1. A VIOLENT CEASEFIRE
2. TOMORROW: KOTEL PRAYERS, DOWNTOWN DEMONSTRATION
3. HENDEL PLANS TO FORM COUNTER-PERES FRONT
4. ANOTHER LEFT-WINGER TURNS RIGHT
5. WHO, US?
6. BURYING ANOTHER VICTIM
7. PALESTINIANS SUPPORT SUICIDE ATTACKS, 3-1
8. QATAR'S SOLUTION
***ARUTZ SHEVA RADIO SHORTS
Italy's Volcano Etna
New Lava Dome forms at Mexico's Volcano Colima
Mexico's Volcano Popo has moderate explosion
China warns of grave environmental degradation
North Korea hit by unprecedented dry spell
5.8 quake hits New Guinea today
5.8 quake shook Mariana Islands
Bilderberg urges Torries to support the euro
US missile breach could spell ''total unpredictability'' in security: Russia
Iran heading for irreversible reforms, Khatami says
Oil nears $30 a barrel on Iraqi cuts
Russian emergency minister arrives in Baghdad for Hussein meeting
Chinese navy runs emergency deployment drill
Israel permits PA troop deployment
Solana sees Mideast peace initiative within days
Arafat cease-fire under US scrutiny
EU observers monitoring PA compliance
Israel arrests Palestinians throughout West Bank
Sharon, Peres: Arafat not taking necessary steps
Opposition groups all deny cease-fire agreement
Powell Urges Arafat to Arrest Planners of Tel Aviv Bombing
Qatar Donates Military Vehicles to Lebanon
U.S. Military Chief Discusses Cooperation in Jordan
Opec Ready To Reject Oil Output Rise
Saudi Role in Energy Production
Cyprus to Discus CBMs With Europe
Proposal Raised To Buy North Korean No-Dong Missles
Russia In Crisis As Vodka Runs Out
Earthquakes of the Past 2 Days:
June 4, 2001
Who Built The City of David?
When one thinks of ancient Jerusalem, it is logical to assume that the
Jerusalem of Biblical times was located where today's Old City(1) stands.
But the original city of Jerusalem, which existed in Canaanite times, was
located on a steep slope that begins just outside the present-day walls of
Jerusalem's Old City and which descends through the Arab neighborhood
known as Silwan into a deep valley. This is the site of the walled fortress that
King David set out to conquer as he expanded his kingdom.
Until recently, it was also assumed that the Jebusite Jerusalem which David
attacked was a small city, which David strengthened and fortified and which
is known today as the City of David (2). This assumption has now been
proven wrong. As reported recently in the press, archaeological finds indicate
that the Canaanite city in the pre-David era was much larger and more
advanced than commonly believed.
Archaeologist Roni Reich, from the Israel Antiquities Authority, announced
that his team had uncovered the foundations of towers that were part of a
fortification system used to protect the city's only water source, a spring
outside the walls, at times when the city was under siege. In addition to
massive walls that have been uncovered in a recent dig, it is now understood
that David conquered a well-fortified city, complete with an advanced water
system.
The Second Book of Samuel (5:6) tells of David's attack on the Jebusite city.
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the
same is the City of David. And David said on that
day: 'Whoever smiteth the Jebusites, and getteth
up to the gutter....
What is the meaning of tzinnor, translated by The Soncino Books of The
Bible as gutter?
Warren's Shaft (named for an English archaeologist who pioneered
systematic excavations in Jerusalem between 1864-67), is the remainder of
the earliest water system of the City of David. This underground system
enabled the citizens of Jerusalem to draw water from the Gihon spring
without leaving the fortified walls of their city. Warren's Shaft(3) apparently
incorporates a number of geological features which give credibility to the
assumption that it was functioning even before David's conquest of Jerusalem
and may be the tzinnor (Hebrew for pipe or conduit) mentioned in the Book of
Samuel.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs website(4) gives further details of this
water system:
In the Jebusite city there was a method to access
the Gihon spring water source, which is outside the
wall, from within the city. A diagonal tunnel was
hewn in the bedrock (apparently, along the line of a
natural crack), and at its end a deep horizontal
shaft was dug. From the top of the horizontal shaft,
water jugs were lowered to the spring flowing below.
Thus, access to the spring was hidden from the
enemy outside the city. Perhaps this shaft is the
tzinnor through which King David's men climbed and
penetrated the city as is mentioned in the Bible.
Warren's Shaft, in addition to the 120 meter access tunnel (predecessor to
the much later Hezekiah's Tunnel), and the remains of the huge fortification
walls, are signs that the ancient, pre-Israelite Jerusalem, was a very modern,
well-developed city. What was later known as the City of David was already
on the map long before King David came to town.
- Ellis Shuman -
1.http://israeliculture.about.com/culture/israeliculture/library/jerusale/bljerold.h
tm
2.http://israeliculture.about.com/culture/israeliculture/library/gallery/blzzcd00.
htm
3.http://israeliculture.about.com/culture/israeliculture/library/gallery/blzzcd07.
htm
4.http://www.israel%2Dmfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp%3FMFAH00wy0
Related links:
New Discoveries in an Ancient Land
Biblical archaeology has dug up some interesting finds lately. Is there a need
to prove the Bible?
Archaeological Sites in Israel - Jerusalem - The City of David
From the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
Biblical Jerusalem: From Caananite City to Israelite Capital
From the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
Archaeologist says Jerusalem waterworks predate Jews
Seattle Times, July 23, 1998.
Warren's Shaft - The Secret to David's Victory?
Detailed article, with graphics, about Warren's Shaft.
Discovery of Ancient Towers in Jerusalem
Article from Israel Infotour.
Geotechnical Problems in the Holyland - Then And Now
Abstract by Technion Professor, Sam Frydman, from the Electronic Journal
of Geotechnical Engineers website.
Israel Antiquities Authority Israel, a very ancient land, is dotted with
archaeological sites. This colorful website offers archaeological news, views
and digs for the virtual archaeologist.
http://israeliculture.about.com/culture/israeliculture/library/weekly/aa072798.h
tm
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 08:53:28 -0400
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Gamla HomePage: http://www.gamla.org.il/english
Official Israel Library - On the GAMLA Web Site
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The GAMLA Web Site has gathered together some of Israel's basic
document
concerning our state and the relationships with our Arab neighbors. Many
time, certain "facts" getted blurred by the years, and we bring these to
you for your use. They are divided by governments.
Pre-State
The Balfour Declaration - 1917
The Mandate for Palestine - May 1922
Pre 1967
Declaration of Establishment of State of Israel - 1948
UN General Assembly Resolution 181 - 1947
The Palestinian National Charter - 1964
After 1967 War - Labour Party
Protection of Holy Places Law - 1967
The Khartoum Resolutions - 1967
U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 - 1967
U.N. Security Council Resolution 338 - 1973
Begin (Likud) Gov.
Camp David Accords - September 17, 1978
Shamir Labour/Likud Gov.
Israel's Peace Initiative - May 14, 1989
Madrid Letter of Invitation - 1991
Rabin Gov.
Declaration of Principles - Sept. 1993
Israel-PLO Recognition - Letters - Sept. 9, 1993
Agreement on Gaza Strip and Jericho Area - May 4, 1994
Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities - Aug. 29, 1994
The Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement - September 28, 1995
Summit of Peacemakers - Sharm el-Sheikh, March 13, 1996
Netanyahu Gov.
Agreement on Temporary International Presence in Hebron - May 1996
Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron - Jan. 17, 1997
Agreement on Temporary International Presence in Hebron - Jan. 21, 1997
Protocol Concerning Safe Passage between the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip
The Wye River Memorandum - October 23, 1998
Barak Gov.
The Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum - September 4, 1999
Trilateral Statement on the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David -
July 25, 2000
Sharon Gov.
Israeli Settlements and International Law - Legal Position Paper May 2001
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Interview: FM Peres' Media Advisor Yoram Dori
Aaron Lerner Date: 5 June 2001
IMRA interviewed FM Peres' Media Advisor Yoram Dori, in Hebrew, on 5 June
2001:
IMRA: I heard Minister Peres this morning on IDF Radio. Is the cooling off
period a period within which they cool off - that is to say that there is a
decline in violence over the course of the period rather than a period
without violence?
Dori: No. The "cooling off period" is the period during which it is checked
if in fact there is a cease-fire.
IMRA: So today . . .
Dori: Now there is nothing since the Americans have yet to set a date so now
it is nothing. There is not yet a cease-fire agreement. There are two
unilateral announcements.
IMRA: So it hasn't started at all.
Dori: Correct. Right now there are two unilateral cease-fire announcements.
The moment that there is an agreement of a cease-fire between the two
parties via the United States and acceptance of the beginning of the
implementation of the Mitchell Report (after all, the cease-fire is the
first part of the Mitchell Report) then we will start with the
implementation of the timetable per the Mitchell Report.
IMRA: So we are waiting for this process.
Dori: Exactly. The start of the implementation of the Mitchell Report.
IMRA: By the way, the Mitchell Report permits rock throwing etc. since this
is part of the expression of protest of the Palestinian People. And the
Palestinians have declare that the "fire" in "cease-fire" is gun fire -
rocks and fire bombs are still permissible. Is there an Israeli position on
this?
Dori: Israel announced that it accepted the Mitchell Report.
IMRA: Fine. The Mitchell Report sees rock throwing as part of protest.
Dori: We accept the Mitchell Report.
Dori: Fine. So they will continue to throw rocks.
Dori: I do not deal in the interpretation of the Mitchell Report. When we
discuss the Mitchell Report we will go into the details. Maybe we will
differentiate between small gravel and boulders. . .
IMRA: Has the Israeli side thought about this. There is a radical
difference between what the Israeli public thinks of as being under the
label "violence" and what the United States considers "violence" to be.
Dori: The Mitchell Report talks about confidence building measures.
