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October 19, 2000

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To: bpr-list@philologos.org (BPR Mailing List)
Subject: [BPR] - RE: The World Heritage List
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("David")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:14:21 +0930

I'm sorry, but I laughed when I read your message. Imagine the pro-Palestine
world, which seems to be everyone but the USA, openly acknowledging the
existence of a Jewish temple before the construction of the abomination that
now sits on Mount Moriah.

It wouldn't be politically correct!

David

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Sent: Thursday, 19 October 2000 3:13 am
To: bpr-list@philologos.org
Subject: [BPR] - The World Heritage List

http://www.unesco.org/whc/heritage.htm

Any thoughts on the possibility of the Temple Mount ending up on this
list??? Shophar_Sho_Good@usa.net

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Subject: [BPR] - Re: The World Heritage List
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("NL")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 03:20:57 GMT

I wonder why Israel is not mentioned, only Jerusalem! Or is that a silly
question?

Shalom

Nona

>http://www.unesco.org/whc/heritage.htm
>
>Any thoughts on the possibility of the Temple Mount ending up on this
>list??? Shophar_Sho_Good@usa.net

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Subject: [BPR] - A Very Tall Order
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:43:16 -0400

"By the time it's completed in 2005, a statue now slated for construction in
Bodh Gaya, India, will be the tallest edifice in that country--and the tallest
figure of Buddha on the planet.

"Artists and engineers in India and Britain are planning the Maitreya Project,
a meditation park funded by Buddhist donors from all over the world. The
centerpeice of the 40-acre park will be the 500-foot bronze-clad figure, so
large that the Statue of Liberty would just reach its arm.

"Designed according to traditional Buddhist ideals of statuary proportion and
built to last a thousand years, the Buddha will sit on a 17-story building
housing prayer halls, a museum, and thousands of art objects."

National Geographic Magazine
November, 2000

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Subject: [BPR] - Israeli tourists face death threats in London
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:48:49 -0400

Thursday, October 19, 2000

Israeli tourists face death threats in London

By Sharon Sadeh
Ha'aretz Correspondent

LONDON - An Israeli family that arrived in London on Monday rushed back to
Israel in fear the next day after having received death threats in Arabic at
their hotel.

The family, two adults and two children, had come to London for Sukkot.
When they entered their room in one of London's Hilton hotels, they were
shocked to see swastikas and the words "death to the Jews" drawn on the
mirror with soap, in both Arabic and English.

They decided to transfer to another Hilton, but shortly after they arrived, they
received an anonymous phone call from someone who claimed to be a
spokesman for Hamas and Hezbollah. The caller said, "I'll kill you," and hung
up. At that point, the family decided to return to Israel.

The Israeli embassy relayed the details to the London authorities, who
promised to investigate the matter. The embassy, which has been sharply
critical of the British authorities' apathy toward Arab incitement against Jews
within their borders over the last few weeks, said the incident proves why
such incitement is dangerous.

Meanwhile, Nabil Eddine, suspected of repeatedly stabbing a Jewish yeshiva
student in London on Monday, was yesterday indicted and remanded in
custody until the end of his trial. The victim, David Myers, is still in serious
condition, but has stabilized.

http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=14&datee=10/19/00&
id=96971

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Subject: [BPR] - Ha'aretz: Chief Rabbinate has stopped sending kashrut inspectors
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:51:07 -0400

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To: "IMRA Newsletter" <imra-l@lyris.vcix.com>
Subject: [imra-l] Ha'aretz: Chief Rabbinate has stopped sending kashrut inspectors to Israeli Arab factories after inspector stoned
Date sent: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:28:04 +0200
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Ha'aretz: Chief Rabbinate has stopped sending kashrut inspectors to Israeli
Arab factories after inspector stoned

By Haim Shadmi Ha'aretz 19 October 2000

The Chief Rabbinate has stopped sending kashrut inspectors to 31 Arab-owned
canned food factories in the Galilee. The plants have thus essentially been
forced to close their doors, as they can no longer sell their goods to the
major supermarkets. The rabbinates decision came after an inspector was
stoned and hurt on his way home from a Tira factory. The plants owners
charged that the rabbinates decision constituted collective punishment. The
rabbinate, however, said that its decision was not based on the fact that
the plants are owned by Arabs, but on their location all are situated in
Arab towns. The rabbinate added that it would not resume sending inspectors
to the plants until the police tell them it is safe .

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Subject: [BPR] - Ha'aretz: Israel has a legal right to try the lynchers
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:51:07 -0400

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Subject: [imra-l] Ha'aretz: Israel has a legal right to try the lynchers
Date sent: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:15:52 +0200
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Ha'aretz: Israel has a legal right to try the lynchers

By Ze'ev Segal - Ha'aretz 19 October 2000

The manner in which the suspects in the lynching of two soldiers in Ramallah
last week were brought to Israel does not impede Israel's legal right to try
them, according to the precedent set by the rulings of Supreme Court in the
cases of Adolf Eichmann and Mordechai Vanunu. Both men were kidnapped by the
Israeli security services and brought here for trial (the latter was
convicted of divulging Israeli nuclear secrets overseas).

Israeli law explicitly states that Israel may try suspects for crimes
committed outside its borders in certain cases, if the victim was an Israeli
citizen or a Jew. However, such a trial requires the explicit authorization
of the attorney general, who must discern a "public interest" in holding the
trial in Israel.

In general, the law permits such trials only if the act in question was a
crime according to the laws of the state in which it was committed. Since
Ramallah is not currently part of any state, however, this stipulation is
irrelevant.

Furthermore, the Oslo 2 agreement, signed in 1995, explicitly states that
Israel has the right to try people for crimes committed in territories under
Palestinian control, if the crimes were directed against the State of Israel
or its citizens. In 1996, the Knesset adopted this and other elements of the
agreement into Israeli law.

In most instances, the Israeli penal code imposes a mandatory life sentence
on convicted murderers, though the sentence can be reduced under certain
circumstances. A death sentence can be handed down against two types of
criminals only: Nazis and their helpers, or terrorists convicted under the
1945 Emergency Defense Regulations.

In practice, the death sentence is almost never used, but in this case, it
is even doubtful whether it could be: The Emergency Defense Regulations are
territorial in nature and, therefore, it is unlikely that they could be
applied to a crime committed outside the borders of Israel.

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Subject: [BPR] - Personal Report: Oct 19, 2000
From: bpr-list@philologos.org
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 07:59:34 -0500

[I'm on a list that receives daily reports from a gentlemen
who lives in Gilo, Israel. I thought I would share some
of them with you as I believe they provide a distinctive
personal perspective of the situation within Israel.]

