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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:10:38 +0200

Jerusalem News-302
Contents:
1. Arutz Sheva News Friday
ARIK ZE'EVI BRINGS BRONZE MEDAL TO ISRAEL
U.S. TO SYRIA: END THE OCCUPATION (of Lebanon)
YESHA RESIDENTS MAY BE BARRED FROM 115 COUNTRIES
MORE MOSLEM PLANS TO DESTROY JEWISH BONDS WITH TEMPLE MOUNT
2. TOURISTS CONTINUE TO FLOCK TO ISRAEL
3. Olympic Games Results: A Brit-Am Perspective
4. Israelis are Happy With Life
5. Justice

1. Arutz Sheva News Friday
IsraelNationalNews.com
August 20, 2004 / Elul 3, 5764
ARIK ZE'EVI BRINGS BRONZE MEDAL TO ISRAEL
Israel is celebrating Arik Ze'evi's winning of a bronze medal in Judo yesterday at the 2004 Olympic games in Athens. Ze'evi, 27, who was named after the Prime Minister, is from the Pardes Katz neighborhood of Bnei Brak.

Israel's Judo champion Ze'evi lost a match earlier in the day to an opponent from South Korea - costing him a chance for the gold medal. Ze'evi went on to defeat opponents from Cameroon and France in the semi-final and final of the secondary group, taking the bronze medal against a Dutch opponent and finishing the day with five wins and one loss.

"I couldn't imagine this could really happen," Ze'evi told Voice of Israel Radio following his win. "I tried to imagine how it would feel, but it does not compare." Ze'evi added that although he was under intense pressure to succeed on behalf of Israel, he greatly appreciated the outpouring of support from his fellow Israelis, many of whom were on hand to cheer him on.

Ze'evi's bronze medal is the fifth in Israel's Olympic history. In 1992, in Barcelona, Yael Arad and Oren Smadja - a relative of Ze'evi - won silver and bronze medals respectively in the Judo competition. In 1996, Gal Friedman won a bronze medal for windsurfing, and in 2000, Michael Kolganov won a bronze medal for kayaking.

U.S. TO SYRIA: END THE OCCUPATION
American diplomats and US congressmen visiting in Syria this week appealed to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to pull his occupation troops out of Lebanon. Some consider this call nothing more than a Zionist plot.

Vincent Battle, the US Ambassador to Beirut, was quoted this week in the Lebanese daily An-Nahar as saying that it was "time the Syrian army withdrew from Lebanon," and that only such a Syrian withdrawal would return complete sovereignty to Lebanon. The American legislators also reiterated the need for a Syrian withdrawal, saying they would take the issue directly to Assad.

The Lebanese English-language Daily Star reported, "Official [Syrian] media reports overlooked the issue of the Syrian presence here, in their account of discussions between Assad and a delegation of US congressmen in Damascus over the weekend." The paper reported that the "official Syrian news agency, SANA... said that the congressmen only discussed repercussions of the war in Iraq on neighboring states, and bilateral dialogue between Syria and the United States."

The apparent US concern for Lebanese independence was mocked by Lebanese officials, regarded as Syrian appointees in any case. Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri expressed skepticism about "US sentimentality for the Arab region." Akkar MP Mikhail Daher said that the congressmen were "trying to please the Zionist lobby," the Daily Star reported. Sunni Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani also condemned the statements, calling them the "latest proof of a US-Zionist war against Islam."

YESHA RESIDENTS MAY BE BARRED FROM 115 COUNTRIES
The largest international body outside the United Nations, the 115-member Non-Aligned Movement, passed a series of anti-Israel resolutions last night. Among them is a call for action "to decline entry to Israeli settlers" - i.e., the 450,000 Jewish residents of areas liberated in the Six Day War such as eastern and northern Jerusalem, Gush Etzion, Ariel, and the Golan. In addition, the nations resolved to call for action towards imposing sanctions against entities involved in the construction of Israel's anti-terrorism partition.

The nations wishing to impose these measures are located in Africa, South America and Asia. Convening this week in South Africa, they also resolved to turn to the UN for stronger measures against Israel for building the anti-terror partition. Jerusalem has not yet commented on the resolutions.
MORE MOSLEM PLANS TO DESTROY JEWISH BONDS WITH TEMPLE MOUNT
The Moslem Waqf plans to remove another few thousand tons of dirt dug up in the course of its illegal construction/destruction work on the Temple Mount. The dirt contains ancient remnants from the Temple Mount, and the leaders of the Committee to Prevent the Destruction of Temple Mount Antiquities will meet on Sunday with Antiquities Authority Chairman Shuka Dorfman to counter this intention. In the past, the Waqf has received permits from the Prime Minister's Office and the Public Security Ministry to remove dirt of this nature.

It is well-known that the Moslem goal is to erase all vestiges of Jewish presence on the Temple Mount, Judaism's most sacred site in the world. Islamic Movement leader Israeli-Arab Sheikh Raed Salah has said that the "use of the Temple Mount is exclusively a Moslem Arab Palestinian right," adding, "There never was any First or Second Temple in the vicinity of the Mosque." Archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar has told Arutz-7 that the Waqf's objective is to turn "the entire Temple Mount compound into a large mosque, with absolutely no Jewish, Christian or other presence there. The archaeology there absolutely does not interest them; they merely want to cover up all signs of Jewish history there."

2. TOURISTS CONTINUE TO FLOCK TO ISRAEL
In the first seven months of this year, 821,800 tourists entered Israelan increase of 58 percent compared to the same period last year, and 74 percent higher than the same period in 2002. Of this number, 88.6 percent arrived by air, while 91,300more than double the same-period figure of last yeararrived by land. Eilat was the landing point of 26,600 air visitorsmore than double compared to last year's numbers. Tourism Minister Gideon Ezra, who took over from National Union Knesset (Parliament) Member Benny Elon two months ago, expressed satisfaction at the figures, and noted that an estimated 1.4 million tourists are forecast to visit Israel this year.
(Arutz Sheva, August 18, 2004)

3. Olympic Games Results: A Brit-Am Perspective

ATHENS 2004 Medals

Aug/21/2004 (Gold, Silver, Bronze)
1 USA United States 19 15 12
2 CHN China 18 13 10
3 JPN Japan 12 5 5
4 AUS Australia 11 6 10
5 GER Germany 9 7 11
6 RUS Russia 6 13 14
7 FRA France 6 7 7
8 ITA Italy 6 6 5
9 UKR Ukraine 6 2 3
10 KOR Korea 5 10 4

Brit-Am Perspective: Three Nations in which Israelites descendants were prominent
(USA, Australia, France) are in the top 10. The USA has the best results on an absolute
basis while Australia has done the best considered her relative population, i.e. per capita.
france is almost as good as Germany when allowance is taken for her lower population.
The future opponents of Israel occupy all the other spots:
Nations in which Edom is prominent amongst the ruling classes and elite elements (Japan, Germany,
Italy, maybe Ukraine) are all up there amongst the leaders. China, Korea, Russia, the Ukraine
will also be present amongst the forces of Gog and Magog. At least they are keeping healthy.

4. Israelis are Happy With Life
The poll was based on interviews with 7,200 Israelis older than 20.

According to the study, 81% of Israel’s citizens are happy with their lives, with 52% believing that the future will be even better.

The poll examined the degree of religious identification in the Israeli public as well, finding that 6% of Israelis considers themselves Hareidi-religious, 9% observant, 13% traditional-observant, 27% traditional-non-observant, and 46% secular.

In the area of employment and family relations, 83% of those employed are happy with their jobs and 95% are happy with their family relationships.

A comparable poll carried out by Harris Interactive and featured in the Washington Times, found 59% of Americans to be happy with their lives.

5. Justice
[Deuteronomy 16:18] JUDGES AND OFFICERS SHALT THOU MAKE THEE IN ALL THY GATES, WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE, THROUGHOUT THY TRIBES: AND THEY SHALL JUDGE THE PEOPLE WITH JUST JUDGMENT.

[Deuteronomy 16:19] THOU SHALT NOT WREST JUDGMENT; THOU SHALT NOT RESPECT PERSONS, NEITHER TAKE A GIFT: FOR A GIFT DOTH BLIND THE EYES OF THE WISE, AND PERVERT THE WORDS OF THE RIGHTEOUS.

[Deuteronomy 16:20] THAT WHICH IS ALTOGETHER JUST SHALT THOU FOLLOW, THAT THOU MAYEST LIVE, AND INHERIT THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE.

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1. Goths in Ukraine
Archeologists find Goth settlement
Big News Network.com Tuesday 17th August, 2004
Archeologists working near the Ukrainian village of Voitenki have found a large ancient Goth settlement, Novosti reported Monday.
The site, located in the Kharkov region, indicates Goths lived alongside Slavs 17 centuries ago, ICTV channel reported.
A large amount of coins, jewelry and fragments of Roman glass cups prove Goth aristocrats and their servants lived in the settlement, said Mikhail Lyubichev, assistant professor in the history department of Kharkov University.
Lyubichev and his colleagues also found a massive potter's wheel covered with bronze.
He said the settlement is one of the largest of the so-called Kingdom of Germanarika.

2. Arutz Sheva News Wednesday,
IsraelNationalNews.com
Aug. 25, 2004 / Elul 8, 5764
ISRAELI SURFER WINS FIRST ISRAELI OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL
Windsurfing champion Gal Friedman won a gold medal in the Athens Olympics today - Israel's first gold medal in Olympic history. It was Israel's second medal this year, after Judoka Arik Ze'evi won a bronze last week. Friedman, from Pardes Hanna-Karkur, also made history by becoming Israel's first athlete to win two Olympic medals; he won a bronze medal in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

Friedman had to finish his last race three places ahead of his closest competitor, Ricardo Santos of Brazil, in order to win the gold. He finished in second place, and when he turned around and saw Santos way behind - Santos ultimately finished 17th, and did not win even the bronze medal - he took out the Israeli flag he takes on all his races and began celebrating. Nearby, the Israeli team began singing HaTikvah, Israel's unofficial national anthem - which will be played for the first time at an Olympic event at 8 PM tonight when Friedman is awarded the gold medal.

Friedman explained afterwards that his strategy was to stay close to the Brazilian, even at the expense of falling behind: "It wasn't enough for me to beat him; I had to win by three places. He was trying to stay even with me, so I 'dragged' him to stay back and then I started to pull ahead; he kept thinking only about staying even with me, but then when he fell behind, he lost himself; it shows how tricky this is..." He said he received "great energy" from the support he experienced from Israel, on the internet and in the newspapers: "I feel, literally, as if I had a whole country pushing me from behind." Gal, which means 'wave' in Hebrew, said, "I expressed confidence the whole way, not because I am arrogant, but because I really had the confidence, and I knew that without confidence I couldn't win."

EL AL MAKES SABBATH DECISION
El Al will not fly on the Sabbath. Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger told Arutz-7 last night that he had met yesterday with the future head of El Al Israel Airlines, Prof. Izzy Borovitch, and that Borovitch told him that El Al had decided not to fly on Shabbat even after the company becomes privatized.

"I am happy that El Al was responsive to the desires of the religious community," Rabbi Metzger said, adding that he was pleased to note that Borovitch appeared to be motivated not only by financial considerations, but also out of appreciation for the Jewish Sabbath.

