THE HANDSTAND

DECEMBER 2003
ARIEL SHARON’S SECRET PLAN
TO REMOVE PALESTINIANS FROM ISRAEL
by
Gordon Thomas

Israel’s hard-line prime minister, Ariel Sharon, has ordered his intelligence chiefs and defence forces to prepare a secret plan to drive “hundreds of thousands” of Palestinians out of the West Bank.
They would be deported to the no-man’s land in southern Lebanon.
The area is a desolate landscape with freezing conditions in winter and broiling temperatures in summer.
There is scant soil to produce food. Water is also scarce in the region.
Sharon has calculated that, if the plan is implemented, it will cause a furore across Europe. But he believes it will be supported by the powerful Jewish lobby in the United States – the only country whose opinion now ultimately matters to the Israeli leader.
Jordanian intelligence chiefs say that the operation – details of which were leaked to them by a “friendly foreign intelligence service” – could start next year, when the United States will be heavily engaged in the Presidential election campaign.
Details of the plan will almost certainly be raised by prime minister Tony Blair with President Bush when he visits London next week.
Blair is not known to be a great fan of Ariel Sharon. Bush, on the other hand, nowadays regards the aged Israeli leader as a powerful instrument to help him win next year’s election.
London based sources with good connections to the Jordanian secret service say Sharon wants the plan ready by the end of the year.
“He seems to be resigned that the roadmap to peace will then be over – and that terror groups will resume their suicide bomber attacks,” said one of the sources.
Sharon believes this will give him “a just excuse” to remove the Palestinians – as they would then pose what he has called “a totally unacceptable threat to the safety of Israel”.
Details of his plan have also been leaked last week to Western intelligence services, including MI6.
King Abdullah II of Jordan revealed his own fear about Israeli intentions on his recent visit to London.
“Driving out Arafat and his Palestinians would lead to an uprising in the Middle East against everything Western,” said a senior Jordanian intelligence officer.
Of immediate concern to Abdullah is that his own tiny kingdom – “a mere pimple on the rump of Arab nationalism” was how one Western intelligence report describes Jordan – could be swept away.
Its Arab neighbours have not forgotten that in 1991, King Abdullah’s late father, King Hussein, lent his support to Saddam.
With the prospect of an influx from the West Bank of Palestinians and the pro-Iraqi sentiments of many Jordanians, who are bitterly opposed to King Abdullah’s acceding to American pressure, the 41-year-old monarch could find himself toppled – or even assassinated.


Gordon Thomas is a writer on intelligence - his many books include :
Gideon's Spies_The Secret History of Mossad
Robert Maxwell - Israel's Superspy
Seeds of Fire - China and the Story Behind the
Attack on America
 

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THE JAZZ MAN roars ...GILAD ATZMON. . . . . .
''WHAT ABOUT WORLD PEACE...??''


Now, when it is beyond doubt that the Anglo-American  (the English speaking world) ‘war against terror’ is leading to self-defeat, there is one simple strategic alternative that would make this planet a much safer place. The first lesson one learns when attending an introductory course in international affairs is that the balance of power and the power of deterrence are the most crucial ingredients for peace. The cold war showed this. America and USSR never engaged in a direct conflict. They simply had too much to lose.


If ‘world peace’ is our main concern, we must achieve a balance of power, we must let the oppressed people of this world have access to the most advanced weaponry. If the Palestinians, were equipped with the latest anti air missiles, anti tank missiles, cluster bombes and cruise missiles, there would be no need for foreign intervention in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict..... The Palestinian militant would not have to carry out any martyrdom operations in the centre of Tel Aviv. Like the Mujahideen who crashed the Soviet army  and the  Vietcong who defeated the Americans, the Palestinian would punish the Israeli soldiers and concentrate solely on them. They would shoot down the Jewish combat airplanes and would destroy the Israeli tanks as soon as they entered the Gaza strip. Soon the Jewish state would have to pursue every possible option to achieve peace with the Palestinian people while addressing the ‘Palestinian right of return’.


Balance of power is the only key to peace. Islamic militants, when equipped with the right weaponry, would concentrate on Anglo-American military targets. They would never kill civilians or attack what the Americans call ‘soft targets’. The Islamic  struggle is about liberation not about bloodthirstiness. It isn’t about a culture clash or about war against our values. Anyway, the only values we have are ‘market values’, basically the price of oil..... We can’t fool ourselves anymore. In the age of ‘Guantanamo Bay ’ and continuous killing of thousands of Iraqi and Afghani civilians, we
cannot claim to have ‘values’ to defend.


If Islamic militants could practically endanger our existence we would have to listen to them with great respect. We would then have to look for a genuine means towards reconciliation. I suggest that we  allow the Iranians to be as nuclear as we are, we leave Syria alone, we must help the Palestinians become as armed as their Israeli enemy. We should be living in a world that embraces the notion of ‘balance of power’. I assume that the key to peace therefore is to dismantle the hegemony of America, Britain and Israel. There are different ways to achieve such an aim. Supporting the strength of the European Union is an obvious one, opposing America and Israel  is another. In all this,  the impeachment of Mr Blair and Bush is necessary. We can not  anymore expect those evils  to have enough dignity to resign.

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