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Reenen van Niekerk
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Nou wonder ek maar net , wat noem n mens die ander party as n mens hulle
terroriste noem???
Reenen
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> Israel: A Terrorist Success Story
>
> Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit
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> source - Bill Koehnlein
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> Green Left Weekly - December 12, 2001
> http://www.greenleft.org.au
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> Israel: A Terrorist Success Story
>
> by Rob Miller
>
> If there was an Academy Awards ceremony for terrorism, Israel would
> sweep every category -- and every acceptance speech would have to
> thank the government of United States, whose generous support has
> made Israel the most successful terrorist state in the world.
>
> How do you measure the success of terrorism? Is it by the numbers of
> civilians killed, maimed and terrorized or the level of disruption
> and fear brought to peoples' daily lives? Israel scores very highly
> on both these counts.
>
> Surely though, the ultimate measure of success is the ability to use
> terrorism to achieve your aims and get away with it. By this measure,
> Israel is the most successful terrorist state of the 20th century and
> looks like continuing its winning streak into the 21st century.
>
> Israel has its own special way of recognizing the achievements of its
> great terrorists -- by electing them its prime minister. There are no
> less than three Israeli prime ministers who have long terrorist
> histories.
>
> The current prime minister, Ariel Sharon, cemented his place in the
> hall of fame with his leading role in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon,
> including the massacres by Israeli-backed militias in the Palestinian
> refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla. Earlier in his Israeli army
> career Sharon was responsible for the slaughter of 69 civilians in
> the Qibya village in Jordanian-controlled territory in 1953.
>
> The Israeli prime minister at the time of the 1982 invasion, Menachem
> Begin, was a leader of the Irgun, one of the main terrorist groups in
> the Zionist movement. In the 1930s and 1940s the Zionists were trying
> to establish the Israeli state in what was then British-occupied
> Palestine.
>
> In 1937, the Irgun launched a terror campaign against Palestinian
> civilians, setting off bombs in markets and attacking buses. In one
> attack on the Haifa fruit market 74 Arabs were killed and 129
> wounded. In 1946, the Irgun set off a bomb in the King David Hotel in
> Jerusalem killing about 100 Arab, British and Jewish victims.
>
> Another Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir, started his career in
> this same period as a leader of the Zionist terrorist group, the
> Stern gang. The Stern gang was responsible for the assassination of
> the UN mediator in Palestine, Count Folke Bernadette, and a French UN
> observer in September 1948.
>
> As central leaders of these groups Begin and Shamir both went on to
> play a crucial role in the terrorist activities carried out during
> the 1948 war.
>
> "Ethnic cleansing"
>
> The term "ethnic cleansing" came into general use when it was used to
> describe the atrocities carried out by the Serbian nationalist forces
> in their push to create a Serbian state in Bosnia.
>
> To carry out this particular form of terrorism is one thing, but as
> former Serbian ruler Slobodan Milosevic has found out, it is quite
> another thing to get away with it. In terms of getting away with
> ethnic cleansing, Israel is in a class of its own.
>
> Ethnic cleansing was always going to be essential to achieving the
> Zionist movement's aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine. This
> movement sought to escape the oppression suffered by Jewish
> minorities throughout history by setting up a state controlled
> exclusively by Jews, ruling over a country in which Jews were the
> majority. The process of creating such a state in Palestine would
> inevitably involve systematic discrimination against the non-Jewish
> people of Palestine.
>
> Through a combination of lobbying, military force and terrorist
> activity the Zionist movement was able to win the support of the US
> and other powerful nations for a UN partition plan which would create
> a Jewish state in Palestine. The 1947 UN partition plan violated the
> right of the Arabic-speaking Palestinian people to national
> self-determination, as it denied them the opportunity to vote on
> whether or not they agreed to the UN plan to hand over a part of
> their national homeland to a colonial-settler state.
