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NEWS
Viewpoint: The Road to Iran
by D. Berger
Left-wing extremist, former Knesset member Uri Avneri,
published a profile piece on Sharon. It goes without saying
that the article was not flattering.
Back in the days when Arafat set up Fatah Land in Southern
Lebanon and prepared for a hard war of terror against
Israel, a move that instigated the Lebanese War, Avneri met
with his friend, the well-known "freedom fighter," Yasser
Arafat, whose emissaries butchered Jewish women and children
-- in fact, not unlike what goes on today.
The article includes an amazing story. In 1982, when Sharon
was serving as defense minister, he flew to Washington for a
meeting on strategic coordination at which he proposed to
the Defense Department that Israel invade Iran for the U.S.
right after Khomeini's death. Sharon, Avneri writes,
submitted detailed maps with his proposal, but the Americans
rejected the proposition. It's very interesting that such a
fascinating proposal remained hidden until Avneri published
his account.
What does Avneri have to say about this story? He says he
heard it from Sharon's military advisor, when he went to
interview him for the newspaper he used to edit. The
philosophical angle of the story, according to Avneri, was
that with Khoumeini's death, Israel would seize the country
and hand it over to the Americans. The Russians would have
to decide whether to declare war or not, and probably would
decline.
So simple. Just take a couple of tanks and jeeps off to Iran
and conquer the country. What's Iran after all? Just fifty
million people. And everyone knows that Tehran is just right
around the corner. This story is the stuff the Left's
nightmares are made of, and a Hebrew-language newspaper is
giving it a respectable forum.
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