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Subject: Arutz-7 News:
Tuesday, October 3, 2000
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2000 / Tishrei 4, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. CEASEFIRE COLLAPSES; "WORST MAY BE
AHEAD"
2. HEVRON, JOSEPH'S TOMB, BAT HEFER, AND NETZARIM
3. ISRAELI GOV'T: SHARON NOT TO BLAME
4. ISRAELI-ARABS ON THE WARPATH
5. YESHA TRAVEL LIMITATIONS
6. YESHA CONTINUES TO GROW, DESPITE ALL
7. EXCERPTS FROM A WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE
1. CEASEFIRE COLLAPSES; "WORST MAY BE AHEAD"
Hints that the Israeli-PLO ceasefire agreement of this morning
had failed
began trickling in most of the day, but the clearest sign came
late this
afternoon when Arabs began firing on distant Israeli targets at
the Ayosh
junction, north of Ramallah. Deputy Chief of Staff
Maj.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon
told reporters today, "We totally withdrew our forces from
the area, so
that it could not be claimed that we were causing provocations -
but it
didn't work, and the Palestinians resumed the violence.
This is something
that is clearly organized by the PA, and could be stopped with
one order
[from Arafat]." Ya'alon said that he believes the
worst of the riots are
still ahead of us, and noted that Israeli-Arabs and Yesha Arab
instigators
are working together.
Riots and violence resumed in several other places in the early
afternoon:
* In the Israeli-Arab towns of Um el-Fahm, Taibe, and Tira,
residents threw
firebombs and rocks at policemen.
* In the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan, rocks were
hurled on
IDF positions at the foot of the Hermon.
* Rocks and riots were the order of the day in Khan Yunis, Jenin,
and near
Jericho.
* In Jerusalem, two firebombs were thrown at Armon HaNetziv, and
rocks were
hurled on outlying Ramot houses.
* Border Guard jeeps were fired on in at least two cases this
morning.
Forests near Dolev in Binyamin, and Sakhnin and Kibbutz Yodfat in
the
Galilee, have been set ablaze. A policeman was hurt by a
stone at the Arab
village of Daburiye, at the foot Mt. Tavor, west of Tiberias.
Several roads are still closed throughout the Galilee and Yesha,
including
the Givat Ze'ev- Modi'in highway. A Molotov cocktail and
many rocks were
thrown at passing cars on the road. Israeli cars are
travelling on the
Nachal Iron (Wadi Ara) highway - adjacent to Um el -Fahm - only
in Border
Guard-accompanied convoys.
The Binyamin community of Psagot - where one soldier was injured
- and Gaza
were the scenes of gunfire exchanges throughout the night, while
the Arabs
of Haifa, Acre, and Nazareth rioted last night.
2. HEVRON, JOSEPH'S TOMB, BAT HEFER, AND NETZARIM
The most severe violence today took place this afternoon in
Hevron, western
Tulkarm, Netzarim, Shechem, and near Nazareth. In Hevron,
shots were fired
towards Beit Hadassah at about 4 PM, and a homemade explosive was
hurled
towards the homes in Admot Yeshai. These caused no
casualties or
damage. One Border Guard policeman was wounded by rocks
thrown at him by
Hevron Arabs, and one Arab was reportedly killed. Hevron
residents say,
despite this, that the policemen have been instructed not to fire
back at
the stone throwers, and that they are therefore responding with
rocks of
their own.
A battle was raging this afternoon in the area of Joseph's Tomb
in Shechem,
and a large fire was reported in the area of the Tomb-yeshiva
compound. Residents of nearby Elon Moreh reported hearing
three large
explosions near the area of the compound. The yeshiva
suffered major
damage in a fire under similar circumstances during the battles
of four
years ago.
