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The SHADOW Behind the Middle East Peace Conference
Anti-CommunistAnalyst.com ^

Posted on 10/21/2004 8:08:20 PM PDT by TapTheSource

Anti-communist analyst note:

[Even though this important article has been written 10 years ago by comparing the facts with the reality of the situation in the Middle East today, the facts of this article speak for themselves. Russian communist deceptive methods are clearly working without any western intelligence services' notice and possible subsequent measures.Published with permission given by Inside Story Communications.HM note]

Inside Story: World Report July, 1994

The SHADOW behind the Middle East Peace Conference

Copyright (c) 1994 by Inside Story Communications

Since at least 1931, international Communism has sought to conquer the Middle East through the "pan-Arab" movement.1 According to plans, individual Arab nations would be "liberated" from colonial rule, then fused into a united Arab regional government-a precursor to world government. Strategically, the Middle East contains such vital assets as the Suez Canal and oil reserves, and provides access to the Mediterranean Sea as well as to three continents.

Naturally, the formation of the state of Israel in 1948 began interfering with Communist plans. Thus the Communists quickly set about to destroy that Jewish nation. The pro-Soviet Nasser regime of Egypt created the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964, and placed in its leadership such recruits as Yasser Arafat, a veteran of the Communist revolution in Algeria.2 The PLO's mission: sponsor revolutions to overthrow the non-Communist governments of Israel, Iran, Turkey, and the Arab nations.

But after five wars and three decades of revolution, the Communists could see by 1989 that the frontal approach would not soon topple Jerusalem. At that point, the Soviet Bloc switched to a new strategy of deception. By faking the death of Communism, Moscow has finally opened the door to its victory. And behind its newly-accelerating drive to eliminate Israel stands its architect, the latest head of the Soviet secret police.

His name is Yevgeniy Primakov.

[Links added by A-CA].

The shadow is cast...

By the end of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Soviets could see that Israel would never be defeated through direct conflict. Despite early successes while invading Israel's buffer zones in the Sinai and the Golan Heights, Syrian and Egyptian forces soon found themselves in full retreat. Realizing that Israel would first have to yield its occupied territories before it would become militarily vulnerable, the Soviets chose a new tactic known as the "Phased Plan."

The PLO officially adopted this plan in June, 1974.3 Phase 1 would involve pressuring Israel to withdraw from its territories, upon which the PLO would establish a People's Republic of Palestine. In Phase 2, the heavily-armed Communist state would serve as the launching point for a Soviet-backed invasion of Israel.

How could Israel be induced to surrender strategic land-to the PLO, no less? The Communists decided to call for a "peace conference" between Israel, the Arab states, and the PLO. The catch, moreover, was that the Soviet Union would co-sponsor the talks. Such an international conference would pit Israel against all other participants, heightening pressure for concessions.

Soviet official Andrei Gromyko started the process in 1973, offering to open diplomatic relations with Israel in return for a peace conference. The Israelis first refused, but the damage inflicted by the Yom Kippur War changed their minds. In late 1973, Israel agreed to international talks in Geneva, Switzerland. The Soviets co-sponsored the meeting, though still refusing to recognize Israel diplomatically. Only the PLO was not officially allowed to participate.

Henry Kissinger [Link added by A-CA] played the key role in furthering Soviet aims.

Israeli journalist Matti Golan reported that, during the first few days of the Yom Kippur War, while the Communist governments of Yugoslavia, Algeria, Libya, Iraq, and the Soviet Union were re-supplying Egypt and Syria,4 Kissinger had delayed the emergency shipment of U.S. arms to Israel. Then, once Israel had regained its military balance and scored decisive victories, he went behind the Israelis' backs and negotiated a ceasefire directly with the Soviets. Nor was this difficult for him; as Soviet ambassador Anatoliy Dobrynin later revealed, the Soviets had quietly appointed Kissinger as their representative at the same time that he was representing the United States.5 Kissinger then pressured Israel into accepting the ceasefire, which returned portions of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt.

By 1977 the Soviets were trying to restart the Geneva talks, this time in an expanded format. Yevgeniy Primakov appeared on the scene, albeit secretly, to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Primakov again dangled the promise of Soviet diplomatic relations, this time in exchange for Israel allowing the PLO into the Geneva talks. Begin refused.6

Later that year, the Soviet timetable was temporarily thrown off by the Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel, which were negotiated directly between the two parties. Nevertheless, the Soviets moved patiently forward, gradually preparing the noose with which to hang Israel.

