-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ........................... :: BUSH ADMINISTRATION BACK AWAY FROM STRONG PRO-ISRAEL STANCE: The US State Department is calling it misspeak, but Secretary of State Colin Powell described Jerusalem as the "capital of Israel" during a US House committee hearing on Wednesday, and said the Bush Administration is still committed to moving the American embassy there. The State Department was busy with damage control following Powell's remarks before the House International Relations Committee, which drew quick criticism from Arab countries. State Department officials met for hours after Powell's testimony to determine if he had intended to alter US policy or if he had simply spoken off the top of his head. A State Department spokesman said yesterday it was the latter. [Editor's note: If the Bush administration was truly "pro-Israel", why did they worry about "damage control"?] Meanwhile, it is reported that the man the Bush administration is seriously eyeing for the post of US ambassador to Israel is not only the architect of former President Clinton's failed Middle East peace initiative, he is also the brains behind earlier failed peace efforts by Bush's father. Daniel Kurtzer, now serving as US ambassador to Egypt, was the key figure in the process of formulating the US decision to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO] and Yasser Arafat as the legitimate and sole representatives of the Palestinian people. Though he is an Orthodox Jew [or so he claims], Kurtzer has a long-standing antipathy toward Israel. In his 1976 Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University, Kurtzer blamed Israeli responses to terrorist strikes for "the radicalization of those Palestinians to violence." Interestingly, Kurtzer never characterized as "terrorists" those who carried out massacres of civilians. In his thesis, they were called "guerrillas." ............................ :: IS AMERICAN AIRLINES SUSPENDING SERVICE TO ISRAEL AS GESTURE TO THE ARABS? AMR Corporation, the parent of American Airlines, and the likely purchaser of the assets of TWA from bankruptcy proceedings, announced suddenly on February 28, 2001 that it intends to "suspend" daily TWA service to Tel Aviv as it "concluded it does not make economic sense to continue the route at this time." This surprise, last-minute announcement raises serious questions as to why Israel has been singled out for changes in TWA service - since the economic facts demonstrate clearly that the JFK daily flight has been and remains very profitable - in spite of the recent slowdown in tourism to Israel - certainly more profitable than flights to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which will not be "suspended" or cancelled. In 1999 the New York-Tel Aviv line has earned profits of $10 Million for TWA. In 2000 the direct line earned profits of $8.5 Million, despite the slowdown of tourism is the 4th quarter. The line continues to fly at 80% capacity, serving a variety of business and tourist visitors to/from Israel. The reasons for the "suspension" must be based on other considerations. Does American Airlines believe that continuing service to Israel will adversely affect its business relationships with other middle-eastern countries? ............................ :: EGYPTIAN STUDY CLAIMS MOSLEM SITE PREDATES FIRST TEMPLE: [Editor's note: This is NOT a parody] An Egyptian study claims that the western wall of the Temple Mount is actually the Buraq Wall, not the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount. Contained in a book issued recently by the Ain Shams University's Middle East Research Center, the study claims 95% of Jews are not Israelites but rather foreigners of mixed races as referred to by British anthropologist James Fenton's 1966 paper. It further claims it is illogical that there are any antiquities belonging to any prophets beneath Al-Aqsa Mosque, alleging that the Al Aqsa Mosque was built 2,000 years BEFORE Solomon. Note the founder of the religion of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad, was born 500 years AFTER the destruction of the SECOND Temple [70 CE]. ............................ :: ISRAEL AND THE MEDIA ... CONTINUED: Last week the world witnessed several acts of terrorism -- an IRA car bomb at the BBC offices in London, and two deadly Palestinian bomb attacks against Israeli civilians -- one in a crowd in Netanya, the other a taxi in the Galilee. This prompted HonestReporting.com to ask: How were the two stories reported? A survey of CNN and BBC indicates a pattern of anti-Israel bias. Both Web sites labeled the IRA bombers "terrorists" -- and then did verbal contortions to avoid calling Palestinians by the same incriminating appellation. Instead, Palestinian bombers are referred to as "militants." The NEW YORK TIMES headline of March 5th read "Suicide Bomber Kills 3 Israelis A Day After 6 Palestinians Die". The story was written by Deborah Sontag, a Jewish journalist for the NY TIMES. Sontag begins her story of the Netanya bombing after the misleading headline with the fact that "only" three Israelis were killed, balanced against the unrelated fact that six Palestinians were killed the day before. Sontag deliberately leaves out the fact that