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Arabs call for boycott of Estee Lauder
In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
American Muslims for Jerusalem
208 G Street, NE
Suite 100
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202) 548-4200
Fax: (202) 548-4201
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AMJ holds Press Conference to Announce Estee Lauder Boycott
On Wednesday, February 28, American Muslims for Jerusalem (AMJ) lead a
coalition of advocacy organizations in a press conference calling for a
worldwide boycott of cosmetics giant Estée Lauder. That announcement was
prompted by Estée Lauder International Chairman Ronald Lauder’s
activities in support of Israeli right-wing extremists.
Estee Lauders products include: Estee Lauder line of perfume and
make-up, Aramis, Clinique, Aveda, DKNY and Tommy Hilfegere toiletries
products. Estee Lauder also owns several lines of hair and skin care
products and shops such as M.A.C. and Origins.
Ronald Lauder is the Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations and President of the Jewish National Fund
(JNF). JNF is a quasi-government agency whose main function is to
legitimize Israeli’s theft of Palestinian land.
In January, Lauder was the key speaker from the US at a rally in
Jerusalem, organized by right wing Israeli politician Natan Sharansky.
The rally was organized to oppose the mere consideration of Jerusalem as
a negotiation item. Lauder addressed 300,000 Israeli extremists at the
gates of Haram Al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary, one of Islam’s three
holiest sites). Some of the protesters tried to break into the holy
site.
Khalid Turaani, AMJ’s Executive Director said “this boycott of Estee
Lauder will send a clear message that people of conscience refuse to do
business with corporations supporting Israeli apartheid policies which
violate internationally-recognized human rights”.
In 1993, Lauder co-founded a think tank called the Shalem Center with
Yoram Hazony, a former Netanyahu aid. The Israeli Education Ministry has
said the center is “a research institute whose leanings are extreme
right-wing and even fascistic.” Hebrew University professor Yisrael
Bartal describes Hazony as a right-wing extremist. A columnist for the
Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz (9/14/2000) wrote that Hazony is a
sympathizer of the slain radical Jewish leader Meir Kahane, who called
for the expulsion of all Arabs from Israel. The goal of Hazony, wrote
the columnist, is to find new ways of “breathing life into Kahane’s
racist, totalitarian, intolerant ideology.”
Ronald Lauder’s Jerusalem-rally speech came at a time when the Israeli
government was waging a campaign of siege and starvation against the
entire Palestinian population. While Mr. Lauder supports some legitimate
charitable causes in the US, he shows his true colors when abroad by
supporting fanatic causes that seek to uproot an entire population from
its native land. Lauder is also opposed to permitting Palestinian
refugees to return to their homes. “For Israel to allow these people to
return would be national suicide,” he said in a statement last
September. In contrast, the UN General Assembly has demanded that Israel
allow the Palestinian refugees to return since 1948. “Lauder’s
opposition to the return of Palestinian refugees in order to maintain
the pure-Jewish identity of Israel is nothing short of apartheid at its
worst” said Turaani.
American Muslims for Jerusalem
208 G Street NE
Suite 100
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202) 548-4200
Fax: (202) 548-4201
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW: http://www.amjerusalem.org IMRA
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>From Z Net.
RLA
“Facts on the ground”
By Sean Gonzalves
JERUSALEM — I was humbled by my ignorance. But even the ignorant
quickly
learns that studying maps and learning the lay of the land is central
to
understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“If you only look at what is called the ‘peace process,’ from the
political
point of view, you get a certain picture,” Jeff Halper explained in
his
Jerusalem living room.
Halper, an American-born Israeli Jew, is a professor of anthropology
at Ben
Gurion University. He’s been part of the Israeli peace movement for
over 25
years and now heads up an organization called the Israeli Committee
Against
(Palestinian) House Demolitions.
Without dismissing the good things that have come from the “peace
process”
Halper, with humility and painstaking thoroughness, illustrates that
if you
focus only on the political rhetoric the picture you get of the
conflict is
severely distorted.
“Look at the generous offer that Israel made the Palestinians – 95
percent
of the West Bank, dividing Jerusalem” – a typical American (and
Israeli)
reaction to news reports about the “peace process,” Halper said.
Then he asked, “How do you explain the Palestinian reaction to that?”
When
the Barak government first started negotiating, they were offering 42
percent of the West Bank and the Palestinian negotiating team
rejected the
proposal. “You see or hear about these advances and think Israel has
come
around and then the Palestinians start shooting. It doesn’t make any
sense
to people,” he continued.
