Sharon Warns Bush: Do Not Attack Israel

Arutz Sheva Israel Broadcasting Network ^ | Friday, 05 October 2001

[Israel]

PM Sharon To Bush: 'Don't Appease The Arabs At Our Expense'

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon held a press conference last night following the downing of the Russian passenger plane over the Black Sea - which took off from Israel's Ben Gurion Int'l airport with mostly Israelis on board - and in the wake of the deadly Arab terrorist attack in Afula which claimed the lives of three Israeli citizens.

Sharon said: "Today a Russian plane en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk, carrying 66 passengers and 12 crewmen, went down. This is a terrible tragedy for both Israel and Russia. I spoke today with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and we agreed on full cooperation between Israel and Russia in investigating this tragic incident. I have also instructed Israel's Minister of Transportation, Dr. Ephraim Sneh, to coordinate activities in this regard."

"Today, Israel suffered another heinous Palestinian terrorist attack [in Afula], which took a heavy toll: Three dead and seven wounded. All our efforts to reach a cease-fire have been torpedoed by the Palestinians. The fire did not cease, not even for one day. The Cabinet has therefore instructed our security forces to take all necessary measures to bring full security to the citizens of Israel. We can rely on ourselves only."

"We are currently in the midst of a complex and difficult political campaign. I call on the Western democracies, and primarily the leader of the free world, the United States: Do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938, when enlightened European democracies decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for 'a convenient temporary solution.' Do not try to appease the Arabs at our expense - this is unacceptable to us. Israel will not be Czechoslovakia. Israel will fight terrorism."

"There is no 'good terrorism' and 'bad terrorism,' as there is no 'good murder' and 'bad murder.' Terrorism, as we witnessed this week in Elei Sinai, is worse than murder. We have been fighting terrorism for over 100 years. Unfortunately, there is no swift and immediate solution, but if we confront this terrorism united, we will be able to overcome it and bring peace. And we shall overcome."

Since the Prime Minister's speech last night, more details surrounding the downing of the passenger plane have been uncovered. While conflicting reports continue to emanate from the Russian media regarding the recovered cockpit of the plane, Russian authorities released an official statement today saying that the door to the cockpit had holes in it which resemble those of bullets. Further examination is necessary to verify that the holes were caused by bullets.

United States officials say that the plane was apparently downed accidentally by a surface-to-air missile during a large-scale Ukrainian military exercise. But, Ukraine says that the plane was far out of range of any missiles used in the exercise.

Sixteen bodies have been pulled from the water. An Israel Air Force Hercules cargo flight with search and recovery teams on board is still awaiting the necessary permits to enable it to takeoff and join the rescue efforts in the Black Sea. An Israel Navy ship will also join the search early next week.

[leilani]

Answer: Taiwan's leaders don't make it a practice of going in front of the whole world & calling the President of the United States a neo-nazi collaborator.

[Melinator]

When push comes to shove, no matter HOW big of a chunk of our paychecks Israel gets every month, they will sell us, and our military, out in a heartbeat.

To whom will they "sell you out in a heartbeat" - middle eastern terrorists?

[BearCub]

So by your logic the U.S. has no right to exist? We were not here first, is there a time limit to when a nation is legal? We have been hamstringing Israel for too long and now we want countries like IRAN to help us in our coalition! Of course they are pissed, we spoke like we were going to wipe out terrorism, and now it looks like we will just wipe out Bin Laden. Leaving Israel to fight the same old fights it has been fighting, only this time we might owe a favor to IRAN or some other goofed up country.

Perhaps you missed my point or didn't fully read my post.

Yes, we have a right to exist by virtue of our (and our friends around the world) being able to kick the sh!t out of anyone who tries to displace us. In the end that is what it boils down to. Whichever side can kick butt most effectively makes the rules. In the middle east, Israel is holding the [nuclear] aces.

I fully support Israel's right to exist in peace, not that my opinion matters.

-bc

[leilani]

As Mr. Sharon made very clear today, he will sell the US out to his hardcore nutcake anti-american constituents.(Only I think even THEY were shocked by the outrageous affront to Americans he chose to commit by comparing us all to "Nazi-loving" appeasers.)

[Paleo-Con]

I am an American. Volunteer for the Israeli army if you want. Just don't try to send my children.

[ExiledInTaiwan]

We have been fighting terrorism for over 100 years.

I think this should read: We have been perpetuating terrorism for over 100 years. Especially considering Sharon precipitated the latest Intifada. See following:

"In the real world, Violence is not like the weather. Somebody does it, and we can usually identify the patch of clouds responsible for the rain. So it was, that when the ‘Mitchell’ process was invoked and the daily quota of killed slowly crawled down, the Jewish supremacists replayed the provocative visit of Sharon to the Haram a-Sharif by laying the cornerstone of the Third Temple.

Immediately after the cornerstone provocation, Israel followed up with a wave of assassinations in Nablus, Ramallah and elsewhere, trying to get Palestinians to respond in kind. It seems to be a pattern. Last September, after Sharon’s visit to Haram a-Sharif, Israeli Border Police murdered seven worshippers in the Jerusalem mosque and ushered in the second Intifada. Sharon’s assassins did not stop murders until a suicide bomber obliged by responding.

