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"World War Three 2003" |
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24 Aug 2003 12:50:26 AM |
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World War III ***NEWS*** Sunday, August 24th, 2003 AD......On the brink + |
http://www.prophecyupdate.com/prophecy_news.htm
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Israelis and Palestinians are on the brink of perhaps an even deadlier
round of fighting, with the Israeli military and Islamic militants
declaring all-out war on one another and an increasingly powerless
Palestinian prime minister watching from the sidelines.
Two watershed events this week rapidly turned cautious faith in a
U.S.-led "road map" peace plan into bleakest despair: the killing of
20 Jerusalem bus riders, including six children, in a Hamas suicide
bombing, and Israel's assassination of a Hamas leader in a missile
strike in Gaza City.
The bombing and the missile strike, coupled with the collapse of a
unilateral truce declared by the militants two months ago, leave
little hope for the survival of the peace plan.
The violence has triggered such strong emotions that a bloody
collision appears inevitable, particularly with no sign of major U.S.
intervention.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) is seething
over the Jerusalem bombing which, though not the deadliest in three
years of fighting, triggered associations in Israel of pogroms because
it targeted children and ultra-Orthodox Jews returning from prayers at
the Western Wall.
At a security Cabinet meeting this week, participants drew a parallel
to the 1972 killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, a
security source says. Sharon made the same decision as a predecessor,
Golda Meir, three decades earlier: he ordered the methodical killing
of Hamas leaders, just as Meir sent Israeli agents to kill all
Palestinians involved in the hostage-taking at the Olympics.
"The Palestinians never weaned themselves from the basic desire to
murder Jews," the Yediot Ahronot daily quoted Sharon as saying. "This
was always (Palestinian leader Yasser) Arafat's policy, simultaneous
negotiations and terrorism."
A senior security official said that as far as Israel is concerned,
"anyone who is in the Hamas leadership is a fair target." Israeli
officials said the strikes could be called off if the Palestinian
Authority (news - web sites), against all expectations, takes action
against Hamas.
Hamas was equally furious over the killing of Ismail Abu Shanab, a
protege of the group's founder, Ahmed Yassin, and the most senior
official targeted by Israel. A torrent of threats was amplified by
tens of thousands of supporters taking to the streets.
Hamas bombings — there have already been scores in the past three
years — will shake Israel "like an earthquake (news - web sites),"
Abdel Aziz Rantisi, target of a failed Israeli missile strike in June,
said at Abu Shanab's funeral. Defiant Hamas spokesmen said they did
not fear death and that, should they be assassinated, replacements
were already waiting in the wings.
Abbas has no plan for handling the situation, members of his inner
circle said privately. His policy of persuading Hamas and Islamic
Jihad to halt attacks has failed, and in this charged climate, he does
not dare order a clampdown, as demanded by the United States and
Israel.
We cannot attack Hamas when the population is sympathetic to them and,
what is more important, when Israel is attacking them as well," said
Palestinian Cabinet Minister Ghassan Khatib.
The escalation has further weakened the never-popular Abbas, widely
known as Abu Mazen, to a point of growing talk about his possible
resignation.
"If this situation continues, Abu Mazen will not last long," said
Palestinian Cabinet Minister Ziyad Abu Zayyad. "Those interested in
Abu Mazen's success must pressure Israel to stop undermining his
government."
The fighting has helped Arafat, ostracized by the United States as a
leader by tainted by terror, to return to center stage.
Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web
sites) made a rare public appeal to the Palestinian leader to help
rescue the situation. Arafat remains the only Palestinian leader with
enough clout to lead a campaign against the militants — though he has
chosen to remain on the sidelines.
In a fateful meeting of the Palestinian leadership early Thursday,
before the missile strike, Abbas asked Arafat to support a clampdown
on the militants, but Arafat postponed a decision.
Arafat also shrugged off a request by Abbas, according to one
participant, to relinquish control over security forces; Abbas
commands some, but not all of the tens of thousands of men under arms
in the Palestinian Authority. Abbas' security chief, Mohammed Dahlan,
who fell out with Arafat last year, was reluctant to make a move
without the support of all the security branches.
Israel says Abbas and Dahlan never intended to crack down on Hamas and
Islamic Jihad, and were just playing for time with assurances that a
major arrest campaign was imminent.
"Our demand is unequivocal," said Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan
Shalom. "The Palestinians must dismantle terror groups. Otherwise, we
have to do it ourselves."
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