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To: arutz-7@israelnationalnews.com, arutz-7b@israelnationalnews.com From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com> Subject: Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001
Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com> Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001 / Cheshvan 6, 5762 ------------------------------------------------
TODAY'S HEADLINES: 1. ISRAEL'S ANTI-TERRORISM WAR CONTINUES 2. YESHA ROADS, GOODS IN DANGER
1. ISRAEL'S ANTI-TERRORISM WAR CONTINUES In the IDF's continuing war against Palestinian terrorism, it arrested today three Hamas terrorists, including two brothers. One of them is a senior Hamas leader and a PA para-military policeman. One of them admitted to having taken part in terrorist activity in the vicinity, and said he was planning to place a large bomb against Israeli tanks. Earlier today, IDF forces arrested a number of suspected terrorists in the Arab village Biet Anan, north of Jerusalem.
At least 16 potentially serious Palestinian terrorist attacks were prevented in the past five and a half weeks - but with no help from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. In the majority of cases, Israeli forces either arrested or eliminated the terrorists while they were in the process of preparing or carrying out their attacks. In five incidents, terrorists died in 'work accidents' as they were preparing bombs. Half of the 16 involved planned suicide attacks. Minister Tzippy Livni, whose office released the list, reiterated the Israeli government's commitment to do what it must to prevent further terrorism in light of Arafat's failure to do so.
2. YESHA ROADS, GOODS IN DANGER Yesha Council members met last night with Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in his Tel Aviv office. They requested immediate funding for defense needs in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, and the approval of new construction in the communities. Ben-Eliezer said he would consider the request, but noted that he does not plan to allow widespread building in Yesha. Housing starts in Yesha during the first six months of this year are down drastically; there were only 832 of them, compared with 4,499 for all of the year 2000. (The Har Homa neighborhood in Jerusalem, however, appears to be an exception. Although only 55 apartments were sold there during the first half of 2001, that pace quintupled itself during the next four months with the sale of 178 from July to October. A total of 870 apartments have been sold in Har Homa.)
Hundreds of northern Shomron residents from Mevo Dotan and Hermesh demonstrated against their lack of security this morning. They said that this was the first time they have come out to protest. Their main gripe: the bypass road around the hostile PA villages of Baka el-Sharkiye and Yaabed were begun three years ago, but have not been completed. Mevo Dotan resident Rachel Shelef, widow of Tzvika, said,
"All we want is to live. My husband was murdered on the road to our town five months ago, then Hadas Abutbul, a mother of four, was killed ten days ago; how long will this go on? We deserve protection just like citizens in the rest of the country. We ask for nothing more than appropriate defense measures." Many residents have moved out of the area, which those who remain say could have been avoided had the security situation not been so unsafe. Public Security Minister Uzi Landau and several Knesset Members stopped by to offer encouragement.
Yesha Council head Benny Kashriel, a participant in the protest, told Arutz-7, "We didn't receive great satisfaction in our meeting last night with Ben-Eliezer. He gave 50 million shekels for bypass roads, which is only a drop in the bucket. And in the Kiryat Arba area [south of Gush Etzion, near Hevron], the Aroub bypass road is still not approved - this is absolutely scandalous, as they are sacrificing human lives just because of the fear that the Arabs may protest the expropriation of lands for the road. Life has apparently become cheap. We will have to go directly to the Prime Minister... We're willing to guard the front, but not to become the country's cannon fodder."
Goods made in Yesha are safe from European Union tariffs - but only for now. The EU leaders meeting in Brussels last night called off their intention to impose a new tariff on the import of goods made in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza into Europe. Following an Israeli request, the EU decided that for now it would only warn European importers that a tariff is liable to soon be imposed on goods from Yesha. Belgium is behind the tariff initiative, and Yesha Council head Benny Kashriel says that a large lobby of Christian and other groups is threatening to boycott all Belgian products if in fact the status of Yesha products is downgraded. "We are talking about dozens of factories and thousands of workers on both sides of the Green Line," he said, "and I hope therefore that the government will help us in this campaign."
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To: arutz-7@israelnationalnews.com, arutz-7b@israelnationalnews.com From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com> Subject: Arutz-7 News: Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001
Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com> Thursday, Nov. 22, 2001 / Kislev 7, 5762 ------------------------------------------------
TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. SHARON: TERRORISM HAS NOT STOPPED
"Yasser Arafat has not stopped terrorism for even a minute." This was the message that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell last night on the phone. Powell initiated the call to discuss events in the region. Powell also updated Sharon on the war in Afghanistan and congratulated him on receiving an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University. Prime Minister Sharon is slated to visit Washington early next month.
