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Subject: [bprlist] Bug-propelled subs
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:53:18 -0500
BUG-PROPELLED SUBS
Meanwhile there may soon be something novel swimming about in your
body. Microscopic submarines powered by bacteria could zip through your
veins and arteries, delivering drugs or zapping tumours. OK, so you saw
the movie years ago. But this time Fantastic Voyage could be a little
closer to reality. Researchers in Utah developing the novel biomotor hope
to start building a prototype within a few months.
http://www.newscientist.com/nl/1125/bugpropelled.html
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Subject: [bprlist] Israel Says Arafat Signals to Revive Peace Talks
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:53:18 -0500
November 23 1:14 AM ET
Israel Says Arafat Signals to Revive Peace Talks
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo
Ben-Ami said on Thursday he was told by Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright that Palestinian President Yasser Arafat wanted to revive stalled
peace talks. Ben-Ami said Albright called him overnight after speaking to the
Palestinian leader, who was quoted as saying he wanted to renew
deadlocked peace talks and halt a two-month cycle of violence in which
more than 250 people, most of them Palestinian, have been killed.
``I don't know if it is a serious proposal but this is at least what the man
(Arafat) did in a phone call he initiated to her (Albright). This is what she told
me last night,'' Ben-Ami told Israel Radio.
``If there is anything real in this...it could be that there is a certain signaling
of distress and a desire to get out of this cycle,'' he said. ``It is our obligation
to allow the Americans to check out this thing.''
Ben-Ami said Albright called him after Israel's security cabinet met to
discuss a car bomb that had ripped through the heart of the northern Israeli
city of Hadera on Wednesday evening, killing two people and wounding
dozens.
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Subject: [bprlist] IDF: Summary of Today's Events (11/22/00)
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:00:18 -0500
IDF Spokesperson: Summary of Today's Events in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip (correct for 19:45 22 November 2000)
22 November 2000
[IMRA note: Many subscribers have asked why the word "activist" is used to
describe members of a Palestinian militia. They note that the term gives the
uninformed audience (including apparently US Secretary of State Albright) the
impression that the Tanzeem is some political movement that organizes
get-out-the-vote drives and rallies rather than an illegally armed force that
carries out terrorist strikes.
The IDF material is provided in English but it should be noted that the
problem is not with the translation. The original Hebrew uses the term
"peilim", virtually the same word.]
The West Bank
An Israeli civilian and an IDF soldier were lightly wounded this afternoon
at the Sheep Junction, close to the village of Bet Hagai near Hebron. The
two were evacuated for treatment to the brigade headquarters close to the
scene of the event.
A border policeman was lightly wounded from stones thrown at him, close to
Ma'ale Michmash. Another soldier was lightly wounded by a stone in
disturbances near the village of Baka al Sharkiya, close to Tul Karem. Both of
the wounded were evacuated for medical treatment in hospital.
An Israeli civilian was lightly wounded from shots fired toward the vehicle he
was traveling in on the road to Psagot in the last few minutes. The civilian is
being treated in the local infirmary.
Palestinian gunfire was opened this evening from the direction of Arab Tekoa
toward and IDF force in the region. Our forces are returning fire toward the
sources of fire.
Two shooting incidents occurred this evening toward a civilian vehicle and a
military Jeep. The shooting came from passing vehicles on the road between
Talmon and Nachlieli, north of Ramallah. There were no casualties and no
damage
was caused. IDF forces are operating in the area.
Violent disturbances occurred today in the following locations: The Ayosh
Junction, north of Ramallah, the area of Al Fawar, close to Hebron, the
Kalandiya refugee camp, north of Jerusalem. In all of these incidents our
forces responded with crowd dispersal measures. We have no casualties.
In the past hour fire was opened toward the village of Psagot from the
direction of Al Bireh. IDF forces are returning fire toward the sources of
the shooting.
The Gaza Strip
During initiated activity by the IDF in the region of Morag, the IDF killed a
senior activist in the Fatah-Tanzim, Gamal A-Kader Hasan A-Razak during an
attempt to stop him, as he was traveling in his vehicle on the road between
Rafiah and Khan Yunis and he attempted to break through an IDF roadblock.
In
this incident, three other terrorists were killed.
The IDF Spokesperson emphasizes that IDF forces will continue to act in a
determined and directed manner against terrorist targets, and will strike at
anyone endangering the lives of Israeli civilians.
An improvised hand grenade exploded this morning, close to the greenhouses
of the village of Netzer Hazani. In the past hour there are exchanges of
fire at an IDF position on the Israeli-Egyptian border, close to Rafiah.
During the day there were disturbances at various focal points (stone
throwing, petrol bombs and tire burning): the area of Morag village, on the
Karni-Netzarim route, on the border fence north of Kisufim, and on the border
fence close to El-Bureij and toward an IDF position on the Israeli-Egyptian
border close to Rafiah. IDF forces responded with crowd dispersal measures.
Contrary to publications in the media, there were no IAF strikes, neither in the
West Bank nor the Gaza Strip.
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Subject: [bprlist] The cost of [US] evenhandedness
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:03:03 -0500
The Jerusalem Post editorial: The cost of [US] evenhandedness
(November 23) - Last night's grisly bombing in Hadera demonstrates that
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's limitation on attacks from
Palestinian areas, far from being a cease-fire, means that Israel itself is a
free-fire zone. If US President Bill Clinton's pallid tolerance of Palestinian
aggression continues, Israel will have no alternative but further military
escalation.
On Monday morning, an Israeli school bus was bombed, killing two teachers
and maiming at least three children for life. That day, Israel responded
with missile strikes pinpointed on the headquarters and training bases of
Fatah, the Tanzim, and Force 17, the forces that have led the armed attack.
The
State Department did not tarry in its response: Israel should "understand that
the use of excessive force is not the right way to go." Though it was the
strongest retaliation against the continuing wave of Palestinian terrorism until
this writing, the response to the bombing of children clearly fell in the
category of a dramatic signal rather than sustained warfare. No one believes
that attacks against mostly empty buildings seriously raises the price of
Palestinian aggression or will degrade their ability to carry out future
attacks. Even the subsequent killing of a mid-level Fatah military leader
cannot
be considered more than minimal tit-for-tat retaliation, as opposed to an
attempt at the decisive use of force.
Within Israel, the government's policy is rightly seen as one of maximum
restraint, given the massive pressures to, as the slogan goes, "let the IDF
win." Even the reporters at the US State Department were having some
trouble
understanding what spokesman Richard Boucher would consider a proper
response,
given his strong implication that Israel had acted excessively.
When asked how the US felt about the economic measures Israel has taken,
Boucher replied, "We don't believe that squeezing the Palestinians
economically is the right course of action." Nor is the US pincer action
limited to the military and economic fronts.
When Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami had the temerity to suggest, in
effect,
that the international "fact-finding" mission be linked to a cease-fire on the
ground, the US responded - no dice. "We understand Israel's concern that it
will
be difficult for the fact-finding committee to operate in a violent atmosphere,"
White House spokesman P.J. Crowley said. "At the same time we believe
the
fact-finding commission can play a role in assessing the reasons for the
crisis."
The US position can be summarized thus: You, Israel, have no right to defend
yourself either militarily, economically, or diplomatically. The best thing you
can do, friend, is to sit quietly as your soldiers, citizens, and children are
picked off and blown up, and wait for Yasser Arafat to return to the negotiating
table.
It would be some, however minor, comfort if the US refusal to support even
minimal and largely symbolic Israeli efforts at self-defense were a function of
State Department evenhandedness run amuck, not the will of the president.
Unfortunately, there is no basis for such a conclusion.
Clinton has become so involved in the Arab-Israeli struggle that he is
informally referred to as the peace process' "desk officer." More
fundamentally, it is Clinton himself who has been unwaveringly evenhanded
since the Palestinian attack against Israel began.
On Sunday, when asked point-blank by CNN whether the burden for getting
back to
negotiations lay on one side or the other, Clinton offered, "I can't really say
more than that it's a troubling, difficult, and painful situation, and we've got
to find a way to end the violence. You don't have to end every single instance
of it, but there has to be a dramatic reduction in the violence before the
parties can talk again and make commitments again that could constitute a
peace
agreement."
