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

To: E. T. who wrote (2090)	4/12/2002 2:04:52 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32591

I cannot agree with the use of suicide bombers I agree with you, but it is completely irrelevant. counterpunch.org Israel could have done more in the past, so could have the Arab world The Arab world has been offering Israel an extremely generous peace treaty for 3 decades now (essentially UN 242). Israel and the U.S. have been rejecting it. And I vigorously disagree with your implication that there are people on SI on both sides of this issue distorting and falsifying. I don't see anyone one SI who calls for genocide of the Jews. I don't see anything that mirrors this: Message 17311626 Tom

To: E. T. who wrote (2090)	4/12/2002 2:31:57 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 32591

ie golda meir saying palestinians do not exist I think you may have been misconstruing her remark. Golda Meir was not saying that there were no Arabs in Palestine, or that there were no Arab refugees. She was saying that Palestinians qua Palestinians, distinct from Syrians or Jordanians, did not exist. In 1973, she was a little behind the times, since Palestinian nationalism really got going in the 60's. Before then, I would say she was right; the predominant Arab nationalism was pan-Arab. Certainly there was zero observable Palestinian nationalism while they were part of Jordan.

To: E. T. who wrote (2090)	4/12/2002 10:39:56 PM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

Did Arafat plan to kill Colin Powell? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES Attack on Powell motorcade foiled Explosives, suicide bomber's belt found beneath corpse in ambulance -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: April 12, 2002 10:15 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: DEBKAfile's electronic news publication is a news-cum-analysis live wire, online round the clock seven days a week. A weekly edition,DEBKA-Net-Weekly, is now available through WorldNetDaily.com. Drawing on DEBKAfile's unique sources, analytical talents and forward-looking insights, it is presented as a compact, intelligence-angled weekly package. It is available as a direct e-mail feed or via the Internet. © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Israeli security foiled a Palestinian terrorist attempt to hit the motorcade driving U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell from Ben Gurion Airport to Jerusalem last night, shortly after he landed. The secretary was accompanied by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and heads of the U.S. Embassy. Just before 9 p.m. local time, two hours before Powell arrived, a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance was stopped by a hidden Israeli security patrol near the gas station on the Modi'in-Jerusalem Highway 443. The driver and his mate had all the necessary permits for transporting a dead Palestinian policeman to the Gaza Strip. However, since Yasser Arafat's confinement in Ramallah, security has been intensified on all traffic coming from the direction of the Palestinian town, in case of an attempt to smuggle him out. In any case, in a war situation in which passage from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip has been suspended, all permits are checked for forgeries. The ambulance therefore was opened up and searched carefully. Hidden under the corpse was a large supply of explosives and a suicide bomber's belt. According to some of DEBKAfile's sources, the two Palestinians admitted under questioning that they had planned to pull the ambulance up on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv expressway, the route taken later by the Powell motorcade. One of the men was to stay in the vehicle while the other strapped on the bomb belt and hid in some roadside bushes. When the secretary’s car drove by, the ambulance was rigged to explode. The second bomber was then supposed to leap into the milling crowd of officials and security men and blow himself up. At 10:07 p.m., the booby-trapped Red Crescent ambulance was blown up in a controlled explosion, creating a bang loud enough to frighten dwellers in a broad radius and start the rumor of a rocket attack. Israel security is investigating the provenance of the Red Crescent ambulance and the official permits. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------