-Caveat Lector- Israeli hit-list condemned Broadcast: July 6, 2001 http://www.channel4news.co.uk/home/20010706/Story01.htm Reporter: Jon Snow Jon Snow asked the Israeli defence spokesman Yarden Vatikai whether his government was prepared to heed Kofi Annan's call for an end to the policy of targeted assassinations. Yarden Vatikai, Israeli Defence Spokesman: Look I think the Secretary General and Secretary Powell do not mean that Israel could not defend itself. I think that Israel has the utmost right to do it. Now when we have information about someone about to come to Tel Aviv to explode himself in a discotheque and kill 20 children at the age of 15 and 16, we will do everything to intercept and to stop this man from doing what he is planning to do. This is the only policy, this is the only policy that we have. Jon Snow: The people that you are killing are people actually in the hierarchy of the Palestinian leadership. These are people who we know by name; these are not suicide bombers Yarden Vatikai: All the people we have intercepted are only from self-defence who are people who are just conducting the terror attacks, who are placing the bombs, who are taking and sending their bombers and every one of them has blood of tens of Israelis on his hands. Jon Snow: Forgive me, but there is no democratic state on earth that currently goes round assassinating people outside its own territorial borders. Yarden Vatikai: First of all, no-one is assassinating here. Jon Snow: Well the UN Secretary General says you are. Yarden Vatikai: Let me answer, let me answer. You are sitting in London and other people are sitting in other places in the world. We are sitting here in Israel and we are having bombings every day, EVERY day, people who are conducting the most horrible and most inhuman terrorist acts. Jon Snow: You are becoming a terrorist state. You are just about qualifying, as the United States would put it, for that status. Yarden Vatikai: What is happening here, Jon, what is happening here is a war against terror. Now you have to ask the questions the one who conducted the terrorists. You have to ask Arafat. You have to ask the PLO. You have to ask the Hamas and the Jihad. You know that only a couple of days ago we intercepted a squad on its way to kill Israelis, one of them a Hamas member, the other Islamic Jihad. The third one is a PLO member. I mean you can't distinguish right now between security, Palestinian security forces, which we and the world gave them weapons, and the Hamas and Islamic Jihad. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
