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"Jews Against the Occupation
A Jewish Voice of Opposition to the War on Palestinians
THIS IS THE ISRAELI 'CEASE-FIRE,' THIS IS THE ISRAELI 'GOOD-WILL'
By Kristen Ess
6 June 2003
The Palestinian Authority and the Israeli military government have agreed to
a 'cease-fire.' The terminology is, of course, misleading. It suggests that there are two equal sides at war. The Israeli government, receiving more than 12 million dollars a day from the US to supplement its arsenal of 'weapons of mass destruction,' has not ended its illegal military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Nor has it ceased imposing curfew on West Bank towns, building settlements and checkpoints, or using APCs, Apache helicopters, tanks, jeeps, and ground soldiers throughout the West Bank and
Gaza.
Yesterday Israeli Occupation Forces assassinated five Palestinians in the West Bank town of Attiel near Tulkuram.
On Tuesday the Israeli military government released 100 out of over 8,000 Palestinian political prisoners. Most of those released were being held without charge or trial in 'administrative detention'—a six month sentence that the Israelis renew for years if they want to. Many of those released had just a few days left of their 'sentence.' A Palestinian journalist, working for a US outlet, has just told me that amongst the released he spoke
with in Ramallah, "most only had six or seven days left."
Information disseminated by the Israeli government has passed the release
off as a mark of 'good faith.'
Out of the 100 released, 13 are from Bethlehem. One of them is a 23 year-old man taken out of his sleep at 2 am six months ago. He was given six months 'administrative detention,' without charge or trial. The six months is up in a few days, so he was released. This is not good will. He served his illegal sentence and now he is home.
The release of Abu Sukar, a hero to many who was imprisoned by the Israelis for 27 years, was a political gesture. He told the press, "I am happy to see my children who are grown now, my grandchildren, and all of my family, but
this is not complete. This is not peace. There will never be peace until the children I raised inside the prison are also released."
The Israeli military government began this 'good-will gesture' release of Palestinian political prisoners two weeks ago. Over the course of two days, they released eight West Bank Palestinians from completed 'administrative detention sentences' and deported them directly from Israeli prison to Gaza.
For most of last month, the Gaza Strip was closed to everyone: foreigners, journalists (including CNN), diplomats. During the complete closure,
Palestinians trapped inside reported intense Israeli attacks by sea, air and land, killing with impunity.
This week a few foreigners were allowed in, some working with the European Commission. Israeli soldiers opened fire on their diplomatic car as they passed through Beit Hanoun on their way to Eretz Checkpoint.
For the past several months the IOF has been destroying the northern Gaza Strip area bit by bit—demolishing the houses, displacing hundreds of Bedouins, ripping up orange groves, degrading the soil. One of the women working for the European Commission has just told me, "Beit Hanoun is gone."
The Israeli military government says that it will dismantle only ten of its roughly 267 illegal settlements. The 'Road Map,' in addition to long
standing UN Resolutions 242 and 338 and international law, calls for ceasing
building and dismantling all Israeli settlements. The ten the Israelis are discussing dismantling are not those creating the cantons that divide the West Bank from itself, but rather those that are onsidered, 'out-posts' and
illegal under Israeli law in addition to international law. Another empty gesture.
The Israeli military government told the international community last week that it would lift its complete closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip so that low-wage Palestinian workers can work for the Israeli economy. A local
human rights worker told me, "The Israelis have fired 20,000 imported foreign workers because they were too expensive." One strategy of the
Occupation is to cripple the Palestinian economy by destroying infrastructure, agricultural land, and local industry, in addition to imposing closure and curfew, which make going to work within the West Bank impossible. All of these actions create a devastating dependence on Israeli products and jobs.
In the same breathe that the Israeli military government said it would ease the closure, it also said that Israeli soldiers would remain throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The day after the announcement of the 'good will gesture' to ease the closure, the IOF imposed curfew on Ramallah, as they have done today as well. Soldiers were filmed beating residents in the
streets. A man trapped at the Qalandia checkpoint reported to me via telephone that there were up to 200 Israeli soldiers, Apaches, APCs, and
tanks. He said, "There's no where to go to get away." Residents of Jenin and Nablus are suffering under frequent curfews also. Reports from Nablus indicate that last night Israeli soldiers placed a bomb in the old city.
