-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! Tzemach News Service Week Ending: 29 January 2000 / 22 Shevat 5760 "I will also plant them on their land, and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given them, says the L-rd your G-d" (Amos 9.15) NEW TENDERS NO LONGER ISSUED: The leaders of Yesha (Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip), say that seven months after the political upset in Israel, not only has the government changed but also the entire system. They say that on the instructions of the prime minister, the Housing Ministry has ceased publishing new tenders. The subcommittee of the Supreme Planning Council for Judea and Samaria is convening to discuss construction in the settlements only with advance approval of the prime minister or his deputy in the Defense Ministry, Efrayim Sneh. In another story, ARUTZ-7 has learned that by the end of the year 2000, the IDF (Israel Defense Force) plans to totally cease army guard duty within the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria. The number of IDF guards in Yesha has already been decreased by 40% over the past several weeks. IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz informed a gathering of Home Front Command officers last Thursday that budgetary constraints are to blame, and added that most of the residents are army veterans who can protect themselves. In response, the Yesha Council has informed Yesha's security officers not to man the guard posts vacated by the army. Council Chairman Benny Kashriel informed O.C. Command Maj.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon that beginning in April, the large Yesha townships of Ma'aleh Adumim, Beitar, and Givat Ze'ev will halt their funding for security guards in their localities. As if this were not enough, the Magen David Adom medical organization also announced last week that it would cut back on special emergency services throughout Yesha by the end of this month, as future government funding has not been approved. The Yesha Council has asked for an urgent meeting with Deputy Defense Minister Sneh "before the entire network collapses." The Jewish population in Judea and Samaria grew last year by almost 3%, and now numbers 177,000 people. RALLY FOR JERUSALEM: An estimated 5,000 people took part in the drive-in/march Tuesday night against the continued Waqf desecration of the Temple Mount and in favor of the unity of Jerusalem. The unique demonstration was organized by the Zo Artzeinu (This is Our Land) movement, and involved many hundreds of cars from all over the country. The event featured two stages one motorized, and one on foot. Demonstrators from around the country arrived in the capital with pro-Jerusalem posters and flags on their cars. One group of demonstrators set out from Gamla in the Golan, where 1900-year-old coins bearing the words "For the Liberty of Jerusalem" the theme of the demonstration were uncovered. Drivers parked in the Kidron Valley where the Muslim Waqf has dumped the remains of the treasures it dug up from under the Temple Mount. The participants, holding torches, then marched to a spot close to the Mount, and took part in an allegiance- declaring ceremony to Jerusalem and to the site of the Holy Temple. The force behind the demonstration, Moshe Feiglin, said, "It's not only the left, or the right, who are causing us to lose Jerusalem they are both responsible! We hope to help bring to power a new government that is based on people of faith, one that will restore to our nation its awareness of its special mission." INTERVIEW: DR. GABI BARKAY ON TEMPLE MOUNT EXCAVATIONS: IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis) interviewed archeologist Dr. Gabi Barkay of Bar Illan University, Land of Israel Studies Department, in English, on 24 January 2000. IMRA: Do you have a sense as to how much damage was caused by the excavations at the Temple Mount? BARKAY: No I don't have. Nobody knows what was destroyed there and that is the tragedy. There was no recording and the dig was done clandestinely at night by heavy machinery and trucks and nobody knows. Only the result is there. IMRA: I have spoken with people from the Waqf and they say that if you look at photographs from 60 or 80 years ago that the area excavated didn't exist. That the area being excavated was basically modern landfill. BARKAY: This is outrageous. Totally incorrect. The Temple Mount has never been touched archeologically. Its surface has not even been properly surveyed. Nothing is known about the Temple Mount and all the aerial photographs that we have since the beginning of photography all indicate that that area did not change much since antiquity. What was done there is destruction. IMRA: Is there any indication of what was destroyed from the excavated material dumped in the Kidron Valley? BARKAY: By the way, the illegal dumping in the Kidron Valley that ruins the landscape there is another violation. It is very strange that nobody has done anything against the illegal activity of the excavation or the dumping. IMRA: Have you had a look at the excavated material now dumped in the Kidron Valley? BARKAY: Yes, as have others. I found pottery from many different periods in the dumped material going back to the 8th century BC First Temple Period and onwards. I saw this pottery with my own eyes. IMRA: What information was lost by seeing the pottery only after it was dumped in Kidron? BARKAY: Wherever you dig in Jerusalem has a mixture pottery and finds from different periods. This is what tells us about the history