Jerusalem News-181
Contents:
1. Arutz-7: TV Poll results (not final)
2. Haaretz
Other Matters
3. Circumcision in USA
4. Best Battalion Award for 2001 Goes To Druze Volunteers
1. Arutz-7: TV Poll results (not final)
Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com
TV Polls: Likud Doubles Labor; Right-Wing Bloc: 70 Seats!
According to Israel Television's exit poll, the Likud has won 36 seats in
the 16th Knesset - more than any of the recent polls forecasted for it.
Labor received half that amount, while Shinui received 14 seats. The
National Union - 8 seats, UTJ and NRP - five each. Meretz dropped
dramatically to 5 seats, while Shas received a surprisingly large 13 seats.
Herut did not enter the Knesset
Channel 2 Television says that Likud received 33, while Herut may have made
it into the Knesset. Channel 10 said that Herut certainly made it into the
Knesset.
The three television exit polls show basically the same trend: The Likud
received double Labor's score, or close to it; the Arabs received 10 seats;
and Shinui is the third-largest party in Israel, with 17 seats (14,
according to Channel 1).
Regarding Shas, too, Channel 1 differed than the others, giving it 13
seats, as opposed to the 9-10 accorded it by the other TV stations.
Herut is still a big question mark: One poll gives it nothing, one poll
gives it 2 seats, and one poll is still doubtful.
The National Union receives between 7-10 seats, while the National
Religious Party and the United Torah Judaism receive 4-5 seats each.
Yisrael B'Aliyah and Am Echad have 3 seats each in all the polls.
Meretz dropped dramatically from 10 seats to 5-8.
2. Haaretz: Election Results
Wednesday, January 29, 2003 Shvat 26, 5763Israel Time: 09:41 (GMT+2)[]
Ariel Sharon crushed Israel's left Tuesday to become the first incumbent
Israeli prime minister to win re-election since the 1980's, and immediately
launched an all-out bid to form a unity government with the decimated Labor
Party. An aide to Sharon said that the prime minister would not form a
narrow right-wing government, and that if he failed to cobble together a
unity coalition he would not hesitate to call new elections. Click here for
extracts from Ariel Sharon's victory speech.
Sharon called the results "a historic victory, a great victory." But he
said that celebrations were premature, as terrorism, the Iraqi crisis, and
the socio-economic plight all still threatened the nation's population.
"Today is not the time for celebrations - no celebrations. This is a time
for soul-searching, for coming together in unity, for fusing all forces in
order to bring about a genuine victory."
"It is time to come together," Sharon continued. "I am announcing today,
that after the president assigns me the task of forming a government, I
will ask all Zionist parties to join a unity government that will be as
broad as possible."
With all polling stations counted aside from the votes of soldiers and
diplomats abroad, official results showed Likud with 37 seats, Labor with
19, Shinui with 15, Shas with 11, the National Union with seven, Meretz
with six, the National Religious Party with five, United Torah Judaism with
five, Hadash with four, Balad with three, One Nation with four, Yisrael
b'Aliyah with two and the United Arab List with two seats.
Television projections released immediately as polling stations closed
Tuesday night showed Sharon's Likud sweeping to victory in the elections
for the 16th Knesset, garnering 35 seats, with the Knesset's right-wing
bloc predicted to capture up to 67 seats in the 120-seat house. The
forecasts also indicated that the Labor-led left-wing bloc had been decimated.
In winning re-election, Sharon overcame the electoral curse that had
befallen predecessors Yitzhak Shamir, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, and
Ehud Barak.
Labor's showing was the worst in the history of the once-dominant party
that ruled Israel for the first 29 years of its existence. In the last
Knesset elections in 1999, Labor, then the parliament's largest single
faction, won 26 seats to the Likud's 19.
Particularly hard hit in the Channel One exit poll was Meretz, which was
predicted to lose nearly half its current Knesset strength, to as few as
six seats. Minutes after the predictions were released,
longtime Meretz leader Yossi Sarid announced that if the actual results
bore out the projections, he would resign his position.
Shinui, as euphoric as Meretz activists were despondent, was projected to
become the Knesset's third largest party, more than doubling their strength
from six seats at present to as many as 15 in the incoming parliament -
according to the Channel One exit poll - and as many as 17 according to the
Channel Two and Channel 10 telephone surveys. In fact, Channel 10 had Labor
and Shinui tied on 17 seats.
Twenty-seven parties competed in the elections, but particular attention
was paid to the results attained by the ruling Likud, its traditional rival
Labor and the upstart Shinui.
While the Channel One poll gave Shas 12 seats - down five from its present
17 - the Channel Two survey gave the ultra-Orthodox party only nine seats
and the Channel 10 survey 10 seats.
The seats won by a range of hawkish parties were also a central focus of
attention, as a strong showing by the right could put pressure on Sharon to
form a narrow right-wing coalition.
The complete tally, including as many as 200,000 votes by soldiers,
prisoners, hospital patients and overseas envoys, is expected early Friday
morning, although the makeup of the next Knesset is expected to be clear by
Wednesday morning.
3. Circumcision in USA
Circumcision Opponents Use the Legal System and Legislatures
By ADAM LIPTAK
(Extracts Only)
[]ARGO, N.D., Jan. 16 Josiah Flatt, like about 60 percent of other newborn
American boys, was circumcised soon after he was born here, in the spring
of 1997. Two years later, his parents sued the doctor and the hospital.
They did not contend that the circumcision was botched or deny that
Josiah's mother, Anita Flatt, had consented to the procedure in writing.
They said, instead, that the doctor had failed to tell them enough about
the pain, complications and consequences of circumcision, removing the
foreskin of the penis.
The suit will be heard by a jury next month. In declining to dismiss the
case here before trial, Judge Cynthia Rothe-Seeger acknowledged that the
case was unusual in that nothing "went `wrong' during the procedure." The
main harm Josiah seeks compensation for, Judge Rothe-Seeger noted, is
"diminished sexual sensation injury."
The suit is but one effort by a small but energetic group of loosely
affiliated advocates and lawyers to use the legal system to combat the
practice most American newborn boys undergo the operation when they are
days old which they liken to genital cutting in girls.
The advocates have been active in state legislatures, too. Ten states no
longer allow Medicaid to pay for circumcision.
"They have reached the ears of legislators and insurance companies," Dr.
Thomas Wiswell, a professor of pediatrics at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook and a proponent of the procedure, said about the
opponents. "They are far more vocal than proponents of circumcision."
About 1.2 million newborns are circumcised in the United States every year,
at a cost of $150 million to $270 million, the American Academy of
Pediatrics says.
Circumcision for other than religious reasons is a relatively recent
phenomenon in the United States. It began in the late 19th century and
peaked in the 1960's at 90 percent of newborns. Circumcision rates vary
widely. They are highest in the Midwest, about 80 percent, and lowest in
the West, under 40 percent.
The procedure is not common elsewhere. In Canada, the rate is 17 percent
and in Britain 5 percent. Elsewhere in Europe, in South America and in
non-Muslim Asia, the procedure is rare.
There is powerful evidence, Dr. Wiswell said, that circumcision helps
prevent urinary tract infections, penile cancer and sexually transmitted
diseases, including H.I.V.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, in a policy statement in 1999, said
that the risks of infection and cancer were low even without the procedure
and that evidence on sexually transmitted diseases was "complex and
conflicting."
The academy noted that the procedure could involve complications, as could
any surgery. If performed without adequate anesthesia, it is very painful.
The academy concluded that "existing scientific evidence demonstrates
potential medical benefits of newborn male circumcision."
"However," it added, "these data are not sufficient to recommend routine
neonatal circumcision."
It added that it was "legitimate for parents to take into account cultural,
religious and ethnic traditions, in addition to the medical factors, when
making this decision."
Judge Rothe-Seeger wrote, "One of the earliest purposes of circumcision was
to limit sexual intercourse and to curb sexual excitement."
It has also been prescribed through the years as a remedy for alcoholism,
epilepsy, asthma, gout, hysteria, malnutrition, night terrors, clubfoot,
eczema and promiscuity.
"Circumcision is a medical procedure in search of something to cure," said
Mr. Baer, the Flatts' lawyer.
In the last year, Arizona, Missouri, Montana and North Carolina joined six
other states California, Mississippi, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon and
Washington that do not offer Medicaid reimbursement for circumcision for
any reason, including religious beliefs.
There is little legal scholarship in the area. That is partly attributable,
Professor Miller said, to efforts intended to prevent genital cutting in
girls, a practice prevalent in Africa that reduces sexual pleasure.
"It's all tied up in the politics of feminism," he said. "Some feminists
take offense at the idea that there is any comparison between a highly
damaging assault committed by a patriarchal society and male circumcision.
It's a dangerous topic to get into."
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4. Joash tablet a forgery??
A stone tablet inscribed with biblical passages in ancient Phoenician
script that sparked an archeological controversy here last week is a
forgery, an internationally renowned expert said Sunday.
"It is not just that I have serious doubts about its authenticity, but I
believe it is a fake," Hebrew University archeology professor Joseph Naveh
told The Jerusalem Post.
Naveh, who viewed the sandstone tablet a year and a half ago, dismissed as
"highly fishy" the positive assessment offered by the Israel Geological
Institute last week that the tablet was likely to be real.
The 15-line inscription on the tablet describes Temple "house repairs"
ordered by King Joash, who ruled Judea from 835-793 BCE and strongly
resembles passages in the Second Book of Kings.
It is unclear who owns the tablet, which could be worth millions of dollars
if found to be genuine, but its owner is being represented by former
cabinet secretary Isaac Herzog, who is a Labor Party candidate for the
Knesset.
Naveh said Sunday that he was first contacted about the black stone tablet
in the summer of 2001 months before the Geological Institute was approached
when an anonymous caller asked him to verify its authenticity.
After being sworn to secrecy, Naveh was sent a photograph of the object.
Already in doubt then, Naveh said that he asked to see the tablet in person.
In a scene out of a Robert Ludlum novel, a meeting was subsequently
arranged at a Jerusalem hotel among the Israeli contact man, who introduced
himself as "Tsur," a young Arab man who did not speak a word, and Naveh.
After a close inspection of the tablet, which included examining the
"technical weaknesses" between a crack on the stone and the lettering on
it, Naveh concluded that the tablet was a forgery.
He noted that while most of the letter shapes are of ninth-century BCE
Hebrew, others are typical of seventh-century Aramaic and Phoenician.
Naveh said Sunday that the tablet was likely made in the last century. He
pointed out that he was told at the hotel meeting that the tablet was
discovered by Palestinians outside the eastern wall of the Temple Mount
compound, near a Muslim cemetery, but could not verify this.
Naveh noted that he kept his promise of secrecy until the Geological
Institute issued a public appraisal on the tablet last week.
Together with Prof. Yisrael Ephal of the Hebrew University, Naveh will
publish his analysis on the tablet in the upcoming Israel Exploration
Journal. Even last week, when the story first was publicized, leading
Israeli archeologists had voiced skepticism about the authenticity of the
stone tablet and its mysterious origins.
Curators at the Israel Museum who examined the fragment at several meetings
with the owner's agents last year had also cast doubt on its authenticity.
They were required by museum director James Snyder to sign a letter
forbidding them to discuss the tablet.
4. Best Battalion Award for 2001 Goes To Druze Volunteers
From: imra@n...
Best Battalion Award for 2001 Goes To Druze Volunteers
IDF Spokesperson 28 January 2003
On a chilly January morning in the Druze village of Rama in the Galilee, the
Herev Brigade pursues its community work with excellent humor.
These young men spend four months with the IDF "Nahal" infantry brigade, a
period of time after which they are considered to be "fighters". Captain
Halabi Rafaat emphasizes that: "The Druze are educated from a young age that
they are an integral part of Israeli society, and thus, they must contribute
to the IDF, like every other Israeli citizen and provide service to their
country". He adds, "The IDF gives all the religious freedom required by the
Druze minority."
