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Subject:       Arutz-7 News: Monday, November 6, 2000

Arutz Sheva News Service
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Monday, Nov. 6, 2000 / Cheshvan 8, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. PRAYER AT RACHEL'S TOMB
   2. WALLERSTEIN ACCUSES
   3. BARAK ALMOST PUTS QUESTION MARK ON ARAFAT
   4. IDF OFFICER RESIGNS IN PROTEST
   5. INFLAMMATORY STATEMENTS
   6. LIKUD REARS BACK

1. PRAYER AT RACHEL'S TOMB
For the first time in several weeks, Rachel's Tomb was open - if not officially - to Jewish worshippers today.  A group of 30 women from Kiryat Arba and Hevron arrived at the site this morning to pray and recite Psalms, even though they had not received an official army permit; neither were they stopped on their way in.  After a short time, the police arrived and ordered them to leave the site, which is an Israeli enclave within the Palestinian Authority city of Bethlehem.  Palestinians in fact began throwing rocks at soldiers at the site shortly afterwards.

The police and army agreed that the holy site would be open to Jewish worshippers this Thursday, the traditional anniversary of the death of the Matriarch Rachel.  In previous years, tens of thousands of worshippers have arrived at Rachel's Tomb to mark the date.  The decision, which the army said must be reviewed prior to Thursday "in accordance with security considerations in the field," came after an official request by former MK Chanan Porat and National Religious Party head Rabbi Yitzchak Levy.

2. WALLERSTEIN ACCUSES
Pinchas Wallerstein, head of the Binyamin Regional Council, told Arutz-7, "The Yesha Council is doing all it can to fight the government's 'low-strength policy' - a policy based on the idea that it's not so terrible if the current low-flame violence, involving injuries only to settlers and soldiers, continues...  This policy includes the totally ridiculous idea that the communities can be defended from within, a situation that allows them to be attacked...  Our feeling is that we must fight [not only to defend, but] to win this war." 

Wallerstein accused the government of keeping roads in Judea and Samaria closed to Jewish traffic for political, and not military, reasons:  "I take full responsibility for my words, and I say that the reason that the Dolev road [connecting Jerusalem/Beit El to Dolev/Talmon] is still closed is almost totally political.  The army will tell you otherwise, but I can say with certainty that this road is no more dangerous than other Yesha roads.  It's clear that the government wishes to cut off the Yesha towns one from another, and to create large Palestinian blocs that have no Jewish presence.  This is the necessary conclusion from the fact that many similar roads, such as the Trans-Judea highway, continue to be closed, and that there is no access to northern Jerusalem and the Atarot airport, etc."

Minister Amnon Lipkin-Shachak, Barak's successor as IDF Chief of Staff, denied Wallerstein's above claims.

A demonstration by residents is planned on the Dolev road - known as the Wallerstein Road, after the above-quoted man who originally planned it and convinced the authorities to allow it to be used - for tomorrow afternoon.  Because of the road's closure, school children from Dolev, whose usual bus ride to school in Beit El takes 15 minutes, must now take a roundabout route and meet up with army escorts, thus lengthening the one-way ride to an hour and a half.

3. BARAK ALMOST PUTS QUESTION MARK ON ARAFAT
Prime Minister Barak, appearing at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said today:  "We see a certain measure of effort on the part of Arafat to reduce the hostilities, but in the field we see that this is not happening, and the Sharm understandings are not being implemented.  I am sure that Arafat can control the fighting, but I would almost say that if he has absolutely no control over it, then this puts a question mark over the value of our negotiations with him as our partner."

The Prime Minister said also that the Israeli government is totally against the stationing of international observer forces in Judea and Samaria, as Arafat demands.  Israeli officials said yesterday that not only does the U.S. support the Israeli position, but that even Russia understands it, and that UN regulations stipulate that such forces may be stationed only if both sides agree.  Meretz MK Yossi Sarid told Israel Radio this morning that he supports an international observer presence in the territories if it meets certain conditions.

