Contents:
Jerusalem News nos 691-720
Jerusalem News-691
26 Cheshvan 5768, 7 November 2007
Contents:
1. Jewish Refugees
from Arab Countries Deliberately Ignored by UN!
2. Israeli-British Military Co-operation
; A Sign of Things to Come?
3. Landmark Criminal Suit Against
Waqf
for Temple Mount Destruction
4. Guysen Israel News
- Extracts
5. Iran-Turkey-Russia-Syria Versus USA and Israel?
1. Jewish Refugees
from Arab Countries Deliberately Ignored by UN!
From: shieldofdavid@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [shieldofdavid] Digest Number 594
UN guilty of excluding Jewish refugees from peace agenda
Posted by: "Mech-el Samberg" marcsamberg@yahoo.com mechelsamberg
Sun Nov 4, 2007 12:53 pm (PST)
UN guilty of excluding Jewish refugees from peace agenda;
Injustice of the last sixty years must be rectified, says former
Justice Minister and Canadian MP Irwin Cotler
Release of Report Containing Dramatic U.N. Documents Revealing
Collusion, Nuremberg-like Laws by Arab Countries to Persecute
their Jewish Populations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 2, 2007 (New York, NY) -- "The time has come to return
Jewish refugees from Arab countries to the Middle East narrative
from which they been expunged these past sixty years," said
Canadian MP and former Justice Minister, the Honourable Irwin
Cotler. He added, "This is not just a case of justice delayed,
but justice denied. Indeed, the displacement of 850,000 Jews
from Arab countries is not just a 'Forgotten Exodus' but a
'Forced Exodus."
Cotler, a long-time international human rights lawyer and Law
Professor will participate in a press conference to be held in
New York at NOON on Monday, November 5th in the offices of the
American Jewish Committee at 165 East 56th Street to release a
report on "Justice for Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries: The
Case for Rights and Redress."
The report, said Cotler, "contains documents - recently
discovered in the U.N. archives - that reveal a pattern of
state-sanctioned oppression of Jewish refugees from Arab
countries - including Nuremberg-like laws." It also contains
dramatic evidence of a veritable collusion among Arab countries
to persecute and displace their Jewish populations.
Cotler continued: "The report also discloses the pernicious and
prejudicial role played by the U.N. in excluding Jewish refugees
from Arab countries from the justice and peace agenda".
The press conference is being held as part of the New York
Summit of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, and will include
50 delegates from 10 countries, on the eve also of the Annapolis
Peace Conference.
* * * * *
2. Israeli-British
Military Co-operation; A Sign of Things to Come?
DEBKAfile: First joint British-Israel air force exercise due with
arrival of British AWACS plane
http://www.debka.com/index.php
November 5, 2007, 5:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Military sources report that the British Airborne Warning and Control System
plane?s joint exercise is in line with Israel?s increasing cooperation with NATO
in line with its Middle East security program. It was the first visit to Israel
by an RAF aircraft on a military mission.
3. Landmark
Criminal Suit Against Waqf
for Temple Mount Destruction
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124158
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) A group of 150 Israeli citizens have filed a class action suit
against the Moslems who run the Temple Mount site for having destroyed Jewish
antiquities there.
The suit, brought by the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, charges that Islamic
Waqf officials have engaged in the deliberate destruction of ancient Jewish
relics on the Temple Mount. The indictment was filed in the Jerusalem District
Court last week, and Shurat Hadin sources say it is the first of its kind in
Israeli legal history.
Atty. Darshan-Leitner on Temple Mount suit
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"We are utilizing a seldom-applied section of the penal code," Shurat Hadin
director Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner explained, "that allows private
citizens to bring a criminal complaint in certain areas. If we win, the Waqf
officials could face years in prison."
"Why has this never done before," IsraelNationalRadio's Yishai Fleisher asked.
"Many things have never been done before," Darshan-Leitner said. "You have to
think and be creative in order to do these things. Basically, it?s something
that the government should have done... There are certain areas of the penal
code in which private citizens are permitted to file a private criminal
complaint... The Israeli government has been notified of our suit, and it has 15
days in which to decide whether it wants to pursue it on its own. If not, then
we will do so on our own."
She explained that the 150 plaintiffs are acting as representatives of the
Jewish People, who are the owners of the Temple Mount and therefore the injured
party as a result of the Waqf actions at the holy site.
"In 1967," Darshan-Leitner said, "after the Six Day War, Israel made a terrible
mistake in allowing the Jordanians to continue to run the Temple Mount. It now
continues to be under the custody of the Islamic Trust (Waqf), but is not owned
by the Waqf; it is still owned by the Jewish people. King David purchased it,
King Solomon built the Temple there, and the Jewish People have longed to return
there ever since the Exile began nearly 2,000 years ago. Our regaining it in
1967 was the pinnacle of Zionism. Because it has long been the heritage of the
Jewish people, anyone who violates our rights there must be stopped and
punished."
The suit accuses members of the Waqf of intentionally demolishing priceless
Jewish artifacts, including remains from the Second Temple. In recent months,
the Waqf brought in bulldozers and heavy digging equipment to dig a long trench
on the Mount, supposedly to replace electrical cables. "Israeli archaeologists
who sifted through the discarded earth," the Law Center reports, "were shocked
to discover a great number of Jewish artifacts brutally trashed by the
bulldozers. A wall from the outer courtyard of the Second Temple is believed to
have been completely pulverized."
"The recently accelerated destruction is part of a four-decade-long campaign by
the Waqf to eradicate all evidence of the historical Jewish connection and claim
to the Temple Mount," the suit maintains.
Shurat HaDin alleges that the Israeli government, in its "political cowardice,"
has "consistently refused to undertake any concrete actions to stop the criminal
activities of the Waqf."
Darshan-Leitner says, "This private suit is an unprecedented response to the
brutal attempt by the Waqf extremists to eradicate any Jewish claim over the
Temple Mount. The Waqf leaders belong in prison for their actions, and since
Israel's government is refusing to protect Jewish heritage and property, we will
prosecute the Waqf ourselves. This legal action is a moral obligation, not only
for the Jewish people, but also for the Christian community, which has
significant interests in safeguarding the Temple Mount as well."
4. Guysen Israel News
- Extracts
Tuesday 6 November 2007
From: Guysen Israel News <webmaster@guysen.com>
2007-11-05 , 24 Heshvan 5768
Extracts Only:
23:19 The American president George Bush met with the Turkish Prime Minister,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In particular, he strongly condemned the terrorist actions
of the PKK Kurdish rebels. (Guysen.International.News)
22:58 Pakistan: the American Secretary of State, has telephoned the President
of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf. Condoleezza Rice has again expressed her
disapproval at the state of emergency decreed three days ago in Islamabad. (Guysen.International.News)
18:08 Iraq: 165,000 American soldiers are currently deployed in Iraq, the
largest number since the American invasion in 2003. The number of dead Americans
and Iraqis, however, seems to be dropping in recent months: 875 Iraqi civilians
were killed in October against at least 1,023 in September, 36 American soldiers
were killed compared to 65 the previous month. (Guysen.International.News)
15:15 Jonathan Evans, the head of the MI5, the British intelligence services
warned on Monday that the al-Qaeda terrorist organization was in the process of
training children and teenagers with a view to carrying out attacks in Britain.
According to him, his services must now face ''the most and the most acute
immediate threat '' since their creation 98 years ago. (Guysen.International.News)
14:25 Is the Dead Sea endangered? Its level has fallen by another 7 centimeters
during October and it is now at -420.54 meters below sea level. (Guysen.International.News)
13:07 Due to a lack of funds, the construction of the anti-terrorist fence is
at risk of being stalled. The construction of the security barrier along the
Green Line will slow considerably in 2008 due to a cut of more than 500 million
shekels in the defense budget. In addition, the legal problems raised by this
work, are also delaying the task. (Guysen.International.News)
12:27 Ismail Haniyeh has accused Palestinian officials of ''contributing to the
closure of the Gaza Strip, established by Israel and the United States''. The
former Hamas Prime Minister has promised that the Palestinians ''would
recuperate their rights by holy war and armed resistance even if it takes a
thousand years''. (Guysen.International.News)
09:22 The United States will sell thousands of missiles to Israel. The two
largest American missile manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Raytheon will mainly
supply Jerusalem with air-ground missiles and ammunition, worth $1.32 billion.
The contract for the transaction was presented to the American Congress last
week. (Guysen.International.News)
09:11 The Rafael security has signed a contract worth more than $50 million
with the American army. (Guysen.International.News)
06:57 Somalia: over 90,000 civilians have fled the capital Mogadishu, as a
result of renewed fighting between loyalist forces and Islamists, that started
one week ago. (Guysen.International.News)
05:40 Pakistan: between 600 and 700 militants from the Islamic opposition to
President Musharraf have been arrested by the police last night. (Guysen.International.News)
5. Iran-Turkey-Russia-Syria Versus USA and Israel?
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Iran: Inevitable Iran-Turkey-Syria-Russia Alliance
Inevitable Iran-Turkey-Syria-Russia Alliance
News number: 860814033814:09 | 2007-11-05
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8608140338
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The Middle East has acquired immense strategic
value as one of the determining fulcrums in the global balance of power due
to its being the world's largest known storehouse of low-cost energy
supplies.
The region's geopolitical importance, the kaleidoscopic nature of politics
among its states, the presence of volatile social and political forces
within them and the interference of world superpowers all insure that the
region will remain a potentially explosive source of tension for years.
Emboldened by its military strength after World War II, Moscow prepared to
carve up its southern neighbors. It demanded territorial concessions and
control of the Bosporus from Turkey and refused to withdraw from northern
Iran, which it had occupied in 1941. Turkey and Iran rebuffed Soviet
coercive diplomacy with the support of the United States and became key
allies in the American effort to contain Soviet expansion.
The Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) was a defense alliance between
Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Great Britain. Originally named the Baghdad Pact,
the name was changed when the Iraqi revolution led Iraq to withdraw in 1959.
The United States had observer status in the alliance but was not a party to
the treaty. The fall of the shah removed the American shield from Iran,
sounded the death knell for the anti-Soviet CENTO alliance and sailed Iran
towards new horizons.
Now the same faith is on the road for Turkey. The measureless and
injudicious backup given by the occupying power in Iraq -- the US
government -- to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and to Massoud Barzani,
the former tribal leader of the Iraqi Kurds and now the leader of the Iraqi
Kurdish region.
Turkey, taking into consideration the ongoing assaults by the PKK terrorists
in the southeastern regions and the measureless backup given by US
government to Iraqi Kurds, has drawn up a new strategic alliance policy that
weakens ties with the US and strengthens relations with Iran and Syria, its
millennium-long neighbors.
The US has failed to keep its promise to Turkey to confront the PKK. Turkey
now feels that it has no choice but to attack the PKK's sanctuaries in
northern Iraq together with Iran.
Iran is also suffering from similar assaults originating from the same
terrorist group located in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq under the
name of Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK).
The US and Iran are increasingly at odds over a range of issues, and Turkey
has stood nearby the US as an old and devoted ally for the past 57 years,
but now the sympathy of Turkish people towards the US had fallen sharply
over the past couple of years, and it will take decades for US to recover
it.
It seems it is now mandatory for Turkey and Iran to form a common
cooperative ground in regard to common problems and interests. New and
stronger cooperative action in the economic field by Turkey and Iran will
play a major role in the eradication of the political distrust and concerns
between the two countries. The parties have announced an upcoming doubling
of the volume of their trade.
Both countries have already agreed on the elimination of the main source of
discord: support for each other's separatist and oppositional organizations.
Iran has committed to adding the PKK to its list of "terrorist
organizations." Turkey has done the same concerning the anti-Iran terrorist
group "Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO)."
The second stage is the escalation of high-level cooperation between Turkey,
Iran and Syria and this is moving forward, as well.
Aversion to American global policy, in particular to the actions of the US
in Iraq, the common allies of Syria and Iran, and also shared economic
interests, will lead to the merging of the political strategies of Russia
and Turkey. Countries that were previously historical opponents will turn
into partners in the creation of a new Eurasian coalition.
The final effect of the region's aversion to American policies will be the
formation of the "union of four:" Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syria. Of course,
this rapprochement between Ankara, Moscow, Damascus and Tehran will
definitely affect Washington's position in the Middle East.
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Website: www.imra.org.il
Jerusalem News-692
27 Cheshvan 5768, 8 November 2007
Contents:
1. Saudi Arabia
and World Terror
2. The Negative Legacy of Yitschak Rabin?
3. The Rabin Conspiracy: Some Partial Answers
1. Saudi Arabia
and World Terror
From The Sunday Times
November 4, 2007
Saudi Arabia is hub of world terror
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2801017.ece
The desert kingdom supplies the cash and the killers
Nick Fielding and Sarah Baxter, Washington
Limited Extracts Only:
King Abdullah was surprised during his two-day state visit to Britain last
week by the barrage of criticism directed at the Saudi kingdom. Officials were
in "considerable shock", one former British diplomat said.
Back home the king is regarded as a modest reformer who has cracked down on
home-grown terrorism and loosened a few relatively minor restrictions on his
subjects' personal freedom.
With oil prices surging, Saudi Arabia is growing in prosperity and embracing
some modern trappings. Bibles and crucifixes are still banned, but internet
access is spreading and there are plans for "Mile High Tower", the world's
tallest skyscraper, in Jeddah. As a key ally of the West, the king had every
reason to expect a warm welcome.
Yet wealthy Saudis remain the chief financiers of worldwide terror networks.
"If I could somehow snap my fingers and cut off the funding from one country,
it would be Saudi Arabia," said Stuart Levey, the US Treasury official in
charge of tracking terror financing.
Extremist clerics provide a stream of recruits to some of the world's nastiest
trouble spots.
An analysis by NBC News suggested that the Saudis make up 55% of foreign
fighters in Iraq. They are also among the most uncompromising and militant.
Half the foreign fighters held by the US at Camp Cropper near Baghdad are
Saudis. They are kept in yellow jumpsuits in a separate, windowless compound
after they attempted to impose sharia on the other detainees and preached an
extreme form of Wahhabist Islam.
In recent months, Saudi religious scholars have caused consternation in Iraq
and Iran by issuing fatwas calling for the destruction of the great Shi?ite
shrines in Najaf and Karbala in Iraq, some of which have already been bombed.
And while prominent members of the ruling al-Saud dynasty regularly express
their abhorrence of terrorism, leading figures within the kingdom who advocate
extremism are tolerated.
Sheikh Saleh al-Luhaidan, the chief justice, who oversees terrorist trials,
was recorded on tape in a mosque in 2004, encouraging young men to fight in
Iraq. "Entering Iraq has become risky now," he cautioned. "It requires
avoiding those evil satellites and those drone aircraft, which own every
corner of the skies over Iraq. If someone knows that he is capable of entering
Iraq in order to join the fight, and if his intention is to raise up the word
of God, then he is free to do so."
The Bush administration is split over how to deal with the Saudi threat, with
the State Department warning against pressure that might lead the royal family
to fall and be replaced by more dangerous extremists.
"The urban legend is that George Bush and Dick Cheney are close to the Saudis
because of oil and their past ties with them, but they're pretty disillusioned
with them," said Stephen Schwartz, of the Centre for Islamic Pluralism in
Washington. "The problem is that the Saudis have been part of American policy
for so long that it's not easy to work out a solution."
According to Levey, not one person identified by America or the United Nations
as a terrorist financier has been prosecuted by Saudi authorities. A fortnight
ago exasperated US Treasury officials named three Saudi citizens as terrorist
financiers. "In order to deter other would-be donors, it is important to hold
these terrorists publicly accountable," Levey said.
All three had worked in the Philippines, where they are alleged to have helped
to finance the Abu Sayyaf group, an Al-Qaeda affiliate. One, Muham-mad Sughayr,
was said to be the main link between Abu Sayyaf and wealthy Gulf donors.
Sughayr was arrested in the Philippines in 2005 and swiftly deported to Saudi
Arabia after pressure from the Saudi embassy in Manila. There is no evidence
that he was prosecuted on his return home.
This year the Saudis arrested 10 people thought to be terrorist financiers,
but the excitement faded when their defence lawyers claimed that they were
political dissidents and human rights groups took up their cause.
Matthew Levitt, a former intelligence analyst at the US Treasury and
counter-terrorism expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
believes the Saudis could do more. He said: "It is important for the Saudis to
hold people publicly accountable. Key financiers have built up considerable
personal wealth and are loath to put that at risk. There is some evidence that
individuals who have been outed have curtailed their financial activities."
In the past the Saudis openly supported Islamic militants. Osama Bin Laden was
originally treated as a favourite son of the regime and feted as a hero for
fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. Huge charitable organisations such as the
International Islamic Relief Organisation and the al-Haramain Foundation,
accused in American court documents of having links to extremist groups
flourished, sometimes with patronage from senior Saudi royals.
The 1991 Gulf war was a wake-up call for the Saudis. Bin Laden began making
vitriolic attacks on the Saudi royal family for cooperating with the US and
demanded the expulsion of foreign troops from Arabia. His citizenship was
revoked in 1994. The 1996 attack on the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, which killed
19 US servicemen and one Saudi, was a warning that he could strike within the
kingdom.
As long as foreigners were the principal targets, the Saudis turned a blind
eye to terror. Even the September 11 attacks of 2001, in which 15 of the 19
hijackers were Saudis, could not shake their complacency. Despite promises to
crack down on radical imams, Saudi mosques continued to preach hatred of
America.
The mood began to change in 2003 and 2004, when Al-Qaeda mounted a series of
terrorist attacks within the kingdom that threatened to become an insurgency.
"They finally acknowledged at the highest levels that they had a problem and
it was coming for them," said Rachel Bronson, the author of Thicker than Oil:
America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia.
Assassination attempts against security officials caused some of the royals to
fear for their own safety. In May 2004 Islamic terrorists struck two oil
industry installations and a foreigners? housing compound in Khobar, taking 50
hostages and killing 22 of them.
The Saudi authorities began to cooperate more with the FBI, clamp down on
extremist charities, monitor mosques and keep a watchful eye on fighters
returning from Iraq.
Only last month Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh, the kingdom?s leading
cleric, criticised gullible Saudis for becoming "convenient knights for
whoever wants to exploit their zeal, even to the point of turning them into
walking bombs".
And last week in London, King Abdullah warned young British Muslims not to
become involved with extremists.
Yet the Saudis' ambivalence towards terrorism has not gone away. Money for
foreign fighters and terror groups still pours out of the kingdom, but it now
tends to be carried in cash by couriers rather than sent through the wires,
where it can be stopped and identified more easily.
Hundreds of Islamic militants have been arrested but many have been released
after undergoing reeducation programmes led by Muslim clerics.
According to the daily Alwa-tan, the interior ministry has given 115m riyals
($14.7m) to detainees and their families to help them to repay debts, to
assist families with health care and housing, to pay for weddings and to buy a
car on their release. The most needy prisoners' families receive 2,000-3,000
riyals ($286 to $384) a month.
Ali Said Al-Mussa, a lecturer at King Khaled University in Abha, protested:
"I'm afraid that holding [extremist] views leads to earning a prize or, worse,
a steady income."
