IDF Seizes PA Weapons Ship

Radiate_Truth · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 1056

IDF Seizes PA Weapons Ship

A key instance where this value affected Bush`s policy was in the Karine-A affair.

On January 3, 2002, Israel seized the Karine-A, a ship laden with 50 tons of arms bound for the Palestinian Authority (PA). Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians had already broken down, and the Palestinians had launched a violent uprising following Yasir Arafat`s rejection in 2000 of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak`s offer to withdraw from all of the Gaza Strip and from 97 percent of the West Bank, and to create a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem. The failure of that peace initiative led to Barak`s defeat in the 2001 Israeli election by Ariel Sharon, who determined that Arafat would not make peace with Israel and was irrelevant.

The United States held out hope that Arafat could still be induced to halt the terrorist attacks against Israel and to fulfill the other obligations he had committed to in the Oslo agreements. The seizure of the Karine-A appeared to be a clear indication that Arafat not only was unwilling to end the violence, he was importing arms to escalate the war against Israel.

When Bush learned of the ship`s seizure, he called Arafat and asked him to explain the shipment. Arafat acted as though he knew nothing about it. U.S. intelligence verified the Israeli account that Arafat`s ``money man`` had paid for and arranged the arms shipment, so Bush knew that Arafat was lying to him. From that point on, the United States deemed Arafat ``compromised by terror,`` and the administration began to push for his removal as leader of the PA.

Sharon has clearly understood the importance of being straight with Bush. For example, he promised that Arafat would not be harmed, and he has kept that promise throughout Israel`s military operations in the territories.

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The Inquisitor · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 772

RT,

I am completley nonviolent and I will always applaud the removal and destruction of weapons of war. Unfortunately, when Israel receives weapons of war, it's through contracts with the US and for billions of dollars. Israel receives the latest fighter jets, helicopters, machine guns, night vision equipment, GPS equipment, and much much more. Their supplies are straight from the US and are never stopped, never checked and never questioned.

The Palestinians have to beg for a few grenades and rifles. And when their armament is seized, the world condemns the Palestinians for being war mongers.

Israel possesses over 200 tactical nuclear weapons.

WHY????

Why is it important that Israel have nuclear weapons when no one else in the whole region have them. Israel BY FAR is the greatest military in the Middle East. They kill on a weekly basis.

http://ifamericansonlyknew.com/

Since 2000, 119 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 971 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29, 2000. Yeah, look how bad the Palestinians are. They've killed 119 Israeli children since 2000. Of course, I'm sure that the Israelis had every right to kill 971 Palestinian children. They were obviously doing something very horrible for the Israelis to kill them. If a Palestinian child is killed by an Israeli soldier, well he just needed killing that's all. If a poor, helpless, innocent, small, dainty, precious Israeli child is killed by a cruel, horrible, mean, monstrous, ugly, bellicose, nasty Palestinian, well that just shows you how horrible the Palestinians are.

Why doesn't Israel use a few of their tactical nuclear bombs and just kill all the Palestinians??? They are obviously subhuman, right?? Who cares about the Palestinians anyway, right?? They are the scuum of the Earth and need to be slaughtered as soon as possible, right???

Don't let the poor, helpless, innocent, pretty, comfy, nice, Israelis suffer any more. We need to kill the bad, mean, evil, horrible, nasty, ugly, Palestinians. They are the rot of the Earth. Those stats prove it all. Israelis NEVER kill unless they have to, while Palestinians ONLY think of killing.

After all, you're just trying to be fair to all, right. Kill Palestinians and save Israelis, it's only fair.