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The Jewish "Shalom" Process:
Capitulation Process or Peace Process?
The "Peace" Process

 

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Oslo II map, or, as the Palestinians call it, the "Leopard Skin" for obvious reasons. Israel will control fully the light grey area (A~=56%) and partially the dark grey area (B~=40%). Only the black area (C~=4%) is under full Palestinian control. This is the map of the much-lauded land-for-peace deal. (Map source The Foundation for Middle East Peace. See also Associated Press map here )

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice." --
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

" The Oslo "Peace Process" is "A new instrument for reaching traditional [Israeli] objectives."
--Yitzhak Rabin describing the rapprochement with the PLO, according to Uri Savir, his chief negotiator, (fromhttp://www.fmep.org/reports/v10n3.html)

"It's stupid for any colonial power to try to run the local people with its own forces. Much better to get local mercenaries usually brought from some other region... And Israel is finally recognizing that the only thing that MAKes any sense is to revert to the classic colonial pattern -- the South African, Indian...British-in-India type pattern -- in the areas that it is handing over to some degree of Palestinian Authority... I doubt that Israel will keep all the territories it has now. That would be completely crazy in fact. Probably they will go back to something like the extreme demands that have been put forth in the past. The current agreement is, in fact, way out at the extreme. In fact, what it looks like now is the Sharon Plan of 1981."
-- Noam Chomsky From MER-TV Program "PEACE PROCESS: REAL OR PHONY?" (http://www.MiddleEast.org)



Israeli Position


"I ask Rabin to make concessions, and he says he can't because Israel is too weak. So I give him arms, and he says he doesn't need to make concessions because Israel is strong"
-- Henry Kissinger (quoted in Findley's Deliberate Deceptions p.199, quoting from Sheehan's The Arabs, Israelis and Kissinger)

"Whenever we seemed to be having some success with the Arabs, Begin would proclaim the establishment of new settlements or make provocative statements. This behavior ... seriously endangered prospects of peace" Former President Jimmy Carter Quoted in Findley's deliberate Deceptions quoting Fred Khouri's Major Obstacles to Peace.

"I have to tell you that everybody over there [in Israel] should know what the [White House] telephone is: 1-212-456-1414. When you're serious about peace, call us."
-- Secretary of State James Baker (06/13/1990) expressing frustration over Shamir/Israel's desire for land over peace quoted in Findley's deliberate Deceptions quoting Thomas Friedman (NYT 06/14/1990).



Peace Proposals and Israel's Rejectionism

Despite their inclusion of recognition of Israel, all these plans were rejected and ridiculed by Israel, as they included an Israeli withdrawal to the June 4, 1967 borders (and eventual Palestinian self determination). In addition, Israel often would counter a peace offer with the announcement of a new settlement establishment, e.g. after the Reagan/Bush/Baker peace plans. This was usually done by Likud governments demonstrating their defiance and in-your-face style settlement expansion, over the "clever" (i.e. covert) Labor methods of achieving the same goals. (See Findley's Deliberate Deceptions, pp. 201-205).


Sadat's Camp David "Peace" Agreement


The "Peace Process"

Settlements Population Increase on the West Bank and Gaza Mostly AFTER the Oslo agreements. Illustrates Israel actual desire for continuing the occupation disguised under the "Oslo Peace Process". (Map source Foundation for Middle East Peace)

Intellectuals such as Edward Said, Noam Chomsky and others have addressed the inequities of the "Peace Process" and exposed the injustice under the heavy gloss and loud fanfare cast by western media.



Expert Opinion on the "Peace Process"

Edward Said

Noam Chomsky

Israel Shahak

Naseer Aruri

Robert Fisk (the British Independent)

Charlie Reese (Orlando Sentinel


Al-Aqsa Uprising (September 2000): Causes, and Media Coverage

The real cause of Palestinian uprising, is frustration against the the contuning occupation headed toward an Aprtheid-Bantustan system, under the guise of path to independence implied in the "peace" process. This is clear in Israel's actions during the negotiation period described by A. Pacheco below:

"Since 1994, Palestinians have seen the influx of 50,000 new Jewish settlers into the West Bank and Gaza, the paving of more than 400 kilometers of roads on confiscated land, demolition of more than 800 Palestinian homes, a threefold increase in unemployment in the territories and a 21 percent decline in their gross domestic product, the arrest of 13,000 Palestinians, and complete curtailment of freedom of movement." -- Allegra Pacheco from NY Times (10/05/2000)

Excerpts from an interview by Israeli journalist Amira Haas of an Israeli sharpshooter, Ha'aretz 11/20/2000:
Journalist: I've been at those places, those demonstrations, where the Palestinians open fire.
Sharpshooter: "Are you trying to say that the Palestinian firing is pathetic?"
Journalist: Yes.
Sharpshooter: "Correct. I agree. Usually the Palestinian fire is pathetic."
Journalist: And the army knew it was pathetic.
Sharpshooter: "Yes. The shooting is totally pathetic. And until there's shooting, you know that most of it will be into the air.."
Journalist: Is this showing off?
Sharpshooter: "Yes. The IDF knows this."
Journalist: So why kill, why not just injure?
Sharpshooter: "If you decide to wound people, more people will get hurt, and the question is whether this is better. Wounding fans anger even more."
[....]
Sharpshooter: "They [IDF leaders] forbid us to shoot at children."
Journalist: How do they say this?
Sharpshooter: "You don't shoot a child who is 12 or younger."
Journalist: That is, a child of 12 or older is allowed?
Sharpshooter: "Twelve and up is allowed. He's not a child any more, he's already after his bar mitzvah. Something like that."