of a particular place. The exact position of the various pieces of pottery vis-a- vis each other and the earthen layers, which include the pottery are clues to the history of the sight. If this is eliminated then we don't have the history. The Temple Mount is almost three times the size of the City of David and we know nothing about it, as it was never excavated. It is one of the most essential parts of the ancient story of Jerusalem. Anything we learn about it is new and here we had an opportunity. Nobody said that there can't be a new entrance to a mosque built just that it could have been done more carefully, honoring the cultural values of the past of Jerusalem and honoring the law. IMRA: What would you say about the work of the Antiquities Department? BARKAY: Their job, by law, is to safeguard the antiquities of the country and they aren't doing it. They have somebody having higher authority disturbing them. Telling them what to do and about what to be quiet. WEIZMAN SAYS HE WILL NOT RESIGN: Addressing the nation for the first time since disclosures about his alleged receipt of illegal funds were made public, President Ezer Weizman said that he would not resign, HA'ARETZ reported. Weizman is under criminal investigation for allegedly receiving $453,000 from French businessman Edouard Saroussi between 1988-93 while serving as a cabinet minister. In a statement broadcast live on television and radio on Sunday night, Weizman said, "I do not intend to resign. A person with a clean conscience is not afraid and does not flee." Weizman said that he consulted a lawyer who assured him that all of his actions were legal and without blemish and that "even if I made a mistake, it was a human mistake, made in good faith." BARAK ALSO UNDER INVESTIGATION: Prime Minister Ehud Barak's One Israel political bloc faced a criminal investigation Thursday after an official report found it broke election laws on campaign funding for the May 1999 elections. In a report on party financing, state comptroller Eliezer Goldberg singled out One Israel as the worst offender for channeling funds for the election campaign through non-profit organizations and ordered it to pay around NIS 13 million ($3.3 million) in penalties. Attorney-General Eliyakim Rubinstein's office said he has ordered the police to launch an investigation into a number of matters raised in the comptroller's report, including possible fraud by One Israel. "Funds were channeled in a cloud of secrecy to some of the non-profit organizations through mediators, through contributions, some of which came from abroad, some of which were large sums contributions which are illegal according to the law," Rubinstein's office said in a statement. [Editor's note: If all this sounds suspiciously like what happened after the last election of US President Clinton, it should be noted that the same "team" used to elect Clinton (as well as the Chancellor of Germany and the Prime Minister of Britain, among others) James Carville et al was also used to elect Barak. Don't look for charges to be brought against Barak; they were not brought against Clinton either.] Rubinstein also said he ordered an investigation into the financing of campaigns by the right-wing opposition Likud party, the Russian immigrant party Israel Our Home and the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism, in addition to the Centre Party, a member of Barak's coalition. Goldberg's report said a total of 19 political parties out of the 31 contesting the election had committed "grave breaches" of the election law under which foreign contributions to election campaigns are illegal and domestic donations must be restricted to NIS 1,700 (approximately $400) per voter. 'ADAPTING' HISTORY TO FIT THE SITUATION: On a recent tour for a visiting Jewish group at Orient House, Palestinian official Rami Tahboub announced: "Jerusalem has been the capital of the Palestinian people for more than 5,000 years" [In 135 CE, the Romans renamed Judea "Palestinia" and Jerusalem, "Aelia Capitolina." ed]. To combat Israel's biblical claim to the Land of Israel, Palestinians no longer declare that they are part of the great Arab nation as they used to do before the establishment of Israel, when only Jews were called Palestinians. Now they trace their lineage to the Jebusites, Canaanites, Philistines, and all the other tribes displaced by the Israelites according to the Bible. That they also claim that the Bible stories are fiction does not seem to bother them. Nor are they perturbed by the fact that such ancestry would mean that they are not Arabs, and that the Arab invasion of the 7th century was a foreign occupation. Logic and history are irrelevant to this myth-weaving. Several years ago PA/PLO member Hanan Ashrawi signaled this new direction of Arab propaganda when she announced in Madrid that she was a descendant of the first Christians. This would make her a Jew a distinction she would probably be less than happy to claim. GUARDIAN REMOVES ISRAEL FROM 20TH CENTURY: In it's 1 January weekly magazine, the British daily THE GUARDIAN devoted 92 pages to a review of the 20th century. Remarkably, Israel is never mentioned. Jews are mentioned only once in the caption of a photograph: "1943 German troops clear the Warsaw ghetto. After a month of bitter house-to-house combat, Jewish resistance fighters were overcome by vastly superior forces. Of the 56,000 Jews rounded up by the Nazis, 7,000 were executed and the remainder sent to death camps." This is the extent of the Jewish role in the 20th century. Even