Arabs fired two mortar shells on Jewish homes along Israel's southern Mediterranean coast last night. Rachel Asraf, a mother of 7 children, told Arutz-7 that she was reading in bed when, "I suddenly heard a shell launched, and a few seconds later the loud boom. Our ears are trained already to tell how far away the shells fall. This one landed very close by. I woke up my husband, and darted out to see what happened." There were no injuries. Early this evening, yet another mortar shell was fired, and Arabs shot at an IDF position near Netzarim; no one was hurt, and IDF soldiers returned fire.
In the same area this morning, an IDF patrol discovered a bomb and safely dismantled it. Arabs shot and injured two people near Tul Karem, just east of Netanya. Yesterday, a force of reserve soldiers thwarted a terrorist attack at the Kisufim checkpoint leading to Gush Katif. The force spotted a terrorist squad approaching the road, and shot at them. The would-be killers managed to escape.
Israeli civilians in Nokdim and Tekoa - south of Jerusalem, east of Gush Etzion - blocked their access road to Arab traffic this morning, fro the second day in a row. The army closed the road to Arabs two months ago following the murder of local resident Sarit Amrani there, but received a government order to re-open it in honor of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. The residents say that the decision is a dangerous one and that more drive-by shootings may be expected.
2. EU AGAINST YESHA The European Union took a first step towards imposing tariffs on goods produced in Judea, Gush Katif, Samaria and the Golan today. The executive arm of the EU recommended that customs authorities collect a deposit from importers in order to cover tariffs that are likely to be imposed retroactively on the Yesha goods. Belgium is said to be in favor of the tariffs, while Britain and Germany are against exerting pressures on Israel in this matter at this time. Israel, too, has made the point that now, when efforts are being made to renew a diplomatic process between it and the PA, is not the time for such one-sided actions. Yesha Council head Benny Kashriel said yesterday that Belgium was likely to find itself the target of a consumer boycott by Jewish and Christian supporters of Israel all around the world, in the event that the tariffs are imposed. "We are talking about dozens of factories and thousands of workers on both sides of the Green Line [that will be affected]," he said.
3. TWO ARAB MKs MET WITH PFLP HEAD No reaction has yet been heard from the left, but Israel's nationalist camp is in an uproar over the meeting yesterday between two Knesset Members - Ahmed Tibi and Muhammed Barakeh - with the #2 man in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization. It was the PFLP whose members assassinated Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi last month. Yasser Arafat was also present at the meeting between the PFLP's Abdul Rahim Maluah and the two MKs. Although Maluah does not have what Israel calls "blood on his hands," he is now the acting PFLP-head, fulfilling the position of the man who was forced to go underground after masterminding Zee'vi's murder. The PFLP has been recognized as a terrorist organization by Britain and the U.S., which last week froze the group's bank accounts.
Several right-wing leaders sharply condemned Tibi and Barakeh. National Infrastructures Minister Avigdor Lieberman (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) said, "Tibi and Barakeh have been an integral part of the Palestinian Authority for a long time. Their actions encourage terrorism." He said that his party would act to ban these MKs from running in the next Knesset elections. MK Zevulun Orlev (NRP) called upon Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein to open a police investigation into the two for contacting agents of a foreign entity and a terrorist organization. MK Tzvi Hendel (National Union) said that the blame must fall, first and foremost, on government ministers who meet with Arafat: "Peres has met, and is doing everything he can to have more meetings, with Yasser Arafat who himself head the Palestinian terror mechanism.
