When History Repeats Itself, Again And Again by Sam Bahour and Michael Dahan 3:03pm Wed Mar 6 '02 sbahour@palnet.com, mdahan@attglobal.net The first Palestinian refugee camps are a product of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. In 1967, when Israel militarily occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem a second wave of Palestinian refugees was created. Today, Ariel Sharon and his government are creating a third wave of Palestinian refugees by attacking those very same refugees that, decades ago, fled for their lives and have been living under illegal Israeli occupation ever since. print article When History Repeats Itself, Again And Again By Sam Bahour and Michael Dahan* March 6, 2002 The first Palestinian refugee camps are a product of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. In 1967, when Israel militarily occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem a second wave of Palestinian refugees was created. Today, Ariel Sharon and his government are creating a third wave of Palestinian refugees by attacking those very same refugees that, decades ago, fled for their lives and have been living under illegal Israeli occupation ever since. It was twenty years ago when Sharon himself was responsible for the massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon. Today, the Sharon-Peres coalition is repeating history by entering refugee camps within the Palestinian Authority, killing people and destroying homes and property. They are repeating history when they insist on keeping Arafat prisoner in Ramallah, as Sharon tried and failed to do in Beirut. When tank shells are used for "pinpointed" assassinations and kill a mother and her children "mistakenly" (tell us please where is the pin and the point?). When an entire family is killed in Jerusalem while celebrating a child's Bar Mitzvah (the Jewish coming of age ceremony), when missiles are fired from F16s into densely populated areas in Ramallah, Gaza and Bethlehem, when death and destruction, debasement and humiliation are part and parcel of official Israeli policy towards millions of Palestinians, history is repeating itself again and again. The Sharon-Peres coalition has no plan. Tenet, Mitchell, the Saudi Arabian initiative have all been rejected. Sharon's only response is to say "the Palestinians have to be hit harder". And after they are hit hard? They then need to be hit harder? And harder? And then? The Israeli government has rejected every proposal to try and calm the violence. The only response that the government has is to increase its war against the Palestinians. And make no mistake, this is not a low level conflict, but a war against the Palestinians. Sharon is not simply a hard liner - he has absolutely no intention of reaching any agreement whatsoever with the Palestinians. Anyone who thinks that he does is only fooling themselves, while everyday innocent people are being slaughtered in the streets of Ramallah and Jerusalem, Jenin and Tel Aviv. Sharon has rejected and will continue to reject any proposal that attempts to calm the situation, while at the same time raising the stakes even higher. The only action that Sharon is capable of taking is to create a smoke screen, which will allow him to continue his personal vendetta against Arafat. This is the only conclusion that one can reach - Sharon has neglected his responsibility as a leader and is willing to place his own personal agenda ahead of the common good and common interest of Israel. For those in the military, we would like to remind them of one of the basic laws of physics: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is a simple fact. "Hitting the Palestinians harder" will only serve to create more and more people willing to commit acts of violence, and will only serve to send a message to the Palestinian people that Israel has no intention of trying to reach a political solution. It is time to send a clear message to Sharon and to the international community as well. There is no military solution for the conflict. Constantly bombarding the Palestinians will not make them give up their hope and legitimate desire to live in a free and independent state. Stifling them with roadblocks and indiscriminate violence will not soften them up, but will only serve to increase their commitment to achieve their goals. In a few weeks, Jews all over the world will be celebrating the holiday of Passover, which is also known as the "Holiday of Liberty" from Egyptian slavery. It is time to apply the inalienable principle of liberty, which Jews cherish so much, to the Palestinian people. The only possible hope for a solution is the complete and total end of Occupation, the Israeli withdrawal to 1967 borders and the establishment of a free and independent Palestinian state. As the Israeli government is not willing or not capable of implementing this simple and fair solution, we call on the international community to put as much pressure as possible on Israel in order to stop the cycle of violence. Failure to do so will only encourage Sharon to implement his own agenda, and history will continue to repeat itself. * Sam Bahour is a Palestinian-American living in the besieged Palestinian City of Al-Bireh in the West Bank and can be reached at sbahour@palnet.com. Michael Dahan is an Israeli-American political scientist living in Jerusalem and can be reached at mdahan@attglobal.net. www.amin.org/eng/sam_bahour/ add your comments Source file

