Naji
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [Infobeat] Fw: 'We control America'
> Naji Dahi wrote:
>
> > > > > At this point, a furious Sharon reportedly turned toward
> > >
> >> > > Peres, saying "every time we do something you tell me
> >> > > America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell
> >>
> >> > > you something very clear: Don't worry about American
> >> > > pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control
> >> > > America, and the Americans know it."
> >> > >
> >> > > The radio said Peres and other cabinet ministers
> >> > > warned Sharon against saying what he said in public,
> >> > > because "it would cause us a public relations disaster."
> >
> >It is ironic that Sharon knows what most of you on this very list refuse
to
> >acknowledge.
>
> What's the evidence that Sharon actually said this? My friend Joel
> Schalit - author of the recently published and very fine book,
> Jerusalem Calling, from Akashic Books, who will be a guest on my
> radio show on Apr 18 - had never heard of this quote, and said it
> sounded like plain old anti-Semitic propaganda.
>
> Doug