Subject: Arutz-7 News: Monday, January 19, 1998
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Monday, January 19, 1998 / Tevet 21, 5758
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. LIGHTNING-SPEED TRIAL BY PA FOR TERRORISTS
2. WARM FAREWELL CEREMONY FOR NETANYAHU
3. B'TZEDEK SUES TO HAVE PA-POLICE TERRORISTS TRIED
4. MORDECHAI: "CONCEIVABLE TO LEAVE MACHPELAH CAVE?!"
5. TWO OF THE BEST PLANES ARRIVE
6. CONGRESSMAN LASHES OUT AT ARAFAT INVITATION
7. CONSOLIDATION OF PA ACCOUNTS FOR ISRAEL
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Holocaust-Denial Statements By Palestinian Authority Figures
1. LIGHTNING-SPEED TRIAL BY PA FOR TERRORISTS
The Palestinian Authority sentenced two Hamas terrorists this morning to
fifteen years imprisonment, including time at hard labor. They were
convicted of having prepared the Machaneh Yehuda and Ben Yehuda St.
explosives, which killed twenty people last summer. The trial of the two
terrorists lasted only two minutes, they were not allowed defense counsel,
and even the family members' request to push off the trial was ignored.
The Palestinians accelerated the court proceedings, as they have done
before, in order to forestall an Israeli demand for extradition.
2. WARM FAREWELL CEREMONY FOR NETANYAHU
Prime Minister Netanyahu left this morning for the U.S., where he will meet
with President Clinton, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, other political
figures, and Jewish and Christian leaders. It now appears that the
Americans are in favor of a phased withdrawal plan, wherein Israel will
withdraw from small percentages of Yesha simultaneously with the
Palestinian fulfillment of its commitments. Minister Ariel Sharon, who
participated with the entire cabinet and other leading political figures in
a farewell ceremony at the airport this morning, said he would agree to a
division of the withdrawal into two parts, under certain conditions.
3. B'TZEDEK SUES TO HAVE PA-POLICE TERRORISTS TRIED
The organization B'Tzedek (lit., With Justice) petitioned the Supreme Court
today against Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein for his decision not to
indict three Palestinian police terrorists. The three admitted shooting at
the car of Rabbi Elyakim Levanon and his family last July, and were
apprehended while on their way to yet another attempted ambush of an
Israeli car. They said that they were sent on their ambush missions by
then-Palestinian police chief Ghazi Jabali. Israel has since requested the
official extradition of Jabali, according to Oslo agreement stipulations,
but he continues to roam free in Gaza. In November, the Attorney-General
decided to halt the legal proceedings against them, and place them in
administrative detention. B'tzedek claims that such detention is not
designed as punishment for past crimes, but only as a deterrent to future
such crimes. B'tzedek also dismisses claims that there is not sufficient
evidence to indict the three, as the police have their confession.
4. MORDECHAI: "CONCEIVABLE TO LEAVE MACHPELAH CAVE?!"
Minister of Defense Yitzchak Mordechai appeared in the western Binyamin
community of Beit Aryeh last night, where he said, "All of the Jewish
communities in Yesha are located in places that are of national importance,
even if not of strategic importance. But is it conceivable that we would
agree to cede the Machpelah Cave in Hevron merely because it has no
security value?" He added that the Machpelah Cave is of first-degree
national importance.
5. TWO OF THE BEST PLANES ARRIVE
Two F15-I fighter planes - the first of 25 that will arrive this year -
arrived today at Hatzerim Air Force Base, straight from the manufacturing
plant in St. Louis, Missouri. They refueled in the air on the way. In a
ceremony attended by IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Amnon Lipkin-Shachak,
Israel Air Force Commander Maj.-Gen. Eitan Ben-Eliyahu, Acting American
Ambassador Richard Roth, and Labor party leader MK Ehud Barak, Defense
Minister Mordechai thanked the United States and said, "These planes
represent a major upgrade in our air capabilities, as well as testimony of
our alliance with the U.S. and its commitment to our security." The F15-I
is considered the most advanced fighter plane in the world.
