Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00188)

Since Sharon's goal is to annex those areas, that will
surely mean war.

--- bri_mue <bri_mue@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Egyptian diplomats and government-aligned analysts
> said President 
> Hosni Mubarak has told Washington it will not
> tolerate the Israeli 
> destruction of the regime of PA Chairman Yasser
> Arafat. The diplomats 
> said Mubarak has repeatedly pledged to Arafat that
> the Egyptian 
> president would preserve the PA. 
> 
> Mubarak spoke by telephone with Bush last Thursday
> and called for an 
> end to the Israeli military campaign. Earlier,
> Mubarak warned in an 
> interview with the Beirut-based A-Safir that Israel
> would be the main 
> victim of any regional conflict. 
> 
> At the same time, Egypt's defense chiefs said "The
> recent 
> developments require the Egyptian armed forces to
> preserve a high 
> level of preparedness and readiness to confront any
> challenge and 
> threat," Egyptian Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi
> said. 
> 
> It seems Egypt and Jordan will send their armies
> into Palestinian-
> ruled areas to take the place of a collapsed Arafat
> regime or a 
> Palestinian Authority stripped of powers. The
> Jordanian army, 
> including its intelligence arm, would re-locate
> itself in the West 
> Bank instead of the Palestinian security and
> intelligence services, 
> while the Egyptian military would re-occupy the Gaza
> Strip.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Brigitte
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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