[GushShalom] Sharon cleared of charges - bulldozers work overtime

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Fri Jun 18 23:13:15 IDT 2004


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International release, June 18 
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[] The latest news about the route of the Wall
[] The buddies - Gush comment on the whitewashing of Sharon

[] So is there someone to talk to - or is there not?
   # Yediot photo of June 4 commented by Rami Elhanan
   # Haaretz June 11 - beginning of security establishment revelations
     A week of increasing debate 
     Haaretz June 18 - Arafat interview 

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[] The latest news about the route of the Wall

We just heard through activist David Nir that he got a phonecall from 
Sawiya (not Azawiya about which we have been writing before). This 
morning bulldozers arrived, without any prior warning, and started 
destroying the villagers' olive groves, those most near to the settlement 
of Rehelim to its north. Soldiers told them that it is for "the fence." 
Sawiya is some ten kilometers east of the Ariel settlement, 
located in the very middle of the West Bank... The work is still going on though 
the Sabbat has started - a highly unusual behavior, giving the impression that 
Sharon is in a very big hurry to create even more facts. 

[] The buddies - Gush comment on the whitewashing of Sharon

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The buddies get back together
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[ad in this weekend's Ha'aretz Hebrew edition]

Attorney General Meni Mazuz has published the decision that everyone had been 
waiting for since he was appointed to his job by the Sharon government: he 
acquitted Sharon from all wrongdoing.

This decision clears the way for the Labor Party to join the government.

Shimon Peres' dream is coming true. He will again be able to travel around the 
world as Sharon's chief spokesman.

This way Sharon can go on undisturbed promoting his "Disengagement" deception, 
destroying the basis of existence of the Palestinian people, killing Palestinians, 
building the monstrous wall and wrecking all our chances to achieve peace.

But what are generations of war compared to one day of Shimon Peres in the 
government?

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[] So is there someone to talk to - or is there not?
   # Yediot photo of June 4 commented by Rami Elhanan
   # Haaretz June 11 - beginning of security establishment revelations
     a week of increasing debate: 
     Haaretz June 18 - Arafat interview


# Yediot photo of June 4 commented by Rami Elhanan
[Hebrew attached - òáøéú îö"á ]

English
<http://www.gush-shalom.org/english/NoOneToTalkTo2.jpg>

# Haaretz June 11 - beginning of security establishment revelations
  A week of increasing debate: 
  Haaretz June 18 - Arafat interview

[We didn't immediately pass on Akiva Eldar's article "Popular misconceptions" with 
the scoop of the by now internationally-publicized accusations from within the 
security establishment against the orchestrated anti-Arafat campaign started after 
Camp David, 2000. At last it is admitted that the demonization of Arafat wasn't 
based on any facts. 
Why we didn't pass it on? At first we felt bitter that only now this comes out, and 
we also didn't want to seem saying "I told you so". But since its publication a 
week ago, the article is not going away anymore. It opened an ongoing discussion in 
which more and more people of the security establishment as well as the long 
hermetic media begin to open their mouths. 
It is clear that the mistakes of the past - involving a very wide spectrum of 
Israeli society(!) - have been disastrous and cannot be simply reversed. But even 
though the thousands killed won't get back to life, it opens the perspective of 
"rehabilitation" of the Palestinian leader, and it will make it more difficult for 
Sharon to continue avoiding negotiatimg with the Palestinians.

Meanwhile, Akiva Eldar went to Ramallah, together with the new Ha'aretz editor in 
chief David Landau, and today they  publish an interview with the Palestinian 
president in which he is shown to be still the Palestinian leader willing - and 
probably the only one able - to do painful concessions in order to achieve  peace 
with his not so easy partner.]


Popular misconceptions   
 
Akiva Eldar, Haaretz June 11
<http://ga3.org/ct/31aytDK1cBGJ>

òáøéú / Hebrew
<http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/438063.html>
 
 
Is Yasser Arafat really aiming for the destruction of Israel, rather 
than a solution to the conflict? This perception has been turned into 
conventional wisdom in Israel - but many in the intelligence community 
just don't believe it.  
 
