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From: "Alistair Perkins"
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:48:03 +1300
Jan 9
From Alistair Perkins
This was reported on our TV1 channel nationwide. The Korean Pastor was
formerly with AOG, and according to local sources has not been with AOG for
around nine months. An Auckland AOG Pastor said on TV that we should always
pray in such cases and for resurrection. However he distanced AOG from
this incident. It was like having a foot in two camps.
This incident is one more evidence of the current new age charismatic
deception running rampant around the world, including New Zealand. The
Scriptures do not teach that we should attempt to manipulate God.
Alistair
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'Demon' woman dies during exorcism
08jan01
http://theadvertiser.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,1587809%
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WELLINGTON: A woman with a skin pigment problem likened to that of
pop star Michael Jackson has died after an exorcism.
The pastor of the Auckland religious group involved in the exorcism
says her death is a "miracle" and "God's will".
The decomposing body of the Korean woman, 37, was found by police in
an Auckland home on December 15 and detectives are investigating the
death and whether any charges - such as manslaughter - should
be laid.
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Subject: [bprlist] Church apology over priest's naked pose
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Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 09:10:39 -0000
Monday, January 8, 2001
Church apology over priest's naked pose
By Ciaran Tierney, in Galway
An apology was read out at all Masses in a Galway city church at the
weekend on behalf of a young priest who posed naked for a charity
calendar which was due to be published next week.
The organisers of the "Bare Shakers 2001" calendar have agreed to
withdraw the photograph of Father Olan Rynn. The calendar was due to
be launched on January 18th. Father Rynn had used a Bible and a
collar to protect his modesty.
The apology and withdrawal of the photograph followed an intervention
by the Bishop of Galway, Dr James McLoughlin, who said he did not
appreciate the type of calendar that was envisaged when he spoke
briefly to Father Rynn about the project some weeks ago.
"Thinking it to be a straightforward fundraising project in aid of
two worthy causes, I gave Father Rynn permission to participate in
the venture," said Bishop McLoughlin in a statement yesterday.
"On reading a report in a local newspaper on Friday afternoon, I was
surprised and dismayed to discover what the content of the calendar
was going to be. As it is clearly inappropriate for a priest to
appear in such a calendar, I immediately approached the promoters of
the project to discuss the matter with them."
The promoters agreed to withdraw the photograph, and an apology was
read out at Masses in Salthill parish at the weekend. Father Rynn, a
curate in Salthill, could not be contacted as he was away on holidays
that had been arranged prior to the controversy.
All proceeds from the calendar, which was the idea of a young mother,
Ms Aileen Dunleavy, are to go to the cerebral palsy charity, Enable
Ireland, and the fight against cancer.
It features 12 photographs of sporting personalities in Galway,
including Olympic oarsman Neville Maxwell and members of the Galway
United and Galwegians teams. Ms Dunleavy said all the photographs
were in good taste.
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Young Israel Condemns Collete Avital's
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:44:47 -0500
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Subject: Young Israel Condemns Collete Avital's Effort to
Disenfranchise American Jews
Young Israel Condemns Collete Avital's Effort to Disenfranchise American
Jews
For Immediate Release: Contact: Yaakov Kornreich (718) 377-1770
National Council of Young Israel
3 West 16 Street - New York, NY 10011 - (212) 929-1525 ext 115 -
www.youngisrael.org
Shlomo Z. Mostofsky, the National President of the National Council
of Young Israel, condemned the remarks of Collete Avital, Prime Minister
Barak's designated campaign spokesperson to the English-speaking community,
as "a blatant attempt to disenfranchise Jews around the world by denying
their legitimate interests in the fate of Jerusalem. She has no right to
deny us the right to express our objections to the proposed compromise of
the ancient, G-d given rights of all Jews to the Temple Mount and the Old
City of Jerusalem. Ms. Avital's latest statements extend the unfortunate
attacks she launched on segments of American Jewry, as Israel's consul
general in New York City during the Rabin-Peres government. She now seeks to
de-legitimize all non-Israeli Jews who hold Jerusalem as sacred and
essential to their Jewish identities."
Last week, Ms. Avital told the press in Israel, "I think it's a
dangerous thing and a precedent that the Jews of the United States, the
chairman and the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organizations, are coming to take part in a political
rally of the opposition against the prime minister. The major Jewish
organizations of the United States of America are supposed to represent and
to speak on behalf of the government of Israel, and they cannot come and
participate in a rally that is political, and is conducted against the prime
minister of Israel. They cannot do it! Or they delegitimize themselves," she
said.
Mostofsky said that, "by her remarks, Ms. Avital has only
delegitimized herself and the government whom she represents by admitting
that the sanctity and unity of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, which had been
a sacrosanct concept for every Israeli government for thirty years, has, for
Prime Minister Barak, become a partisan political issue. Why does she and,
by implication, her candidate, feel threatened by Jews reaffirming the
3000-year-old Jewish claim to the city?
Rabbi Pesach Lerner, Executive Vice President of the National
Council of Young Israel, who participated in the recent Presidents'
Conference meeting that debated the issue of participation in the
non-political pro-Jerusalem demonstration organized by MK Natan Sharansky,
said, "by expressing our support for Jewish rights to the Temple Mount and
all of Jerusalem, we are acting in defense of the heritage of all Jews,
wherever they may live, past present and future. Clearly, with the division
of Jerusalem being a central point in the bridging proposals made by
President Clinton to both Palestinian and Israeli negotiators, now is the
time for all Jews to stand up and speak out in support of an undivided
Jerusalem as the capital of a Jewish State of Israel and as the ancient
birthright of Jews throughout the world since the dawn of Jewish history.
"Ms. Avital continues to polarize and divide American Jewish support
for Israel by her latest partisan and inflammatory remarks. Before the
damage becomes irreversible, we urge her to retract her latest statements,
which are an insult to all Jews around the world who hold Jerusalem to be an
indispensable part of our Jewish identity and heritage," Rabbi Lerner said.
The National Council of Young Israel is the parent organization of
the Young Israel movement, with over 150 member Orthodox synagogues
throughout North America and 60 in Israel.
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Ha'aretz: 150,000-200,000 displaced Israeli Arabs
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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:47:34 -0500
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Subject: Ha'aretz: 150,000-200,000 displaced Israeli Arabs
demand their rights too
Ha'aretz: 150,000-200,000 displaced Israeli Arabs demand their rights too
By Ori Nir Ha'aretz 8 January 2001
Israel's "internal refugees" - Arab citizens of the state who come from
villages that were abandoned in 1948 but who remained in the country -
recently told the Palestinian Authority not to negotiate with Israel in
their name.
They don't want the PA to assume responsibility for their demands to return
to their native homes. Attorney Wakim Wakim, secretary of the National
Council for the Defense of the Rights of Displaced Persons in Israel, said
he and his colleagues are afraid Yasser Arafat will make far-reaching
concessions on the right of return issue.
For this reason, they don't want the PA to incorporate their cases into the
peace talks. Instead, they want the internal refugees themselves to wage
their own legal, public and political struggle within the framework of the
state of Israel.
Wakim said the displaced persons believe they have a better chance of
realizing an internal right of return to their abandoned villages than do
1948 refugees living outside Israel.
As Israeli citizens they can wield all legal tools available to the public.
"The government of Israel should understand if it manages to impose some
sort of quasi-agreement which defuses the question of the right of return,
it will still have to confront our own demands that our rights as citizens
be redeemed."
After the 1993 Oslo accords, the internal refugees decided to divorce their
case from the PLO's political campaign for recognition of the Palestinian
refugees right of return. The Oslo agreement held that discussion of the
right of return should be deferred to final status negotiations.
PLO officials asked this group of displaced Israelis to suspend public
activity on their case. But the delegates rejected the PLO request and
created the National Council to champion their rights as displaced
persons.The National Council is an umbrella organization uniting thirty
local committees of refugees from abandoned villages within Israel.
The Council is legally registered as a non-profit association. Its members
organize activities to strengthen the displaced persons' sense of
identification with their native abandoned villages. These include picnic
outings to village grounds on Independence Day (that Palestinians refer to
as the 1948 "Nakba," or catastrophe), renovation of mosques, churches and
cemeteries, and compiling documentary material on their villages.
After the National Council's last congress at Nazareth in March 2000, the
organization called on the PA not to represent refugee citizens of Israel in
the final status talks. Several weeks ago, as reports grew of an agreement
forming on the refugee issue under which the PA would concede certain right
of return demands in return for sovereign powers on the Temple Mount, the
Council issued a statement to Israel and the PA, reiterating its own demands
on the refugee issue.
These displaced Israeli citizens number 150,000-200,000 are a mere fraction
of the world's Palestinian refugees. But with regard to the Israeli Arab
population of about 1.8 million, they are a significant sector. In some
Galilee communities they are a majority.
About half of Nazareth's Arab residents are internal refugees and their
descendants and more than half of Umm al Fahm's residents belong to this
group. In many towns and villages, the displaced persons live in separate
neighborhoods, segregated according to their original native villages.
In Arrabe for instance, natives of Mia'ara, an abandoned Western Galilee
village, set up their own neighborhood after 1948. Similarly, refugees from
the Zipporiah village (on whose ruins today's Zippori community was built)
created their own neighborhood in nearby Nazareth.
According to the Hebrew University's Hillel Cohen, the author of a study on
displaced persons in Israel, refugees from 64 out of 162 villages abandoned
in the north in 1948 remained in Israel.
Members of the National Council say that if the state of Israel seeks to
resolve the refugee issue within the final status framework, it should start
by addressing the demands of displaced persons who are its own citizens.
"We view our own problem as being part and parcel of Israel's experience,"
Wakim says. "We don't want a situation to arise in which we end up being
forgotten, and not included in an arrangement on the refugee problem. On the
other hand, if such an arrangement is one in which the Palestinian
leadership makes concessions about our basic rights, we wouldn't want any
linkage between the diplomatic negotiations and our struggle as Israeli
citizens.
"As far as we're concerned," he said, "if the state of Israel really seeks a
solution based on historic compromise, such a solution has to be a painful
one [for it]. A side which caused trauma in the past to hundreds of
thousands of people, turning them into refugees, needs to understand how to
pay a price."
In dealings with Israel Arab public, one problem the National Council faced
was Wakim's own reputation as a political radical. Many internal refugees
would rather not be represented by a man or organization of radical image,
whose declared goals are uncompromising - demanding a complete return to all
abandoned lands and houses.
Yet even moderate members of this displaced population are worried about
being neglected when a final status accord is signed with the Palestinians.
Muhammad Mahajanah, a restaurant owner and resident of Baka al Garbiyeh,
whose parents were expelled from a northern Galilee village in 1948 and then
settled in Umm al Fahm, says it would be absurd if the government reached a
compromise on refugees living outside Israel, and not with those who stayed
and became citizens of the state.
"Israel makes peace with the Palestinians - with us, it needs to forge
justice," he says. "We are citizens of the state. We remained here. We
didn't abandon it. Don't we have a right to compensation for the injustice?"
The restaurant owner says he and his family members long ago dropped their
dream of returning to their native homes. "The last one to talk about that
dream was my grandmother, who died in 1958," Mahajanah says. "We talk about
making peace - but the state should acknowledge the injustice done to us."
Other Israeli Arab concerns
The refugee issue isn't the only topic thrown up by Israel-PA talks of
serious interest to Israeli Arabs. Several other matters raised in the talks
have stirred public debate in the community. These include:
+ Family reunification. If family reunification is allowed under an
Israeli-Palestinian accord, it can be assumed that Arab citizens of the
state will issue reunification requests. Many Israeli Arabs are wondering
what criteria will in an agreement's reunification clause - many have
relations in refugee camps in neighboring countries.
+ Land transfer. Many Bedouin in the south oppose any transfer of Negev
lands to the PA in a swap for Israel's annexation of certain West Bank
areas.
+ Open borders and commercial ties. This is important to Israeli Arabs
because of family and commercial networks they maintain with people living
beyond the Green Line.
+ Absorption of refugees. Where will (non-Israeli) refugees be absorbed? How
much compensation will they get? What will the government do to help
integrate them into Israel?
Many Israeli Arabs have been asking these sorts of questions in response to
reports on the bridging proposals U.S. President Bill Clinton drafted to
resolve the right of return and general refugee problem
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Ha'aretz: Arafat's Fatah and PA behind 70% of terror,
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:48:14 -0500
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Subject: Ha'aretz: Arafat's Fatah and PA behind 70% of
terror, PA knows source of 80% of attacks but doing
nothing
Ha'aretz: Arafat's Fatah and PA behind 70% of terror, PA knows source of 80%
of attacks but doing nothing
'Signs of anarchy' appearing in PA, says security source
By Amos Harel Ha'aretz Military Correspondent Ha'aretz 8 January 2001
A senior Israeli security source said yesterday that even if Palestinian
Chairman Yasser Arafat decides to end attacks against Israeli targets, it
may take as long as "six months" before the Palestinian Authority is able to
reassert its full control over the territories.
According to Israeli security assessments, the Palestinian Authority will
have little difficulty bringing the Fatah activists and those belonging to
the various Palestinian security organizations under control.
However, more independent cells and members of the radical Islamic
organizations, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, will require months of intensive
effort to limit their activities.
The senior Israeli security source described the current situation in the
Palestinian Authority as showing "signs of anarchy," where the central
authority is unable to assert its will, particularly in the West Bank.
Security assessments suggest that more than 80 percent of those involved in
attacks against Israeli targets are known to the Palestinian Authority,
however no efforts are being made to arrest them. Furthermore, Israeli
sources say, the security cooperation between the two sides is effectively
"dead."
As a way of compensating for the lack of cooperation, the Israel Defense
Forces and the Shin Bet security services are increasing their intelligence
gathering efforts.
Since the outbreak of the violence in the territories, in late September
2000, intelligence has been easier to gather.
The reason for this stems from the fact that most of the activities are
being carried out by members of Fatah, which is a lot less compartmentalized
than the Hamas or Islamic Jihad cells and is therefore easier to penetrate.
Israeli intelligence assessments argue that there is a noticeable sense of
fatigue in the Palestinian street from the ongoing confrontation with
Israel, and especially as a result of the severe economic impact it is
having.
It is however doubtful whether the silent majority will come out against a
continuation of the attacks against Israelis.
According to the defense source, this fatigue does not seem to detract from
the eagerness of various organizations in the Palestinian Authority to
participate in attacks against soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces and
settlers.
Significant among the groups involved are the preventive security apparatus
in the Gaza Strip, and the General Intelligence, Military Intelligence and
Force 17 groups.
Israel holds information on the involvement of senior members of these
organizations in attacks against Israeli targets, although no direct
associations are made to the three top Palestinian security figures: Jibril
Rajoub, Muhammed Dahlan and Amin al-Hindi.
More than 70 percent of the attacks were carried out by members of Fatah or
the security organizations, and the rest by the opposition groups, Hamas and
Islamic Jihad.
The Islamic radicals released from Palestinian Authority prisons at the
start of the violence are involved significantly in attacks against Israel.
According to Shin Bet information, Dr. Thabet Thabet, who was the Fatah's
secretary general in the Tul Karm area, and was shot dead by Israeli snipers
two weeks ago, was directly involved in planning and directing a number of
attacks against Israel.
The senior Israeli defense source says that Thabet played a direct role in
directing armed Fatah teams to carry out attacks against Israeli vehicles.
Security sources claim that Thabet was responsible for dozens of shooting
incidents and the injury of IDF soldiers and settlers.
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Ha'aretz: IDF builds roads, fortifications
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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:49:47 -0500
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Subject: Ha'aretz: IDF builds roads, fortifications, to
increase security for settlement blocs near Green Line and
Green Line
Ha'aretz: IDF builds roads, fortifications, to increase security for
settlement blocs near Green Line and Green Line
IDF's Intifada tactics amount to separation - Green Line fortifications
start to look like Lebanon border
By Amos Harel Ha'aretz 8 January 2001
The destruction being wrought by the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip
has been at the center of media coverage in recent weeks. Trees were
uprooted, agricultural fields destroyed, houses were razed on both sides of
roads leading to settlements.
However, a short visit to the area between Ariel and Qalqilyah in the West
Bank shows that by comparison, what the IDF has been doing in Gaza is mere
child's play. Inside three months, Israel has completely altered the
topography of the region.
This is the season of the bulldozer in the territories. Day and night they
charge around at full speed, working on several sites simultaneously.
According to IDF charts, the area of Qalqilyah - including territory inside
the Tapuah Junction in the east to the Green Line in the west, and from
Kedumim in the north to Beit Aryeh in the south - is the area in the
territories most densely populated by Israelis, excluding the outskirts of
Jerusalem.
There are dozens of settlements inside this territory. Some of them, like
Ariel and Beit Aryeh, will probably remain under Israeli control as part of
some future agreement with the Palestinian Authority. The fate of others,
such as Kedumim, is uncertain.
A few days after the outbreak of the Al Aqsa Intifada in October, the
Brigade Commander of the area, Colonel Eitan Avraham, assisted by the Public
Works Authority, embarked on carving out a new trans-Samaria highway, to the
south of the old one. The road was under construction for two years, but in
a few days Avraham completed a route to enable the residents of Ariel and
the environs to travel to the Green Line without harm. Immediately the new
road was opened, the old one that carried tens of thousands of vehicles
daily was blocked by a dirt wall, just east of the settlement of Elkana. In
practice these actions have led to Israel "annexing" nearby settlements,
such as Ornit.
The checkpoint at Ornit, on the Green Line, was removed, one of five such
positions the IDF moved eastward, as Ha'aretz reported yesterday. The road
from Elkana to the Green Line is open only to Israelis and passage for
Palestinians from Bidiya and Masha is now blocked.
Soon, a new six-lane highway reaching the Tapuah junction will enable
settlers to reach the Dan region in thirty minutes without seeing a single
Palestinian. A direct road linking Alfei Menasheh with the Green Line will
also be completed, south of Qalqilyah. Dirt roads that will become asphalt
roads at a later date are being readied to connect settlements to the east.
We have not yet considered the changes in the character of IDF outposts.
Anyone who spent any time in southern Lebanon will know the image of Karkom,
which guarded the northern border. Similar changes are being implemented
along the whole Green Line. At least seven positions have been moved inside
the territories - Ornit, Rentis (near Rosh Ha'ayin), between Kiryat Sefer
and Maccabim, Hossan-Beitar (near Bethlehem), Tna-Omarim, and Shma' (south
of Hebron). These changes will enable Israelis to travel between most of the
settlements along the Green Line, without any contact or friction with
Palestinians.
One of the immediate effects, as Elkana residents report, is the value of
their homes rising compared with homes in other settlements.
However, the changes are also the first signs of a separation plan being put
in place. This is not being carried out on the political initiative of local
IDF commanders, but three months into the Intifada, the IDF is "dressing-up"
its tactics as strategy.
Senior military sources do admit the changes on the ground have long-term
implications.
This is how the IDF prepares for the eventuality of being given the order,
from the political authority, to unilaterally separate Israel from the
Palestinian Authority. Bypass roads, checkpoints moving eastward, blocked
Palestinian roads - all in the same direction, separation.
The IDF's defensive preparations are also being built on the principle of
"blocks of territory." The settlements have been divided along "block" lines
and "regional operational commands." These are linked in a regional
defensive network which supplemented by settlement residents.
More than a year ago, the IDF adopted the term "chain link." This refers to
a series of ground based actions prepared in anticipation of an all-out
confrontation with the Palestinians. These are broader than mere topographic
alterations and involve "biting" strategic positions out of Area A that is
under full PA control, in case of total conflagration in the territories.
In the mean time, attacks against Israeli targets in the Qalqilyah area are
relatively few. This may be a partial explanation for the relative restraint
settlers in the area have shown so far.
Another reason may be a sense that the IDF is in relative control of here
and its efforts to improve the security and the conditions under which the
settlers live are plainly evident.
It is doubtful if the quiet will endure much longer. Another deterioration
of things in the territories will bring renewed Palestinian efforts to carry
attacks along the roads, perhaps even inside the Green Line.
Israeli towns and villages along the Green line - including Kochav Yair,
where both the prime minister and the chief of staff live - are exposed to
attack from Qalqilyah and the environs. Pushing the Palestinians into the
corner will almost certainly result in a number of attacks from their side.
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Ha'aretz: PA insists in Cairo no security before
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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:50:57 -0500
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Subject: Ha'aretz: PA insists in Cairo no security before
Israel stops security measures
Ha'aretz: PA insists in Cairo no security before Israel stops security
measures
By Amos Harel, Aluf Benn and Daniel Sobelman Ha'aretz Correspondents
Ha'aretz 8 January 2001
A four-way meeting on security opened in Cairo yesterday involving the heads
of the Israeli, Palestinian, American and Egyptian security services, but
Israeli officials said they doubt it will result in any actual improvement
in the security situation.
The meeting got off to an discouraging start when Mohammed Dahlan, who heads
the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Service in Gaza, said that
the PA would consider acceding to Israel's security requests - including the
resumption of Israeli-Palestinian security coordination - only after Israel
had fulfilled all of the PA's own demands. The PA wants Israel to withdraw
its forces in the territories, end the closure and stop its "aggression"
against the Palestinians.
"Once these things have happened, we can talk about Israel's demands,"
Dahlan said.
In a similar vein, Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa said Egypt would not
even try to persuade the PA to stop the violence until diplomatic
negotiations were resumed. Israel has said a reduction in violence is a
precondition for resuming negotiations.
Israel is demanding that the PA halt attacks against Israelis, in which
senior PA officials have also been involved, and rearrest the Hamas and
Islamic Jihad activists it has released over the past few months. However,
neither the Prime Minister's Office, the IDF, nor the Shin Bet security
service believes the PA will actually accede to these demands. Security
sources say that the PA knows who is responsible for more than 80 percent of
the attacks against Israel, but is not interested in arresting them.
The sources added that even if the PA should, in a surprise move, agree to
end the violence, it could take as much as six months before this order was
implemented in the field (see story, page 2).
Israel was represented at the meeting by Tourism Minister Amnon
Lipkin-Shahak and the head of the Shin Bet, Avi Dichter. The PA sent Amin
al-Hindi, the head of its General Intelligence Service, as well as Dahlan
and his counterpart in the West Bank, Jibril Rajoub. Also present were CIA
head George Tenet and his Egyptian counterpart, General Omar Saliman.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ehud Barak convened his "peace cabinet" yesterday
to discuss Israel's next move in talks with the Palestinians, but the
cabinet concluded that Israel must await two developments before it can make
any decisions. The first is the conclusion of the Cairo talks, which will
demonstrate the "seriousness of the Palestinians' intentions with respect to
security."
"The peace cabinet sees the PA's fulfillment of its security obligations as
the key to and the precondition for continuing [negotiations]," Barak's
office said in a statement yesterday.
The second is U.S. President Bill Clinton's announcement of his next move.
Participants at the meeting speculated that Clinton could invite the Israeli
and Palestinian negotiating teams to Washington, come to the Middle East
himself, or even convene an international peace conference. They said that
the briefing they received from Barak's bureau chief, Gilad Sher, regarding
his meetings with Clinton and other American officials in Washington this
weekend gave them the impression that Clinton has not yet despaired of
obtaining an agreement before his term ends on January 20.
CBS television last night quoted sources in the White House as saying that
Clinton intends to send Dennis Ross, his Middle East peace coordinator, to
the region shortly.
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Labor Party wants Women in Green banned
Mazal Mualem Ha'aretz 8 January 2001
Meanwhile, the Labor Party has asked the registrar of cooperative
associations, Amiram Bogat, to order the dissolution of the right-wing
Nonprofit Organization (NPO) Women in Green, claiming that its activities
constitute sedition, and incitement against Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The
party has also submitted a complaint to the police against the NPO.
The party's complaints are based on stickers distributed by Women in Green
bearing slogans such as "Barak is tearing out our heart." The party also
charged that the NPO's Internet site compares Barak to Hitler, and contains
such statements as: Barak "has no place of honor in the glorious history of
the state or its values and beliefs."
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POPE JOHN PAUL II TO RECEIVE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL
Delegation of Senators and Representatives to Visit Rome on Monday
WASHINGTON, D.C., JAN. 6 (ZENIT.org).- The U.S. Congress will bestow
its highest honor for a civilian on John Paul II this Monday. A bipartisan
delegation of Senators and Representatives will be in Rome on January 8 to
present him the Congressional Gold Medal.
Sam Brownback, sponsor of the measure in the Senate, today explained the
reasons for this recognition, which has previously been granted to such
figures as Mother Teresa, Billy Graham, and Rosa Parks.
"Pope John Paul II is said to be the most recognized person in the world,
having personally visited tens of millions, in almost every continent and
country," Brownback said. "He has been one of the greatest pastoral leaders
of this century, fearlessly guiding the Catholic Church into the new
millennium. Due to his tremendous faith and leadership he was elected
bishop at a very early age, and elected to the papacy on October 16, 1978,
at the age of 58."
"He stands boldly as an ever-vigilant sign of contradiction to a culture that is
darkened by the clouds of death. In the face of this mounting storm, he has
tirelessly proclaimed the need for a culture of life," continued the senator.
"The urgency of the Pope's message becomes more acute each day,
particularly at the beginning of the new millennium."
"The Pope," he said, "having witnessed first-hand the brutal inhumanity of
Nazi and communist regimes, understands, in a way few of us can
appreciate, the true dignity of each and every human being. He is a crusader
against the offenses against human dignity that have transpired in the
twentieth century. More than any other single person this century, Pope
John Paul II has worked to protect the rights of each individual. John Paul II
has also addressed almost every major question posed by the modern mind
at the turn of the millennium."
"The Pope's dialogue with the modern world has taken him around the globe,
and has led the Catholic Church to play an active role in the lives of people
that many have chosen to either forget or ignore," concluded Brownback.
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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:22:07 -0500
HIMMLER'S GREAT BETRAYAL=20
The trusted SS chief was conspiring to surrender Germany long before we=20
previously suspected=20
On August 31, 1944, the head of MI6 forwarded to the prime minister,=20
Winston Churchill, an intercepted coded signal. It was a telegram from the=
=20
Reichsf=FChrer-SS and chief of German police, Heinrich Himmler. The=20
telegram has not survived. But it must have been highly sensitive - in a=20
handwritten reply to the head of MI6, Churchill noted: "Himmler telegram=20
kept and destroyed by me."=20
Out of some 14,000 decrypts that the British prime minister personally saw,=
=20
this was the only one he destroyed. And it was the only signal emanating=20
from Himmler. This tantalising piece of information has been discovered by=
=20
the research team working on a new documentary on Himmler and his=20
betrayal of Hitler. The story of the betrayal is, in its full extent, large=
ly=20
unknown, but this new evidence suggests that his secret dealings with the=20
allies went much further than is commonly assumed.=20
Himmler had constructed his own path to power, and built the SS, the=20
organisation he headed, upon unquestioned personal loyalty to the F=FChrer.=
=20
As the motto of the SS, he had chosen the words: "My honour is loyalty".=20
But it now seems "the loyal Heinrich" (as Himmler was dubbed) was more=20
prepared than any other Nazi leader to engage in mounting betrayal of his=20
leader during the last 8 months of the Third Reich.=20
We can only speculate on the content of the telegram. However, it is=20
plausible to assume it was sent by Himmler to an intermediary who was=20
putting out tentative peace feelers to the British on Himmler's behalf.=20
Churchill, adamantly opposed to any negotations with the Germans, must=20
have been anxious to head off rumours of a German peace with Britain, as=20
it could jeopardise the vital alliance with the Soviet Union. By destroying=
the=20
telegram, he was ensuring that the feelers were not pursued and all traces=
=20
were erased.=20
This interpretation is hardened by circumstantial evidence. In August 1944=
=20
the Japanese had hinted that they were prepared to try to broker a separate=
=20
peace between Germany and the Soviet Union. The Japanese ambassador=20
in Berlin put the suggestion directly to Hitler at a meeting early in=20
September. Hitler rejected the idea out of hand.=20
Himmler was not taken with the notion of overtures to Stalin, but was=20
enough of a realist to see that Germany could not win the war. On=20
September 12 he, too, met Hitler to discuss peace feelers to Russia or - hi=
s=20
plain preference - to Britain. Clearly, he met the same response. Hitler wa=
s=20
not interested. Negotiations, he had always asserted, could be carried out=
=20
only from a position of strength.=20
He was now planning a last Canute-like attempt to turn the tide of war: an=
=20
offensive through the Ardennes to throw the British and Americans "back=20
into the Atlantic", then, with new weapons at his disposal, to attack the=20
Russians. Himmler realised that discussing possible peace feelers with=20
Hitler was a lost cause. It was the beginning of the parting of the ways=20
between the 2 men.=20
By the autumn of 1944, the allies were closing in on the Reich's borders to=
=20
east and west. The end was plainly looming. Unlike Hitler, Himmler was=20
not prepared to go under. On the contrary, he thought of saving his own=20
neck, of life after Hitler, and of leading a post-Hitlerian Reich in the=20
continued fight against Bolshevism. For these ends, he needed a negotiated=
=20
settlement with the West, and as the August telegram suggests, he was=20
already well on the way to finding an independent path out.=20
But Hitler still wielded mighty power, so Himmler had to tread with extreme=
=20
caution. For months he played a double game - openly the "loyal Heinrich",=
=20
secretly the increasingly desperate seeker of a way to avoid being sucked=20
down in Hitler's self-destruction. With the failure of the Ardennes offensi=
ve=20
in December 1944, Hitler's illusion of victory evaporated. What was left=20
was to fight on to the end. "We'll not capitulate. Never," Hitler stated. "=
We=20
can go down. But we'll take a world with us."=20
This self-destructive urge had no resonance with Himmler. By December=20
1944 a liaison officer under the command of Walter Schellenberg, the head=20
of the SS intelligence service, now confirms that he had learnt from his=20
chief that Himmler was trying to arrange a separate peace deal.=20
An obvious problem with any deal was Himmler's reputation. To gain=20
credibility with the West, he now tried to show himself in the best possibl=
e=20
light. In January 1945, through a Swiss intermediary acting for rabbis in=20
America and Canada, he agreed to the release of 1,400 Jews a month from=20
Theresienstadt in return for $250,000. No money, in fact, changed hands=20
when 1,200 Jews were released in February. But Himmler stipulated that=20
the press in America and Switzerland should report his "humanitarian"=20
gesture. It was correctly deduced in Washington that he was seeking=20
contact.=20
But when Hitler learnt of the release of the Jews he was reputedly furious=
=20
and banned any further releases. By now, Himmler's star was on the wane.=20
He had been given a senior military command in January 1945 and had=20
proved a disaster, withdrawing for much of the time on alleged grounds of=20
illness to an SS hospital north of Berlin. But he continued scheming to=20
engineer his own survival.=20
In one of the most bizarre incidents, he attempted to improve his standing=
=20
with the western allies by agreeing to a secret rendezvous with a=20
representative of the World Jewish Congress. There he conceded the=20
release of female Jews from Ravensbr=FCck, in direct contravention of=20
Hitler's ban. Between February and April 1945 he had secret meetings with=20
Count Folke Bernadotte, the vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross,=20
which eventually moved to the possibility of a German surrender in the=20
west.=20
On April 22, in an outburst of hysterical fury, Hitler openly acknowledged=
=20
that the war was lost and expressed his wish to die in the Reich capital. I=
t=20
eased any sense of betrayal when Himmler met Bernadotte the next=20
evening and asked him to transmit an offer of surrender to the western=20
allies.=20
On April 28 Hitler was given the news, broadcast by the BBC, thatHimmler=20
had proposed unconditional surrender to Britain and America. He exploded=20
at this "most shameful betrayal in human history". Himmler was stripped of=
=20
all his offices and despised beyond measure by the man he had for so long=20
revered. For Hitler, this -- of all the treachery he saw surrounding him --=
=20
was the worst. He began preparations to take his own life. Within 2 days,=20
he was dead.=20
Admiral D=F6nitz inherited for a few days the shreds of power in the Third=
=20
Reich. He needed no persuasion that Himmler could only be a liability, and=
=20
rejected his overtures for inclusion in his short-lived cabinet. Himmler, h=
is=20
dreams of continued power shattered, shaved off his moustache, adorned=20
himself with a black eye-patch, put on the uniform of a military police=20
sergeant, and went on the run for a fortnight. After falling into British=20
hands, he killed himself on May 23, 1945, by crushing a cyanide capsule=20
contained in a cavity in his teeth. (The London Times)=20
=
=20
BANK OF AMERICA SOUNDS THE WARNING BELL=20
Last Friday, Bank of America, one of the largest banks in the United=20
States, did something unusual and really rather scary. It suspended its=20
shares and, half an hour later, released a statement saying it was doing ju=
st=20
fine. "We know of no basis to support speculative rumours about our=20
operations. We are conducting business as usual," it warbled. "The=20
company has not experienced any significant losses in derivatives or other=
=20
trading activities." Well, that's all right then. Except that it isn't. Whe=
n one=20
of the world's largest banks feels compelled to tell everyone that stories =
of=20
its imminent demise are greatly exaggerated, it is time to worry.=20
Back in 1973, the chairman of National Westminster decided to reassure=20
people that his bank wasn't going bust. In doing so he also wrecked the=20
country's entire banking system. Banks are supposed to be above such=20
things. A healthy bank should glide serenely through the financial markets,=
=20
ignoring any scuttlebutt about its business or earnings, safe in the=20
knowledge that it will all soon die away. Whan a bank feels compelled to=20
issue a formal denial, you know it is rattled and you know the entire=20
financial market is unsteady.
