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I Accuse
Wednesday, June 11th, 2003
Sergio Yahni / AIC
I accuse Ariel Sharon and Shaul Mofaz, Prime minister of Israel and its Minister of Defense respectively of provoking the assassination of tens of Israelis for the sake of narrow political interests.
I accuse Ariel Sharon and Shaul Mofaz of contentiously provoking a military escalation between Israelis and Palestinians for the sake of the settlement enterprise.
When Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and minister of Defense, Shaul Mofaz, approved the failed attempt to assassinate Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantizi they knew that the attack will end negotiations between the Palestinian opposition and the Palestinian National Authority for a general cease-fire. Sharon and Mofaz also knew that the attempted assassination would finish the road map. Furthermore, they know that Hamas retaliation is just a question of time. As such, they are responsible for the acts of retaliation that will surely follow.
The assassination came two days after the Likud conference during which Sharon and Mofaz realized they have no majority in the party and the parliament for the implementation of the roadmap. Both of them knew that implementing the roadmap means sacrificing their political carrier.
But, Sharon and Mofaz also know that the implementation of the road map is part of a strategic reshaping of the Middle East for the US administration. Both of them know that not implementing the road map means a clash with the US and a consequent sacrifice their political carrier.
Only a major attack on Israeli civil population could and the following escalation of hostilities can save the political carrier of the Likud's leaders. When approving the assassination of Rantizi both of them knew that such an attack would give legitimacy for a military escalation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and put an end to the implementation of the road map while blaming publicly "Palestinian terrorism" for the coming wave of violence.
Sharon and Mofaz provocation is not surprising. Ariel Sharon has built a political career on the dead bodies of Palestinians and Israelis. It was Sharon's personal settlement (comprising of just one house) in the old city of Jerusalem that formed the reasons for the eruption of the first Intifada, and it was Sharon provocative visit to the Haram Al-Sharif that sparked the second intifada. Shaul Mofaz is against any political settlement with the Palestinians. Representing the Israeli army he conceives a continuous state of war as a positive reality.
The criminal behavior of the Israeli government is dangerous for Palestinians and Israelis, only direct and indirect intervention of the international can prevent the continuous violence in the region that costs thousand of lives and will cost more in the future. The lack of intervention of the international community will mean complicity with the crimes of Israeli government against civilians.
I accuse Sharon and Mofaz to be responsible for the death of hundreds of Palestinians and Israelis as consequence of their provocation.