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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 02:29:45 +0200
From: Ben Yosef <b_yosef@netvision.net.il

Shalom,

Let me get right to today's report, since I am running late.

An elite squad of Israeli Security Services forces has arrested 8
Palestinians in connection with the lynching death of two reserve
officers in Ramallah last week.

Details of the "hideouts" where the arrests were made could not be
obtained from official sources but "unofficially" at least some of
the 8 were arrested inside the city of Ramallah. If they were
arrested in Ramallah, this is the first instance during the uprising
over the past two weeks that Israel will have crossed into a region
known as "Area A." (Since the Oslo Accords strictly forbid Israeli
forces from entering into these totally Autonomous Regions, which are
supposed to be policed only by the Palestinian Authority, this would
mark the first indication that Israel considers the Oslo Accords
"dead.")

(The Israeli news is describing the incident by saying that the 8 are
"missing from their homes.")

Whether Israeli security collaborated with the Palestinian Security
Service in making these arrests also could not be stated publically,
since it could mean reprisals against the PSS if they did cooperate.
So for the time being we can only ASSUME that the 8 were arrested
right under the noses of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah or
possibly lured out of Ramallah, without the PA knowing anything about
the operation or the arrests until the 8 were in custody.

Meanwhile the reaction on Israeli TV tonight by Palestinian Authority
officials was, OFFICIALLY one of "outrage."

The 8, whose identities were known from the video tape aired by an
Italian correspondent (whose press credentials were withdrawn today
by Israeli authorities after he apologized to the PA for exposing the
identities of the 8), are in the custody of the Israeli Security
Services. No formal charges have been filed at this time.

But what is curious if not highly unusual about this incident is that
the Barak Administration was refusing any comment whatsoever and made
no other details available, (again because we ASSUME that it is a
clear violation of the Oslo Accords, which Israel may no longer feel
under any obligation to observe).

Meanwhile, an alarming report was disseminated throughout Israel
today by Israeli investigative journalist Barry Chamish. His report
alleges that the IDF Senior Command believes Barak is under
"international orders" not to utililize the IDF to defend the nation
or avenge the murders of its citizens!

Chamish's report does not elaborate on the source of the
"international orders."

He reports that the IDF Senior Command submitted the following policy
request to Barak in the aftermath of the brutal deaths of the IDF
reservists: "In retaliation for attacks against IDF soldiers by
members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Tanzim, or Fatah, the Israeli
Air Force would use 2000 pound bombs to turn their headquarters and
other facilities into rubble." But under "international orders,"
Barak turned the recommendation down and instead issued a directive
sending helicopters against insignificant targets only after the PLO
had been given ample warning to abandon them, Chamish reported.

In yet another HOPE for Arafat to order the violence to cease, Israel
today pulled bank its tanks around many of the Palestinian villages
but not in Hebron, where Palestinians were taking potshots at
Israelis and here in our neighborhood of Gilo, where the Patton
tanks, which are fast becoming ours and our neighbor's "best friends"
remain.

On Anafah Street here in Gilo, which was evacuated yesterday and
throughout last night after it was the scene of gunfire within an
hour of the end of the Sha'arm al Sheik summit, IDF and border police
worked all day installing reinforced concrete blocks to shield
apartment entrances from further gunfire and fortifying the region
with sand embankments.

Meanwhile the border policemen shot in the heart during the incident,
remains in critical condition.

One Gilo resident was interviewed on Arutz 7 Radio: "Mothers are
afraid to let their children onto the streets... We never, in our
worst dreams, could have imagined that the situation here could
deteriorate so drastically."

The incident in Gilo also was the center of political debate today on
Arutz7. MK Avigdor Lieberman (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu)
expressed cynicism about the Sha'arm al Sheik summit: "There was no
agreement, but only a declaration by Clinton - which he needed for
his own internal electoral purposes, and not for us. After all, there
will be elections there in three weeks, and violence here during the
elections could only hurt his wife's chances and those of Gore... We
conceded a lot, simply for Clinton's electoral considerations... This
is an emergency situation, and emergency steps must be taken, which
we are not doing. Beit Jallah residents [adjacent to Gilo] cannot be
allowed to go on living there as if nothing happened. We must take
the initiative, and not only retaliate. We have all the tools to put
an end to this violence. For instance, we must cause the Palestinians
to beg us for a ceasefire; they're not stopping their anti-Israel
incitement both on radio and TV ... so we must do it."

Former Minister Limor Livnat had only criticism for Barak: "The
Sha'arm agreement is not on our favor: We are re-opening their
airport and withdrawing our forces, while the demands that we have on
the Palestinians are very critical, yet are not being fulfilled:
[there are] four Israeli prisoners, which no one mentions and about
whom no one demands information; the re-arrest of Hamas prisoners,
the disarming of the Tanzim, the restoring of the Shalom al Yisrael
synagogue in Jericho and Joseph's Tomb in Shechem, etc." She said
that she is against joining a unity government: "Our job as the
opposition is to topple this failing Barak government - not to rescue
it. But a short-term emergency government would be a different story:
If Barak wants to use Sharon's experience and those of others, then
OK - but only for a minimum amount of time, and without the
distribution of portfolios, etc... What, families in Gilo have to
live behind concrete barricades? Let the Arabs sit behind the
concrete!"

(My 9-year-old son and my wife heard a brief exchange of what sounded
like automatic gunfire about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday as the barricades
were being constructed, but no news channel carried any reference to
that exchange which may have been Beit Jallans firing guns in the air
during a march of Tanzim Fatah militia, which occurred at about the
same time. Nevertheless IDF and border patrol forces manned the
border road throughout the day during the demonstrations and patrols
were continuing tonight. Another burst of automatic fire occurred
around dusk, (but was thought to be a drunken Beit Jallan celebrating
at a wedding).

Fully 24 hours after it was declared by President Clinton that he
should do so immediately, Yasser Arafat at 2 p.m. finally issued an
official announcement calling on PA forces to hold their fire.
Israeli and PA army officials met later in the day to discuss
arrangements for a ceasefire while the IDF opened the international
crossings for Palestinians, the Dahaniye airport in Gaza, and
withdrew the net of tanks from around the Palestinian cities. The ban
on the entry of Palestinians into Israel remains in force, however. A
statement by the IDF spokesman expressed the hope that these steps
will lead to a cessation of violence throughout Judea and Samaria.