Now it has started this, will Bank of America now issue a similar statement=
=20
every week, even every day, to reassure its depositors and shareholders?=20
What happens when it doesn't tell us all is well? Is that the time to panic=
=20
and start queueing outside the nearest branch? It was only when I read=20
Bank of America's statement that I realised how shaky America's financial=20
markets have become. I also believe that we do not, as yet, know the half=20
of it.=20
As Roger Bootle says in his Economic Agenda column this week, Alan=20
Greenspan's abrupt decision to cut rates last week should not be=20
underestimated in its gravity. Greenspan has shown us before, during the=20
Asian crisis and the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management 2 years=20
ago, how he can steer Wall Street out of crisis with a mixture of high-
profile rate cuts and covert financial support for troubled, overstretched=
=20
institutions.=20
I have a strong sense that he is doing exactly that now, and that there are=
=20
some powerful Wall Street firms and US banks sitting on large losses and=20
struggling with a sudden liquidity crunch that he is doing his best to supp=
ort=20
and protect. One large failure would pose a systemic risk to the world's=20
financial system and could tip us all into a shocking recession.=20
I have faith in Greenspan to steer the US financial markets through this=20
difficulty. He has proved he can do it more than once. I am also optimistic=
=20
that the American economy and the financial markets will prove to be more=20
robust than the doomsters are telling us. Once the the technology bubble=20
has deflated fully, investors will remember the fact that the internet and =
its=20
associated software and hardware have created revolutionary and=20
immensely valuable business tools that have the potential to drive economic=
=20
growth for many years to come. But when Bank of America starts telling=20
people that it is not in any financial difficulty, even my unquenchable=20
optimism sputters. (The London Telegraph - Commentary)=20
FAITHFUL CELEBRATE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX X-MAS=20
Far from the splendour of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour where=20
Vladimir Putin and the Russian elite celebrated Orthodox Christmas, some=20
300 fervent believers marked Christ's birth at a small church near the=20
Kremlin. The service got off to a start on Saturday just before midnight,=20
finally drawing to a close around 4 o'clock in the morning.=20
The most fervent Orthodox strictly observed the 40-day fast which=20
precedes Christmas, celebrated on January 7 which is December 25 under=20
the "old-style" Julian calendar. The majority of the 147 million inhabitant=
s of=20
Russia are from the Orthodox tradition, which has enjoyed a revival in=20
Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Orthodox Church=20
today is one of the most respected institutions in Russia. Relations betwee=
n=20
the Russian church and state have improved greatly since since the end of=20
the Communist era, when aetheism was the state ideology. A former KGB=20
agent, President Putin says he was baptised and is a believer. (Agence=20
France-Presse)=20
SADDAM "LIVE" BROADCAST IS A FAKE, SAY OPPONENTS=20
Saddam Hussein has attempted to dispel rumours that he suffered a stroke=20
on New Year's Eve with an address to the nation yesterday designed to=20
show the world that he is alive and well, and still in charge. Speaking on=
=20
state-run television, the 63-year-old dictator looked healthy in a dark bro=
wn=20
suit and tie as he delivered a rambling tirade to mark the 80th anniversary=
=20
of the formation of the country's armed forces. Much of the speech in=20
praise of Iraq's military prowess was abstract, with Saddam posing odd=20
rhetorical questions such as: "Does consciousness precede experience or is=
=20
it experience that creates consciousness?". The main message, however,=20
was clearly: "I am still here."
Saddam's 3rd television appearance in 3 days failed to convince observers.=
=20
It was unclear whether the speech was live or pre-recorded, and the Iraqi=20
leader frequently uses doubles who have undergone cosmetic surgery to=20
make it impossible to distinguish them from him. Exiled Iraqi dissidents sa=
y=20
that the broadcasts may have been doctored with old or pre-recorded=20
footage. In one clip shown on Thursday - of Saddam apparently chairing a=20
cabinet meeting - he looked far younger.=20
Military experts in Baghdad have confirmed to The Telegraph that the Iraqi=
=20
leader was taken seriously ill at a military parade in the capital on New=20
Year's Eve and is recuperating in one of his many bunkers. According to=20
the military experts, he has not been seen in public since the 5-hour parad=
e=20
on New Year's Eve when he complained of chest pains that could indicate=20
a stroke or a heart attack. As tanks and troops marched past, Saddam was=20
seen shivering and was handed a heavy overcoat. He was taken to Ibn=20
Sina, a hospital reserved for VIPs within the presidential palace compounds=
,=20
where he was treated by his personal surgeon, Dr Aziz Shukri, and his team=
=20
of 8 doctors, including a cardiologist.=20
News of his illness leaked from the palace hospital last week, and Baghdad=
=20
was immediately put on high military alert. All entrances to Baghdad are=20
being guarded by large numbers of troops belonging to the Republican=20
Guard, Saddam's personal army. Diplomats stationed in Baghdad said that=20
the New Year's Eve parade was itself unusual. "Normally they are held on=20
January 6. This one was far larger. There were hundreds of tanks." One=20
diplomat said: "The display was to fete the birth of a new army unit called=
=20
Al Quds, or Jerusalem.". Most of this new army has been stationed along=20
the western Iraqi border with Syria and Jordan.=20
Security experts said that the leader has not been seen in public since. He=
=20
failed to attend a meeting of the Supreme Court on Thursday, where=20
members were due to swear an oath of allegiance. Instead the duty was=20
transferred to Saddam's deputy, Izzat Al-Douri. A Foreign Office=20
spokesman in London said that while it was unclear exactly what was going=20
on, it was unlikely that Saddam was dangerously ill. "A struggle would have=
=20
begun between officials and the family and there is no evidence of that. We=
=20
think he is still there and as dangerous as ever, but there is no doubt the=
=20
mood is very tense." (The London Telegraph)=20
VIKING TAX EXILES "SETTLED" AMERICA=20
Large stretches of America may have been colonised by the Vikings=20
hundreds of years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, according to=
=20
a study by Thor Heyerdahl, the veteran Norwegian anthropologist and=20
explorer. Most scholars believe that a few Norsemen set out from their=20
mother colony in Greenland to North America in the early 11th century, and=
=20
that they stayed in a small area for only 2 decades.=20
In a new book based on Viking sagas and ancient writings and maps found=20
in the Vatican library, Heyerdahl claims the Norsemen established colonies=
=20
across a swathe of what they called Vinland (Land of Wine). They=20
remained for several hundred years, he says, trading and occasionally=20
fighting with the native Americans. "Four centuries before Columbus, the=20
papal see knew there was land over there," said Heyerdahl, 86. "Vinland=20
stretched from the Hudson Strait in the north down through the Gulf of St=20
Lawrence and all the way down to Long Island."=20
Heyerdahl and his co-author, Per Lilliestrom, a Swedish map expert, say=20
thousands of Norsemen sailed to Vinland to escape high taxes imposed by=20
their monarch. The pair claim to have found traces of 5 voyages by the=20
Vikings in their elegant and hardy single-sailed ships. Heyerdahl also came=
=20
across a map made in the Vatican in 1535 by Ulaus Magnus, an exiled=20
Swedish archbishop, which appeared to suggest that as many as 25,000=20
Scandinavians had settled in Vinland.=20
Their book, Ingen Grenser (No Boundaries), is due to be published in=20
English in the autumn. The issue of who made the first contact between=20
native Americans and Europeans is bitterly disputed. Experts have made=20
claims on behalf of ancient Romans, a 5th-century Irish monk called Saint=20
Brendan, and a Scottish clan fleeing the Vikings. Heyerdahl has long=20
courted controversy. He became famous in 1947 with an expedition from=20
Peru to Polynesia aboard Kon-Tiki, a balsa-log raft, in an attempt to prove=
=20
the Pacific could have been settled by South American Indians.=20
Five years ago, he claimed Columbus had reached America in 1477, rather=20
than 1492, as a teenage crewman on a Danish-Portuguese expedition.=20
Some scholars are sceptical about Heyerdahl's latest theory. Leslie=20
Webster, deputy keeper of the British Museum's medieval Europe=20
department, said it was undermined by the lack of physical remains: there=20
are traces of just 1 Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, on the tip of=
=20
Newfoundland. "You can't base a theory on writings and maps which date=20
from later, and which may have been embellished. You have to take them=20
with a bucketload of salt." (The London Times)=0E=20
MICHAEL TURNER =0F
(mykelturner@airmail.net)=20
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To: "Elphick, David (WS)" <Elphick.David@saugov.sa.gov.au>
Subject: [bprlist] Further re. Generations of Adam.
From: Pam Baker
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 13:58:34 -0500
Dear David:
You speak of the extent of knowledge of men of the pre-flood world
and posit that they must have been a lot more knowlegeable that we
realize havin the same amount of 'brain power'. We know we only use
about ten percent of our brain today and I think that is because the
human brain was created to last at least 1,000 years. Pre-flood humans
would, indeed, have had great knowledge due to their longer life but how
great, we can only conjecture.
Man had his life shortened just before and, again, after the flood
and today it is about 100 years, maximum, and for generations, since the
flood, the rate of growth of knowledge was very low - we only use about
10 percent of it today. It is only in the recent past that man's
knowledge has grown, significantly, with the same amount of 'brain' as
was present in men before the flood and it could be conjectured that,
given more time, the preflood population would have become as
knowledgeable as modern man thinks he has but we do not know that.
I think the great growth in knowledge in just my lifetime, is
because different races and nations have been co-operating with others.
I do not think such co-operation was ever the case before the flood and
it is probable, therefore, the pre-flood knowledge was not 'great', in
comparison with our knowledge today.
As you pointed out: "... we are far dumber and weaker now than we
have ever been. Why else would people believe that life evolved from a
rock?" I think man is dumber now, spiritually, because he does not
'feed' the spirit that was given him by God and man is weaker now than
ever because he has realized, too late, the physical work God gave man
to do is needed by the body that was given him by God.. Praise the
Lord!
God Bless you. Charlie Baker.
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Subject: [bprlist] Harpazo.net news items (1/8/01)
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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:05:21 -0500
Saddam's Son Goes Public Against Father's Government=20
The son of President Saddam Hussein has charged his father's government=20
with buying commodities from Israel. The public challenge to the regime and=
=20
Saddam's failure to appear at at a ceremony marking Iraq's Army Day have=20
kept alive uncertainty about Saddam's health.=20=20
Uday Hussein, the eldest son of the president, submitted a memorandum to=20
the Iraqi National Council stating that Israeli and Jewish-owned companies =
in=20
the West are using Russian firms as fronts to sell Iraq a range of goods=20
under the United Nations oil-for-food program. They were said to include fo=
od,=20
soaps and beauty products.=20=20
Uday blamed the Iraqi Trade Ministry for allowing the import of Israeli goo=
ds.=20
The memorandum was published in Uday's Babel daily. "Is this a correct=20
policy?" Uday asked in the memorandum. world tribune=20=20
Troops To Carry Chemical Detectors=20=20
Service personnel sent to the front line in future conflicts are to be issu=
ed=20
with a clip-on =93Walkman-size=94 chemical weapons detector that will sound=
an=20
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1. Tanzim terrorist seriously wounded by IDF fire=09
2. Two Jews injured in Ben-Yehuda stabbing attack on Sunday night
3. IDF relocates roadblocks deeper into Yesha for added protection
4. Cairo security meeting does not yield positive results=09
5. Lawsuit against PM Barak and Saban=09
6. Arafat demands limit Jews to 1930 Western Wall arrangements, no=20=20
Jewish
immigration, no Jewish control in Eastern Jerusalem=09
7. Clinton determined to reach accord while in office=09
8. IDF addressing opening fire orders in =93dangerous areas=94=09
9. PA: Another person killed by IDF fire in Gaza=09
10. PA security officials involved in terrorism=09
11. Intifada leadership: =93Day of Return=94=09
************************
8-JAN-01 =96 07:23am
************************
1. Tanzim terrorist seriously wounded by IDF fire
(BNI-JAN.8) A 30-year-old Tanzim terrorist who fled IDF soldiers during an
arrest operation near Beit Omar in Judea was shot and seriously wounded by
soldiers.=20
Soldiers manning an area roadblock recognized the wanted terrorist and
promptly placed him under arrest. His hands were bound behind his back.
Nevertheless, the fugitive began fleeing the scene with his hands bound.
He failed to comply with orders to halt and continued running following
the firing of warning shots. He was then wounded and transported to the
trauma unit of Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem.
The area battalion commander stated the preliminary investigation
indicated the soldiers acted in accordance to protocol, adding they were
engaged in apprehending a terrorist.=20=20
++++
2. Two Jews injured in Ben-Yehuda stabbing attack on Sunday night
(BNI-JAN.8) Two Jews employed as waiters in the Rimon restaurant on
Ben-Yehuda Street -- the pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem, were
stabbed by an Arab resident of Jabal Muqaber on Sunday night. They were
transported to nearby Bikur Holim Hospital and listed in light-to-moderate
condition.=20=20
The attacker was apprehended. He is a former employee of the caf=E9 and tol=
d
police that he arrived at the restaurant and took a knife from the cutlery
station to perpetrate the attack.
++++
3. IDF relocates roadblocks deeper into Yesha for added protection
(BNI-JAN.8) Seeking to distance the confrontation points from inside the
=93Green Line,=94 the IDF relocated checkpoints from the =93Green Line=94 b=
order
to =93Israel proper=94 to deeper into Yesha. The move was met with the
objections of Arabs who opposed bringing the IDF positions closer to their
homes.
Roadblocks in the Ramallah, Hebron and Modi=92in areas have been relocated
in light of the sharp increase in attacks over recent weeks.=20=20
++++
4. Cairo security meeting does not yield positive results
(BNI-JAN.8) Following a meeting of about seven hours, it does not appear
that the four-way security summit in Cairo will have contributed in any
significant way to increased security in Israel or increased security
cooperation between Israel and the PA.
Representatives of Israel, the PA, Egypt and the US met to hash out
critical security issues. There was no announcement relating to the
meeting but reports from Cairo indicate the meeting fell short of
accomplishing anything that would be called a breakthrough.=20=20
Israel reiterated demands for a total and immediate cessation of violence
and attacks and the arrest of terrorists who continue to roam freely
inside PA areas.=20=20
The Security Cabinet will convene on Monday for a briefing on the Cairo
summit as well as other security related matters.=20
++++
5. Lawsuit against PM Barak and Saban
(BNI-JAN.8) A private citizen has filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister
Ehud Barak and US film producer Haim Saban, an Israeli citizen who resides
in the US. The suit alleges the two were in violation of elections law
regarding illegal fundraising activities in the general election 18 months
ago.
According to the suit, on March 25, 1999, Saban arranged a fundraising
event in his Beverly Hills home, in the presence of Mr. Barak, at which
time participants contributed at least $10,000 each towards the election
of the now prime minister. Barak was the key speaker at the meeting
attended by some 40 selected guests.
Persons not citizens of Israel are prohibited from donating to election
campaigns and even citizens are limited to amounts far less than the
$10,000 per person solicited at the elite fundraising event.=20
Among the names linked to illegal campaign activities as a result of the
dragging police investigation is Yitzhak Herzog, a leading campaign
official, who was rewarded with an appointment as the prime minister=92s
cabinet secretary. Many have been demanding that Herzog step down,
explaining that the senior civil servant is under investigation yet he
continues to function in his official capacity. Herzog has not cooperated
with the police investigation to date.
In the suit filed by attorney Darshan-Leitner, State Attorney General
Elyakim Rubinstein is called upon to move forward with criminal
indictments in the case in light of evidence gathered by police. The suit
demands that the indictments be filed prior to the February 6, 2001
election for prime minister.=20=20
++++
6. Arafat demands limit Jews to 1930 Western Wall arrangements, no=20=20
Jewish
immigration, no Jewish control in Eastern Jerusalem
(BNI-JAN.8) Israel Television Channel One's senior correspondent Ehud
Ya=92ari reported on the 7:30PM news program Sunday night the following PA
demands in response to the Clinton plan include:
a) Western Wall under PA control with Jewish access [apparently in
accordance with the 1931 Mandate Era Wailing Wall Order] subject to the
prohibition on the placement of benches or partitions at the Western Wall.
b) No Jewish control of any area within eastern Jerusalem, including the
Old City.
c) No recognition of any Jewish connection to any holy site.
d) Jewish immigration to Israel tied to Palestinian right of return.
(IMRA - Independent Media Review & Analysis, imra@netvision.net.il -
http://www.imra.org.il)=20=20
++++
=20
7. Clinton determined to reach accord while in office
(BNI-JAN.8) Outgoing US President Bill Clinton has announced he is
determined to broker and accord between Israel and the PA during his last
days in office.
Addressing a Mideast forum in New York on Sunday, Clinton for the first
time stated there could be no true peace achieved in the Middle East
without the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state.=20
Other points include:
1. On the so-called Palestinian refugee issue, Clinton stated they must be
granted the right of return to the Palestinian homeland, not to Israel =96
or to assist them in constructing new homes in Arab lands. He added one
may not expect Israel to accept millions of additional Arab residents, a
reality that would destroy the Jewish character of the State of Israel.
2. Regarding the Temple Mount issue, Clinton said little but added the
solution must entail a divided Jerusalem which will serve as a capital of
the two states.=20
3. Regarding Jewish communities throughout Yesha, Clinton stated a
solution must be found to permit the maximum number of Yesha residents to
remain in the minimum amount of land space.
4. The president condemned PA violence and attacks and was critical of the
Israeli =93settlements=94 creating facts on the ground in areas destined to=
be
given away to the PA in a peace agreement.=20
Clinton stated he believed his framework and bridging proposals were
logical and served as a building block for a peace accord. In a related
matter, US special envoy to the Oslo process, Ambassador Dennis Ross, is
expected to arrive in Israel in the coming 48 hours to enter into shuttle
negotiations as the White House remains determined to reach an accord in
the coming days.=20=20
++++
8. IDF addressing opening fire orders in =93dangerous areas=94
(BNI-JAN.8) The IDF is redefining orders permitting soldiers to open fire
in areas classified as =93dangerous,=94 Israel Radio reported. In some of t=
he
=93dangerous areas,=94 soldiers are already permitted to open fire when fac=
ed
with armed opponents without receiving orders from an officer.=20=20
++++
9. PA: Another person killed by IDF fire in Gaza
(BNI-JAN.8) PA sources report that another man was killed on Sunday from
IDF fire at Netzarim, in northern Gaza. Reports from a hospital inside the
PA autonomous area of Gaza indicate a 34-year-old male was injured by IDF
gunfire.=20
++++
10. PA security officials involved in terrorism
(BNI-JAN.8) A senior unnamed security establishment official quoted by
Israel Radio stated that terror cells affiliated with the Hamas and
Islamic Jihad and Tanzim terrorist organizations continue to roam and
among their membership are terrorists who also function in the capacity as
PA law-enforcement personnel.
Since the start of the September 29, 200 Intifada, the General Security
Service (GSS/Shin Bet) arrested 330 suspects believed linked to terror
activities. During their interrogations, it was learned that most had
participated in attacks against Israeli targets.=20
The senior unnamed source added that a significant number of attacks were
averted by offensive actions aimed at terrorist officials by elite
security forces in which terrorist were targeted and killed by commando
forces.=20
Intelligence community officials are reported to have issued unprecedented
warnings of impending terror attacks by Islamic terror factions. According
to the Israel Radio report, the PA does nothing to bring and end to the
daily shooting attacks, many perpetrated by Tanzim members affiliated with
Yassir Arafat=92s Fatah terrorist faction.=20
Sabet Sabet, the Tanzim forces leader in Tul Qarem, gives the direct
orders to fire upon IDF forces according to the unnamed security official.
In addition, Sa=92id Haroub, described as a Shchem (Nablus) textile merchan=
t
and a peace activist by the Israeli media, is reported to have established
a bomb factory which remains at the disposal of the Islamic Jihad to
continue deadly attacks against Israeli targets. He was shot and killed
about three weeks ago by IDF forces.
The unnamed source added that terrorists are targeted for assassination
only when there is no other alternative.=20=20
++++
11. Intifada leadership: =93Day of Return=94
(BNI-JAN.8) Seeking to keep the issue of the right of return for so-called
Palestinian refugees atop the political agenda, the Intifada leadership
has declared Monday =93Day of Return=94 day, stressing the related issues.
As such, assemblies, marches and other functions will be held throughout
Yesha areas.=20=20
-----------------
1. Roadside bomb explodes next to IDF vehicle in Samaria=09
2. IDF forces near Gadid attacked with gunfire=09
3. Netanya bomber dies of injuries in Israeli hospital=09
4. Dead body found near Etzel Museum in TA=09
5. Shooting throughout the night in Gush Katif=09
6. Abu Ala issues a warning to the White House=09
7. Security/intelligence networks do not see organized Jewish
fundamentalist conspiracy=09
***************************
8-JAN-01- 9:00am
***************************
1. Roadside bomb explodes next to IDF vehicle in Samaria
(BNI-JAN.8) A roadside bomb exploded next to an IDF vehicle in the Shchem
(Nablus) area during the night. The attack occurred on the southern Shchem
bypass road.=20=20=20
++++
2. IDF forces near Gadid attacked with gunfire
(BNI-JAN.8) IDF forces operating in Gaza were attacked by gunfire near
Gadid. There were no IDF casualties. Soldiers returned fire.=20=20
++++
3. Netanya bomber dies of injuries in Israeli hospital
(BNI-JAN.8) The terrorist who was gravely injured by his own car bomb in
the January 1, 2001 attack on Herzl Street in Netanya died of his injuries
in Beilinson Hospital on Monday morning.
The unnamed terrorist sustained serious head injuries and burns over much
of his body and has undergone surgery following the blast and remained in
an intensive care unit.
Police and security agencies explained with confidence that although the
terrorist remains unidentified, they are certain the injured person was
not a homeless man =96 having done extensive investigating since the blast.
++++
4. Dead body found near Etzel Museum in TA
(BNI-JAN.8) The body of a man believed to be in this 30s was discovered on
Monday morning in Tel Aviv near the Etzel Museum. Police are
investigating. Police believe the man was murdered based on signs of
violence seen on the body. It is suspected the body may be that of a
homeless man. No additional information is available at the time of this
report.=20=20
++++
5. Shooting throughout the night in Gush Katif
(BNI-JAN.8) There were exchanges of gunfire between PA forces in Khan
Yunis and IDF troops in Gush Katif throughout the night. There were no
reported casualties among IDF forces that were engaged in sporadic
fighting throughout the night.
Positions in the communities of Gadid and Neve Dekalim were among those
targeted by PA gunfire in Gaza.=20=20
++++
6. Abu Ala issues a warning to the White House
(BNI-JAN.8) Senior PA official Abu Ala, in a morning interview on Radio
Palestine, issued a warning to the White House not to attempt to force the
bridging proposals upon the PA. Abu Ala stated that accepting compromise
on key issues such as Jerusalem would lead to an explosion in the Oslo
process in the coming months.
Abu Ala called for a continuation of an organized and structured Intifada
for the time being, rejecting US calls for the sides to accept the latest
proposals put forward by outgoing President Bill Clinton. Ala also accused
US special envoy to the Oslo process, Ambassador Dennis Ross, of being
partial towards Israel, adding this is why Ross has failed in his
assignment to date.=20=20
++++
7. Security/intelligence networks do not see organized Jewish
fundamentalist conspiracy=20
(BNI-JAN.8) Officials in the intelligence and security communities report
they do not have any data pointing to an organized Jewish conspiracy to
strike out against Islamic targets, a move that might led to increased
hostility in the region. Officials however do not rule out the possibility
that an attack might be perpetrated by lone persons, but not on a more
organized level based on current intelligence information.=20=20=20
Police have recently stated repeatedly that they fear reprisals by Jews
against Arabs and the possibility of an attempted attack on the Temple
Mount.
----------------
1. Injured child in Givat Ze=92ev shooting attack reported in moderate
condition=09
2. Unprecedented crowd at Old City=09
3. Military vehicle attacked by gunfire from Sinjel=09
4. Suspects arrested in firebomb attacks=09
5. Shooting/firebomb attacks in southern Gaza=09
6. Jeep targeted by gunfire near Erez=09
7. Gunfire directed at IDF Bezeq base=09
8. Shots fired into southern Jerusalem=09
9. 5-year-old killed in Jerusalem MVA=09
10.Firebomb attack in northern Jerusalem=09
************************
8-JAN-01 =96 8:52pm
************************
1. Injured child in Givat Ze=92ev shooting attack reported in moderate
condition
(BNI-JAN.8) A 9-year-old child was hit by two or three bullets in the
shooting attack a short time ago on the Givat Ze=92ev road near Givon
HaHadasha in northern Jerusalem. The IDF is reporting the gunfire came
from a Mazda 323 sedan with PA license plates. The terrorists opened fire
as they passed the victim=92s vehicle.=20
The victim of the shooting is being transported to the trauma unit of
Hadassah Hospital. BNI will provide additional details as they are made
available.=20=20=20=20
++++
2. Unprecedented crowd at Old City
(BNI-JAN.8) An unprecedented number of persons turned out for the
pro-Jerusalem rally =96 surrounding the walls of the Old City. Some 1,500
buses made their way to Jerusalem=92s Old City from around Israel while
hundreds made their way on foot from as far as the Southern Hebron Hills
areas, setting out on Monday morning.=20
The event began at about 5:00pm, gathering at the Jaffe Gate to the Old
City. Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert and other dignitaries were present.
Olmert stated that while outgoing US President Bill Clinton is a friend of
Israel, he is also the first US president who called for dividing
Jerusalem.=20
Police are estimating the number of persons has exceeded 150,000 =96
resulting in major traffic snarls throughout downtown Jerusalem and
surrounding areas.=20=20
++++
3. Military vehicle attacked by gunfire from Sinjel
(BNI-JAN.8) A military vehicle was attacked by gunfire on Monday evening
from the Arab village of Sinjel, in the Gush Shilo area of Samaria. It was
the third shooting attack from the village today. There were no injuries
in the attack. Soldiers returned fire. The village has been placed under
closure.=20=20
++++
4. Suspects arrested in firebomb attacks
(BNI-JAN.8) Four Arab suspects alleged to have participated in firebomb
attacks against Israelis were apprehended on Sunday night in Aram, in the
northern Jerusalem area.=20=20
Following their arrest, they were turned over to the custody of the
General Security Service (GSS/Shin Bet).=20=20
++++
5. Shooting/firebomb attacks in southern Gaza
(BNI-JAN.8) A military convoy was attacked by gunfire and firebombs in
southern Gaza on Monday night, near the Rafiach border crossing to Egypt.
There were no reported injuries. Soldiers returned fire.=20=20
++++
6. Jeep targeted by gunfire near Erez
(BNI-JAN.8) A military vehicle was attacked by gunfire south of the Erez
Crossing near Atzmona. Soldiers returned fire. There were no injuries.=20=20
++++
7. Gunfire directed at IDF Bezeq base
(BNI-JAN.8) Gunfire was directed at the IDF=92s Bezeq base in the Jenin are=
a
on Monday evening. There were no reported injuries to IDF forces that
returned fire.=20=20
++++
8. Shots fired into southern Jerusalem
(BNI-JAN.8) Shots were fired during the early evening hours on Monday into
the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo. There were reports of
structural and property damages on Almog Street but there were no injuries.
IDF forces did not return fire, explaining they were unable to identify
the point of origin of the shooting.=20=20
++++
9. 5-year-old killed in Jerusalem MVA=20
(BNI-JAN.8) A 5-year-old boy was killed on Monday afternoon in Jerusalem=92=
s
Ramat Shlomo neighborhood. The child=92s clothing or strap from a schoolbag
became entangled in the door of the vehicle which dropped him off.
