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Links Pertaining to the Middle East Conflict
ISRAEL - A Country Study http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/iltoc.html UN Resolutions Resolution 181 (1947) http://www.mideastweb.org/181.htm resolution 1397 http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/2002/res1397e.pdf resolution 1402 http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/2002/res1402e.pdf resolution 1405 (April 19 2002) http://www.un.org/Docs/scres/2002/res1405e.pdf The
New York Review of Books The Deadlocked CityBy Amos Elonhttp://www.mafhoum.com/press2/66S24.htm Amos Oz Interview w/ Sharon 1982 Daavar Daily http://www.counterpunch.org/pipermail/counterpunch-list/2001-September/013054.html "Pacification By Assassination: The Legality Of Assassination In Conducting
US Foreign Policy" http://faculty.lls.edu/~manheimk/ns/moon2.htm THE ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION UN
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mirror site paraphrased by Jews for Justice in the Middle easthttp://www.cactus48.com/truth.html The Israeli Press by Rami Talhttp://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/press.html
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CIA world fact book map of Israel and occupied territories
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/is.html
CIA Report on the state of the Israeli Defense Industry
Transformations in Global Defence Markets and Industries (2000)
Prologue
- Israel and Palestine
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other links of interest
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/id44.htm
Mossad/Hamas Conspiracy?
By John K. Cooley
Source http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/mideast010802_hamas.html
August 2 — Hamas, one of the most influential Islamic groups in the Palestinian territories, and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon are clear enemies, but the violence each is responsible for ordering may lead to the same result: full-scale conflict.
According to Israeli and Arab regional commentators, such a conflict could enable Sharon to forcibly reoccupy parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip currently administered by the Palestinian Authority.
It would bring closer an objective the hard-line Sharon has vainly sought since Israel's birth in 1948: destruction of the Palestinian nationalist leadership under Yasser Arafat, and the creation of a weak, divided Palestinian entity, subservient to Israel.
The so far futile hope of Hamas' founder-leader, wheelchair-bound quadriplegic Gaza cleric Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, has been clearly expressed: The entire Muslim world should aid the Palestinians to end the Israeli occupation by fighting a war, as some Arab states did in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 and 1982.
Help From Arab Brethren
But while the governments of Egypt and Jordan have extended encouragement, cash, relief supplies and medical help, neither government — which signed peace treaties with Israel in 1979 and 1994 respectively — has shown any inclination to go to war with Israel. This, despite the mounting popular anger against Israel.
During the Clinton administration's U.S.-guided peace talks in the 1990s, the late Syrian President Hafez Assad came close to signing a peace deal with Israel and recovering its lost Golan region from Israel. But Assad drew back, convinced that Israel intended to retain control over scarce regional water resources.
Despite Israel's military superiority, Assad's reform-minded son and successor, Bashar Assad, retains his father's tough line. This includes granting Hamas and other militants a safe haven to plan and organize propaganda and armed resistance to the Israeli occupation.
But rather than free Hamas activists, who are funded in part by Syria's ally Iran, or other Palestinians to mount cross-border attacks on Israel from Syria proper, the Syrian forces in Lebanon use Hamas' ally Hezbollah as a proxy for continued guerrilla pressure against Israel.
On its part Iraq, alone among Israel's Arab adversaries never to sign any peace deal or armistice with the Jewish state, continues to encourage Hamas and Arafat's Palestinian Authority to keep up the fight against Israeli occupation.
Iraq distributes an estimated $25,000 to surviving families of Hamas suicide bombers and other "martyrs," according to local informants.
From Benefactor to Foe
Hamas emerged in the 1980s as an offshoot of the old Muslim Brotherhood, a militant organization founded in Egypt in the 1920s.
Equipped with a tough fighting arm, the Muslim Brotherhood fought Israel in the 1948 war. Their guerillas also helped oust the British from their occupation of Egypt in the early 1950s.
Today, the Brotherhood is formally outlawed in Egypt but continues to be influential in Jordan, where it lives on as Hamas.
Israeli authorities initially encouraged and secretly aided Hamas in the 1980s as a useful religious counterweight to Arafat's more secular Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Gaza.
But Hamas turned against its Israeli benefactors during the first intifada in 1987. With the help of Muslim Brotherhood cadres, it created its fighting and terrorist wing, named the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades after the Palestinian leader who fought the British occupiers of Palestine in the 1930s.
Today, the organization continues to provide social and community services including the operation of schools and hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza. Hamas is especially popular in Gaza, where the economic conditions are worse than the West Bank.
A Challenge to Arafat
Although Hamas poses a challenge to Arafat's leadership, the aging Palestinian leader has been careful not to antagonize the organization fearing the wrath of Hamas' tens of thousands of supporters and sympathizers.
On its part, Hamas remains opposed to the Oslo peace process and in the run-up to the 1996 Israeli elections, launched heavy suicide attacks in Israel, killing 56 Israelis.
Like Netanyahu, Sharon has consistently and successfully used "peace with security" as a campaign slogan. But the election slogans have quickly faded into violence as Sharon's government, now committed to assassinating active Hamas and other Palestinian resistance leaders, threatens to bring the tottering Middle East peace initiatives to the brink of all-out war.
