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"Don't Be Deceived, Don't Be Betrayed"
 AmNote on the WTC/Pentagon Attacks: Why Cut Off A Hand When You Can Cut Off The Head! Osama bin Laden warned three weeks before the World Trade Centre attack that he and his followers would carry out an unprecedented attack on the U.S. for its support of Israel. Somehow this warning went unnoticed by U.S. intelligence agencies, even though it was published in the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi, an Arabic-language weekly news magazine. President Bush's goal of eliminating all terrorist organizations should also include the Jewish state of Israel. For example, the recent assassination of a Palestinian leader by an Israeli death squad put American citizens at risk during the operation in which missiles were fired into the building where they were living. And, the booby-trap bomb the Israeli army planted in the Gaza Strip that killed five Palestinian children. This is terrorism! Israel incited the World Trade Center and Pentagon airliner attacks by using U.S. military aid and hardware to commit war crimes against the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip—places which Israel occupies in violation of international law. Also culpable for the WTC and Pentagon attacks are the U.S. government official that allow Israel to use U.S. military aid and equipment in such a fashion. As Israeli military reserve officers recently revealed, the military not only encourages excessive violence against Palestinians, the Israeli military orders it! For example, the military orders soldiers to shoot Palestinian children that throw rocks and stones at Israeli occupation forces. And Israel retaliates for suicide bombings with jet and helicopter attacks on civilian targets in the Gaza Strip. And the Israeli military assassinates Palestinian leaders in the West Bank. Israel's excessive use of force not only fuels the fighting in the Middle East, it fuelled the 9-11 airliner attacks on the United States, since the U.S. finances Israel's terrorist attacks on Palestinians and other Arab people. Why cut of a hand when you can cut off the head! And so Osama bin Laden came after the U.S. And what does Israel do, instead of trying to ease tensions? Its leaders met in Jerusalem to consider adopting an even more robust military response to recent Palestinian attacks! The Jews can't control themselves, since they lack the capacity to do so. America must stop the vicious cycle of violence in the Middle East by pulling the plug on U.S. foreign and military aid to Israel, by not selling military equipment to them and censoring those who do, and by forcing Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip! As long as the U.S. both supports Jewish terrorism, the Israelis will continue to make Americans the object of reprisals, like 9-11. Will President Bush do what is necessary to protect American citizens? Unfortunately, he doesn't have the political courage nor conscious to do it. The war on terrorist would be easily won, if George W. Bush disavows Israel by stopping the foreign aid used to fund terrorism in the Middle East and by cracking down on U.S. Jews that also fund Jewish terrorism there. But instead, President Bush decided to allow Ariel Sharon and his Jewish thugs to invade Jenin, and other towns in the West Bank, and massacre hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinian refugees using U.S. made tanks and weapons, thus generating more worldwide hatred against the U.S. and the American people. Is this Bush's answer to terrorism; to allow the Israeli Jews to terrorize and kill innocent Palestinians in their own occupied homeland? Why did President Bush hesitate for so long before condemning the Israeli military incursion into the West Bank? The only explanation is that George "Wanted Dead Or Alive" Bush is allowing the Jews to kill Palestinians as retribution for the 9/11 the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon! And, in the process of paying back all of Islam, Bush has created a new generation of enemies for America. One can only hope that the people of Islam understand that the American people are themselves the victims of Israeli propaganda spread by our Judas politicians and the Jewish news media in the United States. After a week, President Bush finally ordered Sharon to immediately withdraw Israeli troops from the West Bank. Three weeks later the Israeli troops are still there. How does that make the U.S. look in the eyes of the world, when Bush allows Sharon to defy him? Both George Bush and Colin Powell have become Ariel Sharon's pawns! They continue to say that the present situation in the Middle East is caused by the suicide bombings in Israel by Palestinians. While, in fact, it was caused by Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount on the eve of the last Israeli elections in order to intentionally incite an uprising, the Intifada, so that he could get elected Prime Minister! The PBS Frontline program "Shattered Dreams of Peace" revealed that Arafat pleaded with the then Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, not to allow Sharon's visit to the the Temple Mount, since he knew that if the "Butcher of Beirut" went to the Temple Mount it would cause problems. Barak didn't listen to Arafat's wisdom. Sharon's visit caused more than just a problem! Yet, Bush, Powell, and even Thomas Daschle are echoing Sharon's demand for Yasser Arafat's removal and replacement as the head of the Palestinian Authority, because he can't stop the Intifada that Sharon purposely started! Will the real Ariel Sharon please stand up! Who makes U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East? Ariel Sharon does! How's this for irony: Arafat tried to stop the violence in the Middle East before it started, yet he has to go and not Sharon who started the violence there! Sharon is the problem, not Arafat! Bush, Powell, and Daschle hope that by removing Arafat, Israel will get the peace settlement they want rather than the rightful settlement the Palestinians deserve; the complete withdrawal of the Jews from all lands seized by the Jews in the 1967 Six-Day War, as required by international law, and the immediate formation of a Palestinian state. The land belongs to the Palestinians not the Israelis! Israel doesn't want peace, it wants the land in the West Bank in order to fulfill its promise that all Jews who wish to come to Israel can do so, as revealed also in the Frontline program, "Shattered