"Jerusalem News"-62

1.
News from Hebron
The Hebron Press Office Pictures: http://www.hebron.org.il/news.htm Saturday June 29, 2002

1. IDF destroys Arafat military headquarters in Hebron
Last night at about 11:15, the Israel Defense Forces blew up the Palestinian Authority military headquarters on the outskirts of Hebron. A

second blast occurred at about 4:00 in the morning.
The massive explosion could be heard for miles. A huge smoke cloud covered the sky.
According to security forces at least 10 to 15 Arab terrorists remained in the building, refusing to surrender to Israeli troops. Israeli forces

refrained from entering the structure for fear that is was booby-trapped. As of this writing none of the terrorist's bodies have been

discovered. It is thought that either they are buried under the ruins or perhaps escaped via underground tunnels.
Israel radio reported that the curfew in Hebron will be lifted following completion of a search of the ruins.
The military headquarters was originally built by the British during their mandate in Israel. Following the War of Independence the site was

taken by the Jordanians until the 1967 Six-day war, when Israel reclaimed Hebron. It served as the Israeli military headquarters in Hebron

until January of 1997, when it was abandoned to Arafat. The site served as the first neighborhood in the renewed Jewish community in

Hebron following the Six-day war, with Israeli civilians, led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, living in the headquarters from May, 1968 until

September 1971.
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Friday, June 28, 2002 / Tammuz 18, 5762
P.A. MOTHER CELEBRATES SON'S DEATH
"When I heard that my son was dead, I cried out for joy." So reports Ynet today, quoting the mother of a Hamas terrorist who murdered

three Israeli soldiers two weeks ago on a mission from which he knew he would not return. The mother, Naima al-Abed, said, "I imbued my

son with a love of Jihad [holy war] and death for Allah," and recounted how her son Mahmoud consulted with her on whether or not to take

this action:
"When he finally told me that he was going to do it, I blessed him and encouraged him, because I saw how much he wanted to… I didn't

tell my husband, because he is emotional and he would have attempted to dissuade him… When he left on the mission, I was worried that

it might not succeed and I couldn't cook… I prayed with all my heart that he would succeed in his suicide mission.
"One morning, he told me that he was going that day… That afternoon, I heard a knock on the door, and I saw it was Mahmoud. I started

yelling at him and said, 'Did you change your mind? Did you get scared?' He told me that the mission was to be an ambush, and that the

soldiers didn't pass by that day… [Two days later,] he got a call from the lookout. He showered, prayed, and left…" Her other son later

told her that there had been an attack on soldiers, and that one of the attackers had been killed. "I remained tense until they came from

Hamas and told me that he had been killed. I then let out shrieks of joy that woke up the whole neighborhood…"

ANTI-DEPORTATION PROTESTOR RELEASED
The Jerusalem Magistrates Court ordered the release of right-wing activist Itamar Ben-Gvir this morning, rejecting police calls to hold him

without bail. Ben-Gvir was arrested yesterday for demonstrating against Attorney-General Elyakim Rubinstein, decrying his decision to

oppose the deportation of the families of suicide bombers. Ben-Gvir is forbidden to come within 200 meters of Rubenstein's home.

3.

Yair - thought this was a good article from TIME Magazine
Betty

Strange Bedfellows:
Evangelical Christians have many reasons for supporting Israel and its settlements in the West Bank
Is It Good for the Jews?
What do End Time prophecies mean for Israel and Judaism?
By NANCY GIBBS
Sunday, June 23, 2002; 2:31 a.m. EST
Evangelical leaders have declared that support for Israel has moved to the very top of their agenda. Christian
groups are spending millions on everything from armored school buses for Israeli children to halogen lights for
the army's emergency-rescue service. There are e-mail chains, prayer ministries and grassroots efforts to get
the word out that the U.S. must stand united with its ally in the war on terror.

So why are Jews so divided about this embrace?

On the one hand are those who argue that when there is a Methodist in the White House with Evangelical
sympathies, it is smart politics to make friends with his friendsג€”even if you disagree with them on every
subject other than Israel. "Evangelicals have a unique role to play with this Administration and in the Republican
Party that Jews can't," says Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, who runs an interfaith alliance. "Jews today see Israel's
survival at stake, so they are more willing to put aside domestic concerns." In this view, Evangelical support
reflects many factors: shared security interests, a desire to atone for past persecution of Jews, and deep,
shared roots in the Book of Genesis. "Our primary motivation comes from the biblical verses that say he who
blesses Israel will be blessed," says Doron Schneider of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem.
"We see ourselves as part of the fulfillment of the prophecy, but we are not causing it to happen."

"I'd be awfully cautious about this alliance if I were on the Israeli side." - HARVEY COX, professor of divinity at Harvard

And that is where the argument begins, the moment the word prophecy is mentioned. Evangelical leaders
emphatically deny that End Times theology plays any role in their support of Israel. So the debate among Jews
is whether to believe them, and whether it matters. "You're playing with fire there," says Harvey Cox, professor
of divinity at Harvard. "I'd be awfully cautious about this alliance if I were on the Israeli side." The reason is that
once you move into End Times theology, the interests of the two groups split apart. According to prophecy, the
Jews must be in control of Israel for Jesus to return. But in the last battle, two-thirds of the Jews perish, and the
rest either accept Jesus as the true Messiah or they must be damned, literally. "In my view, any theology that
continues to deny the validity of Judaism and to fantasize about looking forward to the conversion or destruction
of the Jews is one that should arouse a great deal of caution among Jews," argues Gershom Gorenberg, a
leading Jewish expert.

Yet when a people feels isolated and under attack, it will take all the friends it can get, retorts Abraham
Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "I don't think it's our business to get at the heart and
soul and metaphysics of people as to why they come to support Israel. Some do it for a national-interest point
of view, some because of moral issues, some because of theological issues. We don't set standards or
conditions for support." That may be a luxury for a more peaceful age.

ג€” Reported by Matthew Kalman/ Jerusalem and Amanda Bower/ New York

"Jerusalem News"-63
Content
1. Sunday News
2. Monday News
3. US Soldiers do not like Israel?
4. The war on Israeli academia by Harris Freier
5. One in three Europeans 'is anti Semitic' by Robert Mendick

1. Sunday News
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Arutz Sheva News Service
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Sunday, June 30, 2002 / Tammuz 20, 5762

IDF DESTROYS HEVRON BUILDING
IDF officials have confirmed reports that motorized hang gliders were found amidst the rubble of the PA's Hevron headquarters. IDF combat

engineers destroyed the PA structure shortly before midnight on Friday, using at least two tons of explosives, and the army resumed

searching the rubble this morning. The British originally built the large three-story building in 1936, and Israel used it for its regional military

command between 1967 and 1997.
It is assumed that the 15 terrorists who had holed up in the building, and whose surrender Israel had demanded, escaped via underground

tunnels. Some 150 other terrorists in the building had surrendered in the previous days. Israel Television reported that the past few days of

anti-terrorism activity in Hevron had netted the army the confiscation of some 5,000 guns.

TRAIN TRACK BOMB HURTS THREE
Police in Lod, southeast of Tel Aviv, are still at a loss to explain how Arab terrorists were able to place a bomb on train tracks in the city's

Ganei Aviv neighborhood. The bomb exploded early this morning, lightly injuring three people and damaging one train car. The train was

carrying about 500 passengers when the bomb went off, apparently by remote control. Police arrested several Arabs found to be in the

area illegally. Security personnel who comb the tracks each morning did not spot the bomb today before it went off.
Intelligence warnings of a possible terrorist attack in Jerusalem continue to be acute, and police were out in force in the capital today,

establishing new checkpoints at the city's entrances and carrying out other preventive measures. Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef cancelled his

popular weekly Torah lecture in the Bucharim neighborhood of the capital last night, in accordance with police advice. A Jewish home in

the Armon HaNetziv neighborhood was targeted in a Friday night firebomb attack; there were no injuries.
Construction of the security fence around parts of Jerusalem began today, in the area of the Tunnels Highway between Gush Etzion and

southern Jerusalem. Women in Green demonstrated today outside the Prime Minister's Office against what it calls the country's planned

"Auschwitz borders." The phrase was coined by Abba Eban, who served as Israel's Ambassador to the UN during the Six-Day War. The

organization's co-founder Nadia Matar says that the new border fence will provide a misleading sense of security while placing the

residents of Yesha communities outside of mainland Israel.

HIZBULLAH AND AL-QAEDA COOPERATION
Intelligence sources in the U.S. and Europe say that Hizbullah is now cooperating with Al-Qaeda. The Washington Post reports today that

the two organizations jointly train young terrorists for future attacks, launder money, smuggle arms, and forge documents. The paper notes

that though the cooperation is on an ad-hoc basis, and is not of a formal nature, it is of great concern to senior American officials. They

feel that it will enable the limping Al-Qaeda to improve its offensive capabilities against American targets.
In a related item, Jordan has detained a suspected Islamic terrorist cell that planned to attack U.S. targets and Israeli interests in the

Hashemite kingdom and in Judea/Samaria. Middle East News Line reports that some of those arrested were seminary students in Saudi

Arabia, and all are Jordanian nationals.

2. Monday News
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Monday, July 1, 2002 / Tammuz 21, 5762

ARCH-MURDERER KILLED IN SHOOT-OUT
An Israeli naval commando force killed one of the most murderous terrorists in the entire Palestinian Authority last night: Muhalad Taher,

involved in attacks claiming the lives of 121 Israelis. He was killed in a shoot-out in Shechem. The force surrounded the area of the house

in which he was hiding, and in the ensuing exchange of fire, he and his aide were killed; a third terrorist was seriously wounded and

evacuated to Tel HaShomer Hospital. The forces demolished the building in which Taher hid.
An expert in explosives preparation, Taher was involved in dozens of attacks, including the recent Gilo bus bombing (19 killed), the Pesach

Seder Massacre (29), the Dolphinarium attack (15), and more. His demise is the latest in a series of recent successful strikes at Hamas

leaders in the Shomron, following the elimination of Jamal Mansour, Jamal Damouni, several other top terrorist leaders, and several of their

successors in top Hamas positions.
IDF forces detained the adult male residents of the Al-Amari slum near Ramallah yesterday, and made other important arrests west of

Hevron, near Tul Karem, and elsewhere. Prime Minister Sharon, together with Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and IDF Chief of

Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz, decided that curfews would soon be imposed on the PA-controlled cities only at night, in order to make life

easier for the residents.

