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From: Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
To: <arutz-7@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject: Arutz-7 News: Monday, January 8, 2001
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Monday, Jan. 8, 2001 / Tevet 13, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. THE FUTURE OF AN AGREEMENT\
2. LARGEST-RALLY EVER EXPECTED; ALSO AROUND THE WORLD
3. ARABS REJECT CLINTON MIDEAST PLAN
4. DEAD SEA AREA RESIDENTS PREFER JORDAN TO PLO
5. ONE MONTH BEFORE THE ELECTION
6. SAFIRE AGAINST CLINTON/BARAK
1. THE FUTURE OF AN AGREEMENT
Justice Minister Yossi Beilin told the Knesset Law Committee today
that any agreement Ehud Barak may initial before the election will
contain a clause stipulating that it is not valid unless it passes a
national referendum. Beilin said that although the government has a
mandate to initial such an agreement, future Israeli governments need
not be obligated to implement it.
The Supreme Court will wait until Friday to hear petitions against
plans by the current transition government to reach agreements with
the Palestinians before the Feb. 6th election. The petitioners,
including Atty. Yoram Sheftel, expressed concern this morning that the
delay will cause the government to speed up its negotiations with the
Palestinians.
In a similar vein, U.S. President Clinton emphasized that his
proposals will not obligate his successor, George W. Bush. Speaking
to American-Jewish leaders in New York last night, Clinton said that
the Arab refugees should not live in Israel, but rather in the area of
the Palestinian state that, he feels, should arise. This was the
first time in history that an American president had expressed such
clear support for a Palestinian state. Mediator Dennis Ross is
scheduled to arrive in Israel later in the week, in a never-say-die
effort to help the Israelis and Palestinians reach Clinton's goal of
an "agreement of principles" before the latter leaves office 12 days
from now.
2. LARGEST-RALLY EVER EXPECTED; ALSO AROUND THE WORLD
A massive demonstration of support for Jerusalem outside Jaffa Gate
and the Old City walls will commence this evening at 6:30; organizers
expect a quarter of a million people. Chartered buses are leaving
from 50 sites throughout the country to take participants to the
rally, sponsored by Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert and MK Natan
Sharansky. Groups from New York, England, Russia and France have
flown in to join the demonstration. The demonstration will be
non-partisan; speakers will include President Moshe Katzav, Mayor Ehud
Olmert, former Supreme Court Justice Moshe Landau, and President of
the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Ron Lauder. Many Christians from a variety of groups worldwide will
participate in the rally.
The mass protest movement against plans to give away 95% of Judea and
Samaria (including the re-division of Jerusalem) continues. Har
Hevron communities are on strike today, and are marching to Jerusalem;
hundreds gathered in Gilo for a rally at noon, and from there marched
to the Old City to join up with the giant rally. Similar marches were
held by residents of N'vei Tzuf, Ateret, Peduel, Talmon, Dolev, Mevo
Choron, and Ma'aleh Levonah. Thousands of high school girls took part
in a prayer ceremony at Rachel's Tomb this morning on behalf of
Jerusalem.
3. ARABS REJECT CLINTON MIDEAST PLAN
The Palestinians have officially rejected Clinton's proposals. Abu
Ala, PA Legislative Council Chairman, said earlier today that Ross
will fail in his mission to bridge the gaps between the two sides,
since "the American proposals are a trick, and are basically only a
continuation of the Camp David ideas." Abu Ala said that Israel must
withdraw absolutely to the June 4, 1967 borders: "We do not agree that
the Palestinian state will be part of a peace agreement - as the
establishment of a state is our own sovereign decision, and need not
be contingent on American or Israeli conditions."
4. DEAD SEA AREA RESIDENTS PREFER JORDAN TO PLO
Israelis living in the Northern Dead Sea area say that if the
Barak-Clinton understandings are accepted, they plan to ask to be
annexed to Jordan instead of being placed under Palestinian Authority
sovereignty. Mordechai Dahman, a member of Barak's Labor party and
head of the area's Megillot Regional Council, explained to Arutz-7
today that giving away the Jordan Valley is a danger to the State of
Israel and leaves it open to an attack from Iran and Iraq.
