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May, 2001
1. ARAFAT DEMANDS FULL ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM YESHA, RIGHT OF RETURN
2. GEOGRAPHICAL GROWTH WANTED
3. ARABS "CELEBRATE" CATASTROPHE DAY
4. IDF SUCCESS, GILO TRAVESTY
5. PALESTINIAN TELEVISION: "THE SWEET FRAGRANCE OF MARTYRDOM"
6. WHAT NUMBER COLUMN IS THAT?
7. JERUSALEM PROTEST AGAINST CNN
8. STANDING UP FOR LAND OF ISRAEL
9. BAT YAM SUPPORTS HEVRON!
10. IN SHORT
Arafat calls urgent meeting of Islamic countries
British & US Farm Leaders Claim Terrorists May Have Planted FMD Plague
Scores Killed in Bangladesh Storms
Sandstorms Shroud Mediterranean Cities
Huge hail pounds Nebraska, Iowa
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Subject: Re: [bprlist] illusion
From: ruby
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 03:29:05 -0400
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Hi Tracy
I got some free time again.
You said: "Fighting evil does not give one the excuse to act evil." I
AGREE.
However, during a time of war, I just don't think that it is evil to
execute an evil oppressive leader or at least arrest him. I am not in
favor of the destruction of Iraq or its people, only cruel tyranny: But
it "seems" that the world, headed by the U.S., missed an excellent
opportunity to make life really better for the people of Iraq.
I think that the U.N. and the U.S. and the Arab nations could have worked
together to help Iraq establish a government that does not reign by
terror, if they had REALLY wanted that kind of government there.
But I just don't see how that can happen with Mr. Hussein in power.
I don't think that I have ever prayed for Mr. Hussein, but in I will pray
for him this day, as an act of obedience. May Mr. Hussein do good, as
one of God's ministers, and may he know the precious love of Jesus
Christ, our only hope and our only peace.
1Ti 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
1Ti 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a
quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
1Ti 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
1Ti 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge
of the truth.
1Ti 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the
man Christ Jesus;
God Bless you
R.R.
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Subject: Re: [bprlist] illusion
From: tracy
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 20:40:20 -0400
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I wish more could be done as well. Maybe you hit the nail on the head.
Pray for those who are misguided. Maybe someday man will change.
Thanks for the blessing. I pray a blessing is returned to you.
Tracy
ruby wrote:
>
> Hi Tracy
> I got some free time again.
>
> You said: "Fighting evil does not give one the excuse to act evil." I
> AGREE.
>
> However, during a time of war, I just don't think that it is evil to
> execute an evil oppressive leader or at least arrest him. I am not in
> favor of the destruction of Iraq or its people, only cruel tyranny: But
> it "seems" that the world, headed by the U.S., missed an excellent
> opportunity to make life really better for the people of Iraq.
>
> I think that the U.N. and the U.S. and the Arab nations could have worked
> together to help Iraq establish a government that does not reign by
> terror, if they had REALLY wanted that kind of government there.
>
> But I just don't see how that can happen with Mr. Hussein in power.
>
> I don't think that I have ever prayed for Mr. Hussein, but in I will pray
> for him this day, as an act of obedience. May Mr. Hussein do good, as
> one of God's ministers, and may he know the precious love of Jesus
> Christ, our only hope and our only peace.
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Subject: [bprlist] Kurtzer endorsed by Israel as US envoy
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:11:44 -0400
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Kurtzer endorsed by Israel as US envoy
By Janine Zacharia The Jerusalem Post 15 May 2001
WASHINGTON: Israel has formally endorsed Washington's selection of
career diplomat Daniel Kurtzer to be jits next ambassador to Israel, clearing
the way for a formal announcement by the White House as early as next
week and a Senate confirmation hearing soon after, a senior US
administration official said yesterday.
"We have Israeli agreement," the official said.
As part of diplomatic protocol, the US routinely seeks approval of a chosen
envoy from the country where he or she will be posted.
The official said Israel responded a few days ago to a formal US document
asking for its endorsement of Kurtzer, who currently serves as ambassador to
Egypt. He will be the first Orthodox Jew to hold the post and is expected to
replace the current ambassador, Martin Indyk, by July.
A career diplomat with dovish views regarding the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, Kurtzer served as a key member of the US peace-process team for
more than a decade.
In 1997, he sought the Tel Aviv posting, but was instead directed by
then-president Bill Clinton to Cairo, where he developed good working
relations with Egyptian officials, but was at times mocked in the Egyptian
press for his religious beliefs.
Throughout his career, Kurtzer - who is widely admired by State Department
bureaucrats, particularly in the Bureau of Near East Affairs - has specialized
in the Middle East and has held a variety of diplomatic jobs in both
Democratic and Republican administrations. He was an early proponent of
US dialogue with the PLO and has been a consistent supporter of close US-
Egypt ties.
The Jerusalem Post first reported in March that the US was planning on
appointing Kurtzer. The report led to a campaign by Morton Klein, president
of the right-wing Zionist Organization of America, to try to torpedo the
nomination.
Left-leaning groups, like Americans for Peace Now, and religious
organizations, like the Reform movement's Union of American Hebrew
Congregations and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, threw
their weight behind Kurtzer's candidacy.
Kurtzer's appointment will bring the administration one step closer to
rounding out its Middle East diplomatic team. Also expected to be
announced soon is the appointment of Edward W. Gnehm, Jr., currently US
ambassador to Australia, as ambassador to Jordan, according to diplomatic
sources here.
Gnehm served as deputy chief of mission in Amman in the mid-1980s, as
ambassador to Kuwait in the early 1990s, and has also served in Syria,
Yemen, and Saudi Arabia.
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Subject: [bprlist] European Union Sponsors Monitoring of Settlement Activity and Publicizing Findings Around the World
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:12:51 -0400
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European Union Sponsors Monitoring of Settlement Activity and Publicizing
Findings Around the World
[Source: Website of Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem
http://www.arij.org/~arij/paleye/eu/index.htm]
Monitoring Israeli Colonizing activities in the Palestinian West Bank and
Gaza is a joint project between the Applied Research Institute in Jerusalem
(ARIJ) and the Land Research Center (LRC). The project, funded by the
European Union, aims at inspecting and scrutinizing Israeli colonizing
activities in their different forms in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza,
and to disseminate the related information to policy makers in the European
countries and to the general public. Specifically, the project will be
providing accurate updates on the expansion of existing Israeli colonies,
associated by-pass roads and land confiscation. It will also provide
detailed baseline data related to specific sites where new Israeli
colonizing activities are planned or initiated. Methods used to collect data
and monitor the colonizing activities will include remote sensing satellite
images, field work, aerial photographs, colonies' masterplans, and
topographic maps.
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Subject: [bprlist] Analysis: Arafat slips away for Nakba
From: "research-bpr" <RESEARCH-BPR@PHILOLOGOS.ORG>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:17:07 -0400
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Tuesday, May 15, 2001
Analysis
Analysis: Arafat slips away for Nakba
By Amir Oren
Today is Nakba Day and Yasser Arafat won't be in his office in Gaza. Nor will
he be in Ramallah - in fact, he won't even be in the Palestinian Authority.
This is Arafat's SOP - standard operating procedure - for high-tension days,
the IDF says.
