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To: dougjn who wrote (469)	9/25/1998 3:38:00 PM
From: SOROS	Respond to of 1151

WAKE UP -- WAR IS COMING A Voice from Hebron by Gary M. Cooperberg Arafat has Given Netanyahu a New Year's Present Will he Accept it? September 25, 1998 In a democratic world it should not be surprising that the United Nations would vote to establish a Palestinian State. It also would not surprise me if they voted to simply change the name of Israel to Palestine and hand the keys to Arafat. What surprises, astonishes and angers me is the fact that a brilliant man like Binyamin Netanyahu, rather than accepting his role as Prime Minister of the Jewish State, is acting like a disinterested mediator. A defacto PLO state was established by Rabin and Peres, and like it or not, endorsed by Netanyahu. Bickering over the details as to when, if and how it will be formally declared is merely academic. If we want to make a case before the world against the establishment of such a state we haven't a chance to succeed. Does this mean that the establishment of a PLO state is an inevitable fact and cannot be prevented? Of course not. But every day that passes without positive action on the part of the Jewish State to stop this horror makes the effort to prevent the PLO from succeeding that much more difficult. Countless opportunities have already been passed up and I will not waste the time to enumerate them here. But we now have a new one. And this one can really be considered a New Year's present from the PLO. The PLO has clearly stated its intention to declare statehood in May of next year. Rather than issue warnings of what we will do in such an event, this government has an obligation to act now in reaction to that statement. Simply add this declaration to the countless other violations of Oslo on the part of the PLO and declare the agreement null and void. Concurrently launch an all out and immediate attack against the PLO to liberate all the Jewish lands given to them under false pretenses. No more negotiations. Just a swift, brutal and complete re-taking of our country. Will this be easy or pleasant? Absolutely not. Will it unleash a war with the Arab nations? It may. And even if it does, at least we will have the element of surprise on our side and not the other way around which is the only alternative. As abhorrent as this tactic may sound to many, the fact is that more lives, both Arab and Jewish, will be saved by such an act then by sitting on our hands and waiting for our enemies to decide when and where to start the next war. Why do we refuse to recognize the fact that we are currently engaged in a limited war with our Arab enemies. Why does our army feel the need to put a closure on the "territories" during our holidays? Why must every citizen be terrified every time he sees an apparently ownerless paper bag at a bus stop or supermarket? Why do we see policemen and soldiers patrolling our streets and shopping centers with dogs trained to smell explosives? And why are Jews not free to travel in all parts of our country, including Gaza, Hebron, Jericho, Bethlehem, Shechem, and Ramallah? Why was a Jewish car riddled with bullets yesterday merely because it was driving on a main road in suburban Hebron which is still under Israeli control? And why do we hear gunfire every night throughout Judea and Samaria? Am I angry that Arafat intends to declare a PLO state? Of course not. I would be amazed if he didn't. I am angry that no one in a position of leadership in this country is willing to accept responsibility to as much as suggest that we take our homeland back from our enemies! Yitzchak Mordechai, our current Minister of Defense, said, only a few months ago, that the IDF is capable of doing this. He quickly added that we don't want to. And that, in a nutshell, is the problem. It is not that we have no choices, rather that we consistently make the wrong ones. Mr. Netanyahu, I have never agreed with the manner in which you have conducted your administration in reaction to the treasonous act in Oslo. You have been given many opportunities to undo your mistakes and have refused to take any of them. Arafat, in deference to Rosh Hashannah, has just given you a real present. You now have another golden opportunity to, on your own terms, explain how hard you tried to make peace; were willing to and did, indeed, back down on basic national principles for this effort; and now have reached the red line where it should be clear to all that Oslo has failed. Now is the time to act. There is no point in waiting to react to a formal declaration of statehood by the PLO. The fact that they formally declared their intention to do so is enough. In view of the fact that the PLO has abrogated both the letter and the spirit of the agreement, you have no choice but to take back all that was given in good faith. There was no reciprocity and thus the PLO has forfeited any rights to as much as one grain of sand on the Gaza beach. A carefully planned evacuation of formerly PLO controlled areas should be immediately implemented. Not only will we take back our country, we will remove our enemies from it. Those who cooperate will be bused to temporary detention centers until alternative arrangements can be found for them. They will be provided with food and shelter until those arrangements are made. Armed resistence will be swiftly and brutally put down. . . with real bullets. We do not want a war. But we will not surrender to our enemies. This is our homeland. We were prepared to make adjustments for peace, but those efforts have failed. We now have no choice but to take back our homeland or lose it. We are not about to lose it.