The theme that both sides are equally responsible for "the cycle of
violence" is repeated ad nauseum by Clinton and all senior administration
officials, including Secretary of Defense William Cohen during his visit
yesterday. The implications of the US refusal to call aggression and
terrorism by their name is as simple as it is deadly: Israeli and
Palestinian blood will continue to flow.
Before he became president, Bill Clinton told Jewish groups that his beloved
pastor made him swear on his deathbed never to turn his back on the Jewish
state. This story captures Clinton's image, both here and in the US, as the
best
friend Israel has ever had.
In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday Americans celebrate today, Israel
must
never take for granted that critical and unique bonds of support exist within
the US. At times like this, however, Clinton's bear hug foreign policy costs
lives. The assault on Israel will only end when the US supports Israel's right
to minimal self defense and imposes a steep diplomatic price on continued
Palestinian aggression.
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Subject: [bprlist] PA 2nd in command supervised terrorist attacks
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:06:03 -0500
Ha'aretz: Security sources have solid evidence PA Col. Dahlan's 2nd in
command supervised terrorist attacks
By Amos Harel Ha'aretz Military Correspondent Ha'aretz 23 November 2000
Security sources said yesterday that Israel obtained "hard" intelligence, prior
to its aerial bombardment of Gaza on Monday night, that senior figures in
Fatah and in Mohammed Dahlan's preventive security apparatus were
responsible for bomb attacks against Israelis in the Gaza Strip, including the
bomb which struck a school bus at Kfar Daron on Monday morning, killing
two adult passengers and wounding several children.
According to evidence in the hands of the security system, Dahlan's second-
in-command, Rashid Abu-Shabak, personally supervised the preparation of
the Kfar Darom bomb and prepared the explosive devices used in other bomb
attacks in the Gaza Strip. At least some of the other guerrillas involved in the
Kfar Darom bus attack have been identified by army and Shin Bet
intelligence, including a senior member of the Fatah movement from a well-
known family in the south of the Gaza Strip.
The evidence of the involvement of Dahlan's people in the bombings
strengthens the position of those IDF commanders who call for Israel to
implement effective means against these actions. It appears, however, that
the political leadership and a portion of the senior IDF command remains
hesitant about taking such a step out of concern that it would lead to a fierce
escalation in the territories. To date, Israel has concentrated on actions
against senior Fatah operatives in the field, such as Jamal Abdel Razeq, who
was killed by an IDF-initiated action to the north of Rafah yesterday, rather
than at the heads of the Palestinian security apparatus or more senior Fatah
leaders.
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Subject: [bprlist] Three groups bid for Israel Electric gas contract
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:08:36 -0500
Ha'aretz: Three groups bid for Israel Electric gas supply contract -
Egyptian delegate came to present quote in person
By Amiram Cohen Ha'aretz Energy Correspondent Ha'aretz 23 November
2000
Three groups yesterday submitted quotes to supply 35 billion cubic meters
of natural gas to the Israel Electric Corporation on a 15 to 20-year contract.
The three - Yam Thetis, British Gas (BG) and EMG - have been in lengthy
negotiations with the IEC on the technical parameters of the contract before
submitting quotes. Sources among the interested groups told Ha'aretz the
prices quoted are 20-30 percent below the current price of gas on
international markets.
In terms of the current world price ($5 per 1,000 cubic feet on U.S. markets)
the value of the IEC supply contract is $4.5 billion. This would mean that as
a result of the competition between the suppliers IEC would save $0.9-1.3
billion for the duration of the contract.
Yam Thetis is made up of the Israeli gas exploration partnerships Delek
Drilling and Avner Oil Exploration, and the American drilling firm, Samidan.
The BG consortium comprises the Isramco oil and gas exploration company
and MEE, in which Clal Industries, Dor Chemicals and Israel Petrochemical
Enterprises are partners.
The Israel-Egypt pipeline company EMG includes the Egyptian national
petroleum company EGPC, a private Egyptian company owned by Hussein
Salam, and the Merhav firm owned by Yosef Maiman.
Until yesterday the status of Isramco, which has discovered some 10 billion
cubic meters in gas reserves, remained unclear. The company was
negotiating to join the bids both as part of the Yam Thetis group, and as part
of the BG consortium.
Isramco decided to join BG after the British group offered better terms than
Yam Thetis. Under the agreement between the two companies, the sale of
gas from Isramco's Or and Nir drilling sites will take precedence over the sale
of gas from the BG gas reserves in Gaza.
The consortium they formed "has created a heavyweight competitor against
the gas-supply option from Egypt," said the director-general of Dor
Chemicals, Zvi Mor.
Ahmed Salash, the director-general of the pipeline company, arrived from
Egypt with his deputy to submit the quote of the EMG group to IEC. A senior
source in the company said the Egyptians chose to submit their quote
personally so as to stress their willingness to continue trade ties with Israel.
The IEC will spend the next few days studying and evaluating the quotes. In
mid-December, the company will ask the potential suppliers to submit final
quotations, and in January the IEC is expected to sign draft contracts with
the group or groups it chooses to supply the gas.
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Subject: [bprlist] NOV/23/00 [5] Another terror attack in Gaza
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:09:31 -0500
BreakingNews-Israel
Two soldiers seriously injured in fourth Gaza attack on Thursday (NOV.23
=96
14:27-IST)
(IsraelWire-11/23) Air force helicopters are evacuating at least two IDF
soldiers who were seriously wounded in a bomb/shooting attack in the area
of the Erez Crossing in northern Gaza. The attack is the third involving
explosive devices and automatic weapons fire at Erez today and the fourth
in Gaza.
A gun battle is taking place at Erez at this time.
There is no additional information at this time regarding the condition of
the soldiers wounded in the 12:10pm bomb attack in southern Gaza, in the
southern DCO command near Neve Dekalim.
IsraelWire will provide additional details as they are made available.
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Subject: [bprlist] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Terrorist_killed_in_Nablus_=91work_accident=92?
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:13:39 -0500
Terrorist killed in Nablus =91work accident=92
(IsraelWire-11/23) Israel Radio is reporting that Islamic Jihad terror
ist
Ibrahim Bani Odeh, who was killed in the autonomous city of Nablus
earlier Thursday, died when a bomb in his vehicle detonated prematurel
y.
PA sources are reporting the civilian was killed in an Israel Air Forc
e
attack launched from a helicopter, with a rocket striking his car.
IDF sources deny the attack theory, stating it has no basis in truth.
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Subject: [bprlist] Arutz-7 News (11/23/00)
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:36:10 -0500
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Thursday, Nov. 23, 2000 / Cheshvan 25, 5761
TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. IDF OFFICER AND SOLDIER KILLED BY PALESTINIANS
2. 30 WOUNDED STILL HOSPITALIZED
3. GOLAN DRIVERS VOLUNTEER IN GAZA
4. MASS RALLY DEMANDS: "LET THE IDF WIN!"
5. SHARON DEMANDS END TO CAMP DAVID
6. AMERICAN BALANCE
7. THE "NEW LIGHT"
8. IN BRIEF
9. GSS HEAD RESPONDS TO PSAGOT PETITION
1. IDF OFFICER AND SOLDIER KILLED BY PALESTINIANS For the fourth
consecutive day, fatal terrorist attacks claimed Israeli lives today. The first
attack involved a grenade thrown from a Palestinian area into the N'vei
Dekalim DCO (District Coordinating Office), at which Israeli and Palestinian
security personnel are supposed to work together. Lt. Eduard Mechnik was
killed, and two soldiers were lightly injured. Two hours later, at the Erez
Checkpoint, also in Gaza, a bomb explosion killed one soldier and critically
injured another. The IDF has ordered all Palestinian para-military forces
throughout Judea, Samaria, and Gaza to leave the DCO offices, effectively
ending Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation; the order has not yet been
carried out.
