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DESCRIPTION:“As Michael Ben-Yair, Israel's attorney general between 1993 and 1996, 
 wrote in Haaretz earlier this month: ‘The intifada is the Palestinian 
 people's war of national liberation. We [Israel] enthusiastically chose to 
 become a colonialist society, ignoring international treaties, 
 expropriating lands, \ntransferring settlers from Israel to the occupied 
 territories, engaging in theft and finding justification for all these 
 activities... we [Israel] established an apartheid regime.’” (Observer, 
 3/31/02)\n\nIn the past several weeks, the Israeli campaign of violence 
 against the Palestinians has escalated far beyond any previous incursion. 
 More than 300\nPalestinians have been killed in the month of March by 
 Israeli soldiers, tanks, snipers, and bombs. The day-to-day existence of 
 Palestinians has become unbearable, as roadblocks, checkpoints, border 
 closures, curfews, and increasing military presence make movement 
 impossible.\n\nBut Israel has gone even further – demolishing homes, 
 targeting emergency vehicles, creating mass detention centers, and even 
 arbitrarily rounding up Palestinian men between the ages of 15 and 60. Now, 
 as the international community haggles over the details of the Saudi peace 
 plan, their version of peace means appeasing the Israeli government and 
 watching as Palestinians are slaughtered.\n\nThe current detention of 
 Yasser Arafat in Ramallah and the summary execution of 50 Palestinians in 
 broad daylight belie Israel’s claims that it wants peace. Now, Israel has 
 even closed off Ramallah to all international press, thus making it 
 impossible for people to see what Israel really has to hide: the brutality 
 of its occupation. Come to the next meeting of the International Socialist 
 Organization and talk about how we can fight for genuine liberation for the 
 Palestinian people here in the heart of Israel’s closest and wealthiest 
 ally.\n\n“Now we have an Israeli officer - according to the Israeli daily 
 Ma'ariv - advising his men to study the tactics adopted by the Nazis in the 
 Second World War. ‘If our job is to seize a densely packed refugee camp 
 or take over the Nablus casbah, and if this job is given to an (Israeli) 
 officer to carry out without casualties on both sides, he must before all 
 else analyse and bring together the lessons of past battles, even - 
 shocking though this might appear - to analyse how the German army operated 
 in the Warsaw ghetto.’” (Independent, 3/30/02)\n\nAlso, come to the 
 rally on April 9th at noon on Sproul Plaza to demand an end to the 
 University of California’s connections to Israeli apartheid.\n\nFor more 
 information, please check out our website 
 www.internationalsocialist.org\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/5893.php
SUMMARY:STOP ISRAEL'S REIGN OF TERROR
LOCATION:187 Dwinelle Hall\nUC Berkeley\n(near Sather Gate)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/5893.php
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