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PMWATCH - Nov. 23, 2001 -- The prevailing view in the United States is that whatever violent actions Israel engages in -- from assassinating members of the Palestinian leadership, to demolishing houses, closing down whole towns and villages, prooting orchards, shelling civilian areas, shooting Palestinian rock throwers -- Israel is forced to engage in them to ensure its own security. This view, however, is clearly belied by a well-established pattern of behavior (for anyone who has been following the conflict) that produces the exact opposite effect: tightening the cycle of violence even further and creating conditions that make a transition toward a peaceful resolution more and more difficult. Below is a snapshot example of just such a series of actions by Israel during November, 2001, that show in no uncertain terms a willful and eliberate Israeli policy of ensuring that the Palestinians are kept at the boiling point, so that a suicide bomber or two may tip to the other side, hence allowing Israel to justify its violence against Palestinians. Especially glaring is the November 22 assassination of a Hamas leader, along with 6 other Palestinians, taking place after weeks of no suicide bombings, as Arafat consinues to do his utmost to calm the Palestinian side, and almost literally on the eve of the arrival of a new US negotiating team to supposedly help start talks that Ariel Sharon has minced no words in opposing. |
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Israel
provoking Hamas on eve of arrival of new US envoy:
IDF kills 7 Palestinians, including key Hamas
leader Gush
Shalom on explosions killing 5 Palestinian boys IDF
planting booby traps in civilian areas, killing 5 Palestinian
boys Committee
Against Torture says Israel's policy of closures and demolitions
of Palestinian homes may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment Deliberate
killing of Palestinian children by IDF uncovered by B'tselem Palestinians
shot at close range: cold blooded killing of Palestinians by
IDF soldiers witnessed by Red Crescent workers Israeli
soldiers killing Palestinian Children "for sport"
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