<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Black October of Ehud Barak: Decade to the Slaughter of Palestinians in&nbsp;Israel]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">October  2010. Ten years have passed since the slaughter of the Palestinian  population in Israel, a slaughter orchestrated by Ehud Barak and, let’s  not ever forget, Professor Shlomo Ben Ami. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Two  days prior, in areas around mosques and throughout the West Bank,  primarily near the checkpoints, the Israeli army slaughtered tens of  young, unarmed  Palestinians, later resulting in the use of small arms  by the Palestinian police in order to protect their children. The  timeline here is extremely important as there are few events the Israeli  government has so grossly distorted, and not by chance.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In  essence, everything began in August 2000: Ehud Barak is interested in  burying the Oslo peace process once and for all, a process he opposed  from the first day. Before Binyamin Netanyahu attempted to stop the  process, but his right-wing positions were a liability: everyone  expected this and President Clinton put on the pressure. In order to  eliminate the Oslo process, there was a need for a “left-wing” person  elected by the peace camp on a seemingly anti-Netanyahu platform of  “peace”.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Indeed,  in August 2000 Ehud Barak explodes the talks with Yasser Arafat, but  not without first preparing a media team, the job of which was to place  blame on the President of the Palestinian Authority for this explosion.  The propaganda work was well planned and successful: for two years, the  entire world spoke about  Arafat’s rejection of Ehud Barak’s “generous  offers” and only after two long years was it possible to hear Clinton’s  advisor Robert Malley and the (Israeli) journalist of French channel 2,  Charles Enderlin, putting the picture straight. Too late. Eventually  even Barak would admit that the picture was more complex than “rejection  of the generous offer”.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">One  of the victims of Ehud Barak&#8217;s big lie was the Israeli “peace camp”,  which collapsed and died within one week and has yet to return to life.  Although elected thanks to mobilization of the Israeli peace camp, Ehud  Barak did not like them, and he always preferred the settlers, whom he  dubbed “my dear brothers” over the softies of Peace Now.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ehud  Barak’s plan was to succeed where Binyamin Netanyahu failed, and to  dismantle both the Palestinian Authority and the Oslo process or, in  other words, to reoccupy the few achievements of the Oslo process. This  “reoccupation” was both geographic – end to Palestinian autonomy and  resurrection of Israeli military control over the entire West Bank and  Gaza Strip, and political – an end to “reciprocity” which began to be  created between the state of Israel and the Palestinian Liberation  Organisation, and the extended ruling powers that the latter attained.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In  the eyes of Netanyahu, Yitzhak Rabin was a traitor – and Netanyahu’s  incitement resulted in his killing as a traitor; in the eyes of Barak,  Rabin wasn’t a traitor but a naïve person who believed the Arabs and  thus endangered the existence of the state of Israel (“a villa in a  jungle” he said in an interview) through the concessions he made, and  primarily those he intended to make to the Palestinians within the Oslo  process framework.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Netanyahu  jammed the process, Barak eliminated it and Ariel Sharon orchestrated  the re-occupation, with blessings from the government of George Bush  within the framework of the neo-conservatives’ global preventative war.  This is the reason that I insist on erasing from the political  dictionary the misleading concept, in my opinion, of a “second  Intifada”: Intifada means uprising, and the 1987 Intifada was indeed an  uprising, a popular Palestinian initiative. What occurred in October  2000 is not a Palestinian initiative but an Israeli one, not an uprising  of the occupied population but an intentional, pre-planned attack of  the Israeli colonial regime, to which the Palestinian population  responded with the meager means at its disposal including, after a time,  the use of light weapons by Palestinian police.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Between  30 September and 4 October 2000, tens of young Palestinians were killed  in Jerusalem and near the checkpoints in what can be defined only as  shooting practice of Israeli sharpshooters against young rock throwers.  Only with the pressure of the mothers did the Palestinian police decide,  later on, to make use of the weapons at their disposal. Ehud Barak  attained his goal: now it was possible to reoccupy the West Bank and  Gaza Strip (and to finally end the Oslo process), and no one beats Ariel  Sharon in completing a job.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">However,  before the government passed to Sharon, Ehud Barak managed to “burn  into the minds” of the Palestinian minority in Israel. One of the  results of the Rabin government was a substantial change in the position  of Palestinian citizens of Israel and partial recognition of the need  to “limit the gap” between them and the Jewish majority. “Not equality,  for we are a Jewish state,” Rabin said to Palestinian Knesset members,  whom he needed to promote the “peace process”, but “less inequality.” He  promised and produced. Budgets were allocated to the Arab  municipalities, developments plans were finally approved and most of all  the state of Israel recognized, for a moment, the existence of the  Palestinian national minority and its legitimacy in the state.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The  slaughter of October 2000 had one message: “the party is over!” Don’t  forget that you are a tolerated minority whose rights are dependent on  loyalty to the state of Israel, according to the rules determined by the  Jewish majority. Does this sound familiar? It was not Ivet Liberman who  invented “no loyalty, no citizenship”, but Ehud Barak and Shlomo Ben  Ami, in the blood that was spilt in October 2000. Indeed, after he again  determined that Israeli is a Jewish state and put the Palestinian  citizens back in their “place”, Barak could make time for the  elimination of the Oslo process, through his close friend Ariel Sharon.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ten  years later, with the many thousands of dead and destruction of  everything that was built in the previous two decades, Barak Obama is  attempting to advance the policies of Clinton. In Jerusalem, however,  neo-conservatism still reigns.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Translated to English by the Alternative Information Center (AIC)</span></span></p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/blogs/michael-warschawski/2894-black-october-of-ehud-barak-decade-to-the-slaughter-of-palestinians-in-israel-">Black October of Ehud Barak: Decade to the Slaughter of Palestinians in Israel</a>.</p>
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