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Israel ''US demand is baseless''
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Posted on 10/23/2001 6:55:31 AM PDT by ipaq2000

Ben-Eliezer: US demand is baseless
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer characterized as "baseless" the US demand that IDF forces withdraw from Palestinian Authority areas.
He said Israel had no intention of remaining in PA-controlled areas.
"All Israel wants is to physically protect its citizens from further infiltrations by terrorists or car bombs," Ben-Eliezer said.
"The government of Israel is the one responsible for insuring the existence and security of the state and its residents.
"We very much appreciate the US, the strategic cooperation ... between us, and we very much respect it, and we certainly stand behind it in it's mission [in Afghanistan] Ben-Eliezer said.
"I think the things which came out of there [the US State Department statement], with all due respect - and we are not belittling it - have no place on the ground because we have no intention of remaining in the territories, conquering the cities, or [their] hilltops."
Israel is prepared to leave the PA areas the moment someone on the other side takes responsibility for negotiations over terms of the withdrawal, Ben-Eliezer said.
"Then there is nothing preventing us discussing the conditions for changing the guard," he said.


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To: ipaq2000
U.S. & Israel are playing two-card monty, IMHO.
41 posted on 10/23/2001 9:49:05 AM PDT by SunStar
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To: l33t
I'm sure it was too much of a sell-out. The two state solution needs to go back to the borders of 67 with an international zone for Jerusalem. More than fair considering how Israel got established in the first place. Israel as a country has always stood on morally shaky ground, but now they have an opportunity to proceed in a fair way. As they must. The US will see to that.
42 posted on 10/23/2001 10:02:27 AM PDT by WCF51
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To: monkeyshine
And you really believe all the Zionist propaganda bull? I don't!
43 posted on 10/23/2001 10:05:08 AM PDT by WCF51
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To: WCF51
Stupid Israelis. Just surreptitiously spread Anthrax and/or small pox in the West Bank and Gaza, and watch the Palestinians scream and die. Why risk Israeli soldiers.

If Israel doesn't do it the Arabs will.

44 posted on 10/23/2001 10:05:14 AM PDT by imperator2
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To: SunStar
I think you are mistaken about this. US is not willing to change its policy with regard to the "moderate" Arab states despite their role as the enablers for the Islamic terrorists. US support for Israel, therefore, needs to be weighed against the need to placate the "moderate" Arab states. To the extent that the current US policy dictates that appeasement of the Saudis, Egyptians, etc is more important than support for Israel then the Israelis need to be told to shut up and take it from the Palestinian terrorists.
45 posted on 10/23/2001 10:06:58 AM PDT by l33t
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To: monkeyshine
If Israel doesn't need any financial backing from the US, then I say they should have none. If they don't need our money, then why are they taking it? Anyway, Israel is a liability to the US and has been. However, if they cooperate, really cooperate, and help to implement the two state solution, then I support the US being a neutral peace-keeping presence there along with other UN members. Sharon is a worse terrorist than Arafat in many ways.
46 posted on 10/23/2001 10:10:13 AM PDT by WCF51
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To: WCF51
You are sure that it was too much of a sell out? Meaning -"I haven't the slightest idea what the Palestinians rejected but I am sure they were right to do it."

What they rejected was 98% of West Bank and Gaza plus 2% in the form of Israel's own land. They rejected sharing Jerusalem and acknowledging that Jews have a claim to what is beneath the mosques beneath the Temple Mount. They also rejected Israeli offer to allow the entrace to Israel 150,000 Palestinians forced by the Arab states to be permanent refugees.

47 posted on 10/23/2001 10:13:59 AM PDT by l33t
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To: WCF51
What 'Zionist propeganda bull' are you referring to? If you dispute something I said, please step up and dispute it, instead of levelling blanket, unsubstantiated charges.
48 posted on 10/23/2001 10:16:52 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: monkeyshine
Do you have a couple hours? All of what you said is Zionist bull. All of it.
49 posted on 10/23/2001 10:18:41 AM PDT by WCF51
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To: monkeyshine
Apparently he thinks factual arguments can be rebutted by simply saying that it is zionist propaganda.
50 posted on 10/23/2001 10:19:46 AM PDT by l33t
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To: monkeyshine
WCF51 member since October 22nd, 2001
51 posted on 10/23/2001 10:20:50 AM PDT by l33t
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To: l33t
So you bully Zionist...Being new to the board somehow discredits my view? Typical Zionist arrogant attitude. You know you're immoral and wrong.
52 posted on 10/23/2001 10:29:06 AM PDT by WCF51
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To: WCF51
If they don't need our money, then why are they taking it?
Because we give it to them. It was a deal we made with them and Egypt (who recieves 2/3rds the same amount), that helps the balance of power. Israel is vulnerable to invasion, as we saw in the 1973 war, and providing them with these funds helped to convince Egypt and Israel that another invasion will assure mutual destruction. Do you think it is appropriate to reneg on deals we made?

Anyway, Israel is a liability to the US and has been.
In what way? Saying so doesn't make it true. How about you substantiate it. The USA is the world's hyperpower. How much more power would we have without Israel?

However, if they cooperate, really cooperate, and help to implement the two state solution, then I support the US being a neutral peace-keeping presence there along with other UN members.
Well I don't want our servicemen sent all over the world to keep the peace between warring peoples. That is certain to mean dead Americans, just like the Americans killed in Lebanon trying to keep the peace. The two sides should make peace. And Israel has made all the concessions. They have always had a 2 state solution in the plans, yet it's impossible to implement unless the 2nd state is going to renounce terrorism and violence, and prevent attacks. If Mexican were sneaking across the border and blowing up discos and pizza joints in El Paso and San Diego, we would hold the Mexican government responsible for breaking up the terrorist cells and helping to secure the borders. Israel demands the same of Arafat, but Arafat does not comply. Until the Palestinian Authority starts to act like a responsible nation, it should not be allowed to become a responsible nation.

