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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (19395)	3/1/2003 5:22:52 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 23908

Soros barks up the wrong tree --he'd better enlighten his fellow Israelis.... weekly.ahram.org.eg Excerpt: What the administration fails to understand is that it cannot hide or ignore the huge elephant in the middle of the room, namely Israel. Retired US General Anthony Zinni said, "my worst nightmare would be an Al-Jazeera TV picture of American troops in combat fighting Iraqis at the same time the Israeli Defence Forces is in the West Bank and Gaza killing Arabs. Furthermore, how can the Bush administration convince either Congress or the Arabs that the US cares about 'the territorial integrity of Iraqi' when those same members of the administration were signatories to a document in 1996 advising Benyamin Netanyahu of the desirability of dismantling Iraq and any other Arab country that stands in Israel's way? What these same people were telling Netanyahu then and President Bush now is: you are stronger than all your neighbours, act upon it. Forget the peace process; it does not serve you. Forget international law; lead, and everybody will follow; the rest can go to Hell." Zbigniew Brzezinski correctly pointed out the hypocrisy of this logic. He said, "the European press has commented more widely than the US press on the striking similarity between current US policy in the Middle East and the recommendations prepared in 1996 by this same group -- admirers of Israel's Likud Party for the then Prime Minister Netanyahu." Unfortunately, the American people do not see the reports on how the entire war issue is seen in the Arab world. As an example of the media's self-censorship of most issues touching on Israel, when The New York Times published excerpts of Osama Bin Laden's message that was broadcast by Al-Jazeera TV channel, it omitted any reference to Israel or Tel Aviv -- despite the fact that Bin Laden named those places close to 10 times in his broadcast. It is no wonder, then, that there are several patriotic Americans who are warning against the invasion of Iraq because they believe that it is being done in the interests of Israel. They are calling it Sharon's war. [...] _________________________________