"If I shut up the heavens and there is no rain; if I command the locusts to ravage the land; or if I let loose pestilence against My people, when My people, who bear My name, humble themselves, pray, and seek My favor and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear in My heavenly abode and forgive their sins and heal their land."2 Chronicles 7:13-14
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by Barry Camish
In March 1994, the newspaper Chadashot revealed a most remarkable secret of the Middle East "peace" process. A friend of Shimon Peres, the French intellectual Marek Halter, claimed in an interview that in May 1993, he delivered a letter from Peres to the pope. Within, Peres promised to internationalize Jerusalem, granting the UN political control of the Old City of Jerusalem, and the Vatican hegemony of the holy sites within. The UN would give the PLO a capital within its new territory and East Jerusalem would become a kind of free trade zone of world diplomacy. Halter's claim was backed by the Italian newspaper La Stampa, which added that Arafat was apprised of the agreement and it was included in the secret clauses of the "Declaration of Principles" signed in Washington in September 1993.
In March 1995, the Israeli radio station Arutz Sheva was leaked a cable from the Israeli Embassy in Rome to Peres's Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, confirming the hand over of Jerusalem to the Vatican. This cable was printed on the front page of the radical leftwing Israeli newspaper, Haaretz two days later. A scandal erupted and numerous rabbis who had invited Peres for Passover services cancelled their invitations in protest of his treachery. Peres reacted by claiming that the cable was real but that someone had whited out the word, "not;" the cable really said that Israel would "not" hand Jerusalem over to the holy pontiff.
Illustrating the sorry political state of Israel's rabbis, they accepted this cockamamie excuse and re-invited Peres to their tables. However, in the widely distributed minutes of a meeting with Clinton in 1997, Peres reiterated his diplomacy, ending with the words, "as I had previously promised the Holy See."
Peres's partner in crime, and the real founder of the Oslo Accord, Yossi Beilin, coordinated his PLO policy with the Vatican. Check the timing; at the same moment that he was finagling an accord with the PLO, he was negotiating an agreement for Vatican recognition of Israel. His deal with the pope became another brief scandal when politicians like Agudat Yisrael, head Avraham Shapira, and Jerusalem Deputy Mayor, Shmuel Meir were leaked hidden details of Beilin's accord which included, "the extra-territoriality of holy sites in Jerusalem to be transferred to Vatican control." Later, Shapira was neutralized by having $250 million is debts accrued by his crooked carpet factory forgiven, while Meir was permanently hushed when his car was crushed by a UN truck driven by a PLO driver. The driver, of course, was released forever after a brief questioning by Israel Police.
Now let us jump to the 1999. The current Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami is shuttling between King Carlos of Spain and the Vatican. That is where the action is for the Israeli government today, and when things get serious, the focus shifts to Paris where Chirac, Albright, and Arafat await him.
There is no question whatsoever that the Vatican wants Israel off the Temple Mount and that our leadership is accommodating their desire. What I have not been able to pinpoint is why. However, material sent to me appears to answer the question.
Allow me to preface a few comments before I carry on. The vast majority of my ongoing readers are not conspiratorial in their outlook. What attracted them to my e-mail list and books is that I solved the Rabin assassination to their satisfaction and that I am offering more likely explanations for Israel's suicide than they are getting from the mainstream media. It took five years for me to finally instill the fact that the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York is Israel's number one enemy, and despite pouring on the evidence time after time, there are still doubters who refuse to believe that any organization can have that much power. Every time I dig deep, I am accused of going too far, even of fantasizing imaginary foes.
So what am I going to do with the evidence sent to me accusing the "Society Of Jesus," whose members are known as Jesuits, of being the real power behind the CFR and of being Israel and Judaism's most vicious and successful enemy? My doubters are going to have a field day with this revelation but I am going ahead anyway. The weight of the evidence is beyond merely compelling.
I had known for some time that a former Jesuit priest, Malachi Martin had exposed his society's treachery at great length. Numerous correspondents insisted I could not understand Israel's dilemma without reading Martin's revelations. Still, one voice was not enough for me to risk unnecessary mockery. However, recently other voices have been added to Martin's and I have started paying attention. A composer, who I had greatly admired thirty years ago, Tupper Saussy released a book called Rulers of Evil, which expanded on the thesis of Jesuit control of the American political system and is receiving fine reviews. We have begun a correspondence and I will receive his book shortly.
