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Wednesday, July 2, 1997 / Sivan 27, 5757
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. THREE FRONTS IN GUSH KATIF
2. 100 FIREBOMBS IN HEVRON
3. VOICE OF PALESTINE INCITEMENT
4. PETITION: HALT POLICE INVESTIGATION
5. JEWISH AGENCY DELEGATION MEETS WITH CHIEF RABBIS
6. ARAB REAL ESTATE AGENT KIDNAPPED BY PA
7. IDF EDUCATION CORPS
8. LEVY STILL DECIDING
9. ILLEGAL ARAB BUILDING IN JERUSALEM
1. THREE FRONTS IN GUSH KATIF
New tensions in Gush Katif have erupted. Protesting Palestinians, who
suddenly dismantled their tents alongside the fence adjacent to Morag two
nights ago, returned just as suddenly last night. The abrupt return
stymied the Israelis, who thought that the issue had been resolved
following the removal of the monument from the Gush Katif junction and the
agreement on a passage through the Morag greenhouses. The Palestinians
were evicted by the IDF, and saplings that they planted in Morag were
uprooted.
In addition, the Khan Yunis municipality this afternoon took over a
600-meter-long stretch of beachfront that, according to the agreements, is
under total Israeli control. The PA township has erected signs and placed
trash cans along the beach. One Arab bather on the beach said, "Every
centimeter of land here is ours, and we plan to take over [the adjacent
Jewish community of] Kfar Yam also." Jewish spokesman Yigal Kirschenzaft
said, "This dispute is not new. It began ever since the land was promised
to the Patriarchs Abraham and Isaac, and Ishmael claimed it as his." He
said that the Palestinian Authority is purposely trying to stir up the
area, as is evidenced by the PA buses bringing in children to the
rock-strewn beach.
In yet a third front, a group of Palestinians attacked a Jewish worker in
Havvat Avraham; IDF soldiers on the scene shot at them. The Palestinians
claim that one of the Arabs was killed by the shots.
2. 100 FIREBOMBS IN HEVRON
Hevron: The IDF has redoubled its forces in the city, following yesterday's
home-made pipe bomb attack in which two soldiers were injured. One of the
soldiers was operated on for several hours, and is listed in serious
condition in the emergency ward. Again today some 100 Molotov cocktails,
as well as tens of acid-filled bottles, were thrown on Border Guard
policemen; no injuries have been reported. Palestinian sources claim that
30 Arabs were wounded by rubber bullets. Despite reports of renewed
Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation, the Palestinian police are not
attempting to calm the violence in Hevron. Mohammed Dahlan, head of
Palestinian security in Gaza, has denied that security cooperation with
Israel has been renewed.
Labor MK Uzi Baram said that the solution to the Hevron violence is to
evacuate the Jewish community from the city. Hevron spokesman Noam Arnon
responded that according to Baram's logic, the expelling of Arabs from
Nazareth and Jaffa is the only way to peace in those cities. With
barely-controlled anger, Arnon said, "Talk of this sort by the Arabs in
1948 brought the War of Independence and gave us control of even more
lands. If they talk of expelling us, it will lead to our take-over of the
entire city of Hevron."
3. VOICE OF PALESTINE INCITEMENT
Anti-Israel incitement on the Voice of Palestine radio station,
broadcasting from the same offices and on the same frequency as that which
served Israel Radio's Arabic Service up until two years ago, continues
apace. In an article by Nadav Haetzni in Maariv (translated by Dr. Aaron
Lerner of IMRA), selected portions of last Tuesday's daily news program
were cited. The program began as follows: "Dear listeners... The
situation in Hevron and Rafiah is explosive, the occupiers are shooting
children, women and infants. The most recent reports which have arrived to
us from Hevron prove that the occupation forces have opened fire on
children, women and infants." A bereaved mother was heard to say, "My
daughter was a completely innocent child. Our enemies have no mercy and no
heart. When they attacked her, they shot her in the stomach... When they
[the Israelis] do such things, it shows that they have no conscience.
Their hearts are like stone, they are not human beings. We must not
compare them to human beings. They are like animals, they are like
animals." This is followed by the Hevron correspondent: "Spontaneous
clashes have resumed between Palestinian children and the occupation forces
and terrorist settler gangs, who are full of hatred and contempt, who are
armed with all kinds of deadly and destructive weapons...the events and the
confrontations, which were between unequal forces, began after occupation
forces, in great numbers, burst through the separation line in the city
center and began to commit provocations against the citizenry, who
responded to the provocations of the occupying soldiers and the attacks by
the terrorist-settlers, with stones and empty bottles. Occupation forces
and gangs began to shoot directly at children and the elderly from very
short range..."
