In a message dated 10/22/00 9:41:52 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Subj: [update] The war for Jerusalem begins Date: 10/22/00 9:41:52 PM Central Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Trimm) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! <A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/11/_/_/_/972268857/">Click Here!</A> ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> >Ha-Milchamah l'Rushalayim matchilah. > >The war for Jerusalem begins. > >Exchanges of heavy-caliber automatic gunfire, armor penetrating bullets, >tank cannon fire, Vulcan machine guns and two Israeli Air Force air-to >ground missiles from helicopters. We have heard and seen it all tonight. > >The front lines appear to be the entire southern flank of our neighborhood, >the mountain of Gilo and the Jerusalem Forest directly below us, the >northern and western enclosures around the Arab village of Beit Jalla, which >faces Gilo across a ravine and in recent weeks has become a stronghold for >Yasser Arafat's personal Tanzim Fatah militia. > >Shortly after the Arab Summit ended on Sunday with Arafat telling Prime >Minister Barak to "Go To Hell," (in English yet) and that the Palestinians >would be "marching toward their capital in Jerusalem," and Barak responded >by proclaiming a "time out" in the peace process, tonight all HELL did break >loose and we've had anything but peace. > >Since about dusk, Palestinians have been firing armor-penetrating bullets >with a range of about a mile into Gilo residences across the ravine and on >the southern face of the Mountain. At last report, 12 separate apartment >buildings containing dozens of apartments have been struck and IDF Security >Forces have evacuated all residents whose apartments face the ravine. We >have no reports at all of injuries tonight, Baruch Hashem, although earlier >a border policemen patrolling our neighborhood was struck in the chest and >remains in serious condition and one resident was lightly injured. But the >STORIES TONIGHT ARE HARROWING. > >In one home, an armor penetrating bullet drilled handily through a 6" >concrete outer wall and went through a closet ripping holes in about six >feet of solid clothing hanging in it, before lodging in a corner wall. In >another apartment, the bullet went through a window narrowly missing a >family seated on their couch watching television. The trembling father >holding his young daughter showed Israeli TV the bullet holes at head level >above the couch. I am sure that there are dozens more stories like these two >we will read about tomorrow or hear on the radio, but these were broadcast >tonight on the 11:30 p.m. news. > >The gunfire was not limited this time to Rehov Ha-Anafah (Anafah Street), >which has been the scene of recent attacks and, Baruch Hashem, spurred the >IDF to fortify the southern border of Gilo. This time about six other side >streets that intersect Rehov Margalit along almost the entire southern face >of Gilo also came under attack. > >(NOTE TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY: In case you are wondering, the apartment we are >leasing is about 50 yards NORTH of Margalit and is not exposed to the >village of Beit Jalla, although from our windows, you can see the Jerusalem >Forest below. Also, I put my wife and son on a bus to a moshav in the >Aravah (Negev) this morning and they safely arrived about noon. I was >planning to take another bus myself to pick up a friend's van and be there >with them later today -- to take a little vacation from all of this -- but >the 2 p.m. bus to the settlement where I needed to go to pick up the van >(bus 166 to Tekoa, which came under fire yesterday), for some reason did not >run today. So I am still here in Gilo tonight and am planning to travel to >the Aravah tomorrow to be with my wife and son). > >The IDF responded to the bursts of automatic gunfire initially with their >own machine guns emplaced on tripods atop sand bunkers which have been >erected along the southern face of the mountain since the attacks began >against Ha-Anafah Street about three weeks ago. The exchanges continued >most of the night on Jerusalem's southern border and attacks also occurred >at a checkpoint near Har Homa, the mountain just to the East of Gilo, where >a new Jewish settlement is being constructed. Once the gravity of the >armor-penetrating rounds was realized, and there was concern that the >Palestinian militia was attempting to open up a second front on the eastern >side of Gilo, the IDF opened fire with 50 caliber machine gun bursts from >tanks that line the southern border of the city. As the exchanges continued >still (and are continuing sporadically well after midnight as I write) the >Israeli Air Force brought in Cobra Attack Helicopters who fired two >air-to-ground missiles (which flashed across the night sky like a shooting >star), as well as Vulcan machine gun rounds at sniper targets. IDF tanks >stationed between the two communities also fired machine gun rounds at >factory buildings where the snipers were spotted. > >About 10 p.m. tonight, the two tanks protecting the Tunnel Road (leading to >Tekoa and other settlements) that runs just to the east of Beit Jalla, fired >their cannon, presumably at the Tanzim headquarters where the turrents have >been aimed for more than three weeks (but I don't know that for sure). More >than a dozen buildings have been destroyed, however, according