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April 24,
2003
Passover
Warning: "Get Out"
Israeli
Army Chief Threatens Internationalists
CounterPunch Wire
Tzahal (Israeli Military Radio) Transcript
of an excerpt from the program ''Open line with the Chief of
Staff''
On Passover Eve, April 16, 2003 at 08:00,
the program "Open Line with the Chief of Staff" was
broadcast, during which Lt.-General Moshe Yaa'alon spoke with
soldiers and commanders about current events.
The Chief of Staff addressed questions
by the program's presenter, Dalik Vilenitz, about the activists
from a human rights organization (ISM) in the Palestinian territories:
Dalik Vilenitz: One of the conclusions
from the whole course of the intifada, and we're seeing it now
in the war in Iraq, is the question of'the IDF's image. The IDF
is currently facing problems, one of which is the overseas volunteers.
I'm talking about the ISM organization, whose people are in the
territories, on the combat line. Some of them have been injured,
which has led to strong shock-waves throughout the world. How
is the IDF coping with this matter?
Chief of Staff: First of all, you said
intifada. Intifada, this is the Palestinians' story. I claim
that this isn't an intifada, because an intifada is'a people's
uprising, while here what we have experienced since September
2000 is a proactive attack and a strategic decision by the current
Palestinian decision-maker, who took a decision to embark on
a terror assault against us.
And this is connected to that organization,
ISM, an organization with volunteer activists from all over the
world, who prepare their peace activists, and they came here
after accepting the Palestinians' story. Ostensibly, as they
see it, we are the aggressors and they are the victims. In factual
terms, the ones who started this aggression are the'Palestinians.
Those who initiated the incidents in Rafiah, in a place where
unfortunately two of those activists were wounded, were the Palestinians.
An American woman activist was killed
there by an IDF bulldozer which did not see her and a British
activist was wounded in the head, apparently by our forces, although
we are unable to authenticate this conclusively, who entered
an area where a terrorist was standing and firing at our forces.
One of our snipers fired towards the terrorist who was shooting
at him, in an area where we have responsibility under all the
Israeli-Egyptian agreements.
There are incessant terror operations
there, stemming from the Palestinian terror organizations' need
to smuggle weaponry from Egypt into the Palestinian-held area,
and they now find it hard because of our operations there. And
all of a sudden these activists appear in the area. On the face
of it, they are protecting the Palestinians from us. First of
all, they create the negative image we have, because it certainly
strengthens the Palestinian story, which acording to my understanding
is fabricated in this context.
And as a result of this, they also impede
the operations of our forces. As for the bulldozer story, the
bulldozer was being used in an operation intended to flatten
the ground so the terrorists would not be able to approach the
axis of our action on the Israel-Egypt border...
Their spokesperson says about this that
the bulldozer was supposed to destroy a house and that she was
protecting the house, a lie. Their spokesperson reported that
the bulldozer drove back and forth over the body. We saw the
body, regrettably she was killed, and no such thing happened.
We also encountered an incident in Jenin some time ago, during
operations to arrest an armed terrorist, and he was in the office
of that organization.
I have just given an order to remove
the organization's activists from the area, firstly for their
own benefit--they are endangering their own lives in a superfluous
way--but are also creating provocations that injure our freedom
of action on the ground. And so it's advisable that they get
out of the area.
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