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Subject: [BPR] - May 20, 1999 TV Programs
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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 08:49:35 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

6:00 PM Eastern

HIST - HIGH POINTS IN HISTORY- Rockets!
  Missiles of the Cold War. As the Cold War roiled to a boil, America
  redirected its developing outer-space technology to a desperate
  race with the Soviet Union to deploy Intercontinental Ballistic
  Missiles.

8:00

DISC - THE REAL FORT KNOX - The highly guarded fortress
houses U.S. gold reserves.(CC)(TVG)

HIST - THE MYSTERIES OF KING TUT - Treasures of Tut's
tomb shed little light on the boy
pharaoh.(CC)(TVG)

8:30

TBN - INT'L INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

9:00

DISC - SCIENCE MYSTERIES - "Open to Suggestion" - Hypnosis
and other altered states of consciousness.(CC)(TVG)

HIST - ROMAN WAR MACHINE - "Barbarians at the Gate" - The
Romans reconstruct newly won territories;
architecture.(CC)(TVG)

10:00

DISC - SUPERNATURAL RIDDLES - (CC)(TVG)

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Subject: [BPR] - Background sketch on Ehud Barak
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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 08:56:28 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

EHUD BARAK - SKETCH
from: http://www.harpazo.net/forzion

Ehud Barak, Israel new Prime Minister, was born on a Kibbutz in 1942.
He attended university and took a Masters degree in the United States,
like his predecessor Benyamin Netanyahu.

Unlike Netanyahu, however, who took the diplomatic route to politics,
Barak is a professional soldier through and through. During his 35
year career he became Israel's most decorated soldier, a commando
officer who took part in flamboyant operations such as the
assassination of PLO leaders, and commanding the daring rescue of
Jewish passengers on a hijacked plane at Entebbe airport in 1972.

Ironically, this was also a seminal event in Benyamin Netanyahu's life
too, for it was during that operation that his brother, a soldier
under Barak's command, was killed in action.

Ehud Barak retired as Army Chief of Staff in 1995, and was immediately
brought into the Government by his friend and mentor, the then Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin, becoming Foreign Minister a year later. Barak
and Rabin were seen as soldiers in the same mould - daring men of
action, ruthless against the PLO enemy, and therefore to be trusted
with Israel's future in the peace process.

On Rabin's assassination and Netanyahu's subsequent election victory,
Barak took over the leadership of the Labor Party from Shimon Peres -
not without some friction, as Barak clearly appealed to a hawkish
tendency in the party whereas Peres was the arch-dove.

On the peace process, both Barak and Netanyahu appeared to occupy
similar ground, although Barak has not ruled out the formation of a
Palestinian state. Both say that the Palestinians must be held to
their side of the bargain, and both rule out any surrender of
sovereignty over East Jerusalem. Barak has also promised that any
final settlement negotiated with the Palestinians will be put to a
national referendum - some observers have regarded this as a cunning
ploy to attract disenchanted right-wing votes, allaying fears that he
would make more concessions to the Palestinians than a majority of
Israelis can stomach.

Barak has been quoted as saying that physical separation of Jews and
Palestinians is the best way of getting a peaceful settlement.

Economically Barak has pledged a responsible fiscal policy along with
an economic turn-round. It is unclear as to what measures he expects
to take to achieve this. Whether he will be able to break the mould of
traditional Labor economic policies - interventionist, dirigiste, with
plenty of rewards for party supporters and huge regulatory structures
- remains to be seen. (The MidEast Dispatch)

via: bible_prophecy-news@onelist.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Water confirmed flowing from Temple Mount
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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:01:18 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