He prefers to be out of touch, overseas, far from the PA and Israel. Then he
can claim he wasn't responsible for what happened. Anyone who tries to
reach him, maybe in hope of him taking action if there's violence, won't be
able to find him on yet another day expected to be another marker in the
months of Intifada.
Today indeed is expected to be another battle day, maybe one of several this
week if the Palestinians try to reinvigorate the conflict, now running seven-
and-a-half months since last October. Nakba Day is practically their last
chance for an offensive on the international media and diplomatic stage,
before the world starts to succumb to summer vacation doldrums.
That's why IDF forces on alert today have been instructed that the effort
today and tomorrow isn't about this or that single position to be held against
all odds. It's about consciousness - Palestinian, Arab, media, world, Israeli.
IDF activities today therefore start with an emphasis on maximum restraint
against provocations.
From the IDF's point of view, Nakba began yesterday with a wave of
Palestinian attacks on settlements, roads, army camps and Israeli forces.
Today, the Palestinians are expected to initiate friction with the IDF at all the
main flash points - Ayosh Junction, Hebron, Rachel's Tomb, Netzarim
junction, Beit Lahiya, and other outposts in Gaza. These are areas where it's
expected the IDF won't allow itself to give ground under pressure from
demonstrators or gunmen, and respond with fire, causing casualties. The
format is expected to be similar to the first days of the Intifada in October
2000 - mass demonstrations combined with shooting. The IDF's instructions
are to use crowd control mechanisms, but if soldiers' lives are in danger, the
restraint will give way.
The IDF believes Palestinians are serious about involving children in the
demonstrations, in the hope of documenting Israeli soldiers inflicting
casualties on them. That fear, and IDF concern of a Palestinian bloodbath
made the general staff and the regional commands issue strict instructions
for maximum restraint and caution.
At expected major friction points, forces will be beefed up, on the
assumption that a small force would more easily regard itself as in danger
and open indiscriminate fire. Leave scheduled for today has been canceled.
Brigade commanders, who run the daily fighting in the various sectors will be
on alert to be on hand in case of any crisis, and will take command from
junior officers in those cases.
Last night, after a briefing from Central Command Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Eitan,
senior officers set about leading some initiated night maneuvers against
specific targets in the West Bank. The Border Patrol action in Betunya,
where five officers of the Palestinian National Security forces were gunned
down, was not considered a primary activity. The IDF refused yesterday to
express regret over the incident.
The dead men, the army said, were shot because they were armed at a
checkpoint that had been used by armed Palestinians to shoot at Israelis. If
they did the shooting or let someone else do it, doesn't matter. A much more
important action, in the eyes of the command's senior officers, was at
Shueika, in the Tul Karm area, where specific Palestinian positions that
threatened Israeli targets, were destroyed.
Alongside the activity in the territories, the defense establishment is worried
that the Hamas, Islamic Jihad and perhaps Tanzim-Fatah and the PA's
security forces may make efforts this week to conduct a wave of bombings
inside Israeli cities. The Palestinian security forces are still being careful not
to mount organized military campaigns against the settlements.
The IDF expects that that restraint will continue at the current pace of the
conflict, in which the casualty figures are high, but steady at the same level,
and not escalating.
At the next stage, which could come as soon as Arafat realizes that the
current level of Palestinian activity is not achieving the results he wants,
more mobile Palestinian operations can be expected, using the armored
carriers the Oslo accords allowed the PA to bring into their territories.
They had 40 such BRDM vehicles when Oslo began. In recent weeks, the
IDF has targeted the vehicles, and now there are only half that number in
serviceable condition.
http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=14&datee=5/15/01&i
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Subject: [bprlist] Seven cops indicted for brutal beating of Ramallah lynch suspect
From: "research-bpr" <RESEARCH-BPR@PHILOLOGOS.ORG>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:21:44 -0400
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Tuesday, May 15, 2001
Seven cops indicted for brutal beating of Ramallah lynch suspect
Ha'aretz Correspondent
Seven Jerusalem policemen, including one officer, were indicted yesterday in
Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for beating a man taken in by the army as a
suspect in the Ramallah lynch-mob murders of two reservists last fall in the
early days of the current round of violence between Israel and the
Palestinians.
The seven - Sergeants Nahum Levy, Yuval Menashe, Sisei Abre, Yosef Jano,
Pinhas Kreif and Yigal Mizrahi and Inspector Arik Yedid - were in the
Russian Compound police lockup when army troops brought in Asi Ben
Abas Tabeth, suspected to be the Palestinian who waved his bloodied hands
in front of the Ramallah crowd as a sign that the reservists had been
murdered. The lynch was seen by millions of television viewers around the
world and was shown on Israeli television many times during that week.
Levy and Menashe ordered the prisoner to strip naked, and then the seven
proceeded to pummel him all over his body, the indictment says. Kreif then
poured a bucket of water over the prisoner, to wipe away the traces of blood.
Kreif is charged with assault while the rest are charged with aggravated
assault. If convicted, they face expulsion from the force and prison
sentences.
The Justice Ministry's Police Investigations Unit undertook the inquiry after
other police, witnesses to the event, reported the incident to their superiors.
The inquiry took months and was embarrassing to the police command in
Jerusalem.
Yedid is also facing charges of harassing and threatening witnesses, based
on him threatening patrolman Yihia Sasson, a Beit Shemesh policeman who
was in the lockup that day, and who said at the time that he would "tell the
truth" when asked about what happened. The next day, Yedid announced to
a crowded policeman's lounge that "informants have no hope and that should
be enough to understand."
The indicted police say they beat the prisoner - who turned out not to have
been, as they believed, one of the lynch ringleaders - because they thought
he was the one filmed after the lynch with blood on his hands.
http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=14&datee=5/15/01&i
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Subject: [bprlist] Jordan hosts Holocaust revisionists' seminar
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:35:09 -0400
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Jordan hosts Holocaust revisionists' seminar
JORDAN TIMES 15 May '01:"JWA pulls off revisionist historian conference"
By Hada Sarhan
QUOTES FROM TEXT:
" `The new shape of Nazism is Zionism.' "
" `would have been impossible to burn six million people in the gass
chambers.' "
"Hijazi criticised 14 Arab intellectuals who signed a leaflet asking the
Lebanese government to cancel a similar conference"
" `revisionist historians applied science to prove that gas chambers were not
used to `exterminate Jews systematically' "
" `hundreds of thousands of Jews died along with 45 million who perished in
that war' "
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EXCERPTS:
AMMAN - After two postponements, a controversial seminar on the
Holocaust by the Jordanian Writers Association (JWA) was finally held at the
JWA's headquarters in Jabal Luweibdeh.
The `What happened to the Revisionist Historians conference in Beirut'
seminar had been postponed twice; once in April due to concerns that the
event would embarrass His Majesty King Abdullah during his meeting with
US officials in Washington, officials said, and again earlier this month.
{IMRA: Jordan is a logical site for the seminar. Its school textbooks
and reference books are vividly anti-Semitic, oppose Israel's existence and
are in the tradition of the `Protocols of the Elders of Zion'. Jordanian lawyers
will not serve Israeli clients and anti-normalization has been a dominant
force in Jordanian business and culture for years.}
The seminar drew an audience of about 200.
