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</a></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=5>Israeli Elections:
Occupation Continues, More Sadism, Savagery, and Slavery Against the
Palestinian People</font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>By Hassan El-Najjar</font>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>Al-Jazeerah, March 28, 2006
<br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
The Israeli Zionist appetite for annexing Palestinian lands and for
controlling the Palestinian people has not stopped ever since.
<br><br>
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. <br><br>
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. <br><br>
In order to maintain their occupation of the Palestinian territories,
Israeli Zionists exacted the worst forms of sadism, savagery, and slavery
on them. <br><br>
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. <br>
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.</font> <br><br>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
What does this mean?<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.
<br><br>
Most important, invasions and occupation won't work. <br><br>
It didn't work for Napoleon. It didn't work for Nazi Germany.<br><br>
It didn't work for imperialist Japan.<br><br>
It didn't work for Fascist Italy.<br><br>
It didn't work for colonialist French in Algeria.<br><br>
It won't work, because it's against humanity. <br><br>
God has created humans as free, and He has always helped them regain
their freedom. <br><br>
Anybody out there learning ?<br><br>
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