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From:
Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@ArutzSheva.org>
Subject: Arutz-7 News:
Wednesday, January 19, 2000
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.ArutzSheva.org>
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
<http://www.arutzsheva.org>
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
<www.ArutzSheva.org>
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
<www.ArutzSheva.org>
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
<http://www.ArutzSheva.org>
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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