Former detainees from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are
also benefiting. To celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid, 55 prisoners were
temporarily released last month and given the equivalent of $1,300 each to
spend with their families.
School textbooks still teach the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious
antiSemitic forgery, and preach hatred towards Christians, Jews and other
religions, including Shi?ite Muslims, who are considered heretics.
Ali al-Ahmed, director of the Washington-based Institute for Gulf Affairs,
said: "The Saudi education system has over 5m children using these books. If
only one in 1,000 take these teachings to heart and seek to act on them
violently, there will be 5,000 terrorists."
In frustration, Arlen Specter, the Republican senator for Pennsylvania,
introduced the Saudi Arabia Accountability Act 10 days ago, calling for strong
encouragement of the Saudi government to "end its support for institutions
that fund, train, incite, encourage or in any other way aid and abet
terrorism".
The act, however, is expected to die when it reaches the Senate foreign
relations committee: the Bush administration is counting on Saudi Arabia to
help stabilise Iraq, curtail Iran's nuclear and regional ambitions and give a
push to the Israeli and Palestinian peace process at a conference due to be
held this month in Annapolis, Maryland.
"Do we really want to take on the Saudis at the moment?" asks Bronson. "We've
got enough problems as it is."
2. The Negative
Legacy of Yitschak
Rabin?
Oslo Deaths:
Yitschak Rabin was a prominent party to the process that resulted in the Oslo
Peace Accords that undermined the State of Israel and resulted in the death of thousands of Jews and whose
consequences are still with us.
Civil Division:
Yitschak Rabin on a daily or weekly basis systematically attempted to marginalize
the Jewish Settlers of Judah and Samaria, place them beyond the scope of his responsibility as Prime
Minister of Israel, and publicly denigrate them.
Family Suffering:
Yitschak Rabin equalized the subsidy given for children for both Arabs and
Jews.
Previously a not insignificant sum according to the number of children had
been given to parents who could be liable for military service even if they did not actually
serve.
This in effect meant Jews and not Arabs.
It should be pointed out that at the "poverty level" the cost of living for
Arabs is much less for Arabs than for Jews e.g. Arab food, clothing, and lodging cost less.
After Yitschak Rabin abolished the child endowment "inequality" the
Arabs started having even more children than they already were. Ultimately the
subsidies were in effect drastically reduced since they were not encouraging Jews but rather Arabs to have larger families
and were a drain on the Treasury.
Previously this had not been the case.
They had once helped large Jewish families to get by.
We may therefore say that due to Yitschak Rabin less Jews were born and more
Arabs and that Jewish families with many children were in effect discriminated against.
Religious Jews Targeted:
Yitschak Rabin may have been assassinated by Yigal Amir, a religious Jew. At
all events the family of Rabin had engraved on his memorial the statement that Rabin has murdered by a Jew
wearing a Kipa (religious head-covering).
So too, a religious girl Margalit Har-Shefi received a nine month sentence
(part of which she served) for not reporting the intention of Amir to assassinate Rabin even though she had no
reason to take him seriously.
On the other hand an agent provocateur for the Security Service, Avishai
Raviv, had befriended Amir, had engaged in serious incitement against Rabin [photomontaging him on public posters as a Nazi], and mocked Amir for not having
the guts to kill Rabin.
Raviv was acquitted of any wrong doing through collusion of the Prosecution
and the Courts.
Margalit Har-Shefi was not.
The clear impression is that Margalit Har-Shefi was punished while Raviv was
not because Margalit Har-Shefi represented the Jewish settlers.
Yitschak Rabin is promoted as an object of veneration by Peace Now which is an
EU-heavily-subsidized organization dedicated to the undermining the defence-capability of the State
of Israel and helping the Arabs.
On the other hand,
Yitschak Rabin may have had positive aspects to his personality. He was
friendly with the Ultra-Orthodox on a personal level, appointed Ariel Sharon as an advisor in the period when Sharon was still in
control of his faculties, etc.
Yitschak Rabin, like many Israeli left-wingers, may have had a schizophrenic
personality and could be positive.
His family and the inheritors of his "legacy" however have chosen to emphasize
only the negative aspects while presenting them as positive ones.
3. The Rabin
Conspiracy: Some Partial Answers
Replies to
Questions
Remain; 28% of Israelis Say Amir Didn't Kill
Rabin
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123871
by Hillel Fendel
The questions asked in the article by Hillel Fendel were:
Why did the lone
video of the assassination, the
Kempler
video, focus in on Amir
for so many minutes prior to the killing?
Answer: Why not?
From the viewpoint of Kempler Amir was in the area Rabin was expected to get
to before Rabin, i.e when Kempler began rolling his camera Amir was already there.
Why was
Amir
allowed to stand, unguarded and by himself, in the area that was supposed to
be sterile, as documented in the Kempler video?
Answer: The guards explained that they thought Amir was a driver or some other
functionary.
Amir bluffed them, talked and joked with them as one of the crew on their
level.
Amir is an ex-soldier, a former overseas emissary, an organizer of public
activities, and a religous Yemenite Jew.
He was not the type to be considered suspicious.
Why, in the
Kempler
video frame released by the government, does
Amir's
arm appear to be several feet long? And why is his left arm seen shooting,
when he is right-handed?
Answer:
The photo I saw did not necessarily show an artificially photo-extended hand.
Why would anyone doctor the photo?
Is it denied that Amir had a gun aimed it at Rabin, and fired it?
No-one (so far) is denying this. The only question is whether or not Amir
fired real bullets.
As for Amir using his left-arm, maybe the conditions (proximity of the crowd,
guards, etc) made use of the left arm preferable.
Combat soldiers often develop an ability to use both hands with some dexterity
and it was at almost point blank range anyway.
How is it that
an eye-witness to the event, Miriam Oren, was filmed at the site telling
reporters emphatically and repeatedly, "I saw that Rabin was not hurt"?
Answer: Out of the thousands (or at least hundreds) of people round about why
is only one witness saying this?
People under shock or great surprise make mistakes of perception.
More than one witness is needed to make this point pertinent.
? How did
Rabin's armored car back door close (7:18 min. into the
Kempler
video) as the car prepared to speed away, with Rabin inside, if no one else
was in the back seat, as the car occupants later testified?
Answer: Maybe the door had not been closed properly in the first place and a person sitting in the passenger seat at the front leaned over and closed it?
We do not know.
We do however now know that the 12 year old daughter of the driver was in the
car and illegally so.
In other words some embarrassing points may have been covered up but they may
still have simple prosaic explanations.
? Why was
Rabin's wife, the late Leah Rabin, told at first that the entire incident was
just an exercise and a fake? Why was she told in advance not to travel with
her husband? [source: Ha'olam
Ha'ishah
magazine, Issue 193, November, 1999, page 21]
Answer: Why say such a thing unless someone thought that such
was the case?
Or maybe initially such a false report got out, i.e. it was a mistake.
The security authorities did not believe it possible. They were in denial,
someone invented the explanation, and the others grasped at the straw.
The fact that someone had cried "Blanks! Blanks!" immediately after the shooting was broadcast straight
away with news of the shooting. It may have seemed logical to assume that it was all only an exercise.
It could be that there was supposed to be a faked attempt on the life of Rabin and
may be Amir was being set up for it by Raviv (as has been claimed) but Amir
pre-emptied everything by using real bullets instead of blank ones that Raviv
was supposed to have supplied him. This theory was proposed immediately after
the incident, appeared to fit the then-known facts, and was widely accepted and discussed in the media though later it appears to
have been abandoned.
Alternately, we know that the GSS (General Security Service) had fabricated incidents through Raviv with whom Amir was associated. It may be that at some level the idea of a make-belief attempt on the life of the PM had been discussed
and then shelved. Word of these discussions had however permeated through the ranks and so when the event happened the wrong conclusions were initially reached by people in the field.
? Why was the
call, "Blanks, blanks!" heard when the shots rang out? Why did the
Shamgar
Commission not determine who shouted this?
Answer: The security guards are Jewish. They saw at once that Amir is Jewish. One of them was inspired to shout
"Blanks!" since Divine Providence wanted to keep Amir alive.
It worked.
Miracles still happen.
? Why was the
assassin not killed immediately?
Answer: See the previous answer.
? Why did
then-Health Minister Dr. Ephraim
Sneh
say on television that night [45 seconds into video below] that Rabin had been
wounded by bullets to the chest, stomach, and spinal cord, when in fact the
video shows that Amir
fired from the back?
Answer: The shots were fired at almost point-blank range. Dum-dum bullets
prepared by the brother of Amir were used.
These split up inside the body causing unpredictable damage and making it
difficult to determine where the bullets came from.
Concerning the spinal cord Rabin had had a cosmetic operation on a part of his body that at first glance shows a similarity to symptoms of spinal damage.
? Why did the
Director of Ichilov
Hospital Dr. Gabi Barabash,
who was in the operating room when Rabin was treated for his wounds, say on
national TV that Rabin suffered from a wound to his chest, when
Amir
was seen firing from behind?
Answer: See previous answer. Also the preliminary report was produced in a
hurry under pressure and therefore could easily have been mistaken on some points which is feasible
under the circumstances.
Rabin was shot in the back at least twice at point blank range with specially
prepared dum-dum bullets.
These had been prepared by Haggai Amir who served a long prison sentence as a
result and admitted to having prepared them.
He never denied it. No-one denied it.
Dum-dum bullets explode in the body.
The effects are unpredictable and can give misleading impressions as to the
direction of impact.
This answer in effect answers all the other questions regarding contradictions
in the forensic reports.
? Why did
security guard Yoram
Rubin testify before the
Shamgar Commission that Rabin
was shot at 9:50 PM, when in fact
Yigal
Amir
was arrested at 9:30 PM?