Hayat Atiyah, a Lebanese journalist specialised in European historical
revisionism drew parallels between Zionism and Nazism. She said: "The new
shape of Nazism is Zionism."
Atiyah explained that historical revisionism is not an ideology, but a position,
supported by facts and meticulous analyses, on a specific historical event -
the Holocaust. . . . Atiyah clarified that in the 1980s experts carried out
scientific examinations of the gas chambers where Nazis executed Jews
during the World War II and found that it "would have been impossible to burn
six million people in the gas chambers.
{IMRA: It was never claimed 6 million were killed in gas chambers. There is
an abundant photographic rfecord of hangings, shootings and burnings.}
Arafat Hijazi, Jordanian journalist, said Jews had exaggerated the number of
their people killed and how perished.
"[Jews] killed were not more than three million and the number of available
gas chambers could not burn more than half-a-million bodies," said Hijazi.
Hijazi criticised 14 Arab intellectuals who signed a leaflet asking the
Lebanese government to cancel a similar conference scheduled to take
place in Beirut that was cancelled by the government there.
These intellectuals, added Hijazi, claimed that the revisionist research "has
nothing to do with the Palestinian cause."
Among the 14 intellectuals are Palestinian nationalists poet Mahmoud
Darwish and Lebanese Selah Statiya in addition to the Lebanese novelist
Elias Khouri who is well-known for his writing on Palestinian refugee camps.
Hijazi clarified that former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, one of
Israel's founding fathers, had used the Holocaust to justify the creation of the
"Zionist entity."
{IMRA: Ben Gurion worked for the establishment of Israel long before the
Holocaust.}
Ibrahim Aloush, a JWA member, focused his discussions on remarks by one
of the foremost revisionist historians, Robert Faurisson.
Aloush said revisionist historians applied science to prove that gas chambers
were not used to "exterminate Jews systematically." Crematoria, on the
other hand, were used to "dispose of the corpses of people from different
nationalities [after their deaths] to circumvent plagues."
Aloush stressed that revisionists do not deny that Jews died in World War II.
"[Revisionists] do say, however, that hundreds of thousands of Jews died
along with the 45 million who perished in that war," said Aloush.
Zionists, he added, have succeeded in presenting themselves to Western
public opinion as a people who were so victimised in the Holocaust, they
practically deserved a free licence from the West to do anything to anybody
at anytime with impunity.
The "myths of the Holocaust" are extremely important for the Zionist
movement, he said, explaining that Jews' "claim" that they were
systematically exterminated in the war justified the need for their own safe
haven in Israel. This "myth" basically provides a justification for the rape of
Palestine," he said.
"In human history, the argument of the uniqueness of Jewish deaths,
provides a justification for Israel and the Zionist movement to violate every
ethical and legal code in the book, and to persecute opponents, like the
revisionist historians and the Arabs, without any reprimand, even with
sympathy, from the West," said Aloush.
Dr. Joseph Lerner, Co-Director IMRA
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Subject: [bprlist] President Arafat on the 53rd anniversary of Alnakba
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:00:47 -0400
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President Arafat on the 53rd anniversary of Alnakba;Peace will not be
achieved while the Palestinian refugees are denied their right of return
http://www.wafa.pna.net/EngText/15-05-2001/page001.htm
Gaza 15th May 2001 Wafa- (Official Palestine News Agency) President
Yasser
Arafat said today in a televised speech broadcasted by all Palestinian
medias on the 53rd anniversary of Alnakba that the Israeli military force
escalation and the cruel siege imposed on the Palestinian lands will not
achieve peace and security and will eventually lead to a disaster in the
region.
H.E added that the Israeli blind use of force will not stand in the face of
justice and the attempts to change history by missiles, aircrafts, tanks and
shells in addition to other escalations will not succeed.
H.E. wondered whether the world will keep acting the diff, ignoring the
Palestinian bloodshed committed by the Israeli occupation and settlers and
added that the time has come for the world to wake up from its deep sleep
and say enough to the murderers and the occupiers.
The President added that the Palestinians kept trying time after time to
achieve peace but Israel protected by the main force of the international
community, armed with its double standards kept destroying the peace
process
time after time throwing aside all international agreements.
H.E. said that there will be no peace or stability as long as the
Palestinian refugees are denied their sacred right of return to their
homeland.
He explained that the Egyptian-Jordanian initiative and the Mitchell report
and the UN resolutions 242, 338 and 194, and the signed agreements, are
the
only way for reaching comprehensive, just and long lasting peace.
The President concluded by calling upon the international community to help
stop the Israeli military escalation against the Palestinian people, and
provide them with international protection.
Hereby is the full text of the President's speech:
"On this day, commemorating the day of the "Naqba" may 15, 1948, our
people,
the courageous people, its men, women and children, that declared to the
world with its holy blood and the words of truth and justice and the word of
history that our people, the Palestinian people has been exposed to misery
unlike any other in history and that this great people, which has displaced
by a greater conspiracy, whose homeland has been raped by weapons and
aggression, has not and will not accept this dark future drawn for it by
this greater conspiracy which threatens the people themselves, their holy
sites, their lives and their future.
"53 years of continuous suffering and pain and living outside of their
country, our people still stand firm against this conspiracy with a strong
will that cannot be shaken, will not kneel down, will not surrender. 53
years of continued sacrifice, we gave all this, waiting for the world to
wake from its long sleep and to find the Palestinian truth that lights the
torch with the blood of martyrs for the homeland and freedom.
"Blind power will not be able to survive for so long in the face of what is
right and just and historically true and the attempts to counterfeit history
with rockets, shells, planes and tanks will not succeed, because we are the
rightful owners and a just cause like ours cannot be killed by tanks,
shells, poisonous gas, prohibited weapons and guided missiles, that have
killed innocent babies and civilians living under siege for more than 8
months, facing escalations at every level by every means.
"The time has come for the world to wake up, the time has come for the
international community to tell the aggressors to say stop to the military
escalations, stop the killing and destruction of the Palestinian people. the
Palestinian people will not be defeated, whatever the aggressors use. Held
in the arms of their mothers, they are hit with rockets and their holy blood
is shed while the world remains ignorant of the crimes committed against the
Palestinian people. How much longer will the world remain deaf while
Palestinian blood is spilt?
"Isn't it the right of the Palestinian people to live like any free nation?
We tried, in good faith, for to achieve the peace of the braves, for
peaceful normalization and to become good neighbors. But the executioners
continue with walk through puddles of our blood with their military
escalations and siege on our towns, and villages and refugee camps. This
comes at a time of double standard policy, of walking all over international
resolutions that we had accepted to put an end to this and bring about a
peace of the braves, to bring about a state for our people and to protect
their holy sites, Muslim and Christian.
"A just and comprehensive peace needs to put an end to the occupation and
settlements in our homeland, a fair peace can only come about when the
Palestinian people receive their rights, otherwise there will never be peace
in the region.
"Today, on Al Naqba day, I want to renew my declaration that the way to
achieve peace is as clear as the sun in the sky: a full Israeli withdrawal
of its army and its settlers, from all Palestinian land occupied since June
4, 1967, and for the implementation of resolution 194. Yes, this is the only
road to peace, the peace of the braves, the kind of peace that offers
security and stability, for our children and for their children. Blind
military might will not bring about peace, it will not bring our people to
its knees. We will continue in this way until the day we raise the
Palestinian flag over Jerusalem, over Jerusalem's mosques and Jerusalem's
churches.
