>From ArabicNews.CoM Israeli rabbi and the Golan Heights Regional, Politics, 3/12/99 Jewish rabbi Ariel Daree has said, "Since we had returned Sinai to Egypt, why has the Golan not been returned to the Syrians for the sake of peace?" In an interview with the French magazine Le Novelle Observator Daree added, "I think that following the Israeli elections a national unity government will be formed and that government will be obliged to proceed in the Middle East peace process, and therefore a great deal of the efforts will be dedicated towards Syria because there should be a solution for the problem in Lebanon, where there is no military solution. We know that there is only a political solution there that should be directly discussed with the Syrians." Replying to a question on Syria asking first for the Golan, Daree added, "Yes, if we choose to leave the Golan this will create a security problem. However, this matter cannot be surpassed." When Daree was asked why Netanyahu and Barak did not go further to such proposals, Daree said that after the elections Netanyahu and Barak will speak in a different way and that, "I am confident that the Golan should be restored back to the Syrian against achieving peace. This matter will be more difficult in the West Bank where there will be a Palestinian state." Daree continued that the Palestinians have to know that Israel will never go back to the border of 1967 and that Jerusalem will never be divided, but a "clever solution" can be found for Jerusalem, noting that this matter takes time. The French magazine said that Daree (40) is described in Israel is "maker of kings" and that he is at the meantime the advisor of the greater Rabbi Obadia Yousef. Daree also chairs the Israeli Shas religious party which within less ten years became the third political power in Israel. The new heirs in the Arab states Regional, Politics, 3/12/99 The London-based Middle East daily addressed in an article titled "Can the ruling son be a copy of the father" the question of the new heirs in the Arab states. The paper said it is mere coincidence that three young rulers in the region, Jordan's King Abdullah Bin al-Hussein, the ruler of Bahrain Sheikh Hamad Bin Issa and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, had graduated from military academies in Britain and they spent most of their practical years in the army. The paper added: "We do not know what sort of lessons the said gentlemen learned in defense or in fighting areas. What we know is that that every school in Britain teaches before any other thing the supremacy of the law," noting that the Lebanese president said in his constitutional oath speech that he is "under the law rather than being above it." The paper added that Dr. Bashar al-Assad spent four years at the faculty of medicine in Britain and not in the military academy, noting that Bashar also behaves in his political domain on the grounds of the supremacy of the law and order, first. The paper added that just one line links those gentlemen, whose ages, experiences and posts are almost identical in "announcing war against corruption, before any other thing." EU stresses the Arab identity of Jerusalem Regional, Politics, 3/12/99 The European Union has rejected claims raised by Israel that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and falls under the Israeli supremacy. Israel Radio said on Thursday that the German ambassador in Tel Aviv, Theodor Wallau, conveyed an official message in the name of the EU to the Israeli Foreign Ministry saying that "Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel and does not fall under Israeli sovereignty. It is within territories occupied by Israel in 1967." The EU message also stressed the right of all EU ambassadors to meet with the representatives of the Palestinian authority in any place including the occupied city of Jerusalem. The message of the EU, however, came in reply to the request made by the secretary of the Israeli Foreign Ministry Eytan Bentsur to foreign ambassadors especially to those of the EU not to meet the PA representatives in the Palestinian "Beit al-Sharq" in Israel. In his request, Bentsur claimed that such meetings in Jerusalem are considered an intervention in the Israeli elections and in contradiction with Oslo and Wye plantation agreements signed with the Palestinians. However, the German ambassador in his capacity as the current holder of the EU presidency said that the EU views Jerusalem as a "separate entity" based on UN resolutions. He said that there were no plans to comply with the Israeli requests not to meet with the Palestinians in Jerusalem. Wallau stood by his comments and maintained they were part of the EU policy. And, just so we know the Ocalan capture went a ways to solving the Kurdish-Turkish problem: New Kurdish group claims responsibility for two explosions in Istanbul Regional, Politics, 3/12/99 A group which was not known before calling itself the "National Kurdish Revenge Group" announced on Thursday responsibility for two explosions that took place in Istanbul on Wednesday. An unidentified speaker who phoned the Turkish daily Hurriyet said he spoke on behalf of the group and that it is responsible for the two explosions took place in Istanbul. The speaker accused the Kurdistani Workers Party (PKK), whose leader Abdullah Ocalan was arrested in February, of taking a "negative stance." The speaker added that, "From now on no one Turkish will sleep in peace." 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