-Caveat Lector- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 20:23:43 +0200 From: Arutz-7 Editor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, October 4, 2000 Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com> Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2000 / Tishrei 5, 5761 SEE *PRESS RELEASE* BELOW TODAY'S HEADLINES: 1.ARAFAT SETS CONDITIONS FOR MEETING 2. ARABS ATTEMPT TO CONQUER JEWISH SITES IN GAZA 3. TRACKING THE VIOLENCE 4. ISRAELI-ARAB VIOLENCE HITS ISRAELI PUBLIC LIKE THUNDER 5. MA'ARIV ACCUSES 6. IF HE'S BEATEN, HE MUST BE PALESTINIAN 7. ONE WAS RESCUED, ONE WASN'T 8. VIOLENCE SPREADS WORLDWIDE 9. WHICH VOICE TO SOUND? 10. YESHA COUNCIL DEMANDS 11. SHARON CLEARED IN CHICAGO 1.ARAFAT SETS CONDITIONS FOR MEETING The Rosh HaShanah Arab Assault carries on. Palestinians continue to fire on Israelis, while Prime Minister Barak waits patiently in Paris to see if Yasser Arafat will agree to meet with him. Barak, who arrived in Paris this morning, met first with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, then with French President Chirac, and then again with Albright. Arafat, for his part, met with Chirac, who is serving as the current president of the European Union, and has not yet decided whether he will join the Barak-Albright meeting. The U.S. guaranteed Barak that Arafat would show up. Barak, who will return to Israel tonight, is being replaced by Shimon Peres as Acting Prime Minister and by Binyamin Ben-Eliezer as Acting Defense Minister. Arafat said he would meet with Barak only if he receives "international guarantees for the defense of the Palestinians." He later set three conditions: all shooting must stop, Israeli forces must be withdrawn, and an international investigation of the events of the past days must be held. Israel has totally rejected the last condition, and Albright didn't even bring it up in her meeting with Barak, according to Israeli sources. Tomorrow's scheduled Sharm a-Sheikh summit between Barak and Arafat is dependent on the results of today's meetings. ***As we go to press: A meeting of Barak, Arafat, and Albright has in fact begun, although no prior agreement on an international investigation was reached. Barak has been widely criticized by his political opposition for, in the words of National Religious Party MK Sha'ul Yahalom, "leaving behind a burning fire and scorched earth to go talk with the man responsible for it. Barak is shaming the State of Israel and its inhabitants by participating in this 'summit of humiliation.'" Opposition leaders demand that Barak meet with Yesha leaders and with the opposition. Meretz MK Zahava Gal'on says that her party should make its joining the coalition conditional on the appointment of an Arab minister to the government, "to show that we are reducing discrimination." 2. ARABS ATTEMPT TO CONQUER JEWISH SITES IN GAZA After a short respite of a few hours, heavy exchanges of fire resumed this afternoon at the Netzarim junction in Gaza. After Palestinian snipers shot at the Israeli outpost there, Israel responded with machine-gun and helicopter fire towards the Palestinian "twin towers" [tall buildings] there. Israeli forces have also been rushed to Gush Katif, where a mob of Arabs has gathered outside the gates of the IDF command post. Early this morning, the Palestinians opened a new direction of attack on the Jewish town of Netzarim. Hundreds of them marched along the seashore, to the west of the town, and then attempted to break through Netzarim's gates while throwing stone blocks and the like. They were repelled by the IDF. This method of Palestinian attack is a departure from past Palestinian practice of attacking from the road on the east. 3. TRACKING THE VIOLENCE Shooting incidents have been sharply on the upswing in the Palestinian violence. They included an incident this afternoon in which an Israeli passenger was wounded lightly when shots were fired on a public bus on its way to Gush Etzion. The incident occurred between the road's two tunnels, and Egged has announced that it has stopped service along the road. Shots were also fired this afternoon at buildings in Beitar Illit, cars near the Latrun junction, at Netzarim, and at Joseph's Tomb. Senior officers in Shechem told residents of nearby Elon Moreh that the Palestinian snipers are aware of the Israeli policy of "selective and restrained retaliatory shooting," and therefore hide behind a group of civilians when they shoot upon Israeli soldiers. IDF Chief of Staff Mofaz said today that he would consider a possible evacuation of soldiers from Joseph's Tomb, if an "unreasonable danger to the soldiers there" develops. Israel Radio reported that the army requested twice, over the past four days, that the soldiers be removed from the compound in Shechem, but the government objected, for fear that this would lead to a greater Palestinian appetite for more such gains. Noam Arnon, the spokesman for Hevron's Jewish community, reports that an Arab sniper fired overnight from a hill overlooking the Avraham Avinu neighborhood. Jews this morning found some ten bullet holes in a home, a car, and