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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4934)	11/12/2003 10:02:07 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6945

A voice of reason... straight from the cradle of civilization and democracy: Israeli Repression Theodorakis protests ------------------------------------------------------ The people of Israel are certain to regret one day having let Sharon drag them into a shameful campaign that revives memories of Nazi crimes. And it is indeed astonishing, inconceivable, that a people such as the Israelis, who like no other has known the ferocity of the Nazis, is now trying to imitate them by acting with the same ferocity. They claim to be acting in self-defence. How is it possible to compare two totally different situations? On one side, a modern army, with war-planes, tanks, helicopters, rockets, in other words, unlimited means of destruction; on the other, a handful of boys and girls sacrificing their lives by striking - it is true - blindly...Who, however, forces these children to give up their lives? That is something that not one of those who go on and on about terrorism in order to justify their own crimes has ever told us. Terrorism has become a pretext to justify frontal attacks on the Palestinians, with, as final objectives, military occupation, extermination of their leaders, starting with Arafat, the internment in camps and prisons of the protagonists, the terrorisation of the civilian population (unarmed), which is already being deprived of water. They want to turn the Palestinian territories into a vast military camp, thus perfecting their final solution. In the end it seems that the former victims, the Israelis, are more and more fascinated by the methods of their former torturers, the Nazis. Final Solution at the expense of the Jews. Final Solution at the expense of the Palestinians. Not even the revolting "detail" of branding the prisoners' hands with numbers has been omitted... And all that with the permission and support of the only superpower and the culpable inaction of the others. Who are content - starting with the United Nations Security Council - to express wishes without backing them up. Where are the Arabs, the Europeans, the Russians, the Chinese? Where are the peoples? I do not know, but all that reminds me of the decade 1930-1940. This torpor of today's governments and peoples, we know very well to which biblical catastrophe it led humanity... If we leave Palestine all alone at the mercy of the current occupiers, then we're opening the door to the darkest forces humanity has known in the past. The Greek people find themselves once again entirely on the side of the victims, the heroic Palestinians, and demands that the UNO resolution be respected. That the Israeli army withdraw, that Arafat be freed, and that peace talks begin. This is the only way for the two peoples to be liberated from the throes of war. mikis-theodorakis.net