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Subject: Arutz-7 News:
Tuesday, October 17, 2000
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2000 / Tishrei 18, 5761 - 4th Day of Sukkot
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. NO SIGNING CEREMONY AT SHARM; LEADERS "DON'T
OPPOSE" ORAL CEASE FIRE
2. ARAFAT'S TANZIM SNIPERS VETO SHARM DEAL
3. POLITICAL FALL-OUT UNCERTAIN
4. OTHER REACTIONS TO SHARM SUMMIT
5. EGYPTIAN HOSTILITY TOWARDS ISRAELIS
1. NO SIGNING CEREMONY AT SHARM; LEADERS "DON'T OPPOSE"
ORAL CEASE FIRE
The day-long Sharm a-Sheikh summit ended this afternoon without
the actual
signing of a cease fire agreement between PLO leader Arafat and
Prime
Minister Ehud Barak. The gathering of regional leaders was
convened in the
wake of the nearly three-week old Rosh Hashanah Arab
Assault. After
intense meetings often accompanied by heavy verbal sparring
between summit
delegates, US President Bill Clinton was able to extract an oral
cease fire
agreement between Barak and Arafat. At a short press
conference called at
the end of the summit, Clinton declared that the two sides had
agreed to
immediately end the violence of the past several weeks, and that
they would
cooperate with a body that would supervise the cease fire
arrangements. Clinton also said that the sides had given
him the green
light to set up a committee to investigate the source of the
mini-war; the
committee will present its conclusions to both Clinton and to UN
Secretary-General Kofi Anan. Reporters who attended the
press conference
were not given an opportunity to ask questions.
Barak summit spokesman and Haifa Mayor Amram Mitzna pointed out
that the
Clinton declaration was the most the American President could get
the sides
to agree upon. "By their silence, they agreed with,
or, I should say, did
not disagree, with the pronouncement," he told Arutz-7
today. He further
noted, "the talks were characterized by a lack of trust and
suspicion
between the sides... We cannot rely on their promise [of a
ceasefire]. What
happens in the field will be the litmus test. As we speak
now, at the
summit's conclusion, Palestinian forces are firing on our
soldiers."
Soon after the Clinton declaration, Barak's spokesman Nachman
Shai
published a press release proudly announcing: "The goals of
the Sharm
a-Sheikh conference have been achieved, including, the
establishment of
concrete obligations to put an end to the current crisis
including detailed
security understandings on all relevant issues." The
statement also noted
that "an international commission of inquiry has not been
established. [Instead] US President Bill Clinton will
appoint a
fact-finding committee and publish its report." The release
also noted that
Arafat had taken upon himself "concrete obligations to halt
the incitement."
What the statement failed to mention was that Yasser Arafat had
not agreed
to disarm his Tanzim terrorist force. The communique also
chose not to
stress that, as President Clinton told reporters, Israel has
committed
itself to re-open the PLO's Dahaniya airport and to end the IDF's
closure
on Palestinian towns throughout Yesha.
2. ARAFAT'S TANZIM SNIPERS VETO SHARM DEAL
After today's press conference, Prime Minister Barak told
reporters that
the "true test of the agreement will be in its
implementation." US
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said that the cease fire
agreement
would take effect immediately. If the events of this
afternoon are any
indication, though, the modest Clinton diplomatic victory lasted
less than
five minutes: Tanzim commander Marwan Bargouti called the oral
agreement "a
scandal," and declared that the Palestinian
"intifada" would
continue. Moments later, Arab snipers fired on the southern
Jerusalem
neighborhood of Gilo from a PA paramilitary base in the village
of Beit
Jalla, critically injuring a 19-year-old IDF Border Guard
Policeman and
lightly injuring a civilian. The policeman underwent
surgery in
Jerusalem's Hadassah-Ein Kerem hospital and is now in the
intensive care
respiratory unit.
As a result of the PLO gunfire, police evacuated residents of
Gilo's
Ha'anafa Street, which faces Beit Jalla, from their homes.
By
mid-afternoon, police snipers were perched atop the
neighborhood's
apartment blocks. IDF officials issued a warning to
residents of Beit
Jalla to leave their houses, or risk being injured by possible
IDF
retaliation. The tunnels highway linking Jerusalem with
Gush Etzion was
also targeted by PLO gunmen. IDF forces fired back at the
terrorists with
tank-mounted machine guns.
