Jerusalem News-92
Contents:
1.Al Qaida operating through Hamas, Israel warns
2. Arutz Sheva News Wednesday
ANOTHER FUEL TRUCK BOMB, ANOTHER MIRACLE
STRONG SUPPORT FROM RUMSFELD
ARAB GIRL KNEW ABOUT SUICIDE BOMBER, KEPT QUIET
IN AND AROUND THE OSLO WAR
ISRAEL TO IMPORT TURKISH WATER
3. Yaacov Perry admits his past analysis faulty
4.Saudi enemy of America?
5. Arutz Sheva News Thursday
MENDELEVICH: JEWISH AGENCY'S EFFORTS ARE MISPLACED
ISLAMIC BOYCOTT OF NY POST
TIDBITS FROM THE P.A. : reporters witness execution of Arab by Arafat goons

1.Al Qaida operating through Hamas, Israel warns

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Tuesday, August 6, 2002

JERUSALEM — Israeli officials said Al Qaida has given the green light for the recruitment of Palestinians and the financing of attacks in both Israel and against Jewish targets abroad.

The officials said Al Qaida is operating through the Hamas organization.

Meanwhile, authorities have reported scores of intelligence alerts of suicide attacks over the last week.
The Cabinet has been briefed on Al Qaida's efforts, officials said. They said Al Qaida has been given permission to recruit and organize insurgency cells in the Palestinian Authority, Middle East Newsline reported.
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"It has recently been found that Bin Laden's organization has been investing efforts into attacking Israeli/Jewish targets in Israel and around the world, and the organization has attempted to recruit and establish an operational infrastructure in the PA areas," a Cabinet statement said on Sunday.
The government has outlawed Al Qaida and declared it a terrorist group. This enables authorities to prosecute any member or supporter of the organization.
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer outlawed Al Qaida in October 2001. But the Cabinet decided on Sunday to declare Al Qaida a terrorist organization to expand the range of legal measures.

2. Arutz Sheva News
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Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2002 / Menachem Av 29, 5762

ANOTHER FUEL TRUCK BOMB, ANOTHER MIRACLE
Police Chief Shlomo Aharonishki said it could have been an attempt to perpetrate the long-feared mega-terrorist attack. He was referring to a bomb placed this morning or last night on the underside of a truck containing 15,000 liters of fuel. The truck loaded up this morning in Pi Gelilot, near Tel Aviv, where a similar bomb eleven weeks ago damaged a truck but injured no one. Today's bomb went off after the trucker pulled into a Rishon LeTzion garage, and caused minor damage; the driver was lightly wounded. Police are investigating the exact route the truck took since yesterday afternoon.
It was reported this morning that Prime Minister Sharon met this morning with top-level security officials to discuss mounting intelligence warnings of an Arab "mega attack" on an Israeli target. The first attempt of this nature was thwarted in April when troops in Kalkilye intercepted a car packed with explosives bound for a Tel Aviv skyscraper's underground parking lot.

STRONG SUPPORT FROM RUMSFELD
If US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's remarks yesterday are any measure, American support for the Israeli position has probably never been stronger. Asked for his opinions on Israeli communities in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, Rumsfeld essentially justified their existence and said they're a non-issue. Admitting that this might not be the official Bush Administration's position, Rumsfeld twice called Yesha "the so-called occupied territories."
Excerpts from Rumsfeld's appearance at a Pentagon Town Hall meeting yesterday:
"If you have a country that's a sliver and you can see three sides of it from a high hotel building, you've got to be careful what you give away and to whom you give it. If you're giving it to an entity that has some track record, that has a degree of accountability, that has the ability to enforce security that's promised in whatever arrangements are made, it seems to me that's one thing. If you're making a deal and yielding territory to an entity that cannot or will not do that - and there is no question but that the Palestinian Authority have been involved with terrorist activities - so that makes it a difficult interlocutor.
"My feeling about the so-called occupied territories are that there was a war, Israel urged neighboring countries not to get involved in it once it started, they all jumped in, and they lost a lost of real estate to Israel because Israel prevailed in that conflict. In the intervening period, they've made some settlements in various parts of the so-called occupied area, which was the result of a war, which they won.

ARAB GIRL KNEW ABOUT SUICIDE BOMBER, KEPT QUIET
A young Arab-Israeli woman, 19, was indicted this morning for doing nothing to stop a suicide bomber from blowing himself up and killing nine people. She found out about the terrorist's intentions this past Sunday morning as she was sitting with a friend on a bus bound for Meiron and Tzfat in the northern Galilee.
According to the story she told police, she was on her way to nursing school classes in Tzfat when an Arab sat down beside her, and warned her to get off the bus fast because it was going to blow up. After much hesitation, she finally asked the driver to stop and allow her and her friend to alight. She did not warn the driver or two of her other acquaintances on the bus - two Druze sisters, one of whom was killed. A police source told Ynet that she warned only the first friend because "she was of Moslem origin."
Only after the two got off did the first girl explain to the other why she did so; her friend reportedly reacted with skepticism. The suicide bomber blew himself up about 20 minutes later - during which time the two young women did not notify the police or other authorities. Police sources said that even if they would not have been able to prevent the murderer from detonating the bomb, the lives of those who boarded the bus after the two got off or who were killed outside the bus - there were four of these - could have been saved.
The Arab woman will be tried in a court in Nazareth. The police will not charge her friend, as she did not personally hear the terrorist's warning.

IN AND AROUND THE OSLO WAR
Husam Hamdan, a leading Hamas military figure in Gaza, was killed there today, shot by an IDF sniper from several hundred meters away. Hamdan was saved from a previous attempt on his life when he managed to escape from a car targeted by an IDF helicopter strike... An Arab stabbed a Jew in Haifa today, wounding him moderately. Nationalistic motives are assumed... Two soldiers were shot at last night near Kadim in the northern Shomron; they suffered light to moderate injuries... Arabs also threw rocks at a soldier near Ramallah, hurting him lightly; hurled grenades at soldiers in southern Gaza, hurting no one; and firebombed soldiers stationed near Hevron, again hurting no one...

ISRAEL TO IMPORT TURKISH WATER
Israel has agreed to purchase 50 million cubic meters of water from Turkey each year for the next 20 years. The deal was announced following a meeting yesterday between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Zeki Cakan. The two countries have established a committee to plan how the water will be transported. Each cubic meter of water will cost Israel approximately 80 cents, according to experts' calculations.

3. Yaacov Perry admits his past analysis faulty
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Subject: Yaacov Perry admits his past analysis faulty (yet doesn't hesitate to
propose concessions)
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Geostrategy-Direct.com Week of August 13, 2002
Israel and the United States have consistently been wrong on the issue
of suicide bombings, a leading security official said.
Yaakov Perry, a former head of Israel's domestic intelligence agency,
said Israel and the United States completely underestimated the significance
of suicide bombers and its potential for spreading throughout Arab society.
The former Israeli security chief, who remains a senior consultant to
the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said that for years both
countries thought suicide bombers could only come from Shi'ite Muslims.
The first assessment by Israel and the United States took place after
Hizbullah suicide bombings against Israeli and U.S. targets in the early
1980s. More than 250 U.S. soldiers were killed in Hizbullah bombings around
Beirut in 1982 and 1983.
"The events of the '90s focused us to recognize our error. After both
Hamas and Islamic Jihad began to carry out suicide attacks, however, we
still believed that this phenomena occurred only among religious fanatics.
This assessment was also mistaken."

In the early 1990s, he said, Hamas took
about three months to prepare a Palestinian to blow himself up in a suicide
attack.
"Today, martyrs are totally different," Perry said. "Those responsible
for suicide attacks are able to identify and recruit the candidate, train
him or her, and arrange an implementation of the terrorist act itself within
a matter of days, if not hours. Obviously the situation greatly impedes our
ability to gather intelligence and to prevent or preempt the suicide
attacks."
Perry, who headed the General Security Services from 1988 to 1995, said
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has not fought Islamic
insurgency groups throughout his tenure with the exception of a brief period
in 1996.
"He has been ill in recent years," Perry told a Brooking Institution
seminar. "He has trouble moving and speaking and apparently may have serious
problems in grasping reality."
"Anyone involved in this war knows that the lone suicide bomber is the
nightmare of intelligence organizations, precisely because identifying and
locating him is so difficult," Perry said. "I must admit that the sheer
number of suicide bombing acts over the course of the last year overwhelms
me and many like me."

4.Saudi enemy of America?
From: Chaim Sidman

Report: Pentagon advisory panel told
Could it be that the state department is covering up for the Saudi's?
I guess Saudi oil profit has more importance than national security.
Saudi Arabia is ENEMY
WASHINGTON - A briefing last month for a top Pentagon advisory panel depicted Saudi Arabia as an enemy to the United States and a backer of terrorism, The Washington Post reported in Tuesday editions.
"The Saudis are active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to financiers, from cadre to foot-soldier, from ideologist to cheerleader," stated the briefing prepared by Laurent Murawiec, a Rand Corporation analyst, according to the Post.
The briefing was presented on July 10 to the Defense Policy Board, a group of prominent intellectuals and former senior officials that advises the Pentagon on defense policy, the report said, adding that it appeared to be linked to the growing debate over how to drive Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq.
"Saudi Arabia supports our enemies and attacks our allies," Murawiec was quoted as saying in the briefing.
He also urged the United States to demand that Riyadh stop funding fundamentalist Islamic outlets around the world, stop all anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli statements in the country," the newspaper reported.
The briefing urged U.S. officials to target Saudi oil fields and overseas financial assets if the Saudis refused to comply, according to the Post.
A Pentagon spokesman was not immediately available for comment on the report.
The newspaper quoted Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke as saying neither the briefing nor the advisory board represented the views of the U.S. government.

5. Arutz Sheva News Thursday
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Thursday, Aug. 8, 2002 / Rosh Chodesh Elul 5762
MENDELEVICH: JEWISH AGENCY'S EFFORTS ARE MISPLACED
Former Soviet Jewish refusenik Yosef Mendelevich may have been expected to rejoice at the news of the hundreds of immigrants arriving from Russia this week. After all, he was imprisoned for some ten years in Soviet Russia for the "crime" of fighting for Jews' right to immigrate to Israel. He was not overjoyed at the news, however, and he told Arutz-7's Tamar Yonah yesterday why:
"Unfortunately, the Jewish Agency is making every effort to bring to Israel everyone who could possibly have a legal right to Israeli citizenship - such as a Jewish man's non-Jewish grandchildren - instead of working specifically to bring Jews. The Jewish Agency, by definition, should be working with Jews, and really should have nothing to do with others who may have a right to live here. The Jewish Agency is not a government body, nor does it protect the gates of Israel; its job is solely to bring in Jews..."
Mendelevich said that the above policy is based on Jewish Agency Chairman Salai Meridor's ideology "that he must do whatever he can to offset the Arab demographic threat - even at the cost of bringing in non-Jews. This is a grave mistake."
Mendelevich suggested that individual citizens who are concerned about the growing number of non-Jewish Russian immigrants, their impact on the Jewish character of the State, and increasing incidents of Russian anti-Semitism within Israel - should try to contact Knesset Members:
"The goal must be to obtain a Knesset majority to change the Law of Return so that automatic citizenship will be granted only to Jews and their immediate family members... Prime Minister Sharon should also be contacted, as Agency Chairman Meridor is a representative of the Likud party, and Sharon should be able to have an influence on him... In addition, many of the dozens of little Jewish Agency centers throughout Russia and the Ukraine should be closed, and only the ones in the large cities should be left open. This will help attract fewer non-Jews... In addition, the policy of sending Christian emissaries to try to attract people to come on aliyah [immigration] should be stopped; it is clear that these emissaries are attracting many non-Jews..."

