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To: StormRider who wrote (2440)	11/5/2002 8:21:46 PM
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ATTACK IRAN THE DAY IRAQ WAR ENDS, DEMANDS ISRAEL Stephen Farrell, Times (UK), 11/5/02 timesonline.co.uk Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has called on the international community to target Iran as soon as the imminent conflict with Iraq is complete. In an interview with The Times, Mr Sharon insisted that Tehran - one of the "axis of evil" powers identified by President Bush - should be put under pressure "the day after" action against Baghdad ends because of its role as a "centre of world terror". He also issued his clearest warning yet that Israel would strike back if attacked by Iraqi chemical or biological weapons, no matter how much Washington sought to keep its controversial Middle Eastern ally out of any war in Iraq… SEE ALSO: BRITAIN SAYS TARGETING IRAN WOULD BE "GRAVE ERROR" Reuters, 11/5/02 LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Britain has dismissed Israeli calls to target Iran after any military action on Iraq, saying it would be the "gravest possible error" to threaten hostilities against Tehran. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the Times in London on Tuesday that Iran posed a threat to the Middle East and Europe and should be targeted as soon as any conflict with Iraq were complete. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw responded saying political engagement was better than confrontation. "I profoundly disagree with him and I think it would be the gravest possible error to think in that way," he told BBC radio. In Tehran, an Iranian official described Sharon's remarks as "ominous dreams of a war criminal." ----- BRITAIN CRITICIZES ISRAEL OVER SETTLEMENTS, FENCE Dominic Evans, Reuters, 11/5/02 LONDON (Reuters) - Britain criticized Israel Tuesday for expanding Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and for routing a planned security fence so as to annex land on which Palestinians want to set up a state. In a marked shift of tone toward the Jewish state, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told parliament Britain would complain to Israel over the route of the fence, which he said was effectively annexing a significant area of the West Bank. "Whilst I fully understand the need for security for the state of Israel...It looks as though the route taken by this fence is partly on a basis of security and partly on a basis of what land is available," he said. "That is unacceptable." "Conjoined with a fence around Jerusalem, another seven percent of the West Bank will be annexed by this fence," he said. Around 70,000 Palestinians would be trapped between the new barrier and the 1967 "green line" border between Israel and the West Bank, putting pressure on them to leave their homes, he said. "It is unacceptable and we shall be making representations to the government of Israel about it," Straw said… Condemning the expansion of Israeli settlements across the West Bank, Straw said they now covered 41 percent of the territory and encircled Arab East Jerusalem. "These are illegal settlements. It is wholly wrong that the government of Israel should have continued to extend them," he said. "This is unlawful…"