this is the original guardian article referenced by the jpost: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4260177,00.html
i've been trying to figure out how much of the spat between sharon and peres is "good cop/bad cop", and it's starting to look more and more like the split between the two over talks is real. at least is seems that way to me.
j
> From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:50:39
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: UK official dubs Sharon 'cancer of Mideast'
>
>> [via Sid Shniad]
>>
>> The Jerusalem Post - September 23, 2001
>>
>> UK official dubs Sharon 'cancer of Mideast'
>>
>> By Douglas Davis
>>
>> London - A diplomatic storm has erupted here over the depiction of Prime
>> Minister Ariel Sharon by an unnamed Foreign Office official as "the cancer
>> at the center of the Middle East crisis."
>>
>> The comment, by a "senior British Foreign Office source," was quoted in a
>> front-page article by the Guardian, which has consistently put Israel in
>> the
>> frame when discussing the causes of this month's terrorist outrages in the
>> United States.
>
> This unnamed FO officer certainly doesn't use diplomatic language, but there
> is obviously no willingness in the Israeli government to acknowledge its
> provocative role here, no matter how sensitively stated. The following is
> also the Guardian:
>
> "The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, is to meet the foreign secretary,
> Jack Straw, following a 15-minute phone call between Mr Sharon and the prime
> minister, Tony Blair.
> Mr Sharon had earlier called off the meeting because of remarks Mr Straw
> made in an article for an Iranian newspaper.
>
> "A meeting with Israel's president, Moshe Katsav, was also cancelled.
>
> "The passage which caused offence said: 'One of the factors that helps breed
> terror is the anger that many people in the region feel at events over the
> years in the Palestinian territories.'"
>
> [Full text:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,557778,00.html]
>
> Carl
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