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Who First Brought Terrorism to
Palestine?
By Dr. Thomas B. Jefferson Arab
News
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2002 -- The largest threat to the Israeli right wing
that now rules the country is the moderates on both the Palestinian and
Israeli sides.
Those groups want peace as they declared in the Oslo negotiations and
subsequent agreement.
It was publicly cemented in the September 1993 hand shake that followed
in front of President Bill Clinton between Yasser Arafat and Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin in front of the White House in Washington DC.
They went on to start to implement these historic accords arrived at in
Oslo, Norway in secret during the summer of 1993. Along with Peres they
all received the Nobel Peace Prize for starting the peace process between
those two long-term adversaries, an achievement not mentioned much today.
These were very hopeful days.
During all these days in which Israel's current prime minister
constantly talks about terrorism, it is forgotten who started the terror
in that area within the last ten years.
On Feb. 25, 1994, less than six months after that historic handshake,
Baruch Goldstein, entered a mosque in Hebron and killed 50 Muslim
worshippers as well as himself. Goldstein was a member of Kach and the
Jewish Defense League, founded by "Rabbi" Meir Kahane in New York City in
the 1960s. Kach, which is well connected with Sharon, is on the official
US State Dept. list of terrorism organizations.
Thus with that Jewish act of terrorism, the cycle of violence started
again in the Holy Land of three great religions. In fact, it set into
motion the "cycle of violence" that has yet to end.
That Goldstein attack came at the precise time when Prime Minister
Rabin and Arafat began the implementation of the Oslo agreement, which
envisioned the establishment of a State of Palestine by 1998.
It was not until two months later that the first Hamas-linked suicide
attacks started when Rabin and Arafat signed the agreement for the
establishment of the Palestine National Authority.
It called for elections and the setting up all governmental
institutions to have an internationally recognized State of Palestine.
Arafat, at the time, led a massive crackdown on the terrorism, which
tried to break the Rabin-Arafat alliance. That terrorism failed to break
that partnership. That alliance was finally broken by a right wing Jewish
seminary student who killed his own prime minister, on Nov. 4, 1995,
calling Nobel Peace laureate Rabin a traitor to the Jews for making peace
with the Palestinians.
A year after former Gen. Ehud Barak came to power; Sharon provoked
another crisis when he led a Sept. 28, 2000 march to the Islamic holy site
Al-Haram Al-Sharif or as the Jews call it the Temple Mount.
Yossi Sarid, chairman of the Meretz Party, writing in the best Israeli
newspaper Ha'aretz, on Jan. 3, 2002, "What does frighten Sharonis any
prospect or sign of calm or moderation. If the situation was to calm down
and stabilize, Sharon would have to return to the negotiating table and,
in the wake of pressure from within and without, he would have to raise
serious proposals for an agreement. This moment terrifies Sharon and he
wants to put it off for as long as he possibly can."
He goes on to say, Sharon understands "that the terrorists and those
that give them asylum are not the real enemies. Instead, the real enemies
are the moderatesYou fight terrorist - a pretty simple operation - but
you must talk with moderates, and this is a very tricky, if not dangerous,
business."
Sharon has shown how he can undertake the crushing of these people
during the last month. It was brutal, somewhat like how the Nazis that
killed so many Jews in Europe during World War II.
The real interest of Sharon is having a rejectionist Palestinians force
to deal with and then be able to say to the world that "see you can't deal
with the Palestinians...they are all terrorists and we have to control
them." Now we have to come to the United States and what the American
media are not releasing.
On Dec. 11, 2001, Fox News reported that 60 Israelis were being held in
the Justice Dept.'s post Sept. 11 sweep and that "investigators suspect
that they may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance and
not shared it." Later in the story it continued, "Evidence linking these
Israelis to 9-11 is
