---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:56:21 +0300 From: Arutz-7 Editor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Arutz-7 News: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com> Tuesday, July 18, 2000 / Tammuz 15, 5760 TODAY'S HEADLINES: 1. AGREEMENT IS CLOSE; GRAVE CONCERN IN YESHA 2. ARMY "READY" FOR PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE; ARE SETTLEMENTS? 3. PALESTINIANS EXPECT FULL "RIGHT OF RETURN" 4. BARAK'S BUSINESSMEN ADVISORS 5. RANKS OF HUNGER STRIKERS GROW 6. GOVERNMENT MKs IGNORE JORDAN VALLEY 7. CHILD-ALLOWANCES TO BE RAISED 8. ELECTRIC BUS PASSES FIRST TEST 1. AGREEMENT IS CLOSE; GRAVE CONCERN IN YESHA Reports are mounting that some form of agreement, featuring the division of Jerusalem, is close to being signed in Camp David. The plan under discussion apparently involves the absorption of Gush Etzion, Ma'aleh Adumim, and Givat Ze'ev into the Jerusalem municipality, in exchange for the awarding of some form of Palestinian sovereignty over several Arab neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. Cabinet Secretary Yitzchak Herzog, together with Haifa Mayor Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amram Mitzna and Barak aide Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Peled, will conduct a briefing for Israeli reporters this afternoon/evening at Camp David. The Yesha Council has slated a press conference as soon as the briefing ends. U.S. President Clinton is expected to delay his departure for Japan by several hours. On the other hand, Arafat is still reportedly not satisfied with Barak's concessions on Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, and Yesha settlements; the Palestinians are demanding complete sovereignty over the Old City of Jerusalem, exclusive control over the mountain aquifer, Israel's recognition of its responsibility for the refugee problem, and a complete Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders, except for Gush Etzion, Ma'aleh Adumim and Ariel. Heavy pressures have been exerted by Clinton upon Prime Minister Barak and Yasser Arafat to sign even a partial agreement before his departure for Japan, scheduled for tomorrow. Intense discussions have been held late into the night and early morning hours. Yediot Acharonot reported this morning that the summit had failed, and that Barak had decided to return home tomorrow. Yediot Acharonot, whose editorials of late have been generally in favor of the direction Barak is taking in Camp David, writes today, "Haste makes waste" - and takes exception to the fact that the talks are being pushed along to suit U.S. President Clinton's schedule. While the editors acknowledge that the White House lawn ceremony and the Nobel Peace Prize are very important to Bill Clinton, "they are not [as] important for the State of Israel..." The fact that Clinton is going to Japan should not be a factor, the paper writes: "We waited patiently in exile for 2,000 years. We returned home. We endured the Holocaust and wars. More than 20,000 people perished along the way so that we could reach the moment of truth. And now we should hurry up just because His Excellency the President is going to Japan? No way. Peace has waited and will wait." 2. ARMY "READY" FOR PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE; ARE SETTLEMENTS? Meanwhile, the IDF claims to be "prepared" for Palestinian riots anticipated in Judea and Samaria should the summit fail. Senior army commanders have assured Yesha leaders and residents over the past few days that the IDF is ready to squelch the expected wave of uprisings. One issue of concern is the threat of mass Palestinian marches by unarmed Arab women and children on Jewish settlements - which the army now claims it has figured out how to "deal with." Until now, leading IDF officers such as Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz have said that such marches and attempts to penetrate Jewish towns would be treated as any other "threat to Israeli lives." However, the army has now formulated its plans for marchers who are still outside the settlements: Among other measures, a special unarmed force will be dispatched to form a human chain to block their progress. Ha'aretz correspondent Amos Harel reports today that the forces will be specially-trained in the dispersion of demonstrations. In place of infantry, policemen and female soldiers will be preferred. Nevertheless, the paper says, IDF snipers will be deployed behind the unarmed forces in the event that Palestinian gunmen placed behind the women and children open fire on the unarmed soldiers. Harel also reports that the army will utilize new methods of breaking up violent crowds, including water and dye-spraying tanks and giant nets dropped from the air. Arutz-7's Kobi Sela reports that at least some Palestinian elements foresee a violent post-Camp David period ahead: Jewish drugstores in Jerusalem, Ofrah, and Michmash were robbed this week of almost all their medicines, while the money in the cash registers was ignored. Security has been beefed up around pharmacies, and instructions have been given to Yesha residents to be on the alert. Many of the Yesha settlements are simply not ready for that which the army considers to be a not-unrealistic scenario: the storming of their towns by Arab civilians or soldiers. Arutz-7's Effie Meir reports that measures that must be taken include: preparing the residents, gathering weapons and first-aid supplies; walkie-talkie equipment in case phone lines and cellular relay antennas are destroyed; water and food supplies; determining regulations for opening fire; coordination between neighboring communities; fortifying guard