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From:          Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
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:            arutz-7@IsraelNationalNews.com
From:          Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject:       Arutz-7 News: Tuesday, October 10, 2000

Arutz Sheva News Service
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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:            arutz-7@IsraelNationalNews.com
From:          Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject:       Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, October 11, 2000

Arutz Sheva News Service
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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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