After Arafat's announcement, streets in the Palestinian cities filled
with demonstrators demanding the continuation of the "struggle for
Palestinian independence." Hussein a-Sheikh, a Tanzim leader, said
the intifada will go on until the Palestinians have their state with
Jerusalem as its capital. He he does not believe that Arafat will ask
him to rein in his forces but if he would be asked to do so, "[I]
will not be able to control my people." News of the ceasefire has
apparently not reached Gaza, where an IDF officer was lightly wounded
in the face by a firebomb thrown at him during Palestinian riots near
an IDF position at Kfar Darom. Homemade grenades were also tossed at
an army post there, and an Israeli citizen was wounded by gunfire
shot from a passing Palestinian car. Palestinian forces are also
shooting at IDF forces near Shechem and Jenin; the army has returned
fire.

On a personal note, I have to share an unusual experience that
occurred today, which was somewhat reassuring to me and my family and
may be an answer to many of your prayers:

A friend who lives in one of the settlements to the south, came by to
leave his M16 with me while he went to work. He brought with him his
sister, Rachel, who brought along her harp! She was part of a
commune in California started by the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, of
most blessed memory, and played a lot of his songs on her harp,
sitting here in OUR living room. My wife suggested that she should
go down to Ben Yehuda Street and play for the people there. As if to
test the idea, they walked outside toward the center of our apartment
complex opposite a little play area for the children and she began to
play! It was melodious. It was flowing. It was beautiful. It was
heaven. And the residents in the area opened their windows wide and
several dozen residents, men, women and children, left their succah's
to come out and hear "Rachel" comfort Hashem's children.

I really believe, in Hashem's own way, he sent us an angel today and
reassured us that everything is OK and He wants us to focus more on
Him and less on the things going on around us.

Thank you -- all 800+ of you -- for your prayers. They are
DEFINITELY being heard, felt and realized here in Gilo among us and
our neighbors.

Shalom Shalom & Hashem's love & blessings to you all,
Ben Yosef

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Subject: [BPR] - Witches seek to halt church's Baptist-flavored Halloween production
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:00:27 -0400

Witches seek to halt church's Baptist-flavored Halloween production

DUNBAR, W.Va. (AP) _ Two modern-day witches who say a Halloween
production in a city park violates their constitutional rights have asked the
American Civil Liberties Union to help stop the holiday display.

ACLU volunteer attorney Deborah Reed was to file a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S.
District Court in Charleston on the witches' behalf, said Hilary Chiz, state
executive director.

The lawsuit seeks to halt the First Baptist Church of Dunbar's ``Haunted
Hollow'' presentation at Wine Cellar Park. The production violates the U.S.
Constitution by validating the establishment of particular religion, Chiz said.

For $5 and a can of food thrill seekers are taken on a 45-minute tour of the
``Haunted Hollow,'' which ends with a six-station presentation on the perils of
sin, said associate minister Mark Jarrell.

The scenes include a laughing, taunting Satan in hell; a drunken teen-ager
regaining consciousness at the at the scene of an auto accident that he
caused; and a teen overdosing at a party, Jarrell said.

``My concern is that they're using government property as a vehicle to
propagate for their religion and against mine,'' said Dave McCormick, 46, of
Dunbar, a co-plaintiff in the suit. McCormick is joined by Elise Adkins of
Dunbar.

Jarrell's church has staged ``Haunted Hollow'' presentations for the last two
years at Wine Cellar Park, angering some with negative portrayals of
homosexuality. This year's presentation has no such references, he said.

Chiz said that during last weekend's production the park was kept open past
normal hours and Dunbar police provided security at taxpayer expense.

Police stopped one group from protesting, a violation of federal law, she said.

Jarrell said the presentation was no different than a religious concert held at
Charleston's Municipal Auditorium.

``When you go to a Billy Graham crusade at the Civic Center, you know what
you're getting,'' said McCormick, a ``high priest'' in his four-member Wicca
group. ``When you go to the 'Haunted Hollow,' you expect to have fun. You
don't expect to have religion propagated at you.''

http://news.findlaw.com/ap_stories/l/0000/10-17-
2000/20001017051124400.html

via: Third_Watch@egroups.com

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Subject: [BPR] - A Christ Figure?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:13:37 -0400

Excerpt from news story "Can He Still Lead?" at
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/arafat001018.html

A Christ Figure?

Most experts agree that Arafat is unlikely to be deposed. “Nobody wants to replace Arafat. They don�t see it as a prestigious job,” Kadan said.

Others say Arafat has represented the Palestinian people for so long that he�s become an icon. “He�s established himself as a person who�s achieved the most for the Palestinian people,” said Jon Alterman, a Middle East expert at the United States Institute of Peace.

“They always knew him as the embodiment of Palestinians� national aspirations,” he said. “Arafat has brand name recognition.”

One investigative journalist with years of experience in the Middle East compares Arafat�s status among Palestinians to Jesus Christ among Christians.

“He is just a primordial symbol,” said Wendy Orange, author of the book, Coming Home to Jerusalem. “Young Palestinians are born with pictures of him everywhere.”

The recent violence that followed Israeli hard-liner Ariel Sharon�s visit to a Jerusalem holy site was born out of this relationship to Arafat, Orange said.

More than two weeks ago, on the eve of the Jewish New Year, Sharon visited the site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary.

Sharon says he was exercising his right to the most sacred shrine of Judaism. Muslims say his visit was an act of provocation, because the area is also home to two major mosques — Al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock — and is the third holiest site of Islam.

“That little stroll on Al-Asqa Mosque was really misunderstood by [Sharon],” Orange said. “[Arafat] was shamed and shame is a huge thing in the Arab world.”

“The young kids, as soon as they feel he�s being demeaned by Clinton or Barak they go crazy,” she said.

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Subject: [BPR] - Israel may isolate Palestinians in own state
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:18:29 -0400

Israel may isolate Palestinians in own state
By Judy Dempsey in Jerusalem

Published: October 18 2000 20:30GMT | Last Updated: October 19 2000
07:05GMT

Top Israeli military and political officials are drawing up plans that threaten to
lock the Palestinians into a small, disconnected state separate from Israel
as a last resort if peace negotiations are not resumed.

Under the unilateral scheme, movement in the territory would be restricted
and the economy suffocated, raising the possibility of a sustained violent
confrontation with Israel.

Whether the two-pronged strategy in the West Bank, for withdrawal and
annexation, is put into practice depends largely on the implementation of the
ceasefire agreed this week at Sharm el-Sheikh aimed at ending the
bloodshed.

It would be carried out, an intelligence official said, if Ehud Barak, Israeli
prime minister, decided he could not reach a peace agreement with Yassir
Arafat, Palestinian Authority president.