3. Arutz Sheva News Thursday
IsraelNationalNews.com
August 26, 2004 / Elul 9, 5764
DIGGING UP HISTORY
The Antiquities Authority revealed yesterday two extraordinary findings in the Tel Bareket archaeological dig near Modiin: A large Jewish village from the Second Temple period, and a Canaanite city from the period between Noah and Abraham.

"This is one of the most unique sites ever dug in Israel," Antiquities Authority sources told Maariv. Some ten archaeologists and 250 workers took part in the unprecedented dig, which took place over a large area that was divided into two parts. In one area, diggers discovered housing units, mikvaot [ritual baths], a water canal and reservoir system, yards, streets, agricultural findings, and coins from the Hasmonean period and later. In the second area, a large and well-fortified city from close to 5,000 years ago was found.

4. Arutz Sheva News Friday
Roadside Bomb Exlodes Beneath Public Bus
The number 160 bus was travelling from Jerusalem south to Kiryat Arba and Hevron when shortly after the Gush Etzion junction a roadside bomb was detonated beneath it. The explosion occurred near El Arub, twenty-five minutes south of Jerusalem. The bomb exploded, heavily damaging the bus but failed to injure any passengers.

The segment of highway 60 between the Okfim and Gush Etzion junctions was closed following the attack to allow security forces to inspect the area for further explosive charges.

Yet another Kassam rocket landed within Israel's pre-1967 border this evening, slamming into an open field between Kibbutz Kfar Aza and Kibbutz Sa’ad. No injuries were reported.

5. Oil Prices Zoom towards Possible $50 per Barrel by Winter
http://www.debka.com/
DEBKAfile Special Financial Report
August 3, 2004, 9:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
Extract:
Oil prices touched another all time high of $44 per barrel in trading on Monday, August 2.

Russia is the second oil exporter in the world, after Saudi Arabia. Fears surrounding the fate of the embattled oil giant have been forcing oil prices higher for some weeks, adding to the squeeze created by increasing demand, especially from United States, and the burgeoning Chinese economy. Demand traditionally rises ahead of winter as stocks are replenished to meet heating needs. But the real squeeze in the oil market is caused by tight supply.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the world cartel known as OPEC, is already pumping its highest output in a quarter of a century to meet growing demand. Its leading member, Saudi Arabia, has raised production by one million barrels a day to arrest a spiral that could curb the world’s economic growth. Accounting for about half of the world’s oil product, OPEC’s official price band is $22-28 for a basket of crude. But cartel members have already hit almost 95% of their collective capacity by pumping 26 million bpd.

Immediate prospects for prices to level out are not good. The threat of sabotage hangs over Saudi infrastructure, including pipelines. The Iraqi oil industry, which exported 1.5 barrels per day in July, remains an uncertain factor given the state of security in the country. Other big oil players like Venezuela, Nigeria and Norway are also in the grip of unrest and strikes.

A new factor that could have a harmful effect on oil prices is the possible imposition of UN sanctions on another major world producer, Iran, which is steadily progressing towards a nuclear weapons capability. The United States is preparing to present next month’s International Atomic Energy Agency board meeting in Vienna with a demand to complain to the UN Security Council about Iran’s violations and demand sanctions. Tehran indicated Monday, August 2, that the Islamic Republic was not dismayed by the threat and was capable of riding out sanctions. However, a penalty such as the oil-for-food sanctions imposed on Saddam Hussein would further stifle world oil production and push prices up further.

But even if all the existing negative factors persist into the winter, most analysts predict oil could go as high as $50 a barrel.

How would the world economy be affected if oil price remained above $40?

The real price of oil (adjusted for inflation) is still around half the level of the early 1980's. Even so, any price level above $40 would be detrimental. It would slow American growth by 0.5 pc and add 0.7pc to American inflation. Japan, which relies entirely on imported oil, could see its GDP growth reduced by 1 pc. The sharpest pinch would be felt by the American voter. Because gasoline is taxed, the American motorist would suffer more than car owners in other countries.

6. EU Bankrolls PLO Enemies of Israel
http://www.debka.com/
Arafat: They're after Me and My Money
DEBKAfile's Special Report
February 18, 2004, 5:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Extract
For Arafat, cash only

Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala) has been engaged in a last ditch attempt to rescue the European aid program to the Palestinians from total cutoff. Palestinian Authority's coffers, which depend on foreign handouts for 60 percent of their revenues, are depleted. American aid is already lost, since Washington vowed (as DEBKAfile reported exclusively last year) not to give the Palestinians a red cent until they hand over the killers of three CIA security men murdered in a roadside explosion in the Gaza Strip on October 15.

Now, the Americans are pushing hard for Europe to follow suit. The European Union is nonetheless continuing to pay the salaries of about 100,000 Palestinian Authority officials and security officers, but it has posed a key proviso: donations will no longer be handed over in cash to the PA an invitation to the corrupt practices besetting Palestinian government - but transferred directly into the individual payees’ banks accounts. Palestinian officials with no bank accounts will get no paychecks. Thus complete transparency will be assured. However, the Palestinian Authority shorn of its dollar and euro revenues cannot survive. Ironically, Israel continues to make its regular shekel remittances to the PA, a leftover from its undertakings under the defunct Oslo peace accords. This comes nowhere near covering the PA’s budgetary shortfall.

Yasser Arafat and the heads of his Fatah faction and Tanzim militia predictably turned down the European proviso, and no wonder: a) To open an account and draw funds from the bank, Palestinian security men will have to show identification; b) they can no longer be forced by their commanders and Arafat to engage in terrorists activities in order to feed their families. As PA officers, they will receive their paychecks directly from the EU.

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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:06:18 +0200

Jerusalem News-304
Contents:
1.ISRAEL TO THE RESCUE?
2. The Spy Accusations - Damage Done
3. Arutz Sheva News Tuesday,
ALERT FEMALE SOLDIER PREVENTS BOMBING ATTACK
4. Haaretz: mass murder in the south of Israel
5. Terrorist Strike in New York: Unreported?

1.ISRAEL TO THE RESCUE?
From: David Ben-Ariel <davidbenariel@famvid.com>
Subject: Israel to the rescue
To: A FORUM ON THE MIDDLE EAST <AFORUMONTHEMIDDLEEAST@groups.msn.com>
ISRAEL TO THE RESCUE

Dear friends,

I believe there is no doubt at all that Iran is in the final stages of completing its military nuclear capabilities. You may have seen the news clips of Iran parading its long range missiles and rockets which are within range of Tel Aviv.

I am confident you all realize that nuclear bombs in the possession of the fundamentalist Iranian Muslim regime, which is not hiding its support of international Islamic terrorism, including such groups as Hizballah, is an imminent and extremely dangerous scheme.

Incidentally, it was reported yesterday by Israel’s 2nd TV Channel News that Hizballah is now accountable for 78% of Palestinian terrorism in Judea and Samaria. The Arab-Palestinians are thus widening and internationalizing the scope of their terrorism and their ultimate plan of annihilating Israel.

Some experts predict that Iran can be nuclear-capable within ten (10) months. This is the context and the scope of the crisis and the backdrop of the war in Iraq.

Friends, before attacking President Bush, how many of you understand that Iraq is intended as a buffer between Iran and the rest of the Middle East?

You can bet your life that the next President of the USA, whoever he may be, will have to deal with this looming threat within his first term in office. If you agree with me that “negotiations” with Iran is an unattainable fantasy, that at best it might merely postpone the inevitable for a short while, just so that Iran can use the time to consolidate its preparations even further, you belong to those who understand the situation as well as the Middle East. It might also influence your choice of President in November. I know who I am voting for.

Some of my US friends console themselves by offering the following scenario: We are not worried, so they say; Israel will have to react, as it did in Iraq in 1981, and will take out Iran’s nuclear reactor. The US will tacitly acquiesce and will offer Israel the necessary diplomatic protection. The world will secretly rejoice, including some Arab countries, while condemning Israel’s “aggression” and its protector, The Great Satan, but after a few months, Israel’s “flagrant violation of international law” will be forgotten…

If the above scenario is probable, I am in strong opposition to it. It is high time for the western world to take control and responsibility for Islamic aggression and stop the reliance on tiny Israel to do the dirty job for it.

The USA, Europe and Asia must openly support Israel’s needs. The more moderate Arab countries, including the new Iraq, must be coerced to fully join in with the West in its quest against fundamental Islam. All must drop the smoke screen of the “Palestinian” issue and start facing the real crisis.

The Arab-Palestinians must be told to be content with their already existing Palestinian state of Jordan.

No other viable solution exists. Everybody knows it, and any further delays just perpetuate the nearly 60 years’ old on going charade.

Israel can indeed help, as it has always done, but it should do so only as a full and equal partner, in the open. The world deserves Israel’s intervention only if it accepts a strong and viable Israel, stops vilifying it, and agrees to a defendable long lasting solution to the Middle East conflict.

Any other solution is a smoke screen, a fallacy, a delusion, that serves only one purpose: A deferment of the obligatory solution to a time in the future when a resolution will prove exponentially more difficult whilst the Iranian nuclear missiles are ready on their launchers to be fired.

Your Truth Provider,
Yuval Zaliouk
ynz@netvision.net.il

2. The Spy Accusations - Damage Done
From: HonestReporting <action@honestreporting.com>
Subject: The Spy Accusations - Damage Done

Communique: 29 August 2004 [View this article online]

THE SPY ACCUSATIONS - DAMAGE DONE

Dear HonestReporting Subscriber,

[]On Friday (Aug. 27), CBS News' Leslie Stahl reported in dramatic fashion that the FBI is investigating whether a Pentagon official provided classified information about U.S. policy toward Iran to the government of Israel, via the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC. CBS sources indicated that the 'suspected mole' was 'working at the highest levels of the Pentagon.' CBS went so far to suggest that the issue raises a broader, more damning question: 'Did Israel also use the analyst to try to influence U.S. policy on the War in Iraq?' (see CBS video)

This CBS bombshell set off a landslide of media reports Saturday (Aug. 28), some giving the false impression that allegations of Israeli espionage in the Pentagon were substantiated. For example, the Melbourne Herald Sun announced in their headline: 'Israel spy found at Pentagon,' then went on to declare unequivocally, 'An Israeli spy has been uncovered at the highest levels of the Pentagon, the FBI confirmed last night...'

Though both AIPAC and the Israeli government have vehemently denied any such covert activity in the U.S., the media damage has in many ways already been done. Former Mossad chief Uzi Arad acknowledged that despite Israel's complete non-involvement in the matter, the affair already 'has taken on a proportion that is damaging to us and to the United States.'

Yet at the time of this communique, the whole matter is beginning to look, as Maariv puts it, like 'a surfeit of hype forced into bed with a paucity of fact.' The suspected Pentagon figure, Larry Franklin, is not a 'high level' operative (as CBS originally reported), but rather a desk officer in the Defense Department's Near East and South Asia Bureau. (Franklin also is not Jewish.) A senior Bush administration figure told the press that

from what we know, Larry Franklin looks more like an incompetent fool way out of his depth than a spy. He apparently passed on some papers to Israel without realizing the ramifications of his actions... Another senior source said that Israel did not need Franklin's information. Israel's contacts with high-level officials are such that a phone call to the US would have been sufficient to elicit the information.

