The Palestinian Uprising - Resistance


   Misc. introductory articles

   Roots of Violence, Israel's Policy and Solution

   Ariel Sharon - a typical Jewish leader

   Palestinian "Terrorism" / The Resistance 

   U.S. Policy and the Uprising

   Historical Documents and Chronologies

Misc. introductory articles

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)

• "Human Rights Watch has sent two fact-finding teams to the region since the outbreak of violence on September 29. Our research has documented a pattern of excessive and indiscriminate use of lethal force by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) when responding to Palestinian protests."
  
  See also: UN Should Monitor Rights in West Bank, Gaza  (HRW, November 13, 2000)
  
  
• Amnesty: Israel 'may be guilty of war crimes'  (BBC 11/01/2000). Also includes an ivews report about Amnesty condemnation of Israel (10/02/2000)
  
  
• The Blood Orgy of the Jewish Devils
  A collection of articles on Israel's assaults in occupied Palestine
  
  
• List of Palestinian Casualties and material losses, from Sept 2000 and onwards
  
  
• Humiliation of Palestinians triggers rush to war  By Phil Reeves (The Independent 10/09/2000)
  
  
• Israel Must Submit to a Multinational Investigation  By Daoud Kuttab (LA Times 01/09/2000)
  
  
• Permission to kill  By Yitzhak Laor (Ha'aretz 10/08/2000)
  
  
• Only through force  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 10/08/2000)
  
  
• A Tragic Reversal: Madeleine Albright's View of Reality  By Hanan Ashrawi (Miftah 10/09/2000)
  
  
• Anatomy of Racism  By Hanan Ashrawi (Miftah 10/18/2000)
  
  
• From Camp David to the Al-Aqsa uprising  By Nadim N. Rouhana (Boston Globe 10/6/2000)
  
  
• Israel's Doomed Peace  By Allegra Pacheco (New York Times 10/05/2000).
  
  
• Where 'caught in the crossfire' can leave no room for doubt  By Robert Fisk (Independent 10/02/2000)
  
  
• Clinton: A marriage counsellor reading from a cereal packet  By Robert Fisk (Independent 10/18/2000) Two articles.
  
  
• Lies, hatred and the language of force  By Robert Fisk (Independent 10/13/2000). On the Arab view of the al-Aqsa Uprising.
  
  
• Double standards  By Edward Said (Guardian 10/12/2000)
  

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• An existential exercise  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 10/16/2000).
  
  
• Media spin remains in sync with israeli occupation  By Norman Solomon (10/16/2000)
  
  
• U.S. Dictates Uneven Terms Of Peace In The Mideast  By Alexander Cockburn (San Jose Mercury News 10/19/2000)
  
  
• Israel must end the hatred now A true Palestinian state is essential  (Observer 10/15/2000)
  
  
• Green Light to Slaughter  By Tanya Reinhart (Z Magazine 10/21/2000)
  
  
• No bangs, no smoking guns: victims just fell and bled  By Sam Kiley (The Times 10/17/2000)
  
  
• Palestinians' tell-tale wounds expose shoot-to-kill tactics  By Suzanne Goldenberg (Guardian 10/05/2000)
  
  
• Israel shifts to live bullets  By Suzanne Goldenberg (Guardian 11/28/2000)
  
  
• Kristallnacht revisited  By Khaled Amayreh (Al-Ahram 10/12-18/2000)
  
  
• Hebron under siege  By Khaled Amayreh (11/13/2000)
  
  
• U.S. press sympathetic to Israel, ADL finds 
  By Shlomo Shamir, (Ha'aretz 10/25/2000). If even the ADL --a pro-Israel organization-- thinks the US media coverage of the uprising is "sympathetic to Israel", then no doubt should remain in anyone's mind that the US media is extremely biased for Israel.
  
  
• Press Coverage of Palestinian Uprising Reveals Extreme Anti-Arab Hostility  (ADC 10/15/2000)
  
  
• Al-Aqsa Intifada  By Noam Chomsky (10/26/2000)
  
  
• 12 Conventional Lies  By Uri Avnery (10/21/2000)
  
  
• Trees in a Hurricane  By Uri Avnery (10/28/2000). On the Israel's "left".
  
  
• The Callused Camp  By Yitzhak Laor (Ha-Ir 10/20/2000). On the Israel's "left".
  
  
• It's Time to Atone When We See Only Our Own Pain  By Michael Lerner (L.A. Times 10/13/2000)
  
  
• Action! Roll out the propaganda war  By Phil Reeves (Independent 10/29/2000)
  
  
• Who really is being besieged?  By Charley Reese (Orlando Sentinel 10/19/2000)
  
  
• A lament for 'them and us'  By Gabor Mate' (Globe and Mail 11/01/2000)
  
  
• US report urges Arafat to use torture for peace  By Robert Fisk (Independent 11/06/2000)
  
  
• "Peace" with Violence or Transfer  By Shraga Elam/Kate Randall (Between the Lines 12/2000/World Socialist Review 12/05/2000)
  
  
• Americans Too Quick To Side With Israel  By Amy Pagnozzi (Hartford Courant 11/03/2000)
  
  
• Photographer Testimony in the Killing of Mohammad Al-Durra.
  "by logic and nature, my long experience in covering hot incidents and violent clashes, and my ability to distinguish sounds of shooting, I can confirm that the child was intentionally and in cold blood shot dead and his father injured by the Israeli army."
  