Some Israeli military officials admitted Mr Barak was threatening the
Palestinians in his last-ditch attempt to resume peace talks, and the plan
was attacked by Saeb Erekat, Palestinian chief negotiator, as the "gravest
step Israel could take". "This is not a separation plan. It is a plan of
suffocation and occupation. It will not be tolerated by us," he said.

The West Bank and Gaza Strip would be separated from Israel by severing
economic relations and cutting off access to the electricity, water and
telecommunications grids that Israel controls. Heavily fortified crossing
points would also be built between the two states.

On the ground, 30 per cent of the 200,000 Jewish settlers would be uprooted
from isolated settlements, while three large clusters of settlements would be
annexed to Israel. The Jordan Valley, an Israeli buffer zone between the
West Bank and Jordan, would also be annexed.

"It is an option we are keeping open if there is no chance of reaching an
agreement," said Epraim Sneh, Israel's deputy defence minister, who is co-
ordinating the plans. "If we do not succeed together with the Palestinians in
a constructive way to shape the reality, we will try to change it in physical
terms. The idea is to create physical separation."

An Israeli military official admitted the scheme could backfire and lead to
violent unrest against Israel, as separation would mean restricting
Palestinians' freedom of movement, ending chances for economic prosperity
and denying them access to Jerusalem - the most sensitive issue in the 50-
year conflict.

An Israeli official said Mr Arafat "will be in a very bad way" if Mr Barak went
ahead with the plan. "Last July, at the Camp David talks, he was being
offered about 90 per cent of the West Bank. With this plan, he will hardly get
60 per cent. Maybe that will make him resume peace talks."

Mr Barak, however, would need broad party support to implement unilateral
separation. The settlers could mobilise, and liberals would oppose it. He
could also expect strong international condemnation.

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3VLUJGH
EC&live=true&tagid=ZZZINS5VA0C&subheading=middle%20east%20and%20
africa

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Subject: [BPR] - Afghan Taliban Bans Sports in Late Afternoon
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:23:29 -0400

Wednesday October 18 10:49 AM ET
Afghan Taliban Bans Sports in Late
Afternoon

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban Islamic
movement Tuesday ordered a ban on all sports played in late afternoon and
early evening because they could disturb Muslim prayers, the official Taliban
radio said.

Sports events held at stadiums or clubs at these hours could distract people
from late afternoon Asar and evening Maghreb prayers, said the Voice of
Shariat radio, monitored in Islamabad.

It said Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar had issued an order
that no sports should be held from the time of the muezzin's call for Asar
prayers until the end of Maghreb prayers.

The radio said teams from the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and
Prevention of Vice, which acts as religious police for the radically Islamic
Taliban, would monitor the observance of the ban and punish violators.

The broadcast did not specify the mode of punishment.

The Taliban, which controls about 95 percent of the war-torn country, has
banned music and television, barred women from schools and from leaving
home without wearing an all-enveloping Burqa veil, and ordered men to grow
long beards.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001018/od/afghan_dc_1.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Containing the Plague
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:57:10 -0500

Containing the Plague

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/plague001019.html

Killing Plague-Infected Rodents Might Spread Disease to Humans

Although unsanitary conditions can cause an outbreak of bubonic plague, the
bacteria that causes the disease is most commonly found in rural populations
of rodents. (Robert Mecea/AP Photo)

By Willow Lawson

Oct. 19 - To control a disease outbreak, it doesn't always help to kill its
agent, a new study has found.
In a newly-created population dynamics model, Matthew Keeling, a
Cambridge University mathematician, has found that although rats can spread
the bubonic plague to people, killing infected rats can actually make the
outbreak worse. That's because there is another creature involved in the
infection chain.
"As the rats die, the fleas don't have anything to feed on," says
Matthew Keeling, a Cambridge University mathematician who studies disease
models and author of the study published this week in Nature.

Scientists say eliminating the plague is impractical, if not impossible in
animals. But because the bacteria have begun to show signs of resistance to
antibiotics, they say it is crucial to monitor rodent populations to avoid
outbreaks of disease. Source: Centers for Disease Control. (ABCNEWS.com/
Magellan Geographix)

Known from medieval times as the Black Death, the plague infects humans
mainly through flea bites - not nips from the rodents they live on. Fleas
live in the fur of infected rodents, usually rats, but also mice, squirrels,
chipmunks, prairie dogs and others. When an outbreak occurs, people are
often tempted to kill the rodents because they harbor infected fleas in
their fur. But Keeling found that decreasing populations of rodents may
actually trigger outbreaks.

Medieval and Modern

"If you do see human cases, you shouldn't do the instinctive thing and go
out and [kill] rats," he says.
     Studies show that plague outbreaks among people occur when rodent
populations are low and hungry fleas seek warm blood from other sources.
When that happens and human cases start to appear, killing more rodents only
forces the fleas to seek other sources of sustenance.
     Many people regard the plague as a medieval disease, known for killing
about 25 million people in Europe, or a quarter of the population, in the
13th and 14th century. Historical accounts indicate the disease was probably
first introduced when trading ships arrived in Mediterranean ports with dead
or dying sailors, infected by the rats on board their vessels. The last
pandemic happened in 1894-1904, originating in Asia and affecting ports on
most continents. Millions of people died.
     Modern cases of the plague are usually of the bubonic form of the
disease, causing the lymph nodes in the groin, armpit and neck to swell. The
swellings are called buboes, stemming from the Greek word for groin.
Untreated, as the disease was in the Middle Ages, the plague eventually
infects the internal organs and causes bleeding. Tiny blood vessels under
the skin burst and turn black, giving the infection its medieval name, Black
Death.
     Pneumonic plague, another form of the disease, attacks the lungs of the
infected person and can be spread from person to person by cough droplets
and contaminated clothing. And septicemic plague infects the blood.
     Thousands of plague infections are reported every year around the
world, mostly in Asia and Africa. Infection can be cured with antibiotics if
diagnosed early, according to the Centers for Disease Control. About 10-20
cases are diagnosed in the United States each year (see sidebar), but health
officials say the plague doesn't pose much of a threat to Americans.

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Subject: [BPR] - Re: The World Heritage List
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Sky")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:30:20 -0400 (EDT)

Hiyas,
About the World Heritage Sites.....Correct me If I'm wrong ( it has
happened once before 0:-) but don't the World Heritage Sites compromise
the sovereignty (sp?) of the countries where the sites are located?
Don't the sites in effect, cease to belong to the individual countries,
but are effectively controlled by the World Heritage Sites.

Also, It is my understanding that after the six day war in 1967, the
temple mount was "owned" by Israel but allowed the Dome of the Rock to
stay there.

