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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 15:59:46 +0200
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. PREPARATIONS FOR PERMANENT-STATUS DELIBERATIONS
2. OPPOSITION TO THE WITHDRAWAL MOUNTS
1. PREPARATIONS FOR PERMANENT-STATUS DELIBERATIONS
In preparation for Sunday's cabinet session on the permanent-status map,
Ministers Yitzhak Mordechai and Ariel Sharon toured the Southern Hevron
Hills and Samaria regions this morning. Mr. Sharon clarified that the map
which he will present to the cabinet will insure the continued existence of
all Jewish townships and communities throughout Judea and Samaria (Yesha).
According to Sharon, no community will be forced into an isolated area
which will hamper its continued development.
2. OPPOSITION TO THE WITHDRAWAL MOUNTS
The Council of Yesha Rabbis convened last night and called upon the
National Religious Party (NRP) to immediately announce its intention to
quit the coalition, in the event of another withdrawal. The Yesha Rabbis
also encouraged the public to take part in the protest activities against
the withdrawal. At an emergency town meeting in Kedumim last night, local
citizens voted in favor of a resolution calling on the NRP to resign
immediately from the coalition in the event of a government decision to
carry out an additional withdrawal. A large turnout is expected at a
planned demonstration across from the Prime Minister's Office during
Sunday's cabinet meeting. Protestors will demand that the government make
no further withdrawals from any parts of Judea and Samaria.
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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 18:45:19 +0200
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. EIGHT-HOUR GOV'T MEETING TO CONTINUE ON TUESDAY
2. HUNDREDS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST AMERICAN PRESSURE
3. LEVY AND PORAT: MAPS ARE NOT THE MAIN THING
4. ETTINGER: AMERICAN PRESSURES CAN BE WITHSTOOD
5. BARAK ATTACKS FROM THE RIGHT
6. FARRAKHAN, IN GAZA, TAKES ISRAEL BY SURPRISE
1. EIGHT-HOUR GOV'T MEETING TO CONTINUE ON TUESDAY
The government met for almost eight hours today on the issues of the
second withdrawal and the permanent-status principles. They will meet
again on Tuesday. Ministers Ariel Sharon and Yitzchak Mordechai
presented separate maps of what they see as permanent-status outlines.
Before the meeting, the Prime Minister released an announcement
relating to the American pressures being exerted: "We will not commit
suicide simply to find favor in the eyes of the Americans. Our
discussions on the permanent arrangement are crucial for the future of
our nation, and the ones who have to live with the results of these
decisions are not the Americans or the Europeans, but the people of
Israel."
Netanyahu said that he has no plans to come to a final decision on the
extent of the withdrawal before his meeting this Thursday with U.S.
Secretary of State Albright. Minister Moshe Katzav said that the
ministers plan to take a tour of the security areas within the next
few days. The Prime Minister will meet tonight with U.S.
Undersecretary of State Martin Indyk. Indyk held a meeting last night
with Yasser Arafat in Gaza, after which Arafat said that he hopes the
Americans will continue to pressure Israel.
2. HUNDREDS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST AMERICAN PRESSURE
Hundreds of Yesha residents and supporters demonstrated today opposite
the Prime Minister's Office today, encouraging the government to
withstand American pressure regarding the upcoming withdrawal. The
entire population of the communities of Elon Moreh and Kedumim, as
well as sizable representations from Kiryat Arba, Beit El, Har
Brachah, Itamar, and Yitzhar, came out in force. Rabbi Moshe Levinger
of Hevron, speaking to Arutz-7 from the site, said that must remind
the government that nothing has changed since its decision - made
after the Jerusalem suicide attacks - not to conduct negotiations with
the Palestinians until they have fulfilled their Hevron-agreement
obligations. He said that the NRP should make it clear that it would
not continue to be a member in a government that would execute a
further withdrawal. He said that in light of the aforementioned
government decision, this is an acceptable demand, and since Netanyahu
would not want to see his government fall, the withdrawal would be
avoided.