Unbeknown to the driver, he ran over the child who was caught in the door.=
=20
The gravely injured child was transported to the trauma unit of
Jerusalem=92s Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem but trauma physicians were
unable to save his life.=20=20
++++
10. Firebomb attack in northern Jerusalem
(BNI-JAN.8) Firebombs were thrown at Israeli vehicles traveling in
northern Jerusalem on Monday afternoon. The attacks were launched from=20
the
Givat Ze=92ev Bridge, targeting cars traveling below. There were no reporte=
d
injuries. Police are investigating.=20=20
---------------
1. Pro-Jerusalem rally breaking up=09
2. Shooting victim being prepped for emergency surgery=09
3. No injuries in Gaza grenade attack=09
4. Soldiers attacked in Southern Hebron Hills area=09
5. Skirmishes at Damascus Gate of Old City=09
6. Egyptian officials: Israel preventing return of Mecca pilgrims=20
7. Prisoner attempts to attack judge in Hadera=09
8. Heavy gunfire against soldiers at Ayosh Junction=09
9. Soldiers attacked by gunfire at Karnei Checkpoint=09
10. Hebron resident arrested by PA for collaborating with Israel=20
11. Sonic booms result in panic in Netanya=09
12. Fire in Jerusalem catering hall=09
13. Two vehicles attacked with gunfire on Monday morning in Gush Shilo
area=09
14. Suspected arsonist apprehended in Rishon L=92Tzion=09
15. Hebron IDF Commander confirms new =91open fire=92 orders=09
16. Infant seriously injured in Kiryat Ata hit and run=09
17. No injuries in shooting attack at Rachel=92s Tomb=09
18. Shooting into Gilo came from el-Aida refugee camp=09
19. TIPH mandate to be renewed for another six months=09
20. Jordan Valley residents turn to King Abdullah II for assistance=09
******************************************
8-JAN-01 =96 10:07pm =96 Monday recap
******************************************
1. Pro-Jerusalem rally breaking up
(BNI-JAN.8) The pro-Jerusalem rally in and around the Old City is breaking
up at this time and traffic heading out from the area is heavy. Official
numbers are not available at this time but one police estimate earlier in
the night stated that over 150,000 participants turned out for the event.
Organizers report higher numbers.=20=20
++++
2. Shooting victim being prepped for emergency surgery
(BNI-JAN.8) Yael Bosem-Levy, the spokesperson for Hadassah Hospital, is
reporting the child injured in a shooting attack in northern Jerusalem
earlier in the evening is 12-years-old and not nine as reported earlier.
The child is being prepared for emergency surgery at this time and his
condition is described as moderate.=20=20
++++
3. No injuries in Gaza grenade attack
(BNI-JAN.8) There were no reports of injuries in a grenade attack directed
at IDF forces in southern Gaza at the Rafiach border crossing. Soldiers
returned fire.=20=20
++++
4. Soldiers attacked in Southern Hebron Hills area
(BNI-JAN.8) An IDF position located in the Southern Hebron Hills community
of Susia was attacked with gunfire earlier in the evening. There were no
injuries among soldiers that returned fire.=20=20
++++
5. Skirmishes at Damascus Gate of Old City
(BNI-JAN.8) At least three Arabs were injured in skirmishes between Arabs
and participants of the pro-Jerusalem rally taking place in and around the
Old City. Arabs also attacked police stationed at the Damascus Gate with
rocks. At least one Arab was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
There were also skirmishes on Shalshelet Street inside the Old City,
prompting police to bar Jews from the area.
Local Arabs told police the skirmishes were the result of the Jews
overturning their carts without any provocation.=20=20
Police also detained a Jewish woman after she attempted to go onto the
Temple Mount disguised as an Arab woman.=20
++++
6. Egyptian officials: Israel preventing return of Mecca pilgrims
(BNI-JAN.8) According to Egyptian officials, some 40 Islamic pilgrims
returning from Mecca on foot were unable to cross from Egypt into the PA
autonomous area of Gaza at the Rafiach Crossing.=20
The crossing point was closed in December by Israel while the pilgrims
were making their religious journey and the Egyptian sources report they
are unable to return to their homes.
The Office of the IDF Spokesman reported the claims of Egyptian officials
are being investigated.
=20=20
++++
7. Prisoner attempts to attack judge in Hadera
(BNI-JAN.8) A prisoner brought to the Hadera Magistrate=92s Court on Monday
for a remand hearing attempted to attack the judge with an improvised
knife because he did not want his remand extended. One court security
officer who intervened was lightly injured.=20=20
Needless to say the prisoner=92s remand was extended.
++++
8. Heavy gunfire against soldiers at Ayosh Junction
(BNI-JAN.8) Soldiers stationed at Ayosh Junction located on the northern
border of the PA autonomous city of Ramallah were attacked by heavy
gunfire on Monday afternoon. There were no reported IDF casualties.
Soldiers returned fire.=20=20
++++
9. Soldiers attacked by gunfire at Karnei Checkpoint
(BNI-JAN.8) IDF soldiers at the Karnei Checkpoint in Gaza on Monday
afternoon were attacked by gunfire. There were no casualties to IDF forces
that returned fire.=20=20
++++
10. Hebron resident arrested by PA for collaborating with Israel
(BNI-JAN.8) An Arab resident of Hebron was placed into PA custody on
Monday. He is suspected of working as an informant for Israeli security
agencies.=20
According to PA officials, the suspect, Assraf Abdin admitted under
interrogation that he was approached by agents of the General Security
Service (GSS/Shin Bet) who asked him to fire off fireworks in Hebron to
elicit a response from soldiers and Jewish residents, to enable them to
say they were fired upon.
PA officials added the cooperation with the GSS by the suspect resulted in
the death of several residents of PA residents of Hebron=92s autonomous
areas.=20=20
++++
11. Sonic booms result in panic in Netanya
(BNI-JAN.8) Air force jets breaking the sound barrier over Netanya early
Monday afternoon led to a panic, with many residents believing there was
an explosion from a terrorist attack. Local police received hundreds of
telephone calls from alarmed citizens of the city.=20
Following a brief inquiry, police were able to inform citizens that there
had not been any terror attack.=20=20
++++
12. Fire in Jerusalem catering hall
(BNI-JAN.8) There was a large fire in a storage facility of the =93Sharon
Hall=94 catering facility in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Talpiot
on Monday at about noon. Two persons were lightly injured by smoke
inhalation. Two floors of the catering hall were destroyed in the blaze.
The cause if the blaze was not specified in the report.
++++
13. Two vehicles attacked with gunfire on Monday morning in Gush Shilo area
(BNI-JAN.8) A vehicle heading for the community of Maale Adumim, in the
Gush Shilo section of Samaria and a truck were attacked by gunfire early
Monday morning from the Arab village of Sinjel. Bullets struck the truck.
There were no injuries.
Over past weeks, there has been frequent shooting attack from Sinjel. In
November 2000, two Maale Levona residents were injured by gunfire at the
same location.=20=20
++++
14. Suspected arsonist apprehended in Rishon L=92Tzion
(BNI-JAN.8) Police on Monday apprehended a 21-year-old suspected car
arsonist in Rishon L=92Tzion. The suspect in custody is believed to have se=
t
fire to several cars on Smadar Street in Rishon.=20=20=20
++++
15. Hebron IDF Commander confirms new =91open fire=92 orders
(BNI-JAN.8) Colonel Noam Tivon, the Hebron area battalion commander, on
Monday confirmed that soldiers in the area have been briefed regarding new
orders permitting one to open fire when in a life-threatening situation.=20
The senior commander explained that while there were less attacks
involving stones and firebombs, there was a sharp increase in the number
of attacks involving gunfire and as such, Hebron is one of the places in
which soldiers may open fire under life-threatening conditions without
receiving a green light from a superior officer.=20=20
++++
16. Infant seriously injured in Kiryat Ata hit and run
(BNI-JAN.8) An infant was seriously injured on Monday morning on Kiryat
Ata=92s Alozoroff Street in a hit and run motor vehicle accident. Police
report the 15-month-old girl ran out of the yard of her home and sustained
a serious head injury by a passing vehicle which fled the scene.
The infant was transported to a local hospital. Police are searching for a
white sedan believed to have been involved in the accident.=20=20
++++
17. No injuries in shooting attack at Rachel=92s Tomb
(BNI-JAN.8) IDF forces stationed at Rachel=92s Tomb in the PA autonomous
city of Bethlehem, south of Jerusalem, were attacked by gunfire on Monday
night. There were no reported injuries to IDF forces that returned fire. =
=20
++++
18. Shooting into Gilo came from el-Aida refugee camp
(BNI-JAN.8) Security officials report that the shooting into the southern
Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo earlier in the evening came from the
el-Aida refugee camp.
As reported earlier, security forces did not return fire despite the live
ammunition being directed at the capital because soldiers were unable to
pinpoint the origin of the attackers at the time.=20=20
++++
19. TIPH mandate to be renewed for another six months
(BNI-JAN.8) Israel has agreed to a PA request and has agreed to extend the
mandate of the TIPH (Temporary International Presence in Hebron) force for
an additional six months. The official signing of the extension is
scheduled for later in the week.
Hebron=92s Jewish community continues to repeatedly complain about the TIPH
observers, explaining they are not impartial and are always siding with
the Arabs while making life increasingly difficult for the Jewish
community.=20
The leaders of the TIPH force deny the accusations, explaining they are
just unarmed observers stationed in the area and remain impartial while
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Subject: [bprlist] Weekend News Today items (1/8/01)
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:05:21 -0500
Taliban threatens death to Moslems changing faith=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Leo=20
Source: ExpressIndia.com=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- Afghanistan's Taliban regime has decreed death for any=20
Afghan Moslem who changes his or her faith, the official radio Shariat=20
reported Monday. And anyone caught selling literature promoting Christianit=
y=20
or Judaism or degrading Islam and its personalities will be imprisoned for =
five=20
years, the decree issued by Taliban chief, Mullah Mohammad Omar, said.=20=20
Taliban religious minister Qudratullah Jamal said the decree is a=20
precautionary measure against people leading Afghans away from Islam with=20
offers of money.=20=20
Severe cold wave hits eastern Russia=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Leo=20
Source: Nando Times/AP=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- A cold wave severe even by Russians' hardy standards=20
has set in over western Siberia and the Far East, sending temperatures=20
plunging as low as minus 70 degrees, news media reported Saturday.=20=20
The temperature, a 30-year record, was recorded in the Kemerovo region=20
about 1,800 miles east of Moscow, while temperatures in much of the rest of=
=20
Russia east of the Ural Mountains were around minus 40. The cold wave,=20
which is expected to last several more days, has put a strain on Russia's=20
power plants and heating stations, which often suffer from poor maintenance=
=20
and slim fuel supplies.=20=20
Scientists await birth of 1rst cloned endangered species=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: faith=20
Source: CNN=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- Scientists say the birth of the 1rst cloned endangered=20
species could come any day now. Bessie the cow will give birth early this=20
month not to a calf, but to a wild ox, called a gaur. "This is the first ti=
me this=20
has been done, so we have to be cautious, keep our fingers crossed," said=20
Dr. Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology. The gaur is an endangered=20
species that lives in the forests and bamboo jungles of Southeast Asia and=
=20
India. The gaur populations are dwindling because of shrinking habitat and=
=20
hunting. Research scientist Philip Damiani stresses that the clone is pure=
=20
gaur --not a cross between a cow and a gaur.=20=20
Using frozen cells, researchers hope to restore species that have become=20
extinct as well as to replenish existing endangered species.But some=20
researchers question the value of cloning the animals unless greater effort=
s=20
are made to save their habitats. If Bessie successfully delivers the gaur,=
=20
researchers say the process could eventually lead to the development of=20
"frozen zoos," where cells of endangered species can be stored for future=20
regeneration.=20=20
Hindu religious festival draws millions of pilgrims=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Leo=20
Source: Nando Times/AP=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- As thousands of troops and police provided security,=20
millions of Hindu pilgrims converged on an Indian town Monday to wash away=
=20
their sins in the icy waters of the Ganges River.=20=20
The baths will begin Tuesday. They are the focus of a 43-day religious=20
festival expected to bring 65 million people to Allahabad, about 360 miles=
=20
southeast of New Delhi. Hindus believe they can wash away their sins -=20
speeding their achievement of nirvana - by taking sacred baths at the time =
of=20
the Kumbh Mela, which occurs every 12 years.=20=20
McDonald=92s tests new electronic payment system=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: faith=20
Source: Oak Brook IL Sunday news=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- Oak Brook, IL =96 Wave if you like Big Macs. McDonald=92s=
is=20
testing an electronic-payment system in which customers can pay for their=20
food by waving a tiny device at the cash register or drive-through window.=
=20
Each Speedpass key is linked to the customer=92s credit or debit card. The=
=20
world=92s largest restaurant chain plans to operate the pilot program for t=
he=20
next six months at nine restaurants in the Chicago area. If it proves=20
successful it could be adopted at other McDonald=92s restaurants. Speedpass=
=20
was developed by Mobil three years ago for use at its gas pumps and is now=
=20
being offered for other companies. McDonald=92s is its first major customer=
.=20=20
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Florida's cold stuns manatees & turtles
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: faith=20
Source: Discovery Earth Alert=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- Florida wildlife experts launched rescue efforts to help=
=20
save migrating manatees & beached turtles that had been stunned by=20
several days of frigid weather across the normally warmer Sunshine State.=20
Crews worked on Wednesday to capture manatees driven by the recent=20
bitter cold into the warmer waters around power generating plants. Official=
s=20
believe as many as 12 manatees may have halted their migration route south=
=20
to huddle in the warmer waters of the St. Johns River near one plant. Bob=20
Wagoner, assistant curator of animal services at Sea World, said the huge=20
sea mammals have trouble surviving in water temperatures below 68 degrees=20
Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius), and ocean temperatures along the=20
manatees' migratory path had dropped to 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 degrees=20
Celsius).=20=20
2nd consecutive devastating winter for Mongolia=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: faith=20
Source: Discovery Earth Alert=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- Besides the serious problems another major snowstorm=20
has caused Mongolians themselves, the animals are not doing well either.=20
The 15 inches of heavy snowfall has seriously affected the region's livesto=
ck=20
industry, which accounts for more than half its economy. At least 1/3 of=20
Mongolia's population is nomadic and dependent on its herd animals. The=20
severe weather is the 2nd consecutive devastating winter. The Red Cross=20
reported that this winter could be even worse than last year's when more=20
than 3 million head of livestock froze or starved to death.=20=20
Record low temps overwhelming Russian heating plants=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: faith=20
Source: Weather.com=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- Record low temperatures that hit 70 degrees Fahrenheit=20
below zero have overwhelmed heating plants in Russia's Siberian and Far=20
East regions. Officials in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk have imposed=20
emergency measures because of the frigid conditions. Many residents are=20
turning to alternative means of heat, some of which are unsafe. Fires ignit=
ed=20
by hazardous heaters are keeping firefighters busy, while hospital workers=
=20
treat an increased number of patients stricken by the cold. The situation m=
ay=20
not improve any time soon, as temperatures are not expected to rise for=20
several days.=20=20
Snow leaves thousands stranded in China=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: faith=20
Source: Weather.com=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- Chinese officials are applying for government aid to buy=
=20
food for 120,000 people left starving following 2 devastating snow storms.=
=20
Meantime, rescuers are searching for dozens of missing people. A major=20
sand and snow storm struck Xilin Gol Meng, located in Inner Mongolia, on=20
New Year's Day. It dumped 14 inches of yellow sand and snow in the region.=
=20
Some 90 people were lost in the storm. 65 of the victims have been found=20
alive. Some were buried in their homes. Crews were still looking for 25=20
victims on Sunday.=20=20
Fresh snowfall since New Year's Day is making things worse. The storm=20
blocked roads, snapped telephone lines and threatened livestock, which=20
residents depend on for food, shelter and clothing. Officials are also seek=
ing=20
aid to buy food for livestock, many of which are unable to graze for food=20
because of the snow.=20=20
Saudi Arabia, Iran to sign security pact=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Kelly=20
Source: UPI=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- Saudi Arabia and Iran planned to sign a pact to combat=20
crimes, terrorism, drug smuggling, money laundering and to monitor the sea=
=20
border between the two countries, a top Saudi official said Monday. The pac=
t=20
would be the first security agreement between Iran and a Gulf country and=20
would have no military aspect.=20=20
Mufti declares all Temple Mount area to be property of Islamic Waqf=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Kelly=20
Source: Ha'aretz=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- Hours before hundreds of thousands of Jewish=20
demonstrators were expected to gather in a demonstration against Israeli=20
concessions on Jerusalem Monday, the holy city's chief Islamic official=20
announced a fatwa , or Muslim religious ruling, declaring all of the Temple=
=20
Mount area to belong to the Muslim Waqf ritual authority, Israel Radio said=
.=20
The city's Mufti, Shiekh Ekrima Sabri, said that Al Aqsa Mosque included a=
=20
wide area surrounding the building, as well as "seven stories below it and=
=20
seven stories above", the radio said.=20=20
Israeli reporter forbidden on Temple Mount=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Kelly=20
Source: Jerusalem Post=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- An Army Radio reporter, Tzvi Yeheskeli, was told by Wakf=
=20
(Moslem Trust) guards that he could not cover a press conference to be held=
=20
in the the Temple Mount compound because he was Jewish. The reporter=20
was trying to attend a press conference being held this morning by the=20
Jerusalem Mufti, Ikrema Sabri. The mufti was to respond to claims that=20
Jewish extremists might attempt to damage the two mosques on the Temple=20
Mount. The Wakf currently administers the Temple Mount compound,=20
referred to by Moslems as Haram al-Sharif.=20=20
Russian nukes in Kaliningrad puts Baltics' NATO bid back on front burner =
=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Kelly=20
Source: AFP=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- The reported deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in=20
Kaliningrad puts the issue of NATO enlargement into the three Baltic states=
=20
back on the front burner, analysts said Monday, bolstering their case for=20
membership at the cost of regional security. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania'=
s=20
struggle for independence in the late 1980s helped trigger the collapse of =
the=20
Soviet Union, and their current search for security by joining NATO threate=
ns=20
to return the European continent back to confrontation.=20=20
Russia has vociferously opposed the membership of the Baltic states in=20
NATO, which would result in its Kaliningrad wedged sandwiched between=20
Poland and Lithuania becoming surrounded by NATO members. But Baltic=20
defense ministers said Sunday reports that Russia has moved tactical=20
nuclear missiles into Kaliningrad would not block their bids to join NATO. =
=20
Clinton wants to submit declaration of principles for UN approval=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Kelly=20
Source: Middle East Newsline=20
Mon Jan 8,2001 -- President Bill Clinton will use the next 12 days of his=20
administration to draft a declaration of principles on Israeli-Palestinian =
peace=20
and submit it to the United Nations Security Council, officials said. Clint=
on=20
has sent his envoy, Dennis Ross, to seek approval for the declaration of=20
principles. Ross is expected to begin talks with Arafat and Barak on=20
Tuesday. If Ross obtains such approval, officials said, Clinton will submit=
the=20
declaration of principles to the UN Security Council, in a move that would=
=20
provide international legitimacy and commit future Israeli and Palestinian=
=20
administrations to the peace plan.=20=20
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Subject: [bprlist] Re: generations of Noah
From: "John Brough"
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:16:14 +1300
In reply to Stricker:
None of the genealogies in Genesis are a complete list of offspring of any
particular person - they all repeatedly use the phrase "...had other sons
and daughters..."
These things can be said:
1. We don't know if the child named is the eldest son or not - it could
simply be the names of the sons who carry on the story line. Thus a
particular person named could be the first son or the 10th or the 100th. We
have no way of knowing.
2. As daughters are rarely named in Scripture, nor are their births
recorded, we should not assume that even if the sons named are the eldest
son that there were no daughters born before them. I.e. the names do not
necessarily record the eldest CHILD even if it is the eldest son.
3. Most people assume, wrongly I think, that the son named is the eldest.
This assumption is simply a reult of lazy thinking. We only have to consider
the line of Christ to see that it was not always the eldest son in the
family that carried on the story line - David is a prime example. So we have
no compulsion to assume that the earlier parts of the genealogies record for
us only eldest sons.
4. It is possible that Noah had other sons both before and after Shem, Ham
and Japheth. We just do not know about them. The absense in Noah's case of
the phrase "...had other sons and daughters..." may (and probably does)
indicate he did not. But if he did then we can safely assume that they
followed the way of the world and were destroyed in the flood. The important
thing is that the three sons named share in Noah's faith and are the ones
who carry on the story line.
John in NZ
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Subject: [bprlist] Jan 8, 2001 TV Programs
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:48:13 -0500
8:00 PM
PBS National Geographic
"Asteroids: Deadly Impact" examines the likelihood of Earth being struck
and the possible impact of a strike.
A&E Biography
Jordan's Queen Noor.
HIS History's Mysteries
NASAs search for signs of life on Mars.
9:00
CBS 60 Minutes II
Let the Games Begin: Reality TV has jolted the country like a cultural
earthquake. Last summer 50 million people were taking part in it.
This American pop culture sensation isn't American at all; almost every one
of these programs is being developed in Europe. Coming soon to your living
room are dozens of new shows whose bizarre premises include everything
from chaining men and women together to putting some contestants in fear
of their lives. As Scott Pelley reports, television may never be the same.
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:58:50 -0500
U.S. TOLD NOT TO FORCE PEACE ON ISRAEL
America must not force Israel into peace with Palestinians, Natan
Sharansky, the former Soviet dissident tipped by many to be Israel's next
Foreign Minister, has told Dick Cheney. Their meeting in Washington last
week was the first between a foreign politician and the Vice President-
elect. Mr Sharansky, who became famous as the most prominent Jewish
dissident in the old Soviet Union, now leads Israel b'aliya, the largest
political party representing Russian immigrants. If Ariel Sharon defeats
Ehud Barak in next month's election for Prime Minister, Mr Sharansky will
lead his small party into coalition government.
After meeting Mr Cheney, he told the Telegraph: "I said America should
not be in the business of drawing maps, in particular quarters of Jerusalem,
or any other of Israel. There was no chance of the Israeli people accepting
such a plan." Mr Sharansky said that he had been critical of the "hands-on"
approach in peace meetings practised by President Clinton, who has been
trying to force a deal. He added that he had expressed severe scepticism
over the possibility of a role for international bodies, such as the UN or EU.
(The London Telegraph)
TURKS PUSH 100 MILES INTO IRAQ
At least 500 Turkish troops have pushed 100 miles into Kurdish-controlled
northern Iraq in their deepest incursion in the 15-year conflict, Iraqi Kurdish
officials said yesterday. The move was being seen as preparation for a
major offensive against 2,500 rebels of the separatist Kurdistan Workers'
Party (PKK) dug in along the Iran-Iraq border. According to reports in
Turkey, as many as 10,000 Turkish troops have poured into the Kurdish
controlled enclave since December 20 in response to pleas for help from
one of the main Iraqi Kurdish factions in the area.
The PKK and the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) have been at
war since September, with up to 200 PUK fighters reportedly killed in
recent weeks. The Turkish general staff issued a statement yesterday
denying the incursion. But the Prime Minister, Bulent Ecevit, said: "Turkey
is of course providing technical support. This is necessary for our own
security." Western diplomatic sources said they were aware of a Turkish
troop build-up in the region, which has brought strong protests from
Baghdad. "We are deeply concerned that it will further destabilise what is
already a highly unstable region and could even provide Saddam with an
excuse to intervene," a European diplomat based in Ankara said.
Osman Ocalan, brother of the captured PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, was
quoted by the Kurdish daily Ozgur Politika yesterday as saying: "The PUK
has invited Turkish troops to destroy the Kurdish national movement and
Kurdish unity. This intervention will only provoke further rebellions
throughout Kurdistan." Northern Iraq has remained under the control of 2
Iraqi Kurdish factions, the PUK and the Kurdistan Democratic Party
(KDP), since the Kurds' failed uprising against Saddam Hussein at the end
of the Gulf war. Millions of Kurdish civilians flocked to the Iranian and
Turkish borders, prompting the Allies to establish a "no fly zone" over the
region to protect them from possible attack by Saddam. The enclave has
been wracked by internal violence since 1992 and the PKK has been
fighting on and off with both groups in an effort to carve out territory for
itself in the region. (The London Telegraph)
CATHOLICS KEEP LEAD IN CONGRESS
Catholics continue to dominate numerically in the US Congress, followed by
Baptists and Methodists, a tally by Americans for Religious Liberty of
Maryland show. Of the 535 members of the 107th Congress, 150 are
Roman Catholic, including 91 Democrats (D) and 59 Republicans (R).
Baptist members increased by 3 to 72 (37 R; 34 D; 1 Ind). Methodists saw
the largest jump in numbers, adding 6 for a total of 65 (39 R; 26 D).
Presbyterians increased by 2 members to 49 (32 R; 17 D). Episcopalians
dropped by 1 to 41 (30 R; 11 D).
Jewish members saw an increase of 3 to 37 (33 D; 3 R; 1 Ind). The
number who identified themselves as "nondenominational Protestant"
decreased by 5 to 29 (19 R; 10 D). Rounding out the top 10 were: 20
Lutherans (11 D; 9 R), 15 Mormons (12 R; 3 D), 8 United Church of Christ
(5 R; 3 D). Seven members claimed no religious affiliation. There are no
Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu members. The top religious affiliations have
remained the same for decades, with Catholics as the largest religious bloc.
(Religious News Service)
MICHAEL TURNER
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Subject: [bprlist] Edupage items (1/8/01)
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:58:50 -0500
FBI TAKES AIM AT CYBERCRIME
The FBI introduced InfraGard, a network designed to alert
businesses about security threats to their information
systems. The program offers secure e-mail connections that let
business officials communicate with one another and also provides
security warnings from the FBI. Already, 518 firms have agreed
to participate in the program, the FBI reports. Among the
members are IBM, Ohio State University, Alcatel, and several
branches of the Federal Reserve Bank. The FBI conducts
background checks on each prospective member. InfraGard
represents the FBI's increased efforts to combat cybercrime. In
the last three years, the FBI has nearly tripled the cybercrime
cases it has investigated. However, FBI officials acknowledge
that InfraGard faces an uphill battle in attracting members
because many businesses are afraid to work with the government to
battle cybercrime. These businesses believe that the FBI shuts
down companies victimized by cyberattacks while it investigates
the crimes. This is not the case, FBI officials say. FBI
officials say the key to InfraGard's success is that businesses
feel secure enough to share information with one another.
(Washington Post, 6 January 2001)
WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES COULD LEAD TO AIRWAVE GRIDLOCK
The use of the 2.4 GHz band by new wireless devices could
interfere with other devices already using the band, such as
airplane computers. The band is already in heavy use, and the
transmissions of wireless devices could interfere with airplane
navigation systems. Despite interference concerns, the FCC decided
to go forward with plans to allow companies to use the band for
wireless devices. Engineers are now working feverishly to
construct wireless systems that do not cause interference.
Some engineers are confident that problems such as these will be
resolved as cellular technology advances. Spread spectrum
technology is used by many of today's wireless systems to avoid
interference. The technology allows the transmission signal to
move within a small range of frequencies to avoid collisions with
other signals. (Wall Street Journal, 8 January 2001)
TECH FUNDING NEARLY $3 BILLION IN RECORD ED BUDGET
The U.S. Department of Education budget for programs that support
technology in education has grown to more than $2.8 billion for
2001, out of a record increase of $6.5 billion for the department.
"We are very pleased with the budget we've gotten," said Linda
Roberts, White House advisor on educational technology. "This is
going to really help us follow up on the recommendations of the
Web-based Education Commission." In December the commission
issued a report, "The Power of the Internet for Learning:
Moving from Promise to Practice," on how the federal government
should encourage online learning. Federal spending on educational
technology is up more than 3,500 percent from 1993, when it was
only $23 million.
(eSchool News, 26 December 2000)
EUROPE'S INTERNET2
Europe is building a high-speed research network called GEANT
that will connect research institutions in 30 countries. GEANT,
similar to Internet2 in the United States, will run on a 2.5 Gbps
backbone and is expected to serve as a testing ground for new
applications in fields such as medicine and telecommunications.
For example, research on GEANT is expected to bring advances in
quality of service and multicasting technology, which will
eventually filter down to the commercial realm. The European
Union has promised to provide 80 million euros to help build the
research network, which is scheduled to go online in the middle
of 2001. (Network Magazine, December 2000)
E-MAIL, A VIRTUAL CLASS RING
Some colleges are offering life-long free e-mail accounts to
alumni as a way of maintaining ties with graduates. Hartwick
College in Oneonta, N.Y., allows students to maintain their e-mail
accounts after they graduate, while Berklee College of Music in
Boston provides free accounts with the word "alumni" added to the
address. Emory University also adds "alumni" to the address,
because some graduates wanted to ensure that employers and others
would not view them as students. Emory's alumni e-mail accounts
automatically forward messages to an account of the graduate's
choice. (New York Times--Education Life, 7 January 2001)
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:58:50 -0500
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Subject: Ha'aretz: PA appointed Jerusalem Mufti: Mount,
including Western Wall and the plaza in front of it,
is Waqf property
Ha'aretz: PA appointed Jerusalem Mufti: Mount, including Western Wall and
the plaza in front of it, is Waqf property
Ha'aretz 9 January 2001
Jerusalem Mufti Shiekh Ekrima Sabri yesterday issued a fatwa (Muslim
religious edict) proclaiming the entire Temple Mount area, seven stories
below and seven stories above belongs to the Muslim Waqf authority. The
area, continued the Mufti, is the property of God and cannot be transfered
to anyone else. Speak ing at a press conference at his office on the Temple
Mount, Sabri said the Western Wall and the plaza in front of it are part of
the holy Mount and are also Waqf property. He stressed there were no
political overtones in the timing or content of the fatwa , but that the
fatwa compelled a billion Muslims around the world to act accordingly.
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8 December 2001/13 Tevet 5761
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"If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget her skill. May my
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, If I do
not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy." [Psalm 137.5-6]
JERUSALEM RALLY NUMBERED AT 300,000 - 500,000!
Pictures! http://www.gamla.org.il/english/action/jerusalem/index.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1107000/1107203.stm
Video coverage [requires RealPlayer]:
http://www.jpradio.com/ram/audio1b.ram
Web coverage: http://info.jpost.com/C001/Supplements/JerusalemRally/
In what organizers called the largest gathering in the history of
Jerusalem, some 300,000 people thronged the streets around the walls of
the Old [Biblical] City Monday night in a massive rally for the unity of
Jerusalem. With the words "Jerusalem, I pledge" projected onto the wall
near Jaffa Gate and torches blazing along the ramparts, the crowd sang in
unison, "If I forget thee o Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its
cunning." Organizers estimated the turnout at some 400,000, while security
officials were quoted as saying 300,000 people attended.
The gathering was billed as non-partisan. Organizers took great care to
ensure that no political signs were in evidence. The participants were not
primarily from Judea, Samaria, the Gaza Strip, or the Jordan Valley; they
were from the entire spectrum of Israeli society. They came from as far
north as Kiryat Shmona and as far south as Eilat, and were native-born
Israelis, new immigrants, and Diaspora Jews, Russian speakers and English
speakers, religious and secular.
We will provide further information in this weekend's edition.
:: Meanwhile, in what must be one of the most boldest anti-G-d statements
ever made by a US president, Clinton told the people of Israel on Sunday
that their land is also the Palestinians' homeland and "there is no choice
but for you to divide this land into two states for two people." He said
"your dream of a homeland has come true," but when the Jewish people
returned home, they found "it was not vacant. You discovered that your
land was also their land, the homeland of two peoples." And, Clinton went
on, "the hard reality is that there is no choice but for you to divide
this land into two states for two people." He said he was sending veteran
U.S. mediator Dennis B. Ross to the region this week to talk to Israeli
and Palestinian leaders again.
