[fse-esf] the war of lies

[Yannis Almpanis]

Press release by the Solidarity Association to the Palestinian People 
INTIFADA

Website: http://www.intifada.gr e-mail: victory at intifada.gr


Facing the brutality of the invasion and the lies of the propaganda

International solidarity to the peoples of Lebanon and Palestine

Israel continues the extermination of Lebanese and Palestinians. Having the 
assured alliance of the USA and the consensus of the UN and the EU (Greece 
included) the mighty Israeli military machine attempts to pulverize the 
Arabic resistance while imposing a new status quo in the Middle East. It is 
rather needless for someone to try to present the incredible infliction that 
Palestinians and Lebanese suffer. The television scenes consists undeniable 
proofs of the Israeli crimes. Maybe it would be more useful to try to impose 
a barrier to the fusillade of the propaganda’s falsity through which an 
ethical and political justification of this dirty war is attempted.

They say that Hezbollah’s ambush and the arrest of Israeli soldiers was an 
act of war and therefore Israel is in defense. But they are forgetting to 
say that Israel the entire previous period had been practicing an orgy of 
war actions: The dead people in Palestine after the end of the second 
Intifada and the cease-fire of Hamas have exceeded 700, the prisoners are 
close to 10.000 (half of the Palestinian Authority’s cabinet included), the 
infrastructure in Gaza and in the West Bank have become ruins, and of course 
the occupation is sustained as usual. Furthermore, the continued detention 
of Lebanese prisoners of war “does not” consist acts of war (some of them 
imprisoned since 1978) and the occupation of parts of Lebanon (the so called 
blue zone);

They say that Hezbollah and Hamas want to destroy the state of Israel  and 
therefore the Israeli army must reply to the threat. They are forgetting 
though to say that it is ridiculous for someone to claim that a state that 
owns up to two hundred nuclear heads is threatened by two organizations. 
Besides the fact that Nasrallah told in Al Jazeera  that Hezbollah’s aim is 
the liberation of the lands that Israel occupied in 1967 and that Hamas 
accepts in  effect the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state beside 
Israel, the Arabs are accused that they would like to do what Israel is 
doing in a daily bases. What Israel is daily doing is to destroy the 
Palestinian Authority and along that the prospect of a sovereign Palestinian 
state. Along that it destroys now the state of Lebanon in the moment that it 
was rectified. Even Orwell would stand aghast.

They say that the prospect of peace was subverted by the extreme Islamists. 
But they are forgetting that the key to open the door of peace in the Middle 
Peace was, is and will be in the hands of Israel. And that key is no other 
than the creation of a truly independent and sovereign Palestinian state in 
the entire Gaza and the West Bank, as well as the withdrawal of Israel   
from all the Arabic territories occupied in 1967 (Golan, blue zone). As long 
as Israeli governments continue the occupation attempting through the Wall 
of Shame to annex the most fertile lands of the West Bank and East 
Jerusalem, no peace in the Middle East will ever come.  And the reason for 
this is not the “age-long hatred between Arabs and Jews” but Israel’s 
rapacity.

In order to focus in our continent, they say that the European Union and the 
Greek government are keeping “equal distances” towards the conflict. They 
are forgetting though to say that it is unethical to keep equal distances 
towards the immolator and the victim. They are also forgetting that these 
distances are not so equal: The prime minister in his declaration imposed 
provisions to
 Lebanon to stop the conflict, the commercial transactions has 
been multiplied and, foremost Greece has signed “defense” (i.e. military) 
cooperation agreement with Israel. The Greek foreign policy more and more 
coincides with the USA, more and more becomes supportive to Israel.

In 1982 referring to the battle in Beirut Yasser Arafat had said the 
unforgettable “we wrote History with our blood”. Today, after 24 years, 
Lebanese and Palestinians fighting for their land are rewriting History in 
the same way. But now they do not only fight against the panoply of the 
invader but also the propaganda industry that assassinates the truth.

Athens 24/7/2006

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