  
• B'tselem report: 80% of Palestinians killed in curfew violations are children  Jerusalem Post, October 16, 2002
  
  
• Don't Say You Didn't Know  By Tanya Reinhart (11/06/2000)
  
  
• The biased reporting that makes killing acceptable  By Robert Fisk (Independent 11/14/2000)
  
  
• What is it Palestinians really want?  By Charley Reese (Orlando Sentinel 11/16/2000)
  
  
• "Spin machine" blames the victim  By Hanan Ashrawi (Middle East Times 10/2000)
  
  
• Toughest Foreign Story  By Rick Salutin (Toronto Globe & Mail 10/20/2000)
  
  
• American report claims: Soldiers aim for the head  By David Ratner (Ha'aretz 11/17/2000)
  
  
• Palestinians are people, too  By John V. Whitbeck (Washington Times 11/14/2000)
  
  
• U.S. doctor: IDF not using Dum-Dum bullets  By David Ratner (Ha'aretz 11/17/2000) But explains high-velocity rounds cause similar, devastating effects
  
  
• 'Restraint' strikes fear into Palestinians' hearts  By Brian Whitaker (Guardian 11/21/2000)
  
  
• Amnesty: Imprisoned Israeli Arabs are punished before trial  By Ori Nir (Amnesty 11/26/2000)
  
  
• Olive trees becoming casualties in Mideast  By Michael Browning and Larry Kaplow, (American-Statesman 11/28/2000) (A new technique by Israel in "making the desert bloom").
  
  
• Turmoil in Palestine: The Basic Context  By Alex R. Shalom and Stephen R. Shalom (Z Magazine 10/2000). Nice introduction to the events for new Middle East readers.
  
  
• Young Palestinians Suffer Bone-Shattering Experience  By Keith B. Richburg (Washington Post 11/30/2000)
  
  

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• For Israel, Land or Peace  By Jimmy Carter (Washington Post 11/26/2000)
  
  
• Violation of Medical Immunity in Israel  (Physicians for Human Rights 11/23/2000)
  
  
• Israel Exports Its Brutal Police Training to the US, and it Shows    
  Inside Arabia, June 17, 2020. In the wake of the May 2020 death of Black man George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, USA, important information the Zio-controlled media left out: Israel has become the go to resource for governments that seek a solution for suppressing restless and harassed populations.
  
  
• Palestinian Economy in Ruins, U.N. Says  By William A. Orme Jr./Lee Hockstader (New York Times/Washington Post 12/6/2000)
  
  
• Israel's Apartheid Must End  By Kevin James (New York Daily News 12/10/2000)
  
  
• Truth is the victim as the same old double standards prevail  By Robert Fisk (Independent 10/29/2000)
  
  
• Robert Fisk: I am being vilified for telling the truth about Palestinians 
  By Robert Fisk (Independent 12/13/2000) 'The abuse being directed at anyone who dares to criticise Israel is reaching McCarthyite proportions'
  
  
• More Israelis Questioning Use of Force  By Lee Hockstader (Washington Post 12/13/2000)
  
  
  
  "Ami Ayalon, retired head of the Shin Bet security service, said Israel is guilty of 'apartheid' policies that go against the spirit of Judaism. He suggested that the Palestinians were following a logic in choosing violence, and spoke of the profound 'humiliation' that Israel inflicts on Palestinian workers and others who seek to enter Israel. Such comments are commonly heard from Palestinians and outsiders but rarely from an Israeli who has held senior-level positions in the security establishment."
  -- LA Times, 12/05/2000 (http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20001205/t000116554.html)
  
  
  
• Getting an eyeful in Gaza  By Michael F. Brown (Baltimore Sun 12/11/2000)
  
  
• In Search Of Truth, Not Dogma  By Amy Pagnozzi (Hartford Courant 12/19/2000)
  
  
• Israel admits it follows shoot-to-kill policy  (AFP/Dawn 12/22/2000)
  
  
• Under sentence of death  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 12/24/2000). Assassinations by Israel during al-Aqsa Uprising.
  

 

The real cause of Palestinian uprising, is the building frustration against the the continuing occupation that was headed more toward an Apartheid-Bantustan system than toward liberation -- under the guise of "peace". 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)

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." "Human Rights Watch has sent two fact-finding teams to the region since the outbreak of violence on September 29. Our research has documented a pattern of excessive and indiscriminate use of lethal force by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) when responding to Palestinian protests." See also here.

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."   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)

Roots of Violence, Israel's Policy and Solution

 

• Turmoil in Palestine: The Basic Context  By Alex R. Shalom and Stephen R. Shalom (Z Magazine 10/2000). Nice introduction to the events for new Middle East readers.
  