What you have to plug into the equation is what’s happening on the
ground.
“Unless you can understand the maps, unless you can understand why 95
percent isn’t a good deal for Palestinians, or what the other five
percent
means, then it’s impossible to evaluate what’s going on. Why are the
Palestinians behaving the way they are? Is Barak really generous?”
We left Halper’s house for a three-hour tour of parts of “Metropolitan
Jerusalem,” which I later learned encompasses, not just the city of
Jerusalem, but 40 percent of the West Bank, including large
Palestinian
towns and villages — Ramalla, El Bireh, Beit Sahour, Bethlehem and
Beit
Jalla, to name a few.
What one has to understand about Jerusalem is that it is being
transformed
>from a city into a larger region by the Israeli government. This has
three
effects. 1) It divides the northern part of the West Bank from the
southern
part. 2) It isolates Jerusalem’s Palestinian population from fellow
Palestinians and 3) it creates a corridor from Tel Aviv to Amman,
Jordan.
All of this ensures Israeli control over any Palestinian state that
might
emerge from the “peace process.”
Then Halper started talking about something called E1 — an Israeli
government plan that annexes Palestinian land to create a contiguous
urban
strip between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh
Adumim. E1
effectively cuts the West Bank in half, which, when and if its
completed,
will prevent the free movement of Palestinians and their goods and
therefore
make a viable Palestinian state impossible.
According to the Master Plan approved by former Defense Minister Moshe
Arens, E1 calls for 1,500 exclusively Jewish housing units, an
industrial
park, offices, entertainment and sports centers, 10 hotels, health and
academic facilities and a regional cemetery.
Many of the Israeli “settlers” are being used as pawns, Halper said.
The
Israeli government builds these subsidized settlements for poor and
working-poor Israelis as an incentive for them to move into
Palestinian
areas. “I call them economic settlers. They’re not religious settlers
as in
other settlements. If the government built homes for them inside
Israel
proper, they would move.”
E1, also known as Plan 420/4 Ma’aleh Adumim, is illegal in
international law
to the extent that it promotes the settlement of an occupying power in
occupied territories. It violates Israeli Supreme Court decisions that
settlements can only be established for security purposes and it
violates
the Interim Agreement of Oslo that obligates Israel to preserve the
status
quo and territorial integrity of the West Bank pending final
negotiations.
“E1 creates facts on the ground by unalterably integrating Israeli
settlement and infrastructure on the West Bank into Israel proper,”
Halper
said. “Keep in mind that the settlement population has doubled since
the
Oslo accords were signed.”
None of this is to say that Israel doesn’t have a right to exist or
that
fringe Palestinian violence is justified. But if you want to
understand
Palestinian rejection of Barak’s “generous” offer, you must
understand the
“facts on the ground.” Add to this the fact that it’s all being
imposed by
US-supported military might and you’ll understand a small piece of
what it
is that Palestinians are rejecting.
Breeding ground for terrorism
HEBRON — When talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the
various perspectives involved, it doesn’t take long for grown
intelligent
people to start talking like kids about who did what to whom, first.
But life in Israel and the Occupied Territories is not some John
Wayne flick
where the forces of heavenly good are up against pure evil. It’s more
like a
Clint Eastwood western, where moral shades of gray are the norm; the
protagonist and antagonist both fighting inner demons, even as they
interact
with one another.
Recognize: aside from divine intervention, the state of Israel is
here to
stay, at least for the foreseeable future. In talking with hundreds of
Palestinians from across the West Bank and Gaza, it’s clear to me
that they
too have accepted this reality. Time brings change. After all, 60
percent of
the Palestinian population now living in the West Bank and Gaza is
under the
age of 30.
As I walked around the Old City of Jerusalem, and then in visiting the
Wailing Wall, it struck me how wonderful it must feel to be a Jew in
a place
where you can revel in your Jewish-ness with the relative security
that you
won’t be expelled or exterminated en mass for just being Jewish.
The flip side is: establishing the secular nation-state of Israel has
brought with it the displacement of hundreds of thousands of
Palestinian
natives. And for Palestinians who didn’t flee, it has meant 52 years
under
military occupation by a vastly superior military force. Think Mike
Tyson in
a fistfight with Elian Gonzales.
