There Is No 'Peace Process' -

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A Midnight Rant About Israel And Palestine
By Genevieve Cora Fraser
3-12-5

When were you last in Palestine? I recently asked that question to a friend
who was saying that if people are upbeat and focus on the positive about
Israelis and Palestinian relations than things, by-golly, are just bound to
improve. "Of course there are flaws in the process but any peace process is
better than none at all," he said. What naivety - is my response.

When I read what the media says or listen to the radio or watch television
where the subject is the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and/or Peace Process,
they seem to be discussing different countries than the countries I recently
visited. If there is 8% left of historic Palestine that would be a miracle.
It is closer to 6% in terms of what the Palestinians have control over -
(though during curfew you are targeted for death if you so much as look out a
window and we know these curfews go on for days and weeks and sometime a
month or more). Each day that passes there is less and less available to
Palestinians - all they have of what little remains is taken from them.

IS THIS HAPPENING IN ISRAEL TOO TO THE JEWS? - ARE THEIR BUILDINGS BEING
BLOWN UP BY PALESTINIANS? ARE THEY BEING STARVED AND DENIED WATER??? DO
ATTACK HELICOPTERS AND FIGHTER JETS BOMB AND STRAFE THEM? DO TANKS FIRE INTO
THEIR SCHOOLS? DO PALESTINIAN SOLDIERS BLOW THE BRAINS OUT OF LITTLE JEWISH
CHILDREN SITTING AT THEIR DESKS IN SCHOOL?? IS A WALK DOWN THE STREET A
NIGHTMARE NEVER KNOWING WHO WILL ARREST YOU FOR LOOKING THE WRONG WAY? OR
KILL YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR ETHNICITY?? MUST ISRAELI JEWS STOP AND WAIT AT
CHECKPOINTS FOR HOURS AT A TIME AND ARE THEY TOLD TO TURN AROUND AND GO HOME
EVEN WHEN THERE IS A MEDICAL EMEGENCY SUCH AS A HEART ATTACK OR CHILDBIRTH???

Are Jewish Israelis subjected to having their property taken out from under
them? Have their banks been robbed and their bank accounts been taken over by
Palestine??

THE ONLY WAY TO STOP WHAT IS HAPPENING IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT - NOT COVER IT UP
EVEN FURTHER!! IT STARTED IN 1948 AND CONTINUES DAY IN AND DAY OUT IN A NEVER
ENDING HORROR STORY!

The building of outposts and settlements progresses at record speed and it is
under government support and control. In the 9 days I was there in January it
was amazing how much progress was made in East Jerusalem and along the West
Bank, Jewish-Only highways. - And the Wall is down the center of roads in
East Jerusalem now - and if your house is on one side and they give you an ID
for the other side - you no longer are permitted in your house and if you
aren't there, physically present, under Israeli law they take it from you
because you are absent. And Jewish Israelis are thrilled to get their hands
on lands/property that are recently stolen. (They are not offered to non-
Jews) These brand-spanking new settlements are prestige items presented by a
criminal government to a compromised people.

There is no peace process. There never was. It has all been a fraud - as the
building of Jewish settlements and killing and maiming of Palestinians has
continued non-stop since Al Nakba in 1948. (Think Lebanon in 1982 - Sharon's
massacre at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps) Yes, there are lulls, periods
of "relative calm" which is when the worse damage occurs - kind of like the
child's game of red light. You close your eyes for a few moments and see how
things creep up on you. Israel is in a game called ethnic cleansing. Slow,
deliberate, steady - the pressure on the Palestinians is relentless and
barbaric. There are millions of Palestinians in refugee camps living in utter
squalor both in and out of Palestine. They are afforded no rights commonly
granted to other refugees throughout the world - Israel and its cohort
America have seen to that. But there is one right that no one can deprive
them - the Right of Return. They will never give that up. Never! Don't even
think it. It is etched in their hearts as well in the stone of International
Law.

Sure, there are still some privileged Palestinians though their fortunes are
definitely on the decline. Some have wonderful and successful families and in
America would socially be in the middle to upper middle class. I wish them
well and want them to be happy and to succeed and I'm sure they shall - for
them somehow there will be a way - even if they eventually leave Palestine.

And of course, there are wonderful, morally upright, non-racist Israeli Jews
too - I have met quite a few and work closely with many in the Jewish
community. - Some have negative opinions about Israel much stronger than mine.

By Israel I mean the Zionist controlled government.

But on the whole, the Jewish community is in denial and insists that
Holocaust programs are aired constantly. It is a mantra used to deflect
criticism from their practices in Israel. It is entirely appropriate to
counter this with what has been done to the Palestinians.

We should make a pact - like a political pact. If a Holocaust program is
aired - Palestinians are automatically asked to show a program on the Al
Nakba atrocities of 1948 - uncut - unedited photos of children with their
guts showing and teens and moms and dads and grandmothers and grandfathers
lying in a ditch and in open fields with limbs missing - some decapitated.

And let's be sure to include the photos of squalor and starvation in the tent
cities erected for the refuges - many of whom are still refugees - 57 years
later - but now they live in bombed out buildings in squalor though many are
back in tents - like the 25,000 made homeless in Gaza over the last few
years. There are lots of photos of the dead and the dying from 1948 to 2005 -
just gathering dust. It's time they were aired - publicly - in newspapers and
magazines and on television - over and over and over again just like the
Holocaust until someone gets the point that the Palestinians have suffered
too! Their suffering has lasted nearly six decades - not less than one decade
as in the Holocaust - and there have been no reparations for the
Palestinians - unlike the reparations for the Jews that for the most part
were made in 7 years or less from the date of the injustice.

Yes. I am criticizing the Jewish community - those that do not look squarely
at what their support of Israel is really about - with one set of laws
granting rights and privileges for Jews-only while brutish military rule is
enforced for the others. Many Arab Israelis - though they are Israeli
citizens and pay taxes - are not permitted running water, electricity,
schools, medical facilities, roads - though they may in fact put up
facilities - but these are un-permitted as they say and so are destroyed at
the whim of Israel. For the Bedouins, they've developed the fine art of
aerial spraying of insecticides such as Monsanto's Roundup. It's very
effective at killing crops, livestock and people who end up with cancer if
they can't find shelter fast enough.

One Arab leader in Israel (Azmi Bishara) is not allowed to speak in the
Knesset (he is a silenced member) because he has been arrested for such
things as arranging visits of elderly to Syria to visit relatives. In their
Knesset they openly speak of non-Jews - Arabs, Bedouins as sub-human and some
prestigious members refer to them as insects - great talk - Yes, I read the
English version of Israeli papers. Rabbis openly speak of Jewish obligations
to preemptively kill Palestinians as a moral obligation - the list of such
opinions goes on and on and they back it up with actions. (This sort of
criminal thinking was also prevalent in America from the early 1600s to mid-
1700s. These were barbaric times when church WAS state in the colonies. As a
result, Catholic, Quakers and Jews were put upon and some were tortured and