  
• Say No to a Palestinian 'State'  By Ran HaCohen (Antiwar.com 11/13/2000)
  
  
• Who Cares About the Palestinians?  By Ran HaCohen (Antiwar.com 10/16/2000)
  
  
• How to Start an Uprising  By Jeff Halper (04/2001). Powerful article detailing with what Israel did while it was negotiating "peace" with the Palestinians.
  
  
• Israel's Doomed Peace  By Allegra Pacheco (New York Times 10/05/2000).
  
  
• From Camp David to the Al-Aqsa uprising  By Nadim N. Rouhana (Boston Globe 10/6/2000)
  

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• What is it Palestinians really want?  By Charley Reese (Orlando Sentinel 11/16/2000)
  
  
• Mideast peace process dead -- no hope for revival  By Charley Reese (Orlando Sentinel 05/08/2001)
  
  
• For Israel, Land or Peace  By Jimmy Carter (Washington Post 11/26/2000)
  
  
• Israel's Apartheid Must End  By Kevin James (New York Daily News 12/10/2000)
  
  
• Fundamentally Unfair to Palestinians  By Sarah Shields (Raleigh News & Observer 02/11/2001)
  
  
• Israel must end the hatred now A true Palestinian state is essential  (Observer 10/15/2000)
  
  
• It's Time to Atone When We See Only Our Own Pain  By Michael Lerner (L.A. Times 10/13/2000)
  
  
• Fields of Thorns  By Mouin Rabbani (The Nation 02/22/2001) Special Report.
  
  
• Israel's killing fields 
  By Aijaz Ahmad (India National Magazine 11/24/2000). The structural reasons for the Palestinian uprising and the Israeli terror are connected not only with the consequences of the Oslo Accords of 1993 but also the very nature of the Israeli state and the support it gets from the United States.
  
  
• The conquerors of Canaan  By Shulamit Aloni (Ha'aretz 05/08/2001)
  
  
• Until the left returns to itself  By Akiva Eldar (Ha'aretz 05/08/2001)
  
  
• The Price of Occupation  By Anthony Lewis (New York Times 06/02/2001)
  
  
• Land is the issue. Land is confiscated, stolen, kept  By Dilip Hiro (Guardian 05/22/2001)
  
  
• Obstacles to a Middle East settlement  By William Dalrymple (Guardian 11/12/2001)
  
  
• Peace Group Says Israel Added Settlements  By Lee Hockstader (Washington Post 05/21/2001)
  
  
• Like the old days in South Africa  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz Magazine 05/24/2001)
  
  
• A footnote for the future  By Meron Benvenisti (Ha'aretz 12/13/2001)
  

• A Gaza Diary
  

• Scenes from the Palestinian uprising  By Chris Hedges (Harper Magazine 10/2001)
  
  
• Vengeance is mine, says the IDF  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 10/28/2001)
  
  
• The tragic reality of Israel  By A.N. Wilson (This Is London 09/2001)
  
  
• Israel: Into the Abyss  By Neve Gordon (Nation 09/17/2001)
  
  
• Who will dare damn Israel?  By Richard Ingrams (The Observer 09/16/2001)
  
  
• Caught in the anguish  By Alice Rothchild (Boston Globe 09/24/2001)
  
  
• Separate and Unequal on the West Bank  By Amira Hass (New York Times 09/02/2001)
  
  
• They don't see the occupation  By Amira Hass (Ha'aretz 08/22/2001)
  
  
• A Road Too Close Squeezes Gaza Village; Jewish Access Route Is Barrier to Palestinians  By Lee Hockstader (The Washington Post 03/19/2001)
  
  
• 72 percent of Israeli Jews say more military force should be used  By Ephraim Yaar and Tamar Hermann (Ha'aretz 04/04/2001)
  
  
• Amnesty Int'l report cites `legal racism' in Israel  By Joseph Algazy (Ha'aretz 07/25/2001)
  
  
• Israel Shows Reckless Disregard for Human Life  (Amnesty 08/01/2001)
  
  
• Israel: Dart Shells Pose Civilian Threat  (Human Rights Watch 06/16/2001)
  
  
• Human Rights Watch blasts Israel  By Joseph Algazy (Ha'aretz 04/12/2001)
  
  
• Amnesty: Israel 'may be guilty of war crimes'  (BBC 11/01/2000). Also includes an ivews report about Amnesty condemnation of Israel (10/02/2000)
  
  
• B'Tselem, Amnesty slam Israel  By David Brinn (Jerusalem Post 05/30/2001)
  
  
• War crime investigator accuses Israel of state terrorism  (Jerusalem Post 05/30/2001)
  
  
• UN mediator: Palestinians suffering extreme poverty  (Ha'aretz 12/21/2001)
  
  
• France: Israel violating int'l humanitarian law  B'tselem: 42 dead Palestinians since Ze'evi murder (Jerusalem Post/AP 10/25/2001)
  
