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Subject: [BPR] - Four-year-old girl beheaded for sacrifice
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:05:06 -0400

Four-year-old girl beheaded for sacrifice
Roorkee
(HTC)
July 1, 2000

A 40-YEAR-old man allegedly ‘sacrificed´ a four-year-old girl on Monday in
Miragpur village, 30 km from Roorke. Only the head of the victim has been
recovered so far.

According to sources, Sapna, daughter of Janeshwar, a member of Dalit
community, had accompanied her parents to the fields to collect fodder.
But after some time, Sapna´s parents found her missing. After frantic
search, her parents found her head chopped and mutilated in the field.

While returning form the fields, the villagers saw Som, a fellow-villager,
roaming around suspiciously.

On seeing the girl´s parents, he tried to flee, but villagers overpowered
him. Som is said to have confessed that he sacrificed the girl to
propitiate a deity. Villagers later handed him over to the police.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/010700/detFRO04.htm

Link via:
http://www.newsviewtoday.com

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Subject: [BPR] - U.S. calls off joint exercise
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:45:04 -0400

 Sunday, July 2, 2000

U.S. calls off joint exercise

IAF believes Phalcon spy plane dispute is to blame

                  By Amos Harel
                  Ha'aretz Defense Correspondent

The U.S. Air Force has canceled a joint exercise with the Israeli Air
Force after the U.S. Department of Defense issued guidelines in light of
the continuing dispute between the two countries over Israel's agreement
to sell Phalcon spy-planes to China. The Americans did not offer any
further explanation for the cancelation, but the IDF believes that the
Phalcon deal is the reason.

The two air forces have been conducting such joint exercises for a few
years and the IAF attributes great importance to these maneuvers. This
step by the Americans is being seen by the IAF as unprecedented in its
severity.

The maneuvers, which were set to take place in the United States, were
to be a reciprocal training exercise after the U.S. Air Force visited
Israel following an invitation to train here. Israeli pilots were set to
fly American Air Force F-15s and F-16s.

Air Force Commander, General Dan Halutz, last week described the dispute
over the sale of the AWACS-fitted planes as "a dark cloud resulting from
a series of misunderstandings." He says that the IAF has found it very
difficult of late to conduct open talks with the Americans because of
the dispute. "The change of atmosphere at even the lowest levels is
likely to have long- term effects. It is important that a solution be
found as soon as possible," he said, adding, "as time passes, the damage
amounts into a more significant thing. We cannot allow ourselves to harm
our excellent relationship with the Americans.

http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=14&datee=07/02/0
0& id=83394

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Subject: [BPR] - Arafat tells PA officials to stay put/UN resolutions dispute
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:48:45 -0400

Sunday, July 2, 2000

 Arafat tells PA officials to stay put

                  By Amira Hass
                  Ha'aretz Correspondent and Agencies

Preparing for a unilateral statehood declaration, Palestinian Authority
Chairman Yasser Arafat signed an order late last week restricting the
departures of top PA officials as of next month, Ha'aretz learned from a
ranking Palestine Liberation Organization member.

Starting August 3, top PA officials will not be allowed to leave PA
territories unless Arafat himself personally approves special departure
requests. Several PA officials have thus been compelled to decline
invitations to take part in conferences and other overseas events in
August and afterward.

Arafat's no-travel order attests to stepped-up preparations in the PA,
as the September 13 target date nears. Palestinian leaders have vowed
that they will declare the conclusion of the interim phase on that date.
 

Anticipating that a unilateral statehood declaration in September will
precipitate violent clashes and perhaps punitive Israeli measures,
Arafat wants his top officials to stay close by.

During the September 1996 clashes resulting from the Western Wall tunnel
controversy, some Palestinians charged that top PA officials and their
family members hastily left the country. Among other things, Arafat's
no-travel order is meant to forestall such occurrences.

But the ranking PLO source insists that Arfat's order is designed
primarily to reinforce his intention to declare the establishment of a
Palestinian state, no matter what.

The 120 members of the PLO's Central Council will meet today and
tomorrow in the Gaza Strip, partly with the aim of setting a date for
the statehood declaration.

Speaking on the statehood issue, a top PA final status negotiator,
Hassan Asfour, told Reuters: "We have the basis of a state. The only
thing we lack is an army - and we don't want an army in the future in
any case."

As Arafat, other PA officials and the PLO pave the way for a statehood
declaration, both the Palestinians and the Americans have closed ranks,
disputing an Israeli interpretation that UN resolutions do not require
Israeli withdrawal from the territories.