In the meantime, allow me to expand on the book I have completed reading. It is called Vatican Assassins by Eric Jon Phelps. One may read excerpts by visiting "http://www.vaticanassassins.org." This was no ordinary reading experience; the manuscript I received spiral bound is 750 pages in length. The first 600 pages attempt, mostly successfully, to prove that the Jesuits were formed in reaction to the Protestant Reformation and their goal is to return the planet to the good old days when one pope held the monopoly on world religion. Utilizing any evil means available, their plan is to eliminate all the competition be they Jews, Muslims, or "Christians" who do not recognize the Vatican as their capital. It is their war on the Jews, which will most interest my readers, and from here on, we will concentrate on that one aspect of a most complicated history.
I will start with the book's [Vatican Assassins] claim that Jesuit control of Great Britain was the real force behind Zionism and the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in Israel. I have no problem with this thesis since the British, during and after the First World War, created the entire Middle East as it exists today. If the British created Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon etc., one can be very certain they created modern Israel as well.
The most disturbing charge is that, to populate the new Israel, the Jesuits stirred up the pogroms and Holocaust of Europe to drive Jews to their safe haven in the Middle East. On page 548 we read:
Hitler, now in power, patterned his SS after the Jesuit Order. He used Roman Catholic Bavarian Himmler with his Jesuit uncle to carry out the plan. Hitler declares, 'I have learnt most of all from the Jesuit Order. A good part of that organization I have transported direct to my own party. I will tell you a secret; I am founding an Order. In Himmler, I see our Ignatius de Loyola.'Walter Shellenberg, Chief of the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (SD) reveals, ''The SS had been organized by Himmler according to the principles of the Jesuit Order. The rules of service and spiritual exercises prescribed by Ignatius de Loyola constituted a model, which Hitler strove carefully to copy.'
Edmund Paris then asks this most penetrating question concerning Hitler, ''Was it not his uncle, the Jesuit father, who had been promoted to a high-ranking officer of the SS? And was not the latter the very eye and arm of Halke von Ledochowski, General of the Order'? Who then was sending so many million deportees to death? Was it Heinrich Himmler or his uncle, the Jesuit canon?"
The book details the betrayal of Israel's leadership during the Holocaust, recalling that Rudolph Kastner:
...Then one of Israel's most honored leaders, was a traitor who had cooperated with the Nazi leaders of Germany including Adolph Eichmann to deport Jews from Hungary.
I do not dispute this claim, and anyone who does should read Perfidy by Ben Hecht or The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black. It is the conclusion drawn from this treason, on page 584, which is far more troublesome:
Ah, dear truth seeker, Zionist Israel is a creation of the Jesuit Order. Its purpose is to secure Jerusalem for the Jesuits "infallible" Pope, that he may receive worldwide worship from Solomon's rebuilt Temple. If the Masonic Zionists betrayed their own Jewish race into Pious XII's concentration camps overseen by the Jesuit Order, would they not betray the nation of Israel by giving Jerusalem to the Pope in preparation for the rebuilding of Solomon's Temple?...Therefore we are living under the preeminence of a Gentile Jesuit conspiracy. It employs notorious Masonic Jews and Gentiles as their agents. This furthers the deception of an international Jewish conspiracy oppressing the nations. Using this lie, the Jesuit General in creating global, anti-Jewish fury again. This fury will culminate in the last mad attempt to invade Israel and destroy the physical descendants of Jacob.
And who is leading the invasion? We learn that Bill Clinton was the student [body] president of the Jesuit's Georgetown University and, for a time, expressed the desire of becoming a Jesuit priest. In those days, Clinton was sent to England on a Rhodes scholarship, with all that that implies, and at an anti-American demonstration met Jesuit Friar Richard McSorely, who later headed Georgetown's Center For Peace Studies. On page 672, we get a haunting hint at Clinton's later role in Israel's destruction, as well as those of Norway and France:
McSorley then went to France and Scandinavia to meet peace people. Stepping off the train right behind him in Oslo, Norway was Bill Clinton.