Dreams of Peace". America is paying the price so Israel can keep promises it had no right to make! Bush's and Powell's concern should be what is best for the American people and not Israel— and that isn't brokering a peace deal that favors the Israelis over the Palestinians, but rather protecting Americas from further retaliation as the result of Israeli terrorism in the occupied West Bank! Americans must be careful not to let the Jewish media incite the U.S. into doing Israel's dirty work for them. President Bush and Colin Powell rightly attacked al Qaeda for carried out the Airliner Attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. But, should the U.S. adopt the goal of eliminating all terrorist organizations in the world? Such a goal will only create more enemies for America. The U.S. doesn't seem able to handle its own enemies, never mind those of Israel, such as the Hamas. President Bush was quick to freeze the assets of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for allegedly financing the Hamas. But, will Bush be so quick to freeze the assets of the ADL and other Jew organization that fund terrorism against Arabs in the Middle East and in the US? For example, the Jewish Defense League (JDL), lead by Irv Rubin, the league's chairman, and Earl Krugel joined in a conspiracy to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, a center of worship for southern California Muslims, and the offices of Congressman Darrell Issa, a first-term congressman of Arab extraction. Where does this money come from? How about the Hollywood Jews for one source, and rich Jewish American corporations and individuals as other sources. This same money also funds Israel's terrorist attacks on Palestinian in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Will Bush crackdown on these financial sources of terrorism? By the way, it was awfully nice of Israeli Intelligence, aka, the Mossad, to help the FBI in the Holy Land Foundation investigation in Texas. Up until now, the Hamas has been the enemy of the Jews in Israel and vis-à-vis. But, President Bush may have succeeded in also making Americans the target of the Hamas, beside the al Qaeda. The Hamas hates Jews with good cause. Do Americans really want the United States to become a substitute target for the racist, Jewish state of Israel? In Israel, Arabs and Christians are third class citizens, and even some Jewish sects are considered as the second class citizens. The airliner attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon would not have happened, if were not for the U.S. Government's support of Israel in the Middle East. As Lily Galili of the Haaretz said, 'No Israeli seriously believed by electing Sharon it would bring peace. But they did believe he would deliver security.'. Unfortunately, Sharon's extravagant use of force in the Middle East to make Israel secure has come at the expense of America's security in the form of 9-11, since, without U.S. funding, Israel would be hard pressed to carry out its aggressive crackdown in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, because of the poor economic conditions that exist in Israel. It does take a military genius to know that in order to stop Israel's military aggression in the Middle East, it is necessary to stop its source of support, the United States. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stated that America should not expect Israel to make concession to the Arabs in order to help the U.S. form a coalition of nations against bin Laden. To quote Sharon about the US-led coalition, he said, "Our clear, unequivocal message is that this will not be at our expense." "If you ask me whether Israel will make concessions so that one Arab country or another will take part in the coalition, the answer is an emphatic no." "We will not pay the price for the establishment of this coalition." Well, the Americans on Flights 11, 175, 77, 93 and those Americans in the World Trade Centre and Pentagon have paid the price for the United States Government's misplaced support for Israel! Israel's arrogance is unbelievable, since Israel owes its very existence to the generosity of America. Should we really care about a country that gives a rat's ass about the U.S. and Americans? What are the Jews doing when we need them? What are they doing to help the United States? Well, the Israelis are doing what Jews do best, being arrogant and self-serving by comparing U.S. pressure on Israel to support a coalition, that includes the Arabs to the Allies', to the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia at Munich to the Nazis in 1938. In fact, Israel is doing everything in its power to sabotage the U.S. coalition. For example, just after the September 11 airliner attack on America, Israel invaded a large tract of Arab land on the West Bank and turning it into a "closed military area", an action that directly violates international law. And after Sharon's defiant "Czechoslovakia" speech, the Israeli army lead an incursion into hills above the West Bank town of Hebron. White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said, "The US is not doing anything to appease the Arabs at Israel's expense." In other words, the U.S. Government is not doing what is in the best interest of America, but rather what is in the best interest of Israel, while Israel does what is in its own best interest, which is contrary to the best interests of the U.S.! Isn't it obvious that America's relationship with Israel has always been one-sided? It would be in the best interest of the United States to end our ties to the self-serving and treacherous Jewish state in order to protect American citizens. The facts prove—from the USS Liberty to Apollo, PA to Jonathan Pollard—that trusting Israel has only sets up the American people for betrayal!  