- NEWSFLASH
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- EGYPT PRACTICES MOVING FORCES ACROSS SUEZ CANAL TOWARDS
ISRAEL
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- Israel Radio Arab Affairs Correspondent Avi Yissakharov
reported today that the Egyptian army has completed a major military training
exercise involving moving a large force across the Suez Canal into Sinai
and towards Israel. The exercise, clearly meant to send a warning Israel's
way as regional war looms and Israel's 'transfer' the Palestinians plans
proceed, included methods of destroying 'enemy' fortifications. Hezbollah
is threatening to launch new longer-range missiles from the north, the
Syrians are known to have chemical and maybe biological weapons, and now
the Egyptian army is flexing its muscles in the south; with Israel, backed
by the U.S., threatening war on many fronts and in the end possessing a
vast arsenal of nuclear as well as chemical and biological weapons, including
three German-built diesel-powered submarines fitted with medium-range missiles
tipped with nuclear warheads in the past two years.
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- PERES WARNS OF ARMAGEDDON AND CALLS 'SETTLEMENT RABBIS'
'SHITTY INCITERS'
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- For all of Shimon Peres' failings and duplicities, he
does at moments speak out forcefully, but always for very self-serving
and twisted reasons. Peres hasn't recovered from the Knesset vote against
his becoming the Israeli President; and now his 'Oslo Peace Process' has
erupted in an orgy of killing, despair, and growing fear. The growing
Israeli right despises him completely; and the demoralized Israeli left
mistrusts him completely. The man who has taken greatest advantage of
this situation is Ariel Sharon who continues to use Peres to galavant around
the world, where his personal failings are less known and understood, to
provide his never-ending litany of excuses and explanations which give
Sharon more leeway to pursue Israel's actual neo-apartheid and get-ready-to-expel
them policies...whatever it is Peres truly believes. In recent days the
Israeli Foreign Minister has harshly lashed out at the settlers, the very
people his Prime Minister has championed, and presented his own vision
of Armageddon...sooner rather than later it seems.
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- PERES CALLS 'SETTLEMENT RABBIS' 'SHITTY INCITERS'
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- Jerusalem Post 10-21-02
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- Foreign Minister Shimon Peres Sunday called the rabbis
of Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip "sh-tty inciters," who
not too long ago called for killing him. Peres, speaking at the cabinet
meeting, was upset at rabbis in the settlements who have called on religiously
observant soldiers to refuse orders to evacuate settlement outposts. He
claimed that prior to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin,
the rabbis incited against Rabin and himself. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
asked Peres in the meeting to take back his foul language, but the foreign
minister declined. National Infrastructures Minister Effi Eitam called
on Peres to quit for making such a statement.
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- PERES - BLINDNESS OF EXTREME RIGHT COULD BRING CATASTROPHE
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- Ha'aretz 10-17-02
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- Within three years, the Middle East could turn into an
arena of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, which because of the
blindness of Israel's extreme right-wing could bring catastrophe upon Israel,
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told the Knesset yesterday. "You are
bringing Israel to a point from which there is no escape," Peres said
of the opposition of the far-right to diplomatic contacts with the Arabs.
Reacting angrily to MK Zvi Hendel's remark that had he lived, Yitzhak Rabin
would have pressed for canceling the Oslo peace agreements, Peres said
of the Israeli-Palestinian accords, "I don't regret them, I am proud
of them, and Rabin would have stood here just like me!" To Hendel's
catcalls, Peres said of Rabin, whose 1995 assassination is being commemorated
today, "I knew him better than you, and [unlike you] he had courage
and had no demagoguery in him." Peres also attacked the rabbis of
the Yesha council settler movement, who this week issued calls advising
soldiers against "evacuating their brothers" on illegal settlement
outposts. "You have no alternative other than virtual illusions. The
rabbis of Yesha are the politicians of Yesha, the terrible politicians
of Yesha," who Peres said were unfaithful to Israel's moral heritage.
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- "We roundly deplore the recent incidents yesterday
in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli shells on a school and Palestinian
houses left at least eight dead, including two children," a spokeswoman
for the French Foreign Ministry, Cecile Pozzo di Borgo, said.
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- "We call the Israeli authorities to show better
restraint and to halt all military operations in the Palestinian territories,"
she told a media conference.
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- Pozzo di Borgo added that Paris saw Israel's incursions
as a violation of the Geneva conventions and a blow to international efforts
to restore some sort of stability to the region.
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- The Rafah incidents "result once again from the
Israeli Army's recourse to disproportionate military means against a civilian
Palestinian population in densely populated urban areas," she said.
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- http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/19/02&Cat=4&Num=002
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