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Robin Hood, incontro con Sharo(g)n(a)

By DAOUD KUTTAB - Friday, February 27, 2004 - Globe and Mail

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Call it Operation Robin Hood. On Wednesday, Israeli troops invaded the Palestinian city of Ramallah. Aided by two computer experts they had detained the night before, the Israelis entered two branches of the Arab Bank and a branch of the Cairo Amman bank and emptied their vaults. Just like real thieves, the soldiers were professional. The first thing they did was cover the security cameras. They corralled the staff into tiny rooms and began the process of unloading the cash from the vaults. They also entered the computers and downloaded the data.

Why label it Robin Hood? Not just because the merry troops wore green fatigues. Rather it was because of the statement made immediately after the heist by Israel's Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz. The loot, as much as $9-million (U.S.), he said, will be spent on "humanitarian goals in Palestinian society," like health services, food and "improving the infrastructure at crossing points and checkpoints."

So there you have it, the army of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, is stealing from two well-respected Jordanian banks in order to improve the conditions at the checkpoints. How much more benevolent can the Israeli occupation be?

As a Palestinian businessman commented, perhaps the banks should erect plaques at the new improved checkpoints: "Sponsored by the Arab Bank," or "Sponsored by the Cairo Amman Bank."

This Israeli heist is not simply a matter of trying to update Israel's list of so-called terrorists, nor should it be seen as part of what they call the war on terror. While allies of Israel might see it as the failure of confidence and communications between the Palestinians and Israel, many Palestinians see this as yet another clear sign of the absence of a rationale for the continuation of the Palestinian National Authority.

Ever since the Israeli army decided to cancel the understanding it had regarding areas of the West Bank under Palestinian security, a vacuum has existed. Israeli soldiers and security forces come and go as they please. The problem is that the Israeli security forces don't stay; nor do they turn over the security powers to the Palestinians when they leave.

The result: In the past few weeks numerous cases of lawlessness have swept the area. Journalists and media organizations have been attacked by unknown assailants, and unarmed Palestinian police have been unable to do anything to stop it. When the television station where I work was attacked a few weeks ago, we asked the Palestinian police to take fingerprints. They laughed and said that their laboratory had been destroyed by the Israelis.

The Israelis seem to have the best of both worlds. They can come in to arrest, demolish and to steal whenever they want, without having any of the responsibilities towards the occupied people. The Palestinian Authority is left to pay the salaries of government employees and to receive the wrath of their own public without having any powers.

The situation can't continue forever. But rather than waiting for Israel to decide whether it wants to stay in the Palestinians' cities and take over the responsibilities of occupation, or to leave them without ever returning, the Palestinian Authority should act. It must have the courage to throw in the keys and remove the pretence that it has any role in the lives of Palestinians.

Daoud Kuttab is director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University in Ramallah.

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