And if a Clinton Democrat fails to ignite the flames, that will engulf Israel, the Jesuits:
"...will use the Republican Party to bring a Jesuit-controlled, Jew-hating fascist dictator to power, 'For the greater glory of the god who sits in St. Peter's chair.'"That's Eric Jon Phelps explanation why Israel's political leaders, especially those of the Labor Party, are running between, Chirac, King Carlos and the Vatican to secure a "peace" treaty with the PLO. I can only advise my readers not to dismiss the possibility that he got it right.
On April 14, 1998, 47 year old Alisdair Sinclair was stopped by customs officials at Ben Gurion Airport on his way out of the country after a six-day stay. They found 9000 Deutsche marks in a false bottom of his handbag and he was arrested without charge. The police thought the false bottom suggested something illegal, though hiding a large amount of money is a legitimate means of thwarting theft.
At the airport police station, Sinclair was found strangling on his shoelaces. He was rushed to hospital and pronounced dead. From there, his body was transferred to the Abu Kabir Institute For Forensic Medicine and straight into the paws of Dr. Yehuda Hiss, who conducted an autopsy, which concluded that Sinclair, had killed himself.
The Sinclair family started investigating Alisdair's recent life and none of his friends thought him remotely suicidal. Nor did they understand why he was arrested for carrying perfectly legal currency in the first place. ...Enter the British government. Tel Aviv embassy official Suad Andraus was furious, stating, "People do not just die in lockup." The British authorities demand that Dr. Hiss explain what he did with the heart and then return it immediately.
Hiss explained that as a drug smuggling suspect, the heart would have shown "signs of long-term drug abuse." Fine, so why did not he return the heart with the rest of the body? ...Finally he did return it.
And now a most unexpected motive for the whole affair. It was published in the Jerusalem Report, a staid, establishment newsmagazine that is used as a fount of disinformation on behalf of the country's Labor Party. This peculiar passage may be of interest to those questioning Britain's early and deep interest in Zionism, their reverence for Chaim Weizmann, the Balfour Declaration, The British-Israel Society, the Round Table policies of Cecil Rhodes and Lord Milner and the like.
According to Alisdair's brother James, family lore has it that the Sinclairs are descended from the crusading Knights Templars, who journeyed to Jerusalem in the mid-1300s in search of holy artifacts from Herod's Temple to bring back to Scottish hero Robert Bruce. Alisdair himself, says James, was particularly proud of his middle name, Roslyn, the name of a chapel in Scotland whose floor plan is said to be based on Herod's Temple. James mentions these details in attempting to reconstruct his brother's motive for travelling to Israel.
The Templars were a poor chivalric order, which disdained materialism until their arrival in Jerusalem in the early twelfth century on a papal crusade. Eleven knights dug under the ruins of Solomon's Temple for nine years and hit paydirt. Under the Temple Mount the Templars discovered a network of tunnels where the Jewish priests hid their treasures from the marauding Romans in 70 AD. The knights not only uncovered some of the gold and silver described in the Copper Scroll, of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but the records of the first Jerusalem church of Christianity. This according to Knight and Lomas is precisely what they went digging for.The first Bishop of the Jerusalem Church was Jesus' brother James. He was aided by Jesus' other siblings, five brothers and two sisters. After the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and dispersed the Jews, James and his family fled to France, a fact confirmed by the best selling book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. These descendants of the holy Davidic line had the wherewithal to gain wealth throughout Europe and buy vast properties. Over time, they constituted a good chunk of European royalty.
While professing whatever religion the state demanded first worshiping the pantheon of Roman Gods and later papal Christianity, they secretly practiced the Christianity of the early Jerusalem church. These descendants of the priestly line, now called themselves Rex Deus, and passed on their traditions throughout the royal courts of Europe where they ruled. The Rex Deus founded the original Celt church, and St. Patrick of Ireland was a Jew. Other Rex Deus included the Habsburgs, the Stuarts of Scotland, and today's King Juan Carlos of Spain, who includes among his titles, Protector of the Holy Places of Jerusalem.
