Israel re-imposes curfew in Hebron
Japan commercial TV cos. join forces
IBM says new transistor is fastest
Powell hopeful on Iraq sanctions plan
Syria's Assad faces Paris protests
Israel acknowledges Lebanon flights
AIDS is rampant in Myanmar
China takes center stage in Congress
Parents complain about ABC special
Christian park must pay tax
LIKUD AGAINST REMOVING OUTPOSTS
SHARON TELLS JEWISH LEADERS ABOUT CONTINUING ATTACKS
OSLO "CRIMINALS" CALLED TO JUSTICE
LEFT-WING COMMENTATORS AGAINST OSLO, PEACE GROUPS
NEW WATER PLANT AND PLANS
Israel says Hebron clampdown will stay in place
Riots erupt in Macedonia; region on brink of civil war
China deploys warships near Philippines
Pentagon says betting on lasers
Mubarak: More U.S. action needed to curb violence
Russia says will block US-British plan on Iraq
Sharon staff: Ben-Eliezer's statements went too far
EU conference fights for religious freedom
CONGRESSIONAL REPS PROBE FRAUD IN ONLINE AUCTIONS
THOUSANDS RIOT IN MACEDONIA
COPS BEAT U.S. FOTOG AT BEIJING CONCERT
ANOTHER CUT IN INTEREST RATES LIKELY
PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE PAYS UP
IN N.Y.? DON'T DRIVE AND CALL
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:49:14 -0400
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"The next decade is basically the decade of the gay family."
David Smith, of the Human Rights Campaign, on the census surge in gay live-
in couples.
As quoted in:
US News & World Report
July 2, 2001
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:14:04 -0400
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*** Israel re-imposes curfew in Hebron
JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian militants ignited a gun battle with
Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday, prompting
Israel to re-impose a curfew on the divided city. Overall, seven
Israelis and two Palestinians were hurt in a trio of shootings in
the West Bank, and a truce reached June 13 remained unsteady.
Palestinian gunmen on a hillside fired at Jewish enclaves in Hebron,
injuring an Israeli army officer, three border policemen and a
7-year-old boy, the army said. Jewish settlers in Hebron said the
boy was standing on a balcony when he was hit. None of the injuries
was serious. Israeli soldiers returned fire, injuring a 10 year-old
Palestinian boy in the leg, a hospital official said.
*** Also: Sharon seeks help from Bush administration, see
http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408783734
*** And: Palestinian gunmen attend funeral, see
http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408783654
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408783592
*** Japan commercial TV cos. join forces
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's three major commercial television broadcasters
have agreed to jointly distribute image content over broadband
high-speed Internet access lines. Fuji Television Network Inc.,
Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. and Asahi National Broadcasting Co.
said Tuesday that they will set up a preparatory committee for a new
joint venture that could be up and running as early as next spring.
It will be the first time that Japanese commercial TV networks team
up in the communications and broadcasting field, the Nihon Keizai
business newspaper said in its Tuesday edition. By joining forces,
the three networks hope to reduce the costs of producing programming
specifically for broadband distribution, the newspaper said.
Also: Study says Japanese Internet surfing surges, see
http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408786265
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408786078
*** IBM says new transistor is fastest
NEW YORK (AP) - IBM has built the world's fastest silicon-based
transistor, a development that promises to make telecommunications
chips run faster on less power, the company said Monday. IBM said it
plans to bring the transistors to market in two years. The tiny
components will power the chips used in mobile phones and fiber
optic communications networks. The transistors perform 80% faster
than current technology while cutting power consumption in half,
said Seshu Subbanna, the engineer who led the development team at
IBM's microelectronics plant in East Fishkill, N.Y. Consumers might
notice the transistor's presence through faster Internet access via
cable or DSL modems or longer cell phone battery life. The
transistors are not compatible with computer microprocessors.
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408780088
*** Powell hopeful on Iraq sanctions plan
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed hope
Monday that the U.N. Security Council will reach agreement on a
U.S.-backed British resolution to overhaul sanctions against Iraq
before a self-imposed July 3 deadline. But Powell said the United
States has yet to decide how long to extend the U.N. oil-for-food
program with Iraq if no deal is struck on the technical aspects of
the resolution, including a contentious list of restricted dual-use
goods. "If no resolution is arrived at, we'll have to figure out
what to do, how to extend the current situation and for how long,"
Powell said following a speech to the U.N. Special Session on Aids.
The U.S.-British resolution, first introduced May 22, would ease
restrictions on most civilian goods entering Iraq through the
oil-for-food program, while tightening a weapons embargo and
cracking down on Iraqi oil smuggling outside the program.