In the city of Hebron, which is in the West Bank, just down the
street from
where Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob are buried, is the office and
home of
the Christian Peacemaker Team – a small group of American and Canadian
Mennonites. Besides offering counseling services to Palestinians, CPT
members patrol the streets engaging in nonviolent interventions
whenever
they see some physical violence about to erupt between
Israeli “settlers” or
soldiers and Palestinian villagers – a routine occurrence, most often
being
committed by the former against the latter.
Anita Fast, a CPT staff member, told us it is a common occurrence
for “the
settlers,” many of them toting guns on their hips, to harass and
intimidate
Palestinian villagers by tipping over their vegetable carts in the
market,
throwing rotten vegetables, spitting or yelling racist insults at
them. An
American lawyer we met a few days later just outside Nazareth
commented:
“It’s like Mississippi 1930 over here. apartheid. I had no idea it
was like
this before I came.”
Of the 6.3 million Israelis who live in Isreal and the Occupied
Territories,
195,000 of them are “settlers” who live in these
beautiful “settlements”
throughout Occupied Palestine, outside of Israel Proper. But the word
“settlements” brings to mind some old-Western gold rush village.
They’re
nothing like that — except for the guns. Picture one of those
private-gated
communities you see in suburban America surrounded by several thousand
soldiers with guns, tanks, sandbags, US supplied helicopters and other
assorted weaponry.
The “settlers,” Anita explained, verbally and physically attack
Palestinians
on a regular basis. It usually goes the settlers’ way, not because
Palestinians are a bunch of Dalai Lamas (although Palestinians are
very
friendly and hospitable people). It has more to do with the presence
of the
Israeli Defense Force posted in strategic military outposts along the
streets and on rooftops everywhere.
The IDF completely controls the roads, the air and the sea. So, let’s
say a
“settler” is senselessly killed by a Palestinian gunmen. The typical
IDF
response is: road closures, trapping Palestinians in their village. A
20-hour, stay-in-your-house curfew is also imposed on every
Palestinian in
the village. This after the IDF shells an entire neighborhood
suspected to
be the area from where the gunmen fired. I’m talking tank and
helicopter
attacks for up to six hours — clearly a campaign not to catch the
gunman
but to terrorize people whose only crime is that they happen to live
in the
vicinity and are Palestinian.
This is known as “collective punishment,” meted out because of the
desperate
violent act of some hope-lost Palestinian, unrelated to the
Palestinians
being bombed and shot at by IDF forces.
Walking up a central street in the old city of Hebron with a
Palestinian
journalist, we passed by two soldiers standing on the sidewalk next
to two
teenage Israeli “settlers.” Smirks on their face, the “settler” kids
gave
the newsman the middle-fingered salute and said some nasty things
about his
father. He said something nasty about their mother.
“Do you know them,” I asked. “No, I’ve never seen them before,” he
said,
shrugging it off as if they were just saying hello to one another.
Now I
realize: They were saying hello to each other.
A ‘settlers’ peace settlement
EFRATZ — We went to the Efratz settlement to meet with its spokesman,
Efraim Mayer. After having visited the West Bank and Gaza, we wanted
to hear
a Zionist viewpoint of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Many “pro-Israeli” Americans (some of whom have angrily emailed me in
recent
weeks) would argue that any talk of Palestinian oppression is mere
propaganda. So it is revealing to note that Efraim — a former IDF
soldier
and now a “hawkish,” conservative, religious, Israeli settler —
confirmed
what we had seen, that, indeed, Palestinians are forced to “live like
dogs”
in the name of Israeli defense.
We didn’t get a chance to ask if he thought it a contradiction to
speak in
terms of “defense” while at the same time acknowledging that the
enemy is
being forced to “live like dogs?” Let’s just say he wasn’t exactly
encouraging us to ask probing questions. He wanted to talk, hoping –
knowing – that we would go back and tell our American friends his
truth.
“Efratz came from the Bible,” he said. “This is our document to show
all
over the world that we got this land from God.”
We were sitting under clear blue skies in what looked like one of
those
picnic areas you see at a nice public park. Kneeling on the ground a
few
picnic tables away was an old Palestinian man, quietly replacing
bricks
under one of the tables.
“The Arabs believe this land belongs to them. But in the Bible, we
can find
the Palestinian people as murderers — descendents of Ishmael,”
Efraim said.
I’m still having a difficult time trying to distinguish between his
feelings
about Palestinians and the “Christian” American white supremacist who
points
to the biblical “curse of Ham” to justify black oppression.
