Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: April 14-15, 1998
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:57:35 +0000
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Subject: Arutz-7 News: Tuesday, April 14, 1998
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Tuesday, April 14, 1998 / Nisan 18, 5758
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. HAMAS AND PA COORDINATE ON ISSUES
2. BEGIN: PA STILL REFUGE FOR TERRORISTS
1. HAMAS AND PA COORDINATE ON ISSUES
Hamas leaders in Gaza have agreed not to question the conclusions of
the Palestinian Authority investigation into the death of Mohi a-Din
A-Sharif, known as "Engineer #2" in Hamas. The investigation is
almost complete. At a series of meetings taking place between the
Hamas and the PA, the release of Hamas members who were apprehended
over the past few days is also being discussed.
2. BEGIN: PA STILL REFUGE FOR TERRORISTS
MK Benny Begin (Likud) has expressed reservations about the words of
praise for the Palestinian Authority made yesterday by Defense
Minister Yitzchak Mordechai. Mordechai said that the PA has improved
its security coordination with Israel. Begin responded saying, "Just
as rain in the summer does not mark the arrival of winter, so too
far-reaching conclusions should not be reached from one case of
coordination with Israel." According to Begin, the basic facts remain
the same, and the PA continues to harbor terrorist elements in its
midst.
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Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: Wednesday, April 15, 1998
Arutz Sheva News Service
Wednesday, April 15, 1998 / Nisan 17, 5758 / 4 days to the Omer
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. PA SWITCHES RIFLES
2. ALBRIGHT CATCHES NETANYAHU ON VACATION
3. ORANGE JUICE AGAINST HEART DISEASE
1. PA SWITCHES RIFLES
News from the Palestinian Authority: It has decided to switch its official
weapons from Kalachnikov rifles to M-16 rifles. The P.A. claims that
bullets for the M-16 are cheaper and more easily obtainable... Morocco is
engaged in training 73 Palestinians to operate a future Palestinian airport
in Dahaniyeh... Tension between Hamas and the PA, which reached a peak two
or three days ago because of mutual accusations regarding the death of
terrorist Mohi A-Din A-Sharif, is slowly lessening. The Reuters News
Agency office in Gaza was re-opened today by the P.A., and Hamas spokesman
Abdul Rantisi is expected to be released from custody very shortly.
2. ALBRIGHT CATCHES NETANYAHU ON VACATION
United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright phoned Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu this morning, while the latter was vacationing with his
family in the Yotvata Hai Bar (desert animals and nature reserve) north of
Eilat. It was reported that the two spoke for a "long while."
3. ORANGE JUICE AGAINST HEART DISEASE
A group of Israeli researchers has found that orange juice can help reduce
the risk of developing atherosclerosis, heart disease, and stroke. A
three-month study was carried out on a volunteer group of 36 healthy male
students, half of who consumed three glasses of freshly-squeezed orange
juice every day. The researchers, led by Prof. Elliot M. Berry of the
Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, found that the juice-consumers
had triple the amount of Vitamin C in their bloodstreams than did the
control group. Tests showed that the low-density fat particles in the
blood of the high-C group were significantly more stable than those of the
other group. Greater stability of these particles leads to less "clumping"
along artery walls, and thus less of the above diseases. The volunteer
students who took part in the research are all enrolled in Har Etzion
Yeshiva in Gush Etzion, and were termed a "well-disciplined group who
enthusiastically followed the dietary regimen."
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Subject: ROOT & BRANCH INFORMATION SERVICES - "A Typical Week in
Jews Attacked, Blame The Jews" by Eugene Narrett
ROOT & BRANCH INFORMATION SERVICES - "A Typical Week in Hebron: Jews
Attacked, Blame The Jews" by Eugene Narrett
by Eugene Narrett
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, April 13, 1998, Root & Branch: The week of
March 9th included the Jewish holiday of Purim, a festival recalling
how heroic action can turn a decree of extermination into victory and
joy. It was in fact a week during which months of violence against
the ghettoized Jews in Hebron climaxed in rifle fire of which they
were the targets and for which they were blamed. The story climaxed
in an Associated Press note of March 16 that vividly illustrated the
gap between news and truth.
As Americans know, a single government press release can deform
history.
Since January 1997 when the Israeli army withdrew from 80% of Hebron,
the town's Jewish residents have had to live with violence. Bombs and
large rocks litter their streets and school playgrounds. Death and
the threat of death are ever present. Community spokesman, Noam
Arnon, points out that "the agreement provides for buffer areas to
protect the Jewish community but in practice there are no buffer
areas. The terrorists come to the dividing line itself and there is no
hot pursuit. The agreement also talks about special security on the
surrounding hills but in practice there is nothing."
