Subject: Arutz-7 News: March 15-17, 1998 / March 2-15
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. PROTEST AGAINST COOK'S PLANS TO VISIT HAR HOMA WITH HUSSEINI
2. ARABS IN ACTION
***As We Go To Press***
Great Britain's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook announced this evening that he
has canceled his plans to visit Har Homa with Feisal Husseini, and will
conduct a private visit to the site instead. Reporters will not be invited.
1. PROTEST AGAINST COOK'S PLANS TO VISIT HAR HOMA WITH HUSSEINI
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in today's government meeting that
he will refuse to meet with Great Britain's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook if
the latter insists on visiting Har Homa with Palestinian official Feisal
Husseini. In today's cabinet session, Mr. Netanyahu said that Israeli
officials are acting in the diplomatic arena to have Cook change his plans.
Knesset Law Committee Chairman MK Chanan Porat (NRP) said, "The reaction
of the Prime Minister is ridiculous. What is required now is not
condemnations and expressions of anger, but to begin construction at Har
Homa."
A rally is planned for Tuesday afternoon at Har Homa in protest of the
Cook-Husseini visit. Spokesmen for Women in Green and Our Jerusalem, the
sponsoring groups, said, "[Cook's] visiting Har Homa with Husseini is akin
to Benjamin Netanyahu visiting London and demanding to be escorted by the
IRA... Britain and the European Union should realize that their pressure is
unacceptable." They also said, "No amount of pandering to Arafat and the
Arab world to gain favorable markets for Great Britain will bring peace to
this region."
2. ARABS IN ACTION
Yasser Arafat has held talks in Cairo with Egyptian President Mubarak. The
talks focused on efforts to resume negotiations with Israel. Later this
week, Jordan's King Hussein will be meeting in Washington with U.S.
President Clinton to discuss regional matters, including negotiations with
Israel and relations with Iraq.
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. VATICAN PUBLISHES HOLOCAUST DECLARATION
2. COOK TO BYPASS YAD VASHEM
***SPECIAL INSERT:
Interview with MK Rabbi Benny Elon (Moledet)
1. VATICAN PUBLISHES HOLOCAUST DECLARATION
The Vatican released today its long-awaited declaration entitled "We
Remember: A Look at the Holocaust". The document states, inter alia,
"The Catholic Church was not involved in the Holocaust, which was a
result of Nazi ideology, the roots of which originated outside of
Christianity... Some Christians helped save hundreds of thousands of
Jews, but the spiritual and practical objections of many Christians
did not meet that which could be expected of [members of the
Church]... The Church expresses its regret - which is more than an
apology - for the actions of some of its members..." The declaration
does not directly address the failure of then-Pope Pius XII to speak
out openly against the Holocaust.
2. COOK TO BYPASS YAD VASHEM
Great Britain's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, on his way to the Middle
East today, was forced to land in Cyprus today because of sand storms.
(A similar storm covered all of Israel today, and citizens throughout
the country awoke to a yellowish haze outside their windows.) Cook
has canceled his plans to visit Har Homa with PA senior Feisal
Husseini, but is still causing consternation to Israel with his plans
to bypass the traditional Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum visit, and go to
Har Homa privately instead. David Bar Illan, Director of Policy
Planning and Communication in the Prime Minister's Office, told
Arutz-7 that although he would not agree to call Cook's plan
"chutzpah," he would say that it is a clear political declaration, and
"we therefore think that it should not be carried out. Every other
Foreign Minister on his first visit here goes to Yad Vashem... which
he is not doing, and we will expect an explanation for this from him."
SPECIAL INSERT:
Interview with MK Rabbi Benny Elon (Moledet)
MK Rabbi Elon addressed the beginning of his remarks to the feelings
of frustration expressed by the Jewish residents of Hevron to Chief of
Staff Shachak's remarks:
"It is very sad that [the Hevron residents] have these feelings of
[frustration]... but I would advise Anat Cohen, and myself, and you,
not to allow ourselves to be pushed into this corner that the Chief of
Staff has managed to push us into. Do we then have to start proving
how much we love the soldiers? Of course we love them - after all,
they are us. Shachak's statements, as some of his other actions, and
the remarks about the kippot by [reserves General Shlomo] Gazit, are a
sign of the politicization of the army, which is a dangerous thing,
and I protest against it and demand that it be stopped... Second of
all, regarding the actual matter at hand: I have tried to discuss this
several times with the people of Hevron, and to convince them that...
we must return to the original verse in the Torah: 'Kiryat Arba is
Hevron.' We must stop thinking of Hevron as just a certain amount of
families, but rather as a [full-fledged] neighborhood of Kiryat
Arba... We must ensure that between Kiryat Arba and Hevron there be a
territorial contiguity, which actually already exists! We must simply
widen [the road that connects the two] more... We must ensure that the
H-2 area, which according to this terrible Oslo agreement is under our
control, is totally Jewish... Rajub constantly refers to the small
amount of Jewish families that are in Hevron. As soon as [we make
him] realize that this is not the case, but that there are really
thousands of Jews living in Kiryat Arba-Hevron - which are the same
place - everything will change."
