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Subject: [bprlist] Needed Now: The Wisdom of Solomon
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 14:01:09 -0000

http://christianity.about.com/religion/christianity/library/weekly/aa1
11200.htm

The Deadlocked Election
Needed Now: The Wisdom of Solomon
by Charles Henderson

Throughout campaign 2000 the major party candidates tried to convey a
sense of their religious beliefs as well as the underlying values
that, we were told, flowed from them. Putting themselves forward
as "born again" Christians, both George Bush and Al Gore asserted
that they possessed qualities of character necessary to hold the
nation's highest office. Given the events now unfolding in this
deadlocked election, those qualities of character are being tested in
ways that none of us had any reason to anticipate. How the two
candidates handle the moral dilemma posed by the present situation
may well reveal more about their character than all the rhetoric,
debate, and TV advertising of the most extravagant campaign in the
history of the Republic ever could.

Whatever happens from this point forward, one thing is clear. At some
point, one or the other of the candidates is going to make a decision
to concede defeat. My impression is that the candidate who comes to
that point first, and steps aside with graciousness and equanimity,
will actually come out the winner.

Here's why. Election Day 2000 produced no clear winner. Whatever the
courts may decide, however many recounts or even recasting of ballots
are allowed, it will not be clear who actually won the election that
was held on November 7. Ask yourself this question. How many times,
in an attempt to balance your check book or fill out your tax
returns, have you run through the numbers time and time again, only
to find yourself coming up with several different and conflicting
results each time you do the math? The personal frustration you
experience in such situations is one thing. Magnify that confusion by
a factor of several hundred million and you have something to compare
to what an entire nation is going through at this very hour. My
suspicion is that one could run a nationwide recount on this election
and on any given day, George Bush would be the winner, and on another
day, Al Gore would be the winner, not only in the popular vote, but
also in the Electoral College.

The principle of indeterminacy comes to play in a big way in the
tabulation of the results from November 7. If there were a totally
accurate method for counting the votes actually cast, we could get an
accurate result, but no such perfect system of counting exists.
Especially with the punch card ballots used in some voting districts
in Florida, with all those chads flapping in and out, both machines
and humans will make errors far larger than the actual difference
between the two candidates is likely to be.

The pundits have continually reminded us that this situation is
unprecedented in American history, and it surely is. But it is not
unprecedented in terms of the complexity of the moral decisions that
you and I are called upon to make in many of the critical turning
points of our personal lives. Whether to pursue a personal
relationship that might well lead to marriage; whether to have a
third or fourth child after already bringing two or three children
into the world; whether to accept that offer for a higher paying job
even though it involves moving to a part of the country your family
would prefer not living in; whether to order the withdrawal of life
support systems from a loved one with a terminal illness ... so many
of the important decisions of life are not a matter of choosing an
obvious right over a equally obvious wrong, but rather of making your
best call, knowing that even your best decision is in some very large
way a shot in the dark.

Both George Bush and Al Gore are facing exactly such an hour of
decision. Of course, each candidate is hoping and praying that some
clarity may arrive either through the mechanical process of
recounting the ballots in Florida or through court actions already
underway. My sense of this is that no such salvation shall arrive.
Election Day 2000 will forever be understood to be the one
presidential election in the nation's history in which we never knew
with certainty who actually won. Whomever is declared the winner will
be perceived at best as having risen to the highest office in the
land as a result of a fluke (like those butterfly ballots in Palm
Beach County), or worse, having stolen the election through the fancy
footwork of lawyers at court. The winner will not be perceived as
having won his office through direct expression of the will of the
people. This is why I believe that the candidate who accepts defeat
with grace is likely to be perceived in the long run as the candidate
more deserving of actually governing the nation with the integrity
that the office requires.

Remember the biblical story of how wise King Solomon (I Kings 3:16ff)
was faced with two mothers, both claiming to be the rightful mother
of one child. The wise King's method of resolving this dilemma and
getting at the truth was to suggest that the child be divided in two
with a sword, each mother taking possession of half of one corpse.
Naturally, the child's real mother withdrew her claim, preferring to
save the life of the child than to see her loved one die. In this
decision, Solomon saw that this woman was motivated by a higher love
than the love of victory at court. And the King knew who the child's
real mother was. So he awarded the child to her. Today there is no
wise King who can ferret out the truth from the confusion of the
moment. But there is a candidate who can recognize, at some point,
that the time has come to withdraw his claim to rightful possession
of the nation's highest office. To that candidate belongs that office
even though he may not take possession of it until 2004. Perhaps he
will never rise to hold that office, but he will have demonstrated
the qualities of character that are required to be a real leader in
any field of endeavor he may choose to pursue.

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Subject: [bprlist] Palm Beach
From: "Moza"
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:03:26 -0500

I don't know if this will shed any light on the election brouhaha, but tonight on
A&E there is a 2 hour documentary on Palm Beach:

Sunday , November 12 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Palm Beach: Money, Power and Privilege

With special access to the inner sanctums of the ultra-rich, we give viewers
a unique look at a town where 87% of the residents are millionaires, the
supermarket provides valet parking, and a bank offers a jewelry drop-off
service. A list of past and present Palm Beach denizens includes: Winston
Churchill, Clark Gable, Burt Reynolds, Donald Trump, and Rush Limbaugh.
TV PG

Moza

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Subject: [bprlist] URGENT: Gunfire toward Israeli gans (kindergardens) in Gilo
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 14:07:19 -0000

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To: "ben Yosef"
Subject: URGENT: Gunfire toward Israeli gans
(kindergardens) in Gilo
Date sent: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 12:59:38 +0200

URGENT:

GILO, New South Lebanon -- Gunfire for the moment has ceased after
dozens of anti-tank missiles were fired this morning at Tanzim Fatah
militia nested in bordering Beit Jalla and firing automatic weapons
toward two Gilo gans (kindergardens).

The kindergardens in proximity of Ha'Anafah Street, which has a
vulnerable southern side facing the Tanzim fighters, are protected by
huge concrete walls erected by IDF forces two weeks ago. But in the
nearlly 25-minute exchange of gunfire which ended a few minutes ago
(about 12:20 p.m.), it was determined that the children should be
evacauted from the noise of the skirmish as well, which rattled
windows in our apartment about 300 meters to the west.

As of 12:54 p.m., the guns were silenced and only Israeli
surveillance helicopters circling the mountain of Gilo could be heard
and seen.

As we reported moments ago, IDF anti-tank missiles struck a 4-wheel
drive vehicle which exploded in fire. We have no reports of injuries
on the Israeli side, but the occupants of the vehicle, (if there were
any) could not have survived the direct hit of Israeli anti-tank
missiles. Palestinian fireman arrived on the scene shortly after the
gunfire on the Israeli side halted.

More as it develops.

Shalom Shalom
ben Yosef

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Subject: [bprlist] Editorials from the Hebrew Press -- 12 Nov 2000
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 14:08:31 -0000

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Subject: opeds: Editorials from the Hebrew Press - 12
Nov 2000
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SUMMARY OF EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
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(Government Press Office)
12 November 2000

     'Ha'aretz' - http://www.haaretz.co.il
     'Ma'ariv' - http://www.maariv.co.il
     'Yediot Ahronot' - http://www.ynet.co.il
     'Globes' - http://www.globes.co.il

Yediot Ahronot suggests that "It seems that under the pressure of
events, the Palestinian leadership has returned to a modus operandi
and patterns of leadership that befit an organization fighting a
guerrilla war, not the leadership of a state-in-the-making - even a
state that is almost made," and ventures that, given both the
foregoing and the American electoral stalemate, Prime Minister Ehud
Barak's upcoming talks with President Clinton are unnecessary. The
editors speculate that "It is possible that there is already nothing
to talk about with Arafat and his cohorts; it is possible that they
want to implement Lebanon-style attrition tactics on the ground and
will continue with them until they day on which a Palestinian state
is declared," but add that "If there is still the shadow of a chance
to implement a cease-fire, implement the Sharm understandings and
return to the negotiating table, the way to this does not goes
through Washington, only through Jerusalem and Gaza."

Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, speculates that Palestinian
Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat "has decided to wait for the
establishment of a new presidential administration in the US,"
and "in the depth of his heart, is gambling that George W. Bush will
win." However, the editors caution that "From a Palestinian point-of-
view, this is a dangerous gamble," and explain: "With Bush as
president, Dick Cheney as vice-president and Colin Powell as
secretary of state or defense, the team that planned and led the Gulf
War (with Bush the son replacing Bush the father) is returning to
lead the US. These people remember very well - in articles they and
their advisers have written in leading Republican periodicals - what
Arafat did in the autumn of 1990." The paper asserts that "From
George W. Bush's White House, Arafat will not obtain one-tenth the
understanding and sympathy he received from the Clinton-Gore
administration," and avers that "The Bush administration will not
shed any tears over the collapse of the Palestinian Authority under
Arafat's leadership." But the editors warn, "It will not be like this
regarding the danger of fighting on the Lebanese border and Syria's
involvement in it," and add that "The supreme American interest -
according to the Republican approach - requires maintaining quiet in
the Arabian peninsula and preventing any resumption of ties between
young Assad and Saddam Hussein." "To this end," the paper posits, "a
quick Israeli-Syrian agreement is necessary," and adds that "Bush
Jr., like Bush Sr., will not hesitate to try and enforce one on the
sides."

Ha'aretz fears that "The chain of events at the end of last week and
the series of declarations voiced by those involved in the conflict
have intensified concern that the latest American effort to stem the
violence and return to the diplomatic track are doomed to failure,"
and notes that "At the end of Arafat's meeting with Clinton, neither
American nor Palestinian spokesmen had any good news to impart about
advances on the diplomatic front." The editors believe that "Cease-
fires and a cessation of revenge attacks will not be sufficient to
stop the deterioration," and declare that "The only chance of
stopping the cycle of violence is to follow a policy of restraint,
leading to serious efforts to revive the dialogue." The paper
suggests that "Excessive use of force against civilians and a
continued closure of the territories increases the influence of
rejectionist organizations among the Palestinians," and reminds its
readers that "And the events of the past six weeks show the deep
Palestinian frustration over the continued occupation and the meager
fruits of the Oslo process." The editors assert that "Both sides
should take every advantage of the outgoing administration's
willingness to dedicate the little remaining time Clinton still has
in office to renew negotiations on the basis of understandings
reached at Camp David in July," and warn that "The combination of
violence in the territories and a diplomatic stalemate at a time of
tumultuous transition period in the United States, coupled with an
increasingly united hostile Arab front, intensifies the danger that
the shooting will not end at the 1967 borders."