positions; and more. 3. PALESTINIANS EXPECT FULL "RIGHT OF RETURN" Arutz-7 spoke today with Middle East affairs expert Prof. Dan Shiftan on the as-yet unresolved issue of Arab refugees. "Do the Palestinians really expect Israel to recognize the Right of Return and allow millions of refugees to enter?" asked News Editor Haggai Segal. Shiftan: "Most definitely yes. Israelis have for some reason adopted the myth that the Arabs wouldn't really insist on this, because it was unrealistic, etc. But this is not true... I have been saying for a while that the Arabs are convinced that whatever Israel says 'no' to, soon first the left, then the center, begins to say 'maybe,' and then in the end it even becomes 'yes!' For instance, with the Golan: the Syrians now demand not only the entire Golan Heights, all the way up to the international border, but even areas that Syria conquered between '48 and '67 - and Israel is not far from agreeing! Refugees, too - [although Israel's position has always been that no Arab refugees would ever be allowed to return,] Barak has already agreed to allow 100,000 to enter for humanitarian and family-reunification reasons. This humanitarian aspect is the last thing that interests the Palestinians - they have been harming the humanitarian interests of individual Palestinian for decades. They are interested in the 100,000 for other reasons: they see this as the beginning of the delegitimization of the State of Israel, as it means that this land is really Palestine, and that the Jews expelled the Palestinians, who must now be allowed to return. They know that this spells the liquidation of Israel..." Segal: "It will be claimed that not many more than those 100,000 will want to live in Israel anyway..." Shiftan: "This is categorically not true. They know that the Palestinian state will be an oppressive, third-world country for a long while to come, while Israel is a first-world country, where they can live off the child-allowance payments alone..." 4. BARAK'S BUSINESSMEN ADVISORS The Supreme Court has addressed the issue of Barak's private businessmen-associates representing Israel in Camp David. The Court issued a restraining order obligating the State to explain within five days why the Prime Minister should not be prevented from utilizing Yossi Ginosar - whose business ties with the Palestinian Authority are well-documented - as a special advisor in the talks with the Palestinians. The decision was in response to a suit by MK Tzvi Hendel (National Union). Another hearing will be held one month from now. The Court will rule later today on a petition by Likud MK Limor Livnat and the B'Tzedek legal organization, who demand an immediate end to the employment of Barak-friends Yoni Koren, Tal Silberstein, and Moshe Gaon as publicists in Washington. Barak decided last night that the three should continue in their positions, despite the objections of Public Service Commissioner Shmuel Hollander. Atty. Eli Shmuelyan, representing MK Livnat, cited Silberstein's connection to the Barak associations-scandal, still under investigation. "State Comptroller Goldberg determined that Silberstein's behavior crossed the lines of buying political power," Shmuelyan said. "In addition, State employees are covered by an intricate network of regulations: they are obligated to operate with the interest of the country in mind; they cannot receive gifts; they cannot release private information while in service of the state, etc. None of these rules apply to private businessmen! Here are three private citizens sitting in Israeli government offices and issuing orders to government employees..." 5. RANKS OF HUNGER STRIKERS GROW MK Yuri Stern (Yisrael Beiteinu) has joined the nearly two dozen hunger strikers in the Rose Garden outside the Knesset. It is now eight days that they are protesting Barak's trip to Camp David and the major concessions he is apparently making there. The leaders of the strike are calling upon the public to join them. 6. GOVERNMENT MKs IGNORE JORDAN VALLEY The Labor/One Israel Knesset faction has, for the second time in several weeks, cancelled its planned trip to the Jordan Valley. Members of the National Kibbutz Movement and residents of the North Dead Sea communities sent a letter of protest and disappointment to coalition whip MK Ophir Pines-Paz. The letter asks how the refusal to meet with the Jordan Valley residents can be reconciled with recent declarations of support for continued Israeli sovereignty over the area sounded by One Israel MKs. Barak, according to all reports, has agreed to give away control of the strategic Jordan Valley and its communities to the new Palestinian state. 7. CHILD-ALLOWANCES TO BE RAISED The Knesset Labor and Welfare Committee, in a stormy session this afternoon, passed a revised version of the child-allowance arrangement for large families. United Torah Judaism's MK Shmuel Halpert sponsored the bill, which increases - in compensation for inflation-related drops in value - the monthly payment for a family from the fifth child and upwards. Parents receive the payments for children up to the age of 18; an increase to age 21 had been considered, but was rejected. Neither does the bill allow a blanket exemption from municipal taxes; these two changes will save over one billion shekels, such that the bill will cost the government just under half a billion shekels. The Arab MKs supported the bill, while One Israel and Shinui were vociferously against. 8. ELECTRIC BUS PASSES FIRST TEST Israel's Electric Fuel Corporation has announced that it has successfully completed the first actual driving tests of its all-battery electric bus. 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