TV Captured the Terror, Here And In New York —The Washington PostA major terrorist attack against the United States unfolded live on national television this morning, as news cameras captured one of the two planes that plowed into the World Trade Center in New York, the collapse of those twin towers, and the collapse of a portion of the Pentagon. Millions of Americans had been watching morning news shows just before 9 a.m. when broadcast and cable news networks broke in to report that a plane had hit the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. In those first minutes, as cameras captured black smoke billowing from the high floors of one tower, it was not clear that the first crash was part of a terrorist attack. Cameras were still trained on the 110-story spires when, 18 minutes later, a second plane veered into the second tower, setting off a fireball midway up that building -- footage that was replayed repeatedly throughout the morning's chaos. A producer from CNN, Rose Arce, reported people jumping from the World Trade Center and described the chaos overtaking lower Manhattan, the Associated Press reported. But footage of the pandemonium on the ground did not begin airing until later in the morning. Meanwhile, cameras still glued to the towers caught their collapse, within minutes of each other. [click here to continue] FBI Links Hamas To Charity In Texas; US Freezes Asset In AntiTerror Fight —The Boston GlobeThe leader of a large Muslim charity attended a mid-1990s event where $207,000 was raised for Hamas and the keynote speaker urged the crowd to "finish off the Israelis; kill them all," according to an FBI memo. The memo also detailed 1993 meetings between officials of the militant Palestinian group and the charity, the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, to discuss fund-raising for families of suicide bombers. The Treasury Department used the FBI memo as grounds to freeze Holy Land's assets and raid its offices this week. Holy Land officials denied the government's accusation that they funneled money to terrorists. They promised to fight the freeze. Several prominent American Muslim groups called on President Bush to unfreeze Holy Land's assets and said shutting down the foundation would damage America's credibility with Muslims around the world. Working with Israeli intelligence, FBI investigators concluded in a 49-page report that Holy Land leaders were Hamas members and that the charity was the primary US fund-raising organ for the militant group. [click here to continue] Bush Shuts Hamas Links —The AdvertiserThe US's fight against terrorism moved to the Palestinian-run Hamas yesterday when the Bush Administration shut down the offices and froze the financial assets of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. President Bush, saying the foundation supported Hamas, also blocked the accounts of two Palestinian banks - Beit el-mal Holdings and Al-Aqsa Islamic Bank - said to be controlled by the terrorist organisation. "The message is this: Those who do business with terror will do no business with the United States or anywhere else the United States can reach," the President said. "Hamas is an extremist group that calls for the total destruction of the state of Israel. It is one of the deadliest terrorist organisations in the world today."[click here to continue] Militant Zionists Charged Over LA Bomb Plot Jewish Defence League —Financial Times (London)The leader and a senior member of the Jewish Defence League, a Los Angeles-based militant Zionist organisation, were charged yesterday with planning to bomb a mosque and the offices of Darrell Issa, a first-term congressman of Arab extraction. The men, Irv Rubin, the league's chairman, and Earl Krugel were arrested on Tuesday night as a package of explosive powder was delivered to Mr Krugel's home. Federal Bureau of Investigation officials said all the other components necessary for making two bombs, including lengths of metal pipe, were found at the house in Reseda, California, along with several firearms. According to an informant, who reported to the FBI from the time he was asked to join the conspiracy, Mr Krugel said "the Arabs need a wake-up call". Mr Rubin allegedly said "people needed to know the JDL was alive" and active. The arrests may have averted the most aggressive response yet to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, which has prompted attacks on and abuse of US Muslims, turban-wearing Sikhs, and people of "Middle Eastern" appearance. The FBI said the informant was invited to join the plot in October. He was told at the outset that his job was to place a bomb at the offices of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, in Wilshire Boulevard, a busy thoroughfare from the coast to central LA. He later learned the targets would be the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, a centre of worship for southern California Muslims, and Mr Issa's offices. [click here to continue] Irv Rubin, 57, JDL Firebrand, Bomb Suspect —The Daily News (Los Angeles)Jewish militant leader Irv Rubin died Thursday, 10 days after authorities said he tried to kill himself in the downtown federal jail where he was being held on charges of plotting to blow up a mosque and the office of a Lebanese-American congressman. Rubin, 57, who had been in a coma and was declared brain dead after the Nov. 4 suicide attempt, died at about 11:45 p.m. Wednesday, said a spokeswoman at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. The cause of death was not immediately available. Family and friends have questioned the circumstances of his death and are calling for a full investigation. His family is considering filing a civil suit against the federal government in his death, their attorneys said. "The government couldn't wait to bury Irv Rubin. They pronounced him dead last Monday. ... They couldn't wait to call him dead," said JDL spokesman Brett Stone. "I don't think the Jewish community is going to realize how much he did for it. ... A lot of people misunderstood him, they didn't know the real Irv Rubin." Authorities have said interviews with witnesses - including officers and inmates - left no doubt about the cause of Rubin's injuries. They said he slashed his throat with a razor and fell about 15 feet off a balcony. He and fellow JDL member Earl Krugel had been in jail since December, accused of plotting to bomb a mosque and the office of Rep. Darrell E. Issa, R-Vista. Hospital personnel initially said Rubin had died in surgery, said Rubin's attorney Bryan Altman. Lawyers in turn told Rubin's family that he had died. [click here to continue] Arafat Agrees To Call A Truce —The Times (London)Hopes of a resumption of the Middle East peace process rose yesterday after Yassir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, responded to an appeal by Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister, and instructed his followers to observe a ceasefire. At the same time, however, Israel said that it would not "pay the price" for the formation of a global antiterrorism coalition by making concessions to the Palestinians, despite pressure from the United States. In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Mr