4. IDF OFFICER RESIGNS IN PROTEST
An IDF officer has asked to be relieved of his position, in light of recent cases in which, he claims, wounded Israelis have been abandoned by the army.  Maj. Haggai Eldar, the commander of a special reserves patrol division, wrote to IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz that in the course of his recent reserves duty, he has encountered several cases - he specified those of Madhat Yusuf at Joseph's Tomb and the hikers at Mt. Eval - in which the army and its officers behaved contrary to the fundamental values of not abandoning wounded on the battlefield.  He claims that they acted out of political or diplomatic considerations.  The IDF spokesman says that Mofaz plans to summon Eldar for a talk, in which he will attempt to convince him to remain in the army.  He said that Eldar does not know the details of the Mt. Eval battle and that the wounded there were not abandoned.

Maj. Eldar, of Kfar Maimon, elaborated on his concerns for Arutz-7's Kobi Sela today:

"One of my soldiers, in front of 90 others, asked if anyone would rescue him in the event that he was wounded.  There was total quiet, and everyone was waiting for the answer.  I answered, 'In our unit, such a thing [abandonment] would not happen.'  But, when we hear what's going on in other places, you ask yourself, what's going on?  Who made the decision not to rescue the soldier in Joseph's Tomb?  I can't live with the fact that I can't really promise him 100% that he'll be rescued.  I can't live with that...  I even see that this syndrome began with [missing Israeli
navigator] Ron Arad, and then continued in Joseph's Tomb, where an IDF soldier was lying, bleeding to death, and the army asks other elements [Palestinians] to evacuate him!  This is absolutely terrible.  And then a week later, at Mt. Eval, citizens of Israel are lying in the field wounded - from that minute on, it doesn't matter who gave or didn't give the permit for the hike, at that minute the arguments end, and the evacuation efforts must begin, even at the expense of the lives of soldiers or of officers or of myself.  If not, we can't look our soldiers in the eye. They're not stupid - if they can't believe us, then we have no further right to be their officers."  Eldar admitted that it is easier for him to resign than for regular army officers, because he is only in the reserves and the army is not his career: "I can afford to say the truth...  But it could be that other officers will come and say that what I wrote is what they think, and they may start making demands based on this..."

Lt.-Col. (res.) Nechemiah Perelman of Kedumim, who organized the Oct. 19 trip to Mt. Eval, has asked for a military investigative committee to probe the events of that day.  It will be recalled that the hikers were shot at by Palestinians, and took shelter behind rocks for five hours before the army was able to rescue them; five hikers were shot, including Rabbi Herling, who died of his wounds.  "I asked Mofaz to appoint such a committee," recalled Perelman today, "and he said that the committee which was already investigating the Madhat Yusuf case [Yusuf was the soldier who bled to death at Joseph's Tomb], would be expanded to include this case.  I in fact appeared before the committee last week, but I saw that it does not at all run according to rules of military investigations.  For instance, they are not taking written and signed testimony, and they are not allowing witnesses to speak freely and say what happened."

Perelman explained that the committee chief, Maj.-Gen. Yoav Ya'ir, "has come with his own pre-drawn conclusions; every attempt of mine to point out different things [was not accepted].  For instance, the bus driver told me that there were army forces hanging around for two hours - proving that there were forces, but no attempt was made to use them efficiently.  But Ya'ir would not accept this testimony, calling it 'not relevant because it wasn't from personal knowledge.'  As a former army police investigator and prosecuting-team member, however, I know that such testimony is used by the committee to get to other witnesses - if the purpose is to get to the truth."

"My basic request to Mofaz," he continued, "is that the committee be run according to the basic rules of military investigative committees."  Among other things, Perelman wrote to Mofaz that "I don't believe that the people of Israel will accept a conclusion that states that the 'confusion' caused by the group's guide - namely, me - was what led to the army's failure to reach wounded citizens for four hours."  Perelman also asked that Rabbi Binyamin Herling, "who always walked around with an army weapon, and who, in the last moments of his life, acted as a soldier should and helped others find cover when the Palestinian attack started - be recognized as an IDF casualty."