Palestinian violence continued apace before and during the Sharm
a-Sheikh
summit, as well. Near the township of Itamar just south of
Shechem, Arabs
armed with hatchets and knives began closing in on a Jewish
farmer who was
working in his field. When the Israeli farmer noticed the
approaching
Arabs, he fired warning shots in the air to no avail. He
then opened fire
on the assailants killing one and - according to Arab sources -
injuring
five. The incident occurred just before noon today while
the cease fire
talks were coming to a close. The injured Arabs were
evacuated to a
hospital in Shechem, and the Israel Police questioned the Israeli
farmer
and one of his workers at the Ariel police station.
The funeral of a 13-year old Palestinian boy who attempted
yesterday to
hurl a firebomb at IDF troops, was held today in Bethlehem... A
Palestinian
paramilitary police officer was killed when he, with some of his
colleagues, ambushed an IDF patrol... Another Palestinian police
officer
shot at a convoy of Israeli cars in Gush Katif yesterday; an
eyewitness
said he saw an Arab taxi waiting alongside the policeman to take
him away
after the attack... Arabs shot at an IDF base near Rafiach in
Gaza and at
the Binyamin community of Psagot; no one was hurt, and soldiers
did not
fire back ... Two Israeli ambulances on their way to evacuating
Israeli
patients were damaged by Palestinian rock-throwers today.
No one was hurt
in the incidents, which took place near Karmei Tzur and further
north in
Gush Etzion... Violent Palestinian riots continued to target
Rachel's Tomb
in Bethlehem, and Palestinian mobs continued to hurl rocks at IDF
forces
stationed in the Jewish community of Hevron; the army is
responding with
rubber bullets.
3. POLITICAL FALL-OUT UNCERTAIN
The domestic political ramifications of the Clinton Declaration
are still
unclear. Although US President Bill Clinton announced that
the parties had
agreed to consult with the US in two weeks' time to discuss how
the sides
planned to restart the Oslo process, Ehud Barak said today that
he still
sees a need for a national emergency government; he noted that he
had
updated Likud leader Ariel Sharon several times throughout the
summit.
Barak sounded skeptical that negotiations with the PLO would
continue in
the near future: "The events we have lived through
over the past several
weeks have left an imprint on our consciousness," he said.
"I told all
summit delegates that the Likud is a legitimate and very
important party in
the State of Israel. The Americans said that they would
examine the
possibility of restarting the diplomatic negotiations, but I
don't know
what the results of that will be..."
Communications Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor), speaking
last night
on Israel television, reiterated his view that the Oslo process
has died,
and that Barak "decided some time ago to form a national
unity
government. It's just that when Israel's pretty much only
friend, Bill
Clinton, and Kofi Anan - who has put great efforts in to the
region over
the past two weeks - ask you to attend a summit, you just can't
tell them
'no!'"
4. OTHER REACTIONS TO SHARM SUMMIT
*Regional
Cooperation Minister and Oslo-architect Shimon Peres,
speaking from Prague today: "This is the best deal that
could have been
reached in the present situation."
*Hamas leader
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin: "The understandings at Sharm
are null and void. The Intifada shall continue."
*The Council of
Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza
(Yesha) sharply condemned the deal. A Council spokesman
said that "Ehud
Barak has quickly forgotten who lynched soldiers by day and
burned
synagogues by night. Israeli citizens will no longer buy into this
imaginary
peace with Arafat, who has already signed, and has failed to
honor, four
agreements obligating him to cease violence."
*National
Religious Party leader Rabbi Yitzchak Levy: "It is still
too early to determine what really happened at Sharm-a-Sheikh; I
call upon
the Prime Minister to brief the Knesset faction leaders on the
results of
the summit."
5. EGYPTIAN HOSTILITY TOWARDS ISRAELIS
Israeli delegation members at Sharm reported overt Egyptian
hostility
towards them, including careful searches in their luggage, the
confiscation
of cellular phones, problems in food supplies to them, and the
lack of an
Israeli flag amongst those of the other participating
countries. Prime
Minister Barak's personal secretary was even locked into a room
by an
Egyptian security agent.
