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Subject: Arutz-7 News:
Sunday, October 8, 2000
Arutz Sheva News Service
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Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000 / Tishrei 9, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. TENSE QUIET THIS MORNING
2. THREE SOLDIERS KIDNAPPED
3. ARABS BURN JOSEPH'S TOMB
4. YESHA RESIDENT IS MISSING
1. TENSE QUIET THIS MORNING
A tense quiet reigns throughout most of Israel today, as the
country waits
to see whether Prime Minister Barak's 48-hour warning to Arafat
will have
an effect. Barak said last night that it is very likely
that Israel no
longer has a peace partner, but he is giving Arafat 48 hours to
cease the
violence. If it does not stop, Barak warned, the IDF would
respond with
all its force. Palestinian sources have said that they will
not give in to
Barak's threats, and that if the diplomatic process has died,
"it was at
the hands of Barak." Israel Television reported last
night, in the name of
several "furious" government ministers, that the
48-hour decision was made
by Barak without consulting with them.
Communications Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a former senior
army
commander, says that Israel is in a situation of war, and that it
is clear
to him now that the negotiating process has ended.
The lack of a U.S. veto of the UN resolution against Israel has
embittered
many officials in the Israeli government. Staffers in the
Prime Minister's
Office say that Barak feels "betrayed" by Clinton, and
that Clinton has
"stabbed him in the back," by not vetoing the UN
resolution condemning
Israel for the war that has been foisted upon it. Political
commentators
have said for weeks that much of Clinton's recent political and
diplomatic
strategies have been guided by his desire not to lose Jewish
support for
either his wife Hilary's New York Senate race or the
Gore-Lieberman
Presidential race; the non-veto is apparently a departure from
this
practice, as it is assumed that the support of pro-Israeli votes
in both
campaigns will make their feelings known.
The official U.S. explanation for the non-veto is that it would
have
prevented the Americans from acting as a mediator between Israel
and the
Arabs. The Americans are even now attempting to arrange a
meeting between
Arafat and Barak for immediately after Yom Kippur.
2. THREE SOLDIERS KIDNAPPED
Prime Minister Barak visited the site today from where Hizbullah
yesterday
kidnapped three Israel soldiers on a routine patrol near Har Dov
on the
Lebanese-Israeli border. The terrorists took advantage of
the lack of a
border fence in the area. Prime Minister Barak was reminded
by reporters
last night that during the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon last
May, he had
promised to react with a "strong arm" and the bombing
of vital Lebanese
infrastructures in the event of post-withdrawal Lebanese violence
against
Israel. When asked if he plans to fulfill this promise, Barak
said that for
understandable reasons, he could not go into details about
Israel's
retaliatory plans. He continued today with his policy of
silence on the
matter.
Former GSS head Yaakov Peri, who has been entrusted with the
handling of
contacts regarding the three captured soldiers, hinted that
Israel would
negotiate when he said that Israel would not enter into any
contacts with
Hizbullah unless a sign that the three were alive and well was
received. Negotiations have reportedly begun with German
mediators. Barak
said that he sees Syria as bearing supreme responsibility for the
soldiers'
welfare.
3. ARABS BURN JOSEPH'S TOMB
Early yesterday morning, the government ordered the army to
retreat from
Joseph's Tomb in Shechem. An agreement had been reached
with Palestinian
Authority officials there, but the latter proved unable - or
unwilling - to
keep their end of the agreement. A mob of Arabs ransacked
the holy site -
which served as a yeshiva for over 20 years until this past week
- and then
burnt it down, and even took apart the stone dome marking the
grave of the
Biblical Joseph. Even Oslo-architect Shimon Peres had
criticism last night
for Arafat and the behavior of the Palestinians in Shechem.
Peres said,
"The Palestinians made a terrible mistake in Joseph's
Tomb. They pulled
the rug out from under their feet regarding their demand for
control of the
holy places, by showing that they don't know how to preserve and
respect
them."
During the Israeli retreat from the holy spot that PLO gunners
had targeted
for the past week - and where an Israeli soldier died of his
wounds several
days ago - one Border Guard policeman was shot in the face, and
was wounded
moderately. The retreating soldiers removed all holy items,
including Torah
scrolls, prayer books, and Jewish texts, before surrendering the
site to
the PLO. It marked the first time that Israel had evacuated
its forces
from Yesha in the face of Palestinian violence. Barak and
other top
officials implied that the evacuation was only
"temporary." It was later
reported that Arafat had given an order to restore the holy site
to some
semblance of normalcy, although the extent of his authority in
Shechem is
not absolute.