"In other words," asked Arutz-7's Haggai Segal, "instead of demonstrating,
they should build?"
"Exactly," answered MK Elon. "There are still some Hevron residents who do
not realize what has happened here with the Oslo agreement, and they
still think that a demonstration or two can change the situation...
Our public protest must be on behalf of more Jewish construction to
connect the Jewish homes of Hevron and Kiryat Arba - the road known as
Rabbi Goren Road must be widened and cleared of all the broken-down
abandoned buildings, and Givat HaAvot (Hill of the Patriarchs) must be
built up, and thus a living entity known as Kiryat Arba-Hevron will be
created."
"The government isn't building on Har Homa, and you expect to build in
Hevron?" asked Segal.
"This must be our demand of our nationalist government, and in
any event, we must first of all know for ourselves what we want," answered MK
Elon. "We must demand this, and we must achieve this... I would like
to point out Rabbi Levinger as an example of one who knows how to lead
-- in these situations of crisis, he would always know how to achieve
some advantage, some added construction, from even the worst
situations, and that is what we must do now... But I do not want to
end only with words of "advice," but rather I want to express my
admiration for the representatives of the People of Israel, who are
protecting the City of the Patriarchs for us, and we are with them.
They are not a small number -- they are the entire Nation of Israel."
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. HAR HOMA VISIT COOKS UP STORM
2. NRP MKs AT HAR HOMA
3. JEWISH LEADERS DISAPPOINTED BY VATICAN DECLARATION
4. FARRAKHAN EXCOMMUNICATED IN MOSLEM RULING
1. HAR HOMA VISIT COOKS UP STORM
Great Britain's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook arrived this afternoon at
Har Homa, accompanied by Israeli Cabinet Secretary Danny Naveh.
Afterwards, contrary to the spirit of the understanding reached
between Israel and Great Britain, Cook met with an official of the
Palestinian Authority. Some 150-200 members of Our Jerusalem, Women
in Green, and other groups, as well as 50 left-wing demonstrators
(including Meretz MKs Yosi Sarid and Yael Dayan), showed up at the
site amidst pouring rain. In a statement later to the press, Cook
called for an end to Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, an echo
of his call this morning after his meeting with Yasser Arafat.
Tonight Cook will meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and
Defense Minister Yitzchak Mordechai. Sources in Jerusalem and
Washington said earlier that Cook's visit to the Middle East failed
even before it began.
Mr. Naveh said today, "If Great Britain wants to know why its role in
the Middle East process is not more significant, this is the reason:
its blatant one-sidedness towards the Palestinians." Prime Minister
Netanyahu said, "Europe and Great Britain can fulfill a major role in
advancing the diplomatic process, but I don't think that opening the
Jerusalem issue now is the way to do this."
Cabinet Secretary Naveh was asked what he plans to tell Secretary Cook
during the visit to Har Homa. Naveh said, "I will explain to him what
every Jew around the world feels: that Jerusalem is the heart of the
Jewish People. The Har Homa neighborhood is an integral part of
Jerusalem, and of the State of Israel. This is land that has been
owned by Jews for many years... Jerusalem is not part of any
discussions today with the Palestinians, but is rather the heart of
the Jewish People."
The Zionist Federation and the National Zionist Council, both of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, condemned the proposed visit of British
Secretary Cook to Har Homa with Feisal Husseini, likening it to an
Israeli Foreign Minister being taken on a tour of London with a member
of the IRA.
2. NRP MKs AT HAR HOMA
Knesset Members of the National Religious Party visited Har Homa this
afternoon, as well, for the purpose of meeting with approximately 100
people who have registered to purchase apartments there. MK Nissan
Slomiansky told Arutz-7 today that if construction at the site does
not begin very soon, this will signal the end of the government.
Slomiansky added that he and his colleagues have already heard many
false promises from Netanyahu to renew Har Homa construction, with a
different excuse each time. "We are afraid that Netanyahu is saving
it [the renewal of construction there] as a compensation for us when
he carries out something much worse, such as a large withdrawal from
Yesha, Heaven forbid," Slomiansky said. MKs of the Knesset Land of
Israel front are planning to visit Har Homa tomorrow; their absence
from the Knesset votes is a protest against the government's Har Homa
policies.