At the Bat Hefer Industrial Park, near Tulkarm, another building
was set
afire today, after three Jewish factories were torched last
night. Firemen
have been instructed by security forces not to approach the
area. In
Tulkarm itself, a protracted gun battle took place between IDF
soldiers and
armed Palestinians this afternoon. IDF forces in the
industrial area saw a
Palestinian with a LAU missile; they fired at him, but he
escaped.
Severe rioting resumed shortly before 1 PM at the Netzarim
Junction today,
and the IDF has again been forced to resort to the use of combat
helicopters. Arab snipers are attempting to shoot Israeli
soldiers, and
one Palestinian has apparently been killed. A Gaza Coast
Regional Council
spokesperson told Arutz-7 today that Netzarim has essentially
been under
siege since Saturday morning. Basic food supplies have been
delivered by
helicopter. Other roads in Gush Katif are open.
3. ISRAELI GOV'T: SHARON NOT TO BLAME
Israeli politicians are largely in consensus that MK Ariel
Sharon's visit
to the Temple Mount last week is not to blame for the current
violence. Prime Minister Barak told Israel Radio on Friday
that
Palestinian incitement after Sharon's visit was to blame for that
day's
violence in Jerusalem. At yesterday's Cabinet meeting, the
ministers were
unanimous in blaming Yasser Arafat for the "premeditated and
staged
riots." In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright
yesterday, MK Sharon protested the State Department's accusation
that it
was his visit to the Temple Mount that ignited the violence:
"I find it most regrettable and disturbing that your
spokesman has been
swayed by slanderous propaganda on the part of the Palestinian
leaders and
media, intended to put pressure on Israel and the U.S. to make
additional
concessions in the negotiations, under threat of violence if
their demands
are not met...
"Israel's security establishment has publicly presented its
conclusions
that the violent riots and armed confrontations are part of a
premeditated
and organized campaign initiated by the Palestinian Authority,
[which]
began over ten days ago in the Netzarim area in Gaza...
"These riots have spread out through the deliberate
incitement (prior to
the visit) by the 'Tanzim' (the armed militia of Chairman
Arafat's Fatah
organization). Last Friday, Arafat instructed the 'Tanzim'
to escalate the
riots. Moreover, Palestinian Security Chiefs have been
directly involved
in inciting the violence and in ordering Palestinian Police to
open fire on
Israeli soldiers, Police and civilians. Arab Members of the
Knesset have
contributed to and joined this violent campaign by repeated
incitement
calling Arab Israelis as well as Palestinians to resort to
violence prior,
during, and after my visit to The Temple Mount...
"The united city of Jerusalem [and the] Temple Mount are
under full
Israeli sovereignty. Neither I, nor any Israeli citizen,
need to seek
permission from the PA or from any foreign entity to visit there
or any
other site which is sovereign territory of the State of
Israel." [full
text provided by IMRA]
4. ISRAELI-ARABS ON THE WARPATH
Prominent Israeli-Arabs came out with warlike statements today.
Famous Arab
actor Ahmed Bakri, who lives in the Galilee, said that the Arabs
of Israel
must begin an armed struggle to obtain what they deserve.
MK Azmi Bishara
said that there is an increase in the willingness of
Israeli-Arabs to
sacrifice their lives on behalf of the Al-Aksa mosque.
Prime Minister Barak and several government ministers met for
over three
hours today with Israeli-Arab leaders, in the wake of the violent
outburst
from this sector over the past few days. Several Israeli-Arabs
have been
killed during violent demonstrations over the past few
days. Barak
promised the leaders "peace, equality, and
partnership." Although he said
yesterday that no country could afford to tolerate the violence
to which we
have been witness of late, he said at today's meeting that police
must not
fire during Israeli-Arab riots unless their lives were in clear
danger. The Prime Minister promised to establish a
committee to look into
the events of the past days.
