When are you gonna call Israel "terrorist"?

[ For the attention of all those who call people's struggles "terrorist": WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO CALL ISRAEL "TERRORIST"? ]

In the last week alone, Israel deprived another Palestinian refugees of their homes, demolishing them. Yesterday the radio "Voice of Palestine" was dynamited. All you had to do was watch TV to see the terrorist methods used against the radio station. First, Israeli tanks surrounded the station, then soldiers of Tsahal units went in and placed explosive charges on every floor. The result was to completely destroy "Voice of Palestine" radio, or rather, to smother it.

Doesn't Israel fit definitions of "terrorism"?

You are toiling over definitions of "terrorism". So you treat as "terrorists" revolutionaries, anti-fascists, anti-imperialists and anti-capitalists, all those who fight oppression. You publish "lists of terrorist organisations". You condemn as "terrorist" every form of struggle for rights and liberties and any anti-fascist resistance.
Now, the violence used by Israel against the Palestinian people is completely in line with the definition of "terrorism" that you use. Isn't your "definition of terror" valid for terrorist states? The peoples of the world know the answer well! If Israel is not "terrorist", then there is nothing in the world that deserves the name.
In your definition, you speak of "using violence to create fear; designed to inhibit or intimidate the population, destroy the economy and infrastructure…" It is plain that Israel commits such acts, and with the greatest savagery. Israel publishes lists of people to kill and then uses every kind of weapon. When the Zionist state does not succeed in killing a target, it puts pressure on the Palestinian Authority to arrest that person and detain him or her. Israel has exiled thousands of people and is relentless in destroying dwelling places in refugee camps. Israel uses tanks and missile launchers to strike buildings in the Palestinian Authority, to strangle the economy and stifle the voice of Palestine…
Israel kills women, children and old people with its weapons which spit out death. In 2001 alone, Israel killed 240 children. The State of Israel does not even bother to disguise its terrorist attacks. The most striking illustration of this is the way it filmed its attack on the radio station. Afterwards Israel broadcast these images to the four corners of the world to challenge, intimidate and terrorise the Palestinian people and indeed the entire world.

WE ASK YOU THE QUESTION; when are you going to call the Israeli state terrorist? How many times will we have to witness Israel carry out attacks, destroy houses and murder children before you see fit to condemn this terrorist state? Will Israel have to invade Europe like Hitler did before you get round to calling it "terrorist"?

We wish this in the name of the Palestinian people and our own people

We ask that you call Israel terrorist, not only in the name of the fraternal Palestinian people who suffer from Israeli terrorism but also in the name of the peoples of Turkey whose heart beats as one with the Palestinian people.
You who "define ideas of terrorism", who publish "lists of terrorist groups" and who at the same time talk of democracy, rights, justice and liberty, WE CALL ON YOU;
- to declare the State of Israel and those who run it to be terrorists;
- to confiscate the property of the terrorist State of Israel and to block bank accounts in our country belonging to that terrorist state;
- to freeze all the commercial ties which feed terrorism by the state of Israel and which you maintain with that state.
- To issue search warrants and warrants to arrest the directors of the terrorist State of Israel, and to proceed with arrests
- To close down all the consulates and embassies of the State of Israel for engaging in "terrorist activity"

We call for real terrorism to be recognised for what it is

If you talk of "terrorism", here is the State of Israel.
If you talk of "international law", here is the State of Israel which embodies lawlessness and illegality.
You who, in the name of "rejecting all forms of violence", declare as "terrorist" all the people's struggles, we want to see you oppose Israel, to see your defence of human rights, the meaning you give to democracy, to law and to your rejection of violence.
Your blind indifference to this real terrorism can only confirm that you have renounced all the principles which you claim to guarantee.

arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)