- CAIRO (IslamOnline.net) --
A famed Israeli actor threatened Saturday, May 15, to assassinate Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, blaming him for the killing of his sergeant
son and four other soldiers last week in the southern Gaza Strip city of
Rafah.
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- "I hold the prime minister responsible for the killing
of my son and not the Palestinians," Shlomo Vishinski was quoted as
saying by the Israeli public radio.
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- Lior Vishinski and four soldiers were killed Thursday,
May13 , when Palestinian resistance fighters blew up a second Israeli armored
vehicle in less than 48 hours.
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- Israeli warplanes responded with a sweeping air raid
, killing at least 16 Palestinians.
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- Vishinski said he phoned a journalist in the mass-circulation
Maariv daily shortly after he knew the heart-breaking news and told him
about his intentions to kill Sharon.
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- He said an Israeli special force stormed his house and
arrested him the same night only to be released later.
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- The actor has also urged the Israeli government to allow
him to burry his son in front of the headquarters of the governing Likud
party which he held accountable for the loss of his son.
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- His request was spurned.
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- "Now, I won't pay income tax," he said. "I
won't send my money to the Likud party's central committee, which decides
what happens here, instead of the government which is supposed to decide."
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- Massive Protest
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- Vishinski said he wants now to launch a massive protest
campaign at the policies of Sharon and the Likud.
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- "My son is the victim of those Likud members, who
refused to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. I donít want my son to
be killed for nothing," he added.
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- Sharon suffered on May 2 the most serious setback since
assuming power in 2001 , when his Likud party overwhelmingly rejected
his disengagement plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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- The poll results showed that a total of59 . 5percent
of the193 , 000Likud members who cast their votes rejected the scheme.
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- The centerpiece of his U.S.-backed plan is the removal
of all existing21 Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip.
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- Currently some8 , 000Jewish settlers live in the Strip,
alongside1 . 5million Palestinians.
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- "We donít need Gaza and should pull out our
troops of it," said Vishinski. "I hope that my sonís killing
would serve as a launching pad for the withdrawal".
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- Vishinski also took part Saturday night in a mass rally
that brought more than 100 , 000Israelis, calling for a Gaza pullout after
the killing of11 Israelis soldiers last week.
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- Packing Tel Aviv's main square, they chanted anti-occupation
slogans and said the Strip has become a quagmire like Lebanon before troops
moved out in 2000 amid mounting casualties.
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