-Caveat Lector-
Well Mike I did not write this report and MSNBC has the following
report; please note, a poor Moslem age 25 said he fought because he was
fighting over religion.....well he might be and he domestic jew and arab
might be - but this is about oil.
Jordan and Saudi Arabia and Arab Leage will not tolerate this slaughter
- consider Israelies armed with AKs and Uzzis and missiles and then
Palestinians throwing stones....sounds like some of the Israelies took
some training at Seattle or Waco like the Japanese sniper?
MSNBC gives same statistics....me, I will watch and wait.....so Ralph
Nader is arabic - why does he not speak out and Joe Lieberman is Jewish
- where is he now?
Do you see Madeline sending in storm troopers as she did in the Balkans?
Where did Israelies get all those arms and you wonder why we have an oil
shortage?
Zionists want the oil.......they are not a religion.....they would sit
back and see evry domestic jew and arab killed to get the oil, and
why.....why because this is what the bible says will happen........
So let them fight it out.....but that oil nobody will get for the Arabs
are not stupid and will blow those fields to hell and back......
Blood is thicker than water and this thing is being pushed.....note the
masked assassins like at Seattle - snipers, murdered children - wasn't
it Putin who said he would make graphic example of those in Chechnya to
see what would happen if they opposed him so they let a little 14 year
old boys legs be amputated....the iniquities of the fathers being
visited upon the children.
Why is it necessary for killers and snipers to wear a mask - answer is
obvious - who are these snipers are they KGB? Did Henry Kissinger KGB
Agent Code Name Bor send them in.....
Who the hell do these Israelies think they are walking around with AKs
for which we paid, and then turning these guns on kids and civilians
armed with stones?
Maybe it would be wise to capture one of these masked men and find out
for whom they work for it is obviously an attempt to trigger the Holy
War between the believers ......then who takes over if there is anything
left to take over.........slaughter of the innocents all timed to 2001
millenium perhaps?
Saba
Bid to end bloody Mideast clashes
Palestinians throw stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes in the
street near the Augusta Victoria Hospital in east Jerusalem on Sunday.
NBC's Tom Aspell reports from Israel on the worst violence in four
years. (Contains graphic images.)
MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS JERUSALEM, Oct. 1 � As
Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged late Sunday to halt the
escalating violence, the grim toll from four days of clashes climbed to
29 Palestinian supporters dead, including two 12-year-old boys, and more
than 700 wounded. An Israeli officer also died from injuries he suffered
during clashes in Nablus, one of the many flashpoints in fighting that
threatened to torpedo months of negotiations on a comprehensive peace
agreement between the hostile neighbors.
Aspell reports on clashes spreading to Arab Israeli towns
IN SEPARATE STATEMENTS, Israeli and Palestinian officials
said there was agreement for both sides to end the violence.
Israeli acting Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami's office
said Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar told Ben-Ami that he had
received a message from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that the
fighting would be stopped Sunday evening.
Palestinian official Nabil Abu Rdainah told Reuters that
the Israelis had offered to stop firing. "We will wait and see if they
will continue to respect their commitments tomorrow," Rdainah said.
Witnesses in the West Bank and Gaza said their regions
appeared to have quieted down.
The latest fighting came as Israeli and Palestinian peace
negotiators traded harsh accusations instead of new ideas on how to
solve their disputes.
The clashes were triggered by a visit last week by the
leader of Israel's hawkish opposition, Ariel Sharon, to a contested
Jerusalem shrine, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as
the Noble Sanctuary.
Sharon denied Sunday that he was responsible for the
violence. "The riots are part of Arafat's policy of applying pressure on
Israel and the Americans when he doesn't get what he wants," Sharon
said.
In four days of widespread clashes, 29 Palestinians have
been killed by Israeli fire � six Friday at the Jerusalem shrine, 14
across the West Bank and Gaza on Saturday and nine in gun battles
Sunday.
ANTI-TANK MISSILES, GUNSHIPS
The scale of the clashes increased dramatically Sunday as
Israeli troops fired anti-tank missiles, hurled grenades and shot from
helicopter gunships. Several Israeli tanks rumbled toward the
Palestinian-run towns of Nablus and Ramallah in a warning gesture but
did not cross the lines of jurisdiction.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Arafat had tried but failed to
ease tensions in a phone conversation Saturday night, and clashes
resumed with increased ferocity Sunday.
The fighting, which had been restricted to Jerusalem, the
West Bank and Gaza, spread to several Arab Israeli towns, including
Nazareth.
In the town believed to be the site of Jesus' boyhood,
hundreds of youngsters, many with their faces masked, threw stones at
Israeli police, who fired a steady barrage of tear gas and rubber-coated
steel bullets.
Nazareth's main road, which was blocked with burning
tires and plumes of black smoke, is near the Basilica of the
Annunciation, built on the spot where tradition says the Angel Gabriel
foretold Jesus' birth.
FIERCE BATTLE IN NABLUS
Both sides used live ammunition in some of the clashes,
and battles have raged with guns, sticks, stones and rocks. 'This is a
war between religions, and I'm participating because I'm Muslim.'
� KHALED ABU ARAISH, 25
The Israeli security forces said Palestinian snipers
unleashed heavy fire in some of the battles.
The deadliest battle was waged Sunday over Joseph's Tomb
in Nablus, a tiny Israeli-controlled West Bank enclave smaller than a
city block and ringed by a concrete-block wall and barbed wire.
An Israeli soldier shot from a lookout post, with only
the top of his helmet and his weapon visible. Palestinian gunmen, some
in black ski masks, raced up to the wall and fired into the compound
where some Jews believe the biblical patriarch Joseph is buried.
