OKUPACJA.....???

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Subject: The Occupation


Israel occupies Palestinian land. No Palestinian occupies Israeli
territory.

by CHARLEY REESE


It’s good to see that the Israelis are finally on the defensive in their
long running propaganda war. Fewer and fewer people are buying the absurd
notion that one of the world’s great military powers is “the victim” of
unarmed Palestinians.

Dropping a 1-ton bomb on one of the most densely populated urban areas in
the world and then professing to be surprised that civilians were killed
flew like a lead bird in Europe and the rest of the world. Even President
Bush, as weak-kneed and muddle-headed as he is on the Middle East, expressed
great annoyance.

Ariel Sharon, Israel’s Prime Minister, who was already boasting that it was
one of Israel’s most successful operations, had to do a quick bit of
backpedaling when a hurricane of criticism fell on his country. The truth is
that Israel’s blatant, racist and contemptuous attitude toward Palestinian
lives is showing through its cloak of incessant propaganda.

It was hard not to vomit when watching the Israeli Consul General in New
York piously proclaim how Israel tries to avoid civilian deaths.
If that were so, how come more than 80 percent of all the Palestinians
killed in the past two years were civilians, many of them women and
children? If the Israelis are so concerned about Palestinian life, then why
have they committed so many heinous acts of cruelty against Palestinian
civilians, like locking them down in their homes, stealing their land and
refusing to allow them to get to hospitals? How come an Israeli settler who
beat a 10-year-old Palestinian boy to death received as a sentence a fine
and community service?

Unfortunately for the Israelis, the video camera and satellite
communications have allowed the world to see their thuggish brutality. The
Israelis have no choice but to keep on lying, since the truth is on the side
of the Palestinians.

Israel occupies the Palestinian land. No Palestinian occupies any Israeli
territory.

Israel has one of the most powerful armies in the world. The Palestinians
have no army at all.

Israel stands in open defiance of more than 60 United Nations resolutions.
The Palestinians violated none of them.

The greatest concession in modern history was made in 1993 when the
Palestinians agreed to accept the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem in
return for peace. In actuality, the Zionists have no valid claim to any of
Palestine. The Balfour Declaration in 1917 was simply the last act of
colonialist Europe taking other people's land away from them. Even so, the
Israelis refuse to withdraw to their 1967 borders.

At last, some American-Jews are beginning to speak out and demand that
Israel withdraw to its 1967 borders and dismantle the Jewish settlements.
They have seen that the hard-nosed Zionists in Israel are making a mockery
of Jewish idealism.

The power of Israeli propaganda is still illustrated, at least in America,
by the fact that no one in the administration even questioned Israel’s
assumed right to assassinate anyone it deems a political enemy. The man they
killed, along with the civilians, was once in an Israeli prison, and the
Israelis let him go. Why didn’t they just arrest him again? Why did they
decide that a 1-ton bomb dropped from an American-made F-16 was the proper
tool for taking out one man in an apartment complex?

The answer is that they are drunk on their military power and are corrupted
by their racist attitudes and by the weakness of the American political and
media establishments. The Israelis think they can do anything to anybody
anywhere and get away with it.


I think they have finally crossed a bridge too far.



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