5. INFLAMMATORY STATEMENTS
The Knesset Audit Committee convened today for a stormy session - so much so that it was called off in the middle - on the recent inflammatory statements by Arab MKs in favor of violence and against the State of Israel.  The main issue was the appearance by MK Muhammad Barakeh at Bir Zeit University three days ago, together with Hamas representatives, in which he called on the participants to continue the intifada.  MK Avigdor Lieberman (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu), who asked for the meeting, attempted to demand that MKs who make such statements not be allowed to address the Knesset during the entire months-long Knesset session.  Last night, Lieberman told Israel Television that Barakeh, "who grew up on Communist ideology, ought to know that in Communist countries he would have been made to face a firing squad for making comments of that sort."

Selected quotes from the interrupted session [as reported by the Hebrew news-site YNET]:

Barakeh, in response to Lieberman's demand to revoke his right to address the Knesset:  "I refuse to be anyone's punching bag.  What, Lieberman will set up a kangaroo court here?..."

Lieberman:  "Why did you sit next to Hamas members in Bir Zeit?" Barakeh:  "You are Israel's Hamas!"

Likud MK Ruby Rivlin, in response to an interruption by Barakeh:  "Why doesn't he act the way he did in Bir Zeit?  I didn't hear him interrupting anyone there!"

Labor MK Ophir Pines:  "Barakeh, I just don't get you.  Here we are, trying to save the peace process, and you go trying to get Israeli-Arabs to participate in the intifada!"

Barakeh:  "The intifada is taking place in the occupied territories."

Rivlin: "That *your* country conquered, in a defensive war!"

Barakeh: "I want to liberate my country."
MK Yuli Edelstein, after Pines requested nicely that Barakeh apologize:  "What is this friendly request?  Maybe we should also ask him to blur over the fact that he was photographed sitting next to Hamas members?  If we treat Barakeh with friendship, it means that we don't understand what democracy is, and this deterioration must be stopped.  A call to take part in the intifada is a call to murder!"

6. LIKUD REARS BACK
The Likud is back on the opposition warpath.  Party leader Ariel Sharon announced at a press conference today why his party has decided to resume its efforts to topple the government:  "Ehud Barak himself is not treating the emergency situation seriously, but is rather using it to conduct political negotiations that will determine the future of the State."  Likud MK Silvan Shalom said that Amir Peretz told him that his two-MK Knesset faction would vote to topple the government, and that left-wing Shinui - six MKs - is not yet sure how it will vote.

The Likud decided today not to support the no-confidence motion to be raised by the Arab parties.  The Arab proposal that the Likud does not wish to support is in protest of the killing of Israeli-Arab protestors by the police.

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

Arutz Sheva News Service
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Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2000 / Cheshvan 9, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. INTIFADA NOTES
   2. JABALI CONFIRMS

1. INTIFADA NOTES

Israel's defense establishment has "solid information," according to IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz, that Yasser Arafat continues to smuggle explosives and combat materials in his private plane...

The Beit She'an police apprehended two Palestinians this afternoon.  Found in their possession was a suitcase full of explosives and much ammunition.  The two were caught in the vehicle of a Druze resident of the Golan; they and the driver were handed over to the GSS...

Tanzim head Marwan Bargouti announced today that any Palestinian leader who calls for the cessation of the intifada must be deposed...

Sheikh Taher Ali Jebarin, the Deputy Mayor of Um el-Fahm - an Israeli-Arab city just south of the Galilee, between Hadera and Afula - encourages active participation in the riots against Israeli civilians and soldiers.  Palestinian Media Watch reports that last week's Al Ayam Palestinian newspaper wrote,  "Jebarin cited with pride the stance of the Palestinian child in the face of armed [Israeli] occupation forces...  He praised the courage of today's Palestinian woman, who encourages sons to battle the occupiers and fall as martyrs in the name of Allah, as he put it.  [He said that] the Palestinian stone spreads fear and the atmosphere of defeat within Israeli society, which is experiencing growing mental crisis."

