-Caveat Lector-
: Subject: Israel's Neighbourhood
: Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 7:09 PM
:
: From ArabicNews.CoM
:
: Lebanese university students break into the barbed wire on besieged
Arnoun
: and repel Israel's naked aggression
: Lebanon, Politics, 2/27/99
:
: Hundreds of Lebanese university students on Friday broke through the
barbed
: wire fences Israel planted around the Lebanese town of Arnoun and
restored
: it to Lebanese sovereignty.
:
: The students were shouting "Death to Israel," and "We are all for our
: nation." When a Lebanese student was asked why she was breaking the
: barbed-wire, she said: "Just because I am a Lebanese."
:
: A student at the faculty of engineering, Ghassan Daou, said "Let the
whole
: world know that Arnoun is Lebanese and the whole south is Lebanese."
:
: The action by the Lebanese university students came on the ninth day of
: Israel's decision to annex the town of Arnoun to the occupied part of
south
: Lebanon.
:
: Later in the day, thousands of Lebanese citizens and officials
representing
: all parties, religious groups and social movements arrived in the town,
: celebrating the big event of liberating their town
:
:
:
: PLO accuses Israel of stealing water
: Palestine, Politics, 2/27/99
:
: The Palestinian Liberation Organization warned against continuing to keep
: Palestinian water resources under Israeli domination, and it considered
it
: as undermining the chances for peace in the Middle East.
:
: A report presented by the organization to the Arab League's general
: trusteeship under the title "Policies and the Palestinian water positions
: under occupation" stated that Israel persisted to use water as a weapon
to
: exert political pressure and that it continues to steal and threaten the
: basins in Jordan, Yarmouk, Golan and in the occupied West Bank.
:
: The report also stated that Israel pumps 140,000 cubic meters of water
: daily in the southern West Bank, 115,000 thousand cubic of meters of
which
: are specified for nearly 35,000 thousand settlers who live in 31
: settlements, and 25,000 thousand cubic meters for more than half a
million
: Palestinian citizens in Bethlehem and Galilee.
:
: The report spoke of an agreement that allows the Palestinians to dig
water
: wells, but Israel has only allowed since signing the agreement in 1993
the
: digging of six Palestinian wells.
:
:
: Netanyahu fears Jordanian - Iraqi alliance
: Jordan, Politics, 2/27/99
:
: Jordan described yesterday the declarations made by Israeli Prime
Minister
: Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he referred to the possible establishment of
a
: Jordanian - Iraqi alliance against Israel, as surprising and asked for
: clarifications and the complete official text of Netanyahu's statement to
: determine Jordanian position regarding the remarks.
:
: Jordanian Foreign Minister Abd al-Ilah Khatib said the Foreign Ministry
: made official communications asking for clarification of these
statements,
: which were carried in news reports.
:
: Official sources refused the content of Netanyahu's reported statements,
: especially because they came on the eve of the official visit to be paid
by
: the Israeli prime minister to Jordan tomorrow.
:
: Netanyahu withdrew his declarations. Aniv Bushinski, Netanyahu's
spokesman,
: said, "Jordan will not join Iraq in an alliance against Israel."
:
: He added that circumstances have changed since 1991 and that Jordan is
: strong and does not need an alliance with Iraq, adding that King Abdullah
: assured this to the Israeli prime minister during their last meeting at
the
: king's father's funeral.
:
:
:
: Continued cooperation between Turkish, Israeli intelligence
: Turkey, Politics, 2/27/99
:
: The London-based "Foreign Report" weekly news bulletin said in its most
: recent issue that the Israeli intelligence, the Mossad, had expanded
: greatly its base in Turkey and opened branches in Turkey for other two
: departments stationed in Tel Aviv.
:
: The London-based al-Quds al-Arabi daily said on Friday, quoting Foreign
: Report, that the Mossad carried out several spy operations and plans
: through its elements stationed in Istanbul and Ankara, where it received
: support and full cooperation from the Turkish government.
:
: The paper reported that according to the military cooperation agreement
: between the Mossad and its Turkish counterpart, the MAT, signed by former
: Turkish Foreign Minister Hekmet Citen during his visit to Israel in 1993,
: the Mossad had provided Turkey with plans aiding it in closing its border
: with Iraq as well as being involved in the arrest the chairman of the
PKK,
: Abdullah Ocalan.
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