If all this is true, I could see how should the temple mount ever
becoming a World Heritage Site could have a devastating and prophetic
impact.

Again, I am not sure about my information and would like to know more
about both issues.

Love and Prayers ~ Sky

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Subject: [BPR] - Friday/Saturday/Sunday Oct 20-22, 2000
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:40:19 -0400

* Friday is Hoshanah Rabbah: "Jewish tradition records that the heavenly
decrees made on Rosh Hashana (and sealed on Yom Kippur) are actually
sent out on Hoshana Raba. The main book of Kabbalah, the Zohar, also
says that the nations of the world are judged on this day."

* Around 3-4 pm is when Barak's ceasefire deadline ends. (Israel +6 hours
EDT)

* The Arab-led emergency session of the UN General Assembly will resume
some time on Friday.

* Starting Friday night through Monday is when the Orionid meteor shower
will be seen. According to "The Witness of the Stars" by Bullinger
(http://philologos.org) Orion stands for "The Coming Prince--Light Breaking
Forth in the Redeemer." These meteors are called Orionids because they
seem to be coming from the direction of the constellation of Orion.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast18oct_1.htm?aol

* Saturday and Sunday will see the Arabs hosting a summit in Cairo. Two
"days of rage" in Israel will coincide with this gathering.

* Saturday and Sunday are also the last days of the holidays for Jews.
Saturday is Shemini Atzeret (eighth day) and Sunday is Simchat Torah
(Rejoicing of the Torah).

David Stern in "Jewish NT Commentary" says the following regarding these
last few days of the Fall feasts:

John 7:37 "Hoshana Rabbah...the last day of Sukkot [Tabernacles] was its
climax. Throughout the seven days of the festival a special cohen [priest] had
carried water in a gold pitcher from the Pool of Shiloach [Siloam] to be
poured into a basin at the foot of the altar by the cohen hagadol [high priest].
It symbolized prayer for rain which begins the next day, on Sh'mini Atzeret;
and it also pointed toward the out-pouring of the Ruach HaKodesh [Holy
Spirit] on the people of Israel. The rabbis associated the custom with Isaiah
12:3, 'With joy shall you draw water from the wells of salvation'...On the
seventh day the water pouring was accompanied by cohanim [priests]
blowing gold trumpets, L'vi'im [Levites} singing sacred songs, and ordinary
people waving their lulavs [palm branch, myrtle and willow bound together]
and chanting the Hallel [Psalms 113-118], which includes in its closing
verses:

Adonai, please save us! (Hebrew Hoshia' na or Hoshana]
Adonai, please prosper us!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of Adonai!
We have blessed you out of the house of Adonai.
God is Adonai, and he has given us light (Psa 118:25-27)

"The words, 'Please save us!' led to the day's being called Hoshana Rabbah,
the Great Hosanna. This prayer had Messianic overtones, as is seen from its
use when Yeshua [Jesus] made his triumphal entry into Yerushalayim
[Jerusalem] a few days before his execution (Mt 21:9, Mk 11:9-10). It was
also a prayer for salvation from sin, for Hoshana Rabbah was understood to
be the absolutely final chance to have one's sins for the year forgiven...

"It was in the midst of this water pouring, trumpet blasting, palm waving,
psalm chanting and ecstatic joy on the part of people seeking forgiveness--
and in the presence of all 24 divisions of the priesthood...--that Yeshua cried
out in the Temple courts, 'If anyone is thirsty, let him keep coming to me and
drinking! Whoever trusts in me, as the Tanakh [OT] says, rivers of living
water will flow from his inmost being!'...In effect Yeshua was declaring, 'I am
the answer to your prayers.' His dramatic cry, supported by the full panoply
of Temple ritual, was not misunderstood, as vv 40-43 make abundantly clear.
His subsequent proclamation, 'I am the light of the world,' also based on the
passage of Psalm 118 quoted above, provided an even more agitated
reaction (8:12)."

"The Feasts of the Lord" by D. Howard and M. Rosenthal:

"On the other six days of the feast, the silver trumpets gave three blasts. On
this day [Hoshanah Rabbah], the trumpets gave three sets of seven blasts.
On the other six days of the feast, the priests made but one circuit around
the altar. On this day, the priests made seven circuits."

"The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Judaica" has the following entry for Simhat
Torah:

"name of last day of Sukkot festival when annual reading of Torah is
completed and recommenced. In Israel this coincides with Shemini Atzeret;
elsewhere observed on following day. Torah scrolls are carried around the
synagogue seven times and each male is called to reading of Torah. Service
is marked by singing and festivities. The one called to last portion is called
Bridegroom of the Torah and to first portion Bridegroom of Genesis..."

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. FIVE HOURS LATER, IDF PREPARES TO BOMB ASKAR
   2. OPPOSITION AGAINST NATIONAL-UNITY GOV'T AT THIS STAGE
   3. WAITING FOR CEASEFIRE
   4. MIRACLE IN GUSH KATIF
   5. THE STORY BEHIND THE ITAMAR "KILLING"
   6. NEW JEWISH HOMES IN JERUSALEM
   7. TENS OF THOUSANDS IN SUPPORT OF DERI
   8. IN BRIEF

***Stay tuned on our website for updates on the battle at Mt. Eval near
Shechem.***

1. FIVE HOURS LATER, IDF PREPARES TO BOMB ASKAR
At this hour, the IDF forces have rescued two Jews from the mountainside
near Shechem - one is in serious condition, and the wounds of the other
have been termed light-to-moderate - while two others in unknown
condition remain trapped behind a large rock, shot at by dozens of
Palestinians roaming the mountainside, and the IDF has not been able to
rescue them. It was reported that the Arabs, from the village of Askar,
shot anti-aircraft fire at the helicopters. The first two of the
injured are being treated in the field, as the army has not yet been
able to fly them to the hospital. MK Benny Elon said, "If it turns out
that the reason that the army delayed the rescue was political, and not
military, this will be very grave."

The incident began at approximately 1:30 PM, when in the midst of a
hike, the four were fired on by Palestinians from Askar. One of the
trapped hikers, Eliezer Mizrachi, spoke to Arutz-7 by phone this
afternoon, and said that they cannot move from behind the rock that is
shielding them for fear that they will be shot. Yehuda Libman of
Yitzhar, who is in the area at present, told Arutz-7, "It appears that
the government will allow Jews to bleed to death rather than give orders
to kill Arabs - for with one bombardment they could wipe out all the
attackers!" Another of the hikers told Arutz-7 that they had received
army approval for the hike, and were even accompanied by soldiers.
Shomron Regional Council head Bentzy Lieberman, asked about the army's
general ban on hikes in the area this week, was visibly angered: "It is
totally unacceptable to even deal with a question of this sort at this
time. Arabs are shooting and murdering Jews, and we accept this as a
matter of routine. The army should bomb the targets from where the fire
is being shot, and must rescue them at once."

