-Caveat Lector- Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com> Thursday, Oct. 12, 2000 / Tishrei 13, 5761 TODAY'S HEADLINES: AS WE GO TO PRESS: Communications Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer confirmed that three Israeli soldiers, and not two, were killed by Palestinians today: One was killed before his comrades reached the police station in Ramallah, and the other two were lynched by the Arab mobs. 1. TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS LYNCHED IN RAMALLAH; IDF RETALIATES 2. THE RETALIATION 3. REACTIONS 4. PALESTINIAN SHOOTING ATTACKS INCREASED LAST NIGHT 5. MORE MINOR JEWISH RESPONSES 6. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS 7. REACTION BY MK BENNY ELON 8. REACTIONS BY YESHA LEADERS 1. TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS LYNCHED IN RAMALLAH; IDF RETALIATES The IDF reacted to today's brutal lynching of two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah with five bombing raids on carefully-selected buildings in Ramallah and Gaza. Today's events began when two soldiers, on their way back to their army base in or near Beit El after a short furlough from their reserves duty, were brutally lynched by a wild mob of Arabs. Palestinian sources falsely reported that they were undercover agents. The Israelis entered the city by mistake, and were detained by the Palestinian police. After they were brought to the police station in central Ramallah, a crowd of between 1,000 and 2,000 Arabs broke into the building, overcame the police, and murderously beat and killed the Israelis. Some of the Palestinian police took part in the lynch. The body of one of the Israelis was dragged around the city chained to a car. Television pictures show Arabs in the window of the station, alternately beating and stabbing someone inside and gleefully making a V sign out the window; the video clip can be seen on Arutz-7's homepage, <www.israelnationalnews.com>. The soldiers were viciously beaten all over their bodies. Military officials who handled the bodies told Arutz-7 that they were "deliberately tortured and abused... The bodies were mutilated and torn to pieces. There was great difficulty in recognizing them..." The bodies will not be autopsied unless specific permission is received from the families of the dead soldiers; as of now, such permission has not been received. At approximately 5 PM this afternoon, Palestinian Arabs shot at an Israeli news-crew from Channel Two television; two cameramen were wounded. Arabs shot at Israeli targets near Adam and in Hevron late this afternoon; no one was hurt. 2. THE RETALIATION In Ramallah, the targets of the first IDF bombing attack, at approximately 3:00 PM, were Palestinian television buildings, from where heavy incitement against Israel is broadcast daily; Arafat's headquarters; and the police station where the lynch occurred. Two of four Palestinian television stations ceased broadcasting afterwards, and Palestinian Radio is broadcasting weakly, if at all. A second attack two hours later targeted other buildings in Ramallah. Military installations in northern Gaza were bombed as well, including five Palestinian Authority ships and a floor of the Palestinian police that housed the Tanzim force. IDF officials made clear today that today's retaliatory bombings were "a symbolic signal to the PA that we will no longer show restraint in the face of continued attacks... This shows that the IDF will from now on initiate attacks, and not only react." The officials emphasized, however, that the army is not interested in an escalation. The IDF says that all PA officials were warned three hours in advance that their buildings were in danger. The army is prepared for a possible escalation on the part of the Palestinians. IDF tanks are now surrounding all PA towns. Arafat's headquarters and home in Gaza were not bombed, contrary to some reports. Gaza security chief Muhammad Dahlan told Gazan Arab residents that IDF troops and tanks had filled Gaza streets. The IDF spokesman dismissed these reports, and said that the PA is now waging a propaganda war. PA officials said that the IDF bombings today are a "declaration of war on the PA." The residents of Psagot, bordering immediately adjacent to the Ramallah suburb of Al Bireh, were instructed to enter their bomb shelters. The cellular phone system in the PA areas is on the verge of collapse, and Palestinians have been called upon by their leaders not to use their cellular phones. On July 12 of this year, Arutz-7 reported the following: PREPARING FOR WAR IN THE P.A. Arutz-7 correspondent Haggai Huberman reports that the PA has begun hoarding food and other necessary supplies. The reason: anticipation of a Palestinian-initiated military clash with the IDF following the declaration of a Palestinian state on Sept. 13. The manager of a flour mill in PA-controlled Gaza reports a present supply of 8,000 tons of flour, and five large aluminum storage containers - each of which can contain enough flour to supply