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| There is going to come a time when Israel is going to tell the rest of the world to F*** off and do what needs to be done.No more more hemming and hawing,eliminate the palestinian authority,and wipe out everyone who would harm Israel.I just hope Im around to see it.I will also offer what help I can.The Palestinians are murdering bastards.The EU and the rest of the liberal world need to quit apologizing for the PA's barbarism and accept the fact that muslims and arabs are the problem. |
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U.S. told: Israel will react to Iraqi strikeJoint U.S.-Israel defense group to be reactivated in MarchNEW YORK - The United States understands that Israel "will not sit quietly" if Iraq attacks it in response to any American assault on Saddam Hussein, senior American officials told Prime Minister Ariel Sharon this weekend.The officials also promised Israel will be told in advance of any American plan to attack Iraq, so that it can prepare its defenses. These were two of the key assurances Sharon had sought in his Washington meetings with President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on Thursday. His hosts did not give Sharon any details of the next stages of the U.S. war on terror, saying they have not yet made any final decision. But both Sharon and Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, who was also in Washington last week, said they received the impression that the U.S. is determined to act against Iraq, and that Iraq is currently the focus of its Middle East policy. Israeli sources said that Iraq will also be the focus of Cheney's visit to the region next month, which will include a two-day stopover in Israel. Ben-Eliezer told his American counterpart, Donald Rumsfeld, that Israel is preparing for the possibility of an Iraqi strike against it in response to an American attack, including the possibility that it could use chemical or biological weapons. Iraq did not use such weapons during the Gulf War, but Israel believes it may do so this time, Ben-Eliezer said. A senior Pentagon delegation, led by Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith, will visit Israel next month for a meeting of the joint Defense Policy Advisory Group (DPAG), which has not met since October 2000. The talks will apparently center on preparations for an American attack on Iraq. Sharon also discussed the Iranian threat with his hosts - Tehran's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons, its support for anti-Israel terrorism in Lebanon and the territories, and its efforts to foment discontent among Israeli Arabs. In addition, he warned of the danger that the northern border could heat up, citing incidents such as Hezbollah's recent firing of anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli air force planes on Israel's side of the border. The U.S. believes that Iran is behind Hezbollah's activity, but Sharon said the organization would not act without encouragement, or at least tacit consent, from Syria, the de facto ruling power in Lebanon. The Americans therefore promised to warn Syria against permitting any escalation on Israel's northern border. Sharon said the question of restarting Israeli-Syrian negotiations did not arise. By Aluf Benn
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