IMRA: OK. So the English text of the Mitchell Report clearly does not
consider rock throwing to be violence.
Dori: Israel accepted the Mitchell Report. As for the interpretation.
IMRA: I am not talking about interpretation. I am talking about what was
written.
Dori: Do you want me to discuss the size of the stones with you?
IMRA: I didn't know that Israel would accept that they throw rocks of any
size.
Dori: I am not saying one way or the other - just that we accept the
Mitchell Report.
IMRA: Is there an expectation when there will be an agreement?
Dori: No. With regards to the Mitchell Report there will be security
meetings that will conclude what is permitted and prohibited. Of course
demonstrations are permitted.
IMRA: Demonstrations with the throwing of rocks and fire-bombs?
Dori: I did not say rocks and fire bombs.
IMRA: Has Israel developed a position?
Dori: Certainly anything that can kill is violence.
IMRA: So this is the position that has been developed?
Dori: I am not saying that. That was my opinion. No one has dealt with this
issue up to now. Things that are obvious do not have to be developed.
Things that kill or injure are not. . .
IMRA: Please keep in mind that there is a difference of opinion here.
Former US president Clinton just recently said that stones are not the same
as bullets. The entire Palestinians leadership has taken a consistent stand
that rock throwing is not violence but instead part of the peaceful
expression of Palestinian protest. This is not obvious.
Dori: I am not talking about the Palestinian side. I am talking about the
Israeli side. That it is obvious to us that the throwing of anything that
can injure or kill is violence.
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
Tel 972-9-7604719/Fax 972-3-5480092
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 07:57:48 -0500
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HonestReporting Communique
04 June 2001
"ASSOCIATED PRESS MESS"
* * *
On June 1, the Associated Press issued its first report of the heinous
suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv disco that killed 20 young Israelis. The
AP headline declared:
"EXPLOSION KILLS BOMBER IN TEL AVIV"
This one is so hard to believe that you have to read it twice. As
initial reports from the scene showed scores of Jewish casualties, AP
incredibly downplayed this bestial act as an "explosion," and focused
on the suffering -- not of the innocent teens -- but of the evil
bomber.
One can only imagine what distortion ran through the mind of the AP
editor who wrote this headline -- and then sent it out over the AP
wire to 8,500 newspapers around the world.
-------------------
A few days earlier, the Associated Press pulled another one. May 29
was a difficult day in Israel. Three Israeli civilians were murdered
by Palestinian gunmen in two separate attacks on roads near their
homes. Elsewhere, two Palestinians attacked an Israeli army post in
Gaza. One of the men was a suicide bomber who blew up before he
reached his targets. The other was shot and killed as he threw
grenades at the Israeli post. A third Palestinian, reportedly a
bodyguard for a wanted Palestinian terrorist, was killed near Jericho.
It was also a difficult day for honest reporting, as the AP's Mark
Lavie filed this story:
"In violence Tuesday threatening to overshadow attempts to arrange a
cease-fire, three Jewish settlers, including an American immigrant,
were killed in drive-by shootings and two Palestinians died from
Israeli fire. Another Palestinian was killed when he blew himself up
at an Israeli checkpoint in the Gaza Strip."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010529/aponline190628_
000.htm
In the interim, an HonestReporting member complained to Associated
Press that the labeling of the Israelis as "settlers" gave legitimacy
to their murders, and that the drive-by shooters were never identified
as Palestinians.
The next day, Mark Lavie filed a new story, identifying the murderers
as Palestinians, and deleting the cynical reference to the murdered
Israelis as settlers:
"Two Israeli women killed in a Palestinian drive-by shooting in the
West Bank were buried Wednesday."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010531/aponline022937_
000.htm
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To the Editor:
On June 1, AP's first report of the heinous suicide bombing at a Tel
Aviv disco carried the headline: "Explosion Kills Bomber in Tel Aviv."
Initial reports from the scene showed scores of Jewish casualties. So
why did AP downplay this bestial act as an "explosion," and focus on
the suffering -- not of innocent teens -- but of the evil bomber?
I trust by now you have fired whoever wrote this horrendous headline.
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Subject: [bprlist] Ha'aretz: An Indian Phalcon could fly before the Chinese
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 08:59:30 -0400
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Ha'aretz: An Indian Phalcon could fly before the Chinese
By Aluf Benn Ha'aretz 5 June 2001
Far from the turmoil of the territories, the forum for strategic cooperation
between Israel and the U.S. met last week. Dubbed Tides, the forum is
headed
on the Israeli side by Amos Yaron, director-general of the Defense Ministry,
who heard from the Americans - headed by Lincoln Blumfield, an assistant
secretary of state for military affairs - about U.S. interests in Asia. The
American briefing focused on an improvement in relations between the U.S.
and India. The Israelis listened and made notes. For now, they were careful
not to speak up about it.
And for good reason. Israel has quietly been working on a very large deal
involving hundreds of millions of dollars in sales of the Phalcon airborne
early warning station to the Indian Air Force. The Indians are interested in
at least one Phalcon and an option for another, but they are asking for a
political guarantee from Israel that the deal be sealed - and executed. In
New Delhi they learned the lesson of the Phalcon sale to China, which was
canceled in July 2000 after the Americans scotched it.
Israel will need a green light from the Americans before it can sell the
aircraft to the Indians. Indian Defense Secretary Yogendra Narain visited
Israel last month and heard reports on the project at Israeli Aircraft
Industries headquarters in Lod, and visited Elta in Ashdod, where the
Phalcon radar system is manufactured. The Indians have already purchased
the
land-based Green Pine anti-missile radar system. It's built on technology
similar to the Phalcon's. The U.S. agreed to the Green Pine sale as well as
other weapons deals and some parts of the system were sent to India in
January, just before the change of administration in Washington.
Last year, Israel told the U.S. about its interest in supplying the Phalcon
to India but did not get an unqualified approval from the Clinton
administration. The Bush team regards India as a key nation in Asia, a
possible counterweight to the Chinese. In conversations with Israeli
officials, Bush officials expressed satisfaction with the Israeli-Indian
involvement. National Security Adviser Uzi Dayan who made his first visit to
India last month, heard the same, while in Washington. Historically, the
U.S. sided with Pakistan and was suspicious of India, which was long a
leader in the non-aligned nations movement and close to the former Soviet
Union. In recent years, the changes in global geopolitics have contributed
to a deterioration in Pakistan's standing in Washington, where it is now
viewed as a trouble-making incubator for radical Islamic extremists. India,
under a right-wing government, looks like an island of stability compared to
Pakistan. Clinton opened the way to India last year during a state visit
there. His heir, Bush, has discovered India is the only country in the world
to openly support his plan for a missile defense system.
But the Indian-U.S. rapprochement doesn't guarantee that Washington will
agree to any Israeli initiative to sell the Indians weapons. Martin Indyk,
the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said yesterday that the Chinese Phalcon
incident makes tangible the difference between the approach and view point
of an international superpower and a regional power that wants to sell
weapons to other regions in the world. "Both sides," he said at a Tel Aviv
University lecture, "learned that this is a matter that has to be dealt with
openly, and that's what has been done since."
There also isn't complete agreement inside Israel about selling the Phalcon
to India. Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer wants the deal done, and
thinks he can win Washington approval. Next month he'll pay his first visit
to Washington as defense minister. But the Foreign Ministry is worried about
damage to relations with China, which won't be happy to see the Phalcon it
wanted end up in the hands of the Indian Air Force. The issue has yet to
reach the uppermost levels of government in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres have yet to weigh in with their
views.
Meanwhile, the Chinese Phalcon is grounded at the IAI plant, waiting for the
final decision. The Chinese ignored the Israeli announcement of the
cancelation, and demanded the contract be enacted in full. Senior Israeli
sources there's no chance that will happen, especially because of the
worsening relations between China and the U.S. "There are some who still
think the deal should move forward," said a senior defense source. "This one
knows a senator, that one knows a congressman. But the truth is there's no
chance."
Israel will be asked to compensate the Chinese, who paid a hefty advance for
the plane, which technically is theirs. The IAI says the government ordered
the cancelation, so it has to pay. The decision, as usual, is being
postponed to the last minute.
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Subject: [bprlist] Arafat declaration muzzles anti-Israel media broadcasts
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:12:04 -0400
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Tuesday, June 5, 2001
Arafat declaration muzzles anti-Israel media broadcasts
By Daniel Sobelman
Ha'aretz Correspondent
Anti-Israel broadcasts by the Palestinian media dropped to near-zero
yesterday, following Saturday night's declaration by Palestinian Authority
(PA) Chairman Yasser Arafat that he is prepared to do his utmost to work
toward a cease-fire with Israel.
Since the Al-Aqsa Intifada began late last September, thousands of hours of
anti-Israel propaganda have been aired on Palestinian television. This has
included short films about Palestinian children who start out for school, but
decide instead to confront Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers, hoping to die
as martyrs. Other clips show Palestinian youths on their way to fight against
Israeli soldiers.
Excerpts from Hezbollah television are often incorporated into the
broadcasts, showing Hezbollah operatives patrolling Israel's former security
zone in South Lebanon.
During especially violent periods of the Intifada, usually when clashes
between settlers and Palestinians were rife, 12-14 hours of anti-Israel
propaganda were broadcast. Most of the films shown in recent months have
focused on inciting violence against Jewish settlers.
Other broadcasts seek to give the impression that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is in
danger from the Jews, and makes use of film reels showing the mosque after
it was torched by a radical Australian Jew some 30 years ago.
In recent days, though, such broadcasts have been all but absent from
Palestinian television screens. They were replaced yesterday by religious
and traditional programming, most probably to mark the birth of the prophet
Mohammed.
False reports of a Palestinian being shot dead by Israeli settlers have,
however, been carried by Palestinian media. During its main afternoon news
program yesterday, Palestinian TV claimed that some 1 million Israelis had
"run away" from Israel since the start of the Intifada and had returned to their
countries of origin in Europe and the United States.