MK Benny Elon, leader of the National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu
Knesset
faction, expressed shocked dismay at Barak's meeting with the
Israeli-Arab
leaders today. Speaking with Arutz-7, he said, "The
Wadi Ara highway [the
main artery between central Israel and the Tiberias-Jezre'el
Valley area]
is closed to traffic because of Arab violence, and Barak is
meeting with
the leaders?! This is simply unbelievable! He has
apparently learned
nothing!"
A group of right-wing protestors stood outside the Prime
Minister's Office
while he met with the Israeli-Arab leaders. They held signs
reading,
"Israeli-Arabs - a Fifth Column" and "Haters of
Israel - Out!" MK Michael
Kleiner and supporters have begun an initiative to rescind the
citizenship
of Arabs who take part in anti-Israel nationalistic
activity. "Israeli-Arabs must choose between the right
to vote and the
right to throw stones - they can't have both," he said.
A sample incident, reported by Y-net (Yediot Acharonot's
website): Yaakov
Ben-Hamu, 35, of Kibbutz Beit Alfa, was driving east along the
Wadi Iron
(Wadi Ara) highway yesterday, between Um el-Fahm and Afula, when
his way
was blocked some 15 masked Arabs. They noticed that he was
Jewish, dragged
him out of the car, and began kicking and punching him. The
driver of a
passing bus saw what was happening and picked him up; there was
nothing
left for Ben-Hamu to do but watch out the window as the Arabs
torched his
car. He submitted a complaint at the nearby police
station. A similar
incident happened later in the same area, when a bus driver was
forcibly
removed from his vehicle, and the bus was set ablaze.
5. YESHA TRAVEL LIMITATIONS
Bitterness continues to abound in Yesha regarding the travel
limitations
instituted by the army on Jewish civilian traffic. The
towns were closed
to incoming and outgoing traffic all night, and only buses and
convoys of
cars were permitted from many of the towns this morning. By
the afternoon,
only Beit El residents were still forced to travel by
convoy. Orders for
this evening have not yet been formulated, but it is assumed that
they will
be the same as last night. Yesha leaders met with O.C.
Central Commander
Maj.-Gen. Yitzchak Eitan last night in what was described as a
"difficult"
meeting. Several of them announced that they would no
longer adhere to the
above orders.
President Moshe Katzav wrote to Yesha residents today:
"You are fulfilling
an important national mission. I wish to encourage you in the
face of the
wave of Palestinian violence against you."
6. YESHA CONTINUES TO GROW, DESPITE ALL
A new neighborhood will be dedicated in the city of Kiryat Arba
tomorrow,
comprised of 42 housing units. Two other neighborhoods are
under
construction there as well.
7. EXCERPTS FROM A WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICLE, OCT. 2, 2000:
"So who is to blame for this [the current wave of violence]?
The New York
Times faults Mr. Sharon for 'provocatively leading his supporters
to the
Temple Mount.' That view is seconded by the U.S. State
Department and
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, not to mention Mr. Arafat and
his
minions. But we take a dissenting view. In visiting the Temple
Mount, Mr.
Sharon was exercising his right to visit a site open to the
public. That
right belongs to him no less than to anyone else, Israeli,
Palestinian or
otherwise. And it belongs to him precisely because the Temple
Mount falls
under Israel's tolerant stewardship, rather than the previous,
exclusionary
Jordanian regime... Rather, blame for the violence must
fall squarely upon
those who started it, which in every instance so far seems to
have been the
Palestinians. How is it, we'd like to know, that in a society as
tightly
controlled as is the Palestine Authority's, were riots and
attacks on
Israeli military outposts allowed to occur? Why were Palestinian
security
forces, who under Article 8 of the Oslo are supposed to ensure
public order
and security, joining the battle? Who among the top leaders of
the
Palestinian Authority authorized -- or at least did nothing to
stop -- the
violence? Perhaps the State Department, so voluble in condemning
Mr.
Sharon, should seek answers to those questions.
