[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [GushShalomPress] Sharon lashes out again against Gush Shalom

[Al Kagan]

Fellow activists,

Here is a sample press release from Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace 
Organization which is currently being targeted by the Sharon 
Government.  They need some assistance.  If you would like to 
contribute something, send a check to Penny Rosenwasser at the Middle 
East Children's Alliance, 905 Parker St., Berkeley, CA 94710 and put 
"Gush Shalom" in the memo line.  Their phone is 510-548-0543; e-mail 
is meca at mecafor peace.org.

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>Press release
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>Sharon attacks Gush Shalom in Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) radio address
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>In his New Year interview on the radio, Sharon once more lashed out 
>against Gush
>Shalom. Seemingly as a spontaneous answer to a spontaneous question the PM
>came up with a long quote of the ancient historian Josephus Flavius 
>about how the
>Romans nearly 2000 years  ago defeated the Jews "who were fighting among
>themselves".  All this was intended to show the Israeli public how 
>evil and abject is
>Gush Shalom for having sent warning letters to officers of the 
>Israeli army, officers who
>had openly boasted about acts which constitute violations of the 
>Geneva Conventions.
>By telling the officers that what they themselves had told the media 
>might be used as
>evidence in court - an Israeli court or an international court - the 
>Gush Shalom activists
>earned already twice in the past months a furious outburst of the 
>PM, who demanded
>of the Attorney General to probe Gush Shalom for it - not to mention a widely
>publicized attack by Israeli Air Force commander Dan Halutz and 
>sundry broadsides
>by various ministers, Knesset Members and
>columnists.
>This week, the Attorney General came however to the conclusion that 
>there was no reason to
>prosecute Gush Shalom. Thereupon, the Minister of Justice announced 
>that he would take
>legislative measures to bring the Gush Shalom activists to trial 
>anyway. On the following day the
>Attorney General told him that there was no need: Gush Shalom 
>members could after all be put on
>trial within the present legislation.
>
>The newest chapter in this war of nerves: PM Ariel Sharon decided to 
>carry on his personal hate
>campaign against Gush Shalom. Former Knesset member and Gush Shalom 
>leder Uri avnery
>commented: "Israelis remember very well what was the  result of that 
>earlier hate campaign -
>against Rabin - in which Sharon played quite a central role."
>
>In the same radio interview, Sharon also said that he did not feel a 
>sense of failure as a result o
>f
>the increasing terror, the economic crisis and the diminished 
>prospects for peace during his
>tenure. "It was indeed a difficult year, but I think that we must 
>also look back on the
>achievements," he said. "First, we established a national unity 
>government, which is no small
>feat. On the terror front, we waged war against terror and the 
>Palestinian Authority, which tried
>to break us. We didn't break, but stood fast. The battle is not yet over."
>The question rises: Is the PM planning a further escalation, 
>involving measures which might get
>him and his military officers in trouble with the new Hague War 
>Crimes Court? Could that be
>why he wants Gush Shalom out of his way?
>For more information:
>Adam Keller, spokesperson  +972-3-5565804 / +972-56-709603 / +972-56-709604
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
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