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>Jerusalem, June 2, 2002
>
> An Open Letter to the Palestinians from an Agnostic
>
>Speaking Truth to the Powerless: An Open Letter To The
>People Commonly Called "Palestinians".
>
>Greetings to any Palestinian who may be reading this. My name is David
>White. I am a citizen of New Zealand, a small, Western, nominally Christian
>country in the South Pacific Ocean. I am not Jewish, or Christian, I guess
>I'm vaguely agnostic.
>
>Writing this letter is a good way for me to discuss the horrible mess in the
>Middle East, spell out as many relevant points as possible concerning the
>state of the Palestinian people, and to see what can be made of them I don't
>speak Arabic, so I can only communicate with English-speaking Palestinians.
>There aren't many here in NZ, though, and I haven't yet met any. I don't
>know how many will ever see these words, but, here's hoping someone does.
>
>I have a post-graduate university education, and I suppose I could be called
>an intellectual. Unfortunately, many such people have supported abhorrent
>ideologies such as Nazism, and continue to support Communism, so I refuse to
>describe myself in this way. I don't want to considered as just another
>"trendy leftie" academic, as we would say in NZ. So, unlike many
>university-educated types, I am anti-totalitarian, pro-peace up to a
>point,pro-democracy, pro-capitalism (except the capitalists running Enron),
>and skeptical about the "cult of victimhood." I'm quite safe here in New
>Zealand, and no-one I know has been killed by a Palestinian.
>
>My perspective of Palestinians is something like this - you're Arabs (of
>course), mostly Muslim, but with a Christian minority. Many of you live
>outside Gaza/West Bank, mostly in Jordan and other Muslim countries, with
>some groups living in Western countries as well. You feel that you have been
>wronged by Israel and are fighting to destroy them.
>
>As for my perspective on Israel, I see them like this. They are a mainly
>Jewish, small, free-market democracy with a large Arab minority surrounded
>by hostile Arab dictatorships. They have an ancestral claim to Israel, their
>state was created as a refuge from persecution, they have a right to exist,
>and, having survived a holocaust in Europe, they should not have to sit
>still and wait for another one in the Middle East.
>
>A Down Under Overview.
>Over the last few months, the conflict in the disputed territories of Gaza
>and the West Bank has turned into a war between the Palestinian people and
>Israel. (I will not apologise for using the term "disputed", as I believe it
>reflects a rather complicated situation more accurately than "occupied").
>
>Your interpretation, as far as I can tell, seems to be something like this:
>You have no state of your own, and you are fighting a war against those you
>call "Zionist oppressors" and "colonial imperialists", in order to create a
>Palestinian state. Accusations of massacre and human rights violations by
>the Israeli Army are being tossed around like confetti. Your leader, Yasser
>Arafat, vows to "martyr" himself rather than "surrender", and that bungling
>and incompetent organization, the United Nations (again, no apologies for
>venting personal opinions), is trying to do what it is constitutionally
>incapable of doing, i.e. "saving future generations from the scourge of
>war".
>
>The Israelis see things differently, of course. For them, it's a simple
>battle for survival. They offered you a state, and you attacked them
>instead. They have occupied Palestinian towns, have fought it out with
>various armed groups, and desperate attempts are being made by the US, other
>Arab countries and the UN to break the so-called "cycle of violence". As a
>result, the Palestinian situation at the moment generally, can be explained
>by putting it into New Zealand idiom.
>
>Put bluntly, the Palestinian people are buggered. Munted. Stuffed. Rooted.
>(American equivalent=screwed. British equivalent: done over). It's like
>this: Yasser Arafat turned down the Israeli offer of a Palestinian homeland
>in Gaza and the West Bank. You want, or Arafat claims that you want, a
>Palestine "from the river to the sea;" in other words, "all or nothing".
>
>There is one insuperable obstacle to this- Israel. No matter how eloquent
>your arguments or numerous your martyrs, no matter how many European
>diplomats are angered by, or UN resolutions are passed against, Israel, the
>Israelis are not going to pack up and leave. The only way you will get the
>Palestinian state you want is to destroy Israel.
>
>This is what you have been trying to do since 1948, and the current
>"intifada" launched in 2000 is your latest effort. However, the Israelis are
>not standing there and letting you kill them. They are fighting back, and if
>they have to choose between their own survival and yours, guess which choice
>they'll make.
>
>A Vast Wringing Of Hands, A Great Fluttering Of Diplomats. That has been the
>overall response to the disaster you have created for yourselves. You, the
>Palestinian Arabs, are obviously hoping for some kind of international
>intervention to save you. As we in New Zealand would say, "Get Real!".
>
>The European Union and the UN have demonstrated on numerous occasions in the
>past their incompetence and total incapacity to take any sort of firm action
>without American leadership. Ask your Muslim brothers of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
>about how effective the EU and the UN were in protecting them without
>American intervention. In spite of the impression that American diplomatic
>efforts have created, the US will not take sides against Israel, and will
>eventually abandon its futile attempts at evenhandedness. If they do join
>forces militarily with Israel in their war against terrorism, your fighters
>will be snuffed out like candle flames.
>
>As for your "beloved Arab brothers" in the Middle East, they make a great
>deal of noise about your "liberation struggle", and have sent money and
>arms, but have not sent a single tank to save you. Their diplomatic
>proposals are ones that could have been offered at any time, and are aimed
>at benefiting them, not Palestinians.The Egyptians themselves will not
>declare war on Israel unless they receive $100 billion to cover their costs.
>
>
>Do you really believe that the rest of your Arab Muslim brothers think you
>are worth that much? Do you really believe they will put your interests
>ahead of their own? Although your friends and Arabs in Europe are passing
>sanctions and burning synagogues in your support, not a single EU warship
>has sailed to your aid, and not a single NATO aircraft has dropped a single
>bomb on your "Zionist oppressors".
>
>I have noted that large numbers of people, including university educated
>intellectuals support the Palestinian cause. Don't be misled by this. No
>matter how many western intellectuals, news media and international
>organisations may support the Palestinian struggle, none of this matters
>because America stands by Israel.
>
>The Unbearable Burden of Life
>How did you get into such a mess? As you yourselves would say and have
>indeed said on many occasions, it isn't your fault. It's always the "Great
>Satan" America, and it's "Lesser Satan", Israel, that you blame for all your
>woes. Everything that you do, such as your "martyrdom operations", are
>described as the products of your "rage" at being "dispossessed of your
>land", and of your "helplessness" in the face of "Zionist" might.
>
>There are only 300 million Arabs against over 5 million Jews! How unfair!
>How unjust, that so many can do so little against so few!
>
>A number of Western commentators have put Arab failures down to numerous
>cultural factors, not the least being Islam. Your religious beliefs in
>martyrdom and jihad, coupled with a total inability to accept any blame for
>your own predicament, have combined to do you great and lasting damage.
>
>Look closely at why Western countries such as Israel have succeeded, and
>Muslim countries have not. Western countries are free-market democracies.
>Muslim countries (other than Turkey) aren't. Surely that should tell you
>something.
>
>Why I Stand.
>As I said, I do not, and I will not, support the Palestinian cause. Why not?
>I have a number of reasons, and here they are:
>
>1. You have made it clear beyond any shadow of doubt that you intend to
>destroy Israel and kill or drive out its Jewish population. This is
>genocide, pure and simple. You justify this by saying that Israel has
>committed many crimes against your people, and that you seek "justice". I
>say this in response- NOTHING WHATSOEVER is an acceptable justification for
>genocide. Loss of land, humiliation at being militarily defeated - others
>have suffered these and moved on to create new nations and opportunities for
>themselves.
>
>Examples abound- the Germans thrown out of East Prussia in Europe, 1945, the
>Nationalist Chinese who fled to Taiwan in 1949, to name but two. Germans and
>Taiwanese have coped with military defeat and the loss of land. They haven't
>warred with their neighbours, nor have they launched terrorist attacks upon
>them. Both countries have more wealth than any Arab nation. Why can't
>Palestinians cope? Are Germans and Chinese better able to deal with
>adversity than Arabs?
>
>2. You have accused the Israelis of "genocide" against you. Here's a
>question for you: Israel has atomic bombs and powerful military forces. If
>they really, truly wanted you all dead, they could easily do it. Why haven't
>they? If the Israelis went all-out, you would be, as we say in New Zealand,
>"dog tucker". Why did they spend so much time negotiating with your leaders?
>Because Israel wants peace and secure borders. You refuse to give them even
>those. You plan genocide and accuse Israel of the same crime. Prove it!
>
>3. The use of terrorism. Killing people for being Jewish is despicable.
>Terrorist attacks on innocent civilians are also despicable. (At this point,
>I'd like to pause and get a question of nomenclature cleared up, regarding
>those Palestinians who kill themselves and others with explosives strapped
>to their bodies. You call them "martyrs". Western media sources and
>academics debate the precise term to use in describing them. Others,
>including the Israelis, call them terrorists.
>
>I have a better, more appropriate term. I prefer to use the word
>"kamikazes". The original kamikazes appeared in 1944, in the war in the
>Pacific. They were Japanese Navy and Army pilots,organised into "Special
>Attack Units" with orders to crash their planes into American warships, in
>the hope of destroying them - "one plane, one ship". Their initial impact
>was similar to that of the Al-Quaeda attacks on New York and the Pentagon-
>shock and horror. (I noted that many Palestinians appeared on Western TV
>celebrating the September attacks). Note: The American response, in both
>cases was not the one hoped for.
>
>Once the shock had worn off, the US set out to destroy the kamikazes, and
>terrible destruction was rained down on Japan, ending only with 2 atomic
>bombs. You know what is happening right now in Afghanistan to the Al-Quaeda
>group).
>
>4. Using children as suicide bombers. Anyone who teaches children to kill
>themselves in suicide attacks is not worth supporting under any
>circumstances. For you to do this to your children is an abomination. A
>commentator on a Web magazine said that if the Palestinians laid down their
>arms, they would get peace and land. If the Israelis laid down their arms,
>they would be killed. You know that is true, even if most of Europe doesn't.
>Your cause is evil, because it seeks destruction at any price. Genocide is
>not justice. Sacrificing your own children for the sake of your leader's
>personal ambitions is wicked.
>
>That's why I cannot support you. That's why I stand with Israel.
>
>Palestinian Past or Future?
>
>The Second World War in Europe ended with Hitler's suicide. He was replaced
>by Admiral Doenitz who quickly made peace with the Allies. Japan's leader,
>Emperor Hirohito, decided on surrender rather than see his nation destroyed.
>
>
>If Arafat chooses surrender, though, will the rest of the Palestinians go
>along with it? If he dies, will the war end? If the answer to both of these
>questions is No, then the Palestinian people are doomed. Do you really
>prefer death as a people? Do you fully comprehend what you are doing? If you
>are indeed aware that the path you have embarked on leads to destruction,
>and if you have freely chosen to walk in that direction, then as a people
>you are truly beyond hope.
>
>Are Palestinians really going to be a "Kamikaze Nation"? Are you really
>going to give Israel no other option except your destruction? If they must
>choose, then as Israeli historian Martin Van Creveld said, "better a
>terrible end than terror without end".
>
>Do not think that kamikaze tactics can get you what you want. The Israelis
>can tell you all about Masada, if you ask them. Remember what happened to
>the Japanese at places like Okinawa and Iwo Jima. Palestinians deserve
>better than the current mess you are in now - but before you can be given
>anything, you must offer a sincere peace, you must stop teaching your
>children to hate, you must stop believing that "victimhood" justifies
>everything and - above all other things - GIVE UP ISRAEL! Accept that you
>will never go there again except perhaps as workers or tourists. Accept that
>Jews are human beings. Accept the verdict of 1948 and learn to live with it.
>
>
>Invest in banks, not bombs. Build computer chips, not Kalashnikovs. Teach
>science and mathematics, not hate. Look to the future, not the past. Stop
>blaming Americans and Jews for all your problems, and take responsibility
>for your own actions. Read those parts in the Quran about living with the
>"peoples of the Book".
>
>Golda Meir, the former Israeli Prime minister, is quoted as saying " there
>will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children
>more than they hate Israel ". Every time I see pictures of Palestinian
>children waving guns and wearing dummy explosives, then I can only say she
>is right. The alternative to peace is not victory but death.
>
>Think about it- before it's too late.
>
>From an Infidel to Those Who Submit, and are living in the Holy Land - May
>God grant you steadfastness in the face of things that cannot be changed,
>the capacity to cope with those that can be changed, and the wisdom and the
>ability to tell the difference.
>
>David White
>Auckland, New Zealand

2002-05-09T12:38:00.000-07:00

THE HOT ITEM OF THE DAY

Dear Friends,

I am sure that you are all interested in seeing the documents which
link Arafat and senior Palestinian Authority Officials to terror against
Israel, corruption and crime. Below, I have attached a link regarding the
involvement of Arafat in terrorism against Israel.

Click http://www.israelemb.org/articals/embassy-briefing/2002/May/2002050601.html

You can download the file into a WORD document for easy viewing.

Best regards,
>
>Press Officer
>Consulate General of Israel

2002-05-09T08:19:00.000-07:00

A View From Dennis Miller:

A brief overview of the situation is always valuable, so as a service to all Americans who still don't get it, I now offer you the story of the Middle East in just a few paragraphs, which is all you really need. Don't thank me. I'm a giver. Here we go:

The Palestinians want their own country. There's just one thing about that:

There are no Palestinians. It's a made up word. Israel was called Palestine for two thousand years. Like "Wiccan," "Palestinian" sounds ancient but is really a modern invention. Before the Israelis won the land in war, Gaza was owned by Egypt, and there were no "Palestinians" then, and the West Bank was owned by Jordan, and there were no "Palestinians" then. As soon as the Jews took over and started growing oranges as big as basketballs, what do you know, say hello to the "Palestinians," weeping for their deep bond with their lost "land" and "nation." So for the sake of honesty, let's not use the word "Palestinian" any more to describe these delightful folks, who dance for joy at our deaths until someone points out they're being taped.

Instead, let's call them what they are: "Other Arabs Accomplish Anything In Life And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal Struggle And Death." I know that's a bit unwieldy to expect to see on CNN.

How about this, then: "Adjacent Jew-Haters."

Okay, so the Adjacent Jew-Haters want their own country. Oops, just one
more thing. No, they don't. They could've had their own country any time in the last thirty years, especially two years ago at Camp David. But if you have your own country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage trucks and Chambers of Commerce, and, worse, you actually have to figure out some way to make a living. That's no fun. No, they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the region want: Israel. They also want a big pile of dead Jews, of course-that's where the real fun is-but mostly they want Israel.

Why? For one thing, trying to destroy Israel-or "The Zionist Entity" as
their textbooks call it-for the last fifty years has allowed the rulers of Arab countries to divert the attention of their own people away from the fact that they're the blue-ribbon most illiterate, poorest, and tribally backward on God's Earth, and if you've ever been around God's Earth, you know that's really saying something. It makes me roll my eyes every time one of our pundits waxes poetic about the great history and culture of the Muslim Mideast. Unless I'm missing something, the Arabs haven't given anything to the world since Algebra, and, by the way, thanks a hell of a lot for that one.

Chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred million Arabs; five million Jews. Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and Israel as a pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks swearthat if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone will be pals. Really? Wow, what neat news. Hey, but what about the string of wars to obliterate the tiny country and the constant din of rabid blood oaths to drive every Jew into the sea? Oh, that? We were just kidding.

My friend Kevin Rooney made a gorgeous point the other day: Just reverse
the numbers. Imagine five hundred million Jews and five million Arabs. I
was stunned at the simple brilliance of it. Can anyone picture the Jews
strapping belts of razor blades and dynamite to themselves? Of course not. Or marshalling every fiber and force at their disposal for generations to drive a tiny Arab state into the sea? Nonsense. Or dancing for joy at the murder of innocents? Impossible. Or spreading and believing horrible lies about the Arabs baking their bread with the blood of children? Disgusting.

No, as you know, left to themselves in a world of peace, the worst Jews
would ever do to people is debate them to death.

Mr. Bush, God bless him, is walking a tightrope. I understand that with
vital operations coming up against Iraq and others, it's in our interest, as Americans, to try to stabilize our Arab allies as much as possible, and, after all, that can't be much harder than stabilizing a roomful of supermodels who've just had their drugs taken away. However, in any big-picture strategy, there's always a danger of losing moral weight. We've already lost some. After September 11 our president told us and the world he was going to root out all terrorists and the countries that supported them. Beautiful. Then the Israelis, after months and months of having the equivalent of an Oklahoma City every week (and then every day) start to do the same thing we did, and we tell them to show restraint. If America were being attacked with an Oklahoma City every day, we would all very shortly be screaming for the administration to just be done with it and kill everything south of the Mediterranean and east of the Jordan. (Hey, wait a minute, that's actually not such a bad id . . . uh, that is, what a horrible thought, yeah, horrible.)

2002-05-09T08:12:00.000-07:00

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. RISHON CASUALTIES CLIMB TO 15
2. PA CONDEMNS "TIMING" OF THE ATTACK
3. MIRACLE AT MEGIDDO
4. SHARON ACCUSES: "THOSE WHO INCITE - ARE GUILTY!"
5. CALLS FOR GAZA ANTI-TERROR OFFENSIVE IN GAZA
6. SURPRISE: UN CONDEMNS ISRAEL
7. ITALY UNDER PRESSURE TO ACCEPT TERRORISTS
8. NEW PHONE RATES
9. READERS AGAINST N.Y. TIMES
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1. RISHON CASUALTIES CLIMB TO 15
Fifteen people were killed last night in the Sheffield Club suicide
slaughter in Rishon LeTzion. Over 50 people were wounded, including 12 in
critical and serious condition in four Tel Aviv-area hospitals. Of these,
two died in the hospital this morning, while 19 of the injured Israelis
have already been released.

A Palestinian suicide terrorist entered the club and detonated a powerful
explosive device on the top floor of a three-story building in the new
industrial zone of Rishon LeTzion, Israel's fourth-largest city, south of
Tel Aviv. Arutz-7's Ofrah Lax reported that the suitcase carried by the
terrorist held hundreds of nuts and bolts that shot forth like bullets when
the blast went off, causing many of the injuries and deaths. "The scenes
here are particularly gruesome," she said, "and some people were blown out
the window and found dead on the ground. There are many foreign reporters
here, and they are totally shocked by the difficult scenes they are
seeing." The building was evacuated this afternoon, for fear that it would
collapse totally.

The police say that the club was operating without a license and, in
violation of emergency regulations, did not station an armed guard outside
the entrance. The Hamas terror organization claimed responsibility for the
attack. Deputy Defense Minister Dalia Rabin-Pilosof said that the Defense
Ministry believes that the terrorist came from Gaza.

The process of identification of the bodies is long and complex, and thus
far the names of only nine of the victims have been released. They are:
Penina Hikri, 60, of Tel Aviv;
Shoshana Magmari, 51, Tel Aviv, survived by her husband, three children,
and five grandchildren;
Anat Termeforush, 36, Ashdod, survived by her husband, who was wounded, and
three children;
Chaim Rafael, 64, Tel Aviv;
Rassan Sharouk, 60, Holon, immigrated from France at age 17, survived by
wife and four children;
Dalia Meisa, 56, Rishon LeTzion, survived by a daughter;
Nir Lovton, 26, Rishon LeTzion, survived by his wife who is pregnant with
twins;
Avi Beiz, 26, Nes Tziona;
Rachamim Kimchi, 58, Rishon LeTzion.

Six of the victims were buried today.

2. PA CONDEMNS "TIMING" OF THE ATTACK
CNN and other world media repeatedly reported that the Palestinian
Authority had "strongly condemned" the attack. In fact, however, the PA
statement mainly emphasized the attack's bad "timing" and its negative
"public relations" value, but said nothing about the shedding of innocent
blood. The statement read,
"The Palestinian leadership strongly condemns the violent attack against
Israeli civilians in a public hall in Rishon LeTzion. The timing of this
dangerous attack against Israeli civilians at a time when Sharon meets with
the American president is aimed at supporting Sharon's claims it is
impossible to make peace with the Palestinian people. And to stamp our
people with terrorism and to excuse Sharon and his government from spilling
Palestinian blood in the Jenin refugee camp and all of the areas, cities,
camps and villages that did not stop until this hour... And we will not go
easy with these groups that commit these operations that harm our people
and our cause severely.. These attacks will allow Sharon to be armed with
all the excuses to launch this bloody destructive war against our masses...
The leadership declares clearly its rejection and condemnation of these
attacks and considers the groups that are launching them to be working
against the interest of the Palestinian people, that it needs to rapidly
limit it from harming the Palestinian cause and the national destiny, and
to block the path of these terrorist crimes that our people pay the price
for."

3. MIRACLE AT MEGIDDO
The Oslo War refuses to end. At the Megiddo Junction, ten kilometers west
of Afula, a would-be suicide killer this afternoon managed to detonate his
bomb but nothing more; no one was hurt, and even he survived the explosion
with only moderate injuries. "We are happy to announce that a great
catastrophe was averted today," said Northern Police Chief Yaakov
Borochov. "If the 8-10 kilogram explosive and its fragments had exploded
inside a closed bus, it would have caused terribly heavy
damage." Investigators look forward to interrogating the terrorist, as
they expect to garner much information about his handlers and the terrorist
infrastructure behind the attack.

Following the arrest yesterday of 43 wanted and suspected terrorists, the
IDF continued similar actions today, arresting 22 terrorist fugitives in
various Arab villages. A ready-to-explode bomb was found in one of the
locations... Near Tul Karem, two fugitives and three other terrorists were
arrested... IDF forces arrested nine terrorist suspects in a Jericho-area
village, where they also found arms, ammunition, and incitement literature?

Hizbullah terrorists again fired anti-aircraft shells in the area of
Kibbutz Manara and the Galilee Panhandle on Israel's northern
border. Shrapnel fell in the region, but no one was hurt.

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4. SHARON ACCUSES: "THOSE WHO INCITE - ARE GUILTY!"
Prime Minister Sharon met with US President George Bush for over an hour
yesterday in the Oval Office of the White House - without knowledge of the
Rishon LeTzion massacre, as reflected by their smiling demeanor at a joint
press conference. Bush announced that he would be sending CIA Director
George Tenet to the region to design and construct what he called a
"unified [Palestinian] security force that will be transparent and held
accountable [for controlling terror]." He repeatedly stressed the
necessity for the PA to have one command structure and not separate
factions, as is the case now. He also adopted Sharon's stance regarding
the importance of making reforms throughout the PA, including establishing
a PA constitution, improving the healthcare system, and setting up a
corruption-free treasury department.

President Bush repeatedly used the word 'Palestine' during the press
conference, as if such a nation were already in existence. Prime Minister
Sharon, on the other hand, seemed to distance himself from statements he
made in recent weeks calling for the establishment of a Palestinian
state. He said that the topic did not arise in his talk with Bush, as the
time was "not yet ripe" discuss it. Sharon confirmed that Bush asked him
to freeze new housing for residents of Judea and Samaria, to which the
Prime Minister responded that the future of the Yesha settlement enterprise
would be discussed at the final stage of the negotiations.

Ittim correspondent Yoram Levy adds that Bush didn't take a stand in the
dispute between National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice (who has implied
that there is no room for Arafat in future arrangements) and U.S. Secretary
of State Colin Powell (who emphasizes that Arafat is the PA's chosen
leader). When asked whether or not Sharon should negotiate with Arafat,
Bush said only, "I am never going to tell my friend, the Prime Minister,
what to do? He [Sharon] is a democratically-elected leader."

When Prime Minister Sharon was informed of the murderous Arab attack on
Israeli civilians in Rishon LeTzion, he decided to cancel the New York leg
of his trip and return to Israel. He had time only to place the blame
squarely on Yasser Arafat:
"Those who call for millions of martyrs, are guilty! Those who constantly
incite are guilty! Those who fund terrorism are guilty! Those who launch
terrorism are guilty! Guilty!"

Sharon said that the expulsion of Arafat was under consideration, adding
that Israel could not continue a peace process with a "corrupt terrorist
entity," and, "We will kill those who come to kill us."

Upon arrival in Israel this evening, Prime Minister Sharon will immediately
convene the security cabinet at a military base near Ben Gurion
International Airport. "He was originally planning to first convene the
coalition party leaders," correspondent Levy said, "but he changed his
mind, and will instead convene the security cabinet, whose decisions have
legal status - a signal that a military offensive can be expected."

5. CALLS FOR GAZA ANTI-TERROR OFFENSIVE IN GAZA
Calls are increasing in the political echelons for a continuation to
Operation Defensive Shield and a military anti-terrorism offensive in
Gaza. These are apparently due to increasing attempted terrorist
infiltrations into Jewish towns in Gaza, as well as last night's mortar
attack on Gush Katif - a shell landed in a house, but miraculously caused
no injuries to the family inside. In addition, last night's Rishon LeTzion
slaughter is believed to have been perpetrated by an Arab from Gaza.

Many government ministers are now in favor of an offensive in Gaza, and
even Prime Minister Sharon hinted that this might be Israel's next
step. "Operation Defensive Shield was just the beginning," Public Security
Minister Uzi Landau said last night. Joining the chorus were Minister
Rabbi Yitzchak Levy, MK Michael Kleiner, and others.

6. SURPRISE: UN CONDEMNS ISRAEL
Shortly after the news of the Rishon slaughter became known last night, the
UN General Council condemned Israel regarding the Jenin battles. The vote
was 74-4, with 51 abstentions. Israel, the U.S., the Marshall Islands, and
Micronesia voted against the condemnation, while all the European Union
countries were among those that abstained.

7. ITALY UNDER PRESSURE TO ACCEPT TERRORISTS
Italy is coming under heavy diplomatic pressure to agree to take in 13
wanted Palestinian terrorists. Italy's hesitation, and the absence of any
other state willing to take its place, is currently holding up an agreement
to end the five-week-old standoff around the Church of the Nativity in
Bethlehem.

The crisis began when armed and wanted Palestinian terrorists used the
church, at the beginning of April, to evade Israeli troops and hold dozens
of Christian clergymen as hostages. Some of the nearly 100 people who
managed to exit the church over the past weeks told of vandalism caused by
the Arab gunmen to church property. However, CNN reported that church
managers said that they would not allow journalists to enter and document
the damage, as "Bethlehem is largely a Moslem city, and we have to continue
living here with them."

In the past days, Israeli and PA negotiators finalized an agreement
according to which the hostages and other non-terrorists would go free,
some terrorists would be sent to Gaza, and 13 of the most heavily-wanted
terrorists would be deported to Italy. The 13 include:
* Mahmoud Tirawi, a PLO intelligence official from Shechem who escaped to
the Bethlehem church at the beginning of Operation Defensive Shield. He is
wanted for organizing shooting attacks at Gilo, smuggling arms, building
explosives, and giving shelter to terrorists.
* Wallah Salameh from Dehaishe, who was involved in planning the Beit
Yisrael post-Bar Mitzvah massacre (10 killed) and the Kiryat HaYovel
supermarket attack (2 killed).
* Mahmoud Hamdan, who was behind the murders of Lt.-Col. Yehuda Edri, Sarit
Amrani, and American citizen Avi Boaz. Coincidentally, Riad al-Amour,
another of those involved in the murder of Lt.-Col. Edri, was arrested
yesterday near Bethlehem.
* Kamal Hamid, Fatah secretary in Bethlehem, funded various attacks and
weapons purchases.
* Ibrahim Abeyat, Hamas leader.
* Ibrahim Hamoud, who sent two terrorists to commit a failed attack at
Jerusalem's Binyanei HaUmah.
* Abu Gal'if, responsible for many attacks and shootings in the Tunnels
Road area.
* According to some reports, two others of the 13 perpetrated the brutal
lynching of Kobi Mandell and Yosef Ishran outside Tekoa last year.

The Supreme Court today rejected a suit by the Terror Victims Association
(TVA) demanding that the terrorists not be allowed to leave the country
without being tried. TVA supported its demand on several grounds:
* The decision is a life-threatening one, as experience shows that released
terrorists return to terrorist activity;
* The murderers of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi are being incarcerated
in Jericho, while these 13 are being sent to vacation in Italy; "Is
Minister Ze'evi's blood redder than that of simple citizens?" asked TVA.
* What will happen if they kill Jews in Italy, as they say they will? Will
Israel then ask for their return-extradition to Israel?
* It's not a punishment, but rather a vacation.

Counsel for the State, however, argued that the issue is diplomatic, not
legal, and therefore not justiciable. Chief Justice Barak signaled that he
was taking the suit seriously by asking if Attorney-General Elyakim
Rubenstein had approved the deal - but in the end, the Court ruled that the
issue was in fact not in their purview. TVA Chairman Meir Indor said
afterwards, "The Supreme Court made a painful statement today,
discriminating between one petitioner and another."

8. NEW PHONE RATES
Starting this coming Tuesday, Israel's phone rates will undergo a major
overhaul, designed to make things easier - but not necessarily
cheaper. Bezek, Israel's phone company, will render the entire country one
"charge zone," and there will no longer be "long-distance" or "local"
calls. All calls will be charged at a uniform rate: 14 agorot per minute
during the day, between 7 AM and 7 PM, and 2.5 agorot during the
night. The new day rate replaces a 26-agorot/minute charge for inter-city
calls and 9 for local calls. The minimum charge for these calls will be
22.5 agorot.

Peninah Shenhav, Sales and Marketing Deputy Director for Bezek, explained
to Arutz-7 that the main purpose of the overhaul is not to make more money
for Bezek - "it will not be more profitable for us" - but rather to
simplify the system of charges for most customers: "We wish to make it
easier for people to realize that it is cheaper to use Bezek than to use
cellphones." She admitted that people with "very irregular calling habits,
such as those who make mainly local calls and mainly during the day" will
end up paying more, but "this is very abnormal, and we hardly have any
customers like that." Shenhav also noted that light-usage customers are
entitled to special discounts.

9. READERS AGAINST N.Y. TIMES
It's "The New York Times vs. Israel." So at least is how some pro-Israel
readers of the paper see it, and have started a massive campaign
() to make their gripes known. Claiming a
long pattern of anti-Israeli reporting in the paper, the organizers are
asking readers to stop their subscriptions for at least one month, starting
tomorrow.

"With Israel fighting for its very survival," begins one of their ads, "we
are witness to shockingly biased reporting by most of the world's media
organizations - The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, New York Sun and
Fox News being notable exceptions? The New York Times may not be the worst
offender but it is certainly the most influential?" The ad accuses the
paper of using headlines and photographs to elicit sympathy for suffering
Palestinians, while failing to do the same for Israeli victims of
Palestinian terrorism, and of inadequately reporting Palestinian
intransigence, corruption, and its "murderous dictatorship." The ad
directs readers to for an "independent study documenting
recent New York Times coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict."

A similar one-day cancellation campaign was undertaken last week, and
another ten-day campaign was held last year. Readers of the Los Angeles
Times, as well, have started a campaign to boycott that paper for two days,
starting tomorrow. They cite the success of their previous one-day
campaign last month, when 1,000 people called in to cancel - for one day -
their LA Times subscriptions.

It was noted that Sunday's Salute to Israel Parade in New York City drew
700-800,000 people, as well as 600 pro-Arab protestors - yet The New York
Times ran a front-page photo only of an anti-Israel poster held by one of
the latter. The Times itself apparently realized its error and published
the following "correction" the next day:
"An article yesterday about a parade in Manhattan marking Israel's 54th
anniversary reported that 100,000 people had registered to march and
hundreds of thousands more lined Fifth Avenue in support. The article also
said that anti-Israel protesters numbered in the hundreds.
"A front-page photograph, however, showed the parade in the background,
with anti-Israel protesters prominent in the foreground, holding a placard
that read, "End Israeli Occupation of Palestine." Inside the newspaper, a
photo of a pro-Israel marcher was outweighed by a larger picture of
protesters, one waving a sign that likened Zionism to Nazism.
"Although the editors' intent in each case was to note the presence of
opposing sides, the effect was disproportionate. In fairness the total
picture presentation should have better reflected The Times's reporting on
the scope of the event, including the disparity in the turnouts."

10. RECOMMENDATIONS TO SEPARATE SOME MEN AND WOMEN COMBAT SOLDIERS
The Tal Committee, headed by Gen. Ron Tal, was appointed several months ago
to investigate the integration of women soldiers in combat units in light
of religious soldiers' demands not to be placed in situations that might
compromise their religious convictions. It plans to publicize its
conclusions shortly, but in the meantime Ma'ariv newspaper provides a
glimpse into some of them. The committee will reportedly recommend that
religious soldiers not be forced to serve in a unit with women soldiers,
that sports counselors be obligated to be full dressed, and that no soldier
may be forced to engage in activity that might involve physical contact
between the genders.

Hebrew News Editor: Ariel Kahane
English News Editor: Hillel Fendel

2002-05-09T08:09:00.000-07:00

May. 9, 2002
Palestinians in Lebanon cheer news of Rishon bombing
By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF

Hamas followers in Ein al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp responded with cheers after hearing reports of the suicide bombing near Tel Aviv that resulted in the deaths of 15 Israelis, the Beirut-based Daily Star reported.

Cars equipped with loud-speakers toured Ein al-Hilweh broadcasting news of the attack alongside popular marches. Candy and Arabic sweets were handed out to passing motorists and students to celebrate Tuesday's attack.

One Palestinian refugee shouted during the celebration: "Long live Hamas - it is our only salvation."

Meanwhile, in the neighboring Sidon fruit and vegetable market, television screens were provided in order to keep the market's customers on top of "the latest reports on the successful operation."

2002-05-09T08:07:00.000-07:00

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. ITALY BACKS OUT OF BETHLEHEM AGREEMENT
2. SHARON MAY AGREE TO PLO STATE
3. OBJECTIONS TO A PLO STATE
4. TERRORIST ATTACKS THWARTED IN TUL KAREM
5. SHOMRON AREA IN DANGER
6. U.S. BACKS OUT OF INT'L COURT AGREEMENT
7. DIMONA RELIGIOUS SERVICES - ON STRIKE
8. CELEBRATING JERUSALEM DAY IN ISRAEL AND AROUND THE WORLD

1. ITALY BACKS OUT OF BETHLEHEM AGREEMENT
Israel and the Palestinian Authority have reached an agreement on an
arrangement to end the Bethlehem Church of Nativity standoff - but now
Italy is holding it up. Thirteen wanted terrorists, part of a group that
has been holding 70 Christian clergymen hostage in the church for the past
five weeks, were to be deported to Italy, but Italy now says that it was
not consulted on the details of the plan. The agreement also stipulates
that the other terrorists using the church for refuge will be transported
to Gaza. An IDF Spokesman said this afternoon that the deal will be
implemented as soon as a third country is found that is ready to take in
the terrorists, who are responsible for the murder of many Israelis.

The municipalities of Gaza Coast and Sderot are not upset about the delay
in the agreement. They made a last-minute plea to Defense Minister
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer this morning, asking him not to allow the terrorists
into Gaza, which is "overflowing with terrorists as it is." The Yesha
(Judea, Samaria and Gaza) Communities Council has also come out against the
agreement, which it says represents a way for the government to "exempt
itself from its decision to dismantle the terrorist infrastructures."

Among the 13 terrorists scheduled for deportation are Mahmoud Hamdan, who
was behind the murders of Lt.-Col. Yehuda Edri, Sarit Amrani, and American
citizen Avi Boaz. Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that two others of the 13
are apparently those who carried out the brutal lynching of Kobi Mandell
and Yosef Ishran outside Tekoa last year. Coincidentally, Riad al-Amour,
another of those involved in the murder of Lt.-Col. Edri, was arrested
today near Bethlehem.

2. SHARON MAY AGREE TO PLO STATE
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will inform U.S. President George Bush today
that he agrees to the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of an
interim agreement - but that its exact borders will be negotiated in the
framework of a final-status agreement. He is aware that this will earn him
the wrath of many political supporters back at home (see next article), but
reportedly told aides that he expects the PA to turn down this offer as well.