"While they're at it, they may also wish to ponder why it is
that
Palestinian tempers have flared just as the Israeli government
seems
prepared to make unprecedented concessions on the re-division of
Jerusalem... It's certainly not because of Mr. Sharon's
visit to the
Temple Mount. Indeed, if Mr. Sharon can be faulted for anything,
it's that
his visit served the propaganda purposes of the Authority by
supposedly
demonstrating that the area is no place for Jews. The violence in
Jerusalem
is best explained by the fact that the hitherto
"non-negotiable" city is
suddenly up for grabs. The Palestinian Authority thus has a keen
interest
in making East Jerusalem utterly ungovernable for Israel, and
it's a safe
bet that it will repeatedly wink at further violence, even if
that means
endangering the lives of its own people. If so, remind yourself
that it was
the "peace process" that delivered them to their
fate."
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To:
arutz-7@IsraelNationalNews.com
From:
Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject: Arutz-7 News:
Wednesday, October 4, 2000
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2000 / Tishrei 5, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1.ARAFAT SETS CONDITIONS FOR MEETING
2. ARABS ATTEMPT TO CONQUER JEWISH SITES IN GAZA
3. TRACKING THE VIOLENCE
4. ISRAELI-ARAB VIOLENCE HITS ISRAELI PUBLIC LIKE
THUNDER
5. MA'ARIV ACCUSES
6. IF HE'S BEATEN, HE MUST BE PALESTINIAN
7. YESHA COUNCIL DEMANDS
8. SHARON CLEARED IN CHICAGO
1.ARAFAT SETS CONDITIONS FOR MEETING
The Rosh HaShanah Arab Assault carries on. Palestinians
continue tofire on Israelis, while Prime Minister Barak waits patiently in
Paris
to see if Yasser Arafat will agree to meet with him. Barak,
who
arrived in Paris this morning, met first with U.S. Secretary of
State
Madeleine Albright, then with French President Chirac, and then
again
with Albright. Arafat, for his part, met with Chirac, who
is serving
as the current president of the European Union, and has not yet
decided whether he will join the Barak-Albright meeting.
The U.S.
guaranteed Barak that Arafat would show up. Barak, who will
return to
Israel tonight, is being replaced by Shimon Peres as Acting Prime
Minister and by Binyamin Ben-Eliezer as Acting Defense Minister.
Arafat said he would meet with Barak only if he receives
"international guarantees for the defense of the
Palestinians." He
later set three conditions: all shooting must stop, Israeli
forces
must be withdrawn, and an international investigation of the
events of
the past days must be held. Israel has totally rejected the
last
condition, and Albright didn't even bring it up in her meeting
with
Barak, according to Israeli sources. Tomorrow's scheduled
Sharm
a-Sheikh summit between Barak and Arafat is dependent on the
results
of today's meetings.
***As we go to press: A meeting of Barak, Arafat, and
Albright has in
fact begun, although no prior agreement on an international
investigation was reached.
Barak has been widely criticized by his political opposition for,
in
the words of National Religious Party MK Sha'ul Yahalom,
"leaving
behind a burning fire and scorched earth to go talk with the man
responsible for it. Barak is shaming the State of Israel
and its
inhabitants by participating in this 'summit of
humiliation.'"
Opposition leaders demand that Barak meet with Yesha leaders and
with
the opposition.
Meretz MK Zahava Gal'on says that her party should make its
joining
the coalition conditional on the appointment of an Arab minister
to
the government, "to show that we are reducing
discrimination."
2. ARABS ATTEMPT TO CONQUER JEWISH SITES IN GAZA
After a short respite of a few hours, heavy exchanges of fire
resumed
this afternoon at the Netzarim junction in Gaza. After
Palestinian
snipers shot at the Israeli outpost there, Israel responded with
machine-gun and helicopter fire towards the Palestinian
"twin towers"
[tall buildings] there. Israeli forces have also been
rushed to Gush
Katif, where a mob of Arabs has gathered outside the gates of the
IDF
command post.
