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Subject: Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, December 27, 2000
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Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2000 / Rosh Chodesh Tevet 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. OLMERT MOVE ELICITS ARAB THREATS
2. CABINET DELIBERATES, ADJOURNS
3. PRO-JERUSALEM CAMP AROUSES
4. AN ENCOURAGING WORD
5. WAR FORESEEN
1. OLMERT MOVE ELICITS ARAB THREATS
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert will move his offices and aides to a building -
known as the Idra - opposite the Western Wall tonight. The move was to
have been carried out tomorrow morning, but will be moved up in light of
the sharp reactions heard by senior Palestinian leaders. Palestinian
negotiator Saeb Erekat actually warned Prime Minister Barak today that if
Olmert transfers his offices, it could lead to bloodshed. Olmert is
adamant, however: "Jerusalem - the Temple Mount, the Wall, everything - is
ours," he said. "If the Temple Mount is transferred to the Palestinians,
Jews will not even be able to come to the Western Wall."
An editorial in Ma'ariv today noted that Article VIII of the 1949
cease-fire agreement between Israel and Jordan
("http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH018s0") promised Israel free
access to the holy places, "an article that Jordan never honored." The
editorial adds that the Mount of Olives, which is also scheduled to be
given to the Palestinian Authority according to the Clinton proposals, had
its latrines paved by the Arab Legion with headstones from the Jewish
cemetery. The editorial continued, "Only yesterday, the Foreign Ministry
distributed a 'White Paper' in which it described Arafat as a serial
violator of agreements...'"
2. CABINET DELIBERATES, ADJOURNS
The Cabinet spent several hours this morning deliberating on the
government's response to outgoing U.S. President Clinton's proposals for
Israel to give away the Temple Mount and 95% of Judea and Samaria. The
opinions of several ministers are known: Ministers Roni Milo and Matan
Vilna'i have expressed some opposition; Milo said this morning, "The Temple
Mount is the source. We came here [to the Land of Israel] not for Rechavia
[a posh Jerusalem suburb], but because of the Temple Mount. Giving away
the Temple Mount is a denial of our past, and I feel that a nation that has
no past also has no future." Milo switched from the Likud to the Center
party before the 1999 elections.
On the other hand, Minister Chaim Ramon, after expressing earlier doubts
about the wisdom of making such far-reaching concessions, has changed his
mind. He now feels that Israel cannot ask for revisions in Clinton's
proposals, and must therefore accept them as they are. "This is the true
price of peace," Ramon said, "and we must explain this to the Israeli
public." Housing Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who said at the beginning
of the current wave of war three months ago that the Oslo process had died
and that Arafat could not be Israel's peace-partner, also now supports the
Clinton proposals.
The Cabinet meeting adjourned shortly after 1 PM, and will resume at 11 PM
tonight. The Americans had originally set today as the deadline for
answers from both Israel and the Palestinians regarding the proposals, but
have now pushed off the deadline until "later in the week." The Barak
transition-government is expected to respond favorably to the proposals,
but with certain reservations; Arafat is not expected to give a definitive
answer, but will merely ask for some clarifications. Barak, Arafat, and
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak are scheduled to meet tomorrow in Sharm
a-Sheikh.
Some 80% of the Palestinian public objects to an agreement with Israel that
voids the Arab "right of return" and does not full include Palestinian
sovereignty over the Temple Mount. In addition, 52% of the respondents in
a poll of Palestinians object to the negotiations with Israel altogether.
3. PRO-JERUSALEM CAMP AROUSES
Wide-scale protests against the Barak transition government's concessions
continue to be sounded and carried out. Some thirty trucks and buses with
large signs reading, "The Temple Mount is Ours," surrounded the Prime
Minister's Office this morning while the Cabinet meeting was being held
inside... Several marches are planned to the Temple Mount area over the
next few days, including two today: One group set off to the Orient House
(the PA's Jerusalem headquarters), and from there to the Old City, while
another group departed from the Central Bus Station. Yehuda Etzion, a
long-time leader on behalf of Jewish rights to the Temple Mount, said that
his contingent would attempt to enter the Mount, and called on police not
to carry out "the illegal order to prevent Jews from entering the Temple
Mount."
