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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:29:00 -0500
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DISC - Who was Moses?
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) IDF Spokesperson: Summary of Events from Today in the
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:35:20 -0500
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Subject: IDF Spokesperson: Summary
of Events from Today in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip (until 19:30 5 December 2000
IDF Spokesperson: Summary of Events from Today in the West Bank and
Gaza
Strip (until 19:30 5 December 2000
5 December 2000
The West Bank
An explosive charge was detonated on the Jericho bypass road, there were
neither casualties nor damage. There was shots directed at an Israeli
vehicle close to the settlement of Alon Moreh and towards two Israeli cars
near to Kfar Otzrin and the Nablus bypass. In the two incidents there were
neither casualties nor damage.
Fire was directed towards a Border Police force in the Jewish area in Hebron
and
on the Shalala Road, in the city. In both incidents, soldiers returned fire
towards the sources of the shooting.
The violent disturbances were in the following spots: Ayosh Junction, the
Kalandiah refugee camp south of Ramallah and close to Kfar El Hadar in the
area of Bethlehem. IDF forces responded with crowd dispersal methods.
In recent hours there was fire directed toward the Jerusalem neighborhood of
Gilo, Givat Hadagan and the Sdemah Camp.
The Gaza Strip
During the day a crowd of children threw stones and burned tires at the
southern DCO. An additional crowding took place close to the Karni crossing.
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Ha'aretz: Husseini: Palestinians waging war of indep
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:40:58 -0500
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Subject: Ha'aretz: Husseini: Palestinians
waging war of independence -
someday we will decide if Israelis get a state
Ha'aretz: Husseini: Palestinians waging war of independence - someday we
will decide if Israelis get a state
Ha'aretz Services, 6 December 2000
Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem Faisal Husseini has said the Palestinians
are
waging a war of independence that will end only when the last Israeli settler
leaves the territories, and that when Palestinians become a majority in the
Holy
Land, they will decide whether to allow the Jews to have a state, Israel Radio
reported Wednesday.
It quoted Husseini as saying that the clashes in the territories are not a
another intifada, or uprising, but a war of independence that will end only
when
the last Israeli leaves land captured in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Husseini also said that in another few dozen years the Palestinians will
constitute a majority in the area, and that it will be they who will decide
whether to grant Israelis a state, if Israel continues with its present
policies.
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Subject: [bprlist] Breaking News-Israel 1,2,3 (12/6/00)
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 08:40:59 -0500
BreakingNews-Israel
1. Family members of Israeli diplomats in Jordan returning home=09
2. IDF to redeploy troops positions on Har Dov=09
3. New Jerusalem District Police commander=09
4. Eight terror suspects apprehended in Ramallah area=09
1. Family members of Israeli diplomats in Jordan returning home
(BNI-DEC.6) Following the Tuesday night assassination attempt against a
member of the Israeli diplomatic team in Amman, the second shooting in two
weeks, the decision was made to recall the family members of the
diplomatic personnel to Israel.
The family members of diplomatic personnel in Amman and Cairo were
recalled at the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada at the beginning of October
and were since permitted to return. At this time, only the families of
personnel in Amman will return to Israel.
Shlomi Ratzabi, who was shot in his leg on Tuesday and sustained a
fracture, was treated in an Amman hospital and will be flown home to
Israel on Wednesday for continued medical care.
++++
2. IDF to redeploy troops positions on Har Dov
(BNI-DEC.6) Following this week=92s most recent infiltration into northern
Israel by a Syrian citizen, unspecified troops redeployments will be
implemented in the northern Har Dov area. The Syrian citizen entered the
area known as Sheeba Farm, a location where the electronic border fence is
still under construction following Israel=92s May unilateral withdrawal fro
m
southern Lebanon.
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3. New Jerusalem District Police commander
(BNI-DEC.6) Commander Mickey Levy assumed the command over the
Jerusalem
District of the Israel Police on Tuesday, replacing outgoing commander
Yair Yitzhaki, who is retiring from the service.
++++
4. Eight terror suspects apprehended in Ramallah area
(BNI-DEC.6) Members of the Duchifat unit apprehended eight terror suspects
from an Arab village in the Ramallah District who are suspected of having
participated in and planning terror attacks. In their possessions were a
large quantity of weapons and explosives. They were apprehended in an area
under total Israeli control, with the village being situated on the Alon
road, the site of many shooting attacks against Israeli targets over past
weeks.
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1. Gaza residents continue protests against road opening
2. Israeli Embassy employee transferred from Amman to Jerusalem hospital=09
3. Hebron residents ignored by PM/DM=09
4. US to lower tone of travel advisory to Israel=09
1. Gaza residents continue protests against road opening
(BNI-DEC.6) Four Jewish residents of Gaza were arrested by Israel Police
on Wednesday morning as they demonstrated against the reopening of the
Khan Yunis/Gaza road, permitting Arab vehicular traffic in the area. At a
demonstration earlier in the week, over thirty persons were arrested.
Jewish residents of the area vow to continue their protests in light of
what they are calling the perilous situation that exists as a result of
the road being reopened to Arab motorists.
The road was closed two weeks ago by the IDF following a bombing attack
against a Kfar Darom schoolbus which left to community residents dead and
several seriously injured, including children.
++++
2. Israeli Embassy employee transferred from Amman to Jerusalem hospital
(BNI-DEC.6) Shlomi Ratzabi, a member of the Israel diplomatic staff in
Jordan, who was shot in an attempted assassination attack in Jordan on
Tuesday, was flown to Israel and has been admitted to Hadassah Hospital in
Ein Kerem, Jerusalem.
He was shot in the leg and his condition is described as not being
serious.
++++
3. Hebron residents ignored by PM/DM
(BNI-DEC.6) Residents of Hebron=92s Jewish community expressed anger and
disappointment over the fact that despite his tour of areas in Yesha
earlier in the week, Prime Minister/Defense Minister Ehud Barak did not
see fitting to meet with community leaders when he visited Hebron.
Barak was escorted by senior military and security establishment
commanders who briefed the former IDF Chief of Staff on the current
situation in Yesha areas.
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4. US to lower tone of travel advisory to Israel
(BNI-DEC.6) US officials who are visiting Israel have indicated a
willingness to comply with Israeli requests that the US Department of
State tone down its travel advisory to Israel which has resulted in an
over 75 percent decline in tourists from North America over past weeks.
According to the Israel Radio report, the request was made by members of
the Israel Foreign Ministry, who explained the US travel advisory has
brought an end to the tourism industry from the US and the current
situation did not require such a stern warning as the one issued by the
Department of State.
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1. Shots fired at IDF tractor near Netzarim=09
2. IDF soldier discharged from Hadassah Hospital=09
3. World Bank to give additional funds to the PA=09
4. Shooting and stone-throwing attacks=09
1. Shots fired at IDF tractor near Netzarim
(BNI-DEC.6 -2:00pm) Shots were fired a short time ago at an IDF tractor
crew operating near Netzarim in Gaza. There were no injuries. Soldiers
returned fire.
++++
2. IDF soldier discharged from Hadassah Hospital
(BNI-DEC.6) IDF soldier Ben Atiya, who was injured in a stabbing attack at
Aram Junction in northern Jerusalem earlier in the week, was discharged
from Hadassah Hospital on Wednesday afternoon.
++++
3. World Bank to give additional funds to the PA
(BNI-DEC.6) The World Bank on Wednesday announced it plans to give 12
million euro dollars to the PLO Authority as a humanitarian effort towards
alleviating suffering caused by Israeli economic sanctions. Bank officials
stated the decision was made in light of Israel=92s closure that has
eliminated the possibility of working for many PA residents who earn their
livelihood inside =93Israel proper=94.
++++
4. Shooting and stone-throwing attacks
(BNI-DEC.6) Stone-throwing and shooting attacks were reported from the
school in the Arab village of Luban el-Sharqiya late Wednesday morning and
early afternoon. No reports of injuries. The village is located in
Samaria, near the Gush Shilo community of Eli.
Stone-throwing attacks were also reported during the early afternoon hours
from the village of Sinjel, south of the Gush Shilo community of Shilo. No
injuries.
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Subject: [bprlist] Russian Intellectuals Protest Return of Soviet Anthem
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Date: 6 Dec 00 10:21:59 EST
Russian Intellectuals Protest Return of Soviet Anthem
http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=227169
Moscow, Dec 5, 2000 -- (BBC Monitoring) Text of report in English by Russian
news agency Interfax.
Russian cultural personalities have appealed to President Vladimir Putin
through the newspaper `Izvestiya' to prevent the approval of the music of the
Soviet anthem as the new Russian anthem.
The signatories include writers Boris Vasilyev, Aleksandr Volodin, Aleksandr
Kushner, Boris Strugatskiy and Mikhail Chulakiy, historians Aleksandr
Panchenko and Marietta Chudakova, film-makers Gleb Panfilov, Andrey Smirnov
and Valeriy Todorovskiy, actors Galina Volchek, Kirill Lavrov, Yevgeniy
Mironov and Valentin Gaft, composers Andrey Petrov, Rodion Shchedrin and Yuriy
Saulskiy, ballet stars Yekaterina Maksimova, Vladimir Vasilyev and Maya
Plisetskaya, conductor Gennadiy Rozhdestvensky and others.
They all believe that the music "is one of the most striking symbols of the
bygone epoch and no new lyrics will be able to erase the words attached to it
that forever glorify Lenin and Stalin".
"It is dangerous to revive ghosts," they warn.
"The debate on the anthem has already split a nation in which the process of
reconciliation and consolidation had begun," the signatories note, adding that
they "will be unable to rise to their feet when the anthem is played."
In their opinion, the Patriotic Song by Mikhail Glinka has not just become the
anthem of the new Russia, but a symbol of the revival of a connection between
times, they said. "But those who long for the bygone epoch and dream of
avenging the decade of Russia's renewal need an emblem of revenge - and that
is the essence of the undertaking," their letter says.
"The head of state should realize that millions of countrymen (including those
who voted for him) will never respect an anthem trampling on their convictions
and insulting the memory of the victims of Soviet political reprisals," the
cultural figures insist.
"For the very reason that we have memory, we are convinced that all attempts
to seamlessly unite the history of Russia with the history of the USSR will
fail. The seams are there and they are still bleeding," the appeal says.
Source: Interfax news agency, Moscow, in English 0726 GMT 5 Dec 00
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Subject: [bprlist] ATLAS ROCKET LAUNCHES CLASSIFIED CARGO
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Date: 6 Dec 00 10:22:50 EST
NEWSALERT: Wednesday, December 6, 2000 @ 0837 GMT
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ATLAS ROCKET LAUNCHES CLASSIFIED CARGO
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A satellite cargo hidden in a veil of secrecy was successfully
transported into space by a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket on
Tuesday evening during a widely watched launch from Florida's Cape
Canaveral. The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office payload is
believed to be a data relay spacecraft designed to beam spy satellite
imagery and intelligence information to Earth.
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REAL WORLD NEWS 12/06/2000
Visit Real World News online at http://www.realworldnews.net
ISRAEL PARTIES AGREE ON MAY 22 ELECTIONS
A breakthrough has been reached on coordinating a date for general
elections. According to the Likud parliamentary caucus chairman, MK
Reuven Rivlin, factions representing an absolute majority in the
Knesset have agreed to Tuesday, May 22, as Election Day. "This is a
joint proposal of the largest parties in the Knesset - One Israel
together with the Likud and also Shas. We are on our way," Rivlin
told The Jerusalem Post last night.