***As we go to press, it was announced that the army had broadcast a
call over Arabic-language Israel Radio for all residents of the Askar
camp, from where the Arabs are shooting, to evacuate their homes. This
indicates that the IDF is planning a forceful strike to silence the
shooting.

The group was accompanied by a small protective army force that shot
back at the Arabs, and even killed one. Eyewitnesses told Arutz-7 that
the helicopters fired long volleys in the direction of Mt. Eval near
Shechem. Negotiations between Yesha leaders and the army have been
ongoing, but angry Jewish residents are afraid that the fate of the
wounded will be the same as that of the soldier who bled to death in
Joseph's Tomb two weeks ago. Enraged residents are blocking off roads
to Palestinian traffic.

MK Benny Elon told Arutz-7: "I'm shocked at the development of these
events. I was told that the army was waiting for dark, but this makes
it much much harder to locate the wounded on the very difficult terrain
and rescue them. If it turns out that there was a political calculation
made here of not wanting to hit the PA too hard, then we have an
unprecedentedly grave problem and we will have to deal with it... If
they have to conquer part of Shechem or the village there, then that is
what has to be done... Meanwhile, we pray to G-d that He should give
strength to the army to be able to rescue them. On television, you can
see the Arabs and their cars on the mountain side, shooting and running
- why doesn't the army just bomb all the cars and cause panic so that
they will run away!"

2. OPPOSITION AGAINST NATIONAL-UNITY GOV'T AT THIS STAGE
Leaders of most of the right-wing opposition parties - Likud, National
Religious Party, Yisrael B'Aliyah, National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu, and
Herut - gathered in Likud leader Ariel Sharon's office this morning to
discuss their plans to topple the government. They had various levels
of criticism for Prime Minister Barak, and said that they would not join
a national-unity government at this time. Sharon responded to Barak's
veiled criticism of him last night by saying, "Barak blames everyone
except himself. I have not seen him take responsibility for his long
line of failures of this past year..."

3. WAITING FOR CEASEFIRE
The Israeli closure on the Palestinian autonomous areas will not be
lifted in the near future, and the IDF is on as high alert as it has
ever been for terrorist attacks. Although the PA claims it has
re-arrested arch-terrorist Muhammed Def, Israel maintains that most of
the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists recently released by the PA have
not been returned to prison. Israel, as of this morning, still planned
to give the PA 48 hours - beginning yesterday afternoon - to honor the
ceasefire terms declared at Sharm a-Sheikh two days ago. The army has
already begun to withdraw tanks from the war-zones, has reduced the
number of soldiers in the areas, and has removed the "siege" from around
the autonomous cities.

Meanwhile, severe and uncensored Palestinian incitement continues on
television and radio, and warlike statements have not ceased from the
mouths of PA officials: Tanzim leader Marwan Bargouti said that the
intifada will continue, while Saeb Erekat said that Israel's abduction
of the Ramallah lynchers is an "act of war." Imad Falouji, a Minister in
the PA governing council, called on Palestinians last night to continue
fighting against the "heart of Israel." "It is not logical for us to
stop our violent struggle against Israel just because they have opened
our airport and border crossings," he said. "The Palestinian nation must
avenge the deaths of its holy ones." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak,
however, warned Arafat last night that he would not allow his country to
be dragged into a regional war.

4. MIRACLE IN GUSH KATIF
Gush Katif residents call it nothing less than a miracle. A heavy
volley of gunfire was shot last night at a bus carrying 38 passengers,
mostly children, and two bombs exploded under or near it - and yet no
one was hurt. Bus driver Shuki Attias recounted what happened:
"It was 6:30 PM, dark, and we had just passed the flour mill in Gush
Katif
before an army post, along our regular daily route. Most of the
passengers were children, as usual, because what happens is that when a
convoy of cars gathers, all the passengers of the cars board our
bulletproof bus, leaving only the drivers to drive their cars behind the
bus. I was heading a large convoy. Suddenly we heard a tremendously
loud explosion. The doors opened, and then seconds later, there was a
very heavy volley of gunfire, with smoke, you couldn't see a thing,
things were flying in the bus, there were screams of kids and women, and
there were shots - it was bedlam, but I couldn't pay attention because
my only goal was to keep going and get out, the bus was rocking from
side to side, and somehow I managed to go another 300 meters until the
base and I realized that everyone was OK. The bulletproof windows were
blown out, and so was the emergency door. The accompanying jeeps opened
fire..."

Several shooting incidents occurred last night, particularly in Gaza,
despite Arafat's announcement on the cessation of violence. A pipe bomb
was found and safely dismantled this morning on the Shavei
Shomron-Tulkarm road. Palestinians from Beit Jalla shot today at the
tanks that are still stationed in Gilo. Jewish residents are very
critical of the fortifications placed around the neighborhood; one of
them said today, "It is simply demoralizing for us. All they have to do
is station IDF troops here, and as soon as a shot is heard, the army
should blast them back."

5. THE STORY BEHIND THE ITAMAR "KILLING"
The two Itamar residents who shot at a mob of Arabs attacking their town
two days ago - killing one of the marauders and wounding several others
- are appealing the five-day extension of their custody. The hearing
will take place today. Shechem Regional Commander Col. Yossi Adiri told
Army Radio today that the army found that the two were apparently in
mortal danger when they shot.

