intend to drive out the Palestinians. ... ... ment with the Palestinian leadership, is obviously impossible if the territory allotted for this mini-state is dotted with fortified Zionist settlements connected by roads under the control of the Israeli military.
In fact, the underlying cause of the present Palestinian uprising is that under the socalled Palestinian Authority the Palestinian people of the West Bank in particular found themselves suffering a still more onerous Israeli occupation because of the settlements and the deployment of the Israeli army to defend them.
Moreover, the settlements in the Arab lands conquered by Israel in 1967 were established and are peopled by Zionist holy warriors who make no bones about their intention to drive out the Palestinians.
A recent example is the illegal Zionist settlement at Havat Gilad. The Israeli government sent in soldiers to dislodge the illegal settlers but it was the Palestinians living in the area who paid the main price. The setters continue to defy the Israeli army with essential impunity. The Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC) condemns the Israeli occupation of the Medical Relief Center in Jenin that occurred today, Tuesday 19th November 2002, at 5.00 am. We have received information that much of our equipment was intentionally destroyed. Our doctors and nurses were threatened at gun-point and prevented from accessing the center, which is currently used as an operational base for the Israeli occupying
This latest incident is just one in a series of recent events hindering the provision of medical services. Today, a UPMRC ambulance was stopped at the Walaje check-point on its way from Bethlehem to Hebron. The ambulance driver was beaten by Israeli soldiers.
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what next mental rationality, that would establish what could or could not be demanded
What we can and must defend is that a new social contract must be founded on participatory democracy and the existence of democratic spaces for negotiating