Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:13:03 +0200

Jerusalem News-242
Contents:
1. No Virus
2. Israeli Tourism
3. Arutz Sheva News Wednesday
JERUSALEM ATTACK FOLLOWS TZRIFIN BOMBING
TOP DOCTOR-RABBI AND DAUGHTER-BRIDE MURDERED IN ATTACK
SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE, MILITARILY SPEAKING
4. How The USSR Planned To Destroy Israel in 1967
5. Swedish Foreign Minister Dies From Stabbing (AP)

1. No Virus
On our last posting were accidentally attached three (apparently innocuous unopenable) attachments.
As far as we can ascertain the source of these was from the news item we had copied
- apparently from Debka, picture spots?
Some people suspected we had a virus. We use an un-to-date sophisticated virus protection system
but something could always go wrong both for us and for any other system. At all events we did an additional full system
virus check and other tests and the results show us to be clean.

2. Israeli Tourism
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Poll: 42% of tourists visited Western Wall

ISRAEL TOURIST SURVEY RESEARCHES "MUST-SEE" SITES - WESTERN WALL RECEIVES
HIGHEST RATING

New York, NY (September 10, 2003):- Many tourists departing Israel during
2002 were polled on the sites they visited during their visit. "The survey
was undertaken amongst passengers embarking on their flights home from Ben
Gurion Airport," says Rami Levi, Tourism Ambassador of Israel to North and
South America, "to enable us to better understand visitors' goals and
interests."

Overall "winner" was Jerusalem's Western (Wailing) Wall, with sites all
around the country receiving significant ratings. The survey results are as
follows:

VISITED SITE

42% The Western (Wailing) Wall, Jerusalem

20% The Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

18% The Via Dolorosa and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher,
Jerusalem

18% Ancient Jaffa, Tel Aviv

15% Masada

13% The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

11% Caesarea

8% Capernaum

53% of all tourists visited at least one of Israel's 300+ museums, 44%
visited holy sites, 35% went to the beach or went scuba-diving and 7%
attended a cultural event.

1.2 million visitors will visit Israel in 2003, a 45% increase over 2002.

TO KNOW EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT ALL ASPECTS OF TRAVEL TO ISRAEL,
VISIT:
www.goisrael.com
or
www.ibelieveinisrael.com
or call 1-888-77-Israel.

This release is a service of the Israel Ministry of Tourism.
FOR GENERAL ISRAEL TRAVEL INFORMATION CALL 1-888-77-ISRAEL.

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IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il

3. Arutz Sheva News Wednesday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Sep. 10, 2003 / Elul 13, 5763

JERUSALEM ATTACK FOLLOWS TZRIFIN BOMBING
Less than six hours after a Palestinian terrorist blew himself up at a bus stop in Tzrifin crowded with soldiers yesterday afternoon, murdering eight, another terrorist did the same at the Hillel Cafe in southern Jerusalem, killing seven. The explosion occurred around 11:30 PM last night.

The murderer blew himself up outside the cafe on Emek Refaim St. in the German Colony neighborhood. He apparently first tried to enter an adjacent pizza store, but was unsuccessful, and then turned to the cafe. The two guards there saw him and moved towards him; one of them, Alon Mizrachi, was killed in the course of preventing the murderer from entering the cafe. Jerusalem Police Chief Mickey Levy said afterwards that the guards had prevented an even larger number of fatalities.

Hamas' military wing Izzadin Al Kassam welcomed both attacks, though it stopped short of claiming responsibility. Arabs in Gaza celebrated the news of the two attacks, cheering and handing out candies. The two suicide terrorists were not uneducated or devoid of opportunities, but were rather university students - one in Bir Zeit University, north of Ramallah, and one in Al Quds University, north of Jerusalem.

The names of 13 of the 15 victims murdered by Palestinian terrorists yesterday have been released. The Jerusalem victims:
* Dr. David Appelbaum, 51, and his daughter Nava, 20 (see below)
* Yechiel Emil Toubol, 52, of Arnona (south of Talpiot). Survived by wife and three children
* Gila Moshe, 40, of Pisgat Ze'ev. Survived by husband and two sons
* David Daniel Abistris, 51, of Mevaseret Zion
* Alon Mizrachi, 22, the security guard, of the Geulah neighborhood. A friend said, "He always said that he wanted to save people; he jumped on the terrorist..." Another one said that Alon said recently that he had a feeling that he was going to die soon. Survived by parents and six siblings.

TOP DOCTOR-RABBI AND DAUGHTER-BRIDE MURDERED IN ATTACK
The tragedy of the Jerusalem attack was multiplied several-fold when it was learned that among the murdered were Dr. David Appelbaum and his daughter Nava. The former was the director of the emergency room of Shaarei Tzedek Medical Center, who dealt with hundreds of other victims of terrorist attacks and to whom his colleagues said "thousands owed their lives" - and the latter was to be married tonight. The two had gone to have a last pre-wedding father-daughter talk.

Dr. Appelbaum had returned just a few hours earlier from the United States, where he had spoken about how hospitals should prepare for mass terror attacks.

"He was one of the '36 righteous men' of the world," . "His whole life was dedicated to saving lives." Dr. Yonatan HaLevy, director of Shaarei Tzedek, said that the hospital had suffered a grave loss, while other doctors spoke of a "great Torah scholar," a "sparkling personality," and a "model family man."

Stories about Dr. Appelbaum began sprouting as soon as word of his death became known. It was said that he was always one of the first to go to an attack, and that he had developed improved methods for administering emergency treatment. He was also the founder of the Terem Emergency Clinic in Jerusalem, which now has chapters in Maaleh Adumim and Modiin.

Chaim Ben-Daniel, a Jerusalem acquaintance, told Arutz-7 that the doctor stopped trimming his beard after the signing of the Oslo Accords "as a sign of mourning for what he knew was a tragedy for the Jewish People." As busy as his schedule was, "Dr. Appelbaum told me that he set aside one night a week to travel to Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh [near Ashdod] to study with his son."

SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE, MILITARILY SPEAKING
Rabbi Itamar Cohen, head of the pre-military academy in Nokdim, was asked today for a Torah approach to the situation. "It appears that after almost three years of this, our hearts are already getting hardened to the death and to the tough situation," Ariel Kahane said.

"This is a natural reaction," Rabbi Cohen acknowledged, "but we cannot allow it to overtake us and to harden our hearts... I told my students today after the shofar blowing - which gives us the month-of-Elul message to 'wake up from our slumber,' as Maimonides writes - that we take this time to get into the mood of introspection and reviewing our actions of the past year and repentance. This is a process not only for individuals, but also as a nation. This involves chiefly the leaders. I'm not only talking about the terrible mistake of Oslo, which also requires true repentance, but even after the decision was made to fight the terrorists to some extent - it was done only in a pareve way, compromising our firmness and our resoluteness against our enemies. This itself is very dangerous, and requires repentance."

4. How The USSR Planned To Destroy Israel in 1967
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 03:29:44 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il

THE COLD WAR'S LONGEST COVER-UP: HOW AND WHY THE USSR INSTIGATED THE 1967
WAR
By Isabella Ginor*
MIDDLE EAST REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (MERIA) JOURNAL
MERIA JOURNAL Volume 7, Number 3 (September 2003)

Abstract: The Soviet warning to Egypt about supposed Israeli troop
concentrations on the Syrian border in May 1967 has long been considered a
blunder that precipitated a war which the USSR neither desired nor expected.
New evidence from Soviet and other Warsaw Pact documents, as well as memoirs
of contemporary actors, contradicts this accepted theory. The author
demonstrates that this warning was deliberate disinformation, part of a plan
approved at the highest level of Soviet leadership to elicit Egyptian action
that would provoke an Israeli strike. Soviet military intervention against
the "aggressor" was intended to follow and was prepared well in advance.

Website: www.imra.org.il

5. Swedish Foreign Minister Dies From Stabbing (AP)
Thursday, September 11, 2003

STOCKHOLM, Sweden Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh , touted as a future prime minister, died Thursday from multiple stab wounds, the second Swedish politician to be murdered in the Scandinavian country in 17 years in a rare act of public violence.

Police didn't believe the attack was politically motivated, despite the fact that it came just three days before Swedes vote in a referendum on adopting the euro. Lindh was a leading campaigner for replacing the Swedish krona with the common currency an issue that had inspired vehement opposition.

Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson said the Sunday referendum would continue as scheduled, but ordered all campaigning to end immediately.
Lindh's death cast a pall across the Scandinavian country of 9 million, whose residents have always enjoyed easy access to their leaders. Lindh had no bodyguards, like Prime Minister Olaf Palme (search), who was killed in 1986 while walking home from a movie theater with his wife.

Only Persson and King Carl XVI Gustaf have permanent security details.

Officials in neighboring Nordic countries called the murder a threat to the kind of accessible and mild-mannered societies they have tried to nurture.

Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen said it was "a major setback and shock" to the region's culture of openness.

Lindh had been head of the Foreign Ministry since 1998, serving as environmental minister before that. She was a member of the Riksdag from 1982-1985. She was married and had two children.

Scandinavia is relatively immune to political violence, unlike other parts of Europe. Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was assassinated in March by allies of Slobodan Milosevic seeking to topple his pro-Western government as he was heading to a meeting with Lindh. In the Netherlands, anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn was shot to death by an animal rights activist in May 2002.

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1. EU agents Predict Death of Arafat
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:41:46 +0200
From: otherisr@actcom.co.il
Subject: "They have decided upon cold-blooded murder"
Sender: gush-shalom-admin@mailman.gush-shalom.org
GUSH SHALOM pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 www.gush-shalom.org

Press Release
Sept. 6, 2003

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"They have decided upon cold-blooded murder"
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Gush Shalom press release, 12/9/2003

"The government of Israel has tonight resolved to committ a cold-
blooded murder, with the implementation deferred - the cold blooded
murder of the elected president of the Palestinians. Let there be no
mistake about it. Let no one be fooled by the talk of 'deportation'. There
is no intention that Arafat will susrvive the enecounter with Sharon's
soldiers. I know Sharon, I have followed his career for decades, ever
since he was a young commando officer carrying out brutal cross-
border raids. He has not changed in any essential, only in the amount
of power held in his hands. He means to do it, he means to kill Arafat.
He will watch for his chance, wait for a moment when the Amercians
look elsewhere - and then he will pounce." That was the immediate
response by Uri Avnery, former member of the Israeli Parliament and
est Member and veteran activist of Gush Shalom (The Israeli Peace
Bloc).

2. Previously Unknown Celtic idol discovered
Senua, Britain's unknown goddess unearthed

Clues to catastrophe after rare Roman temple treasure found

Maev Kennedy, arts and heritage correspondent
Monday September 1, 2003
The Guardian

Sensua - probably an older Celtic goddess, who was then adopted and
Romanised. Photo: British Museum

She is faceless and armless, but she has a name: Senua. A previously
unknown Romano-British goddess has been resurrected at the British Museum,
patiently prised from soil-encrusted clumps of gold and corroded silver
which have buried her identity for more than 1,600 years. Her name is
published for the first time today.
The 26 pieces of gold and silver, found in a Hertfordshire field last year,
are believed to be the treasures of a shrine in her honour, carefully
hidden as some disaster loomed in the late 3rd century. The fact that they
were never recovered suggests the protection of the goddess did nothing to
save her conscientious devotee.

