Arafat turned up in Amman without a shocking evidence of Palestinian victimization at Israeli hands, beyond the abstract accusation of "a 100-day campaign" in preparation against his people. A few hours later 3 million m³ of precious desert water poured out of the Nahal Oz kibbutz reservoir in the Negev, flooding the kibbutz and spilling as far as the edge of Gaza City. Arafat had his theme: Israel was "drowning" Pals and this was its "gift" to the Arab summit.
Sharon was sitting as tight as he could on accumulating intelligence showing that, the Pals had damaged the reservoir themselves. By not letting the cat out of the bag, there would not be a fitting response. It was clear, that a tunnel had been dug from Gaza under the border and under the reservoir banks so as to bring about their collapse – either by explosives planted there or by suicide-saboteurs hours before the Arab summit in Amman.
Israelis, suffering water shortages after several drought years, viewed the wastage as a tragedy.
The Palestinian Authority seized on it as an act of war.
The murder of the Israeli baby, Shalhevet Pass, followed a few hours later. The Palestinian sniper in the Abu Sneineh district had no difficulty in precisely choosing his target in a playground with her parents. If the reservoir incident failed, then the murder was expected to provoke a response, shocking enough to fuel the PA's Terrorist-in-Chief Arafat attempts to fire up the Arab rulers into coming to the Palestinians' aid.
The outrage stirred in Israel by the wanton murder of a baby rivals the horror aroused by last October's lynching of two Israelis in Ramallah.
Next came a barrage of Palestinian gunfire from the Gaza Strip and West Bank through the night till Tuesday morning. Targeted were passing traffic and Beitar Ilit, Ofra, Psagot, Gadid, Morag and Netzarim. Morag suffered yet another mortar attack. In Jerusalem, firebombs were hurled at traffic on the Maale Adumim-French Hill highway. In the Israeli town of Petah Tikva, an explosive device was dismantled in the town hall. Today at 8:40 three were killed and 4 injured in suicide bombing at Mifgash Hashalom gas station near Kalkilya checkpoint.
The Palestinian tactics is based on staging outrages, as result of provocations, to pin them later on Israel. Same tactics, that worked in Kosovo, - manufacturing of "atrosities" and "innocent Moslems", generating of "innocent refugees" and of "humanitarian crises". Arabs have the media buzzword dictionary handy.

I don't read the American press much, but with a few openly biased exceptions, the European press seems to be fairly balanced - OK, oxymoron, but still.

Israel vows to avenge killing of baby

Special report: Israel and the Middle East

Suzanne Goldenberg in Hebron, West Bank
Wednesday March 28, 2001
The Guardian

Israel's prime minister Ariel Sharon vowed last night to take decisive action to
avenge the death of a baby girl killed by a sniper's bullet and a twin bombing in
Jerusalem yesterday.

As the parents of 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass refused to bury their daughter
until Mr Sharon invades Palestinian-ruled land near the Jewish enclave of
Hebron, rightwing politicians called for a tough response to a suicide attack on a
bus in the French Hill settlement, northern Jerusalem, which killed the bomber
and injured more than 30 people.

"Considering the events which have taken place, we should have no more
restraint," said Jerusalem's rightwing mayor, Ehud Olmert.

However, Israeli soldiers may find themselves accused of lacking any restraint
following the death of an 11-year-old Palestinian boy near Hebron yesterday.

A cousin said the boy was watching a firefight between Palestinian gunmen and
Israeli soldiers when he was shot from the Israeli position. Doctors in Hebron
hospital said Mahmoud Ismail Daraweesh was shot in the heart.

The Israeli army said it had no information on the death near Dura, south of
Hebron, but confirmed that its soldiers had traded fire with Palestinian gunmen at
the nearby Al-Fawwar refugee camp.

Mr Sharon did not immediately reveal his hand yesterday. "I know how to deal
with this, and when to deal with this," he told Israel Radio before entering
deliberations with his security cabinet last night. "The first priority of my
government is to restore security to the citizens of Israel. Be patient, and watch
the results."