"If we cannot remain Israeli," Dahman said, "we would prefer to come
under the protection of the stable regime in Jordan, and not under
Arafat's Palestinian Authority." When asked if he thinks that
Jordan's King Abdullah would welcome the Jewish communities, Dahman
answered, "No. But I will tell you that his father King Hussein and
Yitzchak Rabin never intended for the Jordan Valley to come under
Palestinian control. Giving it to the PA endangers not only Israel,
but also Abdullah's regime in Jordan - as it makes a Palestinian
takeover, with the help of the large Palestinian majority there, that
much more likely. Everyone knows this, but people don't like to talk
about it." The residents held a "protest sail" today on the Dead Sea,
and sent a balloon to Jordan with the message that if the Palestinians
take over the area, it will endanger Jordan.
5. ONE MONTH BEFORE THE ELECTION
It's official: The Shas party will support Ariel Sharon. Such were
the results of a meeting yesterday between the Prime Ministerial
candidate and Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef. Shas MK
Shlomo Benizri told Arutz-7 today, "We usually support the right-wing
candidate, even though we do not consider ourselves a right-wing
party; maybe just moderate right-wing... [At the meeting,] Rabbi
Yosef hinted to Sharon that he should be more careful in his public
Sabbath observance, such as not appearing live on television on the
Sabbath. He also asked him if he is planning to continue along the
suicidal path of Oslo." Both Benizri and MK Yuli Edelstein of Yisrael
B'Aliyah - also a likely future partner in a Sharon coalition -
confirmed Sharon's statement that he did not promise any of the
parties specific ministerial portfolios.
Dr. Aharon Fein, of the Tatzpit Institute, commented today on recent
polls showing Sharon leading Barak by wide margins: "Anything can
happen, of course, but statistically, there is almost no chance at all
that Barak can beat Sharon." Relating to the possibility that Peres
may replace Barak, Fein said, "Even though the polls show Peres
leading Sharon, Peres will lose. This is because the support for a
'virtual' candidate always drops when he becomes an actual candidate.
I estimate, based on data that I have, that any Labor party candidate
will lose." Barak emphasized that he has absolutely no plans to drop
out of the race in the middle.
The left-wing religious Zionist party Meimad has decided, for now, to
endorse neither Prime Minister Ehud Barak - who brought it national
prominence by adding it to the One Israel list (preceding the May 1999
election), on which it earned its only Knesset seat - nor Ariel Sharon
in the upcoming prime ministerial election. At a meeting of the party
leadership last night, it was decided to make a final decision at a
later date. Opinion was split over whether to support Barak, as
proposed by Diaspora Affairs Minister Rabbi Michael Melchior and
Yitzchak Frankental, while Rabbi Yehuda Gilad, former NRP Knesset
Member Yehuda Ben-Meir, and others were in favor of expressing
non-support for Barak; support for Ariel Sharon was practically
non-existent. Rabbi Yehuda Amital echoed the feelings of most members
when he attacked Barak's proposed "secular revolution" - aimed at
erasing Jewish tradition from Israeli public life.
6. SAFIRE AGAINST CLINTON/BARAK
American columnist William Safire wrote a scathing attack last week on
both Clinton and Barak (New York Times, Jan. 4): "Two weeks before
leaving office, Bill Clinton is frantically scrambling to patch
together his claim to a legacy by undermining Israel's security and
dividing Jerusalem. Four weeks before facing ejection from office by
irate Israeli voters, a desperate Ehud Barak has turned himself into a
diplomatic doormat, making hitherto inconceivable concessions so that
he can get past Election Day on the pretext of having achieved a
truce. These two men in political extremis represent nobody but
themselves. And yet Yasser Arafat has his lame ducks in a row: the
lost leaders are pleading with him to accept sovereignty over the
Temple Mount, splitting Jerusalem into unmanageable pieces, inviting
the Palestinian takeover of Jordan, and placing essential West Bank
air space in Palestinian hands. [Arafat] wants to occupy Israel with
millions of resentful Arab refugees whom Arab nations want no part of.