Hatzofeh hopes that "Ehud Barak will not fall into the trap that
Arafat is trying to set," and says that "First of all, there must be
a cease-fire and a halt to the riots in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, that
Arafat and his cohorts in the Palestinian leadership control very
well." The editors declare that "This must be a condition for all
future negotiations over the continuation of the diplomatic process,"
and add that "It is impossible to conduct diplomatic negotiations in
the shadow of violence, which Arafat is not only initiating... but
which he continues to back even as his people on the ground take an
active part in it."

Ma'ariv, in its second editorial, reflects on how the world views the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and suggests that if we tried to view
the conflict as others see it, "Maybe it would be possible to resolve
the problems much more easily than it seems to us." The editors
add, "One thing is clear - bloodshed, attacks and eliminations do not
resolve anything."

Ma'ariv summarizes the debate around the legacy of the late Yitzhak
Rabin as follows: "Does Rabin himself have a 'legacy' which can be
accepted by the entire society, or should the memorial day deal with
Israeli democracy and the act of assassination and forget the
assassinated?" The editors reflect: "Rabin as a man and as a
statesman left only one clear legacy behind him: Choosing peace over
the continuation of hatred with the Palestinians. He wasn't the only
one who chose this but he was the first prime minister who turned it
into reality. Rabin has no other significant legacy; those who oppose
the Oslo process Rabin signed onto have no way to positively and
instructively remember Rabin the leader. Thus, it is legitimate and
even important to - on the memorial day, on all sides of the riven
body politic - discuss the supreme lesson arising from the murder:
One does not use violence to solve disputes in a democracy."

Ma'ariv, in its third editorial, comments on the ongoing electoral
drama in Florida and asks, "How can the most democratic country in
the world run an election with such negligence and with such large
holes in it? And how is it possible that the candidate who received
the most votes does not necessarily win the presidency?"

[Rubik Rosenthal and Sever Plotzker wrote today's editorials for
Ma'ariv and Yediot Ahronot, respectively.]

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Subject: [bprlist] IDF will hit attackers, not Fatah leaders
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:11:30 -0500

Sunday, November 12, 2000

IDF will hit attackers, not Fatah leaders

By Amos Harel
Ha'aretz Military Correspondent

Israel does not plan to target Fatah leaders in the territories at this stage of
the conflict, a senior defense source told Ha'aretz. Army and air force special
operations will focus only on people in the field who directly carry out
shooting attacks against army camps or settlements and on senior local
activists, who effectively act as operational officers, like Hussein Abayat, who
was killed in an IDF attack in Beit Sahur on Thursday, he indicated.

"Our gun sights are aimed right now at those who take up firing positions, or
who directly send people to those positions," the source said. He added that
targetting senior leaders, such as Fatah West Bank leader Marwan
Barghouti,
would lead to a substantial escalation - a development which Israel is trying
to
avoid at this point. "Barghouti is a member of the [Palestinian] parliament.
Targetting him would not be a light matter," he added.

Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Friday during a visit to the IDF command in
the
West Bank that the killing of Abayat had determined "clear norms."

"We will kill anyone who shoots at us. We have the capacity to do this,"
Barak said.

An IDF spokesman said at the end of the week that during the night between
Wednesday and Thursday, an Israeli unit hit an armed Palestinian cell that
opened fire on Psagot. It is likely that members of the cell were killed,
although the Palestinians have not announced any such deaths.

Military sources told Ha'aretz that two days before the attack on Abayat, the
IDF had come close to hitting him. However, a delay in the helicopters' takeoff
ruined the operation which was instead successfully carried out on Thursday.

IDF officials stress that these latest IDF actions have raised some concern
among Fatah leaders, because they speak to the IDF ability to respond
rapidly as
well as to its ability to closely monitor Fatah activists.

An IDF spokesman denied Palestinian reports on Friday that the IDF had
attempted to hit a senior Fatah leader in Hebron.

He contended that IDF soldiers only fired back at the source of the shooting.
Intelligence reports received by the military suggest that there is increasing
cooperation among Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

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Subject: [bprlist] France floats idea of unarmed observers
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:37:44 -0500

Sunday, November 12, 2000

France floats idea of unarmed observers

By Shlomo Shamir
Ha'aretz Correspondent

NEW YORK - France is floating a proposal to station a small, unarmed
group of international observers at flashpoints between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority. United Nations sources say that France is likely to
submit this idea to the Security Council, which heard a plea from PA
Chairman Yasser Arafat on Friday for the deployment of an international
force of 2,000 soldiers "to protect Palestinian citizens in the occupied
territories, including East Jerusalem."

Since Israel has emphatically rejected this idea, the French proposal is an
attempt to achieve a UN presence in the area that would be less
objectionable to Israel. But sources in the Israeli UN delegation made it clear
on Friday that the French proposal is also unacceptable to Israel.

Arafat addressed the Security Council after arriving in New York from
Washington, where he met with President Clinton. Arafat told the council
that Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount was responsible for sparking
the demonstrations and he blamed Israel for using excessive force in
confronting demonstrators. The PA chairman also charged Israel with
preventing the delivery of food and medicines to the residents of the
territories.

In a separate session on the same topic, Israel's ambassador to the UN,
Yehuda Lankry, reiterated Israel's opposition to an international
peacekeeping force and told the council that Arafat was responsible for
initiating the violence.

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Subject: [bprlist] Hijacking update/comes to a peaceful end
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:37:45 -0500

BreakingNews-Israel

Hijacked plane lands in southern Israel (NOV.12 =96 06:37-IST)
(IsraelWire-11/12) The hijacked plane with 58 on board has landed in the
Uvda Air Force Base in the Negev (Southern Israel), about fifty kilometers
(30 miles) from the southern resort city of Eilat.

As is entered into Israeli airspace, the Dagestan Airline Tu-154 was
escorted by Israel Air Force fighter planes until it set down at the end
of a secluded runway in the air force base. Elite IDF troops are in
position around the plane according to officials, and a command center is
being established as contact is being made with the two terrorists.

Prime Minister/Defense Minister Ehud Barak has made the decision to return
to Israel after having been in contact with IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen.
Ehud Barak and other senior officials. The prime minister left Israel on
Saturday night for a meeting with US President Bill Clinton, in
Washington. Mr. Barak=92s plane has left England =96 returning to Tel Aviv.

Dagestan is a Moslem region bordering Russia's rebel territory of
Chechnya.

IsraelWire will provide additional details as they are made available.

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BreakingNews-Israel

Hijacking comes to a peaceful end (NOV. 12 =96 10:32-IST)
(IsraelWire-11/12) A lone hijacker is in custody at this time and the
drama, which unfolded about seven hours ago, when Israeli authorities
received demands to permit the hijacked Dagestan airliner to land in
Ben-Gurion International Airport, has come to a conclusion.

An IDF spokesman has announced that all the passengers were taken off the
plane safe and unharmed and are currently being removed from the area in a
bus. It was pointed out that no shots were fired and all the hostages were
rescued unharmed due to the efforts of the Israeli negotiating team.

There have been many conflicting and unconfirmed reports during the past
hours. IDF commanders are expected to release the official details of the
events in a press conference in the coming hours. At this time however, it
is being reported that the hijacking is over and the aircraft is secured
on a runway in the Uvda Air Force Base in the Negev.

All 58 passengers and crew on board appear to be unharmed. The plane will
now be inspected to ensure with certainty that the plane is not
booby-trapped and that there are no other hijackers hiding on board.

Confirmed details of the entire event will be published later in the day.

In a related matter, it now appears that Prime Minister/Defense Minister
Ehud Barak, who was returning to Israel from England on his way to a
meeting with President Bill Clinton in the White House, is once again
turning around and heading for a stopover in England.

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Subject: [bprlist] Shooting attacks (11/12/00)
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:37:45 -0500

Sunday News Brief =96 13:15-IST
(IsraelWire =9611/12) Shooting attacks are being reported at this time on
the Minharot road to and from Gush Etzion, near el-Hader in Gush Etzion,
and in Hebron. At this time, there are no immediate reports of injuries.

In Gilo, Anafa and HaShayish Streets remain closed to vehicular traffic as
a result of the shooting earlier in the day. There too, there were no
reports of injuries.

School classrooms not facing Bet Jala are continuing the day=92s learning
while classrooms facing the shooting area were evacuated. As reported
earlier by ISRAELWIRE, city, in cooperation with the government and IDF,
is installing bulletproof windows and other security precautions in
schools on the frontline. School children who have completed their day=92s
classes were escorted to their homes by IDF soldiers due to the shooting
attacks that were taking place at about noontime.

Courtesy of IsraelWire News Service =96 http://www.israelwire.com

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BreakingNews-Israel

Shooting reported at Ayosh Junction =96 (NOV.12 =96 15:41-IST)
(IsraelWire-11/12) Shooting is being directed at IDF forces stationed at
Ayosh Junction in Samaria, about 500 meters south of the Jewish community
of Bet El. There are no immediate reports of casualties.

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BreakingNews-Israel

Soldiers bring traffic to a halt in the hope of avoiding injuries (NOV.12
=96 12:00-IST) (IsraelWire-11/12) As the exchange of gunfire continues
between the PLO Authority (PA) autonomous are of Bet Jala and IDF forces
in Gilo, Israeli motorists are stranded on the Minharot road on their way
from Gush Etzion to southern Jerusalem. One motorist spoke to IsraelWire
from her car, near one of the tunnels, telling us that she can hear
gunfire and explosions.

In addition, the Egged 160 bus that travels between Jerusalem and Gush
Etzion was fired upon. At this time, it remains unknown if anyone has been
injured.

There are no immediate reports of casualties from Gilo but the shooting is
still ongoing and persons can be seen lying on the sidewalks trying to
take cover from the gunfire.

IDF forces are firing machineguns and anti-tank rockets at the source of
the PA gunfire. IsraelWire will provide additional details as they are
made available.

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Women being barred from Rachel=92s Tomb (NOV.12 =96 12:00-IST)
(IsraelWire-11/12) The women who were manning the protest tent over the
weekend, demanding to be permitted to enter Rachel=92s Tomb in Bethlehem,
reached an agreement on Sunday morning with police and the IDF, permitting
them to pray at the holy site.

After traveling about 200 meters of the 500-meter trip to Rachel=92s Tomb,
soldiers stopped the bus, insisting that 15 of the women disembark,
explaining they would only permit 25 of the 40 women in the site.

A verbal dispute is going on as shooting is taking placed in nearby Gilo
and the Minharot road.

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Subject: [bprlist] GM surrenders to Arab and radical left pressure
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:37:45 -0500

GM surrenders to Arab and radical left pressure to cancel participation in
conference

Aaron Lerner Date: 12 November, 2000

Professor Dan Mayerstein, President of The College of Judea & Samaria
located in the Israeli community of Ariel on the West Bank told IMRA this
afternoon that he understands that Avery Ellisman, Director, GM-UMI
Technology R&D, has cancelled his formal participation in a conference on
"Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Metal Technologies" scheduled for
November 13 through the 15th at the college.

