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From: Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: Friday, January 5,
2001
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Friday, Jan. 5, 2001 / Tevet 10, 5761, Fast of Tevet
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. POLLS SHOW GROWING SUPPORT FOR SHARON OVER BARAK
2. SENIOR BARAK AIDE CONTINUES TALKS IN WASHINGTON
3. NETANYAHU: "OSLO IS DEAD"
4. ARAB HOSTILITIES CONTINUE
5. SHAS PARTY MAY ENDORSE SHARON
6. GRASSROOTS PROTESTS AGAINST DIVIDING ISRAEL
7. FBI RAIDS KAHANE NY OFFICE
1. POLLS SHOW GROWING SUPPORT FOR SHARON OVER BARAK
This week's polls, published in today's papers, show Likud Party leader
Ariel Sharon ahead of incumbent Ehud Barak in the prime ministerial race by
as much as 28 percentage points. A comparison of today's Gallup poll with
the previous two weeks, shows a clear increase in support for Sharon:
Dec 22, 2000: Barak 28% Sharon 46%
Dec 29, 2000: Barak 24% Sharon 45%
Jan 5, 2001: Barak 22% Sharon 50%
The above figures include the Arab vote. Amongst the Jewish-only vote, the
poll shows Barak with 22%, and Sharon with 55%.
A Dahaf poll published today indicated a smaller gap: Barak 32% Sharon
50%. A third poll carried out by the Geocartographic Institute, which will
be published tomorrow night, indicates a wide gap, closer to the Gallup poll.
2. SENIOR BARAK AIDE CONTINUES TALKS IN WASHINGTON
Prime Minister Barak's Bureau Chief Gilad Sher will meet this evening will
US President Bill Clinton to hear what precisely was Yasser Arafat's answer
to Clinton regarding his recent proposals for a final-status agreement
between Israel and the PLO. Sher said this morning that chances are slim
that any agreement will be reached before Clinton leaves office on January
20. However, CNN reports that Barak's aide brought with him a 6-page
document which he will present to US National Security Advisor Sandy
Berger. According to reports, the document contains a detailed outline of
a final-status agreement based on Clinton's proposals, incorporating some
Israeli reservations. The new proposal is the first written document from
an Israeli government which relates to details of a final-status
agreement. At Camp David, no written summary was drafted which obligated
the two sides.
Palestinian Authority official Nabil Sha'ath said today that he also
believes that no agreement will be reached during US President Clinton's
term in office. Sha'ath maintained that Prime Minister Barak is "playing
tough" in the talks in order to win votes from Israel's center and right in
the upcoming elections.
3. NETANYAHU: "OSLO IS DEAD"
"The Oslo Process is dead." So declared former Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu yesterday while visiting hunger-strikers at Jerusalem's City
Hall. The hunger strike was launched to protest plans by the Barak
government to cede Israeli sovereignty over Judaism's holiest site - the
Temple mount in Jerusalem - to the Arabs. Netanyahu also told the
protestors at City Hall that all of the concessions made by the Barak
government to the Arabs at Camp David are null and void and will not
obligate the next government.
A giant non-partisan Jerusalem Solidarity rally entitled "Jerusalem, We
Pledge to You" is scheduled for this Monday at 6:30 PM across from
Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate. To ensure attendance from a broad spectrum of the
Israeli public, the vigil organizers are not inviting any Knesset Members
or government ministers to speak from the podium. Preceding the main
event, a human chain will encircle the walls of the Old City at 5:00 PM and
participants will "pledge loyalty to keep Jerusalem undivided, including
the Temple Mount." Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert will address the rally, as
well as other public figures and World Jewish leaders. The organizers of
the rally, the National Forum for Jerusalem (+972-2) 627-7416, have learned
that private flights are being organized from France, United States,
Russia, and England.
4. SHAS PARTY MAY ENDORSE SHARON
A deal is in the making between prime ministerial front-runner Ariel Sharon
and the religious Shas party. In exchange for promises from Sharon, Shas
will instruct its network of activists to work towards a Sharon
victory. Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef will meet with Sharon
on Sunday to negotiate the final details of the agreement. One Israel
(Labor) Party faction whip Ophir Pines demanded today that the two parties
publicize the details of the agreement between them.