ISLAMIC BOYCOTT OF NY POST
The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reports that a Muslim boycott of The New York Post has been announced, for its "numerous insults against Islam and the Islamic world." The Association of United States Muslims (AUSM) issued a communique a few days ago announcing that U.S. Muslims will neither buy nor sell the New York Post, and that, "in a separate harmonious move, 500 Muslim merchants active in distributing the press in New York also announced that they will stop distributing the New York Post for the same reasons."

TIDBITS FROM THE P.A. : reporters witness execution of Arab by Arafat goons
As PA officials were arriving for a recent meeting with Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, and as reporters were milling around outside waiting for news to break, PA policemen took a young man in his early 20's to the back of a building in Arafat's compound and executed him. Khaled Abu Toameh reported in yesterday's Jerusalem Post:
"Three policemen standing about three meters away sprayed him with bullets from their rifles. He was hit in the head and chest and fell to the ground. One of the policemen then walked up to him and fired one more shot into his head. 'Take him away,' came the order from another police officer... When the rest of the journalists heard the shots they rushed towards the area to see what was happening... Nervous policemen charged at the cameras and reporters and ordered them to leave the area. I asked a police officer what had happened and he replied, 'A criminal has been executed. What's the big deal?' ...
"[One of the reporters] was still in shock even after we arrived back in Jerusalem. 'This is a surrealistic experience,' he said. 'To execute someone in a place where the representatives of the world media are standing and where the cabinet is meeting is unprecedented. I have never heard of a case like this and it shows the cultural gap between the Palestinian society and most of the world.'"

Jerusalem News-93
1. MK Kleiner visits Temple Mount

1. MK Kleiner visits Temple Mount
Aug. 9, 2002
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS Jerusalem Post

Nearly two years after the Temple Mount was declared off-limits to non-Muslims due to concerns over renewed violence, MK Michael Kleiner (Herut) was permitted by police to briefly enter the area Thursday night.
Kleiner, who had led a group of several hundred demonstrators on a walk to the Western Wall plaza from Jaffa Gate, said that his decision to visit the site came after months of increasing frustration and failure by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to reopen the site to Jews and Christians.
"The Temple Mount, the holiest site for Judaism, has been decreed Judenrein," Kleiner said. "This racial discrimination must stop."
Waving placards that read "Free the Temple Mount," and wearing T-shirts that read "The Temple Mount is for the Jews, Mecca is for the Arabs," the largely religious crowd of several hundred made its way through the narrow alleyways of Jerusalem's Old City to the plaza area.
Separated by a large police cordon, a group of two dozen Peace Now supporters held a counter demonstration near the area, their signs reading "Sharon and Kleiner a twin disaster," as Arab passersby watched.
"Even excluding the religious reasons, the discrimination against Jews and Christians is amazing," said 21-year-old Ben Marcus, of Long Island, a participant in the demonstration. "It just isn't fair that Judaism's holiest site should be closed to Jews," said Avi Piner, 20, of Brooklyn who is studying at the capital's Mir Yeshiva.
"You are asking for more spilled blood," a Peace Now demonstrator shouted out as the marchers made their way to the Western Wall plaza, where three of them were arrested by police.
Fearing renewed Palestinian violence, police have barred non-Muslims, including archeologists, from entering the Mount since then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon's controversial visit to the site in September 2000, leaving the site without any archeological supervision. The 22 months since then is the longest period the site has been closed to non-Muslims since the unification of Jerusalem in 1967.
A year ago, Internal Security Minister Uzi Landau called the restrictions on Jewish and Christian entry to the mount "an anomaly" that "runs counter to all the democratic principles of the Jewish State. Israel will have to find the proper time to see to it that principles of freedom of worship and archeological preservation are ensured," Landau said in August 2001.
"Anybody who reads the Bible and who knows history knows the significance of this place to the Jewish nation," said one of the most elderly participants in last night's march, 80-year-old Rachel Cohen, who came from the Negev.

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Jerusalem News-94
Contents:
1.Israeli intelligence was duped by Arafat
2. Arutz-7 News
TERRORISM CLAIMS TWO MORE VICTIMS
THREE TERRORISTS KILLED, THREE ISRAELIS WOUNDED
ISRAELI POLE VAULTER HITS GOLD
3. Ancient Egyptian Beer Now Available?

1.Israeli intelligence was duped by Arafat
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:04:18 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Ha'aretz: Israeli intelligence was duped by Arafat -assumed he embraced
peace process in first years of Oslo
[IMRA: This interesting and important article, the first of two in a series,
unfortunately does not discuss the psychology, ideology and avarice that
also played a role in these assessments:
* Psychology: many of the key intelligence people were being wined and dined
by their Palestinian colleagues - with family visits etc.
* Ideology: many of the key intelligence people have a left wing
orientation - many have expressed this after leaving their positions. In
fact, even those who admit that they erred in their assessments now promote
programs that are also based on essentially similar rosy assumptions
vis-a-vis the Palestinains in particualr and the Arabs in general.
* Avarice: some of the key intelligence people have engaged in business
dealings involving the Palestinian Authority since leaving their
positions. ]
====

But despite information compiled about the Palestinians and terror, the fact
that no model of indicating signs was constructed regarding the PA might
convey a hint that Israeli intelligence, particularly Military Intelligence,
and also the Shin Bet, fell victim to a misbegotten "conception"
(reminiscent of unwarranted assumptions which preceded the 1973 war).

Indeed, MI did not conclude until 1996
that Arafat was preserving the terror infrastructure intact, in order to use
it for his own purposes; and until September of that year, IDF Intelligence
did not believe that Arafat would use his soldiers to shoot at IDF soldiers
(as happened in the Western Wall tunnel incident).

Array of dangers
A top officer in IDF Intelligence from that period, Colonel (res.) Dr.
Shmuel Even, who served as deputy to the head of the research division
during the years 1992-1994, insists that intelligence findings were
genuinely precise. "The level of accuracy was so high that in retrospect we
have been surprised by the precision of these estimates," he says. As Even
sees it, "we emphasized the terror threat posed by Arafat during all stages
of the Oslo process. After the Oslo signing, in 1994, we released an
intelligence document and circulated it relatively widely; recipients
included the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. In the document
we described possible dangers, including risks of terror and assistance
tendered to the Palestinians by hostile states such as Iraq and Iran. True,
we didn't delve into definitions of the probability of the dangers, and when
they were likely to transpire; but we definitely described the array of
dangers. We described the terror threat posed by the PA as a clear,
immediate danger which had a high probability of coming to the fore during
all stages of the Oslo process."

2.Arutz-7 News
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Arutz Sheva News Service
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Sunday, August 11, 2002 / Elul 3, 5762

TERRORISM CLAIMS TWO MORE VICTIMS
31-year-old Yafit Herenstein, mother of two little girls - 2.5 years and four months old - was murdered in an attack last night by an Arab terrorist in the Jordan Valley community of Mechora. Her husband remains in serious condition in an intensive care unit in Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital.

THREE TERRORISTS KILLED, THREE ISRAELIS WOUNDED
They came to kill, and were killed instead. Several Arab terrorists, using a nearby abandoned house as cover, began shooting at a group of Israeli surveyors working near the entrance to Dugit in northern Gaza. One of the Israelis was hit by at least five bullets and was taken to the hospital in moderate to serious condition, but soldiers who arrived on the scene returned fire and apparently killed both terrorists - although it is possible, the army reported, that one of them got away. The terrorists were armed with a powerful bomb. The abandoned house was demolished by an IDF bulldozer.
Yesterday morning, soldiers killed yet another Hamas terrorist on his way to carry out an attack in northern Gaza. The man was spotted cutting through the security fence separating Gaza from pre-1967 Israel. Troops opened fire, detonating the Arab's explosives belt and killing him instantly. He was found armed with five hand grenades, a Kalachnikov assault rifle and ammunition.
Two IDF soldiers were wounded this afternoon by Palestinian gunfire in Jenin. They were flown by helicopter to the hospital for treatment. One in listed in moderate condition…

ISRAELI POLE VAULTER HITS GOLD
Israeli pole-vaulter Alex Averbukh soared higher than everyone else - 5.85 meters (19.3 feet) - and was awarded Israel's first-ever gold medal in a major competition. It occurred at the European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany, last night. Averbukh, who immigrated to Israel in 1999, dedicated his win to his recently deceased father and to the people of Israel. He broke down in tears as the Israeli flag was raised and HaTikvah, Israel's national anthem, was played during the victory ceremony.
Averbukh's triumph came a day before this morning's memorial ceremony for 11 Israeli athletes slain by PLO terrorists exactly 30 years ago at the 1972 Munich Olympics. All 17 Israeli athletes competing this year's European championship games, along with the relatives of those killed at the 1972 games, took part in the commemoration. A monument has been erected outside Munich's Olympic stadium in memory of the victims.

3. Ancient Egyptian Beer Now Available?
Subject: [origin of nations] Brewers concoct ancient Egyptian ale
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Brewers concoct ancient Egyptian ale
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2169957.stm
Did King Tut sup on the Old Kingdom recipe?
A Japanese beer maker has taken a 4,400-year-old recipe from Egyptian
hieroglyphics and produced what it claims is a brew fit for the Pharaohs.
The Kirin Brewery Co. has called the concoction Old Kingdom Beer.
It has no froth, is the colour of dark tea and carries an alcohol content of
10% - about double most contemporary beers.

Sakuji Yoshimura, an Egyptologist at Waseda University in Tokyo, helped
transcribe the recipe from Egyptian wall paintings.
Kirin spokesman Takaomi Ishii said: ''It has a taste very different from
today's beer. It tastes a little like white wine.''
Research purposes
The beer is based on barley, but does not use hops, which give modern beer
its bitter taste, Mr Ishii said.

Drinkers will have to stick to normal ales. Old Kingdom is not for sale

However, don't expect the brew to be drawn from a pump in your local.
Kirin has no plans to sell Old Kingdom commercially, and said it developed
the beer for research purposes.
The 36 litres (eight gallons) brewed in the current batch will be presented
at a conference of the Master Brewers Association of America in Texas in
October.

