-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! FRIDAY OCTOBER 13 2000 AFP A Palestinian youth shows the mob the blood on his hands after the lynching of Israeli soldiers in Ramallah A bloodthirsty end to Middle East peace BY MICHAEL BINYON ISRAEL teetered on the brink of all-out war with the Palestinians yesterday after a furious mob lynched three Israeli soldiers, triggering devastating Israeli retaliatory rocket attacks across the West Bank and Gaza. After the worst day of violence in the two-week rioting that has paralysed the peace process, Ehud Barak, the Israeli Prime Minister, announced last night that he was forming a coalition Government with Likud, led by Ariel Sharon, the hardline rightwinger whose controversial visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem sparked the present violence. World leaders were making frantic last-ditch efforts yesterday to halt the widening violence and prevent further bloodshed. In a blow that stunned the United States, a suspected suicide bomber in Yemen, riding in a dinghy packed with explosives, detonated a massive blast against an American destroyer in the port of Aden, killing five American sailors and leaving 12 missing. The price of oil leapt by nearly 10 per cent to more than $35 a barrel, adding to fears that the Middle East violence would strangle vital supplies and deepen the risk of recession. President Clinton, saying “there is no possible justification for mob violence”, called on both sides to undertake a ceasefire immediately. Breaking off his attempts by telephone to mediate, he made a brief statement outside the White House, saying: “The Israel-Palestinian conflict is one of the most tragic and most difficult problems of our time but it can be solved.” He added: “The progress of the past few years ... was not made through violence. Now is the time to stop the bloodshed.” an hour later Israeli helicopters fired machineguns on Hebron and Nablus. No injuries were immediately reported. Across the region, frightened civilians prepared for more violence, staying indoors to watch television footage of the Israeli bombings. In frantic diplomatic efforts during the day Mr Clinton telephoned Mr Barak and Yassir Arafat, while Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General, cut short a visit to Lebanon and flew to Israel. In London a sombre and weary Shimon Peres, the former Israeli Prime Minister who shared a Nobel Prize with Mr Arafat for pursuing peace under the Oslo accords, had talks with Tony Blair, who was said to be “deeply concerned”. Mr Peres emerged looking drawn and shocked, and urged the Palestinians “not to commit suicide” by resorting to violence. Robin Cook, the Foreign Secretary, in Jordan on an emergency tour of the Middle East, appealed for calm. Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy co-ordinator, also flew to Israel for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. King Abdullah of Jordan flew to Sharm el-Sheikh for talks with President Mubarak of Egypt. The violence erupted in Ramallah in the morning when two Israeli reservists, captured by Hezbollah, were seized from a Palestinian police station, where they had taken refuge. Police had ordered the angry 1,000-strong crowd away but some stormed in, accusing the soldiers of being spies. The soldiers’ bodies were later taken into the street and mutilated before being retrieved by the Israeli Army. Israel said that three or possibly four reservists had been on patrol in an Israeli marked car when they took a wrong turning. They were said to be on their way to a call-up base and two were wearing civilian clothes. Israel retaliated swiftly, sending in helicopter gunships that fired rockets at police stations, power stations and other selected targets for about an hour. The army called the raid a “symbolic warning”. The attacks on Palestinian broadcasting stations in Ramallah knocked out transmissions for an hour and wounded 17 across the Palestinian territories. One Israeli rocket struck a guardhouse only 50 metres from Mr Arafat’s headquarters in Gaza while he was inside. Mr Arafat, who was not hurt, said the raid would not deter him. “The Palestinians are strong as was said in the Koran. We are not affected by this and we will continue our march to Jerusalem, capital of the independent Palestinian state,” he said. Mr Annan cut short his talks in Lebanon on the fate of the three Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah earlier this week and flew to Israel. He called the news of the West Bank violence “chilling”. The UN Security Council was last night preparing for an emergency meeting. In Iraq a division of Republican Guards with tanks was reported last night to be moving west from Baghdad. The Pentagon said it appeared to be a show of support but was not combat-ready. The Arab League denounced the “escalation” of tension and Oman said it was shutting its low-level trade mission in Tel Aviv. American officials said the explosion that ripped through the destroyer in Yemen was a terrorist blast, caused by two suicide bombers aboard a small boat that sailed up to the ship. The 9,100-tonne destroyer USS Cole had put in to refuel on her way to the Gulf. Badly damaged, she limped into port for repairs. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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