Human Mosaic
The Druze minority in the IDF is bursting with motivation and 87% of young
Druze fit IDF criteria and enlisted in 2003.
Three enlistments take place every year and 200 Druze enlist at every
enlistment. It is to be noted that a large percentage of the soldiers who
volunteer to the Herev Battalion become officers and make the army a career.
The Brigade is divided into four fighter Brigades and one commanding
Brigade.
The Herev Battalion was stationed in the Gaza Strip at the beginning of the
current conflict. "We were at the heart of all the events for over a year
and a half". The Battalion was transferred to Khan Yunis: "After much
success in the field, the Battalion won the 2001 prize for best Battalion".
This year, the respected Herev battalion was re-assigned to the Northern
Command after soldiers requested to serve closer to home. Today, the
Battalion operates on the Northern Border. One of the division commanders
spouted enthusiastically: "If only all soldiers could be like the soldiers
in the Herev Battalion".
Several soldiers proudly expressed their satisfaction at the link between
their military and social activities. Constructive competition between the
soldiers means that more decide to go out to the officer's course. The
soldiers also feel the pride of being able to do social work in the heart of
their own villages for their own families.
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Jerusalem News-182
Contents:
1. Arutz Sheva News Wednesday
NEAR-FINAL [ELECTION] RESULTS
SHARON'S SPEECH: "NO TIME FOR CELEBRATIONS - WE NEED UNITY"
2. Brief description of participating parties in Israel's elections:
3.Satellites Uncover Ancient Mideast Road Networks
[]4. Austria, and Slave Labor
5. Arutz-7 News: Thursday
KINNERET JUMPS 10 CENTIMETERS
EXCHANGE RATES
6. Islam compared with Judaism
1. Arutz Sheva News Wednesday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Jan. 29, 2003 / Shvat 26, 5763
NEAR-FINAL [ELECTION] RESULTS
The near-final results of the elections give the Likud a most impressive
victory, assigning the party 37 seats - more than the total of the next two
largest parties. Labor dropped to 19 seats, the lowest in its history,
while Shinui took over from Shas as the 3rd-largest party with 15
seats. Shas dropped from 17 to 11, viewing that as an achievement under
the circumstances, while the 5th-largest party is the National Union,
comprised of Moledet, Yisrael Beiteinu, and Tekumah, retaining its strength
at 7 seats.
Other results: The religious parties National Religious Party and United
Torah Judaism retained their strength of 5 seats each; Yisrael B'Aliyah
dropped from 4 to 2, while Amir Peretz's Am Echad party climbed from 2 to
4. The three Arab parties dropped from a total of 10 to 9. Herut of
Michael Kleiner and Baruch Marzel received only just over 34,000 votes,
some 10,000 short of the required minimum to enter the Knesset.
Although many in and out of the Likud question whether the party can now be
described as right-wing or centrist, given the recent tendencies of its
leader Ariel Sharon in favor of a Palestinian state, the traditional labels
give the right-wing a solid majority for the first time since 1977. The
Likud's 37 MKs, plus the 30 seats of Shas, National Union, NRP, UTJ and
Yisrael B'Aliyah, tilt the balance of power unambiguously in favor of the
right-wing.
It is important to note that the votes of the soldiers have not yet been
counted, because of the extra steps involved in ensuring the integrity of
these votes. Each soldier places his or her vote inside an unmarked sealed
envelope, as do all other voters, but then places that envelope inside
another envelope marked with his or her name and ID number. Only after it
is ascertained that the soldier did not vote elsewhere is the inside
envelope delivered to another location for its vote to be tallied. In the
last election, the National Union alliance and Meretz received an
additional seat each after the soldiers' votes were counted, at the expense
of Yisrael B'Aliyah and Labor.
The near-final results:
Likud - 37
Labor-Meimad - 19
Shinui - 15
Shas - 11
National Union - 7
Meretz - 6
United Torah Judaism - 5
National Religious Party - 5
Am Echad - 4
Yisrael B'Aliyah - 2
Arab parties - 9
The voter turnout was 68.5% - the lowest in the history of the State. At
least one television commentator said that this was a reaction to the "fact
that these elections were forced upon the public." Voting in the Arab
sector was less than the national average. In the IDF, 90% of the soldiers
voted.
The final election results will be publicized on Jan. 30. Sharon, after
being appointed by President Moshe Katzav to form the next government, will
have 28 days to do so, and will be able to request an extra 14 days if
necessary.
SHARON'S SPEECH: "NO TIME FOR CELEBRATIONS - WE NEED UNITY"
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon arrived at the jubilant Likud Party
headquarters shortly before 1:00 AM this morning, to the cheers of hundreds
of Likud supporters. Before he spoke, the Likud's new Knesset line-up was
introduced, including some 12 totally new names - about 1/3 of the party list.
Sharon, flanked by Ministers Binyamin Netanyahu and Silvan Shalom, said in
his speech, said, "We can be happy, but there is no room for celebrations:
Terrorism has not ended, Iraqi threat over our heads, an economic and
social crisis is still threatening our economy. This is a time not for
celebration, but a time for reckoning and the unification of all our forces
in order to bring true victory - victory over terrorism and the beginning
of diplomatic process, and victory over unemployment and the growth of our
economy."
2. Brief description of participating parties in Israel's elections:
he near-final results:
Likud - 37 : Nationalistic, populist, right-of-center inclined, sympathetic
towards religion and Jewish tradition.
Labor-Meimad - 19: Labor: historically based on the old socialist parties
but in practice middle-class and bureaucratic
oriented. Left of center, inclined to be anti-religious but pragmatic.
Meimad- funded by EU, religious but left-wing pro-appeasement inclined,
upper middle-class from bureaucratic elements.
Shinui - 15: Upper Middle-class, ashkenazic, anti-religious, slightly right
of center nationalistically. Captialist inclined. has been compared to
European fascism. Backed well by the media and by unknown elements.
Shas - 11- Religious, mainly Sephardic (Eastern-relgious); populist, in
principle concerned for lower classes and nationalism
but in the past allowed itself to be 'hijacked" for the opposite policies.
Has achieved much in the past, was expected to fall much more than it
actually did (17 previously versus 11 now).
National Union - 7: Right wing, many Russian immigrants, nationalistic,
pro-religious even though most of its representatives are not necessarily
observant.
Meretz - 6: left-wing, achieved some positive things in the social sphere,
anti-religious verging on being anti-Jewish.
United Torah Judaism - 5: Ultra-Orthodox religious, achieves much for its
own sector while also concerned for lower classes in general. Inclined to
be right of center nationalistically but considered unreliable from that
point of view.
National Religious Party - 5: Much more important than its numbers.
Historically moderately religious and moderately nationalistic but the most
important patriotic elements have emerged from its educational institutes
and still are to be found amongst its ranks and leadership. Social record
achievement-wise is probably the best of them all. Keeps a low profile, has
an image problem.
Am Echad - 4
Yisrael B'Aliyah - 2: Immigrant party based mainly on Russian immigrants.
Right of center. responsible. has done much in the past to help new immigrants.
Arab parties - 9: All hate Israel and are against the Jewish state.
3. NYTimes: Science: Satellites Uncover Ancient Mideast Road Networks
January 28, 2003
Satellites Uncover Ancient Mideast Road Networks
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
[]n photographs taken by once-secret American surveillance satellites,
traces of the buried past show through the arid surface of the Middle East
like pentimento. The traces are as intriguing to archaeologists as the
ghostly painted-over layers on a canvas are to art historians.
Examining the pictures in detail, archaeologists have found sites of
ancient settlements that had previously escaped detection. They have begun
to map the vanished roads that stretched across the landscape 4,000 to
5,000 years ago.
The new maps, archaeologists at the Oriental Institute of the University of
Chicago say, are becoming important tools to understanding the geography of
early urban civilization in Mesopotamia, the region embracing much of
today's Syria and Iraq.
An analysis of some photographs reveals tracks of roads leading from known
ruins of ancient cities far out into the hinterlands. The tracks, radiating
like spokes of a wheel, define the extent of a city's reach to distant
farmlands and neighboring settlements.
Other pictures show the roads linking city to city over a vast network
extending from ancient Aleppo in western Syria to Nineveh, near modern
Mosul in northern Iraq. Previously, scholars supposed there was some kind
of road system for long-distance travel and, in the absence of better
observations, simply represented the roads as straight lines between major
settlements. Now they can plot the true courses of many roads.
"These intersite routes are more than connections between towns and their
immediate satellites," concluded Jason A. Ur, a researcher at the Oriental
Institute. "When considered at a regional level, these routes emerge as
segments of larger `highways' which run from site to site on a general
east-west axis."
Mr. Ur, a doctoral student, described the archaeological applications of
satellite photography in an article for the spring issue of the journal
Antiquity. Such pictures have been readily available since the first
program of American intelligence satellites, called Corona, became obsolete
and was declassified in 1995. The pictures can be bought over the Internet
from the United States Geological Survey.
The pictures, Mr. Ur explained, do not show the actual roads from
antiquity, but signatures of where the roads were. Shallow linear
depressions, called hollow ways, were left by the repeated traffic of
people and animals over centuries. This hardened the surface and caused the
roadway to sink, leaving troughs that retained moisture and promoted
vegetation. The roads, some up to 400 feet wide and 2 feet deep, appear in
satellite pictures as subtle changes in surface growth.
A connection between these signatures and actual roadways was confirmed in
ground surveys at several sites in northeastern Syria. Although a boon for
research in flat arid regions, archaeologists at Chicago conceded that the
Corona photography might prove to be less useful in wetter and more rugged
terrain.
4. Austria, and Slave Labor
Subject: No legal relief for slave laborers in US Courts (Esrati)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Americans
who sued German companies for their slavery during World War II have
no standing and that a California law allowing such suits is a
violation of treaties the United States has signed.
In my novel, "Comrades, Avenge Us," I go to great lengths to describe
the plight of the (mostly) French prisoners who were forced to dig a
tunnel through the Alps to connect "Greater Germany's" Upper Carniola
(now called Slovenia) with Carinthia, in what used to be Austria,
This tunnel, high in the Alps, was an ice box in which the prisoners
often froze to death.
Today, on the Slovenian side, there stand the remains of the camp and
a marvelous memorial. There is not even a marker on the Austrian side.
The reason that Austria is ashamed of its role (even though we
pretend that Austria was an occupied country and, therefore, a
victim) was because the entire project was run by Universale Hoch-
und Tiefbau of Vienna.
This wonderful company was paid so much per slave to house and feed
its slaves by the SS. It then pocketed most of the money and the
slaves starved and froze.
Only one person ever escaped from the Loibl Tunnel camps, a Frenchman
who is portrayed in the book "The Tunnel at Loibl." He escaped
because he could not face another winter in the sub-Arctic camp. My
attempts to contact him
failed out of fears for the life of the author (also a pseudonym) and
the escapee. I went to the headquarters of the veterans of
Mauthausen, of which Loibl was a sub-camp.
I was told the fear was of former members of the milice, Petain's SS.
(Yes, I know, all Frenchmen are heroes of the liberation and
all were in the Resistance. But when I went to Charles de Gaulle's
Order of the Liberation, I found that same fear there.)
If you should go to Vienna-the-horrid, where artifacts
stolen from synagogues "in the east" are on sale in almost all
jewelry stores. (I have pictures to prove it, and almost got myself
arrested for photographing "private property.")
"Stephen G. Esrati" <steve@e...>
Stephen G. Esrati
PO Box 20130
Shaker Heights, OH 44120
5. Arutz-7 News: Thursday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Jan. 30, 2003 / Shvat 27, 5763
KINNERET JUMPS 10 CENTIMETERS
The rains appear to have ended for at least the next three days, but they
left a firm impression in Israel's largest reservoir. The Kinneret Sea
rose some 15 centimeters over the past two days - including a near-record
10 centimeters (2.5 inches) yesterday - and now stands at 213.70 meters
below sea level. The government-mandated "red line," below which is
considered unsafe, is 213 meters below sea level. The optimum level is 4.1
meters higher than the "red line."