"This is a hugely significant find, of national and international
importance," Ralph Jackson, Roman curator at the British Museum, said.
"Personal hoards, hidden in some crisis, are reasonably common. To find a
hoard of a temple treasure, such as this one, is incredibly rare, not just
in Britain but anywhere. To give Britain a new goddess is extraordinary."

He believes Senua was probably an older Celtic goddess, worshipped at a
spring on the site, who was then adopted and Romanised - twinned with their
goddess Minerva - by the invaders. There is a direct parallel at Bath,
where the Romans seamlessly absorbed the Celtic god Sulis, and a much older
shrine, into their religion.

Rest at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1033318,00.html

3. Powell Rescues Arafat

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:15:29 +0200
From: Israel Resource News Agency <media@actcom.co.il>
Sept 11, 2003

Israel Gov't decides to act against Arafat. Powell vetoes decision...Orders Israel to protect Arafat

DAVID BEDEIN, BUREAU CHIEF, ISRAEL RESOURCE NEWS AGENCY, BEIT AGRON INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL www.israelbehindthenews.com

This evening, Israeli intelligence provided evidence to a special session of the Israeli security cabinet which proved that Arafat has been directly responsible for months of terror activity, in coordination with the Hamas and the Al Aksa brigades of the Fateh. Such confirmed Israeli intelligence reports caused the Israeli government security cabinet to order direct military action against Arafat - to kill him or to deport him back to Tunis.

However, Israel Government's IBA TV and IBA Radio reported within minutes of the Israeli cabinet decision that US Sec'y of State Colin Powell intervened to veto any IDF action against Arafat.

Sources in the Israeli government quoted US state department sources as describing Arafat as "an American interest which is essential to the peace process and to stability in the region".

4. Germany and the Towers?

Extract from Article:
Sick with fear and worry (long vanity)
September 5, 2003

I am depressed and despondent.
I have a morbid attachment to the war between militant Islam and the rest of
the world, and I worry especially about Israel.

The more I read, the worse I feel, and yet I can't stop.

September 11, 2001, is seared in my mind with a vividness nothing can erase.

The week before, I had worked as a simultaneous interpreter at an
international conference of structural engineers in Germany. Speakers from
around the world presented papers on the latest trends in skyscraper
construction.

One of them was Leslie E. Robertson, the engineer in charge of the
structural design for the World Trade Center during the 1960s. Following his
talk on engineering innovations in building projects in China, he took
questions from the floor. One person asked him about the 1993 bombing of the
World Trade Center, and expressed surprise that the tower had held up so
well in spite of the extensive damage at lower levels.

With quiet confidence, Mr. Robertson replied that the WTC had been designed
with a substantial reserve of strength to withstand assaults on its
integrity. Specifically, he said that its designers had built it so that it
would survive the impact of what was then the largest commercial aircraft in
the world, a Boeing 707 jetliner.

His words, translated by me into German, were transmitted by wireless
infrared to scores of German speakers in the audience listening through
their portable headsets, some of whom nodded in assent.

That was on September 7. I was in a funk after the conference. One of the
organizers had approached me at the end and expressed his dissatisfaction
with my performance, something that had never happened to me before. There
was something about his anger that was inexplicable. It seemed out of
proportion to any reasonable complaint. My colleague defended me but the man
was implacable. Something seemed to be in the air, something that was making
people edgy and aggressive.

Four days later, I switched on the computer and was hit by the news from New
York and Washington on the Internet. I stayed glued to the computer while
the news bulletins from National Public Radio came tumbling out of the
radio.

The world had changed in one day and would never be the same again. Fear and
grief, but fear more than grief, were palpable all around. I told myself
that the expressions of barely hidden triumph and satisfaction that I saw on
the faces of some Muslim immigrants were a figment of my imagination.

Later, as news came in from places such as Lebanon, Pakistan and the West
Bank, it became clear that many people were rejoicing.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/976398/posts

5. Muslims throw stones at Jewish worshippers;
09-12) 04:10 PDT JERUSALEM (AP) --
Israeli police stormed a disputed Jerusalem shrine Friday, firing tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of Muslim worshippers who threw stones after noon prayers, police and witnesses said.
About 35,000 Muslims were up on the hilltop for prayers. After the service, hundreds of young men threw stones at the Western Wall below, where Jews were praying, police spokesman Gil Kleiman said. There were no injuries reported, Kleiman said.
Dozens of police ran up a walkway and stormed the site, firing tear gas and booming stun grenades, witnesses said. Kleiman said the crowd quickly dispersed.
The disputed hilltop shrine, home to two major mosques, is revered by Muslims and Jews. It was the site of the two biblical Jewish temples that were destroyed by invading armies. Muslims mark it as the place where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven.
Recently, Israel reopened the Muslim-supervised site to Jewish and other visitors, angering many Muslims. The site had been closed to non-Muslim visitors since fighting broke out three years ago.
The current Israeli-Palestinian fighting grew out of riots that erupted after then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the site in a display of Israeli claims to Jerusalem. Israel and the Palestinians both want the city as a capital.

1. US Protects Arafat's Headquarters from IDF Incursion
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 05:31:21 +0200
From: Israel Resource News Agency <media@actcom.co.il>
US Protects Arafat's Headquarters from IDF Incursion

David Bedein, Bureau Chief, Israel Resource News Agency , Beit Agron Int'l Press Center, Jerusalem, Israel, www.israelbehindthenews.com

As the debate ensues between the US and Israel as to whether or not Israel will capture, exile or
kill Yassir Arafat, the credible Canadian-based Middle East Newsline reported on Monday that the U S
intervened to prevent the Israel Defence Forces from capturing and neutralizing the Muqata'a.headquarters of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.

Middle East News Line reported that the US State Department issued a directive to Israel to suspend plans to capture Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah over the weekend, even though Israel provided hundreds of captured documents to the US which prove that the Muqata'a.is where the terror campaign against Israel is being planned and directed. .

Despite that, US Secretary of State Colin Powell and US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to suspend military plans against the Mukatta.

An Israeli military force had captured a PA ministry about 300 meters from Arafat's headquarters and established a command post for the capture of the Muqata'a.

The significance of such a planned tactical move on the part of the IDF is that the Muqata'a,is precisely where Arafat's terror campaign has been coordinated for exactly three years.

It is at the Muqata'a. where Arafat has coordinated the Hamas, Islamic Jihad and all the PLO Armed groups under one command since October, 2000. That has resulted in more than 20,000 Arab terror attacks and the cold blooded murder of almost 900 men, women and children throughout Israel

A rubric of US foreign policy is that all of the Palestinian Arab security agencies need to work under one command. It would seem that Arafats coordination of all security services at the Muqata'a. fulfilled that US policy directive, regardless of the consequences for Israeli citizens.

The US has invested more than $100 million in the PA security agencies this year, under the premise that these funds would be allocated to forces loyal to former PA Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and Security Affairs Minister Mohammed Dahlan, neither of whom are any longer in power& so the funds have been diverted to forces loyal to Yassir Arafat.

That leaves U.S. security personnel in a position of training and advising PLO armed forces who now coordinate terror attacks throughout Israel.

The question remains: Is it too late to avoid an inevitable scenario where an American advisor in the service of the PLO security services will be killed in a preemptive IDF attack on PLO terrorists?.

2. Sweden says `nej' on euro
From: orjan.svensson@mbox300.swipnet.se
Subject: Sweden says `nej' on euro

This story was sent to you by: Orjan

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Sweden says `nej' on euro
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Grief over slaying of minister can't sway referendum

By Tom Hundley
Tribune foreign correspondent

September 15, 2003

STOCKHOLM -- With an emphatic nej, Swedes rejected the euro Sunday in a referendum that was clouded by last week's murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, a leading proponent of the European common currency.

Lindh, one of the country's most popular politicians, was stabbed by an assailant Wednesday while shopping in a downtown department store in Stockholm. Although opinion polls taken before the incident indicated the euro going down to defeat, the national trauma of her death appeared to give last-minute impetus to the "yes" campaign.

It was not enough to overcome Swedes' deep-seated skepticism of the euro. The vote was 56 percent against and 42 percent in favor, with 2 percent casting blank ballots.

Sweden's rejection of the euro is a major blow to the European common currency and to the European Union. It comes at a time when the 15-member bloc is struggling with a historic eastward expansion and the integration of 10 new members next year while at the same time trying to ratify a strong federal constitution.

The resounding "no" vote to the common currency was hardly the ringing endorsement that the Eurocrats in Brussels desired.

It almost certainly means that Britain will put off indefinitely its promised referendum on the euro and that Denmark, the only other euro holdout, will not be adopting the currency anytime soon.

The "no" vote also was a setback for Prime Minister Goeran Persson, who argued that rejecting the euro meant Sweden was forfeiting its place at the European table and hurting its economy over the long term. He was backed by the country's business establishment and a slick, well-financed publicity campaign.

An independent streak

But for ordinary Swedes, the referendum was about something more fundamental than whether their krona would be replaced by the euro. In this prosperous, cradle-to-grave welfare state, many seemed to fear that an important part of their identity would be lost by entwining themselves ever more closely with the rest of Europe.

"We are Swedes first, Scandinavians second and Europeans third. That is how we think of ourselves," said Margarete Strom, 45, a professional translator who voted against the euro.

"We have always been on the sidelines of Europe, and we've had the fantastic luck not to be involved in any wars in the last few hundred years," she said.

Strom said Sweden "is keeping its head above water" while others in Europe, most notably Germany, are swamped by high unemployment and economic stagnation.

"Why should we take part in their problems?" she asked.

Stefan Ebbestad, a 52-year-old civil servant from Stockholm, also voted no.

"I'm old-fashioned," he said. "I like things the way they are, and I want to keep doing things the way they always been done."

The outcome disappointed Lena Grafstrom, an art dealer in the capital.

"I think it's very sad. Sweden is small country far up in the north. We have to join with other people. We have to live in the larger world," she said. "This will only reinforce the feeling that we are a country on the sidelines."

Although Lindh's murder unified Swedes in their grief, it seemed to polarize them in their attitudes toward Europe. For those in favor of the euro, a "yes" vote seemed a fitting tribute Lindh, who was at the forefront of the pro-euro campaign. But for those inclined to vote "no," the senseless violence of her death seemed to foreshadow the dangers of being drawn too closely into the messy affairs of Europe.

Sunday's referendum also was characterized a sharp north-south divide. Voters in Stockholm, Sweden's cosmopolitan capital in the south, supported the euro by a wide margin, with nearly 56 percent voting "yes." In the north, where unemployment is high and education levels are lower, voters were overwhelmingly against the euro.

