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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
  1. PALESTINIANS REJECT OFFER
  2. MUTUAL ACCUSATIONS SURROUNDING LABOR TRIP
  3. PALESTINIAN SUMMER CAMPS: WAR AND HATE

QUOTABLE QUOTE: Arik Sharon on the significance of Yesha

1. PALESTINIANS REJECT OFFER
The Palestinians today rejected Israel's latest withdrawal offers, spelled
out at a meeting last night between Atty. Yitzchak Molcho and the
Palestinian Authority's Saeb Erekat.  However, the PA is not yet
actualizing its threat to call off the talks.  Defense Minister Yitzchak
Mordechai toured areas of the Judean Desert this morning, preparing to
choose the areas there from which to withdraw.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Internal Security Minister Avigdor
Kahalani, and Minister Mordechai will decide today whether to accede to the
Palestinians' request to release over 100 Arab prisoners.  Netanyahu hinted
yesterday that Israel will "link" the decision with the conclusion of a
withdrawal agreement.  Minister Shaul Yahalom had earlier demanded that the
request to release prisoners be rejected out of hand.  "The PA is
cooperating with the car thieves, and it does not deserve any gestures on
our part," he said.


2. MUTUAL ACCUSATIONS SURROUNDING LABOR TRIP
Israel's two major parties, the Likud and Labor, traded barbs today
regarding the Labor Party delegation currently meeting in Washington with
Jewish and American officials.  Responding to Labor charges that he
attempted to undermine the Rabin government during visits to Washington
three and four years ago, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that he
worked towards having the Americans exert pressure on the Arabs, while the
Labor opposition of today wishes to have the Americans pressure Israel.
"If they were meeting with the Americans in order to demand that the PA
release terrorists, or reduce their police force to Oslo levels, then I
would give them my blessing.  But they are going instead to encourage the
Americans to continue pressuring us, instead of the other side," said
Netanyahu this afternoon.

In response, a Labor statement said that Netanyahu should take
responsibility for his own actions and not blame others.  "For two years we
have been witness to the collapse of the peace process and the economy.  He
should do more, and incite less," said a spokesperson for Labor Party
leader MK Ehud Barak.


3. PALESTINIAN SUMMER CAMPS: WAR AND HATE
A new report published by the Palestinian Media Watch dealing with summer
camps run by the Palestinian Authority in Judea, Samaria and Gaza presents
a grim picture of indoctrination
and hatred.  The report cites many examples of the declared aim of these
camps, namely, the political education and military training of children.
In one television ad for the camp appearing on Palestinian television on
July 12, the announcer states, "Jihad [religious war] is the principle
belief which will never end regardless of how many fall."  In a feature
which aired July 2, a Khan Yunis summer camper sings, "I came to you with
my sword in hand, we will oust them [Israel] out to the sea. Your day is
coming, conqueror, then we will settle accounts. Our accounts are unending
in stones and bullets."

According to Itamar Marcus, head of the Palestinian Media Watch, the
atmosphere in the summer camps is that of a military camp.  At the head of
the camp staff is a 'camp commander,'  and a television commercial features
the camp's organizers boast that "on the staff there are National Security
men, military personnel and National Political Direction figures."
Military trainer Lawy Abu gave a training session to the campers on the
subject of battle and self-defense, using tires and nails.  During the
month of July, three commercials featured children screaming the word
"commando" while they jumped through a burning ring.  Trainer Hareb Abu
Nahel said that he teaches the young boys about the various parts of the
rifle and how to use it.

The report also notes how a key message of the summer camps is that the
land of the State of Israel is actually part of 'Palestine' and that its
Arab inhabitants are Palestinians.  On July 14, the official PA newspaper
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida announced summer camp activities "with the participation
of boys and girls from the West Bank, Gaza and within the Green Line, with
the purpose of continuing the integration among the children of our people.
 Two camps will be situated in Jaffa and Nazareth [Israeli cities] "  The
same paper pointed out on July 11 that children in the summer camps are
divided into brigades, named after areas in the State of Israel such as
"Safed", "Dir Yassin" and "Tiberias."   Two weeks ago, the paper reported,
"Under the title '50 years of Occupation' and under the slogan: 'we will
not forget and we will not forgive', the Palestinian Training Center opened
the summer camp that will concentrate its activities this year on the
subject of 50 years of occupation. The activities will include visits to
the destroyed villages in the Jerusalem region: Dir Yassin, Ein Karem,
Malha, Amuas, Lifta and the Old City of Jerusalem."


