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From: \"Jewish Peace News\" <shlensky at socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:58 AM
Subject: [JPN] Shulamit Aloni: \'You Can Continue with the Liquidations\'


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>
> [Longtime Israeli Knesset (parliament) member and recipient of the
> Israel Prize for Human Rights, Shulamit Aloni, wrote this scathing
> article for the conservative Israeli daily, Yediot Aharonot, on
> Friday, January 18th.  In it she excoriates Prime Minister Sharon for
> doing everything possible to make it impossible to sit down and
> re-open negotiations with the Palestinians.  After the destruction of
> scores of civilian homes in Rafah, in the aftermath of which the
> Palestinians behaved with utter restraint, she says, Sharon and his
> generals decided that they would have to do something to further stir
> the troubled waters.  So they assassinated Reid Karmi, knowing full
> well that the response would be vengeance attacks by Palestinian
> groups and that the price would be paid in Israeli blood.  Israel
> then demands that Arafat control the militant groups Hamas and
> Islamic Jihad, but Aloni reminds her readers that David Ben Gurion,
> already the presumptive leader of the pre-state Zionist settlement in
> Palestine, could not control Jewish \"terror\" groups Lehi and the
> Irgun, who \"continued with the killing, the bombing and the
> liquidations against the British and the Arabs.\"  She accuses Sharon
> of wanting nothing more than for Arafat to launch a devastating civil
> war among his people, just when they \"are under the boots of Israeli
> soldiers at checkpoints or under [those] of the settlers who rob
> their land.\"  Aloni concludes with her own cri de conscience of
> Israeli dissidence: \"Whoever claims that the settlements are Israel\'s
> catastrophe from a security and economic point of view is not an
> anti-semite but a patriot. Whoever says that this government is
> committing crimes against humanity is not an anti-semite but an
> honest and humanist person. Whoever condemns the demolition of houses
> in Rafah and Jerusalem, opposes the provocative liquidations and
> fostering of ferment in the area so that we can avoid going to the
> negotiating table, does so out of love for their homeland.\"  Thanks
> to Marcia Freedman for forwarding this article, and to Edeet Ravel
> for its translation from Hebrew.  --LS]
>
>
>
>
> Yediot Aharonot Internet edition, 18 January 2002
>
>
> You Can Continue with the Liquidations
>
> By Shulamit Aloni
>
> (translated from Hebrew by Edeet Ravel, Montreal, Canada)
>
> In view of the developments of the past two days, it is hard to find
> in the government\'s actions not only justification, but even a hint
> of intelligence.
>
> After the destruction of the houses in Rafah and Jerusalem the
> Palestinians continued to act with restraint. Sharon and his army
> minister, who apparently feared that they would have to return to the
> negotiating table, decided to do something, and they liquidated Raad
> Karmi. They knew that there would be a response, and that we would
> pay the price in the blood of citizens. Thus it turned out that the
> blood of the celebrants in Hadera is apparently a reasonable price to
> pay to maintain the ferment in the occupied territories.
>
> There are no negotiations, there will not be peace, the settlements
> will expand and get stronger, and we will be able to continue
> liquidating, demolishing and uprooting.
>
> Heart and Kidney Specialists
>
> Over the course of the year 2000 the Palestinian Authority invested
> over two billion shekels in development, construction and tourism.
> Those investments were made with representatives of the donor states
> and under their supervision, and we can assume that whoever is
> investing in this way is not preparing an intifada. Whoever has seen
> the construction and development in the territories of the Authority,
> and who sees destruction and ruin today, and proceeds to say that all
> this is due to Arafat\'s murderous and destructive nature, is an
> incorrigible demagogue.
>
> Since Arik Sharon was elected Prime Minister, Fuad [Binyamin
> Ben-Eliezer] as his army minister, and Mofaz sits as the supreme
> commander, we hear everywhere what Arafat is thinking, what he is
> planning, that he is an irrelevant liar, that he has fulfilled his
> role but is doing everything to destroy us in stages. Before those
> potentates carry out their plot and eliminate the strongest and most
> awesome army in the Middle East, it is our duty to bomb, destroy,
> liquidate, crush, uproot, expel, plug wells and to harass at
> checkpoints - for the sake of \"peace with security\" that Sharon and
> his ministers want to bring us.
>
> But since the Chief of Staff and his generals are not psychologists
> and not heart and kidney specialists, and since the shamefulness of
> their actions tears the heart, I decided to go to Arafat personally
> and hear his version; and maybe to tell him: not all of us are Sharon.
>
> Arafat repeated his words that we Israelis are trying to forget: that
> already in 1988 the institutions of the PLO accepted UN Resolutions
> 242 and 338, that is the Green Line borders, and from their point of
> view that means that they gave up on greater Palestine and recognized
> the existence of the State of Israel, he repeated that if Rabin had
> not been murdered, there would already be peace between the two
> peoples. One may disbelieve, but it is hard to deny that the man was
> murdered by \"opponents of peace\" among us.
>
> Arafat also spoke of the economic hardship. Of the hunger and poverty
> that we are imposing on his people. He recounted that when Rabin
> decided on closure, he passed 15 million dollars to the Authority to
> pay salaries. Whereas now, for the past 18 months Israel has held 900
> million shekels belonging to the Palestinians, in addition to the
> fact that many communities have been converted to internment camps,
> which are also starvation camps.
>
> The \"All-Powerful\" and the \"King of Israel\"
>
> Israelis say that Arafat can control Hamas and the Jihad and subdue
> them. In view of the many years I have been living, I can recall that
> Ben-Gurion, who stood at the head of the leaders of the organized
> Yishuv [the Zionist Jewish community in British Mandate Palestine]
> could not restrain the Lehi [the \"Stern gang,\" of which Yitzhak
> Shamir was a member] and Etzel [the Irgun, led by Menahem Begin]
> \"terrorist\" organizations -- that continued with the killing, the
> bombing and the liquidations against the British and the Arabs.
> Sharon apparently will not rest and will not be silent until the
> \"all-powerful\" Arafat launches a civil war among his people, who are
> under the boots of Israeli soldiers at checkpoints or under the
> settlers who rob their land.
>
> Whoever claims that the settlements are Israel\'s catastrophe from a
> security and economic point of view is not an anti-semite but a
> patriot. Whoever says that this government is committing crimes
> against humanity is not an anti-semite but an honest and humanist
> person. Whoever condemns the demolition of houses in Rafah and
> Jerusalem, opposes the provocative liquidations and fostering of
> ferment in the area so that we can avoid going to the negotiating
> table, does so out of love for their homeland.
>
> What goes around comes around. The intifada will continue and Sharon,
> the \"king of Israel,\" along with Lieberman, Alon, Landau, Hanegbi and
> others will continue to wave the flag of righteousness and the flag
> of Greater Israel.
>
> I went to Arafat in order to tell him that in spite of everything
> there are still many in Israel who will not let despair destroy the
> hope of peace. It is incumbent on all who believe in the cause of a
> just peace to work together to conquer injustice, greed and
> power-worship to bring peace and prosperity to the two peoples.
>
> _____________________________________
> Shulamit Aloni, was a Knesset Member for many years, and headed the Meretz
> Party until her retirement from the Knesset.  Recipient of the Israel
> Prize for Human Rights, Aloni has never stopped speaking out on behalf of
> peace, justice, and equality for all Israel\'s citizens.
>
>
>
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