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408783456
*** Syria's Assad faces Paris protests
PARIS (AP) - Thousands rallied in the capital against Syrian
President Bashar Assad over his anti-Semitic comments, as the Arab
leader opened a three-day state visit to France on Monday with more
anti-Israel rhetoric. Up to 6,000 people protested while President
Jacques Chirac held a two-hour private meeting with Assad. Some
protesters burned a Syrian flag and others brandished placards that
read "Heil Assad." At the start of his three-day visit, the
35-year-old president, who came to power almost a year ago after the
death of his father Hafez Assad, blamed Israel for jeopardizing the
Middle East peace process.
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408783496
*** Israel acknowledges Lebanon flights
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's Air Force acknowledged Monday that its
warplanes have resumed reconnaissance flights over south Lebanon,
saying the actions are in response to Hezbollah guerrillas who
remain active in the region. Maj. Gen. Dan Halutz, commander of the
air force, told reporters that a few weeks ago Lebanese Hezbollah
guerrillas started firing at the planes. "The firing was at IAF
planes which were carrying out intelligence missions in Lebanese
skies," he said Monday. Israel withdrew its ground forces from south
Lebanon in May of last year, ending an occupation that lasted almost
two decades. During the 1980s and 90s, Israeli warplanes regularly
flew reconnaissance flights over Lebanon and also carried out
bombing attacks against Hezbollah guerrillas, but both activities
stopped after Israel carried out its unilateral withdrawal.
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408783532
*** AIDS is rampant in Myanmar
NEW YORK (AP) - Shunned by a repressive military junta and shut out
by their own fearful communities, AIDS-stricken people in Myanmar
are dying in numbers that researchers say may be more than 50 times
higher than official figures. In a country where information is so
tightly controlled that an unlicensed fax machine can land you in
jail, the extent of Myanmar's HIV crisis has until recently been
withheld, both from the outside world and from many of the people it
is killing. "The problem with this epidemic has been the tremendous
difficulty in getting a handle on what is really going on," said
Chris Beyrer, an American researcher who directs an AIDS program at
the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Beyrer presented a study suggesting 687,000 adults in Myanmar were
living with AIDS in 1999 - or nearly 3.5% of the population, a rate
worse than any other nation in Asia except Cambodia, where about 4%
are infected.
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408784989
*** China takes center stage in Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) - America's always difficult relationship with China
is returning to center stage in Congress as lawmakers tangle over
China's bid to host the 2008 Olympics and the Bush administration's
extension of normal trade. Free-traders and those who believe in the
benefits of engagement are facing off against those who feel China's
human rights record - plus its detention of a U.S. military crew
after an April collision between a U.S. surveillance plane and a
Chinese fighter - should prevent it from enjoying the rewards of the
Olympics and open trade. But first up was an easier issue: A
resolution demanding that China free U.S. citizens and permanent
residents whom it has detained for months and calling on President
Bush to press for their freedom. The four lawmakers who debated the
measure Monday - two Republicans and two Democrats - all spoke in
support.
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408786486
*** Parents complain about ABC special
NEW YORK (AP) - Several parents who agreed to let their children be
interviewed for an ABC News special on the environment now want them
out of it because they didn't like correspondent John Stossel's
questioning. They made their wishes known Monday, more than two
months after the interviews took place and four days before the
special, "Tampering with Nature," is scheduled to air. ABC promised
to look into their complaints. It's the second dispute in a year
involving Stossel, a libertarian who has rankled environmental and
consumer groups with his views. Stossel had to apologize last August
for a misleading report on organic produce, and the Environmental
Working Group, which called for ABC to fire him then, was
instrumental in Monday's complaint. The parents accused Stossel and
his staff of misrepresenting the nature of the story before they
agreed to let their children be interviewed, and of trying to lead
the children into giving answers that fit his point of view.
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408780855
*** Christian park must pay tax
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A Christian theme park must pay property taxes,
despite the owner's request for a tax exemption as a religious and
educational entity, a tax official said Monday. "I determined it was
not exempt in that it was an attraction...It's a business," said
Bill Donegan, Orange County's property appraiser. "It's not a
museum, it's not a school and it's not a church." The park's
executive director, Marv Rosenthal, said he plans to challenge the
decision in state court. "We think it's very inappropriate that a
museum that teaches about science is tax-exempt but a museum that
teaches about God isn't," Rosenthal said. The Holy Land Experience
opened in February and was developed by Zion's Hope, a nonprofit,
nondenominational Christian ministry. Detractors, including national
Jewish groups, have accused the park of being a front for efforts to
convert Jews.
Full article at: http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=408785759
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The Barna Update: 6/25/01
A bi-weekly e-mail from George Barna
Religious Beliefs Vary Widely By Denomination
In the land of tolerance and diversity, it turns out that there is
very considerable diversity within the Christian community regarding
core beliefs. Based on a study of more than 6000 randomly-sampled
adults, our latest project shows the differences and similarities
across 12 denominational groups. Some of the findings you'll read
about in the study include:
· There are more born again Mormons than born again Episcopalians.