Sharon was to meet first today with US National Security Advisor Condoleeza
Rice, who agrees with his "get tough on Arafat" approach. Education
Minister Limor Livnat, accompanying Sharon in Washington, met with
reporters today on this issue, and later related that some of the reporters
demanded to know by what right Israel claims to determine the fate of "the
democratically-elected Palestinian leader." Livnat said,
"I answered that there is absolutely no comparison between the so-called
democracy in the Palestinian Authority, where the only elections were held
many years ago - I don't even remember if anyone ran against Arafat - and
the democracy in Israel or the United States. We have a rule of law, free
press, etc., whereas the PA does not. I reminded the questioner that
Romania's dictator Ceausescu was also 'democratically' elected..."

Prime Minister Sharon will reportedly reject the Saudi "peace" proposal,
and will present President Bush with documents proving that the Saudis
allocated tens of millions of dollars for suicide attacks against
Israel. Ittim News Agency's Yoram Levy, speaking from Washington, told
Arutz-7 today that the Saudi Arabian issue "is a hot topic here. There was
widespread coverage of the Israeli evidence showing that the Saudis paid
for suicide killers. It is a sensitive issue, in light of recent
revelations of the Saudi involvement with Al Qaeda together with their
attempt to be portrayed as peace-loving?"

3. OBJECTIONS TO A PLO STATE
The Likud Central Committee will convene this Sunday in Tel Aviv, and first
on the agenda will be the issue of opposition to establishing a new
Palestinian state. The debate, coming on the heels of a decision this past
January by the smaller Likud Board to oppose such a state, is seen as a
challenge to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Sharon has stated his support
numerous times for a limited Palestinian state.

Moshe Feiglin, who heads the Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) faction
in the Likud, warns that Sharon will try to get the party to pass a
"compromise" resolution stating that "a Palestinian state is not on the
agenda at the moment." Feiglin adamantly rejects this:
"The meaning of this suggestion is that the idea of a Palestinian state is
fundamentally correct and appropriate, and all that remains is to find the
right time to implement it. We hope that the Central Committee members who
strongly object to a Palestinian state will not fall into this trap, and we
will do all we can in order to ensure that they are aware of this?"

Other opponents of a Palestinian state cite Yasser Arafat's own Fatah
website , which states, "A legitimate
Palestinian entity forms the most important weapon that Arabs have against
Israel." The article, an editorial in honor of Fatah's 37th anniversary,
implies clearly that the PLO has "current" goals and "next-stage" goals:
"[T]he specified goals of the current stage... are the liberation of the
1967-occupied territories, the establishment of a Palestinian state with
Jerusalem as its capital, the implementation of the right of return, and
the removal of the Israeli settlements."

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4. TERRORIST ATTACKS THWARTED IN TUL KAREM
Israeli forces entered Tul Karem - a PA-controlled city on the western edge
of the autonomous areas, east of Netanya - for the third time in as many
days last night. However, whereas the other two entries were for the
purpose of encircling a densely-populated neighborhood known for harboring
terrorists, the purpose this time was to round up wanted Palestinian
fugitives. Some 43 suspects were arrested by the time the forces left this
afternoon, including two who were planning to commit suicide attacks in the
coming days and 14 other wanted terrorists.

On the topic of averted attacks, the Washington Times reports that last
week's IDF incursion into PLO-controlled Kalkilye thwarted a massive attack
on Tel Aviv's Azrieli Center skyscrapers. An elite army unit stopped a
truck filled with explosives before it could be dispatched to an
underground parking lot beneath Israel's tallest buildings. The truck's
detonation could have led to many hundreds or thousands of casualties. At
least two Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) members
were arrested in connection with the attempt. The Times report adds that
officials are not ruling out the possibility that a small plane that
entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon last year was on its way to crash
into the towers. The plane was shot down by the Israel Air Force.

A special GSS-and-Border Guard force arrested four Hamas terrorists at the
Gush Katif junction this afternoon. The four were responsible for the
murder of Ahuva Amergi three months ago, and the deaths of at least two
soldiers. Inside the terrorists' car were Kalachnikov rifles, at least
five grenades, IDF uniforms, and more? An attempted infiltrator into
Nisanit, in northern Gaza, was shot this afternoon.

In Gaza, an armed Arab was killed and another was serious wounded when they
attacked an army force engaged in uncovering arms-smuggling tunnels. The
incident occurred near Rafiach last night.

PFLP terrorists detonated a bomb inside the British Cultural Center in Gaza
last week. No one was hurt in the attack, which was announced today and
which came in protest of the British consent to watch over the murderers of
Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi.

5. SHOMRON AREA IN DANGER
The small north-central Shomron community of Sa-Nur is in danger of total
collapse. Only three families and ten Chabad yeshiva students currently
live there. An emergency meeting was held last night in Yitzhar, some ten
kilometers south of Sa-Nur as the crow flies; Shechem lies in between
them. Yesha leaders such as Amanah settlement organization head Ze'ev
Chever, Shomron Regional Council head Bentzy Lieberman and others discussed
their fear that if Sa-Nur falls, the IDF may leave the entire area. It was
therefore decided to begin a search for a new core-group of settlers.

6. U.S. BACKS OUT OF INT'L COURT AGREEMENT
The United States has retracted its signature from the charter to establish
an international criminal court. The American consent was originally given
in the waning days of the Clinton Administration, but the U.S. has now
announced that such a court would have such wide-ranging powers that it
would impinge on countries' sovereignty. Israel has also not agreed to the
charter, despite the best efforts of former Justice Minister Yossi Beilin.

7. DIMONA RELIGIOUS SERVICES - ON STRIKE
The Negev city of Dimona is in the news today, as its Religious Affairs
Council is on strike. Workers say they have not received their pay for the
past three months. Burial services and kashrut supervision have been
suspended.

8. CELEBRATING JERUSALEM DAY IN ISRAEL AND AROUND THE WORLD
Jerusalem Day - the anniversary of the liberation and reunification of
Jerusalem during the Six Day War in 1967 - will be celebrated on
Thursday. Usually commemorated on the 28th day of Iyar, it is being
advanced by one day this year in accordance with a Chief Rabbinate
regulation stipulating that it must not fall out on a Friday, in order to
avoid possible Sabbath desecration.

An official ceremony will be held Thursday evening at Ammunition Hill in
Jerusalem, the site of a critical Six Day War battle, with the
participation of President Katzav, Prime Minister Sharon (who is scheduled
to have returned from the U.S. by then), Supreme Court President Barak,
Jerusalem Mayor Olmert, and many other government ministers, MKs, IDF
officers, family members of the fighters, students, and others.

Other commemorations will include a march to the Western Wall, fireworks, a
celebration at Yeshivat Beit Orot, a hike in the Jerusalem Forest, and
more. The city of Hadera, for instance, will also commemorate the holiday
with a special event, featuring singer Yehoram Gaon, tomorrow afternoon.

Haifa's Chief Rabbi She'ar-Yashuv Cohen, a senior member of Israel's Chief
Rabbinate, issued a call to rabbis and congregations around the world to
"celebrate Jerusalem Day with prayer and thanksgiving, in accordance with
the rulings of the Rabbis in the Land of Israel."

Hebrew News Editor: Haggai Segal
English News Editor: Hillel Fendel

2002-05-08T08:55:00.000-07:00

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. SHARON PUSHING NO-ARAFAT LINE
2. END OF BETHLEHEM STANDOFF IS NEAR
3. NEW YORK - AND OTHERS - SALUTE ISRAEL
4. REMEMBERING POLLARD
5. AVRAHAM TO THE RESCUE!
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1. SHARON PUSHING NO-ARAFAT LINE
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who arrived in Washington last night, will
begin his meetings with a talk today with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld and an appearance at a gathering of the AIPAC pro-Israel
lobby. Sharon will meet with President George Bush tomorrow, and will
attempt to persuade him that Arafat has no place in the future of the
Middle East. The Prime Minister seems to have an ally in National Security
Advisor Condoleeza Rice, who said yesterday that the "current direction of
the Palestinians" under Arafat's leadership does not allow for the
establishment of a Palestinian state. On the other hand, Secretary of
State Colin Powell said last night that it is "clear to the Administration
that something has to be done" with the settlements in Judea and Samaria,
and that this matter will be raised with Prime Minister Sharon.

Education Minister Limor Livnat, who is accompanying Prime Minister Sharon
in Washington, will present to her American hosts today an Israeli
Intelligence report showing Saudi Arabian support for Hamas and other
suicide terrorist elements. The report is based on documents found by
Israeli forces during Operation Defensive Shield. Bush hosted Saudi Crown
Prince Abdullah in his Texas ranch two weeks ago, and it is widely assumed
that the "peace plan" Bush will propose to Sharon is based on Saudi ideas.

A European Union spokesman said today that the EU is relating "with the
utmost gravity" to Israeli accusations and documentation that Arafat used
European donations for terrorist purposes.

2. END OF BETHLEHEM STANDOFF IS NEAR
PLO sources reported last night, and Israeli sources confirmed today, that
a deal had been reached to end the five-week-old standoff at Bethlehem's
Church of the Nativity. An American official, however, said that an
agreement would not be finalized before tomorrow. Israeli and Arab
negotiators have been working nearly around the clock to decide what to do
with the some 120 people left inside the church, including terrorists
highly wanted by Israel, other PLO gunmen, and Christian clergy held
hostage by the first two groups.

The plan under discussion stipulates that six heavily-wanted terrorists
will be deported to Italy or another country, some 30 other terrorists will
be permitted to 'stand trial' in a PA court in Gaza, and the rest will be
set free. Officials of the Gaza Coast Regional Council, as well as of the
neighboring municipalities of Sderot and Ashkelon Coast, called on Prime
Minister Sharon not to allow the terrorists to enter Gaza, "which is
already suffering from an overabundance of terrorists."

The numbers tell the following story: Over 150 wanted terrorists,
including 15 heavily-wanted terrorists, hid out in the church, and they
held 73 clergymen and their assistants hostages. The clergy were
mistreated, and one of the monks who was able to get out told of severe
abuse and humiliation, as well as Arab-caused damage to the church building
and holy objects. In the course of various gunfire exchanges in the past
five weeks, 21 Arabs were killed and several dozen were hurt; 27 Israeli
soldiers were wounded. Seventeen gunmen gave themselves up, including one
heavily-wanted terrorist, and about 80 other people left the church in
other ways.

In other anti-terrorism fronts, IDF forces were scheduled to leave Tul
Karem this afternoon - for the second time in two days. The forces entered
the PA city on Saturday night for several hours, during which they arrested
five terrorist suspects. In the ensuing interrogations, the terrorists
told of plans to carry out attacks inside pre-1967 Israel. Based on this
information, the forces returned last night to encircle a densely-populated
neighborhood in Tul Karem and thus protect against that type of eventuality.

In Gaza, four Palestinian terrorists were killed in two separate attempted
attacks last night. The first two attempted to cross the Green Line near
the Kisufim Crossing, opening fire and throwing grenades at an Israeli
force they encountered. The soldiers fired back, killing both attackers;
two soldiers were wounded, including one in serious condition. A bit
further north, an IDF force noticed a cell of armed terrorists attempting
to infiltrate near the Karni Crossing. The soldiers opened fire and killed
both terrorists. In searches performed this morning, the two bodies were
found, and on them were Kalachnikov rifles and an explosives vest. The IDF
Spokesman noted that in the past month, Israeli forces in Gaza have
thwarted dozens of attempted terrorist attacks against soldiers and
civilians... A bomb exploded late this afternoon on the road outside
Adura, west of Hevron. No one was hurt.

Hizbullah fired anti-aircraft fire at Israel Air Force jets along the
western sector of the Israeli-Lebanese border near Shlomi this morning;
shrapnel rained down on the city, but no one was hurt.

3. NEW YORK - AND OTHERS - SALUTE ISRAEL
Organizers of yesterday's annual Salute to Israel parade say that up to a
million people crowded New York City sidewalks to view the march. They say
that the parade was among the most successful in its more than 30-year
history. Many politicians and public figures also took part in the display
of solidarity with Israel. Some 60,000 costumed marchers included
representatives of public and private schools, local Jewish organizations
and community centers, and others - many of them with professionally
designed floats. After the parade, 25,000 attendees moved into Central
Park for the 9th annual "Post-Parade Israel Rally and Concert," organized
by the National Council of Young Israel. Interspersed with world-renowned
singers Avraham Fried and Dudu Fischer were speakers Israeli Minister Effie
Eitam and Hevron spokesman David Wilder, in celebration of the 35th
anniversary of the liberation of Jerusalem.

Another giant pro-Israel rally is being held this afternoon in London's
Trafalgar Square. Up to 30,000 people were expected, but early reports say
that 40,000 are already there. Speakers included former Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu.

Over 1,000 people took part in South Florida's 3rd Annual Run for Jerusalem
yesterday, dedicated to the memory of 5-year-old Danielle Shefi - murdered
in her bed by Palestinian terrorists nine days ago - and all victims of
terror in Israel. All proceeds raised by those who either ran five
kilometers or walked/ran a shorter route were dedicated to the Israel
Emergency Fund to benefit victims of terror... In Sweden yesterday, close
to 3,000 people gathered in Stockholm to protest anti-Semitism and show
support for Israel. Participants held signs reading, "Israel has a right
to peace and security" and similar messages, and Jewish and Christian
leaders addressed the audience? A church in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
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4. REMEMBERING POLLARD
The Committee to Bring Jonathan Home has announced another Torah lecture -
the 5th in a series - in honor of Jonathan Pollard. The class will be
delivered by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh on May 15 at 8:15 PM at the Yeshurun
Synagogue in central Jerusalem.

Jonathan Pollard is now in his 17th year of a prison sentence in the U.S.
for spying for Israel - a crime that carries an average punishment of 2-4
years. Yehoshua Steinberg of the Committee to Bring Jonathan Home recently
explained, "It may seem strange to continue with the struggle for a single
individual at a time of such national agony. In truth, quite the opposite
is true. [Jonathan's wife] Esther was exactly on the mark [when she said
that] Klal Yisrael's tragedies precisely mirror Jonathan's suffering." The
reference was to the following comment by Esther Pollard:
"One of the reasons that Israel is experiencing such anguish in so many
areas - and I believe this with all my heart - is that successive
administrations in Israel have been permitted to abandon individual Jews.
The minute the nation allows the government to abandon even one Jew, every
Jew is at risk..."

Other speakers in this series have included Rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu, Moti
Elon, Yosef Mendelevitch, and Mordechai Noigershall.

5. AVRAHAM TO THE RESCUE!
Avraham Schertzman, 12, of Beitar Illit, always seems to be in the right
place at the right time - and has helped thwart several possible terrorist
attempts. Asked if he's a hero, he responded simply, "Baruch Hashem [the
equivalent of 'Thank G-d']." His most recent save occurred yesterday. He
told Arutz-7's Yosef Zalmanson what happened:
"I was playing outside with my remote-control car when I looked up at the
hill of Nahlin (an Arab village adjacent to Beitar) and saw some Arabs
pointing in our direction. Then I saw them do something, then our fence
started burning, and they started running away. I realized that it was a
tire burning... I had my cell phone on me, so I right away called 102 [the
fire department] and then I called the 'moked' [the local emergency
center]. Someone from the 'moked' arrived right away, and shot towards
them... We were able to see that the tire they were burning had bags of
gunpowder in it which [could have caused a large explosion]...
"Last week, on Lag BaOmer, it was after midnight and we were collecting
more wood for our fire. We put up a [make-shift] fence around the area so
that no one would go in, but some kids didn't listen, and a very large
piece of wood ending up falling on top of a 7-year-old girl. She was
bleeding badly... There were some kids older than me there, but no one
knew what to do, and some of them panicked - but I just took out my cell
phone and called the ambulance service (101) and within one minute (we have
a lot of ambulances around here) it arrived and took her for treatment. It
turned out that she needed stitches... Her parents later called to thank
me...
"OK, now I'll tell you what happened in Gilo about three months ago. I go
to school there, and I was getting off the bus with my teacher when we saw
an Arab carrying a rifle and two suitcases. My teacher went up and asked
him if they were his, and he answered him in Arabic. I was a little
further away, and I right away called the police. When the Arab saw me
calling, he ran away down the hill towards Beit Jala; when the police came,
he was already gone...
"About a month ago, on Pesach, my friend and I were walking around looking
through the binoculars that my father got me. It was about 10 PM, and
suddenly we saw a car come from Nahlin towards Beitar, and it stopped in
the middle and turned its lights off. Then we saw four Arabs get out of
the car, and two of them then got back in. Again, I called the 'moked,'
but while I was calling I saw the two Arabs crawl under a fence into
Beitar. It wasn't very close to houses, but close to the patrol road...
The 'moked' guy came, but the car wasn't there anymore; he got some people
to start looking around, and sure enough, one of the patrols was later able
to find the two Arabs and catch them..."

"Is that all?" Zalmanson asked. "Yes," Avraham answered, but then he
remembered something else: "Oh yeah, my sister was on the #25 bus that was
attacked [last November] in French Hill..."

6. RABBIS' CONFERENCE IN EUROPE
Rabbi Abba Dunner, Secretary-General of the Rabbis Conference currently
meeting in Brussels, spoke with Arutz-7 today against a backdrop of
increasing anti-Semitic attacks throughout Europe. "250 rabbis of Europe
are meeting here," Rabbi Dunner said, "in what has become a dangerous place
[Brussels]; a synagogue was burnt down, and they have advised us not to
walk in the streets with our hats and beards... We have rabbis from all
over Europe and Russia, even Eastern Russia, and we are privileged to have
with us also Israel's two Chief Rabbis..."

"We came originally to discuss the Jewish Family," Rabbi Dunner said, "as
this was the topic we set six months ago; we never dreamt that we would
instead be discussing the plague of increasing anti-Semitism... Tonight,
the President of the European Parliament will address us, and this morning
his top aide came. They tell us, 'Don't worry, it's not anti-Semitism,
it's just hooligans...' But we don't accept this. We tell them, 'No, it's
not temporary, and it's not just hooligans - it's anti-Semitism, clear and
simple. There are many Moslems who live here, and you're afraid of them,
and that's why you say that it's just hooligans. But you must know and
admit the truth...' Chief Rabbis Lau and Bakshi-Doron were very clear in
telling them that they must understand the source of what is going on, and
why it is happening precisely now... We have many problems in Europe, such
as ritual slaughter, and ritual circumcision in Sweden - but people [Jews]
are afraid to bring up these matters because they sense that the public is
anti-Jewish..."

Rabbi Dunner did take a strong stand in at least one issue, however. He
said that when he was making arrangements with the Brussels police, "they
told me that the rabbis should not walk in certain places because it would
be dangerous... 'Have you gone mad?' I asked them. 'I should tell the
rabbis, who came to Belgium, a free country, that they can't walk where
they want? If you have a problem, then you should tell the people who are
making the problems that *they* can't walk where they want, not us!...'"

When asked if the rabbis would issue a call for aliyah [immigration to
Israel], Rabbi Dunner said, "No. There will be nothing like that... What
I can tell you, though, is that in Eastern Europe, whenever the people are
[re-]introduced to Judaism, they automatically want to come to Israel. We
don't tell them to go to Israel, but we see that the moment they become
religious, they move to Israel..."

Note: It was learned today that a synagogue in the southwestern Russian
city of Rostov had been vandalized; its windows were smashed, and a fire
was set outside its front gate.

7. ARAB PRISONERS TORTURED IN PLO PRISONS
Some of the 120 Arab prisoners freed by IDF forces from a PLO jail in
Shechem during Operation Defensive Shield say their captors tortured
them. Many of the prisoners, held on charges of cooperating with Israel,
describe being hung upside down for days, having cigarettes extinguished on
their bodies, and other such treatment.

Some of the prisoners said that they were beaten unconscious and slashed
with knives and shards of glass, while other said they were forced to sit
in raw sewage for days. Arab human rights groups have failed to condemn the
torture of the prisoners. In other incidents in recent weeks, Arabs
suspected of working with Israel have been brutally murdered by PLO gangs.
In some cases the victims' bodies were dragged in the street and hung
upside down in public squares.

8. A NEW SPIRIT IN VOLUNTEER WORK
A volunteer organization called Ruach Chadashah (New Spirit) is about to
soon begin its most important project yet: helping families of terrorist
victims. The group, which has been active over the past several months in
such morale-raising ventures as the distribution of flags and sending
packages to soldiers, now turns its attention to the sector that has
suffered most directly the results of the Oslo War.

Arutz-7's Ofrah Lax reports that although the victims of terrorist attacks
are often forgotten by the public at large after a day or two, the families
themselves continue to face the consequences every single day, whether it
suffered the loss of a loved one or "only" serious injuries. The new
initiative will involve adult volunteers who can help families in a variety
of ways, such as visits to the wounded, running errands, helping children
with homework, and whatever else is needed. Some 30 coordinators are
responsible for supervising contacts between volunteers and families, and
they will meet with the latter as early as next week to prepare the way for
the volunteers to step in and do what is needed. All coordinators undergo
a short training course. For more information about the apolitical
organization, call Sarit at 053-582241.

2002-05-08T08:50:00.000-07:00

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. PM SHARON TO WASHINGTON
2. INSIDE THE P.A.: DONATED MONEY WENT FOR TERRORISM, CORRUPTION
3. END OF THE ROAD FOR ARAFAT?
4. MOSLEM GUNMEN STILL HOLDING HOSTAGES IN CHURCH
5. HOW TO SPEND $100 MILLION
6. GETTING TO KNOW AMERICA'S SAUDI ALLIES
7. LOOKING FOR AN ESCAPED TERRORIST
8. CONGRESS FOR ISRAEL
9. WHO'S AGAINST WHOM?
10. PESACH SEDER ATTACK: TOLL RISES TO 29
11. IN BRIEF

1. PM SHARON TO WASHINGTON
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whose trip to Washington was pushed off from
last night to this morning, will meet with US President Bush only on
Tuesday. The two will discuss the resumption of diplomatic negotiations
between Israel and the Palestinians following Operation Defensive Shield,
although the exact details are unclear. It is widely assumed that the
influence of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, whom Bush hosted at his Texas
ranch ten days ago, will be felt in the talks.

Although Sharon's attitude towards Arafat is well-known - his government
has labeled Arafat "irrelevant" and a "master terrorist," and Sharon has
often said that no agreement can be made with Arafat - media reports are
that President Bush will try to convince Sharon to renew contact with the
PLO leader. Sharon will defend his anti-Arafat position by presenting the
Americans with a thick packet of documents directly linking Arafat to many
deadly attacks against Israelis (see below).

Recent disclosures of Arafat's terrorist connections "render absurd the
public and international debate over whether Arafat is 'doing everything
possible to prevent terrorism,'" the Prime Minister's Office announced on
Friday, as it is now clear that he indeed did 'everything possible' to
promote, not prevent, terrorism. Sharon is reported to be willing to agree
to a Palestinian state without defined borders, on the condition that
Arafat has no part in it.

Sharon will also be meeting with other top US government officials,
including Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
and National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice. He will meet as well with
top representatives from the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby and will appear before
the Anti-Defamation league.

2. INSIDE THE P.A.: DONATED MONEY WENT FOR TERRORISM, CORRUPTION
The "Arafat file," presented today by Minister Danny Naveh, is a 100-page
document containing evidence that much of the money sent to the Palestinian
Authority by the European Union for humanitarian purposes was used by
Yasser Arafat for terrorism - and to line the pockets of top PA
officials. The file is based on the vast intelligence information garnered
as a result of Operation Defensive Shield, including testimony by
Fatah-Tanzim head Marwan Barghouti and other captured terrorists.

Minister Naveh, who oversaw the writing of the document, noted that many PA
"policemen" received salaries for simply carrying out terrorist activity
against Israel. The file also shows that the EU sent over $9 million
monthly to the PA for purposes such as building homes for refugees, food
and medicine, and that Arafat diverted much of it - up to 2/3, in some
months - to the Tanzim's Al Aqsa Brigades and other terrorist
organizations. Larger sums of money from Arab countries were also diverted
in this manner. In addition, much of the money also ended up in the
pockets of senior PA officials, according to testimony gathered by Israeli
investigators.

The evidence appears to be so convincing that PA officials are not even
bothering to deny it. Ziyad Abu Ziyad, speaking with Israel Radio this
morning, merely said, "We must put the past behind us... We were at war..."

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher and President Hosni Mubarak's advisor
Osama Al-Baz met with Arafat in Ramallah this morning. On the agenda: an
attempt to coordinate their positions in light of the latest diplomatic
developments.

3. END OF THE ROAD FOR ARAFAT?
US National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice said today that the "current
direction of the Palestinians" does not allow for the establishment of a
Palestinian state." Speaking to television interviewers, she specified
that the problem lies with Yasser Arafat and his leadership.

Amidst increasing calls even within the PA for changes and improvements, PA
Cabinet members Nabil Amar submitted his resignation yesterday. Amar
explained that Arafat had rejected his demand for "deep reforms" in the
Cabinet and the PA's security organs.

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4. MOSLEM GUNMEN STILL HOLDING HOSTAGES IN CHURCH
The standoff around the Bethlehem church is now into its 34th day, and
Israel has thus far succeeded in getting almost 100 people safely
out. Still inside are 123 people, most of whom are being held hostage by
Moslem gunmen; Israel has no interest in holding them. At least four of
the gunmen are high on Israel's wanted list for the murder of Israeli
citizens. Negotiations for a settlement continue, and reports are that an
agreement will be worked out by tomorrow. The Sharon government continues
to demand that the terrorists either stand trial in Israel or be deported
permanently to a third country. The Arabs, however, want an arrangement
along the lines of the Ramallah agreement, involving their incarceration in
the PA under foreign supervision.

IDF forces yesterday discovered an explosives laboratory, ready-to-explode
bombs, explosive chemicals and hundreds of nails in an "infirmary" only 500
meters from the above-mentioned Church of the Nativity. The "killing
center" was discovered after soldiers heard an explosion and set off to
clarify its source. The explosion was apparently the result of a 'work
accident' that fortuitously led to the discovery of the explosives before
they could be used against Jews.

Despite the attempt to renew negotiations, Arabs detonated a bomb alongside
an IDF tank late this morning. No one was hurt, but in accordance with
regulations, IDF soldiers opened fire at suspicious figures seen running
from the area - and mistakenly killed a mother and her two children. The
IDF has expressed sorrow over the incident, although emphasized that the
soldiers acted properly.

In Gaza, IDF forces discovered yet another tunnel used for smuggling arms
and weapons on the Israeli-Egyptian border. This was the third tunnel
discovered in the past two days, and like the other ones, it will be blown
up by the end of the day... IDF forces that entered the PA town of Tul
Karem during the night remain outside one of the neighborhoods there,
tightly encircling it and ensuring that no terrorists escape. The action
was taken in light of intelligence warnings of a likely suicide attack in
Israel originating in Tul Karem.

5. HOW TO SPEND $100 MILLION
The United Jewish Communities (UJC) leadership met with Israeli officials
in Jerusalem last Thursday to determine the spending priorities for more
than $100 million raised by North American Jewry in an emergency relief
campaign for Israel. The emergency campaign was launched on April 8th by
UJC and the Jewish Federations of North America as a continental,
grassroots response to the continuing economic, humanitarian and financial
needs of Israeli citizens during the current wave of terror against the
Jewish homeland.

Participating in the meeting were representatives of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI),
the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Finance. Jodi J. Schwartz,
Chair of the UJC Israel Emergency Work Group, said that Thursday's meeting
represents a "watershed moment in the Israel-Diaspora relationship."

6. GETTING TO KNOW AMERICA'S SAUDI ALLIES
In light of the recent meetings between US President Bush and Saudi Crown
Prince Abdullah - which many analysts believe laid the groundwork for
demands Bush will present to Ariel Sharon when they meet this week -
Arutz-7 presents the following excerpts from a speech given by a prominent
Saudi government cleric. The speaker, Sheikh Saad Al-Buraik, calls for the
enslavement of Jewish women and for having no mercy against Jews.

Background:
* The speech was delivered in a government mosque in the capital city of
Riyadh.
* The speaker is a close associate of Prince Abdul Aziz Ben Fahd (who
participated in the Saudi delegation that recently visited US President Bush).
* He is the host of a government television show in Saudi Arabia.
* He recently hosted a two-day telethon during which Saudis raised over
$100 million for the Palestinian terror effort.

Excerpts:
"No one dies before their day. How many Muslims have died in Chechnya,
Bosnia, Kashmir, and Kosovo!! Is it too dear to us that among our honorable
beloved die as martyrs? Their death dates were written before their birth
that they die as martyrs...
"Oh Palestinian Authority, don't you see that you are tested once or twice
a year? Then you don't learn or repent. Isn't it time yet to wage jihad,
and call for holy war? ? The agreements, which canceled jihad and
disassociation from non-Muslims, should all be demolished. It's a call to
close all embassies opened for the Jews in the land of Islam; it is call to
end normalization with Israel.
"Muslim Brothers in Palestine, do not have any mercy neither compassion on
the Jews, their blood, their money, their flesh. Their women are yours to
take, legitimately. God made them yours. Why don't you enslave their women!
Why don't you wage jihad! Why don't you pillage them!"
"People should know that Jews are backed by the Christians, and the battle
that we are going through is not with Jews only, but also with those who
believe that Allah is a third in a Trinity, and those who said that Jesus
is the son of Allah, and Allah is Jesus, the son of Mary."
"I am against America until this life ends, until the Day of Judgment; I
am against America even if the stone liquefies. My hatred of America, if
part of it was contained in the universe, it would collapse. She is the
root of all evils, and wickedness on earth. Who else implanted the tyrants
in our land, who else nurtured oppression?"

7. LOOKING FOR AN ESCAPED TERRORIST
Israel Police in the north are on all-out alert in the search for Abu
Jamous, a 24-year-old terrorist/car thief who escaped this morning while
being transported in a Prison Service truck. Described as a master
escapist and car thief, Jamous was able to get away despite being chained
to another convict and his detention behind a barred window. Ten Prison
Service employees have already been suspended, pending an investigation
into the escape. Several months ago, Abu Jamous placed an explosive device
in an Israel Navy officer's home in the city of Ra'anana.

8. CONGRESS FOR ISRAEL
Both the United States Senate and House of Representatives passed
resolutions on Thursday showing strong support for Israel's war on Arab
terror. The Senate vote passed by a vote of 94-2, while the House approved
an even stronger version by a count of 352-21. Both resolutions condemned
Palestinian suicide attacks and stated that the United States remains
committed to Israel's right to self-defense.
Going one step further, four members of the US House of Representatives -
Reps. Peter Deutsch (D-FL), Joseph M. Hoeffel (D-PA), Jack Kingston (R-GA),
and Jim Saxton (R-NJ) - arrived in Israel over the weekend for a four-day
solidarity mission. The group will be meeting with Israeli government
officials and will be visiting victims of terror and their families.

While many pro-Israel groups have praised U.S. House Majority Leader Dick
Armey (R-TX) for his recent remarks on MSNBC in favor of Israel's right to
the entire Land of Israel - he even recommended that all Arab residents
leave and create a new homeland in one of the Arab countries - he has been
forced to backtrack a bit. Michael Freund, who served as Deputy Director
of Communications & Policy Planning in the Office of the Prime Minister
[Netanyahu] from 1996 to 1999, told Arutz-7 today that Administration
officials "immediately fell all over him, and within an hour he issued a
correction saying that he didn't mean that all Arabs should leave, but
rather only terrorists?" Armey continues to be known as a staunch
supporter of Israel.

9. WHO'S AGAINST WHOM?
Three Israelis are under arrest on suspicion of having organized a
conspiracy to harm Arabs - but no further details are permitted to be
publicized. The three are not allowed to meet with family members or
lawyers, but one of them was able to whisper to his wife when they passed
in the courtroom that he was being tortured. "He appeared to be very weak,
physically," one of his relatives, Amichai, told Arutz-7 today, "and could
barely lift his shackled hand to wave."

Amichai, one of several people who demonstrated in Jerusalem today on
behalf of the three, said, "Our primary demand is first of all for basic
civil human rights. They should be able to meet with their lawyers? We do
not know exactly what type of torture is going on there, but we assume that
it's not only psychological? We know of previous cases, such as with Lt.
Oren Edri [who was arrested in Sept. 1994 on similar charges, and was
tortured, starved, and left in a rat-infested cell; he was later cleared of
all charges], in which the charges ultimately came to nothing?" Amichai
even raised the possibility, based on previous cases, that the GSS itself
might be involved in framing the suspects.

10. PESACH SEDER ATTACK: TOLL RISES TO 29
The horrifying results of the Oslo War's worst terrorist attack continue to
be felt. This morning, Eliezer Korman, 74, of Ramat HaSharon, died of
wounds he suffered during the Pesach Seder slaughter by an Arab suicide
terrorist in the Park Hotel in Netanya. He was laid to rest this
afternoon. His death brings the number of victims in that attack to 29,
including his wife Yehudit. Six husband-and-wife couples were murdered in
that attack.

11. IN BRIEF
Some 1,200 new immigrants to Israel from around the world will take part
this Tuesday in a salute-to-Jerusalem learning tour and celebration in
honor of the upcoming Jerusalem Day. The holiday commemorates the 35th
anniversary of the unification of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War. The
event will take place at Ammunition Hill in Ramat Eshkol, the site of an
important 1967 war battle. Most of the immigrant participants will be
young singles from South America and Russia who made aliyah to Israel
without their families...
The Jerusalem Media and Communication Center (JMCC), which frequently
conducts public opinion poll to study public attitudes in the PA, has found
that the majority of PA residents - 72.4% - do not believe that a permanent
peace agreement based on "two states for two peoples" means an end to the
historical Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Support for the peace process
stands at under 47%, and less than 42% are in favor of a two-state
solution. Over 44% believe in either a bi-national state or an
all-Palestinian state in all the land west of the Jordan River...
FIFA, the international governing body of world soccer, rejected a motion
today proposed by several Arab countries to suspend Israel from the
organization...

Hebrew News Editor: Ariel Kahane and Yaakov Klein
English News Editor: Hillel Fendel

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. IT'S FINAL: ARAFAT PAID FOR TERRORISM
2. BATTLE IN SHECHEM
3. SHARON UNDER PRESSURE FROM BOTH SIDES
4. AMERICAN SUPPORT
5. JEWISH SUSPECTS' CUSTODY EXTENDED
6. MEIMAD GETS NEW MK
7. MILITARY COLLEGES IN JERUSALEM?
8. INSIDE THE MIND OF EGYPT'S CHIEF PSYCHIATRIST

1. IT'S FINAL: ARAFAT PAID FOR TERRORISM
The fact that Yasser Arafat personally approved terrorist funding for Fatah
has now become "unequivocally clear." So announced the Prime Minister's
Office today, based on the questioning of senior Fatah terrorists in
Israeli custody, including Marwan Barghouti. It has also been learned that
explosive charges used by the terrorists were supplied from the Palestinian
Authority's own weapons depots.

Israeli investigators have learned that Fatah head Marwan Barghouti, who
maintained direct communications with Arafat, transferred money to Fatah
operatives specifically for attacks targeting and killing many Israeli
civilians. "These disclosures render absurd the public and international
debate over whether Arafat is 'doing everything possible to prevent
terrorism," the Prime Minister's Office stated, explaining that it is now
clear that he indeed did 'everything possible' to promote, not prevent,
terrorism.

Barghouti, who admitted to directing terrorist attacks that resulted in the
killing and injuring of scores of Israeli civilians, described in detail
the transfer of funds to the terrorist operatives. He was responsible for
providing the funding for weapons acquisition and armed operations, and
said that every terrorist request for funds was accompanied by a detailed
requisition request. Barghouti would add his recommendation and signature,
and then relay the request to PA Chairman Arafat. Barghouti stressed that
every expense, no matter how small, required Arafat's personal
approval. The funds were then transferred to the operatives according to
the instructions of Hakem Bil'awi, the Secretary of the Fatah Central
Committee.