Water confirmed flowing from Temple Mount Rock

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Temple Mount Faithful

Tue May 18 , 1999 -- One of the most exciting events over the last few
days has been the news of the water flowing from the holy rock of
Abraham and Isaac on the Temple Mount which was in the midst of the
First and Second Temples. According to what we now know, the water is
definitely flowing from under the rock. The Arabs on the Temple Mount
deny this and have tried to stop the flow by many means but have not
succeeded. What we now know is that they are trying to bring in
special pumps to stop the flow. In any case, the water continues to
flow. Nothing can stop it. This special news has caused much
excitement in Israel. Since the destruction of the Second Temple the
Jewish People have anticipated this event with great desire and
prayers because we always knew that this would be one of the signs of
the last days and the redemption of Israel and that the Third Temple
is soon to be built and Mashiach ben David is soon to come. Now, at
the climax of the major redemptional process of Israel, this major
godly event has occurred before our very eyes. This event will show
everyone in the world who is trying to stop G-d's determination to
redeem the people of Israel, to cancel the last signs of pagan,
foreign presence on the Temple Mount, the holy hill of G-d, and any
foreign occupation in the land which G-d promised to Israel alone in
an eternal covenant. We are expecting more major godly events and
redemptional miracles with the people and land of Israel. The water
which is now coming from the holy rock on the Temple Mount is again
bringing a testimony from G-d. Everyone who loves the G-d of Israel,
trusts and worships Him, should be strong and walk together with the
G-d of Israel and not fear anyone, only trust Him and they will have
the privilege of seeing the accomplishment of this wonderful godly
process of the redemption of Israel and all the world. This is the
real significance that everyone should give to their lives in these
last days. The G-d of Israel is expecting you to do so and to be
blessed by being a part of this exciting redemptional event. Editor's
note: For the VERY prophetic signifance of this water, read Ezekiel
47:1-12 which describes conditions in the millenial reign of Jesus
Christ, Mashiach ben David.

via: bible_prophecy-news@onelist.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News (5/20/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:09:03 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

1. SHAVUOT TONIGHT
Tonight begins the holiday of Shavuot, commemorating the day on which
the people of Israel received the Torah 3311 years ago, and the
beginning of the harvest season. The holiday also marks the end of
the 49-day Omer period. Jews throughout the world will stay awake all
night studying Torah in classes, study-pairs, or individually.
Thousands are expected to arrive at the Western Wall for festival
prayers at sunrise. First-fruit ceremonies will take place in many
kibbutzim throughout the country.

The following Shavuot-related websites provide much valuable
information on the holiday: Project Genesis -
<http://www.torah.org/learning/yomtov/shavuos/> The OU -
<http://www.ou.org/chagim/shavuot/default.htm> Aish HaTorah -
<http://www.aish.edu/calendar/shavuot/homepage.htm> Ohr Somayach -
<http://www.ohr.org.il/special/shavuos/index.htm> 613.ORG: -
<http://www.613.org/shavuot.html> Virtual Jerusalem -
<http://www.vjholidays.com/shavuot/> * See Jewish Hotsites, at
<http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/jewish.htm>, for more Shavuot websites.

2. PALESTINIANS CHALLENGE BARAK
November 15 is Yasser Arafat's new target date for the declaration of
a Palestinian state. The Algerian News Agency quotes a "senior
Palestinian figure" explaining that this is the date that the
Palestinian National Council, sitting in "exile" in Algeria, declared
a state in 1988. He emphasized that this declaration was based on UN
resolution 181 of 1947, known as the Partition Plan. Yesterday,
Palestinian Authority secretary Taib Abdul Rachem made similar
remarks, and the PA announced that "in the coming days we will be
witness to the liberating of more land and the restoration of our
rights."

Chief Palestinian negotiator Sa'eb Erekat calls Barak's opening
diplomatic positions "a sad beginning." Erekat objects to "Barak's
intention to retain most of Jerusalem, a significant portion of the
settlements, and the Jordan Valley." He said that Jerusalem and the
return of the Arab refugees of 1948 are "red lines" for the
Palestinians. Maj.-Gen. Matan Vilna'i, newly-elected to the Knesset
on the One Israel list and one who sees himself as a candidate for
Defense Minister, said this week, "No Palestinians will be allowed
back, period, because the refugees can be resettled exactly where they
are - within the areas under the control of the Palestinian National
Authority."

The official PA newspaper, Al Hayat al-Jadida, claims that "Ehud Barak
is a settler." Its feature article on Barak yesterday states that the
Prime Minister-elect lives in the "settlement" Kochav Ya'ir on the
Green Line border in "northern West Bank." It was reported in Arutz-7
two days ago that Barak himself said that he lives "50 meters from
Judea and Samaria."

3. COALITION TALK
The newly-elected Knesset faction of One Israel convened today for the
first time with its leader, Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak. Many
Labor MKs see themselves as worthy candidates for ministerial
positions in the next government. Speculation abounds that Chaim
Ramon, who is on close terms with Shas, will receive the Interior
Ministry, while Barak is reportedly planning to hold the Defense
portfolio himself, at least for the foreseeable future. Shlomo
Ben-Ami is expected to receive the Finance Ministry. The Shas party,
with its 17 Knesset seats, may receive the Ministries of Labor,
Health, and Religious Affairs.

Incoming Likud party chairman Ariel Sharon has been in close contact
with Barak over the past few days, in an effort to form a broad
government. Sharon, who will apparently continue to serve as Foreign
Minister, is attempting to form a "mini-coalition" with any or all of
Yisrael B'Aliyah, the National Religious Party, the National Union,
and Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party.