Evidence of beer making in Egypt dates back to the 10th century BC.
In 1996, British beer maker Scottish and Newcastle sold a limited edition,
1,000-bottle batch of beer brewed according to an ancient Egyptian recipe.
A bottle of its Tutankhamen Ale sold for £50 ($78).
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Jerusalem News-95

Contents:
1.Sharon: Iraq is our Biggest Danger
2. Blood Libels Against Jews and Israel
3. Israel to hit back if Iraq strikes
4. EU warns against U.S. immunity
5. Arutz-7 News Monday
NEW POLICY SAVES LIVES
LOST AT CARDS, KILLED A JEW
METEORS OVER ISRAEL
6. Arutz-7 News Tuesday
ZE'EVI PROMENADE DEDICATED
SHAS AND YESHA TOGETHER
MITZNA JOINS RACE FOR LABOR PARTY LEADER
Haifa Mayor Amram Mitzna declared his candidacy for the Labor Party leadership at a press conference this morning. Recent polls showed that Mitzna would pose a serious challenge to current Labor Party head and Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer -
WHO'S SELLING ISRAELI GOODS
7. Jews Still in Ethiopia

1.Sharon: Iraq is our Biggest Danger
Tuesday, August 13, 2002
Ha'aretz
Sharon to panel: Iraq is our biggest danger
By Gideon Alon
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday told the Knesset Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee that Iraq "is the greatest danger facing
Israel."
Asked by Labor Party MK Ophir Pines-Paz and Shas MK Yitzhak
Cohen if Israel plans to attack Iraq if Baghdad attacks Israel, Sharon said
that "we don't know for certain if the U.S. will attack Iraq. Iraq is a
great danger. It could be said it is the greatest danger. We aren't
intervening in U.S. decisions." But he said that "strategic coordination
between Israel and the U.S. has reached unprecedented dimensions."
Asked about the chance of reaching a peace agreement with the
Palestinian Authority, Sharon said that "no deal will be done at the expense
of our security."

Herut MK Michael Kleiner outraged MKs when he proposed to Sharon
that the IDF carpet bomb Palestinian cities. He was responding to Sharon's
request that the MKs in the committee propose ways to deal with the terror
problem. When Sharon said Israel has no intention of harming the civilian
population that is not involved in terror, Kleiner interrupted. "Are the
100,000 people who attended Salah Shehadeh's funeral innocent?"
Kleiner explained that a quick victory was within reach if
Israel took the right steps. "Just like the Americans bombed the German city
of Dresden in World War II, and they bombed Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, we
should do the same." He proposed an IDF plane drop leaflets warning people
to leave their homes in time, and that the bridges to Jordan be kept open
"because after the bombing the people won't have anywhere to return."
Sharon angrily shot down the idea. "I would never do such
horrible things. That would be an enormous mistake. You do it when you're
prime minister," he said to Kleiner. MK Ran Cohen, chairman of the
committee, summed up, "Kleiner's proposal is as disgusting as the suicide
bombings."

2. Blood Libels Against Jews and Israel
HonestReporting Communique
12 August 2002
"BLOOD LIBEL STRIKES BACK"
* * *
Dear HonestReporting Member,
We thought that the modern revival of the blood libel was only finding
expression in the Arab world. But Honest Reporting cites three recent
examples of irresponsible (or maliciously) false reports citing "Jewish
attacks on Arab civilians."
BBC recently reported that the editor of Egypt's leading daily, Al-Ahram,
is being sued in a French court for alleged incitement to racial hatred.
The investigation relates to an Al-Ahram article headlined "Jewish Pie
From Arab Blood." On August 1, 2002, BBC wrote (emphasis ours):
"[The] article cited an incident which OCCURRED in 1840 and was first
reported by the French orientalist Charles Laurand in his book 'The Murder
of Father Toma and His Servant Ibrahim Amara'... He cites two Greek
WITNESSES who said the French priest was kidnapped by Jews, killed and had
his bones ground and his blood brewed to be used in cooking a matzo, the
Jewish unleavened bread traditionally eaten during Passover."
BBC reported the blood libel as if it were factual! HonestReporting member
Adam S. and others complained, and BBC updated the article to read as
follows (emphasis ours):
"[The] article cited an ALLEGATION by a 19th century French author,
Charles Laurand, that a French priest and his servant had been killed by
Jews in Damascus. He CLAIMED that their bones and blood had been used to
cook a matzo, the Jewish unleavened bread traditionally eaten during
Passover."
http://honestreporting.com/a/r/276.asp
Good work, Adam. Awful bias, BBC.

===== CHICAGO READER =====
Meanwhile, the Chicago Reader (http://www.chireader.com), with a
distribution of over 250,000, accuses Israel of using nerve gas on
Palestinian children. Chicago Reader movie critic Ted Shen writes
(emphasis ours):
"American filmmaker James Longley traveled to Gaza in January... In the
press package Longley is careful not to take sides, but the constant
barrage of artillery shells, the civilians' complaints, and the IMAGES OF
CHILDREN CONVULSING FROM EXPOSURE TO NERVE GAS offer a ringing indictment
of the Sharon government. The film focuses on Mohammed, an Arab boy who
curses Jews for what they've done to his friends and family; near the end
of the film he smiles at the camera and declares that he wants to martyr
himself and attain paradise, a testament to the region's bleak future."
Despite great efforts by HonestReporting member Ora H. and others, the
Chicago Reader has never retracted or apologized for this "blood libel."

3. Israel to hit back if Iraq strikes
August 13, 2002
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By Alan Philps
LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH
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JERUSALEM — Israel has told the United States that it will retaliate if attacked by Iraqi missiles during an anticipated American assault to depose Saddam Hussein. The decision means that Israel is likely to be a participant in the campaign, in contrast to the 1991 Persian Gulf war, when it was restrained by pressure from Washington.
Officials said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has told President Bush that there was no question of Israel staying on the sidelines, as it had done earlier.
Americans are believed to be sympathetic to Israel's desire to demonstrate its deterrent capability, although some are pressing for any response to be "symbolic" if there are no casualties. But there is little likelihood of the Israelis showing such restraint.
"Israel paid a price in terms of its deterrent posture by not responding in the past to Iraqi attacks," said Dore Gold, an adviser to the prime minister. "In a region where ballistic missiles are proliferating, there is a limit to how far our country can voluntarily erode the credibility of its deterrence."
During the Gulf war, 40 Iraqi Scud missiles landed on Israel but did little damage. Two persons died of shock. Despite threats from Saddam to "burn half of Israel," he did not use biological or chemical weapons and had no serviceable nuclear warheads.
In that conflict, the United States fought alongside an international coalition that included Egypt, Syria and other Arab states. The alliance would have fallen apart instantly if Israel were seen actively participating.
The Israeli air force was not granted access to codes that would enable it to be recognized as a member of the alliance. This time, however, there is no coalition to be blown apart.
The 1991 experience left a deep scar on many Israelis as they huddled together in their gas masks, fearing a chemical attack.
The conflict now would be even more frightening for the Israelis, as Saddam is not being given the chance to survive, which might spur him to use every weapon in his arsenal.
But Israelis are calm. There is a feeling that the country escaped lightly 11 years ago and has had a decade to improve its defenses. The government is preparing smallpox vaccine to inoculate the whole nation, in case of a biological attack.
But the calm is most likely because Israelis, by and large, are already saturated with worry about the Palestinian uprising and the economic slump stemming from it.
They have no energy to fear a conflict not yet on their doorstep.

4. EU warns against U.S. immunity
August 13, 2002
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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The European Union yesterday told all countries hoping to join the bloc that they should not sign U.S. accords granting immunity to U.S. peacekeepers from the new International Criminal Court.
Yugoslavia said yesterday it would not sign such a pact.
The warning by European Commission President Romano Prodi to aspiring EU members followed an EU announcement of regret that Romania had become the first country to sign an ICC-immunity agreement with the United States.
"Other candidate countries which have also been approached by the United States, for now in any case, should not make any more moves to agree to sign such an accord," said a spokesman for Mr. Prodi in Brussels yesterday.
Mr. Prodi "would like that before going forward, the other candidate countries wait for a complete analysis to be completed by the EU" on the consequences of this type of accord, said the spokesman.
The 15 EU member nations are currently considering applications for membership by 10 former Soviet-bloc nations — Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovenia — as well as Cyprus and Malta.
A Washington spokesman for the European Union said the warning against bilateral immunity treaties with the United States was not a threat directed at aspiring EU members.
"There is no reason to believe if you don't comply [with the Prodi warning yesterday] something will happen to you," said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The United States has refused to sign the Rome Treaty creating the International Criminal Court, designed this year to try war crimes such as genocide. China, Russia and Israel have also refused to sign.
Fearing its peacekeepers abroad could be tried in a court that is not accountable to U.S. laws or officials, the Bush administration is seeking to negotiate treaties with each ICC member state to grant immunity to U.S. peacekeepers under Article 98 of the Rome Treaty.
Only Israel and Romania have signed such accords with the United States.
Yesterday the State Department repeated a warning that nations that refuse to grant Article 98 immunity to American troops might be barred from U.S. military assistance.
"If you look at the American Service Members Protection Act, there is a section that prohibits military assistance to a variety of countries or to countries that enter into the Rome Statute of the ICC," said spokesman Philip Reeker yesterday.
"These restrictions do not apply to assistance to NATO member countries or major non-NATO allies or others, and it also provides the president with the authority to waive these restrictions where a country has signed an Article 98 agreement and also in other cases where it's in the national interests."
Ambassadors from several countries have been invited to the State Department to receive similar warnings in the past two weeks.
Romania said Sunday its decision to sign the immunity accord with the United States did not undermine its loyalty to the European Union.
"It is wrong to speak of a conflict of interest, it is wrong to call into question our loyalty toward membership in NATO or the EU," Foreign Minister Mirco Geoana said.

5. Arutz-7 News: Monday
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
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Monday, Aug. 12, 2002 / Elul 4, 5762

NEW POLICY SAVES LIVES
It was reported today that a Jenin man had shot his son in the leg after he learned - from the IDF - that his son was planning a suicide attack against Israel. In addition, another father brought his son to an IDF checkpoint and turned him in, claiming that the young man was planning a suicide attack. The army says that these are only two of several recent incidents affirming the effectiveness of its new policy of demolishing homes and expelling terrorist relatives in saving Jewish lives.
Another suicide terrorist from northern Jerusalem was arrested today, following the arrest of his accomplice - a female minor - a few days ago.

LOST AT CARDS, KILLED A JEW
Atef Abeyat, who was head of the Tanzim terrorists in Bethlehem until Israeli forces killed him ten months ago, murdered an IDF soldier merely because of a bet he made with other terrorists. A recently-arrested Tanzim terrorist told his investigators that about a year and a half ago, Abeyat was playing cards with some terrorist friends. During the course of the game, it was decided that the loser would kill an Israeli soldier. The loser was Abeyat, and he quickly set out, in accordance with his "obligation," to kill a soldier - Sgt. Danny Darai, 20, who was shot in his army base near Rachel's Tomb on April 2, 2001. Abeyat was also responsible for the deaths of four other Israelis and dozens of other shooting attacks. He was killed in October 2001 when a bomb exploded in his car.