  
• Israeli MP demands ambassador to Helsinki be recalled  (Middle East Times 08/31/2001)
  
  
• A gang of Jewish terrorists  Editorial (Ha'aretz 07/22/2001)
  
  
• Israel Fails to Address Increasing Use of Torture  (Amnesty 20/11/2001)
  
  
• Israel uses torture in defiance of court ban, report says  By Steve Weizman (Independent 11/12/2001)
  
  
• Group urges A-G to halt torture of minors  By Moshe Reinfeld (Ha'aretz 05/30/2001)
  
  
• Talk of expulsion more ominous than ever  By Danny Rabinowitz (Ha'aretz 05/29/2001)
  
  
• Danish Red Cross: Settlers live apartheid lives  (Jerusalem Post 08/09/2001)
  
  
• International Committee of the Red Cross Condemns Israel's Inhumane Measures Against the Palestinian People  (Palestine Media Center 11/08/2001). Also Palestinians shot by soldiers at close range, witnesses say  By Lee Hockstader (Washington Post 11/08/2001)
  
  
• Starvation at the Palestinian door  By Joseph Algazy (Ha'aretz 03/13/2001) Prolonged closure is having a devastating effect on the territories, charges the Red Cross.
  
  
• List of Palestinian Dead including age.
  
  
• Humiliation of Palestinians triggers rush to war  By Phil Reeves (The Independent 10/09/2000)
  
  
• Israel Must Submit to a Multinational Investigation  By Daoud Kuttab (LA Times 01/09/2000)
  
  
• Only through force  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 10/08/2000)
  
  
• Anatomy of Racism  By Hanan Ashrawi (Miftah 10/18/2000)
  
  
• Clinton: A marriage counsellor reading from a cereal packet  By Robert Fisk (Independent 10/18/2000) Two articles.
  
  
• Lies, hatred and the language of force  By Robert Fisk (Independent 10/13/2000). On the Arab view of the al-Aqsa Uprising.
  
  
• Israeli police 'carry out routine, organised cruelty'  By Robert Fisk (Independent 07/14/2001)
  
  
• An existential exercise  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 10/16/2000).
  
  
• Kristallnacht revisited  By Khaled Amayreh (Al-Ahram 10/12-18/2000)
  
  
• Hebron under siege  By Khaled Amayreh (11/13/2000)
  
  
• Al-Aqsa Intifada  By Noam Chomsky (10/26/2000)
  
  
• Neocolonial Invitation to a Tribal War  By Noam Chomsky (L.A. Times 08/13/2001)
  
  
• 12 Conventional Lies  By Uri Avnery (10/21/2000)
  
  
• Trees in a Hurricane  By Uri Avnery (10/28/2000). On the Israel's "left".
  
  
• The Callused Camp  By Yitzhak Laor (Ha-Ir 10/20/2000). On the Israel's "left".
  
  
• Palestine News: A Link
  
  
• Who really is being besieged?  By Charley Reese (Orlando Sentinel 10/19/2000)
  
  
• Israel slaps total blockade on territories for independence (AFP 04/25/2001)
  
  
A lament for 'them and us'  By Gabor Mate' (Globe and Mail 11/01/2000)


• Americans Too Quick To Side With Israel  By Amy Pagnozzi (Hartford Courant 11/03/2000)
  
  
• Photographer Testimony in the Killing of Mohammad Al-Durra. "by logic and nature, my long experience in covering hot incidents and violent clashes, and my ability to distinguish sounds of shooting, I can confirm that the child was intentionally and in cold blood shot dead and his father injured by the Israeli army."
  
  
• Toughest Foreign Story  By Rick Salutin (Toronto Globe & Mail 10/20/2000)
  
  
• Palestinians are people, too  By John V. Whitbeck (Washington Times 11/14/2000)
  
  
• 'Restraint' strikes fear into Palestinians' hearts  By Brian Whitaker (Guardian 11/21/2000)
  
  
• Violation of Medical Immunity in Israel  (Physicians for Human Rights 11/23/2000)
  
  
• Palestinian Economy in Ruins, U.N. Says  By William A. Orme Jr./Lee Hockstader (New York Times/Washington Post 12/6/2000)
  
  
• Boycott of Israeli products and leisure tourism launched at House of Commons  (07/05/2001)
  
  
• More Israelis Questioning Use of Force  By Lee Hockstader (Washington Post 12/1312000)
   
  

"Ami Ayalon, retired head of the Shin Bet security service, said Israel is guilty of 'apartheid' policies that go against the spirit of Judaism. He suggested that the Palestinians were following a logic in choosing violence, and spoke of the profound 'humiliation' that Israel inflicts on Palestinian workers and others who seek to enter Israel. Such comments are commonly heard from Palestinians and outsiders but rarely from an Israeli who has held senior-level positions in the security establishment."
-- LA Times, 12/05/2000 (http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20001205/t000116554.html)

• Getting an eyeful in Gaza  By Michael F. Brown (Baltimore Sun 12/11/2000)
  
