Foreign Minister Shimon Peres angrily dismissed as “a mess of imagination and nonsense” allegations that he and the Labor Party he heads were offered bribes by an American middleman for guarantees that Israel would not attack a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline.
The project, which was to run through Jordan to the Red Sea, never materialized.
Peres was exasperated when Likud Knesset member Yehoshua Matza questioned him in the Knesset Wednesday about the allegations, which he has vigorously denied on several previous occasions. “You’d have to be very impertinent to ask me to deny such a thing,” Peres told Matza.
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