WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Tzemach News Service - http://www.tzemach.org/fyi Tzemach News Service ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A weekly update of news and events regarding the nation and the people of Israel Week Ending: 5 August 2000/4 Av 5760 Please feel free to forward to a friend or colleague "My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the L-rd; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living G-d." (Psalm 84.2) HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK: > GOVERNMENT CRUMBLING BEFORE BARAK'S EYES > KATSAV ELECTED NEW ISRAELI PRESIDENT > CLINTON'S TRICKS BACKFIRE > THE MOSLEM CLAIM TO JERUSALEM IS FALSE (A MUST READ!) > LEBANESE ARMY TO TAKE OVER IN SOUTH > SECRET MEETING ON 'REFUGEES' REVEALED > PREPARATIONS FOR WAR CONTINUE > EASTERN JERUSALEM ARABS WANT TO STAY UNDER ISRAELI AUTHORITYRABBIS TO CONSIDER SYNAGOGUE ON TEMPLE MOUNT > EITAN HABER EMPLOYED BY LOCKHEED MARTIN - WROTE COLUMN URGING ISRAEL TO DROP PHALCON > TISHA B'AV (Thurs. 08-10-00) > THIS WEEK IN JEWISH HISTORY > ** NOTICE ** REDEMPTION IN THE END-TIMES PROPHECY CONFERENCE GOVERNMENT CRUMBLING BEFORE BARAK'S EYES: Several more blows were dealt to the sickly Barak coalition this past week. Barak narrowly survived a no-confidence motion Monday. The vote came on the last day of the Knesset's summer session. The vote was 50 for and 50 against, with 8 abstentions and 12 absences. A majority of 61 votes are needed to pass. Foreign Minister David Levy resigned Wednesday. Earlier Monday, Barak's candidate for president, former Prime Minister Shimon Peres, lost in a stunning parliamentary vote upset to a little-known opposition lawmaker. The victory of Iranian-born Moshe Katsav of the opposition Likud Party spelled a humiliating blow to Barak. At Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting, Barak announced that after the collapse of the Camp David talks, his government would now concentrate on educational, health and welfare issues. The Likud scoffed at the new government agenda, saying: "More than one year after he was elected, Prime Minister Barak has just remembered that the State of Israel has social problems, which Barak completely ignored despite the fact that he was elected to solve them." KATSAV ELECTED NEW ISRAELI PRESIDENT: Mild-mannered Persian Jewish immigrant Moshe Katsav was sworn in Tuesday evening as Israel's eight President and pledged to avoid getting involved in political infighting during his seven-year term. Born in Iran, Katsav, 55, immigrated in 1951 and started out in a tent camp before taking up residence in Kiryat Malachi, a development town in the south, where he became the youngest Israeli mayor ever at age 24. Katsav, who has a bachelor's degree from Hebrew University, was first elected to the Knesset in 1977. He has served as labor, transportation, and tourism minister, and was a deputy prime minister under Binyamin Netanyahu's government from 1996-1999. He is respected by Israel's large Sephardic community as an observant Jew, and has developed ties to the Israeli Arab community as well. For the first time, a member of a party other than Labor has won the Presidency. For the first time, a man of sfardi origin has won the Presidency. For the first time a religious Jew has won the Presidency. Shimon Peres lost the election. Peres is, in the words of one Israeli columnist, "the greatest Prime Minister never elected." Indeed, Peres never won a vote in his life. So, perhaps it is fitting that Peres, who has been implicated in every major Israeli scandal over the past 20 years, from Irangate, to Pollard, to the Rabin assassination, should lose yet again. One more loss to end his illustrious career. ARUTZ-7 correspondent Yedidya Atlas reports, based on sources close to both the Clinton Administration and to Hilary Clinton's Senatorial campaign in New York State, that the Clintons were "shocked and dismayed" by the news of Peres' loss. Both Mr. and Mrs. Clinton had been relying on a President Peres to promote their respective agendas, say the sources, including the American plan for the division of Jerusalem and improving Hilary's lagging support among Jewish New York voters. CLINTON'S TRICKS BACKFIRE: In attempting to 'appease' Israel, US President Clinton recently stated that he wanted to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem [see TNS, 29 July 2000/26 Tammuz 5760]. However, this past week, his statements had serious repercussions around the globe. The head of the Arab League called Clinton's remarks "strange." The editors of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE referred to the President's suggestion as "reckless" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 1 August 2000). On Monday Egypt indicated that moving the embassy would have "negative effects" on the peace process. Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hizb'Allah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah threatened Sunday to destroy the US embassy in Israel and kill its diplomats if the mission was moved to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. It was only last June (2000) that Clinton, for the third time, ordered a six-month delay in moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. In a memorandum to the secretary of state, Clinton said the delay was necessary "to protect the national security interests of the United States." IMRA note: "President Clinton, in a carefully orchestrated move designed to help Prime Minister Barak's image in Israel, made a statement about Jerusalem that should actually HARM Barak if people would ignore the headlines and instead note what Clinton actually said and Barak's follow up. Clinton said he would LIKE to move the embassy to Jerusalem but gave no indication he would take this step BEFORE an agreement was signed between Israel and the Palestinians. It should be kept in mind that the embassy would be located in WESTERN Jerusalem. Such statements have been part of American rhetoric for many years. Barak followed up by suggesting that Clinton may actually do something about moving the embassy by the day CLINTON LEAVES OFFICE! Curiously, the Arab world, rather than laugh at Clinton's statement [does anyone actually think that an action taken in the last moment of an administration will not be subject to review the next morning by the new president?], their strong response helps Barak appear to have actually "earned" something from Clinton in return for the many concessions he made in Camp David. THE MOSLEM CLAIM TO JERUSALEM IS FALSE: by Dr. Manfred R. Lehmann, a writer for the ALGEMEINER JOURNAL. Originally published in the ALGEMEINER JOURNAL, 19 August 1994. The Moslem "claim" to Jerusalem is based on what is written in the Koran, which although Jerusalem is not mentioned even once, nevertheless talks (in Sura 17:1) of the "Furthest Mosque": "Glory be unto Allah who did take his servant for a journey at night from the Sacred Mosque to the Furthest Mosque." But is there any foundation to the Moslem argument that this "Furthest Mosque" (Al-Masujidi al-Aqtza) refers to what is today called the Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem? The answer is, none whatsoever. In the days of Mohammed, who died in 632 of the Common Era, Jerusalem was a Christian city within the Byzantine Empire. Jerusalem was captured by Khalif Omar only in 638, six years after Mohammed's death. Throughout all this time there were only churches in Jerusalem, and a church stood on the Temple Mount, called the Church of Saint Mary of Justinian, built in the Byzantine architectural style. The Aksa Mosque was built 20 years after the Dome of the Rock, which was built in 691-692 by Khalif Abd El Malik. The name "Omar Mosque" is therefore false. In or around 711, or about 80 years after Mohammed died, Malik's son, Abd El-Wahd - who ruled from 705-715 - reconstructed the Christian- Byzantine Church of St. Mary and converted it into a mosque. He left the structure as it was, a typical Byzantine basilica structure with a row of pillars on either side of the rectangular "ship" in the center. All he added was an onion-like dome on top of the building to make it look like a mosque. He then named it "El-Aksa," so it would sound like the one mentioned in the Koran. Therefore it is crystal clear that Mohammed could never have had this mosque in mind when he compiled the Koran, since it did not exist for another three generations after his death. Rather, as many scholars long ago established, it is logical that Mohammed intended the mosque in Mecca as the "Sacred Mosque," and the mosque in Medina as the "Furthest Mosque." So much for the Moslem claim based on the Aksa Mosque. With this understood, it is no wonder that Mohammed issued a strict prohibition against facing Jerusalem in prayer, a practice that had been tolerated only for some months in order to lure Jews to convert to Islam. When that effort failed, Mohammed put an abrupt stop to it on 12 February 624. Jerusalem simply never held any sanctity for the Moslems themselves, but only for the Jews in their domain. LEBANESE ARMY TO TAKE OVER IN SOUTH: A Lebanese security force is expected to be dispatched to south Lebanon soon, perhaps by Sunday evening, following UNIFIL's (United Nations International Force In Lebanon) major deployment Saturday throughout the region and along the border with Israel. Lebanese Interior Minister Michel Murr said the 1,000-member detachment of Lebanese Army troops, police, and state security officials would be ready to deploy in south Lebanon as soon as the UNIFIL deployment is complete, possibly tonight. This follows intensive diplomatic pressure on the Lebanese government to fulfill its obligations under UN Security Council Resolution 425 after Israel withdrew from Lebanon in full compliance with the resolution. IDF (Israel Defense Force) sources said they hope the planned deployment of the combined Lebanese Army/Police detachment would help restore law and order in south