  
• Kill, Then Shoot  By Uri Blau (Kol Ha'ir 10/05/2001)
  
  
• West Bank Checkpoint  By Wendy Pearlman (Washington Post 06/30/2001)
  
  
• IDF concerned about soldiers' abuse of Palestinian civilians at roadblocks  By Amos Harel (Ha'aretz 07/23/2001)
  
  
• Checkpoint Charlie's Angels  By Darren Fisher (Ha'aretz Anglo File 04/27/2001) What really goes on at IDF checkpoints around Jerusalem? A group of self-appointed human rights monitors is keeping watch
  
  
• Heart patient dies after checkpoint incident  By Amos Harel (Ha'aretz 03/15/2001). This wasn't the only time Palestinians in urgent need of medical help die at checkpoints: Another Death at a Checkpoint  (B'Tselem 08/26/1998)
  
  
• IDF still blocking medical staff from East Jerusalem hospitals  By Haim Shadmi (Ha'aretz 06/21/2001)
  
  
• Sharon's Message to the Palestinian People  By Hanan Ashrawi (Miftah 03/12/2001)
  
  
• Panel passes bill allowing inciting violence against terror suspect  By Gideon Alon (Ha'aretz 06/19/2001)
  
  
• It's lynchtime  By Nehemia Strasler (Ha'aretz 03/09/2001)
  
  
• Without live bullets, without dead bodies  By Nehemia Strasler (Ha'aretz 10/06/2000). The difference between Israel's reaction to demonstrators and other democracies.
  
  
• Sealing off humanity  By Naomi Chazan (Jerusalem Post 03/16/2001)
  
  
• Defining violence  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 03/11/2001)
  
  
• A demolished house for every bullet  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 04/15/2001)
  
  
• The price of restraint  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 07/22/2001)
  
  
• Wave of ethnic cleansing clears Palestinian homes  By Sherri Muzher (Detroit News 07/17/2001)
  
  
• Israel imprisonment for Israeli soldiers who refused to serve in the Palestinian territories  (Arabic News 3/16/2001)
  
  
• Israel jails 600 reserve soldiers in crackdown on draft dodging  By Inigo Gilmore (Telegraph 04/01/2001)
  
  
• Israel asks U.S. to freeze Mitchell Committee  By Aluf Benn (Ha'aretz 02/22/2001)
  
  
• Israel snubs 'hostile' UN  By Phil Reeves (Independent 02/11/2001)
  
  
• World stays silent as Israel flattens Palestinian bases  By Phil Reeves (Independent 08/27/2001)
  
  
• US report absolves Arafat of responsibility for violence  By Janine Zacharia (Jerusalem Post 04/04/2001)
  
  
• Peres: Arafat did not direct outbreak of intifada  (Jerusalem Post 09/25/2001)
  
  
• The revolt of the guinea-pigs  By Amira Hass (Ha'aretz 02/21/2001)
  
  
• All the way from the sea to the river  By Amira Hass (Ha'aretz 05/30/2001)
  
  
• Joseph Revisited  By Israel Shamir (03/2001). On the Palestinian "destruction" of Joseph's tomb in Nablus.
  
  
• Appalling equation  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 03/04/2001)
  
  
• Leaving humanity behind  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 07/29/2001)
  
  
• Israel's Wrong Turn  By Hussein Ibish (Washington Post 03/10/2001)
  
  
• Occupation Propels Conflict  By Hussein Ibish (L.A. Times 12/04/2001)
  
  
• France seeks EU sanctions on Israel  By Ora Coren (Ha'aretz 03/19/2001)
  
  
• Israel accuses Straw of anti-Semitism over references to Palestinian anger  By Phil Reeves (Independent 09/25/2001)
  
  
• Ex-SLA men work checkpoints in West Bank and Gaza  (Jerusalem Post 03/22/2001)
  
  
• The child sacrifice debate  By Lily Galili (Ha'aretz 04/29/2001). On whether settlers are deliberately endangering their children for ideological reasons.
  
  
• Behind the tank shell is a soldier  By Amira Hass (Ha'aretz 05/09/2001)
  
  
• Who is interested in escalation?  By Amira Hass (Ha'aretz 05/16/2001)
  
  
• A culture of oppression  (Daily Star Editorial 06/04/2001). On the June 1st suicide bombing in Tel Aviv which killed 20 people.
  
  
• How Israel deals with non-violence  By Gila Svirsky (06/16/2001)
  
  
• Arafat's nightmare: Israel bombs the jails  By Danny Rubinstein (Ha'aretz 12/07/2001)
  
  
• Uprooting Palestinians makes Israel less secure  By Omar Jabara (Denver Post 08/30/2001)
  
  
• Shepherds war takes a poisonous turn  (Jerusalem Post 08/20/2001)
  
  
• Family therapy  By Akiva Eldar (Ha'aretz 08/21/2001)
  
  
• The Palestinians' great crime: A brief summary for the uninitiated  By Ali Abunimah (Jordan Times 08/22/2001)
  
  
• What drives a bomber to kill the innocent child?  By Robert Fisk (Independent 08/11/2001)
  
  
  

- On Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinians, see our special section on Israel, Jews and terror.

