ISRAEL
- THE SECRET WAR AGAINST THE SETTLERS
- Sharon pulled off a coup. Defying his party and supposedly
his ideals, he wrangled a Gaza pullout from his government. How
did he do it? Through a level of criminality even he is incapable
of reaching alone. He had help; the most corrupt and murderous
help currently available on the planet.
We begin our understanding of the secret war against the settlers
in December, 1993 when a true patriot working in the communications
department of a government ministry risked his job and life by
letting me read intercepted transcripts of the secret clauses
of Oslo, negotiated by Yossi Beilin. He gave the same transcripts
to journalists Steve Rodan and Hillel Halkin, but I was the only
one to publish the most shocking sections.
The parties agreed to hand over all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza
to the PLO and rid the areas of their Jewish residents. The means
to this end included increased terror and, this was the most
shocking section, the targeted elimination of the population's
religious and political leaders. The assassinations began shortly
after, with the shooting of NRP leader Rabbi Chaim Duckman's
car, killing his driver and the murder of Moledet leader Miriam
Lapid's husband and son in an ambush. The method proved itself
when Lapid moved to a new home within the Green Line.
This encouraged the "peacemakers," and the campaign
of murder was stepped up. Rabbis throughout the territories fell
like kingpins; Shapiro, Kahane, Lieberman et al and to pave the
way for the Gaza evacuation, Rabbi Yitzhak Arama, the revered
rabbi of Gush Katif, was rubbed out in an ambush in 2002. The
Israeli hit team gave his location to the Arab triggermen. That
is the case in all the targeted murders aimed at demoralizing
the Jews from their homes. I mean all.
In December 2003, I had a visit from a career soldier, 27 years
in the IDF. He told me that soldiers were being murdered from
within the IDF to further political goals. "There was this
Ben Yosef from Efrat. He was a leader of the hilltop outposts
movement. The killers tricked the Air Force into shooting his
car with a missile from a helicopter. Then last October 27, they
did it again in Netzarim. In the afternoon, the base commander
stripped the weapons from three soldiers, two of them women.
At night, two terrorists somehow got past base security, which
never happened before, and murdered the three disarmed soldiers.
They knew exactly where they were sleeping. In a base of over
150 soldiers, that would have been completely impossible without
information from our side. The next day the government announced
its pullout plan for Netzarim. They murdered three soldiers from
the coastal area, two of them young women, none of whom had a
chance to defend themselves, just to persuade secular Israelis
that it was too risky for their children to stay in Gaza."
For the full story:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/israel/israel_the_secret_war_against_settlers.html
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- A CUP OF TREMBLING
- In 1968, Robert Kennedy ran for President on the Democratic
ticket. In June 1968, he took his campaign to California. In
fact, he won the Californian primary on June 5, 1968, the anniversary
of the outbreak of the Six-Day War. Kennedy's staff requested
a photo opportunity with Yitzhak Rabin, the Chief of Staff in
Israel during that war and was then Israel's Ambassador to the
U.S., to commemorate the day.
- However, that photo opportunity never took place. On that
evening, Kennedy was shot to death by a young Jerusalem-born
Muslim named Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. As Rabin wrote in his memoirs:
"The American people were so dazed by what they perceived
as the senseless act of a madman that they could not begin to
fathom its political significance."
- What was its political significance? According to a report
made by a special counsel to the L.A. County District Attorney's
office, Sirhan shot Kennedy for his support of Israel, and had
been planning the assassination for months. In an outburst during
his trial, he confessed, "I killed Robert Kennedy willfully,
premeditatedly, and with twenty years of malice aforethought."
[Twenty years, of course, date back to Israel's declaration of
nationhood in 1948.] In a notebook found in Sirhan's apartment,
investigators found a passage written on May 18, 1968 at 9:45
AM: "Robert F. Kennedy must be assassinated before 5 June
68."- the first anniversary of the beginning of the Six-Day
War.
- It is well known that Robert Kennedy, John's Attorney General
and younger brother, was also one of the President's most trusted
advisors. What isn't so well known is that it was a younger Robert
Kennedy, fresh out of Harvard and reporting for the Boston Post,
who was in Israel when she declared herself a nation, and through
the early days of her War for Independence. The Kennedy brothers
also went to Israel in 1951 on a seven-week congressional tour
of the Middle East. They left with a further respect for the
young country's willingness to "bear any burden" in
pursuit of their dreams. It seems likely that President Kennedy
saw in the young country the friend in the Middle East he had
really been looking for-a friend worthy of the dreams of Camelot.
- When Robert first met with Shimon Peres during the negotiations
over the Hawk Missile purchase, the memory of Robert's 1948 visit
was the first thing they talked about. The second was Israel's
desire to break America's "elegant arms embargo." [3]
It seems unlikely that Robert didn't exert at least some influence
on Peres' behalf to allow Israel to acquire the Hawk. Others
saw Robert's influence in this decision as something that Arabs
of the world could do without-especially after the U.S. arms
purchased by Israel helped it win the Six-Day War of 1967. If
the young Kennedy was to be despised for helping to end the arms
embargo as the Attorney General, how much more would he be a
problem as the President?
- When Yasser Arafat's Black September terrorist stormed the
Saudi Embassy in Khartoum in March of 1973 and took US Ambassador
Cleo Noel, Charge d'Affaires George Curtis Moore, and others
hostage, Sirhan's release was one of their main demands. On March
2, 1973, after Nixon rejected that demand, Arafat was overheard
and recorded by Israeli intelligence and the U.S. National Security
Agency giving the code words for the execution of Noel, Moore,
and Belgian diplomat Guy Eid, who were shot to death. James Welsh,
a Palestinian analyst for the N.S.A., went public with charges
of a cover-up of Arafat's key role in the planning and execution
of these kidnappings and murders. (There is no statute of limitations
on murder.) If Sirhan had acted independently of the P.L.O.,
why were they willing to kill Americans to try to gain his freedom?
(Michael D. Evans, Jerusalem Prayer Team)
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