2. JABALI CONFIRMS
Further confirmation of the reports that Hamas terrorists have been released from Palestinian Authority prisons came today from PA para-military police commander Razi Jabali - who himself organized terrorist attacks against Israelis in the recent past.  Jabali said that the prisoners who were released have not been re-arrested, and that only Abu Honod remains in prison - and this merely to protect him against Israeli attempts to capture or harm him.  Three IDF soldiers were killed during a failed Israeli attempt to apprehend Abu Honod over two months ago.

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To:            arutz-7@IsraelNationalNews.com
From:          Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject:       Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, November 8, 2000

Arutz Sheva News Service
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Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2000 / Cheshvan 10, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. NEXT BATTLEGROUND: RACHEL'S TOMB
   2. KNESSET TAKES ACTION
   3. LIKUD MOVES TO DISSOLVE KNESSET

1. NEXT BATTLEGROUND: RACHEL'S TOMB
The Ministry of Religious Affairs announced officially today that Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem would be open to Jewish worship beginning tomorrow - but Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh is not so sure. Sneh cancelled his plans to visit the site today, in light of specific intelligence warnings of a shooting attack there.  Further complicating the matter was an announcement by Arafat's Fatah movement of its plan to hold violent protests tomorrow against the opening of the shrine.

The 11th of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan - tomorrow - is the traditional anniversary of the Matriarch Rachel's death.   If the army opens the site, as currently planned, visitors will gather at the Gilo-Rachel's Tomb intersection, beginning at 9 AM, and will taken on bullet-proof buses to the holy site, about a kilometer away.  A rally will be held at the intersection at noon, organized by former MK Rabbi Chanan Porat.  Buses to the Gilo intersection are being organized by Women in Green.

The Rachel's Children Reclamation Foundation will be sponsoring a special event in New York this evening, in honor of the Matriarch Rachel.  The theme of the program will be efforts to ensure that Rachel's Tomb, only a few minutes' walk away from Gilo, remains open to Jewish worship.  It will take place at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center in Brooklyn, and will feature Rabbi Zvulun Lieberman - father of the late Hillel Lieberman, who was murdered by Palestinians last month - as Guest of Honor, as well as Rabbi Feivel and Tziporah Rimler.  A similar event, for women only, will be held at Binyanei Ha'uma in Jerusalem, at 7 PM tonight.

2. KNESSET TAKES ACTION
The Knesset voted today to accept a proposed bill to suspend any Knesset Member who expresses himself or acts against the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish People.  The proposal, raised by Likud MK Tzippy Livny, passed by a 38-31 margin.  Livny explained that she submitted the bill because Arab MKs had taken advantage of the Israeli democracy to "further their own goals."  MK Muhammad Barakeh called upon Israeli-Arabs this week to take part in the intifada against Israel.

Even Orsan Yassin, the mayor of the Israeli-Arab town of Shfar'am, criticized the Arab MKs yesterday.  "Let us not listen to the small and extremist minority," he told an audience in the Jewish town of Kiryat Motzkin yesterday.  "Whoever lives in the State of Israel must accept its laws.  You can't take a salary from the state and incite against it..."

3. LIKUD MOVES TO DISSOLVE KNESSET
The Likud Knesset faction decided last night to submit its proposal for the dissolution of the Knesset for a Parliamentary vote next week.  It had hesitated to do so because of the "safety net" provided the government by the Shas party - but when it was realized that for the bill's first reading, a simple majority will suffice, it was decided to ignore the threat by Shas not to support the bill.  The bill's final reading, which would force new elections, will require the support of 61 MKs.  It is currently assumed that the first reading will pass by a vote of 44 to 39, assuming Shas abstains.