Given the fact that the FBI investigation into Franklin has been underway for over a year, one wonders why the leak to the press at this time, before even any formal charges have been made? The Jerusalem Council for Public Affairs noted today an altogether plausible reason internal US conflicts:

Both the CIA and the FBI are fighting a "battle for survival" after repeated U.S. commissions have attacked them for failing to prevent 9/11. Israel, according to Amir Oren (Ha'aretz), has been caught in a crossfire between these agencies and their Pentagon rivals.

It should be recalled that following a similar accusation in the late 1990s, CIA Director George Tenet found the charges baseless and wrote Israel a letter of apology.

As the 'Franklingate' affair plays out over the course of this week, HonestReporting urges subscribers to scrutinize their local media outlets for factual reporting. Though the initial smear against the State of Israel has taken its toll, media monitors should insist that journalists stick to the facts on this highly sensitive affair from here on in.

Thank you for your ongoing involvement in the battle against media bias.

HonestReporting

3. Arutz Sheva News Tuesday,
IsraelNationalNews.com
August 31, 2004 / Elul 14, 5764
ALERT FEMALE SOLDIER PREVENTS BOMBING ATTACK
A suicide bombing attack was prevented at the Erez Crossing in northern Gaza early this morning. An alert female soldier - 20-year-old Michal Eliyahu of Jerusalem - suspected one particular Arab, among the thousands who pass through daily, because he "looked at me strangely. I had never seen him before, and he looked at me with raised eyebrows, and then tried to avoid my gaze." Michal called him over for an extra check, but he tried to ignore her. He finally came over, and when she saw that his entry pass had expired three years ago, she called over her commander. Within seconds, he stood the terrorist against a wall, trained his weapon on him, and told him to remove his shirt. The terrorist at that point admitted that he had "something" - an explosive device - in his pants. The explosive was later safely detonated, and the would-be mass-murderer was taken into custody. Defense Minister Mofaz said that while the terrorists have not been successful of late, their motivation to perpetrate attacks has not decreased.

4. Haaretz: mass murder in the south of Israel
last Update: 31/08/2004 22:37
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/471713.html
extracts
16 dead in twin suicide attacks on Be'er Sheva buses []
[]Sixteen people, including a 3-year-old boy, were killed and about 100 others were wounded Tuesday afternoon in near-simultaneous suicide attacks on two buses in the southern city of Be'er Sheva.
[]Hamas claimed the attacks, the first suicide bombings inside Israel in five months.
The IDF believes that the military wing of Hamas in Hebron is behind the attack. The current local head of the organization, Ahmed Kwasame, was responsible for the attempted attack at the Kafit cafe in Jerusalem two months ago.
Palestinian militants haven't carried out a suicide bombing inside Israel since March 14, when 11 people were killed in the port city of Ashdod.

Earlier Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces soldiers caught a Palestinian man carrying an explosives belt as he tried to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip. Be'er Sheva is 25 miles east of Gaza City.

5. Terrorist Strike in New York: Unreported?
http://www.debka.com/article_print.php?aid=897
DEBKAfile - We start where the media stop
Nov. 13, 2001 Air Crash over New York Was Work of Al Qaeda Suicide, Says Canadian Intelligence
DEBKAfile Special Report
August 30, 2004, 10:30 PM (GMT+02:00)

According to a top secret Canadian government report, the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York, had a sequel two months later. On November 13, 2001, American Airlines flight 587 crashed over Queens, New York, shortly after takeoff from JFK killing all 265 people aboard. A captured al-Qaeda operative, Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, told Canadian intelligence investigators that a Montreal man who trained in Afghanistan alongside the 9/11 hijackers was responsible, using a small shoe bomb similar to the one used by convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid for his “suicide mission.” He named Abderraouf Jdey, a Canadian citizen known also as “Farouk the Tunisian.”

This is reported in Canada’s National Post

Asked for a comment, US National Transportation Safety Board spokesman, Ted Lopatkiewicz, still insisted there was no evidence of anything other than an accident (in the plane crash over Queens.) It appears, at least the evidence we have, is that a vertical fin came off, not that there was any kind of event in the cabin.”

The same kinds of claims were made officially three years ago too. Yet on November 15, 2001 DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources maintained that the downing of Flight 587 was the work of terrorists:

The Information accumulating opens up the possibilities of a bomb having been planted near the tail of the Airbus, or a suicide bomber blowing himself up in the rear of the aircraft. The plane came down shortly after taking off for the Dominican Republic from John F. Kennedy International airport. Another scenario under investigation is that a surface-to-air missile was fired from a boat in Jamaica Bay near the airport.

According to DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources, a number of people linked to Al Qaeda in New York behaved suspiciously several hours before the crash; some, who were under surveillance following the September 11 attacks, managed to disappear, with the FBI unable to determine how they slipped away or trace their current whereabouts.

Those sources also noted that the US F-15 warplanes, on 24-hour patrol in the skies of New York and other major US cities, were ordered immediately after the crash to search for any boats or unusual activity in the Jamaica nature reserve.

The morning after, Wednesday, November 14, divers were seen scouring the marsh area for signs that missiles had been fired at the plane, such as a launcher or a scuttled boat, on the assumption that the terrorist who fired the missile escaped in a scuba suit.

Despite adamant denials by the US Federal Aviation Authority, it is now becoming clear that prior to the crash, US intelligence did indeed receive numerous warnings from intelligence sources outside the United States that a terrorist strike was likely on Tuesday, Veterans Day, to mark the two-month anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. (End of quote)

According to the US 9/11 commission, Jdey, 39, came to Canada from Tunisia in 1991 and become a citizen in 1995. With his new passport, he left for Afghanistan and trained with some of the September 11 hijackers. He was dropped from the 9/11 mission after recording a “martyrdom” video. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, planner of the World Trade Center attack, claims Jdey was recruited for a “second wave” of suicide attacks. In 2002, he was one of seven al Qaeda members sought in connection with possible terrorist threat in the United States.

1. EU Sponsors Terror Against Jews
Arutz Sheva News Friday,
IsraelNationalNews.com
September 3, 2004 / Elul 17, 5764
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1. EUROPEAN UNION FUNDING DIVERTED TO TERRORISM AND INCITEMENT
Since 1993, the countries of the European Union have contributed, individually and collectively, over four billion euros to the Palestinian Authority - and a new report shows that much of this sum has gone towards corruption, incitement and violence. Another 250 million euros were budgeted for the year 2004.

The new report, released by the Funding for Peace Coalition (FPC), substantiates a compelling connection between European funding and ongoing Palestinian corruption and terrorism.

The FPC report shows European taxpayers that their money has not reached its intended target - namely, the people living in PA-controlled areas - but has rather been diverted towards graft, terrorism and anti-Israel incitement. Often quoting under-reported disclosures, many from Arab sources, the report also shows that terrorists are on the Palestinian Authority payroll - despite repeated denials by senior European politicians and civil servants. One of the conclusions is that the salaries of the very same people whom Europe has officially classified as terrorists, come directly from budgets provided by European government aid.

The report also documents the involvement of the European Union in funding PA textbooks replete with anti-Israeli incitement and hatred.

"In at least two cases, [several European Parliament Members] found clear evidence that money from the combined [PA] account had been diverted to terrorism. Given that the vast majority of disbursements from this account have not been adequately identified and traced, these cases can be assumed to be just a small sampling of a concerted effort aimed at funding terrorism from the monies that were intended as aid for the Palestinian people."

2. Syria Must Go!
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:14:34 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
FM SHALOM MEETS DUTCH FM BOT: "SYRIA MUST LEAVE LEBANON"
(Communicated by the Foreign Minister's Bureau)
Thursday, 02 September, 2004

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met today in
Maastricht, Holland, with his Dutch counterpart, Foreign Minister Bernard
Bot, and called upon him to enlist in the struggle to expel Syrian forces
from Lebanon.

Minister Shalom noted that Syria continues to shelter terrorist
organizations and said it is necessary to put an end to Syria's occupation
of Lebanon.

Shalom said that, following the latest terrorist attack in Beersheba, it is
once again clear that all roads lead to Syria as having a hand in terrorist
activities. He added that the anti-terrorist fence saves lives and
significantly reduces the ability of terrorists to carry out attacks. Israel
is determined to speed up the construction of the fence, Shalom told his
Dutch counterpart.

Minister Bot condemned the terrorist attack in Beersheba and expressed his
condolences to the families of the victims. He said he understands the
importance of building the security fence and asserted that Israel has the
right of self-defense, but noted that Israel must take into account the
needs of the Palestinian population and avoid expropriating land for the
fence as much as possible.

3. Arutz Sheva News Sunday
IsraelNationalNews.com
Sept. 5, 2004 / Elul 19, 5764
AMERICANS PUT OFF YESHA INTERVENTION
Officials in the U.S. Administration announced that the scheduled visit of the "demarcation delegation" to Israel was on hold - with no alternate date proposed. The Americans - members of the State Department's intelligence department - were planning to outline the final borders of every single Jewish community in Judea and Samaria. No reason for the cancellation was given. The trip had been coordinated with Prime Minister Sharon.

4. Periodical Height Differences in History
Source:
Ohio State University
Date:
2004-09-02
URL:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040902090552.htm

