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Israel in the News
March 7 to March 20, 1999

JERUSALEM

VATICAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES FUTURE STATUS OF JERUSALEM
WITH U.S. JEWISH, ARAB, MUSLIM LEADERS
Washington March 8, 1999 via Murray Kahl

Jerusalem is sacred to the three monotheistic religions and has
universal religious significance, according to the Holy See's
foreign minister, who today urged U.S. Jewish, Muslim, and Arab
leaders to work in helping Israeli and Palestinian peace
negotiators find a "final status" for Jerusalem which preserves
its uniqueness and sacredness.

Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, the Holy See's Secretary for
Relations with States, met in Washington today with represent-
atives of major Jewish, Muslim, and Arab organizations in the
United States to share with them the Holy See's concerns about
the ongoing Middle East peace negotiations, and to urge all
parties interested in Jerusalem's future to work together.

For some years, the Holy See has sought a "special statute" for
the ancient core of Jerusalem and its attendant holy places which
would preserve the unique religious character of the Holy City
and secure the rights of the religious communities there. As
envisioned, such a special statute would:

1. preserve, restore, and safeguard the physical, cultural, and
historical attributes of the city.

2. assure equality of rights and services for all residents of
the city.

3. guarantee the freedom of the religious communities to carry
out the full range of their activities.

4. afford protection to the holy places and freedom of access to
all, residents and pilgrims alike, including local pilgrims from
anywhere in the Holy Land.

According to previously published information, the Holy See has
no specific position on the political questions of territory and
sovereignty to be decided among the Israelis and Palestinians in
the so called "final status" negotiations. Likewise, the Holy
See believes any special statute ought to be negotiated by the
two parties themselves in consultation with the three religious
communities. Finally, once agreed upon, the provisions of such a
statute should enjoy further guarantees from the international
community.

EU ASSERTS JERUSALEM IS NOT ISRAELI
By Akiva Eldar, Ha'aretz Correspondent 3/11/99

In a formal letter to the Foreign Ministry in response to its
demand that foreign ambassadors here stop visiting the Orient
House in East Jerusalem German Ambassador Theodor Wallau has
reconfirmed the EU's support for the internationalization of
Jerusalem - and he rejected any Israeli limitations on diplomatic
visits to the erstwhile Palestinian foreign ministry.

Germany is currently the president of the European Union and is
considered Israel's staunchest friend in Europe. The ambas-
sador's letter follows one sent by Foreign Ministry Director
General Eytan Bentsur telling foreign ambassadors that visiting
the Orient House, offices of the Palestinian Authority's Minister
for Jerusalem Faisal Husseini, contravenes the Oslo and Wye
agreements. In verbal messages to the ambassadors, the foreign
ministry also told them that visiting the Orient House is an
intervention in the Israeli election campaign.

In his letter, Wallau says, "We reaffirm our stated position
regarding the specific status of Jerusalem as a corpus separatum
[a separate body] ... This position is in accordance with
international law." Therefore, states the ambassador, "We have no
intention of changing our custom regarding meetings in
Jerusalem." (See full story - Page 6)

By not distinguishing between east and west Jerusalem, the letter
essentially determines that as far as Europe is concerned,
Jerusalem is occupied territory.

Use of the term "corpus separatum" is a clear reference to the
UN's original 1947 Partition Plan. In recent days, there have
been intense discussions in official circles in Jerusalem how to
respond to the ambassador's letter, but the Foreign Ministry
refuses to comment on the subject.

The future of Jerusalem is also due to come up in meetings
between the Vatican's foreign minister, Archbishop Jean-Louis
Tauran with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in the
near future, while an official U.S. source has told Ha'aretz
that President Bill Clinton has decided to use his authority to
suspend a congressional decision to move the U.S. embassy from
Tel Aviv to Jerusalem by May of this year.

