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Week Ending: 29 December 2001/14 Tevet 5762 "Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, a people in whose heart is My Law; Do not fear the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings. For the moth will eat them like a garment, and the grub will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will be forever, and My salvation to all generations." Isaiah 51.7-8 This Week's Headlines: :: ARAFAT: CHRISTIAN MARTYR OR MUSLIM TERRORIST? :: ISRAELIS MARCH AROUND THE TEMPLE MOUNT :: WHO DOES NUSSEIBEH WORK FOR? :: ASSAD READY TO RENEW TALKS :: SETTLEMENT SITE OF THE WEEK :: THE MACCABEAN ONLINE :: ZINNI WILL WAIT UNTIL CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT :: SHARON CLARIFIES POSITION ON TALKS WITH PLO :: MIDDLE EAST HOURGLASS ** TZEMACH PERSPECTIVE: Our video commentary has been updated: http://www.tzemach.org/fyi/ :: ARAFAT: CHRISTIAN MARTYR OR MUSLIM TERRORIST? Much to his dismay, PLO leader Yasir Arafat spent Christmas Eve in Ram'Allah. He had been trying to go to Beit Lechem (Bethlehem) in order to attend Christmas Mass but was barred from doing so by the Israeli government. Israeli Cabinet Minister Danny Naveh said from the Knesset podium Wednesday: "Arafat is not a Christian saint but rather a Muslim terrorist." Naveh was delivering the government response to the Knesset inquiry into why Arafat was not allowed to visit Beit Lechem for Christmas. Naveh went on to recount instances of Muslim Arabs who raped young Christian Arab girls while the PLO police did nothing to stop or prevent the crimes. Naveh documented his charges and asked, "How can Arafat be portrayed in the world as a Christian saint, when such atrocities occur under his jurisdiction?" Meanwhile, former Israeli liaison to the US Congress Yoram Ettinger said Tuesday that Arafat and the Palestinian Authority [PA/PLO] have succeeded in reducing the 60% majority of Christians in Beit Lechem and neighboring Beit Jala to a 20% minority. Arafat has Islamisized Beit Lechem, since assuming control in 1995, by changing its municipal boundaries and that of its twin towns, Beth Jala and Beth Sakhur. They used to constitute the Christian enclave in Judea and Samaria. Arafat severely tipped demography there, by incorporating (into the 65,000 residents) an additional 30,000 Moslems of three neighboring refugee camps, Dehaisheh, El-Ayda' and El-Azeh. Arafat has intensified the Islamization of Beit Lechem by adding to its population a few thousand Bedouins of the Ta'amrah tribe, located east of Beit Lechem, encouraging Moslem immigration from Hebron to Beit Lechem, and inducing Christian emigration/flight away from Beit Lechem. A similar process has also afflicted the Christians of Ram'Allah (20,000). Ettinger charges that local Muslim Fatah gangs [controlled by Arafat] continue to desecrate Christian cemeteries, churches, convents, and monasteries. Also, the chant, "After we do away with the Saturday people [the Jews], we shall take care of the Sunday people [the Christians]," has been heard during anti-Israel PLO rallies. PLO terrorists shooting at Jerusalem's southern neighborhood Gilo purposely position themselves next to or in Christian homes, hotels, and churches in hopes of creating Christian casualties when Israel returns fire. The Christian casualties provide "proof" for the PLO propaganda machine to create the illusion that Israel attacks Christian property. According to an eye-witness account by former US Senator Connie Mack, "[The Palestinian Christian] was arrested and detained [by the PLO] on charges of selling land to Jews. He denied the charge, since he owned no land. He was beaten and hung from the ceiling by his hands for many hours. After two weeks, he was transferred to a larger prison where he was held for eight months without trial... These Christians conveyed to me a message of fear and desperation." (Senate speech, March 3, 2000). ............................ :: ISRAELIS MARCH AROUND THE TEMPLE MOUNT: The Fast of the 10th of Tevet commemorates the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem which led to the destruction of the First and Second Temples in 586 BCE and 70 CE. Since 586 BCE it has been a day of fasting and mourning for the Jewish people with special prayers for the redemption and rebuilding of the Temple. This year the fast fell on 25 December 2001. The Israeli people again commemorated the day with great mourning but at the same time with great prayers and hopes that the Temple will soon be rebuilt. The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement and many Israelis commemorated the day by marching around the Temple Mount which is still closed to Israelis and non-Muslims. When the marchers came close to the gates of the holy hill of G–d, they prayed the special prayers of the 10th Tevet and called on G–d from the bottom of their hearts to soon fulfill His end-time promises. (Complete details of the march can be found at: http://www.templemountfaithful.org) During the march an Israeli sustained light head wounds from rocks thrown