Al-Mithaq [Archives:2005/884/Press Review]

3 Oct. 2005
Main headlines

– The GPC calls on political parties to bear their responsibilities and the Islah party admits: the woman is a problem

– 200 thousand gas cylinders, stock of the capital secretariat, providing reserve quantities of liquefied gas for Ramadan in the governorates

– A court and police specialized for preservation of waters

– Large numbers of al-Houthi followers released

Columnist Dr Abdulaziz al-Maqaleh writes saying no sooner the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza Strip had taken place than the citizens of the strip were surprised by return of the Zionist occupation forces to it and the attack on buildings and business shops, the attempt to kill the people and destruction of everything I the city. The people of the city of Gaza and the world have been deceived in thinking that the city has become free. The question is that whether by withdrawing from Gaza Sharon was intending to begin a step for the peaceful solution and that he wants peace and by that action he was showing preparedness to respond to the world's call for putting an end to suffering of the Palestinian people or was he deceiving the all and preparing for a war of annihilation of the population of Gaza? A number of observers were skeptical I the step of withdrawal and view it was an exposed introduction, proceeding in their view from several considerations and most important of which is that Sharon was never in any day a man of peace and would never be. He is the notorious killer who had built his reputation on killing and destruction and the massacres of Sabra and Shatilla against the Palestinian children was his passport to the Israeli political arena and his credentials to be the prime minister of this entity. The massacres of the past days have disclosed that Sharon is the same Sharon and some of the Arab and Islamic states that unconsciously rushed run behind his deceit; it has become clear that they were too hasty in their optimism and in the measures they had taken for being closer to the Zionist entity.

Certainly, the war launched by the Zionist occupation on Gaza and the large-scale arrests in the West bank were not a surprise but for those who were mistaken in thinking the withdrawal an indication of good will and a beginning of a new stage preparing for the establishment of the Palestinian free and independent state.
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