Answer: Who knows? But what does this 20 minute incongruity prove? If it was
all a conspiracy why make such an obvious mistake?
? Why did
Rabin's driver, Menachem
Damti,
testify before the Commission and at
Amir's
trial that he drove to Ichilov
Hospital in less than two minutes, when the ride actually took over 20
minutes? Could this question be connected to the previous one?
Answer: Damti had his little daughter in the car against the regulations. Was
he afraid after the shooting? Did he panic?
Did he take his daughter to safety before getting Rabin to the hospital?
Why is Damti the only one questioned on this matter?
Does not the PM vehicle need to be always accompanied by other security
vehicles?
Why was the Commission not required to ask for corroborative statements from
the accompanying security vehicles?
In other words, there may be a reason for the delay that the officials do not
want to make public but that does not mean that they themselves murdered
Rabin. Other explanations exist.
? Why did
Rabin's top aide Eitan
Haber
destroy evidence? He told the Commission that he took Rabin's possessions from
Ichilov
Hospital, and later told the Jerusalem newspaper
Kol
Ha'ir
that on the same night he cleaned out Rabin's filing cabinets at the Prime
Minister's office.
Answer: If he was destroying evidence why did he admit it so
blatantly?
? Why did
official State Pathologist Dr.
Yehuda Hiss remove the mention
of a chest and spine wound from the autopsy report, when in fact all the other
doctors there, including Gutman,
Sneh
and Barabash,
reported that Rabin died of a shattered spine with bullet entry through the
chest?
Answer: Hiss was later prosecuted on other counts of
unprofessional even criminal behavior.
It would not be beyond such a person to doctor a report for all kinds of
possible reasons.
? Why did the
chief judge at Yigal
Amir's
trial, Edmond Levy, dismiss the testimony of police forensics expert Inspector
Baruch Gladstein,
who proved categorically that one gun shot was fired into Rabin at point-blank
range - about a half-meter closer than
Amir
ever got to Rabin?
Again dum-dum bullets can create misleading impressions.
The late
Adir
Zik,
Arutz-7's popular broadcaster who waged a long struggle to uncover the truth
behind the Rabin assassination and the campaign of incitement against the
nationalist campaign that followed it, often said that his main objection to
the official version was the behavior of the guards. He said that from his
conversations with members of the VIP bodyguard unit, he knew they were
trained to shoot immediately if a gun is drawn in the immediate vicinity of
the VIP.
"VIP bodyguards told me," said
Zik, "that if, through some
foul-up, an assassin were to fire one shot, he would be filled with bullets
long before firing a second. How is it possible that
Amir
was able to get off not only two, but three shots, without being felled by the
guards?" He concluded that they had been instructed previously not to shoot -
and that this could only be if it was coordinated in advance that the
"assassin" would in fact be firing only blanks.
Answer: See our answer above to the question as to why someone shouted
"Blanks!"
People in a crowd under extreme circumstances react in unpredictable ways. It
is as if a group consciousness overtakes them.
They did not want to kill Amir.
It could be said that PM Rabin had committed a crime in his policies.
Whether he deserved to die or if he did whether Amir should have executed him
are different questions.
If however the Public Consciousness would have been forced to confront the
culpability of Rabin (or lack of it) the resulting impression may well have
prevented a continuation of the Rabin Pathway by those who came after him and
added to his transgression.
Instead of such considerations being placed on the Public Agenda as they could
have been immediately after his death the nationalist and national-religious
communities went into denial and grasped hold of Conspiracy Theories.
A similar thing happened with the Rabbi of Lubavitch who was a great leader
and in some ways perhaps almost a prophet.
He died.
His followers could not accept his death and therefore claim he is still
living but only hidden away only to soon reveal himself again.
Why not face facts?
Jerusalem News-693
2 Kislev 5768, 12 November 2007
Contents:
1. Prince Charles is to be patron of the
biggest clan gathering in Edinburgh for almost 190 years.
2. Dr Richard Griffith: Dr Mazar
Vrs
Destruction of Israelite Heritage
3. Major archaeology discovery supporting the bible:
Archaeologist uncovers Scriptures' famed wall
4. Arutz
Sheva
Daily Israel Report
(1. LABOR MINISTER: DISENGAGEMENT A VERY BIG MISTAKE
(2. MEDIA, POLITICIANS GANG UP ON SOCCER LEAGUE
5. The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy
1. Prince Charles is to be patron of the
biggest clan gathering in Edinburgh for almost 190 years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7078868.stm
2. Dr Richard Griffith: Dr
Mazar
Vrs
Destruction of Israelite Heritage
From: rgriff92437@aol.com
Subject: Time for BritAm to help Dr. Eilat Mazar
Yair,
I hope BritAm and its supporters worldwide will help Dr. Mazar, and bring
attention to the wanton destruction of biblical artifacts on the temple mount.
Rich
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/SendMail.aspx?print=print&type=0&item=124012
Dr.
Mazar:
PM's Office Complicit in Temple Mount Destruction
2 Kislev 5768, 12 November 07 05:00by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz(IsraelNN.com)
Well-known archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar of Hebrew University told Arutz Sheva
Radio that she sees the recent revelation of First Temple artifacts on the
Temple Mount as further proof of what she called the Antiquities Authority's
"criminal behavior." The destruction on the Temple Mount continues, she charged,
due to "a direct order from the Prime Minister's Office" to ignore the Islamic
Waqf's violations of antiquities preservation laws.
Asked why the Prime Minister would issue such a directive, Dr. Mazar said, "I am
an archaeologist, not a politician. However, it is clear that the Prime Minister
must not avert his eyes from the destruction of antiquities on the Temple Mount.
Not even at the cost of tranquility. These are artifacts that have been
permanently ruined and we will never be able to restore them."
The Antiquities Authority, Mazar noted, allows construction by the Waqf, the
Islamic religious authority, to proceed on the Temple Mount without consistent
state oversight. In the past, Mazar, as a member of the Committee for the
Prevention of Destruction of Temple Mount Antiquities, warned that ongoing Waqf
digging of a trench on the Mount was destroying Second Temple artifacts.
"It is adding insult to injury," Dr. Mazar said on Monday, "I have no idea what
[the Antiquities Authority] wants people to think of them - other than that they
are preening themselves over criminality and over their permission to carry out
illegal construction."
In September, the Committee of which Dr. Mazar is a member filed a petition with
the High Court of Justice to halt the destructive works being carried out by the
Waqf. In addition to an immediate intervention, the Committee petitioned for the
regulated oversight of any further Waqf construction on the Temple Mount.
"We would expect that the same demands [made during construction at other
historical sites] be applied primarily at the Temple Mount," Mazar added,
explaining that the Antiquities Authority provides precise regulations for such
projects all around the country. Under existing law, contractors who discover
artifacts while digging for their construction projects are obligated to freeze
construction and inform the appropriate authorities. This law is completely
ignored on the Temple Mount, according to Dr. Mazar and her colleagues.
Waqf Denies Existence of First Temple Artifacts
The director of the Waqf for holy sites in Jerusalem told a Lebanese newspaper
that Israeli reports of archaeological finds from the First Temple period are
baseless. Azzam Al-Hatib charged that Israel timed the reports to try to prove a
Jewish link to the site at the same time the Palestinian Authority has demanded
control of the Old City.
Muslims have been conducting a campaign that has escalated in the past two years
to convince the world that there is no Jewish connection with the Old City of
Jerusalem. They argue that the Western Wall (Kotel) was a hitching post for a
mythical horse ridden by Islam's founder, Muhammad. Historically, the
7th-century Arabian leader never set foot in Jerusalem.
3. Major archaeology discovery
supporting the bible:
Archaeologist uncovers Scriptures' famed wall
From: rgriff92437@aol.com
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58623
Archaeologist uncovers Scriptures' famed wall
Emergency dig finds tower built by Bible's Nehemiah
Present-day wall of Jerusalem
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may want to see Israel wiped off the map
and its Jews sent to Europe or Alaska, but an archaeological discovery announced
this week marks an event recorded in the Bible when his country (Persia,
at the time) literally helped put the Jewish people back on the map in
their capital city of Jerusalem.
>
Dr. Eilat Mazar, one of Israel's top archaeologists, ended her presentation
Wednesday to the 13th Annual Conference of the Ingeborg Rennert Center for
Jerusalem Studies on "New Studies on Jerusalem," with a surprise announcement.
She had discovered remnants of the fifth century B.C. wall built by Nehemiah,
the account recorded in the Old Testament book of the same name.
According to the biblical account, Nehemiah served as cupbearer for the Persian
King Artaxerxes in the city of Susa. The Persians had conquered the Babylonian
empire that had destroyed Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and taken most of the
inhabitants of Judah into captivity in what is now modern Iraq.
The account reads:
In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was
before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad
in his presence.
And the king said to me, "Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is
nothing but sadness of the heart."
Then I was very much afraid. I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why
should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies
in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?"
Then the king said to me, "What are you requesting?"
So I prayed to the God of heaven. And I said to the king, "If it pleases the
king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to
Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it."
Nehemiah's rebuilding of the city began with its walls, a project that was
resisted by hostile neighbors who had occupied the area around Jerusalem in the
Jews' absence.
But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites
heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that
the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. And they all
plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in
it. And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day
and night.
With tools in one hand and weapons in the other, Nehemiah's workmen toiled dawn
to dusk, completing the wall in a record 52 days.
Archaeological evidence for Nehemiah's project has been lacking. Jerusalem has
been rebuilt, destroyed and rebuilt in the almost 2,500 years since.
Mazar, who is perhaps best known for her recent excavation that many believe has
revealed the palace of King David, was working on an emergency project to shore
up remains of a tower long believed to date from the Hasmonean period, 142-37
B.C., that was in danger of collapsing.
