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Interesting item here - forged letters from Fatah.....makes one wonder
about the Russian submarine and what really happened there.
So Remember the USS Liberty and now the USS Cole.....and the Navy Walker
Spies, who along with KGB formed their own KKK and stole secrets from
USA at the same time Jonathan Pollard was sabotaging in his own say
peace talks with Sadaam Hussein - today Israel wants their spy returned
home and thisi man was in our top secret service too ....
KGB and Mossad work very well together and Israel buying sub from
Germany? How quaint.
Saba
Suicide bomber attacks Israeli postFirst such attack in current clashes
follows military talksMSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
JERUSALEM, Oct. 26 — A suicide bomb attack on an Israeli army post in
the Gaza Strip shattered the calm on Thursday as Israeli and Palestinian
military commanders appeared to be making progress in reducing the level
of violence. An Israeli army commander blamed the blast, which slightly
injured an Israeli soldier, on the radical Islamic Jihad guerrilla
movement.
'This is to be expected because the Israelis ... kill children and
people in the streets in cold blood.'
— NAFEZ AZZAM
Leader of the Islamic Jihad ISRAEL HAS been on high
alert for possible terror attacks by Islamic militants and the Israeli
army commander in the Gaza Strip, Maj. Gen. Yomtov Samiya, said he
believed the Jihad faction was behind the attack.
Thursday marks the fifth anniversary of the assassination
of the Islamic Jihad leader, Fathi Shekaki, in an operation widely
blamed on Israeli commandos.
Samiya said Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat bore the
ultimate responsibility for the attack because of his failure to quell
the violence.
The blast came as U.S. President Bill Clinton tried to
bring Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Arafat to Washington for
separate meetings on how to rescue Mideast peace-making.
The unrest began on Sept. 28 when Palestinians rioted
after a visit by right-wing Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon to a
Jerusalem shrine holy to both Muslims and Jews. Since then, violent
protests by Palestinians have been met with a fierce Israeli military
response, and at least 130 have died, most of them Palestinians.
The peace process, formally suspended by Barak amid the
violence, had been deadlocked since August, when Arafat refused a
proposal that would have given him control over 90 percent of the West
Bank and parts of Jerusalem. Key members of Barak's coalition had
deserted him over the issue.
FIRST SUICIDE BOMBING
NBC's Charles Sabine reported from the Gaza Strip that
the suicide attack was another setback to the tentative steps to lower
the tension in the Palestinian territories, especially as it followed on
the first day in more than a week in which no deaths were reported in
clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the
bombing, which targeted an army outpost guarding the Gush Katif bloc of
settlements in the Gaza Strip.
NBC producer Thomas Bonifield reported from near the army
outpost that Israeli troops have increased security in the area and
bulldozed several olive groves around the checkpoint that could provide
cover to attackers. The road next to the Gush Katif settlements was
closed and soldiers on armored personnel carriers stood guard.
Nafez Azzam, the head of Islamic Jihad, a small militant
faction, would only say that the blast did not come as a surprise. "This
is to be expected because the Israelis ... kill children and people in
the streets in cold blood," he said.
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Israeli military officials did not identify the
assailant, but said he was about 20 years old and carried several pounds
of explosives. The man rode his bicycle toward the Israeli post, hit the
defensive wall and detonated the explosives.
Asked later if the attacker had been blown up or shot
dead, Samia replied: "The exact details of how he gave his soul to the
creator are still unclear...It is clear he came to commit suicide. The
way he committed suicide is not important to me in principle at the
moment."
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On a more upbeat note, Samiya said he was heartened by a
meeting overnight with his Palestinian counterparts to try to stop
nearly a month of bloodshed.
"There was a more optimistic tone that was completely
different from all the other meetings we had in the past month," he told
army radio.
NEW ALLIANCE?
However, there has been growing concern in Israel about
the new alliance between Arafat's Fatah faction and Islamic groups,
including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which have carried out terror attacks
in the past to sabotage peace efforts.
Palestinian officials have confirmed that committees with
representatives of all factions hold daily meetings to direct the
month-old Palestinian uprising.
Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader, has said the cooperation
is limited to organizing rock-throwing confrontations with Israeli
troops, and that Palestinian gunmen act on their own.
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called on activists to carry out terror attacks in Israel. However, the
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Zahar said an uprising steering committee has been
meeting daily in the Palestinian legislative council building in Gaza
City. The group does not direct the Palestinian gunmen who have been
shooting at Israeli targets, Zahar said. They act on their own.
A similar group meets in the West Bank, according to Ziad
An-Najar, a leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,
a small PLO faction.
Relations between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas,
its most powerful political rival, have improved considerably in recent
weeks, Zahar said. This month, 85 Hamas and Islamic Jihad members were
set free by the Palestinian Authority or fled during Israel's Oct. 12
rocket attacks on the West Bank and Gaza, Zahar said. Of those, 22 have
been ordered to return to prison.
WASHINGTON MEETING
In the meantime, Clinton has received a mixed response to
his efforts to arrange separate meetings in Washington with Arafat and
Barak to assess prospects for returning to negotiations.
Israel said that if the fighting ebbed it would withdraw
troops from friction points and look into resuming peace talks. Senior
Palestinian officials have been in contact with Israeli Foreign Minister
Shlomo Ben-Ami in recent days to discuss options for renewing
negotiations, Israel TV's Channel Two reported.
"No one said Ehud Barak is going to Washington," Barak's
chief policy adviser Danny Yatom told Israel army radio. "What is
important now is to stop the violence and that hasn't happened yet."
Barak is still trying to woo Israeli hard-liner Ariel
Sharon — who Palestinians warn would crush the peace process — into
a coalition to bolster his minority government and prevent early
elections.
Wednesday, NBC's Sabine reported that Arafat has already
accepted Clinton's invitation and expects to travel to Washington during
the middle of next week, according to Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil
Shaat.
But a senior Palestinian peace negotiator, Ahmed Qureia,
said a new formula was needed for the negotiations, and that others,
including the European Union and Russia, should be brought in as
mediators, in addition to the United States.
"If it [the peace process] would continue in the same
way, it would be difficult," Qureia said. "How would it go? Where would
we go? It is finished."
Meanwhile, Gen. Giora Eiland, chief of operations in the
Israeli army, said Iraq had moved an armored division into the western
part of the country, closest to Israel — though Jordan stands between
the two countries — as a symbol of support for the Palestinians. But,
he said, the maneuver does not represent a threat to Israel.
ISRAELI POLITICAL CRISIS
Meanwhile, Barak continues to struggle for his own
political survival. If he can't construct a solid coalition by next
week, when parliament reconvenes after a three-month recess, his
government is likely to crumble and Israel would then face early
elections.
A second day of talks with Likud leader Sharon on the
possibility of unity government were inconclusive Tuesday.
Sharon wants Barak to step back from concessions he
offered to the Palestinians at a Mideast summit in July, adding that he
would not join the government unless there was agreement on such key
issues. Barak has insisted that any unity government would leave the
door open to dialogue with the Palestinians provided hostilities ceased.
Palestinians and left-wing Israelis say a Barak-Sharon
partnership could end any chance of returning to peace talks.
"Israel's emergency government, if it is formed, will
always be ready to discuss a serious political agreement, in the case of
course that the Palestinian side is ready," Barak told Russia's Ekho
Moskvy radio station.
"But peace will never be the result of violence, of
forceful pressure," said Barak, who has called a time-out in
peacemaking.
Barak, who controls only 30 of 120 seats in parliament,
is also courting other political factions.
With the peace process on hold, both sides have raised
the possibility of unilateral actions. The Palestinians have spoken of
declaring a Palestinian state without Israel's agreement while Israel
has warned it is considering a "unilateral separation" from the
Palestinians that would include setting boundaries.
This proposal, in the form of a government study ordered
by the prime minister, outlines a physical separation between the two
sides that would cost billions of dollars and end Israel's decades-old
policy of co-existence with the Palestinians.
Is there still hope for peace in the Middle East? Join a discussion
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NBC's Charles Sabine and Thomas Bonifield in Gaza,
MSNBC's Preston Mendenhall, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed
to this report.
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