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To:            arutz-7@ArutzSheva.org
From:          Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@ArutzSheva.org>
Subject:       Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, January 19, 2000

Arutz Sheva News Service
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Wednesday, January 19, 2000 / Sh'vat 12, 5760
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
  1. ASSAD STANDS FIRM
  2. STORM PERSISTS
  3. ADL LEADER HOPES FOR AMERICAN AID TO SYRIA


1. ASSAD STANDS FIRM
U.S. President Clinton called his Syrian counterpart Assad last night, and heard from him again that Syria will not resume the talks until Israel agrees to withdraw to the pre-Six Day War borders.  The two leaders spoke for an hour.  Low-level delegations from Syria and Israel continued to meet today, after moving from Shepherdstown to an unspecified Washington location.

Former Rishon Letzion Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu claims that it is Syria who must return territories to Israel, and not the opposite.  At a Chabad assembly in Yad Eliyahu Stadium last night marking the 50th anniversary of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe's assuming Chabad leadership, the former Chief Rabbi said that King David captured and annexed areas near Damascus that must now be returned to Israeli control.

2. STORM PERSISTS
Rains continue to fall in the north, and the high winds will resume tomorrow.  The level of the Kinneret Sea was measured at -212.98 meters this morning, which is two centimeters above the red line.  Thousands of consumers were without electricity for varying amounts of time last night and this morning, due to storm-related outages. Broadcasts from Arutz-7's ship have been suspended for the past two days, although news, commentary, and music continued to be heard over Arutz-7's internet site.  Regular broadcasts are expected to resume this evening.

3. ADL LEADER HOPES FOR AMERICAN AID TO SYRIA
A report that the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai Brith is lobbying for aid to Syria as part of an Israel-Syria peace deal - first publicized by journalist David Bedein - has been apparently confirmed by ADL national director Abraham Foxman himself.  Foxman told Middle East Newsline journalist Steve Rodan this week that he foresees "a multinational effort to finance a Syrian economic recovery," including the U.S., Japan, the European Union and Arab countries.  "I definitely envision the prospect of U.S. direct aid to Syria in a combination with other countries," Foxman told Rodan.  

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To:            arutz-7@ArutzSheva.org
From:          Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@ArutzSheva.org>
Subject:       Arutz-7 News: Thursday, January 20, 2000

Arutz Sheva News Service
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Thursday, January 20, 2000 / Sh'vat 13, 5760
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. STORM RESUMES
   2. CONVOY DEMONSTRATION FOR JERUSALEM NEXT WEEK

1. STORM RESUMES
Officials in the Israel Water Commission hope that the current stormy spell will significantly increase the level of the Kinneret Sea.  It is now five centimeters over the red line - three centimeters higher than yesterday - and is expected to continue to rise as a result of the strong flow from northern streams. According to Israel and European meteorological forecasts, the rest of the winter will bring more rain than originally anticipated.  The storm resumed late this afternoon, and snowstorms are raging on Mt. Hermon.  Because of the stormy weather, the Arutz-7 ship must anchor closer to shore - "with two anchors, and not one, because of the exceptionally high waves and winds," according to the ship's captain Avner Gilad - and cannot transmit radio broadcasts.  Music, news and commentary can continue to be heard continuously over Arutz-7's internet site.

2. CONVOY DEMONSTRATION FOR JERUSALEM NEXT WEEK
Zo Artzeinu [This is Our Land] and other organizations will be joining forces for a unique demonstration this Tuesday night against the division of Jerusalem.  The rally starts from home, as demonstrators are asked to drive from around the country to the capital with pro-Jerusalem posters and flags on their cars.  They will then meet at the Kidron Valley - where the Moslem Waqf has dumped the remains of the treasures it dug up from under the Temple Mount - and will march close by the Mount with torches.  Women in Green has announced that its members and others will gather at the Laromme Hotel in Jerusalem at 4:45 PM, from where they will drive in a convoy to Nachal Kidron.

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From:          Arutz-7 Editor <hf_777@netvision.net.il>
Subject:       Arutz-7 News: Sunday, January 23, 2000

Arutz Sheva News Service
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Sunday, January 23, 2000 / Sh'vat 16, 5760
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
  1. MKs IN THE GOLAN
  2. FOREBODING FUTURE

1. MKs IN THE GOLAN
"We're on the Map" - a project aimed at bringing one million people to Yesha and the Golan within a year, and led by Yaakov (Katzeleh) Katz and Beit El Mayor Uri Ariel - brought several busloads of Israelis to the Golan today.  Among those arriving to plant trees were Likud MKs Danny Naveh and Silvan Shalom.  Speaking to News Editor Ariel Kahane today from Arutz-7's mobile unit, MK Naveh pointed out that despite the inclement weather, "we are planting in the Golan today to express our opposition to Prime Minister Barak's plans to uproot Golan
residents from their land."  Naveh was unimpressed with the fact that the Syrian-Israeli talks had been postponed:

 "This is a very deceptive tactic.  Barak may not have promised Assad in writing that he would give away the Golan, but the supposed 'crises' taking place now -dealing with where exactly to draw the new border - do not indicate that Prime Minister Barak is holding firm against a withdrawal from the Golan Heights."

