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Intifada II Enters Year Five
With Some Trying to Pin Blame on the Palestinian Victims
But some Israelis themselves are
realizing, as is the title of a new book:
"How We Won and Why We Lost
the War With the Palestinians."
MIDDLEEAST.ORG - MER - Washington - 28 Sept:
It was four years ago today that Ariel Sharon, accompanied by many
hundreds of heavily armed soldiers and with the approval of then Prime
Minister Ehud Barak, 'visited' the Dome of the Rock in occupied
Jerusalem and purposefully ignited the latest historic phase of
bloodshed and hatred in the once Holy Land.
It's
called Intifada II...following Intifada I one more than a decade ago
now. But the reality is this struggle against dispossession through
military occupation and a peculiar form of creeping ethnic cleansing
has been going on now in one form or another for more than half a
century... and it shows no signs of resolution any time soon. Indeed
it is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which has not only poisoned much
of world affairs but which has itself spawned today's 'Clash of
Civilizations' with rampaging Western armies and covert operatives,
especially those of the United States, now occupying and infiltrating
Arab and Muslim countries throughout the world.
The figures for the Intifada are brutal.
Adjusted for the size of the U.S. population, that is if the Israeli
occupation
were taking place in the U.S., over 300,000 Americans would have
been killed in just the past 4 years alone, well over a million
seriously
injured, many millions imprisoned and tortured, plus considerable land
confiscated, homes destroyed, and occupying Jewish 'settlers' taking
over.
With overwhelming firepower, technology, and American superpower money and arms, the
Israelis have brutally contained this latest eruption of Palestinian resistance, Intifada II. But it
comes at considerable cost to all, including the Israelies, in lives, resources, credibility, hatred, and the
future.
Using
one excuse after another, decade after decade now, the Israelis have
now implimented a new form of Apartheid far worse than what was done by
the
condemned South Africa of old. In recent years they have used
as never before battle tanks, attack fighter planes, assault
helicopters, assassinations and
'target killings' -- all to quash the legitimate Palestinian struggle
against the military occupation which has continually dispossessed,
imprisoned and killed them.
The International Court of
Justice has this year finally condemned Israeli policies as never
before. But the United Nations, continually hamstrung and threatened
by the United States, has once again still failed to act in a serious
and determined way.
Now add to what they have done to the Palestinians that
the Israelis, and their powerful Washington lobby, have helped push and
manipulate the United States into the Iraq invasion/occupation,
continually throwing political and rhetorical gasoline on the
'War Against Terrorism' and the 'Clash of Civilizations' at every
turn. And now they are pushing hard to bring on American clashes with
Iran and Syria and all who oppose American/Israeli domination, hegemony
and neo-imperialism in the years immediately ahead.
The AFP article below at
least gives some of the facts, though hardly adequately explaining what
really gave rise to the Intifada and the increasingly brutal bloody
nature of the military occupation and dispossession it is designed to
bring about. The LATimes
article is extraordinarily self-serving and to say the least inadequate
-- but that's what we have all come to expect most of the time from the
corporate American media, especially with regard to all matters
relating to Israel and the Middle East.
Two Palestinians killed on intifada anniversary
JENIN,
West Bank (AFP - 28 Sept 2004) - Two Palestinians were killed by
Israeli fire as the Palestinian uprising entered its fifth year, and a
CNN producer was released 24 hours after being kidnapped by Palestinian
gunmen in Gaza City.
Mahmud Ibzur, 16, was fatally hit in the
chest during clashes between troops and stone throwers protesting the
second day of a large army search and arrest operation in northern West
Bank town of Jenin and its refugee camp.
Earlier in Jenin, troops shot dead Saleh Bilalu, a 47-year-old mentally ill man, after he violated a army curfew.
Palestinian
medics said Bilalu died of a bullet wound to the stomach, but Israeli
military sources insisted he was shot in the leg and subsequently fell
off a roof.
The deaths took to 4,346 the overall toll since the
start of the intifada or uprising four years ago, including 3,327
Palestinians and 948 Israelis.
Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat's chief advisor, Nabil Abu Rudeina, said the anniversary was an
occasion for a renewed effort for a negotiated solution.