Men From Early Middle Ages Were Nearly As Tall As Modern People
COLUMBUS, Ohio Northern European men living during the early Middle Ages were nearly as tall as their modern-day American descendants, a finding that defies conventional wisdom about progress in living standards during the last millennium.
"Men living during the early Middle Ages (the ninth to 11th centuries) were several centimeters taller than men who lived hundreds of years later, on the eve of the Industrial Revolution," said Richard Steckel, a professor of economics at Ohio State University and the author of a new study that looks at changes in average heights during the last millennium.
"Height is an indicator of overall health and economic well-being, and learning that people were so well-off 1,000 to 1,200 years ago was surprising," he said.
Steckel analyzed height data from thousands of skeletons excavated from burial sites in northern Europe and dating from the ninth to the 19th centuries. Average height declined slightly during the 12th through 16th centuries, and hit an all-time low during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Northern European men had lost an average 2.5 inches of height by the 1700s, a loss that was not fully recovered until the first half of the 20th century.
Steckel believes a variety of factors contributed to the drop and subsequent regain in average height during the last millennium. These factors include climate change; the growth of cities and the resulting spread of communicable diseases; changes in political structures; and changes in agricultural production.
"Average height is a good way to measure the availability and consumption of basic necessities such as food, clothing, shelter, medical care and exposure to disease," Steckel said. "Height is also sensitive to the degree of inequality between populations."
The study appears in a recent issue of the journal Social Science History.
Steckel analyzed skeletal data from 30 previous studies. The bones had been excavated from burial sites in northern European countries, including Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Great Britain and Denmark. In most cases, the length of the femur, or thighbone, was used to estimate skeletal height. The longest bone in the body, the femur comprises about a quarter of a person's height.
According to Steckel's analysis, heights decreased from an average of 68.27 inches (173.4 centimeters) in the early Middle Ages to an average low of roughly 65.75 inches (167 cm) during the 17th and 18th centuries.
"This decline of two-and-a-half inches substantially exceeds any height fluctuations seen during the various industrial revolutions of the 19th century," Steckel said.
Reasons for such tall heights during the early Middle Ages may have to do with climate. Steckel points out that agriculture from 900 to 1300 benefited from a warm period temperatures were as much as 2 to 3 degrees warmer than subsequent centuries. Theoretically, smaller populations had more land to choose from when producing crops and raising livestock.
"The temperature difference was enough to extend the growing season by three to four weeks in many settled regions of northern Europe," Steckel said. "It also allowed for cultivation of previously unavailable land at higher elevations."
Also, populations were relatively isolated during the Middle Ages large cities were absent from northern Europe until the late Middle Ages. This isolation in the era before effective public health measures probably helped to protect people from communicable diseases, Steckel said.
"It is notable that bubonic plague made its dramatic appearance in the late Middle Ages, when trade really took off," he said.
Steckel cites several possible reasons why height declined toward the end of the Middle Ages:
* The climate changed rather dramatically in the 1300s, when the Little Ice Age triggered a cooling trend that wreaked havoc on northern Europe for the following 400 to 500 years.
Colder temperatures meant lower food production as well as greater use of resources for heating. But many temperature fluctuations, ranging in length from about 15 to 40 years, kept people from fully adapting to a colder climate, Steckel said.
"These brief periods of warming disguised the long-term trend of cooler temperatures, so people were less likely to move to warmer regions and were more likely to stick with traditional farming methods that ultimately failed," he said. "Climate change was likely to have imposed serious economic and health costs on northern Europeans, which in turn may have caused a downward trend in average height."
* Urbanization and the growth of trade gained considerable momentum in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Both brought people together, which encouraged the spread of disease. And global exploration and trade led to the worldwide diffusion of many diseases into previously isolated areas.
"Height studies for the late 18th and early 19th centuries show that large cities were particularly hazardous for health," Steckel said. "Urban centers were reservoirs for the spread of communicable diseases."
* Inequality in Europe grew considerably during the 16th century and stayed high until the 20th century the rich grew richer from soaring land rents while the poor paid higher prices for food, housing and land.
"In poor countries, or among the poor in moderate-income nations, large numbers of people are biologically stressed or deprived, which can lead to stunted growth," Steckel said. "It's plausible that growing inequality could have increased stress in ways that reduced average heights in the centuries immediately following the Middle Ages."
* Political changes and strife also brought people together as well as put demand on resources.
"Wars decreased population density, which could be credited with improving health, but at a large cost of disrupting production and spreading disease," Steckel said. "Also, urbanization and inequality put increasing pressure on resources, which may have helped lead to a smaller stature."
Exactly why average height began to increase during the 18th and 19th centuries isn't completely clear, but Steckel surmises that climate change as well as improvements in agriculture helped.
"Increased height may have been due partly to the retreat of the Little Ice Age, which would have contributed to higher yields in agriculture. Also improvements in agricultural productivity that began in the 18th century made food more plentiful to more people.

5. Learning Hebrew
The average person can learn the Hebrew alphabet within one to two hours along with the vowel signs.
It is then possible to read Hebrew and learn it with the aid of a dictionary at your own pace.
There also exist many parallel textual translations of Scripture with the Hebrew original opposite
the English translation. You can read the hebrew then look at the English and know what the hebrew
word means. Using this method you may learn to read Hebrew at a high level within a relatively short time.
Speaking Hebrew is something else and for that you are best off taking lessons with a group supplemented
with private lessons. This could take time, money, and energy.
The first and most important step however of reading the Hebrew scriptures in the original
could be achieved relatively quickly and at a low cost
and should give you a tremendous spiritual and intellectual exhilaration.

1. Arutz Sheva News Tuesday
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Sept. 7, 2004 / Elul 21, 5764
ISRAEL KILLS 14 TERRORISTS IN MID-TRAINING
Israel Air Force aircraft attacked a Hamas training ground late last night, killing 14 terrorists in the midst of practicing infiltrations into Jewish communities and military outposts. Another 30 terrorists or more were wounded.

The targeted camp was of the Hamas military wing, the Iz A-Din Al-Kassam Brigades. It was also used to train budding terrorists in the placing of bombs and the use of weapons including Kassam rockets and RPG shoulder-held missiles.

Hamas, admitting that this was the biggest military blow that Israel had dealt them, has already threatened retaliation, as has Islamic Jihad. Some 50,000 Arabs took part in the funeral processions this afternoon, calling for revenge.

Israel will predictably now face an international propaganda onslaught, though Foreign Ministry sources feel that last night's attack will be relatively easy to defend. The main talking point will be that the target was a purely military one, and that no civilians were killed in the attack. Israeli sources have also said that the offensive was a follow-up to the Be'er Sheva double bus bombing last week, in which 16 Israelis were killed; Hamas was behind that attack.

Palestinian terrorists responded this morning with a barrage of six Kassam rockets and three mortar shells. Two Kassams landed in Sderot, causing no material damage, but wounding a 60-year-old jogger. Other Kassams landed harmlessly near Yad Mordechai, Miflasim, and northern Gaza. The mortar shells were fired at Jewish towns in Gush Katif, landing in built-up areas - including a school bus stop - but causing no casualties or damage.

EXODUS OF ARABS
The Weekly Telegraph in London reports on a "growing exodus" of young, middle-class Arabs in the Palestinian Authority leaving their homes and moving abroad "to escape from the clutches of the terrorist group Hamas."

In a related item, some 45,000 Arabs from "the territories" - Judea and Samaria - have moved to within pre-1967 Israeli borders in the past four years. This is the conclusion of a study carried out by an Israeli-Arab student who is "close" to the situation. More details in tomorrow's report.

The Telegraph reports that parents in cities such as Hevron, a center of Hamas recruitment for recent "martyrdom" operations, are increasingly fearful of losing their children to the terrorists. For instance, the Al-Jama neighborhood - described in the paper as featuring "large spacious houses, smart cars and vineyards spread out over undulating hills... a pocket of relative prosperity" - has seen no fewer than 11 of its young men die while carrying out suicide bombings and other attacks against Israelis. Among them were the two who murdered 16 Israelis last week in Be'er Sheva.

These numbers put the lie to Shimon Peres' oft-repeated thesis that terrorism is a result of the Arabs' poor economic conditions, and that peace will follow prosperity.

The Telegraph reports that dozens of young men are choosing to leave for the U.S. and France, rather than remain in Hevron and face being "brainwashed" by Hamas.

SATELLITE LOSS: A BLOW TO THE SPYING EFFORTS ON YESHA?
The Defense Ministry suffered a costly loss yesterday when its launch of the Ofek-6 satellite failed and the craft plunged into the Mediterranean Sea. The loss is estimated at well over $50 million, not including lost income from countries such as India that had planned to purchase photos.

The failure was apparently due to a faulty electronic component that did not respond as it should have during the third stage of the launch. It occurred at the stage when the satellite was to have totally detached itself and entered its space orbit.

Israeli officials minimized the loss, saying it is not unusual in the space industry. They noted that the space agencies of Japan and Europe recently suffered even larger losses. Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz said that the failed launch would be studied in order to learn from its errors.

The Ofek-6, the sixth in a series of Israeli intelligence satellites built over the past 16 years, was to have been able to transmit pictures of even higher resolution than was available until now. It was to have provided Israel with extra warning time before a possible launch of Iranian missiles towards Israel.

The Ofek-6 was also likely to be used for political purposes: to map out the precise borders of the Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria, in order to know where to ban all further construction. Just yesterday, Haaretz military correspondent Ze'ev Schiff wrote that the Defense Ministry had long been considering the option of using the Ofek-6 to document the growth of Yesha communities, as "the authorities have been unable to collect sufficient data on the construction there."

One of the purposes of photographing all the Yesha communities, Schiff wrote, was to "compare the findings with the data collected by the American satellites engaged in documenting construction in the communities." He wrote that Israel faces the problem of not having "one central information center with all the details on the borders of all the settlements." This is the reason why the visit of American Defense Department officials, scheduled for this week, was postponed - as Israel said it did not have sufficient data.

Prime Minister Sharon promised the Americans this past April to find a satisfactory way to define the existing construction lines in the Yesha towns - but has not yet done so. The fall of the Ofek-6 does not make the job any easier.

2. Bedlam in Beslan, or the North Ossetia Peace Process
By Steven Plaut

{Extracts Only]:

As all the horrific details come out about the Islamo-fascist massacre of children in Beslan, a number of thoughts come to mind.
* Throughout the reporting of the massacre, not a single news medium I read or heard spent time lecturing the listeners about how this carnage must prove how just the Chechen terrorists' cause is, else why would they be so "desperate".
* No news media talking heads nor Op-Ed writers hectored readers by demanding that the Russians now address the underlying causes of the anger out them by the terrorists.
* Chechnya in fact has a far more legitimate claim to independence from Russia than the Palestinians have for any form of "self-determination". The Chechens are not seeking the destruction of Russia, while the Palestinians are seeking the annihilation of Israel. The Chechens are non-Russian Moslems, culturally and linguistically alien to Russia. The
* "Palestinians" are members of Syrian and Lebanese families who migrated into the land of Israel starting in the late 19th century. Moreover, unlike the Palestinians, the Chechens do not have 22 other Chechen states they can choose from or to which they can move. Having noted all this, let us also note that the massacre of children by the Chechen nazis probably put an end altogether to the willingness of anyone in the world to reconsider independence for Chechnya. ..Contrast this with the world's reaction to Palestinian barbarism, who murdered 1500 Israelis, many of them children, just since signing the eternal Oslo peace accord foreswearing violence.
* At least four of the Chechen terrorists were captured alive and summarily executed by the Russians. No bleeding hearts nor do-gooders screamed in moral indignation that Russia violated the Miranda rights of those terrorists. No one demanded the terrorists be given expensive lawyers and allowed to have their cases heard by civil courts, in contrast with the movement on behalf of the Guantanamo terrorists. No one from the Israeli Labor Party proposed granting the terrorists the Kremlin and half of Moscow.
* Nazis have always made a point of specially targeting children. The German Nazis went out of their way to murder Jewish children. The Palestinian nazis make special efforts to target Israeli children. The Chechen nazis learned from the Palestinians.
* Russian newspapers are not united in expressing understanding for the struggle of the Chechen terrorists. They are not lecturing readers about how there are no military solutions to the problems of terrorism. They are not demanding goodwill gestures from the Kremlin so that the Chechen terrorists will feel their self-esteem is no longer threatened.
* But the most important thought I am sure you shared with me as the story of the massacre unfolded was this: Why has not Israel rounded up the ISM = International Solidarity Movement squad of cheerleaders for terrorism and shipped them off forthwith to defend the homes of the family members of the dead Chechen terrorists from the enraged Russian troops that will be entering Chechnya?

Subject: [origin of nations] Thousands of British elite embrace Islam

If you water something down enough, it is no longer wanted.
So goes the constant watering-down of Christianity, it is so
milk-toasty that it is rapidly losing its flavour. This article
entitled: Britain's Elites Converting to Islam appeared in
the May-June issue of Dispatch From Jerusalem.

3. Thousands Of British Elite Embrace Islam
IslamOnline.net (Qatar), Feb. 26, 2004
http://www.islam-online.net
Extracts:

LONDON, February 26 (IslamOnline.net) Jonathan Birt, the
son of Lord Birt and Emma Clark, the granddaughter of former
liberal prime minister Herbert Asquith, are only two of 14,000
mostly-elite white Britons having converted to Islam.

In the first authoritative study of the phenomenon, carried by
the Sunday Times on February 22, some of the country’s top
landowners, celebrities and the offspring of senior Establishment
figures have embraced the Muslim faith after being disillusioned
with western values.