"They were one of the sponsors of the conference. They are interested in
this area of development. I am stunned and disappointed. I am a member of
many international groups and I was taught that scientific conferences are
held wherever all guests are welcome. This is not the first international
conference held at Ariel. Just last year we held an international
mathematics conference and one of the participants was a Palestinian
professor now teaching in Milwaukee.

Again, in the world of science, when you consider participating in a
conference you ask if the science is original and if one expects to learn
from it. It is hard to understand other considerations."

American Arabs and the radical Israeli Gush Shalom called on GM to cancel
its participation.

IMRA was unable to reach Avery Ellisman, Director, GM-UMI Technology
R&D
(Fax 03-952-6823, avery@umi.co.il ) for comment. Richard Wagoner, Jr.,
President and CEO, General Motors Corp (Fax 1-313-556-5108,
margaret.g.hol@gm.com ) was also unavailable for comment.

In a recent interview, Gush Shalom explained to IMRA that they are
interested in stopping any and all activity in the territories that is in
any way associated with the settlements even if that activity also
benefits the Palestinians. Keller explained that the social and economic
welfare of the Palestinians is secondary to the goal of removing the
Jewish settlements.

The texts of ADC and Gush Shalom messages follow:

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AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE (ADC)

ADC Action Alert:

Protest GM's Sponsorship of Conference in Israeli Settlement General
Motors, one of this country's largest corporations, is sponsoring an
academic conference next week in Ariel, one of the largest Israeli
settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Coming at a time when
Palestinians are dying and risking their lives for freedom, no American
company should be participating in the illegal settlement activity that is
the greatest factor in their oppression and dispossession.

ADC President d_Hala Maksoud has written to GM CEO Richard Wagoner
expressing ADC's strong objections to GM's planed participation in the
conference, which, adding insult to injury, is to be held in "Judea and
Samaria College."; She has also written to Dr. Ismat Abdul-Meguid,
Secretary-General of the Arab League asking that the League use its
influence and good offices to convince GM that it is unacceptable and not
in their interests to engage in activities supportive of illegal Israeli
settlements, particularly under the current circumstances.

Feel free to use the text of Hala Maksoud's letter as a model.

ACTION REQUESTED:

Please fax to:
Richard Wagoner, Jr., President and CEO, General Motors Corp.
(313) 556-5108 or email him c/o Peg Holmes at <margaret.g.hol@gm.com>.

TEXT OF LETTER FROM HALA MAKSOUD TO GM CEO RICHARD
WAGONER
November 10, 2000
Richard Wagoner, Jr., President and CEO
General Motors Corp.
Via fax: (313) 556-5108

Dear Mr. Wagoner:

I write to you as President of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee (ADC), the nation's largest Arab-American membership
organization, to express our deep concern about reports that General
Motors, through its Israeli subsidiary, GM-UMI Technology Research &
Development, is sponsoring an academic conference due to take place next
week in Ariel, one of the largest illegal Israeli settlements in the
occupied West Bank. The conference on "Mathematical Modeling and
Simulation of Metal Technologies" is scheduled for November 13 and 15 at
the so-called "Judea and Samaria College."

(If the conference goes ahead with your sponsorship, General Motors will
be participating in and endorsing the occupation of Arab lands by Israel,
the settling of Israeli citizens in the occupied territories and the
apartheid conditions that apply in the settlements and throughout the
occupied territories. Settlement activity in occupied territories is, of
course, illegal under international law, specifically the Fourth Geneva
Convention, and the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem are all
designated
as occupied territories by UNSCR 242. Moreover, this participation and
endorsement will be taking place within the context of the violent
suppression of the new Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation and
settlement activity, which has resulted in the killing of almost 200
Palestinians, about one third of them children, by Israeli troops and
settlers. In the vicinity of Ariel, in particular, in recent weeks
soldiers and settlers have killed several unarmed Palestinians, including
children.

As President of ADC, I urge General Motors not to participate in or
endorse illegal settlement activity, which are at the expense of the
Palestinian people of the West Bank and banned by international law. The
participation of a respectable American corporation in illegal settlement
activity is unacceptable and disgraceful under any circumstances, but is
especially disturbing at a time when the Palestinians are losing and
risking their lives for their freedom from occupation.

Yours,
Hala Maksoud, Ph.D.
President, ADC

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GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/

Press Release

The following action alert was today sent by Gush Shalom (The Israeli
Peace Bloc) to thousands of its activists and supporters, in Israel and
around the globe.

Adam Keller, Gush Shalom Spokesperson 972-(0)3-5565804

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Today (Nov. 10), the "Judea and Samaria College", located in the Israeli
settlement of Ariel on the West Bank, announced a forthcoming
"international scientific conference". One of the sponsors of that
conference, according to the settler ad placed in today's Ha'aretz (page
8), is none other than General Motors.

We ask you to contact the directors of General Motors, by phone, by fax
and/or by email. Inform them about the grave implications of their
corporation giving this kind of moral and material support to settlers on
occupied land, at the very time when a bitter and bloody struggle is
raging in which these same settlements are the main issue.

For your letters you can use the text in the end, or make your own.

Mathematicians, not only of Israeli universities but from countries like
France, Germany, Sweden, China and Russia are on the list of participants
as appearing on website: http://www.yosh.ac.il/research/MMT-2000/

It may be worthwhile to contact the lecturers or their academic
institutions, and make them also aware of the grave implications of their
participation in a conference in the midst of a war zone.
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To The
Board of Directors of General Motors Detroit, Michigan U.S.A.

attn Peg Holmes <margaret.g.hol@gm.com
fax: 1-313-6672918
phone: 1-313-6672904

Dear Sir or Madam

I am surprised and shocked to hear that General Motors - through its
Israeli subsidiary, GM-UMI technology Research & Development - is among
the sponsors of a "scientific" conference due to take place next week in
Ariel, one of the largest illegal Israeli settlements established in
violation of international law on confiscated Palestinian land in the West
Bank. The conference on "Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Metal
Technologies" is due to be held between November 13 and 15 at the
so-called "Judea and Samaria College", an institution which claims
academic status but is in fact part and parcel of the illegal settlement's
structure. As you are no doubt aware from the news broadcasts of the past
month, the West Bank has become a virtual war zone, with Israeli forces
using gunfire, tanks and helicopter gunships in an effort to put down the
Palestinian uprising, leaving more than 150 Palestinians dead and
thousands wounded.

The specific area around the settlement of Ariel is no exception; armed
confrontations as well as demonstrations and protests, put down by
gunfire, abound there as elsewhere on the West Bank. Just two days ago, a
13-year old Palestinian boy had been shot dead by the army at the village
of Hares, a few kilometres from Ariel. Moreover, inhabitants of Hares, who
spoke to activists of the Israeli peace movement, told of constant
harassments and actual night-time attacks on their homes by Ariel
settlers. Among those seen participating in such attacks were the Ariel
settlement's security guards, who are directly accountable to Ariel Mayor
Ron Nachman - the very man due to ceremoniously open the conference of
which General Motors is a sponsor.

By sponsoring such a conference at this time, General Motors is taking
sides in one of the most bitter conflicts raging at the moment. We call
upon you to remove that sponsorship forthwith, sever all connection with
the armed settlers at Ariel and use all influence you may possess to have
that mathematical conference removed to another - safer and
non-controversial - venue.

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Subject: [bprlist] Peres-Arafat agreement news
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:37:45 -0500

IDF [and IMRA note] Spokesperson: Bodies of Palestinian Terrorists
Transferred to Palestinian Authorities

11 November 2000

[IMRA note: Israel Radio reported on 12 November that the two dead
Palestinians had documents indicating that they were Palestinian police.
They carried out their attack in an area that was opened to Palestinian
vehicles as an Israeli gesture in accordance with the Peres-Arafat
agreement. So far Minister Shimon Peres has not been quoted on Israel
Radio with any comment regarding the incident that ended in the death of
an Israeli soldier]

The bodies of the two Palestinians killed today in a gunfight with IDF
soldiers at Gush Katif junction, were transferred this afternoon to
official Palestinian Authorities. The transfer took place near the place
where the incident occurred, representatives of the Israeli and
Palestinian DCO offices were present.

The IDF transferred the bodies as a humanitarian gesture, even though the
two deliberately attacked and injured IDF soldiers.

via: "IMRA Newsletter" <imra-l@lyris.vcix.com>

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Minister Shimon Peres plans to make no comments on death of soldier due
to
exploitation of Peres-Arafat agreement

Aaron Lerner Date: 12 November, 2000

Sergeant Maj. Avner Shalem was killed on Saturday by two Palestinian
police in civilian clothing who were travelling on a section of road
that was reopened to Palestinian traffic as an Israeli gesture in
accordance with the recent Peres-Arafat agreement.

The two Palestinian police were ultimately killed by the IDF forces
and the bodies were transferred to officials from the Palestinian
Authority. An inspection of the bodies prior to transfer found they
carried documents indicating that they were Palestinian police.

IMRA asked Yoram Dori, spokesman for Minister Shimon Peres, if
Minister Peres had anything to say about the death of an IDF officer
as a result of the implementation of the Peres-Arafat agreement.

Dori told IMRA that Peres has not said anything nor does he plan to
say anything.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director
IMRA Media Review & Analysis)
(mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
Tel 972-9-7604719/Fax 972-3-5480092
INTERNET ADDRESS: imra@netvision.net.il
pager 03-6750750 subscriber 4811
Website: http://www.imra.org.il

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Subject: [bprlist] Bomb attacks (11/12/00)
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:37:45 -0500

BreakingNews-Israel

**FLASH** No injuries in Sunday morning bomb attack near Kfar Darom
(NOV.12 =96 07:46-IST)
(IsraelWire-11/12) An explosive device was detonated a short time ago
against two Israeli vehicles traveling in Gaza near the hothouses of the
Jewish community of Kfar Darom. There were no reports of injuries.

IsraelWire will provide additional details as they are made available.

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Courtesy of IsraelWire News Service =96 http://www.israelwire.com

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BreakingNews-Israel

**FLASH** No injuries in bombing attack near Nahal Oz (NOV. 12 =96
14:10-IST) (IsraelWire-11/12) A short time ago, a roadside bomb was
detonated near the Gazan community of Nahal Oz. There were no injuries in
the attack, the second involving an explosive device in Gaza in past
hours.

The large roadside device was detonated while a bus transporting soldiers
was making its way to the Karnei Crossing. There were no injuries.