"The only way to bring peace is through a ceasefire, an end to assassinations and a return to the negotiating table," he said.
"The
Palestinian people is holding out for its rights and the establishment
of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. That is the only
way to reach peace, security and stability in the region."
The
intifada was sparked when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, then
leader of the opposition, made a controversial visit to Jerusalem's
Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site.
The
compound was at the center of a renewed controversy Tuesday after
Israeli officials warned they might restrict access by worshippers
during the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, which starts next month, for
safety reasons.
Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra said a
section of the complex was in danger of collapsing, making it necessary
to impose restrictions on numbers.
But both Jordan and Egypt
insisted the safety concerns were spurious, and Jerusalem's top Muslim
cleric Sheikh Ekrima Sabri charged they were just a pretext for Israel
to get its hands on the compound, which is also the holiest site in
Judaism.
In Gaza City, CNN producer Riad Ali was set free by his kidnappers, police chief General Saeb al-Ajez told AFP.
No group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of the Arab Israeli journalist.
But
the US network said it had received a video tape in which the abduction
appeared to have been carried out by members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs'
Brigades, an armed offshoot of Arafat's Fatah movement.
And Ali
told reporters immediately after his release that his abductors "had
presented themselves as members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigdes, but I
can't tell whether they really were or not."
A leader of the group in Gaza told AFP the Brigades had nothing to do with the abduction.
"Those
who kidnapped the journalist are a small group which has nothing to do
with the Brigades and only represents itself," said Abu Qussai, as he
urged Arafat's Palestinian Authority to bring the culprits -- whom he
said numbered five -- to justice.
"I look forward to being
reunited with my family, my wife and children," Ali said as he
expressed his gratitude for Arafat and Palestinian prime minister Ahmed
Qorei's efforts in helping secure his release.
Earlier, Arafat's
office said the Palestinian leader was personally following up the
matter and had ordered his security services to work on Ali's liberation
It
was the first time a journalist had been kidnapped in the Palestinian
territories, although several Palestinian officials were seized by
militants and disgruntled former security men over the summer.
In
England, meanwhile, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday he
would make the revival of the Middle East peace process his "personal
priority" after the November US presidential election.
"Two
states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in an enduring peace,
would do more to defeat this terrorism than bullets alone can ever do,"
he told delegates to the annual conference of his Labour Party in
Brighton.
Negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis have
been completely frozen amid persistent violence as
internationally-sponsored peace efforts stalled.
Losing
Faith in the Intifada
As
uprising enters fifth year, some Palestinians call it a political and
economic disaster.
By Laura
King
Times Staff Writer
LATimes - September 28,
2004: RAMALLAH, West Bank When Abu Fahdi
joined a Palestinian militant
group and took up arms against Israel, he thought he was serving his
people. Now he believes he did them only harm.
"We achieved nothing in all this time, and we lost so much," said the
baby-faced 29-year-old, who, because of his status as a fugitive,
insisted on being identified by a nickname meaning "father of Fahdi."
"People hate us for that and wish we were dead."
The young
militant, a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, is not alone in such
thinking. Among Palestinians from all walks of life, there is a quiet
but growing sentiment that their intifada, or uprising which broke
out four years ago today has largely failed as an armed struggle, and
lost its character as a popular resistance movement.
Moreover,
many Palestinians fear that what has been, in effect, their military
defeat at the hands of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has left
them without leverage to extract political and territorial concessions
that would help lay the groundwork for their hoped-for state.
The official Palestinian line is that the struggle continues. Veteran
leader Yasser Arafat and old-line members of his Fatah faction insist
that ordinary Palestinians are unbowed by the overwhelming degree of
force that Israel has brought to bear in cities and towns all over the
West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Palestinian militant groups such as
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which have been
responsible for more than 100 suicide bombings over the past four
years, also insist that they will continue to hit Israeli targets with
all their strength.
But relentless Israeli strikes at the
militant groups' leaders and field operatives, together with the
partial construction of a security barrier meant to seal off the West
Bank, are credited with reducing such attacks inside Israel by 80%.
