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June 27, 2002
Rahual Mahajan
Arafat
Says US Needs New Leadership; Calls for Fair Elections
June 26, 2002
Robert Fisk
Sharon as
Bush Speechwriter
Mokhiber / Weissman
Brokerman
June 25, 2002
Dave Marsh
The RIAA,
Library of Congress and the Web Pirates
Uri Avnery
Reform
Now!
Bahour / Dahan
Bush:
Off with Arafat's Head
Walt Brasch
Bush:
the Compassionate Exerciser
June 24, 2002
Bernard Weiner
Talkin'
About the F-Word
David Bates
Portland
Gets Dicked:
Cheney Does Oregon
Jo Freeman
Will
the War on Terror Follow the Path of the Cold War?
Tom Gorman
The Only
Thing "Generous" is the Propaganda
Bezhad Yaghmaian
Caught
Between Borders
in a Borderless World
Ben Sonnenberg
Ted
Hughes' Spell
June 22/23, 2002
Douglas Valentine
Sex,
Drugs & the CIA
June 21, 2002
Norman Madarasz
Brazil
Over England:
The Gaucho's Wild Ride
John Borowski
Stossel
and Disney's Crimes Against Nature
Chris Floyd
Southern
Cross: The US Takes Aim at Brazil
David Martin
Of Lies
and Oil: an interview with Rahul Mahajan
James T. Phillips
Serbian
Reservations:
Kosovo 2002
June 20, 2002
Chris Kromm
The South
at War: a Tour of the US Military/Industrial Complex
Jacob Levich
The War
on Terror is
Not a Suicide Pact
Mark Weisbrot
What
are They Doing to Argentina?
Jeffrey St. Clair
and Alexander Cockburn
Fire
Walk With Me:
Terry Lynn Barton and the Flames of Colorado
June 19, 2002
Gary Leupp
Red Targets in Terror War
Lenni Brenner
The Road
Forward for the
Palestinian Movement
Bernard Weiner
Inside
Cheney's Diary:
Cakewalking Through Minefields
Alexander Cockburn
The
Incredible Shrinking President
June 18, 2002
David Vest
Raise the
White Flag in Terror War?
Ben White
Is It Possible
to "Understand" the Rise in "Anti-Semitism"?
Edward Said
Palestinian
Elections Now
June 17, 2002
Jack McCarthy
Watergate
and All That
Philip Farruggio
A Maximum
Wage Law
Ron Sullivan
Law
and Orders:
The Assault on Trial by Jury
Rev. Charles Booker-Hirsch
Taking
on the School
of the Americas
Joan Smith
G.W. Bush:
The Man is Stupid
Dave Marsh
Corporate
Buy Outs and the Decline of Teen Jive
Robert Jensen
Rhetoric
Distorts Realities
June 15 / 16, 2002
Tanweer Akram
A Review
of Noam Chomsky's 9-11
Daniel Wolff
The Day
They Shot a Wolf in the Ghetto and What It Meant
Ralph Nader
A Corporate
Crime State
David Vest
Have You
Been Serviced?
Karl Kraus
A Minor
Detail
Alexander Cockburn
The
Terrorism of Everyday Life
June 14, 2002
Mark Weisbrot
US Trade
Policy:
"Do as We Say, Not as We Did"
Starhawk
The Boy Who Kissed the Soldier
David Krieger
Farewell
to the ABM Treaty
Tom Turnipseed
The Fear Factor to Promote
War and Trample Truth
Steve Perry
How the
Bush Adminstration Buried Coleen Rowley
June 13, 2002
Linda Belanger
Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict:
The Story Behind the Headlines
Amira Hass
Indefinite
Siege
Mokhiber / Weissman
Time to Put Lives Over Patents
Robert Fisk
Bush's Weird
War
Stanton / Madsen
Democracy
in Crisis:
What is to be Done?
Roldan Tomasz Suárez
Venezuela:
Five Facts
About the Coup
June 12, 2002
Fran Shor
Dirty Bombs, Blowback
and Imperial Projections
Dave Marsh
Shelley
Stewart, Radio and the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement
Chris Floyd
Murder, Inc.
