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Subject: [BPR] - A Time Appropriate Message
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:32:47 -0500

A rabbi writes: "We are taught that the Torah reading for any given
week contains a time-appropriate message. Anyone desiring to gain
insight as to what is expected of us as the year progresses, is well
advised to learn the weekly parsha and look for its message." (1)

The Torah portion for this Sabbath begins with the new reading cycle
starting at Genesis 1:1. Since the primary purpose of Torah is to
teach God's laws, Rashi, in his commentary below, questions why it
should begin with the creation of the world instead of with the first
law given to the Israelites (Exodus 12:1-2):

"R. Yitzchok said: The Torah should have begun with [the verse] 'This
month shall be [your first month],' it being the first precept that
the Israelites were commanded. Then why does it [the Torah] begin
with 'In the beginning'? This is because [of the concept contained in
the verse,] 'He declared the power of His works to His people in
order to give to them the inheritance of nations.' Thus, should the
nations of the world say to Israel, 'You are robbers, for you have
taken by force the lands of the Seven Nations,' they [Israel] will
say to them: 'All the earth belongs to G-d. He created it and gave it
to whomever He saw fit. It was His will to give it to them and it was
His will to take it from them and give it to us.'"(2)

Anybody see a time appropriate message there?

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References

(1) Olas Shabbos beShabbato, Bereishis 5761 (Volume 14 Issue 4);
Olas Shabbos, Copyright © 2000 by Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffmann

(2) From BEREISHIS - RASHI COMMENTARY
http://www.mnemotrix.com/metsudah/b01r.html#ch01

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Subject: [BPR] - Edupage items (10/27/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:33:17 -0400

CONSUMER WATCHDOG UNVEILS NET CONDUCT CODE
The Better Business Bureau and BBBOnLine have introduced the
BBB Code of Online Business Practices, which provides a
self-regulatory framework for B2C transactions in the United
States and in other countries. The hope is that online retailers
and advertisers will adopt the code "to make a significant
contribution toward effective self-regulation," said the chairman
of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Calvin J. Collier.
The code has already seen some use in Europe and has the backing
of the FTC and the European Union. Recent surveys show that
online security is of great concern to many consumers. The BBB
Code is based on the principles of truthful and accurate
communications, disclosure, information practices and security,
customer satisfaction, and protecting children.
(E-Commerce Times, 25 October 2000)

INTEGRATED IT
Psychologists and anthropologists at the University of Melbourne
are studying how residents of Melbourne's new Williams Bay
planned community react to living in a neighborhood of fully
integrated information technology. The design-build team Key4IT,
a joint venture from three separate companies, has nearly finished
the construction of the sold-out community of 62 units. When
residents occupy their new homes, they will find themselves
linked online to the builder, their utilities, and their
neighbors. The Key4IT plan consists of three parts. First, it
is a project extranet for the design-build team and its
customers. The second part is the wired home. Residents will be
able to control nearly every appliance and utility through
computers. Finally, residents will be able to participate with
each other in neighborhood watch and other programs through a
community-wide link. Several design-builders in the U.S. are
already considering using Key4IT in their projects.
(Design-Build, October 2000)

TECHNICIAN, HEAL THYSELF IS FIRST LESSON AT HACKER U
Computer security classes that teach students hacking techniques
to help them understand potential threats to their systems are
becoming increasingly popular. Foundstone, for example, offers
an Ultimate Hacking class that helps students break into their
own systems to identify weaknesses. The class shows students how
to exploit existing security flaws in popular software and to
identify open access ports into the network. In addition,
Foundstone director of training Dane Skagen offers advice on
guessing master passwords, demonstrates how to obtain password
files in transit, and demonstrates software such as L0phtCrack
that decrypts passwords. Foundstone's class also teaches
students to deactivate intrusion-detection software. Ernst &
Young and Internet Security Systems also offer classes that teach
hacking skills.
(Los Angeles Times, 26 October 2000)

