ZGram - 10/21/2002 - "Peres Lashes Out In Loathing, Fear - Predicts Catastrophe"

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October 21, 2002

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Peres Lashes Out In Loathing,
Fear - Predicts Catastrophe
Mid-East Realities MiddleEst.org
10-20-2

NEWSFLASH
 
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' 
the Palestinians 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'
 
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 10-21-02
 
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 10-17-02
 
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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"We roundly deplore the recent incidents yesterday in Rafah, in the 
Gaza Strip, where Israeli shells on a school and Palestinian houses 
left at least eight dead, including two children," a spokeswoman for 
the French Foreign Ministry, Cecile Pozzo di Borgo, said.
 
"We call the Israeli authorities to show better restraint and to halt 
all military operations in the Palestinian territories," she told a 
media conference.
 
Pozzo di Borgo added that Paris saw Israel's incursions as a 
violation of the Geneva conventions and a blow to international 
efforts to restore some sort of stability to the region.
 
The Rafah incidents "result once again from the Israeli Army's 
recourse to disproportionate military means against a civilian 
Palestinian population in densely populated urban areas," she said.
 
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=10/19/02&Cat=4&Num=002