Nasser Aweis, head of the Fatah infrastructure in Samaria, was responsible
for the recruiting, arming and handling of terrorist cells. He confirmed
that he and other Tanzim terrorist operatives under his command received
funding directly approved by Yasser Arafat. Aweis admitted to having been
behind numerous terrorist bombings and shootings in Israel, including the
murder of six Bat Mitzvah celebrants in Hadera, as well as several shooting
attacks in Jerusalem and elsewhere that killed eight Israelis.

Nasser Abu Hamid, a commander and founder of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
and who was also arrested during Operation Defensive Shield, revealed
during questioning that he and his men received funding and weapons from
Marwan Barghouti, through the latter's aide Ahmed Barghouti. Abu Hamid
stated that Marwan knew the details of every operation carried out by
himself and his men, was involved in the decision regarding the procurement
of weapons for the terrorist cells, and even provided the payment approval
for these weapons. Abu Hamid and his men were responsible for numerous
shooting attacks, explosive charges and suicide bombings, resulting in the
deaths of at least six Israelis - including the Kahane couple.

He also revealed that his men received the explosive devices needed for
their terrorist operations from Arafat's Force 17 Presidential Guard
weapons depots, and that Force 17 members would regularly assemble
explosive devices and give them to Fatah terrorists.

The Prime Minister's Office notes that the details of this terrorist
connection, as described by the senior Fatah/Tanzim figures themselves,
were corroborated by many documents captured in various Palestinian
Authority security organ offices during Operation Defensive Shield.

2. BATTLE IN SHECHEM
Mixed results in today's IDF operation in Shechem: Two wanted Palestinian
Moslem terrorists were killed early this morning when a force surrounded
their house in the heart of the city. The soldiers also arrested 11
suspects and captured a car packed with explosives and weapons. A
commander of the lead unit, however, was killed, and two other soldiers
were wounded, including one seriously. The funeral of the fallen officer,
Maj. Avihu Yaakov, 24, from Kfar Hasidim, will be held this afternoon.

3. SHARON UNDER PRESSURE FROM BOTH SIDES
The expanded security mini-cabinet met today for a special meeting to
discuss Prime Minister Sharon's trip to Washington. Sharon will depart
tomorrow night for what will be his fifth visit to the U.S. in the 14
months he has been in office. Joining him, in addition to Education
Minister Limor Livnat and Interior Minister Eli Yeshai, will be native
English speaker Col. Miri Eisen of the Intelligence Corps and Police Chief
Shlomo Aharonishki.

Labor party ministers are critical of Sharon for not divulging details of
the new peace plan he plans to discuss with U.S. President George
Bush. Echoing Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor), Deputy
Defense Minister Dalia Rabin-Pilosof said last night that she hopes
diplomatic negotiations with the Palestinian Authority will resume as
quickly as possible.

Speculation is rife about the contents of the upcoming Sharon-Bush
talks. Various reports claim that the discussions will focus on a regional
conference and the establishment of a Palestinian state according to the
Clinton-Barak outline. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who recently met with
Bush in the latter's Texas ranch, is said to be responsible for delivering
Palestinian consent to the plan, while Bush will pressure Sharon. The
Israeli leader will also be under domestic political pressure, as his Likud
Party Central Committee convenes on Sunday. The party will most likely
approve a resolution against the formation of a Palestinian state.

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4. AMERICAN SUPPORT
Four US Congressmen will pay a solidarity visit to Israel beginning
tomorrow night. The four are Jim Saxton (R-New Jersey), Peter Deutsch
(D-Fla.), James Hoeffel (D-Penn.), and Jack Kingston (Ga.). One of their
stops will be at the home of a family of a recent terrorist-attack victim.

The annual Salute To Israel Parade, the single largest gathering in the
world in support of Israel, will celebrate the 54th Anniversary of the
State of Israel on May 5, 2002 on Fifth Avenue in New York
City. Organizers say that this year's theme, "Israel and America, Now and
Forever, United We Stand", will "reflect the importance of the connection
between Israel and the United States as we pay tribute to our heroes." The
Parade features 60,000 costumed marchers representing public and private
schools; groups from Jewish organizations and community centers; high
school marching bands; and professionally designed floats sponsored by
private companies and Jewish organizations.

5. JEWISH SUSPECTS' CUSTODY EXTENDED
The Jerusalem Magistrates Court extended the custody this morning of two
Jews arrested on suspicion of conspiring to attack Arabs. They will remain
in prison for at least 14 more days, and another suspect was arrested for
ten days. Dozens of their friends demonstrated outside the courtroom
against the order preventing them from meeting with their lawyers. Family
members say that physical pressure is being exerted upon them so that they
will cede their right to remain silent. The police arrested two of the
demonstrators, residents of Bat Ayin in Gush Etzion.

6. MEIMAD GETS NEW MK
The resignation of Labor Party Secretary-General MK Raanan Cohen from the
Knesset, which will take effect next week, will double the amount of
Knesset Members from the Meimad party. In place of Cohen will come Rabbi
Yehuda Gil'ad of the left-wing religious Zionist party Meimad, which joined
together with Labor and Gesher in the previous Knesset.

The list of Labor-Gesher-Meimad candidates, set in 1999, had Rabbi Gil'ad
as number 32. The party garnered 26 seats, and Cohen is the 6th Labor MK
to resign (the others were Ehud Barak, Yossi Beilin, Minister Matan Vilnai,
Uzi Baram, and Eli Goldschmidt). The new MK thus joins Deputy Minister
Rabbi Michael Melchior in representing Meimad in the Knesset.

7. MILITARY COLLEGES IN JERUSALEM?
"It's time to transfer the IDF Military Colleges to Jerusalem." So said
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert yesterday while hosting the college commanders
on a tour of the capital. "This will be an important step in strengthening
the city as Israel's capital," he said. His aides proposed several
possible areas on which the institutions could be built, including
Ammunition Hill outside Ramat Eshkol. Olmert told his guests that a
government decision to move the colleges to Jerusalem was made as far back
as 1962.

8. INSIDE THE MIND OF EGYPT'S CHIEF PSYCHIATRIST
Dr. 'Adel Sadeq, chairman of the Arab Psychiatrists Association and head of
the Department of Psychiatry at 'Ein Shams University in Cairo, recently
published an article entitled "Class Isn't Over Yet, Stupid!" in the
Egyptian newspaper Hadith Al-Madina, which took the form of an open letter
to President Bush. Dr. Sadeq, a recipient of the 1990 Egyptian State
Prize, was also interviewed by Iqraa, a Saudi-Egyptian satellite television
channel. MEMRI (www.memri.org) translated the article and interview, from
which we include the following excerpts:

From the newspaper article:
"Although you [President Bush] invest a lot of effort in proving yourself,
you are not successful in doing so because you are stupid and understand
nothing about what is happening in the world. 'Stupidity' and 'idiocy' are
synonyms, and if you don't like the word 'stupid,' you are an evil person
with an ugly soul. I equate your stupidity with mercilessness and
inhumanity, and swear that I knew you were stupid long before it became
known to the entire world, and before your cronies admitted it.
"Your stupidity is reflected in your facial features. Your face reminds me
of the face of those who frequent a clinic for the mentally retarded. Your
gaze is mindless and unfocused. Your eyes are misleading. Your facial
expressions are incompatible with the matter [being discussed], and your
tone of voice is completely disconnected from the content of your words - a
salient characteristic of the mentally retarded.
"...Don't you understand, stupid, that Sharon is a criminal murderer?
Don't you understand, stupid, that the interests of your country are in
great danger because of your complete bias in favor of Israel? Don't you
understand, stupid, that the entire world is now standing against you and
the policy of your administration? Don't you understand, stupid, that
anyone who dies for the liberation of his homeland is a martyr? Don't you
understand, stupid, that when a girl of 18 springs blows herself up, this
means that her cause is right, and that her people will be victorious
sooner or later?"
"I don't imagine, stupid, that you understood anything from my article, as
your advisors hide things and thoughts of this kind from you so you will go
on thinking you are smart. This means that class isn't over yet, you stupid
idiot, you basest man in the world."

From the Iqraa Interview:
"...The psychological structure [of the perpetrator of a suicide attack]
is that of an individual who loves life...
"When the martyr dies a martyr's death, he attains the height of bliss. As
a professional psychiatrist, I say that the height of bliss comes with the
end of the countdown: ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two,
one. And then, you press the button to blow yourself up. When the martyr
reaches 'one,' and then 'boom,' he explodes, and senses himself flying,
because he knows for certain that he is not dead. It is a transition to
another, more beautiful world, because he knows very well that within
seconds he will see the light of the Creator. He will be at the closest
possible point to Allah...
"...The message to Israel is that we will not cease... It is very
important to convey this message... The child who threw a stone in 1993
today wraps himself in an explosive belt... As long as there is even a
single Palestinian left, the war will not end. What is happening now
indicates one thing: Israel will not exist forever. We as Arabs must know
that this war will not end. The conflict will continue... Either we will
exist or we will not exist. Either the Israelis or the Palestinians - there
is no third option..."
"On the strategic level, there must be a pan-Arab plan in order to reach
our goal. The goal of all of us is to liberate Palestine from the Israeli
aggressors. To use words that some people no longer like to use today: 'We
will throw Israel into the sea.' This phrase, by the way, is the
truth. Either they will throw us into the sea, or we will throw them into
the sea. There is no middle ground. Coexistence is total nonsense..."

Hebrew News Editor: Haggai Segal
English News Editor: Hillel Fendel

2002-05-08T08:38:00.000-07:00

Breaking News
The IDF captured an anti-Semitic book titled "Zionazism - Fight it before it kills you". It was found in a residence maintained for Yasser Arafat in Bethlehem. The book's author is a member of the Palestinian National Council and it carries a handwritten dedication to Dr. Yussuf Abdallah, a close associate of Arafat and head of his Presidential Guard.

The main points of this vile tract are summarized on the book's cover:
1. The Jews of our times are not the descendants of Abraham or related to him.
2. The origin of today's Jews is from various nations, religions and peoples, therefore the Jews are not our cousins.
3. The current Bible and Talmud are not god given.
4. A small number of Jews reached Palestine in the past. They lived east of Mt. Se'ir and later became extinct.
5. The God of the Jews (Jah-we) was created from an ancient volcano above the hills of Yemen. But what about Allah, praised be his Name, who is an answer to (Jah-we). [Note: meaning that there is only the Moslem Allah]
6. The temple was never built, neither in Jerusalem nor anywhere else.
7. Zionism is the Eighth Crusade. The Zionists are occupiers, crusaders
>and pirates who arrived from overseas, as planned by the imperialistic
>countries, notably the US.
8. Hitler never murdered nor incinerated Jews in gas chambers.
9. Relinquishing the liberation of Jerusalem constitutes great treachery.
10. Relinquishing the refugees right to return is even greater treachery.
11. The Zionazi settlement is a tumor (these are highly-developed and advanced military bases).
12. One of Zionism's goals is to impose a degrading surrender on our people.
13. Some Arab leaders and some Palestinians conspired against the Palestinian problem.
14. Rabbi Ovadia Yossef suffers from a persecution complex, or from schizophrenia and a persecution and superiority complex. [Note: Rabbi Yossef is chief rabbi of the ultra-orthodox Shas movement]

The IDF website has scans of the book and additional information about it at this link:

http://www.idf.il/arafat/terrorism3/english/main.stm

Related to this, the Jerusalem Post reported that "Mein Kampf" is selling well in Palestinian areas and in Arab quarters of London.
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/03/19/LatestNews/LatestNews.45493.html
>

2002-05-08T08:29:00.000-07:00

Jewish Roots in the Koran Text: Did you know this??
This is a great point for discussions with non-Jews

Did you know that long before the state of Israel ever came into
existence, islam's most famous exegete felt that its borders should be
far more extensive than the present miniscule area of land it now
occupies? ANd that if Muslims were to listen to him, there would be no
such talk of "occupied territories"? several scholars Here is Abu
Ja'far Muhammad al-Tabari (died 922) gives several opinions of the
Israel as referred to in the Qur'an:
(1) Sinai and surrounding area
(2) Greater Syria (i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and part of Iraq).
(3) Others said: jericho.
(4) Damascus, Palestine and some of Jordan

ANd no! This quote does not come from some doctored edition of the
classical text that has been prepared by pro-Israel extremists. It comes
from the Arabic translation of "Jami al Bayan 'an ta'wil aay al
qur'aan" , published in 1961 in Egypt by the Dar al Ma'arif.
(Vol 10, p. 167-9).

2002-05-08T08:24:00.000-07:00

Following is a list of the top 10 most wanted Palestinian terrorists in
Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity:
1. Ibrahim Musa Abayat (Abu Galif) Born in 1973 and a resident of
Bethlehem, Abayat is a prominent operative of the Tanzim and serves as the
head of a local military cell. He was responsible for the June 2001 murder
of Israel Defense Forces officer Yehuda Edri; the September 2001 murder of
Sarit Amrani and the January 2002 murder of the American-born architect
Avi Boaz; and for firing mortars at the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of
Gilo.
2. Abdallah Daud Mahmud A-Kader/Tirawi Born in 1962, A-Kader heads the
Palestinian general intelligence service in Bethlehem. Originally from the
Balata refugee camp in Nablus, where he worked with Palestinian Authority
West Bank Intelligence chief Tawfik Tirawi, security officials say he was
involved in the organization and execution of multiple terrorist attacks,
as well as the production of explosives and weapons smuggling, and has
provided safe harbor to operatives of other terror organizations. He is
held responsible for shooting attacks at Gilo and the Bethlehem bypass
road.
3. Jihad Yusef Halil Ja'ara Born in 1971, Ja'ara is a Tanzim operative and
member of the Palestinian security forces who has been continuously
involved in terror attacks against both the IDF and civilians in Gilo and
the Bethlehem area. He is an arms dealer who has sheltered wanted
terrorists.
4. Ismail Musa HamdanBorn in 1968, and a resident of Bethlehem, Hamdan is
a Tanzim operative who has perpetrated some of the most heinous terrorist
attacks including the June 2001 murder of IDF officer Yehuda Edri, the
September 2001 murder of Sarit Amrani and the January 2002 murder of Avi
Boaz.
5. Nidal Ahmed Abu Galif Born in 1973, Abu Galif is a resident of
Bethlehem who currently serves as senior assistant to Yehiah Damseh,
responsible for the recent Jerusalem suicide bombings in Kiryat Yovel and
Beit Yisrael neighborhoods.
6. Mohammed Said Attalah Salem Born in 1979, and a resident of the
Dehiashe refugee camp, Salem is a senior Tanzim operative under the
command of Damseh. He was involved in the planning and dispatching of the
two aforementioned Jerusalem suicide bombings.
7. Kamal Hasan Hamid Born in 1963, he is the Fatah general secretary in
Bethlehem. Hamid is responsible for the financing of Tanzim operations in
Bethlehem, including the purchase of weaponry and explosives. He was in
direct contact with imprisoned West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti and
was responsible for distributing funds to terror operatives.
8. Ibrahim Mohammed Salem Abayat Born in 1961, and a resident of
Bethlehem, Abayat is a senior Hamas operative who was in charge of
organizing Hamas terror attacks.
9. Bassam Mohammed Ibrahim Hamud Born in 1972, and a resident of
Bethlehem, Hamud is a Hamas operative involved in the preparation of
explosives and the dispatching of two Hamas terrorists to carry out a
suicide bombing at Jerusalem's International Convention center last month.
The two would-be bombers were intercepted en route by Israeli security
officials.
10. Aziz Halil Mohammed Abayat Jubran Born in 1971, a resident of
Bethlehem, Jubran is a Hamas operative who worked with Hamud. He was also
involved in the aforementioned thwarted suicide attack. For more
information on wanted and captured Palestinian
terrorists:http://www.idf.il/english/news/wanted.stm

2002-05-08T08:23:00.000-07:00

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2002-05-08T08:21:00.000-07:00

CAN UNRWA STILL BE TRUSTED?
By Avi Davis
reprinted from a Stand With Us email

The highly controversial U.N. investigative team that finds its way into
Jenin, may encounter its very first challenge not among the ruins of the
camp, but among existing structures. One of those structures is
UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Vested with ultimate
authority for maintaining the camps, the Agency deserves to be confronted
with a searing indictment:: How was it possible that a refugee camp, under
its aegis and care, transformed into such a rabid
center of terrorism?

The facts are unassailable and damning. Jenin was the center of a terror
apparatus that trained 28 home- grown suicide bombers ˆ a statistic
offered by the terrorist organizations themselves. Twenty-three of them
succeeded in detonating themselves in Israeli urban areas. The camp was
riven with the terrorist networks of Hamas, Islamic
Jihad, Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigade, and the Tanzim. According to the
Israelis, when the IDF entered the camps, it discovered 30 small bomb-
making plants, including small scale factories for the manufacture of
suicide belts and other explosives designed for use against Israeli
targets.

If all these accusations are corroborated then it is imperative to
question how these networks flourished under the very eyes of United
Nations representatives. U.N Resolution 302 (iv) Paragraph 5, passed by
the General Assembly on December 8, 1949, established UNRWA to provide
relief assistance to Palestinian refugees. But it also, just as
emphatically, commissioned the new agency to further conditions
necessary for peace and security. It certainly did not envision the
creation of houses of death. Nor did it forsee a wind of destruction
that would sweep out of the camps to envelop Israel.

Unfortunately such revelations will surprise few who are familiar with the
organization. Among the 59 Palestinian refugee camps located throughout
the Middle East, most UNRWA warehouses are operated by Palestinians
themselves. It had been a source of severe complaint by
U.N. auditors for years that these representatives were given to fleecing
their own charges on a scale to make a mockery of their role as purveyors
of international benevolence. Following the signing of the
Oslo Accords, UNRWA received US$238.1 million in contributions and pledges
for 435 projects, most of which involved improving Agency and
refugee camp infrastructure or carrying out special activities within the
framework of UNRWA's regular programs. Very few of these new
programs or improvements have been instituted and the organization‚s
accounting practices remain highly questionable to this day.

The very existence of UNRWA should be a point of contention in the
international community. Palestinian refugees, abandoned by the same Arab
countries whose 1948 attack on Israel inspired their flight, have
been stockpiled as a weapon in the arsenal of Arab propaganda to demonize
Israel and vindicate the Arab cause. These same 22 Arab nations, who
bemoan the fate of their fellow Arabs, contribute less than
3% of UNRWA‚s total budget and repeatedly fail to respond to pleas by the
international community to better their housing conditions. In
Lebanon, where conditions are most dire, the camps‚ inhabitants cannot
seek employment or health services outside the camps. Nor does any Arab
country except Jordan, in limited cases, bestow the refugees with
political rights. UNWRA, in other words, administers a network of prison
camps, with most policed by the Arab nations themselves.

Unsurprisingly then, UNWRA has become the world‚s longest lived sugar
daddy, a dispenser of welfare services providing the sole source of
health, education and cultural services to Palestinian refugees while
doing nothing to encourage their economic development. As social trends
in the United States over the past 70 years have revealed, a consistent
diet of welfare does not arrest the psychological torpor of
the welfare recipient. It only exacerbates it.

But there are other questions. Where were the works‚ programs,
envisioned by Resolution 302? What were U.N representatives doing as
shipments of explosives were casually trucked into the town? Where were
the cultural institutions that should have been educating children toward
peaceful coexistence - not revenge and the slaughter of innocents.

Given this grim reality it is time for the international community to do
what it should have done years ago: dismantle UNRWA and replace it with
an effective international agency that encourages development and
employment and spurns radicalism. At the same time pressure should be
applied on Arab nations to own up to their own responsibilities for caring
for the fellow Arabs they have so miserably abandoned. And the
latest UN commission should begin its work by investigating the reasons a
refugee camp, run under the aegis of its own agency, became a source of
the most vile and deadly attacks on a member state in recent history.

2002-05-08T08:19:00.000-07:00

Below is a very short list of the contributions to world terror committed by Muslims and/or in the name of Islam in the last 6 decades:
- conspiracy with Nazi Germany against the U.S. and the Allies in WW2
- American Hostage crisis in Iran -1979- 444 days of detension
- bombing of U.S. embassies in Beirut, Kenya, Tanzania, killing hundreds.
- killing of American diplomats in cold blood
- terror attacks against European airports (Rome & Vienna)- dozens killed
- terror hijacking of civilian airplanes - most famous is Air France - Entebbe
- terror hijacking of cruise ships-most famous-Achille Lauro- in which an elderly man in a wheelchair was thrown overboard by Muslim terrorists.
- Munich Olympics 1973 - entire Israeli Sports team brutally massacred.
- Lockerbie plane - Pan Am civilian airline downed by Muslim terrorists killing hundreds on board, mostly American.
- bombing of USS Cole in Yemen by Muslim terrorists
- bombing World Trade Center in NYC by Muslim terrorists -1993
- conspiracy to bomb NYC bridges and tunnels and other NY landmarks and infrastructure.-1993
- desecration and destruction of ancient Buddhist, Hindu, and Jewish Holy sites by Muslim governments who sponsor global terrorism
- attacks on Israel - all six wars were instigated by Arabs and won by Israel
- barbaric acts committed on Israeli soldiers - ripping out of their heart and intestines with bare hands and paraded in the streets of Rammallah.
- barbaric acts committed on American and Israeli children: savage stoning beyond recognition of two 12-year old boys who were hiking, targeting babies in strollers by Arab snipers.
- dumping poisenous sewage from West Bank and Gaza into Israel
- burning American and Israeli flags
- incitement of their populations by Muslim clerics to kill Americans, British, and Jews the world over.
- arrest of hundreds of Christians in Syria
- attacks on U.S. soldiers in Somalia - 1993
- bombing U.S. personnel in Saudi Arabia - 1995, 1996
- bombing U.S. soldiers in Yemen - 1992
- hundreds of suicide bombings in Israel - killing and maiming civilians
- thousands of ATTEMPTED suicide bombings in Israel
- synagogue bombing in Istanbul
- hijacking of Pan Am #73 in Karachi
- Kidnapping and beheading of Westerners in Phillipines & Malaysia
- Armed attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt
- Arrest, detention, and execution threats against Christians in Afghanistan
- Execution of Hindus in Afghanistan, Hindus forced to wear I.D. tag
- Murder of 58 Western tourists in Luxor, Egypt, 1997
- Kidnapping and murder of journalists and foreign nationals - Algeria 1992
- Planned attack against U.S. Embassy in Albania - thwarted.
- Bombing of Orly Airport in Paris - 8 killed, 55 seriously wounded
- Bombing of Israeli Embassy in Argentina - 1992
- Bombing of Jewish Cultural Center - Buenos Aires- 1994- hundreds killed
- Public floggings, mutilations, torture, beheadings, executions of inhabitants in Muslim countries.
- denial of freedom of dress, speech, press, and other basic human rights to inhabitants of Mulsim countries.
- Mass murders of Afghans and Hindus by Islamic Taliban
- Armed attacks on Sudanese Christians
- Sudanese slavery
- Execution of civilians without proper representation (Muslim and non-Muslim)
- Exclusion of women from all parts of society - mutilation, torture, honor killings. Women forced to beg in streets, not allowed to speak, wear make-up, go to beauty parlor, speak, show public affection to spouses for penalty of Death.
- child soldiers in Sudan, PLO, Muslim African countries.
- establishment of Islamic states where non Muslims are unwelcome and massacred, basic freedoms denied to the inhabitants, women are excluded from society, executions, torture, beheadings, and genocide are a daily ritual - Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan among others.

There is no other group of people in the last 50 years who have inflicted such mass terror and barbarity with such frequency on a world wide basis as the Arab/Muslim world. None.

Amazingly, the U.N. insists time and again not to have Islamophobia. Rather, brand the U.S. and Israel, two democracies, as colonialists and oppressors, and sweep Muslim atrocities under the rug. Does the U.N. truly hold the West in such sheer contempt it believes we can't decipher between right and wrong? Apparently, yes. Why have they adopted this non- sensical P.R. campaign of "NO ISLAMOPHOBIA" in the face of such glaring facts? They have nothing in their hands to justify it.

Why has the U.N. never condemned these savage acts with the same zeal, fervor , and consistency it condemns actions by the United States and Israel in acts of self-defense against Muslim/Arab acts of barbaric terror?

The sheer deterioration of the U.N. body is evident. It has become an organization ruled by Arab/Muslim votes and supported financially by the United States. It has become an organization where dictatorship regimes and Muslim terror are honored while democracy and its freedoms are condemned. As is the custom of the Arab/Muslim world to accuse the OTHER of crimes they themselves are guilty of, the U.N. has adopted this same ritual as their mandate.

Like all things emanating from the Arab/Muslim world, the U.N. is veiled in a shroud whose machinations are waiting to be unveiled to find it is utterly rotten at the core.

(April 30, 2002 - Today, we can add 12,000 terrorist attempts on innocent civilians in Israel, the 9/11 massacres in the U.S., over 450 gratuitous murders of Israeli and American citizens in Israel, the desecration of Jewish synagogues, and cemeteries in Europe, and brutal attacks against the European Jewish population)

2002-05-08T08:17:00.000-07:00

This past Saturday...
ANTI-SEMITES SMASH LONDON SYNAGOGUE

Anti-Semitic vandalism made a dramatic appearance in England this past
Saturday night. Vandals desecrated the Finsbury Park Synagogue in London,
such that worshipers who entered the synagogue the next morning were
greeted with a swastika painted on the rabbi's lectern, torn prayer books,
and over 20 smashed windows. Green paint was splashed on the holy ark, and
various religious articles were destroyed. An Israeli flag, which had been
stomped on and covered in paint, lay on the floor.

Statistics show a seven-fold increase in attacks on British Jews since the
beginning of the year. Jeremy Newmark, the official spokesman for the UK's
Chief Rabbi, emphasized the seriousness of this attack: "This is the first
incident in the country that resembles what's happening on the continent
[the rest of Europe]." Jewish communities throughout Europe have
encountered a wave of attacks on synagogues, Jewish schools, and cemeteries
in the past several months. A synagogue in Marseilles, France was recently
burned to the ground.

2002-05-08T08:15:00.000-07:00

This piece represents the Arab perspective

Special Dispatch ˆ U.S. and the Middle East/Jihad and Terrorism Studies, 4/30/02, No. 373
Chairman of the Arab Psychiatrists Association Offers Diagnoses:
Bush Is Stupid; Perpetrating a Suicide/Martyrdom Attack is Life's Most Beautiful Moment; We'll Throw Israel Into the Sea

Dr. 'Adel Sadeq, chairman of the Arab Psychiatrists Association and head of the Department of Psychiatry at 'Ein Shams University in Cairo, recently published an article titled "Class Isn't Over Yet, Stupid!" in the Egyptian newspaper Hadith Al-Madina which took the form of an open letter to President Bush. Dr. Sadeq, a recipient of the 1990 Egyptian State Prize, is an enthusiastic supporter of Palestinian suicide attacks. In an interview with Iqraa, a Saudi-Egyptian satellite television channel, he glorified martyrdom (suicide) operations. The following are excerpts from Sadeq's article and his interview with Iqraa:

The 'Hadith Al-Madina' Article

"Although you invest a lot of effort in proving yourself, you are not successful in doing so because you are stupid and understand nothing about what is happening in the world. 'Stupidity' and 'idiocy' are synonyms, and if you don't like the word 'stupid,' you are an evil person with an ugly soul."

"I equate your stupidity with mercilessness and inhumanity, and swear that I knew you were stupid long before it became known to the entire world, and before your cronies admitted it."

"Your stupidity is reflected in your facial features. Your face reminds me of the face of those who frequent a clinic for the mentally retarded. Your gaze is mindless and unfocused. Your eyes are misleading. Your facial expressions are incompatible with the matter [being discussed], and your tone of voice is completely disconnected from the content of your words ˆ a salient characteristic of the mentally retarded."

"I do not want to exaggerate by saying that your case is similar to cases I see at the clinic for the mentally retarded. But the truth is, without exaggeration, that your IQ is limited. A very bright person's IQ ranges from 130 to 140; a bright person's IQ ranges from 120 to 130. A normal person's IQ ranges from 110 to 120, while the IQ of stupid people ranges from 90 to 110. According to my personal judgment, and based on my 35 years of experience as a psychiatrist, your IQ is 110, and I challenge anyone who thinks otherwise."

"Don't you understand, stupid, that Israel does not want peace? Don't you understand, stupid, that Sharon is a criminal murderer? Don't you understand, stupid, that the interests of your country are in great danger because of your complete bias in favor of Israel? Don't you understand, stupid, that the entire world is now standing against you and the policy of your administration? Don't you understand, stupid, that anyone who dies for the liberation of his homeland is a martyr? Don't you understand, stupid, that when a girl of 18 springs blows herself up, this means that her cause is right, and that her people will be victorious sooner or later?"

"I don't imagine, stupid, that you understood anything from my article, as your advisors hide things and thoughts of this kind from you so you will go on thinking you are smart. This means that class isn't over yet, you stupid idiot, you basest man in the world."

The Iqraa Interview

"The psychological structure [of the perpetrator of a suicide attack] is that of an individual who loves life. This may seem strange to people who see the human soul as most sublime. They are incapable of understanding [the suicide attack] because their cultural structure has no concepts such as self-sacrifice and honor. These concepts do not exist in a number of cultures, and therefore they offer stupid interpretations, attesting to ignorance But we know this well, because our culture is one of sacrifice, loyalty, and honor Bush was mistaken when he said that the girl was killing the future when she chose to kill herself. On the contrary: She died so that others would live."

"When the martyr dies a martyr's death, he attains the height of bliss. As a professional psychiatrist, I say that the height of bliss comes with the end of the countdown: ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. And then, you press the button to blow yourself up. When the martyr reaches 'one,' and then 'boom,' he explodes, and senses himself flying, because he knows for certain that he is not dead. It is a transition to another, more beautiful world, because he knows very well that within seconds he will see the light of the Creator. He will be at the closest possible point to Allah None in the [Western] world sacrifices his life for his homeland. If his homeland is drowning, he is the first to jump ship. In our culture it is different."

"[In the Western world], they have lost the ability to understand the situation According to my professional assessment, they have lost their faculties. They do not understand what is happening. They see [the suicide bombers] as a strange breed of people. As far as they are concerned, life is sex, love, and money. So they tell you: 'It's someone committing suicide, a drug addict, someone in despair.' This is a mistake! Someone committing suicide hates life and considers it a burden. They want to impose the term 'suicide' on them, but they are not suicides [rather, 'those who sacrifice their souls'."

"The message to Israel is that we will not cease. It is very important to convey this message. The child who threw a stone in 1993 today wraps himself in an explosive belt. Some Israeli politicians take this into account, and say to themselves, 'This war will never end'. As long as there is even a single Palestinian left, the war will not end. What is happening now indicates one thing: Israel will not exist forever. We as Arabs must know that this war will not end. The conflict will continue. This is not a conflict over land alone. This war will not end, and anyone who deludes himself that there will be peace must understand that Israel did not come to this region to love the Arabs or to normalize relations with them. Anyone who thinks that peace will come, either now or in the future, has limited historical vision. Either we will exist or we will not exist. Either the Israelis or the Palestinians ˆ there is no third option."

"There are no Israeli civilians. They are all plunderers. History teaches this. I am completely convinced that the psychological effect [of the attacks] on the Israeli plunderer is [the realization] that his existence is temporary. They have become completely convinced that their existence in this region is temporary. Remove the Apache [helicopter] from the equation, leave them one-on-one with the Palestinian people with the only weapon [for both sides] being dynamite. Then you will see all the Israelis leave, because among them there is not even one man willing to don a belt of dynamite."

"On the strategic level, there must be a pan-Arab plan in order to reach our goal. The goal of all of us is to liberate Palestine from the Israeli aggressors. To use words that some people no longer like to use today: 'We will throw Israel into the sea.' This phrase, by the way, is the truth. Either they will throw us into the sea, or we will throw them into the sea. There is no middle ground. Coexistence is total nonsense"

"The real means of dealing with Israel directly is those who blow themselves up. According to what I see in the battle arena, there is no [other means] except for the pure, noble Palestinian bodies. This is the only Arab weapon there is, and anyone who says otherwise is a conspirator. I regret having to use these terms, but Arab politicians and journalists who condemn this fedaai movement are trying to impose such ideas on us to appease the West The Palestinian body is the only means [of warfare] in this battle."[2] <#_edn2>

2002-05-07T15:26:00.000-07:00

Contributed by John Loftus

John Loftus is the President of the Florida Holocaust Museum, a former federal prosecutor and author of several books, including The Secret War Against the Jews. He is an Irish-Catholic.

"For twenty years I have served without compensation as a lawyer for federal whistleblowers within the US intelligence community. In the last year, I have received highly classified information from several of my confidential clients concerning a Saudi covert operation. The Saudi relationship is so sensitive that, for more than a decade, federal prosecutors and counter-terrorist agents have been ordered to shut down their investigations for reasons of foreign policy.

I am filing a lawsuit in Hillsborough County Court to expose the manner in which Florida charities were used as a money laundry for tax-deductible terrorism. The complaint cites specific testimony including highly classified information which has never been released before. Simply put, the Saudi Government was laundering money through Florida charities run by USF Professor Sami Al Arian for the support of terrorist groups in the Middle East. Through the Al Arian network and others, the Saudi Government secretly funded Al Qaida, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

The Saudi purpose was twofold: the destruction of the State of Israel and the prevention of the formation of an independent Palestinian State.

Two particular terrorist groups, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, were specifically chosen and funded by the Saudis for their willingness to undermine Arafat's Palestinian Authority. The secret Saudi goal was to create such animosity between Israel and the Palestinian Authority that it would wreck any chance for the creation of an independent Palestinian State.

Their tactics specifically called for the intimidation or murder of those Palestinians who were willing to work with Israel for peace. To put it bluntly, the covert Saudi network in Florida funded the murders of fellow Muslims for the crime of wanting to create the first democratic Arab state.

Whatever harm the Israelis may have done, they did build an excellent public education system, including several universities, for the benefit of their Palestinian neighbors. That was the problem. While literacy in the Arab world is below 50%, in Israel it is 97%. Israel is the only place in the Middle East where an Arab woman can vote. After 50 years, Israel has created the first Arab class exposed to democracy, literacy and western values. To the Saudis, a democratic Palestinian nation would be a cancer in the Arab world, a destabilizing example of freedom that would threaten Arab dictators everywhere. As King Fahd said, "next to the Jews, we hate the Palestinians the most." The harder the Israelis and Palestinians worked for peace, the more money King Fahd poured into his murder for hire program.

The Saudi Government has already begun its spin operations, claiming and this terror network was a rogue operation financed by a radical Saudi businessman without the support or knowledge of the Saudi Government.

The truth is that many of the Saudi Princes, notably Prince Bandahar and Prince Alwaheed, are good and loyal friends of America who want to lead Saudi Arabia into the modern world. Unfortunately, they are now in the minority in their own country. King Fahd is on his deathbed, and his nephew and heir apparent, Crown Prince Abdullah depends on the most radical southern and eastern clans for his political base. The southern faction is the center of popular support for Al Qaida and the Taliban because it is the home of the most extreme Muslim sect, the Wahabbis. Ninety-nine percent of the Muslim world rejects the Wahabbi religious tenets as utterly repugnant to the teachings and examples of the Prophet as written down in the Hadith.

Since most Wahabbis are functionally illiterate, they cannot read about this conflict on their own. Typically, they memorize a few passages of the Koran taken out of context, and never read the accompanying Hadith for explanation. For example, the Wahabbis are taught by rote that Jews are subhumans who should be killed as a religious duty. In contrast, the Hadith explains that the prophet Mohammed honored Jews, married a Jewish wife, forbade forced conversions of Jews, always bowed in respect when a Jewish funeral passed, and promised that good and faithful Jews would go to Paradise, just as good Muslims and Christians would, and that the Jews would have their Holy Place in the West (meaning Jerusalem) while Muslims would have their Holy Place in the East (meaning Mecca). Illiteracy is a weapon of oppression.