In an interview with Yediot Acharonot today, Barak said that he plans
to bring about a change in the law to allow him to appoint 24
ministers, and not only 18. "I do not see myself as belonging to the
left-wing," said Barak, "but as a man of the center who is very
connected with the Land of Israel_ [However,] there are places in
Judea and Samaria - not Efrat or Beit El - about which I know we will
have to make hard decisions." He feels that the public will more
easily accept these hard decisions if there is a broad government.

6. MORE HOLOCAUST DENIAL IN THE PALESTINIAN MEDIA
Following are excerpts from an article entitled "The Legend and the
Truth: An American Expert Discusses the Details," which appeared in
the Palestinian newspaper Al-Manar, on May 3, 1999 (translated and
distributed by Middle East Media and Research Institute -
www.memri.org):

"Nobody in the West dares to stand up, when the subject is the
fictitious Nazi Holocaust against the Jews of Europe. Since the end of
WWII, the victors have imposed their hegemony over history, and forged
the legend of the Holocaust to extort the entire world, using the face
of the ugly Nazi. They planted a thorn in the side of defeated Germany
to extort it forever. Whenever the truth reached the tongues of
western intellectuals, the democratic regimes abandoned their
liberalism and treated these scientists of History the same way the
Catholic Church treated the Italian scientist Galileo when he tried to
prove the world is round. His fate was to be executed... Dozens of
intellectuals and politicians in the West. refuted the false claims of
this legend, ending with the renown French intellectual Rojer Garaudi.
who exposed the legends that served as the foundations of the state of
Israel, and first and foremost, the legend of the Holocaust.

Despite the importance of all these efforts, the knockout came from an
American expert, a specialist in building gas chambers in American
jails. This expert, Fred Leutcher, prepared a scientific field report
about the Nazi execution camps. [proving] that even if all of the Nazi
camps had been operating at full capacity, the total number of victims
would not have exceeded a hundred thousand...

SPECIAL INSERT: OFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS
(Communicated by Central Elections Committee Spokesman)

Following are the official results of the 1999 elections for Prime
Minister and the 15th Knesset, as issued by the Central Elections
Committee:

Total number of ballot boxes counted: 7,218
Total number of registered voters: 4,285,428
Total number of voters: 3,372,952
Total number of eligible ballots: 3,193,494
Total number of disqualified ballots: 179,458

For Prime Minister:
Ehud Barak 1,791,020 votes (56.08%)
Benjamin Netanyahu 1,402,474 (43.92%)

For 15th Knesset:
One Israel - Labor/Gesher/Meimad 670,484 votes (20.2%) 26 Knesset
seats Likud 468,103 (14.1%) 19 Shas 430,676 (13.0%) 17
Meretz 253,525 ( 7.6%) 10 Yisrael B'Aliyah 171,705 ( 5.1%)
6 Shinui (Yosef Tommy Lapid) 167,748 ( 5.0%) 6 Center Party
  165,622 ( 5.0%) 6 National Religious Party 140,307 ( 4.2%)
5 United Torah Judaism 125,741 ( 3.7%) 5 Arab Democratic
Party 114,810 ( 3.4%) 5 National Union 100,181 ( 3.0%) 4
Hadash (Arab) 87,022 ( 2.6%) 3 Israel, Our Home (Avigdor
Lieberman) 86,153 ( 2.6%) 4 National Democratic Alliance (Azmi
Bishara, Ahmed Tibi) 66,103 ( 1.9%) 2 One Nation (Amir Peretz)
  64,143 ( 1.9%) 2 Penina Rosenblum 44,953 ( 1.3%) --
Power to the Pensioners 37,525 ( 1.1%) -- Green Leaf
34,029 ( 1.0%) -- Third Way (Avigdor Kahalani) 26,290 ( 0.7%)
  -- Green Party (Environment) 13,292 ( 0.4%) -- Hope
7,366 ( 0.2%) -- Casino 6,540 ( 0.1%) -- Lev --
Immigrants for Israel 6,311 ( 0.1%) -- Negev Party
4,324 ( 0.1%) -- Tzomet (Rafael Eitan) 4,128 ( 0.1%) --
Natural Law Party 2,924 -- Progressive Center Party
2,797 -- Democratic Action Organization 2,151 -- The
New Arab 2,042 -- Rights of Man in the Family
1,257 -- Tradition of the Fathers (Rabbi Yosef Ba-Gad)
1,164 --

Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.a7.org>
Thursday, May 20, 1999 / Sivan 5, 5759 - Erev Shavuot