QUOTABLE QUOTE
Arik Sharon, in Yediot Acharonot (Tammuz 1998):

"I made a huge error over the past thirty years, by not sufficiently
emphasizing the historical Jewish claim to the lands of Judea and Samaria.
This land is the birthplace of the Jewish nation.  The feeling that you
rightly deserve to be in a certain place - which is an important component
in security - is first and foremost dependent on your sense that the land
is yours.  To think that security alone is significant, was a mistake.   It
was not only my mistake, but it was also my mistake.

"For years, I spent too much time stressing Israel's need to maintain
control of Judea and Samaria for security reasons.  Though there is still
no replacement for the problem of "minimal depth", someone can always come
and say, "We'll give you this or that aid or guarantee to address your
security concerns."  The security issue has a temporal dimension to it, and
it is very easy to challenge.  But the historical right,  the real issue,
is more powerful than any other claim. 

 "The spiritual basis for the Land of Israel is the stories of the Tanach
[Bible].  From the holidays, to the seasons, to the landscapes, everything
is history.  The Cave of Machpelah:  What other nation can boast such a
monument?  What other nation has a 4,000 year-old tomb, in which the
nation's forefathers are buried: Abraham and Sarah;  Isaac and Rebecca;
Jacob and Leah?  In the United States, people marvel at the burial place of
Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln's Tomb.  In the States, millions frequent
200-year-old sites, while here we are privileged to visit landmarks
thousands of years old!  This sense of history strengthens us and instills
in us a sense of our right to be here.  I confess that I, too, erred, by
not pointing out that "security" should  have been linked to this more
central notion.

"The current generation of Israelis has not been taught the link between
history and security.   If you read Abraham Mapu's book, Love of Zion,
you'll see that he wrote of this connection in the middle of the last
century.  He never set foot in the Land of Israel.  He never had to!  When
you read his work, you feel as if you are personally walking along the
roads of Samaria.  The previous generation lived with this strong sense of
connection to the land.....A person simply won't defend a land which he
doesn't believe is his..."


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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
  1. TWO JEWS MURDERED BY TERRORISTS
  2. ARAFAT IGNORES TERRORIST ATTACK
  3. THE 3.1% GAP

1. TWO JEWS MURDERED BY TERRORISTS
Two students of the Joseph's Tomb Yeshiva were murdered in an ambush
terrorist attack last night outside the community of Yitzhar.  The two
unmarried victims - Shlomo Libman, 24, and Harel Bin-Nun, 20, son of
the Rabbi of Shilo, Elchanan Bin-Nun - were shot at close range as
they conducted a jeep patrol around the town.  Tracks of the
terrorists were found to lead to one of the neighboring Arab villages,
which were placed under curfew.  Transportation Minister Shaul Yahalom
called upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to halt the talks with
the PLO until the terrorist murderers are apprehended or handed over
to Israel. 

The funeral of the two murdered Jews began at the Yeshivat Merkaz
Harav Kook in Jerusalem at 1 PM this afternoon.  Former Chief Rabbis
Avraham Shapira and  Mordechai Eliyahu delivered the first eulogies,
followed by Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Rabbi Chaim Druckman, and
Transportation Minister Shaul Yahalom.  Other government ministers and
public figures were also in attendance.  The funeral traveled north
from Jerusalem along the main highway of Binyamin and Samaria to a
specially-prepared cemetery in Yitzhar, where it arrived after 5 PM.

The two victims were considered leading members in Yitzhar.  Arutz-7
correspondent Kobi Sela reports that residents told him that Shlomo
Libman was called a "pillar" of the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in the
'valley,' referring to Shechem, while Harel Bin-Nun was his parallel
on the 'mountain-top,' i.e., the new neighborhood outside Yitzhar. 

MK Rehavam Ze'evi, head of Moledet, demands that the Oslo agreements
be declared null and void.  So did Deputy Education Minister Moshe
Peled, who visited Yitzhar today, where he said, "This proves again
how terrible Oslo process is for Israel and its people.  Instead of
partners in peace, we find time and again that we have murderous gangs
who carefully plan how to murder Jews.  The Oslo process must be
buried once and for all, and I call upon the government to immediately
cease all further talks with the Palestinians."

2. ARAFAT IGNORES TERRORIST ATTACK
Yasser Arafat and other Palestinian seniors have totally ignored the
murder of the two Jews last night.  Arafat presented his new
autonomous government in Ramallah today, and did not mention the
murders.

