Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 12:32
PM
Subject: How about Israeli
compliance with international law?
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The Editor,
The Guardian Weekly
May 7, 2001
Dear Editor:
Mr. Michael Berger, in defending Israeli
policies { letter, May2-9} speaks in praise of Ehud Barak's " unprecedented
offer" to Yasser Arafat. How about Israeli compliance with international
law and repeated Security Council resolutions and complete
Israeli withdrawal from the illegally occupied West Bank, including
East Jerusalem, and Gaza strip, that has been allowed to stand for 34 years?
Israel's record as to the violations of
Palestinian human rights is phenomenal and surely cannot be defended. This
includes, arrest and imprisonment with charge or trial, torture, demolition of
homes and entire villages, eg. Imwas, Yalu and Beit Nuba [my own hometown],
expropriation of property and creation of illegal settlements, in violation of
virtually every article of The Fourth Geneva
Convention.
He speaks of Palestinian refugees
"leaving voluntarily". We thought this myth has been completely
demolished by verifiable records and Israel's own historians.
I think it is time for Israel's apologists to
look at Israel's record and call for justice for the dispossessed
Palestinians.
Yours sincerely
Ismail Zayid, MD.