JERUSALEM BOMB SAFELY DETONATED
Police sappers safely detonated this morning a bomb found outside Givat Ze'ev, north of Jerusalem. The three-pipebomb contraption was

hidden inside a briefcase, and police assume that it was intended for an attack in the capital. The explosive was originally detected on

Saturday, and the police set up a stakeout in the hope of catching the terrorist coming to pick it up - but no one showed up.
A small battle developed this morning near the Israeli-Egyptian border at Rafiach. One soldier was wounded lightly. Israeli tanks entered

Rafiach during the night, and destroyed a building; one armed Arab was injured in an exchange of fire. The Israeli operations there are

designed to find arms-smuggling tunnels.

3. US Soldiers do not like Israel?
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 11:47:14 -0400 (EDT)
Voice of Judea News and Commentary
VoiceOfJudea@Judea.org

NO LOVE FOR ISRAEL FROM U.S. SOLDIERS
A recent independent survey of the United States Armed Forces on
various topics published in the July NY edition of STUFF magazine has
shown that only 3% of their people consider Israel a "reliable ally of the
United States". 8% considered Saudi Arabia such.
Voice of Judea commentary:
Israeli and American Jews have a horribly distorted view of how the
average American looks at Israel.

4. The war on Israeli academia

By Harris Freier

Cavalier Daily (U. Virginia)
04/19/2002
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(U-WIRE) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- European professors are petitioning for a boycott of Israeli cultural and research institutions,

because of Israel's military actions in the West Bank. This call by some European academicians is outrageous and violates the

understanding that cultural change is supposed to promote.

According to an April 15 Chronicle of Higher Education article, a petition signed by more than 300 European intellectuals calls on

European institutions to sever ties with Israeli institutions. The majority of the signatories are from Great Britain, but scholars from 18 other

European countries are on the list, as well as nine from Israel.

Steve Rose, a biology professor at Open University in Britain and a co-sponsor of the petition, told The Chronicle, "It's not an attack on

individual academics, but it's an attack on institutional links with the Israeli state universities." He goes on to say that the petitioners seek

an end to "the state terror of the Israeli government."

Demonstrations against Israel have occurred throughout Europe in the last few weeks. Jewish synagogues and cemeteries have been

attacked and vandalized, according to The Washington Post ("Anti-Semitic attacks increase in Europe," April 6). Europe, which has a very

dubious history with regard to Jews, once again has raised questions as to whether anti-Semitism is on the rise in the continent.

Moshe Fogel, the press spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport, told The Chronicle, "The scientific and cultural

dialogue is, when it comes down to it, meant to advance the international scientific community. Experience proves that everyone profits

when science and politics are not mixed."

Hillel Shuval, a professor of Environmental Science at Israel's Hebrew University, said in the same Chronicle article that some of the

projects that the Europeans are threatening to boycott "played a very important role in maintaining open lines of communication, collegial

relations and friendships between Israelis and Palestinians during these difficult times." The European intellectuals inadvertently could be

hurting Palestinians as well as the peace process with their ignorant behavior.

5. One in three Europeans 'is anti Semitic'
By Robert Mendick
30 June 2002

A new form of anti-Semitism has taken hold in Europe, fuelled by anti-Israeli sentiment, according to a survey which shows almost one in

three Europeans now harbours some anti-Jewish feelings.

Attitudes towards Jews vary across the five countries surveyed with Belgians, Germans and the French "most likely to hold a prejudiced

view of Jews". Denmark and the UK are said to be the least prejudiced. But attitudes in the UK show a worryingly high level of anti-Semitic

sentiment.

The findings of 2,500 people polled – 500 in each country – show 30 per cent harboured traditional anti-Jewish views. The survey was

commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League, a US-based organisation set up just before the First World War to combat anti-Semitism in

the US.

Those polled were each read out four statements containing stereotypical anti-Semitic sentiments. The numbers who thought the

statements "probably true" varied from country to country but were still very high.

One in five Britons believes Jews have too much power in the business world. More than 10 per cent of those surveyed in the UK believed

Jews are "more willing to use shady practices to get what they want".

One in 10 believes "Jews don't care what happens to anyone but their own kind" while one in three considers "Jews are more loyal to

Israel than to this country".

Fiona Macaulay of the Board of Deputies of British Jews said: "These findings are shocking. If one was to substitute the word Jew for

black there would be outrage."
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6. Back in Business & Ain't it Grand by "Gamla"
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*Germany cancels contracts by canceling shipments of tank part to Israel: Back in Business.

* France cancels contracts with Israel: Back in Business.

* England cancels contracts with Israel: Back in Business.

* Norway, epicenter of Oslo bars Israel firms from doing business: BOYCOTT: Back in Business.

* The Europeans are all Back in the xenophobic hate-the-Jews Business & Ain't It Grand?

Jean Marie Le Pen of France, long known as a dedicated anti-Semite vies to crush Israel. with Jacques Chirac, himself a pro-Arab/anti-

Israel leader of France. All the European countries are back to where they were when Hitler called them to his side. He released them to

do what they were carefully taught to do - Hate the people who brought to this planet a G-d they did not want - or at least not from the

Jews.

Is this to be a replay of Czechoslovakia in 1938, when France and Britain colluded to appease Hitler and handed Czechoslovakia over to

Hitler free of charge? This time the gift of appeasement is to be the Jewish State of Israel. The names may change but the dirty deal

always remains a dirty deal.

Egypt has joined Saudi Arabia as a non-friend to the United States as the Bush family continues this "pretend" friendship. Egypt's

President Hosni Mubarak has launched a Public Relations offensive with the theme that America's War on Terror has nothing to do with

Israel's War against Palestinian Terrorists. In "Arab-Speak" that means that Palestinian terrorists are not terrorists. Presumably that

definition would also apply to any other Arab nation identified as "terrorist state". Egypt, like Saudi Arabia is running a scam on America -

or, at least, those of us who are not in on the scam.

Egypt has suggested that the Arab nations raise $100 Billion for a "confrontation budget" to wage war against Israel and then Egypt would

lead this war against Israel as a concerted effort from all Arabs. (As quoted from Egypt's Prime Minister Atef Obeid on April 4th in Al

Bawaba.com)

The United Nations continues their offensive offensive against Israel:

* NO investigation by the U.N. of any Palestinian atrocities against Israel.

* Votes of condemnation against Israel for every counter attack against terror.

* Kofi Annan sets up an Investigation committee against Isarel that consisted members well-known for their bias against the Jewish

State. Chair of the committee, Martti Ahtisaari, president of Finland is the immediate past president of the European Union, a body

consistently hostile to Israel. Ahtisaari praised Syria's dictator Hafez Assad and Yassir Arafat thanked Ahtisaari for Finland's support of

the Palestinian Arab cause. Cornelia Sommaruga, former head of the International Red Cross compared Israel's Shield of David to the Nazi

swastika. The third member, Sadako Ogata, UN High Commissioner for Refugees sought self-restraint on the part of Israel.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon showed his well-known military courage and, as befits any sovereign nation, refused to let them in for a smear

campaign. Because Sharon held fast, Annan has just cancelled his biased U.N. Inquisition.

As a relevant aside, the U.S. State Department prodded our own American weapons' manufacturers to hit Israel from another direction.

Every large weapons' sale by Israel to other nations has been undercut and Israel has been ordered to stay out of the competition. Israel's

competitors have been subsidized by the government.

Isarel has also been ordered to stay out of the competition of staying alive against a concerted terror conspiracy against her. Israel's

limited role is to occasionally nip at the terrorists but not to attack in force and do serious damage. That "request" comes straight from

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to Washington, D.C. and the President who passes the message on to Sharon.

The boys in Washington are also Back in Business, accommodating the Saudis, Egyptians and those other Arab nations who we asked

to support America's fight against Iraq and who refused.

The boys in Washington are virtually saying to Israel's Prime Minister: "So, Mr. Arik Sharon, don't pull any of that General stuff and kill

Palestinian Terrorists. It is your job to ignore terrorist atrocities because the Bush family says so."

Only America, according to the Bush family doctrine, is free to kill Terrorists in Afghanistan, chasing after the ephemeral Osama Bin

Laden. Yassir Arafat has a bigger body count in kills than Osama but, the West is treating him with kid gloves. Why? Perhaps because

we never nailed Arafat for killing our American Ambassador to Sudan in 1973? Or because we were gullible for every terror trick Arafat

pulled on us? Who wants to look so foolish for exercising such poor judgement? Perhaps Arafat has been on the U.S. payroll for many

years and the paymaster wishes to remain as always - unexposed.

The American people are Israel's true friends but, they do not have much say in Washington. However, the U.S. Congress frequently votes

solidly in support of the Jewish State of Israel. The "Shadow Government" of oil maggots do pretty much what they want to do out of sight

of the American people. Israel is considered expendable and must be sacrificed for the cash flow it brings to the Bush-Baker dynasties

and all those attached to the Arab oil narcotic.

We in the Free West were not successful in bribing Adolph Hitler by the betrayal of Czechoslovakia and it is doubtful we will be successful

in appeasing the Arab nations with the betrayal of Israel.

I think that America and Europe will pay a very heavy price for the venality and perfidy of their leaders. These leaders have shown the world

of radical and militant Islamic fundamentalism that they can be beaten, even as they sacrifice friends and allies to Mammon (the god of

wealth). Islam has been encouraged knowing now that the West has lost its staying power - except for their insatiable hunger for money

and power.