For some time now, influential figures in Palestinian society
intellectuals, lawmakers, analysts, professionals and well-regarded
local officials have been asserting, almost matter-of-factly, that
the violent confrontation with Israeli forces has reached a dead end
and their people must look to the future.
"We have witnessed
the destruction of Palestinian society its civil institutions, its
economy, its infrastructure," said Zuhair Manasra, the governor of
Bethlehem. "The result has been a complete disaster for the
Palestinians, at all levels. Now we must think how to rebuild."
This month, a poll commissioned by An Najah University in the northern
West Bank city of Nablus traditionally a stronghold of militants
found that more than two-thirds of Palestinians surveyed supported
seeking a cease-fire arrangement with Israel. In the past, a similar
proportion lent support to continued fighting.
The
Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Korei, made a statement last week
that was extraordinary in its implicit assumption that the
post-conflict phase is already underway. Interviewed on Israel Radio,
Korei spoke of the need to rehabilitate members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade, an armed offshoot of Arafat's political faction.
"The Al Aqsa Brigades are part of Fatah, and we are ready to absorb
them and deal with them, but for this to happen, I must ask that Israel
guarantee their security," he said. "As long as Israel continues to
hunt them and kill them and make their life difficult, this won't
happen."
Abu Fahdi is a case in point. He joined Al Aqsa
about five months after the outbreak of the intifada spurred, he
said, by a surge of civilian deaths during Israeli military operations
in his West Bank hometown, which he did not want named.
"The Israelis are the ones who started it all, by coming to our towns
and our homes," he said.
All those enlisting were veterans, in their childhood or early teenage
years, of the first Palestinian intifada, which raged from 1987 to
1993. In that conflict, young Palestinian stone throwers not heavily
armed militant groups or suicide bombers were a driving force.
Beginning in 2001, Abu Fahdi took part in dozens of attacks against
Israelis, mainly shooting at cars on West Bank roads used primarily by
Jewish settlers. Although he fired at such vehicles indiscriminately,
he remembers being horrified when one of his fellow gunmen managed to
kill three members of an Israeli family.
Neither he nor most
of his comrades in arms, he insists, had envisioned a conflict that
would drag on this long or bring so much suffering to both sides.
Casualty figures are disputed, but more than 1,000 Israelis and 3,000
Palestinians have died in the intifada, with the number of injured
about 10 times that.
From the beginning, civilians were caught
squarely in the middle by the tactics of Palestinian militants. Abu
Fahdi described the use of thickly populated areas as cover when
staging attacks.
"It made me uneasy when we would use
someone's house to fire at [Jewish targets] and know that the army
would shoot back at the families in the area or destroy the home," he
said. "But we thought it was something that had to be done in the short
term, in order to inflict blows."
During the first year of the
intifada, Israel for the first time began routinely employing
battlefield weapons such as tanks, heavy artillery, helicopter gunships
and F-16 fighter planes in densely populated parts of the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. They were aimed at Palestinian militants but exacted a
heavy civilian toll.
Israeli civilians, meanwhile, bore the
brunt of Palestinian suicide bombings, which peaked in the spring of
2002 and triggered the Israeli military's seizure of nearly all of the
West Bank's population centers.
With the Israeli campaign of
arrests and "targeted killings" having thinned the ranks of the
militant organizations, teenagers and women are increasingly recruited
to carry out attacks. A 19-year-old woman blew herself up in Jerusalem
last week, killing two border policemen. In the last week, authorities
have announced two abortive bomb plots involving 15-year-old
Palestinian boys.
Senior Israeli military officials say that
unless they keep a tight grip on Palestinian towns, they risk a return
to near-constant suicide attacks. At the same time, they are keenly
aware of the long-term danger of holding a population under oppressive
conditions.
Maj. Gen Dan Halutz, the Israeli military's deputy
chief of staff, was asked last week by the Yediot Aharonot newspaper
whether Israel would have to maintain its military posture with
troops deployed in force all over the West Bank into a fifth year.
"Yes, and if you ask me about 2006, I have nothing to indicate that the
conflict won't enter a sixth year, either," he replied.