Itamar Marcus, founder of the Palestinian Media Institute, which follows daily
Palestinian broadcast trends, said yesterday the number of anti-Israel
broadcasts actually began to fall two weeks ago, and that they had virtually
stopped since Arafat's Saturday declaration.
Marcus says there are two types of Palestinian propaganda: The first is
meant to encourage people to take to the streets and clash with Israelis; the
second is meant "to create an outlook on life"
While the first is characterized by pictures of Palestinian dead and wounded,
the second is characterized by studio discussions by academics,
researchers and archaeologists, who claim that the history of the Jewish
people is not in anyway connected to Israel.
A Palestinian archaeologist claimed on one discussion show, for example,
that coins with Hebrew inscriptions have never been discovered, while
another panel show claimed the incidents depicted in the Torah actually took
place in Yemen
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Subject: [bprlist] Missing name in Mt, 1
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:43:36 -0400
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There is a well known mistake in the Greek text of [Matt 1:1]. While the text
itself claims to give three lists of fourteen names (Mt. 1:17), the Greek text
contains only 13 names in the last list:
14 names from Abraham to David:
1. Abraham
2. Isaac
3. Jacob
4. Judas
5. Phares
6. Esrom
7. Aram
8. Aminadab
9. Naasson
10. Salmon
11. Boaz
12. Obed
13. Jesse
14. David
14 names from David to the carrying away to Babylon
1. Solomon
2. Roboam
3. Abia
4. Asa
5. Jehosaphat
6. Joram
7. Ozias
8. Joatham
9. Achaz
10. Ezekias
11. Manases
12 Amon
13. Josias
14. Jehonias (carrying away to Babylon)
13 names from carrying away to Babylon to Messiah
1. Salathiel
2. Zorobabel
3. Abiud
4. Eliakim
5. Azur
6. Sadoc
7. Achim
8. Eliud
9. Eleazar
10. Matthan
11. Jacob
12. Joseph
13. Yeshua/Jesus
Now the DuTillet Hebrew manuscript of Matthew contains the missing name
"Abner" which occurs between Abiud and Eliakim in the DuTillet Hebrew text
of Mt. 1:13. In Hebrew and Aramaic "d" and "r" look very much alike and are
often misread for each other. In this case a scribe must have looked back
up to his source manuscript and picked back up with the wrong name, thus
omitting "Abner" from the list. The Greek text must have come from a
Hebrew or Aramaic copy which lacked the name "Abner."
There is amazingly clear evidence for this. The Old Syriac Aramaic version
of Matthew was lost from the fourth century until its rediscovery in the 19th
century. This ancient Aramaic text has "Aviur" where the Greek has "Aviud"
thus catching the error in a sort of "freeze frame" and demonstrating the
reliability of the reading in the Hebrew.
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:45:37 -0400
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Tuesday June 5 4:29 AM ET
Univ. of Tennessee's Cloned Cow Dies
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD, Associated Press Writer
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The third cow cloned from adult cells born in
the United States was found dead in a pasture and researchers don't
know how it died.
Born nine months ago, Millie, short for millennium, also was the first
clone of a Jersey cow, a top milk-producing breed, and the first using
standard cell-culturing techniques.
Millie had been out in a pasture at the University of Tennessee's
Experiment Station in Knoxville. She was found dead there early
Monday.
Except for a slight variation in the size of one her kidneys, the cow
showed no visible signs of abnormalities, said veterinary pathologists
Philip Bochsler and Malcolm McCracken, who performed a necropsy.
``We don't know why she died,'' said Patricia Clark, a spokeswoman for
the university's Institute of Agriculture.
Researchers were checking to see if the animal was the victim of a
lightening strike or ingested a toxin, including poisonous weeds. No
other animals at the station appeared to be affected.
``Other than the fact that we knew she was a clone, she was just like
any other young cow,'' McCracken said. ``At this point, we cannot
conclude why she died.''
Millie passed her last veterinary exam on April 30. ``She was healthy
and fine and happy,'' Clark said.
``As far as the cloning procedures themselves, I doubt very seriously
that it will change the program,'' Clark said. ``But it is a setback,
no doubt.''
The first two cloned cows born in the United States were produced by
researchers at Texas A&M and the University of Connecticut.
Researchers have said that cloning offers the cattle industry a
possibility for increased reproduction from prized bulls, increased
milk production and greater resistance to disease.
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FDA issues cloned livestock warning
Regulators say cloned animals shouldn´t enter the food chain
By Antonio Regalado
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
June 5 — The Food and Drug Administration is alerting companies that
create cloned livestock that it doesn´t want the duplicated animals,
or their offspring, to enter the food chain — at least not yet.
REGULATORS at the FDA´s Center for Veterinary Medicine have told
closely held biotech companies Infigen Inc., of DeForest, Wis., and
Advanced Cell Technology Inc., of Worcester, Mass., that it considers
their carbon-copy cattle and pigs to be “experimental.” The FDA has
also asked the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., to
prepare a report that will assess what risks barnyard cloning might
pose to humans, the environment and the welfare of the animals. The
report is expected to be ready early next year.
Cloned livestock have received little regulatory attention until now,
even as the field has rushed towards commercial viability. Farmers
have already begun ordering — and in a few instances receiving —
animals that are identical genetic copies of an existing animal. But
the FDA says it doesn´t believe that these animals have reached an age
where their milk or meat have gone on the market in the U.S.
A clone of a cow is made by taking a skin cell from the adult animal
that will be copied and inserting it in a cow egg whose nucleus has
been removed. The resulting embryo is then implanted into a surrogate
mother, which carries the fetus to term.
Michael Bishop, president of Infigen, says he believes the 30 cloned
dairy and beef cattle produced in this way by his company are entirely
normal, though he hasn´t shipped them to customers pending further
study. Dr. Bishop, who has been in discussions with the FDA since last
year, says he was surprised to learn of the agency´s new position last
week.
The FDA hadn´t made recommendations regarding cloned animals before.
Its intervention comes in the wake of high-profile congressional
hearings earlier this year, in which scientists and regulators
assailed human cloning as far too unsafe to try. To make their case,
experts argued that the new technology can produce abnormalities and
death in cloned animals.
Dr. Bishop says that in their zeal to paint human cloning as
dangerous, scientists and the media exaggerated the problems with
animal clones, including birth defects. “We are not getting the freaks
and the genetic deformities that they are talking about,” he says.
Greg Wiles, a dairy farmer in Maryland, says he was not aware of any
special restrictions affecting Cyagra and Genesis, two clones of a
prize-winning Holstein cow named Zita that were born earlier this
year. Mr. Wiles made the pair from cloned embryos he purchased from
Advanced Cell Technology´s Cyagra LLC subsidiary for about $25,000
each. Although the costly animals will be used primarily as breeding
stock, Mr. Wiles has been planning to begin milking the animals by
2003.
Mr. Wiles, a technically adept farmer who already uses methods such as
in vitro fertilization to breed cattle, doesn´t see any cause for
alarm. His two cloned cows, he says, are simply twins of “a cow that
was already in production.” Mr. Wiles says he now has an additional 20
cows impregnated with further copies of Zita.
Regulators at the FDA admit they were caught off guard by how rapidly
the field has progressed since Dolly the sheep, the first cloned
animal, was born in 1997. “We had not anticipated there would be a
commercial market” for cloning elite animals, says John Matheson, a
senior regulatory review scientist at the FDA´s Center for Veterinary
Medicine. “What we have discovered in the past year or so is that
there are people trying to make that business model work.”
Mr. Matheson says the agency is preparing a policy statement that will
clarify its position and that it is likely to argue that clones fall
under the same laws that give the FDA authority over new veterinary
antibiotics and vaccines.
Cloning technology is likely to raise a host of unprecedented
challenges for animal breeders, food companies and consumers. Kim
Waddell, the scientist organizing the National Academy study, says one
worry is that mass copying of top animals could lead to breeds that
are less diverse and more susceptible to disease. “The concern is that
we´ll have 30,000 clones of Secretariat,” says Dr. Waddell. “If we
resort to this technology too much, we may run the risk of creating
genetic bottlenecks.”
Mark Wanner, president of a start-up cloning company called ProLinia
Inc. in Athens, Ga., says cloning also makes it possible for the first
time to contemplate making extensive genetic changes to farm animals,
such as adding genes that promote disease resistance or less fatty
meat. Scientists propose, for instance, making changes to myostatin,
also known as the “Schwarzenegger” gene, to engineer cattle that
develop double their normal muscle mass and therefore provide more
meat. Some genetically engineered, or “transgenic,” animals have
already been made for research aimed at creating pigs whose organs may
be suitable for transplant to people and goats that provide protein
drugs in their milk.
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Cloning of genetically modified animals is likely to pose the toughest
regulatory questions and faces the most intense opposition from
environmental activists. “It´s incumbent upon companies that move down
that road to prove safety and to work with the government to prove
that it is totally consumer friendly,” Mr. Wanner says. ProLinia,
which has equity funding from pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc.,
promises “mass cloning of genetically enhanced animals” on its Web
site.
Meanwhile, the question of abnormalities in cloned animals remains a
matter of dispute. About 80% of cloned embryos are lost during
gestation. Of those that are born, between 10% and 20% die, many from
what´s known as “large-calf syndrome,” in which cloned cattle are born
with enlarged hearts and lung problems. The syndrome appears to relate
to swelling of the placenta, which occurs for unknown reasons.
Moreover, the inefficiency of the process — it takes a lot of effort
to produce a small number of cloned animals — raises the cost. Cloning
remains an economically viable option only for the most valuable
animals.
But companies stress that the surviving animals appear normal in every
way. Infigen scientists are now preparing a document to summarize
those findings, as well as an analysis showing that milk from cloned
cows is normal. And Michael West, chief executive of Advanced Cell
Technology, says his company will issue a public challenge to
scientists to come inspect its clones and see if they can find
anything wrong with them.