It is no coincidence. Israel wants the Palestinian uprising to go on. Israel wants not peace, but low intensity conflict. A war with Palestinians allows the Israeli leaders to keep their heterogeneous communities together, away from each other’s throat. What is more important, the war allows the Jewish leaders over the world to continue their arduous task of reviving World Jewry, a medieval run-down construct. That is why it makes no sense to speak against ‘Violence’ and for ‘Peace’. As long as the supremacist Jewish state exists, it will ensure violence and avoid peace.

The recent assassinations also had the intent of covering up the cornerstone provocation under a heap of corpses. The meaning of this obscure ceremony was further obscured by the mainstream media, and all references to it mysteriously vaporized. For instance, Reuters reported on August 3, 2001: ‘Israeli police stormed the Temple Mount, revered by Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, after Palestinians threw stones at Jews worshipping at the Western Wall below’.

Why, all of a sudden, did Palestinians begin to stone Jews? The cornerstone story was omitted, and the average American or European was left with the impression that the ‘wild‘ Muslims attacked peaceful worshipping Jews just out of spite. On this count, the unanimity of the English-language media was horrifying. The BBC, once more objective than American networks, closed the gap. They also reported of ‘Israeli soldiers who entered the mosques responding to the Muslim stone throwers’, moving a reference to the cornerstone to the end of the item. It now appears that the airing of the BBC documentary on Sharon was a singular act of courage that will not soon be repeated.

As for the American networks, their coverage continues to be consistent. They market the Israeli line without hesitation." By Israel Shamir from Cornerstone of Violence

[BearCub]

and in June 1967 some 300,000 more Palestinians fled or were driven into exile as Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza. Hundreds of villages were systematically razed and erased from the map. In the course of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza after June 1967,

The 'Palestinians' were hostile toward Israel and Israel had just won a war. To the victor go the spoils.

If the Palestinians didn't want to lose their land, they shouldn't have let Jordan place troops on both sides of the Jordan. They chose sides and their side lost. Tough sh!t.

over 1,000 Palestinians - including women and children - were deported without charges or trial.

They were non-citizens in [newly won] Israeli territory. They have no right to be there, much less ask for a trial before being deported.

-bc

[Roebucks]

What is amazing to me is that it took until the 11th post and no-one else noticed. Amazing...

[TKEman]

I think Sharon could be acting paranoid. Our this could be a ploy to put the Arabs off. Allow me to outline my thinking. I think that Bush and Powell et al. understand the dangerous waters that we have entered. What's the best way to make the Arabs feel we aren't directly targeting Islam? Given all the sudden concern in the western press about bin Laden's plan to inflame the entire Arab world against us. What better way to defuse all this in Arab countries than a sham very public argument?

Support for Israel is as strong as it has ever been. I personally think we should support Israel to the hilt. But we need to be smart about that support. If a sham argument accomplishes what we want, and keeps the Arabs as quiet as possible, then all the better.....

[smith288]

This is a monitored website....they can delete a post that says "Boo" if they wanted to...its their site.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

What a stupid remark! Why would we attack Israel?

[VA Advogado]

It's like watching WWII all over again, the capitulation of the west to our enemies demands until the enemy has no reason to believe they will be opposed in any demands or action they take until it's too late and a World War breaks out.

Whats that saying. . penny wise, pound foolish. Muslim terrorists need to be exterminated NOW.

[VA Advogado]

The Jews lost any right to land in the Midle East when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem over 1900 years ago. It was hubris for the Allies to try to give them someone elses land in 1948.

Too bad it never was the PLO's land. That gang was wisely kicked out of Jordan by a very wise Muslim king.

[VA Advogado]

However, rememember that the present-day disposessed are living people whose hopes for self-determination has been thwarted and whose title to lands and property has been compromised. That's why they're so damned hot.

And I suppose you think we should pay reparations to the indians and black americans? Dude, to the winner goes the spoils.

[TKEman]

I agree entirely with you. Particularly since Rumsfeld and Prime Minister Blair are in the Middle East rounding up support. Nothing new has happened. This is just smart power politics.

[leilani]

What the heck are you talking about? I think you may have misposted to me: I am MOST DEFINITELY NOT one of your New World Order people, I am just incredibly bent OUT OF SHAPE that Ariel Sharon was (evidently) drunk or stupid enough to say that Americans (having sacrificed huge chunks of their paychecks for Israel the last 40 years) are no better than Nazi-collaborators. He & his yucky spokesmodel Alon Pinkas can go stick their megalomaniacal heads in the sands of Lake Galilee. They have alienated MILLIONS of people in this country today and, amazingly, they haven't yet figured out why.

[ExiledInTaiwan]

[Magician]

Sharon's comments are pretty easy to understand. Israel has gone through several U.S. prompted "cease fires" in which the Palestinians never stopped shooting. And now, to mollify his Arab coalition members, he is being asked by Bush to make a "peace" with Arafat, who is an even bigger liar than Hitler, and who daily tells his people that any such peace is just a step toward the destruction of the State of Israel.