5. GRASSROOTS PROTESTS AGAINST DIVIDING ISRAEL
For the past five days, residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, (Yesha)
together with members of Professors for a Strong Israel, have been holding
a hunger strike at City Hall in protest against the government's
willingness to divide Jerusalem. Other Jewish protestors are hitting the
streets again today throughout Yesha in a series of marches under the
slogan "Israel is fighting for her soul." Today's protests include:
*Residents of Kfar Adumim, located 7 minutes east of Jerusalem, came out
in the hundreds to march to the capital this morning.
*Hundreds of Israeli civilians are now gathering at various
intersections in the Southern Hevron Hills for protest and prayer vigils.
*Gush Katif residents marched from the northern tip of Gaza to the
Ashkelon junction, where they are now demonstrating.
*On the new Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, some 200 people from Gimzo
marched calling on the government to keep Jerusalem united and put an end
to the wave of terrorist attacks.
*New civilian outposts established by several Yesha communities continue
to be manned and maintained.
6. FBI RAIDS KAHANE NY OFFICE
After six hours of searching the Hatikva Jewish Identity Center in
Brooklyn, New York, FBI agents confiscated some 90 crates of books, tapes
and photos, along with six computers. The FBI received a warrant to search
the Hatikva Center, which is dedicated to the "legal and peaceful
publishing of the Torah views and ideology of the late Rabbis Meir and
Binyamin Kahane."
Mike Guzofsky, Director of the Center, said in response: "No government
ever succeeded in silencing ideas. We will continue to speak and write our
truth. This is about ideas, free speech and the right to speak Torah
publicly. How shameful that after the brutal murder of the Kahanes, the US
government now pounces on those who do no more than distribute his writings
and essays. This is nothing more than an effort to hamper the operations
and growth of law abiding Americans who wish to study and teach
the authentic Jewish idea...." Guzofsky also noted that the center's judo
class was held uninterrupted following the search, "with the exception of
the coach searching for his clothes which were taken by the FBI."
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To: arutz-7@IsraelNationalNews.com
From: Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: Sunday, January 7,
2001
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Sunday, Jan. 7, 2001 / Tevet 12, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. BARAK DETERMINED TO RUN DESPITE INTERNAL PROTEST
2. PROTEST AGAINST CLINTON'S PROPOSAL TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM
1. BARAK DETERMINED TO RUN DESPITE INTERNAL PROTEST
Ehud Barak says he won't quit the race for Prime Minister. Members of
his own party are calling for him to bow out, and let Minister Shimon
Peres run in his place. Labor MKs Avi Yehezkel and Yossi Katz are
worried that Barak keeps plummeting in the polls. According to
Friday's Gallup poll, Barak's challenger Ariel Sharon is leading by a
margin of 28 percent. Most voters want Barak to drop out. The Gallup
poll shows 2 of 3 Israelis don't trust him, and they don't want him to
cut a deal with Yasser Arafat before election day, February 6. Labor
Party Secretary-General Ra'anan Cohen says that there is no guarantee
that Barak will be the final Labor candidate in the election. Labor
activists are collecting signatures in a Tel Aviv petition tent urging
Barak to back out of the elections to enable Shimon Peres to run.
2. PROTEST AGAINST CLINTON'S PROPOSAL TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM
The leftist newspaper Ha'aretz says this morning that "a wave of mass
protests" against Prime Minister Barak is swelling. A huge
non-partisan Jerusalem Solidarity rally and march around the walls of
the old city is scheduled for tomorrow evening. Due to security
considerations, police announced today that they will not permit
participants to march at certain Old City gates. Jerusalem Mayor Ehud
Olmert, who will speak at the rally, continues to operate from his new
offices across from the Western Wall, which he moved into as an act of
protest against government plans to divide Jerusalem. Barak
reportedly is poised to divide the Old City and hand over most of it,
including the Temple Mount, to Yasser Arafat, as per proposals by US
President Bill Clinton. Barak's cabinet has accepted the US proposals
with certain reservations.
Labor Party MK Shalom Simhon announced his objection today to the
cabinet's acceptance of the Clinton plan since it calls for giving the
Arabs part of the Negev, which was never included under any Arab
sovereignty. Simhon has joined the struggle of the Committee of
Communities and Farms in the Negev to prevent the Halutza region of
the Negev from being transferred to the PLO.
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