Avnery on collapse of Hudna/Roadmap

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It is no secret that the military party (the only really functioning party in
Israel) objected to the hudna (truce) from the first moment, much as it
opposed the Road Map. Its powerful propaganda apparatus, which includes
all the Israeli media, spread the message: "The hudna is a disaster! Every
day of the hudna is a bad day! The reduction of violence to almost zero is a
great misfortune: under cover of the truce, the terrorist organizations are
recovering and rearming! Every terrorist strike avoided today will hit us
much harder tomorrow!"

The army command was like an addict deprived of his drug. It was forbidden
to carry out the action it wanted. It was just about to crush the intifada,
victory was just around the corner, all that was needed was just one final
decisive blow, and that would have been that.

The military was upset when it saw the new hope that took hold of the Israeli
public, the bullish mood of the stock exchange, the rise in value of the
shekel, the return of the masses to the entertainment centers, the signs of
optimism on both sides. In effect, It was a spontaneous popular vote against
the military policy.

scoop.nz

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1. The Israeli General's Plan

Mofaz's Plan. Have you heard of it? None of this was secret. With that plan in hand none of this is a surprise. Not a word of it. They are basically finished but for the preemptive... the very last paragraph of the damn plan. Picked up by Jane's in July 2001.

If you read that. All of this was transparent.

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2. everyone held out reporting this plan

the media none of them are any good. Uri had to have known about this plan probably before It surfaced on the net.

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3. Bemildred

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=125&topic_id=1215#1292

this couldn't have been a secret everyone just figured out Jane's picked it up in July 2001. The link still works.

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5. No, not secret at all.

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4. Busharon. I like it...

'Mahmud Abbas had become the darling of George Bush, a welcome guest at the White House. The unique standing of Sharon in Washington was in danger. The pair Bush-Sharon, which was mutating into a single Busharon unit, was in danger of becoming a triangle: Bush-Sharon-Abbas.'

No wonder Sharon's not into a threesome. Bush-Sharon-Abbas doesn't roll off the tongue with as much ease as Busharon does ;)


Violet...

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6. he was handpicked for the job however

late last night it seems came an article in LBN regarding a Colin Powell invite for Arafat to come to Washington. I found that made me go hmmm.

My apologies if you have come across it already. I placed it somewhere else here as well, and as I said it was in LBN very early this morning.


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