Democratic Palestine : 11 (ص 9)
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took almost a quarter of the vote, enabl-
ing it to influence other rightists in the
council to fire all Palestinians employed
by the settlement according to the origi-
nal Zionist slogan «Jewish Labor Only».
Also symptomatic of the racist campaign
was Interior Minister Peretz’s attempt to
stop a program in Israeli schools to
create understanding between Jewish
and Arab children.
Assaults on Palestinians have
occurred in all parts of the occupied
homeland. In the South, a Palestinian
doctor and three nurses were subject to
an unprovoked physical attack on
August 30th in Beersheba, necessitat-
ing their hospitalization. The next night
all the windows in their hospital resi-
dence were smashed. On August 25th,
a Palestinian girl was wounded by an
Israeli soldier who shot «accidentally» in
the occupied Gaza Strip. On August 8th,
Kahane thugs threw stones at Palesti-
nian cars passing a settlement on the
road to Hebron; several people were
injured. On August 15th, about 20 Israeli
soldiers surrounded a group of Palesti-
nian farmers working on their land near
Sakhnin; the soldiers fired their guns
and beat the farmers, injuring two chil-
dren, a youth and three women, one of
whom was 75 years old. No incident pre-
ceded this assault which appeared to be
premeditated. Another revealing inci-
dent occurred to an Israeli woman trying
to reach Ramallah for a demonstration
against deportation of Palestinians; she
was repeatedly stopped and harassed
by Israeli soldiers, and had a gun
pointed at her by one. Another officer
interfered and told her that had she been
an Arab, he would have killed her
instantly. (as reported in A/ Fajr, August
16th.)
State of emergency
At this writing a veritable state of
emergency reigns in the West Bank in
particular. On August 4th, the Israeli
cabinet officially readopted the iron fist
policy in the 1967 occupied territories:
reinstatement of administrative deten-
tion and deportation without trial; closure
of Arab newspapers «that violate cen-
sorship» and Palestinian institutions that
encourage nationalism; expansion of
prison facilities. As of September 3rd, 62
residents of the occupied territories
were being administratively detained;
dozens are facing deportation orders,
including 30 newly released political
prisoners. The targets of the repression
show that the occupation authorities are
not simply countering the rise in resis-
tance operations. They are rather taking
a new opportunity to round up activists
and impose collective punishment to
subdue the population at large. Most of
those targeted in the West Bank are stu-
dents or former political prisoners. The
Zionists are trying to remove from the
midst of the people those with advanced
knowledge and experience to inspire
and organize mass struggle. This was
especially apparent on August 6 when
the occupation authorities rounded up
four students from Al Najah University, a
few days after it was closed just prior to
scheduled student elections. The same
day the authorities moved to deport a
number of former detainees.
On August 30th, roadblocks were
set up throughout the West Bank,
spreading the state of siege that had
been imposed more locally the previous
days with the four-day curfew of Jenin
and Tulkarm after the August 24th killing
of the Israeli settler Andre Alush in Tul-
karm and the shooting of another settler
in Jenin. The Israeli reaction was mas-
sive: thousands of Palestinians were
interrogated and dozens arrested. Ear-
lier in August, Nablus residents suffered
a four-day curfew and travel restrictions
continued all month.
Itis clear that the racists are snatch-
ing at any opportunity to promote their
long-harbored political goals. The six
Knesset members who occupied a
house in the center of Hebron’s market,
August 15-20th, openly stated their goal:
preventing negotiations with the Palesti-
nian-Jordanian delegation. At the same
time Levinger and his Gush Emunim
settlers went on a rampage in the mar-
ket, overturning the stalls of the Palesti-
nian vendors. The Palestinian revolu-
tionaries who stabbed two Israeli sol-
diers guarding the house after the MKs’
exit, pointed responsibility to where it
belonged: The MKs were only able to
stage their house occupation due to the
facilities offered by the nearby army
post. Gush Emunim was also allowed to
stage a massive demonstration outside
Tulkarm on September 2nd, on the pre-
text of mourning Andre Alush, but actu-
ally intended to threaten Palestinians.
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