Israeli activist speaks out against Zionist repression

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Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem, was released on bail on March 17, 1987. He had been arrested one month earlier in a televised raid on the Center.

See March and April 1987 Socialist For three years, the Center had printed and disseminated news from the occupied territories, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. The arrest of Warschawsky was the first time the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance of 1948 was used to suppress an The following are edited excerpts of an interview by French revolutionist Alain Krivine with Warschawsky on March 20.

The full interview appeared in the April 6 issue of International Viewpoint, a biweekly English-language socialist maga -Question: What were the official Warschawsky: The decree of the Israeli general police commissioner who closed the Center intimated that the Center was a front run and financed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) of I was charged with "rendering services to an illegal organization." The decree provides for penalties of up to 10 years in Question: What is the objective of the First, they wanted to hit an institution against the Palestinians. In this regard, the Israeli left. On this level, the operation that has managed to gain a certain closing of the Center was linked to the credibility, even with the official press, and shutting down of several Palestinian Question: What has been the reaction has used this credibility to unmask the to the closing of the Center in Israel? Why reality of the occupation, of the repression, The second objective, without any doubt, and of the resistance of the Palestinian was to try to reconstruct national unity—or Warschawsky: Even the members of at least to paralyze the opposition-by the security services that carried out the More recently, we have systematically once again waving the peril of the interrogations couldn't hide their surprise at exposed the Israeli-Jordanian maneuvers "terrorists," who supposedly infiltrated the the flood of solidarity in Israel and abroad Socialist Action Action./ Israeli journalist. zine published in France.

reasons given for your arrest. prison.

Israeli government in this case?

Warschawsky: The closing Center and my arrest had two objectives. population. of the central journals hostile to Jordan. failed miserably. did the government release you? arrest.

and from famous writers. dangerous "terrorist." restrictions. solidarity now? for the occupation forces.

Question: What is the situation now? for which the date has not yet been set. dropping of all charges against me.

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