All the Galilee rivers are now full, and the northern Jordan River is
streaming at its strongest rate in the past ten years. The rushing waters
are dragging along tree trunks and other objects in its path.
EXCHANGE RATES
US Dollar: NIS 4.8280
British Sterling: NIS 7.9355
CA Dollar: NIS 3.1622
Euro: NIS 5.1877
6. Islam compared with Judaism
From: Johnstembridge1@a...
Received the following from Merv and Merla Watson founders of the
International Embassy in Jerusalem in 1980. Maybe it is time for Islam and
the nations to re evaluate their priorities. John Stembridge
Muslims number 1,200,000,000 - about 20% of the world's population
and have won the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1957 - Albert Camus (of French parentage, but raised in North Africa)
1988 - Najib Mahfooz.
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1994 - Yaser Arafat
Chemistry:
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewail
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad
JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS:
Jews number approx. 14,000,000 - about 0.02% of the world's
population, which is about the population of Nepal or Morocco
Literature:
1910 - Paul Heyse
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976! - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - E! lie Wiesel
1994 - Shimon Peres
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
Chemistry:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1972 - William Howard Stein
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1989 - Sidney Altman
1992 - Rudolph Marcus
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Simon Kuznets
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1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
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1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - David Baltimore
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1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
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1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
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1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfre! d Gilman
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1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
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number of: terrorists, suicide bombers, slave traders -and- religious
leaders calling for "holy wars."
Maybe they should spend a little more time on education, and less
time on blaming the Jews for all their problems.
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Contents:
1. THE UN RECORD ON ISRAEL
2. 2002 WORST FOR TOURISM IN 20 YEARS
3. Arutz-7 News Friday,
IT'S FINAL: LIKUD OPENS LARGEST MARGIN IN 34 YEARS
HESDER JUBILEE
4. Condolences
1. THE UN RECORD ON ISRAEL
Is the UN biased? Considering there is only one Israel and twenty-one Arab
states that are part of a long conflict in the Middle East, it is hard to
believe that Israel is totally responsible. Yet, to look at US figures on
the conflict and in relation to Israel would bring you to that erroneous
conclusion.
* The General Assembly of the UN condemned or deplored Israel 321 times and
0 times the Arabs and the PLO.
* The Security Council condemned, censured and deplored Israel 49 times and
the Arabs and PLO 0 times.
* The Security Council passed 131 resolutions in its history. Of those, 88
criticized or opposed Israel, none deplored or even criticized the PLO or
Arab states.
* Is it any wonder Israel finds directives from the UN far from fair? A
balanced approach is certainly not the UN agenda.
(By Clarence Wagner, Jan. 30, 2003)
2. 2002 WORST FOR TOURISM IN 20 YEARS
A total of 862,300 visitors from abroad entered the country during 2002,
making it the worst year for tourism in 20 years.
According to information released by the Central Bureau of Statistics on
Sunday, last year was the first since 1982 in which fewer than a million
visitors arrived. Last year's figures were 29 percent lower than those for
2001 and two thirds lower than those recorded in 2000.
A total of 778,600 foreign nationals entered the country by air, 27% less
than arrived during the previous year. In Eilat, there were only 38,500
tourists who arrived by air from abroad, a drop of 42% in comparison with
2001.
Some 79,900 people arrived by the land routes from Jordan or Egypt, 38%
fewer than during the previous year.
There were hardly any passengers from cruise ships, with only 300 recorded
during April and May, compared to 22,800 cruise passengers during 2001 and
255,000 during 2000.
Of the visitors who did come to Israel last year, over a quarter of those
who arrived by air came from the United States, 12% from the United
Kingdom, and 14% from France. Germans and Russians each were 5% of the
total, and there were smaller numbers from Italy and Spain.
According to the bureau, the figures indicate that the declines were less
drastic from countries with a significant Jewish community, such as the US
and France.
The Tourism Ministry stressed the fact that 92,400 visitors from abroad
arrived during December, an increase of 13% in comparison with December 2001.
The Bureau noted that despite the low number of arrivals, when adjusted for
seasonal variations, the monthly totals showed that there was a slight
increase of 2.4% a month during the last seven months of 2002.
(By Haim Shapiro, Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2003)
3. Arutz-7 News Friday,
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Jan. 31, 2003 / Shvat 28, 5763
IT'S FINAL: LIKUD OPENS LARGEST MARGIN IN 34 YEARS
The counting of the last 167,000 votes in Tuesday's election - those of the
soldiers, prison inmates, hospital patients, and diplomats abroad - led to
minor changes in the tallying of the Knesset seats. The Likud rose to 38
seats, double that of Labor, and the National Religious Party's
representation jumped to 6. The Arab Hadash party of Ahmed Tibi and
Muhammed Barakeh, and Am Echad of Amir Peretz, both dropped to three
Knesset seats.
The margin between the two largest parties, 19 seats, is the largest in 34
years. In the 1969 elections, the Alignment, forerunner of today's Labor,
received 56 seats - the most ever received by one party in Israel's history
- while Gachal, predecessor of the Likud, received only 26 seats.
As a result of the final count, MK Ayoub Kara of the Likud, who represents
the party's Druze sector, and former MK Nissan Slomiansky (NRP), a resident
of the Shomron community Elkanah, will again enter the Knesset. They come
at the expense of former MK Addisu Messele (Am Echad) and Dov Hanin, the
Jewish member of Hadash, who thought for two days that they would be MKs.
NRP leader Effie Eitam thanked the IDF soldiers for granting his party an
extra mandate. "The confidence that the soldiers placed in us reflects more
than anything the central message of the NRP," Eitam said, "that army
service can be combined with faith, tradition, and values." Eitam also
phoned Addisu Messele, and expressed his regrets that Messele, who served
in the 14th Knesset, would not be in the 16th Knesset.
The final Knesset line-up thus gives the Likud the possibility of forming a
"narrow" right-wing government of 69 MKs: Shas (11), National Union (7),
NRP (6), United Torah Judaism (5), and Yisrael B'Aliyah (2), plus the
Likud's 38. Am Echad would probably join such a government as well, giving
it 72 seats. However, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is continuing to pursue
his preferred government, namely, a coalition with Labor and possibly with
Shinui.
HESDER JUBILEE
The Philatelic Service will issue a new stamp next week dedicated to the
Jubilee anniversary of the hesder yeshivot enterprise in Israel. Students
at these institutions choose to enter a five-year program after high
school, in which they combine compulsory military service with yeshiva
studies. The first such yeshiva was Kerem B'Yavneh, founded in late
1953. Some 36 such institutions have been established since 1967,
including in Kiryat Shmonah, Eilat, Gush Katif, Sderot, and elsewhere.
The hesder enterprise received the Israel Prize in 1991 for "their unique
implementation of the Zionist vision... following the destruction of the
Torah centers in Europe. The yeshiva students, who are dispersed
throughout the country, and especially in outlying and development towns,
are well integrated wherever they are, while fulfilling all their
obligations towards the State. The hesder students excelled in their
military service [and] manifest study and fulfillment of the Torah of
Israel together with settling the Land of Israel and with love for the
Nation of Israel."
4. Condolences
Fox News
Space Shuttle Disintegrates; Seven Astronauts Killed
Saturday, February 01, 2003
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Space Shuttle Columbia blew up and disintegrated in
flames over Texas Saturday morning, killing all seven astronauts aboard and
scattering debris over four states and the Gulf of Mexico.
The seven crew members -- six Americans and the first Israeli to go into
space -- were just 16 minutes from landing at Cape Canaveral, Fla., when
the shuttle broke up at 203,000 feet. The astronauts had been orbiting the
Earth for 16 days.
"Columbia is lost. There are no survivors," President Bush said in a
televised address from the Cabinet Room. He said the day had brought
"terrible news" and "great sadness" to the country, and that "our entire
nation grieves."
Bush praised the Columbia crew for their courage and daring in an age when
space travel seems so routine, but is anything but.
"These men and women assumed great risk in the service to all humanity,"
Bush said. "The astronauts knew the dangers and they faced them willingly."
Still, he said, "our journey into space will go on."
Shalom All,
We heard the sad news of the tragedy about the breakup of the space
shuttles 200,000 feet above Texas. We deeply mourn the death of the
astronauts and especially the death of Israel's first astronaut Ilan Ramon.
We pray that Our Father will be with all the families of these brave people
and give them peace.
Regards,
Jim Coetzee
Port Elizabeth
From: imra@n...
Subject: US PRESIDENT BUSH TELEPHONES PM SHARON ABOUT COLUMBIA
US PRESIDENT BUSH TELEPHONES PM SHARON ABOUT COLUMBIA
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
Saturday, February 01, 2003 9:52 PM
US President George W. Bush today (Saturday), 1.2.2003, telephoned Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon and told him that today is a tragic day for both
the families of the astronauts and for science. US President Bush said
that he knows that a brave Israeli citizen - Colonel Ilan Ramon - was on
board the space shuttle Columbia, and delivered the condolences and
support of the entire American people, as well as his personal
condolences and support, to the Ramon family, at this difficult hour.
Prime Minister Sharon delivered his sincerest condolences to the
American people and the astronauts' families, and added that is at
moments such as these, that the hearts of the American and Israeli
peoples beat as one. "Let us pray together and support each other," he
said.
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 12:33:29 +0200
1. "Black" Humor in the News (but not so remote from claims actually being made)
From: Ríain <wolfhound@irishpub-hostel.com>
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BREAKING NEWS from CAN -- Where CAN, CAN®:
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C.A.N. NEWS -- Reports are coming in from various unnamed sources that a bottle rocket launched by Chinese Soldiers on the Mexican border, brought down the Shuttle.
Reports are coming in from Palestine, TX that pieces of the bottle rocket have been found and smelled of cheap tequila.
Eyewitness reports from all over East Texas claim of the smell of tequila and lime and strangely enough Chinese food as the Shuttle debris fell to the ground.
One of our most reliable secret sources at the C.I.A. claims that it was a conspiracy between the Jews, Israel, China, Mexico, and SWITZERLAND. The neutral Swiss getting involved when they decided they were sick and tired of sitting on the side-lines and wanted to take over the World with the Jews.
The bottle rocket was designed as to make the Americans believe that it was made by Iraq, Iran, N. Korea, and Al-Qaeda, with the assistance of Iceland, the last bastion of White-European civilisation.
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2. Saudi Money Continues to Feed al Qaeda
Vol. 2, Issue 95, January 31, 2003
DEBKA-Net-Weekly
Saudi Money Continues to Feed al Qaeda
The al Qaeda gangs rounded up this month across Europe, in Britain,
France, Spain, Italy and Germany - some in advanced stages of preparation
for chemical poison attacks - have been traced by DEBKA-Net-Weekly's
counter-terror sources to two points of origin: Chechnya and Algeria.
Interrogations of the men in custody revealed that Saudi Arabia
continues to be the leading purveyor of manpower and funds for the Islamic
terror network, while branches of the Albanian mafia scattered over Europe
serve as al Qaeda's primary logistical arm - supplier of weapons, travel
documents, forged passports, vehicles and hideouts from which to launch
their strikes.
Our counter-terror experts have prepared a detailed map illustrating
the routes that the terrorist cells follow to target.
They start out in Chechnya and Algeria and cut across Europe through
Bulgaria, Macedonia and Bosnia.
But the most shocking discovery is that 17 months after the 9/ll
atrocities in which 15 Saudi suicide bombers took part, the Saudis are
still providing al Qaeda with funding for terrorist operations against the
West.
