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| ahlamalek |
Arizona Daily Star
WWIII Is Coming ´Whether They Like It Or Not´ -Top Sharon Aide
March 18,2003
By Stephanie Innes
Arizona Daily Star
"The terror attacks on Sept. 11 and extreme turmoil in the Middle East point to one thing - World War III, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Friday during a visit to Tucson.
"We´ve been fighting a war for the past 18 months, which is the harbinger of World War III. The world is going to fight, whether they like it or not. I´m sure,´´ Ra´anan Gissin, a senior adviser to Sharon, said in an interview Friday.
"Sept. 11 was a watershed event, and things will never be the same. The battle lines have been drawn.´´
Gissin, 53, is in Tucson this weekend as part of a 12-day tour of the
United States to promote the purchase of Israel Bonds. The bonds are part of a program that began in 1951 in which securities are sold to individuals and corporations to finance economic growth in Israel.
"The Israeli government pays them back. . . . The collateral is the
eternity of the Jewish people,´´ Gissin said, dismissing an April 1
Newsweek story that questioned the future of his country.
"We believe the state of Israel will continue to exist forever. Therefore, it´s a sure investment."
On Friday night he spoke to an audience of about 300 people at the Reform Temple Emanu-El, 225 N. Country Club Road, as police stood on guard at the doorways of the synagogue. Today at 5 p.m. he is scheduled to speak at the conservative Congregation Anshei Israel, 5550 E. Fifth St.
Gissin called the war a clash between the civilized and uncivilized worlds.
"It´s a clash between the forces of evil, as (President Bush) so neatly described it, and forces of life."
Mohyeddin Abdulaziz, 54, a Tucson resident and Palestinian who grew up near Ramallah, did not attend Gissin´s talk. But in an interview Friday night he said the Israeli point of view does not take into account the suffering of Palestinians who live in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza.
"This is a war that is being fought against a largely civilian population. It is a one-sided war,´´ said Abdulaziz, who still has family living in the West Bank. "The Palestinians do not have one tank, one airplane, one helicopter. These are people who have been under a brutal occupation for 35 years and every nation on this Earth has recognized it as an illegal occupation.
"We have generations of Palestinians who know nothing but brutal
occupation,´´ he said. "The West Bank and Gaza are only 22 percent of the geographic area of Palestine, and it´s all the Palestinians are asking for. They want a place to call home."
Gissin said he did not believe that the Israeli incursion at the West Bank refugee camp in Jenin earlier this month was a massacre as some
Palestinians have said. The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, has accused Israel of trying to hide "terrible things" at the camp. Palestinians say hundreds died. The United Nations is sending a
fact-finding team there.
"Real peace can only exist or come about when there is an understanding and a commitment among our Arab and Palestinian neighbors to a process of reconciliation - to accept the fact that Jews also have a right to their own land, to their ancestral homeland," Gissin said. "
Stephanie Innes email: [email protected]
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| PeacefulWarrior |
| Based on the comments of his advisors, it's almost as if Sharon wants WWIII to happen. |
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| ahlamalek |
Infrastructure Minister Paritzky dreams of Iraqi
oil flowing to Haifa
By Akiva Eldar
National Infrastructures Minister Joseph Paritzky has requested an assessment of the condition of the old oil pipeline from Mosul to Haifa, with an eye toward renewing the flow of oil in the event of friendly post-war regime in Iraq.
Paritzky explained to Haaretz yesterday that resurrecting the pipeline to Haifa could save Israel the high cost of shipping oil from Russia. He is certain that the Americans would respond favorably to the idea, since the pipeline would bring Iraqi oil directly to the Mediterranean.
The flow of oil from Mosul was redirected from Haifa to Syria after the British Mandate for Palestine expired in 1948. There were several attempts to renew the flow of oil to Haifa in subsequent years. One such effort occurred during the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s, after Syria acceded to a request from Iran to block the flow of Iraqi oil to the Mediterranean. (Iran was then preventing oil tankers from moving Iraqi oil via the Persian Gulf.) The prime minister at the time, Yitzhak Shamir, proposed to Iraq to renew the flow of oil through the pipeline to Haifa.
Hanan Bar-On, then the deputy director-general of the Foreign Ministry, confirmed yesterday that Israel was involved in talks during the mid-1980s on a plan for an Iraq-Jordanian pipeline to the Red Sea port of Aqaba. Among the participants in these talks was Donald Rumsfeld, then an adviser to U.S. president Reagan and currently secretary of defense. The American corporation Bechtel was slated to build the pipeline. According to the deal, which eventually fell through, Israel was to receive about $100 million a year via former Israeli businessman Bruce Rappaport in return for a commitment not to oppose the construction or operation of the new pipeline.
In 1987, energy minister Moshe Shahal reportedly looked into the idea of helping Iraq export its oil via the Golan Heights to Haifa. But this plan also failed to materialize.
Bar-On recalled that during the same period, the possibility of laying a pipeline along the Jordan Valley and Arava, and then along the Egyptian border to the Mediterranean. "We wanted to ensure the economic interests of the Iraqis, Jordanians, and Egyptians in order to create motivation to preserve the stability in the region and as a foundation for peaceful relations."
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| rupert |
| quote: | | "We believe the state of Israel will continue to exist forever. Therefore, it´s a sure investment." |
And the Germans thought the Third Reich would last for a thousand years. |
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| EbolaCola |
| Considering how vulnerable Israel would be at this time of war, and from my own Jewish perspective, Sharon should shut his fat mouth before Israel gets attacked. The last thing Israel needs is to interfere somehow with this war. |
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| occrider |
| quote: | Originally posted by EbolaCola
Considering how vulnerable Israel would be at this time of war, and from my own Jewish perspective, Sharon should shut his fat mouth before Israel gets attacked. The last thing Israel needs is to interfere somehow with this war. |
The US won't allow Israel to enter this war ... not if we're smart. Black ops are one thing, but Israel involved in this would be a collosal mess. |
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| EbolaCola |
| I'm not saying the U.S. will allow Israel to enter the war, but Sharon should just stop trying to stir up trouble. |
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| DaveSaenz |
:stongue: :haha: :stongue: :haha: :stongue: :haha:
More advertising for your website. :toothless |
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| ahlamalek |
| haha its not mine, I swear!! |
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| TheDemon |
| Sharon ain't any better than Milosovec, well atleast he's mindset anyways. Sorry if that offends anyone, but thats the way I think of it. |
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