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Любопытная статья насчет «урегулирования ближневосточного конфликта» (по-аглицки)

                    How Much Money Will it Take to Stop Mideast
 
                                       Bloodshed?
 
 
                U.S. taxpayers are expected to bear the brunt of the cost for any Mideast
 
                "peace."
 
 
                Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT
 
 
                By Martin Mann
 
 
                The rehabilitation of Martin Indyk, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, whose
 
                security clearance was suspended last month—only to be restored by the
 
                White House on Oct. 10—was only the first among a long list of concessions
 
                being held out by President Clinton in order to persuade the Israeli government
 
                to halt the shoot-to-kill tactics it has been using against Palestinian protesters.
 
 
                U.S. officials said that Indyk's security clearance was reinstated for the
 
                duration of the Mideast conflict. After that, according to officials, his status
 
                would be «reevaluated.»
 
 
                After days of ferocious firefights, the top leaders of the warring nations—the
 
                historic Arab people of the Near East and Pa les tine's Zionist occupying
 
                forces—flew to Paris for a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine
 
                Albright.
 
 
                Instead of turning to negotiations with each other, Palestine Authority
 
                Chairman Yassir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak gave priority to
 
                talks with American officials, including long, frequent telephone palavers held
 
                by both sides with President Bill Clinton.
 
 
                "In the course of the Mideast peace negotiations earlier this year, Clinton
 
                offered both antagonists enormous payoffs in return for a deal," said Dr.
 
                Herman Knorr, a former U.S. State Department intelligence analyst. "Now
 
                Arafat and Barak are telling Albright they want to make sure they have some
 
                of those billions in hand before they settle their differences."
 
 
                The bloodletting American taxpayers are about to suffer as the latest price of
 
                Ameri ca's stupid meddling in Palestine runs into billions of additional dollars.
 
 
                Israel is asking for a special «strategic assistance package» to cover the cost of
 
                its military withdrawal from Lebanon, its planned «strategic redeployment» on
 
                the Syrian frontier, expensive new electronic se curity installations to protect its
 
                flanks from «surprise attack» and a squadron of the latest U.S.-made
 
                warplanes, the so-called «joint strike fighters,» to patrol them. The cost: an
 
                estimated $55 billion.
 
 
                Part of the «special security assistance» program is the installation of
 
                "death-ray" laser batteries at strategic points in and around Israel.
 
 
                This apocalyptic weapon has the capability of blinding enemy troops at
 
                extended distances, reportedly over a mile. There are no known goggles or
 
                filters to protect against the instant and permanent blinding of infantrymen.
 
 
                The laser was developed by the U.S. De fense Advanced Research Projects
 
                Agency (DARPA) in the Pentagon under a variety of code names and
 
                innocuous descriptions.
 
 
                Now, in order to persuade Barak to stop the massacres of unarmed
 
                Palestinian demonstrators and to rejoin the «peace process,» the delivery of the
 
                "death-ray" laser, to be installed in Northern Israel by the U.S. Army Corps of
 
                Engineers, has been «prioritized» to begin in next month.
 
 
                "Indyk has been abruptly rehabilitated because he is the indispensable
 
                dealmaker who arranged the 'pay-for-peace' strategy of appeasing hawkish
 
                Israeli leaders with huge handouts funded by U.S. taxpayers" says Dr.
 
                Francois Khouri, a Lebanese diplomatic historian.
 
 
                A seasoned Israeli agent of influence at the time he was taken aboard by the
 
                incoming Clinton administration in early 1993—and an alien who was granted
 
                instant U.S. citizenship by special dispensation of the White House and
 
                Congress—Indyk became the key go-between in the tortuous negotiations
 
                held by Clinton with a succession of Zionist leaders skilled at extortion,
 
                well-placed observers say.
 
 
                "It was Indyk who laid out the plan for the unprecedented giveaways the U.S.
 
                is supposed to dole out to Israel for its agreement to grant the Palestinian
 
                Arabs some living space, a limited measure of autonomy, and 'peace,' "
 
                explained Khouri, who now teaches in Washington.
 
 
                The Palestine Authority, on the other hand, is faced with the need to do
 
                something about the nearly 4 million Arab refugees hounded from their
 
                homeland.
 
 
                Behind closed doors, Clinton and Arafat have been negotiating a compromise
 
                under which Palestinian refugees willing to waive their right of return would be
 
                paid «compensation» or «restitution» at some $15,000 per head.