METEORS OVER ISRAEL
A shower of meteors will be seen tonight in Israeli skies. The climax will be at 1:08 AM, and can best be seen in a dark place, without the help of binoculars or a telescope. The meteor storm is the result of Earth passing through a dust belt left by a recent comet.

6. Arutz-7 News Tuesday
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
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Tuesday, August 13, 2002 / Elul 5, 5762

ZE'EVI PROMENADE DEDICATED
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has made only his second visit to eastern Jerusalem since being elected over 18 months ago. He took part today in the dedication ceremony of the new Rehavam Ze'evi Promenade, leading from the Intercontinental Hotel on the Mt. of Olives towards the Old City. The promenade includes three observation points providing impressive views of the Temple Mount and vicinity. Standing at one of them, only dozens of meters from the Temple Mount, Sharon said, "No one is more fitting to be memorialized by this observation point, where the entire Old City of Jerusalem is laid out before us, than Rehavam Ze'evi." Ze'evi, Tourism Minister in the Sharon government and a high-ranking IDF officer in the reserves, was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in October 2001.
Sharon's last visit to the area was shortly after his election in February 2001, when he prayed at the Western Wall. The General Security Service, responsible for protecting him, has since then not allowed him to enter even his home in the Moslem Quarter of the Old City. Today's visit was secured by hundreds of policemen, and only a small group of journalists was permitted to cover the event.

SHAS AND YESHA TOGETHER
Former Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, spiritual leader of the Shas party, will visit the terrorism-plagued city of Emanuel tomorrow. He will take part, together with Israel's Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, in a memorial ceremony for the nine victims of a bombing-and-shooting terrorist attack on a bus outside the town one month ago. Rabbi Yosef's visit symbolizes a rapprochement of sorts between Shas and the Yesha leadership. Many Yesha residents have not forgotten Shas' support for the original Oslo Agreements nine years ago.
This morning, Shas leader Interior Minister Eli Yeshai met with Yesha Council chief Bentzy Lieberman, and the two took some minutes off to talk with Arutz-7. "We're talking about the struggle faced by Yesha residents in the increasingly difficult day-to-day situation," Yeshai said. "We've always made tremendous efforts to help Yesha, but now even more so. Rabbi Yosef has often personally asked me to help Yesha in various ways..."

MITZNA JOINS RACE FOR LABOR PARTY LEADER
Haifa Mayor Amram Mitzna declared his candidacy for the Labor Party leadership at a press conference this morning. Recent polls showed that Mitzna would pose a serious challenge to current Labor Party head and Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer -

WHO'S SELLING ISRAELI GOODS
The Oslo War and accompanying terrorism has brought Israel's tourism industry close to a standstill, and many small businesses are on the brink of collapse. Many communities abroad have taken the initiative, essentially telling their brothers in Israel, "If we can't come to you, then we'll bring you - or your products - to us." One example is an Israeli "mall" to be exhibited in Toronto (1126 Finch Ave. W., units 16,17) from Aug. 18-22. Twenty Israeli merchants will display their wares, including jewelry, casual wear, art, Judaica, Israeli crafts, skin care products, honey, and more.
A similar fair was held this Sunday in the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach. Organizer Sharon Haberman of Manhattan told Arutz-7 that she "wanted to do something to help Israel, its vendors, and the economy in general" - and the idea was born. Some 30 vendors were represented, bringing products such as T-shirts, olive oil, art, Judaica, jewelry, and more. Thousands of dollars were also raised for victims of terror in other activities such as raffles. "Baskets for IDF soldiers - made in Israel, of course - were also sold," Sharon said, "and we had petting zoos, pony rides, balloons, crafts, a food court, and more." An estimated 2,000 people showed up during the course of the day.
Other Israeli goods fairs have been held recently in various American cities, and more are planned in Lakewood, Monsey, Queens, and elsewhere.

6. Ethiopian Jews in Ethiopia
Subject: [Kulanu] Ethiopian Jews in Ethiopia To: kulanu-l@ube.ubalt.edu
An article about an outsider's February 2002 visit to the Jewish
compound in Addis Ababa has just been posted to Kulanu's web site
It's an astonishing read. Here's the first paragraph:
"The facts and figures are astounding. In just a few walled acres in a
slum neighborhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1100 preschool children are
fed in four hours every weekday. Adult Education (in Hebrew and Jewish
Studies) in eight shifts per day serves 1600 in a week. Some 2700
school-age children are educated and fed every day, five days a week.
Simple but nutritious meals have been developed costing 17 cents each
($53 per child per year). And 850 adults (mostly heads of households)
are hired as paid employees, 700 of them in embroidery work. On a slow
day, when the weather is threatening, morning Shabbat services may be
attended by "only" 2500 adults and 500 children and youths."

The article is listed as "A Day with the Jews in Ethiopia" under Ethiopia
--
David
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Jerusalem News-96
Contents:
1.Arutz-7 News: Wednesday
BARGHOUTI CHARGED WITH MURDER AND RELATED CHARGES
2.The 10 Fatal Flaws of Oslo
3. Fighting Myths
4. 30 Jewish women take over roof of house
5. 'If attacked, Israel might nuke Iraq'

1.Arutz-7 News: Wednesday
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
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Wednesday, August 14, 2002 / Ellul 6, 5762
- BARGHOUTI CHARGED WITH MURDER AND RELATED CHARGES
Fatah Tanzim terrorist leader Marwan Barghouti, a right-hand man of Yasser Arafat, was indicted this morning in a Tel Aviv District Court on charges of murder and related crimes.
Barghouti stood behind dozens of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians since the beginning of the Oslo War almost two years ago. The charges against him include murder, aiding and abetting murder, attempted murder, criminal conspiracy, and serving as an active member in a terror organization. He was apprehended on April 15 at the height of Israel's Operation Defensive Shield anti-terror campaign. Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein made a special decision to try senior terrorists captured during Operation Defensive Shield in civil, not military, trials, as a way of emphasizing the direct involvement in terrorism of the leaders of the Palestinian Authority.
The charge sheet specified that Barghouti "led, managed, paid for, and activated terrorist activities against Israeli targets using leading terrorist activists." Among the dozens of terror acts he oversaw were the following:
* The murder of six Jews during a Bat Mitzva celebration in Hadera in January 2002;
* A shooting spree on Jaffa St. in Jerusalem, killing two, Jan. 22, 2002.
* The murder of a Greek Orthodox monk on the road to Ma'aleh Adumim, June 12, 2001;
* The murder of a policewoman in N'vei Yaakov, a coffee company owner and philanthropist in Atarot, and three Israelis in a Tel Aviv restaurant - all in a ten-day period in Feb.-Mar. 2002.

2.The 10 Fatal Flaws of Oslo
From: voicesunited@israelunitycoalition.com
The 10 Fatal Flaws of OsloYossi Klein Halevi
Jewish United Fund - July 31, 2002
Extracts:
In establishing that new sequence, Bush sought to correct a fatal flaw of the Oslo process: that Israel would yield concrete assets in exchange for easily revoked promises of peace.

But that was only one fatal flaw in a fundamentally flawed process. Here is a list of the 10 fatal miscalculations made by the architects of Oslo--perhaps the worst wound Israel ever inflicted on itself:

Empowering Arafat: "Only Arafat can make the necessary compromise," the Oslo visionaries assured us.
Empowering Arafat, then, meant creating a Hamas-like regime--protected by international legitimacy.

Whitewashing Arafat: They want to forget it now, but many on the Israeli and American Jewish left were actually charmed by the mass murderer.

Empowering the leadership of 1948: PLO-Tunis represented the Palestinian diaspora, the refugees of 1948. Israel resurrected the PLO, just as it was on the verge of collapse following the Gulf War. By saving Arafat, we imposed the leadership of 1948 onto the Palestinians of 1967--that is, of the West Bank and Gaza, who had lived with us, however unhappily, and with whom we’d shared a measure of coexistence.

Promoting a false symmetry: "Both sides want peace," the Oslo architects assured us. "A Palestinian mother and a Jewish mother both want the same things for their children." Our children came home from kindergarten waving little flags made of Stars of David entwined with doves; their children were taught paeans to suicide bombers. And now Palestinian mothers send their grown-up children off to martyrdom.

Pretending that the Middle East resembles Western Europe after World War II: That was a favorite insight of Shimon Peres, the basis for his New Middle East. Like the European Union, he said, the Middle East was on its way to replacing dreams of national glory for prosaic prosperity. Peres was right about Israeli society: Like Western Europe after World War II, most Israelis had fought one war too many and were ready to exchange nationalist for consumerist dreams. But he misjudged the Arab world by one war: Arab society more closely resembles Europe after World War I--aggrieved, militaristic and waiting for revenge for all those decades of Israeli military victories.

Encouraging dictatorship: In Yitzhak Rabin’s words, Arafat could be trusted to suppress terrorism because, unlike Rabin himself, he wouldn’t have to contend with "Bagatz and B’tzelem"--that is, with a Supreme Court and human rights watchdogs. The result was that Israel helped build one of the Arab world’s most corrupt regimes, and destroyed whatever hope the Palestinians had of emulating Israeli democracy.

Turning Judea And Samaria into the West Bank: The moral premise of partition is that two nations claim the same land, and so the only fair solution is to divide it between them. But what if one side insists that the whole land belongs to it by right, while the other side waives its claim to part of the land?

That is precisely what Israel did by turning "Judea and Samaria" into the "West Bank." The result was that the world quickly came to see the Israeli willingness to concede its biblical heartland as no concession at all, merely the occupier returning his theft to its natural owners.

Delegitimizing the critics: It’s not only the right who delegitimized Rabin; the left did the same to Oslo’s critics. And Rabin himself was a prime offender, mocking the settlers and even comparing the Likud to Hamas as part of an "anti-peace" bloc.

Democracy for peace: The Rabin government sacrificed democratic norms for the sake of the peace process, ramming through the Knesset far-reaching territorial concessions on the basis of a single vote--that of an unscrupulous rightwing parliamentarian who was lured to support Oslo by a political bribe. It is hard to recall another democracy making such a fateful decision on the basis of a majority of one, let alone a majority won through a parliamentary trick.

The culmination of Oslo’s anti-democratic spirit occurred at Taba in January 2001, when Prime Minister Ehud Barak, left with a minority government and facing a landslide defeat, offered the Palestinians even more concessions than he’d offered six months earlier at Camp David.
The above list is by no means exhaustive; additional follies could easily be cited. Understanding what went wrong with Oslo is crucial, especially at a time when some people are trying to divide the Jewish world with their insistence that Oslo’s failure was Israel’s fault.