NO PRIVACY FOR USER OF SCHOOL COMPUTERS
Attorney Dorothy M. Bollinger warns that students in public
school districts have no right to privacy when using a
district-provided e-mail account. Bollinger suggests that
schools need to do a better job communicating this fact to
students, who may not realize their e-mails and Internet use
can be legally accessed by school officials at any time.
Bollinger also brings up the problem of protecting the privacy
of student records on the Internet, as schools are legally
mandated to keep student information confidential unless a
parent gives permission to release it. Data mining by private
concerns has clashed with the privacy of student records,
although the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act does
require that Web sites culling personal information about
children under the age of 13 first get parental consent.
Bollinger states that most school districts want parental
permission to place student photos on the Web, and normally do
not post students' addresses, full names, or other personally
identifying information online.
(Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 October 2000)

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Subject: [BPR] - Report of US plan to offer Arafat mini-state
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:41:55 -0400

Report of US plan to offer Arafat an instant mini-state

Special report: Israel and the Middle East

Brian Whitaker in Jerusalem Saturday October 28, 2000

The US president, Bill Clinton, will propose a Palestinian mini-state as a temporary way out of the current Middle East violence, an Israeli newspaper reported yesterday.

Under the American plan, the Israelis and Palestinians would agree to the declaration of a state covering the territories currently controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

"The sides would also agree on a mechanism for continued negotiations after the statehood declaration, with the objective of reaching a final-status agreement," the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said.

Citing American sources, the paper said Mr Clinton would present his plan at separate meetings in Washington with the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, and the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, around November 16. There had earlier been speculation that Mr Arafat would declare a Palestinian state unilaterally on November 15.

The Americans have cautioned both sides against unilateral moves. Mr Clinton has made clear that the US would not recognise a unilaterally declared Palestinian state. He has also warned Mr Barak not to contemplate steps such as annexing land where Jewish settlements have situated themselves, the paper added.

In the occupied West Bank yesterday, Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians, witnesses said. Another was killed on the Gaza border near Erez.

In the West Bank, Israeli forces used tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and, in some cases, live rounds as demonstrators threw stones in another "day of rage". At Qalqilya, one man was killed by an Israeli bullet in the stomach. Two others died from bullets in the chest at Tulkarm and Ramallah, hospital sources said.

Yesterday's violence brought the death toll during the past month to at least 137 people, all but eight of them Arabs.

In the Jewish West Bank settlement of Efrat, the main synagogue was vandalised overnight. It was flooded with water, and swastikas and slogans were spray-painted on the walls in Arabic and Hebrew.

The mayor, Eitan Golan, said security at the settlement, between Jerusalem and Hebron, must be improved. "Today they spray paint. Tomorrow they could spray gunfire," he said.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army was said to be on higher alert along its borders with Lebanon and Syria in case of attacks by Hizbullah guerrillas.

Brigadier-General Ron Kitrey, said the army had barred civilians from the Hermon and Dov mountains in the Golan Heights and taken "extra measures" along the frontier with Lebanon in recent weeks. He said the measures had been taken to stop the Lebanese border from "coming to life".

Meanwhile, Israel's army radio said that four policemen and an officer were being investigated for the alleged beating of Thabet Abbas Aasi, a Palestinian who was photographed waving blood-drenched hands to a baying crowd outside Ramallah police station.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/forum/leadstory2.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Mobile phone guns seized
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:44:16 -0400

SATURDAY OCTOBER 28 2000

Mobile phone guns seized

FROM DAVID LISTER IN BRUSSELS

HANDGUNS made to look like mobile phones and activated by tapping a
button on the keypad are among a stockpile of deadly gadgets seized by
police after being smuggled into The Netherlands from Yugoslavia.

The special Arrow unit of the Dutch police disclosed yesterday that it
had seized eight of the “shooting phones” in raids on five Amsterdam
addresses during the past three weeks. It also found 29 guns disguised
as key rings.

Cees Rameau, a spokesman for the Amsterdam police, said that each of the
mobile phones, clearly intended to be used at close range, contained
four .22 calibre bullets. “For each shot, you have to press one of the
numbers on the keypad. If you didn´t know they were guns, you wouldn´t
suspect anything,” he said.

Although police confirmed that most of the weapons had come from
Yugoslavia, they did not know for whom they were intended. Mr Rameau
said that five men and one woman had been arrested, including two from
Yugoslavia, one from Croatia and one from Turkey.

At one address in west Amsterdam, police seized 28 key-ring guns, 26lb
of explosives, a machinegun, a pistol, a revolver, 2,000 bullets and 20
hand grenades.

