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Will Palestine State Remain a Dream? - Security Council - Global Policy Forum Will Palestine State Remain a Dream?
By Mohammad Amjad Hossain
Daily Star
June 18, 2002In retaliation of the incursion of Israeli troops in the West Bank yet another suicide bombing killed 17 Israelis 6 June. This time the message was loud and clear as they reportedly said that such suicide bomb would be hurled at Israelis as long as Palestine territory would remain under the occupation of Israeli troops. For the last six months Israeli troops massacred innocent people, destroyed educational institutions, mosques and infrastructure of the administration and banks in the Palestinian controlled areas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The continued incursion by Israeli troops into the Palestinian territories has caused widespread condemnation, but regrettably the world body remains silent spectator to the ruthless and inhuman massacres, particularly in Jenin Palestinian refugee camps, which reminds of pogrom conducted by Adolf Hitter in Germany against Jews during Second World War. According to historian William Carr, the pogrom, which aroused widespread horror abroad, was followed by a spate of laws which at last drove the Jews out of commercial life, confiscated their industrial assets and turned them into a race of untouchables in their own country.
The envoy of the United Nations Secretary General, who had been to Palestinian refugee camps in Jenin, described the devastation left behind by the Israeli troops as "horrible beyond belief". Larsen was reportedly said the Jewish State had been 'morally repugnant'. Against this backdrop, the UN Security Council had decided to send a fact-finding mission to Jenin to verify the fact. The Secretary General Kofi Annan backed out of the decision because the government of Israel under hawkish Premier Ariel Sharon did not give green signal. This was for the first time the United States did not exercise veto power to stop sending fact-finding mission. It may be noted that UN Security Council did not succeed earlier, too, in sending UN observers group as time and again resolutions in this connection were torpedoed by US veto..
From the past developments it is crystal clear that Israeli Premier is bent upon to destroy peace process as he did in 1982. Ariel Sharon as a Minister for Defence of Israel sabotaged Reagan peace plan by invasion of Lebanon and massacres of innocent unarmed Palestinian women and children at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps near Beirut. Similarly, Bush's so-called peace plan for the existence of Israel and Palestine states side by side in peace and secured borders had been shattered this time by the invasion of West Bank and Gaza Strip by Israeli troops, one could hardly disagree with the opinion of European Union External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten, who said on 21 April that Israel has hijacked the campaign against terrorism with its devastating military offensive into the West Bank.
Israel's weapons of mass destruction are much more superior than that of Iraq. American made weapons are used by Israel. Billions of dollars are invested in the development programme of Israeli defence forces infrastructure that caused anger in Arab world against America. When Palestinians get blown up by American made weapons, what do you think it does to America's standing in the Arab world?
For all practical purpose Palestinians are made hostage by Israeli troops in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinians are under the oppressive military rule of Ariel Sharon who even does not care about American advice as the Jews community in America is dominating in business circle, Congress and Senate apart from foreign affairs committee in the Congress. Millions of dollars were invested by Jews in public relations representation, and CNN, New York Times, and others have been in fact doing an excellent work of promoting propaganda in favour of Israel.
Being the fourth strongest army in the world Israel possess nuclear weapons and can destroy the Palestinians totally. In 17 months Israeli troops killed 900 Palestinians while injuring 17,000, and another 1000 or more were detained in custody.
It is high time for Americans that they should cut off all military aid to Israel to bring Israelis to senses. In fact, America is using taxpayers' money to help Israeli forces for the violation of human rights in Palestinian territories.
The consequences of further Israeli atrocities could be that it would remain an unsecure island in a sea of hostility. It may be recalled that there were talks of establishing commercial, political and cultural contacts in tune with Benelux model in mid nineties when peace talks were underway. One can possibly say goodbye to such possibility as the bitterness caused by Israeli excesses will always get in the way of such contacts in the foreseeable future. An independent Palestine state will remain a dream so long Ariel Sharon presides over the destiny of Israelis.
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