Early this morning, the Palestinians opened a new direction of
attack
on the Jewish town of Netzarim. Hundreds of them marched
along the
seashore, to the west of the town, and then attempted to break
through
Netzarim's gates while throwing stone blocks and the like.
They were
repelled by the IDF. This method of Palestinian attack is a
departure
from past Palestinian practice of attacking from the road on the
east.
3. TRACKING THE VIOLENCE
Shooting incidents have been sharply on the upswing in the
Palestinian
violence. They included an incident this afternoon in which
an
Israeli passenger was wounded lightly when shots were fired on a
public bus on its way to Gush Etzion. The incident occurred
between
the road's two tunnels, and Egged has announced that it has
stopped
service along the road. Shots were also fired this
afternoon at
buildings in Beitar Illit, cars near the Latrun junction, at
Netzarim,
and at Joseph's Tomb. Senior officers in Shechem told
residents of
nearby Elon Moreh that the Palestinian snipers are aware of the
Israeli policy of "selective and restrained retaliatory
shooting," and
therefore hide behind a group of civilians when they shoot upon
Israeli soldiers.
IDF Chief of Staff Mofaz said today that he would consider a
possible
evacuation of soldiers from Joseph's Tomb, if an
"unreasonable danger
to the soldiers there" develops. Israel Radio reported
that the army
requested twice, over the past four days, that the soldiers be
removed
from the compound in Shechem, but the government objected, for
fear
that this would lead to a greater Palestinian appetite for more
such
gains.
Noam Arnon, the spokesman for Hevron's Jewish community, reports
that
an Arab sniper fired overnight from a hill overlooking the
Avraham
Avinu neighborhood. Jews this morning found some ten bullet
holes in
a home, a car, and a kindergarten. No one was hurt.
"We warned
Binyamin Netanyahu," said Arnon, "when he agreed to
withdraw from
Hevron, that the Arab hill controls the area and that Israel
should
not abandon it - but Netanyahu didn't listen. We must
retake the
hill." A pipe bomb was also later hurled at an army
base in the
center of Hebron.
A short but violent Arab outburst occurred today in Jaffa, when a
mob
of Arabs attacked Israeli and international journalists. An
Israeli
and Italian reporter were wounded... Several Israeli
soldiers were
wounded over the night and early morning - one by gunfire at the
Adam
junction north of Jerusalem's Pisgat Ze'ev, one in Gush Etzion,
and
two in Morag in the Gaza Strip when Arabs opened fire on a
bus. An
Israeli woman was hurt by bricks thrown at her car near
Ariel... Well
over 40 cases of rock-throwing at Jewish cars have been
registered in
Lod and Ramle over the past 24 hours... Arab-instigated
violence was
reported in Jerusalem's Armon HaNetziv neighborhood, on the
Modi'in-Givat Ze'ev highway, the Kiryat Arba-Kiryat Gat road, and
near
Eli... Over 100 cases of arson have been reported.
One of the latest
is a giant blaze between Rosh Ha'Ayin and Petach Tikvah, which is
advancing towards the Jewish communities of Matan, Nirit, and
Yarchit...
Mail has not reached or left several Jewish communities south of
Hevron - Beit Haggai, Adurah, and Otniel - for three days.
A Postal
Authority spokesman said that the army had requested that travel
in
the area be minimized.
Damaged estimated at over four million shekels has been caused at
many
intersections within the Green Line. Traffic lights,
lampposts,
highway fences, and signs were uprooted by the Israeli-Arab
"demonstrators." Voice of Israel Radio reported
today that it is not
yet clear who will pay for this damage. Official statistics
show 49
Arabs dead and 1,878 wounded since the beginning of the violence.
Shlomo Gravitz, a senior Jewish National Fund leader, reacted
today to
the forest fires in northern Israel: - "There
have been 80 cases of
arson in the past day, destroying thousands of dunams of
forest. It
is definite that they were all arson, without exception. It
was
systematically done - torching one place after another, in order
to
destroy the forests of the Land of Israel. In several
areas, the
Arabs even tried to prevent firemen from putting out the
fires. They
themselves desecrate the same land that they claim to hold
holy."