to the >Jerusalem Post Radio. Cannon fire was heard earlier Friday night as we sat >down for kiddush at our Shabbat tables. But on Friday night, the cannon was >only a warning shot aimed at a vacant area adjoining Beit Jalla. (The >demonstrations held on Margalit Street just outside of our apartment when >Prime Minister Barak visited the succah of the mayor of Gilo -- right >outside my son's bedroom window, DEMANDED that Barak use the cannon to deter >further attacks against the neighborhood. We are happy to say tonight that >he did!) This quieted things for a while, but steady barrages of machine >gun fire started up again as I was walking home around midnight and the >Cobra helicopters have returned. Machine gun fire is being exchanged as I >write, first a burst from the Tanzim, then a burst from the IDF positions. > >Also, at least three Cobras equipped with night vision hovered over our >neighborhood (almost directly over our apartment and again over my friend's >apartment as we tried -- with a lot of distractions -- to watch the >Indianapolis Colts defeat the New England Patriots tonight on Middle East >Television. The slim-lined Cobras pointed their noses toward Beit Jalla and >floated sideways across the Mountain for most of the game, staying just out >of range of the shoulder-held stinger-like anti-Aircraft missiles, which the >Tanzim are believed to have in their arsenal, although we did not see any >missiles fired at the helicopters. > >As I walked from my friend's apartment (on the northern side of the >mountain) about midnight after watching the football game, and crossed over >onto the southern side, I noticed another Cobra still hovering over the >Jerusalem Forest on the western end of Gilo apparently searching the forest >with night-vision technology to detect any movement. As I write, it is still >hovering. > >After the gravity of the armor-penetrating ammunition the Palestinians were >using was realized, Prime Minister Barak order the IDF to first warn the >citizens of Beit Jalla to evacuate their homes before the IDF responded with >the Cobra helicopter missiles, Vulcan machine guns and cannon from the two >Patton tanks. They were given about an hour. > >Instead the residents of Beit Jalla chose to remain and to try to protect >the Tanzim and turned out every light in the city to shield them in >darkness. When the Tanzim would open fire, the flashes from their guns >would give away their position and the IDF would respond with its own >machine guns. But since Israel brought in the heavy guns, Beit Jalla >residents are believed to be fleeing their homes under the cover of >darkness. There was no word of casualties on the Palestinian side as the >region is shrouded in darkness but I am sure the Palestinian propaganda >machine will have the figures for us in the morning. > >Gilo, is a fairly modern community built on a high mountain to the south of >Jerusalem in the early 70s. It has gradually expanded into a large community >with dozens of synagogues, a city center with a central supermarket and >stores, a community center and police and fire stations and at least three >buses that run throughout the community every 15 to 30 minutes back and >forth to the city center in Jerusalem. (It is also the national headquarters >for the Shabach -- Israel's equivalent of the CIA or internal security >services and contains a mammoth communication facility with radar aimed >toward the south.) It is almost totally Israeli. There are only two Arab >homes on a little rise in the mountain toward its southwestern face >(actually less than 75 yards to the east of us), but these are peaceful >neighbors, surrounded by thousands of mostly religious Ashkenaz, Sephardi >and Morrocan residents (and one JOE-ISH family, in our immediate >neighborhood). > >However, since the community was part of the unannexed territories before >the 1967 War (in which Israel claimed the regions occupied by its Arab >enemies who lost the war they proclaimed and started against Israel), the >city is according to UN declarations, "part of the "occupied" territories" >which Arafat is seeking for his Palestinian State. At one time (about 10 >years ago), the official position of the U.S. State Department was not to >accept invitations by Israelis to meet in Gilo (since it was believed by the >State Department, controlled by Arab oil interests, to be the possession of >the Palestinians). > >Well, the gunfire has ceased for now and I don't hear any more helicopters >so I'm going to try to get some sleep. > >Shalom & Hashem's love & blessings, >Ben Yosef > > Study Torah with SANJ Mitvah Club http://www.nazarene.net/MitzvahClub.htm To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from rly-yh04.mx.aol.com (rly-yh04.mail.aol.com [172.18.147.36]) by air-yh03.mail.aol.com (v76_r1.8) with ESMTP; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:41:52 -0400 Received: from ef.egroups.com (ef.egroups.com [64.209.169.102]) by rly-yh04.mx.aol.com (v76_r1.19) with ESMTP; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:41:33 -0400 X-eGroups-Return: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [10.1.4.52] by ef.egroups.com with NNFMP; 23 Oct 2000 02:40:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 27746 invoked by alias); 23 Oct 2000 02:40:48 -0000 X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (EGP: mail-6_1_0); 23 Oct 2000 02:27:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 