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/12/06/News/News.16879.html
U.S. WARNS RUSSIA ON IRAN ARMS PLAN
The US has gone on the offensive in its efforts to curb Russian arms
sales to Iran, with US Defence Secretary William Cohen meeting his
Russian counterpart in Brussels on Wednesday as a State Department
delegation heads to Moscow. Russia told the US at the end of November
that it was ending its five-year-old undertaking not to sell
conventional weapons to Iran. Russia's balance sheet stands to gain
from military sales to Iran, a Russian parliamentarian said on
Monday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1056000/1056
799.stm
U.S. WARNS EUROPE ON NATO
U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen warned Tuesday that NATO could
become a relic of the past if links to a proposed European Union
armed force were not right. Speaking at an annual meeting of NATO
defense ministers, Cohen said too many questions about the planned
rapid reaction force remained unanswered. The proposed 60,000-strong
force has been generally welcomed by NATO, but, analysts said, there
is worry among the Americans and others that France was pushing too
hard for the force to have a significant planning capacity of its
own, independent of NATO.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/12/5/213756.shtml
NAVY BOOSTS SECURITY IN MIDEAST
The Navy has approved a request from the 5th Fleet Commander in
Bahrain to send an undisclosed number of Navy and Coast Guard
personnel to bolster port security in the Arabian Gulf, possibly
paving the way for U.S. ships to resume port visits. U.S. Navy ships
in the Middle East all put to sea after the Oct. 12 bombing of the
U.S.S. Cole and have remained there for almost two months. Chief of
Naval Operations Adm. Vern Clark told reporters that force protection
is increasing but he would not specify what new measures being taken.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/12/5/214820.shtml
BRITISH OFFICES IN U.S. EVACUATED IN ANTHRAX SCARES
Security at British government offices in the United States has been
stepped up after packages were received containing a substance
initially believed to be contaminated with anthrax. Terrified staff
at government offices in New York and Chicago were evacuated when two
small parcels were received containing a white powder with a note
claiming the substance to be laced with the deadly virus.
http://thescotsman.co.uk/world.cfm?id=29872
MIDEAST WAR RUMBLINGS GROW
While international attention has been focused on violent clashes
between Israel and the Palestinians for more than two months, it
could be confrontations along Israel's northern border with Lebanon
that catapults the region into war. Repeated attacks by Hizballah on
Israel from an area known as Shaba Farms have heightened tensions
between Israel and the powers behind the Islamic militia - Lebanon
and Syria. Israel has threatened to strike hard at those who back
Hizballah, and analysts believe that Syrian interests or troops based
in Lebanon could be the target.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/12/5/221120.shtml
EXPECTATIONS MIXED AHEAD OF E.U. SUMMIT
Thirteen countries are knocking on the European Union's door, pushing
to get into the club they associate with Western-style prosperity.
But failure at this week's EU summit won't cause crisis among the
applicants: After years of being told to wait, most are braced for
further delay. Leaders seek a radical overhaul of the EU's decision-
making machinery in preparation for expansion into eastern Europe.
All 15 EU nations agree their institutions must be streamlined so
they don't get clogged when EU membership is swelled by up to a dozen
new members. http://www.foxnews.com/world/1206/i_ap_1206_3.sml
SECRET PLAN FOR E.U. `SUPERSTATE'
Germany and Italy delivered a serious blow to Tony Blair on the eve
of the Nice summit yesterday by calling for yet another round of
negotiations to achieve an even closer European Union. In a
confidential joint paper sent to France, which holds the EU's
rotating Presidency, Berlin and Rome said the summit should agree to
hold an inter-governmental conference (IGC) in 2004 "with a view to
the further development of European integration". It immediately
refuelled Eurosceptic claims that the EU is on the road to becoming
a 'superstate'. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,47203,00.html
COUPLE SUE TO PRAY AT HOME
A civil liberties law firm has filed suit against a Connecticut town
on behalf of two residents who alleged their religious rights were
infringed after the zoning board ordered them to stop holding prayer
services in their home. The American Center for Law and Justice began
legal proceedings Friday in a federal court in Hartford after New
Milford residents Mary and Robert Murphy contended their five-year
tradition of hosting Sunday prayer meetings was in jeopardy.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/12/5/185954.shtml
LEGAL DUO: SCHOOLS SHOULD STOP PUSHING ABSTINENCE
Opening a new front in the religion-in-schools war, two Cornell legal
scholars are advocating the removal of abstinence-based sex education
from public schools on the grounds that it violates the First
Amendment clause requiring separation of church of state.
Constitutional law professor Gary Simson and Cornell Law graduate
Erika Sussman say the government is promoting a religious agenda -
specifically one backed by fundamentalist Christians - when it allows
public schools to teach kids that forgoing sex before marriage is the
only way to go.
http://www.foxnews.com/national/120600/abstinence_donaldson.sml
HINDU LEADER: CHRISTIANS DO NOT CONSIDER WOMEN HUMAN
The chief of India's most powerful Hindu right-wing organisation
Tuesday alleged that Christians did not consier women to be human. K.
Sudarshan, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, made the attack
at a women's function here. "Christians did not even consider women
as human beings. Saint Peter had even stated that creation of women
was not there in God's original plan. It was an afterthought,"
Sudarshan said. "As woman was created out of the first man (Adam's)
rib, they were treated as something in between man and animal," the
RSS chief claimed.
http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/article.html?
s=asia/headl
ines/001206/asia/afp/Christians_do_not_consider_women_to_be_human__say
s_ Hindu_leader.html
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT IN ISRAEL
By and large, when it comes to the current undeclared war between
Israel and the Palestinians, it's the Palestinian side that gets all
the favorable press. The United Nations, in particular, is consumed
with the issue of Israeli violations of human rights against the
oppressed Palestinians. In its history, the U.N. has passed dozens of
anti-Israeli resolutions condemning Israel for this or for that, but
evidently can find no fault in anything done by Yasser Arafat and
company.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_lindsey/20001206_xchal_setting_re
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Subject: [bprlist] Mysterious Effect May Influence Spacecraft Trajectories
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:39:45 -0500
Mysterious Effect May Influence Spacecraft Trajectories
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
SPACE.com
Space probes using Earth to slingshot their way outward into
the solar system appear to have received an extra boost by a
mysterious force - perhaps an unknown component of gravity.
Scientists hope to confirm the unusual effect as the Stardust
spacecraft whips by Earth this coming January.
Analysis by radio scientists of the post-Earth flyby
trajectories of three spacecraft have shown each craft to have picked up
an unexpected increase in speed: The Galileo spacecraft in December 1990;
the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) probe in January 1998; and the
Saturn-bound Cassini spacecraft in August 1999.
The Galileo spacecraft slipped by Earth a second time in
December 1992. But the vehicle dipped too close to Earth making the
measurement of any "flyby effect" unusable.
Doin' the Doppler shift
"This problem has been with us for about 10 years, and we
haven't found a solution," said John Anderson, a senior research
scientist and member of the Stardust science team at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
"We're looking forward to the Stardust flyby. That would be
our fourth measurement of this anomalous effect," Anderson told
SPACE.com.
Using JPL's Deep Space Network of radio telescopes, the
velocity of Stardust is measured by analyzing its Doppler shift. In
this case, a change in frequency or wavelength of sound due to the
relative motion between the emitting source, Stardust's radio
transmitter, and ground receiving equipment.
Stardust is expected to show a bump up in velocity as it flies by,
Anderson said. "We can't find any source or any mechanism that would do
that," he said.
"Cassini, NEAR, Galileo...they all show it. If it follows the
pattern that we've seen in the other three, it should be clearly
measurable," Anderson said. "That's why we're so anxious to get the
Stardust data," he said.
X-band rated
The Stardust spacecraft will zoom past Earth on January 15,
2001, at the end of its first elongated orbit of the Sun, said Donald
Brownlee, Stardust's principal investigator of the University of
Washington, Seattle.
Launched in February 1999, Stardust is on a long-and-winding
road to comet Wild-2. In 2004 the probe will snag cometary material,
then return the samples to Earth in 2006.
Stardust is equipped with an x-band transponder (radio
transmitter/receiver), allowing radio scientists on Earth to precisely
track the spacecraft, Brownlee said.
As Stardust slips by Earth to attain a flight path change, it will
pass 6,000 kilometers (4,000 miles) above Africa, Brownlee said. There is
a prediction of where the spacecraft should be, one that takes into
account the flyby effect, he said.
"Those past spacecraft, after the flyby...they are leaving
with slightly more energy than expected. Each one had a consistent
anomaly. It's quite intriguing," Brownlee said.
"It is possible, I guess, it's some new factor that hasn't
been taken into account. But the most interesting possibility is it's a
previously undiscovered component of gravity," Brownlee said.
Head scratching science
Just what the effect might be remains a puzzle, Anderson said.
"It could be fundamental physics...it might not be. I view it as a
mysterious anomaly. To be speculative, it could be revealing something new
in physics," he said.
Anderson said he could not discount that some systematic
navigation error, yet to be identified, has been uncovered.
"Either way, it is important to pin it down, hopefully after
we get the Stardust flyby," Anderson said. Stardust radio data
collected during the January swingby could be fully analyzed by his
four-person team at month's end, or later in February, he said.
"If the force was with us, basically, this would be a
phenomenal discovery," Brownlee told SPACE.com.
What's the charge?
Anderson said colleagues have ventured guesses as to what
might explain the effect, if it is a true phenomenon in the first
place.
One possibility being aired, Anderson said, is that spacecraft
become charged as they whisk through the Earth's magnetic field. This
electromagnetic charge then interacts with the Earth's gravity, creating
the anomalous motion in the spacecraft as it cruises by Earth, he said.
Anderson also said the effect could be some outcome of string
theory prediction.
String theory is a supposition that space is imbued with
electromagnetic, weak and strong nuclear interactions, as well as
gravity forces, that form curled-up dimensions, in addition to the
observable dimensions of length, height, and width.
But putting such speculation aside, Anderson said, obtaining
matter-of-fact data in January is important.
"Assuming that we see it again on Stardust...we should be able to
start seeing a pattern to this," Anderson said. "Nobody has suggested that
we shouldn't pursue this. There might be something to this. It's very hard
to question our results. We just don't know what it is," he said.
S P A C E V I E W S
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2000 December 4
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Election-Year Diplomacy
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:39:45 -0500
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Subject: Election-Year Diplomacy
Special Dispatch - Israel
December 6, 2000
No. 161
Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI)
P.O. Box 7837, Washington, DC 20038-7837
Phone: (202) 955-9070
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[MEMRI holds copyrights on all translations. Materials may only be cited
with proper attribution.]
Election-Year Diplomacy
The Camp David summit ended with fingers of blame pointed at Yasser
Arafat who was accused by President Clinton of not reciprocating Ehud
Barak's far-reaching proposals. Barak told the Israeli public that he "has left
no stone unturned" in the quest for peace. Politicians and commentators in
the Israeli peace camp saw the Camp David failure in the same way. Lately
this attitude seems to be changing. The Failure of Camp David is being
blamed not on Arafat, who rejected Barak's proposals, but on Barak because
that he did not make a genuine effort to reach an agreement. On December
4, 2000, left-leaning Ha'aretz commentator Akiva Eldar articulated this new
position in an op-ed entitled "Election-year diplomacy." Following is Eldar's
article:
"Bill Clinton waited for [Justice Minister] Yossi Beilin in the office of National
Security Adviser Sandy Berger in Washington. The American President said
that he was prepared to devote the bulk of his last 50 days in the White
House to the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Clinton
stated that he was aware of the severity of the situation in the territories and
was deeply concerned that more war casualties would fill the vacuum
created by the stalemate in the Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations. He
suggested sending Berger to the Middle East and even proposed that he
himself embark on a series of shuttle trips between PM Barak and Arafat.
And what was the reaction of the prime minister who 'has left no stone
unturned in the quest for peace?' He asked Clinton to kindly stay home.
Barak prefers to use the services of Egypt, the very same Egypt that the
United States Congress is now trying to punish for recalling its ambassador
from Tel Aviv."
"The fact that Barak is turning his back on the U.S. president has deepened
fears among senior members of both the Israeli government and the country's
defense establishment that Barak has decided that Arafat is not a partner for
peace. These fears began as early as July, when the prime minister forced
the Camp David summit on the Palestinians and the Americans. Arafat sent
Barak messengers warning him that the high-level meeting would end in
failure and that it could even lead to the outbreak of violence. The military
intelligence branch of the IDF and other reliable sources presented the prime
minister with the assessment that his generous proposals would not satisfy
Arafat."
"Even the officials of the prime minister's office do not know whether to laugh
or to cry over the report of the latest 'proposal' that their boss has sent to
Arafat through the Israeli media. Even with a microscope it would be difficult
to identify the differences between Barak's 'partial final status agreement' and
the plan devised in 1998 by Ariel Sharon, then a member of Benjamin
Netanyahu's Likud cabinet: 'Territorial contiguity, which would give the
Palestinians free passage in the territories for a defined period of time; the
security zones would remain under Israeli control; the signing of a final
status agreement would be postponed indefinitely.' Even if there was the
slightest hope that the other side would be prepared to discuss a proposal
that is the carbon copy of the one it rejected two years and 250 deaths ago,
that hope was killed by making it public."
