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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (1313)	6/3/1998 7:57:00 PM
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<< Pakistan-'them Indians and Israelis made us do it.'.>> Besides being very advanced in missiles and nuclear weapons, Israelis are advanced in specialized agriculture, such as hydroponics - growth of plants in a nutrient solution without soil. JPR

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (1313)	6/3/1998 9:04:00 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Mohan: << Pakistan-'them Indians and Israelis made us do it.'.>> Here is an article about fellow muslims and pakistani nuclear detonation. For private use only. Pakistan test affects Mideast quarrel ú Fellow Muslims celebrate Pakistan's nuclear detonation By LAURA KING ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM-In the cavernous, carpeted interior of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, the tone of the sermon was angry. Muslims are humiliated by the West, the mosque preacher told the faithful -but that could change. "The Pakistani nuclear bomb is the beginning of the resurgence of Islamic power." Sheik Hayyan Idrisi told the thousands of worshippers, who broke into a rhythmic chant of "Allahu Akbar!;- God is great. The scene last week at Al-Aqsa the holiest Islamic shrine in Jerusalem, illustrates how the nuclear rivalry of India and Pakistan has become a troubling new factor in the already volatile Israeli-Palestinian equation. Among Palestinians, the popular response to Pakistan's nuclear tests has been a sense of panislamic pride - and renewed resentment over Israel's undeclared but widely assumed possession of a nuclear arsenal. Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority has refrained from either praising or criticizing Pakistan the first Muslim nation to go nuclear openly. But senior Palestinian Cabinet minister Hanan Ashrawi said it was unfair for Pakistan to face international sanctions over its nuclear tests while Israel goes unscathed. "lsrael is the one rogue country in our part of the world that is above accountability ... when it comes to its own nuclear weapons," Ashrawi, the minister of higher education, said over the weekend. There is a very clear double standard." Israel has expressed concern about the accelerating arms race in South Asia, saying nuclear proliferation anywhere heightens the ability of states like Iran and Iraq to develop nuclear weapons. Israel has friendly political and military dealings with India-but no relations with Muslim Pakistan. Even so, Israel has carefully avoided publicly characterizing Pakistan's nuclear tests as any more worrisome than those of India which set off the nuclear muscle-flexing. "The point is not whether or not the nuclear power is in Islamic hands," said David Bar-lllan, a top aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pointing to Israel's ties with Muslim countries, including Jordan, Egypt and Turkey. But Pakistan apparently feared the worst from Israel. Israeli media reported Monday that Pakistan had anxiously sought last minute assurances from the United States that Israel did not intend to bomb its nuclear installations to prevent it from carrying out its test detonations Bar-lllan denied the existence of any such Israeli plan, saying there was no intention whatsoever" by Israel for an air strike against Pakistan. . "I am amazed that the government of Pakistan has yet to blame us for the earthquake in Afghanistan," he added acidly in an interview with Army radio. Israel, however, has not hesitated to use preemptive measures in the past. In June 1981, it bombed Iraq's French-built reactor outside Baghdad saying Saddam Hussein was using it to produce weapons-grade material. If Arafat has withheld praise for Pakistan and its nuclear ambitions, there are no such constraints on his rival, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, spiritual leader of the Islamic group Hamas. Yassin, who has been on an extended regional tour to raise money and drum up support for Hamas, was quoted by the Sudanese newspaper Al-Rai Al-Aam as calling Pakistan's nuclear status "an asset to Arab and Muslim nations." That made banner headlines in Israel Like Arafat, Arab governments have avoided any overt encouragement of Pakistan. The Muslim world's main group, the 55-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference, said Monday the world must urge India and Pakistan to quickly sign a nonaggression treaty to prevent regional instability. But as in the Palestinian lands there is widespread Arab distaste for what is viewed as Western hypocrisy on the nuclear issue. Countries including Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates have accused the United States of fueling the arms race by ignoring Israel's nuclear arsenal. Pakistan's bomb does help feed a sense of Muslim solidarity at a time of eroding faith in the United States as a Mideast mediator. Both Arafat and Yassin have been trying-though with very different agendas-to promote the notion of Arab solutions to the Palestinian question. Israel, though, bluntly warned Palestinians against assuming that anxieties about the changing nuclear picture will pressure it into making territorial concessions in exchange for peace. Whoever suggests an argument that means withdrawal from (the West Bank) because of the nuclear threat-what they are suggesting is that we cut off our arms and legs because of a headache, said Cabinet secretary Dan Naveh. "Any peace in our region will be one that will deter threats