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To:            arutz-7@IsraelNationalNews.com
From:          Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject:       Arutz-7 News: Thursday, November 9, 2000

Arutz Sheva News Service
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Thursday, Nov. 9, 2000 / Cheshvan 11, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. HUNDREDS ATTEMPT TO REACH RACHEL'S TOMB, CLOSED "BECAUSE OF
   THREATS"
  2. DISCUSSING THE RACHEL'S TOMB CLOSURE
  3. ENCOURAGING CHILDREN TO TAKE PART IN PALESTINIAN RIOTS
  4. SHOVAL EULOGIZES "PEACE NOW"

1. HUNDREDS ATTEMPT TO REACH RACHEL'S TOMB, CLOSED "BECAUSE OF
THREATS"

The IDF decision to open Rachel's Tomb to Jewish worshippers today in honor of the 3,553rd anniversary of Matriarch Rachel's death was overturned late last night by IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz.  The reason: threats by PLO snipers to open fire at the worshippers.  The area from Jerusalem's southern army barrier up to the holy site in northern Bethlehem was declared a "closed military zone."  However, large forces of soldiers and police did not even allow would-be worshippers to reach the Gilo-Rosmarin junction, a few hundred meters further north.  Traditionally, tens of thousands of worshippers visit Rachel's Tomb on this day.

Despite the closure, close to 1,000 people arrived at the junction, demanding to enter Rachel's Tomb; they made several attempts, but were forcefully turned away by police.  A small group of Knesset Members of the National Religious Party and the National Union were allowed to enter the site.

MK Sha'ul Yahalom (NRP) described the decision to close the site a "disgrace."  He said that such "threats" should be dealt with by informing the PA that there had better not be shooting, and "that if there is, the IDF will deal with it."

The Likud, too, was critical of the decision not to allow prayer at Rachel's Tomb today.  MK Danny Naveh said, "After the shameful way in which we ran away from Joseph's Tomb in Shechem, Barak has now surrendered to Palestinian violence at Rachel's Tomb as well. This policy simply encourages the Palestinians to carry out further aggressions."  The Fatah movement publicized an announcement boasting of its success in preventing Jewish prayer in Bethlehem.

2. DISCUSSING THE RACHEL'S TOMB CLOSURE
Voice of Israel commentator Chaim Zisovitch, in response to a proposal by Minister Ran Cohen (Labor) that the Rachel's Tomb prayers be re-located to the Western Wall - a proposal later echoed by leading rabbis - asked, "We made such great efforts to ensure Friday prayers for the Moslems on the Temple Mount...  What would be the reaction if we told the Moslems to re-locate their prayers from the Temple Mount to some mosque in Bethlehem?"  Cohen said that he personally has strong ties to the site, but repeated that it was dangerous to allow worshippers to arrive today.

Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh was asked by Arutz-7's Haggai Segal, "First came Joseph's Tomb in Shechem, then the Shalom al Yisrael synagogue in Jericho, the Temple Mount is barely in our hands - Rachel's Tomb is next? "  Sneh: "No, not at all, the Israeli flag still flies there, the IDF is in charge, and no one has any intention of changing this situation... I never made any guarantees about Joseph's Tomb, and I tell you that we see Rachel's Tomb differently than Joseph's Tomb...  Today, though, with the concrete warnings, it's a matter of 'pikuach nefesh' [danger to life], which overrides the obligation to pray there."

Segal: "So all the Palestinians have to do is threaten us, and the holy sites will be closed to us? Sneh: "At present, there are special circumstances, and it would be immature to ignore this.  There is no question about our strong connection to this place, but it would be irresponsible to bring thousands there...  This type of clash is won not by one 'smashing blow,' but rather with patience and perseverance, which includes many things.   Our final goal in this conflict is that a solution should not be forced upon us from outside - but if we make mistakes, then this could happen.  Therefore, even if I have to show restraint when I don't want to, then this is what we have to do. Arafat is demanding the presence of a foreign force here, which we are totally against, and we have to be careful..."