The United Nations Security Council has adopted Resolution 1322 by a vote of 14 to 0, which "condemns acts of violence, especially the excessive use of force against Palestinians, resulting in injury and loss of human life" and "calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and its responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949."

With a bullet hole in the left side of his forehead, 12-year-old Sami Abu Jazar is carried into an ambulance after being shot by the Israeli army in Rafah, southern Gaza, Tuesday. According to doctors at the Gaza hospital, Sami was shot with a live bullet. He was later declared clinically dead (AP photo)



Ariel Sharon: Israel's New Prime Minister

 

The Barak Government: Any Different from Netanyahu's?

"Israel's negotiating partners shouldn't expect Mr. Barak to make substantive concessions.... Barak's vision of peace will differ from Mr. Netanyahu's only on the margins, and the new prime minister, with greater personal credibility and political support than his predecessor enjoyed, will be a more effective exponent of Israel's position."
-- Robert Satloff's Wall Street Journal (05/19/1999)

"Israel's Peace Now group said Barak's government is expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank at a faster pace than Netanyahu did. In the month since Barak took office, Housing Minister Yitzhak Levy has issued tenders for the construction of 1,517 apartments in the settlements. `This is six times the average monthly rate of house construction in the settlements for the Netanyahu government,' said Peace Now chairman Mossi Raz. A Housing Ministry spokesman said the Peace Now figures are incorrect and that tenders had been issued for only 678 new homes." [i.e. ONLY three-times more than Netanyahu, not six]
-- from an Associated Press report by Sari Bashi 08/10/1999.


Wye Agreement


"There is no such thing as a freeze [on construction].... Our policy is to grow and expand... This issue must be coordinated behind closed doors with the army and not in front of the media."
-- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Quoted in Ha'aretz 11/24/1998)

Arafat and his Authority's Corruption: PA as the Occupier's Subcontractor

" The Palestinian Authority's "deplorable" human rights record has been extensively documented. Without extenuating PA culpability, it bears recalling that Israel recruited Arafat precisely in order to facilitate repression. Thus Rabin boasted that the PA would quell Palestinian resistance "without problems caused by appeals to the High Court of Justice, without problems made by [the human rights organization] B'Tselem, and without problems from all sorts of bleeding hearts and mothers and fathers." Truth be told, "Palestinian Authority" is a misnomer. Apart from what Israel and the US authorize it to do, the PA exercises no authority whatsoever: in all respects it is in thrall to them. The Oslo process marked, in Meron Benvenisti's phrase, the continuation of "occupation...albeit by remote control." In exchange for the perquisites of collaboration, the PA must ruthlessly crush all opposition to continued Israeli occupation. "
-- Norman Finkelstein (From his article Securing the Occupation 11/28/1998 found elsewhere on this page)

 

Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai: "The depth of withdrawal from the Golan Heights would be the depth of security," quoted in the German paper FOCUS (reported by Ha'aretz 08/17/1998). Mordechai later denied saying this. Indeed, only when there is a just peace will Israel have its security.

Refugee Issues

"We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return!"
-- David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, July 18, 1948, (Michael Bar-Zohar's Ben-Gurion: The Armed Prophet, 1967).

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UNRWA-registered Palestinian refugees' distribution in the Middle East.




Palestinian Terrorism: A Response to Dispossession Implicit in Zionist Ideology

"Detached from its Israeli environment, Palestinian terrorism is always the cause but never the effect of evil: assaulting Israeli innocents, it is by definition unrelated to Israel's brutal rule. Thus, to understand terrorism, it is irrelevant that, since the Oslo accord, more than 600 Palestinian homes have been demolished and 140,000 dunums of Palestinian land confiscated. It is also irrelevant that, due primarily to Israel's illegal imposition of closure on the eve of Oslo, the Palestinian standard of living has fallen by nearly 40 percent, with fully 30% of the workforce unemployed and fully 40 percent of the population living at or below the poverty line. "
-- Norman Finkelstein (From his article Securing the Occupation 11/28/1998 found elsewhere on this page)

"While the Palestinian Authority is asked to bring all its force to bear against the Hamas infrastructure, it appears that Israel is indifferent to the fanatic, violent infrastructure in the areas under its control."
--Ha'aretz Editorial 10/28/1998

"Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin told Ha'aretz yesterday that the organization's military operations have always sought to "avoid harming civilians. All of the operations carried out against civilians were in response to massive operations against civilians, starting with the murder that Baruch Goldstein perpetrated in Hebron."
-- From a Ha'aretz article by Amira Haas 03/22/1999

 

 

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