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Subject: [bprlist] Palestinians up the ante for peace talks
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:47:53 -0500

Palestinians up the ante for peace talks

By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press

JERUSALEM (November 10, 2000 3:55 p.m. EST
http://www.nandotimes.com) - Palestinians set tough
new terms for a resumption of peace talks Friday.

Arafat, who met Clinton on Thursday and went to
the United Nations on Friday, said he was ready to
attend another Mideast summit, provided it was
well planned and success was guaranteed.

However, senior Palestinian negotiator Ahmed
Qureia on Friday set new conditions for a
resumption of talks.

Qureia said Israel would have to declare a
settlement freeze; the United Nations, the
European Union, Russia, China, Egypt and Jordan
would have to be brought in as mediators with the
United States; both sides would have to reaffirm
that talks are based on U.N. resolutions calling on
Israel to withdraw from war-won land; and an
international force would have to be deployed to
protect Palestinians against Israeli troops.

The Palestinians have raised such demands in the
past, but never as a precondition for returning to
peace talks.

"After everything the Israelis have done, it is very
clear that this uprising will not stop" unless a
Palestinian state is established or conditions are
met for a resumption of negotiations, Qureia said.

Arafat went to the U.N. Security Council on Friday
with his demand for a 2,000-strong U.N. force to
protect Palestinian civilians in Jerusalem, the West
Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel opposes such a U.N.
force.

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Subject: [bprlist] For the Jews, Acre's Arab flavor is already too much
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 09:58:12 -0500

Sunday, November 12, 2000

For the Jews, Acre's Arab flavor is already too much

Between the increasing Jewish desire for separation and the Arabs' need for
Jews and their resources, the two weak communities are looking for a way
out of the mess they are in.

By Lily Galili and Ori Nir

In the city of Acre, there is no old Jewish cemetery. According to a Jewish
legal tradition, Acre was considered "outside of Israel," and its dead were
buried at Kfar Yassif. And under the Partition Plan of 1947, Acre was meant
to be part of Palestine. When it was occupied in 1948 and transformed from
an Arab town into a town with a Jewish majority, the rabbis sanctified it for
Jewish burial.Some researchers hold that the absence of Jewish roots in
Acregives the inhabitants a certain sense of inferiority and insecurity to its
Jewish population, and affords the Arabs there a sense of superiority. The
policies of Israeli governments throughout the years show that to a certain
extent, Acre remains "outside of Israel" to this day.

In Acre today, the 38,000 Jews and 13,000 Arabs (the highest proportion of
Arabs in all the mixed towns) are trying to deal not only with the poverty that
has developed there after years of neglect, but also the bursting of the
illusion of coexistence. At the end of the year 2000, Acre is a fractured,
angry and alarmed city, where the inhabitants are in shock from the powerful
collapse of life side by side and are seeking, at the community level,
solutions and answers that government policy has not provided. These
solutions are not making what was supposed to have been a model of
coexistence any better.

The old city of Acre, where only Arabs live, has become a sad place in
recent weeks. Most of the business are closed, and the rest are empty of
people. Rashid Hayati's fish store, a regular attraction for restaurant owners
and private customers from all over the north, was shut for almost a month
after the disturbances, which took place in its vicinity. On a wooden crate on
the floor lies a huge grouper fish that fills its purveyors with professional
pride, but these days there is no one who wants it.

The Jews have disappeared. Frightened and angry, they are punishing their
Arab neighbors and keeping away from the old city, which up until a month
ago had been a magnet for commerce and exotica. Even the Acre Festival
for Alternative Theater, which took place later than planned with declarative
intentions of "nevertheless," did not succeed in breathing life into the town.

"We never believed this could happen here," say the Jewish inhabitants in
various ways. "The greatest coexistence in all of Israel was here in Acre,"
says Ali Maadi, a local fisherman and amateur actor, "but it's true that it was
ruptured easily."

The latest trauma was not needed to expose the shaky foundations of life in
Acre. The depressed socio-economic situation of both the Arabs and the
Jews juxtaposes the two populations on a daily basis as they try to deal with
living together.

Alongside the Arab population that is distressed but committed to the place,
a transient Jewish population over the years has seen Acre as a way-station
to a better life elsewhere. In 1983, Acre had 38,000 inhabitants, of whom
about 20 percent were Arabs. About one-quarter of the population of the town
are new immigrants, many of them from Georgia and the Caucasus.

About half of the children in the town are Arab. The rate of emigration from
the town among Jews is one of the highest in the country. Demographic
forecasts by sources in Acre say that in about another five years it will have
an Arab majority.

The dry figures contain a story of social failure and nasty policy. There has
been little investment in the Arab inhabitants so as not to attract more Arabs
to Acre. The Jews have been neglected, through a lack of attention for which
there is no explanation. Under the slogan "the Judaization of Acre" as a
national value, the Israeli government has pursued a policy that has brought
about the opposite result. Years ago, nearby locales in the north were given
tax benefits that skipped over Acre. The Jewish inhabitants of the town
flocked to the 15 percent tax reduction given in Nahariya, Carmiel and
Shlomi.

In the nature of things, it was the strongest inhabitants who left, the
overwhelming majority of them Jewish; the weak remained behind. Thirty-four
percent of the wage-earners make less than the minimum wage; the
unemployment rate among Jews is over 10 percent; among the Arabs it
reaches about 30 percent. It was not until a year ago that Acre was given the
same tax break, in an attempt to stop the flow.

Only now, after the outbreak of recent weeks, is attention being devoted to a
national program. Among other things, there is talk of expanding the
municipal boundaries of Acre to take in Jews in a way that would stabilize
the demographic balance. "Threat" is the key word in what is called
coexistence in Acre. The "threat" of the Arab character of the town, which
frightens and distances the Jewish inhabitants, is the outstanding
characteristic.

"From the Jewish point of view, a mixed town is a Jewish town in which
Arabs live," says Professor Sami Smooha of Haifa University. "In Acre, the
Jews have a serious problem with the size of the Arab population which
changes the character of the city. To acknowledge the fact that the town has
an Arab character is almost like saying that Israel is a bi-national state. For
Jews it is important not only that the state as a whole have a Jewish
character, but that every place and every street be Jewish. The Jews are not
prepared to live in a place where they are not in a clearly dominant position."

The Wolfson neighborhood in Acre is a clear example of this process. The
bleak housing blocks that were built at the beginning of the 1960s were
intended for the immigrants of that period and for young Jewish couples; the
state has never planned and never built a mixed housing development. Within
a short time the small apartments became a magnet for the Arabs of old
Acre, which was already suffering from congestion.

In a natural process of expansion, which was seen in retrospect by many
Jews as the beginnings of a conspiracy to take over the city, Arabs moved
into apartments in the Wolfson development. It became a mixed
neighborhood and for a few years was a center and sterling example of
coexistence.

But then there was a change of direction: With the rise in the number of Arab
tenants, the Jews began to move out of their apartments. There is an
unwritten formula that determines the number of Arabs that Jews are
prepared to tolerate in their neighborhoods. One expert has defined a mixed
neighborhood as "the amount of time that elapses between when the first
Arab moves in and the last Jew moves out." The Wolfson development is
now in the final stages of this process.

The Wolfson development now looks like an Arab neighborhood in every
respect. On the walls are graffiti that local youngsters have sprayed in Arabic
and broken English. The music coming through the windows is Arab music.
Even the fine-looking local community center, which is often mentioned as a
sterling example of Jewish-Arab cooperation, now mostly serves the local
Arab population; the children running around its gymnasium in karate clothes
one afternoon this week spoke Arabic among themselves.

The Jews who have remained in the neighborhood are mostly people who
want to leave but cannot. Moshe Sheetrit, for example, who moved in about
18 years ago. His wife has learned to live with their Arab neighbors, but he
prefers to keep his distance. "I grew up with Arabs in Morocco," he says. "I
say hello to them, they say hello to me, but I know what a gentile is. It says
in the Torah not to trust a gentile, even after he has been in his grave for 40
years. I wish Amidar would transfer us to a different area, a neighborhood
with Jews, to a bigger apartment."

Yaffa Takiar came to the neighborhood from Daghestan 13 years ago. "Then
the majority here was Jewish," she relates. Now, she is one of four Jewish
families in a building of 48 crowded housing units. She is suspicious of her
Arab neighbors and distrusts them, though they have never done her any
harm. Since the disturbances of the beginning of October, she has ordered
her two children not to have anything to do with the children of the Arab
neighbors. "I'm going to watch to see that they don't hit them," she says.
"You can't trust Arabs."

An exception is Esther Sarour, a Jewish woman of Lebanese origins, who
came to live in the neighborhood 35 years ago. She still finds it more
comfortable to speak Arabic rather than Hebrew. There are close relations
between her and the two neighboring Arab families, as if they were kin. She
and Mahmoud Tamish, the neighbor on the other side of her living room wall,
have been playing around for a few years now with the idea of putting a door
in the living room wall to link their two apartments. "She's like our mother,"
says Tamish.

Everyone believes that the Wolfson development will become an Arab
neighborhood in every respect in the very near future. Even today it is the
center of Arab cultural and political activity in Acre. MK Azmi Bishara (Balad)
holds a weekly meeting of his movement there.

This is exactly the sort of thing feared by Aharon Lahiani, a member of the
Acre municipal council and an activist in Yisrael Beiteinu, and Roman Bazov,
a member of the Likud Central Committee who immigrated to Israel from
Georgia 27 years ago and set up a municipal list called Acre Patriots. "Our
cousins" is what Bazov calls the Arabs, with a certain amount of scorn.

The conversation with the two men in the lobby of the Palm Beach Hotel,
adjacent to other hotels whose construction has been frozen, may be termed
a racist discourse. But racism has come back into fashion in recent weeks,
and now it is called "frankness," in contradistinction to "the hypocrites who
think the same thing but don't say so."

There is something to the argument put forth by Lahiani and Bazov. "The
Judiazation of the Galilee" as a policy is perceived as a national mission;
their personal ambition to preserve the Jewish character of Acre is termed by
these same policy makers as racism. It is hard to raise non-racist citizens
on the infrastructure of a racist conception. The citizens, it seems, become
the victims of the state's identity problems. Veteran Acre residents, Lahiani
and Bazov are familiar with the problems of their Arab neighbors. They even
explicitly support improving the lives of the Arabs through housing solutions,
school construction and commercial centers. Everything - but separate.

"Separation," the twin sister of the formula for a solution with the
Palestinians, is the latest hit in Jewish discourse in Acre. All the rhetoric of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is now trickling into that discourse, even going
back to the War of Independence. "We have to be vigilant so that Acre does
not fall into the hands of the Arabs," they say.