Advances in the field may one day weaken arguments that human cloning
is too unsafe to try. “In 15 years, you won´t be able to use that
argument anymore,” says Randall Prather, a University of Missouri
researcher who was one of the first to work on cattle cloning in the
early 1990s. Although Dr. Prather opposes human cloning, he points out
that nearly every human reproductive technology — including in vitro
fertilization — was first worked out in livestock species.
“What has been developed for animals has always been applied to
humans.” Dr. Prather says. “I´m sure the technology will spill over. I
am sort of a fatalist on that point.”
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:49:34 -0400
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India to levitate flying car
By Lester Haines
Posted: 04/06/2001 at 11:51 GMT
An Indian boffin appears to have got the jump on his US counterparts
with a 12-rotor jambusting flying car.
Engineer Rakesh Goel expects the vehicle will be in production by
2004. He claims it is safer than a helicopter and ideal in crowded
cities.
Mr Goel does seem, however, to have overlooked the consequences of
giving the subcontinent's legendary drivers access to something which,
in addition to left, right, forwards and backwards, can also go up and
down.
Meanwhile, if you are among those eagerly awaiting delivery of your
Moller Industries Skycar M400, you could always take it for a virtual
spin. www.fsplanet.com has a Flight Sim 2000 download.
According to the bumf: "The Skycar M400 has 8 ROTAPOWER engines of 90
kW. Range 1400 Klm. The engines use 16 ltr. in 100 klm. M400 weights
1100 Kilo. Length: 5,5 mtr. Span 3.7 mtr. height 1.8 mtr. Operation
ceiling 40,000 ft. Fuel consumption 15 mpg. Payload with max fuel 740
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power (8x120 hp) 960 hp. Takeoff and Landing area 35ft. dia Noise
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Subject: [bprlist] NASA's Next Computing Revolution
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 12:40:08 -0700 (PDT)
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NASA's Next Computing Revolution
June 4, 2001 07:00 CDT
NASA <http://www.nasa.gov> would like to examine Earth <http://www.cosmiverse.com/reflib/Image_Gallery/earth/index.html> with the same precision that scientists use when they study living cells under a microscope. They want to understand how nature's energy is transformed and used by Earth, and the role it plays in global climate change.
So far, advanced computing systems are the only tools we have to model our planet as a whole interactive system to mimic nature's behavior. NASA's Earth Science Enterprise is dedicated to developing computer models that will unlock the secrets to how natural and human-induced changes impact our global environment.
Unlike atoms and cells, which can be studied in the laboratory, the only effective way to study the inner workings and future course of our environment is through advanced computer modeling capabilities. This will show global climate change through computation of massive and complex mathematical relationships.
"Through math and science, and the advancement of our computer capabilities, we can unlock the mysteries of our planet's life cycle," said Dr. Ghassem Asrar, Associate Administrator for the Office of Earth Sciences, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC.
"Currently, we model the climate system in a degree by degree, latitudinal and longitudinal grids, allowing us to examine global and continental atmospheric and oceanic conditions," Asrar said. "That resolution lets us see what is happening in the current and near term climate system, but not in the long run and why change is happening, and the consequences of such change at local levels."
"Today we're announcing the selection of nine proposals that span across all of NASA that we expect to mature into advanced computing systems that will be robust enough to handle massive amounts of data every second -- the kind of platforms that will be able to incorporate vast amounts of Earth Sciences data in 'living' models of our global climate, yet able to resolve regional and perhaps local phenomena such as severe storms and hurricanes," Asrar added.
"These computer models will incorporate factors such as chemistry of the atmosphere and the physics of clouds and the variability in the Sun's <http://www.cosmiverse.com/reflib/Image_Gallery/solarsystem/sun1.html> radiation that reaches Earth. Increasing our computer capabilities into an advanced interface that allows for multi- discipline scientific models to operate together in a coherent, interoperable computing environment is the only way we can achieve the nation's goal of understanding long-term global climate change. The selection of these proposals will take us down the path toward improving both weather and climate predictive capabilities by three to five times over our current computing power."
"We need to make a leap from today's segmented and evolutionary systems to a unified, revolutionary pathway into the future of advanced computing," Asrar concluded.
NASA's efforts constitute a direct response to recommendations made recently by the National Research Council (NRC) in its report Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling. The NRC in this study, states that efforts in climate modeling need to be linked together and with related efforts in the broader research community through a common infrastructure. The selected efforts, which constitute the combined efforts of scientists within NASA, other government agencies and the academic community, should greatly facilitate this needed component of the overall effort.
The connection between NASA's efforts and those of the other federal agencies that constitute the U.S. Global Change Research Program is also vital to the improvement of the nation's climate modeling capability.
A recent USGCRP report, "High-End Climate Science: Development of Modeling and Related Computing Capabilities," also made the argument for the development of a software infrastructure to support climate research such as has been initiated here by NASA.
NASA has selected nine proposals in response to an Agency-wide solicitation titled "Increasing Interoperability and Performance of Grand Challenges Applications in the Earth, Space, Life and Microgravity Sciences," announced in 2000. The proposals selected will now have their costs negotiated, with science teams expected to finish a joint-framework policy by 2003.
NASA has committed $18 million to this development phase. They expect the first advanced Earth System Models to begin production in 2004. Additional tasks selected in response to this announcement cover numerous topics in Earth and space science. NASA will subsequently announce individual team selections and award values this fall.
Source: NASA
Cosmiverse Staff Writer
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Space Weather News for June 5, 2001
http://www.spaceweather.com
The annual Arietid meteor shower peaks this week on Thursday, June 7th.
The Arietids are unusual because they are daytime meteors -- most of them
streak through the sky unnoticed while the bright Sun is overhead.
Nevertheless, early risers on Thursday could spot some beautiful
"Earthgrazing" Arietids during the dark hours before dawn. Later in the
day, after the Sun rises, you can listen to the shower by tuning in to
NASA's online meteor radar.
For details and updates visit http://www.SpaceWeather.com
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for Israel is that they may be saved. NKJV
More disturbing news encourages us to pray. Blessings Stafford
=======================================================
1. DAVID DOLAN'S CRISIS REPORT 5th June 2001
David reports on the latest events from Israel.
2. WHO KILLED MOHAMMED AL-DURA?
Evidence that this young boy was killed by his own side
3. EGYPTIAN OPPOSITION WEEKLY CALLS FOR MARTYRDOM OPERATIONS
From the Arab papers comes a call for martyrdom
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DAVID DOLAN'S CRISIS REPORT 5th June 2001
The Islamic terror group Hamas has rejected the cease-fire declared by
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Saturday. "Our policy is to
continue the intifada and resistance," said Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, a
senior Hamas official in Gaza. "We are not changing our policy.
Resistance means to attack the Israelis everywhere by all means...We
are not offering any cease-fire." Hamas claimed responsibility for
last week's suicide bombing at a disco in Tel Aviv which left 20
people dead, mostly teenage immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
Earlier, there were reports that Hamas had agreed to join the
cease-fire. "The previous talk about willingness to [agree to a
cease-fire]...was due to mis-communication between the military wing
and the political wing" of Hamas, said al-Zahhar. Hamas' decision
could doom the cease-fire. Since Arafat has rejected Israeli demands
to re-arrest Islamic terrorists, another Hamas bombing is likely to
bring severe Israeli air strikes against the Palestinian Authority.
The Islamic Jihad, another group responsible for suicide attacks, has
also rejected the cease-fire.
Since a Gaza gunbattle yesterday, the situation has been relatively
quiet. There were minor exchanges of fire today in Judea, Samaria and
the Gaza Strip between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen. In
Palestinian-ruled Tulkarm, a senior militiamen from Yasser Arafat's
Fatah faction was critically wounded in an explosion. The Palestinians
accused Israel of an assassination attempt, but Israel said the man
was apparently building a bomb that exploded prematurely. Near
Ramallah, about 1,000 Palestinian students marched on an Israeli
checkpoint to protest Israel's tight closure of Palestinian areas in
the wake of the disco bombing. Troops fired tear gas and rubber
bullets to disperse the demonstration, which also marked the
anniversary of the 1967 Middle East war in which Israel captured Judea,
Samaria and the Gaza Strip. Israel Radio reported that 10 Palestinians,
including a senior Palestinian liaison official with Israel, had been
arrested on "suspicion of terrorist activities." Sources in Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon's office say Israel rejected a request by Arafat
to fly from Ramallah to Gaza, telling him that he would not be allowed
to move around freely until he curbed terrorist activity. Palestinian
officials said Arafat made no such request.
Meanwhile, frantic diplomatic efforts are underway to make the
cease-fire hold. Russian envoy Andrei Vdovin held talks with Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres and Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to
both sides by telephone. "The Palestinians themselves say it will take
some time to calm tempers...I would say it is a matter of a few weeks,"
Peres said. He told Army Radio today that Israel wants an eight-week
cooling-off period to test the cease-fire before implementing
confidence-building measures proposed by a U.S.-led inquiry. Peres
said Palestinians sought a shorter time-frame before the next phase
proposed by a panel led by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, which
calls on Israel to freeze construction at settlements in Judea,
Samaria and Gaza. In a telephone call after a White House strategy
session, Powell urged Arafat to "undertake a 100 percent effort
against violence and terrorism," State Department spokesman Richard
Boucher said. In a call to Sharon, Powell expressed his support and
encouragement for continued Israeli restraint and said the Bush
administration would not push for a resumption of peace talks until
the situation calms down. The US is also considering whether to send
CIA Director George Tenet to the area for security talks with Israel
and the Palestinian Authority. The European Union's foreign policy
chief Javier Solana said the international community should be able to
propose a peace initiative in a few days if the situation remained
calm. Israel has rejected a proposal by German Foreign Minister
Joschka Fischer for international monitoring of a cease-fire and
implementation of the Mitchell plan.