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To: arutz-7@israelnationalnews.com, arutz-7b@israelnationalnews.com From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com> Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: Friday, Nov. 23, 2001
Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com> Friday, Nov. 23, 2001 / Kislev 8, 5762 ------------------------------------------------
TODAY'S HEADLINE:
JERUSALEM MUFTI: "WE'LL GET RID OF JERUSALEM'S TEMPORARY RESIDENTS"
The second Friday prayers of this Moslem holy month of Ramadan - at which 130,000 worshipers took part on the Temple Mount - are over, and once again there were no disturbances. No thanks to PLO-appointee Jerusalem mufti Akrama Sabri, however; in a sermon before the prayers, he told his flock, "The residents of Jerusalem are temporary, we will get rid of them and conquer all of holy Palestine." Sabri has called in the past for the killing of Arab collaborators with Israel and those who sell land to Jews. No action has yet been taken on the police recommendation that he be indicted for incitement
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To: arutz-7@israelnationalnews.com, arutz-7b@israelnationalnews.com From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com> Subject: Arutz-7 News: Sunday, Nov. 25, 2001
Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com> Sunday, Nov. 25, 2001 / Kislev 10, 5762 ------------------------------------------------
TODAY'S HEADLINES: 1. ISRAEL FINALLY KILLS MASTER TERRORIST ABU HONOD 2. IRAQ ALSO GETS INVOLVED 3. P.A. TEXTBOOKS: NEW STATE WILL REPLACE ISRAEL
1. ISRAEL FINALLY KILLS MASTER TERRORIST ABU HONOD Hamas claimed responsibility for last night's Kfar Darom attack, saying it was in revenge for the liquidation of Mahmoud Abu Honod. Israel in fact finally succeeded last night, on its third attempt, in killing the Hamas leader, thus completing the wiping out of the Hamas leadership in Shechem. Five other leaders had been killed by Israel in the past few months. Three Israeli soldiers were killed in August 2000 during a bungled attempt to get Abu Honod.
Israeli helicopters targeted Abu Honod last night as he was driving in a car; two others with him were killed on the spot, but he got out of the car and started running, and was killed seconds later by another round of helicopter fire. He was responsible for the killing of at least 21 Israelis during the previous five years - including the Machane Yehuda and Ben-Yehuda Street suicide bombings in the summer of 1997.
2. IRAQ ALSO GETS INVOLVED The General Security Services has revealed Iraqi involvement in terrorist cells in Ramallah and Jenin. These cells were responsible for the murder of the teenage boy Yuri Gochin of Pisgat Ze'ev, as well as the placing of bombs in the Galilee and Shomron. The cell members were trained in Iraq, and had planned to carry out major attacks in Ben-Gurion International Airport and in downtown Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Money and materials bound for the terrorists was smuggled into the PA in the car of Palestinian Authority VIP Abed Razek Yichye; the Oslo accords stipulated that VIP cars must be allowed into the PA without being checked by Israel.
The Jordanian authorities announced today that they had arrested an Iraqi citizen suspected of attempting to smuggle 40 grenades into the Palestinian Authority in a secret compartment in his truck. The suspect confessed to having similarly smuggled 14 Kalachnikov rifles into the PA areas in the past.
In another story of terrorist intrigue, alert IDF soldiers at the Rama Checkpoint in northern Jerusalem today thwarted an attempted smuggling of massive amounts of bullets into Ramallah. The soldiers became suspicious of a truck carrying fruits and vegetables, and in the ensuing search, found 15 well-hidden bags of Kalachnikov and M-16 rifle bullets. The driver was arrested, and the ammunition confiscated.
3. P.A. TEXTBOOKS: NEW STATE WILL REPLACE ISRAEL The Palestinian Authority is educating its young that a future Palestinian state will not live alongside Israel in peace, but will rather replace Israel. Thus reports Journalist David Bedein of The Israel Resource News Agency based on excerpts from more than 60 new Palestinian Authority textbooks, published on the website of the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, <www.edume.org>. The excerpts indicate that the PA is continuing its policy of educating its students to liberate all of Palestine - not just Judea, Samaria, and Gaza - for an independent Palestinian state. Bedein notes that the PA school system is financed through special grants from Japan, the US, Canada, and the European Union. The following excerpts show that the PA school system does not envision a Palestinian state living peacefully side-by-side with Israel, but actually replacing Israel:
"In the case of our country, Palestine, this interaction [between the inhabitants' efforts and the available resources] faces challenges of which the most important ones are: the establishment of the independent Palestinian state on our entire national soil." --- (The Palestinian Society - Demographic Education, Grade 11, p. 134)
"There is no (relinquishment) of our right in Palestine." --- (Language exercise, Our Beautiful Language, Grade 6, pt. 1, p. 27)
"I thought it advisable to return to my book in order to reassemble it anew and present it to the sons of Arabdom in general and to the sons of Palestine in particular, so that they will remember their usurped homeland and work for its rescue." --- (From the preface of Mustafa Murad al-Dabbagh's book "Our country, Palestine" as quoted in: Our Beautiful Language, Grade 6, pt. 1, p. 112)
"The Jewish claim to historical rights to Palestine has no justification, it is a deceitful and disproved claim with no parallel in history, it is a blatant lie... they [the Arabs] have resided in it [Palestine] since the dawn of the land's history, before there were Jews in the world ... The Jews entered our homeland and left it just as other transient nations have entered and left it ... The Arabs, and not the Jews, are those who have the connection [to the land]. The return of the Jews to Palestine and permitting them to establish a Jewish State contradicts history" --- Introduction to the "Our Country, Palestine" encyclopedia
"There is no alternative to destroying Israel" (ibid., p. 13).