"We have not been able to firmly establish the European idea within the Swedish hearth," said Alf Svensson, leader of the Christian Democrats, which backed the government on adopting the euro.

"We have not been able to convey the idea that we really live in a new Europe," he said. "People still seem to believe that we live in a Europe with national borders and national currency, but the reality is something else."

Copyright (c) 2003, Chicago Tribune

3. Judith Isaacson: Salt of the Earth
http://www.jewishuniverse.net/travel/index.php?articles_ID=41
Baron Edmond de Rothschild was an optimistic man. In the 1920s he bought land in Palestine with an eye to the future. Besides the vineyards and agricultural land that he bought in the area around Zikhron Yaakov, and the glass factory in which he invested for production of bottles for the wine that would eventually be produced, he also bought land by the sea for the purpose of salt mining.

[]The location and type of land were carefully thought out. He purchased clay-like land close to the ancient port of Atlit so that the salt could be easily transported across the seas, for an industry that would provide work
to the local people. The clay-like land is nonporous and therefore the water is evaporated by the hot sun rather than being absorbed by the earth. Since 1922 the mines have been operational, and produce salt packaged with the familiar Atlit label.

Owned today by the Dankner Group, the factory in Atlit is one of their three salt mines. In fact, salt is mined from each of the three salt-water bodies in Israel: Mediterranean, Red Sea in Eilat, and Dead Sea. Until ten years it was illegal to import salt to Israel.

[]The day of our visit was an ideal salt mining day,
explained our guide, Binyamin Meir. A constant wind and a hot sun hastened the evaporation. Salt separates from water and sinks to the bottom when the
concentration of salt in the water is 25.5%. All seas, except the Dead Sea (27%), have a uniform salt concentration of 3.6%.

It is Binyamin's's job to achieve the necessary 25.5% salinity at the Atlit salt ponds. He does this by flooding the salt ponds to a depth of 15 cm -- the depth at which the sun's rays can penetrate and evaporate the water.

The Eilat salt ponds produce 170,000 annual tons of salt, as contrasted with the Atlit ponds which produce
12,000 annual tons. The season in Atlit starts on 1 April and ends on 20 September. In Eilat, however, the season is is all year long. The difference is due to the longer period of sunny days in Eilat, as well as less rain. Rain, a blessing for agriculturalists, is a problem for miners of salt from the sea. The rain water dilutes the salt ponds which then must be drained to achieve the desirable 15 cm depth necessary for salt mining.

[]The red water into which Ben plunged his hand and brought up large coarse granules of salt is high in magnesium content, as well as a bacteria which protects the salt against radiation. The top of the water has a crusty layer which, Ben explained, needs to be plowed each day so that the sun's rays can penetrate to the bottom and allow evaporation.

[]In the factory, the sifters separate the salt according to grain size. Each size is packaged for a different use. It is the size of the grain that differentiates usage whether that be table, koshering, or softening salt used in industry.

1. Druze
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: The Druze "Sword Battalion"

The Druze "Sword Battalion"
IDF Spokesperson 16 September 2003

History

1948

On September 10, 1948, a unique "swearing-in" ceremony was held at the
Nesher military base in northern Israel. 400 young participants, primarily
from the Druze community, swore an oath of loyalty to the IDF and vowed to
protect the State of Israel against the invading Arab armies. At the
conclusion of the ceremony, the Druze "Unit 300 " was formed.

"Unit 300" was fully active in the Israeli War of Independence. Its members
transported weapons and gathered intelligence data on Arab leaders.

1956: First Mandatory Recruitment of Military-Age Druze Males

In May, 1956, the first mandatory recruitment of military-age Druze males
was implemented.

1972: All Units Available to Druze Soldiers

In 1972, Druze soldiers were able to enlist in all units within the IDF -
including the much coveted flight-training course.

"Unit 300" -- Participated in all of Israel's Wars

It should be noted that "Unit 300" has participated in all of Israel's wars.
"Unit 300" has traditionally been attached to the Northern Command - which
is responsible for a region inhabited by the majority of Israel's Druze
population.

The "Sword Battalion" -- Symbol & Anthem

In 1987, "Unit 300" was officially renamed the "Sword Battalion."

The symbol of the "Sword Battalion," crossed swords complimented by the Star
of David, is a powerful one - which represents force, sharpness, courage,
and devotion. The symbol closely matches the anthem of the Unit: "Our
fighters know no fear."

Currently, the "Sword Batallion" is led by Lieutenant Colonel Anwar Saab.
The "Sword Batallion" functions as an infantry unit, which has been honored
by the OC Northern Command and the IDF Chief of Staff for its dedication as
well as operational activities.

2003: IDF Chief of Staff Honors the "Sword Battallion"

On September 14, 2003, the "Sword Battalion" held an event in which the
Israeli Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Moshe Ya'alon was present. During
the event, Lieut. Gen. Ya'alon stated that:

"We find ourselves threatened by a wave of murderous Palestinian terrorism
that does not distinguish between civilian and soldier, men and women, old
and young, Druze, Christian, Muslim or Jew..Such terror is encouraged by the
Palestinian educational system and inciteful media programs broadcasted by
the Palestinian Authority."

2. Who Are The Druze?
The Druze are a people found in northern Israel, in Lebanon, and Syria. They have their own "secret"
religion that emphasizes a belief in God and reincarnation. Women are highly respected. They consider
Jethro (the father in law of Moses) to be their forefather. They were famous warriors and had a policy of assimilating themselves to the ruling powers. In Lebanon they fought against the Catholic Christians on numerous occasions. The British employed them as a leverage against French influence. They consider themselves related to the British and according to their former spiritual leader (Sheik Tarif) also the Jews. Apart from several notable exceptions throughout their history they have usually been favorable to the Jews. Nowadays a few are anti-Israel but most are patriotic Israelis
and serve with distinction in the Armed Forces and Border Guard Police units. I personally have always gotten along well with those Druze I have met but I have acquaintances who have not been so fortunate.
Some authorities in the past have found associations between the Druze and the Celts and even the name
Druze has been suggested as derived from Druid.

Conventionally it is said that the Druze faith was founded in the 1000s CE:
e.g. http://www.mideastinfo.com/Religion/druze.htm
<<Founded in the early 11th century, the Druze faith is based largely on the dogma of Hamzah ibn Ali ibn Ahmad, a minister of the Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim. Based initially of the doctrines of Shi'a Islam, the Druze believe that, through Hakim, God made a final appeal to humanity to redeem themselves before He returned to rule. The Druze are found primarily in Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Jordan.>>

Others however say that the people who adopted
this faith were already one ethnic unity and already held similar beliefs.

see
http://www.druzestudies.org/druzes.html
The Druzes are a Middle Eastern minority group with their formal origins in the 11th century. They are perhaps one of the most misunderstood and understudied religious sects in the world. Most Druzes live today in mountainous regions in Lebanon, Syria, Israel, and Jordan. Taking all available figures into consideration, the Druze population is nearly one million with 40%-50% living in Syria, 30%-40% in Lebanon, 6%-7% in Israel, and 1%-2% in Jordan. In the U.S. there are approximately 20,000 Druzes.

3. The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism:
Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini - by Chuck Morse
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0%2D595%2D28944%2D4

This is the remarkable story of Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was in many ways as big a Nazi villain as Hitler himself, and to understand his influence on the Middle East is to understand the ongoing genocidal program against the Jews of Israel. Al-Husseini was a bridge figure in terms of transporting the Nazi genocide in Europe into the post-war Middle East.

As the leader of Arab Palestine during the British Mandate period, al-Husseini introduced violence against moderate Arabs as well as against Jews. Al-Husseini met with Adolf Eichmann in Palestine in 1937 and subsequently went on the Nazi payroll as a Nazi agent.

Al-Husseini played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role in instigating a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in 1941, in urging Nazis and pro-Nazi governments in Europe to transport Jews to death camps, in training pro-Nazi Bosnian brigades, and in funneling Nazi loot into post-war Arab countries.

4. U.S. vetoes resolution demanding Arafat's safety
By Bill Nichols, USA TODAY
UNITED NATIONS The United States on Tuesday vetoed a Security Council resolution demanding that Israel not harm or deport Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The veto raised the ire of Arab and Muslim nations just as Washington is seeking their help in Iraq.

Eleven of the Security Council's 15 members supported the measure, while three Britain, Bulgaria and Germany abstained. But the United States used the veto power it has as one of the council's five permanent members, saying the measure did not sufficiently call for an end to terrorism by specific Palestinian groups.

"We will not support any resolution that evades the explicit threat to Middle East peace process posed by Hamas and other such terrorist groups," U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte said.

The United States has frequently blocked Middle East resolutions on the grounds they were unbalanced. But Tuesday's veto came just four days after the Bush administration agreed on a press statement expressing the council's view that "the removal of chairman Arafat would be unhelpful and should not be implemented." U.S. officials said the resolution went much father than the press statement.

At the same time, though, in a move aimed at penalizing Israel's intransigence over what the White House sees as a key issue in the peace process, the administration announced that it would punish Israel for expanding Jewish settlements on the West Bank. State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said Secretary of State Colin Powell would decide how much to dock Israel from $9 billion in recently awarded loan guarantees.

International criticism against Israel has mounted since the Israeli government decided in principle to "remove" Arafat. On Sunday, Israel Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said killing Arafat was an option, though he later appeared to backtrack and the Israeli government disassociated itself from his remarks.

5. Jews Enter Joseph´s Tomb; Arabs Fire at Soldiers
09:50 Sep 21, '03 / 24 Elul 5763
Arutz 7 http://www.israelnn.com/print.php3?what=news&id=50055

Jewish worshipers entered Joseph's Tomb in Shechem last night, in violation of a military order, and Arabs fired upon soldiers who came to extricate them.

Joseph's Tomb has been closed to Jews ever since the beginning of the PA's Oslo War against Israel three years ago. IDF soldier Madhat Yusuf was killed during the battle in which the Israeli forces retreated from the site.

The Jewish worshipers, who have entered the closed area in the past - two or three times with army permission and many times without - say they cannot accept the abandonment and surrender of such a holy site to the Arabs' threats of violence. Army sources reiterated that Israelis are forbidden from entering Area A - areas deemed under full PA control according to the Oslo agreements - and that those who do so endanger both themselves and others. No one was injured in the incident.

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1. Arutz Sheva News Monday,
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Sep. 22, 2003 / Elul 25, 5763
VIBRANCY IN YESHA
Residents of Judea, Samaria and Gaza are younger, healthier, more educated - and are multiplying faster than the rest of Israel. Researchers from the College of Judea & Samaria in Ariel, in a study on population statistics for Yesha for the year 2002, found that the average Yesha household is 4.1 people, with 34 babies born each year for every 1,000 people, compared to 3.3 people per household and 21 births per 1,000 in the rest of the country. The full study will be published next week.