Saudi officials have worked hard to show Washington that the kingdom
has cleansed itself of the taint of funding and fueling al Qaeda terror. On
September 13 last year, the Saudi interior minister Prince Naif set up a
committee to oversee the flow of capital to charity organizations. Saudi
labor minister, Dr. Ali Ibrahim Namleh, demanded greater transparency from
all Islamic charities in the kingdom. At the same time, the princes
launched an impressive PR campaign in America to show they were adamantly
opposed to terrorism.
However, DEBKA-Net-Weekly's counter-terror sources have discovered
from a senior Western source that the river of Saudi cash continues to
reach al Qaeda through the circuitous channels the organization has devised
to obtain the money for its activities. Two men are at the hub of this
funding chain: Wael Hamza Jalidan, chairman of the Ribata Trust charity,
and Mahmoud Jamal Khalifa, one of Osama bin Laden's brothers-in-law.
Jalidan and Khalifa are linked to another member of the bin Laden
support team, Khaled bin Mahfuz, former head of the Saudi National Trade
Bank and for long years an economic adviser to the royal house. Mahfuz has
been arrested in the past for ties with al Qaeda but was always released
quickly.
This trio shows no sign of heeding the directives issued by their
interior and labor ministers. Under the patronage of King Fahd's brother,
the governor of Riyadh Prince Salman, they continue to pump funds to
terrorist organizations in Lebanon and Yemen. Salman is one of the men who
decide to which Islamic organizations around the world Saudi largesse will
be assigned. He heads such important Saudi charity bodies as the Supreme
Committee for Fund-raising for Muslims and the Popular Committee for Aiding
Mujehadeen in Palestine.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly's senior Western source reports that Jalidan's
financial operation in the Balkans is sanctioned by Salman. Most of the
money he hands out, though designated for stricken Muslim regions, ends up
with Islamic organizations in Lebanon, Yemen and groups affiliated to al
Qaeda.
A key figure in the Balkan funding enterprise is a Palestinian called
Kamal Abu Foda, nominally coordinator of the Combined Saudi Fund for
Kosovo, whose real job is to direct the incoming funds from Kosovo to banks
in Lebanon and Yemen to finance the activities of al Qaeda affiliates. One
of its recipients is the Arm of Ansar, based in Sidon and controlled by al
Qaeda. In Yemen, the funds are funneled to the Aden Alabayan Army.
3. Arutz-7 News: Sunday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
February 2, 2003 / Rosh Chodesh Adar Aleph 5763
BELGIUM LEAVES NO STONE UNTURNED TO TRY PM SHARON
The Belgian Senate approved this morning an amendment to its Universal Law, allowing Belgium to try Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for war crimes. Sharon was about to be tried there last year for his involvement in the Sabra and Shatila massacres - in which Christian Phalangists murdered hundreds of Arabs in Lebanon in 1982 - but the Belgian Supreme Court determined that the country's unique law governing international war crimes can be applied only to those who are physically present in Belgium. The Belgian legislators thereupon went right to work to do what was necessary to try the Israeli leader, passing the amendment this morning and paving the way for Sharon to be tried in absentia.
Sharon is being sued by relatives of the murdered Arab residents of Lebanese refugee camps, who claim that as Israel's Defense Minister at the time, he turned a blind eye to the murderous Christian intentions. Sharon has always maintained that he had no knowledge of what the Phalangists were planning.
It should be noted that Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz, visiting Great Britain late last year, was advised to quickly leave the country after a complaint was filed against him relating to Israel's response to the PA's Oslo War terrorism. Mofaz was IDF Chief of Staff when the Arabs began the current war in Sept. 2000. Israel is concerned about the increasing trend towards charging Israeli officials with war crimes in The Hague's International Court and in other courts around the world.
4. Ancient Troy
From Nature Science Update, 29 January 2003
<http://www.nature.com/nsu/030127/030127-4.html>http://www.nature.com/nsu/030127/030127-4.html
Trojan geography in Homer's Iliad matches sediment record of Dardanelles coastline.
PHILIP BALL
Homer knew his geography, say US researchers. The ancient Greek writer's description of the war fought around Troy is consistent with a new reconstruction of the way the region looked about three millennia ago.
In his Iliad, Homer recounts how the city of Troy was besieged and finally conquered by the army of the Spartan king Menelaus, who sought to reclaim his wife Helen from her abductor, prince Paris. This is thought to have happened around 1250 BC.
Homer's account of the siege and battles give several clues about the lay of the Trojan plain. Then, in the first century AD, the Greek writer Strabo expanded on the description in his book Geography, by which time Troy was known as New Ilium.
Ancient Troy is thought to have stood at a site called Hissarlik in present-day Turkey; archaeological excavations have revealed the remains of a city. There are, in fact, several different ancient Troys, as the settlement was built and destroyed many times since the third millennium BC. These ruins now perch on the edge of a plateau overlooking a river flood plain of sand, silt and marshland.
When Troy was first built around 3000 BC, say John Kraft, of the University of Delaware in Newark, and his colleagues, it was on the coast of a great bay that filled most of the plain.
Today, however, Troy's environs look very different. Little by little, silt from the Simois and Scamander rivers (today called the Dumrek Su and Kara Menderes), which flow into the bay, moved the Dardanelles coastline several kilometres north, leaving Troy high and dry.
The researchers tracked these changes back through time by radiocarbon dating the fossils in columns of sediment drilled from the rivers' flood plain. Their analysis revealed where, at different times, the ground was once a swamp, a brackish lagoon, or earlier still, a flooded bay. The investigation was begun in 1977 and has been directed by Kraft's collaborator Ilhan Kayan of Ege University in Izmir, Turkey .
The Greek army, Homer tells us, camped on the Aegean cost to the west of Troy, and drew up their ships "on the shore of the surging sea well away from the fighting". Kraft's team figures that this camp was situated on a promontory along the west of the former Bay of Troy, which the Greeks defended with a "deep ditch" to the south that prevented the Trojans from advancing up the narrow finger of land.
The researchers also located the "ford of the fair-flowing river" Scamander. Here, according to Homer, Achilles "broke the Trojan line" and forced many of the Trojans over the steep riverbanks into the deep, swift water. By Strabo's time, the plain was probably much farther north, so that the promontory was no longer evident and the two rivers were able to flow together before emptying into the retreating bay.
The team's findings show that Strabo's judgment was unfailingly acute when he spoke of the geography of the Trojan War. He realized that alluvial deposition had changed the coast since Homer's day, and he seems to have guessed rightly when he stated that the Greek camp and ship station were situated "20 stades [about 4 kilometres] from Ilium".
References
Kraft, J. C., Rapp, G., Kayan, I. & Luce, J. V. Harbor areas at ancient Troy: sedimentology and geomorphology complement Homer's Iliad. Geology, 31, 163 - 166, (2003). |Article|
© Nature News Service / Macmillan Magazines Ltd 2003
5. SAUDIS SENTENCE MAN TO DEATH FOR INSULTING RELIGION
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Saudi Arabia is said to have sentenced a Yemeni
national to death for insulting the religion of his roommate.
A Saudi court in Jedda sentenced the Yemeni national to death on Jan. 7.
They said the Yemeni, identified as Hail Al Masri was originally sentenced
to two years imprisonment and 600 lashes. But a higher court headed by Ali
Al Zahrani rejected the sentence and ruled that Al Masri should be beheaded.
Saudi newspapers said Al Masri tried to jump from the third floor where the
courtroom was located after the death sentence was read. Al Masri was
seriously injured in the fall and taken to a local hospital.
The Washington-based Saudi Institute said Saudi Arabia has not formally Jerusalem News-185 1. Reply to Steven Collins from David Horovitz I received this reply from the editor of Jerusalem Report. Steve -----Original Message----- Steve, 2. NYT: (Extracts) Polish Town Still Tries to Forget Its Dark Past By PETER S. GREEN []EDWABNE, Poland This is a small rural town in denial, although the facts are now clear. On July 10, 1941, shortly after the Nazis occupied this poor farming town in northeast Poland, hundreds of Jews from Jedwabne and surrounding hamlets were assembled in the town square, where some were brutally killed, while others were beaten and finally forced to run down Cemetery Road to Bronislaw Sleszynski's thatch-roofed barn. Kerosene was then poured on the barn and it was set alight, burning more than 400 people alive. The story was nearly forgotten until 1999, when the historian Jan Gross assembled evidence that Jedwabne's pogrom was not, as local legend had it, the work of Polish townsmen acting on orders from occupying Nazi soldiers. Instead, documents and eyewitness accounts showed that Catholic Poles organized and carried out the massacre of their Jewish neighbors. The entire nation undertook an extraordinary examination of collective conscience, and a reappraisal of the long-accepted view here that Poland, which lost six million people three million of them Jews in World War II, was a victim and not a perpetrator as well. The debate culminated in a trip to Jedwabne by Poland's president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, to apologize for what Poles of one faith did to Poles of another. The prosecutor's report says some 400 Jews died in the barn, at the hands of local Poles. Bones and charred remains were exhumed, and contemporary accounts inidcate that half the adult men in Jedwabne, as well as women and children, took part in the pogrom, some watching, some helping to round up those who tried to escape and others killing Jews with their own hands. Despite those damning details, to most local people, the closing of the investigation seems like vindication for their firmly held view that there is little or no need to apologize for the past. "It's the Germans who put the Jews to death and it's a lie that it was the Poles who did it," said the town's priest, Father Edward Orlowski. He claimed to have proof the real killers were a German unit commanded by a Jew turned Nazi general. The Catholic Church's leader, Cardinal Josef Glemp, has done nothing to rein in Father Orlowski. Instead, he attended a Mass to honor the Jedwabne Jews, then asked Poland's surviving Jews to apologize for having brought Communism to Poland. 3. German Duplicity? A POLEMIC - Germany's leading role in arming Iraq "German Giant Taking Over American Water Supply" German troops to guard U.S. military facilities Germany-U.S. ties hit post-war low Question - If American/German relations are at an all time low, and If Germany 4. NEARLY 40% OF IDF OFFICERS ARE OBSERVANT JEWS NEARLY 40% OF IDF OFFICERS ARE OBSERVANT JEWS It has very recently been reported that nearly 40% of the officers in the combat units of the Israel Defense Forces are religiously observant and wear kippot. This is more than twice the percentage of religious people in the general population and in the non-commissioned ranks of the army. It is always significant when leaders, which officers are, choose to be followers of the Torah. This statistic published by Ma'ariv newspaper is one of the evidences of a growing return of many Jews in Israel to a Torah observant lifestyle. 5. Best web-sites available Visit our web-sites frequently: http://www.britam.org Help us through contributions, and purchasing our products "Ephraim. The Gentile Children of Israel" (2nd edition) $30 The prices include postage by registered air-mail "And I will bless them that bless you" (Genesis 12:15). 1. North Korea arms Egypt 2. Special Jerusalem Report Excerpts Anti-terror police in England have unearthed a plot to shoot down a plane at Heathrow, according to security sources. As the army was drafted in to protect the airport in west London, Sky News was told that security forces feared a terror attack to bring down an airliner. Police have been searching under the flight path on the western approach to the airport and combing areas of Windsor Great Park. Although Scotland Yard will not comment in detail, police officers have been stopping motorists and searching cars in and around Wraysbury, west of Heathrow. More than 400 soldiers in armoured personnel carriers are standing guard at the airport and security has also been stepped up around Windsor Castle. Downing Street said the deployment at Heathrow was "an ongoing operation in relation to a specific threat". Number 10 said the move was personally authorised by the Prime Minister Tony Blair. NETANYAHU REACTS ANGRILY TO BELGIAN DECISION; RECALLS AMBASSADOR Israels Ambassador to Belgium has been recalled in protest of a decision by the Belgian supreme appeals court to permit war crimes charges to be pursued against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon once he leaves office. Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reacted angrily, calling the ruling scandalous.He said that it,legitimizes terror and damages those who fight terrorism. While the court stayed action against Sharon until he is no longer Prime Minister, it is allowing proceedings to move forward against Amos Yaron, who was head of the army division accused of complicity in the Sabra and Shatilla massacres in Lebanon in 1982. The Belgian law allows it to be the self-appointed arbiter of the worlds war crimes allegations, regardless of whether the defendant has any connection to the European nation whatsoever. President Moshe Katsav today sent a severe letter to the King of Belgium, in which he expressed his chagrin at Belgiums High Courts decision to try Israelis in their courts. President Katsav totally rejects Belgiums moral right to bring Israeli leaders and IDF officers to trial. Mr. Katsav emphasized that Israeli leaders and IDF officers operate according to international norms, the Israeli law, their conscience and basic human morality, and that no one has the right to doubt the ethical standards Israel holds itself to, and that those who accuse us, would do well to reflect on their past actions. PALESTINIAN THREATS AGAINST AMERICANS CONTINUE The official radio station of the Palestinian Authority, Voice of Palestine, broadcast a sermon from the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on February 7, in which the Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ikrimah Sabri, preached, While Muslims slaughter sheep on Id al-Adha, the United States will slay Muslims in Iraq in order to carry out its aggressive, criminal, terrorist, and inhuman designs...O Allah, deter the aggressors and conspirators. O Allah, destroy them all. O Allah, protect Iraq and its people.(Translation courtesy of FBIS.) MIDDLE EASTERN MEN WITH RAZORS YANKED OFF AIRLINER In a Sept. 11 flashback, two Middle Eastern men were removed from an American Airlines flight here to Los Angeles after "razors" and thousands of dollars in cash were found in one of their carry-on bags, the airline confirmed today. The incident occurred Saturday at Washington Dulles International Airport, from where Middle Eastern men with box cutters in 2001 hijacked an American flight to Los Angeles, took control of the plane and slammed it into the Pentagon. The bag containing what one source claims were "straight razors" and also a "utility knife" got past the Transportation Security Administration's checkpoint at Dulles. Straight razors and sharp-bladed knives of any length are banned items. But later at the gate, one of the men was pulled from the line in a random security check. A search of his bag turned up the razors and nearly $10,000 in cash. TSA confiscated the razors, which American Airlines says were permitted safety razors, but let both men board Flight 144 to Los Angeles International Airport. However, the flight crew, including the pilots, refused to take off until the men were removed. The flight was delayed about an hour before security officers came on board and escorted the men off the plane. "A flight attendant aboard the flight raised questions about the two men aboard the flight who had passed two TSA screenings," said John Hotard, an American spokesman in Dallas. "They were asked to deplane, which they did, rescreened and placed aboard another flight to LAX." TSA spokeswoman Chris Rhatigan said the agency had no immediate comment. One news agency reported that the men claimed to be Iranian but carried no passports. CIA: NORTH KOREA HAS MISSILE CAPABLE OF HITTING U.S. North Korea has an untested ballistic missile capable of hitting the United States, top U.S. intelligence officials said Wednesday. While testifying at a Senate committee hearing in Washington, CIA Director George Tenet was asked whether North Korea had a ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S. West Coast. Before answering, Tenet turned to very quickly consult with aides sitting behind him. "I think the declassified answer, is yes, they can do that," Tenet said. Moments earlier Tenet said it was likely that North Korea had been able to produce as many as two plutonium-based nuclear weapons. The estimate is not new -- it was laid out in an unclassified CIA document in December 2001-- but Tenet is the most senior U.S. official to say so publicly. The 2001 report said North Korea's Taepo Dong 2 missile may be capable of hitting the West Coast of the United States, as well Alaska and Hawaii. 3. Arutz-7 News: Thursday The issue at hand in the Belgian courts is the massacre of hundreds of Arabs in September 1982 by Maronite Christians in Lebanon. This was the culmination of a long Lebanese civil war that developed between the Christians and the PLO; the PLO, after causing a civil war in Jordan, relocated to Lebanon in the early 1970's, leading to a civil war there as well. Rafael Eitan, known as Raful, says that the Belgian decision does not worry him, as the ruling is "political," and that in any event, he has no plans to leave Israel in the near future. Gen. Yaron said that Belgium suffers from "delusions of grandeur" in thinking that it must enforce its view of justice on the world. Netanyahu also summoned Belgium's Ambassador to Israel, Wilfried Green, and expressed his sharp protest of the Belgian decision. "The decision is yet another blood libel against the Jewish people from European lands, " Netanyahu said. "It is a sharp blow at truth, justice, ethics, Israel, and the forces fighting terrorism around the world... Turning an entire country into a kangaroo court is a strike against world justice and a libel appropriate to 'old Europe.'" Yoel Rubenfeld, the director of the Belgium-based Belgium-Israel friendship association, said this morning, "This unfortunately shows that there's no justice when it comes to Israel. There's Arafat, and Saddam, and Pinochet, and many others who could be tried under the special Belgian law - yet they're only going after Sharon. The others have been the subjects of claims, but nothing has moved; only with Sharon!" He said that there is tremendous ignorance in Belgium about what happened at Sabra and Shatila: "They think that it was Israel that massacred the Arabs there!" It was reported today that the small Belgian Jewish population of 40,000 has relatively little political clout; the number of those calling themselves Palestinians in Belgium is 600,000. WHAT TO DO AGAINST BELGIUM MORE COMMENTS Ariel Sharon himself, exactly 20 years ago, after he was fired as Israel's Defense Minister in the aftermath of Sabra and Shatila, predicted today's events: "I say again: Israel in general - I'm referring to the state, the nation, the people, and not only the government and the army - the whole nation is being portrayed as responsible [for what happened] - indirectly. I evaluate that we will not be freed of this accusation - as a people, as a nation, as Jews - for generations, and it will be marked as a sign of Cain on our foreheads." Sharon was referring to the left-wing's campaign against him and then-Prime Minister Menacham Begin for the Peace in Galilee War in general and what happened at Sabra and Shatila in particular. Crowds called Begin and Sharon "murderers." Sharon protested at the time: "Not one soldier or officer took place in this terrible act. Our hands are clean, and our purity of arms was maintained throughout the entire war. [Speaking to the left-wing:] This entire attempt to attribute it to us - you did this on every stage, in front of the whole world!" 4. DEMAND TO INDICT BELGIAN OFFICIALS FOR 1961 MURDER ISRAELI CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP DEMANDS THAT ATTORNEY GENERAL PROSECUTE FORMER Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center, an Israeli civil rights organization has Background: The Kingdom of Belgium occupied the territory of the Congo as a Belgium provoked a civil revolt against Lumumba's rule and provided arms to Days later, a Belgian police officer was ordered to exhume Lumumba's body, In response to this revelation, Brussels appointed a governmental commission Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:37:21 +0200 1. Japan on the Rise? http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/14/1044927803788.html By Shane Green, Herald Correspondent in Tokyo Japan is prepared to launch a pre-emptive strike on North Korea if it In Tokyo's toughest military stand since the end of World War II, "It is too late if [a missile] flies towards Japan," he said in an Mr Ishiba, a hawk who was appointed defence chief last But Mr Ishiba's warning pushes the constitutional restraint to the As the crisis over North Korea's nuclear program worsens, It was not clear exactly what form a Japanese strike would take. Tokyo Japan is very vulnerable to missile attack. In 1998, North Korea 2. 71% in US oppose Palestinian state - poll Seventy-one percent of Americans believe that the Palestinians should not be These were the findings of a poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Bush's conditions include "fighting terrorism, stopping the promotion of Approximately 13% believe the Palestinians have fulfilled these conditions The respondents were 36% Republicans, 37% Democrats, and 21% independents; 73% want the US government to demand that the PA "turn over all Palestinian 3. An IDF force near Hevron arrested Muhammed Nur last night; he murdered the shepherd Ya'ir Har-Sinai of Susia on July 2, 2001. Dalia Har-Sinai, Ya'ir's widow, told Arutz-7's Tamar Yonah today, Following the arrests, Defense Minister Mofaz announced that the closure that was imposed on all the Arab areas of Yesha last week would be lifted. The 14,000 PA Arabs with work permits for both sides of the Green Line were permitted, beginning this morning, to go to work. Among Mofaz's considerations, he explained, are the difficult conditions faced by the Arab civilian population, and the desire to ensure that the Arab workers not be fired by their Jewish employers. Mofaz also said that Israel would do all it could to help those PA Arabs who are not involved in terrorism: KINNERET FILLING UP, ISRAEL BRACES FOR STORM 4. 70.6%: Palestinians would destroy Israel if they could The Peace Index Project is conducted by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace The survey details below covers the representative sub-sample of adult Do you agree with the following view: Most of the Palestinians have not come 5. Why are France and Germany pro-Saddam? [Extracts only] BY KHIDHIR HAMZA What has become obvious is that the U.N. inspection process was designed to delay any possible U.S. military action to disarm Iraq. Germany, France, and Russia, states we called "friendly" when I was in Baghdad, are also engaged in a strategy of delay and obstruction. In the two decades before the Gulf War, I played a role in Iraq's efforts to acquire major technologies from friendly states. In 1974, I headed an Iraqi delegation to France to purchase a nuclear reactor. It was a 40-megawatt research reactor that our sources in the IAEA told us should cost no more than $50 million. But the French deal ended up costing Baghdad more than $200 million. The French-controlled Habbania Resort project cost Baghdad a whopping $750 million, and with the same huge profit margin. With these kinds of deals coming their way, is it any surprise that the French are so desperate to save Saddam's regime? Germany was the hub of Iraq's military purchases in the 1980s. Our commercial attachÙ, Ali Abdul Mutalib, was allocated billions of dollars to spend each year on German military industry imports. These imports included many proscribed technologies with the German government looking the other way. In 1989, German engineer Karl Schaab sold us classified technology to build and operate the centrifuges we needed for our uranium-enrichment program. German authorities have since found Mr. Schaab guilty of selling nuclear secrets, but because the technology was considered "dual use" he was fined only $32,000 and given five years probation. Meanwhile, other German firms have provided Iraq with the technology it needs to make missile parts. Mr. Blix's recent finding that Iraq is trying to enlarge the diameter of its missiles to a size capable of delivering nuclear weapons would not be feasible without this technology transfer.Russia has long been a major supplier of conventional armaments to Iraq--yet again at exorbitant prices. Even the Kalashnikov rifles used by the Iraqi forces are sold to Iraq at several times the price of comparable guns sold by other suppliers. [] Saddam's policy of squandering Iraq's resources by paying outrageous prices to friendly states seems to be paying off. The irresponsibility and lack of morality these states are displaying in trying to keep the world's worst butcher in power is perhaps indicative of a new world order. It is a world of winks and nods to emerging rogue states--for a price. It remains for the U.S. and its allies to institute an opposing order in which no price is high enough for dictators like Saddam to thrive. Mr. Hamza, a former director of Iraq's nuclear-weapons program, is the co-author of "Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda" (Scribner, 2000). WWW.HASBARA.US 6. EU inconsistencies This is crazy, Belgium want to indict some prime ministers of Israel as war 7. More on the Belgian Congo We are so blessed to be a part of Israel, the people. Our peoples have not been completely righteous, but what little they are has actually set an example for the world. Consider East Africa, which has thrown out the British and all white farmers--who produced food for the land and for export, who came to build the country. Now they are starving because the Africans either can't or won't run the farms, and the officials are trying to import Chinese to run the farms. Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:13:28 +0200 1. ISRAEL DEVELOPING MINIATURE DRONES Israel Aircrafts Industries are developing a tiny 100-gram aircraft with wings the size of a credit card, that can carry cameras and communications equipment, and would be used to send battlefield pictures back to a command headquarters. The U.S. has already developed similar planes and might be using them in the coming war in Iraq. IAI, considered a world leader in developing unmanned aircraft, is also at work on unmanned helicopters - and an unmanned fighter jet. The tiny plane's prototype has been tested with off-the shelf parts, including a wing made from an electronic card, while the engine is hobbyist-sized, and run off batteries. The camera weighs only a few grams. The plane can be launched by hand and does not need wheels to land. The images it relays back to ground control can be displayed on a laptop or a PDA. Test flights have seen the plane fly hundreds of meters high for as long as 20 minutes. But R&D is still in its early stages. The professional literature in recent years has been speculating about using miniaturization technologies - including nanotechnology - for the development of tiny aircraft that can be used during combat to provide real time images from a battlefield. Due to the tiny size, enemy forces are unable to spot them in the air, nor can they be picked up by radar. The planes, which can be controlled from the ground using a mounted camera relaying images of where the plane is going, as well as images of what it can see, are small enough to fly into an open window of a building and send images back to troops nearby, for determination of how many troops are needed to overcome a force hiding inside. 2. Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, The newly-discovered ancient mikveh room is planned to be open to the public within a few weeks. MOSSAD HEAD ISSER HAR'EL, 91 Israeli historian Shlomo Nakdimon told Arutz-7 today, WORLD JEWRY IN BRIEF BLESSED RAINFALL 3. Reprint: A Soldier's Viewpoint on Surviving - by Red Thomas A Soldier's Viewpoint on Surviving Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Attacks Unlimited reproduction and distribution is authorized. Just give me credit Since the media has decided to scare everyone with predictions of chemical, Lesson number one: In the mid 1990s there were a series of nerve gas attacks 60 Minutes once had a fellow telling us that one drop of nerve gas could Drill Sergeants exaggerate how terrible this stuff was to keep the recruits Chemical Weapons Chemical weapons are categorized as nerve, blood, blister, and These are not gasses, they are vapors and/or air borne particles. The agent So, a chemical attack will have it's best effect an hour or so either side What I hope you've gathered by this point is that a chemical weapons attack We'll start by talking about nerve agents. You have these in your house, Listed below are the symptoms for nerve agent poisoning: Sudden headache, Dimness of vision (someone you're looking at will have If you are in public and you start experiencing these symptoms, first ask Fresh air is the best "right now antidote." If you have a blob of liquid Blood agents are cyanide or arsine which affect your blood's ability to The military's antidote is amyl nitride and just like nerve agent antidote Blister agents (distilled mustard) are so nasty that nobody wants to even Bottom line on chemical weapons (it's the same if they use industrial Nuclear Weapons Nuclear bombs. These are the only weapons of mass destruction on earth. The These will be low yield devices and will not level whole cities. If you live Here's the real deal, flying debris and radiation will kill a lot of exposed There are lots of kinds of radiation, you only need to worry about three, It's the same as people getting radiation treatments for cancer, only a Gamma rays are particles that travel like rays (quantum physics makes my Your defense is as always to not panic. Basic hygiene and normal preparation Biological Weapons Finally there's biological warfare. There's not much to cover here. Basic Overall preparation for any terrorist attack is the same as you'd take for a These people can't conceive a nation this big with this much resources. Finally, there are millions of caveats to everything I wrote here and you SFC Red Thomas (Ret) 1. Arutz 7 News Friday Chief IDF Rabbi Brig.-Gen. Yisrael Weiss recently visited the site in Shechem, and discussed its current sorry state with regional IDF commanders. The tomb, under Israeli jurisdiction according to the Oslo Accords, was taken over by Arab mobs when the PLO initiated its ongoing terrorist war. The Moslem occupiers initially desecrated Joseph's monument and destroyed religious books inside the tomb compound, before proclaiming it a mosque. It was liberated by the IDF during last April's Operation Defensive Shield. Currently, even though Israeli authority has been restored to the site, no Israeli worshipers are allowed to visit, and the holy site is not regularly guarded. Several members of the Chassidic Breslover sect have been arrested attempting to reach the tomb, although many have successfully reached it. The Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva, located for many years at the holy site, issued a press release demanding the "immediate safeguarding of Yosef's Tomb by the IDF, the ability to worship there again, and the return, finally, of Yeshivat Od Yosef Chai, which was expelled from there at the outbreak of the current Oslo War." 2. "Should A Jewish Court Judge The World?" by Jack Engelhard Throughout history the world has sat in judgment of Israel...scattered though Israel may be at any given time. Today, as much as ever, the nations judge and go "tisk tisk." So...once again Israel is on trial. Out in the Hague, the International Criminal Court keeps its "gotcha" eyes on Israel. But Belgium? Yes, Belgium has given itself "universal jurisdiction" to put Ariel Sharon (and other Israelis) on trial after he leaves office. "War crimes"...naturally. The complaint against Sharon came from the same people who introduced "homicide bomber" into our dictionaries. Belgium said: Great idea. This only proves King Solomon correct once again: "In the place of righteousness there is wickedness." Maybe -- and here's a suggestion -- maybe it's time to turn the tables. I am talking about an ISRAELI court, a JEWISH court, to judge HUMANITY. Perhaps something called "The Israeli Criminal Court For Crimes Against The Jewish People." This court wouldn't be in the Hague or in Brussels, but rather, in Jerusalem. Given the history of Crusades, Inquisitions, pogroms, Holocausts and today¹s relentless terrorism, plus the media¹s own pogrom, I think such a tribunal is entirely legitimate. Never before have the nations had to formally answer for their crimes specifically against the Jewish people. Why not? If Israel has to answer, why not them? Let's call them in, and for once, let Israel be the judge. Start with Belgium, and let that nation answer for its war crimes in The Congo, Rwanda, and Somalia, where millions were put to starvation, torture, rape and murder. Bring in the families and supporters of Arab suicide bombers. Bring in all the clerics who call for jihad. Subpoena them if you have to. Bring in France for its Paris Roundup of 1942 and the 72,000 Jews it handed over to the Nazis, and which still supports the Nazis who today go by a different name. Bring in those British newspapers that call for the dismantling of Israel, and that Oxford poet who demanded that all Jewish settlers be shot and killed. Bring him to Jerusalem. Summon Germany to answer for...everything! Bring in Switzerland that kept billions in Jewish gold and despite its "neutrality," helped fuel the Nazi war machine. Subpoena all those nations that turned back the ship St. Louis so that virtually all its Jewish passengers were sent back to the Gestapo. Bring in today's European Union that once again consorts with genocide as it bankrolls Arab terrorism, beginning, but not ending, with Saddam. Summon Saddam Hussein who openly subsidizes each family that sends out a homicide bomber. Ditto Iran...and Syria. Subpoena Saudi Arabia and all its princes who raise millions to prolong the genocide against the Jewish people. Bring in all those who dance in the streets of Ramallah and Jenin and Gaza when another bus or pizzaria goes up in flames. Summon the hundreds in Ramallah who laughed when two Jewish soldiers were decapitated and tossed from the Ramallah police station (and who cheered when the Twin Towers fell). Subpoena Hanan Ashrawi and the rest of them who rush for the cameras to justify the murder of Jews. Bring in Yasir Arafat to answer for the cold-blooded murder of Israeli athletes in Munich, among 10,000 other murderous crimes against the Jewish people. Bring him in again to answer for the murder of the American Jew Leon Klinghoffer, who, in his wheelchair, was thrown overboard when, in 1985, Arafat's PLO thugs hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Summon the Red Cross, that is alleged to use its vehicles to hide and transport terrorists. Subpoena those journalists who use their TV-marked trucks to conceal ticking human time-bombs. Let them answer as to their fairness in news-gathering. Bring in those journalists (even if they are immune from prosecution under cover of Freedom of the Press) to testify how they manipulate public opinion against Israel. Yes, I realize such a decision by Israel could start a round of "trial reprisals." But it could also stimulate nations to judge themselves before judging others; as in the case of Belgium. An Israeli court to judge humanity would not be about revenge. Merely, justice...if there still is such a thing. 3. The Age: Australia talks tough to UN Australia has emerged as the strongest supporter of America in the international debate on Iraq, telling the United Nations Security Council that it rejects giving weapons inspectors more time to disarm Saddam Hussein. Australia was the only nation that used yesterday's special Security Council meeting to declare Iraq in "material breach" of UN resolution 1441, which set up the inspection regime. Its stance was in contrast to most of the 27 nations that addressed yesterday's session. Most demanded that the inspectors be given more time to disarm Iraq peacefully - defying the intentions of the US and Britain to seek a new resolution authorising war. Australia's UN ambassador, John Dauth, urged the 15 members of the council to "quickly" consider a second resolution. "Yes, the Security Council could give Iraq more time," Mr Dauth said. "Yes, we could wait until March; we could wait another three months. But do we really think more time will make Iraq co-operate? Does the Government of Iraq really need three more months to make this decision, when it should take no more than three minutes? "In Australia's view, the Security Council should not wait forever to confront this issue. In our view, the council should move quickly to consider a further resolution that deals decisively with Iraq's failure to comply." 4. Australia blind to new world order, EU warns The European Union yesterday lashed out at Australia's foreign policy priorities, accusing the Federal Government of being blind to the new political reality emerging in Europe. The Government last week unveiled a new foreign affairs white paper which dramatically boosted the role of security in foreign policy while restoring the importance of Asia. But the paper also acknowledged the United States as Australia's most important foreign policy relationship and trading partner. Greece is the current holder of the rotating EU presidency. The Greek ambassador, Fotios-Jean Xydas, said in a statement through his Sydney consulate that the white paper, while positive in many respects, completely missed the vital point that the EU was politically integrated as well as a single trading bloc. "The Australian Government still seems to have difficulty with the concept of the EU as one trading bloc and prefers to think of it as a compilation of 15 separate countries," Mr Xydas said. "In fact, the EU is one trading area, without any internal borders, exactly as Australia has been since Federation." A spokesman for the EU delegation in Canberra confirmed Mr Xydas was speaking on behalf of EU member nations. He said that EU ambassadors were disappointed by the white paper, released by the Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, and Trade Minister, Mark Vaile, last Wednesday. Mr Xydas said Australia's government should be able to recognise that trade integration also meant a steady political merging - and that the EU surpassed the US as Australia's most important trading and investment partner. Australia is negotiating a free- trade agreement with the US but is a frequent critic of EU trade policy. Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:44:22 +0200 Contents: 1. Europe's Monomania
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Jerusalem News-186
Contents:
1. North Korea arms Egypt
2. Special Jerusalem Report Excerpts
MISSILE PLOT AT HEATHROW AIRPORT
NETANYAHU REACTS ANGRILY TO BELGIAN DECISION; RECALLS AMBASSADOR
PALESTINIAN THREATS AGAINST AMERICANS CONTINUE
MIDDLE EASTERN MEN WITH RAZORS YANKED OFF AIRLINER
CIA: NORTH KOREA HAS MISSILE CAPABLE OF HITTING U.S.
3. Arutz-7 News: Thursday
ISRAEL FURIOUS AT BELGIUM
WHAT TO DO AGAINST BELGIUM
MORE COMMENTS
From: imra@netvision.net.il
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that North Korea had sold
millions of dollars worth of missile components to an Egyptian military
facility. The report was based on documents that included bills of lading,
packing lists and invoices found by Slovakian authorities in a Bratislava
apartment rented by a North Korean couple. The couple included a former
senior North Korean diplomat.
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Subject: Special Jerusalem Report
SPECIAL JERUSALEM REPORT #2 February 11, 2003
MISSILE PLOT AT HEATHROW AIRPORT
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Feb. 13, 2003 / 11 Adar Aleph, 5763
ISRAEL FURIOUS AT BELGIUM
Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has recalled Israel's Ambassador to Belgium for "consultations." This move is merely the sharpest expression of widespread Israeli fury at Belgium's decision yesterday that Ariel Sharon and other Israelis can be tried under the special Belgian law for international war crimes. The Belgian Supreme Court ruled that Sharon, as a sitting Prime Minister, cannot be tried, but that Israelis such as Gen. (res.) Amos Yaron and former IDF Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan can be tried, even though they are not in Belgian territory.