Earlier today, two bombs exploded near the fence of Kibbutz Erez, just north
of Gaza; no one was hurt, but in the ensuing battle, soldiers managed to kill
one terrorist and wound another. A Border Guard policeman was lightly
wounded by Palestinian shots near Tulkarm late today.
A major battle raged south of Bethlehem this afternoon between Israeli forces
and Palestinians this afternoon; the Tunnels Highway between Jerusalem
and Gush Etzion was closed for a short while today because of the shooting.
Another terrorist who was recently released, Ibrahim Bani Ouda, was killed
today. Palestinian sources claim he was killed in an Israeli helicopter attack
today north of Shechem, but Israel says that he was killed in a "work
accident" in the course of preparing an explosive device. A three-minute
volley of fire was also opened upon Gilo late this afternoon, causing damage
to two apartments.
2. 30 WOUNDED STILL HOSPITALIZED More than half of the 50+ people -
including an Israeli-Arab baby girl and her father, as well as a 23-year-old
woman whose leg was amputated - who were wounded in yesterday's
Palestinian car-bomb attack in Hadera are still hospitalized. Meir Brami, 35,
and Shoshana Ris, 21, were killed, and were buried this afternoon in Hadera.
Five people were wounded seriously in the bombing.
Last night's emergency security cabinet meeting ended with a decision not
to react to the attack, which took place within pre-1967 Israel. Foreign
Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami said that Israel wishes to give U.S. Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright's new ceasefire initiative a chance to succeed.
Another consideration in the cabinet's no-decision was Shimon Peres' report
to Barak that Yasser Arafat had called him last night and said that he was
interested in stopping the violence. The cabinet will convene again at 9 PM
tonight.
3. GOLAN DRIVERS VOLUNTEER IN GAZA Twenty bus drivers from the
Golan have volunteered to replace their colleagues in Gush Katif for a week,
in light of the difficult security situation there. Five drivers at a time will
spend a week in Katif, while their colleagues from the south - and their
families - will be hosted as guests of the Golan Regional Council, with a full
program planned for them. Uzi Mordechai, one of the drivers and the head of
the Golan Council Labor Union, told Arutz-7, "We wish in this way to show
our solidarity with the drivers of Katif, and Yesha as well, during these
difficult times."
A convoy of dozens of cars made its way to Kfar Darom in Gush Katif in mid-
morning today, as a sign of solidarity with the residents there. Leading the
convoy were Knesset Members of the National Religious Party.
Likud MK Uzi Landau and Education Ministry Director-General Shlomit
Amichai visited Kfar Darom today, paying condolence visits to the family of
Gabi Biton, who was killed on Monday in the school bus bombing. [The
family of Mira Amitai, who was killed in the same attack, is spending the
'shiva' mourning period in Ofrah.] Ms. Amichai decided today to work for the
establishment of a school in Kfar Darom, so that the children there will not
have to travel to school on dangerous roads. She later visited another Gush
Katif community, Atzmonah, and said there that she would bolster the staff
of school psychologists in the area. She praised the "standing power" of the
residents of Gush Katif.
4. MASS RALLY DEMANDS: "LET THE IDF WIN!" Over 100,000 people
gathered at Zion Square in Jerusalem last night to protest the government's
policy of restraint. "Let the IDF Win!" the protestors repeatedly chanted.
Rabbi Moti Elon told the cheering throngs, "The People of Israel are strong!
If its leaders are weak, then they should go home - because the people have
more strength than they do! ... We are often asked, 'What is the alternative?'
The answer is that the alternative is right here - all these people all around
here. Am Yisrael Chai! ... Some people want us to evacuate our children
from these places. But I just spoke to Nogah Cohen, whose three children
are hospitalized in Be'er Sheva after the school bus bombing, and she asked
me to relay this message: We will not leave here!"
Opposition party leaders also spoke: Likud leader Ariel Sharon declared that
the Oslo agreement was "dead," while Rabbi Yitzchak Levy (NRP), who lost
his daughter in the terrorist bombing in Jerusalem three weeks ago, said,
"We ask, after so many attacks on the same road [near Kfar Darom], is it
impossible for the army to protect one kilometer of roadway? It is a short
stretch - is it possible that the army cannot keep the road open and safe?
No! Of course the army can! It can do it! With the help of G-d, the IDF has
great strength, and we are able to win, but the government is apparently not
letting it. But we can win! We must know that we must not lose hope for
even a moment. We do not surrender. The Land of Israel is ours, and here
we will stay, and with G-d's help, we will win!"
MK Rehavam Ze'evi (National Union) was later asked to outline how the
government should respond to the ongoing terrorism, and responded, "There
is certainly no intention to go bombing innocent civilians. I will not go into
exact operational details here and now, but Muhammad Dahlan, for instance,
should be made into a target, and so should Yasser Arafat if he continues
along the path of terrorism... You will now ask me, 'but in the end we will
have to sit and negotiate anyway?' Of course we will have to - but the
question is in what position will we be for these negotiations - a position of
weakness and defeat, or a position of victory and strength?"
5. SHARON DEMANDS END TO CAMP DAVID Likud leader Ariel Sharon
continued this morning to reject calls from Ehud Barak and other public
figures to join a national emergency government. Even after today's attacks
in Gaza, Labor MK Ophir Paz asked Sharon to "set aside partisan concerns
during this time of emergency," but Sharon said that Labor is attempting to
use the crisis for its "political survival."
Sharon explained this morning that there is no point in joining a government
that will continue its efforts to reach an agreement with Arafat based on the
Camp David concessions. "I asked Barak straight out," said Sharon today,
"if you want me to go with you, tell me where you are headed - and he
refused to answer. This is because he knows that secret negotiations are
going on even right now, while the violence continues. And let's not be naive:
they are not just contacts to stop the violence. They are negotiations based
on his Camp David concessions, and we refuse to join a government that will
split Jerusalem or that will give away the Jordan Valley."
Shinui party leader Yosef Lapid, who is attempting to facilitate a unity
government, told Arutz-7 today, "After speaking with Barak and Sharon, I feel
that both sides sound like they understand the need [for such a move], but I
don't know if they will come to an agreement in their meeting that is
apparently planned for tonight. Sharon demands elections within a few
months and the nullification of the Camp David proposals; I personally am in
favor of new elections a year from now. Regarding Camp David, I think it
should be sufficient to say that no progress on negotiations will be made
without approval of the emergency government's cabinet... Sharon's
suspicions of Barak are well founded, since Barak's treatment of the Likud
and of Shinui in the past was shameful." Lapid and Shas leader Eli Yeshai,
political rivals of the first order, made a dramatic announcement last night
that they would be willing to sit together in the same government during the
emergency period.
MK Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the right-wing opposition party Yisrael
Beiteinu, is against any form of a unity government: "I would never be willing
to sit in the same government with Beilin and Barak, and it's time for the
nationalist camp to stop stuttering on this issue... We see that Barak
continues to weaken the country, he has failed in everything he touched, and
as long as he is in charge, it keeps getting worse. We need new elections;
once that is agreed upon, then we will support him during the interim
emergency period. Look what's going on: Arafat promotes - by two ranks! -
a policeman who kills Israelis, and the Peres' and Beilins still say that we
should talk with him..."
6. AMERICAN BALANCE U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made
a most balanced and impartial call yesterday for both the Israelis and the
Palestinians to "resolve [their differences] around a negotiating table, not
through unilateral actions... now is not the time for trading accusations."
She was specific in her demands on both sides: "For the Palestinian
Authority, this means ending shootings against Israelis, creating buffers
between demonstrators and the IDF, ending incitement to violence, and
arresting those responsible for terrorism regardless of to which organization
they belong. For the Israelis, this means withdrawing their forces to
positions prior to the onset of the crisis, ending the economic restrictions
against Palestinians, and restraining their use of force."
It should be noted that Israel has already carried out the above demands
more than once over the past two months, while the Palestinians have not
carried out their end of the above "bargain."
The New York Times similarly equated the two sides this week when it
editorialized, "With the horror of the bus blast, which left two adults dead and
several children mutilated, and the Israeli missile attacks against Palestinian
targets in Gaza, there is a strong potential for the spiral of violence to
resume... It is imperative for both sides to try to find their way back to the
paths of restraint they were exploring."