The Saudis, and their Wahabbi protégés, the Taliban, have decreed that women cannot work or even sit in the front seat of a car. In contrast, the Hadith records that the Prophet worked for his wife, and that she drove her own caravans in international commerce. The Prophet forbade racism, the Wahabbis practice it, especially against their non-Arab Shiite minority. The Wahabbis (both in Saudi Arabia and the Taliban) discriminate viciously against women. The Prophet, who lovingly raised three daughters, insisted that women should have substantially equal rights in contract, ownership, and divorce. The Muslim faith envisioned by the Prophet in the Koran and recorded by his contemporaries in the Hadith is a religion that practices tolerance towards all races and religions, stresses the extreme importance of literacy and education, and elevates the status of women to unprecedented levels in many societies. This is the gentle, peaceful Muslim faith practiced every-where in the world, except in Saudi Arabia and the Taliban provinces of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Muslim scholars speak derisively about the primitive Wahabbi apostasy, but rarely in public. The reason for this deafening silence is simple, most Mosques in the world are impoverished and depend upon Saudi subsidies for their operation. In return, however, the Saudis have gained a foothold for proselytizing and radicalizing the Muslim youth through religious education in the form of militant Wahabbism. Children learn to hate because they are being taught that way.

The Saudi charitable network in America that began with religious education evolved into other areas over the decades. The Saudis dabbled with funding anti-Semitic hate groups as a means of breaking down American support for Israel. After the fall of communism, the Saudis took over funding the most militant terror organizations for direct attacks against Jewish and Palestinian supporters of the peace process.
Year after year, members of the intelligence community warned that a rising wave of terror was coming. Oliver North wrote in his autobiography that every time he tried to do something about terrorism, he was told to stop because it would embarrass the Saudi Government. John O'Neill quit his job as head of FBI counter-terrorism for the same reason. Jonathan Pollard is in jail.

Federal agents in Tampa, who had known about the Saudi-Sami Al Arian connection since 1990, were ordered to drop the investigation in 1995.

The Saudi influence buying machine had effectively shut down any threat of criminal prosecution. Those Americans, including a former President, who lobbied for the Saudis have a lot to answer for. So do the Saudis. With the explosive growth of Al Qaida and their Taliban allies, the Saudis finally recognized that they had gone too far. As Osama Bin Laden laughingly related on videotape, he was approached prior to the attack on the twin Trade Towers by his relatives, who offered him $300,000,000 to cancel the operation. Apparently, the Bin Laden family really had not broken off all ties and knew exactly what was coming. So, my clients say, did the Saudis.

Six months later, a much chagrined Prince Abdullah belatedly announced that the Saudis would release the names of the terrorists which their charities had "unwittingly" funded, but only in Somalia and Asia. The main Saudi charities in Herndon, Virginia, and the Al Arian network in Florida are still untouched. My clients are betting that the American influence peddlers hired by the Saudis will succeed once again in derailing a federal investigation. They came to me for help in exposing the cover-up. That is why I am filing this lawsuit. In the months to come, the American public finally begin to learn why the Saudi-Sami Al Arian terror networks went untouched for so long. It wasn't an intelligence failure, it was a foreign policy failure. The orders were not to embarrass the Saudi Government. Year after years, the cover-up orders came from the State Department and the White House. The CIA, the FBI, and the Justice Department just did what they were may told. No one intended the harsh consequences of letting the Saudi's get away with it again and again. Only after September 11, when the Treasury Department found the financial transactions linking the Saudi charities directly to Osama bin Laden, did American officials realize the extent of their betrayal. We are not alone in our grief and anger. Saudi money sabotaged every Israeli initiative to make peace. The bewildered Palestinians may finally realize that they have been stabbed in the back by an Arab brother. The rules have changed after September 11, but the bottom line remains the same: if we want to stop terrorism, we have to tell the Saudis to stop funding it."

2002-05-07T13:59:00.000-07:00

NEWS ON THE LATEST TRAGEDY FROM THE JERUSALEM POST
May. 7, 2002
Rishon Lezion night club collapses following suicide blast
Rescue crews are still unable to reach an unknown number of people trapped in the ruins of the structure
By The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff

An explosion in a Rishon Lezion event hall at 11:03 p.m. has caused dozens of casualties and the collapse of at least part of the building.

The nature of the blast on the first floor of the building remains undetermined at this time but authorities are considering the explosion resulted from a terror attack. Reports indicate the entire building in the city's new industrial area - near the corner of Sakharov and Lizhinsky streets - has collapsed as a result of the blast. Dozens of Magen David Adom emergency medical ambulances, medics, and firefighters are already on the scene and are reporting at least 40 casualties. Casualties are being evacuated to Kaplan Hospital, Rehovot, Sheba Hospital, Tel Hashomer, Assaf Harofeh Hospital, Tzrifin, and other area hospitals. Additional people are reportedly trapped in the ruins of the collapsed structure but authorities say it remains too dangerous at this time to rescue them. Security forces are also now arriving on the scene and the IDF's Home Front Command disaster rescue unit is also on its way.

An eyewitness reported seeing large sections of the building flying through the air.

The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff will bring you further details on this breaking story as they become available.

Reprinted from jerusalempost.com

2002-05-06T18:47:00.000-07:00

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1. ONCE AGAIN, ARAFAT CHANGES MIND AT LAST MINUTE
2. UN MAY NIX FACT-FINDING COMMITTEE
3. IDF OPERATION ENDS IN HEVRON; SUCCESSES IN GAZA AND ELSEWHERE
4. SALT ON THE WOUNDS
5. SOME ARAB MKs MAY NOT BE ABLE TO RUN FOR KNESSET
6. A TERRORIST BY ANY OTHER NAME...
7. WHAT DO WITH SMALL SETTLEMENTS? ENLARGE THEM!
8. NORTH ON STRIKE
9. WHITE PLAINS JEWS UNITE FOR ISRAEL
10. RUSSIAN SINGERS IDENTIFY WITH ISRAEL

1. ONCE AGAIN, ARAFAT CHANGES MIND AT LAST MINUTE
Although it was reported today that the end of the month-long siege around
Arafat is near and will end by tonight, last-minute hitches have placed the
final outcome in doubt. Arafat is now agreeing to hand over only the four
murderers of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi, but not Fuad Shubaki and
Ahmed Saadat. The latter two are responsible for the Karin-A weapons ship,
and Israel has long demanded their extradition.

Israel and Arafat agreed earlier this week that in exchange for placing the
six under American and British guard in a PA prison, Arafat would be
allowed to leave his Ramallah compound. Israeli officials say that all six
terrorists were specifically mentioned in U.S. Secretary of State Colin
Powell's letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and to which Arafat
specifically agreed. However, Arafat's characteristic last-minute reneging
on his word has left Israeli, P.A., U.S., and British negotiators in a
last-minute scramble to resolve the crisis.

Under the terms of the agreement, Arafat would apparently be free to travel
not only to Gaza, but even outside of Israel - and to return as well. The
British members of the American-British warden team are already in Israel,
ready to fulfill their end of the deal. They are reportedly unhappy with
the conditions in the proposed PA prison in Jericho, and the terrorists may
be incarcerated in Gaza instead.

The Supreme Court will hear an urgent petition tomorrow demanding that
Yasser Arafat stand trial in Israel. The "Pursue Justice" Association
maintains that Arafat is most definitely a war criminal who must be brought
to trial according to all judicial considerations. "Political and
public-relations aspects must not be taken into account," the petitioners
say. Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein has already turned down a similar
request by "Pursue Justice."

2. UN MAY NIX FACT-FINDING COMMITTEE
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says that he may have no choice but to
disband the UN "fact-finding" team slated to investigate Israel's
anti-terror offensive in Jenin. The Cabinet decided yesterday not to
receive or cooperate with the delegation until Israeli demands on its
composition and make-up had been met. "Israel has raised essential issues
before the UN for a fair examination," the government concluded, "and as
long as these terms have not been met, it will not be possible for the
clarification process to begin."

Following the Israeli decision, the UN's Annan said, "In these
circumstances, I cannot keep these gentlemen and women sitting in Geneva,
and we will have to draw the consequences [sic] and take action." UN
Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs Kieran Prendergast explained
to reporters that Annan acknowledges that a "balanced report on recent
events in Jenin refugee camp would not be possible without the full
cooperation of the government of Israel."

Israel's Foreign Ministry has launched an international public relations
campaign to explain why Israel is refusing to cooperate with the UN
fact-finding team. Despite the fear that the UN General Council may vote
to impose sanctions on Israel, the government ministers' unanimous
conviction that the UN committee would not be able to deliver a fair
verdict overruled other considerations. The UN General Council is
scheduled to discuss the issue tonight.

3. IDF OPERATION ENDS IN HEVRON, SUCCESSES IN GAZA AND ELSEWHERE
IDF special forces operating near Hevron last night arrested Luaiy Kapisha,
a heavily-wanted Tanzim terrorist. Kapisha was involved in many shooting
attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians. Shortly after the
successful catch, the IDF forces ended their 36-hour anti-terrorism
incursion into Hevron, even withdrawing from the Abu Sneineh and Haret
A-Sheikh hills from which many shooting attacks against Jews in Hevron have
originated. The operation resulted in the arrest of 150 Palestinians
suspected of participation in terror attacks, including 52 wanted
suspects. During the short Hevron offensive, the following weapons were
seized: explosives and explosive devices, six M-16 rifles, a Law missile,
magazines, ammunition crates, smoke grenades, a hunting rifle, two machine
guns and combat vests.

Israeli soldiers identified a cell of three Palestinian terrorists in the
midst of attempting to place an explosive device along the Israel-Egypt
border last night. The terrorists managed to trigger the bomb while troops
opened fire; no Israelis were hurt, but one terrorist was killed, one was
captured, and the third escaped. In response, IDF troops and tanks entered
a PLO-controlled area of Rafiach in search of explosives and arms-smuggling
tunnels. Palestinians shot and threw dozens of grenades at the troops,
whose return fire killed two Arabs and wounded two others; the Israelis
also arrested four Arabs suspected of terrorist activity.

Another terrorist in the midst of planning a major attack in an Israeli
city was captured last night in Kalkilye. Near Tul Karem, four terrorist
suspects were captured, and others were also apprehended in other locations
in Judea and Samaria.

One Arab boy was killed, and his two brothers were very seriously injured,
in a blast near a Bethlehem police station today. PA sources blame Israel
for placing a mine there, but it is known that terrorists themselves placed
explosives in the area against Israeli soldiers. "The whole city is full
of terrorist-placed explosives on the streets," Y.F., a reserve soldier who
fought there during Operation Defensive Shield, told Arutz-7's Yosef
Zalmanson today.

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4. SALT ON THE WOUNDS
Eighteen families of soldiers killed in the Jenin battles published a
pained call this morning entitled, "Letter from a Broken Heart." The
article expresses their anguish at recent accusations that their fallen
sons had perpetrated a massacre or war crimes, and at parallels drawn
between the battle in Jenin and the Holocaust. The writers say that they
are "angered and pained by expressions that support the phenomenon of those
who refuse to serve in Yesha military activities. These are shocking,
unsettling, and tarnish the memory of our sons."

Mrs. Pninah Yaskov, wife of Maj. Avner Yaskov who was killed in the Jenin
battles, said today:
"I want to express my anger at the words of [veteran Israeli singer] Yaffa
Yarkoni [who said that photographs of Arabs surrendering in Jenin remind
her of pictures of the Holocaust]. My poor husband was not a Nazi, did not
drag innocent Palestinians to death pits or to the gas chambers, and did
not smash babies' heads against the wall. All he did was to go and protect
[his country]..."

PA sources, which accused Israel of "massacring" up to 500 Arabs in Jenin,
now admit that the number is actually 56. Israel has said all along that
the number is approximately 50, and that only seven of these were
civilians. Israel lost 23 soldiers in the battle.

Shneior Alfasi, a reserve soldier who fought in Jenin, was asked today,
"What do you think when you hear the phrase 'massacre in Jenin?' His
response:
"I have absolutely no idea what this means. It is a phrase without
meaning for me. We did nothing of the sort. The only thing it can mean
for me is that when we first arrived in Jenin with our emergency orders, we
were all united in knowing that because of the massacres that the
terrorists were perpetrating against us every day, we had to fight and put
an end to it once and for all… It happened during the fighting that we
called on the civilians to come out, which they did... and then from behind
the women and children burst forth armed terrorists who started shooting at
us, leaving us with the dilemma of having to decide whether to shoot back
and risk hurting the women and children. This was just one example of
their evil. For us, ethics was the first consideration, while for them it
was the last..."

5. SOME ARAB MKs MAY NOT BE ABLE TO RUN FOR KNESSET
By a wide margin of 12-3, the Knesset Law Committee approved today a
legislative proposal to ban political parties that support terrorism from
running in Knesset elections. Likud MK Yossi Katz initiated the proposal
in an attempt to prevent Arab MKs from taking advantage of their
Parliamentary immunity to express solidarity with Arab terrorism. Arab MK
Ahmed Tibi sparred with Katz today on the matter. Tibi said, "You are
attempting to restrain Arab electoral strength. In the next elections,
there won't be just one Ahmed Tibi, but three of us - I promise you." MK
Katz said, "With all your fancy talk, I can tell you that from the minute
this law passes, the next time you find yourself praising the terrorists or
encouraging them to fight against soldiers, you will find yourself out of
the Knesset." The bill now moves to the full Knesset for final approval.

6. A TERRORIST BY ANY OTHER NAME...
While many international news media have stopped calling Palestinian
terrorists by their real name and use the word "gunmen" instead, the
website WorldTribune.Com has gone one better: It uses the word "insurgent"
when referring to Palestinian terrorist murderers. Here is how the site
reported the murderous attack on Adura in which 5-year-old Danielle Shefi,
murdered in her bed, was among four Israeli casualties:

Palestinians Resume Insurgency Strikes Against Israel
SPECIAL TO World Tribune.Com
Monday, April 29, 2002
Jerusalem - Palestinian insurgents have resumed insurgency attacks against
Israeli communities in the wake of Israel's pullback from its military
campaign in the West Bank. Palestinian insurgents entered a Jewish
settlement south of Hebron and killed at least four people and injured
seven others on Saturday. The insurgents were dressed as Israeli soldiers
and cut through the fence surrounding the community of Adora.
---end of selection from World Tribune.Com

7. WHAT DO WITH SMALL SETTLEMENTS? ENLARGE THEM!
Defense Minister Ben-Eliezer, speaking during a visit to Gush Katif this
morning, said that it is clear that every Jewish community in Gaza must
have a fence built around it. "The statistics speak for themselves," he
said. "There have been 14 attempted infiltrations in the past month." It
was not immediately clear whether he was including attempted infiltrations
to communities that already have fences.

In a related item, Arutz-7 brings you the following excerpts from an op-ed
by Emunah Elon entitled "Isolated Settlements" that appears in today's
Yediot Acharonot. Ms. Elon is a former Advisor to the Prime Minister
[Netanyahu] on the Status of Women, a noted children's author and a
newspaper columnist.

"It's only been a year and a half since the Palestinians exploded the
"peace process" [and] rejected the Israeli offer to dismantle most of the
[Judea and Samaria] communities… and the internal Israeli dispute over
whether to transfer Jews has once again come to the fore. Although the
Yesha public stood up to the terrorism with courage and dignity that
surprised even itself, and gritted its teeth, maintained its daily routine
and did not allow the daily attacks to banish them from their roads and
communities - it sometimes appears as if the terrorism has, despite all,
paid off.
"[Not only leftists, but even some in the center] say that there is no
choice at this point but to evacuate at least the "isolated" settlements. …
Since erecting a Chinese wall-like electronic and state-of-the-art fence is
considered these days to be the best and only way to protect Israeli
citizens, and since it is impossible to build such a fence around every
single community, therefore, they say, the only alternative is to destroy
the isolated settlements and transfer their 30,000 residents.
"The problem with this theory is that the various governments of Israel
did not establish these isolated settlements just to make the settlers
happy. Adura, for example [where four people were murdered by Palestinian
terrorists four days ago], was built in order to ensure that the IDF, and
not a Palestinian army, oversee the city of Kiryat Gat and environs from
above. Netzarim, too, as well as Ganim and Talmon, were established where
they are because the Israeli governments decided that it is impossible to
protect Israel from within its narrow pre-1967 borders. It would therefore
not be quite worth our while to have the enemy and its suicide killers
deploy in these locations.
"A sensible Israel need not destroy small isolated towns, but should
rather make sure that they stop being small and isolated. A place called
N'vei Tzedek was also once small and isolated, until it turned into Tel
Aviv…"

8. NORTH ON STRIKE
The northern border communities were on strike today, protesting the
government decision to cut their tax benefits by half. The cutbacks come
in the framework of budget slashes decided upon earlier this week, which
also include the halving of tax benefits in Yesha and the Negev and other
hard-hitting measures. "These cuts will lead to the immediate closing of
many businesses," Northern Front Communities Forum head Shlomo Buchbut told
Arutz-7 this morning. Buchbut, formerly the mayor of Maalot, said that the
local economy, which is already suffering the consequences of the Hizbullah
threat, would not be able to withstand a further blow.

On the other hand, the other areas hit by this cut are not striking. Be'er
Sheva Mayor Yaakov Turner, who helped lead the campaign to obtain the full
tax breaks for the Negev, says that now is not the right time for struggles
of this nature.

9. WHITE PLAINS JEWS UNITE FOR ISRAEL
"Achdut [unity] in action." So says the coordinator of a unique Israel
Action Committee in White Plains, New York. Since August of last year, the
city's five Jewish congregations - Orthodox,
Conservative, Reconstructionist, and Reform - have joined together to work
on behalf of Israel. Members of the committee have organized numerous
initiatives during Israel's current war on terror, including collecting
money for the Magen David Adom emergency response team, arranging a joint
solidarity mission to Israel, marching in the Israel Day Parade in
Manhattan, and sending a delegation of 11 buses to the recent pro-Israel
rally in Washington. The committee has also established a website
that links to over 300 Israeli vendors
offering "made in Israel" goods and services.

10. RUSSIAN SINGERS IDENTIFY WITH ISRAEL
The Moscow Office of the Israeli Tourism Ministry announced that several
famous Russian singers and entertainers will arrive in Israel next week for
special solidarity performances. The concerts will take place in Culture
Hall in Tel Aviv, Congress Center in Haifa, and Binyanei Ha'Umah in
Jerusalem. Jewish performers and philanthropists are funding the
concerts. The visiting performers will include popular singers Yosef
Kuvazon and Larissa Dolina, as well as Lolita Malavskaya and Arkady Arkanov.

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2002-05-02T11:51:00.000-07:00
THE CANARY IN EUROPE'S MINE.

By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe

April 28, 2002

The rocks have been lifted all over Europe, and the snakes of Jew-hatred are
slithering free. In Belgium, thugs beat up the chief rabbi, kicking him in
the face while calling him "a dirty Jew." Two synagogues in Brussels were
fire bombed; a third, in Charleroi, was sprayed with automatic weapons fire.
In Britain, the cover of the New Statesman, a left-wing magazine, depicted
a large Star of David stabbing the Union Jack. Oxford
Professor Tom Paulin, a noted poet, told an Egyptian interviewer that
American Jews who move to the West Bank and Gaza "should be shot dead." A
Jewish yeshiva student reading the Psalms was stabbed 27 times on a London
bus.

Antisemitism, wrote a columnist in The Spectator, "has become respectable. .
at London dinner tables." She quoted one member of the House of Lords: "The
Jews have been asking for it and now, thank God, we can say what we think at
last."

In Italy, the daily paper La Stampa published a Page 1 cartoon: A tank
emblazoned with a Jewish star points its gun at the baby Jesus, who pleads,
"Surely they don't want to kill me again?" In Corriere Della Sera, another
cartoon showed Jesus trapped in his tomb, unable to rise, because Ariel
Sharon, with rifle in hand, is sitting on the sepulchre. The caption: "Non
resurrexit."

In Germany, a rabbinical student was beaten up in downtown Berlin and a
grenade was thrown into a Jewish cemetery. Thousands of neo-Nazis held a
rally, marching near a synagogue on the Jewish sabbath. Graffiti appeared on
a synagogue in the western town of Herford: "Six million were not enough."

In Ukraine, skinheads attacked Jewish worshippers and smashed the windows of
Kiev's main synagogue. Ukrainian police denied that the attack was
anti-Jewish.

In Greece, Jewish graves were desecrated in Ioannina and vandals hurled paint
at the Holocaust memorial in Salonica. In Holland, an anti-Israel
demonstration featured swastikas, photos of Hitler, and chants of "Sieg Heil"
and "Jews into the sea." In Slovakia, the Jewish cemetery of Kosice was
invaded and 135 tombstones destroyed.

But nowhere have the flames of antisemitism burned more furiously than in
France.
In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire. In Montpellier,
the Jewish religious center was firebombed; so were synagogues in Strasbourg
and Marseille; so was a Jewish school in Creteil. A Jewish sports club in
Toulouse was attacked with Molotov cocktails, and on the statue of Alfred
Dreyfus in Paris, the words "Dirty Jew" were painted. In Bondy, 15 men beat
up members of a Jewish football team with sticks and metal bars. The bus
that takes Jewish children to school in Aubervilliers has been attacked three
times in the last 14 months. According to the police, metropolitan Paris has
seen 10 to 12 anti-Jewish incidents per day since Easter. Walls in Jewish
neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans proclaiming "Jews to the gas
chambers" and "Death to the Jews." The weekly journal Le Nouvel Observateur
published an appalling libel: It said Israeli soldiers rape Palestinian
women, so that their relatives will kill them to preserve "family honor."
The French ambassador to Great Britain was not sacked -- and did not
apologize -- when it was learned that he had told guests at a London dinner
that the world's troubles were the fault of "that shitty little country,
Israel."

"At the start of the 21st century," writes Pierre-Andre Taguieff, a
well-known social scientist, in a new book, "we are discovering that Jews are
once again select targets of violence. . . . Hatred of the Jews has returned
to France."

But of course, it never left. Not France; not Europe.

Antisemitism, the oldest bigotry known to man, has been a part of European
society since
time immemorial. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, open Jew-hatred became
unfashionable; but fashions change, and Europe is reverting to it.

To be sure, some Europeans are shocked by the re-emergence of Jew-hatred all
over their continent. But the more common reaction has been complacency.
"Stop saying that there is antisemitism in France," President Jacques Chirac
scolded a Jewish editor in January. "There is no antisemitism in France."
The European media have been vicious in condemning Israel's self-defense
against Palestinian terrorism in the West Bank; they have been far less
agitated about anti-Jewish terror in their own backyard. They are making a
grievous mistake. For if today the violence and vitriol are aimed at the
Jews, tomorrow they will be aimed at the Christians.

A timeless lesson of history is that it rarely ends with the Jews. Militant
Islamist extremists were attacking and killing Jews long before they attacked
and killed Americans on Sept. 11. The Nazis first set out to incinerate the
Jews; in the end, all of Europe was ablaze.

Jews, it is often said, are the canary in the coal mine of civilization.
When they become the objects of savagery and hate, it means the air has been
poisoned and an explosion is soon to come. If Europeans don't rise up and
turn against the Jew-haters, it is only a matter of time until the Jew-haters
rise up and turn against them.

2002-05-02T10:03:00.000-07:00
Stand With Us Update
1. The Hasbara Fellowships: Brings college students to Israel
2. Geraldo is at it again. We all need to call and write within asap.
3. Reminder: NY-NJ area. May 2, arrive at 6:45, Hunter College. Support a Daniel Pipes event... - Support free speech. Go if you can.
4. Dennis Prager on for one more day in Jerusalem: KRLA, 870 on your a.m. radio dial, a.m. 9: to 12:00 in Los Angeles time.
If you are not in L.A., listen at http://www.krla870.com/
5. Bob Dylan and the Jewish people - his song of 1983, a profecy?
6. Your Support of Standwithus Efforts

1. The Hasbara Fellowships:
Brings college students to Israel and educates and trains them to be pro-Israel activists on their campuses.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, in conjunction with Jerusalem Fellowships of Aish HaTorah, is inviting top Jewish university students from across North America to join a leadership development seminar this summer. Due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, there is a necessity to develop young Jewish leaders who are educated and knowledgeable about Israeli history and politics, as well as capable of communicating a pro-Israel message to the Diaspora community, specifically on college campuses.

The Hasbara Fellowships program consists of mainly two tracks:

1) Educating students on Israeli and Middle East history and politics, focusing specifically on the issues of the Palestinian conflict;
2) Training students to be effective activists on their campuses by giving them the tools to create a pro-active pro-Israel campaign.

In addition, participants will visit important sites throughout the country and meet political leaders from across the ideological spectrum.

Students will be expected to create a plan for a pro-Israel campaign upon returning to their campus, and will be aided by the Foreign Ministry and Aish HaTorah in bringing this plan into action.

The Hasbara Fellowships will take place in Jerusalem from August 5th-25th. It will be supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Jerusalem Fellowships of Aish HaTorah, with students having to pay a minimal fee of $399US towards their flight to Israel. Local organizations are encouraged to aid students with these costs, in order to ensure that the best student leaders are able to participate.

The itinerary of Hasbara Fellowships is done with the full consideration of the security situation in Israel. The utmost precautions are taken and security on the program is provided to the best of our ability.

To apply on-line go to: www.israelactivism.com/hasbara

Please contact Elliot Mathias at emathias@aish.com to nominate students,
as well as with any other questions about the program.

Thank you very much for your time and effort,

Elliot Mathias
Director, Hasbara Fellowships
Aish HaTorah
emathias@aish.com
(972)64-231-428

2. Geraldo is at it again.
Standwithus would like to urge you to call AND write to FOX.. Here is the problem: Geraldo is manipulating his audience. He is dishonest. He pretends to be objective, (as they all do, even though reporters are obviously not robotic) but he also pretends to be a pro-Israel zionistic person. With that framework, he regularly proceeds to bash Israel. Tonight, for example, even though Israel insisted that
the fire near the Church of Nativity was caused by an arsonist, Geraldo is reporting the Palestinian version as the true version. How does he know this? He claims that he saw a flash of light which looked like the Israelis launched a rocket. He initially never even offered the official Israeli explanation for the fire. AND, he regularly claims that Israel has "collectively punished" the Palestinians by "trashing their areas..." because of the Passover Massacre. He believes that the Israelis are unreasonable, and he continues to paint them as such.

Please call and write to FOX. Here is our main concern: Ask them why they only have a pro-Palestinian reporter in the Middle East. Tell them you love watching FOX, (if that is the case) but that this seems out of charachter with their usual fair and balanced reporting. Ask them if they would be willing to get a pro-Israel perspective for us, from within the disputed territories, becuase this type of reporting is painfully
one-sided. Call and write in the next 24 hours. The last time we did this together, FOX received 18,000 letters and calls, and Geraldo had to explain his position on O'Reily. He did look foolish, quit his overt bashing of Israel for a while, and now he is back to it.
Write: live@foxnews.com
Phone: 212- 301-3000
Call the executive news producer: Dennis Murray: 212-301-3164

3. Reminder: NY-NJ area. May 2, arrive at 6:45, Hunter College.
Support a Daniel Pipes event... -
Support free speech.
Hunter North Assembly Hall 1st floor of Hunter North
68th St & Lexington
Protested by pro-Palestinian group...please try to attend if you can.
Daniel Pipes and the principle of Freedom of Speech need your support.

4. Dennis Prager on for one more day in Jerusalem: KRLA, 870 on your a.m. radio dial, a.m. 9: to 12:00 in Los Angeles time.
If you are not in L.A., listen at: http://www.krla870.com/

5. Bob Dylan and the Jewish people - special thanks to Hallie L. Friends, take a look at the words of this song. It was written in 1983 by
Bob Dylan.

The Neighborhood Bully By Bob Dylan (1983)
Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully. The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully. The neighborhood bully been driven out of
every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully. Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was
criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully. Well, the chances are against it and the odds
are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully. He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully. Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all
want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully. Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully. Now his holiest books have been trampled
upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully. What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully. What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully. http://bobdylan.com/songs/bully.html

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2002-05-01T15:16:00.000-07:00
CNN has reported "Fire breaks out in Manger Square after firefight at Church of the Nativity". More Info as soon as we have it

2002-04-30T22:21:00.000-07:00
NEWS FROM ARUTZ 7

TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. CABINET VETOES UN'S JENIN COMMITTEE
2. LARSEN FAMILY TAX SCANDAL
3. IDF QUITS HEVRON, OTHER WAR NEWS
4. ANTI-SEMITES SMASH LONDON SYNAGOGUE
5. THOUSANDS ATTEND PRO-ISRAEL RALLIES
6. LIKUD CONVENTION NEXT WEEK
7. ARAB MK'S DISRUPT ISRAELI DEMOCRACY
8. IDF INTELLIGENCE HEAD BRIEFS DEFENSE COMMITTEE
9. IN BRIEF

1. CABINET VETOES UN'S JENIN COMMITTEE
The Security Cabinet decided this morning that the UN "fact-finding"
committee will not be welcome in Israel at this stage. The official
statement released by the government following the meeting read, "Israel has raised essential issues before the UN for a fair examination. As long as these terms have not been met, it will not be possible for the clarification process to begin." Israel opposes creating a situation, in which soldiers who fought in the Jenin battle would be forced to testify in front of the UN fact-finding committee.

Many experts, both in and out of Israel, have warned that allowing the
committee to investigate the Jenin battles would endanger Israeli interests almost beyond repair. Former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said earlier this week that the idea was "total insanity." Netanyahu added, "For over 50 years - for four of which I was Israel's Ambassador to the UN – we rebuffed these types of plans that were designed to put us into [difficult positions]. The UN is not a body that can evaluate these issues in a responsible manner, and certainly not after it has proven its lack of sincerity by not offering to investigate even one of the terrible terrorist massacres that we have suffered at the hands of the Palestinians - and we therefore should not cooperate with this body."

The cabinet heard reports from the IDF Chief of Staff, intelligence
officers and others before making its decision. The vote was nearly
unanimous, with only one minister, Rabbi Yitzchak Levy of the National
Religious Party, voting against. He explained to Arutz-7 today that he
felt that the decision did not go far enough: "This was the perfect opportunity to simply withdraw our consent to this committee altogether. It was a mistake to agree in the first place to a
committee put together by Kofi Annan, with the help of Terje Larsen, both of whose opinions about us and the IDF we know quite well...It is unfortunate that we did not simply say that since the UN did not
meet our conditions, our consent to the committee is no longer in
effect... My concern is that our soldiers should not have to feel afraid to wage war on behalf of their country because of a fear of being investigated by some international body... I felt that it would be better to clash with the UN now rather than later. I fear very much that because we still have this thing hanging over our heads, our talented Foreign Minister will soon come to some sort of agreement with the UN, and we'll soon see this committee here in Israel taking testimony from our soldiers."

Peres himself spoke out strongly today against the idea of having IDF
soldiers give testimony to the UN committee: "We told the UN that we have six reservations [about the committee]," he said today. "One of them concerns the witnesses, that we must be able to determine who will give testimony and who will not. I spoke about this with Secretary Powell and told him, Look, we are in the middle of a war, our army is still fighting, and our soldiers are endangering their lives. What do you want, that we should put them on trial? Each one of them should come with his lawyer? What kind of a thing is this?!"

2. LARSEN FAMILY TAX SCANDAL
The UN envoy to the Middle East, Norwegian diplomat Terje Larsen, and his wife Mona Juul - Norway's Ambassador to Israel - have both been scolded by their country's Foreign Ministry. The Ministry did not like the fact that they had each received $50,000 from the Peres Center for Peace - news of which was revealed by David Bedein in the Israeli weekly Makor Rishon last Friday. The two diplomats did not report the prize and did not pay Norwegian taxes on it. Norwegian papers are reporting that both of the Larsens may be forced to resign from political life as a result. The newspapers also report that the Peres Center received large amounts of money from Norwegian government authorities.

Mr. Odd Hove, editor-in-chief of Dagen, Norway's third largest paper, told Arutz 7 today that this is not the first time Terje Larsen has been involved in a tax fraud scheme. Hove said that in 1999 Larsen was forced to step down as a member of the Norwegian government over another tax-related scandal. Hove also condemned the statements Larsen made following his visit to Jenin after Israel concluded Operation Defensive Shield. He added that Larsen "disqualified himself as an honest broker" and "obviously didn't understand the importance of Israel's right to defend herself [against the Arab terrorist threat]."

3. IDF QUITS HEVRON, OTHER WAR NEWS
The IDF this afternoon began to pull its forces out of the city of Hevron. Since the Hevron operation began on Monday, IDF troops detained 210 Arabs including 40 Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Tanzim operatives. In addition, IDF forces found explosive suitcases, Kalashnikov and M-16 rifles, Law missiles and other weapons. Ten Arabs were killed in the operation including one of the Hamas terrorists responsible for Saturday's attack on the community of Adura, which left four Israelis dead including five-year-old, Danielle Shefi.

Also killed in the Hevron operation were a senior member of the Al-Aksa
terrorist Brigade and a member of Yasser Arafat's Force 17 guard, as well as two aides of the former Tanzim leader in Hevron, Marwan Zeloum. Israeli forces killed Zeloum last week in a pinpointed strike on his vehicle.

Two Arabs were killed this morning by Border Guard police as they attempted to infiltrate the town of Kfar Darom in Israel's southern Mediterranean coastal region. A mortar shell exploded in one of the nearby communities. Palestinian terrorists fired twice this morning at Israeli cranes in the industrial center of N'vei Dekalim in Gush Katif. No one was hurt.

Israeli forces arrested four Arab terrorists last night in a village west of Jenin. Two Israeli-Arab youths from Taibeh were apprehended for planting explosives under an overpass with the intention of blowing up passing IDF vehicles. In the village of Shawarwa, east of Bethlehem six terrorists, including three on Israel's wanted list, were arrested.

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4. ANTI-SEMITES SMASH LONDON SYNAGOGUE
Anti-Semitic vandalism made a dramatic appearance in England this past
Saturday night. Vandals desecrated the Finsbury Park Synagogue in London, such that worshipers who entered the synagogue the next morning were greeted with a swastika painted on the rabbi's lectern, torn prayer books, and over 20 smashed windows. Green paint was splashed on the holy ark, and various religious articles were destroyed. An Israeli flag, which had been stomped on and covered in paint, lay on the floor.

Statistics show a seven-fold increase in attacks on British Jews since the beginning of the year. Jeremy Newmark, the official spokesman for the UK's Chief Rabbi, emphasized the seriousness of this attack: "This is the first incident in the country that resembles what's happening on the continent [the rest of Europe]." Jewish communities throughout Europe have encountered a wave of attacks on synagogues, Jewish schools, and cemeteries in the past several months. A synagogue in Marseilles, France was recently burned to the ground.

5. THOUSANDS ATTEND PRO-ISRAEL RALLIES
A crowd estimated officially at 25,000 - some participants thought the
number was twice that amount - gathered in Chicago on Sunday to show
support for Israel and its campaign to uproot Arab terrorism. The 32nd
annual Walk With Israel rally saw its biggest turnout ever - last year only 10,000 attended - with groups bused in from all over the region to show solidarity and raise money for playground equipment for Israeli
schoolchildren. Speakers included Israeli Minister Roni Milo and U.S.
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.); the latter said, "In Israel, each dawn seems to bring a new 9/11, another burden, another tragedy, to a country that has already seen too many. But you will not grieve alone, you will not stand alone... The U.S. will always be with you."

In Detroit, too, about 2,000 people braved cold and inclement weather to rally on behalf of Israel, including three Michigan Congressmen and other local leaders. A similar rally took place in Houston, Texas some days before that, with close to 2,000 people - including many Christian
supporters of Israel - in attendance.

5. LIKUD CONVENTION NEXT WEEK
Anticipation is great among Likud members throughout the country, and
particularly in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, as the party prepares for its
Central Committee Convention next week. The suspense is particularly great in light of two issues. The first is the competition between Prime Minister Sharon and his predecessor - and possible successor – Binyamin Netanyahu. The other major topic is the party's stand vis-a-vis the formation of a Palestinian state. Sharon has said that he is in favor of such a state, albeit demilitarized and with other restrictions, but much of the party membership, including Netanyahu, is against.

