by Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
22 October 2007
In order to understand what a conference is about, one usually believes that the main question to be asked concerns who is attending. I think, however, that the real question should always been “who is not invited.” A peace meeting dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which Hamas is not invited is not a peace meeting, but a war conference against, among others, Hamas and a substantial part of the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza which elected a Hamas majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council.
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The people of Palestine and Israel call upon President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to begin immediately intensified negotiations to conclude, by the end of 2008, a genuine peace agreement based upon: the Arab Peace Initiative and the previous agreements signed between the two sides; the implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions 242, 338 and 1397; a fair agreed-upon solution to the Palestinian refugees problem in consideration of General Assembly Resolution 194; the end of the Israeli occupation; the evacuation of all Jewish settlements from within the final borders of the State of Palestine; and a solution for Jerusalem based upon keeping it as one city but establishing it as the capital of the two states: Palestine and Israel.
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By Michael B.
Benny Morris – an Israeli historian who, in an interview, showed that he openly hates Palestinians – wrote of the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, in his book, Righteous Victims. He notes that Moshe Dayan and his subordinates decided on a policy of “encourag[ing] emigration.” Indeed, so important was this goal, that “[n]o idea or proposal [wa]s to be dismissed out of hand.” Morris explains that “Israeli thinking was to some degree governed by the notion that the Arabs of the territories, starved of land and resources (primarily water), and denied the possibility of industrial development, would gradually drift away. Though never clearly enunciated, this was the government’s aim – especially after 1977.” Morris notes that there was “[s]trict censorship[,]” with the prohibition of “all materials deemed seditious.”
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