Iraq prepared to make peace with Israel: Peres

JERUSALEM: A leading candidate to head a caretaker government in Iraq has told Israel Labor Party chairman Shimon Peres that Iraq would likely make peace with Israel if it gives the Palestinians control over 95 percent of the West Bank and Gaza, Peres said Monday.

Peres told Israel Radio he had met over the weekend with former Iraqi Foreign Minister Adnan Pachachi, 80, at a Rome conference organized by the Socialist International. A Sunni Muslim with a secular outlook, Pachachi is favored by many American officials to head an Iraqi caretaker government during the post-Saddam Hussein transition period.

According to Peres, Pachachi told him that once a Palestinian-Israeli agreement was reached, peace between Israel and Iraq would likely follow.

"(Pachachi) said that if we reach agreement with the Palestinians.... even if the Palestinians get 95 percent of the territory that was taken in 1967, it would certainly be possible to talk about cooperation and peace between us and Iraq,'' Peres said.

In the 1967 Middle East War Israel captured the Gaza Strip from Egypt and the West Bank from Jordan. Palestinian leaders now want them to form the basis of an independent Palestinian state, together with East Jerusalem.

Peres said Pachachi was responding to his suggestion that the creation of a new economic bloc linking Israel, Jordan, Iraq and the Palestinians made much more sense than the four threatening each other, as has often happened in the past.

A former Israeli prime minister, Peres is his country's foremost proponent of the establishment of strong trade and economic links among Middle East countries.

Despite the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime in April, Iraq's ties with Israel remain an extremely sensitive subject for many Iraqis. Iraqi newspaper articles frequently claim that Jews are buying up property in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities.

For their part, Israeli leaders have spoken enthusiastically about opening commercial relations with Iraq. On Monday, Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed orders allowing Israeli companies to trade with Iraq.

The orders removed Iraq from the list of enemy nations with which Israeli businesses are forbidden to trade.

Israeli companies are interested in doing business with Iraq but, given the intense anti-Israel sentiment prevailing in the country, are seeking joint ventures with Jordanian or U.S. partners.

In June, Netanyahu raised the possibility of reopening the oil pipeline linking Mosul in northern Iraq and the Israeli port of Haifa, closed when Israel was established in 1948.

Pachachi is not the first Iraqi leader to be linked to Israel since the fall of Saddam Hussein. In May Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper reported that Ahmad Chalabi, head of the anti-Saddam Iraq National Congress, visited Israel on several occasions during the 1980s, and that the Israeli intelligence community helped pave the way for his favorable reception among senior officials in Washington in the early 1990s.

that Iraq would likely make peace with Israel if it gives the Palestinians control over 95 percent of the West Bank and Gaza

80 years old and making threats. This goat should be cringing in a corner hoping he doesn't fall victim to a "tragic home accident". No wonder he chose to speak to Peres... a sympathetic boob who probably grew up forfeiting his lunch money to the school bully every day, just to keep the peace. Kofi and Arafat could literally slap a "kick me" sign on his back, and Peres would never catch on. What a pathetic loser.

Peres said Pachachi was responding to his suggestion that the creation of a new economic bloc linking Israel, Jordan, Iraq and the Palestinians made much more sense than the four threatening each other, as has often happened in the past.

Yeah, well around here it's called the beast map, and for good reason. Note that in its normal orientation, it's prostrating toward Mecca.

Revelation 9

7 The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. 8 They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. 9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. 10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. 11 And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
12 One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.

Crowns of gold, Sinai
Faces of men, Jordan
Hair of a woman, Lebanon
Lions teeth, Jordan
Breastplates of iron, Iraq
Wings, Iraq
Scorpion tails, Somalia, UAE
Turkey is the rider (Genesis 49:17 Ottoman Empire)

Middle East map

Revelation 15

1 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete.
2 And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. 3 They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying:...

Exodus 15

The Song of Moses

1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying:
"I will sing to the LORD,
For He has triumphed gloriously!
The horse and its rider
He has thrown into the sea!

They sing the song of Moses...

The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!

History repeats.

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