- On the Israeli military's sytematic shooting and killing/maiming palestinian civilians, including children, see our special section on Israel, Jews and terror.

Ariel Sharon - a typical Jewish leader

 

Ariel Sharon's provocative visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem September 2000 sparked the Second Palestinian Inifada (uprising). Sharon has a long track record of war crimes and massacres, all perpetrated in the name of the State of Israel and Zionism. Choosing such a person to be their elected leader reveals the true face of the Jew's ideology and their perception of justice and human rights.

• Sharon’s war crimes in Lebanon: The Record - Part 1
  By Jean Shaoul - World Socialist Web Site, 22/02/2002
  
  
• Sharon’s war crimes in Lebanon: The Record - Part 2
  By Jean Shaoul - World Socialist Web Site, 22/02/2002
  
  
• Sharon’s war crimes in Lebanon: The Record - Part 3
  By Jean Shaoul - World Socialist Web Site, 22/02/2002
  
  
• The Crimes of Ariel Sharon  By Alexander Cockburn, et al (Counter Punch 02/07/2001)
  
  
• Israel elects Ariel Sharon  (The Palestinian Society for Human Rights LAW 02/2001)
  
  
• The questions Sharon is not being asked  By Uzi Benziman (Ha'aretz 01/21/2001)
  
  
• Sharon's return puts Wreckage Street in fear  By Phil Reeves (Independent 01/21/2001)
  
  
• Barak's Version of Sharon  By Tanya Reinhart (Yediot Aharonot 01/16/2001)
  
  
• Is Ariel Sharon Israel's Milosevic?  By James Ron (LA Times 02/05/2001)
  
  
• The legacy of Ariel Sharon  By Robert Fisk (Independent 02/06/2001)
  
  
• Promises, promises  By Ze'ev Schiff (Ha'aretz 02/02/2001)
  
  
• A vote for war, against peace  By Charley Reese (Orlando Sentinel 02/13/2001)
  
  
• Ariel Sharon: The War Criminal Takes Over  By Rabbi Michael Lerner (02/07/2001)
  
  
• Where will Sharon take Israel?  By Edward W. Said (Dawn 02/08/2001)
  
  
  

Palestinian "Terrorism" / The Resistance

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

• Why We Have Become Suicide Bombers 
  By Dr. Eyad Sarraj. A moving account of Palestinian desperation.
  

  "the amazing thing is not the occurrence of the suicide bombing, rather the rarity of them."
  -- Dr. Eyad Sarraj

  
  
• Arab Terrorism: Causes and Cure  By Robert W. McGee
  
  
• Fighting Only Palestinian Terrorism  Editorial (Ha'aretz 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

 

• When Palestinian Terror Really Began
  By Danny Rubinstein (Ha'aretz 09/28/1998). An argument towards the landmark importance of Goldstein's terror attack against Palestinian worshippers, in increasing Palestinian terrorism.

  "In the period between the 1991 Madrid conference and the massacre carried out by Baruch Goldstein at Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs, Hamas made it known that its people were concentrating on aiming their attacks against IDF soldiers and refraining from attacking civilians. Those were the days of kidnappings of soldiers and frontier policemen and attacks on Shin Bet agents. After the Goldstein massacre, Hamas announced that it would now attack civilians."
  -- Danny Rubinstein, Ha'aretz 10/23/1998.
  

• Terrorism and Geography  By Amira Haas (Ha'aretz 11/11/1998)
  
  
• Israel Once Again Strengthens Hamas' Hand  By Ray Hanania (10/06/1997)
  
  
• Hamas Makes Conditional Offer to Stop Anti-Israel Attacks  (AFP 10/12/1999). Not an unrealistic and unfair offer by Hamas.
  
  
• The Agenda of Violence: Torture, Terrorism, and Prisoners  By Hanan Ashrawi (09/10/1999)

 

“I would have joined a terrorist organization.” -- Ehud Barak's response to Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Ha'aretz newspaper, when Barak was asked what he would have done if he had been born a Palestinian.

 

• If the Jewish occupation has "the right" to use force, so does the resistance too!
  
  
• Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson to launch movement against Israeli occupation
  By the Press Trust of India.
  
  
• Palestinians go Revisionist
  07-12-2000
  
  
• The right to resist  
  By Baruch Kimmerling (Ha'aretz 03/27/2001)
  
  
• Get definition straight on Palestinian "terrorism" 
  By Robert Jensen (Houston Chronicle 03/09/2001)
  
  
• Menachem Begin on Terrorism
  Also includes the Jew Ben Hecht's comments
  
  
• How to generate suicide bombers - "kamikazes"     
  Images of Zionism in action! (English/French slide show, pps-file)
  
  
• Photos: Brave Palestinians versus the military might of Israel      
  
  
• The new Palestinian resistance groups in the Occupied West Bank - Who are the Jenin Brigades and the Lion's Den?    
  Al Jazeera World Documentary (45 min), March 22, 2023.
  See also the video short (7 min) on the same theme; "New generation of Palestinians fighting Israeli raids", Al Jazeera Close Up, March 21, 2023.
  