"From here, from within the middle of the siege and the aggression, we
appeal to the Arab nations, to the Muslim nations, to the Christians all
over the world, to the International community, to protect our Christian and
Muslim holy sites. I call upon our friends in the UN, the United States, the
EU, Japan, China, Russia, to act immediately in order to stop this military
aggression, to offer international protection for our women, men and
children who all face aggression from the occupier by all kinds of weapons.
"Resolution 194 has to be implemented for there to be peace, for those
Palestinians who live expelled from their homes. Their's is a holy right,
and its the responsibility of the international community to secure this
right of the Palestinian refugees.
"And I say to the Palestinian people, who have endured the killing of
innocents, barbaric shelling, destruction of their homes and farms, the
bombing of their factories and the uprooting of trees, "faith, faith,
courage, courage", stand strong in the face of this increasing aggression
for the sake of freedom, and the freedom of our land and our holy places,
the land of the prophets and messengers, the land of our fathers."
"We tell the Israelis that military escalation and building settlements on
our land will not bring peace, but will bring a catastrophe for both
peoples. Let the Jordanian-Egyptian initiative, along with the agreements
signed, and the Mitchell report, the international resolutions, 242, 338,
194, be the basis to launch a comprehensive, just and lasting peace, and to
revive the peace process, to put it back on track again for the future of
the Palestinian and the Israeli peoples and all the world.
"And I say to you steadfast courageous people, that your sacrifices will not
be for nothing, that victory will come from God.
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Subject: [bprlist] EARTH OBSERVING SATELLITE TRACKS MOVEMENT OF DUST
From: "Patt A."
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:32:27 -0700 (PDT)
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EARTH OBSERVING SATELLITE TRACKS MOVEMENT OF DUST
CLOUDS
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Using instruments on board the Terra spacecraft,
researchers from
NASA have been keeping an eye on the movement of
dust across our
planet. They found that dust clouds generated in
China can actually
cross the Pacific Ocean to North America in such
quantities they
can play a significant role in air quality and
health.
Original Source:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2001/01-092.txt
David E. Steitz
Headquarters, Washington, DC May 15, 2001
(Phone: 202/358-1730)
Lynn Chandler
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone: 301/614-5562)
RELEASE: 01-92
DROUGHTS AGGRAVATED BY DUST IN THE WIND
Windblown desert dust can choke rain clouds, cutting
rainfall hundreds of miles away. This new discovery, made with
the help of NASA satellites, suggests that droughts over arid
regions, such as central Africa, are made worse by damaging
land and livestock management that expand the desert.
The findings, reported in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, present a new view of the decades-long
drought in the African Sahel, which has been accompanied by
increasing levels of airborne dust during the rainy season.
The higher dust frequency is not necessarily a result of the
decreased rainfall, but rather its cause, according to
scientists from Israel's Hebrew University and the Weizmann
Institute. "This impact of desert dust on rainfall was not
known before," says lead author Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew
University, Jerusalem. "Due to the large sizes of some of
these dust particles, it had been assumed that desert dust
would enhance precipitation rather than decrease it."
Scientists had expected that the largest dust particles would
form giant cloud condensation nuclei, which produce larger
cloud droplets that speed the formation of rain. "Our
laboratory analysis of the desert dust, however, showed that
the particles contained very little water-absorbing matter,"
says co-author Yinon Rudich of the Weizmann Institute,
Rehovot. "As a result, even large dust particles form
relatively small cloud droplets."
The research shows dust actually amplifies the process of
creating deserts. Activities that expose and disrupt topsoil,
such as grazing and agricultural cultivation, can increase the
amount of dust blown into the air. More dust reaching rain
clouds produces less rainfall, which exacerbates the drought
conditions and contributes to the desertification of the
landscape.
Dust and other types of aerosol particles blowing into clouds
act as nuclei where water vapor can condense to form cloud
droplets. If a lot of dust enters a cloud, the available water
is spread over many small droplets. These small droplets grow
more slowly through collisions with one another to the size of
a raindrop, and the cloud yields less rainfall over the course
of its lifetime.
What the researchers saw in two separate cases, using
different satellite observations, was that cloud droplets were
smaller as dust concentrations increased.
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft
captured images of clouds over the Atlantic Ocean off the
coast of northern Africa during a major March 2000 dust storm.
Droplet sizes steadily increased the farther the clouds were
from dust-filled air. Rain was falling only from the dust-free
clouds even though all the clouds contained equal amounts of
water.
The researchers also observed similar behavior in clouds over
the eastern Mediterranean Sea in March 1998, using data from
aircraft and a U.S. weather satellite.
TRMM is a joint U.S.-Japanese mission and part of NASA's Earth
Science Enterprise, a long-term research program designed to
study the Earth's land, oceans, air, ice and life as a total
system. Each day, the TRMM spacecraft observes the Earth's
equatorial and tropical regions, including the southernmost
United States and all of Africa.
Rosenfeld has used TRMM observations in two other recent
studies to show that aerosols from biomass-burning smoke and
urban air pollution also reduce rainfall. Combined with the
negative impact of desert dust, Rosenfeld believes the aerosol
rainfall-suppression effect can have a major impact on
regional and global climate.
"The recent observations of the impact on precipitation of all
kinds of aerosols, each with a major human contribution, show
a major climate change issue that has nothing to do with
greenhouse gases," says Rosenfeld. "Still, this is perhaps the
climate-change effect with the greatest socio-economic impact
on water-scarce areas."
Satellite images of the March 2000 Saharan dust storm and
other visuals related to this research are available on the
Internet at:
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/earth/dust/rainfall.htm
Internet Coverage:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/573401.asp
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/dust_storm_010514.html
Similar Stories:
http://www.universetoday.com/html/topics/environment.html
Related Sites:
http://www.universetoday.com/html/directory/earthobservation.html
Related Books:
http://www.universetoday.com/html/books/earthobservation.html
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:40:52 -0400
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Arutz Sheva News Service
<HTTP://WWW.ISRAELNATIONALNEWS.COM>
Tuesday, May 15, 2001 / Iyar 22, 5761
Keep Up-to-the-Minute! Arutz Sheva's <HTTP://NEWSFROMISRAEL.COM>
TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. ARAFAT DEMANDS FULL ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM YESHA,
RIGHT OF RETURN
2. GEOGRAPHICAL GROWTH WANTED
3. ARABS "CELEBRATE" CATASTROPHE DAY
4. IDF SUCCESS, GILO TRAVESTY
5. PALESTINIAN TELEVISION: "THE SWEET FRAGRANCE OF
MARTYRDOM"
6. WHAT NUMBER COLUMN IS THAT?
7. JERUSALEM PROTEST AGAINST CNN
8. STANDING UP FOR LAND OF ISRAEL
9. BAT YAM SUPPORTS HEVRON!
10. IN SHORT
1. ARAFAT DEMANDS FULL ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM YESHA,
RIGHT OF RETURN
As if the eight years of Oslo - in which Israel created and armed the
Palestinian Authority, then gave it 42% of Judea, Samaria and Gaza - had
never existed, PA Chairman Yasser Arafat demanded today that Israel
withdraw all its forces and residents from the entirety of Yesha as a
condition for peace. He further said that peace depends on the realization
of the "right" of return for all Arab refugees from 1948 and 1967.
