Subject: Israel News: April 6-14, 1998
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 00:36:24 +0000
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TODAY'S HEADLINE:
1. MRS. ARAFAT MOURNS LOSS OF MURDERER
MRS. ARAFAT MOURNS LOSS OF MURDERER
A cassette of a recent speech Suha Arafat, wife of the PLO Chairman, has
been sent to U.S. President Bill Clinton - courtesy of Shalom Ledorot
(Peace for Generations). In the speech, delivered on Palestinian
Television in honor of International Children's Day, Mrs. Arafat is heard
saying, "I would like to comfort ourselves and the Palestinian nation on
the loss of a great fighter, our saintly brother, Mohi a-Din A-Sharif."
She was referring to the recent death of the arch-terrorist known as
Engineer #2, who was responsible for the deaths of dozens of Jews in
terrorist attacks in the past three years.
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Subject: Arutz-7 News: Sunday, April 12, 1998
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. TEMPLE MOUNT SOLIDARITY
2. "POSITIVE CHURCH DEVELOPMENTS" PLEASE CHIEF RABBI
1. TEMPLE MOUNT SOLIDARITY
The Temple Mount Faithful plan to hold a rally of Temple Mount
solidarity tomorrow morning. The participants plan to march around
the Old City with Israeli flags, hold prayer services outside each of
the Temple Mount gates, bring a reminder of the Omer sacrifice, and
ascend to the Temple Mount.
2. "POSITIVE CHURCH DEVELOPMENTS" PLEASE CHIEF RABBI
Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau said that he was happy to hear of the
Catholic Church's announcement of last week apologizing for its
persecution of Jews over the centuries. Rabbi Lau said that the
recent words of Pope John Paul II removing responsibility for the
death of Jesus from the Jews is a positive development. He said,
however, that he is still awaiting an apology for the Church's silence
during the Holocaust.
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. PA AND HAMAS
2. OFFICIAL MEMO: P.A. PART OF THE PROBLEM
3. TERRORISTS SERVING AS PALESTINIAN POLICE
1. PA AND HAMAS
The Palestinian Authority released a top Islamic Jihad leader from
custody last night. He was arrested last week for accusing PA
officials of involvement in the murder of arch-terrorist Mohi a-Din
A-Sharif. His release came after he admitted that his accusations
were untrue. The PA claims that A-Sharif was murdered by 'Aadal
Awadallah, a top Hamas figure. Defense Minister Yitzchak Mordechai
said today that he was pleased with the PA's recent measures against
Hamas, and that we must wait and see if it will continue.
2. OFFICIAL MEMO: P.A. PART OF THE PROBLEM
"Gaza is perpetually on the verge of an explosion. The heavy
recession, the internal and social problems, and the Palestinian
rulership's inability to improve the standard of living... is a
perfect recipe for degeneracy..."
So states a document prepared by the Israeli security network, which
has been distributed amongst committee members dealing with
Israeli-Palestinian relations. The document severely criticizes the
Palestinian Authority, and states, "Within a few short years, an
institutionalized rulership has been established in Gaza that swallows
up most of the existing resources and properties, and whose main
activities are based on strengthening its own status. This it does,
among other ways, by planning and establishing blatantly
administrative and security infrastructures. A seniority war is being
waged between PA leaders and persons over the control of resources and
the authorities to use them. Acts of corruption on a very large scale
are frequently uncovered."
Arutz-7 correspondent Haggai Huberman said that a commonly-expressed
wish among many Arab residents of Gaza is that the Israelis would
return so that their economic and civil-rights conditions would
improve. Huberman notes that the PA just recently closed down the
Reuters News Agency office in Gaza following a news report displeasing
to the PA. "60% of the PA's budget is supplied by Israel, and a
sizable share of this goes directly to the personal bank account of
Yasser Arafat in Bank HaPoalim in Tel Aviv," said Huberman. "It is
claimed that much of those monies go from Tel Aviv to the PLO offices
around the world, but in any event, the simple Gazan citizen benefits
very little from these monies."