Against 1300 years of evidence, dividing Hebron was meant to prove
Jews could live safely among Arabs and under Arab police. On March 15
Jibril Rajoub, chief of the Palestinian "Preventive Security Force"
exposed this illusion. "Any settler [Jewish resident] that enters a
PA controlled area will not leave alive." Rajoub explained that this
was how the PA would "maintain order" in its autonomous areas,
presuming the "intent" of Jews who did not wish to be segregated.
"Any Arab wishing to do what he must do outside our areas," he added,
"will not be impaired by PA security forces," he added.
This chilling declaration by the PA's "Security" Chief was followed by
a bit of grim humor from Ahmed Qreia ("Abu Ala"), Speaker of the
Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Qreia insisted there would be
no peace until Israel withdrew behind its pre-1967 borders. Jews
living elsewhere (for example, French Hill in Jerusalem) "are welcome
to apply for Palestinian citizenship under Palestinian law." Since
the PLC is known to meet rarely and legislate less, PA "law" amounts
to the dictates of Abdul Rauf el-Codba el-Husseini ("Yasser Arafat").
So, the status of Jewish "citizens" in his "state" is well described
by the threat of his Security Chief, Rajoub.
Arab violence in Judea and Samaria is rarely reported beyond Israel,
and often not even by Israel's state-run media for doing so would
embarrass supporters of the Oslo "peace process." On Tuesday, March
10, this violence surged after a van full of Arabs tried to run down
four Israeli soldiers at Tarkumia checkpoint in Judea. The van had
been cutting in and out of a line of cars and after repeatedly being
told to stop it veered toward the troops. One soldier was injured.
The others fired on and killed three in the van.
Since the Madrid-Oslo process began, seven Israeli soldiers have been
run down and killed at checkpoints by Arabs who also specialize in
drive-by shootings of civilians, including Americans like David Boim.
Nevertheless, Israeli senior officers and politicians had the soldiers
arrested and without waiting for the facts, Prime Minister Netanyahu
apologized to Abdul Rauf el-Codba el-Husseini ("Arafat"). This
groveling was the proverbial fuel on the fire for rioting from Hebron
to Shechem ("Nablus").
In Hebron, Arab mobs added rifle fire to the usual arsenal of
firebombs and bricks. Ever fearful of being called insensitive, IDF
officers allowed their troops to put on their helmets. PA "security
forces" were filmed playing tag with the rioters, scenes that never
seem to make it to CNN. When Jews living in Hebron's Israeli created
ghetto asked the IDF to hunt out the snipers (even Oslo gives the IDF
the right of "hot pursuit") they were told this would be too
dangerous.
After four days of terror, two dozen Jewish men and women climbed the
hills above their neighborhood to look for IDF troops and demand
action against the snipers. Arabs began burning tires and throwing
stones. What ensued was predictable: taking the path of least
resistance, the IDF closed the area to Jews. The next day, Hebron's
Jewish police issued citations, not to the Arabs but to the Jews who
had asked for protection. When police served the summons (for
endangering a traffic lane and disturbing the peace), they were
backdated so the victims also could be charged with failing to appear
for the court date.
Maneuvering for re-election two years hence, the "hard line" Netanyahu
sent a memo to all embassies criticizing Hebron's Jews for "causing
unrest. AP distributed a news report blaming the Jews, then Abdul
Rauf el-Codba el-Husseini ("Arafat") issued a statement paraphrasing
Netanyahu and AP. Prominent Labor MK's denounced the Jews of Hebron
for "being as provocative as possible," and indicated their thinly
disguised wish "to get the entire settlement out of there," assisting
Abdul Rauf el-Codba el-Husseini's ("Arafat's") plan of phases. Labor
and Meretz refuse to address the fact that their own minimalist
position already has been rejected repeatedly by their Arab friends.
The Israeli government's repeated betrayal of its citizens is
treacherous, but what of other governments: are the Chinese well
served by their rulers? Are Russians by theirs? English, Scots and
Welsh by their governors? How about Iran, Algeria, Iraq, Mexico, the
scandal-plagued Japanese?
The 20th century is the era of governments warring on their own
people, of systematic treachery and lying elevated into the first
principle of office.
It is the century of moral relativism whose ethos scorns the very
notion of truth. It is a time in which a "Preventive Security Force"
prevents security.
In such times Jews (and Christians) will be targeted because the
truths they witness rebuke moral squalor. These attacks naturally
focus on Hebron and Jerusalem, resting places of the patriarchs and
site of Israel's covenanted dominion.
The smog of official lying smothers American lives and institutions.
As for the Israelis, they should heed the Hebron resident who said, "I
hope the government finally sees the writing on the wall and protects
us. If we continue to cower behind apologetics, we will have another
holocaust."
Eugene Narrett
Boston, Massachusetts
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Professor Eugene Narrett teaches English at Boston University and at
UMASS/Lowell (University of Massachusetts, Lowell campus). He writes
a weekly column for The Middlesex News, the major daily paper in
Boston's western suburbs.
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