Peres Lashes Out In Loathing and Fear; Predicts CatastropheOctober 21, 2002
NEWSFLASH, 21 October - EGYPT PRACTICES MOVING FORCES ACROSS SUEZ CANAL TOWARDS ISRAEL.
Israel Radio Arab Affairs Correspondent Avi Yissakharov reported today that the Egyptian army has completed a major military training exercise involving moving a large force across the Suez Canal into Sinai and towards Israel. The exercise, clearly meant to send a warning Israel's way as regional war looms and Israel's 'transfer' thePalestinians plans proceed, included methods of destroying 'enemy' fortifications. Hezbollah is threatening to launch new longer-range missiles from the north, the Syrians are known to have chemical and maybe biological weapons, and now the Egyptian army is flexing its muscles in the south; with Israel, backed by the U.S., threatening war on many fronts and in the end possessing a vast arsenal of nuclear as well as chemical and biological weapons, including three German-built diesel-powered submarines fitted with medium-range missiles tipped with nuclear warheads in the past two years.
PERES WARNS OF ARMAGEDDON AND CALLS 'SETTLEMENT RABBIS' 'SHITTY INCITERS'
MID-EAST REALITIES - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 21 October 2002:
For all of Shimon Peres' failings and duplicities, he does at moments speak out forcefully, but always for very self-serving and twisted reasons. Peres hasn't recovered from the Knesset vote against his becoming the Israeli President; and now his 'Oslo Peace Process' has erupted in an orgy of killing, despair, and growing fear. The growing Israeli right despises him completely; and the demoralized Israeli left mistrusts him completely. The man who has taken greatest advantage of this situation is Ariel Sharon who continues to use Peres to galavant around the world, where his personal failings are less known and understood, to provide his never-ending litany of excuses and explanations which give Sharon more leeway to pursue Israel's actual neo-apartheid and get-ready-to-expel them policies...whatever it is Peres truly believes. In recent days the Israeli Foreign Minister has harshly lashed out at the settlers, the very people his Prime Minister has championed, and presented his own vision of Armageddon...sooner rather than later it seems.
PERES CALLS 'SETTLEMENT RABBIS' 'SHITTY INCITERS'
[Jerusalem Post - 21 Oct 2002]: Foreign Minister Shimon Peres Sunday called the rabbis of Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip "sh-tty inciters," who not too long ago called for killing him. Peres, speaking at the cabinet meeting, was upset at rabbis in the settlements who have called on religiously observant soldiers to refuse orders to evacuate settlement outposts. He claimed that prior to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the rabbis incited against Rabin and himself. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked Peres in the meeting to take back his foul language, but the foreign minister declined. National Infrastructures Minister Effi Eitam called on Peres to quit for making such a statement.
PERES: BLINDNESS OF EXTREME RIGHT COULD BRING CATASTROPHE
[Ha'aretz - 17 Oct 2002]: Within three years, the Middle East could turn into an arena of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, which because of the blindness of Israel's extreme right-wing could bring catastrophe upon Israel, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told the Knesset yesterday.
"You are bringing Israel to a point from which there is no escape," Peres said of the opposition of the far-right to diplomatic contacts with the Arabs.
Reacting angrily to MK Zvi Hendel's remark that had he lived, Yitzhak Rabin would have pressed for canceling the Oslo peace agreements, Peres said of the Israeli-Palestinian accords, "I don't regret them, I am proud of them, and Rabin would have stood here just like me!"
To Hendel's catcalls, Peres said of Rabin, whose 1995 assassination is being commemorated today, "I knew him better than you, and [unlike you] he had courage and had no demagoguery in him."
Peres also attacked the rabbis of the Yesha council settler movement, Who this week issued calls advising soldiers against "evacuating their brothers" on illegal settlement outposts.
"You have no alternative other than virtual illusions. The rabbis of Yesha are the politicians of Yesha, the terrible politicians of Yesha," who Peres said were unfaithful to Israel's moral heritage.
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