"The Achievements of the Palestinian Liberation Organization [include] the establishment of the independent Palestinian entity on the Palestinian lands that would be liberated." --- (National Education, Grade 6, 2000, p. 23)
"The demographic problem has occupied a central place in the Arab-Israeli conflict during the last two decades. From the Palestinian point of view it has become the numerical challenge that will enable the Palestinian people during the coming two decades to stand against the Zionist settlement expansion and overcome it. From the Israeli point of view the demographic problem has become the danger hidden in the rates of natural increase among Palestinian families, which threatens in the foreseeable future the existence of a Jewish majority population... Therefore, the increase of fertility rates is a demographic weapon that can be used in resisting the occupation. It plays a positive role in winning the Arab-Israeli conflict... The net migration of the Palestinians from 1948 until 1992 was always negative, in the sense that the number of emigrants from Palestine was much greater than the number of those who entered it. The net migration became positive in 1992..." --- (The Palestinian Society - Demographic Education, Grade 11, p. 29, 36)
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To: arutz-7@israelnationalnews.com, arutz-7b@israelnationalnews.com From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com> Subject: Arutz-7 News: Monday, November 26, 2001
Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com> Monday, Nov. 26, 2001 / Kislev 11, 5762 ------------------------------------------------
TODAY'S HEADLINES: 1. MOSSAD CHIEF ON ARAFAT, ISRAEL, AND POLLARD 2. PA RELEASES TEN TERRORISTS
1. MOSSAD CHIEF ON ARAFAT, ISRAEL, AND POLLARD "Arafat lives in a world of lies and perpetual fantasy." So said Mossad Chief Ephraim HaLevy last night, speaking to the students of the pre-military yeshiva academy in Eli, near Shilo. "Arafat tells everyone who will listen that the Mossad, and not the Palestinians, murdered Rehavam Ze'evi, and crashed into the Twin Towers in New York." HaLevy said that Israel would be able to reach a lasting agreement only with Arafat's successor, whether he is Abu Mazen, Abu Ala, or Muhammad Dahlan. "The three of them know that Arafat is leading the Palestinians nowhere," he said.
Regarding Israel's international position: "There are many world leaders who don't side with Israel," said HaLevy, "but who understand Israel's position in its present conflict with the PA. They are also interested in a strong Israel in order to maintain stability in the Middle East."
2. PA RELEASES TEN TERRORISTS The PA's Supreme Court in Gaza has ordered the release of ten terrorists reportedly involved in the assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi. The court ruled that the arrests were "political" in nature and therefore not acceptable. The freed terrorists are affiliated with the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Islamic Jihad.
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To: arutz-7@israelnationalnews.com, arutz-7b@israelnationalnews.com From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com> Subject: Arutz-7 News: Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001
Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com> Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001 / Kislev 12, 5762 ------------------------------------------------
TODAY'S HEADLINES: 1. IDF QUITS JENIN 2. IT'S OFFICIAL: ARAFAT ORDERED TERRORIST ATTACKS
1. IDF QUITS JENIN The IDF withdrew its forces during the night from the PA-controlled areas of Jenin. The move was made possible following not only an intelligence evaluation in the field, but also as a gesture in honor of the arrival of the Zinni-Burns mediating team in the Middle East. Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer has come under some criticism for the decision to withdraw the forces, in the face of continuing terrorist warnings. Ben-Eliezer responded that the decision was reviewed by all the security agencies, and that in any event the city of Jenin remains encircled by IDF forces.
The army originally entered Jenin and five other PA-controlled areas over five weeks ago, in response to the assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi. It withdrew from the other areas earlier this month.
Following today's murders in Afula, Interior Minister Eli Yeshai (Shas) said, "I thank G-d and the security forces for all the attacks that have been thwarted over the past few weeks, but at the same time we see that there has been no change in the Palestinian policy of violence, and it is important for the Americans and Europeans to see this; the previous attack in Afula [in which three Israelis were murdered] was carried out by none other than Palestinian Authority policemen."
Environment Minister Tzachi HaNegbi (Likud) told Arutz-7, "It's very hard to be optimistic when we see not only [American mediator Gen. Anthony] Zinni, but many other world leaders making pilgrimages to Arafat and begging him to stop the violence, and all they hear in response is more violence and fantasies of Israeli uranium plots. We simply have no one to speak with - we never had - and the only choice is to go back to what the Prime Minister said a few months ago, which is to rely only on ourselves and to fight terrorism with whatever tools we have at our disposal." HaNegbi said that the present violence should not be called the Al-Aksa War, but rather the Oslo War.