To: dougjn who wrote (469)	9/25/1998 3:44:00 PM
From: SOROS	Respond to of 1151

HE DOES NOT KNOW ISRAEL or PROPHECY FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES P.O. Box 35661 Houston, Texas 77235-5661 Phone or Fax: 713-723-6016 E-mail: BSAPHIR@AOL.COM FREEMAN WEB SITE (URL): freeman.io.com [or] freeman.org Read THE MACCABEAN ONLINE: URL: freeman.io.com To Editors: Permission granted to reprint with proper credit. These broadcasts are a public service of the Freeman Center. If you do not wish to receive them, please call our office to have your name removed from our Fax/Email list. FREEMAN CENTER BROADCAST -- September 25, 1998 PREVIEW OF NEXT YEARS MID-EAST NEWS -- TODAY By Dr. Steven Plaut The headlines are filled with the news that Yassir will be announcing the erection of his "Palestinian State" this May, with Jerusalem as its Capital. Israeli politicans of all stripes, incl. Netanyahu, Barak, Ezer Weitzman, etc. are warning the PLO of the horrific consequences if they go ahead with this, thinly threatening force. Now for those of you with a busy schedule and little time for newspapers, let me save you some time and tell you now far in advance exactly what is going to happen over the next year or so: On May 4, 99 Arafat will announce the creation of the new state of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. It will be immediately recognized by every country on earth except Micronesia and the US, and the US will recognize it about 6 months or so after everyone else. All these countries will erect "embassies" to Palestine in East Jerusalem. Palestine will begin a rapid program of armaments procurement and will invite Iraqi and Iranian soldiers in (quietly) to renforce the National Palestine Liberation Army. The PLO Presidency will move to Orient House in east Jerusalem. After a few months, the army of Palestine will begin shelling Israeli neighborhoods and towns, and do everything it can to force Israel into an all-out war - where all the Arab states rush to the defense of Palestine-the-victim-of-Israeli-aggression. Meanwhile, bands of Israeli Arabs (from within the Green Line) will be detonating bombs and mines. And what, you ask, will the Israeli government be doing while all this is going on? Especially after all the blood-curdling threats and warnings this week from the Israeli politicians about oy-vavoy what will happen to the Palestinians if they declare a state? Well, why keep you in suspense? The answer is that they will do absolutely nothing. They will sit back and let it happen. The Left, including most of the Labor Party, will applaud it and Shimon Peres and his fellow travelers will be on the platform in Ramallah to applaud Arafat's declaration of statehood. The Israeli army will do absolutely nothing. There will be no sanctions. Israeli leaders may grumble a bit. But then they will calm down, convincing themselves that now that the Palestinians really have their own country they will no doubt live in peace and the whole world will applaud Israel for being so nice and insist on befriending the Jews, and they will believe this right up to the third week of the coming all-out Arab-Israeli war. Now is all that what HAS to happen? Of course not, it is just what WILL happen. Sure you will hear all sorts of snorts about how Israel has no options and no choice but to agree to all this. Which is of course nonsense. What could Israel do (even though she will not do it)? Some or all of the following: The day Arafat announces his state (or even beforehand - better yet) - 1. Buldoze Orient House and every other structure serving the PLO in Jerusalem. 2. Arrest any member of the PLO or any other PLO surrogate group who enters the Green Line, esp to Jerusalem. 3. Completely block off the entrance and exit into the PLO zones, preventing any movement of goods or people. Especially, no Palestinians can use Israeli airports or seaports or leave for Jordan or Egypt. ESPECIALLY no leaders of the PLO or its sister groups. 4. Absolutely no movement of goods or people into Israel from the PLO zones. No Palestinians at all allowed to enter Israel to work. Absolutely no movement of petroleum or materials into "Palestine". (let us see how they erect an army without gasoline) 5. Shut off all electricity and water to the PLO zones. 6. Jam all PLO broadcasts. Allow no newspeople into the PLO zones. 7. Send in hit teams to assassinate leaders and members of terrorist organizations in "Palestine". 8. Annex all remaining parts of West Bank and Gaza in Israeli hands (recall these are almost empty areas with almost no Arab populations). 9. Jail Ahmad Tibi and any other Israeli Arab openly identifying with the state of "Palestine". 10. Make flying the Palestinian flag in Israeli territory a felony. 11. Deny access to the Temple Mount to residents of the "State of Palestine". 12. Seize all access points and checkpoints into Palestine and permit no movement of people. 13. Do not lift any of these sanctions until AFTER Arafat and the PLO unilaterally cancel their declaration of statehood, declare unambiguously that they recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel, and revoke and replace the PLO's National Covenant. That is what Israel COULD do. But will not.