International jurist Rotem Giladi, who specializes in the issue
of the internationalization of Jerusalem says that internation-
alization has not been explicitly mentioned in any European
community decision since the November 1947 partition decision at
the UN. It was also not mentioned in the Venice Statement of
1980, which followed Israeli legislation that declared Jerusalem
the capital of the country. While Europe has not retreated from
its position on the legal status of the city, he said, it sup-
ports the U.S. position that the future of Jerusalem will be
determined in negotiations.

LIKUD TO USE EU LETTER ON JERUSALEM IN CAMPAIGN; Sharon demands
letter be rescinded; EU says it 'doesn't understand what fuss is
about' By Yerah Tal, David Makovsky and Dov Alfon, Ha'aretz 3/12/99

The Likud hopes to capitalize on the European Union's letter
expressing support for the internationalization of Jerusalem by
citing it as proof of the dangers facing the city, and presenting
the Likud and Benjamin Netanyahu as the only ones capable of
defending Jewish sovereignty over all of Jerusalem. The EU's
letter on Jerusalem came in response to a Foreign Ministry demand
that European diplomats stop visiting the Orient House in East
Jerusalem, where the Palestinian Authority's Minister for
Jerusalem, Faisal Husseini, has his offices.

The Likud credits Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon and Prime
Minister Netanyahu with determined efforts to prevent ambassadors
from meeting with Husseini at the Orient House and plans a new
advertising campaign centered on the following slogan: "Netanyahu
- A strong peace and united Jerusalem." According to the Likud
campaign, "Barak, Beilin and Meretz will give in to Arafat on the
establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its
capital."

Foreign Ministry officials said yesterday that Sharon was
demanding that Germany rescind the letter written by its envoy in
Tel Aviv, using the terminology of the 1947 UN partition plan to
describe Jerusalem as a "corpus separatum," or a separate body.
"Israel steadfastly rejects the contents of the letter," Sharon
said. "The position put forward by the German ambassador will
not in any way undermine the complete sovereignty of Israel over
a united Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Jewish people
and the State of Israel."

In his response to the letter, published yesterday by Ha'aretz,
Netanyahu termed Jerusalem "the heart and soul" of the Jewish
people.

SUPERMARKET THRIVES ON JEWISH SABBATH IN JERUSALEM
March 13, 1999 By Laurie Copans, Associated Press Jerusalem (AP)

A Jerusalem supermarket defied a Labor Ministry threat to shut it
down for employing Jews on the Sabbath by staffing only with
Muslims and Christians. Customers formed long lines Saturday as
business went on as usual. Ministry inspectors showed up early
in the day but, finding only Muslim and Christian workers, did
not fine the owners of "Drugstore 2000,'' the first supermarket
to open on the Sabbath in west Jerusalem. Israeli law bans the
employment of Jews on the Jewish Sabbath, from Friday evening to
Saturday sundown. Labor Minister Eli Ishai of the ultra-Orthodox
Shas party has overlooked work at restaurants and other places of
entertainment. But he said he is determined to close the store
to safeguard the status quo in the Holy City. Some 20 Jews
showed up Saturday to demonstrate. They yelled "Sabbath!'' at
secular Jews and tourists as they filed out, carrying cigarettes,
chocolates, bread and other items.

ISRAELI CABINET COMMUNIQUE
At the weekly cabinet meeting today (Sunday), 14.3.99:

1. The government of Israel today re-affirmed its commitment to
a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty.

A. The Cabinet completely rejected the contents of the letter
from the German ambassador. The stance according to which
Jerusalem constitutes a "Corpus Separatum" is incorrect, both
from the factual and the legal point of view, and is completely
unacceptable to Israel.

B. The Cabinet once more affirmed that united Jerusalem is the
capital of the Jewish People. This is anchored in the Basic Law:
Jerusalem - the Capital of Israel, which determines that "United
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel." Israel will not agree under any
circumstances to the division or internationalisation of Jerusalem,
which will remain forever under the exclusive sovereignty of Israel.

C. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Ariel
Sharon will order Israeli missions in Europe and throughout the
world to commence an information campaign on this subject, which
will include the involvement of local Jewish communities and
friends of Israel throughout the world, in order to make the
international community aware of our rights over Jerusalem, and
our stance according to which Jerusalem will stay forever under
Israeli sovereignty alone.