"After the failure of Arab armies to strangle the Jewish state in its
cradle in 1948, some 600,000 Arabs fled the country. Arab nations
have kept them and their descendants in camps of poverty and
degradation ever since, fanning the flames of hatred. In stark
contrast, the 600,000 Jews who were driven out of neighboring Arab
states were welcomed into Israel, where their grandchildren are now
free and productive citizens. "Although the Palestinian demand to
"return" is a retreat to unreality, Arafat has been using it to
extract a surrender of Israeli security. Clinton and Barak are
cooperating in the deception: by striking the stern pose of refusing
to turn vast areas of Israel over to the five million descendants of
the Palestinians who fled, the Clinton "bridging proposal" professes
to be evenhanded in caving in to every other Arab demand."
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From: Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
To: <arutz-7@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject: Arutz-7 News: Tuesday, January 9, 2001
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2001 / Tevet 14, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. A THIRD-OF-A-MILLION PLEDGE FOR JERUSALEM
2. THE CHAIN THAT WASN'T, AND A WORD FROM THE SPONSOR
3. MOFAZ WARNS OF DANGERS
4. ARIEL SHARON REVEALS PLANS
5. MORE CALLS FOR BARAK TO DROP OUT
1. A THIRD-OF-A-MILLION PLEDGE FOR JERUSALEM
Between 300,000 and 400,000 people gathered for a mass rally last
night opposing the division of Israel's capital. The theme of the
rally was, "Jerusalem: I Pledge Allegiance." The huge crowds spilled
over from Jaffa Gate all the way to the main Jaffa Rd. thoroughfare
and into many of the adjoining roads. Traffic was diverted away from
the area, and many thousands of people could be seen coming and going
by foot in all directions throughout the event.
Throughout the rally, pictures and photographs of Jerusalem - such as
the City of David antiquities, the Temple Mount, and the liberation of
the city in 1967 - were screened on the walls of the Old City near the
Tower of David and Jaffa Gate. Speakers included Chief Rabbi Yisrael
Meir Lau, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Moshe Landau, Avital
Sharansky (wife of Yisrael B'Aliyah Party head Natan Sharansky),
Chairman of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations Ron Lauder, paratroopers such as Rabbi Yisrael Ariel who
participated in the capture of Jerusalem in 1967, left-wing Rishon LeTzion Mayor Meir Nitzan, and organizer Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert.
Selected quotes:
Avital Sharansky: "The refusenik Sylva Zalmanson, during her trial in
Soviet Russia, read aloud to the judges the verse, "If I forget thee O
Jerusalem, let my right hand wither." My husband Natan, at the end of
his trial there, when he was in genuine danger to his life, declared
in unforgettable words, "Next year in Jerusalem." We always knew that
the freedom of Israel and the freedom of Jerusalem are one and the
same."
Mayor Olmert addressed some of his remarks directly to U.S. President
Clinton: "We are an old people, and we never forget our friends - but
we also do not forget those who raise their hand against our most
precious treasures. Don't be the only U.S. President to go down in
history as having proposed the division of Israel's eternal capital.
Please, Mr. President, think about it."
Nurse Esther Arditi Bornshtein, known as the Angel in White: "I
immigrated from Italy, and served for two years in the Israeli Air
Force as a medic. During the Six Day War, when I was already a mother
of two, I joined up with Mota Gur's paratroopers division that broke
through the walls of the Old City. I administered first aid to the
heroes who were hit by the massive firepower of the Jordanians. I am
now a tour guide living in Jerusalem, "the joy of the whole earth,
Mount Zion, the city of the great King." ...I stand here today at the
walls of Jerusalem, and pledge allegiance to a complete and undivided
Jerusalem - forever!"
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Moshe Landau: "The organizers of
this rally acted correctly in ensuring that it would have no political
flavor - because the dream of the integrity of all Jerusalem is
something that all the Jewish parties in Israel have in common,
without any difference at all. It is agreed upon by all those who
understand the purpose of our presence here in this land, in this
city, and especially the Temple Mount, which we have received as a
precious deposit from those who preceded us, and we are obligated to
return them to those who come after us, complete and whole. The State
of Israel does not belong only to those who reside here today, but is
rather the country of all Jews, wherever they may be... [When I was
in the U.S.] I was witness to the deep excitement felt by Jewish
audiences when they heard the wonderful song by Naomi Shemer called
"Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" (Jerusalem of Gold). We pray that common
sense and understanding will take root amongst them also, and then
truly, true peace will reign here in United Jerusalem."
