1. Q:  Quick, what is the new Arik Sharon definition of the conditions under which Israel is willing to parley with Palestinian fascist terrorists and discuss new Israeli "concessions"?

   A:  Forty-eight hours in which the PLO "policemen" continuously miss their Jewish targets.

2. I don’t know about you but I find it irritating that the goals for which Israel’s destruction is required keep getting more and more skimpier, more and more minor, more and more modest.

   I mean, ’twas a time when Israel’s destruction was at least demanded by the world as part of attempting to achieve loftier and more critical goals. For decades Israel’s destruction was required as part of containment of communism and preventing the Russians from gaining influence. And then for decades more Israel’s destruction was required as part of the need to protect oil supplies to industrial economies. I mean, these were at least commendable and worthwhile goals for which Israel’s destruction was being required.

   But now look to what depths we have plummeted!! We have now reached the state of the world in which Israel’s destruction is required merely so that the US can get Arab countries to agree to the facade that they are part of some sort of anti-terrorist campaign, even though they will contribute nothing and quite possibly assist the terrorists, and in any case will be cheering of the terrorists either openly or secretly. So Israel needs to be destroyed just so this facade of play-acting and public relations pretense can be maintained.

3. For those who still think Arik Sharon differs in any significant manner from Bibi Netanyahu (or Shimon Peres), Haaretz today reports that Sharon announced that yes Israel would like to offer the Palestinians the opportunity to set up their own state.

   Monday, September 24, 2001 Tishrei 7, 5762 Israel Time: 18:51 (GMT+2)
   Last update - 11:21 24/09/2001

   Sharon: Israel wants to give Palestinians possibility of a state

   By Ha’aretz Service

   In a statement viewed as a potentially historic declaration by a Likud prime minister, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said that Israel wants to give the Palestinians "what no one else has heretofore given them - the possibility of establishing a state".

   "The state of Israel is a nation that desires peace, and will do everything to achieve a true and open peace. We are not fighting the Palestinians, we are fighting terrorism," Sharon said Sunday evening in remarks broadcast Monday by Israel Radio.

   "The state of Israel wants to give the Palestinians what no one else has heretofore given them - the possibility of establishing a state. Neither the Turks, the English, the Egyptians or the Jordanians gave them such a possibility. All that Israel has asked - and Arafat has also committed himself to this - is to stop the terrorism, to live in peace, to live in calm."

   The statement was believed to have been the strongest indication by a standing Likud prime minister of acceptance of the concept of Palestinian statehood. Labor prime ministers have long stated that a Palestinian state alongside Israel was to be a central component of a future peace.

   Sharon was known in the past as the champion of a "Jordan is Palestine" ideology, which held that Palestinians should seek statehood on the last currently occupied by the kingdom of Jordan, east of the Jordan River, and that Israel should have sovereign rule over all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

   Sharon was also vocal in opposition to far-reaching concessions offered by his predecessor Ehud Barak in ill-fated peace negotiations last year over the shape of a future Palestinian state.

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