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  Wednesday  October 30  2002    12: 05 AM

The Wolf Who Cried Wolf:
Charging Anti-Semitism and Extending the Iron Wall

For this is the shadow cast by the Iron Wall, Zionism's long-standing policy towards the Palestinians, which has led to a half-century of systematic expropriation, ethnic cleansing, massacre, torture, incarceration, and occupation of the native. When Zionist theoretician Ze'ev Jabotinsky first formulated the doctrine of Iron Wall in 1923, he laid the question of colonialism bare. He understood that "The natives will always struggle obstinately against the colonists," as they are bound up with their land with the "true fervor that any Aztec looked upon his Mexico or any Sioux upon his prairie." Given that the Palestinians "will struggle against colonizers until the last spark of hopeis extinguished," Zionism must ensure "there is no hope left, until we have removed every opening visible in the Iron Wall." Force was to be not only a pre-condition but the condition for Zionist success, via the Iron Wall.
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The army must stop the olive thieves

It would be a mistake to regard the settlers' robberies of Palestinian villagers' olive harvests as merely another serious crime. This collective theft signifies a change in the current military conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and is a revolution in the history of the settlements in general. For the first time in the current conflict, Israelis are stealing and confiscating Palestinian food. Even if they won't admit it, it can be seen as laying the groundwork for Transfer, not by the state but by a group of settlers. In Yanun, south of Nablus, most of the residents have already been forced to leave their homes.
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The tangible fear of transfer

Before Jewish fascism takes over