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To:
arutz-7@IsraelNationalNews.com
From:
Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject: Arutz-7 News:
Wednesday, October 18, 2000
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2000 / Tishrei 19, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. ISRAEL 'HOPES" FOR CEASEFIRE, OPENS P.A.
AIRPORT
2. VIOLENCE CONTINUED THIS MORNING AND YESTERDAY
3. THE SHARM STATEMENT
4. OPPOSITION MEMBERS SPEAK
5. SNEH AND THE SEPARATION PLAN
6. LEVY DEMANDS NATIONAL-UNITY GOVERNMENT
1. ISRAEL 'HOPES" FOR CEASEFIRE, OPENS P.A. AIRPORT
Some 18 hours after Israel fulfilled its new Sharm a-Sheikh
obligation- Prime Minister Barak instructed the army early last night to
takesteps to ensure that the violence abates - the PA finally issued
an
official announcement at 2 PM today calling on its forces to hold
their fire. Following a meeting between leading Israeli and
PA army
officials this afternoon to discuss arrangements for a ceasefire,
the
Israel Defense Forces opened the international crossings for
Palestinians, opened the Dahaniye airport in Gaza, and removed
the
closure from around the Palestinian cities. The ban on the
entry of
Palestinians into Israel remains in force, however. A
statement by
the IDF spokesman expressed the hope that these steps will lead
to a
cessation of violence throughout Judea and Samaria.
After Arafat's announcement, Palestinian streets in the
autonomous
cities were full of demonstrators demanding the continuation of
the
"struggle for Palestinian independence." Hussein
a-Sheikh, a Tanzim
leader, told the Jerusalem Post that the message of these
demonstrations is that "the intifada is
continuing." Tanzim head
Marwan Bargouti, who said after the Sharm a-Sheikh summit that
the
intifada would continue, said later today that he does not
believe
that Yasser Arafat will ask him to rein in his forces. He
said that
even if Arafat would ask him to do so, "[I] will not be able
to
control my people."
News of the ceasefire has apparently not reached Gaza, where an
IDF
officer was lightly wounded in the face by a firebomb thrown at
him
during Palestinian riots near an IDF position at Kfar
Darom. Homemade
grenades were also tossed at an army post there, and an Israeli
citizen was wounded by gunfire shot from a passing Palestinian
car.
Palestinian forces are also shooting at IDF forces near Shechem
and
Jenin; the army has returned fire.
2. VIOLENCE CONTINUED THIS MORNING AND YESTERDAY
Palestinian riots and violence continued this morning in three
sites
in the Gaza Strip, despite the agreement reached in Sharm
a-Sheikh
yesterday. Anita Tucker, a long-time resident of Netzer
Chazani in
Gush Katif, reported that a bullet was shot into her car from a
Palestinian sniper standing on the street this morning; "it
landed
directly where my head should have been at that second, but
miraculously it did not hit me," she said.
Two soldiers were shot and wounded last night - one lightly, one
moderately - while standing at a checkpoint south of Ma'aleh
Adumim.
The Palestinians attempted an ambush on Israeli soldiers last
night in
Bethlehem; they called in a report of a "lynch" in the
city, and when
the soldiers arrived, Palestinians opened fire on them; no one
was
hurt. Heavy fire was shot at the Jewish homes in Hevron,
all IDF
posts in Gaza, and at Vered Yericho.
The Israeli tanks outside the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of
Gilo
have not yet been removed. Palestinians from Beit Jalla
fired heavily
on Gilo yesterday; many families were evacuated from their homes
for
several hours, and the condition of a Border Guard policeman shot
through his heart yesterday continues to be very serious.
The army
and the Jerusalem municipality have almost completed the
fortification
of the endangered Gilo homes with concrete blocks and reinforced
walls. The head of the Gilo local council described the
atmosphere in
Gilo to Arutz-7 today: "Mothers are afraid to let
their children onto
the streets... We never, in our worst dreams, could have
imagined
that the situation here could deteriorate so drastically."