"One might have expected his remarks to put a rest to all talk of
'cease-fire in exchange for settlement halt,' Arutz-7's Haggai Segal said
today, "but so far it has not." Foreign Ministry officials continue to
recommend accepting a total freeze on settlement construction, according to
Israel Radio reports today.
2. GEOGRAPHICAL GROWTH WANTED
The National Religious Party is threatening to submit a no-confidence
motion if the government decides to impose a settlement freeze in
Yesha. NRP head Rabbi Yitzchak Levy said today that he has heard rumors
that Prime Minister Sharon may adopt Foreign Minister Peres' plan not to
expand the existing settlements geographically, but instead to allow
"natural growth" only on existing areas. "This will show Arafat that his
violence has paid off," Rabbi Levy said, although he knows that his
no-confidence bill has no chance of attaining a Knesset majority. Israel
will release its official response to the Mitchell Report, in which the
settlement freeze is proposed, this evening.
Atty. Elyakim Ha'etzni, a veteran settlement leader from Kiryat Arba, warns
that the government may accept a near-total freeze of settlement
construction in Yesha, including a "geographical limitation" on "natural
growth." The implications, explains Ha'etzni, are that it will not be
possible to pave new roads, even in Israeli-controlled Area C such as
eastern Jerusalem, nor to expropriate land for sewage, water, electricity,
or other projects. In addition, the permitted "natural growth" would only
be vertical, "as in the ghettos of the Middle Ages." The Women in Green
organization notes that this would represent a "complete collapse of
Sharon's previous positions" - one that is not even called for by the Oslo
accords.
Ha'etzni, writing yesterday in Yediot Acharonot, negated the entire thesis
of "natural growth only." He wrote,
"The settlement enterprise is not an attempt by the settlers to solve
their housing problems. It is rather a direct attempt to expand the
territorial base of Jewish settlement in Yesha... The poor families from
Tekoa who lost their young sons last week did not arrive there in order to
solve their housing problems, but rather to stake a Jewish peg in the heart
of the Jewish people's national homeland. Many of them left fancy houses
and lived for years in caravans out of a sense of mission: to bodily take
part in the return of Israel to its Promised Land... The Prophet Amos,
from Nokdim-Tekoa, expressed their mission very well: 'I [G-d] will return
My people Israel, and they will rebuild desolate cities and will settle
them. They will plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof, and will
plant gardens and eat of their fruit. I will plant them on their Land, and
they will not again be uprooted from their Land that I have given them.'"
3. ARABS "CELEBRATE" CATASTROPHE DAY
Today was one of Palestinian disturbances, rioting, and attempted
overrunning of IDF positions throughout Yesha, in honor of the latest in a
series of "days of rage" declared by Arabs throughout Israel. The excuse
this time was the anniversary of Israel's becoming an independent state 53
years ago - the day that Arabs call "Catastrophe Day." A three-minute
siren was sounded in Arab locations throughout Yesha and pre-1967 Israel at
noon today.
Close to 200 Arabs were hurt, including 70 in Gaza and 25 at Ayosh
Junction, and four were reported killed in riots throughout Yesha. Dozens
of Palestinians rioted near three Jewish sites in Gaza: the Netzarim
Junction, near Kfar Darom, and near the N'vei Dekalim industrial zone. One
Arab attempted to grab a soldier's gun; after he was shot, IDF medics on
the scene proffered him medical treatment.
At the A-Ram junction, north of Jerusalem, dozens of Arabs attempted to set
off on a march to the capital. Police stopped them with tear gas; three
Arab MKs who were there to express their support of the demonstrators were
affected by the gas.
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Up-To-The-Minute News From Israel, New on Arutz Sheva's Homepage
http://IsraelNationalNews.com
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4. IDF SUCCESS, GILO TRAVESTY
Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports on a notable IDF success in Gaza this
morning: An IDF observation force, keeping watch on a Gaza area from
where
shells have lately been fired towards Kibbutz Kfar Aza, noticed a car
engaged in just such mortar-firing activity. In fact, a number of mortar
shells had been fired towards Kfar Aza and Kibbutz Nachal Oz, within
pre-1967 Israel, not long before. The soldiers relayed the information to
a nearby tank, which launched a shell at the car and killed two terrorists:
the bodyguard of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and another leading
Tanzim figure. At that point, the soldiers entered the PA-controlled area,
took the body of one of the dead terrorists for identification purposes, as
well as two mortar launchers that were in the destroyed car.
Palestinian shooting from Beit Jala towards Jerusalem's southeastern
neighborhood of Gilo was heavy yesterday and last night. Four women were
wounded, one of them moderately; 14 apartments were damaged. In a
departure from past tradition, the gunfire began while children were still
playing on the streets, forcing them to throw themselves on the ground and
crawl for protection. Four girls playing on a mountainside were rescued
one by one by Border Guard policemen. The IDF responded to the attack
with
tank and small-arms fire.
Two Israeli policemen were hurt - their wounds were described as "light" -
when their vehicle drove over a mine. Kol Rina News Agency reports that
the incident occurred near Adorayim, in the South Har Hevron region. Two
bombs thrown at IDF forces in Mt. Eval, and several bombs and grenades in
Hevron; no one was hurt.
Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that a car exploded this morning near the
Moslem cemetery in Gaza City, and several people are reported
injured. Speculation over whether it was another Arab "work accident," or
another Israeli retaliation, was rife.
5. PALESTINIAN TELEVISION: "THE SWEET FRAGRANCE OF
MARTYRDOM"
PMW Director Itamar Marcus reported in the last issue of Israel's weekly
Makor Rishon:
"Until recently, we have suspected that the PA was encouraging children
to
get killed - but a look at many clips that have been broadcast recently on
Palestinian television has now supplied concrete proof of it… A new clip
that was broadcast [last] week for the first time accompanies a Palestinian
boy on the day he plans to die. This is a nice-looking and smiling boy of
about 12 who says goodbye to his family and walks off happily,
self-confidently, and purposefully to his death. Before he leaves, he even
writes a parting letter to his family - but he does not give it to his
father, but rather transmits it via his friends. The message here probably
is not to inform one's parents, so that they will not put a stop to it…
"In the background, the singer sings, 'Don't be angry, my love, and don't
cry over my parting. Oh, my dear father, this martyrdom is on behalf of my
land! For my land I will sacrifice myself! … How sweet is martyrdom,
when I embrace you, my land! [Picture shows the boy falling on his chest]
... My beloved mother, more dear to me than anything [mother wailing], be
happy over my blood, and don't cry for me! Tell my brother [the boy kisses
his brother] that our souls are sacrificed for beloved Jerusalem! We don't
run after wars, but we are great at them…'"
Marcus reports that the boy conveys a feeling of serenity throughout the
clip: "The death itself is not cruel, and the boy shows no fear or
resistance, he does not cry, and even the way he falls is gentle, and he
hardly bleeds. His friends approach him, turn him on his face, and they
are serene…"
PMW also reports on the screening of clips of the "life after death" of
Muhammad al-Dura, the 12-year-old Arab who was killed in crossfire near the
Netzarim junction at the beginning of the current war. The boy has been
made into a Palestinian hero; some 400 songs have been written about him,
and the films of his death, which were internationally televised at the
time, are shown dozens of times a day on Palestinian
television. Information indicating that he was likely killed not by
Israeli bullets but by Palestinian fire has been largely ignored. A recent
clip on PA television shows him calling to other children, "I'm waving to
you, not to say goodbye, but to say, 'Come follow me.'" He is portrayed
after his death playing with a kite in a beautiful, green, tree-lined
field; on the beach; at an amusement park; on the Temple Mount; and in a
sunny field with water being sprinkled high - while sandwiched in-between
are scenes of blood and Israeli Army violence.
