Subject: Arutz-7 News: February 9-10, 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:57:48 +0000
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Subject: Arutz-7 News: Monday, February 9, 1998
TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. PA DOESN'T FEAR IRAQ: "THE GAS MASKS ARE AGAINST ISRAEL"
2. NEW LEXICON PUBLISHED
3. MORDECHAI MORSELS
4. ZOA CHALLENGES STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT
5. MEDIA ON GUARD
1. PA DOESN'T FEAR IRAQ: "THE GAS MASKS ARE AGAINST ISRAEL"
Residents of the Palestinian autonomous areas held two large demonstrations
of support for Saddam Hussein today, in Ramallah and Jenin. The IDF
deployed troops outside Ramallah, suspecting that the participants would
attempt to break through towards Jerusalem - a fear which in fact
materialized. A similar demonstration in Bethlehem yesterday led to
violence against IDF soldiers stationed nearby. Defense Minister Yitzchak
Mordechai said that direct or indirect Palestinian support of Saddam
Hussein would be a grave mistake.
Palestinian Legislative Council representative Prof. Sa'di El-Krunz, a
member of the Palestinian Committee for Solidarity with the Iraqi People,
told IMRA today that he accepts Iraqi claims that Iraq has no biological
warfare material. When asked why, then, PA health minister Dr. Riyad
Zaanoun has approached the Americans and the World Health Organization for
gas masks, El-Krunz explained, "We are living in the same area that Israel
lives in, so if the Americans are giving gas masks to Israel without even
asking, then they should also give them to others for their protection...
What we care about is the Iraqi people. Iraq as an Arab country. Iraq as
an Arab nation. I am not talking about the regime there. If you want to
talk about regimes look at the extremist Netanyahu government in Israel
which refuses to follow the United Nations resolutions. Iraq did nothing
compared to Israel anyway. This is the issue. Maybe Israel will attack
Iraq with nuclear weapons... We are making a point here... For me, I don't
think we need [gas masks]. That is unless the attack comes from Israel or
some country other than Iraq."
2. NEW LEXICON PUBLISHED
The Arutz-7 News Department published today a lexicon of terms used on
Arutz-7, as opposed to those used by the "general" media. The publication
was given wide press coverage, including an article in Yediot Acharonot and
a television appearance on Channel Two by Arutz-7's Haggai Segal, author of
the booklet. Some examples from the Arutz-7 lexicon:
* "Security Prisoner" - A security prisoner is an Israeli citizen held in a
foreign prison because of activities he undertook on behalf of the security
of the State of Israel. Jonathan Pollard, for instance. On the other hand,
the prisoners presently filling up Israeli prisons because of anti-Jewish
terrorist activity should be known as "imprisoned terrorists," "convicted
murderers," etc.
* "The Jerusalem Problem" - Arutz-7 news reports should not report on "new
proposals to solve the Jerusalem problem" and the like, as Jerusalem is not
a "problem," but is rather our capital. The settlements are also not a
"problem" but rather a glorious Zionist enterprise. The true problems in
Israel are the car accidents problem, the problem of drug consumption among
the youth, the problem of motivation within the IDF, the problem of the
media, and, mainly, the Oslo problem.
* "Weekend" - This is a particularly secularistic term for the days Friday
and Saturday, one that exudes less holiness than does the word "Shabbat."
In Arutz-7 we say Friday when we mean Friday, and Shabbat when we mean
Shabbat. And by the way, from Judaism's point of view, Shabbat is
considered the pinnacle of the week, and not merely its end.
An English translation/adaptation of the new Arutz-7 lexicon is planned.
4. ZOA CHALLENGES STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT
The U.S. State Department is under fire for claiming that no Israelis were
"killed or seriously injured" by Palestinian Arab "demonstrators" during
the year 1997. The State Department's claim appears in its just-released
annual survey of human rights around the world. The Zionist Organization
of America has contested the claim, and has released a detailed list of 33
instances in 1997 in which Arab demonstrators attacked and injured
Israelis. Examples include a rock-throwing attack by an Arab mob on
Israeli cars on the Halhoul bypass road, in which a motorist suffered
serious head injuries (February 16th); an attack by demonstrators on the
same road, in which an Israeli motorist was knocked unconscious and
suffered eye injuries (March 26th); and an Arab demonstration in Hevron, in
which two soldiers were hit by pipebombs (July 1st) and, in the words of
the Washington Post correspondent on the scene, "fell screaming to the
ground and left a thick trail of blood as medics carried them away."
ZOA president Morton Klein called the State Department's statements "part
of a consistent pattern of attempts by the State Department to downplay
Palestinian Arab violence against Jews and, in general, whitewash Arafat's
pro-terror, anti-peace actions." The issue of the "discrepancies" was
reportedly raised by Jewish activists with John Shattuck, U.S. assistant
secretary of state for democracy and human rights, though no correction has
yet been made.
