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SHARON UNDERWENT 7 HOUR POLICE INTERROGATION ON OCT. 30
Posted By: Rosalinda
Date: Saturday, 1 November 2003, 11:23 p.m.
In Response To: ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE (IDF) TO THROW SHARON IN TRASH??? (Rosalinda)
WIESBADEN, Oct. 31 (EIRNS)--ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON
UNDERWENT A SEVEN-HOUR POLICE INTERROGATION ON OCT. 30, IN
CONNECTION WITH FINANCIAL SCANDALS, involving foreign and covert
money made available to Sharon, his family, and the Likud.The investigations, which could determine Sharon's fate
and also have serious implications for Sharon's backers
in the U.S. and other countries, have reached the point,
that brawls within the Israeli police and judicial administration
are again being highlighted in the press.The disputes concern whether Sharon should be indicted
on bribery charges for six-digit cash flows
to Sharon's son for a Greek Island resort;
and also, recent charges by Police Major General Mizrahi
that Sharon's Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein
had interfered in Mizrahi's investigation
of Russian-Israeli organized-crime backers
of Sharon's Finance Minister (former Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu.What was not brought up in the Oct. 30 interrogation
was the all-important question
of New York-based Arieh Genger's possible role in funnelling $1.5 million to Sharon,
via Austrian bank accounts of casino operator Martin Schlaff
and Sharon war buddy Cyril Kern of South Africa.Israeli investigators are awaiting Israeli and Austrian court decisions
to get more access to the paper and money trail
before interrogating Sharon again, this time, on Genger's role.Genger was Sharon's private channel to U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice,
and to Kern's South African political godfather and diamond business partner, Mario Ambrosini,
who was sent into that country by the Jabotinskyite Philadelphia interests behind mayoral candidate Sam Katz.[source: New York Post, by Uri Dan, Oct. 31]
EAVESDROPPING `SCANDAL' UNDERLIES SHARON INVESTIGATION.
Uri Dan reports that a "Watergate-like eavesdropping scandal"
is the backdrop for the current bribery investigation
of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.Dan claims that the wiretaps,
conducted by Labor Party-linked secret police officials
in 1998- 99 against then-Prime Minister Netanyahu,
Sharon, and other Likud party officials,
only came to light this past week.Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein
is said to have told the Knesset on Oct. 29:"I was horrified when I saw the files
with the transcribed conversations"
-- 70% of which, he said, was "irrelevant"
to the probe, and included "intimate conversations."
(Source:Corriere della Sera, Guardian, Washington Post, 31.10.03)YA'ALON'S ATTACKS AGAINST SHARON POLICY DOMINATE NEWS.
The unprecedented attacks
by Israeli Defense Forces Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon
have been picked up by the European and U.S. press,
as a sign of growing tensions between the military and the government.The Guardian, which ran a banner headline,
"Army Chief Warns Sharon--We Are on the Verge of Catastrophe,"
reports that the remarks, which Ya'alon made anonymously,
"were so devastating that he was swiftly revealed as the source."An associate of Ya'alon's reportedly characterized his criticism,
to the press, as tantamount to a warning that Israel was
"on the verge of a catastrophe."Ya'alon had said that the harassment of Palestinians
was "contrary to our strategic interests.
It increase hatred for Israel
and strengthens the terrorist organizations."Corriere della Sera located the attacks in the context of a
"black week" for Sharon, characterized by a public sector strike,
increasing economic crisis, discontent in the army, polemics on
the price of settlements, the Likud's electoral defeats in eight
cities, and the political-legal scandal against Sharon and his sons.The Ya'alon/IDF story is also reported widely in the U.S.
press, including on the front-page of the Washington Post, which
portrays the general's comments as "a dramatic split with the
approach of the current government."[Source: NY Times, A-22, Editorial, October 31]
THE NEW YORK TIMES ENDORSES TWO ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE
INITIATIVES IN ITS LEAD EDITORIAL TODAY. These are, first, the
petition campaign being led by former Shin Bet head Ami Ayalon,
and Al Quds University President Sari Nusseibeh, the P.A.
representative in Jerusalem; and, second, the Geneva Accord Initiative.The editorial also takes favorable note of the statements
by Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon warning that Israeli government policies
are working against Israeli strategic interests.Ayalon and Nusseibeh have already gathered petition
signatures from 100,000 Israelis and 70,000 Palestinians.The editorial notes that Ayalon says
that his remarkable record at "counter-terrorism"
while serving as the chief of Israel's domestic security agency,
was attributable not to hard-line security measures,
but to Palestinians' optimism about the prospects for a state.Under those conditions, violence plummeted,
and Palestinian security services fought radicals.When hope declined, terror rose
and no one lifted a finger to stop it.This petition, he says,
is meant to help restore that hope.[source: Haaretz article by Tsahar Rotem, 10/31]
Oct. 31--ISRAELIS FROM BOTH THE LEFT AND RIGHT DEMONSTRATED
TODAY IN SUPPORT OF EVACUATING THE JEWISH SETTLEMENT of Netzarim
in the Gaza Strip, where three Israel Defense Forces soldiers
were killed in an attack by Palestinian gunman last week.A spokesman for the demonstration said that the protest wasn't
political in nature, and was unconnected to any given ideology.
The new group, as yet unnamed, plans to continue its protests.
"Netzarim is not a mitzvah [good deed] of the Torah," one banner said.
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