-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Israelis are all Nazis, Assad tells summit FROM SAM KILEY, IN AMMAN PRESIDENT ASSAD of Syria called Israelis “Nazis” yesterday and offered to “forgive and forget” the decision of Yassir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, to negotiate with the late Yitzhak Rabin. Speaking at the start of the first Arab League summit in a decade, Mr Assad overshadowed Mr Arafat’s efforts to win support for the Palestinian uprising. His speech, which often assumed the tone of a lecture to the league’s 22 heads of state and their representatives, was delivered as a suspected suicide bomber blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing himself and wounding a dozen others. Mr Assad said that the Arab world had been “too emotional” and had failed to analyse properly the election of Ariel Sharon to head a national unity government in Israel. He said that successive Israeli elections had proved that Israelis in general “gave us nothing and took everything. “It is the Israeli public and not just the leaders who are like the Nazis themselves,” he said in an improvised speech that could have been delivered by his father, Hafez, 20 years ago. The speech shocked foreign diplomats, many of them sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, who had gathered in Amman, the Jordanian capital, for the summit. “This does not do those who want to help the Palestinians any good,” a senior Western diplomat said. “It’s the sort of speech which proves to the Israelis that the Arab world does not accept their existence and that the Arabs really want to destroy Israel.” Mr Assad’s rhetoric took many people by surprise given his efforts to portray his country as becoming more democratic and moving away from its days as a Soviet satellite. After medical training in London, Mr Assad has been working to open Syria to foreign investment and get the country wired into the Internet. Despite the need to impress fellow Arab leaders, Mr Assad’s tough message appeared to exceed what was necessary to signal to the Sharon government that he is a man to be reckoned with. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, had hoped to persuade Arab leaders to see the problems faced by both sides in the Arab-Israeli conflict. He criticised Mr Sharon’s policy of besieging Palestinian towns and of “excessive use of force” in quelling riots. He said, however, that it should be recognised that Israel feels threatened and that it had a “legitimate right to live in safety within its own borders”. After Mr Assad’s speech, Mr Arafat repeated his allegations that the Israelis have used “illegal weapons” against the Palestinians, but he also said that he wanted to return to the agreements reached with the Israelis in October last year, at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, which included a ceasefire. The Arab leaders, who are also discussing Iraq, seem unlikely to reach an agreement about how to persuade President Saddam Hussein to give up his claim to Kuwait or how to seek the easing of sanctions against his country. *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? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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