3. TERRORISTS SERVING AS PALESTINIAN POLICE
Nine terrorist murderers, wanted by Israel, are serving in various
branches of the Palestinian security forces. So confirmed Defense
Minister Yitzchak Mordechai, in an answer to a Knesset query by MK
Chanan Porat. Two of the terrorists are serving in Razi Jabali's
"blue" forces, five are in the preventive intelligence force of Jibril
Rajoub, one is the Toufiq Tirawi's general intelligence forces, and
one is in the regular "green" Palestinian para-military force.
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From: Eddie Chumney
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Subject: Israel News - April 6 - 12, 1998
Israel News
April 6 to April 12, 1998
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
IMAMS CALL FOR JIHAD
Mecca, Saudi Arabia (Nando Times) - 4/7/98
In a sunrise sermon, Abdel-Rahman al-Sidess, one of the three
imams, or high-ranking clerics, at the Grand Mosque, called for
"jihad," or holy war, to liberate Jerusalem from Israeli control
and end Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands. "How can
Muslims stand idle in front of this bunch of aggressors?"
al-Sidess said, referring to Israelis. "We have to raise the
banner of jihad to liberate our holy Jerusalem from the malicious
Zionism, and we hope that day will be soon," he said.
HAMAS URGES MUSLIMS, ARABS, TO ATTACK JEWS EVERYWHERE
Worldwide Kahl's I&G News, April 8, 1998
The military wing of the Muslim group Hamas on April 8 urged the
world's Muslims and Arabs to attack Jewish targets around the
world to avenge the death of a bomb maker whose killing the group
blames on Israel, though the Palestinian Authority says Israel was not
involved.
The Hamas release says, " We call on all the free and honorable
sons of our Palestinian people and the Arab and Moslem nation and all
those who care about Palestine all over the world to level and aim
attacks against Jewish and Zionist interests which have been spreading
all over the world."
HAMAS WARNS OF "HORROR AND SADNESS'' IN ISRAEL
April 8, 1998 Jerusalem AP
The armed wing of the Muslim militant movement Hamas threatened
in a videotape Wednesday to spread "sadness and horror''
throughout Israel to avenge the killing of its master bombmaker,
Muhyideen al-Sharif. The amateur video showed a man who
identified himself as Adel Awadallah, a leading member of Hamas's Izz
el-Deen al-Qassam brigades who is high on Israel's list of wanted
militants. His face was masked in a black and white checkered
kaffiyeh (Arab head scarf) and it was not clear from the footage,
which was sent to Reuters, where the tape was made.
"By virtue of our holy struggle and by virtue of the holy
fighters among our ranks, we will bring sadness and horror into
the heart and home of every Zionist,'' the man said.
ISRAEL SAYS SYRIAN BATTERIES VIOLATE CEASE-FIRE AGREEMENT
April 7, 1998 By Gwen Ackerman, Associated Press Jerusalem (AP)
Israel has complained to the United Nations that Syria is
building fortifications near the disputed Golan Heights that
violate a 1974 cease-fire agreement, a top Israeli official said
Tuesday.
"The fortifications are very obvious, even to the naked eye,''
said David Bar-Illan, top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu. "We complained to the United Nations and expect the
work to be stopped.''
Israel's Channel Two television said the construction included
dugouts and about 30 miles of embankments leading from Syria to
the Golan Heights. Syria has said the construction is for
agricultural use only and that a U.N. envoy will be sent to the
region to verify its purpose, Channel Two reported.
PREPARING FOR THE MILLENIUM
ARAFAT HOPES NEXT MUSLIM FEAST WILL BE CELEBRATED IN JERUSALEM
April 7, 1998 Gaza City, Gaza Strip (AP)
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Tuesday that he hoped next
year's celebration of the Muslim feast Eid al-Adha would be in
Jerusalem. "I wish we could realize our big dreams and we could
pray all together next year in Jerusalem, the capital of the
state of Palestine,'' Arafat said after praying in the West Bank
city of Ramallah.
PERSECUTION AND ANTI-SEMITISM
ZHIRINOVSKY BLAMES JEWS FOR WORLD WAR II, HOLOCAUST
April 8, 1998 By Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press MOSCOW
(AP)
In his most direct anti-Semitic statements yet, ultranationalist
Vladimir Zhirinovsky blamed Jews on Wednesday for starting World
War II and provoking the Holocaust. The politician's
anti-Semitic comments have drawn international condemnation for
years, but Wednesday's remarks in an hourlong address to
reporters were some of his least subtle.
