BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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This, of course, was a lie. He was not debating his wife and
his son was out of danger.
How concerned should we be therefore that Silverstein
Properties bought the lease from MetLife for Chicago's Sears
Tower in March 2004?
We should be extremely concerned.
Following the attacks, Silverstein was awarded an insurance
payment of more than three and a half billion dollars to settle
his seven-week-old insurance policy[3]. In addition, the
Silverstein group sued the insurers liable for the World Trade
Center for another three and a half billion dollars, claiming
that by an obscure clause in their contract, the two planes
constituted two separate terrorist attacks[4]. In total,
Silverstein was awarded nearly $7.2 billion in insurance
money following the destruction of the Twin Towers[5].
No point losing, now is there?
We now get to Larry's politics. What do we discover? His first
customer for the new Building 7 is a Chinese revolutionary.
Larry may have owned the WTC inside, but the outside
concourse was Israeli. And who did Larry support in the last
Israeli election but the king of chopping Israel to nothing, the
great, now-headless, Ariel Sharon.
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He is, by most accounts, an unusual businessman,
especially in China. He stresses vision and serving his
country as much as the bottom line. He said his real
interests were history, Marx, Hegel and Mao. Then there are
the pictures of Che Guevara and Yasser Arafat in his office.
He explained that they were both revolutionaries,
emphasizing that he admired Mr. Arafat's discipline and