>
> The UN plan was also grossly unfair in that it granted the 30% of the
> population who were Jewish 54% of the land of Palestine, including
> the most fertile areas. Despite the obvious bias of the UN plan in
> favor of Zionism, it did not resolve the "Arab question."
>
> In the area allocated to the Jewish state, Jews only barely
> outnumbered Palestinians (498,000 Jews to 497,000 Palestinians) and
> at this time the Zionist settlers only owned 6% of the land.
>
> The solution was ethnic cleansing. By waging a war of terror against
> the civilian Palestinian population, the Zionists were able to occupy
> 81% of the total area of Palestine by the end of the 1948 war.
>
> One of the worst acts of terror during this war was the Deir Yasseen
> massacre. On April 9, 1948, the Irgun and the Stern gang attacked the
> village of Deir Yasseen and massacred 120 villagers. To ensure that
> the massacre had maximum effect in forcing Palestinians to flee, the
> terrorist forces raped women and girls, butchered infants and cut
> open the womb of a nine-months pregnant woman.
>
> This was just one of a number of massacres that terrorized more than
> 90% of the Palestinian population into fleeing their homes.
>
> After forcing the Palestinian population to flee the villages, the
> Israeli forces would often blow up the houses to ensure the residents
> had nothing to return to. To reinforce the point, the Israeli
> authorities then "legally" confiscated the homes, fields and property
> of all Palestinians who had not been in their "regular place of
> residence" on September 1, 1948.
>
> The media coverage of the attacks on New York has emphasized that the
> victims of terrorism are not just those killed and injured but also
> their families, and the society as a whole. Today there are more than
> 3.7 million Palestinian refugees registered by the UN and about
> another two million who are not registered. These refugees are the
> victims of the acts of terrorism carried out in the 1948 war and of
> further terrorist acts carried out in the last 53 years.
>
> In the Balkans, some refugees have been allowed to return -- but not
> in Israel. There, Palestinian refugees are not allowed to return,
> despite the fact that under international law they have every right
> to. UN resolution 194 passed in 1948 explicitly affirms this right --
> but Israel's ethnic cleansing and defiance of this UN resolution goes
> unpunished by the UN and the US.
>
> While the Palestinian victims of Israeli terrorism are left to rot in
> refugee camps, Israel struts the world stage claiming to be a
> democracy. This Israeli form of "democracy" is based on driving out
> more than half the indigenous population of the country and thereby
> denying their right to participate in any aspect of society.
>
> Meir Kahane, one of Israel's best known civilian terrorists, openly
> acknowledged this fact. According to Kahan: "There is no question of
> setting up democracy in Israel because democracy means equal rights
> for all, irrespective of racial or religious origins. You can't, on
> the one hand, want a Jewish state and, at the same time, give
> non-Jews the right to become a majority."
>
> Denying the right of Palestinian refugees to return is therefore
> essential to maintaining Israeli "democracy."
>
> Hostage taking
>
> Hollywood has produced numerous films in which "evil terrorists,"
> usually Arabs, take innocent civilians, usually Americans, hostage
> and make demands that must be met before the hostages are released.
>
> We all know the script: the ruthless hijackers kill a hostage to show
> they mean business, the US government refuses to negotiate with
> terrorists, one of the hostages is a Special Forces-trained superhero
> who leads the fight against the hijackers, eventually killing them
> all and setting the hostages free.
>
> These "Hollywood principles" generally reflect the public stance of
> the US government in relation to terrorism. This tough "no
> negotiations, blow the terrorists away" stance was exactly that taken
> by the US and its allies in relation to the Taliban's offer to
> negotiate on a international trial for bin Laden. Any suggestion that
> there should be negotiations or an assessment of the legitimacy of
> the territorial claims was dismissed as appeasement and rewarding
> terrorist aggression.
>
> Do these principles apply to Israel?