The new study by Yahya (formerly Jonathan) Birt, son of Lord Birt,
former director-general of the BBC, provides the first reliable data
on the sensitive subject of the movement of Christians into Islam.

He uses a breakdown of the latest census figures to conclude that
there are now 14,200 white converts in Britain.

Mass Conversion

Speaking publicly for the first time about his faith this weekend,
Birt argued that an inspirational figure, similar to the American
convert Malcolm X for Afro-Caribbeans, would first have to
emerge if the next stage, a mass conversion among white Britons,
were to happen.

“You need great transitional figures to translate something alien
(like Islam) into the vernacular,” Birt, whose doctorate at Oxford
University is on young British Muslims, was quoted by the Times.

“I have received letters from people who are put off by the wishy-
washy standards of contemporary Christianity and they are looking
for a religion which does not compromise too much with the
modern world,” said Eaton, author of Islam and the Destiny of
Man.

Some prominent converts are even more wary, said the Times.

The Earl of Yarborough, 40, who owns a 28,000-acre estate in
Lincolnshire, declined to discuss anything about his faith.

“I have nothing to say to you,” said Yarborough, who has apparently
taken the name Abdul Mateen.

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1. Arabs and Mexicans
From: CG
Subject: Syrian Arabs in Mexico

Shalom Yair:
I was very much interested in the article on the Syrian Arabs in Mexico, with many of them being legislators etc. I wonder if there is anyone that knows more of this history could give me some more information on this.
I have often wondered when the Arabs came to Mexico etc. We know many Mexican people and many of them have the features and attitudes of the Muslim Arabs. They (the men) are arrogant to the point of rudeness and are obnoxious to be around.
The women are always together with the children, are not treated well, while the men go off to themselves doing whatever they please. Most seem to excel in womanizing and drinking.
In seeing the Arabs of Iraq etc. and the men of Mexico, it is like looking at mirror images. The only difference is the manner of dress and of course the language.
Not all of them are this way, as many are of Sephardic or of Mexican Indian ancestry and they do not treat their women in that manner. They are good workers, and are respectful to their women and children and of their surroundings. Yes, many are indeed arrogant, but they seem to be less offensive in their behavior.
Shalom and keep up the great work. Cita Giron

2. NY Times: Car Bomb Kills 9 at Australian Embassy in Jakarta

By JANE PERLEZ
Published: September 10, 2004

[]AKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 9 - The car bomb that exploded outside the Australian Embassy here on Thursday morning, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 150, was the work of the Qaeda-linked Islamic group, Jemaah Islamiyah, the Indonesian police chief said.

The car bomb exploded about 10:30 a.m. on a busy street outside the embassy, which is in the central business district, leaving a crater nine feet deep near the embassy gate and blowing a wide hole in the metal fence, but leaving the four-story building largely intact...

The nine people who were killed were all Indonesians, including a guard who had been patrolling outside the building, the police said. None were in the building. An Australian child was in critical condition. The Australian foreign minister, Alexander Downer, who arrived in Jarkarta on Thursday night with the Australian federal police commissioner, Mick Keelty, said the child, whose mother is Indonesian and father Australian, was caught in the blast. He said the mother was among those killed.

The explosion was the third terror attack in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country with 228.4 million people, in less than two years, and the second directed at Australians, a strong ally of the Bush administration and a contributor of troops in Iraq.

The Australian prime minister, John Howard, blamed Jemaah Islamiyah. "This has all the hallmarks of Jemaah Islamiyah,'' he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "This was a large bomb and it was a terrorist attack on Australia."

3. Swedish representative speaks on behalf of Israel
From: Orjan Svensson <orjan.svensson@mbox300.swipnet.se>
Subject: speech by Gunnar H kmark at the EU parliament
Shalom,

Below is an extract from a speech by Swedish member of the European Parliament Gunnar H kmark.
Mr H kmark held the speech in Brussels or Strasbourg when he had recently been elected as a member of the EU parliament this year.
It was his first speech at the parliament.

".....The terror and dictatorships in the Middle East are threats against democracy and security also in Europe. They constitute a
constant threat against the survival of the state of Israel, regardless of the policy of Israel, since they are founded on
a hatred beyond comprehension.....
By instead attacking the leaders of terror and hate, and by putting requirements that
responsible Palestinian and Arab leaders shall put an end to their doings, we put a foundation for Israelis and Palestinians
to live in peaceful societies characterized by respect for other human beings and for human life. It is strange that this
thought can be perceived as radical. Just as radical as it once was when the requirements on freedom and democracy where
were put in Eastern Europe."

4. Swedish Train Crash and Israel
from Orjan:
(my translation from the Swedish)
Shalom,
Yesterday there was a fatal train crash close to where I live, see below.
The train that crashed (or identical trains) had recently been sold to the Israeli railway company, and was scheduled to start
trafficing the newly repaired railway between Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem next year.
In all Blekinge kustbana (= "Blekinge coastal railway company") has sold 10 modern trains to Israel, some of them scheduled to be delivered next year.
(see http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=147&a=257911)
Maybe now they can deliver only nine...
Orjan

5. Hamas: Left-Wing Encouraged Us to Attack
15:15 Sep 10, '04 / 24 Elul 5764 Israel National News
www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=68735

How many lives have left-wing statements cost Israel? In a damning
condemnation of the Israeli left, a new book about the battles known as the
Oslo War quotes Hamas leaders saying that the behavior of Israel's left-wing
encourages them to continue their terrorist attacks.

The book, "The Seventh War," by journalists Avi Yisacharov of Voice of
Israel Radio and Amos Harel of Haaretz, is based on comprehensive
investigations and interviews with Hamas terrorist leaders in Gaza and
Israeli prisons.

Yisacharov told Channel 1 Television yesterday that Hamas leaders had told
him clearly: "It was the Israeli left and your peace camp that ultimately
encouraged us to continue with our suicide attacks."

Yisacharov said he was told as follows:

"We tried, through our attacks, to create fragmentation and dissention
within Israeli society, and the left-wing's reaction was proof that this was
indeed the right approach. When we heard about the 'Pilots' Letter' [written
and publicized last year by 27 Israel Air Force pilots who refused to take
part in bombing missions against terrorist leaders in Arab towns], and the
elite soldiers who refused to serve [in Judea, Samaria and Gaza], it
strengthened those in our camp who promoted the idea of suicide bombers...

"The disengagement from Gaza is proof of our victory. The fact is that
Sharon is willing to withdraw unconditionally, and is essentially raising a
white flag and retreating. Only by force can we teach the other side what to
do."

6. The Hostage-Takers in Russia Came from the North
www.debka.com%2F
From: DEBKA-Net-Weekly
Extracts Only:
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:52 PM

The Beslan Siege Atrocity’s Aftermath

[Brit-Am Background Note: Beslan were the attack on the schoolchildren took place is in the province of North Ossetia which is to the north of Georgia in the Caucasus. To the east of North Ossetia is Ingushetia which borders on Chechyna, i.e. Ingushetia is between North Ossetia and Chechyna. To the west of North Ossetia is the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria whose people are Circassians. The Circassians are a fair people (often blue-eyed, light skinned sometimes blond) who were once pagan and Christian and then became Muslim. They were settled by the Turks throughout the Middle East in scattered villages and served the Turks as mercenaries. The Kingdom of Jordan relies on Cicassian and beduin clans to rule over its Arab population. The Circassians maybe descended from the Hittites), as some of them claim to be.]

The terrorists who ravaged the school and community of Beslan came from a direction startling enough to jolt Russian president Vladimir Putin into taking a hard look at the Islamic terror now rampant outside Chechnya - in at least two additional Caucasian republics.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly reveals that the 32 hostage takers were not Chechens but members of al Qaeda cells, Arabs and natives, known locally as “Wahhabis” (after the austere state religion of Saudi Arabia), from a place whose name is even less recognizable than were the battle arenas of Afghanistan and the Balkans: Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, northwest of North Ossetia.

To reach Beslan, they first transited Ingushetia, which forms a wedge between North Ossetia and Chechnya. There, the terrorist gang was joined by a handful of Ingushe terrorists, along with their Chechen commander, Magomet Yevloev, nicknamed “Magas”. However, Magas did not mastermind the operation. His controller was a Wahhabi, who has not been identified, but whose voice was heard intoning Koranic verses on the videotape broadcast later.
He too came under the orders of the two new chiefs of al Qaeda’s Saudi contingent in Chechnya, who are also known only by their noms de guerre of Abu Hafs and Abu Hajr.

Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria have thus moved into center stage as the coming main arena of the global war on terror. The disclosure by Russian intelligence of the true authors of the Beslen outrage forced the Russian ruler to embark on urgent preparations for a three-front Caucasian war in a region prone historically from Byzantine times to outbreaks of ethnic, religious and clan violence.
According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s exclusive military and intelligence sources, Putin wasted not a moment. He immediately signed a presidential decree ordering the Russian army to mass enough strength to place Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria under military siege preparatory to going in to re-assert Kremlin control of the two republics and drive the Islamic terrorists out. He has determined to repair the damage exposed by the Beslan terror outrage before it spreads. The first Russian units are beginning to take up positions around the borders of the two republics.

The challenge ahead of the Kremlin is daunting. Military experts doubt whether the Russian army has the manpower resources to shoulder a fresh campaign on top of its commitments to the Chechen war. It is hard to see where Moscow will find the funds for opening two new fronts in the northern Caucasus. However, interestingly enough, Putin’s reaction to Beslan was identical to that of President George W. Bush immediately after the September 11 al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington, to hit out at the terrorists and destroy them in their lairs.

The Russian ruler’s compulsion is even greater given that those lairs are inside his own country.
Putin went to great lengths to pin the Beslen school siege on Chechen separatists.

What brought al Qaeda to the roof of the Caucasus?
How did an al Qaeda Wahhabi cell come to be planted in Kabardino-Balkaria?

The republic attracted Osama bin Laden’s organization for three reasons:
Most of its inhabitants belong to the Circassian ethnic family and as Muslims are susceptible to Islamic influence. The unrecorded chapter of the Chechen intelligence war of the 1990s relates how the Circassian community of Jordan, which is the security buttress of the Hashemite throne, was used by US, British and French intelligence as a pipeline into the Chechen breakaway movement for close surveillance of its conflict with Russia. Al Qaeda, which tracks and meets every American intelligence move connected with the global war on terror, countered by going into the remote and relatively affluent Kabardino-Balkaria to quietly acquire its own Circassian asset. Since the mid-1990s, therefore al Qaeda has been working discreetly to carve out a niche in the once idyllic Caucasian republic. The town of Beslan was the first to suffer the di!re consequences of this penetration.
Al Qaeda further developed its presence in the republic in 2002 when American bases went up in Georgia with a view to offsetting the US military foothold on the region.
To buy operational independence from Chechen chiefs like Maskhadov, whom al Qaeda does not entirely trust. A base in Kabardino-Balkaria also complemented and provided strategic depth for the small Saudi presence in the lawless Pankisi Gorge of the Georgian-Chechen frontier.

KABARDINO-BALKARIA A SKETCH

[]The mountainous Caucasus is home to seven Russian republics, scores of ethnic and religious groups and a turbulent history. The Chechnya stewpot stirred up by al Qaeda-backed fundamentalist terror has boiled over into Ingushetia and threatens Dagestan. Karachai-Cherkessia and Adygeya are still on the sidelines, but largely Orthodox Christian North Ossetia last week became the victim of unparalleled terrorist barbarity emanating from little Kabardino-Balkaria.