7. ARAB MK'S DISRUPT ISRAELI DEMOCRACY
Arab MKs prevented a Knesset committee from debating today a question of disciplinary action against Arab Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi. The Knesset House Committee was to deal with a request by the Likud Party to take measures against Tibi, in light of the praise that Tibi had for the Jenin terrorists and the strong fight they put up against IDF soldiers. The other Arab MKs shouted and yelled throughout the debate, especially when Likud MK Michael Eitan tried to speak. Finally, Likud MK Ze'ev Boim walked out in anger - after partially overturning a table - and the Chairman was forced to call off the session. Likud MKs Boim and Eitan held a press conference afterwards to present their view of the incident. "This is a struggle for the right of Knesset members to engage in parliamentary debate without being interrupted by Arab MKs who don't understand what democracy is and don't know how to talk and hold a cultured dialogue. Interruptions are allowed, but not an organized campaign to shut mouths and silence others from speaking, as they did today."

In a related item the Knesset Ethics Committee decided to sanction Hadash Party MK Issam Makhoul, barring him from three plenum sessions. Several weeks ago, Makhoul shouted "Heil Sharon" in the Knesset while making the Nazi salute with his hand directed towards the prime minister.

8. IDF INTELLIGENCE HEAD BRIEFS DEFENSE COMMITTEE
Head of IDF Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Aharon Zeevi-Farkash told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee today that Yasser Arafat currently represents the most hard-line positions in the PLO. He said that Arafat is pleased with all developments towards internationalization of the conflict.
Farkash told the Knesset committee that the isolation of Arafat in his
Ramallah compound strengthened his public image on the Arab street and
turned him into a symbol. He further noted that Arafat will restore his
terrorist capabilities without much difficulty and that within a few
months, he will be able to again launch wide-scale attacks.

9. IN BRIEF
The IDF Spokesman says that about 5,000 weapons have been collected by the army since Operation Defensive Shield began - out of an estimated 50,000. The grassroots organization Cities of Israel calls on Prime Minister Sharon to "complete the job and collect the illegal weapons, urgently!"
Police in Ma'aleh Adumim found much weaponry and military equipment in a Bedouin encampment during a nighttime raid. Three people were arrested, one of them a woman who hid weapons on her person. The stash, including electronic equipment, was stolen from nearby army bases and the local
industrial area.
Israel's truck drivers took part in a nationwide strike today in protest of the government decision to increase the price of diesel fuel as part of its new economic initiative. The truckers used their vehicles to block the entrances to fuel depots and intersections throughout the country causing major traffic delays. The protestors claim that the rise in fuel prices will destroy the trucking industry.

2002-04-29T14:20:00.000-07:00
Important petition from Simon Weisenthal Center!

Go to the link listed after this summary:
INTERNATIONAL ANTI-ISRAEL CAMPAIGN INFECTS PRESTIGIOUS WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Israeli Medical Association Faces Possible Ouster

This is part of a worldwide campaign to de-legitimize and isolate Israel, led by the United Nations Human Rights Commission is spreading to international medical bodies.

To protest the spread of Israel bashing to the international medical community, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is launching a protest to the head of the World Medical Association.

Join the Center's online campaign and let your voice be heard.
Please go to:
http://www.wiesenthal.com/social/press/pet1.cfm?petid=24

2002-04-29T14:17:00.000-07:00

TERROR IN THE CHURCH

The Jerusalem Post reports that 3 Armenian monks, held hostage by the Palestinian gunmen inside the Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, fleed the church and were rescued by Israeli soldiers, after holding aloft a white cloth banner with the words "Please help."

One of the monks, Narkiss Korasian, told reporters: "They stole everything, they opened the doors one by one and stole everything... they stole our prayer books and four [gold] crosses... they didn't leave anything." Israeli officials quoted the monks as saying that Palestinian gunmen had also begun beating and attacking clergymen.

Did your local media report this revelation at the Church?

2002-04-29T14:10:00.000-07:00
FROM DEBKA: Hezbollah, al-Qaida govern Jenin camp
Courtesy of World Net Daily

FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES
Hezbollah, al-Qaida govern Jenin camp
Israel shares intelligence documents with U.S. ahead of U.N.'s probe
Posted: April 27, 2002
4:30 p.m. Eastern

Intelligence gleaned from the Jenin refugee camp suggests Israel's military operation aided the U.S. in its war on terror. The intelligence, transferred earlier in the week to Washington, consisted of materials that Israeli forces collected during their eight-day stay in Jenin. According to military sources, the materials reveal the camp as being secretly governed by Hezbollah and al-Qaida terrorists plotting attacks against American cities. The Sharon government is handing all this intelligence data over to Washington in order to get its side of the story across before the fact-finding team appointed by U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan goes to work tomorrow. Israeli officials put little faith into the bona fides of U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan and his fact-finding team. To offset hostile findings, Israel has set up three lines of defense: 1. An information campaign shedding light on the credibility and objectivity of the U.N. panel members. 2. Handover of intelligence data gathered in the Jenin camp to Washington to ensure its proper exposure. 3. Pressure on the U.N. secretary to include intelligence and military observers qualified to evaluate intelligence evidence in his fact-finding panel. Israel hopes the intelligence data it has handed over will be produced by the United States (or Israel) as grounds for a veto of an anti-Israel resolution at the U.N. Security Council, if such a motion is based on negative findings by the fact-finding delegation. Military sources reveal some of the contents of these intelligence documents include evidence that the Jenin camp's bosses were engaged - not only in launching multi-casualty suicide attacks in Netanya and Tel Aviv – but also secretly plotting and organizing large-scale suicide hits against American cities. Local residents with relatives in America had been approached with demands to arrange trips for terror activists to visit these relatives, flying out through Amman or Beirut. Those terrorists were given specialist training in the manufacture of explosives from chemical substances and fertilizers readily available in American shops, and equipped with fake passports and phony U.S. visas. The Israeli operation in the camp aborted this plot. Another collection of documents passed to Washington includes photographs of a special torture room in Yasser Arafat's Jenin headquarters complex, which was located in the building opposite his office. Israeli intelligence officers who took the pictures found documents proving that the facility was used to torture Jenin families who refused to release their sons for suicide missions. These findings were handed over to Washington as proof of Arafat's involvement in recruiting "martyrs". A third archive shows the Jenin camp as being secretly governed by Lebanese Hezbollah and al-Qaida agents who also trained the locals for terrorist operations. The file contains their real names and functions, as well as their code names. They set up a collective leadership for the Jenin camp in which all the local groups and factions were represented - after the Afghan Taliban model - in contrast to the Palestinian hierarchical establishment, topped by Arafat. Jenin's leaders dubbed the camp, known in Israel as the Suicide Capital of the West bank, the Palestinian Kandahar.

2002-04-29T14:05:00.000-07:00
from Israel Alive

If you, all your friends and family members have not yet signed the Israel Alive petition calling for an investigation of U.N. Abuses, please do so immediately and spread the word. The faster we get the 50,000 signatures, the faster we will be striking back against U.N. sponsorship of Terror. Go to www.petitionsite.com and sign the petition under Most Popular list "Time to Investigate U.N. Abuses". While you are at the site, sign the others urging France to crack down on Anti-Semitism, and Urging Pres. Bush to Declare the PA a terrorist org. Continuing with our 5 day series:

World Conference Against U.N. Racism

September 2, 2001 DAY 2

The United Nations and its Muslim body have recently been equating Zionism with Racism and would like the world to fall into the trap. Athough this title on their draft declaration was effaced, the U.N. neverthless, continues using bigoted and racist language in their presentations. What is Zionism? What does it mean to the Jewish People?

In its draft declaration, the U.N. juxtaposes "racism, discrim-ination, terrorism, anti-semitism, and Zionist actions" in the same sentence. Besides insulting the Jewish People all over the world, the U.N is openly denying the right of the Jewish People to their ancient Biblical homeland, Israel. They are equating "terrorism" with "Zionist actions", all the while ignoring and covering up Islamic atrocities against mankind.

The purest meaning of Zionist is "lover of Zion". What is Zion? Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel. A Zionist is anyone who loves Jerusalem with all their being, by they a Jew, a Christian, a Buddhist, or an agnostic. The U.N. and its Muslim tyrants have decided amongst themselves this is a racist trait, that Zionism is the same as terrorism. They would like to brainwash the world into believing it is a vile crime to be a Zionist, a lover of Jersualem. At the same time the U.N. beseeches the world not to have Islamophobia. Why? More on that point later into our conference.

In the 2000 years of bitter exile, suffering, torture, oppression, pogroms, and murder, the Jewish people have NEVER taken up an armed struggle or resistance against their oppressers and killers. Can any other people or nation claim such love of non-violence for 2000 years of exile and oppression? No. Does the U.N. or the leaders of the world recognize and reward the Jewish people for their patience and non-violent behavior in the face of a brutal 2000 year exile? No, the U.N. and its Muslim allies conspire against the Jewish people with the intent of starting a fresh, new and menacing Holocaust, with a known and wanted terrorists at the head. They have decided they are on this earth to finish Hitler's job.

It is a well documented fact, the Arab/Muslim world sided and conspired with the Nazi regime against the United States and the Allies during WW2. They learned the Art of the Big Lie and other propaganda tools directly from Hitler and his 3rd Reich. Their equation of Zionism as Racism is a vile and obscene attempt to incite a new era of anti-semitic feelings in the world today. The U.N. has joined them in this effort. All freedom loving people of the world must join to stop them.

-ISLAMIC PROFESSOR SUPPORTS JEWISH RIGHTS ON THE LAND AND EVEN THE TEMPLE MOUNT
"There is nothing in Islam that negates Israeli and Jewish sovereignty over the Temple Mount," according to Professor Abdul Hadi Falatchi, Head of the Islamic Institute in Rome. Prof. Falatchi was participating in an international seminar on Jewish Law, organized by the Ministry of Justice. He also attacked the Arab objections to Jewish aliyah, saying that it has nothing to do with Zionism, but that "the Bible commands Jews to live in the Holy Land." Falatchi said that he is not afraid to make these remarks publicly, and that most Moslem religious leaders in Italy agree with him.

Why is Zion so important to the Jewish people? Israel is the heart and soul of the Jewish people. The two are an inseperable entity.

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, of blessed memory, asked with regard to Israel "How do you know who the true owner of the house is? The true owner of the house welcomes everyone in, it's his house." The modern State of Israel in its 53 years of existance has welcomed people from all over the world , Asians, Arabs, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, and Jews. People of ALL nationalities and religions are welcome to live and visit Jerusalem. TERRORISTS are not welcome. Is this a racist supremecist trait as the Muslim world and the U.N. would have people believe? No, it is self preservation, it is logic.

In contrast to Israel's open and welcoming policies, under the brutal Arab occupation of Jerusalem, no one was allowed in. When Jerusalem was liberated in 1967 by Israel, the whole world was welcome and came to pray there. The true owner of the house welcomes everyone in. How many Muslim countries today can claim the ethnic, religious, and national diversity Israel can claim? None. Is the U.N. accusing them of apartheid, racism, discrimination? No, the U.N. and its Muslim allies have learned the art of the Big Lie from Hitler and accuse Israel of crimes they themselves are guilty of, apartheid, racism, and discrimination.

Are non Muslims allowed to hold office in most Muslim countries? Besides being denied basic rights, non-Muslims in Muslim countries are not allowed any official positions. In contrast, the Israeli Knesset has Arab members who openly incite the Arab population against it. Would America tolerate a member of Congress openly supporting terrorist heads like Arafat, Hussein, and Quaddafi?

Below are FACTS the U.N. and the world media NEVER provide for public consumption:

* Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam.

* Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel.

* Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 B.C.E. the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 C.E. lasted no more than 22 years.

* For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.

* Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Tanach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.

* King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.

* This "third holiest site in Islam" is ignored by modern Muslims, other than those living around Jerusalem. Muslims are required to make a religious pilgrimage (the Hajj) to Mecca and Medina during their lifetime. There is no obligation to visit Jerusalem and few do so. Israeli Muslims not living in Jerusalem make no special effort to go there to pray even though they may do so at any time

* While Jews do not generally revere places, the Temple Mount is the only remains of the only holy temples ever to be built in their capital, Jerusalem. Jews come from all over the world to pray at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount. Even the Pope and the Dalai Lama have prayed there in recognition of its symbolism.

* Jews the world over pray facing Jerusalem. If they live in Jerusalem, they face the Temple Mount. Muslims pray facing Mecca (in Saudi Arabia). If they live in Jerusalem, they turn their backs on the Temple Mount (El Aksa mosque) to turn towards Mecca.

Arab and Jewish Refugees:

* In 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier. The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution, seizing of land and property, and pogroms.

* The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be the same.

* Arab refugees were intentionally not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own peoples' lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey.

-The facts are clear as are the intentions of the U.N. The U.N. claims every day they are an international and neutral organization. If that is true:

-Why have they allowed their Muslim nations to hijack and dictate the contents of their Racist conference in Durban?

-Why have they allowed Jewish groups to fear for their safety in Durban against the Arab/ Muslim oppressors?

-Why have they allowed banners with the Star of David smeared with a Nazi Swastika to be paraded in Durban by Muslim groups?

-Why did they allow a vile anti-semitic cartoon booklet to be distributed at registration in Durban? Did they not know what they were distributing? If not, why not?

-Are there not serious atrocities being committed by Muslim countries against their own citizens , Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus that deserves their attention?? Why are those atrocities NOT on the agenda with the same specificity and singling out as Israel? Is it because the Muslim and Chinese atrocities pale to anything Israel could ever do to the Arab expatriates? Is it because the world would see Zionism is not the crime the U.N. and its Muslim/Arab allies would like the world to believe it is?

The U.N has shown itself to be neither international nor neutral when it comes to the world. It is rather a Muslim organization which masquerades as such, collecting billions of dollars in American tax money.

2002-04-29T14:00:00.000-07:00
"I Couldn't Stand the Lies"

By Asaf Haim - Maariv Newspaper, April 22, 2002

(English translation of the Hebrew original)

Dr. David Zangen, a senior paediatrician at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, who received his mobilization order for army service in Jenin, did not think that he would also be recruited for Israel's information campaign. Normally, he is a calm person, but the accusations made by the UN Special Envoy to the Middle East, Terje Larsen, regarding a"massacre" supposedly carried out by Israel in Jenin have infuriated him. Dr. Zangen could not restrain himself, and called the Israel Army Radio
service, to protest Larsen's charges. Dr. Zangen's comments are particularly significant, because he treated both the wounded Israelis and Palestinians with great dedication. In this way, Dr. Zangen became a spokesman for the IDF, for one day. His account sheds a little light on what really happened in the refugee camp.

"I was incensed by Larsen's remarks. He must not be allowed to continue with these lies", stated Dr. Zangen to Maariv. "I was there during the fighting, and I saw close up what was happening. I know that the IDF did everything it could to prevent civilian casualties. It is clear to everyone that if the IDF had resorted to aerial bombardment or heavy artillery, we would have completed [our mission] in the refugee camp within half a day, without suffering any casualties, on our side. We did not adopt that policy, and we took risks in the fighting, in an attempt to rescue those innocent civilians that were caught up in the battles. Anyone who says that Israel carried out a massacre is lying and inciting the Arabs. Instead of acting to bring about reconciliation and peace, Larsen is creating hatred."

Dr. Zangen continued, "IDF soldiers did not enter the Jenin hospital, and ensured that the hospital could operate without disruption. No IDF soldier set foot in the hospital. The Palestinians hid there in the knowledge that we would not enter. Everyone knows this, and anyone who says otherwise is lying and inciting. The descriptions of the smell of the bodies in the refugee camp are also exaggerated out of all proportion. A week after the fighting, I walked around the camp without a mask, with journalists from all
over the world, and there was no smell. The journalists knew this, but all of a sudden, they claimed that there was a stench in the camp from bodies that had not been evacuated. Twenty-five bodies were found altogether, and most of the bodies were those of the terrorists. There may have been one area in the entire camp, in which there were a number of bodies buried under the rubble, and this would explain the smell. However, aside from this case,there was no smell in the refugee camp - this is just a crude lie.

Dr. Zangen, who found himself in the eye of the storm, is appalled at the attempt to portray the IDF as an immoral army. "There are those who say that the events in Jenin were like a holocaust. However, if you were to enter the camp, you would find that only a few dozen homes were destroyed. These were homes that were booby-trapped, for the purpose of killing soldiers. This was a fortress of terrorism. 200 terrorists wired up the camp with booby-traps,they took control of it and recruited suicide bombers, at every opportunity. In recent years, a third of the suicide bombers have come from the Jenin refugee camp. We found photo albums with pictures of children wearing explosive belts; studio photographs of future shahidim [martyrs], children aged between 16 and 18, who want to kill Israelis in suicide [attacks].

All the homes in the refugee camp are covered with wall-to-wall pictures of martyrs. It is unbelievable. These [people] are their heroes. Their aim was to carry out suicide attacks against the IDF soldiers. If
there were innocent civilians in the area, they were either the hostages of the terrorists or collaborators. In any case, during each stage of the fighting, we called out to all those who did not want to fight - to leave the homes. The terrorists exploited the departure of these people, and they were shooting at us."

Dr. Zangen is a doctor of the brigade that fought in Jenin, and treated many of the wounded. "The soldiers fought without harming civilians", he stated.

"This was noticeable in every place and on every level. I was moved by the sight of soldiers conducting themselves in such a dignified and moral manner. Most of us are reserve soldiers; we are not hotheaded people, and we were all very careful. I was impressed by the great care exercised by the IDF in avoiding civilian casualties - especially with regard to children. The resolve and volunteering spirit also impressed me. They were all ready to fight, and no one shirked their duties. The Unit and Divisional Commanders who fought there are the creme de la creme of the Israeli people, and it is thanks to them that we are still alive. They did not lose their humanity. I am infuriated by the claims of a massacre in Jenin, for another reason. The paramedics and I risked our lives to treat the wounded Palestinians. As well as the wounded, we also treated the sick. The Palestinian doctors did not come to their aid, and we could not leave them without medical treatment. The Palestinian doctors were unable to reach a girl who had an attack of appendicitis. The soldiers brought the girl over to us and we treated her. In another case, a youngster came to us with a neck wound. We saved his life, in spite of his Islamic Jihad tattoo. We tried to provide full treatment for every Palestinian, and I am proud of it. I am in no doubt: the Americans would not have taken such risks, and would have acted differently. We acted in this way, simply to avoid civilian casualties." Hodi Broker from Haifa, a thirty-year-old teaching assistant from Technion university, who served as a paramedic in a field hospital, also talks about the treatment of the Palestinians: " an elderly person who was wounded in the refugee camp came to us. We treated him, and we wanted to send him back to Jenin, but there was nowhere for him [to receive treatment]. The 'Red Crescent' refused to take him. We took pity on him and we transported him to a hospital in Israel. I hope he is well."

Dr. Zangen, the father of four children, fought in Lebanon, and this is the first time that he is on the battlefield, serving as a doctor. "When you are serving as a doctor, your perspective is completely different. It was difficult for me to witness soldiers being hit by mass murderers who have no red lines, and who are even prepared to exploit children. I saw pictures of children who were ready to carry out suicide [attacks]. As a paediatrician, it was terrible to see such a thing, and I am appalled by the very thought of a killing machine that exploits innocent children. For instance, soldiers encountered a six year-old boy who ran into the street with a bag. They wanted to check the contents of the bag, and he threw the bag at them. There were three pipe bombs in the bag. One other difficult problem is the treatment of wounded fellow-soldiers from the unit. It is a traumatic experience."

As the senior doctor on the ground, Zangen was forced to make difficult decisions - who should be treated on the ground? Who should be evacuated? When should treatment be abandoned, and be provided to another wounded [soldier]? "These are difficult moments, in which the fate of friends is determined. All the time, you are also aware that these people are reservists, with families, who were among the living, and all of a sudden, they are killed or wounded. And then, you are not only thinking about them, but also thinking about the widow and the orphaned children left at home."

Dr. Zangen has returned to Hadassah hospital, but the images of the battlefield are still fresh in his mind. He talks of the courage and the steadfastness of the wounded soldiers. "Some of these wounds were so severe, that I thought that they would be unable to withstand the pain. The soldiers suffered in silence, displaying true courage. They knew why they were fighting. I remember a soldier who was hit by a bullet in the stomach, and who suffered excruciating pain. Yet he wanted to know when he was going back into battle. The Israeli people need to know that we have a noble generation that we can all rely upon."

2002-04-29T13:50:00.000-07:00
Click This Link for an interview with the Engineer and a look at the Palestinian perpspective...

2002-04-29T13:46:00.000-07:00
from Israel Alive

Below is the first of 5 articles you will receive from our Conference on U.N. Racism:

World Conference Against U.N. Racism

August 31,2001 DAY 1

The U.N. would like the world to think they are a neutral organization dedicated to serving the global community. In fact the United Nations has deteriorated into a racist, biased, and anti-American organized body dedicated to serving a select group of countries and interests which counter advancing world good. Here are some FACTS:

- In the year 2000, America paid the U.N. $1.4 BILLION in dues PLUS almost $9 BILLION from our military budget to support U.N. resolutions and peacekeeping operations. This is $10.18 BILLION of American tax money going to a racist organization who consistantly calls the United States of America a "deadbeat". Yet, this amount is more than any other country ever pays.

- Despite being the largest financial contributor (30%) and despite its large population(270 million) , America has only one single vote while Muslim countries enjoy over 40 votes. Likewise, India, with a population of 1 billion, has only one vote. By comparison, Arab countries with a population of about 300-400 million have over 20 votes. What financial contributions do Arab and Muslim countries make to merit such an imbalance of power against larger populations like India and the U.S.? America suffers from taxation without representation at the U.N. We are 4% of the world's population and we pay 30% of U.N. expenses and we get only 0.6% of UN's Votes.

- Why does India with a population of one BILLION get much less financial aid from the U.N. than 2 million Palestinians who receive $2 Billion per annum ? Does this largesse have something to do with the majority of the voters being Arab and Muslim countries at the U.N.? Or does it have to do with the anti-Hindu sentiment prevalent in Muslim U.N. votes? Do Latin American countries enjoy such lavish aid? No. Do Tibetan refugees enjoy such aid? No, only Muslim countries and their interests enjoy such a disproportianately generous financial package from the U.N, taken from the American budget, only to be used against American interests and her allies.

- The U.N. website has a special section devoted to "Question of Palestine" where truths are manipulated to advance Muslim interests. Does the U.N. have a similar section named "Question of Tibet" or "The Question of Kashmir"? Does the U.N. challenge the Basque for bombing Spanish civilians? Has the U.N. once condemned the Islamic Fundementalists for their slaughter of 100,000 Berbers? Has the U.N. ever challenged Communist China for its violations of human rights of the Tibetan refugees, destruction of their culture, and illegal occupation of their land? Has the U.N. once condemned China for its slaughter of 1.8 million Tibetans? Has the U.N. condemned Zimbabwe's abuse and torture of white farmers? Has the U.N. demanded cessation of attacks launched against the Christian Sudanese by the Muslim Sudanese, the latter slaying 200,000 of the former? No, the U.N. does not condemn tyrants or actions of Muslim and Communist countries. It only condemns and deliberately singles out the State of Israel, the ONLY democracy in a region of Arab dictatorships. This U.N. racist bias will be elucidated further into our conference.

- This year, America was kicked off the "Commission for Human Rights" despite being one of the most outspoken countries for advocating Human Rights for all people. Instead it was replaced by Sierra Leone and the Sudan who both have an impeccable record of abuses of human rights, including slavery and child soldiers. Why?

- In the draft declaration for their well publicized "Racist Conf-erence" in Durban now taking place, has the U.N. mentioned the gross human rights violations of Islamic countries towards their citizens and those of other religions? NO, only the State of Israel has been specifically singled out and fantastically charged with engaging in "discrimination" and "racism". A country who is closer to the ideals of freedom and democracy to the U.S. than any other country in the world. The U.N. has singled out for condemnation a country which welcomes on its shores people of all nationalities and religions, provided they are not terrorists. The U.N. defines this as "racist", as "Zionist", while those accustomed to the free world define this as NORMAL.

- The U.N. has consistantly allied themselves with terror organizations like the PLO and Hezbollah and witheld material evidence from the world which would help capture known terrorists. The most recent example of the U.N.'s flagrant racist policy against a democracy is their lie about the videotape taken by the U.N. "peacekeeping forces" in Lebanon of Hezbollah's abduction of 3 Israeli soldiers. For 11 months the U.N. lied to the world and denied existance of any evidence related to the abduction. When their lie was found out, and the world pressured them to reveal their evidence to Israel, they said no. Pressured further, the U.N. insisted they would only show an EDITED videotape with the faces of the terrorists blurred. Why? Kofi Annan stated it was due to the U.N.'s standing as a NEUTRAL organization. A cover up by the U.N. of this magnitude does not show neutrality as they would have the world believe. On the contrary, it shows clear COMPLICITY with a known Muslim terrorist faction. The U.N. chose to disregard the wishes and rights of a paying member of the U.N. (Israel) and side with a known and declared criminal terrorist organization instead. There have also been allegations their "peacekeeping forces" in Lebanon were paid huge sums of money by Hezbollah for the use of their U.N. uniforms and jeeps for the abduction. This is why Israel refuses their "peacekeeping forces" and why Yasser Arafat so desperately wants them there.

2002-04-29T13:41:00.000-07:00
As many of you know, Israeli PM Barak was pushed by Pres. Clinton to make major concessions in order to try to get a peace treaty before Clinton left office. The concessions put on the table went far beyond anything previously offered and probably went beyond what the Israeli public and the Knesset would accept. Nonetheless, in the face of the best chance for peace ever, Arafat said NO and turned to violence with the intifada that started in September 2000. The talks collapsed after Taba in January 2001 in the last days of the Clinton presidency.

Palestine Facts has descriptions of these talks that you can read by clicking the hyperlinks:

CAMP DAVID:

TABA:

Since then the Palestinians have attempted to spin what happened, to rewrite the history to say that the deal offered to Arafat was not so favorable or to say that the Israelis, not the Palestinians, walked out of
the meetings. Another story is that the talks ended because of Sharon's election in February 2001, not because of Palestinian intransigence.

The interview with Ross puts all the Palestinian claims into one category:
lies. The full transcript is
available here:

2002-04-29T13:37:00.000-07:00
This is one of the many frightening emails I've received lately...

Friends,

I am attending the Israel Venture Association annual conference in Tel Aviv and was introduced to Andrea Koppel from CNN as we were waiting for Prime Minister Sharon and Secretary of State Powell to finish their discussion Sunday evening at our hotel.

While we were chatting, an American-born Israeli joined us to tell Andrea about his perception of media distortion in that the press that stresses moral equivalence between Israeli civilian deaths caused by Palestinian terror and Palestinian civilian deaths caused by Israeli military actions. He argued that Israel has tried to engage in a peace process since Camp David and has been double-crossed over and over by the Palestinian Authority. Further, he argued the civilian deaths caused by Palestinians are
intentional, whereas the deaths caused by Israel are mostly the tragic, unintentional results caused by Israel trying to defend itself.

Andrea replied, "So when Israeli soldiers slaughter civilians in Jenin, that is not equivalent?"

Israeli: "What are your sources? Were you in Jenin? How exactly do you know there was a slaughter?"

Andrea: "I just spoke with my colleagues who were there, and they told me of the slaughter."

Israeli: "Did they actually see the shooting, the bodies?"

Andrea: "Palestinians told us about the slaughter."

Israeli: "And you believe them without evidence. Could they possibly be lying and distorting facts."

Andrea: "Oh, so now they are all just lying??" [sic]

The Israeli became emotional in describing that his children are afraid, his friends have been murdered, and if this goes on, "We could lose our lives or we could lose our country."

Andrea, "Yes, you will lose your country."

At this point, I interrupted the two of them and asked Andrea Koppel, "Did I just hear you correctly-- that you believe the current crisis will lead to the destruction of the State of Israel?"

Andrea: "Yes, I believe we are now seeing the beginning of the end of Israel."

Needless to say, I was stunned to hear a senior CNN correspondent express this extreme "world-view". It was very disturbing for obvious reasons, and I was particularly upset by her extraordinary geo-political conclusion that the State of Israel is bound for destruction. I asked her how she came this conclusion-- what was her background scholarship in Middle East history or
military geo-strategy?

Andrea: "Well, you know, I took a course on the Middle East when I was at Middlebury College, and our professor assigned us five books on the history of the conflict. So I first read a book written by an Israeli, and I thought all the land belongs to the Israelis. Then I read another book by a Palestinian and thought all the land belongs to the Palestinians. There are many points of view, and it is just so complex!"

Her background scholarship and intellectual depth on the subject duly noted, I turned to consider what to do next.

1) Complain to CNN management?
2) Expose this to other press (say Fox or 60 Minutes, letters to the editor?)
3) Try to educate her towards a more realistic understanding of Israel's geo-political position?
4) Tell the Israeli Foreign Ministry and let them deal with it?
5) Do nothing? (I hope not)

I don't know what do to about this, but I thought you may have the right suggestion. Feel free to forward this to your family and friends.

David J. Blumberg
david@blumbergcapital.com

2002-04-29T13:35:00.000-07:00
Jews. They go to school and get educated. Then they do good things. See Below.

JEWISH NOBEL WINNERS
0.2% OF WORLD'S POPULATION
14.1 Million Jews

Literature
> 1910 - Paul Heyse
> 1927 - Henri Bergson
> 1958 - Boris Pasternak
> 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
> 1966 - Nelly Sachs
> 1976 - Saul Bellow
> 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
> 1981 - Elias Canetti
> 1987 - Joseph Brodsky
> 1991 - Nadine Gordimer

World Peace
> 1911 - Alfred Fried
> 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
> 1968 - Rene Cassin
> 1973 - Henry Kissinger
> 1978 - Menachem Begin
> 1986 - Elie Wiesel
> 1994 - Shimon Peres
> 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Chemistry
> 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
> 1906 - Henri Moissan
> 1910 - Otto Wallach
> 1915 - Richard Willstaetter
> 1918 - Fritz Haber
> 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
> 1961 - Melvin Calvin
> 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
> 1972 - William Howard Stein
> 1977 - Ilya Prigogine
> 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
> 1980 - Paul Berg
> 1980 - Walter Gilbert
> 1981 - Roald Hoffmann
> 1982 - Aaron Klug
> 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
> 1985 - Jerome Karle
> 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
> 1988 - Robert Huber
> 1989 - Sidney Altman
> 1992 - Rudolph Marcus
> 2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics
> 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
> 1971 - Simon Kuznets
> 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
> 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
> 1976 - Milton Friedman
> 1978 - Herbert A. Simon
> 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
> 1985 - Franco Modigliani
> 1987 - Robert M. Solow
> 1990 - Harry Markowitz
> 1990 - Merton Miller
> 1992 - Gary Becker
> 1993 Rober Fogel

Medicine
> 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
> 1908 - Paul Erlich
> 1914 - Robert Barany
> 1922 - Otto Meyerhof
> 1930 - Karl Landsteiner
> 1931 - Otto Warburg
> 1936 - Otto Loewi
> 1944 - Joseph Erlanger
> 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser
> 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
> 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
> 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
> 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
> 1953 - Hans Krebs
> 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
> 1958 - Joshua Lederberg
> 1959 - Arthur Kornberg
> 1964 - Konrad Bloch
> 1965 - Francois Jacob
> 1965 - Andre Lwoff
> 1967 - George Wald
> 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
> 1969 - Salvador Luria
> 1970 - Julius Axelrod
> 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz
> 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
> 1975 - David Baltimore
> 1975 - Howard Martin Temin
> 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
> 1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
> 1978 - Daniel Nathans
> 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf
> 1984 - Cesar Milstein
> 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
> 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
> 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
> 1988 - Gertrude Elion
> 1989 - Harold Varmus
> 1991 - Erwin Neher
> 1991 - Bert Sakmann
> 1993 - Richard J. Roberts
> 1993 - Phillip Sharp
> 1994 - Alfred Gilman
> 1995 - Edward B. Lewis

Physics
> 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
> 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
> 1921 - Albert Einstein
> 1922 - Niels Bohr
> 1925 - James Franck
> 1925 - Gustav Hertz
> 1943 - Gustav Stern
> 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
> 1952 - Felix Bloch
> 1954 - Max Born
> 1958 - Igor Tamm
> 1959 - Emilio Segre
> 1960 - Donald A. Glaser
> 1961 - Robert Hofstadter
> 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
> 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
> 1965 - Julian Schwinger
> 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
> 1971 - Dennis Gabor
> 1973 - Brian David Josephson
> 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson
> 1976 - Burton Richter
> 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
> 1978 - Peter L Kapitza
> 1979 - Stephen Weinberg
> 1979 - Sheldon Glashow
> 1988 - Leon Lederman
> 1988 - Melvin Schwartz
> 1988 - Jack Steinberger
> 1990 - Jerome Friedman
> 1995 - Martin Perl

(Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, Ill., Britannica
Book of the Year, 1999)

2002-04-29T13:24:00.000-07:00
Stand with Us Update 4.14.02

1. Link for upcoming rally information
(including today's Orange County rally at 2:00)
2. Link for registration with standwithus.com
3. FRENCH ANTI-SEMITIC TERROSIM - our role
4. Los Angeles Times: Our First Ad of protest comes out 4-18

1. Upcoming rally and event information. Go to:
http://standwithus.com/events.asp and make it a favorite link for now.

2. Register with standwithus. Go to:
http://standwithus.com/register.asp

3. FRENCH ANTI-SEMITIC TERROSIM - Our role
As the incidents of attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions have
increased in France, standwithus is monitoring the situation now.
Together with Simon Weisenthal, Olam, Betar, and Jews for Truth Now, Amcha
in New York, we are on it. On Friday, April 12, we presented a list of
concerns to the French government at a demonstration in front of the
French Consulate in West Los Angeles. We met with representatives of the
French Consulate, who agreed that there is a problem in France, and that
they would take back our important message. You will be able to read our
declaration on our website next week. We may ask you to join us in front
of the French Consulate again, (locations to be announced) if the
situation does not greatly improve. Your signs should read:
400+ attack against the Jews of France
since the beginning of the Intifada EQUALS anti-Semitism
Shame on the French!!
More on this to come.

4. Los Angeles Times: Our First Ad of protest comes out 4-18
Standwithus will be placing an ad in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal next
week,(week of April 15) in honor of Yom Ha Atzmaut, thanks to your
financial support. Did you know that a standwithus media team submitted
an extensive report to the Los Angeles Times on February 5, containing
over 200 pages of documentation (within 17 exhibits) regarding their
unprofessional, shallow reporting? The cover letter was signed by 65
people. In addition to our report, the kit included 5 different video
tapes plus 39 suggestions for subjects that the LA Times could cover that
would help give their readership a fuller, more balanced picture. Due to
the fact that they refuse to even meet with us, (although they were polite
about it, even though we had to wait nearly 5 weeks for a reply) and they
continue to frequently misrepresent the situation in the Middle East, we
are now going public. Thank you for your support. This will hopefully be
the first of many ads, until the LA Times does a more professional job
with their Middle East reporting.
To expand this effort, donate to standwithus.
See opportunity below. Make sure you read this first ad!

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2002-04-19T11:33:00.000-07:00
The following article was reprinted from CNN. The thought of not being safe going to the bank, should teach us what it feels like to be an Israeli every day, where you can't conduct your normal business without the fear of terror.

FBI: New threat on banks 'unsubstantiated'
April 19, 2002 Posted: 2:08 PM EDT (1808 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI announced on Friday that the government has received a new terrorist threat against financial institutions, but describe the latest threat as "unsubstantiated."

The FBI says "unspecified terrorists are considering physical attacks against U.S. financial institutions" in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and the District of Columbia, as part of their campaign against U.S. financial interests.

