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TZEMACH NEWS SERVICE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A weekly update of news and events regarding the nation and the people of Israel Week Ending: 24 November 2001/9 Kislev 5762 "He has remembered His covenant forever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations, the covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac. Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant, saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan, as the portion of your inheritance,' when they were only a few men in number, very few, and strangers in it." This Week's Headlines: :: COMMENTS ON POWELL'S SPEECH :: TERRORIST LEADER KILLED :: THE ALTERNATIVE TO OSLO :: CORNERSTONE FOR NEW SETTLEMENT; FOUR MORE ON THE WAY :: IDF EXPRESSES SORROW OVER DEATHS OF BOYS IN GAZA BLAST :: US ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT DETAINS JEWS :: GERMAN ANTI-SEMITISM ON RISE :: MYTHS AND FACTS :: EUROPE GETS READY TO BOYCOTT ISRAELI GOODS :: EDUCATION, PLO-STYLE :: ISRAEL MAY HIRE CARVILLE :: COMMENTS ON POWELL'S SPEECH: On Monday, US Secretary of State Colin Powell gave a speech at the McConnell Center for Political Leadership at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. What follows are a few observations of that speech. The ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH in an editorial stated: "The most significant part of the speech was Powell's use of the term 'occupation' to describe Israel's presence in territory the Arabs lost in the Six Day War of 1967. That reference together with President Bush's recent reference to a Palestinian state reflect an unmistakable tilt in US policy. This shift seems highly ironic and unfair to Israelis. In order to win support in its fight against terrorism, the United States is prodding Israel to make peace with a political movement aided and abetted by terrorism." The WASHINGTON TIMES stated in an editorial: "Powell's speech on the administration's 'new' Middle East policy left much to be desired. ... By likening the 'concession' that Palestinians must give up terrorism to the concession that Israelis must cease their 'occupation', Powell made defending the security of Israel's borders a crime on the same level as terrorism. His lack of definitive measures to follow through with this 'new' policy leaves the Palestinians room to continue pointing fingers and defending policies of terrorism. It leaves the rest of the world with a lesson in how to perfect ambiguity." [Editor's note: In the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel gained control of Judea and Samaria from Jordan, not the PLO or the 'Palestinians'. So how is it that Israel can give land 'back' to someone who never had it in the first place?] Powell did announce one step that he expected would be implemented "in the very, very near future" -- namely, the dispatching of Gen. Anthony Zinni to Israel to meet with Israel and PA/PLO teams to discuss terms for a ceasefire. Powell said that Prime Minister Sharon had formed a senior-level committee to "work with the Palestinians on the negotiation and implementation of a cease-fire and what follows from that," and that "I also understand that Chairman Arafat remains ready to do likewise," and that Gen. Zinni will "remain in the region to work with these two committees [in order to reach] a cease-fire." Afterward his speech, Powell was asked to explain what he meant by his statement, "We will push, we will prod [the two sides]." His response: "You'll see what pushing and prodding is when Tony Zinni gets on the ground." Criticism of Powell's speech in Israel centered on the following points: * Powell strongly criticized Israeli 'settlement' activity, saying it "has severely undermined Palestinian trust and hope. It preempts and prejudges the outcome of negotiations and, in doing so, cripples chances for real peace and security." He did not, however, call upon the PA/PLO to cease its own construction in strategic places in the same areas -- also a form of "preempting the outcome." * Powell's reference to negotiation over the ultimate fate of Jerusalem could have only one outcome: Israeli concessions, meaning an end to Jerusalem's status as the indivisible and eternal capital of the Jewish People. * Powell's call for the conclusion of yet another agreement with the PLO ignores its 37-year track record of systematically violating all its international commitments. * The bottom line is that in return for an end to Palestinian terrorism, they will receive a state. "Would the American people tolerate awarding Bin Laden with a state in response to him calling off terrorism?" asks Nadia Matar of Women in Green. ............................ :: TERRORIST LEADER KILLED: An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles at a van traveling on a road near Shechem on Friday, killing Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, leader of the Izzadin Kassam military wing of Hamas. Also killed was his deputy Ayman Hashaykah, and Hashaykah's brother, a lower-ranking Hamas terrorist. Israel acknowledged it carried out the strike. Abu Hanoud was involved in, among other atrocities, the Sbarro and Dolphin disco suicide bombings, in which 36 were killed and over 200 wounded. He was considered the most wanted fugitive for masterminding the 1997 terrorist attacks in Jerusalem's Mahaneh Yehuda shouk and Rehov Ben-Yehuda pedestrian mall, which killed 21 people. He was also behind the 1999 suicide bombings in Haifa and Tiberias. Meanwhile, Palestinian terror is becoming increasingly dependent on Palestinian criminals, recent events indicate, as terrorists employ the criminals and their skills to try to bypass heightened Israeli security. Israeli officials say this trend is likely to become an important factor for Western countries analyzing how they, too, will have to fight the worldwide wave of terror that is aided by criminals skilled in smuggling, counterfeiting and penetrating closed areas. The new trend was clear here in the last ten days when a nationwide manhunt led to the wounding and capture of a man who was considered "the master car thief" of the Palestinians, but who turned out to be much more than that. Only a few days before his capture, Al-Jamoos, known as "al-Nursi," had planted a bomb inside the bedroom of a senior Israeli naval officer, Col. Nadav Barak, in the well-to-do town of Ra'anana. A successful Israeli investigation of cabinet minister Rehav'am Ze'evi's murder revealed that it too was an act of terror that had been subcontracted to career Palestinian criminals. Two members of the four-man murder squad were captured. The other two men escaped to territory controlled by Arafat's Palestinian Authority, which has never extradited a murderer to Israel. Nevertheless, Israel's get-tough policy against terrorists has led to more arrests in the last six months, including the capture this week of two men who murdered two hitchhiking Israeli soldiers. The murderers of the soldiers had escaped into Egypt using smugglers' assistance, but they were captured when they tried to re-enter the Gaza Strip from Egypt. Israel has been fighting a daily battle along the Egyptian-Gaza frontier under almost impossible logistical circumstances. ............................ :: THE ALTERNATIVE TO OSLO: "The right-wing has no alternative to Oslo." So has Shimon Peres said many times in the past, and in general, Israel's left wing continually challenges the right wing with this statement. There is an alternative which is summed up very nicely by Kedumim Mayor Daniella Weiss: "The claim of the left-wing that we have no alternative is wrong. We are not seeking an alternative, because we have a way, a path: The Land of Israel is all ours, and we have to settle it, and we must continue the process of the Jews' return to their land, as told in the Prophets.... We don't have to weaken ourselves by talking about an "alternative," just because they try to trap us with this question. G-d, in His great mercy, is helping us to see that there is no possibility of giving these murderers any form of a presence here, whether it be autonomy or something else. Joshua, when he led the People of Israel into the Land 3,000 years ago, and our rabbis throughout the generations, have taught us that every non-Jew who completely accepts the Jewish people as masters of this Land may remain here ... Whoever doesn't, may not stay here.... Why do we have to search for alternatives? There is one wholeness, and it is based in the Torah." Tourism Minister Benny Elon: "The entire Land [of Israel] also includes the other side of the Jordan, that which is the Promised Land of the Bible and that which Balfour promised the Jewish People for a national home. Most of this area, 78% of it, already has a Palestinian state -- Jordan. We must make it clear that Eretz Yisrael has two sides of the Jordan, and that if the Arabs want a Palestinian state, it already exists, in the form of Jordan. Our solution [the voluntary exodus of Arabs out of Judea and Samaria] will lead to real peace, with a democratic Jewish state between the Mediterranean and the Jordan.... [W]e are willing to negotiate with them over some form of autonomy, with its capital in Amman, and connected culturally and municipally and in other ways to Jordan, but with Israel in control of the borders, sovereignty, Jordan Valley. This can be done if they are willing to live with us in peace. But if they are not willing to do so, then the painful price they will have to pay will be transfer." ............................ :: CORNERSTONE FOR NEW SETTLEMENT; FOUR MORE ON THE WAY: This week, in the presence of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive Sallai Meridor, a cornerstone ceremony was held laying the foundation of a new religious-community settlement called Halukim -- the first to be founded in the Negev for a decade. The settlement, being founded with Jewish Agency assistance, is 3 km north of Kibbutz Sde Boker, and is planned for 250 families. The Ministers of Housing and Tourism, the Chairman of the Jewish National Fund and the Head of the Ramat Hanegev Regional Council also attended the ceremony. The members of the new religious-Zionist yishuv have requested permission from Israel's Naming Committee to rename their town Merhav Am, in memory of the assassinated Minister Rehavam Ze'evi. Ze'evi's successor, Tourism Minister Benny Elon, expressed gratification that his own son was among the founding members of the new Negev community. The Jewish Agency is currently working to establish four more communities in the Negev, called Zukim, Be'er Milca, Haruv and a new community settlement near Rahat. The Jewish Agency is also involved in the expansion of 100 existing communities in regions of the Negev. 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