Once known as a tiny Garden of Eden next door to strife-torn Chechnya, little Kabardino-Balkaria has a total area of 12,500 sq. km and less than one-million inhabitants, who are traditionally moderate Muslims. It is compensated for its small size by spectacular, richly diverse landscape. Situated on the northern flank of the Great Caucasus Range of southwestern Russia, it boasts towering peaks - the twin-headed Elbrus (18,510 ft = 5.642m), beloved of Pushkin and Lermontov, is the highest in Europe - as well as many glaciers, vast canyons, swift-flowing rivers, blue lakes, alpine meadows and forests and a temperate climate.

Related to the Circassian ethnic group, the native language of the inhabitants is Kabardian, also called Circassian. More than half the population is urban, living in seven towns including Nalchik, the capital. Many are of Cossack descent from the time in 1557 when the Kabardins allied themselves with the Russians. Russian fortresses stand to this day at Terek on the river and Nalchik. The latter was built later when the town was at the center of the 18th and 19th century “Circassian Wars.”
The Balkars of the high mountains resisted the Russian incursion for centuries. In 1922 Kabardin and Balkar were amalgamated. Since 1936, Kabardino-Balkaria has been an autonomous republic. Its immediate neighbors are North Ossetia and Georgia to the south, Karachay Cherkessia to the west, Chechnya to the east and Stavropol of the Russian Federation to the north. It is popular with skiers from all ov er the world, who flock to Mt. Elbrus and Mt. Dykh Tau. Tourists and winter Olympians may now lodge at the magnificent guest houses once reserved for the Soviet nomenclatura.

7. Terrorists United in One Body?
From: DEBKA-Net-Weekly
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:52 PM
Al Qaed a’s Dread Touch Falls on Moscow, Beslan, Beersheba

4 September: Israeli officials have never admitted to the presence of al Qaeda cells in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, although in December 2001, two and a half months after al Qaeda struck New York and Washington, shoe bomber Richard Reid spent time in the Palestinian Jebalya camp as guest of Hamas leader Nabil Aqal. This is why the Hebron Kawasme cell held responsible for the two Beersheba bus blasts has presented merely as a local Hamas cell.

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources recall that exactly the same cell blew up a Haifa bus in March 2003. It then turned out to be linked to both Hizballah and al Qaeda.

DEBKAfile reported on March 6, 2003:

Fifteen Israelis mostly high school pupils and Haifa university students were murdered in a powerful blast generated by a Palestinian homicidal suicide while riding on a Haifa bus on Wednesday, March 5. The killer, a Palestinian aged 20 from the West Bank town of Hebron, was identified as Mahmoud Hamdan Selim Kawasme, member of a big Hebron clan and kinsman of a former mayor.

A note found on his body praised to heaven the al Qaeda perpetrators of the September 11 atrocities in New York, in which more than 3000 people died.

1. Arafat the Murderer
jewishpress.com - Sep 09, 2004
FBI Opens Murder Case Against Arafat
By Aaron Klein

After thirty-one years, the FBI has opened an investigation into the involvement of PLO leader Yasir Arafat in the murders of two U.S. diplomats in Saudi Arabia.

WorldNetDaily.com reports that FBI agents are gathering evidence about Arafat’s culpability in a March 1, 1973, operation in which eight members of Black September, part of Arafat’s Fatah organization, stormed the U.S. embassy in Khartoum, reportedly on Arafat’s orders, taking U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel, diplomat Charge d’Affaires George Curtis Moore and others hostage.

One day later Noel, Moore, and Belgian Guy Eid were killed.

Two agents from FBI headquarters in Washington, Bill McDermott and Kathleen Reed, recently flew to Portland, Oregon, to interview James J. Welsh, the National Security Agency’s Palestinian analyst at the time of the murders.

Welsh has said he intercepted a transmission from Arafat involving an eminent operation in Khartoum, and charges the NSA had tapes of Arafat ordering the executions.

“They called me and said they are reopening an old murder investigation,” Welsh told WorldNetDaily.

“I met with the agents for several hours, gave them a detailed account of everything that happened, and handed over to them original copies of a lot of materials and correspondence I have accumulated over the years. They were supposed to return my things, but I’m still waiting.”

Welsh says he detailed for the agents the communication he intercepted from Arafat, and how within minutes, the director of the NSA was notified and a decision was made to send a rare “FLASH” message the highest priority to the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum via the State Department warning of a possible attack.

But Welsh recalled the message didn’t reach the embassy in time. Somewhere between the NSA and the State Department, someone decided the warning was too vague, and the alert was downgraded in urgency.

The next day, the Black September operation took place, and after twenty-six hours of intense negotiations the gunmen demanded the freeing from Jordan of many Palestinians, including Abu Daoud, a leader of the Black September Organization; the release of Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy’s killer, from jail in California; and the liberation of “Palestinian women in prison in Israel” the two U.S. diplomats were murdered.

Many have claimed that Arafat personally sent an order of execution to the terrorists via radio broadcast: “Why are you waiting? The people’s blood in the Cold River cries for vengeance.” “Cold River” reportedly was the code word for executing the captives. Any NSA recordings of that call that may have existed have disappeared.

Arafat reportedly then ordered the eight gunmen to surrender peacefully to the Sudanese authorities. Two were released for “lack of evidence.” Later, in June 1973, the other six were found guilty of murdering the diplomats. They were sentenced to life imprisonment, but released 24 hours later to the PLO.

During their trial, commander Salim Rizak, also known as Abu Ghassan, told the court: “We carried out this operation on the orders of the Palestine Liberation Organization and should only be questioned by that organization.”

Sudanese Vice President Mohammed Bakir said after questioning the six: “They relied on radio messages from Beirut Fatah headquarters, both for the order to kill the three diplomats and for their own surrender Sunday morning.”

Over the years, there have been reports the Israelis also had tapes of Arafat ordering the executions, and that Jerusalem provided copies to President Nixon.

Sources in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s office told WorldNetDaily that Israeli intelligence provided evidence proving Arafat’s culpability in the murders to the U.S. State Department and White House in March 1973. Sharon also publicly stated in 1995 that Israel shared this evidence with the U.S.

In 1985 and 1986, Congress requested then-Attorney General Ed Meese to investigate Arafat’s complicity in the murders of the diplomats.

But the one critical piece of evidence needed to warrant an indictment the tape recordings was not produced by the NSA, the Central Intelligence Agency or the State Department.

FBI spokesman Bill Carter would neither confirm nor deny that the case has been reopened, but a source in the FBI’s New York office said, on the condition of anonymity, that an investigation has indeed been initiated at the request of an outside agency. He refused to name the agency.

If Arafat is charged with the murders, a warrant would be issued for his arrest.

Raanan Gissin, chief spokesman for Ariel Sharon, told WorldNetDaily, “This doesn’t come as a surprise. We intercepted the phone calls, and the U.S. also corroborated this on their own.”

Gissin says Israel was not involved in the opening of the case. “This is an internal American affair based on internal considerations.”

Welsh charges the U.S. has always known about Arafat’s culpability in the murders, but that the American and Israeli decision to build Arafat as the legitimate ruler of the Palestinians and a figurehead with whom Israel could ultimately negotiate has forced the U.S. to cover up the incident.

Although Sharon and Bush have isolated Arafat to his Ramallah compound for three years, and most countries refuse to meet him, the PLO leader has maintained a tight grip on Palestinian security forces, and Israel charges Arafat is still calling the shots of various terror organizations, including his own Fatah.

2. EU Art and Aims?

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Art show sees Europe as 'new Roman Empire'
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
(Filed: 14/09/2004)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/14/weu14.xml
The European Union is poised to overtake America to become
he premier superpower,
according to an EU exhibition launched yesterday in the heart of Brussels.

The pop-art collage mounted in a tent outside the European Commission
narrates 50 years of EU history and projects events into the future in an
unusually frank display of European ambition.

Segments sketched across 80 yards of canvas predict that the 21st century
will be the "European Century" as the EU pushes its borders deep into
Eurasia, North Africa, and the Middle East and comes to dominate world
affairs through its vast "legal and moral reach".

Under the heading the "Roman Empire returns", it says the EU will be renamed
"The Union" once it grows to 50 states over the next three decades. [???]

The United Nations headquarters will be moved to Gibraltar as the EU defends
the international order against the "American onslaught".

The euro will break the "overbearing monopoly of the dollar" by 2010 as
China and India switch their reserves to punish America for its
"stratospheric deficit".

Casting the United States as the villain of modern times, it says: "The
lonely superpower can bribe, bully or impose its will almost anywhere in the
world, but when its back is turned, its policy is weakened."

Entitled "The Image of Europe", the display is not a formal expression of EU
policy but it captures views that can be heard every day in the corridors
and canteens of the Union's institutions.

The exhibit was co-ordinated by the European Commission and sponsored by the
European Council. The EU's Dutch presidency said yesterday it was designed
to narrow Europe's "iconographic deficit" by conjuring up forceful images.

3. Arutz Sheva News Wednesday
IsraelNationalNews.com
Sept. 15, 2004 / Erev Rosh HaShanah 5765
HAREIDI STUDENTS OUT-SCORE THEIR COUNTERPARTS
The Education Ministry has publicized the hareidi school results of its fifth-grade Meitzav tests, which measure "school-wide achievement and growth" - and the hareidim did better than other sectors. Hareidi students - i.e., those who study in private recognized religious school systems - scored an average of 79 on the tests, while their counterparts in public and public-religious schools scored, on the average, only 71.

The public school system conducted the tests in December 2003, while the hareidi schools did them this past June. Education Ministry sources said that next year, the tests would be administered at the same time for all sectors. This year was the first time that the religious schools participated in this testing system.

Close to 6,000 hareidi students in 161 schools took part in the tests, and approximately 2/3 of them were girls. The girls scored an average of 81 in Hebrew and 76 in math, compared to 73 and 70, respectively, for the boys.

A senior Education Ministry official told Ynet, "The hareidi students' achievements are very good. It is a fact that they study more months in a year, and more hours a day - though I don't know if this is the reason for their high scores."

4. Katy Whelan: Judah and Joseph Drawing Closer?
Dear Yair,

Here are two articles written by Jews (Dennis Prager/ national talk show host and Rabbi Schmuley Boteach/author) here in the US that reveals what I believe is a strong undercurrent of exactly what you have been researching and teaching for years. Both articles weave the Jews and the Americans together into a sort of "brotherhood". Two peoples and two countries/(Israel & US) that share the same values and are both coming to grips with a world that despise both of them. Yet the two peoples/countries grow closer and more interdependant.
The authors each seem to see this as a manifestation of the times, or our Judeo- Christian values. I see this as a much larger 'spiritual' force bringing about the prophecies of Judah and Ephraim's recognition of each other.
I believe your teachings would give these very influential men something to chew on and explore in terms of giving confirmation to their own observations. Would you consider contacting them to offer up a conversation?

Each article has contact info at the bottom.

Thank you.

Shana tovah oo metukah,
Katy Whelan

Katy Shalom,
I will post your letter plus extracts from the articles to our list.
I believe that both authors probably are aware of us.
An approach from somebody like yourself would probably be more effective at
this stage than a direct approach from our side.