"On that day the L-rd made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your
descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the
great river, the river Euphrates" [Genesis 15.18; see also Numbers 34.1-15]
"And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will
curse. And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
[Genesis 12.3]
[Sources: Jerusalem Post, BBC, AP, NASB]
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Subject: [bprlist] NASA plans risky landing on asteroid
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NASA plans risky landing on asteroid
By Dan Vergano
USA Today
January 8, 2001
If all goes well, NASA's latest mission in outer space would make Buck
Rogers proud.
Next month, NASA scientists plan the first "controlled descent" of a
spacecraft onto an asteroid's surface.
The landing would provide a dramatic finish for a yearlong mission to
explore Eros, a potato-shaped rock about 21 miles long that is among
countless other asteroids orbiting near our planet.
"It's a very risky landing," says mission head Robert Farquhar of the Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md. "But the
mission is ending, so we might as well try something spectacular."
The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft is running out of fuel and has
accomplished
nearly all its scientific goals. "Basically, we're out of money, out of
time, and we'll be out of fuel," Farquhar says.
On Feb. 12, controllers plan to land the spacecraft in a series of rocket
firings to slow its descent. The spacecraft has circled Eros since
Valentine's Day last year, capturing unparalleled looks at the surface of an
asteroid. The mission has revealed surprising complexity in the asteroid's
composition, Farquhar said. For instance, scientists learned geologic
activity of some unknown form reshapes the asteroid's surface.
In a series of fuel burns, controllers will cut the speed of the probe to
almost 7 mph. They hope to add a final burn to brake the craft to 2 mph.
Mission controllers don't know if the probe will survive the landing, bury
itself in dust, or even bounce back off the surface. "Call that a landing if
you want," says Farquhar, who gives the effort a 1 percent chance of
success.
Eros circles the sun on an eccentric path that takes it from within 12
million miles of Earth's orbit to beyond Mars, where it now sits, 150
million miles out from the sun.
If the landing succeeds, the probe will return little information aside from
its position, perhaps serving as a beacon for later explorers.
Examining the composition of nearby asteroids, leftovers from the formation
of the solar system, fascinates geologists interested in how our planet
formed, as well as astronomers concerned about how to estimate the
damage
such a rock would cause if it hit Earth.
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Subject: [bprlist] Genes can be patented: US patent office
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:58:50 -0500
Monday 8 January 2001
Genes can be patented: US patent office
WASHINGTON: Despite opposition from various quarters on political,
religious
and ethical grounds, the US Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that
companies can patent genes if they are pulled away from the rest of the
human genome, are cloned and their practical use described in detail.
Industry leaders who have hundreds of pending patents welcomed the ruling,
which has now been published in the federal register.
"The companies interested in patents," said Bill Tanner, a biotechnology
analyst with SG Cowen Securities in Boston, "are trying to clone genes and
find out what they do with the notion of discovering therapeutics. No
company is going to invest millions and billions of dollars in research and
development if there is not going to be any protection."
Just discovering a gene is neither useful in developing drugs nor
instructive, the patent office has said. The map of human genetic makeup, is
still off-limits for patenting because it lacks practical use and is a
product of nature.
"It is an attempt to strike a balance between encouraging scientists to make
discoveries, yet not give anyone an unnecessary monopoly," law Professor
Hank Greely of Stanford University's Programme of Law, Science and
Technology, told the San Jose Mercury News.
Alan Auerbach, an analyst with first security Van Kasper in Los Angeles,
called it an important ruling for companies involved in genomics. "It (gene
patenting) has been happening for many years and to try to question it (in
terms of morality) at this point is a futile exercise."(PTI)
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Subject: [bprlist] Want to make a 'poor person's copyright' of your DNA?
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:58:50 -0500
Want to make a 'poor person's copyright' of your DNA?
Copyright =A9 2001 Nando Media
Copyright =A9 2001 Christian Science Monitor Service
DNA project
By LAUREN GRAVITZ, Christian Science Monitor
OAKLAND, Calif. (January 8, 2001 6:13 p.m. EST=20
http://www.nandotimes.com) -
At Fremont High School in Oakland, biology lab goes beyond traditional frog
dissection and uses a touch of performance art to get at important science
lessons and the ethical issues behind them.
As part of his annual unit on genetics, 10th-grade biology teacher Steven
Miller asks his students to "copyright" their DNA -- a molecule that
scientists believe to be the basis of human biology because it holds the
blueprint for everything from the color of a person's hair to the shape of
one's nose.
The copyrighting exercise is a way of establishing students' claim on their
own DNA. It encourages them to think beyond the biological aspects of DNA
and confront moral concerns sparked by the patenting and sale of genetic
material.
The technique is easy and inexpensive. First, each student self-addresses a=
n
envelope. Standing next to the front page of the local newspaper, they pose
for photos -- tongue sticking out with postage stamp attached.
Human cheeks shed cells constantly inside the mouth. By licking a stamp,=20
or
the glue on an envelope, cheek cells on the tongue stick to the glue. As th=
e
glue dries, the cheek cells and their DNA are fixed into place.
The newspaper provides a date-stamp for the picture, and when the students
mail the pictures to themselves, the government postmark on the sealed
envelope makes the date official. When the process is complete, students
have created what's known as a "poor person's copyright" for their DNA.
A similar process has long been used by artists and songwriters to
informally copyright their work. Although the DNA version may not hold up i=
n
a courtroom, it serves Miller's purpose by making his lessons tangible.
"The problem teachers face is that we're presenting a lot of this material
in an abstract way already, and the kids are getting antsy because we
haven't been doing too many labs," Miller says. "So how do you raise the
ethical questions -- which the kids like -- in a way that's got a hands-on
aspect to it?"
Miller found his answer in the "DNA Project." Founded by San Francisco
artist Marilyn Donahue, the grass-roots venture aims to get people thinking
about genetics research and patenting. Donahue sees her act of copyrighting
DNA as a type of performance art that continues to have an impact.
She also wanted to help educate people about science, partly because of her
background in pharmacology. "I saw that the public didn't get involved in
scientific issues until it was too late, and then it would become a fear
reaction. I think it's important that people get involved in the discussion
at a much earlier point," she says.
Miller read about Donahue's project and is now in his second year of using
the idea in his classroom. That's a move that pleases Donahue because, she
says, "the children are inheriting this whole problem."
Miller had been searching for a way to expand his lessons because his=20
school
lacks the equipment to go much further than extracting DNA from a kiwi
fruit. He took his cue from the school's bright green biology textbook,
which begins its chapter on genetics by discussing the John Moore decision
of 1991.
In this case, the courts decided that a line of cancer cells, and the
profits from their sale, did not belong to the man whose body produced the
cells, but to the researchers who removed and cultivated them.
The idea that a person's cells might not belong to him, along with the
recent explosion of DNA patenting by biotechnology companies, are issues
that Miller says his students can get passionate about.
When Ingrid Jeffers, now an 11th-grader at Fremont, got the copyrighting
assignment last year, her first reaction was, "What? Are you crazy?" But sh=
e
began to take the lesson seriously when she learned about gene patenting=20
and
the possibility that corporations could patent human genes and use their
findings to make a profit.
"The fact that the U.S. is letting other people patent our genes is wrong,"
she says.
Donahue and Miller estimate that up to 1,000 people now hold an informal
copyright for their own DNA. Miller says his students relate to the issues
of individual rights partly because they often feel like victims of the
police or other forms of institutional power.
He has the students read a variety of magazine articles and a United Nation=
s
statement on the uses and abuses of DNA patenting. He also covers such
current events as the human genome project -- a collaborative research
effort to map the human system's 23 pairs of chromosomes (coiled up=20
strands
of DNA, each with hundreds or thousands of genes).
"Knowledge requires a context, and to act upon knowledge requires a
context," he says. "But communicating the context is challenging."
It's not easy to get discussions going on patent law, Miller says. Yet this
project has managed to inspire some enthusiasm and strong opinions. Miller
asks his students to articulate those views in hypothetical letters to
Congress.
Marquitta Wesley, one of last year's students, sums up her thoughts this
way: "I think it should be your choice what you do with your DNA," she says=
.
Easy steps to 'copyright' DNA
This largely symbolic exercise is encouraged by people concerned about
corporate use of DNA:
Take a photo of yourself licking a stamp, including that day's newspaper to
show the date. Cells containing DNA stick to the glue.
Put the stamp on an envelope and mail the photo to yourself, so the date is
confirmed by the post office.
Keep the envelope (unopened) in case someone else ever claims to own your
DNA.
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Subject: [bprlist] Infobeat News items (1/8/01)
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:58:51 -0500
*** U.S., Britain question Iraqi funds
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. sanctions committee on Iraq deadlocked
Monday on an Iraqi request to give the Palestinians $949 million
from its oil-sale proceeds after the United States and Britain said
the money should be spent on suffering Iraqis, not Palestinians. The
chairman of the committee, Norwegian Ambassador Ole Peter Kolby,
said the Iraqi request would be taken up at a future meeting and
that he would meet with the Palestinian envoy to check his views
about the proposal. Iraq's foreign minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf
asked the Security Council last month to allocate the money this
year from its U.N.-supervised oil sales to support the Palestinian
uprising. In particular, the Iraqis said they wanted to compensate
the families of the Palestinian victims and provide them with food
and medicine in a show of solidarity with their cause. More than 360
people, most of them Palestinians, have been killed in near-daily
clashes with Israeli troops.
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=405744325
*** Right wing group claims attack
POTSDAM, Germany (AP) - An extreme right-wing group has claimed
responsibility for an overnight arson attack on a Jewish cemetery in
this eastern German town, officials said Monday. The facade and
interior of the cemetery's hall of mourning were damaged when a hole
was burned in its door during the night, police said. Investigators
found a note at the site from a group calling itself the "National
Movement," Brandenburg state interior minister Joerg Schoenbohm
said. The group is known to police as a far-right movement with few
members, he said. Such vandalism is fairly frequent in Germany, but
only rarely are there claims of responsibility. The cemetery hit in
this case has been targeted before, notably last October when
unknown assailants painted a gallows over the Star of David on its
door. Schoenbohm announced a reward of $4,880 for information on the
people who carried out the attack. He also said police seized
weapons and propaganda during weekend raids on rightists in the
state. Germany has struggled to stem a rising wave of hate crimes
and is pursuing a ban on an extreme-right political party that has
been compared to the Nazis.
*** Toddler killers win ID court order
LONDON (AP) - A judge has barred the media from disclosing the new
identities of two teen-agers who will soon be eligible for parole in
the torture slaying of a toddler - one of the most notorious
killings in recent British history. In an unprecedented order
Monday, Judge Elizabeth-Butler Sloss said she was convinced that Jon
Venables and Robert Thompson, both now 18, would be in danger if the
public knew who they were and where they lived. Venables and
Thompson were 10 years old when they abducted, tortured and killed
2-year-old James Bulger in 1993. They are eligible for release this
year, and new identities will be created for them. Media
organizations that opposed the order were granted permission to
appeal. The order applies only in England and Wales. Thompson and
Venables were convicted in 1993 of taking the toddler from a
shopping center in the north England town of Bootle to a railway
line two miles away, where they beat him to death. They were
identified from shopping center video images.
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=405744274
*** Astronomers find quasars, galaxies
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Astronomers have found what may be the largest
structure in the observable universe - an immense concentration of
quasars and galaxies clustered across more than 600 million light
years. The structure, which would include billions upon billions of
stars like the sun, is 6.5 billion light years away, which means the
cluster existed when the universe was just a third of its present
age of about 10 billion years. The light that revealed the cluster
actually started its long journey before formation of the solar
system, which includes the Earth. When viewed from Earth, the
structure is just below the center of the constellation Leo the
Lion. It spans an area of the sky of two degrees by five degrees, an
area about forty times that of the full moon as seen from Earth.
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=405739209
*** Bush to be sworn in on dad's Bible
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect George W. Bush intends to take the
oath of office with his left hand on the same Bible his father swore
on 12 years ago. Inauguration organizers announced a number of
details Monday about the program for Inauguration Day, including
Bush's intention to use the Bible. In addition to his father, other
presidents sworn in on the same book were George Washington on April
30, 1789, as well as Warren G. Harding, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and
Jimmy Carter. The Jan. 20 ceremony will begin with a musical prelude
by the U.S. Marine Band, followed by welcoming remarks from Sen.
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., chairman of the Joint Congressional
Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. The Rev. Billy Graham will give
the invocation, followed by a musical selection from the Youth
Performing Arts Choir of DuPont Manual High School in Louisville,
Ky.
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) OPENING REMARKS OF PRIME MINISTER EHUD BARAK
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:58:51 -0500
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Subject: CORRECTION -OPENING REMARKS OF
PRIME MINISTER EHUD BARAK - COUNCIL ON
FOREIGN RELATIONS JANUARY 8, 2001
Correction: OPENING REMARKS OF PRIME MINISTER EHUD BARAK - COUNCIL ON
FOREIGN RELATIONS
JANUARY 8, 2001
(IMRA: Source: Israel Government Press Office- original also all in caps.
[President Clinton spoke at The ISRAEL POLICY FORUM, an organization set up
to support the Labor Party in the United States and also to provide campaign
funds to the Labor Party in Israel - it has no relation to the Council on
Foreign Relations]
It is interesting to note that while in this presentation Barak says he
wants to bring the agreement to the Israeli public to decide, in the very
same talk he explains that he would like the international community to
adopt the principles of this agreement BEFORE the citizens of Israel have
had their say so that Israel faces the choice between accepting the deal or
defying the United Nations. Israel Radio diplomatic correspondent Yoni Ben
Menachem reported on 9 January that experts in the Foreign Ministry warned
today that a presidential declaration or a declaration adopted or supported
by the international community would be agaisnt Israel's interests as it
would tie the hands of the next elected Israeli Government.)
THANK YOU LES AND THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, AND HELLO TO
EVERYONE WHO IS ON THE LINE WITH US TODAY.
I AM SO PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE WITH YOU FROM JERUSALEM.
I, OF COURSE, GREATLY APPRECIATE THE CALIBER OF DISCUSSION THAT TAKES
PLACE IN THIS PRESTIGIOUS FORUM ON SO MANY IMPORTANT ISSUES.
THANK YOU FOR INVITING ME TO GIVE THE LEFFINGWELL LECTURE, AND TO
SHARE MY VIEWS ON ISRAEL'S ENGAGEMENT IN THE PEACE PROCESS, AS WELL
AS OUR POLICIES IN RECENT WEEKS AND MONTHS.
BEFORE I BEGIN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I'D LIKE TO TAKE ONE BRIEF
MOMENT TO REVIEW SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENTS THAT LED US TO WHERE WE ARE
TODAY.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE ARAB-ISRAEL CONFLICT PARALLELS THE CREATION, AND
ULTIMATE COLLISION, OF TWO SEPARATE NATIONAL MOVEMENTS: THAT OF THE
JEWISH PEOPLE AND THAT OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
OUR JEWISH HISTORICAL TRADITION INCORPORATES STRONG TIES TO THE LAND
OF ISRAEL AND A LONG MEMORY OF POLITICAL AND PHYSICAL DESTRUCTION
THROUGHOUT THE AGES.
THE BIRTH OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL REPRESENTS FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE THE
TRIUMPH OF AN ANCIENT DREAM OF INDEPENDENCE OVER CENTURIES OF
VICTIMIZATION WITHOUT OUR HOMELAND.
SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN THE 19TH CENTURY, THE JEWISH NATIONAL MOVEMENT
- THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT - HAS BEEN A POLITICAL MOVEMENT.
ZIONISM, FOR THE MOST PART, FAVORED VIABLE AND PRAGMATIC POLITICAL
OPTIONS OVER RISKY MILITARY CAMPAIGNS.
WE HAVE ALWAYS ACKNOWLEDGED THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INTERNATIONAL
RECOGNITION AND LEGITIMACY.
MOREOVER, ON THE BASIS OF SHARED DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND ETHICS, WE
ALLIED OURSELVES WITH THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN WORLD WAR I, WITH THE
ALLIES IN WORLD WAR II, AND, ABOVE ALL, WITH THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA. THIS POLITICAL WISDOM, COUPLED WITH THE UNIQUE STRENGTH OF
OUR PEOPLEHOOD, ARE THE TRUE SECRETS OF OUR OUTSTANDING SUCCESS.
IN 1967, IN A CAMPAIGN OF SELF-DEFENSE AND LAST RESORT, ISRAEL
ACHIEVED AN ASTOUNDING MILITARY VICTORY.
THE CONTINUATION OF OUR CONTROL OVER THESE TERRITORIES GRADUALLY
BROUGHT INTO QUESTION THE ETHICAL FOUNDATION OF OUR STATE:
WE COULD NOT RECONCILE OUR LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC VALUES WITH THE REALITY
THAT WAS CREATED THROUGH OCCUPATION OF THE WEST BANK AND THE GAZA
STRIP.
IN 1993, LATE PRIME MINISTER RABIN MADE AN HISTORIC, STRATEGIC
DECISION TO CHOOSE THE PATH OF A SMALLER ISRAEL, IN KEEPING WITH TRUE
JEWISH VALUES OF HUMANISM AND SOCIAL EQUALITY, AS WELL AS ENSURING A
FUNDAMENTAL JEWISH DEMOGRAPHY AND CHARACTER. PRIME MINISTER RABIN
BROUGHT US BACK TO THE VERY HEART OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT.
SINCE THEN, ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE HAS BEEN TO CREATE AN
INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED POLITICAL REALITY IN WHICH ISRAEL
DISENGAGES ITSELF FROM THE PALESTINIANS.
FOR THIS PURPOSE WE HAVE CONCLUDED MORE THAN TEN AGREEMENTS AND
PROTOCOLS WITH THE PLO, FROM THE GAZA-JERICHO AGREEMENT TO THE WYE
RIVER MEMORANDUM.
THESE UNDERSTANDINGS WERE BASED ON ONE SIMPLE CONCEPT: DURING A
FIVE-YEAR INTERIM PERIOD, AN INFRASTRUCTURE OF PALESTINIAN
INSTITUTIONS WOULD BE ESTABLISHED IN ORDER TO ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY
OVER THE TERRITORY AND PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE TRANSFERRED TO THEIR
CONTROL.
IT WAS OUR HOPE THAT AT THE END OF THIS INTERIM PERIOD, MUTUAL
CONFIDENCE WOULD HAVE GROWN, AND WE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN A MUCH BETTER
POSITION TO ADDRESS THE DIFFICULT CORE ISSUES RESERVED FOR THE
NEGOTIATIONS ON THE PERMANENT STATUS AGREEMENT.
THESE ISSUES INCLUDE JERUSALEM, SETTLEMENTS, BORDERS, REFUGEES, AND
SECURITY.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE REALITY WAS DIFFERENT.
WHILE ISRAEL GRADUALLY TRANSFERRED TERRITORIES TO THE PALESTINIAN
SIDE, THE PALESTINIANS FAILED TO PREPARE ITS PUBLIC FOR THE KIND OF
CONCESSIONS THAT WOULD BE NECESSARY IF A PERMANENT STATUS AGREEMENT
WAS TO BE ACHIEVED.
IN THE WYE RIVER MEMORANDUM, THE NETANYAHU-SHARON GOVERNMENT
CONTINUED THIS DANGEROUS PATH OF GRADUAL TRANSFER OF TERRITORIES WITH
NO PROGRESS ON THE PERMANENT STATUS ISSUES.
THAT GOVERNMENT WASTED 3 YEARS, AND OFFERED THE REGION NO ALTERNATIVE
FRAMEWORK FOR THE POLITICAL PROCESS.
AT THE SAME TIME, WE WITNESSED AN UNPRECEDENTED UPGRADE IN THE STATUS
OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY TO THE POINT OF BECOMING A QUASI-STATE;
AND, THE INTRODUCTION, FOR THE FIRST TIME, OF A VIABLE,
INTERNATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED PALESTINIAN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PROCESS OF
DIALOGUE AND NEGOTIATION: THE UNILATERAL DECLARATION OF STATEHOOD.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
SINCE ITS INCEPTION, MY GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN DETERMINED TO MAKE EVERY
EFFORT TO ACHIEVE AN AGREEMENT OF LASTING AND SECURE PEACE WITH THE
PALESTINIANS, AND TO BRING THIS AGREEMENT TO A NATIONAL REFERENDUM OF
THE ISRAELI PEOPLE.
IN JULY 1999, WHEN MY GOVERNMENT TOOK OFFICE, TWO STAGES OF THE WYE
RIVER MEMORANDUM HAD NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED, AND THERE WAS NO AGREED
FRAMEWORK FOR NEGOTIATIONS.
IN ADDITION, THE PALESTINIAN SIDE HAD RAISED THE OPTION OF UDI IN THE
ABSENCE OF NEGOTIATIONS, AND THERE WAS NO WAY OF ASSESSING
PALESTINIAN EXPECTATIONS FROM THE PERMANENT STATUS AGREEMENT.
WE HAD TO DESIGN A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR THE POLITICAL PROCESS.
THIS WAS THE SHARM MEMORANDUM, CONCLUDED ON SEPTEMBER 4, 1999,
WHEREBY WE AGREED THAT ISRAEL AND THE PLO WILL FIRST NEGOTIATE THE
FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT ON PERMANENT STATUS (FAPS), FOLLOWED BY THE
COMPREHENSIVE AGREEMENT ON PERMANENT STATUS (CAPS).
THOSE TWO AGREEMENTS WOULD CONSTITUTE THE PERMANENT STATUS AGREEMENT.
THE MEMORANDUM INCORPORATED THE INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN THE THIRD
FURTHER REDEPLOYMENT AND PERMANENT TERRITORIAL ARRANGEMENTS.
THE UNDERLYING LOGIC OF THE SHARM MEMORANDUM WAS THAT ALL ISSUES
RESERVED FOR THE PERMANENT STATUS NEGOTIATIONS ARE INTERRELATED, AND
THAT NO SINGLE ISSUE CAN BE ISOLATED. THIS MEMORANDUM PUT AN END TO
THE GRADUAL TRANSFER OF TERRITORY WITHIN INTERIM ARRANGEMENTS, AND
OPENED THE WAY FOR ADDRESSING THE ISSUES RESERVED FOR THE PERMANENT
STATUS AGREEMENT.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECALL HERE THAT THE 1993 DECLARATION OF
PRINCIPLES, IN ITS PREAMBLE, STATES THAT THE PARTIES "...AGREE THAT
IT IS TIME TO PUT AN END TO DECADES OF CONFRONTATION AND CONFLICT
..." OTHER AGREEMENTS CONTAIN SIMILAR LANGUAGE.
THIS IS MOST RELEVANT AS IT UNDERSCORES OUR PRIMARY POLITICAL AND
LEGAL OBJECTIVE: THAT THE FAPS WILL ACTUALLY CONSTITUTE THE END OF
THE
ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT AND WILL BRING ABOUT A FINALITY OF
CLAIMS. THIS, MY FRIENDS, IS THE CORNERSTONE OF OUR ENGAGEMENT IN
PERMANENT STATUS NEGOTIATIONS.
THE DECLARATION REGARDING THE END OF THE CONFLICT IS, FIRST AND
FOREMOST, A POLITICAL STATEMENT. ITS MESSAGE IS CLEAR: AS OF THIS
MOMENT WE NO LONGER DEFINE THE STATE OF OUR RELATIONS AS "IN
CONFLICT," BUT RATHER AS "IN PEACE" OR "IN GOOD NEIGHBORLY
RELATIONS".
THE ISSUE OF "FINALITY OF CLAIMS" HAS FAR-REACHING LEGAL
IMPLICATIONS.
WE EXPECT THE FAPS TO IDENTIFY AND RESOLVE ALL ISSUES REGARDING
CLAIMS THAT EITHER PARTY HAS AGAINST THE OTHER.
IN PRACTICAL TERMS FOR ISRAEL, THE END OF CONFLICT MEANS AN
ACCEPTABLE RESPONSE TO ISRAELI SECURITY CONCERNS; PALESTINIAN
RECOGNITION OF YERUSHALAIM AS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL; TERMINATION OF
THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE ISSUE; AND A PALESTINIAN COMMITMENT TO THE
PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF ALL DISPUTES.
WE ARE CONVINCED THAT THIS REPRESENTS NOT ONLY FAIR, GOOD-FAITH
EXPECTATIONS, BUT ALSO THE ONLY WAY TO FULLY INSURE THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AGREEMENT.
AT THE SAME TIME, WE HAD TO CONFRONT ANOTHER CHALLENGE, NAMELY THE
PALESTINIAN STRUCTURE OF DECISION-MAKING.
ARAFAT IS THE SOLE DECISION-MAKER AND DOES NOT DISCLOSE HIS QUID PRO
QUO TO ANY OF HIS NEGOTIATORS. EACH PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATOR HAS A
DIFFERENT QUID PRO QUO.
PUT TOGETHER IN THE SAME ROOM, THIS IS A RECIPE FOR IMPASSE.
FURTHERMORE, ARAFAT HAS NEVER MADE A MAJOR POLITICAL DECISION WITHOUT
EXPLORING ALL POLITICAL AND MILITARY OPTIONS.
A ROUND OF VIOLENCE BEFORE THE CONCLUSION OF AN AGREEMENT WAS FULLY
ANTICIPATED.
THEREFORE, WE KNEW THAT IN THE FINAL PHASES WE WOULD HAVE TO BRING
THE PROCESS, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, TO THE POINT WHERE ARAFAT, HIMSELF,
COULD NOT AVOID MAKING DECISIONS.
AT CAMP DAVID WE WERE ABLE, FOR THE FIRST TIME, TO TOUCH ON THE MOST
SENSITIVE ISSUES OF ALL
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:58:51 -0500
1. Bus attacked by stone throwers in Samaria=09
2. Pro-Jerusalem rally attracts over 250,000=09
3. Border police base attacked by gunfire late Monday night=09
4. IDF HQ in Shchem (Nablus) area attacked by gunfire=09
5. Gadid attacked from Khan Yunis=09
6. Southern Gaza DCO attacked by gunfire=09
7. IDF position in Beit Horon attacked by gunfire=09
8. Hand grenade attack in Nazareth=09
9. Hamas claims responsibility for Netanya car bomb attack=09
10. Border police in Jenin area attacked with gunfire=09
11. IDF positions near Erez attacked by gunfire=09
12. IDF position in Netzarim attacked by gunfire=09
13. Lunar eclipse on Tuesday night=09
14. Special Knesset session on Tuesday to deal with security issues=20
15. Ambassador Ross to arrive on Wednesday=09
16. Israel: Agreement to end violence & attacks =96 PA say no=09
17. Ofer base attacked by gunfire=09
18. FM Ben-Ami: PA accepted Tenet documents=09
19. Harith resident killed by IDF gunfire near Qalkilya=09
**********************************************************************
9-JAN-01 =96 9:51am =96 Recap-Mon. night to Tue. Morning & more
**********************************************************************
=20
1. Bus attacked by stone throwers in Samaria
(BNI-JAN.9) An Egged passenger bus was attacked by stone-throwers from=20
the
Arab village of Luban a-Sharqiya on Tuesday morning. There were no
injuries. The bus was damaged.=20
Luban is located in Samaria, on Route 60, north of the Gush Shilo
community of Eli.=20=20
++++
2. Pro-Jerusalem rally attracts over 250,000
(BNI-JAN.9) The pro-Jerusalem rally in and around the Old City on Monday
evening attracted supporters from around the country, representing a
cross-section of the Israeli population and political stream. The common
denominator was the call to the government of Israel not to make land
concessions in any peace deal with the PA that includes Israel=92s capital.
Mayor Ehud Olmert was critical of US President Bill Clinton, the first US
president to ever request that Israel divide its capital. He also lashed
out at Prime Minister Ehud Barak for his willingness to make land
concessions to the PA that would turn control over portions of Jerusalem
and holy sites to a foreign power.
Ronal Lauder, the President of the Presidents Conference of Major Jewish
Organization spoke to the crowd, explaining that he was present in his
capacity as a private citizen and Jew, not representing the conference.=20
The conference voted not to officially participate in the event which
leaders of America=92s Reform Movement called =91political=92. Reform leade=
rs
were extremely critical of Lauder=92s decision to attend, even in a private
capacity, and took offence to his comments made to the crowd in=20
attendance.
Avital Sharansky, wife of MK Natan Sharansky, also know as the former
Soviet prisoner of conscience Anatoli Sharansky, telling the crowd that
she and other former Soviet resident yearned to make it to Israel and the
dream of Jerusalem is what kept their dreams alive.
Jerusalem District Police Commander Mickey Levy stated that over 250,000
persons were present at the event.
Jerusalem Post =96 300,000
Haaretz =96 250,000
HaTzofe =96 400,000 (quoting =91unofficial police estimates=92)
Yediot Ahronot =96 =93hundreds of thousands=94
Ma=92ariv =96 Over 300,000=20=20
++++
3. Border police base attacked by gunfire late Monday night
(BNI-JAN.9) The Border Police base near the PA autonomous city of Tul
Qarem was attacked by gunfire late Monday night. There were no reported
injuries. Soldiers returned fire.=20=20
++++
4. IDF HQ in Shchem (Nablus) area attacked by gunfire
(BNI-JAN.9) The IDF headquarters in the Shchem area of northern Samaria
was attacked by gunfire. No injuries. Soldiers did not return fire.=20=20
++++
5. Gadid attacked from Khan Yunis
(BNI-JAN.9) The southern Gaza community of Gadid was attacked by gunfire
late Monday night from the PA autonomous city of Khan Yunis. There were=20
no
reported injuries. Soldiers returned fire.=20=20
++++
6. Southern Gaza DCO attacked by gunfire
(BNI-JAN.9) The southern Gaza DCO (District Coordinating Office) on Monday
night was attacked by gunfire. There were no reported injuries.=20=20=20
++++
7. IDF position in Beit Horon attacked by gunfire
(BNI-JAN.9) The IDF base in Beit Horon was attacked with gunfire late
Monday night. There were no reported injuries.=20=20
++++
8. Hand grenade attack in Nazareth
(BNI-JAN.9) A hand grenade was hurled at a Nazareth home at about=20
10:00pm
Monday night. The grenade landed outside the home and caused minimal
property damage. Police report the attack was motivated by an ongoing feud
between Arab families.=20=20
++++
9. Hamas claims responsibility for Netanya car bomb attack
(BNI-JAN.9) The Hamas terror organization on Monday night claimed
responsibility for the January 1, 2001 car bomb attack on Netanya=92s Herzl
Street. The Hamas statement identified the bomber as Hamas Abu Hitzila, a
student in Shchem (Nablus) and a member of a prominent family in the PA
autonomous city.