This crisis update is a service of CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL. It is
normally written by David Dolan, who is currently in Israel but busy
preparing for a scheduled speaking tour abroad. In his absence, it is
being provided courtesy of israel today magazine. For more
information about this monthly news magazine, visit their web site at:
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David Dolan's latest book, ISRAEL IN CRISIS: WHAT LIES AHEAD? along
with his end time novel and his first book, an acclaimed history of
Israel, may be ordered by phoning 888-890-6938 in North America, or by
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WHO KILLED MOHAMMED AL-DURA, the 12 year old Palestinian boy?
Not the IDF who took the blame. For the truth from photo evidence,
click here. http://masada2000.org/al-dura.html
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Special Dispatch - Egypt
June 4, 2001
No. 224
Egyptian Opposition Weekly Calls for Martyrdom Operations
Amru Nasif, a columnist for the Egyptian opposition weekly
Al-Usbu', calls for martyrdom operations to defeat Israel
and volunteers to join the ranks of martyrs. Following are
excerpts of his article (1):
"...with every blow struck by the Al-Aqsa Intifada, my
conviction grows stronger that I, and all those who are of
the same mind, have been right all along and am still right
in my belief that the despised racist Jewish entity will be
annihilated. Contrary to others, however, I am not ashamed
to speak about driving them into the sea, to hell, or to
the trash heap they deserve."
"I maintain, and Allah is my witness, that the annihilation
and defeat of the Israelis, after which they will not have
resurrection, does not require all these things. All that
it requires is to concentrate on acts of martyrdom, or what
is known as 'the strategy of the balance of fear.'"
"Let us do some mathematical calculations: 250 Palestinians
have signed up for martyrdom operations, and it is not
impossible to raise this number to 1,000 throughout the
Arab world, i.e., one fedayi (martyr) out of every 250,000
Arabs. The average harvest of each act of martyrdom is 10
dead and 50 wounded. Thus, 1000 acts of martyrdom would
leave the Zionists with at least 10,000 dead and 50,000
wounded. This is double the number of Israeli casualties in
all their wars with the Arab since 1948. They cannot bear
this. There is also the added advantage, not noted by
many, of negative Jewish emigration, which, as a
consequence of the 1,000 martyrdom operations will come to
at least 1,000,000 Jews, followed by the return of every
Jew to the place from whence he came..."
"I am signing myself up as the first martyr from Egypt and
declare that I am ready to commit an act of martyrdom at
any moment. I will place myself under the command of Mr.
Hassan Nasrallah, 'Hamas', the Islamic Jihad, or any other
jihad movement."
"Never in my life have I asked Allah for money, honor or
power. All that I have asked, all that I ask, all that I
will ask, is that Allah allow me to become a shaheed and
grant me the honor of reaping as great a harvest as
possible of Israeli lives..."
Endnotes:
(1) Al-Usbu' Egypt May 28, 2001.
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 19:52:23 -0400
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SPECIAL: The Secrets of the Colosseum (Documentary)
Wed June 06 08:00 PM Eastern Time (60 min) DISC
Professionals discuss the ingenious design of the Roman ruin. (TVG)
SPECIAL: Star Fleet (Documentary)
Wed June 06 08:00 PM Eastern Time (60 min) TLC
The future of space travel. (TVPG)
SPECIAL: Mystery of the Parthenon (Documentary)
Wed June 06 09:00 PM Eastern Time (60 min) DISC
History of the Greek temple from conception to completion. (TVG)
LIMITED SERIES: Destination Future (Documentary)
Wed June 06 09:00 PM Eastern Time (60 min) TLC
Space Exploration. Both NASA and the private sector work to make space
travel accessible to all. (TVG)
SPECIAL: Search for Alien Life (Drama)
Wed June 06 10:00 PM Eastern Time (60 min) TLC
Scientists seek life in distant galaxies. (TVG)
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 19:55:24 -0400
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Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, June 5, 2001 / Sivan 14, 5761
Arutz Sheva's <http://NewsFromIsrael.com>
All English News Updates & Interviews
TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. A VIOLENT CEASEFIRE
2. TOMORROW: KOTEL PRAYERS, DOWNTOWN DEMONSTRATION
3. HENDEL PLANS TO FORM COUNTER-PERES FRONT
4. ANOTHER LEFT-WINGER TURNS RIGHT
5. WHO, US?
6. BURYING ANOTHER VICTIM
7. PALESTINIANS SUPPORT SUICIDE ATTACKS, 3-1
8. QATAR'S SOLUTION
***ARUTZ SHEVA RADIO SHORTS
1. A VIOLENT CEASEFIRE
The Prime Minister's Office has confirmed that it refused Arafat's request
to fly from Ramallah to Gaza. Spokesmen say that Arafat will not be
allowed to fly until he takes determined steps against the terrorist
infrastructure. Arafat arrived in Ramallah on Friday for Feisal Husseini's
funeral and has been stuck there ever since.
It is still not clear which Palestinian terrorist organizations have
accepted Arafat's ceasefire orders, and to what extent. A senior Fatah
leader said today that his organization accepts the ceasefire ordered by
Arafat, "except for cases in which Israel attacks us or violates the
Mitchell Report by building another house in a settlement..." Hamas, for
its part, denies having agreed to stop its attacks against Israel. It
released an announcement this morning saying it plans to continue its
struggle for "all of Palestine."
Both Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres agreed
today that Yasser Arafat is still not taking enough practical steps to stop
the attacks against Israel, such as arresting terrorists.
Yesterday's gun battle in southern Gaza resumed again this afternoon near
the Rafiach border point with Egypt. The site is the location of frequent
Palestinian smuggling operations of weapons and war materials into
Gaza. Israeli soldiers were attacked today with automatic gunfire and a
grenade, following yesterday's wounding of three soldiers there. In
addition, soldiers stationed near the N'vei Dekalim industrial zone faced a
half-hour attack by Arabs this afternoon.
An Israeli army vehicle was attacked by gunfire this morning north of
Hevron… Soldiers who were shot upon in Hevron fired back and wounded a
Force 17 officer… An Israeli car was shot at last night near Azzoun in the
Shomron… Also last night, an Israeli was lightly injured south of Shechem
when Arabs threw rocks at his car… Several mortar shells were fired at
Israeli targets in Gaza last night, and Arabs opened fire as
well... During the early morning hours, terrorists fired an anti-tank
grenade at the southern District Coordinating Office in the Gush Katif area
of Gaza. There were no injuries. Throughout the night, the IDF's Tofach
and Yasmin outposts in Gaza were attacked by terrorist gunfire.
A bomb was found and safely neutralized last night in northwestern
Shomron,
not far from Alfei Menashe. Bomb sappers neutralized the explosive device
without incident.
Several rioting Arabs were injured today in clashes with IDF soldiers north
of Ramallah. A march of students from the PA's Bir Zeit University set off
towards Ramallah, angrily commemorating the 34th anniversary of Israel's
return to Judea and Samaria during the Six Day War. They tried to break
through barricades set up by the soldiers on their way to Ramallah. IDF
soldiers used tear gas and rubber bullets to restore order.
2. TOMORROW: KOTEL PRAYERS, DOWNTOWN DEMONSTRATION
Many thousands of people are expected to turn out for two separate events
tomorrow in light of the critical times facing Israel. A special prayer
ceremony will be held at the Western Wall at 5:30, called for by leading
rabbis. Two hours later, in Zion Square in downtown Jerusalem, a political
demonstration will be held. The theme of the protest: "We Must Defeat
Arafat!" Sponsors of the demonstration include the Council of Jewish
Communities in Judea, Samaria & Gaza (Yesha Council), as well as the
Cities
of Israel Action Committee and the Hevron Jewish Community.
3. HENDEL PLANS TO FORM COUNTER-PERES FRONT
MK Tzvi Hendel (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) and his party colleagues
met with Prime Minister Sharon last night, and presented their demand that
he end the "restraint" and fight back at the Palestinian Authority. Hendel
explained to Arutz-7 today why he does not support the proposal that his
party leave the government at present:
"I have no ulterior motives, in that I have no Volvo [a perk of a
Ministerial position], so I am an objective observer. The reason why I
think we should remain in the government is as follows: We were originally
misled into thinking that the unity government was comprised of two forces,
Sharon and Peres, and that Sharon, as Prime Minister, would have the
stronger voice. But we now know that this is not true, and that the
government is actually running on a program set solely by Peres. We now
hope to work full-steam ahead to form a new plan of action that hopefully
Sharon will employ. This is the position that most of the country holds,
and we will start leading the way. If we see that this is working, then
fine, but if not, we will leave the government... I told Sharon that most
of the country is in favor of a strong military response. Who supports
Sharon right now? Barak supporters, and the Arabs, and a few right-wingers
who believe that Sharon is merely waiting for the right minute to let loose
with an attack. But, I told him, if it turns out that this is not what
will happen, then actually no one will support you, because the Barak
supporters only like you when you are small and dependent on them..."
Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi, however, of the same party, is in favor of
leaving the government. Visiting Nahariya today, he expressed his
skepticism about chances of peace with Arafat: "The ceasefire may last a
day or it may last a month, but in the final analysis, a scorpion remains a
scorpion, and he will again sting us. We will then discover that we have
wasted much time and also blood." Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, on the
other hand, says that it is possible to return to the negotiating table
within 4-5 months: six weeks of a ceasefire, followed by a "meaningful
cooling-off period" and confidence building measures, as stipulated in the
Mitchell Report.