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Subject: [BPR] - Netanyahu's last Prime Minister's Report
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:20:11 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

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           The Prime Minister's Report
               Volume 3, Number 29
                    May 20, 1999
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I. Editors' Note

II. Don't Expect Israel to Change Overnight
By David Bar-Illan, Daily Telegraph
19 May 1999

III. Report: Barak Will Withdraw from
75% of West Bank
By Douglas Davis, Jerusalem Post
20 May 1999

IV. Israel Will Suffer
By Cal Thomas, Los Angeles Times
19 May 1999

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I. Editors' Note
---------------------------------------------------------

Dear Readers,

This will be the final edition of the Prime Minister's Report (PMR)
during the administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. To
date, over 100 PMRs have been issued by the Department of
Communications & Policy Planning in the Prime Minister's Office . We
hope you have enjoyed receiving the PMRs and have found them to be
interesting, useful and informative.

We would also hope that the incoming government led by Prime Minister-
elect Ehud Barak will continue to utilize the Internet, e-mail lists
and chats, as Prime Minister Netanyahu has, in order to provide the
Israeli and international public with a better understanding of the
current situation in Israel and the Middle East.

Sincerely yours,

Michael Stoltz
Yisrael Y. Feldman

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II. Don't Expect Israel to Change Overnight
By David Bar-Illan, Daily Telegraph
19 May 1999
---------------------------------------------------------

Ehud Barak's landslide victory on Monday was not a triumph for
Israel's Labour party. Unlike the victories of Tony Blair and Gerhard
Schroder, Barak's election has brought no shift from Right to Left.

Nor was it a victory for Israel's doves. On the contrary. Even after
incorporating into its ranks the dovish religious party Meimad and the
social-agenda party Gesher, Labour lost more than a fifth of its
Knesset seats. And while Netanyahu's own party, the Likud, was even
more thoroughly trounced, its votes went to other right-of-centre
parties, not to the dovish Left.

It is, then, a personal rather than an ideological victory for Mr
Barak. Or, more precisely, a personal repudiation of Benjamin
Netanyahu.

Most observers view this as an inevitable result of a long,
vituperative campaign which focused on personalities rather than
issues. On a personal level, Netanyahu was far more vulnerable than
Barak. Throughout the three years of his stewardship, he was savaged
by a merciless media assault on his character, abetted by unsubtle
calumnies from world leaders irritated both by his policies and
arrogant manner.

By the election, he had become everyone's favourite villain, an enemy
of peace, a man devoid of principles and incapable of telling the
truth. That no one could point to a single major discrepancy between
his promises and his performance seemed immaterial. To berate
Netanyahu and wish his downfall became politically correct. "Unseat
Netanyahu and save the peace," went the conventional wisdom.

In fact, few leaders have been more consistent than Netanyahu. Unlike
his martyred predecessor, Yitzhak Rabin - who had vowed never to
recognise the PLO, never to negotiate with Yasser Arafat and never to
relinquish the Golan, but was ready to renege on all three - Netanyahu
did not deviate from what he said he would do. He scrupulously adhered
to the Oslo accords, while insisting that the Palestinians reciprocate
by fulfilling their commitment to combat terrorism. With such
reciprocity, he said, the Oslo principle of "territory for peace"
might work. Without it, the formula would become the sheer insanity of
"territory for terrorism".

This insistence on Palestinian participation in the anti-terrorist
effort is undoubtedly responsible, at least in part, for the dramatic
decline in terrorist activity in the past three years. It is a
considerable achievement, considered virtually unattainable not long
ago. But it was lost in the avalanche of personal invective.

Nor has the world noticed that Netanyahu was the first Likud leader
who made most of his followers accept the partitioning of the Land of
Israel. His agreements with the Palestinians, unlike those signed by
the Labour government, enjoyed overwhelming support both in the
Knesset and with the public. They were an affirmation of a historic
truism: only political hawks can have the broad support necessary to
make peace.

But perhaps Netanyahu's most impressive achievement was in the
economic sphere. The Likud-led government began a transformation of
the Israeli economy - moving it from irresponsible spending and
stifling centralisation to budgetary prudence and free-market
principles. In three years it halved inflation, made unprecedented
cuts in the national budget, dramatically reduced the trade deficit,
privatised more than all previous governments put together,
deregulated the currency, attracted more foreign investments than
ever, and survived the worldwide economic crisis - all without raising
taxes. The world's leading economists have praised Netanyahu's
performance, but these achievements, too, were overshadowed by the
campaign rhetoric.

