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Subject: [bprlist] Palestinian Crackers Share Bugs
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:59:42 -0500

Palestinian Crackers Share Bugs
by Carmen J. Gentile

2:00 a.m. Dec. 2, 2000 PST

Palestinian supporters are using a combination of hacking tools and viruses=

to gain what appears to be the upper hand in the Middle East=92s ongoing
cyber war.

They are distributing the tools and viruses for destroying Israeli sites
using a recently created attack site.

Visitors to the site are greeted with the message, "I swear that I will
not use these programs on anyone but Jews and Israelis." The site comes
complete with a list of directions on how to use the attack tools.

LoveLetter, CIH and the Melissa Virus -=96 along with 12 Word macro viruses
=96- form the arsenal for attacking Israeli sites.

Apparently, it's an effective system.

According to sources at iDefense, an international security firm
monitoring the situation, pro-Palestinian hackers are using a variety of
tools to orchestrate a well-organized attack against the 90 or more
Israeli websites which have been hit during the conflict.

Ben Venzke, the director of intelligence production at iDefense, says it
is hard to say for sure who is winning. But he does admit the
pro-Palestinian hackers have "successfully impacted more sites."

"The pro-Palestinians have been much more aggressive in scope," said
Venzke. "Instead of just targeting specific sites, they=92ve been
methodically working through all the .il sites, broadening their agenda."

Over 115 websites have been targeted by both sides for denial-of-service
attacks, attempts to gain root access, system penetrations, defacements
and a variety of other attacks. Many sites have been indirectly affected,
due to the strain that the attacks have placed on the Net infrastructure
in the Middle East.

The conflict began on Oct. 6, when pro-Israeli hackers created a website
to host FloodNet attacks. Since then, both sides have sustained blows to
vital-information and financial-resource sites such as the Palestinian
National Authority site and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Sixteen tools have been identified as those actively distributed among
attackers, with many others being discussed or suspected of already being
deployed.

One such tool is called the EvilPing, believed to have been created
especially for this war. The tool launches a "ping of death attack" that,
when utilized by several users against the same target, crashes the
system.

Then there is QuickFire, an attack tool that sends 32,000 e-mails to the
victim from what appears as the same address. Used simultaneously by
multiple attackers, the tool crashes an e-mail server.

QuickFire strength is that it does not relent, continually firing off
thousands of e-mails until the server is shut down and the address
blocked. It is believed to be the tool used for hack attacks on the
Israeli Foreign Ministry site and its webmaster=92s e-mail address.

A group called Hackers of Israel Unite originally used another popular
tool called WinSmurf, which also uses mass pinging to bring down a site.
Borrowing amplifying power from broadcast sites, the hackers send out
pings that are boosted 10,000 fold, or more. According to the group, they
were able to shut down Almanar.org using one computer with a 56K modem
and
an ADSL line.

According to Netscan.org, a site that provides a list of broadcast sites
with an average amplification of times five, a dial-up user with 28.8 Kbps
of bandwidth, using a combination of broadcast sites with an amplification
of 40, could generate 1152.0 Kbps of traffic, about two-thirds of a T1
link.

"With tools like these, a 56K can become a powerful weapon and your
bandwidth irrelevant," said Venzke.

Netscan.org creators call themselves a "small group of concerned network
administrators who got fed up with being smurfed all day." But they
recognize the fact that their site has become a hacking tool, as well.

Pro-Palestinians recently turned the tables by using broadcast-site attack
tools against Israeli sites. Although the leaders in the war -- groups
such as UNITY, dodi and G-Force Pakistan -- remain in the limelight, many
previously unknown hackers are taking the cyber war to another level.

According to Venzke, hackers are making moves to gain root access to
Israeli computers and servers. "Root access is the ultimate possession, it
means doing whatever you want with a system," he said.

In essence, a hacker who gains root access control of a computer can scan,
delete and add files, use it as an attack tool against others, and even
view and hear users whose computers are equipped with cameras and
microphones.

With no end in sight to the Middle East cyber war, talk of targeting U.S.
interests on the Web has been popping up in chat rooms and IRC channels
frequented by pro-Palestinian hackers.

Recent aggression against Lucent.com, coupled with last year=92s hits on
cnn.com and other mainstream sites, has many high-profile companies
watching their backs for the next wave of attacks.