>
> Israel's 1948 acquisition of territory by force went unpunished. No
> doubt encouraged by this success, in 1967 Israel invaded the rest of
> Palestine and parts of Egypt and Syria, taking millions of civilians
> hostage. Israel demanded that its "right to exist" be recognized
> before it would withdraw and release the hostages. The passing of UN
> Security Council resolution 242 calling on Israel to withdraw from
> the occupied territories had no effect.
>
> So did the US launch immediate military action against Israel? No. It
> called for negotiations while continuing to provide Israel with
> massive military aid.
>
> In 1973, Egypt and Syria took military action to attempt to free
> their citizens and territory held hostage by Israel, exercising their
> right to self-defense under international law. The US response was to
> provide Israel with all the emergency military aid it needed to
> defeat Egypt and Syria.
>
> The experience of Egypt's 1977 peace treaty with Israel seems to
> confirm the argument that negotiating with terrorists only encourages
> them. After Egypt had met Israel's demands for recognition and had
> its territory returned, Israel promptly invaded Lebanon in 1978, and
> again in 1982.
>
> In effect, Israel has held millions of innocent civilians hostage
> since 1967 and has killed thousands of Palestinians who have resisted
> this. While in Hollywood movies and in Afghanistan, it is quite
> legitimate for the "civilised world" (read, the US and its allies) to
> kill "terrorists," those Palestinians who have exercised their right,
> under international law, to resist the illegal Israeli occupation of
> their land have been designated "terrorists" themselves.
>
> During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon the civilian toll from the
> terrorist activities of the Israeli army was 12,000 killed, 40,000
> wounded, 300,000 homeless.
>
> Over the course of the invasion the Israeli army used a range of
> terror weapons on civilians including cluster bombs and phosphorous
> bombs and shells. The use of phosphorous bombs and shells for
> military objectives is banned under the 1980 UN Geneva convention.
>
> This description of their effect by journalist Robert Fisk explains
> why: "Dr Shamaa found that the two five-day old twins had already
> died but they were still on fire. 'I had to take the babies and put
> them in buckets of water to put out the flames', she said. 'When I
> took them out half an hour later they were still burning'."
>
> The Israeli army entrusted the dirtiest work of the invasion to their
> right-wing Lebanese allies, the Phalangists. On September 15, 1982,
> the Israeli army sealed the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in West
> Beirut and Israeli defense minister Ariel Sharon authorized a unit of
> 150 Phalangists to enter the camps.
>
> The Phalangists preceded to slaughter at least 1000 Palestinian and
> Lebanese civilians over a two-day period while the Israeli army
> looked on.
>
> Just because Israel is the most successful terrorist state in the
> world does not mean there is no role for Israeli civilians in
> carrying out terrorist acts.
>
> On February 25, 1994, Barukh Goldstein, an Israeli settler, massacred
> around 50 Palestinian worshippers at the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron.
> Goldstein was a well-known leader of Kach, an extreme right-wing
> Zionist organization. Wearing a military uniform he entered the
> mosque and emptied two clips of a machine gun into Muslim
> worshippers. In the two weeks following the massacre, the Israeli
> army continued Goldstein's work by killing another 30 Palestinians.
>
> While fanatical settlers such as Goldstein are directly involved in
> terrorizing Palestinian civilians, it is the "ordinary" Israeli
> settlers who provide a cover and excuse for Israeli state terrorism
> and further ethnic cleansing.
>
> Protecting these Israeli civilians provides an excuse for the Israeli
> army to station large numbers of troops in the Palestinian
> territories. The land on which these illegal settlements are built,
> and the "security zones" around them, is confiscated from
> Palestinians. To ensure the settlers can travel freely,
> "Israeli-only" roads have been built which divide the Palestinian
> territories and have required the confiscation of even more
> Palestinian land.
>
> While renowned for its large-scale atrocities, Israel combines this
> with smaller-scale daily terrorism, which has the greatest impact.
> For the past 34 years Israeli soldiers have held up Palestinian
> civilians at gunpoint on a daily basis.
