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-Caveat Lector- From: foxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Text of Netanyahu's Testimony to House Committee on Gov't Reform on September 20, 2001 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:41:45 -0400 Organization: self MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type=multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_000_009D_01C14539.545084E0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_009D_01C14539.545084E0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_001_009E_01C14539.545084E0 --=_NextPart_001_009E_01C14539.545084E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable With l00% of the credit and l,000% of the accolades to David G. McDivitt = I reprint the above referenced. =20 THANK YOU DAVID FOR THIS GEM. =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D http://www.house.gov/reform/statement_of_netanyahu.htm Statement of former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu before the = Government Reform Committee September 20, 2001=20 Chairman Burton, Distinguished Representatives,=20 I want to thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. I feel a = profound responsibility addressing you in this hour of peril in the = capital of liberty.=20 What is at stake today is nothing less than the survival of our = civilization. There may be some who would have thought a week ago that = to talk in these apocalyptic terms about the battle against = international terrorism was to engage in reckless exaggeration. No = longer.=20 Each one of us today understands that we are all targets, that our = cities are vulnerable, and that our values are hated with an unmatched = fanaticism that seeks to destroy our societies and our way of life.=20 I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say - = Today, we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.=20 In grief, because my people have faced the agonizing horrors of terror = for many decades, and we feel an instant kinship with both the victims = of this tragedy and the great nation that mourns its fallen brothers and = sisters.=20 In defiance, because just as my country continues to fight terrorism in = our battle for survival, I know that America will not cower before this = challenge.=20 I have absolute confidence that if we, the citizens of the free world, = led by President Bush, marshall the enormous reserves of power at our = disposal, harness the steely resolve of a free people, and mobilize our = collective will - we shall eradicate this evil from the face of the = earth.=20 But to achieve this goal, we must first however answer several = questions: Who is responsible for this terrorist onslaught? Why? What is = the motive behind these attacks? And most importantly, what must be done = to defeat these evil forces?=20 The first and most crucial thing to understand is this: There is no = international terrorism without the support of sovereign states. = International terrorism simply cannot be sustained for long without the = regimes that aid and abet it.=20 Terrorists are not suspended in mid-air. They train, arm and = indoctrinate their killers from within safe havens on territory provided = by terrorist states. Often these regimes provide the terrorists with = intelligence, money and operational assistance, dispatching them to = serve as deadly proxies to wage a hidden war against more powerful = enemies.=20 These regimes mount a worldwide propaganda campaign to legitimize = terror, besmirching its victims and exculpating its practitioners --- as = we witnessed in the farcical spectacle in Durban last month.=20 Iran, Libya, and Syria call the US and Israel racist countries that = abuse human rights?=20 Even Orwell could not have imagined such a world.=20 Take away all this state support, and the entire scaffolding of = international terrorism will collapse into the dust.=20 The international terrorist network is thus based on regimes - Iran, = Iraq, Syria, Taleban Afghanistan, Yasser Arafat=92s Palestinian = Authority and several other Arab regimes such as the Sudan.=20 These regimes are the ones that harbor the terrorist groups: Osama Bin = Laden in Afghanistan, Hizballah and others in Syrian-controlled Lebanon, = Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the recently mobilized Fatah and Tanzim = factions in the Palestinian territories, and sundry other terror = organizations based in such capitals as Damascus, Baghdad and Khartoum.=20 These terrorist states and terror organizations together form a terror = network, whose constituent parts support each other operationally as = well as politically.=20 For example, the Palestinian groups cooperate closely with Hezbollah, = which in turn links them to Syria, Iran and Bin Laden.=20 These offshoots of terror have
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-Caveat Lector- From: foxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Text of Netanyahu's Testimony to House Committee on Gov't Reform on September 20, 2001 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:41:45 -0400 Organization: self MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type=multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_000_00A5_01C14539.62FA2E60 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_00A5_01C14539.62FA2E60 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_001_00A6_01C14539.62FA2E60 --=_NextPart_001_00A6_01C14539.62FA2E60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable With l00% of the credit and l,000% of the accolades to David G. McDivitt = I reprint the above referenced. =20 THANK YOU DAVID FOR THIS GEM. =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D http://www.house.gov/reform/statement_of_netanyahu.htm Statement of former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu before the = Government Reform Committee September 20, 2001=20 Chairman Burton, Distinguished Representatives,=20 I want to thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. I feel a = profound responsibility addressing you in this hour of peril in the = capital of liberty.