-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: 5 February 2000 / 29 Shevat 5760 For G-d will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it. And the descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will dwell in it." (Psalm 69.35-36) GOVERNMENT BEGINS ABANDONMENT OF YESHA FIVE COMMUNITIES TO BE ISOLATED: As it stands now, the next withdrawal will for the first time in the history of the State of Israel leave an Israeli town totally surrounded by non-Israeli controlled territory. According to Maj.-Gen. Shlomo Yanai, OC IDF Planning, five Jewish communities will find themselves isolated in areas under total Palestinian Authority (PA/PLO) sovereignty (areas "A"). They are Ganim in Samaria, Beit Haggai, Otniel, Pnei Haver, and Neguhot, in the Southern Hebron Hills area. Around Beit Haggai and Otniel, only Highway 60 the access road to the two towns will continue to be Israeli-controlled. The government on Wednesday approved the next land withdrawal which is to include 6.1 percent of areas under Israeli control throughout Yesha (Judea and Samaria). The vote passed by a 6- 2 vote with 1 abstention. The withdrawal is to be implemented no later than 10 February, which would then leave the PA/PLO with control over 42.9 percent of Judea and Samaria (areas "A" & "B") with total control (security and civil matters - area "A") over 18.2 percent. The 6.1 percent land withdrawal represents 335 square kilometers (134 square miles) of land. SECURITY AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE CUT-OFF: The IDF (Israel Defense Force) has ceased providing protection to five communities in the Jordan Valley. The decision was made as part of the new policy to cut off all such protection in Judea and Samaria by the end of the year 2000. The towns affected are Kibbutz Gilgal, Rotem, Patzael, Kfar Mecholah, and Shadmot Mecholah the last of which is only 300 meters (300 yards) away from the Jordanian border. ARUTZ-7 correspondent Haggai Huberman reports that only last week, there were three cases of illegal penetrations from Jordan to Israel. Meanwhile, drastic Defense Ministry cutbacks on emergency medical aid for citizens in Yesha went into effect Monday night at 11:00 pm. Ten Magen David Adom ambulances stationed in Yesha were withdrawn, and some 35 Magen David Adom medics in the area have been reassigned or fired. JERUSALEM NEXT? Prime Minister Barak continues to exert heavy pressures on leaders of Agudat Yisrael to refrain from launching a public protest against the government's intention to transfer the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis to the PA/PLO. This week, Barak asked Agudat Yisrael Honorary President Rabbi Menachem Porush to call off a massive pro-Jerusalem rally slated for the near future. Along with Yesha leaders, Rabbi Porush participated in a joint tour of Jerusalem Tuesday. He was accompanied by MKs Nissim Z'ev, Shmuel Halpert (United Torah Judaism) and Yigal Bibi (National Religious Party). Porush told ARUTZ-7 last week that the demonstration will unite all Israelis, religious and secular alike, who hold dear the verse, "If I forget thee Jerusalem, may my right hand lose its cunning." In another story, a top Israeli government official suggested Sunday that Jerusalem could be "shared" with the Palestinians. Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh, who often speaks for Prime Minister Ehud Barak, said Jerusalem's municipal boundaries could be expanded to accommodate 'Palestinian aspirations' for a presence in the city. Asked where he would expand the borders, Sneh said eastward. Michael Eitan, a Likud legislator, appeared on the same interview program as Sneh. Even he was willing to concede the suburbs of Jerusalem as a Palestinian capital an on-the-record first for the Likud. FIGHTING ESCALATES IN THE NORTH: Three IDF soldiers were killed Monday in Lebanon by a Hizb'Allah-launched rocket on the eastern front of the Security Zone. They are Maj. Tidhar Temelhoff from Netanya, First Sgt. Leor Niv from Tel Aviv and Tsachi Malka from Metulla, KOL YISRAEL reported. Four soldiers were wounded, one critically, in the same attack. Col. Akel Hashem, the Deputy Commander of the Southern Lebanese Army (SLA), was killed by a Hizb'Allah-planted roadside explosive Sunday outside his house in southern Lebanon. The killing of Col. Hashem was filmed and shown on Hizb'Allah TV in Beirut Sunday night. More than a dozen youngsters and their parents escaped death or serious injury by a few minutes when an anti-aircraft shell fired by terrorists in south Lebanon exploded next to a kindergarten in Margaliyot in the Galilee panhandle early Sunday morning. There were no casualties, although playground equipment, the kindergarten building, and nearby moshav offices were damaged by the blast. The community has a population of just over 400 and is situated within a few dozen meters (approximately 100 feet) of the Lebanese border. Fighting continued on the border through-out the week. BARAK BACKS DOWN AGAINST HIZB'ALLAH: Government sources in Jerusalem declared that Israel would not avenge the Hizb'Allah attack Monday which claimed the lives of three IDF soldiers, or this week's assassination of SLA deputy commander Col. Akel Hashem. The Barak government reportedly fears that a sharp response would escalate the violence in the area and soon lead to the collapse of the