Tomorrow morning, rabbis from all over the country will gather in the Old
City's Yeshivat HaKotel, and will hear lectures on the current situation by
former Chief Rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu and Avraham Shapira. Afterwards, the
rabbis and many of their students will walk around the Temple Mount. Rabbi
Eliyahu will take part later in the afternoon at a Chanukah candle lighting
ceremony at Rachel's Tomb; the public is called upon to join him.
Next week, a large sit-in strike is planned in the Jerusalem government
complex... Grass-roots groups such as Women in Green and Zo Artzeinu (This
is Our Land) will announce plans for a unique protest movement next Tuesday
night in Tel Aviv... A massive large Yesha Council demonstration is
planned for Wednesday night in Jerusalem...
In the Jordan Valley - also slated for transfer to the Palestinian
Authority by Ehud Barak - several angry residents broke into the Tovlan
outpost on the Jordanian border this morning. They tore down the border
fence and held a stormy demonstration at the site at which Barak promised
last year that the Jordan Valley would forever remain Israeli.
4. AN ENCOURAGING WORD
Yaakov (Ketzaleh) Katz, one of the leaders of the Yesha settlement
enterprise and Executive Director of Arutz-7, helped lift the spirits of
Arutz-7 listeners today:
"It is important that we all know: We are not only a little
minority. Most of the Jewish public in Israel - 70, 80% - does not want to
give away Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and uproot Jews from their
homes. We must know that the media has enlisted totally in the effort
against us - for instance, today they are full of reports about Finance
Ministry plans for uprooting settlers and paying compensation... First of
all, we must know that we are the pioneers, and the world's eyes are turned
towards us to see if we are strong. These attempts to weaken us are
totally meaningless and empty. We are the true pioneers, we will remain
here forever. It is exactly because of our strength of spirit that they
are trying to fight us with this type of psychological warfare. But it
will not work. Many of us have been here twenty and thirty years, for
three generations already, and we have lived through all these attempts to
weaken us... There are almost half a million people in Yesha, including
the neighborhoods of Jerusalem, and we must know and remind ourselves: We
are headed only forward! We must not be alarmed by the reports of weakness
on Voice of Israel and Galei Tzahal (Army Radio)..."
"We have arranged that Mayor Olmert will bring his offices and aides to the
Idra building opposite the Western Wall, to show the world that Jerusalem,
like all of Eretz Yisrael, is ours. This is an important message and
response to the weakness that has unfortunately overtaken many parts of the
Israeli public. We feel that what is needed now are healthy and positive
actions that will arouse the genuine feelings of most of the public - not
those of the small, vocal minority. Most of the public does not want to
give away Jerusalem... The fact our idea [regarding Olmert's offices] has
succeeded is proven by the sharp reactions it has evoked among the
Palestinians, and we call upon tens and hundreds of thousands of Jews to
come visit the new Mayoral offices over the next few days..."
"A word about the protests of the 'right wing:' First of all, I don't like
to talk about the 'right-wing,' as if it's some sort of minority - we're
talking about close to half-a-million people in Yesha, all of whom are
candidates for expulsion from their homes either in the short term or the
long term, who represent the healthy majority of the country who don't
identify with the plan to give away the Temple Mount and uproot Jews from
Jerusalem and divide the city and cause a great disgrace... All the
protest activities have police approval, such as the march around the
Temple Mount tomorrow by hundreds and thousands of rabbis and their
students. All these activities over the coming weeks will lead, with G-d's
help, to national spiritual health..."
Katz then spoke about Ariel Sharon: "[Another important element is the]
victory of Ariel Sharon in the coming election, with G-d's help - but we
have to know that we can't only rely on Ariel Sharon. Sharon is a
politician who represents a particular political direction, a war hero, a
man with strong national intuition who did great things for Israel - but we
rely not on Sharon but on G-d and on our own actions. If we are strong,
then Ariel Sharon will also be strong; but if we broadcast despair and
weakness, then Sharon too will reflect this and will broadcast the
same. We represent the majority of the Jewish nation, and therefore we
will win, and we need not relate to the weakness that the other media give
over - we must ignore them and march forward."