"Jerusalem News"-64
Content:

1. CUBA SUPPLIES BW TECHNOLOGY TO LIBYA, SYRIA
2. EGYPT, IRAQ SIGN MAJOR OIL ACCORD
3. [The New York Times] Hedging the Truth
by Andrea Levin
4. CNN “change of heart”?, BBC hang-up problem?
5. Danes Improve

1. CUBA SUPPLIES BW TECHNOLOGY TO LIBYA, SYRIA
From: imra@netvision.net.il
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Cuba has been deemed a leading supplier of
biological weapons components and technology to so-called rogue states in
the Middle East.
The United States has determined that Cuba is cooperating with such
countries as Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya in both biological and chemical
weapons. U.S. officials said Libya and Syria, with chemical weapons
facilities, are especially interested in advancing their nascent biological
weapons programs.
Assistant Secretary of State Carl Ford said Cuba both exports and
imports weapons of mass destruction technology from Middle East rogue
states. He said the United States has evidence of Cuban exports of dual-use
biological weapons technology to Iran, Iraq, Syria and Libya.
"So that while I'm concerned about what Cuba and its biotechnological
capability may be providing other countries like Iran," Ford told a Senate
Foreign Relations subcommittee last week, "I'm also concerned about their
associations with countries that also have a chemical or biological warfare
capability and there can be an exchange of ideas, exchange of capabilities
and, again, is part of the process of showing an interest and watching very
carefully what they're up to in Iran and Iraq, Syria, Libya, wherever else
they may be talking to people."
NOTE: The above is not the full item.

2. EGYPT, IRAQ SIGN MAJOR OIL ACCORD
From: imra@netvision.net.il
LONDON [MENL] -- Egypt and Iraq have signed a multi-billion dollar oil
deal that Western diplomats assert has violated United Nations sanctions on
the regime of President Saddam Hussein.
The deal signed last year and which has been implemented over the last
few months calls for Iraqi export of an estimated 300 million barrels of oil
to Egypt during 2002. The oil has been delivered through both Jordan and
Syria.
Industry sources and Western diplomats said Baghdad and Cairo have
agreed to split the revenues from the sale of the Iraqi oil. One industry
source said the agreement calls for Iraq to receive at least $11 per barrel
with Egypt receiving another $7.
Under the terms of the accord, Jordan or Syria would receive another
$4 per barrel for allowing deliveries through their territory.

3.
On CAMERA: [The New York Times] Hedging the Truth
by Andrea Levin
July 1, 2002
Public indignation at the New York Times' coverage of the Arab-Israeli
conflict has erupted in reader boycotts and loss of advertising for the
newspaper. Much of that ire is focused on the paper's undeniable
amplifying of Palestinian grievances and minimizing of Israeli
suffering.

4. CNN “change of heart”?, BBC hang-up problem?
The "change" in CNN is all well and good. I just wonder how long it will
last.
I'm now a 100 percent FOX News guy and don't plan on going back. To me, the
fact that CNN's "change of heart" is due purely to ratings instead of
commitment to the truth is proof enough for me that they actually haven't
changed at all. In fact, their changing to capture or keep market share
instead of to more accurately report the news actually proves that "truth in
the media" is not their prime concern. I may start believing it when I see
them fire ALL their current Middle East reporters and replace them with
others.
CNN (ClintonNewsNewwork, or CommunistNewsNetwork, or whatever....)
Just my 2 cents, and that's about all it's worth. :-)
Bruce...

HonestReporting Communique
30 June 2002

"WHEN CNN IS THE STORY"

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Dear HonestReporting Member,

On the heels of CNN's massive public relations problems regarding its
Mideast reporting, the Jerusalem Post has published an in-depth report
entitled, "WHEN CNN IS THE STORY." Miriam Shaviv examines CNN's uneasy
history of reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the real
reasons it has now decided to make editorial changes.


As the Jerusalem Post reports:

HonestReporting.com readers sent up to 6,000 e-mails a day to CNN
executives, effectively paralyzing their internal e-mail system. The
consultant, who was present at several meetings with watchdog groups
initiated by CNN, says the top CNN executives had, until then, failed to
appreciate the strength of public feeling on the issue.

"At the beginning," says the consultant, "the executives didn't believe
there was a problem, mostly out of ignorance of what was going on [in the
field].


===== "WHEN CNN IS THE STORY" =====

Jerusalem Post
June 27, 2002

Although CNN routinely reports on terror attacks in
Israel, pro-Israeli groups have complained over a long period that it
downplays the stories of victims, often neglecting to identify them by
name and age, and devoting to them less airtime than to suffering
Palestinians.

Watchdog groups have long charged that CNN is actually biased against
Israel. They have logged countless examples of reporters who allow
Palestinian representatives to get away with abject lies..

But this week, there were other gestures towards the pro-Israeli community
from CNN. Eason Jordan, the network's chief news executive and
newsgathering president, flew in to the region and requested a meeting
with Communications Minister Reuven Rivlin. During his visit, he defended
CNN's reporting record to virtually every major media outlet in the
country, and announced that CNN would no longer give airtime to the
families of Palestinian bombers "unless there is a compelling reason to do
so."

The immediate spur for the gestures was the decision by the YES satellite
company to offer FOX News as an alternative to CNN, and a threat by the
cable companies to follow suit. The Israeli media treated the gestures as
proof that the Israeli lobby really does have power to hurt even such
large and powerful networks. The headline in Yediot Aharonot, gloated
about "CNN's amelioration trip"; Ma'ariv, boasted of a "special apology."

Clearly, the pro-Israeli lobby's muscle flexing has worked some wonders.
But media commentators place the victory in the context of a larger battle
CNN is waging, for viewers from the conservative side of the political
spectrum in the US.

"CNN has well-documented biases, including being pro-Liberal," says
Elizabeth Swasey, director of Communications at the Media Resource Center
in Alexandria, Virginia. "There is much more competition in the market
now, so they are being forced to change."

In recent months, that competition has increased enormously. CNN's biggest
rival is Rupert Murdoch's FOX News, created just five years ago, which has
managed to capture much of the conservative heartland. Two months ago,
according to Swasey, for the first time, FOX managed to beat CNN in
ratings in terms of sheer numbers -- although it is still available in
fewer homes in the US.

According to Swasey, CNN is under tremendous pressure to regain its number
one status among cable networks. It realizes that many of the viewers on
the mainstream center and Right in the US feel strongly about Israel and
believe CNN is too pro-Palestinian.

"They are not used to losing in ratings," she says. "There is a note of
desperation in a lot of what they are doing right now. They will try
anything."

* * *

Even critics of CNN agree that any anti-Israeli bias was never company
policy, but there is still a long history of antagonism between Israel
activists and individual CNN correspondents.


The increased attention, of course, took place precisely at the time when
the ratings war with the more conservative FOX News Network was heating
up. The battle between FOX and CNN, says Swasey, has become "all the rage
in the US. It has been the subject of numerous reports in the papers, a
truly hot news topic." According to Swasey, CNN has long been regarded as
a liberal bastion.

"You see it in the ideological labeling they do -- they are more likely to
label people from the Right as 'Conservatives,' while not labeling
liberals. You see it in their story selections. CNN has long been known as
the Clinton News Network, and more recently, as the Castro News Network,
because of the way they covered [former US president Jimmy] Carter's visit
to the Communist island."

Already last August, CNN chief Walter Isaacson went to meet with House and
Senate GOP leaders on Capitol Hill, in order to improve the network's
image with conservatives.

"I was trying to reach out to a lot of Republicans who feel that CNN has
not been as open covering Republicans, and I wanted to hear their
concerns," he said at the time.

The final straw was the threat, by Israel's satellite and cable companies,
to either offer FOX as an alternative to CNN, or to remove CNN altogether
from the air.

"In the television business, the most important thing of all, the grail
you live and die by, is 'carriage,'" says media observer Wolf. "If you
lose carriage in a key market like Israel is in that area of the world,
the nature of your business begins to fundamentally change. They can't
afford to set that precedent, because next they'll lose 3 million here, 12
million there."

This was particularly important, of course, because the Israeli companies
had threatened to replace CNN with its chief rival.

"In media, numbers count a lot, even if they are small," says Bushinsky.
"With ratings, even a couple of percentage points mean a lot."

* * *

To what extent do CNN's efforts to rebalance its reporting reflect a
genuine concern with journalistic standards?

Most media critics say the proof will be in the network's long-term
behavior, but are otherwise split on the issue.


* * *

After local satellite and cable TV companies threatened to remove CNN from
their subscriber package last week, Shinui party chairman Yosef Lapid had
some choice words for the British press: "Newspapers like The Independent
and The Guardian are working in the service of the Hamas," he said.

But many Israelis consider one newsmedia outlet worse than even those:
BBC-TV.

"The reporting is sometimes Soviet-like in its propaganda," says a
consultant to one media watchdog group. "I suspect they may even take
encouragement from the complaints of the pro-Israel community."

In one example on May 10, 2001, the BBC showed an Israeli attack on a Gaza
military base, with "lots of noise, dust, and ambulances," he says. "The
next picture showed an ambulance pulling up to a hospital, with a badly
wounded man coming out. The problem: it was an Israeli ambulance, with an
injured Romanian worker. We brought the editing problem to the attention
of the BBC, but there was not a word of apology, nothing."

According to the executive director of CAMERA, Andrea Levin, the BBC does
not use the word "terror" to describe suicide bombings in Israel, although
they use the word in the Northern Ireland context -- and even with regard
to rebel groups in Uganda.

"It is a double standard," Levin says.

Could pro-Israeli audiences hope to influence the BBC in the same way they
seem to have influenced CNN? Probably not, say the experts.

"The BBC is one of the largest media institutions in the world and because
of its size and influence, it has ingrained policies," says Levin. "Like
its image, it considers itself above criticism."

Most importantly, however, is that the feeling in Britain regarding Israel
and the coverage of it does not run as deep as the feeling does in the
United States. "I don't know whether their audience is as focused on the
BBC problem," says Levin.

Even so, says Levin, audience members should continue to bring BBC
mistakes to public attention and to the attention of the media outlet. CNN
is not the only success pro-Israel activists have had: "There have been
many grassroots movements directed at newspapers in the last six months,"
she says. "Efforts directed at The New York Times, for example, have had
an impact."