diplomatic negotiations with Syria. The government's restraint stands in sharp contrast to opinions expressed by top IDF officials to take swift and harsh action against Hizb'Allah terrorists. BARAK-LABOR SCANDAL GOES INTERNATIONAL: Two prominent Canadian newspapers the TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, and the NATIONAL POST report that the "Canadian fund" cited in the Comptroller's report is in fact the Kahanoff Foundation of Calgary. As the Comptroller's report noted, some donations to the Barak campaign were funneled via this organization. A press report last March indicated that Barak attended a $10,000 minimum donation fundraiser that was hosted by Hollywood mogul Haim Saban. On 25 March 1999, thirty affluent people showed up for the affair at Saban's home. Saban confirms that he held a fund-raising event for Ehud Barak at the height of the previous election campaign in contrast to Barak's statement last week that he did not engage in fund-raising before the election. Saban told YEDIOT ACHARONOT that he is sure that he and others contributed to Barak, although he does not know exactly how the money was later used. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has begun investigating the possibility that Americans used the fictitious Israeli associations to contribute to the Barak campaign, while evading American tax laws. The FBI may soon interrogate or summon for questioning Israeli citizens involved in the scandal. SYRIA (AKA 'BARAK'S PEACE PARTNER') DENIES THE HOLOCAUST: Just days after a major international conference on the Holocaust that strongly condemned its denial, a Syrian state newspaper accused Israel of exaggerating the gravity of the Holocaust to extort money and sympathy from European governments and mask its own atrocities against the Palestinians. "Why does Israel insist on bringing up this alleged Holocaust policy?" wrote Mohamed Kheir Wadi, editor of the government-controlled newspaper TISHREEN. "I believe Israel and the Zionist organizations have two aims. The first is to receive more money from Germany and other Western establishments on the pretext of compensation for the Holocaust. The second aim is to invest the myth of the Holocaust and accuse anyone opposed to her Jewish lies about the Holocaust in the face of credible voices questioning it, including that of the controversial British historian David Irving." The newspaper further stated "Zionism is erasing from human memory 50 million Nazi victims and concentrating on the suffering of Jews, although historical facts prove that Zionist leaders then collaborated with the Nazis for the Jewish problem to get worse." At the United Nations this week, the Syrian and Lebanese delegates likewise spewed forth anti-Zionist, anti-Jewish language in response to the application of Hadassah the Women's Zionist Organization of America for consultative status at the UN's Economic and Social Council. "We all know that Zionism is based on the concept of ethnic superiority, of occupation and exclusion of others," the Syrian delegate declared, in an effort to deflect Hadassah's description of its work in medical care of Jews and Arabs. The Lebanese delegate resurrected the "Zionism-is-racism" equation, adding that the UN resolution was only repealed "due to political reasons." B'nai B'rith International President Richard D. Heideman called the reported United States reply during Wednesday's discussion "weak. Instead of saying that the statement equating Zionism with racism was 'odd,' and gently asking the Syrian representative to recognize the UN's repeal of the resolution, the United States should have insisted, immediately, that the Syrian and Lebanese delegates disavow their slander. If the Arabs really think Zionism, Jewish nationalism, is illegitimate, there's no point in expecting them to make peace with Israel, the Jewish national state. US GENERALS SAY KEEP GOLAN: Three retired US generals arrived in Israel on Tuesday to meet with members of the Strategic Lobby for the Golan, headed by Member of Knesset Yuval Shteinitz (Likud), which opposes Israel's withdrawal from the Golan Heights, MA'ARIV reported. The generals trip is being sponsored by the Jewish Institute for American-Jewish Security (JINSA). "Peace between Israel and Syria is greatly dependent on Israel maintaining control of the Golan Heights," General (ret.) John Foss told ARUTZ-7. Foss was asked about Barak's statement during the Shepherdstown talks that the ballistic capabilities of Middle Eastern states have rendered much of the Golan Heights' security value obsolete. Foss disagrees: "As an infantry officer, I will tell you that it is very much the soldiers on the ground that will stop an invading force and protect the people, because we've had missile for years and years. They were used in World War II and they don't change the overall equation of the importance of a piece of ground like that." The full interview with General Foss can be heard on ARUTZ-7'S website at: http://www.a7.org/engclips/030200/foss-golan.ram. Meanwhile, Defense establishment officials in Israel report that the Pentagon's refusal to release security codes to access the main onboard computer of the Apache Longbow helicopters is causing the delay in closing a deal for the acquisition of the state-of-the-art fighter craft. According to OC IAF Maj.