5. WAR FORESEEN
Dr. Lev Greenberg, of the Humphrey Institute in Be'er Sheva University,
writes in today's Yediot Acharonot that Ehud Barak's strategy will lead to
war. He explained to Arutz-7 today that although he feels that Israel
should make major concessions to the Palestinians, this is not the way to
do it:
"From whichever way one looks at it, it appears that war will be the
result of Barak's 'election campaign trick.' For one thing, my most basic
evaluation is that there will not be an agreement. This is because Arafat
also realizes that his signature on an agreement now is worthless, because
it will not be honored by Ariel Sharon or by Binyamin Netanyahu (who will
become Prime Minister later in what I call the 'second round of
elections') - so why should he sign on what he sees as concessions? I
therefore think that there will be no agreement, Sharon will form a
national-unity government with Labor, Barak will blame Arafat for the
failure to achieve an agreement - and the result will be a military
escalation."
"However, this would be a minor form of escalation. A worse scenario is if
there really *is* an agreement - because Sharon has promised that he will
not honor the agreement, and this will cause the world to say that the
Israeli public that voted him into office is against peace. For this
reason, Barak will try to scare the public into voting for the agreement,
saying that the alternative is international de-legitimization and war. If
he succeeds [in scaring the public and winning the election], this will
lead to a major de-legitimization of the agreement by the right-wing; the
Knesset will then not ratify it, there will be new elections, Netanyahu
will win, and the situation [with the Palestinians] will worsen..."
"The main fault with the entire conception," continued Dr. Greenberg, "is
that the negotiators are trying to make peace only between the
leaders. They are ignoring the fact that the dispute between the peoples
is genuine. It's not over trivial matters - there are real issues, such as
sacred things to both sides, and land rights that both sides want. It is
not something that can be solved in forty days... The way that Barak is
going about this is simply not leading to the desired results of real peace
between the peoples, but rather the opposite..."
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Subject: Arutz-7 News: Thursday, December 28, 2000
Arutz Sheva News Service
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Thursday, Dec. 28, 2000 / Tevet 2, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. BARAK SAYS YES TO LAND GIVE-AWAY
2. SHARM SUMMIT CONVENES - WITHOUT BARAK
3. POLITICAL AND RABBINIC LEADERS PROTEST JERUSALEM GIVE-AWAY
4. BARAK OFFERING MORE OF YESHA TO ARABS
1. BARAK SAYS YES TO LAND GIVE-AWAY
Ehud Barak's transition government is saying yes to U.S. President
Bill Clinton's plan to hand over Judaism's holiest site, the Temple
Mount, to the PLO, but PA Chairman Yasser Arafat is saying no. Clinton
is asking Israel to divide Jerusalem and give neighborhoods such as
the Mount of Olives to the Arabs. According to the Clinton proposal,
there would be a PLO state on 95% of Judea and Samaria, Arafat would
get all of Gaza, and the Jewish citizens there would be evicted from
their homes, as would many Jews in Judea and Samaria. Clinton further
proposes that Arafat receive some land in the Negev, to compensate the
PLO for not getting 100% of Judea and Samaria. Israel would have to
allow 150,000 Arabs to live in the country, since many Arabs fled
Israel when five Arab nations attacked the fledgling state in 1948.
The government says "we consider these ideas to be a basis for
discussion, providing that they will stay, as they are, a basis for
discussion acceptable to the Palestinians." But Reuters quotes a
senior PLO official as saying that Clinton's ideas are not acceptable
at all: "These ideas are not different from proposals made at Camp
David [in July] and some of them are worse than ideas presented at
Camp David." The Associated Press quotes another PLO official as
confirming the rejection. The PLO is also asking Clinton to clarify
the proposed border of a PLO state and who exactly will control the
Western Wall tunnels. Some PLO officials are asking Arafat to increase
the pressure on Ehud Barak in their words, "to squeeze more juice from
the lemon."