This is the Israeli 'cease-fire,' the Israeli 'good-will.'
For several days in a row, F16s flew over Bethlehem and helicopters circled. Israeli tank shelling and shooting is still frequent. This week Israeli jeeps drove into the center of Manger Square in front of the Church of
Nativity and shot a child in the eye and another in the leg. The children threw stones. Yesterday Israeli soldiers, with tanks and jeeps, forced
Palestinians to crouch on the ground with their hands on their heads near Bethlehem University.
This is happening amidst 'Road Map' talks in the Sinai, Aqaba, and Jerusalem. The 'Road Map' itself is loaded with points that have been
negotiated in the past, ones the Israelis have not been honoring, and points that cannot be negotiated. UN Resolution 194 demands the Right of Return for all Palestinians as a collective and an individual right. As such, it cannot
be negotiated.
The Israeli military government is openly reporting that it will not cease its illegal practice of targeted assassinations, as it demonstrated yesterday in the West Bank.
This is the Israeli 'cease-fire,' as Occupation, humiliation, home-demolitions and killings, have been part and parcel to the Israeli idea of 'peace.'
Yesterday a Palestinian journalist working for an American television network spent five hours, from 11 am to 4 pm, traveling from Ramallah to
Bethlehem, a short distance that without Israeli checkpoints and soldiers obstructing movement within the West Bank, would take only 40 minutes.
He says, "Now there are more checkpoints than before this week. I think at least three or four more now around Ramallah."
I ask him why the Israelis are building more checkpoints at a time when they should be dismantling them. He replies, "When they want to show the would that they are implementing the Road Map, they will show pictures of themselves on the news removing these new checkpoints and the regular ones will remain. They want to trick the world as usual."
Kristen Ess
6 June 2003"
http://www.jewsagainsttheoccupation.org
-> This is the Israeli 'Cease-Fire,' This is the Israeli 'Good-Will' 6/9/03
"Jews Against the Occupation
A Jewish Voice of Opposition to the War on Palestinians
THIS IS THE ISRAELI 'CEASE-FIRE,' THIS IS THE ISRAELI 'GOOD-WILL'
By Kristen Ess
6 June 2003
The Palestinian Authority and the Israeli military government have agreed to
a 'cease-fire.' The terminology is, of course, misleading. It suggests that there are two equal sides at war. The Israeli government, receiving more than 12 million dollars a day from the US to supplement its arsenal of 'weapons of mass destruction,' has not ended its illegal military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Nor has it ceased imposing curfew on West Bank towns, building settlements and checkpoints, or using APCs, Apache helicopters, tanks, jeeps, and ground soldiers throughout the West Bank and
Gaza.
Yesterday Israeli Occupation Forces assassinated five Palestinians in the West Bank town of Attiel near Tulkuram.
On Tuesday the Israeli military government released 100 out of over 8,000 Palestinian political prisoners. Most of those released were being held without charge or trial in 'administrative detention'—a six month sentence that the Israelis renew for years if they want to. Many of those released had just a few days left of their 'sentence.' A Palestinian journalist, working for a US outlet, has just told me that amongst the released he spoke
with in Ramallah, "most only had six or seven days left."
Information disseminated by the Israeli government has passed the release
off as a mark of 'good faith.'
Out of the 100 released, 13 are from Bethlehem. One of them is a 23 year-old man taken out of his sleep at 2 am six months ago. He was given six months 'administrative detention,' without charge or trial. The six months is up in a few days, so he was released. This is not good will. He served his illegal sentence and now he is home.
The release of Abu Sukar, a hero to many who was imprisoned by the Israelis for 27 years, was a political gesture. He told the press, "I am happy to see my children who are grown now, my grandchildren, and all of my family, but
this is not complete. This is not peace. There will never be peace until the children I raised inside the prison are also released."
The Israeli military government began this 'good-will gesture' release of Palestinian political prisoners two weeks ago. Over the course of two days, they released eight West Bank Palestinians from completed 'administrative detention sentences' and deported them directly from Israeli prison to Gaza.
For most of last month, the Gaza Strip was closed to everyone: foreigners, journalists (including CNN), diplomats. During the complete closure,
Palestinians trapped inside reported intense Israeli attacks by sea, air and land, killing with impunity.