Dissection Of Old & Shameful Corporate Lies. by Zvi Sterman 12:04am Thu Mar 7 '02 print comment Sick feeling.So much written before... 1. The first Palestinian...camps...product...1948...1967...Sharon... Sabra and Shatilla...Lebanon...killing people...tank shells Let us look back a hundred - two hundred years ago. Let us research as anthropologists, psychiatrists and criminologists our rabbinical Jewish hate toward a n y b o d y who was not "a Yid", our stinky, racist per se, athmosphere of a Jewish Ashkenazi shtetl, the religion which had been falsified by our centuries naivly honoured rabbis, honoured by our ignorant people. Everybody nearby, who was not Jewish, was cheaper than an American Indian in the time of American murders. Everybody who was not Jewish was looked arrogantly upon and could expect to be called on his or her back "goy" or "shikse". And the tolerance of local populations, facts are facts, has been often evaporazing... Not everybody is an university sociologist or politologist...Simple people who usually would divide with a stranger the last piece of their hard to earn bread had been involved in the most horrible pogroms. Who was guilty?..Ben-Gurion?..Sharon?..Peres?..Arafat?.. Our mental grandparents brought, together with our mental parents, this particular psychiatric disease to Palestine. More clever of them, trying to escape the REAL Egyptian slavery of racist ( not tribal but racist ) Ashkenazi Judaism ( Judaism Version 2.0, i.e. badly transfered Thora with not needed Talmud full of bugs ) have been leaving, escaping their bugged religion and mental parents, where they only could... This is the origin of great % of "ex-Jews" in all world revolutions. They have not been excessively kind during those revolts and revolutions because old "ruling claases" remembered them their hateful mental racist parents. 2. Death...Destruction...Debasement...Humiliation...towards millions of Palestinians...history is repeating itself... During "Marxist-Leninist" colonisation of Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania ( remember, Vilna Ghetto liquidation by l o c a l population + Gestapo ?.. ) not many local families have been engaged into saving the lives of Jewish neighbours... And why would they open their hearts and their doors?..Millions of them have been deported an year - two before by the first socialist State in the world to the death camps in Siberia - with the help of sons and daughters of mental Jewish part of population. The o t h e r had been considered, be he a "reach peasant" or an "idiologically less militant" socialist, to be cheap. The o t h e r had lost in their eyes his human characteristics, the o t h e r has taken the place of "goy" and "shikse" in their infected brains. And, in the same time, remembered them their mental parents... Trying to get out from East Europe and Tsarist Russia and landing in virgin Palestine they have directly found a N e w O t h e r, the Palestinian people. They have begun...It is the truth. Not everybody of us may be proud of mental capacities of our pure Jewish parents. And nobody may forbid you to love your parents. But our love of parents who lost their legs in a car accident and our love of parents who are compulsive political robbers and compulsive projected murderers of even small children are two different human conditions. Here I leave place to a philosopher, I'm not very good in this discipline. 3. Sharon - Peres coalition... Mitchell...Abdullah... Hit harder..And harder...And harder... This not Sharon, this are words of Franco...Mussolini...Yeh, of Fuehrer also...I am not in the geography...I am about "reaching any agreement" - and a very dangerous for human society psychiatric disorder. By the way, a very expensive one if you calculate it as an economist. I leave here the place to the economist. I feel economy but I was never published in this area. 4. Sharon has rejected...Raising the stakes even higher... His own personal agenda...Never intention to reach political solution... Time to send a clear message to Sharon...Constantly bombarding Palestinians...Increase their commitment... I am not a muscled male nurse in a special, closed and guarded pure Jewish psychiatric department but imagin - I am.And you are very kind and politically much more educated visitors. And we see among the patients a huge man looking like President Truman who is breaking chairs and tables on the heads of other patients, some bleeding, some dead but stiil pure Jewish, and who shouts in perfect Yiddish or Hebrew that he is Sharon and is going to bump an atom bomb on Bethlehem and Jerusalem because the o t h e r is not registered as Jewish. Is the o t h e r more Jewish and Semitic or less or not at all, is not the question of urgency. What to do, gentlemen?.. Still - to send a clear message?.. Or to take the strange heavy little box with a stolen blue star of David on all four of its sides from the hands of our pure Jewish relative by our own means - and risk our expensive lives?..In the name of Hebrew University?.. 