Closure – a
punishment?
Yassir Arafat claims that the closure of the borders
to Palestinians is a collective punishment. Well, it is not.
When Arafat calls for Jihad his people
understand it in its true sense. His ''explanations'' in the CNN are false, and
do not reach the Arabs in Gaza or Ramallah.
When Arabs and Jews alike hear the war slogans from Arafat,
when one of his top senior officials burns the Israeli flag, when in
Arab demonstrations slogans ''promising'' blood are heard, when Hammas activists
with blood on their hands and who were supposed to have been arrested by Palestinian
police lead – in front of TV cameras – anti Israeli demonstrations, we, in
Israel have the right to assume that we cannot rely on Arafat for our
defense. We have to protect ourselves from any risks. The protection calls inter
alia for the closure of the borders. True, workers cannot come in, but
neither can murderers who were supposed to have been arrested but walk freely,
encouraged by Arafat’s call for Jihad. With all fairness, ''our'' blood is more important than ''their'' income.
We are not punishing the Palestinians. We are protecting the
Israeli’s.
Zalli Jaffe.
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