On Sunday, while Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, a supporter of the 
disengagement plan, was perspiring at the cabinet meeting, the head of 
the Defense Ministry's diplomatic- security unit looked calm and serene. 
Amos Gilad - who headed the research division of Military Intelligence 
(MI) between 1996 and 2001, and was coordinator of activities in the 
territories from 2001-03 - has gilt-edged shares in Prime Minister Ariel 
Sharon's decision to turn to unilateral measures. It was he who provided 
Sharon's predecessor, Ehud Barak, the professional backing for the "no 
Palestinian partner" theory. The basis of this theory: Barak made a 
generous offer to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, and when 
the latter refused to accept it, his real face was exposed: that of a 
terrorist who aims at the destruction of Israel. 
 
 
 
 
This theory - which has earned the well-known epithet konseptzia 
("conception" - harking back to mistaken assessments prior to the Yom 
Kippur War) in the intelligence community - is believed by most Israelis 
today and has also won many fans abroad. It was readily absorbed in 
ground soaked with the blood of intifada victims. Mofaz, first as chief 
of staff and then as defense minister, and Moshe Ya'alon, first as 
Mofaz's deputy on the General Staff and later as his successor, adopted 
the so-called konseptzia and spread it. Politicians from both right and 
left agree with it, as does the director of MI, Major General Aharon 
Ze'evi (Farkash).

Distinctions like those presented by Gilad on Sunday, at his office in 
the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, were welcomed by the Prime Minister's 
Bureau. "Arafat is aiming to have Oslo lead to the fulfillment of his 
strategy that Israel has no right to exist," said the man who headed the 
research division at Military Intelligence during the period when the 
Oslo agreement was gasping for breath and dying. "Arafat is a terrible 
danger. Nothing will shake him as long as he lives. If he isn't dealt 
with in the right way, he will also bequeath us a heritage that no one 
will dare to change."

Thanks to the position in which he served and his powers of persuasion, 
Gilad's konseptzia penetrated every home in Israel. But behind the doors 
of a few homes, among them those of senior people in the intelligence 
branches, different and even opposite assessments have been whispered 
throughout. Amos Malka, who was head of MI from mid-1998 to the end of 
2001, and was Gilad's direct superior, is one of them, and his version 
is the opposite of Gilad's. He is joined in this by Major General (res.) 
Ami Ayalon, who headed the Shin Bet security service up until a few 
months before the intifada; in the approach taken by Arab affairs 
specialist Mati Steinberg, who until a year ago was a special advisor on 
Palestinian affairs to the head of the Shin Bet; and by Colonel (res.) 
Ephraim Lavie, the research division official responsible for the 
Palestinian arena at that time and Gilad's immediate subordinate.

Violence - catalyst or weapon?

Malka details the assessment of the situation he presented during his 
days as "national assessor" to the General Staff and to the government. 
>From time to time he peers at his papers and stresses that every word he 
utters is anchored in situation assessments by the research division and 
discussions with its professional echelons.

Malka: "The assumption was that Arafat prefers a diplomatic process, 
that he will do all he can to see it through, and that only when he 
comes to a dead end in the process will he turn to a path of violence. 
But this violence is aimed at getting him out of a dead end, to set 
international pressure in motion and to get the extra mile. This was the 
assumption I found when I took up the position. Along the way, I was 
able to confirm it myself and bring it to the [attention of the] 
leaders. The classical example is the tunnel incidents - an initiated 
move of violence that was aimed, from Arafat's perspective, at 
instilling a sense of urgency. If you look into what happened after each 
of his violent moves, you will find that in nearly every instance, he to 
some extent achieved something.

"We received the best proof that Arafat supports a diplomatic move," 
says Malka, "in May 1999. Prior to this date [the original target date 
for a permanent status agreement - A.E.], the whole country was caught 
up in the huge crisis event that was about to occur - the unilateral 
declaration of a Palestinian state. We at MI assessed that nothing would 
happen in May 1999, and that Arafat would wait for the elections in 
Israel, for the formation of a new government and for the formulation of 
a policy."