3. THE 3.1% GAP
The current point of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations is the gap between the 10% from which Israel has agreed
to withdraw, and the 13.1% demanded by the Palestinians.  So said
Prime Minister Netanyahu in an appearance before the Knesset Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday.  He said that the Americans
had proposed that the 3.1% gap be offered to the Palestinians as a
"nature reserve," in a status somewhere between Area B (Israeli
military control together with Palestinian civilian control) and Area
C (full Israeli control).  The Palestinians demand that the area be
considered Area B, and there the matter is currently mired. They have
also demanded to be shown maps of the proposed withdrawal. Netanyahu
said that after the question of the 3.1% is settled, the question of
fulfillment of Palestinian obligations will be negotiated.

Today, for the first time, Netanyahu showed Ministers Sharon and
Sharansky, of the security mini-Cabinet, the withdrawal map that was
drawn up by the military and security frameworks.

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:

1. ATTEMPTS TO OBTAIN ARAFAT CONDEMNATION
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has called upon Yasser Arafat to
condemn the double terrorist murder of Shlomo Libman and Harel
Bin-Nun.  Similarly, Defense Minister Yitzchak Mordechai said
yesterday that Arafat would be "making a grave mistake" if he does not
condemn the crime.  As of now, the Palestinian Authority leader has
ignored the terrorist attack, while the Palestinian press refers to
"the military Palestinian operation."

Israeli sources in Washington claim that a diplomatic effort is
currently being waged to get Arafat to condemn the murderous attack.
The reports say that Labor MK Yossi Beilin, visiting  in Washington
with a delegation of senior Labor members, is leading the effort,
together with the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem.  The aim is to have him
condemn the murders in English, and to have it broadcast on American
television tomorrow.

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Subject:       Arutz-7 News Brief:  Friday, August 7, 1998

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
  1. GOLAN DEVELOPMENT
  2. WORRISOME PA RESPONSE
  3. PA SENIORS SEE NO NEED TO CONDEMN MURDER OF "SETTLERS"


1. GOLAN DEVELOPMENT
The National Council for Planning and Construction has approved the
construction of an additional 400 housing units in each of several
Golan Heights rural communities.  Two communities will be allowed to
add 600 units.  Minister Ariel Sharon, chairman of the Ministerial
Committee for Settlement Affairs, initiated this plan some two months
ago, but it was held up until now by order of Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu.

2. WORRISOME PA RESPONSE
Senior military figures have expressed apprehension about the
Palestinian Authority's approach towards the terrorist murder of Harel
Bin-Nun and Shlomo Libman, as expressed in its words and deeds.  They
feel that the PA is tacitly encouraging additional attacks against
Jewish communities in Yesha.  Specifically, the figures note Arafat's
failure to condemn the attack, and the lack of measures taken by the
PA against terrorist bases in the autonomy, which it took following
terrorist attacks committed within Israel-proper.  The Israeli
security forces have still not found the perpetrators of this week's
murderous attack, and the assumption is that the killers have found
refuge in the autonomous city of Shechem.  Yeshivat Od Yosef Chai at
Joseph's Tomb in Shechem will be open 24 hours a day throughout the
week of mourning, including this Sabbath.

3. PA SENIORS SEE NO NEED TO CONDEMN MURDER OF "SETTLERS"
Leading Palestinian figures and spokesmen attempting to explain Yasser
Arafat's failure to condemn the latest Arab terrorist attack reveal a
unique approach towards Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.
Arafat's senior spokesman, Marwan Kanafani, in an interview with the
Israeli news agency IMRA, was asked if he condemned the murders.  He
replied, "We don't know what happened," and, "We don't know who
started the shooting."  When asked if the Palestinian Authority has
ever condemned the killings of Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria,
Kanafani responded, "Many times the PA has condemned the killing of
innocent people."  Asked if the PA regards the Jewish residents of
Judea and Samaria as "innocent people," Kanafani replied, "I think
that settlers in Palestinian territory are aggressors more than
innocent people going to a market to buy their food." Arafat-advisor
Ahmed Tibi, speaking on Israeli radio yesterday, also implied that the
murder of "settlers" need not be condemned by Arafat.

