Israel Cabinet 7 for and 7 against toppling Arafat....plus Israel Turns Palestinian Towns into Prisons

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Dec 3 08:37:45 PST 2001


Max Sawicky wrote:


>The dynamic here seems pretty clear. Israel or Hamas kills
>somebody, Arafat is blamed for being too close to the other
>side, and then Hamas or Israel kills somebody. By all
>appearances the Israeli Gov will kill Arafat and destroy
>the Palestinian Authority before twelve months have passed.
>This would put a much more dangerous face on any expansion
>of the 'war on terror' beyond Afghanistan.
>
>We could hypothesize that the Israeli model -- endless terrorism
>and state repression as a bulwark against any progressive change --
>will be the domestic content of the New World Order. Who 'started
>it' becomes irrelevant. It just goes on.

With no way out?

Doug



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