This week a few foreigners were allowed in, some working with the European Commission. Israeli soldiers opened fire on their diplomatic car as they passed through Beit Hanoun on their way to Eretz Checkpoint.
For the past several months the IOF has been destroying the northern Gaza Strip area bit by bit—demolishing the houses, displacing hundreds of Bedouins, ripping up orange groves, degrading the soil. One of the women working for the European Commission has just told me, "Beit Hanoun is gone."
The Israeli military government says that it will dismantle only ten of its roughly 267 illegal settlements. The 'Road Map,' in addition to long
standing UN Resolutions 242 and 338 and international law, calls for ceasing
building and dismantling all Israeli settlements. The ten the Israelis are discussing dismantling are not those creating the cantons that divide the West Bank from itself, but rather those that are onsidered, 'out-posts' and
illegal under Israeli law in addition to international law. Another empty gesture.
The Israeli military government told the international community last week that it would lift its complete closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip so that low-wage Palestinian workers can work for the Israeli economy. A local
human rights worker told me, "The Israelis have fired 20,000 imported foreign workers because they were too expensive." One strategy of the
Occupation is to cripple the Palestinian economy by destroying infrastructure, agricultural land, and local industry, in addition to imposing closure and curfew, which make going to work within the West Bank impossible. All of these actions create a devastating dependence on Israeli products and jobs.
In the same breathe that the Israeli military government said it would ease the closure, it also said that Israeli soldiers would remain throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The day after the announcement of the 'good will gesture' to ease the closure, the IOF imposed curfew on Ramallah, as they have done today as well. Soldiers were filmed beating residents in the
streets. A man trapped at the Qalandia checkpoint reported to me via telephone that there were up to 200 Israeli soldiers, Apaches, APCs, and
tanks. He said, "There's no where to go to get away." Residents of Jenin and Nablus are suffering under frequent curfews also. Reports from Nablus indicate that last night Israeli soldiers placed a bomb in the old city.
This is the Israeli 'cease-fire,' the Israeli 'good-will.'
For several days in a row, F16s flew over Bethlehem and helicopters circled. Israeli tank shelling and shooting is still frequent. This week Israeli jeeps drove into the center of Manger Square in front of the Church of
Nativity and shot a child in the eye and another in the leg. The children threw stones. Yesterday Israeli soldiers, with tanks and jeeps, forced
Palestinians to crouch on the ground with their hands on their heads near Bethlehem University.
This is happening amidst 'Road Map' talks in the Sinai, Aqaba, and Jerusalem. The 'Road Map' itself is loaded with points that have been
negotiated in the past, ones the Israelis have not been honoring, and points that cannot be negotiated. UN Resolution 194 demands the Right of Return for all Palestinians as a collective and an individual right. As such, it cannot
be negotiated.
The Israeli military government is openly reporting that it will not cease its illegal practice of targeted assassinations, as it demonstrated yesterday in the West Bank.
This is the Israeli 'cease-fire,' as Occupation, humiliation, home-demolitions and killings, have been part and parcel to the Israeli idea of 'peace.'
Yesterday a Palestinian journalist working for an American television network spent five hours, from 11 am to 4 pm, traveling from Ramallah to
Bethlehem, a short distance that without Israeli checkpoints and soldiers obstructing movement within the West Bank, would take only 40 minutes.
He says, "Now there are more checkpoints than before this week. I think at least three or four more now around Ramallah."
I ask him why the Israelis are building more checkpoints at a time when they should be dismantling them. He replies, "When they want to show the would that they are implementing the Road Map, they will show pictures of themselves on the news removing these new checkpoints and the regular ones will remain. They want to trick the world as usual."
Kristen Ess
6 June 2003"
Vastaukset 10
Vanhimmat
kyllä Israel haluaa rauhaa, mutta arabit ei vaan hyväksy Israelia.
Israelilaisten enemmistö varmasti haluaa, niinkuin palestiinalaistenkin. Mutta IDF:n ammattimainen ylin upseerikunta ei välttämättä halua koska he hyötyvät Israelin valtionbudjetin jatkuvasta lypsämisestä turvallisuuden nimissä. Juuri IDF:n nykyisillä ja entisillä kenraaleilla on ote israelilaiseen siviiliyhteiskuntaan jonka konfliktin häviäminen poistaisi.
http://www.israelblog.org/faq.pdf
IDF Refuse-nicks — Frequently Asked Questions V1.1
Aron Trauring
"Why is the IDF interested in perpetuating the occupation?