An editorial in the Jerusalem Post, on the other hand, explained the situation
differently: "On Monday morning, an Israeli school bus was bombed, killing
two teachers and maiming at least three children for life. That day, Israel
responded with missile strikes pinpointed on the headquarters and training
bases of Fatah, the Tanzim, and Force 17, the forces that have led the
armed attack... When asked how the US felt about the economic measures
Israel has taken, [a spokesman] replied, "We don't believe that squeezing
the Palestinians economically is the right course of action." When Foreign
Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami had the temerity to suggest, in effect, that the
international "fact-finding" mission be linked to a cease-fire on the ground,
the US responded - no dice... The US position can be summarized thus:
You, Israel, have no right to defend yourself either militarily, economically, or
diplomatically. The best thing you can do, friend, is to sit quietly as your
soldiers, citizens, and children are picked off and blown up, and wait for
Yasser Arafat to return to the negotiating table... The theme that both sides
are equally responsible for "the cycle of violence" is repeated ad nauseum by
Clinton and all senior administration officials, including Secretary of Defense
William Cohen during his visit yesterday. The implications of the US refusal
to call aggression and terrorism by their name is as simple as it is deadly:
Israeli and Palestinian blood will continue to flow."
7. THE "NEW LIGHT" Rabbi Ophir Cohen of Kfar Darom is the father of the
three siblings who were wounded during Monday's terrorist bombing on the
school bus in Gaza. He spoke today with Arutz-7 from the hospital in which
his children are being treated: "Thank G-d, they are alive - even if not totally
complete - but all systems are functioning well. Orit [12, whose right foot
was amputated] and Yehuda [7, who lost his right leg below the knee] are
both recuperating... It's very difficult, very painful for them, but at least with
them we know what is going on. Eight-year-old Tehilla, however, is at these
minutes beginning another operation that we hope will save her legs. One of
the legs is in worse condition than the other, it will be a very complicated
process, but there is a good staff here, and we hope that G-d will use them
as good emissaries to do the work." He emotionally described how much
support his family had received from all over the country: "...there is simply
a deluge here of so many people of Am Yisrael are here, even those who
don't agree with us politically, for instance five hi-tech people from Tel Aviv,
and a family from Or Yehuda, and a grandmother from Jerusalem, and so
many others, and musicians, and regular people... It is just amazing... I
have here hundreds of letters and faxes, and packages, from people who we
don't know, but who feel the connection - it all means that the heart of the
nation is beating together. True, there are some individuals who are a bit, I
would say, strange - some Beilins and some Mothers [a reference to the
Four Mothers, a group that calls for Israel's retreat] - but these are only the
margins, really - I hear from the newspaper people who are here also: people
are talking differently today. The people know, in the most natural way
possible, that this experiment [Oslo] was a total failure, they are with us,
they know what is good for the Jews, and what the truth is. It's just the
intelligentsia that is a bit behind, not so connected. They talk about a 'New
Middle East,' but we know that the "new" is really [that which we recite in our
prayers], 'May a new light dawn upon Zion.'"
8. IN BRIEF The Tanzim-Fatah leader who was killed yesterday was
responsible for terrorist attacks against soldiers some ten years ago. After
being imprisoned in Israel for seven years, he was released last year under
the terms of the first Sharm a-Sheikh agreement, despite a petition to the
Supreme Court by the Terror Victims Association. He was responsible for
many terrorist attacks in Gaza over the past few weeks... The IDF Gaza
Commander, Brig.-Gen. Ya'ir Naveh plans to retire from the army at the end
of his current tenure. He told the weekly Makor Rishon that one of the
reasons is the fact that Brig.-Gen. Effie Eitam was not promoted. It is widely
assumed that Eitam's religious observance was that which caused Chief of
Staff Mofaz and Defense Minister Barak to pass him by. Naveh, religiously-
observant himself, said that Eitam is very talented, and that many less-
talented officers were promoted above him... A delegation from the Institute
of Archaeology of Xian, capital of ancient China and of present-day China's
Shansi Province, is currently visiting Israel as part of a scholarly exchange
between the Chinese institute and Hebrew University's Institute of
Archaeology. The Chinese delegation is touring a number of archaeological
sites in Israel, including Dan, Beit She'an, Tzippori, Hatzor and Jerusalem.
Prof. Gideon Foerster, head of the Hebrew University Institute of
Archaeology, said he is hopeful that a precedent-setting agreement will be
signed between the two institutes for the exchange of archaeology faculty
and students...
9. GSS HEAD RESPONDS TO PSAGOT PETITION A petition by the women
of Psagot has elicited a rare personal response by GSS head Avi Dichter.
The Psagot petition protested reports of an alleged arrangement Dichter
made with Palestinian representatives, according to which Palestinians
would stop shooting at Gilo, but not at other places. Residents of frequently-
attacked Yesha locations, mainly in Psagot and Hevron, wrote to Dichter
that this showed that they are "second-class citizens, the shedding of whose
blood is disregarded." Ma'ariv reported yesterday that Dichter responded by
writing, "It is not easy to be accused of selling out the security of the Jewish
residents of Yesha [Judea and Samaria] in order to assure the security of the
residents of Gilo. It is seven times harder to read this in an anguished letter
from the people of Psagot, whose petition has a special strength in these
difficult times." Dichter wrote that there was no truth to the press reports of
such a deal, and continued, "Out of deep respect and admiration for the
personal and communal sacrifice which you, like many other residents, have
had to make just because we are Jews, I have written to you personally...
We are making an honest and continuous effort to remove the threat of
gunfire from the Jewish residents, whether in Gilo, Psagot, Gush Katif or
Hevron. I promise you that I will continue, as head of the Service and
together with the official bodies in Israel, to work day and night to achieve the
alleviation of any danger to our residents, wherever they are." (With thanks
to Cities of Israel)
Hebrew News Editor: Haggai Segal
English News Editor: Hillel Fendel
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:39:46 -0500
BreakingNews-Israel
Thursday News Brief =96 22:00-IST
(IsraelWire-11/23) Deputy Minister of Defense Ephraim Sneh and the IDF=92s
Coordinator of Activities in Yesha, Yaakov Or met on Thursday night at the
Erez Checkpoint with the PLO Authority=92s (PA) Jamal Tarifi and
Secretary-General Tayyeb Abdel-Rahim.
The meeting was a first contact to begin laying the groundwork towards
stopping the daily violence and warfare. Details of the meeting were not
released by either side. Sneh reported to Prime Minister/Defense Minister
Ehud Barak.
At 9:00pm, the Security Cabinet convened once again to discuss the current
situation.
**JUDEA & SAMARIA**
1. P=92sagot =96 The Benjamin Regional Council community was under fire
earlier in the evening. No reported injuries. On Wednesday night, one
person was injured by shrapnel in shooting attacks.
2. IDF forces near Nablus came under fire. No injuries.
3. IDF forces under fire near Maon, in the Southern Hebron Hills. No
injuries.
4. An Israeli motorist was fired upon from the village of Salim, near
Nablus. No injuries.
5. IDF forces at Rachel=92s Tomb came under gunfire. No injuries.
6. Forces on an IDF jeep escaped injury when a roadside bomb was
detonated
by Okfim Junction, in the Hebron area.
7. An Israeli motorist in the Jordan Valley area, near Uga, was attacked
with three firebombs. No injuries.
**GAZA**
8. Troops fired upon near the northern IDF District Coordinating Office
near Nisanit. No injuries.
9. Dugit was fired upon. No injuries.
**JERUSALEM **
10. A bus traveling from Jerusalem to Givat Ze=92ev was attacked with a
firebomb near the Ramot Checkpoint. Two persons were reportedly injured.
No additional information at this time.
11. In Gilo, residents are demonstrating against the continued
deteriorating security situation, blocking area roads. Earlier in the
night, the area was under heavy gunfire from the nearby PLO Authority
autonomous areas. No injuries. Several homes were damaged.