* * *
From: (Barb from Maine)

Fox News is the only one I watch, too. But I get a lot of info from my
news group.
3 posts from the news group: (you won't hear THIS on CNN....)
.
The thread Subject: is "newsday story from Balata refugee camp"
-----------------------------------
Palestinians talking to a reporter regarding suicide bombers:
.
"The Jews are bloodsuckers, they run casinos and playboy magazines all
over the world, and they came over here to suck the blood of the
palastine people. the white americans eliminated the indians and mr.
bush thinks the israelis can eliminate the palestinians.
.
We are locusts, if you eliminate the whole swarm and there's one left we
will still be capable of breeding and producing many people.
.
The jewish people produce one or two kids in each family, but us,we are
like an egg machine. we produce nine or ten in the family. if they lose
one, its a lot for them. if we lose one in our family, its NOTHING."
--------------------------------------
(first reply --)
.
also:
.
"The Arab woman's womb is our weapon!"....
.
In a meeting with Arab diplomats in January 1996:
.
"We the PLO will concentrate all our efforts on splitting Israel
psychologically into two camps. Within five years we will have six to
seven million Arabs living on the West Bank and in Jerusalem.
.
The PLO plans to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely
Palestinian State. We will make life unbearable for Jews by
psychological warfare and population explosion; Jews won't want to live
among Arabs."
-----------------------------------
(second reply --)
.
they intend to breed like roaches and over-run Israel !!!

5. Danes Improve
From: ICEJ meid <meid@icej.org.il
Subject: ICEJ NEWS July 1
NEW EU PREZ BACK ARAFAT'S OUSTER
In a rare hand-slapping from the European Union, the Danish Prime Minister, whose country just took over the rotating presidency of the

EU, agreed with the US call that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat needs to be replaced.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that since Arafat either can't or won't put an end to suicide bombings, there is a need for a Palestinian

leadership that will.
Rasmussen's statements mark a dramatic turn in Danish policy toward Israel and were welcomed in Jerusalem. One diplomatic official

said there has been a significant change in Danish policy since elections there in November and the ousting of foreign minister Mogen

Lykketoft, considered among the most anti-Israel ministers in Europe who urged the EU to impose sanctions on Israel for its settlement

policy.
The official noted that the boycott of Israeli goods that has taken hold in Norway has not been successful in Denmark.
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"Jerusalem News"-65
Contents:
1. Christian Support for Israel
2. News
3. A little Vengeance
4. Danger: Homosexuality may be transmitted

1. Christian Support for Israel
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Campaign for Working Families - July 01, 2002
Gary Bauer, Chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, is currently visiting Israel and sends this note to all his friends. I think you

will find it interesting:
--------------------------

Hitting The Ground Running
I arrived safely in Tel Aviv yesterday. In spite of jet lag, we have already had an incredible day and a half in Israel. The drive from Tel Aviv to

Jerusalem, where I am now, is in itself a dramatic illustration of the security threat facing this Western democracy in a sea of tyrants and

dictators. This country is a "postage stamp" in size and all of its citizens are within reach of the weapons of mass destruction being

developed in Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Yet, the world demands that Israel surrender even more land as the price for peace. The world is wrong.

Sharon Meeting
Your prayers are working. Today I met with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and members of his cabinet for what had been scheduled as a

brief discussion. At the meeting, I presented the Prime Minister with a strong letter of support and encouragement signed by prominent

Christian leaders, including my friends Dr. James Dobson, Chuck Colson and Reverend Jerry Falwell. The letter had an electrifying impact.

Our meeting went nearly an hour and resulted in me doing numerous interviews on Israeli television and radio.

Here is the text of the letter:

July 1, 2002
His Excellency Ariel Sharon
Prime Minister
State of Israel
Jerusalem, Israel

Your Excellency:
We hope this letter, written to you and the people of the great nation of Israel from your friends in the United States, will be an

encouragement.

We want to remind the Israeli people that they are not alone in their hour of need. On September 11, 2001 the United States suffered a

horrendous attack. As we mourned our losses we were shocked to see dancing in the streets, in celebration of our pain, in some parts of

the Middle East. But in Israel you cried with us and lowered your flag and shared our grief. On September 11th many Americans came to

understand for the first time what it is like to be an Israeli and to face barbaric terrorism that targets innocent civilians. We know that in the

face of this evil the free people of the world who believe in human dignity, the sanctity of life and in free institutions must stand together.

We know you have been America's reliable friend and ally and we understand that our friendship is natural because both of our nations are

built on Western Civilization, and its foundation of Judeo-Christian values.

Please know that we are committed, as are millions of Christians in America, to praying for Israel and for the "peace of Jerusalem". We

also are committed to working to ensure that the great evil that threatens America and Israel does not prevail.

We believe Israel has the same right of self-defense that all sovereign nations enjoy. We believe you have shown incredible restraint in the

face of the wanton violence aimed at innocent Israeli civilians. We reject the notion that America or Israel should be passive in the face of

such violence. We know that just as our country has the right to track down the terrorists who have declared war on America that you too

have the right to pursue those who are dedicated to destroying you.

We believe terrorists cannot be appeased and we reject all pressure on Israel to do so.

We believe the suffering of Palestinian Arabs is due to the failure of their leaders to provide any vision for the future, other than hatred of

Israel and self-destruction. We believe no peace conference or piece of paper can safeguard your people unless the nations and people

who surround you concede that you
have a right to exist. We know peace is impossible until the Palestinian
leadership ends the indoctrination of Palestinian children with "blood libels" and stops teaching their children that they will be rewarded in

eternity for killing Jews.

We believe no Palestinian State is possible without an end to terrorist attacks on Israel and democratic reform in the Palestinian

territories. We know who the war criminals are and it is not the dedicated members of the IDF who have gone to great lengths to avoid

unnecessary death and injury to civilians. We condemn the moral relativism that confuses those being murdered with those doing the

murdering. We demand that the United Nations and other international bodies end their silence on the atrocities committed against civilian

men and women, young and old, in Israel. We are disgusted with the rising tide of anti-Semitism that has swept the streets of Western

Europe and the "fashionable" anti-Semitism that now seeks respectability in some international bodies and among certain elites. We will

speak out forcibly against such evil wherever it appears.

Finally, like you, we pray for a world where free people can live in safety and in peace, able to observe their faith and to honor their

traditions. As our two nations work toward that goal you have our commitment that American Christians will stand with Israel.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WHO WE ARE: The National Unity Coalition for Israel
Founded in 1991,we are the largest worldwide coalition of Jewish and Christian organizations, with more than 200 groups representing

millions of people dedicated to Israel. Though we have many different backgrounds, we have one common goal…
A Safe and Secure Israel.

Israel is not just a Jewish issue. Millions of Christians resolutely endorse the principle of peace with security for the state of Israel.

Because we work closely together and speak with a united voice, our message is being heard!

2. News
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Tuesday, July 2, 2002 / Tammuz 22, 5762
- SLOWLY BUT SURELY
Quietly, efficiently and without international protest, Israeli forces continue their anti-terrorism offensive throughout Judea, Samaria, and

Gaza. Last night saw the arrest of many more wanted Arab terrorists, including Nizal Sawiftah, an Islamic Jihad leader in Tubus, a village

near Shechem. Also taken into custody were Assad Halvoni, a leading Hamas terrorist who had been operating in Shechem's Casba; an

Arab woman in the midst of preparing to carry out a suicide attack; and others. In Gaza, the army discovered a tunnel used by Arabs to

smuggle weapons into PLO-areas from Egypt.
No sooner did the IDF forces leave the western Shomron city of Kalkilye this morning and redeploy around it in a tight closure, when fresh

intelligence warnings of terrorism were received - and the army went right back in this afternoon. Kalkilye is located east of Raanana.
The IDF has announced that thousands more army reservists will be called up for duty this week to take part in Operation Determined

Stand. Army sources have said that the reservists will not serve more than a month on active duty.
Palestinian terrorists threw a firebomb at a car traveling near Shilo, in Binyamin, last night. No injuries were reported... Shots were fired at

an Israeli car north of Jenin this afternoon; no one was hurt.

ARABS AGAINST AMERICANS
Yasser Arafat's Fatah terrorist organization is signed on posters disseminated publicly throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza that threaten

terrorism against Americans. The posters say that the attacks will take place if the U.S. continues to support Israel and call for Arafat's

removal. Fatah denied today any connection with the posters, although it did call on the Palestinian leadership to "boycott" meetings with

US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Hamas is more practical-minded in its anti-Americanism. The IDF Spokesman reports

<www.idf.il/english/announcements/2002/june/forum_hamas.stm> that the official Hamas website recently hosted an electronic chat in

which at least four participants offered a fifth user advice on how to murder Americans. Excerpts:
"Once a week, a group of American "dogs" come near us on the sea front. I have been following them for a long time and am interested in

your suggestions for ways to get rid of them secretly."
"If they arrive in a private car, put a large amount of sugar in the gas tank of the car. Then, you can ambush them on the way back

because the car will get stuck in the way. You will have many options to get rid of them. You can run them over on the road, after they

abandon the broken down car. You can put a trap on the beach if they tend do a lot of walking. If you have people with you and four cars,

you can stop them at a certain point on the road, at a traffic light for example, block them from all directions and burn them in their cars

using a Molotov cocktail."

MELCHIOR REACTS TO WARTIME RULING
Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Melchior, former Chief Rabbi of Norway and currently the head of the left-wing religious Zionist Meimad

party, has called upon Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein to order a police investigation against 17 leading religious-Zionist rabbis.

Their crime, Melchior says, is that they signed a public call against the hiring of Arab workers during wartime. The rabbis' call, which

appeared in a periodical distributed free of charge by an organization associated with the Joseph's Tomb yeshiva, also recommends not

buying Arab produce. Excerpts:
"At this time, we find ourselves in a double 'milchemet mitzvah' (obligatory war): for the defense of our lives, and to defend our societal

existence and Jewish sovereignty in the Holy Land. During time of war, we must not help the enemy in any manner. Both the Torah and

common sense dictate that there should be no business ties with those who wish to destroy us. [In addition,] employing Arab workers at

this time involves [the prohibition of] endangering our lives…"

TOUR THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THE LAND
As a way of encouraging domestic tourism, Army Radio will run a special hour-long program every evening from Sunday through Thursday

on various Israeli sites worth visiting. The program was launched this week at the initiation of the Tourism Ministry, and with the

cooperation of various tourism bodies such as the Hotels Association, Tour Guides Union, Nature Reserves Authority, and the Egged and

Dan bus companies. The program will be aired from 6-7 PM, featuring live reports from different sites such as vacation villages and

attractions. There will also be updated information, tips, suggestions, contests, and more. The program will be run "interactively," in that

hikers in the field will phone in and talk with listeners at home. Tourism Ministry Director-General Aharon Domb praised Army Radio for its

"enlistment... in this important cause of encouraging domestic tourism." See <www.tourism.gov.co.il> for more information.

