[Peace-discuss] The Specter of Ethnic Cleansing

[David Green]

A message from the esteemed Israeli historian Ilan
Pappe:

----- Original Message -----
From: <pappe at poli.haifa.ac.il>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: Tul Karem

This is the message I have sent tonight to the Alef,
the Israelli 
Academic left network:

The message to Alef:

I hope many of you have noticed what is going on in
Tul Karem as it is 
difficult to follow news that do not refer to the
American buthchery in 
Iraq under the guise of a search operation the Israeli
army was 
drilling 
the transfer (this time only for three days) of 1000
Palestinians. 
They were ordered not to come back until the end of
military 
operation. In most cases they will come to destroyed
houses hardly 
worthy or
reinhabiting. In the early 1950s, the same method was
used to oust
Palestinians from dozens of villages who were then
erased from upon the
earth.

Under the cover of the Iraqi war it seems that the
Israeli government 
is stepping up its preparations for major operations
against the 
population in the occupied territories. It is worth
while to repeat 
Gush
Shalom's alert to anyone who knows of mobilization and
recruitment of
logistics and soldeiers for deportations and expulsion
operations.

So with all due respect to the tragic story of the
chornicles of the 
Jenin
Jenin film in Arte, we should be aware that the war in
Iraq inspires 
the
occupation army to probe the possiblities of ethnic
cleansing after the
starvation of the West Bank that has been already
going on for two 
weeks.

In the eternal Israeli search of how far can we go
without repeating 
the
Holocaust and yet destroying the Palestinians - new
fields of activity 
have
been discovered and more are to be crossed in the
coming months.

Do not say you did not know and do suggest to us - as
quickly as you 
can before it is too late - what else, apart from
boycott and outside
pressure, 
can stop this evil state of ours from committing its
daily crimes 
against
humanity.



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