3. THE SHARM STATEMENT
No agreement was signed at the Sharm a-Sheikh summit yesterday,
but
U.S. President made the following agreed-upon statement while
Prime
Minister Barak and Yasser Arafat looked on quietly:
"First: Both sides have agreed to issue public statements
unequivocally calling for an end of violence. They also agreed to
take
immediate concrete measures to end the current confrontation,
eliminate points of friction, ensure an end to violence and
incitement, maintain calm and prevent recurrence of recent
events. To
accomplish this, both sides will act immediately to return the
situation to that which existed prior to the current crisis in
areas
such as restoring law and order, redeploying forces, eliminating
points of friction, enhancing security cooperation, and ending
the
closure, and opening the Gaza Airport... Second: The United
States
will develop with Israelis and Palestinians, as well as in
consultation with the United Nations Secretary General, a
committee of
fact-finding on the events of the past several weeks and how to
prevent their recurrence... Third: If we are to address the
underlying roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there must
be a
pathway back to negotiations and the resumption of efforts to
reach a
permanent status agreement based on the UN Security Council
resolutions 242 and 338 and subsequent understandings.
Toward this
end, the leaders have agreed that the United States would consult
with
the parties within the next two weeks about how to move
forward."
More on American-Israeli relations: The final count on the
number of
Senators who have signed the pro-Israel letter is 96.
Senators
Abraham (R., Mich.) and Byrd (D., WV) were the only Senators who
chose
not to sign. Senators Hagel (R., Neb.) and Gregg (R., New
Hamp.)
could not be reached by last Friday's deadline and they have not
requested to be added to it. The letter expresses
solidarity with the
State and people of Israel at this time of crisis, while
condemning
the Palestinian leadership for encouraging the violence and doing
little to stop it.
4. OPPOSITION MEMBERS SPEAK
Arutz-7 spoke today with two members of the opposition, MK
Avigdor
Lieberman (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) and MK Limor Livnat.
Lieberman was cynical about the Sharm a-Sheikh summit:
"There was no
agreement, but only a declaration by Clinton - which he needed
for his
own internal electoral purposes, and not for us. After all,
there
will be elections there in three weeks, and violence here during
the
elections could only hurt his wife's chances and those of
Gore... We
conceded a lot, simply for Clinton's electoral
considerations... This
is an emergency situation, and emergency steps must be taken,
which we
are not doing. Beit Jallah residents [adjacent to Gilo]
cannot be
allowed to go on living there as if nothing happened. We
must take
the initiative, and not only retaliate. We have all the
tools to put
an end to this violence. For instance, we must cause
the
Palestinians to beg us for a ceasefire; they're not stopping
their
anti-Israel incitement, so we must do it, both on radio and
TV."
Former Minister Limor Livnat has only criticism for Barak:
"The Sharm
agreement is not on our favor: We are re-opening their the
airport
and withdrawing our forces, while the demands that we have on the
Palestinians are very critical, yet are not being
fulfilled: [there
are] four Israeli prisoners, which no one mentions and about whom
no
one demands information; the re-arrest of Hamas prisoners, the
disarming of the Tanzim, the restoring of the Shalom al Yisrael
synagogue in Jericho and Joseph's Tomb in Shechem,
etc." She said
that she is against joining a unity government: "Our
job as the
opposition is to topple this failing Barak government - not to
rescue
it. But a short-term emergency government would be a
different story:
If Barak wants to use Sharon's experience and those of
others, then
OK - but only for a minimum amount of time, and without the
distribution of portfolios, etc... What, families in Gilo
have to
live behind concrete barricades? Let the Arabs sit behind
the
concrete!"
5. SNEH AND THE SEPARATION PLAN
Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said today that the planned
Israeli reaction to the collapse of the Oslo accords and/or the
unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state does not include
the
removal of Israeli settlements in Yesha. Neither does it grant
territorial contiguity to the Palestinian entity. Instead, it
includes
physical barriers, turning the checkpoints into regular border
crossings, and new economic arrangements. Opposition leader Ariel
Sharon, who asked to see the plan, was told by Prime Minister
Barak
that he could see it only if he joins the government. MK Rabbi
Chaim
Druckman (NRP) said that reports of such a plan are misleading to
the
public, because a secure separation of this nature is impossible.