3. A little Vengeance
From: imra@netvision.net.il

Targeting of the Head of the Hamas' Military infrastructure in Samaria
IDF Spokesperson 1 July 2002
Muhaned Taher, the head of the Hamas' military infrastructure in Samaria,
was targeted Yesterday afternoon (30th June, 2002) by elite IDF forces
operating in cooperation with engineering and armored units in the Masaken
A- Sha'abiya neighborhood of Nablus.
Taher was responsible for the deaths of more than one hundred Israeli
citizens and the injuring of many more in several severe suicide attacks,
including the suicide attack in the Pat-Gilo intersection on the 18th of
June 2002.
In the course of the operation, Imad Draoza, a Hamas activist who assisted
Taher was also killed and an additional senior Hamas operative was severely
wounded.
The wounded Hamas operative was evacuated by military helicopter to a
hospital for medical treatment.
The IDF will continue to operate in order to preserve a normal way of life
for the citizens of Israel.

4. Danger: Homosexuality may be transmitted
Extracts Only:
From: Eliezer <ctsplus@idig.net>
<http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28148>
By: David Kupelian - July 2, 2002

"I did not choose to be homosexual. I would change my sexual orientation if
that were within my power."
So wrote Robert Bauman, the powerful, ultraconservative congressman from
Maryland. Americans were stunned in 1980 when headlines revealed Bauman had
been caught having a sexual rendezvous with a young male prostitute. In his
book, "The Gentleman From Maryland: The Conscience of a Gay Conservative,"
Bauman revealed the conditions that shaped his own tortured double life as
a congressman and closet homosexual.
At the tender age of 5, Bauman had been sexually seduced by a neighbor boy
about 12.

In 1980, at the age of 43, Bauman saw his political career come crashing
down upon him following the exposure of his solicitation of a teen-age male
hustler. He subsequently lost his re-election bid, as well as his family,
his historic home and many of his powerful friends.
Doing unto others
OK, rewind tape to age 5.
Bauman, poignantly recounting his tortured life, confesses that he was
seduced by an older boy at that tender and exquisitely vulnerable age.
Did that experience plant in Bauman the seed of his future homosexuality?
It would seem so, despite today's wishful but unsubstantiated claims of a
"gay gene." According to the peer-reviewed 1998 study, "Sexual Abuse of
Boys," by William C. Holmes, M.D., and Gail B. Slap, M.D., sexually abused
young males "were up to seven times more likely to self-identify as gay or
bisexual than peers who had not been abused."
What about the 12-year-old? Why does he sexually seduce a 5-year-old boy?
No doubt he's just doing to a new kid what was done to him.
Since children are so impressionable, sexual seduction or assault is a
major trauma that can, and often does, literally re-program the victim's
identity ­ his view of who and what he is. While the study cited above
seems to confirm this, the point is self-evident: prisons are full of
child-molesters who were molested as children and batterers who were
battered as children.

There was a time when Americans knew that homosexuals were not "born that
way," but rather, had their normal gender-identity development disturbed
and re-directed through early childhood experiences. Not just psychiatrists
and psychologists, but average people once recognized on some level that
flawed relationships with mothers and fathers could cause girls and boys to
grow up with gender confusion.
But that was a time before much of America itself was seduced into
believing there is no God, or if there is a God that He is inconsequential
to the affairs of men. It was a time when biblical morality inspired the
culture and laws of the land.

The early titans of the abortion-rights movement determined that the way to
win the hearts and minds of Americans was literally to reframe the debate
away from the real issue of destroying the unborn, and instead to focus on
nonsensical but powerfully compelling emotional catch-phrases like "a
woman's right over her body" and "freedom of choice." In the same way,
homosexual public relations and marketing professionals, like "After the
Ball" authors Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, charted a sophisticated,
long-term marketing campaign ­ eschewing any references to what homosexuals
actually do ­ that would gradually win over the hearts and minds of
Americans. They have succeeded, no doubt beyond their wildest expectations.
Today, in every area of life ­ culture, entertainment, law, the news media,
education, even the church ­ homosexual strides have been nothing less than
staggering. In what was once a Judeo-Christian culture, Christians and
other proponents of traditional biblical principles are routinely cast as
bigots and "homophobes." Meanwhile, homosexuals, once condemned as both
corrupted and corrupting, are today honored, idealized, defended as victims
and celebrated as heroes and role models.

Comment: Anyone can make mistakes but we do not have to justify them.
Any mode of behavior can be changed with a little effort and if necessary a change of companions
and environment.
The Bible is quite clear about what it expects from us:
[Leviticus 18:22] THOU SHALT NOT LIE WITH MANKIND, AS WITH WOMANKIND: IT IS ABOMINATION.
[Deuteronomy 23:17] THERE SHALL BE NO WHORE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL, NOR A SODOMITE OF THE SONS OF

ISRAEL.
[Isaiah 59:2] BUT YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE SEPARATED BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR GOD, AND YOUR SINS HAVE HID HIS FACE

FROM YOU, THAT HE WILL NOT HEAR.
If we repent God will hear us. Even if we cannot repent if we just read the Bible frequently the chances are that God will lead us back to

Him.

"Jerusalem News"-66
1. The wailing wall is wailing?
2. Jews climb Wailing Wall
3. News
4. Lieberman bolsters ties with EU rightists
by Lily Galili

1. The wailing wall is wailing?
From: Betty
Subject: wailing wall
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid=1

Excerpt:
In a highly unnatural phenomenon, water has begun dripping from the
midst of a stone in Jerusalem's Western Wall.

The water leak, which was first noticed Saturday by worshippers at the
Wall, continued yesterday for the fourth straight day, Shmuel Rabinovitch, the rabbi of the Western
Wall, said yesterday.

On Sunday, Antiquities Authority director-general Shuka Dorfman and Jon
Seligman, its Jerusalem
regional archeologist, were rushed to the scene to examine the
dripping, which has so far dampened
a 10 by 40 centimeter section of the Wall. The drops of water are
coming from a mid-level stone on
the right edge of the men's side, near the division with the women's
side.

Antiquities Authority spokeswoman Osnat Gouez said yesterday that the
authority officials who visited
the site on Sunday decided to wait a couple days to see if the problem
would continue before
contacting officials from the Wakf, which is in charge of maintenance
at the Temple Mount, just
above the Wall.

The drip has also proved to be of immense interest to Jewish mystics,
who see it as a sign of
upcoming redemption.

Rabinovitch said that his priority is to stop the dripping, which he
termed "highly unusual." Referring
centuries came there to bewail the loss of the temples, Rabinovitch
said: "Maybe the Wall is indeed
crying because of the current situation in the country."

2. Jews climb Wailing Wall
By Ramit Plushnick-Masti
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/images/blank.gif> <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/images/blank.gif>

July 03, 2002

JERUSALEM: Two Jewish men tried to climb the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, because a water stain on one large stone has led

some ultra-Orthodox Jews to conclude that redemption is near and the Messiah is on his way.

Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, the chief rabbi of the Western Wall - also known as the Wailing Wall - said today the water stain was

discovered four days ago by worshippers who pray at the base of the wall.

Some Jewish mystics believe it is a sign the "wall is crying," signalling the coming of the Messiah, he said.

Rabinovitch and the Israel Antiquities Authority are closely watching to see if the 10-by-40 centimetre stain - found on a stone about

halfway up the wall - grows or disappears.

The two men who attempted to climb the wall yesterday were escorted away from the area by police, he said.

Rabinovitch said he had contacted the Waqf, the Islamic trust that oversees the compound that rises about the Western Wall. Muslims

call the compound, which includes two large mosques, the Haram al-Sharif, the third holiest site in Islam.

Jews call it the Temple Mount, the site of the two ancient biblical temples. The Western Wall is the last remnant of the Second Temple,

destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.

"It could be that the leak comes from the Temple Mount," Rabinovitch said. "We have to check if it is a leak from pipe or a water well,

because the Temple Mount is full of (underground) water wells."

Adnan al-Husseini, a Waqf official, denied that Israeli officials had contacted him.

"The Israeli side has never informed us about any damage," al-Husseini said. "According to our beliefs, this wall is part of the Haram walls,

and we are very concerned about it."

Non-Muslims have not been allowed to enter the mosque compound since September 2000, when the Palestinian uprising erupted a day

after Ariel Sharon, now Israel's prime minister, toured the compound, angering many Muslims.
© The Australian

3. News
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Wednesday, July 3, 2002 / Tammuz 23, 5762
ANALYZING "DETERMINED STAND"
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened his Security Cabinet this morning to discuss the progress and continuation of Operation Determined

Stand. Since the anti-terrorism offensive began ten days ago, Israel has succeeded in thwarting numerous suicide bombings, arrested

dozens of terrorists, and confiscated thousands of weapons. The past 24 hours were no exception, as troops arrested three terrorists

concluding their preparations for suicide attacks against Israelis, as well as making other arrests in Kalkilye, in the Ramallah and Hevron

districts, and in Shechem. Prime Minister Sharon has asked the army to prepare plans to ease the restrictions on the civil population in

the areas now under IDF control.

IDF forces detected a bomb outside Kalkilye near Tzufim late this morning, and sappers safely detonated it... Arab gunmen attempted to

infiltrate Ganei Tal in Israel's southern Mediterranean coastal area last night, but were stopped by an alert Israeli force. Two soldiers were

wounded, including one who was operated on and is listed in moderate condition. The terrorists fled, but were apprehended after a four-

hour chase... IDF forces operating in the Shechem district last night safely detonated 12 pipe bombs found inside a case… Police in

Hevron succeeded in recovering over 60 Israeli vehicles stolen by Arabs inside pre-1967 Israel… Arabs threw a firebomb at a home in the

Armon HaNetziv neighborhood of Jerusalem; no one was hurt…

One of the commanders in the Ramallah region explained the relative success of the current mission: "It's simple to explain: When

someone is busy hiding, he has less time to attack. Just like in boxing, when you're busy blocking a punch, the other side can punch

again. When we were busy defending the roads and entrances to the cities, it was easier for them to attack us. But now that we're in their

homes and their wadis, they're busy hiding."

