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Palestinians Say Sharon Has Declared War on Them
Reuters
| 3/29/02
Posted on 03/28/2002 9:44:10 PM PST by kattracks
March 29 JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A senior Palestinian official said Friday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had declared a comprehensive war on Palestinians and appealed to the world to stop Israel's siege of Yasser Arafat's compound.
"The Israeli government, which practices state terrorism, has declared a comprehensive war and Sharon is intent on destroying the Palestinian Authority and the peace process," the Palestinians' chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, told Reuters.
He said Sharon was dragging the region into further bloodshed and said he had contacted Arab and international leaders, urging them to do whatever possible to stop the Israeli army's operation against Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah.
Sharon, in a televised news conference Friday, declared Arafat "an enemy" and said widespread action would be taken to isolate his Palestinian Authority wherever it was believed to be fostering a "terrorist infrastructure."
Sharon sent troops and tanks sweeping back into Ramallah, which was handed over to Palestinian self-rule under interim peace deals in the 1990s, after accusing Arafat of doing nothing to stop suicide bombings targeting Israelis. Palestinians rose up against Israel after talks on a final peace accord stalled.
Copyright 2002 Reuters News Service. All rights reserved.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: zionist
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posted on
03/28/2002 9:44:10 PM PST
by
kattracks
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: kattracks
Palestinians Say Sharon Has Declared War on ThemHuh. The Palestinians aren't entirely brain-dead after all. Close, but not quite.
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posted on
03/28/2002 9:48:44 PM PST
by
watchin
To: kattracks
No kidding? Do they really think that? Wow! I wonder if it is because of all those terrorist strikes lately?
To: kattracks
And what have the Palestinians declared upon Israel?
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posted on
03/28/2002 9:51:58 PM PST
by
Robear
To: *Zion_ist
To: kattracks
Palestinians Say Sharon Has Declared War on Them
DuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuH!
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posted on
03/28/2002 9:55:22 PM PST
by
breakem
To: kattracks
Their terror attacks forced Sharon's hand. Israel has no choice but to retaliate.
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posted on
03/28/2002 9:55:22 PM PST
by
Lady GOP
To: kattracks
Palestinians Say Sharon Has Declared War on Them Better late than never.
To: kattracks
One can only hope.
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posted on
03/28/2002 10:01:14 PM PST
by
Robear
To: Lady GOP
It's like a kid crying: Mommy, he hit me back!
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posted on
03/28/2002 10:01:23 PM PST
by
breakem
To: kattracks
Palestinians Say Sharon Has Declared War on Them They figured that out, eh? You have to be smart to be a suicide bomber.
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To: kattracks
And what, pray tell, did the Palestinians expect after 150 dead and wounded, a handshake and a blown kiss?
Israel need to reoccupy all of Palestine, disarm it and treat it like a protectorate.
For the first time in 18 months it would return to normalcy, with peace and business along with it.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Was reading some Intel on Israeli ops recently in the territories.
It appears Israel is using monitoring systems which locate Palestinian cell phone traffic..
"Free minutes...could be last minutes"..Roll IDF!!
To: kattracks
.... and its about time
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posted on
03/28/2002 10:19:24 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: kattracks
He said Sharon was dragging the region into further bloodshed and said he had contacted Arab and international leaders, urging them to do whatever possible to stop the Israeli army's operation against Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah.
And what exactly are the Arab leaders going to do? Go to war against Israel? I don't think so, 1967 was not pretty, I don't think they want thier heads handed to them a 2nd time.
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posted on
03/28/2002 10:22:22 PM PST
by
Aric2000
To: kattracks
"Palestinians Say Sharon Has Declared War on Them"BINGO!!!!!
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posted on
03/28/2002 10:30:02 PM PST
by
hove
To: Aric2000
And what exactly are the Arab leaders going to do? Go to war against Israel? I don't think so, 1967 was not pretty, I don't think they want thier heads handed to them a 2nd time. Since defeat in 1973 (and 1967, 1956, 1948) the arab states have decided to not use their state military against Israel. The major exception was 1991 Iraq scuds.
The tactic selected is to train the children to become guerilla-human bombs. It is a principle of war to "Know the Enemy." Israel should totally physically isolate itself from any and all arabs, if possible. Any arab inside the boundary would be a dead arab.
To: kattracks
Palestinians Say Sharon Has Declared War on ThemWell, Duh!
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posted on
03/28/2002 10:41:41 PM PST
by
Braak
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