-Caveat Lector- this may be very heavy for survivors
**************************** The Refugeed Camp, Jenin April 23, 2002: Impressions Bare Statistics: In the square kilometer that was the refugee camp, 30% of the buildings are rubble; 40% unlivable (source: mayor of Jenin). The 30% that is still 'livable' is not undamaged. The odor of dead bodies has dissipated. What remains are survivors with broken lives. On the path winding between rows of rubble lies a tiny mud-caked slipper; I pick it up, examine it, as if it could tell me where the wee foot of the one-year old or two-year old that wore it was? Is the toddler alive? Are its parents alive? Later, Tamar finds a small white pooh bear--its seams torn. The label stating "made in Israel." Lewd! The country that produced a toy to be loved and hugged, coldly destroyed a child's dreams. From a back wall that still stands, a second-story floor is slantingly cantilevered; on it, a wheel chair sits grotesquely, unmoving, as if tied to the floor by some hidden wires. Did its user escape? How? carried on someone's back? How did the deaf who did not hear the order to get out, how did the blind who cannot see, how did the invalids and other helpless fare when the megaphone told them to move their butts or be leveled into rubble with their homes? Twisted metal everywhere, concrete slabs, rubble and more rubble. Shreds of a curtain blowing in the breeze from a glassless window-frame on a wall that 0nce was part of a house. On the ground a torn school bag. The back of a refrigerator humped above the rubble, it's front buried in the concrete debris. The scorched remains of a video set. Pieces of clothing here and there peeping from the rubble. A brightly colored scarf , a part of a blanket. Pieces of yellow foam rubber--once the stuffing of mattresses or furniture seats--lie scattered all about. Not big chunks. Not big enough to sit on or to lie on. The largest less than * a meter long. The foam rubber is especially profuse in the part of the camp that helicopters, we were told, bombed steadily 7 days and 7 nights. In the refugee camp there are no electric poles left--not even pieces of them. One refugee now refugeed for a second time related in dry tones, "It took 50 years for me to build a life and home for my family; all destroyed in an instant." An old man sitting despondently on the pile of rubble that was once his home. An elderly woman carrying on her head a plastic bag with several meters of electric cord coiled in it. What for? Is she sane? Or has she perhaps lost her mind? Inhabitants of rubble--wander aimlessly among it silent, dry-eyed. Where do they sleep at night, those who have no family or friends in the town? Where do they cook, eat, shower, go to the toilet--do the simple every day things one takes for granted? Oh Sharon-Mofaz, and the rest of the government--in destroying lives how many "terrorists" have you created? The anger of the people whose lives you destroyed will not give you rest! They will revenge their misery--the misery you continuously force upon them, and, consequently, upon us, because all you know is force! One young mother wrapped up the whole of her misery and anger in a few horrific words quietly spoken, as if she were listing the ingredients of a recipe for a cake: "I want to have many many children," she said, "so they can blow themselves up and kill many Israelis!" Yet there are also other voices. The mayor of Jenin received our small delegation gracefully. In explaining the anger of his people he said, "The 13,000 inhabitants of the camp hopefully waited to receive support from the peace-loving world. But this terrible crime of Sharon and Mofaz extinguished the tiny flicker of light at the end of the tunnel." "Nevertheless," he continued, "it has not extinguished our desire to live in peace and security in a state of our own next to the state of Israel." Dorothy Prof. Victoria Buch The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Fritz Haber Research Center for Molecular Dynamics and the Department of Physical Chemistry Jerusalem 91904, Israel Tel. 972-2-6584223, Fax: 972-2-6513742 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fh.huji.ac.il/ International Solidarity Movement. Report from Outside Jenin Kristen Schurr April 12, 2002 from Taiba, Palestine: We're going to try to get back into Jenin today. We tried all day yesterday and it was a total nightmare. "There are 748 here people combined from two towns who have been dumped off. They are dropped off at 200 meters from the checkpoint in their underwear. They are not allowed to go back to Jenin but they've been arrested, beaten & tortured and held captive for several days. There's hundreds of them here. Refugees from a refugee camp. The community is taking care of them in these two towns. I asked how are you getting food and they said they are getting a few donations from people in neighboring towns and they're just sharing what they have. Their main source of supplies is in Jenin and they can't get there either and of course there's no telephone service or anything. They still have electricity. There are soldiers' flares going in the night. The Israeli soldiers are walking around in the fields. We're going to try to get back into Jenin today. There is one checkpoint that we've been trying to go through, through a roadblock. And the soldiers have been sitting there since yesterday morning. Early yesterday morning a couple of reporters got through but they got through by making an arrangement with the Israeli soldiers to be escorted in, take pictures and video of what the soldiers showed them to take video of and then they were escorted back out. So actually no real reporters have gotten in as far as we can tell. The other pictures that have been coming out of Jenin are from the Israeli soldiers themselves, who are videotaping whatever they choose and even their reports are horrific and so you know it's just nothing compared to what's going on. So the towns that i am near are Taiba and Remani, near a place called Sallem checkpoint. when people are arrested at Jenin Refugee Camp, they are beaten and tortured and taken to the checkpoint where they are held for usually about three days without food. One guy told me he asked for water and was given a cup of urine to drink. "Usually then they are dumped off 200 meters from the checkpoint and the people in these two villages, Ramani and Taiba, come by in a truck and pick them up and bring them into these two towns and take care of them. They've got a school set up as basically a refugee center for the refugees that are re-refugees. You can realize how just horrifying that is that people in a refugee camp are refugees again. And two villages they feed and cloth them. they have a doctor come in, open the medical office, just a classroom, and they have probably a hundred boxes of