HIZBULLAH MORTAR SHELLS, ABDUCTION PLANS
It was announced last night that Hizbullah is engaged in a campaign to kidnap Israelis. Using the services of an Israeli-Arab named Keis

Obeid, the terror organization entices Israelis to go abroad with the promise of a money-making venture, and then tries to abduct them.

Gonen Segev, who served as an Israeli government minister under Yitzchak Rabin - his was one of two key votes that helped pass the

original Oslo Accords - was almost abducted by Hizbullah nearly a year ago. The organization has been holding Israeli businessman

Elchanan Tenenbaum since kidnapping him in Europe 20 months ago.
Hizbullah fired yet another heavy barrage of mortar shells over Israel's northern border today. Shrapnel hit one of the Israeli towns in

northeastern Galilee. Israeli officials have long been aware of Hizbullah's desire to provoke Israel into a major military response, but

Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said today that the terrorists would not succeed.

THE MOOD IN THE P.A. ("Palestine Authority" in Judah and Samaria
Correspondent Haggai Huberman notes that public sentiment in the PA is not positive: "The construction of the wall [between Samaria and

pre-'67 Israel] scares them, as it signifies their permanent separation from us, and the closing off of their opportunities for work on our

side... This is causing them unrest, together with their general dissatisfaction with the PA from the ongoing warfare which has brought

them no concrete gains..."
Despite this, Fatah was able to bring out thousands of people in Gaza to demonstrate in favor of Arafat today. Calling out, "More attacks,

more explosives belts," some of the protestors said that those who recommend Arafat's ouster should be killed.
Further south, hundreds of Hamas demonstrators clashed with PA para-military policemen in Rafiach this afternoon. As opposed to

Monday's demonstration in which PA Arabs demanded "bread and work," today they demanded the right to kill a fellow Arab locked up in

the police station, on charges that he cooperated with Israel. They also wanted to free several of their arrested colleagues from the PA

prison. Five protestors and one policeman were injured in the clash.

4. Lieberman bolsters ties with EU rightists
By Lily Galili
Haaretz
Thursday, July 04, 2002 Tamuz 24, 5762 Israel Time: 08:35 (GMT+3) <http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/images/0.gif>

National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu, headed by MK Avigdor Lieberman, is strengthening its ties with right-wing nationalist parties in the

European Union. MK Eliezer Cohen recently returned from Brussels, Belgium, where he participated in a meeting of a bloc of such parties,

that makes up one of the largest political groups in the European Parliament.

The conference attended by Cohen focused on terrorism and the Middle East conflict.

The right-wing bloc in the European Parliament includes Italy's National Alliance party, which has been defined as post-Fascist. Cohen

met with Italy's deputy prime minister on the party's behalf, Gianfranco Fini, and was asked to pass on a personal message of support to

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Cohen told Ha'aretz that he had not met with Alessandro Mussolini, the grandson of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. According to

Cohen, his party has also rejected past offers to meet with Austrian nationalist Jorg Haider.

Yesterday, Cohen was summoned by Sharon, who questioned the MK on whether National Union had joined "a Fascist party."

Lieberman said there was, of course, no legal way for an Israeli party to join a bloc in the European Parliament, but noted he intended to

cooperate with the said political group, which supports Israel's full inclusion in the EU and is opposed to Islamic fundamentalism and

Islamic migration to Europe.

"There is a limit to all hypocrisy," Lieberman said. "We were invited and we took up the invitation. It makes no difference to us if they are

anti-Muslim out of nationalist perceptions, as long as they are the most pro-Israeli segment in the European Union."

Lieberman stressed his party had no ties whatsoever with Haider's party, noting, however, he believed the Austrian nationalist had

retracted his anti-Semitic expressions of the past.

Replying to a question on whether he feared an anti-Semitic backlash against European Jews in light of the ties between National Union

and the right-wing bloc in the EU, Lieberman said: "That's not my concern. I have to safeguard the Israeli interests."

Yossi Verter adds: Opposition leader MK Yossi Sarid yesterday praised Cohen and his party colleagues for their decision "to join the club

of right-wing and neo-Fascist parties in Europe." According to Sarid, "About this it was said: Birds of a feather flock together."

© Copyright 2002 Ha`aretz. All rights reserved

"Jerusalem News"-67
Previously sent out by mistake as
"Jerusalem News"-66

1. The wailing wall is wailing?
2. Jews climb Wailing Wall
3. News
4. Lieberman bolsters ties with EU rightists
by Lily Galili

1. The wailing wall is wailing?
From: Betty
Subject: wailing wall
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid=1
Excerpt:
In a highly unnatural phenomenon, water has begun dripping from the
midst of a stone in Jerusalem's Western Wall.
The water leak, which was first noticed Saturday by worshippers at the
Wall, continued yesterday for the fourth straight day, Shmuel Rabinovitch, the rabbi of the Western
Wall, said yesterday.
On Sunday, Antiquities Authority director-general Shuka Dorfman and Jon
Seligman, its Jerusalem regional archeologist, were rushed to the scene to examine the
dripping, which has so far dampened a 10 by 40 centimeter section of the Wall. The drops of water are
coming from a mid-level stone on the right edge of the men's side, near the division with the women's
side.
Antiquities Authority spokeswoman Osnat Gouez said yesterday that the
authority officials who visited the site on Sunday decided to wait a couple days to see if the problem
would continue before contacting officials from the Wakf, which is in charge of maintenance
at the Temple Mount, just above the Wall.
The drip has also proved to be of immense interest to Jewish mystics,
who see it as a sign of upcoming redemption.
Rabinovitch said that his priority is to stop the dripping, which he
termed "highly unusual." Referring centuries came there to bewail the loss of the temples, Rabinovitch
said: "Maybe the Wall is indeed
crying because of the current situation in the country."

2. Jews climb Wailing Wall
By Ramit Plushnick-Masti
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July 03, 2002
JERUSALEM: Two Jewish men tried to climb the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, because a water stain on one large stone has led

some ultra-Orthodox Jews to conclude that redemption is near and the Messiah is on his way.
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, the chief rabbi of the Western Wall - also known as the Wailing Wall - said today the water stain was

discovered four days ago by worshippers who pray at the base of the wall.
Some Jewish mystics believe it is a sign the "wall is crying," signalling the coming of the Messiah, he said.
Rabinovitch and the Israel Antiquities Authority are closely watching to see if the 10-by-40 centimetre stain - found on a stone about

halfway up the wall - grows or disappears.
The two men who attempted to climb the wall yesterday were escorted away from the area by police, he said.
Rabinovitch said he had contacted the Waqf, the Islamic trust that oversees the compound that rises about the Western Wall. Muslims

call the compound, which includes two large mosques, the Haram al-Sharif, the third holiest site in Islam.
Jews call it the Temple Mount, the site of the two ancient biblical temples. The Western Wall is the last remnant of the Second Temple,

destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.
"It could be that the leak comes from the Temple Mount," Rabinovitch said. "We have to check if it is a leak from pipe or a water well,

because the Temple Mount is full of (underground) water wells."
Adnan al-Husseini, a Waqf official, denied that Israeli officials had contacted him.
"The Israeli side has never informed us about any damage," al-Husseini said. "According to our beliefs, this wall is part of the Haram walls,

and we are very concerned about it."
Non-Muslims have not been allowed to enter the mosque compound since September 2000, when the Palestinian uprising erupted a day

after Ariel Sharon, now Israel's prime minister, toured the compound, angering many Muslims.
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3. News
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
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Wednesday, July 3, 2002 / Tammuz 23, 5762
ANALYZING "DETERMINED STAND"
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened his Security Cabinet this morning to discuss the progress and continuation of Operation Determined

Stand. Since the anti-terrorism offensive began ten days ago, Israel has succeeded in thwarting numerous suicide bombings, arrested

dozens of terrorists, and confiscated thousands of weapons. The past 24 hours were no exception, as troops arrested three terrorists

concluding their preparations for suicide attacks against Israelis, as well as making other arrests in Kalkilye, in the Ramallah and Hevron

districts, and in Shechem. Prime Minister Sharon has asked the army to prepare plans to ease the restrictions on the civil population in

the areas now under IDF control.
IDF forces detected a bomb outside Kalkilye near Tzufim late this morning, and sappers safely detonated it... Arab gunmen attempted to

infiltrate Ganei Tal in Israel's southern Mediterranean coastal area last night, but were stopped by an alert Israeli force. Two soldiers were

wounded, including one who was operated on and is listed in moderate condition. The terrorists fled, but were apprehended after a four-

hour chase... IDF forces operating in the Shechem district last night safely detonated 12 pipe bombs found inside a case… Police in

Hevron succeeded in recovering over 60 Israeli vehicles stolen by Arabs inside pre-1967 Israel… Arabs threw a firebomb at a home in the

Armon HaNetziv neighborhood of Jerusalem; no one was hurt…

One of the commanders in the Ramallah region explained the relative success of the current mission: "It's simple to explain: When

someone is busy hiding, he has less time to attack. Just like in boxing, when you're busy blocking a punch, the other side can punch

again. When we were busy defending the roads and entrances to the cities, it was easier for them to attack us. But now that we're in their

homes and their wadis, they're busy hiding."
HIZBULLAH MORTAR SHELLS, ABDUCTION PLANS
It was announced last night that Hizbullah is engaged in a campaign to kidnap Israelis. Using the services of an Israeli-Arab named Keis

Obeid, the terror organization entices Israelis to go abroad with the promise of a money-making venture, and then tries to abduct them.