"The essence of the conflict around the Jewish people is that
when their number grows too much in some country, war breaks out
there,'' said Zhirinovsky, who leads the third-largest faction in the
Russian parliament's lower house. "That happened in Germany
where there were too many Jews,'' he declared.
Anti-Semitism is widespread in Russia, which has the
third-largest Jewish population in the world, after the United
States and Israel. Still, Zhirinovsky's remarks were stronger
than most ever aired publicly.
While repeating several times that his party isn't anti-Semitic,
Zhirinovsky accused Jews of sparking the 1917 Bolshevik
revolution and bringing Russia to ruin ever since.
"You will always find Jews where war is raging, because they
realize that money flows where blood is spilled,'' he said. He
repeated stereotypical slurs, and even accused the Jews of
causing repressions and the Holocaust. "Jews themselves, Zionist
leaders, often provoked anti-Jewish sentiments, and Jewish pogroms,''
he said.
He also accused Jews of taking Russian women abroad for
prostitution, selling healthy Russian children and transplant
organs to the West and robbing Russia of its gold, diamonds and
other assets.
Ironically, rumors have circulated for years that Zhirinovsky's
anti-Semitism is a response to his own Jewish roots. His father's name
was Volf, or Wolf, and public records indicate he had a
Jewish-sounding surname, Eidelshtein, until he changed it at age 18.
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Tuesday, April 14, 1998 18 Nisan 5758
Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
Mordechai: Lebanon pullout plan is advancing
By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN and news agencies
JERUSALEM (April 14) - The Resolution 425
initiative that would lead to a withdrawal from
Lebanon is a serious one and is not losing
momentum, Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai said
yesterday.
"Reading the latest results from the United
States of [Secretary of State Madeleine] Albright
and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other
people, whose names I can't reveal, it seems to
me that this initiative is clear to everyone and
is perhaps the only way that we can advance an
arrangement and progress to peace in the North,"
Mordechai said.
In what could be a step towards acceptance of the
initiative, Channel 1 reported last night that
Syria has told the US that it would be willing to
guarantee quiet along Israel's northern border
following an IDF pullout from Lebanon, on
condition that negotiations are renewed over a
withdrawal from the Golan Heights.
Syria also said that if Israel agrees to its
conditions, it would not link the negotiations to
the Palestinian issue, Channel 1 said.
Still, Syrian President Hafez Assad and his
Lebanese counterpart Elias Hrawi renewed their
rejection of the 425 initiative after a summit in
the Syrian port city of Latakia. The meeting came
after Albright called on Lebanon to relate
seriously to the Israeli offer.
In his remarks yesterday, Mordechai drew a
comparison between the Lebanese situation and the
peace agreement reached in Northern Ireland last
weekend and said he would extend his hand to all
those involved.
"I'd be very much delighted to meet tomorrow with
the Lebanese and shake their hands and be very
happy to meet with the Syrians and shake their
hands too," Mordechai said.
After the Assad-Hrawi meeting, Syrian
presidential spokesman Joubran Kourieh said that
both had expressed readiness to resume peace
talks with Israel and urged the United States to
shoulder its responsibilities as a sponsor of
negotiations.
But, Kourieh added, "the Lebanese side affirmed
that Israel's conditions empty UN Resolution 425
of its meaning. They aim at sabotaging the peace
process."
"Viewpoints of both sides were identical on all
subjects discussed," Kourieh said.
"The conditions announced by the Israeli [inner]
cabinet are dangerous both for Lebanon and for
the whole peace process in the region," Kourieh
said. "The two sides urged the United States to
shoulder its responsibilities as a sponsor of the
peace process.
"Both sides affirmed their readiness to resume
peace talks on the Syrian and Lebanese tracks
from the point where they left off."
Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass visited
Syrian troops in Lebanon yesterday and urged them
to be on "permanent combat readiness to counter
any aggression and to protect the nation from all
dangers," officials said.
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