4. YESHA RESIDENT IS MISSING
The whereabouts of Hillel Lieberman, 36, from Elon Moreh near
Shechem,
continue to be a mystery. He arrived at Sabbath prayer
services in his
hometown at 8 AM yesterday morning, and upon hearing of the
burning down of
Joseph's Tomb, he turned around and left the synagogue.
Lieberman is one
of the founders and administrators of the Yeshiva at the site,
and in the
words of a fellow townsman, "he has a very deep personal
connection to the
holy site." When he did not return within a few hours,
search parties from
the town were dispatched. An IDF helicopter participated in
the search,
but residents say that the search has not been carried out in
full-force. After morning Shabbat services, a large group
of Elon Moreh
residents walked towards Shechem and conducted a quiet protest
prayer vigil
for the destroyed holy site. Friends of Lieberman, a United
States citizen
and a father of five, say that they last saw him walking in the
direction
of the town's exit.
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To:
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From:
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Subject: Arutz-7 News:
Tuesday, October 10, 2000
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2000 / Tishrei 11, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. BARAK "EXTENDS" ULTIMATUM
2. NO NATIONAL-UNITY GOVERNMENT
3. ANAN CALLS KIDNAPPING "VIOLATION"
4. HILLEL LIEBERMAN'S FUNERAL
****SPECIAL INSERT: interview with YAEL LIEBERMAN
1. BARAK "EXTENDS" ULTIMATUM
At the special Cabinet meeting that began late last night and
ended
early this morning, Prime Minister Barak announced that he was
ordering the IDF and the security forces to "step up and
expand their
areas of activity in defense of Israeli citizens and soldiers by
all
appropriate means." The 48-hour ultimatum that Barak
issued 60 hours
before was not mentioned.
Barak also stated that final-status negotiations with the
Palestinian
Authority will resume only after the violence of the last ten
days has
ceased, but implied that he would not wait for the end of the
violence
before attending a summit meeting with Arafat regarding a
cease-fire.
Barak explained that the ultimatum had served the purpose of
bringing
world leaders such as UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan and the
Russian
Foreign Minister to the region, and he is therefore willing to
give
more time to the diplomatic efforts before acting on his
ultimatum.
He later explained that he sees no way out of the current
problematic
situation other than peace agreements with the Arabs, which is
why he
is willing to consider a summit meeting with Clinton and Arafat
even
before the violence stops. He said, however, that he knows
nothing of
such a summit, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa similarly
said
that no summit is foreseen.
The Yesha Council, after a special meeting last night, called on
Prime
Minister Barak not to attend another "summit of
humiliation" with
Clinton and Arafat. The Council also demanded the opening
of all
roads in Yesha; the appointment of a full-time Defense Minister
in
place of Ehud Barak; and a return of the army to Joseph's Tomb in
Shechem. The special Council meeting was attended even by
members who
generally do not take part in regular Council business, such as
the
mayors of Har Adar and others.
2. NO NATIONAL-UNITY GOVERNMENT
A national unity government, which had seemed a distinct
possibility
on the eve of Yom Kippur in light of the emergency situation
facing
the country, now seems to be far from reach. Leaders of the
opposition parties met today, and decided that Prime Minister
Barak
was "toying" with them; they decided to vote for a
preliminary reading
of the proposal to dissolve the Knesset at today's Knesset Law
Committee session. In the event, the Law Committee vote
ended in a
draw, meaning that the resolution did not pass, but will be
decided by
the Knesset itself three weeks from now.
The opposition leaders, after their meeting, had strong words of
criticism for Prime Minister Barak. They had originally
hoped, said
Yisrael B'Aliyah leader MK Natan Sharansky, that Barak would make
genuine efforts to form a unity government, but "we see that
his
statements to this end were just a way of scaring Arafat.
Since there
is no way of bringing about unity, there is no other choice but
to go
to new elections." Prime Minister Barak himself said today,
at a
memorial ceremony for the Yom Kippur War fallen, that "we
won then not
because of our weapons, but because of our spirit of unity - a
spirit
which seems to be in danger today."