"In the background is the voice of a popular female singer, "How pleasant
is the fragrance of the earth, its thirst quenched by a gush of blood
flowing from a youthful body... How pleasant is the aroma of the
martyrs..." The clip ends with the flashing of a caption, "Produced by the
[Palestinian] Ministry of Information and Culture and the Palestinian
National Fund."
6. WHAT NUMBER COLUMN IS THAT?
Today's Knesset session was called to a grinding halt this afternoon after
Arab MK Ahmed Tibi called IDF Chief of Staff Mofaz a murderer. Speaking
from the podium, Tibi, Arafat's long-time advisor, said, "The Chief of
Staff is a fascist, a cold-blooded child murderer, and is responsible for
the murder of five citizens [the five PA para-military policemen killed in
an IDF attack] yesterday." Several MKs reacted with rage, and thus began
an exchange of curses between Jewish and Arab Knesset Members, which
barely
ended even when Acting Speaker Nechama Ronen had to call a break to the
proceedings. When the session resumed, Ronen asked Tibi to apologize for
his remarks, and when he refused, Knesset ushers removed him from the
podium. As Tibi left, he said, "You're not ashamed of yourselves? A
four-month-old baby gets hit by a shell, and you didn't even blink."
Minister Eli Suissa of Shas later reacted, "The Arab MKs should be
banished
to the Parliament in Gaza. Let's see if Arafat lets them talk that
way... It's inconceivable that a Knesset Member in Israel should stand for
a minute of silence in honor of Catastrophe Day. They have to decide if
they are Palestinians or Israelis."
The campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem saw an Arab student
demonstration this afternoon, organized by Islamic movements. Two Arab
MKs
participated; there was no violence, but the State of Israel and the Jewish
residents of Judea and Samaria were the targets of vehement curses. Likud
MK Gideon Ezra attempted to arrive on the scene, but had to be extricated
from the mob's aggression by security guards. A demonstration of Jewish
students was held at the same time; they held signs reading, "Arab
Students
are Israel's Fifth Column."
7. JERUSALEM PROTEST AGAINST CNN
An ad-hoc committee has called a protest outside the Jerusalem studios of
CNN - Jerusalem Capital Studios, 206 Jaffa Road, near the Central Bus
Station - tomorrow afternoon at 4:15 PM. The group will protest what it
calls "CNN's flawed coverage of the current Arab violence." A list of
grievances and demands to improve CNN's fair and factual presentation of
news stories will be presented. The group reports that although a meeting
between senior officials of CNN and the Israeli government was held last
December, resulting in CNN commitments to correct its unprofessional
collection and presentation of news from Israel and the Palestine
Authority, "little has changed and Israeli CNN watchers are becoming
increasingly outraged at the misrepresentations sent around the world."
8. STANDING UP FOR LAND OF ISRAEL
The Land of Israel Knesset lobby convened today for the first time since
the Sharon government came to power. Its chairman, MK Tzvi Hendel
(National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) explained that its main goal is to
provide a counter-balance to the left-wing pressures exerted on Sharon from
the left. "For instance," Hendel told Arutz-7 today, "the army's quick
withdrawal from Beit Hanoun in Gaza a few weeks ago was not brought
about
by American pressure; it was because of pressure from Shimon
Peres!" Hendel also said that several key PA buildings in Gaza were not
destroyed solely because of pressure from Yossi Beilin and others.
9. BAT YAM SUPPORTS HEVRON!
A solidarity tent for the Jewish Community of Hevron has been erected in
downtown Bat Yam. Organized by town councilman Uri Buskila, the tent
hosted a large rally last night in which the participants called upon the
government to guarantee the safety of the Jews in Hevron. A similar site
in Hevron itself has been running non-stop since the murder of
ten-month-old Shalhevet Pass several weeks ago. The residents there are
demanding that the Abu Sneineh hills, which overlook the Jewish community
and which have been the source of much gunfire upon the Jews below for
many
months, be taken over by the IDF.
10. IN SHORT
Hundreds of students, religious and secular, participated in a dynamic
Mishnah contest in the Neot Kedumim Nature Reserve today. The contest,
into its most advanced stage, involved a learning tour, with special
emphasis on plants, animals, and areas mentioned in the Mishnah...
Prime Minister Sharon visited Eilat today, and laid a cornerstone for a
new town to be established nearby in Be'er Orah...
What to do about Israel's image in the world as "Goliath" against a
Palestinian "David?" The Yesha Council is beginning a program that it
expects will "not solve the problem, but merely make a dent in it." The
Council will equip chosen Yesha residents with digital cameras, who will be
able to film Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis almost
as-they-happen, then send the results by e-mail. A Yesha Council editing
house will then send ready-to-run products to Israeli and international
media. Funds are being raised for the new equipment...
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Hebrew News Editor: Haggai Segal
English News Editor: Hillel Fendel
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Subject: [bprlist] IDF Spokesperson: Summary of Today's Events
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:49:11 -0400
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Gaza Strip (Update 18:00 15 May 2001)
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IDF Spokesperson: Summary of Today's Events in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip (Update 18:00 15 May 2001)
15 May 2001
West Bank
Two policemen were very lightly injured today when an explosive charge
detonated near the vehicle they were travelling in, south of the Tarkumya
crossing. Near the Migdalim community, northwest of Ma'ale Ephraim, a
Palestinian attempted to snatch a gun from a soldier. The soldier shot
towards the Palestinian's legs and he was treated on site by IDF forces.
During the day many shooting events and disturbances of peace were
recorded
throughout the West Bank - shooting towards IDF soldiers and buildings at
Ayosh Junction, against IDF force near Kalil village, south of Nablus, where
fifty Molotav cocktails were also thrown towards the force. Shots were fired
against an IDF post in Hebron, against Mahane Ofer south of Ramallah,
against an IDF roadblock near Betunia, and against IDF forces in El -
Khader. The forces returned fire in the events in which they identified the
sources of fire. In addition, four explosive charges were thrown against IDF
forces in the Shalalas in Hebron. Three of the explosive charges detonated.
On the ascent of Mount Eival two explosive charges were discovered this
morning. The explosive charges were disarmed by IDF force.
Two grenades were thrown against the IDF force at the Ayosh Junction.
Additionally, Molotov Cocktails were thrown at Israel vehicles at the Rama
junction north of Jerusalem.
