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June
13, 2003
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Leon
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Perry
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June
12, 2003
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The Tragic Legacy of the Six Day
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June
11, 2003
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Cassel
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9, 2003
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Elaine
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Sustar
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Krieger
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Jensen
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June
14, 2003
The Destruction is
Nearing Its Completion
Suicide's Most
Willing Accomplice
By JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN
Razor wire, electrical & steel
fences, concrete barriers and road blocks, watchtowers and tanks,
helicopters, drones and F16s overhead, and the looming gray
wall of separation encircling us --these are the borders of
Gaza and the West Bank. Jennifer, these are what imprison us
on our ever-shrinking land, what scar and desecrate our towns
and villages. Bulldozers maul the earth and eat away at our
homes and orchards. Hideous robotic claws tear up our land
and the pavement on our streets and even walking becomes impossible.
How can I run away? The borders around me trap me at every bend.
Worst of all is that when I close my eyes the same barbed wire
cuts across my mind so that I cannot escape. Not even in my
dreams.
A parallel universe runs alongside the
one being conjured up in the press. There, where the Road Map
to Peace is analyzed and criticized, lauded or condemned, a
difficult reality faces readers worried that the latest violence
will shatter this recent attempt to make peace --or dismissive
as the words turn into bits of human flesh on the streets. Far
away from critical commentary, a fifty-five-year-old process
of human displacement and destruction continues uninterrupted
by the tempest raging in the news headlines.
To understand the Palestine conflict,
one must strip away the words that obscure it. There is no state
in the making, no autonomy being created, no sovereign Palestinian
authority, no withdrawal from illegally settled territories,
no cessation of occupation. A real map would show the West
Bank cut in two by the sprawling settlement of Ariel, strangled
within by checkpoints and military outposts, slashed by Jewish-only
roads, divided and encircled by a creeping apartheid wall, fragmented
into dried up villages whose resources Israel has stolen for
itself and its settlements and intends to keep.
A real map would show the Gaza Strip
gnawed away at either end by bulldozers, the homes and businesses
at the edges of Rafah and Beit Hanoun heaps of tangled wire
and broken stone. The borders of Gaza are receding slowly, before
our eyes, as families flee to the interior, to the overcrowded
camps --themselves isolated by yet more checkpoints and settler
bypass roads. Sewage pools go untreated as wadis and wells fill
with bacteria and disease, the air and water made putrid by
environmental suffocation. The shoreline belongs almost exclusively
to the Gush Katif settlement block and patrolling Israeli gunboats
out at sea.
The destruction of the land of Palestine
is nearing completion. What was cut to 46% in 1947 had become
22% twenty years later and is less than half of that now. There
are no plans, processes, or maps that seek to restore it even
partially. The big problem remaining is what to do with the
natives who refuse to leave. Slowly, in piecemeal fashion, they
are being bulldozed and dynamited, targeted or imprisoned, deported,
detained, bombed, buried, surrounded, shot, or gradually transferred
out of sight. The international community stands mutely by unwilling
to intervene.
Why don't our papers report this?
Forget about the Road Map. Don't be seduced
by the talk of peace. Israel is an offshore US military base
and weapons testing ground. It is a westernized colony for white
supremacists seeking ways to discreetly dispose of its nigger
population. It is an American franchise for the new global economy,
a consumer outlet, an ad for Disney-World-gone-native, a terrorist
training camp for Jewish fundamentalists, the most well-funded
terrorist organization outside the mainland United States, a
strategic foothold in the Middle East for oil-thirsty, power-hungry
neo-cons.
It is suicide's most willing accomplice.
Jennifer Loewenstein lives in Madison, Wisconsin. She spent a good
part of the last three years in Palestinian refugee camps in
the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Lebanon. She is a member of
the Palestine/Israel Peace & Justice Alliance (PIPAJA) and
a founder of the Rafah-Madison Sister City Project. She can be
reached at: jsarin@facstaff.wisc.edu
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Leon
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Landau
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