Rabbi Levinger emphasized, "We simply must remind them over and over
that nothing has changed since the previous decision, when the whole world
understood that Arafat has to come through on his own obligations."
3. LEVY AND PORAT: MAPS ARE NOT THE MAIN THING
Arutz-7 also spoke with MK Chanan Porat of the NRP today, who said
that he was happy to hear that he and Rabbi Levinger continue to see
eye-to-eye on these issues. "We have to change the dynamics of the
situation," he said. "Just because Albright wants to see maps, this
doesn't mean that this is the only point. The fulfillment of the
Palestinian obligations has to be the main point." Regarding the
exact straw that would break the back of the NRP's continued
participation in the government, he said that if the government
reaches an operative decision to withdraw, with dates and locations,
then the NRP will resign. "I believe that if we act wisely and with
strength, then with the help of G-d, there will not be a withdrawal of
even one centimeter," he concluded.
Transportation Minister Rabbi Yitzchak Levy, representing the NRP at
the government meeting today, said that it is very important to stop
regarding the 'maps' as the end-all of the permanent status
principles. "There are many other important issues," he said, "such
as the status of the Palestinian entity, the Arab demand that refugees
be allowed to return, Jerusalem, the strengthening of Jewish
communities in Yesha, and others." Regarding the question of
reciprocity, he added, "I know that [U.S. Undersecretary of State
Martin] Indyk is here, and he has not said a word about the items that
Arafat is obligated to carry out."
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told National Religious Party
leaders today that he will insist on reciprocity not only at the
'execution' stage but also at the "decision-making' stage. In a
meeting with Minister Rabbi Levy and NRP Knesset faction head Porat,
the Prime Minister said that Israel will decide to continue with the
diplomatic process only if at the same time the Palestinians take
decisions to fulfill their Hevron-agreement obligations. The NRP
submitted their version of the permanent status to the Prime Minister,
including the annexation of all the existing Yesha communities.
4. ETTINGER: AMERICAN PRESSURES CAN BE WITHSTOOD
Yoram Ettinger, former liaison to the Congress in the Israeli Embassy
in Washington, said today that U.S. President Bill Clinton is barely
in a position to pressure Israel to make concessions. He mentioned
several elements comprising Clinton's weak situation: several
personal scandals; the fact that Congressmen of his own party are not
supporting him; his lack of influence on other countries, such as
Bosnia; and the fact that the Congress is much more supportive of
Israel than he is. Ettinger said, "If Netanyahu wants to, he need not
give in to the Clinton-Albright pressure, because Clinton can only
create psychological pressure, but he cannot translate his threats
into financial penalties without the support of Congress, which he
does not have on this issue."
5. BARAK ATTACKS FROM THE RIGHT
Even opposition leader Ehud Barak criticized Netanyahu for what he
called "giving in to American dictates on the size of the next
withdrawal." Barak said, "I believe that Netanyahu will withdraw from
10.5% of the territory, according to American dictates. I think that
this is a very dangerous [precedent]."
6. FARRAKHAN, IN GAZA, TAKES ISRAEL BY SURPRISE
Black American radical leader Louis Farrakhan arrived in Ramallah
today, weeks earlier than planned. Israeli government sources, taken
by surprise, said that he would not be allowed in to Israel unless he
recants and publicly apologizes for past anti-Semitic declarations.
Farrakhan will meet with Arafat tonight in Gaza, and said that he
hopes to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and to visit Jerusalem
tomorrow. Cabinet Secretary Danny Naveh has asked the Interior and
Public Security Ministers to have him deported. "He is an
anti-Semite, a hater of Israel, and it is inconceivable that he should
walk freely amongst us," he said. Naveh also said that Farrakhan's
warm reception by the Palestinians is a proof of their true leanings.
