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The Jewish "Shalom" Process:
Capitulation Process or Peace Process?
The "Peace" Process
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Oslo
II map, or, as the Palestinians call it, the "Leopard
Skin" for obvious reasons. Israel will control fully the
light grey area (A~=56%) and partially the dark grey area
(B~=40%). Only the black area (C~=4%) is under full
Palestinian control. This is the map of the much-lauded
land-for-peace deal. (Map source The
Foundation for Middle East
Peace.
See
also Associated Press map
here
) " The Oslo "Peace Process"
is "A new instrument for reaching traditional
[Israeli] objectives." "It's stupid for any colonial power
to try to run the local people with its own forces. Much
better to get local mercenaries usually brought from some
other region... And Israel is finally recognizing that the
only thing that MAKes any sense is to revert to the classic
colonial pattern -- the South African,
Indian...British-in-India type pattern -- in the areas that
it is handing over to some degree of Palestinian
Authority... I doubt that Israel will keep all the
territories it has now. That would be completely crazy in
fact. Probably they will go back to something like the
extreme demands that have been put forth in the past. The
current agreement is, in fact, way out at the extreme. In
fact, what it looks like now is the Sharon Plan of
1981."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
--Yitzhak
Rabin describing the rapprochement with the PLO,
according to Uri Savir, his chief
negotiator,
(fromhttp://www.fmep.org/reports/v10n3.html)
-- Noam Chomsky
From MER-TV Program "PEACE PROCESS: REAL OR PHONY?"
(http://www.MiddleEast.org)
Israeli
Position
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"I ask Rabin to make concessions,
and he says he can't because Israel is too weak. So I give
him arms, and he says he doesn't need to make concessions
because Israel is strong" |
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"Whenever we seemed to be having some success with the Arabs, Begin would proclaim the establishment of new settlements or make provocative statements. This behavior ... seriously endangered prospects of peace" Former President Jimmy Carter Quoted in Findley's deliberate Deceptions quoting Fred Khouri's Major Obstacles to Peace. |
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"I have to tell you that everybody
over there [in Israel] should know what the
[White House] telephone is: 1-212-456-1414. When
you're serious about peace, call
us." |
Peace
Proposals and Israel's Rejectionism
Despite their inclusion of
recognition of Israel, all these plans were rejected and ridiculed by
Israel, as they included an Israeli withdrawal to the June 4, 1967
borders (and eventual Palestinian self determination). In addition,
Israel often would counter a peace offer with the announcement of a
new settlement establishment, e.g. after the Reagan/Bush/Baker peace
plans. This was usually done by Likud governments demonstrating their
defiance and in-your-face style settlement expansion, over the
"clever" (i.e. covert) Labor methods of achieving the same goals.
(See Findley's Deliberate Deceptions, pp. 201-205). Sadat's
Camp David "Peace" Agreement
"... the peace with Egypt engendered the expropriation of half the land in the West Bank and the establishment of dozens of new settlements; the conclusion of the evacuation of Sinai was the signal for the Lebanon War.... The Oslo process also exacted a heavy price by legitimizing the "settlement blocs" -- Meron Benvenisti (Ha'aretz 12/16/1999)
By signing the peace treaty with
Israel, Sadat basically ignored the Palestinian problem, the core
of the whole conflict, and neutralized his country as the
strongest Arab country facing Israel, while now Israel is free to
bomb Lebanon, invade it (1982) killing 10s of thousands of
civilians, occupy its southern part calling it "Security Zone",
annex Jerusalem (1980) and Golan Heights, (1981), bomb Iraq's
nuclear reactor (1981), attack Tunisia (PLO headquarters in 1985),
mercilessly try to crush the Intifada (1987-), tighten its grip on
the W. Bank and Gaza by boosting settlements, dispossessing
Palestinians of yet more land (1980's & 1990's).. all with
total impunity.
The
"Peace Process" Settlements Population
Increase on the West Bank and Gaza Mostly AFTER the Oslo
agreements. Illustrates Israel actual desire for continuing
the occupation disguised under the "Oslo Peace Process".
