"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, (from http://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

• 1967-1971: The UN Jarring Mission peace plan.
• 1969: The Rogers plan.
• 1971: As soon as he assumed power, Sadat offered Israel full peace in 1971.
• 1976: January, the PLO offered Israel full peace.
• 1977: The Carter Comprehensive Peace Plan (later modified to meet Israeli conditions)
• 1981: The Prince Fahd Peace Plan.
• 1882: The Reagan Peace Plan
• 1982: The Arab Fez Peace Plan.
• 1988: The PLO Peace Plan.
• 1989: the Bush Peace plan

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).

Finally a negotiation counterpart... acceptable to Israel

Sadat's Camp David "Peace" Agreement

• What Sadat's Peace forgot  By Edward Said (Excerpted from "The Question of Palestine," 1979). Western media role, Begin's in-your-face settlement declaration.
  
  
• Sadat's Jerusalem Trip Begins Difficult Path of Egyptian-Israeli Peace  By Donald Neff (Washington Report 10/1998)
  
  
• Camp David Fairy Tale  Editorial (Washington Report 04/05/1982)

  "... the peace with Egypt engendered the expropriation of half the land in the West Bank and the establishment of dozens of new settlements; the conclusion of the evacuation of Sinai was the signal for the Lebanon War.... The Oslo process also exacted a heavy price by legitimizing the "settlement blocs" -- Meron Benvenisti (Ha'aretz 12/16/1999)

By signing the peace treaty with Israel, Sadat basically ignored the Palestinian problem, the core of the whole conflict, and neutralized his country as the strongest Arab country facing Israel, while now Israel is free to bomb Lebanon, invade it (1982) killing 10s of thousands of civilians, occupy its southern part calling it "Security Zone", annex Jerusalem (1980) and Golan Heights, (1981), bomb Iraq's nuclear reactor (1981), attack Tunisia (PLO headquarters in 1985), mercilessly try to crush the Intifada (1987-), tighten its grip on the W. Bank and Gaza by boosting settlements, dispossessing Palestinians of yet more land (1980's & 1990's).. all with total impunity.

 

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)

• Middle East Peace Process Documents  from http://www.un.int/palestine/, website of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations
  
  
• West Bank Map According to Oslo II + Other detailed maps of Settlements/Jerusalem (Foundation for M.E. Peace)

Today we have the Israeli-Fatah "Peace Process". Aside from the fanfare, this process has brought more misery on the Palestinians than the actual occupation, where now the Palestinian Authority (PA) has become the oppressors, crushing any signs of little Intifadas, torturing people, jailing hamas followers with no charges, and other practices usually attributed to Israel. (Note: in the early 80's in an effort to undermine the rising political legitimacy of the PLO, Israel backed Islamic fundamentalists, who without this backing, would not have evolved to the organization known today as Hamas. That, of course, is not important information to be shared with the public by the media.)

The GNP (Gross National Product) of the Palestinian "entity" is 40% less now than before Oslo. 629 Palestinian houses have been demolished by Israel since Sep 1993 (until early 1998). Settlement population have increased by 40% from 120,000 in 1992 to 170,000 in 1998.

The West Bank and Gaza are split into three areas according to Oslo. Area A: 3-4%, under total Palestinian control, area B: 30-40% under joint Israeli (military)-Palestinian (civilian) control, and area C: 60-70% under total Israeli control. (Under the Wye agreement, 13% of B will go to A, and 13% from C to B). The result is: Palestinian areas are disconnected islands scattered around the West Bank, dissected by for-Jews-only highways built on demolished Palestinian houses and confiscated Palestinian land. The Palestinian control is now limited to collecting garbage and tax collection. Everything else is under Israel's mercy including the control of water resources. Hence, the current peace process is basically the old Allon Plan, (but with more fanfare and fireworks,) which was designed to enable Israel to maintain the advantages of the occupation, while avoiding dealing with the domestic problems. The Peace Process has made the Israeli occupation legitimate and the Palestinian's rightful resistance to occupation terrorism.

If Abbas truly cares about his people, rather than his newly acquired powers, he would step down, in protest over this fake peace.

"This is your problem but I warn you that every line in the Oslo accord calls for another accord.... The Oslo accord is very mysterious and when a document is mysterious, it usually is in favor of the stronger party." -- Syrian President Hafez al-Assad telling Yasser Arafat his opinion on the Oslo Deal (as quoted by Syria's ambassador to the U.S. Walid al-Moualem, Washington Report 07/1998 p.67).