Although dogged resistance to the Israeli occupation helped keep the
Palestinian hope for statehood in the world spotlight, many now believe
that the visible public support for suicide bombings was a crucial
error.
"In a post-9/11 world, that could only harm our cause," said Manasra,
the Bethlehem governor.
Israeli analysts credit the government's military and intelligence
branches with containing a highly motivated guerrilla-style insurgency
no small task, as American forces in Iraq have learned but warn
that there is no substitute for a long-term political solution.
Two prominent Israeli journalists, Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff,
authors of a much-discussed new book on the intifada, drew similar
conclusions about the pitfalls of short-term victory. Their title is
telling: "How We Won and Why We Lost the War With the Palestinians."
The conflict has coincided with a series of failed or failing
diplomatic initiatives, most notably the "road map" peace plan, which
was put forth with tremendous fanfare by the Bush administration, among
others. At this point, talks between Israel and the Palestinians have
completely broken down, and Sharon is under little U.S. pressure to
return to the table.
Despite the devastated social landscape
left by four years of intense fighting, some Palestinian political
figures believe it will ultimately pave the way for crucial reforms.
"The first intifada gave birth to Hamas," said Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a
leader of the Palestinian National Initiative. "The second intifada is
bringing to life a new option, a Palestinian democratic trend
. It is
consolidating a new young leadership."
But throughout the
turmoil, Arafat has managed to hold tight to power and maintain iconic
status in the eyes of many Palestinians. Sharon continues to threaten
to remove him but has so far been restrained by the United States from
ordering Arafat's expulsion or assassination.
The coming year
will be pivotal to the success or failure of Sharon's initiative to
withdraw from the Gaza Strip. Both sides see opportunity as well as
peril in the plan: An Israeli pullout could provide either a prototype
for Palestinian self-governance or usher in chaotic infighting among
Palestinian factions.
But even in Gaza, traditionally a more
radical region than the West Bank, groups such as Hamas have been
looking for a way to transform themselves into political movements
rather than guerrilla militias.
The intifada's foot soldiers
are reassessing their lives as well. One day last week, Abu Fahdi was
speaking to a journalist as reports of a suicide bombing flashed on the
television screen. He shook his head.
"I used to think that
attacks like this would hasten our victory," he said. "Now I only think
that attacks like this will hasten my arrest or my death."
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Iran and Syria now Targeted
(September 30, 2004)
Now the Americans and Israelis have Iran and Syria in their sights.
MER Warned About Jewish Neocons and Israeli Lobby Years Ago
(September 30, 2004)
Think back now to the days before the Bush/Cheney regime took power in Washington, before the term 'neocon' and the policy of 'pre-emption' were in wide use, and to before 9/11 was even imagined by all but a very few. MER was already long ago raising the warning flags, explaining what was really happening in Washington as well as in the Middle East, previewing what has since come to be; all while so many others were proclaiming the 'peace process is irreversible' and Yasser Arafat was the most frequent foreign guest at the American White House!
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(September 30, 2004)
Intifada II Enters Year Five
(September 28, 2004)
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(September 28, 2004)
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(September 22, 2004)
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(September 22, 2004)
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(September 20, 2004)
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(September 8, 2004)
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IsraelGate +
(September 6, 2004)
Major efforts are now underway in Washington to head off, cover up, derail, what we earlier today for the first time called ISRAELGATE.
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But now the stakes are much much higher than ever for the following three reasons:
ISRAELGATE!
(September 5, 2004)
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(September 4, 2004)
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(September 3, 2004)
"Al-Qaradawi was one of 93 prominent Muslim figures
who in August called on Muslims around the world to
support resistance against US forces in Iraq and its
apppointed interim Iraqi government."
Bush Speaks, Eocons (Christian Evangelicals + Jewish Neocons) Rule
(September 2, 2004)
As George W. Bush prepares to outline his 'vision' and 'agenda' to the American nation tonight from besieged New York City he today published the following appeal to American Jews in The Forward newspaper. Ironically, in the same issue of The Forward, the latest Israeli and Jewish Lobby spy scandal gets much play including the additional article below:
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