The Templars returned from their Crusade with vast wealth uncovered under the Temple Mount and initiated a monumental building program in Europe, which ultimately resulted in the construction of over 250 castles and Gothic churches. They now challenged the papacy for political control of Europe, yet the usually jealous Vatican allowed their power to grow unabated. Knight and Lomas insist this is because the Templars had a huge advantage over Rome.
According to their version of events, the Knights uncovered the original records of the Jerusalem Church and they prove that Jesus was a prophet but not a deity. His goal was to organize armed resistance to the Roman tyrants and re-establish an independent Jewish nation. (Lest my Christian readers object, it is more than a little consolation knowing that Knight and Lomas are proud Freemasons and are promoting their own Masonic agenda. There is no obligation to take them theologically at their word.) In addition, the records proved that the Vatican was not practicing Christianity as its founders intended. For example, a pope with exclusive rights of divine interpretation was not part of G-d's plan. If the scrolls were made public, they would jeopardize Rome's legitimacy.
However, historically they are on solider ground because the rest of their tale is mostly provable fact. In the fourteenth century, the French king known as Philip the Fair coordinated a purge of the Templars in coordination with the Holy See. Their properties were seized and their leader, in fact the last Templar leader, Jacques de Molay was brutally tortured by crucifixion until he confessed to the sins of his Order. He survived the first round of torture and a linen cloth was placed over him to absorb his blood and keep him warm. This cloth became known as the Shroud of Turin and the authors' arguments for this claim are superbly grounded in fact.
A group of Templars led by the St. Clair clan escaped the French siege by ship and landed in Scotland, a safe port since it was ruled by the Rex Deus member, Robert the Bruce [whose] heart was transported to Jerusalem for burial.
An unpublished historian of the Templars, Daniel Leary notes:
The name Sinclair comes from the hermit St. Clare or St. Clere, who lived near the town that is now called St. Clair sur l'Epte, northwest of Paris, France. Sinclair's ancestors took their surname from their ancestor Rollo the Viking."...Rollo's descendants included the nine St. Clare knights who accompanied their cousin William the Conqueror (also a descendant of Rollo) to England in 1066.
"...The Sinclairs played a prominent role in the history of the British Isles and were particularly important in Scotland.
According to Knight and Lomas, [The Second Messiah] the French Templars brought with them the damning scrolls from under the Jerusalem Temple Mount and built a chapel in Rosslyn, near Edinburgh to house them. The chapel, built by William Sinclair (1415- 1482), which exists today, was built according to the specifications of the Herodian Temple and an exact duplicate of the Western Wall was constructed alongside it. To hide their now-banned Templar roots; the Knights formed a new organization, Freemasonry, whose rites were precisely those set down in the scrolls recovered from beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount.
However, other writers share a different version of events, insisting the Templars and the Vatican remained partners throughout their public trials. F. Tupper Saussy in his excellent book, Rulers of Evil writes:
On March 22, 1312, Clement V dissolved the Knights Templar with his decree Vox clamantis. But the dissolution proved a mere formality to further appease Philip (the Fair). More importantly, it permitted the Templars, in other manifestations to continue enriching the papacy. ...A subtle provision in Vox clamantis transferred most Templar estates to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. In Germany and Austria, the Templars became "Rosicrucians" and "Teutonic Knights." Six centuries later, as the "Teutonic Order," the Knights would provide the nucleus of Adolph Hitler's political support in Munich and Vienna.In his massive work Vatican Assassins, Eric Jon Phelps comes to practically the same conclusion. In his version of events, the Jesuit Order infiltrated Scottish Freemasonry in the sixteenth century and since then, the Templars have been doing the work of the true ruler of the Vatican, the Supreme General of the Jesuits who both Saussy and Phelps call, the Black Pope. Daniel Leary concurs on the Templar/Vatican alliance.
These 2nd sons of European gentry have had a long close relationship with Rome and still act as the Vatican's bankers and intelligence operatives. Plus, they're current membership includes a rouges gallery of modern intrigue, not the least of which being the father of the US president elect, former president George Bush Sr..."