Such rhetoric does have the advantage of becoming obsolete, irrelevant
and eminently forgettable the day after the election. And in facing
the business of government, Barak will find that the Netanyahu legacy
is both solid and helpful.

The world, used to blaming Netanyahu for the freeze in the peace
negotiations, expects Barak to "put the peace process back on track".
But the problems of the peace process have little to do with
personality. There is little difference between Barak's vision of the
"final status" agreement with the Palestinians and Netanyahu's. Both
are committed to an undivided Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, both
consider the Jordan valley to be Israel's strategic border, both
oppose withdrawing to the 1967 armistice lines, and both have pledged
to keep the settlements under Israeli control. That Barak may be
willing to concede a little more of the West Bank to the Palestinians
than Netanyahu would is hardly enough to bridge the gap with
Palestinians ambitions. Even what Barak feels Israel can safely
forfeit is far short of the Palestinians' minimum demands.

This irreconcilable gap makes expectations for quick progress in the
peace negotiations less than realistic. There are those who expect
Barak to form a coalition with parties to his Left, including the Arab
parties, and accede to Palestinian demands. The "peace now" camp in
Israel, as well as the European governments and some influential
elements in the US administration, believe that the establishment of a
Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital will conduce to
peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians.

But even if Barak wishes to reach such an agreement with the
Palestinians, he does not have the coalition in the Knesset to support
it. Nor is it likely such a solution could ever be sold to the Israeli
public.

While most Israelis seem to believe that the Oslo process would
inevitably produce a Palestinian state, very few support the
establishment of such a state unless it is demilitarised. This means
that it must be prevented from allowing terrorists from operating from
its territory, raising a large army, concluding treaties with such
regimes as Iraq and Iran, and importing thousands of "volunteers" to
join its armed forces. In short, it cannot be fully sovereign.

The recent Palestinian insistence on reviving the UN partition
resolution of 1947 as the basis for Palestinian-Israeli peace makes
the difficulties loom even larger. This 52-year-old UN recommendation,
rendered null and void by the Arab war against its implementation, is
a prescription for Israel's destruction deemed unacceptable by all
Israelis.

Nor is Barak's intention to resume talks with Syria and his pledge to
withdraw from Lebanon by May 2000 likely to be easily realised. The
Syrians are demanding an Israeli commitment to relinquish the whole
Golan before they agree to negotiate either peace with Israel or
Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

It is, then, unrealistic to expect drastic changes in Israeli policies
as a result of the election. What is more likely is a change in style,
which many would welcome, and which may improve the government's image
both internally and abroad. If Barak can achieve greater understanding
for Israel's position, his personal victory will truly be a turning
point in Israel's history.

David Bar-Illan has been communications director for Benjamin
Netanyahu since 1996.

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III. Report: Barak Will Withdraw from
75% of West Bank
By Douglas Davis, Jerusalem Post
20 May 1999
---------------------------------------------------------

LONDON - Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak will withdraw from 75
percent of the West Bank, but will insist on retaining an unspecified
area along the Jordan Valley, according to the newsletter Foreign
Report, to be published here today.

Quoting a "senior leader" of One Israel, it said the depth of
territory to be retained along the Jordan River will be determined by
negotiations, but that Barak regards this strip as the "eastern final
border of Israel."

He envisages most of the West Bank settlements remaining under Israeli
sovereignty, with inhabitants of abandoned settlements being given the
option of either moving to other settlements or resettling within the
Green Line.

No budget is planned for settlements, said the source, and work at Har
Homa will be stopped immediately, as will "pirate settlements" that
were permitted to develop during the final five-month tenure of
outgoing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

While Barak will insist on Jerusalem remaining united under Israeli
sovereignty, he will allow a form of "municipal sovereignty" for
Palestinians in the city, while handing control of the Moslem holy
sites to Jordan's King Abdullah II.

According to the newsletter, Barak is anxious to implement the Wye
agreement and move to final-status talks as quickly as possible.

The newsletter quoted the source as saying that while Barak may appear
to be more flexible than Netanyahu in negotiations with Palestinian
Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, "he is no less tough, maybe more
so."

"If Arafat thinks he can return to his old tricks by using the
possibility of Hamas operations against Israel as a kind of threat, he
will learn very quickly that this tactic cannot work with Barak," said
the source.

In a related development, the newsletter reports that the South
Lebanese Army is in the process of disintegration.

The force is unable to recruit soldiers to man its positions, while
some SLA officers and men are suspected of working for Hizbullah.

It said Israel has failed to find a replacement for SLA commander Gen.
Antoine Lahad and noted that the commander of the SLA training camp,
along with hundreds of SLA soldiers, have emigrated to Sweden.