The French Hill blast came barely five hours after four people were lightly
injured by a pipe bomb in a car that exploded during the morning rush hour in
the industrial area of Talpiot, the latest in a spate of bombings inside the Jewish
state.

"I heard a strong boom, and came outside. Then I saw lots of black smoke, and
the body of the bomber," said Lily Avias, who lives in French Hill. "It was cut in
half."

But the explosions, which were claimed by a variety of Palestinian militant
organisations, failed to dislodge the attention of Israelis from the death of
Shalhevet Pass.

In Hebron, the local army commander, Colonel Noam Tibon, said he had asked
Mr Sharon for permission to invade the spiny ridge of Abu Sneineh, the
Palestinian-ruled neighbourhood that is the suspected source of the gunfire that
killed the baby. "The solution is to take the hill," he d said.

Re-occupying Palestinian-ruled land would represent a dangerous escalation in
the six-month intifada, and put Israel on a collision course with the international
community. It is also inconvenient for Mr Sharon because of the Arab summit
under way in Jordan.

But the Jewish settlers, who claim rabbinical sanction for delaying the infant's
burial in defiance of religious custom, are demanding precisely that. "I think
today the blood is very hot in Hebron, and sometimes people are looking for
some kind of friction," said Col Tibon. "The whole situation now is very
dangerous ... the main problem now is friction, people seeking revenge."

The morning after Shalhevet's death brought ugly scenes to Hebron, where
400 Jewish settlers live in mutual hatred with 120,000 Palestinians. Amid the
clatter of gunfire from the hills of Abu Sneineh, settlers stomped over the shells of
the Palestinian-owned market stalls that they had torched overnight. In one
shop, schoolgirls painted a memorial mural to the dead baby in fiery reds and
oranges, with a passage from the Song of Songs: "Love is stronger than death".
An Islamic trust building was also burnt.

An armour-clad policewoman blinked back tears as a woman settler accused
the security forces of failing to protect the enclave, screaming: "Do you want me
to come back with Shalhevet's bloody shirt and rub it in your face?".

A young settler wearing a T-shirt with Hebrew letters reading: "I only buy from
Jews" joined a charge up the hill to Abu Sneineh before being beaten back by
cordons of security forces.

Mr Sharon has been a deep disappointment to the settlers of Hebron for his
failure to unleash the full might of the Israeli army against Palestinian militias.

"Sharon talks big, but we are not interested in talk, we want him to act big. There
is a limit to how much we can wait, and he is pushing our patience," he added.

There were similar demands at the junction of French Hill yesterday where
onlookers crowded for a view of the bus which the suicide bomber had tried to
board before setting off the lethal cargo strapped to his waist.

"I think the government should close off the territories until the Palestinians feel
the pinch in their pockets and are starving," said Mike Ebra, a resident of the
militant Jewish settlement of Ofra.

Others who witnessed the blast pleaded for understanding. "I think we have to
make peace the best way," Lily Aivas, a court clerk on maternity leave, said.
"Otherwise, they are killed, and we are killed."

Check out Kofi Annan on a diplomatic uni-cycle:

(financial times)


Violence adds to urgency to revive talks on Mideast
By Harvey Morris in Hebron and Roula Khalaf in Amman
Published: March 27 2001 19:58GMT | Last Updated: March 28 2001 06:53GMT

Violence flared in Jerusalem and Hebron on Tuesday as Arab leaders met
to reinforce backing for the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation
and put pressure on Ariel Sharon, Israel's rightwing prime minister, to
revive the peace process.

In an escalation in the nearly six months of unrest, two bombs exploded in
Jerusalem and an 11-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by gunfire from
an Israeli position in the West Bank town of Hebron.

