-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Tzemach News Service - http://www.tzemach.org/fyi A weekly update of news and events regarding the nation and the people of Israel Week Ending: 27 January 2001 / 3 Shevat 5761 Please feel free to forward to a friend or colleague. To subscribe, send a blank e-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Though I walk in the midst of trouble, Thou wilt revive me; Thou wilt stretch forth Thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Thy right hand will save me." Psalm 138.7 HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK: :: QUOTE OF THE WEEK :: WAQF CONTINUES TEMPLE MOUNT DESTRUCTION :: SUPREME MOSLEM COUNCIL: TEMPLE STOOD ON TEMPLE MOUNT :: THE MURDERS CONTINUE :: Aba TALKS END WITH NO AGREEMENT :: HEBRON, KIRYAT ARBA TO BE ABANDONED :: PA/PLO SUPPORTS TERRORIST ATTACKS :: BUSH "LOOKING INTO" MOVING EMBASSY :: HAPPY ALIYAH :: NEWS IN THE REGION :: BARAK IS REACHING :: SUGGESTED WEB SITES :: UPCOMING ISRAEL TRIP :: QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "We must reach an agreement with the Palestinians, even at the expense of tearing the nation apart and a split. Unity is a recipe for no decision." Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, on the eve of the talks last Sunday in Egypt's Taba resort in Sinai ............................ :: WAQF CONTINUES TEMPLE MOUNT DESTRUCTION: Desecration of the Temple Mount by the Moslem Waqf continues, with the permission of Prime Minister Barak -- although he maintains that he has issued an order to stop it. Archaeologist Dr. Gabi Barkai, of the Committee to Prevent Destruction on the Temple Mount, told ARUTZ-7 that over the course of this past Sabbath [Jan 20], "We received reports that a tractor worked throughout the Sabbath, and that a 50-meter [55 yards] long trench was dug leading out of the southern entrance of the Dome of the Rock. This is a tremendous violation of the status quo -- the ancient floor, which has not been touched for hundreds of years, has been dug up. All the earthmoving works that the Waqf has carried out until now were on the southern and southeastern areas of the Mount, which are a bit lower down, but yesterday for the first time they started digging up the upper level of the Temple Mount -- where the Holy Temple itself stood, according to all archaeologists and rabbis." Last week, Prime Minister Barak issued permits for Waqf construction on the Mount, against the recommendations of Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein, the police, and the Antiquities Authority. Barak said last Sunday that he had ordered Public Security Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami to close off the entrance through which the Waqf equipment enters the Mount. Dr. Barkai said, "This is simply not true -- all the works have been done, as far as we know, with his approval.... Heavy equipment and trucks are going in and out of the northern gates around the Mount, and 150 tons of dirt have been removed in the past weeks." HA'ARETZ reported that the Waqf had announced that it would halt all construction on the Mount on Sunday. Fresh eye-witness accounts indicate the Muslim Waqf has added a new tunnel accessing the ancient Hulda Gates corridor to its growing list of "archaeological crimes" on the Temple Mount. The tunnel reportedly runs underground from below the Al Aqsa mosque to the Hulda Gates area, which dates back to the Second Temple era. Although Israeli police denied the reports, journalists and others who saw the new tunnel first-hand said it includes electric lighting and an observation pit with an iron grille in the floor through which can be seen remnants of an old floor. ............................ :: SUPREME MOSLEM COUNCIL: TEMPLE STOOD ON TEMPLE MOUNT: Although the most recent Moslem "spin" is that there is no Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, the Supreme Moslem Council in Jerusalem wrote in 1930 that the site's identification with the First Temple is "beyond dispute." Etgar Lefkovits wrote in THE JERUSALEM POST Friday that the Council -- the supreme Moslem body appointed by the British to administer Moslem and Waqf affairs in mandatory Palestine -- published an English-language tourist guide that states, "The site is one of the oldest in the world. Its sanctity dates from the earliest times. Its identity with the site of Solomon's Temple is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot, according to universal belief, on which David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings." The PA/PLO Mufti Ikrima Sabri on Friday denied the report stating it was taken out of context. Sabri says the entire area, including the Western Wall, belongs to Islam. He denies that there ever was a Temple there and says the Jews have no historic connection to Jerusalem. ............................ :: THE MURDERS CONTINUE: In the latest instance of Israelis being brutally murdered in Palestinian areas, masked Arab gunmen grabbed two owners of a Tel Aviv restaurant who were shopping in PA/PLO-controlled Tulkarm on Tuesday and executed them on the edge of town. Israelis Motti Dayan, 27, and Etgar Zeitouny, 34, were abducted Tuesday as they were dining. Terrorists took them out to a field, and shot them in the head at close range. The Israel Defense Force [IDF] immediately encircled Tulkarm, and security officials reissued warnings to Israelis that entering PA/PLO-controlled areas is not only dangerous but also forbidden. The killings came just six days after Palestinians murdered 16 year-old Israeli high school student Ofir Rachum, who was lured to PA/PLO-controlled Ram'Allah and shot dead. The woman who set the fatal Internet trap for Rachum was arrested on Friday night by Israeli undercover agents. She is an active Fatah member, with an identity card from Jerusalem. IDF Chief of Staff Gen. Shaul Mofaz said Ram'Allah-based Fatah agents, including men who "danced on the blood" of IDF reservists murdered in last October's lynching, have been collared by Israeli agents as suspects. The Arafat-led Fatah is a sub-group of the PLO terrorist organization, Israel's "peace" partner. Akiva Pachkoz, 45, of Bayit Vegan, Jerusalem, was murdered Thursday evening by Palestinian terrorists in the Atarot industrial zone in northern Jerusalem, minutes after having dropped off some of his Arab workers at a nearby intersection. Pachkoz is survived by his wife Bilhah and five children, aged 3 to 21 years-old. ............................ :: TABA TALKS END WITH NO AGREEMENT: Israeli-Palestinian peace talks ended with an upbeat tone but no agreement Saturday, leaving further peace efforts to a possible meeting between Barak and Arafat. Though an accord remained distant, the two sides said in a joint statement that the six-day talks in the Red Sea resort of Taba were "unprecedented in their positive atmosphere" and left them closer than ever to an agreement. ............................ :: HEBRON, KIRYAT ARBA TO BE ABANDONED: CHANNEL ONE correspondent Ehud Ya'ari reported Thursday night that Israeli negotiators at Taba agreed to relinquish earlier demands concerning a continued Israeli presence in Kiryat Arba and the Jewish Community of Hebron following a "final status agreement". About a month ago it was announced that Israel would grant the PA/PLO sovereignty in all of Hebron, but that the area of the Jewish community in Hebron would be "leased" to Israel for 20 years. A Hebron community spokesman issued the following statement: "It is not surprising that negotiators Yossi Beilin, Yossi Sarid and Shlomo ben Ami agreed to total abandonment of Hebron and Kiryat Arba. According to their philosophies of life, Hebron's heritage is 'a thing of the past' with no importance to the present or the future." ............................ :: PA/PLO SUPPORTS TERRORIST ATTACKS: The Palestinian ruling authorities are not attempting at all to stop their youths who are throwing rocks and shooting at -- and car-bombing -- Israelis. They are not trying to punish them, nor are they even criticizing them. On the contrary, these activists are being honored and praised from all directions for their deeds. They are considered local heroes when they strike at and cause pain to Israelis. Over the weekend, Jibril Rajoub specifically said to the London-based newspaper, Al Hiyat: "We won't arrest those that Israel wants us to arrest, and we won't take any action against them." The Interim Agreement specifically states "The Palestinian Police will act systematically against all expressions of violence and terror." Annex I Article II Section 1.b. and "The Palestinian Police will act systematically against all expressions of violence and terror." Annex I Article II Section 1.d. and "Both sides will, in accordance with this Agreement, act to ensure the immediate, efficient and effective handling of any incident involving a threat or act of terrorism, violence or incitement, whether committed by Palestinians or Israelis. To this end, they will cooperate in the exchange of information and coordinate policies and activities. Each side shall immediately and effectively respond to the occurrence or anticipated occurrence of an act of terrorism, violence or incitement and shall take all necessary measures to prevent such an occurrence." Annex I Article II Section 2. <http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00qb0> ............................ :: BUSH "LOOKING INTO" MOVING EMBASSY: US President Bush has told his staff to start looking at how to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to fulfill his campaign pledge, officials said Monday. "The president asked his foreign-policy team to look into how the move could be accomplished," said White House Deputy Press Secretary Mary Ellen Countryman. She said the team "will report back," but that there is no specific time frame for the move. An Israeli government official told The Post last night that Israel regards the White House announcement as a token of goodwill but doesn't believe Bush will do anything substantive while Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are continuing. Meanwhile, the new US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, decided Tuesday not to appoint a new Middle East peace envoy to replace Dennis Ross. Powell's decision is yet another sign of the changes in US foreign policy. The new government is signaling that America will play a less active role in the peace process than it has done so far. A State Department spokesperson said that the US still has a vested interest in the peace process, but will not be taking part in the peace talks. ............................ :: HAPPY ALIYAH: Following its successful immigration-to-Israel program last year, the homegrown initiative Aliyah B'Simcha - Happy Immigration - is back in business. The town of Ma'aleh Levonah - 30 minutes north of Jerusalem - is arranging an Aliyah pilot-trip package during the week of Purim, between March 6 and March 11. Families interested in immigrating to Israel will be hosted at low cost, and will be treated to housing and jobs seminars, meetings with residents and school representatives, and tours of Yesha and other areas. The organizers will even reimburse the families for the costs of the flights - if they make Aliyah by this summer and buy a home in Ma'aleh Levonah or the vicinity. The program is being arranged by Eric Wiseberg, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. ............................ :: NEWS IN THE REGION: Syrian dictator Bashar Assad concluded his first official visit to Tehran on Thursday by agreeing with his Iranian hosts that Israel and her US ally currently are in a period of weakness that should be exploited on behalf of the Palestinians. According to Assad, the renewed Palestinian intifada was a "positive development" and resulted from the success of the resistance by the radical Shi'ite militia Hizb'Allah against Israel in south Lebanon. Meanwhile, the Syrian army is indeed on high alert, as reported in Monday's HA'ARETZ, sources with links in Damascus confirmed Tuesday in a report in the London-based AL HAYAT. The HA'ARETZ report stated that Syria is redeploying for fear of an Israeli attack before the elections. Israel has relayed warnings to Syria through both the United States and the European Union that a Hizb'Allah attack on the northern border would result in massive retaliation that would change the balance of power in the Middle East. In other news, a large concentration of Iraqi troops was recently deployed on the Syrian border under an agreement between Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and Syrian President Bashar Assad. Saddam moved the troops into position after consulting Assad and securing his permission. Assad apparently seized this as an opportunity to warn Israel that if it enacts its threat to attack Syria as a response to a strike by Hizb'Allah, then Israel would have to face a much larger-scale threat of Syrian forces backed-up by Iraqis. Hussein stressed that Iraq is ready to bombard Israel for six continuous months. The United States has sent a Patriot anti-missile defense battery to Israel amid heightened concerns of a Middle East war. Pentagon sources said the heightened tension in the Middle East prompted a decision to place on alert US forces in Germany and Italy. They said Washington has been concerned about an Iraqi attack on Israel amid reports that several Iraqi divisions have moved close to the Syrian border. ............................ :: BARAK IS REACHING: Arik Sharon, the driving force of every successful war Israel had to fight, was ambushed by a young high school girl, coached to lie for Ehud Barak. Arik Sharon was ambushed by high-school student Il'el Komei, head of the pro-Barak campaign forum at the Eshel HaNasi school in the Negev, who stood up in her Barak T-shirt and asked why he did not take responsibility for her shell-shocked father, caught up in one of Sharon's battles in Lebanon. As it turned out, her father, Tzvika,, a Barak supporter was wounded in a battle directed by Ehud Barak at Sultan Ya'akoub. HA'ARETZ reported January 23rd that Barak commanded the Sultan Ya'akoub battle, advancing forces into a Syrian trap without proper cover. Tzvika, an activist in the Be'er Sheva region on behalf of Barak, was quoted in MA'ARIV as being "concerned by reports he has heard over the years that Ehud Barak slept during the battle and that it was prohibited to disturb him during critical moments in the battle." ............................ SOURCES: Arutz-7, Ha'aretz, Jerusalem Post, ICEJ, IMRA, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, AP, World Tribune, MENL ............................ :: SUGGESTED WEB SITES: The city of Ariel, located in Samaria, is not the Internet: http://www.ariel.muni.il/ You can obtain information about the city, the Ariel Development Fund, Tourism, and listen to The Voice of the City of Ariel. For an exhaustive site with information on the Temple Mount, go to: "The Temple Mount in Jerusalem" http://www.templemount.org/ ............................ :: UPCOMING ISRAEL TRIP: Fellowship Church [of which Tzemach News Service is a ministry] is sponsoring a trip to Israel November 4 - 16, 2001. Do not let the current situation deter you from visiting G-d's land. If you feel the L-rd leading you to go, then trust in Him and go. The trip will cover areas in Judea and Samaria as well as the Galilee. Tentative areas to be visited include Ariel, Hebron, Kiryat Arba, Bracha, Megiddo, the Golan Heights, Beit She'an, Qumran and sites in and around Jerusalem. You will see the Bible come alive. We will meet and talk with people who live by faith in the land given to them by G-d. Due to the current situation in the Land, the schedule is still tentative. 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