Posted on 12/05/2006 10:04:12 PM PST by Biscuit85
While Iran continues to deny that Israel has the right to exist, Iranian and Israeli representatives are holding clandestine talks in Europe to settle an old Israeli debt, Ha'aretz reported Wednesday.
Iran is still owed hundreds of millions of dollars for oil it supplied to Israel in the years before the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and representatives of the two countries, now sworn enemies, are holding contacts meant to settle the debt, according to the report in Haaretz.
The report was attributed to anonymous Israeli and Swiss officials involved in the negotiations.
Two mediation processes involving different parts of the debt are now ongoing between Iranian and Israeli representatives, the report said, and a third ended recently in a ruling that Israeli fuel companies owe Iran tens of millions of dollars.
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Ah yes, the old pay for your own destruction ploy. ???
What?! Is this from The Onion?
Israel should tell Iran they'll pay it back: to Reza Pahlavi (who could use the money to fund an insurgency in Iran), not the theocrat nazi dictators who overthrew his father.
Paying off Iran is something France would do, not Israel. The Israelis are smart enough to know that every dime they gave Iran would be used to fund the murder of their people.
Hey, that's not a bad idea! Of course, instead of advertising their financial support for Pahlavi, they should go about it more secretly so as to not discredit the insurgency. If Iran has hezbollah, Israel should have its own, proxy anti-ayatollah insurgent arm.

Olmert, you pencil neck geek, are you reading this?
The mullahs should be paid in Plutonium..
And how much does Iran owe Israel for weapons provided (to fight Iraq) but never paid for?
The Olmert Israeli government is probably giving away the store, if I have them sized up correctly.
Wealthy Jews tried to negotiate with Hitler. He took their money and you know the rest of the story.
I wonder hwo long it will take before the US taxpayers get this bill to pay too..................
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