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Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: Friday, July 18, 1997
Arutz Sheva News Service
Friday, July 18, 1997 / Tammuz 13, 5757
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. SIX MORE PALESTINIAN POLICE SUSPECTED OF TERRORIST ACTIVITY
2. BARAK COOLS OFF GOLAN CELEBRATIONS
3. NRP DIGS IN
4. HEVRON
5. ISRAEL RESPONDS TO U.N. VOTE
6. NOT BY INTERNET ALONE
1. SIX MORE PALESTINIAN POLICE SUSPECTED OF TERRORIST ACTIVITY
Another six Palestinian policemen are under interrogation by the Israeli
security forces. The IDF spokesman confirmed today that the six uniformed
officers were apprehended last night between the Arab village of Halhoul
and the Jewish town Karmei Tzur. GSS head Ami Ayalon informed Yasser
Arafat this week that the chief of the Palestinian police, Razi Jibali, was
the man who supervised the operations of the terrorist/policemen who were
caught on Monday on their way to a terror attack in Har Bracha. The
government has not yet received word of any concrete actions taken by
Arafat against Jibali, nor are there signs that he is planning to take any
such action soon. Israeli security forces have reported that there are
more terrorist gangs within the Palestinian police force, which operate
with the knowledge of senior figures in the PA. MK Dr. Benny Begin (Likud)
called upon MK Shimon Peres to apologize to the nation for "the terrible
mistake of signing an agreement with a gang of terrorists."
2. BARAK COOLS OFF GOLAN CELEBRATIONS
Thousands participated last night in Katzrin in celebrations of 30 Years of
Golan Settlement. Labor Party Chairman Ehud Barak was roundly booed when
he said that there may have to be a "painful pullback from part of the
Golan Heights." He used the late Prime Minister Rabin's phrase, "The
extent of the peace [offered by Syria] will determine the extent of the
withdrawal." Prime Minister Netanyahu said that the future of the State of
Israel is connected to the future of the Golan. He said that the State is
making great financial investments in the Golan Heights, and that the area
"will never stop growing."
3. NRP DIGS IN
The National Religious Party rejects the criticism proffered by Prime
Minister Netanyahu regarding the present coalition crisis that it
initiated. The NRP objects to the fact that of the six religious-court
judges appointed this week, only one was associated with the
Religious-Zionist camp. MK Shaul Yahalom called upon Netanyahu to
understand that the "NRP's order of priorities is different than his."
Yahalom said that if the Prime Minister is interested in defeating the
no-confidence motion which will be put to a Knesset vote on Monday, he had
"better become intensively involved in the real problems presented by the
recent court appointments." Prime Minister Netanyahu said last night that
he will not allow a situation wherein the coalition partners turn every
little argument into a coalition crisis.
4. HEVRON
Two firebombs were thrown at a Border Police patrol last night at the Tank
Junction in Hevron, two more today at Beit Romano, and a pipebomb at Beit
Hadassah. No one was hurt in any of the incidents. One Jew was slightly
injured when rocks were thrown at his car; he had mistakenly entered an
Arab village near Hevron. Earlier this morning, the walls and barricades
erected earlier this week by the IDF to combat the Arab violence were
removed. Israel had promised Arafat that they would do so if he would
bring about an end to the month-long violence in the city. Hevron Jewish
Community leaders protested the removal of the barriers, stating, "The
violence, initiated at the orders of Arafat and stopped at his command,
proves the total failure of the Hevron accords and the Oslo peace process.
Arafat is a warmonger who has used, and will continue to use, violence to
suit his needs. When he believes he has something to gain, he will not
hesitate to renew rock, firebomb, pipebomb and live ammunition attacks
against the Jews in Hevron and throughout Israel... The lives of Hevron's
Jews have been terribly complicated and endangered by the continued
violence in the city. There is absolutely no reason to act so hastily
after such a long period of riots. First, let Arafat prove that he... is
actually going to stop the violence for an extended period of time."