D. The government of Israel will continue to ensure freedom of
religion, worship and conscience in Jerusalem. Israel will take
care to ensure the continuation of the status quo in the holy
places of all religions and freedom of access to them, while
respecting freedom for all faiths.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said that the information campaign
decided on by the government was all the more essential given the
expected start in the coming months of discussions on the permanent
status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. The Prime
Minister added that United Nations Security Council Resolution 181
(the partition resolution) on which the stance of the German
ambassador in his letter is apparently based, became null and void
after it was rejected by the Arab side.

The Foreign Minister announced that he has invited all foreign
ambassadors in Israel to a diplomatic briefing to take place on
Tuesday, at which the Israeli stance on this subject will made
clear.

ISRAEL SAYS U.N. RESOLUTION ON JERUSALEM VOID
Reuters March 16, 1999 Jerusalem

Israel said Tuesday it regarded as ''null and void'' a 1947 U.N.
resolution that called for the internationalization of Jerusalem. In
remarks in Jerusalem to foreign ambassadors, Israeli Foreign Minister
Ariel Sharon said: "Resolution 181 which speaks about Jerusalem not
being part of Israel is null and void and...we have a very wide
national consensus about this issue.'' The hawkish Sharon reaffirmed
Israel's hold over all of the holy city against the backdrop of a
diplomatic dispute with the European Union over the EU's position that
Jerusalem is a separate entity from Israel.

The issue has moved to the forefront of the run-up to Israel's
May 17 election, with each of the leading candidates taking a
similar line. "It's very hard to imagine after all those years
we again have to struggle for Jerusalem,'' Sharon said, recalling that
he had fought for Jerusalem as a platoon commander in the Middle East
war at Israel's founding in 1948.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a cabinet meeting Sunday
on the issue, releasing a statement afterwards vowing never to
agree to the division or internationalization of the city it
regards as its eternal capital. "The government led by Mr
Netanyahu will never agree that Jerusalem will be divided any
more and Jerusalem will stay forever the capital of the Jewish
people and the capital of the state of Israel,'' he said. The
government statement Sunday said Netanyahu and Sharon had
instructed Israeli missions in Europe and worldwide to launch "an
information campaign'' to explain Israel's stance on Jerusalem.

DIPLOMATS AND PLO DEFY ISRAEL TO MEET IN JERUSALEM
Reuters March 18, 1999 Jerusalem

Foreign diplomats and Palestinian officials defied Israel
Thursday by meeting at the headquarters of the Palestine
Liberation Organization in Arab East Jerusalem. The gathering
flew in the face of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's assertion in
Israel's campaign for the May 17 elections that he had put an end to
such meetings, viewed by his government as a violation of interim
peace deals with the Palestinians.

At Orient House, about 10 consuls general, including
representatives of Germany, France, Britain and Turkey, met
Faisal Husseini, the top PLO official in Jerusalem, and
Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi, a resident of the city.
Diplomats from the United States, Israel's main ally, did not
attend. Palestinian participants said Jerusalem was the main
issue on the agenda.

"There can be no peace between the sides and no successful end to the
peace process as long as the Palestinian rights in East Jerusalem are
denied,'' said Ghassan Khatib, a Palestinian political analyst who
attended Thursday's meeting. Palestinian officials said the meeting
was convened to counter what they called attempts by Israeli
politicians to use the Jerusalem issue to improve their election
prospects.

BARAK JOINS FORCES WITH POPULAR POLITICIAN IN BID AGAINST
NETANYAHU
March 8, 1999 By Dafna Linzer, Associated Press Tel Aviv, Israel
(AP)

Israeli prime ministerial candidate Ehud Barak has joined forces
with a veteran politician who has strong ties to the key voting
block of Sephardic Jews. The union with David Levy, a former
member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party, is
likely to help Barak's Labor Party draw much needed support from
Sephardic voters Jews with roots in the Middle East and Africa.
Sephardic Jews, who make up about half of the country's Jewish
population, traditionally back the Likud.