a kindergarten. No one was hurt. "We warned Binyamin Netanyahu," said Arnon, "when he agreed to withdraw from Hevron, that the Arab hill controls the area and that Israel should not abandon it - but Netanyahu didn't listen. We must retake the hill." A pipe bomb was also later hurled at an army base in the center of Hebron. A short but violent Arab outburst occurred today in Jaffa, when a mob of Arabs attacked Israeli and international journalists. An Israeli and Italian reporter were wounded... Several Israeli soldiers were wounded over the night and early morning - one by gunfire at the Adam junction north of Jerusalem's Pisgat Ze'ev, one in Gush Etzion, and two in Morag in the Gaza Strip when Arabs opened fire on a bus. An Israeli woman was hurt by bricks thrown at her car near Ariel... Well over 40 cases of rock-throwing at Jewish cars have been registered in Lod and Ramle over the past 24 hours... Arab-instigated violence was reported in Jerusalem's Armon HaNetziv neighborhood, on the Modi'in-Givat Ze'ev highway, the Kiryat Arba-Kiryat Gat road, and near Eli... Over 100 cases of arson have been reported. One of the latest is a giant blaze between Rosh Ha'Ayin and Petach Tikvah, which is advancing towards the Jewish communities of Matan, Nirit, and Yarchit... Mail has not reached or left several Jewish communities south of Hevron - Beit Haggai, Adurah, and Otniel - for three days. A Postal Authority spokesman said that the army had requested that travel in the area be minimized. Damaged estimated at over four million shekels has been caused at many intersections within the Green Line. Traffic lights, lampposts, highway fences, and signs were uprooted by the Israeli-Arab "demonstrators." Voice of Israel Radio reported today that it is not yet clear who will pay for this damage. Official statistics show 49 Arabs dead and 1,878 wounded since the beginning of the violence. Shlomo Gravitz, a senior Jewish National Fund leader, reacted today to the forest fires in northern Israel: - "There have been 80 cases of arson in the past day, destroying thousands of dunams of forest. It is definite that they were all arson, without exception. It was systematically done - torching one place after another, in order to destroy the forests of the Land of Israel. In several areas, the Arabs even tried to prevent firemen from putting out the fires. They themselves desecrate the same land that they claim to hold holy." 4. ISRAELI-ARAB VIOLENCE HITS ISRAELI PUBLIC LIKE THUNDER Gershon Adani, a 35-year-old father of two, from the Galilee town of Oshrah near Acre, described what happened to him yesterday: "I was on my way home, when suddenly I was stopped by a mob of Israeli-Arabs. They were stopping all the drivers, and asking to see their papers. They let the Arab drivers go, but not the Jewish ones. I started to tell them that I was their neighbor, and have lived here among them for years, etc., but they began pelting me with bricks, rocks, and anything else... I ran into the car, locked the door shut, and somehow was able to get through the roadblock. I was hurt very badly. I got to a police checkpoint, but they couldn't help me because the ambulance was not able to get through the Arab roadblock." Adani said, "I was among those who believed in co-existence and the like. But now, I don't know, something has really changed in my thinking... I don't know if we can go back to what it was like before... I am not optimistic about the future." Erez Kreisler, head of the Misgav Regional Council in the Galilee, responded to the above: "In the past few days, there have been 170 incidents here: 30 attacks on Jewish towns, 10 firebombs and shooting, 20 roadblocks, 40 cases of rocks and bricks, and 70 cases of arson. This is a real war situation - our children didn't go to school, and we were stuck inside our towns. Only after it was understood that there was an existential danger to the towns did we get help from police and army. [Regarding the future of Jewish-Arab relations:] We worked hard for years to plant the seeds of cooperation and harmonic co-existence, and what we have harvested is hatred. I believed that we could live together... I knew that there would be disputes, but I never dreamt that it would reach such an existentially-dangerous extent as actual attempts to burn our towns down to the ground." Journalist Amnon Lord of Makor Rishon, a former Peace Now member, discussed his reaction, and that of his left-wing friends, to the present Israeli-Arab violence: "What is clear is that something very serious is happening, true seismic shockwaves... It has even surprised me to a certain extent, because though I have changed some of my opinions [over the years], I never thought I would come to this conclusion: Israel's Arabs are our number-one enemy. Some of my friends on the left have also come to this conclusion, but they are surprised, and say that it is a bitter truth." 