=20 What is at stake today is nothing less than the survival of our = civilization. There may be some who would have thought a week ago that = to talk in these apocalyptic terms about the battle against = international terrorism was to engage in reckless exaggeration. No = longer.=20 Each one of us today understands that we are all targets, that our = cities are vulnerable, and that our values are hated with an unmatched = fanaticism that seeks to destroy our societies and our way of life.=20 I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say - = Today, we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.=20 In grief, because my people have faced the agonizing horrors of terror = for many decades, and we feel an instant kinship with both the victims = of this tragedy and the great nation that mourns its fallen brothers and = sisters.=20 In defiance, because just as my country continues to fight terrorism in = our battle for survival, I know that America will not cower before this = challenge.=20 I have absolute confidence that if we, the citizens of the free world, = led by President Bush, marshall the enormous reserves of power at our = disposal, harness the steely resolve of a free people, and mobilize our = collective will - we shall eradicate this evil from the face of the = earth.=20 But to achieve this goal, we must first however answer several = questions: Who is responsible for this terrorist onslaught? Why? What is = the motive behind these attacks? And most importantly, what must be done = to defeat these evil forces?=20 The first and most crucial thing to understand is this: There is no = international terrorism without the support of sovereign states. = International terrorism simply cannot be sustained for long without the = regimes that aid and abet it.=20 Terrorists are not suspended in mid-air. They train, arm and = indoctrinate their killers from within safe havens on territory provided = by terrorist states. Often these regimes provide the terrorists with = intelligence, money and operational assistance, dispatching them to = serve as deadly proxies to wage a hidden war against more powerful = enemies.=20 These regimes mount a worldwide propaganda campaign to legitimize = terror, besmirching its victims and exculpating its practitioners --- as = we witnessed in the farcical spectacle in Durban last month.=20 Iran, Libya, and Syria call the US and Israel racist countries that = abuse human rights?=20 Even Orwell could not have imagined such a world.=20 Take away all this state support, and the entire scaffolding of = international terrorism will collapse into the dust.=20 The international terrorist network is thus based on regimes - Iran, = Iraq, Syria, Taleban Afghanistan, Yasser Arafat=92s Palestinian = Authority and several other Arab regimes such as the Sudan.=20 These regimes are the ones that harbor the terrorist groups: Osama Bin = Laden in Afghanistan, Hizballah and others in Syrian-controlled Lebanon, = Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the recently mobilized Fatah and Tanzim = factions in the Palestinian territories, and sundry other terror = organizations based in such capitals as Damascus, Baghdad and Khartoum.=20 These terrorist states and terror organizations together form a terror = network, whose constituent parts support each other operationally as = well as politically.=20 For example, the Palestinian groups cooperate closely with Hezbollah, = which in turn links them to Syria, Iran and Bin Laden.=20 These offshoots of terror have
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-Caveat Lector- From: foxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Text of Netanyahu's Testimony to House Committee on Gov't Reform on September 20, 2001 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:41:45 -0400 Organization: self MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary==_NextPart_000_000A_01C14543.D3218800; type=multipart/alternative X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_000A_01C14543.D3218800 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_001_000B_01C14543.D3218800 --=_NextPart_001_000B_01C14543.D3218800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable With l00% of the credit and l,000% of the accolades to David G. McDivitt = I reprint the above referenced. =20 THANK YOU DAVID FOR THIS GEM. =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D http://www.house.gov/reform/statement_of_netanyahu.htm Statement of former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu before the = Government Reform Committee September 20, 2001=20 Chairman Burton, Distinguished Representatives,=20 I want to thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. I feel a = profound responsibility addressing you in this hour of peril in the = capital of liberty.=20 What is at stake today is nothing less than the survival of our = civilization. There may be some who would have thought a week ago that = to talk in these apocalyptic terms about the battle against = international terrorism was to engage in reckless exaggeration. No = longer.=20 Each one of us today understands that we are all targets, that our = cities are vulnerable, and that our values are hated with an unmatched = fanaticism that seeks to destroy our societies and our way of life.=20 I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say - = Today, we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.=20 In grief, because my people have faced the agonizing horrors of terror = for many decades, and we feel an instant kinship with both the victims = of this tragedy and the great nation that mourns its fallen brothers and = sisters.=20 In defiance, because just as my country continues to fight terrorism in = our battle for survival, I know that America will not cower before this = challenge.