5. ISRAEL RESPONDS TO U.N. VOTE
Responding to the UN General Assembly decision condemning Israel's
construction on Har Homa this week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said,
"We will not surrender our sovereignty in Jerusalem." He noted that many
countries for many years have opposed Israel's sovereignty in Jerusalem,
but that Israel has never capitulated to their pressure. "There are things
which are more important than what the world says about us, and Jerusalem
is chief amongst them, and we will not bow to any pressures on this issue,"
the Prime Minister said. A Foreign Ministry statement stated that Israel
utterly rejects the one-sided and hostile UN resolution. "The building of
a new residential neighborhood in Jerusalem, does not, by any criterion,
constitute 'a threat to international peace and security.' ...The decision
adopted therefore has no moral justification or validity... Such actions -
the circumvention of the peace process while singling out Israel for
censure - run counter to the principles of the peace process, and place
further obstacles before the efforts to resume it. Israel regrets that
states which openly support the peace process and which aspire to be
partners in it - elected to vote in favor of a decision which contradicts it."
6. NOT BY INTERNET ALONE
Children are not receiving a well-balanced education if they conduct their
school research strictly via the Internet, according to a new study by a
Bar Ilan University professor. Dr. David Schwartz compared materials on
various subjects found in three of the world's major libraries to Internet
searches on the same topics. He found that the quality, quantity, and
general representation of the topics on the Internet was sharply lower than
those found in traditional library research. Schwartz's paper will be
published in the Journal of Internet Research. He says that teachers and
students must know the limits of the Internet as a research tool, and
recommends that schools require students to include references from both
Internet and traditional library sources in their papers.
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Subject: Arutz-7 News: Sunday, July 20, 1997
Arutz Sheva News Service
Sunday, July 20, 1997 / Tammuz 15, 5757
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. CABINET DISCUSSES PA-SPONSORED TERRORISM
2. PA OFFICER REMAINS IN DETENTION
3. U.S. WARNS PA OF ENGAGING IN TERRORISM
4. ARAB REAL ESTATE AGENT MURDERED
5. BEGIN TO PERES: "ADMIT YOUR MISTAKE"
6. PARENTS OUTRAGED AT LIGHT SENTENCE FOR JORDANIAN TERRORIST
7. SIX PA POLICEMEN RELEASED
8. BRIDGE TRAGEDY
9. RELIGIOUS PARTIES ATTEMP TO SETTLE DIFFERENCES
10. TOP IDF BRASS TOUR AREA OF PA SEAPORT
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SPECIAL INSERT: PA FAILS TO FULFILL ITS HEVRON COMMITMENTS
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1. CABINET DISCUSSES PA-SPONSORED TERRORISM
The Israeli cabinet convened this morning in Jerusalem with the
terrorist activity of Arafat's police force topping its agenda.
Informed sources say that Israel has irrefutable proof that
Palestinian Police commander Colonel Ghazi Jabali is responsible for
the operations of the uniformed terror cells. Ma'ariv newspaper
reports today that Arafat himself gave the orders to send Palestinian
policemen to murder Israelis after he visited Shechem last week. The
PA-sponsored terrorists who were caught on their way to an attack at
Har Bracha admitted taking part in last week's shooting at the car of
Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, the Rabbi of Elon Moreh. Rabbi Levanon and his
family were miraculously unhurt in the shooting.
In answer to a question regarding the reports that Arafat himself is
behind the terrorist actions of Palestinian policemen, David
Bar-Illan, Director of Policy Planning and Communications in the Prime
Minister's office, told Arutz Sheva today: "It will be difficult to
deal seriously with the agreement if it turns out that the acts of
terror were committed with the full knowledge of the leadership of the
Palestinian Authority. It is clear that if we do not receive a
satisfactory explanation, it will be very difficult to proceed with
important issues. We would like to hope that the worst case scenario
here is a failure of governmental authority, rather than terrorist
attacks at the express behest of Arafat." Bar-Illan also said that
Israel will soon decide on the future of the Oslo agreements in light
of the reports from the Palestinian Authority concerning the
involvement of Palestinian police commander Colonel Ghazi Jabali in
dispatching the terror attacks against Israelis. "Israel will examine
the results of the Palestinian investigation, as well as how it was
conducted, in order to draw the appropriate conclusions," said Mr.