5. MEDIA ON GUARD
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), a
media-watch organization devoted to fair and accurate coverage of Israel
and the Middle East, reports of gross inaccuracies in an op-ed piece
published in the Christian Science Monitor. Commentator Joseph Harsch
wrote in the Feb. 3rd edition of CSM, "Hardly a day passes without an Arab
being killed by an American bullet fired from an American gun in the hands
of an Israeli soldier or settler..." CAMERA notes that according to
B'Tselem, a left-wing Israeli human rights group, 20 Palestinian Arabs were
killed by Israeli soldiers or citizens last year - hardly the 350+ figure
that Harsch implies.
Harsch further writes: "The US arms Israel and consistently tries to
prevent Arabs from obtaining a deterrent against Israel's weapons. It is
not surprising that Arabs plant bombs at such places as New York's World
Trade Center. They are striking back by the only means available to them."
CAMERA comments that there are many effective means that can be used to
protest and change policy, but that terrorism is not an acceptable means of
protest. "Harsch's words," claims CAMERA, "promote the stereotype of Arabs
as prone to violence and incapable of
civilized behavior."
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From: Arutz-7 Editor <editor7@virtual.co.il>
To: arutz-7@ploni.virtual.co.il
Subject: Arutz-7 News: Tuesday, February 10, 1998
Arutz Sheva News Service
Tuesday, February 10, 1998 / Shevat 14, 5758
TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. MORE OF THE SAME
2. PA TRIAL OF TERRORIST MURDERER BEGINS
3. CONVERSION ISSUE HEATING UP AGAIN
4. MKs DEMAND HAR HOMA BUILDING BY NEXT WEEK
1. MORE OF THE SAME
The Druze community in the Golan Heights town Majdal Shams
demonstrated today in support of Saddam Hussein. Hundreds of the
residents gathered in the village center to yell slogans in support of
Iraq, and waved Syrian and Iraqi flags. Jewish residents of the Golan
said in response that Israel should not subsidize gas masks for
persons who openly support Saddam Hussein. Demonstrations in support
of Saddam have also been held in Jordan and in Syria, and many
thousands of students rallied for the same purpose in Cairo
University.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, speaking today at a scholarship
distribution ceremony for Druze and other minority students in Acre,
said, "Whoever stands with Saddam Hussein, the symbol of mass
destruction, does not stand for peace." He called upon the
Palestinian Authority to cease immediately all displays of support for
the Iraqi dictator. Netanyahu also protested the fact that PA
schoolbook maps do not include the State of Israel.
2. PA TRIAL OF TERRORIST MURDERER BEGINS
The trial of Amjad Hinawi, one of the two terrorists who murdered
yeshiva high school student David Boim almost two years ago in Beit
El, opened today in Jericho. News that the trial had begun was
provided to the Boim family today by a representative of the American
embassy in Israel. David's parents have expressed their desire to be
present at the trial, but have not yet been given permission to do so.
Hinawi's partner in the murder was arrested at the time by the
Palestinian paramilitary police, was later released from prison, and
several months later blew himself up in the course of a suicide attack
on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem in which five Israelis were killed.
3. CONVERSION ISSUE HEATING UP AGAIN
Finance Minister Yaakov Ne'eman said that he is happy with yesterday's
decision by the Chief Rabbinate Council. The Council decided
yesterday to adopt some of the Ne'eman Committee's recommendations,
namely, those having to do with the establishment of additional
Rabbinical courts for conversion. The Council postponed deliberations
on the proposal to establish joint Orthodox/Conservative/Reform
educational programs for potential converts. Sources close to Ne'eman
blamed Reform elements for spreading false information to the effect
that the Rabbinate rejected the Ne'eman committee recommendations.
Reform and Conservative spokesmen condemned the Chief Rabbinate
decision.
In a statement released yesterday, the Chief Rabbinate said, "In
recent times we have merited to absorb children of Israel who are
returning to their Land and to their heritage, in an ingathering of
exiles of those who were forcefully detached from their Jewish
heritage for over seventy years.
With a sense of responsibility to the preservation and unity of the
Jewish people... the Chief Rabbinate - the official body representing
religious interests in the State of Israel - sees fit to strengthen
the foundations that unite the nation in its Land..."
4. MKs DEMAND HAR HOMA BUILDING BY NEXT WEEK
The Knesset Land of Israel front decided yesterday, together with the
Yesha Council, to demand that actual construction begin on Har Homa
within one week. The MKs threatened that if this does not occur, they
will absent themselves during important Knesset votes next Wednesday.
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