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May
6, 2002
Devastation Only Feeds
Resistance to Israeli Rule
By Hussein Ibish
Not only has Israel been allowed to prevent a
United Nations investigation into serious allegations of war
crimes in Jenin by Israeli troops, it has placed Yasser Arafat
in a daunting position. He is now seen to have benefited, personally
and politically, from the exchange of his freedom for the truth.
In a deal that shocks the conscience,
the United States reportedly agreed to shield Israel from action
by the U.N. Security Council to enforce its resolution to send
a fact-finding team to discover the truth about what happened
in the devastated Jenin camp. This was in exchange for lifting
the siege on Arafat's compound in Ramallah.
Both Amnesty International and Human
Rights Watch have just issued reports accusing Israeli forces
of committing serious war crimes in Jenin. These partial and
preliminary findings may be the last serious attempts to discover
the facts.
Israel, it would seem, is once again
to be the exception, shielded by the United States from the enforcement
of international law and norms of conduct, allowed to defy any
number of U.N. Security Council resolutions with impunity. Since
Arafat has become implicated in this exchange as a direct beneficiary,
some of the public outrage will inevitably rest on his shoulders.
Preferring to change the subject, some official Palestinian rhetoric
already has shifted from the "massacre at Jenin" to
the "heroic resistance at Jenin."
The Palestinian Authority also agreed
to place six Palestinians, wanted by Israel for an assassination
and weapons purchases, in a Palestinian jail under U.S. and British
monitors. This only underscored the impression that Arafat paid
a humiliating and costly price for his temporary and limited
freedom. The Israeli demands for these prisoners were particularly
galling coming from a state that routinely had been assassinating
its Palestinian political rivals, killing more than 60 of them
in the past 18 months along with many of their wives and children,
as well as bystanders. All this offers very little benefit to
the Palestinian people, who remain under Israeli military lock-down.
Arafat at last emerged from his besieged
compound into a wasteland devastated by the Israeli army, but
he has not received the hero's welcome he may have expected--although
some cast his mere physical and political survival as a "victory."
The truth is that Israel's attacks have destroyed the ability
of the Palestinian Authority to function as a government and
law enforcement entity among Palestinians in the West Bank.
The attacks have systematically destroyed
all aspects of the nascent Palestinian state, including school,
land and property records and the files of human-rights groups
and other nongovernmental organizations, independent media and
medical facilities.
In the face of these outrages, the U.S.
Congress continues to pass resolutions, as it did last week,
of uncritical support for Israel that reflect no understanding
or concern about the plight of the Palestinians or the fact that
millions of them live under Israeli military occupation. One
has to wonder what for many in Congress, short of the physical
extermination of the entire Palestinian population, would be
seen as unacceptable Israeli conduct. House Republican Majority
Leader Dick Armey's repeated calls on MSNBC for the removal of
all Palestinians from the West Bank simply take the general attitude
on Capitol Hill to its grim but logical conclusion.
In the wake of the Israeli offensive,
Arafat's standing is greatly weakened, the Palestinian people
seethe with rage, Israel is further isolated, American credibility
is damaged and the authority of the U.N. is undermined. Viewing
the wreckage with evident pride, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon has declared that "peace is at hand."
The irony is, of course, that this devastation
will only increase, not break, the will of the Palestinians to
resist Israeli rule. There is every reason to expect that coming
months will see an intensification of the conflict, especially
since there are no political negotiations in place to substitute
for the violence of recent months.
The only question left is whether any
limits will be placed on how far Israel is allowed to go in enforcing
its occupation.
Israel has run over a refugee camp with
tanks and then stopped the international community's investigation
of its action. How long will it be before it expels the populations
of entire towns and regions, while the U.S. Congress passes resolutions
of uncritical support and President Bush describes Sharon as
a "man of peace"?
Hussein Ibish
is communications director for the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee.
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