According to an account of the conference in "The Trumpet," Mazar said, "Under
the tower, we found the bones of two large dogs, and under those bones a
rich assemblage of pottery and finds from the Persian period. No later finds
from that period were found under the tower."
Had the tower been built during the Hasmonean dynasty, the Persian-era artifacts
would represent an unexplained chronological gap of several hundred years. The
tower, said Mazar, had to have been built much earlier than previously thought
and the pottery data placed it at the time the Bible says Nehemiah was building
it.
Todd Bolen, of BiblePlaces.com, noted that excavations in the Philistine city of
Ashkelon during the same Persian era, found 800 dog burials like those uncovered
by Mazar.
Nehemiah described 10 gates in the wall around Jerusalem as well as several
towers designed to protect the entrances to the city, among them the Tower of
the Hundred, the Tower of Hananel, the Tower of the Ovens, and an unnamed tower
"projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard" in the
vicinity of Mazar's most recent dig.
WND reported Mazar's confirmation that what appeared to be chopped-up carved
stone, unearthed by recent trenching on the Temple Mount by the holy site's
Islamic custodians, were indeed antiquities with attributes of the Second
Temple-era during the ministry of Jesus.
Mazar has urged Christians to help save the holy site.
"The Christian world and all those who care about safeguarding the Temple Mount
must immediately join us in our efforts to protect the holy site and demand that
the Israeli government stop the Waqf construction," she said.
"The Temple Mount is important to people of all religions. Now is the time to
act before more antiquities are erased."
4.
Arutz
Sheva
Daily Israel Report
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
Friday, Nov. 09 '07, 28 Cheshvan 5768
(1. LABOR MINISTER: DISENGAGEMENT A VERY
BIG MISTAKE
by Ezra HaLevi
Minister of Infrastructure and former Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer
(Labor) is the latest senior politician to admit that the 2005 Disengagement was
a mistake.
Speaking in an interview with Radio L'lo Hafsaka, a regional radio station, Ben-Eliezer
dropped the bombshell: "I admit and I confess that I was among those who
strongly supported [former PM] Ariel Sharon [and the Disengagement]. Today I
say, with my head held high, "We erred, we made a very big mistake."
Ben Eliezer did not say it was the withdrawal itself and abandonment of parts of
the Land of Israel that was the problem, but rather the nature of the recipients
of the territory. "Withdrawals can only work when the areas are handed over to
responsible hands and rotted in agreements and international guarantees,? he
explained. "Here we have a precedent - a territory we left turns into a base for
terror - period."
Ben Eliezer also called for a wide scale counter-terror offensive in Gaza,
complaining that Israel's fear of harming civilians was harming its own populace
instead. "Israel continues to say we bind ourselves to these ethical obligations
that no other country in the world is bound by. We are facing a conflict here
between two disciplines. One nation is prepared to commit suicide and sees it as
a religious imperative and an honor, the other wants to spare every ounce of
blood."
MK Reuven Rivlin, an opponent of the withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria
from the outset, responded to MK Ben Eliezer's about-face with alarm. "It is
horrifying that someone who pushed for the Disengagement and saw in it a "window
of opportunity" can now simply say such a thing while his colleagues in the
government are signaling that they once again see it as proper to give up the
essential interests of the State of Israel," Rivlin said.
Ben Eliezer is but the latest in a parade of Disengagement-regretting
politicians and public figures, including: Maj.-Gen (ret.) Yiftah Ron-Tal, IDF
ground forces commander at the time of the Disengagement Left-wing journalist
Ilana Dayan Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, Chairman of the National Security
Council and one of the Disengagement's chief architects Avri Gilad, broadcaster
and TV personality who supported Disengagement Brig.-Gen. (Res.) Moshe Ya'alon,
IDF Chief of Staff at the time the government decided to carry out the
Disengagement Yoel Marcus, left-wing commentator for Haaretz and ardent
Disengagement supporter Yehoshua Sobol, author and prominent left-wing
spokesperson and proponent of left-wing refusal to serve in the IDF IDF Central
Commander Maj.-Gen. Yair Naveh Yair Lapid, popular TV personality and
commentator Senior TV news anchor Dan Margalit, a strong supporter of
Disengagement Maj.-Gen. Gershon HaCohen, who commanded the Disengagement and
expressed his public agreement with it prior to implementation Several others
(2. MEDIA, POLITICIANS GANG UP ON SOCCER LEAGUE
by Hillel Fendel
Journalists and left-wing politicians kept the "Rabin festival" going for yet
another day, ganging up against the Israeli Soccer Association for meting out
"too light" of a punishment to fans who jeered during a "moment of silence" for
Rabin.
At the Sunday night soccer game between Beitar Jerusalem and Maccabi Haifa,
hundreds of fans jeered, booed and sang songs of support for Yigal Amir during
what was supposed to be a "minute of silence" for Yitzchak Rabin on the 12th
anniversary of his murder. MK Ophir Pines (Labor) was the first to jump, saying
the Soccer League must condemn and punish the team for its fans' actions.
Monday and Tuesday saw many politicians and journalists condemning the incident,
lamenting the lack of supervision over the fans, and demanding measures to
punish the fans who thus expressed their opinion.
Some fans later explained that they simply do not remember Rabin fondly, blaming
him for giving weapons to terrorists and initiating the Oslo process. "It
offends me when they remember Rabin for two weeks each year," one fan said, "but
never remember the 1,400 people who were murdered or 20,000 who were wounded
because of the Olso process."
On Wednesday night, three judges of the Israel Soccer League court convened, and
on Thursday they handed down the decision: Beitar must play two home games with
no fans allowed, and pay an as-yet unspecified fine. In addition, it will have
to play two additional fan-less home games if the offense is repeated.
The decision was taken by a vote of 2-1; the dissenting judge ruled that the
approach to take should not be punitive, but rather by employing educational
measures and encouraging public denunciation.
Outside the court hearing, some fans held signs noting that when the fans of the
Arab team from Sakhnin once booed and hissed and held Hamas flags during the
singing of Israel's national anthem, it was considered "freedom of speech" and
no sanctions were imposed.
5. The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops
up in middle of U.S. Navy
From: rgriff92437@aol.com
Subject:
Yair,
US power is waning because of its people's sins.
Rich
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=492804&in_page_id=1811
The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up
in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced
By MATTHEW HICKLEY -
When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of
its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed.
At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry
of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and
deter any intruders.
That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory
American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese
submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the
vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.
By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is
understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or
missiles at the carrier.
According to senior Nato officials the incident caused consternation in the U.S.
Navy.
The Americans had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such
a level of sophistication, or that it posed such a threat.
One Nato figure said the effect was "as big a shock as the Russians launching
Sputnik" - a reference to the Soviet Union's first orbiting satellite in 1957
which marked the start of the space age.
The incident, which took place in the ocean between southern Japan and Taiwan,
is a major embarrassment for the Pentagon.
The lone Chinese vessel slipped past at least a dozen other American warships
which were supposed to protect the carrier from hostile aircraft or submarines.
And the rest of the costly defensive screen, which usually includes at least two
U.S. submarines, was also apparently unable to detect it.
According to the Nato source, the encounter has forced a serious re-think of
American and Nato naval strategy as commanders reconsider the level of threat
from potentially hostile Chinese submarines.
It also led to tense diplomatic exchanges, with shaken American diplomats
demanding to know why the submarine was "shadowing" the U.S. fleet while Beijing
pleaded ignorance and dismissed the affair as coincidence.
Analysts believe Beijing was sending a message to America and the West
demonstrating its rapidly-growing military capability to threaten foreign powers
which try to interfere in its "backyard".
The People's Liberation Army Navy's submarine fleet includes at least two
nuclear-missile launching vessels.
Its 13 Song Class submarines are extremely quiet and difficult to detect when
running on electric motors.
Commodore Stephen Saunders, editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, and a former Royal
Navy anti-submarine specialist, said the U.S. had paid relatively little
attention to this form of warfare since the end of the Cold War.
He said: "It was certainly a wake-up call for the Americans.
"It would tie in with what we see the Chinese trying to do, which appears to be
to deter the Americans from interfering or operating in their backyard,
particularly in relation to Taiwan."
In January China carried a successful missile test, shooting down a satellite in
orbit for the first time.
Jerusalem News-694
9 Kislev 5768, 18 November 2007
Contents:
1. Jordan Times: Britain Leads Europe in
Sanctions Against Iran
2. Scandinavian Soldiers Unwelcome in
Darfur
3. Iran, Saudia, and the US Dollar
4. E-mail snub to Israel by Prince Charles' aides sparks furor
5.DEBKAfile Exclusive: US cuts aid to Egypt by $500 million over its failure to halt
terrorist smuggling to Gaza
1. Jordan Times: Britain Leads Europe in
Sanctions Against Iran
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Excerpts: Curtailment British investments in Iran".Royal 'toys'.13 November
2007
+++JORDANTIMES 13 Nov.'07:"Britain threatens oil,gas sanctions (on Iran)"
QUOTE:"Britain ...curb financial investments in Iran unless Tehran addresses
nuclear concerns"
FULL TEXT:
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will push to curb energy and financial investment
in Iran unless Tehran addresses nuclear concerns, Prime Minister Gordon
Brown said on Monday in a speech that also underlined Washington's
importance as an ally.
"We will lead in seeking tougher sanctions both at the UN and in the
European Union, including on oil and gas investment and the financial
sector," Brown said, unless there are positive reports this month from EU
foreign policy chief Javier Solana and the United Nations nuclear watchdog.
"Iran should be in no doubt about our seriousness of purpose," he said in
his first major foreign policy speech since becoming premier in June.