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Up-To-The-Minute News From Israel, New on Arutz Sheva's Homepage
<a href ="http://IsraelNationalNews.com "> www.IsraelNationalNews.com
</a>
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4. ANOTHER LEFT-WINGER TURNS RIGHT
One of the founding members of Peace Now, Edna Shabtai, has publicized a
letter she wrote to former MK Geulah Cohen. Shabtai states in the letter
that she now recognizes that the Palestinian entity wishes nothing more
than to eradicate the Jewish presence in Israel. Shabtai later explained,
"Now, after the past nine months, everyone whose eyes are just a little bit
open can see where Arafat is headed: towards the conquest of all of Eretz
Yisrael, and the return of all Palestine to the Palestinians. For us, this
is a death decree... I keep thinking about Abba Kovner's call to
Lithuanian Jewry on Jan. 1, 1942, which began, "Jewish youth, don't trust
those who are leading you astray... Don't go like sheep to the
slaughter." We must recognize what we are headed for if we allow our hands
to be tied and our eyes to be bound..."
Excerpts from Shabtai's letter to her former political opponent, MK of the
now-defunct nationalist Techiyah (Revival) party: "The government must
immediately issue the following announcement: 'The State of Israel
recognizes the state of war waged against it by and under the auspices of
the Palestinian Authority for the past nine months. This is a war of
terrorism, the PA's answer to the generously outstretched hand of peace
proffered by its elected Prime Minister, Ehud Barak... Instead of peace,
the Palestinian answer is the dispatching of brainwashed young killers,
outfitted with vests of death, to purposely kill children and youth in our
cities in mass murders that outrage the heart of all humans. Israel sees
itself, starting from June 2, the morning after the mass slaughter of the
children, in a state of genuine war, and will do everything it can to
protect itself and its citizens, according to international law...'"
Government Minister Shlomo Benizri (Shas) also expressed full remorse
yesterday for his support of Oslo.
5. WHO, US?
Conflicting reports about the explosion that critically injured a Fatah
activist near Tul Karem this morning. Ashraf Elbardawil was on a northern
Shomron road when his car exploded. Israeli sources originally said they
knew nothing of the incident, but later said it was likely due to a "work
accident" caused when the bomb the victim was preparing exploded
pre-maturely. Palestinian sources said the explosion was caused by an
Israeli liquidation attempt.
6. BURYING ANOTHER VICTIM
Yet another of the 20 victims of the Dolphinarium slaughter will be buried
today: 25-year-old Yan Blum of Tel Aviv. Over 40 of the attack's wounded
still remain hospitalized, including two who were originally listed in
mortal condition; one of them has now been classified as "critical but
stable."
7. PALESTINIANS SUPPORT SUICIDE ATTACKS, 3-1
Over three-quarters of Palestinians support suicide bomb attacks against
Israel, according to a poll released two days ago. The poll of 707 people,
carried out by the Palestine Center for Public Opinion in the PA town of
Beit Sahour, was commissioned before both the Tel Aviv slaughter outside
the Dolphinarium and before Arafat's announcement of a ceasefire. The
findings showed that 76% of respondents favored operations like the May 18
suicide blast in Netanya, which killed five Israelis. Only one out of
eight people opposed such tactics. Almost half of the respondents said
they would resist a halt to the intifada if called for by Arafat, while
just over a third said they would back him. Almost half the respondents
said they opposed the continuation of the peace process with Israel.
8. QATAR'S SOLUTION
The Ministry of Religious Affairs of Qatar has an original solution for the
Israeli-Arab conflict: it proposes that all Jews convert to Islam, Heaven
forbid. Itim news agency reported that the proposal was publicized on the
Ministry's internet site. The site also explains that Moses was sent to
convert the Children of Israel to Islam, but because they refused, they
were punished by having to wander the desert for 40 years...
***ARUTZ SHEVA RADIO SHORTS
"How would you answer those people who say it's a provocation for
Jewish
families to live in the Muslim Quarter?" Jewish life was a provocation in
York, England in the 11th century, in Spain in the 15th century, in Berlin
in the 20th century. Jewish life always seems to bother somebody
somewhere. If Jews don't live in Jerusalem, there's nowhere left in the
world for them to live. The entire return to Israel, the founding of the
State, everything we feel when we talk about Zionism is all centered on the
return to Jerusalem. Zionism means the return to Jerusalem."
--Yossi Baumol, Executive Director of Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim in the
Old
City of Jerusalem speaking to Michael Freund on the Open Mike Show. To
hear the entire show go to:
"http://www.israelnationalnews.com/metafiles/asx/shows/mike.asx"
Hebrew News Editor: Haggai Segal
English News Editor: Hillel Fendel
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[Peres gives Palestinians a few weeks to shoot?]Peres: Gauging truce
effectiveness is 'a matter of weeks'
Ha'aretz Service Ha'aretz 5 June 2001
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Tuesday that the Palestinians had made
a
"serious" start to implementing a cease-fire declared by Palestinian
Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat on Saturday, but that judging the full
effectiveness of the truce was "a matter of weeks."
"This time they are making a serious effort," Peres said of the
Palestinians, in an interview on Army Radio.
But he pointed out that Arafat also had "limitations. He has a high degree
of control on the ground," he said. "I don't know if he has absolute
control. I don't think anyone knows."
If the cease-fire held, Peres estimated it could be up to five months before
the two sides headed back to the negotiating table. He added that while
Israel was talking of an eight-week cooling off period before various
confidence-building measures - including a freeze on settlements as outlined
in the Mitchell report - went into effect, the Palestinians were demanding a
four-week period.
"At present there is no building in the territories," said Peres, who has
been toiling in an effort to find a settlement-freeze formula acceptable to
both Sharon and Arafat. "So there's no need to talk about an end to
building. It's not at a level that requires a dramatic declaration."
Asked whether there was a basis for renewing negotiations with the
Palestinians when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was only willing to give the
Palestinians 42 percent of the West Bank, Peres replied: "There is no such
decision by the government. According to the government guidelines, a
comprehensive agreement will be based on (U.N. resolutions) 242 and 338.
We
prefer that in the first stage of the negotiations, the implementation of
existing agreements will be discussed."
Asked whether he was a moderating force on Sharon, Peres said: "There's no
need. Look, we work together. It's not that I'm the national moderator."
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Hebron and Yesha spokespersons react to DM Ben Eliezer's lifting of certain
restrictions on Palestinians in reward for today - name of critically
injured baby
The Hebron Press Office hebron@hebron.org.il
June 5, 2001
1. Baby critically wounded near Shilo
A six month old baby was very critically wounded after being struck in the
head by a rock hurled at a car, between Shilo and Tapuch, in the Shomron.
The baby, seated in a car-seat in the front of the family car, was hit by a
rock thrown through the front windshield. After being treated by emergency
crews, the baby was taken by ambulance to Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem.
The baby was reported to be unconscious with a fractured skull. Israel
radio reports that doctors are trying to save his life.
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PLEASE PRAY FOR THE CRITICALLY INJURED BABY: YEHUDA BEN
BAT-SHEVA
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Earlier in the evening Defense Minister Binyamin ben Eliezer announced a
lessening of the closure and other measures taken against the Palestinians,
as a result of a reduction of the incidents over the past two days.
A spokesman for the Yesha Council issued the following statement:
The Yesha Council demands the Defense Minister immediately rescind the
lessening of the measures he intended to grant to the Palestinians because
the "cease-fire" is fictitious. Is the blood of the infant injured
tonight because of rocks hurled by palestinian terrorist worth less than
the blood of anyone else?
A Hebron spokesman added:
The Defense Minister said earlier today, "We call on them to return to
negotiations, and I call on Arafat, 'Habibi' (meaning, my friend) return to
the negotiating table."
Anyone who can call a mass-murderer, the mastermind behind the deaths of
20
children last Friday night and the killing of another 96 Israelis over the
past 8 months, cannot continue in the position of the Israeli Defense
Minister. We call on Ariel Sharon to immediately dismantle the national
unity government, firing the Defense and Foreign ministers, who are leading
the State of Israel to the brink of disaster. Shimon Peres has wrapped
Ariel Sharon around his little finger, and is running the country. He
prevented any Israeli reaction to Friday's massacre in Tel Aviv. As long
as he is a minister in the Sharon government, Oslo will continue and the
State of Israel is in jeopardy.
AS WE POST, ISRAEL RADIO HAS REPORTED THAT A GUN BATTLE
HAS BEGUN BETWEEN
ARAFAT'S TERRORIST FORCES AND ISRAELI SOLDIERS AT THE SITE
WHERE THE BABY
WAS INJURED EARLIER TONIGHT.
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Italy's Volcano Etna
Weekend News Today
Lead: faith
Source: Volcano World
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- Volcano Etna, Sicily, Italy...Last updated: 5 June 2001.
Etna's volcanic activity has been regular ever since a strong eruptive episode
started on 9 May. Lava continued to flow from a small cone located in the SE
crater until 25 May. Mild Strombolian activity continued at the summit vent.
New Lava Dome forms at Mexico's Volcano Colima
Weekend News Today
Lead: faith
Source: Volcano World
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- Volcano Colima, Mexico...Last Updated: 5 June
On 26 May, a new lava dome was discovered at Colima. The diameter was
estimated to be 115 m at its base, 57 m at the top, and a height of 30 m.
New and stronger fumarolic zones surrounding the dome were noted. This is
the 1st evidence of effusive activity since the November 1998-February 1999
effusive episode.
Colima is located 280 miles (450 km) west of Mexico City. Nearly 300,000
people live within 25 miles (40 km) of the volcano. It is considered Mexico's
most dangerous and active volcano. In 1991, Colima produced a dome that
rose 100 ft (30 m) above the crater rim. The dome collapsed producing flows
on the upper slopes of the volcano. Bombs were also shot from the volcano
during this event, causing several brush fires.
Mexico's Volcano Popo has moderate explosion
Weekend News Today
Lead: faith
Source: Volcano World
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- Volcano Popocatepetl in Mexico...Last Updated: 5 June
2001
On 31 May, glowing tephra flowed onto the NE flank of the Popocatepetl
volcano. The moderate explosive event was followed by five hours of
harmonic tremor. On June 1, there were four small exhalations and an
explosion of moderate intensity. Incandescent material flowed down the NE
flank between 2-3 km from the crater.
