Følgende er et sitat fra Aftenposten i går:
"Ny drapsplan?
Avisen Haaretz avslørte torsdag at en gruppe
generaler har utarbeidet en plan for å gjenokkupere
de største byene og de viktigste delene av
Vestbredden for å bli kvitt Arafat og den palestinske
selvstyremyndigheten.
Denne sikkerhetspolitiske planen innebærer en mulig
likvidasjon av Arafat, skriver avisen.
Generalene, som ledes av Effi Eitam, mener at planen
kan endre hele den strategiske situasjonen i løpet av
en uke og sier at planen har støtte fra høyeste hold
i det israelske forsvaret."
Ifølge Aftenposten i dag går planen også ut på å
hindre "arabiske folkevalgte" i å møte i Knesset, det
israelske parlamentet. Reinspikka rasisme og knebling
av demokratiet, altså: fascistiske kupplaner, med
støtte "på høyeste hold", hvilket selvsagt vil si den
fascistiske strømningens lederskikkelse i Israel nå:
bøddelen og folkemorderen Sharon. At denne israelske
Göring-figur har støtte hos det amerikanske regimet
som han om få dager igjen er hedersgjest hos, sier
sitt om hvilken verden vi nå lever i.
Motgående strømninger vokser også i det israelske
militær: ordrenektbevegelsen tar til i styrke i følge
Independent (se nedenfor).
I forhold til hele denne alvorlige og farlige
utviklingen er det kun komisk og patetisk å lytte til
den norske "utenriksministeren".
Karsten Johansen
Rebellion grows among Israeli reserve officers
By Phil Reeves in Jerusalem
01 February 2002
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Israel's armed forces are struggling to contain the
most serious internal challenge of the 16-month
Palestinian intifada after more than 100 combat
reservist soldiers signed a petition saying they
would not serve in the occupied territories.
At least four of the signatories have been stripped
of their command positions, and the army's chief of
staff, Lt-Gen Shaul Mofaz, declared that "there is no
place in Israel's military forces for such
occurrences". The petition, which by last night had
attracted 104 signatures, has prompted a national
debate, and a backlash within the army. Another group
of several hundred reservists has signed a
counter-petition accusing the petitioners of "lies,
distortions and unbridled defamation of the army".
The issue erupted when a group of reservists, led by
two young lieutenants, published an indictment of
Israel's 35-year occupation in the newspaper, Yedioth
Ahronoth, saying that it was "corrupting the entire
Israeli society". Some of the signatories are
officers and others are from frontline units - the
paratroops, infantry and armoured and artillery
corps.
The petition said soldiers had been issued commands
while serving in the occupied territories that "had
nothing to do with the security of our country", and
had "the sole purpose of perpetuating our control"
over the Palestinians. "We shall not continue to
fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate,
expel, starve and humiliate an entire people," it
stated.
The reservists' protest is the most compelling
example of the simmering dissent within Israel over
the conflict. In September, more than 65 Israeli
teenagers signed a letter to the Prime Minister,
Ariel Sharon, saying that they would refuse to do
compulsory military service because of the
"aggressive and racists policies of the Israeli
government and army".
A fortnight ago, an article appeared in the Ha'aretz
newspaper by Dr Yigal Shochat, a physician who used
to be an Israeli fighter pilot, who called on F-16
pilots to refuse to bomb Palestinian cities. At the
same time, the army faced intense domestic criticism
for demolishing 60 Palestinian homes in a Gaza
refugee camp, while the Israeli left has begun to
accuse the army of war crimes. The divided opinion in
the military ranks was further exposed by revelations
that a group of senior reserve officers, led by a
brigadier-general, were planning to present the
government with proposals for the reoccupation of the
West Bank and Gaza, and the destruction of the
Palestinian Authority.
