U.S. official to Israel:
We'll deal with Syria, Iran after Iraq war
(from an Israeli newspaper that often
reveals more truth than US media)
haaretzdaily.com
Monday, February 17, 2003 Adar1 15, 5763 Israel Time: 19:57 (GMT+2)
U.S. official to Israel:
We'll deal with Syria, Iran after Iraq war
By Aluf Benn and Sharon Sadeh, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies
U.S. Undersec'y of State John Bolton
Syria and Iran are next.
(Photo: AP)
U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton said in meetings with Israeli officials on Monday that he has no doubt America will attack Iraq, and that it will be necessary to deal with threats from Syria, Iran and North Korea afterwards. (maybe not that last part... about North Korea... any time soon)
Bolton, who is undersecretary for arms control and international security, is in Israel for meetings about preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
In a meeting with Bolton on Monday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that Israel is concerned about the security threat posed by Iran. It's important to deal with Iran even while American attention is turned toward Iraq, Sharon said.
Bolton also met with Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Housing and Construction Minister Natan Sharansky.
NOTE: Netanyahu and Sharansky along with Sharon are all well known for their avowal of the right of settlement and eventual claim to the West Bank and Gaza as part of Greater Israel -- although Sharon is currently lying that he is willing to enter into a peace process again after Iraq and other Arab nations are vanquished by the U.S. military. Is Bush such a fool, or does he know he is cooperating with these criminals?
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The man behind the Bush Zionists in U.S. --
Sharansky in Israel
(who tells Cheney and Wolfowitz what to tell Bush to say)
Date: Fri Jul 5, 2002 10:53 am
Subject: Coincidence? Parts of Bush speech match Sharansky proposal
Washington Post
July 2, 2002
A Sound Bite So Good, the President Wishes He Had Said It
By Dana Milbank
washingtonpost.com
[excerpt of article follows]
Is Natan Sharansky working in the White House speechwriting office?
Sharansky, Israel's housing minister and deputy prime minister, is the former Soviet dissident and head of a right-wing Russian-immigrant party. But by coincidence -- or something more -- the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan Sharansky published in the Jerusalem Post on May 3 sounds a lot like the peace proposal Bush delivered in the Rose Garden on June 24.
"The time has come for new leadership" for the Palestinians, Sharansky wrote. "The Palestinians must be encouraged to form an open and free society that is not burdened by the fear, hatred, and terror that have been sown in recent years by Arafat and his leadership."
Here's Bush's version: "Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership so that a Palestinian state can be born. I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror."
Sharansky wrote that his seven-point plan "cannot happen overnight" and called for a "three-year transition period."
Bush, in turn, said a final agreement "could be reached within three years from now."
Sharansky envisioned an "international coordinating body" headed by the United States that could, with a Palestinian Administrative Authority, "develop the infrastructure for democratic life among the Palestinians." There would also be an "international economic fund" for industry and infrastructure.
And Bush? "I've asked Secretary Powell to work intensively with Middle Eastern and international leaders to realize the vision of a Palestinian state, focusing them on a comprehensive plan to support Palestinian reform and institution building." The president said the United States would work with the World Bank and international donors on "a major project of economic reform and development."
Finally, Sharansky argued that only a "free and open" society "can serve as a solid guarantee for normal relations between the two peoples." For this reason, "we owe it to ourselves and to our future to help the Palestinians help themselves."
Bush, seven weeks later, submitted that "a stable, peaceful Palestinian state is necessary to achieve the security that Israel longs for." Israel should "take concrete steps to support the emergence of a viable, credible Palestinian state," he added.
The Sharansky and Bush plans are not entirely the same; notably absent from Sharansky's version was Bush's call for Israel to freeze its settlements in Palestinian territory. Still, Sharansky themes began to tumble from the lips of Bush officials.
Speechwriting director Michael Gerson did not return a phone call asking about the coincidence.
