[lbo-talk] "I Accuse" by Sergio Yahni /AIC

[Bryan Atinsky]

I think Sergio has expressed in the most clear manner what has led to this
currrent situation:

http://www.alternativenews.org/

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.