5. 2 nations alone: Notes on America and the Jews being the most hated people on Earth
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40478
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Extracts Only:
American have become the new Jews of the world. They are not liked much. The United States is experiencing what the Jews have experienced throughout their history: an irrational hatred, unwarranted animosity.

The pundits will tell you that this is all due to America-envy. We're the biggest, strongest kid on the block. So everyone hates us. To be sure, we ought never underestimate the role that simple jealousy and envy plays in fuelling America-hatred, and how it leads to accusations of American arrogance and aloofness.

But as a general approach to understanding the growing anti-Americanism abroad, this is a simplistic and superficial explanation, and it's dead wrong. The Soviet Union was just as strong as the United States for a solid four decades. It was also far more intimidating. Yet, it had apologists all over the world.

In truth, the causes of anti-Americanism are much more profound than simple envy. In short, America is hated principally because under George W. Bush it has come to embrace a moral foreign policy aimed at fighting despots and deposing dictators, and these gallant efforts have made the rest of the world look selfish, self-absorbed, morally blind, and cowardly. We Americans are not hated because of our strength, but rather for the good purposes to which we have devoted that strength. Ironic, isn't it? To be hated because you're good. But welcome to the club. The Jews have been members for a long time.

The rise of global America-hatred is, of course, a study in hypocrisy. Countries that couldn't give two hoots about the slaughter in Rwanda, the genocide in Sudan, or what Saddam did to the Kurds, have the gall to criticize America as a global bully. I lecture and appear on television and radio around the world and thus have firsthand exposure to the rampant America-hatred and the snarling hypocrisy which is at its core.

Here the United States stands to learn something from the Jews. For the better part of half a century, America has been the guardian of liberty around the world. But those Americans who expect gratitude should remember that no good deed goes unpunished. Jews gave the world their God, only to get slaughtered in His name. Imagine, being killed for a concept you created and others cherish.

But that didn't minimize the Jewish commitment or attachment to God, nor should it minimize the American commitment to the liberation of others. Especially in light of the principal reason for European antipathy. America's expenditure of treasure and blood on behalf of other nations have made those nations feel dependent and exposed their weakness. Rather than feel grateful, they are resentful.

But all of this only points to the deeper parallels between America-hatred and anti-Semitism. The connection, in essence, is this: Those nations that stand up for what's right become reviled because they spoil everyone else's party.

The underlying cause of all anti-Semitism is the Jews having emerged as the conscience of the world. Being the progenitors of the Ten Commandments, a moral code that was adopted by the world with near universality, automatically made the Jews the arbiters of right and wrong. America today has likewise emerged as the moral conscience of an increasingly amoral world, a world deeply indifferent to human suffering, prepared to stomach people like Saddam Hussein and turn their eyes away from Janjaweed militias in Sudan.

Furthermore, just as the Jews taught the world about God, America today is the only Western country that proudly proclaims its allegiance to God. America's strong emphasis on God and religion is anathema to Old Europe, which lives in the post-Christian era. Indeed, Europeans often point to evangelical, conservative-minded American Christians as an example of American yobbery and buffoonery, people unsophisticated and dumb enough to believe in a stark world of good and evil, black and white.

And just as the Jews were hated for having spoiled the party for everyone else by imparting to the world the idea of religious morality, America is likewise hated for reminding the world of its moral responsibilities to protect human life and fight tyranny.

6. Dennis Prager
What American Jews need to think about this Rosh Hashanah
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/dp20040914.shtml
Extracts Only:

The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, begins at sunset this Wednesday. The holiday's primary purpose is to engage in an "accounting of the soul," and usher in the Ten Days of Repentance, which culminate in the holiest Jewish day, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

Both the individual and the community are required to ask themselves big questions such as: What type of person have I been, and what type of community have we been, this past year? Where am I, and where are we, headed?

[]In this spirit, as a deeply involved member of the Jewish community, I offer some accountings of the American Jewish soul.

First, in the spirit of this time of year, some Jewish leaders owe our fellow Americans who are Christian an apology. These leaders predicted that serious anti-Semitic consequences would follow in the wake of American Christians seeing the film "The Passion of the Christ." Not only did no such thing occur, polls indicated an actual diminution in anti-Jewish feelings among some Christians who saw the film, and no change whatsoever among the vast majority.

Second, connected to the above, this Rosh Hashanah is a good time for American Jews to publicly acknowledge that American Christianity has been overwhelmingly a blessing for America's Jews. The fears of Christians and their religion that many American Jews have are a carryover from Europe and the Jews' awful experiences there.

No country has ever honored Judaism or blessed its Jews as has America. And this includes secular Europe today just as it did religious Europe of the past. The prevalent idea among American Jews that a secular, rather than a Judeo-Christian, America is better for America, let alone for its Jews, is so obviously wrong, only the irrational can hold it. For proof, ask the Jews of France.

Third, the majority of Jews have substituted liberalism for Judaism, and this has been a Jewish and American calamity. Given Jews' professional success and social activism, Jews tend to have an influence on society quite disproportionate to their numbers. Unfortunately, though, nearly all those Jews who attempt to influence society have little or no connection to Judaism. They are guided far more by The New York Times and its values than by the Torah and its values. And they ask, "What do I feel?" far more than "What do 3,000 years of our world-changing religion teach?"

Fourth, religious Jews need to enter the world. The built-in tendency of Halakhic (Jewish law) Judaism to keep Jews away from non-Jews is not good for them (it leads to insularity, intellectual laziness, ethical rationalization) and not good for humanity, which only hears from Jews advocating values frequently antithetical to Judaism. The current situation is nothing less than tragic: the Jews who take Judaism the least seriously talk the most to the world, and the Jews who take Judaism the most seriously talk the least to the world.

Fifth, we must face the fact that American Jewry is declining in numbers because Jews are not taught Judaism, not because Jews are becoming Christian. Jews for nothing, not Jews for Jesus, are the greatest threat to Jewish survival.

Finally, because Judaism believes that Rosh Hashanah is the world's New Year, not the Jews' alone, a word to the non-Jewish world.

non-Jews who dismiss the enemies of the Jews as only the Jews' problem are deceiving themselves terribly. Jew-haters come after the Jews first but never the Jews only. Had the world taken Hitler's anti-Semitism seriously earlier, and therefore confronted him earlier, tens of millions of lives would have been saved. Had the world taken the Arab and Muslim terror unleashed on Israel seriously -- and not dismissed it as Israel's problem or even more absurdly, as Israel's fault -- and confronted that terror immediately, much human suffering would probably have been avoided.

With a genuine accounting of the soul, America's Jews can make the year 5765 one of the most significant in their history.

7. Tibetan "Evolutionary" Gene and Brit-Am Comment
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040917090551.htm
Tibetan Children Are Five Times More Likely To Survive Infancy If Moms Have Oxygen-Promoting Genes

Arlington, Va. -- A genetic trait enabling some Tibetan women to achieve relatively high oxygen levels in their blood, despite living at oxygen-scarce altitudes, is associated with higher infant survival, according to research reported in the online edition Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Tibetan mothers who have the oxygen-enriching gene(s) also give birth to infants who are more likely to survive their first year of life than are children of mothers without such genes.
Tibetan children have a much better chance of surviving their first year if their mothers have a genetic trait that enables them to achieve high levels of oxygen in their blood. (Credit: Cynthia M. Beall and Melvyn C. Goldstein)

Beall and an interdisciplinary team took data on mothers and their children in over 900 Tibetan households who lived at altitudes up to about 13,800 feet above sea level. For comparison, the peak of Hawaii’s volcanic mountain, Mauna Loa, is 13,680 feet above sea level.

The researchers measured the women’s blood oxygen and collected genealogical and fertility data, including the numbers of pregnancies and births, surviving children, and other health status factors.

Although the researchers did not examine the women’s DNA directly to identify a high-oxygen-conferring gene, they used an established statistical method to infer from blood samples and family history data the gene’s existence and path of inheritance from mother to child. According to their findings, one copy of the suspect gene, out of a possible two, gives Tibetan mothers the ability to infuse extra oxygen into their bloodstreams, an important survival asset because it decreases the high-altitude stress of oxygen deficiency.

The researchers then compared women’s blood-oxygen levels to the likelihood that they would become pregnant and give birth to living children, and to the likelihood that those children would survive to age 15 years.

They found the predisposition to achieve high oxygen levels did not affect a woman’s likelihood of becoming pregnant or delivering a live child, but it did affect that child’s chances of living past infancy. Children of moms with the genetic advantage were about five times more likely to live to the age of one year than were other children.

A higher survival rate for children of parents with certain genes is a defining feature of natural selection. “Questions about how humans adapt to their environments are important,” comments Mark Weiss, program officer at the National Science Foundation, which was a sponsor of the research. “This study links Darwinian fitness to a genetic adaptation the ability to compensate for oxygen deprivation at high altitudes. As people migrated out of the tropics and into inhospitable environments they had to adapt both culturally and biologically. The work by Beall and colleagues is a really neat example of selection molding the genetic composition of a population to allow life in an extreme environment."

Brit-Am Comment: When it suits them the scientists speak of genetic adaptation.
The above example does not prove Darwinism. It only shows that the Creator placed
an inbuilt mechanism in our genetic system that allows adaptation according to
a previously designed contingency program to suit each situation.
Mice in cold climates grow differently from mice in hot climates.
Switch the mice around and it can take several generations for the differences to breed themselves out
but they will do so and they will remain mice.

1. Good King Coenwulf?
Dog Walker Discovers a Penny Worth Thousands
Fri Sep 10, 2004 08:40 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - A routine walk with his dog turned into a profitable excursion for one man, who discovered a 1,200-year-old gold penny during the stroll and now expects to sell it for thousands of pounds.

The coin was discovered on a public footpath beside the River Ivel in Bedfordshire, England. It is the first new Anglo-Saxon gold penny to come to light in nearly a century and the only known gold coin with the name of Coenwulf -- a king who ruled over the central English region of Mercia.

London auctioneers Spink estimate the coin will sell for 120,000-150,000 pounds ($214,100-267,700) when it goes under the hammer in October. But Richard Bishop, an auctioneer at Spink, said the coin's excellent condition might help the price rise beyond the top estimate.

"It's obviously going to be far in excess of anything that the average guy would expect to find when he's out walking his dog," said Bishop.

2. Blood letting may have helped some people

By The Associated Press

September 12, 2004, 6:50 PM EDT

Could the ancient practice of bleeding patients really have done some good? A scientist says new research on how germs thrive in the body suggests it may have -- for some people.

Bacteria need iron to cause infections. The body has defense mechanisms to make it harder for germs to suck iron out of someone's blood or other tissues. But deadly germs can get around that iron blockade.

University of Chicago microbiologists reported last week in the journal Science that the staph germ -- a leading cause of pneumonia and other infections -- fuels itself with iron in a previously unknown way. Early in staph infections, the germs blow open red blood cells.

The Chicago researchers found staph then snatches their oxygen- and iron-carrying component and discovered the genes that govern the process.

When they weakened those genes, staph no longer sickened worms or mice, said lead researcher Eric P. Skaar. Next step is hunting drugs to block staph's iron-stealing ability.

The discovery suggests that bloodletting, done early enough, may have slowed staph infections by starving germs of iron, National Institutes of Health iron specialist Tracy Rouault wrote in a review of Skaar's research.

Nobody's suggesting that staph patients be bled today. Bloodletting was abandoned in the mid-20th century after antibiotics were invented.