Primakov was ascending the ranks of Soviet power, gradually taking control of Middle East policy. By 1983, he had become Vice President of the World Peace Council (WPC), an internationally active front for the Soviet KGB founded in 1950.7 Its president was Romesh Chandra, a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India. But the real power resided in the hands of the Soviet KGB officer at Chandra's side. The WPC not only organized the disarmament movement in the West, but also served as a center for Soviet coordination of terrorist groups around the world, including the PLO.8 At that same time, Primakov held the post of Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee,9 which worked out of the same Moscow office as the Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee. These groups have operated as conduits through which the KGB sends weapons and other logistical support to the PLO.10

Primakov was busy implementing Soviet policy toward Israel. In September, 1982, the Soviet Union made the first official call for an international Middle East peace conference, to negotiate for a PLO state in the Israeli territories.11 Soviet influence at the United Nations led that organization, unsurprisingly, to endorse the call in 1983. Echoing the Soviets, the U.N. called for "the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian people, to participate... in all efforts, deliberations and conferences on the Middle East" for "the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in Palestine."12 Under Primakov's growing power,

Communist parties throughout the world soon joined in the chorus.

...and lengthens...

By the time Mikhail Gorbachev was taking over in 1985, the Soviet government was openly boasting that a Middle East peace conference would be one step on the road to "the ultimate triumph of communism everywhere."13 Primakov was quickly moving into the center of Soviet power, close to Gorbachev himself. Working with the Central Committee's International Department, Primakov led an elite group of Communist strategists in redesigning and accelerating the Soviet drive to destroy Israel. Gorbachev did not even participate in its design, according to foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze.14

To put his newly-formulated theory into practice, Primakov assumed the role of "special envoy" for Gorbachev during the Persian Gulf crisis in late 1990. He used that position to travel the Middle East, drumming up support for a peace conference to negotiate over Israel's territories.15

In fact, he had already been mobilizing every available tool of diplomacy, revolution, and war to intensify the pressure on Israel. In 1987, he told the Lebanese publication Hawadith that Israel would have to attend, and allow the PLO to participate in, an international meeting before the Soviets would restore diplomatic relations. He visited the capitals of Arab states, using every bit of Soviet influence to push the Arabs into joining the call.16

In 1988, he brought Soviet advisors to Syria as part of a massive drive to arm that Communist satellite, preparing it for a state of war and placing an ominous military threat on Israel's northern perimeter.17 Revolutionary action in the West Bank and Gaza Strip was meanwhile instigated by the PLO, the Palestinian Communist Party, and Islamic Jihad starting in December of 1986-a full year before the intifada was officially recognized and named.18

Analyzing the prospects for forcing Israel into peace talks, Yasser Arafat [alleged KGB agent - HM note] could boldly declare in 1987 that "there is now for the first time an actual international consensus on the question of an international conference on a Middle East settlement" [emphasis in original].19 But despite the growing momentum, Israel itself persistently refused to enter such loaded talks. Primakov needed one more element to complete the push: a war.

The perfect man for the job was Saddam Hussein, longtime dictator of the Communist government in Iraq. Since the Iraqi-Soviet Friendship Treaty of 1972, the Iraqi secret police and military had become mere extensions of their Soviet counterparts.20 The majority of Iraqi weapons were Soviet-supplied, and five to six thousand Soviet "advisors" ran the Iraqi state from within.21 Primakov himself presumably supervised the Soviet arms shipments to Iraq leading up to, and during, the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. After Iraq set in motion the Gulf crisis, Primakov visited Hussein as Gorbachev's representative. According to British intelligence analyst Christopher Story, Primakov told Hussein to demand an international conference between Israel and the PLO as a precondition to leaving Kuwait.22 Hussein obeyed, and after the Persian Gulf War had ended in 1991, Hussein's demand was adopted by the Bush administration. Finally the Israelis could no longer resist the political heat, and attended the conference in Madrid, Spain, that October.

Primakov had completed stage one in the drive to destroy Israel.

...until darkness falls....

The Soviet Union, mainly through its KGB strategist Primakov, had carefully designed and executed the entire Middle East peace conference since 1973. Thus the "death" of Communism in 1989, and especially the "breakup" of the Soviet Union in 1991, should have ended the entire process. The whole edifice of delicately applied pressure, fragile alliances, and Communist deception should have disintegrated, leaving the PLO isolated and impotent. Most importantly, Primakov and his fellow Communist leaders should have had to flee Russia to avoid prosecution, as happened to Nazi criminals after World War II.