over 70 Israelis were maimed by the Palestinian suicide bomber. Instead, she begins a defensive, damage control explanation, well-crafted to redirect the readers’ shock and anger away from the terrorist’s despicable act. Sontag launches into a plea for other Palestinians, six of whom were killed by Israelis in other areas during shootouts the day before. Sontag neglects to mention these casualties were in self-defense after Palestinian gunfire attacks against Israeli civilians. She and the NEW YORK TIMES have also never mentioned that there have been more than 3300 Palestinian attacks with gunfire, bombs and firebombs against Israelis since the Al Aksa Intifada began last October. A CNN article (February 25, 2001), entitled "Violence mars Mardi Gras parties in Austin, Seattle," reports: "[P]olice in Seattle used pepper spray and rubber bullets to break up an unruly crowd of up to 2,000 people after bars closed at 2 a.m. Many in the crowd were drinking, removing their clothes or climbing on cars and light posts, police spokeswoman Pam McCammon said." As Seattle police fire on the crowd with rubber bullets, where is the media outrage against this excessive use of force? Where is the international inquiry? Israeli soldiers are consistently condemned for using these same rubber bullets, despite the fact that Israelis are attacked with firebombs and live ammunition –- an arguably greater danger than drunken Seattle partiers whose act of aggression was "removing their clothes." It is also interesting that CNN refers here to "rubber bullets," whereas in reports on Israel, CNN goes out of its way to use the more ominous description: "rubber-coated steel bullets." Ironically, the Mardi Gras incident comes the same week that the US State Department issued a human rights report condemning Israel for "often using excessive force against Palestinian demonstrators." This also comes on the heels of a report that Taliban troops rounded up and shot an estimated 500 civilians in central Afghanistan. There was no UN condemnation. Last week Lee Hockstader, a Senior WASHINGTON POST correspondent displayed basic ignorance regarding the Old Testament. "Sharon, 73, was sworn into office with his hand on a Hebrew version of the Old Testament..." I'll use Dr Learner's [IMRA] reply here: "Is the Hebrew version a translation of the King James English?" ............................ :: YESHUA POPULATION CONTINUES TO GROW: The settler population increased by some 8 percent - 14,968 individuals - last year and by the end of December 2000 numbered 203,068, according to figures from the Interior Ministry. This figure represents a lower rate of growth than that recorded in 1999, when the Jewish population in Yesha [Judea, Samaria, and Gaza] rose by 13.2 percent. This growth rate is approximately three times the national average. Additional figures released recently by the Housing and Construction Ministry show public construction of 1,943 housing units was initiated in the territories last year - the highest number since Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon served as housing and construction minister in 1992. ............................ :: WEB SITE: MYTHS & FACTS ONLINE: For years people have been asking for a resource that responds to anti-Israel propaganda and provides concise, factual information on the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Now that we're in the Internet age when students, especially, look to the Web first for information, and all too often find even worse attacks on Jews and Israel, Mitchell G. Bard, Ph.D. announces the publication of <<http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mftoc.html>http://www.us-israel.org/j source/myths/mftoc.html> Myths & Facts Online -- A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict. This guide has 22 chapters covering everything from Israel's roots to each of the wars to the current uprising. Because it is online we can now respond rapidly to new myths with accurate facts. We can also reach a global audience of millions. What also makes the resource indispensable is that all of the information is hyperlinked to the Jewish Virtual Library, the world's most comprehensive online encyclopedia of Jewish history and culture. ............................ [Sources: Arutz-7, Jerusalem Post, Israel Line, Winston Mid East Analysis & Commentary, WorldNetDaily, IMRA] :: UPCOMING ISRAEL TRIP: Fellowship Church [of which Tzemach News Service is a ministry] is sponsoring a trip to Israel November 4 - 17, 2001. The trip will cover areas in Judea and Samaria as well as the Galilee. Areas to be visited include Ariel, Hebron, Kiryat Arba, Metulla, Megiddo, the Golan Heights, Beit She'an, Qumran and sites in and around Jerusalem. You will see the Bible come alive. We will meet and talk with people who live by faith in the land given to them by G-d. [Due to the current situation in the Land, the schedule is still tentative.] For further information, send an email request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or see our Web site at: <http://www.tzemach.org/> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest." Isaiah 62.1 Lee Underwood *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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