The terrorist, a member of the Izzadin el-Qassim wing of Hamas, died of
his injuries on Monday morning in Beilinson Hospital where he was comatose
since the blast.=20=20
++++
10. Border police in Jenin area attacked with gunfire
(BNI-JAN.9) The border police base in the Jenin area was attacked by
gunfire during the night. There were no reported injuries. Soldiers
returned fire.=20=20
++++
11. IDF positions near Erez attacked by gunfire
(BNI-JAN.9) IDF positions at Erez, in northern Gaza, were attacked by
gunfire during the night. There were no injuries to IDF forces that
returned fire.=20=20
++++
12. IDF position in Netzarim attacked by gunfire
(BNI-JAN.9) The IDF position in Netzarim, in Gaza, was attacked by gunfire
during the night. There were no injuries to IDF forces that returned fire.
++++
13. Lunar eclipse on Tuesday night
(BNI-JAN.9) According to scientists, at 8:42pm, the first phase of the
first total lunar eclipse of the 21st century will be visible from Israel.
At 9:50pm, more of the moon will be blocked from our view as the total
phase get underway.=20
For additional information, one may see
http://www.skypub.com/sights/eclipses/lunar/0101totallunar.html=20=20=20
++++
14. Special Knesset session on Tuesday to deal with security issues
(BNI-JAN.9) The Knesset will convene on Tuesday in a special session to
discuss the security session in Israel. The parliament is convening upon
request of members of the opposition and coalition parties.=20=20
++++
15. Ambassador Ross to arrive on Wednesday
(BNI-JAN.9) US special envoy to the Middle East Ambassador Dennis Ross=20
is
scheduled to arrive in Israel on Wednesday to engage in shuttle diplomacy
in the hope of achieving a peace treaty prior to US President Bill Clinton
leaving office.
Following a meeting in New York City between Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright and UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan, Albright commented that the
administration will continue its efforts during the last two weeks in
office in the hope of achieving an agreement between Israel and the PA. =
=20
++++
16. Israel: Agreement to end violence & attacks =96 PA say no
(BNI-JAN.9) The Prime Minister=92s Office on Monday issued a statement that
during the Cairo security summit, there was agreement by all parties in
attendance to work towards the reduction of violence and the elimination
of terrorism.=20
The PA=92s Gaza Security Chief Mohammed Dahlan responded to the official
statement, explaining that no such agreement was reached at the Cairo
summit attended by representatives of Israel, the PA, Egypt and CIA
Director George Tenet. According to Dahlan, the PA representatives to the
summit rejected Israeli requests to deal with demands that the PA curtail
the activities of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists.=20
Dahlan added that after Israel ceases its oppression of the Palestinian
people, then the PA will entertain requests to work to stop terrorism. =
=20
++++
17. Ofer base attacked by gunfire
(BNI-JAN.9) The IDF Ofer base, west of the PA autonomous city of Ramallah,
in Samaria, was attacked by gunfire close to midnight. There were not
reported injuries. Soldiers returned fire.=20=20
++++
18. FM Ben-Ami: PA accepted Tenet documents
(BNI-JAN.9) Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami stated on Tuesday morning=20
that
Israel received notification late Monday night that the PA had accepted
the proposals put forward at the four-way Cairo security summit by George
Tenet, the director of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).
Ben-Ami stated the documents contained eight points directly involving
security issues. Ben-Ami stated that the PA had accepted the documents
despite denials by PA Gaza Security Chief Mohammad Dahlan.=20=20
++++
19. Harith resident killed by IDF gunfire near Qalkilya
(BNI-JAN.9) A resident of the Arab village of Harith, near Ariel in
Samaria, was killed by IDF gunfire on Monday night near the autonomous
city of Qalkilya.
Security officials explained that the dead man was among a group that were
throwing rocks at the Jewish community of Alfei Menashe. Soldiers fired at
the legs of rioters. It was explained that the victim was killed by that
gunfire.
Prior to the IDF statements, PA sources accused Yesha residents of the
shooting death with one =91eyewitness=92 telling authorities he saw =93a se=
ttler
open fire.=94=20=20
------------------
1. Wachsman beaten, bound and robbed in Jerusalem home=09
2. Ranaana stabbing leaves victim in serious condition=09
3. Meetings of senior IDF officers and PA counterparts not set at this
time=09
4. Gunfire directed at Shdema base=09
5. PA appointed Mufti: Temple Mount and Wall belong to Islam=09
6. Document: MK Kleiner letter to Attorney General on use of term "peace
cabinet"=09
7. Tourism continues to plunge due to regional violence and attacks=20
8. Zo Artzeinu calls for civil disobedience in opposition to government=09
9. Birthright Group Visits Judea & Samaria for First Time=09
10. Mitchell murderer sentenced to 20 years=09
11. PA sources: IDF troops shot and killed 27-year-old=09
12. Shooting victim showing signs of improvement=09
13. Major LSD find in TA on Tuesday morning=09
14. Police investigating explosive device planted under TA car=09
***************************
9-JAN-01 =96 12:30pm
***************************
1. Wachsman beaten, bound and robbed in Jerusalem home
(BNI-JAN.9) Mr. Yehuda Wachsman and a housekeeper were bound and=20
beaten
in their Ramot, Jerusalem home on Tuesday morning. Police report three
masked men entered the home, beat the two, tied them and then made off
with stolen properties.=20
Wachsman is the father of IDF Sergeant Nachshon Wachsman who was=20
killed by
Islamic terrorists in the village of Bir Nabala.=20=20=20
++++
2. Ranaana stabbing leaves victim in serious condition
(BNI-JAN.9) A man was stabbed and seriously wounded on a Ranaana=20
building
site a short time ago. He was transported to a local hospital. No
additional information is available at this time.=20=20
++++
3. Meetings of senior IDF officers and PA counterparts not set at this time
(BNI-JAN.9) IDF officials report that at this time, there has been no time
set for meetings of senior IDF commanders who were scheduled to meet with
their PA counterparts on Tuesdays in an effort to renew security
cooperation.
++++
4. Gunfire directed at Shdema base
(BNI-JAN.9) Gunfire was directed at the IDF=92s Shdema base in the Bethlehe=
m
district a short time ago. There were no reported injuries. Soldiers
returned fire.
The base is located on the southern border of the PA autonomous
municipality of Beit Sachur, the origin of the gunfire.=20
++++
5. PA appointed Mufti: Temple Mount and Wall belong to Islam
(BNI-JAN.9) The PA appointed Jerusalem Mufti Sheik Arama Tsabari has
issued a statement exclaiming that in addition to the Temple Mount, the
Western Wall and its plaza are the properties of the Moslem Waqf Authority
and there can be no compromise on the holy sites.
In the sheik=92s fatwa (Moslem religious proclamation), the leading Islamic
religious figure stated the entire Temple Mount including seven stories up
and down as well as the Western Wall and the Western Wall Plaza all
belonged to the nation of Islam and on this, there could be no compromise.
He added that since the properties belonged to God, they were not
permitted to negotiate the holy sites.=20=20
++++
6. Document: MK Kleiner letter to Attorney General on use of term "peace
cabinet"
(BNI-JAN.9) The following is IMRA's translation of a letter from Michael
Kleiner, Member of Knesset [Herut]:
Mr. Elyakim Rubinstein, Attorney General
8 January 2001
Greetings,
Recently the prime minister has been holding meeting of a body that has
earned the label "peace cabinet". This "cabinet" carries out
deliberations relating to Israel's policy in the peace process and
Clinton's proposals and perhaps also other matters.
This body, that has the appearance of a government body and also bears the
name of a government body (cabinet), has members who are also Members=20
of
Knesset.
Firstly, it is improper that a government body should include Knesset
members as this infringes on the principle of the separation of
authorities.
Secondly, this body does not have the legal standing of a government
cabinet, and its name may deceive the public into thinking that the
decisions of this body have the same standing as government decisions or
obligate the government.
Thirdly, it is possible that the decisions reached in this forum may at
lest informally obligate the Government of Israel.
I have not succeeded in receiving the names of those always invited to the
meetings of this cabinet. The secretariat of the government advised me
that it does not handle the inviting of the members of the "cabinet" to
these meetings and that the prime minister's office is responsible for the
invitations. The prime minister's office manager, Gilad Sher, asked for a
formal request from my office and without this is not prepared to provide
me with this "secret" information that includes the list of members of the
peace "cabinet" and their status (as members or observers). It is not
clear to me also to what extent the decisions of this "cabinet" obligate
the government.
I would appreciate it if you would immediately intervene to put an end to
the use of the deceptive name peace "cabinet". If the prime minister is
interested in a political forum of coalition members which includes both
members in the government and others who are not member of the=20
government
to advise him and support him - this is legitimate. But the public has
the right to know that this is a political forum and not a government
forum. I would likewise appreciate it if you would instruct the prime
minister to avoid having discussions that should take place in the real
cabinet before elements who are not part of the government and do not bear
ministerial responsibility.
Best regards,
Michael Kleiner, Member of Knesset (IMRA - Independent Media Review &
Analysis, imra@netvision.net.il - http://www.imra.org.il)=20=20
++++
=20
7. Tourism continues to plunge due to regional violence and attacks
(BNI-JAN.9) According to the Israel Hoteliers Association, during the
first quarter of 2001, the occupancy rate appears to be significantly
lower than normal years during the same seasonal period. The figures
indicate 35 percent occupancy rate based on reservations data information
furnished by 115 hotels around the country. The normal rate for this time
of year is 57 percent. The revenue loss translates to NIS 500 million.=20
As reported earlier, over 15,000 hotel employees have lost their jobs and
the allied professions, such as services that cater to the hotel industry,
tour guides and the like are all impacted by the PA orchestrated Intifada.
++++
8. Zo Artzeinu calls for civil disobedience in opposition to government
(BNI-JAN.9) On Thursday Jan 11, the Zo Artzeinu (This is Our Land)
organization has called for a mass civil disobedience action, to broadcast
a message to the world, and especially to the government of Israel, that
the People of Israel are dedicated to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, and
that =93life will not go on as usual when they are preparing to give them
away to our enemies.=94
=20
This activity will take place regardless of the political or physical
climate, regardless of what the media may announce.=20
Details of the plan according to Zo Artzeinu:=20
1. People with cars should organize groups of five cars. People without
cars should join as passengers.=20
2. At 4:30pm, the five cars should set out together in the direction of
the Old City of Jerusalem.=20
3. At exactly 5:00pm, upon hearing the =93beeps=94 of the radio news, every=
one
should stop their cars (slowly and carefully!) in the middle of the road,
wherever they are. Passengers should stand silently outside their cars for
two minutes while the driver continuously honks the car horn. You are not
alone!=20
4. At the end of two minutes, continue on to the Old City at the speed of
25KPH with the horn on throughout.=20
5. Park as close to Har HaBayit (Temple Mount) as possible (even in
illegal spaces), walk to the Western Wall plaza, and stand silently at
attention for half an hour with the assembled crowd in front of the ramp
leading to the Temple Mount (not on the Mount itself). There will be a
continuous stream of silent demonstrators coming over time, from all over
the country, to stand for half an hour, so it doesn't make a difference
exactly what time each person arrives at the plaza.=20
For the complete text and additional information, one may visit
http://www.manhigut.org/english/infos/info-e_2.html
++++
9. Birthright Group Visits Judea & Samaria for First Time
(BNI-JAN.9) More than 30 Jewish students from Arizona visited the College
of Judea & Samaria in Ariel on Wednesday, December 27, 2001, as part of
the Birthright program. Funded by the Government of Israel, local Jewish
federations and leading philanthropists such as Edgar Bronfman and Michael
Steinhardt, the special program brings college-age Jews from around the
world to Israel in order to gain a better understanding of the country's
culture, society and history.
The visit also marks the first time that participants in the program have
visited areas within Judea & Samaria.=20=20=20
++++
10. Mitchell murderer sentenced to 20 years
(BNI-JAN.9) The Tel Aviv District Court a short time ago sentenced Khalil
Hadad, 20, of Jaffa, of the 1999 murder of Gil Mitchell.=20
Mitchell was stabbed to death as he was parking his car to enter an area
social club. The two got into an argument.=20
++++
11. PA sources: IDF troops shot and killed 27-year-old=20
(BNI-JAN.9) According to PA sources, IDF troops in the Shchem (Nablus)
area on Tuesday morning shot and killed a 27-year-old involved in clashes
against security forces.=20
IDF officials stated the alleged shooting death is under investigation. =
=20
++++
12. Shooting victim showing signs of improvement
(BNI-JAN.9) The 12-year-old victim of the Monday night shooting attack
near Givat Ze=92ev remains hospitalized in Jerusalem=92s Hadassah Hospital =
in
the surgical plastic surgery ward.
The victim, Zin Guata underwent emergency surgery for his gunshot wounds
and is now listed in light-to-moderate condition.=20=20=20
Guata was on his way home from an activity in the Bayit Vegan section of
the capital when a Mazda sedan with PA license plates fired upon his
mother=92s car as it drove by. The terrorists fled the scene.
++++
13. Major LSD find in TA on Tuesday morning
(BNI-JAN.9) Tel Aviv area police on Tuesday morning confiscated 5,000
postage stamps laced with LSD. The street value according to police is NIS
250,000. The stamps were in envelopes mailed to several unspecified
addresses in Israel. No additional information is available at this time. =
=20
++++
14. Police investigating explosive device planted under TA car
(BNI-JAN.9) Police are investigating an explosion that occurred on Tuesday
morning after a bomb was placed under a car parked on HaBosem Street in
Tel Aviv. There were no immediate reports of injuries but the BMW
targeted in the attack sustained damages.=20=20
++++
++++
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Radio Analysis and Excerpts
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:23:11 -0500
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Date sent: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 07:02:12 -0500
From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Radio Analysis and Excerpts: The Voice of
Palestine-Jan. 9 2001
Radio Analysis and Excerpts: The Voice of Palestine-January 9, 2001
Prepared by Michael Widlanski. Michael Widlanski lectures at the Rothberg
School of the Hebrew University and is doing doctoral research at Bar Ilan
on Palestinian broadcast media.
Israel Resource News Agency
Beit Agron Int'l Press Center
Jerusalem, Israel
tel. (+972-2) 623-6368 or cellphone (+972-53) 710-737
http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/
SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
The Palestinian Authority, after apparently digesting the major coup it
achieved with the formal Presidential support for a Palestinian state,
issued an official vote of thanks to President Bill Clinton which was read
by VOP.
The statement, which had a much more positive and patient tone than
other recent Palestinian communiques, nevertheless called for the
implementation of four relevant UN resolutions-242, 338, 194 and 465-and for
the international community to force Israel to lift the closures on various
parts of Palestinian territory or the sake of stability in the Middle East.
But the statement did not back down on any Palestinian demands-indeed it
mentioned another, fourth, UN resolution, and the cabinet meeting included
Ahmed Qreia-the PA Speaker who has been taking a very hard line on the
refugee issue (his attendance was specifically mentioned by VOP
announcers.
In a morning interview, Ziad Abu Ziad minimized the importance of the
Jerusalem demonstration, noting that the Jews only brought in 200,000 while
the Arabs regularly bring 400,000 to Friday prayers.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"The Leadership in a statement published after its weekly meeting headed by
his excellency President Yasser Arafat, asserts its esteem for President
Bill Clinton's clear assertion (in support of) for an independent state for
the Palestinian people and its capital holy Jerusalem, in that (Clinton's
statement) constitutes a huge, strategic, historic and political sharing
leading to the empowering of the Palestinian people."
MORNING HEADLINES:
SEVEN O'CLOCK AM
*--"The continuation of Israeli aggression against our people, and the
martyring of the youth, Muhammad Ahmad Abu-Suf, 27 years old, in a
confrontation with settlers and occupation soldiers in Kafr Haris near
Salfit, last night;
*--A provocative parade of thousands of extremist Jews in occupied
Jerusalem and attacks on citizens at various points in the city;
*--The National Authority's security cabinet meets and calls ffor serious
action to meet the military, economic and siege which has locked down our
people;
*--Following a meeting of the cabinet headed by President Yasser Arafat,
the Leadership warns of dangers of Israeli aggressions aimed at our people,
blows at our cities and at our communities, in order to divide the
capabilities of our homeland;
*--Our Leadership asserts its thanks for American President Clinton for
his efforts for protecting the peace process, but stressing the Palestinian
position about the establishment of a Palestinian state, and that Jerusalem
is the independent capital of the Palestinian state;
*--The Leadership warns against the continuation of Israeli aggression
represented by the siege and the lock-down, backed by tanks and
intransigience, in refusing international legitimacy (in the form of
resolutions) 242, 338, 194 and 465. The Leadership says it is full of
patience for the success of the negotiations on the basis of these
resolutions..;
*--Israeli journalistic sources say an Israeli was seriously wounded
when his vehicle was subjected to fire near the colony of Giva't Ze'ev,
northwest of occupied Jerusalem;
*--Saudi regent Prince Abdullah bin-Abdel-Aziz visits Damascus today for
talks with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and other Syrian officials;
*--A delegation of the Red Crescent of the United Arab Emirates announces
a contribution of 11-million dollars or the holy Jerusalem shrine."
EIGHT AM HEADLINES (additional and changes)
*--"The martyring of Muhammad Ahmad Abu-Suf of the town of Haris who
was
shot in the heart by one of the settlers yesterday;
*--The attacks by the extremist Jews led to injuries to five citizens
among them a child (feminine) who is five years old in occupied Jerusalem
during demonstrations by the extremists last night;
*--Israeli Occupation troops fire into Tulkarm and the neighborhoods of
Rafah and Jenin last night, using automatic weapons and heavy artillery;
*--Numerous mass demonstrations and marches around the homeland
yesterday demanding the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to the
homes from which they were expelled in 1948;
Quotes from morning Interview with Ziad Abu Ziad, PA Minister o Jerusalem
Affairs, 7:15 am :
Q: "There was clearly a provocative and racist assault in last night's event
in Jerusalem, and the continuation of violence was clear in the city. What
is your position?"
A: "What happened in the city last night causes astonishment. There was a
lot of crowding pressure and numerous Israelis in all the bus lines and a
great deal of police protection to bring Israelis to Jerusalem or a
political demonstration claiming to oppose the partition of Jerusalem. And
all the participation of all the organizations and all the rightist parties
led to about 200,000 Israelis in Jerusalem. And we, without any efforts, on
Fridays, there are 400,000 Muslims arriving in Jerusalem-when they leave the
door open. When they don't close us out.
The Palestinians in the (West) Bank emphasize the freedom of Jerusalem,
hundreds of thousands underscoring the Arab-ness, the Islamic-ness and
Christianity of the city of Jerusalem..
We live in Jerusalem. There are more than 200,000 Palestinian citizens
living in Jerusalem. And there are hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who
are not afraid to come to Jerusalem, to pray in Jerusalem, to walk in its
streets, if the Israeli military occupation does not prevent them from it.
.We cling to Jerusalem and we will do everything for Jerusalem. And we
remember those who fell in defense of al Aqsa against attempts by the
extremist Sharon (against) the holiness and sacredness of Al Aqsa..
In terms of negotiations, there is no question that for Palestinians,
Jerusalem is a 'red line.' We've survived all the pressures. There can be
no peace, no agreement without our complete rights in the city of Jerusalem
nor without sovereignty over our capital, holy Jerusalem."
((Note: though Abu-Ziad is called the PA's minister ffor Jerusalem Affairs,
Feisal Husseini, who is a member of the PLO Executive, is also called "the
holder of the Jerusalem portfolio" in the Palestinian cabinet. This may seem
a bit abstruse or quaint right now, but this is probably because Husseini
lives in Jerusalem, and officially under the Oslo Accords, a Jerusalem
citizen was not allowed to part of the Palestinian cabinet officially.))
Quotes from Interview with Nabil Abu-Irdeineh, spokesman for President
Yasser Arafat:
"The American emissary, Mr. Ross, is supposed to arrive here Thursday.
The agreement between the two presidents-President Arafat and President
Clinton-in their recent meeting in Washington concerning the modalities of
the peace process, and in the last meeting between the two
presidents-President Arafat and President Clinton-they spoke about the ideas
of the American president and the Palestinian stipulations and reservations
about it... We are still waiting the American response to these
Palestinian thoughts until this moment..On the one hand President Clinton's
speech was very important because it recognized that there could be no
peace
without the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with holy
Jerusalem its capital. And the American ideas that were put forward cannot
suffice to get us to a final agreement. Our stance is clear..
We demand that the incoming American Administration take our
reservations
into account, which President Arafat expressed to President Clinton.for the
sake of following in the peace process."
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Radio Analysis and Excerpts
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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:47:01 -0500
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Subject: Radio Analysis and Excerpts: The Voice of
Palestine-January 14, 2001
Radio Analysis and Excerpts: The Voice of Palestine-January 14 2001
Prepared by Michael Widlanski. Michael Widlanski lectures at the Rothberg
School of the Hebrew University and is doing doctoral research at Bar Ilan
on Palestinian broadcast media.
Israel Resource News Agency
Beit Agron Int'l Press Center
Jerusalem, Israel
tel. (+972-2) 623-6368 or cellphone (+972-53) 710-737
http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/
SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
In its Sunday morning broadcasts, the VOP news coverage was fairly evenly
divided between three subjects:
*--continuing talks on final status issues, despite Palestinian views
that nothing substantive is being accomplished;
*--continuing coverage of and protest about Israel's "aggression against
the Palestinian people," particularly Israel's "assassination policy" and
its refusal to remove all military and economic obstacles;
*--and detailed coverage and defense of yesterday's two executions of
Palestinian "traitors" and the planned executions today of two more men
convicted of "cooperating with Israel."
VOP featured Sheikh Ikrema al-Sabry saying that Islam mandated the
execution of traitors, and VOP narrators actually poked fun at "those who
call themselves human rights activists," such as Bassam Eid, for
criticizing the death sentences.
Col. Tawfik Tirawi described the intelligence activities of those
condemned to death: turning information over to Israel about key Fatah and
Hamas activists later killed by Israeli forces. Tirawi (who has himself
been accused by Israeli officers of planning terrorist acts) defended the
trials and death sentences, saying, "Everything, the trial is over in a
legal manner. There were judges. There were defense lawyers. Everything
was according to the complete processes of law."
In a morning interview, Yasser Abd-Rabbo said Israel was trying to insert
the American initiative as a replacement text for UN resolutions-something
that was unacceptable to the Palestinians. Similar sentiments were aired in
an interview with nabil Abu-Irdeineh, Arafat's spokesman and advisor.
QUOTES OF THE DAY:
1. "The head of general intelligence in the West Bank, Col. Tawfik
Tirawi, calls on all those who have deviated to the Devil's path (Arabic:
tariq al-Shaitan) to return to goodness and to turn themselves in to the
security forces and to describe in details their crimes before it's too
late."
(Sunday morning news round-up headlines, 7:03 am, Jan. 14)
2. "Pursuant to criminal law 113/111, sub paragraph 16 we decide the
following: one, death for the criminal Muhammad al-Khatib [ten seconds of
loud applause in background and cries of joy from crowd, described as being
about 250 people in Bethlehem Court], death for the criminal Hussam al-Din
Musa [five seconds of loud applause including shots of Allahu Akbar-God is
Great]."
(Judge Fathi Abu-Shuri, head of State Security Court, in report by Sayyid
Ayyad, Bethlehem, morning report, 7:30 am)
3. "I think this is a victory for the Palestinian people, and a
strenthening
of the steadfastness and the protection for those who are struggling as
fighters for the Palestinians ..Really this is a blow for the supreme
Palestinian interest and for stability of the homeland and the stable
security of the Palestinian state.
Their only chance to save themselves is to turn themselves in. There will be
no mercy for any spy or any agent who spills Palestinian blood (who gets
caught without turning himself in) (Kamil Hmeid, Fatah secretary in
Bethlehem, interviewed about death sentences in Bethlehem court, 7:50 am)
4. "I say to those who have sold themselves to Israel, or to the Devil,
they
will not find anyone who will pray for them just as those who were who were
rightly sentenced to death, and they will not find any place to be buried,
because even their families refused to pray for them..Therefore they should
step forward and turn themselves in to the security services." (Col Tawfik
Tirawi, head of General Intellegence for the West Bank in the Palestinian
Authority, 7:58 am)
SUNDAY MORNING HEADLINES
7 a.m.:
*--"The Palestinian-Israeli meeting with the participation of his
excellency President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Regional Development Minister
Shimon Peres ends without any concrete results;
*--A continuation of meetings in coming days;
*--The Palestinian side asserts that the American ideas form a new basis
(or source authority) for the peace process, and the Palestinian side clings
to the basis of international legitimacy (i.e. UN resolutions) on whose
authority the peace process was launched;
*--The Palestinian side declares at the talks that began yesterday THE
COMPLETE PALESTINIAN REFUSAL for a new basis.demanding assurances for
execution (of the agreement) on the ground;
*--The arbitrary (also tyrannical) Israeli measures, aggression and siege
and the evil assassinations lingered in the (discussion) meeting as
President Arafat demanded their immediate cessation and an investigation of
the crimes;
*--The state security court hands down death sentences for two agents
in Bethlehem and lie imprisonment for another two, and (other) death
sentences are carried out yesterday in Nablus and Gaza;
*--Sheikh Ikrema al-Sabry, the Jerusalem Mufti and the Palestinian sage,
says that he who does not firmly against traitors undermines the legitimacy
of God's law;
*--The head of general intelligence in the West Bank, Gen. Tawfik
Tirawi, calls on all those who have deviated to the Devil's path (Arabic:
tariq al-Shaitan) to return to goodness and to turn themselves in to the
security forces and to describe in details their crimes before it's too
late;
*--Finance Minister Muhamad Zu'di Nashashibi describes the difficulties
resulting from the failure of the Arab countries to fulfill their
obligations quickly to turn financial sums over to the Palestinian National
Authority in the face of tyrannical Israeli measures."
8AM-SUNDAY MORNING HEADLINES
*--" His Excellency President Yasser Arafat receives Regional Development
Minister Shimon Peres in Gaza last night along with the Israeli delegation
headed by Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami;
*--Nabil Abu-Irdeineh says the meeting dealt with final status issues and
the need to reach agreement on these issues;
*--State Security court hands down yesterday death sentences by firing
squad to the two agents Muhammad al-Khatib and Hussam al-Din Musa for high
treason. In addition it sentenced Hanna Mansour Hanna Salameh and Muhammad
Awadallah to life imprisonment for treason and assaults against the Fatah
Movement. And Mr. Freih Abu-Medein, the Justice Minister, called on all
agents to turn themselves in security officials;
*--Dr. Nabil Sha'ath, Minister of Economic Development, reviews with
the Norwegian foreign minister the most recent developments taking place in
Palestinian lands;
*--Advisor on National Security to the American President, Sandy
Berger, says much work is needed to achieve agreement before President
Clinton leaves office on the 20th of this month;
*--One youth wounded by occupation forces at southern approaches to
Qalqilya;
*--Israeli occupation forces arrest Engineer Jamil Nurawri, head of
engineering for Palestinian Broadcasting
*--His Holiness Pope John Paul II calls for executing the principles of
international legitimacy in the Palestinian lands.."
10AM-SUNDAY MORNING HEADLINES:
((repetition of top headlines from 7/8 am) and.
*--"Minister of Information Yasser Abd-Rabbo says the Palestinian side
will NOT accept another declaration of principles.demands a full and
complete settlement based on international legitimacy."
Quotes from Interview with PA Information Minister, Yasser Abd Rabbo:
"We will not accept that these new (American) thoughts or initaitives
become the new basis for the peace process. The source authority for the
process remain what it was. We accept clear differences, but there was no
progress achieved.
The discussion was a serious one, perhaps, but there was nothing that was
executed or carried out in terms of progress at the meeting. It was agreed
that discussions would continue in the coming days to continue discussions
on these subjects."
((Abd Rabbo was asked about Israeli attempts to take the talks from the
basis of UN resolutions to a basis of the American ideas, and he said.))
"There's no doubt from what was said that that's the new intention. They
said they wanted to reach an agreement. We said we wanted to reach an
agreement, but such an agreement cannot be a declaration of general
principles because such a declaration would not help the peace process at
all. It would just a collection of headlines and slogans. What's needed is a
comprehensive and detailed agreement which deals with all matters, which
deals with the costs of implementations and international guarantees on the
obligations for implementation so that there will not be any evasion for
implementation.as there was in the past. That's the basic thing, and we
believe that the Israeli side understood that a declaration of principles or
general remarks .is not something that can be realized, and the Palestinian
side cannot accept it. What is needed is a serious agreement, really an
agreement whose implementation can begin the following day and not an
agreement whose negotiation or the negotiation of whose central points
begins the following day."
"I want to say there's no escaping (our need) to express our readiness to
continue with the peace process, unless we're convinced that there's
progress or not (because), it is impossible to close the door to
negotiations and the peace process because of the comprehension of the
world, of public opinion, of public opinion in Israel for our positions.
(We have no choice but) We have to continue on our part, in our policy, and
there is nothing that has been found that can prevent us from attempting
negotiations until there are no results."
((Asked about security considerations, Abd-Rabbo said.))
"I don't like talk about implementing security. We have just and clear
demands such as lifting the encirclement and the closure and the violations
being practiced against the Palestinian people on a daily basis. We have
indicated that, and the evil actions such as the evil transfer of (the
body) and the mutilation of exalted martyr in Hebron in front of world
television cameras. All these actions show that these sort of actions must
stop.for the sake of the peace process, if we really want a peace process."
Quotes from report by Nizar al-Ghul, concerning executions:
"In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.((reads verse from
Quran regarding treatment of those who have evil spirits, then
continues)).Indeed these agents cast evil on themselves and on those around
them, and this week was a week characterized by settling accounts with
those who made blood cheap, as witness what happened to the agent Bani-Odeh
before the sentence of God and the people was carried out, who stood head
bowed, falling quickly and quietly in the street as the bullets of holiness
and justice brought him to the ground."
((report went on the describe trial verdict of Bethlehem court where two
more death sentences were handed down-as per report by Sayyid Ayyad. Note:
lead-in to Al-Ghul's report was anchorman again reading parts of
yesterday's interview with Freih Abu-Medein, Justice Minister, calling for
all enemy agents to turn themselves in))
ISLAMIC DEFENSE OF DEATH PENALTY
"When someone sinks to treason and serving as an agent, then Islamic law
permits him to be condemned to death. We are in favor of executing anyone
who sinks to serving as an agent against the Muslim collective."
(( Sheikh Ikrema al-Sabry, Jerusalem Mufti, 7:53 am)
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Subject: [bprlist] Material souls to seek salvation by the Ganga
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:26:06 -0000
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Material souls to seek salvation by the Ganga
By N Vidyasagar
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/09home3.htm
NEW DELHI: The biggest stars of showbiz are expected to visit the
Mahakumbh in Allahabad later this month. The premium guest list
includes Madonna, Sharon Stone, Pierce Brosnan, Demi Moore and
Richard Gere.
British tour operator Cox & Kings confirmed the visit of Hollywood
stars to the Mahakumbh but refused to reveal names on security
grounds. ``We are bringing in more than 600 premium guests to the
Kumbh from around the world,'' Indranil Pramanik in the product
development department of Cox & Kings told The Times of India. Most
of them will be from the US, the UK and France.
