Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 7, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press october israeli prime minister hampers peace process Netanyahu downfall key to talks t Ondon the chances for a i Jas minute resurrection of the East peace process just Rose we have israeli prime minister Ben Jamin of All to thank for that was probably not what Netanyahu intended last month when he authorized the the israeli secret to Send a hit team into Jordan on fake Canadian he just wanted them to murder a Leader of the palestinian group a militant islamic organization that opposes a negotiated peace with two of the israeli would be assassins got caught in the attempt on Hamas political official Khaled and ended up in a jordanian three More allegedly took Refuge in the israeli embassy in and Netanyahu stands a Good Chance of being forced to resign in the ensuing scandal which would be very Good indeed for the Middle East peace Hamas leaders Are in some senses legitimate israeli since Hamas military Wing has taken responsibility for two recent suicide bombings in those bomb were largely a response to Netanyahu decision to Start building a huge jewish Settle ment in Arab East which has led to a rupture in peace talks since but that is not the the Point is that it is unlawful to equip your secret agents with forgeries of a Friendly country and Send them into the territory of a with whom you Are at to commit and it is either or extremely Stu to order such an operation just when Israel palestinian peace talks Are stumbling Back into motion after a seven month did Netanyahu order the opera Tion personally the prime minis ters responsibility Over civilian intelligence is absolute and said israeli commen Tator Amir Mossad is responsible for this oper prime minister Netanyahu and Mossad head Danny atom will need to there Are even reports that Netanyahu overrode objections to the operation by his own Security which is hardly surprising Given its astound ing the Mossad operation to kill Meshal combined key elements of Gwynne Dyer the three dumbest secret service murders of modern the fake Canadian passports were a reprise of a 1973 Mossad killing in in which the israelis had to apolo Gize profusely to both Ottawa and the victim also turned out to be an innocent bystander misidentified by israeli the bizarre weapon used in the Amman Pellet bearing an exotic Poison injected into mechals ear during a Street encounter was lifted from a famous bulgarian operation of the when a bul Garian dissident living in London was killed by a Poison Pellet fired from the tip of an both the bulgarian secret police and the israelis appear to have believed that if one of their highest profile enemies died from a Poison injected in the Street by persons the operation would not be traced Back to these peo ple should not be allowed to read James Bond the other precedent for this operation was Moss ads own january 1996 assassination of Engineer Yahya then the chief bomb maker of Hamas military by a bomb concealed in the earpiece of his Mossad has a thing about that operation was a technical but in political terms it was criminally peace talks were making Good Progress under prime minister Shi Mon Peres labour government at the and he was cruising smoothly towards reelection on a wave of sympathy caused by the recent assassination of his Pride Yitzhak by an anti peace israeli after Israel broke the truce by killing Yahya Hamas sent its suicide bombers into sixty six israelis were killed by bombs on crowded buses during the election Campaign in the Spring of and the carnage destroyed labours electoral Lead As Hamas Netanyahu narrowly won the May and the peace process has been on the rocks Ever so was this abortive operation a conscious attempt by Netanyahu to sabotage what remains of the peace process nobody maybe not Sheik Ahmed Yassin the Hamas is greeted on his return to the Gaza strip even Netanyahu As the normally reticent King Hussein of Jordan said i personally just cant figure out what the israeli prime minister and this worries me a what is Clear is that Netanyahu is in deep political Trou since the Amman operation fell apart last he has been scrambling to avoid a col lapse of the peace treaty with Jor he has already freed the founder and spiritual Leader of Sheik Ahmed a paralysed and nearly Blind 61year old scholar who has been in israeli jails since and sent an israeli doctor to Amman with an antidote to the Poison injected into if we had not received a treat ment for Khaled Meshal thank enabled us to bring him Back to Normal said King we would have taken Many but Netanyahu is expected to release Many other Hamas leaders now held in israeli jails As part of the Deal to free the israeli that will make his political position in Israel which is All to the Only Netanyahu fall can now Rescue the Israel palestinian peace process and avoid a return to Large scale he is highly ambivalent about the whole notion of trading land for and he is a permanent hostage to parties in his coalition that Are determined to expand jewish settlements on occupied palestinian so it is time for Tough Western countries that have traditionally supported Israel uncritically can now serve it Best by making Netanyahu position the United which expended enormous Effort on mediating a shaky renewal of Israel palestinian should openly rebuke Netanyahu for sabotaging whose citizens Are placed at risk by Moss ads persistent use of fake Canadian passports has already recalled its ambassador from it should freeze its relations with Israel so Long As Netanyahu stays in and the european or at least those european countries on whose soil Mossad agents have killed or kidnapped people nor Belgium and Italy leap to mind should show Solidarity with Jor Dan by pulling their ambassadors out of Israel a display of anger