-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! Tzemach News Service Week Ending: 2 October 1999 / 22 Tishri 5760 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Thus saith the L-rd: 'I return unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth; and the mountain of the L-rd of hosts the Holy Mountain" (Zechariah 8.3) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS: In the shadow of the recent Burger King, Sprint and Disney boycott efforts, the Palestinian Authority (PA/PLO) is now calling for Israel to remove the label on its "Jerusalem 2000" wine since it displays a picture of the Dome of the Rock. According to PLO-appointed Jerusalem Mufti Sheik Ikrama Sabri, a picture of the Dome of the Rock on a bottle of alcohol is offensive and must be removed. However, Dr. Joseph Lerner, Co-Director of IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis), has pointed out that the Dome of the Rock is constantly on view as the symbol of Palestinian TV, even when acts and objects objectionable to Islam are presented. Israeli depictions of Jerusalem generally include the Dome of the Rock over the Western Wall and those in which it is deliberately eliminated are sharply criticized by Muslims. Meanwhile, back at Disney, dozens of Muslims protested Friday outside the park in Orlando, carrying banners reading "Israeli Exhibit of Falsehood" and "Disney and Israel - Partnership for Propaganda". Inside the park, a delegation of Arab Americans toured the exhibit with Disney officials. The group later said it would demand a Palestinian exhibit be added to the park's 24-country Millennium Village, a new temporary display. Disney spokesman Bill Warren said officials needed time to evaluate the request. [TNS: Why is it that, when the Southern Baptist Convention protested against Disney in 1997, the company never bothered to meet with them to discuss the problem; yet when the Muslims complained, Disney had no problems coming forth to discuss the situation?] A side note: "The Arabs have been driving the Disney folks crazy over the mention of Jerusalem as part of Israel in the Millennium Exhibition. I guess they never were at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Right there along with Amman, Jordan, Washington, D.C. and London, England the French have listed Jerusalem, Israel along with Israel's flag and the distance from the Tower to Jerusalem. (ISRAELWIRE, IMRA, AP) JEWISH PRAYER REQUEST DENIED: The High Court of Justice on Sunday morning rejected an appeal by the Temple Mount Faithful organization, which was seeking permission to conduct Jewish prayer services on the Mount, Judaism's holiest site. As has been the case in the past, senior police commanders have maintained a position opposing the Jewish prayers on the Mount on the grounds it would be deemed "provocative" and spark Islamic violence. (TNS: One more time: why can Muslims pray on the Temple Mount and Jews cannot?) Meanwhile, Esther Abutbul is working with Jewish and Arab realtors to buy a piece of the Temple Mount that is not, officially at least, a part of the general Waqf. One of the realtors is currently looking in Jordan for the heirs of Mrs. Abu Saoud, who passed away several years ago. Abutbul is the former head of the Jerusalem office of Tehiya, and a long- time member of the Temple Mount Faithful. Abutbul says that if large sums of money must be raised to realize the goal of Jewish control of the Mount, then the funds must be found. Abutbul tried to buy the plot a decade ago, and even managed to raise $220,000 to this end, but at the last minute the Arab realtor involved in the deal changed his mind and pulled out. (ISRAELWIRE, HA'ARETZ) US CONGRESS DENIES WYE APPROPRIATIONS: The aid promised by the US to Israel -- as well as to the PA/PLO and Jordan --for the implementation of the Wye Agreement will not be forthcoming anytime soon. The US Congress passed a foreign aid bill Monday that includes none of the funds promised by Clinton a year ago during the Wye plantation talks. President Clinton is likely to veto the bill, but lawmakers claim they are not sure from where the money for the Wye Agreement will come. Interestingly, the Clinton administration increased its estimate this past week of the budget surplus, saying it should hit at least $115 billion in fiscal 1999, the largest in American history. American-Jewish groups have demanded that the promised money be provided, as Israel in particular will face tremendous expenses in carrying out the Wye Agreement. Moving each of several army bases that Israel has undertaken to relocate, for instance, will cost