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HUNTING DOWN MORE PALESTINIANS
MID-EAST REALITIES -- www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 8/2700:
Something is basically wrong in this pictue:
While Arafat and his corrupt de-facto PM Nabil Sha'ath
-- controllers of the new bantustans of Palestine -- run around the globe
bowing to those who provide them their money and guns and now indicating
that the "Sate" isn't going to be "declared" on September 13th afterall...the
Israelis (with the help of the CIA and Arafat's secret police) continue
hunting down other Palestinians who understandably oppose the new even
more canniving bondage they are being subjected to.
While Edward Said goes to meet with the head of
Hezbollah in Lebanon (about whom he then has many complimentary things
to say), the same Edward Said continues his long refusal to meet with the
head of Hamas in his own now doubly occupied Palestine.
While the confused and manipulated Arab American
client-organizations continue their long history of always misorganizing
themselves, about the wrong issues, and in the wrong ways -- currently
in the form of "Right of Return" -- historic agreements are being finalized
that are in fact designed to permanently prevent the very "Right of Return".
Yet those agreements aren't even the subject of their challenge nor do
they seem to understand that if they were serious about their concerns
they would be directed their protests much closer to home by demonstrating
outside the offices of the Arab League (where Arafat has his offices) as
well as at the doorsteps of the Embassies of Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia
when they straggle into Washington in a few weeks.
This AP story from last evening tells a small part
of what is really happening to the Palestinian people these days, and the
message from the Israelis to all concerned is quite clear: The Israeli
Army remains in charge now and will remain so in the future:
NABLUS, West Bank (AP - 26 Aug) -- Hundreds of Israeli soldiers sealed off a West Bank village known as an Islamic militant stronghold late Saturday, and witnesses said they heard repeated bursts of gunfire.
Two helicopters flew above the village, Assira Ashamalieh, and
trained bright
spotlights on the homes and surrounding fields.
One resident, Nidal Daglas, speaking by telephone, said he was
standing on the
roof of his home when he heard intensive gunfire.
"I didn't know what was going on. I went downstairs, and when
I was near the
entrance of my home, I was hit in the leg by a bullet," he said.
Daglas said soldiers initially refused to let an ambulance into
the village,
but that he eventually received medical
treatment.
The village is known as a stronghold of the Islamic militant group
Hamas, and
the top Hamas fugitive in the West Bank, Mahmoud Abu Hanud, has
relatives
there.
Abu Hanud is believed to be the mastermind of two suicide bombings
in
Jerusalem in 1997 in which 45 people, including five Hamas assailants,
were
killed.
Abu Hanud's sister-in-law, speaking by telephone, said hundreds
of soldiers
were searching the village late Saturday, but had not come to
her home.
She said she heard intensive gunfire for about 10 minutes, and
that troops
prevented residents from leaving their homes.
Other witnesses said that despite the army curfew, hundreds of
villagers
poured into the streets, burned tires and chanted: "With our
spirit and
our blood, we will edeem you, Abu Hanoud."
he helicopters trained spotlights on the fields between the village
and
the nearby Palestinian town of Nablus in an apparent hunt for
fugitives.
Assira Asshamalieh is under joint Israeli-Palestinian control,
while Nablus
is under full Palestinian jurisdiction, meaning those seeking
refuge there
are out of the reach of the Israeli security forces.
Early reports are that at least three Israeli soldiers
were killed in this latest hunting down of the Palestinian resistance,
but it is unclear at this point if it was accidental "friendly fire" or
the result of gunfights with Palestinians. It is know that Arafat's
many armed groups did not challenge the Israelis nor defend their own people.
It is not yet know how many Palestinians were killed by the Israelis this
time, nor how many have been arrested. It is believed some of the
key Palestinians the Israelis were searching for fled to the city of Nablus
where they are now under arrest and being interrogated by Arafat's Authority,
which now has very close ties to the CIA, Shinbet, and Jordanian Muhabarat.
This latest Israeli assault comes just days after Prime
Minister Barak, in a less veiled way than in the past, appealed to Ariel
Sharon, leader of the Likud, to join in a national unity government to
assert Israel's will on the Palestinians and the region in the crucial
months ahead.
The assault may also be an attempt to provoke Hamas and
others into more attacks on Israelis so that these attacks can then be
used to further manipulate world public opinion and further pressure Yasser
Arafat to sign the essentially surrender and "end the conflict" agreements
that the U.S. and Israel have manuevered Arafat toward for the past decade,
most recently at Camp David.
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