3. JEWISH LEADERS DISAPPOINTED BY VATICAN DECLARATION
Many Jewish leaders throughout the world have expressed disappointment
at the contents of the Vatican's declaration on the Holocaust, which
was published yesterday. Israel's Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, who
called a press conference last night to announce his reaction to the
declaration, demanded an "explicit apology for the shameful attitude
of the Pope." Rabbi Leon Klenicki, director of interfaith affairs in
the Anti-Defamation League, said that the new document - promised to
Jewish groups over ten years ago - is very disappointing in comparison
with its earlier versions. He said that the Vatican is attempting to
cover up the silence of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust period.
Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League in the U.S.,
said that the document took very little responsibility for the
Church's history of teaching contempt for Jews. "We are perplexed how
the Vatican, under the leadership of Pope John Paul II, could have
finalized a document that lags behind the unequivocal statements [of
apology] of the German and French bishops." Rabbi Eliyahu Touaff,
Chief Rabbi of Rome, expressed approval of the declaration.
4. FARRAKHAN EXCOMMUNICATED IN MOSLEM RULING
The Board of Clergymen of the Italian Moslem Association issued a
ruling on March 7, 1998, excommunicating Louis Farrakhan and his
"Nation of Islam" movement. Root and Branch reports that the
religious ruling states, "Everyone who belongs to the 'Nation of
Islam' is in fact not a Moslem, but a non-believer." The ruling also
states, "Moslems must declare this truth, and each one of them who
keeps silent while listening to Mr. Farrakhan being called a 'Moslem
leader' is sinning." The ruling is based on Farrakhan's teaching that
Allah appeared in the form of a human being named Fareed Muhammad,
which "is a clear contradiction of the monotheistic faith (Tawhid)."
Hebrew News Editor: Haggai Segal
English News Editor: Hillel Fendel
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From: Eddie Chumney
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Israel News
March 2 to March 15, 1998
ISRAEL
STATE DEPARTMENT NIXES EMBASSY MOVE
Kol Israel 2/27
The US State Department will issue a position paper next week on
the issue of Jerusalem. The paper is expected to detail the
Administrations opposition to moving the American Embassy to the
capital. The issue of moving the embassy came up yesterday at a US
Senate Committee meeting on appropriations. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright expressed her opposition to moving the embassy
saying that it could hurt the peace process. She added that the
future of Jerusalem is an issue that will be discussed in the final
status negotiations. Last year Congress appropriated $10 million for
planning a new embassy in Jerusalem.
PEACE PROCESS
ENGLAND HAS A PLAN, THE US "DOESN'T"
Int'l Christian Embassy Jerusalem 3/6/98
British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook plans to visit the Middle
East next week to promote a new European initiative aimed at
pushing forward the stalled Israel-PLO negotiations process. He
is reportedly to be followed to the region by Prime Minister Tony
Blair in the coming weeks.
REUTERS quotes Cook - whose country recently took over the
revolving presidency of the EU - as saying Thursday that "as the
nearest neighbour to the Middle East, Europe has a major stake in
peace. And so tonight I start an intensive European effort to
stimulate progress." Cook said his initiative had "two clear aims -
justice for the Palestinians and security for the Israelis".
In a magazine article published yesterday Cook accuses the
Israeli government of endangering the process, and calls for
increased pressure on the Jewish state.
US PEACE PLAN - ONLY AFTER PASSOVER
Summary of Israeli newspapers 3/13/98
The American plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians
will apparently be unveiled only after Passover, at the end of
April, Yedioth reports. The plan's principles have already been
presented to Netanyahu and Arafat, according to which the second
phase will be broken up into thr ee stages and at the end of
which some 13% of Israeli-controlled territory will be given to
the Palestinians. The plan calls for negotiations on the
permanent status to begin in May.
PALESTINIAN DIPLOMAT CLAIMS ISRAEL POSSESSES BANNED WEAPONS
Kahl's I&G News 3/8/98 Moscow Interfax in English 28 Feb 98
The Palestinian ambassador to Russia has claimed that it is
Israel and not Iraq that possesses banned weapons and that
Washington is pursuing its own interests in the U.S.-Iraqi
standoff. "We know for certain where banned weapons actually are and
not just where they 'may be.' We can even indicate where they are
stored," 'Abd-al-Fattah Khayri al-Uraydi told Interfax-AiF weekly in
an interview to appear in Monday's issue of the paper.
He noted ironically that he had never heard of any "special
commission" for the disarmament of Israel. Washington, al-Uraydi
said, was pursuing an anti-Arab policy and was putting "pressure on
Baghdad not in order to have any U.N. resolutions obeyed, but solely
to satisfy its own interests."