 

Wye Agreement

• Percentage of Land Under Israeli/Palestinian Control (Areas A, B and C) Before, During and After Wye Agreement.
  
  
  

  "It is the Israelis that have not fulfilled any of their phase 2 obligations" according to Wye River agreement -- Department of State Spokesman, Wednesday, 6 January 1999. Source (See U.S. Report on the Middle East)

  
  

 

• The Wye River Memorandum from http://www.un.int/palestine/
  
  

Wye Agreement: A lot of fanfare added to an ordinary step in the "Peace Process." Perhaps the purpose of it is to give the sinking American president some "credit." Wye resulted from Israel's refusal to carry out the second redeployment called for in Oslo II. The outcome of this agreement is the same as previous ones: Israel signs along with the Palestinians, then adds new conditions, and claims the Palestinians are not honoring their part of the deal. The result, as usual, the party with more power --Israel-- does what it wants ignoring the accord. This is evident as Israel embarks on a new settlement frenzy encouraged by Sharon who called on the settlers to grap as many West Bank hills as they can.

"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)

• Fun and games at Camp Gimmick  By David Makovsky (Ha'aretz 10/23/1998). Humiliating the U.S.: another episode.
  
  
• The psychology of Wye  By Zvi Bar'el (Ha'aretz 07/25/1999)
  
  
• The Wye Bother Summit  By Phyllis Bennis (Baltimore Sun 10/25/1998)
  
  
• Sharon Encourages Settlers to Grab What They Can of Palestinian Land after the Wye Agreement,  Editorial (Ha'aretz 11/17/1998)
  
  
• The Price of Suspending Wye  By Ze'ev Schiff (Ha'aretz 01/08/1999)
  
  
• Burying Wye  Editorial (Ha'aretz 02/04/1999)
  
  
• PM Insists PA Frees Terrorists  By David Makovsky (Ha'aretz 02/24/1999). Even the pro-Israel Martin Indyk and the U.S. disagrees with Israel on this.
  
  
• PA Help Thwart Terrorist Attack in Tel Aviv  By Amos Harel and Nicole Krau (Ha'aretz 03/24/1999)
  
  
• Gaza Airport: Instead of a Gateway to Heaven, it is Just Another Israeli Check-Point  By Maureen Meehan (Washington Report 03/1999)
  
  
• Securing the Occupation: The Real Meaning of the Wye River Memorandum  By prof. Norman Finkelstein (11/28/1998)
  
  
• Netanyahu: "There is no Such Thing as Freeze on settlements construction  By Nadav Shragai and Sharon Gal (Ha'aretz 11/24/1998).
  
  
• U.S. Says Netanyahu Broke Secret Promise to Stop settlements  By David Makovsky (Ha'aretz 04/29/1999)
  
  
• Palestinian Prisoners  By Dana Budeiri (Associated Press 12/09/1998)
  
  
• Jerusalem Stabbing, Palestinian Prisoners after Wye  By Patrick Cockburn (The Independent 12/03/1998)
  
  
• Man Who Shot Bound Palestinian to be Freed Early  By Nina Pinto (Ha'aretz 03/07/2000)
  
  
• Don't Release Killers: B'Tselem's response to President Weizman's decision to reduce the sentence of five Jews who murdered Palestinians  (B'Tselem 02/04/1999)
  
  
• Israel Pardoning Jewish Killers  By Laurie Copans/Batsheva Tsur (Associated Press/Jerusalem Post 02/04/1999).
  

"This justice minister should be reminded that murder is murder and bloodshed is bloodshed, and one absolutely cannot give preference to one murderer over another or one terrorist over another just because the murderer 'is one of ours,' as it were."
-- Meretz MK (Knesset Member) Yossi Sarid quote-of-the-day on Jerusalem Post Internet Edition of 02/04/1999.