5. MA'ARIV ACCUSES Israel's daily paper Ma'ariv, not known for its right-wing views, editorialized today: "Over the years, leaders of the Arab public explained that the continuing discrimination against Israeli Arabs is what led to feelings of bitterness and frustration. There was much justice in such remarks. But it is now clear that the traditional claim of discrimination is only a cover for the true motive. Those who are outraged over discrimination demonstrate, but do not shout 'Death to the Jews'. Those who shout 'Slaughter the Jews' do not want a working sewage system, but rather a Palestinian state on the ruins of Israel." 6. IF HE'S BEATEN, HE MUST BE PALESTINIAN This past Saturday, The New York Times and many other papers published a picture - supplied by the Associated Press - of an angry Israeli policeman and a badly-beaten and bloodied man, with the caption, "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount." The picture can be seen at <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>. Dr. Aaron Grossman, of Chicago, Ill., sent the following letter to the Times: "Regarding your picture on page A5 (Sept. 30) of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinian on the Temple Mount - that Palestinian is actually my son, Tuvia Grossman, a Jewish student from Chicago. He, and two of his friends, were pulled from their taxicab while traveling in Jerusalem, by a mob of Palestinian Arabs and were severely beaten and stabbed. That picture could not have been taken on the Temple Mount because there are no gas stations on the Temple Mount and certainly none with Hebrew lettering, like the one clearly seen behind the Israeli soldier attempting to protect my son from the mob." Tuvia Grossman was on his way to the Western Wall on Friday afternoon, and has been hospitalized ever since with head injuries and a stab wound. He told Arutz-7 today, "I was in a taxi on the way to the Kotel [Western Wall] and we got stoned... [They took me out of the car and beat me and] I gave a scream, and for a second they let go of me, and I said Shma Yisrael, because I thought it was all over... After they let go of me, I ran - even though I had a knife in my leg, G-d gave me the strength to run and I was able to make it up the hill where there were soldiers by the gas station and they took care of me. But I was being beaten for around 5 or 6 minutes with a rock on the top of my head, and I was stabbed in the back of my leg and kicked and punched all over my body." "[When I saw the mis-captioned AP picture] I was extremely, extremely upset. People see a picture of a youth and they think that it's a Palestinian being beaten by Israelis, it changes their world view and makes them think that it's the Israelis beating up the Arabs. I was extremely upset. It was totally the opposite. That policeman was yelling at the Arabs to back off, and was protecting me from them - so to change it around and to say that he was beating me, that's just total distortion, and the world must be notified about how this is not true - the Jews are the ones suffering at the hands of the Arabs." The Times published a correction today, in which it identified Tuvia Grossman as "an American student in Israel" - not as a Jew who was beaten by Arabs. The "correction" also noted that "Mr. Grossman was wounded" in "Jerusalem's Old City" - although in fact it occurred in an Arab-populated neighborhood of Jerusalem, not in the Old City. An Associated Press spokesman told Arutz-7 that it was looking into the matter. 7. ONE WAS RESCUED, ONE WASN'T IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz visited the family of the Druze soldier Madhat Yusuf who was killed protecting Joseph's Tomb this week. Criticism has been leveled at the army for not using greater force against the Palestinians while attempting to rescue the wounded soldier. Mofaz told the family that the officers in charge did not know that the wounded soldier was Druze, and that in any event there was no alternative. "To act otherwise would have involved conquering a large part of Shechem, and many more wounded, with no guarantee that we would have reached the wounded soldier any faster," he said. Col. (res.) Moshe Givati had earlier said, "Even if would have cost more lives, we have a sacred principle of not abandoning wounded in the field!" It has now been learned that on Saturday, during the height of the battle in Shechem, the army acceded to a request by the Palestinian governor of Shechem to rescue his wounded son. Four IDF doctors, dressed as Arabs, were "smuggled" into the city in a Palestinian police jeep; they extricated him and accompanied him by helicopter to the army hospital in Tel HaShomer. He died there, however, of his wounds. 8. VIOLENCE SPREADS WORLDWIDE The violence has opened a "branch office" in New York, and possibly several other places as well. In the Jewish neighborhood of Boro Park, Brooklyn, several Jews have been beaten over the past day by "Arab-looking" attackers, one Jew was injured when he was thrown from a train platform to the ground two floors below, and a bus of one of the local yeshivot was burnt. The police in Paris have sent reinforcements to all neighborhoods in which Jews reside, for fear of attacks... On Monday night in Dusseldorf, Germany, a synagogue was firebombed... In Damascus, hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Embassy today, threw rocks, broke windows, and burnt Israeli flags... The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is organizing protests against the "killing of Palestinians in Israel" in New York, San Francisco, Washington, and other cities. 