These strong verbal attacks are joined by deceitful stories, such as that
of Israeli-distributed spoiled food, in the general Palestinian press. The
entire campaign, wrote Haetzni, is part of the attempt to calm the growing
public Palestinian anger against Arafat.
4. PETITION: HALT POLICE INVESTIGATION
The legal organization B'Tzedek has petitioned the Supreme Court to order
the Attorney-General to halt the investigation into the signs posted last
week against Communication Minister Limor Livnat. Elad Rosenblatt, senior
legal advisor of B'Tzedek, told Arutz-7 today, "It is inconceivable that
the police should begin an investigation against such a sign, which is
based on a clever play on words, the likes of which have always been
considered legitimate. The chief police investigator said today that many
witnesses have been interrogated, but that it has not yet decided whether
to press charges. How can it be that in a properly-run society, a criminal
investigation should be opened, public figures should be ridiculed, their
civil rights trampled upon, information is constantly leaked to the press -
and all this before it has even been decided whether the sign is illegal?!"
In response to the claim that public sensitivity to incitement has
heightened following the Rabin assassination, Rosenblatt said, "First of
all, public sensitivity is not supposed to affect professional jurists such
as the Attorney-General. It is easy to protect freedom of speech when
there is no public hysteria, but it is at times like this that the judicial
network is tested, to see whether it understands the true significance of
freedom of speech. Second of all, it has never been proven that there was
any connection between the assassination and the incitement preceding it."
The Arutz-7 interviewer noted in agreement that the assassin himself, Yigal
Amir, had said that he had attempted to kill Rabin about a year earlier,
before the public debate had reached such extreme tones.
5. JEWISH AGENCY DELEGATION MEETS WITH CHIEF RABBIS
The Chief Rabbis of Israel met today with a senior delegation of the Jewish
Agency, including Reform and Conservative representatives. The committee
presented the Rabbis with several resolutions passed by the Jewish Agency
Assembly this week, including one which "supports efforts to have the
Government of Israel to treat all streams of Judaism equally..." The
delegation said that Orthodox rabbis must negotiate with leaders of all the
streams in Judaism to solve the issues in dispute. The Rabbis agreed to
hold further meetings of this sort, but said that they do not intend to
"negotiate" with Jewish streams that do not recognize the Halakhah (Jewish
Law). Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau said that the Nation of Israel was able
to survive throughout the generations "because they preserved the Halakhah
in matters of marriage, divorce, and conversion." The Jewish Agency
delegation brought up the lack of response of the Chief Rabbinate following
the "Western Wall incident" on Shavuot; the Rabbis said, "Violence is not
the way of the Chief Rabbinate."
6. ARAB REAL ESTATE AGENT KIDNAPPED BY PA
The Palestinian general security forces have kidnapped yet another Arab
real estate agent. It was learned today that Ayash Amar, formerly the
mukhtar of Kfar Mescha near Ariel, was abducted several nights ago. A
lawyer of the Jewish legal organization B'Tzedek, Michael Taflo, told
Arutz-7 that he had turned to the Prime Minister's Office over a month ago,
warning that this may happen, with no results. Taflo said that Amar is
being held in Kalkilyeh.
7. IDF EDUCATION CORPS
MK Shaul Yahalom (NRP), chairman of the Knesset Subcommittee on Education
and Culture in the IDF, has asked Defense Minister Yitzchak Mordechai to
reconsider the decision to do away with the Education Corps. In the last
five years, the IDF has significantly decreased the resources it invests in
the Education Corps: 36% fewer guidance-days for soldiers, over 50% fewer
seminars for officers, and 40% fewer lectures in various topics. Yahalom
claims that the inclusion of the Education Corps as a sub-department within
a new Corps, which will include all of the basic-training camps, will
greatly damage the former's status and functioning. As a result of
Yahalom's request, a special session of the Knesset Security and Foreign
Affairs Committee will be held, with the participation of the Defense
Minister, the Chief of Staff, and the IDF Chief Education Officer.
8. LEVY STILL DECIDING
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister David Levy met today for 45
minutes early this afternoon. The political crisis between them has not
yet been resolved, although Mr. Levy described the meeting as "serious and
responsible." The two will probably meet again tomorrow. Levy said that
he will decide on his next moves "soon."
9. ILLEGAL ARAB BUILDING IN JERUSALEM
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened a special meeting today to
discuss ways to deal with the phenomenon of illegal Arab construction in
eastern Jerusalem. The Arabs have built some 3000 illegal structures in
the capital. Security sources say that the illegal construction is
encouraged and subsidized by the Palestinian Authority.
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