Likud leader Ariel Sharon said that his party would support
whatever
steps the government takes against the Palestinian violence, but
not
its policies. Shas leader Eli Yeshai said bitterly,
"Barak continues
to take advantage of all of us. He says one thing, then
changes his
mind, then does something else... He is weakening the
deterrent
ability of the State of Israel!"
Rabbi Yitzchak Levy, leader of the National Religious Party, told
Arutz-7 today: "We would like very much to go to a
unity government,
but Barak apparently feels that it is not necessary. We
greatly
regret the way he is running things. He is showing that we
simply do
not have a partner for a unity government. Before Yom
Kippur, he told
us that right afterwards he would start talks on national-unity,
but
last night he announced that he is going a different way - talks
with
Clinton and Arafat, instead of determination and unity within the
nation. We hope that he will wake up, and that even if he
does not go
for a national unity government, that he at least issues strong
orders
to the army to restore order... And in addition to
everything else,
he is continuing his secular revolution - this is simply
unbelievable."
3. ANAN CALLS KIDNAPPING "VIOLATION"
UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan has accused the kidnappers of the
three
Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border of a blatant violation of
UN
Resolution 425, under which Israel withdrew from Lebanon and was
then
to have enjoyed peaceful borders. Anan said that he knows
that the
soldiers are alive, although Hizbullah has so far refused to
allow the
Red Cross to visit them. Bloodstains of the Israeli
soldiers were
found on the site of the kidnapping. Barak, who met with
Anan today,
said afterwards that Israel reserves the right to respond to the
kidnapping of the three soldiers on the Lebanese border.
Hizbullah
demands the release of terrorists imprisoned in Israel; details
will
be forthcoming.
4. HILLEL LIEBERMAN'S FUNERAL
The funeral of Hillel Lieberman, who was murdered by Palestinians
on
Saturday, will depart tomorrow from Elon Moreh for Yitzhar, a
Shomron
community where he had requested to be buried. Lieberman
had said
that if "anything happens to him," he would be buried
next to his
friends Shlomo Libman and Harel Bin-Nun; the two were murdered in
August 1998 in an Arab terrorist ambush while they were
patrolling
around Yitzhar. Lieberman was the seventh Israeli victim of
the Rosh
HaShanah Arab Assault that began almost two weeks ago.
Palestinians
of Shechem continued to destroy the Tomb of Joseph yesterday, and
even
to build a mosque atop the ruins of the yeshiva, despite promises
by
PA leaders that they would work to rebuild the holy site and
allow
Jewish prayer there.
****SPECIAL INSERT: interview with YAEL LIEBERMAN
The following is an abridged transcript of an Interview with Yael
Lieberman, widow of the murdered Hillel Lieberman.
Haggai Segal: When did Hillel's connection with the site of
Joseph's
Tomb begin?
Yael Lieberman: Ever since I know him, at least... I
had the
privilege of being his wife for 15 years, and there was not a day
when
the name of Joseph and the yeshiva were not mentioned in a
meaningful
way.
Q: What did he do in the yeshiva there? Did he teach,
study...?
A: He simply studied. He filled himself with Torah, with
Torah
concepts, he was simply full, I felt that his body couldn't hold
all
of it, and that it was time for him to go teach, but he had this
humility and felt that he was not yet ready: "What, I should
go teach?
Me? Not yet, not yet. I know that Joseph's task in
Egypt was to
raise the materialistic to spiritual levels, and to redeem the
people
of Israel from the gates of impurity - but first I have to reach
the
level of Joseph..." When we first met, he said,
"I have arrived
here, in the Land of Israel, and I will never leave! This is my
first
and last stop!" He was on his way directly to Elon
Moreh, to be near
Joseph's Tomb. I looked up at him, he was so tall - not
only
physically, but in his ideas, and he was able to sweep me along
with
the ardor of his conviction..."
Q. I understand that on Shabbat morning, when he heard about the
destruction of Joseph's Tomb, he began to walk towards Shechem -
where
exactly was he headed?
A: Because this is Arutz-7, a station which he loved, I
would like to
tell you in just a few words how our morning went that day.
