Election provocation in Jericho to exacerbate the conflict.
Gush Shalom Press release, March 14, 2006
At this moment in Jericho, the main elections gimmick of the Kadima Party and its leader Ehud Olmert is taking place
with hundreds of Israeli soldiers and Palestinian prisoners drafted to serve as extras. This gimmick, designed to draw
extreme right votes in the March 28 elections, shows Kadima as an adventurist and irresponsible party in whose hands it
is dangerous to entrust the helm of state” says Gush Shalom (The Israeli Peace Bloc).
In cooperation with the governments of the US and Britain, whose removal of their observers from the Jericho Prison
proves them utterly incapable of any mediation role between Israelis and Palestinians, PM Olmert and Defence Minister
Mofaz are carrying out a provocation which will only exacerbate the conflict and hatred. Theirs will be the full
responsibility for bloodshed of Israelis and Palestinians, in the course of the Jericho provocation itself and in the
cycle of retaliation upon retaliation which may follow.
It should be noted that the people which the army was sent to Jericho to capture or kill are marked out because, when
taking revenge for the targeted killing of their own leader, they did not kill innocent civilians. They selected
Rehav’am Ze’evi, a general turned politician who was the foremost of Israeli racists and who built a political career
upon crude hate propaganda. A targeted killing…”
ENDS