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council - Britain, the United
States, France, Russia and China - plus Germany, agreed earlier this month
to proceed with a third round of sanctions against Iran.
Iran has refused to halt uranium enrichment after two previous UN sanction
resolutions and denies the West's allegations that it wants to make atomic
bombs, saying its programme is for peaceful power generation.
The United States has not ruled out military action against Iran. Brown has
urged a diplomatic solution, while also saying he will not rule out
anything.
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IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il
2. Scandinavian Soldiers Unwelcome in
Darfur
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/world/article2103615.ece
Norwegian and Swedish soldiers are not welcome as part of the United Nations
force in Darfur Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir told Al Jazeera TV this week.
Al-Bashir believes Scandinavians are really agents for Israel's intelligence
service Mossad and the American CIA.
The leader of the UN's peacekeeping operations, Jean-Marie Guehenno, fears that
al-Bashir's protests will derail the UN force in Darfur.
Sudan demands the peacekeeping force be primarily African, and rejects
assistance from Norway, Sweden, Thailand and Nepal.
3. Iran,
Saudia,
and the US Dollar
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Iranian and Saudi FMs disagree on mentioning concern for dollar in
OPEC statement
OPEC blunder reveals Saudi-Iran disagreement on dollar
Agence France-Presse - 17 November, 2007
www.gulfinthemedia.com/index.php?id=358628&news_type=Economy&lang=en
A blunder by OPEC on Friday exposed a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and
Iran about the falling dollar when a private meeting of ministers was
broadcast to journalists by mistake.
In an embarrassing oversight, the private meeting of foreign, finance and
oil ministers from the 12 members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting
Countries was broadcast for 30 minutes on closed-circuit television in the
media room.
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a written proposal that a
final declaration by OPEC leaders, who arrive here Saturday for a two-day
summit, should express concern by member states over the fall of the US
dollar.
Reacting to the request, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal Saudi
Arabia's foreign minister warned that mentioning the falling dollar could
lead to the "collapse" of the US currency.
"There are media people outside waiting to catch this point and they will
add to it (exaggerate) and we may find that the dollar collapses," he said.
Member states should express concern over "the continued depreciation of the
US dollar" in the final declaration, Mottaki said.
US foe Iran was joined in its attempt to put the falling dollar on the
agenda by another of Washington's antagonisers, Venezuela.
Prince Saud, who was chairing the meeting, described the Iranian proposal as
"sensitive."
"This is a sensitive issue. It will cause the dollar to drop further, thus
complicating the problems we are facing from the dollar's fall," Prince Saud
said.
The fall of the US dollar, which has declined by about 15 percent in 12
months, has affected the revenues of OPEC members because most of them price
and sell their oil exports in the US currency.
The remarkable insight into the inner workings of the Organisation of
Petroleum Exporting Countries, which produces 40 percent of world oil, ended
when an official emerged to switch off the television.
Ironically, Iran has moved away from the dollar and now prices nearly all of
its exports in local currency, meaning most of its revenues are in euros and
yen, a source in the Iranian delegation told AFP earlier.
He said that this had saved the country about 10 billion dollars (14 billion
He also said that OPEC was unlikely to make a statement on the dollar
because the organisation believed the issue of pricing oil was a sovereign
issue that should be dealt with individually by members.
The summit, which begins on Saturday, is only the third gathering of OPEC
head of states in the organisation's 47-year history.
The 12-member organisation, dominated by US ally Saudi Arabia, produces
about 40 percent of world oil and attempts to regulate production of its
members through a quota system.
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IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il
4. E-mail snub to Israel by Prince
Charles' aides sparks furor
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/924860.html
5.
DEBKAfile
Exclusive: US cuts aid to Egypt by $500 million over its failure to halt
terrorist smuggling to Gaza
http://www.debka.com/index.php
Jerusalem News-695
9 Kislev 5768, 19 November 2007
Contents:
1. Guysen Israel
News Sunday: Extracts
2. U.S. Hopes to Arm Pakistani Tribes Against Al Qaeda
3. The Dollar Crisis and Brit-Am Solution
1. Guysen Israel
News Sunday: Extracts
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:02:10 +0000
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2007-11-17 , 7 Kislev 5768
23:18 Ban Ki-Moon has sounded an alarm in the face of global warming. The
Secretary General of the UN has called for a decision to take urgent measures,
''as the world is on the brink of disaster''. The summary of the
Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Climate Change for policy makers was
released on Saturday, after having been the subject of an agreement in Valencia
(Spain). The experts paint a grim picture: they foresee a possible rise in
temperatures of about 6.5 degrees by 2100 compared to 1990 levels, melting
glaciers, the multiplication of heat waves, droughts and floods, and rising sea
levels ... (Guysen.International.News)
22:56 Guns in Palestinian kindergartens: Palestinian children play or train
with imported plastic weapons in Judea and Samaria, imitating terrorist
organizations combat techniques. This phenomenon is increasingly common, in the
context of education of hatred and violence against Israel. The use of these
toys endangers the lives of children in the areas of IDF operations. The
television channel Al-Arabiya broadcast a report on the issue on October 21. (Guysen.International.News)
22:44 Saudi Arabia will release $300 million for environmental research. The
aim is to help combat global warming and reduce pollution while continuing to
use oil. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia announced a new OPEC summit. (Guysen.International.News)
22:11 Football: Israel beat Russia 2-1. This victory by Israel, already
eliminated from the qualifying campaign for the Euro 2008, mainly benefits
England to maintain its chances. It now only needs a draw against Croatia in a
few days to be able to enter the next Euro. (Guysen.International.News)
21:18 Hugo Chavez opened the third OPEC summit in Riyadh. The Venezuelan
president said that the price of oil would rise steeply by several hundred
dollars if the United States decided to attack Iran or Venezuela. (Guysen.International.News)
21:09 The OPEC summit has opened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Representatives of
the 11 member countries met for the third summit of the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries since its founding in 1960. The current members of
the organization are Algeria, Angola, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,
Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar and Venezuela. (Guysen.International.News)
20:33''About a quarter of Saddam Hussein's WMD (weapons of mass destruction)
were destroyed under UN pressure in the early 1990'', writes John Loftus,
president of The Intelligent Summit on the website Analyst-Network, based on
reading the archives of Saddam Hussein. He continued: ''Saddam sold
approximately one quarter of his WMD its Arab neighbors in the late 1990's. The
Russians insisted on the withdrawal of another quarter in the last month before
the start of the war. The last quarter of WMD - his nuclear weapons facilities -
were hidden in huge hangars on the Euphrates. The Israelis believe that Saddam's
nuclear stockpiles eventually reached Syria in the form of ''dirty bombs''....
Saddam ordered his scientists to manufacture Zyklon B gas - a favorite of the
Nazis in Auschwitz ... [The archives consulted] describe a process of uranium
enrichment by laser that had not been brought to the attention of the UN
inspectors''.
19:18 The treasurer of the State of New York intends to intensify economic
pressure on Iran. He told the Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu that he will put
pressure on American companies in relation with Tehran, and on the pension funds
which the State of New York has invested funds. Over the past year, Netanyahu
has been trying to convince a maximum number of American States to avoid
investments in Iran via their pension funds. (Guysen.International.News)
2. U.S. Hopes to
Arm Pakistani Tribes Against Al
Qaeda
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/washington/19policy.html"th&emc=th
by Eric Schmitt, Mark Mazzetti and Carlotta Gall.
Extracts:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 " A new and classified American military proposal outlines
an intensified effort to enlist tribal leaders in the frontier areas of Pakistan
in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, as part of a broader effort to
bolster Pakistani forces against an expanding militancy, American military
officials said.
If adopted, the proposal would join elements of a shift in strategy that would
also be likely to expand the presence of American military trainers in Pakistan,
directly finance a separate tribal paramilitary force that until now has proved
largely ineffective and pay militias that agreed to fight Al Qaeda and foreign
extremists, officials said. The United States now has only about 50 troops in
Pakistan, a Pentagon spokesman said, a force that could grow by dozens under the
new approach.
The proposal is modeled in part on a similar effort by American forces in Anbar
Province in Iraq that has been hailed as a great success in fighting foreign
insurgents there. But it raises the question of whether such partnerships can be
forged without a significant American military presence in Pakistan. And it is
unclear whether enough support can be found among the tribes.
Altogether, the broader strategic move toward more local support is being
accelerated because of concern about instability in Pakistan and the weakness of
the Pakistani government, as well as fears that extremists with havens in the
tribal areas could escalate their attacks on allied troops in Afghanistan. Just
in recent weeks, Islamic militants sympathetic to Al Qaeda and the Taliban have
already extended their reach beyond the frontier areas into more settled areas,
most notably the mountainous region of Swat.
The tribal proposal, a strategy paper prepared by staff members of the United
States Special Operations Command, has been circulated to counterterrorism
experts but has not yet been formally approved by the command"s headquarters in
Tampa, Fla. Some other elements of the campaign have been approved in principle
by the Americans and Pakistanis and await financing, like $350 million over
several years to help train and equip the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force
that has about 85,000 members and is recruited from border tribes.
Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration has used billions of dollars
of aid and heavy political pressure to encourage Gen. Pervez Musharraf,
Pakistan"s president, to carry out more aggressive military operations against
militants in the tribal areas. But the sporadic military campaigns Pakistan has
conducted there have had little success, resulting instead in heavy losses among
Pakistani Army units and anger among local residents who have for decades been
mostly independent from Islamabad"s control.
American officials acknowledge those failures, but say that the renewed emphasis
on recruiting allies among the tribal militias and investing more heavily in the
Frontier Corps reflect the depth of American concern about the need to address
Islamic extremism in Pakistan. The new counterinsurgency campaign is also a
vivid example of the American military"s asserting a bigger role in a part of
Pakistan that the Central Intelligence Agency has overseen almost exclusively
since Sept. 11.
