Democratic Palestine : 35 (ص 5)
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the July 6th operation on an Israeli bus
traveling from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
A single Palestinian, armed only with
daring and inventiveness, steered the
bus off the road, killing 14 Israelis and
injuring over 20 - more than half the
number killed in the previous year and
a half of the uprising.
Another indication of the intifada’s
solidity and radicalization has been the
intensified campaign against col-
laborators, signalled by the United Na-
tional Leadership’s call to make April
26th, a day of holding collaborators
accountable. This was presaged by in-
structions in call no. 32, at the first of
the year, for setting up people’s courts
to make the system for dealing with col-
laborators just and based on national
consensus. With a system of giving
warnings and chances for repentence
having been in effect for an extended
period, the strike forces doubled their
efforts to purge those who violated the
national will by not resigning from
posts connected to the occupation, or
persons whose criminal activities
detracted from the social cohesion of
the masses. The occupation authorities
are well aware that this campaign
deprives them of vehicles for
penetrating the popular unity.
The Israeli military’s sense of having
played many of its cards, without any
returns, was succinctly expressed by
Chief of Staff Dan Shomron on June
15th: «Everyone who wants the intifada
eliminated must understand there are
only three ways to do this: by transfer,
starvation, and physical elimination,
that is - genocide.» On June 19th,
Shamir said that the government would
take secret steps to stop the uprising. In
fact, over the summer, each of the op-
tions Shomron named has_ been
employed to some degree, secretly or
openly.
Although the Israeli government is
still not prepared to take the conse-
quences of all-out «transfer,» it has
been ready to defy world condemnation
by continuing to expell Palestinians
from their homeland: eight West Bank
and Gaza Strip residents were per-
manently evicted from Palestine on
June 29th, to be followed by five more
West Bankers on August 27th. Among
them were trade unionists, students,
professionals, peasants and formerly
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Drawing by a fifteen-year-old girl living in the occupied
territories: «They could not penetrate the streets, so
they used helicopters to throw tear gas.»
imprisoned militants. This brings to 61
the number of Palestinians expelled
since the intifada began.
Physical elimination, though not yet
at literally genocidal levels, is a threat
constantly hanging over the head of
every Palestinian of the intifada. In
June, 26 Palestinians were martyred,
five of them children. Though this
death toll is lower than the preceding
two months, a careful examination of
the circumstances shows that most of
these deaths were in fact summary ex-
ecutions where Zionist soldiers
deliberately murdered persons they
perceived to be activists of the intifada,
in some cases ignoring the possibility of
arresting them. In early July, Shomron
affirmed to the Knesset Defense and
Foreign Affairs Committee that
regulations for dealing with «suspicious
persons» allowed the army to detain or
shoot with plastic bullets at Palestinians
simply because they were masked - a
common phenomenon at a time wher
the entire population, and especially
youth, have good reason to think they
are wanted by the occupation
authorities. In early September,
Defense Minister Rabin further >
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