ÿþ <html> <head> <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=windows-1255'> <title>Word from the Editor</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../Style.css"> </head> <body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" width="85%"> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" align="center"> <div class="NavBar"> <div class="Border1"> <div class="Border2"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td width="20%" style="border-right: Black 2px solid;" align="center"> </td> <td width="60%" dir="ltr" align="center" class="Header"> Word from the Editor and Weekly Tips </td> <td width="20%" style="border-left: Black 2px solid;" align="center"> <a href="previous_eng.htm">Previous Editions</a> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="LetterStyle" dir="ltr"> <br> <p> <span class="SmallHeader"> October 26  Wake up, Wipe Your Eyes Clean </span> </p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Who would have believed. Our children and our younger brothers have spent the past two years, deployed on barren destroyed fields, among the ruins of cities  fields that <i>we</i> have destroyed, cities that <i>we</i> have ruined.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>What have they been doing there? Lock up and starve millions of people. Every once in a while shoot someone. Sometimes it s a child, sometimes an old man or young woman. Sometimes it s a young man, and then, of course, he was a  terrorist. Young men are fair game. <b>Sorry, wrong: </b>all Palestinians are fair game, but shooting young men is a must. This is what our young men learn.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Ride on tanks around ruined downtowns, preventing children from going to school. Preventing men from feeding their children. Preventing women from giving birth to them. Day by day, week after week, month after month. Two years already.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Under what right? For what purpose?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><span style='font-family:Arial'>If <u>this</u> is not terror, then what <u>is</u> terror?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>You don t know. You don t want to know. You keep quiet. You are afraid.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>And now, supposedly, they are constructing  The Fence for us. But it is not as promised, a fence of separation, of security. They are building a huge Wall, not on our State s border but in the middle of the Occupied Territories, a Wall higher than the Berlin Wall. A Wall that looks, feels and acts like the wall of a prison or a Ghetto. They are building it also in order that you won t hear or see what is going on Over There. And really, what IS going on Over There?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Since there was a long lapse in suicide attacks on our streets, you bought into the story that  <i>the IDF has done the job </i>and  they have given up. Really, come on! Don t let yourself be duped so easily.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Sit for a moment and observe the past two years, thinking about the Other Side  not as victims, nor as monsters, just as human beings who thought they deserve a life better than that of a dog. Then you ll understand, that <a href="editor04eng.htm">everything our rulers have done, served only <b>to intensify</b> the stream of volunteers to suicide</a>. Because the starvation, the destruction, the siege, the despair, were the major factor driving young people out of their minds, to the level of suicide-murder. And the assassinations, the air raids, the ground attacks and the <a href="editor08eng.htm">small-</a> and <a href="editor02eng.htm">medium-</a>scale massacres  always perpetrated in perfect timing  succeeded again and again in pushing another sector of starved, terrified, angry, desperate population into the arms of <a href="editor07eng.htm">the blood dealers on the Other Side</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>In spite of all this, over the past few months the people there, yes the Palestinians we have all learned to despise from the day of our birth, they have succeeded  in spite of the hunger, in spite of the continuous murder and willful injury of dozens of Palestinians every week  to keep the faint-hearted among them under control, and to prevent them from obeying the immense urge to take revenge.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>You don t know, or don t want to know, that the true Palestinian  terror , the major path of struggle against your young brothers, against your children in uniform, is to send their children to school in spite of the curfew. Go out to the street as soon as the tank leaves it, in spite of the curfew. Try and acquire some food and make a living somehow, even though it s forbidden. Sometimes, even demonstrate and march towards the tanks in the midst of the endless curfew, women and children armed only with signs. <b>And they are doing that even though, as stated, all Palestinians are fair game nowadays.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>And our youth, who have just learned how to put on their uniform, obey orders without blinking, and <b>shoot live fire at them.</b> Some have become completely corrupt, and turn the shooting into a sport. A game with no rules or referees, but with high scores.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Our rulers hope you won t notice all this. <b>Because, nothing scares our rulers more than a strong, organized yet nonviolent resistance. </b>Our rulers know that they haven t got a shred of an excuse to remain in the Occupied Territories. They know that the people of Israel have had enough of these Territories, and that the Palestinians may be afraid of the soldiers, but they despise them from the bottom of their hearts, and will never again put up with this tyranny again. And so, our rulers sit and wait for terror attacks, because this is their sole excuse.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Meanwhile, they play a game of cat and mouse, and utilize the immense resources under their command, to turn, now in the 21<sup>st</sup> century, in the middle of the so-called civilized world, a whole nation into humiliated prisoners and slaves. The terror attacks, the  war against terror and the bloodshed, are nothing but game pieces to achieve this end.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>You keep quiet. You are afraid. You wait until it will pass.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>It won t pass. Because the architect of starvation and destruction, Chief of Staff  Boogey Yaalon, and the Knight of Qibbyia and the Lebanon war, PM  Arik Sharon (whose deeds in the past two years have now surpassed all his past exploits)  both of them, and <a href="editor09eng.htm">the entire corrupt bunch of cronies ruling us</a>, are invested in this game up to their ears. They will continue gambling till the bitter end  because that their days are numbered, and sometime in the future (tragically, this may still take a long while  but it will happen, mark my words), sometime in the future people will be ashamed to say they have supported this bunch, or even knew any of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>You sit in the back seat of Arik and Boogey s car, and speed into the abyss. And still, you keep quiet. You are afraid. You wait until it will pass.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>It won t pass if you continue to be silent and afraid. We are now two years into the 21<sup>st</sup> century. It s high time we used the terrible lessons of the 20<sup>th</sup> century:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Terror attacks by underground organizations are a symptom of conflict and oppression. Escalating the oppression intensifies terror. When the conflicts are resolved, when oppression is gone, terror dissolves.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><span style='font-family:Arial'>State Terror  the terror of institutionalized killings and the complete disruption of civil life  are a symptom of tyranny. </span></b><span style='font-family: Arial'>If they are allowed to continue unabated on one patch of land, they  and the tyranny perpetrating them  have a tendency to spread and destroy everything, everywhere they can. Then, when nothing is left to destroy, the tyranny disintegrates and is thrown onto the garbage pile of history. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <b> <u><p class=MsoBodyText dir=LTR>Between these two types of terror, State Terror is infinitely worse and far more dangerous.</p> </u> <p class=MsoBodyText dir=LTR>The most hideous terror organizations in history hid under the title of  special and secret units in regular armed forces.</p> <p class=MsoBodyText2 dir=LTR>The worst and most dangerous criminals in history were men who served as heads of independent, civilized nations.</p> </b> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Open your eyes. Wipe your eyes clean. Come out of your shock. It is happening now, it is happening <b>to us</b>. There is no more sand left to stick your head into.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>There is no  third way . If you want Israel to become  the Kingdom of Greater Israel , and go up in smoke, fire and blood, with starved and dangerous Palestinian sub-humans locked away in fenced reservations, then please, continue to be silent.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><b><span style='font-family:Arial'>But if you want your life back, it s time to leave home  no, don t wait for the corrupt illusion of the elections, get out <u>now</u>  </span></b><span style='font-family:Arial'>and end the Occupation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>It can happen very fast, if you decide.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Because after all - you may be afraid, but your rulers are even more afraid from you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'>Assaf Oron<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal dir=LTR style='margin-top:0.0pt;text-align:left;line-height: 14.0pt;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed'><span style='font-family:Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>