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Subject: Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, September 10, 1997
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. WEIZMANN INVITES AMERICAN PRESSURE
American sources have confirmed that which had earlier been said by someone
identified in the Israeli media only as a "senior political figure:"
President Ezer Weizmann told visiting Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
that she should pressure Prime Minister Netanyahu to make concessions. "Do
you think that Begin and Sadat reached an agreement without pressure from
Carter?" asked Weizmann. "Use your imagination... Knock their heads
together [referring to Arafat and Netanyahu]." The remarks have caused a
political storm. Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman
Uzi Landau (Likud) expressed strong criticism of the President's words. MK
Yosi Sarid said that the President is right, and that Netanyahu should be
pressured to make concessions to Arafat for the sake of the Oslo process.
MK Nissan Slomiansky (NRP) said that it is sad that figures in Washington
understand that pressure on Israel is of no benefit, while at the same time
the President of Israel invites pressures for unnecessary concessions. He
said that there should possibly be a change in the law that defines the
President's responsibilities.
The Prime Minister's Office originally announced that the criticism of the
President was misplaced, but later changed their reaction to "no comment"
when it was learned that State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin was the one
who had publicized the Weizmann quotes. The President's Office has
announced that it will not comment on the issue.
2. ALBRIGHT MEETS WITH NETANYAHU
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright landed early this morning in Ben
Gurion International Airport, and was greeted by Foreign Minister David
Levy. She was later accompanied by President Ezer Weizmann to Hadassah
Hospital at Mt. Scopus, where she visited the injured of Thursday's Ben
Yehuda triple bombing attack. After meeting this afternoon with Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the two leaders held a joint press conference,
at which they summed up their talks in very general terms. The Prime
Minister repeatedly returned to the issue of security, and said that this
had occupied "much" of his discussion with Secretary Albright. Mrs.
Albright said that Yasser Arafat must make every effort to fight a
"sustained and effective" war against terrorism, and that Israel should not
bring about a negative climate for negotiations by its unilateral actions.
The Prime Minister said earlier this morning that the arrests made by the
PA over the past days were merely for display, and that only minor
political Hamas figures were arrested.
3. MORE ON PALESTINIAN VIOLATIONS
Palestinian policemen are using weapons stolen from the IDF. This is one
of the conclusions in an internal IDF document prepared in anticipation of
Secretary Albright's visit. Arutz-7 correspondent Haggai Huberman reports
that the PA has so far rejected all of the Israeli requests to return the
stolen weapons. The memorandum further reveals that Palestinian security
personnel have reduced their presence at points of friction between
Israelis and Palestinians. They employ 35,000 policemen, although the
agreements allow them no more than 24,000. (For purposes of comparison,
the entire Israeli police force numbers only 18,000.)
4. THE TEN DEMANDS
The government has released a list of ten measures that the Palestinian
Authority must fulfill in order to comply with its basic obligation under
the Oslo Accords and the Hevron Protocol. They are:
1) Full and Unconditional Security Cooperation
2) Deterrence and Punishment of Terror
3) Dismissal of Terrorist Elements from Police
4) Fulfillment of Hevron Security Commitments
5) Confiscation of Illegal Weapons
6) Cessation of Incitement to Violence
7) Limitations on Police Weapons
8) Reducing Size of Palestinian Police
9) Transfer of Wanted Terrorists to Israel
10) Dismantling Terror Infrastructure
Details regarding the different measures can be seen at
<http://www.pmo.gov.il/english/policy/pp-22.html>
5. SENATORS SUPPORT ISRAEL IN LETTER TO CLINTON
Five U.S. Senators have written a letter to President Clinton, on the eve
of the departure of Secretary Albright to the Middle East in her attempt to
arouse the Oslo process. They write, "Our government's Mideast policy of
even-handedness, in contradiction with reality, continues. It is wrong."
The Senators continue, "Yasser Arafat is no hero, he is the