Gonen Segev, who served as an Israeli government minister under Yitzchak Rabin - his was one of two key votes that helped pass the

original Oslo Accords - was almost abducted by Hizbullah nearly a year ago. The organization has been holding Israeli businessman

Elchanan Tenenbaum since kidnapping him in Europe 20 months ago.
Hizbullah fired yet another heavy barrage of mortar shells over Israel's northern border today. Shrapnel hit one of the Israeli towns in

northeastern Galilee. Israeli officials have long been aware of Hizbullah's desire to provoke Israel into a major military response, but

Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said today that the terrorists would not succeed.
THE MOOD IN THE P.A. ("Palestine Authority" in Judah and Samaria
Correspondent Haggai Huberman notes that public sentiment in the PA is not positive: "The construction of the wall [between Samaria and

pre-'67 Israel] scares them, as it signifies their permanent separation from us, and the closing off of their opportunities for work on our

side... This is causing them unrest, together with their general dissatisfaction with the PA from the ongoing warfare which has brought

them no concrete gains..."
Despite this, Fatah was able to bring out thousands of people in Gaza to demonstrate in favor of Arafat today. Calling out, "More attacks,

more explosives belts," some of the protestors said that those who recommend Arafat's ouster should be killed.
Further south, hundreds of Hamas demonstrators clashed with PA para-military policemen in Rafiach this afternoon. As opposed to

Monday's demonstration in which PA Arabs demanded "bread and work," today they demanded the right to kill a fellow Arab locked up in

the police station, on charges that he cooperated with Israel. They also wanted to free several of their arrested colleagues from the PA

prison. Five protestors and one policeman were injured in the clash.

4. Lieberman bolsters ties with EU rightists
By Lily Galili
Haaretz
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National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu, headed by MK Avigdor Lieberman, is strengthening its ties with right-wing nationalist parties in the

European Union. MK Eliezer Cohen recently returned from Brussels, Belgium, where he participated in a meeting of a bloc of such parties,

that makes up one of the largest political groups in the European Parliament.
The conference attended by Cohen focused on terrorism and the Middle East conflict.
The right-wing bloc in the European Parliament includes Italy's National Alliance party, which has been defined as post-Fascist. Cohen

met with Italy's deputy prime minister on the party's behalf, Gianfranco Fini, and was asked to pass on a personal message of support to

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Cohen told Ha'aretz that he had not met with Alessandro Mussolini, the grandson of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. According to

Cohen, his party has also rejected past offers to meet with Austrian nationalist Jorg Haider.
Yesterday, Cohen was summoned by Sharon, who questioned the MK on whether National Union had joined "a Fascist party."
Lieberman said there was, of course, no legal way for an Israeli party to join a bloc in the European Parliament, but noted he intended to

cooperate with the said political group, which supports Israel's full inclusion in the EU and is opposed to Islamic fundamentalism and

Islamic migration to Europe.
"There is a limit to all hypocrisy," Lieberman said. "We were invited and we took up the invitation. It makes no difference to us if they are

anti-Muslim out of nationalist perceptions, as long as they are the most pro-Israeli segment in the European Union."
Lieberman stressed his party had no ties whatsoever with Haider's party, noting, however, he believed the Austrian nationalist had

retracted his anti-Semitic expressions of the past.
Replying to a question on whether he feared an anti-Semitic backlash against European Jews in light of the ties between National Union

and the right-wing bloc in the EU, Lieberman said: "That's not my concern. I have to safeguard the Israeli interests."
Yossi Verter adds: Opposition leader MK Yossi Sarid yesterday praised Cohen and his party colleagues for their decision "to join the club

of right-wing and neo-Fascist parties in Europe." According to Sarid, "About this it was said: Birds of a feather flock together."
© Copyright 2002 Ha`aretz. All rights reserved

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1. News
2. Israel Acheives ICBM Capacity
3.The Western Wall is Weeping by Gershon Salomon

1. News
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
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<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Thursday, July 4, 2002 / Tammuz 24, 5762
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MURDER BY NUMBERS
The IDF Spokesperson has released a series of graphs illustrating the extent of brutality of PLO Arabs against Israelis since the start of

the Oslo War in September 2000. The bottom line of the information is that there have been at least 13,494 incidents of Palestinian

terrorism against Israelis during this period - an average of 21 attacks per day for the past 21 months.
One graph, <www.idf.il/daily_statistics/english/6.gif>, divides the 385 civilians and 176 soldiers who were murdered by Arab terrorists

according to the method in which they were killed. It shows that 115 Israelis (including 58 civilians) were murdered in shooting attacks,

while 216 civilians and 20 soldiers were felled by suicide killers. Two Israelis were killed in rock-throwing incidents, and 15 were lynched.
Another graph, <www.idf.il/daily_statistics/english/1.gif>, breaks down the number of attacks according to month and location

(Judea/Samaria, Gaza, and pre-1967 Israel). November 2000 was the most violent month on record, with 1,134 attacks, followed by

August 2001, which logged 1,073. May of this year, the month following Operation Defensive Shield, had the least number of incidents -

329. Arutz-7 records show that the bloodiest month was March of this year, in which Moslem terrorists murdered 136 Israelis.
The IDF report shows that since the beginning of the war 21 months ago, 6,388 attacks were registered in Judea/Samaria, 6,512 in Gaza,

and 594 in pre-1967 Israel, for a total of 13,494.

STUDENTS IN ISRAEL
Four and a half thousand Jewish students will be arriving in Israel this month as part of the Birthright Israel program. The program provides

a free 10-day educational trip to Israel for qualifying Jewish students who have not had a similar experience before. This summer's

students, who will be arriving from 14 different countries, will visit important Jewish and Israeli sites and will meet with Israeli soldiers and

students.
Sixty-five Jewish women students have arrived from the former Soviet Union to take part in a summer seminar in Orot College in Elkanah,

Shomron. As part of their studies in Beit Chanah Teachers Seminary in the CIS, the students will spend their summer here studying

Hebrew, Judaism, and Bible. Beit Chanah trains teachers for 50 Ohr Avner schools throughout Russia; both organizations were founded by

philanthropist Lev Levayev.

2. Israel Acheives ICBM Capacity
WEDNESDAY
JULY 3
2002
[WND Exclusive] GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT INTELLIGENCE BRIEF
Israel achieves ICBM capability
Satellite launch shows capacity to send payload to any location on earth
Posted: July 3, 2002
5:00 p.m. Eastern

© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

Israel has achieved the ability to produce intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Israeli officials and experts said the nation's ICBM capability was demonstrated by its launch in May of the Ofeq-5 satellite into space

orbit. The satellite was carried by a Shavit-class booster. The Shavit booster was launched westward against the earth's orbit, officials

said. The direction was decided to prevent the Ofeq from falling into enemy hands if it failed in an eastward launch.

"The minute Israel can launch a satellite into orbit around the earth to an altitude of hundreds of kilometers, it established the capability to

launch, by means of a missile, a payload to any location on earth," Moshe Gelman, a leading Israeli space expert at the Technion-Israel

Institute of Technology, said on Wednesday. "We are talking about the laws of physics."

Gelman said the path of a satellite booster is the same as that of a ballistic missile. The difference is the target – with a booster requiring

greater energy to ensure that it does not fall to earth with the satellite.

In 1998, Israel failed to place its Ofeq-4 satellite into orbit. The failure was attributed to the Shavit launcher.

Officials said the state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries, which builds the Shavit, introduced changes in the booster for the latest launch.

They said the changes were said to have focused on the rocket engines meant for the first two stages of the Shavit. The engines are

produced by the state-owned Israel Military Industries.

Israel's ICBM capabilities were first said to have been demonstrated in 1988 when the Ofeq-1 was shot into orbit. Ofeq-1 had a payload of

about 180 kilograms (400 pounds). The Ofek 5 weighs about 300 kilograms (660 pounds).

The Shavit is said to be a derivative of the Jericho surface-to-surface missile. The Jericho is believed to have been last tested in the

Mediterranean two years ago.

U.S. officials have determined that the Shavit has a range of 7,200 kilometers (4,464 miles), the Israeli Ha'aretz daily said. The newspaper

quoted Professor Steve Fetter, a physicist at the University of Maryland, that the Shavit could deliver a 775 kilogram warhead a distance of

4,000 kilometers (2,480 miles).

Israel's Jericho missile silo is said to be located outside Bet Shemesh, about 25 kilometers (16 miles) southwest of Jerusalem. The

London-based Foreign Report asserted that a six-man Palestinian insurgency cell captured on Monday had attempted to blow up the

missile facility.

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3.The Western Wall is Weeping by Gershon Salomon
From: Gershon Salomon <gershon@templemountfaithful.org>
Excerpts
The Western Wall is Weeping
The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement will March to the Temple Mount on Tisha B’av - 18th July , 2002 - and Call for the

Immediate Rebuilding of the Temple

Two weeks before Tisha B’Av (9th Av), the day commemorating the destruction of both temples, water has started to come out of the

Western Wall. One of the stones, 15 metres up the wall, has suddenly become wet.

This was an exciting surprise for the rabbi of the Western Wall and people who have seen it. This was special as it came 1 week after the

Fast of Tamuz (17th Tamuz) when the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem and 2 weeks before Tisha B’Av when they occupied the

Temple Mount and destroyed the temple. The water is coming from under the ground of the Temple Mount. The government archeologist of

Jerusalem thought that the water might be coming from a broken pipe on the Temple Mount or from water that had been poured out close

to the wall. However, the circumstances have been checked and nothing was found to explain the presence of the water.

The only explanations are:
1 A very old Jewish tradition holds that, close to Tisha B’Av, the Western Wall weeps and mourns the destruction of the temple.
2 A stronger, godly, prophetic explanation is that the tears which are coming from the Western Wall are a sign of the close redemption of

the people and land of Israel, the rebuilding of the temple and the coming of Mashiach ben David.

The prophet Ezekiel prophesied about the water which would go out from the Temple Mount in the end-times which will be a sign of the

redemption of the people and land of Israel.