Police also discovered 19lb of heroin, a stash of fake Dutch banknotes
and blank identification papers.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,26320,00.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Clinton faces questions on Vietnam trip
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:48:02 -0400

Clinton faces questions on
Vietnam trip

DIPLOMACY: Speculation mounts on whether the
president will offer an apology for the war.

October 27, 2000

By MARK McDONALD
Knight Ridder Newspapers

     HANOI - A month from now in Hanoi, as one of his final
     foreign-policy moves, will President Clinton apologize for the
     Vietnam War?

     Will he tour the "Hanoi Hilton," the notorious old prison where U.S.
     pilots were tortured? Will he visit Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum? Will
     he talk publicly about human-rights abuses, the failures of
     communism and Hanoi's restrictions on the Internet?

     These are some of the politically charged questions that Clinton will
     face before he pays an official four-day visit to Vietnam in
     November.

It will be the first such trip by a U.S. president since 1969, when
President Nixon visited South Vietnam during the war.

U.S. diplomats and Vietnam scholars generally think it unlikely that
Clinton will offer a full-blown apology about the war.

     Such a move would outrage many ex-soldiers, veterans groups and
     conservatives, in part because Clinton did not serve in the armed
     forces and, as a college student, he protested against the war.

     "I would not be surprised if he did try to make a politically correct
     apology - that is, short on the 'We were wrong' and long on the
     need for healing and reconciliation," said Zachary Abuza, a
     Vietnam expert and professor of political science at Simmons
     College in Boston.

     "When Clinton is off the campaign trail, he's at his best in the role of
     a reconciler. I think he really does want to close the book on
     America's Vietnam policy."

     The president also might use his trip to publicly encourage any
     moderate, pro-Western forces within the Vietnamese government
     and the Communist Party.

     A party congress is scheduled for the spring, and it's clearly in U.S.
     interests to keep the political and economic hard-liners from
     grabbing too many levers of power.

     Clinton has told friends and colleagues that he has very much
     wanted to visit Vietnam before leaving office, and Vietnam will be a
     notable part of his presidential legacy. Clinton "opened up" the
     staunchly communist country, lifting a U.S. trade embargo in 1994
     and normalizing diplomatic relations the next year.

     Then in July, after four years of negotiations, the former enemies
     signed a first-ever trade agreement that will open the U.S. market
     to Vietnamese exports while eventually dismantling many barriers
     that protect Vietnam's socialist economy.

     Clinton is expected to arrive in Hanoi on Nov. 16, spend the next
     two days in the capital, then make a stop in Hue, in central
     Vietnam, en route to Ho Chi Minh City. He is expected to spend
     two days in the former Saigon, which today serves as the country's
     main economic engine.

     Substantive talks and technical meetings will be on the Clinton
     team's agenda, and the president is expected to meet publicly with
     each member of the country's ruling troika: President Tran Duc
     Luong, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai and Le Kha Phieu, the
     general-secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party.

     The main topic will be the implementation of the new bilateral trade
     agreement. The trade deal, which still must be approved by the
     U.S. Congress, does not cover several sectors important to U.S.
     businesses, primarily textiles and air transport.

Several other issues:

     Diplomatic sources in Hanoi say the president will visit an
     excavation site where the U.S. military is searching for the body of
     an American pilot missing from the war. A total of 1,514 U.S.
     servicemen are missing in action in Vietnam.

     The president also is expected to visit an Internet cafe, where he
     will talk with some young Vietnamese. The government tightly
     controls Internet usage, and all five service providers are
     state-owned.

     Human Rights Watch and other groups have urged Clinton to press
     Vietnamese officials on political and religious suppression, although
     it's unlikely that Vietnamese authorities will allow him to visit any of
     the country's prominent dissidents and religious leaders.

     It's not yet known whether the president will visit any war-related
     sites, but the so-called Hanoi Hilton is likely to be high on his list.
     U.S. Ambassador Pete Peterson, a former Air Force pilot, was
     imprisoned there after his plane was shot down over Hanoi. So
     was John McCain, now a Republican senator from Arizona, who
     was a Navy flier in the war. Vietnamese independence fighters
     were imprisoned and tortured during France's colonial rule.