· Although they are often accused of being emotional and
theologically lightweight, the most biblically astute people were
adherents of Pentecostal and Assembly of God churches.
· Among all of the denominational groups tested, the only ones for
which a majority firmly believe Satan is real are the Assemblies of
God and Mormons.
Some of the study's findings will probably shock you. To read the
complete report, go to our website by hitting this link or directly
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:29:42 -0400
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Arab MKs want a mosque in every hospital
By Zvi Zrahiya Ha'aretz 26 June 2001
Seven Arab MKs have submitted a bill which would require that a mosque or
an area where Muslims could pray be set up in every hospital. The bill was
put forth by MK Abdulmalik Dehamshe (United Arab List) who said that
Muslims must search for an empty cor ner in a room to carry out their
religious obligations in hospitals. The MKs whose signatures appeared on
the bill argued that setting up mosques in hospitals would put an end to the
unacceptable conditions under which Muslims are forced to perform their
religious duties in hospitals today.
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:31:22 -0400
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IAF hails joint exercise in Turkey
By Amos Harel
Ha'aretz Military Affairs Correspondent Ha'aretz 26 June 2001
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) will complete its joint exercise with American
and Turkish air forces in southern Turkey.
The exercise, running for the last two weeks, is the largest held between
the three countries.
IAF sources described the exercise as a success and repeated that
cooperation with other air forces "is not directed against anyone - the
whole purpose of it is to learn from others."
The exercise was organized along similar lines as Red Flag, an exercise in
the southwestern U.S. in which air force pilots train in an artificial
hostile environment, practicing combat maneuvers, and ground-attack sorties.
Much of the training in Turkey was on air to ground operations in which the
IAF
took part with fighters, transport aircraft and helicopters.
Next year, the IAF will send a number of its aircraft permanently to the
U.S. and rotate pilots to train with their U.S. counterparts.
In recent months the IAF has invested NIS 300 million and $50 million in
U.S. aid to ensure that the majority of its aircraft are fully combat ready,
following increased regional tension.
Earlier this month, Israel signed a contract with Lockheed-Martin for 102
F-16I fighter-bombers, with delivery to start in 2003 and last for five
years. In coming months the air force is also expected to absorb a squadron
of
Blackhawk utility helicopters.
The IAF is considering whether to transfer its base in the Lod area to the
Negev to ease congested air space in the central region. However the cost of
a
move is an issue - one possibilities is to sell some property of the current
base to help pay for the transfer.
The air force is expected to decide in the coming months which aircraft it
will be choosing for intelligence gathering. Contending are Boeing and
Gulf-Stream, both U.S. companies.
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:32:14 -0400
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New arrests in Ramallah lynching
By Amos Harel
Ha'aretz Military Correspondent Ha'aretz 26 June 2001
The IDF and Shin Bet security service recently arrested two more suspects
in the
lynching of two reservists in Ramallah last October - including the youth seen
in the famous television shot of the lynching as he leaned out of the police
station window and waved bloody hands at the mob.
The two reservists, Vadim Norzhich and Yosef Avrahami, took a wrong turn
into Ramallah on October 17 and were arrested by Palestinian police, who
took them to the local police station. There, a Palestinian mob beat the two
to
death and mutilated their bodies.
So far 15 suspects have been arrested and some of them have already been
indicted. Security sources said yesterday Israel will continue trying to
catch all those involved.
The two new arrests are Abed al-Aziz Tzalha, 20, of Dir-Jarir and Mohammed
Nuara, 18, of Mizara al-Kabaliyah. Both live in Area B - under Palestinian
civilian but Israeli security control.
Tzalha admitted he was the youth at the window in the television shots,
waving his bloodstained hands. (Early reports of this man being arrested
were wrong.) Tzalha said he burst into the police station, ran up the stairs to
where the two soldiers were being held, and grabbed one and started
choking him
while other Palestinians beat him.
Nuara, a Tanzim activist, admitted stabbing one of the soldiers. Both men
will soon be indicted in Beit El military court.
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:44:53 -0400
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Peres: 'Settlement freeze is already in force'
By Dalia Shehori Ha'aretz Correspondent Ha'aretz 26 June 2001
[IMRA: FM Peres is apparently attempting to convince the Americans that
an
official declaration of the start of the implementation periods of Mitchell is
not necessary since Israel has already jumped the gun with the settlement
freeze. The Palestinians, however, are well aware of the PR importance of the
setting of dates. Once a date is set there will be pressure on Israel to honor
Mitchell regardless of Palestinian compliance.]