9. WHICH VOICE TO SOUND? Gabi Boutboul, a ranking member of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, said that at his demand, the IBA governing board will convene tomorrow to discuss what he called the "over-abundance of PLO propagandists on Israel Radio of late." He explained to Arutz-7 today, "Yesterday, I received many telephones asking me why Israel Radio seems to have turned into a PLO station... I turned on the morning magazine today, and who do I hear but the commander of the Tanzim, explaining why it's OK to kill our soldiers. We have heard [Israeli-Arab MK and Arafat-advisor] Ahmed Tibi a disproportionate amount of times since Friday, as well as [Israeli-Arab MK] Dahamshe - the man who has attacked all that is sacred to Israel and Judaism, and was even sentenced to prison for ten years for terrorist activity!" Boutboul said that if the editors tell him that it is important to 'hear the other side,' "I say: Not during war! What we have to hear is the side of our country and that of most of the population. Instead, we give an open microphone to the other side to tell us why they should shoot our soldiers. I plan to submit a drastic proposal, that during wartime and rebellion we do not allow PLO spokesman on air. In addition, those producers who did this should be rebuked and even suspended for a month. The meeting will take place tomorrow, and the heads of the television, radio, and the IBA have been invited. I demand answers!" 10. YESHA COUNCIL DEMANDS The Yesha Council - the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza - released the following statement today: "The Yesha Council demands that Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, protect the citizens of Israel on both sides of the green line. We demand that he order the Israeli Army to prevent violence, and not hold the citizens of Israel hostage by closing road arteries to us, while Arab traffic is allowed to freely travel on the roads... These violent riots were orchestrated by the Palestinian Authority and coordinated with Israeli Arabs and Bedouin. The time has come for the Israeli public and the world Jewish community to realize that the Jewish communities of Yesha are only the appetizers for Arafat and that it is his intention to take all of 'Palestine.' ...It is common knowledge that there are hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons within the Arab towns and villages. We demand that the terrorists are restrained and shootings be prevented. The leadership of Yesha has given fair notice to the heads of the army, that if they will not open the roads, then we will open them." 11. SHARON CLEARED IN CHICAGO Yet another voice "clearing" Ariel Sharon of responsibility for the Rosh HaShanah Arab Assault appeared in a Chicago Sun-Times editorial yesterday. Excerpts: "The rioting in Israel is Ariel Sharon's fault, right? Wrong. From the start of the rioting, complaints have been heard about the visit by Israeli opposition leader Sharon to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem last week. But however provocative that was, it should be remembered that the visit was a nonviolent act. Sharon threw no stones, ignited no Molotov cocktails, fired no shots. Those came from the Palestinians. The responsibility for the killings--including the heart-wrenching death of that 12-year-old boy recorded by a TV camera--and injuries in this terrible violence falls on Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians. "In visiting the Temple Mount, Sharon was making a statement about the importance of the holy site to Jews and about the opposition by him and many Israelis to Prime Minister Ehud Barak's willingness to relinquish some sovereignty over Jerusalem to the Palestinians. Political statements inspire passions, but that is not a reason to avoid them. In America's long history, anti-war protesters, civil rights advocates and labor activists launched demonstrations knowing they would provoke a violent response..." Hebrew News Editor: Ariel Kahane English News Editor: Hillel Fendel PRESS RELEASE: ISRAEL NATIONAL RADIO OPENS FRENCH WEBSITE As the Rosh HaShanah Arab Assault escalates throughout Israel, Israel National Radio <IsraelNationalNews.com> has widened its information campaign to the French-speaking internet audience. The station raised the curtain today on its new French site: <http://www.a7fr.com>. The colorful site provides its readers with a daily text edition of the news, and a live stream from Israel including two hours of broadcasts in French. "The current wave of Arab violence moved up the site's grand opening to today," says French broadcast manager David Shapira. "The daily news page is fully operational, and we have begun collecting names for our French email news list. 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