1. EU being sued for helping murderers?
From: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: TERROR VICTIM LAWYER CALLS ON EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO INVESTIGATE AID TO PA To:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 11, 2002
ATTORNEY FOR BLUMBERG FAMILY CALLS ON EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO UNDERTAKE FULL
INVESTIGATION OF FUNDING TO PA
The attorney for family of Stephen Blumberg has called upon members of the
European Parliament to implement a full and searching investigation into the
humanitarian assistance that the European Union (EU) has been providing to
the Palestinian Authority (PA). The Blumberg family was seriously wounded
in a drive-by shooting attack perpetrated by members of the Palestinian
police in August 2001. In May 2002, the Blumbergs sued the EU in the Tel
Aviv District Court for NIS 100 million alleging that the EU's money,
provided to the Palestinians for civilian purposes, had been diverted by
Arafat and financed the terror attack.
Tel-Aviv lawyer Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, who represents the Blumbergs, is
urging members of the Brussels based body to override EU Foreign Minister
Chris Patten's objections and carry out a careful audit of the almost $1.5
billion in financial aid which has been paid to the PA since 1994.
The terror attack left Blumberg's wife Techya dead and his fourteen year old
daughter and himself crippled for life. Mrs. Blumberg was five months
pregnant at the time of the shooting.
Israel has repeatedly warned Brussels that its financial assistance to the
Palestinians was being utilized to finance terror attacks against Israeli
targets. Foreign Minister Patten has continuously told Israel that he is
certain that Arafat can account for all the funds provided to the PA by
Europe. Patten has blocked efforts by other members of the European
Parliament to audit the PA. Now independent members of the Parliament have
begun to circulate a petition insisting upon an investigation.
Attorney Darshan-Leitner said
"European taxpayers must demand that their elected
officials overcome Patten's efforts to block an investigation of the
payments to the PA. Its time that the Europeans were shown that they are
the ones funding the suicide bombings and shootings that are devastating
Israel. The Blumbergs accuse the EU of killing their mother Techiya"
2. Euopean business against Israel
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Europe opposes Israel's inclusion in JSF project
Europe opposes Israel's inclusion in Joint Strike Fighter project
According to Washington sources, European objections stem from both business
and political considerations.
Ran Dagoni, Washington Globes 10 Nov 02
European opposition is one of the obstacles to Israel's participation in the
project to develop the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the future US figher
plane, which will also be used by NATO and Israel.
A senior Washington source told "Globes" that European Union countries, some
of whom will play a major role in financing the project, oppose Israel's
participation, for both business and political reasons.
The main reason is Europe fears that the technological capabilities of
Israeli companies are greater than those of its own.
"European opposition may also stem from political motives, based on
attitudes toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the source said.
3. Five killed in Kibbutz Metzer
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 08:16:47 -0500
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Five killed in Kibbutz Metzer by Arafat's Al Aqsa Martyr Brigades [copy of
announcement]
IDF Spokesperson 11 November 2002
Five people were killed last night (November 10, 2002) when two Palestinian
terrorists infiltrated an Israeli Kibbutz , north of Tulkarem.
The victims, two children, ages four and five, two women and a young man .
The first two victims, a man and a woman, were shot outside the main dining
room. The terrorists then entered a house and shot to death a woman as she
tried to protect her two sons by the gunfire.
Hours before, in the same area, Border Police stopped a suspicious looking
vehicle occupied by two Palestinians. When asked to stop, the vehicle blew
up, killing both passengers. Apparently both passengers were planning to
infiltrate Israel proper in order to carry out a terror attack on Israeli
citizens which is why it is suspected that members of the same cell carried
out the shooting in Kibbutz Metzer.
4. Peace Now (EU funded) gives opinion
Notice that their web site (advertised below) is concerned to provide material in Arabic, German,
French and Spanish
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 20:02:17 +0200
From: "Gush Shalom (Israeli Peace Bloc)" <info@gush-shalom.org>
Subject: [GushShalom] Afflicted kibbutz insists on Palestinian neighbors' fair
treatment
GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/
Tel-Aviv, 11/11/2002
Once again a tragic and painful day.
The attack in which five random civilians were killed, two of them children, terrible.
The Israaeli media emphasize as an additional dimension of horror the fact that it happened in
Kibbutz Metzer, a place known for its inhabitants' committment to peace.
Indeed, we use to see Metzer kibbutz members in peace demonstrations. Moreover, the
Kibbutz maintains in everyday life good relations with the neighboring Arab villages: a
particularly close partnership with the village of Meiser, near which the Kibbutz was founded in
the early 1950's; and since 1967 also with the West Bank village Kapan just across the Green
Line.
Visit also our site
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http://www.gush-shalom.org/english/index.html (English)
photo's - of action or otherwise informative
the weekly Gush Shalom ad - in Hebrew and English
the columns of Uri Avnery - in Hebrew, Arab and English
with a special link for German: www.uri-avnery.de
(and a lot more)
N.B.: There are now on the site links for French and German translations
(selected documents in Spanish at request, but not yet in a linkable format)
In order to receive our Hebrew-language press releases [mostly WORD documents -
not always same as English]
5. EU Will Not Probe Misuse of Aid to PA
Is this another EU cover-up?Douglas Davis
Internet Jerusalem Post - November 10, 2002
European Foreign Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten has turned down a leading European legislator who wants an investigation into alleged illegal use of EU aid to the Palestinian Authority.
In response to a question by Charles Tanner, Conservative foreign affairs spokesman in the European Parliament, about charges that European aid to the Palestinians currently running at 10 million euros a month is being diverted to fund terrorist activity, Patten said he wants the issue investigated "like a hole in the head."
In a letter to The Sunday Telegraph, Tanner said that "if there is to be any chance of securing a lasting peace in the Middle East, we must settle beyond all reasonable doubt such serious allegations of fraudulent and violent misuse of EU taxpayers' money."
Otherwise, he said, "aggrieved Israelis will feel entitled to sue the EU."
6. Arutz Sheva News Monday,
Nov. 11, 2002 / Kislev 6, 5763
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
IN THE KIBBUTZ
Kibbutz Metzer was established in the early 1950's by South American immigrants of the left-wing HaShomer HaTza'ir movement, and currently has some 500 members. Menashe Regional Council Head Ilan Sadeh said that over the years Metzer has had "extraordinary relations with the local Arabs, wonderful neighborly relations." Concerned that construction of a security separation fence would encroach upon neighboring Arab-cultivated land, the kibbutz recently offered to give up some of its own lands for the purpose - or, alternatively, suggested that no fence at all be built between Metzer and its Arab neighbors.
Arutz-7's Effie Meir spoke this morning with some members of Kibbutz Metzer about the murderous attack. One former Peace Now leader said that he realized about a year ago that, "with all due respect to our desire for peace, so far it's only been a one-way street? The Palestinians are not yet ready for peace." He said that he thinks the terrorists picked Kibbutz Metzer specifically because of its left-wing tilt. Two others did not agree, however. One said that the attack does not change his perception of his Arab neighbors, as "it's only a very small percentage of Arabs who are terrorists? If it wasn't for the placement of the security fence [which encroached significantly on Arab olive groves], we could have continued living in peace." In answer to a question, another man said, "Yes, we will continue to make peace - I hope so. After all, I like peace."
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attended the annual memorial ceremony for former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who died 29 years ago, in Sdeh Boker in the Negev today. Sharon said,
"49 years ago, I had the privilege of meeting, for the first time, then-Prime Minister and Defense Minister David Ben-Gurion... It was just after a shocking murder of a mother and two children in Yahud. When I heard over the night about what happened at Metzer, it reminded me of my first meeting with David Ben-Gurion..."
THEY MEANT TO KILL LITTLE BOYS FURTHER EAST
Ynet reported this afternoon that the Al-Aksa Brigades, the terrorist arm of Fatah that took credit for last night's Kibbutz Metzer murders, entered a state of confusion after learning that the kibbutz it attacked was in fact not in Samaria, but rather in pre-1967 Israel. Though at least one Al-Aksa Brigades source was quoted as saying that there is no difference between the two locations, others said that the attack was a "mistake," in light of the group's intention to perpetrate terrorist murders only in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.
The "mistake" is considered particularly awkward for Fatah in light of meetings it is presently conducting in Cairo in which it is trying to persuade Hamas to restrict its terrorism to Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Yasser Arafat was even reported to have ordered an investigation into the incident, which he said will be "thorough."
Jerusalem News-152
Contents:
1. Bedouin trackers
2. Arutz-7 News: Tuesday
ISRAEL REPAYS PRISONERS OF ZION
ISRAEL MAINTAINS DETERRENCE POWER
***QUOTE OF THE DAY: Ariel Sharon
1. Bedouin trackers
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Bedouin trackers
Bedouin trackers "The First In The Force, Lead The Battalion And Save
Lives"
IDF Spokesperson 12 November 2002
Since 1948, they volunteer to serve Israel; exposing dozens of explosives
and leading the forces in the many prevention activities, exclusively and
with their home-acquired attributes.
The Bedouin, whom practically have trackers as a last name, used to serve in
this capacity solely, until the 90's. Today, the reality has changed.
According to the Southern Command's Tracking Unit's Commander, the Jewel in
the Crown Dessert Patrol Battalion was established to offer the Bedouin a
larger IDF- not only as trackers, but also as full-fledged combatants. But
nature speaks for itself, and the precise skills and the fine observation
abilities can be found with the Bedouin alone.
Super Abilities- Exclusive Of The IDF
According to the Southern Command's Tracking Unit's Commander, Colonel Pini
Ganon, there are certain characteristics necessary for the tracker's skilled
activities as the Battalions leaders, that not anyone is capable of. "The
tracker must be patient, tolerant and must posses strict self-discipline,
observation and keen sight." According to Ganon, these traits come naturally
for these people.
The tracker is in charge of the sector's "cleanliness". Colonel Ganon says
that one of the trackers main duties today, is to make sure there aren't any
explosives or landmines on major roads. "When the Battalion patrol opens a
road, the tracker is the first of the force, leading them with sharp
observing eyes. Dozens of explosives were discovered and many lives saved,
by these professional trackers, specially qualified and sharp-eyed." Ganon
adds that sometimes, an unfortunate event occurs, in explosive-saturated
grounds, such as on November 9, 2002 when Staff Sergeant Medin Grifat 23, a
Bedouin from of Beit Zarzir, was killed when an explosive device was
detonated near an IDF Force during routine activity in the Gaza Strip. An
IDF officer was injured moderately as a result of the explosion.
2. Arutz-7 News: Tuesday
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Kislev 7, 5763
ISRAEL REPAYS PRISONERS OF ZION
The Knesset passed the final readings of a bill yesterday granting increased benefits to Prisoners of Zion and their families. The law, sponsored by MK Yuri Stern (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu), passed with no nay votes. It calls for benefits in areas such as municipal taxes, television fees, and medicines, as well as monthly stipends in accordance with their economic status. Under the category of Prisoners of Zion are those who were disabled to an extent of at least 10% as a result of imprisonment, detention or deportation due to their Zionistic activities, and the like.
ISRAEL MAINTAINS DETERRENCE POWER
An upbeat report was released today by the Jaffe Center of Strategic Studies. It declares that the balance of power in the Middle East still favors Israel. Israel's military advantage over its neighbors, manifest in its substantial technological know-how that allows it to most effectively utilize its weapons, is even greater than it was in the past. Even over the past two years, the report states, Israel's deterrence has not decreased, despite the restraint it showed when Lebanon diverted the Wazzani River. Israel's neighbors still perceive it to be as strong as before. The report also states that Iraq is weaker now than it was during the previous Persian Gulf War, and that the U.S. will require less strength to deal Iraq a more resounding defeat.
***QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Prime Minister Sharon, who visited Kibbutz Metzer last night together with Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, said, "The terrorism [that we face] does not distinguish between children, women, men, settlers, soldiers - it makes no differentiation. It discerns only one thing: Who is a Jew for it to kill."
Hebrew News Editor: Haggai Segal
English News Editor: Hillel Fendel
Jerusalem News-153
Contents:
1.Opening of Archaeological Garden at Ramat Rachel, Jerusalem
2. Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2002
-TOURISM SLOWLY CLIMBING
CHARITY WILL SAVE FROM DEFEAT
1.Opening of Archaeological Garden at Ramat Rachel, Jerusalem
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Opening of Archaeological Garden at Ramat Rachel, Jerusalem
THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY
Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 15:30, will mark the official opening of the
Archaeological Garden at Ramat Rachel, a joint project of the Ministry of
Tourism, Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, Keren Kayemet LeIsrael, and the Israel
Antiquities Authority. The ceremony will be inaugurated in the presence of
the Israel's President, Moshe Katzav.