In fact, the exact opposite chillingly materialized. Upon seizing power in the new Russia, Boris Yeltsin promptly reorganized and expanded the KGB, making it more powerful and active than ever before. Top Communists retained their positions, and all Soviet policies continued as before-except in a newly accelerated mode. What of Primakov? He was immediately promoted, becoming Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, the main arm of the new KGB. This places him in charge of an estimated 500,000 agents worldwide, operating in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and elsewhere.23

Primakov quickly laid to rest any notions that the various Soviet republics or Eastern European nations would be allowed any independence from Moscow. At a December, 1991, press conference, he openly admitted that his agency was exercising its powers "to maintain a common military, economic and central intelligence network among the Republics of the former Soviet Union."24 Tens of thousands of secret police officers from East Germany and other Eastern European nations had already been incorporated into the KGB during the 1989 changes.25

At a press conference in late 1993, Primakov confirmed the warlike attitude of the "former" Soviet Union by warning NATO that he and his fellow Soviets might assume a new military posture toward the West at any time. Polish defector Zdislaw Rurarz described a follow-up question from a reporter:

Primakov was asked whether his presentation of the issue was in any way endorsed by President Boris Yeltsin. Surprisingly enough, he said that there was no need for that!26

Despite Yeltsin's membership in the Soviet Communist Party since 1961, even he serves as a mere figurehead.27 He takes his orders from the likes of Primakov and the rest of the KGB leadership, all of them hardened Communists following long-term strategy.

In the Middle East, this is being translated into a PLO victory over Israel. The alleged collapse of Communism has thrown anti-Communist forces in the West into disarray. No longer recognizing where PLO terrorism or the drive for a peace conference come from, confused anti-Communists in all countries have abandoned political opposition to such Soviet moves-effectively turning over the political arena to the left. Now that the Communists can move rapidly without significant resistance, Israel is finally yielding control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the PLO. And Israeli Prime Minister Ytzhak Rabin has since offered to give away to Golan Heights to Communist Syria.

Unless Americans and Israelis wake up soon, Soviet forces will be dismantling the remains of a neutralized, demoralized Israel.

references

1 Agwani, M.S., Communism in the Arab East, Asia Publishing House, New York, 1969, p. 15.

2 Rees, J., "Why Americans must oppose the P.L.O.," The Review of the News, Oct. 17, 1979, p. 41.

3 Netanyahu, B., A Place Among the Nations, Bantam Books, New York, 1993, pp. 219-226.

4 Sadat, A., In Search of Identity, publisher unknown, 1978, pp. 253, 255, 264, 267; Bard, M.G. and Himelfarb, J., Myths and Facts, Near East Report, Washington DC, 1992, pp. 77-78.

5 Allen, G., Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State, '76 Press, Seal Beach, Calif., 1976, pp. 71, 78.

6 Story, C., "Business as usual in the Middle East," Soviet Analyst, Jan. 1992, p. 15.

7 Ibid., p. 18.

8 Rees, J., Ed., The War Called Peace, Western Goals, Alexandria, VA, 1982, pp. 8-9.

9 Story, Op cit., p. 18.

10 Barron, J., KGB Today: The Hidden Hand, Reader's Digest Press, New York, 1983, pp. 264-265.

11 Davydkov, R., Ed., The Palestine Question, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1984, p. 23.

12 Ibid., pp. 235-248.

13 Petrenko, F. and Popov, V., Soviet Foreign Policy: Objectives and Principles, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1985, pp. 155, 186.

14 Story, C., Op cit., p. 19.

15 The New York Times, Nov. 17, 1990, as cited in Story, C., Op cit., p. 14.

16 Story, C., Op cit., p. 19; Ramati, Y., Global Affairs, Spring 1989, as cited in Story, Op cit., p. 17.

17 Story, C., Op cit., p. 20.

18 "Palestine: Appeal for solidarity," political statement by the Palestinian Communist Party, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Information Bulletin, March 1987, pp. 39-40; Schiff, Z. and Ya'ari, E., Intifada, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1990, chapter 2 and pp. 101-105, 198-202.

19 Arafat, Y., "We are optimistic," World Marxist Review, Sept. 1987, p. 49.

20 al-Khalil, S., Republic of Fear, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1989, pp. 12, 66.

21 Wagman, R., "Did Soviets aid Iraq?", San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Sept. 5, 1990; Lee, R.W., "Our Soviet 'Ally'," The New American, March 12, 1991, pp. 22-23.

22 Story, C., Op cit., p. 15.

23 MacAlvany, D.S., "Russian strategic deception: The 'new' Communist threat," The MacAlvany Intelligence Advisor, Jan., 1994, pp. 20-22.

