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A short profile of the winner
 Bassem Eid
is a well-known Palestinian journalist and activist for the human right.
From 1988 to 1995 it wrote articles for the Palestinian newspapers To The-Quds and To The-Nahar. It
published tests on the New York Times, on the Washington Post, on The
Guardian and very other. For the organization for that at present it works,
the Palestinian Human Rights Monitor Group (PHRMG) already published
different report by the way of the difficult situation of the Palestinian
media. Bassem Eid has
working for seven years like researcher for the Israeli organization for
the human right B' T selem. During this period,
has earned international esteem for its untiring activity of documentation.
To recognition of its work it was honored in 1992 of the Prize Emil Grunsweig for the Human Right, aside of the association
for the Civil Right in Israel (BITING).
It is been also honored in 1996 of the prize McGill/InterAmicus
Robert S. Litvak
Memorial Human Rights, for its defence of the
human right. More recentemente, in 1999, the
Advice of the Judges of the Foundation Gleitsman
confer to Bassem Eid
the International Prize Activist , to recognition
of its "long effort to carry the peace in Middle East".
At present Bassem Eid
is director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitor Group (PHRMG),
association been based on in the December of 1996 from an intellectual
group of knowns Palestinian, including limb of
the legislative Advice Palestinian (PLC), directors of newspapers,
journalists, union leader, activists of the human right and religious
leaders. The political composition of the fondatori
of the group is varied - includes limb of Fatah,
PFLP, DFLP, Hamas and independent limb - so this
guarantees the character not supporter of the organization. The PHRGM
dedicated a lot of its work to the control on the violations of the human
right perpetrated also from the Palestinian authority. The PHRGM believes
that although lasting it Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories
and the need of to denounce the too Israeli violations of the human right,
a critical examination of the abuses committed also from the Palestinian
authority is essential to guarantee that the future Been Palestinian is
really democrat and respectful of the human right included that to the free
expression and information.
Lost in a blind alley
I articulate of Bassem Eid,
fondatore and executive director of the
Palestinian Human Rights Monitor Group, Jerusalem East
The
intifada to the-Aqsa is
served only to stretch the division between Palestinian and Israelis
The rapid degeneration of the intifada to the-Aqsa from protest in violence has hard shocked is the
Palestinian that the Israelis. Not only the aggressive reply of Israel to
the rebellion, that includes the use of carts arms, missiles
, bombardieri F-16 and helicopters Apache,
is different from any thing seen from the war of 1967, but also the
resistance arms organized from the fighting Palestinian is a radical
dismissal from the previous one intifada, that
was characterized from the action do not rapes. Entrambe
the parts divide themselves the responsibility for this drift towards the
violence. The Israelis gave back furious the Palestinian people refusing to
apply elements all right precedentemente signed,
included the I release of prisoners , the congelamento
of the activity of installation and the opening of a secure passage between
the West Bank and the strip of Gaza. The Palestinian authority, instead
created disappointment between the Palestinian, seen that the corruption
spread became obvious, and their leader Yasser
Arafat ordered the stopping of important figures of the opposition
representing of groups like Hamas.
To believe that these groups and left hesitate only in their military
shapes is a wrong concezione commune in the west.
In the political sphere Palestinian, it is seen how left of opposition legitimized
whose activity includes the educazione, the
social assistance more than the struggle arms for the freedom of the Palestine.
The explosion of the second one intifada was
provoked from the visit of the prime minister Israeli Ariel Sharon to sl-Haram to the-28 September Sharif
2000. From that moment in then, the politicians of entrambe
the parts incited themselves with declarations that were equivalent to to a pure incitement to the violence, while the
journalism of the Palestinian media and Israelis make harsher the situation
with incendiary articles that have place the Palestinian authority in an
unstable and vulnerable position. To allow that that it happened
it the crucial mistake of Arafat was perhaps. A worse mistake from the fact
that the intifada quite soon had like alone
objective that of itself in all the manners to the ecessive
and brutal Israeli contromisure. Today Arafat is
trying to put fine to the intifada but appears of
unreasonable everything to assume that the return to the status-quo of
before to the-Aqsa can resolve the situation,
from the moment
That the requests of the Palestinian for one vivibile
Been and for the law of the profughi of to return
in their old houses were eliminated from the diary. Even if the Palestinian
authority seems to be in a situation of collasso
– just like the economy - there is, perhaps, still hope. The Israeli
government should realize that if Arafat if goes of it, entrambe
the parts will resent of it. With the cooperation of Israel, Arafat could reconquer the control of the situation, but a change in
the politics is essential.
Israel should respect the boundaries
of everything the areas at present under the Palestinian sovereignty, and
all them
Military raids should stop. The hard restrictions carried out
towards the Palestinian do not offer no proposal,
the destruction of the agriculture is starving a whole people, the
demolition of the houses and of the infrastructures is frightening it, the
political not official Israeli of the political assassinations aimed is
frustrating it.
Only when that everything will finish be able to
begin the negoziazioni.
Outcome here, the intifada to the-Aqsa had not happened, is served only to stretch the
division between Palestinian and Israelis. The hatred between the two parts
grew and the cautious trust and the moderate optimism that characterized the was of Oslo I am entire evaporated.