Malka read from his notes from March 2000: "Should Arafat believe that 
the channel of diplomatic talks is unable to advance him toward that 
goal (a Palestinian state) in 2000, Arafat might well take unilateral 
measures. If he realizes that progress is not in the realm of the 
possible, the crisis could develop into following the path of armed 
struggle. Conclusion: Without movement in the diplomatic process, which 
would give Arafat a sense of real progress, there is a high likelihood 
of hostilities."

What "real progress" would have prevented hostilities? Gilad insists 
that Arafat has never let go of the vision of the right of return, in 
order to shorten the way to demographic victory over Israel. The current 
head of MI, Ze'evi, and former Mossad head Ephraim Halevy, share this 
assessment: Arafat has not come to terms with the existence of a Jewish 
state and has not given up the struggle to eliminate it.

Malka insists that their version has no backing in any research 
document. "We assumed that it is possible to reach an agreement with 
Arafat under the following conditions: a Palestinian state with 
Jerusalem as its capital and sovereignty on the Temple Mount; 97 percent 
of the West Bank plus exchanges of territory in the ratio of 1:1 with 
respect to the remaining territory; some kind of formula that includes 
the acknowledgement of Israel's responsibility for the refugee problem 
and a willingness to accept 20,000-30,000 refugees. All along the way 
... it was MI's assessment that he had to get some kind of statement 
that would not depict him as having relinquished this, but would be 
prepared for a very limited implementation."

Right of return crisis

The possibility of a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state in 
September 2000, and the danger of a decline into violent conflict were 
at the center of a discussion held in May 2000, in Barak's "Peace 
Administration." The discussion was held in the shadow of Barak's public 
threat that Israel's response would be severe, to the extent of 
occupying territories. Participating in the discussion were the head of 
the Administration, Dr. Oded Eran; the coordinator of activities in the 
territories, Major General Yaakov (Mendy) Orr; Colonel Shaul Arieli, 
Mati Steinberg and representatives of MI research. Orr and Steinberg 
expected that the crisis would degenerate into a violent reaction on the 
part of the Palestinian street. Steinberg added that an Israeli 
incursion into the territories could also sweep along the Arabs of 
Israel. It was in fact the MI people, Gilad's representatives, who 
expressed reservations about this chilling thesis and suggested that the 
reaction would be restricted to the level of propaganda, law and 
diplomacy. According to the testimony of three of the participants in 
the discussion, none of the MI people argued that Arafat was planning to 
blow up the diplomatic process and return to the military option.

Several weeks later, on June 15, prior to his departure for Camp David, 
Barak summoned a conference with a group of military people and 
advisors. "This was one of the most exciting and most important 
discussions in which I have ever had occasion to participate," recalls 
Gilad, adding: "I warned Barak that Arafat will not give up on the 
realization of his vision through the right of return." According to 
some of the participants in the discussion, all the speakers agreed that 
if Arafat did not get what he expected to achieve, he would turn to 
limited violence. No one remembers that Arafat was said to be aiming for 
the destruction of Israel through demography. There was also no mention 
of the possibility that the Palestinians would abandon the peace process 
in favor of a comprehensive armed struggle. No one, including Gilad 
himself, argued that Arafat's expectations included Israeli agreement to 
take in 300,000 to 400,000 refugees in the framework of the right of 
return.

Confirmation that MI research did not believe that Arafat expected a 
massive return of refugees can be found in a document of the information 
team of the research division, which was headed by Gilad. The document 
analyzes a position paper that was written in June, 1999, by Dr. Assad 
Abed al-Rahman, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization 
steering committee and the one in charge of the portfolio on refugees 
and the uprooted. "In his discussion of the possible solutions to the 
refugee problem, Abed al-Rahman presents a comprehensive and rigid 
position, which even the Palestinian leadership has already understood 
is no longer realistic," the document says. "Even those who hold an 
`extreme' position on the issue, among them Arafat, have adopted the 
position that if Israel recognizes the right of return in principle, its 
implementation can be partial and limited."

