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Times Argus, March 15, 2003
The Burlington Free Press (edited), March 12, 2003

If war begins watch Israel

By William Coil

If we are dragged into an unnecessary war with Iraq, one of the countless nightmares ahead will be the plight of the Palestinian people.

Israel, run by Sharon’s right wing regime, has managed to get away with countless war crimes, breeches of international law and violations of U.N. resolutions through the use of a massive public relations campaign. The Israeli peace movement goes unreported both here and in Israel.

Unfortunately, the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and the brutal domination of the Palestinian people is not the only objective of Sharon’s government. The “final solution,” is to drive those last Palestinians from the remainder of their land.

To hide a crime of this magnitude, propaganda and news censorship will not suffice. The Israeli’s need a distraction to avert the world’s attention, and a U.S. war against Iraq will accomplish this.

Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, quoted in the Israeli journal, Hotam (November 24, 1989) told students at Bar Ilan University, “Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among Arabs of the territories.”

William Coil
Burlington, VT