MK Tzvi Hendel recommends that Israel try Belgian leaders for their participation in war crimes committed by Belgium during its conquest of the Congo up til 1960. "This will enable the world to see the Belgians' chutzpah and hypocrisy," Hendel said. It is estimated that between 1880 and 1920, ten million Africans in the Belgian Congo were the victims of murder, starvation, exhaustion induced by over-work, and disease. Well-documented claims allege that women were systematically raped and that the local populace endured kidnapping, looting and village burnings. An article in the London-based Guardian last year stated, "The instrument of Belgian repression was the chicotte - a whip made from sun-dried hippo hide. [King] Leopold's fortune - which he ploughed back into monumental buildings in Brussels - was made on the proceeds of Congolese rubber and ivory. Locals were forced to collect the sap required to produce rubber or, it is alleged, have their hands or feet, or those of their children, cut off." Israel already has on its books a law enabling foreigners to be tried for war crimes, though it has never been implemented.
From: imra@netvision.net.il
BELGIUM OFFICIALS FOR MURDER OF AFRICAN LEADER
written Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein today demanding that his office
file a criminal indictment against several former Belgian officials who
were responsible for the assassination of the leader of the Republic of the
Congo, Patrice Lumumba, in 1961.
colony, starting in the late 19th Century. In the decades that followed,
the government of Belgium was responsible for the murders of millions of
African residents of the Congo. Belgian mining companies competed in the
region's for the Congo's rich supply of precious metals and natural
resources, leaving the native residents economically impoverished. In 1960,
the people of the Congo won independence from Belgium, and elected Patrice
Lumumba as their first Prime Minister. Lumumba ran an election campaign
pledging full economic and political independence from Brussels. Fearful
of losing its lucrative investments in Africa, Belgium decided to
eliminate Lumumba and other officials of his party.
his political opposition. In December 1960, Belgian back forces arrested
Lumumba and transferred him to a jail in the province of Katanga. On January
17, 1961, Lumumba was dragged from his cell and brutally tortured by Belgian
police officials. In the evening he was brought, along with two other
members of his party, before a police firing squad and executed.
dismembered it with a hacksaw and dissolved all traces of it with sulfuric
acid. Recently, Belgian historian, Ludo de Witte, discovered documents that
were sent by the, then, Belgian Minister for African Affairs, Harold
Aspermont Lynen, ordering the assassination of the Congo leader: "The main
objective to pursue, in the interests of the Congo, Katanga and Belgium, is
clearly the elimination of Lumumba."
to investigate Belgium's role in the murder of Lumumba. The Commission found
that Belgium was indeed responsible for the African leader's killing in
1961. The Government of Belgium offered an official apology to the Lumumba
family, but no individuals were prosecuted for the crime.
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Jerusalem News-187
Contents:
1. Japan on the Rise?
2. 71% in US oppose Palestinian state - poll
3. Arutz-7 News: Tuesday,
-FIGHTING AGAINST TERRORISM
KINNERET FILLING UP, ISRAEL BRACES FOR STORM
4. 70.6%: Palestinians would destroy Israel if they could
5. Why are France and Germany pro-Saddam?
6. EU inconsistencies
7. More on the Belgian Congo
Japan strike threat to Korea
February 15 2003
believes the communist state is preparing a missile attack against
it.
the Defence Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, said Japan would make the
strike if it detected that North Korea was fuelling missiles for an
attack.
interview with Reuters. "Our nation will use military force as a self-
defence measure if [North Korea] starts to resort to arms against
Japan."
September, was at pains to portray such a strike as an act of self-
defence, in line with Japan's postwar constitution, which forbids
military aggression.
limit, and sends a clear message to North Korea that Japan does
not intend to be a passive target.
Pyongyang has issued increasingly strident warnings that it is
prepared to strike against United States forces, and Washington's
allies, in the region. Japan, a chief ally, is well within missile range.
has substantial and well-equipped forces, including Aegis destroyers,
but is geared towards self-defence.
test-fired a Taepodong-1 missile over Japan which landed in the Pacific.
Since then, Tokyo and Washington have been conducting research on a
missile defence system.
By ELLI WOHLGELERNTER The Jerusalem Post Feb. 18, 2003
given a state, since they have not fulfilled President George W. Bush's
conditions for creating a state, which he outlined in his speech of June 24.
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hatred in its media, ending the encouragement of murder in its schools,
becoming a democracy, and respecting human rights."
and should be given a state.
53% Protestants, 28% Catholics, and 2% Jews; 76% Caucasians, 11%
African-Americans, and 10% Hispanics.
The survey also found that:
Arabs accused of killing or wounding American citizens," while 16% say the
US should not make that demand.
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Feb. 18, 2003 / Adar Aleph 16, 5763
-FIGHTING AGAINST TERRORISM
Israeli forces in Bethlehem arrested three Arab females who planned to become "human bombs" and thus murder Jews yesterday. Another terrorist was also stopped yesterday near Gush Etzion on his way to committing an attack in Jerusalem.
"I see great symbolism in the fact that this happened on Purim Katan [exactly a month before Purim], as this is part of the erasure of Amalek. 'May all Your enemies be similarly wiped out, O G-d.' As I said at the funeral, my true revenge is in the fact that the [agricultural] work here continues: orchards are being planted, fields are being sown, and the flock that is the heart of the farm continues its work, that of helping redeem lands and preserving them. Unfortunately, some Arabs yesterday won a court case allowing them to return to lands in the area from which they were banished after the murder. This is very painful to me, as it shows that Jewish blood is cheap, and it only strengthens and supports them in their murderous ways."
"Because the PA is a corrupt body that uses its money to support terror activities and dark activities that do not help the population, we are partially involved in helping international and civilian bodies that help the population. I don't think there is any other country that would act the way we do, helping out the civilian population while at the same time within these towns are the very terrorist cells of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah-Tanzim that carry out attacks against the State of Israel."
The Kinneret Sea keeps climbing, and now stands at 212.84 meters below sea level - a jump of 25 centimeters in the past week. Although the rains have tapered off, the northern rivers and brooks continue to stream forcefully into the country's largest reservoir. Water experts have no illusions that the sea will be filled to its optimum level by the end of the rainy season, which would require a climb of almost four meters. It is hoped, however, that it will increase by at least another meter or so, in order that the summer season not drain it below the "red line" of 213 meters below sea level. Light rain is falling in the north, and it is expected to intensify tonight and tomorrow throughout the country.
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Archives: 70.6%: Palestinians would destroy Israel if they could
PEACE PROJECT SEPTEMBER 2002 SURVEY [70.6%: Palestinians would destroy
Israel if they could]
Research at Tel Aviv University, headed by Prof. Ephraim Yaar and Dr. Tamar
Hermann and executed by the Tel Aviv University's B. I. Cohen Institute.
Results are shown for 29 September - 1 October 2002.
Jewish Israelis for the core questions
...
to terms with the existence of the State of Israel and would destroy it if
they could
Agree a lot 51.1% Agree considerably 19.5%
Middle 8.7%
Considerably disagree 9.5% Disagree a lot 8.7%
Don't know 2.5%
From: hasbara israelpartners <hasbara@israelpartners.com>
Subject: FW: Why are France and Germany pro-Saddam?
The Inspections Dodge
Why are France and Germany pro-Saddam? Follow the money.
Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST My 20 years of work in Iraq's nuclear-weapons program and military industry were partly a training course in methods of deception and camouflage to keep the program secret. Given what I know about Saddam Hussein's commitment to developing and using weapons of mass destruction, the following two points are abundantly clear to me: First, the U.N. weapons inspectors will not find anything Saddam does not want them to find. Second, France, Germany, and to a degree, Russia, are opposed to U.S. military action in Iraq mainly because they maintain lucrative trade deals with Baghdad, many of which are arms-related.
From: "S. Diedrich"
Subject: Re: Jerusalem News-186
criminals? And Arafat gets 8 million dollars a day from the European
community in form of economic aid. I never heard of a jewish person
exploding him self in a bus. Killing innocent people by doing so. But those
8 millions a day help a lot to buy explosives. And Arafat will be able to
reconstruct his compound with half of that. And why not go to Europe and
claim refugee status get an other hand out and buy more explosives. I am
sorry but all of this stuff looks like nonsense to me. Maybe we live in a
nonsense world.
From: Joan Griffith
Subject: Re: Jerusalem News-186
Yair,
Further to the Congo issue: There are two books about the cruelties inflicted upon that country:
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and a much more recent nonfiction one, King Leopold's Ghost. I read the latter & could hardly believe what was done to those people. King Leopold literally borrowed money from the Belgian state coffers--a gift, you understand, agreed to by the officials--to purchase the Congo for himself. Later on, Leopold burned boxes and boxes of papers, bills, records, etc. that would have proved his part in this, but in fact, King Leopold wanted the Congo for his personal "garden" to "harvest" -- loot -- because he felt left out as many countries had colonies around the world: England (South Africa, Australia), Dutch (Suriname, West Indies), German (protectorates in Africa), and others. The only soldiers who wanted to go to the Congo were lower level ones who could not get ahead in other places and saw a way to make their fortunes. They cared nothing about the people. All the stories you think of when you think of Africa are mainly from the Congo: the hideous warrior "Mau-Maus", the elephant ivory wealth and other treasures. Other places in Africa have not been stripped as that region.
Joan
Jerusalem News-188
Contents:
1. ISRAEL DEVELOPING MINIATURE DRONES
2. Arutz-7 News: Wednesday,
SECOND-TEMPLE MIKVEH FOUND IN JERUSALEM
MOSSAD HEAD ISSER HAR'EL, 91
WORLD JEWRY IN BRIEF
BLESSED RAINFALL
3. Reprint: A Soldier's Viewpoint on Surviving - by Red Thomas
From: For Your Glory <mail@foryourglory.org>
Subject: Special Jerusalem Report
ISRAEL DEVELOPING DRONES THE SIZE OF CREDIT CARDS FOR USE IN BATTLE
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Feb. 19, 2003 / Adar Aleph 17, 5763
SECOND-TEMPLE MIKVEH FOUND IN JERUSALEM
A very large and unusual room, with a mikveh [ritual bath] from the Hashmonaim period (some 2,100 years ago), was discovered accidentally in Jerusalem's Old City a number of weeks ago, near the Hasmonean Tunnels. The room is 20 meters high, 10 by 10 meters wide, with the mikveh at the bottom, including a stairwell leading to it. Along one wall was found a water conduit from the same period. Findings from various periods were found in the room, such as Roman floor tiles, a mosaic floor, walls from the Crusader days, and a ceiling from the Mamluk period (1250-1516). Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, Rabbi of the Western Wall, commented,
"We were planning to build an educational center at the site, in order to be able to bring Jewish students and tell them that they are part of the Jewish chain of tradition, etc. - and then we found this special site... We know that there is much more to be found in this area - the Old City is built atop many ruins - but we know that we can't find everything, because people live here... We hope to see the building of the Holy Temple soon, and then the past will truly be open to us..."
Isser (Halperin) Har'el, the most famous former head of the Mossad, passed away last night at the age of 91 in Petach Tikvah. He is most famous for having orchestrated the Mossad's daring capture of Adolph Eichmann in Argentina, who was responsible for implementing the Nazis' Final Solution against the Jews of Europe. He is also credited with having turned the Mossad into a world-class intelligence organization. He joined the Haganah in 1942, and in 1948 became the first chief of Israel's Security Service, the Shin Bet. Former Mossad chief Nachum Admon said that Har'el had "exceptional intuition. We were all his students and we learned not only the secrets of the trade but the need for integrity."