• Further release of Palestinian prisoners expected tomorrow, but not those "with blood on their hands"  By David Makovsky and Amira Haas (Ha'aretz 03/29/1999)
  
  
• The Burden of the Lie  By Amira Haas (Ha'aretz 12/09/1998)
  
   

  "Palestinian unilateralism tends to the rhetorical, Israeli to be the real. " -- Washigton Post Editorial 03/24/1999 (commenting on Israel's complain about the possible Palestinian "unilateral" action, of declaring a state)

  
  

• Recapitulating the Redeployments: The Israel-PLO 'Interim Agreements'  By Geoffrey Aronson (Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine 04/27/2000)
  
  
• Patrick Seale: Rabin's message of a possible withdrawal from the Golan that Christopher carried to Al-Assad was a "deception" (U.S. Report on the Middle East 10/28/1998)
  
  
• U.S. The Weak?  By David Makovsky (Ha'aretz 06/03/1998)
  
  
• Yasser Arafat on a Hook  (Washington Post Editorial 03/24/1999)
  
  
• Israel Confiscates Palestinian Land. By Mark Lavie (Associated Press 11/20/1998) A sad Palestinian daily experience.
  
  
• Kissinger: Israel Need NOT Return More Land.  (MidEast Dispatch 11/24/1998)
  
  
• Hebron: Heart of Madness  Editorial (Challenge 11-12/1998)
  
  
• The Real "Peace Now"  (Middle East Realities 10/5/1998)
  
  
• Netanyahu Benefits from Chronic Media Bias  By Norman Solomon (02/14/1997)
  
  
• Al Shara assails PM's 'credibility'  By David Makovsky, Yossi Verter & Daniel Sobelman (Ha'aretz 08/18/1998).
  Ariel Sharon: the Golan Heights are of "enormous importance" for Israel's security because of the water sources there. (emphasis added).
  
  
• Ignoring Justice to Protect the Budget  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 12/21/1997). Regarding compensation to Intifada victims. What would happen if Germany did the same regarding compensating Holocaust victims?
  
  
• Fifty Years of Dispossession  By Jan de Jong (Le Monde Diplomatique 08/1997)
  
  

Expert Opinion on the "Peace Process"

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.

Edward Said

• Essay by Edward Said (Guardian 08/16/1997)
• Arafat's Gamble: The Lost Liberation  (Guardian)
• An Orphaned People  (The Nation 05/04/1998)
• Rally and Resist for Palestinian Independence
• How Do you Spell Apartheid? O-S-L-O  (Ha'aretz/Al-Ahram 10/11/1998)
• Is It War?  (1998)
• Sold Down the River  (Guardian 11/07/1998)
• The End of the Interim Arrangements  (Al-Ahram Oct 29-Nov 4, 1998)
• Paying the Price for Personal Politics  (Al-Ahram 09/30-10/06/1999)
• A protest too long delayed  By Edward Said (Al-Ahram Weekly, 12/9-15/1999)
• Double standards  (Guardian 10/12/2000)
  
  
  

Noam Chomsky

• A Painful Peace  (Z Magazine 01/1996)
• Israel Lebanon, and the Peace Process  (04/23/1996)
• Middle East Diplomacy  (Z Magazine 11/1991)
• The Israel-Arafat Agreement  (Z Magazine 10/1993)
• The Middle East Settlement: Its Sources and Contours from chapter six of the book Power and Prospects (1996)
• "Peace Process" Prospects  By Noam Chomsky (07/2000)
  
  
  

Israel Shahak

• The Jews in the so-called "US" peace mission
  Prof. Shahak writes on the Zionist Jews in the US peace mission during the Clinton Régime
• Can Religious Settlers Scuttle an Israeli-Palestinian Peace? (Washington Report 07/1993) From the Hebrew Press.
• Oslo Agreement Makes PLO Israel's Enforcer  (Washington Report 11/1993)
• Ideology & Israeli Policy  (Shahak Report #154 05/12/1995)
• "Peace Process" and the CIA: Harry Clark interviews Israel Shahak. (Against the Current 01-02/1999)
• The Future of Israel & Palestine Harry Clark interviews Israel Shahak. (Against the Current 03-04/1999)
• Why the Palestinians are eliminating their traitors
  By Prof. Israel Shahak
  
  
  

Naseer Aruri

• Oslo: Cover for Territorial Conquest, interview with Naseer Aruri (International Socialist Review Issue 15, December 2000-January 2001)
• U.S. Brokerage: From Madrid to Hebron
• The Incidental Fruit of Oslo  (Al-Ahram Weekly 08/13-19/1998)
  
  
  

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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.