1629 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2000 02:27:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 23 Oct 2000 02:27:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net) (151.164.30.29) by mta1 with SMTP; 23 Oct 2000 02:27:08 -0000 Received: from [216.62.112.44] ([216.62.112.37]) by mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:22:46 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: <l0310282b630cca917c5a@[216.62.112.44]> From: James Trimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-eGroups-Approved-By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via email; 23 Oct 2000 02:40:48 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Date header was inserted by mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [update] The war for Jerusalem begins Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>
-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> <FONT COLOR="#000099">eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! </FONT><A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/11/_/_/_/972268857/"><B>Click Here!</B></A> ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> >Ha-Milchamah l'Rushalayim matchilah. > >The war for Jerusalem begins. > >Exchanges of heavy-caliber automatic gunfire, armor penetrating bullets, >tank cannon fire, Vulcan machine guns and two Israeli Air Force air-to >ground missiles from helicopters. We have heard and seen it all tonight. > >The front lines appear to be the entire southern flank of our neighborhood, >the mountain of Gilo and the Jerusalem Forest directly below us, the >northern and western enclosures around the Arab village of Beit Jalla, which >faces Gilo across a ravine and in recent weeks has become a stronghold for >Yasser Arafat's personal Tanzim Fatah militia. > >Shortly after the Arab Summit ended on Sunday with Arafat telling Prime >Minister Barak to "Go To Hell," (in English yet) and that the Palestinians >would be "marching toward their capital in Jerusalem," and Barak responded >by proclaiming a "time out" in the peace process, tonight all HELL did break >loose and we've had anything but peace. > >Since about dusk, Palestinians have been firing armor-penetrating bullets >with a range of about a mile into Gilo residences across the ravine and on >the southern face of the Mountain. At last report, 12 separate apartment >buildings containing dozens of apartments have been struck and IDF Security >Forces have evacuated all residents whose apartments face the ravine. We >have no reports at all of injuries tonight, Baruch Hashem, although earlier >a border policemen patrolling our neighborhood was struck in the chest and >remains in serious condition and one resident was lightly injured. But the >STORIES TONIGHT ARE HARROWING. > >In one home, an armor penetrating bullet drilled handily through a 6" >concrete outer wall and went through a closet ripping holes in about six >feet of solid clothing hanging in it, before lodging in a corner wall. In >another apartment, the bullet went through a window narrowly missing a >family seated on their couch watching television. The trembling father >holding his young daughter showed Israeli TV the bullet holes at head level >above the couch. I am sure that there are dozens more stories like these two >we will read about tomorrow or hear on the radio, but these were broadcast >tonight on the 11:30 p.m. news. > >The gunfire was not limited this time to Rehov Ha-Anafah (Anafah Street), >which has been the scene of recent attacks and, Baruch Hashem, spurred the >IDF to fortify the southern border of Gilo. This time about six other side >streets that intersect Rehov Margalit along almost the entire southern face >of Gilo also came under attack. > >(NOTE TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY: In case you are wondering, the apartment we are >leasing is about 50 yards NORTH of Margalit and is not exposed to the >village of Beit Jalla, although from our windows, you can see the Jerusalem >Forest below. Also, I put my wife and son on a bus to a moshav in the >Aravah (Negev) this morning and they safely arrived about noon. I was >planning to take another bus myself to pick up a friend's van and be there >with them later today -- to take a little vacation from all of this -- but >the 2 p.m. bus to the settlement where I needed to go to pick up the van >(bus 166 to Tekoa, which came under fire yesterday), for some reason did not >run today. So I am still here in Gilo tonight and am planning to travel to >the Aravah tomorrow to be with my wife and son). > >The IDF responded to the bursts of automatic gunfire initially with their >own machine guns emplaced on tripods atop sand bunkers which have been >erected along the southern face of the mountain since the attacks began >against Ha-Anafah Street about three weeks ago. The exchanges continued >most of the night on Jerusalem's southern border and attacks also occurred >at a checkpoint near Har Homa, the mountain just to the East of Gilo, where >a new Jewish settlement is being constructed. Once the gravity of the >armor-penetrating rounds was realized, and there was concern that the >Palestinian militia was attempting to open up a second front on the eastern >side of Gilo, the IDF opened fire with 50 caliber machine gun bursts from >tanks that line the southern border of the city. As the exchanges continued >still (and are continuing sporadically well after midnight