"Whatever you say about Isser from an intelligence point of view, it won't be enough. There's no question that he took many secrets with him to the grave, but he did write a few books - one on his war with the German scientists who tried to build non-conventional weapons in Egypt, another on certain spy cases that he wished to publicize because of their political background, another on the capture of Adolph Eichmann, etc. He wasn't a spy himself, but he activated all of them.
"I interviewed him several times, and he was quite a fascinating person... He fought against Lechi and Etzel, when it was still thought that these were endangering the State; he later realized his mistake, and in fact opened the Mossad to former Lechi and Etzel members... He caused a big controversy when the secret microphone he placed in (Mapam) MK Meir Yaari's room was discovered; there had been suspicions that Yaari was working for the Soviets... Har'el was also heavily involved in the search for Yossele Shumacher [a little boy in the 1960's who was caught in the middle of a family feud and abducted to New York; he was finally found and returned to Israel] - he was even criticized for getting the Mossad too heavily involved in that case... Har'el was responsible for internal security, and for the capture of dozens of spies; he was able to uncover spies himself. There was a story with someone named Ze'ev Avni, who was an Israeli diplomat who wished to join the Mossad. One time, he asked to meet with Har'el, and Har'el looked at him and said, 'You're a spy!' and ordered his immediate arrest - and it turned out that his intuition hadn't let him down..."
Findings from a Jewish Agency conference today: The number of Jews in the world is 100,000 fewer than last year... 35,000 Jews immigrated to Israel last year, slightly more than half of whom were from Russia. Two-thirds of the Russian olim were not Jewish... Three countries have Jewish communities that are considered to be in trouble: France, Argentina, and South Africa. More than 6,000 olim came from Argentina last year - a four-fold jump... 2,500 came from Ethiopia... The Zionist majority in the Galilee is endangered... In the Negev, the proportion of Bedouin is 30%, and they are taking over more and more land... Two-thirds of Israelis live densely in the Tel Aviv-Gush Dan area. Immigration from the U.S. and Canada is up...
In many places in Israel, such as Be'er Sheva, Tel Aviv, and Haifa, the amount of rain this year has already passed the annual average. Heavy rains are expected today and tomorrow throughout the country, and heavy snow has already closed the Mt. Hermon area. The level of the Kinneret Sea was recorded today at 212.81 meters below sea level.
From: SFC Red Thomas (Ret) Armor Master Gunner Mesa, AZ
http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/other/nbc.htm
for my work, and, keep in context.
biological, or nuclear warfare on our turf I decided to write a paper and
keep things in their proper perspective. I am a retired military weapons,
munitions, and training expert.
on crowded Japanese subway stations. Given perfect conditions for an attack
less than 10% of the people there were injured (the injured were better in a
few hours) and only one percent of the injured died.
kill a thousand people, well he didn't tell you the thousand dead people per
drop was theoretical.
awake in class (I know this because I was a Drill Sergeant too). Forget
everything you've ever seen on TV, in the movies, or read in a novel about
this stuff, it was all a lie (read this sentence again out loud!). These
weapons are about terror, if you remain calm, you will probably not die.
This is far less scary than the media and their "Experts," make it sound.
Incapacitating agents. Contrary to the hype of reporters and politicians
they are not weapons of mass destruction they are "area denial," and terror
weapons that don't destroy anything. When you leave the area you almost
always leave the risk. That's the difference; you can leave the area and the
risk but soldiers may have to stay put and sit through it and that's why
they need all that spiffy gear.
must be delivered in sufficient quantity to kill/injure, and that defines
when/how it's used. Every day we have a morning and evening inversion where
"stuff," suspended in the air gets pushed down. This inversion is why
allergies (pollen) and air pollution are worst at these times of the day.
of sunrise/sunset. Also, being vapors and airborne particles they are
heavier than air so they will seek low places like ditches, basements and
underground garages. This stuff won't work when it's freezing, it doesn't
last when it's hot, and wind spreads it too thin too fast. They've got to
get this stuff on you, or, get you to inhale it for it to work. They also
have to get the concentration of chemicals high enough to kill or wound you.
Too little and it's nothing, too much and it's wasted.
that kills a lot of people is incredibly hard to do with military grade
agents and equipment so you can imagine how hard it will be for terrorists.
The more you know about this stuff the more you realize how hard it is to
use.
plain old bug killer (like Raid) is nerve agent. All nerve agents work the
same way; they are cholinesterase inhibitors that mess up the signals your
nervous system uses to make your body function. It can harm you if you get
it on your skin but it works best if they can get you to inhale it. If you
don't die in the first minute and you can leave the area you're probably
gonna live. The military's antidote for all nerve agents is atropine and
pralidoxime chloride. Neither one of these does anything to cure the nerve
agent, they send your body into overdrive to keep you alive for five
minutes, after that the agent is used up. Your best protection is fresh air
and staying calm.
pinpointed pupils), runny nose, excessive saliva or drooling, difficulty
breathing, tightness in chest, nausea, stomach cramps, twitching of exposed
skin where a liquid just got on you.
yourself, did anything out of the ordinary just happen, a loud pop, did
someone spray something on the crowd? Are other people getting sick too? Is
there an odor of new mown hay, green corn, something fruity, or camphor
where it shouldn't be? If the answer is yes, then calmly (if you panic you
breathe faster and inhale more air/poison) leave the area and head up wind,
or, outside.
that looks like molasses or Kayro syrup on you; blot it or scrape it off and
away from yourself with anything disposable. This stuff works based on your
body weight, what a crop duster uses to kill bugs won't hurt you unless you
stand there and breathe it in real deep, then lick the residue off the
ground for a while. Remember they have to do all the work, they have to get
the concentration up and keep it up for several minutes while all you have
to do is quit getting it on you/quit breathing it by putting space between
you and the attack.
provide oxygen to your tissue. The scenario for attack would be the same as
nerve agent. Look for a pop or someone splashing/spraying something and
folks around there getting woozy/falling down. The telltale smells are
bitter almonds or garlic where it shouldn't be. The symptoms are blue lips,
blue under the fingernails rapid breathing.
it just keeps your body working for five minutes till the toxins are used
up. Fresh air is the your best individual chance.
handle it let alone use it. It's almost impossible to handle safely and may
have delayed effect of up to 12 hours. The attack scenario is also limited
to the things you'd see from other chemicals. If you do get large, painful
blisters for no apparent reason, don't pop them, if you must, don't let the
liquid from the blister get on any other area, the stuff just keeps on
spreading. It's just as likely to harm the user as the target. Soap, water,
sunshine, and fresh air are this stuff's enemy.
chemical spills); they are intended to make you panic, to terrorize you, to
herd you like sheep to the wolves. If there is an attack, leave the area and
go upwind, or to the sides of the wind stream. They have to get the stuff to
you, and on you. You're more likely to be hurt by a drunk driver on any
given day than be hurt by one of these attacks. Your odds get better if you
leave the area. Soap, water, time, and fresh air really deal this stuff a
knock-out-punch. Don't let fear of an isolated attack rule your life. The
odds are really on your side.
effects of a nuclear bomb are heat, blast, EMP, and radiation. If you see a
bright flash of light like the sun, where the sun isn't, fall to the ground!
The heat will be over a second. Then there will be two blast waves, one out
going, and one on it's way back. Don't stand up to see what happened after
the first wave; anything that's going to happen will have happened in two
full minutes.
through the heat, blast, and initial burst of radiation, you'll probably
live for a very, very long time. Radiation will not create fifty foot tall
women, or giant ants and grass hoppers the size of tanks. These will be at
the most 1 kiloton bombs; that's the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT.
(not all!) people within a half mile of the blast. Under perfect conditions
this is about a half mile circle of death and destruction, but, when it's
done it's done. EMP stands for Electro Magnetic Pulse and it will fry every
electronic device for a good distance, it's impossible to say what and how
far but probably not over a couple of miles from ground zero is a good
guess. Cars, cell phones, computers, ATMs, you name it, all will be out of
order.
the others you have lived with for years. You need to worry about "Ionizing
radiation," these are little sub atomic particles that go whizzing along at
the speed of light. They hit individual cells in your body, kill the nucleus
and keep on going. That's how you get radiation poisoning, you have so many
dead cells in your body that the decaying cells poison you.
bigger area gets radiated. The good news is you don't have to just sit there
and take it, and there's lots you can do rather than panic. First; your skin
will stop alpha particles, a page of a news paper or your clothing will stop
beta particles, you just gotta try and avoid inhaling dust that's
contaminated with atoms that are emitting these things and you'll be
generally safe from them.
brain hurt) and they create the same damage as alpha and beta particles only
they keep going and kill lots of cells as they go all the way through your
body. It takes a lot to stop these things, lots of dense material, on the
other hand it takes a lot of this to kill you.
are your friends. All canned or frozen food is safe to eat. The radiation
poisoning will not effect plants so fruits and vegetables are OK if there's
no dust on em (rinse em off if there is). If you don't have running water
and you need to collect rain water or use water from wherever, just let it
sit for thirty minutes and skim off the water gently from the top. The dust
with the bad stuff in it will settle and the remaining water can be used for
the toilet which will still work if you have a bucket of water to pour in
the tank.
personal hygiene and sanitation will take you further than a million
doctors. Wash your hands often, don't share drinks, food, sloppy kisses,
etc., .... with strangers. Keep your garbage can with a tight lid on it,
don't have standing water (like old buckets, ditches, or kiddie pools)
laying around to allow mosquitoes breeding room. This stuff is carried by
vectors, that is bugs, rodents, and contaminated material. If biological
warfare is so easy as the TV makes it sound, why has Saddam Hussein spent
twenty years, millions, and millions of dollars trying to get it right? If
you're clean of person and home you eat well and are active you're gonna
live.
big storm. If you want a gas mask, fine, go get one. I know this stuff and
I'm not getting one and I told my Mom not to bother with one either (how's
that for confidence). We have a week's worth of cash, several days worth of
canned goods and plenty of soap and water. We don't leave stuff out to
attract bugs or rodents so we don't have them.
These weapons are made to cause panic, terror, and to demoralize. If we
don't run around like sheep they won't use this stuff after they find out
it's no fun. The government is going nuts over this stuff because they have
to protect every inch of America. You've only gotta protect yourself, and by
doing that, you help the country.
can think up specific scenarios where my advice isn't the best. This letter
is supposed to help the greatest number of people under the greatest number
of situations. If you don't like my work, don't nit pick, just sit down and
explain chemical, nuclear, and biological warfare in a document around three
pages long yourself. This is how we the people of the United States can rob
these people of their most desired goal, your terror.
Armor Master Gunner
Mesa, AZ
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:48:56 +0200
Jerusalem News-189
Contents:
1. Arutz 7 News Friday
JOSEPH'S TOMB GRAVESTONE DESTROYED
2. "Should A Jewish Court Judge The World?" by Jack Engelhard
3. The Age: Australia talks tough to UN
4. Australia blind to new world order, EU warns
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Feb. 21, 2003 / Adar Aleph 19, 5763
JOSEPH'S TOMB GRAVESTONE DESTROYED
The Arab destruction of Joseph's Tomb is practically complete. Some time in the past two weeks, Arab vandals hacked away at the large two-meter stone marking the gravesite of the Biblical figure, leaving barely more than a pile of rubble.
JackEngelhard@ComteQcom.com
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/19/1045638363177.html
By Caroline Overington
New York Correspondent
New York
February 20 2003
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/19/1045638363177.html
February 20 2003
Jerusalem News-190
1. Europe's Monomania
2. Arutz-7 News: Monday
ARMY WANTS JEWS AT JOSEPH'S TOMB
RAIN AND SNOW
TERRORISM-VICTIM RELATIVES SUE EU AND ARAFAT
TODAY'S EXCHANGE RATES
3.Spain to launch Middle East peace plan to win support for war
4. D. Shemtov: THE GATEKEEPERS
5. Snow in Jerusalem
6.Dennis Pregar: The future is Muslim, European or American
7. Jerusalem in the Snow