These events happened a day after a Jewish settler's child was killed by gunfire which Israel says came
from a Palestinian-controlled hillside. The death of the 10-month-old prompted a group of settlers to invade a
neighbouring Palestinian area yesterday and open fire on cars and buildings, according to residents.

The first Jerusalem bomb, planted in a car, exploded during the morning rush hour in the Talpiot industrial
district, injuring the driver of a passing bus and at least two others. The second explosion, at lunchtime, was
apparently the work of a suicide bomber. The man died in the blast and 22 others were wounded, police
said.

In Amman, where the Arab summit is taking place, Kofi Annan, United Nations' secretary-general, urged a
resumption of talks for a comprehensive peace to put an end to the cycle of violence. He issued an unusual
criticism of Israel, telling Arab leaders that the Jewish state's "collective punishment" - the blockades and
closures - had cast a pall of anger and despair over the occupied territories.

The international community and the Arab world had every right to criticise Israel for its continued occupation
of Palestinian and Syrian land and for its harsh response to the intifada, or uprising, he said. "But these
points could be made more effectively if many Israelis did not believe that their existence was under threat,"
he said, adding that Israel had the right to exist in safety within internationally recognised borders.

Yassir Arafat, Palestinian leader, said in opening remarks that he opposed terrorism and blamed Israel for
"barbaric" behaviour towards his people, including the use of prohibited weapons. He called for a
resumption of peace talks and a revival of the still-born Sharm-el-Sheikh understanding, the accord reached
last October urging a step-by-step approach to ending the violence.

Bashar al-Assad, Syria's 35-year-old president, struck the harshest tone, accusing Israelis of rejecting
peace and being "more racist than the Nazis" because they had voted for Mr Sharon.

The Syrian leader met Mr Arafat last night to mend long-strained relations. Promising a new era in
Syrian-Palestinian relations, he warned Israel not to repeat attempts at playing one peace track against the
other - negotiating with the Syrians to isolate the Palestinians. Syria, he said, "will not be used as a stick
against the Palestinians".

( ...and finally, The Times)

looks like an" own goal" for Arafat!

WEDNESDAY MARCH 28 2001
Israelis are all Nazis, Assad tells summit
FROM SAM KILEY, IN AMMAN
PRESIDENT ASSAD of Syria called Israelis “Nazis” yesterday and
offered to “forgive and forget” the decision of Yassir Arafat, the
Palestinian leader, to negotiate with the late Yitzhak Rabin.

Speaking at the start of the first Arab League summit in a decade,
Mr Assad overshadowed Mr Arafat’s efforts to win support for the
Palestinian uprising. His speech, which often assumed the tone of
a lecture to the league’s 22 heads of state and their
representatives, was delivered as a suspected suicide bomber
blew up a bus in Jerusalem, killing himself and wounding a dozen
others.

Mr Assad said that the Arab world had been “too emotional” and
had failed to analyse properly the election of Ariel Sharon to head
a national unity government in Israel. He said that successive
Israeli elections had proved that Israelis in general “gave us
nothing and took everything.

“It is the Israeli public and not just the leaders who are like the
Nazis themselves,” he said in an improvised speech that could
have been delivered by his father, Hafez, 20 years ago. The
speech shocked foreign diplomats, many of them sympathetic to
the Palestinian cause, who had gathered in Amman, the Jordanian
capital, for the summit.

“This does not do those who want to help the Palestinians any
good,” a senior Western diplomat said. “It’s the sort of speech
which proves to the Israelis that the Arab world does not accept
their existence and that the Arabs really want to destroy Israel.”

Mr Assad’s rhetoric took many people by surprise given his efforts
to portray his country as becoming more democratic and moving
away from its days as a Soviet satellite.

After medical training in London, Mr Assad has been working to
open Syria to foreign investment and get the country wired into the
Internet. Despite the need to impress fellow Arab leaders, Mr
Assad’s tough message appeared to exceed what was necessary
to signal to the Sharon government that he is a man to be
reckoned with.

Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, had hoped to
persuade Arab leaders to see the problems faced by both sides in
the Arab-Israeli conflict.

He criticised Mr Sharon’s policy of besieging Palestinian towns and
of “excessive use of force” in quelling riots. He said, however, that
it should be recognised that Israel feels threatened and that it had a
“legitimate right to live in safety within its own borders”.

After Mr Assad’s speech, Mr Arafat repeated his allegations that the
Israelis have used “illegal weapons” against the Palestinians, but
he also said that he wanted to return to the agreements reached
with the Israelis in October last year, at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt,
which included a ceasefire.

The Arab leaders, who are also discussing Iraq, seem unlikely to
reach an agreement about how to persuade President Saddam
Hussein to give up his claim to Kuwait or how to seek the easing of
sanctions against his country.

Two Isreali teenagers killed by suicide bomber this morning..
U.S. opposes international observers...
Sharon's response ???

* "Sharon talks big, but we are not interested in talk, we want him to act big.
Sharon needs to act smart, not big. He can act big-time - all the neighbourhood Arab butts are still sore. He needs to act in a combination of political and military wit.

* "I think we have to make peace the best way,"
The Kosovo-style "peace"? The Chechniya-style "peace"? The East Timor-style "peace"? Arafat still has not amended the Pal Charter calling for the destruction of Israel, and it is in force, so far. Arafat makes double statements, - one for the foreing press, one - for the domestic consumption - and they differ. Arafat cannot strike peace without fear of assassination. The forces in this play are far too wide, - all the extremist-terrorist "orgs." under jihad word soup names, - to think that, if there's peace, they will automatically "get a life". No, ma'am, (and I, know it) they will not get a life - they'll go on spoiling others' life.
Peace doesn't bring security and stability. Security & stability bring peace.

* The death of the 10-month-old prompted a group of settlers to invade a neighbouring Palestinian area yesterday and open fire on cars and buildings, according to residents.
A usual BS of persons that, like CNN's Brent Sadler in Lebanon, feed on hearsay. Pals are desperate for some military action of scale to play the "flow of emotionally traumatized innocent refugee" clowns circus.

* Kofi Annan, [...] comprehensive peace to put an end to the cycle of violence.
Which fell on deaf ears.:o))))), but was a lexical sugar for ostriches.

* He issued an unusual criticism of Israel, [...]
What else could he have done? When in Rome, do ... ;o)

* Arab world had every right to criticise Israel for its continued occupation of Palestinian and Syrian land and fo
Neither gives guarantees of "getting a life", Syria doesn't recognize Israel, and doesn't want to talk.

* He called for a resumption of peace talks and a revival of the still-born Sharm-el-Sheikh understanding, [...]
What's the purpose of reviving corpses?

* The Syrian leader met Mr Arafat last night to mend long-strained relations.
No match for his father.

* Syria, he said, "will not be used as a stick
against the Palestinians".
Well, if Arafat likes carrots ... ;o)

* Mr Assad said that the Arab world had been "too emotional" and had failed to analyse [...]
Wasn't it always?;o)

"A usual BS of persons that, like CNN's Brent Sadler in Lebanon, feed on hearsay."

No, Harvey Morris, Financial times--, all these articles "quote" Palestinian sources to the point of cynicsm! They are all barely concealed pro-Isreali....

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"* Kofi Annan, [...] comprehensive peace to put an end to the cycle of violence.
Which fell on deaf ears.:o))))), but was a lexical sugar for ostriches.

* He issued an unusual criticism of Israel, [...]
What else could he have done? When in Rome, do ... ;o)


YUP - Hence the Uni-cycle balancing act....
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"too emotional" - I think by emotional they mean't anything less than all out hostility!

I think Sharon's options are getting more limited by the day....

How does Islam classify lands.
I.e. either Islam, or war.

* Two Isreali teenagers killed by suicide bomber this morning..
"Peace! Peace!! Peace!!! Peace!!!!"