Arafat does not hold more a mandate populate to negotiate with Israel and
the present Israeli government did not show serious will of engagement of
to take again the neglected negotiations in the beginning of the present
one intifada. We have all heard Sharon ask “seven absolute days of
peace” but Israel same not show do not any real
engagement verse this “stopped the fire”. Sharon continued to order political
assassinations, feeding so the fire of the discontents and provoking the
reply of the Palestinian.
It armed forces continuous Israeli to take of aim areas residenziali
and the infrastructures of the Palestinian authority, specially
to Gaza. The “stopped the fire” that Sharon is asking is unilateral, and
asks for a total control from the Palestinian side while the Israeli
violations you were not laughed. Some scholars predicted that the terrorist
attacks of the 11 September and the consequent war in Afghanistan would have announced a new
order in Middle
East.
We have already heard things of the first type. Also the War of the Golfo would have lead to a new dawn this region.
Unlucky, how it degenerates the situation, so recede the hope to break this
Chain of violence, retaliations and punishments. At present
, entrambe the parts are lacking to give
the necessary dedizione to a peaceful resolution
of this conflict and a solution vivibile seems
still very distant.
An
appeal for the realism
The time for the Palestinian arrived of to recognize the reality in which
live. A national century of struggle and 34 last years to resist the
occupation of the West bank, of the strip of Gaza and of Jerusalem East us
did not still lead to the peace, and the law of car-determination of the
Palestine still was not carried out.
The “trial of peace”, ineffective width, was characterized from the
expansion of the illegal installations Israelis in the territories occupied
and from the costing humiliation of a whole people. The intifada
to the-Aqsa grew to continue of decades of unjustices and discontents and is not risen for case.
The reality in which now we live is that of an unequal struggle in which
the fighting Palestinian, although all their courage, have not some
probability of success against the military forces Israeli. It is a made
reality of thousands of dead, of fruitless appeals to the international
community and to the Arabic world, on which the Palestinian still confide
for the defence of their cause. The international
community show some solidarity for the Palestinian
struggle, but in the kingdom of the politics and of the international
diplomacy, the solidarity has little weight facing the economical power,
politician and soldier of the Israelis and of their allied.
I believe that the violent road chosen from the Palestinian in the intifada to the-Aqsa is
failed. This violence has
Realized alone an opprimente answered military Israeli , and the Palestinian, that have not means to
gain a military victory, paid a very high price in the comparison. The use
of arms from fire aside of the Palestinian darkened the problem and did yes
that Israel and the its
liking foreign be able to justify the disproportionate one “answered”
soldier. Besides, the violence moves the caution of the world from the real
problem, the unjustice undergone from the
Palestinian people, and the Palestinian I am conseguentemente
you retract like a fundamental violent people and irresponsible, a people
with which is not possible itself.
The violence that characterizes the intifada to
the-Aqsa carried to the sudden fall of the
liberal political left Israeli, and a simultaneous oscillation towards the
right hand, authorizing the present government of Ariel Sharon to refuse
every concession or compromised. It is time for the Palestinian people of
to accept this reality and of to direct the struggle towards a more
pragmatic strategy. This does not mean that the struggle to should end.
It is my opinion that the resistance does not rape is the best possible
means to make to end the present
Situation. It not violence do not involves passivity facing the occupation.
To the opposite one, it is able to be a very powerful means of resistance, that asks for much courage and heroism how
much the operations armed. Some actions I do not rape were recentemente organized with success ,
detail those to the university of Birzeit, and show that the Israeli
armies I am not in a position to confront this type of resistance. The
resistance does not rape can include all of the areas of the Palestinian
people.
It not violence would allow to the Palestinian people of to communicate the
actual message in more effective manner and with requests articulated
clearer. You take the old town of Hebron, for example, where 40.000
Palestinian live from months under a tight coprifuoco.
And if every day to 16 , the Palestinian sat
themselves outside from their doors for a hour, bevendo
you and smoking the narghilè, without use stones
or slogan? It has been not this a noisy indifference of the coprifuoco that is plan they?
Certainty, responsibility can guarantee to initially that it armed forces
Israeli has been violent except for, but the message has been clear and
being able: is unacceptable to shut away 40.000 persons in the actual
houses for the safety of 400 Israeli farmers.
It not violence is the more pragmatic road of to resist the occupation.
However, so like the Palestinian should show pragmatismo
in the manner in which resist to the occupation, have to also to be
realistic in the purposes that want to reach across the resistance. Even if
the olp recognized the existence of Israel in 1988 ,
very Palestinian do not succeed still to recognize openly the law of to
exist of Israel.
Personal, and for not alone luck, I believe that a future with Israel is better than do not any
future. The Palestinian should declare a lot clear and unequivocally than
do not do objections on the existence of the state of Israel in the on the
previous boundaries to 1967 , and that the sole end of the intifada to the-Aqsa is the
liberation of the Israeli occupation from the West Bank , from the strip of
Gaza and from Jerusalem East. Occupation more time condemned from the
Nations United.
The future negoziazioni on matters like the law
of to return to live in the territories that a time they were alone
Palestinian should take in consideration also the Israeli interest. To take
a such position is obvious grievous for those
Palestinian, that already granted so a lot, but the time to look at in face
to the reality arrived.
(Trad. Valentina Dirindin, for Information without boundary)
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