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres yesterday told the Labor Party Knesset
faction a
de facto freeze on settlement construction is already in place. A Meretz MK
affiliated with Peace Now immediately contradicted him, saying construction
tenders for hundreds of new West Bank settlement apartments have been
issued
since last month.
Peres said the government is committed to not expropriating nor building any
new
settlements, and there is already a ban on any new expansion of settlements
beyond built-up areas. Any new construction needs authorization signed by
the
defense minister.
Meretz MK Mussi Raz in response said: "It's too bad the foreign minister
doesn't know what he's talking about. Construction proceeds at an
accelerated pace - only today a new tender was issued for 38 apartments,
and
since May there have been tenders for 746 new apartments beyond the
Green Line."
Peres told the faction he was pleased with the announcement by Defense
Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer that 15 illegal outposts would be removed, "by
force, if necessary." "With all the pain it causes the settlers," said Peres,
"we cannot forgo this because a violation on the settlement issue could
torpedo
everything."
He said the main issue on the agenda now is "when and if" the Mitchell
Commission recommendations will be implemented. As far as the
Americans are
concerned, he said, "Arafat has to make a 100 percent effort" to keep the
cease-fire, so they can start the six weeks that is to be followed by the next
stage, while Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wants six weeks of absolute quiet
before he is ready to continue.
"But both we and the Americans agree there is still effort missing" on the
part of the Palestinians, because there has not been a shut down of the
incitement and there have not been any clear instructions to all the
Palestinian forces about the cease-fire. "What Arafat said to Israeli
journalists on Friday has not appeared in the Palestinian press," he said.
He said full details of the Mitchell Report recommendations have more or
less been agreed upon - "but we still don't have a D-Day, the day we start
counting the six weeks." He said the U.S. will be making "a supreme effort"
this
week to set the timetable for the Mitchell recommendations, because
Washington
is worried "if it is repeatedly postponed, the cease-fire will disintegrate."
Peres said if the Palestinians fulfill their side of the deal, "we'll have
the fuel to move ahead. If not, we'll be in deep trouble." Noting that there
have already been three weeks without shooting at Gilo and relative calm in
the
territories, he said he is "deeply worried by the situation in the territories."
"Israel doesn't know what's going on there, that unemployment has reached
40
percent. There is a moral problem and a political problem. We gave the
autonomy,
but they don't have military autonomy and we took away their economic
autonomy,
so what kind of autonomy is it?.
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 20:08:18 -0400
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LIKUD AGAINST REMOVING OUTPOSTS
Likud Knesset members spent the morning visiting communities in Binyamin
(between Jerusalem and the Shomron) that have suffered terrorism
casualties in the past several months. The towns on the itinerary included
Ofrah, Shilo, Ateret, and N'vei Tzuf. Faction head MK Ze'ev Boim said that
the group's goal was to formulate a more up-to-date party policy regarding
Judea and Samaria.
Communications Minister Ruby Rivlin said that the Likud is against Defense
Minister Ben-Eliezer's announcement, which he repeated today, that he
plans to remove 15 outposts from alongside Yesha highways: "I don't know
which government Fuad [Ben-Eliezer] is in, but in my government, it's almost
certain that there will be a majority against dismantling these outposts,
which were built based on bitter experience of people traveling on the
highways of Israel being butchered. This is not an ideological issue; they are
there only to maintain security, such that it is inconceivable that an Israeli
government would act to remove them."
Public Security Minister Uzi Landau said today that Defense Minister Ben-
Eliezer was not authorized to make a decision to evacuate the outposts, and
that the issue would be discussed in the next Cabinet meeting: "After the
entire country was taught a difficult lesson from the withdrawal/retreat from
Lebanon, and then the same from Joseph's Tomb - two events that breathed
new life into the terrorists around us - I hope that we will not make the same
mistake again. Every further retreat by us simply throws fuel onto the fire of
terrorism around us..."
Yesha Council sources say that not only do the outposts not present a
security danger, but they actually grant extra security to the travelers on the
roads. Most of the outposts are in fact manned or guarded by soldiers.
SHARON TELLS JEWISH LEADERS ABOUT CONTINUING ATTACKS
The ceasefire does not exist, Prime Minister Sharon told Jewish leaders in
New York last night, citing yesterday's shooting at Jewish homes in Hevron
as an example. The Prime Minister expressed his hope that the
international community would begin seeing Arafat not as the head of a
future state but as a terrorist gang leader. Calling for aliyah (immigration to
Israel), he said, "Another million Jews in Israel in the coming decade will
change the situation from one extreme to the other."