Sharon is a worse terrorist than Arafat in many ways.
This is pure nonsense. Are you aware of the 200,000 dead people left in the wake of Arafat's terror and ambition, and how they came to be dead? The man is brutal. Nevertheless, Sharon is a convenient whipping boy for the supporters of Arafat. It's rather sick and cynical to say what you said, without acknowleging that Sharon was elected the 5th Israeli representative to negotiate with Arafat. There have been several doves who tried to negotiate with Arafat to no avail. At what point will you acknowlege that the problem is Arafat. 5 different Israeli leaders have tried to make peace, but the Palestinians have only had Arafat. Sharon, a military man, is a natural reaction by the Israeli populace (65% of the vote!) after 10 years of trying to negotiate peace, and only getting war in return.

53 posted on 10/23/2001 10:32:20 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: Lock & Load
#17: The day the palestinians seize the initiative to do anything but whine, cry, terrorize and demand...will never come. They must win their state. Something that comes of will and tenacity. Not perpetual victimhood.

Hundreds of years of sitting around their hands, doing nothing, until Israel carves out her own destiny, and suddenly, oh, the poor palestinians want that for themselves. What monumental gaul.

Come on, Arafu@k. Take it. If you can....

54 posted on 10/23/2001 10:34:17 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Dengar01
Sounds like you just graduated from the Yasser Arafat school of spin. When men, woman, and children are blown to bits everyday, and when infants are targetted by the Palestinians, I have no support for the Palestinians.

Talk about naked propaganda!

It must have escaped you there are nearly five-hundred (500) *more* Palestinians murdered in the past year than the terrorists have taken in Israeli lives. Rationalize that one away--it might be fun to see you try.

Israel's Sharon is evidently a hot head with a very big mouth; he's out of his depth. He *is* undermining our foreign policy. If he assassinates Arafat he's as insane as any warmongering thug has ever been. With its actions and rhetoric, Israel is being no friend to the United States these days.

Did you nod gleefully at the "Bush=Chamberlain" rebuke by your dear Mr. Sharon? Or how about his claim that Israel has always 'stood alone', eh?

What gives any Palestinian reason to trust Israel would be a good and just and peaceful neighbor, rather than an invader and bully in the name of "self-defense" while hiding behind the United States' skirt?

Instead of long ago adopting a strategy which would accept a Palestinian homeland, it arrogantly rejected the very notion and set about a policy of occupation and out-dated imperialistic expansion. And we let it.

It has followed a foolish policy--prolonging conflict, always upping the ante, effectively breeding more terrorists. And now, when we need their cooperation most, Sharon spits in our eye and threatens to foil our good faith efforts to be careful, cooperative, targeted and certainty in dealing with organized terrorism starting with Al Queda. Bush is trying to avoid Israeli-style policy errors and avoid developing an even larger regional or global problem.

The wisdom of Sharon's actions are *critical* to keeping this from spreading into a 3rd World War in terms of open conflict or economic disaster. I'm glad Bush's team can see this.

55 posted on 10/23/2001 10:34:37 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: vrwc54
How about how that Israeli gov. official Ze'evi called Palestinians "lice" and "cancer" and "should be transported"? Sounds like something Hitler used to say about Jews. The Israeli government is really quite fascist and has been since day one.
56 posted on 10/23/2001 10:36:10 AM PDT by WCF51
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To: WCF51
I have, God willing, the better part of a lifetime in front of me, much more than a couple of hours. Start somewhere.

I see you are new here. This board is great because you can post something, and I can come back tomorrow and self-search, and see what you wrote, and respond, and then you can self-search and reply... we can carry on a conversation for years if we want. I am ready, willing and able. Why don't you start by refuting one thing I wrote with some fact or some reasoned opinion, instead of just being a one-lined contrarian.

57 posted on 10/23/2001 10:36:17 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: WCF51
I think you should read the context of Zee'vi statement. I was about to condemn him for the same remark until I read the interview. He did not call all Palestinians lice and a cancer, he was referring to the illegal Palestinian immigrants who work inside Israel without the proper work permits, stealing jobs from Israeli citizens and failing to pay taxes on their income.

But, do you think a man deserves to be murdered for his beliefs?

58 posted on 10/23/2001 10:39:26 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: WCF51
Why do you call him a 'bully Zionists' because he posted your date of freeperhood? Why can't you just call him a bully? Are you guilty of intentionally juxtaposing those two words to advance the theme of your own propeganda? What is wrong with being a Zionist?
59 posted on 10/23/2001 10:42:30 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: monkeyshine
If Mexican were sneaking across the border and blowing up discos and pizza joints in El Paso and San Diego, we would hold the Mexican government responsible for breaking up the terrorist cells and helping to secure the borders. Israel demands the same of Arafat, but Arafat does not comply.

What you miss here is that you assume Sharon and Arafat are on equal footing, with comparable resources at the disposal. You would (rightly) assume Mexico and the US would be so positioned in the scenario you outline.

I'm not convinced Arafat has the polictical will of his people (more likely he has a price on his head not unlike the President of Pakistan or Saudi leadership) or the resources (made worse in light of IDF's obliteration of several Palestinian police facilities) to meet Israel's demands.

Seems like Israel's not too interested in Arafat's own problams and, not surprisingly, he's not too interested in meeting their demands.

60 posted on 10/23/2001 10:43:26 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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