Lahiani and Bazov live in the Kerem neighborhood, the first build-your-own-
home project in Acre, where there are no Arabs at all. It is a pretty
neighborhood of gleaming white houses, so different from the rest of Acre .

The separation suits them, and they explain why: "The only Arab population
that can be mixed with Jews is the Christians," says Lahiani. "They suit the
European perspective that this country is trying to adopt. But the Muslims,
who constitute the vast majority in Acre, cannot mix. It's a matter of a
different mentality.

"The religious Jews blanch when the Arabs go out in their cars or have
barbecues on Yom Kippur. To this day, I have to wake up when the muezzin
opens a loudspeaker at 3 A.M. We approached them about this matter, and
we spoke to them, but we found they turned a deaf ear. If there is
discrimination in a mixed town, it is all against the Jews."

As they see it, separation is the only solution. "There is already an almost
official policy of separation," says Lahiani, "only no one is prepared to talk
about it out loud." Lahiani and Bazov, however, are prepared to talk about it
out loud, and to declare the defensive war to which they are rallying now.

Last week a tender went out for a new "build-your-own-home" project, Kerem
B, on the northern outskirts of Acre. Lahaini and Bazov have set themselves
the goal of a public struggle that will prevent Arabs from moving into the
neighborhood. "If Arabs also move in there, you can say kaddish (the prayer
for the dead) for Acre. All the Jews will flee."

From mysterious sources, Bazov knows that "our cousins intend to go there
en masse," something that is expected to decrease the value of the homes
there by half. A decrease in value of the apartments in the neighborhoods
where Arabs move in is a continuing process in the city, which creates a
chain reaction of Jewish flight and the entry of Arab tenants into the empty
apartments.

Bazov tells of a neighbor who has been trying to sell his home in the Kerem
neighborhood for fear that Arabs are moving in. Even after he lowered the
price from $350,000 to $260,000, there are no buyers. Only recently he had
a bid from a real estate agent who has already moved out of Acre, "and
doesn't care about the city," who offered him a buyer willing to pay $310,000:
"a nice man, educated, a doctor - but an Arab."

Bazov reports that his neighbor rejected the offer outright, and he muses
aloud, "How many people would have been prepared to refuse such an offer?
Because if you give in, more Arabs will come in a chain reaction."

But during this past month, which has strengthened among the Jews the
sense of an existential threat, Bazov and Lahiani feel that their mission goes
beyond the municipal boundaries. "We have a national mission," declares
Lahiani.

In the local folklore, rumors spread about the existence of a map prepared by
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, on which Acre is the capital of
the Galilee. Bazov says that a member of the Knesset has even shown him
this map. In the light of this development, they are now defending with their
bodies not only their own city but also the entire coastal strip from
domination by the Arabs.

"This is their plan," says Lahiani decisively. "If they don't develop a high-tech
industry that will keep the young people here, the Arabs of Acre will win
independence in this town. One Arab resident has already told me that I'm
living on his land, and that soon we'll have to give back the country inch by
inch." An Arab neighbor said to him, in the midst of the disturbances, "You
better start behaving well, because in a little while you're going to be our
guests."

It is possible to deplore the positions presented by Lahiani and Bazov, and it
is possible to scorn them. But mainly it is worth just listening to the way the
wind is blowing in this mixed town, which by definition is supposed to be a
model of coexistence. "Coexistence has become a nightmare," they declare,
fearful because of their Arab neighbors' questioning of the very fact of the
existence of the state. Lahiani has even stopped going to eat hummus at
Said's place in the old city. The past looks different In the absence of Jewish
hummus-eaters, the joint economic interest, the supporting pillar in the
foundation, which in any case is problematic, of the mixed town is
collapsing. And if this too collapses, Acre will not be able to save itself. The
beautiful, historic city has in recent years become a hotbed of poverty, crime
and narcotics. The number of drug addicts has grown to about 800 in a
population estimated at 7,000. It is a magnet for drug-dealing for the entire
North.

Acre used to be a magnet of a different sort, recall its Arab inhabitants.
Before 1948, it was a lively provincial town, with community institutions that
served all the Arabs of the surrounding area, with excellent educational
institutions (the leading school for training sha'ariya [Muslim religious] court
judges was in Acre), with a rich cultural life and lively commerce, with a busy
port, with community leaders.

"Today there is a leadership vacuum," says Arab journalist Zohair Bahaloul,
a native of Acre. During a walk through the lanes of the old city, Bahloul
speaks fondly of the urban elite that used to be here and is no more. Most of
the educated people and propery-owners left in 1948.

Dr. Hawla Abu Bakr, a researcher at the Jezreel Valley College, not long ago
conducted a survey among the residents of Acre, and found that nearly all of
them - about 95 percent of them - are members of families of refugees who
ended up in the town during or shortly after the war. "Acre - more than all the
other mixed towns - has not yet been freed of the post-traumatic situation
that resulted from the Naqba (catastrophe in Arabic, the events leading to
Israeli statehood in 1948)," says Abu Bakr. With a dearth of strong local
elements and without sturdy community institutions, the town declined from
its status as an Arab regional center.

Today, instead of Arabs from the surrounding villages coming to shop in
Acre, the residents of the city go shopping in the nearby Arab villages.
Instead of the villagers sending their most promising young people to school
in Acre, every day buses set out with the best students from Acre who study
at private schools in Ablin, Jedeideh and Haifa. In Acre there is one state
Arab elementary school with 44 classrooms where 1,400 students study in
poor physical conditions, and a comprehensive high school at which 800
students are enrolled. The Arab residents complain of harsh discrimination in
the education budgets. Last year, the Arab parents' committee called upon
parents to enroll their children in Jewish schools as an act of protest.

Between the two contradictory tendencies - the increasing Jewish desire for
separation and the Arabs' need for the Jews and their resources - the two
communities are seeking an immediate way out of the dire straits in which
they find themselves following the recent violence.

In the long run, these two weak populations will not be able to deal alone
with the social and political burden of finding a better formula for a common
existence. As heads clear on both sides, the residents ofIntegration - in the
sense of separation

"Mixed town," as a universal concept, suggests integration. By the definition
of the Central Bureau of Statistics, seven locales in Israel are classified as
mixed towns: Acre, Haifa, Ramle, Lod, Ma'alot-Tarshiha, Tel Aviv-Jaffa and
Jerusalem (the pre-1967 city). As is the wont of dry statistics, this reflects
only partially what happens on the ground: After 1967, Jerusalem became a
locale with characteristics that put it beyond any category. In other locales in
Israel, a dynamic of a mixed town has developed over the years. In Israel, is
a mixed town also a concept of integration, or is it a concept of separation?

The term is deceptive even on the semantic level. There are no truly mixed
towns in Israel. What do exist are places that were once Arab, and after
1948 became Jewish towns with an Arab minority of varying sizes. This
series of reports will deal with these towns and their social-political situation.
Acre need not only help and resources, but also a guiding hand that will
formulate the role of the mixed town as part of the overall definition of the
identity of the state.

Next Sunday: Haifa

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Lieutenant colonel IDF (Res.) Gal Luft:
PALESTINIAN MILITARY PERFORMANCE AND THE 2000 INTIFADA

The violent upheaval by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza during
September-November 2000 raised many political issues. One of the most
interesting but least addressed is the role of Palestinian police and
military units during this second intifada. At various times, they tried
to stop violence, participated in it, or acted merely as onlookers. What
does this tell us about the capabilities, political function, and future
character of these all-important institutions?

Four years earlier, following the September 1996 opening of the Hasmonean
Tunnel in Jerusalem, Palestinian policemen and Israeli soldiers exchanged
heavy fire throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip leaving 85 Palestinians
and 16 Israelis dead, and more than 1,200 Palestinians and 87 Israelis
wounded. The "September riots," as they were called, showed the
Palestinian security services (PSS) acting very differently than had been
expected under the Oslo agreements, which gave them the task of providing
for peace and security in the Palestinian Authority (PA) ruled
territories.

While engaging in diplomatic negotiations with Israel, the Palestinians
have been planning and preparing for the scenario of a failed diplomatic
option and the possibility of a next round of violence. After the 1996
events, the 41,000-strong security forces improved their tactical
sophistication, introduced new training methods and obtained new weapons
and equipment.

But after weeks of intensive fighting in September-November 2000 between
PSS troops and the Israel Defense Force (IDF) the PSS's poor performance
is puzzling.

Certainly, during those demonstrations, the Palestinian police failed to
fulfill all the duties and functions assigned to them by the Oslo
agreements. These include: the maintenance of internal security and public
order; the protection of property and places of special importance such as
Jewish holy places in Palestinian-controlled territories; the prevention
of incitement to violence and the fight against terrorism.

At the same time, though, PA Chairman Yasir Arafat and his lieutenants not
only refrained from using their armed forces as an instrument to impose
peace, they also did not--contrary to some analysts' predications--use
their troops as a tool of war either. Throughout the clashes Palestinian
troops did not demonstrate even a fraction of the capabilities they had
developed. They inflicted minimal casualties on the IDF, used virtually
none of the special weapons--such as anti-tank missiles--in their
possession, and failed to initiate and execute any significant military
operation against Israeli targets.

Was the poor military performance a result of pure incompetence? Lack of
will? Or was it a result of Arafat's calculated strategy of incremental
use of force that leaves, for now, the Palestinian military units in their
camps?

PALESTINIAN MILITARY BUILDUP SINCE SEPTEMBER 1996

Being more than a regular police force and short of being a fully-matured
army, the 12 branches of the PSS have invested great efforts to learn the
lessons from the previous major clashes with the IDF. New weapons and
tactics have been introduced, and training has improved considerably.

Palestinian police officers go through a rigorous training program. Junior
officers are being trained in the Jericho police academy; more senior
company and battalion commanders received professional training in Egypt,
Yemen, Algeria, and Pakistan as commanders of combat units. (1) This
training enabled them to think and plan as field commanders rather than as
police officers.

Since 1996, the PSS have increased the size of formations capable of
executing independent military operations from small-sized units such as
platoons and companies to full battalions. In the first half of 2000
alone, half a dozen battalion-level exercises were held in the Gaza Strip.
(2) Despite the fact that live-fire training has been restricted to
platoon level, the battalions trained in rather complicated combat
scenarios such as gaining control of an area of land and mock attacks on
IDF posts and Jewish settlements.