Hackers like dodi have come out and said that the current war isn=92t just
against Israeli, but the U.S. as well. But Arab activists such as Mustapha
Merza believe the American media continues to portray Arabs as terrorist
aggressors, even in cyberspace.

Merza is the webmaster for Arabhackers.org, a meeting place for Arab
computer buffs to chat and exchange views. He says that the media and
government are biased against Arabs and openly supportive of Israeli
interests.

"The irony of the matter is that the times (that) U.S. government sites
were targeted by Israelis are way more numerous than those times they were
targeted by pro-Palestinians," Merza said. "Yet the American media fail to
identify its real perpetrators and victimizes the Arabs as usual."

For its part, the National Infrastructure Protection Center -- a division
of the FBI concerned with cyber warfare, threat assessment, warning and
investigation -- lists both Israeli and Arab sites that promote the cyber
war.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40449,00.html

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Subject: [bprlist] New York schools cut ties with Boy Scouts
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:59:42 -0500

New York schools cut ties with Boy Scouts

Education board objects to anti-gay policy

                  December 1, 2000
                  Web posted at: 10:24 p.m. EST (0324 GMT)

                  In this story:

                  'Discrimination will not be tolerated'

                  Scouts lose support

                  RELATED STORIES, SITES

                  From Rose Arce
                  CNN Producer

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The nation's largest public school system has severed
ties with the Boy Scouts of America because the organization discriminates
against gays and lesbians.

New York City Schools Chancellor Harold Levy announced Friday evening
that city schools and educators can no longer sponsor troops or recruit
Scouts during school hours on school property. Scouts will also be barred
from all facilities except those mandated by federal law.

Levy announced the schools will not renew an $800,000 contract the Scouts
have to provide services to its 2 million students. Levy said the schools will
allow the scouts to finish out the contract to provide facilities for summer and
winter programs. That contract ends April 30, 2002.

"The policy of the Boy Scouts of American with respect to homosexuals is
contrary to the policy of the Board of Education," Levy said in a written
statement.

George Davidson, an attorney for Boy Scouts of America (BSA), declined to
comment in a phone interview with CNN. Calls to the BSA headquarters in
Irving, Texas, were not immediately returned.

'Discrimination will not be tolerated'

The New York school system is the latest institution to take action against
the Scouts since the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision last June,
upheld the organization's policy of excluding gays and lesbians.

The Scouts' policy had been challenged by James Dale, an Eagle Scout and
decorated assistant Scoutmaster, who accused the Boy Scouts of
discriminating against him when they dismissed him for being gay.

"Discrimination will not be tolerated. This is the right thing to do," school
board president William C. Thompson Jr. said in a statement. "Until the
Scouts change their policy, they will not be eligible for future contracts,
sponsorships or special privileges."

New York City Board of Education policy prohibits discrimination based on
sexual orientation.

The order would affect the Boy Scouts dramatically, halting in-school
recruitment, depriving the organization of facilities and staff during school
hours, canceling its joint summer program and ending the Boy Scouts'
endorsement by the nation's largest school system.

Levy said the Boy Scouts should not bid when contracts come up for
renewal.

Brian Ellner, a Manhattan school board member who led a campaign to
remove the Scouts from the schools, told CNN in a phone interview, "The
Board of Education has firmly endorsed the principle that students, whether
straight or gay, are entitled to equal treatment in our schools."

He said his "hope is that the chancellor's decision will send a clear message
to students and educators citywide and around the country that
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation should not be tolerated in
our schools."

Scouts lose support

Boy Scouts of America officials have said previously that the organization,
being private, "must have the right to establish its own standards of
membership if it is to continue to instill the values of the Scout oath and law
in boys... We believe an avowed homosexual is not a role model for the
values espoused in the Scout oath and law."

The cities of Chicago, San Francisco and San Jose and Minneapolis have
also ended their sponsorship of Boy Scout troops and prohibit the Scouts
from recruiting new members in the public schools.

David Buckel, a lawyer for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund,
which represented Dale, said in a phone interview that several major
corporations like J.P. Morgan, Knight-Ridder and Levi Strauss have also
dropped sponsorship of the Scouts.

The Boy Scouts of America, founded in 1910 and chartered by Congress in
1916, has 3.2 million members.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/12/01/ny.schools.boyscouts/index.html

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Subject: [bprlist] China: Village Riddled With AIDS Left to Die by Government
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:12:40 -0500

Village Riddled With AIDS Left to Die by Government

WENLOU, Nov 30, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) The village of Wenlou
has been devoured by AIDS, but the authorities have abandoned the sick to
a painful death and tried to cover up a phenomenon which has terrifying
implications for China.