During violent disturbances rocks and Molotov cocktails were thrown against
IDF forces stations in El - Khader, in the battalion triangle west of Tul
Karem, in Hares, northeast of Ariel, and the blockade in the southern
entrance to Jericho. IDF forces responded with riot-disbursal measures.
There were no IDF casualties in any of the incidents.
Gaza Strip
This morning, an IDF force that was on routine operational activity on the
perimeter fence, near Nahal Oz, identified mortar bomb fire against the Kfar
Aza community located inside Israeli territory. Soldiers of the force
identified the terrorist cell firing the mortar bombs from a Palestinian
vehicle from within Palestinian Authority territory.
When the soldiers identified the cell, an additional mortar bomb was fired.
The soldiers of the force responded by firing a tank shell towards the
vehicle. From the hit, two terrorists from the mortar cell were killed and
an additional terrorist was wounded.
Following the incident the IDF entered Palestinian Authority territory, and
removed the mortar bomb launcher and an additional bomb that was on site.
Likewise, the body of one of the terrorists was transferred to Israeli
territory for identification and investigation. With the completion of the
operation, the forces withdrew from the Palestinian Authority territory.
The body of the Palestinian terrorist was returned later to Palestinian
Authority representatives.
Violent disturbances took place today in a number of locations in the Gaza
Strip:
On the Karni-Netzarim route, at Neztarim Junction, and near the Erez
Crossing hundreds of Palestinians gathered and threw stones and Molotov
cocktails towards IDF forces.
In addition, dozens of Palestinians gathered today, near Kfar Darom and the
Industrial Area of Neveh Deklim, and threw stones and Molotov cocktails
against IDF soldiers.
Our forces responded with crowd-dispersal measures against the leaders of
the protests.
There were no IDF casualties in any of the incidents.
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Subject: [bprlist] Weekend News Today items (5/15/01)
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 18:54:39 -0400
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Arafat calls urgent meeting of Islamic countries
Weekend News Today
Lead: Kelly
Source: Toronto Star/AP
Tue May 15,2001 -- At the request of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat,
the Organization of Islamic Conference will hold an emergency meeting on
May 26 in Doha, the Qatari foreign minister said today. Sheik Hamad bin
Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani told reporters Arafat had asked Qatar, which
currently chairs the 56-member OIC, to organize the meeting of foreign
ministers in response to more than seven months of Israeli-Palestinian
violence. Meanwhile, Sheik Hamad said he had proposed to his Israeli
counterpart, Shimon Peres, during a meeting in Washington earlier this
month that Qatar host a meeting of Israeli and Palestinian negotiators to find
a solution to the violence.
Qatar has received no response from the Israelis, he said. In November, the
OIC invited its member states during a summit in Doha to break ties with
Israel and severe relations with countries that move their embassies to
Jerusalem. The summit also called for the establishment of a war crimes
tribunal for Israelis and demanded an international force be deployed to
protect the Palestinians.
British & US Farm Leaders Claim Terrorists May Have Planted FMD Plague
Weekend News Today
Lead: faith
Source: ABC News/Reuters
Tue May 15,2001 -- British and U.S. farm leaders claim "lunatic" eco-
terrorists may be behind recent devastating outbreaks of foot-and-mouth
disease in Britain and Europe. Most experts at an international farm
conference in the Australian capital Canberra believe foot-and-mouth disease
broke out in Britain from animal consumption of swill, possibly containing
contaminated meat scraps brought in by travelers. But some farm leaders in
the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) also believe
extreme animal rights activists may have planted Britain's foot-and-mouth
disease epidemic in an effort to bankrupt intensive farming. "I've never ruled
eco-terrorism out, that's obviously something you must think of," Ben Gill,
president of Britain's National Farmers Union, told Reuters.
U.S. farm leaders are also considering the possibility that bio-terrorists may
try to infiltrate the disease into U.S. farmlands. Though there is no physical
proof, Gill pointed to a coincidence of outbreaks of foot-and-mouth in Britain's
NE and swine fever in East Anglia within 6 months of each other. Both
diseases were Asian strains. While Gill does admit that unintentional spread
of the disease is more likely than the work of terrorists, he also says
intensive farming faces extreme threats.
Gill said police had warned him several times of death threats from radical
animal rights groups in Britain. "We've got plenty of lunatic groups in Britain,"
he said. "The logic would be, how can we destroy meat consumption?
Discredit it in the public's eyes by creating health scares. That would make
them (meat producers) unprofitable and make them go bankrupt," he said.
Dean Kleckner, immediate past president of the largest U.S. farm group, the
American Farm Bureau Federation, agreed that extremists could have
caused the sudden outbreaks of disease. Kleckner described agri-terrorism
as "a great threat."
"The U.S. is such a big country with unprotected borders all over, if
somebody really wanted to bring in a disease like foot-and-mouth, or
anything else, I think they could do it. I think it's just a matter of time before
we get it in the United States," said Kleckner. The possibility of eco-
terrorism was not subscribed to by Alejandro Delfino, head of Argentine farm
group Sociedad Rural Argentina. South America has had plenty of its own
trouble with foot-and-mouth outbreaks in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. But
Delfino said foot and mouth disease had been prevalent in Argentina for more
than 50 years. It could have spread by trade from Europe or Britain, he said.
The United States has not had an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease for 72
years. Australia has been foot-and-mouth disease free since 1872.
Scores Killed in Bangladesh Storms
Weekend News Today
Lead: faith
Source: Discovery News
Tue May 15,2001 -- At least 31 people in Bangladesh were killed in storms
and landslides that lashed the country last week as early monsoon rains hit.
Officials reported that 500 other people were injured. Although tropical
storms usually soak the region this time of year, the Bangladesh monsoon
season typically begins in June.
More than 3.5 inches (87 mm) of rain drenched the area of Teknaf, 240 miles
(400 km) from the capital city of Dhaka, damaging rice crops and salt beds
on the Bay of Bengal coast. Many victims died in their homes as they were
leveled by lightning storms. The storms, which continued for more than a
week, also toppled trees and brought down power and telephone lines
throughout northern and western Bangladesh.
Sandstorms Shroud Mediterranean Cities
Weekend News Today
Lead: faith
Source: Discovery News
Tue May 15,2001 -- Thick sandstorms hit a number of eastern Mediterranean
countries Sunday, disrupting air traffic and forcing Egyptian officials to move
a presidential summit from Cairo to the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The sand left Cairo heavily blanketed with red dust, seriously reducing
visibility and prompting airport authorities to delay and divert arriving flights.
The official MENA news agency reported that the violent winds temporarily
closed down 2 seaports in the northern city of Alexandria.
The storms also disrupted air traffic in Beirut and on the island of Cyprus,
where several people were treated for respiratory problems. Meteorologists
reported that the storms also hit Jerusalem, reducing visibility and triggering
a light rain followed by a sharp drop in temperature. The hot, dusty spring
winds, known as the khamaseen, blow in from the desert in April or May
every year. Khamaseen is the Arabic word for 50, which in popular lore is
how many days the winds are said to last.
Huge hail pounds Nebraska, Iowa
Weekend News Today
Lead: faith
Source: Weather.com
Tue May 15,2001 -- Hail left holes in this car in Omaha, Neb. Scores of cars
are out of commission in Nebraska and Iowa, after huge hail pounded the
area Sunday, punching holes in windshields and denting roofs and hoods.