"It is safe to assume that Barak is aware of these dynamics. It is
difficult to imagine that the prime minister actually believed, for even one
second, that Arafat, by way of a newspaper report, would buy the same used
merchandise he had refused to buy from the Netanyahu government. This
initiative deserves the title of 'election-year diplomacy.' The initiative
unquestionably does not serve any of Israel's interests. Instead, it is merely
one more card in the house of cards that Barak is building for his left-wing
voters, to whom he will say: 'Have I not shown you that I have done everything
possible? I have tried everything in the book - a final status agreement, an
interim agreement, a multi-staged agreement. The problem is that Arafat
prefers war.'"
"The members of Israel's peace camp are starting to recover from the
delusion that Barak will really dismantle Jewish settlements along the road
to an Israeli withdrawal from the territories. Statistics that the Peace Now
movement will be publishing today indicate that the number of housing units
in the settlements [in Barak's time] has grown by more than 52 percent
since September 1993. Of the 17,190 construction starts during that period,
the Barak regime is responsible for 2,830. The movement was able to detect
in the new state budget various allocations totaling NIS 1.2 billion in the form
of special benefits for the settlers; that figure is only NIS 300 million shy of
what the last state budget of the Netanyahu government allocated for the
item entitled 'Jewish settlements.'"
"About two years ago, Beilin published a booklet on all the serious blunders
of the Netanyahu cabinet. He accused Bibi of having increased the number
of permits for construction in the settlements by approximately 50 percent
and defined the Netanyahu government as 'unequivocally, the government of
the settlers.' Even Beilin knows that Barak has not given the settlers any
reason to miss Bibi. Yet Beilin and his dovish colleagues in the government
were prepared to down an infinite quantity of bitter pills for the sake of peace.
On returning from his meeting with Clinton, Beilin said that immense courage
was required to reject the American president's extended hand."
"'Netanyahu,' Beilin wrote in the above booklet, 'has dragged the United
States, Israel's greatest and most important friend, into a situation where it
has no faith in Israel's intentions. Under Netanyahu, Israel has come to be
regarded as an obstacle to the furthering of American interests in the Middle
East.' If Bibi had told an American president to stay home, Beilin would have
demanded that the prime minister pack his bags and go home himself. Had
that happened, Beilin would have had every justification for making such a
demand."
For MEMRI's Washington Area Subscribers:
On Monday, December 11 at 7:45 PM, MEMRI's Director of Research, Aaron
Mannes, will be speaking at Tikvat Israel Congregation on The Middle East
Crises: Hazards, Opportunities, and the Power of Ideas.
Tikvat Israel Congregation is in Rockville MD at 2200 Baltimore Road. For
directions go to www.tikvatisrael.org or call MEMRI (202) 955-9070.
The Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent,
non-profit organization providing translations of the media of the Middle
East and original analysis on developments in the region. Copies of articles
and documents cited, as well as background information, are available upon
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Subject: [bprlist] Competition to create a millennium Jesus
From: Shophar_Sho_Good
Date: 6 Dec 00 12:59:58 EST
Jesus, in the eye of the creator
http://www.baltimoresun.com/content/news/story?section=news-maryland-sun&pagename=story&storyid=1150520206204
Exhibit: Artists from around the globe were inspired to depict a contemporary
Christ, creating a provocative traveling show.
By Mary Gail Hare
Sun Staff
Originally published Dec 5 2000
In "Jesus 2000," a traveling art exhibit, Christ is depicted as an
African-American woman with dreadlocks, as a smiling convict hours after his
execution for murder, as a television anchorman mouthing "I am the news," as a
rock 'n' roll star with a strong resemblance to one of the Bee Gees, and a
blindfolded figure holding infants from a throne over a fiery hell.
Those images and many others are on display in Marriottsville, the result of a
competition to create a millennium Jesus - or a depiction of what, in the
minds of artists, Jesus Christ might look like if he were alive today.
The contest and the exhibit, which has attracted thousands to galleries in New
York and Illinois, was organized by the National Catholic Reporter and judged
by Sister Wendy Beckett, a British art critic and nun. The exhibit and the
magazine were vilified when the pictures were first publicized, but during the
past year, the criticism has waned and many of the works have been sold for
tens of thousands of dollars. Now it has made its way across the country to
Bon Secours Spiritual Center in western Howard County, its final stop.
"We are a spirituality center, and this fits into our mission and vision,"
said Sister Carol Marisa, director of the Bon Secours center. "Spirituality is
not just what you see, but what you feel and experience. Art does that, and
this art appeals to a whole range of people not from any specific tradition."
The competition for Jesus 2000 drew nearly 1,700 entries to the publication
based in Kansas City, Mo. Entries were submitted from across the United
States, and from Germany, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia and Canada. "I am not
surprised that people all over the world responded to this invitation," Marisa
said.
The $2,000 first prize went to Janet McKenzie of Island Pond, Vt., for her
"Jesus of the People" - the name she gave to her painting of Jesus in
dreadlocks. Last weekend, nearly 250 people visited the show of about 35
paintings, drawings and collages hanging in the center's spacious community
room, which is illuminated by natural light.
McKenzie's painting, the exhibit's centerpiece, depicts Christ as an
African-American in dreadlocks that are tethered with a rawhide headband
resembling a crown of thorns. By using a young black woman as her model,
McKenzie gave her depiction a softly feminine look. The haloed figure,
standing against a warm pink background, clutches traditional priestly robes,
keeping one hand over the heart. Cherished symbols from Asian and Native
American culture surround Jesus.
"The essence of the work is simply that Jesus is all of us," said McKenzie,
52. "We should all be thinking about Jesus and how we envision him. He looks
at us and to us."
Initial reaction was "primarily negative," she said. She received thousands of
e-mail messages, letters and phone calls from people indignant that she had
strayed so far from the traditional image of Christ as a white man.
For a little while, she had the painting encased in Plexiglas, fearing
vandalism, but later decided she wanted "people to have access to the original
work."
Other ideas
Many other contestants followed similarly uncommon themes for their images.
Jesus is seen in the figures of two starving men sharing a bowl and in ritual
Jewish garb in a piecemeal collage composed of replica fragments of the Dead
Sea Scrolls. In one image, a strategically placed mirror, in the shape of a
cross, encourages the viewer to "see yourself."
McKenzie was criticized for "feminizing Jesus." Her choice of a female model -
whom she had used previously to depict Madonnas - was deliberate and
"absolutely right" for her vision of Jesus, she said.
"This was not a stretch, although I did masculinize her presence," she said.
"I wanted to celebrate in the image of Jesus two groups who are uncelebrated:
African-Americans and women. What better way than through this painting? She
is a beautiful mix of all of us.
"Over time, the response changed to something truly positive, with so many
requests now from people who want to see the painting," McKenzie said.
She has had many offers from prospective buyers, including actress Whoopi
Goldberg, but "I won't sell it until I know where it should be. I don't know
what its journey will be," she said, adding that she might tour with it
through the South.
About 15,000 people saw "Jesus 2000" in the two months that was at the
National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, Ill.
"It spans denominations and generations," said Jo Kathleen, public relations
director and art coordinator at the shrine. "It was certainly one of the most
informative and provocative exhibits we have ever had."
People often spent hours and returned for second and third visits, Kathleen
said. Many who were skeptical at first left with an understanding of what the
artists had done, she said.
"Jesus is shown through his humanity, his empathy, his compassion," she said.
"He is African-American, Caucasian and female."
Michael J. Farrell, former editor of National Catholic Reporter, created the
contest to mark the magazine's millennium issue.
"Everyone was talking about computer glitches and Y2K, when we were
calculating years from the birth of Christ," said Thomas W. Roberts, editor.
"There are so many images of Christ based on another era, we thought we would
see what that image is today."
'Astounding variety'
The staff wondered if such a spiritual issue would draw attention and soon
were inundated with slides: 1,678 entries from 1,004 artists in 19 countries.
"We had an astounding variety, an outpouring of contemporary Jesus figures in
all kinds of settings," Roberts said.
Bringing the exhibit to Maryland was not an easy or inexpensive task, Marisa
said. The center contacted each artist and arranged for transportation and
insurance, about $10,000 in expenses donated by benefactors of Bon Secours.
"I think this would go more places, if it were easier to acquire," Marisa
said.
McKenzie attended the opening last weekend, urging visitors to keep an open
mind to the messages of the exhibit.
"If you bring an openness to this showing, that is what you will feel in it
and take away from it," she said.
The free exhibit is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily through Jan. 8 at the
center, 1525 Marriottsville Road, about 1 1/2 miles north of Exit 83 on
Interstate 70. Information: 410-442-1320.
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Subject: [bprlist] Vigilante rule brings anarchy to Bethlehem
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:17:03 -0500
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Subject: Vigilante rule brings anarchy to Bethlehem
DECEMBER 06 2000
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,46950,00.html
Vigilante rule brings anarchy to Bethlehem
ANARCHY began to spread through the occupied territories yesterday
with the emergence of Jewish militia groups and armed Palestinian
gangs refusing to take orders from their central authorities.
Security sources on both sides said there was a danger that they would
be unable to control extremists after a series of attacks by
Palestinians, in defiance of orders from Yassir Arafat to stop the
fighting.
Settlers went on an armed rampage in which 30 people were wounded in
Husan, near Bethlehem. In the north of the West Bank at Kfar al Dik,
the Israeli Army was forced to declare the Palestinian village a
closed military area for hours when settlers rioted and brandished
their weapons.
Settlers tried to storm the village in protest at the wounding of
another settler by Palestinians from Kfar al Dik overnight. The army
joined in the reprisals by bulldozing 250 olive trees that it said had
been used as cover by Palestinian gunmen.
For the Israeli authorities, the Palestinians remain the main cause
for concern, but after warnings that there might be an attempt on his
life from Palestinians or Israeli fanatics, Shaul Mofaz, the Israeli
Chief of Staff, has taken delivery of a bullet-proof BMW.
Palestinian areas appear to be rapidly descending into chaos amid
high-level warnings that Bethlehem is likely to be a focus of trouble
in the weeks before Christmas.
=93Things are getting very dangerous. There are problems with armed
elements in Bethlehem which have been ordered to stop firing on Gilo
(a Jewish settlement forming the southern edge of Jerusalem). They
listen to what they are told by the authorities and then they just go
out and make things worse,=94 a Palestinian security source in Bethlehem
said.
It has been clear for some time that Mr Arafat=92s =93control=94 over the
al-Aqsa intifada does not extend to the radical Palestinian elements,
including the West Bank leaders of his own Fatah movement.
Jewish settlers have also begun to show open contempt for the army and
the rule of law on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, where 80 per
cent of the land is still under Israeli military occupation.
Yesterday settlers from the Gush Etzion area, a middle-class religious
settlement, formed a militia to patrol bypass tunnels built to avoid
driving through Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem.
The road has been closed repeatedly over the past two months and has
been the scene of gunbattles between settlers alongside the army and
Palestinians. Yesterday Jewish militiamen could be seen driving the
tunnel route with their rifles poking out of car windows.
Yesterday morning one settler was wounded by Israeli troops when he
drove through an Israeli army roadblock on the West Bank.
=93There is no doubt that settlers are taking the law into their own
hands. In fact they have done so from the start of the al-Aqsa
intifada, with attacks on Palestinians almost every day. In areas
where they are living close to Jewish settlements, the Palestinians
are in great danger from vigilantes who shoot at them every day,=94 Neta
Golan, an Israeli human rights campaigner in Kfar al Dik, said.
An estimated 293 people have been killed since the start of the
uprising, of whom about 35 are Jews. Yesterday Israeli soldiers shot
dead one man near Bethlehem and another in Ramallah.
In Amman, the Jordanian capital, Shlomo Ratsabi, an Israeli Embassy
employee, was shot and slightly wounded in the leg in an attack on his
car yesterday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.
An economic blockade of Palestinian towns has cost the Palestinians an
estimated =A35.5 million a day. Sealed into their villages with
bulldozed mounds of earth and army roadblocks, Palestinians have been
unable to work for weeks.
Food deliveries have been sporadic and medical supplies are routinely
held up by the Israelis, who often also delay ambulances trying to
reach Palestinians. In this atmosphere, anarchy among Palestinians is
likely to spread.