Nobody knows how many people in Wenlou have AIDS or the HIV virus.

In the past two years 30 of the 800 residents have died from the disease,
while at least 10 others are dying. A sample of 155 villagers tested found 95
were HIV-positive, a staggering 65 percent.

But while the poor lettuce and onion-growing community in the central
province of Henan was being ripped apart by the disease, the government
ordered locals to keep quiet and villagers have been ostracized.

They cannot sell their vegetables, a Wenlou stamp on an ID card can lose a
job, young women cannot find husbands and ladies from other villages refuse
to touch Wenlou's men.

Doctors at the local Shangcai county hospital, lacking basic understanding
of the disease, turned away AIDS patients and even refused treatment to a
villager who had injured his leg.

"This is not a major problem, there are just a few cases," an angry official at
the Shangcai county health department told AFP.

The villagers feel they have been left to die by petty local officials fearful of a
scandal in their neighborhood and complain they have received no medical
help from the government.

"They told me not to speak to reporters about this, but this is my family's
matter and I have a right to talk about it. I'm 53 already, they can arrest me if
they want," Cheng Gaotian told AFP.

As Cheng spoke his three-year-old grandson Wei Wei, ravaged by the AIDS
virus and perhaps days from death, winced and buckled in his arms.

"The hardest thing for me is I watched my daughter-in-law die, and there's
nothing I can do for my grandson. I've borrowed 25,000 yuan (3,000 dollars)
from the bank and from relatives to buy medicine, but I'm old already. What's
going to happen to my family after I die?" Cheng asked.

The problems in Wenlou, which could indicate an AIDS timebomb in rural
China, stem from both legal and illegal blood banks which toured the country
from the early 1980s paying for blood.

Chinese are typically reluctant to donate blood and a national shortage was
plugged by roaming blood banks with appalling hygiene standards.

Wenlou villagers flocked to give blood, making a fortune of five dollars each
time. The blood stations would put the blood in a big tub, extract the plasma
and then pump the remainder back into the peasants.

Everybody did it, villagers told AFP.

Almost all their mud-brick houses were built with blood money -- they used
to live in one-room thatched huts. The cash also paid for kids' education,
daughters' dowries, taxes and fines for violating the one-child policy.

A middle-aged woman, whose daughter died from AIDS in July and whose 29-
year-old son lay dying in bed with both legs covered in dark sores, said the
money seemed like manna from heaven.

"My daughter and son began donating blood when they were 15 and 16
years old. My son didn't want me to do it because my health was poor. For
each time he donated blood, we bought a large wooden beam to build the
roof," she said.

As people became weak the village was gripped by fear and ignorance.

"At first families would try to keep it a secret. Villagers would ask questions
when they saw someone losing a lot of weight and looking sickly, but the
family would say it was just a cold. No one wanted to let it out. They didn't
know what it was," said a young man whose mother has AIDS.

When several people died, villagers became scared and started avoiding
families with sick relatives. Local hospitals had never seen the disease
before and did not diagnose AIDS.

The only help the villagers received was from two doctors, Gui Xien and Gao
Yaojie, who heard about the "mystery illness" and started coming to the
village every few months with basic medicine, food and AIDS information.

The pair have often been driven out of Wenlou by angry officials, but it was
Gui's tests which revealed the shocking statistics.

Their efforts have gained attention in small local papers but despite evidence
of the scale of the epidemic and the prevalence of roaming blood banks,
China's major state media have kept quiet.

"Just wait, one day, Shangcai will shock the whole world," Gui told the China
News Weekly. Since some publicity emerged about the case, his hospital
has refused to allow him to speak to reporters.

Already there are signs the problem is not isolated to Wenlou.

Two people died from AIDS last year in a nearby village, a resident told AFP
before a village elder quickly tried to keep a lid on the conversation.

"We don't have many. Wenlou has a lot. Go to Wenlou," he said.

Nobody knows how serious the problem is in Shangcai as local officials have
tried to sweep the issue under the carpet, fearful they will be punished for
allowing the blood stations to thrive.

The central government has also yet to do a study on how many people were
paid for blood before the practice was banned in 1998, but estimates run into
tens of millions.

Experts warn the problem caused by contaminated blood could spread
rapidly if not dealt with immediately.