4. ISRAELI-ARAB VIOLENCE HITS ISRAELI PUBLIC LIKE THUNDER
Gershon Adani, a 35-year-old father of two, from the Galilee town
of
Oshrah near Acre, described what happened to him yesterday:
"I was on my way home, when suddenly I was stopped by a mob
of
Israeli-Arabs. They were stopping all the drivers, and
asking to see
their papers. They let the Arab drivers go, but not the
Jewish ones.
I started to tell them that I was their neighbor, and have lived
here
among them for years, etc., but they began pelting me with
bricks,
rocks, and anything else... I ran into the car, locked the
door shut,
and somehow was able to get through the roadblock. I was
hurt very
badly. I got to a police checkpoint, but they couldn't help
me
because the ambulance was not able to get through the Arab
roadblock."
Adani said, "I was among those who believed in co-existence
and the
like. But now, I don't know, something has really changed
in my
thinking... I don't know if we can go back to what it was
like
before... I am not optimistic about the future."
Erez Kreisler, head of the Misgav Regional Council in the
Galilee,
responded to the above:
"In the past few days, there have been 170 incidents here:
30 attacks
on Jewish towns, 10 firebombs and shooting, 20 roadblocks, 40
cases of
rocks and bricks, and 70 cases of arson. This is a real war
situation
- our children didn't go to school, and we were stuck inside our
towns. Only after it was understood that there was an
existential
danger to the towns did we get help from police and army.
[Regarding
the future of Jewish-Arab relations:] We worked hard for years to
plant the seeds of cooperation and harmonic co-existence, and
what we
have harvested is hatred. I believed that we could live
together...
I knew that there would be disputes, but I never dreamt that it
would
reach such an existentially-dangerous extent as actual attempts
to
burn our towns down to the ground."
Journalist Amnon Lord of Makor Rishon, a former Peace Now member,
discussed his reaction, and that of his left-wing friends, to the
present Israeli-Arab violence:
"What is clear is that something very serious is happening,
true
seismic shockwaves... It has even surprised me to a certain
extent,
because though I have changed some of my opinions [over the
years], I
never thought I would come to this conclusion: Israel's
Arabs are our
number-one enemy. Some of my friends on the left have also
come to
this conclusion, but they are surprised, and say that it is a
bitter
truth."
5. MA'ARIV ACCUSES
Israel's daily paper Ma'ariv, not known for its right-wing views,
editorialized today:
"Over the years, leaders of the Arab public explained that
the
continuing discrimination against Israeli Arabs is what led to
feelings of bitterness and frustration. There was much
justice in
such remarks. But it is now clear that the traditional
claim of
discrimination is only a cover for the true motive. Those
who are
outraged over discrimination demonstrate, but do not shout
'Death to
the Jews'. Those who shout 'Slaughter the Jews'
do not want a
working sewage system, but rather a Palestinian state on the
ruins of
Israel."
6. IF HE'S BEATEN, HE MUST BE PALESTINIAN
This past Saturday, The New York Times and many other papers
published
a picture - supplied by the Associated Press - of an angry
Israeli
policeman and a badly-beaten and bloodied man, with the caption,
"An
Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple
Mount." The picture
can be seen at <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>.
Dr. Aaron
Grossman, of Chicago, Ill., sent the following letter to the
Times:
"Regarding your picture on page A5 (Sept. 30) of the Israeli
soldier
and the Palestinian on the Temple Mount - that Palestinian is
actually
my son, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He,
and two of
his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while traveling in
Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs and were severely beaten
and
stabbed. That picture could not have been taken on the
Temple Mount
because there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and
certainly
none with Hebrew lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the
Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son from the mob."