* U.S. opposes international observers...
The UN? What is the point of having the UN here, since they, depending on their location, are no more, than either pieces of furniture, or of landscape in the S. Lebanon, anyways?

* Sharon's response ???
Sharon does not want to play into Arafat's hands and escalate the situation, while the Arabs socialize in Amman.

* I think Sharon's options are getting more limited by the day....
No.

* Danish FM calls for sanctions against Israel.
A refreshing for all of them from damn mad-cows-"feet 'n mouths";o)

P.S. Palestinians fired three anti-tank missiles at the Southern Gaza District Coordinating Office, and several times in the afternoon exchanges of gunfire broke out between Palestinians and soldiers manning positions at the Neveh Dekalim industrial site, turning into an intense gun battle in the early evening.
Some "rocks-throwing" Pals;o)

1125
...new mail for you, K-san...

* Wonder if the boys father felt the same way this morning?
hahahaha
Pretty bad, I'm sure, he should have warned him not to dangle around "bang-bang-bang" areas.
BTH, Tizballah, it was ... a Pal.

P.S. So, run along little Tizballah to Your neighbourhood mullah to "charge" it with some more "brain".
;o)

An "outstanding" barbarian "bravery" murdering babies and blowing up buses.
Why?
Because they wet their pants, looking at the Mk-III.
That is why they don't attack them, - to keep their pants dry.
Imagine, otherwise, the whole "brave" terroristic barbarian bunch doing laundry, - who, then, will remain available for murder and blowing buses up?
Eh?
;o)

* I don't know why the arabs are having this summit.
First show of clever thinking. Really commendable!
Yeah, why?
The King of Morocco, who is, in fact, the Chairman of this League, didn't come at all, having had send some officials to represent him, instead, that automatically brought the level down.
The King of Saudi Arabia spit on the petty squabbles about the agenda, Arafat's place in it and on Iraq in general, and left the discussion.
Kuwait didin't give a rat's a.. about Syria, Palestinians and the stance on Israel, preoccupied with demanding an "I'm sorry" from Iraq.
E. Lahud of Lebanon delivered a customary, Syria-written, drivel, like Tizballah.
"Coffee" Annan was the circus' staff clown together with Arafat.
Yeah, why?

* they should all agree to forget making peace with the jew. No trade, no political ties, no anything.
They should thank Jews, because, as one sage put it "Good, they have Israel to fight, otherwise would be at each others' throats already."
And here I would agree, - let them forget it and mind their own business, and if they decide on "each others' throats" in the course of it - let them.

* and let them fight it out with the Palestinians.
And here I would agree, - Pals should scrape up whatever brains are still left together and figure it out for themselves, whether they want a state, or they want "martyrdom" wholesale, - Israel can heed both calls.;o)

* Who really gives a sh1t.... both are a pain to the world. so lets lock them up and forget about them.
Yeah, right, who gives, - Pals were/are/will be treated by their "brethren", especially by the "grateful" Kuwaitis, like camel crap, and are a pain to the world, so, [see above].

Because they wet their pants, looking at the Mk-III.
That is why they don't attack them, - to keep their pants dry.




Do you also wet your "kosher" pants to solicit additional business?

Ah-h-h! Heh.
Sure, Porky Bacon got fried black on the CNN MB and limped here, the only place, where he can talk about his dear panties freely, to sizzle his frustration out.
Does anyone notice a funny pattern here - all morono-barbarians, that were ever present on-board, advertized this or that sexual perversity - Tizballah staunchily yaps away about anal matter, whenever seizes an opportunity, Porky - yaps about sniffing panties (does he keep a wardrobe full of them? Shall I send him a pair of mine to shut him up?;o) Porky, leave an address, - Your hints became too transparent already.;o)).
And what do we have instead of normal opponents? Do we face just a bunch of homosexuals, voyeurists and one fetishist, that keep his secretary's underwear, as additional business?