Robert Fisk (the British Independent)

• Where 'caught in the crossfire' can leave no room for doubt  (10/02/2000)
• Clinton Adopts Assad Language on Peace  (10/28/1994). Summarizing Syria's stand on peace with Israel.
• Peace Deal is Dead  (05/05/98)
• Myth of the 'Pax Americana' (The Nation 10/14/1996)
• Clinton, and the Hopeless Middle East Peace  (The Independent 10/14/1996)
• Security Comes from Peace not the Other Way Around  (10/24/1998)
• And They Called It Peace  (12/16/1998)
• For the 'Lion of Damascus', peace can only follow land  (03/27/2000)
• Wheels Come Off a Golden Carriage that Was Always Just a Pumpkin (07/26/2000)
• Globe-trotting Arafat takes statehood off the map  (08/19/2000)
• Lies, hatred and the language of force  (10/13/2000). On the Arab view of the al-Aqsa Uprising.
  
  
  

Charlie Reese (Orlando Sentinel)

• Netanyahu's Peace  (07/14/1996)
• Clinton, Netanyahu Must Think That Arafat is a Miracle Worker  (09/21/1997) U.S. and Israel are asking Arafat to stop terrorists, something neither they, nor any other world leader has been able to do in their countries.
• Netanyahu's Mossad Mess in Amman  (10/16/1997) After the bungled Mossad assassination attempt against Khaled Mash'al in Jordan.
• Clinton & the Peace Process: A Failure  (08/12/1997)
• Extinguish Fires of Mideast hate Before More Children Perish  (11/08/1998). Israelis are selling guns to anyone who wanted them in Gaza ... to make a civil war more likely.
• When it comes to crafting a peace plan, Clinton plays the dummy  (04/04/2000)
  

Misc. articles on the "peace process"

• The Jews in the so-called "US" peace mission
  Prof. Shahak writes on the Zionist Jews in the US peace mission during the Clinton Régime
  
  
• The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam  By Henry Siegman (London Review of Books, 16 August 2007)
  
  
• From Madrid to Wye Plantation The mirage of Palestinian Statehood  (Le Monde Diplomatique 04/1999)
  
  
• The 94 Percent Solution: A Matrix of Control  By Jeff Halper (Middle East Report Fall/2000)
  
  
• Separation means economic punishment  By Danny Rubinstein (Ha'aretz 10/23/2000)
  
  
• The suffocating border that breathes  By Meron Benvenisti (Ha'aretz 10/26/2000). Separation = Apartheid.
  
  
• Israel's Last Chance  By Amira Hass (Ha'aretz 09/20/2000)
  
  
• Born-Again Apartheid  By Eqbal Ahmad (Dawn 1998)
  
  
• Report: West Bank, Gaza Among Poorest Areas in the World  By Amira Hass (Ha'aretz 05/28/2000)
  
  
• Clashes in the West Bank and Gaza: The Underlying Causes  By Hisham Sharabi (Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine 05/18/2000)
  
  
• What if we've All Been Wrong About the Peace Process?  By Danny Rabinowitz (Ha'aretz 03/19/2000)
  
  
• The Demise of the Oslo Process  By Joel Beinin (Middle East Report 03/26/1999)
  
  
• Peace At Palestinian Expense  By Steve Niva and Simona Sharoni (Z Magazine 03/1995)
  
  
• Netanyahu Wants CIA Out of the PLO Talks  (Reuters/Ha'aretz 01/30/1998) perhaps because the CIA found out that the Palestinian Authority was "moving in the right direction against terrorism," and hence stripping Netanyahu from his only excuse at killing the Peace Process.
  
  
• Begin's Great Offensive  By Joseph Harsch (Christian Science Monitor 01/11/1983)
  
  
• Myths and Facts About Israel and Palestine  By Richard Curtiss (Washington Report 01/1998)
  
  
• Oslo II: Recipe for Apartheid, not "Divorce"  By Nancy Murray (Middle East Justice Network 11/1995)
  
  
• Reflections on the Peace Process and a Durable Settlement: A Roundup of Views
  By several scholars: Abdel Moneim Said Aly, Rashid Khalidi, Ian Lustick, Camille Mansour, Moshe Ma'oz, Sir Anthony Parsons, William Quandt, Eric Rouleau, Ghassan Salame, Khalil Shikaki (Institute of Palestinian Studies Autumn 1996)
  
  
  

"We are making a constant effort to preserve the maximum, including territories I would fight for even if they had no security value." -- Benjamin Netanyahu in an address to a forum of right-wing retired officers and security men in Tel Aviv quoted by Shani Litman in Ha'aretz 03/27/1998