Yisrael Berko, a resident of the Old City: "I was born in the Old
City 13 years ago, in the building called Beit Reut. I would like to
say to all of you, in the name of my friends who live in Herod's Gate,
in Damascus Gate, in Zion Gate, in Jaffa Gate, and all over the Old
City: We are not from the 'Moslem Quarter' or the 'Jewish Quarter' -
we are from Jerusalem-Between-the-Walls, the undivided and complete
city of Jerusalem. No more quarters and sections - only Jerusalem,
that will has always been and will always be the pinnacle of the
Jewish longing and striving, the heart and center, of the entire
Jewish nation!"
The entire crowd, led by radio personality and linguist Avshalom Kor,
declared aloud and together the verses from Psalms, "If I forget thee,
O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither. Let my tongue cling to my
palate if I do not remember thee."
Journalist Aryeh Bender of Ma'ariv wrote this morning, "This stand,
one of the largest in the history of Israel, was impressive, unique,
and moving. There was a feeling of exaltation in the crowd... The
rally gave them a pick-up."
2. THE CHAIN THAT WASN'T, AND A WORD FROM THE SPONSOR
The police have confirmed that they did not allow the rally's
organizers to carry out their plan for a human chain around the Old
City walls, as a result of an agreement with the PLO's Fatah.
Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that the Palestinians demanded that the
police forbid the human chain between Damascus Gate and Herod's Gate
[along the northern wall]. In return, Fatah promised that they would
prevent Arab rioting and violence during the rally. Jerusalem's new
police commander, Mickey Levy, agreed to the deal and canceled the
approval he originally issued for the human chain.
The rally was sponsored by an international organization called One
Jerusalem, which is responsible for such efforts as an internet
petition calling on the world community to recognize a united
Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty, and a powerful 30-second video
clip depicting the Palestinians' endangerment of children and
manipulation of children's minds in their current fight against
Israel. The petition can be signed at http://www.onejerusalem.org/home/index.asp, and the video can be
received as an attachment by sending a blank email to:
hatredfromthecradle@IsraelNationalNews.com. One Jerusalem was
founded by a diverse group that includes MK Natan Sharansky,
Ambassador Dore Gold, Prof. Eli Pollak, Rabbi Chaskel Besser, Douglas
Feith, Yechiel Leiter, and others.
3. MOFAZ WARNS OF DANGERS
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz says that the Clinton-Barak
plan endangers Israel in general and Jerusalem in particular.
Appearing before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
today, Mofaz enumerated the severe problems he sees in Clinton's plan,
among them the fact that it totally ignores the issue of Palestinian
terrorism, and does not deal with the security dangers that will be
caused by surrounding Jewish Jerusalem neighborhoods with Palestinian
ones. Mofaz emphasized how critical it is that the airspace of Judea,
Samaria, and Gaza remain Israeli, and that the entire Jordan Valley,
too, stay under Israeli control.
4. ARIEL SHARON REVEALS PLANS
The Knesset will conduct a special mid-recess session today, at the
Likud's request, to discuss the diplomatic situation. At the request
of the One Israel (Labor) faction, the refusal of the Likud candidate
for Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, to publicize his own peace plan will
also be discussed.
Sharon has, however, revealed some important aspects of his strategy
to the weekly magazine Kfar Chabad. In the upcoming issue, to be
published this Thursday, Sharon says, "The Oslo agreements became null
and void the moment the current Palestinian violence started." When
asked why it is "so hard" for him to say so publicly, he answered,
"Here, I am saying it as clearly as possible: The Oslo agreements no
longer exist, period."
When asked why is it that his campaign motto boasts that he will bring
peace when it is not even clear if the Palestinians will agree to meet
with him, Sharon answered, "Whoever thinks that only concessions will
bring peace is mistaken. I have frequent contact with Palestinian
leaders, such as Abu Mazen... [They respect me because] everyone
respects someone who stands firmly on his own principles..." Sharon
also said that if he becomes Prime Minister, "all the Yesha
settlements will remain in place, period," as they are all in zones
required for Israel's security. When asked, then, what are the
"painful concessions" that he has said will be required for peace,
Sharon said, "I mean that we will not re-conquer Shechem and Jericho,
the birth-cradle of the Jewish nation. I don't know of any nation
that has given up on such precious historical national assets."