-Gen. Eitan Ben-Eliyahu, Israel needs the highly classified codes in order to perform continuous maintenance on the craft and to calibrate the sophisticated weapons systems onboard. The longbow attack helicopters carry Hellfire anti-tank missiles and deploy advanced radar and other systems making it a leader among offensive military helicopters. They carry a price tag of $415 million each and the total Israeli order comes to $1.6 billion. Officials add that the manufacturer of the craft, the Boeing Company, does not object to releasing the codes to Israel. Officials in Israel have indicated that continued refusal to supply the codes would be a deal-breaker. AID TO THE PLO: The PLO will receive $100 million worth of security equipment this year as part of the five-year, $900 million. Wye aid package, PA/PLO Minister for Planning and International Cooperation Nabil Shaath told THE JERUSALEM POST. This was agreed during PA/PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's recent visit to Washington. Most of the equipment is surveillance and scanning devices for the crossing points, between Israel and the PA/PLO-controlled areas, Shaath said. Since the Wye River agreement, which brought the CIA (United States Central Intelligence Agency) in as 'referee' between Israel and the PA/PLO, the Palestinian police and security services have established good relations with the US intelligence agency. The CIA has trained members of the PA/PLO's security services and has supplied the PA/PLO with advice and equipment. The PA/PLO also allocated about one-third of its budget for the year for the police and the security forces. PALESTINIAN STATE THIS YEAR? Arafat said Monday that he plans to proclaim an independent Palestinian state before the end of this year and said he feared an historic opportunity for an Israel-Palestinian peace was being wasted by what he termed Israeli "delaying tactics" in talks with the Palestinians. Asked by HA'ARETZ when he planned to declare a Palestinian state, he said, "Very soon, this year." The PLO decided in concluding meetings of its central council that "declaring the independent Palestinian state -- with Jerusalem as capital --will take place on the deadline in September." ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR POLICY: The Knesset held a first-of-its-kind session on Israel's nuclear policy Wednesday. The session was initiated by Arab-party MK Issam Mahoul, and he and other Arab MKs incessantly heckled and argued with Minister Chaim Ramon, who spoke for the government. Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg was forced to remove several of the Arab MKs from the plenum. Mahoul said that Israel is the largest atomic weapon storehouse in the world. Many Knesset Members walked out in protest. Ramon said that Mahoul's words were "baseless and confused," and then stated: "Israel will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East ... However, it does not see the present nuclear anti-proliferation treaty as being relevant to this region, as shown by the recent cases of Iran and Iraq." MULTILATERAL TALKS REVIVED: The Middle East multilateral talks resumed this week in Moscow. The water issue will be addressed on 11 April; the economic committee will meet in Jordan on 8 May; the panel on refugees will convene in Ottawa on 6 May ; and the environmental quality committee will meet on 13 May in Tunisia. Only the meeting of the arms control committee remained in abeyance -- it was decided that consultations would be held among the countries in the region to set an agenda for the committee and a date for it to convene within a few months. THIS WEEK IN JEWISH HISTORY: February 1939: The London Conference under Chamberlain, Halifax and McDonald, failed to get the Arabs to agree to further Jewish immigration. 1 February 682: King Erwig (Visigoth, Spain) pressed for the "utter extirpation of the pest of the Jews," and made it illegal to practice any Jewish rites. This put further pressure on the Jews to convert or emigrate. 2 February 1955: Pinchas Lavon resigns as Israeli Minister of Defense after bitter disagreements with David Ben Gurion, chief of staff Moshe Dayan, and Director General of his office, Shimon Peres. What became known as the Lavon affair concerned a controversial Israeli operation within Egypt. The question of who had prior knowledge was to plague the Israeli political establishment and Ben Gurion in particular for years to come. The Lavon Affair and its investigation commission eventually led to the fall of the government and brought about Ben Gurion's resignation in 1963. 3 February 1917: British troops occupy Baghdad. After suffering heavily by forced conscription, torture and extortion by the Turkish ruled government, local Jews celebrated their freedom by declaring it a holiday (Yom Ness). Their freedom lasted until 1929 when the British granted independence to Iraq and all Zionist activities were prohibited. (Sources: ARUTZ-7, ISRAELWIRE, AP, ISRAEL LINE, ICEJ, IMRA, JERUSALEM POST, B'NAI B'RITH, HA'ARETZ, WZO) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tzemach News Service "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest" Isaiah 62:1 Published by Tzemach News Service, a ministry of Tzemach Institute for Biblical Studies Lee Underwood **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! 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