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T H E G H E T T O S
O F P A L E S T I N E
THE ISRAELI ARMY WOULD HAVE NO
TROUBLE RECAPTURING ALL
PALESTINIAN TOWNS."
Yitzhak Mordechai
Israeli Army Chief of Staff
[MER
- It's true of course, the arms provided to the "Palestinian Authority"
are quite limited, mostly "approved" and "registered", and the Israelis
have actually worked out with Arafat's people procedures for accounting
for individual bullets!
That said, however, there are many
important considerations not mentioned by General Mordechai.
Most important of all the Israeli
army has never really left the Palestinians towns -- rather it has surrounded
them. All means of entrance and exit are controlled by the Israelis. Indeed
the Israelis are quite pleased with these arrangements for they no longer
have to do the actually street control within Palestinian cities, while
nevertheless controlling everything that goes in or comes out from these
autonomous areas that resemble modern-day Indian resersations.
Back more than ten years ago a video
documentary was made about "Gaza Ghetto." Now, in the wake of the Oslo
"peace process" there is also "Nablus Ghetto," "Hebron Ghetto", "Ramallah
Ghetto", etc. Indeed, since 1993 it has become more and more difficult
for Palestinians in the occupied territories even to travel between cities.
In fact well over 90% of the Palestinian population is prohibited from
even visiting Jerusalem, and it is actually illegal for those few who do
to stay overnight in the city.
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It is for
these reasons that the Israelis would very much prefer to continue the
"Oslo peace process", using the Palestinian police as their own, and insisting
that the test of Palestinian compliance is the impossible one of ending
all terrorism. This serves to keep the Palestinians on a very short leash;
and gives the Israelis the excuse, anytime they wish it , to tighten the
screws still further and, should they ever really want to, to "recapture"
everything with little trouble.
As for "terrorism", the Israelis
are no fools. They know very well that they are forcing the Palestinians
into subjugation; and they know very well that their oppression of the
Palestinians is being racheted up, not down. They know very well indeed
that Israeli policies are actually driving opposition groups deeper underground,
creating growing tensions within Palestinian society, and creating the
conditions for an eventual Palestinian civil war which may have been the
main goal of Oslo in the first place.
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