Bar-Illan. He denied reports of Israeli attempts to convene a summit
meeting between Netanyahu and Arafat.
In Israel, it is feared that the only purpose of the special
investigative commission that Arafat has appointed is to cover up the
planned attack at Har Bracha in which uniformed PA policemen were
caught red-handed. The incident has been described as the most
blatant violation of the Oslo accords so far.
2. PA OFFICER REMAINS IN DETENTION
Deputy Commander of the Tul Karem police, Colonel Munir Aboushi will
be brought to military court on Tuesday for the extension of his
remand. Aboushi is suspected of being involved in the activities of
the murder squads of the Palestinian police. In the meanwhile,
Aboushi has been forbidden to meet with a lawyer. He was arrested
last Tuesday at an IDF roadblock between Shechem and Tul Karem.
3. U.S. WARNS PA OF ENGAGING IN TERRORISM
The United States has sent a harshly worded warning to the Palestinian
Authority in which it states that it refuses to accept involvement of
the PA in acts of terror. Messages to this effect have been conveyed
directly to Yasser Arafat. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns
said, "We believe very strongly that these allegations must be taken
with the highest degree of seriousness and serious purpose by the
Palestinians. There can be no place for anyone - anyone - with any
association to the PA trying to take part in an act of terrorism. We
believe that full cooperation between Israel and the PA is essential
to get to the bottom of this."
4. ARAB REAL ESTATE AGENT MURDERED
Murder of real estate agents continues. An IDF patrol yesterday
discovered the body of Bassem Taher, who was suspected of selling land
to Jews. The body was discovered near an IDF roadblock at the
entrance to the Palestinian autonomy in Shechem. Freih Abu-Meddien,
who holds the Palestinian Justice portfolio, says that the Palestinian
Arabs have detained 22 real-estate agents, and that they intend to
prosecute them to the full extent of the law.
5. BEGIN TO PERES: "ADMIT YOUR MISTAKE"
MK Dr. Benny Begin (Likud) has appealed to Shimon Peres and the other
architects of the Oslo agreements to "publicly admit the terrible
mistake they have made." Begin says that they must admit that they
signed an agreement with hoodlums who are initiating terror attacks
against Israel by order from Arafat. Chairman of the Knesset Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee Uzi Landau has called on the Netanyahu
government to set a 90-day deadline for the Palestinian Authority to
rectify all its violations of the Oslo agreements. He said that they
must act immediately to cancel the Palestinian Charter, extradite
terrorist murderers, stop the incitement against Israel, and collect
illegal weapons in the autonomy. He suggested that if Arafat continues
to violate the agreements, Israel should cut off all ties with the
Palestinian Authority and freeze the negotiations.
6. PARENTS OUTRAGED AT LIGHT SENTENCE FOR JORDANIAN TERRORIST
The families of the seven girls from Beit Shemesh have protested the
light sentence imposed on Ahmad Dakhamsha, the Jordanian soldier who
murdered the school girls at Naharayim on March 13. At a press
conference convened this morning by the parents of the seven girls and
Daniel Vaknin, the mayor of Beit Shemesh, the families stated that
they felt cheated and humiliated by the verdict of twenty-five years
imprisonment for the murder of the seven girls. Arutz-7 correspondent
Meir Rabinovitch reports that the family members expected the murderer
to receive the most severe punishment available in Jordanian law - the
death sentence. The group intends to appeal directly to King Hussein
in order to have the verdict amended.
7. SIX PA POLICEMEN RELEASED
Arutz-7 correspondent Haggai Huberman reports that Israel has released
to the Palestinian Authority the six additional Palestinian policemen
arrested on Friday, after they were found loitering under suspicious
circumstances near the Carmei Zur township in an area under exclusive
Israel control. The policemen, who were in full uniform, claimed that
they had gotten lost while on their way to a wedding in one of the
Arab villages in the area. They explained that they had been in a rush
to get to the wedding and had not had time to change out of uniform.
