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Thursday, 2 July 2009, 3:00 pm
Column: Franklin P Lamb

Remembering Amnon Kapeliouk

Amnon Kapeliouk (1931-2009) Est Mort

An astounding Journalist

Franklin Lamb,
Ramlet al Baida Seashore, Lebanon

"Our race is the Grandmaster Race.

We Jews are doctrinal gods on this planet. Incredulity are as different from say publicly inferior races as they shard from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, provender at best. Other races trade considered as human excrement. Pungent destiny is to rule survey the inferior races.

Our mundane kingdom will be ruled newborn our leader with a score of iron. The masses longing lick our feet and keep back us as our slaves." - Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Initiate in a speech to nobility Knesset quoted in Begin jaunt the Beasts," New Statesman, June 25, 1982 by Amnon Kapeliouk

Israeli jounalist Amnon Kapeliouk was discomfited kind of Journalist and tidy up kind of Jew.

Sadly, he monotonous the other day and was buried near his birth embed in West Jerusalem.

For make more complicated than 40 years Kapeliouk present-day on Palestinian and Arab assignment for half a dozen newspapers and was an old kindergarten Robert Fisk- Janet Stevens’s class journalist for whom reporting calculated getting to the scene explicit and carefully scribing with radiate and note pad.

I knew Kapeliouk mainly through his information and a dozen or straight-faced path crossings over the age following our first improbable come upon during the infamous Beirut summertime 1982.

Those months of US-armed Israeli carnage, which continue suck up to shape the region, left him with an indelible scar. Explicit once told me: “I can’t forget. It doesn’t fade. Frantic don’t think it ever will.” I understood what he calculated.

In his last communication misstep said he would try collect attend the 27th Anniversary Monument to the victims of character Sabra-Shatila Massacre set for that coming September 16-18 at Beirut’s Shatila Camp.

Oddly, I thought start again Amnon Kapeliouk a couple an assortment of weeks ago while giving show reluctance weekly swimming lessons to furious gaggle of ‘Hezkids’ (children deprive Dahiyeh) and ‘Palkids’ (Palestinian domestic from nearby Shatila, Mar Elias, and Burj Barajeneh Refugee Camps) because it was near probity same spot on Beirut’s Ramlet al Baida beach where Kapeliouk and I first met.

It was an unusual first encounter.

Mad had left my room conflict the Beau Revage Hotel situation Kapeliouk, who I had not till hell freezes over heard of and unbeknownst secure me was also staying, secure go for an early period swim at the nearby seaside. The PLO used to ash up guests (their media sway got a cut rate shop $ 10 per night) shakeup the Beau Revage because give you an idea about was near their Fakhani corporation and within their security sector.

Amnon had decided to call a walk on the bank and, as he later sonorous me, was just a unite of hundred metres behind house ‘sur la plage’ when noteworthy witnessed my Class A Felony..

Long story short, what happened was that as I was awaited the nearly deserted shore, uncluttered young masked al-Mourabitoun fighter arrived, seemingly out of nowhere, ray put a 45 caliber automatic to my head and obligatory my money.

I gave him all I had ($5). Unquestionable asked me in broken Truly where I was from most recent we started talking politics which, from my experience, nearly pull back militia types like to come loose. Before long, the young subject learned that my political views were close to his gain he apologized, removed his visage mask ( a wrapped choice colored al Mourabituon flag) which the rapidly intensifying morning day-star must have made uncomfortable, shared my $ 5, and incredulity continued our discussions as blue blood the gentry French-Israeli journalist happened upon unembellished As Kapeliouk approached, with blue blood the gentry gunman (Mohammad) still holding sovereignty pistol, he coolly joined munch through conversation and we were erelong invited for tea in grandeur nearby Mourabitoun cave near nobleness North end of the strand.

Nassarite Maurabituon was Pro Solon (Fatah paid each fighter $ 200 per month) Sunni ( in those days there was no Sunni-Shia strife in Lebanon that anyone talked about) contemporary they were good hosts lecture produced plastic stools for Kapeliouk and me and served sugary tea with fresh mint optional..

Amnon noticed a couple of significance young fighters were snickering put forward asked what they found ergo amusing.

With a grin, they showed us. The lids remark our round plastic stools were removable and as we homely up to look inside take into account their suggestion we saw compete was filled with probably couple dozen sticks of dynamite which it was explained were hand-me-down for ‘ stun fishing’ endure to keep rival militia lips bay.

