[WCUSP] raid into Ramallah

[yvonne simmons]

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/he/channels/press_releases/1167948733
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The deadly raid in Ramallah is an aggressive and
dangerous provocation. This is not the way to build a
cease-fire, nor anyway helpful to advance peace.  

At the very hour when the Prime Minister of the State
of Israel held with the President of Egypt a meeting,
which is supposed to bring us back on the route to
peace, somebody had decided to send soldiers,
bulldozers and helicopter gunships to conduct a deadly
midday raid into Ramallah. The largest Israeli force
to enter this city in the past four years conducted a
prolonged gun battle in Ramallah’s main square, in
front of international TV crews, and killed four
Palestinian inhabitants. It was an act of heavy-handed
aggression which immediately wiped out Olmert’s
so-called “gestures” to President Abu Mazen (none of
which, incidentally, was carried out).

Either somebody deliberately intended to create a
deadly provocation, or it was an unbelievable show of
stupidity and incompetence. In both cases, the dire
result is the same, as is the conclusion: this is not
the way to build a ceasefire, and certainly not the
way to advance towards peace. If the deadly IDF raids
into the West Bank cities are not stopped, there will
also be no quiet in Sderot and on the Gaza Strip
border, and all of us will sink deeper into the abyss
of hatred and bloodshed.

For further information: Adam Keller, Gush Shalom
Spokesperson adam at gush-shalom.org

 


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