PEACE PROCESS

EGYPT SAYS ARAFAT'S INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION THREAT STILL STANDS
BBC 3/9/99

The Egyptian Foreign Minister, Amr Moussa, has told reporters in
Cairo that the Palestinian leader, Yassar Arafat, is sticking to
his date of May the fourth to proclaim an independent Palestinian
state. Mr Amr Moussa was speaking after Mr Arafat had met the
Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak. Mr Amr Moussa said that Egypt
supported Mr Arafat's stand. Israel and the Palestinians were
meant to have negotiated a final peace settlement by May the
fourth, which marks the end of a five-year transitional period
laid down under the Oslo accords.

INDYK TRIES TO REVIVE SYRIAN-ISRAELI TALKS
By David Makovsky and Daniel Sobelman, Ha'aretz 3/9/99

Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Martin Indyk will meet Syrian
President Hafez al-Assad in Damascus next Sunday to discuss
resuming stalled Middle East peace talks after the Israeli
election, a U.S. official said yesterday. The official con-
firmed that the visit was "to prepare the groundwork" for renew-
ing the negotiations with both Syria and Lebanon after the
elections.

In Damascus, Indyk also is expected to discuss the situation in
Lebanon where there has been a recent upsurge in fighting between
pro-Iranian Hezbollah guerrillas and Israeli troops. Syria is
the main power broker in Lebanon with 35,000 troops stationed
there. Defense Minister Moshe Arens requested that Indyk inquire
in Damascus about the possibility of "halting the erosion" in the
1996 understandings about combat in South Lebanon, Defense
Ministry officials said yesterday.

NETANYAHU THREATENS HARSH RESPONSE IF PALESTINIANS DECLARE STATE
March 14, 1999 By Sari Bashi, Associated Press Beit Shemesh,
Israel (AP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday that Israel will
respond "very forcefully'' if the Palestinians declare statehood
in May and claim any part of Jerusalem as the capital. In a
campaign speech before high school students in this working-class town
12 miles west of Jerusalem, Netanyahu repeated a warning he said he
already made to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

"If you violate the agreement and unilaterally declare a
Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, know that on May 5,
we will respond very forcefully,'' Netanyahu said. "It won't be good
for the Palestinians, and it won't be good for peace.'' Netanyahu did
not elaborate on what steps he would take. But in the past, he has
threatened to annex chunks of the West Bank if Arafat makes good on a
promise to declare independence on May 4, the end of the five-year
negotiating period outlined in Israeli-Palestinian peace accords.

ARAFAT SAYS WILLING TO DO BATTLE IF STATEHOOD IS CHALLENGED
March 19, 1999 By Dana Budeiri, Associated Press Ramallah, West
Bank (AP)

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Friday he is not
intimidated by Israel's military might and will take up arms if
Israel uses force to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state.
Arafat said he has already won assurances from the several nonaligned
nations and Arab states that they will recognize a Palestinian state
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Palestinian leader initially
said he would declare statehood on May 4, the end of the five-year
interim period of Palestinian autonomy. However, the United States,
Egypt, Jordan and the European Community have asked him to hold off
and wait for a negotiated peace settlement with Israel. In a
statement issued late Friday night after its weekly meeting, the
Palestinian Cabinet said Arafat was consulting with world leaders in
"a race against time'' to come to a decision before May 4.

AMONG ANGRY PALESTINIAN REFUGEES, WANING FAITH IN YASSER ARAFAT
March 20, 1999 By Laura King, Associated Press Sidon, Lebanon
(AP)

As if Yasser Arafat doesn't have enough problems, here sits Munir
Makdah, his former friend and bodyguard, cradling an AK-47 assault
rifle and talking about how dearly he'd love to see the Palestinian
leader dead. "It would be an honor for me a duty,'' says Makdah,
who heads a breakaway Palestinian faction in the sprawling refugee
camp of Ein el-Hilweh on the outskirts of Sidon. "I'd certainly kill
him if I could.''

