WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! Tzemach News Service Week Ending: 29 April 2000 / 24 Nisan 5760 "But Thou art the same, and Thy years will not come to an end. The children of Thy servants will continue, and their descendants will be established before Thee." (Psalm 102.27-28) DESTRUCTION CONTINUES ON TEMPLE MOUNT: The just-ended Pesach (Passover) holiday saw a renewal of the Moslem Waqf's construction activity on the Temple Mount. Tractors were again seen removing huge mounds of dirt from the Mount into the Kidron Valley, despite the government order forbidding the entry of trucks to the holy site. A group of yeshiva students was attacked Wednesday near the Temple Mount, while in the midst of circling the Old City and reciting Psalms outside each gate. Police who arrived on the scene arrested one Arab youth, as well as one Jewish boy. PESACH FESTIVITIES: Thousands of Jews visited the Western Wall, while Shas supporters filled Jerusalem's Sachar Park to mark the Pesach holiday and listen to messages by leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis. The Jewish Community of Hebron celebrated the 32nd anniversary of the return to Hebron with a giant Pesach festival. Tens of thousands of people strolled the streets of the city, visiting the archeological excavations at Tel Rumeida, the Beit Hadassah Hebron Heritage Museum, the Avraham Avinu synagogue, and Ma'arat HaMachpela. In honor of the festive celebrations, all of Ma'arat HaMachpela was open to Jewish visitors, including Ohel Yitzhak, (the Isaac Hall), open to Jews only 10 days a year. Meanwhile, the Justice for Jonathan Pollard organization reports that Pollard -- who is serving the 15th year of a life sentence in a North Carolina prison for spying for Israel -- spent the first night of Pesach "the Seder night, scrubbing toilets and washing floors." Pollard was given a direct order to do the work in preparation for a special inspection the next day. Refusal to obey such an order, says the organization, would likely have led to him being held "incommunicado in a punitive cell for up to 90 days." CLINTON PROVIDES WAIVER FOR PLO: In an effort to provide funding for the PLO in the upcoming fiscal year, US President Clinton has issued a "Waiver and Certification of Statutory Provisions Regarding the Palestine Liberation Organization". Stating it was in the "national security interests of the United States", Clinton waived the provisions of section 1003 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987, Public Law 100-204 for six months. The Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 amended the Federal criminal code to "impose criminal penalties for aiding or abetting the Palestinian Liberation Organization [PLO]." [The question then would be why doesn't the Federal government amend the law to take away this provision of 'aiding and abetting' the PLO? ed] Also, in the same budget -- the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2000 and 2001 -- Section 104 (a)(2)(B) states "REFUGEES RESETTLING IN ISRAEL- Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated in paragraph (1) [$750,000,000], $60,000,000 for the fiscal year 2000 and $60,000,000 for the fiscal year 2001 are authorized to be available only for assistance for refugees resettling in Israel from other countries." US APPLIES PRESSURE TO ISRAEL IN DEAL WITH CHINA: The US Defense Department has decided to delay Israeli requests for new weapons and advanced military technology in order to pressure Israel to cancel its sale of Falcon early-warning aircraft to China. The Israeli requests will now be subjected to "a very harsh review," according to a senior Pentagon source. The dispute over the sale of the Israeli-made AWACS planes to China has clouded American-Israeli relations in recent weeks and may thwart Prime Minister Ehud Barak's efforts to "upgrade" the strategic relationship with Washington. The US claims that the Falcon aircraft will increase the range of the Chinese Air Force and tilt the balance of power away from China's rival, Taiwan, which the US is committed to defending. The first Falcon plane is currently being refurbished at Israel Aircraft Industries and is scheduled to be sent to China in about a year. TALKS ON FOR SUNDAY: Israel and the PLO are slated to resume negotiations on 30 April in Eilat Under the existing, self-imposed peace schedule, the two sides are supposed to have a framework "final status" agreement in place by 13 May and a definitive accord signed by 13 September. Several senior Israeli officials have suggested that the Jewish state would recognize a Palestinian state if Arafat agreed to put off the touchy issue of Jerusalem and give up his demand for a full Israeli withdrawal from Yesha (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza). The PLO, however, has outright rejected this, demanding Jerusalem for their 'capital' (although no other nation besides Israel has ever claimed Jerusalem for its capital