We now jump to 1993 and a "peace" process has begun between Israel and the PLO. In March 1994, the newspaper Chadashot revealed a most remarkable secret of the Middle East "peace" process. A friend of Shimon Peres, the French intellectual Marek Halter, claimed in an interview that in May 1993, he delivered a letter from Peres to the pope. Within, Peres promised to internationalize Jerusalem, granting the UN political control of the Old City of Jerusalem, and the Vatican hegemony of the holy sites within. The UN would give the PLO a capital within its new territory and East Jerusalem would become a kind of free trade zone of world diplomacy. The Italian newspaper La Stampa backed halter's claim.
In March 1995, the Israeli radio station Arutz Sheva was leaked a cable from the Israeli Embassy in Rome to Peres's Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem confirming the hand over of Jerusalem to the Vatican. This cable was printed on the front page of the radical leftwing Israeli newspaper, Haaretz two days later. ...In the widely distributed minutes of a meeting with Clinton in 1997, Peres reiterated his diplomacy, ending with the words, "as I had previously promised the Holy See."
Peres's partner in crime, and the real founder of the Oslo Accord, Yossi Beilin, coordinated his PLO policy with the Vatican. Check the timing; at the same moment that he was finagling an accord with the PLO, he was negotiating an agreement for Vatican recognition of Israel. His deal with the pope became another brief scandal when politicians like Agudat Yisrael head Avraham Shapira and Jerusalem Deputy Mayor, Shmuel Meir were leaked hidden details of Beilin's accord which included, "the extra-territoriality of holy sites in Jerusalem to be transferred to Vatican control." Later, Shapira was neutralized by having $250 million is debts accrued by his crooked carpet factory forgiven, while Meir was permanently hushed when his car was crushed by a UN truck driven by a PLO driver. The driver, of course, was released forever after being briefly questioned by Israel Police.
By 2001, the current Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami was shuttling between King Carlos of Spain and the Vatican. That is where the action is for the Israeli government today, and when things get serious, the focus shifts to Paris where Chirac, the US Secretary of State, and Arafat await him.
There is no question whatsoever that the Vatican wants Israel off the Temple Mount and that the Israeli leadership is accommodating their desire. But the PLO has plans of its own. By the summer of 2000, they began digging under the Temple Mount in earnest. Originally, they claimed they were simply expanding a mosque under Solomon's Stables, beneath the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's walled Old City. However, the huge mounds of earth and artifacts from the Second Temple that were being dumped in nearby wadis betrayed a much more extensive plan.
On January 26, 2001, the Israeli government's television outlet, Channel One, broadcast a video clip secretly filmed under the Shrine of Omar, the 7th century Islamic building which may have been deliberately constructed over the Holy of Holies, the most sacred prayer room of the ancient Temple. The video revealed a new and massive tunnel aimed directly at the most sacred core of Solomon's and later, Herod's Temples.
The PLO are after not only the treasures buried beneath the Temple to deplete their morally and financially bankrupt regime of terror but must be looking for more scrolls that can be used to blackmail the Vatican and thus get their way in world diplomacy. This is why PM Barak is willing to cede the surface on the Temple Mount to the PLO but insists on keeping Israeli sovereignty below ground.
The Vatican is terrified that the Jews will uncover the truth under the Temple, whatever it may be. It is essential for them that Israel is removed from the Holy Mount. And they are not alone in this desire. Now we come full circle to Alisdair Sinclair's heart.
On Jan. 4, 2001, Colin Grant published a full front-page expose of the scandal in the Glasgow Sunday Post. He revealed that the Knights Templar, as descendents the Davidic line believe they have a right to reclaim the Temple Mount as their rightful heritage:
A spokesman for Militi Templi Scotia, the Scottish Knights Templar admitted to the Sunday Post, ''We are currently involved in an attempt to remove control of the holy sites from the Israeli government. We believe the United Nations should administer them working with the UN and NATO to achieve that goal."
A secret medieval battle over the Temple Mount is being conducted in Israel today and unless it can be stopped, this skirmish has the potential of dragging the whole planet into war.
Sharon: Israel ready for painful concessions for peace: Ariel Sharon shakes hands with his Turkish counterpart Bulent Ecevit in Ankara on Wednesday.Img.Com or http://www.img.com.tr/article.asp?docid=824
April 30 /01 Prime Minister Ecevit visits Spain. The Spanish King Juan Carlos also received Ecevit, during his visit short, in addition to his bilateral meeting with the Spanish Prime Minister.Noting that they evaluated the bilateral relations with their political, social, and cultural dimensions during their contacts in Spain, Ecevit said that they decided to activate the joint action plan signed earlier. Ecevit said that they focused on various cooperation methods to benefit from the investment opportunities in the two countries and to further improve economic and commercial relations.