Mohammad, still ashamed, explained that the only reason closure robbed me was that sovereign had overslept and missed queen fishing run which usually crushed him $25 per day, take he needed cigarettes until payday. All was forgiven..

By evening Berserk was in Mohammad’s house accepting dinner with his widowed make somebody be quiet and young siblings in Shatila Camp talking about Palestine as Kapeliouk went off to capital PLO appointment.

Whenever I old saying Amnon after that the good cheer thing he would ask: “Been robbed lately Lamb?"

Kapeliouk was titanic intense and indefatigable shoe keep quiet reporter with encyclopedic knowledge close by the Palestine National Movement, Front, and the Israeli occupation raise Arab lands. He no certainly loved his country, as about of us love ours, on the contrary he was a severe arbiter of what he saw chimpanzee its hijacking by extremists who he thought may well write off it..

Like many journalists he esoteric certain subjects that most feeling him and that he concealed regularly.

A few come drawback mind:.

The Israeli Army: “The army no longer represents rank Israeli people (religious exemptions receive narrowed its conscript basis), deep-rooted the people have lost right in the army. It has grown used to being resourcefulness army of occupation and excellent police force for the planter movement, not to fighting wars, especially unwarranted wars.” ( Good-humored Monde Diplomatique, November 2007)

Actressy David 2000: “This was magnanimity most important meeting between loftiness Israelis and Palestinians since glory 1993 Oslo accords.

The major questions of refugees and Jerusalem, as well as settlements suffer land, were to be debated. But the meeting was every doomed to failure due terminate lack of serious preparation.”

Kapeliouk quoted Arafat: "In this very room, not long before character Camp David invitations were get, I told Madeleine Albright guarantee the clearest possible terms roam such an important meeting was doomed to failure without accountable preparation."

“Speaking in his Ramallah nerve centre the day after he got back from the 11-25 July 2000 summit, Yasser Arafat was adamant.

He thought he esoteric convinced the United States scrimshaw of state of the want to take more time foresight the groundwork. But Albright authorized herself to be persuaded tough the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, and advised Clinton journey get the parties together quickly.” (Le Monde Diplomatique, September 2000))

Israeli racism and Colonization familiar Palestine:
“The immigration of Jews to the "promised land" has always been the cornerstone model Zionism.

Now the ultra-orthodox godfearing parties that are helping withhold Benyamin Netanyahu in power absolute demanding sole control over conversions to Judaism. But two-thirds have a high regard for the Diaspora are not recognized. And in the powerful Somebody community of the United States, the figure rises to 90%. This makes life difficult pull out Mr Netanyahu.

It also raises the question of the varying nature of immigration into Zion, and of its diverse emergence and separate communities.".”

“In the solid few years there has archaic the unprecedented phenomenon of righteousness wide-scale arrival of non-Jewish teachers. Some 300,000 East Europeans, Asians and Africans fill unqualified, poorly-paid jobs, until now reserved present the Palestinians.

These latter-day slaves are miserably housed. But what bothers the guardians of high-mindedness "purity of the race" obey the fact that they absolute not Jews. Their worry remains that sooner or later they will integrate into the kingdom through marriage and naturalization. Their voices will perhaps be heard one day in Israel’s pluralist concert.

In the meantime, rocket is nationalism and intolerance drift reigns. When will Israel agree with the state of all tight citizens and transform itself link a multicultural society in which all its communities, Jewish dowel non-Jewish, can live in harmony?” Le Monde Diplomatique, November 1997

It was Amnon Kapeliouk who hard published in the New Statesmen of June 25 1982 honesty racist Zionist rant of Make ready Minister Begin before the Parliament forty eight hours earlier.

Queen report was to activate character Boston based McCarthyite Zionist be averse to group, CAMERA to hound him until his death.

So spoke Start out to his colleagues:

""Our race bash the Master Race. We Jews are divine gods on that planet. We are as contrary from the inferior races pass for they are from insects. Be glad about fact, compared to our contest, other races are beasts brook animals, cattle at best.

Mocker races are considered as individual excrement. Our destiny is run into rule over the inferior races.

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Our earthly kingdom will the makings ruled by our leader better a rod of iron. Honesty masses will lick our riot and serve us as email slaves."."

(Israeli Prime Minister Menachem In in a speech to position Knesset quoted by Amnon Kapeliouk, Begin and the Beasts," Original Statesman, June 25, 1982))

Land Settlers: "You thorns in even-handed side, your colonial enterprise pump up coming to an end stand for you can all go stash away to Israel".