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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:36:38 +0200
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. MORDECHAI TO MEET WITH SOME YESHA LEADERS; OTHERS PROTEST
2. LANDAU, OTHERS, AGAINST MORDECHAI'S MAPS
3.ARENS AGAINST ALL MAPS
1. MORDECHAI TO MEET WITH SOME YESHA LEADERS; OTHERS PROTEST
Defense Minister Yitzchak Mordechai has invited the municipal and
regional council heads in Judea and Samaria to meet with him this
evening. He will brief them on the maps he presented yesterday at the
government meeting on the permanent-status arrangement. However, the
religious Yesha leaders have decided to boycott the meeting, and will
meet at the same time with former Chief Rabbi Avraham Shapira. They
are enraged at Mordechai's plan to isolate many Jewish communities
[see below], and claim that his meeting in Ariel tonight is merely a
show. Knesset Members of the Land of Israel front, as well as former
Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir, will also attend the meeting with
Rabbi Shapira.
Arutz-7 correspondent Yigal Shok explained that Mordechai has had two
maps drawn up by the IDF. One of them, according to which a bit over
half of Yesha will remain under Israeli control, depicts Israel's
security interests; it does not include all of the Jewish communities.
The second Mordechai map is entitled "National Interests" and
includes all of the Yesha towns, though some of them may come under
Palestinian administrative control.
The other map under consideration by the government, that of Minister
Ariel Sharon, includes an Israeli security strip on the east 20
kilometers wide (10-15 on Mordechai's map), a western strip of 7-12
kilometers (Mordechai: 3-6), and three east-west highways (Mordechai:
two). All of the maps isolate several western-Shomron and Binyamin
communities. It is unclear at present whether Prime Minister
Netanyahu leans more towards the Mordechai maps or the Sharon map,
although it appears that a majority of the ministers favor the latter.
Minister of Agriculture Rafael Eitan (Tsomet) said, "Mordechai's map
is totally intolerable, while Sharon's is something that can be
tolerated."
2. LANDAU, OTHERS, AGAINST MORDECHAI'S MAPS
Minister Mordechai appeared today at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee to discuss his proposals. Committee Chairman Uzi
Landau (Likud) bluntly told him that the IDF-drawn maps are based on
political, rather than military, considerations, and that he will not
vote for his proposals if they come up for a Knesset vote. Committee
member MK Yosi Sarid (Meretz) said, "Both maps [Mordechai's and
Sharon's] will be thrown into the trash can of history. Whoever
thinks that we will continue to rule [so much] of Yesha doesn't know
where he's living."
Minister Mordechai suggested that a railroad track be laid between the
Shomron city of Ariel and Rosh HaAyin, in order to strengthen the
connection between Ariel and the Coastal Plain. He made the
suggestion at a meeting today with the Ariel Municipal Council.
Afterwards, students from the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in Shechem took
the minister to task for his plan to isolate settlements. They said
that his map-drawing activities today do not jive with his campaign
promises. He replied, "Don't lecture me. My love of the Land of
Israel is not smaller than yours."
3.ARENS AGAINST ALL MAPS
Former Defense Minister Moshe Arens joined the chorus of those who
object to any presentation of maps to U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright. He criticized the Prime Minister for yielding to
American pressure regarding the second withdrawal. "It is
astonishing," said Arens, "that the United States determines for
Israel which territories we must transfer to the Palestinians."
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 19:07:44 +0200
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. MORDECHAI'S "SECURITY INTERESTS" DON'T INCLUDE 42 YESHA
COMMUNITIES
2. NETANYAHU MEETS WITH RABBIS
3. NRP MKs THREATEN TO RESIGN IN STAGES
4. 12 PAGES OF DOCUMENTED PALESTINIANS ANTI-SEMITISM
5. PUBLIC SAYS NO TO WITHDRAWAL NOW
1. MORDECHAI'S "SECURITY INTERESTS" DON'T INCLUDE 42 YESHA COMMUNITIES
Despite Defense Minister Yitzchak Mordechai's attempts to reassure
Yesha leaders and residents last night, a front-page report in Haaretz
today tells of 42 Yesha communities that are not included in the
Security Interests map presented by Mordechai for the government's
consideration. The communities not on the map, which include Kiryat
Arba, Beit El, Kedumim, Ofrah, Shilo, Karnei Shomron, Elon Moreh, and
others, will - according to Mordechai's plan - not be under full
Israeli sovereignty in the permanent-status arrangement. Although
they need not be evacuated, they will be either isolated or under at
least partial Palestinian control, and their long-term prospects are
considered doubtful by critics of the plan.
