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In the face of
Sharon's pure evil,
Palestinians will win
Monday, April 01 2002 @ 12:24 PM GMT
By Ray Hanania for PalestineChronicel.com
Nazi-like Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon believes
he is taking the Palestinian people to the brink of
destruction, but he doesn't realize that the brink of
disaster is not for the Palestinians, but Israel itself.
Sharon is singlehandedly doing what the Arabs have
failed to do themselves, forcing them to unite and to
abandon their past policies of coddling Israel's
intractable refusal to compromise.
In the past, the Palestinians and the Arabs have
accepted Israel's near-maximum demands as
pre-conditions to start negotiations. So, the
discussions have always only focused on returning
'most of' the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and setting
aside the issue of returning 'parts' of East
Jerusalem until latter negotiation dates.
Yet during negotiations, Israel always cleverly backs
out, stopping short of giving the Palestinians
anything other than a future as a subjugated
people.
The dream of cxompromise with Israel is over, today,
and it is clear to nearly everyone that Sharon has
opened the door to the new possibility of correcting
the original injustice of 1948 and restoring
Palestinian control over all of Palestine, an action
that the pro-Israel American apologists have dubbed
as the 'destruction' of the State of Israel. This term
has been exploited, abused and exaggerated as
certainly as Israel's cadre of apologists and have
exploited the term anti-Semitism to muddy-up
anyone who has dared to speak out against Israel's
cowardly brutalization of civilian targets.
The changes in the world are subtle, but significant.
First, a recent Gallop Poll shows that while most
Americans (80 percent) believe that the US must
pressure the Palestinians to end the conflict, most
Americans, more than 72 percent, also believe that
they must pressure Israel, too.
Second, the truth of what is happening is getting out
to the American public despite one of the most
unprofessional blackouts imposed by the anti-Arab
American media. The Palestinian and Arabviewpoint
is making it to the American people, despite this
blitzkrieg of media hatred.
Third, the lessons of the first Intifadah are not lost
and we are seeing the results. No matter how hard
Israel and its manipulators in the American media try
to prevent the world from seeing the truth of israel's
viciousness, it comes out either on TV, the Internet
or in newspapers. The Israeli army is guilty of
Nazi-like war crimes including executing in cold blood,
Palestinian prisoners it has captured. Several of
these executions have been captured on TV.
Fourth, the Second Intifadah is working. The world
can see the ridiculousness of Christian Amanpour
standing there asking Yasir Arafat, who is besieged
in a bunker surrounded by the Israel blitzkrieg, if he
will do something to stop the violence. More and
more Americans have said they were appalled by her
display of ignorance, and are now seeing the
Palestinian cause as being the victim of Israel's State
terrorism.
Finally, while President George Bush remains in a
leadership stupor in the White House, incapable of
doing anything, some view his inactions as the cause
of the violence. That is true. His failure to lead has
given Sharon the green-light dripping with red-blood
to murder Palestinians at will. But, the absence of
President Bush's leadership has one other positive
impact. It has left the leaders of the Arab World
subject to an intense pressures of their own people,
billions of Muslims and Arabs around the world who
are demanding that the Arab World and the Muslim
World finally severe all ties to the Nazi-like
government regime of Ariel Sharon.
These are events we could never have hoped for. It
proves that by standing up to Israel's brutality, and
even in the face of losing so many innocent
Palestinian lives either to Israeli army murder or
suicide bombings, the Palestinians will defeat Israel.
Now is not the time to surrender to Israel and accept
compromise.
Now is the time to forge ahead and demand even
more.
Now is the time for all Arab governments to severe
all ties with Israel, to isolate Israel again as was
done years ago. To return Israel to the situation
where it cannot be allowed to think that it can
murder innocent Palestinian civilians and find
terrotirial gains.
Israel's Nazi-like government must be shown that its
policies of murder and executions and killings will
carry a heavy price in future talks, and that all of
jerusalem is now on the table and that all of
Palestine is on the table, too.
Why shouldn't 3 million Palestinian refugees be
allowed to return to their original homes and lands
that were stolen from them in 1948. The Jewish
people waited 2,000 years to get back what they
asserted was theres. The Palestinians can wait too.
Why be in such a rush to give away our rights?
Time does not erase the crime.
And where once many Arabs were willing to
compromise and give in to israel's demands, much of
that willingness is now gone forever.
Many Palestinians are chanting today, 'Thank you
Ariel Sharon for opening the door to our victory!'
In the face of Sharon's vicious campaign, many
Palestinians can see victory!
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