the entire population of Gaza for two months - have been ordered. PA hospitals have also been hoarding emergency medicine supplies. It has been learned, as well, that PA leaders are supplementing their electrical system with private generators in the event that Israel cuts off electricity to the PA. Gaza security chief Muhammad Dahlan, for instance, has purchased a generator both for his own private home and for his command headquarters. The Israeli security establishment is perturbed with the increased pace of PA training exercises, which include suburban warfare exercises and drills preparing forces to conquer Yesha settlements. There has also been a noticeable intensification of reinforcement of Palestinian paramilitary posts throughout Yesha, and tunnels in Gaza are also being dug at an unprecedented pace. 3. REACTIONS Communications and Housing Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said after the lynching: "There is no peace process, period. It is dead, it is behind us. Arafat wants war, that's all." Interior Minister Chaim Ramon, a leader of the peace camp, said, "In the end, there will be peace, because there has to be. But meanwhile, Arafat has made a very big mistake, which will cost his people a terrible price. On the very verge of peace, he has chosen to go the way of war... In his schizophrenic personality, his desire to attain diplomatic gains was apparently overcome by his violent, terrorist nature..." MK Yossi Sarid (Meretz), after the bombings: "Barak reached the limit of his restraint, I think this retaliatory action was unavoidable. After the lynch of today, and all the events of the past days, I estimate that there was no other choice, as the situation was deteriorating and if there was no reaction on our part, it would have continued to deteriorate." The bombings were preceded by militant remarks by two government ministers - Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Dalia Itzik. The latter called for military offensives that will hurt the other side. Rabbi Yitzchak Levy, National Religious Party, said after the lynch, "The Palestinian Authority has officially turned into a body that cooperates with bloodthirsty Arab mobs. This is a war for all intents and purposes, and we must relate to the PA representatives in this way." MK Rehavam (Gandi) Ze'evi (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) said this morning after the lynch: "Tanzim head Marwan Bargouti must be considered a wanted criminal and must be arrested. Electricity should be closed off to Ramallah, and no traffic should be allowed in or out; Arafat's air traffic must be stopped, Barak must resign, and Beilin must be fired and leave public life." 4. PALESTINIAN SHOOTING ATTACKS INCREASED LAST NIGHT Close to 30 Palestinian shooting incidents took place last night and today. Palestinian police opened fire this morning on IDF soldiers in the Gush Katif junction; no one was hurt. Earlier, a firebomb was thrown at a Jewish school in Jaffa; a classroom was burnt. Not far from there, a Jewish boy was stabbed yesterday. Last night, there was heavy firing in Psagot - where bullets penetrated one house - and in Hevron, where three soldiers were wounded. The Jews of Hevron, for the umpteenth time, demanded that the army take over the hills of Abu Sneinah overlooking the Jewish homes and where much of the shooting originates - as was promised for such circumstances at the time of the signing of the Hevron withdrawal agreement by the Netanyahu government in early '97. Other shootings took place outside N'vei Tzuf, wounding one Jew, and three soldiers were lightly wounded in shooting incidents in Gush Katif and Halhoul; Palestinians fired shots outside Rechelim, Luban a-Sharkiyeh (north of Ramallah), Tulkarm, Rafiah, and elsewhere. 5. MORE MINOR JEWISH RESPONSES After news of the lynch was spread, a mosque south of Shechem - not far from where the funeral procession of Rabbi Hillel Lieberman was shot at and stoned yesterday by Arabs - was set ablaze today. Beforehand, the Shechem-Jenin road was closed to traffic this morning by Shavei Shomron residents. Spokesperson Tzippy Dagan explained that for as long as Israeli drivers suffer from Palestinian attacks on the roads, neither will Palestinian drivers be able to travel safely. Rabbi Zalman Melamed and Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, the rabbis of Beit El, issued a call to all Yesha residents and especially the youth, not to initiate any activities against the Arab population, as "we are very close to the hour when everyone will agree that we were right when we warned against these accursed Oslo accords." The government announced that Prime Minister Ehud Barak commended last night the restraint shown by the Jewish residents of Yesha in the face of recent attacks, including the murder of Elon Moreh resident Hillel Lieberman and the numerous incidents of shooting and stone-throwing at their communities and along the roads. Prime Minister Barak said that, "The Jewish settlements are showing self-control and stamina in the midst of one of the most difficult waves of attacks in the region, and I want to commend them. This behavior must continue..." The Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria, as well as the army, are on the alert for possible Palestinian retaliatory terrorist attacks against the residents. 6. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS Prime Minister Barak was in the midst of meeting with Yesha Council leaders - for the first time in two months - when news of the Ramallah lynch was learned. The meeting was re-scheduled for a later date, in a Yesha town. Barak had called opposition leader Ariel Sharon this morning, and discussed the recent developments and the possibility of a national-unity government. The two are scheduled to meet again later. Environment Minister Dalia Itzik called firmly upon Prime Minister Barak to form a national-unity government: "It is not realistic of the opposition to demand that we totally abandon the diplomatic process - what, if the Palestinians call us tomorrow and say they want to talk, we won't talk with them? - but on the other hand we also have to take some real steps, and not just make half-hearted calls over the radio for a unity government." Among the Hamas prisoners recently freed by the Palestinian Authority was apparently master terrorist Muhammad Def, who was arrested a few months ago. Def is the successor to terrorist Yichye Ayash ("The Engineer"); in the mid-1990's, Def orchestrated the attacks that killed dozens of Jews and injured another hundred. Amongst the deaths for which he is responsible are those resulting from the two #18 bus suicide bombings in Jerusalem in the spring of 1996, in which a total of 43 people were killed. Prior to turning to suicide bombings, Def directed the kidnappings and murders of IDF soldiers Shachar Simani, Aryeh Frankental, and Nachshon Wachsman. 7. REACTION BY MK BENNY ELON MK Benny Elon (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) visited, with his party colleagues, the Gush Katif town of Netzarim today. After expressing lavish praise for the courage, determination, and forbearance of the residents there - who have just emerged from a two-week siege - he recommended that "the Palestinian airport should be closed totally, including to Arafat. All Palestinian VIP passes for free travel should be cancelled... Arafat is planning to declare a state very soon, and he thought that he would get international support after the 12-year old boy was shot... We must remain united and wise, and thank G-d that the truth of the Palestinian intentions has emerged... Unfortunately, I feel that the situation will get worse, and we will soon see the true nature of the peace with Egypt and Jordan - but we don't have to do anything to hurry that up. Our main war for which we must remain united is against the PA leadership, which we must present as small-time, immoral, and disgusting murderers..." 8. REACTIONS BY YESHA LEADERS Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, the rabbi of the Shomron town of Brachah, said: "There is no choice. The solution proposed by [some on the left] to give away the settlements in Yesha is not an option. If we withdraw, it must be all the way to the sea. What, do they think that if we retreat to a narrow strip along the coast, they won't want to attack us? Our only option is to defeat them." He said that he met with army leaders this week, and told them that many of his townspeople have begun to despair of the army's ability to protect them. "The soldiers plead with us to do speak to the politicians with whom we have connections, because they see Arabs coming to bombard Jewish cars with rocks, and the government does not allow them to shoot!" When asked if he is then in favor of an all-out offensive, he said, "Yes, 100%! It should begin with killing... the top commanders who drive the mobs. Yes, I am wary of the world's reaction, but it will be against us in any event, so it might as well come when we are strong." I am in favor of an all-out attack. It should begin with killing Arafat, and then the top Palestinian commanders that drive the mobs. Yes, I am wary of the world's reaction, but it will be against us in any event, so it might as well come when we are strong." Elon Moreh resident Benny Katzover spoke to Voice of Israel radio after the murder of the two soldiers today and the resulting Israeli bombing of PA buildings in Ramallah: "I was part of the funeral for Hillel Lieberman, who was murdered this past weekend. He was murdered after the IDF pulled out of Joseph's Tomb; this move - the abandonment of Jewish holy sites - was translated by the Palestinians as a weakness, and led to the lynch of Lieberman. When Israel decided not to act harshly against Shechem residents, who carried out that lynch, we were offered a second lynch, today in Ramallah. Why does the Israeli military respond only after it costs us in Jewish lives?" 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