ISRAEL

averny-news: The Children's Teeth
.... The solidarity of the Arab citizens of Israel with their kin in
thePalestinian territories in their struggle against the occupation seems
tome quite natural. I understand their feelings and their desire to
tender humanitarian aid. All the more so as Gush Shalom, the movement to which
I belong, collects money and sends food to the beleaguered Palestinian
villages and refugee camps, as an act of solidarity. This can also be
construed as "aid to terrorists" - after all, if the army wants to
starve the population into surrender, who are we to alleviate their hunger?
Clearly, all these are pretexts. One does not send 800 policemen just
to prevent children from getting bread or to arrest people laundering
money. If so, what was the real aim? The Sharon government is now engaged in
an all-out struggle to destroy the Palestinian people as a national
entity. The re-conquest of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the enlargement of
the settlements at a frantic pace, the building of the "separation walls"
that will cut off about half of area of the West Bank, the daily
assassinations and other killings, the starving of the population, the wholesale
demolition of homes and the building of bypass roads - all these are
meant to beat the Palestinian people into submission and to break their will
to resist.

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