The FBI says it has no information about any specific plot or threats to any specific institution, but transmitted an alert to law enforcement officials and financial institutions in several Northeastern states out of "an abundance of caution."

2002-04-19T10:36:00.000-07:00
This is hard to confirm. But it is terrifying if it is true.

Subject: Disturbing info from Tel Aviv meeting with CNN's Andrea Koppel
Importance: High

Friends,
I am attending the Israel Venture Association annual conference and was introduced to Andrea Koppel from CNN as we were waiting for Prime Minister Sharon and Secretary of State Powell to finish their discussion Sunday evening at our hotel. While we were chatting, an American-born Israeli joined us to tell Andrea about his perception of media distortion in that the press that stresses moral equivalence between Israeli civilian deaths caused by Palestinian terror and Palestinian civilian deaths caused by Israeli military actions. He argued that Israel has tried to engage in a peace process since Camp David and has been double crossed over and over by the Palestinian Authority. Further, he argued the deaths caused by Palestinians are intentional, whereas the deaths caused by Israel are mostly the tragic, unintentional results caused by Israel trying to defend itself.

Andrea replied, "So when Israeli soldiers slaughter civilians in Jenin, that is not equivalent?" Israeli, "What are your sources, were you in Jenin, how do you know there was a slaughter?" Andrea, "I just spoke with my colleagues who were there and they told me
of the slaughter." Israeli, "Did they see the shooting, the bodies?" Andrea, "Palestinians told us about the slaughter." Israeli, "And you believe them without evidence; they lie and distort facts." Andrea, "Oh, so they are all just lying?" Israeli became emotional in describing that his children are afraid, his friends have been murdered, and if this goes on, "We could lose our lives or we could lose our country." Andrea, "Yes, you will lose your country." At this point, I interrupted the two of them and asked, "Did I hear you correctly that you believe the current crisis will lead to the destruction of the State of Israel?" Andrea, "Yes I believe we are now seeing the beginning of the end of Israel."
Needless to say, I was stunned to hear a senior CNN correspondent express this extreme "worldview". It was very disturbing for obvious reasons, and I was particularly upset by her extraordinary geo-political conclusion that the State of Israel is bound for destruction. I asked her how she came this conclusion - what was her background scholarship in Middle East history > or military geo-strategy? Andrea, "Well you know, I took a course on the Middle East when I was at Middlebury College and our professor assigned us 5 books on the history of the conflict. So I first read a book written by an Israeli and I thought all the land belongs to the Israelis. Then I read another book by a Palestinian and thought all the land belongs to the Palestinians. There are many points of view, and it is so complex."

Her background scholarship and intellectual depth on the subject duly noted, I turned to consider what to do next.

1) Complain to CNN management?
2) Expose this to other press (say Fox or 60 Minutes, letters to the editor?)
3) Try to educate her towards a more realistic understanding of Israel's geo-political position?
4) Tell the Israeli Foreign Ministry and let them deal with it?
5) Do nothing? (I hope not)

I don't know what do to about this, but I thought you may have the right suggestion. Feel free to forward this to others.

David J. Blumberg
david@blumbergcapital.com

2002-04-17T17:10:00.000-07:00
Friday Sermon on Palestinian Authority TV

The following are excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered by Palestinian
Authority Imam Sheikh Ibrahim Madhi [1]
at the Sheikh 'Ijlin Mosque in Gaza City, broadcast live on April 12, 2002
by Palestinian Authority television. It clarifies who is and isn't involved in the war on terror.

"...Oh, beloved of Allah. [In the Friday sermon] two weeks ago, I bore in
your name a blessing of love to the crowns upon our heads, [that is] to the
Arab and Muslim rulers. Among other things, I said: 'Oh crowns upon our
heads: If Sharon spat in your faces, what would you do?' Today I apologize
for these words, because Sharon has not only spat on the heads of the
nation, but also trampled us underfoot."
"We are convinced of the [future] victory of Allah; we believe that one of
these days, we will enter Jerusalem as conquerors, enter Jaffa as
conquerors, enter Haifa as conquerors, enter Ramle and Lod as conquerors,
the [villages of] Hirbiya and Dir Jerjis and all of Palestine as conquerors,
as Allah has decree... 'They will enter Al-Aqsa Mosque as they have entered
it the first time...'"
"Anyone who does not attain martyrdom in these days should wake in the
middle of the night and say: 'My God, why have you deprived me of martyrdom
for your sake? For the martyr lives next to Allah'..."
"Our enemies suffer now more than we do. Why? Because we are convinced that
our dead go to Paradise, while the dead of the Jews go to Hell, to a cruel
fate. So we stand firm and steadfast, in obedience to Allah..."
"The Jews await the false Jewish messiah, while we await, with Allah's
help... the Mahdi and Jesus, peace be upon him. Jesus's pure hands will
murder the false Jewish messiah. Where? In the city of Lod, in Palestine.
Palestine will be, as it was in the past, a graveyard for the invaders -
just as it was a graveyard for the Tatars and to the Crusader invaders, [and
for the invaders] of the old and new colonialism..."
"A reliable Hadith [tradition] says: 'The Jews will fight you, but you will
be set to rule over them.' What could be more beautiful than this tradition?
'The Jews will fight you' - that is, the Jews have begun to fight us. 'You
will be set to rule over them' - Who will set the Muslim to rule over the
Jew? Allah... Until the Jew hides behind the rock and the tree."
"But the rock and tree will say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, a Jew
hides behind me, come and kill him.' Except for the Gharqad tree, which is
the tree of the Jews."
"We believe in this Hadith. We are convinced also that this Hadith heralds
the spread of Islam and its rule over all the land..."
"Oh beloved, look to the East of the earth, find Japan and the ocean; look
to the West of the earth, find [some] country and the ocean. Be assured that
these will be owned by the Muslim nation, as the Hadith says... 'from the
ocean to the ocean...'"
"Oh Allah, accept our martyrs in the highest heavens..."
"Oh Allah, show the Jews a black day..."
"Oh Allah, annihilate the Jews and their supporters..."
"Oh Allah, raise the flag of Jihad across the land..."
"Oh Allah, forgive our sins..."[2]

2002-04-17T11:40:00.000-07:00
'Does the world know about this?'

Joseph M. Hochstein
April 16, 2002

A question which my 11-year-old grandson Nur asked this afternoon prompts me to write this. (Once again, please pardon the impersonal nature of this post, which I am sending to a number of people.) I was visiting in the Jezreel Valley today with my family and was surprised to see our friend Tal. The last I knew, he was commanding a battalion of combat soldiers in Jenin. It turned out that today was the first time in more than two weeks that Tal was able to leave Jenin to see his wife, Rachela, and their three young daughters. A lieutenant colonel in the reserves, Tal received a recall to active duty while he and the family were out of the country. He went straight from the airport to Jenin. Rachela invited us to come in. Tal, still in uniform, went off to shower. Later, Tal reappeared in civilian clothes, and we talked . "While you were in Jenin, did you know that the foreign media were reporting that Israeli soldiers carried out a massacre?" I asked Tal. There was no massacre, said Tal. He said the foreign media don't tell the
truth. That's not the question, I told Tal. I just wanted to know if he and his men had been aware of the reports while the fighting was going on. Yes, they had been aware, Tal said. He told about the fighting in the Jenin refugee camp. Israel's soldiers went to great lengths to avoid hurting civilians, Tal said. The soldiers went house-to-house, trying to find armed Palestinians. They discovered that the Palestinian shooters were using civilians as shields. A shooter inside a house might hide behind an old woman, firing at the Israelis. Bombs and boobytraps were everywhere. If Israelis killed a Palestinian, the dead man's colleagues would boobytrap his body. At one point, Palestinians boobytrapped a wheelchair and pushed its occupant into the open in hope of attracting Israeli soldiers to become victims. Buildings and streets were boobytrapped. One of Tal's daughters brought me a copy of the kibbutz newsletter. It contained an interview with Tal, speaking by cellular telephone from Jenin on April 10, the day after a Palestinian boobytrap and ambush killed13 Israeli soldiers there.

Q --- What's the mood?

Lt. Col. Tal -- The guys arrived here with lots of desire to carry out missions. They only want to know where they can help, where there's work
to be done. What happened yesterday saddened us greatly, but it raised everyone's motivation even more. The ambush taught us not to go that way again. Overall, everyone is waiting in readiness for more missions.

Q --- How does it feel to fight against civilians, women, old people, children?

Lt. Col. Tal --- We are not fighting the Palestinian civilian population, which is under a general curfew and confined to their homes. We are fighting only against the armed people who are moving around outside.

Q --- What's your opinion of the Palestinian fighter? Have they become more determined? More resistant?

Lt. Col. Tal --- In my eyes, they are not "fighters." Someone who hides in a hospital, a graveyard, a church, or behind women and children --- that's not a fighter.

What's happening here is not warfare in the accepted sense of the word. It's much more complicated. But we are strong, and determined not to let them slip away.

Q --- What's your wish for Independence Day (April 17)?

Lt. Col. Tal --- Quiet, calm, peace.

Q --- You believe this will ever happen?

Lt. Col. Tal --- I don't know what I believe anymore. I want to believe it will happen.

The children sat silently throughout the conversation. After we said goodbye to Tal and his family, 11-year-old Nur asked me, "Does the world know about this?"

"I don't think the world knows about this," I told Nur. "What in particular do you think the world should know?"

"Hiding behind old women. The bomb in the wheelchair."

I promised Nur that I would send an e-mail message to help spread the word about this.

Joseph M. Hochstein

2002-04-17T11:08:00.000-07:00
Oriana Fallaci on Antisemitism Today
(one of Italy's best known journalists)

(April 12, 2002)
I find it shameful that in Italy there should be a procession of individuals dressed as suicide bombers who spew vile abuse at Israel, hold up photographs of Israeli leaders on whose foreheads they have drawn the swasitka, incite people to hate the Jews. And who, in order to see Jews once again in the extermination camps, in the gas chambers, in the ovens of Dachau and Mauthausen and Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen et cetera, would sell their own mother to a harem.

I find it shameful that the Catholic Church should permit a bishop, one with lodgings in the Vatican no less, a saintly man who was found in Jerusalem with an arsenal of arms and explosives hidden in the secret compartments of his sacred Mercedes, to participate in that procession and plant himself in front of a microphone to thank in the name of God the suicide bombers who massacre the Jews in pizzerias and supermarkets. To call them “martyrs who go to their deaths as to a party.”

I find it shameful that in France, the France of Liberty-Equality-Fraternity, they burn synagogues, terrorize Jews, profane their cemeteries. I find it shameful that the youth of Holland and Germany and Denmark flaunt the kaffiah just as Mussolini’s avant garde used to flaunt the club and the fascist badge. I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-semitism. That in Sweden they asked that the Nobel Peace Prize given to Shimon Peres in 1994 be taken back and conferred on the dove with the olive branch in his mouth, that is on Arafat. I find it shameful that the distinguished members of the Committee, a Committee that (it would appear) rewards political color rather than merit, should take this request into consideration and even respond to it. In hell the Nobel Prize honors he who does not receive it.

I find it shameful (we’re back in Italy) that state-run television stations contribute to the resurgent antisemitism, crying only over Palestinian deaths while playing down Israeli deaths, glossing over them in unwilling tones. I find it shameful that in their debates they host with much deference the scoundrels with turban or kaffiah who yesterday sang hymns to the slaughter at New York and today sing hymns to the slaughters at Jerusalem, at Haifa, at Netanya, at Tel Aviv. I find it shameful that the press does the same, that it is indignant because Israeli tanks surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, that it is not indignant because inside that same church two hundred Palestinian terrorists well armed with machine guns and munitions and explosives (among them are various leaders of Hamas and Al-Aqsa) are not unwelcome guests of the monks (who then accept bottles of mineral water and jars of honey from the soldiers of those tanks). I find it shameful that, in giving the number of Israelis killed since the beginning of the Second Intifada (four hundred twelve), a noted daily newspaper found it appropriate to underline in capital letters that more people are killed in their traffic accidents. (Six hundred a year).

I find it shameful that the Roman Observer, the newspaper of the Pope--a Pope who not long ago left in the Wailing Wall a letter of apology for the Jews--accuses of extermination a people who were exterminated in the millions by Christians. By Europeans. I find it shameful that this newspaper denies to the survivors of that people (survivors who still have numbers tattooed on their arms) the right to react, to defend themselves, to not be exterminated again. I find it shameful that in the name of Jesus Christ (a Jew without whom they would all be unemployed), the priests of our parishes or Social Centers or whatever they are flirt with the assassins of those in Jerusalem who cannot go to eat a pizza or buy some eggs without being blown up. I find it shameful that they are on the side of the very ones who inaugurated terrorism, killing us on airplanes, in airports, at the Olympics, and who today entertain themselves by killing western journalists. By shooting them, abducting them, cutting their throats, decapitating them. (There’s someone in Italy who, since the appearance of Anger and Pride, would like to do the same to me. Citing verses of the Koran he exorts his “brothers” in the mosques and the Islamic Community to chastise me in the name of Allah. To kill me. Or rather to die with me. Since he’s someone who speaks English well, I’ll respond to him in English: “Fuck you.”)

I find it shameful that almost all of the left, the left that twenty years ago permitted one of its union processionals to deposit a coffin (as a mafioso warning) in front of the synagogue of Rome, forgets the contribution made by the Jews to the fight against fascism. Made by Carlo and Nello Rossini, for example, by Leone Ginzburg, by Umberto Terracini, by Leo Valiani, by Emilio Sereni, by women like my friend Anna Maria Enriques Agnoletti who was shot at Florence on June 12, 1944, by seventy-five of the three-hundred-thirty-five people killed at the Fosse Ardeatine, by the infinite others killed under torture or in combat or before firing squads. (The companions, the teachers, of my infancy and my youth.) I find it shameful that in part through the fault of the left--or rather, primarily through the fault of the left (think of the left that inaugurates its congresses applauding the representative of the PLO, leader in Italy of the Palestinians who want the destruction of Israel)--Jews in Italian cities are once again afraid. And in French cities and Dutch cities and Danish cities and German cities, it is the same. I find it shameful that Jews tremble at the passage of the scoundrels dressed like suicide bombers just as they trembled during Krystallnacht, the night in which Hitler gave free rein to the Hunt of the Jews.

I find it shameful that in obedience to the stupid, vile, dishonest, and for them extremely advantageous fashion of Political Correctness the usual opportunists--or better the usual parasites--exploit the word Peace. That in the name of the word Peace, by now more debauched than the words Love and Humanity, they absolve one side alone of its hate and bestiality. That in the name of a pacifism (read conformism) delegated to the singing crickets and buffoons who used to lick Pol Pot’s feet they incite people who are confused or ingenuous or intimidated. Trick them, corrupt them, carry them back a half century to the time of the yellow star on the coat. These charlatans who care about the Palestinians as much as I care about the charlatans. That is not at all.

I find it shameful that many Italians and many Europeans have chosen as their standard-bearer the gentleman (or so it is polite to say) Arafat. This nonentity who thanks to the money of the Saudi Royal Family plays the Mussolini ad perpetuum and in his megalomania believes he will pass into History as the George Washington of Palestine. This ungrammatical wretch who when I interviewed him was unable even to put together a complete sentence, to make articulate conversation. So that to put it all together, write it, publish it, cost me a tremendous effort and I concluded that compared to him even Ghaddafi sounds like Leonardo da Vinci. This false warrior who always goes around in uniform like Pinochet, never putting on civilian garb, and yet despite this has never participated in a battle. War is something he sends, has always sent, others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent who playing the part of Head of State caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton’s mediation. No-no-I-want-Jerusalem-all-to-myself. This eternal liar who has a flash of sincerity only when (in private) he denies Israel’s right to exist, and who as I say in my book contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is, so that you can never trust him. Never! With him you will always wind up systematically betrayed. This eternal terrorist who knows only how to be a terrorist (while keeping himself safe) and who during the Seventies, that is when I interviewed him, even trained the terrorists of Baader-Meinhof. With them, children ten years of age. Poor children. (Now he trains them to become suicide bombers. A hundred baby suicide bombers are in the works: a hundred!). This weathercock who keeps his wife at Paris, served and revered like a queen, and keeps his people down in the shit. He takes them out of the shit only to send them to die, to kill and to die, like the eighteen year old girls who in order to earn equality with men have to strap on explosives and disintegrate with their victims. And yet many Italians love him, yes. Just like they loved Mussolini. And many other Europeans do the same.
I find it shameful and see in all this the rise of a new fascism, a new nazism. A fascism, a nazism, that much more grim and revolting because it is conducted and nourished by those who hypocritically pose as do-gooders, progressives, communists, pacifists, Catholics or rather Christians, and who have the gall to label a warmonger anyone like me who screams the truth.

I see it, yes, and I say the following. I have never been tender with the tragic and Shakespearean figure Sharon. (“I know you’ve come to add another scalp to your necklace,” he murmured almost with sadness when I went to interview him in 1982.) I have often had disagreements with the Israelis, ugly ones, and in the past I have defended the Palestinians a great deal. Maybe more than they deserved. But I stand with Israel, I stand with the Jews. I stand just as I stood as a young girl during the time when I fought with them, and when the Anna Marias were shot. I defend their right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time. And disgusted by the antisemitism of many Italians, of many Europeans, I am ashamed of this shame that dishonors my Country and Europe. At best, it is not a community of States, but a pit of Pontius Pilates. And even if all the inhabitants of this planet were to think otherwise, I would continue to think so.

_________________

Here is what Wiesenthal Center had to say about the Fallaci article.

Polemic in Italy after anti-Semitism article by top journalistROME, April 12 (AFP) - An article denouncing anti-Semitism by one of Italy's best known journalists, Oriana Fallaci, caused a polemic on Friday after she pointed the finger at the Roman Catholic church and the political left over the current Mideast crisis. A specialist in the Middle East, Fallaci, 71, uses the world "I find shameful" at the head of a long list of reasons she gives to attack inaction on anti-Semitism by the church and left-wing political leaders. Among her targets are "the presence of people disguised as Kamikazi's during a pro-Palestinian protest in Rome," anti-Semitic attacks in France, and moves to have the Nobel Peace Prize taken back from Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. She attacked the church saying, "I find it shameful that the Catholic Church can allow a bishop housed at the Vatican ... to take part in a protest in Rome during which he used a megaphone to thank in the name of God the Kamikazes who have massacred Jews," she wrote. The incident refers to Bishop Hilarion Capucci, 77, a Syrian in charge of helping Greek-Catholics in Europe, who took part in a pro-Palestinian protest. Fallaci's article was published in the form of a pamphlet by the weekly Panorama magazine, owned by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Reaction was led by the Palestinian Authority's representative in Rome, Nemer Hammad, and leaders of the left-wing opposition. "It is a shame that Panorama has published an article like this one by Oriana Fallaci," said Hammad. "This type of propaganda does nothing but create hate and adds to the danger of a clash between religions." Leader of the Italian Green Party Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio said: "The words of Oriana Fallaci do not help dialogue and do not reduce the danger of anti-Semitism." And the leader of a Communist party in Parliament, Franco Girodano said: "The words are shameful because the feed hate between religions." Support for the journalist, who now lives in the United States came from the head of the Jewish community in Italy, Amos Luzzato and by some members of the government. "I believe she has grounds (for the article)" said Defence Minister Antonio Martino. In the same edition of the magazine a former spokesman for Berlusconi, Giuliano Ferrara wrote an article strongly in favour of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He has put forward the idea of a "day for Israel" on April 15, after having being the inspiration behind Berlusconi's demonstration in favour of the United States on September 11. Fallaci's book, " Rage and Pride" strongly in favour of the United States, published two weeks after the September 11 attacks has topped the best seller lists in Italy since.

2002-04-16T09:28:00.000-07:00
I know what you all are thinking today, its Israel's birthday and I don't know what to get her. Well, buy her something IN ISRAEL and support her struggling economy which could use your help. There are several online shops of which I suggest:

Shop Israel
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Israel Food, Israel Wine

Israel also need to raise $1 Million Dollars for Magen David Adom. To donate go to

2002-04-16T09:16:00.000-07:00

Al-Qaeda claims attack on Tunisia synagogue: paper

Suspected terror mastermind Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network claimed responsibility for the blast near a synagogue which killed 15 including ten German tourists last week in Tunisia, the Al-Qods Al-Arabi newspaper said.

The London-based Arab daily, which did not say how it obtained the claim, said "the Al-Qaeda netowrk of Sheikh Osama bin Laden claims the operation against the Djerba synagogue."

"This suicide operation is a response to the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip," said a document, which the newspaper claimed was a genuine Al-Qaeda statement.

The statement said Tunisian Nizar bin Mohammed Nawar, aka Saif al-Din al-Tunsi carried out the operation, masterminded by the "the command of the Islamic army for the liberation of holy places."

"This suicide operation is also a reprisal for (Arab) governments' refusal to allow their peoples to launch jihad (holy war) against the Jews," said the text carried by the newspaper.

The daily also published the testament of the alleged kamizake, calling on members of his family do die as "martyrs".

Authorities in Tunisia maintain that the blast was an accident caused when a truck carrying natural gas went out of control and crashed into the wall surrounding the Griba synagogue on the island of Djerba, bursting into flames as a group of German tourists visited the site.

2002-04-16T08:59:00.000-07:00
Please spare a few seconds and click on the link below which is the homepage of The New Statesman. They are running a poll on whether the EU should impose trade sanctions on Israel. Please go to the voting link on the top-right hand side of the homepage and vote 'NO'.

The New Statesman does not have a large readership but is very influential in political and journalistic circles and if the final result of the poll was YES it would no doubt be reported in some of the national newspapers as yet another stick with which to beat Israel.

Please forward this email to others who will vote NO.

Go To:
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2002-04-16T08:57:00.000-07:00
TODAY, call 213-237-5000 or 888-565-2323, wait for an operator and ask the LA Times customer service representative for a "vacation stop" of your paper for April 17th (Israel Independence Day). When you call, you should note that the REASON for your request is to register your DISSATISFACTION with the Los Angeles Times' Mideast coverage and editorial positions. (As you probably been aware, LA Times coverage has been unbalanced and overly sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians).

Please send this to EVERYONE you can think of!

2002-04-15T17:40:00.000-07:00
1. Events: San Diego, UCLA, Arizona, Savannah
2. Daniel Pipes at Sinai in Los Angeles
3. Now is the time to write: Link for letter writing to reps, from AIPAC
4. SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER ISSUES TRAVEL ADVISORY FOR FRANCE AND BELGIUM - link
5. Support for standwithus.com

1. Events: San Diego, UCLA, Arizona, Savannah!
San Diego: This Monday evening, 7 pm:
BIG pro-Israel rally at JCC in La Jolla (San Diego,CA)

UCLA:
The Jewish Student Union at UCLA will be hosting a large Israeli Independence Day Rally on Wednesday, April 17th at 12 p.m. It will be located at Meyerhoff Park, near Kerckoff Hall. There will be a strong anti-Zionist presence that will try to prevent us from being heard and from celebrating the State of Israel. Your presence is badly needed. Come support the Jewish community of UCLA in presenting a positive, pro-active message about Israel. With your help, we can make sure our message is heard loud and clear. Sponsered by: BetarOnCampus, Bruins for Israel and Hillel. For more information about thecelebration, contact JSU President Justin Levi at swingkid181@hotmail.com.

ARIZONA
Yom Ha'Atzmaut - 3:30-7 p.m., McCormick Railroad Park, 7301 E. Indian Bend
Road, Scottsdale. Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix. 602-274-1800, ext.130.
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Rally in Savannah
There is a Solidarity Rally planned for Sunday 21 April (coinciding with Israel Independence Day) on River Street at 4:00 in the Rosakis Plaza
across from Huey's Resteraunt. For further info call 912-355-8111 ask for moises paz or sharon gal or mottie locker. Colleen Lopez, Israel Tour Specialist, Christains For Israel Rep.

2. Daniel Pipes at Sinai in Los Angeles
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Thank them for their support thus far, encourage their continued support.
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4. Update Regarding Hate Crimes in France:
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2002-04-15T10:46:00.000-07:00
An open letter to the Palestinian people
Joseph Farrah Editor-In-Chief World Net Daily

I regularly get emails from Arab readers and well-meaning Westerners who watch too much CNN "coverage" taking me to task for my position regarding Israel and the Palestinians. For the most part, the letters reflect a general viewpoint that I don't care about Arabs, or Palestinians, or their plight. As one Palestinian reader asked me, "What about the victims of Israeli policy?" I'd like to take this opportunity to send an open letter to the Palestinian "man on the street":

Dear Child of Abraham,
It is an ironclad certainty that I grieve for the situation you currently find yourselves in. I grieve when I read of homes being bulldozed by the Israeli Defense Forces in retaliation for this attack or that against Israeli targets. I grieve for those innocents who suffer the consequences of
the actions of Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah and other perpetrators of terror. I grieve for those among you who saw the bright promise of peace that shone so brilliantly on that warm September afternoon in the Rose Garden in 1993. I grieve for those who saw the hope that was manifested in the simple act of a handshake between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, only to see that promise squandered.

I grieve for those who watched as the hope of peace faded, and as the dogs of war began to nip at your heels. Today, those dogs are at your throat and I grieve for the hopelessness of your situation.I grieve for your dead, and for the families that remain behind to mourn their loss. I grieve for the hatred that has replaced the burgeoning friendships that began following the signing of Oslo and the beginning of what appeared to be a process of peace.
But my grief is not for the "victims of Israeli aggression," since it would be misplaced. The victims of the intifada are victims of a Palestinian leadership that has perverted the truth. Your leadership has had almost a decade in which to indoctrinate your children in hatred and violence and they have used it to their best advantage. The victims of the intifada are the children who are being bussed to indoctrination camps to be taught how to kill without regard for their victims. A counselor at one such camp called "Paradise Camp" bragged in the July 20 Jerusalem Post, "We are teaching the children that suicide bombs make [the]Israeli people frightened and we are allowed to do it. ...We teach them that after a person becomes a suicide bomber he reaches the highest level of paradise."
The victims of the intifada are the children, some as young as 12, bussed to rally points and deliberately placed in the front ranks of the
stone throwers, with Palestinian snipers shooting from behind them. Your leadership "purchases" the lives of these children as martyrs, paying the families of those killed a paltry $2,000 per life. Wounded children are worth much less, with the value of their injuries assessed by your leadership as being worth only $300.

I grieve for Mohammed al-Dura, the 12 year-old boy murdered by your own forces during a shoot-out with the IDF. His death made excellent propaganda for Yasser Arafat, but the price of that propaganda was far too high, despite Arafat's eagerness to pay that price.
I grieve for the families of suicide bombers who have given up their sons as a consequence of a leadership who places no value on the lives of its constituency, placing instead a premium on their deaths relative only to the number of innocent civilians that die with them.
The victims of your leadership are legion, but the most heart-rending stories of suffering at the hands of Yasser Arafat and his band of thugs come from within your own ranks.
I grieve for the five young men sentenced to death by firing squad after a ten-minute trial for"collaborating" with Israel. If collaboration with
Israel is a crime worthy of death, then your leadership represents the apex of hypocrisy. Or else Arafat would long ago have put on his own blindfold and smoked his last cigarette. For making a peace he never intended to honor at the expense of his own people is collaboration defined.
My heart breaks for your suffering. But none of that grief changes reality. Your current suffering is the result of your allowing yourself to be deceived by an opportunistic cynic who knew back in 1993 that genuine peace with Israel would mean the end of his power. Without the conflict to define him, Yasser Arafat's political existence would self-destruct. Peace is his mortal enemy.
Within six months of signing the Oslo agreement for peace, the first Egged bus exploded into flames on a Tel Aviv street. Dozens of young Palestinian lives have since dissolved into a similar pink mist of impotent rage, created and fanned by the need of Yasser Arafat and Fatah to justify their continued political existence.
The responsibility for the suffering of your people rightly belongs in the hands of the man who once took the hand of Yitzhak Rabin in an empty gesture of a peace that would never come. By design, Arafat raised the hopes of both sons of Abraham that, finally, reconciliation of a 4,000-year-old conflict might be at hand, knowing full well he intended to bring about the current conflict.
Your leadership always intended to implement the "Phased Plan for the Destruction of Israel" that Arafat promised to renounce as a condition of peace. As recently as May 2000, Abd El Aziz Shanhian, a member of Arafat's cabinet revealed that truth in one of your own newspapers, Al Ayaam. As he said then, "The Palestinian people accepted the Oslo Agreement as a first step and not as a permanent arrangement, based on the premise that the war and the struggle on the ground is more efficient than a struggle from a
distant land."
I grieve for you, because Arafat bartered your future to preserve his present. He is a liar. That isn't a value judgment, but rather an
observation of fact. He signed an agreement to renounce violence, knowing full well in advance that was never his intention, and that if there were consequences of his perfidy to be paid, they would be paid by his own people.
Even now, as you suffer, he continues to lie to you, telling you your suffering is the result of Israeli "aggression." "Retaliation" can never be aggression. It is, by definition, a response to aggression.
An aggression begun by your own leadership, under the cover of false promises and outright lies, with the full knowledge in advance of the price that aggression would exact from you, while he looted your treasury and installed his Tunisian thugs to help him carry away the booty. While you suffer in poverty and deprivation, he and his Tunisians live in luxury villas, drive Mercedes and wear Armani suits.

Your leadership has refused to meet the Israelis halfway, preferring instead to use deception and violence to prop up their own regime. When Israel, recognizing that the halfway mark for Arafat was nowhere near the middle, moved so far toward your side as to offer Arafat 95 percent of what he claimed he wanted back in 1993, Arafat rejected it out of hand and began the current uprising. Arafat knew the price of rejecting the offer would be high, but you would be the ones who had to pay it. Because the price of peace was too high for Arafat to even consider ponying up himself. He likes the trappings of power too much.
I grieve for you. But I don't buy for a second that your pain is a consequence of Israeli "aggression." You could hold in your own hands the
keys to peace. But to claim that key, you will first have to drop the rocks, bottles and guns. I pray that you do, for your own sake, and for the sake of the peace co-existence with the other son of Abraham you once claimed as your objective.

2002-04-15T08:08:00.000-07:00
I've got to tip my hat to Mrs. Arafat for her recent comments about wishing she had a son she could sacrifice to be used as a suicide bomber against Israel. At least she's not a liar like her husband is.

2002-04-14T16:31:00.000-07:00
This was forwarded to me by my sister

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We need to advertise the fact immediately that we are allowing people to join a list of people who would be able to support Israel.

The North American Jews for the Emergency Defense of the State of Israel is a grassroots effort of Jews to stand firmly and at the ready with our Jewish brethren in Israel in time of national emergency. Though we are proud American and Canadian citizens, we are here to tell Israel that we Diaspora Jews have not turned our backs on them, quite the contrary!

In this organization we have Jews of all streams (reform, conservative, orthodox), traditions and levels of observance. Whether you are a secular Jew, religious Jew, or just plain proud Jew, this is the place for you to sign up to register to make yourself available to help defend the State of Israel against terror.

God forbid we are called upon to come volunteer to defend or support the Jewish State, and/or supplement/assist the Israeli Defense Force or other Israeli agencies as directed by the Government of the State of Israel--this list will be of tremendous assistance. This could mean working in a hospital, and office, a food station, in the field, at a kibbutz or community in need of help. There is almost an unlimited amount of assignments which could be needed at any moment during a crisis.

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2002-04-14T16:30:00.000-07:00
REPRINTED FROM THE JERUSALEM POST

(11:20) Kuwaiti writer:'Sharon more compassionate than Saddam'
By Herb Keinon

With much of the Arab press routinely referring to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as a "butcher" and IDF soldiers as "Nazis," an article appeared in an official Kuwaiti paper Monday saying the Palestinians should thank God they are not fighting Saddam Hussein.

In an article entitled "Sharon is more compassionate than Saddam," Fuad al-Hashem wrote: "I think that the Palestinian people should thank God twice a day for having the Israeli army as an enemy, and for being in a much better condition than we were while facing the Iraqi army and the brutality of its soldiers, which surpasses that of the Jewish soldiers. By comparison, the IDF soldiers and their practice is 'child's play.'"

According to Hashem, had Ali Hasan al-Majid, the military governor of Kuwait in 1990, besieged Jenin, instead of Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz, "it would not have taken him five or six days." Rather mustard gas would have been used.

Hashem said 1,700 Palestinians have "fallen as martyrs" since the beginning of the violence. He said that, by comparison, on the morning of August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein "sent the souls of 1,000 Kuwaiti martyrs to their creator!"

The Kuwaiti writer's conclusion: "Ariel Sharon is more compassionate than Saddam Hussein, and Shaul Mofaz is more compassionate than Ali Hasan al-Majid."

Closer to home, In an address to the Knesset earlier this week, Sharon laid the groundwork for a possible indictment of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat for war crimes.

Let's review the evidence to help US Secretary of State Colin Powell prepare for his meeting with Arafat tomorrow.

Sharon read from two documents confiscated from Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah during IDF operations. The first document, dated January 7, 2002, is a request from Raed Karmi, then head of Fatah-Tanzim in the Tulkarm area, addressed to his chief, Marwan Barghouti, asking for financial assistance for 12 Fatah terrorists under his command. Barghouti forwarded the letter to Arafat, with a note, "I request of you to order the allocation of $1,000 for each of the fighter brethren."

2002-04-14T16:24:00.000-07:00
This tidbit was on a daily update I get from Chabaad. See what you think...

How To Criticize

Criticizing another person is not out of the question. It's just that there are a few conditions to attend to before you start.

The first condition is to make sure this person is your close friend. Those are the only people worth criticizing--not just because they may actually listen, but also since you run a lower risk of making them into your sworn enemies.

2002-04-14T16:19:00.000-07:00
FROM EDDIE SANFORD

THE FRENCH JEWRY IS ASKING FOR THEIR AMERICAN BRETHRENS' HELP.
WE ARE OUR BROTHERS' KEEPERS.

PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING SLOGANS ON YOUR SIGNS AT ANY RALLIES
YOU MAY PARTICIPATE:

END TERROR IN FRANCE!

CHIRAC, JOSPIN,

USE THE MISDIRECTED FRENCH TAXPAYERS' MONEY - THAT YOU SENT OUT OF THE
COUNTRY TO HELP ARAFAT'S HOMICIDAL BOMBERS - FOR THE EDUCATION AND SOCIAL
INTEGRATION OF THE DEPRIVED YOUNG FRENCH SUBURBAN MUSLIMS!

END TERROR IN FRANCE!

CHIRAC, JOSPIN,

ADDRESS THE SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF YOUNG, POOR, FRENCH SUBURBAN
MUSLIMS WHOSE FRUSTRATION AND ANGER WILL DRIVE THEM FROM BURNING NOT ONLY
SYNAGOGUES BUT ALSO, VERY SOON, THE CORE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC! REMEMBER
9/11!

END TERROR IN FRANCE!

CHIRAC, JOSPIN,

YOU WILL ELIMINATE ANTI- SEMITIC ACTS IN FRANCE BY EDUCATING AND INTEGRATING
THE YOUNG, POOR, FRENCH SUBURBAN MUSLIMS INTO THE FRENCH SOCIETY! TAKE CARE
OF YOUR OWN REFUGEE CAMPS!

END TERROR IN FRANCE!

FRENCH JOURNALISTS,

THE YOUNG, POOR, UNEMPLOYED AND REVOLTED, SUBURBAN MUSLIM YOUTH HAS AS MUCH
TO SHOW AS JENIN, NABLUS AND RAMALLAH YOUTH. FOCUS ON YOUR OWN BACKYARD FOR
THE FUTURE OF FRANCE!

