Well they finally figured it out that this Ariel Scheinman Sharon has
"gangster mentality".
This Donald Rumsfeld stood before the American public "big timing" and
spoke of "taking out" Sadaam Hussein. Big mouth, big talk but get him
on the floor to dance with the enemy face to face and watch yellow
streak back from whence he came.
This stuff re the Philadelphia Mint - could be a big heist in the making
like the Twin Towers with all that gold at the bottom and a gold truck
loaded up in the tunnel got flattened unexpectedly? Only two took gold
trucks to recover same?
This is the International Order of the Zionist Jewish Mafia at work and
by their fruits we do know you.
Remember the USS Liberty and Lavon Affair - the Walker spies for whom
the KGB formed a KKK and Jonathan Pollard for because of this man who
spied for Israel, over 1 million Iraqi children have died without just
cause.
We are becoming a nation of slaughtermen - and the avengers of blood
will now do to us, what we do unto them.
All because we have become thisi flyspeck on the map, this Israel's
scapegoat and cats paw. Tail wagging big dog for big bucks? You
better believe it.
Saba
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February 1, 2002
Sharon Is Sorry Israel Didn't Kill Arafat in the 80's
By JAMES BENNET
"Mr. Erekat, the Palestinian negotiator, said of Mr. Sharon's comment,
"A prime minister in his country who would say something about killing
people or liquidating people — it's a gangster mentality."
JERUSALEM, Jan. 31 — The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, said in
an interview published today that Israel should have killed Yasir Arafat
when it had the chance in Lebanon 20 years ago.
Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians' chief negotiator, said the comment
indicated that Mr. Sharon "is going to correct his mistake now" by
killing Mr. Arafat. Israeli officials have said that it is government
policy not to harm the Palestinian leader, and in fact, Mr. Sharon
emphasized today that Mr. Arafat could still be an active player in the
peace process.
Mr. Arafat and Mr. Sharon, aging leaders who exemplify the violence,
passion and complexity of their people's feud, clashed in Lebanon with
bitter results for both.
Both rebounded in the last two decades.
Mr. Arafat recognized the right of Israel to exist, returned from exile
to Palestinian-controlled territory and pursued a peace process that was
expected to result in a Palestinian state beside Israel. Mr. Sharon, who
as the defense minister directed the invasion of Lebanon in 1982,
recovered from condemnation of his performance there, winning an
overwhelming mandate last year to lead Israel.
In the last year, hopes for imminent peace have collapsed under an
intensifying exchange of blows between the antagonists. Mr. Arafat,
accused by Israel of encouraging terrorism, is again besieged by Israeli
forces, this time in the West Bank city of Ramallah rather than in
Beirut. As they were in 1982, the Israeli troops are once again under
the command of Mr. Sharon.
The two leaders have renewed their decades-old rivalry in the land at
its root, and analysts here say it now seems that one or both will fall
from power before the impasse is resolved.
The conflict can seem as personal as it is political, though associates
of both men deny that it is.
In an interview with the newspaper Maariv, Mr. Sharon said he regretted
not striking the knockout blow when he had the chance.
"There was an agreement in Lebanon not to liquidate Yasir Arafat," he
said. "Actually, I am sorry that we did not liquidate him." An Israeli
sniper is said to have had Mr. Arafat in his sights as the Palestinian
leader boarded a ship to leave Beirut for Tunis, but he did not receive
the order to fire.
Mr. Erekat, the Palestinian negotiator, said of Mr. Sharon's comment, "A
prime minister in his country who would say something about killing
people or liquidating people — it's a gangster mentality."
Mr. Arafat and other Palestinians believe that Israel repeatedly tried
to kill him in Lebanon with bombing raids that, like other efforts to
assassinate him over the years, barely missed their target.
As the conflict has dragged on, the Bush administration has increasingly
backed Mr. Sharon. Today, with obvious reluctance, it gently rebuked him
for publicly regretting that Israel missed a chance to kill the
Palestinian leader. Richard A. Boucher, the State Department spokesman,
said he did not have "any particular comment." But he added that both
sides should "avoid remarks that inflame the situation."
"Remarks like these can be unhelpful," he said.
The Bush administration has repeatedly said that Mr. Arafat has done too
little to stop Palestinian violence. Last week, President Bush suggested
that Mr. Arafat was "enhancing terror," citing Israel's capture on Jan.
4 of a ship smuggling munitions under Palestinian command. Mr. Arafat
has said he had nothing to do with the ship.
Though he wished Mr. Arafat dead, Mr. Sharon insisted in the interview
that he had not given up on the Palestinian leader as a potential
partner for peace. "If Arafat takes all the steps we are demanding that
he take, as far as I am concerned, he will again be a partner to
negotiations," Mr. Sharon said. Israel insists that Mr. Arafat crush all
Palestinian militant groups and take other steps to prevent violence
before any substantive negotiations resume.
(saba note: remember mr. Ariel Sharon's real name, is Scheinman - and
even the name Ariel, is not his......his name is taken from certain
passaages in Isaiah indicating the slaughterman and barber with the
razor cometh)
Mr. Sharon reiterated his support for the establishment of a Palestinian
state, albeit a limited one. "Ultimately, an independent Palestinian
state will be established, which will be demilitarized and will have
only a police force, to keep public order," he told Maariv. "In order to
have true peace, I am willing to relinquish portions of Israel."
Mr. Sharon has previously indicated that he would give up about 42
percent of the West Bank, which Israel took by force in the 1967 war.
Less than two years ago, Mr. Arafat rejected as insufficient an offer
from Ehud Barak, then the Israeli prime minister, of more than twice
that much territory.
The last standoff between Mr. Sharon and Mr. Arafat, in Lebanon, did not
end well for either. The invasion began in June 1982 and was sold to the
public as a limited mission to drive the Palestine Liberation
Organization back from the northern border. Within a week the Israeli
troops were besieging Beirut.
By August, Mr. Arafat was evacuating his men from the city. In February
1983, Mr. Sharon resigned his post after a commission of inquiry
assigned him "indirect responsibility" for the massacre by Christian
Phalangists of hundreds of Palestinians in two refugee camps, Sabra and
Shatila.
Israel finally withdrew unilaterally from Lebanon in May 2000.
Mr. Sharon remains broadly popular in Israel for his tough stand on
security. But the Israeli policies in the West Bank and Gaza have come
under criticism from within the ranks of those assigned to carry them
out. Fifty-two combat officers and soldiers in the Israeli Army Reserve
signed a statement declaring that they would refuse to serve again in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
"The price of occupation is the army's loss of its human image and the
corruption of all Israeli society," said the statement, which was
published in the newspaper Haaretz last week.
Today, the army's chief of staff, Shaul Mofaz, indicated that the
reserve soldiers would be disciplined. "I see this with the utmost
severity," he said. He said "an army in a democratic state" could not
afford to have soldiers flout orders that were legal and did "not have a
black flag waving above them."
"There is no room for this negative phenomenon," he said, adding that
conclusions on punishment for each officer would be released on Friday.
Reserve soldiers who signed the statement argued that some of their
orders were illegal. The statement cited such actions as demolishing
homes, firing machine guns into neighborhoods in response to mortar
fire, blockading villages and shooting at boys throwing stones.
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