 

• Pope criticizes Israel for threatening peace  By Ruth E. Gruber (Jewish Telegraphic Agency 03/14/1997)
  
  
• The Jewish Maginot Line the real purpose of the building at Har Homa in East Jerusalem  By Eric Margolis (03/20/1997)
  
  
• Forcefeeding Peace to the Middle East  By Eric Margolis (10/25/1998)
  
  
• Camp David II: World's Most Expensive Kabuki Show  By Eric Margolis (07/23/2000) CAMP DAVID II
  
  
• Peace is a Two-Way Street  By Eric Margolis (07/25/1999) on Barak.
  
  
• No Less Than Equal Partners  By Sam Husseini (Washington Post 07/27/2000) CAMP DAVID II
  
  
• Palestinians' Rights Ignored  By Edmund R. Hanauer (USA Today 07/26/2000) CAMP DAVID II
  
  
• Camp David Exposes `Final Status' Fallacy  By David Hirst (Daily Star 07/28/2000) CAMP DAVID II
  
  
• Arafat's Got the Real Problem  By David Hirst (Daily Star 07/12/2000). CAMP DAVID II
  
  
• Middle East peace in the balance  Comment by Martin Woollacott (Guardian 1996)
  
  
• Netanyahu/Likud Never Miss an Opportunity to Mock the U.S.  By Patrick Cockburn (The Independent 10/07/1998) First it was Begin, then Shamir and now Netanyahu, who declares a new settlement while the U.S. is asking for a "time-out." Begin did that to Reagan and Shamir did it to Bush. It also shows the real desire Likud has for peace.
  
  
• Illusory Peace  By Eve Anderson (Living Marxism 10/1993)
  
  
• Israel's new Berlin Wall  By Eve Anderson (Living Marxism 04/1995)
  
  
• Netanyahu's Iron Wall  By Christopher Hitchens (The Nation 04/17/1998). To Western media the reason Netanyahu will not withdraw from lands in the West Bank is to avoid "jeopardizing the security of Israel." However, to his right wing audience the story is a little different.
  
  
• List of Israeli Violations of the Oslo Peace Process Agreement (Gush Shalom 01/28/1998)
  
  
• "Palestinian Nationalism and the Struggle for National Self-Determination"  By Gordon Welty (1995)
  
  
• The Real Lesson of the Oslo Accord: "Localize" the Arab-Israeli Conflict  By Leon Hadar. Foreign Policy Brief No.31 (CATO Institute 05/09/1994).
  
  
• Why Syria Must Regain the Golan to Make Peace  By Alon Ben-Meir (Middle East Policy Council 10/1997)
  
  
• U.S. Policy Toward Syria: Contending with the Post-Assad Era  By Stephen Zunes (Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine 07/13//2000)
  
  
• 4 May 1999 and Palestinian Statehood: to Declare or Not to Declare?  By Azmi Bishara (Institute for Palestine Studies winter/1999)
  
  
• Neither Peace Nor Security in the West Bank and Gaza Strip  By Tim Wise and Nuhad Jamal Grassroots International Delegation and Program Trip Report
  
  
• Israeli Security: Reality and Myth  By David Newman (Palestine-Israel Journal)
  
  
• The Struggle for Palestine  By Lance Selfa (International Socialist Review, Spring 1998)
  
  

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).

• Palestinian Refugees Must Be Allowed to Choose  By Elia Zureik (LA Times 08/10/2000) Israel's rejection of the right of return goes against international law.
  
  
• Palestinians Have a Right to Go Home  By Janice Haydn (Providence Journal 7/18/2000)
  
  
• An End to Exile  By Salman Abu Sitta (Al Ahram Weekly 03/9-15/2000)
  
  
• Painful Glimpse of Home for Palestinians  By Deborah Sontag (New York Times 05/30/2000)
  
  
• The refugees of peace  By Amira Hass (Ha'aretz 07/21/1999)
  
  

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

• Palestinian Refugees and the Peace Process  By Elia Zureik (Institute for Palestine Studies 1996)
  
  
• A Report on the Refugee Problem  By Ilan Pappe (Boston Refugee Conference 2000)
  
  
• Return or Permanent Exile?  By Joseph Massad. Palestinian Refugees and the Ends of Oslo.
  