(Map source Foundation
for Middle East Peace)
Today we have the Israeli-Arafat "Peace Process". Aside from the fanfare, this process has brought more misery on the Palestinians than the actual occupation, where now the Palestinian Authority (PA) has become the oppressors, crushing any signs of little Intifadas, torturing people, jailing hamas followers with no charges, and other practices usually attributed to Israel. (Note: in the early 80's in an effort to undermine the rising political legitimacy of the PLO, Israel backed Islamic fundamentalists, who without this backing, would not have evolved to the organization known today as Hamas. That, of course, is not important information to be shared with the public by the media.)
The GNP (Gross National Product) of the Palestinian "entity" is 40% less now than before Oslo. 629 Palestinian houses have been demolished by Israel since Sep 1993 (until early 1998). Settlement population have increased by 40% from 120,000 in 1992 to 170,000 in 1998.
The West Bank and Gaza are split into three areas according to Oslo. Area A: 3-4%, under total Palestinian control, area B: 30-40% under joint Israeli (military)-Palestinian (civilian) control, and area C: 60-70% under total Israeli control. (Under the Wye agreement, 13% of B will go to A, and 13% from C to B). The result is: Palestinian areas are disconnected islands scattered around the West Bank, dissected by for-Jews-only highways built on demolished Palestinian houses and confiscated Palestinian land. The Palestinian control is now limited to collecting garbage and tax collection. Everything else is under Israel's mercy including the control of water resources. Hence, the current peace process is basically the old Allon Plan, (but with more fanfare and fireworks,) which was designed to enable Israel to maintain the advantages of the occupation, while avoiding dealing with the domestic problems. The Peace Process has made the Israeli occupation legitimate and the Palestinian's rightful resistance to occupation terrorism.
If Arafat truly cares about his people, rather than his newly acquired powers, he would step down, in protest over this fake peace.
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"This is your problem but I warn
you that every line in the Oslo accord calls for another
accord.... The Oslo accord is very mysterious and when a
document is mysterious, it usually is in favor of the
stronger party." |
Intellectuals such as Edward Said, Noam Chomsky and others have addressed the inequities of the "Peace Process" and exposed the injustice under the heavy gloss and loud fanfare cast by western media.
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Expert Opinion on the "Peace Process" |
Al-Aqsa
Uprising (September 2000): Causes, and Media Coverage
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The real cause of Palestinian uprising, is frustration against the the contuning occupation headed toward an Aprtheid-Bantustan system, under the guise of path to independence implied in the "peace" process. This is clear in Israel's actions during the negotiation period described by A. Pacheco below: "Since 1994, Palestinians have seen the influx of 50,000 new Jewish settlers into the West Bank and Gaza, the paving of more than 400 kilometers of roads on confiscated land, demolition of more than 800 Palestinian homes, a threefold increase in unemployment in the territories and a 21 percent decline in their gross domestic product, the arrest of 13,000 Palestinians, and complete curtailment of freedom of movement." -- Allegra Pacheco from NY Times (10/05/2000) Excerpts from an interview
by Israeli journalist Amira Haas of an Israeli sharpshooter,
Ha'aretz 11/20/2000: |
The United Nations Security Council has adopted
Resolution 1322 by a vote of 14 to 0, which "condemns acts of
violence, especially the excessive use of force against Palestinians,
resulting in injury and loss of human life" and "calls upon Israel,
the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations
and its responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention relative
to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August
1949."
With a bullet hole in the
left side of his forehead, 12-year-old Sami Abu Jazar is
carried into an ambulance after being shot by the Israeli
army in Rafah, southern Gaza, Tuesday. According to doctors
at the Gaza hospital, Sami was shot with a live bullet. He
was later declared clinically dead (AP photo)
Ariel
Sharon: Israel's New Prime Minister
The Barak
Government: Any Different from Netanyahu's?
"Israel's negotiating partners shouldn't expect Mr. Barak to make substantive concessions.... Barak's vision of peace will differ from Mr. Netanyahu's only on the margins, and the new prime minister, with greater personal credibility and political support than his predecessor enjoyed, will be a more effective exponent of Israel's position."
-- Robert Satloff's Wall Street Journal (05/19/1999)
"Israel's Peace Now group said Barak's government is expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank at a faster pace than Netanyahu did. In the month since Barak took office, Housing Minister Yitzhak Levy has issued tenders for the construction of 1,517 apartments in the settlements. `This is six times the average monthly rate of house construction in the settlements for the Netanyahu government,' said Peace Now chairman Mossi Raz. A Housing Ministry spokesman said the Peace Now figures are incorrect and that tenders had been issued for only 678 new homes." [i.e. ONLY three-times more than Netanyahu, not six]
-- from an Associated Press report by Sari Bashi 08/10/1999.