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Subject: [bprlist] Queens school board passes resolution praising Boy Scouts
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:22:50 -0500
Queens school board rebuffs chancellor; passes resolution
praising Boy Scouts
By Staff
NEW YORK (BP)--Only days after Chancellor Harold O. Levy barred
the school system from supporting the Boy Scouts because of their
policy against gay troop leaders, school board members in a
Queens district are staging something of a rebellion, according
to a report in the New York Times.
Frank Borzellieri, a member of the school board of District 24,
which embraces Ridgewood, Elmhurst and other blue-collar and
middle-class areas of Queens, said he had written a resolution
calling the Scouts "a bedrock of moral values," and urging his
board's "continued sponsorship of Boy Scouts of America
activities." Borzellieri and another board member said yesterday
that they believed the resolution had majority support on their
board.
"Chancellor Levy is an absolute disgrace for his position against
Boy Scouts," Borzellieri, a columnist for a chain of newspapers
in Queens, said yesterday. "The idea that this appointed hack in
Manhattan elected by no one is going to stick his dirty fingers
into Queens and overrule our school board in something affecting
our district, let him do it."
On Dec. 1, Levy issued an order saying that the policy of the Boy
Scouts of America that gays are not proper role models violated
Board of Education rules prohibiting discrimination based on
sexual orientation. He barred city schools from sponsoring Scout
troops and Cub packs and forbade the Scouts to recruit during
school hours.
He also barred the Scouts from bidding on contracts with the
system. But he said they could still meet in schools after hours,
because schools are open to the public then.
Mary Crowley Grogan, another member of Board 24, said she
supported the continuation of all Scout programs in the district,
including those barred by Mr. Levy, like recruitment during
school hours.
"I don't think the purpose of it is to anger the chancellor,"
Grogan, a registered nurse, said of the resolution. The point,
she said, was to express the views of the board's constituents:
parents of students in the Queens public schools.
"Levy doesn't support school boards," she said. "The city will be
in big trouble if there are no school boards and locals don't
have a say in the public school system. That day, if it ever
comes, will be a sad day."
Levy dismissed the views of the District 24 board as irrelevant
yesterday, saying that its authority to affect policy was
severely circumscribed under a 1996 state law that shifted power
from the community boards to the chancellor.
"I think their view on this is beside the point," Levy told the
Times. "The authority to make this decision and to set the policy
of a system rests with the Board of Education and the chancellor,
and I've made my decision."
A New York spokesman for the Boy Scouts said yesterday that while
the Scouts appreciated the support of District 24, their goal was
to avoid divisiveness and confrontation.
"We're not telling people what to do," said Patrick Stuhlman,
spokesman for the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts of
America. "We just feel that we know that Chancellor Levy made his
decision, and we will abide by it."
Baptist Press for Wednesday, December 6, 2000
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) LAW: Special Report on Israeli Media
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:22:51 -0500
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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: LAW (IMRA comment): SPECIAL REPORT
ON THE ISRAELI MEDIA: ISRAELI MEDIA
INCITES AND ENCOURAGES ISRAELI POLITICAL
AND MILITARY OFFICIALS TO CONTINUE ITS
ACTIONS TOWARDS PALESTINIANS
LAW (IMRA comment): SPECIAL REPORT ON THE ISRAELI MEDIA: ISRAELI MEDIA
INCITES AND ENCOURAGES ISRAELI POLITICAL AND MILITARY OFFICIALS TO
CONTINUE ITS ACTIONS TOWARDS PALESTINIANS
(title corrected)
DECEMBER 6, 2000
[IMRA: The Israeli media has faced sharp criticism for providing
Palestinian representatives considerable broadcast time to present their
side of the story and many of the stories broadcast from the territories
take Palestinian propaganda at face value. Nonetheless, it is interesting
to see how a Palestinian organization views the same coverage. Curiously,
some of the complaints (for example claims that the Palestinians are trying
to use children as martyrs) come straight from Palestinian broadcasts.
Of course, one of the most difficult issues is "who started it". Once you
accept the assertion that the existence of settlements (and for others, the
Jewish State) is an act of aggression that justifies any and all acts of
violent resistance, any Palestinian violence is, by definition, IN RESPONSE
TO ISRAELI AGGRESSION.]
Law and the I'lam Center, basing their conclusions on the report written an
d
edited by writer and journalist Mr. Salman Natoor, state that that the
Israeli media especially, radio and television encourages the Israeli
government and the military to continue its siege on Palestinian civilians.
Mr. Salman's report included excerpts of radio and television broadcasts,
news articles and reports from the last week of October and the beginning o
f
November 2000 that were gathered by a group of Arab-Palestinian media
professionals in Israel. The conclusions are as follows:
1. Journalists, military and political reporters and commentators on Arab
issues became the spokespeople for the Israeli governmental and military
system.
2. The Israeli television broadcast footage mainly from the Israeli point o
f
view and when footage was broadcast from Palestinian television it was
described as "Palestinian propaganda." In contrast, the IDF and Israeli
government spokesmen were given leeway to fully comment on events and when
they were called upon to explain that over a 150 Palestinians had been
killed, they were unable to do so.
3. In interviews with Palestinians, the Israeli interviewers showed no sens
e
of balance between the Palestinian and Israeli sides. In most cases the
interviewers were aggressive and patronizing towards the Palestinians
interviewees. In the report there are examples of this.
4. In most Israeli media reports, the Palestinian victims remained only
numbers, no families or mothers. Palestinian property had no value and the
homes of Palestinian citizens turned were described as " positions of the
Tanzim." Additionally, numerous Israeli reporters and hosts presented
Arafat's as a Nazi. In an interview in the program "Seven and a Half" on
channel One on Israeli Television, journalist Uri Dan called the children o
f
the Intifada
" Arafat's Yogen" comparing them to Hitler's Yogen. Dan repeated this
expression three times without any reaction from the other interviewees.
5. "Arafat is using terror again." This is the picture that is revealed in
the Israeli media. The violence always begins on the Palestinian side. The
Israeli violence including settler violence is not described as terror or
violence against citizens.
6. The Israeli soldier is represented as the party who gets attacked.
Israeli shootings and bombing are justified as retaliation and self-defence
.
Furthermore, when innocent citizens are killed they are rendered irrelevant
by Israeli media. For example, two women were killed during assassination
of Hussein Abeiyat from the Tanzim however, their deaths were reported as
marginal.
7. At times, media reports on the current situation were not thoroughly
investigated. For example, journalists report that the Tanzim use ambulance
s
from which to shoot at soldiers,
" Arafat smuggles ammunitions in his airplane" and Palestinian mothers sen
d
their children to confront the soldiers.
8. Most of the reporters and commentators, especially the ones from Israeli
television reported what Arafat would " think, intend and want" and not wha
t
he actually said or did. They mention the aims of Arafat and the Palestinia
n
leadership and undeclared intentions as true facts, like for example, the
statements that shooting from Christian houses in Bethlehem is intentional
in order to get the Israeli military to retaliate and fire on churches in
the hope that it would awaken the Christian public to Israel's actions.
9. The Israeli media never questioned the military's policy of "containment
"
even while more than 100 Palestinians had been killed and more than 6,000
were injured in the first month of the events and towns had been bombed and
shelled by Israeli helicopters and tanks.
10. The Israeli media also took part in the incitement against the
Palestinian officials especially the Arab members of Knesset, whom they
blamed for igniting the disturbances in the Arab street. It was a month and
a half later when a report was published describing how 13 Palestinian-
Israeli citizens were killed.
11. The Israeli media further ignored combined Jewish and Arab actions
against the Israeli occupation, while they widely covered demonstrations by
settlers.
The videocassettes from the television programmes, radio broadcasts and the
newspaper clippings are available I'lam Center.
For more information please contact:
Mr. Salman Natoor
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:22:51 -0500
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2000 / Kislev 9, 5761
TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. POLICE REMOVE GUSH KATIF ROAD-BLOCKERS AGAIN
2. YESHIVA EXEMPTION CRISIS
3. RECENT VIOLENCE
4. P.A. SAYS LYNCHING WAS ISRAEL'S FAULT
5. ON BEHALF OF THE KIDNAPPED SOLDIERS
6. U.N. ENVOY IGNORES "JEWS' LEGITIMATE RIGHTS IN LAND OF
ISRAEL"
7. NY TIMES: ANTI-ISRAEL HATRED IS NOT A PIVOTAL ISSUE
8. ISRAEL RECALLS FAMILIES FROM JORDAN
9. MAJ. ELDAR IS FIRED
10. IN BRIEF
1. POLICE REMOVE GUSH KATIF ROAD-BLOCKERS AGAIN
Following a stormy road-blocking protest by dozens of Gush Katif residents
of the Gaza-Khan Yunis road in Gaza this morning, the police evacuated the
protestors and arrested four of them; within an hour, Yasser Arafat and
convoy had again traveled the road. Arafat's convoy passed on the Jewish
side, with their guns pointed out the windows at the Jewish residents.
The residents insist that the opening of the road to Palestinian traffic
is sure to bring a renewal of terrorist attacks against them, as occurred
two weeks ago; only a few hours after the road was opened, a school bus
from Kfar Darom was bombed, killing two teachers and wounding eight
children. Itamar Yefet of Netzer Chazani was murdered there a day later.
2. YESHIVA EXEMPTION CRISIS
The blanket military exemption for full-time yeshiva students is set to
become illegal this Sunday, and political leaders are involved in intense
negotiations to ensure that a major crisis between the religious-hareidi
publics and the authorities does not ensue. Yossi Beilin, Minister of
both Religious Affairs and Justice, threatened this morning to do nothing
to head off the crisis - but in the Prime Minister's Office a second
meeting on the matter in as many days took place this morning. Barak said
last night that he does not foresee a situation in which the military
police forcibly remove yeshiva students from their studies. One possible
solution raised today was the option of legislation perpetuating the
present situation for another year.
The United Torah Judaism party will petition the Supreme Court to extend
its deadline on the matter until after the elections. UTJ Knesset Member
Meir Porush reminded Arutz-7 listeners today that Rabbi Eliezer Shach, the
venerated Ponevezh Yeshiva head, once said that if the authorities ever
try to nullify the exemptions for yeshiva students, the jails would be
filled with yeshiva students who will refuse to go to the army. Shas MK
Yitzchak Cohen accused Barak of "blackmail with threats;" he was referring
to veiled threats by coalition members that the legislation formalizing
military exemptions for yeshiva students would be impeded unless the
religious parties vote against the dissolution of the Knesset. Cohen even
read aloud the relevant law, noting that the maximum punishment is seven
years in prison.
3. RECENT VIOLENCE
Shots were fired towards Israeli factories near Tulkarm this afternoon.
Palestinian fire was shot at several IDF outposts last night; no one was
hurt, and the soldiers returned fire... Also last night, for the first
time, the Jewish town of Ma'aleh Levonah - near Shilo, 15 kilometers north
of Ramallah - was shot at, as were Psagot, Dagan in Efrat, and Gilo...
Palestinians also shot at IDF forces in Shdemah Base and near Peduel, as
well as at an Egged bus near Kiryat Arba... For the third night in a row,
a bomb went off on the Jericho by-pass road; no one was hurt. Within four
months, the last of the Arab areas through which the road passes will be
by-passed... An Israeli was wounded by rocks hurled at his car south of
Tapuach.
Eight suspected terrorists from the Arab village of Al-Moair in the
Ramallah region were arrested last night by Israeli security forces. It is
felt that they took part in the recent attacks along the Otzarin-Migdalim
road, in which Ariel Jerafi was murdered and another Israeli was serious
wounded...
4. P.A. SAYS LYNCHING WAS ISRAEL'S FAULT
The Palestinian Authority responded today to the lawsuit against it by the
family of Vadim Norvitch, one of two reserves soldier who were brutally
lynched in Ramallah two months ago. The plaintiffs contend that the
Palestinians unlawfully brought Norvitch and his fellow soldier Yosef
Avrahami to Ramallah, and then actively participated in their murder in a
Palestinian Police station. The plaintiffs' attorney Nitsana
Darshan-Leitner said that the PA's response to the suit was to blame the
soldiers themselves for their deaths because they entered Ramallah
illegally, and to lay responsibility on the State of Israel in that its
actions led to the deterioration of the national and security situation in
the PA, and in that it did not warn its soldiers not to enter Palestinian
territory. Furthermore, the PA claims that PLO Chairman Arafat should not
be listed as a defendant, as he is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. See
tomorrow's report for additional details.