  
• The Right of Return For All Palestinian Refugees UN on the Palestinian refugees and the admittance of Israel to the UN. (The Islamic Association for Palestine 12/20/1999)
  
  
• Palestinian Refugees and the Right to Return - a useful link list
  
  
• Facts and Figures on Palestinian Refugees  (from badil.org)
  
  
• The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem, review of a book written by Nur Masalha, reviewed by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad (spinwatch.org.uk, 16 January 2007)
  
  
• The Palestinian Refugee Problem: Israeli Plans to Resettle The Palestinian Refugees 1948-1972  By Nur Masalha
  
  
• The Potential of UNRWA Data for Research on Palestinian Refugees - A study of UNRWA Administrative Data by Lena C. Endresen and Geir Ovensen (FAFO, Institute for Applied Social Science, Norway 1994)
  
  
• The Refugees: Facts and Figures  By Alain Gresh (Le Monde Diplomatique 02/1999)
  
  
• MK Katz: Israel Partially Responsible for Palestinian Refugee Problem  By Ben Lynfield and David Zev Harris (Jerusalem Post 11/22/1999)
  
  
• Uri Avnery - no to right of return to within Israel  (Israel Wire 08/08/1999).

See also our section on Israel's "Birth Myths", the 1948 Palestinian Nakba

"Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen."  -- Golda Meir, 1961, in a speech to the Knesset, reported in Ner, October 1961

 

 

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

In occupied Palestine the consequence of the long Zionist campaign of killing off all the good leaders in the Fatah-camp, is that you only have the traitors left; people who only have the Jews' agenda, and not that of their Palestinian brethren, before them. These Quislings have been ordered to turn on the real freedom fighters, the Hamas and likes, who continue to resist the forces of occupation - just like the Apartheid regime in South Africa used Blacks from Inkatha against the freedom fighters of the ANC.
A process which we call the "Inkathization" of the Fatah-movemen and whereby Fatah has been transformed into a tool for the occupation.

• Mahmoud Abbas is a Traitor
  Israeli paper reveals Israeli Arms transfer to help Abbas take on Hamas,
  British paper on Abbas treason and an article by Mike Whitney on the same subject
  
  
• Mahmoud Abbas meets AIPAC, ADL
  Abbas Tells U.S. Jews: "I Would Never Deny Jewish Right to the Land of Israel"
  
  
• Mahmoud Abbas: Zionist Puppet, Palestinian Traitor
  America trains Abbas loyalists in a secret camp in Jericho
  
  
• Vanity Fair: Abbas, Dahlan conspired with Israel, US, to topple Hamas
  Important article on the truth behind Hamas' Gaza overtake
  
  
• Images of a traitor
  Collection of images revealing which people Abbas considers as his real friends
  
  
• The problem is Israel, not Hamas
  By Khaled Amayreh in Al-Ahram Weekly 2-8 February 2006
  
  
• Arafat: From Defender to Dictator
  Revealing biography of Arafat
  
  
• Anatomy of a traitor: Who is Mohammad Dahlan?
  By Arjan El Fassed, The Electronic Intifada
  
  
• Dahlan's assassination promise to Israel: Overcoming the conspiracy against Palestine
  By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada
  
  
• PA-Israeli document liquidating Right of Return unveiled
  By the Palestinian Information Center
  
  
• CIA working with Palestinian security agents
  Article from The Guardian
  
  
• Oslo Agreement Makes PLO Israel's Enforcer
  By Israel Shahak (Washington Report 11/1993)
  
  
• Why the Palestinians are eliminating their traitors
  By Prof. Israel Shahak
  
  

Abbas with Shimon Peres

Fatah-henchman Dahlan between Israel's Olmert and Mofaz

• A Secret Account in Tel Aviv Funds Arafat's Oppression 
  By Michael Schwartz (Challenge 05-06/1997)
  
  
• Neither Peace Nor Security in the West Bank and Gaza Strip 
  By Tim Wise (Grassroots International 07/1997). Corruption within the Palestinian Authority has contributed to this dampening of investment. The commission set up by the elected Palestinian Legislative Council to investigate alleged misuses of $326 million of public funds concluded that corruption was endemic in the PA and its ministries. The report resulted in 16 out of 18 of the PA's ministers resigning. David Hirst, a veteran Middle East reporter for the Guardian Weekly, reported in April on what he called "Arafat's takeover of the Gazan economy." According to Hirst, a company belonging to PA President Yasir Arafat's wife controls the importation of many basic commodities-cement, gasoline, flour. Hirst reports that "out of the $74 for which a ton of cement is sold in Gaza, $17 goes to the Authority, and $17 into [Arafat's] own account in a Tel Aviv bank."
  