The archaeological site at Ramat Rachel is one of the more significant
landmarks in the Jerusalem area. Its rich archaeological repertoire includes
an Iron Age royal palace and citadel built most probably by Jehoiachin King
of Judaea, finds from the Persian period, a columbarium and miqva'ot (ritual
baths) from the Second Temple period, a villa and bathhouse of the Roman
Tenth Legion, a Byzantine church and monastery, and remains from the early
Moslem period. Its special public and touristic importance of the site lies
in the fact that it is the only site in Jerusalem where one can visit a
public building complex dating from the First Temple period and-at a mere
distance of 300 m.-the remains from an array of other periods in Jerusalem's
rich history, from the ninth century BCE until the end of the twentieth
century.
The major archaeological excavations at the site were conducted in the 1950s
by the late Prof. Yohanan Aharoni. The site has been abandoned for the last
35 years, and in 1996 the planning process for the preservation and
presentation of the site to the public was begun. Conceived and planned by
Jerusalem sculptor Ran Morin, the project presents a novel approach that
integrates archaeological excavations, conservation, and development works
with the installation of his sculptural elements, "Hypothetical Ruins,"
intended to illustrate to the visiting public the distinct character of the
site in antiquity. The planning of the archaeological garden sought to
create a delicate balance between the landscape and the site's historical
elements: pedestrian paths were paved, look-out posts from 1948 were
renovated, and an observation point and a promenade were constructed.
The site will be operated and maintained by Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. It will be open to the
public and free of charge. Plans are under way for the building of an
archive and museum at Ramat Rachel, at the old water tower at the site.
The Archaeological Garden, located on the hill overlooking the cities of
Jerusalem and Bethlehem, was built in careful consideration of the
environment and with an eye toward preserving the rich and complex
historical memory hidden in its ancient soil.
2. Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2002
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Kislev 8, 5763
-TOURISM SLOWLY CLIMBING
73,000 tourists entered the country during the month of September - 7% less than September 2001, but a continuation of the upward trend of the past few months. The number of entering tourists has climbed an average of 2.6% in each of the past few months, for an average increase of 5% in the second third of this year compared to the first third.
CHARITY WILL SAVE FROM DEFEAT
With Israeli soccer team Beitar Yerushalayim facing a crucial match earlier this month against the national champions, Maccabi Haifa, team sponsor Eddie Mor tried an unusual maneuver to motivate his players. He set up a partnership between the team and Aleh, a center serving children with disabilities, and kicked it off with a donation of $10,000 to the center. The players responded with some of their most inspired play of the year, thrashing the champions in a 4-0 victory.
The win, Mor said, demonstrates the power of philanthropy. "It gave the players that extra edge they needed to raise their level of performance," said Mor, who also convinced the team's management to set up regular visits to the center by the team's players. "It's one of the secrets of team sports: players play better when they look beyond themselves and focus on the team."
Aleh was founded in 1982 to aid children in Israel with severe disabilities. Today it provides specialized, around-the-clock medical care and therapy to over 400 children and young adults in its care centers in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak and Gedera. Aleh's primary goal is to help all of its children attain a higher level of independence.
See Jacob Richman's "Buying Blue and White" website at "http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/sh-il.htm" for a list of Israeli products available for export.
3. Anti-Semitism in the guise of intellectualism
To: eb@benadorassociates.com
www.benadorassociates.com
and the
Middle East Information Center
Ha'aretz, October 7, 2002
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Anti-Semitism in the guise of intellectualism
By Avi Becker, Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress.
Extracts:
Intellectuals and civil rights activists try to explain that the attacks on Jews and terror against Israel are, in fact, Israel's fault. Their analysis combines delegitimization of the state of Israel with traditional anti-Semitic motifs and stereotypes. According to any objective criteria, this is a new wave of anti-Semitism, unprecedented since the end of World War II, and so far it is difficult to find any sense of responsibility for it among statesmen and intellectuals.
The aggregate effect of violence against Jews, expressions of hatred - including cries of "Death to the Jews" on the streets and campuses of Europe and elsewhere in the world - alongside thundering silence or convoluted explanations that blame Israel for the events, characterize what is now being called "the new anti-Semitism."
In Paris, a few months ago, Jewish intellectual Alain Finkielkraut claimed that overt French anti-Semitism is now found in the extreme left and not in the extreme right wing represented by le Pen and his supporters on the right. Recent election campaigns in France, Germany and Denmark included anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic rhetoric to appeal to the dark racism of the masses.
Respectable media like the Guardian, the BBC and Le Monde quote intellectuals who challenge the right of Israel to exist. The European press, like civil rights groups and the UN's refugee agency, UNWRA, have yet to apologize or re-examine the blood libel they disseminated about the IDF's operation in Jenin, which resulted in an outbreak of anti-Semitic incidents.
This is the atmosphere now nurturing the public debate in Europe.
The unholy alliance between European leftists whose ranks include academics and intellectuals, and fundamentalists and Islamic terror, endangers Israel and the Jews, and threatens the moral strength of Western culture.
*Jerusalem News-154
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Contents:
1. JDL Leader Irv Rubin Dies
2. Voice Of Judea
Canadian rabbinical student murdered
- Ex-KKK head to speak in Bahrain
1. JDL Leader Irv Rubin Dies
Los Angeles Times
Extracts:
11:48 AM PST, November 14, 2002
JDL Leader Irv Rubin Dies
Death follows what officials described as a suicide attempt on Nov. 4 as he was being taken to court.
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Jewish Defense League leader Irv Rubin, who made a career out of confronting those he considers enemies of Israel and the Jewish people, died in a hospital after attempting to commit suicide in jail last week, authorities said. He was 57.
Rubin had been in a medically induced coma since Nov. 4 but died at about 11:45 p.m. Wednesday, said Adelaida De La Cerda, a spokeswoman at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. No other details were immediately available.
Federal officials said Rubin slashed his neck with a prison-issued razor blade on Nov. 4 and tumbled 18 feet over a railing at the federal Metropolitan Detention Center.
The apparent suicide attempt occurred just hours before Rubin was to make a court appearance on charges he allegedly plotted to bomb a Southern California mosque and the office of Rep. Darrell E. Issa, R-Calif., who is the grandson of Lebanese immigrants. Fellow JDL member Earl Krugel was also arrested in connection with the alleged scheme.
His wife, Shelley Rubin, has called for a further investigation in the suicide attempt, believing Rubin would not try and kill himself.
But authorities said interviews with witnesses-- including officers and inmates-- left no doubt about the cause of Rubin's injuries.
Rubin and Krugel were arrested Dec. 11 after an FBI informant delivered an explosive powder that authorities believed was the last component in making pipe bombs for the alleged targets-- the King Fahd mosque in suburban Culver City and Issa's office. The charges carry up to 40 years in prison if Krugel is convicted.
The militant chairman of the Jewish Defense League spent a lifetime waging a belligerent crusade against those he perceived as anti-Semitic. His tactics and means led him to be denounced as a hatemonger himself.
Rubin once offered a $500 reward to anyone who killed a member of the American Nazi Party. He proudly brawled with Ku Klux Klansmen on television, and publicly celebrated the murder of a prominent Arab American.
Over the years, Rubin, 56, was arrested more than 40 times, by his own account, most recently for allegedly conspiring to bomb a Culver City mosque and the office of an Arab American congressman from San Diego County.
His extreme views are reflected in the JDL's slogans: "For every Jew a .22" and "Keep Jews alive with a .45."
But this volatile man fought a solitary cause since he took the helm of the JDL in 1985.
Mainstream Jewish leaders roundly denounced Rubin as a fanatic, a thug and a hooligan.
The JDL, whose membership has dwindled to the point where may it now number only a few dozen, has been branded a hate group by organizations within and outside the Jewish community.
Rubin had long maintained that he fought for a righteous cause, even if his methods were unconventional and frowned upon by others.
When Rubin succeeded JDL founder Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was later gunned down in New York, he said that he would press forward with the organization's original mandate "to eliminate any threat to Jewish people" with a forceful, two-pronged attack on anti-Semitism.
"Priority 1 will be to teach every Jew or sympathetic Gentile self-defense," Rubin said in 1985. "Priority No. 2 is that wherever the neo-Nazis rear their heads, we will be there to confront them, eyeball to eyeball. The day of the submissive Jew must be eliminated."
To his few supporters, Rubin was a courageous if unpolished figure who cared deeply about the security of Jews in the United States and Israel. They point out that Rubin flew to Israel immediately after the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur War and served in the civilian defense corps. He also ran an unsuccessful campaign for state Assembly in 1982.
On Monday, Rubin's wife of 21 years, Shelley, struggled over news that her husband had been described as brain dead.
"He was a fighter," she said. "He wouldn't give up. And he was a good father and good husband. So he wouldn't do what they said he did."
The roots of Rubin's crusade trace back to his childhood in Montreal, Canada. It was there that Rubin first experienced anti-Semitism, according to a biography on the JDL Web site.
The biography says that hotel owners and other businesspeople hung signs reading "No Dogs or Jews Allowed" on their doors and schoolchildren taunted him because he was Jewish.
Rubin's family settled in Los Angeles when he was 15. Rubin attended Granada Hills High School, where he served as president of the Republican Club before graduating in the early 1960s.
He eventually became a U.S. citizen and enlisted in the Air Force, serving four years and earning the rank of sergeant.
Meir Kahane Lecture
Then, in 1971, Rubin heard Kahane speak at Cal State Northridge. The young man was enthralled with Kahane's message of Jewish resistance and the JDL motto: "Never Again," a reference to the Holocaust.
Rubin hooked up with Kahane and within months was appointed the JDL's West Coast coordinator. In succeeding Kahane as national chairman, Rubin proved himself an enthusiastic leader who was able to consistently draw media attention with his outrageous comments, televised brawls and repeated run-ins with law enforcement.
Even before he assumed the mantle, Rubin showed a penchant for militancy.
He was charged with attempted murder in 1972 after shots were fired into the home of a local neo-Nazi with whom he fought before a television interview. Charges were later dismissed for lack of evidence. Six years later, he was charged with solicitation of murder after offering $500 during a news conference to anyone who killed or injured a member of the American Nazi Party. He was later acquitted.
After the 1999 shooting by a white supremacist at the Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, thousands came together to speak out against violence. Rubin showed up, too, interrupting Gov. Gray Davis' speech with shouts against gun control and in favor of armed self-defense.
Membership Dwindled
Copyright 2002 Los Angeles Times
2. Voice Of Judea
.
From: Owner - Voice Of Judea <VOJ@Judea.org>
Rabbinical student's killer sentenced
A man who killed a Canadian rabbinical student because he looked Jewish
was sentenced Wednesday in Pittsburgh to 10 to 20 years in prison. Steven
Tielsch received the maximum sentence for third-degree murder under
guidelines in effect in April 1986, when Neal Rosenblum was shot five
times after leaving a synagogue, The Associated Press reported.
Prosecutors had sought a first-degree murder conviction at Tielsch's
fourth trial for the slaying. Three earlier juries were unable to reach a
unanimous verdict.
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- Ex-KKK head to speak in Bahrain
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke plans to speak in Bahrain, where he
will repeat his belief that Israel was behind the Sept. 11 attacks.
Muhammad Zuhair, Duke's host, was quoted by the Gulf Daily News as
saying, "We are aware of his background We focused on the Zionist issue.
Not many people are prepared to speak out against Zionism."
Voice of Judea Commentary:
Add together the White haters like Duke and the Black haters like
Farrakhan and Sharpton and mix them together with the Islamic haters of
Jews and you have a very ugly situation for Jews in the Exile. Jew hatred
is not a logical science. When it comes to the Jews, the racist white
folks can unite with the same Black leaders that call all the whites
"devils", in order to kill the Jew. The extreme right and the extreme left
put down their differences against the common Jewish enemy.
Jews need to stop seeking logic in anti-Semitism.
This is reminiscent of the story told of a Jew who was surrounded and
arrested by German police officers after World War I and before the rise
of Hitler to power. The Germans asked the Jew: Jew, who brought this ugly
war upon us? The Jew responded, "Why, everybody knows, the Jews and the
bicyclists". To this, the German policemen asked, "why the bicyclists"?
And the Jew responded, "why the Jew?"
More Jews died fighting for Germany in World War I than in all of the wars
of Israel since 1948, yet the Jew is persecuted and the Jew is reminded to
ask himself the question, "Why the Jew?" And it remains as logical as it
would be to blame the bicyclist, indeed.
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Jerusalem News-155
Contents:
1. Casualties in Hebron
2. Another Perspective
3. Oslo Dead?
4. Iran aided Islamic Jihad attack
1. Casualties in Hebron
Hebron Press office on Hebron Massacre
The Hebron Press Office hebron@hebron.org.il Saturday November 16,
2002
.