Atty. Darshan-Leitner is also involved in another trial involving the
Palestinian Authority - or at least has asked to be. She wrote this week
to PA Justice Minister Freih Abu Medein, asking to represent Alam Bani
Oudeh, who is suspected of involvement in the death of his cousin, Hamas
terrorist lbrahim Bani Oudeh, in Shechem several days before. "Defense
lawyers in the Palestine Authority are refusing to defend Alam," she
wrote, "as they fear retaliation by Hamas militants. As an Israeli
attorney familiar with the swift trials that have been conducted by the
Palestinian Justice Ministry in recent years, I am gravely concerned that
Alam, who faces capital charges, will not be provided with adequate time
to prepare a defense nor effective assistance of counsel if his case is
rushed forward to trial less than 24 hours after his arrest... The very
clear impression being created is that Alam's trial is merely ceremonial
and the verdict already decided. As such, this letter is written to
respectfully request that I be permitted to travel to Nablus to represent
Alam Bani Oudeh in the criminal prosecution being brought against him..."
She spoke afterwards with Abu Medein, who said he was "considering" her
request. Darshan-Leitner said that she plans to turn to the Israeli
General Security Service to ask it to intervene as well; "I believe we
have a moral obligation to try and save his life," she told Arutz-7 today.
5. ON BEHALF OF THE KIDNAPPED SOLDIERS
The parents of the three kidnapped soldiers from Har Dov have finally gone
public. Two months after the kidnapping, not a sign of life has been heard
from or about the three. The families of Adi Avitan, Benny Avraham, and
Omar Souad participated in a solidarity rally for them in Ramat Gan last
night. A Red Cross representative and Hizbullah deputy leader Naim Kassem
met in Beirut yesterday, with no results.
Also from the north: Exactly one month after a terrorist infiltrated the
southern Golan from Syria - and was caught by Israeli forces after a
several-hour pursuit - another Syrian civilian crossed yesterday morning
into Israeli territory near Mt. Dov along the Israeli-Lebanese border. He
was able to cross the border because there is still no fence there; an
alert Israeli woman civilian noticed the infiltration and notified the
army. An initial investigation determined that the Syrian does not have a
terrorist background, but the IDF is continuing to look into the matter.
6. U.N. ENVOY IGNORES "JEWS' LEGITIMATE RIGHTS IN LAND OF
ISRAEL"
UN Middle East envoy Terje Larsen visited Hevron today, but only as a
guest of the Palestinians; he ignored the Jewish Community in the city.
Larsen visited the Machpelah Cave and Arab homes, but cut short his visit
after he was not permitted to visit a Palestinian school-turned-IDF
outpost. Hevron spokesman Noam Arnon registered his strong protest: "He
is simply ignoring us, as well as the bullet holes that have been newly
shot into our homes=85 He is ignoring the legitimate rights of the Jews in
the Land of Israel. This represents an anti-Semitic approach that should
be condemned outright, and the government of Israel should boycott him and
inform him that as long as his approach is anti-Semitic and hostile to the
Jews' rights to live safely in Israel, it has no use for his services."
Larsen was the man who initially arranged the secret Israel-PLO meetings
that led to the 1993 Oslo Agreement, after which he was appointed United
Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East. In 1994 he moved to Gaza
- across the street from the home of Yasser Arafat - to personally
facilitate the implementation of the accords. His office also coordinated
millions of dollars in aid from donor states to the PLO, and took care of
the funding and training of the Palestinian police force.
7. NY TIMES: ANTI-ISRAEL HATRED IS NOT A PIVOTAL ISSUE
CAMERA - The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting - writes
recently that it "has identified scores of seriously inaccurate or
distorted news reports [against Israel] that have warranted redress...
When The New York Times, for instance, did a rare story (October 24) on
anti-Jewish incitement by the Palestinian Authority media, the reporter
referred to a Moslem cleric's speech broadcast on official PA television,
but omitted entirely the virulent, hate-mongering passages - among them:
"Have no mercy on the Jews no matter where they are, in any country. Fight
them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you
are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them." There were
exhortations to "butcher" Jews and "humiliate" them. The Times quoted a
brief, innocuous phrase, concealing the anti-Semitism and anti-Israel
incitement and suggesting Israeli apprehensions are overwrought... In
response to criticism of [this] story, a senior editor declared that
anti-Israel hate-mongering in the region is not, in the Times opinion, a
'pivotal' issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict."
The day after the brutal lynching of two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah and
the burning of the Shalom al Yisrael synagogue by Palestinians, Diaspora
Affairs Minister Rabbi Michael Melchior said that the mistake of Oslo was
that Israel did not do enough to stop the Palestinian Authority's
continuing and intense incitement to hatred of Israel - incitement that
was reflected in the brutal lynching of the two Israeli soldiers by the
crazed Palestinian mob.
8. ISRAEL RECALLS FAMILIES FROM JORDAN
Israel has recalled home the families of its diplomats in Jordan, as well
as all its women diplomats, following last night's attempted murder of an
Israeli Embassy employee in Amman. The victim, Shlomo Ratzabi, was
wounded in his leg by shots from a passing car, and drove himself to a
nearby hospital. He was admitted to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem today.
Israel sees the attempt - the second of its kind in Amman in less than
three weeks - most gravely.
MK David Levy, a three-time Foreign Minister - he served under Yitzchak
Shamir, and resigned from both the Netanyahu and Barak governments - told
Arutz-7 today that though the Jordanians are doing all they can to protect
Israeli diplomats, "they have not done enough to instill a sense of the
importance of peace with Israel among their people."
9. MAJ. ELDAR IS FIRED
The story of Maj. Haggai Eldar took another turn today, when he received -
by fax - a letter informing him that he was demoted from his position as
commander of a special reserves patrol in the Ramat HaGolan Brigade. The
story began a month ago when Eldar wrote a letter to the IDF Chief of
Staff, asking to be relieved of his rank; he was protesting several cases
- he specified those of Madhat Yusuf at Joseph's Tomb and the hikers at
Mt. Eval - "in which the army and its officers behaved contrary to the
fundamental values of not abandoning wounded on the battlefield." Two
weeks later, hundreds of reserves officers held a protest rally over the
same issue.
Eldar told Arutz-7 today, "I recently met with one of my senior
commanders, who asked me if I was willing to return to my command. I
agreed, and acknowledged that the threat I used was a severe one that
should only be used sparingly. I said, however, that I was still waiting
for an answer to my original letter." He continued, "Three days later, I
met with O.C. Northern Command Gabi Ashkenazy, and I told him, =01'I
understand you want me to return to the army. This is fine, but I would
just like a written response to the strong letter I wrote.' After two
weeks, today's fax demoting me is the response I received." Eldar said,
"They complain that I went to the press. But 15 officers wrote the IDF
General Staff a letter on this matter before me, and they are still
waiting, until this very day, for an answer. Is it better that no one
should know the truth? What's going on here?"
10. IN BRIEF
The 3,000,000th Bezeq phone line was installed today - in the home of
Valery Burschetzisky in Gilo. He immigrated four years ago without his
parents, and received from Bezeq a free phone, a free phone line, and
5,000 free minutes of domestic calls...
A date for the new elections has not yet been agreed upon. At a meeting
between Likud and Labor representatives today, the Likud proposed either
March 27 or May 15; Minister Chaim Ramon requested that the decision be
put off until next week...
The Egyptian Minister for Waqf Affairs called on Moslems the world over
to
come to Jerusalem "in order that the whole world know that sovereignty
over the holy sites is not only a Palestinian matter, but an Islamic
issue. If millions of Moslems come to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount,
Israel will not be able to claim that Jerusalem is its capital."..
Hebrew News Editor: Ariel Kahane and Yigal Shok
English News Editor: Hillel Fendel
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Subject: [bprlist] A Disintegrating Glacier
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:22:51 -0500
NASA Science News for December 6, 2000
Recent satellite images reveal two new icebergs floating off the Antarctic
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Kol ha-Ir: This Is How the CIA Operates in Israel
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:22:51 -0500
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Subject: Kol ha-Ir: This Is How the CIA
Operates in Israel and in the Territories * Exposure
Kol ha-Ir: This Is How the CIA Operates in Israel and in the Territories *
Exposure
November 24, 2000 pp. 54-60
[Kol ha-Ir is a weekly newspaper in Israel. The translation is courtesy of
Women In Green]
The American intelligence agency bears the main responsibility for the
military development of the Palestinian Authority. CIA agents organized
courses for snipers, trained special units, and provided sophisticated
listening devices, all in exchange for security cooperation with Israel. Now
George Tenet, the head of the organization, and John O'Connor, station chief
in Israel, have become the only communications channel between the sides. No
great success has been chalked up
THE INTELLIGENCE PROS
[note: the Hebrew used for "pros" - ashfei - also uses the same letters as
the Hebrew for PLO - ASHAF]
Arnon Regoler
photography: Angeli
At the unsuccessful Paris summit George Tenet, the Director of the CIA, met
Yasser Arafat, and demanded that he calm the atmosphere and stop the
violence. Tenet did not forget to remind the Palestinian leader that it was
not for nothing that the CIA has a reputation of builder and destroyer of
nations. According to the British Independent newspaper, the head of the
Palestinian Authority was not impressed by the threat.
This was not the first time that Tenet met with Arafat. The Director of the
American intelligence agency is considered to be the patron of
Israeli-Palestinian-American cooperation since '96. Over the course of
years, Tenet and Arafat met in the region a number of times in order to
clinch security deals. Thus the organization, and especially Tenet, who
heads it, have gradually become an integral part of all the contacts
conducted between the Israelis and the Palestinians in the last three years.
And thus the head of the organization, who is responsible for the Bay of
Pigs and the Iran-Contras scandals (who did not anticipate even a single
important political development in the region, such as the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait or the Oslo accords), has become the object of the wet dreams of the
Israeli and Palestinian leaderships.
The American agents trained sniper units, policemen, and intelligence
officers, and conducted military exercises for additional units in the
Palestinian military apparatus. They also provided sophisticated equipment,
built a headquarters for Jibril Rajub, from which they also operate, and
operated satellite stations in the Authority's cities. The Israeli
governments, that felt confident of American support, did not express
opposition, knowing that, in the final analysis, American intelligence
information concerning what was happening in the Authority would aid the
security situation in Israel.
Everything has gone topsy-turvy in recent weeks. The security cooperation
between Israel and the Authority has become a faint memory, and except for
individual initiatives by political elements, in recent weeks, since the
outbreak of the riots, Tenet, by means of John O'Connor, the CIA station
chief in Tel Aviv, has succeeded in taking control of the communications
channels between Israel and the Palestinians. O'Connor was actively involved
in the attempts to rescue Yusef Madhat from Joseph's Tomb about a month ago,
and according to the testimony of security sources, also in the surrendering
of the lynchers from Ramallah. After four years of active involvement by the
CIA in the security contacts between the sides, the failure to calm the
situation is glaring. The agreements (that were violated) concerning the
Beit Jala-Gilo sector and the meetings between Israeli and Palestinian
security elements in Cairo placed O'Connor, Tenet, and the entire CIA
organization in the embarrassing situation in which the sides may possibly
be beating a path to their door, but do not honor any agreement to which
they committed themselves before it [the CIA].
An Opening for the PLO [Hebrew wordplay: petah le-Fatah]
The CIA's ties with the Palestinians are not something new. Similar to other
regions in which the Agency developed ties with the countries with which the
US does not officially talk, this also happened with the Palestinian
movements and with the PLO.
This began in the 'seventies in Lebanon, when Bob Ames, the CIA station
chief there, started to maintain ties with elements in the Arab world, and
especially with PLO people and other factions in Lebanon. In meetings with
Israelis he told a great deal about his ties with Abu Jihad and Arafat. The
Americans preferred to conceal these ties because of Israeli opposition, and
the Palestinian identification with the Soviet bloc, but this did not
prevent them from maintaining the open channel. Thus, for example, they
exchanged messages with the leading members of the Young Fatah in Beirut,
most prominent among whom was the Operations Officer of Black September and
the founder of Force 17, Ali Hasan Salameh, who would later be murdered by
the Mossad in the explosion of a car bomb.