Sharon said that Arab countries would "use this opportunity to pressure Israel and say that what is bothering them is that Israel did not make concessions to the Palestinians". But he said that the formation of the US-led coalition "will not be at our expense". He said: "If you ask me whether Israel will make concessions so that one Arab country or another will take part in the coalition, the answer is an emphatic no." [click here to continue] Israel Defies Western Appeals Over 'Closed Military Area' On Arab Land —The Independent (London)Israel has openly defied Western pleas to avoid extending its conflict with the Palestinians in the aftermath of the attacks on the United States by confirming that its army is to turn a large tract of Arab land on the West Bank into a "closed military area". The decision, which violates international law, has deepened the growing belief among European nations that Ariel Sharon, Israel's Prime Minister, is undermining Washington's plans to recruit Arab and Islamic states into a coalition. Mr Sharon has made clear he does not intend to adapt Israel's policy towards the Palestinians to accommodate international pressure to cool off the conflict so as not to deter Arab countries from joining the American drive to crush those behind last week's terror attacks. In interviews to mark the Jewish New Year, Mr Sharon said: "Our clear, unequivocal message is that this will not be at our expense." The worry among the Europeans is that Israel's increasingly harsh tactics will inflame the conflict, stirring up emotions in countries, such as Egypt or Jordan, with close ties to the Palestinian cause. This does not appear to have deterred Mr Sharon, who has launched a drive to equate the terror against the US with atrocities suffered by Israelis in its long territorial dispute with the people whose lands Israel occupies. [click here to continue] Sharon's Cheap Shot;
Israel's Leader Won't Seek Peace To Please Bush —Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIn the aftermath of last week's terrorist outrages, some of the most meaningful expressions came from Israel, whose citizens often have been the victims of indiscriminate terrorism. But Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, has been sending a less kindly -- and more self-serving -- message to Washington in recent days: Israel will not "pay the price" for an effort by the Bush administration to enlist moderate Arab nations in a united front against the architects of last week's attacks. The price Mr. Sharon has in mind is negotiations with Yasser Arafat, a longtime nemesis of Mr. Sharon's. "It is inconceivable to grant [Mr. Arafat] legitimacy because someone thinks that might facilitate the inclusion of Arab countries in this coalition," the prime minister told an Israeli newspaper. Matching deeds to words, he forbade Shimon Peres, the foreign minister in Israel's national unity government, to hold talks with Mr. Arafat about a new cease-fire -- despite President Bush's plea that Mr. Sharon authorize such a meeting. [click here to continue] Israel Says It Won't 'Pay Price' Of Coalition —The Washington PostAs it ushered Arab countries into a multinational coalition against Iraq a decade ago, the first Bush administration persuaded Israel to stay in the background, even to hold its fire when Iraq launched Scud missiles at Tel Aviv. Israel's current prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has made it clear that times have changed. In a series of pugnacious pronouncements since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, he has insisted Israel will not sit quietly as the current Bush administration seeks to build a coalition of Arab and Islamic states against terrorism. "It is inconceivable to grant [Yasser Arafat] legitimacy because someone thinks that might facilitate the inclusion of Arab countries in this coalition," Sharon told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth, referring to the Palestinian leader. "We will not pay the price for the establishment of this coalition." As it rages on, with both sides seeking to squeeze advantage from the crisis, the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis may for several reasons impair Washington's ability to assemble an anti-terrorism alliance in the Middle East and beyond. [click here to continue] U.S. Rebukes Remarks By Sharon —The Baltimore SunThe White House denounced as "unacceptable" yesterday a warning from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that the United States should not try to "appease the Arabs at our expense" the way the West sought to placate Hitler in 1938. The angry public exchange deepened a rift between the two allies as Washington tries to calm Israeli-Palestinian violence while winning Arab and Muslim support for its drive to defeat Mideast-rooted terrorists held responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. On Thursday, Sharon said: "I call on the Western democracies, and primarily the leader of the Free World - the United States: Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when enlightened European democracies decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a 'convenient temporary solution.' Do not try to appease the Arabs at our expense - this is unacceptable to us. Israel will not be Czechoslovakia." "The president believes that these remarks are unacceptable," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said yesterday. "Israel can have no better or stronger friend than the United States and better friend than President Bush." He said Secretary of State Colin L. Powell relayed Bush's views in a phone call yesterday morning to Sharon.An administration official called the dispute a one-day episode that wouldn't damage the two countries' close ties, but not before the State Department reacted sharply to the latest episode of Israeli-Palestinian violence, including an Israeli army incursion into hills above the West Bank town of Hebron after Sharon's defiant speech. [click here to continue] Israel Must Avoid Falling Into Terrorists' Trap —The Ottawa CitizenAriel Sharon has now clinched his position as the biggest liability in the allied war effort against terrorism. But what is worse, he is behaving in a way potentially inimical to Israel's own long-term interests. His incredible remarks Thursday, comparing the Western search for Arab support while pressuring Israel to the Allies' sacrifice of Czechoslovakia at Munich, earned an unprecedented public rebuke yesterday from U.S. President