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The following article shows how Sharansky's influence came to Bush through Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, and other Zionist sympathizers (these can be either Christian fundamentalists or Jewish dual loyalists) in the Bush administration. Sharansky speaks in public about "democracy" but actually is a leader of right-wing elements in Israel that believe in the ethnic superiority of Jews and eventual take-over of all Palestinian territory through expansion of Zionist settlements and eventual transfer out of all non-Jewish residents from the West Bank and Gaza.
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Date: Mon Jul 8, 2002 9:22 am
Subject: Sharansky discusses his role in Bush's speech
Newsweek
July 15, 2002
Sharansky’s Quiet Role
What pushed Bush to demand that Arafat must go? Part of the answer lies on a forest path in Colorado
By Dan Ephron and Tamara Lipper
Natan Sharansky, one time Soviet dissident and now an Israeli cabinet minister, had been hammering at the same themes for years in lectures and private meetings with U.S. officials: peace would never be possible without democracy. Suddenly something clicked at a conference of conservative heavyweights in Beaver Creek, Colo., last month.
VICE PRESIDENT DICK Cheney was there, taking notes. So was Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy Defense secretary. The two Americans had been working with others on a major Middle East policy speech for the president, and though they had both met Sharansky many times before, his address struck a chord. Dump the region’s dictators, and make democracy a precondition for peace. “It was pretty much the talk of the conference,” says Richard Perle, an influential Pentagon adviser who helped bring Sharansky to the forum. Two days later President George W. Bush announced the United States was fed up with the Palestinian leadership and effectively ended the era of American engagement with Arafat.
Score one for Sharansky and his crusade to alter the course of American diplomacy. Bush’s speech, possibly the most significant Middle East policy announcement by the United States in a decade, was hardly his doing alone. Arafat fatigue in the Bush administration had been on the rise at least since January, when U.S. officials believe the Palestinian leader lied to Bush about an arms shipment from Iran. Israeli intelligence kept up a steady stream of information linking Arafat to the financing of suicide attacks. By the time Cheney and other delegates arrived at the June 20 conference, Bush advisers had been working on the address for weeks and written nearly 30 drafts, according to one official. Sharansky may have strengthened the resolve of officials who argued against wording that would keep lines open to Arafat. The decision to drop the Palestinian leader was made shortly before Bush spoke out. “Sharansky provided an important bit of last-minute affirmation,” says Perle.
Palestinians object that Arafat is no dictator. He was elected in a 1996 ballot deemed free and fair by observers. And though his regime has jailed political opponents and trampled free speech, Israelis have hardly done better. Palestinians never had full civil rights during decades of Israeli rule.
Sharansky is hoping he had a hand in reshaping U.S. policy. At the conference, he says, he spoke privately with Cheney for more than an hour Saturday, two days before the Bush announcement. “More than half our talk was devoted to what would be said in the speech,” he says. Later Saturday, Sharansky and Wolfowitz were due at a dinner reception, but as an observant Jew, Sharansky said he couldn’t drive on the Sabbath. Instead, he and Wolfowitz trudged through a forest on foot to get to the dinner, their bodyguards in tow. “It gave us a chance to talk about everything—Arafat, international terrorism, Iraq and Iran and, of course, Jewish history, our roots and so on,” Sharansky says.
That coziness reflects a meeting of minds between Sharansky and Bush’s chief ideologues. Sharansky reads the Bush speech as a broader policy statement about dictators everywhere and says the United States should withdraw support not only for Arafat but for regimes like the one in Saudi Arabia. That might be going too far for Washington, where officials say Bush had mainly Palestinians and Israelis in mind.
But as far as the Israelis are concerned, it’s a big step in the right direction.
With Daniel Klaidman in Washington
msnbc.com
NOTE: Zionist leaders in the foreign state of Israel,
in other words, can and do determine U.S. Foreign Policy.
Sharansky's motive is obviously not democracy for the Arab people. Read next about the deception behind Sharansky's influence on the "Bush doctrine" of using U.S. military force to "liberate" first Iraq and then force "progress" upon the several other Arab nations.
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