2002-04-14T16:18:00.000-07:00
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. POWELL'S VERDICT ON MEETING WITH ARAFAT: "USEFUL, CONSTRUCTIVE"
2. TERROR IN MACHANE YEHUDA KILLS SIX
3. THE WASHINGTON MARCH
4. WORLD ANTI-SEMITISM CONTINUES
5. ON THE FRONT
6. JEWS FOR JERUSALEM
7. MUSLIM RELIGIOUS LEADER CALLS FOR END TO ARAFAT

1. POWELL'S VERDICT ON MEETING WITH ARAFAT: "USEFUL, CONSTRUCTIVE"
After a three-and-a-half-hour meeting today with PLO leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, US Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters that the meeting was "useful and constructive," but added that no significant progress was made towards a cease-fire agreement. Powell said that he and Arafat "exchanged a variety of ideas" on steps that can be taken to "move forward."

Arafat did not accompany the US Secretary out of his Mukata headquarters; Palestinian Authority official Saeb Erekat said that this was due to fear of Israeli snipers stationed around the compound. Israel has had many opportunities to kill Arafat in the recent past, putting the above claim into proper perspective; most observers felt that the lack of agreement between Powell and Arafat was the real reason for the latter's lack of a hospitable send-off. Also present today were PA officials Abu Mazen, Abu Ala, and Yasser Abed Rabbo, as well as militia heads Mohammed Dahlan and Mohammed Rashid.

PLO spokesman Saeb Erekat said that the PA would not consider a cease-fire until Israel totally withdraws from all PLO-controlled cities. This Arafat stance thus jibes nicely with the Hamas policy; Hamas threatened today that its suicide attacks would continue until the Israeli conquest over "Palestinian lands" ends. The Hamas spokesman in Gaza said that the suicide attacks are a legitimate tactic and are not terrorism.

Today's Powell-Arafat meeting was meant to have taken place on Saturday, but was suspended by the Americans after Friday afternoon's suicide killing in Jerusalem. The meeting was rescheduled for today after Yasser Arafat released a statement saying that the PA "strongly condemns all attacks targeting civilians from both sides, and especially the attack that took place against Israeli civilians in Jerusalem. We also condemn very strongly the massacre that was committed by the Israeli occupation troops against
our refugees in Jenin and against our people in Ramallah, Nablus [Shechem] and Tul Karem, and also the brutal aggression against the church in Bethlehem during the last two weeks."

US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that the statement "contains a number of interesting and positive elements" Israeli sources said that what was particularly "interesting" was that the PLO leader expressed criticism of the murder even though recently-uncovered documents show that he personally approved payments for suicide bombers and explosives.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Daniel Ayalon called the statement "weak." He pointed out that when Arafat calls for a million shahids (martyrs) to march to Jerusalem, "he does so in his own voice, emphatically," and not via an office-released statement. Ayalon also repeated that Israel needs action from Arafat, not just words.

Before the Powell-Arafat meeting, the IDF restored power and water to the PA offices, delivered fresh food supplies, cleared the area of debris and removed the roadblocks and tanks set up at the entrance to the compound. Powell's motorcade made its way from Jerusalem to Ramallah under very heavy guard, and the US Secretary ignored reporters' questions until his emergence from the PLO compound. Powell was set to meet with Israeli President Moshe Katzav later today and with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in
the evening.

2. TERROR IN MACHANE YEHUDA KILLS SIX
Two of the six victims of late Friday's human-bomb attack in Jerusalem were buried last night, and two more funerals were held today. Rivka Fink, 75, of Jerusalem, and Nissan Cohen, 57, of Ramot, were buried last night. Yelena Konrav, 43, of Givat Ze'ev, Zuhila Hushi, 47, of Gilo, and two foreign workers from China were the other victims.

Over 90 people were wounded when a 17-year-old Arab female detonated a powerful bomb at a bus stop next to Jerusalem's crowded Machane Yehudah market on Jaffa Road. She set off the bomb just as the market place - the famous "shuk" - and nearby stores were closing before the onset of the Sabbath, although many people, including Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert, were
still in the area. The suicide murderess tried to enter the shuk itself, but as the heavy police presence there made that impossible, she instead detonated the bomb across the street at the #6 bus stop. The bus was set ablaze, and the driver, though his hair was singed and he suffered other injuries, began immediately helping to move the passengers from the front of the bus to the back, suffering more wounds in the process.

Twenty victims of the suicide attack remain in Jerusalem hospitals, including seven listed in serious condition. Two Chinese workers are unconscious. Police report that the bomb contained between 7-10 kilograms of military-grade explosives.

Mayor Olmert later said that he could understand the anger of the residents, and even some of their more extreme calls, "because it literally could have been any of them who were killed and maimed." Despite other cities' decisions to cancel Independence Day festivities, Olmert told Arutz-7 today that "Jerusalem is the country's capital, and the celebrations will be held as planned."

3. THE WASHINGTON MARCH
It's being billed as the largest pro-Israel rally in history. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to arrive in Washington tomorrow by car, bus, train, and plane to say that they stand by Israel - and that they expect the U.S. government to do the same. At issue is the pressure the Bush Administration is exerting on Israel to end its war against Palestinian Authority terrorism.

The Jewish community in Atlanta has chartered a plane for the occasion, as has been done in Boca Raton, Chicago, and elsewhere. In addition, hundreds of communities will be sending buses to the rally. Some of these were listed in previous Arutz-7 reports; others include:
Crown Heights Chabad-Lubavitch - 22 busloads of Yeshiva students and rabbis
Highland Park/Edison New Jersey - 5 buses
Central Queens YM-YWHA - 2 buses
Yeshivat Or Chaim in Toronto, Canada - 1 bus
Congregation K'hal Adath Jeshurun of Paramus, NJ
CHAT High School of Toronto Shalheves High School for Girls, Baltimore

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4. WORLD ANTI-SEMITISM CONTINUES
The death toll in Thursday's truck bomb outside the Riba Synagogue in Gerba, Tunisia has risen to 15, with the deaths of two German tourists this morning. Among the dead were ten German tourists, three local Tunisians, and two Frenchmen. In Kiev, Ukraine, vandals attacked the main synagogue there while several dozen worshipers were inside. The rabbi of the nearby Chabad yeshiva was wounded... The Simon Wiesenthal Center issued its first-ever travel advisory on Friday, urging its 400,000 constituents to exercise "extreme caution" when visiting France and Belgium. The Center noted that more than 400 hate crimes against Jews and Jewish institutions have been recorded in the past 18 months in France, and that Belgium's Chief Rabbi, among others, has been assaulted on the streets of Brussels...

Some 20 tombstones in a Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg, France, were defaced over the weekend, with Nazi swastikas painted on them. Police arrested three people in connection with the incident. French officials say that anti-Semitic attacks throughout the country have begun to number ten a day, including the brutal beating last week of a Jewish soccer player by a gang of 15 hooded men wielding metal bars.

5. ON THE FRONT
The IDF made its most important arrest yesterday since the start of Operation Defensive Shield, capturing Al-Aksa Brigade commander Nasser Arwis. An elite commando unit captured Arwis by complete surprise in the village of Tubas, northeast of Shechem, as he slept. He was directly responsible for murdering at least 11 Israelis over the past 19 months, as
well as for recruiting members for the Fatah Tanzim and helping them plot attacks. The Israeli forces woke Arwis by placing a gun to his head; he, his assistant and two other wanted Fatah fugitives surrendered without a fight...

US Secretary of State Powell visited Northern Command offices on Friday, and was briefed about the severity of the escalating Hizbullah attacks on Israel's northern border. Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told Powell that the northern border is "about to explode," adding that the shelling from southern Lebanon has been a daily occurrence. Powell called the briefing a "sobering" one: "[The situation is] escalating," he said, "and as you know, a round landed during the course of the briefing, and I condemn that. I call upon nations who have influence over Hizbullah, especially Syria, to do everything in its power to restrain Hizbullah and
to stop this kind of activity before it widens the conflict in the region with consequences that are devastating to consider for the whole region..."

The security forces dismantled several grenades that were placed at the Erez Checkpoint in northern Gaza this morning. Two terrorists opened fire there last week, killing an Israeli soldier and another Arab worker. In this morning's attempted attack, an Arab terrorist - apparently a PLO policeman - placed the grenades in the bus-park and ran away...

Some 15 Israelis were arrested this morning, part of a group of 20 who entered and prayed in Joseph's Tomb last night. This was the third such entry since the IDF took over Shechem in Operation Defensive Shield. The Jews were arrested on charges of violating an order issued by the Central Commander Yitzchak Eitan forbidding entry - although Noam Livnat of Elon Moreh said that there was absolutely no danger involved, and that the order was solely a political one. "It was a most uplifting experience," he said, "to recite Psalms at this holy site that was so wantonly abandoned at the beginning of the Oslo War - especially Chapter 80, which we call Joseph's Psalm, that we used to recite aloud when we studied in Yeshivat Od Yosef Chai..."

6. JEWS FOR JERUSALEM
A new Jewish neighborhood was dedicated in Jerusalem this afternoon, opposite Damascus Gate. MK Rabbi Benny Elon, a prime mover of the project for a while now, explained some of the background to Arutz-7 today: "Many years ago, in 1875, a Jew named Reb Nissan Bek established a Jewish neighborhood in this spot, and some years later, some Jews from Georgia (Asia) built 100 homes opposite Damascus Gate. It was a Jewish neighborhood until the pogroms of 1929, during which 19 Jews were murdered
and buried in a mass grave in Mt. of Olives. Two synagogues used to stand on the spot that is now used as an Arab parking lot... Since then, the Arabs took over the neighborhood, but thank G-d over the past several years we have been able to redeem about a third of the homes - dozens of homes are now in Jewish hands. Two families have been living there for a number of months." He explained that until now the work of redeeming the neighborhood was done quietly, because of the dangers involved, but now "it
is time to get more people and resources involved... Just like in the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood, which is once again becoming Jewish, here too, and elsewhere, the Arabs take the money and leave - to Australia, Austria, etc. It is clear that we are more connected to these lands than they are, and we have to encourage them to take the money and go." For more information, contact .

7. MUSLIM RELIGIOUS LEADER CALLS FOR END TO ARAFAT
WorldNetDaily.com reported this week that Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, a leading Muslim religious thinker and secretary-general of the Italian Muslim Association, has called on Prime Minister Sharon to continue his military campaign against Yasser Arafat until the latter is "executed or jailed." Palazzi stated specifically that he asks Sharon to continue the operation "against the boss of terror until the day when the Egyptian criminal Abdel Ra'uf al- Kobdah [a.k.a. Yasser Arafat]" is neutralized for good.

Palazzi has several non-Orthodox Moslem beliefs, such as Israel's right to exist according to the Koran and the fact that there is "no such thing as a 'Palestinian.'" Regarding the latter, Palazzi says, "It is a PR fiction, a Madison Avenue fantasy."

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2002-04-14T16:02:00.000-07:00
STOP THE TERROR IN FRANCE.

According to the Associated Press, on April 13, 2002 twenty graves were marked with swastikas and an obscene remark was scrawled on the wall of the Strasbourg-Cronenbourg Jewish cemetery. Far from being an isolated 'incident' this hate driven desecration follows an established statistical pattern of terrorist attacks aimed at French citizens of Jewish faith. According to France-info radio 10 - 12 anti-Semitic acts have been committed each day in France since the Easter weekend. Last week a member of a Jewish soccer team was injured, during an attack on his team, by 15 hooded people wielding sticks and metal bars. Synagogues, Jewish schools, school busses and cemeteries have been targeted, attacked, burned and destroyed by hooligans, the worst case being the Marseille synagogue that was burned to the ground. Strangely enough, the above mentioned cities are known to have a large percentage of unemployed French Muslims, drug dealers by trade, living in their suburbs.

The incidence of these attacks is escalating while the French government led by Chirac and Jospin tries to deny or, at the very least, minimize their nature. Only very lately, under pressure by national and international public opinion, have they given lip service by verbally discouraging these terror attacks and increasing very modestly the number of policemen charged with protection against this terror. The somewhat increased presence of police however, has not discouraged the attackers at all, for a very good
reason. The motivation of the assigned policemen to act against the terrorist intruders is very low. Fearing for their own safety and caring less about those they are meant to protect, they very seldom pursue the criminals involved knowing from experience that the intruders will be released within an hour or two following their arrest. In less than 10% of these incidents have any perpetrators been captured. Of those few who were apprehended and who were found to belong to the young, poor, suburban Muslim population, very few, if any, were actually prosecuted, most of them being thus enabled to return to their nefarious activities.

It is well known in France that in the suburban areas of large cities there are numerous young, poor, socially and culturally deprived Muslims, mostly second generation immigrants from North Africa, whose frustration and lack of hope in life renders them fair game for political agitators of all kinds. With an eye to the 8,000,000 Muslim electorate (as opposed to only 600,000 Jews still living in France), and the upcoming elections, the present French government prefers to look away, being relieved somehow that, at least for
the time being, the ire of the disenfranchised is directed against the Jews. In the mean time it misused the French taxpayers' money for years in a row by transferring much of it into the coffers of Palestinian treasuries supporting Arafat and his gang of homicide bombers.

No attention was paid by the French government to the human needs of its own 'camps' of North-African immigrants' children, breeding the terrorists of today and tomorrow. It is self- defeating delusional thinking to assume that the hatred of these oppressed French masses will limit itself to the destruction of the French citizens of Jewish faith only. If no positive action is taken soon in order to educate, train and socially integrate these 'second class citizens' they will predictably attack the core of France itself and of its institutions and symbols. Remember the eleventh of September!

It is imperative, for the sake of all France, that the governmental monies and efforts be redirected to take care of the country's internal needs to assure a fair chance in life to all of its citizens. As the political elections are impending it is paramount for all political candidates and their electorate to consider facing realistically the challenges to the country's security and well being and to timely do everything in their power to stop the terror in France.

2002-04-12T17:25:00.000-07:00
ANOTHER REASON TO AVOID FRANCE, COURTESY OF AP

(21:00) Jewish soccer team attacked in France
By The Associated Press

BONDY, France - Amid a spate of recent anti-Semitic attacks in France, a Jewish amateur soccer team was attacked during a training session in a Paris suburb and one of its members seriously hurt, French police said Thursday.

Around 15 hooded attackers wielding sticks and metal bars assaulted the team of teenagers from the Maccabi Bondy association, a Jewish group, late Wednesday after making anti-Semitic remarks.

One member of the team suffered a cut to the head and received hospital treatment but wasn't thought to be in danger.

French Sports Minister Marie-George Buffet issued a statement condemning the attack as "indescribable."

"I am convinced that the young people of France, of whatever opinion and of all origins, will take action to defend the spirit of tolerance and dialogue," Buffet said.

Synagogues, Jewish schools and cemeteries around the country have been targeted, often with firebombs, in recent weeks as fighting has escalated between Israelis and Palestinians. In the most serious case, a Marseille synagogue was burned to the ground on March 31.

2002-04-12T17:24:00.000-07:00
ACTIONS from STAND WITH US

1. Rally in Orange County - Sunday at South Coast Plaza
2:00 to 4:00.
2. Demonstration in front of French Consulates
3. Rally in D.C. on Monday
4. Rally in front of the King David Hotel in
Jerusalem right now'
5, Media Lies: Dont Be Deceived!
6. Please CALL the White House.
7. CHILDRENS letter writing campaign
8. FINISH THE NETANYA PASSOVER SADER - a profound event
at Milken of Stephen S. Wise
9. Support of Standwithus Efforts

1. Rally in Orange County, this Sunday
HUGE Rally in Orange County this Sunday: 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
at the Southcoast Plaza, on BOTH sides of Bristol street. Los
Angeles--please go, and support this rally!!! Orange county came to the
Los Angeles rally!!!
Bring your large, clear signs:
There is NO excuse for SUICIDE Bombings.
We Support Israel's Right to Defend Hersef
Israel's Fight Against Terror is EVERYONE's Fight
Christians Stand With Israel
Stop the Incitement for Suicide Murder
Stop the Incitement for Destruction of Israel
Bring American Flags
Arafat Condones Terrorism and Always Has.
Write Signs of Support in Spanish

IF YOU GET INTERVIEWED: Talking points
> (Special thanks to IsraelAlive for suggesting that we prepare everyone
> with talking points...)
>
> If you have a chance to be interviewed by the media, we would like to
encourage you to speak clearly and deliberately and make any or all of
the following points, regardless of their questions:
>
> Arafat has led his people down a path towards death, not peace. He has
done this for years. Suicide bombers do not have some special genetic
code. They are raised this way. Not only does Arafat promote the death
of Jews to his people, but he promotes the death of his own people in
> order to achieve the killing of Jews.
>
> Al Aqsa has publically stated (on CNN- March 30) that they would have
listened to Arafat if he had ever told them to stop the suicide bombings,
but he didnt. Arafat has created a terrorist culture, and he lies about
it to this day.
>
> Arafat's state appointed clerics preach the murder of Jews, and the
destruction of Israel. The state controlled media and the children's
textbooks and teachers do not even acknowledge Israel on their maps.
When they talk about the liberation of Palestine, they are talking about
the area called Israel.
>
> America would never have tolerated the suicide-murder terrorist behavior
that Israel has had to deal with for all these many months. Israel must
> not be asked to tolerate terrorism against her citizens.
>
> Israel MUST clear out the terrorist leadership and the terrorist cells
that threaten their very existance. Israel is fighting terrorism in the
same way that America has been fighting terrorism since 9-11.
>
> Israel cannot be blamed for NOT being willing to let its citizens die in
groups of 10 or 20 as they eat Pizza, prepare for a religious dinner, wait
in line at a disco, or sit at a cafe. Terrorism is simply uncivilized
> behavior. Terrorism is murder. Where is the moral outcry?
>
> Incitement must end. Terrorism is a result of incitement. Part of any
worthwhile peace agreement MUST INCLUDE an end to incitement against Jews,
and an end to incitement against the very existance of Israel.
>
> Where are the Christians and Jews in Saudi Arabia? Where are the
churches and synagogues in Syria? Where is civilized tolerance of other
religious groups within Arab countries? Where is the moral outcry against
this
kind of religious intolerance within Arab countries?

2. Demonstrations in front of French Consulates this Friday:
We are confirming that there will be protests this Friday, April 12, in
front of the French Consulates all over....
Los Angeles: 10990 Wilshire Blvd., 11:00 to 1:00.
THere is one in New York. Call AMCHA, ask for Meredith at 718-796-4730
Main theme:
Burning Synagogues = Anti-Semitism.
attacks on Jewish businesses, people and institutions since the beginning
of this Intifada = anti-Semitism.
Initial sponsors:
Betar, Standwithus, MERIT, OLAM and Jews for Truth NOW

Make a sign. Note: we will NOT be launching a boycott of French products,
since many French products are Jewish owned... and we do not know which is
which...
Note: we will NOT be putting French products into a garbage can because
the French government is beginning to deploy police and take the problem
more seriously, although they are STILL not looking at this as attacks
against Jews.
They refer to it as mischief or as a result of problems that are
spontaneous.
Our intention is to encourage the French government to do more about the
attacks against the Jews, and the INCITEMENT against Jews.

3. Rally in Washington on Monday
The time: Monday, April 15th
The place: Washington, D.C.
The excuses: None

Israel and the Global Jewish Community need our help now. If we don't
show up, Yasser Arafat and the suicidal terrorists gain the upper hand.
Every able bodied Jew in the United States needs to be there. Call every
Jew that
you know. Now. Cancel all appointments. Make arrangements. Temple
Israel Center will be working out the details to help in our community.
We'll let
you know in a day or two, but make your plans now.

See you there!

Yes it is confirmed.
The President's Conference is doing a rally in Washington on Monday April
15.
Israelis give up one month a year to do reserve duty to protect ALL of us
Won't we give up one day to support them?
More info on the rally will be available tomorrow.
Please encourage everyone to attend.
In 1967 hundreds of thousands of Jews from up and down the east coast
marched on Washington in support of Israel. Let's bring out millions!

4. Rally in front of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem right now:
The crowd is gathering right now, with signs... to greet Colin Powell with
respectful signs that read the same as our rally signs...call anyone you
know who lives in Jerusalem. Tell them to go. This is a good
opportunity.
America: Please allow Israel to defend its citizens, etc.

5. Media Lies: Dont be deceived!!
Do Not Be Deceived by the statement
"The Israeli Army is shooting and killing Palestinian civilians."

· There is no official Palestinian Army.

· The Palestinians who are seen on TV shooting their AK-47s, and
hurling grenades, and setting off booby-trap bombs against the Israeli
Army troops are Palestinian civilians.

· The Palestinian gunmen who move through the streets, shoot from behind
buildings, shoot from windows, and shoot from rooftops of houses are
Palestinian civilians.

· The Israeli Army troops are shooting at civilians
who just happen to be Palestinian armed combatant gunmen, who are shooting
at the troops.

· Innocent Palestinian civilians may indeed be killed in
crossfire, but they are not intentionally targeted by Army troops who have
very specific & rules of engagement.

· Dont confuse innocent Palestinian civilians with the
Palestinian armed combatant gunmen.

· Dont equate the Palestinian gunmen civilians with
the innocent, noncombatant, unarmed Israeli civilians who are eating at an
outdoor restaurant when they are blown to pieces by a terrorist suicide
bomber.

DO NOT BE DECEIVED!
CHECK OUT THE FACTS...
Frontlines Network of America
www.frontlinesnetwork.com

6. Please CALL the White House.
URGENT: Message from standwithus and AIPAC, and probably every other
pro-Israel activist group in America would ask you to do this now.
The Presidents e-mail address is full, so mail will not be accepted. You
need to call.
Call the White House. 202-456-1414
Tell them that Israel has a right to fight the terrorists.
We do not want israel to pull back before they collect the weapons and as
many terrorists as they can.
Israel is bleeding... now being attacked from Hezbollah in Lebanon...
There is bombing.
Israel must be allowed to fight terrorism, just as the United States has
done and is doing. The US must be the light unto the world...
Israel's fight is everyones fight.
Why the double standard for the US? Were there no civilian casualties in
Afghanistan?
We cannot give in to the pressure from the UN and EU that NEVER have
condemned Palestinian terrorism and serial. MURDER.
Go for it.
Call. If you dont have time to speak to a live operator, then leave your
message.
When recording,
be brief... and start with your main point.
ESSENTIAL.
Do this now. Send this to friends.

7. CHILDRENS letter writing campaign
We are told that the president will read letters from children. You must
do this right away, snail mail... pay a little extra, and send it
overnight. Your childs handwriting.
Fast. Short and sweet: Talk to your children, and have them write in
their own words, making the following points: Please let Israel defend
herself against the terrorism. Please let Israel finish collecting the
weapons, and rooting out the terrorist cells. Israel has a right to
defend herself.

8. FINISH THE NETANYA PASSOVER SADER - a profound event at Milken of
Stephen S. Wise: Standwithus has just found out about this event, which
will take place on April 17th. The community will get together and ask
questions, sing songs and remember the Jews who were unable to have their
Sader because of the Passover Massacre. We would like to encourage others
to duplicate this event.

2002-04-12T17:17:00.000-07:00
Sunday, April 7, 2002

This didn't make the evening news, but its noteworthy allright!

Israeli military intelligence, the CIA and other Israeli and US counter-terrorism agencies have discovered, according to DEBKAfile‚s military sources, that the six major terrorist attacks rocking Israeli Mediterranean coastal cities in March (Tel Aviv, Haifa, Netanya and Ashdod) had a hidden purpose, besides killing a large number of Israelis. They diverted attention from the rubber dinghies dropping al Qaeda and Hizballah terror squads, interspersed with Palestinians, along Israeli beaches.
The discovery was confirmed in the final reports of the investigations into the two last Netanya attacks: the assault at the Jeremy Hotel on March 9 and the Passover Seder massacre at the seaside resort‚s Park Hotel, 18 days later.
After both attacks, black dinghies were found buried on the sandy beach, prompting wide-scale searches up and down the Israeli coast from Rosh Hanikra in the north to Ashkelon in the south.
Ten dinghies turned up in at least three locations: five in Netanya; the rest in nearby Michmoret and Caesarea. Each dinghy can carry eight to 10 commandos with their weapons and gear. Tracks in the sand showed that each toted a heavy pack weighing 40 to 70 kilos (90 to 155 lb), suggesting large explosive charges or heavy weapons, such as missiles.
The last landing appears to have taken place under cover of the suicide attack on the Allenby Street café in Tel Aviv Saturday night, March 30.
For most of Sunday, March 31, Israeli security forces closed the old Tel Aviv-Haifa highway along a 70-mile (110-km) stretch - from the Petach Tikva junction just north of Tel Aviv to the southern entrances of Haifa. The public notice to frustrated motorists and commuters explained the measure as due to the incursion of Palestinian suicide bombers from the West Bank. The al Qaeda-Hizballah infiltration from the opposite direction, the Mediterranean, was not released.
Intelligence agencies and Israeli troops operating in Palestinian areas this week are actively seeking these intruders before they can be activated.

2002-04-12T17:16:00.000-07:00
This is scary. It is an example of what is taught to naive Arab children to turn them against the Jews and keep up all from being able to try to live in peace...

intifada.swf (mimetype: application/x-shockwave-flash ) Click Here to Watch

2002-04-12T17:14:00.000-07:00
MASSIVE RALLY:

Tens of thousands of Israelis are putting their lives on the line to
defend the Jewish State.

Please give one day for Israel.

Busloads and airplanes of Israel supporters from across America will be
coming to Washington, DC, to show support for Israel's campaign against
terror and violence.

Monday, April 15 (Patriots Day)
1:00 p.m., US Capitol

Sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations, in conjunction with nearly every Jewish organization.

For info:
http://www.israelrally.org/

2002-04-12T17:12:00.000-07:00
Please take heed of a popular Muslim precept from the Koran: "Make peace with an infidel nation, but only a temporary peace, until you are strong enough to overthrow them, kill them, and conquer their lands".

2002-04-10T11:50:00.000-07:00
This next piece is hysterical to me. Israel should pass a similar law so we can sue everyone too...

2002-04-10T11:40:00.000-07:00
REPRINTED FROM THE JERUSALEM POST

(19:30) Lebanon to sue Int'l Herald Tribune over pro-Israel ad
By Zeina Karam, The Associated Press

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanon is preparing charges against the International Herald Tribune over a pro-Israeli advertisement that appeared last week in the newspaper, which has a Beirut edition, Lebanon's prosecutor general said today.

Prosecutor General Adnan Addoum told The Associated Press he decided to proceed with the case after conferring with Information Minister Ghazi Aridi.

The advertisement in Friday's edition was placed by the New York-based Anti-Defamation League and ran on Page 7 under the headline: "Israel we are with you. Now more than ever."

"We are deeply saddened and pained by the tragic loss of life as a result of the vicious campaign of Palestinian terrorism," it said.

Under Lebanese laws, a foreign publication that distributes in Lebanon cannot publish items deemed propaganda for Israel. Lebanon and Israel are technically in a state of war.

Cases relating to newspapers and magazines are covered by a Publications Law and a special court at the early stages.

Charges in the IHT case could include harming national feelings, publishing propaganda for an enemy state and violating an Arab boycott of Israel. Punishment could be a fine of up to 1 million Lebanese pounds ($666) or a prison sentence for its Lebanon representative if an intent to cause insult was found.

In Paris, David Ignatius, the IHT executive editor, said he could not comment on the case before he learned more about it, but added that the International Herald Tribune has been publishing in Lebanon since July "without censorship of any kind."

"We are proud to publish in Lebanon, in the Middle East, with the Daily Star, and we hope to do so for many years to come," he said.

The IHT, which is based in Paris and publishes editions in cities around the world, has since July been appearing in Lebanon as part of an agreement with Lebanon's English-language Daily Star newspaper. The Daily Star is inserted into the IHT under the agreement.

IHT officials in Paris had no immediate comment. The IHT was founded in 1887 and has been jointly owned since 1967 by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

"I think that we were caught between a rock and a hard place," said Daily Star publisher Jamil Mroue, who said that under the deal with the IHT, the Star has no influence over the content of the IHT.

"I think the Lebanese government and authorities have a point," Mroue said. The newspaper may have broken Lebanese law, he added, but there was no intent to cause insult.

The Star, which under the agreement retains full editorial independence from the IHT, said in an editorial Saturday said the advertisement "illustrated the lopsided nature of the propaganda front in the Arab-Israeli conflict" and said Arabs must counter Jewish propaganda by organizing an effective campaign to explain the Arab perspective.

The Star editorial also accused some of the leading figures of the Anti-Defamation League of having "extremist tendencies."

The US-based league is a nonprofit organization that monitors anti-Semitism around the world and lobbies for Israel.

Despite occasional pressure from authorities in recent years, the Lebanese press remains one of the freest in the Middle East. Some 16 newspapers publish in Beirut.

Recently, Lebanese media, including satellite television stations, have been waging an incessant propaganda campaign against Israel and its leaders.

2002-04-10T10:15:00.000-07:00
This is very important and can be accomplished through the internet in a couple of minutes. A Nobel Prize Judge of the Peace Prize is trying to get enough names on a petition (through e-mail it counts) to revoke the Nobel Peace prize that was given to Arafat in 1993. They need at least a million signatures.

Please go to the following web site and lend your name. [Rabbi Landau]

http://www.revoketheprize.org

2002-04-10T10:11:00.000-07:00
Is it 1938 again for the Jews?

© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

This is the scariest time for Jews since the Holocaust.

The Jews are being abandoned. Again.

From the Jews' perspective, the world can be divided into three groups – those that hate the Jews and want them dead, those that ignore this hatred and aid the haters, and Americans.

The first group consists mostly of Muslim and Arab societies. If ever Arab hatred of Israel was purely political, that time has long passed. Arab, Iranian and other Muslim literature today is as anti-Semitic as Nazi literature was. Hitler's "Mein Kampf" is a best seller in the Middle East. Articles regularly appear there describing how Jews kill non-Jewish children to use their blood in holiday foods . Jews have been expelled from nearly every Arab country. And the deliberate killing of Jews, including Jewish children, is celebrated throughout the Muslim Middle East. And not just Israeli Jews – remember Daniel Pearl.

Also ominous for Jews (and for Christians, though most Christians do not feel vulnerable even though they are next) is the great number of Muslim immigrants living in Europe. There are some 32 million Muslims in Europe, and many of them are radical and, therefore, anti-Semitic. Virtually every day in the past month, Jews and synagogues were attacked by Muslims in Europe.

Because Europe fears its immense Muslim population, because of its own anti-Semitism, because it is leftist, because it is dependent on Arab oil, and because America supports Israel, Europe is the primary support of those who wish another Jewish Holocaust. Europe, which has been a decaying civilization since the end of World War I, has reached a moral nadir – and once again at the Jews' expense.

The second group, the rest of the world excluding the United States, is either pro-Arab (e.g., Russia, China, South Africa) or oblivious to the Jewish state's fate (most of Asia and Latin America).

The third group consists of Americans.

In America, Jews live in unprecedented equality and security, and America is Israel's defender. The reason is not only because America is such a tolerant place. America does not merely tolerate Jews and Judaism. It honors them. And it has done so since its inception. The United States is the only country that has always defined itself as Judeo-Christian. There are Christian countries, secular countries and Muslim countries, but America is the only Judeo-Christian country.

Contrary to what Arab media constantly tell their people, American support of Jews and Israel is not due to "Jewish/Zionist influence." It is due to America's values and to its identification with Jews and Israel. Though Christians founded the United States, the Old Testament played as great a role in America's identity as did the New. Such was the identification with Israel that Thomas Jefferson suggested that the seal of the United States depict Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt.

As long as America remains Judeo-Christian and continues to prefer the values of the Lone Ranger to those of the United Nations, Jews will never be entirely abandoned. But given the Europeanization of America's elite, the news media's constant moral equation of free Israel and its fascistic enemies, the increasing number of anti-Jewish, anti-Christian Muslims in America, and the continuing influence of the anti-America and anti-Israel left on academia and on liberal Christian denominations, one day the Jews and Israel may be entirely abandoned.

So here we are, just one generation after nearly every Jew in Europe was murdered, and the remnant that remains in the New Jersey-sized Jewish state is threatened with extinction.

Even the bulk of Jewry that was not alive in 1938 feels now as if that year of appeasement of evil is being replayed. As in 1938, the world now seems to be divided between those nations that were about to murder Jews and those that would let it happen.

It is almost unbelievable.

2002-04-10T09:54:00.000-07:00
REPRINTED FROM THE JERUSALEM POST

(12:00) NY Jewish students protest French anti-Semitism
By Melissa Radler

NEW YORK - Hundreds of Jewish students from Long Island's Rambam Mesivta High School donned yellow badges proclaiming themselves "Juif", or Jewish, and spent Holocaust Remembrance Day outside Kennedy Airport's Air France terminal to protest ongoing attacks on Jewish institutions in France.

The students hoped to inform American travelers to France of the situation as well as pressure the French government to publicly condemn anti-Semitism and take steps to stop the attacks, said the school's principal, Rabbi Yotav Eliach.

"For the French Jewish community, the events of recent weeks are like reliving the nightmare of the 1940s," said Eliach.

2002-04-10T09:50:00.000-07:00
I have had some site publishing problems in the last few days for which I apologize. As I sit in my office reading my morning paper I have to ask, why is the HOMICIDE BOMBING in Haifa a line item in the paper and a line item on the news? Where is the coverage of the poor wounded people? The families of the innocent people MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD BY PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS?

I urge you today to call you local news station and your local newspaper and ask these questions. Sadly, the answer appears to be that it doesn't fit the agenda of the biased American press. We won't even talk about the European press.

I received a letter from Israel second hand yesterday implying that the suicide bomber who ambushed the Israelis in Jenin was a 7 year old. This wasn't mentioned on the news. What's interested and different from past reports is that there was NO DESCRIPTION of the HOMICIDE bomber in Jenin on the news. A cover up perhaps?

I hope that Jews, Christians and Muslims will understand that the reason the Israelis are forced to put Palestians through checkpoints around Jerusalem is because many Palestians are apparently twisted enough to sacrafice their children by turned them into Homicide Bombers. Something must be done to end the terror. Luckily Israel appears to be seizing many weapons and capturing terrorists which should get some of this to stop.

Is it a coincidence that the violence is resuming after Israel withdraws from two cities? Probably not.
is it a coincidence that the violence is resuming after Colin Powell arrives in the region? Probably not.

Of all the signs that I've seen at the demonstrations I have been to in the last two weeks, the scariest sign that I have seen read

2002 = 1938?
NEVER AGAIN.

Don't just sit there. Do something. We must remember never again to allow ourselves to be annihalated(sp?) as we were at the hands of the Nazis.

Back to work now.

DS

2002-04-10T09:40:00.000-07:00
1. PROTEST OF THE FRENCH CONSULATES...this Friday, April 12.
2. PROTEST OF THE LA TIMES, immediately. Instructions below.
3. Would you participate in a massive rally in Washington?
4. College kids: need supportive literature on campus?
5. DENVER TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL - 4/21

Please be sure that you tell your Jewish and non-Jewish friends about standwithus.com. Lets get everyone working together. Numbers will bring us the power that we need. Israel's fight against terrorism is everyone's fight.

Lets get busy:

1. PROTEST OF THE FRENCH CONSULATES... Friday, April 12: We are confirming that there will be protests this Friday,
April 12, in front of the French Consulates all over....or Air France at the airport...More information to come, with very specific locations.

Los Angeles: 10990 Wilshire Blvd., 11:00 to 1:00.
Main theme(make signs that speak to the theme)
Burning Synagogues = Anti-Semitism.
Attacks Against Jews = Anti-Semitism.
Attacks on Jewish businesses, people and institutions since the beginning of this Intifada = anti-Semitism.
There have been over 450 attacks against Jews, Jewish businesses, synagogues, etc, since the beginning of this Intifada. The French
government needs to take this more seriously, immediately.

Initial sponsors:
Betar, Jews for Truth Now, Olam Magazine, and Standwithus.
If you would like to be listed as a sponsor for this, please let us know immediately, by sending a note to info@standwithus.com.
More information to come. Make a sign. Note: we will NOT be launching a boycott of French products. Bring French wine and products to throw into a garbage at noon. We will simultaneously pour wine and throw French products away, to illustrate our disgust with their minimizing of attacks against the Jews of France.