before). SYRIA TEACHES DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL IN SCHOOL: Syrians grow up learning that Israel is the ultimate foe, an 'illegitimate state' that 'stole' the Golan Heights from Syria and murdered thousands of Arabs. Deep-seated animosity has been passed to younger generations through 50 years of hostility. Chapter 13 of a Syrian elementary school book teaches that Zionism is a "Nazi movement that aims at colonizing the Arab world from the Euphrates to the Nile." Israel, the civics text says, is a "malignant cancer that sprouted in the heart of the Arab nation" and seeks to expand through racist aggression. Many Syrian textbooks devote sections to Israeli attacks on Arabs; Jihad (holy war) against Israel is encouraged. Israel has been trying to negotiate a "peace" treaty with Syria but has not yet been successful. ON THE NORTHERN FRONT: Terrorists detonated a car bomb near an outpost of the South Lebanon Army Friday, killing three soldiers in an attack that heightened tension in the run-up to Israel's planned withdrawal from southern Lebanon. An Israeli military spokesman in Jerusalem said one soldier was killed and four others wounded, three seriously, and two other soldiers were buried under the rubble of the outpost. The vehicle blast was one of several attacks by the Hizb'Allah terrorists on military positions in the Security Zone. Senior Israeli intelligence chiefs told Barak's security cabinet on Thursday that terrorist attacks by Hizb'Allah and other radical groups are likely to continue after the IDF exits, moving the conflict to the international border and further endangering northern Galilee communities. Other recent security assessments have warned that Hizb'Allah also is preparing to launch terror attacks inside Israel and on Israeli, Jewish and Western interests abroad. But Barak remained firm about going forward with the looming evacuation, telling visiting UN diplomat Terje Larsen, the special Mideast envoy of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, that Israel will withdraw to the international border of 1923, as the UN is urging. If ever there was one reason for Israel's position in the south of Lebanon, it could easily have been that night 20 years ago, when PLO terrorists crossed the border into Israel, slipped into a nursery and took hostage the children of Kibbutz Misgav Am. By the time Israeli commandos managed to break their way into the nursery, a 2-year-old child and the nursery's caretaker were dead, as was the sense of security that kibbutz members had drawn from the watchtowers and barbed wire ringing their small community. Meanwhile, Lebanon acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that UN "peacekeepers" will deploy in areas to be vacated by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, a move that could help prevent attacks by Lebanese terrorists fighting Israel. ISRAEL WILL NOT REVEAL NUCLEAR POLICY: Israel will stick to its policy of "nuclear opacity" -- a refusal to confirm or deny the possession of nuclear weapons -- despite renewed pressure by Egypt that Israel reveal its arsenal, a senior Israeli defense official said Tuesday. As the UN Monday opened its review conference of the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT), suggestions circulated that the "de facto" nuclear states, including Israel, could be urged to adopt the pact's provisions without actually signing it. Israel, one of only four countries that have not signed the NPT, is not participating in the conference. The others who have not joined the NPT are India, Pakistan, and Cuba. Israel is not participating in the conference. NPR UNRELENTING IN ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS: National Public Radio's hostility toward Israel and willingness to bend facts and journalistic norms in presenting that nation as morally reprehensible and unreasonable are well known. But recent broadcasts offer a particularly sharp view of NPR's reflexive enmity and disregard for journalistic ethics. In February, reporting on Israel's concern about the rise of Nazi apologist Joerg Haider in Austria, NPR's Jennifer Ludden described the public's dismay and Israel's swift action in recalling its ambassador from Vienna. Then she added, "Yet some say the government is overreacting, that by cutting ties it cuts chances of influencing Austria's new government. Still others criticize the government's moral stance as hypocritical. They note Israel has its own record of racism against Palestinians and its own Arab citizens. One analyst said Haider does not seem nearly as racist as some Israeli politicians who are accepted on the political scene here." Few other mainstream media outlets would dispense such incendiary charges about a country without offering an iota of evidence or even an identified source. Consistent with NPR tradition, this reckless censure was reserved for Israel alone. America, a nation where racial issues make regular