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A WEEK OF BEHIND-THE-SCENES MANUEVERING
ARAFAT, CIA, SHINBET WORKING CLOSELY TOGETHER
[Washington, 4/12/97 - MID-EAST REALITIES Editorial]
Joint US-Israeli efforts to quash the latest "violence" and
"rioting" and still further divide the Palestinians and the Arabs from
each other are frantically proceeding -- mostly behind the scenes of course.
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What is going on in public is once again primarily for public
relations purposes -- just like during all those years of State Department
negotiations which Oslo turned on their head.
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Behind the scenes the Palestinian Authority's screws are
being turned ever further, even while all sides in the region continue
to arm and prepare for future confrontation. With his monies dependent
on U.S. and Israeli giving, and with his rule dependent on the monies and
the "support" it can buy, Arafat is essentially cornered and is likely
to be pulled apart as the future unfolds.
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Such, of course, may well have been the Israeli intention
all along -- end the Intifada, discredit Arafat and destroy the PLO, imprison
and demoralize the Palestinian population, manipulate world public opinion,
push the U.N. out of matters realting to Israel as much as possible, control
the policies of the USA as much as possible, penetrate the Arab world with
economic, intelligence, and even military ties. In short: control and dominate
the region with American help and with increasing interaction with the
ever-more-fearful Arab "client-regimes" of the area -- especially the Hashemites
of Jordan, the al-Saud's in Saudi Arabia, and the quasi-military government
of Egypt.
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The main result of Netanyahu's recent lightning visit to
the U.S., coupled with that of the long-collaborating Hashemite King of
Jordan, was to come up with ways to further twist Arafat into complying
with the role he accepted in the Oslo and Cairo agreements of recent years.
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Arafat, and the "Palestinian Authority" he has established
with American and Israeli assistance -- including the recently discovered
secret $150 million bank account in Tel Aviv for flight into exile should
tha prove necessary -- are continually being forced to comply with the
unenviable role of policing Palestinian areas (call them "autonomous" rather
than "ghettos") and repressing all Palestinian opposition (call it "terrorism"
rather than "fighting occupation"). No matter what Arafat says in public,
the underlying realities of the nearly impossible position he has allowed
his people to be cornered into continually causes crisis in the misnomered
"peace process".
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Among other specific things, Arafat has been forced in the
past week to promise once again that he would take still further steps
to actively work with Israel against "terrorism". Helping the Israelis
round up some of the Hamas cells in 1997 is reminiscent of the help provided
a long year and a half ago to assassinate "the Engineer" in Gaza, even
though Arafat then turned right around and felt compelled to attend the
massive funeral.
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"Security Coordination between Israel and the Palestinians
has been Renewed - following a secret meeting between the head of the Shabak
and Yasser Arafat" was the front-page headline in Israel's largest circulation
paper, Yediot Acharonot, a few days ago.
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In addition, it has also leaked out that the head of the
CIA in Tel Aviv recently summoned three of the PA's top "security" chiefs
to a meeting which included the head of Israeli intelligence earlier in
the week.
With these things already known, imagine what must be going
on that isn't yet known!
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Additionally it is believed that Netanyahu made it quite
clear to Bill Clinton during their private meeting in Washington that the
Israelis will not be deterred from implimenting their interpretation of
Oslo -- which in fairness to the Israelis is far closer to the actual text
of the agreements as signed than is the PA interpretation. The surrender
nature of the Oslo and Cairo texts was in fact the major reason persons
such as Edward Said immediately began harshly criticizing what Arafat had
done, even to the extent of publicly labeling him a "collaborator". Now
the veracity of the critics is becoming more undeniable, hence the attempt
by Arafat to pretend that the agreements say something other than what
they do.
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Furthermore, among the behind-the-scenes realities are that
the Israelis have enough blackmail capabilities against the Clinton Administration
-- the most Israeli-infiltrated and Israeli-oriented government in American
history -- to assure themselves that no serious U.S. pressure will ever
be applied come what may.
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All the talk in the press about "saving the Peace Process,"
coupled with the spate of newspaper statesments from various Jewish and
Arab groups funded by their respective sides, are aimed in the end to once
again pressure and trick the Palestinians into once again buying into the
American-sponsored "peace process".
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Yet right from the start -- back in the tension period of
the post-Gulf War -- the so-called "peace process" was always in reality
a "domination process". It was always designed, and continues to have as
its primary purpose, to end the Intifada by exhausting and demoralizing
the Palestinians, while at the same time consolidating the hold of the
American-sponsored Arab "client-regimes" in the region. And it continues
to have as its primary purpose portraying the Americans as "even-handed"
and bent on "peace", when in fact it is precisely the Americans who make
possible Israeli expansion, Palestinian subjugation, and regional chaos.
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Expect more crisis and violence ahead as what is essentially
a multi-tentacled plot to destroy the Palestinian quest for independence,
entrench the Arab "client-regimes", and assure U.S. and Israeli regional
domination marches foreward.
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MAB
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