A Hevron Arab hurled seven firebombs this afternoon at a Border Guard force;
no one was hurt, and IDF soldiers returned fire at the terrorist and wounded
him... Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at an Israeli bus at the Yakir
junction, west of Ariel; no one was hurt. A similar attack occurred in the
same place yesterday… Yet another Arab "work accident" this afternoon:
two Arabs in their 20's were moderately-to-seriously injured in what was
described as a "large explosion" in downtown Shechem…
A large bomb went off this morning under or near an IDF tank in northern
Gaza. No one was hurt. Palestinians shot at an IDF position near Ganei
Tal, further south, while near Maccabim, along the Green Line in central
Israel, a Molotov cocktail was hurled; no one was hurt in these incidents. It
was learned today that an immigrant to Israel from the former Soviet Union, a
man identified only as Anatoly, was severely beaten by a group of Israeli-
Arabs at the entrance to his apartment building in Jaffa several days ago. He
told Arutz-7 today, "A man came to the door and asked, 'Are you the guy
who punched my son?' Before I even had a chance to ask him what he was
talking about, he had thrown me against the door, and then people from all
over were beating me from every angle..."
The custody of Mahmoud Naji, 29, of the PA city of Kalkilye, was extended
today for the third time, this time for six days. It was announced today that
he was arrested shortly after the Dolphinarium suicide slaughter on charges
of having driven the terrorist to Tel Aviv to perpetrate his crime. The blast
killed 21 people, mostly young Russian immigrants. Naji claims that he did
not know that his passenger was a terrorist, and that friends had called him
the night before to ask him to drive the man to Tel Aviv to help him find work.
Alert soldiers of the hareidi Nachal unit caught three infiltrators from Jordan
last night. The soldiers noticed three figures floating across the Dead Sea
from Jordan on a rubber mattress, and apprehended them as they landed on
the Israeli shore. Two of the three Ukrainian nationals were on the verge of
dehydration and were taken to a hospital, while the third told police that they
had come here looking for work.
OSLO "CRIMINALS" CALLED TO JUSTICE
The Women in Green organization demonstrated outside the Foreign
Ministry this morning, demanding a legal inquiry into the Oslo process and
its results. They held signs reading, "Oslo Criminals to Justice," and called
for a trial specifically for Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. "This is the
beginning of our campaign against Shimon Peres," leader Nadia Matar cried
out. "How can the Sharon government fight against terrorism when Shimon
Peres, one of the driving forces behind Oslo, is a member of the government?
Instead of being Foreign Minister, he must be made to stand trial for his
Oslo crimes. How can Margalit Har-Shefi be put in prison because she
"should have" known what Yigal Amir was planning, when Shimon Peres not
only knew what Arafat was planning but he even gave him tens of thousands
of guns..."
Not far away, a former IDF Intelligence Officer and Arab Affairs advisor, Micha
Maimon, continues his sit-in outside the Knesset, demanding a public
investigation into the Oslo process and how it led to war instead of peace.
He told Arutz-7 today, "I'm not necessarily calling for criminal trials, but
rather for an objective and public investigation, just as the Agranat
Commission investigated what came to be known as the 'debacle' of the
Yom Kippur War. I know that I and my colleagues in Military Intelligence
passed much information that stood in stark contrast to what the Oslo
architects actually did, such that there was no justification for their
actions..." Maimon noted that Moti Ashkenazi, whose post-war protests
sparked the mass demonstrations that ultimately led to the formation of the
Agranat Commission and the resignation of the Golda Meir government, has
promised his support for the current campaign.
LEFT-WING COMMENTATORS AGAINST OSLO, PEACE GROUPS
Prominent Israeli commentator Ehud Ya'ari has gone on record to the effect
that not only is Arafat responsible for the warfare against Israel, but that the
Oslo process itself must be considered a failure. "What is amazing," writes
Ya'ari in the latest issue of The Jerusalem Report, "is that Israelis have
reached a general consensus about Arafat, but not about the process that
brought him into our neighborhood... [T]he 60-70 percent majority that
supported Oslo is still not ready to subject that process to a reassessment
in the same way that it has reconsidered the attitude to Arafat... "[This]
inherent contradiction... raises a serious danger: Any further dealings with
Arafat will remain within the general outline of Oslo. It will mean yielding
other bits of territory - like Chaim Ramon's suggestion of a 10% third
redeployment and/or ... evacuating the settlements of Gush Katif in the Gaza
Strip. Peres probably has this kind of approach in his saddlebag as he
presses the Americans to present Sharon with a written proposal, backed up
by wide international support, for the implementation of the Mitchell Report.
Proceeding along such a track would be an evasion of extracting any
lessons from the mistake Israel originally made by bringing Arafat in. "... The
sobering-up about Arafat must be coupled with the conclusion that Oslo was
a bold experiment with positive goals but, expectedly, a failure. Tremendous
value could be gained from a public recognition of that fact, particularly by
the Israeli left, which has shown itself ready to engage in open soul-
searching when it comes to Arafat. Only by revisiting Oslo will the way open
up for new, more effective formulas."
