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Israel and Palestine: Historical Backgrounds308U.S., the American occupying army in Japan engaged in rape, pillage andmurder, according to Japanese sources (see Saburo Ienaga, The PacificWar, Pantheon New York, 1978, pp. 236f.). For discussion of otherexamples of the treatment of prisoners, collaborators, and other victims ofliberation by the U.S. and its allies, also largely unknown here, seeChomsky and Herman, The Political Economy of Human Rights, vol. II,pp. 32-48.42. Alfred Friendly, “Israel: Paradise Lost,” Manchester Guardian weekly,July 11, 1982.43. Carl Van Horn, Soldiering for Peace, cited along with other evidencefrom UN and Israeli sources by Fred J. Khouri, Arab Perspectives,January 1982. See also Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch.44. Mattityahu Peled, “A burden rather than an asset,” Ha’aretz, Oct. 30,1980.45. John K. Cooley, Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 30, 1970.46. See p. 21, and section 5.2, below.47. For documentation, see Sabri Jiryis, The Arabs in Israel (Monthly Review,New York, 1976). On the possible role of Israeli terrorism in the flightfrom Iraq, see TNCW, p. 462, referring to reports in the Israeli press byIraqi Jews and the account by Wilbur Crane Eveland, who was militaryattaché in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad at the time, in his Ropes ofSand (Norton, New York, 1980, p. 48). See also Rabbi MosheSchonfeld, Genocide in the Holy Land (Neturei Karta of the USA,Brooklyn, 1980, pp. 509ff.); see note 10.48. For discussion and references, see TNCW, chapter 9 (1974, 1982); alsoRafik Halabi, The West Bank Story (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NewYork, 1981) and references of note 1. There are important personalaccounts by Raymonda Tawil (My Hope, My Prison, Holt, Rinehart andWinston, New York, 1980) and Raja Shehadeh (The Third Way, Quartet,London, 1982); Shehadeh, a West Bank lawyer, is also the principalauthor of an informative study of the legal devices and practices of themilitary administration: Raja Shehadeh, assisted by Jonathan Kuttab, TheWest Bank and the Rule of Law (International Commission of Jurists,Geneva, 1980). See also Emanuel Jarry, Le Monde diplomatique, Sept.Classics in Politics: The Fateful TriangleNoam Chomsky