Indian tour operators are making the most of the Kumbh, selling it to
international travellers as the quintessential exotic east. Some of
them have included the Kumbh as a value addition to their itinerary,
which also includes the Pushkar Mela and the desert fair in
Rajasthan. ``We don't have a tailormade package. But we are bringing
in a host of French celebrities to participate in the Mahakumbh,''
said Madan Kak, manager, tours, Travel Corporation of India.
The tour operators have also arranged special discourses by spiritual
leaders for their premium clients. Consultations with astrologers
have been included as a special service. ``Tourist bookings for
staying in premium camps are full for the important bathing days,
including January 14 and 24,'' said Pramanik.
Needless to say, with all its high-profile visitors, the Kumbh has
also become a major platform for corporates to promote their
products. French mineral water major Danone International Brands
Paris, which bottles the Evian brand of water, is making arrangements
with Cox & Kings to bring water from the Alps for premium guests.
``It's a great opportunity to push our products and increase their
visibility in this spiritual Olympics,'' Amit Mathur, northern
regional head of Evian, said.
Pepsi, which has 60 per cent of the cola market in Allahabad city,
has tied up with UP Tourism to promote its soft drinks in various
camps. It will also try to popularise its recently launched mineral
water Aqua Fina.
``Domestic tea brands are making use of the mela to promote their
brands,'' said a Hindustan Lever official. Duncan, Tata Tea and
Lipton have joined the fray to cash in on the opportunity. Companies
engaged in indigenous medicinal systems like ayurveda and unani have
set up clinical centres in the mela.
With the mela beginning on Tuesday, all rooms in hotels of all
categories are booked. And with demand peaking, prices have also
peaked. ``A room which used to cost Rs 200 in normal times now fetch
Rs 1200,'' said a tour operator.
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Subject: [bprlist] Australia Challenges Out-Of-Africa Evolution Theory
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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:30:08 -0000
Tuesday January 9
Australia Challenges Out-Of-Africa Evolution Theory
By Paul Tait
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010109/sc/dna_dc_1.html
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists said on Tuesday they had
analyzed the oldest DNA ever taken from human remains, and that the
results challenge the theory that modern humans evolved from African
ancestors alone.
Researchers at Australian National University said they had analyzed
DNA taken from remains unearthed in 1974 at Lake Mungo in the state
of New South Wales. Dating in May 1999 put the age of the skeletal
remains at between 56,000 and 68,000 years.
ANU anthropologist Alan Thorne said that neither ``Mungo Man's''
completely modern skeleton nor its DNA had any links with human
ancestors from Africa found in other parts of the world.
``Neither of them (the skeleton or DNA) show any evidence that they
ever were in Africa,'' Thorne told Reuters. ``There's modern humans
in Australia that have nothing to do with Africa at all.''
The findings, revealed in The Australian newspaper on Tuesday,
challenge the prevailing ``out of Africa'' theory of evolution
because ``Mungo Man'' has a genetic line which has vanished yet his
skeleton is completely modern.
The ``out of Africa'' theory holds that modern humans evolved from a
common homo erectus ancestor in Africa.
Homo sapiens then left Africa and spread across the world between
150,000 and 100,000 years ago.
The ANU researchers say that because Mungo Man is modern
anatomically, yet has a vanished DNA line, it means at least one
group of homo erectus's descendants evolved outside of Africa.
Under the counter ``regional continuity'' theory which Thorne
supports, modern man evolved from homo erectus in several different
places -- what is now Africa, Europe, east Asia and west Asia --
followed by interbreeding between the regions.
``Everywhere was becoming modern at roughly the same rate,'' Thorne
said. ``As they are today, genes were flowing from Shanghai to Paris,
from Singapore to Cape Town.''
Genetic Fingerprint
DNA is a kind of genetic fingerprint unique to every individual and
which transmits hereditary characteristics.
The ANU research says that Mungo Man's mitochondrial DNA contained
different sequences of the four chemicals which form DNA to that
which has been found in other remains. Mitochondria are the energy
packs within cells.
The previously oldest human DNA tested came from Neanderthal remains -
- a 45,000-year-old specimen in western Germany and 28,000-year-old
remains from Croatia.
While the genetic footprint was different, ANU evolutionary
genetecist Simon Easteal said Mungo Man would have looked very much
like modern humans.
``This individual has facial features, has morphology that is
essentially modern, that wouldn't stand out in a crowd today,''
Easteal told Reuters.
``If he was part of a wave of modern people that had come out of
Africa and spread, eventually reaching Australia, then his
mitochondrial DNA would reflect that,'' he said.
Thorne said the dating of Mungo Man meant there was no doubt that
ancestors of Australia's Aborigines came to the continent from Asia
about 70,000 years ago -- some 30,000 years earlier than was thought.
``There's no question that somewhere in southeast Asia is where
watercraft got invented,'' Thorne said. ``The first oceanic crossings
were to Australia.''
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Subject: [bprlist] Claims for Slavery Reparations Head to Court
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:30:22 -0500
Claims for Slavery Reparations
Head to Court
The Who, Why, and How of litigating the harms
of slavery
Dateline: 01/05/01
The political movement in
pursuit of reparations for
black Americans related to
slavery has gained some
mainstream acceptance in
recent years. Now, big-time
class action and civil rights
lawyers are gearing up to
file lawsuits in pursuit of
private reparation claims.
The success of tobacco and
other corporate class action
litigation in recent years has
spawned a class of lawyers
who leave no stone
unturned when it comes to
imagining gargantuan
lawsuits in pursuit of social
agendas. Whereas one
might think that claims over
the economic and personal
harms of slavery would be
better left to the political
process (not to mention
that they would be way too
old and untraceable at this
point), there is significant
support for private action as well. Minds are
churning for ways to pursue these claims in court.
Besides, the civil rights
movement has not been
moving very far in recent
decades, and some would
wish to jumpstart public
awareness of lingering
social issues.
Someone has come up with
$1.6 trillion as the
appropriate amount owed,
or something like $7,000
owed by each non-black
U.S. resident.
How in the world could
legal claims over harms
suffered so many
generations ago proceed,
and against whom would the claims be made? A
"dream team" of lawyers led by Harvard professor
Charles Ogletree, and including such powerhouses
as Johnny Cochran (of O.J. Simpson fame),
Alexander Pires Jr., (who won a $1 billion settlement
for black farmers from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture), and Richard Scruggs (who won a $368
billion dollar settlement for states against tobacco
companies), is carefully considering those questions.
They are preparing to sue the U.S. Government and
surviving businesses that profited from slavery.
Two obvious and huge problems for litigants over
slavery issues are the sovereign immunity of
governments and the statutes of limitations for tort
claims. You can't sue the King unless he agrees to
be sued, and injury claims are subject to time limits
for the sake of certainty and finality.
In considering the magnitude of the questions and
problems involved, law professor Anthony J. Sebok,
writing for FindLaw, has laid out some theories.
First, he feels that these potential private claims will
meet with better success against corporations and
wealthy families that have ties to past slavery
economics than against governments, citing recent
successes by Holocaust victims in getting
compensation from European banks, insurance
companies, and other businesses involved
historically with the Nazis. But even against
governments, lawsuits by Japanese-Americans over
W.W.II internment seem to have helped prompt a
"settlement" by Congress, even though the lawsuits
themselves failed.
Professor Sebok says that slavery claims might get
around statutes of limitations by turning a remedy
doctrine - Unjust Enrichment - into an independent
cause of action. Such a claim would not be limited
per se by statutes of limitations since it is for a
return of property wrongly gained rather than for a
compensable injury in and of itself.
Even so, as the good professor points out, it is
somewhat disingenuous to treat slavery as simply a
wrongful means of property acquisition, as if it
would have been OK if the kidnapped, beaten, and
abused slaves had simply been paid a decent salary.
http://law.about.com/newsissues/law/library/weekly/aa010501a.htm
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Jerusalem Demonstration
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:48:14 -0500
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Subject: Jerusalem Demonstration
Date sent: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 07:38:42 -0800
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Israel in a godly revolution around the Temple Mount=20
500,000 Israelis swear faithfulness to the Temple Mount and Jerusalem
Yesterday evening (8th January, 2001), 500, 000 Israelis, secular,=20
religious and ultra-religious, stood in front of the Temple Mount and=20
the Jaffa Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem and in a very exciting=20
historical moment together swore faithfulness to the Temple Mount and=20
Jerusalem.=20
They swore in the name of the Israel nation what their forefathers swore=20
thousands of years ago in the same place: "If I forget you, O Jerusalem,=20
let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember you, let my=20
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I do not set Jerusalem above=20
my highest joy." (Psalms137:5,6) This was the climax of an historical=20
event and demonstration which occurred at a very critical time in the=20
history of Israel when so many enemies of the G=96d and people of Israel=20
want to take the Temple Mount and Jerusalem away from us and make it no=20
longer Jerusalem, the mountain and city of the G=96d of Israel, but an=20
Islamic Al Quds.
It was no accident that this event took place at the same time that=20
President Clinton stated in the United States that he will do=20
everything he can to see that Israel will be divided and that a=20
"Palestinian State" will be created in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, the most=20
biblical areas of the land of Israel, and that its capital will be on=20
the Temple Mount and the Biblical Jerusalem, named Al Quds, under=20
"Palestinian" sovereignty. It is only G=96d Who caused this demonstration=20
to be held at the same time as President Clinton was making his evil,=20
anti-godly statement.
In the name of all Israel, the mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, stated=20
at the event that the G=96d and people of Israel will never give in and=20
allow this to happen. He stated that Jerusalem was founded by the G=96d=20
and people of Israel by the greatest king of Israel, King David, to be=20
the eternal capital of the G=96d and people of Israel because of Mt.=20
Moriah, the house of G=96d, the Temple Mount in the midst of it. He stated=
=20
that the Temple Mount is the heart, soul and eternal focus of the=20
Israeli nation and their beloved G=96d. Jerusalem was built thousands of=20
years by the Israelis before Arabs occupied Jerusalem and the Holy Land.=20
The Temple Mount and Jerusalem was never an Arab Islamic or any other=20
religious or national capital. For 1300 years the Moslems had the=20
opportunity to make Jerusalem their capital and they never did so. The=20
Popea and the Catholic Church which also controlled Jerusalem during=20
history never made the Temple Mount and Jerusalem their capital; they=20
preferred Rome. Throughout history Jerusalem was only ever an Israeli=20
capital. The link between the G=96d and people of Israel and Jerusalem is=20
unique in the history of all mankind. From all parts of the world, Jews=20
and Israelis pray and hope towards one place, the Temple Mount, to the=20
Holy of Holies of Israel, to the hill of the G=96d of Israel. He said that=
=20
the Temple Mount expresses and symbolises all their hopes for redemption=20
and the return to the promised land. All these enemies who are trying to=20
take the Temple Mount and Jerusalem away from Israel do not understand=20
the meaning of this dear holy site to Israel and that, in any case,=20
there is no chance that they or any others will succeed to rob us of=20
them. Many millions of Israelis died in the defence of the Temple Mount=20
and Jerusalem and millions are ready today to sacrifice their lives and=20
to die for Jerusalem. Jerusalem is and will always be one and undivided.=20
Olmert sent this message to President Clinton: You will not succeed in=20
your negative efforts but you will be remembered in history as the first=20
president of the United States who suggested and acted to divide=20
Jerusalem and take it away from the G=96d and people of Israel.=20
The mayor was very excited when he expressed the great importance and=20
the deep link between Israel and the Temple Mount when he said: 4,000=20
years ago the first Jew, Abraham, was sent to the Temple Mount by the=20
G=96d of Israel to be tested by Him by sacrificing his son, Isaac on this=20
holy hill; 3,000 years ago King David liberated the Temple Mount and=20
even bought it for its full price and obeyed the word of G=96d and=20
dedicated it to be the holy hill of G=96d and His temple; he brought the=20
Ark of the Covenant to the Temple Mount at an exciting moment in the=20
history of Israel; his son, King Solomon, built the first temple and=20
after its destruction, the Israel nation returned to the land with the=20
main purpose of building the second temple for the G=96d of Israel;=20
hundreds of years later, the second temple was also destroyed; since=20
this terrible day in the history of Israel, the Israeli nation never=20
forgot the Temple Mount and Jerusalem and will never forget them; their=20
prayers, hopes, struggle and millions of Jewish sacrifices were to come=20
back to the Promised Land, to Israel, and to rebuild the temple and the=20
eternal capital of Israel, Jerusalem and after G=96d fulfilled our prayers=
=20
and dreams there is no-one in the world who can take them from us again;=20
we did not take land, cities or holy places from any other nation but=20
what G=96d gave us in an eternal covenant and promise 4000 years ago, and=20
now forever.
On this very exciting evening there were many other speakers, men,=20
women, boys and girls from all the sectors of Israeli society today.=20
None of them were politicians and it was good. It expressed the deep=20
feelings of everyone in Israel. So often people had tears in their eyes=20
when they saw children, new Israelis who had recently come from Russia=20
and other places of the exile, a former president of the Israeli Supreme=20
Court, ex-soldiers from the Israel Army who fought in all the battles of=20
Israel against her enemies, some of whom had been wounded, who stood=20
before the hill of G=96d, the Temple Mount, and Jerusalem and swore=20
faithfulness to the G=96d of Israel, the Temple Mount and Jerusalem and=20
all the land which G=96d gave to them. No doubt this event will be written=
=20
in the books of history exactly as similar events were written in the=20
Bible and became an inheritance for all the coming generations of=20
Israel. This evening was really an eternal message to all the coming=20
generations exactly as the speakers of the evening stated. All of us=20
really thanked the G=96d of Israel that He gave us this special moment in=20
our lives.
As one of our dear friends stated, it is nothing less than a miracle=20
that the Temple Mount has become the focus of secular and religious=20
Israelis. Everything in Israel is a miracle, especially everything=20
connected to the Temple Mount, the hill of G=96d. G=96d is directing the=20
history of Israel and we can feel the hand of G=96d on every event which=20
takes place in Israel in these end-times in which we are now living. We=20
knew that this revolution with regard to the Temple Mount would come=20
sooner than later. The 33-year struggle and campaign of the Temple Mount=20
Faithful Movement now starts to bear fruit, thanks to the G=96d of Israel.=
=20
When we started our campaign so few people in Israel and all over the=20
world understood the great significance of the Temple Mount and our=20
struggle. Our campaign was directed to educate the Israeli public and=20
all the world about the significance of this most important site of G=96d=20
and that the destiny of Israel and all mankind will be decided on this=20
holy place. Every year more and more people in Israel, secular and=20
religious, and all over the world have understood our campaign more and=20
more and have joined our struggle. Our beloved G=96d of Israel blessed=20
this campaign for His holy site and for the rebuilding of His house on=20
the Temple Mount in our lifetime. He is acting in His ways and the=20
events of the last few months with the violence of the so-called=20
"Palestinian Authority" against Israel which started on the Temple Mount=20
and was mainly around the Temple Mount and our campaign to liberate it,=20
to rebuild the temple opened the eyes of the Israeli nation, secular and=20
religious, to understand more than at any time the significance of our=20
struggle, and how important it was and that it lead us to this=20
revolution in the public mind. So many Israelis, secular, religious and=20
ultra-religious, tell us every day: Now we realise that so many were=20
wrong and that you were right. They join us and encourage us and say=20
that our campaign was the most important campaign in the modern history=20
of Israel. More than this, so many groups, secular and religious, are=20
now being formed and join the campaign for the Temple Mount.
At last night's event, I and many others had tears in our eyes at this=20
event. I thanked the G=96d of Israel that He had fulfilled my prayers and=20
my struggle and my permanent call to Him of the last 33 years. We are no=20
longer alone in our struggle for the Temple Mount, for the rebuilding of=20
the temple, and for Jerusalem. We could feel the presence of G=96d in=20
this exciting event and I know that after this evening their will be=20
many others and very soon we shall see the rebuilding of the house of=20
G=96d on the Temple Mount. I never doubted that it would happen. I=20
trusted the Word of G=96d in prophecy and I thank Him with all my heart=20
that He answers our prayers to accomplish it in our lifetime. Very soon=20
we shall se the fulfilment of our dreams, visions and struggles.=20
Something godly and great is happening in Israel and even among so many=20
people all over the world. In the near future there will be even more=20
and more.
It looks like that until this moment we shall pass through difficult=20
events including the Gog and Magog war that everyone in Israel feels=20
will soon come about. These are the birth pains of redemption and the=20
G=96d of Israel promised that He would fight for Israel as in the days of=20
battle and defeat all the enemies. So we are very strong with G=96d and=20
His promises and very soon we shall see the fulfilment of all His=20
prophetic words and his wonderful vision and desire will become reality.=20
"The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and=20
Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain=20
of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains,=20
and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.=20
And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain=20
of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of=20
his ways, and we will walk in his paths; for from Zion shall go forth=20
Torah, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among=20
the nations, and shall decide for many people; and they shall beat their=20
swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation=20
shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any=20
more. O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord."=20
(Isaiah 2:1-5)
Yesterday the Israeli nation entered a new stage in her history. The=20
renewing of the deep link between Israel and the Temple Mount, which=20
over the last 33 years since the liberation of the Temple Mount and=20
Jerusalem during the Six Day War has been in Arab Islamic captivity,=20
expresses a new stage in Israel's march towards the accomplishment of=20
G=96d's prophetic plans with Israel: the rebuilding of the temple and the=20
making of Jerusalem the real capital of the G=96d and people of Israel=20
alone and then the focus of all the earth. Nobody can stop this godly=20
process which is now takin place in the land of Israel. I advise=20
everyone in the world to pay attention to this godly revolution that=20
Israel, the people of G=96d, is now passing through and will continue to=20
do in the near future. I advise everyone to lift their eyes to the=20
Temple Mount, here will be the reason and focus of all these prophetic=20
godly events.
I call on everyone in the world to join themselves to the 500,000=20
Israelis who stood in front of the Temple Mount and swore faithfulness=20
to the G=96d of Israel, to His holy hill and to Jerusalem, the eternal=20
capital of the G=96d and people of Israel. In this way they will trust and=
=20
sware faithfulness to the G=96d of Israel and the Universe but, at the=20
same time, they will fulfil the commandment of G=96d to the nations of the=
=20
world to assist Israel to fulfil this godly revolution in the holy land=20
of Israel and in this way to open a new era in the life of all the=20
nations, a godly era of morality and areal peace. The Temple Mount and=20
Land of Israel Faithful Movement calls on everyone to be a part of the=20
godly, historical, prophetic end-time campaign and together to bring all=20
of this to pass and to overcome all the enemies of the G=96d and people of=
=20
Israel which are now so numerous. In G=96d we trust and together we shall=
=20
soon see the great godly fulfilment in our lifetime.
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Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement
P.O. Box 18325
Yochanan Horkanos 4
Jerusalem 91182 Israel
gershon@templemountfaithful.org
http://www.templemountfaithful.org
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Subject: [bprlist] British white witch warns of eclipse
From: Shophar_Sho_Good
Date: 9 Jan 2001 13:02:45 EST
09/01/2001 13:38 - (SA)
British white witch warns of eclipse
http://www.news24.co.za/News24/Offbeat/Weird/0,1253,2-16-140_962901,00.html
London - More than 1 500 white witches were to gather in Britain on Tuesday
evening to shield disaster-laden negative energy caused by the eclipse of the
moon, the high priest of British witches said, warning that the lack of such
protection in the United States could lead to hurricanes.
The British witches would be joined by witches in Sweden, Iceland, France,
Canada and Australia, Kevin Carlyon, High Priest of the British White Witches
and the Covenant of Earth Magic, said.
He predicted that although Europe would be saved from cataclysm, things did
not bode well for the United States. "I do believe the eclipse can cause
disaster, but it will not happen in this country or Europe," he said.
"I predict the American states could have a hurricane or a similar natural
disaster five to six hours after the event. Most of our witches are in Europe
and we can only deflect the energy while the moon is on our sky, but when it
leaves we can't protect the US.
"I'm trying to get through to people over there," he said.
The moon will darken and, if the conditions are right, change colour from
silver to orange or red as from the sunlight is refracted through the earth's
atmosphere before being reflected by the moon's surface.
It is expected to appear blood red for 62 minutes in one of the brightest
total lunar eclipses for a decade.
Tuesday's five-hour eclipse of the moon is likely to be watched mainly in
Europe and Africa, with the moon in the Earth's shadow during prime-time
evening viewing times.
Even in shadow, the moon will appear as a faint red disc.
Once the sight of the moon "turned to blood" was widely viewed as a portent of
disaster or a sign that the gods were angry. In some parts of the world it
still fills people with dread, according to Carlyon.
"Many ordinary people are superstitious - even your bank manager could be.
These people have been calling me, worried about what could happen as a result
of the eclipse. In old days the peasant people used to think that it brought
gloom and doom," said Carlyon, who is organising the spiritual defence from
his home in Hastings, East Sussex.
"But the reality is something bad could happen because of all the negative
energy created by people fearful of what it can do," he added.
About 1 500 witches across the globe would gather, robed and chanting in
circles, to concentrate on dispelling evil so as to deflect this negative
energy, Carlyon predicted. - Sapa-DPA
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Subject: [bprlist] The Year One
From: Shophar_Sho_Good
Date: 9 Jan 2001 13:04:09 EST
Cover Story 1/8/01=20
The Year One=20
Life was nasty, brutish, and short 2,000 years ago, but the issues of the d=
ay
were surprisingly modern=20
By Lewis Lord=20
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010108/one.htm=20
Two thousand years ago this week, the Year One arrived. But no one knew it,
either then or for several centuries thereafter. The 12 months we call A.D.=
1
came and went as just another year. To the Romans who ruled what was
considered the civilized world-and whose civilization would one day be the
basis for our own-the year was 754 A.U.C. (ab urbe condita-"from the
foundation of the city")-754 being the number of years since Romulus and
Remus, the legendary orphans suckled by a she-wolf, were said to have found=
ed
Rome. Among Rome's Greek subjects, who marked time in four-year units betwe=
en
Olympic
Games, the year was merely the first quarter of the 195th Olym-piad.
Meanwhile, the Chinese saw it as nothing more than "the second year of the
reign period of P'ing-ti," the boy emperor who would die five years later a=
t
the age of 13.=20
But to a sixth-century monk in Rome, the year ranked as the greatest in all
history. According to Dionysius Exiguus's reckonings, it was "Anno Domini"-=
the
first full "year of our Lord"-the year that began a week after the birth of
Christ. All time prior to A.D. 1 would be counted as so many years B.C.,
"before Christ." With papal support, Dionysius's chronological system
gradually won almost universal acceptance-even though it miscalculated the
Nativity by several years: Scholars believe that Jesus was probably 5, 6, o=
r 7
years old in A.D. 1.
Now and then. The people of the Year One shared concerns that exist
today-child rearing, social behavior, faith-but did so in ways now impossib=
le
to understand. Historian John Evans tells his first-year students at the
University of Minnesota they would find it easier to "deal with a star-fari=
ng
race that showed up from Betelgeuse than to cross the divides of time and
space and deal with the Romans on their own terms."
In the political world of 2,000 years ago, Ronald Reagan would never have m=
ade
it in politics. Romans ranked actors on a level with prostitutes. Nor would=
Al
Gore have won support by kissing Tipper. Men in love were considered
laughable, so much so that one senator was stripped of his seat for embraci=
ng
his wife in public. But George W. Bush would have stood tall. In Rome, ever=
y
"young nobleman" was dutybound "to avenge any humiliations suffered by his
father," wrote historian Florence Dupont in her book Daily Life in Ancient
Rome. "Not to be avenged was the worst misfortune that could befall a fathe=
r
and the deepest shame that could sully a son's name."
In the Year One, the world's most powerful politician-a man who
unintentionally paved the way for Christianity's rise-was a 63-year-old,
5-foot-5 hypochondriac with gallstones, dirty teeth, and a knack for climbi=
ng
to the top and staying there. The emperor Augustus, grandnephew and adopted
son of the murdered Julius Caesar, was in the 27th year of his 41-year reig=
n
as the unquestioned leader of the world's biggest empire.
Those years found Augustus pondering very modern issues: law and order,
welfare, family values, and moral decay, including sexual transgressions in
his own household. Augustus would boast that he found Rome brick and made i=
t
marble, but more lasting by far than his monuments was the influence of his
reign, which helped shape life and thought in much of the world for the nex=
t
2,000 years. The Age of Augustus would create a framework of government and
society that would transform Western Europe-and hence America-with Rome's
laws, its institutions, its language, and what eventually would become its
state religion, Christianity.=20
Without the good roads and widespread order of the Pax Romana-the two
centuries of peace that Augustus introduced-the "good news" of Christ might
never have spread. Yet the stability was wafer-thin. In the decades just
before A.D. 1, Augustus had conned the Roman people into scrapping their
cherished but ultimately unworkable republic and its freedoms for the secur=
ity
and efficiency of an imperial dictatorship. Beneath the grandeur of empire =
lay
a decaying social system peopled overwhelmingly by the poor and the left ou=
t.
It was there that Christianity, offering hope in a hopeless world, would ta=
ke
root, grow, and eventually flower.
Indeed, the teachings of Christ were spread in a world of unrelenting cruel=
ty.
Who today could condone the sight of men and women being fed to beasts as
people of all classes shrilled their delight? To the Romans, the spectacle =
was
a just punishment for lawbreakers. What's to be made of a superpower that
conquered cities by enslaving the men and killing the women and children?
Owning or killing people, Romans believed, was as natural as water running
downhill. Who can comprehend a father's tossing an infant into the village
dung heap for being female, sick, or a surplus mouth to feed? The Romans we=
re
not offended, especially if the father followed the law and invited five
neighbors to examine the baby before he left it to die.
Why not? In the Year One, questioning such behavior would have drawn blank
stares. "The Romans saw the world as it was," says Sarah Pomeroy, a classic=
s
professor at New York's Hunter College who wrote Goddesses, Whores, Wives, =
and
Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. "They didn't think of whether anythin=
g
was unjust."=20
In the world of the Romans, the cure for stomachache was a dose of water in
which feet had been washed. Hawkers in the town squares offered amulets
conferring power from gods for every need, from giving sight to the blind t=
o
raising a child (among the baby gods: Wailer, Breastfeeder, Eater, and
Stander). Children, until they walked and talked, were not considered human=
s.
Citizens didn't use soap but cleansed themselves with olive oil and a scrap=
ing
tool. A stick with a wet sponge on the tip did what toilet paper does today=
.
(Indeed, paper as we know it did not exist until a hundred years later in
China.)
Centuries of rough existence had bred a Roman acceptance of savagery and th=
e
conviction that life was a series of bleak choices. How, for instance, migh=
t a
poor family acquire a slave? If it had food to spare, it could pluck a chil=
d
from the dung heap and raise it in servitude. "Nothing was wasted in the
ancient world: not an abandoned baby, not the cloth that kept the ragpicker=
in
business . . . not even the grains of barley in horse manure on the streets=
,"
writes Yale historian Ramsay MacMullen in his book Roman Social Relations, =
50
B.C. to A.D. 284. "There were always people poor enough to fight over
another's leavings."
Political and social influence was reserved for a tiny group: the senators =
and
knights who owned most of the land and the bulk of the wealth. By one
estimate, these elites-essentially the guys in togas in the Hollywood
epics-made up less than one tenth of 1 percent of the population. Rome's
upper-middle class-prosperous but not immensely rich-ranked socially only a
notch above the vast citizenry that was poor. Many of the not-rich-enough
contented themselves with a few well-cultivated acres where, amid kin and
slaves, they lived relatively comfortable lives, going barefoot, sleeping o=
n
straw, and eating pork, vegetables, and bread.
The colossally rich, like the patrician who gave his pet eel a jeweled
bracelet, retained their unsalaried political offices by treating supporter=
s
to gigantic parties. But in the century leading up to the Year One, fewer a=
nd
fewer politicians could afford the soaring costs of feasts, theater shows, =
and
gladiatorial combats that the public had come to expect. Many officeholders
turned to bribes. By the first century A.D., venality was rampant. Even
officers in the army expected payoffs from their soldiers.
Home and away. The Romans had a propensity for rewarding the wrong people. =
In
the two centuries before the Year One, a long series of wars kept untold
thousands of farmers in the army and away from their farms. To prevent thei=
r
families from starving, many soldiers sold their neglected land to rich
landowners. Once out of the legions, multitudes sought refuge in Rome,
swelling the city's population in A.D. 1 to nearly 1 million people. It was=
n't
a promise of good jobs that drew the dispossessed veterans to Rome, however=
.
Slaves did nearly all the work, not just the menial but also such impor- ta=
nt
tasks as operating stores, delivering mail, practicing medicine, and tutori=
ng
the children of the wealthy. What pulled the ex-soldiers to Rome was "bread
and circuses," specifically free food and free entertainment financed by ta=
xes
and tributes from conquered territories.
The government, since Caesar's rule, had given daily wheat rations to most
citizens of Rome, the plebeians who included all adults except foreigners,
slaves, and women. Even farmers who still owned land were abandoning it and
flocking to the city to live on the dole. Rome's elites scorned the newcome=
rs
as rabble-"the bloodsuckers of the treasury," Cicero called them-and Caesar
tried belatedly to curb the giveaway. But his welfare reform was short-live=
d.
Augustus, Caesar's successor, reversed the cuts in 5 B.C. and extended the
benefits to boys as well as men.
In the Year One, to keep his citizenry happy and grievance-free, Augustus w=
as
delivering a lavish array of religious ceremonies, festivals, and ludi, "th=
e
games in honor of the gods." Chariot races drew crowds of 200,000 or more t=
o
the Circus Maximus, where the most popular scene-a mass littering of
overturned chariots, squealing horses, and maimed men-was known as a
"shipwreck." A day at the Forum often began with fans savoring Augustus's
wild-beast matches, although the regulars had a good idea which animals wou=
ld
win. Packs of hounds always beat herds of deer, bears withstood bulls, and
lions usually finished off tigers. But not even the ferocious charge of the
rhinoceros could penetrate the thick hide of the elephant.
The afternoon brought more variety: animals vs. humans. Some of the men,
trained and equipped with spears, lived to fight another day. But for other=
s,
the outcome was never in doubt. They were the bestiarii-condemned criminals
who later would include Christian men and women-thrown into the arena with =
no
training and no weapons. The carnivore often was a quick-killing lion; many
fans preferred smaller beasts that did more dragging and tearing.