Arutz-7's Haggai Segal spoke today with Orit Degani, the wife of one of
the two arrested residents. She recounted the events leading up to her
husband's detention:
"We do not live in Itamar itself, but on one of the hilltops nearby,
called Hilltop 851 [with several other families]. In order to
understand what happened, it must be realized that the whole incident
took place on the playground of about 50 children, and about 30 meters
away from our homes. Every day, our children play in that very area.
We have 8 children, and the other family [whose husband-father was
arrested] has 10 children... When my husband arrived there, he had no
intentions of doing anything. The Arabs always come around here to
harvest their olives, but usually it's about five or ten of them; this
time it was about 70 of them, armed with hatchets, axes, saws, and
knives - not the usual olive-harvest tools. We all know what's going on
here during these weeks - these villagers are the same ones who throw
Molotov cocktails on us, the same ones who murdered Hillel Lieberman,
and we are quite on the alert... "My husband arrived on the scene after
he spoke to the area's security coordinator, who specifically told him,
"We are on the way, but where are your guards?" This means that
everyone assumes that security is basically in our hands, the hands of
the residents; the army's involvement is very superficial. The soldiers
did not want to get involved, even though they heard the shots and
reports over the radio. My neighbor had to go by car, a minute and a
half away, and bring them here forcefully... "In any event, my husband
was there alone with them for 20 minutes, and he asked them to leave.
Please understand: he wasn't protecting his flourmill, or his next
paycheck - he was protecting his own children and family and neighbors.
He asked them to leave, and they didn't, but rather began to come
closer, and made all sorts of threatening gestures with their knives.
My husband was alone facing this mob, and they kept on coming closer.
He began to fire in the air. He emptied half a [30-bullet] magazine in
the air - and they kept on coming! They kept on coming, and he saw that
his bullets were running out, so he ran behind the caravan, and fired
toward them, towards their feet. It was apparently these shots that
caused them to start running away - this is based on what I understood
later, not from what my husband told me. Then my brother-in-law Gadi
Teneh [the other man being held in the case] came, and fired four shots
in the air. Again, I emphasize that the soldiers were not far away, but
came only after 20 minutes, when there were only about ten Arabs left…"
"Now, regarding the corpse: My husband was very shocked to hear that
someone was killed. He said that at no time did anyone [of the Arabs]
bend down to help anyone who had fallen during the retreat, and they
were not dragging anyone behind - he saw and knows that this did not
happen. The Arabs claim that there was a corpse, but neither the police
nor the army saw it, they did not let the army or police check the body,
and the funeral was held two hours later, and finished. Many Arabs die
here, it could have been any other Arab who died... An IDF medic
treated three wounded from among the Palestinians, and no one saw any
corpse."

6. NEW JEWISH HOMES IN JERUSALEM
Beit Varsha, in Jerusalem's Old City near Flower Gate, was dedicated
this morning, and four Jewish families have moved in. Jerusalem Mayor
Ehud Olmert participated in the ceremony. The new Jewish neighborhood
Ma'aleh HaZeitim (Ras el-Amoud) will soon begin absorbing new families.

7. TENS OF THOUSANDS IN SUPPORT OF DERI
Tens of thousands took part in a solidarity rally for Aryeh Deri last
night, outside the Ma'asiyahu Prison in Ramle where he is incarcerated.
The rally took place at Yeshivat Sha'agat Aryeh, which was formed almost
seven weeks ago when Deri began his controversial three-year prison
sentence for accepting bribes.

8. IN BRIEF
Foreign Ministers of Arab countries met today to prepare for the Arab
League summit meeting scheduled for Cairo tomorrow. Egypt and Jordan
are considered moderating forces, while Syria and the Palestinians are
pushing for more militant decisions. Israel fears escalation of
violence after summit...
The Temple Mount has been closed to Jewish worshippers and tourists
since
the beginning of the Rosh HaShanah Arab Assault, and only Moslems are
allowed up. Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and others are reported to be planning
a petition to the Supreme Court demanding an end to the closure...
Two Arabs were killed today while preparing explosive devices in
Arafat's
Force 17 arms warehouse in Bethlehem. Eight Arabs were injured...

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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items (10/19/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:54:54 -0400

*** Visits sought in embryo mix-up case

NEW YORK (AP) - A white couple has asked a state appeals court to
grant them visits with a black baby born to them because of an embryo
mix-up at a fertility clinic. Richard and Donna Fasano say in court
papers that an agreement with the child's biological parents - Robert
and Deborah Perry Rogers of Teaneck, N.J. - allows them to visit the
boy, now 22 months old. That agreement, however, was blocked by the
court, pending a final ruling on the Rogerses' application to the
state Supreme Court's Appellate Division to nullify the agreement.
Since four months have passed without a ruling, the Fasanos asked in
court papers filed Wednesday for visits to resume. "The separation is
cruel," the papers said. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570672125-8c6

*** Belgian cardinal: Pope may resign

VATICAN CITY (AP) - An influential European cardinal has added his
voice to speculation swirling for months - that Pope John Paul II,
burdened by age and illness, may resign. Cardinal Godfried Danneels
of Belgium suggested John Paul might step aside next year, now that
he has achieved his dream of leading the church into the new
millennium. Mere mention of the issue has angered the Vatican, which
sees such talk as seeking to weaken the papacy. Reaction to Danneels'
suggestion was swift. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570677654-bed

*** Earthquake rattles Greece island

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A moderate earthquake rattled the Aegean Sea
island of Rhodes early Thursday, but there were no reports of any
damage or injuries. The undersea quake had a preliminary magnitude of
4.9 and occurred at 1:56 a.m. with an epicenter 280 miles southeast
of Athens, the Athens Geodynamic Institute said. The temblor was felt
on the island of Rhodes, about 20 miles west of the epicenter, the
Institute said. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570670104-989

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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (10/19/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:00:28 -0400

Syria refuses to restrain Hizbullah

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Jerusalem Post

Thu Oct 19,2000 -- Syria has reportedly rejected American requests to
restrain Hizbullah following the organization's kidnapping of IDF soldiers St.-
Sgt. Omar Sawayid, St.-Sgt. Avraham Binyamin, and Sgt. Adi Avitan and
Elhanan Tannenbaum, apparently while he was on private business abroad.
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright reportedly made the request in a
meeting yesterday with Syrian President Bashar Assad while both were
visiting Saudi Arabia. News reports, quoting an unnamed US official, said
Albright had asked Syria to curb Hizbullah, calling the group's kidnapping of
the Israelis a dangerous provocation.

The official was quoted as saying that Assad declined to make any
commitment regarding Hizbullah. Assad reportedly maintained that Hizbullah
is largely a social organization which is gaining influence among ordinary
Arabs. He also cautioned US policy makers to consider that anti-Israel
sentiment is rising on the streets in the Arab world, the senior US official
was reported as saying. So far, Hizbullah has refused all overtures to allow
representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to
examine the kidnapped soldiers. It has rejected similar requests regarding
Tannenbaum, a reserve colonel, whose abduction by Hizbullah was
announced at the beginning of this week.

Arabs call for UN rights body to condemn Israel

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Reuters

Thu Oct 19,2000 -- Arab and Islamic states on Thursday urged the U.N.
human rights forum to condemn Israel for "war crimes" against Palestinians
in the occupied territories despite the summit deal to stem violence. Hatem
Ben Salem, Tunisia's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, appealed
for support for the strongly-worded resolution formally sponsored by 29
states, including Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria as well as the
Palestinian Authority. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights was expected
to vote on the resolution when the special session in Geneva resumed later
in the day, U.N. officials said. Diplomats said Western countries were still
trying to water down the Arab resolution into wording which they would find
less inflammatory and more balanced and which they might find acceptable.