In an attempt to increase the number of Israeli casualties in case of a
war, the Palestinians recruited a large number of snipers equipped with
telescopic sights for their M-16 and AK-47 rifles. In addition, it has
been reported that some of the Palestinian security apparatuses obtained
weapons prohibited by the Oslo agreements such as light anti-armor
weapons, rocket propelled grenades, anti-tank missiles, light mortars,
land mines and hand grenades. Several reports indicated that the
Palestinians also obtained shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles and
truck-mounted anti-aircraft guns. (3)

The PA succeeded in amassing stocks of weapons and ammunition through
smuggling and theft from Israeli military bases and private homes.
Cross-border smuggling, mainly from Jordan and Egypt, also enriched the
PA's arsenal. In this way, Palestinians were able to more than triple the
number of light weapons originally entrusted to them by the Oslo
agreements and, hence, arm civilian militias such as the Tanzim and
veterans of the Fatah Hawks militia.

Preparing for a long, protracted military confrontation with Israel also
required the build-up of a strong logistical base to supply Arafat's
forces with food, water, medications, weapons and ammunition. Throughout
the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the PA established warehouses where war
material was prepared and stored. Prior to the eruption of the al-Aqsa
intifada, the PA imported large amounts of food supplies, stored large
amounts of water and oil and prepared an alternative power source by
deploying large generators in various locations in the PA. [Where? was
this all smuggling or also legal imports?

ASSESSMENT OF PSS PERFORMANCE DURING THE RIOTS

The massive wave of violent demonstrations that broke out on September 29
was met with a weak response by the Palestinian police. In September 1996
Palestinian policemen formed, in many cases, human chains to prevent
demonstrators from advancing on Israeli settlements and military outposts.
During the current crisis, they did not interfere with Palestinians
demonstrating against Israel in such areas as Nezarim Junction in Gaza or
outside the West Bank towns of Nablus, Ramallah, Tulkarm, Qalqilia
Bethlehem, and in Hebron.

Two incidents in October--the destruction of the Jewish holy site Joseph's
Tomb in Nablus and the murderous attack on the Palestinian police station
in Ramallah where two Israeli soldiers were held by the police--showed the
Palestinian police's lack of resolve in dealing with a rioting mob. In
many cases, Palestinian policemen took off their uniforms, joined the
demonstrators and opened fire on IDF troops.

There were several reasons for this conduct. First, the PSS have had
relatively little training in crowd control. They also lack necessary
equipment such as shields, helmets, flak jackets, clubs, radio equipment,
armored vehicles, tear gas and other non-lethal weapons to contain massive
demonstrations.

Second, the policemen themselves are strong nationalists who support the
demonstrators' cause and methods. As one Western diplomat put it: "they
don't have their hearts in it because they'd probably prefer to be
throwing

stones at the Israelis themselves." (4)

The Palestinian police showed in the past that it could put down violent
riots aimed against the PA itself. On Friday, November 18, 1994, the PSS
clashing with thousands of Hamas demonstrators outside the Filastin
Mosque
in Gaza killed 13 and wounded about 200 demonstrators. This kind of
resolution could not be demonstrated when demonstrators attack IDF troops.
PSS personnel do not want to be seen as Israeli lackeys and would not even
contemplate opening fire at their own people.

Third, the PSS is responsive to Arafat's orders. This explains the
difference between its performance during the earlier part of the 1996
violence and the role it played during the 2000 violence.

Nevertheless, the PSS also seemed to show less military ability in 2000
compared to the part it played in the rioting of 1996. Despite the heavy
volume of fire exchanged between Palestinian policemen and the IDF--and
despite the long training undergone--Palestinian policemen didn't reach a
high level of marksmanship and proficiency with their weapons. Unlike the
September 1996 riots in which PSS officers succeeded in killing 14 Israeli
soldiers including some senior officers, in the al-Aqsa intifada not one
Israeli soldier has been killed in combat with Palestinian police
officers. This outcome could be attributed to the great efforts the IDF
made since 1996 to improve its troops' protection, but the main reason for
the IDF's low casualty rate lies in the fact that most Palestinian fire
was sporadic and inaccurate. The sniper units were not put into action.

GOOD COP, BAD COP

The main problem in the PSS's operations is lack of coordination among the
various security services and between members of the official security
services and the civilian militias. The PSS is comprised of no less than
12 different services, the most prominent of which are the Civil Police,
National Security Forces, Preventive Security Forces, General
Intelligence, Civil Defense, Military Police, Military Intelligence and
the Presidential Security Forces, better known as Force 17.

Most of the branches have two commanders, equal in rank: one in the West
Bank and the other in the Gaza Strip. Those regional commanders report
directly to Arafat rather than being subjected to an intermediate level of
operational command or a general staff-like body. Competition, suspicion
and tense relations exist between the security chiefs to the extent that
in several cases armed clashes occurred between members of competing
services. Palestinian security apparatuses invest great efforts
undermining each other and are encouraged by Arafat to spy on each other.
Arafat, as a result, is the only one who can arbitrate among the different
forces and through him their chiefs communicate with each other. This
system of command ensures that none of the security forces becomes
powerful enough to pose a threat to Arafat's leadership. But in time of
war Arafat's style of command impairs coordination and unity of effort
between the security apparatuses. Heads of security apparatuses receive,
mostly through unsecured phone lines, contradictory orders from Arafat's
office. Simultaneously, one service may receive an order to tighten
control over the crowd while the other receives an order to loosen it.

Arafat's differing use of his security services can be seen in his
treatment of Hamas and Islamic Jihad members. One PSS unit may be
ordered
to arrest opposition activists while another unit may be instructed to
release Hamas prisoners or allow them to "escape" from prison. IDF head of
the Southern Command Major General Yom-Tov Samia revealed that the
senior
PSS officers who are in daily contact with the IDF are aware of the fact
that Arafat "speaks in a different language with each body in the PA's
security establishment." (5)

Consequently, PSS chiefs do not feel accountable to agreements Israel
entered with their colleagues. Israeli military officials complained that
at least three times during the first two weeks of the clashes they
succeeded in securing commitments by senior PSS military commanders--
among
them commander of National Security Forces in Gaza General Abd al-Raziq
Majaida and his West Bank counterpart General Haj Ismail--to reduce the
violence but to no avail.

The Palestinian commanders admitted that they could not exercise their
control over any security forces not under their direct command. In most
countries, all the branches of the military forces submit to the command
of a general staff headed by a chief of staff. By way of contrast, Arafat
is the only person who controls all the PA's military bodies. But for
seven of the first nine days of the crisis Arafat was away from the battle
scene. Rather than managing the crisis from his command post in Gaza,
Arafat preferred to travel between Jordan, Egypt, France and Spain. In his
absence, the PSS became an even more confused, chaotic organ that did not
have much effect on events on the ground.

The Palestinians' weak system of command and control may undermine their
capability to engage in a long, protracted war against Israel. The
disunity between the services and the absence of a general staff-type body
prevents effective control over essential elements of the war effort such
as supplies, manpower, weapons and ammunition.

Several times during the clashes, Palestinian fighters ran out of
ammunition and had to cease fire. There were warehouses of weapons and
ammunition not far away but these belonged to another security force which
would not reduce its own supplies (and, hence, power) by giving equipment
to another group. There is little mutual logistical assistance among the
forces and they do not coordinate their operations.

THE PROBLEM OF TANZIM

Another problem the PSS face is the growing power of the Tanzim, the armed
wing of Fatah, the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation
Organization. Tanzim led the rioting and confrontation with the IDF in
September 1996 and the Nakba riots of May 2000. It has about 20,000
members, some of whom are armed with automatic weapons and trained by
the
PSS. The turning over of arms to the Tanzim contradicts the Oslo
agreements. The Tanzim's primary duty is to control opposition to Arafat
in the PA. For this purpose, Arafat has been funding and grooming the
organization. At the same time, though, Arafat has distrusted and tried to
undercut the power of the Tanzim's chief, Marwan Barghuti, leader of Fatah
in the West Bank. For his part, Barghuti has often criticized Arafat
indirectly and battled the PA's official security organs, which he accuses
of corruption. The organization, however, has grown in power and prestige,
at the expense of the PA's military apparatus.

Armed Tanzim activists often brush off the uniformed policemen and disobey
their instructions. Palestinian policemen are reluctant to confront the
militia which has grown to become the most visible and active armed body
of the PA. Arafat prefers to yield leading role of his armed intifada to
the popular, plainclothes Tanzim activists since this lets him present the
Palestinian struggle as an authentic popular uprising.

Several times during the first weeks of the clashes, Arafat instructed the
Tanzim to escalate the violence, while at the same time giving his
uniformed security chiefs opposite instructions. As a result, Palestinian
policemen find themselves confronted by an uncontrolled armed force backed
by Arafat. Hence, they are prevented from exercising the power and
authority granted to them by both the Oslo agreement and the PA itself.
Another problem is that many members of Tanzim, especially in the Gaza
Strip, are in fact PSS employees. During the day, these people work as
intelligence agents and police officers enforcing the law. Off-duty, they
participate in the same activities they are being paid to thwart.

One incident demonstrates the complex relations between Tanzim and the
PSS. When a critically wounded IDF soldier was trapped on October 1 in
Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, the IDF requested that two PSS commanders in
the
West Bank, Preventive Security chief Jibril Rajub and Palestinian Police
chief Haj Ismail facilitate his evacuation. But the tomb compound was
surrounded by Tanzim activists. For two hours, the Tanzim prevented the
PSS chiefs from entering the compound. The soldier died of his wounds
before medical assistance was allowed to arrive while the helpless PSS
chiefs stood by powerless to act.

Since the beginning of the clashes, many speculated on the extent in which
Arafat controls the Tanzim. The dominant assessment is that the Tanzim is
tightly controlled by Arafat and will continue to submit to his authority,
whatever personal or political frictions take place between Arafat and
Barghuti. (6)

Yet this situation also creates a new problem for Arafat in regulating the
relations between the official security forces and the unofficial forces
of the Tanzim. Failure to do so would continue to erode the PSS's power,
let the Tanzim claim credit for waging the struggle, and lead more
Palestinian policemen to give their loyalty to the Tanzim and not their
own commanders. As a result, Arafat could face resentment from the
security forces and a challenge from the Tanzim itself.

CONCLUSIONS

At first sight, the PSS's performance during the recent clashes in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip may raise doubts about the Palestinians' military
effectiveness and the PSS's ability to pose a serious challenge to the
IDF. But the apparent weakness of the Palestinian police is more likely
due to a calculated decision by Arafat to spare, at least for the moment,
his uniformed armed forces from the fray.

Arafat seems to have chosen to keep the lion share of his security forces
disengaged from the fighting and put them into action only if and when an
all-out war with Israel broke out. Seeking international sympathy and wary
of the IDF's military superiority, Arafat did not want to escalate the
battle too much. To do so would have destroyed any chance of using a
diplomatic option. Thus, the PSS as such did not launch concerted attacks
or use certain weapons in its possession, while Arafat portrayed the
rioting as a defensive but popular struggle of the masses.

