provocation
because the
opposition leader said he wanted to demonstrate that Israel is
in charge
of the area. Friday's deadly clashes at the compound came in the
aftermath of the visit.
``We�re going to teach them not to touch our
holy place,�� said
Khalil Natash, 21, a stone-thrower in the West Bank
town of Hebron, who
carried a black flag of mourning for those killed.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders traded blame. Palestinian peace
negotiator Nabil Shaath accused the Israeli security forces of carrying
out ``premeditated murder.��
The Israeli army chief of staff, Lt. Gen.
Shaul Mofaz, said some
Palestinian police officers helped organize the
clashes, and others did
do enough to break up the confrontations. Barak
said Israel has been
showing ``maximum restraint,�� while the Palestinian
Authority said
Israel carried out a massacre.
The violence came as
Israelis marked the first day of their two-day New
Year's holiday, a time
of festive family meals and outings.
Many Israelis felt the Palestinians
were responsible. ``Despite the fact
that there is a peace process, they
(the Palestinians) want to ruin
everything,�� said Meirav Buchbut, 21, a
bookkeeper from the town of
Netanya. ``There won�t be peace. There will
only be war.��
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