On the eve of Thursday's World AIDS Day, China conservatively estimates it
has around 500,000 HIV carriers but UN experts have warned of more than
10 million cases by 2010 if the disease remains unchecked.

Zeng Yi, head of one of the two biggest Chinese non-governmental
organizations devoted to AIDS prevention, said China had until now focused
AIDS prevention on cities in the belief that drugs and prostitution were the
major factors in its spread.

However the majority of China's HIV carriers are in the countryside where
blood selling has contributed to a rapid spread of AIDS which has gone
largely unrecognized by the government, he said.

"If they don't deal with the isolated cases, it can become a big problem,"
said Zeng, who believes that the epidemic in Shangcai may still be isolated
but could snowball out of control if policy does not change.

Dr Gui took his evidence about Wenlou to Beijing last year and the ripple of
publicity has already shamed officials into some action -- earlier this week
three dying AIDS patients were taken to hospital.

The health ministry in Beijing told AFP it was aware of the Wenlou problem
but had not decided what action to take. The Henan health ministry
meanwhile played down the problem and pointed to AIDS problems in
neighboring Hubei.

In their desperation people in Wenlou have begun to speak out, pleading for
medicine or information about foreign wonder drugs, but many believe
officials simply hope the village will die out.

One villager, who put her three daughters through high school with blood
money, has not told the daughters, now working in Beijing, that she has
begun to feel signs of the disease.

"I have a fever. It's not too high, but it's been going on for a long time. All the
other people who died had this type of fever. My daughter tells me it's not
AIDS, but I know my own body and I've never felt this before," said the
woman.

"I have three daughters. They're all so young. I won't be able to see them
married," she told AFP as tears filled her eyes and she recalled the brother-
in-law who died several months ago and the bedridden sister too weak to
move. ((c) 2000 Agence France Presse)

http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=225603

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Subject: [bprlist] Iridium Satellite update
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:27:39 -0500

                                       Iridium Satellite
                                       Reenters
                                       Atmosphere Over
                                       Arctic Ocean

                                       By Andrew Bridges
                                       Pasadena Bureau Chief
                                       posted: 03:00 pm ET
                                       29 November 2000
                                                                =

                  The first Iridium telecommunications satellite to reenter=
 the
                  atmosphere broke up over the Arctic Ocean early
                  Wednesday.

                  The non-operational satellite reentered at 4:44 a.m. East=
ern
                  Standard Time (09:44 GMT), said Master Sgt. Larry Lincoln=
,
                  of the United States Space Command, which tracks about
                  8,000 artificial objects orbiting the Earth, including
                  spacecraft, satellites, rocket bodies and debris.

                  "The satellite was not designed to survive reentry intact=
 and
                  was expected to mostly burn up in the atmosphere," Lincol=
n
                  said.

                  The satellite was launched September 8, 1998, but failed =
and
                  was reported tumbling out of control just two months late=
r.

                  A second Iridium satellite is expected to reenter the
                  atmosphere no later than December 17.

                  As for the Chicken Littles of the world, they need not wo=
rry.

                  A study of the Iridium satellite reentries, show they are=
 within
                  a NASA and U.S. government standard of acceptable risk,
                  said Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist and program manage=
r
                  for NASA=92s orbital debris office at the Johnson Space C=
enter
                  in Houston, Texas. That is, there is a one-in-10,000 chan=
ce
                  of anybody being hurt on the ground by a falling Iridium
                  spacecraft, he told SPACE.com.

                  Although the Iridium constellation will lose a few more
                  satellites that are tumbling in orbit, the roughly 70 rem=
aining
                  operational birds have found their savior.

                  Earlier this month, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the
                  Southern District of New York approved Iridium Satellite
                  LLC=92s bargain-basement $25 million bid to purchase the
                  operating assets of Iridium LLC and its subsidiaries.

                  Motorola, builder and initial operator of the $7 billion
                  constellation of Iridium satellites will provide subscrib=
er
                  equipment for users of the worldwide satellite network. T=
he
                  Boeing Co. will operate and maintain the satellites.

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/business/iridium_crash_001129.h
tml

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Subject: [bprlist] Vatican Asks US Court To Dismiss Nazi-Gold Lawsuit
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Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:32:33 -0500

Vatican Asks US Court To Dismiss Nazi-Gold Lawsuit
By Michael Kahn
11-25-00

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Vatican's bank has asked a U.S. court to
throw out a lawsuit charging it with laundering gold and other assets stolen
by a Nazi puppet regime, arguing that the Vatican has immunity because it
is an independent state, lawyers in the case said Friday.