Barak is telling the country today why his cabinet voted to hand over
the Temple Mount to the PLO late last night. Ten ministers were in
favor, two were against, and two abstained. Barak says if he had said
no to Clinton, there would have been a war. Barak's own
Communications Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer said almost three months
ago that Israel is already at war with the PLO. He made the statement
shortly after the start of the Rosh Hashanah Arab Assault. Ministers
Roni Milo and Rabbi Michael Melchior voted against giving the Temple
Mount to Yasser Arafat. That's also the reason that Ministers Matan
Vilnai and Raanan Cohen abstained. Cohen is the secretary-general of
Barak's Labor party. Health Minister Milo is thinking of resigning his
cabinet post in protest of the cabinet vote.
The speaker of Israel's parliament, Avraham Burg, is known for his
leftist views, but today he said that even he is against Clinton's
plan, since Israel cannot give the PLO control over a holy site. He
also objects to giving the PLO the Chalotza sand dunes in the Negev.
IDF Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz is concerned about Clinton's request
that Israel retreat from the Jordan Valley. Mofaz says the retreat
will make it very difficult for Israel to defend its eastern border.
2. SHARM SUMMIT CONVENES - WITHOUT BARAK
Arafat is in Cairo today meeting with Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak. Barak was supposed to be part of that meeting, but then he
was told at the last minute to stay home. The PLO decided not to
include Barak because of concerns about Clinton's plan. The official
announcement from the Israel Government Press Office read: "Following
consultations between Prime Minister Barak and Egyptian Pres. Mubarak,
it has been decided that PM Barak will not go to Sharm e-Sheikh
today."
3. POLITICAL AND RABBINIC LEADERS PROTEST JERUSALEM GIVE-AWAY
In the Western Wall plaza of Jerusalem's Old City today, protestors
gathered to denounce Barak's approval of Clinton's plan to hand the
Temple Mount to the Arabs. Rabbis and their students marched around
the Temple Mount. Jerusalem's mayor, Ehud Olmert, has already set up
a new office at the Western Wall plaza. The PLO is threatening
violence in response.
At the Western Wall protest, former Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel
Mordechai Ben Eliyahu compared the government ministers to the 12
spies in biblical times. He said that besides two of them who voted
against the agreement, the remaining ten are evildoers and traitors
against Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
*Brig-Gen (Res.) Efie Eitam who resigned from the army yesterday said
that there are "some stones which we don't overturn and some canisters
which we do not contaminate" [for peace]. In his speech today, he
said he won't go into politics and instead hopes to start a mass
educational movement to strengthen the spirit and morale of the
country's citizens.
*Bet El Rabbi Zalman Melamed meted out harsh criticism: "The
government has crossed all red lines. We must respond accordingly,
and fight with great sacrifice, and not allow the Temple Mount, Heaven
forbid, to be transferred from our sovereignty and ownership. We must
oppose the plan even with willingness to sacrifice our lives. I see
no other way. Fire will burn from hill to hill, and from mountain to
mountain in all of the Land of Israel until it becomes clear that this
small and stupid minority, - I say stupid using the words of our
Rabbis. The Prime Minister and his friends from the left are stupid,
in the simple understanding of the word; they are dragging us into an
all-out regional war... They are liars. They make promises, and do
not keep them. Every week, he reneges on his previous promises, and
makes new ones."
*Rabbi of Rehovot Simcha HaCohen Kook wept in his speech: "All of the
generations of Israel are looking upon us. How does the nation remain
quiet, when they want to take from it the Holy City and Temple? How
does the nation remain quiet when they want to place the Old City
under siege? The soul of the entire Jewish People dwells here. What
is there to negotiate?"
4. BARAK OFFERING MORE OF YESHA TO ARABS
The Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza (Yesha)
says that Ehud Barak asked his ministers to support his retreat from
even more of Judea and Samaria than Clinton is requesting. Clinton
wants 95%; Barak asked his ministers to support giving away 97%. The
Council says Barak is now ready to hand over Rachel's Tomb in
Bethlehem to the PLO. When Barak retreated from Joseph's Tomb in
Shechem, Arabs burned it to the ground despite Yasser Arafat's earlier
promises to protect Jewish holy sites. The Yesha Council says Barak
is taking dangerous, desperate steps in another attempt to placate
"the terrorist Arafat."