Because as long as there is a conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis, the army remains the "keeper of the keys" in Israeli society. Everything is deferred to defense needs. Just look at the budget process. Every year the Treasury requests cuts in the army budget. Every year the defense budget increases.
...
You sound like one of those conspiracy theory nuts saying there is some military-industrial junta that rules Israel. Israel is a democracy!
I wouldn’t say it is a conspiracy. There wasn’t a group of fat cats who met in some dark room somewhere and decided to take over the country. Nor is it a junta. It wasn’t a bunch of army generals that over threw the government. They didn’t have to. The Israeli people and our representative governments have willingly relinquished control to the army in the name of national security. The result is that the Israeli economy and its political and social system is totally dominated by elites tied in to the command structure of the army.
But that is the result of our security situation! The IDF is the pillar of Israel because we need to defend ourselves against our enemies!
Or maybe it’s the other way around. The army perpetuates the conflict in order to remain the pillar of Israeli society. Let’s take the war in Lebanon as an example. The army fought tooth and nail to prevent every staged withdrawal. Each time, before a pull back, they threatened that withdrawal will be an act of weakness that encourages the enemy to follow. Katyushas would be raining down on Netanya. And in fact, as long as we continued to occupy part of Lebanon the tension never ceased, soldiers never stopped coming home in body bags. The army was almost frenetic when the final withdrawal was announced by Prime Minister Barak. Doom and destruction were predicted. Despite the warnings, the Lebanese border is one of the most tranquil parts of the country today. The residents of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv have to escape to the Galil to find a little peace and tranquility. Of course, the army hasn’t given up. While it is quite obvious that the withdrawal from Lebanon is a huge success, something that should have been done 18 years earlier, the army is now claiming that the Palestinians have learned from the Hezbullah, and are applying the same tactics to get us to withdraw from the territories. This is clearly not true. The Palestinians don’t need the Hezbullah to teach them how to resist occupation.
But doesn’t this very example contradict your argument? If the IDF controls Israeli society how did we ever get out of Lebanon?
No it doesn’t contradict it at all. I said specifically that the army’s control is the result of a voluntary abdication on the part of Israeli citizens. Israeli’s are so influenced by various myths, that opposition to the army’s policies is always apologetic and tentative. Anyone who speaks out against the army is called a traitor and a threat to our security.
Aren’t you exaggerating a bit?
When Shimon Peres was negotiating with Arafat last year, the army attacked a Palestinian bunker very nearby. When Peres mildly complained about this, the Army brass openly said that Peres was vio-lating government decisions by meeting with Arafat and that Peres was endangering national security by doing so. Answer this question: in what kind of governments do army generals tell politicians what to do and essentially quiet a Minister’s criticism by "hinting" he is a traitor? Can you spell Banana Republic?
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Myth 1: The IDF is the pillar of Israeli democracy, the only institution which everyone in Israel trusts.
This is a half truth. Indeed, the army is the only institution which nearly everyone in Israel trusts. But not for any good reason. Because this trust is blind, the Ministers rarely oppose or even question army decisions. The Knesset does not exercise real oversight over the army and its budget as it would in a healthy society. The press doesn’t do deep investigative reporting about the army, its practices, its policies nor its spending. In fact, the press in Israel serves more as the mouth piece of the army. You have to read the foreign press, and a few brave correspondents in Ha’aretz to get anywhere near the truth about what the IDF really does. And the army is only questioned by these journalists, vis-a-vis its actions in the territories. The huge budget of the Army is never an object of discussion, nor is the economic influence of the army and ex-army officers ever a subject of public discussion. This blind trust undermines the civil institutions of Israel and the democratic decision making process."
Heikki
Kun otetaan huomioon, että Israel on joutunut monesti ja monen maan hyökkäyksen kohteeksi ja on selviytynyt vain Jumalan avulla. Ja Israel joutuu kokoajan jatkuvien terroristien iskujen kohteeksi. Silloin on Israel pakotettu jatkuvaan taisteluun kansalaistensa turvallisuuden puolesta. Kirjoittaa tämä heikki sitten tänne mitä valheita tahansa, mutta totuus on vain että Israel haluaa rauhaa, mutta arabit ei hyväksy Israelin valtion olemassa oloa. Tämän myös heikki vahvisti eräässä keskustelussa kun kysyin että miksi ei "palestiinalaisvaltiota" perustettu vuosina 1949-1967, kun alueet kuuluivat arabimaille? Ja miksi silloin terroriteot kohdistuivat Israeliin ei arabeihin ja miksi silloin perustettiin terroristijärjestöt hamas ja plo al aksan marttyyrit ym. ?
