“ALL ISRAELIS ARE ‘SETTLERS’”
[Note by Tom Gross]
I attach an example of the daily IRNA (Iranian government) news bulletin, to show how prime Middle East news sources continue to refer to all Israelis as "settlers", whether they live in Tel Aviv or the West Bank – as in the sentence "since the outbreak of the intifada against Israeli apartheid… nearly 250 Israeli soldiers and settlers were killed by Palestinian guerrillas" and "a Jewish settler" was killed in the West Jerusalem suicide attack last week. Such references are the daily norm in most of the Arab and Iranian media.
“PALESTINIAN GUERRILLAS ATTACK ZIONIST OCCUPATION SOLDIERS”
Palestinian, settler killed in fresh guerrilla attack in Palestine
IRNA
January 28, 2002
Palestine-Tel Aviv-attack /WRD/
Palestinian, settler killed in fresh guerrilla attack in Palestine
A Palestinian guerrilla on Monday attacked Zionist occupation soldiers and settlers killing one and injuring four others before he himself was killed in an exchange of fire with the police.
Police sources said the guerrilla, a 24-year-old man from a village near Tulkarm, ran over a soldier and a settler near Tel Aviv, causing moderate injuries to both. One of the men reportedly died later in hospital.
Earlier, the same guerrilla ran over another soldier at an Israeli army roadblock south of Qalqilya, wounding him seriously. The guerrilla continued driving his Subaru towards Petah Tikva north of Tel Aviv. He reportedly pulled the 79-year-driver out of the car without harming him only to discover that the old man's wife was in the back seat. When she screamed, he peacefully let her go.
The man later was killed in an exchange of fire with the police. Observers in Palestine notice that there is a growing number of Palestinian youths, men and women alike, who are psychologically willing and ready to sacrifice their own lives to resist Israel's murderous oppression of the Palestinian people.
On Sunday, a Palestinian female university student from al-Najah University carrying a suitcase loaded with explosives blew herself up in West al-Qods killing herself, a Jewish settler, and injuring scores of Israelis.
In its rabid efforts to bully Palestinians into submission and surrender, the Israeli occupation army is imposing a hermetic seal on all Palestinian population centers in the West Bank and Gaza, which Palestinians complain has reduced their towns and villages to virtual concentration camps.
Israel, with the United States at its beck and call, refuses to end its decades-old military occupation and apartheid in Palestine, forcing Palestinians to rise up for freedom.
Since the outbreak of the intifada against Israeli apartheid and occupation nearly 16 months ago, the Israeli army and paramilitary Jewish terrorists murdered nearly a thousand Palestinians, a third of them children and minors. In the same period, nearly 250 Israeli soldiers and settlers were killed by Palestinian guerrillas.