Salameh served, among other tasks, as the central intelligence officer of
the Fatah, alongside Abu-Iyad, and on the background of his ties with Ames,
he delivered lectures twice at the headquarters of the CIA organization at
Langley, Virginia, about the then-forming PLO. Salameh would later
recompense the Americans by protecting the US embassy in Beirut at the
beginning of the Lebanese civil war, and provided security for the
evacuation of American citizens from the city in 1976. These ties were never
broken: Ames mediated between Israel and Arafat during the course of the
transfer of the PLO forces from Beirut to Tunis, and Arafat, who met with
him on a steady basis, always regarded the ties with the US as a central
goal. A tangible insurance policy, paralleling the PLO's ties with the USSR
and the Eastern bloc.
In the 'eighties the Americans maintained a direct link with Abu-Iyad, that
also included preliminary feelers after the eruption of the intifada in
1987, in an attempt to examine the possibility of diplomatic negotiations
between the PLO and Israel. These ties became public in the meetings between
Robert Pelletreau, the US ambassador in Tunis, and Yasser Abu-Rabo, the
deputy of Naif Hawatma, the head of the Democratic Front for the Liberation
of Palestine.
The American contacts were conducted in parallel to the Palestinian ties
with France and security services in additional European countries. In 1990
the US announced the suspension of the dialogue with the PLO, that was
already public, in the wake of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Arafat's
support for Saddam Hussein. Despite this, the contacts continued, and upon
the conclusion of the Gulf War and at the time of the preparations for the
Madrid Conference the tie once again became public.
The secret negotiations conducted at Oslo between Israel and the PLO caught
the CIA by surprise. Even if the Americans knew about some of the meetings,
they certainly were not aware of their scope and significance, and they only
got on the horse after the fundamental agreements had been reached. The main
importance of the story, however, lies specifically in the consequences for
the relationship between the Palestinian national movement and the US,
consequences that, as far as Arafat is concerned, make an appearance at
present as well. The connection with the CIA fulfills a number of goals for
him, at this time as well. This is a connection that also guards his life as
the head of the Palestinian national movement against the radical elements
in Fatah and in Libya, in Iran, and in Iraq. Arafat understood that he needs
a new intelligence arrangement. He began to search for this, and he also
found it.
Problems in Concentrating
Upon the signing of the Declaration of Principles in September 1993, for the
first time Arafat received vital legitimacy from Israel, and with it
American support. Israel presented him as a partner and ally in the war
against the Hamas terror. The seal of approval received even stronger
validity in the Cairo agreement in May 1994, that permitted the entry of the
Authority to Gaza and Jericho, and later to the cities of the [West] Bank as
well. Before the entry of the forces, security matters were clarified, such
as the scope and structure of the Palestinian police. The entire process
created exaggerated Israeli expectations. In practice, Arafat did not really
take control of the Hamas and Fatah, who were active in the field.
Rather, Arafat's entry to Gaza was also accompanied by a change in the
format that had been determined in the agreements. Instead of establishing
an administration of the different policing mechanisms that would command
the forces, Arafat began to direct the police in a centralized manner. The
number of the mechanisms and their function changed; thus came into being
the General Intelligence apparatus, under the command of Amin al-Hindi, from
Black September; the Preventive Security apparatus, that was headed by
Mohammed Dahlan in the Gaza Strip and Jibril Rajub in the [West] Bank; and a
string of additional organizations such as Force 17, the Presidential Guard,
the Special Security, and the National Security - the Palestinian army, that
is based primarily on members of the Palestine Liberation Army that was
deployed in Arab countries. Arafat directly controlled each apparatus and
intervened in what happened in each, to the smallest details.
Upon the outbreak of the recent riots, the intelligence officers of the
Central Command, who briefed IDF forces in Bitunia to the west of Ramallah,
warned that the Palestinians received training in anti-terror measures and
sniper marksmanship from foreign experts in the tent camp near Jibril
Rajub's new headquarters. It can hardly be said that, as far as the IDF is
concerned, that this is an exceptional development. Already in 1994, upon
the entry to the territories of the Authority's forces, Israel accepted this
pattern. The goal was strengthening Arafat against the Hamas.
Dr. Boaz Ganor, from the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliyah, explains:
"At the basis of the conception was the idea of reliance upon the
Palestinian intelligence capabilities, especially since in '93 they were
vastly superior to our [intelligence capabilities] as occupiers. This is a
system that lives within its people, is familiar with it, and receives
cooperation from it."
And so thousands of Palestinian police found themselves receiving American
training, along with courses by Scotland Yard, courses by the French police,
and the police forces of Germany, Austria, Holland, and the Scandinavian
countries. Even different frameworks of the UN have, since 1993, been
providing training courses, that extend from days to weeks. The training
courses include responding to disturbances of public order, the war against
terror, interrogations and questioning, administrative police courses, and
more. Added to these courses are more advanced and complex topics, of an
intelligence nature.
An Israeli intelligence source explains: "On the part of Israel, there was
an oral understanding with the Palestinians, that was based on the need to
build a Palestinian police force. Everything was conducted under the general
understanding that subjects that could trouble the State of Israel would not
be taught within the context of the courses." This was conducted, according
to the source, with full transparency to the foreign countries. "The problem
was never the very holding of one course or another, but with its content.
This was a troubling subject, to which objections were raised by the GSS and
by the other organizations, in a specific manner. This was always perceived
as a potential threat, but, to the best of my recollection, it never
constituted a causus belli. Israel, at the most, expressed its displeasure
and moved along."
The CIA, that conducted some of the courses, also was not free of its own
interests. "From my knowledge of the way in which intelligence organizations
work," a military source relates, "the central consideration on the part of
the foreign organizations is the recruitment of agents, and during the
course of these training sessions they undoubtedly recruited whoever they
could." The source cites as an especially problematic example the training
courses that were given in Egypt and in Jordan. "As far as Egypt is
concerned, mainly Gaza, but also the [West] Bank, is its front yard, and
they have a double motive to know what is happening in the Authority, and
through it to also know what is happening in Israel. The Authority's
security cooperation with Egypt unquestionably exceeds the relations with
other Arab countries. There are clear indications that people from the
Egyptian intelligence are currently present in the territories, and closely
follow the recent riots."
The Element of Penetration
Despite the original Israeli conception of the Palestinian Authority's
[security/intelligence] apparatuses, as if their goal is to fight terror, it
was clear, already from the beginning, that the main efforts of the
apparatuses were directed to the locating Israeli penetration of their
services and the disrupting of the Israeli capability in this context. As is
known, old habits die slowly, and decades of activity against Israel in the
territories and outside them established a pattern of limited cooperation
with Israel. There was no reason why Amin al-Hindi, who for decades had
waged the war of minds with the GSS and the Mossad (and maintained for Fatah
contacts with the foreign intelligence organizations) would smoothly make
the transition to a format of cooperation with Israel; and also for the
heads of the other apparatuses, such as Rajub, Dahlan, and others, there is
no natural tendency like this, in spite of the Israeli expectations.
Additionally, the continued operation of agents in the areas of the
Authority after the agreement, and various events, such as the discovery of
listening devices attributed to Israel in the headquarters of the one who
was supposed to head the Palestinian police, General Nasser Yusuf, did not
contribute to a change of this atmosphere.
Between 1994 and 1996 the appearance was created of intensive cooperation,
that concealed great hostility and suspicion. In some instances, the
Palestinians agreed to act in accordance with Israeli information, but such
information led to a chain reaction on the Palestinian side, that had the
goal, first and foremost, of revealing how the information had leaked to the
GSS. "The instances of the transferal of information or independent
Palestinian prevention [of terror] activity are extremely rare, and they
happened, for example, on the eve of the last elections in Israel, when the
apparatus of Mohammed Dahlan prevented the infiltration of large explosive
charges for the purpose of conducting a major terrorist attack in the center
of Israel," a security source explains.
The suicide bombings in February and March '96 in Jerusalem and in Ashkelon
were a turning point in the Palestinian policy. The attacks also constituted
a turning point in terms of involvement by CIA operatives, who saw how
public opinion in Israel, and Binyamin Netanyahu's chances of rising to
power, cast doubt upon the continuation of the diplomatic process.
After Peres, by means of his emissaries, had attained the April
understandings, that included consent to outlawing the Hamas and the Islamic
Jihad, the American intelligence entered the picture once again, this time
in a more active manner than ever.
The first stage was the entry by Stan Moskowitz, the former CIA station
chief in Tel Aviv, into the details of the security contacts and the sending
of representatives of the intelligence agency to accompany the activity of
the Preventive Security and General Intelligence people in Gaza and in
Jericho. Meir Dagan, the head of Netanyahu's security staff: "It is my
assessment that the involvement did not stem from a specific and clear
decision, but rather from a gradual development. The United States always
wanted to know what was really happening, but there is a well-known process
of the dragging of intelligence organizations into a crisis. This is a slow
process, that receives gradual legitimization by the relevant parties."
First and foremost, the CIA functioned as a conduit for the passing of
personal messages to Arafat. "Until then, if information about a senior
individual in Hamas had accumulated in Israel, Israel would have addressed
Arafat with the information and requested clarifications," relates a senior
security personage. "Arafat would say that the information does not exist or
is groundless, or 'I checked, and there is nothing to it.' The American
involvement began a process of the active clarification and determination of
information details in the field."
Rajub as a Chatterbox
Moskowitz also played a part in the deep involvement of the CIA in that
period. Moskowitz, who was his sixties at the time, is described as someone
who had free access to the Rais [leader]'s chamber, and as having an open
line to the head of the GSS, the Mossad, and the IDF Intelligence Branch,
and to the Prime Minister's Bureau. In that period the Americans also began
to undertake the training of Arafat's Presidential Guard, with courses for
the protection of individuals, and improving intelligence capability by
means of courses and visits to the Agency headquarters in Virginia. American
sources report of visits by apparatus heads Rajub and Dahlan to the American
headquarters of the CIA and other intelligence agencies such as the FBI.
In addition to the training of the forces, courses were also given in the
organization of databases, along with improving the capability of employing
advanced surveillance and photography methods, and the supply of
sophisticated listening equipment, such as computer programs capable of
monitoring a large number of frequencies. The CIA also supplied the
Palestinians with advanced radio scanners, that could also be used to listen
in on the frequencies of the Israeli security forces, and additional
intelligence equipment.
As the process continued, CIA liaison offices were established on the ground
in Hebron, Ramallah, and Shechem. The construction of the Preventive
Security compound in Bitunia, next to Ramallah, was completed at the
beginning of the year, with the activity of the [Preventive Security]
service transferred there from Jericho. This compound, that was built with
the aid of the American intelligence agency, is called "the Pentagon" in the
Palestinian street. Palestinian sources report of an additional compound of
the General Security, that also will be constructed in the Ramallah area.
A CIA officer also is resident in Jerusalem, in the offices of the American
consulate in East Jerusalem. This officer conducts tours of Bethlehem and of
"seam" [= 1967 border] areas, while disguised in traditional Islamic garb,
and conducts meetings on a steady basis with Palestinian security and
political elements.
Laboratory Conditions
In January 1997 the CIA involvement acquires a new dimension, when Moskovitz
is involved in the formulation of the security appendix to the Hebron
agreement, and is directly in charge of the contacts between the
Palestinians and the Israelis. He is supervised by Tenet, then only the
deputy of John Deutsch, the ousted head of the intelligence agency. Inspired
by the agreement, the CIA began to conduct additional activities, such as
counting, at Israel's request, the Hamas members imprisoned in the
Palestinian prisons and supervision of the lists of Palestinian policemen.
In July '97 the American envoy for Middle East affairs Dennis Ross conducts
a low-profile security visit, that leads to a clash between him and
Netanyahu's people, on the background of the demand for action against the
Hamas infrastructure. When Ross insisted, "You, too, were not successful in
contending with the Hamas," a senior member of the Netanyahu government
replied: "You need a terrorist to deal with a terrorist." Despite the
difficult atmosphere, contacts continued for the creation of a formula for
the continued transferal of area to the Palestinians, in exchange for
determined war against the Hamas (the code word for the arrest of activists,
on demand), supervision of continued arrests, the locating of laboratories
for explosives, and the arrest of senior wanted [terrorists].
In operational terms, the security cooperation began to acquire a new form.
A senior Israeli official at the time relates that Ross's visit "led to the
creation of a veto mechanism, according to which if the Palestinians want to
release Hamas members, the names would be given to the CIA, who had the
right of veto over the release. In parallel, we conducted a quiet dialogue
and updating with the Americans, with the Palestinians being aware of this."
