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Fwd: Fw: The Crimes that Nobody notices (except for the
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danny Fox)
Fri May 31 17:19:11 2002
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Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:18:55 -0400
To: peace-announce@mit.edu, nancy Kanwisher <ngk@mit.edu>,
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From: Danny Fox <fox@MIT.EDU>
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>From: "Anat Matar" <matar@post.tau.ac.il>
>To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@post.tau.ac.il;>
>Subject: Fw: The Crimes that Nobody notices (except for the victims)
>Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 23:57:31 +0300
>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211
>
>These are the words of the Israeli writer and poet Yitzhak laor. Please
>distribute. News keep pouring in about new horrors in Balata camp. A
>strong European reaction is our only hope.
>Anat
>
>
>
>As I am writing this short letter (the "World" is expecting the Mondial),
>IDF forces are storming again Balata refugee camp, again by destroying
>walls of houses, of living people, "to keep Zero Casualties", to arrest,
>to kill, and in short to "fight terrorism".
>
>But, all towns and cities in the West Bank are under a strict closure,
>more than ever before. Hundreds of villages in the West Bank have been
>long under closure and curfew. The Gaza-ization of the West Bank is taking
>place on a daily basis. To bring them back to a "stone age". (Imagine one
>child with ear infection, imagine his parents not being able to help him,
>no doctors, no medicines, villages are surrounded by ditches, barb wires,
>soldiers, tanks; imagine thousands of families with no source of income
>any more, imagine the nights in the villages and the towns when people are
>scared to death by the armoured vehicles driving outside bumping into
>parking cars, walls, people. This is daily routine now.)
>
>The media in the West don't bother to inform you about it. Health and
>nutrition is a matter of statistics, in the best case. Images do not
>bother anybody. Palestinians pop back to the mind only when they kill or
>sometimes when being killed, but the Palestinian people in the occupied
>territories is being under an ongoing Israeli (and USA) effort to destroy
>it as a nation. This is not an exaggeration. The towns and the villages
>along a very long line of "optimal" border (i.e., what Israel is fencing
>now as an optimal border), are under attacks, apart from the military
>incursions that you might hear about.
>
>Please translate this message and distribute it.
>
>The Israeli "Peace Camp" is paralized, once again. Having been poisoned
>for years by the one and only discourse, realpolitik, "will it work?",
>that is, the occupation, using for years only one argument, that a
>Palestinian State is a matter of historical necessity, the Israeli "Peace
>Camp" is silent now, since Sharon-Peres's policy "works". A Yiddish song
>we learnt from our parents spoke of die Stetl Brennt, the town is burning,
>only it should be sung in Arabic. What shall we tell our children about
>the present, that it began with our destruction? What shall we tell them
>about the past, that "they shouldn't have treated us as they treated
>Gypsies" (or Africans, or Palestinians?)
>
>Yitzhak Laor
>
>
_______________________________
Danny Fox
E39-216, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA, 02139
(Tel) 617-258-7411 (Fax) 617-253-5017
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<blockquote type=cite cite>From: "Anat Matar"
<matar@post.tau.ac.il><br>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@post.tau.ac.il;><br>
Subject: Fw: The Crimes that Nobody notices (except for the
victims)<br>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 23:57:31 +0300<br>
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211<br>
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<font face="tahoma">These are the words of the Israeli writer and poet
Yitzhak laor. Please distribute. News keep pouring in about new horrors
in Balata camp. A strong European reaction is our only hope.</font><br>
<font face="tahoma">Anat</font><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=5>As I am writing this short letter (the
"World" is expecting the Mondial), IDF forces are storming
again Balata refugee camp, again by destroying walls of houses, of living
people, "to keep Zero Casualties", to arrest, to kill, and in
short to "fight terrorism". </font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=5>But, all towns and cities in the West Bank are
under a strict closure, more than ever before. Hundreds of villages
in the West Bank have been long under closure and curfew. The
<i>Gaza</i>-<i>ization</i> of the West Bank is taking place on a daily
basis. To bring them back to a "stone age". (Imagine one child
with ear infection, imagine his parents not being able to help him, no
doctors, no medicines, villages are surrounded by ditches, barb wires,
soldiers, tanks; imagine thousands of families with no source of
income any more, imagine the nights in the villages and the towns when
people are scared to death by the armoured vehicles driving outside
bumping into parking cars, walls, people. This is daily routine now.)
</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=5>The media in the West don't bother to inform
you about it. Health and nutrition is a matter of statistics, in the best
case. Images do not bother anybody. Palestinians pop back to the mind
only when they kill or sometimes when being killed, but the Palestinian
people in the occupied territories is being under an ongoing Israeli (and
USA) effort to destroy it as a nation. This is not an exaggeration. The
towns and the villages along a very long line of "optimal"
border (i.e., what Israel is fencing now as an optimal border), are under
attacks, apart from the military incursions that you might hear about.
</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=5>Please translate this message and distribute
it.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=5>The Israeli "Peace Camp" is
paralized, once again. Having been poisoned for years by the one and only
discourse, <i>realpolitik</i>, "will it work?", that is, the
occupation, using for years only one argument, that a Palestinian State
is a matter of historical necessity, the Israeli "Peace Camp"
is silent now, since Sharon-Peres's policy "works". A Yiddish
song we learnt from our parents spoke of <i>die Stetl Brennt</i>, the
town is burning, only it should be sung in Arabic. What shall we tell our
children about the present, that it began with <i>our </i>destruction?
What shall we tell them about the past, that "they shouldn't have
treated us as they treated Gypsies" (or Africans, or
Palestinians?)</font><br>
<br>
<font face="arial" size=5>Yitzhak Laor</font><br>
<br>
</blockquote><br>
<br>
<div>_______________________________ </div>
<div>Danny Fox</div>
<div>E39-216, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div>
<div>Cambridge MA, 02139</div>
(Tel) 617-258-7411 (Fax) 617-253-5017
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