Last night at 7:00 Arab terrorists attacked soldiers and security forces
between Hebron and Kiryat Arba. Twelve people were killed, including the
commander of the Hebron brigade, Colonel Dror Weinberg and the director of
security in Kiryat Arba.
See pictures: http://www.hebron.org.il/news.htm
According to security sources, the terror attack began shortly after evening
prayers ended at Ma'arat HaMachpela - the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in Hebron.
Worshipers from Kiryat Arba had just finished the 10 minute walk up a steep
hill leading from Hebron, when a terrorist opened fire, not hitting anyone.
According to one report, he was dressed as a Jew and had planned on trying
to enter Kiryat Arba with them. He was identified by Israeli security
forces, shot, and killed.
At that point, three other terrorists began shooting from inside a house on
a side road. A border police jeep was attacked and its occupants killed.
Shortly afterward, the commander of the Hebron Brigade, thirty eight year
old Colonel Dror Weinberg arrived at the scene. While charging the
terrorists he was also shot and killed. Other security forces arriving at
the area were also killed trying to reach the terrorists.
An emergency team of civilians arrived from Kiryat Arba and attempted to
reach the wounded and killed soldiers. They were also shot, some killed, and
other critically wounded.
A total of 12 people were killed, including three civilians from Kiryat
Arba, border police, and soldiers. At least sixteen people were wounded.
Four of those injured are reported to be in critical to very critical
condition.
Two of the terrorists were killed at about 11:30 when the commander of the
Nahal division in Hebron led a force into the house where they were hiding.
A third terrorist tried to escape, but was killed during hand-to-hand combat
by the commander of the border police in Hebron.
2. Another Perpsective
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:31:41 +0300
From: mma <mma2@gmx.net>
Subject: Fw: please read... email from Israel
------- Forwarded message follows -------
Subject: From Israel
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:51:51 -0500
I hope that this email reaches many, and encourages us all...
This email is from an Israeli woman.
I am not the least afraid to go any place,
By bus or to a mall.
I didn't change or stop doing anything
I used to do before this mess began!
People tend to forget that twice the casualties
From terror get killed on the roads!
More people still die
From heart attack, cancer,
And other things,
They just don't show that on TV.
Don't misunderstand me,
THERE IS A WAR GOING ON,
It's not pleasant,
But, lets face it:
WE HAVE NEVER BEEN BETTER OFF!!!!
It's only TV and the media
That make people think
That the end of the world is near.
Only 60 years ago,
They were leading Jews to their death
Like sheep to slaughter!
No Country, No Army. 55 years ago!!
Seven Arab countries declared war
On the small Jewish State,
Only a few hours old!!
We were then 650,000 Jews!
Against the rest of the Arab world!
No IDF [Israel Defense Force].
No mighty Air Force,
Just tough people
With nowhere to go.
Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt,
Libya, Saudi Arabia, attacked all at once.
The country the U.N. "gave us"
Was 65 % desert.
The country started from scratch!
35 years ago!! We fought
The three strongest armies in the Middle East,
And wiped them out in six days.
We fought against
Different coalitions of Arab countries,
With modern armies,
And masses of Soviet Russian weapons,
And we still won!!!
We have today
A country,
An army,
A strong Air Force,
A Hi-tech economy, exporting millions.
Intel - Microsoft - IBM develop their stuff here.
Our doctors win world prizes
For medical developments.
We made the desert flourish,
Selling oranges and vegetables to the world.
Israel has sent its own satellite into Space!!
Three satellites all together!!.
We sit proudly,
With the U.S., with 250 million people,
With Russia, with 200 million people,
With China, with 1.1 billion people,
With the Europeans -- France, England, Germany,
with 350 million people,
The only countries in the world
To shoot something into space!!
Israel is today
In the world nuclear power family
With the U.S., Russia, China, India, France, and England. [We don't
admit it, but every one knows...]
To think that only 60 years ago,
We were led,
Shameful,
With no hope,
To our death!!
We crawled out of the burning ashes of Europe,
We won our wars here with less than nothing in our hands,
We built an "empire" out of nothing.
Who the hell is Mr. Arafat
To make me Scared
To make me be Terrified
You make me laugh!
Passover was celebrated;
Let's not forget what the story is all about.
We overcame Pharaoh,
We overcame the Greeks,
We overcame the Romans,
We overcame the Inquisition in Spain,
We overcame the Pogroms in Russia,
We overcame Hitler,
We overcame the Germans,
We overcame the Holocaust,
We overcame the armies of the seven Arab countries,
We overcame Sadism.
Take it easy, folks,
We will overcome
The present enemies too.
No matter
Which part of human history you try!
Think of it,
For us,
The Jewish people,
Our situation has never been better!!!
So,
Let's Lift our Heads High,
Let's Remember:
Any nation or culture
That tried to mess around with us
Was destroyed -- while we kept going!!!
Egypt
Anyone know where their empire disappeared to
The Greeks
Alexander of Macedonia
The Romans
Does anyone today speak Latin
The Third Reich
Anyone heard any news about it lately
And look at us,
The Nation from the Bible,
From Slavery in Egypt,
We are still here,
Speaking the same language!!
Right here, right now.
The Arabs don't know it yet,
But, they will learn that there is one God.
As long as we keep our identity,
We are eternal.
So, sorry for not worrying,
Not bitching,
Not crying,
Not being scared.
Things are O.K. here.
They surely can be better,
But still:
Don't fall for the media junk,
They won't tell you
That there are
Festivals going on,
That people keep on living,
That people are going out,
That people are seeing friends.
Yes, our morale is low,
So what
It's only because we weep for our dead
While they enjoy the spilled blood.
This is the same reason why,
We will win, after all.
You can forward this e-mail
If you choose.
To the whole Jewish community,
And to people throughout the world.
They are part of our strength.
It might help some of them
To keep their heads up high.
Tell them
That there is nothing to worry about.
Tell them to think BIG, and
To see the whole picture.
"See You Next Year in Jerusalem."
Dear Friends:
Send this letter to as many people as you can.
The Truth is the best means to counter misinformation.
------- End of forwarded message -------
3. Oslo Dead?
Haaretz News Flash
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/objects/pages/ShowTickers.jhtml
08:55 Netanyahu says Oslo accords effectively null and void, including 1997 Hebron agreement he signed
08:29 10 of 12 Israelis killed in Hebron attack to be laid to rest Sunday
15:28 MK Avigdor Lieberman: Israel should arrest or eliminate Yasser Arafat, just as was done with Marwan Barghouti
14:36 Gretta Duisenberg, wife of the European Central Bank chairman, to meet Yasser Arafat during January visit to territories
4. Iran aided Islamic Jihad attack
The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
[Extracts Only]
Iran aided Islamic Jihad attack
KHALED ABU TOAMEH Nov. 17, 2002
The Islamic Jihad terrorists who carried out Friday night's deadly attack in Hebron received financial and material aid from Iran, according to Palestinian Authority security sources.
According to one official, Iran has been channeling millions of dollars in funds to Islamic groups in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, particularly Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Even if Hamas and the PA agree to suspend suicide attacks inside the Green Line, Islamic Jihad would never accept a compromise, he said.
"Iran's goal is to torpedo any attempt to reach a cease-fire," said the official. "The PA may be out, but Iraq and Iran are already in."
The attack took place while representatives of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein were busy in another part of the city, handing out large sums of money to families of Palestinians killed during the intifada.
Abbas Zaki, a top Fatah leader and Palestinian Legislative Council member from the Hebron area, said: "The aggression on Palestine and Iraq is the same. The link between Palestine and Iraq, which has been consolidated by the leader Saddam Hussein, is inseparable."
Rateb al-Amleh, the ALF representative in the Hebron area, told the families that Iraq under Saddam would never relinquish its national duty of supporting the steadfastness of the Palestinian people.
According to Palestinian sources, at least 50 families from the Hebron region have thus far benefited from Saddam's generous handouts. But Saddam is not the only player.
All that is left of the PA in Hebron is its symbols, visible on signs hanging outside official institutions. Hebron has always been a stronghold of Muslim fundamentalism and some of the most dangerous Hamas cells emanated from the city.
That is perhaps why Iran's ayatollahs have encountered no difficulty in establishing bases of power in Hebron, the sources said.
This article can also be read at http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1037459458414
1. Arutz-7 News: Sunday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
November 17, 2002 / Kislev 12, 5763
HEVRON: BURYING THE DEAD, STORY OF HEROISM
Ten of the 12 soldiers and civilians who were killed in the fierce battle with terrorists-in-ambush in Hevron on Friday night were buried today. Among them was Col. Dror Weinberg, 38, Hevron Brigade commander and the most senior officer killed since the start of the Oslo War. See below for a report on his funeral.
Eleven Israelis wounded in the attack remain hospitalized, including four in serious condition. Arutz-7's Effie Meir reports that the terrorists, who hid in three different places along the route known as "Worshipers' Way" between Hevron and Kiryat Arba, threw grenades and fired special A-3 bullets that cause extra damage; one civilian fighter who was shot in the leg had to have his leg amputated shortly afterwards. Residents of Gaza danced in the streets upon hearing the news of the battle.
* Story of Heroism *
"With the deaths of the Brigade Commander, Chief Operations Officer, and the head of the civil emergency team, the man who filled the void was Eliyahu Livman of Hevron," Meir reported. "He took charge of all the many forces there. When one terrorist was left who continued firing and no one knew exactly where he was, Livman volunteered himself. He got up and entered the field of fire precisely in order to draw the terrorist's fire. He instructed his comrades to identify the source of the fire and then shoot back. The terrorist in fact shot at Livman, miraculously not hitting him, and the other Israelis then fired back and killed the terrorist. When his friends later came to congratulate him for his self-sacrifice, he totally waved them off."
ABBA EBAN
Abba Eban, former Foreign Minister of Israel and Israel's Ambassador to the UN and the United States, passed away today at the age of 87 after a long illness. Born in South Africa, Eban moved to London as a child, grew up in a Zionist home, and began his diplomatic career in 1947 when he was included in the Jewish Agency's delegation to the United Nations in 1947. He served as a Knesset Member from the 4th to 11th Knessets, and played a major role in Israel's foreign relations and public relations efforts.
ANTI-SEMITISM IN GERMANY
Modern-day Jew haters chanting "Judenraus" (Jews out!), "Jews have no God," and "Jews are to blame for everything" disrupted a ceremony earlier this month to rename a Berlin street "Judenstrasse" (Street of the Jews). Other recent anti-Semitic incidents in Germany include the drawing of a swastika on a guest book at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; swastikas and arson at a memorial to Jews in a town north of Berlin; and the publication of poll-findings that most Germans believe Jews are exploiting the Holocaust to further their interests.
Paul Spiegel, head of Berlin's Central Council of Jews, told Reuters that the city's street renaming ceremony was "a painful reminder to us of the conditions in the late 1920s," just before Hitler took power, when the largely integrated German Jewish community began to be ostracized and persecuted.
2. Oslo War Casualties
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 06:10:01 -0500
From: imra@netvision.net.il
4,758 injured, 668 killed, 15,298 attacks 29 September 2000 through 17
November 2002
IDF Spokesperson 18 October 2002
Injured: 3,374 Civilians + 1,384 Security Forces = 4,758 Total Israeli
Injured
Killed: 460 Civilians + 208 Security Forces = 668 Total Israeli Killed
Total Attacks*: 6,962 West Bank + 7,695 Gaza Strip + 641 Home Front =15,298
Total
* Does not include attacks with rocks or firebombs.
3. Arutz-7 News: Monday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Nov. 18, 2002 / Kislev 13, 5763
JEWISH WOMAN MURDERED ON THE ROAD
A woman from Kokhav HaShachar was shot and killed late this afternoon when terrorists shot at her car near Rimonim, between Ofrah and Jericho. The victim, one of the founding members of Kokhav HaShachar, was originally rushed to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, and a large prayer service on her behalf was held in her hometown at the same time. Word of her death, received there shortly after 7 PM, placed the small community in shock. Three other passengers were also lightly hurt in the ambush attack.
ARAB PSYCHOLOGIST FORESEES "MURDEROUS GENERATION"
A pro-Israel initiative by the Coalition Against Terrorism in the relentless war of international public relations appears at <www.cat2002.org>. A movie clip on the site entitled "Seeds of Hate" includes the following on its sound track: Young teacher: "We are teaching the children that suicide bombs is the only thing that makes the Israelian people very frightful. Furthermore we are teaching them that we have the right to do it. Moreover we are teaching them that the man who does it [suicide bombs] goes to the highest step of Paradise."