I awoke,
and found him already reading Tehillim (Psalms), preparing to go
to
the synagogue. I said, I see you didn't sleep so
well? [Ed. note:
There were rumors that an evacuation of Joseph's Tomb might be
imminent.] He said, 'With G-d's help, Yom Kippur is ahead
of us. Do
you want to learn something with me?'...and he began to read
aloud
from the writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane: "I am the son
of a nation
that wandered close to 2000 years without its own homeland, that
was
persecuted without end, that was never allowed to develop in its
own
land... but today, thank G-d, we have a state that can
defend itself
with its own army and is steeped in its own culture... am I
ready to
allow this Jewish state to, democratically, become a Palestinian
state, to nullify the Law of Return [enabling automatic
citizenship to
any Jew who immigrates], for it to cease being a Jewish
state?" He
asked me what I thought of this, and he kept on reading, and
talking,
and I said to him, 'Hillel, with G-d's help, the people will
arise and
become strong, and we will pray well on Yom Kippur...' and
then he
asked if I wanted to hear just one more short passage for Yom
Kippur,
and I said, 'Of course, I'm all ears,' and he read a passage from
the
Book of our Heritage [Sefer HaToda'ah] about why we wear a kittel
[white robe] on Yom Kippur: [The passage explains that on
Yom Kippur
we should imagine ourselves being purified by repenting of all
our
sins in front of the Heavenly Court - but that for angels, it is
too
late to do this, as true regret and repentance does not work
after
death, but only during life.] Let us therefore take it upon
ourselves
[he continued] to truly accept upon ourselves to do only
good... He
then went to immerse in the mikvah, came back, put on his kittel
and
his tallit [prayer shawl], which does not have the customary
black
stripes, but is - like him - only white and pure, and he went off
to
shul, looking like a pure-white angel... At shul, someone
told him
that the House of Joseph was in flames - and, and - the 'vessels
just
broke.' He apparently went out - his name is Hillel
Eliyahu, and he
used to tell me that he is usually Hillel, but that sometimes 'I
am
Eliyahu, the one who demands G-d, who demands justice, who
demands
peace...' - and so he simply went off like Eliyahu "by a
storm up to
Heaven."
Q. What, he just went there by some instinct -
A. No, not by instinct! - it was him! If there is no
Joseph's Tomb,
then there is no Hillel! If he would have returned home, I
would have
been totally confused. I would have said, Excuse me, I
don't
understand, Joseph's Tomb is burning there, and you're
here? I
wouldn't have believed it, I wouldn't have believed it. I
am actually
in shock that he was the only one who did it. Everyone sees
him as
exceptional, but I think everyone else is the exception - what,
Joseph's Tomb is in flames, and we should sit down and eat
chulent?!"
Yael Lieberman then recounted how the Torah scrolls that were
saved
from Joseph's Tomb were covered with pure white covers, which
Hillel
had bought the week before. "[This was a symbol that]
all of Israel
was mourning that day, was praying for the upliftment of the
House of
Israel, was fasting for him [on Yom Kippur]... that he
should be the
last sacrifice - no, he was not a sacrifice, he was simply a
pioneer
for the People of Israel, running to tell them to wake up, to
tell
them to turn in this direction..."
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To:
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From:
Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject: Arutz-7 News:
Wednesday, October 11, 2000
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2000 / Tishrei 12, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. ARABS AMBUSH AND FIRE ON JEWISH FUNERAL
PROCESSION
2. TERRORISM REARS ITS HEAD
3. BARAK COMING CLOSER TO UNITY GOV'T
4. WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE?
5. GLIMMERS OF LIGHT REFLECTED IN U.S. MEDIA
6. GORE-LIEBERMAN ADVISOR PRESENTS ARAB DEMANDS
1. ARABS AMBUSH AND FIRE ON JEWISH FUNERAL PROCESSION
The funeral procession of Rabbi Hillel Lieberman, attended by
well
over 1,000 people, was attacked by Palestinians this
afternoon. The
two-pronged ambush attack included rifle shots from the Arab
village
of Kafr Kalil and a barrage of rocks on the participants.
Two Jewish
women were lightly wounded by the shots, and were evacuated to
the
hospital. The Jews responded with gunfire, and large army
reinforcements, including a tank, quickly arrived. Army
snipers and
submachine guns fired towards the source of the fire in Kafr
Kalil.
When the Palestinian firing did not abate, helicopters and
additional
tanks were sent in. Many ground forces were deployed in the
area.
After the funeral ended, Arabs fired upon IDF forces from another
direction, and the army prevented the participants from leaving
Yitzhar for about an hour. The shooting died down about two
hours
after the beginning of the attack.