24 Story, C., Op cit., p. 13.

25 MacAlvany, D.S., Op cit., p. 22.

26 Ibid., p. 22.

27 Ibid., p. 12.


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To: GSlob

Welcoming GIJoel's latest incarnation back? :0)


21 posted on 10/22/2004 6:26:34 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: jb6
"Which Soviet Forces? The US/NATO armed Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia (with known WMD and missiles)?"


Well now who did we fight in the Korean War? That was Stalin's War, and he made a pact with the RED Chinese in 1950 to send down into N.Korea 120,000 troops while he, Stalin gave secret air support. That was the first UN War and Stalin was boycotting the UN cause he decided he was not going to set N.Korea free as he had agreed to at the end of WWII. Who armed the Viet Cong in the Vietnam War and who armed Syria, Saddam, Iran, etc... to mention a few???

Remember it was our very own Commies the Clintons that adopted N.Korea from the formerly named Soviet Union and it was with our money that the Clintons and gang gave N.Korea nuclear, all under the Clintons stated foreign policy plan of "EQUALIZE ALL NATIONS".

Communism whether it be 'Soviet' style or Beijing style, Saddam's style, Chirac's style or JfKerry style is of the same religion.... they are 'gods' and they give or take rights.

"Soviet" sure puts people to sleep.
22 posted on 10/22/2004 6:39:50 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: MississippiMan

You follow false prophets.


23 posted on 10/22/2004 7:12:27 AM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: TapTheSource

Fascinating read.


24 posted on 10/22/2004 7:24:23 AM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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To: Just mythoughts
Syria, Saddam, Iran, etc... to mention a few???

Well considering that the CIA put Saddam in place, who armed Saddam? Soviets were busy arming Iran. Can't have it both ways. Where did Saddam get those British and French planes and weapons? Soviet involvement came much later.

As for the Chinese, by the 60's it was we who were those communists' allies and nothing has changed for 40 years.

I don't deny that communism is evil but to run around and point at everyone and scream communism is also stupid. The Russians are not communist nor will they ever return to it. The Chinese are communist in name only, they are facist autocrats. We on the other hand might be due for our own communist experience, we as in the US & EU.

25 posted on 10/22/2004 7:26:33 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: jb6
"I don't deny that communism is evil but to run around and point at everyone and scream communism is also stupid. The Russians are not communist nor will they ever return to it. The Chinese are communist in name only, they are facist autocrats. We on the other hand might be due for our own communist experience, we as in the US & EU."

and your tag line is Truth = Christ... Well in case you have not read Christ said I have foretold you all things.. obviously you have not read what we have been foretold.

The tree of communism may have been chopped down but the roots were left in tact the world over, just waiting for their ultimate leader and "religion" will be the method of operation..... read what was offered Christ when he was tempted by the devil.
26 posted on 10/22/2004 7:55:48 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts
and your tag line is Truth = Christ... Well in case you have not read Christ said I have foretold you all things.. obviously you have not read what we have been foretold

Funny I read what He fortold but apparently my Bible did not have the special read between the lines verses that yours does.

27 posted on 10/22/2004 8:27:38 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: jb6

"Funny I read what He fortold but apparently my Bible did not have the special read between the lines verses that yours does."

Nothing between any lines all recorded by the prophets... which Christ made one and the same as the NEW.


28 posted on 10/22/2004 8:28:56 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts; Destro

Ok, verse and chapter where communism is spoken of?


29 posted on 10/22/2004 8:32:30 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: jb6
Start with Genesis 1:1 and proceed..... Look you already believe what you believe and since you are pinging Destro cause you can't stand on your own two feet I am not interested in playing a round robin with people who have closed minds.
30 posted on 10/22/2004 8:34:36 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts
Start with Genesis 1:1 and proceed.....

Sorry that's a copout. You stated that the Bible states something that it doesn't, now YOU provide the proof. I'm not the one having to defend my argument. Chapter and verse, I'm waiting.

As for Destro, figured I'd share the fun on this Bible revision thread you've started.

31 posted on 10/22/2004 8:40:46 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: jb6

"Sorry that's a copout. You stated that the Bible states something that it doesn't, now YOU provide the proof. I'm not the one having to defend my argument. Chapter and verse, I'm waiting."


No it is not a copout, which "IF" you had read Christ you would not make such a bogus claim. YOu got to understand the BEGINNING which is Genesis to understand what Christ and the rest of the writers of the Bible say.