Narrator: "Palestinian psychologist Dr. [inaudible] Massalha conducted a study last year among Palestinian children aged 6-11. The most astonishing fact presented by Dr. Massalha was that more than 50% of children aged 6-11 dream of becoming suicide bombers who wear explosives belts. Dr. Massalha states that in about ten years, a very murderous generation will come of age, full of hatred and ready to die in suicide missions."
Narrator: "In a society in which the legitimization of child murderers becomes a part of its ideology, then normative human morality no longer exists. Which moral rules shall these children pass onto their children when they in turn become parents?"
[Child yelling, "I will eat the flesh of my conqueror," on the backdrop of Arab men yelling and holding up pieces of human meat.]
Narrator: "All of this has been orchestrated quite methodically by the Palestinian Authority... What kind of government calls upon its citizens to become uncompromising killers, while presenting itself to the world as a victim striving only for its peace? This untenable hypocrisy should not be tolerated by enlightened civilization - yet this is the reality happening here and now."
POLICEMAN SAVES BOY FROM FIRE
An off-duty policeman saved the life of a six-year-old boy trapped in a burning apartment in the Golan city of Katzrin today. The boy was alone - his mother was at work and his father was in the army - when the apartment suddenly caught fire. He phoned his grandmother and told her of the fire, and she then alerted her neighbor, David Levy, who was home on a day off from work. The two got into his car, and the woman, who does not speak Hebrew, directed him to the building via hand motions. The flames in the 4th-floor apartment could be seen from far, and Levy rushed up the stairs and entered the "ball of fire" - in the words of the local police commander. He found the boy lying on the floor, scooped him up and ran with him out of the inferno. Both the boy and his savior were lightly injured.
Irv Rubin did not commit suicide
Irv Rubin, chairman of the Jewish Defense League, was buried in Sylmar, California, yesterday, after he died in prison last week while awaiting trial for an alleged bomb plot. AP reports that he died from "injuries he sustained in prison" - a far cry from earlier reports by prison officials that he had tried to commit suicide. His family strenuously denied that he was suicidal, and demands that the incident be investigated...
The Kinneret Sea currently stands 214.37 meters below sea level, 46 centimeters higher than it was last year at this time, but still 1.37 meters below the original government-mandated red line...
4. Film Available Online
Note: I have not seen the film advertised below but it could be interesting:
From: imra@netvision.net.il (Website: www.imra.org.il
Film Available Online - Documentation of IDF Activity in the Palestinian
Preventative Security Service Headquarters in Gaza (November 17-18, 2002)
IDF Spokesperson 18 November 2002
As part of the IDF war on terrorism, IDF and Border Police forces operated
against the Preventative Security Services Headquarters in the Tel-al-Hawa
neighborhood in the south of Gaza city. During the operation, IDF soldiers
searched a number of buildings in the Preventative Security Services'
compound and found an explosive laboratory as well as a metal working shop
that was used to make various kinds of weapons. In addition the soldiers
found a Qassam rocket, large amounts of weapons and a quantity of
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Jerusalem News-157
Contents:
1. Attempted plane hijacking
2. Germans Complain
3. Hebron: Gedudei Giborim
The Gedudei Giborim neighborhood
The Christian Coalition in Hebron
1. Attempted plane hijacking
The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
Turkish security: El Al hijacker planned 9/11-like attack in TA
Matthew Gutman Nov. 19, 2002
The Israeli Arab overpowered while trying to hijack an El Al flight to Istanbul Sunday night intended to force the flight crew to turn the plane around and crash it into a building in Tel Aviv, Turkish security sources said Monday.
The Shin Bet confirmed Monday night that Tawfik Fukara, 23, of the Galilee village of Bouina Nejidat, was armed with a pocketknife and intended to hijack the Boeing 757 with 170 passengers.
Turkey has remanded Fukara until the end of proceedings against him. Israel has asked that he be extradited.
"It was certainly an intentional act of sabotage," El Al deputy chief executive Yitzhak Amitai told The Jerusalem Post. "But as for the motivation for this act, we do not yet know, that is for others to decide."
The findings of the investigation also show that Fukara's actions were not spontaneous. According to the Shin Bet, he told the security guards who overpowered him, "Today is the day I die,and I am doing it because my brother was killed."
No evidence to suggest he has a biological brother who died was found, security sources told Channel 1.
A statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office said Fukara's intentions were nationalistic.
Fukara told Turkish policemen he acted "to make heard the voice of the Palestinian people," Turkey's NTV reported.
Security officials at Ben-Gurion Airport said they were suspicious of Fukara but allowed him to board the plane after he underwent all the necessary checks.
The Airports Authority is continuing to investigate how he managed to smuggle the penknife - with a six-centimeter blade - through metal detectors and stringent personal searches.
Fukara, who was sitting near the business-class section, repeatedly approached one of the flight attendants to ask for water. As the plane began its final approach to Istanbul, he stood up and ran toward the cockpit, slamming into the flight attendant.
According to Amitai, Fukara was clearly "violent, heading straight for the cabin. He had also positioned himself in the front of coach section in order to have a better jumping off point toward the flight deck."
He was immediately tackled by El Al air marshals and handcuffed, Amitai said.
"What is important is that the incident ended within seconds, and that it ended in a manner that proved that El Al's security arrangements worked as they should," El Al general manager Amos Shapira said Monday.
Fukara's family expressed shock and puzzlement at the news. They said he had studied at Sapir College in the Negev and worked with the elderly in the Beduin town of Rahat. They believed he was going to Turkey for a vacation.
Initially, security officials were skeptical Fukara intended to hijack the plane. A preliminary investigation revealed that at no time in the attack and his subsequent arrest did he draw the knife. The weapon was found on him after he was handcuffed.
In Israel, a carrier's jurisdiction for the safety of its passengers begins and ends in the plane itself. The carrier is directly responsible for all goods loaded on the plane, for its passengers, and crew. The Airports Authority is responsible for investigating the passengers before boarding.
Amitai commended the quick thinking of the flight crew and security guards.
El Al is one of the few carriers in the world that has armed guards on all its flights, he said.
According to Amitai, El Al remains one of the world's safest airlines. The last time one of its planes was hijacked was in 1968.
Margot Dudkevich and news agencies contributed to this report.
This article can also be read at http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1037593122427
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2. Germans Complain
The Telegraph
Tuesday 19 November 2002
Germans call Churchill a war criminal
By Kate Connolly in Berlin
(Filed: 19/11/2002)
[Extracts only:]
Winston Churchill was effectively a war criminal who sanctioned the extermination of Germany's civilian population through indiscriminate bombing of towns and cities, an article in the country's biggest-circulation newspaper claimed yesterday.
In an unprecedented attack on Allied conduct during the Second World War, the tabloid Bild has called for recognition to be given to the suffering inflicted on the German population during the strategic air campaign of 1940-45.
The newspaper's campaign, provoked by a new German history of the bomber offensive, breaks six decades of virtual silence on the subject, and is being seen as the latest manifestation of a belief among Germans that they too were victims of the war - albeit a war started by their country.
The newspaper is serialising Der Brand (The Fire: Germany Under Bombardment 1940-45) by the historian Jorg Friedrich, which claims to be the most authoritative account of the bombing campaign so far.
Mr Friedrich claims the British government set out at the start of the Second World War to destroy as many German cities and kill as many of their inhabitants as possible. Civilian deaths were not collateral damage, he says, but rather the object of the exercise. He argues that Churchill had favoured a strategy of attacking the civilian population centres from the air some 20 years before Hitler ordered such raids.
Der Brand is far removed from the dry style of most German histories, and is filled with emotive accounts of the horrors of bombing, but carries few references to the man who brought retribution on Germany, Adolf Hitler.
Friedrich argues that the Allied policy of seeking to break German morale through bombing proved mistaken, the attacks merely serving to weld together the German population.
The debate is certain to anger those in Britain who see the strategic air campaign as a necessary evil.
The British, led by Sir Arthur Harris, C-in-C Bomber Command, were the leading proponents of "night area bombing", involving the systematic destruction of German industrial capacity and housing. The policy resulted in the laying to waste of city after city, including Hamburg, Cologne and Dresden, and the deaths of some 635,000 Germans.
The policy was to some extent forced on the RAF by the failure of daylight operations against pinpoint targets early in the war. It also reflected the fact that, for much of the conflict, bombing was the only method by which Britain could attack Germany.
German raids on Britain in the Blitz of 1940-41 were seen to have freed the British from the obligation not to attack civilian centres.
The serialisation of the book will furnish the far-Right in Germany with arguments to back its revisionist claims. It is also likely to overshadow recent reconciliation attempts between Britain and Germany over the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 in which tens of thousands died.
Yesterday Antony Beevor, the British historian and author of the bestselling Berlin: The Downfall, 1945, criticised the German claim that Britain's war of attrition was unnecessarily brutal. "The trouble is this argument is removed from the context that they were the ones who invented terror bombing," he said, referring to German attacks on Coventry, Rotterdam and Warsaw.
"They literally obliterated whole cities and that certainly preceded what the British did," he said. "What we did was more terrifying and appalling, but it was a natural progression in this war.
"One can certainly debate the whole morality of bombing, but for Germans to say Churchill was a war criminal is pushing it a bit," he said.
3. Hebron: Gedudei Giborim
Hebrew: "Gedudei" =Units of "Giborim" (heroes).
From: Hebron <hebron@hebron.org.il>
Subject: News from Hebron: The Gedudei Giborim neighborhood
The Gedudei Giborim neighborhood
The new neighborhood, soon to be developed between Kiryat Arba and Hebron, has been named Gedudei Giborim, which means "The Heros' Battalions." The letters of these two words, in Hebrew, are an acronym, commemorating the names of the twelve men killed on Friday night.
Families have started moving into the new neighborhood, living in tents and huge containers. One family from Kiryat Arba moved into a container with their two small children, and today welcomed visitors from around the country. Late this afternoon a bus of young women from Gush Katif arrived, first visiting and consoling families of the murdered Kiryat Arba emergency squad, and distributing toys to their children and children of those wounded. They then visited Gedudie Giborim and heard a lecture from Rabbi Uzi Sharbaf, Rabbi of the Avraham Avinu Synagogue in Hebron.
A special ceremony, marking the first week following the massacre, is scheduled for Saturday night, at the neighborhood. In the meantime, talks are continuing with major political leaders concerning the necessary permits to allow beginning of construction at the site.
The Christian Coalition in Hebron
This morning a delegation of the Christian Coalition leadership, including President Roberta Combs, visited Hebron.
The Christian Coalition, as described on its website, is "the home of the largest and most active conservative grassroots political organization in America." Led by President Combs, the organization delegation arrived in Israel for a "fact-finding mission" and to show continued support for Israel.
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See pictures: http://www.hebron.org.il/news/cristcoalition.htm
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The group visited the site of Friday night's terror attack and visited with people living at the new Kiryat Arba-Hebron neighborhood across the street from the site of the attack. They also visited Ma'arat HaMachpela, the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, the Beit Hadassah museum and met with Hebron leaders, offering words of encouragement and support. The group also met a group of small children in the Hebron Day Care Center.
Jerusalem News-158
Contents:
1.Bus attacked in Jerusalem
2.Arutz-7 News: Wednesday
AMRAM MITZNA, NEW LABOR PARTY HEAD
NEW NEIGHBORHOOD OUTSIDE HEVRON
FINDINGS FROM BAR-KOKHBA'S TIME
3. U.S. WANTS ISRAEL'S ABSOLUTE OK FOR PALESTINIAN STATE
4. GENOCIDE BOMBERS AND RELIGION OF PEACE?
5. Arutz-7 News: Thursday
MORE DEAD, MORE ORPHANS, MORE MANGLED
MORE ARRESTS
ON-LINE BOOK AVAILABLE FOR HELP
6. JP: The Bombing
7. JP: troops move into Bethlehem
1.Bus attacked in Jerusalem
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 01:31:50 -0500
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Voice of Palestine - Bus attacked in Jerusalem is in "colony"
Voice of Palestine - Bus attacked in Jerusalem is in "colony"
Aaron Lerner Date: 21 November 2002
Michael Widlanski is an expert in the Arab media and a lecturer at the
Rothberg School of the Hebrew University. IMRA interviewed Widlanski, in
English, on 21 November at 8:20 AM after a terrorist attack by a suicide
bomber against a bus in the Kiryat Menachem neighborhood in Jerusalem that
murdered at least 9 in the bus full of schoolchildren. Kiryat Menachem is a
neighborhood located within the green line.
IMRA: What is Voice of Palestine, the official radio station of the
Palestinian Authority, reporting about the terrorist attack?
Widlanski: VOP began its coverage of the bombing attack at about 7:30 this
morning. It referred several time to the colony ("musta' mara") of Kiryat
Menachem and to the whole event as an explosives operation ("amaliyya
tafjiriyya") without any word of condemnation.
Several times it made the point that it was in Western Jerusalem but in the
colony of Kiryat Menachem.