3. Fighting Myths
From: Oscar Villarreal <villaro@excite.com>
Subject: RE: Jerusalem News-88
Shalom Yair,
As always it is good to get correspondence from your organization because you give me ammunition to debunk the myths about Palestinian suffering being soley because of Yisrael's "occupation". There are so many gullible people here in Chicago, Illinois, USA that buy into a strangely twisted media opinion, that it makes you sick. I frequently pass out copies of newsletters from an organization called FLAME or Facts and Logic About the Middle East and usually get good responses. Myths, by the way are the theme of this letter and how simply by repeating things (often by unintended ignorance) that the lies become truth. See below an excerpt from the www.factsandlogic.com homepage on Arabian Fables I and II, especially on the term "palestinian".

4. 30 Jewish women take over roof of house
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:35:13 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il

30 women take over roof of house in W. Bank, demand that IDF destroy it
By Ha'aretz Service 15 August 2002
Some 30 women from the settlements of Shilo and Ma'aleh Levonah took over
the roof of a house in the West Bank village of Luban a-Sharkiyeh and
demanded that the IDF destroy the building. The women claimed that the house
was the site from which terrorists shot and killed Revital and Avi Wolansky
last week.
On Sunday 25 settlers took to the roof of the building, and five women, who
had stayed on top after the rest had left, only agreed to come down after
the IDF said that it was considering removing them forcefully.

5. 'If attacked, Israel might nuke Iraq'
From: imra@netvision.net.il

'If attacked, Israel might nuke Iraq'
By Ze'ev Schiff Ha'aretz 15 August 2002
If Iraq strikes at Israel with non-conventional weapons, causing massive
casualties among the civilian population, Israel could respond with a
nuclear retaliation that would eradicate Iraq as a country. This grave
assessment, from American intelligence, was presented last week to the U.S.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
During the 1991 Gulf War, then U.S. defense secretary Richard Cheney, now
vice-president, told CNN that Israel could respond with nuclear weapons to
an Iraqi strike that included the use of chemical weapons. This assessment
has only been strengthened since then, because according to all the signs,
Iraq now has biological weapons that could cause mass casualties.
According to one assessment, military-grade biological weapons can be almost
as lethal as a nuclear bomb.
The U.S. intelligence assessments include an analysis of possible Israeli
responses. The lowest probability is that Israel would respond initially
with a conventional military retaliation if it is slightly harmed, and would
add a warning that a non-conventional response was possible if the Iraqi
attacks on the Israeli civilian population continued.
The possibility of Israel using nuclear weapons against Iraq appears in a
document submitted by military expert Dr. Anthony Cordesman, a fellow at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, to the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. Presumably, the document is based, in part, on official
administration assessments.
In the worst case scenario, writes Cordesman, Israel could face an
existential threat to important urban areas such as Tel Aviv or Haifa. Under
such conditions, it would threaten nuclear retaliation against Iraqi cities
and military forces to cease the [Iraqi] attack.
If the Iraqi attack were to continue, and there was a lethal biological
strike on an Israeli city, Israel would certainly respond with nuclear strikes
against Iraqi cities that were not yet in the hands of American forces,
Cordesman says. Such an Israeli reaction could destroy Iraq as a state.
Based on this assessment and the possibility of an Israeli retaliation in
the event of an Iraqi strike, it is presumed that the United States will, at
the earliest stages, make a special effort to neutralize any possible use of
Scud and El Hussein rockets that Iraq positions in its western regions, as
it did in the Gulf War, for a more convenient launching site for attacks
against Israel. During discussions in Washington, Israeli representatives
asked the United States to take action against the missiles in western Iraq.
The Americans know that Iraq is not depending only on long-range missiles in
its plans for using chemical or biological weapons against its enemies,
including Israel. As part of its preparations, Iraq has also been working on
developing pilotless planes. Unlike the usual development of drones used
primarily for intelligence gathering purposes, the Iraqis are working on
normal-sized planes loaded with chemical or biological weapons and intended
to be flown by remote control. They are working on an Eastern European
training plane and on a version of the MiG-21. Both planes have been tested.

Jerusalem News-97
Contents:
1. Saudis and September 11
2.Israeli Discovery: Salt Brings Rain
3. IDF arrests suspected killer of 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass
4.Arutz-7 News: Thursday
JERUSALEM POST IN RAMALLAH
RABBI YOSEF GIVES BLESSINGS IN EMANUEL
RAINS IN ISRAEL
5. Arutz Sheva News: Friday,
-NEW YORK WANTS PLO OUT!
6. Arafat's Money. The guy's a billionaire. Where does his money come?

1. Saudis and September 11
The Twin Tower terrorist attack in New York killed 2,823 people
wounded and maimed many more, caused great material damage,
and seriously impugned the US image.
19 terrorists are believed to have participated directly in the attacks.
The bodies of nine of the 19 have been found. One was a Lebanese citize,
eight were from Saudi Arabia.

2.Israeli Discovery: Salt Brings Rain
Science:
A team headed by Professor Daniel Rozenfeld from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
published findings in the recent issue of "Science":
A spray of sea -water from the Ocean reaching clouds causes small water droplets to grow in size
and thus increases the possibility of rain falling. This type of rain has the ability to purify the atmosphere
of pollution.
In Israel spay produced from Dead Sea water is now being sprayed on clouds to induce rainfall.

3. IDF arrests suspected killer of 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass
From: imra@netvision.net.il

By Amira Hass, Ha'aretz Correspondent , News Agencies and Ha'aretz Service
16 August 2002
In an operation in the Hebron area early Friday morning, Israel Defense
Forces soldiers arrested Sudki Zaro, the Palestinian sniper who is believed
to be behind the March 2001 killing of 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass, Israel
Radio reported.
South of Jenin, troops arrested five Palestinians, including four who appear
on Israel's most-wanted list.
The IDF demolished late Thursday night the family homes of two Palestinian
terrorists in the West Bank, Israel Radio reported.
Troops destroyed the home of Iyad Sawalha, an Islamic Jihad activist
responsible for the Megiddo Junction car bomb attack in which 17 people were
killed two months ago, in the village of Rais.

4.Arutz-7 News: Thursday
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
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Thursday, Aug. 15, 2002 / Elul 7, 5762
JERUSALEM POST IN RAMALLAH
Jerusalem Post printing employees arrived at work on Tuesday morning, only to find the gates locked - and most of them out of a job. Danny Ben-Sheetrit, chairman of the Jerusalem region of the Histadrut Labor Union, told Arutz-7 that the paper has decided to transfer most of its printing operations to two new locations - and that one of them is Ramallah, the Palestinian Authority "capital" in Judea/Samaria.
The 40 workers were told on Tuesday that most of them were fired, and that the management was interested in keeping only nine (20, according to other reports). After two days of hopeful but fruitless negotiations, the workers have chained themselves to the gates and are not allowing the printing of the daily edition, nor are they permitting entry into Post offices. The workers say that if no solution is found, they will bring their family members along to their Sunday protest. Arutz-7's calls to Jerusalem Post management offices for comment went unanswered.
RABBI YOSEF GIVES BLESSINGS IN EMANUEL
More than 1,000 people gathered in the Shomron community of Emanuel yesterday to take part in a memorial ceremony for the 20 Israelis who were murdered in two separate terror attacks over the past year just outside the town's entrance. Addressing the crowd were Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau as well as Shas party spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Rabbi Yosef told the Emanuel residents that they were "modern-day heroes," that the commandment to settle the Land of Israel was equal to all others, and that Emanuel should one day number a million Jews.
The event marked Rabbi Yosef's first official visit to a Yesha (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) community since he announced his support for the Oslo Accords nine years ago. Several Shas Knesset Members also attended the ceremony. Yesha Council Secretary-General Adi Mintz said today that Rabbi Yosef originally supported Oslo "in the belief that it would save lives. Now that it is clear to him that supporting Oslo actually costs lives, he is very supportive of those who are fulfilling the commandment to build up the Land of Israel."
Rabbi Menachem Felix of Elon Moreh, who once spent several weeks protesting outside the home of Rabbi Yosef against his support for the Oslo process, said today, "It is fine and praiseworthy that a leader and a party look at the reality and have the courage to change course if necessary."
RAINS IN ISRAEL
Although the rainy season doesn't begin for another two months, heavy rains fell in the Tel Aviv area this morning as well as in the Jerusalem Mountains. The weatherman says that this is the fringe of the freak weather that has hit Europe in recent days.

5. Arutz Sheva News
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Friday, August 16, 2002 / Elul 8, 5762
-NEW YORK WANTS PLO OUT!
New York's City Council overwhelmingly passed a resolution yesterday calling for the closure of the PLO office on Park Avenue in New York City. Calling the office a "danger" to New Yorkers, and labeling the Palestinian Authority a terrorist organization, the resolution asks U.S. President Bush to work with the United Nations to seek the immediate closure of the office.
"This is a great victory," said Rabbi Avi Weiss, President of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, whose organization lobbied heavily on behalf of the resolution. Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, Vice-President of the Coalition for Jewish Concerns, said, "This is the first step in our process of closing the doors of the PLO's Mission to the United Nations. Now that the Council has spoken, we intend to announce legal action to actually evict the PLO." Of the 52 council members, only six voted against the resolution.

6. Arafat's Money. The guy's a billionaire. Where does his money come?
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Arafat's Stash - The guy's a billionaire. Where does his money come from?
By Rachel Ehrenfeld - National Review August 15, 2002
Yesterday's news that Yasser Arafat has a $1.3 billion personal slush fund is
no surprise. The information disclosed by Israel's military-intelligence
chief emphasized that the stash was not skimmed from aid intended for the
Palestinian people (donated by the likes of USAID and the EU), but he
refrained from identifying the actual sources.
So questions abound: Is that the sum of all the money Arafat controls? Is it
actually stolen from international aid money? How long have we known about
it?
A member of the Palestinian Legislative Council from Nablus, Muawiya
Al-Masri, was interviewed earlier this month by a Jordanian publication
about Arafat's regime. When Al-Masri went public about PA corruption back in
1999 he was nearly killed in retaliation. Undeterred, he again spoke at
length about the endemic corruption of the PA and Arafat. "No minister can
appoint a driver or a delivery boy in his ministry without the president's
consent," said Al-Masri. "There is no institutional process. There is only
one institution - the presidency, which has no law and order and is based on
bribing top officials."
Following the Oslo Accords, Arafat overtook even PEDCAR (the Palestinian
Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction), founded under strict
European conditions, as soon as it began operating. "His [Arafat's] became
the authorized signature. Today, no amount, no matter how small, leaves the
PEDCAR funds without the president's signature."
Experts estimate that the $1.3 billion Arafat controls could feed three
million Palestinians for a year, buy 1,000 mobile intensive-care units, fund
ten hospitals for a decade, and still leave $585 million to fund other
social projects.
But firsthand testimonies by disaffected Palestinians, and volumes of
documents found in his headquarters in Ramallah, leave no doubt that Arafat
controls all PA money. And since this goes back to the 1960s, the amount of
money that passed through his hands is staggering.
Over the years, the PA has had multiple funding sources. Every Palestinian
"contributes" taxes. Arab nations send money. International organizations
donate with poor Palestinians in mind. At the time the PA was created in
1993-4, the British National Crime Intelligence Service estimated that the
PLO's ill-gotten gains totaled $8-10 billion. In addition, the PLO enjoyed
an annual income of about $1.5-2 billion from "nations, extortion, payoffs,
illegal arms dealing, drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud, etc." Since
then, they've gotten even more. So where is that money?
Only Arafat, his wife Suha, and his "economic adviser" Mohammed Rashid know
where the loot is hidden. Few others are in the know, but all of Arafat's 34
ministers have managed to get very wealthy over a short period of time,
thanks to monopolies, gifts, and tens of thousands of dollars in regular
payments from Arafat.
How much money is under Arafat's control? In addition to the $1.3 billion
that he keeps to himself, he also controls all the money that is in the PA
budget, money intended for development, businesses, education, health, etc.
He decides who gets what and when - and that's how he controls his gang.
Arafat also controls a growing criminal industry - a blooming counterfeit
industry that includes hundreds of thousands of CDs and DVDs, movies,
designer cloths, schoolbooks, and even cosmetics. It's a cash cow for
funding terrorist activities - but not before Arafat and his gang get their
cut.