Lebanon and bring an end to rock-hurling demonstrations by protesters on the Lebanese side of the border. Most of the disturbances have been concentrated around the former Fatma crossing point just north of Metulla, where protesters gather on a daily basis and throw rocks, bottles, metal bars, and other objects, including firecrackers, at IDF troops and installations on the Israeli side. Seven IDF soldiers and several Thai workers, who had been tending fields and orchards in the Metulla area, have been injured by these objects. Nearly 250 complaints have been lodged with the UN by Israel over the incidents. SECRET MEETING ON 'REFUGEES' REVEALED: A disclosure of a secret meeting in London last week was made by Jordanian political sources. The meeting was attended by politicians, scholars, and officials from Jordan, Lebanon, the PLO, Syria, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Commission, and Switzerland. The discussion primarily focused on the issue of Palestinian refugees, the scenarios of a future solution to their question, and the numbers of refugees expected to return home. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR CONTINUE: A local army chief, Colonel Yehuda Shaked, has written to settlers previously barred from keeping guns, asking them to resubmit applications. The following brief SOS was sent by the Director of Security on a small settlement: "I don't know what they're saying on the news but you should know that the army has for weeks been asking us to ready ourselves for all out war, in which, if it brakes out, the army units will be transferred from our area to the borders and we the yeshuvim will basically be left to protect ourselves for at least 48 hours (and probably more) until the reserves start becoming organized. They are trying not to cause panic so the notices change back and forth from "everything is OK" to calls to civilians for training and readying all emergency and medical teams in the yeshuvim. The motto we have heard from the army is "any yeshuv that is ready will survive - any yeshuv that is not ready will not!" EASTERN JERUSALEM ARABS WANT TO STAY UNDER ISRAELI AUTHORITY: Arabs of eastern Jerusalem have begun paying up all their debts to the Jerusalem Municipality, including all the taxes and fees, in the hope that this will strengthen their links to the Jerusalem [Jewish] Municipality. Many of them are also bringing their Interior Ministry documents up-to-date so that, if a Palestinian state is established, they will be able to claim Israeli citizenship and demand to remain in Israel rather than be annexed to "Palestine." Among those doing the above are also Arab residents of villages on Jerusalem's periphery. Among these is Wallaja village on the outskirts of Beit Lechem (Bethlehem). Jerusalem Arabs fear a political arrangement that will transfer them to the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority (PA/PLO). In private conversations with Israeli politicians, senior Palestinian officials admit that if a referendum were to be conducted among the Jerusalem Arabs asking them whether they would rather be annexed by the PA/PLO or remain under Israeli jurisdiction, the overwhelming majority would vote to remain under Israel. RABBIS TO CONSIDER SYNAGOGUE ON TEMPLE MOUNT: Israel's top rabbis will for the first time give a formal hearing to a potentially explosive proposal to construct a synagogue on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, next to Islamic holy sites, a council official said Friday. However, the plan has little chance because of religious constraints in Judaism, rabbinical officials said. At its monthly meeting Monday, the Chief Rabbinical Council will discuss the synagogue proposal, made by the chief rabbi of Haifa. But Shaika Rosenfeld, spokesman for Israel's chief rabbi, Israel Meir Lau, said the council was unlikely to approve the proposal. Last month, the council reaffirmed a long-standing religious ban against Jews setting foot on the Temple Mount at all, Rosenfeld said. Most rabbinical authorities forbid Jews to enter, though some rabbis disagree. EITAN HABER EMPLOYED BY LOCKHEED MARTIN - WROTE COLUMN URGING ISRAEL TO DROP PHALCON DEAL: Readers of YEDIOTH AHRONOTH recently noticed a new addition to the newspaper's team of editorial writers: Eitan Haber, who served as head of the Prime Minister's Office under the late Yitzhak Rabin. Though these editorials are signed by their authors, the views they express are nevertheless associated with the newspaper as a whole. But Haber is different from the other writers in that he is not only a journalist, but also a businessman. Haber owns A.B.T. Inc., a Ramat Gan-based company involved in international trade. Six years after he founded the company, Haber is now the local representative of the prominent South Korean firm Samsung, as well as of 32 other companies. In addition, Haber recently signed a special contract with American defense systems giant Lockheed Martin. The company's representative in Israel