In Ha'aretz today, Ari Shavit writes the following: "It will be difficult to forget
this silence. For several months now, on almost a daily basis, Israeli
citizens who live beyond the Green Line are being murdered by the historic
allies of the Israeli peace movement, yet that movement is silent. Here and
there its members might mumble a word or two expressing their
condolences. Here and there they might make a weak-kneed appeal to
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat. However, essentially, they are
silent. In the deepest sense, they are silent. They see their allies shooting at
point-blank range at Israelis and yet they are silent. "Nor is it just the Israeli
peace movement that is silent. Silence is also being observed by Israeli
human rights groups... For years, Israeli human rights groups have reported -
and they are to be commended for having done so - every act of injustice
committed at every Israeli roadblock in the territories. Yet these same
human rights groups have not seen fit to publish even one comprehensive
report on the blood-soaked closure that has been imposed for the past nine
months on the residents of some 150 Israeli communities. "...Nor is it just
the Israeli human rights groups that are silent. Silence is also being observed
by Israeli intellectuals and by the majority of the columnists in the nation's
newspapers... Silence is being observed by those who have spoken here for
an entire generation of the principle of universal justice without understanding
that universal justice today requires all decent human beings to stand up for
those who are being shot at, to stand up for them without asking questions
or getting into philosophical arguments. To stand up without hesitation in
order to protest the attempt being made right before the eyes of all Israelis to
conduct a violent ethnic cleansing process on the West Bank... However,
what is most disturbing is that this silence... is somehow linked to the fact
that it is their secret political dream to see the Settler Other simply
evaporate. To get up one morning and to discover that the hated Settler
Other has quite simply vanished... [T]his massive silence not only arouses
moral disgust, it is also destructive from the political standpoint..."
NEW WATER PLANT AND PLANS
A new installation for recovering and recycling drainage water was launched
today near Netanya. It will produce five million cubic meters of water a year,
which will be used for agriculture in the nearby Hefer Valley area. Mekorot
Water Company head Amos Epstein said at the dedication ceremony,
"Israel is one of the world's leading countries in water recovery, and has not
yet reached its full potential in this area." The Knesset established a
parliamentary investigative committee today, headed by Likud MK David
Magen, to investigate why the water crisis began and what can be done to
solve it.
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, June 26, 2001 / Tammuz 5, 5761
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 20:16:32 -0400
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Israel says Hebron clampdown will stay in place
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: AFP
Tue Jun 26,2001 -- Israel said Tuesday it would keep in place a total
clampdown on the West Bank town of Hebron after a day of shootouts, as
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon prepares for a White House visit to press for an
end to Palestinian violence. "The government of Israel will not negotiate under
fire," Sharon said in the United States Monday on the eve of talks with US
President George W. Bush to hold together a fragile ceasefire that has failed
to stop the bloodshed.
Riots erupt in Macedonia; region on brink of civil war
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: MSNBC/WorldNetDaily
Tue Jun 26,2001 -- Fresh fighting broke out in Macedonia on Tuesday,
aftershocks from rioting the day before that was touched off after American
troops helped NATO evacuate armed ethnic Albanian rebels from a besieged
town. The new clashes ended a brief cease-fire negotiated by the European
Union and left diplomats scrambling to avert a civil war in the tense Balkan
nation.
China deploys warships near Philippines
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Washington Times
Tue Jun 26,2001 -- Chinese military forces are stepping up naval activity at
disputed islands in the South China Sea near the Philippines with the
deployment of more than a dozen warships over the past several weeks. The
warships are raising tensions with the Manila government because they
contradict assurances provided by Beijing that its military would keep its
naval vessels away from the area, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
According to classified intelligence reports sent to officials last week, some
12 Chinese ships which included Luhu-class destroyers, were spotted in the
Spratly island chain in the South China Sea.
Pentagon says betting on lasers
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: ABC Raw News/Reuters
Tue Jun 26,2001 -- The Defense Department said on Tuesday it was pouring
research dollars into high-energy lasers, microwave systems and a host of
other advanced gizmos designed to win 21st-century wars more quickly and
decisively than ever. Development of such things as unmanned systems for
land, air, space, sea and underwater was to counter the spread of
"asymmetric" threats to U.S. forces in the past decade, Pentagon officials
told Congress.
Among these they cited ballistic missiles, possibly tipped with nuclear,
chemical or biological weapons; keyboard-launched "information operations,"
for instance against U.S. military satellites, and "terrorism."
Mubarak: More U.S. action needed to curb violence
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: AP/Ha'aretz
Tue Jun 26,2001 -- A "worldwide theater of terrorism" will unfold if the United
States does not do more to bring peace to the Middle East, Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak told reporters Tuesday. Mubarak made his
remarks ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's Mideast visit, which
starts in Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria on Wednesday. "There
must be an active American presence to take the peace process to safety,
otherwise all of us will be affected," Mubarak said.