After a joint interrogation together with Palestinian officers at the
District Coordinating Office, it was decided to release them. IDF
authorities filed an official complaint with the Palestinian Authority
for violation of the Oslo agreement.
8. BRIDGE TRAGEDY
Israeli Police plan to serve indictments against six people involved
in the Maccabiah bridge tragedy. According to reports, the
indictments will be served to the engineer who planned the bridge, the
contractors who built it, the chairman of the Maccabiah organizing
committee and the producers of the event.
9. RELIGIOUS PARTIES ATTEMP TO SETTLE DIFFERENCES
MK Uzi Baram (Labor) has threatened to appeal to the High Court of
Justice if the Prime Minister decides to appoint dayanim (religious
court judges) who belong to the national-religious sector. According
to Baram, only the committee for the appointment of rabbinical judges
is authorized to appoint a new judge. Deputy Minister for Religious
Affairs, Yigal Bibi says that the committee which convened last week
did not choose the new dayanim according to professional criteria, but
rather according to the political affiliation and personal philosophy
of the candidates. This afternoon, ministers of the National
Religious Party, Zevulun Hammer and Rabbi Yitzchak Levy, will meet
with Shas party ministers Eli Yishay and Eliyahu Suissa in an effort
to settle the dayanim crisis.
10. TOP IDF BRASS TOUR AREA OF PA SEAPORT
Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak and Navy Commander Alex Tal
patrolled the area of the ocean facing the Gaza coast this morning.
The two senior officers visited the area where Arafat's Gaza seaport
is expected to be built. Their visit is connected to the negotiations
on the operations of an airport and seaport in the Palestinian
Autonomy.
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SPECIAL INSERT: PA HAS FAILED TO FULFILL ITS COMMITMENTS
UNDER THE HEVRON ACCORD
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Jerusalem, July 20, 1997
The Israel Government Press Office released a comprehensive 35-page
report today assessing Israeli and Palestinian compliance with the
Hevron Accord. The report is being issued to mark six months since the
signing and implementation of the agreement in January 1997. Below is
a summary of the report. The full report may be accessed from the
bottom of our website news page.
ISRAELI COMPLIANCE
The report notes that since the signing of the Hevron Accord, Israel
has fulfilled all of its commitments. Israeli forces redeployed in
Hevron. Israel approved the first stage of the further redeployment
from the West Bank, released Palestinian women prisoners, resumed
negotiations with the PA on outstanding Interim Agreement issues and
offered to resume final status talks.
PALESTINIAN SECURITY VIOLATIONS
According to the report, the PA has violated the fundamental security
provisions of the Hevron accord. Rather than contain disturbances,
the Palestinian police organized riots in Hevron in March-April 1997
and June-July 1997 and failed to contain Palestinians who surged
towards the Jewish Quarter. In many cases, the PA paid youths 30 to
50 shekels per day for taking part in riots and attacking Israeli
soldiers. The PA has deployed 1,500 policemen in Hevron, which is
nearly four times the 400 allowed, and it has armed them with weapons
forbidden by the agreement.
PALESTINIAN VIOLATIONS OF THE NOTE FOR RECORD
The report notes that the PA has failed to fulfill any of its 4
obligations contained in the Note for the Record: amending the
Covenant, combating terror, reducing the size of its police force and
restricting its governmental activity to areas under its control.
1. Failure to Change the PLO Covenant - The Palestinians have not
taken any steps toward completing the amendment process. To date, no
new version of the Covenant has yet been submitted to the Palestinian
National Council.
2. Failure to Fight Terror and Prevent Violence - One of the PA's
gravest violations of the Note for the Record has been its failure to
combat terror, an obligation which the Note breaks down into six
specific measures required of the PA:
2a. Strengthening Security Cooperation - The PA broke off security
cooperation with Israel earlier this year, despite warnings of
impending terrorist activity. Palestinian security officials refused
to meet their Israeli counterparts and refrained from exchanging
intelligence information. Recently, security cooperation has improved
slightly, but the PA has thus far refused to restore the level that
existed previously.
