The pot’bellied PM of Israel is intent on heaping further shame on his country, furthermore embarassing the US with their unstinting support for this homicidal moron:
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November 01, 2002
Sharon appoints hawk as Defence Minister
From Stephen Farrell in Jerusalem
ISRAEL’S former top general, Shaul Mofaz, became the country’s Defence Minister yesterday as Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister, wooed the far Right to keep his hold on power.
Senior government sources confirmed that the hawkish Mr Mofaz had accepted the post relinquished by Binyamin Ben Eliezer when Labour quit the Government on Wednesday in protest at government spending on Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
But the future of Shimon Peres, the veteran Labour Foreign Minister, remained unclear amid speculation that he had rejected an offer to join the new Government as “special world envoy”.
Even as Mr Sharon’s aides haggled with parties on the far Right to secure the five MPs whom the Likud leader needs to control the Knesset, the Prime Minister insisted that he would rule with a “narrow coalition” rather than worsen the country’s economic and political crisis by dissolving his administration. “I plan to make every effort to establish an alternative Government,” Mr Sharon said. “I have no intention of initiating early elections.”
The leading candidate to provide the five votes Mr Sharon needs to secure a majority in the 120-seat Knesset ahead of a vote of confidence on Monday is the Yisrael Beitenu/National Union coalition, an ultra-right faction which advocates the “transfer” — forcible expulsion — of Palestinians.
The appointment of Mr Mofaz is controversial. Only this week British lawyers sent a 17-page dossier to the Director of Public Prosecutions, accusing him of war crimes against Palestinians killed in Jenin refugee camp in April.