“We have Rabin. We have Barak. This is what we call garbage. They
break the
proud-ness of Israel in the last generation.” These political leaders
have
turned their back on God, Efraim explained. “They think that in
talking to a
murderer you can get peace.”
“Israel has only one-way: to start to fight.It (doesn’t make sense)
to sit
and talk with people when you know exactly that after the
discussions, they
are taking you and killing you — your children, your family,
everyone in
the world,” he continued.
“I have two sons in the army. I tell my children — we tell our
children in
the schools, starting in kindergarten — to live in the fatherland
you have
to fight.”
“We are very satisfied that Clinton isn’t president anymore because we
thought he brought problems here, the same thing with the father
Bush – very
anti-Semitic. We believe that friendship with the United States —
friendship with other lands — must be on the basis that Israel
belongs to
the Jewish Israeli-nation. We are going to break this mindset all
over the
world that Israel can be split up with Palestinians.”
Then he compared the formation and defense of the state of Israel as
being
similar to America’s founding and what happened to Native Americans
at the
hands of the European settlers.
“Indian people in the United States are not going to ask for a piece
of
land. They are not going to do any intifada to pick up from the United
States pieces of Los Angeles. I’m waiting for the moment when someone
goes
to the government of the United States and says: ‘we are going to
fight for
a piece of land,’ and then starts to take pieces of land in the
capital of
the United States. It will be the last time that this guy opens his
mouth in
the democratic land of the United States.”
“Let me explain to you who are the Palestinian people – the people
you are
loving so much. We are talking about murder groups. Terror groups.
Nothing
else..Now if you are with me we are going to go up. If not, we are
going to
fight. Palestinian people are not a nation. Remember what I am
telling you.
They are group of terrorists and guerillas of nothing with nothing –
also in
the eyes of Arab nations.”
Efraim told us that 55 percent of Israelis share his views. I hope
he’s
wrong because if you follow the logical extension of Efraim’s
reasoning,
Palestinians are not real people because they have no country and
even Arab
nations reject them. And a people with no land are prone to be
violent,
living, as they do, like dogs.
Three obvious options come to mind. 1) Accept all Palestinians,
including
refugees, as equal citizens in a single bi-national democratic
nation. 2)
Set up a sovereign, democratically viable Palestinian state or, 3)
exterminate the enemy. Apparently, Efraim dismisses the first two
options.
(end)
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Palestinian dies in Military Intelligence custody in Nablus
Source: From LAW
March 1, 2001 – In the evening of Tuesday 27 February, 30 year-old Salem
Al Akra’a from Kabalan near Nablus died at Al Watani Hospital in Nablus
after being transferred there from the town’s Military Intelligence
Service prison.
Al Akra’a’s cousin Ashraf Nofal, 27, stated to LAW that the Military
Intelligence Services had arrested Al Akra’a from a taxi rank east of
Nablus on 6 February 2001. He was held in custody and deprived of all
visits before being admitted to hospital five days ago.
In his statement to LAW, Ashraf added that he had seen Al Akra’a’s body
in
the hospital morgue; there were signs of beating on the right side of
his
head as well as sloughs in his wrists and ankles and severe bruising on
his
back.
Based on the statement of Ashraf Nofal, LAW Society believes that the
deceased may have been subjected to “Shabeh”- shackling in a contorted
position – and beating by the Military Intelligence Services in Nablus.
LAW Society demands the concerned parties in the PNA to form a neutral
inquiry commission to investigate the death of Al Akra’a, make the
findings of the commission public along with the autopsy results, and
bring the perpetrators, if proven that the deceased was tortured, to
justice. LAW further demands that the PNA implement the law preventing
the
detention of civilians by military intelligence.
LAW – The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the
Environment is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to preserving
human
rights through legal advocacy.
LAW is affiliate to the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ),
Fédération Internationale des Ligues de Droits de l’Homme (FIDH), World
Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and Member of the Euro-
Mediterranean
Human Rights Network
======================================
So much for the end of torture. For all that appears, the victim did
nothing.
ISRAEL IS A HORRIBLE COUNTRY.
RLA
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Can anyone think the Israelis are anything but monsters?
RLA
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Dear Friends,
For a third night in a row, Israeli tanks shelled areas of Beit Jala.
