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To: craig crawford who wrote (2496)	12/3/2002 9:22:57 PM
From: StormRider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6945

ISRAELI TROOPS KILL PALESTINIAN WOMAN, 95 Mohammed Assadi, Reuters, 12/3/02 RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers on Tuesday shot dead a 95-year-old Palestinian woman who was taking a taxi home after a medical check-up in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian witnesses and medics said. They said troops opened fire on the van the woman was riding in when it tried to bypass rubble that Israeli forces had used to block the road between Ramallah and her home village of Atara… Medics said the woman, Fatima Hassan, who was on her way home from a medical clinic, was hit by a bullet in the back and that two other women in the taxi were wounded… Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said: "We condemn this war crime of killing in cold blood a 95-year-old woman and we hold Israel fully responsible..." Troops have maintained a blockade of Palestinian areas during much of the two-year-old Palestinian uprising for independence, and people caught trying to bypass army checkpoints have faced injury or death. The Palestinians call it collective punishment. Israel says it is self-defense.

To: craig crawford who wrote (2496)	12/13/2002 5:13:33 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 6945

<<< Since Cheney clearly changed his mind between 1991 and today, is it not legitimate to ask why, and whether Israel might have a greater influence over U.S. foreign policy now than it had in 1991? After all, notwithstanding his wisdom in rejecting an expansion of the war on Iraq a decade ago, Cheney was just as interested in promoting U.S. imperialism and was at that same moment in the early 1990s outlining a plan for world domination by the United States, one that did not include conquering Iraq at any point along the way. The only new ingredient in the mix today that is inducing Cheney to begin the march to U.S. world domination by conquering Iraq is the presence in the Bush-Cheney administration of a bevy of aggressive right-wing neo-con hawks who have long backed the Jewish fundamentalists of Israel's own right wing and who have been advocating some move on Iraq for at least the last half dozen years? The suggestion that the war with Iraq is being planned at Israel's behest, or at the instigation of policymakers whose main motivation is trying to create a secure environment for Israel, is strong. >>> (nice backgrounder on the mechanisms of the immensely powerful Israeli lobby) counterpunch.org