by israels Clos est combined with the damage Netanyahu himself has done to israeli presses Arafat to arrest Hamas and then ends up releasing those in his own prisons might bring him Down and Force a National govern or even new elections in it is the Only Hope of rescuing the peace and it is certainly Worth a Gwynne Dyer is a Londo based Independent his column regularly appears letters to the editor flawed logic used to Back gun Bill Randall Mcgunigale letter gun Issue coverage Sloppy journalism is a perfect example of the mass of misinformation that is in the Public Domain regarding the firearms Mcgunigal tells us that the legislation should be properly called the firearms registration unfortunately the act was never called by that Bill c68 is called an act regarding firearms and other weapons and Section 39 of the Cana Dian criminal in which the pro vision of c68 now is called firearms and other there is no reference to registration in any of the it is a fact that Section 39 encompasses some 126 pages in the criminal in All this mass of leg firearms registration Only embodies four pages this act is not about Section 39 of the criminal code gives the police unprecedented Powers of search and it allows for the criminalization and seizure without compensation of the previously legally obtained private property which to our Constitution Are the exclusive Domain of the you Are these offences against the citizenry to be perpetrated very once All owners and firearms Are registered there will be a it is for this reason that knowledgeable firearms owners Are protesting the registration Mcgunigal also mentions the new my from the interlace who won his seat with Only 60 votes Over his lib eral opponent if this my opposes by c6s can he truly represent the wishes of the majority of his constituents who did not vote for him mrm Gunigal fails to mention that the reason for the vote in the interlace is that both the nip candidate and the pc Candi Date were Strong contenders for this 80th the pc and App candidate ran on a platform opposing my it would seem that tote lakers were United in their opposition to c6s they just prent sure which party they could How to reach us the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg r2x letters can be sent to our fax number letters maybe submitted through the internet at letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone Trust to Best represent them on this applying Mcgunigale what right do the liberals have to continue to Force this Law upon us the liberals were All but wiped out in the maritime and replaced with parties who ran in opposition to this the liberals were All but wiped out in Western Canada and replaced with parties who ran in opposition to the even in the combined pc and Reform vote would have Defeated 28 liberals thus denying the liberals their it is Only because the vote split that we have a Liberal gov at per cent of the popular the liberals have no right to be with our first past the Post they but using Liberal win As proof of acceptance of Bill c6s is totally flawed Larry Tariff Adolphe Home breaking fes life devastated by the invasion and Viola Tion of Many sentimental items representing my past were and i too Felt anger and disbelief that this could happen to the items that i cherished most like Chris of Little or no resale value on the but things that i wanted my own children to have some we surveyed our Neighbours and asked if they had seen any unusual behaviour on the Street that and then alerted the entire Block to make them aware and my husband and i scoured Pawn in Success in Hopes of finding my treasures some it made us feel bet Ter to be actively involved in the we installed a Home Security system and now feel much but somehow changed by All of Smith Winnipeg downtown Centre still Best plan a recent article drives Home the whole concept and mandate of the one Manitoba place proposal for a Down town sports and entertainment Centre that must be accessible to the whole on a year round keeping the Public the fans entertained and the tickets family affordable is a function of the Multi purpose presenting More than 235 Over a 365daysperyear plus full time ancillary attractions and being connected to the Down town skywalk system affords sufficient Cash flow to acquire the lat est in As a the development will assist in the launch of downtown drawing million visitors downtown the soft topped domed facility also replaces the aging Winnipeg Arena and stadium at no Cost to City providing a state of the first class Home for All our pro sport franchises while leading our Community into the next millennium proudly is a goal of the one Manitoba place returning to City Hall promptly when site availability becomes confirmed is amps current we look for Ward to the Public continued interest in exciting development opportunities for our downtown in Winnipeg welfare bums dont deserve Aid taxpayers have really had it with welfare that is not to say that there Are not people who Are not Able to support themselves for reasons beyond their on that i believe we Are All prepared to be our Brothers when you have a healthy reduced unemployment and employ ers going begging while Able bodied people stand with their hands out this is too take the statement made by Wayne Helgason of Winnipeg social planning Council what kind of state is this when were talking about withholding the necessities of life because some one owes a few parking tickets this was his answer to a proposal to with hold welfare from anyone who has a warrant this does not say although if you think about if someone is on what Busi Ness do they have running a car on our Money this is the sort of asinine wind support for welfare bums that Spon sors increasingly Vio Blind furore against Johnnie Gat Schuff Winnipeg 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