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## Nachricht <6eZW-3cig2B@forum.nadeshda.gun.de> vom 25.09.97 15:14 weitergeleitet
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## Ersteller: i.musa@NADESHDA.gun.de (Izzeddin Musa)


              *** *Israel's destructive policies* ***

  As usual, in the middle of the night,  Israeli settlers broke into
  and occupied  a Palestinian  home, like thieves,  in the all arab-
  neighborhood of Ras Al-Amoud in East Jerusalem. Why, one might ask?
  The story  began  when an  American-Israeli-Jewish fundamentalist-
  millionaire,  Ervin Moskovitz,  applied for  a permit to construct
  housing  for 132 Jews,  adjacent to the  occupied house in Ras Al-
  Amoud. Concerned Israelis filed a petition against this application,
  but the Israeli planning committee of the  Jerusalem  Municipality
  turned it down.

  The planning committee's decision means that Muskovitz,  financier
  of the  Jewish settlemet  movement in Arab East Jerusalem and thus
  the prime instigator of the  tragic events  that will  result from
  such activities, can go ahead and start  constructing  the  highly
  controversial settlement in the heart of an Arab neighborhood.

  What is preposterous about  this decision is  that the  all-Jewish
  Jerusalem Municipality run by Ehud Olmert, member of the right-wing
  ruling Likud coalation, has issued permission for the construction
  of 132 homes for Jews in an area whose  own Palestinian  residents
  are constantly denied permits to renovate their small and old homes
  or to  build even one  single home  or extension.  The only way to
  build is to go ahead without seeking a permit.  Those who dare are
  subject to heavy fines and the demoloation of what they have built,
  which usually results in damage to the structure of the entire home.

  While the issue of construction in East Jerusalem is a story in it-
  self,  the focus here is  the consequences  of these events on the
  peace process, particulary the "small steps" achieved by the visit
  of The US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to the region.

  Secretary Albright spoke openly and candidly in Jerusalem and Ramal-
  lah on "unilateral" Israeli action which "Palestinians perceive as
  provocative."  She asked that  Israel "refrain"  from taking these
  actions  as a step  toward rebuilding confidence and trust between
  the Palestinians and Israel, shattered ever since the Likud came to
  power in Israel in may 1996. The settlers' takeover of the home in
  Ras  Al-Amoud and  the municipal  permit for the construction of a
  mini-settlement  are prime  example of these  "unilateral" Israeli
  actions which clearly provoke Palestinians and the  entire  inter-
  national community.  It is such  actions which the  government of
  Benjamin Netanyahu should be stopping or preventing, if Albright's
  visitr is to be perceived as effective.

  Both of these actions were taken when secretary Albright was al-
  ready on th palne, returning home after a week-long visit to the
  region trying to break the ice in the stalled peace process. Isra-
  eli sources say that Netanyahu new about the takeover of the house
  even bevore the settlers moved in and did  nothing  about it,  in
  spite of his statements of disapproval towards the move. The mes-
  sage of these actions is that Israel is not interested in building
  confidence or concerned with what the US or anyone else has to say
  regarding its destructive policies.


  THE JERUSALEM TIMEM, weekly, September 19, 1997

  Wachtberg, 25.09.1997               I. Musa / Forum for Palestine

  "A further evidence of the lies of Burkhard Hirsch"
                                             I. Musa
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