6. CONGRESSMAN LASHES OUT AT ARAFAT INVITATION
Congressman Michael P. Forbes (R-NY) today angrily criticized efforts by
American negotiator Dennis Ross to have Yasser Arafat to be invited as a
head of state to the United States Holocaust Museum during his visit to the
United States. Forbes stated, "It is the height of hypocrisy to entertain
one of the world's most pronounced proponents of violence to a shrine
dedicated to the victims of oppression and violence... The President must
begin to appreciate that his allies can be the "peace through strength"
crowd, not the "peace at any price" crowd... When is the Clinton
administration going to clamp down on Arafat, get him to relinquish his
dedication to the charter calling for the destruction of Israel..?"
7. CONSOLIDATION OF PA ACCOUNTS FOR ISRAEL
The Finance Ministry announced that it has almost concluded the unification
process of all the Palestinian Authority's bank accounts receiving funds
from the State of Israel. This process was undertaken in order to
facilitate supervision over the various payments that Israel transfers to
the PA, including VAT refunds, import duties, health fund payments, fuel
charges and income tax payments. Until now, the PA used five accounts in
different banks in order to receive payments. At this point, only fuel
charges remain in a separate account, though Israel has asked the relevant
Palestinian officials to include them in the single bank account as well as
soon as possible.
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SPECIAL INSERT:
HOLOCAUST-DENIAL STATEMENTS BY PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY FIGURES
In light of the controversy surrounding the decision by the National
Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. to refuse to grant Yasser Arafat a
special tour of the museum, Arutz-7 presents (with help from the Israel
Government Press Office and ZOA President Morton Klein) a sampling of PA
sentiments about the Holocaust:
* This past week, a Palestinian Radio interviewer began his program by
saying, "There is no choice but to begin a widespread solidarity campaign
with the philosopher Roger Giraudy, who is on trial in France for
Holocaust-denial." The guest on the program, Dr. Iye Sitar Kassem, agreed
that part of the Holocaust story is made-up.
* Abu Mazen, the Palestinian architect of the Oslo accords, is the author
of a book claiming the Nazis may have really killed less than one million
Jews. On Sept. 3, 1997, the official Palestinian Authority newspaper,
Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, featured an article calling the Holocaust "the forged
claims of the Zionists regarding the alleged acts of slaughter perpetrated
against the Jews during the same period."
* Palestinian Authority Television, during an Aug. 25, 1997 broadcast: "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." A featured
guest on the show added the accusation that the Jews "have profited
materially, spiritually, politically and economically from the talk about
the Nazi killings. This investment is favorable to them and they view it
as a profitable activity so they inflate the number of victims all the
time."
* The July 1990 issue of Balsam, published by the Palestinian Red Cross,
printed an article asserting that "the lie concerning the gas chambers
enabled the Jews to establish the State of
Israel."
* In an address to the Palestinian Council in Ramallah on May 10, 1997, the
eve of Israeli Independence Day, Arafat said that the anniversary of the
creation of Israel is "Palestine Holocaust Day" and "the Palestinian people
were subjected to the worst holocaust in history"
(Ha'aretz, May 11, 1997). As recently as December 10, 1997, the PA's
Ministry of Information declared that "Israeli practices in many aspects
are equal with, if not more brutal than, those practiced by occupying Nazi
soldiers" in Europe. Arafat aide Bassam Abu Sharif has said that Israeli
treatment of the Palestinian Arabs is "worse than that of the Nazis in
Auschwitz." (Jerusalem Post, February 15, 1989)
* The comparison of Israel to the Nazis has been made by, among others:
Nabil Ramlawi, Arafat's representative to the U.N. in Geneva (JTA, Dec. 2,
1994); PA official Affif Safiah (Yediot Acharonot, Jan. 25, 1996); PA
Justice Minister Freih Abu-Medein (Israel Radio, Jan. 4, 1996); PA Health
Minister Riyad al-Zaanoun (Associated Press, Aug. 8, 1997). The PA
newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah charged on Aug. 17, 1997 that Israeli Prime
Minister Netanyahu is acting "in the European style of the German armies so
that he will be able to impose greater Israel and establish their
superiority of the Hebrew race."
Hebrew News Editor: Kobi Sela
English News Editor: Hillel Fendel
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