     There has been a long diplomatic impasse over Agent Orange, the
     defoliant sprayed heavily by U.S. forces during the war. Both sides
     have taken strong stands on the issue, with the United States
     denying any responsibility until some hard scientific evidence can be
     found that links Agent Orange exposure with various tumors and
     birth defects.

     The matter has been a major sticking point in the U.S.-Vietnam
     relationship, and Clinton would score a real diplomatic
     breakthrough with the announcement of a bilateral research
     program. It will certainly be discussed, aides say.

     Although Ho Chi Minh is a revered figure in Vietnam, he is reviled
     by most Vietnamese-Americans, and Clinton's advisers might
     suggest he skip a visit to the former president's Soviet-style
     mausoleum in Hanoi.

     The mausoleum will be officially closed during Clinton's visit
     because Russian scientists will be performing maintenance work on
     Ho's embalmed body.

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http://www.ocregister.com/news/world/27krusvietcci.shtml

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Subject: [BPR] - In Iran, temporary marriages give lovers legitimacy
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:55:21 -0400

In Iran, temporary marriages give lovers legitimacy

Conservatives and feminists alike support unusual
contract unions

Friday, October 27, 2000

By ELAINE SCIOLINO
THE NEW YORK TIMES

TEHRAN, Iran -- For five years, Maryam, a hairdresser, and Karim, a home
appliance salesman, carried on a love affair, meeting secretly at the
house where Karim lived with his parents. The young couple's
relationship was officially sanctioned by Iran's Islamic Republic, even
though unmarried couples who have sex or even date and hold hands can be
arrested, fined, even flogged. That is because Maryam and Karim were
married.

Sort of.

They had a valid contract of temporary marriage.

Iran is a country where rules are fluid, where people of all classes and
degrees of religiosity pride themselves on finding loopholes in the
Islamic system. Temporary marriage, or sigheh, is one of the oddest and
biggest.

The practice of temporary marriage is said to have existed during the
lifetime of Muhammad, who is believed to have recommended it to his
companions and soldiers. The majority Sunni sect in Islam banned it; the
minority Shiite sect did not. Historically, the practice was used most
frequently in Shiite- dominated Iran by pilgrims in Shiite shrine cities
like Meshed and Qum. Pilgrims who traveled had sexual needs, the
argument went. Temporary marriage was a legal way to satisfy them.

Maryam and Karim chose temporary marriage for a practical reason. "We
went out a lot together, and I didn't want to get into trouble," Maryam,
31, said. "We wanted to have documents so that if we were stopped on the
street we could prove we weren't doing anything illegal."

Their "marriage" ritual was simple. Even though they could have sealed
the contract privately, they went to a cleric in a marriage registry
office in Tehran with their photographs and identity papers.

Maryam had been forced into a loveless marriage at 15 to an opium-
smoking, womanizing factory owner nearly two decades her senior who
divorced her nine years later; so she brought along her divorce decree.
If she had been a virgin, she would have needed her father's permission
to marry.

The couple could have gotten married for as short a time as a few
minutes or as long as 99 years. They could have specified whether and
how much money Maryam would be paid as a kind of dowry, or how much time
they would spend together. Instead, they decided on a straightforward
contract of six months, which they renewed again and again.

What was unusual about Maryam's situation was her willingness to talk
about it. Despite its religious imprimatur, temporary marriage has never
been popular in Iran. Tradition dictates that women be virgins when they
marry; even when they are not, they should pretend to be.

Many Iranians regard sigheh as little more than legalized prostitution,
especially since it is an advertisement that a woman is not a virgin. In
some circles, even illicit sex is considered better -- if it can be kept
secret.

But now an odd mix of feminists, clerics and officials have begun to
discuss sigheh as a possible solution to the problems of Iran's youth.
An extraordinarily large number of young people (about 65 percent of the
population is under 25), combined with high unemployment, means that
more couples are putting off marriage because they cannot afford it.
Sigheh legally wraps premarital sex in an Islamic cloak.

"First, relations between young men and women will become a little bit
freer," said Shahla Sherkat, editor of Zanan, a feminist monthly.
"Second, they can satisfy their sexual needs. Third, sex will become
depoliticized. Fourth, they will use up some of the energy they are
putting into street demonstrations. Finally, our society's obsession
with virginity will disappear."