Other findings: The population of Yesha has grown 144% in the past decade - compared to only 32% in the rest of Israel. More Yesha residents receive a high school matriculation diploma than their brethren on the other side of the Green Line; the score is 62.7% for Yesha, and 49.7% elsewhere. The median age in Yesha is 20.3, compared to 27.6 in the rest of the country. 64% of the Yesha population from age 15 and up is employed, averaging 300 shekels a month more than the 54% of the rest of the country who work. Only 1.5 out of every 1,000 Yesha-ites (age 45-64) are hospitalized, compared to 2.2 elsewhere. "We have some good reasons to continue our study," said Dr. Michael Sheffer of the College of Judea & Samaria. "It will be interesting to see why the Yesha residents are [healthier]..."

2. Weapon of mass population

"I want to have many boys, so we have more people and can get the Jews out."
By SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN,
St. Petersburg Times
Published September 21, 2003
(Extracts Only)

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - In the struggle between Israelis and Palestinians, Thuraya Eshbear wields a powerful weapon.

Babies.

At 35, this wisp of a woman has 13 children, from 20 years down to 10 months. Though she can't afford to school them all, though she rarely has a minute to herself, she would gladly bear more.

"I have many children so that the Palestinian people will have more than the Israelis," says Eshbear, a $37-a-week cleaner in the maternity ward of Gaza City's biggest hospital. Here, on any given day, dozens of other Palestinian women are doing their part to ensure ultimate victory over Israel.

It is a war fought not just with F-16s and suicide bombers, but with diapers and Similac.

Ever since Israel was created in 1948, starting a clash with the Arab world that has no end in sight, Jews have feared what Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat calls his "biological bomb." In Israel and the neighboring territories of Gaza and the West Bank, Arabs are reproducing at a rate double that of Jews.

Israel's 5.4-million Jews make up just more than half of the region's population, but Arabs will become a clear majority within 20 years, Haifa University professor Arnon Soffer says. By 2020, the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea will be home to 8.5-million Arabs and just 6.4-million Jews.

Unless Palestinians get their own state, the soaring Arab population could mean one of two things: Israel would cease to exist as a Jewish nation or it would be forced into an apartheid-like system in which a Jewish minority ruled a Palestinian majority.

Unless something changes, "our country is finished in 17 years and there will be a collapse," Soffer warned Israeli political leaders.

Others say the demographic threat is exaggerated, that studies like Soffer's fail to take into account such important factors as continued Jewish migration to Israel. The Palestinian population figures are meant to scare Israel into giving up land - especially in the West Bank - to which it has an historic right, one expert charges.

"The same thing took place in '48 when Ben Gurion, the first prime minister, was urged by top statisticians to refrain from declaring independence for the same reason," says Yoram Ettinger of Israel's Ariel Center for Policy Research. "They predicted, based on certified figures, that by 1969 there would be an Arab majority. Their predictions were crashed against the rocks of reality."

Meanwhile, the women of Gaza keep producing baby after baby. The Gaza Strip, where more than 1-million Palestinians live, has one of the world's highest growth rates - 4.5 percent, enough to double the population every 15 years.

"Many people have been killed in the intifada by Israeli soldiers so they want to reproduce," says Hala Sarraj, a Gaza psychologist, referring to the uprising in which more than 2,400 Palestinians have died since 2000.

That is true of Hanan Himad, whose 21-year-old son, Jawdad, was shot dead two years ago while throwing rocks at the Israelis, she says. He was the oldest of her nine children - Himad was pregnant with her 10th this summer when she tripped and fell while running from an Israeli bomb dropped near her home east of Gaza City.

A few weeks later she miscarried, and on this Thursday morning she was in the hospital, awaiting surgery to remove the dead fetus. But at 39, she is not about to quit.

"I want to have many boys," she says, as other women nod approvingly, "so we have more people and can get the Jews out."
A prize for the 10th baby

Except for the Mediterranean and the Sea of Galilee, there would seem little reason for two groups of people to fight so long and so hard over one New Jersey-size wedge of land.

Arab sheep and camel herders long roamed the desert from which the Israelites were expelled more than two millennia ago. But in the late 1800s, after centuries of persecution, the Zionists announced their goal of resettling as many of the world's Jews as possible in their biblical homeland.

That set the stage for a struggle in which demographics might forever play a role.

By the end of World War I, what was then known as Palestine had 60,000 Jewish inhabitants. Growing Arab hostility toward the newcomers erupted in the 1921 Jaffa riots that killed 47 Jews.

But the huge migration came after World War II, when survivors of the Nazi Holocaust began flocking to the promised land. Some 650,000 Jews were living in Palestine by 1948 when Israel declared independence, and Arab nations immediately launched war against the new Jewish state.

Thus began another major population shift. To this day, there is strong debate over whether Arabs left Israel at their leaders' behest, on the promise they could return soon (as most Jewish historians say) or were forcefully removed by Jewish soldiers (as Arabs say).

Whatever the case, 700,000 Palestinians - as the Arabs began calling themselves - went to neighboring countries or to Gaza, then under Egyptian control, or the West Bank, then under Jordanian rule.

"Contrary to most colonial projects, the Israeli one was intended to substitute one people for another," French researcher Phillipe Fargues said in a 2000 study on the region's demographic battle. "It was not a will to dominate the Arab peoples so much as to dominate the territory. Relative sizes of the two populations were at stake."

As early as 1943, while the British ruled the area, the chief rabbi of Palestine urged Jewish families to have big families: "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth."

Pressure to procreate grew even greater after 1948.

"Being a Jewish state and knowing that we lost 6-million Jews during the Holocaust, it is on the back or front of every Jew's mind that it is our responsibility for the future to make up for that traumatic loss," says Ettinger of the Ariel Center.

Israel's natural population growth has been greatly augmented by immigration, including the influx of almost 1-million Jews after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nearly 95 percent of Israel's Jewish population originates from immigrants; without them, there might be fewer than 300,000 Jews now in Israel.

Ettinger thinks immigration will continue, counterbalancing the effects of the Palestinian birth rate.

"We have more than 1-million Jews, probably 2-million, still in the former Soviet Union, there are 6-million Jews in America, and some of them I believe are going to end up in the Jewish state," he says. "We've got a half million Jews in France and a half million in Latin America.

"And who's to say that the Jewish birth rate has to stick to 2-point-something? It certainly could go up to 3-point-something, which would turn the whole thing upside down. When you consider the fact that we are 6-million Jews compared to 600,000 in 1948, you cannot but be highly optimistic about Jewish demographics in this part of the world."

But there is little economic incentive for Jews in America or Western Europe to emigrate to Israel, which has a lower per capita income than where they now live. Moreover, the Jewish population in the United States is shrinking and aging; even if American Jews did move to Israel, they would have only a modest effect on the birth rate.

Ettinger is more optimistic than many Israeli leaders, who have long worried about the Palestinian baby boom.

Soon after taking office in 1969, Prime Minister Golda Meier expressed concern about what would happen if Israel annexed the land it had seized in the 1967 Mideast War: "We would have to wake up every morning wondering how many Arab babies had been born during the night."

But as the prospect of a complete withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank grew increasingly remote, "both Israeli and Palestinian politicians realized that demographic growth is the Palestinians' most potent weapon," Fargues said.

Paradoxically, he found, the continuing conflict might be partly responsible for the high birth rate that so concerns Israel.

Thanks to huge amounts of humanitarian aid from the United Nations, Islamic charities and other organizations, Palestinians generally enjoy good health and live long lives, assuming they don't die of man-made causes. The aid, which includes money, food and schooling, helps ease the burden of raising children.

And while high unemployment normally discourages large families, the opposite has been true in Gaza.

In the first Palestinian uprising, from 1987 to 1993, incomes dropped 40 percent in a single year yet the birth rate went up. It seems that many fathers lowered the "bride price" to facilitate marrying off their daughters in a time of great insecurity. The result: Many more teenage brides and many more babies.
"I hate her"

In her face, Thuraya Eshbear looks older than the 35 years she admits to. But at just 5 feet and 100 or so pounds, she has the petite figure that caught the eye of Majed Eshbear as she returned home from school one day.

Tall, handsome, with a thick shock of hair, Eshbear was divorced from his first wife, by whom he had six children. He married Thuraya, and over the next 20 years, she would have 13 children and three miscarriages.

A few years ago, Eshbear began to look around again. This time he settled on Manal Sultan, 18 years his junior, a pretty woman with a wide perfect smile. Sultan had never seen Eshbear, let alone met him, before her father agreed to give her hand in marriage.

"Children mean support," Sarraj says. "It is desirable to have children because of the insecurity of our society - you are not guaranteed to live tomorrow but to have children is to give some protection to the family."

And, she says, there is another reason Eshbear might actually be proud of his giant clan.

In Gaza, where the conflict with Israel has thrown 60 percent of adults out of work, fathering children is one sure way an unemployed man can prove his masculinity.

"To be a man in Gaza means providing food and money and clothing," Sarraj notes. "If you can't do this you cannot be a real man - except if you show you are productive by giving lots of babies."

3. Humor Only: A Considerate Husband in Retirement
From: Doc DeLaughter <doc96@bellsouth.net>
Subject: [thelaughterlist] Advice from a Retired Husband

Advice from a Retired Husband

It is important for men to remember that as women grow older it becomes
harder for them to maintain the same quality of housekeeping as they
did when they were younger. When men notice this, they should try not
to criticize. Let me relate how I handle the situation. When I got
laid off from my consulting job and took "early retirement" in April,
it became necessary for Nancy to get a full-time job, both for extra
income and for the health benefits that we need.

It was shortly after she started working that I noticed that she was
beginning to show her age. I usually get home from fishing or hunting
about the same time she gets home from work. Although she knows how
hungry I am, she almost always says that she has to rest for half an
hour or so before she starts supper. I try not to complain, instead I
tell her to take her time and just wake me when she finally does get
supper on the table. She used to do the dishes as soon as we finished
eating. It is now not unusual for them to sit on the table for
several hours after supper. I do what I can by reminding her several
times each evening that they aren't cleaning themselves. I know she
appreciates this advice, as it does seem to help her get them done
before she goes to bed.

Now that she is older she seems to get tired so much more quickly. Our
washer and dryer are in the basement. Sometimes she says she just
can't make another trip down those steps. I don't make a big issue of
this. As long as she finishes up the laundry by the next evening I am
willing to overlook it. Not only that but unless I need something
ironed to wear to the Monday lodge meeting or to Wednesday's or
Saturday's poker club or to Tuesday's or Thursday's bowling or
something like that, I will tell her to wait until the next evening
to do the ironing. This gives her a little more time to do some of
those odds and ends things like shampooing the dog, vacuuming or
dusting. Also, if I have a really good day of fishing, this allows
her to gut and scale the fish at a more leisurely pace.

Nancy is starting to complain a little occasionally. For example, she
will say that it is difficult for her to find time to pay the monthly
bills during her lunch break. In spite of her complaining, I continue
to try to offer encouragement. I tell her to stretch it out over two
or even three days. That way she won't have to rush so much. I also
remind her that missing lunch completely now and then wouldn't hurt
her any, if you know what I mean.