By the Year One, the ludi were part of everyday Roman life. "One might even
say that they pervaded life," wrote the French historian Roland Auguet in
Cruelty and Civilization: The Roman Games. "They imposed their rhythm on
existence and provided nourishment for the passions." Augustus, ever a
stickler for order, tried to regulate the gore. If two gladiators still sto=
od
after dueling long and hard, he decreed, both should receive the palm of
victory. But the mob preferred blood. For centuries, ludi sponsors would
ignore Augustus's law and force the faceless men-helmets hid their features=
-to
fight until one became a corpse in the sand.=20
A decree telling spectators where to sit was part of Augustus's most ambiti=
ous
project, his campaign to restore public morality. The best seats went to
patrician couples, the Vestal Virgins, soldiers, and married men. Why favor
married men? Augustus had the notion that Rome's population was shrinking
because too many men were visiting prostitutes, keeping concubines, and
avoiding marriage. If more men would take wives, he believed, Rome would ha=
ve
what Cicero termed "less lust and larger families."
To promote family values, Augustus hatched a system of rewards and
punishments. Husbands who fathered three children were put on fast tracks f=
or
promotions. Mothers of three won a voice in property questions. Bachelors a=
nd
spinsters, on the other hand, saw their inheritances restricted. Scrapped w=
as
an old law that let husbands kill adulterous wives. But any man who refused=
to
divorce such a woman, the emperor decreed, should be prosecuted. Wives coul=
d
divorce their husbands, but at a risk: Fathers apparently always got the
children.
The men of Rome had griped about their women for nearly two centuries, ever
since the Senate agreed in 195 B.C. to let ladies wear dyed clothes and rid=
e
in carriages. Wives were expected to keep the hearth burning, fetch water,
cook, spin, weave, and bear children. They weren't supposed to drink-a sure
sign of sexual aberrations. (The reason men kissed their female kin, Cato t=
he
Elder reported, was to check for wine on their breath.) Nor, in the presenc=
e
of males, were they to appear very smart. Wives who discussed history and
poetry and used correct grammar, the writer Juvenal observed, were "really
annoying."
No romance. Romans married for duty, specifically to preserve family lines =
and
replenish the citizenry. Fathers decided who wed whom. Until Augustus decre=
ed
that engaged girls be at least 10, some Roman daughters, including his own,
were betrothed in infancy. Teenage boys, like their fathers, could have the=
ir
way with prostitutes or slaves of either sex. But first-time brides were
expected to be virgins. One of Julius Caesar's wives no doubt passed the te=
st:
She was only 11. Affection was rarely a factor in Roman engagements. "But i=
t
was taken for granted that if the husband and wife treated each other
properly, love would develop and emerge, and by the end of their lives it
would be a deep, mutual feeling," says David Konstan, a classics professor =
at
Brown University.
Few people, ancient or modern, made a bigger mess of family life than did t=
he
family-values leader of Rome. Augustus ditched his first wife, Scribonia,
because of a "moral perversity of hers," namely her contempt for his mistre=
ss.
A year later, the randy emperor fell for Livia, who happened to be six mont=
hs
pregnant and married to another man. Three days after the baby arrived,
Augustus and Livia wed. Livia's freshly divorced husband, posing as her
father, obligingly gave her away.
Livia kept Augustus content, critics would claim, by sending slave girls to
his chamber and looking the other way as he dallied with politicians' wives=
.
Whatever the cause, the emperor would ultimately laud his marriage as 51 ye=
ars
of happiness. But his opinion of his only child, Julia, was less felicitous=
.
Julia was born just before Augustus divorced her mother, the strait-laced
Scribonia. As a newborn, she was betrothed to a son of her father's ally, M=
ark
Antony. When friend turned foe, Augustus had her young fianc=E9 killed. Whe=
n she
was 14, Augustus wed her to his nephew Marcellus, who would die two years
later. She then married another cousin's husband, Agrippa, and consequently
gave Augustus four grandchildren. But the emperor was not satisfied. When
Agrippa died, Augustus matched Julia with Livia's son Tiberius, even though
Tiberius was happily married to someone else.
The result was the greatest sex scandal of the Augustan Age. Tiberius, crav=
ing
the wife he was forced to divorce, withdrew to an island and brooded. The
abandoned Julia, meanwhile, took her first stab at enjoying life on her ter=
ms.
She had lovers-not just a few, it was said, but many. She got drunk in reve=
ls
at the Forum, informants reported, and offered herself as a prostitute on t=
he
street.=20
In 2 B.C., word of his daughter's transgressions reached Augustus. In a bla=
ze
of publicity, he terminated Julia's marriage, wrote the Senate a letter
detailing her alleged debaucheries, and banished her, at 37, to an island i=
n
the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Ten years later, an identical charge hit Julia's daughter, also named Julia=
,
and she, too, was sent into exile. For good measure, Augustus struck back a=
t
one perceived cause of his progeny's lax morals. The emperor had long endur=
ed
the poems of Ovid, whose Art of Love seduction manual flew in the face of t=
he
official family-values campaign. For corrupting his kin, the monarch expell=
ed
Rome's most popular poet to a Black Sea town so backward that men wore
trousers.
Slippery slope. Augustus never understood that a force far more pervasive t=
han
Ovid's poems was fueling Rome's moral slide. It was wealth that rotted out =
the
Roman character. With trade and tribute pouring in from the provinces, the
rich grew richer, lazier, and more indulgent. Nor did the doles and free
spectacles strengthen the moral fiber of the city's idle mob. As time went =
on,
the disparities between the rich and the wretched widened in every respect.
Housing costs in the cities soared, chasing the impoverished into attics an=
d
one-room hovels with no water and no hearth. In the countryside, land
increasingly fell into the hands of a few patrician families that now owned
thousands of acres tended by hundreds of disinherited, indigent workers.=20
By the third century A.D., to meet the rising costs of defending its fronti=
er,
Rome was soaking the poor. The Romans never imagined anything like today's
graduated income tax, which places the heaviest burden on those best able t=
o
bear it. Rome's system was the opposite: The richer and more politically
connected a man was, the less he paid.=20
The fifth-century collapse of the empire that began just before the Year On=
e
had many perceived causes, from exhaustion of topsoil to poisonous lead in =
the
pipes of an otherwise splendid plumbing system. No claim has been more
controversial than Edward Gibbon's. His five-volume History of the Decline =
and
Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) blamed Christianity, asserting that it h=
ad
wrecked the old religions that had sustained the Roman soul and stabilized =
the
Roman state. But Will Durant, the 20th-century philosopher, noted that the =
old
religions were breaking up long before Jesus was born. Romans lost faith in
their leaders, Durant wrote in Caesar and Christ, "because the state defend=
ed
wealth against poverty, fought to capture slaves, taxed toil to support
luxury, and failed to protect its people from famine, pestilence, invasion,
and destitution."
As for the spread of Christianity-now the world's largest religion with
roughly 1 billion followers-sources from antiquity suggest an important rol=
e
by the emperor who reigned during Jesus's childhood. Thanks to Augustus's P=
ax
Romana, Christ's revolutionary message was able to spread from one generati=
on
to the next in a world made stable by the hegemony of Rome, developing, as =
the
apostle Paul described it, "in the fullness of time."
"A peace was prevalent which began at the birth of Christ," the Christian
teacher Origen wrote in the second century. "For God prepared the nations f=
or
his teaching so that they should be under one prince, the king of the Roman=
s,
and that it might not . . . be more difficult for the apostles to carry out
the task laid on them by their Master when he said, 'Go and teach all
nations.' "=20
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Subject: [bprlist] Cherubim: God's Throne?
From: Shophar_Sho_Good
Date: 9 Jan 2001 13:05:56 EST
Cherubim: God's Throne?
http://www.biblereview.org/barja95/cherubim.html
Abstract or metaphysical thinking was alien to the world of the ancient Near
East. Philosophy as we know it was introduced by the Greeks in an
unprecedented flowering in the fifth century B.C.E. Although ancient man
understood concepts like omnipotence and omniscience, he did not express them
in philosophical terms. Instead, he did so concretely. Man's earliest attempts
to express abstract, metaphysical concepts took a physical form.
One such form, I believe, is the composite mythical creature known as the
cherub. The cherub symbolized not only omnipotence and omniscience but, as we
shall see, a kind of completeness that included all else.
We can understand this from the Bible, but obviously it helps enormously to
have physical evidence. We will focus here on one superb example of a cherub
from the collection of the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem that is being
published here for the first time.
The Bible frequently refers to cherubim-to be distinguished from cherubs,
those adorable chubby winged infants with rosy cheeks that fly around in
Western art.* Cherubim, for example, guarded the garden of Eden after Adam and
Eve were expelled: "To the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim"
(Genesis 3:24).
In the desert Tabernacle, hammered golden cherubim faced each other on the
cover of the Ark of the Covenant (Exodus 25:18-22; 37:7-9). Cherubim were
worked into the woven tapestry of the inner curtain and veil in front of the
Holy of Holies, the inner sanctum of the Temple (Exodus 26:1,31; 36:8,35).
In the Jerusalem Temple, great olivewood cherubim overlaid with gold nearly
filled the Holy of Holies:
He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house; the wings of the
cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one was touching the one wall, and
a wing of the other cherub was touching the other wall; their other wings
toward the center of the house were touching wing to wing (1 Kings 6:27).
**See Victor Hurowitz, "Did King Solomon Violate the Second Commandment?"
Bible Review, October 1994. (This issue is out of print. To order a photocopy
of this article please call 1-800-221-4644.) Underneath these cherubim was
the Ark of the Covenant (1 Kings 8:6): "[T]he cherubim spread out their wings
over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark
and its poles" (1 Kings 8:7). Cherubim also decorated the walls and the doors
separating the internal chambers of the Temple (1 Kings 6:29, 7:32,35; see
also 7:28,36).**
In addition to being guardians, cherubim served as a throne or resting place
for God's invisible presence. The psalmist sang of "You who are enthroned on
the cherubim" (Psalm 80:2). When King Hezekiah prayed, he addressed the "Lord
of Hosts, enthroned on the cherubim" (2 Kings 19:15; Isaiah 37:16; see also 1
Samuel 4:4 and 2 Samuel 6:2).
Despite the more than 90 references to cherubim, the Bible does not give a
very precise description of them. Clearly they have wings. But what else? The
Biblical text seems to assume we would know. The most detailed description of
cherubim is found in Ezekiel's Vision of the Chariot. (Ezekiel 1; cf. Ezekiel
10). The prophet describes beings with four wheels and four faces-one a human
face, the second a lion's face, the third a bull's face and the fourth an
eagle's face (Ezekiel 1:10). These creatures also had hands below their wings,
and hooves (like a bull's) instead of feet or claws or paws. We may assume
that not all cherubim had exactly the same features; but Ezekiel clearly
implies that they combined elements of humans, lions, bulls and eagles.
Later, each of these elements became a holy symbol in its own right; each was
identified with one of the four Evangelists-the lion stood for Mark, the man
for Matthew, the bull for Luke and the eagle for John. Together, they
represented the completeness, as well as the omnipotence and omniscience, of
the Gospels.
One mysterious characteristic of these composite creatures is described in
Ezekiel 1:12: "Each could move in the direction of any of its faces; they went
wherever the spirit impelled them to go, without turning when they moved."
Turning implies limitations on direction and presence; that they could move in
any direction without turning implies the omnipresence of the Almighty.
In short, the cherubim, having four of God's attributes, stand for omnipotence
and omniscience. They had the strength of the lion, king of beasts; the
swiftness and soaring ability of the eagle; the procreative power of the bull;
and the wisdom and reason of man. Without the abstract tools of philosophical
theory, ancient man expressed concepts like omnipotence and omniscience, as
well as the Divine Presence, in concrete forms and symbols. One of these was
the cherub, combining strength, procreative power, swiftness and wisdom.
Ancient man expressed himself not only in words, as in the Biblical text, but
also in works of art, a surprising number of which have survived, including
cherubim. They do not all have the same characteristics, but their intent is
often the same-to express something that transcends human limitations.
One of the most beautiful of these ancient works of art is in our collection
at the Bible Lands Museum-an extremely rare and exquisite ivory carved in
openwork technique; that is, in places the ivory is cut all the way through.
This artifact is about 5.5 inches high and slightly less than 4 inches wide.
It is a new addition to our collection; it dates, as I will argue, to the
ninth century B.C.E. and probably comes from Arslan Tash, near the
Syria-Turkish border. The figure represents, I believe, what the Bible calls a
cherub.
Clearly, it is a composite figure posed in a garden of palms, which are
partially visible between the figure's head and wing; this calls to mind the
verse from Ezekiel where the prophet describes his visionary Temple as having
cherubim and palm trees carved on the wall (Ezekiel 41:20).
Our ivory effectively combines the four elements mentioned above-a human face,
the wings of an eagle, the forepart of a lion and the hind-part of an ox,
although most of the hind legs are missing.
The human face-male or female?-in typically Egyptian profile wears an Egyptian
wig and the double crown of upper and lower Egypt. The crown is somewhat
squat.
The face itself is exquisite. Many faces on surviving cherubim are less than
attractive, sometimes even grotesque. But this one is beautifully
proportioned, with high cheekbones, full lips, a strong, aquiline nose and
deep, almond-shaped eyes-all characteristically Egyptian, but with superb
artistry. A long, curved eyebrow adds grace to the visage.
The eagle wings are fully outstretched. A skirt drapes over the front legs. We
are aided in identifying the body by the lion's paws as well as the strength
of the figure's forequarters.
Although the cherub's hind legs are mostly missing, the bottom parts of the
legs are partially visible. They end in paws, rather than hooves, but I
believe the artist intended to portray the hindquarter of a bull, rather than
a lion. Despite the missing parts, there are telltale signs:
*If this ivory came from Arslan Tash, as I will suggest, it should be noted
that other ivories from Arslan Tash featured the Egyptian lotus as well as the
Mesopotamian palm (Phoenizische Eifenbeine, Bildhefte des Badischen
Landesmuseum [Karlsruhe: 1973], pp. XVI, XVII).
A bull's tail rises slightly and then drops down. A lion's tail, on the
other hand, rises straight up and then curls in toward the body. Above the
rump of this creature is a curved fragment of ivory with a small knob at its
end. This knob is thicker than the curved fragment and its surface is incised
with thin horizontal lines. The half ball thus resembles the end of a flower,
perhaps a lotus, that protruded from a plant behind the creature.* There would
thus appear to be no room for a lion's tail above the rump. Moreover, a close
examination of the top of the rump reveals not a trace of any attachment; a
lion's tail, if it once existed, would have touched the top of the rump at
some point. So we may conclude that there never was a lion's tail on this
creature. On the other hand, there would be space for a slightly rising tail
that then fell straight down, as does a bull's tail.
We are also helped in identifying the hindquarters of the ivory figure by
comparison with another extraordinary object from the Bible Lands Museum
collection-a bronze stand from the 12th century B.C.E. Only parts of two sides
of this openwork stand have survived. Originally four-sided as described in
the Bible (1 Kings 7:27), the stand would have supported a basin for ablutions
in the Temple. The basin would have been placed on the top of the stand (1
Kings 7:38). The similarities of our stand to the ten "stands of bronze"
described in the Bible, which were supplied by the Phoenician artisan Hiram of
Tyre (not to be confused with the king Hiram of Tyre) for Solomon's Temple,
are astounding. The four wheels on which the stand moved, the stand's
rectangular shape, and even the division of decorative elements into two main
registers with decorative touches above and below-all reflect the Biblical
text: "Upon the ledges there was a base above; and beneath the lions and oxen
were certain additions made of thin work" (1 Kings 7:29). This bronze stand is
said to have come from Cyprus. The extremely slender figures wearing long
robes may reflect Cypriot influence-or Phoenician craftsmanship. Although our
stand is two centuries older than Solomon's Temple, I would venture to say
that the same workshop that made our stand may well have sent craftsmen to
Jerusalem to make the stands for the Jerusalem Temple.
Of special interest is the openwork winged figure in one side of the stand.
Here, too, all four legs end in lion's paws, but the hindquarters are clearly
those of a bull. Based on iconography (independent of the Biblical
description), the tail of the composite creature sculpted in the bronze stand
is that of a bull, not a lion; the tail rises and then falls straight down,
like a bull's tail. The bronze figure thus combines the same four
elements-man, eagle, lion and bull-as the ivory cherub, although its aesthetic
qualities are far inferior to the extraordinarily delicate features of the
ivory.
This ivory plaque can be dated to about the late ninth century B.C.E. The
Phoenician style, incorporating Egyptian elements, is well known. Although the
provenance of the piece is uncertain, I strongly suspect it was once part of
the famous ivory hoard excavated by a French expedition in 1928 at the site of
Arslan Tash, about 20 miles east of the upper Euphrates in modern-day Syria.
The Arslan Tash ivories were inlaid in the wooden frames of beds (cf. Amos
6:4). I once owned many of the Arslan Tash ivories, so I am intimately
familiar with them. There is no doubt in my mind that our ivory plaque comes
from this same group.
If so, it may once have adorned the palace of Hazael, king of Aram-Damascus
(848-805 B.C.E.), who was anointed king by the prophet Elijah (1 Kings 19:15).
Among the ivories from Arslan Tash was a piece of ivory veneer bearing the
name Hazael. Arslan Tash is the ancient site of Hadatu. Apparently the
Assyrians conquered Hazael's capital and brought these ivories to Hadatu as
the spoils of war. Now this beautiful cherub is one of the pearls of the Bible
Lands Museum in Jerusalem.
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Subject: [bprlist] ben Yosef Update: Jerusalem rallies against Clinton Plan to divide city
From: owner-bpr@philologos.org
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 18:17:55 -0000
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To: "ben Yosef" <benyosef@torahvoice.org>
Subject: Jerusalem rallies against Clinton Plan to divide city
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 05:33:28 +0200
The largest turnout for a rally in the history of Jerusalem,
estimated at 300,000 to 400,000 or roughly 1/10th of the population
of all of Israel turned out tonight to PROTEST the Clinton plan which
includes dividing the city of Jerusalem.
Tonight the Old City was like a HEART drawing blood from arteries
throughout the land of Israel. Here in Gilo we organized a rally at
noon and from here marched the 5 kilometers to the Jaffa Gate.
Similar marches were held by residents of N'vei Tzuf, Ateret, Peduel,
Talmon, Dolev, Mevo Choron, and even Ma'aleh Levonah, which is some
20 kilometers from Jerusalem! (I thought my feet were tired!!)
Thousands of high school girls took time out of their schools today
to participate in a prayer ceremony at Rachel's Tomb early this
morning on behalf of Jerusalem.
The five-hour rally tonight, which was largely non-political, began
with a human chain around the outer wall of the Old City from the
Plaza near the Damascus Gate counterclockwise to the Jaffa Gate, the
Zion Gate, the Dung Gate and around the eastern Temple Mount Wall to
the entrance to the Lion's Gate. Jerusalem police forbade the chain
from being completed from the northeast quadrant and the extreme
northern quadrant out of concern for Palestinians in the area.
More on this "chain" later. The rally also included songs about
Jerusalem, dancing, the lighting of torches on the Wall, speeches by
dozens of dignitaries and a cross-section of the Jewish population
and several "declarations."
Petitions were circulated pledging one's allegiance to Jerusalem at
virtually dozens of booths throughout the half-kilometer stretch of
the entire Western and Northwestern outer wall. Despite the masses of
people, there were no incidents except near the Damascus Gate where
Palestinian hecklers incited a few outbreaks of fighting which police
quickly brought under control.
The rally ended with a MASS swearing of an oath to the city of
Jerusalem, "If I forget thee, let my right hand forget its cunning,"
followed by the singing of "Hatikva," Israel's National Anthem. Rabbi
Eli Sadan sang from the Torah and the Prophets. There was also a
noticeably large "secular" element among the deomonstrators based on
the number of men who were not wearing kippas. A large turnout of
haredim (who clustered in one area so as not to make contact with the
women in the standing room only crush) also was observed.
The rally should be a clear message to Prime Minister Ehud Barak,
(who is badly slipping in the polls behind Likud Leader Arik Sharon
by more than 20 points), that he DOES NOT have the support of the
vast majority of the Israeli public -- and this includes a good mix
of religious and secular Israelis -- in his negotiations with the
Palestinians and with the American president.
Even the British Broadcasting Company news, which is usually biased
in its reporting, saw this signal and sentiment loud and clear with
the large number and variety of anti-Clinton, anti-Arafat and anti-
Barak signs that were waved at the world's media.
Clinton was advised to "give Texas back to Mexico" before advising
Israel to surrender land and divide the city of Jerusalem. Oslo and
the Camp David peace process was called, "the road to HELL" and
the "PEACE FROM HELL." The demonstrators waved hundreds of original
placards and signs, lighted torches, Israeli flags and other banners
from various settlement towns. Large groups sat in circles reading
Psalms and praying for Hashem to intervene against the "proposal to
divide Jerusalem and the proposed Palestinian State."
As I waved my placard, "The Jewish People and Jerusalem: Body & Soul"
and quirmed through the heart of the crowd up and down Rehov Chativat
Yerushalim (which parallels the western outer wall), and passed out
about 300 pamphlets on the Return of the House of Joseph as a
biblical alternative to a Palestinian State, I heard several
religious Jews crying fervently for Hashem to SEND MOSHIACH NOW! One
said, "We don't want Sharon to save us. We want only Moshiah."
Virtually every settlement in Judea Samaria turned out en-masse as
dozens of buses were made available by the organizers of the rally,
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Barak and Israeli MK Natan Sharansky. Estimated
to have cost several hundred thousand dollars, the rally was financed
with funds collected primarily in the U.S. by Sharansky on relatively
short notice after the Clinton Plan calling for a division of
Jerusalem was made public.
[.. snipped ..]
Shalom Shalom & Hashem's love & blessings,
ben Yosef
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) The Light of the World
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:51:34 -0500
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Subject: The Light of the World=20
In the Midrash, our sages state: "Jerusalem is the light of the world. And =
who is the light of Jerusalem? The Holy One, blessed be He" (Breishith Rabb=
a 59:8).
Last night, at the mass rally held outside the walls of the Old City in sol=
idarity with an undivided, eternal Jewish Jerusalem, that light became a pa=
lpable, tangible reality that could be sensed. During Chanukah, we wrote in=
these pages about G-d=92s promise to "search Jerusalem with candles." But=
=20
last night, no candles were necessary. It was reflected not only in the spo=
tlights and torches that shone off the Old City=92s walls, but in the faces=
of the hundreds of thousands of Jews who came from all over Israel and the=
world to line the streets and pledge their loyalty to the city that is=20
also called by the sages "the mother of Israel" (Midrash M=92chiri, Psalms,=
147). And just who is it that would be willing to give his mother away?
Speaking to reporters, Binyamin Netanyahu said "Jerusalem is our heart, our=
soul, and the center of our being. We cannot tear our heart in two, and we=
will never, ever divide Jerusalem." But the sages said it even better: "Je=
rusalem is called life" (Avot D=92Rabbi Natan 34:10).=20
Last night, the collective, pure and untainted spirit of the Jewish people =
made a statement to the world: we will not allow anyone to tamper with our =
life. Mayor Ehud Olmert, diplomatically polite in the extreme, told Bill Cl=
inton that it would be a shame for him to wreck eight years of=20
friendship with Israel with his "creative" idea of dividing the city. "Thin=
k about it, Mr. President," Olmert said.=20
Elsewhere there can be found a far less diplomatic, more straightforward me=
ssage to Mr. Clinton. "The L-rd rebukes you, O adversary; even the L-rd who=
has chosen Jerusalem rebukes you" (Zacharia 3:2).=20
"Like the flocks of the holy sacrifices, like the flock of Jerusalem in her=
appointed times, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men, a=
nd they shall know that I am the L-rd" (Ezekiel 36:38). To behold countless=
Jews of diverse affiliations and backgrounds, speaking every language,=20
filling the city=92s streets to pledge their allegiance to her and to affir=
m their imperishable connection, was perhaps the closest one could get to t=
he experience of the festival pilgrimage up to the Holy Temple.=20
"Jerusalem, built as a city that is compact together" (Psalms 122) =96 and =
as the sages comment on this verse, "the city that binds all of Israel toge=
ther in friendship." This was called the largest gathering in the history o=
f Jerusalem, but during the festival pilgrimage in the Holy Temple, there=20
were even larger crowds. Then a miracle is said to have occurred: No matter=
how many pilgrims crowded into the Temple, there was always ample room for=
everyone to bow down before the Divine Presence.=20
Before the eyes of the world, Israel is again united in Jerusalem, and focu=
sing on the Temple Mount, as one man with one heart. Each speaker at the ga=
thering affirmed the Jewish people=92s inexorable bond with the Temple Moun=
t, and recognized it as the link between our past and our future. For=20
2,000 years, Jews the world over turn and face this spot daily in prayer. I=
t was noted that although the Arabs have squatted on our holy site for 1300=
years, they never got around to changing their religious pilgrimage from M=
ecca to Jerusalem. Even on the platform of the Mount, the Moslem=20
worshippers turn their backs on its holiness and bow down towards Mecca. Ye=
t Jerusalem=92s Mufti has called last night=92s gathering a "provocation" a=
nd issued a religious edict obligating every Moslem to defend El Aksa. He a=
lso stated that even the Western Wall and its plaza "is Moslem property,=20
including seven levels below, and seven levels above...It is forbidden for =
Moslems to permit non-Moslems to superv!
ise, conduct services or pray in any part of the mosques or underneath them=
."=20
Let it be noted that to the Mufti of Jerusalem, we find another clear messa=
ge, totally lacking in diplomacy:
"And the L-rd roars out of Zion, and utters His voice from Jerusalem, and t=
he heavens and earth shake, but the L-rd will be a shelter for His people, =
and a stronghold for the Children of Israel. So shall you know that I am th=
e L-rd your G-d dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain: Then shall Jerusalem=20
be holy, and no strangers shall pass through her anymore" (Zacharia 1:17).
Sunday night, at the Israel Policy Forum dinner in New York, Bill Clinton p=
ublicly unveiled his plan. "There is no choice but for Israel to divide thi=
s land into two states for two peoples." Jerusalem, says the President, mus=
t be the capital of both Israel and Palestine. Mr. Clinton was praised=20
as a great peacemaker, and presented with a scroll inscribed with the Hebre=
w words "todah, haver" (thank you, friend).
However, a different, older scroll =96 the Torah scroll =96 bears a contras=
ted inscription for Bill Clinton:=20
"Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the peoples round=
about...and on that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all t=
he peoples: all that burden themselves with it shall be grievously hurt, an=
d all the peoples of the earth shall be gathered together against it"=20
(Zacharia 12).
Zacharia the prophet met an angel carrying a measuring line in his hand. "T=
hen I said, where are you going? And he said to me, to measure Jerusalem, t=
o see what is the breadth of it, and what is the length of it. Jerusalem sh=
all be inhabited like unwalled towns...for I, says the=20
L-rd, will be to her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in t=
he midst of her" (Ch. 2).=20=20
With blessings of light from Jerusalem, the heart
Rabbi Chaim Richman
THE TEMPLE INSTITUTE
PO Box 31876
Jerusalem, Israel
www.templeinstitute.org
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Subject: [bprlist] Arutz-7 News items (1/9/01)
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:51:34 -0500
A THIRD-OF-A-MILLION PLEDGE FOR JERUSALEM
Between 300,000 and 400,000 people gathered for a mass rally last night=20
opposing the division of Israel's capital. The theme of the rally was,=20
"Jerusalem: I Pledge Allegiance." The huge crowds spilled over from Jaffa=
=20
Gate all the way to the main Jaffa Rd. thoroughfare and into many of the=20
adjoining roads. Traffic was diverted away from the area, and many=20
thousands of people could be seen coming and going by foot in all direction=
s=20
throughout the event.=20=20
Throughout the rally, pictures and photographs of Jerusalem - such as the=20
City of David antiquities, the Temple Mount, and the liberation of the city=
in=20
1967 - were screened on the walls of the Old City near the Tower of David=20
and Jaffa Gate. Speakers included Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, former=20
Supreme Court Chief Justice Moshe Landau, Avital Sharansky (wife of=20
Yisrael B'Aliyah Party head Natan Sharansky), Chairman of Conference of=20
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Ron Lauder,=20
paratroopers such as Rabbi Yisrael Ariel who participated in the capture of=
=20
Jerusalem in 1967, left-wing Rishon LeTzion Mayor Meir Nitzan, and=20
organizer Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert.=20=20
Selected quotes:
Avital Sharansky: "The refusenik Sylva Zalmanson, during her trial in=20
Soviet Russia, read aloud to the judges the verse, "If I forget thee O=20
Jerusalem, let my right hand wither." My husband Natan, at the end of his=
=20
trial there, when he was in genuine danger to his life, declared in=20
unforgettable words, "Next year in Jerusalem." We always knew that the=20
freedom of Israel and the freedom of Jerusalem are one and the same."
Mayor Olmert addressed some of his remarks directly to U.S. President=20
Clinton: "We are an old people, and we never forget our friends - but we al=
so=20
do not forget those who raise their hand against our most precious treasure=
s.=20
Don't be the only U.S. President to go down in history as having proposed=
=20
the division of Israel's eternal capital. Please, Mr. President, think abo=
ut it."=20=20
Nurse Esther Arditi Bornshtein, known as the Angel in White: "I immigrated=
=20
from Italy, and served for two years in the Israeli Air Force as a=20
medic. During the Six Day War, when I was already a mother of two, I=20
joined up with Mota Gur's paratroopers division that broke through the=20
walls of the Old City. I administered first aid to the heroes who were hit=
=20
by the massive firepower of the Jordanians. I am now a tour guide living=20
in Jerusalem, "the joy of the whole earth, Mount Zion, the city of the=20
great King." ...I stand here today at the walls of Jerusalem, and pledge=20
allegiance to a complete and undivided Jerusalem - forever!"
