However, it had always recognised by the Zionist leaders that to create a safe jewish majority the Arabs would have to be forced out. Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency's Colonisation Department, had already concluded in 1940 that there would be no alternative but to 'transfer the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries not village, not one tribe should be left.
This is how the state of Israel was created in 1948. Through a combinaof terror, threats and murder 750,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homeland, creating an instant jewish majority, the dream became a reality.
Far Israel being
democracy its apologists like to paint it as, the Israeli state's foundations are racist to the core. It is based on the permanent exclusion of the their homeland bestowing the automatic right
Four Palestinians were killed.
The Palestinian camps exploded. die East today.
MORE than Palestinians have officially' been killed to date, yet the true number of martyrs, as the Palestinians refer the victims of the Zionists, is probably much higher as the occupying forces reported to be following a policy of seizing control of the dead in order to bury them secretly night, Keepin atticallya do artificially low.
Among , those killed are 13 year old boys. well as people as old as 70.
According the Observer of 10 January, 'there increasing evidence that the army had dum bullets rioters. As spokesperson as saying, •Sometimes we find bullet with pieces of shrapnel, and I can assure you these are not rubber bullets.
Jabaliya camp, which has become the centre of the uprising, and has now been renamed 'Revolution' camp by the exiled PLO leadership, (and the 'PLO' camp by the Zionist regime!), has also become i testing ground for the us of gas. The same Observe article notes that the most unpleasant comes in green barrels that soldiers roll off the backs of jeeps before blowing off the cover The mot remote control Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which looks after the the does not know what this gas leaves victims with intense headaches. in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli lorry plowed into a line of Arab taxis that were carrying day labourers to jobs within the pre-1967 borders of the Zionist state.
The 'accident' was widely considered to be an act of revenge for the fatal knifing of a Zionist businessman a few days before.
There is nothing surprising about the Palestinian uprising. Since the 1967 annexation not a year has gone by without the residents of occupied Palestine demonstrating their refusal to submit to the oceupying forces. But the depth of Palestinian unity and militancy, combined with the crumbling both of the Zionism's own ranks in face of this onslaught and of the monolithic imperialist international support for Zionism's claims in the area, has begun to alter the whole balance of forces in the Midreported. service and any form of contact with the callps llas been disrupted. Even a United Nations coresen tative was initially denied access to the camps!
And all of these attempts at repression have been in vain.
The occupying forces have been confronted constantly by the Palestinian Their weapons, which have seemed so effective in the Slave proven insufficient in dealwith the current wave struggle. bottles, rocks, slogans and posters Including sliced watermelon, since it conlans mic talestinians national colours of red, green black nave continued to be used to good effect. Some areas of the camps have even become virtual 'no go troops according to accounts in the press. Solidarity In the second week of the uprising, Palestinians in Israel called a general solidarity with their sisters and brothers in the occupied territories.
This event sent shock waves through the Zionist world, long accustomed to seeing the Arab 'minority" complacent relatively content with the status quo. Named 'Peace Day' by those who called it brought out 170,000 Palestinians within Israel alone, nearly crippling the Israeli economy for that day.
The one day action was accompanied COnfrontations, barricade Democratic Front for the Liberation OI (DFLP) the manusucau of Yasser Arafat, reflected in working leaflets as wai the PLO rather by the inincreasingly fact Islamic strike that occupied (this of Peace And inIslamic altu VISIO have been most unquestioning supporter. Zionists acrions in the oce ferocity cupied territories seems to have forced through something of a tion in world public opinion concerning the Palestinian cause. The UN has passed three resolutions since the uprisings began, the first condemning Zionist policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip the second third deploring the planned deportations, and their actual carrying out, as being illegal under the Geneva Convention. (The Zionist regime, ironically enough, justify their actions under laws passed during the British Mandate).
Weakness
Israel's longtime chest ally, the American Jewish population, beginning to have second LOUDES about policies of the state!
This is reflected in the diehard pro-Zionist New Republic which is reported as being extremely critical of Shamir's excessive use of terrorist labels dealing with the Palesti.
nian situation. 'A Palesticrossing own street to throw a rock or even a Molotov cocktail at a soldier is not a terrorist. neither, matter the who exhorts the boy from une neared Provisions Clearly the US is not about to cut off all arms provisions to Israel; nor is the American Jewish community going to stop raising funds providing •DacKIng the Zionist state. But the signs ot dissent interna tionally over Zionist policy in the occupied territorie:
the first crack eaiiice that has Ollell, ll the past, seemed all impervious to any sort ol pressure whatsoever.
As for the Zionist state itself. the are much more evident. More 11010 government are calling for 'dialogue' with the states for a solution to the problem, • and ever fundamentally, for a com plete Zionist withdrawal the occupied ritories excluding East Jerusalem - themselves. Problem 1 ne Observer of 17 January cites an amazing development in this area - Shlomo Lahat, a 'senior member of the right-wing Likud party', has called for Zionism to detach from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. 'Holding on to the occupied territories is a burden for Israel, from the human aspect and the naHeis quoted as saying that th ime has come for 'drasti measures, including Zionist withdrawal negotiation with neighboring Arab states.
This is unheard of in a settler-colonialist that not only insists on its right to exist, but on its staunthe "Jewish the prosecutions of military torturers.
when simply came back for more.
for cleric thorough purge of the armed forces.
army which favour limited reform.
for Haiti in an toc the vote in some areas.
more teritself candidate.
the tion of the candidate of its choice.
22 Jan 1988 Aldo Rico's coup attempt in Argentina is simply the latest in a series of attempts by important right-wing sections of the armed forces to assert their control in the country, and to oppose Aldo Rico was also at the centre of the coup attempt last year which was resolved by a compromise from president Alfonsin which ended the prosecutions of all junior officers for human rights abuses, torture and so on. As might be expected, as the regime compromised, the officers The deepening military opposition confronting the Alfonsin regime is trouble of its own mak. ing. It failed to take advantage of the opportunity it had after the overthrow of the junta, following the defeat in the Malvinas war, to carry through a At each sign of opposition it backed off, and has satisfied itself with purely token actions. The armed forces maintain an effective veto over the actions of the government. The government has even talled to back more liberal forces within the Rico's coup has been defeated, but far more powerful forces are poised to carry on as soon as an opportunity presents itself. There is mass popular support for decisive action against the thugs in the Argentinian army, but Alfonsin is more terrified of that than of the military.
There are often fraudulent elections, but there are rarely such openly fraudulent elections as those conducted in Haiti on 17 January. The poll was reportedly less than 20 per cent, due to an effective opposition boycott, and despite reports of attempts by the army to force people to Attempts by the regime to present the poll as a legitimate election were undermined by the wave of pre-election arrests carried out by the army, focussing on those involved in the boycott camIn a number of areas of the country the polling stations did not open, and it is reported that in some areas there were no ballot boxes anyway. And it was hardly a secret ballot! Each candidate had to produce their own ballot papers, the voter surrendered a ballot paper for the candidate of their choice for inspection by a scrutineer, who then placed in in the ballot box appropriate to the Given the withdrawal of the four most popular candidates in the previous elections, violently disrupted by the military until they had to be abandoned, it is not surprising that this time the army did not have to use force to ensure the elec-
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