When doing simple jobs she seems to think she needs more rest periods.
She had to take a break when she was only half finished mowing the
yard. I try to be supportive when she needs these little extra rest
breaks. I tell her to fix herself a nice, big, cold glass of freshly
squeezed lemonade and just sit for a while. I tell her that as long
as she is making one for herself, she may as well make one for me and
take her break by the hammock so she can talk with me until I fall
asleep.

I know that I probably look like a saint in the way I support Nancy on
a daily basis. I'm not saying that the ability to show this much
consideration is easy. Many men will find it difficult. Some will
find it impossible. No one knows better than I do how frustrating
women can become as they get older. However, guys, even if you just
yell at your wife a little less often because of this article, I will
consider that writing it was worthwhile.

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1. ANGLO-SAXON WARRIOR QUEEN IS UNEARTHED
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10:30 - 20 September 2003
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A 1,500-year-old Anglo-Saxon "warrior queen" has been found buried just two feet under the surface of a county field.

Lincolnshire's own 6ft tall "Boadicea" has been described as one of the best Anglo-Saxon finds of its kind in the county.

She was still holding her shield and had a dagger at her side when she was found. On either side of her at the site just outside Lincoln were the remains of a man and a woman who were possibly her attendants.

The woman was wearing an amber necklace and had her feet bound together with rope. The male companion was buried with his hand over a pot.

The exceptional discovery was originally made by a man with a metal detector.

Mystery surrounds the identity of the 6ft tall warrior queen.

Her ancient Briton predecessor Boadicea led a rebellion against the Romans in 61AD. After the Romans left England in 410AD tribal conflict was rife and the mystery queen might have fallen victim to this.

All the bones and artefacts discovered at the scene are now being examined by independent conservator Wessex Archaeology and at a later date will be brought back to the City and County Museum in Friars Lane.
Lincolnshire County Council archaeologist Adam Daubney said that there was an enormous sense of excitement when the bodies were unearthed.

"Any discovery from Anglo-Saxon times is important for Lincolnshire because this era of history is not as well documented as other periods," he said.

"In other parts of Lincolnshire we have found two large Saxon burial sites at Loveden Hill and Ruskington.

"But one of the interesting things about this is that a total of four shields have been found.

"The shield would have been originally made from wood but the boss - which held the handle in place - was made of iron and this has survived."

The Channel Four television programme Time Team carried out the excavation and the programme is due to be broadcast next spring.

The owner of the land on which the burial site was discovered asked not to be named to avoid the venue's location becoming common knowledge.

He said: "Two years ago a discovery of a brooch was made on the site which was unmistakably Anglo-Saxon. It was incredibly exciting to discover the burial site."

Councillor Marianne Overton, a member of Navenby Archaeology Group which assisted Time Team with the excavation, helped out at the three-day dig which took place between Tuesday and Thursday last week.

"What struck me was that there are possibly a great many more sites like this across the county," she said.
"When you actually see the venue and are able to imagine what life would have been like then you get a strong sense of the history of the county in which we live."

2. Right-Handed? Your Hair Reveals It
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/atplay/package.jsp?name=fte/hairswirls/hairswirls

If you want to know whether your newborn baby will be right-handed or left-handed, here's a way to tell that is almost fool-proof: Look at the baby's hair. If the hair swirls clockwise, there is a 95 percent chance that the person is right-handed. The curls of lefties and the ambidextrous are equally likely to coil either way.

What does your handedness have to do with your hair? This isn't some goofy New Age idea or parlor game, although it would be fun to try at parties since it also works on adults. Nature News and London's Evening Standard report that researchers from the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland have determined that one gene might control both hair swirl direction and handedness and in the process explain the divided brain. That has geneticists hunting for a single gene with either "right" or "random" forms. Those who have one or two copies of the "right" version of the gene would be right-handed and have hair that swirls clockwise. Those who have two "random" versions of the gene could be either right- or left-handed and have hair that swirls in either direction.

To arrive at this fascinating conclusion that your hairstyle determines your handedness, researcher Amar Klar of the National Cancer Institute had to be a little underhanded. He surreptitiously checked out the heads and hands of 500 people in airports and shopping malls. Anyone with long hair and those who were bald were not included in his survey.

What do other scientists think of this research? "It's one of the most exciting things [I've seen] in a while," geneticist Ralph Greenspan of the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, Calif., exclaimed to Nature News. He suggests that a gene causing asymmetric cell division in the young embryo might set up asymmetry throughout the body. Others aren't so sure. Clyde Francks of the University of Oxford in Great Britain thinks there are many genes--not just one--that determine if we're right-handed or left-handed.

This gene hunt could be hard. Some think there may not even be a gene for handedness since two left-handed parents can have a right-handed kid. Or, in a set of identical twins, one could be right-handed and the other left-handed. Aha! Klar thinks he has this one solved. If the children of lefties inherit a "random" gene, they could be either right-handed or left-handed--so it's still genetically governed.

"It is certainly possible to make a very accurate guess at which hand somebody writes with by looking at their head," Klar told London's Evening Standard. "Medically, this is also important as it reveals a lot about how the brain develops and which parts of the body develop along with it. It is actually a very good indicator of brain symmetry." The research could one day help treat diseases caused by abnormalities in brain symmetry like autism, schizophrenia, and dyslexia.

3. Arutz Sheva News Wednesday,
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Sep. 24, 2003 / Elul 27, 5763
TRAVEL TO ISRAEL: "I CARE, AND I'M GOING"
A new visit-Israel campaign was kicked off in New York yesterday, under the theme, "I Care. And I'm Going." Israel's Minister of Tourism Benny Elon called a press event sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations as well as leaders of Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist Jewry. During the upcoming holiday season, beginning with Rosh HaShanah three days from now and ending with Simchat Torah three weeks later, as many as one million Tourism Pledge Cards will be distributed at synagogues across America. Participants are asked to sign the card, pledging to visit Israel some time in the coming year.

Tourism has jumped during 2003, and by the end of the year, 1.2 million tourists will have visited Israel - 50% more than in 2002.

SORRY, WRONG AIR LANE
A Russian passenger plane from Saudi Arabia infiltrated Israeli air space this afternoon, apparently by accident. Israel Air Force combat planes were alerted to the scene, and escorted the plane outside Israel. A month ago, Israeli intelligence received warning of an Al-Qaeda scheme to hijack a plane from a Saudi Arabian airfield - only 200 kilometers from Israel - and crash it into an Israeli building.
POPULAR NAMES IN ISRAEL
Noa (a girl's name) and Daniel are, once again, the two most popular names in Israel. The name Noa, not to be confused with the name of the Biblical ark-builder Noah, is borne by 1,314 babies born in 2002, or 3% of the total number of girls born then. Daniel was given to 2% of the boys in 2002.

Next on the list of popular boys' names are Itai, David, Noam, Ido, and Amit. The name Uri or Ori (spelled the same in Hebrew) surprised most observers by jumping 14 places from the year before, and was 7th most popular in 2002. For girls, Shira, Maya, Adi, Yael and Tamar are the runners-up. Eden, for no apparent reason, dropped from 5th place to 17th. Among names given to both boys and girls, Noam (meaning "pleasantness") is #1, given to 670 boys and 532 girls last year.

Nine of the top 15 boys' names are of Biblical origin, as are six of the top 15 for girls. The others are of modern Hebrew origin.

TEL BE'ER SHEVA NATIONAL PARK: A SETTLEMENT FROM THE TIME OF ABRAHAM
"Tel Be'er Sheva sits near the confluence of the Be'er Sheva and Hevron Rivers, where settled land meets the desert. Archaeologists working there uncovered two-thirds of a settlement from the early Israelite period, when a fortified administrative city was built on the tel (mound composed of the remains of successive settlements). This site has unparalleled importance for the study of biblical-period urban planning..."

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1. Egyptian Find

13th Century tablet could lead to lost archives of Ramses II. 27/09/2003. ABC News Online

[This is an extract from story http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s955027.htm]

The discovery of a stone tablet detailing diplomatic ties between the ancient Egyptians and Hittites in the 13th Century BC could be the key to the lost archives of Ramses II, according to archaeologists.

Discovered at Qantir 120 kilometres north-east of Cairo, the tablet dates back to the time of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II (1298-1235 BC) and confirms his capital, Pi-Ramses, was in the Nile Delta.

"Its the first time that such a written record has been found in the capital of Ramses II, which confirms the location of Pi-Ramses," Mohammad Abdul Aksud, director of antiquities in the Delta region told AFP.

Although small and badly preserved, the tablet takes the form of an 11-line letter sent by the central Anatolian Hittite court to that of Ramses II, Mr Aksud said, which "could lead us to the lost archives of Ramses II".

It was found by a team of German archaeologists, lead by Egyptologist Edgar Pusch, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities, Zahi Hawass told AFP.

It dates from shortly after the Egyptian and Hittite empires made peace in 1278 after years of war, Mr Hawass added.

The tablet is written in cuneiform script, invented in about 3,300 BC by the Sumerians and used throughout the Middle East until the first century AD.

Quoting Pusch, Hawass told AFP it was comparable to another tablet written in cuneiform found in Turkey and others found at Tell Al-Amarna, in southern Egypt.

Tell Al-Amarna was capital during the time of Akhenaton (1372-1354 BC), remembered in history for having switched his kingdom to monotheism with the worship of the one sun god, Aton.

The tablets found there show the earliest diplomatic correspondence ever discovered.

The Qantir tablet may be followed by the discovery of a temple in the same region, where Ramses II built his capital.

Ramses II married a Hittite princess to shore up peace with the central Anatolian empire, so he could concentrate on the threat posed in Mesopotamia, where the Assyrian empire was bent on conquest.

--AFP

© 2003 Australian Broadcasting Corporation

2. Atlantis by Cyprus?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/28/wnapa28.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/09/28/ixworld.html
[Map on site of interest]
The search for Atlantis 'ends at Ayia Napa'
By Fiona Govan
(Extracts)

It may be the answer generations of experts on the ancient world have been looking for. New research claims that the fabled ancient civilisation of Atlantis is located close to Cyprus.

After nearly 10 years of research using ocean mapping technology and accounts from ancient texts, an American explorer says he has evidence that Atlantis lies beneath the deep blue waters off the southern tip of the island.

Robert Sarmast, a self-proclaimed mythologist and expert on the ancient world, makes this claim in his book, Discovery of Atlantis - The Startling Case for the Island of Cyprus, published last week in America by Origin Press. Mr Sarmast uses maps to show the location of archaeological remains on a sunken strip of land just off the south coast of Cyprus, which he says is Atlantis.

Mr Sarmast said at his home in California last week: "This is going to rewrite the history books. We are set to make the biggest archaeological discovery of all time."

His research, which cost $500,000 (£312,000) and uses data collected by a Russian scientific survey vessel in 1989, was paid for by the Heritage Standard Corporation, an organisation involved in undersea surveys for oil and gas. He now intends to carry out an expedition to explore the sea bed, to find proof of his theory.

Mr Sarmast says the site matches Plato's account of Atlantis, in the dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in about 400BC. The description is said to be based on the writings of Solon, who recorded the account told to him by the Egyptians in around 600BC.

