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."

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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

hounded from their homeland.

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.