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
  1. BARAK: I'D RATHER BE PRIME MINISTER THAN RIGHT
  2. TWO ARAB REAL ESTATE AGENTS ARRESTED BY PALESTINIANS


1. BARAK: I'D RATHER BE PRIME MINISTER THAN RIGHT
"The reason I do not express more dovish views is because I want to
win the next election."  So said Ehud Barak, currently visiting in the
United States.  Meeting with representatives of the Anti-Defamation
League and the American Jewish Committee this past Friday, Barak said,
"I know that you would like to hear more sharply-dovish viewpoints,
but I will not do that. In Israel, too, people ask me why I do not
express a more dovish point of view, and I explain to them that it is
not a matter of being right; I want to win the election."


2. TWO ARAB REAL ESTATE AGENTS ARRESTED BY PALESTINIANS
The Palestinian para-military police force arrested two Arabs last
night in El-Bira, between Jerusalem and Ramallah.  The two were
arrested on suspicion of selling lands to Jews.  Israel has asked that
the two Arabs be transferred to its custody, but no response has been
received as of yet from the Palestinians.

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
  1. FATEH WEBSITE CONVEYS BELLIGERENT MESSAGE
  2. NETANYAHU-BARAK MEETING


SPECIAL INSERT: EXCERPTS FROM OFFICIAL FATEH WEBSITE

1. FATEH WEBSITE CONVEYS BELLIGERENT MESSAGE
Prime Ministerial aide David Bar-Illan said today that the new
official Fateh website shows that the P.L.O. has not given up on its
goal to destroy the State of Israel.  Bar-Illan pointed out that the
Fateh is the most influential branch of the P.L.O, and that Arafat is
both leader of the Fateh and Chairman of the Palestinian Authority.
The main features of the Fateh website are statements of principle
similar to those of the P.L.O. Covenant, which has not yet been
rescinded.  According to Bar-Illan, the website's contents are
consistent with the messages conveyed on official Palestinian
television and radio, as well.  When questioned as to why, in light of
these realities, the current government continues to negotiate with
the Palestinians, Bar-Illan said that maintaining contact is
preferable to completely cutting ties.  The P.A. must display concrete
reciprocity if it hopes to see the government carry out withdrawals
from Judea and Samaria.  Excerpts from the official Fateh website
appear at the end of this news report.

2. NETANYAHU-BARAK MEETING
The Prime Minister's Office has confirmed that Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu and Labor party leader MK Ehud Barak have recently discussed
the possibility of establishing a national unity government.  However,
the talks were of the most preliminary nature, according to the
spokesman. Netanyahu's press aide said today that the Prime Minister
has no intention of advancing the date of the elections.  Labor party
elements criticized Barak for meeting with Netanyahu on this issue.


SPECIAL INSERT: EXCERPTS FROM OFFICIAL FATEH WEBSITE

  A. INTRODUCTION
  B. THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE
  C. METHODOLOGY OF "LIBERATION"
  D. THE EXTENT OF "LIBERATION"
  E. AN IMPLICIT REJECTION OF OSLO
  F.  LIBERATION HASTENED BY PREVENTING ALIYAH

A. INTRODUCTION
The Israel Government Press Office has publicized the address of the
official "Fateh" website.  Fateh is the arm of the P.L.O. founded and
directed by P.A. Chairman Yasser Arafat. A survey of the website led
to the following findings:

B. THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE
Chapter One of the Essential Principles of the Fateh Organization
declares: " The Palestinian struggle is part and parcel of the
world-wide struggle against Zionism," and that "the Zionist Movement
is racial, colonial and aggressive in ideology, goals, organization
and method". Article 9 of the Constitution states that liberating
Palestine "is an Arab, religious and human obligation."

C. METHODOLOGY OF "LIBERATION"
Article 17 declares that "armed public revolution is the inevitable
method to liberating Palestine. Entire dependence on the Palestinian
people....and on the Arab Nation as a partner in the fight, and
realizing actual interaction between the Arab Nation and the
Palestinian people by involving the Arab people in the fight through a
united Arab front." [Article 18]

D. THE EXTENT OF "LIBERATION"
".... the Palestinian Arab People's armed revolution is a decisive
factor in the liberation fight and in uprooting the Zionist existence,
and this struggle will not cease unless the Zionist state is
demolished and Palestine is completely liberated". [Article 19]

E. REJECTION OF OSLO
The method of liberating Palestine involves "opposing any political
solution offered as an alternative to demolishing the Zionist
occupation in Palestine...."  [Article 22]