In order to allow the funeral procession to continue safely, army
jeeps were interspersed with the mourners' cars along the route
to the
cemetery in the Shomron town of Yitzhar. The funeral
departed from
Rabbi Lieberman's hometown of Elon Moreh after eulogies by Rabbi
Zevulun Lieberman of New York, the deceased's father; Elon Moreh
Rabbi
Elyakim Levanon; and former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Mordechai
Eliyahu.
Rabbi Hillel Lieberman was murdered by Palestinian Arabs this
past
Shabbat; after being told that Joseph's Tomb was in flames, he
attempted to make his way to the holy site. His wife Yael
told
Arutz-7 yesterday, "If there is no Joseph's Tomb, then there
is no
Hillel! If he would have returned home [after hearing the
news of the
destruction], I would have been totally confused. I would
have said,
'Excuse me, I don't understand, Joseph's Tomb is burning there,
and
you're here?' I wouldn't have believed it, I wouldn't have
believed
it..."
2. TERRORISM REARS ITS HEAD
Prime Minister Ehud Barak appeared at the Knesset Foreign Affairs
and
Defense Committee today, and warned that the Palestinian
Authority's
wholesale release of Hamas terrorists from prison in recent days
has
increased the danger of terrorist attacks. This follows the
announcement by Hamas last night of a general call-up of its
fighters,
as part of its efforts to "escalate" the
intifada. Hamas leaders
criticized Arafat for calling for an end to the
Palestinian-initiated
violence against Israel.
An Arab from Gaza was stopped at the Erez Checkpoint this
afternoon,
on his way to carry out a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.
Three Palestinian Arabs attempted to infiltrate the Shomron town
of
Bat Hefer this afternoon; soldiers shot and killed one of
them. Arabs
opened fire on Israeli targets near Jenin and Hevron; one soldier
was
wounded, and the army returned fire. Gaza Arabs threw a
grenade at
the police station in Gush Katif, but caused no damage.
Shots were
fired at an Israeli car south of Tapuach Junction, north of Eli;
no
one was hurt. A woman passenger was injured in Jaffa today
when an
Arab-thrown object hit her bus.
For the first time in two weeks, the siege on the town of
Netzarim in
Gush Katif was lifted today, as several convoys of cars made
their
careful way to the Kisufim checkpoint at the Green Line this
morning.
Most of the passengers were children, on their way to school for
the
first time in two weeks.
3. BARAK COMING CLOSER TO UNITY GOV'T
Prime Minister Barak made his most open call yet for a
national-unity
government, when he called upon opposition leader Ariel Sharon
today
to "lay aside all differences and to seriously consider the
establishment of a unity government." Earlier today,
almost all Likud
leaders made particularly sharp statements against such a
government,
in light of what they felt was Barak's "toying" with
them.
Arutz-7 correspondent Haggai Huberman reports that Barak feels
that
the concessions that he offered in Camp David are now truly
"null and
void" - not because Arafat did not accept them, but because
the events
of the past few days have convinced the Israeli public not to
accept
them. "For instance," said Huberman,
"Barak's agreement to accept up
to 100,000 Arab refugees can no longer be justified, after the
violence of the Arabs of the past days. In addition, to
hand over any
form of control of the Temple Mount would be unacceptable, Barak
now
feels, after the Palestinian desecration of Joseph's
Tomb." Huberman
added, however, that Barak expressed this privately to his aides,
"but
he does not want to go public with them, because he still wants
to
preserve the option of making these concessions if things
change. We
know Barak, and we know that things can change with him from hour
to
hour."
Also today, Barak informed the Cabinet that in accordance with
Basic
Law: The Government, the following ministers who have been
serving as
acting ministers up until now will today become permanent
ministers:
Housing Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer will serve also as
Communications Minister; Justice Minister Yossi Beilin will serve
also
as Religious Affairs Minister; Minister Chaim Ramon will serve as
Interior Minister, and Finance Minister Avraham Shochat will
serve
also as National Infrastructures Minister.
4. WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE?
Former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Shomron told Arutz-7 today his
opinion
of the Palestinian violence:
"The calm [as of this morning] could well be temporary,
because the
Palestinians are using their capabilities to fight against terror
only
for their own interests. Although [the late Prime Minister]
Rabin
said that it's to our advantage for Arafat to be entrusted with
the
fight against terrorism, because he can do it 'without the civil
rights group and the courts bothering him,' we see that they only
do
so when it's in their interest. But whenever they feel they
are not
getting what they want, they turn on the violence - in order to
get
the sympathy of other Arab countries and the world."
