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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BigBull who wrote (13730)	3/2/2002 3:15:30 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27724

Fact Sheet: West Bank & Gaza Strip Settlements peacenow.org washington-report.org "One of the first Zionist attempts to do exactly that took place April 9, 1948, when 254 Palestinian civilians were massacred in the hilltop village of Deir Yassin, overlooking the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road, by members of the Irgun and Stern Gang Jewish militias, supported by artillerymen of the Haganah, the future army of Israel. While many of the victims were women and children, 55 traumatized infants and youngsters were spared by being trucked to East Jerusalem and dumped on a street in the Arab quarter. There Hind Husseini, a member of a leading Muslim family in Jerusalem, found the terrified survivors huddling against a wall and gave them shelter inside her family mansion. Two weeks later, on her 32nd birthday, Husseini officially named her family home Dar El Tifl. The orphanage grew and, before the 1967 Israeli invasion, two four-story buildings were constructed on the grounds. Today there are 250 orphans and 1,450 day students... Over the years, Miss Hind turned down offers of millions of U.S. dollars for her property and, shortly before her death in 1995, she took the ultimate step in protecting it from falling into the hands of the Israelis by registering it as a possession of the Waqf (the Islamic religious authority)... That doesn't mean that mean-spirited settlers don't do their best to make life miserable-even scary-for Dar El Tifl students. Twice, settlers have broken the gate of the school, entered the playground area and threatened children. Inasmuch as Orient House, across the street, is a target of the fanatical settlers, they've installed themselves in front of the school and raised wooden signs painted with a skull and crossbones on the school wall. As the day students approach the school, the racist settlers make them walk a gauntlet of insults and loud curses. This has been described by Mahira Dajani, head of Dar El Tifl's board of trustees, who writes: "The scholastic year 1995/ 1996 was the worst year in the history of Dar El Tifl. We have tried to teach our children the love of peace and to train them to accept peaceful co-existence as a reality and to forget the evils of war. The presence of settlers outside the school gate changed the children's outlook on life as a whole. The settlers harassed the children in many ways, including: uttering filthy words and making lewd gestures, throwing rotten fruit and empty bottles at the school gate and inside the school grounds, and trespassing onto the school grounds repeatedly so that the school has been forced to erect a wire fence over the wall." The school wall has become a favorite place for Israeli troops to stand, thus imposing a siege mentality on the children in the playground... ...the odor of gunpowder is nothing compared to the stench of urine. Portable latrines have been set up in front of the school for the soldiers' use, but they relieve themselves throughout the area, the Palestinians believe, as a deliberate insult. "You can't imagine how terrible it is," Muhtadi commented. "The urine odor is overwhelming for a three-block radius."

To: BigBull who wrote (13730)	3/2/2002 7:02:40 PM
From: hdl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27724

the bomber was from a refugee camp other than the two israel went into. israel should bomb the camps. it is wrong to put israeli soldiers at risk. however, the world will come down on israel. the media talks in terms of tit for tat, cycle of violence. israel should have acted decisively long ago. the palestinians are not deterred by israel bombing buildings, setting up roadblocks, limiting movement. it is absurd. israel should have acted severely enough to get the palestinians to stop killing jews and to get them to stop those who do and to get them to sue for peace. this gradualism is like what the U S did in Vietnam. israel should have bombed the homes of the terrorists arafat "arrested" when they were under house arrest and the jails when they were in them.