Meanwhile, the Vatican itself has asked the U.S. government to intervene in
the case, a move that lawyers for the plaintiffs say could signal a settlement,
but one that others familiar with the case say does not.

The class-action lawsuit accuses the Vatican Bank along with the
Franciscan Order and the Swiss National Bank of laundering hundreds of
millions of dollars in gold and other assets looted by Croatia's brutal Nazi-
allied Ustasha regime from 1941-1945.

The Franciscan Order has also asked the court to dismiss the case, while
the Swiss National Bank has not yet been served. The Vatican's California
lawyer declined comment, referring queries to court papers filed earlier this
week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

``Plaintiffs lack standing to bring a general challenge to the wartime political
decisions of a foreign sovereign,'' the Vatican bank argued in its 41-page
filing.

The Vatican asked the U.S. government last month to intervene in the
lawsuit, prompting Jonathan Levy, one of the plaintiffs' lawyers, to say he
hoped this meant the Vatican wanted to negotiate.

Levy said he would ask the court next week to stay proceedings in the case
until the note is clarified. He added, ''It is unclear what they are asking for but
perhaps they are asking to negotiate. The Vatican to date has refused to
address any of the allegations so intervention could be a good thing.''

But Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, said on
Friday it was doubtful the U.S. government would do so.

He noted the United States has only gotten involved in similar lawsuits where
the defendants have expressed a willingness to cooperate and reach a
settlement. This is not the case with the Vatican, which so far has failed to
open up its wartime archives, he added.

``Under no circumstance should the U.S. government -- and I don't think it
can -- intervene to prevent any such lawsuit,'' he said in a telephone
interview.

The lawsuit, originally filed in November 1999, seeks restitution and an
accounting of the looted assets. It also accuses the Vatican and other banks
of helping to secretly transfer money from the Ustasha treasury out of
Yugoslavia, which was then used to help Croatian and Nazi war criminals
escape Europe after the war.

But even though there is documentation implicating the Vatican in both
laundering and accepting looted Nazi gold, Steinberg called this particular
lawsuit a ``weak'' one.

``I am very unimpressed with the lawsuit being pursued, which doesn't really
relate to the evidence that is out there,'' he said. ``This case does not go to
the heart of the Vatican's involvement.''

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Subject: [bprlist] Mysterious 4700 Year Old Temple Site Found In Wales
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Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 13:38:10 -0500

Mysterious 4700 Year Old Temple Site Found In Wales

By David Keys - Archaeology Correspondent

11-26-00

Archaeologists have discovered a mysterious 4,700-year-old temple that is
the largest Stone Age structure ever found in Western Europe. More than a
half a mile across and covering 85 acres, the site in mid-Wales is 30 times
the size of Stonehenge.

A six-year research programme has revealed that the vast, egg-shaped
religious complex consisted of 1,400 obelisks, each towering up to 23ft into
the air. Made of oak, they were arranged as an oval with a perimeter of one-
and-a-half miles. At its western end, archaeologists have discovered the site
of the temple's main entrance flanked by 6ft diameter timbers that may have
stood 30ft tall.

Despite its vast size, the site is baffling archaeologists. They are certain that
it had a religious function - but what was being worshipped or venerated
remains a mystery.

The focal point appears to have been a natural spring - and possibly some
sort of shrine. The complex may have been built on such a grand scale to
include a second possible shrine 500 yards north-west of the spring and an
area of further ritual activity about 200 yards to the north-east. The main
entrance is oriented towards sunset on the summer solstice the point at
which the sun disappears after the longest day of the year.

Detailed examination has revealed that the enclosed area was kept clear for
almost 3,000 years. Outside the oval, archaeologists have found a normal
level of flint and other prehistoric finds. Inside there have been almost no
finds at all.

"They must have kept it extraordinarily clean," said Dr Alex Gibson, an
archaeologist who has spent much of the past six years investigating the
site for Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. It remained untouched by normal
secular human activity from its construction in 2700BC, through the late
Neolithic and the whole of both the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, which
ended after the Roman invasion of AD43.

The absence of debris of human activity from the earlier parts of the Neolithic
era suggest the area may have been taboo for even longer possibly from
4000BC.