claims Haber was retained as a special political consultant. Lockheed Martin is now manufacturing 50 F-16 fighter jets for the Israel Air Force and expects Israel to purchase at least 60 additional planes. Despite his private dealings with Lockheed Martin, however, Haber felt free to write a Yedioth Ahronoth editorial on the recent crisis over Israel's intended Phalcon deal with China. In his editorial, Haber recommended that the deal be dropped in order to avoid a clash with the United States - a recommendation that seems entirely in keeping with his own business interests. Haber's reaction: "There is no conflict of interests between my writing and my other pursuits. I wrote an article challenging the American defense industry. Besides, I refuse to disclose any details about my work." TISHA B'AV (Thursday, 10 August 2000): A brief listing of infamous events that took place on Tisha B'Av throughout history: * Spies return from 40 days in Canaan with evil reports of the future Land of Israel. * 586 B.C. - Destruction of First Temple by the Babylonians, under Nebuchadnezzar . * 70 C.E. - Destruction of Second Temple by Romans, under Titus. * 132 C.E. - Bar Kochba revolt crushed. * 133 C.E. - Turnus Rufus plows site of Temple. Romans build pagan city of "Aelia Capitolina" on site of Jerusalem. * 1095 C.E. - First Crusade declared by Pope Urban II. 10,000 Jews killed in first month. * 1290 C.E. - Expulsion of Jews from England. * 1492 C.E. - Inquisition in Spain and Portugal. * 1942 C.E. - Deportations from Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp begin. * 1994 C.E. - Bombing of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. For further information on Tisha B'Av, see the following websites: <http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/festivls/9av96idx.html> <http://www.webcom.com/startkit/holidays/tishabav.html> <http://www.jewfaq.org/holidayd.htm> THIS WEEK IN JEWISH HISTORY: 1st 388: The synagogue located on the Euphrates in Callinicum was looted and burned by Church officials. 'St.' Ambrose defended the action. He reprimanded Theodosius the Great for ordering the local Bishop to pay restitution, even though expropriation was illegal under Roman law. 'St.' Ambrose offered to burn the synagogue in Milan on his own. 1919: Hungary limits the number of Jews in commerce, law, medicine, and banking. The new definition of a Jew was someone who converted after August 1, 1919. 2nd 1943: Led by a small group of prisoners using primitive weapons and pistols, inmates at Treblinka attacked the guards and burned down the barracks. Between 300 and 500 prisoners escaped although most of them were either captured or turned over by Polish peasants. Though the revolt did not stop all activities, the German government decided to liquidate the camp, which it did in October. 3rd-16th 1937: The 20th Zionist Congress under Weizmann and Ben Gurion decided to accept the partition plan in light of the Peel Report. 4th 1944: Anne Frank was arrested with her parents and sister. Anne, 15 years old, was sent to Bergen Belsen where she died in March 1945. This material has been adapted from "Beyond Time and History" by Eli Birnbaum <http://www.jafi.org.il> (Sources: ARUTZ-7, AP, ICEJ, HA'ARETZ, JERUSALEM POST, LEBANESE FOUNDATION FOR PEACE, LONDON TIMES, JUDEAN VOICE, HATZOFEH) ** NOTICE ** NOTICE ** REDEMPTION IN THE END-TIMES PROPHECY CONFERENCE We at Tzemach News Service believe that these are the "last days" predicted millennia ago by the Hebrew prophets. Therefore, a conference is being convened by the Tzemach Institute and Fellowship Church to explore ways of promoting cooperation in the redemption process between leaders of the faith community of Israel and Christian Zionists in America. Those Israeli and Christian leaders participating in this conference are prepared to discuss, in frank terms, real areas of cooperation that have been tested and proven fruitful over the past several years. We invite you to come and join us with others in this endeavor. We are sure that you will return home truly blessed and with a fresh vision for godly righteousness burning within you. Conference presentations include: * The redemptive process as seen from an Israeli perspective and a Christian perspective. * The importance of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in the redemption process. * International response to the redemption process. * Spiritual warfare in the midst of the nations. Conference participants include Gershon Salomon, leader of the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement; Yohanan Ramati, Chairman of the Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense; Ken Garrison, Pastor of Fellowship Church and Director of the Tzemach Institute for Biblical Studies; and a leading rabbi from the settlement movement to be announcement later. The conference will take place January 31 - February 2, 2001 at the Sheraton Orlando North Hotel in Orlando, Florida. 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