Equally important, Arafat surely knows that an exposure of the PA's true
military capabilities might confirm the Israeli claim that the PA has been
clandestinely developing an army under the disguise of a police force.
Exposing the PA's military capabilities at this stage would be
self-defeating because it would enforce the legitimacy of the Israeli
demands for Palestinian demilitarization as part of future negotiations.
Indeed, to show the capability of the PA's military could also be a
serious disincentive for Israel to make concessions or accept the creation
of an independent Palestinian state. Beyond a certain point, it is against
Arafat's interest to expose the threat that Palestinian forces could pose
to Israel under such circumstances.

A month into the clashes, when Palestinian casualties were 12 times higher
than those of Israel, Jibril Rajub commented in an interview: "So far the
PA has shown restraint in its conflict with Israel but the crimes of the
settlers, the closure, the collective punishment and the heavy hand of the
IDF will leave no other alternative to the PA but to respond." (8) Rajub's
comment should indicate to Israel that it would be imprudent to draw
premature conclusions on the PSS's poor military effectiveness based on
its performance during the events of autumn 2000.

* Lieutenant colonel IDF (Res.) Gal Luft is a doctoral candidate at the
Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and
author of The Palestinian Security Forces: Between Police and Army
(Washington, DC: 1998). His article, "The Palestinian Armed Forces"
appeared in Meria Journal, Vol. 3 No. 2 (June 1999).

Notes
(1) Ha'aretz, July 12, 2000.
(2) Yediot Ahronot, Weekend Supplement, June 23, 2000.
(3) Ha'aretz, June 23, 2000, Yediot Ahronot, November 3, 2000.
(4) The Washington Post, October 22, 2000.
(5) Interview with Maj. General Yom-Tov Samia, Yediot Ahronot, October 8,
2000. (6) Yediot Ahronot, Weekend Supplement, October 13, 2000. (7) For a
discussion of the security forces, the Tanzim, and their political
positions, see Barry Rubin, The Transformation of Palestinian Politics
(NY, 1999). See also Gal Luft, "The Palestinian Armed Forces" Meria
Journal, Vol. 3 No. 2 (June 1999). Available at <http:\\meria.biu.ac.il>.
(8) Ha'aretz, internet edition, October 27, 2000.

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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 17:09:57 -0500

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. ACTION IN AND AROUND RACHEL'S TOMB
   2. VIOLENT WEEKEND CONTINUES TODAY
   3. TALKING PAST EACH OTHER
   4. TWO SOLDIERS BURIED TODAY
   5. COURT ACCEPTS STATE'S APPEAL, CONVICTS KORMAN
   6. GUSH ETZION UNITY
   7. THE CANCELLED CONTRACT
   8. NO DOUBLING UP
   9. IN BRIEF

1. ACTION IN AND AROUND RACHEL'S TOMB The center of today's
Palestinian violence appears to have shifted to the Gaza area (see below),
after the Palestinians marked the Bethlehem region as their main target this
morning. They opened fire in several locations near Bethlehem this morning,
and a 15-minute gun battle atop the Tunnels Highway stopped traffic there.
The highway, between Gush Etzion and Jerusalem, was closed on-and-off to
traffic all morning after shots were fired on an Israeli vehicle; at one point,
motorists driving through the northern tunnel reported to Arutz-7 that they
simply stopped their cars in mid-tunnel when they heard the sounds of the
gunfire outside.

Palestinians also fired nearby at an Egged bus near Solomon's Pools, further
south in Gush Etzion, and further north towards Jerusalem. A heavy barrage
of fire was opened from Beit Jala, immediately after the church services
there, towards Gilo. No one was hurt, and the IDF returned missile fire
towards Beit Jala.

Despite the violence not far away, the IDF allowed worshippers to arrive at
Rachel's Tomb today - but at a very slow pace. Would-be worshippers at the
checkpoint reported at mid-day that at the current rate, not all of them would
succeed in praying at the site. Some of them said they would try to reach
the Tomb on their own. Dozens of Gilo residents came to visit the families
yesterday who set up a Shabbat encampment at a roadblock not far from
Rachel's Tomb. Participants reported that the visitors included both
observant and non-observant Jews, and that the ensuing discussions "were a
great step towards greater brotherly love within Israel."

2. VIOLENT WEEKEND CONTINUES TODAY After a weekend filled with
Palestinian shooting incidents, a bomb exploded in a Kfar Darom
greenhouse this morning; two Jewish farmers standing nearby were not hurt.
Palestinians shot at IDF bases and positions all through the night, and the
soldiers returned the fire. In the Kfar Darom area, long bouts of gunfire were
exchanged between the sides. Gush Katif residents blocked off the main
road near Kfar Darom to Arab traffic, demanding the razing of the buildings
from where Palestinians constantly fire upon them. An explosive was thrown
at a bus near Kibbutz Nachal Oz - near the Gaza Strip, but within pre-1967
Israel - this afternoon. It blew up, but caused no damage.

A woman was wounded by rocks thrown on the Tunnels Highway last night,
and was taken to the hospital for treatment. IDF tanks fired missiles at the
buildings in El Bireh, adjacent to Ramallah, from where heavy fire was shot
upon Psagot last night. Jewish homes in Hevron, too, continue to be the
target of Palestinian fire.

Later this afternoon, another bomb went off near the Karni checkpoint in
Gaza; no one was hurt. There was rioting in Hevron, including Arab rocks
and firebombs on Israeli soldiers; the latter attempted to quell the
disturbances with tear gas and rubber bullets. Similar scenes were repeated
at Ayosh Junction, between Ramallah and Beit El. The army responded with
heavy anti-tank Orev missiles.

3. TALKING PAST EACH OTHER With Prime Minister Barak on his way to
the U.S. to meet with Clinton, the Palestinians announced today that Israel's
"intensified military response of the past few days" will not allow the renewal
of negotiations with Israel. Arafat said again that the intifada will continue
until the "territories are liberated from the Israeli conquest." Hamas leader
Ahmed Yassin called for the upgrading of the intifada to an "armed struggle,"
saying, "We must turn the rock into a bomb, because the enemy only
understands force." He admitted that Hamas' military arm has passed
through a "difficult period," but expressed confidence that it would quickly be
able to return to action.

Prime Minister Barak, for his part, said today that negotiations cannot
continue until the violence is stopped. Members of Barak's entourage fear
that he may face pressure from Clinton to agree to the presence of an
international force in Yesha, in accordance with Palestinian demands.

Senior PA figures told Voice of Palestine Radio said that Israel's killing of
key Tanzim figures in El Bireh during its retaliation on the firing on Psagot
"drags the region into an abyss from which it will be hard to get out."

A high-ranking figure on the Prime Minister's plane made some frank
observations about the diplomatic process on his way to Washington today.
He told Israel Radio reporter Yoni Ben-Menachem that it may well have been
a mistake for Israel to have pressed Arafat to come to Camp David three
months ago, but "there was no other way to clarify what exactly what were
the Palestinian positions." He further said that the government is continuing
to discuss the plans for a physical separation with the Palestinian areas.
There is practically no chance at all to reach a framework agreement with the
Palestinians before Clinton leaves office in January, the high-ranking figure
said. Regarding the Americans, he said that they did not fulfill their Camp
David obligations towards Israel, "for fear of the Arab nations' response."

4. TWO SOLDIERS BURIED TODAY Two Israeli soldiers killed by
Palestinians over the Sabbath were buried today in their respective
hometowns. Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Avner Shalom, 28, of Eilat, was killed
yesterday during a gun battle at the Gush Katif junction, when two
Palestinian security officers opened fire at an IDF jeep. The two attackers
were killed by IDF fire, and their bodies - on whom were found papers
identifying them as PA security men - were returned to the PA as a
"humanitarian gesture." Also yesterday, Sgt. Shachar Vakrat, 20, from Lod,
died from a wound he sustained the day before when a Palestinian sniper
shot him near Rachel's Tomb. The soldiers were leaving the area when the
attack occurred.

5. COURT ACCEPTS STATE'S APPEAL, CONVICTS KORMAN The
Supreme Court today nullified the acquittal of Nachum Korman, the security
officer of Hadar Beitar who had been accused of killing a 12-year-old Arab
rock-thrower four years ago. The Court lowered the charge to the lightest
form of manslaughter, but decided, based on "common sense," to find him
guilty. The Court did not formally accept the testimony of the boy's relatives,
which a lower court had found to be unreliable. The Jerusalem District Court
will hand down the sentence at a later date.

Korman was originally charged with manslaughter in 1996, and was
incarcerated at the time for over eight months. He admitted that he chased
the boy after seeing him throw rocks, but said that the boy fell and sustained
a blow to the neck while running away. No signs of beating were noted when
the boy arrived at Ein Karem Hospital, and a pathological examination after
his death showed only that he suffered a fatal blow to the neck, the origin of
which could not be determined. One of the Arab boys who testified against
Korman later admitted to having fabricated his testimony at the behest of the
dead boy's brother.

In her original ruling, Jerusalem District Court Judge Ruth Orr sharply
criticized Pathologist Dr. Yehuda Hiss for testifying that the boy died as a
result of a beating by Korman. She wrote that Hiss "was carried away by his
desire to find the exact cause of the death... and ignored important
pathological findings that did not correspond with this desire."

The Supreme Court today accepted the State Prosecution's claim that
although Korman was acquitted of killing the boy, no other logical
explanation had been presented for the death. Regarding the many
contradictions in the testimony of central witnesses noted by the judge, the
State Attorney explained, "they were witnesses to a traumatic incident."
The Court today found, as mentioned, that "common sense" dictates that
Korman was responsible for the boy's death. The manslaughter charge was
downgraded one degree because of the fact that Korman administered first
aid to the boy.

Simcha Korman, Nachum's brother, blamed "the media" for the overturning of
his brother's acquittal: "Justice Ruth Orr found him innocent, and was
treated to poisonous criticism by the press for daring to come to that
decision. The present judges were apparently afraid of what the press would
say if they would uphold the acquittal..." He also raised the possibility that
the Court was swayed by a desire to uphold the reputation of State
Pathologist Dr. Hiss.

6. GUSH ETZION UNITY Residents of Gush Etzion will be holding several
simultaneous demonstrations tonight in several locations, focusing on the
unstable security situation in the area. They will be emphasizing the lack of
accessibility to and from their homes, and the pullout of the army from local
areas. One rally, in Efrat, will also protest the government's failure to contain
the violence throughout the country during the past few weeks. Protestors
will build a stone memorial to the more than 20 Israelis who have been killed -
as well as those who have been wounded - "by Arabs seeking to destroy
Jewish life in the land of our fathers." Other rallies will be held in Beitar and
in Alon Shvut.