It also reports that members of the SLA General Security Service,
enticed by offers of "amnesty," have defected to Hizbullah with the
names of their agents.

Even though the SLA soldiers are still being paid, fed, trained, and
armed by Israel, added the newsletter, many have switched their
allegiance to Hizbullah.

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IV. Israel Will Suffer
By Cal Thomas, Los Angeles Times
19 May 1999
---------------------------------------------------------

The election of Ehud Barak as Israel's new prime minister changes
nothing: The terms of the Jewish state's surrender and the methods
that will be used
to annihilate it remain the same.

From the Clinton White House, to State Department Arabists, to
Israeli
secularists who define evil as something done by Israeli leaders but
not by their enemies, there is the misplaced hope that the election is
an indication that "peace" is at hand.

A top official in the outgoing government of Benjamin Netanyahu, who
wishes to remain anonymous, tells me he believes the "moderate" Barak
like the late former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, will be quickly
pushed to the left by the Labor Party. That party leadership reflects
Neville Chamberlain's philosophy that appeasing tyrants satisfies
their lusts. Offer them a partial payment, goes this thinking, and
the rest of the "loan" will never be called. Throwing the bone of
Czechoslovakia to Hitler only increased the Nazi leader's appetite
for the entire body of Europe.

Yossi Beilin, a Labor Party Knesset member who will be an influential
player in the new government, wrote in Tuesday's Jerusalem Post:
"There can be no peace without compromise and without peace there will
never be real security." Israel has frequently compromised. It has
lived up to its commitments in the Oslo accords, asking only that the
Palestinians do the same, which they have not. When Israel
relinquished control of Gaza and its sacred city of Hebron, there was
a momentary lull. But soon it was back to diplomatic and physical
terrorism because the goal of Palestinians is not compromise and
coexistence. For them, such things are not ends but means to complete
and total control of all the land and the elimination of every Jew
(in fact, every non-Muslim "infidel"), living and dead, from it.

When the policies of the Clinton administration (and Bush's before it)
of unrelenting pressure on Israel provoke another war, will the
weakened U.S. military come to Israel's aid? If we aren't sending
ground troops into Kosovo to stop the slaughter of hundreds of
thousands, where will we acquire the will to intervene on the ground
to save Jews? The United States turned away from the Jews once before
in this century. To repeat that error would be an unpardonable sin.

Barak is celebrating the spoils of political victory, but he will be
under intense pressure to deliver on a mirage. President Clinton,
lusting after a honorable legacy and running out of time, will use the
"Jewish Mafia" in the State Department and the anti-Israel cabal in
the United Nations to try to force Israel to cave and deliver. Look
for Beilin and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres to pressure Barak
from within to surrender the Golan Heights down to the border of
Israel's main water supply, the Sea of Galilee. But when war breaks
out, launched from territory recently acquired by the Palestinians,
will the leftists stay and fight? Or will they catch the first plane
or boat to safety and indulge in "what might have been" theorizing if
Likud had never ruled? Their line will be that Israel didn't
compromise fast enough and so made her enemies angry.

This is the stuff of the morally challenged who see not evil but
potential goodness in us all. The evil ones use such notions against
the naive and allow them to dig their own graves.

Now the Palestinians have resurrected the original 1947 U.N. proposal
to partition "Palestine," allowing Jews and Palestinians to live side
by side. Then, it might have worked, but it was rejected by the
Palestinian side, which began a war against Israel that has never
stopped. Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat senses
this fraudulent diplomatic ploy might be another means by which he can
seize land for his ultimate and never-changing objective: the
consignment of the Jewish state to the dustbin of history.

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Subject: [BPR] - Paco Rabanne sees Mir destroying Paris in August
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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:25:50 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

http://cnn.com:80/WORLD/europe/9905/19/BC-FRANCE-NOSTRADAMUS.reut/ -

Paco Rabanne sees Mir destroying Paris in August

May 19, 1999
Web posted at: 8:13 AM EDT (1213 GMT)

PARIS (Reuters) -- Designer Paco Rabanne fears his next fashion show
may be his last -- not for reasons of changing tastes, but because
Russia's Mir space station will crash down and destroy the haute
couture capital Paris.

The fireball is coming on August 11, just as the 16th century French
seer Nostradamus predicted, says Rabanne, who is so convinced of
disaster he has written a book warning about it.

Rabanne, whose dresses of recycled plastic and silver chain mail are
far-out fixtures of the Paris fashion scene, says he had a vision of
Paris in flames decades ago and realised two years ago that the ageing
Mir space station would cause it.

