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EDITORIAL: 16-31 April 2001
Zionists build
new facts,
Americans protect,
Arabs ignore...
The game has gone on for decades. The Israelis twist and
turn, delay and obfuscate, build and flout, abuse and disregard, while pushing
forward their expansionist and hegemonist plans all the while. The Americans
pretend to be 'honest' brokers while fully supporting each and every Israeli
violation. And when going gets tough they provide a little criticism of Israel
for the consumption of the Arab media but still go on supporting Israel by
vetoes in the UN, international arms-twisting and providing vital military and
economic aid that keeps the zionist state afloat.
The Israelis have gone away with occupying most of Palestine, keeping the
majority of Palestinians in refugee camps for over half a century, attacking
Arab states left, right and centre, taking over more arab territories in
'preventive' strikes and still keeping some of them, annexing Jerusalem and
calling it the eternal capital of their temporary state, making promises at Camp
David and reneging on them before the ink dried, making same arrangements with
the Palestinians at Oslo a decade later, and still, after the passage of another
decade, haggling and re-negotiating the elaborate clauses which were a surrender
in the first place. And when a frustated population under long and brutal
occupation decides to protest by throwing stones, they start shooting the young
protesters and destroying their homes and placing the whole of PA areas under an
economic blockade as the world watches in disbelief and helplessness.
With the war criminal Sharon at the helm, the game has now progressed to
attacking Palestinian Authority personnel and administration buildings at random
and firing even on a Palestinian delegation which was returning after
negotiating with the Israelis about security arrangements under US pressure and
presence. An Israeli minster has even threatened to bomb Arafat’s own house to
send him a message. Gangsters, no doubt, are calling the shots in the zionist
state which brags to be the only democracy in the Middle East, which,
incidentally, remains the only occupation power in the world in the 21st
century... Israel has drawn a list of 100 Palestinian activists who are to be
eliminated in cold blood by striking at their homes and cars from overflying
US-supplied-helicopters or using other clandestine methods its secret agency,
Mossad, has perfected over the years.
The latest is that despite the whole world's opposition, Israel has decided to
build more settlements and expand the existing ones despite a world consensus
that these utterly illegal settlements are a serious impediment to peace and
clear violation of international law. Even this activity will be funded by the
Americans who under the new dispensation are showing an ever-increasing
eagerness to outdo previous administrations in supporting whatever Israel does.
Some 200,000 Jews already live in 145 illegal settlements scattered among more
than three million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, causing a daily
friction and violence.
The Arab reaction as usual is lacklustre. Loud condemnations do not get
translated into solid action, not only against Israel but against its protector
and sugar daddy, the US. Unless US interests are harmed, the situation on the
ground will not change. The US must be reminded through concerted popular and
official reaction that if you have interests in this vital region, we too have
interests which are vital for our existence and survival. Survival of the Arab
regimes itself will be at risk if they fail to rise to this challenge. And until
this message is effectively received in Washington the theatre of the absurd
will continue in the Middle East. q
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