Arutz-7's Chezy Goldberg reports that the Deputy Mayor of Beitar, Yitzchak
Pindres, will relocate his office tonight to a site along the main road to Beitar
that has been a favorite for Arab rock-throwers. The site is known as "The
Lone House," the roof of which Arabs climb and rain large rocks on no-longer
unsuspecting Israeli drivers. It is located between the Tzur Hadassah
checkpoint and the turnoff to Beitar Illit.

7. THE CANCELLED CONTRACT Atty. Baruch Ben-Yosef explained to Arutz-
7 today the sequence of events leading to the erstwhile settling of a court
case between a group of students of Rabbi Meir Kahane and Jerusalem's
Binyanei Ha'Umah (ICC): "I personally signed a contract with ICC for us to
hold a major event there commemorating the tenth anniversary of the murder
of Rabbi Kahane. We thought it would be appropriate for ICC, which is
partially owned by the Jewish Agency, to host this evening, because Rabbi
Kahane, among all the other great things he did for the people of Israel,
brought many many Jews to Israel and to Judaism... It was clear that they
knew exactly what the event was for, as it was clearly written that it was an
evening of lectures in memory of Rabbi Kahane - and they even demanded
an additional sum for special guards.... However, when Labor MK Ophir
Pines turned to the ICC, they suddenly informed me that they were canceling
the contract. They told me that they didn't know that Rabbi Kahane had
been outlawed from running for Knesset. This is a strange claim, as it is
public knowledge... I turned to the court... At the hearing this past Friday,
ICC accepted a deal that I wouldn't have accepted had I been in their place -
namely, their immediate payment of 17,500 shekels for canceling the
contract, plus the option for us to sue them for further damages afterwards."
Ben-Yosef said that the event will be held this Thursday as planned: "We're
working on finding another place."

8. NO DOUBLING UP Benny Kashriel - Chairman of the Yesha Council and
Mayor of Ma'aleh Adumim - opined today that the fact that both Ehud Barak
and Shlomo Ben-Ami each serve in two important positions is harmful to
proper government functioning. "Ben-Ami is both Public Security Minister -
in charge of the police - and Foreign Minister. Barak is both Prime Minister
and Defense Minister. In both these cases, each of the jobs is a full-time
position that requires the full attention of the person who holds it. In addition,
there is a measure of conflict of interests involved in each of the pairs..."

9. IN BRIEF Leah Rabin, widow of the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin
and mother of MK Dalia Pilosoph, passed away at the age of 72. She had
been hospitalized in Rabin Medical Center for the past few weeks, and finally
succumbed to a heart attack late this morning. Mrs. Rabin died just as the
country had completed several days of memorial ceremonies for her
husband; the fifth anniversary of his death occurred just two days ago... Yad
Vashem Holocaust Museum will hold the first-ever Holocaust seminar for
Austrian educators, beginning tonight at the Eldan Hotel in Jerusalem.
Nineteen educators from a number of Austrian states will take part in the two-
week seminar at Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies,
which is being financed by the Austrian Ministry of Education... The strange
hijacking of a Chechenyan airplane to Israel last night ended with a whimper
at around 10:30 this morning. It had originally been reported that between
two and four hijackers who wished to show solidarity with the Palestinians
were involved, it soon became clear that there was only one hijacker and that
he was in an unstable mental state. Prime Minister Barak, on his way to the
U.S. to meet with President Clinton, stopped in London, with the intention of
returning to Israel to deal with the crisis; following its peaceful conclusion, he
turned around again to head for Washington...

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Subject: [bprlist] Pro-Palestinian Hackers Threaten AT&T
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 17:13:13 -0500

Pro-Palestinian Hackers Threaten AT&T

(11/10/00, 5:17 p.m. ET) By Barnaby Page, TechWeb News
AT&T Corp. could be the next target of the hacking war which is running
parallel to the violent Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Security-information company LogiKeep Inc. said that notes posted in recent
anti-Israel site defacements indicate that attacks against the
telecommunications company are planned.

It is the latest shot in an online war that is being fought far from Gaza and
the West Bank. There are also indications that hackers are active within
Saudi Arabia, although they have not been linked to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.

The messages on the defaced sites, from a group called GForce Pakistan,
suggest the group is planning to reroute traffic from AT&T (stock: T) to
competitor Qwest Communications International Inc. (stock: Q).

The notes predict more attacks against Israel and offer help in coordinating
the actions.

More than 40 sites have been attacked by the two sides since Oct. 6,
according to security consultants Infrastructure Defense Inc., Fairfax, Va.

Attacks on Palestinian websites have come from western Europe, according
to Arab sources, while leading Israeli ISP NetVision claims that it has been
targeted by hackers from the U.S., Germany, and Scandinavia as well as
Lebanon, a center of pro-Palestinian optimism.

Pakistani involvement became apparent last week when the website of the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a Washington, D.C. lobby group,
was brought down by a hacker styling himself "Doctor Nuker," who has been
responsible for more than 80 attacks over the past year under the guise of
the Pakistani Hackerz Club.

Contacted online by TechWeb, Doctor Nuker would not comment on his
location.

Given the control that NetVision has over the Internet within the Palestinian
Authority territory and Israel's sophisticated security forces, it is unlikely that
pro-Palestinian attacks come from within the Authority.

However, Arab sources claim Israeli universities have been the source of
some pro-Israeli hacking.

LogiKeep executives speculate that AT&T attacks may stem from a request
by the Israeli government for backup servers from the company. AT&T is
aware of the threats and is prepared to defend its network, a company
spokesman said.

AT&T declined to detail what, if any, additional security steps have been
taken.

Threats against AT&T come days after pro-Palestinian hackers launched a
failed denial-of-service attack against Lucent Technologies Inc. (stock: LU).

Separately, TechWeb has learned that the website of a European e-tailer
was subjected to an apparent denial-of-service attack late this summer
originating from Saudi Arabia.

No motive was apparent, casting doubt on the secretive kingdom's control of
the Internet.

All international IP traffic from Saudi Arabia's approximately 27 ISPs goes
through a small number of proxies at the Internet Services Unit, King Abdul
Aziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh (KACST-ISU), which says
logs are kept.

However, a manager at the European e-tailer said that when he asked for an
investigation, KACST-ISU replied that it had lost the logs.

"This means that anybody in Saudi can do what they like and can't be
traced," he said, adding: "We now block all traffic coming from their routers
at our firewall."

KACST-ISU spokesman Fahad Hoymany said: "We take hacking and
network abuse very seriously, and we do not tolerate that in Saudi Arabia.
KACST-ISU has demanded a set of procedures be carried out by all ISPs to
try to deter hacking and spamming attempts. These include anti-address-
spoofing measures and logs of activities."

Regulations outlining fines and other penalties for offenders would be issued
shortly, he said, adding that he was not aware of any hacking prosecutions
in Saudi Arabia to date.

The number of Internet users in Saudi Arabia is estimated to reach 300,000
by the end of this year. KACST-ISU figures suggest most are young,
educated people connecting from home, although other reports say that
Internet cafes are growing in importance.

Tarik Allagany, spokesman for the Saudi embassy in Washington, declined
to comment.

InformationWeek's George V. Hulme and Bob Wallace contributed to this
report.

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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 17:21:58 -0500

Hamas Leader: Exchange Stones For Bombs

Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin today called on the Palestinians to
"exchange stones for bombs" until Israel withdraws from the territories. "The
only thing the enemy understands is force," Yassin said. "We must cause
them more losses." Jerusalem Post

Arafat at Doha: 'Continue Holy War'

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has called for holy war and a
continuation of the "Al-Aksa Intifada" against Israel. Arafat made the
statement a short while ago in an opening speech at the Organization of the
Islamic Conference summit in Doha, Quatar. The PA Chairman also said,
"The Palestinians would continue the Intifada and the Jihad (holy war) until
the Israeli occupation is ended." Arafat asked for practical assistance from
Arab leaders at the conference in order to realize Palestinian claims of the
"Right of Return" and to create a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as it's
capital, Israel Radio said. Jerusalem Post

Iran Proposes Mideast Plan

As Islamic World Looks To Unite Against Israel Iran's President Mohammad
Khatami called Sunday for "resolute action" and proposed a Middle East
peace plan at the outset of an Islamic summit aimed at uniting the Muslim
world behind the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel. The Iranian vision of
a four-point plan unveiled in the Qatari capital was centred on a multi-faith
state in the former Palestine before the creation of Israel in 1948. Khatami
called for the "return of all Palestinian refugees to Palestine" and a
democratic referendum of the original Muslim, Jewish and Christian
inhabitants to decide on a future form of government. The aim would be to
establish a democratic Palestinian state over the whole of historical
Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, he said. The independent state
would have the right to decide who lives there. Iran is a fierce opponent of the
US-brokered Middle East peace process which now lies in tatters and it
refuses to recognise Israel. AFP

Islamic Summit Opens With Strong Words Of Support For Palestinians

Twenty-four heads of state are attending the summit in addition to prime
ministers and other officials. The three-day summit will devote a large chunk
of time to the Palestinian-Israeli violence that erupted September 28, killing
more than 180 people, most of them Palestinian. Khatami began his address
by asking participants to stand and recite a special verse for the dead from
the Koran, the Islamic holy book, to honor Palestinians killed in the latest
violence. Foreign ministers who prepared for the gathering have issued a draft
of the final declaration, extending unqualified support for the Palestinian
leadership and the uprising and lashing out at Israel. Ha'aretz

Relations Between Lebanon And Syria Improve

Sheikh Sabri, Mufti of the Palestinian Authority and Jerusalem, who returned
this weekend from a visit to Damscus, said that Syrian President Bashar al-
Assad "agrees in principle" to allow PA residents to enter Syria.

Syria, which until now did not recognize PA passports, will also allow several
Palestinian students to attend Syria's universities, Sabri said. This is a
change in Syrian policy, after years of animosity between the late Hafez al-
Assad and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat.

The first indications of this change occured over a month ago when Arafat
and Bashar al-Assad had their first telephone conversation. Following that,
Syrian hospitals have in the last few weeks treated Palestinians injured in
the recent clashes. Ha'aretz

Palm Beach County Election Officials Order Full Hand Recount

Palm Beach County election officials voted early Sunday to order a manual
recount of all votes cast in the county during last week's presidential
election. A full manual recount would involve reviewing more than 400,000
ballots by hand in one of South Florida's most populous counties. It was not
immediately clear when such a recount would take place -- because
Republicans are challenging Florida recounts in court. Appearing before
reporters at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Palm Beach County's three-person
canvassing board voted 2 to 1 to ask for the hand recount after reviewing
hundreds of ballots checked in four sample precincts in Palm Beach
County. CNN

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