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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (2770)	10/24/2003 3:20:14 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 22250

Occupation by Israelis, Violence Solidly Linked. Rocky Mountain News. March 29, 2001 "Every day the casualties mount and the rage builds up on both sides. Six months into the intifada, there are no winners. The death toll is lopsided: 69 Israeli Jews, 13 Israeli Arabs and 354 Palestinians, a third of them children. More than 12,000 Palestinians have been injured, many crippled, says the Palestinian Red Crescent Society .... Thousands of Palestinians now live in tents. Their economy is in tatters .... One U.N. report warns of 'a collapse of some Palestinian institutions.' Another says 80 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip now requires food aid ... What the Israelis tend to forget, or ignore, is that schoolchildren and grandmothers are as actively involved in this uprising as the gunmen and suicide bombers. Why? Because every Palestinian, young and old, hates living under Israeli occupation. And no Israeli peace terms, however generous, ever offered to give back all their land. Writing in Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper, editorial writer Baruch Kimmerling acknowledges that 'since 1967, millions of Palestinians have been under a military occupation without any civil rights and most lacking even the most basic human rights. The continuing circumstances of occupation and repression give them, by any measure, the right to resist that occupation with any means at their disposal and to rise up in violence against the occupation. This right to resist is strengthened by the Fourth Geneva Convention's ban on creating irreversible facts on the ground in occupied territories, and especially the ban on transferring populations from the occupying state to the conquered. ... The legality and morality of Jewish settlements and holdings in the territories are highly doubtful' ... Kimmerling also accuses Israeli authorities of 'indiscriminate killing" and 'personal terrorism against those it defines as field commanders of the Palestinian uprising.' 'Even today, most of the public simply does not know that every violent step taken against the Palestinians, let alone the aggregate of those steps, borders on war crimes,' he wrote."