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BREEDING TERRORISM
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MORE TERRORISM BEING
BRED BY "PEACE PROCESS"
"This 'peace' is
a lie - they are cheating us, laughing at us."*
Palestinian living in occupied West Bank*
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MER Editorial - Washington - 8/4/97:
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Now leader of the Labor Party, former General
Ehud Barak -- himself in reality a hard-liner whose major efforts for the
past 10 years have been to crush the Intifada, and the man who commanded
the assassination of the PLO's #2 in Tunis a decade ago -- has recently
called Netanyahu a "blind goat." He is hoping of course, as is
Washington and the Arafat regime, to use the chaos brought on by the terror
to bring his party back to power in Israel.
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And indeed one day Labor will be back in power
-- maybe not too distant a day. The Arab "client-regimes", now
with Arafat as point man, will smile and shake hands profusely. The American
government, parroted by much of the compliant media, will harken a new
dawn for the renewed "peace process". But only the style of things,
not the real substance of things, will change.
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We've all been through this "good cop -
bad cop" cycle quite a few times now. It was the Labor party that
began the settlements policy in the first place, including allowing fanatics
to settle in downtown Hebron.
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It is the Labor party that has always bragged
about the ongoing "Judaiization of Jerusalem," with Labor Mayor
Teddy Kolleck himself cavalierly insisting he'd never done anything for
the Arabs! It is the Labor Party that conceived of the "autonomy"
for Palestinians plan back in the late 1960s when Israel had exceedingly
close relations with Apartheid South Africa and the Bantustans policy there
was something of an unspoken model. And it is the Labor Party that came
up with the "Gaza First" approach, essentially designed to let
the swelling Gaza ghetto be taken care of by others, including the gullible
international community!
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The goals of modern-day sophisticated terrorism
are political and historical. And now the politicians on all sides are
using and twisting what has happened, and what is likely to continue to
happen, to perpetuate their game of political musical chairs without amending
the basic policies that have created today's desperate situation.
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In the end, however, so long as the U.S. continues
to back Israeli occupation with ever greater amounts of money, guns, and
political protection, little will change and the "peace process"
will remain a grand deception breeding resistance, hatred, and yes, more
terrorism.
And the following report from the Agence France
Press tells another part of the story largely unreported in the USA:
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AIN HELWE, Lebanon, Aug 1 (AFP) - "About
300 Palestinian refugees demonstrated support here on Friday for the deadly
Islamic suicide bombings in Jerusalem, chanting "Death to Israel,
Death to Jews." The protest was organized by about 30 Islamic militants
carrying machine guns over their shoulders and dressed in black with scarves
covering their faces, correspondents reported. The demonstrators came out
of a mosque after Friday prayers in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain
Helwe, outside the main southern Lebanese port city of Sidon. Moslem religious
leaders and heads of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, which spearheads anti-Israeli
attacks in south Lebanon, led the hour-long demonstration and denounced
Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. "We must pursue the Jihad (holy
war)," and "No to Arafat, Yes to HAMAS, we want suicide operations,"
the demonstrators chanted. The Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) claimed
responsibility for the twin suicide bombings in a Jerusalem market that
killed 13 Israelis on Wednesday. Ain Helwe, home to nearly 50,000 Palestinian
refugees, is one of several such camps in Lebanon. The refugees strongly
oppose Arafat's peace deal with Israel because it does not allow them the
right to return to Palestinian territories."
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* 65-year old Palestinian, Abdel Qadir Ghneimat,
Surif, occupied West Bank, 8/3/97, NYT.
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