Beit El Local Council Head Uri Ariel told Arutz-7 today that Sunday's
demonstration outside the Prime Minister's Office will continue today,
parallel to the resumption of the government meeting dealing with what
he called these "most grave" proposals. He said, "Mordechai gave us
all sorts of explanations yesterday, but when there are too many
explanations, it shows that there's a weakness there. To put it
simply, Israel agreed to carry out three things when it signed the
Hevron agreement: to withdraw from Hevron, to carry out the first
withdrawal from other areas of Yesha, and to release terrorists. We
carried out all of these. The Palestinians, on the other hand, have
not carried out, nor do they plan to carry out, any of their eight
Hevron commitments. This is not negotiations, this is simply us
giving without receiving anything in return. Therefore we say that
there must be no second withdrawal, and no third withdrawal, but
rather only a permanent-status agreement... If such an agreement is
reached, we will have some clear things to say about that too."
2. NETANYAHU MEETS WITH RABBIS
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met this morning for two hours with
former Chief Rabbi Avraham Shapira. The latter said that the Prime
Minister told him that there would be no further withdrawal from areas
of Judea and Samaria before the Palestinians fulfill all of their
commitments.
Rabbi Shapira told him that if this would not be the case, he could
expect the NRP to resign from the coalition. When asked if this made an
impression on Netanyahu, Rabbi Shapira said, "You'll have to ask him.
I do know that he was here for a long time." Rabbi Shapira met last
night with Knesset members and Yesha rabbis and leaders. The rabbis
announced that they will insist that the NRP resign from the
government if it decides to withdraw before the Palestinian fulfill
their commitments.
Netanyahu met last night with the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, who told him that
before every concession we must ensure that the Arabs are indeed
inclined towards peace. The Prime Minister will meet tonight with the
spiritual leader of Shas, former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef,
on the same topic.
3. NRP MKs THREATEN TO RESIGN IN STAGES
MK Nissan Slomiansky of the NRP said today that he knows that if this
government is toppled, the alternative is Ehud Barak and Labor.
"Despite this," he said, "if the government votes to withdraw, and we
see that there is no way to stop it, I and several of my colleagues
will vote to bring down the government. There is just no way that we
can be a party to a government that would do such a thing." He said
that he would consider himself free of coalition discipline and would
vote against the government on individual issues if a decision to
carry out a withdrawal "in principle" is made, and would actually vote
no-confidence in the government if the withdrawal appears likely to be
carried out. On the other hand, MK Michael Kleiner (Likud-Gesher),
chairman of the Knesset Land of Israel front, said that he would
introduce a no-confidence motion against the government in earlier
stages of the struggle against the withdrawal.
4. 12 PAGES OF DOCUMENTED PALESTINIANS ANTI-SEMITISM
A special report documenting over 50 anti-Semitic statements made in
the past year by the Palestinian media and Palestinian Authority
officials was released today by the Israel Government Press Office.
Prime Minister Netanyahu will present a copy of the report to U.S.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at their meeting later this
week. The 12-page report, excerpts of which are included below, can
be seen at the GPO internet site at <www.gpo.gov.il>. The Oslo
Accords and the Hevron Protocol require the PA to refrain from
incitement against Israel and to take measures to prevent others from
engaging in it. The report notes that six themes are recurrent in the
PA statements and media: 1) Classic anti-Semitic stereotypes 2)
Comparisons of Israel with Nazis and Fascists 3) Denial of the
Holocaust 4) Libelous Accusations 5) Delegitimizing Israel and the
Jewish people 6) Equating Zionism with racism
The GPO notes that repeated reference is made by Palestinians to the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and Palestinian Authority newspapers
publish stories about Jewish "plots" and Jewish "fangs." Jews are
often depicted as power-hungry and lusting after money, with
occasional references to Shakespeare's Shylock and the Merchant of
Venice as examples of Jewish greed. In the tradition of the medieval
blood libel, PA officials have accused Israel of injecting
Palestinians with the AIDS virus, conducting medical experiments on
Palestinian prisoners and selling spoiled food to Palestinians. They
engage in Holocaust denial and accuse Jews of inflating the number of
victims in order to profit from it - although this does not stop them
from equating Israel with the Nazis and Zionism with Nazism. See
Special Insert below.