Website: http://www.imra.org.il
2.Arutz-7 News: Wednesday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Nov. 20, 2002 / Kislev 15, 5763
AMRAM MITZNA, NEW LABOR PARTY HEAD
"Together we'll be victorious over the Likud" was the message of unity delivered by newly-elected Labor Party Chairman Amram Mitzna early this morning. Mitzna, who is currently the Mayor of Haifa, won a decisive victory in yesterday's primaries, bringing in a surprising 53.9% of the vote. Former Defense Minister and outgoing party leader Binyamin Ben-Eliezer was runner-up with 38.2%, and MK Chaim Ramon trailed badly with only 7.2%. Voter turnout was 59.5% of the 110,000 party members.
Unity was the theme of Mitzna's victory speech as he called on both Ben-Eliezer and Ramon to join him on stage. "We are all one, shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand," Mitzna said, "not in separate camps, but in one large camp of Labor party representatives." Ben-Eliezer was slightly less gracious, promising to retain his sizeable camp of supporters even as he works to defeat the Likud in the upcoming elections. Mitzna has his work cut out for him, as polls predict that the Likud party will thrash Labor in the Knesset elections at the end of January.
NEW NEIGHBORHOOD OUTSIDE HEVRON
The first buds of a new neighborhood between Hevron and Kiryat Arba have already sprouted, even as concerns arise that Prime Minister Sharon did not really mean it when he called for Jewish construction there earlier this week. At least one family has already moved into a large container along the road connecting the two cities, and the residents have named the fledgling neighborhood Gedudei Giborim, or "Battalions of Heros." Three Palestinian terrorists ambushed a unit of soldiers on Friday night along this road, mowing down four soldiers, five Border Guard policemen, and three civilian fighters.
The new Gedudei Giborim family - parents and two children - welcomed visitors from around the country, including a busload of young women from Gush Katif and a delegation of the Christian Coalition leadership, including President Roberta Combs. The groups also visited other sites in Kiryat Arba and Hevron, including the homes of families mourning their loved ones who fell in the battle, the Machpelah Cave, Beit Hadassah, and more.
FINDINGS FROM BAR-KOKHBA'S TIME
New archaeological findings from the Bar Kokhba period, over 1,850 years ago, were discovered a few days ago in a cave in the Ein Gedi Nature Preserve just west of the Dead Sea. Two documents written on papyrus, coins, and even remnants of fruits were among the artifacts found in hard-to-reach caves atop mountain cliffs - the destination of choice for many Jewish refugees from the Romans at the time. The documents are now in the Israel Museum, where they must be carefully opened and then analyzed.
Dr. Tzvika Tzuk, Chief Archaeologist of the Nature and Parks Authority, said that the caves served as refuge for the fleeing Jews, "as indicated by what we found there, especially the coins on which we found the name Shimon, who was the leader of the rebellion at the time... We also found arrows, pieces of material, and more..." Regarding the papyruses, Dr. Tzuk said that it's impossible to know what they are until they are opened: "They could be business contracts, marriage documents, or something else; they could have names of places; it's a total riddle, and our curiosity is great." He said that it will be a few weeks before they can be opened.
3. U.S. WANTS ISRAEL'S ABSOLUTE OK FOR PALESTINIAN STATE
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:19:11 -0500
From: imra@netvision.net.il
U.S. WANTS ISRAEL'S ABSOLUTE OK FOR PALESTINIAN STATE
JERUSALEM [MENL] -- The United States has asked Israel to relay its
unconditional approval for a Palestinian state.
The request was disclosed as a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up a packed
Israeli passenger bus in Jerusalem. At least 11 people killed and more than
40 were injured in the attack. Many of the victims were children on their
way to school.
Israeli officials said the U.S. request was relayed as part of a revision of
the peace plan of the so-called Quartet. The Quartet, comprised of the
United States, European Union, Russia and United Nations, drafted a roadmap
for an Israeli-Palestinian settlement by 2006.
The new draft of the roadmap, completed on Nov. 14, calls for Israel's
unconditional endorsement of a Palestinian state with interim borders in
2003. This would be followed by a Palestinian state with permanent borders
in 2005.
4. GENOCIDE BOMBERS AND RELIGION OF PEACE?
From: ISRAEL ALIVE <Israelalive@IsraelAlive.org>
IsraelAlive
action@IsraelAlive.org
1- Please continue calling and writing to Mayor Bloomberg to protest the Mohammedi appointment to the NY Human Rights Commision. There is no room for Muslim extremists and their affiliates (CAIR) in a free government. Contact info below.
2- This morning during rush hour in Jerusalem, A Palestinian Muslim GENOCIDE BOMBER massacred 12 Israelis, many of them children on their way to school. Body parts and lunch sandwiches were strewn everywhere. 7 others are in very serious condition - meaning lost limbs, and poisened screws, nails and other hardware lodged in their bodies. Followers of Allah praised the massacre of innocents just like they did 9/11, all according to their age old customs and rituals.
YET, President Bush keeps calling Islam a "religion of peace". When he met with Kofi Annan last week, he reiterated this ludicrous statement once again. Perhaps President Bush has not read the terrorist manual called the Koran, which states that the resurrection of Mohammed cannot occur until every Jew is massacred by the Muslims. Perhaps he has not read the part where Muslims must fill the hearts of all infidels (that means Bush too) with terror.
5. Arutz-7 News: Thursday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Nov. 21, 2002 / Kislev 16, 5763
MORE DEAD, MORE ORPHANS, MORE MANGLED
Today's numbers: Eleven dead, including eight girls and women, and 49 wounded, including nine in serious condition. An Arab human-bomb murderer from Bethlehem blew himself up aboard a bus in the Kiryat Menachem neighborhood of southwestern Jerusalem. Egged bus #20 was headed north towards the center of town at about 7:15 AM when the bomber boarded the bus and detonated his device in the front section of the cabin on Mexico Ave. The bus was packed with commuters heading to work and children on their way to school.
The terrorist came from Bethlehem, which was recently transferred to PA control in the framework of ex-Defense Minister Ben-Eliezer's "Judea First" plan. IDF sources said that the transfer of Bethlehem to PA security control was that which enabled the attack to be prepared and the terrorist to enter Kiryat Menachem, only a few hilltops away.
IDF Col. (res.) Moshe Hager told Arutz-7 today that Israel's anti-terrorism fight was "weakened by our departure from the cities. If we don't stay in the places where we can run after terrorists, they run away from us. When we left Bethlehem and stayed in Hevron for a few weeks, the terrorists ran to Bethlehem... 70% of the weapons are still in their hands, and they can and must be collected."
MORE ARRESTS
In Dura, south of Hevron, IDF forces arrested a brother and an uncle of today's mass-murderer. The murderer's father praised his son today, saying, "Our religion says we are proud of him until the day of resurrection."
ON-LINE BOOK AVAILABLE FOR HELP
"Crisis or Challenge? A Guide to Bereavement, Stress, and Modern Day Terror" is the name of an on-line book by Eli Birnbaum, a resident of Tekoa and a veteran guide to new immigrants in many areas. Birnbaum decided that the book could best fulfill its goal of "helping people who need it" by simply being "out there for everyone" on the internet, free of charge. "This way, people can take whatever information they may need," he says. Birnbaum is also the Director of Internet Services at the Jewish Agency, which is hosting the book. "Crisis or Challenge?", the writing of which began after the cruel murders of 13-year-olds Yosef Ishran and Kobi Mandell near Tekoa, can be read at <http://www.crisis.org.il>.
6. JP: The Bombing
The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
11 dead, 50 wounded in Jerusalem suicide bombing (UPDATE)
The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff Nov. 21, 2002
A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt packed with nuts and bolts blew himself up Thursday on a bus full of high school students on their way to classes in Jerusalem's Kiryat Menachem neighborhood, killing 11 people and wounding 50.
One of the dead was a 14-year-old girl, and many of the wounded were teenagers, media reports said.
The bomber got on bus No. 20 two or three stops before blowing himself up at 7:10 a.m. local time. The blast occurred just before the bus was set to make its last stop in Kiryat Menachem on Mexico Street, and head to the center of town.
Officials said the medium-sized explosives belt was packed with nuts and bolts to maximize the damage, and that it was detonated in the center of the bus. Media reports said police were hunting for a car that apparently dropped the bomber off in Kiryat Menachem, minutes before the attack.
Maor Kimche, 15, said he had just boarded the bus when the blast went off. "Suddenly, it was black and smoky. There were people on the floor.
Everything was bloody. There was glass everywhere and body parts," Kimche said.
The 10th grader who had been en route to school in downtown Jerusalem jumped out of a bus window and was scooped up by a tax driver who took him to nearby Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem's Ein Karem. Kimche was lightly injured in the left leg.
The boy's father, Doron, had driven close behind the bus and saw the blast but was unaware that his son was on board. He helped get the wounded off the bus before a friend told him his son was at the hospital.
The boy was one of the first to arrive at Hadassah Hospital, where doctors had no prior notification before ambulances, their sirens blaring, drove up with wounded, said spokeswoman Barbara Sofer.
Doctors here have become well-versed in treating bombing victims. The blasts cause such severe trauma injuries because, besides nails and metal packed into the explosives, a concussion or shock wave follows that can shatter ear drums, push air out of the lungs and crush the body's organs, Sofer said.
The youngster said the bus was crowded with high school students, soldiers and elderly passengers. He said he'd ride the bus again once he was well. "How else will I get to school?" he asked.
The blast blew out the bus windows. A torso that had fallen over the side of the bus was covered with a white-and-blue checkered blanket.
Sandwiches and schoolbooks lay scattered in the street.
As rescue workers removed the dead from the bus, the bodies were placed in black plastic bags that were numbered and laid out in a row along a sidewalk.
Eleven people were killed and at least 50 wounded, eight of them very seriously, officials said.
Mayor Ehud Olmert toured the scene and told reporters that Israel's soldiers and police were working already doing everything possible to thwart bombings.
"The state of Israel cannot and will not put a police officer on every corner or on every bus or near every traffic light," Olmert said.
This article can also be read at http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1037850919673
7, JP: troops move into Bethlehem
Sharon orders wide scale response; troops move into Bethlehem
The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff Nov. 21, 2002
In a meeting with the heads of the security forces and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered a wide scale operation in response to the deadly suicide bombing in Jerusalem on Thursday that had already begun Thursday night with IDF troops moving into the outskirts of Bethlehem, media reports said.
According to Israel's Channel One television Sharon told the army that all diplomatic restraints were lifted and all agreements with the Palestinians were off. In particular Sharon was referring to the "Gaza-Bethlehem First" plan that saw the IDF hand over security control in Bethlehem to the Palestinians in late August. The bomber came from el Khader on the outskirts of Bethlehem.
Thursday evening, the army ordered residents of about 30 homes in el-Khader, on the outskirts of Bethlehem, to leave their homes so the army could take up positions, residents said.
The army confirmed soldiers were operating in el-Khader, and an adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Raanan Gissin, said the Israeli Cabinet had decided the army would carry out a "pinpoint operation" to retaliate, which would include entering Bethlehem.
The television quoted diplomatic sources in Jerusalem as saying that the decisions made in the security meeting also constituted Israel's response to the international "Road map" peace plan. "The Americans and the Europeans have to understand what is happening here before they present us with these plans," said one source.
Two militant Islamic groups claimed responsibility for the attack: Islamic Jihad and Hamas, but Gissin said Hamas would be the one targeted.
Channel One said that Sharon was continuing a series of consultations throughout the day. It was also reported that in the meeting with security chiefs those present discussed the role of both Iran and Iraq in funding and coordinating terror attacks.
This article can also be read at http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1037850924647
Jerusalem News-159
Contents:
1. Nazi-Arab Link vrs USA?
2. Arutz-7 News Brief: Friday
LABOR UNILATERALLY ACCEPTS MEIMAD
[Brit-Am comment.
INGATHERING THE EXILES
[Brit-Am comment.
3. Arutz-7 News: Sunday
MARITIME TERRORIST ATTACK THWARTED
SAUDI CONNECTIONS TO TERRORISM
THOUSANDS OF AUSTRALIANS MARCH FOR ISRAEL
MOSLEM VIOLENCE AROUND THE WORLD
1. Nazi-Arab Link vrs USA?
FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES http://www.debka.com/ November 10, 2001
Nazis tied to anthrax attacks - FBI sources see links between
Hezbollah, fugitive Germans
Fresh foreign leads in the FBI's anthrax investigation point to the
involvement of one or more German or Austrian biological or chemical
researchers with pro-Nazi leanings - part of a complicated South
American web linked to the Hezbollah and fugitive Nazi communities,
some of whom are also connected to Iraqi military intelligence, say
intelligence sources of DEBKA-Net-Weekly.