Even conservatives like Muhammad Javad Larijani, a Berkeley-educated
former legislator, favor temporary marriage. As Larijani put it: "What's
wrong with temporary marriage? You've got a variation of it in
California. It's called a partnership. Better to have it legal than have
it done clandestinely in the streets."

Though most of Iran's reformist publications have closed in recent
months, newspapers and magazines that remain have begun to discuss the
issue. A recent front-page article in a weekly tabloid, World of
Medicine, about a chador-wearing, AIDS-infected prostitute who took
pleasure in infecting her clients, included a recommendation on avoiding
infection: take a temporary wife.

Advocates of temporary marriage also point out that children of such
unions are legitimate and entitled to a share of the father's
inheritance.

More rarely, unrelated couples have used non-sexual "temporary marriage"
in order to live or work in close quarters.

But the popular response to such a sweeping societal solution has not
been favorable. After "The Hope of Youth," a weekly, ran an article in
favor of sigheh, readers called and wrote in with scathing attacks.

This is not the first time that people in the Islamic Republic have
tried to promote sigheh. The first person to discuss it openly was none
other than Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani when he was president. In a
sermon in 1990, he called sexual desire a God-given trait. Don't be
"promiscuous like the Westerners," he advocated, but use the God-given
solution of temporary marriage.

http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/iran272.shtml

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Subject: [BPR] - Chinese sell human organs on internet
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:05:24 -0400

Chinese sell human organs on internet
By David Rennie in Beijing

Ethics of organ donation from condemned prisoners - United Network for
Organ Sharing Inside China Today Yangcheng Evening News [in Chinese]

CHINA'S shadowy trade in human organs has moved onto the internet, where
healthy but impoverished Chinese have begun offering to sell body parts
through a network of middle-men.

The web-based trade was exposed by a newspaper from the wealthy
southern province of Guangdong. Yesterday, the Public Health Ministry
refused to comment on reports that it is drafting a law to ban the trade in
human organs and legalise organ donation, both at present in a grey area of
Chinese law.

To date, most outside attention has focused on the alleged sale of organs
from freshly executed Chinese criminals. China has always denied such
sales, saying all donations are "voluntary". But clinics have long been
accused of offering prisoners' organs for sale to wealthy overseas patients,
most of them from Asia.

The Yangcheng Evening News found advertisments on Chinese-language
web sites offering "a kidney from a living human body" and bone marrow.
Another donor wrote: "Cornea from healthy person with sight - urgent sale
due to poverty".

Earlier this year, undercover reporters from Hong Kong were offered livers
from "good, young" executed criminals at the Sun Yat-sen University
Hospital in Guangzhou. Doctors urged the investigators to book an organ
quickly, to take advantage of an execution campaign then under way.

Dr He Xiaoshun, a surgeon from the same hospital, said this week that there
were individuals willing to sell their organs. He said the trade appeared to be
organised by middle-men posing as relatives or friends.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319&rtmo=QxLwQHLR&atm
o=99999999&pg=/et/00/10/28/worgn28.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend Recap (2)-21:30-IST-OCT/28/00
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:11:30 -0400

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Subject: Weekend Recap (2)-21:30-IST-OCT/28/00

BreakingNews-Israel

Weekend Recap (2) – Saturday Night – 21:30-IST
(IsraelWire-10/28) Following is a recap of attacks that occurred on
Friday, October 27 and Saturday, October 28, 2000.

JUDEA & SAMARIA

1) BODY DISCOVERED IN RAMALLAH AREA
PLO Authority (PA) military forces on Saturday morning transferred the
charred remains of a body to Israeli authorities. Israel Radio reports
the persons was shot to death and placed inside the car and set ablaze.
Police have stated with caution that it is believed the remains are that
of an Israeli. The body of the person was found on Friday between
Bituniya and Ramallah in an area “A”, under total PA control. The body
was reportedly discovered inside a car bearing Israeli license plates.
Police believe the incident to be terrorist in nature although
‘criminal´ motives are being investigated at this time as well.

2) ELON MOREH – Shots fired at Jewish residents resulting in shootout
between IDF forces and terrorists on Friday morning. No injuries among
IDF forces or Israeli civilians.

3) KADIM – Shots fired at the northern Samarian community on Saturday
night. No reports of injuries. Several homes were hit by gunfire.