Whereas many historians believe that Atlantis is the stuff of legend and that Plato's description is an allegory to praise the values of Athenian society, Mr Sarmast takes a more literal view.

"My discovery will vindicate Plato," he said. "Within his dialogues, Plato provides factual clues as to what Atlantis was like. I have matched all but two of the 45 clues with the area around Cyprus. That's either the biggest coincidence in the history of the world or we have found Plato's Atlantis. Plato's account is so detailed that it is possible to make city plans based on his description. These match exactly the antediluvian maps of Cyprus as discovered through oceanographic mapping."

Mr Sarmast says he has identified many of the areas described by Plato, including a rectangular plain, running east to west, containing a metropolis at its centre.

Central to the latest theory is the fact that the Mediterranean basin suffered a catastrophic flood with the destruction of the Gibraltar "dam" that once closed the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic.

This substantiates Plato's claim that an epochal flood "swallowed up" the island of Atlantis leaving only the uninhabited mountainous regions above water, and supports the Biblical story of the flood.

Mr Sarmast believes that it will not be difficult to launch an underwater expedition and that the rewards will be great. "It's only a mile down in warm, calm waters," he said. "Compare that with the Titanic which is two miles down in freezing, treacherous waters. That was explored fully 20 years ago.

"What we have here is a whole city, an ancient civilisation, megalithic sites packed full of artefacts. We can expect to find colossal buildings, bridges, roads, canals and stone temples. With no sunlight, heat, oxygen or wind to degrade its remains, Atlantis will be mummified in the cold waters of the deep sea, frozen in time."

Mr Sarmast's claim about Cyprus is, however, just the latest in a long list of suggested locations for Atlantis, including the Azores, the Sahara desert, Malta, Central America and Antarctica.

3. Mongolia - Another "Gate" to be Acquired?
NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/international/middleeast/25MONG.html
ALLIES
Mongolians Return to Baghdad, This Time as Peacekeepers

By JAMES BROOKE
[]
Published: September 25, 2003

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia, Sept. 22 In 1258, the Mongol general Hulegu, a grandson of Genghis Khan, sacked Baghdad, killing 800,000 people and ending its primacy as the largest city in the Arab world.

This month, the Mongolians returned to Iraq. Ferried into the country on American military transports, 180 Mongolian Army soldiers all male, all volunteers are guarding pipelines and working on construction projects under a Polish command.

"This is not like the 13th century," Col. B. Erkhenbayar, commander of Mongolia's Peacekeeping Operation Battalion, said here, smiling so widely his eyes disappeared. "Then, we went to invade. This time, we are going to build Iraq."

In the Bush administration's roster of 34 nations serving in Iraq in the American-led "coalition of the willing" about half are formerly Communist countries like Mongolia. Like many other normally overlooked nations that have sent soldiers to Iraq, Mongolia did so more out of geopolitics than concern for Iraq. Mongolia's offer of troops surprised the American government because it had not asked Mongolia for help, said Steven R. Saunders, president of a private, Washington-based group promoting business ties with Mongolia.

Around this dusty city with its Cyrillic character signs left over from the Soviet era, Mongolians talk of supporting democracy in Iraq, of bolstering geopolitical ties with the United States and of returning their nation's long-eclipsed name to the world stage.

Mongolia is the only nation in Northeast Asia where there is widespread support for sending troops to Iraq: Russia glowers, China appears neutral and Japan has approved the sending of troops but begs for more time. South Korea has 650 military medics and engineers in Iraq, sent despite violent public protests. Now, in the face of American demands for combat-trained troops, South Korea is sending a study group.

Slightly more than a decade after the departure of the last Soviet troops here, democracy is not an abstraction for Mongolia. Last summer, Tibetan Buddhist priests working at a monastery here disinterred the remains of about 600 lamas, or high priests, each buried with his hands tied behind his back and a bullet hole in the skull. They were killed in 1937 by Mongolian Communists in an effort by Stalin to stamp out Mongolia's historic religion.

Mongolia is rapidly embracing the United States in an effort to develop a balance to its historically dangerous neighbors, China and Russia. Twice the size of Texas, but with only 2.4 million people, this land of nomadic herders has a deep, if rarely voiced, fear of becoming another Tibet. After centuries of Chinese rule, Mongolia won independence only in 1921 with Soviet support.

Gen. T. Togoo, chief of staff of the Mongolian armed forces, noted that, historically, Mongolia won breathing space by pitting neighbors against each other. As he spoke, rap music from the Voice of America radio filtered through his Soviet-built headquarters.

The United States has provided the Mongolian military with peacekeeping training, English lessons and, for the Chinese border area, patrol radios and engineering work.

According to foreign mining company employees who work in the Gobi Desert border areas, this "engineering work" seems to involve installing electronic surveillance equipment to monitor North Korea and the Lop Nor nuclear testing site in China, which is just across Mongolia's western border.

In addition, the United States is advising Mongolia on how to reshape its military for the post-Soviet era. Over the last 20 years, Mongolia's military has shrunk by two-thirds, to about 15,000 today. Last year, a law took effect defining the military's primary missions as border patrol, disaster relief and participation in international peacekeeping missions.

By sending troops to Iraq, Mongolia hopes to win powerful friends for a small nation that is often confused with Inner Mongolia, the neighboring Chinese province.

"Now," said Col. Gurin Ragchaa, a military spokesman, "everyone will know where Mongolia is."

"We are squeezed between two superpowers, so having an army is not enough," Prime Minister Enkhbayar said in English honed at the London School of Economics and Americanized in trips to Washington. "We have to secure our sovereignty and independence through diplomatic measures, economic measures, international organizations."

Two weeks ago, as the last Mongolian soldiers arrived in Iraq, Mongolia, whose trade with the United States was only $180 million last year, formally proposed to Washington a free trade pact.

"Negotiations could be concluded in one weekend," Mr. Saunders said over a pineapple pizza lunch at the California Restaurant, one of the latest American cultural imitations here. "It would have not any economic impact on the U.S. In one year, the U.S. trades less with Mongolia than what it trades with Taiwan in 12 hours."

4. Gunman Kills Two as Family Celebrates Jewish New Year

By GREG MYRE

[]ERUSALEM, Sept. 26 A Palestinian gunman killed two people, one of them a baby girl, and wounded two more when he opened fire tonight on an Israeli family celebrating the Jewish New Year at their home in a settlement outside the West Bank town of Hebron. Israeli troops rushed to the scene and fatally shot the attacker.

Israeli authorities expressed outrage at the attack, which occurred as Jewish families were holding the traditional feast at the beginning of the new year's holiday, Rosh Hashana, which began at sundown tonight.

"This terrorist knew people would be sitting down to dinner at this time," Capt. Jacob Dallal, a spokesman for the Israeli military, said of the shooting, which occurred about 9 p.m.

In the West Bank, the gunman, who had an M-16 automatic rifle, knocked on the door of a home in the Israeli settlement of Negohot, Captain Dallal said. A man who was a guest at the home opened the door and was gunned down. The baby girl, who lived at the home, was also shot and killed, the captain said. The girl's parents were wounded before a nearby military unit shot the attacker.

The military said it did not have the girl's age, but Israeli news reports said she was less than a year old.

Palestinian gunmen in the Hebron area have carried out repeated attacks on Friday nights, when Israeli families gather for large family meals, Captain Dallal added.

No group immediately claimed responsibility. Israeli military forces, however, have carried out many raids in Hebron in recent weeks, killing several militants from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad factions, which vowed to strike back.

Tonight's attack immediately prompted comparisons to a Palestinian suicide bombing at the beginning of the Passover holiday in March last year. That attack killed 29 people at a hotel dining room in the coastal city of Netanya and was followed two days later by a major Israeli incursion into the West Bank.

Israel's security forces were out in large numbers today to guard against a possible attack as the holiday approached. In the hours before it began, Israel imposed a full closing of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which kept all Palestinians from those areas from entering Israel.

The measure was introduced to cover the holiday period, which lasts until sunset on Sunday.

It is more difficult, however, for the security forces to guard against attacks in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where more than three million Palestinians live. Israel has nearly 150 settlements in these areas, and Negohot is relatively small and remote.

5. Iranian FM warns Israel not to strike nuclear facilities []
[]
By Reuters
[]
WASHINGTON - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal
Kharazi, denying his country has "any program to
produce weapons of mass destruction," warned
Israel that Iran would respond to any strike on
its nuclear facilities.

[]
In an interview aired on Sunday
on ABC's "This Week," Kharazi
said the possibility of an
Israeli military strike on its
nuclear program was "a threat,
no question."

Israel has warned that Iran's
nuclear program posed a threat
to the world and was reportedly
considering such a strike if Iran is pursuing a
nuclear option.

6. Ukraine warns U.S.
of nuke-terror threat
FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
{Extracts}
Security, intelligence officials investigate radioactive package addressed to America

Security, police and intelligence officials in Kiev have formed a joint task force to examine possible purchase of nuclear materials by U.S.-based terrorists including one package addressed to America, reports the latest issue of Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

The investigation followed a discovery last week of a radioactive package seized in the capital's airport. The package was addressed to the U.S., according to the online subscription intelligence newsletter.

An official with the Ukraine Ministry of Emergencies said the package was emitting radiation ''at a rate which is thousands of times higher than the acceptable norm in Kiev of 0.05 milliroentgens.''

Mykola Karabet, an officer with the Ministry of Emergencies, said the parcel was found in a luggage depot awaiting shipment. He claimed the material was packed in a way that did not endanger human life.

Information of the discovery was immediately shared with U.S. officials who alerted U.S. Customs and the FBI, according to G2 Bulletin. The U.S. is said to be on the alert for packages containing hazardous material coming from the former Soviet Union.

Diplomatic sources in Kiev said the discovery of the package was not the first of its kind and that U.S. officials in the Ukrainian capital said there was every reason to be concerned over the latest discovery.

Throughout the Cold War, the Kremlin kept an iron grip on the Soviet nuclear arsenal through an array of elaborate procedures from stringent border screenings to multiple, decentralized stockpiles designed to ensure the safety of its nuclear deterrent. But the collapse of the Soviet Union left Moscow with a sprawling, insecure nuclear infrastructure.

Despite some progress in decommissioning and protection, only one-third of Russia's estimated 600 metric tons of weapons-usable nuclear material is currently secure. Meanwhile, the Russian military, the primary guardian of post-Soviet nuclear security, is destitute and ridden with criminality.

A thriving nuclear black market has sprung up in Central Asia, Europe and the Balkans. In one high-profile incident in 1995, Ukrainian officials in Kiev apprehended two former Russian soldiers carrying 13 pounds of stolen highly enriched uranium half the fissile material necessary for a nuclear bomb. In another, authorities in St. Petersburg, Russia, nabbed a Russian nuclear scientist and his accomplice in 1999 for smuggling weapons-grade californium from rusting Russian nuclear icebreakers to St. Petersburg-based crime groups.