"Israel on joutunut monesti ja monen maan hyökkäyksen kohteeksi ja on selviytynyt vain Jumalan avulla."
Mikäli USA ja sen ja Isralein välinen asekauppa on jumalasi niin ok. Jumalan mukaan tuominen tähän keskusteluun on pelkkää realismin pelkoa ja asian tarkastelua uskonnolisesti väriettyjen ideologiasilmalasien takaa.
Jumalalla, Allahilla, raamatulla tai koraanilla ei tilannetta ratkaista eikä oikeuteta, ei puolin eikä toisin.
Ensiksi USA ei tukenut Israelia vielä esim. kuuden päivän sodassa. Israel hankki itse aseensa. Hävittäjätkin oli ranskalaisia mirage-hävittäjiä. Ylivoima oli huomattavasti suurempi arabeilla, sillä monta maata oli hyökkäämässä Israeliin. Vaikka Israelilla olisi ollutkin suurempi ase/miehitys ym. siitä huolimatta Isralein saavutus kuudessa päivässä oli ihme.
Se miksi Jumala tukee Israelia on sitä mistä Raamattu puhuu. Jumala kokoaa kansansa takaisin luvattuun maahan isien maahan. Ei Jumala tule sallimaan että Israel työnnetään mereen.
Eipä jumala varjellut Israelia sodalta, eikä suosi nyttenkään, kun on koko ajan arabit niskassa. Jumala on säätänyt israelilaisille jatkuvasti vitsauksia. Amerikkalaiset avustavat ja ovat aina avustaneet heitä rahallisesti ja aseellisesti. Jos nyt ei yksi Mirage olekaan jenkkikone, niin suurin osa koneistosta on,jollei ole omaa jenkkien tuella valmistettua.
yom-kippur sodassa olisi ollut sata prosenttinen ilman usa:n ilmasiltaa!(ja 1967 sodassa phantomit olivat usa:sta.)
israelille rauha syyrian ja palestiinalaisten kanssa on katastrofi,suuri osa israelilaisista asuu vallatuilla palestiinalaisten alueilla tai golanilla,syyrialta vallatuilla alueilla,golanilla on israelilaisten (lappi)pohjoinen jossa lomaillaan paljon alueella on vuoristoa,jokia,hiihto keskus(hermon 2500 metr. korkea)rauhan tultua syyrian kanssa israel joutuu luovuttamaan golanin ja osaa gennesaretista syyrialle golanilla asuu n.150.000 israelilaista.
vallatuilla palestiinalaisten alueilla asuu n.150-200.000 israelilaista,toisin sanoen ainakaan kyseiset asukkaat ei suuremmin rauhasta piittaa,israelin virallisella alueella asuminen on todella ahdasta ja jos sinne tuodaan n.400.000 uutta asukasta niin vaikeudet kasvaa.
Ilman Jumalan suojelua olisi Israelilaiset työnnetty mereen jo vuonna 1948.
TÄMÄ ON TOTUUS
Kun sijoitat turhaan hokemasi jumala-sanan tilalle amerikan-ja muut ulkojuutalaiset ja länsivallat ja muistat minkä järjestön nimissä Israel perustettiin, alat olla lähellä totuutta.
Raamatussa ennustetaan myös Israelin valtion uudelleen syntyminen ja Juutalaisten paluu.
Se että tuo voi tapahtua jonkin auttamana ei sulje pois silti, että myös Jumala toimii asian eteen.
Mitä yleensä länsimaat ovat tehneet Israelin valtion eteen? Tutkisit historiaa huomaisit että hyvin vähän. Esim. isobritania oli kokoajan jarruttamassa Juutalaisten paluu muuttoa ja siitä aiheutui se että paljon Juutalaisia kuoli II maailmansodan aikana vainoissa. Ja USA:kin tuli vasta hyvin myöhäisessä vaiheessa mukaan.