In a lecture at Princeton University in March, 2002, the contents of 
which have not been published until now, Steinberg argued that the Camp 
David summit failed because of the dispute over the Temple Mount - not 
over the issue of the right of return, which was barely discussed at 
that summit and was born retrospectively in Israel in order to create 
the internal consensus. 

His remarks are congruent with the claim of Yossi Ginnosar, who 
participated in the summit: In an interview with the mass-circulation 
daily Yedioth Ahronoth before his death, he said that the idea that the 
summit had failed because of the right of return was aimed at justifying 
the failure and was "a duplicitous campaign that contributed to sowing 
despair in Israeli society and caused damage to the process that was 
conducted afterward."

At a conference under the auspices of the Peres Center for Peace that 
was held in the spring of last year, Ephraim Lavie, who closely 
accompanied the negotiations for a permanent status agreement, analyzed 
the reasons for the summit's failure. He said that there is not and 
there never was any basis for assuming that Arafat or any other 
Palestinian leader would deviate from the resolution passed by the 
Palestinian National Council in Algiers in 1988: the establishment of a 
Palestinian state in the June, 1967 borders, with its capital in 
Jerusalem, and a solution to the refugee problem.

However, Lavie stressed that since Oslo, the Palestinian leadership has 
been aware that there is no chance that Israel will accept the element 
of the right of return and implement it. The leadership is thus making 
do with a recognition in principle of the right of return and of the 
historical injustice, and is willing to accept a limited implementation, 
to which Israel will agree.

Lavie, who was the intelligence officer in Barak's peace administration 
, argues that "at Camp David, there was some sort of a solution in sight 
to the refugee problem by means of compensation and a small number of 
refugees who would return to Israel, under one definition or another ... 
Israel saw Camp David as a crucial summit, and urged Arafat to concede 
explicitly the right of return - something that the PLO institutions 
have never approved. Arafat rejected this and dug in to his position 
that every refugee must be given the right to decide whether to return 
to the territories of 1949 or to accept a substitute and compensation, 
and that the conflict will end only with the implementation of the 
agreement. Israel interpreted this position as stemming from his 
unwillingness to make the historic decision to concede the right of 
return, and depicted this as evidence of his intention to demolish 
Israel's existence."

A few weeks before Camp David, Malka reviewed Arafat's positions for the 
cabinet. "I said there was no chance that he would compromise on 90 
percent of the territories or even on 93 percent. He is not a real-
estate trader, and he is not going to stop midway. Barak said to me: 
`You are telling me that if I offer him 90 percent, he isn't going to 
take it? I don't accept your assessment.' I said to him that indeed, 
there is no chance that he would accept it.

"Haim Ramon said: `Are you trying to tell me that if we offer him 77 
percent and make a 20-year commitment to him for another 10 percent, and 
another 20 percent, and in the end we stop at 90 percent - he won't 
agree to this?' I told them that the difference between me and them is 
that they are speaking from hope and I am trying to neutralize my hope 
and give a professional assessment. But Barak saw himself as able to 
make his assessments without assessments from MI, because he is his own 
intelligence, and he thought he was smarter. Afterward, it was 
convenient for him to explain his failure by a distorted description of 
the reality."

Why the terror began

In his new book, "Hazit lelo oref" ("A Front Without a Rearguard: Voyage 
to the Boundaries of the Peace Process"), Shlomo Ben Ami - who was 
foreign minister and headed the team that negotiated with the 
Palestinians in Barak's government - wrote that immediately after the 
summit, "intelligence sources" picked up sounds from Ramallah that 
encouraged "renewing the process for the complete fulfillment of the 
chances for an agreement." According to his testimony, Barak himself was 
partner then to the efforts to achieve a breakthrough. How does this 
concord with the version that at Camp David "Arafat's true face was 
revealed?" Why did the prime minister and the foreign minister continue 
to waste their time on negotiations?

Malka insists that even after the peace talks gave way to hostilities, 
MI did not revise its assessments. Neither did the research units at the 
Shin Bet, the Mossad, the Foreign Ministry and the office of the 
coordinator of activities in the territories adopt the thesis that the 
Camp David summit had revealed "the Oslo plot."