June 11, 2002
Omar Barghouti
On Dance, Identity and War
Robert Fisk
The Bush
Afghan Gang:
Murderers, Gangsters, Stooges
Minerva Wright
The Donkeys of the Holy Land
David Krieger
Stopping
a Nuclear War
in South Asia
June 10, 2002
Jeffrey St. Clair
Executioner's Last Songs
June 8/9, 2002
Gavin Keeney
Mademoiselle
M.
Or Getting Screwed in Paris
Susan Davis
Sleepless
in the Suburbs
Curing Insomnia: a new use for The Nation?
George Sunderland
"Send
in the Weekly
Standard": The Screaming Pundits Assault Corps
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A Pocket Guide to
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June 27,
2002
Jerusalem Under Attack
by Neve Gordon
The last suicide bomber blew himself up no more
than 300 yards from my Jerusalem apartment. The windows shuddered
as the deafening sound filled the air. Then came a moment of
silence followed by the loud echo of sirens.
A friend who had seen the attack was
still traumatized a week later. The vivid images of dead bodies
scattered on the road could not be erased. There were seven of
them, she said, not counting the wounded.
Another suicide bomber detonated himself
on a bus in a different part of town a day earlier. He killed
20 people and wounded many more. Immediately after the assault,
I called friends who live close to where the bus exploded to
make sure they were okay. These chilling phone calls have become
routine in Israel. A busy line on the other end is considered
good news.
Not surprisingly, the Jerusalem landscape
has also changed. Police and military checkpoints have been erected
not only on many of the roads leading into the metropolis, but
also in the city itself. Every supermarket, bank, cafe, hotel
and restaurant is now obliged to employ security guards who search
customers as they enter.
Despite these and other measures, many
Jerusalemites continue to feel insecure. The once bustling downtown
is often empty, since residents prefer to stay home rather than
risk a night out on the town. They know that no military operation
can stop the suicide bombers.
While the media spends much time covering
the attacks in West Jerusalem, most commentators have often blurred
the difference between the personal and national dimension of
the threat. The very real personal threat every Israeli feels
when he or she enters a mall, takes a bus, or walks into a crowded
pub, should not be mistaken for a national threat. The random
killings of civilians in no way jeopardize Israel's existence.
Moreover, the media has consistently
failed to expose what is happening on the city's occupied east
side, where Palestinians live. Like West Jerusalem, the East
is also under attack. Not by suicide bombers, of course, but
rather by Israeli authorities.
The Jerusalem municipality -- headed
by Likud mayor Ehud Olmert -- together with the military and
police have been exploiting the ongoing conflict in order to
accelerate Israel's geographic and demographic conquest of East
Jerusalem. The strategy is clear -- to strangle and intimidate
the Palestinian population.
Several methods are being employed to
accomplish this goal, including house demolitions, expulsions,
land confiscation, curfews, and the revocation of residency and
social benefits.
Since the beginning of the year, the
municipality has destroyed 25 Palestinian houses and filed demolition
orders for hundreds more. About six weeks ago, several Palestinian
families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood were expelled from
their homes, where they had been living since the 1950s.
Not much later, 115 dunams were confiscated
from Palestinian residents of Jabal al-Mukaber in order to build
four hundred "luxury apartments" for Jews. On the other
side of town, in Issawiya, an additional 25 dunam have recently
been expropriated. In this case, the land was taken from the
resident in order to build a military base. All of these techniques
have one aim: to systematically reduce the number of Palestinians
in the city.
During this same period, the authorities
have occasionally imposed curfews as a means of intimidating
the Palestinian population. Imagine living in a city where a
few hundred yards from your house thousands of people are shut
in their homes for days on end simply because they are members
of a different ethnic group; children cannot go to school, and
adults cannot get to work. As if this collective punishment were
not enough, soldiers often walk the streets during curfew throwing
stun grenades and shooting at water tankers simply to frighten
the population.
The attack on the East is, to be sure,
different from the one on the West, particularly in terms of
the methods employed. Yet, it too is ruthless. The political
objective is to ensure Israel's demographic dominance and to
create an irreversible situation, whereby Jerusalem cannot be
divided and no part of the city returned to the Palestinians.
This attack, unlike the one in the West,
constitutes both a personal threat and a national one. And while
it is currently less gory than the one perpetrated by suicide
bombers, it is sowing dragon's teeth for the future.
Neve Gordon
teaches politics at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and can be
reached at ngordon@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
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