Small numbers of United States military personnel have served as advisers to the
Pakistani Army in the tribal areas, giving planning advice and helping to
integrate American intelligence, said one senior American officer with long
service in the region.
Historically, American Special Forces have gone into foreign countries to work
with local militaries to improve the security of those countries in ways that
help American interests. Under this new approach, the number of advisers would
increase, officials said.
American officials said these security improvements complemented a package of
assistance from the Agency for International Development and the State
Department for the seven districts of the tribal areas that amounted to $750
million over five years, and would involve work in education, health and other
sectors. The State Department"s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law
Enforcement Affairs is also assisting the Frontier Corps with financing for
counternarcotics work.
The training of the Frontier Corps remains a concern for some. NATO and American
soldiers in Afghanistan have often blamed the Frontier Corps for aiding and
abetting Taliban insurgents mounting cross-border attacks. "It"s going to take
years to turn them into a professional force," said one Western military
official. "Is it worth it now""
3. The Dollar
Crisis and Brit-Am Solution
See "Brit-Am Comment" Below:
Extracts
from:
"The Discipline Of the Dollar"
David Ignatius, washingtonpost.com, Sunday, November 18, 2007:
followed by Brit-Am Comment
... the United States, as a financial superpower, has the
luxury of borrowing abroad in its own currency. The Chinese, who are sitting on
$1.4 trillion in foreign reserves, hold much of that in Treasury securities and
other dollar investments. This cushion tends to mask our financial weakness --
and to lessen the natural correctives that would keep America from borrowing and
spending more than it can afford.
"If you're borrowing in foreign currencies, you can literally run out of cash
and hit a brick wall," explains Jeffrey Sachs, who heads Columbia University's
Earth Institute. "What we can't do is run out of dollars, so we have a degree of
freedom."
America illustrates the old saw about how a debt can grow so big it becomes the
bank's problem rather than the borrower's. The United States is running a
current account deficit of roughly $800 billion a year, nearly 6 percent of our
gross domestic product. But the world keeps accepting our dollars as IOUs
because the alternative would be disastrous for everyone. Kenneth Rogoff, a
former chief economist at the IMF who teaches at Harvard, notes that if the
United States were unable to fund its debt, world economic output could fall by
as much as 25 percent.
But a global financial adjustment is underway, nonetheless. The clearest sign is
the fall in the dollar. The greenback has declined 16 percent against a
trade-weighted basket of currencies over the past year and 26 percent since
2000.
The sinking dollar is often described as a problem, but it's actually part of
the cure -- not as harsh as the IMF's austerity measures for Asian countries a
decade ago but not painless, either. Over time, a cheaper dollar will boost U.S.
exports and may even reduce our seemingly insatiable appetite for imports, which
won't be quite so cheap as before. Meanwhile, the problems in the housing sector
may make U.S. consumers a bit less spendthrift, and we may begin saving more as
a country.
If the world were populated by Adam Smiths, these natural market mechanisms
would produce the gradual adjustments that are needed. But in real life, markets
are inhabited by versions of TV financial analyst Jim Cramer -- emotional,
volatile traders whose passions are triggered by good or bad news. They
overreact, and markets overshoot.
So what's ahead in this season when markets are repricing currencies and
financial risks? Here's the Adam Smith version: As the dollar falls, China
and other Asian nations will begin adjusting their portfolios so that they
accumulate fewer dollars. The value of their artificially pegged currencies will
finally rise against the dollar. Over time, the U.S. trade deficit will shrink,
and the dollar eventually will begin to rise again.
Then there's the Jim Cramer version: As the dollar falls, the gradual adjustment
will turn into a stampede, with investors fleeing dollars for the safety of
other currencies. The Fed will have to raise interest rates, consumers will stop
spending and America will sink into recession. In that bleak market scenario,
the United States might resemble Thailand of 1997 more than we'd like to
imagine.
Brit-Am Comment:
The problems of the USA in
some measure may be traced to Iran and Venezuela pricing their oil in Euros together with other nations moving out of the
dollar sphere. The USA presence
in the Persian Gulf and its mutual arms-sales with-protection agreements with
Saudia
etc are all part of the same need. The USA probably CANNOT go backward.
China and other nations will hang on to dollar reserves as long as they can buy
oil with it.
Oil that is priced in dollars both enables the selling-nation to buy goods with the dollars it receives and enables the USA
to spend the dollars in question. It is as if for every barrel of oil sold in dollars the US can write a check for
the same amount knowing that it will never have to see it cashed, in whole or in part. The US can also use oil
that is to be produced and is to be priced in dollars as surety for present expenditure.
If this changes all those dollars out there are like checks coming home to roost. It is a bit like a merchant who
pays his suppliers with notes of credit. The notes of credit (i.e. dollars) are passed on from one supplier to another
until they become the same as hard coin. The merchant then puts out more notes of credit that are copies of the first one and these too circulate and are accepted as solid coin. It is known what the merchant is doing but as long as everybody benefits no complaints will be made. Every now and again one of the recipients comes to the merchant to cash his note.
If the merchant has goods to give in place of the note they will be accepted. If someone else has goods (such as oil in the ground) and are prepared to accept the note this too means that the merchant will feel no pressure.
If however the other person who had oil in the ground and was accepting the notes stops doing so more pressure will be put on the merchant.
If a few notes come in at once and not enough goods are available for all of them the merchant will try to sell fewer goods per note. The note will be worth less [the level of the dollar goes down].
If suddenly a rumor goes out that the merchant has not enough money in the bank or goods in stock to cover the notes of credit all the suppliers may rush to cash their notes in for whatever they can get while there is still time.
The merchant may be forced to declare bankruptcy and go out of business for a while.
In the case of a nation like the USA it is not certain what the equivalent situation would lead to.
At all events, as long as the USA maintains its present geo-political position this probably will not happen. The USA however is under pressure and may be faced with a choice to get bigger or get out and getting out may no longer be an option (if it ever really was).
If the USA goes under so does much of the world as we know it.
As long as US troops are in Iraq, Iraqi oil will be sold in dollars.
For the USA overseas oil resources priced in dollars help fund US overseas activity as well as (or even better than) if the oil was found in Texas.
This is especially true of Middle East oil since a good portion of the dollar revenue paid for the oil is spent (for armaments, investments, infrastructure with US assistance, etc) according to formulas foreseen and directed by US offialdom.
Iran has a
leadership that threatens world civilization and may force the US and Allies to
intervene which in turn may well help the USA in other ways such as putting oil from Iran back into dollar prices.
Iran is helping to bolster Chavez of Venezuela whose oil has also been taken out of the US sphere. Dealing with Iran could enable an incidental removal of Chavez at the same time.
All these however are interim solutions.
The existence of Israel actually strengthens the US position since at the superficial level it focuses Arab attention away from American dominance and actually enables such dominance (through aid, advisors, and aramament sales, etc) as a "counter" to the Israeli presence.
In addition, Israel acts as the equivalent of a gigantic aircraft carrier constantly in the background and liable in case of emergency to deal with all comers.
Nevertheless, there are other problems in the Middle East region.
The State of Israel is one of the "sacrifices" the USA is constantly pressured to offer up to placate the
"demon-gods" of Mecca.
The USA actually accedes but it does it piecemeal and we would like to think with reluctance and against its better
judgement.
In the long run it will not help, and the USA knows it.
Even though the oil is priced in dollars and much of the income paid for it is spent under US direction a good portion also remains in the hands of the "natives" according to their own discretion.
Saudia uses much of its money to fund an aggressive campaign of Islamization directed against the USA, the UK, Israel, and remnants of traditional "Judeo-Christian" life-style and values in the west. The Moslem World in general along with the EU bureacracy are co-operating.
See We Were Warned! "Eurabia" in The Book of DANIEL?
How long can the USA remain depend on Saudi oil and Saudi dollar support while Saudia uses part of its excess revenues to fund the
undermining of the US existence and that of all Western Civilization?
A change in the attitude of Saudia may not be possible. The USA may have to step in again.
How long can the USA and company in this era of anti-Imperialism keep up the charade and keep having to intervene without ultimatley taking over?
A permanent US and
Allied presence in the region will be difficult to maintain indefinitely UNLESS
colonies of US citizens are settled in the area.
Only then will the US public (which does not realize that its own existence may be at stake) be prepared to pay whatever the price is for the USA to remain in the Middle East forever.
Sound fantastic? It is.
But see our article:
"Ephraim Comes Back!
The USA in Iraq:
Has the Return of the Lost Ten Tribes Began?"
http://www.britam.org/USAMatsor.html
Stranger things have happened in the past.
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Jerusalem News-696
10 Kislev 5768, 20 November 2007
Contents:
1. Survey: Americans see Israel as ally
2. Zionist official was first to hear of Final Solution
3. Jewish Properties in Arab Lands Were Illegally Expropriated
1. Survey: Americans see Israel as ally
JONAH NEWMAN , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 18, 2007
www.jpost.com
/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195127535626&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
A large percentage of Americans continue to support the State of Israel,
especially in relation to the Palestinians and the "war on terror,"
according to a survey released Sunday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The survey reveals that a large majority of Americans, 65%, see Israel as an
important ally.
A 2005 ADL poll showed nearly identical numbers of Americans with this view,
indicating that American support for Israel has stayed strong and relatively
constant over the last few years.
This support comes despite the common belief that America's friendship with
Israel makes the US a bigger target for terrorists. Though 65% of
respondents expressed this conviction, 57% said that the US should continue
to give Israel its support.
Americans remain much more sympathetic to Israel than to the Palestinian
people, the survey says. Forty-five percent of respondents said that they
sympathize more with the Israeli people, compared to 16% who said they
sympathize with the Palestinians.