The official working assumption at MI then stuck to the approach that 
Arafat was continuing to see terror as a strategic weapon that could 
reduce the gap between the Palestinians and Israel. But present MI head 
Ze'evi, Defense Minister Mofaz and Chief of Staff Ya'alon adopted the 
approach that there is no connection between the state of the peace 
process and terror. According to Gilad, "Arafat is faithful to his 
[perception] that terror can break us and will not allow the security 
mechanism to deal with terror as long as his policy view (greater 
Palestine) does not prevail."

Ami Ayalon, however, believes that when there is progress in sight in 
the diplomatic field, the Palestinian Authority silences Hamas. 
Steinberg, who was his advisor, backs this up. "The Palestinian 
leadership's willingness to confront its internal opposition was 
dependent on a single factor: progress in the implementation of interim 
agreements or, at the very least, a political expectation of progress," 
he said at Princeton.

Steinberg explained that although the intifada was not preceded by 
Palestinian planning and preparation, neither at the highest level nor 
at the local level, "From the moment it erupted, Arafat and the majority 
of Palestinians had an interest in exacerbating the crisis, on the 
assumption that it would bear political fruit." Malka adds that with the 
outbreak of hostilities, Arafat thought he was "going for something far 
more limited, that would cause a shock ... After two or three days 
Arafat was not able to go against the street."

Both of them share the argument that the top Israeli security echelon 
contributed to fanning the flames. Malka relates that about a month 
after the intifada began, was he was on his way to the Gilo neighborhood 
in Jerusalem, he asked Yossi Kuperwasser, at the time the intelligence 
officer of the Central Command (and today head of the research 
division), how many 5.56 bullets the command had fired that month. 
"Kuperwasser got back to me with number 850,000 bullets. My figure was 
1.3 million bullets in the West Bank and Gaza. This is a strategic 
figure that says that our soldiers are shooting and shooting and 
shooting. I asked: `Is this what you intended in your preparations?' and 
he replied in the negative. I said: `Then the significance is that we 
are determining the height of the flames.' I brought the issue up at 
Central Command discussions, but Mofaz went with the militant bit from 
the very first day and all along the way."

Malka is convinced that today too, if Israel offers Arafat a state in 97 
percent of the territories, with Jerusalem as the capital, exchanges of 
territory and the return of 20,000-30,000 refugees - he will sign the 
agreement and an order to lay down arms.



Malka: Gilad rewrote the analyses

While the issue of intelligence analyses submitted on the eve of the war 
in Iraq was the subject of a comprehensive parliamentary investigation - 
which found they were not based on reliable information, but rather on 
assessments and assumptions - the gaps in analysis of the Palestinian 
arena have never been examined.

The former head of Military Intelligence (MI), Amos Malka, has a 
disturbing answer when asked where he was when his subordinate, Amos 
Gilad, spread his triumphant version of events: "I did everything I 
could. I went several times to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense 
Committee and submitted reports to the chief of staff. Nowhere did I say 
that I accepted the conspiracy theory that Oslo was a plot to eliminate 
Israel. To my regret, [current Defense Minister and then chief of staff 
Shaul] Mofaz and Bogey [Moshe Ya'alon, now Chief of Staff] as his deputy 
ignored what I said. What Gilad said suited them better, and therefore 
they adopted it."

Malka notes that Gilad was "a very significant factor who influenced 
many people. Thanks to his rhetoric - and in a situation in which no one 
in the cabinet reads intelligence material, apart from the defense 
minister and the foreign minister, a little - the ministers are carried 
away by professional lecturers, who put the word `I' into 50 percent of 
their text."