6. LEVY DEMANDS NATIONAL-UNITY GOVERNMENT
Prime Minister Barak continues in his efforts to form a
national-unity
government, in the knowledge that otherwise he is sure to be
toppled
when the current Knesset recess concludes two weeks from
now. In an
attempt to attract the religious parties, Barak told MK Moshe
Gafni of
United Torah Judaism today that he would call off all plans for
the
secular revolution. Gafni said that he would not believe
Barak until
he sees this occur in actuality. Shas party leaders said
today that
they are still interested in new elections.
Former Foreign Minister David Levy told Israel Radio today that
the
Sharm agreement is already falling apart, "and even if it
[leads] to a
ceasefire, it is of limited-time value only, because Arafat is
making
it contingent upon Israel's fulfilling all his demands... We were
fooling ourselves all this time, basing our policies on our own
wishes." Levy, who resigned from the Barak government
in protest of
the Prime Minister's increasing concessions to Arafat, said that
there
are only two options available to us at this time: either a
national
unity government based on "seeing the reality as it is and
preparing
appropriately," or new elections - but not a continuation of
the
"zig-zag" policy. Minister Matan Vilnai is
against the formation of a
unity government, calling it a national paralysis government.
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Subject: Arutz-7 News:
Thursday, October 19, 2000
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2000 / Tishrei 20, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. OPPOSITION AGAINST NATIONAL-UNITY GOV'T AT THIS
STAGE
OPPOSITION AGAINST NATIONAL-UNITY GOV'T AT THIS STAGE
Leaders of most of the right-wing opposition parties - Likud,
National
Religious Party, Yisrael B'Aliyah, National Union-Yisrael
Beiteinu,
and Herut - gathered in Likud leader Ariel Sharon's office this
morning to discuss their plans to topple the government.
They had
various levels of criticism for Prime Minister Barak, and said
that
they would not join a national-unity government at this
time. Sharon
responded to Barak's veiled criticism of him last night by
saying,
"Barak blames everyone except himself. I have not seen
him take
responsibility for his long line of failures of this past
year..."
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From:
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Subject: Arutz-7 News
Brief: Friday, October 20, 2000
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Friday, Oct. 20, 2000 / Tishrei 21, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. RABBI HERLING BURIED
2. SUMMARY OF THE BATTLE
3. BARAK'S RESPONSES
4. YESHA COUNCIL MEETING
1. RABBI HERLING BURIED
Thousands of people accompanied the funeral of Rabbi Binyamin
Herling
in Kedumim today. Even before the identity of the victim of
yesterday's battle was known, rumors were making their speedy way
around Yesha towns that the victim was a "well-known tzaddik
[righteous man]." Kedumim resident Rafaela Segal said
last night that
Rabbi Herling was known as a kind and modest Torah scholar of the
first order, who lived with his wife in the same small structure
that
his family was assigned when he and the original settlers first
moved
in 23 years ago. He traveled to his various classes by
hitchhiking,
and would study Torah with whoever was the driver on the
way. A lover
of the Land of Israel, he worked the land on Fridays when he did
not
teach.
A shaken Kedumim Rabbi Daniel Shilo told Ma'ariv, "He was
one of the
model personalities that developed here in Yesha, in Bnei Akiva,
and
in our yeshivot. A real Torah scholar and a spreader of
Torah. He
was a paratrooper in the army, one in whom no fault was found,
"not in
the eyes of G-d and not in the eyes of man.'" Karnei
Shomron Council
head Yehuda Lieberman said, "He was unbelievably
modest. He tried
always to make peace between people. He spoke quietly and
pleasantly,
was loved by everyone, and was never involved in
controversy."
Yehoshua Herling, one of eight children of Rabbi Herling, called
today
on Yesha residents not to carry out personal acts of vengeance
for his
father's death, nor even to do so verbally. Rabbi Eliezer
Waldman
said at the funeral, "This terrible murder must send shock
waves to
the government, the nation, and throughout the land!"
Rabbi Chaim
Druckman accused the government of blindness as to what is
happening
in the country: "Master of the World, what else has to
happen for us
to open our eyes to the truth of this 'process!' And there
are still
'understandings'! We can't believe even one word Arafat
says!" Rabbi
Daniel Shilo said, "I do expect vengeance - but not of the
private
kind. I expect the country and its government to take
proper
vengeance on what happened yesterday."