>
> Much has been made of the fact that those killed in New York were
> just ordinary people going about their daily business. The fear that
> you be could killed at any moment for no good reason is one of the
> worst effects of terrorism. This is a fear that Palestinians in the
> Israeli-occupied territories have lived with on a daily basis for
> over 30 years.
>
> For Palestinians, however, the people who may kill them are not
> invisible; they are right in front of them every day pointing
> automatic weapons at them as they go about their daily business. They
> are the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoints, who may open fire at a
> suspicious movement, and the armed settlers, many of whom believe
> Palestinians should be expelled at gunpoint.
>
> This is not an abstract fear, as most Palestinians have a close
> relative who has been killed or wounded by the Israeli army or has
> had their home blown up or bulldozed by the Israelis as punishment
> for resisting the occupation. According to Amnesty International,
> 2650 Palestinian houses were destroyed by Israel between 1987 and
> 2000.
>
> The support of the US government has been crucial to Israel's
> terrorist success. The US continues to provide Israel with massive
> levels of military and non-military aid: $US3 billion in 1997 alone
> and a total $US74 billion since 1949.
>
> With the continuing support of the US government, Israel's position
> in terrorism's number one spot looks secure for some time. On the
> same day that the Israeli army continued its ethnic cleansing program
> by demolishing 18 Palestinian houses in Gaza, the US called on
> Palestinians to stop their violence and crack down on terrorism so
> that "negotiations" with Israel can continue.
>
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| Re: Israel: A Terrorist Success Story [boodskap #60744 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #60711] |
So, 21 April 2002 07:13  |
USPAUL
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Israel is seker maar die terroriste met die geld terwyl die Palestyne
terroriste sonder geldelikke steun is.
Dink bietjie so daaroor, wie is die onderskye partye se vriende?
"> Nou wonder ek maar net , wat noem n mens die ander party as n mens hulle
> terroriste noem???
> Reenen
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| Re: Israel: A Terrorist Success Story [boodskap #60745 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #60744] |
So, 21 April 2002 07:51 |
Annette
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Wel Paul, ek weet nie wie al die vriende van die onderskeie partye is nie,
maar die arme Palestyne het onse Essop Pahad en Ronnie Kasrils as vurige
ondersteuners:)))
Annette
USPAUL wrote in message
news:Zutw8.124134$VM5.77002030@e3500-atl1.usenetserver.com.. .
> Israel is seker maar die terroriste met die geld terwyl die Palestyne
> terroriste sonder geldelikke steun is.
>
> Dink bietjie so daaroor, wie is die onderskye partye se vriende?
>
>
> "> Nou wonder ek maar net , wat noem n mens die ander party as n mens
hulle
>> terroriste noem???
>> Reenen
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| Re: Israel: A Terrorist Success Story [boodskap #60823 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #60745] |
Ma, 22 April 2002 14:48 |
Vusi
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Ek wonder darem oor die Kasrils man. As ek hom so op die TV waarneem dan lyk
dit my hy is in sy elemente - om weer te kan protesteer soos in sy jong dae
...
Maar, as 'n Palestyn was sou ek hom nie vertrou het nie ...
"Annette" skryf in boodskap news:a9tqvs$67ecn$1@ID-92016.news.dfncis.de...
> Wel Paul, ek weet nie wie al die vriende van die onderskeie partye is nie,
> maar die arme Palestyne het onse Essop Pahad en Ronnie Kasrils as vurige
> ondersteuners:)))
> Annette
>
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> USPAUL wrote in message
> news:Zutw8.124134$VM5.77002030@e3500-atl1.usenetserver.com.. .
>> Israel is seker maar die terroriste met die geld terwyl die Palestyne
>> terroriste sonder geldelikke steun is.
>>
>> Dink bietjie so daaroor, wie is die onderskye partye se vriende?
>>
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>> "> Nou wonder ek maar net , wat noem n mens die ander party as n mens
> hulle
>>> terroriste noem???
>>> Reenen
>>
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