5. PUBLIC SAYS NO TO WITHDRAWAL NOW
Almost 80% of the public in Israel is against a unilateral withdrawal
from further areas of Judea and Samaria. A poll of the Jewish and
Arab sectors, carried out by Dr. Yaakov Katz of Bar Ilan University,
found that 61% of the respondents are against a withdrawal before the
Palestinians carry out their previous commitments, and another 18% are
against a withdrawal under any conditions. 14% feel that it should be
carried out immediately and unconditionally.
SPECIAL INSERT:
Selected quotes that appear in the report on PA anti-Semitism
by the Israel Government Press Office
* "Israeli practices in many aspects are equal with, if not more
brutal than, those practiced by occupying Nazi soldiers dealing with
French-Dutch citizens during the Second World War."
--- PA Information Ministry press release, December 10, 1997
* "... 'Netanyahu's Plan' completely matches the foundations of the
greater Zionist plan which is organized according to specific stages
that were determined when the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were
composed..." --- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadeeda, November 30, 1997
* "Just as Hitler's Mein Kampf was a warning sign for his future
political path which brought disaster on Germany and the world, so
Netanyahu's A Place Among the Nations explains all of the author's
initiatives since he took power in Israel... The racist curses against
the enemy and the legendary praises of himself make a noticeable point
of similarity between Hitler's and Netanyahu's books.." --- from an
article by Nahid Munir Al-Rayyis, a member of the PA's Legislative
Council (Al-Quds, October 15, 1997)
* "The appearance of the Zionist movement prompted the emergence of
terrorist, racist ideologies, such as, the Nazi ideology. There is
great similarity between the two ideologies: ... There is no
difference between Hitler and Ben-Gurion, and if there was a
difference at all, it was one of quantity and not one of substance.
Anyone who investigates the crimes of the Zionists... discovers
explicitly the complementary traits between Zionism, which is a racist
terrorist movement, and the Nazi movement." --- from an article in the
official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeedah, September 3, 1997
* "It is well-known that every year the Jews exaggerate what the Nazis
did to them. They claim there were 6 million killed, but precise
scientific research demonstrates that there were no more than
400,000." --- from a cultural affairs program broadcast on the
official PA television station on August 25, 1997.
* "The [Palestinian] Authority cannot do a thing, except protect its
people and itself from an enemy which bares its Jewish fangs from the
four corners of the earth... --- from an article in the official PA
newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, August 6, 1997
* "We believe that the Israelis are not adventuresome because the
Jewish brain is cowardly and does not tend toward adventure, but
rather exchanges it for plotting..."
--- from an article in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda,
July 27, 1997
* "Israel is distributing food containing material that causes cancer
and hormones that harm male virility and other spoiled food products
in the Palestinian Authority's territories in order to poison and harm
the Palestinian population." --- PA Deputy Minister of Supplies Abdel
Hamid al-Qudsi in a newspaper interview, Yediot Aharonot, June 25,
1997
* "Oh, Allah, destroy America for it is controlled by Zionist
Jews...Allah will avenge, in the name of his Prophet, the colonialist
settlers who are the descendants of monkeys and pigs...forgive us, oh
Muhammad, for the acts of these monkeys and pigs who wished to profane
your holiness". --- from the weekly Friday prayer sermon by PA
Mufti Ikrima Sabri broadcast on the official PA radio station the
Voice of Palestine, July 11, 1997.
* "Israeli authorities... infected by injection 300 Palestinian
children with the HIV virus during the years of the intifada."
--- Palestinian representative Nabil Ramlawi at a session of
the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva (Jerusalem Post,
March 17, 1997)
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