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:47:30 -0500
Arafat's exile could prompt massive Hizbullah attack along Israel's northern
border that would eventually bring in Syria
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Middle East Newsline
Thu Nov 23,2000 -- For Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the question is
whether he can press Yasser Arafat to end Palestinian attacks in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip without driving him into exile and destroying the seven-
year-old negotiations process. Barak, aides said, is walking a fine line in
easing his policy of restraint against the Palestinians. On one hand, Barak
faces what appears to be the fall of his government if he does not respond to
Palestinian attacks. On the other hand, continued military strikes such as
the one Barak ordered throughout the Gaza Strip on Monday could prompt
Arafat and his aides to flee the Palestinian areas.
It's a scenario that Arafat is hoping for that the United States and Egypt have
warned against. For the Clinton administration, Arafat's exile could prompt a
massive Hizbullah attack along Israel's northern border that would eventually
bring in Syria. For Egypt, Arafat's flight would mean a severance of relations
with Israel and perhaps the introduction of thousands of Egyptian troops in
the mostly demilitarized Sinai. Some Israeli analysts said the Egyptian recall
of its ambassador on Tuesday could be the first step in a deterioration of
relations toward war.
Instead, Barak wants to maintain a lid on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until
at least the end of the Clinton administration. Aides said Barak and Clinton
have agreed to work toward a peace summit at the end of December in the
United States. This, they said, requires keeping Arafat and the PA alive. As
a result, even as Barak tightens the military pressure on Arafat, he is
continually sending message of reconciliation to the Palestinian leader.
Aides said Barak either speaks to Arafat or sends envoys to him nearly
every day.
Egypt warns U.S. of regional war
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Middle East Newsline
Thu Nov 23,2000 -- Egypt has warned the United States of an Arab war
against Israel if the violence continues in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The
warning was relayed by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to U.S. Defense
Secretary William Cohen during their meeting in Cairo on Wednesday, Arab
diplomatic sources. The sources said Mubarak said the Arabs cannot stand
by while the Palestinians are being attacked by Israel.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa said Israel must abandon what he
termed its "erroneous policy of intimidation and terrorism." "Israel thinks it
can thereby make the Arabs accept whatever settlement it offers," Mussa
said. "It won't work. Peace must be balanced and not based on the interest
of Israel protected by the superpowers in order to impose subjection on the
Arabs."
Military urges Barak to order harsh strikes
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Middle East Newsline
Thu Nov 23,2000 -- Israel's military is urging Prime Minister Ehud Barak to
launch harsh strikes against the Palestinian Authority. The appeal is coming
from every arm of the military. They are warning that PA Chairman Yasser
Arafat will order a further escalation of violence unless Israel launches major
strikes against the PA and Fatah groups. The sources said that Barak and
his aides have repeatedly stressed that the war with the Palestinians cannot
be solved through military means. They warned that this approach could lead
to disastrous results for Israel and greater international pressure.
For the first time, some senior commanders are going public with their
feelings. On Wednesday, Brig. Gen. Amos Yadlin, chief of staff of the air
force, said the military must significantly increase pressure on Arafat's
regime. Yadlin told the opening of Avionics 2000 in Tel Aviv that military
pinpricks represented as messages to Arafat have proved useless. "It is not
working," Yadlin said. "The only way is to hit with all your might. Otherwise,
the other side becomes immune to the attacks."
Three britons injured in latest Saudi bomb blast
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Middle East Newsline
Thu Nov 23,2000 -- Three British nationals have been injured in the latest
attack on Westerners in Saudi Arabia. The Britons were injured in a car
bomb blast in Riyad on late Wednesday. It was the second bombing attack
against British nationals in less than a week. Last week, a British engineer
was killed and his wife injured in a bomb hurled by an unidentified assailant.
British diplomats said the nationals were not seriously injured. They said the
bomb exploded while they were driving in a sedan in Riyad.
U.S. pressures Israel not to respond to bomb attack
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Middle East Newsline
Thu Nov 23,2000 -- The United States is imposing what officials term as
massive pressure to prevent an Israeli retaliatory strikes against the
Palestinian Authority in wake of a car bombing in which two Israelis were
killed and more than 60 were injured. Senior Clinton administration officials
were in contact with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak overnight Thursday
and warned him against attacking PA and other Palestinian installations.
They rejected Barak's assertion that the bombing in the Israeli city of Hadera
was the work of the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad supported by the PA.
Officials said the White House and State Department also demanded that
Israel end economic sanctions on the Palestinians in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. They said such sanctions only increase the suffering of the
Palestinian people. Instead, the administration has appealed to Barak to
agree to a new U.S. effort to end the violence and return to peace
negotiations. Officials said the administration has warned Barak that
continued Israeli retaliation could plunge the Middle East into war.
The White House has rejected an Israeli demand that an international
commission of enquiry suspend its work until the Arab-Israeli violence ends
in the region. U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Israel is not
the only victim of the violence. Ms. Albright said Palestinians have also been
killed in clashes with Israeli troops and appeared to cast equal blame on the
two sides. The secretary rejected an Israeli assertion that four Palestinians
killed in Gaza hours before Wednesday evening's bombing in Hadera were
Fatah guerrillas.
Israel will retaliate with elite units
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Jerusalem Post
Thu Nov 23,2000 -- Israel Air Force attacks against Palestinian targets will
be cut down to a minimum because they are not very effective and cause
harm to Israel's image, Israel Radio reports. Instead, Israel will use elite units
to pinpoint attackers. It will also exercise further economic restraints against
the Palestinians, according to informed sources.
Iran could be behind bombings
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Jerusalem Post
Thu Nov 23,2000 -- Iran could be behind the bombings in Hadera yesterday
and at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market earlier this month, informed
sources said. One possibility is that Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad terrorists
carried out the two attacks. A central figure among the Islamic Jihad activists
was among those released by Palestinian Authority head Yasser Arafat from
PA jails.
The security cabinet will this evening continue its discussions on how to
react to the latest bombing. According to Israel Radio, 60 people are still
hospitalized from yesterday's attack in Hadera. Five are in serious condition.
Some of those who were lightly wounded are due to be released today.
The 'Strong Hand' of Anti-Semitism
Weekend News Today
Lead: Leo
Source: The Moscow Times
Thu Nov 23,2000 -- The question is not why Communist Alexander Mikhailov,
the new governor of the Kursk region, is an anti-Semite. The question is why
he has become so vocal about it now?
For centuries, Russian rulers at all levels have used anti-minority policies to
run their multinational empire. Anti-Semitism, of course, was the most
efficient of these. Jews, because of their different religious beliefs, traditions,
unusual clothing, etc., were the best candidate for the role of a common
enemy. Unlike many other ethnic communities that lived within national
territories, Jews were spread all across the Russian Empire even in the
times of the Pale of Settlement imposed in the late 18th century by
Catherine the Great and abandoned only after the 1917 February Revolution.
Kursk Governor Mikhailov does not dislike Jews because of the color of their
hair or the shape of their noses. Rather, he senses that anti-Semitism might
once again be employed by the adherents of a "strong hand." "Divide and
rule" has always been one of the most successful tools of the centuries-long
tradition of Russian statist politics.
EU states urged to ease controls on immigration
Weekend News Today
Lead: Leo
Source: THE TIMES
Thu Nov 23,2000 -- The European Commission called yesterday for a radical
new common immigration policy that would allow millions of foreign workers
legally to enter and live in the European Union. Wading into one of the
hottest political issues of the moment, the Commission said the ?zero
immigration? policies adopted by most member states over the past 30
years were no longer appropriate and that the controlled admission of
?economic migrants? was now essential to remedy labour shortages
threatening the EU?s economic growth.
The Commission acknowledged the acute sensitivity of its proposal. ?A shift
to a pro-active immigration policy will require strong political leadership and a
clear commitment to the promotion of pluralistic societies and a
condemnation of racism and xenophobia,? it said. ?It will be necessary to
emphasise the benefits of immigration and of cultural diversity and . . . avoid
language which could incite racism.?