In all, close to 100 nuclear smuggling attempts have been thwarted by Russian and international law enforcement over the last five years. But countless others have gone undetected. In 1995, German intelligence agencies were already estimating that there were nearly 200 incidents of nuclear trafficking annually. And last year, a more conservative estimate by the International Atomic Energy Agency officially confirmed that more than 370 smuggling incidents have taken place since 1993.

Even more alarming is that Russia's nuclear complex has become a bargain basement for terrorists. In 1993, the Islamic Jihad organization, a terrorist group affiliated with Iran's radical Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, made a serious bid to acquire nuclear materiel from one of Russia's ailing ''nuclear cities.''

Since then, other groups have gotten into the game. Osama bin Laden is believed to have paid millions to acquire a Soviet-era ''suitcase bomb'' in 1998, and to have subsequently enlisted Chechen extremists to raid Russian nuclear facilities. In all, more than 100 terrorist groups around the world are estimated by the United Nations to currently have the tools and the fissile material necessary for some form of nuclear capability.

7. Maiden Castle
In Britain in the south in the county of Dorset (near Cornwall and Wales) is maiden castle.
The general features of Maiden Castle are apparently like those found in certain Israelite fortifications
before the exile. More details later.

<http://www.historic-uk.com/DestinationsUK/MaidenCastle.htm>http://www.historic-uk.com/DestinationsUK/MaidenCastle.htm

MAIDEN CASTLE, DORSET
The largest Iron Age Hill Fort in Europe.
[]Maiden Castle is the largest Iron Age hill fort in Europe and covers an area of 47 acres. 'Maiden' derives from the Celtic 'Mai Dun' which means 'great hill'. It is situated just 2 miles south of Dorchester in Dorset. It is truly an amazing place: even after more than 2000 years, the earthworks are immense, some ramparts rising to a height of 6 metres (20 feet).

It is thought that the construction of Maiden Castle began around 3000 BC and flint tools and other object dating from that time have been found. The late Stone Age/ early Bronze Age people who lived there built a massive ditch and bank some 545 metres in length. There are Bronze Age burial mounds on the right hand end of the Castle.

The present hill fort as we see it today, was started during the Iron Age around 450 - 300 BC when the area of the fort was extended and the ramparts and ditches were enlarged. Three ditches were dug, the earth removed being used to build the ramparts. A wooden fence would have been built along the ramparts with wooden gates at the entrances. The entrances were not aligned therefore making it more difficult for opposing forces to gain entry.

At the time of the Roman invasion in 43 AD, Maiden Castle was inhabited by the Durotriges tribe. The battle to take the castle was a bloody one: the Romans under Vespasian finally victorious. Recent excavations have uncovered the bodies of 38 Iron Age warriors, buried with food and drink for their journey into the after life.

[]A Roman temple was built at Maiden Castle in the 4th century, the foundations of which can still be seen today. The fort was abandoned shortly after this time, although it may have been occupied during early Saxon times. It has certainly been deserted for the last 1400 years or so.

Maiden Castle is maintained by English Heritage and is open all year. At the site there is a large car park with information boards regarding the history of this extraordinary monument. As you climb the hill, the sheer size of the place and the huge effort it must have taken to build it, cannot fail to impress!

<http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~snlrc/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/boudica/maidencastle.html>http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~snlrc/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/boudica/maidencastle.html

"The Britons apply the term 'strongholds' to densely wooded spots fortified with a rampart and trench, to which they retire in order to escape the attacks of invaders."

Caesar, Gallic War

The largest and most famous of all British hillforts, the triple ramparts of Maiden Castle near Durnovaria (Dorchester) were erected in the first century BC and breached in AD 43 by Legio II Augusta under the command of the future emperor Vespasian. It was one of more than twenty such settlements that Suetonius says was captured in the subjugation of southwest Britain.

The savagery of the assault is evidenced by a skeleton in the Dorset County Mu

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1. Oslo War Results:
From: Jackie Miller
Subject: Israel
Following are
official government statistics regarding the effect of the Oslo War that began
three years ago on Rosh Hashanah, another in a list of byproducts of the signing
of the Oslo Agreement.

a. Murdered - 867 persons

b. Injured in terror attacks - 5,878 (4,184 civilians and 1,694 security
personnel). Many of the injured remain with permanent disabilities as a result
(loss of arms, legs, etc).

c. 18,876 terror attacks, an average of 17.6 a day. Most occurred in Yesha
(Judea, Samaria & Gaza) areas (96%), but the ones inside Green Line Israel (4%)
were generally more lethal. Over half the lives lost were inside Israel proper.

d. 306 suicide bombers - 127 bombers blew themselves up while 179 were
apprehended in time.

e. The war has cost the economy NIS 75 billion. The standard of living has
dropped about 6%.

2. Honest Reporting: Rosh Hashana Nightmare
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:01:17 -0700
From: Honest Reporting <action@honestreporting.com>
Dear HonestReporting Subscriber,

On Friday night (Sept. 26), an Islamic Jihad terrorist opened fire on a West Bank (Negohot) home filled with families sharing a Jewish New Year meal, murdering 7-month-old Shaked Abraham and 26-year-old Eyal Yerberbaum.

Media reports included many of the disturbing breaches of fair journalism that have characterized coverage of the past three years of Palestinian violence:

BBC's headline, "Three Dead in West Bank Attack," presents a gross moral equivalence between the terrorist and victims all of whom are grouped together, without specifying that one of the "three dead" murdered the other two in cold blood.

Further, the BBC headline fails to identify either the (Arab) attacker or the (Jewish) victims. Nor does BBC mention the newsworthy fact that one victim was a baby.

Given this most benign, nondescript headline, we can only conclude one of two possibilities: 1) the BBC headline writer is inept, unable to capture the essence of the incident, or 2) BBC purposely drafted this headline in keeping with an agenda to whitewash acts of Palestinian terror and Israeli victimhood.

Comments to: newsonline.complaints@bbc.co.uk

Reuters included this background information to rationalize the terrorist act:

"Palestinians regard Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as major obstacles to peace and have regularly attacked them."

Reuters' description suggests preposterously that Palestinian terrorists perpetrate the willful murder of civilians out of a quest for peace.

Comments to: editor@reuters.com

While the Palestinian terror continues, it is unsettling to see the media's pattern of cloudy headlines and rationalization of barbaric terrorism continue apace.
-
HonestReporting.com

3. Iran woman awaits execution

Brian Whitaker
Saturday September 27, 2003
The Guardian

An Iranian woman is about to be executed for killing a police chief who allegedly tried to rape her, Amnesty International said yesterday.

Afsaneh Nouroozi, 32, was reportedly arrested six years ago after killing the head of police intelligence in Kish, southern Iran.

At her trial she said that she had acted in self-defence. Her lawyer cited an article of Iran's Islamic criminal law that allows citizens to take "proportionate" action to defend "life, honour, chastity, property or freedom" when it is impractical to summon help from the authorities.

Nouroozi was nevertheless sentenced to death, and the sentence is reported to have been upheld by the supreme court last month. The only person able to grant clemency at this stage is the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Amnesty believes the execution is imminent.

The case has aroused controversy because of implications for women's rights.

The 83 people reportedly executed in Iran so far this year have been male. At least five women were executed last year, four for killing their husbands.

4. Arutz Sheva News Monday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Sep. 29, 2003 / Tzom Gedaliah 5764
ABORTIONS IN ISRAEL
Health Ministry statistics for 2002 show that almost 20,000 abortions were carried out in Israel last year - some 40% of them in hospitals and the rest in private clinics. Efrat, an organization dedicated to encouraging Jewish population growth in Israel, reports that it saved 1,336 fetuses from being aborted last year - 11% more than in the previous year. The same trend is apparent this year, and the organization notes, "These are not merely dry statistics; every life is an entire world." Over 700 mothers, many of whom originally wanted to abort their babies because of economic difficulties, currently receive monthly allowances from Efrat.

FAST OF GEDALIAH
Today, the third day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, is the Fast of Gedaliah - a day of fasting and reflection for Jews around the world. Gedaliah ben [the son of] Achikam was appointed some 2,500 years ago by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar to serve as Jewish governor in Israel. This occurred following the exile of most of the Jewish population and the destruction of the First Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Gedaliah was soon assassinated, however, by a fellow Jew, thus ending Jewish independence in the Holy Land for the next 70 years.

5. Ramses II
From: Betty Rhodes
Yair,
In regards to the Ramses II article you sent earlier - Andis Kaulins had this to say about it:

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:03:54 -0000
From: "Andis Kaulins" <<mailto:AKaulins@aol.com>AKaulins@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Ramses II

The importance of the previous posting [about Ramses II] is this:

see <http://www.manchesteregypt.freeserve.co.uk/archives/bible-dayschool.htm>http://www.manchesteregypt.freeserve.co.uk/archives/bible-dayschool.htm

where it is written:

"Professor Kitchen then went on to discuss the Hebrews and their
activities in Egypt from the time of Joseph up to the Exodus. There
is evidence for Hebrew building activity in the Delta from the time
of Tutankhamun, as they began the building and re-building of a
number of cities, including Pi-Ramses, Sais and Tanis."

So, we see here that Ramses II placed his capital at Pi-Ramses, a
city rebuit by the Hebrews at THIS time.

I claim Ramses II was King Solomon, so that this story makes sense
using my historical interpretation.

And why pray tell should Ramses II put his capital right in the
middle of the Jewish neighborhood in the Nile Delta? unless he
himself were Jewish.

Andis

WAR AGAINST TERROR
1. Transfer of Arabs Is The Only Sound Solution
From: Women in Green <wfit2@womeningreen.org>

Transfer of Arabs Is The Only Sound Solution For Peace!
Ruth and Nadia Matar

For many years now, Arafat, through his educational system, has inculcated Arab children with hatred of Jews. He has been extraordinarily successful. Aided and abetted by his daily Arab propaganda network directed both to adults and children, Arafat has effectuated a hatred against Jews that is irremediable. He has innovated suicide bombings of civilians, honoring, even posthumously, the maker of bombs and suicide bombers. Generations of children growing up in the Palestinian Authority school system have had ingrained in them that killing Jews is desirable. This inclination has become an integral part of Arab culture. As a result, 1200 Jews have been killed, and literally many, many thousands maimed for life.

Arafat promises those who die in suicide bombings to be instantaneously rewarded. He labels them "heroes." There have been so many children growing up with this orientation, that no "true peace" between Jew and Arab can ever be realistically obtained. That Arabs in the future will live side by side in peace with Jews, does not square with the facts, nor with the daily murder of Jews by Arabs.

The Road Map, sponsored by the European Union, the U.N., and Russia, as well as U.S. Secretary of State Powell and President Bush, has not taken reality into consideration. The Road Map is essentially the Saudi Arabian solution to the Mid-East problem, and as such is one sided and basically unfair.

Radically new thinking is required in order to have peace in the area. Transfer of Arabs from the Holy Land is, without a doubt, the best solution. Once upon a time, that concept was looked upon with disfavor by "liberals". Whereas, they saw no difficulty in transferring Jews out of their homes in historical Judea and Samaria, as far as Arabs are concerned, that was taboo. Yet the fact remains that the Promised Land was promised by G-d to the Jews only. This fact is recognized even in the Koran.