the caption of a picture of trenches filled with bodies in Bergen-Belsen fails to mention Jews. "1945, Belsen British troops entered the camp in April 1945. They found 35,000 bodies and another 30,000 inmates near death. In the days following the liberation many hundreds more died from disease or starvation." STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE MISSES POINT: This past week a conference was held in Stockholm, Sweden dedicated to fighting antisemitism. The problem is that it focused on Western antisemitism, which does not now threaten the existence of the Jewish people. Today's war against the Jews is being waged not in Europe but in the Middle East, the only region in the world where governments not gangs, demagogues, fake scholars and demented fanatics, but the regimes themselves propagate antisemitism and advocate the destruction of the Jewish nation. It is in Arab schools Syrian, Palestinian, Egyptian, Saudi, Jordanian and others that children learn that Jews have no right to exist. It is in Syria, whose leaders are now warmly embraced by the whole civilized world for making "a strategic decision for peace," that first-graders read in their first primer "The Jews are criminal villains." It is in every following grade and almost every subject in Arab schools that Jews are depicted as enemies of humanity. Even an arithmetic drill contains a question such as: "Nine soldiers fled from a Jewish company. How many Jewish soldiers did we kill if the number of soldiers in the company was 17?" The inspiration for such a curriculum is unmistakable to anyone who has perused Third Reich textbooks and seen the Nazi film "The Eternal Jew". It can be taken for granted that this real, current threat against Jews will not intrude on the Stockholm proceedings. The good leaders of the West will condemn the Nazis and their collaborators, discuss educational programs and museums, and perhaps even talk about compensation for survivors. But no one, least of all the Swedish host, will dare mention that even as they speak, a Nuremberg-type law that makes the sale of land to Jews punishable by death is being enforced by the US-sponsored Palestinian Authority (PA/PLO). SNOW IN ISRAEL! Four people died in weather-related accidents over the weekend and dozens had to be treated for hypothermia as a result of the storm that brought snow to Jerusalem, the Negev, and the Galilee peaks, as well as the Golan and Mount Hermon. The heaviest snow was on Mount Hermon, where over two meters (3.5 feet) accumulated on the lower slopes with drifts of nearly seven meters (23 feet) on the peak by Saturday. ARAFAT, BARAK TO MEET NEXT WEEK: Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will meet next week amid fading hopes for concluding the outline of a peace agreement by the deadline they set, 13 February. "If they don't meet it, they'll reach some understanding about how to deal with that problem," a senior US official said Saturday after a 30-minute meeting between Arafat and President Clinton. The Barak-Arafat meeting will be held Thursday or Friday at Erez, a border crossing between Israel and Palestinian-held Gaza, and will focus on the major unresolved issues, said the official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity. The State Department announced Thursday that senior US 'mediator' Dennis Ross would go to the Middle East to help in the search for a settlement. Ross is due in Israel on Wednesday. MILLENNIUM ACTUALLY STARTS IN 2001, Terrorists Note: With the world breathing a collective sigh of relief following the violence-free passage into the year 2000, an international coalition of terrorists issued a reminder Monday that the new millennium does not actually begin until January 1, 2001. "Technically speaking, we are now in the last year of the 20th century," said Mahmoud al-Habib, a spokesperson for the terrorist organization Hamas. "Since there was no year zero, next New Year's Eve is the real time to detonate bombs in Times Square and blow commercial airliners out of the sky." Speaking from a secret bunker in the Kashmir hills, Osama bin Laden agreed. "We were all set to blow up the Eiffel Tower," bin Laden said, "when one of my suicide bombers pointed out that it should actually be done next January 1, not this one. I suppose we'll just have to wait." THIS WEEK IN JEWISH HISTORY 23 January 1639: Auto de Fe at Lima, Peru More than eighty new Christians were burned after the Inquisition discovered that they were holding regular Jewish services. 25 January 1904: Theodor Herzl met Pope Pius X and tried to convince him to support the vision of Zionism without any success. The pope totally rejected the idea that Jerusalem will be in Jewish hands. 28 January 1668: Pope Clement IX canceled the humiliating "forced races". Known as the "Palio", near-naked Jews were forced to run through the streets of Rome during carnival time. In return for the revocation, the Jews of Rome had to pay a special cancellation tax of 200 ducats. This tax was paid for almost 200 years. 29 January 1808: In Canada, though Ezekiel Hart (1767-1843) was elected to the Canadian parliament, he was prevented from taking his seat because as a Jew he could not take the oath "on the true faith of a Christian". Though reelected in May 1808, and in April 1809, he was again prevented from being seated. Only in 1832 was legislation passed allowing Jews to hold public office and giving them full civil rights. **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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