At one point, two helicopter gunships swooped down and
unleashed a barrage of fire, sending hundreds of Palestinians fleeing
for cover.
An Israeli border policeman was critically wounded and
lay trapped for hours in Nablus as Palestinian fire blocked rescue teams
from reaching the area. Medics eventually got through, but the officer
died Sunday night.
Three Palestinians were killed in the fight, including a
12-year-old boy. Six more Palestinians died in clashes elsewhere in the
West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian Health Ministry said 223
Palestinians were wounded, including five who were in critical
condition. Another 12-year-old was killed Saturday in Gaza.
Ben-Ami said the Palestinian Authority was orchestrating
the violence to exert pressure on Israel and extract concessions in the
negotiations.
His Palestinian counterpart, Ahmed Qureia, said Israel
was intensifying the violence and was "committing crimes against our
defenseless people."
U.S. TRIES TO BROKER PEACE
U.S. diplomats were working frantically with both sides
to try to rescue the negotiations, but with time already running short
� Barak faces an opposition threat to topple him in October �
prospects looked grim.
"We are urging both sides to exercise maximum restraint
and put an end to the violence," said P.J. Crowley, spokesman for the
U.S. National Security Council.
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In a second shooting incident Sunday, Palestinians and
Israelis exchanged heavy fire at an army post near the Jewish settlement
of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip. Several dozen Palestinian security
agents, in both uniform and civilian dress, fired assault rifles, while
hundreds more Palestinians threw stones at Israeli soldiers. A third
gunbattle raged in the West Bank town of Ramallah, and stone-throwing
was reported in many of the larger Palestinian cities and towns.
Near the divided town of Hebron in the West Bank, about
150 Palestinians on a road overpass threw stones down on passing Israeli
cars and soldiers. And in the Arab neighborhood of Jabal Mukaber in east
Jerusalem, about a dozen young Palestinians hurled rocks at riot police.
"This is a war between religions, and I'm participating
because I'm Muslim," said Khaled Abu Araish, 25.
The Israeli soldiers responded by firing rubber-coated
metal bullets, witnesses said.
A SETBACK FOR PEACE
The violence threatened to kill hopes for an already
faltering peace process aimed at ending decades of violence, although
Israel's Ben-Ami suggested that progress could still be made
"We should not allow the tragic clashes of the last days
to derail the process, nor should we provide extremists with the right
of veto on the peace process, especially when it is in such a delicate
moment."
In their Saturday night phone conversation, Barak urged
Arafat to help quell the violence.
"The prime minister warned Arafat that he [Barak] will
not let violence be a tool in the negotiations," Barak's office said in
a statement.
Barak said Israel has been showing "maximum restraint,"
but would do what was necessary to protect its citizens and restore
order. The violence erupted as Israelis marked the Jewish New Year.
The Palestinian leader, in turn, called on Barak to
withdraw Israeli troops from the entrances of Palestinian towns and
cities. Arafat adviser Rdainah said Arafat also demanded that the
Israeli troops stop firing on Palestinian civilians.
A senior Palestinian official said Barak apologized for
the fact that so many had been killed.
Arafat also said that if Israel did not stop the
bloodshed in 24 hours, he would take several "measures," including going
to the U.N. Security Council.
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Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian official, accused the Israelis of
using excessive force, saying this "is matched with a huge number of
casualties."
"We are not firing at Israelis. We are not killing
Israelis. The soldiers are the ones killing the Palestinians," he said.
But Israel's army chief, Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, said that
the Palestinian Authority did nothing to stop the violence and that
Palestinian police officers in some cases even participated in the
clashes.
GENERAL STRIKE
Throughout the West Bank, shops and schools were closed
as Palestinians observed a general strike for a second day. The strike
spread to Arab Israeli communities Sunday inside Israel in a show of
solidarity.
Israeli Arab lawmaker Ahmed Tibi said that Israeli Arab
towns had called the general strike in protest of "the massacres of
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza."
Palestinians blame the violence on Sharon's visit to the
Temple Mount. The area is sacred ground to both Jews and Muslims, and
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are deadlocked over which side will
control the sites under a peace deal. All U.S. compromise proposals have
been rejected so far by the negotiators.
See photojournalist Judah Passow's picture story on the struggle that
changed the world. Many Arabs revile Sharon for his role
in the massacre by Lebanese Christians of Palestinians in the Sabra and
Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982 after Israel's invasion of
Lebanon. An Israeli inquiry attributed indirect responsibility for the
massacre to Sharon, who was forced to resign as defense minister.
Palestinian Planning Minister Nabil Shaath left Sunday
for Europe to ask for international protection for Palestinians in light
of the deaths of the past days, Shaath told Reuters.
In Cairo, the Arab League urged the U.N. Security Council
to investigate Israel's conduct in the clashes.
Arab leaders such as King Abdullah II of Jordan and
Foreign Minister Amr Moussa of Egypt warned that the bloodshed was
wrecking the peace process.
And in Tehran, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, accused Israeli troops of committing atrocities, state
television said.
The comments came after Khamenei met leaders of the
Palestinian Hamas guerrilla group, which has sworn to fight Israel until
it is overthrown.
"The current events in the occupied territories are
significant and a manifestation of the faith of the Palestinian nation,"
Khamenei said. "This faith cannot be overcome with bullets."
Has the prospect for peace vanished in the Middle East? Join a
discussion of world events on MSNBC's International BBS
NBC News correspondent Tom Aspell in Tel Aviv and The
Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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