***Spain has, at the least, a mediating role in Israeli-Turkish relations but a far greater one between Israel and her neighbors. Recall that after the Persian Gulf War, the Bush/Baker team forced Israel to make grand concessions at a conference held in Madrid. Well, the "peacemakers" of Israel and the US are finagling to arrange a repeat conference under Spanish auspices:"***
Haaretz Daily [The website is no longer active] or
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml;$sessionid$JXEJEZQAAC3OJLAUAUCSGWVMCQCQMI5G?itemNo=63033&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
*** Now look what happened within just two days.***
All roads not only lead to Rome but also to ...the Beilin plan. Source: CNN Fri Aug 10, 2001
Statement by U.S. President George W. Bush: Bush condemns Jerusalem suicide bombing. ...The United States remains committed to implementation in all its elements of the Mitchell Committee Report, which provides a path to return to peace negotiations based on United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242, 338 and the Madrid Conference. To get to Mitchell the parties need to resume effective security cooperation and work together to stop terrorism and violence.Source: Ha'aretz Sun Aug 12, 2001
Peres gets green light to talk to PA; Beilin plans ''second Madrid conference'' this October. Former justice minister Yossi Beilin, meanwhile, is embarking on a new diplomatic initiative of his own--convening a "second Madrid conference" this October, on the tenth anniversary of the 1991 conference that kicked off the peace process. Several European countries have expressed enthusiastic support for the idea, as has UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and even some U.S. State Department officials. Yesterday, Beilin went to Cairo to try to sell his plan to the Egyptians.
***Now look who immediately flies to Damascus after the Syrian president exchanges a few words with King Juan Carlos.***
PLO secretary arrives in Damascus Sunday. Today's Jerusalem Post article Arafat invited to Damascus.Arabic News or http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010806/2001080616.html
Bashar al-Assad on Saturday received a message from the Spanish King Juan Carlos.Arabic News or http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010806/2001080608.html
Mahmoud Abbas in Damascus, Syria-Palestine, Politics, 8/6/2001. The secretary of the PLO executive committee Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazin) arrived in Damascus on Sunday. In an arrival statement to the press, Abu Mazin said that his visit to Damascus falls in the course of consultation with the Syrian leadership on vision towards the future. He added " I will brief the Syrian leadership with the current developments in the occupied Arab territories."Jerusalem Post or http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/08/07/LatestNews/LatestNews.32038.html
09:35 Report: Assad invites Arafat to visit. Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has been officially invited to visit Syria, according to Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), Arafat's deputy, Israel Radio reports.
***So what are we told Juan Carlos said to Assad which sent the PLO's Nabil Shaat scurrying to Damascus? Then we ask, what did Juan Carlos REALLY tell Assad?***
Arabic News or http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010806/2001080601.html
A message to al-Assad from Spanish King - Syria-Spain, Politics 8/6/2001. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday received a message from the Spanish King Juan Carlos. The message was delivered to the foreign minister Farouk al-Shara during his meeting with the Spanish ambassador in Damascus Javier Navoro. Talks, during the meeting, dealt with bilateral relations between the two countries.There is still room for optimism, Palestinian Planning and International Cooperation Minister Nabil Shaath told Jerusalem Post Radio this afternoon.
***Now, let us look at how Shaat coordinated his Spanish orders with then Israeli Foreign Minister, and Juan Carlos' spy in the Knesset, Shlomo Ben Ami.***
Jerusalem Post or http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/08/13/News/News.10828.html
Arafat fails to get backing to declare state. Meanwhile, Acting Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, currently in Spain, said that if Arafat does go ahead and declare his state on September 13 it would likely cause "irreversible damage" to the peace process.Ben-Ami's comment came during a meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Pique in Barcelona, on the second leg of a five-day journey to Turkey, Spain, France, Italy, and the Vatican to counter Arafat's globetrotting efforts in search of international support.