After the arrangement of 1,400 oak obelisks was constructed - just before
the time that most of Stonehenge was built - it is likely that ordinary people
were not just barred from the site, as they probably had been for generations,
but were also prevented from seeing inside it. Archaeologists believe planks
were used to close the gaps between the obelisks for at least the bottom
third of their height.

The temple was almost certainly kept exclusively for the use of the
priesthood - probably shamans whose function was to maintain spiritual
contact with ancestors and deities.

However, when the Roman invaders arrived, its very sanctity seems to have
made it a target. For, in common with many other native British sacred sites
including Stonehenge the place appears to have been deliberately violated.
The Romans seem to have chosen to insult local sensibilities by building first
a marching camp on one part of the site and then a permanent fort on
another.

The site - at Hindwell, three miles east of New Radnor in Powys - is being
seen as one of the most important in Europe. "We were bowled over by the
sheer scale of the structure and the fact that it appears to have remained
sacred for thousands of years," Dr Gibson said.

 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-
11/temple261100.shtml

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Subject: [bprlist] IDF: Summary of Weekend's Events (12/1-2/00)
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Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:09:49 -0500

IDF Spokesperson: Summary of the Weekend's Events (1-2/12, as of 18:00)

2 December 2000

The West Bank

A three months old baby and four IDF soldiers were lightly wounded in the
weekend:

Two IDF soldiers were lightly wounded today from ricochets in the Hebron
area. They were treated on site. An Israeli baby was lightly wounded
yesterday from stones thrown at the vehicle in which she was travelling on
the Hosen bypass road in the area of Beit Lehem. The baby was treated on
site and taken to receive further medical treatment at a hospital.

Two IDF soldiers were also wounded from stone throwing: One soldier was
lightly wounded near Kalandia in the Ramallah area, he was treated on site
and evacuated to hospital for further treatment. Another soldier was slightly
wounded from stone throwing at Rachae'l Tomb in Beit Lehem. He was
treated on site.

During the weekend shots were fired at Israeli civilians and security forces at
several key locations, among which were Rachael's Tomb and Atarot.

The Gaza Strip

Throughout Friday (1 December) Palestinians fired on IDF positions near
Neve Dekalim, at IDF forces near the border fence, north of Kissufim, at the
border fence near Al-Borij, and at an IDF vehicle in the Netzarim Junction.
There were no casualties to IDF forces and no damage was incurred. IDF
forces returned fire at the sources of the shooting.

Today (2 December), petrol bombs were thrown at an IDF position on the
Israeli-Egyptian border near Rafah.

Palestinian demonstrations took place on the Karni-Netzarim road near the
Karni cross-point, and near the Kissufim roadblock. Palestinians also burned
car tires on the border fence north of Kissufim.

There were no casualties to the IDF in today's incidents.

IMRA Newsletter <imra-l@lyris.vcix.com>

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Subject: [bprlist] U.N. General Assembly condemns Israeli dominance over Jerusalem
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:40:28 -0500

December 1, 2000

U.N. General Assembly condemns Israeli dominance over Jerusalem

                 DPA

NEW YORK - The U.N. General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly
adopted a resolution calling Israel's imposition of "its laws, jurisdiction and
administration" on Jerusalem illegal. The assembly voted 145-1 to adopt the
resolution. Only Israel voted against it, and the United States abstained
together with Nauru, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Angola.

The resolution said Israel's decision to impose "its laws, jurisdiction and
administration on the Holy City of Jerusalem is illegal and therefore null and
void and has no validity." It deplored the transfer by "some states" of their
diplomatic missions from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move the assembly said
was contrary to a U.N. Security Council resolution on the undecided status
of Jerusalem.

The non-binding resolution on Jerusalem is part of a series of resolutions on
the Middle East that are voted on every autumn.

http://www2.haaretz.co.il/breaking-news/politics/339508.stm

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Subject: [bprlist] ben Yosef update: Fog banks on mountain tops cause security concer
From: <owner-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 23:01:22 -0500

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From: "Ben Yosef"
To: "ben Yosef"
Subject: update: Fog banks on mountain tops cause security concerns; Gilo bomb shelters prepared; Jordanian parliament members urge end to peace treaty
Date sent: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 05:23:32 +0200

Shalom,

GILO, Jerusalem -- Winter conditions have crept across Jerusalem over
the past week including heavy rains, cold nights and heavy morning fog
banks that greatly obscure the vision on this mountain top and pose
new security risks.