"I've brought forward my haute couture collection and told all my
employees -- don't be in Paris on August 11, stay home, be far from
Paris," he told Reuters Television. "The collection I'm preparing and
will present on July 11 may be my last."

Designing wacky women's clothes and predicting doom seems a strange
mix, especially for someone whose zest for life shines through dancing
eyes and bright white hair and beard.

But the Spanish-born designer has been fascinated by the occult since
the age of seven, when he says he briefly left his body one night to
fly among the stars.

As a student in Paris, he had a vision of people burned alive by fires
even when they jumped into the Seine.

"This very violent image marked my youth and I tried to understand why
I had this vision of the French capital burning," Rabanne recalled in
his bright workshop in central Paris.

"All the prophecies say Paris will burn at the end of time. For the
past two years, I have known this was near. Reading the prophecies of
Nostradamus, I thought it would be a fireball or an asteroid that
would fall on Paris."

When scientists told him the Mir space station could fall, Rabanne
found the key he was looking for to some quatrains that Nostradamus
wrote about the disaster he saw for Paris.

"They said it was going to fall in 1999," he explained. "The only
thing I'm afraid of is that there is plutonium inside it. In a flash,
I saw a diffraction bomb, a plutonium bomb."

According to Rabanne, the Mir station will start to fall out of its
earth orbit in July and hit the Chateau de Vincennes, a massive fort
in eastern Paris, on August 11.

Reciting from memory, he quoted one Nostradamus verse about Paris that
said "with the flowers past, the world diminishes -- a long period of
peace and uninhabited earth."

That referred to the summer, when the spring flowers had passed, and
the death of the city's inhabitants, he said.

"The most amazing thing is the peace -- the Russian word 'mir' means
peace," he said with wide eyes. "You see, it's all in the prophecies.
Mir risks crashing into the earth."

Citing a vague passage about the Thames river and warriors, he
concluded that English-speaking military men -- in this case,
Americans -- would try but fail to prop Mir up in its orbit.

"They will be disappointed, because they will make it overturn and
fall more quickly on Paris," he concluded.

Apart from writing his recently released book "1999 - Le Feu du Ciel"
("1999 - The Fire from Heaven"), Rabanne says he has not bothered to
warn anyone about what he fears will happen.

"How can a small-time fashion designer make waves at such a trying
time as this, what with the war in the Balkans and the war in Iraq?"
he asked. "None of the powerful of this world are going to listen to a
fashion designer.

"When the moon goes into eclipse, when we suddenly see the Mir space
station break up and start to fall to the earth in flames, then
they'll listen to me."

via: isml <isml@onelist.com>

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Subject: [BPR] - Egyptian Finds Route Moses 'Took' to Flee
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:44:22 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

May 20, 1999

Egyptian Finds Route Moses 'Took'
to Flee

                 CAIRO (AFP) -- An Egyptian archeologist said Thursday
                 he has discovered an ancient desert route which Moses
                 might have taken to lead the Jewish people out of
                 Pharaonic Egypt more than 3,500 years ago.

                 A series of dried up wells revealed an ancient route
                 of around 200 kilometers (120 miles) from the Nile
                 Delta near Cairo to the west bank of the Gulf of
                 Suez, Professor Mahmmud Abdel Razik told AFP.

                 He said his team also found "hieroglyphics engraved
                 on a rock which show expeditions to the Sinai
                 involving more than 4,000 people at the time of the
                 18th dynasty (1580-1314 BC), under the reign of
                 Amenhotep I and Amenhotep II."

                 Abdel Razik, a German-trained archeologist heading a
                 team from Suez Canal University at Ismailiya, said
                 usually only 700 people went on the ancient
                 expeditions to the Sinai desert to work in the stone
                 quarries.

                 The expedition's "large number of people suggests it
                 was not tied to the quarries but was in fact the
                 Exodus because the rock is near the Gulf of Suez,
                 which could be where Moses had the Jewish people
                 cross the Red Sea," he said.

                 After crossing the Red Sea, they reached the Sinai.
                 Although he said the hieroglyphics were found near
                 the end of the route at Ain Al-Sokhna, he would not
                 disclose the exact location so he can finish his
                 research without other archeologists joining the
                 fray.

                 "We are continuing our dig in the area of Ain
                 Al-Sokhna in the hope of finding other writings which
                 explain the aim of the expeditions of Amenhotep I and
                 Amenhotep II," he said.