"The draft resolution is on the massive violations of the human rights of the
Palestinian people by Israel," Ben Salem told the 53-member state forum on
behalf of the sponsors. The text expresses concern about gross violations by
Israel including "mass killings, collective punishment, demolition of houses
and closure of the Palestinian territories," Tunisia's envoy said. "These
practices indeed constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity in
international law," he added. Arab diplomats said the text had wide support
among Asian, Latin and African states, although the United States was set
to vote against it and European abstentions were expected.

If adopted, the resolution would leave U.N. rights boss Mary Robinson to set
up an international inquiry into three weeks of violence in which at least 107
people have been killed. "There will be a vote on the text. We think we have
enough "yes" votes," an Arab envoy told Reuters just before the special
session began its third day of debate. "The resolution is very strong and
should be approved. But it will be a moral victory without practical effects
unless both parties agree to give access to the inquiry," he added.

Vatican quashes idea of Pope's retirement

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: Yahoo News/Reuters

Thu Oct 19,2000 -- The Vatican Thursday sought to quash speculation by a
leading Roman Catholic cardinal that Pope John Paul may retire after the
end of this year.

The Vatican issued a terse statement in response to reports based on a
newly-published book by Brussels Cardinal Godfried Danneels who was
quoted as saying he would not be surprised if the Pope opted to retire next
year. ``This is a personal opinion of Cardinal Danneels which finds no
confirmation (in the Vatican),'' chief Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-
Valls said. Cardinal Danneels, who is considered a possible successor to
the current Pope, is scheduled to hold a news conference about his book
Monday.

The question will inevitably be posed in the same form to popes. And it would
not surprise me if the Pope were to retire after 2000. He wanted at all cost to
reach the jubilee year 2000, but I consider him capable of retiring afterwards.''
Speculation that John Paul, who began the 23rd year of his pontificate earlier
this week, could become the first pontiff in centuries to retire willingly has
surfaced regularly as his health has failed. There has also been speculation
that he could choose to retire as early as 2001 because he believes he was
divinely entrusted at the time of his election in 1978 to lead his church of one
billion members into the new millennium.

God and the Devil join BBC

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: BBC News

Thu Oct 19,2000 -- Controversial American cartoon series God, the Devil and
Bob is to be broadcast on BBC TV.

The show, which was taken off air in the US after protests from religious
groups, will be shown on BBC Two in the New Year.

God, the Devil and Bob takes a satirical, irreverent look at God's relationship
with the Devil with man caught in the middle. God is depicted as an ageing,
beer-guzzling baby boomer who calls upon Bob to prove that humanity is
worth saving.

Editor's Note: Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

http://216.219.160.226/cgi-
bin/readnews.cgi?day=00_10_19&item=#971990407

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Subject: [BPR] - UN human rights body condemns Israel for crimes
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:07:06 -0400

October 19, 2000

UN human rights body condemns Israel for crimes

Reuters

GENEVA - The main United Nations human rights forum Thursday adopted an
Arab-Islamic resolution condemning Israel for "war crimes" and "crimes
against humanity" in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Nineteen states voted in favor, 16 against, with 17 abstentions and one
delegation absent from the 53-member body, the Nepalese chairman
announced after the public roll-call vote. "The draft resolution is
adopted by a vote of 19 in favor, 16 against, with 17 abstentions," he
said.

The UN Commission on Human Rights wrapped up a special three-day
session in Geneva on recent violence in the Middle East as an Israeli
and a Palestinian were killed in a firefight that raged for hours near
Nablus.

http://www2.haaretz.co.il/breaking-news/intifada/331802.asp

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Subject: [BPR] - Extremist backs 'kill Jews' poster
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:05:26 -0400

Thursday 19 October 2000

Extremist backs 'kill Jews' poster
By Peter Foster and Philip Aldrick

                        Jews not taking chances in face of Muslim threat
                        Goal is world Islamic state
                        International: Israelis seize eight lynch-mob suspects

AN Islamic extremist has defended a leaflet and poster campaign exhorting
British Muslims to "kill the Jews" and wage a holy war against Israel.

Jewish leaders are demanding the prosecution of those responsible and
seeking talks with Jack Straw, the Home Secretary. However, Sheikh Omar
Bakri Mohamed, the leader of the Islamic fundamentalist group al-
Muhajiroun, said its leaflets, which have appeared in London, Manchester
and Birmingham, were merely a warning not to support the state of Israel.

Concerns that the material would inflame relations between Muslims and
Jews were heightened this week when a 20-year-old Jew was stabbed on a
bus in Stamford Hill, an area of north London which is home to a large
community of Orthodox jews.

The attack came days after Jo Wagerman, president of the Board of
Deputies, wrote to Lord Williams, the Attorney General, warning that there
was a "direct and causal link between literature which invites hatred and the
level of racist violence on the street".

Although police arrested five young men in Stamford Hill two weeks ago on
suspicion of distributing anti-Semitic literature, Jewish leaders are angry that
more is not being done to target the real powers behind the leaflets.

Sources at the board said that police appeared reluctant to prosecute
because the calls to fight the Jews were carefully couched in quotes from the
Koran. One said that the Government was afraid of provoking a Muslim
backlash.

David Lidington, the shadow home office minister, said: "Whoever is
responsible for this should be investigated. I would say the same if these
posters were directed against British Muslims."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001669821461706&rtmo=a2bbRbXL&atmo
=HHHHHH8L&pg=/et/00/10/19/next19.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Amnesty accuses Israel over Mideast violence
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:13:40 -0400

Amnesty accuses Israel over Mideast violence

LONDON, Oct 19 (AFP) - A lack of action over human rights abuses in Israel
and the Palestinian territories, including into deaths at the hands of the
security forces, has led to a breakdown in the rule of law, Amnesty
International said Thursday.

In a report on the findings of a delegation which visited the area, Amnesty
said that Israeli security forces "tended to use military methods rather than
policing methods" in quelling demonstrations.

"The impunity for those who commit human rights violations and the lack of
investigations into so many deaths at the hands of the security forces has
led to breakdown in the rule of law which has grave consequences for the
region," it added.

The delegation went to Israel and the Palestinian terrorities earlier this month
to probe killings carried out by Israeli security forces since September 29.

In a statement, the London-based human rights group said its report looked
at "the unlawful use of potentially lethal force" and the "impeding of medical
access to the wounded."

Amnesty said it would send another mission to the region Friday to monitor
latest developments.

It reiterated its call for a UN investigation into killings and other human rights
violations in the Middle East.

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