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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Machaon who wrote (267)	11/14/2001 6:27:24 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

Shara tells UN to target Israeli 'terrorism' first By Melissa Radler ----- or more Arab lies and propaganda --- make lies and demands as outrageous as possible UNITED NATIONS (November 15) - Israel's treatment of the Palestinians took center stage at the General Assembly's annual debate this week, as Arab and Muslim leaders justified terrorism against Israelis and called for the international effort against terror to include measures against Israel. The debate, at which world leaders and foreign ministers typically address issues such as poverty, hunger, the economy, and AIDS, this year focused on terrorism due to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington - which caused postponement of the debate by seven weeks- and the US-led campaign in Afghanistan. "Anyone who would like to target terrorism in our region must target the Israeli terrorism first and foremost, because what Israel does is the utmost form of terrorism that is absolutely shorn of human feeling," said Syria's Foreign Minister Farouk Shara, whose country was recently elected to serve on the UN's 15-member Security Council. Shara said that Israel's "religious basis" and "terrorist organizations," including the pre-1948 Lehi and Irgun Zva'i Leumi, have "sown the seeds of terrorism and fear in Palestine and outside it." As for the decision by the US government to freeze the assets of some Damascus-based and Syrian-sponsored terrorist groups, including Hizbullah, Hamas, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Shara said that Syria should be praised rather than criticized "for hosting about half a million Palestinians and offering them work, security, and a dignified life" until they return to Israel. He also praised Hizbullah for "defeating the Israeli occupying forces" in May, 2000, and backed Hizbullah's contention that Israel is still occupying part of Lebanon. Shara praised world leaders for calling Islam a religion of peace, but accused the American public of harboring hatred toward Arabs and Muslims. In thinly-veiled language referring to Jewish and Israeli influence, he said the hatred was caused by "tens of thousands of publications, articles, and films for the last 50 years." Calling Israel the "founder and primary source of terrorism," Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, criticized continuing US and British sanctions against Iraq. Sabri compared US action in Afghanistan with Israeli action in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and called for a halt to both. Israel's "systematic terrorism demands a reaction on the part of the international community that is commensurate with the gravity of these genocidal practices against a whole people," he said. Israel's 1981 raid and destruction of Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor was condemned as an act of terrorism. Bearing greetings from Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who some US legislators have said is the next target in the war on terrorism, Sabri said that Iraq launched on initiative on Oct 29 to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction, which he said are stockpiled by the US and "the Zionist entity." In a speech by Egypt's UN representative, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, he recommended a four-step peace plan to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: that Israel return to the borders of June 4, 1967; declare Jerusalem the capital of Palestine; hand over all air, water, and land usage to the Palestinians and solve the refugee problem; and that Israel's nuclear arsenal be taken away. One of the few Arab leaders to mention Israel's security concerns was the Foreign Minister of Jordan, Abdel-Elah Khatib, who on Monday called for "the fulfillment of the national rights of the Palestinian people and the establishment of their viable independent state on their homeland as well as guaranteeing the security of Israel." Khatib also urged that Jerusalem, which he proposed should become the capital of Palestine, be declared an open city with freedom of worship for people of all religions.