From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 03:37:33 MDT
--- Damien Broderick <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> [no direct link available]
>
> By ARNON REGULAR
> Haaretz.com (Israel)
>
> Selected minutes acquired by Haaretz from one of
> last week's cease-fire
> negotiations between Palestinian Prime Minister
> Mahmoud Abbas and faction
> leaders from the Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the
> Popular and Democratic Fronts,
> reveal some of the factors at play behind the scenes
> in the effort to
> achieve a hudna.
>
> [...]
> Abbas said that at Aqaba, Bush promised to speak
> with Sharon about the siege
> on Arafat. He said nobody can speak to or pressure
> Sharon except the
> Americans.
>
> According to Abbas, immediately thereafter Bush
> said: "God told me to strike
> at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he
> instructed me to strike at
> Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to
> solve the problem in the
> Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not,
> the elections will come
> and I will have to focus on them."
>
> ======================
>
> You have to hope something was added in translation.
This is the second time I've seen this "quote" by Bush
supposedly coming thru Haaretz. I found it a few days
ago, reported third hand in a web log or discussion
group (Sorry, don't remember where.) At that time,I
did a Google search, but couldn't confirm its
authenticity. Not from Haaretz, or any other meda or
web source.
Since then I've found it.
Used a google search for
"ARNON REGULAR minutes bush haaretz.com"
and found among others, this site:
http://www.unknownnews.net/insanity7.html
which provides this link to the original Haaretz.com
article:
Last paragraph on the page.
The Haaretz.com article is dated June 27, and the
quote is now starting to get around.
Best, Jeff Davis
"We call someone insane who does not believe as we do
to an outrageous extent."
Charles McCabe
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