40,000 without heat in Russia's Far East
Weekend News Today
Lead: Leo
Source: Nando Times/AP
Thu Nov 23,2000 -- Hospitals and schools were closed for lack of heat in
Russia's frigid Far East, where heating for about 40,000 residents has been
cut off for days, officials said Wednesday.
Such energy cuts have become an annual trauma for many residents of
Russia's Pacific coast. The Primorye region, where Vladivostok is located,
has regularly failed to prepare for the winter by not making repairs and not
stockpiling fuel during the summer months. The situation, which has been
exacerbated by political quarrels, underlines the shaky services and poor
quality of life that afflict much of Russia.
Russia drops pledge not to sell arms to Iran
Weekend News Today
Lead: Leo
Source: Nando Times/AP
Thu Nov 23,2000 -- Russia says it will no longer observe a 1995 pledge not to
sell tanks and battlefield weapons to Iran, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
Russia gave as its reason that the pledge it had made to Vice President Al
Gore in 1995 had been made public during the presidential campaign, said
the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The note was received by
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright a few days before the election, and the
Clinton administration is trying to get Russia to change its mind, warning
that if it sold the weapons to Iran the United States would impose sanctions,
the official told The Associated Press.
Russia said it would no longer abide by the pledge after Dec. 1, which gives
the administration time to try to persuade the Kremlin to change its mind,
the official said.
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Subject: [bprlist] Harpazo.net News items (11/23/00)
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:51:21 -0500
Palestinians Push For UN Force in Gaza, West Bank
Israeli and Palestinian delegates exchanged barbs during a U.N. Security
Council debate, each blaming the other for a spiral of violence and
disagreeing over who had to take the first step to stop it. Arab nations, led by
Libya, had requested the open meeting late on Wednesday to spotlight the
rising Palestinian death toll and rally support for a 2,000-strong U.N.
unarmed military observer force to protect civilians and calm the situation.
Ha'aretz
US Suggests Demilitarized Zones
In an attempt to defuse tensions, the US suggested to Foreign Minister
Shlomo Ben-Ami demilitarized zones. US Secretary of State Madelyn
Albright passed the idea to Ben-Ami in a telephone conversation between the
two last night in the wake of the Hadera bombing. Jerusalem Post
Lebanon Says Israel is Radicalizing Moderate Arab States
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri said on Thursday that Israel's
violence against Palestinians was forcing even the most moderate Arab
countries into the hardline camp and radicalising the entire Arab world. "The
Arabs are ready for peace but they cannot accept just any peace and, as in
Israel, there is a public opinion, we also have public opinion," Hariri told
Reuters in an interview.
"Neither the Palestinian leadership, nor the Syrians, the Lebanese, the
Egyptians, the Moroccans, the Saudis or any of the Arab countries' leaders
can accept what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people," he said. Ha'aretz
AIPAC Says US Should Stand by Israel
Following is the statement released by AIPAC on Tuesday, November 21, in
Washington. Responding to the State Department's criticism of Israel's
response to Monday's school bus bombing in Gaza, AIPAC President Tim
Wuliger said;
"We are extremely disturbed and disappointed by the State Department's
criticism of Israel's military response to the Palestinian bombing of Israeli
children and their teachers aboard a school bus. At this time of crisis, the
United States should stand by Israel, not criticize Israel for defending its
people. Chairman Arafat's strategic choice to use violence and the vicious
anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement that flows from Palestinian political
and religious leadership account for the unremitting violence that began with
Palestinian attacks on Jews at prayer in late September. Israel's restraint in
its response to date speaks to Israel's desire not to close the door on peace
with the Palestinians. By comparison, when King Hussein dealt with a threat
to Jordan by Arafat's PLO, Jordanian forces killed thousands in less than two
weeks in 1970." ... Tim Wuliger, President, AIPAC . . . Israel Wire
EU Ministers To Meet Candidate Nations
European Union ministers are to hold a special meeting on Thursday with
their counterparts from 12 countries which are preparing for EU membership.
The talks, in the French town of Sochaux, will centre on the institutional
reforms necessary for EU expansion - due to be put to next month's heads of
government summit in Nice.
Among the most controversial are reducing member-states' powers of veto
and making more use of qualified majority voting on EU decisions. The
conference will also be attended by Turkey - an applicant for EU membership
but not yet a formal candidate - and by Switzerland, Norway and Iceland who
are attending as observers.
The first six candidate countries - which entered negotiations two years ago -
have been disappointed about forecasts for the speed of expansion. But
some EU member states are concerned that the general European public is
lukewarm about enlargement.
Eurobarometer, a regular poll carried out by the European Commission,
shows that fewer than three in 10 people believe bringing new members into
the EU should be a priority. The meeting, chaired by France's Europe
Minister Pierre Moscovici, is expected to reassure the candidate countries.
The formal discussions - held in private - will then be followed by an open
debate on the future of Europe. This is the third year such a conference has
been held for EU and candidate countries. BBC
Blair: It's Time To Consign Thatcher To History
Prime Minister attacks 'fundamental failings' of his predecessor after her
sniping over Euro-army ... Tony Blair made a decisive break with the past
yesterday when he declared that it was time for Britain to move on from
Margaret Thatcher's era and criticised her record as prime minister.
In a high-risk move, Mr Blair abandoned his previous attempts to portray
himself as Baroness Thatcher's natural heir and highlighted the downside of
her 11 years as prime minister for the first time. Until now, New Labour had
sought to reassure Middle England by embracing many of Lady Thatcher's
policies on the economy, public ownership and trade union power.
On the 10th anniversary of her resignation as prime minister, Mr Blair said:
"There were things that were done in the eighties that were good and we
have kept, but there were four fundamental failings. Britain had a boom-and-
bust economy where people's mortgage rates went all over the place. We
had huge social division, 3 million unemployed and chronic under-investment
in our public services. independent uk
Blair Backs EU Defense, Persuades Putin
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday British Prime Minister Tony Blair
had persuaded him a common European defense policy did not threaten
Russia and that Moscow would not try to block its development. On Monday,
European Union defense ministers pledged troops, ships and planes to a
rapid reaction force as a first step in building the EU's military power. "These
processes are developing in Europe regardless of whether Russia wants it or
not," Putin told reporters after Kremlin talks with Blair. "It is not our intention
to block these processes or to encourage them," the president said. Blair
told reporters he and Putin had discussed the common European defense
policy in some detail. Russia Today
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Subject: [bprlist] Israelis, Palestinians hold surprise meeting at border crossing
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:56:28 -0500
Israelis, Palestinians hold surprise meeting at border crossing
No word on results; diplomatic activity on rise
November 23, 2000
Web posted at: 5:52 p.m. EST (2252 GMT)
In this story:
Hamas activist killed in car
Arafat reportedly ready for resumption of talks
Putin to meet with Arafat in Moscow
RELATED STORIES, SITES
CNN Jerusalem Bureau Chief Mike Hanna and Correspondents Tom Mintier,
Jerrold Kessel and Fionnuala Sweeney contributed to this report.
EREZ CROSSING, Gaza (CNN) -- A high-level meeting between Israeli
Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh and Tayeb Abdel-Rahim, the
secretary general of the Palestinian Authority, took place on Thursday at
Erez Crossing, hours after an Israeli soldier was killed at the spot in a
gunbattle with Palestinians.
Neither official spoke with reporters after the meeting, but further meetings --
between Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and U.N. Special
Envoy Terje Roed Larsen -- took place Thursday, before Arafat's trip to
Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.
In a CNN interview following his talk with Arafat, Larsen said the meeting was
encouraging.
They talked about the need for "some confidence building measures to halt
the current cycle of escalation. Second (we) need to restart political
dialogue, and thirdly and lastly, we need to begin to address the underlying
causes -- mainly the final status issues, which are issues of Jerulsalem ,
refugees, land, security, etc," Larsen said.
Earlier, Israel ordered Palestinians to evacuate all joint liaison offices in the
West Bank and Gaza after a Palestinian mortar attack killed an Israeli
soldier at an office in southern Gaza.
That attack was separate from the one at Erez Crossing that left one soldier
dead and another severely wounded.
The Palestinians posted at several District Coordination Offices (DCOs) said
they would not leave until ordered to do so by Arafat.