Around 9 pm, without any warning, an explosion rocked our area as the
first tank shot with no warning. For about 25 minutes, shell after
shell hit the town. The area below St. Nicholas Church repeatedly came
under fire. At least four more homes have been severly damaged and most
others in the area have sustained at least partial damage.
Last night, though, the tragedy was that Osama al Masalmeh, 18 years
old, was killed when his home was hit with a rocket. Rescue workers
were not able to reach him until around 1 am this morning. Twenty other
people were wounded in last night’s attack.
Family after family are packing their bags today and leaving Beit Jala,
moving away from the firing line. No home seems safe. Osama thought
there was no danger as there was a row of houses between his home and
the tanks. But a tank pointing from another direction fired the shell
which took Osama’s life.
There can be no justification of this on-going use of heavy artillery
against Palestinian civilian populations. The size of shells has
definitely seemed to increase, as once again people living in Jerusalem
could hear the explosions.
With families fleeing to protect their loved ones, I find it hard not to
wonder if this isn’t the plan. With families gone, the shells can fall,
destoying homes with ‘little’ human loss. The world certainly doesn’t
seem to be concerned with this senseless destruction. So, I have to
ask, “will Beit Jala join the list of over 400 Palestinian villages
which have been destroyed over the last 52 years?” Will we one day
say, ‘If we had only known….”?
People will not be able to return, others will try to immigrate as far
as possible from the conflict. This primarily Christian village will be
emptied of its sons and daughters if something doesn’t change soon.
We’re shifting our schedules around to try to get home before night
falls. One never knows – maybe tonight will be the fourth night.
Sincerely,
S.
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Friday, March 2 2001 03:09 7 Adar 5761
IDF seals off Jericho with anti-tank trenches
By Arieh O’Sullivan
TEL AVIV (March 2) – The IDF has surrounded
Jericho with two-meter deep anti-tank ditches in
an effort to stop Palestinians from leaving and
Israelis from entering.
If it works, then the IDF will consider
encircling other cities in the West Bank with
similar trenches, military sources said.
The army said that the measure was taken after
a number of shooting incidents in the area and
infiltration into Israel of Palestinian gunmen
from Jericho.
“The trenches were dug near the road to
prevent attacks and the IDF will take these
actions according to its operational needs in
order to protect Israeli civilians and soldiers,”
an army statement said.
Head of operations in the Central Command,
Lt.-Col. Gil said that the trenches would save
manpower previously needed to patrol around
the city of 30,000. Jericho was chosen as a test
case since it is relatively isolated and
surrounded by open territory which allowed the
easy digging of the trenches, he told the IDF
weekly Bamahane.
Gil said that the trenches were aimed at
stopping Palestinian cars from bypassing IDF
checkpoints on the main roads.
According to the army, the trenches are not
aimed at preventing people from crossing by
foot, but are mainly a barrier against vehicles,
including possible car bombs.
The army also said that the trenches could be
easily filled in at a later, more peaceful time.
Residents told AP that the trenches are 1.5
meters wide and amounted to collective
punishment.
“They close all the roads,” said Yasser
Affouneh, 18. “They don’t let us go. They only
want to make a big jail.”
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Independent Media Center
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Israel displays more and more every day Nazi-like behavior.
RLA
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And the farmer hauled another load away. This is quintessential Zionist
rhetoric.
You aggress against someone (generally Palestinians), and when they fight
back you characterize your brutal repression as “daring to respond”!
Only Zionists do this stuff, the Nazis and Communists are gone.
RLA
Omri Schwarz wrote:
> Roger Alexander <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Can anyone think the Israelis are anything but monsters?
> > RLA
> >
> > =========================================
> >
> > Dear Friends,
> >
> > For a third night in a row, Israeli tanks shelled areas of Beit Jala.
>
> We dare to respond to snipers.
>
> The Nerve!
> —
> Omri Schwarz —
> Timeless wisdom of biomedical engineering:
> “Noise is principally due to the presence of the
> patient.” — R.F. Farr
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This idiot McVay runs a small subsidiary of the Holocaust Industry, known
as Nizkor.
It has no means of making money that I know of, and so depends entirely on
contributions
>from B’nai Brith Canada. One of their efforts is “exposing” those who
differ with the Holocaust Orthodoxy, which is sought to be made illegal to
argue with, and has so been made illegal
in Germany and France, and I believe in some other countries. He is a real
piece of work.
I often disagree with Matt Giwer, but I find him rational and intelligent.