7. Why the Palestinians are Winning the Media War
From: ISRAEL RESOURCE NEWS AGENCY <media@actcom.co.il>
Extracts:
Why the Palestinians are Winning the Media War:
An Interview with David Bedein in Reform Judaism Magazine
David Bedein has run the Jerusalem-based Israel Resource News Agency, which
provides news services for the foreign media, since 1987. He has also
worked on special assignment for BBC, CNN Radio, the Los Angeles Times, and
the weekly Israel news magazine Makor Rishon. He was interviewed by RJ
editor Aron Hirt-Manheimer.
Do you agree with those who say that "the Palestinians have been doing a
better job than the Israelis on the public relations front"?
Yes. For the past twenty years, the Palestinians have outmaneuvered the
Israelis in framing the conflict for the world media. The turning point
came during the 1982 Lebanon War, when the Palestinians initiated a
propaganda campaign to cast themselves as the defenders of human rights and
the Israelis as the violators of human rights. At the same time, Yasser
Arafat's brother, Dr. Fatchi Arafat, exploited his position as director of
the Palestinian Red Crescent Society to release grossly inflated casualty
figures. On June 10, 1982, for example, Dr. Arafat issued a statement
declaring that "10,000 Palestinians have died and 600,000 have become
homeless in the first few days of the war"--a lie calculated to portray the
Palestinians as the victims of a genocidal assault in Lebanon. In fact, the
total population in the war zone numbered fewer than 300,000. Yet the
International Red Cross and Middle East Action Committee of the American
Friends Service Committee spread the 10,000/600,000 figure to every media
outlet in the world, and the major American networks picked up the story.
NBC's Jessica Savitch reported, "It is now estimated that 600,000 refugees
in south Lebanon are without sufficient food or medical supplies."

Palestinian media professionals have no qualms about deceiving the media
for political advantage. In their attempt to convince the world that the
IDF massacred hundreds of civilians in the Jenin refugee camp during
Operation Defensive Shield, they used animal carcasses to fill the air with
the stench of rotting flesh in places where reporters and UN officials were
likely to visit. The IDF caught that ploy on video, as they did a staged
funeral in which "the body" jumped out of the coffin and ran for cover when
an Israeli surveillance plane flew over the site.
Are you suggesting that such tactics have been counterproductive?
Not at all. Such bloopers are the exception. The Palestinians have an
excellent track record in manipulating images that appear in the world
media. They achieved an enormous propaganda windfall at the beginning of
the second intifada, when a Palestinian film crew working for a French
television network recorded the shooting of eleven-year-old Mohammed
al-Dura as his father tried in vain to shield him during a battle at a road
junction near Gaza. The video, edited to portray the IDF as heartless child
killers, fit the Palestinian story line perfectly. The Israeli government
fell into the trap, issuing an apology even before investigating the
incident. Mohammed al-Dura, the "poster boy" of the second intifada, will
go down in history as a celebrated martyr of the Palestinian people--and
yet, the Palestinian version of al-Dura's death is a lie, an invention of
Palestinian P.R. professionals. A thorough IDF investigation, which was
issued three weeks after the incident and confirmed by a German TV crew,
showed that the bullets fired at the boy had come from the direction of
Palestinian gunmen who had attacked an Israeli guard post. But the world
had "witnessed" the shooting of al-Dura, as the media scripted it--an
atrocity committed by Israeli troops--and the damage could not be undone.
It is impossible to put the toothpaste back in the tube.

How do Palestinian P.R. professionals get their training today, and who
funds it?
The Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs
(PASSIA) provides courses and more than thirty how-to manuals on public
relations, media relations, fundraising, communications, lobbying, and
public speaking. PASSIA trains Palestinian academics who will be teaching
abroad on how to promote their cause on university campuses; in addition,
Palestinians in the U.S. are taught how to seek out the Arab constituencies
in each congressional district and how to lobby members of Congress for
political and financial support of the Palestinian cause. And who picks up
the tab for PASSIA? The United States Agency for International Development
(USAID), a program of the U.S. State Department, grants PASSIA and eighteen
other Palestinian media relations firms in Jerusalem more than $1 million
annually. It was only this past March, after a U.S. House International
Relations Committee staffer discovered that USAID was providing allocations
for Palestinian media relations, that members of Congress became aware of
this aid. A surprised Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY) looked at PASSIA's
advocacy manual and said incredulously: "Here we are in Congress paying
them to lobby us."

Do you believe the United Nations plays a role in advancing the Palestinian
P.R. agenda?
Definitely. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) maintains a
professional media relations department and a news service called the UNRWA
television network, both based in the Ain el-Helweh UNRWA refugee camp in
Lebanon. UNRWA cooperates with the media services of the PLO and the
Palestine Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) to provide the visiting press with
information and services. Its literature focuses largely on the plight of
the refugees who are being housed in camps until they can "return to their
homeland"--which, according to their literature, includes not only the
territories captured by Israel in 1967, but also all the areas that Israel
annexed after Israel's War of Independence in 1948.

The UN's agenda is to present the Palestinian Arabs as victims. In Witness
to History: The Plight of the Palestinian Refugees, one of several primers
distributed by UNRWA and published by MIFTAH, the Palestinian media agency
run by well-known Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi and commissioned by
the Canadian government, the UN asserts, on page 13, that all "refugees and
their descendants have a right to compensation and repatriation to their
original homes and land . . . . "

How do the Palestinians and Israelis different in their methods of media
relations?
Professionally trained and disciplined Palestinian spokespeople usually
present themselves as a ragtag bunch of amateurs. They meet Western
reporters in modest Jerusalem or Ramallah hotels or against the backdrop of
refugee camps. This tactic has been very successful in reinforcing the
stereotype of their side as the aggrieved underdog. An interview with a
Palestinian in an alleyway with burning tires and bullets flying overhead
captures the imagination of editors who place a premium on entertainment
value--the human drama unfolding.
In contrast, when foreign correspondents meet with Israeli officials, they
are often greeted by slick government spokespeople at fancy hotels,
state-of-the-art media centers, or modern offices. Israeli spokespeople
labor under three false notions: first, that formal, professionally
packaged P.R. is persuasive; second, that lengthy explanations of the
history of the conflict will be more effective than sound bytes in
convincing the public of the rightness of their cause; and third, that the
moral correctness of their action and cause is self-evident to any
rational, fair-minded human being. Along these lines, Israel's Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres once said: "Good policies are good P.R.; they speak
for themselves." Unfortunately, Peres was wrong. A lie can be more powerful
than the truth, if you market your lie well enough for people to believe it.

Why do you think the Israel government has had such difficulty in recent
years getting its point of view across to the Western media?
I think Israel made a major mistake in 1986, when Israel Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres and his deputy Dr. Yossi Beilin revised the way in which the
government would relate to the PLO. They asked the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs to cease distribution of the PLO covenant, which has never
officially changed the provision calling for the destruction of the State
of Israel. They also asked that the ministry stop defining the PLO as an
enemy. In countless briefings that the ministry held in the late 1980s,
both Peres and Beilin explained that the time had come to put the fight
with the PLO in the past. The 1986 Peres/Beilin policy change paved the way
two years later for the U.S. government to recognize the PLO.
The Israeli government also gave the Palestinians a free ride from 1993-
2000, during the seven-year Oslo process, by downplaying terrorist attacks
and the two-faced message of the Palestinian leadership, which presented a
message of peace in English and a message of war in Arabic. To keep the
Oslo process from collapsing, both Israeli and U.S. leaders decided in 1993
to ignore the PA's daily radio and TV calls for a renewed war against
Israel. Indeed, in 1995, when the Institute for Peace Education Ltd., which
our agency helped to facilitate, produced videos of Arafat's speeches
promoting jihad (holy war), then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres asked Israel TV not to air any of
Arafat's speeches in Arabic. In September 1995, Peres went so far as to ask
Representative Ben Gilman, the chairman of the U.S. House International
Relations Committee, not to hold a special hearing in which these videos of
Arafat's speeches were to be screened. The House committee ignored the
request.
The "don't tell" policy continued during the Netanyahu administration from
1996 to 1999. While Netanyahu's office churned out weekly reports on PA
incitement for Likud Party members, a senior official of the Netanyahu
administration confirmed to me that the reports were deliberately withheld
from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israeli media. In October
1998, during my coverage of the Wye conference, I asked the Israeli embassy
why they did not distribute this material. They answered, "The Israeli
government downplays the reality of Arafat's PA in order to not alienate
the U.S. government." The Barak government, which assumed power in May
1999, went so far as to quietly eliminate the clause in the Oslo accords
that required the PA to cease incitement against Israel.

Do you believe that many Western journalists harbor an anti-Israel bias, or
are there other factors which work in favor of the Palestinian point of view?
I agree with the assessment of Dr. Mike Cohen, a Jerusalem-based strategic
communications analyst and IDF reserve officer, who says that most foreign
journalists are not inherently anti-Israel, antisemitic, or
pro-Palestinian. They are, however, easily swayed by Palestinian
manipulation, which relies on the reporters' and editors' lack of
background knowledge, combined with the lack of time and desire to take a
deep look at the facts. Another factor is the fear of losing access to
Palestinian sources and logistical support if their stories are perceived
as hostile. Moreover, non-Palestinian reporters are deliberately impeded
and intimidated when trying to cover news that may embarrass the PA. I know
of several foreign journalists who had reported incidents of Palestinian
incitement and were thereafter barred from PA briefings.

