AS THE Middle East peace talks get underway again in Washington discontent among Palestinians at their lack of progress is growing. it is easy to see why.
The deportees remain in their tents in no-man's land while Israel intensities is millary and economic repression in the 1967-Occupied Territories. This is leading to growing support for the militant left and for islamic fundamentalists.
No improvement The victory of the Israeli Labour Party and the left Zionist Meretz block in last June's election has not led, as some peace ment in conditions for the PalesWORLD NEWS February by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem showed a 20 per cent rise in Palestinian deaths during the first six months of the Rabin government.
Since the expulsions, over 100 Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli troops, whose open-fire regulations were recently relaxed.
Following an upsurge in Palestinian attacks on Israelis - 15 were stabbed to death in separate incidents during March -the Israeli government ordered a total closure of the Occupied Territories.
Palestinians are no longer allowed to enter Israel, including annexed East Jerusalem, for any purpose (although Israelis, including some 100,000 settlers, are still permitted to cross in the opposite direction).
As a result, about 120,000 Palestinians who had previously worked in Israel have lost their jobs, thus denying income to an estimated 600.000 - about half the population of the Occupled Territories. Palestinians are no longer allowed to enter Israel for any purpose.
Collective punishments, including the use of anti-tank rockets to demolish the homes of family members of suspected intifada activists, have intensified.
The closure of the Occupied Territories has also disrupted their internal communications, separating the north part of the West Bank from the south, and Isolating the Gaza Strip from both.
Access to hospitals in israel, and to the Palestinian Maqassed Hospital in Jerusalem, is denied to the huge number of Palestinlan casualties (in April alone, over 600 were wounded).
The Occupied Territories have in effect been turned into a huge internment camp The increasing repression and the economic strangulation of the Palestinian population, combined with Israel's insistence on its right to carry out further expulsions, lead many to ing out the long-threatened another Arab country, by stealth if not by force.
According to Palestinian academic Dr Adel Samara, the peace talks are merely about the re-ordering of capital in the Middle East: What we are witnessing is the collaboration of all the capitalists of the region, including Palestinians. at the exense o the rights and interests of the peoples of the region. on government controlled towns in north-western Cambodia.
They have already attacked one town claiming the assault to be a people's revolution "against the Vietnamese aggressors and their puppets' in the run up to the Cambodian elections, scheduled for May 23-28, the violence is increasing. An attack on a UN base in the southern Kompong Speu region resulted in the death of a Filipino police officer and the wounding of four Bulgarian peacekeepers a Colombian police officer and a cambodian guard.
At least 13 civilians were killed and dozens wounded when a train was blown up on Cambodia's main railway line and the querillas then opened fire. The Khmer Rouge claim the elections are just a ploy by the West to put the Vietnamese in charge of the country and are refusing to abide by the peace pact they signed in October 1991.
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