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By: TheAZCowBoy......
Well America, mass murderer and LIKUDNIK thug Ariel Sharon made his 6th visit to America today and the president seemed delirious in having one more opportunity to meet his boss and let him know how hard he has been working to demean the Palestinian Authority and further diminish the Palestinian's hopes for a Palestinian state and hopefully the removal of the Settler parasites form the West Bank, Gaza and east 'Arab' Jerusalem.
One doesn't know if the unindicted LIKUDNIK 'mass murderer' brought president Bush the David Ben-Gurion medal for heroism that has been so widely distributed among Israel's 'hero's' from the Jenin/Ramallah campaign in recent awards meetings by the general's of the Israel Occupation Forces ( IOF ). One can almost see the president standing there in the rose garden, flash bulbs flashing, smirking and looking beside himself in accepting his hard earned medal and his certificate of lifetime membership in the LIKUDNIK Mickey Mouse Club.
Yes America, our president has finally made it, and made it big, and as things continue to unfold I am sure we will all see the day when the Bush presidential library will start to take shape somewhere in Jerusalem, probably on a piece of confiscated Palestinian land, much like the Intel chip factory does.
Now a few words from our sponsor--Gush Shalom:
June 10, 2002. Thirty-five years ago on this date, a cease-fire was supposed to end a
war of six days. In retrospect it merely set the stage for a prolonged and agonizing war
that has already dragged on for three and a half decades.
Again and again, Israeli decision makers resorted to the illusion that their overwhelming arsenal of tanks and US supplied helicopter gunships and fighter planes can ensure a definite victory - always again coming up against the limitations of power. 'Operation Defensive Shield' of April this year, the latest effort in that direction, already proved a hollow victory - as evident from the very fact that Sharon found it necessary today to send his army yet again into Ramallah and subject that city to the umpteenth occupation in the past year.
Once more the invasion is said to be aimed at 'uprooting' a 'terrorist infrastructure' which the generals admit has the tendency to re-grow amazingly fast.
By launching the present invasion of Ramallah on the very eve of his meeting with President Bush, Sharon has demonstrated his confidence of having Washington's virtually unlimited backing. The PM did not anticipate any reprimand for the invasion nor a demand for withdrawal of the tanks from the streets of Ramallah - and from all reports of the Bush-Sharon meeting, there had been neither. The curfew imprisoning Ramallah's hundred thousand inhabitants in their homes, and the new siege of Arafat's headquarters, had
been declared to be 'an act of self-defense'.
The invasion of Ramallah also calls into doubt the issue of 'reforms' in the Palestinian Authority, which so occupied international diplomacy in the past month and which still featured prominently on President Bush's pronouncements of this evening.
What use to debate the division of powers, the democratic procedures and 'transparency' of a Palestinian governmental structure which has been deprived of virtually any power to govern; an Authority whose citizens are forbidden by an occupying army to leave their towns and villages and travel even to the nearest community, which can make no plans for the rest of the week, to say nothing of the longer range, whose premises may be seized by invading soldiers at a moment's notice and whose who's ministers may be imprisoned in their homes by curfew and unable to gather for a cabinet meeting?
Talking of reforms in the structure of the Palestinian Authority could make sense only on the assumption that the disabilities would be eventually removed, that the PA's sovereign status will be restored and that the Authority would still serve as the nucleus of an independent Palestine. But this is exactly what the present Israeli government is determined to undermine by all means.
And the Bush administration remains evidently unable or unwilling to do anything concrete to really implement the two-state vision which the President is repeating ad nauseam. ('Conditions do not yet exist for peace in the Middle East' the president said tonight - which may be true, but is that reason to allow Sharon to make them worse?).
Obviously, Sharon is interested in one reform on the Palestinian side and one reform only: the removal of Arafat. The PM's preferred way of implementing this 'reform' would be Israeli troops storming Arafat's headquarters. That is about the only military operation which Bush has not (yet?) authorized - apprehensive of a massive backlash in the Arab World destabilizing the pro-American regimes.
For his part, Sharon is said to be biding his time and waiting for a 'mega terrorist attack', with a death toll so massive that it would provide a suitable pretext for the final attack upon Arafat, upon the Palestinian people.
Adam Keller, Gush Shalom spokesperson: +972-(0)3-5565804 / +972-(0)56-709603
[The following report from Ramallah which was written today, and which we received
just now from our member Yehudit Har'el may serve as an illustration.]
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Date sent: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:46:08 -0700
From: Yehudith Harel
Enclosed by a message - just to give you another taste of what Life in Ramallah is like,
while Sharon is received in Washington like 'Man of Peace...and while the World tends to forget that the colonial War Israel is waging against the Palestinian people is on and in full scale.
Yehudith (...) The Israeli army is in Ramallah. We are under curfew and don't know exactly what are they doing or why they are here. It was completely unexpected. My plans to go to the conference in Italy seem to have evaporated. It is not just that the Israelis feel they can come in and out, kill and destroy and arrest. It is also that they seem to want us to know that they even own our time and our schedules.
Today children did not go to school. It is the last day of classes and my son was looking forward to getting his certificate and say bye to other kids. We could not take him to school obviously. My nephew has a graduation from high school tomorrow and that will perhaps be cancelled. I am not saying this is more tragic than killing, but it is another form of violence that we have to deal with as a community. Not to mention that I was supposed to spend my day working on the paper for the conference about violence in the Palestinian narrative... how ironic...
Still I hope that I can make it to Italy somehow...
best wishes
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