"One or more researchers are thought to have entered the United States
and found jobs with American industrial laboratories or research
institutes, setting up clandestine private biological warfare labs in
their spare time, the report says."
2. Arutz-7 News Brief: Friday
Nov. 22, 2002 / Kislev 17, 5763
LABOR UNILATERALLY ACCEPTS MEIMAD
The Labor Party agreed last night to save two spots on its Knesset list for Meimad between the 10th and 28th places. Meimad, a left-wing religious-Zionist party, ran together with Labor in the last election, but had been unsure of its way this time, and was thinking of running together with the Am Echad labor-oriented party. This option did not work out, however, and neither did an offer to join up with the National Religious Party. Meimad's #2 MK, Rabbi Yehuda Gilad, said that the Meimad institutions had not yet approved the move, and that if and when it does, he will quit the party. He feels that Labor leader Amram Mitzna's views are too left-wing for him.
[Brit-Am comment: Claims made that Meimad also receives EU funding?
EU already proven to be funding a "religious" group whose declared aim is to undermine belief in the Divine origins of
the Torah since Torah-believers are the most patriotic and the strongest opponents of EU aims in Israel.]
INGATHERING THE EXILES
Hundreds of Bnei Menashe, who claim descent from a lost tribe of Israel, have registered to take part in classes at a Jewish outreach center opened recently in northeastern India. Launched by the Jerusalem-based Amishav organization, the center is located in the city of Aizawl, capital of the Indian state of Mizoram, and it offers a variety of daily classes in subjects such as Hebrew language, Jewish history, prayer, and Jewish laws.
Amishav Director Michael Freund says that some 350 people signed up in the center's first week of operation, and that the numbers are expected to grow. "The Bnei Menashe are hungry for Jewish knowledge, and our goal is to reach out to them and facilitate their return to the Jewish people," he said. Due to space limitations, however, the center was able to accept just 50 of the applicants for the first set of classes. Amishav plans to dispatch two Israeli teachers to India in the coming weeks to supplement the center's staff, enabling enrollment to increase significantly. "We want to ensure that everyone interested in learning more about Judaism and Jewish life has the opportunity to do so," he said.
In the past decade, Amishav has brought 700 Bnei Menashe members to Israel, all of whom have undergone formal conversion by the Chief Rabbinate.
[Brit-Am comment: The EU bankrolls anti-Israel and anti-Torah organizations within Israel whose aims
are also against the beliefs of Brit-Am followers.
Amishav also receives very generous funding from those who sympathize with it (especially in Europe?).
If Brit-Am sympathizers wish Brit-Am beliefs and principles to at least receive a fair hearing then
perhaps increasing their support for Brit-Am would be a step in the right direction?]
3. Arutz-7 News: Sunday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
November 24, 2002 / Kislev 19, 5763
MARITIME TERRORIST ATTACK THWARTED
Four Israeli sailors were injured on Friday night when Islamic Jihad terrorists detonated a boat-bomb off the coast of Gaza. The vessel was apparently on its way to blow up either an Israeli boat or another target in the area when Israeli radar detected it around 10:30 PM. A Dabur patrol craft was dispatched, and its crew attempted to contact the two suspicious figures they saw on board. When no response was forthcoming, the Israeli ship fired warning shots - and the Arab boat then exploded. Four Israelis were hurt and transported to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, where they are listed in "moderate" and "mild" condition. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack, and even named the terrorists who were killed in the blast - 19 and 21-year-old residents of PA-controlled Gaza.
The soldier killed by a Palestinian sniper near Tel Katifa on Friday morning - Sgt.-Maj. Shai Garmay, 30, of Lod - was laid to rest in the military section of the Lod cemetery this afternoon. An unmarried immigrant from Ethiopia, he was shot in the neck while leading an IDF patrol charged with opening a route in western Gaza.
Among those arrested by the IDF over the weekend for involvement in Palestinian terrorism was the father of the Kiryat Menachem bus bombing suicide terrorist. The father, pleased to learn that his son had murdered 11 and wounded close to 50, expressed praise for his actions. IDF forces arrested four PA residents suspected of terrorist activities during the night in the Ramallah, Jenin, and Tul Karem areas.
Fourteen victims of the Jerusalem bus bombing attack remain in Hadassah Hospital - seven in serious condition and seven considered "moderate."
SAUDI CONNECTIONS TO TERRORISM
Newsweek reports that a Congressional investigation has revealed that for almost two years, a monthly sum of $3,500 has been transferred from a bank account of the Saudi Arabian Ambassador's wife in Washington to two foreign students who helped the Sept. 11 hijackers. Dr. Uzi Arad, ex-chief of the Investigative Division in the Mossad, told Arutz-7 today, "It's hard to believe that there was a direct conspiracy between Saudi leaders and the Sep. 11 plot, as this would be against their own interests. On the other hand, you can't say that there were no curious and dangerous connections between them. Much is still not known, and there are indications that Saudi groups and persons had much more involvement in the attacks and in extremist terrorism than was assumed."
Dr. Arad says that there are conflicting interests at play in Washington on this matter, "but I believe that sooner or later, the truth of this matter and the extent of Saudi involvement will be revealed; now is apparently not yet the time."
THOUSANDS OF AUSTRALIANS MARCH FOR ISRAEL
Thousands of people marched in a solidarity walk in Sydney, Australia today to show support for victims of terrorist attacks in Israel. Sydney's Jewish community hosted the solidarity walk, and NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president Daniel Hoenig said that up to 3,000 people had taken part in the "Walk as One for Israel" event. The Australian, billed as "Australia's National Daily Newspaper," reported that donations had been collected for the families of 660 Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism since September 2000. The paper then noted that "around 1670 Palestinians have died in the same period" - but neglected to mention that the Israeli civilians were pre-meditatedly murdered, while the Arabs were killed in Israeli self-defense actions.
MOSLEM VIOLENCE AROUND THE WORLD
An article in a Nigerian newspaper implying that Islam founder Muhammad would have approved of the Miss World pageant sparked off at least three days of murderous violence. No fewer than 215 people are reported dead in the bloodshed, which appeared to taper off yesterday Moslems opened wild fire inside a Hindu church in India today, killing 13. This followed yesterday's bus explosion in India, for which Pakistani groups claimed responsibility, in which 12 people were killed... Moslem Chechen leader Shamil Basayev says that last month's operation in which Moslems took hundreds of hostages in a theater will be followed by new terrorist strikes if Russia does not pull out of Chechenya
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Contents:
1. CANNABIS IS DANGEROUS
2. Nazi-Islam Anti-American Link in Italy
3. Arutz-7 News: Monday,
-COMPUTER-BOMB SUICIDE ATTACKS THWARTED
ISRAELI FORCES IN IRAQ
OUR EGYPTIAN "FRIENDS"
CREDITING A HOLOCAUST HERO
1. CANNABIS IS DANGEROUS
Studies in New Zealand and Australia show that teenagers who use hashish or marijuana
have a six-fold greater chance of becoming schizophrenic or pathologically depressed than those who do not.
The more of these drugs that are used the greater the chances of contracting mental sickness. Teenage girls
are especially susceptible.
Psychiatrists in Israel confirmed the results of these studies from their own observations.
Doctor Gil Zalstman deputy head of Gehah Hospital said that 50% of the youth hospitalized for
mental reasons arrived there after using drugs, usually hashish or marijuana.
Both drugs belong to the cannabis family. Use of these drugs can cause paranoia and other symptoms that usually pass away after a few hours. Some users however receive a psychotic shock and cannot distinguish between reality and their imagination, between their inner and outer worlds, They are liable to see visions, disturbances of hearing and seeing, suffer from aggressiveness
and suicidal inclinations. These effects can occur even after a one-time usage and the effects in some cases are irreversible.
"Maariv, 24.11.02, p.20.
2. Nazi-Islam Anti-American Link in Italy
From: "Root & Branch Association, Ltd." <rb@rb.org.il>
Subject: SHEIKH PALAZZI CONFIRMS GROWING COMMUNIST-NAZI-SAUDI WAHHABI
ANTI-U.S./ISRAEL COLLABORATION IN ITALY
ANTI-GLOBALIST MILITANTS: ENLISTED FOR A HOLY WAR
An Intelligence Report Reveals Infiltrations of
Extreme Islamists and Neo-Nazis within the Social Forum
Several Days Before the Anti-Globalist Forum in Florence
New and Alarming Plans are Unveiled
A New Connection between Wahhabis, Nazis and Communists,
Based on their Shared Hatred for America
A Fundamentalist Summit Has Already Taken Place in The
Capital of Tuscany
LIBERO (daily Italian newspaper)
Vittorio Feltri, Editor-in-Chief
Monday, October 28, 2002 Cover Story
by Dimitri Buffa
Root & Branch [www.rb.org.il]:
ANTI-GLOBALIST MILITANTS: ENLISTED FOR A HOLY WAR
An Intelligence Report Reveals Infiltrations of
Extreme Islamists and Neo-Nazis within the Social Forum
Several Days Before the Anti-Globalist Forum in Florence
New and Alarming Plans are Unveiled
A New Connection between Wahhabis, Nazis and Communists,
Based on their Shared Hatred for America
A Fundamentalist Summit Has Already Taken Place in The
Capital of Tuscany
LIBERO (daily Italian newspaper)
Vittorio Feltri, Editor-in-Chief
Monday, October 28, 2002 Cover Story
by Dimitri Buffa
ROME: Right-wing extremists, radical leftists and [Saudi supported] Wahhabi fanatics are uniting on the basis of their shared hatred for capitalism and Western democracy. It is the 2002 version of the "union of extreme opposites". We could see these groups active in Florence in alliance with anti-globalist militants.
Some of these groups want to depose the Agnoletto-Casarini anti-globalist power holders and replace them with more extremist power holders. [Italian] Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu appears to be extremely worried about these developments due to the Capua Dossier [see News Digest item #5], a document prepared by Middle East terrorism experts in contact with the Institute for Counter Terrorism (I.C.T.) [www.ict.org.il] at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. This group of Middle East terrorism experts are from Israel, Europe and other parts of the world.
The Capua Dossier [see News Digest item #5] claims that before November 9 leading representatives from the emerging alliance of extreme Nazis, Communists and radical Islamists [Saudi supported Wahhabis] met to plan initiatives which would enable them to transform the Florence convention [of the Social Forum -- the name given to periodic European conventions of the anti-globalist worldwide alliance] into a platform to exhibit the most savage anti-American and anti-Israeli feelings. Promoting Jew-hatred appears to be one of the main goals of the Nazi-Communist-[Saudi supported] Wahhabi alliance.
3. Arutz-7 News: Monday,
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Nov. 25, 2002 / Kislev 20, 5763
-COMPUTER-BOMB SUICIDE ATTACKS THWARTED
It was revealed this morning that yet a new Palestinian method of murdering Jews was discovered and thwarted in time by IDF reserve forces last week. On Saturday night, Nov. 16, the troops apprehended two Hamas members at the Tapuach junction in the Shomron as the latter were driving in a taxi. As the car was about to pass the checkpoint, a guard discovered that one of the passengers appeared to be drugged. He and his colleagues signaled the car to stop, instructed the passengers to get out, and began checking papers. When they discovered that one of the Arabs was wanted, the search became more intensive, and they soon discovered a large quantity of explosives hidden inside two computers in the car. Sappers destroyed the bomb-laced machines in a controlled explosion. It is assumed that the bombers were headed for Jerusalem, and were using the computers merely as a hiding place for the explosives.
The same reserve force also thwarted two other attacks this month. The first occurred three weeks ago when soldiers at the same Tapuach junction found an 8-kilogram explosives belt hidden among boxes of merchandise. The force received a certificate of honor from the Yesha Division Commander for their actions. Last Thursday, soldiers from the same battalion caught two Hamas terrorists driving with two Kalachnikov rifles south of Shechem.
The IDF arrested this morning leading Hamas figure Firas Fidi, who was responsible for today's attempted computer-bomb attack. Another terrorist dispatcher - Muhammad Zayad Kilani, of Hamas - was also arrested today, for having organized a carbomb that exploded without casualties near Kibbutz Metzer earlier this month.
The IDF's Operation Chain Reaction in Bethlehem has so far led to the arrest of eight suicide bombers, including a woman. A total of 36 wanted Arabs have been arrested in PLO-controlled areas south of the capital since the army launched its anti-terror action last Thursday in response to the deadly Jerusalem bus-bombing that killed 11 people.
An IDF force - troops and armor - entered southern Khan Yunis in Gaza early this morning, where it demolished the home of a terrorist and arrested three terrorist suspects. Arabs fired a mortar shell at a southern Gush Katif community last night, and other enemy gunmen shot at soldiers in northern Gaza. There were no injuries.