2. IT'S OFFICIAL: ARAFAT ORDERED TERRORIST ATTACKS IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz made today some of the strongest accusations against Yasser Arafat to date. Speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Mofaz said that Arafat did not just give a "green light" to terrorism, but was the very initiator of many attacks. Arutz-7's Haggai Seri reports that Arafat convened, in February 2000, the leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and told them to commit terrorist attacks within pre-1967 Israel with the purpose of getting Israel to "surrender." Later, he gave a similar order to Tanzim (Fatah militia) heads.
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To: arutz-7@israelnationalnews.com, arutz-7b@israelnationalnews.com From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com> Subject: Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001
Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com> Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 / Kislev 13, 5762 ------------------------------------------------
TODAY'S HEADLINES: 1. PALESTINIANS CONTINUE TERRORISM WAR 2. ISRAEL TO INVESTIGATE INCITEMENT IN P.A. TEXTBOOKS 3. CONGRESSMEN CONCERNED OVER SALE TO EGYPT
1.PALESTINIANS CONTINUE TERRORISM WAR While the world continues its war against terrorism, the Palestinians continue their war of terrorism against Israel. It claimed three victims yesterday, and resumed with full force this morning.
Yesterday's victims in Afula were Michal Mor, 25, a mother of three from Rechasim (southeast of Haifa), and Noam Guzovsky, 23, of the nearby moshav Ramat Tzvi. Noam Guzovsky had returned just the day before from an 18-month trip abroad. His parents announced that they would donate his organs to patients in need, possibly even the two who were seriously wounded in the same attacks that claimed Noam's life. Michal Mor was the daughter of a well-known Afula rabbi, Asher Gabbai, and a nursery school teacher by profession. She was buried last night.
Her uncle, Yisrael Deri, said,
"It's hard to talk about her in the past tense. She was a truly special person. The strength of giving that she had - it is very hard to find this level among people today, in terms of what she gave to Klal Yisrael [the community] and to the children. She ran a network of nurseries with 300 children, and treated each one as if he was her own. Many parents said that they were signing up their children solely because of her warmth. Yesterday, she was in Afula in order to feed an incapacitated woman, and then to meet with an [Education Ministry] supervisor... She was full of modesty, kindness, pure fear of Heaven... She wanted her husband to study Torah and said that she would support him..."
2. ISRAEL TO INVESTIGATE INCITEMENT IN P.A. TEXTBOOKS For the first time, an Israeli government ministry has announced that it would conduct a study of textbooks used in the PA educational system. So reported investigative journalist David Bedein today, saying that his queries to the Foreign Ministry on the matter had finally paid off. In addition, the ministry has instructed Ambassador to Belgium Sha'ul Amour to discuss the topic of "anti-Israel incitement in PA schoolbooks" with the Foreign Minister of Belgium; Belgium is scheduled to fund PA textbooks this year.
The Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace presented its evaluation of the textbooks at a Jerusalem press conference last Wednesday; the full text of the findings can be seen at <http://www.edume.org/new/index.htm>. The introduction states, "In the two academic years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) introduced 58 new textbooks and two teachers' guides for grades 1, 2, 6, 7 and 11. CMIP has conducted a comprehensive survey of these textbooks in order to determine how they relate to peace, tolerance, recognition and reconciliation according to criteria set by the international community.
"CMIP has found that the new PNA textbooks do not fulfill these criteria in educating to peace and reconciliation with Israel, but rather foster a multi-faceted rejection of its existence. The educational approach employed by the PNA does not reflect international standards as defined by UNESCO (see their criteria in the Introduction). The textbooks do not teach acceptance of Israel's existence on the national level, and instead of working to erase hateful stereotypes, the new PNA curriculum is instilling them into the next generation's consciousness."
3. CONGRESSMEN CONCERNED OVER SALE TO EGYPT Members of the United States Congress have expressed concern over the Administration's apparent intention of selling ground-to-ground missiles to Egypt. AP reports that the Congressmen in question are worried that the sale may destroy the delicate balance of power in the Middle East. Congressman Tom Lantos said that Egypt faces no danger from without, and that he sees no particular reason to sell them the missiles. A sale of over 50 rockets is being considered.
In a related item, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is denying reports that his country will be receiving missiles from North Korea.
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