Making facts, not peace
White, Patrick
obviously being used as part of Iraq's domestic missile program. On June 8, 1990, Kloske sent a proposal directly to Robert Gates, outlining the expanded application of the Missile...
...In the Gaza Strip where there are nearly 700,000 Palestinians, the average Palestinian consumes only 1 percent of the water used by the average Jewish settler...
...This is my heartfelt message Life is not goods to sell, Life is dignity, freedom, and soul...
...He has contributed to the Nation and Newsday...
...Yet, when Gates helped Wdliam Casey prepare testimony for delivery before the House and Senate Intelligence committees, on November, 21, 1986, Gates apparently did nothing to alter Casey's misleading assertions about Iran-contra...
...Was he compelled to preserve an ongoing connection with Baghdad that began in 1982 with the secret Casey visit...
...Robert Gates received intelligence advice in December 1990 that consignments of military goods from U.S...
...At the time of Secretary of State James Baker's visits round the Middle East in March and April, and in particular, on the occasions of his stays in Israel, significant changes continued to take place in the occupied territories...
...PATRICK BARNARD Patrick Bamard is a Canadian journalist specializing in international affairs...
...Luke's Gospel in the grotto of the Nativity...
...There are now 90,000 Jewish settlers on the West Bank, 3,500 in the Gaza Strip, 110,000 in East Jerusalem, and 25,000 on the Golan Heights...
...Knock at the door, open your eyes...
...to chart a more secure course in the Middle East...
...Second, questions about Gates's decisions concerning Iraq provide a unique opportunity to clarify the historical record, and the means, perhaps, for the U.S...
...Let us tread the new road of peace A new world awaits...
...Question: Since Robert Gates knew about this movement of goods, why did he not act to enforce the UN embargo...
...From the shambles of Deheisheh Refugee Camp, Taha can see evidence of this with the increasing number of Jewish settlers' cars speeding on the Hebron road as the settlers' population continues to grow...
...An official named Charles Eugene Allen works as the national intelligence officer for warning at the CIA...
...Open your eyes Give me some of your care, some affair, Pick yourself out of the silence...
...To date 80 percent of the West Bank's water is used by the Israelis and the Jewish settlers...
...PATRICK WHITE Patrick White is a Christian Brother teaching at Bethlehem University...
...he would be arriving in thirty minutes...
...Israeli control of all the natural resources of the occupied territories through the illegal imposition of 2,000 military orders is accelerating, particularly as the number of Russian immigrants grows...
...companies were being trans-shipped to Iraq via Jordan...
...WHOSE WATER...
...On October 1, 1986, Allen, while working as an intelligence chief on a classified CIA project, personally informed Robert Gates (then deputy director) that money from arms sales to Iran had been diverted to finance the contras in Nicaragua...
...Television cameras at the numerous road blocks should film the indignities inflicted by the Israeli army each day on the thousands of Palestinians desperately trying to get to work, to school, to go about the normal business of living...
...At the same time that brand-new houses for settlers are built on confiscated land, Palestinians are unable to obtain licenses to build their own homes...
...No one of working age in Taha's family is employed...
...First, Gates was both a professional at the CIA and a member of the Casey team...
...In reading the passage the friar emphasized the words "peace on earth...
...Yet Allen's warnings about the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait were apparently shunted aside in July 1990...
...Gates knew all about Allen, and his proven reputation for stumbling on remarkably accurate information...
...Question: Why did Robert Gates reject the rational demand for control of dangerous technology exports...
...Baker was quick to notice this and remarked that the Franciscan's prayers would do more than his own efforts in reaching a peace in the Middle East...
...MTCR is a strict monitoring system aimed at countries with the potential of developing nuclear missiles...
...4. The refusal by the National Security Council in December 1990 and January 1991 to crack down on trans-shipments of U.S...
...Baker be able to prize open the door...
...Meanwhile four of the other Palestinian universities remain closed...
...On the porch an Israeli secret service man informed him that Mr...
...Question: Did Robert Gates know about the Allen warnings in July 1990, and did he play any role in down-playing their significance...
...The wall still stands And the heart is full of sadness...
...Concurrent with this rapid confiscation of the land in the occupied territories has been the continued establishment and enlargement of Jewish settlement on Arab land...
...IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES lgA l o NOT l gAClg WHOSE LAND...
...The situation was strikingly similar to the one during Iran-contra...
...Israeli Government officials announced that 250,000 new homes will be built in the occupied territories within the next two years, some of these houses with money promised by the United States government...
...The Gulf War is over but the situation in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza has deteriorated and the catastrophe of the Palestinian people continues...
