BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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working hours organizing and attending protests against the
Golan withdrawal.
Our leaders, in order to save their corrupt skins, will exploit
and terrify the people without conscience. They will, in the
name of criminal coverup, put Israelis through deep agony
over their future, threaten the homes and livelihoods of
anyone who gets in their way, and thoroughly waste their
time and energy for no reason. Eventually, when the Rabin
family demands for a new investigation were but a distant
memory, so too was Barak's Golan withdrawal plan.
That should only be the story of Gush Katif and Northern
Samaria.
As is the case at all of these annual book fairs, I meet the
general public and inevitably, people pass on invaluable
information and contacts to me.
This year was no exception. A young man was nearly drafted
to be a government snitch and told me how the recruiting is
going on. "Someone claiming to be from the Prime Minister's
office called me, and offered me a great job paying 3000
shekels a week. I'm sixteen with no job skills, so I knew the
offer was suspicious."
A water engineer, Jacob Wolfowicz, presented me his
findings on the proposed plan to raze Gush Katif and build
high-rise housing for a million people. The sewage would
flow untreated up the Israeli coastline, and force the
abandonment of all beaches and adjacent housing.
But the best information of all came from a legal source. On
the first evening, he told me, "You can beat this Eskin in
court. He has admitted to being a Shabak agent in court. In
1998 he went on trial for burning down Peace Now's
headquarters in Jerusalem. He got off the arson charge in
part by testifying that he had worked for the Shabak. He told
the court that he had worked for the Shabak but things didn't