4) KABLAN – Security personnel in the Benjamin Regional Council
community of Eli reported shots fired from the Arab village of Kablan.
No injuries.

5) RAMALLAH – Shots fired. No injuries.

6) JENIN - Shots fired. No injuries.

7) TUL KAREM - Shots fired. No injuries.

8) EL-HADER- A border policeman was lightly injured in an attack in the
Bethlehem area on Saturday. No details at this time.

9) JERICHO – Shots fired on Saturday night into the community of Vered
Yericho. No injuries. · Shots fired into the community on Friday.
· Three Israelis were injured on Saturday night in stone-throwing
attacks. · Shots fired on Saturday night at soldiers stationed at the
northern and southern entrances to Jericho as well as a position near
the Jericho bypass road. Israel Radio reports shots are coming from a
home near the PA´s “Oasis” casino.

10) SHADMA BASE- Shots were fired into the IDF base. No injuries
reported.

11) ITAMAR RESIDENTS ON PA WANTED LIST - Yona Ze´evi and Azri Tovi,
residents of the Samarian community of Itamar, are on the PA´s wanted
list. Colonel Gabril Rajoub, head of the PA´s Preventive Security Force,
has stated publicly that he intends to apprehend the two and place them
on trial for the murder of a Bet Fouriq resident. The two recently fired
their weapons in self-defense, killing one and wounding seven. After
several days in custody, Israel Police released them and indicated
criminal charges would not be filed, adding the shooting appeared
justifiable. In addition, Israel Police point out that the PA has not
cooperated with the investigation, and refused to permit an autopsy on
the body.

Members of Knesset affiliated with the right-wing, have called upon the
government to provide the two with around-the-clock security.

12) Moshe Atiya and Alex Gerevshad, residents of the Samarian community
of Eli, are being held without bail and were indicted for manslaughter.

On Wednesday, Oct 11, Eli resident Alon Zagori was killed after being
struck by an Arab vehicle at Eli Junction. Police investigators arrested
the suspects after an eyewitness, another Eli resident, told them the
two were throwing rocks at Arab cars. According to police, as a result,
the Arab motorist was struck in the head, veered out of control, and
killed Zagori.

Khaled Ibrahim Madani, 35, from Nablus, was critically injured and is
recuperating in Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem. Police have
indicated that additional arrests in the case are expected.

GAZA
13) EREZ - Three Egged buses in a parking lot near the Erez Crossing
were set ablaze. · Firebombs were thrown at the Erez industrial area.

14) RAFIAH – Soldiers attacked with stones and firebombs. No reported
injuries.

15) GUSH KATIF – Soldiers attacked with rocks. No injuries.

16) KFAR DAROM - Soldiers attacked with rocks, bottles, firebombs and
tires were set ablaze. No injuries.

PA officials report over twenty persons injured in clashes with Israeli
security forces and at least three are in critical condition.

Hamas and Hizbullah leaders are calling for the renewal of suicide bus
bombings throughout Israel. Hamas has also declared every Friday “Rage
Day” and called for massive attacks against Israeli security forces and
Yesha residents every Friday afternoon following prayer services.

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Subject: [BPR] - Zenit items (10/27/00)
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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:31:09 -0400

POPE REITERATES CALL FOR STATUS OF HOLY SITES
Wants Jerusalem's Shrines Protected

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 27, 2000 (ZENIT.org). John Paul II reiterated his call
Thursday for an "internationally guaranteed status" for the holy places in
Jerusalem.

The Vatican has spoken about this status for years, a formula that in no
way, however, proposes "the internationalization of the city of Jerusalem."

The Pope made his appeal when he received Fouad Aoun, 60, the new
ambassador from Lebanon to the Vatican.

Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, Vatican secretary for relations with states,
explained that what "we ask for is that in the future the shrines of the three
religions be able to conserve their unique and sacred character, thanks to
international guarantees, so that in future no one of the sides can claim
exclusive control for itself over these sacred places of the city."

On Sept. 18, when John Paul II received Yosef Neville Lamdan, Israel's new
ambassador to the Vatican, he explained that the international guarantee for
Jerusalem should guarantee not only "the conservation of the cultural and
religious heritage of the city," but contribute to a just and stable peace.

The Holy Father expressed his concern to the Lebanese ambassador, and
described the "present juncture" in the Mideast as "particularly disquieting."