He said U.S. interests will also be affected if Washington did not help find a
solution to "the operations of violence which might turn into terrorism." "It is
not a matter of pressuring the Palestinians" to stop, the Egyptian leader
said, adding "...the Israeli side should not be an oppressor and ask for the
impossible."
Russia says will block US-British plan on Iraq
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Reuters/Ha'aretz
Tue Jun 26,2001 -- Russia has told its key counterparts on the UN Security
Council it would reject a U.S.-British resolution to revamp sanctions on Iraq if
the measure were put to a vote, diplomats said. Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov,
in a weekend letter, to the United States, and also presumably to Britain,
France and China also, said: "We cannot allow it to pass," the envoys said.
Ivanov stopped short of using the word "veto" but council diplomats said late
on Monday it was clear Moscow was threatening to kill the measure. Russia,
the United States, Britain, France and China are permanent members of the
15-nation Security Council with veto power.
Sharon staff: Ben-Eliezer's statements went too far
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Jerusalem Post
Tue Jun 26,2001 -- Officials close to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer's statements today regarding the
imminent evacuation of 15 mobile home outposts in the territories was over
the top. Senior government officials said that Ben-Eliezer's statements do
not advance Israel's strategic or tactical interests. The future of the
settlements should only be discussed with the Palestinians in the framework
of the Mitchell committee report, the officials said.
EU conference fights for religious freedom
Weekend News Today
Lead: Weekend Staff
Source: BBC
Tue Jun 26,2001 -- Representatives from more than 40 European countries
are attending a seminar in The Hague to try to ensure that laws on religious
freedom are applied across the continent in line with international standards.
The meeting, organised jointly by the Netherlands Government and the
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, aims to co-ordinate
the fight against religious extremism and seek guarantees on the right of
worship. Delegates are particularly concerned about the treatment of
religious groups which emerged after the collapse of communism in Central
and Eastern Europe.
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 20:21:57 -0400
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Is your TV set watching you? Consumer group says technologies that track
viewing habits are new threat to personal privacy By Jane Weaver MSNBC
June 25 — Are you watching your television set or is it watching you? The
same technologies that are threatening privacy on the Internet — including
consumer data collection, profiling and targeted advertising — are now being
adopted by the U.S. television industry, according to a report released
Tuesday.
TELEVISION IS UNDERGOING a major transformation. With the growing
penetration of powerful TV set-top boxes, media companies,
telecommunications and software firms are designing technologies that will
collect individual profiles based on viewing habits, age, income,
psychographic and other demographic data to be used by advertisers and
marketers, according to the report, “TV that Watches You: The Prying Eyes
of Interactive Television,” from the Center for Digital Democracy. In the report,
the Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group finds that digital TV technology
is being developed that will track “every show watched, ever ad viewed” for
the purpose of sending a personally targeted marketing message to people´s
homes. “To advertisers, the development of a technology that combines the
Web´s interactivity with television´s element of dedicated spectatorship is a
dream come true for they will now have access to a new breed of couch
potato, one that both enjoys the warm glow of the tube and craves the
personal touch of the Internet,” the report finds. NEW PRIVACY THREAT
Advertisement
The idea that TV commercials will be targeted to a household´s viewing
habits or personal interests by essentially using the boob tube version of
“cookies,” is disturbing to the Center for Digital Democracy. “We believe that
ITV data-collection practices represent a new threat to personal privacy in
America,” the report states. For advertisers, the idea of one-to-one marketing
is “the mecca,” says Mitch Oscar, senior vice president of media futures at
Universal McCann. “It ties into the next level of return on investment.”
INTERACTIVE GROWTH While there are approximately 101 million U.S. TV
households, only about 4 to 6 millions home are expected to have some kind
of interactive functionality, through services like Wink or Worldgate
Communications, by the end of the year, according to market research firm
the Carmel Group.
However, analysts anticipate rapid expansion. Carmel projects 61.5 million
interactive TV cable and satellite users by 2006. Forrester Research
estimates more than $11 billion in interactive advertising revenues by 2005.
Rollouts of personally targeted, or “addressable advertising,” are beginning. In
the fall AT&T, the largest cable operator in the U.S., plans to test its
“SpotOn” service on 30,000 digital cable customers in Aurora, Colo.
Predictive Networks recently announced a partnership with OpenTV, an
interactive TV company available in 1 million U.S. homes, to begin beaming
individually targeted, but static ads to satellite customers later this year.
