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.
Do tell, Sherlock.
The palestinian culture is truly pathetic. They'll probably be a thorn in the side of Israel until the Lords return.
Yeah, like the US 8th air force dragged Germany into further bloodshed in the '40's. Man I hate whiners.
If Sharon had declared War on them there would be no one making this statement....
It could just as easily been total annihilation in EVERY target area in as little time. No warning. No light gunfire. Just death, burning heaps and partially alive palestians wandering in the streets of their smoking ashheaps.
That Arafat is still breathing instead of oozing in some gutter, with maggots laying their eggs in his open guts, is tremendous testimony to Israeli restraint and even mercy.
They need to stop turning the cheek, and after tonight, I hope for their sakes they have. You cannot make "peace" with a rabid hyenna. You got to take it down in the field, or take it to the pound. Either way, it's got to be put down.
It's time to end the intifada... game, set and match.
THIS bears repeating.
Can you spell "shameless liar," children?
It's time to end the intifada... game, set and match.
[from an AP story on yahoo.com] Hamas, one of the militant groups at the vanguard of the Palestinian uprising, on Thursday rejected the Arab peace initiative to Israel and vowed to continue "all kinds of resistance."
It is indeed time for Israel to rid itself of all of its implacable enemies.
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