[GushShalom] Worse than a crime

Mon Mar 22 15:50:35 IST 2004

GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - www.gush-shalom.org/

Worse than a crime 

March 22, 2004
Tel-Aviv

[] Uri Avnery on the assassination of Sheikh Yassin 
[] Translation of Gush Shalom press release - sent out early morning
[] Our call to join today's Peace Now protest

[] Uri Avnery on the assassination of Sheikh Yassin 

Hebrew at request &  soon at the site
òáøéú òì ôé á÷ùä àå á÷øåá áàúø

    Avnery: "It is Worse than a Crime, it is Stupid!"

     "This is worse than a crime, it is an act of stupidity!" commented Gush 
Shalom activist Uri Avnery on the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

     "This is the beginning of a new chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian 
conflict. It moves the conflict from the level of a solvable national conflict 
to the level of religious conflict, which by its very nature is insoluble.

     "The fate of the State of Israel is now in the hands of group of persons 
whose outlook is primitive and whose perceptions are retarded. They are 
incapable of understanding the mental, emotional and political dimensions 
of the conflict. This is a group of bankrupt political and military leaders 
who have failed in all their actions. They try to cover up their failures by a 
catastrophic escalation. 

     "This act will not only endanger the personal security of every Israeli, 
both in the country and around the world, but also the existential security 
of the State of Israel. It has grievously hurt the chances of putting and end 
to the Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Arab and Israeli-Muslim conflicts."

     Avnery mentioned that in the early 1980s the occupation authorities 
encouraged the founders of Hamas, hoping that they would create a 
counter-weight to Yasser Arafat and the PLO. Even after the start of the 
first intifada, the army and the security services gave preferential treatment 
of Hamas. Sheikh Yassin was arrested only a year after the outbreak.

     "There seems to be no limit to the stupidity of our political and military 
leaders. They endanger the future of the State of Israel." 
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[] Translation of Gush Shalom press release - sent out early morning

Hebrew sent separately
ðåñç áòáøéú ðùìç ðôøã

The assassination of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, with its concomitant careless 
killing of passers-by, is a mad provocative act by a governnment which 
lost all restraint. It is the act of a pyromaniac fireman whose method of 
putting out the fire of terrorism is to pour barrels of gasoline upon it, an 
act which might cost the life of dozens or hundreds of Israeli citizens in the 
near future. 
Prime Minster Sharon's talk of "withdrawal from Gaza", which had caught 
the headlines in the past months, is now revealed to be no more than 
meaningless chatter. Far from seriously meaning to evacuate even a bit of 
occupied territory,  this bankrupt prime minister - faced with police 
investigations into a myriad of corruption concerning himself and his sons 
- seems determined to bequeath to his country a legacy of eternal war with 
the Palestinians and the entire Arab and Muslim World. Every day that 
this man remains in power poses a grave danger to the future of Israelis 
and Palestinians alike. 
Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, calls upon all sane and responsible 
forces left in the international community to intervene, urgently and 
forcefully, to save our region at the edge of the abyss and halt the 
monstrous cycle of bloodshed which now threatens to engulf us. 

For further information call Adam Keller, Gush Shalom Spokesperson, at 
+972-3-5565804 or +972-56-709603
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[] Our call to join today's Peace Now protest

Bankrupt Sharon sets everything on fire - let's join today Peace Now 
protest 

------- Forwarded message follows -------
From:           	"LEE" <lee at peacenow.org.il>
Date sent:      	Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:45:15 +0200
Subject:        	Peace Now Demonstration Today

[translation by Gush Infoteam]
Hebrew sent separately
ðåñç áòáøéú ðùìç ðôøã

Yasin Assassination - Gift to Hamas 
Demonstration !!! Today !!!
22.03.04 Defence Ministry, HaKirya Tel-Aviv 19.00

Reality proves:  the policy of assassinations in the territories is bankrupt 
and brings the citizens of Israel no security

The assassination of Sheikh Yassin has turned all of us into targets of the 
next suicide bombing. It gives not the slightest hope for an end to 
terrorism. 

The only way to destroy Hamas is through a political agreement and 
evacuation of the territories.

                    In Order To Get Out Of The Mire
            We Must Get Out Of The House - Onto The Street!

Contact: Yariv Oppenheimer 054-200060
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NB: links and contact information re ongoing 
struggle
    Against the Wall / Refusniks / Vanunu 

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ðåëçåú éåîéåîéú áëôøéí îàéîéí ò"é äçåîä ìúàí òí 
àééáé 064-604172 isichel at netvision.net.il
àøé÷ 050-607034  info at rhr.israel.net

Day to day presence at villages threatened by route of wall.
Contact:  Ivy Sichel 064-604172 isichel at netvision.net.il who set's up a list 
for people who can come at short notice, or: Arik Asherman 050-607034  
info at rhr.israel.net 

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For the latest news about the five:   

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	AGAF BET
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	P.O.B 13
	Ramla
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	Hermon Prison
	P.O.B 4011 
	KFAR M’RAR
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http://www.vanunu.freeserve.co.uk/ 

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<http://www.peaceispossible.info/thankyouvanunu.php>

Online petition for the unconditional release of Vanunu 
http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/freemordechaivanunu/

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