This is more than
I can say for McVay, for whom I have developed a fine contempt.
RLA
“Kenneth McVay, OBC” wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Matt Giwer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Mr. Giwer is, as far as I can determine, a troller whose only
> interest is in causing fights. While he can sound superficially
> plausible, he has lied** about what has been said in exchanges (while
> accusing others of lying), refused to document claims, pretended not
> to see posts which contain documented refutation of his claims (even
> when they have been emailed to him), engaged in actual libel*, and
> generally conducted himself with such complete lack of intellectual
> and factual integrity that there seems to be no point in taking
> the time to read and respond. For detailed and documented
> evidence of this, please refer to
> https://nizkor.org/hweb/people/g/giwer-matt/
>
> If you do not enjoy the luxury of a news filter, simply delete Mr.
> Giwer’s articles unread. With a few moments’ practice, they are easy
> to identify.
>
> Mr. Giwer’s handlers report that he has responded well to training, and
> now reacts in the prescribed manner, changing his userid each time the
> bell is sounded.
>
> Followups to Giwer trolls should be redirected to Mr. Giwer’s special
> newsgroup, alt.bonehead.matt-giwer, where they will be appropriately
> ignored (the group has no users – it’s just a convenient toilet for
> Matt’s vomitus). If your site does not carry alt.bonehead.matt-giwer,
> redirect non-Holocaust articles to alt.politics.white-power,
> an equally vapid dumping ground for Giwerundian babblings.
>
> Crawler bait: [email protected] Matthias Giwer
> Lincoln James <[email protected]> Matthias Giwer
> Kainee <[email protected]> Matt Giwer
> Rabbi Moshe Dreckschreiber
> Rabbi Dr. Gedalia Pashkvilkemacher
>
> —
>
> “Denial of Science & The Science of Denial”
> The Techniques of Holocaust Denial
> https://nizkor.org/features/techniques-of-denial
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I don’t know how to deal with this post except by pointing out that it is
stupid.
Not only that, but the poster shows that he doesn’t give a damn in Hell
for the
people abused by Israel. Of course, Zionists as a group seem to revel in
other
people’s misery, particularly when they create that misery.
RLA
Martin Goldstein wrote:
> Roger Alexander wrote:
>
> > jpost
> > Friday, March 2 2001 03:09 7 Adar 5761
> >
> > IDF seals off Jericho with anti-tank trenches
> > By Arieh O’Sullivan
> >
> > TEL AVIV (March 2) – The IDF has surrounded
> > Jericho with two-meter deep anti-tank ditches in
> > an effort to stop Palestinians from leaving and
> > Israelis from entering.
> >
> > If it works, then the IDF will consider
> > encircling other cities in the West Bank with
> > similar trenches, military sources said.
> >
> > The army said that the measure was taken after
> > a number of shooting incidents in the area and
> > infiltration into Israel of Palestinian gunmen
> > from Jericho.
> >
> > “The trenches were dug near the road to
> > prevent attacks and the IDF will take these
> > actions according to its operational needs in
> > order to protect Israeli civilians and soldiers,”
> > an army statement said.
> >
> > Head of operations in the Central Command,
> > Lt.-Col. Gil said that the trenches would save
> > manpower previously needed to patrol around
> > the city of 30,000. Jericho was chosen as a test
> > case since it is relatively isolated and
> > surrounded by open territory which allowed the
> > easy digging of the trenches, he told the IDF
> > weekly Bamahane.
> >
> > Gil said that the trenches were aimed at
> > stopping Palestinian cars from bypassing IDF
> > checkpoints on the main roads.
> >
> > According to the army, the trenches are not
> > aimed at preventing people from crossing by
> > foot, but are mainly a barrier against vehicles,
> > including possible car bombs.
> >
> > The army also said that the trenches could be
> > easily filled in at a later, more peaceful time.
> >
> > Residents told AP that the trenches are 1.5
> > meters wide and amounted to collective
> > punishment.
> >
> > “They close all the roads,” said Yasser
> > Affouneh, 18. “They don’t let us go. They only
> > want to make a big jail.”
> > ————————————————————-
>
> The trenches are not meant to keep the “palestinians” out of
> Israel. They are meant to keep the Israelis from getting IN to the
> territories to kill and drink the blood of arab children !
>
> M.G.
>
> >
> >
From [email protected] Fri Mar 9 16:09:50 EST 2001
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