[News] Israeli Elections: Occupation Continues, More Sadism

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Israeli Elections: Occupation Continues, More Sadism, Savagery, and 
Slavery Against the Palestinian People

By Hassan El-Najjar

Al-Jazeerah, March 28, 2006

Today, Israelis go to elect their representatives to the parliament. 
The three main political parties that dominate the political arean 
are all Zionist and imperialistic-colonizers in their attitudes 
towards the Palestinian people. They only differ in the size of the 
Palestinian lands they want to annex to Israel and in the degree of 
the oppression and subjugation they want to exact on the Palestinian people.

In 1948, Israel was established according to the UN General Assembly 
(UNGA) Resolution Number 181, which was passed the year before. The 
resolution called for a two-state solution with clear and specific 
borders. However, Israeli Zionists did not abide by that resolution 
and launched a war against the Palestinian people that resulted in 
annexing major parts of the Palestinian Arab state, particularly in 
the Galilee, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Auja border area.

The 1948 Israeli war of aggression on the Arab state of Palestine 
resulted in creating the Palestinian refugee problem, when Israeli 
Zionists refused the return of about 700,000 Palestinian refugees to 
their cities and villages at the end of the war.

The UNGA passed Resolution Number 194, in 1948, calling on the 
Israeli government to allow the refugees to return to their homes. 
The Israeli Zionist government did not respect this resolution, too. 
That's why the UNGA reiterates its position by affirming Palestinian 
inalienable rights, as stated in these and later resolutions, every year.

The Arab state of Palestine, which was supposed to be created by the 
same Resolution 181 did not materialize. Instead, Palestine became 
divided into three territories, one occupied by Israel, another 
united with Jordan, and a third became under the Egyptian 
administrative control.

The Israeli Zionist appetite for annexing Palestinian lands and for 
controlling the Palestinian people has not stopped ever since.

In 1956, Israel took part in the imperialist British-French invasion 
of Egypt for the control of the Suez Canal. Israeli Zionists occupied 
the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and the Palestinian territory of Gaza 
Strip. The brutal occupation lasted only four months as a result of 
the intervention of President Eizenhower, who insisted that Israelis 
withdraw from Gaza and Sinai. But before they did, they committed 
horrendous massacres and war crimes against the same people they just 
forced out of their lands.

On June 5, 1967, they did it again. They launched what they called 
"pre-emptive strike" against three of their Arab neighboring states: 
Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The colonialist-imperialist war resulted in 
the occupation of Sinai and the Gaza Strip again, together with the 
West Bank of Jordan, and the Syrian Golan Heights.

In order to maintain their occupation of the Palestinian territories, 
Israeli Zionists exacted the worst forms of sadism, savagery, and 
slavery on them.

Palestinians have been humiliated on daily basis by Israeli 
occupation soldiers at checkpoints inside the Palestinian cities and 
villages and between them. House searches have been used to vandalize 
property and insult people inside their own homes. People have been 
assaulted in the streets for no reasons other than being there.
Palestinians have been killed, injured, arrested, beaten on daily 
basis. Palestinian lands have been confiscated to be used as 
settlements for Jewish immigrants. Palestinian population centers 
have been cut off from each other in a way that would prevent the 
establishment of a contagious and viable state.

The Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall has been built to annex not only 
Palestinian lands, but also underground water beneath them. The Wall 
also isolates East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank, which 
makes it almost impossible to become the capital of the Palestinian state.

The Palestinian Authority has been forced to sign the Paris 
agreement, which has placed the Palestinian occupied territories 
officially under the Israeli economic control. The agreement requires 
that Palestinians cannot export or import anything without Israeli 
supervision. If they violate it, then they cannot trade with Israel 
and the link between the West Bank and Gaza will be cut off.

Even after the Palestinian resistance forced Sharon to take his 
settlers away and leave Gaza Strip, the Israeli government did that 
unilaterally, without coordination with the Palestinian Authority. 
Now, the entire Gaza Strip, with its 1.5 million people are living in 
one prison, surrounded by fences and Israeli forces from the north 
and the east, a metal wall in the south, and Israeli naval boats in the west.

Every possible measure has been taken by the Israelis and their 
supporters to subjugate and enslave the Palestinian people. The 
current measure against Gaza is subjugation by starvation. The 
Israeli government is withholding the taxes it collects from 
Palestinians, which are used to pay the salaries of government 
employees. The US and the EU, are also participating in the economic 
war to subjugate the Palestinian people. They announced their 
intention not to pay what they used to pay to the Palestinian 
Authority following the Hamas winning of the parliamentary election.

What does this mean?

It means simply that Israelis and their enablers in Europe and the US 
want the Palestinian people to continue living under the Israeli 
occupation. They want to show the Palestinian people that freedom 
means hunger and starvation. They want the Palestinian people to 
accept humiliation, sadistic measures, and brutality of the Israeli 
occupiers if they want to eat. In a word, they have to accept slavery 
under the Israeli rule, or risk continuous Israeli raids, 
assassinations, starvation, travel limitation.

However, occupation is a curse on the occupier before it gets to the 
occupied. Without continuous and unlimited help from the US and 
Europe, Israelis could not have been able to maintain their 
occupation of Palestine. But the US is sinking so heavily in debt 
($8.3 trillion) that it is on the verge of an economic collapse 
itself, because of its occupation problem, too. Simply, this cannot 
be allowed to continue, if there are sane people left among the power 
elite in the US and Israel.

With money aside, occupation is a disgrace to the occupying nation. 
Actually, when one nation allows itself to occupy another, it not 
only robs it its resources but it robs itself of its humanity. 
Indeed, the Israelis and their supporters are the biggest losers in 
this conflict. They have lost their humanity. They behave like 
monsters, out of control.

Most important, invasions and occupation won't work.

It didn't work for Napoleon. It didn't work for Nazi Germany.

It didn't work for imperialist Japan.

It didn't work for Fascist Italy.

It didn't work for colonialist French in Algeria.

It won't work, because it's against humanity.

God has created humans as free, and He has always helped them regain 
their freedom.

Anybody out there learning ?


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