3 - 9 May 2001
Issue No.532
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 3 - 9 May 2001 Issue No.532 |
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Fools rush in
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' visit to Cairo served only to underline the fact that his government remains as far away as ever from undertaking the actions necessary to halt the deteriorating situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
President Hosni Mubarak revealed that Peres had appealed to him to issue a statement saying that a cease-fire agreement had been reached with the Palestinians. The Israeli Foreign Minister also informed the president, and the media, that Israel would take "immediate and unconditional measures" to ease the blockade that, since the outbreak of the Intifada more than seven months ago, has been strangling the life out of the Palestinians living under this siege. Yet upon arriving in Israel after visiting Egypt and Jordan, Peres denied that he told Mubarak that any agreement had been reached. Nor were any of the "immediate measures" promised by Peres implemented on the ground.
Instead, and on clear orders from Sharon and his defence minister, Israel escalated its attacks against Palestinians, resulting yesterday in Israeli troops once again invading a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza, close to the border of Egypt.
Meanwhile, Israeli papers have been reporting that Sharon's government has given the green light to yet more assassinations of Palestinians. On Monday Palestinian officials accused Israel of blowing up a two storey building, an attack in which two children, a brother and sister aged seven and three, were killed, along with the Fatah activist targeted by the Israelis. Such are the results reaped by the duplicitous double-act of "dovish" Peres and "hawkish" Sharon. And shamefully, the Western media once again decreed Israel's murder of Palestinian children an event worthy of only the most cursory mention, in contrast to the blanket coverage allocated to the death of the 12 month old child of a settler killed in West Bank last month.
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