It was in the days of Ehud Barak’s regime, when Barak was
determined to resolve all conflict with the Palestinians through
"negotiated" capitulations and appeasements. When the pogroms broke out
on Rosh Hashana that year, Barak was determined to stay the course.
Then the PLO’s hordes assaulted Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus, which the PLO
had ackowledged to be a Jewish shrine under the first Oslo accord, and
had pledged to protect it and the right of Jews to pray there. When the
PLO brownshirts attacked the shrine in the middle of the High Holiday pogroms,
Barak decided to resolve the problem by asking the PLO to protect the
shrine. When the PLO’s own "police" fired into the shrine, a Druse border
patrolman on duty was badly injured. The medics tried to save him.
Eventually he bled to death on the floor. Barak refused to send in
Israeli troops to get him out. The same Israeli army that had liberated
the hostages held by the PLO in Entebbe Uganda in 1976 was now suddenly
incapable of breaking through the cordons of brownshirts in Nablus to
rescue the soldier.
This much has been known for a year and a half. What is NOT known is
what was going on behind the scenes. THAT was revealed in the Haifa
weekly Kolbo April 19, 2002.
It turns out that while the soldier was bleeding to death, Israel was
trying to get Jibril Rajoub, the head of the PLO’s "police", to rescue the
soldier. The same Rajoub who is daily proclaimed by the Left to be a
pragmatic and moderate man. Rajoub said he would consider rescuing the
soldier in exchange for 50,000 sheqels. Israel reminded him that he was
obligated under Oslo to serve as a force for suppressing violence and
preventing terrorist attacks on Israelis, and was obligated to intervene.
Rajoub hung up. Barak’s people called back, and began negotiating the
size of the payoff Rajoub would get for the rescue. While conducting these
"negotiations", the soldier died. His family now knows that he died
because Israel was playing Let’s Make a Deal with Rajoub, instead of
mowing
down the attackers on the shrine.
And of course the Barak government ALSO knew what happened there. The
only people who DID NOT know what happened were Israeli citizens, until
the press report this weekend.
The Israeli Left still insists that the moderates in the PLO are
reliable and pragmatic people.
Uri Segel is an ex-honcho in Peace Now and an orchestra conductor in
Louisville Kentucky. He had a contract to lead some local orchestras in
haifa and Beer Sheba this month. But instead Segel (spelling?) announced
that he was joining the boycott of Israel because Israel was occupying
palestinian lands, I guess meaning Haifa and Beer Sheba.
You might want to look him up and send him or the Louisville
newspapers a demand that Segel be kicked off of the occupied Indian lands
he is occupying. You could also suggest some creative uses of a
baton....