According to Israeli Security Services, the Islamic Jihad and Tanzim
Fatah militia are joining with Hamas in their call for "a new round of
attacks and invasion" during the month of Ramadan (which began last
week) in all regions administered by Israel that were not in Israel's
possession before 1967.

Some Gilo residents have expressed concern that the fog bank would
allow Palestinians from Beit Jalla across the gulley to the south of
Gilo to more readily launch attacks and even invade the mountain top!

IDF gun emplacements dot the southern face of the mountain but the fog
banks make visibility very poor.

Meanwhile, Gilo residents in our apartment bloc and most of the other
apartment blocs in the suburb of 40,000 residents, have all been
notified that they have six days to clean out and prepare the bomb
shelters (which comprise the basement of virtually every apartment
building in Gilo). Inspectors are due here this week to certify the
shelters are ready for use or residents face hefty fines.

We had an apartment bloc party tonight as the residents in the 20
apartments in our building hauled out an accumulation of junk to the
dumpsters.

Israeli Radio reported tonight that 14 members of the Jordanian
Parliament have formally asked the King of Jordan to end the peace
treaty with Israel, signed between the late King Hussein and Yitzhak
Rabin.

This is another sign that the violence may soon escalate across the
Jordan River, (where several infiltration attacks have been thwarted
to date), and bring about the fulfillment of Jeremiah 49:1-6, which we
commented on earlier.

Economic boycotts have been launched in Egypt of ALL Proctor & Gamble
Products. A detergent called ARIEL, caused the furor because the
Egyptians don't like a product with the same name as "Ariel" Sharon
being sold in Egypt. Then it was noted that Proctor and Gamble
products with the logo of three revolving "atoms" on the packaging are
being boycotted because, the Egyptians claim, the symbol resembles the
Jewish "Star of David."

Proctor and Gamble will be remembered because of its earlier
controversial product logos which many Christians claimed were symbols
of the occult.

Although the frequency of attacks in the Israeli-administered
territories and in the Gaza has markedly declined since the start of
the Moslem month of Ramadan last week, the intensity of attacks has
not. Israeli Security Sources are concerned that the "lull" is
temporary, yet there was evidence in Jerusalem on Friday of older
Moslem men attempting to restrain younger men from hurling rocks in
the hope that next Friday more Palestinian Moslems will be allowed to
worship at the Al Aksa Mosque on the Temple Mount. On Friday, only
Palestinians who lived in areas contiguous to Jerusalem were allowed
to worship there as the IDF maintained its closure on many of the
Palestinian villages in the unannexed territories.

However, the closure was partially lifted today and if the lull
continues, may be totally removed by next Friday. Meanwhile Prime
Minister Barak on the one-hand said no negotiations would proceed
until the violence was halted and on the other hand made an open
gesture to sign another "interim" agreement, promising the
Palestinians another 10 percent of the territories to "link" the
earlier 13 percent into a contiguous mass, promising a Palestinian
state, the Temple Mount and promising the dismantling of affected
settlements -- over a three-year timetable.

The Palestinian leadership quickly and flatly turned down the
proposal.

A bill will be introduced in the Israeli Knesset this week limiting
the authority of the Prime Minister to make peace overtures without a
61-vote majority approval of the proposal by the Knesset members. The
Knesset is also expected to decide this week when to schedule early
elections which were approved by an overwhelming majority last week as
a "non-confidence" gesture in Ehud Barak's government.

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to return to
Israel today (Sunday) after a speaking tour in the U.S. was
interrupted by Moslem hecklers. Because Netanyahu's safety could not
be guaranteed his engagements were canceled at several locations in
California. Netanyahu is expected to announce this week whether he
will seek the No. 1 position on the Likud ballot in the primary
election to challenge Likud Leader Ariel Sharon who already has
announced his intention to run for Prime Minister.

Israel's direct election of the Prime Minister law also came under
attack today when it was alleged that the bill has fragmented party
representation and the prime minister must spend an undue amount of
time being sure his coalitions are in tact for every piece of
legislation submitted to the Knesset for a vote. Defenders of the
bill said the real problem is not the direct elections but the stand
of the prime ministers on the peace process and giving away territory.
Netanyahu's surrendering of 13 percent of the territories to
Palestinian autonomy, including the city of Hebron, and Barak's
willingness to give up 95 percent of the territories have not been
popular proposals for members of Knesset, they say.

Shalom Shalom & Hashem's love & blessings,
ben Yosef

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