Most Arabs came into the Holy Land from surrounding Arab lands within the last 100 years. Transfer could be made to Jordan where the majority of the population is made up of so-called Palestinian Arabs. Or they can be sent back to many of the Arab lands from which these Arabs originally emigrated to Israel. Fair payment can be made to those Arabs who agree to leave the Holy Land. Arabs who wish to remain, can do so, provided they agree to be a citizen of a Jewish State. The United States and the E.U. would have to play a major role in this enterprise. Both of them have been anyhow pouring substantial monies into the area; their monies could be used more effectively for the purpose of resettling Arabs.

Transfer would require the cooperation of many of the surrounding Arab States, something with which Arab governments have heretofore not had a very good track record. However, if the U.S. and the E.U. brought sufficient pressure, that problem could be overcome. What is needed is a determination to bring peace to this important area of the world, and there is nothing more logical and simple than to allow for a vibrant democratic Jewish State living peacefully with its neighbors. Transferring Arabs out of the Holy Land not only complies with G-d's Promise, but will definitely assist in making this desired goal possible.

Jerusalem, September 30, 2003 Ruth and Nadia Matar

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2. Abortions
by Binyamin Zeev Kahana (11/91)
Translated by Lenny Goldberg
[Extracts]

Abortions In Israel: More Than a Million Victims in 47 Years

This column is dedicated to one of the most shocking, yet relatively undiscussed subjects - abortions in the State of Israel. There is an organization called "Efrat" whose primary goal is to increase the number of births of Jewish children in Israel. This group, which works with wonderfu l"msirus nefesh" [self-dedication] in fighting the astronomical number of abortions in Israel, asked us to write about this subject for Parshat Shmot. Considering the critical nature of the matter, we are more than happy to fulfill this request. The fact is that he who remains quiet concerning the issue of elective abortions becomes a partner to this atrocious mass murder.

As society increasingly depicts abortions as representing"progress" and "womens rights", the statistics regarding it have become more and more staggering. According to "Efrat", more than 1,000,000 children have been killed since the beginning of the State. Yes, a genuine holocaust - and no one cares. According to a recent study, 60% of women who gave birth at Hadassah Hospital in Har HaZoftim admitted than they underwent an abortion "out of convenience" in the past. When the former Minister of Health Dr. Sadan took it upon himself to fight against this phenomenon, playing a short film for the members of the Israeli Knesset depicting the abomination of abortions in Israel, and comparing this legal mass murder to the Holocaust in Europe, the Knesset members jumped out of their skin. What enraged them so? The murder of the fetuses? Of course not! What shocked these bleeding hearts was the fact that Mr. Sadan made the comparison of abortion to the Holocaust. He was forced to step down and relinquish his duties.

What is particularly fascinating, though, is the entire leftist, liberal approach to the subject. From their point of view, the more one supports abortions, the more "enlightened" that person is. You may ask: How does mass murder sit so well with humanitarian enlightened types? It's quite simple! You see, the killing of a fetus is an expression of "freedom over one's body", feminism, and progressive advanced society! And what about the fetuses right to live? That is not relevant to the modern and progressive.

While every decent person would agree that child abuse is abhorrent, suddenly it becomes legitimate and even fashionable to kill a child in his mother's womb. Technically speaking, harming a child one second after he leaves his mother's womb is demented, but killing it a second before leaving his mother's womb is "freedom over her body". This gross perversion of morality is the result of morals that are dictated by man and not God. Not long ago, it was even reported that in certain gynecological clinics that perform abortions, dogs eat the remains of the baby after it has been grated from his mother's womb.

"The Tiniest Human Being"

Story of a Doctor: "Many years ago, after anesthetizing the woman for the sake of halting the pregnancy from outside the womb (second month), I held in my hand the tiniest human being ever seen. The fetus was impeccable - complete and transparent. It was a male full of energy swimming in the sac of water, adjoined by the umbilical cord to the wall of the sac. The miniature human being was completely developed - long and narrow fingers, feet and toes. Its skin was practically transparent. Its arteries and veins stood out until the tips of his fingers. The body was completely alive and was in no way similar to the pictures of fetuses that I had seen in the past. When the sac was opened, his life was terminated instantaneously, and he looked just like one would expect a fetus to look like at this stage - lifeless." (Dr. Paul N. Rockwell)

"80 Cents Short"

Story of a Chief of Staff: "I was born in Tel Adashim. The date was under dispute, until my father and the head of the village determined: anuary 11, 1929. I left my mother's womb to breathe the world's air because my parents were....too poor. Totally impovershed. Four children came before me, and my father could not provide for them. That is why my parents decided to spare me from such poverty and put an end to me - in my mother's womb. But we were so poor that that my father couldn't come up with the two liros necessary to perform the abortion. Through great effort my father was able to collect one liro and 20. He urged the doctors to do the abortion and he would pay the 80 grushim at a later date - but the doctors refused. No credit allowed, and a son was born. Now there were five children in the needy family. There were days when my parents would say jokingly: "This kid is worth two liros?" (Story of former Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan)

3. Efrat
Hello,
I wonder if you could provide more info about Efrat. Such as where to send a
donation to help with monthly allowances to these mothers who have decided
not to abort their babies.
Thank you,
M

Answer: See
http://info.jpost.com/1999/Supplements/Charity/crib.html
Donations In Israel Efrat
10 Ha-ilug Street
P.O.B. 6325
Jerusalem, 91062
www.efrat.org.il/support.html
Donations In United States C.R.I.B.
1612 57th Steet
Brooklyn, NY 11204-1832
Contact Information Name: C.R.I.B - Efrat
Fax: 972-2-654-1393
E-mail: efrat@netvision.net.il

4. Arutz Sheva News Tuesday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Sep. 30, 2003 / Elul 4, 5763
MIDDLE EAST TERROR UPDATE
IDF forces destroyed the home last night of the terrorist who murdered baby Shaked Avraham and Eyal Yeberbaum on Rosh HaShanah Eve. The attack was perpetrated in Negohot, in Judea between Hevron and Kiryat Gat, by a Palestinian terrorist who was released from prison only two months ago. Suspected of planning a terror attack, he served a 13-month sentence on charges of belonging to an enemy organization.

Egypt has released 1,000 members of the extremist Moslem organization Jama'a Islamiya from prison, in honor of the upcoming 30th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. Local police say that the freed prisoners declared they would not revert to violence. Egypt also freed the head of the cell that assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981 last week, after he expressed regret for the deed. On the other hand, Algerian news reports say that the Algerian army killed 150 Islamist terrorists during the past two weeks in an ongoing government anti-terror offensive.

A leading wanted Hamas terrorist was caught today near N'vei Yaakov, Jerusalem. This afternoon, a pipebomb exploded alongside an IDF patrol near Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif; no one was hurt.

5. Jews and Christians Support the Ten Commandments

From: Toward Tradition <mail@towardtradition.org>

News Release
For immediate Release

Contact:
Jennifer Brunson
Toward Tradition
PO Box 58
Mercer Island, WA 98040
(206) 236-3046
www.towardtradition.org

Jews and Christians Join Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to Support the Ten Commandments

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - September 29, 2003 - Toward Tradition, a national organization of Jews working with Christians, joined with Governor Sonny Perdue of Georgia and the Christian Coalition today at the State Capitol in Atlanta to oppose secular fundamentalists' attempts to ban the Ten Commandments from public display.

Toward Tradition works to redirect America toward the traditional Judeo-Christian values that defined America at its creation. It's founder and President, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, has stated, We believe that to be successful, we must defeat the negative forces of secular fundamentalismand anti-religion bigotry. And there is no better example of anti-religion bigotry than the efforts of the secular fundamentalists to remove the Ten Commandments from the public square, and especially from our courts of justice.

6. Arutz Sheva News Wednesday
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Oct. 1, 2003 / Tishrei 5, 5764
OSLO WAR STATISTICS
In the three years of Palestinian terrorist warfare, there have been almost 19,000 terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. Despite its tiny size, Gaza was the site of 54% of the attacks, 42% in Judea and Samaria, and only 4% in the rest of Israel. These attacks include suicide explosions, car bombs, shootings, mortar shellings, bombs, lynchings, stabbings, and rock-throwings, and have claimed 862 victims. The total number of terrorism deaths since the signing of the Oslo Accords just over 10 years ago: 1,111.

EFFECTS OF THE THREAT AGAINST ARAFAT
A poll of Palestinian Authority Arabs finds that support for Yasser Arafat is on the rise. A poll taken by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion after the Israeli decision to "remove" the PA Chairman shows that 73.7% of the PA public support him - more than in previous surveys. The survey also indicated that 56.3% of the PA Arabs support the continuation of the armed conflict with Israel.

The Israeli threat against Arafat has had other consequences as well. The New York Daily News, quoting a Hamas source, says that Israel's threat to evict or possibly kill Yasser Arafat is the reason the terrorist group has held off on recent attacks. "Hamas doesn't want to have a black historical [mark against it] that it was the reason for expelling Arafat," a Hamas member said. Recent Israeli attempts against Hamas leaders, some successful, are the reason the organization has been keeping a low media profile, the paper reports.

WAR AGAINST TERROR
The head of a top Islamic Jihad leader in Jenin was caught this morning hiding under a car. An IDF Egoz unit arrested Bassam Sa'ad, one of the most wanted terrorists, and thus fulfilled one of the army's primary objectives in its two-week-old offensive in the city. At least 20 wanted terrorists have been arrested during this period, several planned terrorist attacks have been foiled, and at least one car bomb was discovered and dismantled.

A cell of rock-throwing Arabs was arrested early this morning in a raid on an Arab village near Givat Ze'ev... Arab gunmen opened fire and threw grenades last night at Israeli soldiers manning two positions along the Egypt-Israel border near Rafiach. No one was hurt, and the soldiers returned fire... IDF forces arrested 14 wanted terror suspects during the night, in the areas of Ramallah, Tul Karem and Shechem... Israeli security services issued 38 warnings of possible terrorist attacks today...

7. Latvia and Nazis
From: Vlady Rozenbaum <vlady.rita@verizon.net>

http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/92/372/10978_Latvia.html
http://english.pravda.ru/img/2003/09/latvia.bmp

Latvia Opens SS Veterans Cemetery
09/27/2003 15:21

The opening ceremony was very solemn

The ceremony to open the common cemetery of Latvian legionaries - Nazi
SS veterans - is taking place in Latvia today. The solemn ceremony
started at midday, local time, it was broadcast on the national
television and radio. Former legionaries, their relatives and followers
are to take part in the ceremony together with a lot of Latvian
politicians and leaders of Latvia's largest religious confessions.

Three military orchestras of the Latvian Defense Ministry will be
playing at the ceremony. "The whole Latvia will see that an old
sanctuary has appeared in the country," chairman of the National
Warriors Association Nikolay Romanovskis said.