George W. Bush in Washington. That the rebuke was not first conveyed by telephone, but simply released by the president's spokesman, compounded rebuke with disdain. Mr. Sharon's astounding faux pas comes at a critical moment, one in which Israel is in grave peril, and cannot afford to make mistakes. And yet there was a seed, not of truth, but of plausibility, in what Mr. Sharon said. In order to prosecute the vital American interest in Afghanistan and elsewhere, the U.S. must pressure Israel -- just as it must try to pressure the Palestinian Authority, and is pressuring every other government in the region. At all costs, it is seeking an immediate end to the intifada, and whatever resolution of the Palestinian issue can be obtained. It should be obvious to anyone that the explosive force of that conflict on Muslim public opinion endangers every allied move. The U.S. is attempting something in Israel's own long-term interest, by committing itself resolutely to the battle against Islamist terror. Nor is the U.S. alliance with Israel in any kind of doubt. But you can't fight a war without tactics -- including sometimes ghastly alliances of convenience -- and the argument for overlooking Israel's most immediate terrorist adversaries in the first campaign was unanswerable. [click here to continue] Sacred Mission For War With US —The ScotsmanAmerica's chief suspect for yesterday's attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon is Osama bin Laden, one of America's ten most wanted men. He carries a $ 5 million bounty on his head. Bin Laden warned three weeks ago that he and his followers would carry out an unprecedented attack on US interests for its support of Israel, an Arab journalist with access to him said yesterday. Abdel-Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi, an Arabic-language weekly news magazine, said Islamic fundamentalists led by Bin Laden were "almost certainly" behind yesterday's attack on the United States. "It is most likely the work of Islamic fundamentalists. Osama bin Laden warned three weeks ago that he would attack American interests in an unprecedented attack, a very big one. Personally, we received information that he planned very, very big attacks against American interests. We received several warnings like this." The US government, which appears to have suffered a catastrophic intelligence lapse, said last night it believed bin Laden was responsible. Soon afterwards, there were reports of air raids in Afghanistan, his headquarters, though the US was initially denying responsibility. [click here to continue] US Policy In Mideast Under Scrutiny —The Christian Science Monitor"You have to understand that the bullets that are fired at us, the missiles fired at our homes, and the Apache helicopters that the Israelis use - we know that all these things come from the US, and they are killing Palestinians," says Hani Jubah, a burly street merchant in East Jerusalem. His stall is around the corner from where some Palestinians celebrated Tuesday's attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. These outbursts have created a public-relations pitfall for the Palestinian cause, but they also highlight what may be the central motivation for the attacks: US policy in the Middle East. The Middle Eastern origins of the attacks remain a matter of speculation, but US officials have identified Saudi militant Osama bin Laden as their main suspect. Authorities in Boston have identified five Arab men as suspects, and have seized a car at Logan Airport containing Arabic-language flight manuals, according to a report in yesterday's Boston Herald. At the same time, regional leaders from Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi have condemned the attacks and sympathized with the victims. Many Muslims and Arabs have been alarmed by Mr. bin Laden's emergence as a suspect. Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, the leading cleric of the majority Sunni sect of Islam, yesterday added his voice to a chorus of outrage. "Islam is a religion which rejects violence and bloodletting," he said in a statement reported by the Egyptian state-run news agency. But analysts of the Middle East say it is likely that bin Laden acted in concert with other groups and perhaps with the acquiescence of one or more governments. If this scenario proves true, they envision a multitiered US retaliation that would target several entities across the region. If the attacks on New York and Washington are indeed a reaction to US policy in the Middle East, the next phase of the crisis may presage a widening conflict between the West and the adherents of Islam. [click here to continue] US Rebules Israel After Senior PLO Member Is Killed In Missile Attack —The Independent (London)Israel and its death squads expanded their targets yesterday from suspected Palestinian guerrillas and struck at the heart of the Palestinian political leadership by assassinating one of its most senior figures. Abu Ali Mustafa, the 64-year-old head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was blown to pieces by two helicopter missiles as he sat at his desk yesterday morning, becoming the most prominent Palestinian killed during the 11-month war. His death caused a wave of anger from Israel's Arab neighbours, and outright fury among the Palestinians who knew him not only as the secretary general of the PLO's second-largest faction but as one of its founding members, a veteran in the liberation movement and an associate of Yasser Arafat. His assassination drew a rare rebuke from the United States, where the Bush administration - to Palestinian disgust - has been leaning heavily towards Israel in recent days. This change of heart had much to do with American annoyance over the news that the building hit by the rocket attack contained 20 American citizens, of Palestinian extraction. Richard Boucher, a State Department spokesman, said Israel's assassinations were inflaming the Middle East conflict and - also unusually - he urged the Israelis to alleviate "the pressure, the hardship and the humiliations of the Palestinian people". Israel admitted killing Mr Mustafa but accused the PFLP leader of being to blame for recent car bombings. His curriculum vitae was "soaked with blood", Ra'anan Gissin, a government spokesman, said. In truth, the PFLP has been relatively inactive during the conflict, especially when compared with the suicide bombers of the Islamic Hamas or the guerrillas of the mainstream Fatah movement, and has claimed