  
• Not Much of a Choice 
  By Abdel-Jawad Saleh (Al-Ahram Weekly 06/22/2000). On Arafat corruption/becoming a dictator with the help of Israel and US, and the ramification for Palestinians.
  
  
• Shameless in Gaza 
  By David Hirst (The Guardian Weekly 04/27/1997)
  
  
• Israel Has Transferred 500 Million Shekels to Secret Arafat Bank Account in Tel Aviv since 1994 
  By Ronen Bergman and David Ratner (Ha'aretz/Middle East Realities 02/02/1997)
  
  
• Arafat Spent EU's $20M on luxury Homes for PA Officials 
  By Douglas Davis and Hillel Kuttler (Jerusalem Post 11/30/1998)
  
  
• Arafat showered Clintons with gifts
  The Jerusalem Post, 04/05/2001
  
  
• Arafat Now a "Pathetic, Collaborating Ruler"
  By Tanya Reinhart (Yediot Aharonot/Middle East Realities, 04/07/1997)
  
  
• Arafat as a Partner or a Collaborator 
  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 11/17/1998)
  
  

"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)

• Pleasing the PLO at the People's Expense  By Danny Rubinstein (Ha'aretz 08/09/1999) On the return of only the "elite" ex-terrorist Palestinians, but not the three Million other refugees.
  
  
• Something's Rotten in the Nonstate of Palestine Corruption Under Arafat: the Legislators Speak  By Roni Ben-Efrat with Assaf Adiv & Stephen Langfur (Israel Resource Review 09/08/1997)
  
  

Corruption of Arafat is further addressed in Edward Said's essays listed above

• Israel deposited 1.5billion Shekels in Arafat's personal account  By Ronen Bergman (Ha'aretz 10/08/1999)
  
  
• PA Furious Over Intellectuals' Manifesto  By Amira Haas (Ha'aretz 11/29/1999). Prematurely released declaration accuses authority of corruption, oppression. Also includes a related The Indendent's 11/30/1999 and AP's 12/01 articles.
  
  
• Report: Arafat would allow West Bank Jewish settlements  By Naomi Segal (Jewish Telegraphic Agency 01/26/2000)
  
  
• Profile: Yasser Arafat; The Broken Revolutionary  By Robert Fisk (07/08/2000)
  
  
• Amnesty International slams PA's draconian press policy  By Amira Hass (Ha'aretz 09/05/2000)
  
  
  

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.

• Barak admires Sharon and Shamir  (02-11-2000)
  
  
• Barak Compares Palestinians to Crocodiles  (30-08-2000)
  
  
• Between Hope and the Abyss  By Abdel-Jawwad Saleh (Al-Ahram Weekly 08/5-11/1999)
  
  
• Wye must be implemented  (Ha'aretz Editorial 08/04/1999)
  
  
• Does Mr Barak's Victory Really Change Anything?  (The Independent 05/19/1999)
  
  
• It's not Wye, it's Oslo  By Aluf Benn (Ha'aretz 08/04/1999)
  
  
• First settlers return to abandoned outpost  By Nadav Shragai (Ha'aretz 10/25/2000)
  
  
• 'Barak Will Not Remove W.Bank/Gaza Hilltop Settlements'  By Nadav Shragai (Ha'aretz/IsraelWire 07/08/1999).
  
  
• PM-Elect Promises to Move Ahead with Maale Adumim Annexation  (Israel Wire 06/15/1999).
  
  
• Barak Promises NRP that Har Homa Will Continue  By Nadav Shragai, Yossi Verter and Amira Segev (Ha'aretz 06/15/1999)
  
  
• Choosing Barak In Spite Everything  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 5/16/1999)
  
  
• Barak Assassinated Abu Jihad and Crushed the Intifada  (Middle East Realities/Reuter 06/09/1997)
  
  
• Barak to CIA: Butt Out  By Matt Rees (Newsweek 08/23/1999). Like Netanyahu, his predecessor, Barak asked CIA out, after it showed that Palestinians are complying with clamping down on terrorism -- their end of the deal. Conclusion: Israel's does not want to relinquish land to the Palestinians, so it eliminated a major aliby --the CIA-- that they are upholding their end of the deal and hence, that the ball is now in Israel's court.
  