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Moshe Landau: "The organizers of this=20
rally acted correctly in ensuring that it would have no political flavor -=
=20
because the dream of the integrity of all Jerusalem is something that all t=
he=20
Jewish parties in Israel have in common, without any difference at all. It=
is=20
agreed upon by all those who understand the purpose of our presence here=20
in this land, in this city, and especially the Temple Mount, which we have=
=20
received as a precious deposit from those who preceded us, and we are=20
obligated to return them to those who come after us, complete and whole. =
=20
The State of Israel does not belong only to those who reside here today, bu=
t=20
is rather the country of all Jews, wherever they may be... [When I was in =
the=20
U.S.] I was witness to the deep excitement felt by Jewish audiences when=20
they heard the wonderful song by Naomi Shemer called "Yerushalayim Shel=20
Zahav" (Jerusalem of Gold). We pray that common sense and understanding=20
will take root amongst them also, and then truly, true peace will reign her=
e in=20
United Jerusalem."=20=20
Yisrael Berko, a resident of the Old City: "I was born in the Old City 13=
=20
years ago, in the building called Beit Reut. I would like to say to all of=
you,=20
in the name of my friends who live in Herod's Gate, in Damascus Gate, in=20
Zion Gate, in Jaffa Gate, and all over the Old City: We are not from the=20
'Moslem Quarter' or the 'Jewish Quarter' - we are from Jerusalem-Between-
the-Walls, the undivided and complete city of Jerusalem. No more quarters=
=20
and sections - only Jerusalem, that will has always been and will always be=
=20
the pinnacle of the Jewish longing and striving, the heart and center, of t=
he=20
entire Jewish nation!"=20=20
The entire crowd, led by radio personality and linguist Avshalom Kor,=20
declared aloud and together the verses from Psalms, "If I forget thee, O=20
Jerusalem, let my right hand wither. Let my tongue cling to my palate if I=
do=20
not remember thee."=20=20
Journalist Aryeh Bender of Ma'ariv wrote this morning, "This stand, one of =
the=20
largest in the history of Israel, was impressive, unique, and moving. Ther=
e=20
was a feeling of exaltation in the crowd... The rally gave them a pick-up.=
"=20=20
THE CHAIN THAT WASN'T, AND A WORD FROM THE SPONSOR
The police have confirmed that they did not allow the rally's organizers to=
=20
carry out their plan for a human chain around the Old City walls, as a resu=
lt=20
of an agreement with the PLO's Fatah. Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that=
=20
the Palestinians demanded that the police forbid the human chain between=20
Damascus Gate and Herod's Gate [along the northern wall]. In return, Fatah=
=20
promised that they would prevent Arab rioting and violence during the rally=
.=20=20
Jerusalem's new police commander, Mickey Levy, agreed to the deal and=20
canceled the approval he originally issued for the human chain.=20=20
The rally was sponsored by an international organization called One=20
Jerusalem, which is responsible for such efforts as an internet petition ca=
lling=20
on the world community to recognize a united Jerusalem under Israeli=20
sovereignty, and a powerful 30-second video clip depicting the Palestinians=
'=20
endangerment of children and manipulation of children's minds in their=20
current fight against Israel. The petition can be signed at=20
<"http://www.onejerusalem.org/home/index.asp">, and the video can be=20
received as an attachment by sending a blank email to: <a href=20
=3D"mailto:hatredfromthecradle@IsraelNationalNews.com">=20
hatredfromthecradle@IsraelNationalNews.com </a>. One Jerusalem was=20
founded by a diverse group that includes MK Natan Sharansky, Ambassador=20
Dore Gold, Prof. Eli Pollak, Rabbi Chaskel Besser, Douglas Feith, Yechiel=20
Leiter, and others.=20=20
For pictures of the rally, plus audio and video coverage, see: <a=20
href=3D"http://www.israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/news/demonstrat
ion.ht m">=20
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/english/newspaper/news/demonstration.ht
m</a>=20=20
MOFAZ WARNS OF DANGERS
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz says that the Clinton-Barak plan=20
endangers Israel in general and Jerusalem in particular. Appearing before=
=20
the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee today, Mofaz=20
enumerated the severe problems he sees in Clinton's plan, among them the=20
fact that it totally ignores the issue of Palestinian terrorism, and does n=
ot=20
deal with the security dangers that will be caused by surrounding Jewish=20
Jerusalem neighborhoods with Palestinian ones. Mofaz emphasized how=20
critical it is that the airspace of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza remain Israeli=
,=20
and that the entire Jordan Valley, too, stay under Israeli control.=20=20
ARIEL SHARON REVEALS PLANS
The Knesset will conduct a special mid-recess session today, at the Likud's=
=20
request, to discuss the diplomatic situation. At the request of the One Is=
rael=20
(Labor) faction, the refusal of the Likud candidate for Prime Minister, Ari=
el=20
Sharon, to publicize his own peace plan will also be discussed.=20=20
Sharon has, however, revealed some important aspects of his strategy to the=
=20
weekly magazine Kfar Chabad. In the upcoming issue, to be published this=20
Thursday, Sharon says, "The Oslo agreements became null and void the=20
moment the current Palestinian violence started." When asked why it is "so=
=20
hard" for him to say so publicly, he answered, "Here, I am saying it as=20
clearly as possible: The Oslo agreements no longer exist, period."=20=20
When asked why is it that his campaign motto boasts that he will bring=20
peace when it is not even clear if the Palestinians will agree to meet with=
=20
him, Sharon answered, "Whoever thinks that only concessions will bring=20
peace is mistaken=85 I have frequent contact with Palestinian leaders, suc=
h=20
as Abu Mazen... [They respect me because] everyone respects someone=20
who stands firmly on his own principles..." Sharon also said that if he=20
becomes Prime Minister, "all the Yesha settlements will remain in place,=20
period," as they are all in zones required for Israel's security. When ask=
ed,=20
then, what are the "painful concessions" that he has said will be required =
for=20
peace, Sharon said, "I mean that we will not re-conquer Shechem and=20
Jericho, the birth-cradle of the Jewish nation. I don't know of any nation=
that=20
has given up on such precious historical national assets."=20=20
MORE CALLS FOR BARAK TO DROP OUT
Ehud Barak insists that he will not drop out of the race for Prime Minister=
,=20
but calls for him to withdraw in favor of Shimon Peres continue to be=20
sounded. First it was Labor MK Avi Yechezkel, and today it is his former=20
Bureau Chief, Chaim Mendel-Shaked. The latter, who resigned his position=20
last August with criticism of Barak's functioning as Prime Minister, said=20
today that Barak no longer transmits vision and hope, and that "if peace is=
=20
important to him, he must quit now; in 2 or 3 weeks, it may be too late." =
The=20
Likud candidate, Ariel Sharon, leads Peres in the polls by a much smaller=20
margin - if any - than he leads Barak.=20=20
The Meretz party is beginning a particularly vitriolic campaign against Ari=
el=20
Sharon in the Arab sector. A Meretz spokesman explained that the decision=
=20
to run a separate campaign was designed to show that the party is=20
independent. Differences of opinion have surfaced between Labor and=20
Meretz as to how to handle the Barak campaign. Prime Minister Barak had=20
previously ordered an end to a campaign gimmick featuring photographs in=20
Arab-language newspapers of the Sabra and Shatila massacres with the=20
caption, "After all, you know who Ariel Sharon is..." Sharon was Defense=20
Minister during the 1982 Peace for Galilee War, when Christian Phalangists=
=20
massacred over 900 Palestinians in Lebanon, and he had been blamed for=20
not doing enough to stop them.=20=20
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2001 / Tevet 14, 5761
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:51:34 -0500
Canada pledges troops to UN standing army without public input=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Leo=20
Source: LifeSite.net=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- On January 5, 2001, Canada signed an agreement with the=20
United Nations to put Canadian troops and equipment on standby for UN=20
interventions. The move is controversial since conservative critics suggest=
=20
that it is the first step in the creation of a UN army. Notably, the United=
=20
States has not agreed to participate in the venture which was commenced=20
by the UN in 1994. Canada is the 34th country to sign a memorandum of=20
understanding under the UN Standby Arrangements System agreeing to=20
place ships, equipped military personnel and aircraft on standby for use by=
=20
the UN within 30 days.=20=20
There was no public debate on the issue in Canada prior to the agreement. =
=20
The other countries that have signed the memorandum are: Argentina,=20
Austria, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France,=
=20
Germany, Ghana, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kyrgyz Republic, Lithuania,=20
Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay,=20
Romania, Singapore, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom,=20
Uruguay, Zimbabwe.=20=20
Venice having worst sustained flooding in history=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: faith=20
Source: BBC=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- Bad weather has left parts of Venice flooded for the 2nd=
=20
week in a row. This is believed to be the worst spate of sustained flooding=
in=20
the city's history. Tides rose over 1 meter above the median sea level on=20
Monday flooding normally dry parts of the city, including St Mark's Square.=
=20
The floods are the result of unusually high tides, a low pressure system ov=
er=20
the northern Adriatic and strong winds which are also pushing sea waters=20
into the Venice lagoon. St Mark's Square was under water more often in=20
2000 than in 1998 and 1999 together and Venetians fear that global warming=
=20
means their city will be flooded even more often in coming years.=20=20
PM Chretien forces Mortgentaler abortion clinic funding by Canadian=20
taxpayers=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Leo=20
Source: LifeSite.net=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- As the federal Liberal Canadian Government continues to=20
threaten to take action over New Brunswick's refusal to pay for abortions a=
t=20
private clinics, the Manitoba government has caved in to pressure and agree=
d=20
to use tax dollars for abortions at Henry Morgentaler's abortuary in the=20
province. Manitoba deputy health minister Ron Hikel told the Winnipeg Free=
=20
Press the "The province is in the process of developing a policy and a=20
procedure that will create a new category of not-for-profit clinics that wi=
ll be=20
basically operating as public sector facilities . . . Assuming that this is=
=20
arranged, it will start paying both the physicians' and the so-called tray =
fee at=20
the Morgentaler clinic."=20=20
Canadian Prime Minister Chretien appears to be following through on his=20
more open pro-abortion militancy that sprouted just before the federal=20
election. Mary Ellen Douglas, National Organizer for Campaign Life Coalitio=
n=20
(CLC) slammed the government's hypocrisy Friday for its insistence that=20
Nova Scotia fund the private abortuary of Morgentaler while having=20
campaigned against two-tier medicine. "Mr. Rock is pressuring Alberta to=20
shut down private MRI clinics, while trying to force New Brunswick to suppo=
rt=20
private abortion clinics," said Douglas. To be consistent, she said, "New=20
Brunswick should be refused transfer payments if Henry Morgentaler's privat=
e=20
clinic in Fredericton is not closed."=20=20
Britain orders Caribbean islands to legalize homosexuality=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Leo=20
Source: LifeSite.net=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- The British government has followed through with their=20
threat to force the legalization of homosexuality on its Caribbean territor=
ies=20
after having cajoled the Islands' legislators unsuccessfully. The Islands h=
ave=20
devout Christian populations and their leaders have thus refused to cave in=
to=20
the foreign pressure but the British government decided to exert its imperi=
al=20
power over the Islands with an order from the British Privy Council=20
decriminalizing homosexual acts. Nando Times reports that the order takes=20
effect this week and applies to Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the British=20
Virgin Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos.=20=20
Responding to the order, Rev. Nicholas Sykes, chief pastor of the Church of=
=20
England in the Cayman Islands said Friday, "This is totally unacceptable to=
=20
the minds of the Christian community here."=20=20
New poll shows most Americans believe abortion is manslaughter=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Leo=20
Source: CNSNews.com=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- A new poll shows most Americans believe abortion is=20
manslaughter. When asked to choose between two statements: "Abortion=20
destroys a human life and is manslaughter" or "Abortion does not destroy a=
=20
life and is not manslaughter," 51 percent of respondents of the Zogby=20
"American Values" poll believed the first statement. Thirty-five percent of=
=20
1,005 likely voters believed that abortion does not destroy a life and is n=
ot=20
manslaughter. Eight percent agreed with neither statement, while 6 percent=
=20
were not sure.=20=20
Thirty-seven percent of Democrats said abortion is manslaughter, while 47=20
percent disagreed. Sixty-seven percent of Republicans said abortion is=20
manslaughter, while 23 percent disagreed. Fifty-one percent of independents=
=20
felt that abortion is manslaughter; 32 percent felt it is not.=20=20
Men and women's responses were statistically the same, with 51 percent of=20
men and women agreeing that abortion destroys a human life. Thirty-seven=20
percent of men and 33 percent of women said abortion does not destroy life=
=20
and is not manslaughter.=20=20
Many poor, elderly women lack access to food=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Leo=20
Source: Yahoo News/Reuters=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- Many of the programs set up to help elderly people afford=
=20
food are not reaching those in need, results of a study suggest.=20=20
According to researchers, nearly one quarter of about 1,000 disabled women=
=20
aged 65 years and older said they could not afford food. But less than 3%=20
received home delivered meals, less than 5% attended group meal programs=20
and only about 19% were receiving food stamps. "Despite national programs=20
targeted at reducing nutritional deficits in the elderly, particularly the =
frail=20
elderly, many older disabled women still appear to be having difficulties=20
obtaining adequate food," Dr. Lisa M. Klesges, from the University of=20
Tennessee in Memphis, and colleagues report.=20=20
=20
Palestinians: negotiators to join new security talks with Israel=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Kelly=20
Source: AFP=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- Peace negotiators will join Israeli and Palestinian secur=
ity=20
officials for an upcoming meeting to try to bring calm to the Palestinian=20
territories and Israel after a failed attempt in Cairo Monday, a Palestinia=
n=20
official said Tuesday. "We decided to form a political-security committee t=
o=20
meet in the next few days that will include negotiators from both sides," t=
he=20
official told AFP asking not to be identified. He said the meeting would ta=
ke=20
place "in the next few days" and that it would likely be held in Cairo. =
=20
China fires warning to new U.S. president=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Kelly=20
Source: Reuters=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- China fired a pre-emptive verbal strike at the incoming=20
George W. Bush administration today, saying the U.S. missile defence=20
proposals that strained bilateral ties last year will have "formidable, adv=
erse=20
global impacts". In a report in the official China Daily published as Bush=
=20
began following up on campaign pledges to beef up the U.S. military and=20
build a national missile defence system, China also slammed U.S. military=20
alliances and arms sales to Taiwan. Using Chinese codewords for U.S.=20
power such as "hegemony" and "power politics", the report said=20
Washington's military alliances and security policies would trigger an arms=
=20
race and jeopardise regional security.=20=20
Republicans plan huge missile shield=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Kelly=20
Source: London Guardian=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- George W Bush is preparing to commit billions of extra=20
dollars to develop a more elaborate system of national missile defence=20
(NMD) which is certain to sour relations with Russia, China and Europe, and=
=20
could bind future administrations to the policy. His plans, which are being=
=20
driven by his vice-president, Dick Cheney, and his nominated defence=20
secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, are likely to dwarf the 100-missile Alaska-base=
d=20
system which was under consideration by the Clinton administration before=20
test failures last summer forced it to pass the issue to its successor's in=
tray.=20
=20
The scale of the Bush team's thinking began to emerge as the president-
elect met congressional leaders in Austin, Texas, yesterday to begin=20
mapping out the Republican legislative programme for defence. His three=20
principal campaign commitments on defence were raised at the meeting: a=20
$1bn (=A3668m) pay rise for the armed forces, a $20bn boost for hi-tech=20
weapons research, and the NMD system. "Strengthening the military is one=20
of my top priorities," Mr Bush said.=20=20
EU's Prodi demands end to shared presidency=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Leo=20
Source: BBC NEWS=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- The President of the European Union Commission,=20
Romano Prodi, has said that the system of rotating the union's presidency=20
every six months is "untenable" in the long term.=20=20
In an interview with the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Mr Prodi said=20
the current system - where each country takes its turn at the head of the=20
union - is "ineffective political tourism". "We can't go on spinning around=
like=20
this. This is a big, big, big problem for us to work, like we do now, with=
=20
different negotiating cultures and different people," he said.=20
Jordan Valley residents march to capital=20=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Kelly=20
Source: Jerusalem Post=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- Residents from settlements throughout Judea and Samaria=20
yesterday continued their marches to Jerusalem under the slogan "Israel=20
Stands Firmly." Meanwhile, their Jordan Valley counterparts embarked on a=20
short sea voyage on the Dead Sea, sending a balloon-tied message in a=20
bottle to King Abdullah II calling on him to "demand Jordanian sovereignty =
on=20
both sides of the river to ensure a stable and dependable rule to prevent t=
he=20
region's deterioration into war."=20=20
Mussa Arafat: Israel is planning my assassination=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Kelly=20
Source: Jerusalem Post=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- Col. Mussa Arafat, head of Palestinian Intelligence and=20
uncle of the Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, said earlier tod=
ay=20
that the Israeli government is planning to assassinate him. Arafat said he=
=20
was preparing for the eventuality. "I believe the Israelis are working on i=
t,"=20
said Arafat. He added, "Prime Minister Ehud Barak can boast of the=20
(liquidation) to the Israeli Right, before the elections." Israel is accusi=
ng=20
Mussa Arafat of planning the Tel Aviv bus bombing two weeks ago.=20=20
Churchgoers are donating an increasingly smaller share of their incomes =
=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Leo=20
Source: Religion Today=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- The percentage of income Protestants give fell from 3.1 i=
n=20
1968 to 2.5 in 1998, according to Empty Tomb, a research group in=20
Champaign, Ill. That means church members gave $4 billion less in 1998=20
than they would have if they were giving at the same rate they did in 1968.=
=20
Total annual contributions rose by an average of $202 to $570 per church=20
member, after inflation was taken into account, because incomes also rose. =
=20
Most of the money is being spent on salaries, in-church programs, and=20
building-maintenance rather than on outreach efforts such as missions and=20
services for the poor. Donations for external church activities dropped to =
a 30-
year low as a percentage of income, falling below .4 percent, according to=
=20
the study. Gifts to support local congregations represented 2.2 percent of=
=20
church members' income in 1998.=20=20
The report said that if U.S. church members had tithed, or given 10 percent=
=20
of after-tax income in 1998, churches would have had an additional $131=20
billion to help the poor. About 30,000 children die each day, many from=20
problems that would cost relatively little to fix, the authors of the repor=
t said.=20
The study, "The State of Church Giving Through 1998," tracked 30 mainline=20
Protestant and evangelical denominations.=20=20
Foreign Ministry officials decry US Declaration=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Kelly=20
Source: Jerusalem Post=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- Senior Foreign Ministry officials have come out in critic=
ism=20
of US President Bill Clinton's proposed Declaration of Principles. The Fore=
ign=20
Ministry Directorate is sitting in discussion on the issue. The declaration=
=20
would sum up the state of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.=
=20
Several Foreign Ministry officials are of the opinion the document would ha=
ve=20
impact on the state of affairs, even if neither side were to sign. An offic=
ial=20
characterized the declaration as "painful," and said the document would be=
=20
damaging to Israel's position, adding "The Palestinians can only gain from=
=20
the declaration." According to the officials, the document would become a=20
starting point for any future negotiations. Director-General Alon Liel said=
the=20
declaration would have international standing.=20=20
Rabbi Yosef tells Sharon to already consider himself ''incoming prime=20
minister''=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Source: Jerusalem Post=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- Rabbi Ovadia Yosef told Likud leader Ariel Sharon=20
yesterday that he should already consider himself the "incoming prime=20
minister," and MKs in the Likud and Shas began jockeying for portfolios as =
if=20
a new coalition was already being formed. Shas MK Shlomo Benizri said last=
=20
night that while the issue has not yet been discussed with Sharon, he=20
believes Shas deserves to be given at least five portfolios, including Fina=
nce.=20=20
Syria, Japan discuss military cooperation=20=20
Weekend News Today=20
Lead: Kelly=20
Source: Middle East Newsline=20
Tue Jan 9,2001 -- Japan and Syria are discussing military cooperation. The=
=20
issue was last raised during a meeting between Syrian Defense Minister=20
Mustapha Tlass and Japanese State Minister for Defense Shigiru Ishiba.=20
Ishibi also met Syrian Chief of Staff Gen. Ali Aslan on Monday. The meeting=
s=20
focused on the "the means of promoting relations between the Syrian and=20
Japanese armies," the Syrian news agency said.=20=20
Japan contributes soldiers to the 1,050-member United Nations=20
Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights. The force separates=20
the Israeli and Syrian armies. Japan also seeks to launch military=20
cooperation with the Gulf Cooperation Council and on Tuesday Japan's=20
defense minister begins a visit to Qatar.=20=20
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Subject: [bprlist] BNI.Priority News 3,4,5 (1/9/01)
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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 18:51:34 -0500
1. A call for prayer on behalf of terror victims=09
2. Sneh contradicts FM Ben-Ami regarding security cooperation with PA
3. PM Barak visits terror victim in Hadassah Hospital=09
4. Infant knocked unconscious on public bus in Bnei Brak=09
5. Illegal Moroccan national to be deported=09
6. 17th woman killed in domestic violence attacks since January 1, 2000=09
7. Bomb explodes near IDF tractor in Gaza =96 no injuries=09
8. Two wanted terrorists apprehended in Bethlehem area=09
9. IDF troops attacked with gunfire near Tul Qarem=09
***************************
9-JAN-01 =96 4:42pm
***************************
1. A call for prayer on behalf of terror victims
(BNI-JAN.9) Ester Silvers of the Samarian community of Shilo has decided
that prayers are needed as part of the war against terrorism.=20
The veteran Shilo resident has issued a call to other Yesha residents as
well as residents of Israel living inside the =93Green Line=94 to join in a=
nd
create a national effort to recite Psalms on behalf of those persons
injured in Islamic terror attacks.
Ester explains that persons participating in the project would maintain a
list of the Hebrew names of terror victims in their respective area,
organizing the recital of Psalms for that person. Each community would
accept responsibility for incidents that occur in their respective areas
while constantly checking on their medical conditions and providing the
media with updates so they are not forgotten. Ester explains that lists
would be updated to the media and other sources weekly. Persons interested
in assisting in the project may contact ester as silvers@netvision.net.il
.=20=20
++++
2. Sneh contradicts FM Ben-Ami regarding security cooperation with PA
(BNI-JAN.9) Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh on Tuesday stated there
was no security cooperation agreement with the PA =96 contradicting
statements made earlier in the day by Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami.
Ben-Ami stated that a security agreement was reached in the Cairo security
summit earlier in the week. PA Gaza Security Chief Mohammed Dahlan also
denied the report.=20
Sneh stated that the two sides have not yet renewed security cooperation
although it was possible in the future if there was good will by both
parties.=20=20
++++
3. PM Barak visits terror victim in Hadassah Hospital
(BNI-JAN.9) Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday visited terror victim
12-year-old Ohz Guata, who was shot on Monday night on the Givat Ze=92ev
road. He is listed in moderate condition following surgery.=20=20
++++
4. Infant knocked unconscious on public bus in Bnei Brak
(BNI-JAN.9) A two-month-old infant traveling on a bus on Hazon Street in
Bnei Brak was knocked unconscious when the bus made a short stop and=20
the
infant was hurled to the ground. The child was transported to to a local
hospital.=20=20
++++
5. Illegal Moroccan national to be deported
(BNI-JAN.9) The Ministry of the Interior has issued a deportation order
against an illegal Moroccan national that is charged with assisting a
Jordanian citizen in carrying out the bus bombing attack in Petah Tikvah
on a number 51 bus in December.=20=20
++++
6. 17th woman killed in domestic violence attacks since January 1, 2000
(BNI-JAN.9) Basanda Obayev, 38, became the 17th fatality of domestic
violence since January 1, 2000. On Monday, her former boyfriend Her
boyfriend, in his fifties, arrived at her Tel Aviv apartment where she
lived with her 3-year-old daughter and siblings.=20
The two got into an argument and he pulled out a knife and stabbed her to
death. He then turned on the gas in her over, trying to take his own life.
Neighbors were alerted by the smell of liquid propane gas and summoned
police.=20
The suspect was transported to Ichilov Hospital under arrest. He was
listed in light condition.=20=20
++++
7. Bomb explodes near IDF tractor in Gaza =96 no injuries
(BNI-JAN.9) An explosive device exploded on Tuesday afternoon near an IDF
armored tractor operating in Gaza. The tractor was involved in
neutralizing explosive devices found near the Karnei Crossing in northern
Gaza. Soldiers opened fire at a suspicious image spotted near the blast
area. There were no injuries.=20=20
++++
8. Two wanted terrorists apprehended in Bethlehem area
(BNI-JAN.9) Security forces on Tuesday afternoon arrested two wanted
terrorists in the Bethlehem area.=20
The Tanzim force terrorists were apprehended by an IDF checkpoint, acting
on intelligence community information. The prisoners, alleged to have
taken part in terrorist attacks against Israeli targets, were turned over
to the custody of the General Security Service (GSS/Shin Bet).=20
++++
9. IDF troops attacked with gunfire near Tul Qarem
(BNI-JAN.9) IDF forces operating west of the PA autonomous city of Tul
Qarem were attacked by gunfire at about 3:40pm. There were no casualties
to IDF forces that returned fire.=20=20
----------------
1. Shots fired at Egged 178 bus=09
2. IDF Chief of Staff: US bridging proposals contrary to security
interests=09
3. 10-year-old killed in fall from fourth floor=09
4. Tul Qarem area DCO attacked with gunfire=09
5. MVA summary for the past 24 hours=09
***************************
9-JAN-01 =96 7:54pm
***************************
1. Shots fired at Egged 178 bus=20
(BNI-JAN-9) An Egged 178 bus traveling from Jerusalem to the Gush Shilo
area of Samaria was fired upon at about 6:30pm north of the community of
Ofra, south of Wadi Charamiya, on Route 60. Four shots struck the bus.
There were no reported injuries.=20=20
As a result of the attack, Route 60 was closed in both directions.
The shots struck the bus a few hundred meters from the site where Sara
Leisha was killed in a terrorist attack in November 2000.
++++
2. IDF Chief of Staff: US bridging proposals contrary to security interests
(BNI-JAN.9) IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz on Tuesday stated that
the bridging proposals put forward by outgoing US President Bill Clinton
are contrary to Israel=92s security interests. In his address to the Knesse=
t
Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee, the military commander explained that
Clinton=92s proposals do not fall in line with the military=92s responsibil=
ity
to provide security for its residents.=20
Mofaz added that from a military standpoint, it would be beneficial if the
Jordan Valley remained in Israel control as well as the air space over PA
autonomous areas.
Regarding Jerusalem, Mofaz explained that during a crisis situation many
Israeli neighborhoods may find themselves between Arab areas =96 a reality
that may complicate security considerations.=20
++++
3. 10-year-old killed in fall from fourth floor
(BNI-JAN.9) A 10-year-old youth was killed on Tuesday evening as a result
from a fall from a fourth story window on Jaffa=92s Saharon Street. He
became enraged during the argument with his 7-year-old brother and jumped
from the window.
The first police unit to respond began life-support efforts which were
continued by the emergency medical service team. The critically injured
youth was transported to Wolfson Hospital where he was pronounced dead
following additional resuscitation efforts.=20=20
++++
4. Tul Qarem area DCO attacked with gunfire
(BNI-JAN.9) The IDF DCO (District Coordinating Office) in the Tul Qarem
district of Samaria was attacked by gunfire during the late afternoon
hours on Tuesday. There were no reported injuries among Israeli security
forces that returned fire.=20=20
The DCO offices were set up under the Oslo process and were designed as
command centers for joint Israeli/PA cooperation in the sphere of
security. The DCOs were manned by both PA and Israeli military personnel
as were joint security patrols in the field which consisted of two jeeps
operating side by side. Since the start of the September 29 PA
orchestrated violence, the security =91cooperation=92 between Israel and th=
e
PA has come to a halt.
++++
5. MVA summary for the past 24 hours
(BNI-JAN.9) Following is a summary of injuries and fatalities that
resulted from motor vehicle accidents during the 24-hour period ending on
Tuesday, January 09, 2001, at 6:00pm.
One person sustained serious injuries and five moderate. MDA emergency
medical service teams treated 141 injured persons and responded to 111
accidents.=20=20
----------------
1. Shooting attack into Beit Haggai=09
2. Egged bus attacked with gunfire near Elon Moreh=09
3. Sporadic gunfire near Netzarim=09
4. Grenade attack in southern Gaza=09
5. Kadim attacked by gunfire=09
6. Infant sustains moderate injuries from scalding water=09
7. Correction=09
8. Gush Etzion residents plan to block road to Arab motorists=09
9. Bezeq base attacked by gunfire=09
10. IDF jeep attacked by gunfire near Elon Moreh=09
11. National unemployment rate continues to rise=09
12. Gaza hospital: Elderly Arab man dies of gunshot wounds=09
************************
9-JAN-01 =96 11:12pm
************************
1. Shooting attack into Beit Haggai
(BNI-JAN.9) Shots were fired into the community of Beit Haggai, in the
Southern Hebron Hills, a short time ago. There were no reported
casualties. At least one bullet struck a home of a resident. (Kol Rina =96
formally Kol M=92Hashetach)=20=20
++++
2. Egged bus attacked with gunfire near Elon Moreh
(BNI-JAN.9) An Egged bus traveling near Elon Moreh in northern Samaria was
attacked by gunfire on Tuesday night. There were no reported casualties. A
gun battle between security forces escorting the bus and terrorist forces
followed. There were no reported injuries among Israeli forces.=20=20=20
++++
3. Sporadic gunfire near Netzarim
(BNI-JAN.9) During the past hour, there have been exchanges of gunfire
between IDF forces and terrorists inside the PA autonomous area near
Netzarim in Gaza. There were no reported injuries to IDF forces.=20=20
++++
4. Grenade attack in southern Gaza
(BNI-JAN.9) Two hand grenades were tossed at an IDF position in southern
Gaza, near the Rafiach crossing to Egypt. There were no immediate reports
of casualties in the Tuesday evening attack. Soldiers returned fire.=20=20
++++
5. Kadim attacked by gunfire
(BNI-JAN.9) The community of Kadim in northern Samaria, east of the PA
autonomous city of Jenin, was attacked with gunfire on Tuesday evening.
There were no reported casualties or damages. Soldiers returned fire.=20=20
++++
6. Infant sustains moderate injuries from scalding water
(BNI-JAN.9) A one-year-old infant was moderately burned from scalding
water in the community of Kiryat Sefer. The infant was transported in an
advanced life support paramedic ambulance to Tel HaShomer Hospital in Tel
Aviv.=20=20
++++
7. Correction
(BNI-JAN.9) The Egged 178 bus fired upon earlier in the evening was
traveling from Shilo to Jerusalem when fired upon north of Ofra, not from
Jerusalem to Shilo as erroneously reported.=20=20
++++
8. Gush Etzion residents plan to block road to Arab motorists
(BNI-JAN.9) In response to continued shooting attacks in the area,
residents of the Gush Etzion area of Judea, led by regional council leader
Shaul Goldstein, will on Wednesday morning block Arab motorists from the
entrance to the community of Neve Daniel beginning at 6:30am.
Resident report that they are no longer willing to permit Arab motorists
to continue driving unhindered while hey are under constant threat of
attack from gunfire, stone-throwing and firebombs.=20=20
++++
9. Bezeq base attacked by gunfire
(BNI-JAN.9) The IDF=92s Bezeq base in the Jenin area was attacked by gunfir=
e
on Tuesday night. There were no reported injuries to IDF forces that
returned fire.=20=20
++++
10. IDF jeep attacked by gunfire near Elon Moreh
(BNI-JAN.9) An IDF jeep traveling on the Shchem (Nablus) bypass road near
Elon Moreh was attacked by gunfire on Tuesday evening. There were no
injuries to military personnel that returned fire.=20=20
++++
11. National unemployment rate continues to rise
(BNI-JAN.9) Unemployment in November climbed to nine percent, translating
to an additional 2,500 persons without work. At present, there are
currently close to 220,000 Israelis registered with official government
agencies as being unemployed.
During 2000, unemployment figures rose from 8.6 percent, adding an
additional 10,000 citizens to the ranks of the nation=92s unemployed.=20=20
++++
12. Gaza hospital: Elderly Arab man dies of gunshot wounds
(BNI-JAN.9) According to information furnished from a Gaza hospital in the
PA autonomous areas, a 70-year-old Arab man who was hit by IDF gunfire on
Tuesday morning in southern Gaza, near Kfar Darom, died of his wounds on
Tuesday night. No additional information is available at this time.=20=20
++++
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