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

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (4234)	5/12/2002 6:19:45 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 32591

ISRAEL BLOWS GUN-RUNNERS OUT OF THE WATER By URI DAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 12, 2002 -- EXCLUSIVE JERUSALEM - Israel sank a ship off the Gaza Strip that was carrying arms to the Palestinians, The Post has learned. The ship was ferrying arms from the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon. It was sunk by the Israelis just days ago before it could reach the shores of Gaza. The Palestinians, unaware of the ship's fate, are still looking for it. Israeli defense officials said they knew nothing about the ship or its sinking, and the size of the arms cache it was carrying was not known. In January, Israeli frogmen seized the Karine A, a ship laden with 80 tons of mortars, rockets, missiles and explosives from Iran. Israeli officials said the weapons, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, were in dozens of watertight capsules. The Karine A's weapons capsules were to be off-loaded to smaller ships and then dropped into the sea off Gaza. The Palestinian naval police was then supposed to retrieve the arms. The Karine A captain, Omar Akawi, said at the time that he acted under the orders of a senior Palestinian official. "I want to be proud that I took part in the battle for Palestine," he said. Akawi, 44, said he received instructions from Adel Awadalah, an official Palestinian representative in Greece, and was also in contact with Fathi Razen, a commander of Arafat's naval police. Israeli officials said the venture followed several attempts to smuggle arms from Lebanon into Gaza by sea. One occurred in May last year when Israeli forces intercepted the Santorini, a fishing vessel carrying weapons bound for Palestinian extremists. Israeli officials said there were three bungled attempts before that, including one by the Santorini. Back to World News Index \| Home NEW YORK POST is a registered trademark of NYP Holdings, Inc. NYPOST.COM,

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (4234)	5/12/2002 6:59:29 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Nadine, in a dictatorship they kill you if you go against the wishes of the dictator. I am sure that you and I can agree on that. Whether it is Hitler, Lenin, Mussolini or Mao. That is what causes people who refuse to fall in line to flee. But in a democracy such as ours we tolerate all sorts of behavior even if it hurts those families who were going about their business on 9/11, not occupying any land but instead working their butts off so that they can share their wealth with others. And those families could at least derive some consolation if the US went and got the US haters. But now we have others who say "Forget those families, forget the US. Give precedence to our problem even though we have occupied others' lands, continue to build settlements and thumb our noses to the world." At least the Dalai Lama, who fled the wrath of the Chinese Communists in Tibet, does not thumb his nose. He preaches tolerance and love. He is loved here in the US not only because of his message but also because of his wisdom.