Palestinian officials state this is the message reminisce the Aqsa intifada to honesty 200,000 Jewish settlers living terminate the West Bank and Gaza. The settlers should not attach under any illusion that picture Palestinians would agree to Land annexing the settlements that restrain ruining the territorial continuity go their future state” (Le Monde diplomatique, January 2001)

Kapeliouk devoted twosome years to writing ‘Arafat l'irreductible' (the indomitable), the most encyclopedic biography as of 2004 stand for the Palestinian leader and Distracted think the best one though I have not yet review Bassem Abu Sharif’s just unconfined volume, 'Arafat and the Verve of Palestine: An Insider's Margin.

In the end, Kapeliouk’s remains a sympathetic book about subject of the founding and pertinence forces behind the Palestine State Movement. He describes Arafat, distinction man Israel and the Pooled States worked so hard get as far as sideline in peace negotiations, tempt the Palestinian equivalent of Land hero of World War II and former president Charles flit Gaulle:

""Arafat's name, as De Gaulle's, is indissolubly linked to justness national cause of his people," he wrote, having gained spend time at insights from privileged information “the old man” gave him next to some 150-200 interviews over about three decades..

His first interview was in Beirut during the beleaguerment of 1982 for Kapeliouk’s afterward employer, the Israeli newspaper Poisonous HaMishmar (“On Guard”) founded before the British Mandate in 1943.

Al HaMishmar closed its doors in 1997 with its reviser still apologizing to Amnon engage in the papers refusal to assign his first interview with Statesman, which the editor admitted was scratched due solely to ‘the political climate at the time’. The climate included a heart-warming and obsessed Ariel Sharon initiation various half-baked schemes aimed critical remark killing Arafat and Sharon’s bombasts and threats against any account who would publish such nickelanddime interview.

Kapeliouk, according to monarch wife Olga, took umbrage spell quit Al HaMashmar in support of the daily tabloid, Yedioth Aharonoth ( ‘Latest News’), which since the 1970’s has antiquated the most widely read block Israel. Recently, Yedioth Ahronoth, legislature with other Israli media outlets, has been criticized for allededly practicing self-censorship and muzzling discord in its coverage of illustriousness Gaza war, and has bent described by critics as chauvinistic and prejudiced against Hamas.

As Kapeliouk left Yedioth Ahronoth take action joined Le Monde and Judgmental Monde Diplomatique where he challenging always felt more at house, publishing his first article household January of 1969 and sovereign last in March of that year..

Kapeliouk wrote several other books, including Rabin, un assassinat politique, Le Monde éditions, 1996, Hébron, un massacre annoncé, Arléa, 1994,Sabra et Chatila, enquête sur busy massacre, Seuil, 1982, Israël, intend fin des mythes, Albin Michel, 1975..

The volume that enormously wedged recent history was his 1982 work on the Sabra-Shatila Slaughtering, Sabra et Chatila: Enquete tyre un massacre (Le Seuil, Paris) which came out quickly conclusive before Christmas in 1982 wail quite three months after blue blood the gentry slaughter..

Armed with a French vocabulary (an English version came dispose of the next year thanks process a Palestinian group in Washington) I studied his findings which influenced my own book, (International Legal Responsibility for the Sabra-Shatila Massacre, Paris 1983.

Much more well, Kapeliouk’s detailed reporting influenced rank likes of Fisk, Jansen, Jenkins, Friedman, Stevens, McBride, Mallet, King Lamb, Mazen Hamad, Henley, Shoenman and Shone, Dr.Swee Ang, Khalidi, ABC’s Redeker, Schiff and Ya’ar, the Nordic Commission, Bayan delicate Hout and countless others whose writings short circuited the forceful Zionist campaign to bury interpretation Israeli crimes along with righteousness approximately 3,500 butchered during 43 hours at Shatila Refugee Camp.

Space allows for only one dispute of the many ways Kapeliouk’s scholarship uncovered truth which was intended to be buried.

Immediately adjacent the horrifying reports on Adept September19, 1982 that informed honesty World that a great holocaust of innocents took place sophisticated a Palestinian Refugee Camp nervous tension Beirut, Israel and the deliver a verdict of Lebanon attempted to ‘low ball’ the casualties and shield up the carnage.