...During and since the Gulf War, the Israeli military authorities have prevented Palestinians from going to work and hindered their farmers and industrialists from moving raw materials and finished products to and from their usual markets...
...The de-Arabisation of the occupied territories involves not only the confiscation of the land and its settlement by Israelis, but also the expropriation of related resources...
...Students with authorized permits tell me that soldiers confiscate them and proceed to tear up the cards or throw them away...
...Four years later, in July 1990, Charles Allen reportedly issued three warnings that Iraq would invade Kuwait, and his first alarm was issued at the beginning of the month...
...Knock at the door, open your eyes, There is a rose waiting, a rose, Is the door still closed...
...The scores of attendant soldiers and agents were outside the small place and out of earshot...
...The ad hoc committee of international NGOs reports that 70,000 dunums of land (1 dunum=l,000 square meters) were expropriated in the period between Mr...
...Work opportunities in Israel itself have markedly declined as the Russian immigrants have taken over the jobs Palestinians used to fill...
...The confirmation hearings for the Gates appointment are important for two reasons...
...This seems to be part of a deliberate policy by the Israelis to "create facts on the ground" and to disrupt further any chances of a just peace process...
...Is there more breathing room for you, for me, for all...
...The public must ask themselves if they wish the CIA to continue the Casey Ixadition, in any form whatsoever...
...Of the portion of the original land of Palestine left to the Palestinians in 1948, over 60 percent of the West Bank and 40 percent of the Gaza strip have now been confiscated by the Israeli occupying power in defiance of intemational law and UN resolutions...
...He is the author of Let Us Be Free: A Narrative Before and During the Intifada (Kingston Press), and a frequent contributor to the Tablet (London...
...Allen specifically told Gates about the actions of Oliver North...
...Since the Gulf War, sixty-nine Palestinian homes have been demolished and eighteen sealed by the Israeli military authorities under the questionable charge that their owners lacked licenses to build them...
...Though our university in Bethlehem is open, only 70 percent of the students can reach us and some of those only with great difficulty...
...He had just spent the day with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Israel...
...He is a professional trouble-shooter whose job is to raise alarms within the national security community about political emergencies around the world...
...Will Mr...
...Could he, an American friar, show Mr...
...Don't hold your emotions inside your heart...
...military goods to Iraq via Jordan, shipments which were in contravention of the UN embargo...
...An American Franciscan friend of mine who lives and works at the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem was taken by surprise recently as he played the organ in St...
...Stripped of their patrimony, Palestinians are forced to leave the rural regions to find jobs in the urban areas already oversupplied with workers...
...Arbitrary control over the drilling and distribution of water by Israel has retarded Palestinian agricultural development and hydrotogists estimate that 60 percent of the Palestinian villages are without local sources of water...
...his poetry is not in any way exceptional...
...Baker would make a lightning visit to the basilica that evening...
...Baker around...
...they are among the 50 percent unemployed in the occupied territories as a whole since the Gulf War...
...Robert Gates flatly turned down the Commerce Department proposal, even after Saddam Hussein, in a televised speech on April 2, 1990, threatened "to make the fire eat up half of Israel...
...First, there has been an acceleration in the illegal confiscation of Palestinian land to 390: Commonweal create new Jewish settlements in the occupied territories...
...Baker, my friend informed me, looked haggard and tired...
...On June 8, 1990, Kloske sent a proposal directly to Robert Gates, outlining the expanded application of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) to exports destined for Iraq...
...Later, when the secretary of state arrived, the American Franciscan read with him the nativity passage from St...
...During both December 1990 and January 1991, on the very eve of the Gulf conflict, the Bush administration decided not to prevent shipments to Jordan...
...Knock at the door Open your eyes, Voices call you every day Don't turn your face away...
...Meanwhile hundreds of Palestinians remain in the squalor of refugee camps, many since 1948, with little hope of obtaining respectable homes...
...Mr...
...Baker's first and second visits...
...Don't feel bad--We all have to learn from our mistakes...
...Why does ignorance still hold sway...
...Catherine's Church: one of his confreres called him saying the Israelis were at the entrance of the church and wanted to see him...
...Was he obeying orders from above, and from whom did they come...
...14 June 1991:391...
...Please open the door so we can live...
...Very limited water reserves are of vital importance in this add land, particularly as increasing demands are being made on them...
...What is the new world order for Taha Qarageh...
...5. Advance warnings about Iran-contra and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait...
...But the writer, Taha Qarageh, a Muslim Palestlnian student at Bethlehem University, should be heard for there is reason why he is desperate and deeply distressed as he suffers yet another four-day, twenty-fourhour curfew at Deheisheh Refugee Camp in Bethlehem...
...But this is not all...
Vol. 118 • June 1991 • No. 12