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Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: Friday, December
29, 2000
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Friday, Dec. 29, 2000 / Tevet 3, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. SHARON WIDENS GAP OVER BARAK: 45% TO 24%
2. CLINTON'S PLAN TO UPROOT JEWS NOT ACCEPTED
3. NEW UNITED FRONT
4. MORE ON THE AGREEMENT
1. SHARON WIDENS GAP OVER BARAK: 45% TO 24%
Major polls commissioned by Israel's leading papers - conducted before
yesterday's two terrorist attacks, which killed two Jews and wounded
over a dozen more - show that Ariel Sharon continues to widen his lead
over Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
According to the Ma'ariv-Gallup poll, Sharon led a month ago by 2%,
two weeks ago by 5%, last week by 18% - and this week, Sharon is ahead
of Barak among the Israeli public by 21%. When the undecideds were
asked again to estimate their vote, the numbers came out to 52% for
Sharon and 32% for Barak. The poll includes Israeli-Arabs, who
generally vote overwhelmingly for the Labor party or candidate, and
who comprise 1/6 of the Israeli-public. The poll indicates,
therefore, that Barak enjoys the full support of only some 20% of
Israel's Jews.
When the pollsters asked whether the respondents support a permanent
agreement "based on what is now known," the "nay" votes led, by 49% to
44%.
However, Dr. Aaron Lerner of IMRA (www.imra.org.il)
reports that when
the questions became more detailed, the margin against the agreement
became considerably larger. "Imagine that the permanent agreement
between Israel and the Palestinians includes the following
conditions," the pollsters told them: "Israeli withdrawal from some
95% of the West Bank, 80% of settlers remain under Israeli
sovereignty, Palestinian sovereignty in Arab neighborhoods in eastern
Jerusalem, Israeli sovereignty in Jewish neighborhoods, International
recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Palestinian concession
of the right of return and declaration of the end of the conflict.
Under these conditions would you support the permanent agreement?"
Only 38% said yes, while 53% said no.
Some 61% of the Israeli public, including Israeli-Arabs, said that
Ehud Barak has no mandate to carry out negotiations with the
Palestinians during the elections, and only 26% feel that he is trying
to reach an agreement out of national - not personal - considerations.
A Dachaf/Yediot poll shows that Sharon has increased his lead by 2%
from last week - from 11% to 13%. Although 16-17% are still
undecided, 48% of the public says that they would vote for Sharon
whether or not Barak signs an agreement with Arafat before the
elections. This poll does not ask detailed questions, but to the
general question of whether they support an agreement "as developed in
recent weeks," a majority said no, by a 51-44 margin.
2. CLINTON'S PLAN TO UPROOT JEWS NOT ACCEPTED
The above pollsters reflected the common conception - based on
previous declarations and promises by Ehud Barak - that 80% of Jews in
Judea, Samaria, and Gaza would be allowed to remain in their homes.
However, as the size of Barak's concessions - based on outgoing U.S.
President Clinton's 'bridging" proposals - increases, so does the
number of Jews who are slated to be expelled from their homes.
Israeli newspapers have varying reports today on exactly how many
communities are to be uprooted and their residents made homeless by
the plan that Clinton has pressured Israel to accept, but all agree
that over 100 Jewish towns will be wiped off the map and their
inhabitants, numbering tens of thousands, will be forced to leave.
"Should Israel respond favorably to President Clinton's proposal
regarding the final agreement?" the Gallup pollsters asked Israelis,
and only 36% said yes, while 45% responded no.
3. NEW UNITED FRONT
A series of nationalist grass-roots organizations, headed by Moshe
Feiglin's Zo Artzeinu ((+972-9)-792-9046), will hold an emergency
meeting on Tuesday night in Tel Aviv to announce a plan of protest
action for the coming days. Feiglin would not divulge information
about the program, but said that it would last for several days and
into the following week.