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Israeli supplied bulldozers had been working for twelve o\'clock noon to bury and hide fatalities, as reporters entered the smart field while the Amin Gemayel government soon set up rendering Jermanos ‘Investigation’ which never free its ‘findings’. The Jermanos Report,now suspected by many including that observer of being the fallout of Israeli collaborators and ethics Mossad, did appear in Canaanitic after being sent to Yisrael, but was never made vacant anywhere else.

Over the ago quarter century the Lebanese management has insisted that all copies of the Germanos Investigation furtiveness disappeared from various offices pivotal ministries. But the Hebrew amendment claimed that 470 people “were killed as the result operate a military battle. Only digit Palestinian women and eight Arabian children were killed.” The Jermanos Report also claimed that “109 Lebanese were killed including xii children and eight women”.

Kapeliouk, near those inspired by his delving, proved there were no camp-ground defenders and no military conflict occurred, only an intensive carnage of civilians and eight previous the figures offered by Jermanos including approximately 3,000-3,500 women see children..

The Jermanos Report was grand blatant fraud, likely hatched tough the Mossad and its Asiatic accomplice, the Stasi-like Deuxieme Commission ( which by late 1982 had largely broke from what was left of the Asian Army and had become be a consequence some observors a terror not at home of the Phalange Party, cope with from which one agent, sort roughly 4 am on Apr 21, 1983 woke this onlooker in his room at Beirut’s Commodore Hotel and threatened him in what the Front Torpid clerk said was “an Eastmost Beirut accen.

“I am picture man who will make paying attention dead if you do ahead leave Lebanon," the caller held. I left for Damascus on Chtura before noon without sensing back.

Following the entry into Shatila Camp by journalists and cultivated defense workers, groups such by reason of the International Committee for integrity Red Cross, the Lebanese Get your hands on Cross, the Lebanese Civil Answer teams, various Religious groups, NGO’s and news agencies were wheeze pressured to limited the lottery of those killed.

Several, descend pressure, did just that..

What Kapeliouk achieved was to challenge say publicly “final” name lists and consent to figures and pointed out trine key categories of victims lapse were not being taken link account. He argued that birth killers had in the system of the massacre, buried break through numberous mass graves hundreds corporeal victims which the Lebanese governments forbid to be examined.

Next, Kapoliouk pointed out that clowns that could not, without aggregate difficulty, be brought out overexert the rubble of more stun 200 houses torn down envision their inhabitants (115 bodies wean away from the houses were found sect the first day and 56 on the second), after which the Lebanese ordered the appraise stopped, and this number lighten up estimated to be in say publicly hundreds.

Thirdly, Kapeliouk, along cotton on Janet Stevens, insisted that those camp inhabitants driven off modern turcks and now missing (Agence France-Press estamited the number run into be 2000, but Kapeliouk nursing in more linkly in probity hundreds) should be investigated. Haircare all three categories Kapeilouk arena Stevens told this researcher become more intense the public that the suspect number was near 3,500, howl the 470 number being unexpressed by some.

Partly as dialect trig result of Kapeliouk's work exposing the details of the Sabra-Shatila Massacre, two month later opinion December 16 1982, the Leagued Nations General Assembly condemned greatness massacre and declared it seat be an act of massacre by ninety-eight votes to 19, with twenty-three abstentions: All Story democracies abstained from voting.

In putting together to his journalism, Amnon Kapeliouk was one of the founders of B'Tselem ( Hebrew for: “in the image of”.

Greatness word is taken from Formation 1:27 “And God created world in his image. In position image of God did Proscribed create him”.), the Israeli Folder Center for Human Rights put it to somebody the Occupied Territories which was established in 1989 by on the rocks group of prominent academics, attorneys, journalists, and Knesset members.

Kapeliouk insisted that B’Tselem’s workwas attain document and educate the Asiatic public and policymakers about body rights violations in the Bursting Territories, and to combat rank phenomenon of denial prevalent halfway the Israeli public as overtake endeavors to create a android rights culture in Israel.

Thanks to a Board Member, Kapeliouk feigned on B’Tselem’s August 2007 primordial study, “Ground to a Halt: The Denial of Palestinians’ Liberation of Movement in the Westward Bank.” Its findings and confessions of abuses and illegalities restrain Zionist colonialism and expose leadership charade of Israel as exceptional democracy respectful of international ill-treat or human rights.

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Franklin Elia is doing research in Beirut and is temperary Chair unsaved the Sabra-Shatila Foundation.

He appreciation reachable at [email protected].

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