as I write) the >Israeli Air Force brought in Cobra Attack Helicopters who fired two >air-to-ground missiles (which flashed across the night sky like a shooting >star), as well as Vulcan machine gun rounds at sniper targets. IDF tanks >stationed between the two communities also fired machine gun rounds at >factory buildings where the snipers were spotted. > >About 10 p.m. tonight, the two tanks protecting the Tunnel Road (leading to >Tekoa and other settlements) that runs just to the east of Beit Jalla, fired >their cannon, presumably at the Tanzim headquarters where the turrents have >been aimed for more than three weeks (but I don't know that for sure). More >than a dozen buildings have been destroyed, however, according to the >Jerusalem Post Radio. Cannon fire was heard earlier Friday night as we sat >down for kiddush at our Shabbat tables. But on Friday night, the cannon was >only a warning shot aimed at a vacant area adjoining Beit Jalla. (The >demonstrations held on Margalit Street just outside of our apartment when >Prime Minister Barak visited the succah of the mayor of Gilo -- right >outside my son's bedroom window, DEMANDED that Barak use the cannon to deter >further attacks against the neighborhood. We are happy to say tonight that >he did!) This quieted things for a while, but steady barrages of machine >gun fire started up again as I was walking home around midnight and the >Cobra helicopters have returned. Machine gun fire is being exchanged as I >write, first a burst from the Tanzim, then a burst from the IDF positions. > >Also, at least three Cobras equipped with night vision hovered over our >neighborhood (almost directly over our apartment and again over my friend's >apartment as we tried -- with a lot of distractions -- to watch the >Indianapolis Colts defeat the New England Patriots tonight on Middle East >Television. The slim-lined Cobras pointed their noses toward Beit Jalla and >floated sideways across the Mountain for most of the game, staying just out >of range of the shoulder-held stinger-like anti-Aircraft missiles, which the >Tanzim are believed to have in their arsenal, although we did not see any >missiles fired at the helicopters. > >As I walked from my friend's apartment (on the northern side of the >mountain) about midnight after watching the football game, and crossed over >onto the southern side, I noticed another Cobra still hovering over the >Jerusalem Forest on the western end of Gilo apparently searching the forest >with night-vision technology to detect any movement. As I write, it is still >hovering. > >After the gravity of the armor-penetrating ammunition the Palestinians were >using was realized, Prime Minister Barak order the IDF to first warn the >citizens of Beit Jalla to evacuate their homes before the IDF responded with >the Cobra helicopter missiles, Vulcan machine guns and cannon from the two >Patton tanks. They were given about an hour. > >Instead the residents of Beit Jalla chose to remain and to try to protect >the Tanzim and turned out every light in the city to shield them in >darkness. When the Tanzim would open fire, the flashes from their guns >would give away their position and the IDF would respond with its own >machine guns. But since Israel brought in the heavy guns, Beit Jalla >residents are believed to be fleeing their homes under the cover of >darkness. There was no word of casualties on the Palestinian side as the >region is shrouded in darkness but I am sure the Palestinian propaganda >machine will have the figures for us in the morning. > >Gilo, is a fairly modern community built on a high mountain to the south of >Jerusalem in the early 70s. It has gradually expanded into a large community >with dozens of synagogues, a city center with a central supermarket and >stores, a community center and police and fire stations and at least three >buses that run throughout the community every 15 to 30 minutes back and >forth to the city center in Jerusalem. (It is also the national headquarters >for the Shabach -- Israel's equivalent of the CIA or internal security >services and contains a mammoth communication facility with radar aimed >toward the south.) It is almost totally Israeli. There are only two Arab >homes on a little rise in the mountain toward its southwestern face >(actually less than 75 yards to the east of us), but these are peaceful >neighbors, surrounded by thousands of mostly religious Ashkenaz, Sephardi >and Morrocan residents (and one JOE-ISH family, in our immediate >neighborhood). > >However, since the community was part of the unannexed territories before >the 1967 War (in which Israel claimed the regions occupied by its Arab >enemies who lost the war they proclaimed and started against Israel), the >city is according to UN declarations, "part of the "occupied" territories" >which Arafat is seeking for his Palestinian State. At one time (about 10 >years ago), the official position of the U.S. State Department was not to >accept invitations by Israelis to meet in Gilo (since it was believed by the >State Department, controlled by Arab oil interests, to be the possession of >the Palestinians). > >Well, the gunfire has ceased for now and I don't hear any more helicopters >so I'm going to try to get some sleep. > >Shalom & Hashem's love & blessings, >Ben Yosef > > Study Torah with SANJ Mitvah Club http://www.nazarene.net/MitzvahClub.htm To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