Companies which are developing TV data-collection technologies include
Microsoft, AT&T, Liberty Media, Procter & Gamble and Scientific-Atlanta, the
report states. [MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture]
LIMITS ON DATA Under the 1984 Cable Communications Policy Act, cable
operators must disclose once a year what type of personally identifiable
information they collect about subscribers and they must get approval before
sharing it with third parties. The report calls on federal regulators to update
the Cable Act as well as investigate interactive TV practices. In addition,
cable boxes and other interactive devices to be “designed from the outset to
promote privacy” with limits on how much information they can collect and to
assure anonymity. Advertising executives acknowledge the importance of
maintaining anonymity at the same time providing people a better guide to
TV programming when there are hundreds of channels to choose from. “This
is uncharted territory,” says Tim Hanlon, director of emerging markets at
Starcom MediaVest Group, the media services holding company of ad
agency Bcom3. “People need to know when they click on a remote control
or click for more information, where that information is going.” There are
positives to personalization, Hanlon asserts. “Most people would be
genuinely interested in a more personal TV experience if it meant less
commercials or more targeting to me as an individual or programming that is
more interesting to me.”
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:30:31 -0400
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: T H E M O R R O C K N E W S D I G E S T
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: WEDNESDAY :: JUNE 27, 2001 :: EMAIL EDITION
:
: *****************************************************
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:
: CONGRESSIONAL REPS PROBE
: FRAUD IN ONLINE AUCTIONS
:
: Two members of the U.S. Congress told Yahoo, eBay
: and Amazon.com Tuesday to hand over data about fraud
: in online auctions.
:
: Reps. Billy Tauzin and Heather Wilson, both
: Republicans, said there are "copious statistics"
: about Internet auction fraud, but "little analysis of
: the practices that facilitate that fraud."
:
: In a letter to the three major online-auction
: companies, the two asked them to describe what kinds
: of fraud their customers have experienced, how the
: companies deal with fraud, and whether some sample
: online auctions showed evidence of being
: "inappropriate or fraudulent."
:
: The letter expressed particular interest in false
: bidding or shilling, by which persons using multiple
: fake identities bid up the price of an item at an
: online auction, according to the Reuters news service.
:
: Tauzin is scheduled to meet Wednesday with Meg
: Whitman, CEO of eBay, to discuss the auction-fraud
: problem. Broader Congressional involvement could
: follow.
:
: . . . . WORLDWIDE NEWS . . . .
:
: * THOUSANDS RIOT IN MACEDONIA: Thousands of Slavs
: took to the streets in Skopje, the capital of
: Macedonia, on Monday to protest a NATO-sponsored peace
: agreement that protesters said was too soft on ethnic
: Albanian rebels. Though some in the crowd fired guns,
: no injuries were immediately reported.
:
: * COPS BEAT U.S. FOTOG AT BEIJING CONCERT: The U.S.
: government has filed a protest with China over the
: beating by police of a U.S. photographer while taking
: photographs at a Three Tenors concert in Beijing's
: Forbidden City. Stephen Shaver, working for the Agence
: France-Presse, was knocked down, dragged along the
: ground, and hit in the head and chest after taking a
: photo of a protester, the AFP said. The concert was
: meant to promote Beijing's desire to host the 2008
: Olympics, and media spokesmen said the beating raises
: serious questions about the safety and freedom of
: reporters who would cover the events.
:
: . . . . STATESIDE NEWS . . . .
:
: * ANOTHER CUT IN INTEREST RATES LIKELY: The Federal
: Reserve Board is seen as almost certain to cut
: short-term interest rates Wednesday by either a
: quarter or half a percentage point. The new cut will
: be the latest in a series of rate reductions that
: began at the beginning of the year -- the steepest and
: most frequent cuts in two decades. Even so, analysts
: say the cuts have yet to perk up the U.S. economy.
: Some hope that the Bush administration's income tax
: rebates to be sent out to taxpayers beginning in July
: will boost spending and fuel growth.
:
: * PUBLISHERS CLEARING HOUSE PAYS UP: Publishers
: Clearing House, the magazine-selling company that
: sponsors free sweepstakes, has agreed to pay 26 states
: a total of $34 million to settle claims that its
: sweepstakes were deceptive, the company announced
: Tuesday. Last year the company paid the 24 other
: states and Washington, D.C., $18 million. . . . The
: company has formally agreed not to mislead customers
: into believing that subscribing to magazines would
: increase their chances of winning the sweepstakes.
:
: * IN N.Y.? DON'T DRIVE AND CALL: New York's
: legislature has approved the first state law
: forbidding the use of hand-held cell phones while
: driving. Gov. George Pataki has already said he'll
: sign the law, approved in the capital on Monday.
: Drivers can use cell phones equipped with headsets or
: speakers that don't require the device to be held in a
: hand.
:
: -- TODAY'S NEWS by The Morrock News Service staff
:
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