Refusals to serve are not a new problem for the
Israeli army. There were conscientious objectors in
the 1982 Lebanon war and the first intifada, from
1987 to 1992. According to a group that represents
Israel's refusenik soldiers, Yesh Gvul (translated as
"There is a limit"), 49 have been jailed this time
round for refusing to go to the occupied territories,
14 of them regular soldiers. Most Israeli men and
women are conscripted into military service at age 18
-- men for three years, women for 21 months. Israeli
men also usually serve up to one month of reserve
duty every year until the age of 45.
Organisers of the reservists' petition say they want
to attract the support of at least 500 reservists.
They have declined to speak to the foreign press, for
fear of fuelling international anti-Israel sentiment.
But the Israeli media has pounced on the issue. Itay
Sviresky, a lieutenant in a reserve paratroop unit,
told Channel Two TV that, "as a human, a citizen and
as a Zionist, I feel that there are certain things
that I can't take part in. You have to be an occupier
-- you can't be an enlightened occupier, you have to
be ... a cruel occupier."
The Israeli army has countered with a statement
saying that the petitioners were unrepresentative,
and pointing out that there is no place for soldiers
to choose what jobs they do and do not want. A press
officer cited the example of a 56-year-old Tel Aviv
lawyer, Avraham Dviri, who finished reserve service
eight years ago, but volunteered again last year.
After several Palestinian suicide attacks, Israelis
feel even more embattled than ever. Mr Dviri
represented the mood of many when he said he
"despised" the refusing reservists. "An officer who
says that he cannot serve somewhere should not
command other soldiers. He should be dismissed with
dishonour," he said.
Car crash adds to Lebanese suspicion of Israeli
cover-up
By Robert Fisk in Beirut
01 February 2002
Did Jean Ghanem hold the secrets of the testimony on
the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacre that Elie Hobeika
planned to reveal about Ariel Sharon, the Israeli
Prime Minister, before Hobeika's assassination in
Beirut last week?
If he did, we shall never know them - because Mr
Ghanem, once Hobeika's political deputy, died only
four days before Hobeika, two weeks after a
mysterious car accident in east Beirut.
Mr Ghanem, a medical doctor who became a Phalangist
party official and served under Hobeika's ruthless
command, is rumoured to have held documents that his
former boss intended to present to Belgian lawyers in
their attempt to indict Mr Sharon for his involvement
in the massacre in which up to 1,700 Palestinian
civilians were killed. But on New Year's Day, Mr
Ghanem, who was only 56 and with no history of heart
problems, drove his car into a tree in the suburb of
Hazmieh - only a few hundred metres from the spot
where Hobeika was killed by a car bomb last week.
Mr Ghanem's wife was badly hurt in the crash and
remains in hospital. He died on 14 January after
lying in a coma for two weeks. Hospital officials
said he had had a heart attack. But now Lebanon's
judicial police plan to ask Mrs Ghanem if she wishes
to exhume her husband's body for a second autopsy and
Nabih Berri, the Lebanese parliament speaker, says
that the death of Mr Ghanem - who was also second in
command of Hobeika's Al Waad party - may be linked to
Hobeika's murder.
Another of Hobeika's former militia buddies, Karim
Pakradouni, who is now head of the Phalange Party,
says the same thing.
Lebanon blamed Israel for Hobeika's murder - which Mr
Sharon himself denied. An anonymous phone-caller in
Cyprus claimed his killing as the work of a
supposedly anti-Syrian group that no one has ever
heard of. Mr Hobeika, who led the Phalangist killers
into Sabra and Chatila, changed sides from Israel to
Syria during the civil war. But Lebanese police have
now traced the car in which the bomb was placed to
Jezzine, where Israel maintained an intelligence
headquarters during the 19 years that the Christian
town was under Israeli occupation.
The car's original owner has told the police that he
sold his Mercedes 280 to two unidentified men without
registering the transaction; the two buyers, he said,
appeared to come from a neighbouring village. Adnan
Addoum, the Lebanese Prosecutor General, says he is
prepared to open a criminal investigation into Mr
Ghanem's death if his widow agrees.
In which case we might find out if two men took the
secrets of the Sabra and Chatila massacre to their
graves.
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