Until this stops how can we expect restraint from the desperate ?
freddie | 12.06.2003 12:50
While Bush, Sharon, and Abu Mazen were toasting peace in Aqaba, US-made Israeli tanks rolled into Palestinian villages and bulldozers continued to demolish Palestinian homes and offices. Israeli snipers continue to pick off Palestinian youth. The relentless construction of "security" highways, housing developments, and military outposts - all designed to further dismember the West Bank and render it economically unviable-has continued unabated. Sharon's "apartheid wall," that separates Palestinian villagers from their agricultural fields - and creates a legal pretext for the confiscation of their land - continues to snake southward. Israeli plans for the construction of maquiladora-type sweatshops between the wall and the '67 borders remain in place. Tens of thousands of Palestinian workers are still prevented from going to their jobs in Israel by closures, curfews, checkpoints, and direct military siege. Official unemployment in the occupied territories remains at over 50%.
The Cost of the Occupation Inside Israel
The Israeli government is implementing a neo-liberal austerity plan that cuts social benefits while allocating greater funds for the occupation. In response, public workers mobilized in May for a general strike against these austerity measures - and conducted the largest demonstration against social cutbacks in their history. This fight-back, along with the anti-war sentiments of working-class youth forced to fight in the territories, may soon weaken the hold of the Israeli state on the hearts and minds of workers. That Israel's rulers fear such a shift in sentiment is made evident by a recent escalation in their harassment of peace activists.Israeli employers are attempting to prevent the development of working class unity by crude policies of divide and rule. Near the bottom of the economic ladder are the Palestinian and other Arab workers who live inside Israel, and the "foreign" workers whom Israeli employers are recruiting to replace them. While discriminating against Israeli Arabs in hiring, employers have brought in over 200,000 workers from Romania, Thailand, China, and other impoverished parts of the globe. These workers slave for sweatshop wages and hours, undermining the standard of living for all
The Cost of the Occupation Inside Israel
The Israeli government is implementing a neo-liberal austerity plan that cuts social benefits while allocating greater funds for the occupation. In response, public workers mobilized in May for a general strike against these austerity measures - and conducted the largest demonstration against social cutbacks in their history. This fight-back, along with the anti-war sentiments of working-class youth forced to fight in the territories, may soon weaken the hold of the Israeli state on the hearts and minds of workers. That Israel's rulers fear such a shift in sentiment is made evident by a recent escalation in their harassment of peace activists.Israeli employers are attempting to prevent the development of working class unity by crude policies of divide and rule. Near the bottom of the economic ladder are the Palestinian and other Arab workers who live inside Israel, and the "foreign" workers whom Israeli employers are recruiting to replace them. While discriminating against Israeli Arabs in hiring, employers have brought in over 200,000 workers from Romania, Thailand, China, and other impoverished parts of the globe. These workers slave for sweatshop wages and hours, undermining the standard of living for all
freddie
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12.06.2003 16:44
Presenting terrorist acts from palestinian as simply terrorist activity goes so much against fair reporting that i had to remove them, also because it promotes hatred
imc-er
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12.06.2003 16:53
... the things that are not, are ...
Facts and figures make no impression on the ever ready apologists for israeli aggression, they have their arguments ordained by the big G (apparently).
To question the idea that Palestinians shoot their children for attention is to be a jew hater, to question the direction and intent of israeli government policy is to be a nazi.
So much for debate.
The peculiar notion that israel is the victim, with their fleet of $35 million helecopters armed with their $1 million dollar missiles, aimed into the heart of densely popoulated camps of palestinian concentration, takes on a hysterical tone when it is pointed out the EXACT timing of each raid (staged to remove the restraints that a just peace might involve - addmission of guilt, removal of occupying forces, restoration of property and heritage etc).
The idea that, by showing restraint (ie not killing EVERY palestinian!!!), israel is left in a weaker position is predicated on the belief that israel should be in the dominant position - no thought of sharing or equality there.
The actions of certain Palestinian groups, whilst deplorable and myopic to the point of blind rage, are entirely predictable, if not expected.
The fact that those apologists for equal and greater crimes by israeli forces seem not to be able to see those moderates from both sides who are attempting to halt the maddness - all palestinians are 'guilty' and those jews who resist the squalid actions of israel are 'self haters', when they are noticed at all.
It is pure fantasy to suggest that israel could remove the Palestinians from their land by force and death and expect to live there unmolested. History has shown the folly of those who beleive that a morally bankrupt regeim can triumph by force alone ...
... but silly me, I'm thinking that such lessons can be heard let alone acted upon ...
No justice, no peace.
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very well imc-er
13.06.2003 15:32
U ARE TOTALLY BIASED, AND U'VE JUST TURNED IMC INTO A PALESTINAN PROPAGANDA MACHINE. what do u call the acts of Palestinian terrorism in Israel in which 17 innocent civilians are murdered on a bus? a "bring-a-bomb party"? THAT is the massacre, imc-er. not the "Jenin massacre" which was proved to be Palestinian propaganda bullshit, by none other than the UN.
> Presenting terrorist acts from palestinian as simply terrorist activity goes so much against fair reporting that i had to remove them
WHAT?? Presenting terrorist acts as terrorist activity goes against fair reporting?? what planet are u on? what else is it supposed to be presented as?
> also because it promotes hatred
If it promotes hatred, its because terrorism SHOULD BE HATED!!
thanks for exposing the true nature of IMC, imc-er. anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian. Condemn Israel for self-defensive action, while defending Palestinian terrorism. dont u dare spout your 'fair reporting' shit, while u go around removing the posts that counter-balance the anti-Israel bullshit and lies that is posted all over this site.
this cannot be a 'fair' site while the moderators of it are BLATANTLY BIASED and allow their personal feelings to interfere with their job.
Jamie