Malka challenges Gilad's professional integrity: "I say, with full 
responsibility, that during my entire period as head of Military 
Intelligence, there was not a single research department document that 
expressed the assessment that Gilad claims to have presented to the 
prime minister. As obligatory under the work regulations, no document 
can leave the research department without getting the approval of the 
head of the division. Therefore it is not possible that Gilad's written 
opinion was the opposite of those dealing with the Palestinian arena. If 
there was a difference between the assessments, there is no other 
definition of this but conspiracy. But because Gilad is endowed with a 
great awareness of history, it cannot also be assumed that the 
conception he transmitted orally was different from the one that the 
division formulated in writing. Therefore I argue that only after the 
Taba talks were broken off, on the eve of the 2001 elections, Gilad 
began retroactively rewriting MI's assessments."

Lavie refuses to relate to the disagreement between the two schools of 
thought and confines himself to a brief response: "My detailed position 
on the Palestinian issue is well known to the past and present heads of 
MI. I believe that it is impossible to ignore Malka's claims, and it is 
essential to examine the validity of the existing conception in their 
light."

Gilad - whose good relations with Malka cooled following the 
professional disagreement - is not impressed by the versions put forth 
by Malka and Lavie. "I would have no problem if 1,000 people thought 
differently than I. That still doesn't mean that they're right. It's a 
lie that I didn't voice different assessments. I made sure to bring the 
head of the department [dealing with the Palestinians] and the head of 
the branch to discussions with the head of MI. I insist that I have 
always said what I'm saying now and have been saying all along."

In the background, there is also a disagreement between Gilad and Arab 
affairs specialist Mati Steinberg, whose view concurs with that of Malka 
and Lavie. In the past, Gilad spread a crude letter against Steinberg 
following a disagreement over Palestinian textbooks, and even complained 
that Barak had ignored it and preferred to meet alone with Steinberg 
numerous times. Steinberg, for his part, asserts that he has never met 
with Barak one-on-one.

Gilad was also prepared to comment on the doubts that have surfaced 
recently with respect to the influence of the state of his health on the 
quality of his assessments, after he sued the Defense Ministry to obtain 
a high disability rating because of phenomena resulting from 
psychological pressure.

Gilad relates that during the Lebanon War, as a major in MI, he warned 
GOC Northern Command Amir Drori not to let the Phalangist forces enter 
the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps. After he heard about the slaughter 
over the operational radio, he hastened to report the incident to the MI 
control center. Several days later, he was reprimanded for having used 
the intelligence network for operational reporting that was not within 
his area of authority. According to Gilad, the heavy pressure he was 
under affected him badly and a short time thereafter he came down with 
diabetes. The doctors told him that psychological pressure can cause 
diabetes, and upon his demobilization from the Israel Defense Forces 
they advised him to see to medical coverage from the Defense Ministry - 
and he did so, as has been reported recently.

Even after his demobilization, Gilad continues to sit close to the 
junctures of security and diplomatic decision-making and to influence 
the leadership with the same decisiveness and conviction, although today 
too his views are not supported by the professional echelon of MI. 
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A week of increasing debate 

[To get an impression of what kind of things come up in the discussion started by 
the Eldar article (in what continues to be only a beginning  of opening up)  here 
follow excerpts of what Ben Caspit wrote for Maariv June 6 and June 13 (with thanks to 
the UK friends) and the article of  Danny Rubinstein in today's weekend supplement]
<http://www.jfjfp.org/maariv_caspit.htm>

<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/439571.html>

Haaretz June 18 - Arafat interview by David Landau & Akiva Eldar

A Jewish state? `Definitely'   
 
By David Landau and Akiva Eldar 
 
Arafat is ready to sign an agreement that would give Palestinians 97 per 
cent of the West Bank and Gaza - with the rest in a land swap, and the 
right of return of not all, but at least some refugees. In a free-
ranging interview with Haaretz, conducted in the carefully preserved 
ruins of the Muqata, the PA Chairman also spoke of the historical family 
bonds between the two peoples.  

Full text:
English
<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/440479.html>

òáøéú/Hebrew
<http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=440679>


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Gush Shalom
pob 3322
Tel-Aviv 61033
Israel

or ask us for charities in your country which receive 
donations on behalf of Gush Shalom

Please, add your email address where to send our 
confirmation of receipt. More official receipts at 
request only.


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