"The definitive stability of peace and security in the region seems to
recede," the Pope said. "One cannot but see that recourse to violence
always leads to greater damages for all, increased anger, and greater
difficulty in the possibility of reconciliation.

"The Holy Land, where God has manifested himself and spoken to men,
must become the place par excellence where peace and justice flower.
Jerusalem must be a symbol of strong unity, peace and reconciliation for the
whole of humanity."

The Pontiff requested the whole Lebanese community "to continue with
determination in the efforts to affirm increasingly fraternal relations" between
Catholics and Muslims, in order "to construct a new Lebanon capable of
overcoming misunderstandings and of seeking prosperity for all its
inhabitants." ZE00102701

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HURCH DENIES CHRISTIANS FLEEING PALESTINIAN AREAS

JERUSALEM, OCT. 27, 2000 (ZENIT.org).- The Latin Patriarchate attacked a
Jerusalem Post article reporting that hundreds of Christian Arab families, as
well as some Moslem families, have left the region with the help of the Israeli
Foreign Ministry and foreign embassies because of the recent violence in
Palestinian Authority areas, the newspaper reported.

In a letter to the Post, Father Raed Abusahlia, chancellor of the Latin
Patriarchate in Jerusalem, said that "after checking with various concerned
parties, especially the mentioned embassies and among our Christian
communities,
we are confident that the mentioned report included a lot of fabricated
information ... no one reported to us any foreign intervention to 'help'
Christian families flee."

Israeli officials, however, expressed concern over the fate of Christian
Arabs dwelling in Palestinian Authority-controlled areas, who do not hold
dual citizenship and are unable to leave, the Post said Thursday.

Shlomo Dror, spokesman for the coordinator of the activities in the
territories, said Wednesday that officials hope they will not become the
focus off attacks, especially after the Palestinian Authority media
broadcast calls to harm them. "The majority of Christian Arabs yearn for
peace," he told the Post.

Dror denied the patriarchate's charges and mentioned several documents he
had received from the Foreign Ministry concerning Christian families from
Bethlehem and Gaza who left for Canada 10 days ago, the Post said.
ZE00102720

ZENIT, October 27, 2000 - DAILY DISPATCH - The World Seen From Rome

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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:31:09 -0400

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Subject: [imra-l] Document: Palestinian Authority Cannot Prosecute Israelis
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Document: Palestinian Authority Cannot Prosecute Israelis

Aaron Lerner Date: 28 October, 2000

PA West Bank Preventive Security Head Col. Jibril Rajoub threatened
at a Thursday press conference with Israeli reporters and again in a
television interview on Israeli Television Channel 2 that the PA
would seize, try and punish two Israeli settlers who shot and killed
a Palestinian in self-defense when an axe wielding mob charged them.
(Though the mob carried axes, they claimed later that they were in
the area to harvest olives. Axes are not used to harvest olives.)
Israeli police released the two Israelis after an investigation.

For some reason, none of the Israeli reporters pointed out to Col.
Rajoub that under the agreements signed between the PA and Israel,
the PA does not have the authority to take any action against
Israelis in criminal cases.

In contrast, Israel can take action against Palestinians who act
against Israelis.

The relevant section of the Interim Agreement follows:

THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN INTERIM AGREEMENT ON THE WEST BANK AND THE
GAZA STRIP September 28, 1995

Annex IV Protocol Concerning Legal Affairs

ARTICLE I Criminal Jurisdiction
. . .

2. Israel has sole criminal jurisdiction over the following offenses:
. . . b. offenses committed in the Territory by Israelis.

. . .

7. a. Without prejudice to the criminal jurisdiction of the Council,
and with due regard to the principle that no person can be tried
twice for the same offense, Israel has, in addition to the above
provisions of this Article, criminal jurisdiction in accordance with
its domestic laws over offenses committed in the Territory against
Israel or an Israeli.

b. In exercising its criminal jurisdiction in accordance with
subparagraph a. above, activities of the Israeli military forces
related to subparagraph a. above shall be as set out in the Agreement
and Annex I thereto.

+ + +

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
Tel 972-9-7604719/Fax 972-3-548-0092
INTERNET ADDRESS: imra@netvision.net.il
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Website: http://www.imra.org.il

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