In addition, the American agents went to the prisons to confirm in the field
the continued imprisonment of the wanted [terrorists], cooperation that
eventually led in practice to the elimination of the military arms of the
Hamas and of the Islamic Jihad.
They Shot the Sheriff
A week after the terrorist attack at Cafe Apropo, the CIA people came to
Bitunia to examine the garage in which the explosion occurred, as a result
of which Muhi ed-Din esh-Sharif, who was known as the Engineer no. 2, was
killed. GSS people also were seen beside them. In the end, a joint version
was established, that esh-Sharif was murdered with a pistol by I'adal
Awadallah, as a result of financial and tactical disagreements. Hamas, of
course, denied this, but the episode was a major embarrassment for the
movement.
The CIA-inspired security cooperation was also noticeable in the capture of
two members of the Tzurif gang that carried out the terrorist attack at
Apropo. Jamal Alhud and Abd-el-Rahman Janimat fled to Hebron after the
attack, and were arrested by members of the Preventive Security. The two
were transferred for some reason from the Hebron prison to the one in
Shechem, and close to the village of Hawara IDF special units took control
of the vehicle and captured them without opening fire. Following the arrest,
demonstrations by Hamas activists against Rajub were held in Hebron. Rajub
himself denied that the arrest was the result of any cooperation with
Israel, and claimed that the pair were transferred to Shechem in order to
stand trial. An Israeli security source describes: "Unrelated to the
diplomatic contacts, during the course of the entire period, there was
noticeable determined action by the Palestinian security services, under
supervision by CIA people, that included action against preachers identified
with the Hamas in the mosques, and continued arrests of members of the
movement."
As a result of this activity, I'adl and Imad Awadallah, the heads of the
military arm of Hamas, were eliminated by a Yamam [special antiterrorist
police unit] force at a farm near Hebron, in a region under Israeli control,
and in December 1999 the Hamas members Iad Batat and Nadr Musala, also
senior members of the military arm, were killed in a clash with Duvdevan
soldiers in the village of Bet-Awa, southwest of Hebron.
Sheikh Abd el-Hakim el-Masalama, a member of the political leadership of the
Islamic Jihad, who currently sits on the joint committee with Fatah, said
this week: "There is no doubt that the security cooperation under American
inspiration had harsh consequences for the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. The
most prominent expression of this policy is the Palestinian Authority's
policy of political arrests, that was done under American pressure. Beyond
this, our people encountered American agents in the prisons, when they came
to check that they were under arrest. It is clearly known among the Ramallah
people that an entire floor in the 'Pentagon' is used by the CIA people."
Screen Check
In November '97 Tenet appeared before the Conference of Jewish
Organizations and shared his feelings with those present: "There is a single
ray of light on the background of the terrorist attacks in the past two
years in Israel, and that is the contribution by the US to the work of the
sides in facilitating the dialogue and security cooperation, especially in
that it caused the Palestinians to fulfill their obligations."
The entry of the organization into direct action aroused criticism in
Israel. "Until the entry of the CIA, we were forced to contend with
low-level State Department reports regarding the construction in the
settlements," relates one of Netanyahu's people, "until this construction
became the central dynamics between the secret services. Censuses of mobile
homes became the central focus of interest by the CIA people, and the
subject also arose in the security discussions." In another instance the
Arab weekly that is published in Paris, Alwatan el-Arab, claimed that
Netanyahu even demanded the firing of Moskovitz, claiming that he was
pro-Palestinian. The report resulted in denials from Jerusalem.
Despite the criticism, the outing by Tenet and Moskovitz came about, in all
places, in the Wye talks, when the two were present for the first time
publicly in the rooms of the discussions, and accompanied the negotiations
during the nine days they were held. The presence of the two, who came after
a direct invitation from Clinton and the involvement of the Agency in the
resolution of the disagreement between Israel and the Authority, stirred up
much criticism in the American media and in the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, that oversees the organization. The head of the committee,
Senator Richard Shelby, defined the role of the CIA as a nuisance, and
voiced the opinion of many who thought that there was a problem in the CIA's
being about to be involved up to its neck in the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Melvin Goodman, a professor of international security and who is
close to high-level American security circles, describes the problematics:
"Clinton initiates moves, and the Senate goes along with him willingly in
order to assure the attainment of a diplomatic agreement. This is a matter
for statesmen, and not for secret services. The CIA has defined tasks of
information gathering, the recruitment of agents, and the writing of
situation assessments. Tenet, who is no more than a skilled Democratic
politician who spent most of his time on Capitol Hill, did not know about
the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and now he 'cooks up'
situation assessments for Clinton."
After the outbreak of the latest clashes with the Palestinian Authority,
Tenet and O'Connor were asked to save the diplomatic process and their role
as referees in this game, so far without results. The terrorist attacks in
the past week merely attest to the inability of the CIA people, who are not
successful in calming the arena. In practice, the Agency people are still in
the field, but their function is not tangibly expressed in a calming of the
situation.
Several months after King Hussein's death last year and the crowning of
Abdullah, American security sources reported a strengthening of regional
cooperation in the war against terror. The sources, who briefed senior
American reporters, proudly spoke of the creation of a regional regime of
effective cooperation between Jordan, Israel, the Palestinians, and Egypt
under the aegis of the CIA against the fundamentalist elements in the
Islamic world. A senior Israeli political figure, who is familiar with the
CIA involvement in the current conflict, said this week: "In a situation of
military conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and the danger of an
expansion of the conflict, it is preferable for Tenet and his buddies, and
the can of worms that accompanies them, to direct their calming efforts to
other places."
The American embassy stated that it does not respond to matters related to
the CIA.
CAPTIONS
p. 55 "This is a matter for statesmen, and not for secret services." George
Tenet praying at the Western Wall
p. 57 O'Connor became the sole liaison conduit. The offices of the CIA in
the American embassy (photograph: Ornah Itamar)
p. 59 "It is known that an entire floor in the 'Pentagon' is used by the
CIA." Rajub's headquarters
p. 60 Training of foreign intelligence services. The training camp of
Rajub's people (photograph: Rafi Kotz)
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Radio Analysis and Excerpts: The Voice of Palestine -
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:22:51 -0500
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Subject: Radio Analysis and
Excerpts: The Voice of Palestine -Dec 6 2000
Radio Analysis and Excerpts: The Voice of Palestine -Dec 6 2000
Prepared by Michael Widlanski, lecturer at the Hebrew University, doing
doctoral research at Bar Ilan on Palestinian broadcast media.
Israel Resource News Agency
Beit Agron Int'l Press Center
Jerusalem, Israel
tel. (+972-2) 623-6368 or cellphone (+972-53) 710-737
http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/
SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
VOP newscast and features focused today and last night on the continuing
economic deprivation and physical plight of the Palestinian people, giving a
day-by-day account not only of martyrs but of loss to gross domestic
product. VOP quoted UN Terry Larsen as saying that the economic gains of
several years had been erased in two months, while Palestinian poverty was
rampant. Larsen said 32 percent were now under the poverty line, while VOP
featured a Palestinian economist, Dr. Muhammad Shtei'ah, who said the
figure was probably closer to 45 percent.
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) was quoted at length about the economic
strains on Palstinian society, noting that 380,000 Palestinians had lost
their source of livelihood due to Israeli closures. He said the PA had only
received thirty million dollars of aid from Saudi Arabia-only a small part
of the aid promised at the recent Arab summit.
At the same time the VOP has not neglected its aim of focusing world
attention on Palestinian travails and Israeli aggression. This point, too,
was also at the heart of an unusual recitation of an interview (conducted
not by VOP but by a Gulf newspaper) with Mahmoud Abbas in which he stressed
the twin goals of achieving an international protection force as well as
immediate operation of an investigation into the start of hostilities.
Key PA officials (today Ahmad Qureia, earlier Yasser Abd Rabbo) have been
quoted on VOP as contending that Israeli claims of ongoing negotiations are
nothing more than tactics in the Israeli election campaign.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT THEME THAT HAS SURFACED PERIODICALLY IS THAT THE WORLD
BETTER HURRY UP AND FORCE ISRAEL TO MEET PALESTINIAN DEMANDS BECAUSE IF
THESE DEMANDS ARE NOT MET, THEN THE WHOLE REGION WILL BE PLUNGED INTO
INSTABILITY. AHMAD QUREIA TODAY MADE THIS THREAT IN VEWRY EXPLICIT TERMS
((SEE INTERVIEW BELOW)).
Quotes from Interview with Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), PLO Executive
Committee Secretary :
"About the cause of the Palestinian Intifada, Abu Mazen said: 'In spite
of the pollution by Sharon of the holy Jerusalem shrine (i.e. Dome of the
Rock) being the direct cause of the Intifada, the indirect cause was the
condition of frustration in which the Palestinian people have been living
during a failing peace process for two years. The purpose of the intifada
was to make Israeli recognize its sins in the execution of fits military
aggression against our people." ((Interview from Al-Bayan of United Arab
Emirates, quoted directly in unusual full-length feature on VOP morning
news round-up, 7:45 am, Dec. 6))
Quotes from Interview with Ahmad Qureia (Abu Ala), Speaker of PA
Legislature:
"The position of the Palestinian Authority is that Israel has no choice
but to implement the laws of the peace process as set forth in
international legitimacy, meaning land for peace..There is no escaping bring
an international protection force for the Palestinian people to prevent
Israel from continuing to kill our people.And it is important to witness
that the settlers are the fundamental source of the aggression, an
aggressive, right-wing, extremist militia carrying out operations for
killing and violence against the Palestinian people..We will cling to
resistance to the Occupation-which is a legitimate right for us. This
resistance has many forms but we feel the appropriate form at this stage is
the present continuing intifada but there are many forms of resistance. We
will not stop..The Palestinian cause is the cause of the Arabs, and if
Israel does not realize these facts then it will face disaster and so will
the region."
WEDNESDAY DEC 6-MORNING HEADLINES:
(taken from 7:30 and 8:00 am headlines)
*--"Every day of Israeli aggression is another five million dollars;
*--The UN General Assembly reasserts that the Palestinian people have
the right to self-determination;
*--Mr. Mahmoud Abbas-Abu Mazen-says that world capitals are working
harder for an international protection force for the Palestinian people;
*--Two more martyrs brought to rest in Ramallah and Al-Bireh including
the child Ramzi 'Adil Bayatnah;
*--Occupation forces shell several neighborhoods in Al-Bireh;
*--Former head of the Israeli Shabak, Ami Ayalon, opposes the policy of
closures against our steadfast people;
*--Barak and Sharon hold nighttime meeting."
COVERAGE
There is still no mention on VOP of any attacks on Jewish targets in
Giloh, Pesagot or any other locations. The Israeli fire on Palestinian
targets, then, is always pictured as an unprovoked attack with only "evil"
"criminal"((those are the words used)) intentions.
For example, local correspondent Rashid Hilal, from Ramallah and Al-Bireh,
opening the morning news:
"Occupation forces opened their criminal actions with a heavy artillery
shelling of the city Al-Bireh last night.The neighborhood of Gamal
Abdul-Nasser saw the martyring of Ramzi 'Adil Bayatnah who was struck by
fire when an Occupation dum-dum bullet entered his eye."
Note: In yesterday's news, VOP brought a gory description of the
martyring of Awad Silmi, 27, whose body was found "ripped to pieces" near a
Gaza cement factory. VOP did not mention that Silmi was a senior HAMAS bomb
maker and that his death was apparently caused when a bomb he was preparing
blew up in his hands.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Our estimate is that as of today our losses are one billion one hundred
million dollars." (Palestinian economist Muhammad Shtei'ah)
AFTERNOON HEADLINES-2pm Dec6
*--"Two martyrs are brought to burial in Ramllah and Bethlehem;
*--President Yasser Arafat in Cairo for talks;
*--The Palestinian Authority denies any secret talks with Israeli side;
*--Evil Israeli attacks continue against our people;
*--Israeli press starts evil incitement against Palestinian people,
directed by Israeli government and military authorities."
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Subject: [bprlist] Palestinians press for UN vote on observer force by week's end
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:25:02 -0500
December 6, 2000
Palestinians press for UN vote on observer force by week's end
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS - Brushing aside Israeli and U.S. objections, Palestinian
supporters called for a Security Council vote by the end of the week on a
resolution to send 2,000 unarmed U.N. military observers to the West Bank,
Gaza and Jerusalem to protect Palestinian civilians.