Last Thursday, Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein argued that UN
Resolutions 242 and 338 do not apply to Israeli-PA negotiations, since
they were passed more than 25 years before the establishment of the
Palestinian Authority.

A day later, the PA cabinet devoted an ample part of its weekly meeting
to Rubinstein's pronouncement. In an official statement issued in
Ramallah Friday evening, Arafat sharply denounced "this dangerous
Israeli position." He charged that Israel is showing contempt for
international law and UN decisions; by distancing itself from the UN
resolutions, Arafat stated, "Israel is making an effort to thwart the
whole peace process." The PA leadership dispatched urgent letters to the
UN and various countries, calling on them to force Israel to comply with
binding international decisions.

Also rejecting Rubinstein's position, the United States reiterated its
stance that UN Resolution 242 applies to negotiations between Israel and
the Palestinians. "For 30 years, resolutions 242 and 338 have determined
the way in which the U.S. addresses Middle East issues," a State
Department spokesman said. "As we see it, all negotiations between
Israel and the Arabs, including talks between Israelis and Palestinians,
must be based on these resolutions.

http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=14&datee=07/02/0
0& id=83400

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Subject: [BPR] - Anti-circumcision campaign
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:53:23 -0400

ANTI-CIRCUMCISION CAMPAIGN

From: Lester M. Abelman, M.D., of Belmont,
Massachusetts - aryehmd@mediaone.net

Until retiring nine months ago, I was a practicing
pediatrician. As a result of my observations, I
have always felt that the reasons for not
performing a circumcision, ritual or otherwise,
were not really valid, but rather a smokescreen for
anti-Semitism. Even many Jewish physicians were
taken in.

A true story from my practice: I was called by a
Jewish family to be the pediatrician for their
firstborn, a son. When he was about seven
months old, I was called to see him and
observed that his body was covered by many
bruises. The mother thought they were from falling.
I sent him to a pediatric hematologist who, after
testing, diagnosed the child as having hemophilia.

Amazingly, there had been no problems at his Bris.
This confirms those studies that the major clotting
agents reach peak levels in the blood on the eighth
day of life!

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THE AISH RABBI REPLIES:

Thank you for sharing your experience.

Unfortunately, there is a real grass roots movement
opposing circumcision. I spoke this week with Dr.
Martin Harris, a Mohel in England, who forwarded me
an article on how the Netherlands Institute of
Human Rights is mounting a campaign to outlaw Bris
Milah.

One propaganda approach is to compare Bris Milah to
the brutal mutilation of African women. An article
was published in the British Medical Journal (April
2000), written by obstetricians, gynecologists, and
midwives from hospitals in France:

"The [African] women we interviewed considered
their daughters' mutilation and their sons'
circumcision to be similar. Male circumcision is
also a form of genital mutilation since it involves
removing a healthy part of an organ. How can we
convince mothers that they should not mutilate
their daughters while they could continue to have
their sons circumcised?"

Shockingly, this campaign even has adherents in
Israel. In February 1998, a group of ultra-
secularists petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court to
outlaw circumcision on the grounds that it is
criminal assault. I wish I were making this up. But
case No. 5780/98 is a real case. The most shocking
thing of all is that the court decided to accept
the case and has already held hearings!

Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, Executive Director of
the Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation
in Tel Aviv, says that a campaign is urgently
needed to end Bris Milah. "Why are they
discriminating against me as victim of Jewish male
genital mutilation?" he decries. "Are my human
rights, bodily integrity and suffering less
important than those of African girls?"

It's things like this that make me wonder where
we've gone wrong.

Ask the Rabbi <Ask-Aish@aish.com>
Ask Aish #23-2000
June 30, 2000

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Subject: [BPR] - Your Driving Record - Details
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 10:04:58 -0400

Interesting bit of spam. How's this for a reason for some people to
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Subject: [BPR] - PA summer activities
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 13:21:12 -0400

PA SUMMER ACTIVITIES
A summer camp for Palestinian youngsters has opened - on the Temple
Mount. Some 2,100 Arab children are participating. The theme of the camp,
as well as that of another one in Kalkilye, is "the struggle against the
settlements..."

According to a senior PA official, the Palestinian security apparatus
stopped cooperating with Israel's security establishment nearly a month
ago. The representative explained that the decision came in the wake of
"the poor relationship" between the IDF and PA forces at
Israeli-Palestinian border crossings....

Arutz Sheva News Service
 <www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Sunday, July 2, 2000 / Sivan 29, 5760

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