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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (22407)	2/21/2005 5:24:30 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81068

Gus > Frankly, it doesn't take an expert shrink to see that Yaalon's well-mannered, almost aristocratic outlook befits a Wall Street banker more than an all-out warmonger.... Do you think a gentleman like this would have been more appropriate? rense.com Meanwhile, it looks like the war in Iran is a done deal. rense.com >>Ritter said that President George W. Bush has received and signed off on orders for an aerial attack on Iran planned for June 2005. Its purported goal is the destruction of Iran's alleged program to develop nuclear weapons, but Ritter said neoconservatives in the administration also expected that the attack would set in motion a chain of events leading to regime change in the oil-rich nation of 70 million -- a possibility Ritter regards with the greatest skepticism. <<

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (22407)	2/28/2005 2:52:54 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81068

Gus > The whole affair is merely a cunning disinformation ploy to limit Israeli concessions to Gaza and a few settlements in the West Bank! It's a shrewd way for Sharon to draw the line (of Israel's withdrawal) at the Gaza Strip. Sharon's message is, "Look, I CAN'T go further lest the whole situation in Israel spiral out of control Meanwhile, Sharon still pretends to walk in Rabin's shoes. guardian.co.uk >>The head of Israel's intelligence agency told Cabinet Ministers on Sunday that the number of calls for the death of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is increasing sharply ahead of this summer's planned pullout from Gaza and part of the West Bank. The pullout involves dismantling all 21 settlements in Gaza and four in the West Bank, and settlers are hotly opposed. Shin Bet head Avi Dichter said his agents had logged a rising tide of statements in closed-door meetings in recent months, with several of them referring to the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by hard-liner Yigal Amir, who is serving a life sentence. ``Amir lives, Rabin is dead, Sharon will die,'' Dichter quoted one person as saying. ``A political murder would be welcome,'' said another. <<