ISRAELI FORCES IN IRAQ
An article in this week's Time Magazine on U.S. efforts to undermine Saddam Hussein claims that Israeli special forces have been operating in western Iraq on reconnaissance and training missions. Quoting US and Israeli officials, Time reports that Israeli units are looking for where Iraq may have hidden Scud missiles and launchers left intact after the 1991 Gulf War. A few dozen special-unit fighters, trained to stay in the field for weeks at a time, are searching Iraq's western desert area for concrete bunkers built to hold the Scuds.
OUR EGYPTIAN "FRIENDS"
The 25th anniversary of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel, which led to the signing of a hotly-contested peace treaty with Egypt and Israel's total withdrawal from the Sinai, came and went last week - and the resulting peace treaty seems as lifeless as ever. Over the past several days, at least three Egyptian government newspapers have justified and praised last week's terrorist bus attack in Jerusalem in which 11 Jews were murdered.
CREDITING A HOLOCAUST HERO
A new book about the late-in-coming U.S. role in saving European Jewry has aroused the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to right a wrong and give credit where it is due. "A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust," by David S. Wyman and Rafael Medoff, shows that it was Bergson and his colleagues who goaded and shamed the Roosevelt administration into finally establishing the War Refugee Board - which helped save more than 200,000 lives during the final 18 months of World War II. Curiously, the Museum did not give Bergson the credit - until its directors saw an advance copy of the book and realized their mistake. At a New York City event last week marking the book's publication, the Museum announced its intention to correct their exhibit on the War Refugees Board.
Bergson's tenacious campaign to pressure the FDR administration to rescue Jews during the Holocaust included full-page newspaper ads, protest rallies, and lobbying in Congress. Born Hillel Kook to his father Rabbi Dov Kook - first Chief Rabbi of Afula and brother of the famed Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook - Bergson was an underground Etzel fighter in the 1930's and 40's, was active in assisting "illegal" immigrants, and later became a member of the first Knesset. He died in August 2001 at the end of 86.
4. Message to all those who threaten the State of Israel:
[1-Kings 20:11] AND THE KING OF ISRAEL ANSWERED AND SAID, TELL HIM, LET NOT HIM THAT GIRDETH ON HIS HARNESS BOAST HIMSELF AS HE THAT PUTTETH IT OFF.
i.e. let not he that prepares himself for battle boast as he who takes off his armor after the battle is over.
Jerusalem News-161
Contents:
1. Arutz-7 News: Tuesday
WHERE DO THEY GET THEIR EXPLOSIVES?
DEAF CAN SPEAK ON THE PHONE
2. Cannabis smoking 'more harmful' than tobacco
3. Large world found beyond Pluto
4. Dennis Prager : Understand Nigeria
1.Arutz-7 News: Tuesday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Nov. 26, 2002 / Kislev 21, 5763
WHERE DO THEY GET THEIR EXPLOSIVES?
The famous right-wing campaign, "Why Did You Give Them Guns?" [where You = the Rabin/Peres governments, and Them = the Palestinian terrorists] may now have to be changed to "How Are They Getting Their Explosives?"
The number of victims of Palestinian terrorism during this 26-month Oslo War felled by bullets is approximately equal to the number of those murdered by explosives. The army announced recently that over the course of a few days this month, the Arabs of Judea, Samaria and Gaza had used or attempted to use close to 2,000 tons of explosives against Israeli targets. These included a double-explosive of no less than 160 kilos near Morag in Gush Katif, another 40-kilo charge near Kibbutz Re'im, and more. Many Israelis are asking if the Arab supply of explosives can ever be stopped and what is its source.
The hareidi-sector newspaper HaModia reported recently that a main source of Palestinian explosives is Gaza, where smuggling through underground tunnels from Egypt and old minefields from previous wars provide an ample supply of explosives. In Judea and Samaria, however, explosives are somewhat harder to get, and must be smuggled in from Gaza, manufactured by Arab chemists inside Yesha, and sometimes even purchased from criminals who steal the stuff from army bases.
The PA's very own Preventive Security Organization in Gaza has set up a factory for producing large quantities of nitric acid, the most important chemical in making explosives. This information appears on a secret PA document seized in an IDF raid last week. Most of the chemicals used to produce the homemade explosives are acquired from Israel, notes Ha'aretz, but of late the Palestinians have managed to produce explosives with near military-grade efficiency. Correspondent Ze'ev Schiff reports that the Oslo Accords strictly forbid the PA from acquiring or producing such explosives.
Israel banned the importation of nitric acid to the Palestinian territories about a year ago, but smuggling of the chemical from Israel continued with ease. The IDF says that despite its warnings, the government has not implemented measures to identify buyers of the chemicals and the purpose of the purchase.
Another approach to the problem was tried today. IDF forces operating in a village east of Shechem found explosives in a home - and blew up the building.
DEAF CAN SPEAK ON THE PHONE
The Israeli company SpeechView, together with the Cellcom communications company, launched a new milestone technology today that allows the deaf and hard-of-hearing to communicate normally by phone. The technology, invented by Dr. Nachshon Margaliot, translates basic sounds of human speech - in any language - into facial gestures and visual signs that can be "lip-read" from a color screen. SpeechView, a company dedicated to meeting the needs of the deaf and hard-of-hearing, claims that its real-time voice recognition engine is significantly faster than any current speech-to-text recognition engine. For more information, see <www.speechview.com>.
2. Cannabis smoking 'more harmful' than tobacco
From:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993039
Cannabis smoking 'more harmful' than tobacco
11 November 02
Emma Young
Smoking pure marijuana is at least as harmful to lungs as smoking
tobacco, a report from the British Lung Foundation concludes. And in
some key ways, it may be more dangerous.
For example, the BLF's review of previous research highlights that just
three marijuana joints a day causes the same damage to the lung's
airways as 20 cigarettes, mainly because of the way joints are smoked.
Individually, cannabis and tobacco produce the same constituents and
quantities of chemicals known to be toxic to respiratory tissue, other
than nicotine, the report says. But when cannabis and tobacco are smoked
together, the health effects are worse.
"These statistics will come as a surprise to many people, especially
those who choose to smoke cannabis rather than tobacco in the belief it
is safer for them," says Mark Britton, chairman of the BLF. A UK survey
conducted earlier in 2002 found that 79 per cent of children believed
cannabis to be 'safe'.
Deep breath
A key finding highlighted by the review of 90 published papers is that
the amount of smoke taken into the lungs is two thirds larger if
cannabis is being smoked. The smoke is also taken one third deeper into
the lungs - and that smoke is held an average of four times longer
before being exhaled.
Cannabis is the most widely consumed illegal drug in the UK. In 2000,
almost 45 per cent of 16 to 29 year olds in the UK said they had used
cannabis at some point.
3. Large world found beyond Pluto
By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2306945.stm
A new planet-like object has been found circling the Sun more than
one and a half billion kilometres beyond Pluto.
We may discover Kuiper Belt objects bigger than Pluto
Frank Summers Quaoar, as it has been dubbed, is about 1,280
kilometres across (800 miles) and is the biggest find in the Solar
System since Pluto itself 72 years ago.
The object is about one-tenth the diameter of Earth and circles the
Sun every 288 years.
It is half Pluto's size, but apparently larger than the ninth planet's
moon, Charon.
"It's about the size of all the asteroids put together," Michael Brown
of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, US, told BBC
News Online. "So this thing is really quite big."
Name vote
Brown and colleague Chadwick Trujillo discovered the new world on
4 June.
They used a telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California
and followed-up their discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope.
Quaoar lies in the so-called Kuiper Belt
Astronomers named the new object Quaoar, after the creation myth
of the Tongva people who inhabited the Los Angeles area before the
arrival of the Spanish and other European settlers.
To the indigenous peoples, Quaoar was the great force of nature
that summoned all other things into being.
However, Quaoar is not an official name - at least not yet. In a
few months, the International Astronomical Union, astronomy's
governing body, will vote on it.
For the moment, the object carries the designation 2002 LM60.
Disc of debris
Images of Quaoar had been captured as long ago as 1982, but it was
not recognised as a new world. These past observations are being
used to pin down its orbit.
"It could easily have been detected 20 years ago, but it wasn't,"
said Brown.
A good idea of the size of the new world can be gained from the
fact that if all the 50,000 numbered asteroids were combined, the
resulting body would still be smaller than Quaoar.
Quaoar lies in the so-called Kuiper Belt, a swarm of objects made
of ice and rock that orbit the Sun beyond Neptune.
"This new discovery fits right in with our expectation that there
should be a handful of objects as large as Pluto," said astronomer
David Jewitt, of the University of Hawaii.
More out there
Jewitt, with then-colleague Jane Luu, discovered the first Kuiper
Belt object just a decade ago.
Researchers say that as larger Kuiper Belt objects turn up, the
case for regarding Pluto as a fully fledged planet weakens.
Pluto lies within the Kuiper Belt and is considered by many to be
merely among the largest of the bunch, and not a planet in its own
right.
"It's pretty clear, if we discovered Pluto today, knowing what we
know about other objects in the Kuiper Belt, we wouldn't even
consider it a planet," said Brown.
Frank Summers, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope
Science Institute in Baltimore, added: "An observation like this just
confirms that; that we may discover Kuiper Belt objects bigger than
Pluto."
However, there are a great many astronomers would oppose any
notion that Pluto be demoted.
4. Dennis Prager : Understand Nigeria
From: Eliezer <ctsplus@idig.net>
Understand Nigeria and you understand the Islamic threat
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29790
By: Dennis Prager - World Net Daily November 26, 2002
2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
This past week, Muslims in Nigeria rioted. The reason for the beatings, and killings of Christians and the torching of Christian churches; the West's reporting of these riots; and the official Muslim reactions to the riots explain almost everything you need to know about the threat non-Muslim civilization faces at this time.
To understand the threat the non-Muslim world faces, you need to understand the reason for the Muslim riot.
Muslims in Nigeria, a country that is about half Muslim, opposed the presence of the Miss World pageant in their country. They condemned the pageant's "nudity" and its "encouraging of promiscuity."
In an article on the Muslim opposition, on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2002, the popular Nigerian newspaper ThisDay (almost half of whose staff is Muslim), published a piece by one of its reporters, journalist Isioma Daniel. In the piece she wrote, "The Muslims thought it was immoral to bring 92 women to Nigeria and ask them to revel in vanity. What would Muhammad think? In all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from one of them. The irony is that Algeria, an Islamic country, is one of the countries participating in the contest."
To most of us, this paragraph is utterly innocuous, insulting of no one and no faith. To many Muslims, however, it was more than insulting. It was blasphemy.
Though the management and editor of ThisDay immediately and profusely apologized in print day after day, "Islamic fundamentalists gathered after prayers outside the national mosque in Abuja, then marched through the city chanting 'God is Great' and burning cars, churches and houses. They also burned down the offices of ThisDay, despite a groveling apology from the paper" (The Sunday Herald, Scotland). As reported in the Nigerian press (The Vanguard, Lagos) "Muslim youths chanting 'Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar' God is great, God is great, brandishing swords, cutlasses, knives, cudgels and other dangerous implements faced some churches, hotel (sic) and other known Christian places of businesses which they razed."
Christians counterattacked, and as of this writing, over 200 Nigerians are dead, some burned alive in gasoline-soaked tires.
To understand the threat the non-Muslim world faces, you need to understand the way in which Western news agencies report Islamic violence.
Blame is almost never placed on the Muslim rioters. Rather, the passive voice, "violence broke out," is regularly used, and Muslims and Christians are simply reported to be killing each other in "sectarian violence." The Voice of America news report actually identified with the Muslim rioters: "The riots were sparked after a newspaper published an article mocking the Islamic leaders' protest."
It is crucial to identify this each-side-is-at-fault reporting. It characterizes world news organizations' descriptions of Arab-Israeli violence as well. Just as in Nigeria, where the press blames "sectarian violence" rather than Muslim rioters, in the Arab-Israeli conflict, the press blames a "cycle of violence" rather than Muslim terrorists.
To understand the threat to the non-Muslim world, you must understand the official Muslim reaction to the Muslim rioters in Nigeria.
One would think that leaders of any great religion would condemn members of their faith who murdered innocent people, destroyed others' houses of worship and homes, and burned down a newspaper's offices.
Yet in all the statements made by Nigeria's leading Muslim officials in the Nigerian press, I could not find a word of condemnation of the Muslim murderers. The Muslim leaders called for calm after accepting the newspaper's abject apologies. But the leaders made it clear that they, not only the Muslim rioters, consider the original article a grave insult to Islam. In fact, they compared the woman who wrote it to Salman Rushdie, whose death sentence they reaffirmed.