  
• Axis of Resistance Releases Short Video: We Are At Swords’ Points    
  Published by Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV, April 15, 2023.
  All Resistance Groups in United Front Against "Israel"; Warriors from Occupied Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Iran...
  
  
• Axis of Resistance - Unity and Protection of Al-Aqsa Mosque   
  On Al-Quds Day 2023 Resistance/Religious leaders from Lebanon (Nasrallah), Palestine (Haniyeh, Nakhala, Sabri, Hanna), Yemen (Al-Houthi), Iraq (Khazaali), and Bahrain (Qassim), expressed their solidarity and their resolve to resist - in the wake of Israel's latest attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque.
  Article from Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV, April 14, 2023.
  Also includes important videos aimed at Israel:
  "Sayyed Nasrallah Threatens Netanyahu: You Will See!" | "Hassan Nasrallah: Any Violation of Al-Aqsa Mosque Will Lead to Regional Explosion"
  
  

The Al-Aqsa Flood Operation (Al-Aqsa Storm) 

In the early morning of 7 October 2023, Palestinian resistance fighters of Hamas launched the Blitz Operation dubbed "Al-Aqsa Flood"/"Al-Aqsa Storm" against the Jewish installations of occupation around the encircled Gaza Strip; military checkpoints and army bases, settlements and kibbutzes. An operation that will go down in military history as one of the biggest feats of assymetrical warfare; where one anatagonist with miniscule means but with motivation and planning - managed to inflict massive damage on a militarily far, far, superior foe - in this case the "IDF" of the Jews.

“The most devastating attack in the history of the    State of Israel.”    -- Doron Spielman, IDF international spokesperson, interviewed    in CNN, October 8, 2023

Of course the famous Jewish Vengeance as predicted descended on the inhabitants of Gaza, which we deal in our special section on the 2023 / 2024 Gaza Slaughter.
We here publish material on the military/resistance aspects of the operation and subsequent fighting:

• VIDEO: Watch Hamas fighters blow up Israeli tanks in Gaza 
  November 4, 2023 (Mehr News Agency) – Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas Islamic Resistance movement released a video on Saturday showing its fighters heroically attacking and blowing up several Israeli tanks and other military vehicles.
  
  
• VIDEO: More Israeli tanks blown up - close combat vs Jewish invaders 
  More Resistance action from Gaza. Video released November 22, 2023.
  
  
• Hamas in head-on street battles vs Jewish invaders in Gaza 
  Battles in the Gaza City frontiers, clips taken December 2023. The same day the super-cocky and professional-made Hamas video "Tel Aviv is burning… and Al-Quds will be liberated" appeared in Al-Manar (9 Dec, 2023). Note that it has been filmed under the very nose of Israeli drones, satellites, electronic surveillance, and spies!
  
  
• Hamas battling Israeli invaders; sniping, street-battles, ambushes 
  From December 2023.
  
  
• More Hamas street-battles versus the "IDF" of the Jews 
  Also from December 2023.
  
  
• Even more Hamas street-battles versus the Jewish invaders 
  From January 2024.
  
  
• Many more updated Resistance Videos can be seen here: Daily Al-Qassam (from X/Twitter) 

      
Jews, perhaps not "The World's most intelligent people", after all:

• How Israel’s high-tech ‘Iron Wall’ crumbled under Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack 
  Washington Post, November 17, 2023.
  
  
• How Hamas built a force to attack Israel on 7 October
  BBC News, November 2023.
  
  
• Israel Knew Hamas's Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago
  New York Times, December 1, 2023. "Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out"

Hamas' preparations hiding in plain sight! But the "super-intelligent" Jews, with all their hardware still didn't get what was coming! Pure hybris, in this case a result of the Jews' racist view of the enemy - "The Arab", "The Palestinian".
   A classic point in historic military failures; the underestimating of the enemy. When you peddle racist propaganda about the inferiority of the enemy to such a degree, that you actually believe it. That's when the subdued, the underdog, can surprise the arrogant racists and strike back - full force - as what happened on October 7th!