The evacuation order was another sign of the damage done to the Israeli-
Palestinian peace process by the last two months of violence: The offices
are the last remaining tangible evidence of cooperation between Palestinian
and Israeli security forces.
The liaison offices were set up under the terms of the Oslo agreement and
were to monitor and coordinate cooperation between the Israelis and
Palestinians on civil matters.
The attack on the liaison office also wounded three Israeli soldiers and at
least two Palestinians.
Hamas activist killed in car
At least two Palestinians were reported dead as well, including a 10-year-old
boy killed in northern Gaza. In the West Bank town of Nablus, Palestinian
officials reported the death of a Hamas activist in a mysterious explosion that
they initially blamed on Israeli missiles.
But Israel denied activity in the Nablus region, and Palestinian officials later
said that explosives had been hidden in the headrest of the activist's car.
Meanwhile, funerals were held in Gaza for four Palestinians killed on
Wednesday by Israeli troops who said the four tried to run an army
roadblock. The Israeli army said one of the four was a wanted militant, but
the Palestinians said all four were unarmed civilians.
In Israel, friends and families gathered to lay to rest two Israelis killed in the
northern town of Hadera when a car bomb exploded alongside a bus on a
busy city street. More than 50 people were wounded in that attack, claimed
by two militant Palestinian groups.
More than 270 people -- the majority of them Palestinians or Israeli Arabs --
have been killed since the latest round of violence exploded on September
28.
Arafat reportedly ready for resumption of talks
The explosions and killings appeared to further damage the stalled Mideast
peace process, even as Arafat -- who called the Hadera bus attack an "act of
terrorism" -- signaled he may be ready to return to peace negotiations.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami said he was told by U.S. Secretary
of State Madeleine Albright that she had spoken to Arafat and that he
wanted to resume deadlocked peace talks.
"I don't know if it is a serious proposal, but this is at least what (Arafat) did in
a phone call he initiated to (Albright)," Ben-Ami said on Israel public radio.
"This is what she told me last night."
"If there is anything real in this ... it could be that there is a certain signaling
of distress and a desire to get out of this cycle," he said. "It is our obligation
to allow the Americans to check out this thing."
Ben-Ami said Albright called him after Israel's security Cabinet met to
discuss the car bomb in Hadera, which also wounded 55 people.
The Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed
responsibility on Thursday for the attack, the second group to do so. An
earlier claim of responsibility came from a previously unknown group calling
itself the Islamic Revolution for the Liberation of Palestine.
Israeli officials were meeting to discuss their response to the Hadera
bombing. The Israeli government has already warned that it intends to "settle
its accounts" with the bombers.
Putin to meet with Arafat in Moscow
Meanwhile, the Kremlin said Arafat will meet Putin in Moscow on Friday at
the Palestinians' request.
Both Arafat and Israel have repeatedly urged Russia to get more involved in
efforts to halt the continuing Israeli-Palestinian violence.
But at least one regional leader, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah, said
he saw no breakthrough in the crisis. Israel, he said, had "no shame, no
humanity, no morals and no principles."
"We can never, never abandon Jerusalem, because the dignity of Jerusalem
is the same as the dignity of a Muslim," Abdullah, quoted by Saudi
newspapers on Thursday, said. "Muslims' dignity comes first, and then
Arabs and then other religions except the usurper Jews who are carrying out
this war against children who are fighting back with stones," he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/11/23/mideast.03/index.html
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:03:26 -0500
IDF Spokesperson: An IDF Officer was Killed and Two Additional Soldiers
Were Lightly Injured by the Explosion in the Gaza DCO
23 November 2000
IDF officer, Lieutenant Edward Matchnik, age 21, from Beer Sheva, was
killed this afternoon and two other IDF soldiers were lightly wounded from
an explosion that occurred in the District Coordination Office (DCO) in
Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip. The explosion occurred in the joint IDF -
Palestinian Police control rooms where a certain level of coordination and
cooperation at the field level still continued.
In this disgraceful attack, the Palestinian side struck at IDF soldiers
who worked with them, shoulder to shoulder, in the joint office for the
past seven years. The IDF evacuated the Palestinians from the joint
offices, and they are requested to evacuate the joint offices in Gaza and
the West Bank. This evacuation will be in force as long as the security
situation requires it.
During the serious events of the past two months, the IDF has strived to
maintain the relationship between the IDF and the Palestinian Authority in
the DCO's and this serious event harms the trust that still remains
between the IDF and the Palestinians security authorities.
The family of the fallen officer has been notified.
The injured soldiers were evacuated to receive medical assistance in
hospital.
The explosion also injured a Palestinian Policeman
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Subject: [bprlist] The Ultimate Weapon: Religion by Emanuel A. Winston
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 23:58:40 -0000
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WINSTON MID EAST ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
November 22, 2000
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THE ULTIMATE WEAPON: RELIGION
by Emanuel A. Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator
History is replete with the stories of armies conquering and
enslaving other nations for "G-d and Country". I will skip the
history of Europe and the bloody swathes they cut in the name of
religion and the loot it brought. Today we have a more active example
to examine. This is the re-awakening of Islam and its Koranic taught
religious philosophy of conquest and conversion. This is also the
story of how Arafat tand the Arab nations use the myths of religion
to attack Israel.
The story can best start with Mohammed in the 7th century who had a
revelation that he was the last prophet of a G-d he called Allah.
When he first went to the Jews to offer his prophetic leadership,
they rejected his offer. He tried to persuade them by offering
his "Quibla" (direction of prayers) towards Jerusalem. When this did
not bring the Jews to him, he turned his back on Jerusalem
(literally), offering Muslim prayers to Mecca. Mohammed waged war
against the Jews and drove ancient Jewish tribes from the Arabian
peninsula.
A story or myth started during his lifetime which may have been part
of his vision or revelation (sometimes called an "epiphany" by the
Christians). The story was that Mohammed during a sleeping dream,
mounted a great white horse with great wings, the face and breasts of
a woman and the tail of a peacock. In the time it took a drop of
water to spill out of a tipped over jug, he flew to Al Aksa
(literally, the Farthest Place), there to be blessed by all the past
Jewish Prophets, namely, Abraham, Isaac, Moses, including the
Christian revelation - the Jew, J...s.
Tabari, a prominent Arab historian (1) stated that Mohammed's flight
was not to an earthly al Aksa but to a perfect al Aksa in Heaven,
where Mohammed could serve the G-d Allah. This was a reasonable
conclusion, since there was little reason for Mohammed to fly to al
Aksa in Medina and there was no al Aksa in Jerusalem in the 7th
Century.
(In the Koran) Sura 17:1 "Glory be unto Allah who did take his
servant for a journey at night from the sacred mosque to the furthest
mosque". The Aksa Mosque was built 20 years after the Dome of the
Rock, which was built in 691-2 by Kahlif Abd El Malik. The
name "Omar Mosque" is therefore, false. Around 711 CE, or about 80
years after Mohammed died, Malik's son, Abd El-Wahd (who ruled from
705-715) reconstructed the Christian-Byzantine Church of St. Mary and
converted it into a mosque. He added the onion-shaped dome on top of
the building to make it look like a mosque and named it el-Aksa, to
sound like the one mentioned in the Koran. (2)
Another story emerged in the 12th century, during the conquest of
Jerusalem by the Kurd, Salahadin whose purpose was to drive the
infidels (Jews and Christians) from the land. This story altered the
myth of Mohammed's night journey on the winged horse "el Baraq". Now
Mohammed flew to an al Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem which, by this time,
was a building constructed on the remains of King Solomon's First
Jewish Temple and Herod's Second Temple - on the Temple Mount. This
time the revised myth had el Buraq landing on the Rock in Jerusalem
upon which Avraham was prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac at G-d's
command as his ultimate test of faith.
Later, Muslim clerics maintained that Avraham was going to sacrifice
Ishmael (his first son by Sara's servant, Hagar. In any case, el
Baraq, according to the revised myth in the 12th century, was to have
left a large imprint of his gigantic hoof in the stone. From there
Mohammed leapt to the 7th Heaven to receive his blessing as the last
prophet of Allah from all previous Jewish prophets.
