-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: 23 June 2001/2 Tamuz 5761 "You are my King, O G-d; Command victories for Jacob. Through You we will push back our adversaries; Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us. For I will not trust in my bow, nor will my sword save me. But You have saved us from our adversaries, and You have put to shame those who hate us. In G-d we have boasted all day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever." Psalm 44.4-8 Highlights Of This Week: :: CEASE-FIRE TO REMAIN :: MEANWHILE, THE MURDERS CONTINUE :: TEL AVIV BOMBING CLAIMS 21ST VICTIM :: PA/PLO JAMMING AIRPORT SIGNALS :: LOOK WHO'S VISITING ISRAEL :: JOIN US IN ISRAEL - SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! :: US CONTINUES PRESSURE ON ISRAEL :: CONVOYS IN YESHA; SECURITY MEASURES REMOVED :: GSS: MONK KILLED BY ARAFAT'S MAIN MAN :: DEFENSE UPDATE :: SWEDEN'S HYPOCRISY :: PA/PLO CONTINUES INCITEMENT :: WHO PROFITS FROM WHO? :: CEASE-FIRE TO REMAIN: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened a long meeting of his security cabinet Wednesday, at the end of which it was decided that "Israel will continue its efforts to implement the Tenet document." The decision was made despite the government's determination that, according to an official announcement, "the Palestinian Authority has still not fulfilled its obligations specified in the Tenet document." Head of the Palestinian preventive security apparatus in Yesha, Jibril Rajoub, said Sunday that the PA/PLO would not allow illegal armed "militias" in Yesha. However, he said that the PA/PLO would not arrest terrorists nor collect weapons that are in the hands of terrorists. [Ed. note: what is considered an "illegal militia"?] ............................ :: MEANWHILE, THE MURDERS CONTINUE: Danny Yehuda, 35, of Chomesh, was murdered Monday in a typical drive-by terrorist shooting attack as he was driving near his home. A passenger suffered moderate wounds in the attack. Later in the day, Doron Zisserman, 38, was murdered near the entrance to Einav, after a Palestinian terrorist shot him in the neck. Another resident of Chomesh, Ilya Krivitz, 62, was murdered Wednesday by terrorist gunfire. Chomesh, 20 miles east of Netanya, is situated within a narrow strip only two miles wide, flanked on both sides by territory under total Arab control. Part of the two-mile strip itself is under PA/PLO administrative control. Two IDF soldiers, Staff-Sergeant Avi Izak, 19, of Kfar Saba and Staff-Sergeant Ofir Kik, 19, of Jerusalem, were murdered Friday afternoon in a bomb attack near the Gaza community of Dugit. The soldiers were lured towards a jeep by an Arab woman standing on a roof, signaling the soldiers for assistance. She indicated the jeep was stuck. As the soldiers approached, a powerful blast was detonated and sniper fire was directed at them. The Izzadin el-Kassim faction of the Hamas terror organization claimed responsibility for the fatal attack. ............................ :: TEL AVIV BOMBING CLAIMS 21ST VICTIM: Yevgenia Dorfman, 16, who was critically injured in the Tel Aviv bombing attack on June 1, died Tuesday morning. Dorfman, who sustained severe brain injuries, fought for her life for over two weeks, undergoing several surgical procedures. One of the 23 wounded who still remain in the hospital is listed in serious condition. The Israeli General Security Services (GSS) quickly found out who was involved in this act of terror. At a meeting of the Supreme Security Committee, Israel presented the PA/PLO delegates with the names of two Hamas terrorists who had sent the bomber. The Palestinians were asked to arrest the two immediately - and the Americans supported this demand. What actually happened? The two men responsible for the terrorist attack were invited to a meeting at the offices of one of the Palestinian security services. In a conversation - not an interrogation - with the PA/PLO security agents, the two admitted their involvement in sending the suicide bomber to Tel Aviv and preparing him for the attack. And here comes the interesting part: The two were warned by the Palestinian security people not to carry out similar activities in the future - and apparently they have even signed an agreement to that effect! After that chat, they were released to their homes. At a second meeting of the Supreme Security Committee, the Palestinians were asked what they had done with the two men involved in the terrorist act. Their answer was: "They have been warned!" ............................ :: PA/PLO JAMMING AIRPORT SIGNALS: The Palestinian media are causing yet another headache to Israel. Their signals have been seriously disrupting the transmissions to and from the control tower at Ben-Gurion International Airport over the past several days. Officials say that the phenomenon can endanger the flights. The jamming interfered with communications also during the emergency landing of a plane at the airport Monday. ............................ :: LOOK WHO'S VISITING ISRAEL: Over 40 out of almost 60 seniors from Yeshiva University's Samuel H. Wang High School for Girls plan to attend schools in Israel this coming year. * Over 200 Bnei Akiva teenagers will be arriving in July for the Mach-Hach (Preparatory Camp) Israel summer program. * Hebrew Academy of Montreal reports that almost 2/3 of its 44 graduates will be attending yeshivot or schools in Israel this coming year. * Over 130 English-speaking Jews with minimal Jewish backgrounds, aged 21-30, will be participating in the Livnot U'Lehibanot (Build and Be Built) programs in Tzfat and Jerusalem this summer. * The Zionist Federation of Australia is sponsoring three separate missions to Israel in the coming weeks, totaling 45 people. * All nine graduates of the Yavneh Academy of Dallas, Texas senior class will be attending yeshivot and seminaries in the Jerusalem region this coming year. * Chicago-Skokie: 38 out of 41 seniors in the Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov High School will be attending seminaries in Israel next year. * From Hebrew Theological College High School, 43 out of 50 seniors will be attending yeshivot in Israel. * Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls in Teaneck, New Jersey reports that 30 of its 34 graduating students will be studying in Israel in the coming academic year. * Ten of the twelve graduating seniors at Yeshivat Akiva in Southfield, Michigan will be attending Yeshivot in Israel next year. * Mesivta of Greater Pittsburgh reports 15 out of 19 graduates are planning to learn in Israel this coming year. * Toronto: 18 out of 19 Yeshivat Bnei Akiva Or Chaim graduates, and 30 of 32 Ulpanat Orot Girls' School, will be attending yeshivot/seminaries in Israel this coming year. * 20 out of 25 graduating seniors from the Rabbi Teitz Mesivta Academy of Elizabeth, N.J. will be studying in Israeli yeshivot next year. * The Northeastern Pennsylvania Jewish Federation is organizing a trip to Israel this coming October; over 30 people are already registered. * Habonim Dror of North America will be sending over 90 children on its summer programs to Israel next week, and 30 more for its year-long program. ............................ :: 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. Jeremiah was bold and declared: "If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out, then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, how will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?" [Jeremiah 12.5]. 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? I urge you brothers and sisters to fast and pray and see if the L-rd would lead you to come with us in November. For further information, send an email request to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] or see our Web site at: http://www.tzemach.org/trip/ ............................ :: US CONTINUES PRESSURE ON ISRAEL: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will depart for the United States on Sunday, where he will meet with American President George Bush. Despite the continued Palestinian violence, Bush is expected to pressure Sharon to continue his policy of restraint. In addition, US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who will visit the Middle East next week, is expected to press for the implementation of the Mitchell Report - including negotiations with the PA/PLO and a settlement freeze - even before a ceasefire is achieved. ............................ :: CONVOYS IN YESHA; SECURITY MEASURES REMOVED: The IDF Central Command Thursday night ordered residents of Judea and Samaria to travel in convoys of several vehicles or accompanied by a military security vehicle along roads likely to come under attack. The IDF continues retreating from defensive positions set up in Yesha to protect Jews from terrorist attacks. Thursday, the roadblock and APC at Adam junction, in Binyamin, was removed. These moves are assumed to be under governmental orders, as part of the "cease-fire" arrangement negotiated by Israel, the CIA and the PA/PLO. Yesha residents are beginning to act as if they have had enough of the non-stop shooting attacks against them. Some of them blocked the Kalkilyeh-Shechem road to Arab traffic Thursday morning near Karnei Shomron, and others set up several similar roadblocks all along the Jerusalem-Hebron highway. Women in Green leader Nadia Matar told Arutz-7: "I sense [among the residents of Judea and Samaria] much anger, much more willingness to go out and do something. We refuse to continue to be sitting ducks ... I also have complaints against the Yesha Council. They must organize people to do things, such as establishing new outposts in reaction to all attacks, even those that do not end with casualties. Doing something constructive like this would, for one thing, deter people from thinking about taking violent vengeance against Arabs - something which I am against, both morally and practically ... What will scare the Arabs is if they know that every time Arafat gives the green light for an attack against Jews, he is also giving the OK for another new Jewish neighborhood in Yesha." ............................ :: GSS: MONK KILLED BY ARAFAT'S MAIN MAN: The head of Fatah in Yesha, Marwan Barghouti, is personally responsible for the shooting incident on June 12, in which a Greek monk was killed, the Shin Bet (GSS) security services stated Wednesday in an official statement. Two members of a Force 17 cell were arrested and confessed to the murder, and to asking Barghouti for weapons, the Shin Bet said. When US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice asked PA/PLO Planning Minister Nabil Shaath this week about another obstacle to negotiations - Palestinian reluctance to arrest Islamic militants - Shaath said mass arrests would violate Palestinian human rights. ............................ :: DEFENSE UPDATE: Israel has officially confirmed to Lockheed Martin that it will purchase over 50 more F-16I fighter jets as part of its follow-on order for the 50 it bought two years ago. The F-16I is considered one of the most advanced fighter-bombers in the world. Kuwait's Defence Minister, Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah, has announced that the emirate plans to buy up to five Amoun low-level air-defence systems, enough to equip an air-defence battalion, from Egypt later this year. The new EU Military Staff was declared formally operational on 11 June, ready to begin advising the EU Political Security Committee and Military Committee. A study group advising US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recommends the Department of Defense create "global joint response forces" that would train together for early deployment. Israeli and Turkish air crews engaged in their first joint maneuver with US pilots over central Turkey Monday, in an alliance that has annoyed Arab countries and Iran. The mock aerial battles, dubbed Anatolian Eagle, are aimed at creating a realistic training environment in the light of the potential threat posed by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. The exercise follows a series of joint naval exercises in the Mediterranean, which saw participation by the US Navy. ............................ :: SWEDEN'S HYPOCRISY: Sweden has come under attack for its condemnation of Israel's response to Palestinian rioters - while its own police recently shot three rock-throwing protestors at an anti-globalization demonstration. Women in Green wrote to the Swedish Ambassador, "Now that your police have shot live ammunition at stone-throwing demonstrators in Gothenburg, you certainly have no right to pass judgment on Israeli police or army, who come under daily attack from Palestinian so-called "demonstrators" who go well beyond stones - throwing Molotov cocktails and grenades, as well as firing semi-automatic weapons. Will your government negotiate under fire with the demonstrators in Gothenburg as you expect Israel to do with its terrorist enemy? Shame on you for hypocrisy and cowardice in your continued support of Arafat!" ............................ :: PA/PLO CONTINUES INCITEMENT: The PA/PLO media continue to incite hatred against Yesha residents. They accused "settlers" of killing an Arab who in fact had been killed in a car accident two weeks ago, and most recently claimed that Jews had kidnapped an Arab boy - when in fact the Yesha residents were performing an act of kindness by taking the sick boy to a nearby infirmary. ............................ :: WHO PROFITS FROM WHO? Although the US gives Israel $1.8 billion in military aid, the bulk of this money must be spent in the US, where it provides jobs for an estimated 50,000 Americans! Moreover, US military aid to Israel creates a demand for, and the purchase of, tens of billions of dollars worth of US weaponry by Saudi Arabia and other Arab states. Directly and indirectly, Israel has enriched many American corporations. Furthermore, according to Gen. George Keegan, former chief of US Air Force Intelligence, while Israel received $18.3 billion in military grants from the US between 1974-1990, Israeli aid to America was worth between $50-80 billion, specifically, in military intelligence, Soviet weapons systems captured and transferred to the Pentagon, research and development savings, and testing Soviet military doctrines. It should also be recalled that in 1970, at Washington's behest, Israel prevented a Syrian invasion of Jordan. By protecting Jordan from this client of the former Soviet Union, Israel thwarted Moscow's ambitions in the Middle East. Meanwhile, thousands of Israeli-educated engineers and scientists, who live and work in the US, have contributed countless billions of dollars to the American economy! Although Israel also receives $1.2 billion in economic assistance, this money does not go into building up Israel's economy. It is used to repay pre-1974 loans for military hardware. Every cent of this money is being collected by Washington. As Joseph Sisco, former Assistant Secretary of State said to Israeli author Shmuel Katz: "I want to assure you, Mr. Katz, that if we were not getting full value for our money, you would not get a cent from us." Finally, consider this fact: Israel's current Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is $106 billion. Hence the $1.8 billion Israel receives in military aid is only 1.7% of Israel's GDP, which amounts to only $300 per Israeli! ............................ [Sources: Arutz-7, Israel Line, Jerusalem Post, IMRA, Yesha News Daily, Voice of Judea, IDF Spokesperson] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::: "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. 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