Former MK Chanan Porat was among those who came to show his solidarity with the efforts to pray at Rachel's Tomb.  Speaking with Arutz-7 today, he scoffed at suggestions that there was "danger to life" involved in opening the site to Jewish prayer:  "Everyone knows that if the IDF wanted, there wouldn't be such a problem, and we could be allowed in...  Two weeks ago, I presented to the regional commander an entire program for ensuring Jewish worship here, involving several elements, including opening [the road that leads to Rachel's Tomb] exclusively to Jews, and for a change it will be Arabs who would take a bypass road.  In addition, we would threaten that any home in the area from which a shot is fired on Rachel's Tomb would be totally
destroyed.  The commander praised the proposal, but said that government decisions are required in matters of this nature...  The government has clearly decided not to do this, [because] the problem is that there is no desire to win, no elementary desire to preserve the nation's honor..."

Porat expressed his "personal conclusion" that a Jewish community needs to be constructed at the site of Rachel's Tomb.  This might have happened earlier had then-Prime Minister Levi Eshkol gotten his way immediately after the Six-Day War.  Eshkol instructed that Rachel's Tomb be included within the newly-redrawn municipal borders of Jerusalem, but these orders were disregarded, and instead the border was demarcated less than 500 meters away from the site.

3. ENCOURAGING CHILDREN TO TAKE PART IN PALESTINIAN RIOTS
A recent editorial in the PA's official newspaper Al Hayat al-Jadida condemns parents who refuse to send their children to participate in the riots against Israeli soldiers. Referring even to those who merely criticize those who participate in the riots, editor Hafez Bargouti writes, "These destructive, abominable [individuals] harm us more than the bullets of the occupation, because they constitute a fifth column. Our nation must learn a lesson and take them to reckoning later on." The editorial, in the Oct. 27th edition of the paper, was translated by Palestinian Media Watch.

Journalist David Bedein, of Israel Resource News Agency, adds that Associated Press reported yesterday that "Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo wrote to an Israeli human rights group that [Palestinian] children are being told 'to stay away from flash points." However, Bedein notes, Palestinian radio and television mention no such call, but rather continue to feature songs and poems praising Palestinian children who "die as martyrs." "The message that Abed Rabbo communicated to the foreign and Israeli media was simply not communicated to his own people," concludes Bedein.

4. SHOVAL EULOGIZES "PEACE NOW"
Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Zalman Shoval has written a scathing criticism of Peace Now.  "Peace Now died last month...," he wrote in the Jerusalem Post this week.  "Some have pronounced it only clinically dead, still being on financial life-support from its friends in the US - but dead it is.  The cause of death was no mystery either: The house of cards on which most of Peace Now's blandishments had been based crumbled under the impact of the violent events of the last few weeks."

Shoval, who served as Ambassador to the U.S. twice, further wrote, that after Ehud Barak made a more generous offer to the Palestinians than any of his predecessors had, "Yasser Arafat's response... was swift and brutal: He ordered his own security forces and the Fatah Tanzim to set off a wave of large-scale and carefully synchronized violence and terror."  Peace Now, wrote Shoval, "has a rather primitive and simplistic view of history...  They didn't understand, or at least didn't want to admit - as Barak didn't - that every time Israel made additional concessions, the other side saw this as a sign of weakness, encouraging it to raise its price.  Nor did they understand, just as Shimon Peres didn't, that the 'New Middle East' existed only in the latter's imagination...  Peace Now has a long and far-from-glorious history.  During the period of the lengthy and difficult peace negotiations with Egypt, it sometimes served (though probably unwittingly) as an implement in the Egyptian effort to weaken Israel's resolve; over the years, whenever the Palestinians radicalized their positions, so did Peace Now - to the point that it
could often be mistaken for a semi-official mouthpiece of the PLO - while the American Friends of Peace Now at times went so far as to help Israel's enemies by attacking the positions of Israel's democratically elected government...  Israel - and peace - have paid a high price for Peace Now's mistakes.  One can only hope that its leaders have learned their lesson."
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