Wye
Agreement
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"It is the Israelis that have not fulfilled any of their phase 2 obligations" according to Wye River agreement -- Department of State Spokesman, Wednesday, 6 January 1999. Source (See U.S. Report on the Middle East) |
Wye Agreement: A lot of fanfare added to an ordinary step in the "Peace Process." Perhaps the purpose of it is to give the sinking American president some "credit." Wye resulted from Israel's refusal to carry out the second redeployment called for in Oslo II. The outcome of this agreement is the same as previous ones: Israel signs along with the Palestinians, then adds new conditions, and claims the Palestinians are not honoring their part of the deal. The result, as usual, the party with more power --Israel-- does what it wants ignoring the accord. This is evident as Israel embarks on a new settlement frenzy encouraged by Sharon who called on the settlers to grap as many West Bank hills as they can.
"There is no such thing as a freeze [on construction].... Our policy is to grow and expand... This issue must be coordinated behind closed doors with the army and not in front of the media."
-- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Quoted in Ha'aretz 11/24/1998)
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"Palestinian unilateralism tends
to the rhetorical, Israeli to be the real. " |
Arafat
and his Authority's Corruption: PA as the Occupier's
Subcontractor
" The Palestinian Authority's "deplorable" human rights record has been extensively documented. Without extenuating PA culpability, it bears recalling that Israel recruited Arafat precisely in order to facilitate repression. Thus Rabin boasted that the PA would quell Palestinian resistance "without problems caused by appeals to the High Court of Justice, without problems made by [the human rights organization] B'Tselem, and without problems from all sorts of bleeding hearts and mothers and fathers." Truth be told, "Palestinian Authority" is a misnomer. Apart from what Israel and the US authorize it to do, the PA exercises no authority whatsoever: in all respects it is in thrall to them. The Oslo process marked, in Meron Benvenisti's phrase, the continuation of "occupation...albeit by remote control." In exchange for the perquisites of collaboration, the PA must ruthlessly crush all opposition to continued Israeli occupation. "
-- Norman Finkelstein (From his article Securing the Occupation 11/28/1998 found elsewhere on this page)
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"We are making a constant effort to preserve the maximum, including territories I would fight for even if they had no security value." -- Benjamin Netanyahu in an address to a forum of right-wing retired officers and security men in Tel Aviv quoted by Shani Litman in Ha'aretz 03/27/1998 |
Defense Minister Yitzhak
Mordechai: "The depth of withdrawal from the Golan Heights
would be the depth of security," quoted in the German paper FOCUS
(reported by Ha'aretz 08/17/1998). Mordechai later denied saying
this. Indeed, only when there is a just peace will Israel have
its security.
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Refugee Issues |
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-- David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, July 18, 1948, (Michael Bar-Zohar's Ben-Gurion: The Armed Prophet, 1967). |
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UNRWA-registered Palestinian refugees' distribution in the Middle East. |
Palestinian
Terrorism: A Response to Dispossession Implicit in Zionist
Ideology
"Detached from its Israeli environment, Palestinian terrorism is always the cause but never the effect of evil: assaulting Israeli innocents, it is by definition unrelated to Israel's brutal rule. Thus, to understand terrorism, it is irrelevant that, since the Oslo accord, more than 600 Palestinian homes have been demolished and 140,000 dunums of Palestinian land confiscated. It is also irrelevant that, due primarily to Israel's illegal imposition of closure on the eve of Oslo, the Palestinian standard of living has fallen by nearly 40 percent, with fully 30% of the workforce unemployed and fully 40 percent of the population living at or below the poverty line. "
-- Norman Finkelstein (From his article Securing the Occupation 11/28/1998 found elsewhere on this page)
"While the Palestinian Authority is asked to bring all its force to bear against the Hamas infrastructure, it appears that Israel is indifferent to the fanatic, violent infrastructure in the areas under its control."
--Ha'aretz Editorial 10/28/1998
"Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin told Ha'aretz yesterday that the organization's military operations have always sought to "avoid harming civilians. All of the operations carried out against civilians were in response to massive operations against civilians, starting with the murder that Baruch Goldstein perpetrated in Hebron."
-- From a Ha'aretz article by Amira Haas 03/22/1999
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