different kinds of medecine and then they have piles of jeans and shirts and shoes because the men are dumped off in their underwear, right outside of Sallem checkpoint. And Ramani there's at least 548 men living there. Here in Taiba there's 200 as of last night. and each one has a really horrific story to tell...about being dragged from their homes, having their home bulldozed. they don't know what's happened to their families. they're forbidden to return to Jenin and there's absolutely no communication. The mosque in Ramani instead of calling out for prayer it lists the names of the disappeared. and on this school that's the makeshift refugee center there's a list of names all the detainees, the new arrivals also to try to keep track of who is there. every day there's new loads of refugees that get dumped off outside Sallem checkpoint by the Israelis and get rescued by the Palestinians in the town. "One man he was dumped off unable to walk, he was beaten so severely. he talked of ten soldiers beating him with sticks while he's in the detention center at the checkpoint, after having been dragged from his home--he did the human shield--having his home bulldozed, being stripped naked to his underwear in the rain and the cold, blindfolded, hands bound, thrown in the back of a jeep and put under the bench of the jeep, and being kicked by the soldiers, and then taken to the woods (because there's a nearby forest), burned with cigarettes and beaten some more while he heard [american-made] Apache helicopters bombing the camp and the soldiers cheering. [pauses... ] "And then so he arrived in the detention center at the checkpoint with broken ribs and cigarette burns. and by the time he left the detention center he couldn't walk from being beaten with sticks by ten Israeli soldiers. "There's a 75 year old man who had to take off all his clothes in front of his grown daughters and they had to do the same. they had to stand outside in the square of the camp. and he was dragged off to the detention center he has no idea what happened to his daughters. I can't figure out what's happened to any of the women. the Red Crescent ambulance driver who for three days was feeding 200 women and children until they ran out of food. so then they left that sort of makeshift medical center where the Red Crescent ambulance driver had been feeding them and he got arrested. they all walked off trying to find food somewhere else and they were stopped. some of the women were separated from their kids; they had to give up their kids. And they were forced to take off their clothes too. And i just don't i don't know what's happening to any of the women. like, the men are ending up here. well, besides the ones that were killed. lots and lots of them don't make it here, who get grabbed and pulled out of Jenin. complete massacre there. the Israelis don't want us to get in--I mean they don't want anyone to get in. Some people tried to get into this little town, it's Taiba. got turned away two time by Israeli soldiers--they were just trying to get into this town and soldiers said, "well, we're afraid that you're actually a group of journalists." Because they don't want anybody to document what's going on in there. and once you get here to Taiba you're a little closer to Jenin, because you're back in Palestine. There's one area that's near here that there's a possibility of getting in but we tried it all day yesterday and it just... There's this one little town where the soldiers set up a roadblock and so that's where we were going to try to get in. So from there I think Jenin is 15 minutes. You can see it. But getting from Bethlehem to East Jerusalem, which should take maybe ten minutes or something, took at least 45 minutes because of all the checkpoints, because you have to take these crazy roundabout ways. The Israelis make it impossible for Palestinians to move from town to town. Nobody knows what has become of the women in Jenin. And I don't understand why the international community isn't all over this, except for that... Maybe because nobody can get in? Maybe people are afraid? I don't know. But some people are thinking that the intention is to completely raze all of Jenin Refugee Camp. And so once they've done that then they'll let people back in. All evidence will be destroyed. Physical evidence of torture will be gone from the bodies. Somewhat at least. Some people here are thinking they are just going to get rid of it altogether. And so there'll be no way to even sneak in until after Sunday. Will you tell everybody what's going on? It's a massacre. TO SCHEDULE AN INTERVIEW WITH INTERNATIONALS OUTSIDE JENIN PLEASE CALL 212-541-4226 ext. 241 OR 011 972 2 056 622 017 For balance : http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27382 WorldNetDaily Where are Arab peace marchers The fact that there is no equivalent peace movement in the entire Arab world should provide further evidence of two things: There is no freedom of speech nor freedom of assembly in the Arab world and no tolerance for any form of dissent from government policy. There is no desire in the Arab world for living in peace and harmony with the Jewish state. Many in the West continue to portray Israel as some sort of aggressor in the Middle East. Nothing could be further from the truth. Israel has been a model of restraint in the face of unspeakable provocation and violence precisely because of internal checks and balances within its free society. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,51252,00.html Documents: Saudis Paid Bombers' Families Friday, April 26, 2002 WEST BANK — The Saudi Arabian government paid more than $5,000 each to families of suicide bombers and other Palestinians killed in the terror campaign against Israel, according to documents obtained by Fox News. The documents, discovered by Israeli intelligence officers, contain a list of 102 deceased Palestinians whose families have each been paid 20,000 Saudi riyals — the equivalent of $5,340 — by the Saudi Interior Ministry. The names on the list were of suicide bombers and Palestinian commanders who had been killed in attacks against Israeli targets. It included the names of some of the highest-profile bombers who have been killed in recent attacks, among them children and women. The documents, if genuine, contradict the Saudi government's consistent claim that it does not directly pay suicide bombers' families. The Saudis have repeatedly insisted the money they send the Palestinians goes to rebuilding areas damaged or destroyed by Israeli forces operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israeli troops found the Saudi Interior Ministry documents when they raided Palestinian offices as part of their ongoing operations in the West Bank. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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