5. MORE CALLS FOR BARAK TO DROP OUT
Ehud Barak insists that he will not drop out of the race for Prime
Minister, but calls for him to withdraw in favor of Shimon Peres
continue to be sounded. First it was Labor MK Avi Yechezkel, and
today it is his former Bureau Chief, Chaim Mendel-Shaked. The latter,
who resigned his position last August with criticism of Barak's
functioning as Prime Minister, said today that Barak no longer
transmits vision and hope, and that "if peace is important to him, he
must quit now; in 2 or 3 weeks, it may be too late." The Likud
candidate, Ariel Sharon, leads Peres in the polls by a much smaller
margin - if any - than he leads Barak.
The Meretz party is beginning a particularly vitriolic campaign
against Ariel Sharon in the Arab sector. A Meretz spokesman explained
that the decision to run a separate campaign was designed to show that
the party is independent. Differences of opinion have surfaced
between Labor and Meretz as to how to handle the Barak campaign. Prime
Minister Barak had previously ordered an end to a campaign gimmick
featuring photographs in Arab-language newspapers of the Sabra and
Shatila massacres with the caption, "After all, you know who Ariel
Sharon is..." Sharon was Defense Minister during the 1982 Peace for
Galilee War, when Christian Phalangists massacred over 900
Palestinians in Lebanon, and he had been blamed for not doing enough
to stop them.
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From: Arutz-7 Editor <neteditor@IsraelNationalNews.com>
To: <arutz-7@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject: Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, January 10, 2001
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2000 / Tevet 15, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. WILL BARAK STEP DOWN?
2. SHARON AND PERES
3. BARAK DENIES COLLABORATING WITH U.N.
***SPECIAL INSERT: Mayor Ehud Olmert's speech at the giant rally for
Jerusalem
1. WILL BARAK STEP DOWN?
Ehud Barak continues to face pressures to vacate his place in the
Prime Ministerial race, and allow Shimon Peres to run instead. Barak's
former aide, Chaim Mandel-Shaked, said today that Barak has already
decided to quit, but has not yet set a date; the deadline to do so is
two weeks from now. Barak's brother Avinoam Brug is also in favor of
making way for Peres, according to Mandel-Shaked, as are some Labor
MKs; others, such as MK Yael Dayan, have said only that Barak should
"consider" quitting the race. The election will be held on Feb. 6th.
A Ma'ariv poll in Barak's hometown of Kokhav Ya'ir shows that even his
own neighbors don't want him as Prime Minister. The polls show that
Kokhav Ya'ir residents prefer Sharon by a 2-1 margin: 62% would vote
for Sharon, while only 31% would choose Barak. "Barak's a very nice
guy," one neighbor said, "but I can't accept his policies."
"Right
and left, we will unanimously support him if he wants to run for head
of our local council," another said.
2. SHARON AND PERES
How will the Likud's Ariel Sharon, who currently leads Barak by a wide
margin in the polls, deal with a Peres candidacy, in case Peres in
fact replaces Barak? MK Limor Livnat of the Likud said that her party
is prepared not only for Peres, but for every campaign trick that
Labor may come up with: "We are saying not only that Barak failed as
Prime Minister, but also that the Labor party's entire concept
[regarding the Palestinians] has failed and collapsed - as we see that
there is not only no peace, but almost-daily terrorist attacks
everywhere. Peres, too, is quite involved in the Oslo fiasco; he is
largely responsible for the Oslo approach, and when terrorism
intensified during his term as Prime Minister [following Rabin's
assassination], his strategy was to speed up the negotiations."
MK Livnat attempted to clarify for Arutz-7 listeners what exactly is
meant by the campaign motto, "Only Sharon Can Bring Peace:" "First of
all, there will be absolutely no negotiations while the violence is
raging. Then, once personal security is restored, we will demand that
the Palestinians fulfill all their previous obligations - collecting
illegal weapons, returning terrorists to jail, etc. We can then
return to the talks from a position of strength, not from weakness.
Sharon will then conduct the talks with his stated red lines:
Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley remain Israeli, etc. He has not gone
into greater detail, because it would be stupid to start negotiations
with the Palestinians publicly and during the campaign - whatever he
would say would then just be used by the Palestinians as a starting
position beyond which they will then demand more..."