The Security Council discussed the draft resolution Tuesday and scheduled
consultations again Wednesday morning, with members from the Non-
Aligned Movement of developing countries pressing for action after more than
two months of violence between Israelis and Palestinians that has killed
nearly 300 people, the vast majority of them Palestinians.
"We're going to push for action by the end of this week - a vote," Malaysia's
U.N. Ambassador Agam Hasmy said after Tuesday's meeting. "Why wait?
Every pause results in further deaths and destruction on the ground."
Several key council members, including the United States, France, Britain,
the Netherlands and Canada, have said they couldn't authorize the force
without Israel's consent. And Israel on Tuesday reiterated its longstanding
opposition to an international presence.
"Israel still rejects the Palestinian attempt to internationalize the Israeli-
Palestinian process by sending an observer force," a spokesman for Israel's
U.N. Mission said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"As we have stated over and over again, it is Israel's firm belief that only
bilateral negotiations are fruitful, as was proven in previous peace treaties
between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and even the Palestinians."
Last month, U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke issued a veiled threat to
veto any resolution that wasn't supported by both sides, but the Palestinians
and their Security Council allies said they want a vote even if the resolution
is defeated because of U.S. opposition.
Nasser Al-Kidwa, the Palestinian observer at the United Nations, insisted
that Israel's approval is not necessary for the Security Council to authorize
the force - although its cooperation will be needed to deploy the observers.
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Subject: [bprlist] Senators lobby Albright against Egypt aid
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:26:39 -0500
Wednesday, December 6 2000 14:19 9 Kislev 5761
Senators lobby Albright against Egypt
aid
By Herb Keinon
JERUSALEM (December 6) - Two influential
Republican senators sent a sharply worded letter to US
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright last week
opposing supplemental financial aid to Egypt in light of
the "pernicious role" it has played in the current crisis,
The Jerusalem Post has learned.
The senators - Jesse Helms, chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee, and Sam Brownback, chairman of
the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs - expressed "puzzlement" and said they were
"frankly astonished" by the administration's request for
$225 million in emergency military aid for Egypt.
That assistance is part of a $750m. emergency
supplemental aid package for Israel, Egypt, and Jordan.
Israel stands to get $450m. if the package is passed.
"Since the very beginning of the turmoil between Israel
and the Palestinians, Egypt has played an obviously
pernicious role - agitating Arab states to launch action
against Israel, coordinating the Arab League's concerted
attack on Israel, while egging on United Nations
members to sponsor resolutions condemning Israel and
worse," the letter read.
"On November 20, 2000, in the wake of a disgraceful
attack by Palestinian terrorists against a schoolbus
packed with Jewish children [and the subsequent Israeli
retaliation against Palestinian military sites] the
government of Egypt recalled its ambassador to Israel.
Such moves serve only to encourage terrorists - whose
goal is to end the peace process and, ultimately, to
eliminate the State of Israel."
"Indeed," the letter read, adding italics for emphasis,
"Palestinian cabinet minister Hasan Asfour commended
Egypt's decision, and announced that 'We are waiting for
more steps against Israel and its ally the United States.' "
The senators wrote that, "At a time when Egypt is inciting
hostility against the State of Israel (and by extension, the
United States) it is impossible to give an honest
explanation to the taxpayers of America that any
legitimate emergency exists to justify giving one quarter
of a billion dollars in additional assistance to Egypt - or
indeed, a legitimate justification for the billions of dollars
given to Egypt in regular appropriations."
Helms, said one US official, is a "very heavy hitter" on
Capitol Hill, and his comments on this matter are not
likely to be taken lightly at the State Department.
Israeli officials, as well as pro-Israeli activists in
Washington, were very careful in their response to the
letter.
A senior official in the Prime Minister's Office said that
this is an "internal American affair" in which Israel will not
get involved.
There are, however, mixed signals being sent from
Jerusalem, with one school of thought signaling US
lawmakers that "this is not exactly the time to award
extra aid" to Egypt, while another school of thought
believes that Egypt still plays a valuable role in the peace
process and should not be alienated.
The Clinton administration, said one source, sees the
deal very much as a package, and would - at a time
when it is trying to show an even-handed approach to
the conflict - have difficulty allocating the emergency aid
to Israel, but not to Egypt.
AIPAC spokesman Ken Bricker said that, "The package
is a priority for us, we feel very strongly that Israel needs
this money, and we are working hard for it. It is also a
priority for the administration, and they have assured us
that they are pushing for it."
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Palestinian Reactions to Early Elections in Israel
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:33:36 -0500
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Subject: Palestinian Reactions to Early Elections in Israel
Special Dispatch - PA
December 7, 2000
No. 162
Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI)
P.O. Box 7837, Washington, DC 20038-7837
Phone: (202) 955-9070
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[MEMRI holds copyrights on all translations. Materials may only be cited
with proper attribution.]
Palestinian Reactions to Early Elections in Israel
On the eve of the previous Israeli elections, Hamas spokesmen were
practically alone in claiming that Netanyahu would be preferable to Barak a
s
Israel's Prime Minister. Their argument was that although the policies of
the Likud and the Labor Party were no different, Barak was more likely to
enjoy broad international support. (1)
In the PLO camp, there were only a few who endorsed this position, (I) the
most prominent of whom was senior journalist Elyas Al-Zananiri. Ten days
before the elections, he wrote an article entitled "Bibi is Good for the
Arabs," and claimed that "History will yet prove that the Israeli Prime
Minister who best served the Palestinian issue on the international level
was Netanyahu." As evidence, Al-Zananiri mentioned the international suppor
t
for the Palestinians and the improvement of relations between the PLO and
the US in Netanyahu's days. He concluded saying: "Since the [1996]
elections, Netanyahu has granted [the Palestinians] a blessed service - a
service which was beyond our wildest dreams." (2)
This position that, on the eve of the 1999 elections, was held only by a fe
w
- has now become prevelant among many Palestinians.
Generally, members of the PLO and the PA seem to be satisfied with Barak's
failure to continue. General Secretary of the PA Cabinet, Ahmad Abd
Al-Rahman stated explicitly that "Barak's fall is one of the outstanding
accomplishments of the Intifada." (3) Head of the Palestinian National
Council, Salim Za'noun, stated that the Palestinian's experience with
Barak's government was even worse than with Netanyahu's. (4)
Palestinian commentators, it seems, have reached some sort of a consensus
that a government headed by Barak is not preferable to a government headed
by Netanyahu, and maybe even worse. Analyst Bilal Al-Hassan warned against
repeating the "mistake" of 1996. "Now," he wrote, "American and Western
voices will be heard advising the Palestinians to concede and to allow Bara
k
to win the elections, because the alternative is Ariel Sharon, and Sharon
will crack down on the Intifada with greater violence and will retreat from
the permanent solution plan proposed by Barak."
"Such deception has already been sold more than once to the Palestinians,
and they bought it and helped Barak win against Netanyahu. The result was
worse than in the days of Netanyahu=85I am sure that the Palestinians have
learned their lesson. They cannot fall into this trap again"... (5)
An article by Director-General of the PA Information Ministry, Hassan
Al-Kashef, suggests that, indeed, the Palestinians have "learned their
lesson." "We anticipated Shimon Peres in 1996," he wrote, "The Palestinians
spared no effort and supported Peres wholeheartedly. However, Peres chose
to compete with Likud, put on his helmet, and commited the crime of Qana [i
n
Lebanon]."
"Then, we had the experience of the [1999] elections in which Barak beat
Netanyahu; but Barak has not advanced one step in the direction of peace.
On the contrary, he has gone several steps on the way to destroying the
peace=85"
"I hear those who claim that Sharon or Netanyahu are worse and that Barak i
s
still preferable=85 [However,] I say that we must choose between a peace ba
sed
on Israel's will [in case the Labor wins], and one forced upon Israel [in
case Likud wins]." The last seven years were a test for the former=85 now
we
must, once and for all, choose the UN Security Council..."
Al-Kashef warned that if the Palestinians don't take his advice, and wait
for Barak, they will get him "without all of his [parliamentary] crises, bu
t
with all of his redlines." (6)
Analyst and offial in the PA Information Ministry, Hani Al-Masri, wrote tha
t
Barak is not preferable to Netanyahu. "Again we have begun to hear the old
tune that Barak is the lesser of two evils... and that the alternative,
whether Netanyahu or Sharon, would mark the drowning of the peace process i
n
a stinking swamp for many years=85However the Palestinian leadership is not
so
stupid as to invest in a loser and a weakling leader." (7)
Analyst Ashraf Al-'Ajrami joined the opposition to Barak and stated that, i
f
Barak falls, "it will benefit the Palestinians, because a right wing
government will not necessarily be worse."
Al-'Ajrami explained, "Even if the right wins the elections, it will not be
able to retreat from the ideas raised at Camp David; at the same time, it
cannot be worse on the military level. In addition, the left wing oppositio
n
will lie in wait for Likud and encourage it to be more forthcoming towards
the Palestinians." In conclusion, he stated, "Even if all this does not
happen, at least we will be rid of a bad Prime Minister; in such a case, we
will wait for new opportunities in the future which will be forced by our
struggle." (8)
Analyst Mamaduh Nofal presented a similar position. "...Netanyahu, the
extreme right winger, would not be able to carry out such crimes if he was
in power and Labor remained in the opposition," he wrote. "It is probable
that the right wing candidate, if he wins, will not repeat Barak's deeds."
Nofal also brought up Barak's proposal to transfer 10% of the West Bank
territory to the Palestinians and to recognize a Palestinian state in
exchange for deferring the issues of Jerusalem and the refugees. "The
Palestinians do not forget," Nafal wrote, "that Netanyahu agreed at the Wye
River summit, and without any Intifada, to withdraw from 13% and even
carried out the first phase of the withdrawal." (9)
Analyst Talal 'Aoukal focused on his claim that "the Israelis have not yet
reached a level of maturity that will allow the emergence of terms for peac
e
acceptable to the Palestinians." 'Aoukal praised MK 'Azmi Bshara "who was
not taken in by any illusion concerning Barak when he announced that he
would support any proposal that would bring about the fall of Barak and his
government, regardless of who will replace him."
'Aoukal added that the PA must act as Bshara did. "Did not President Arafa
t
say a month ago about Barak: 'let him go to hell?'" asked 'Aoukal, and went
on claiming that this statement by Arafat is "a policy that must be adhered
to. It means that we understand perfectly that the terms for signing an
historic agreement [are not yet ripe]. Therefore, we must do everything to
tighten the rope around the necks of Barak and his government - and let the
chips fall where they may..." (10)
Editor of the PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Hafez Al-Barghuthi cautioned
against politicians and analysts from Arab countries who warn of the
possibility that Sharon or Netanyahu will replace Barak: "I don't understan
d
why we should be afraid of either Sharon or Netanyahu. The Palestinians
played an important role in weakening Sharon the blood-letter, in toppling
Netanyahu the liar, and in undermining the status of Barak the Butcher."
According to Al-Barghuthi, the attempts to scare the Palestinians from
possible successors to Barak "are futile, because our people will not give
up anyway and will [continue] the Intifada..." (11)
Footnotes:
(I) A Palestinian officer was quoted as saying: "Labor ruins us and receive
s
a Nobel Prize for it, while the Likud ruins us and is denounced and
internationally isolated." Al-Ayyam (PA), February 8, 1999
Endnotes:
(1) For example, Hamas spokesman, Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, Al-Quds (PA), January
22, 1999; also, Deputy Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Mussa Abu Marzuq
,
Al-Ayyam (PA), February 1, 1999.
(2) Al-Ayyam (PA), May 7, 2000.
(3) Al-Ayyam (PA), November 30, 2000.
(4) Al-Quds (PA), December 2, 2000.
(5) Al-Hayat (London-Beirut), November 30, 2000.
(6) Al-Ayyam (PA), November 30, 2000.
(7) Al-Ayyam (PA), December 2, 2000.
(8) Al-Ayyam (PA), November 30, 2000.
(9) Al-Ayyam (PA), December 3, 2000.
(10) Al-Ayyam (PA), November 30, 2000.
(11) Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (PA), December 1, 2000.
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non-profit organization providing translations of the media of the Middle
East and original analysis on developments in the region. Copies of articl
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