“And he brought me back to the door of the house; and, behold, waters flowed from under the threshold of the house eastward; for the front

of the house faced to the east, and water run out from beneath the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar. And he brought

me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me around the way outside to the outer gate by the way that faces to the east; and,

behold, there ran out water on the right side. And when the man who had the line in his hand went out eastward, he measured a thousand

cubits, and he brought me through the water; the water reached the ankles. And he measured a thousand, and brought me through the

water; the water reached the knees. And he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the water reached the loins. And he

measured a further thousand; and it was a stream that I could not pass over; for the water had risen, water to swim in, a stream that could

not be passed over. And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the edge of the

stream. And when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the stream were many trees on one side and on the other. And he said to me,

These waters flow out towards the eastern region, and go down to the Arabah, to the sea; and when they enter the sea, the waters shall

be healed. And it shall come to pass, that every thing that lives, which moves, wherever the streams shall come, shall live; and there shall

be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come there; for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live where the

stream comes. And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from EinGedi as far as EinEglayim; they shall be a place for

spreading nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, a great many like the fish of the Great Sea. But its swamps and its marshes

shall not be healed; they shall be left for salt. And by the stream, upon its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for food,

whose leaf shall not wither, nor shall its fruit fail; it shall bring forth fresh fruit every month, because the waters for them flow from the

sanctuary; and their fruit shall be for food, and their leaves for healing. Thus says the Lord God: This shall be the border, according to

which you shall divide the land for inheritance to the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two portions. And you shall inherit it, one as

well as another; concerning which I raised my hand to give it to your fathers; and this land shall fall to you for inheritance. And this shall be

the border of the land toward the north side, from the Great Sea, by the way of Hethlon, as you go to Zedad; Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim,

which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; middle Hazar, which is by the coast of Hauran. And the border from

the sea shall be HazarEnan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side. And

the east side you shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and between the land of Israel and the Jordan, from

the border to the east sea. And this is the east side. And the south side southward, from Tamar to the waters of MeribotKadesh, to the

river, as far as the Great Sea. And this is south side towards the Negev. The west side also shall be the Great Sea from the border, as far

as opposite the entrance to Hamath. This is the west side. And you shall divide this land for yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.

And it shall come to pass, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you, and to the foreigners who sojourn among you, who shall

father children among you; and they shall be to you as those born in the country among the people of Israel; they shall have inheritance

with you among the tribes of Israel. And it shall come to pass, that in whatever tribe the foreigner sojourns, there shall you give him his

inheritance, says the Lord God.” (Ezekiel47)

The prophet Joel also prophesied about the water which will flow out from the hill of the house of G–d in the time of the redemption of the

people and land of Israel which he expressed in a very unique and beautiful way.

“And it shall come to pass on that day, that the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streams of

Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall issue from the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. Egypt shall be a

desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done against the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent

blood in their land. But Judah shall remain for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. For though I have acquitted them, I have

not acquitted those who shed their blood. And the Lord dwells in Zion.” (Joel4:18-21)

This is not the first time that water has come from the Temple Mount, the hill of G–d. In 1999 water flowed from the Temple Mount to the

south. We reported on this water which came from the area of the location of the temple and the Aarabs on the Temple Mount did their

best to stop the flow. As we were informed, when they could not stop the flow they redirected the water to another place. Also at that time

the only real explanation was that it was the prophetic water of redemption. There is no doubt that the water that is now coming from the

Western Wall is the same water of redemption. However, what is so unique and exciting this time, is that it is coming 2 weeks before

Tisha B’Av the day that G–d said would change from a day of mourning and fasting to a day of rejoicing. The prophetic tradition is that the

temples were destroyed on Tisha B’Av and will be rebuilt on Tisha B’Av.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth,

shall become times of joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts to the house of Judah; therefore love truth and peace.” (Zechariah8:19)

The water which is now coming from the Western Wall is not only a sign of the redemption of G–d’s people but, more than this, it is a

message and even a call from G–d to Israel - “Awake! The time of your redemption has already come. Do not stand and worship on the

outside of the Temple Mount near the Western Wall but go up to the Temple Mount and rebuild my house.” No doubt this is the reason

why the water came so shortly before Tisha B’Av and to the Western Wall and not to the south as it was in 1999 and according to the

prophecy of Ezekiel. The water that the Arabs tried to stop in 1999 cannot be stopped because it is the prophetic water of redemption.

The call of the prophet Haggai is again heard today in front of the western Wall of the Temple Mount.

“Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say that the time has not yet come, the time that the Lord's house should be built.

Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it time for you, yourselves, to dwell in your well timbered houses, while

this house lies in ruins? And therefore thus says the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. ... Thus says the Lord of hosts; Consider your

ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says the Lord. You

looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because of

my house that lies in ruins, and everyone of you runs to his own house.” (Haggai1:2-5,7-9)

The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement will march to the Temple Mount on Tisha B’Av (18th July,2002) at 9:30AM. We

shall not only march as a sign of mourning for the destruction of the temple and to pray the Book of Lamentations but also to call on Israel

and its government to immediately start the rebuilding of the house of G–d. We plan to bring with us the two marble cornerstones, each of

6½ tonnes, that we dedicated and anointed during the last Feast of Sukkoth and, because of the spiritual weakness, the Israeli

Government did not grant us permission to bring the 2 cornerstone to the Temple Mount and in this way start the rebuilding of the temple.

These cornerstones, which are of the same type and look the same as the stones of the Second Temple, which were not cut with iron, are

currently located not far from the Temple Mount waiting for a soon, godly courageous decision by the Israeli Government to allow us to lay

the cornerstones on the Temple Mount and to start the rebuilding of the temple.
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3. Israel has 400 nukes
4. Hitler and the Euro
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1. News: Arutz-7
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Friday, July 5, 2002 / Tammuz 25, 5762
TWO JEWS MURDERED IN LOS ANGELES TERROR ATTACK
The FBI continues to refrain from calling yesterday's murderous attack in Los Angeles International Airport an act of terrorism. Israeli

officials, however, are of a different opinion, and Transportation Minister Ephraim Sneh said that Israel's operative assumption is that this

was a terrorist attack. The Director of El Al also announced that the murderous shooting was of a terrorist nature.
The murderer was identified as Egyptian citizen Muhmad Haditan, 41, who has been living in Los Angeles for about a decade. He carried a

hunting knife and two guns. Police found a sign on the front door of his house instructing visitors, "Read the Koran." His landlord said that

the murderer was basically quiet, but became incensed once when his upstairs neighbor hung an American flag over his balcony after the

Sept. 11th attacks.
The two victims of yesterday's shooting were Yaakov Aminov, 46, and El Al ground stewardess Victoria Chen, 25. Aminov, formerly of Or

Yehuda in Israel, lived in LA for 13 years. He is survived by eight children, including five from his current wife, Anat, who is pregnant with

their sixth. A religious man, he had come to the airport to see a friend off to Israel, and will be buried in Israel. Vicky Chen, who died of her

wounds in the hospital, moved with her family from Israel to LA 12 years ago. She is survived by her parents and two siblings.

SHECHITAH BACK "IN" IN HOLLAND
A compromise has been reached in Holland that will allow kosher ritual slaughter in the country. A month ago, Dutch health authorities

banned the kosher slaughter of large animals, such as bulls, with the claim that the "shechitah" process caused suffering to the animal.

Jewish communal leaders and the Dutch Health Minister recently met, HaTzofeh reports, and it was agreed that the process would be

permitted if it took no longer than three seconds. Jewish Law forbids causing animals to suffer.

JUSTICE MEETS UP WITH TERRORIST
Two or three Palestinian terrorists were killed when their car exploded last night in Gaza City. One of the killed was Jihad al-Omarin, head

of Fatah's Military Wing, and the second one was his bodyguard. Al-Omarin, wanted by Israel for several years, was smuggled safely into

Gaza in 1994 in Yasser Arafat's car. He is considered responsible for terrorist attacks near Gaza in 2000.

ROCKET FIRED NEAR EL AL FLIGHT
An El Al pilot on a flight from Tel Aviv to Moscow reported last night that he had seen the flash of what he thought was a rocket fired in his

direction. It happened over the Russian city of Petrovsk on the Caspian Sea. Transportation Minister Ephraim Sneh debriefed the pilot, a

former Israel Air Force pilot, and said later that he trusts him to be able to recognize a rocket when he sees one. Public Security Minister

Uzi Landau, visiting in Kiev, met today with Ukrainian officials on the matter. Israeli officials say that the plane was at no time in danger.

2. News: Voice of Judea
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News We Doubt You've Seen - Views We Doubt You've Heard
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JIHAD IN THE USA
Three are dead and seven wounded in the July 4 shooting attack at the LAX
El Al Ticket counter. The terrorist was identified as an Egyptian.
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JIHAD IN THE UKRAINE
The pilot of an El Al flight from Tel Aviv to Moscow reported seeing a
surface-to-air missile explosion as he flew over Ukraine on Thursday,
Israel's transport minister said on Friday.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said Ukraine had not conducted any
missile launches since downing a Russian airliner on a flight last October
from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, killing 78 mostly Israeli
passengers, and crew.
Voice of Judea commentary: The Ukranian military is joining the worldwide
Jihad against Jews?
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WAILING WALL FEELS JEWS' PAIN?
Upset, perhaps, about the international Jihad being waged against the
Jews, the weeping wall is- weeping.
Water has been leaking from Jerusalem's Western Wall for the sixth
straight day now, wetting a 10x40 cm area.
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SPACE: JIHAD-FREE?
Ilan Ramon, a 25-year veteran IAF pilot, will this month become the first
Israeli astronaut. He is the son of Holocaust survivors. Ilan will be part
of the 5-man, 2-woman crew on the next NASA mission; he plans to keep
Kosher and observe the Sabbath according to USA Central Time.

3. Israel has 400 nukes

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Thursday, July 4, 2002

A United States Air Force report asserts that Israel is building a nuclear naval force meant to respond to any nuclear strike by such

countries as Iran or Iraq.

It is the first time a U.S. military institution has stated that Israel has produced a hydrogen bomb. The number of purported Israeli nuclear

weapons cited in the report is double that of previous assessments.

The report, sponsored by the air force's Counterproliferation Center, asserts that the navy can deploy any of what it asserts is Israel's 400

atomic and hydrogen weapons, Middle East Newsline reported. The center is located in the Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
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In a report entitled "The Third Temple's Holy of Holies: Israel's Nuclear Weapons," U.S. Army Col. Warner Farr said Israel's nuclear arsenal

has grown from an estimated 13 nuclear bombs in 1967 to 400 nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. Farr said Israel's navy could deploy

nuclear weapons on the fleet of three German-built