Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 9. April 24 1978
The Zionist Record
The Zionist Record
"When the Israeli leaders use international platforms to indignantly protest the Palestine Arabs justification to fight for their rights in their homeland, they should be reminded of their own Zionist record of how they aquired the homes, lands and country of those whom they now now call "terrorists". They are the Last entitled to condemn — or even complain against —acts of terrorism and violence, kidnapping and holding of hostages, sending letter bombs and murder, because they were the first to indulge in such practices.
"To this repertoire, they, as a state establishment, have, since 1967, added such refinements as torture, collective and area punishment, expulsion and deportation, destruction of property and confiscation of Arab owned land in the occupied territories," 7
Since Dier Yasin the dispossessed Palestinian Arabs have had no other option but to take up arms to regain the land that was once theirs. Israeli orchestrated world outrage has been directed against such incidents as Munich, Ma'aiot and the recent Al - Fatah raid along the Tel Aviv/Haifa highway. Besides the fact that the numbers of casualties involved here are small, (more civilians were killed in a single day's air raids over Lebanon in December, than in all these more celebrated incidents) they were a consequence of Israeli refusal to negotiate release of Palestinians in Israeli jails.
The Palestinian "terrorists" were trying to bargain with the only thing they had left. In a hideous fashion it makes sense for the Israelis to keep a hold on their 3,000 political prisoners and engender international sympathy by having a few of their citizens perish as martyrs.