                 Until now, historians have spoken of three ancient
                 routes from the Delta to the area west of the Sinai,
                 but they are north of the route discovered by Abdel
                 Razik.

http://www.arabia.com/content/culture/5_99/moses_20.shtml

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Subject: [BPR] - Israel Line items (5/20/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:48:36 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

BARAK TO RETAIN DEFENSE PORTFOLIO
  Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak will retain the defense portfolio
  for the
first two years of his term in office "in order to ensure coordination
of the security-diplomatic momentum in the peace process," HA'ARETZ
reported. Barak also said he would form his governing coalition in "my
own way" and he would first formulate basic guidelines before giving
due consideration to any party seeking to join the government on the
basis of those guidelines.
  Circles close to Barak said it was highly unlikely that he would be
persuaded to place the Defense Ministry in the hands of one of his
coalition partners, such as Center Party leader Yitzhak Mordechai. One
Israel Knesset Members Matan Vilnai and Ephraim Sneh have indicated
their interest in serving as Barak's deputy in the Defense Ministry.
  In a conversation with HA'ARETZ, Barak confirmed that no coalition
  talks
would be held with anyone until next week. He added that "within 45
days, as prescribed by law, a government will be established."
  On the diplomatic front, Barak said he would not conduct any
  negotiations,
either directly or through emissaries, with anyone until the
government was formally established.

BARAK FORMULATES POLICY ON LEBANON, SYRIA
  Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak is developing a plan to withdraw the
Israel Defense Forces from Lebanon, YEDIOT AHARONOT reported. The
plan is comprised of three major steps: First, according to sources
close to Barak, he will announce his intention to resume negotiations
with Syria at the point where they were halted "based on
understandings and issues that were already formally agreed upon." At
this stage, the United States and Europe will have a major role in
providing incentives for Syrian president Hafez Assad to return to the
negotiation table.
  When negotiations with Syria resume, the U.S. and Europe will
  suggest that
Syria end Hizbullah activity in southern Lebanon until the parties can
determine whether negotiations are moving forward.
  Once the negotiations have progressed, a joint
  Israeli-Syrian-Lebanese
committee will discuss Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and transfer
responsibility over the area to the Lebanese army and an international
peacekeeping force. At this stage, the parties will also discuss the
future safety of South Lebanon Army personnel and their families.
  Near the conclusion of the Golan Heights negotiations, the IDF will
  begin
its withdrawal and will allow new forces into the area. The
international peacekeeping force will remain in the area until a full
peace treaty is signed with Syria and Lebanon, after which the area
will be fully controlled by the Lebanese army.
  Barak strictly opposes a unilateral Israeli withdrawal in the
  absence of
an agreement to prevent Lebanese terror attacks on Israel.
  Barak's offices commented on the aforementioned plan, saying that
  last
month Barak established a team to examine the political and security
aspects of an IDF withdrawal from Lebanon within a year. The team has
yet to present its findings.

BARAK WANTS TO COMPLETE CONSTITUTION
Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak says that he wants to complete the
formulation of an Israeli constitution, Israel Radio, KOL YISRAEL,
reported.
  HA'ARETZ reported that the election results, which for the first
  time
allow a governing coalition to be formed without any ultra-Orthodox
parties, may allow ratification of all basic laws into a full
constitution for Israel.
  Barak's expressed intent may mean that Shas, and perhaps the
  National
Religious Party, will not be able to join the coalition.
  Knesset Member Dan Meridor, of the Center Party, says that formation
  of a
constitution and a revolution in the educational system should be the
two prime goals of the new government, and only parties who agree to
such changes should be part of the government.
  MK Avraham Ravitz from the United Torah Judaism Party says that a
constitution would serve as a "Jihad [holy war] against the religion"
since it would not permit ultra-Orthodox exemption from military
service, closure of roads on the Sabbath, or sponsorship of
ultra-Orthodox education that does not include civics studies. "Such
basic laws endanger the ultra-Orthodox lifestyle and create a threat
to the existence of our community," Ravitz said.

via: Consulate of Israel - New York <nycon@interport.net>

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Subject: [BPR] - Ratio of the population of the earth
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 15:42:56 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>

In my personal email today I received the following that I found
interesting:

"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of
precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining
the same, it would look something like the following.

There would be:
  57 Asians
  21 Europeans
  14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
  8 Africans
  52 would be female
  48 would be male
  70 would be non-white
  30 would be white
  70 would be non-Christian
  30 would be Christian
  89 would be heterosexual
  11 would be homosexual
  6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
     and all 6 would be from the United States
  80 would live in substandard housing
  70 would be unable to read
  50 would suffer from malnutrition
  1 would be near death;
  1 would be near birth
  1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
  1 would own a computer

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Subject: [BPR] - May 21, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 08:33:53 +0000

From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>