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Why do people fall for such obvious scams? Bush is really
mad at Sharon for his unilateral Gaza pullout because it could
hurt his re-election chances. So Sharon has to fly to Washington
to beg for his approval. Informant One - Peres was going to be the instrument of a withdrawal to the '48 lines and he was shuttling between the Washington Institute and the Vatican to sell the plan. It was basically what you've been reporting for years; Israel becomes indefensible, the foreign troops patrol the country, the Vatican gets Jerusalem. The whole package. Indyk was the American coordinator of the plan. The new name for it is the Roadmap. Informant Two - You have to ask who Indyk really is. How does
an Australian just show up in Washington one day, get hold of
a think tank, and then run Middle East policy for the country? One - A key player in Nimrod Novick. He was Peres's liaison to Indyk and after the Oslo Accord, was given a position at the Washington Institute. He's been keeping quiet since then, but he's the point man between Peres and Washington. He negotiated the fine points of the withdrawals and pullouts and the paperwork is stored at the Washington Institute. The plan called for Israel to pull out of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, piece by piece, all the while Israelis would be told that this would be the last withdrawal. That's the same system they used to get the PLO back. First, just Gaza and Jericho and if they don't behave, no more. Israelis would have to be convinced that their country was being compromised in the name of security to fall for this. It's a strong-arm extortion tactic. You get what you want by promising this is the last payment. But of course, the payments never stop. Two - In 1997, Rehavam Zeevi heard about the Peres-Indyk records stored at the Institute and tried to get copies. His contact within the Institute was a researcher there named Sheldon Stern. His son Jonathan works there as well today but we are told, was not part of the Zeevi operation. Stern explained that he had seen the records and told Zeevi what was in them. He told Zeevi he could get the records to him for $900,000. Zeevi agreed. But then Stern started getting cute. First he wanted $15,000 up front to bribe two guards at the Institute. Zeevi agreed. Then Stern upped the stakes again, asking for $35,000 in legal fees which the guards would need if questioned. ONE - Zeevi then figured out he was being taken for a ride
and returned to his original offer: $900,000 paid in full once
he had the documents. He wouldn't budge and the deal fell through.
We don't know if Stern was an honest broker or not, but there
is reason to believe that he was. Within two years, both Zeevi and Peres sat in the same
cabinet led by Ariel Sharon. There Zeevi became privy first hand
to Peres' continuation of his Vatican/Indyk program. In early
October, 2001, Zeevi threatened Sharon. If Peres did not stop
his secret diplomacy, he would publicly reveal what it involved.
Sharon acquiesced and had a letter drawn promising that he would
order Peres to cancel a planned meeting with Arafat in Greece.
A week before his murder, Zeevi displayed the letter at a party
caucus meeting.
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