=20 I have absolute confidence that if we, the citizens of the free world, = led by President Bush, marshall the enormous reserves of power at our = disposal, harness the steely resolve of a free people, and mobilize our = collective will - we shall eradicate this evil from the face of the = earth.=20 But to achieve this goal, we must first however answer several = questions: Who is responsible for this terrorist onslaught? Why? What is = the motive behind these attacks? And most importantly, what must be done = to defeat these evil forces?=20 The first and most crucial thing to understand is this: There is no = international terrorism without the support of sovereign states. = International terrorism simply cannot be sustained for long without the = regimes that aid and abet it.=20 Terrorists are not suspended in mid-air. They train, arm and = indoctrinate their killers from within safe havens on territory provided = by terrorist states. Often these regimes provide the terrorists with = intelligence, money and operational assistance, dispatching them to = serve as deadly proxies to wage a hidden war against more powerful = enemies.=20 These regimes mount a worldwide propaganda campaign to legitimize = terror, besmirching its victims and exculpating its practitioners --- as = we witnessed in the farcical spectacle in Durban last month.=20 Iran, Libya, and Syria call the US and Israel racist countries that = abuse human rights?=20 Even Orwell could not have imagined such a world.=20 Take away all this state support, and the entire scaffolding of = international terrorism will collapse into the dust.=20 The international terrorist network is thus based on regimes - Iran, = Iraq, Syria, Taleban Afghanistan, Yasser Arafat=92s Palestinian = Authority and several other Arab regimes such as the Sudan.=20 These regimes are the ones that harbor the terrorist groups: Osama Bin = Laden in Afghanistan, Hizballah and others in Syrian-controlled Lebanon, = Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the recently mobilized Fatah and Tanzim = factions in the Palestinian territories, and sundry other terror = organizations based in such capitals as Damascus, Baghdad and Khartoum.=20 These terrorist states and terror organizations together form a terror = network, whose constituent parts support each other operationally as = well as politically.=20 For example, the Palestinian groups cooperate closely with Hezbollah, = which in turn links them to Syria, Iran and Bin Laden.=20 These offshoots of terror have
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-Caveat Lector- From: foxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Text of Netanyahu's Testimony to House Committee on Gov't Reform on September 20, 2001 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:41:45 -0400 Organization: self MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary==_NextPart_000_0018_01C14544.05F01F80; type=multipart/alternative X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0018_01C14544.05F01F80 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_001_0019_01C14544.05F01F80 --=_NextPart_001_0019_01C14544.05F01F80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable With l00% of the credit and l,000% of the accolades to David G. McDivitt = I reprint the above referenced. =20 THANK YOU DAVID FOR THIS GEM. =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D http://www.house.gov/reform/statement_of_netanyahu.htm Statement of former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu before the = Government Reform Committee September 20, 2001=20 Chairman Burton, Distinguished Representatives,=20 I want to thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. I feel a = profound responsibility addressing you in this hour of peril in the = capital of liberty.=20 What is at stake today is nothing less than the survival of our = civilization. There may be some who would have thought a week ago that = to talk in these apocalyptic terms about the battle against = international terrorism was to engage in reckless exaggeration. No = longer.=20 Each one of us today understands that we are all targets, that our = cities are vulnerable, and that our values are hated with an unmatched = fanaticism that seeks to destroy our societies and our way of life.=20 I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say - = Today, we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.=20 In grief, because my people have faced the agonizing horrors of terror = for many decades, and we feel an instant kinship with both the victims = of this tragedy and the great nation that mourns its fallen brothers and = sisters.=20 In defiance, because just as my country continues to fight terrorism in = our battle for survival, I know that America will not cower before this = challenge.=20 I have absolute confidence that if we, the citizens of the free world, = led by President Bush, marshall the enormous reserves of power at our = disposal, harness the steely resolve of a free people, and mobilize our = collective will - we shall eradicate this evil from the face of the = earth.=20 But to achieve this goal, we must first however answer several = questions: Who is responsible for this terrorist onslaught? Why? What is = the motive behind these attacks? And most importantly, what must be done = to defeat these evil forces?=20 The first and most crucial thing to understand is this: There is no = international terrorism without the support of sovereign states. = International terrorism simply cannot be sustained for long without the = regimes that aid and abet it.=20 Terrorists are not suspended in mid-air. They train, arm and = indoctrinate their killers from within safe havens on territory provided = by terrorist states. Often these regimes provide the terrorists with = intelligence, money and operational assistance, dispatching them to = serve as deadly proxies to wage a hidden war against more powerful = enemies.=20 These regimes mount a worldwide propaganda campaign to legitimize = terror, besmirching its victims and exculpating its practitioners --- as = we witnessed in the farcical spectacle in Durban last month.