Send this to your friends.
Please let us know asap which other cities are able to do this on Friday at noon. Tell us exactly where. We can help you with your attendance. By the way: for this protest, you do not need thousands of people. Bring a garbage can, (plastic insert for the liquids, your French products, and your signs) Be sure to let the media know what you are going to do. Be sure to tell them why. Have one or two articulate speakers, and make a ceremony out of the dumping of the products. Make sure your signs are CLEAR.

2. PROTEST OF THE LA TIMES- Cancel the paper until April 20. Please implement right away. We have confirmed, through LA Times staff person: Magen, at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday 4- 9, that there is no additional charge to reinstate your subscription to the LA Times. Do this now. If you cant get through, call until you do. Then, alert your friends. If their reporting does not imporve, we will do this again in two weeks. Send to like-minded friends. If you absolutely need to read the times, go to LATimes.com and enjoy it for free.

Instructions: Protest the LA Times Middle East reporting.
Call 213-237-5000 and ask customer service for a "vacation stop" on the delivery of your paper for the next 10 days. When you call, be sure to note that the reason for your request is to register your dissatisfaction with the Times' Mideast coverage and editorial positions. Please tell your friends and pass this on to them. For this to be effective, we all need to do it simultaneously. Go for it.
Register the REASON for your cancelation of the service:
213-237-6555

AND... remember: standwithus would like to take out full page ads, but we are still short of the money that is needed to do this. If you would like to help us with this effort, please send your check made out to standwithus, to:
IEA (Israel Emergency Alliance)
P.O. Box 341069
Los Angeles, CA.
90034-1069

3. Would you participate in a massive rally in Washington?
If you would like to see a massive rally in support of Israel in Washington D.C, like the rally to free Soviet Jewry (Dec. 87), please email us at rally@israellinks.org This question is being asked by the website www.israellinks.org (Washington D.C. area) which lists pro-Israel activities and projects, in an effort to encourage a greater and more unified response on behalf of Israel. A rally which will draw Jews from all over the country to the nation's capital will demonstrate to our nation's policy makers, to Israel and to ourselves the strength and depth of our support for Israel.

4. College kids: need supportive literature on campus?
Write to: Jsager@zoa.org, (Julie Sager) or write to:
David@Betharoncampus.com (David Elbaz) or go to Betaroncampus.com also check out FrontlinesNetwork.com, (its on our links page) and see if they are ready with their materials for the campus.

5. DENVER TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL - 4/21

Denver Action Israel and the Federation are organizing a daily Demonstration in Support of Israel & USA's fight against terrorism.
April15th-19th, to coincide with Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut, it will culminate with our "Walk the Walk" for Israel on April 21st.In front of the State Capitol.

For information email hazel@melmed.com Come to MAKE A DIFERENCE FOR ISRAEL
SUNDAY, APRIL 21.
JCC, DENVER, 350 South Dahlia.
11:00 TO 5:00

Join the solidarity WALK in the morning (gather before 10:00), lunch on falafel and bagels, and then SHOP and LEARN in the afternoon in celebration of Israel's 54th Independence Day.

SHOP from Israeli merchants and artisans who are shipping their goods to Denver for a community buy-a-thon here. Israel's economy is sinking. We can help keep it afloat.

LEARN. Attend lectures, watch videos, and meet leaders of media advocacy and medical care projects where you can make a difference: Arutz7; Israel Resource News Agency; Magen David Adom; hospitals, etc. Pick a project. You can help Israel to survive.

Please copy and send this email to your Denver area email lists. Send it to friends and relatives in other cities who might want to sponsor similar Make A Difference festivals. Send it to friends and familly in Israel so their morale will be strengthened. While Israel fights terrorism militarily, we here in the U.S. are fighting for Israel on the monetary and media fronts.

For further information re. the Denver programs, write to ActionIsrael: aiLetters@hotmail.com

2002-04-07T20:21:00.000-07:00
This report courtesty of Michel Ouaknine. Visit his website at
www.isranews.com

The IDF fired Saturday evening an anti-tank shell at a building in which Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat' compound is located in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Senior aide to Arafat, Nabil Abu Rdainah said four people were wounded in the shelling, the Reuters news agency reported Saturday. He said the shells landed inside the Palestinian cabinet meeting room, close to where Arafat has been staying along with some 100 Palestinians and foreign peace activists.

He said Arafat was unharmed but that four of his personal bodyguards were hurt, one of them seriously.

IDF troops have been blockading the building from the beginning of the military operation in the West Bank that began a week ago.

The IDF spokesman said the firing was in response to repeated shooting at IDF troops by Palestinians in the building.

2002-04-07T20:17:00.000-07:00
For the people in Baltimore:

I am writing to you to ask for your help. I do not have access to a large distribution list and hope that you can help get this message out. I was dismayed this evening by the misinformation being disseminated on WMAR on the 6:30 news. First, a reference to Israel's northern cities currently until Hizbollah attack as settlements saying that the "settlers were forced into bomb shelters". Second, a completely one sided view of "local reaction", interviewing only pro-Arab speakers or "peace" proponents. Second, taking over a minute to describe the many demonstrations around the world for the Palestinians without any mention of the tens of thousands demonstrating all over the world for Israel.

I tried calling the station but could not find any number that was not a recording. I will try again tomorrow. It is important that we speak to a live person, preferably someone in a level of authority. The business office number is 410-377-2222.

I ask that you send out a message to your list and ask the recipients to call the station and demand that they correct today's erroneous statements and that equal time to given to both sides. The job the station is to report the news not to create a slanted version of it.

If you would like to call me about this, I can be reached (home) 410-602-9460 and (work) 410-554-0814. To quote President Bush, "enough is enough".

Thank you.

Hanna Berger

2002-04-07T20:15:00.000-07:00
The rally in Los Angeles on Sunday was great. There were a lot pf people there (thousands) with great signs and people were singing in Hebrew everywhere and chanting Arafat = terrorist. The rally stopped traffic on Wilshire and got a lot of attention in the area, it could be heard several blocks away. It is important to attend such rallys, even if you don't have time to make signs, grab a flag, and hit the street, people need to see you!

2002-04-07T20:12:00.000-07:00
Urgent: Send a letter to President Bush TODAY, please. Westcoast director of AIPAC, Elliot Brandt, is calling for 10,000 letters per week. We can do this. Write every day. Have your friends write. Sample letter and address, comment line, and fax number. Please use all, and use them right away. Send a letter to the president: president@whitehouse.gov
Comment Line (during business hours) 202-456-1414
Fax Line: 202- 456-2883

Subject: Let Israel Finish the CLEANUP of TERRORISTS
Dear President Bush,

Please allow Israel the time to finish hunting down the extensive leadership of the suicide bombing brigades. Arafat has invented a culture of hate and violence that must be stopped. The message must be delivered, and we are asking YOU to please support it on behalf of our country: a terrorist culture must not stand. Their "ready to go" weapons must be
seized. Terrorist leaders must be arrested.

You have been a great friend to Israel, and my community appreciates the way you are fighting this war on terrorism, but in the name of a free and safe civilization, STAND WITH ISRAEL clearly and give her the room she needs to root out terrorism before you press her to withdraw from the territories that harbor and promote suicide-murder, and the destruction of Israel.

Thank you.

2002-04-07T20:10:00.000-07:00

Please call Associated Press - 212-621-1663 - int'l desk - day and night
ask them why they are deliberately HIDING photos taken of alleged Palestinian collaborators who were lynched and mutilated by Palestinian mobs? Why are they witholding evidence from the free world of Palestinian war crimes? Why are they protecting Arafat's terrorists? This is not the first time AP, you did the same after their 9-11 celebrations. If you can't report the whole truth, get out of the business. To see photos AP wants to hide:

Go to: Feature Articles - News & Views, Politics and Military Analysis from Jerusalem, Israel

Circulate these photos everywhere.
Tell AP the calls will only increase until they start revealing the truth. Instead of reporting about the pro-Muslim rallies in the U.S. which were thinly attended, they should start reporting of the dozens of PRO-ISRAEL rallies across the U.S. and the world attended by tens of thousands. Ask them when we will read about TODAY'S numerous rallies attended by tens of thousands of Americans supporting Israel's actions.

Keep them BUSY and ACCOUNTABLE until the pictures are properly distributed and the pro-Israel rallies properly reported on. Use the redial button until you get satisfactory answers from them. Never leave messages on any comment lines. They do NOT work. AP needs to feel LIVE pressure.

AP cannot enjoy freedom of the press to promote Palestinian propaganda. It is time they started promoting the truth.

2002-04-07T20:01:00.000-07:00
TERRORISM ATTACKS THWARTED; SEDER-MASSACRE TOLL CLIMBS TO 27
Alert IDF soldiers prevented a catastrophe in the small community Rafiach Yam, on Israel's southern Mediterranean coastal region, yesterday morning. Two Islamic Jihad terrorists armed with Kalachnikov assault rifles and grenades infiltrated the townlet by cutting through the surrounding electronic fence. The terrorists had started their approach towards the first row of houses when soldiers and members of the local emergency response team spotted the Arabs, and a gun battle ensued. The terrorists were killed, but managed to shoot and fatally wound 22-year-old Sergeant Nitzan Avraham. He will be laid to rest this afternoon in the military section of the Lod cemetery. Three other soldiers were wounded in the incident.

In another thwarted Arab attack over the weekend, two Israeli border police volunteers prevented a bomb attack at the Netivot Junction northwest of Be'er Sheva. At about 4:30 AM, the unit observed occupants of a vehicle without license plates fleeing the area after placing a suspicious bag in the intersection. The bomb squad was called in to investigate and sappers neutralized the nails-laden explosive device.

Two other bombs were also found yesterday and today. One was a powerful explosive planted near the main Bethlehem area water supply line, which officials theorize was planted with the hope that IDF forces would detonate the bomb in a controlled blast and thus disrupt the area's water supply. The Arabs would then have attempted to besmirch Israel in the eyes of the international community by claiming that Israel is withholding water from Bethlehem's civilian population. This morning, a donkey-bomb was found near the greenhouses of Morag, in Gush Katif. The donkey was tied to a wagon laden with a large explosive. Police forces arrived and safely dismantled the bomb.

The number of victims of the Pesach Seder massacre in Netanya rose this morning to 27, with the death of Sarah Levy, 88, of Tel Aviv. She was seriously injured in the suicide bomber's blast, and passed away today in Ichilov Hospital. Three soldiers killed in yesterday's fighting in Jenin were laid to rest today: Sgt. Ro'i Tal, 20, of Maalot, Sgt. Marom Fisher of Moshav Avigdor, and Corp. Oded Kornfein of Kibbutz HaOn.

2002-04-07T19:56:00.000-07:00
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2002-04-07T19:55:00.000-07:00
ACTION ALERT - 2 MINUTES

Please sign the Simon Wiesenthal Petition to President Bush - today!
Text :
“President George W. Bush of the United States:
“Thank you for your support of Israel.
“I urge you not to retreat from your principled position of Israel’s right of self-defense to wage battle against the scourge of terrorism. These new methods employed by the suicide bombers in the Middle East are a testing ground for what future terrorists might employ in the streets of the United States, Canada, Europe, or anywhere else in the free world.
“Israel is entitled to the same rights that any other nation would claim facing similar circumstances.”

Paste this link in your browser to sign the petition

2002-04-07T19:54:00.000-07:00
Paste this address in your browser: NJ.com: NewsFlash

Please call the Associated Press -212-621-1610
THE PHONE WILL RING ALOT, BUT IT WIL GET ANSWERED

ask them WHY they have chosen to ignore the numerous PRO-Israel rallies that have taken place in NYC (where over 1000 people attended), Los Angeles, Miami Beach (over 700 people) among others. The article above is all about the anti-Israel rallies sweeping across the country. Where is the story on the countless PRO-ISRAEL rallies attended by thousands? They will tell you they covered it, BUT we have not seen it. At least the author of this article should have balanced it with a mention of the numerous PRO-Israel rallies this past week alone where thousands attended.

Does AP know read ads? Haven't they seen the countless ads in every newspaper about pro-Israel rallies?? Haven't they received press releases?

Is AP trying to promote anti-Jewish sentiment in the U.S. by purposefully showcasing pro-Muslim rallies and ignoring the numerous pro-Israel rallies? After 9/11, AP should NOT be giving Muslims a forum in the U.S. to spread their hateful propaganda. Americans are TIRED of it and will tolerate it no more.

2002-04-07T19:50:00.000-07:00
Reprinted from Arutz Sheva

IDF Captures Parts Of Shechem, Jenin After Heavy Fighting
The IDF forces reached the center of the terrorist-stronghold neighborhood in Jenin last night, after heavy and costly house-to-house fighting. Seven soldiers have been killed in the battles there, including three yesterday. In Shechem, too, the army is advancing towards the center of the Kasbah marketplace; one of the ten terrorists killed in the battles there today was a senior terrorist leader of the Al-Aqsa Brigades.

IDF forces blew up a booby-trapped five-story building in Shechem this afternoon, after first ensuring that no one was inside. The soldiers had planned to enter the building and comb it for terrorists and arms, but when an explosion was heard, the decision was made to destroy it. Engineering forces laced the building with hundreds of kilograms of explosives and blew it up. Elsewhere in Shechem, house-to-house fighting continued, leading to the capture of half the Kasba area and the killing of 30 armed terrorists in the past two days. Two IDF soldiers were lightly wounded last night during the continuing battles in Ramallah. In Kalkilye, a carbomb was found and safely blown up. In Jenin, six soldiers were injured, including two in moderate condition. The army is also operating in other areas, where it has arrested terrorists.

Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that the army has changed its tactics in Jenin, in light of the costly house-to-house fighting there that exacted the lives of seven soldiers. Heavy combat helicopter barrages accompanied the fighting yesterday and today.

The Israeli siege around the Church of the Nativity continues, as 200 armed Palestinian Moslem terrorists continue to hold some 80 priests hostages inside. Col. Marcel Aviv, who commands the IDF Brigade in Bethlehem and environs, explained that Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Tanzim terrorists are inside the building, and emphasized that Israeli forces did not fire at church personnel. Aviv said that his forces communicated "with both the Palestinian political echelon and the heads of the terrorist infrastructures, in order to attempt to get the people out. They were offered medical assistance, medicines, doctors and food, but they refused."

Senior army officers said today that some 200 armed terrorists have been killed since the onset of Operation Protective Wall, and that 70 "heavily-wanted fugitives" have been caught. Over 2,000 rifles have been collected from the Moslem fighters. Some 13 soldiers have been killed, and 130 were wounded, including 20 in serious condition.

Sharon said, "Israel's policy of refraining from harming civilians lengthens the amount of time we must remain there, and sometimes leads to Israeli casualties."

2002-04-07T19:49:00.000-07:00
Reprinted from Arutz Sheva

Keeping Tabs On The P.A.
The IDF has published a list of lies and false accusations propagated by official Palestinian sources over the past week. Excerpts from the list:

Palestinian television claimed on April 2 that a priest named Jack Amateis was killed and dozens of monks were injured in an IDF operation in Bethlehem. However, Reuters reported that day that Amateis later phoned the Vatican embassy in Israel to say that he was safe. On April 4, the Vatican's Ambassador to Israel, Cardinal Pietro Samari, apologized to the Israel Defense Forces for the incorrect and false report of the supposed death of a priest in St. Mary's Church in Bethlehem.

On April 3, Arafat told Al-Jazeera Television that Israeli forces "burned the mosque that was located in the Church of Nativity and ruined many churches and mosques." There is on truth whatsoever to this accusation.

The WAFA Palestinian Press Agency internet site claimed on April 2 that IDF forces bombed the new mosque in Tul Karem - but in fact such an event never occurred.

On April 2, Palestinian spokesmen spread "news" which was broadcast on a number of television channels claiming that 30 Palestinians were killed inside the Preventive Security Service building in Betunia during the IDF encirclement. In fact, however, the people who were at the compound left the building, and no Palestinian was killed there.

The Palestinian Authority accused the IDF last week of carrying out a massacre in the Ramallah hospital. This is an absolute falsehood. What happened was that following the receipt of reliable intelligence concerning the whereabouts of a large number of wanted suspects hiding in Ramallah hospitals, IDF forces entered the city's hospitals in order to carry out searches and verify the identities of those people there. The IDF soldiers carried out their missions in a manner respectful to those in the medical facilities and withdrew.

More PA lies and false accusations can be seen at the IDF website at "www.idf.il/english/news/main.stm" under "Palestinian misinformation;" other important background information on Israel's struggle against terrorism and related matters can be accessed there as well.

2002-04-05T19:13:00.000-08:00
This comes from Blanche at our European News Desk...

Tony Capuozo, a journalist of the TG5 Italian television network who has been
personally in the Nativity Church stated that armed Palestinians profanated
the Nativity Church by entering there with their guns. He also confirmed
that the Israelis did not shoot at the church . (Source: isranews) Reported
by Blanche Pasternak - France

2002-04-05T19:12:00.000-08:00
This comes from Blanche at our European News Desk...

During the first days of March, about fifteen Palestinians suspected of
"collaboration" with Israel have been summarily executed by the Palestinian
militia men. Their bodies have been dragged on the streets, then hanged and
mutilated in public places. Two of these dead bodies have been left in front
of the Nativity Basilica. Photographers belonging to the Reuters agency who
took pictures have been forced to surrender their films after being
threatened with guns of the Palestinian Police. Reuters has complained to
the Palestinian authorities. (source: hasbara) reported by Blanche
Pasternack - France.

2002-04-05T11:09:00.000-08:00
-- Israeli army says it has killed the man who planned the Passover terror attack in Netanya.

2002-04-05T10:16:00.001-08:00
From Israel Alive:
ALERT UPDATE ON MSNBC
The name of the producer of "Region In Conflict" is Megan Schafer. She can be reached at 201-583-5000. Refer to the first MSNBC alert for talking points and ultimatums. Keep Megan BUSY and ACCOUNTABLE for allowing Ashleigh to disseminate pro-terrorist propaganda.

We thank Jonathan Grossman for the information.

2002-04-05T10:16:00.000-08:00
From Stand With Us:

1. Rally Instructions, including list of signs needed
2. RALLY LOCATIONS AND TIMES
3. IF YOU GET INTERVIEWED: Talking points
4. Special Action for U.S. citizens:
Call the White House Comment Line

Stand up for morality. Stand up for Israel.
Stand against terrorism.
If you have an opportunity to attend OR..PROMOTE a rally in your city
please do so this Sunday... April 7th.

We need to deliver a few important messages, and we can do this if we
stand together. Christians and Jews together: send the same messages by
making the signs that speak to our concerns (see talking point suggestions
below).

Please make sure that your friends are all registered with
standwithus.com, so that we can communicate with you.

1. Rally Instructions, including a list of signs needed

Bring Friends. Tell friends to bring friends. Tell your Christian and
other non-Jewish friends to join us. We need everyone's support now.
Brind signs and American and Israeli flags.
Bring candles and matches if you can.
Bring Tehilim (Psalms) if you would like to join in prayers.
Your large, clear signs should read:
We Stand With Israel
There is NO Excuse for Terrorism
There is NO Excuse for Suicide Bombing.
(For our Christian Friends who like this idea) Christians Stand With
Israel
Arafat Condones Terrorism, and Always Has.

Write signs in Spanish.

2. RALLY LOCATIONS AND TIMES

Los Angeles, CA
Federal Building this Sunday, April 7th, at 2:00 p.m.
Wilshire Blvd. and Veteran Ave. in West Los Angeles. Please use a bathroom
before you arrive. There are no bathrooms.

Washington D.C.
Washington Monument, Sunday, April 7, between 10:30 to 12 noon.

NYC
ISRAELI CONSULATE - 42nd St & 2nd Ave, SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 11 AM
The rally will conclude with a march to the United Nations, where
protestors will denounce the UN's continued anti-Israel stand.
For more info about Israel rallies in the New York area, call:
Rally hotline: 646-613-1903

Miami Beach, FL
Holocaust Memorial, 19th and Meridian, April 7, 6 P.M.

3. IF YOU GET INTERVIEWED: Talking points
(Special thanks to IsraelAlive for suggesting that we prepare everyone
with talking points...)

If you have a chance to be interviewed by the media, we would like to
encourage you to speak clearly and deliberately and make any or all of the
following points, regardless of their questions:

Arafat has led his people down a path towards death, not peace. He has
done this for years. Suicide bombers do not have some special genetic
code. They are raised this way. Not only does Arafat promote the death
of Jews to his people, but he promotes the death of his own people in
order to achieve the killing of Jews.

Al Aqsa has publically stated (on CNN- March 30) that they would have
listened to Arafat if he had ever told them to stop the suicide bombings,
but he didnt. Arafat has created a terrorist culture, and he lies about
it to this day.

Arafat's state appointed clerics preach the murder of Jews, and the
destruction of Israel. The state controlled media and the children's
textbooks and teachers do not even acknowledge Israel on their maps. When
they talk about the liberation of Palestine, they are talking about the
area called Israel.

America would never have tolerated the suicide-murder terrorist behavior
that Israel has had to deal with for all these many months. Israel must
not be asked to tolerate terrorism against her citizens.

Israel MUST clear out the terrorist leadership and the terrorist cells
that threaten their very existance. Israel is fighting terrorism in the
same way that America has been fighting terrorism since 9-11.

Israel cannot be blamed for NOT being willing to let its citizens die in
groups of 10 or 20 as they eat Pizza, prepare for a religious dinner, wait
in line at a disco, or sit at a cafe. Terrorism is simply uncivilized
behavior. Terrorism is murder.
Where is the moral outcry?

Incitement must end. Terrorism is a result of incitement. Part of any
worthwhile peace agreement MUST INCLUDE an end to incitement against Jews,
and an end to incitement against the very existance of Israel.

Where are the Christians and Jews in Saudi Arabia? Where are the churches
and synagogues in Syria? Where is civilized tolerance of other religious
groups within Arab countries? Where is the moral outcry against this kind
of religious intolerance within Arab countries?

4. Special Action for U.S. citizens: Call the White House Comment Line
Call the White House comment line -- 202/456-1111, during business hours.
The operator will ask you what state you are calling from and,
> > interestingly, just yesterday
> > began asking the question, "Should the two sides be
> > treated equally or are
> > you more sympathetic to the Israelis or the
> > Palestinians?" After you answer that question, please make this
point:
Thank President Bush for his support of Israel's fight against terrorism.
Say that Israel must be allowed to root out terrorism just as the US has
fought terrorism
since 9-11.

Members and friends: Thank you for your dedication.

You Can Help Standwithus Now,
in one (or both) of the following ways:
a. BE A FRONT LINE ACTIVIST:
* Receive daily SWU alerts, act, forward to your lists.
* Check our "Actions" link weekly, and act in the various ways
recommended.
* Get others involved in our efforts. Push registration of general
>membership.
b. OFFER FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF STANDWITHUS EFFORTS
Many of our members are simply unable to work on the front lines, but they
CAN support those who do.
Write your tax deductable check to:
Standwithus
Mail to:
IEA (Israel Emergency Alliance)
P.O. Box 341069
Los Angeles, CA.
90034-1069

2002-04-05T10:12:00.000-08:00
I listened to Bush's speech yesterday and I seemed tothink he was still supporting Israel. The way the press makes it look, I am not so sure. Why don't people write stories about Bush condemning Arafat's lack of control over terror? Oi Vey.

2002-04-05T10:10:00.000-08:00
Please note the following change for the Miami Beach rally supporting Israel.

The rally will take place on April 9, Tuesday (not April 7) at the Holocaust Memorial, 19th St. and Meridian Ave., 6 p.m. , Miami Beach

Please notify everyone of this change.

We also ask those who attend the various rallies listed in our previous e-mail to give us feedback - amount of people, media coverage (tv/print) , speakers if any, etc.

We strongly remind everyone to keep calling the White House 202-456-1111 to voice your strong objection to President Bush's call for an end to Israel's fight against terror. Israel MUST use all the time she needs and ALL means possible to root out terrorists from her midst. The U.S. must support its only true ally in the region and stop bowing to pressure from Muslim dictatorships and their European sympathizers. The U.S. must have the courage to lead other nations, and not follow the path of those whose wish is aimed at destruction of the Jewish state.

Staying silent is not an option.

2002-04-04T18:26:00.000-08:00
Please call MSNBC - (201) 583-5000 to complain about Asheleigh Banfield's pro-terrorist reporting. MAKE SURE YOU ARE CONNECTED TO THE NEWS DESK. Never leave comments on the comment line, they do not work. MSNBC needs to feel LIVE pressure.

Demand MSNBC send her to hospitals in Jerusalem to interview Jewish victims and their families instead of seditious Jews like Adam Shapiro. Get them to committ a date. It is no time for MSNBC to try to garner public support for the likes of Yasser and his gang when 12,000 terror attempts have been perpetrated against a U.S. ally. Tell Ashleigh to get out and do some real reporting. Otherwise:

if they continue in the pro-Muslim terrorist rhetoric, a national boycott will be declared against them just like CNN is suffering from now (CNN has lost their #1 position to FOX)

In adition, tell MSNBC that unless we see truthful and balanced reporting, their sponsors will be contacted by thousands of people daily to start pulling their ads from MSNBC.

This is the info we rcv'd from one of our members about Ashleigh's pro-terrorist journalism:

Ashleigh bragged to the audience that she is where "she is not supposed to be" that soldiers are SHOOTING at the press that Pales are being buried in parking lots and to end it all she keeps interviewing Adam Shapiro an Israeli Peacenik who is a Pale Sympathizer his family recieved "death threats: in NY

Where exactly was Ashleigh when Jews were blown apart by the same people she dares interview and their Jihad symapthizers ??

2002-04-04T17:09:00.000-08:00
U.N. Security Council votes 15-0 to demand Israel's withdrawal from Palestinian towns "without delay."

2002-04-04T16:58:00.000-08:00
THERE WILL IN FACT BE ANOTHER RALLY ON SUNDAY, April 7th in Los Angeles.

Friends, there was indeed a very beautiful, heartfelt well attended gathering at the Federal building in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 2nd.
Standwithus would very much like to encourage OTHER CITIES to host similar spontaneous rallies, modeled after the upcoming rally in Los Angeles this Sunday, (information below). If you would like standwithus to announce your gathering, please let us know. Get a few synagogues and/or churches involved, and have the confidence that Jews and non-Jews will stand together FOR Israel and AGAINST terrorism.

STAND TOGETHER AGAIN, IN LOS ANGELES:
Go back to the Federal Building this Sunday, April 7th, at 2:00 p.m.
The Federal Building is located at Wilshire Blvd. and Veteran Ave. in West Los Angeles.
Bring Friends. Tell friends to bring friends. Tell your Christian and other non-Jewish friends to join us. We need everyone's support now.
Brind signs and American and Israeli flags.
Bring candles and matches if you can.
Bring Tehilim (Psalms) if you would like to join in prayers.
Your large, clear signs should read:
We Stand With Israel
There is NO Excuse for Terrorism
There is NO Excuse for Suicide Bombing.
Arafat Condones Terrorism, and Always Has.
Use black or red paint for your signs.
Our intention is to deliver a similar message throughout the country:
We support Israel. Israel's fight against terrorism is EVERYONE's fight.
As Thomas Friedman recently wrote regarding terrorism:
The Devil is dancing in the Middle East, and he's dancing our way.

Specifics:
Use a bathroom before you come to the rally. There are no bathrooms there.
Send this to your like-minded friends.
Do not inform the media, we will handle that.
Please make sure that all of your friends are registered with www.standwithus.com for further information and important actions.

Sponsors for Sunday's rally:
Standwithus.com
Adat Ariel, ADL, AIPAC, Beth Jacob Congregation, Beth Am, Bnai David Judea, Consulate General of Israel, Council of Iranian American Jewish Organizations Council of Israeli Community, Jewish Federation of Los Angeles Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, Sinai Temple

We are aware that many synagogues, and other organizations would have signed on as supportive sponsors of this upcoming rally, and we apologize if your name was not listed. Things are moving very quickly, and we are not always effectively able to connect with all of our entire network of friends in time for these announcements.

Important Actions:
Please tell everyone, including media: Al Aqsa Brigade leadership, in an interview with CNN's correspondent CHRITSIANE AMANPOUR said that they would have stopped the suicide bombing at any time, but that ARAFAT never told them to stop. This is true of all the suicide-bomber groups who answer to Arafat. This is critical information. CNN replayed this interview during the weekend of March 30th. Please make this VERY clear and public information. It clearly and simply explains why Israel would like to exile Arafat. He is a dangerous liar.

2002-04-04T16:41:00.000-08:00
This morning I went to shul for YIZKOR and the Rabbi at Adat Ari El gave a great speech about how we must stay informed with news from the left, right and center. I encourage all of you to contribute to this webpage and to submit stories and letters to be posted here so that we can all help educate each other. Thanks for checking this out...

2002-04-04T16:40:00.000-08:00
If you live in Los Angeles, please call KCRW during their news programming and complain about the bias of their news coverage. Can we get one, just one interview with the family of someone killed by a suicide bomber instead of more stories of the misery of the gunmen, not civilians, but gunmen who are hiding in one of the most sacred places on Earth, then blaming their enemies for surrounding it? Please.

2002-04-04T16:26:00.000-08:00
From the WSJ

History Isn't on Palestinians' Side

By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

For all the efforts of our contemporary theorists to harness and sometimes refashion history, the facts of the past belong to no one -- and won't go away. Those who conjure it up often discover to their dismay that they themselves are subject to its brutal laws of truth. The Palestinians are fast learning of history's ironies and unintended reminders, as they seek to invoke the past to convince Americans of the righteousness of their present plight.

Take the idea of the occupation of Arab lands since 1967, which the Palestinians now cite as a singular historical grievance that needs immediate rectification through intervention of the U.S. But sadly occupation and partition are the bastard children of war; and history, rightly or wrongly, is not kind to states that repeatedly attack their neighbors -- and lose.

History's Harsh Calculus

Ask the millions of poor Germans who had their ancestral lands confiscated by Poland and France -- and their country subsequently partitioned for a half century. Why do the Russians still occupy portions of the old Japanese homeland decades after the surrender? How is it that the British won't give up Gibraltar long after their successful battles against the Spanish fleet? And why must the world give far more attention to Palestine than it does to Tibetans, Irish and Chechens?

The situation on the West Bank is not only commonplace in history's harsh calculus, but prevalent even throughout the Arab world today. Right next door in Lebanon, Syria controls far more Arab land than does Israel. And if Palestinians suffer second-class citizenship under Israeli occupation, they are worse off in occupied Lebanon where, as helots, they are denied basic rights to employment, health care and government services.

Kuwait ethnically cleansed all Palestinians -- perhaps a third of a million -- just a decade ago. Well after the 1967 Six Day War, the Jordanians themselves slaughtered thousands. Before the intifada more Palestinians sought work in a hated Israel than in a beloved Egypt. History suggests that there is more going on in Palestine than the morality of occupation.

The Palestinians have turned to suicide bombers -- terrorists boasting of a new and frightening tactic that cannot be stopped. But they should recall the kamikazes off Okinawa that brought death, terror and damage to the American fleet -- before prompting horrific responses that put an end to them for good and a lot more besides. In general, the record of terrorist bombers -- whether Irish, Basque or Palestinian -- who seek to reclaim "occupied" lands is not impressive in winning either material concessions or the hearts and minds of the world.

Palestinian spokesmen decry asymmetrical casualty figures, as if history has ever accorded moral capital to any belligerents that suffered the greater losses in war. Again, ask imperial Japan or Nazi Germany whether the ghosts of millions of their dead today carry moral weight when their governments once sought war against their neighbors.

Deliberately trying to blow apart civilians will never be seen as the moral equivalent of noncombatants dying as a result of the street fighting in the West Bank. Afghans accidentally killed by errant bombing in Kandahar are different from those deliberately incinerated on Sept. 11. Somalis killed in Mogadishu by American peacekeepers -- far more civilians dying there in two days than in two years on the West Bank -- are not the same as those murdered by thugs in jeeps trying to steal food from the starving.

Americans learned in Vietnam and Mogadishu that it is hard to distinguish civilians from soldiers when gunmen do not always wear uniforms and take potshots from the windows of homes: They are real killers when alive, but somehow count as "civilians" when dead. The problem is not that the Palestinians are losing more than the Israelis due to their greater victimhood or morality, but rather that they find themselves losing very badly to a military far more adept at fighting.

Nor do the Palestinians' cries for justice exist in an historical vacuum. True, the current Arab-Israeli war -- at least the fourth since 1948 -- is
fought over the West Bank; but that is only because the theater of operations has changed somewhat since the Arab world lost the first three wars to destroy Israel proper. Less than two years ago, Yasser Arafat was offered almost all of the West Bank and would now be the unquestioned strongman of his own tribal fiefdom had he taken such a generous Israeli offer. His own scheming and the intifada -- not Israeli extremism -- brought back to him his old nemesis, Ariel Sharon.

Again, the problem for the Palestinians is not that Americans are ignorant of the historical complexities of the Middle East, but that we know them only too well.

Palestinian spokesmen give us moralistic lectures about remaining disinterested as "honest brokers" -- even as they appeal to Arab
anti-Semitism and racial solidarity on grounds of national, religious and ethnic empathy. That double standard puzzles America, because by any such measure we also find affinity in shared values, and so have almost none with the Palestinians, who, like the entire Arab world, do not embrace real democracy, free speech, open media and religious diversity.

Nor is it good public relations for illegitimate dictatorships of the Arab League to shake fingers at democracies in America and Israel on issues of equality and fairness. The problem is not that the Palestinians object to the idea of displaying preferences per se, but that their own biases and prejudices have so little appeal to Americans.

We are told that the Palestinians have a long memory of, and reverence for, the past -- especially the injustice of 50 years of lost homelands. But Americans are not ahistorical. We remember Sept. 11, and the Palestinians who cheered our dead before being admonished by a terrified Arafat.

For the last three decades Palestinian terrorists and their sponsoring brotherhoods have murdered Americans abroad. Palestinians embraced Saddam Hussein's cause and clapped as Scuds plunged into Tel Aviv and blew apart American soldiers in Saudi Arabia. An entrapped Arafat now calls for American succor, but a few months ago scoffed that the U.S. was irrelevant as far as he was concerned. The problem, again, is not that Americans have forgotten Palestinian acts, but that we remember them all too well.

The Arab world warns of its martial prowess and deadly anger -- as American flags burn, threats to kill us are issued, and "the street" shakes its collective fist. But we Americans remember 1967, when we gave almost no weapons to the Israelis -- but the Russians supplied lots of sophisticated arms to the Arabs. In the Six Day War, the state radio networks of Syria, Egypt and Jordan boasted to the world that their triumphant militaries were nearing Tel Aviv even as their frightened elites pondered abandoning Damascus, Cairo and Amman. And we recall the vaunted Egyptian air force in 1967, the invincible Syrian jets over Lebanon, the Mother of All Battles -- and the Republican Guard that proved about as fearsome as Xerxes' Immortals at Thermopylae.

Peace After Defeat

A beleaguered Arafat now wildly works his Rolodex for support for his autocracy. But history answers cruelly that strongmen in their bunkers are as impotent as they are loquacious -- and as likely to receive disdain as pity. Moammar Gadhafi was a different man after the American air strike proved his military worthless and his person no longer sacrosanct. The rhetoric of the Taliban in September promised death; in October they and their minions went silent. In wars against bombers and terrorists, the past teaches us that peace comes first through their defeat -- not out of negotiations among supposedly well-meaning equals.

We all would prefer, and should strive for, peaceful relations with the Egyptians, the Jordanians, the Syrians -- and all the other 20-something dictatorships, theocracies, and monarchies of the Middle East -- as well as a state for the Palestinians. But the day is growing late; our patience is now exhausted; and sadly an hour of reckoning is nearing for all us all. The problem is, you see, that we know their history far better than they do.

Mr. Hanson, a military historian, is author most recently of "Carnage and Culture" (Doubleday, 2002).

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