headlines, also took measures against Austria, but NPR did not cite unnamed sources who consider America hypocritical and racist. The European Union deplored Haider's rise, but prejudice and violence against non- Europeans on the continent did not prompt NPR to chide EU nations. At the same time the Haider affair was making headlines, NPR remained mute concerning a related story of major importance in Israel. On January 31st the editor of the Syrian regime's daily newspaper TISHRIN published an anti-Semitic screed denying the Holocaust and triggering headlines and commentary in Israeli newspapers. Jennifer Ludden was silent again in March when, during the Pope's visit to Israel, the Palestinian Authority's top Muslim cleric in Jerusalem, Sheik Ikrima Sabri, accused Jews of exaggerating the Holocaust and "using this issue" to "blackmail the Germans financially." Other media covered the anti-Semitic statements prominently. Make your voice heard. Write to Kevin Klose, President, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue, NW; Washington, DC 20001-3753, 202-414-2000 or e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In other anti-Semitic news, Egypt's AL-AKBAR this week defended British Holocaust-denier David Irving "who refuses to play to Zionist tunes ... Irving is under siege...accused of being a racist and a Nazi." Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) has recently published a denial of the Jewish Holocaust on its official website. Although Hamas often uses anti-Jewish phrases, this publication marks the first time the organization has officially denied the Holocaust. RELEASE THE MURDERERS? In a change of policy, Israel's Shin Bet security service has recommended the release of some Palestinian prisoners involved in killing Israelis in terror attacks, an Israeli newspaper reported this week. The HA'ARETZ daily reported that the Shin Bet suggests freeing prisoners affiliated with PLO leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement and other groups that support the peace process -including prisoners who killed or injured Israelis. Opponents of the peace process, including followers of the Islamic militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, would have to serve out their terms, according to the Shin Bet recommendations. The Israeli minister for public security, Shlomo Ben-Ami, said the government has not decided whether to release more prisoners. JEWISH 'EXTREMISTS'? The security establishment continues to amass intelligence data on Jewish 'extremists' who they feel may decide that in light of the current political situation, to strike out at a target such as the Temple Mount, and "change the face of history." ISRAEL RADIO reports that senior officials in the security establishment feel that a very small number of 'extremists' may try to perpetrate an act that they believe would sabotage any efforts to reach a peace agreement with the Syrian, which may result in Israel giving away the Golan Heights. Security officials are concerned over a possible plot to perpetrate an attack on the Temple Mount. (Amazing how one mountain causes such terror throughout the world--ed) THIS WEEK IN JEWISH HISTORY: 23 April 1615: Louis XIII of France decreed that all Jews must leave the country within one month on pain of death. 1920: The Supreme Council of the Peace Conference at San Remo assigns the British Government the Mandate over 'Palestine', directing her to establish a national home for the Jewish people as presented in the Balfour Declaration. 26 April 1655: The West India Company refused to accept Peter Stuyvesant's request to ban the settling of Jews in New Amsterdam. In a letter, the company referred to the "large amounts of capitol which they have invested in the shares of this company." Therefore, "these people [Portuguese Jews] may travel and trade ... live and remain there provided the poor shall not become a burden to the company or the community." 1655: In England, Mennasseh ben Israel was invited to London by Oliver Cromwell to negotiate the resettlement of the Jews. William Prynne succeeded in officially postponing it for a couple of years. 29 April 1945: Dachau, the first S.S.-organized camp, was captured by the US army. It was founded in March 1933. Dachau was infamous for its pseudo-scientific experiments by German doctors and scientists. The number murdered there is estimated to be more than 40,000. This material has been adapted from "Beyond Time and History" by Eli Birnbaum (Sources: ARUTZ-7, HEBRON PRESS OFFICE, US DEPARTMENT OF STATE, HA'ARETZ, ISRAEL LINE, AFP, AP, GLOBE, JERUSALEM POST, CAMERA) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 Tzemach News Service is a ministry of Tzemach Institute for Biblical Studies <http://www.tzemach.org> 'TNS.' may be reproduced & distributed in any form. Please give proper credit. Lee Underwood **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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