Genesis sets forth the foundation the beginning and all else is built upon it.

So please lost interest in one who has no foundation.


32 posted on 10/22/2004 8:45:28 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts
Why, by all means then, educate this poor fool on how Genisis leads to Christ's or the Appostals' words on Communism. Show me this mystical link. You make a bold statement, no proof. You make psuedo supporting statements, no proof. And when questioned you accuse me of not understanding Genisis (which I do) thus not seeing your proof.

Like the old commercial: Where's the beef (proof)?

33 posted on 10/22/2004 9:00:43 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: The_Reader_David; George W. Bush; MarMema

You guys will have fun on this thread.


34 posted on 10/22/2004 9:01:38 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: Just mythoughts; jb6
The tree of communism may have been chopped down but the roots were left in tact the world over, just waiting for their ultimate leader and "religion" will be the method of operation.

I think you are correct! Communisim has taken root in America - even fooled and tempted a rightous man like Bush - like Satan tempted Adam and Eve. They are the Trotskyite Neo-cons whose coils have this nation in a Satanic vice grip. I have seen the Anti-Christ - and it just may well be us!

Am I making it up? No! It is in the Bible! Where? Read Genisis on! Duh!!

35 posted on 10/22/2004 9:06:29 AM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: jb6
TapTheSource
Since Oct 19, 2004

No doubt another of the Birchie invaders.

36 posted on 10/22/2004 9:29:58 AM PDT by MarMema (Sharon is my hero)
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To: Destro
They've never even been to Russia but they think we are a free country.

The health care organization which employs me bought all of their flu vaccine from a maker who did not contaminate it, and then the local government - who bought all of their vaccine from the wrong company and thus ended up with none in the end - "comandeered" half of our vaccine from us.

37 posted on 10/22/2004 9:33:06 AM PDT by MarMema (Sharon is my hero)
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To: MarMema

If we had true capitalism, then the FDA would only certify them as being clean. The lack of supply would drive up prices, making a very lucrative market and pulling in all excess from Canada, EU, Russia, Australia. Meanwhile every company in the market would be ramping up production, thus the growing supply (which would eventually over take demand) and maybe even drive prices below the original. IF we had a true capitalistic system.


38 posted on 10/22/2004 9:39:48 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: Just mythoughts; jb6

Puting aside Russia as the stiking point for a moment...

"The following are inarguable, Marxist-Leninist Communist Totalitarian states:

* Cuba
* DPRK
* Myanmar
* Belarus
* Angola
* Laos

And in the category of Communist states who allow a bit of "capitalism" ala the NEP:

* The PRC (Red China)
* Vietnam
* Latvia

In the category of "New Age" crypto-Marxist states:

* Venezuela (rapidly heading toward full-fledged Comm. Rev.)
* Zimbabwe
* South Africa
* Brazil
* And as of their most recent election, Spain

Oh, and then there are all the still active "old hippie radical" type Communists who make up certain Western factions.

Communism is still very much alive."


39 posted on 10/22/2004 10:37:09 AM PDT by TapTheSource
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To: Just mythoughts

When it comes to the ME "Peace" talks it would appear that Russia's NEW POLICY is the same as the OLD (Soviet) POLICY. Very curious in light of the post that got this thread started, no?.




CNN
Sharon to Putin: Israel willing to make 'concessions'
Monday, November 3, 2003 Posted: 11:08 AM EST (1608 GMT)

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/11/03/mideast/

(Excerpt) Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon before holding talks Monday.

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- In Moscow for meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other officials, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday that Israel is willing to make "concessions in exchange for peace."

"Israel is the only country in the world that is ready to make concessions, even though it hasn't lost a single war," Sharon said, according to Russia's Interfax news agency.

However, Sharon added, Israel will not make concessions on the issue of security.

Putin, at the beginning of the meeting, said that Russia is "intent on taking an active role, as much as it is possible from our side, in the Middle East settlement."

Russia is among those working on a plan for Middle East peace. The so-called road map -- also backed by the United States, United Nations and European Union -- calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and security for Israel.

Sharon and Putin also discussed improving ties between the two countries, noting that trade has increased from $12 million in the 1990s to more than $1 billion today.

In addition, Israeli officials are expected to raise the issue of Iran's nuclear program, which Israel considers a threat. Russia is helping Iran to build a nuclear power plant at Bushehr. The two countries say the plant is for peaceful purposes. Israel is urging Russia to prevent the transfer of any uranium enrichment technology to Iran...


40 posted on 10/22/2004 10:49:13 AM PDT by TapTheSource
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