The frozen precipitation measured up to 3 inches in Atlantic, Iowa.
Elsewhere, golf ball-sized hail pelted everything in its way. Hail reportedly
even damaged 13 commercial airplanes and Eppley Airfield, in Omaha, Neb.
Some, with wing and engine damage have been taken out of service until
they can be inspected. The large chunks of hail also stripped trees and tore
up roofs and siding. So far, no injuries have been reported.
http://216.219.160.226/cgi-
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Subject: [bprlist] Pope John Paul II´s precious legacy was trashed by Vatican policy and Syrian hate
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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 19:03:07 -0400
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Jewish World Review May 14, 2001 / 21 Iyar, 5761
Jonathan Tobin
Pope John Paul II´s precious
legacy was trashed by Vatican
policy and Syrian hate
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- IN
recent years, a fierce debate has been waged by
scholars and laymen alike about the alleged silence
of the Vatican and Pope Pius XII during the
Holocaust. Books and essays on this subject are
being written and published seemingly every month.
But when historians come to write about what the
Vatican said or did not say when a papal pilgrimage
was used to promote an astonishing message of
hatred and anti-Semitism, there need be no great
debate about what actually happened. Pope John
Paul II´s trip to Syria was seized upon by that
country´s dictator as an opportunity to spread the
worst kind of anti-Jewish libels to an international
audience.
With the pope beside him, Syrian President Bashar
Assad said that Muslims and Christians should join
together against the Jews, “who try to kill the
principles of all religions with the same mentality
which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way
they tried to betray the Prophet Mohammed.”
The pope said nothing to counter Assad´s vicious
attacks on the Jewish people and the State of
Israel.
The Vatican said nothing later in reply to Assad.
The European countries said nothing.
Nothing.
A HERO OF INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
The coming together of the 81-year-old pope with
the 35-year-old second-generation Syrian
strongman is more than a little ironic.
No other person in the post-World War II generation has done as much
to further good relations between Jews and Christians as John Paul II.
The personal impact of this man on the Catholic Church with regard to
improving its attitude toward Jews cannot be overestimated.
From the beginnings of his ministry in the ashes of war-ravaged Poland in
the 1940s until now, John Paul has been a unique voice of reason. His
statements acknowledging Judaism as a valid religion and not merely a
fossilized entity that served only to give the world Christianity has a
profound effect on the way Christians understand their faith and its
relationship with Judaism.
Without his tireless efforts, it´s unlikely that the Vatican would ever have
recognized the State of Israel and reconciled itself to a sovereign Jewish
nation in the Land of Israel.
His visits to a Rome synagogue and to Israel itself were inspirational and
historic events lending symbolic weight to the sea change in Catholic
thinking that he represents. If it is possible to adopt a Holocaust-era
phrase to a post-Shoah figure, then John Paul II is surely the most
righteous of gentiles.
And yet, there he stood at the Damascus airport, an old, sick man barely
able to read his prepared statement when Assad the younger cynically
used him as nothing more than a prop.
When Assad raised the ancient canard of
Christ-killer and threw in other invective aimed at
delegitimizing Israel and the rights of Jews to live in
peace and security, all the pope could muster was
a feeble call for peace. Assad went
uncontradicted, as did the mufti of Damascus, who
used a later meeting with the pope at the historic
Umayyad Mosque there to launch a similarly anti-Jewish tirade.
Just as bad was the Vatican´s decision to allow the Syrians to stage a
propaganda event along their border with the Israeli-controlled Golan
Heights. The pope journeyed to Kuneitra, a ruined city that saw terrible
fighting in both the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars, where he prayed in
the shell of a ruined church.
The significance of Kuneitra is that, contrary to the terms of the 1974
cease-fire accords with Israel, the Syrians have deliberately chosen not
to rebuild the town. In an architectural replay of the cynical way in which
Palestinian Arab refugees have been kept homeless so as to be an object
of sympathy and a tool in the war against Israel, so has Kuneitra been
kept in shards.
The result of the pope´s visit was an unprecedented propaganda triumph
for the Assad regime. The young Assad, an immature version of his
bloodthirsty paternal predecessor, was given both newfound legitimacy in
the eyes of his people, as well as a place on the front pages of
international newspapers.
It also gave Israel´s enemies aid and comfort as the Arabs were able to
parlay the pope´s visit into yet another opportunity to get their message
demonizing Israel across to a wide audience.
Now that the damage has been done, we can only wonder why this
happened and how seriously this will impact the growing ties between the
world Jewish community and the Catholic Church.
As to what lay behind both the trip to Syria and the pope´s silence, the
answers are not very hard to discern.
The church´s priority here was in aiding the Christian minority within the
Arab world. Christians are in genuine danger throughout most of the
Middle East and the Muslim world.
In Egypt, Christian Copts are subjected to a campaign of ongoing
terrorism that the government of Hosni Mubarak is unable to stop. In
Indonesia, Christians and other non-Muslims are similarly threatened. In
Sudan, black Christians in the south are the victims of both a war of
terror and efforts by the Muslim majority to murder and enslave the
Christian and animist population.
In other Arab countries, such as Syrian-occupied Lebanon, as well as
territory under the control of the Palestinian Authority, Christians are
being driven slowly driven out and marginalized within society.
Thus, the church has a genuine interest in appeasing Arab opinion and
promoting better relations between Muslims and Christians. That´s why
they saw the planned visit of the pope to a Damascus mosque (also a
Christian shrine) as a chance to help Arab Christians.
But to do so at the expense of the church´s good name and the rights of
Jews was a bad idea. The offense was further compounded by the
Vatican´s arrogant dismissal of criticism of the pope´s trip.
Has the Catholic Church made a conscious decision to downgrade
relations with Jews and Israel to facilitate a rapprochement with
Muslims? It is probably premature to make that assertion. But it cannot
be denied that serious damage has been done.
A LESSON FOR ISRAEL
This episode should also give pause to those who believe that all Israel
must do to achieve peace is to make more concessions, such as handing
over the strategic Golan Heights to Syria.
We should be under no illusions that “Dr. Bashar,” Israel´s friendly
neighborhood opthamologist, was just kidding. He´s not. The conflict is
driven by hatred for Jews, not a dispute over a piece of land.
As for the pope, silence in the face of such despicable attacks on the
Jews is exactly what we would never have expected from John Paul II.
Above all other contemporary world leaders, someone who survived the
Nazi reign of terror in Poland knows the dangers that Assad´s statements
represent. He knows that sometimes, evil words can lead to genocide.
It is, perhaps, understandable that this sad episode should happen during
the pope´s declining years. He is too frail, too weak, and probably
should never have even attempted the tour that took him on the path of
the Christian Apostle Paul.
It´s hard to believe that this great man of courage would have let an
Adolf Hitler-wannabe like Bashar Assad make a monkey out of him had
he been in his prime. But that´s exactly what happened.
For the moment, it´s time to forget about whether or not the Vatican
should apologize for the inaction of Pius XII. Sadly, what we need now is
an apology for the silence of John Paul II.
JWR contributor Jonathan S. Tobin is executive editor of the
Philadelphia Jewish Exponent. Let him know what you think
by clicking here.
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/tobin.html
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