-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! TZEMACH NEWS SERVICE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A weekly update of news and events regarding the nation and the people of Israel Week Ending: 1 September 2001/13 Elul 5761 "Thus says the L-rd, 'Restrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; For your work shall be rewarded,' declares the L-rd, 'and they shall return from the land of the enemy. And there is hope for your future,' declares the L-rd, 'and your children shall return to their own territory." Jeremiah 31.16-17 Highlights Of This Week: :: TEMPLE MOUNT DESTRUCTION CONTINUES :: LET THE BUILDING CONTINUE! :: JOIN US IN ISRAEL - SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! :: SETTLEMENT SITE OF THE WEEK :: WORTH MENTIONING :: ISRAEL LEAVES BEIT JALA :: ISRAEL KILLS PFLP LEADER; PALESTINIANS KILL ANOTHER :: US INVESTIGATES ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL :: ARAFAT PREPARING TO HIDE AND RUN :: ON THE NORTHERN FRONT :: THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY BUILD-UP :: MEANWHILE, IN DURBAN ... :: TEMPLE MOUNT DESTRUCTION CONTINUES: The illegal destruction by Waqf officials on the Temple Mount has been renewed. Journalist Nadav Shragai reports that Islamic Jihad members are also taking part in the work, which continues to involve the sawing down of large boulders from the Second Temple period with the help of a giant electric saw. The Arabs have quietly renewed their project of cleaning out the water cisterns on the Mount, without Israeli approval or archaeological supervision. Cistern #5 is now in the process of being electrically pumped of its water and other objects. While government officials agree that the desecration is very serious, they refuse to do anything about it. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon refuses to meet with members of the Committee to Prevent the Destruction of Temple Mount Antiquities, or even just to cut off all electricity that would prevent the large electric saw from working there. Photos of the illegal Temple Mount works may be seen at <www.har-habayt.org/newp.html>. "And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the L-rd filled the house. ... And He said to me, 'Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel forever'" Ezekiel 43.5, 7a. ............................ :: LET THE BUILDING CONTINUE! Three new neighborhoods were dedicated this past week in three different communities in the Jordan Valley. Kibbutz Beit HaAravah, north of the Dead Sea was inaugurated. North of Jericho, in Yeitav, the new "Mul Nevo" (meaning "opposite Mt. Nevo," Aaron the Priest's burial place) was launched. Further north, a permanent neighborhood gained official status in Hemdat. The Yesha Council announced that the population in the communities of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza officially increased in the past year by 17,000, to a total of 227,000. The Council announced that 16 new families have moved to Har Bracha (just south of Shechem in central Shomron), 180 to a new neighborhood in Adam (between Jerusalem and Psagot), close to 20 into the Gaza communities of Kfar Darom, Netzarim, and Morag, and 28 into Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion. In addition, Beit El will gain at least 43 new families; four families have left Beit El to live in a more "difficult" Yesha location, Ateret, on the road to N'vei Tzuf. ............................ :: JOIN US IN ISRAEL - SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! If you have ever wanted to go to Israel, now is the time! Israel needs to see your support. Israel needs to know that, as Christians, you support and encourage her. 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, 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. We will not be intimidated, we are not afraid. How can we speak of faith and then be afraid to trust G-d in His own Land? For further information, send an e-mail request to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or see our Web site at: http://www.tzemach.org/trip/ ............................ :: SETTLEMENT SITE OF THE WEEK: Kedumim - http://www.kedumim.org.il/ : Kedumim, the first modern community in Samaria, was not established through ordinary, conventional means. The story of Kedumim is the story of the incredible devotion and determination of its founders. Kedumim, established in 1975, is strategically located along Samaria's western slopes. It protects western Samaria from further Palestinian encroachment from the east. ............................ :: WORTH MENTIONING: The August/September 2001 edition of "Middle East Intelligence Bulletin" is now online. All of the articles can be freely accessed at: <http://www.meib.org/issues/0108.htm>. Articles include 'Special Report: Lebanon's Shadow Government Takes Charge,' 'Intelligence Briefs', 'The Syrian Military: A Primer', and 'The Jordan-Hamas Divorce'. ............................ :: ISRAEL LEAVES BEIT JALA: Israeli forces withdrew from PA/PLO-controlled Beit Jala just before daybreak Thursday, ending a two-day operation aimed at stopping Palestinian gunfire at Gilo, a Jewish neighborhood across a valley, in Jerusalem. Palestinian gunmen and residents celebrated their "victory over Sharon," minutes after the last Israeli tank pulled out. The IDF withdrew following an understanding negotiated by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO leader Yassir Arafat with the involvement of US Secretary of State Colin Powell and European diplomats. ............................ :: ISRAEL KILLS PFLP LEADER; PALESTINIANS KILL ANOTHER: Israeli forces killed Mustafa Zibri, known as Abu Ali Mustafa, acting leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization, late Monday morning. This marked the highest-ranking Palestinian political/military leader killed by Israel in its long war against terrorism in many years. Two missiles were fired at his Ram'Allah office, which situated very close to Arafat's offices. Mustafa was responsible for dozens of attacks against Israelis, including car bombs in Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Mea She'arim, and most recently, last week's car bomb that did not cause any casualties. The Barak government allowed him to return to the PA/PLO autonomous areas in September 1999 after he verbally recognized the validity of the Oslo agreements. Since then, however, he has been involved chiefly in organizing armed cells to carry out terrorist attacks. Mustafa replaced PFLP founder George Habash, who has been sick for several years, as head of the organization. DEBKAfile's political and intelligence sources describe the hit as a military threat to Syrian president Hafez Assad to keep his hands off the Palestinian intifada and a warning to Arafat that he takes his Intifada across the border at his own personal peril. It raises Israel's targeted campaign against Palestinian terrorists to the regional level for the first time. Reading this new dimension correctly, Damascus radio and TV immediately interrupted their broadcasts Monday with news of the assassination, followed shortly after by the Hizb'Allah media. The US has urged Syria to "exercise restraint" over the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in the wake of threats from the Damascus-based group that it will attack American targets in retaliation for the killing of their leader. In Damascus on Monday, a PFLP spokesman, Maher Taher, was quoted as saying the group would avenge the killing, and called for Arab nations "to hit American interests because the United States participates in the extermination of the Palestinian people." State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the US has been in touch with the Syrian government via the US Embassy in Damascus. In a related item, the ZOA expressed "shock and dismay" at US Ambassador in Israel Daniel Kurtzer and State Department spokesman Richard Boucher for their criticism of Israel for accidentally and slightly wounding two Arab-Americans <http://www.zoa.org/pressrel/20010828b.htm>. A ZOA statement notes that Kurtzer never criticized the PA/PLO for its involvement in the deliberate murders of American Jews. The ZOA explains that the two Arab-Americans in question were slightly wounded during the attack on terrorist leader Mustafa, head of the PFLP organization that has murdered at least 14 American citizens. Kurtzer said nothing, however, about the fact that several hours later, US citizen Ben Dansker was wounded in a drive-by shooting attack by Palestinian terrorists. Meanwhile, hitherto unknown Palestinian organization calling itself the "Martyr Bilal al-Ghoul Group" claimed responsibility for the assassination Saturday of Col. Taisir Khatab, director of the office of Palestinian Intelligence commander Amin al-Hindi. Khatab was killed and three passengers were wounded when a bomb exploded under the seat of his car as he was driving to work in Gaza City. In a statement sent to the AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, the Ghoul group claimed responsibility for "the assassination of the traitor" and said it had planted the explosive in his car. "Khatab served the Zionist enemy for many years and arrested Palestinian warriors," the statement said. ............................ :: US INVESTIGATES ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL: An American government watchdog is investigating the sale of US-made arms to Israel amid growing concern over Israel's policy of assassinating Palestinian terrorist leaders and its use of heavy weaponry. In the past four years, America has provided Israel with about $5.2 billion of arms, financed largely by annual grants of military aid by Congress. Such weapons include F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft and attack helicopters. The Arms Export Control Act stipulates that such weapons can only be used for "legitimate self-defense". There is growing unease in Washington over what Israel calls "targeted killings". These terrorists have also killed many US citizens, for which the US has never responded in any manner. Israel's armed forces are monitored by officials in the State Department and the US embassy in Jerusalem. The US has decided that the activities do not violate the arms sale agreement. But this week, after Israel's assassination of the senior Palestinian terrorist leader Abu Ali Mustafa, using American-made Apache helicopter gunships, Washington said such tactics could only "inflame" the situation. ............................ :: ARAFAT PREPARING TO HIDE AND RUN: The London FOREIGN REPORT writes that PLO chief Yasser Arafat is preparing "escape routes" to Egypt and Iraq for himself and a handful of close cronies, for fear that Israel's eliminations policy may extend to him. At the same time, Arafat is also preparing bunkers in which he could hide for an extended duration. Israel has denied that it plans to expel him. The paper reports, however, that since several recent Israeli missile attacks on a Hamas meeting, the car of Marwan Bargouti, and more, Arafat has been in a high state of alert. In case of emergency, his plan is to go "underground" into bunker headquarters that have already been equipped with top-grade equipment before relying on escape routes. "A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him" Proverbs 28.17. ............................ :: ON THE NORTHERN FRONT: IDF troops remain on heightened alert along the northern border amid intensive international diplomatic efforts to avert the possibility of a flare-up in the region. Tension has risen in the past few days after reports that Palestinian terrorist organizations in cooperation with Hizb'Allah are planning an attack from Lebanon. "The military command has taken precautions," a military source said, without providing any details. Consequently, checkpoints have been reinforced on roads leading to Akko, a Mediterranean coastal town some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Lebanese border. Meanwhile, a senior Hizb'Allah official on Sunday dismissed Israeli warnings over the group's presence in Ghajar and vowed further anti-Israeli attacks. Ghajar is divided by the United Nations-delineated Blue Line, with the northern two-thirds falling inside Lebanon and the southern one-third in Israel. It was not immediately clear whether Safieddine was referring to just northern Ghajar as Lebanese or the entire village. However, a Hizb'Allah spokesman clarified that his comments referred to the upper half of the village and he was not claiming the southern portion as Lebanese territory. ............................ :: THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY BUILD-UP: Israeli defense officials are asking why the US refuses to share with Israel information about the arms it is supplying to Egypt. For now, military intelligence labels Egypt a danger, but not a threat, according to a report by HA'ARETZ. The question that disturbs Israel is why Egypt, which after its peace agreement with Israel is under no threat from any country, needs such extensive weaponry. The Israeli defense establishment recently expressed its concerns to the American administration about the approval given to sell Egypt Harpoon missiles, which can be launched from ships and jet fighters, standard missiles launched from ships, and especially a package of Patriot missiles. The Israeli Air Force views this as a significant upgrading of Egypt's anti-aircraft defense system. The United States claims that the arms it supplies to Egypt are intended for defense or deterrence. But Israel is worried about the American response. The United States has made it clear that it has no interest in sharing information with Israel about the military aid it supplies to Egypt. This position, along with the American insistence on equipping Egypt with advanced weaponry, is indicative of the strategic importance the United States attributes to Egypt. The Ariel Center for Policy Research (ACPR) recently published an analysis authored by Major Shawn Pine, a US Army reserves specialist in counterintelligence <http://www.acpr.org.il/publications/arab_attitude/pp6-xs.html>. The amazing claim Pine raises in his study is that Egypt is involved in deceiving, if not outright lying, to the world about its annual defense budget. According to the US Central Intelligence Agency, Egypt spends $2.7 billion annually on defense (about 8.2 percent of its annual budget). Pine firmly states that Egypt's real defense expenditures are closer to $20 billion, or seven times greater than what Israel and the United States have been led to believe. Surprisingly, Dr. Hillel Frisch of Bar-Ilan University does not completely reject Pine's claims. He believes that the truth is somewhere in the middle. ............................ :: MEANWHILE, IN DURBAN ...: The comparison of Zionism to racism is dead, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Saturday, adding that the UN made its decision on the matter in 1991 when it rescinded the 1975 resolution equating Zionism and racism. Annan was speaking to journalists at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa. Meanwhile, resolutions effectively calling for the dismantling of the State of Israel were voted upon by regional caucuses and adopted by the non-government organizations' forum. The resolutions are divided into a declarative section and a section called a "plan of action." In the declarative section, Israel is referred to as a "racist, apartheid state" that is "colonial" and commits "racist crimes." The document also excoriates Israel for "inhumanity in denying food and water to the Palestinians," the "victimization of women and children," and "the discrimination of Palestinians in Israel." The document will be presented to UN Human Rights High Commissioner Mary Robinson. Meanwhile, Arafat failed last Saturday for the third time to force Israel to accept international observers in Yesha. The PA/PLO had no choice but to withdraw its proposal for such from the UN Security Council after the US said it would impose a veto on the idea. The PLO failure was even more pronounced this time, as even many other nations that had before supported Arafat did not do so this time. However, there are currently around 200 "internationals" active in Yesha, according to Heidi Arraf, a US citizen, who is one of ten "peace activists" in Beit Jala. Foreign groups participating include the International Solidarity Movement, a US-based church group called Christian Peacemakers Teams and Women in Black, a UK-based group. ............................ [Sources: Jerusalem Post, Arutz-7, Ha'aretz, AP, People's Daily, Itim, IDF Spokesperson, ZOA, The Independent, Arms Trade Newswire, BBC, IMRA] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::: "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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