Sharon Denies Israel Is Spying in United States

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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is denying allegations that a Pentagon worker stole secrets for Israel, according to a newspaper interview carrying his first public comments on the dispute.
"Israel does not spy in the United States. I say this in the most emphatic way possible," Sharon was quoted as saying by the Jerusalem Post, which released excerpts of the interview early Wednesday. The full interview is to be published Friday.

On Aug. 28, news reports from Washington said that a Pentagon official funneled classified information about Iran to Israel through AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby. Israel and AIPAC denied the allegations. In another section of the interview, Sharon indicated that the United States would allow Israel to continue construction in West Bank Jewish settlements within the main blocs Israel plans to keep, even in a peace settlement.

"I don't know if there is a quiet agreement," he said, "but if you ask me if it will be possible to build in the large blocs, I would say yes," he said.

Until recently, the United States denounced all the settlements as "obstacles to peace." After President Bush said earlier this year that Israel would not have to give up all of the West Bank in a peace deal because of the presence of large settlements, U.S. officials said they would not object to construction inside those settlements.
Palestinians demand that Israel pull out of all of the West Bank and Gaza and dismantle the settlements. Sharon intends to evacuate all 21 Gaza settlements next year and withdraw from the territory, while strengthening Israel's hold on parts of the West Bank. The interview is one of a series Sharon is giving to local news media before the Jewish New Year in mid-September.


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[aquart]

1. Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.

[shadu]

2. Sharon is a dumpster

Nothing but garbage

[Must_B_Free]

11. ehhh... you're just Anti-Sharonic...

[comradebillyboy]

3. well that settles it for me. case closed

nt

[Junkdrawer]

4. Spying is such a harsh word. Managing is more accurate...

As in "Bill Gates manages Microsoft"...

[Malva Zebrina]

5. Course they are not spying--they are "sharing"

Spying only goes on against an enemy.

[BeHereNow]

6. Methinks he doth protest too much.

Those with nothing to hide, hide nothing.
Those with nothing to explain, explain nothing.
Sharon should take a lesson from Cheney...
when caught, say nothing.
BHN

[CHIMO]

7. Reading Between The Lines

He/she did not steal them for Israel.
Israel is not spying.

So just what is going on?
Some people doing things on their own?

[Leilani]

8. Whew, what a relief!

I can relax now.

[Jacobin]

9. Are we to believe that he would admit it?

I don't even understand why such denials make the news. Nevermind, I do understand. Its so the neo-cons cans say: "See, we didn't do anything! Sharon says you are lying so there!"

[LynnTheDem]

10. And we're to take the word

of a man who was convicted of terrorist deaths by his own government?

Then again, look what we have in the White House right now.

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[LynnTheDem]

13. Is it ever worth arguing

with a rightwingnut?