=20 Iran, Libya, and Syria call the US and Israel racist countries that = abuse human rights?=20 Even Orwell could not have imagined such a world.=20 Take away all this state support, and the entire scaffolding of = international terrorism will collapse into the dust.=20 The international terrorist network is thus based on regimes - Iran, = Iraq, Syria, Taleban Afghanistan, Yasser Arafat=92s Palestinian = Authority and several other Arab regimes such as the Sudan.=20 These regimes are the ones that harbor the terrorist groups: Osama Bin = Laden in Afghanistan, Hizballah and others in Syrian-controlled Lebanon, = Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the recently mobilized Fatah and Tanzim = factions in the Palestinian territories, and sundry other terror = organizations based in such capitals as Damascus, Baghdad and Khartoum.=20 These terrorist states and terror organizations together form a terror = network, whose constituent parts support each other operationally as = well as politically.=20 For example, the Palestinian groups cooperate closely with Hezbollah, = which in turn links them to Syria, Iran and Bin Laden.=20 These offshoots of terror have
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-Caveat Lector- From: foxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Text of Netanyahu's Testimony to House Committee on Gov't Reform on September 20, 2001 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:41:45 -0400 Organization: self MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary==_NextPart_000__01C14543.446CF040; type=multipart/alternative X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000__01C14543.446CF040 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_001_0001_01C14543.447DB920 --=_NextPart_001_0001_01C14543.447DB920 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable With l00% of the credit and l,000% of the accolades to David G. McDivitt = I reprint the above referenced. =20 THANK YOU DAVID FOR THIS GEM. =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D http://www.house.gov/reform/statement_of_netanyahu.htm Statement of former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu before the = Government Reform Committee September 20, 2001=20 Chairman Burton, Distinguished Representatives,=20 I want to thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. I feel a = profound responsibility addressing you in this hour of peril in the = capital of liberty.=20 What is at stake today is nothing less than the survival of our = civilization. There may be some who would have thought a week ago that = to talk in these apocalyptic terms about the battle against = international terrorism was to engage in reckless exaggeration. No = longer.=20 Each one of us today understands that we are all targets, that our = cities are vulnerable, and that our values are hated with an unmatched = fanaticism that seeks to destroy our societies and our way of life.=20 I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say - = Today, we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.=20 In grief, because my people have faced the agonizing horrors of terror = for many decades, and we feel an instant kinship with both the victims = of this tragedy and the great nation that mourns its fallen brothers and = sisters.=20 In defiance, because just as my country continues to fight terrorism in = our battle for survival, I know that America will not cower before this = challenge.=20 I have absolute confidence that if we, the citizens of the free world, = led by President Bush, marshall the enormous reserves of power at our = disposal, harness the steely resolve of a free people, and mobilize our = collective will - we shall eradicate this evil from the face of the = earth.=20 But to achieve this goal, we must first however answer several = questions: Who is responsible for this terrorist onslaught? Why? What is = the motive behind these attacks? And most importantly, what must be done = to defeat these evil forces?=20 The first and most crucial thing to understand is this: There is no = international terrorism without the support of sovereign states. = International terrorism simply cannot be sustained for long without the = regimes that aid and abet it.=20 Terrorists are not suspended in mid-air. They train, arm and = indoctrinate their killers from within safe havens on territory provided = by terrorist states. Often these regimes provide the terrorists with = intelligence, money and operational assistance, dispatching them to = serve as deadly proxies to wage a hidden war against more powerful = enemies.=20 These regimes mount a worldwide propaganda campaign to legitimize = terror, besmirching its victims and exculpating its practitioners --- as = we witnessed in the farcical spectacle in Durban last month.=20 Iran, Libya, and Syria call the US and Israel racist countries that = abuse human rights?=20 Even Orwell could not have imagined such a world.=20 Take away all this state support, and the entire scaffolding of = international terrorism will collapse into the dust.=20 The international terrorist network is thus based on regimes - Iran, = Iraq, Syria, Taleban Afghanistan, Yasser Arafat=92s Palestinian = Authority and several other Arab regimes such as the Sudan.=20 These regimes are the ones that harbor the terrorist groups: Osama Bin = Laden in Afghanistan, Hizballah and others in Syrian-controlled Lebanon, = Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the recently mobilized Fatah and Tanzim = factions in the Palestinian territories, and sundry other terror = organizations based in such capitals as Damascus, Baghdad and Khartoum.=20 These terrorist states and terror organizations together form a terror = network, whose constituent parts support each other operationally as = well as politically.=20 For example, the Palestinian groups cooperate closely with Hezbollah, = which in turn links them to Syria, Iran and Bin Laden.=20 These offshoots of terror have
