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To: jlallen who wrote (234719)	3/6/2002 5:12:43 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 769670

Israel's "war" against unarmed civilians and children! 3/7/02 This is the secondof two articles summing up Holger Jensen's impressions of a recent trip to Israel and the occupied territories. THE LANGUAGE OF VIOLENCE By Holger Jensen News International Editor "Three Palestinian teen-agers are killed by Israeli tank fire while walking home from a soccer game in Gaza. The bodies are returned to their parents labeled “Terrorist No. 1,” “Terrorist No. 2” and “Terrorist No. 3.” " At a subsequent investigation, the Israeli tank commander said he saw “suspicious movements” and fired before determining what they really were. The three teen-agers then became what Israeli military spokesmen call “superfluous deaths.” Both sides engage in a curious doublespeak to justify the excesses of a conflict that grows bloodier by the day. In the Israeli lexicon, the West Bank and Gaza Strip are not “occupied,” they are “disputed.” This permits the confiscation of Arab land for the building of Jewish settlements, which would be forbidden if the territories were “occupied” because the Fourth Geneva Convention makes it a war crime to transfer civilian populations onto territory captured in war. Only Israel has a “security problem.” The word “security” is never applied to Palestinians, who may feel decidedly insecure when they're being shelled by Israeli tanks or bombed by F-16 jets. That's because Palestinians “terrorize” while Israeli troops only “retaliate.” Although this retaliation sometimes involves the use of massive firepower against civilian population centers, it is justified as self-defense in a “war on terrorism.” Palestinians, for their part, never use the word “terrorism” in describing attacks that kill innocent Israeli civilians. Suicide bombers are “martyrs” to be admired. Their blowing up of discotheques and pizza parlors are “operations” and the victims of those attacks are the “Zionist enemy.” homepage.mac.com