5. Passover..In a few weeks...Egypt of those times... "Holiday of Liberty"... Apply the inalienable principle of liberty...to the Palestinian people. Oh,boys!..Palestinians do not need our or French or Turkish or American or Bolivian help to feel free. Palestinians have liberty in every cell of their bodys, even dead ones. Palestinians lived in liberty centuries before mental Zio-Nazis occupation - and they shall regain their natural political liberty after the bomb ( ? ) shall be taken from the hands of a dangerous inmate. But to do this you must be armed at least with a knife. We must arm ourself - or the psychiatric patient shall win. As to the Jews who escaped ( or could leave in some official way THE State of Egypt of today ), they will not celebrate Jewish Passover in the different parts of the world. Nothing to celebrate. Israel is still a Pharaonic State. Jewish-Palestinian children are killed and digested with all gastronomic TV publicity for the eyes of Democratic Western World. And matzes outside Holy Land do not have the taste we used to at quiet Jewish Passover receptions in the warm presence of our fathers and mothers, survivors of Holocaust. Quite possible, an ordinary Israeli who finds himself in full liberty outside THE State of Egypt in one of big American, Brazilian or European cities in these days, just shall buy a bottle of not falsified French cognac and will visit another "shikse". And what would you do in his place?.. No tanks, no airplanes and Red Mogendovid wagons arrive always too late. There will be - we have all time... - the Democratic Palestine on the territory of old Palestine in the borders before 1948 mass murders. Balfur, Herzl, Husseini, Eichmann, Sharon, Ground Zero, Ground One ( State of Israel ), everything shall become History and professors shall tell our children how it w a s. We shall procliam, let us say, on 5% of historic Palestine, proclaim with the help and full support of our ( Palestinian ) brothers and sisters a small Independent Jewish Republic ( with Constitution ) or an Indepndent Jewish Home. Our most intelligent rabbis with the friendly help of our best Jewish psychiatrists shall work days and nights to lay the fundament of a non-racist and non-fascist Judaism. Everybody who is excited by Judaism shall have right once - twice per year visit the normal Jewish country to fullfil his/her religious needs and ride a camel with their children. All refugees shall come back and shall be restituted. Just like after a bank robbery with complications. As to the masses of Jews of American and East European blood who shall find their settlements trembling in the air, the United Nations must find for them an employment in Kabul, America have done a lot for us, for our formation, and it is our honorable task to help USA to rebuild Afganistan. add your comments

I don't know if I should laugh or cry by Arthur Donoshaytis 9:04am Sun Mar 10 '02 print comment THIS IS THE MOST STUPID ARTICLE I HAVE EVER READ. ARE YOU FIVE YEARS OLD? add your comments

Sam Bohour by Jaguar Johnny 9:29pm Mon Mar 11 '02 print comment Sam Bahour is a good friend of Barbara Lubin, of the Middle East Childrens Alliance (http://www.MECAforPeace.org), and interviews with Sam and with Barbara and other eyewitnesses to the latest fighting can be found at http://flashpoints.net www.Flashpoints.net add your comments

learn your facts by please 11:39pm Sun Mar 24 '02 print comment The Palestinian people are a made up people sent from other arab states which make up the arab nation meant to destroy Jews and Israel. If the arabs did not kill so many jews their would be more in the the Arab Nations and if Jews were allowed to practice their religion in the Arab Nations thier would be more jews living in the Arab Nations. I think Israel should give the so called fabricated state of Palestine back to the Lebanese and let the Palestinians try to get their land back from them. Get your headline pieces which do not present the facts off of indymedia. Learn your history before you publish anti- israel pieces. Stop supporting Terrorists. You can not compare the south african situation to the israel situation. The palestians are terrorist and they are the ones killing teenage jews in their suicide bombings ect. Stop using Jews and Israel. Stop taking out your anger about your own horrible situation on Israel and Jews, who have been oppressed and used through-out history. add your comments