Daily Commentary

17 December, 2000


NOW THEY MEAN BUSINESS

By Barry Chamish
Israeli Journalist

The arrival in Israel today of French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine is the signal that now those who have brought war to Israel mean business. The French, with their agent Shimon Peres, did not murder Yitzhak Rabin for sport. Now they want their payoff and they have lost patience with the pace of Israel's suicide. They want what Peres promised them; the Old City of Jerusalem handed over to the UN, which will permit Arafat a national capital in the areas under its control, and Vatican hegemony over the holy sites, including and especially, the Temple Mount. And they're not kidding around anymore. They want the deal finalized and without delay.

There is a spanner in the works interfering with the French connivances: the Anglo Saxon powerbrokers of London and New York want the Jews off the Temple Mount and the PLO put there in their place, but they clearly are not enthusiastic about the French and Vatican running the new show. So they are creating an open alliance between their servants, Barak and Netanyahu.

Last Thursday, Neyanyahu was in the US and received instructions from CFR kingpin, George Shultz. Netanyahu rushed back to Israel for a few hours, met with Barak, attended a Bat Mitzvah as a cover story and then caught the next plane back to America to resume his highly profitable lecture tour. The next day, Barak called for new elections.

The message to Barak was; the big boys want elections with me in the race. Sharon is having pangs of conscience and isn't getting the job done. He's got to go and whoever wins the race between us, will complete the sellout, this time with a parliamentary majority.

Meanwhile, Peres was instructed by the French to neutralize the religious, the settlers and, in fact, anyone actively protesting their country's inevitable demise. One act was especially symbolic. He paid a sympathy visit to Chaim Didovsky, the owner of an influential news service based in Hebron, and whose wife was murdered last week by PLO assassins. This courtesy call was aimed at reducing Didovsky's anger, thus controlling the news of the opposing camp.

And somehow these visits always do the trick. Nowhere was it reported that Didovsky refused to accept Peres's presence, nor did he lambaste him for providing the PLO with the weapons, and the CIA sniper training, that led directly to his wife's murder.

So, with another opposition journalist cowed and trained, I'll have to provide some nation-saving information no one else wants to report.