So here's where we stand:
Nigerian Muslim rioters murder innocent Nigerians and burn down over 20 churches because of an innocuous sentence in a Nigerian newspaper.
The West and its press choose to regard the Nigerian violence as merely "sectarian violence," and hold Nigerian Christians equally culpable.
Muslims kill non-Muslims and the victims (i.e., the editors of the newspaper whose offices were razed) are told to apologize ? just as after 9-11, America has been repeatedly told to apologize to the Muslim world, and just as Israel, while enduring massacre after massacre at the hands of Muslim terrorists, is told to apologize for defending itself.
Nigerian Muslim leaders do not say a word against their murderous co-religionists, but they do declare one innocuous sentence by a young woman writer to be an "abomination."
The woman who wrote the sentence has been fired.
The editor of ThisDay has been arrested and not been heard from since. One fears for his life. And ours.
Jerusalem News-162
Contents:
1. Ilana Mercer: To be or not to be blown up
2. Arutz-7 News: Wednesday
THE OSLO WAR CONTINUES APACE
1. Ilana Mercer: To be or not to be blown up
From: Eliezer <ctsplus@idig.net>
To be or not to be blown up
By: Ilana Mercer World Net Daily November 27, 2002
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29797
An editorial in the Egyptian government paper Al-Akhbar celebrated the killing last week of "11 Israeli terrorists" and the wounding of dozens in "a martyrdom operation in occupied Jerusalem." The Egyptian government's mouthpiece credits "Palestinian martyrs" for the "brave ambush," and blames the "terrorist state of Israel." "It is the Jews who are behind every calamity," hissed the editor of another such mouthpiece, Al-Gumhuriyya. And this from a government Israel is officially at peace with.
Among the "Israeli terrorists" murdered were four children ? two 13-year-olds, an 8-year-old boy who died along with his grandmother, and a 16-year-old boy whose mother was also killed.
Reporting on what has become an unremarkable event in the lives of Israeli civilians ? Palestinian homicidal bombers have killed 309 Israelis over the last 26 months ? the Associated Press went through the motions: Bomber boards an early morning bus in a Jerusalem neighborhood. The blast shatters the humdrum of children on their way to school and the elderly off to market for early-morning shopping. The AP cursorily mentions dismembered body parts and limbs littering the pavements. The clean-up operation consists invariably in gathering and matching bits of anatomy ? a foot here, a hand there, a piece of hair ? to give the victims a Jewish burial.
In this instance, 47 people were also wounded ? at least nine are in critical condition. Although the networks rarely cover this aspect, the task facing Israeli medics has become a routine. Surgeons must slice open the victims of these fiendish devices, picking from the flesh and burrowing in the bone for embedded shards of shrapnel, ball bearings and nails. The rat poison is a diabolic touch, intended to intensify internal bleeding. If they survive, victims are left maimed and wracked with life-long disfigurement and pain.
Few commentators, Alan Keyes excepted, have had the heart and spine to express the existential meaning of painstakingly ? almost lovingly ? packing parcels of shrapnel, ball-bearings, nails and rat poison, to lodge in the bodies of Israeli civilians. Keyes, whose MSNBC program was axed shortly after a magnificent display of outrage, was man enough and moral enough to point out that this premeditated evil ? supported by a majority of Palestinians ? bespeaks the will to exterminate Israelis, and creates a deep and dark reality in the human heart.
Contrary to what the various pop-analysts claim, these bombs aren't a response to hopelessness. In the words of Howard Jacobson of the British Independent, "It is fanaticism of sympathy to grant the power of life and death to those who are dissatisfied, as though unhappiness were a sort of absolution that wiped out every other human obligation."
This fanaticism of misplaced sympathy is what those on the Far Left and on the Old Right consistently display. With a welcome exception. The paleoconservative Paul Gottfried is unable to figure out what one does with enemies who try to blow you up even when you offer to give them back what they had lost in war. Gottfried advises that "the most the Israelis may be able to achieve in the present unsatisfactory situation is making those who are blowing up their families pay a high price."
2. Arutz-7 News: Wednesday
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Nov. 27, 2002 / Kislev 22, 5763
THE OSLO WAR CONTINUES APACE
A Palestinian carbomb on its way to explode near an IDF office in northern Gaza was detonated earlier than planned this morning. The driver entered the joint Israeli-Palestinian installation from the Arab side, and was killed in the sudden explosion. No one else was hurt, but PA offices were set on fire as a result.
IDF forces captured a terrorist in Shechem today on his way to perpetrate a suicide attack against Jews. This was the seventh such save in the past two weeks. At least 30 wanted terrorists were arrested since last night in Judea and Samaria, including nine in Dehaishe, near Bethlehem. The IDF is engaged in the pursuit of a Bethlehem-area cell planning an attack in Jerusalem; one of its members has been arrested so far, but security forces in the capital remain on high alert.
Jerusalem News-163
Contents:
1. Arutz-7 News: Thursday
FIVE DEAD IN BEIT SHE'AN TERRORIST SHOOTINGS
DOUBLE TERROR ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAELIS IN KENYA
NINE DEAD IN KENYAN HOTEL
COMMENTS BY YATOM AND EITAM
PM SHARON "SPEAKS" TO YESHA
1. Arutz-7 News: Thursday
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Nov. 28, 2002 / Kislev 23, 5763
FIVE DEAD IN BEIT SHE'AN TERRORIST SHOOTINGS
In Beit She'an this afternoon, two terrorists opened fire in three different locations in and around the Likud Party headquarters, killing five Jews and wounding some 30, including ten seriously. Almost all the victims were hit in Likud Party headquarters as elections for the party's leader were being held. Beit She'an is situated in the northern Jordan Valley, 15 miles south of the Kinneret Sea.
The Palestinian murderers, one of whom was reportedly wearing an explosives vest designed for a suicide attack, were killed when a heroic young man - Border Guard policeman Eran David, 28 - returned precise fire. "He was amazingly courageous," an eyewitness said. "He stood openly to face the terrorists, and fired single shots - not a burst of fire - and picked them off one by one."
Eran David himself recounted that when he heard the gunfire, he ran up to his home to get his weapon, and then ran out to try to put a stop to the carnage: "I saw one terrorist, and got closer to him, and took him down [i.e., shot and killed him]... I didn't know that there was another terrorist, but then I heard more shooting. I saw the shooter, got closer to him, and then took him down as well... I simply did what I was taught, and I would in fact like to thank my teacher Yaakov Reuven... I'm only sorry I didn't get there more quickly..."
Among the wounded are three sons of MK and ex-Foreign Minister David Levy, including Shimon, 40, in serious condition. The two others were lightly wounded: Jackie, 43, who is running for mayor of Beit She'an, and Uri, 37, who later said: "I saw these two guys shooting, and then calmly and coldly making sure their victims were dead. If I had a gun, I certainly could have killed them - they were so close, maybe ten meters. Then my eyes caught the eyes of one of them, and I saw that he wanted to do to me what he did to the others - but his magazine had run out of bullets. I started yelling to everyone to run..."
DOUBLE TERROR ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAELIS IN KENYA
Israeli targets and citizens were targeted in a concerted two-pronged terror offensive this morning in Kenya, in and over the southeast Kenyan seaside resort city of Mombasa. Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called it a "very dangerous escalation" in the terrorist campaign against Israel, and called upon the international community to recognize the danger and work together to defeat terrorism.
In the first incident in Kenya, unidentified terrorists fired two or three shoulder-launched missiles at Arkia Airlines flight #582 on its way from Mombasa to Israel with over 260 passengers and crew on board. The missiles missed the plane, which had just taken off, and all passengers aboard were unhurt. The plane continued on its route and arrived in Israel shortly after noon. Though they were informed before landing that the booms and streaks of light some of them had heard and seen were missiles aimed at downing their plane, many of them apparently did not realize the full extent of their miracle until they landed and were greeted by dozens of reporters and cameras from around the world. Arutz-7's Josh Hasten reports that an amateur video photographer inside the plane filmed many of the passengers clapping and singing the traditional song "Heveinu Shalom Aleichem" as they landed.
Netanyahu explained the gravity of what he called this "escalation:"
NINE DEAD IN KENYAN HOTEL
In the second Kenya incident, which turned out to be far worse than the above near-miss, a truck packed with explosives plowed into the lobby of Mombasa's Paradise Hotel, causing a fire and many casualties. The number of deaths is reported at 9, including three Israelis and six Kenyans. Foreign Minister Netanyahu said that two children are among the Israeli dead, and some 15 Israelis are wounded.
The Israeli-owned hotel is a popular resort for Israeli tourists, and the lobby was packed at the time of the attack with Israelis who had just arrived and were checking in.
One frightened Israeli woman who was in the Paradise Hotel lobby at the time of the attack recounted, "We had just arrived, and were looking around at how beautiful it was, happy that we had run away from all the problems, and now everything would be nice and quiet for a week - and then just as the bellboy started taking our luggage, all of a sudden there was an explosion. We just started running..." The fact that most of the guests had managed to leave the lobby only minutes earlier prevented an even larger calamity.
COMMENTS BY YATOM AND EITAM
Former senior GSS figure Ehud Yatom, running for a spot on the Likud's Knesset list, was asked today about the seemingly hopeless battle in light of today's attacks in Kenya. "I would like to remind you," Yatom answered, "that we received warnings of attacks on El Al flights in Rome and Nairobi in the mid-1970's, and the information we received allowed us to thwart these attacks. Intelligence information is the name of the game I believe that there was cooperation in this attack between Al-Qaeda and Hizbullah or the Palestinian terrorists of DFLP..."
National Religious Party leader and Brig.-Gen. (res.) Effie Eitam, also speaking with Arutz-7 today, seemed to find a silver lining in the cloud of today's Kenya attacks: "If it turns out that Al Qaeda was responsible for today's Kenya attacks - and this we may never know for sure - we will know that we are part of the worldwide struggle against terrorism."
Arutz-7: "You mean that Israel will fight against Fatah, Hamas and possibly Hizbullah, while the U.S. fights Al-Qaeda?"
Eitam: "Precisely, and we will do so in a coordinated manner and as part of a world-wide effort, though of course we will have a special interest in our own regional matters."
PM SHARON "SPEAKS" TO YESHA
A senior source in the Prime Minister's Office, speaking with an Arutz-7 correspondent today, emphasized the following points:
"The media have distorted Sharon's position on a Palestinian state in order to confound the right-wing A Palestinian state is not a realistic option at this point Sharon is more concerned for the Land of Israel than any of his predecessors, and during his term in office the IDF has essentially re-conquered all of Yesha Concerning the future of the Yesha communities, Sharon prefers to keep his stance somewhat vague in order to ward off diplomatic pressures to dismantle them. He still regrets his evacuation and dismantling of the Sinai communities [in 1982, as part of the Camp David accords with Egypt], and would not want to go through a similar experience again The residents of Yesha are acting in an ungrateful manner to him"
Many Yesha residents have in fact been upset by Sharon's support for a Palestinian state, his turning a blind eye to the dismantling of the Gilad Farm, and his willingness to bring left-wing extremist Amram Mitzna of Labor into his government coalition. Others say that his vision of a Palestinian state is such that it will never become a reality, and that partnering with Labor is his way of neutralizing the party's vociferous left-wing positions.
Jerusalem News-164
Contents:
1. Saudi support of anti-American terrorists
2. ISRAEL PLANS TO CAPTURE TERRITORY IN ARAB WAR ]
3. Arutz-7 News: Tuesday
THE AL-QAEDA CONNECTION
DEFENDING THE SKIES
EU FILES OFFICIAL COMPLAINT
BUSH LOWERS STATUS OF PLO MISSION
1. Saudi support of anti-American terrorists
From: "Dr. Aaron Lerner - HSC" <ALerner@HSCharborsales.com>
Subject: Saudi handouts and terrorism
International Herald Tribune 2 Dec.'02"Saudis have a bad habit"
Jim Hoagland The Washington Post
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EXCERPTS:
WASHINGTON: Cash handouts are a way of life for Saudi royals.
[IMRA: For Saudi society in general as well as most Arab countries.]
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Osama bin Laden is only the most horrible example of this time-honored Saudi
practice going awry. His family and his nation were happy to see him
spending smallish chunks of the family fortune in Sudan, Pakistan and
Afghanistan on his gruesome hobbies.
[IMRA: Not limited to these countries.]
It kept him from lining up the royal family, or his own extended, estranged
family, in his gun sights.
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... The Saudi royal system must now adapt at its very core - a core built on
providing protection money and privilege to obscurantist fanatics - or
endure terminal decline.
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Saudi Arabia's money habits jumped back into the headlines with the
discovery that the wife of the Saudi ambassador in Washington forked over
large financial payments to a Saudi family in San Diego simply because the
family asked for help. The family then provided handouts of its own