Title: Black flags in Ramallah: of war and transfer
Author: Uri Avnery
URL: http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery03102003.html
Abstract:
The author discusses his experience of visiting Ramallah in an attempt to know from the Palestinian civic leaders about the dangers threatening the Palestinian population in case of an American attack on Iraq. He observes that there will be a prolonged closure and curfew in all the occupied territories, preventing Palestinians’ access to food, medicines and hospitals. Israel may increase the acts of ‘transfer,’ which means the mass expulsion of the Palestinian people from Palestine, as happened in 1948 and 1967. As all the acts constitute war crimes under the Geneva Convention and other international laws, the author calls on the Israelis to take up every step to prevent such acts from taking place, which, he believes, a patriotic duty of the highest order.