China warns of grave environmental degradation
Weekend News Today
Lead: faith
Source: ABC News/AP
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- China's top environmental official warned that degradation
of its air, water and soil is progressing faster than efforts to stop the ruin.
Deserts are spreading, and nearly half of Chinese river water supplies don't
even meet safety standards, Xie Zhenhua, director of the State EPA said
Tuesday. "The absolute amount of pollutants remains very high," and is
much greater than what the environment is capable of handling, he said.
Only 57 percent of river water met basic standards for purity, and ground
water is heavily polluted. Underground water supplies are being depleted by
pumping to supply booming demand by cities and farming. Some 90 percent
of grasslands, which cover about 40 percent of China's territory, have been
degraded, leading to worsening desertification and salting of the land, the
report said. Deserts in the NW are gradually encroaching on populated
areas, worsening sand storms that strike cities. The report did point to some
successes, especially improvements in air quality from closing older, heavily
polluting state factories.
North Korea hit by unprecedented dry spell
Weekend News Today
Lead: faith
Source: ABC News/AP
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- North Korea said its already weak farm industry is under
threat from the longest dry spell in the nation's history. The drought has left
vast areas of farmland parched. "From the climatological point of view this
long spell of drought is something rare in the history of meteorological
observation," said the report by KCNA, North Korea's foreign news outlet.
North Korea's farm industry has been devastated by flood, drought and
mismanagement, forcing the impoverished communist country to rely on
outside aid since 1995 to feed its 22 million people.
According to the KCNA report, North Korea has registered a nationwide
average rainfall of 0.72 inches since the drought began in early March -- only
17 percent of the rainfall in the same period of last year. The dry spell has
continued through the rice-planting season, which began in mid-May, and
has decimated the nation's fall harvest. Nearly 90 percent of potato, wheat,
barley and maize seeds that were sown have already dried up, KCNA said,
citing a damage report by the Agriculture Ministry.
5.8 quake hits New Guinea today
Weekend News Today
Lead: faith
Source: USGS
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- Today, another 5.8 struck, but this time it hit the New
Guinea Region. It was centered about 40 miles (65 km) W of Lae, New
Guinea, PNG, at a depth of 15 km.
5.8 quake shook Mariana Islands
Weekend News Today
Lead: faith
Source: USGS
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- On June 4th, a 5.8 earthquake shook the Mariana Islands.
It hit about 84 km down, and its' epicenter was 70 miles (115 km) SSE of
Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands.
Bilderberg urges Torries to support the euro
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: EU Observer
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- "Bilderberg is fearful that the EU might be coming apart; it
had expected Britain to be a full partner and to have embraced the euro by
now," Jim Tucker, a Bilderberg expert and writer told the weekly newspaper,
the European Voice, after having attended the secretive Bilderberg summit of
the world's 'power elite' held last week in Sweden. "Speakers called for
Europhiles in the opposition Conservative Party to bring participation in the
single currency to the top of the list of priorities as soon as the expected
Labour Party victory in the 7 June election is official,” Mr Jim Tucker said.
Two EU Commissioners and an executive board member of the European
Central Bank took part in the Bilderberg summit held on the west coast
Swedish town of Stenungsbaden. They joined around 100 business leaders
and politicians at the three-day meeting, but are barred from divulging details
of their discussions under 'Chatham House' rules. The summit hotel was
protected by a 900-metre-long metal fence and patrolled by secret
servicemen.
Other leading participants included NATO Secretary-General George
Robertson, Finnish premier Paavo Lipponen, US Senators Chuck Hagel and
Christopher Dodd, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat, Swedish Trade Minister Leif Pagrotsky, ECB executive
board member Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa and newspaper tycoon Conrad
Black. Critics say the Bilderberg group, named after a Dutch hotel where it
first met in 1954, is an unaccountable shadow government, which seeks to
exert its influence over the world's leading politicians.
US missile breach could spell ''total unpredictability'' in security: Russia
Weekend News Today
Source: AFP
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- A US withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile
(ABM) Treaty could usher in a period of "total unpredicatability" for global
security, Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday. He added
that Russia saw the 30-year-old treaty as the cornerstone in a complex
architecture of arms limitation agreements that made it impossible to
withdraw from one accord while continuing to abide by others. "On the basis
of the 1972 anti-missile treaty 32 other agreements have been signed in the
sphere of strategic stability," Ivanov said.
Iran heading for irreversible reforms, Khatami says
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: AFP
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- Iran's moderate President Mohammad Khatami opened fire
on his hardline rivals Tuesday, urging them to bow to what he predicted
would be an overwhelming demand for reform in Friday's elections. "I tell you
that reforms are irreversible, but the key words are moderation and
tolerance," Khatami said, amid growing conservative criticism that his moves
to ease social pressures are shaking the foundations of the Islamic state.
Khatami's comments came a day after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, from who conservatives take their cue, warned against taking
democracy too far and told the country to vote massively to protect the
revolution.
Oil nears $30 a barrel on Iraqi cuts
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: BBC
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- The price of oil has risen to a four-month high after Iraq cut
exports ahead of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec)
meeting on Tuesday. The Iraqi government has confirmed it suspended crude
exports on Monday in protest at a one-month extension of the existing "oil-
for-food" sanctions regime. Oil prices surged as Opec Secretary General Ali
Rodriguez raised doubts that the cartel's 11 members would raise production
to fill the supply gap left by Iraq, which accounts for 5% of the world's crude
supply.
Russian emergency minister arrives in Baghdad for Hussein meeting
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: AFP
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu arrived in
Baghdad on Tuesday to meet Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for talks on
humanitarian issues, the official INA news agency reported. Shoigu, who
arrived on a private Russian plane, said talks will focus on "ways of
developing relations between the two countries in the fields of training and
the exchange of experience," INA said. Iraq halted its oil exports under UN
control early Monday to protest US-British efforts to impose "smart
sanctions" on Baghdad.
Chinese navy runs emergency deployment drill
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Washington Times
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- The Chinese navy carried out an emergency deployment
last week, sending ships and submarines out of ports as if preparing for an
attack, according to U.S. defense and intelligence officials. The May 27
exercise off northern China was described as a "rapid dispersal exercise,"
said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Nine surface
warships, including guided-missile ships, and 15 attack submarines were
detected during the exercises. Officials said it is likely that many more
vessels took part.
Israel permits PA troop deployment
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Arutz
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- Israel on Monday gave the green light for the deployment of
PA forces in areas such as Beit Jala to permit PA efforts towards
implementation of the cease-fire. PA officials told their Israeli counterparts
that permitting the forces under the command of Colonel Jibril Rajoub to be
deployed in necessary areas would bring an end to the ongoing attacks. PA
officials explained the placement of forces in Beit Jala would bring an end to
shooting attacks into the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.
Solana sees Mideast peace initiative within days
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Reuters/Ha'aretz
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- The international community should be able to propose a
Middle East peace initiative in a few days if the situation there remains calm,
the European Union's foreign policy chief said Tuesday. "We need to have
security on the ground if we want to move into the next step, which is the
political initiative," Javier Solana said. Solana said there was a "solid
coalition of countries" behind a Middle East peace plan outlined in the
Mitchell commission report, which could form the basis for moving ahead to
a peace initiative.
Arafat cease-fire under US scrutiny
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Jerusalem Post
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- While bloody gun battles raged in Gaza yesterday,
threatening to torpedo the fragile weekend cease-fire, the US decided to hold
off on sending CIA chief George Tenet to the region. Instead, it chose to wait
to see if Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat shows signs of
cracking down on terror, according to a diplomatic source briefed on a high-
level meeting that took place at the White House yesterday. There were
heavy gun battles throughout the day and into last night near Rafah in the
Gaza Strip. Palestinians also fired seven mortar shells in three salvos at
Jewish communities and IDF positions in Gaza yesterday and close to
midnight on Sunday.
EU observers monitoring PA compliance
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Jerusalem Post
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- Observers from the European Union are monitoring
Palestinian compliance with the cease-fire called by Palestinian Authority
Chairman Yasser Arafat. For the past few days they have been meeting with
Palestinian security forces representatives. The observers are traveling
throughout the West Bank in EU vehicles to monitor the cease-fire.
Israel arrests Palestinians throughout West Bank
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Jerusalem Post
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- Israeli security forces arrested a number of Palestinians
overnight in a sweep carried out at several locations in the West Bank. Majdi
Alowni, head of the Palestinian Authority Civil Administration in the West
Bank, was reportedly among those arrested, according to Palestinian
sources.
Sharon, Peres: Arafat not taking necessary steps
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Jerusalem Post
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres met this afternoon to coordinate their positions on the diplomatic
process. Afterwards, Peres said Israel is committed to abiding by the
Mitchell Committee recommendations, and not any other proposal. Sharon
and Peres both said Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has not
yet taken the necessary steps to stop the shooting and terrorism.
They said he must detain Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who were
released from PA jails. Peres asked Sharon why Arafat was allegedly denied
permission to take off in his helicopter from Ramallah today. Sharon
responded that an official request had not been submitted, but will be
considered once it is, Army Radio reported.
Opposition groups all deny cease-fire agreement
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Jerusalem Post
Tue Jun 5,2001 -- All of the major Palestinian opposition groups, including
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and
the Fatah, led by Marwan Barghouti, all denied agreeing to yesterday's
widely-publicized Palestinian Authority-led cease-fire. Izzadin Kassam, the
military wing of the Hamas, this morning denied the group's assent to the
move, saying they would continue to attack Israeli targets on both sides of
the Green Line, according to a report on a television station in one of
the Gulf States.
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:13:14 -0400
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Powell Urges Arafat to Arrest Planners of Tel Aviv Bombing
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell urged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
on Monday to arrest those responsible for the Tel Aviv nightclub bombing that
killed 20 Israelis.