3. BARAK DENIES COLLABORATING WITH U.N.
The Prime Minister's Bureau released a terse one-sentence statement
today, denying any basis to "reports [that] Prime Minister Barak
requested that US President Bill Clinton initiate an appeal to the
United Nations Security Council." The reference was to an accusation
by Ariel Sharon yesterday that Barak had pressured the Americans to
get the UN to ratify current plans for an Israeli-Palestinian
agreement.
Sharon told his party's Knesset faction yesterday that one of Barak's
staffers had asked Clinton to anchor his proposals for the division of
Jerusalem and the evacuation of almost all of Judea and Samaria and
its Jewish communities in a UN decision. "This is unprecedented in
its severity," Sharon said, "and something that could complicate
Israel for years... It could lead the UN to impose sanctions on
Israel. This is the first time in Israeli history that an Israeli
Prime Minister has agreed to allow the UN to make decisions about
Israel's future. And it is being done only for electoral
considerations..."
Despite the denial by the Prime Minister's Bureau, when Dr. Aaron
Lerner of IMRA <"www.imra.org.il"> asked Barak's spokeswoman Meirav
Parsi-Tzadok what is the Prime Minister's stand regarding the
"bringing of a summary before the UN or some other international body
before the Israeli public has had its say," she refused to provide a
direct answer.
***SPECIAL INSERT:
Excerpts from Mayor Ehud Olmert's speech at Monday night's giant rally
for Jerusalem: "I have never felt deeper excitement than that which I
feel now, as I gaze upon you spread out all over the streets of
Jerusalem, crowded, enthusiastic, and emotional as you are. I am
deeply moved, because this is not a protest, or a political gathering
- this is the true manifestation of the connection that the Jewish
People feels towards its eternal capital! You have come from all over
the country tonight to say to the whole world: We are here, we will
remain here, because this city is the basis of our existence, the
subject of our longings, the unfulfilled dream throughout our
history... This city was always the center of our national longings.
What held our nation together was the hope to return to it and to stay
here forever and ever. "This gathering is not against anyone, and we
have not come to protest against anything. We have come to express in
the most clear and straightforward way our deep bonds to this city and
what it symbolizes. And standing out from amongst all its
neighborhoods is the Temple Mount, the place to which the People of
Israel always prayed thrice a day. Turning towards it, longing for
it, crying for it, giving their soul for it, the Jews always thought
of one place: this mountain, upon and inside which still lay the
remnants of our Holy Temples.... "Throughout our history, we have
always prayed for and sought peace. There is no people who wants
peace more than we do, none have sacrificed for it more than we have.
But no nation has ever been asked to sacrifice its most important
treasures in order to appease another people! And we too, no matter
how dedicated to peace we may be, we will not give up our most
precious and important national treasures of Jewish history! For us,
there is one and only one city! It will accept and tolerate all its
residents, from all nationalities and religions - but it is one city,
not divided, not in pieces - just one entire and whole city, the
capital of the Jewish People! "Dear friends, I feel that in your name
and on your behalf, I must say something to a man who in the past
eight years has been very involved in everything that is happening
here, whose friendship for Israel have learned to recognize. I allow
myself to turn from here, the heart of Jerusalem, to U.S. President
Clinton in friendship and with modesty, and say: You were a great
friend of Israel for eight years. It would be such a shame if all
that will remain of these friendship-filled years would be the fact
that you, Bill Clinton, will be the first President in U.S. history
who has proposed the division of Jerusalem! I ask you, even now, Mr.
President: Don't be the first American President to raise his hand to
divide Jerusalem! Jerusalem will not be divided! Don't be the one
who enters history as the one who proposed it. We are a nation with a
memory of thousands of years, we don't forget anything, and we don't
forgive those who don't respect our deep feelings for our capital
city... We never ever forget those who dare to raise their hand
against our most precious assets. Please, Mr. President, think about
it again." "In this greatest of all rallies that have ever convened in
this city, let us hold hands together, with a feeling of internal
unity, love, dedication, and great determination, that we will act
responsibly, with restraint, but without hesitation, so that Israel
will continue to control this city as it must be forever - one city,
united and whole! Jerusalem, I pledge!"
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