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http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=20020927041555487
Conspiracy of Silence
Friday, September 27 2002 @ 04:15 AM GMT
"The world is shamefully quiescent about the latest atrocity, a
dismal chapter in a hair-raising modern-day holocaust where
the only thing that is missing is the gas chambers .."
By Osama El-Sherif
What does Ariel Sharon really want from the Palestinians? What
is the end game for the aging former commando officer now
holding in his hand the future of both Israelis and Palestinians?
In the past weeks the prime minister of Israel has managed to
knock down the few remaining signposts of the Oslo peace
agreements, and today as his tanks encircle the ramshackle
headquarters of his archenemy, Yasser Arafat, in Ramallah he
seems ready to cut free the hair-thin line that connects the two
peoples who are destined to share the same piece of land. So
again: what is Sharon's end game?
It doesn't take a genius to see what Sharon and his generals are
up to. The world is shamefully quiescent about this latest
atrocity, a dismal chapter in a hair-raising modern-day holocaust
where the only thing that is missing is the gas chambers.
Whatever the Palestinians are accused of, there is nothing that
justifies their wholesale humiliation and subjugation. Sharon's
war is not a means to an end, but an end in itself. He can offer
nothing to his people or his victims because in all honesty he
has nothing to peddle.
But Sharon is true to his beliefs. What is shocking is how the
world has succumbed in resignation to what is happening in the
Holy Land. Sharon could give the order to blow up to
smithereens the last standing building, with Arafat and his aides
still huddled inside, and that would be the end of it. Other than
the usual statements of denunciation and regret life for the rest
of us would go on. The Palestinian people are destined to carry
their burden alone and face the wrath and fury of their tormentor.
In fact the plight of the Palestinian people, who have been
struggling for liberation and independence ever since the mighty
British army marched into Jerusalem more than 85 years ago
ending centuries of Ottoman rule, is unique in modern political
history.
It's a checkered history of ephemeral victories and nagging
disappointments. No nation on earth today has suffered as
much as the people of Palestine. The irony is that international
legality, the result of unprecedented diplomatic largesse, is on
their side, as dozens of UN resolutions attest. In the eyes of the
world, they are an occupied nation who has an alienable right to
self-determination and independence and accordingly their
resistance of occupation is a legitimate one.
The siege of Yasser Arafat's headquarters epitomizes decades
of Palestinian struggle that has never looked so futile and
hopeless. Between the first Palestinian revolt of 1936 and the
latest Intifada, which erupted in September 2000, many deals
and agreements, treaties and resolutions have been trampled
on and deposited into the dustbin of history. It is true that in
hindsight, and to a minority of observers, the Palestinians, and
Arabs, appear to have sacrificed one "generous" offer after the
other, but that is not only a harsh judgment to make but a
simplistic one as well.
Those who pontificate about Palestinians not honoring their
agreements and turning to terror to achieve political goals only
demonstrate their ignorance, or their use of other people's
ignorance, of Palestinian history. The bare truth is that the
Palestinians have been let down time and time again by the
powers of the day.
Ariel Sharon knows that history very well. He believes the world
could very well afford to abandon the Palestinians to their fate,
and he sees a rare opportunity to carry out a fantastic scheme to
rob the Palestinians of all of their land and of all of their rights.
Global and regional realities have given him that chance. The
tanks surrounding the dilapidated building in Ramallah
underline these realities. The failure of the UN to investigate
what happened in Jenin refugee camp earlier this year has
enticed Sharon to pursue such scheme with impunity.
This is really not a war between Sharon and Arafat, nor is it
about Israel's right to defend itself against Hamas and Islamic
Jihad. This is a colonial war to finish off Palestinian aspirations
for statehood, to usurp the last plot of their land and to drive
them into exile for good. It would be foolish to read this war in
any other way. Sharon will not offer anything to the Palestinians,
not after Arafat, not after he turns his guns against Hamas and
others.
There is a conspiracy of silence that makes this whole saga
even more sinister. That conspiracy transcends borders and
ideologies to include everyone from the liberals of Europe and
America, to the progressive and secular left inside Israel, to the
Palestinians' own brethren in Arabia and beyond. And this poses
a real moral dilemma to all. If we wash our hands of Palestinian
blood how can we then pretend to go on with our lives as
individuals, as nations and as a world community?
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