The revised myth, considered a fable by serious Islamic scholars, lay
dormant until approximately 1927, 28, and 29. Haj Amin Al Husseini,
the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, resurrected the el Buraq story to offer
proof that Jerusalem truly belongs to the Muslims and not to the
lowly Jews. The Grand Mufti truly hated the Jews, and traveled to
Germany during WWII to plead with Hitler to bring his Jew-killing
apparatus to Jerusalem in order to kill off the Jews in Eretz Yisrael.
In 1929, this Grand Mufti released rumors that the Jews were
attempting to take over the Temple Mount, the site of Mohammed
ascending to Heaven from al Aksa Mosque (switching Mohammed's journey
to Jerusalem's al Aksa mosque) and that Arab blood was being spilled.
The riots began under the "benign" overview of the British. 67 Jews
were massacred in Hevron alone - as well as in many other cities.
Eventually the Jews were evacuated (forced out) of Hevron by the
British which, of course, seems to be the plan of today in the year
2000.
The al Aksa riots of 1929 have been resurrected by Yassir Arafat, who
also claims that the Grand Mufti was his uncle. Arafat not only
borrows the Grand Mufti's plans but expanded upon it by using
children and others as sacrificed martyrs. He prepared for months,
stocking up on ammunition, guns, shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles,
food, water, medicine, etc. awaiting an excuse to re-ignite the al
Aksa riots of 1929.
As early as July 17-18 at Camp David Arafat threatened a "new age of
religious conflict when Bill Clinton offered Palestinian custody over
the Temple Mount while sovereignty would remain in the hands of the
Israelis." (3)
It worked as the nations and the media willingly picked up the staged
cry that the Jews were taking over the Temple Mount. Arafat re-
named the Western Wall of the Jewish people the "el Buraq Wall". The
press ate it up and not one bothered to check the facts or consult
with historians. Those that knew the fiction remained silent and
published the Arafat version.
The United Nations condemned Israel for confronting rioting Arab mobs
who were shooting real bullets, with guns given by Israel. The U.N.
calls Israel's self-defense "excessive force". The Jerusalem that
Mohammed hated as the capital and Most Holy Site for the Jews was
politicly converted into Islam's "third holiest city" after Mecca and
Medina. Quickly, other Arab/Muslim nations who hated Jews and had
never sent religious clerics or government leaders to Jerusalem,
insisted that Jerusalem must be returned to the Muslims. The war with
the Jews was to continue -using the weapon of religion - amd the
altered myth of el Buraq.
No matter that Mohammed hated Jerusalem with such a passion that he
refused to even mention the word Jerusalem once in the holy Koran.
Strangely, if early Koranic law were honored, a "Fatwa" would be
issued by the highest priests of Islam, calling for the death of
Arafat and all who defiled Mohammed's teachings. Muhammed turned his
prayers away from Jeruslem, but Arafat defies Muhammed and claims
Jerusalem to be incorporated within Islam.
Today's terrorists have used the myths of el Buraq to lay a false
claim to a city dispised by Mohammed in order to advance their war
against the Jews. Here the appeal was to vaunted Arab Honor which was
intended to prod the ignorant masses with false stories about
atttacks against their religion and, thereby, incite them to
violence. Even now they attack the Jews and howl: "Unfair - Unfair"
when Israel retaliates. Here we see the bias of the State Department
bloom as it condemns Israel's reprisals for Arafat's attacks. And we
see the results of 7 years of the CIA training Arafat's special
forces as mandated by Oslo and reaffirmed in subsequent Accords.
Historians have documented Islam's war against the infidel including
Christians. But, please note that the Pope's recent arrangement with
Arafat on Jerusalem. Pope John Paul agreed to recognize Arafat's
claim over Jerusalem in exchange for guaranteed access to Catholic
churches and shrines on the Mount of Olives. This area, which
includes the ancient Jewish cemetary, was to be ceded to the
Palestinians, according to the Abu Mazen-Yossi Beilin plan. The Pope
knew that Christians under Palestinian rule may no longer be allowed
freedom of worship as they always had under Israeli sovereignty and
law. And so, we believe, he made an unholy pact with Arafat.
Arafat and the Arab nations have unsheathed their ultimate weapon -
religion. The Christian nations of Europe - as exemplified in U.N.
votes against Israel never having really given up their taught hatred
of the Jews found (temporary) kindred spirits in the Arab terrorists
from their Islamic teachings. (Strange bedfellows.)
Of course, once they dispose of the Jews, then they must fight each
other for the earthly claim to G-d's Covenant, presumably wrested
from the Jews. The winners' only problem will be to present their
superior claim to G-d - so the deed to G-d's Covenant with the Jews
may be properly transferred and recorded. And, if they can find Him,
how will they explain why they killed His chosen servants on behalf
of their own vested interests? (Note! I exclude from this moral
criticism those Christians who have supported the Jewish nation and
rejected the well-crafted lies where history has been revised to suit
the claims of Islamists.)
The Wars with the Jews have continued, always under different names
but the intent was the same - the elimination of the Jewish State.
The Leftist Jews of Israel always deluded themselves with the notion
that they could negotiate a secular compromise, never grasping the
fact that the Arabs would not accept a Jewish State within Koranic
law.
Any entity or people that was not Islamic, including Christian Arabs,
would be attacked as an infidel religion in their midst. If the
Jewish State wished to remain in the Middle East, it must not only
become secular or non-Jewish - as the Leftists would have it, but
must accept Islam.
Can you imagine Barak-Peres-Beilin-Sarid developing a callous on
their forehead from touching their heads to their Oriental prayer
rugs five times a day? The Jews, from the ancient Hebrews through to
today, have always had to fight off the pagan religious cults who
demanded conversion or the sword.
Presently, the leadership of the Jews, Barak: Prime/Defense Minister
has tried to fit in by appeasement, not recognizing that the Muslims
follow the teachings of Mohammed who hated the Jews and would not
accept partial concessions. This is a religious war to the finish
and no amount of genuflecting to vaunted Arab sensibilities will buy
Israel and the Jews the affection or acceptance of the Arabs.
According to William Safire, Arafat has "transformed the 'peace
process', which was in danger of succeeding in establishing a small
Palestinian state, into a religous 'war process' for control of
Jerusalem and a state incorporating Jordan and Israel." (4)
Apparently, the lessons of reality have not yet been learned and thus
many Jews may yet die or be maimed. We are indeed a stiff-necked
people who follow corrupt weak leaders, accepting their ways even as
we die to confirm their lack of judgment. Perhaps we will one day
understand that the war waged against us is merely because we are
Jews. When we come to this awakening, we will take up the double
edged sword to defend our rights to live as Jews, regardless of on-
going religious wars between Jews and Muslims who demand our
conversion to their ways. Barak and his cohorts surely are not the
correct leaders for a Jewish State in peril.
We need not apologize for our Jewishness nor our obligation to a
higher goal. It's time that we march to Jerusalem from all corners
of the world and take back our destiny from those who are embarrassed
by their Jewishness.
###
1. "Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam" ref. ISRA p. 183 edited by Sir
Hamilton A.R. Gibbs & J.H. Kramers, Royal Netherlands Academy 1953
Cornell Univeristy Press Ithaca, NY
2. "The Moslem Claim to Jerusalem is False" by Dr. Manfred R.
Lehman, z=E2"l ALGEMEINER JOURNAL August 19, 1994
3. "Walking Off A Cliff: The Inside story of how the Mideast peace
talks unraveled" by Daniel Klaidman NEWSWEEK 11/27/00.
4. "Arafat's 'War Process'" by William Safire NEW YORK TIMES 11/20/00
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:40:10 -0500
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LONDON, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- The 15th century Gutenberg Bible, the first
major book to be printed in the West, is about to travel the world on
the 21st century information superhighway.
The British Library and Japan's Keio University teamed up to put two
of the Bibles on the Internet at the library's Web site, www.bl.uk, to
give scholars around the globe access without damaging the originals.
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