In a telephone call after a White House strategy session, Powell leaned on
Arafat to go beyond his offer of a cease-fire and his order that attacks on
Israel be halted, a U.S. official said.
Powell's insistence that Arafat order the arrests of those behind the attack
and what the official called other atrocities indicates the administration is
convinced the Palestinian leader can rein in militants. Ha'aretz
Qatar Donates Military Vehicles to Lebanon
Qatar has donated military vehicles to Lebanon. The Gulf Arab state granted
Lebanon 40 military vehicles and 20 motorcycles. The vehicles will be used
for the police and security forces.
The Qatari News Agency said the vehicles were donated on Friday by Qatari
ambassador to Lebanon, Mohammed Bin Ali Naimi, to Lebanese Interior
Minister Elias Murr. The worth of the vehicles were not reported.
Al Naimi said Qatar is ready to support Lebanon and its interests. Doha
joined other Gulf Arab states in helping Lebanon. Last month, the United
Arab Emirates donated $50 million for a demining project in southern
Lebanon. MENL
U.S. Military Chief Discusses Cooperation in Jordan
The United States is discussing military cooperation with Jordan. The talks
are being held in Amman during the current visit by U.S. Chairman of the
Joint Chief of Staff Gen. Henry Shelton. Shelton arrived in Amman on Sunday
for a two-day visit.
The U.S. general met his Jordanian counterpart, Gen. Yousef Melkawi, and
was scheduled to meet Jordan´s King Abdullah in discussions said to focus
on military cooperation and efforts to maintain United Nations sanctions on
Iraq. The official Petra news agency said Shelton and his Jordanian hosts are
exploring the proposals to boost military cooperation.
Arab diplomatic sources said this includes the prospect of joint exercises,
training and visits by U.S. naval ships to the Jordanian port of Aqaba. The
two countries hold at least two military exercises a year. MENL
Opec Ready To Reject Oil Output Rise
Ministers from Opec are expected today to reject a move to increase their oil
supplies to offset Iraq´s new embargo on sales of crude to Western
consumer countries. The likely decision from Opec, meeting in Vienna, to
defer any response to the Iraqi halt on oil exports, will intensify concern over
its impact on fuel prices.
Prices for benchmark July Brent crude yesterday jumped 64 cents, to a peak
of $29.71, before easing to $29.15, after Iraq ended crude deliveries in protest
at Friday´s UN Security Council vote to extend sanctions against Baghdad
for a month.
Opec ministers and officials signalled the cartel´s readiness to increase oil
production if necessary, but they insisted that current supplies were enough
for now to keep prices within their preferred $22 to $28 range. the times
Saudi Role in Energy Production
Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil exporter, capable of producing over
10.5 million barrels of oil per day. But despite having the world's fifth-largest
natural gas reserves, totaling nearly 7 trillion cubic meters, the kingdom
produces relatively little gas for domestic consumption (an estimated 46
billion cubic meters in 1998) and none for export. That is about to change.
more @ World Net Daily
Cyprus to Discus CBMs With Europe
The Republic of Cyprus hosts European and North American military officers
to discuss confidence building measures on the divided island.
The conference to begin on Tuesday will include 44 military officers from 27
countries. They are members of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe as well as Canada, Russia and the United States.
The visit will also include representatives from 13 European Union members.
The conference will be sponsored by the Defense Ministry and last until next
week.
Officials said the visiting delegation will tour Cypriot military bases and other
facilities. They will also be briefed on the current tension with Turkey. MENL
Proposal Raised To Buy North Korean No-Dong Missles
The United States and its Asian and European allies are considering a
proposal to buy North Korean intermediate-range missiles to end their
exports to Middle East clients.
The Tokyo Shimbun daily said the proposal would bring together the United
States, Japan, South Korea and the European Union. The daily said on
Monday that these countries would pay to rid North Korea of its stock of
intermediate-range missiles.
The effort, the newspaper said, would focus on buying and destroying all of
North Korea's No-Dong-1 missiles. The missiles have a range of between
1,000 and 1,300 kilometers and have been sold to Iran and Libya.
In exchange, North Korea would pledge to end all No-Dong exports, the
newspaper said. Pyongyang would allow international inspections of North
Korean missile production facilities. MENL
Russia In Crisis As Vodka Runs Out
Russia was in crisis yesterday as vodka stocks fell fast after producers of
the national drink suspended operations for fear of violating excise rules .
Manufacturers and the media painted a grim picture of acute shortages and
even riots to come if confusion over the new tax measures was not cleared
up and production did not resume soon. Moscow's best known distillery,
Kristall, maker of the Stolichnaya brand, was at a standstill because of the
mix-up, as were hundreds of other factories and wineries across the country.
Regulations introducing a regional excise duty on top of a national tax came
into force on Friday. But no one has seen the new stamps which bureaucrats
insisted must be stuck to bottles. Rather than break the law, distilleries have
shut up shop.
German Klimovsky, a vodka marketing director, told the Moscow Times: "All
distilleries are standing still now, waiting. We already saw longer queues for
vodka on Friday and if the mess continues we will get a riot." The
Kommersant daily said: "There are no signs that the situation will change for
the better in the next few days. As a result, Russia is standing at the
threshold of a severe vodka shortage." telegraph
Earthquakes of the Past 2 Days:
5.8 MARIANA ISLANDS
4.5 LAOS
5.1 CENTRAL ALASKA
4.7 SUNDA STRAIT, INDONESIA
5.3 BANDA SEA
4.4 NEAR COAST OF CHIAPAS, MEXICO
5.0 MINAHASSA PENINSULA, SULAWESI
3.0 OHIO
4.9 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS
4.7 KURIL ISLANDS
4.8 SOUTHEAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
7.1 KERMADEC ISLANDS, NEW ZEALAND
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:14:51 -0400
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Tuesday, June 5 2001 22:47 15 Sivan 5761
(20:10) Israel gives PA wanted list:
Arrest them or else
Israel this week gave the Palestinian Authority a list of
300 suspected terrorists, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
media advisor, Ra'anan Gissin, said today.
Israel asked the PA to arrest them, or else Israel will
deal with them itself, Gissin added.
Gissin made his remarks in an interview with a French
news agency.
Gissin said most of the people on the wanted list are
members of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah, who have
participated in terrorist acts against Israel by means of
car bombs or sending suicide bombers, Israel Radio
reported.
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:15:45 -0400
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June 5, 2001 20:32 (Israel time)
Israel opposed to European observers in territories
Ha´aretz Service
Minister Dan Naveh said Tuesday that the sending of European observers to
the region to monitor implementation of the cease-fire had been done without
consultation with the government and was against the recommendations of
the Mitchell report, Army Radio reported.
The observers who arrived in the region have been travelling in the territories
in European Union cars. They were seen Tuesday observing proceedings in
the Bethlehem area.
Naveh said in a radio interview that Israel objected in principle to international
observers. “ A few cars driving around will not help the cease-fire. Only non-
stop pressure on [Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser] Arafat to prevent
the terror."
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:19:52 -0400
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Time to Leave Israel? Row Breaks Out on
Web Site
June 5, 2001 5:46 am EST
By Ramit Plushnick-Masti
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - All Amos Sahar had to say was
"I'm scared -- I'm leaving" to clog an Israeli Web site and
revive an old debate.
Sahar posted a letter explaining why his apartment is for
sale on YNet, a Web site that provides news 24 hours a
day, after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up
and killed 20 other people at a Tel Aviv disco on Friday
night.
He said he was leaving Israel after eight months of a
Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation.
"The attack at the Dolphinarium left me broken," Sahar
wrote on the site at www.ynet.co.il.
The letter caused uproar, and more than 500 responses
-- for and against Sahar -- quickly flooded the site.
Israel's largest daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, which
owns the Web site, also published Sahar's comments on
Tuesday along with two pages of commentary.
"We...are scared. We have had enough of the fact that
every time we turn on the radio they talk about terrorist
attacks, blood, death, funerals," Sahar wrote.
He said he had decided his one-year-old son deserved
a better, safer life elsewhere.
"This country, to which I gave most of my life and the
fruits of my labor, I no longer love this country. I am
willing to live for it. I'm willing to die for it in a state of
war, but in these circumstances -- no."
ANGRY DEBATE
The argument over whether to stay or leave Israel has
often made headlines. Some famous Israelis have left,
causing uproar, as have hordes of regular people. Others
have chosen to stay.
The last eight months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, which
erupted after peace talks became deadlocked, has
brought the issue to the forefront of Israel's internal
battlefield.
Arik, who lives in the Israeli town of Modi'in east of Tel
Aviv, wrote on the Internet site that Sahar "expresses
better than anyone else how much the feeling of despair
has spread in the face of never-ending terrorism."
Others were outraged.
"Your statement is the ultimate achievement for our
enemies," said a person identified only as I.
Others called Sahar a "coward."
Oron from Tel Aviv said that in the army he would have
had permission to "shoot him in the back" as a traitor.
Sahar said he and his wife had not decided yet where
they wanted to go, but were looking for an "almost
boring," quiet place where children are safe and the views
are pretty.
But Eyal of Jerusalem, along with other writers, had
words of caution for Sahar and harked back to the
reasons behind the creation of the Jewish state.
"So long as you are Jewish you will have nowhere to run,"
Eyal wrote. "You will be hunted down everywhere you go
just because you are Jewish."
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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:22:44 -0400
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"Western and Eastern Europe will become a federation of autonomous
states having a Socialist and democratic regime. With the exception of the
USSR as a federated Eurasian state, all other continents will become united
in a world alliance at whose disposal will be an international police force. All
armies will be abolished, and there will be no more wars. In Jerusalem, the
United Nations will build a Shrine of the Prophets to serve the federated
union of all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind,
to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by
Isaiah."
David Ben-Gurion
First Prime Minister of Israel,
quoted in Look magazine, January 16, 1962
As quoted in "Ancient Prophecies about the Dragon, the Beast, and the
False Prophet," William Sutton
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