approximately $100 million. (ARUTZ-7) US PARANOIA OF ISRAEL ON THE RISE: Facing what it says is a "potential computer intrusion threat", the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) is warning that Israel may use Y2K bug repairs to plant secret gateways inside US computer systems that can be later used to exploit sensitive information. A top CIA official [the CIA is the organization training the PLO para-military forces in Gaza] assigned to the NIPC declared in a published article that Israeli government or industrial forces may have already infiltrated systems under the guise of repairing the Y2K problems. CIA analyst Terrill D. Maynard wrote in the NIPC's publication, INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION DIGEST, that many US companies and government agencies seeking last-minute fixes to computers have often hired untested foreign programmers to fix year 2000 glitches. He named India and Israel as "likely sources of malicious remediation". The report is rather ridiculous given the fact that Israel has helped to upgrade much of the military defense software over the years for free. During the Gulf War, for instance, while using US-supplied Patriot missile systems, Israel corrected several computer software malfunctions and gave them to the US at no charge. (APBNEWS, WORLDNETDAILY) GERMANY PURCHASING FARMS FOR PA/PLO: Shaul Goldstein, the head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council learned during a Wednesday meeting with Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh that the deal involving the giving away of lands to the PA/PLO for farming involved no less than 14 areas and not two as was first reported. ISRAELWIRE reported earlier that the IDF Civil Administration planned to give away parcels of land to the PA/PLO for farming. The deal would have interrupted the territorial continuity between Neve Daniel and Efrat and Alon Shvut and Kibbutz Rosh Tzurim. It is now leaned there are an additional 12 such deals with a total of 13 of the 14 dealing with lands in areas "C" -- under total Israeli control. The 13 Area C farms take up a total of 2,998 dunams (almost 750 acres). Investigations conducted by Jewish area leaders revealed most of the lands being given away are state owned and not private lands as being erroneously reported by some Israeli news agencies. Gush Etzion leaders also have indicated they have proof that the government of Germany is funding the farms and not the United Nations as being reported by ISRAEL RADIO. (ISRAELWIRE) NO AGREEMENT ON SAFE PASSAGE: Israel and the Palestinians failed to reach agreement Saturday on conditions for the so-called safe passage Palestinians will use to cross Israeli territory between Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. As the route was to have opened Sunday, the delay is the first major setback in the implementation of the Sharm el-Sheikh deal. Palestinian negotiator Jamil Tarifi said the Israelis still insist on the right to arrest Palestinians traveling on the safe passage and refuse to permit the PA/PLO to issue the magnetic cards which are to be used by Palestinian drivers making the crossing. Israeli officials have said Israel must retain control over which Palestinians enter Israeli territory and must be able to arrest militants who pose a threat to security. (JERUSALEM POST) FRANCE TO HELP PAY FOR GAZA PORT: France has agreed to finance construction of the new seaport in the Gaza Strip. France agreed to underwrite about half the cost of the construction of the Gaza seaport, amounting to some $80 million. This complements the amount already donated by the government of Holland. The European Investment Bank is responsible for the administration of the finances, and the actual construction will be done by contracting firms from France and Holland. France will transfer some 500 million francs ($81.6 million) to the PA/PLO over the next four years. This does not include the aid that France gives the PA/PLO as part of its contribution within the framework of the European Union, which will amount to about 500 million euros ($535.8 million). (HA'ARETZ) MEANWHILE, ISRAEL SENDS AID TO RUSSIA AND TURKEY: The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dispatched humanitarian aid to Russia following the string of terrorist attacks in Moscow in recent weeks, MA'ARIV reported. On Monday, an airplane containing 3.5 tons of medical equipment and medicine embarked on route to Moscow. At the same time, construction is progressing steadily on the "Israeli Village" which will house more than 2,000 survivors of the earthquake