responsibility only for a handful of attacks. Israeli officials justified the attack - as it often does with the illicit killings by its death squads - as actions necessary to save Israeli lives. Ephraim Sneh, a cabinet minister, said Mr Mustafa was involved in seven bomb attacks in the past six months, was planning more bombings and was a "legitimate and necessary target". Yet what really lay behind the mission was far from clear. What was obvious, though, was that it marked another grim watershed in the conflict. [click here to continue] Israelis May Have Planted Fatal Bomb; Commandos Behind 'Grave Mishap' That Killed Boys —The Baltimore SunAn explosive that killed five Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip on Thursday had probably been planted there by Israeli army commandos to target militants who launch mortars into Jewish settlements, Israeli military sources said yesterday. A senior army commander called the incident a "grave mishap" and said that such tactics are being re-evaluated. The source said investigators have found "serious fault" with the undercover unit that placed the device along a path near a school. Israeli government officials declined to accept responsibility publicly but did order an investigation. Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer expressed his "regret over the human tragedy" and "the loss of innocent lives." The dead children were all part of the extended Astal family, one of the largest clans in the Khan Younis refugee camp, an impoverished and volatile community in the southern Gaza Strip that abuts the army-patrolled fence-lines guarding two groups of settlements. Israeli politicians protested yesterday in unusually harsh terms how the army targets suspected militants, methods that include assassinations and leaving live bombs along paths. "It's a residential area," said parliament member Yossi Sarid, head of the opposition Meretz Party. "What kind of bombs do you place in an area where school children walk by?" [click here to continue] A Debate Over; Mideast Victims And Oppressors —The Plain DealerIt was a pleasant surprise to read the Feb. 11 Forum article by Edmund R. Hanauer, urging President George W. Bush to apply a more even-handed approach to national policy and his statements on Israel-Palestine violence. Calls for a balanced policy from Washington on this issue have been rare. And imbalance in the U.S. position began well before Bush's inauguration a year ago. Of course, there have been violent excesses on both sides. And both sides speak bloody rhetoric and commit bloody acts that inflame resentment. That's precisely why any external attempt to facilitate talks toward peace must work from the middle out, not inward from one extreme or the other. Not to oversimplify, but parents instinctively know that when two of their children are fighting, you say: "Both of you stop it. Right now." When that's done, the parents ask about the cause of the fight and whether one child started it or it was a mutual provocation. They try to work out a fair solution. It seems that efforts to help two bitter enemies stop killing one another should not begin with the premise that one side, and only one, is right.[click here to continue] Give Palestinians Their Own State, Say Israeli Ex-Generals —The Daily Telegraph (London)A group of retired generals and security officials is calling on Israel to break the cycle of bloodshed by withdrawing from most of the occupied territories and allowing the Palestinians to establish their own state. The proposal is anathema to the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, who has refused to meet its authors, the 1,000-strong Council for Peace and Security, and is pursuing a harsh military policy towards the Palestinians.[click here to continue] Israelis Consider Tougher Response To Attacks —The Irish TimesAs Israeli leaders met in Jerusalem yesterday to consider adopting an even more robust military response to recent Palestinian attacks - which have included a number of innovations - security forces foiled yet another attack in northern Israel. Around sunset, a Palestinian gunman opened fire after traffic police stopped his vehicle, which they considered suspicious, near the northern town of Hadera, some 10 km from the West Bank. Police said they returned fire, killing the gunman. A second man in the car then sped off and was killed when he blew up his vehicle near an army base several kilometres away. Three Israelis were injured in the incident, one of them seriously. Early yesterday, Israeli helicopters launched a raid on three buildings in the West Bank city of Nablus, including the bureau of the Palestinian President, Mr Yasser Arafat, who has been confined to Ramallah by the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Ariel Sharon, for the last two months. Israel said the bombardment was in retaliation for a suicide bomb attack in a West Bank settlement on Saturday night in which two Israeli teenagers were killed, and more than 20 injured. [click here to continue] Israelis Have Left 'Horrifying' Scene In Jenin: UN Envoy —The Ottawa CitizenA United Nations special envoy called yesterday for an investigation into Israeli military actions in the Jenin refugee camp, which left a "shocking and horrifying" scene. Terje Roed-Larsen, who toured the Palestinian camp on the West Bank for the first time yesterday, said it was "morally repugnant" that Israel had not allowed search and rescue crews in after the fighting. "It looks as if an earthquake has hit the heart of the refugee camp here," Mr. Roed-Larsen said. "There's a stench of decaying corpses all over the place here, the scene is absolutely unbelievable." The special envoy to the region demanded an immediate withdrawal of the Israeli Defence Forces and the lifting of a curfew to allow humanitarian agencies access. [click here to continue] Widening The War —Sydney Morning HeraldAmid mixed signals from the United States, Israel appears to be pursuing a broader target than just rooting out terror, writes Paul McGeough. Palestinians freed from curfews on the rubble-strewn West Bank are discovering this weekend that Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships came after more than the "infrastructure of terrorism". Also targeted were the bureaucracies that managed their finances, health and education, farming and industry, and even their statistics. Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, insisted that his sweeping military push into the West Bank was a security measure to "root" out the Palestinian militias that trained the suicide bombers wreaking havoc in Israel and to gather up their weapons and explosives. But as rising world anger focuses on destruction in the refugee camp at Jenin which the UN special envoy, Terje Roed-Larsen, described as "shocking and horrifying beyond belief ", staff in the agencies of the internationally funded Palestinian Authority were assessing what appears to have been the systematic stripping of the vital, if mundane, information systems across all arms of Palestinian government. In the 19 months of the Palestinian uprising--the Intifada--Israel has repeatedly bombed buildings attached to the Palestinian security services. And, in holding Yasser Arafat responsible for the wave of deadly suicide attacks, Sharon has declared that the Palestinian leader cannot be a peace partner for Israel. The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation was also bombed after Israeli accusations that it stirred hatred and violence. [click here to continue] America Must See That Sharon Is The Problem —The ObserverWhen running for Prime Minister in February of last year, Ariel Sharon, Israel's ferocious hawk, tried to reinvent himself as a man of peace. Against the background of the al-Aqsa intifada , which he had helped to trigger by his provocative visit to Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount), he ran on a ticket of peace with security. In his first year in power, Sharon has achieved neither peace nor security but only a steady escalation of the violence. In the last two weeks Sharon has revealed himself once again as a man wedded to military force as the only instrument of policy. The 74 year-old Israeli leader has been at the sharp end of confrontation with the Arabs for most of his life. The hallmarks of his career are mendacity, the most savage brutality towards Arab civilians, and a persistent preference for force over diplomacy to solve political problems. These features found their clearest expression in the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 which Sharon masterminded as defence minister in Menachem Begin's Likud government. The war that Sharon is currently waging on the West Bank, fraudulently named 'Operation Defensive Shield', is in some ways a replay of his war in Lebanon. It is directed against the Palestinian people; it stems from the same stereotypes that the Palestinians are terrorists; it is based on the same denial of Palestinian national rights; it employs the same strategy of savage and overwhelming military force; and it displays the same callous disregard for international opinion, international law, the UN, and the norms of civilised behaviour. Even the principal personalities are the same: today, as in 1982, Ariel Sharon confronts Yasser Arafat. [click here to continue] Shattered Dreams Of Peace —FrontlineANNOUNCER: During the last week, the Mideast crisis boiled over again- more suicide bombings, Israeli reoccupation of Palestinian towns. Then the American president set forth his vision for peace. Pres. GEORGE W. BUSH: My vision is two states living side by side in peace and security. ANNOUNCER: But Palestinians and Israelis have tried before. SHLOMO BEN AMI, Israeli Foreign Minister, 2000-2001: We are talking here about the toughest and most sensitive issues that humankind had ever dealt with. ANNOUNCER: Can the issues ever be resolved? Will the violence ever stop? SAEB EREKAT, Palestinian Chief Negotiator: At the end of the day, I know Palestinians and Israelis can make peace. My heart aches because I know we were so close. ANNOUNCER: Tonight FRONTLINE examines why the dreams of peace have remained so elusive. NARRATOR: Spring, 2002. The cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians is spiraling out of control. Hundreds are killed on both sides. For several weeks, it is war. But only nine years earlier, everything looked different. In 1993, the Oslo peace accords were signed on the White House lawn. ITZHAK RABIN, Israeli Prime Minister, 1992-1995: Ladies and gentlemen, the time for peace has come. NARRATOR: Palestinians and Israelis agree "It is time to put an end to decades of confrontation and conflict" and "strive to live in peaceful co-existence and mutual dignity and security and achieve a lasting peace." Soon Israel begins its withdrawal, as promised. Jericho and Gaza are transferred to the Palestinians. Yasser Arafat - Israel's implacable enemy for 30 years - returns from exile to establish the Palestinian Authority. The parties had agreed that the core issues - permanent borders, settlements, Palestinian refugees and Jerusalem - would be addressed later. In an atmosphere infused with hope, Prime Minister Rabin, his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, and Chairman Arafat are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. YASSER ARAFAT, Chairman, Palestinian Authority: [October 14, 1994] Once again, I congratulate my partners in peace, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, for winning the Nobel Prize for Peace. NARRATOR: But not everyone embraces the peace process. Some Palestinians want to destroy Israel, not live side by side with it. And some Israelis mistrust Arafat and believe that all of ancient Judea and Samaria - the West Bank - should be theirs. To them, Rabin's policy of exchanging land for peace is anathema. Prime Minister YITZHAK RABIN, et al: Sing a song of peace. Do not whisper a prayer- NARRATOR: Then, on November 4, 1995, following a peace rally in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Rabin is assassinated by a Jewish extremist. Two days after the assassination, heads of state arrive from around the globe to mourn Yitzhak Rabin. They come to pay tribute to the man who, as a general, had once conquered Jerusalem and the West Bank, and later, as a statesman, had chosen the path of peace. For most Arab leaders, this is the first time they have ever set foot in Israel. [click here to continue] Interview Osama Bin Laden —Frontline... What is the meaning of your call for Muslims to take arms against America in particular, and what is the message that you wish to send to the West in general? The call to wage war against America was made because America has spear-headed the crusade against the Islamic nation, sending tens of thousands of its troops to the land of the two Holy Mosques over and above its meddling in its affairs and its politics, and its support of the oppressive, corrupt and tyrannical regime that is in control. These