Jerusalem News-98
Contents:
1.Arafat, the Nazi by Joseph Farah
2. De-Nazify the West Bank by Caroline B. Glick
3. Arutz-7 News: Sunday
CIVIL SUITS AGAINST TERRORISM
T-SHIRT IS NOT ILLEGAL
THE DAILY FARE
GAZA FIRST - AND BETHLEHEM AND HEVRON TOO
Interview with Uri Dan
4. Updated Statistics of Oslo War
5. Message to EU who fund Arafat

1.Arafat, the Nazi by Joseph Farah
Yasser Arafat is a murderer of Christians, Jews, Israelis and Americans – including U.S. diplomats, tourists, innocent women and children. Yasser Arafat is an unrepentant terrorist – the modern-day inventor of Arab terrorism, an inspiration for Osama bin Laden and others. Yasser Arafat is an exploiter of his own people, keeping them in squalor and perpetuating their hatreds while padding his own Swiss bank accounts.

You might think that track record would be enough for Arafat to be targeted for termination or at least relegated to political obscurity once and for all as America and its allies wage an international war against terrorism.

For some reason, it has not been enough. Arafat is continually resurrected politically by Americans, Europeans and Israelis. So let me offer one more bit of Arafat's sociopathic history for consideration.

Arafat is a Nazi sympathizer.

In an interview last week, published in Al Sharq al Awsat, a London Arabic daily, reprinted in the Palestinian daily Al Quds, Aug. 2, and translated by Palestinian Media Watch, Arafat called the Arab leader and Nazi ally, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, "our hero." He drew an analogy between himself and al-Husseini who survived as a leader despite world pressure against him because of his Nazi ties.

"We are not Afghanistan," said Arafat in the interview. "We are a mighty people. Were they able to replace our hero Hajj Amin al-Husseini? There were a number of attempts to get rid of Hajj Amin, whom they considered an ally of the Nazis. But even so, he lived in Cairo, and participated in the 1948 war, and I was one of his troops."

Arafat seldom tells the truth, but, in this case, his facts are correct.

Hajj Amin al-Husseini was the grand mufti of Jerusalem leading up to World War II. He supported the Nazis. He met with Adolph Hitler. He was a strong proponent of the Nazi program for mass murder of the Jews.

In fact, Arafat's hero became a German agent, and the British tried repeatedly to arrest him as a spy.

Perhaps the mufti's "greatest achievement" was the recruitment of tens of thousands of Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania to the German SS. His Arab legions later participated in the massacres of thousands of partisan Serbs, Jews and Gypsies.

On March 1, 1944, Arafat's hero was in Berlin making a dramatic radio broadcast: "Arabs! Rise as one and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion. This saves your honor."

The Nazi mufti visited numerous death camps and encouraged Hitler to extend the "Final Solution" to the Jews of North Africa and Palestine. In fact, his only condition for recruiting the Arab legions in the Balkans was a promise from Hitler to wipe out the Jews of the Middle East after the war.

In 1945, Yugoslavia sought to indict the mufti as a war criminal for his role in the massacres. He escaped from French detention in 1946. He then traveled to Egypt where he lived until 1974.

The grand mufti was not just Arafat's "hero," as he says. Arafat was, in fact, so close to al-Husseini that the young terrorist called him "uncle." Arafat's real name is Rahman Abdul Rauf el-Qudwa al-Husseini, though his actual blood relationship with al-Husseini is in question. His entire career was sponsored by the dreaded Nazi mufti. He was, indeed, Arafat's mentor, his inspiration for 40 years of terror, murder, hatred and international duplicity.

The world's people are too forgetful. This history is well-documented. Now Arafat, in his own words, has reminded us once again about the bloody ties between his movement and the Nazi monsters. He even reminds his own people of why the mufti was scandalized. He knows his own people have no ill feelings toward the Nazis. He knows his movement and the Nazis still share a common goal – the death of all Jews. He knows this history can't haunt him among his constituency.

But why do decent people, freedom-loving people, Christians and Jews, Americans and Europeans, even Israelis, allow Arafat to escape accountability for his words and his deeds?

Let this be Arafat's final political epitaph: He was a terrorist. He was a murderer. He was a liar. He was pro-Nazi scum.

2. De-Nazify the West Bank by Caroline B. Glick

FrontPageMagazine.com | August 9, 2002

The television camera lens moves with seeming effortlessness from the pictures of suffering and
death at the Hebrew University to the carnival in Gaza City, where thousands take to the
streets in celebration of the pictures from Jerusalem. Gazing at the revelers on the screen,
one strains one's eyes to find an expression of shame, guilt, or remorse on the faces in the
crowd. One unconsciously prays to discern anything that would show that those in front of the
camera are there by accident or because they were forced to be there. But no, the faces on the
screen are uninhibited, joyful ones.
Far from being forced to participate in the festivities, each and every one of the people at
the parade in Gaza makes a personal decision to leave his or her home and join the crowd in
applauding the mass murder of Jews. They are there because they support the murders. They are
there because such murders make them happy.
These Gazans, and their counterparts at Balata refugee camp near Nablus, were not celebrating a
military victory. There was no battle at the cafeteria in the Frank Sinatra International
Student Center. These Palestinians men, women, teenagers, and small children came together to
celebrate another massacre in their genocidal campaign against the Jewish people.
Yes, genocide. The Palestinians have reached a point in this war where it has now become clear
that their goal in this struggle is not the end of the so-called "occupation," but rather the
organized, premeditated mass murder of Jews because they are Jewish. That is, the Palestinian
goal today is genocide.

The fact that the Palestinians don ski masks and keffiyehs rather than brown shirts and
swastikas also makes us undervalue the fact that, like the Nazis, the Palestinians are
utilizing all their technological know-how and military resources to kill Jews and are making
their best efforts to constantly improve and enhance these resources to increase their kill
rate.

It is not just Hamas or Tanzim or Islamic
Jihad that we must fight, but Palestinian society itself must be transformed for there to be
peaceful coexistence. All major indicators point to the conclusion that the overwhelming
majority of Palestinians is complicit in the aim of committing genocide against the Israelis.

Virulent, Nazi-style Jew hatred and dehumanization has become for the Palestinians, as for the
Germans before them, the central unifying theme of society. The best-seller lists in the PA for
years have included such works as Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Being a
relative of a suicide bomber is a status symbol.
From the schoolrooms to the mosques to the daily papers to the art studios, Palestinians teach,
preach, write and paint in praise of genocide. Even Yasser Arafat's purportedly democratic and
pro-Western opposition has no moral qualms about massacring Israelis. Leaders like the
much-feted Sari Nusseibeh argue against suicide bombings not because they are morally
reprehensible, but because of their tactical inconvenience.

Once we understand that this is the situation in Palestinian society, we reconcile ourselves
with the fact that we are not in a struggle against a political movement for national
sovereignty. We are being victimized by a genocidal campaign for our violent elimination
supported by the overwhelming majority of Palestinians.

3. Arutz-7 News: Sunday
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Interview with Uri Dan

GAZA FIRST - AND BETHLEHEM AND HEVRON TOO
Interview with Uri Dan
Arutz-7 spoke today with Uri Dan, a long-time friend and confidante of Prime Minister Sharon.

When Arutz-7's Ariel Kahane asked him why Sharon is negotiating with Muhammad Dahlan, the man who oversaw the terrorist murder of two teachers and maiming of several children in Kfar Darom, Dan said,
"Have you heard of the verse, 'By deception you should make war?' Engrave it on your heart. This is a very cruel war, that of cleaning out all the weapons that Yossi Beilin allowed in here at the beginning of the Oslo process is a very weighty job... Listen clearly to what I am saying: The only one who is able to run this war on behalf of the Jews, their future, and their security - better than anyone else - is Ariel Sharon. He has proven this over these past difficult months, with the war in and for our homes."
"But we are trying to learn how exactly he will do this, and you're not exactly answering," Kahane probed. Dan:
"Because I think that this is not a matter for discussions on the radio. Everyone with eyes in his head can see that if Sharon had not acted this way, we would have had not 600 [ed. note: 615] painful deaths, but 6,000. Note the accomplishments of this war against terrorism. Note how Pres. Bush stood by Israel's side when he called for a change of PA leadership, and note how Sharon prevented a deterioration into the regional war that Arafat was hoping for, with international intervention, and note how he preserved national unity during this difficult time..."
Kahane: "But it looks like he is planning to waste these accomplishments by doing things like talking with Dahlan...?"
Dan: "Have you seen him talking to Dahlan?"
Kahane: "No, but he sent his Defense Minister Ben-Eliezer to talk with him."
Dan: "So then wait and see. Wait and see. Look, we don't live from newspaper headlines. What's nice about our country is that the good things here usually happen despite and against the headlines..."

CIVIL SUITS AGAINST TERRORISM
Israel's largest bus company, Egged, plans to sue the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat for hundreds of millions of dollars. Egged claims that the terrorist attacks of the past two years have murdered some 100 people on Egged buses, and have cost the company close to 200 million shekels a year, including a drop in the number of riders. The suit will be submitted in a Tel Aviv court two weeks from now.
In another civilian effort to stop terrorism, the parents of Meiron Junction bus bombing victim Marian Menachem, 20, of Moshav Safsufa, have filed a complaint with police against two Israeli-Arab women students. The students learned that the suicide terrorist was planning to blow up the bus about 20 minutes ahead of the attack, got off the bus, and made no effort to notify authorities. The complainants say that their daughter's life could have been saved had the women taken the trouble to call the police.
*
T-SHIRT IS NOT ILLEGAL
"It is doubtful whether it is against the law" to wear a T-shirt reading, "No Arabs - No Terrorism." So ruled Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Drori today, based on a previous broad interpretation by the Supreme Court of the right to freedom of speech. Judge Drori rejected the State's appeal against the release from prison of Aharon Yirmiyahu, a teenager accused of disturbing the peace at the funeral of terrorist victim Elazar Leibovitz in Hevron three weeks ago while wearing a shirt with the above words.

THE DAILY FARE
A bomb exploded today alongside an Israeli car near Avnei Heifetz, in western Shomron; eyewitnesses said that miraculously, no one was hurt...
Arabs continued attacking Israelis in different places and using various methods over the weekend. A female motorist was lightly wounded yesterday afternoon when Arabs hurled rocks at her car on the Jerusalem-Maaleh Adumim highway. Police arrested three suspects from the nearby village of Issawiya... At least 18 other Arabs suspected of terrorist activity were arrested over the weekend.
An IDF soldier was lightly wounded this morning in a grenade attack near the southern Gaza community of Gadid...
A firebomb was hurled at a gas station in Jerusalem's French Hill neighborhood. No one was hurt in these incidents…

4. Updated Statistics of Oslo War
imra@imra.org.il
4,478 injured, 609 killed, 14,085 attacks 29 September 2000 through 17
August 2002
IDF Spokesperson 18 August 2002
Injured: 3,198 Civilians + 1,280 Security Forces = 4,478 Total Israeli
Injured
Killed: 427 Civilians + 182 Security Forces = 609 Total Israeli Killed
Total Attacks*: 6,559 West Bank + 6,917 Gaza Strip + 609 Home Front =14,085
Total
* Does not include attacks with rocks or firebombs.