Tuvia Grossman was on his way to the Western Wall on Friday
afternoon,
and has been hospitalized ever since with head injuries and a
stab
wound. He told Arutz-7 today,
"I was in a taxi on the way to the Kotel [Western Wall] and
we got
stoned... [They took me out of the car and beat me and] I
gave a
scream, and for a second they let go of me, and I said Shma
Yisrael,
because I thought it was all over... After they let go of
me, I ran -
even though I had a knife in my leg, G-d gave me the strength to
run
and I was able to make it up the hill where there were soldiers
by the
gas station and they took care of me. But I was being
beaten for
around 5 or 6 minutes with a rock on the top of my head, and I
was
stabbed in the back of my leg and kicked and punched all over my
body."
"[When I saw the mis-captioned AP picture] I was extremely,
extremely
upset. People see a picture of a youth and they think that
it's a
Palestinian being beaten by Israelis, it changes their world view
and
makes them think that it's the Israelis beating up the
Arabs. I was
extremely upset. It was totally the opposite. That
policeman was
yelling at the Arabs to back off, and was protecting me from them
- so
to change it around and to say that he was beating me, that's
just
total distortion, and the world must be notified about how this
is not
true - the Jews are the ones suffering at the hands of the
Arabs."
The Times published a correction today, in which it identified
Tuvia
Grossman as "an American student in Israel" - not as a
Jew who was
beaten by Arabs. The "correction" also noted that
"Mr. Grossman was
wounded" in "Jerusalem's Old City" - although in
fact it occurred in n Arab-populated neighborhood of Jerusalem, not in the Old
City. An
Associated Press spokesman told Arutz-7 that it was looking into
the
matter.
7. YESHA COUNCIL DEMANDS
The Yesha Council - the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea,
Samaria, and Gaza - released the following statement today:
"The
Yesha Council demands that Prime Minister and Minister of
Defense,
Ehud Barak, protect the citizens of Israel on both sides of the
green
line. We demand that he order the Israeli Army to prevent
violence,
and not hold the citizens of Israel hostage by closing road
arteries
to us, while Arab traffic is allowed to freely travel on the
roads...
These violent riots were orchestrated by the Palestinian
Authority and
coordinated with Israeli Arabs and Bedouin. The time has come for
the
Israeli public and the world Jewish community to realize that the
Jewish communities of Yesha are only the appetizers for Arafat
and
that it is his intention to take all of 'Palestine.' ...It
is common
knowledge that there are hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons
within the Arab towns and villages. We demand that the terrorists
are
restrained and shootings be prevented. The leadership of
Yesha has
given fair notice to the heads of the army, that if they will not
open
the roads, then we will open them."
8. SHARON CLEARED IN CHICAGO
Yet another voice "clearing" Ariel Sharon of
responsibility for the
Rosh HaShanah Arab Assault appeared in a Chicago Sun-Times
editorial
yesterday. Excerpts:
"The rioting in Israel is Ariel Sharon's fault, right?
Wrong. From the
start of the rioting, complaints have been heard about the visit
by
Israeli opposition leader Sharon to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
last
week. But however provocative that was, it should be remembered
that
the visit was a nonviolent act. Sharon threw no stones, ignited
no
Molotov cocktails, fired no shots. Those came from the
Palestinians.
The responsibility for the killings--including the
heart-wrenching
death of that 12-year-old boy recorded by a TV camera--and
injuries in
this terrible violence falls on Yasser Arafat and the
Palestinians.
"In visiting the Temple Mount, Sharon was making a statement
about the
importance of the holy site to Jews and about the opposition by
him
and many Israelis to Prime Minister Ehud Barak's willingness to
relinquish some sovereignty over Jerusalem to the Palestinians.
Political statements inspire passions, but that is not a reason
to
avoid them. In America's long history, anti-war protesters, civil
rights advocates and labor activists launched demonstrations
knowing
they would provoke a violent response..."
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