Three days after the slander attack against LaRouche in the leading Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, the adviser to the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, prominent political leader and PLO veteran Bassam Abu Sharif, wrote an op-ed arguing that LaRouche's analysis is the clue to the Bush Administration's confusion in the Middle East.

Abu Sharif, in his article titled "Ignoring Palestinian Aspirations Paves the Way for Destructive Explosions," thoroughly reviews a history of U.S. initiatives to ease the Israeli-Palestinian war situation during the Bush Administration. From Sen. George Mitchell Commission, to Gen. Anthony Zinni's Plan, to CIA Director George Tenet's Plan, all the way to the latest "Road Map Plan," he says, that at every point, the Bush Administration succumbed to Israel's rejection of these plans. Abu Sharif asks the big question, "What makes the Bush Administration so frail?"

Abu Sharif's article concludes: "The Palestinian people are subjected everyday to war crimes committed by the Israeli occupying forces. So, why doesn't the U.S. President order the dispatching of international peace-keeping forces or American military forces to protect the Palestinian people on one side and to provide security for the Israeli people on the other (which is Sharon's pretext to continue the crimes against the Palestinian people)?

"The explanation may lie in what former Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche has declared. But, even if LaRouche is not 100% correct, Bush, in order to serve the interests of the American people, has to search his own house thoroughly, so that the U.S. itself does not become a victim of his own actions. On this, LaRouche says: ‘The U.S. President is subject to a dangerous plot by the agents of Israel inside the White House. The plans to attack Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime were presented by the agents of Israel and were rejected by President Clinton in 1996. Those agents returned in order to put Bush in the same trap outlined by Israel in 1996.' This same team is involved in pulling President Bush into wrong situations in Palestine in particular, and the Middle East in general, for the service of Israel. I have already written about Elliott Abrams who was recently appointed by Bush as chairman of Middle East desk in the National Security Council. Abrams is the fanatic Zionist whose hands are stained with the blood of hundreds of Nicaraguans. However, the Israeli network working actively in sensitive positions inside the Bush Administration includes: Elliott Abrams (National Security Council), Richard Armitage (State Department), John Bolton (State Department), Doug Feith (Department of Defense), Fred Ikle (Defense Policy Board), Zalmay Khalilzad (White House), Peter Rodmann (Defense Department), Donald Rumsfeld (Secretary of Defense), Paul Wolfowitz (Department of Defense), David Wurmser (State Department), Dov Zakheim (Department of Defense), and Richard Perle.

"Once again, I say, to close the door of hope in the face of Palestinians, and submit to the Israeli demands will hurt the interests of the American people, in addition to being a historic injustice and a violation of all international laws and norms."

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