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Institute for Public Accuracy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OCTOBER 22,
2001
1:11 PM
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CONTACT: Institute for Public Accuracy
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020
Norman Solomon, (415) 552-5378
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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Interviews Available
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| WASHINGTON
- October 22 - With Israeli tanks back in Palestinian population centers and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres in Washington, the following analysts are available for interviews:
MITRI RAHEB,
mraheb@annadwa.org, www.annadwa.org
Raheb is pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem and author of I Am a Palestinian Christian.
SIMONA SHARONI,
sharonis@evergreen.edu, www.evergreen.edu/user/copred
Sharoni is professor of peace and conflict studies and Middle East politics at Evergreen State College and executive director of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education
and Development. On an August 3 news release from IPA, she said: "The
targeted assassinations campaign against Palestinian leaders is likely to
provoke a violent response. In fact, one wonders if Israel is using these
illegal attacks to provoke such a response and then use that as a pretext to
reoccupy the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip." She said today: "Now
that the re-occupation of the West Bank is well underway, it is incumbent upon
the United Nations and the international community to hold Israel -- finally --
accountable for its violations of international law. The Bush administration
condemned Israel's actions for the wrong reasons -- fear that these actions
threaten an already weak coalition of Middle East regimes. Americans should
criticize the Israeli occupation on moral grounds."
LINDA BEVIS and ED
MAST, edwardmast@aol.com
Bevis and Mast were in the West Bank in August with the International Solidarity Movement to End the Occupation. They witnessed firefights on the streets of Bethlehem. Mast
said today: "These so-called 'invasions' are part of the continuous
Israeli attempt to terrorize a civilian population into submitting to
apartheid. They go in, beat up and shoot people, and then go back to their
military outposts. Can we call it 'invasion' when the Israeli tanks only move
in a mile and a half from where they always stand waiting?"
YVONNE HADDAD,
haddady@georgetown.edu, www.cmcu.net
Professor with the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, Haddad said today: "Part of the effect of Sharon shelling places like Bethlehem and
Beit Jalla is to pressure even more of the Christian population -- which used
to be 20 percent and is now only 1.8 percent of the Palestinians in the West
Bank -- into leaving. This would have the net effect of making the conflict
more of a Jew-Muslim one."
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