Ingezonden door Trees Kosterman uit Sakhnin:<\/p>\n
Ik wil graag iets aankaarten. Ik denk dat het feit dat Sharon zo graag die settlers uit Gaza wil hebben is dat hij dan vrij spel heeft in Gaza. Als ik mijn meest cynische gedachten laat gaan dan denk ik dat men het zo makkelijker vind om de Gazanen in toom te houden. Hoppa een bom erop, en Israel heeft er geen last meeer van. Ik vond net een artikel van enkele vooraanstaande Israeliers die helaas dezelfde ideeen hebben als ik. Ik zeg helaas omdat ik niet zo\u2019n doemdenker wil zijn, en hierin eigenlijk helemaal geen gelijk wil krijgen.
\nDe terugtrekking uit Gaza gebeurt niet omdat Sharon de Palestijnen een plezier wil doen, of omdat hij gelooft in een vredesproces, hoewel de hele wereld dat gelooft, of het wil geloven. I denk dat we met zijn allen kunnen proberen om Wassim zijn mooie tekeningen te laten maken, door deze mogelijkheid onder ogen te zien, en dit artikel te lezen en onze naam toe te voegen aan een lijst van mensen die ook bezorgd zijn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nwww.counterpunch.org\/davis07162005.html
\nJuly 15, 2005<\/p>\nWhat May Come After the Evacuation of Jewish Settlers from the Gaza Strip
\nA Warning from Israel<\/strong>
\nBy URI DAVIS, ILAN PAPPE, and TAMAR YARON<\/p>\nWe feel that it is urgent and necessary to raise the alarm regarding what may come during and after evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip occupied by Israel in 1967, in the event that the evacuation is implemented.<\/p>\n
We held back on getting this statement published and circulated, seeking additional feedback from our peers. The publication in Ha\u2019aretz (22 June 2005) quoting statements by General (Reserves) Eival Giladi, the head of the Coordination and Strategy team of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, motivated us not to delay publication and circulation any further. Confirming our worst fears, General (Res.) Eival Giladi went on record in print and on television to the effect that \u201cIsrael will act in a very resolute manner in order to prevent terror attacks and [militant] fire while the disengagement is being implemented\u201d and that \u201cIf pinpoint response proves insufficient, we may have to use weaponry that causes major collateral damage, including helicopters and planes, with mounting danger to surrounding people.\u201d<\/p>\n
We believe that one primary, unstated motive for the determination of the government of the State of Israel to get the Jewish settlers of the Qatif (Katif) settlement block out of the Gaza Strip may be to keep them out of harm\u2019s way when the Israeli government and military possibly trigger an intensified mass attack on the approximately one and a half million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, of whom about half are 1948 Palestine refugees.<\/p>\n
The scenario could be similar to what has already happened in the past – a tactic that Ariel Sharon has used many times in his military career – i.e., utilizing provocation in order to launch massive attacks.<\/p>\n
Following this pattern, we believe that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz are considering to utilize provocation for vicious attacks in the near future on the approximately one and a half million Palestinian inhabitants of the Gaza Strip: a possible combination of intensified state terror and mass killing. The Israeli army is not likely to risk the kind of casualties to its soldiers that would be involved in employing ground troops on a large scale in the Gaza Strip. With General Dan Halutz as Chief of Staff they don\u2019t need to. It was General Dan Halutz, in his capacity as Commander of the Israeli Air Force, who authorized the bombing of a civilian Gaza City quarter with a bomb weighing one ton, and then went on record as saying that he sleeps well and that the only thing he feels when dropping a bomb is a slight bump of the aircraft.<\/p>\n
The initiators of this alarm have been active for many decades in the defence of human rights inside the State of Israel and beyond. We do not have the academic evidence to support our feeling, but given past behavior, ideological leanings and current media spin initiated by the Israeli government and military, we believe that the designs of the State of Israel are clear, and we submit that our educated intuition with matters pertaining to the defence of human rights has been more often correct than otherwise.<\/p>\n
We urge all those who share the concern above to add their names to ours and urgently give this alarm as wide a circulation as possible.<\/p>\n
Circulating and publishing this text may constitute a significant factor in deterring the Israeli government, thus protecting the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip from this very possible catastrophe and contributing to prevent yet more war crimes from occurring.<\/p>\n
Please sign, circulate, and publish this alarm without delay!<\/p>\n
Please send notification of your signature to Tamar Yaron tiyaron@hazorea.org.il<\/p>\n
WE WOULD ALSO APPRECIATE RECEIVING NOTIFICATION IF THE ALARM WAS PUBLISHED IN ANY MEDIA AND\/OR IF IT WAS SENT TO A GROUP DISTRIBUTION LIST.<\/p>\n
Uri Davis, Sakhnin, uridavis@actcom.co.il , Ilan Pappe, Tiv\u2019on, pappe@poli.haifa.ac.il, and Tamar Yaron, Kibbutz Hazorea, tiyaron@hazorea.org.il <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ingezonden door Trees Kosterman uit Sakhnin: Ik wil graag iets aankaarten. Ik denk dat het feit dat Sharon zo graag die settlers uit Gaza wil hebben is dat hij dan vrij spel heeft in Gaza. Als ik mijn meest cynische … Lees verder