IT IS NO MORE THAN A REDEPLOYMENT

By Ibrahim Ebeid

In order to keep the Zionist settlements around Gaza "Israel" needed over 50,000 soldiers equipped with the most sophisticated weapons to do the job. The Gazans who were equipped with faith and strong will, were able to lead a war of attrition that forced the Zionist enemy to withdraw these settlers to another part of Palestine.

The withdrawal was not a voluntary one, nor had a good intention to achieve peace, as the Western media and the US Administration portrayed to us. It was not for the sake of coexistence because the racist Zionists will not coexist with the Arabs.

The artificial entity of "Israel" is a racist one and more vicious than that of General Smut that existed in South Africa. "Israel" usurped the land of the Palestinians and evicted the majority of them from their cities, towns and villages to make room for the imported settlers from every corner of the globe.

Do not forget that the creation of this racist state was in violation of the essence of humanity. "Israel" was created by terrorist acts and by committing genocide against the Palestinian people and the genocide is still going on. Every "Israeli" is a colonialist settler because he/she lives in Palestinian homes and Palestinian cities, villages and towns.

The intention of the withdrawal was to lighten up the burden of the war of attrition that the Gazans inflicted upon the settlers and their army. Sharon, the butcher of the Palestinian people, is redeploying his armies in order to consolidate more land to draw new borders for his entity. The Zionist leaders have done so several times since the creation of this illegitimate state. In vain he is trying to kill the spirit of the Palestinian people and break the will of their struggle for the liberation of their land. The Zionist leaders were not satisfied by what the West and the "United Nations" granted them, which was a large portion of Palestine, illegally and at the expense of the Palestinian people. Now they are occupying the entire country of Palestine with a large portion of Syria and other lands from around Palestine to secure their ambition to build "Greater Israel", which is part of the "Greater New Middle East" of George W. Bush.

The withdrawal was no more than a concession to gather the forces of "Israel" for further expansion.

The Palestinians are forced to live in isolation; each village, each town and each city is isolated or surrounded by fences, walls and loops of highways for the use of the Israeli army and the settlers only. Any Palestinian who uses these highways would be shot either by the army or by the settlers who are armed to the teeth.

The wall that Sharon is building has divided members of many families and it is ripping Palestine further apart and is forcing the Palestinians to live in concentration camps.

The Resolution of the Right of Return was never enforced. The majority of the Palestinians in the Diaspora are still living in camps cramped in little concrete houses that are freezing in winter and oven like in the summer with no running water in most cases. The basic necessities to sustain the minimum requirements for decent living are of no existence. The Zionist settlers are living in Palestinian homes with luxury and abundance. Water is very rare for the Palestinians of the "West Bank" and Gaza because water is allocated to the Zionists only to fill their ponds and swimming pools while the Palestinians are thirsty.

The status of Jerusalem is being endangered; the creeping of the Zionists to East Jerusalem is on high gear. They are confiscating more land to expand their settlements in order to change the Arabic character of the city and to pave the way for more Zionist settlers. One hundred and fifty thousand Palestinians are under the threat of being evicted from their homes to achieve this evil purpose.

There are more than 250,000 settlers in the "West Bank", moving 8,000 settlers from around Gaza is insignificant and unimportant. Sharon or any other Zionist leader will never pull out from all the Palestinian territory occupied in 1967. This is the nature of the Zionist entity that is blessed and supported by the United States in particular and the West in general.

Defeating the Zionist illegal entity is not easy. It requires serious struggle on the Arab part and it needs a better leadership than the present one.

The United States is willing to assist "Israel" at all levels, militarily, economically and technically as it always has been doing since the eviction of the Palestinians from Palestine in 1947. But the might of "Israel" combined with that of the United States had not deterred the resolve of the Palestinian people to liberate their homeland and restore their historic rights to Arab Palestine.

The people of the United States are suffering also from the domination of the Zionist movement on their various successive governments. Most of the members of the Senate and the House of Representatives are more loyal to "Israel" than to the United States. Billions of dollars are being pumped into the "Israeli" economy and armament while poverty and homelessness in America is on the rise.

But we should know that the relations between the United States and "Israel" is not a relation of love and passion, this type of relation has no value in international relations especially among imperialists. It is rather a relation of interests and it will last as long as "Israel" remains the Guardian of American interests in the area. But eventually this relation will come to an end as soon as the United States is defeated in Iraq and when the American people put their country on the right track and save it from the influence of Zionism.

The evacuation of the settlers was no more than redeploying of the Zionist army around the Strip and converting Gaza into a large prison while other settlements in the West bank are being strengthened and enlarged. Only insignificant settlements are being dismantled.

Peace will come when Palestine is liberated and when the millions of the disposed Palestinians go back to their homes, towns and villages. The Jews also have the right to go to the country of their origin.

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