But the mystery persists: "How could a procedure popular for 2,500 years have really been completely worthless?" Rouault asked.

Bloodletting was used for lots of reasons, many that "didn't make good sense," she stressed.

But, searching old medical texts, she found that starting in 18th-century France, certain physicians advised it only at the start of a high-fever illness. Even in 1942, medicine's leading English-language textbook advised early bleeding for high-fever pneumonia.

That can certainly describe a bad staph infection. Moreover, Rouault notes that one treatment for a different disease, malaria, caused by parasites, is a drug that lowers iron in blood.

3. Arutz Sheva News Sunday
<http://israelnationalnews.com/>IsraelNationalNews.com
Sept. 19, 2004 / Tzom Gedaliah 5765
WILL THE U.S. MONITOR ANTI-SEMITISM AROUND THE WORLD?
A group of 104 prominent Americans in the religious, political, academic and entertainment worlds sent a letter last week to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell challenging the State Department's opposition to a bill mandating an annual report on anti-Semitism around the world. The group, coordinated by former Congressman Stephen Solarz and the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, wrote that the fight against anti-Semitism deserves "specific, focused attention," and said that Powell should support the Global Anti-Semitism Awareness Act H.R. 4230, authored by Cong. Tom Lantos (D-Cal.).

Among the signatories are former Secretary of Housing and vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp, former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, former Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick, and leaders of four top Christian religious seminaries, including the Union Theological Seminary and Yale Divinity School.

The Lantos bill, which has 34 sponsors, would require the State Department to compile an annual report on anti-Semitism around the world, and make it the responsibility of a specific State Department office to focus on the issue.

The letter states, "The State Department's position on the Lantos legislation carries troubling echoes of the past... During the Holocaust, the State Department did its best to downplay the Jewish identity of Hitler's victims - even though the Nazi regime had clearly singled out Jews for annihilation. Statements by U.S. officials about Nazi atrocities seldom mentioned the Jews. This made it harder for the American public to understand what was happening and hindered efforts to rally public support for rescue of Jews from Hitler."

The State Department's position is that implementation of the bill could "erode our credibility by being interpreted as favoritism in human rights reporting," and might create an "inappropriate stand-alone situation for one group."

Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the Wyman Institute - located on the campus of Gratz College, near Philadelphia - responded, "The State Department already has a number of offices that extend 'exclusive status' to groups or issues of concern, among them offices on Tibet, Human Trafficking and women's rights. It is the anti-Semites who are singling out Jews, and that is why the fight against anti-Semitism deserves specific, focused attention. The Lantos bill is a timely and appropriate response to the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe, where it frequently turns violent, and in the Arab and Muslim world where it is government-sponsored."

A compromise may be in the works, as the State Department has said it does not oppose a similar bill that passed the Senate in May and that calls for a one-time report on global anti-Semitism. It also requires the department to document anti-Semitic acts in its annual reports on international religious freedom and human rights. The House of Representatives may pass a version of the bill that is closer to Lantos' version.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: [A Descendant of Jethro speaks out!]
"I would like to say to the Prime Minister, just like Jethro advised Moses to leave Egypt, so too we advise you to abandon the disengagement program."
-- MK Ayoub Kara (Likud), speaking with non-Jewish members of the Likud Party last week at a gathering in honor of Rosh HaShanah and the victory of the disengagement-opponents in the Likud referendum. Kara is a member of the Druze religion, which regards Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, as their chief prophet. The Torah records that Jethro advised Moses only on the implementation of an efficient court system.

4. The Case for Jewish Settlements
By Yoram Ettinger
The Jerusalem Cloakroom - Sep 19, 2004
Presented by:
National Unity Coalition for Israel.
(1. ARE SETTLEMENTS A CAUSE FOR THE ARAB/PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT?
Arab/Palestinian wars on the Jewish State erupted irrespective of the
presence/absence of Jewish communities in Judea & Samaria (J&S), Gaza
orGolan. They were established - on 2% of J&S and Gaza area - FOLLOWING
the 1967 War, which erupted FOLLOWING the establishment of the PLO
(1964), succeeding the wars of 1956 and 1948/9 and the sustained
campaign of Palestinian terror, which was launched in 1929, with the
massacre of Hebron's Jewish community and the expulsion of Gaza's
Jewish community, the 1929, 1936 and 1948 decimation of Gush Etzion's
Jewish communities and the 1948 dismantling of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip.

(2. ARE SETTLEMENTS AN OBSTACLE TO PEACE?
Why would the dismantling of Jewish communities in Gaza and J&S promote peace,
while the dismantling of Arab communities in Israel violate human rights?!
The 1993 Oslo Accord does not restrict settlement activity. If 250,000 Jews -
among 2.6MN Palestinians in J&S and Gaza - constitute an obstacle to
peace, how does one refer to 1.3MN Israeli Arabs among 5.5MN Jews? A super
obstacle to peace?! If the 1.3MN Israeli Arabs represent peaceful
coexistence, why would 250,000 Jews in J&S, Gaza and Golan be an
obstacle to peace?! According to Israel's law, the establishment of
Jewish communities of J&S and Gaza cannot utilize private Arab land,
and cannot displace any Arab.

(3. SETTLEMENTS ARE THE LITMUS TEST FOR - AND SPUR TO - PEACE.
Hope for peace and the uprooting of Jewish communities in J&S and Gaza
constitute an oxymoron. If 2.6MN Palestinians cannot tolerate 250,000 Jews in
their midst, what do they mean by peaceful coexistence?! The venomous
Palestinian/Arab opposition to Jewish presence in their midst -
featuring heavily in their formal education, clergy and media systems -
reflects an inherent long-term ideology/strategy. It has been the root
cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and of anti-Jewish
Palestinian terrorism. Why would the West tolerate Judenrein Arab areas?!
Palestinians should know that preoccupation with terror would yield
more Jewish communities, thus taxing Palestinian negotiation posture.
Freezing Jewish settlements would remove a chief Palestinian incentive
to negotiate.

(4. WOULD THE DISMANTLING OF SETTLEMENTS EASE THE CONFLICT? The
Palestinian-Israeli conflict has not been territorial, nor h! as it been
driven by despair. The 1993 Oslo Acord provided the PLO/PA with
unprecedented hope, territory and legitimacy, which produced
unprecedented terrorism. PM Barak offer to evacuate 98% of J&S and Gaza
triggered the current war. The conflict has been nurtured by the
Palestinian/Arab aim to eradicate sovereign Jewish (or any other
minority) presence in the Mideast, and by their hope for Jewish
surrender. The uprooting of Jewish communities, in a
deterrence-driven-peace region, would fuel, rather than subdue,
Palestinian terrorism.

(5. ARE SETTLEMENTS REQUIRED FOR ISRAEL'S SECURITY? The mountain ridges
of J&S constitute the "Golan Heights" of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa.
Most settlements are located in strategic areas, controlling critical
transportation arteries and hill tops, protecting 40% of Israel's water
resources, constraining and deterring terrorist manoeuvrability and
bolstering Israel's determination to hold on to the vital area. Gaza's
Kfar Darom and Netzarim were established, in 1967, per IDF insistence.
It was consistent with the late Chairman of the Joint C-O-S General
Earl Wheeler's recommendation that Israel's control of the entire Gaza
(139sqm) would "reduce hostile potential by a factor of 5 (recruitment,
training, operations, incitement, etc.)." They constitute an outpost,
absorbing terrorism, which would otherwise hit Israel's "soft belly."
The 1993/4 disengagement from Gaza required three times as many IDF
soldiers around and inside Gaza.

(6. DO JEWS HAVE THE RIGHT TO SETTLE J&S, GAZA and GOLAN?
The 450 Arab villages of J&S bear Biblical names (Anatot is Anata,
Haramah is A-Ram, Gilo is Beit Jallah, Gofna is Jifna, Levonah is Luban, etc.) Jewish
communities in J&S, Gaza and Golan have renewed ancient Jewish
presence, which was violently suspended by Arab and prior aggression. Israel's
Founding Fathers were not inspired by the coastal plain (which played a
minimal role in forging the Jewish identity), but rather by J&S, Gaza
and Golan, which constitute the Cradle of Jewish History. Ben Gurion
stated: "The Jewish passport has been the Bible." Statesmen do not
negotiate away their Cradle of History, lest they forfeit their
national future!

5. Quotes from Churchill
If you're going through hell, keep going.
--Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author

"We reject with scorn all these learned and laboured myths that Moses was but a legendary figure. We believe that the most scientific view, the most up to date and rationalistic conception, will find its fullest satisfaction in taking the Bible literally. We may be sure that all these things happened as they are set out in Holy Writ. In the words of a forgotten work of Mr. Gladstone, we rest with assurance upon 'the impregnable rock of Holy Scripture...' Let the men of science and of learning expand their knowledge and probe with their researches every detail of the records which have been preserved to us from these dim ages. All they do is to fortify the grand simplicity and essential accuracy of the recorded truths which have lighted so far the pilgrimage of man".

6. Origin of Nations Site
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Newsweek Magazine: Woodward and Gates:
"Now historians are discovering that the Bible, perhaps even more than the Constitution, is our founding document: ...Only one other nation has ever looked to the Bible to find a warrant for is very existence: Israel,...
"In 1776 Benjamin Franklin proposed to the Continental Congress that the great seal of the United States bear the image of Moses leading the Israelites across the Red Sea. Jefferson ...wanted the new nation represented by an Israel led through the wilderness by the Biblical pillar of cloud and fire."

7. Jews, Freemasonry and Antisemitism
A lot of Jews are Freemasons but many are not.
Freemasons are also often just as anti-semitic as the rest of the population even sometimes more so.
IN Scandinavia Jews are not allowed to join Freemason lodges.
Apart from that my impression is that Freemasonry in itself is best left alone.
It can be good, bad, or just plain silly.
For some facts from a Jewish historical perspective see:

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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:47:17 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: U.S. DETECTS SYRIAN CW IN SUDAN

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The U.S. intelligence community has determined that
Syria deployed weapons of mass destruction in Sudan's rebel Darfour
province.

U.S. officials said the CIA has obtained what it deemed reliable information
that Syria used a range of air bombs and perhaps rockets filled chemical and
biological weapons in the war in Darfour. They said the BW and CW were used
in Sudanese military attacks against African villagers in Darfour.

"The U.S. intelligence community has clear evidence that Syrian weapons and
experts arrived several months ago and tested the operational use of a range
of biological and chemical weapons in Darfour," an official said. "The
results were devastating."
The officials said Syrian BW and CW were deployed in fighting in Darfour in
June and July. They said hundreds of people were killed in the attacks,
which appeared to mostly comprise of bombs being dropped by parachute from
Sudanese Air Force An-24 air transports.

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

2. General Slim Remembered
Extracts Only:
Telegraph Network
telegraph.co.uk
Mild man of the jungle

Max Hastings reviews Slim, Master of War by Robert Lyman

A question. Which British general of the Second World War wrote in his memoirs about a battle he commanded: "I was, like other generals before me, saved from the consequences of my mistakes by the resourcefulness of my subordinate commanders and the stubborn valour of my troops"?

To anybody who knows the period, among a cast of strutting prima donnas and embittered failures there is only one candidate for such a frank and modest observation - Bill Slim. It helps to explain why he was adored by the troops he commanded, the "Forgotten" Fourteenth Army in Bur