Israel's daily business newspaper, Globes, editorialized today,
"The
flaws of Oslo are now known to anyone who takes the trouble to
take a
close look... Perhaps those who made Oslo should be
punished
electorally." But the paper then adds, "However,
anyone who pretends
that there is an alternative to Oslo must first prove that he
hasn't
been abducted by aliens from outer space."
Atty. Elyakim Ha'etzni of Kiryat Arba, a former Knesset Member
from
the now-defunct Techiyah party, believes he has an
alternative. He
told Arutz-7 yesterday,
"When England's Prime Minister Tony Blair saw that the Irish
had
violated the peace treaty by not turning over their weapons, he
simply
cancelled the peace agreement, and dismantled the government that
had
already been formed for Ireland... Should we then go back
and take
over Shechem and other Palestinian cities? I'll tell
you: There were
two World Wars with Germany. During the first one, the
Allies did not
take over Germany, and about twenty years later, the world faced
another war, in which 50 million people were killed. This
time, the
Allies conquered and took over the enemy country, and a very ugly
three years of suffering for the German people ensued - and now
we
have a prosperous, peace-loving Germany."
5. GLIMMERS OF LIGHT REFLECTED IN U.S. MEDIA
Excerpts from an article by Lee Hockstader in yesterday's
Washington
Post, describing various reactions of disappointment among
Israel's
peace camp at the recent violence:
"Israel's peace activists... are in retreat. Jolted by
the violence
of the last two weeks and stunned by the hatred they see driving
the
Arab rioters, many Israeli peaceniks are concluding that the
cause
they embraced years ago has been a failure... For some
peace
activists, it was a rude awakening to observe the depth of hatred
among Palestinians, especially in the Palestinian media, which
have
called on Arabs to attack Israeli army positions and sacrifice
their
children's blood if necessary. 'Something in me snapped.
Something in
me broke,' said Tali Amnon, 26, a graduate student at Tel Aviv
University. 'If they can call their children to fight, there is
no
peace process. Maybe we're really at war and it's only us stupid
jerks
on the left who don't know it.'"
In another article of today's edition of the same newspaper,
Charles
Krauthammer writes:
"The doves [in Israel] are stunned. Avraham Burg,
speaker of the
Israeli parliament and one of the architects of the Labor
government's
bend-over-backward peace proposals, writes perplexedly,
pathetically:
'Do we really understand what is going on? After everything was
given,
there are still demands on the other side.' 'Suddenly we
discovered,'
he continues plaintively, 'that what we mean by peace--which is
mutual
reconciliation--is not being met by the other side.'
Suddenly? Where
has he been for seven years?... "
Yet another Washington Post article in today's edition, by George
Will, states:
"Barak may be the most calamitous leader any democracy has
had. He
risks forfeiting his nation's existence... Barak has made
territorial
concessions no previous government contemplated, including the
sparsely populated and strategically vital Jordan valley.
He has
thrown away longstanding U.S. support for an undivided Jerusalem.
Under Barak, Israel's rights in its own capital are negotiable.
And
what has Barak's policy bought? Only Arafat's promise to
reject
violence, which is akin to Hitler's promise, after Munich, to
make no
more territorial claims in Europe...
"[Oslo architect Shimon] Peres is puzzled. If Arafat
had behaved like
a bourgeois politician, Palestinians 'could have escaped the
poverty'
they still suffer, and could have built 'a modern life.'
But Peres is
hopeful: 'If somebody would tell you in 1944 that within one year
you
can have a different Europe, that you can have peace, I think
everyone
would be laughing. But look what happened.' Yes,
look. What happened
one year after the worst year in Jewish history was the *defeat*
[emphasis not in original] of those vowing to eradicate the
Jews."
6. GORE-LIEBERMAN ADVISOR PRESENTS ARAB DEMANDS
A senior adviser to the American presidential campaign of Al Gore
and
Joe Lieberman is now lobbying the State Department to reduce
military aid to Israel. James Zogby, who was appointed last week as
Senior
Advisor to the campaign on Ethnic Americans, has praised the
Hizbullah
terrorist group as "the Lebanese armed resistance;"
Hizbullah is now
holding three kidnapped Israeli soldiers. The Washington
Times
reports that Zogby, who has been accused by the Anti-Defamation
League
of "crude anti-Semitism," recently led a delegation to
the State
Department "to present a series of demands on behalf of
Arab-Americans.
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