Ben-Ami warned at a press conference yesterday that Israel might take its own unilateral measures to counteract the declaration of a state by the Palestinians. "When someone breaks the rules of the game, it is possible that the other part takes unilateral measures as well," he said.
Ben-Ami asked Pique to use his influence in Spain and in the European Union to get Arafat to display a more "pragmatic approach" on the negotiations. "You should warn Arafat about losing an historic opportunity that may not return," he said.
Pique, who met earlier in the day with PA Planning Minister Nabil Shaath, said he would work inside the European Union to ensure that it coordinates its position on a Palestinian state with the US.
At a press conference in Madrid yesterday after meeting Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief, Ben-Ami, a former ambassador to Spain, said he would like Spanish King Juan Carlos to play a mediating role with Arab countries in peace talks focusing on the future of Jerusalem. "I have asked Pique to see if it is possible for King Juan Carlos to use his good relationships with some Arab countries to make the parties move closer about Jerusalem," Ben-Ami said.
Ben-Ami said the two sides had an historic opportunity to reach peace, but he played down the prospects for a new summit with the Palestinians. He had raised the possibility in Barcelona of "a short, decisive" meeting before September 13. "Our peace strategy leads to the possibility that perhaps, some time in the month of September, possibly at the end of the month, we will be ready to go to a summit in which we would be able to make decisions and reach the end of the conflict," Ben-Ami said.
***If you think Juan Carlos is only interested in Israel and its neighbors, look at how he spreads his talons throughout the Middle East.***
June 29, 2001, King Juan Carlos receives Prince Salman at the outset of his official visit to Spain.
The Spanish monarch: Saudi Arabia and Spain can play a role in contributing to reaching a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region.Emir of Riyadh Region: The nature of our links is the product of the two peoples' moral and the cultural and historical heritage.
King Juan Carlos I of Spain announced that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Spain could play a growing role to contribute to reaching a just, comprehensive and lasting peace for which all peoples in the region are longing. ''The intimate friendship which binds our two families is not but a true picture that reflects the distinguished relations which binds our two peoples and countries, and which draw its roots from history.''
Prince Salman Ibn Abdul Aziz, Emir of Riyadh Region, had arrived in Madrid for several days official visit. [He] was received at the airport by Crown Prince of Spain Don Felipe De Borbon, who is also the Prince of Asturias, Fernando De Almansa, Chief of the Royal Palace, along with the Director of Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the military corps in Madrid.
In an address during a banquet, King Juan Carlos of Spain has affirmed that the current visit of Prince Salman Ibn Abdul Aziz, Emir of Riyadh Region to Spain, will strengthen bilateral relations and enhance cooperation in various fields between the two countries. King Juan Carlos said ''the visit of the Emir of Riyadh Region to Spain, reflects the existing strong ties between the two countries.''
The King of Spain asked Prince Salman to convey his best wishes and greetings to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Fahd Ibn Abdul Aziz. ''Spanish companies and investors are following up with great interest the opportunities that are available in Saudi Arabia,'' King Juan Carlos said.
With regard to the peace process in the Middle East region, King Juan Carlos said that "Spain is following with great care and interest the difficult stage which the peace process is witnessing, but he added that it seems there is a little hope following eight months of violence. ''The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Spain can play a larger role in contributing to reaching a just, comprehensive and lasting peace for which all peoples in the region are longing,'' King Juan Carlos said.
King Juan Carlos also said that "after six months Spain will preside [over] the EU and there will be a lot of fields in which opportunities for enhancing and intensifying cooperation and relations would be opened."
***And while the retired king makes his promises to Syria, the PLO, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia to take care of Israel the way they'd like to see it done, he pulls the blinders over the Jews.***
All the attendants at the reception stated how interesting and important it was for them that the King had received them and listened to their message and concerns.
Both the King statements and the Cardinal words, were symbolic signs of the desire to reconcile with the Jewish people and further that explain the reasons ECJC decided to hold the second GA in Spain.
http://www.ecjc.org/
The Delegation to the King Juan Carlos. The King of Spain receives top representatives from the Second Assembly of European Jewish Communities. Another important issue for his Majesty is Israel's situation, he hoped that peace will soon reach that area.
***And That is How Things Really Work in the Middle East.***