The above organizations, united into a new group called The United
Jewish National Movement, published the following full-page ad in
today's HaTzofeh and Makor Rishon newspapers:
The newly formed United Jewish National Movement of non-parliamentary
groups listed below, stunned and dazed by the deterioration brought
about by the Barak government's blind adherence to the Oslo "covenant
of death," declare:
Whereas the Barak government [wishes to] give away the Temple Mount,
eastern Jerusalem, and most of Judea and Samaria to Arafat's gangs,
and plans to abandon and exile tens of thousands of Jews from their
homes and their land - despite the fact that it has resigned, called
new elections, and represents only a small minority of the Jews in
Eretz Yisrael; and whereas this minority government, has not protected and does not
protect Jews and Jewish communities against armed Arab terrorists - in
order to maintain the option of surrender and winning the election;
and whereas the parties that are called "right-wing" have either
implemented the Oslo agreements or did not act to nullify them; and whereas the faulty political framework does not allow the true desires
of the Israeli public to be manifest; We have therefore established the United Jewish National Movement for the
purpose of:
* saving Israel from the Oslo "covenant of death;"
* re-organizing the political framework in Israel on a Jewish and logical
basis.
We will call a National Meeting, with G-d's help, where we will
present a national strategy, create national chapters throughout the
country, and organize teams to resurrect the honor of Am Yisrael and
we will work to ensure its continued existence as a Jewish state.
(Signed:) Zo Artzeinu (This is Our Land), Yamin Israel (Israel's Right),
Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership), Ne'emenai Har HaBayit (Temple
Mount Faithful), Shocharei HaMikdash (Friends of the Temple), Hazit
Datit Meuhedet (United Religious Front), Hayil (Secular Jews for
Israel), Amutat HaRabbanim, Pikuah Nefesh (Rabbinical Congress for
Peace).
The protest movement against the notion of giving away Judaism's most
holy site - the Temple Mount - is gathering steam. Concerned citizens
gathered at several major intersections around the country, handed out
flyers, and demonstrated in favor of Jerusalem. Dozens of hareidi
citizens gathered in a central Bnei Brak square to recite Psalms in
memory of the two soldiers who fell yesterday.
Hundreds of rabbis gathered at Yeshivat HaKotel in the Old City of
Jerusalem yesterday to protest the Temple Mount giveaway. Beit El
Rabbi Zalman Melamed was particularly passionate:
"The government has crossed all the red lines. We must respond
accordingly, and fight with great sacrifice, and not allow the Temple
Mount, Heaven forbid, to be transferred from our sovereignty and
ownership. We must oppose the plan even with willingness to sacrifice
our lives. I see no other way. The fire will burn from hill to hill,
and from mountain to mountain, in all of the Land of Israel - until it
becomes clear that this small and stupid minority - I say stupid in
the sense that our Sages interpreted the words of the Torah [to mean
that our punishment will include becoming stupid]. The Prime Minister
and his friends from the left are stupid, in that they are dragging us
into an all-out regional war... They are liars. They make promises,
and do not keep them. Every week, he [Barak] reneges on his previous
promises, and makes new ones."
Meretz MK Zahava Gal'on said today that the Rabbis' freedom of speech
should be curtailed.
4. MORE ON THE AGREEMENT
Journalist David Bedein of Israel Resource News Agency notes today
that the "Clinton Plan for Middle East Peace" dictates an immediate
danger for the Jewish population of Jerusalem. The plan calls for the
Palestinian Liberation Army to take control over Arab-populated
neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem that intertwine with Jewish
neighborhoods, such that convicted murderers of Jews - who have been
freed from PA jails over the past three months would walk freely in
areas that are only meters away from heavily-populated Jewish areas.
Bedein also notes two other absurdities of the Clinton Plan for Middle
East Peace: The 1.2 million UNRWA refugee camp residents in Judea,
Samaria, and Gaza will be joined by another 2.4 million from Lebanon,
Syria, and Jordan. Together, 3.6 million refugees - who have been
inculcated for decades to believe that they will be repatriated to
their original villages - will wait impatiently on the hills and
plains of Yesha until they are repatriated to areas inside Israel.
The PLO has in fact set up a computer terminal at its Orient House
headquarters in Jerusalem, where the exact locations of individual
homes in pre-1948 Arab villages are documented, for the purpose of
their forcible re-possession. The PLO has distributed thousands of
maps of the 531 Arab villages that are to be "liberated" to all UNRWA
camp residents.
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