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To: Kona who wrote (130870)	10/24/2001 4:12:44 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 436258

G. Gordon Liddy on terrorists and Powell Asked how interested his listeners now are in what is happening in Israel, considering that US forces are involved in fighting taking place four large countries to Israel's east, Liddy said the US public is interested because of Osama bin Laden's attempts to link the attacks in New York and Washington to US support for Israel. "The terrorists are saying there will be no peace in the US until they feel secure in - quote -- Palestine - end quote. That is code for the extinction of the Israeli state, and the driving out and killing of all Jews in what they claim as 'Palestine'," he said. According to Liddy, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was dead on the mark when he said last week that Israel will not play the role of 1938 Czechoslovakia." "Sharon was right," Liddy said. "The reason for the uproar [in the US over these statements] is because they struck home." Liddy said that the US "has no business forcing the representatives of the legitimate democratic government of Israel to parley with a man who is a terrorist, who -- while he talks peace in English for CNN -- turns around and says in Arabic to his Arabic brethren, 'don't listen to that'." "Yasser Arafat's plan is still the same, and that is the extinction of Israel," Liddy said. "He is a terrorist himself, he harbors terrorists, he gives them aid and succor, and that means he falls under the definition that President Bush has said of a regime that must be ended. Why, if it is a regime that must be ended, should Israel continue these fruitless discussions with him?" Asked why Bush, who Liddy avidly supports, does not see this, the G-Man placed the problem squarely on Colin Powell's shoulders. "The problem is that there is a split in the administration between President Bush and Defense Secretary Daniel Rumsfeld on the one hand, who want a hard line against not only the terrorists but also those who give them aid and succor, and his unfortunate choice of Secretary of State -- the dove Colin Powell. Powell counseled Bush's father against military action to eject Iraq from Kuwait, and then stopped the war when he had it won, snapping defeat from the jaws of victory. Now he is giving him [the younger Bush] the same advice." Liddy, who was the only Watergate conspirator who refused to 'sing" and implicate his bosses at his Watergate trial on the 1970s, and perhaps as a result served more time - 52 months in jail - than anyone else involved in that scandal, is now willing to speak his mind freely on a variety of issues. Asked what Israel should be doing now that the US has started its war on terror, Liddy said, "They should give all the superb intelligence assistance they can to the US, they should keep their guard up, continue their policy of killing those who mastermind killing in Israel, and resist US State department Arabists when they would have them engage in futile blabber with the likes of Yasser Arafat." info.jpost.com