that hit Turkey two months ago. Construction of the village, located on the outskirts of Adapazari, is scheduled to conclude by 15 October, and survivors are expected to assume residence in the village immediately thereafter. (ISRAEL LINE) ISRAEL TO MONITOR ISLAMIC MOVEMENT: A special ministerial committee -- composed of Prime Minister Barak, Public Security Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, Education Minister Yossi Sarid, Interior Minister Natan Sharansky and Minister for Culture and Sport Matan Vilnai -- decided to now closely monitor incitement in the movement's mosques and publications, and to track the fund-raising activities of its associations. The government suspects that monies targeted for Islamic educational projects have ended up in the hands of the Hamas terrorist organization in Judea and Samaria. The security authorities have fiercely attacked the government proposals saying the clampdown is far too weak. Israeli-Arab expert Rafi Yisraeli was asked if these measures are enough. "They are only cosmetics," he answered, "and far from enough. Leaders of the Movement continue to incite and act against Israel." Yisraeli provided some examples: "Whenever a Hamas terrorist is killed during a murderous attempt or attack, an official delegation of the Islamic Movement is dispatched to comfort the family. Islamic Movement members are the ones who mediate whenever there is tension between the PA and Hamas -- and Israel allows this. The Islamic Movement gathered together two truckloads-full of food and supplies for the 400 terrorists who were deported to Lebanon several years ago. The group's members initiated the extension of the bottom floor of the Temple Mount for a new mosque -- and we sit [Israel] idly by and do nothing. There are plenty more examples." The Islamic Movement has been involved in several recent terrorist attacks in Israel. (ARUTZ-7, HA'ARETZ) TERRORIST RETURNS TO ISRAEL: Mustafa Zibri, the deputy leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Syrian- backed PLO faction which opposes the Oslo accords, arrived Thursday in Jericho. A crowd of some 200 PFLP supporters welcomed him. Zibri addressed the crowd saying "the most important thing is that we continue the struggle for the right to return to all of 'Palestine'". Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ehud Barak confirmed Thursday that Israel might allow Nayef Hawatmeh, the leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) to enter the Palestinian Authority. He is responsible for killing some 30 Israelis in terrorist attacks. (JERUSALEM POST, ARUTZ-7) NO REWARDS FOR PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS: Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America, reacted Thursday to the American government's refusal to offer rewards for information leading to the capture of Palestinian Arab terrorists who have killed American citizens. During a recent meeting between Secretary Albright and Jewish-American leaders, Klein asked why the Clinton administration offers multi-million dollar awards for terrorists who have killed Americans abroad, yet does not list information about Palestinian terrorists or their victims. Albright reportedly answered that the rewards issue is not a simple matter, and too complicated to discuss at the meeting. (ARUTZ-7) TERRORISTS ESCAPE: Three Palestinians jailed for bomb attacks on Israelis in Jerusalem have escaped from a jail in PA/PLO-controlled Shechem. Police are searching for them. (BBC) ON THE NORTHERN FRONT: Israel Air Force (IAF) planes launched a series of attacks against suspected terrorist positions just north of the Security Zone in southern Lebanon. Planes fired rockets near the village of Okmata, and later hit positions at Zawtar and Froun. The raids, the sixth this week, followed terrorist attacks on an Israeli position near the village of Sujud. A soldier of the Southern Lebanese Army (SLA) was killed, and two others were wounded, in a battle with Hizb'Allah terrorists Wednesday morning. A heavy day of fighting in south Lebanon Tuesday left two dead and at least nine wounded, including one Israeli soldier with light injuries. A South Lebanon Army officer and a Hezb'Allah terrorist were killed. A Southern Lebanese Army officer was killed and three Lebanese civilians were injured Monday near the Beit Yaron Passage when terrorists detonated a powerful roadside bomb. (ARUTZ-7, ISRAEL LINE, JERUSALEM POST) "PEACE IN OUR TIME": In talks conducted last week in Jerusalem, Britain presented Israel with confidence-building measures proposed by Iran concerning nuclear