This sympathy toward Israel has increased only slightly over the last few
years. Two years ago a similar poll showed 42% of Americans being
sympathetic toward Israel, and 13% sympathetic toward the Palestinians, and
a 2003 poll revealed that 40% of Americans had sympathy for Israel and 15%
had sympathy for its Palestinian neighbors.
In addition, 47% of those surveyed believe that difficulties of the
Palestinian people are mainly the result of their leadership's failure to
seize opportunities for peace, rather than Israel's actions.
Americans also demand Palestinian concessions as a prerequisite for a
Palestinian state. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of respondents say that
Palestinians must end terror and recognize Israel before a Palestinian state
can be created.
"These findings are reassuring, not only because of continuing strong
support for Israel, but because Americans understand that without a major
Palestinian effort to deal with terrorism, there can be no viable
Palestinian state," said ADL National Director Abraham Foxman.
Despite their support for Israel and their view of Israel as an important
American ally, 60% of Americans believe that any peace agreement between
Israel and the Palestinians must be accomplished with minimal US
involvement.
The ADL survey was conducted via telephone interviews with 2,000 American
adults between October 6 and October 19 of this year.
2. Zionist official was first to hear of
Final Solution
------------ --------- --------- ---
Etgar Lefkovits , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 15, 2007
------------ --------- --------- ---
A senior Zionist official stationed in Switzerland during World War II was
likely the first person to receive information from a German source regarding
the plan for the systematic extermination of Europe's Jews, according to a new
book published by Yad Vashem. Chaim Pazner, head of the Jewish Agency's
Palestine Office in Geneva, immediately forwarded the information to senior
British officials and to Jewish officials in British-ruled Palestine, and the
report reached the top echelons of the British government, according to the
book, Chaim Pazner - The Man Who Knew.
The book - written in Hebrew by Menahem Michelson, with contributions from
historian Sir Martin Gilbert - describes a report from a German source in the
summer of 1942 about the Final Solution and the British government's refusal to
make that information public. On July 29, 1942, Pazner received a coded message
in a telephone call from his former economics professor in Basel, Edgar Salin,
telling him that he had received information of "supreme importance." The
economics professor, who had converted to Christianity years earlier, was
friends with Dr. Arthur Zommer, a German officer and fellow economist who was
opposed to the Nazi regime and who had been leaking confidential information
about Hitler's plans to his Swiss friend. Pazner immediately took the night
train from Geneva to Basel, arriving in the Swiss city on the morning of July
30, the book relates. Salin then shared with him the information he had received
from the German officer. "In the East, there are camps being prepared which will
be used to destroy all the Jews of Europe and many of the Soviet war prisoners
by gas," the message read. "Please pass this message on immediately to Churchill
and Roosevelt personally." "If the BBC broadcasts a daily warning to the Germans
not to operate the gas chambers maybe they will not operate them, because the
criminals are doing everything they can to prevent the German people from
finding out what they are planning to do and it is clear that they will also do
this," the terse but bone-chilling message stated. Salin read out the
information to Pazner, instructing him to copy it down word by word. "Who gave
you this information? " a stunned Pazner asked. "An impeccable source," the
professor answered. "The source is German." Previous reports about the Germans'
intentions and the mass killings had already filtered out from Polish
intelligence or from Jewish sources, but this information was the first to come
directly from Germany itself, said Prof. David Bankier, head of the International Institute
for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem. "The information was about a plan, but
there was not [just] a plan but implementation, " Bankier said. Pazner then
passed on the information to a Swiss Jewish leader, Dr. Benjamin Sagalowitz, who
was a friend of the representative of the World Jewish Congress in Geneva, Dr.
Gerhart Riegner, the book relates. Next, Pazner rushed the information to Jewish
Agency officials in British-ruled Jerusalem. Then, on August 2, 1942, he met
with a British intelligence officer in Geneva who went by the name of Victor
Farell, and who worked in the British Passport Control Office in Switzerland.
Pazner implored him to pass on the information to Churchill as the German source
had requested. The British official said he would do so, but the report was
never broadcast on the BBC, the book recounts. During a follow-up meeting, the
British official assured an anxious Pazner, who had been eagerly waiting to hear the BBC radio broadcasts, that he
had indeed passed on the message and that it had reached Churchill, and would
again recommend it be broadcast on the BBC, adding that there was only so much
he could do. But still the report - and the warnings to the Germans not to gas
the Jews - was not broadcast. Pazner died in 1981. "Throughout his life my
father always carried this sadness that nothing was done with this information,
" recalled Avi Pazner, veteran Foreign Ministry diplomat. "He had passed on a
message which could have stopped the Holocaust, but nothing was done," he said.
Riegner, the WJC official in Geneva, had been previously credited with being the
first to notify the West of the Nazis' plan for the systematic extermination of
the Jews in what has become known as the Riegner telegram. Riegner had received
his own information about the Nazi plan to kill all the Jews of Europe during
the first days of August that same summer, from a prominent German industrialist, later identified as Eduard
Schulte, according to the definitive The Abandonment of the Jews by noted
Holocaust historian David S. Wyman. The Israeli author of the new book said this
week that while it had been assumed that Pazner was the first to receive
information from a German source of the Nazi plans for the mass extermination of
European Jewry, there was no conclusive proof of this, noting that such
documentation was never found in the British archives, with wartime messages
routinely intercepted by the Gestapo. In the end, neither Pazner's nor Riegner's
message were able to stop the German killing machine. Riegner's message, which
reached the US in August 1942, was not released to the press until late
November, at the request of the State Department who viewed the reports with
total disbelief and who had asked American Jewish leaders not to publicize the
information until it was confirmed. Even after the belated State Department
confirmation, the Nazi extermination of the Jews of Europe continued unabated
for another two-and-a-half years.
3. Jewish Properties in Arab Lands Were
Illegally Expropriated
From: Steve Collins <scollins@sio.midco.net
Subject: Fw: Jewish exodus from Arab nations
Shalom Yair,
A Jewish friend sent me this. I thought you'd like to see it as well!
Steve
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 11:41 AM
''The time has come to introduce the history of the Jewish refugees from Arab
countries from which they were expelled 60 years ago into that of the Middle
East'' Irvin Cotler, a former Canadian Minister of Justice and parliamentarian
said on November 2. He continued: ''This is not a case of justice delayed, but
justice denied. The displacement of 850,000 Jews from Arab countries was not a
forgotten exodus, but a forced exodus.'' The World Organization of Jews Forced
to Leave Muslim Countries has valued the amount of goods they have to surrender
at $300 billion and has gathered notarized property titles for property in Iraq,
Egypt and Morocco - of a total surface area of more than 100,000 sq km, which is
five times that of the Jewish state. The organization hopes that this issue will
be included by Israel in the upcoming peace negotiations. (Guysen.International.News)
Jerusalem News-697
11 Kislev 5768, 21 November 2007
Contents:
1. Children's Day: 30% of Israel's Jewish Population are Children
2. What Happened to Saddam's WMD's?
3. Brit-Am Office and Neighborhood Experiences Minor Earthquake
as yet Not Reported by Media.
1. Children's Day:
30% of Israel's Jewish Population are Children
by Hillel Fendel
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124314
(IsraelNN.com) Tuesday is International Children's Day, and the Central
Bureau of Statistics (CBS) released a report in its honor.
In 2006, 2.366 million children aged 17 and under lived in Israel -
approximately a third of the entire population. Among them are 1,633,100
million Jews (30% of the Jewish population), 39,000 Christians, and 570,000
Muslims plus 46,000 Druze (close to 50% of the Arab population).
The highest percentage of children in the country - 63% - is found in the
hareidi-religious city of Beitar Illit, south of Jerusalem, followed by the
Bedouin towns of Tel Sheva (61.7%) and Rahat (60.9). Bnei Brak and Beit Shemesh
have approximately 50% children. Tel Aviv is the city with the lowest rate,
only 20%.
In 1995, Jews comprised 74.3% of Israel's child population, while in 2006, it
had dropped to 69%. Arab children rose from 24.4% to 27.7%.
The 30% rate of Jewish children amidst the total population compares favorably
with 17% in Italy, 18% in Germany, 25% in the United States. In Egypt, Jordan
and Syria, however, the rate is 40-44%.
92% of the children live with both parents.
Just over 400,000 children are registered in welfare service offices - among
them 65% Jews and 29% Arabs.
The highest percentage of children is found in the Jewish communities of Judea
and Samaria - 45.5%, followed by 40.9% in Jerusalem.
During 2005, more than 1,600 girls under aged 17 were married - 84% of them
Arab. The Knesset is to vote on Wednesday on proposed legislation raising the
minimum age for marriage from 17 to 18. The Knesset will mark Children's Day
day with a session on the topic of youth marriages, with the participation of
MKs, rabbis, religious Moslem and Druze leaders, lawyers, and representatives of
the police and various organizations.
Israel's Education Ministry is marking International Children's Day with special
classes and seminars. An open phone line is open with the National Students
Council.
Most Popular Names
The 3rd-most popular boys' name in 2005, Itai, jumped to 1st place last year,
having been bestowed upon 2.5% of the baby boys. It was followed by Uri/Ori,
Noam, Daniel, David, Ido, Moshe, Yosef, Yehonatan, Yonatan, Amit, and Ariel.
As in the past eight years, Noa was the most popular girls' name, and has become
even more so. It was given to 3.4% of the baby girls born in 2006, compared to
3% the year before. The next-most popular names were Shira, Maya, Yael, Tamar,
Sarah, Roni, Agam, Michal, Adi and Talya.
Among Moslems, the most common names were Muhammed and Shahad.
2. What Happened
to Saddam's WMD's? 