2. SUMMARY OF THE BATTLE
Ze'ev Chernin, one of the hikers on yesterday's tragic hike,
recounted
the events for Arutz-7:
"We left Kedumim on an organized, army-approved trip, to the
site of
Joshua Bin-Nun's altar when he entered the Land of Israel, and a
look-out point for Joseph's Tomb. Four soldiers in jeeps
accompanied
us - over 30 people, including women and children. At one
point, we
were on a mountain side, about 300 meters from the outer houses
of the
Arab camp Askar, and some of us wanted to see another site.
About
nine of us, including myself, chose not to go; one soldier
remained
with us, while the other three went with the others. Right
then, the
Arabs began firing at us. We took cover, even though it was
very hard
to hide, because the mountainside was very open and
uncovered. At one
point, I was forced to fire back. The Arabs were firing
massively at
us, while we had to be very careful with shooting since we didn't
have
much ammunition. Despite this, one Arab was killed..
Even heavier
firing was directed at the other group. Our people also
shot back,
but they most certainly did not start the firing, as the Arabs
claim!... At one point, IDF helicopters arrived, and
circled
overhead. At first they did not fire, which was a great
disappointment to us. Later, they did shoot, but then they
were shot
at, and they left. All this time we were there on the
mountainside
under heavy fire. Only after four hours did I see an
army
reinforcement coming on the top of the mountain. The
soldiers started
shooting very heavily, but they were still unable to come get us.
Later, after dark, they came to us and the rescue
started..."
3. BARAK'S RESPONSES
Prime Minister Barak feels that the IDF performance yesterday is
less
of an issue than that of why a hike took place there. He
told a group
of American-Jewish leaders today that the army acted swiftly and
correctly in seeking out all possibilities of rescuing the
wounded.
He said, however, that the question of why the hike was approved
by
the army is under investigation. Barak blamed the
Palestinians for a
"grave violation" of the Sharma-Sheikh understandings
in yesterday's
protracted attack on the Israeli hikers. Barak later
visited the
south-Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, where a Border Guard
policeman
was gravely wounded this week by Palestinian sniper fire.
Barak said that Israel reserves the right to respond to
yesterday's
attack. He denied journalistic speculation that in order
not to
bolster Arafat and the militant wing at tomorrow's Arab League
summit
meeting, the military response would occur only after the summit
- and
said that it would take place "at the time and in the manner
in which
[we] choose."
Dozens of Israelis, including soldiers in uniform, are protesting
outside Barak's home this afternoon against what they call his
"abandonment of wounded in the field."
Communications and Housing Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who
symbolizes the coalition's "hawkish right-wing" after
declaring - only
a week after the beginning of the Rosh HaShanah Arab Assault -
that
the peace process was dead, said today that Prime Minister Barak
feels
the same way. He said that Barak is simply uncomfortable
saying so to
U.S. President Clinton. The Prime Minister will meet with
opposition
leader Ariel Sharon later today to discuss the
increasingly-relevant
option of a national-unity government.
Barak-aide Gilad Sher said this morning that Clinton phoned Barak
last
night; and "Barak told him that the Palestinians are not
fulfilling
their end of the Sharm understandings, and that if this
continues,
Israel will take a time-out from the peace process to consider
its
next steps." Likud MK Uzi Landau, speaking with Israel
Radio,
responded, "Barak has chosen both to be humiliated and to
suffer the
results of terrorism... Gilad Sher said that yesterday's
battle was
merely a 'local incident' - I disagree with this
fundamentally. This
was a local manifestation of the Palestinians' general
policy!" When
asked whether Barak's restraint yesterday might actually be in
Israel's best interest, given the Arab League summit tomorrow,
Landau
responded, "Even if I agree with you, what explains Barak's
restraint
after the Ramallah lynching, and the Joseph's Tomb desecration,
and
the burning of the Jericho synagogue, and all the other events of
the
past month?"
4. YESHA COUNCIL MEETING
The Yesha Council, following an emergency meeting last night in
Barkan, near Ariel, declared that Prime Minister Barak is
responsible
for the death of Rabbi Herling yesterday. The Council has
planned a
demonstration for tomorrow night outside Barak's home in
Jerusalem,
demanding that Barak accept the responsibility and resign.
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