weapons and pressured Israel to respond favorably to them. At meetings held in recent months, the Iranians presented the British with general ideas for the disarmament of the Middle East. The Iranians did not mention Israel's name, but the British had no doubt that the Iranians had Israel in mind. The British presented Israel with three main proposals: 1) A regional agreement not to strike first with missiles; 2) An agreement not to arm ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads; and 3) Restrictions on the purpose of long-range missiles. The British pointed out that they completely understand the need of the Iranians to arm themselves for defense -- including ground-to- ground missiles -- considering the regional threats Iran faces, especially from countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan [TNS: What about the threat Israel faces?] (HA'ARETZ) AJC ISSUES REPORT ON UNFAIR TREATMENT OF ISRAEL AT UN: Israel over the past 12 months remained the object of "obsessive" and "relentless" criticism in the United Nations, undercutting the Arab-Israeli peace process and undermining UN credibility, according to the American Jewish Committee's annual report on discrimination against Israel at the UN. The report, ONE-SIDED: THE CONTINUING CAMPAIGN AGAINST ISRAEL AT THE UNITED NATIONS, provides a detailed review of the more than 20 resolutions adopted by the General Assembly this past year regarding Israel, as well as tables of how each member country voted on each resolution. The General Assembly continues to serve as a forum for one-sided criticism of Israel in its approach to issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict," said AJC President Bruce M. Ramer. "The relentless focus on Israel remains unparalleled in its size, scope, persistence and intensity." Ramer, who testified in July before Congress on the treatment of Israel at the UN, added: "There is barely a body in the UN system that has not been co-opted or terrorized into adopting a resolution, special procedure, agenda item or mechanism that singles out Israel and Israel alone." For a copy of ONE- SIDED: THE CONTINUING CAMPAIGN AGAINST ISRAEL IN THE UNITED NATIONS call 212-751-4000, ext. 272 or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (US NEWSWIRE) KOFI ANNAN APPLAUDS "VITAL" PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN UN, ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC STATES: The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is a vital partner in United Nations efforts to stop gross and systematic violations of human rights, Secretary-General Kofi Annan stressed Friday in a message to the forum's annual Foreign Ministers meeting. In remarks delivered on his behalf by Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Ibrahima Fall, the Secretary- General highlighted several crises -- from Afghanistan and Somalia to Libya and the Comoros -- in which the UN and the OIC have collaborated to address concerns of the Islamic world. [TNS: Most of the conflicts the UN is involved in include Islamic countries or ethnic gourps.] (UN NEWS) THIS WEEK IN JEWISH HISTORY: October 1934: The Berne Trial was held after a demonstration in June of the National Front (a Swiss anti-Semitic organization) during which copies of the "Protocols" were distributed. The Jewish community brought a suit against the leaders for publishing and distributing indecent writings. Though later a court of appeals repealed the sentences, the trial succeeded in proving the "Protocols" a forgery. October 1938: Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest in Detroit, began his weekly anti-Semitic broadcasts over national radio. He also formed the Christian Front in New York City which carried out anti-Semitic street meetings and boycotted Jewish businesses. 1 October 1898: KIEV - A decree by the Russian czar (Nicholas II) explicitly bars Jews from living in major Russian cities. The action follows laws issued the previous May, restricting Jewish settlement to the Pale of Settlement. In Kiev, alone, some 7,000 Jews were forced to relocate. 2 October 1656: In Amsterdam, Yom Kippur services were held for the first time. Neighbors thought the Jews were secret Catholic papists and reported them to the Dutch authorities, who had them arrested on suspicion of insurgency. Once it was explained that the community was Jewish, the leaders were released and worship continued in peace. (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 'Lee Underwood **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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