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U.S. Policy and the Uprising

• U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution on Palestinians  By Serge Schmemann/Colum Lynch/Edith M. Lederer (New York Times/Washington Post 12/15/2001)
  
  
• U.S. Vetoes UN Force Resolution  By Chris Hawley (AP 03/28/2001)
  
  
• Israel orders 52 F-16 aircraft from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics  (Globes 12/20/2001)
  
  
• Israel signs $2.5 billion F-16 deal  By Arieh O'Sullivan (Jerusalem Post 09/07/2001)
  
  
• U.S. moving to prevent UN debate on local crisis  By Natan Guttman, Daniel Sobelman & Shlomo Shamir (Ha'aretz 08/16/2001)
  
  
• Palestinians can absorb whatever Israel hurls at them  By Charley Reese (Orlando Sentinel 07/11/2001)
  
  
• Israeli, U.S. pilots train over Turkey  (Associated Press 06/19/2001)
  
  
• UN Veto Reveals Bush Administration's Contempt for Human Rights  By Stephen Zunes (Foreign Policy in Focus 04/01/2001)
  
  
• U.S. Resistance to International Criticism of Israel  By Stephen Zunes (CPAP 12/21/2000). A primer
  
  
• A Tragic Reversal: Madeleine Albright's View of Reality  By Hanan Ashrawi (Miftah 10/09/2000)
  
  
• U.S. slams Israel on human rights  By Aluf Benn (Ha'aretz 02/22/2001)
  
  
• Double standards  By Edward Said (Guardian 10/12/2000)
  
  
• U.S. Dictates Uneven Terms Of Peace In The Mideast  By Alexander Cockburn (San Jose Mercury News 10/19/2000)
  
  
• US-built base will allow IDF to shift from territories  By Arieh O'Sullivan (Jerusalem Post 09/06/2001)
  
  
• US to sell Israel nine Apache Longbow attack helicopters for $500m  By Arieh O'Sullivan (Jerusalem Post 02/21/2001). Note: Israel has used these helicopters to attack Palestinian civilian areas.
  
  
• Green Light to Slaughter  By Tanya Reinhart (Z Magazine 10/21/2000)
  
  
• Stop Israel!  By Tanya Reinhart (10/25/2001)
  
  
• The Godfather as "Honest Broker"  By Edward S. Herman (03/2001)
  
  
• Genocide as the Solution to "Terrorism" in the Occupied Territories?  By Edward S. Herman (ZNet Commentary 08/11/2001)
  
  
• Despair: Israel's Ultimate Weapon  By Jeff Halper (CPAP 03/28/2001)
  
  
• U.S. Vetoes UN Force Resolution  By Chris Hawley (AP 03/28/2001). Also U.S. rights investigator slams Mideast veto (Reuters 03/28/2001)
  
  
• U.S. weapons fan violence in Mideast, critics charge  By Mark Matthews (Baltimore Sun 05/27/2001)
  
  
• US report urges Arafat to use torture for peace  By Robert Fisk (Independent 11/06/2000)
  
  
• "Peace" with Violence or Transfer  By Shraga Elam/Kate Randall (Between the Lines 12/2000/World Socialist Review 12/05/2000)
  
  
• Sharon's Palestine  By George Szamuely (NY Press 04/25/2001) On Powell's "chiding" of Israel after its incursion into Gaza, and more.
  
  
• Death in Bethlehem, made in America  By Robert Fisk (Independent 04/15/2001)
  
  
• Mitchell Commission shows tilted 'balance'  By Michael Jansen (Jordan Times 05/2001)
  
  
• Mitchell Report on Israeli-Palestinian Violence Flawed  By Stephen Zunes (Foreign Policy in Focus 05/01/2001)
  
  
• Sharon's warning to US plays poorly at home White House fury over Sharon jibe  (AFP 10/05/2001)
  
  

On the media coverage and bias, please se our special section on media.

 

Historical Documents and Chronologies

• Maps from MidEast Web 
  
  
• Historical and Peace Process Documents from MidEast Web
  
  
• Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem
  The most comprehensive collection of facts/documents on the Zionist theft of Palestine,
  the basis of the real "Nuremberg" trial against Zionism and its leaders.
  
  
• History and information on Palestine - loads of information from the website of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations
  
  
• United Nation's Resolutions on Palestine
  
  
• Status of Palestine at the U.N.
  
  
• Important Events in Palestine/Israel of the Last 100 Years, 1895 - till present
  
  
• Resolution 181 - United Nations General Assembly, November 29, 1947
  
  
• The Balfour Declaration of 1917
  "...it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine..."
  -- Lord Arthur Balfour 11/02/1917, extracted from Balfour's infamous letter. (Could it be that Balfour didn't know the land was empty? Note also, how Balfour does not mention the political rights of the non-Jewish communities in Palestine.)
  
  
• Documents from Yale Law school: Avalon Project. The Middle East 1916-2001 : A Documentary Record
  
  
• UN Chronology: From 1940s to 2000s from http://www.un.int/palestine/
  
  
• South Africa's ICJ Genocide case against Israel over Gaza War (PDF)   
  Launched December 28, 2023. Includes detailed documentation of the crimes of the Jewish state of "Israel" vs the Palestinians.
  
  
• Anatomy of a Genocide - UN on the Gaza War 
  Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese. Released by the UN on March 24, 2024. The report can also be read here as PDF (Advance unedited version, A/HRC/55/73).
  
  
• This is Apartheid - A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea (PDF - short version)  
  Study published by B'Tselem, Israeli Information Center for Human Rights, January 12, 2021.
  Visit their website to read the full scope of their 2021 research.
  
  
• Visualizing Palestine   
  
  
  

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