MK Shalom, who has spearheaded a new bill aimed at requiring a special majority in the national Golan referendum, sounded optimistic about its chances of becoming law.  "We have already signed up all Likud MKs, as well as many others, bringing us very close to a majority in the Knesset," Shalom said.  He added that MKs Moti Zandberg (Shinui), Chaim Katz (One Nation), and Maxime Levy (Gesher-One Israel) have also signed their support of the bill.  Shalom welcomed MK Maxime Levy's possible intentions to re-join the Likud.  "He grew up in the Likud,"
Shalom said, "and he is basically a 'foreigner' in One Israel.  Right now there are technical problems with his leaving One Israel and becoming a separate faction within Gesher, but we hope that it will be just be a matter of time before these problems are ironed out."

2. FOREBODING FUTURE
Another senior Palestinian Authority personality has publicly called for the destruction of the State of Israel.   PA Gen. Salim Al-Odiya explained this weekend that the goal of the modern Palestinian revolution was, and still is, the liberation of Palestine.  In an article in the official PA newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Al-Odiya wrote, "Palestine has suffered invasions in the past, but in the end the invaders have fled."   The Islamic Jihad, headquartered in Syria, announced over the weekend that it would continue to fight against Israel even if there is peace between Syria and Israel.  Meanwhile, Yasser Arafat told a gathering of the International Monetary Fund that the PA reserves the right to declare an independent state in September 2000.

"From the Arab point of view, peace agreements with Israel are simply cease-fires, and Israel will continue to be a foreign element in the Middle East for many years to come.  Whoever is expecting a new Middle East is mistaken."  So said Mossad head Ephraim Halevy to a gathering of Arab diplomats in Jerusalem on Friday. The Israeli Ministry responded to the media's report of the speech by stating only that the reports do not faithfully represent what Levy said at the gathering.

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To:            arutz-7@arutzsheva.org
From:          Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@a7.org>
Subject:       Arutz-7 News: Monday, January 24, 2000

Arutz Sheva News Service
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Monday, January 24, 2000 / Sh'vat 17, 5760
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
  1. OLMERT SPEAKS OUT
  2. "FOR THE LIBERTY OF JERUSALEM"

1. OLMERT SPEAKS OUT
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert objects to the transfer of Abu Dis and Beit Hanina to Palestinian control. Olmert said this morning that whoever gives over these neighborhoods - immediately north and east of Jerusalem, respectively - would be dividing Jerusalem.  "There is no way to detach Beit Hanina from Jerusalem without detaching Pisgat Ze'ev and N'vei Yaakov from the city," he said.  Regarding Abu Dis, Olmert said, "It is only several hundred meters away from the Temple Mount, and whoever allows the Palestinians to establish there a control center [i.e., capital] is inviting incessant Palestinian undermining."

2. "FOR THE LIBERTY OF JERUSALEM"
Zo Artzeinu [This is Our Land] and other organizations will be joining forces for a unique demonstration against the division of Jerusalem tomorrow night.  The event features two stages - one motorized, and one on foot.  In what appears to be a meticulously-planned event, demonstrators from around the country will arrive in the capital - with pro-Jerusalem posters and flags on their cars - at 5:30 PM. Drivers will park their cars in the Kidron Valley, where the Moslem Waqf has dumped the remains of the treasures it dug up from under the Temple Mount.  The participants, holding torches, will then march to a spot close to the Mount, and will there take part in an allegiance-declaring ceremony to Jerusalem and to the site of the Holy Temple.  Women in Green has announced that its members and others will gather at the Laromme Hotel in Jerusalem at 4:45 PM, from where they will drive in a convoy to Nachal Kidron.  One group of demonstrators will set out from Gamla in the Golan, where 1900-year-old coins bearing the words "For the Liberty of Jerusalem" - the theme of tomorrow's demonstration - were uncovered. 

The stated short-range purposes of the event:  to raise an outcry about the destruction wrought by the Waqf on the Temple Mount, to create public pressure to contain the damage, and to raise awareness about the fact that Jerusalem is being "stolen" from us.  In the long range, the goals are to renew the essential connection between the Jewish People and Jerusalem, and to build a united public force around a true Jewish ideology that will serve as an alternative to that which now guides our political and cultural leadership.