NETANYAHU IS PLAYING ROUGH WITH KOSOVA
3/15/98 by Barry Chamish, Israeli writer
A few days after PM Netanyahu returned from his NWO tour of
Europe, meeting Juan Carlos, Kohl, Blair and the anonymous
Norwegian PM, the equally unknown PM of Albania arrived in Israel for
a visit with him. Since Albania has no diplomatic ties with Israel,
the visit should have been a bigger media event than it was. And
while the two men sat for their Jerusalem tete-a-tete, the G7 met in
London to discuss Albanian dissent in Kosova.
Discussions with one of my trusted sources led to the following
options:
1. To get the EU to agree to place soldiers in the Lebanese
Security Zone and/or to lay off the pressure to give up vital
territories to the PLO, Netanyahu agreed to arm and train the
Albanians for the upcoming clash with Yugoslavia as is being
concocted by the G7.
2. Because the EU is conspiring with the US branch of the NWO to gang
up on Israel to force suicidal concessions, Netanyahu has promised to
stir up the Balkans by arming an Albanian liberation army in
preparation for a march on Kosova.
Either way, the machinations of the EU will, if successful,
result in the dismemberment of Israel and the igniting of Kosova.
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
AMERICAN CIA TRAINING PA SECURITY FORCES
IINS News Service -Israel-3/5
The CIA has been training the security forces of the PLO
Authority (PA) in espionage, information gathering, interrogation and
other techniques, the New York Times reported today. Citing
government officials, the newspaper said the CIA has been instructing
PA security officials in the United States since mid-1996, with
Israel's knowledge.
FBI agents, who work at the CIA's "Counterterrorist Center," have also
helped train the PA troops, the Times said. The Times said the
program has two aims: to improve the PA troops' "ability to identify
and arrest suspected terrorists,'' and to increase the Israeli
government's confidence in the PA forces.
SHEIKH YASSIN: "WE WILL CARRY OUT ATTACKS UNTIL YOU OFFER US
JERUSALEM"
Summary of Israeli Newspapers 3/8/98
Ma'ariv reports that Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
said his organization is planning attacks against Israelis that
will be so violent "that Israel will offer Jerusalem to the
Palestinians." In an interview to the Arabic newspaper Al Hayat
in London, Yassin said "the Israeli siege imposed on hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians bars them from work, causes dire
poverty -- and will lead to an Intifada more violent than in the
years 1987 to 1993." This time, he said, "it will be an armed
Intifada, not with stones and strikes."
GSS CHIEF; TERROR ATTACKS ON THE RISE
IINS News Service -Israel-3/11
According to figures provided yesterday by the chief of the
General Security Service (GSS/Shin-Bet), Ami Ayalon, Israelis who
believe that Arab terror is down are living in a "false bubble of
tranquility."
Ayalon stated that in 1997 there were 463 terror incidents
recorded, which included firebomb attacks, shootings and suicide
bombings. This represents a sharp increase from the 268 attacks
recorded in 1996.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE MILLION-MAN PALESTINIAN MARCH, marking the
50th anniversary of the 1948 'Catastrophe'
Al-Ayyam March 10, 1998
" The Monitor Committee of the 'Supreme National Secretariat for
'the Catastrophe' Commemoration' is making preparations for
launching a Million-Man Palestinian march in Ramallah, on May 15.
The committee expects all bodies represented on the
[Palestinian] National and Legislative Councils, and of all
popular and official institutions, to take part in the
preparatory committees entrusted with the organization of the
march... In addition, similar activity is being held among Arab-
Israelis and Diaspora Palestinians.
HUSSEINI; "I SMELL A NEW INTIFADA IN THE AIR"
IINS News Service -Israel-3/13
PLO Authority (PA) chief Yassir Arafat continues to publicly call for
restraint, following Tuesday's shooting of the Arab men by IDF troops
at the Tarkumia Checkpoint. Arafat has called for restraint during
the past few days, where Arab rioting has been taking place throughout
Judea and Samaria, particularly in the Hevron and Dura areas.
PA Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Faisal Husseini stated that he
smells a "new Intifada in the air," hinting to his usual threats
of a renewed increase in violence, if Israel continues to remain
steadfast in its demands and fail to comply with PA demands for
territorial concessions.
IRANIANS WORKING ON PILOTLESS PLANE
Yehoshua Meiri 3/5/98
According to Egypt's daily El Waft, American intelligence accuses the
Iranians of developing a pilotless plane with which to attack Israel
with chemical and biological weapons. The Americans say that these
Iraqi planes are in an advanced stage.
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