Makdah's views may be extreme and his following small, but they
reflect the anger and hopelessness among the 360,000 Palestinian
refugees in Lebanon. In growing numbers, they are rethinking
their allegiance to Arafat. The refugees' fate is one of the key
unanswered questions of the stalled Mideast peace process. Their
families fled or were driven from their homes in wars following
Israel's founding in 1948, and their future is to be decided in
so-called final status talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
Those talks were supposed to have started nearly three years ago,
however, and the refugees had hoped that by now, they and their
problems would be center stage in high-profile negotiations. Instead,
they find themselves languishing.

"I've never been to Palestine, but our ancestors' blood is
there,'' says Khairiyeh Hilal, a 36-year-old mother of five in
Ein el-Hilweh, whose 75,000 people live crammed amid reeking
alleyways. "You think we can forget something like that?''

But Arafat and the Palestinian leadership beset with internal
unrest in the Palestinian autonomy zones, struggling with the
strategic question of when to declare statehood, fighting for a
foothold in Jerusalem, despairing over what they describe as
daily land grabs by Jewish settlers in the West Bank have
neither the energy nor the political capital to make the
refugees' status a top priority.

PLO GROUPS WILL MEET TO DECIDE ON STATEHOOD QUESTION
ICEJ 3/14/99

Constituent factions of the PLO will meet early next month to
decide whether a not to declare an independent Palestinian state
on May 4, an advisor to Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser
Arafat announced at the weekend Nabil Abu Rdeineh said meetings
would be held in the autonomous areas of "several PLO bodies to
announce the Palestinian decision regarding declaration of a state".
The bodies are likely to include the PLO's Executive Committee and the
125-member Palestinian Central Council.

Arafat is currently consulting Arab and European states on the
issue, and will speak to President Bill Clinton about statehood
when he visits the White House later this month. He has come
under pressure to delay the May declaration, which critics of
Binyamin Netanyahu fear may bolster the prime minister's chances
of re-election two weeks later. Arafat has long warned that he
intends to announce statehood on May 4, the expiry date for the
interim self-rule period negotiated in the Oslo Accords.

But in recent weeks PA officials have expressed a willingness to
delay the announcement, in return for commitments from the US and EU
to recognition of Palestinians' right to a state later - possibly at
the end of 1999. One PA official was quoted by HA'ARETZ today as
saying: "If Arafat doesn't get the price he wants for postponing
declaration, he will go ahead and declare a state on May 4."

ARMING THE MIDDLE EAST

DAMASCUS TO REARM SADDAM
BY Michael Evans Defence Editor, London Times 3/8/99

A secret deal has been agreed between Syria and Iraq for the
supply of military equipment to Baghdad, according to Middle East
intelligence sources. Relations between the two countries have
been improving significantly in recent months, with agreements
already signed to develop both political and economic co-
operation. Now, after a new deal between the Syrian and Iraqi
intelligence services, military equipment valued at about 60
million is to be shipped across the border, the intelligence
sources said.

Since the 1991 Gulf War, President Saddam Hussein has faced a
severe shortage of spare parts for his army because of the
international arms embargo. Under the Damascus agreement, Syrian
spare parts for military equipment would be converted for use by
the Iraqi Army, the sources said. The parts would include
engines for Russian-made tanks and tracks for armored fighting
vehicles. Syria is also expected to supply spares for
anti-aircraft radar facilities - hit by recent American and
British bombing - lorries, aircraft and helicopters, and
ammunition.

US MILITARY IMPROVES GROUND COMBAT ABILITY IN PERSIAN GULF REGION
March 10, 1999 By John Diamond, Associated Press Kuwait (AP)

The U.S. military is taking a series of low-profile steps to
improve its capability for ground combat in the Persian Gulf
region even as the high-profile air battle over northern and
southern Iraq thunders on. The effort gained urgency when, after
the U.S. air strikes on Iraq in December, Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein said he no longer recognizes Kuwait's sovereignty.
Defense Secretary William Cohen, who winds up a six-nation tour
of Gulf states today, says America's commitment to the region is
long term and goes beyond air cover.