by Arab assailants. The government is not acting to stop work being carried out by the Waqf on the Temple Mount that could be damaging our Jewish heritage, prominent Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua said over the weekend. The writer was one of a dozen persons who signed a blistering seven-page letter the non-partisan Committee Against the Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount sent to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last week. The committee comprises archaeologists, writers, jurists, and politicians who have been decrying Waqf work at the site for two years. Like his predecessor, newly appointed Jerusalem police spokesman Kobi Zrihan has repeatedly denied that any digging is being carried out on the Temple Mount, claiming the latest pictures produced by the committee are of "approved surfacing work carried out ... at the entrance to an office that does not contain any archeological artifacts" -- a claim that is mocked by leading archaeologists. Yehoshua proposed that a joint team of Jews, Muslims, and Christians be responsible for supervising work at the site. Waqf officials claim the whole area is a mosque, in which they may do as they please. A spokesman for Internal Security Minister Uzi Landau said Friday that Landau was holding meetings and consultations following the latest reports. Pictures of the destruction can be seen at: http://www.har-habayt.org/ ............................ :: WHO DOES NUSSEIBEH WORK FOR? Several hundred banner-carrying members of the Israeli Left marched down Jerusalem's main streets Friday to help the budding political career of an articulate Arab academic named Sari Nusseibeh, Yasir Arafat's representative in Jerusalem. The demonstrators were keenly aware that Nusseibeh was recently named by Arafat as Minister for Jerusalem Affairs in the PA/PLO. But the demonstrators (which included former Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin) probably did not know that before going to work for Arafat, Dr. Sari Nusseibeh went to work for Iraqi president Saddam Hussein trying to guide missile attacks on Israel. During the 1991 Gulf War, Nusseibeh was caught contacting Iraqi intelligence officials in order to help direct the SCUD rocket attacks of Saddam Hussein in which four Israelis were killed (one directly) and many wounded from 39 missile strikes. In an exclusive interview with THE MEDIA LINE, Col. (Res.) Shalom Harari described how the "moderate" Nusseibeh would tell Iraqi officials, for example, "Don't shoot in the Negev but rather shoot some place else for better effect." (Harari is a former Arab Affairs Advisor for the Israeli Defense Ministry) Nusseibeh was arrested by the Shin Bet (today known as SHABAK) and put in administrative detention without trial for several weeks. After the Gulf War ended, Israeli officials, under pressure from the Israeli Left (of which Yossi Beilin is a member) allowed Nusseibeh a kind of "plea bargain" under which he voluntarily left the country for three years, said Harari. ............................ :: ASSAD READY TO RENEW TALKS: Syrian President Bashar Assad is ready to renew negotiations with Israel at the point they left off under his father, Israel Radio reported Sunday, quoting a secret document sent from Washington to Jerusalem. Mideast envoy William Burns met Assad in Damascus last week and raised the possibility of renewing talks with Israel. Assad reportedly said he was ready to restart talks unconditionally, but then repeated the traditional Syrian position that any negotiations would have to begin at the point where they ended in early 2000, when his father, Hafez, was still in power. Talks between Israel and Syria broke down in early 2000 after a round of negotiations at Shepherdstown in the US, between then prime minister Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara. The main point of contention was the exact demarcation of the border. Like his predecessors, Barak refused to accept Assad's demand that Israel withdraw to the banks of the Kinneret, giving the Syrians direct access to the lake. ............................ :: SETTLEMENT SITE OF THE WEEK: Neve Dekalim <http://www.tehilla.com/housing/nevedek.shtml> is the regional center of Gush Katif, located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It was founded in 1983 and currently has a population of 2,320. ............................ :: THE MACCABEAN ONLINE: The Maccabean Online for December 2001 is up on the Freeman Center Web site <http://freeman.io.com/online.htm>. This excellent e-zine features political analysis and commentary on Israeli and Jewish affairs. ............................ :: ZINNI WILL WAIT UNTIL CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT: In response to an appeal made by the PA/PLO on Friday, the US State Department said that peace envoy Anthony Zinni would return to the region when conditions were appropriate. Zinni, a retired Marine Corps general, left the region earlier this month after witnessing some of the worst violence of the 15-month Palestinian uprising against Israel. The US envoy is not expected to return to the region in the coming week. On Thursday, Zinni is slated to meet IDF Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz and Israeli Ambassador to Washington D.C. David Ivry. The three will discuss the groundwork for the resumption of Zinni's mission. Meanwhile, Israeli defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer has welcomed what he says are moves by the Palestinians to control terrorists carrying out attacks on Israel. He said that if the trend continued movement could be made on implementing the Mitchell peace plan. He said on Thursday that the Palestinian leadership was making progress in cracking down on terrorists. (Meanwhile, in the town of Ram'Allah, terrorists riddled an Israeli bus with bullets. There were no injuries. There were also clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops. In addition, Israeli forces killed a suicide bomber near the Netzarim settlement in the central Gaza Strip before he was able to detonate the bomb he had strapped to his body.) On the other hand, on Saturday night, Ben-Eliezer warned that the Palestinians are training suicide bombers and preparing car bombings as part of "an infrastructure for war." Ben-Eliezer was recently elected chairman of the Labor Party. He stated he intends to work out a compromise whereby both he and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres will have the title of "Labor's representative minister," as permitted by the party's coalition agreement with the Likud. ............................ :: SHARON CLARIFIES POSITION ON TALKS WITH PLO: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced Thursday that he will not agree to a Palestinian state before the cabinet deliberates the issue. Sharon reiterated that there will be no "diplomatic negotiations" with the PLO under fire, rather "negotiations for a cease-fire." Regarding the Abu Ala-Peres agreement in the making, Sharon said that there are many problems with it. Minister of National Infrastructure Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beitenu Party) criticized Prime Minister Sharon for breaking his word by allowing Peres to negotiate with the PLO without consent from the rest of the coalition partners. It was revealed Monday that not only was PM Sharon fully aware of the clandestine talks being held between Peres and Abu Ala, but that he expressed general support for them as well. The "Abu Ala-Peres Agreement" contains four stages: ** 1) – Within six weeks a full cease-fire, including an end to all fighting and terror, an end to all blockades, a freezing of all Yesha communities, an end to all killing and assassinations, and a unification of all Palestinian security forces; ** 2) – Within eight weeks Israel will recognize a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza and the Arabs will recognize the State of Israel on the basis of UN resolutions 242 and 338; ** 3) – Within nine to twelve months, negotiations leading to a permanent settlement, including a schedule for withdrawal of Israeli troops, refugees, Jerusalem, settlements, security and water. The process will conclude no later than 18 to 24 months; and, ** 4) – An international role concerning the negotiations, a peace-keeping force, economic and financial aid to the Palestinians, area economic cooperation, and arbitration of issues still undecided. ............................ :: MIDDLE EAST HOURGLASS: December 23: Arafat banned from attending Christmas Mass in Beit Lechem. New Peres 'peace plan' unveiled in Hebrew daily. Right-wing ministers call for Peres' removal. IDF kills two terrorists who set off bomb near Shechem. Fatah calls for escalation of terrorism against soldiers, "settlers." Police capture two suicide bombers in Haifa. US, EU express displeasure with decision to keep Arafat out of Beit Lechem. December 24: Budget passes cabinet vote; opposition grows. Security agents capture planners of December 3 Haifa suicide bombing. International pressure to allow Arafat visit to Beit Lechem grows. Sharon refuses to budge; Arafat spends Christmas Eve in Ram'Allah. December 25: Terrorist gunmen kill one, wound 4 near Jordanian border. Bodies of two terrorist gunmen found in Jordan Valley. First wave of Argentinian Jews arrive in Israel. Palestine Islamic Jihad calls off attacks in "Israel proper." Hundreds of protestors march around Jerusalem's Temple Mount. December 26: IDF lifts closure on Jericho. FM Peres leaves for Ukraine in pursuit of Palestinian state. Israeli ambassador: Terrorist organizations trying to bring down Jordan. IDF, PA officials hold joint security meeting in Gaza. DM Ben-Eliezer becomes Labor Party leader. Bin Laden statement blames attacks on US support for Israel. December 27: Israel extends ban on Arafat visit to Beit Lechem. IDF commander: PA Jenin forces failing to honor agreement. Sharon agrees: No talks on Palestinian state before government discussion. Ben-Eliezer orders lifting of Beit Lechem closure; Arafat still banned. ............................ 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