5. Message to EU who fund Arafat:
[Psalms 137:1] BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON, THERE WE SAT DOWN, YEA, WE WEPT, WHEN WE REMEMBERED ZION.

[Psalms 137:2] WE HANGED OUR HARPS UPON THE WILLOWS IN THE MIDST THEREOF.

[Psalms 137:3] FOR THERE THEY THAT CARRIED US AWAY CAPTIVE REQUIRED OF US A SONG; AND THEY THAT WASTED US REQUIRED OF US MIRTH, SAYING, SING US ONE OF THE SONGS OF ZION.

[Psalms 137:4] HOW SHALL WE SING THE LORD'S SONG IN A STRANGE LAND?

[Psalms 137:5] IF I FORGET THEE, O JERUSALEM, LET MY RIGHT HAND FORGET HER CUNNING.

[Psalms 137:6] IF I DO NOT REMEMBER THEE, LET MY TONGUE CLEAVE TO THE ROOF OF MY MOUTH; IF I PREFER NOT JERUSALEM ABOVE MY CHIEF JOY.

[Psalms 137:7] REMEMBER, O LORD, THE CHILDREN OF EDOM IN THE DAY OF JERUSALEM; WHO SAID, RASE IT, RASE IT, EVEN TO THE FOUNDATION THEREOF.

[Psalms 137:8] O DAUGHTER OF BABYLON, WHO ART TO BE DESTROYED; HAPPY SHALL HE BE, THAT REWARDETH THEE AS THOU HAST SERVED US.

[Psalms 137:9] HAPPY SHALL HE BE, THAT TAKETH AND DASHETH THY LITTLE ONES AGAINST THE STONES.

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Jerusalem News-99
Contents:
1.
2. Arutz-7 News: Tuesday
SOLDIER KILLED BY PALESTINIAN SNIPER;
SAVED FROM SHOOTINGS, BOMBS, AND MORTAR SHELLS
SOUTHERN WALL of Temple Mount IN DANGER
3. British 'force field' protects tanks by zapping grenades by Michael Smith
4. Abu Nidal's death
5. Arutz 7 Commentary: The Fruits of Miracles
6. Zimbabwe: Blacks take over farms as whites flee police by Peta Thornycroft

2. Arutz-7 News: Tuesday
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, August 20, 2002 / Elul 12, 5762
SOLDIER KILLED BY PALESTINIAN SNIPER; BEN-ELIEZER WARNS P.A.
IDF Sgt. Kiven Cohen, 19, from Petach Tikvah, was killed by Arab sniper fire early this morning at the Yakinton Outpost outside Gadid in Gush Katif. A lone bullet hit his head following a night of gunfire, and he died on the way to the hospital. Israel Air Force helicopters overflew the PA city of Khan Yunis to find the murderer, but without success. Heavy exchanges of gunfire later developed at the Tufah Crossing near N'vei Dekalim, and one Arab was killed.
The murder occurred only hours after Israel began implementing the Gaza First agreement yesterday. Israel began easing restrictions with the goal of withdrawing its forces from the area and handing over full security control to the PA. The PA is obligated to work to stop terrorism by its own Fatah-Tanzim, as well as by Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and others, but many of these groups said they would continue their violence. Hamas claimed credit for today's killing.

Israeli forces began implementing the Bethlehem part of the agreement last night by withdrawing its troops from Bethlehem and vicinity, including Beit Jala, and redeploying outside the towns. PA forces under the command of Haj Ismail took control of the area following Israel's withdrawal.

SAVED FROM SHOOTINGS, BOMBS, AND MORTAR SHELLS
A resident of Kokhav Yaakov was saved from a shooting attack last night. Arab terrorists opened fire on him as he passed by Sinjil, near Shilo, in the Binyamin region, puncturing his car's tire and hitting the clutch. The uninjured driver radioed for help from his disabled car, and security officers from the nearby Jewish towns responded quickly. The attack occurred only 100 meters away from the spot where Ofrah teenager Erez Rund was murdered ten weeks ago. Israeli security forces know the murderer's identity, but he has yet to be apprehended. Several dozen residents of the Shilo-Eli area demonstrated at the site of last night's attack, demanding better protection from the army.
Slightly further north, another Israeli vehicle was hit by gunfire this afternoon near the Arab village of Luban el-Sharkiya. No one was hurt. Avi Vilensky and his wife Avital were murdered two weeks ago by terrorists from the same Arab village...

SOUTHERN WALL of Temple Mount IN DANGER
Is the southern wall of the Temple Mount safe? The Jordanians don't think so, and neither does Archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar of Hebrew University, a member of the Committee to Prevent the Destruction of Temple Mount artifacts. A Jordanian delegation arrived at the Temple Mount a few days ago to check the situation of the wall (that which stands to the right of worshippers at the Western Wall, visible to the right upon entry from Dung Gate) - but Dr. Mazar says that both the problem and its cause are obvious.
"What's the problem with the southern wall?" asked Arutz-7's Haggai Segal of Dr. Mazar.
"The problem is that it's about to fall," she responded, "within a matter of months, and possibly even weeks; I have trouble believing that it will last the entire winter. I am referring to the southern wall, at its eastern corner."
A-7: "Why is this?"
Mazar: "It's not hard to guess, actually. Precisely on the other side of the [bulge in the] wall is where the major works of destruction were carried out by the Waqf [the Moslem body that controls the Temple Mount] starting in 1996, when Netanyahu allowed them to build the largest mosque in the ancient site of Solomon's Stables, and the area was entirely changed. Tractors worked there, and tremendous quantities of fill - composed of ancient artifacts - were taken out. These walls were not built to carry tractors and loaded trucks. The path of the rainwater was also changed in the process, and water is trickling down the walls and eating away at them. The bulge can clearly be seen [not from the path to the Western Wall, because the view is blocked, but rather] from the road around the southeast corner of the Mount; if a year ago it was a 'fourth-month' bulge, now it looks like it's in its 'eighth month.' It is shocking, because it looks like it can fall on those standing below..."
Dr. Mazar said that the Jordanians and the Waqf are doing nothing about the problem except blaming Israel, nor is Israel able to do anything: "Jews are not allowed in to the Temple Mount... The Waqf has placed some scaffolding there to try to hold up the wall, but is doing no work there. Israel has stationed two policemen there to watch... The scaffolding itself is a joke; it's not strong enough to hold up the wall, and in fact, no scaffolding would be strong enough. The wall has to be taken down and rebuilt, that's the only thing that will help.
A-7: "Doesn't the Waqf care about this?"
Dr. Mazar: "The Waqf? The only thing it cares about is Islamicizing the Temple Mount, and absolutely nothing else. Let's not forget, in the past five years the Waqf has only been destroying there - their only goal is to build a mosque on the entire compound. They claim that the entire area is Moslem, and that it's always been that way, and that's it. Nothing else interests them - not the Jewish connections, not what Christianity says, not the cultural significance, and not the law... It's true that the massive destruction of the past few years has stopped of late, but on the other hand, Jews are not allowed in to ensure that under the surface nothing illegal is being done... We have absolutely no idea what's going on there under the surface. Prime Minister Sharon has no plan, and has simply decided not to decide. The only thing that will solve this problem is a public outcry against the continued destruction of the Temple Mount."

3. British 'force field' protects tanks by zapping grenades by Michael Smith
August 20, 2002
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By Michael Smith
LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH
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LONDON — An electric "force field" for armored vehicles that vaporizes anti-tank grenades and shells on impact has been developed by scientists at Britain's Ministry of Defense.
The "electric armor" has been developed in an attempt to make tanks and other armored vehicles lighter and less vulnerable to grenade launchers such as those used by Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan.
It could be fitted to the light tanks and armored personnel carriers (APCs) that will replace the heavy Challenger II tanks and Warrior APCs in one of the two British armored divisions.
The ubiquitous RPG-7, a rocket-propelled grenade, can be picked up for a mere $10 in many of the world's trouble spots and is capable of destroying a tank and killing its crew.
When the grenade hits the tank, its "shaped-charge" warhead fires a jet of hot copper into the target at about 1,000 mph. It is capable of penetrating more than a foot of conventional solid-steel armor.
The new electric armor is made up of a highly charged capacitor that is connected to two separate metal plates on the tank's exterior. The outer plate, which is bulletproof and made from an unspecified alloy, is grounded, and the insulated inner plate is live.
The electric armor runs off the tank's power supply. When the tank commander feels he is in a dangerous area, he simply switches on the current to the inner plate.
When the warhead fires its jet of molten copper, it penetrates both the outer plate and the insulation of the inner plate. This makes a connection, and thousands of amps of electricity vaporize most of the molten copper. The rest of the copper is dispersed harmlessly against the vehicle's hull.
Despite the high charge, the electrical load on the battery is no more than that caused by starting the engine on a cold morning.
In a recent demonstration of the electric armor for senior army officers, an APC protected by the new British system survived repeated attacks by rocket-propelled grenades that would typically have destroyed it several times over.
Many of the grenades were fired from point-blank range, but the only damage to the APC was cosmetic. The vehicle was driven away under its own power.
Professor John Brown of the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, which developed the "pulsed power system," said it was attracting a lot of interest from both the British Defense Ministry and the Pentagon.
With the easy availability of RPG-7 rocket launchers, "it only takes one individual on, say, a rooftop in a village to cause major damage or destroy passing armored vehicles," he said.

4. Abu Nidal's death from Hararetz

Iraq on Tuesday confirmed Abu Nidal's death, saying the feared Palestinian terrorist leader had committed suicide.

Baghdad's first official confirmation of his death came amid claims that Abu Nidal recently held talks with Saudi and Kuwaiti agents and that plans for an American attack on Iraq were found in his Baghdad apartment.

The claims, made on Tuesday by a senior Palestinian official in the West Bank city of Ramallah, were quickly rejected by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

But these reports and the murky circumstances surrounding Abu Nidal's death - he is said to have suffered several gunshot wounds - fueled speculation outside Iraq concerning his final days.

"Yes, I confirm his suicide and an official will give you full details on Wednesday," Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz told reporters on Tuesday without elaborating.

Palestinian media had reported Monday that the internationally-wanted Abu Nidal, 65, was found dead in his Baghdad flat. The Al-Ayyam newspaper in Ramallah reported he had apparently committed suicide. The Arabic news television network al- Jazeerah also said Abu Nidal was dead.

Quoting "well-informed Palestinian sources" they reported it was believed that an Iraqi force tried to arrest Abu Nidal, who then shot himself. However, the report did not exclude that the terrorist was murdered.

The Fatah Revolutionary Council split from Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1974 and is believed to be responsible for numerous terrorist attacks, killing or injuring almost 900 people.

Some sources believed Abu Nidal , whose original name was Sabri al- Banna, had been living in Iraq since the late 1980s, with reports in the past coming out that he was dead.

In another scenario, the Palestinian militant was said to have fled Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War for fear of capture by the United States.
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