"The one thing that you can be sure of is that we're going to
defend Kuwait, and any attack upon Kuwait we're going to consider
as an attack upon us,'' Cohen told U.S. air crews Tuesday at Al
Jaber Air Base in the Kuwaiti desert. "We're here to defend
their interests and our interests.''

So far on his trip, Cohen has reached agreement with Saudi Arabia
to conduct joint military exercises involving ground troops. In
Qatar, the United States expects by next year to complete the
pre-positioning of 200 tanks and other armored vehicles, and U.S.
officials are discussing a proposal by Qatar to expand accommo-
dations for U.S. ground troops. In Kuwait, regular field
exercises involving Marines or Army troops continue with equip-
ment from another huge armored vehicle storage center on the
outskirts of Kuwait City.

COHEN OUTLINES $3 BILLION ARMS SALE TO EGYPT
March 11, 1999 By John Diamond, Associated Press Jerusalem (AP)

Defense Secretary William Cohen offered today to sell $3.2
billion of America's most sophisticated weaponry to Egypt. He
later met with Iraeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu, who
shrugged off the sale as "nothing particularly new.'' The sale,
announced in Cairo by Cohen, would involve 24 advanced-model F-16
fighters, 200 M1-A1 tanks and one eight-unit Patriot missile
battery.

Israel has expressed concerns about Egypt and other Mideast
allies of the United States acquiring the latest weaponry. But
Netanyahu told reporters today that Egypt and Israel have been at
peace for two decades. "There's nothing particularly new here,''
Netanyahu said of the sale. And he underscored the close ties on
defense issues with the United States. "It will be very hard to
find two countries that cooperate in the field of defense as
intensely as Israel and the United States,'' Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu said the most important security issue for Israel is
the development of ballistic missiles and chemical and biological
weapons by "radical regimes in the Mideast.'' "The cooperation of
the United States and Israel is the most important
counter-development to offset these threats to stability and
peace,'' Netanyahu said.

DRUMBEATS OF WAR

IRANIAN 'MODERATES' SAY ISRAEL HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIST
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem 3/12/99

Despite his warm reception this week in Rome and at the Vatican,
Iran's "moderate" leader Mohammed Khatami oversees a government
that continues to question Israel's right to exist. MA'ARIV
reports that during discussions between Iranian and Italian
officials, the parties did not agree on aspects of the Middle
East conflict, and Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Harrazi told
Italian officials that "the State of Israel has no right to
exist."

ANTI-SEMITISM

THIEVES STEAL ANCIENT TORAH FROM ROMANIAN SYNAGOGUE
March 6, 1999 Bucharest, Romania (AP)

Thieves plundered a synagogue in northeastern Romania, stealing
an ancient Torah, a police officer said Saturday. The theft was
reported on Friday but police investigations found that it
occurred earlier this week in a synagogue in the city of Suceava,
225 miles north of Bucharest. The Torah, which contains the
first five books of Moses written on four leather scrolls, was
200 years old and worth $60,000.

SIBERIAN SYNAGOGUE DESECRATED
Associated Press - In Ha'aretz 3/10/99 Novosibirsk, Russia

A newly rededicated synagogue in southern Siberia was vandalized,
with Torahs thrown onto the floor and swastikas and anti-Semitic
writings scrawled on the walls and ceilings, Jewish leaders and
police said yesterday. Police downplayed the seriousness of the
attack, with an investigator describing it as "kids having
hi-jinks."

Jews received the synagogue back from local authorities about a
year ago, and a rabbi arrived from Israel 10 days ago to help the
community get back on its feet, according to Rabbi Berel Lazar,
who leads the Lubavitch movement of Hasidic Jews in Russia. "It
was the first time in many years they had a rabbi there. They
just celebrated Purim and had an incredible turnout, about 1,000
people," he said in Moscow.

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