are the reasons behind the singling out of America as a target. And not exempt of responsibility are those Western regimes whose presence in the region offers support to the American troops there. We know at least one reason behind the symbolic participation of the Western forces and that is to support the Jewish and Zionist plans for expansion of what is called the Great Israel. Surely, their presence is not out of concern over their interests in the region. ... Their presence has no meaning save one and that is to offer support to the Jews in Palestine who are in need of their Christian brothers to achieve full control over the Arab Peninsula which they intend to make an important part of the so called Greater Israel. ... [click here to continue] Hunting Bin Laden: Transcript —FrontlineNARRATOR: The bombers set off in the morning for downtown Nairobi. Their target, the United States embassy, was located at one of the busiest intersections in the city. Their truck was carrying 2,000 pounds of TNT. Two hundred and thirteen people died, five thousand were wounded. Four minutes later, 600 miles away in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, another bomb. Another 11 people died, another 85 wounded. The question was why, and to what end? U.S. ambassador to Kenya, Prudence Bushnell: PRUDENCE BUSHNELL, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya: For two nights after the bombing, I was plagued with the question: What's the point? Really, what is the point? And since then I have heard what the point is, because Mr. Bin Laden explained the point. The point, he says, is, "I hate Americans, and I'm going to kill you." If that's the point, it certainly is the wrong point, but it's the point of one man, one renegade, somebody who certainly doesn't have his feet in the kind of reality I deal with every day. NARRATOR: Osama bin Laden, the man the U.S. government calls a renegade, is today the most wanted man on earth, with a $5 million bounty on his head. But who is this man? Is he just one lone renegade? AHMED SATTAR: The American government don't get it. LOWELL BERGMAN: They don't get it? AHMED SATTAR: They don't get it. No. NARRATOR: Ahmed Sattar is a close associate of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. Five years ago the sheik was arrested, tried and convicted for conspiring to blow up the Statue of Liberty, the United Nations headquarters and the Holland Tunnel. AHMED SATTAR: You can kill Osama bin Laden today or tomorrow. You can arrest him and put him on trial in New York or in Washington or whatever. Is this will end the problem? No. Tomorrow he will get somebody else. It's not a secret, but the American government, you know, has one enemy, is the Islamic movement all over the world, whether it's armed struggle or peaceful- or by peaceful means. I mean, you can see it. You can see it from Algeria to Afghanistan. LOWELL BERGMAN: The United States is at war? AHMED SATTAR: Yes, to a certain extent. Yes. LOWELL BERGMAN: With Islam. AHMED SATTAR: Yes. [click here to continue] The Liberty Affair —The Washington PostNo single incident within memory involving the United States and a friendly nation has left a more bitter taste than the sinking of the intelligence ship USS Liberty off Gaza during the 1967 Mideast war. Thirty-four American Navy men died in an 80-minute Israeli air-and-sea assault that Israelis have attributed ever since to a case of mistaken indenty: they say they mistook the American electronic surveillance vessel for an Egyptian supply ship. An American court of inquiry found that an "unprovoked" Israeli attack had been made on a ship "properly marked as to her identity and nationality" but did not speculate on the reason for the attack. More recently, a retired Navy officer who was wounded in the attack, alleging a cover-up, has reported some telling details. [click here to continue] Israeli Spy Visited A Plant Where Uranium Vanished —The Los Angeles Times Rafael Eitan, the Israeli named recently in an alleged espionage ring in the United States, traveled in 1968 to a nuclear plant in Apollo, Pa., where large amounts of weapons-grade uranium disappeared and was allegedly diverted to Israel, documents showed today. Eitan, a former chief of operations for the Mossad, the Israeli CIA, was one of four Israelis who received U.S. clearance to meet with officials at the NUMEC plant in Apollo on Sept. 10, 1968, according to declassified FBI documents. Two reports on that meeting, included in thousands of pages of documents released recently under the Freedom of Information Act, listed Eitan as a chemist with the Ministry of Defense in Israel. Anthony Cordesman, a former Pentagon official now director of an Arlington, Va., defense "think tank," said Eitan's participation in the 1968 meeting was "extremely hard evidence" that he has long been operating with Israeli intelligence in the United States. At the time, Eitan was a member of a select Israeli intelligence unit, traditionally associated with Ariel Sharon, a leader in the hard-line Israeli Likud Party, that actively sought U.S. defense capabilities, Cordesman said. "There is no conceivable reason for Eitan to have gone (to the Apollo plant) but for the nuclear material." [click here to continue] U.S. Jewish Groups On Wrong Side In Israeli Spy Case —The Houston Chronicle Several major American Jewish organizations are urging President Clinton to free Jonathan Pollard, the former naval intelligence specialist who in 1987 was sentenced to life in prison for passing classified documents to Israel. Only in an era virtually devoid of insinuations of dual loyalty would Jewish leaders risk lobbying publicly on behalf of a Jew who spied for Israel against the United States. So it is perhaps heartening that groups like the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, B'nai B'rith and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations feel free to advocate Pollard's release; but it is nonetheless baffling that they should choose to do so. Pollard's supporters make three arguments - two are disingenuous and the third is genuinely troubling. The first, as offered by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, is that Pollard should be released on humanitarian grounds. Malcolm Hoenlein, the conference's executive vice chairman, noted that Pollard's "health has deteriorated" and that it is "time to let him go rebuild his life." This makes no sense. [click here to continue]   |
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