F.  LIBERATION HASTENED BY PREVENTING ALIYAH
According to Article 25 of the Constitution, the Palestinians will
hasten liberation by "convincing concerned countries in the world to
prevent Jewish immigration to Palestine..... "

The principles described in the Fateh constitution bear striking
resemblance to those of the P.L.O. Charter.  In addition, the Fateh
banner on the website Home page shows two rifles and a grenade in the
foreground, with a map of the entire State of Israel in the
background.  For further details regarding the beliefs, goals and
methods of Yasser Arafat's Fateh organization: <http://www.fateh.org>


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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
  1. MK SALIM: NO APOLOGY, NO REGRET
  2. ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN TALKS
  3. PORAT MEETS WITH PARTY LEADERS
  4. ARAFAT CONTRIBUTES TO HAMAS MOSQUE


1. MK SALIM: NO APOLOGY, NO REGRET
MK Saleh Salim (Hadash) stands firmly behind his call to continue to
murder Arab real estate agents who sell land to Jews.  On a June 23rd
Knesset tour of Ateret Cohanim property in Jerusalem's Old City, MK
Salim cried out, "When I see how the Jews are taking over these lands
in Jerusalem, I am amazed at the Palestinians who do not continue to
kill the land-dealers, and I call upon them to continue to kill them.
The Arabs who sold land to Jews should be killed and made into minced
meat."  In the following segment of an August 7th interview with the
Israeli-Arab weekly Kul El Arab, Salim made it clear that he did not
intend to apologize or retract his statement:

Question: Was your declaration regarding traitors a slip of the
tongue? Salim: No.  I expressed what I believe...

Question: But the Chairman of the Knesset Interior Committee Salah
Tarif said that you apologized...." 

Salim: No, I did not apologize.  The place of traitors is in the Ramat
Hovev burning waste site...  I do not regret what I said because the
significance of doing so would be self-degradation and the degradation
of my people.  All I did [in front of the Interior Committee] was to
clarify my words.  Many people tell me that it is better to refrain
from statements which cause a storm, even in you believe in them.  I,
on the other hand, prefer to state the truth... Unfortunately, most
people say, "What you said is right, but why cause such an
embarrassment?"

MK Rabbi Benny Elon (Moledet) presented the above material to Head of
Investigations in the Jerusalem Police Shaul Naim, Attorney-General
Elyakim Rubenstein, and House Speaker Dan Tichon. 


2. ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN TALKS
The security-mini cabinet will meet tomorrow to discuss a further IDF
pullout from Judea and Samaria. After eight negotiating sessions
between Israel and the PA, Arafat's team now refuses to attend any
more meetings. They demand active American intervention in the talks
and the publication of the U.S. plan for further Israeli territorial
concessions.  U.S. State Department spokesman James Foley stated again
this week that there are no current plans for a U.S. mediator to visit
the region.  Foley told reporters: "We're at the last stage of this
effort and we've said that direct contacts were needed to close the
final gaps.  If direct contacts can't close the final gaps, then we'll
have to draw the conclusions that we have indicated previously we'll
be forced to draw."

In the same briefing, Foley thanked the government and the people of
Israel for their extraordinary assistance in the search and rescue
effort in Nairobi and quoted Secretary Albright as saying that the
Israelis had played a "phenomenal role."

3. PORAT MEETS WITH PARTY LEADERS
Knesset Law Committee Chairman Chanan Porat met today with Labor Party
head Ehud Barak and with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu regarding
early Knesset elections.  In a meeting with Netanyahu on the issue of
a national unity government, Barak had requested the cancellation of
the exclusive right of the Prime Minister to disperse the Knesset and
to fire ministers. Porat, who opposes any change in this law, said
that these demands will eventually lead to a change in the law of
direct election, a move which does not represent the will of the
electorate.

4. ARAFAT CONTRIBUTES TO HAMAS MOSQUE
Yasser Arafat has donated $100 thousand dollars for the building of a
new mosque dedicated to Iz A-din el Kassam, the infamous Arab
terrorist after whom Hamas terrorist cells have named themselves.
El-Kassam was killed during the Arab riots of 1936-1939.  During the
mosque's dedication last week, a  representative from the PA's Office
of Holy Sites, Sheikh Salame, thanked Arafat for his generous
financial support.  "This shows President Arafat's commitment to
remembering those who defend the land," said the Sheikh.  Arutz-7
correspondent Haggai Huberman reports that the new mosque was built in
Kfar Yamon, south of Jenin.

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