2b. Incitement to Violence Against Israel - Senior PA officials have
repeatedly engaged in incitement to violence against Israel. They have
praised Hamas and the intifada, threatened Israel with war, and
accused Israel of injecting Palestinians with the AIDS virus and
poisoning Palestinian food products. More than 30 such statements made
by senior PA officials are documented in the report.
2c. Combat Systematically and Effectively Terrorist Organizations and
Infrastructure The PA has taken no steps to outlaw terror groups,
whose infrastructure remains intact. At a secret meeting held in Gaza
on the night of March 9, 1997, Arafat met with the heads of Hamas, the
DFLP and the PFLP, who left the meeting with the understanding to
renew terror against Israel. Eleven days later, 3 Israelis died in a
Hamas bombing in Tel Aviv on March 21, 1997. In mid-July 1997 it
became clear that the Palestinian police have been actively involved
in terror. Israeli intelligence has confirmed that Asst.-Cmdr. Jihad
Masimi of the PA police in Shechem has ordered attacks, that there are
several terror cells in the Palestinian police, and that there are
strong indications that Palestinian Police Chief Ghazi Jabali is
involved.
2d. Apprehension, Prosecution and Punishment of Terrorists -
Terrorists have not been tried by the PA for terror activity against
Israel in the past 6 months. The PA has drafted numerous terrorists to
serve in the ranks of its security services, including at least 23
wanted for the murder of Israelis. The PA Police Commander has
acknowledged that more than 150 members of Hamas and the PFLP are
currently working in key positions in the Palestinian police. Since
the signing of the Hevron Accord, the PA has released dozens of
terrorists from detention, including: Muhammad Khawaja, a senior
Islamic Jihad leader who planned the January 1995 Beit Lid bombing;
Nabil Sharihi, a member of Islamic Jihad who helped prepare the bomb
used in the April 1995 Kfar Darom attack in which 7 Israelis and 1
American were killed; Imjad Hinawi - a Hamas member who took part in
the murder of 17-year old David Boim in Beit El in May 1996.
2e. Transfer of Terror Suspects to Israel - On March 31, 1997, Israel
submitted 31 requests to the PA for the transfer of terror suspects.
Thus far, the PA has failed to hand over any of the suspects to
Israel. Of the 31 terror suspects whose transfer is being sought by
Israel, 11 are either serving in the Palestinian police or are in the
process of joining its ranks. Among those being sought are: Ibrahim
Alkam, Abdel Nasser Alkaisi and Ibrahim Hani, wanted for the murder
of Etta Tzur and her 12-year old son Ephraim on December 11, 1996;
Bassam Issa - behind the terror attack in Jerusalem on October 9, 1994
in which two people were killed; and Hisham Salim Dib, who was behind
the March 4, 1996 Dizengoff suicide bombing which killed 13 people.
2f. Confiscation of illegal firearms - No public campaigns or major
sweeps have been undertaken by the PA to confiscate illegal weapons.
As a result, virtually none of the tens of thousands of weapons
circulating in the autonomous areas have been collected by the PA in
the past six months. Five illegally armed groups continue to operate
in the PA areas: 1) Hamas; 2) Islamic Jihad; 3) Fatah; 4) PFLP and 5)
DFLP. Smuggling, illicit production and lax PA enforcement have led
to a rise in the number of illegal weapons in the PA areas.
3. Size of Palestinian Police - The PA has deployed more than 30,000
policemen in the West Bank and Gaza, exceeding the agreed upon limit
by over 6,000, or more than 25%.
4. Restriction of PA governmental activity to Areas Under its Control
- The PA is active in Jerusalem in spheres ranging from education to
health to religious affairs. Numerous PA offices such as the Orient
House, the Religious Affairs Ministry and the Education Ministry are
operating in the city. Plainclothesmen from four Palestinian security
forces are currently active in the eastern part of the city, operating
on its main thoroughfares and on the Temple Mount. They conduct
detentions, intelligence-gathering, criminal investigations and
enforce orders issued by PA Chairman Arafat.
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