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To:            arutz-7@arutzsheva.org
From:          Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@a7.org>
Subject:       Arutz-7 News: Tuesday, January 25, 2000

Arutz Sheva News Service
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Tuesday, January 25, 2000 / Sh'vat 18, 5760
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
  1. YESHA PROTECTION REDUCED ON ALL FRONTS
  2. BYPASS ROADS MAY BE BYPASSED
  3. SYRIAN STALL IS PALESTINIAN GAIN
  4. RALLIES FOR JERUSALEM

1. YESHA PROTECTION REDUCED ON ALL FRONTS
Arutz-7 has learned that by the end of the year 2000, the IDF plans to  totally cease army guard duty within the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria.  The number of IDF guards in Yesha has already been decreased by 40% over the past several weeks.  IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz informed a gathering of Home Front Command officers last Thursday that budgetary constraints are to blame, and added that most of the residents are army veterans who can protect themselves.

In response, the Yesha Council has informed Yesha's security officers not to man the guard posts vacated by the army.  Council Chairman Benny Kashriel informed O.C. Command Maj.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon that beginning in April, the large Yesha townships of Ma'aleh Adumim, Beitar, and Givat Ze'ev will halt their funding for security guards in their localities.  As if this were not enough, the Magen David Adom medical organization also announced yesterday that it would cut back on special emergency services throughout Yesha by the end of this month, as future government funding has not been approved.  The Yesha Council has asked for an urgent meeting with Deputy Defense Minister Sneh "before the entire network collapses."

2. BYPASS ROADS MAY BE BYPASSED
In a related item, the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria recommends that plans for 11 bypass roads be shelved.  Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman reports that the routes are intended to pass through areas that have been transferred to Palestinian control, thus obviating - according to the Administration - their necessity.  The roads were planned during the Rabin, Netanyahu, and even Shamir governments.  Among the routes likely to be cancelled are the Nachliel-Talmon road in western Binyamin, the el-Aroub and Jenin bypass routes, the eastern section of the Cross-Judea highway, a road to the pre-1967 Ta'nach settlements, and others. 

3. SYRIAN STALL IS PALESTINIAN GAIN
The Syrian-Israeli talks are stalled not only on the highest level, but on the lower levels as well.  Despite a prior agreement, Syrian representatives have not shown up in Washington to comment on the American memorandum drawn up after the Shepherdstown talks.  Two Israeli representatives are scheduled to depart for Washington tonight for the same purpose.  Prime Minister Barak has apparently decided to take advantage of the Syrian stubbornness to push forward on the Palestinian track, and is now working intensively on achieving an agreement on permanent-status principles by mid-February. 

4. RALLIES FOR JERUSALEM
The scenes of last year's half-million-strong rally of religious Jews - who gathered to protest Supreme Court interference in religious matters - may soon repeat itself.  This time, however, the focus will be on the unity of Jerusalem, and the participants will likely transcend particular religious and political factions.  So says the organizer of the previous rally, Agudat Yisrael Honorary President Rabbi Menachem Porush.  Porush told Arutz-7 today that the protest could still be called off - if Prime Minister Barak chooses to respond to a letter Porush wrote him less than a month ago.  "I asked Mr. Barak to assure us that the plans to hand over Abu Dis and other Jerusalem suburbs to the Palestinian Authority would not be carried out,"  Porush said.  "He has not yet done so.  I am surprised that he has not understood the severity of this matter.  The coming protest will be attended by a cross-section of the Jewish people - religious and secular - and whoever holds dear the verse, 'If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, may my right hand lose its cunning.'"

Rabbi Porush noted today that a gathering of Jerusalem border-community representatives has been called for next Wednesday evening in the Jerusalem City Hall building.  He said that this forum would serve as the nucleus for the rally's steering committee.  Asked why prominent hareidi rabbis have chosen to lead the fight on a type of nationalist political issue with which the yeshiva world is generally not identified, Porush responded: "Until now, we have become used to hearing government representatives issue festive declarations such as 'A United Jerusalem - the Eternal Capital of Israel' and the like.  When our rabbis learned of the secret plans to divide Jerusalem, they were gripped with fear.  If the proposed maps become a reality, Jerusalem and more than 100,000 Jews [in certain neighborhoods] will be in existential danger."

A different type of demonstration, but for much the same purpose, is already underway in Jerusalem late this afternoon.  Nadia Matar of Women in Green reports from the capital that at least 50 cars gathered at one spot and are heading for the Kidron Valley, where they will meet similar groups from many other locations in the country.  Large traffic jams are expected.

Zo Artzeinu [This is Our Land], which organized the drive-in, has also scheduled a march to a spot near the Temple Mount, at which the participants will protest the continued Waqf desecration of the Temple Mount.  They will also declare their allegiance, in a special ceremony, to the holy city and the site of the Beit HaMikdash.

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