  
• Pursuing Their Agenda  By Gideon Levy (Ha'aretz 09/26/1999)
  
  
• Regrets, Ltd.  By Meron Benvenisti (Ha'aretz 10/07/1999)
  
  
• Safe (For Whom?) Passage  By Uri Avnery (Ma'ariv 10/04/1999)
  
  
• The March of Folly  By Uri Avnery (Ma'ariv 10/25/1999)
  
  
• Given Pre-Conditions for Peace, What's to Negotiate in Mideast?  By Charley Reese (Orlando Sentinel 11/07/1999)
  
  
• Barak gets green light in Ras al-Amud  By Danny Rubinstein (Ha'aretz 11/09/1999)
  
  
• Apartheid by Any Other Name: Creeping annexation of the West Bank  By Eitan Felner (Le Monde Diplomatique 11/1999)
  
  
• But what about the Palestinian track?  By Amira Hass (Ha'aretz 12/15/1999)
  
  
• Document Shows Netanyahu Was Ready to Return Golan  (Associated Press 12/16/1999)
  
  
• Either Golan or Peace  By Daniel Bloch (Jerusalem Post 09/26/1999). Contains also an article from Arabic News (09/23) reporting about Le Monde's calling the Golan Heights "Syrian Territory" and saying that Israel to oppose restoration of it to Syria.
  
  
• An Israeli settlement plan in the Golan  (ArabicNews 12/8/2000)
  
  
• Settlement building up 96% in 2000  By Nadav Shragai (Ha'aretz 09/12/2000). Also, Settlement building up 81% in first quarter by Baruch Kra (Ha'aretz 08/22/2000)
  
  
• Barak's Ministry Outpaces Netanyahu's on Settlement Growth  By Deborah Sontag (NY Times 09/28/1999/AFP 09/26/1999)
  
  
• New Golan settlement under Barak, who is "sincerely" looking for ways to reach peace with Syria!!!  (BBC 09/23/1999)
  
  
• New Hotel Planned for Katzrin in the Golan  By Sharon Gal (Ha'aretz 11/10/1999). Again Barak's sincerety about peace with Syria is evident.
  
  
• The refugees of peace  By Amira Hass (Ha'aretz 07/21/1999)
  
  
• Peace Now: Settlements flourishing  By Nadav Shragai (Ha'aretz 07/19/1999)
  
  
• High Court Rejects Peace Now Petition  (Israel Wire 12/03/1999)
  
  
• And for Barak's Next Act, Juggling the Settlements  By Nadav Shragai (Ha'aretz 06/29/1999)
  
  
• US Seeks to Postpone UN Session on Settlements  By Hillel Kuttler (Jerusalem Post 07/07/1999). "because the event sends a bad signal to Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Martin Indyk [a former official of Israel's U.S. Lobby] said yesterday." So in other words, to avoid sending a "bad signal" to Israel's new PM, Israel is thus left free to continue building illegal settlements on confiscated Palestinian lands.
  
  
• Barak urged attack on Syria in 1982  By Amir Oren (Ha'aretz 01/08/1999)
  
  
• The Best Peace You'll Get  By Uri Avnery (Independent 09/05/1999)
  
  
• Barak Opens New Dig near Aqsa Mosque  (Reuters 10/05/1999)
  
  
• Some 400 Bedouins Evicted by Israel  (Associated Press 11/16/1999)
  
  
• A Three-minute Drive from Here  By Meron Benvenisti (Ha'aretz 10/28/1999). House Demolitions Continue Under Barak Government
  
  
• A Struggle for the Open Spaces  By Danny Rubinstein (Ha'aretz 01/10/2000)
  
  

To read more on the invented difference between Israel's Leftist "doves" and the Rightist "hawks", please see our section on Zionism.

 

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 Resolution on Palestine
  
  
• Status of Palestine at the U.N.
  
  
• Important Events in Palestine/Israel of the Last 100 Years, 1895 - till present
  
  
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• 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.
  
  
• List of Relevant Documents and Other Resources, from the Mount Holyoke College
  
  
• UN Chronology: From 1940s to 2000s from http://www.un.int/palestine/
  
  
  

 

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