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THE LAUGHABLE ARAB LEAGUE
[MER - While the laughable Arab League was
meeting in Cairo, thanking Madeleine Albright (!) and refusing to even
decide not to go to the U.S.-Israeli arranged "economic summit"
in Doha in November, the Israelis have been madly arresting (and torturing
as usual) Palestinians, escalating their Apartheid-style repressions, expanding
settlements, and preparing to attack the Palestinian "autonomous"
areas after the next "terrorism" occurs (as it inevitably will).
The following article details what the Israelis did in Hebron on Sunday.
It's a story reminiscent of the Russian "pogroms" against Jews
a hundred years ago; and Jews everywhere should be both ashamed and outraged.]
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ISRAEL IS LAUNCHING
WAR ON ISLAM
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[Palestine Times - 9/22/97:]
Israeli occupation
troops raided the Grand Mosque in Dura after midnight Sunday in the latest
attack on Islamic holy places in the occupied territories.
According to local
Palestinian sources, scores of Israeli soldiers forced an entry into the
mosque around shortly after midnight Sunday, presumably to carry out searches
for "inciting materials."
The Mosque Muezzin,
Ja'afar Dasseh, said the soldiers behaved with obvious disrespect inside
the mosque and stepped on copies of the Qura'an. He added that the commanding
officer then produced a poorly-written closure order saying that the mosque,
the largest in the Hebron area, be closed off for one month. Sheikh Salah
al Natshe, Head of Hebron Wakf Department, strongly condemned the Israeli
army transgression against Islamic holy places .
"When somebody
writes a graffiti at a Jewish grave in a remote part of Europe or North
America, they make a big fuss about it; however when their murderous soldiers
and settlers desecrate Muslim mosques and Christian churches, nobody says
anything." Natshe pointed out that Israeli army attacks on Islamic
holy places in the West Bank have assume phenomenal proportions of late.
He said Israeli raids on mosques and their imams have become "almost
a daily occurrence." "The matter
is simply a dirty war by Jews on Islam, the Qura'an and the holy prophet."
Muhammed Ayyash, a clerk at the Bethlehem Wakf Department, concurred. He
pointed out that the Israeli army has arrested as many as local imams at
the villages of Tku, al Khader, Beit Fajjar and the Dheisheh refugee camp
in the last two weeks. Ayyash admitted that the vindictive arrests were
undermining the holding of prayers at the respective mosques.
On Sunday, as many
as 600 Israeli soldiers raided the village of Asira al Shamaliyya near
Nablus. Assa'ad Sawalmeh, head of the local council, said the heavily-armed
soldiers raided homes, beat up defenseless villagers and arrested scores
of youth for "harboring Islamic tendencies." Sawalmeh
pointed out that the Israeli troops, commanded by Uzi Dayyan (Israeli army
commander in the West Bank) forced as many as 600 local citizens into the
local school where they subjected them to various forms of humiliation
and occasional beating. In the meanwhile, the Israeli troops confined Palestinian
Authority policemen to their local center, preventing them to leave the
premise "until further notice." The Israeli operation at the
village lasted for more than 12 hours, and as many as 25 local citizens
were arrested.
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