"Jerusalem News"-31
1. AL QAIDA TARGETS LEBANON AS NEW BASE
2. Arutz-7 News Brief
- JERUSALEM DAY
3. Operation Defensive Shield

1.
Subject: AL QAIDA TARGETS LEBANON AS NEW BASE To: imra@imra.org.il
AL QAIDA TARGETS LEBANON AS NEW BASE
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Al Qaida is believed to have designated Lebanon as its
Middle East base of operations, which could turn Israel into a direct target
of Osama Bin Laden.
A report said an Al Qaida base in Lebanon would allow the Islamic movement
to combine forces with numerous Palestinian and other groups in the
insurgency war against Israel.
"This infrastructure would be invaluable for Al Qaida, allowing its
operatives to infiltrate, recruit new operatives, and build new sleeper
cells that would combine forces with the Islamic militant organizations
already operating in the Palestinian arena," the report by the International
Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism said.
The report, entitled "The Al Qaida-Hizballah Connection," and authored by
Yoni Fighel and Yael Shahar, said an Al Qaida foothold in Lebanon would
enable the movement to infiltrate Israel. The report said the routes would
be either directly from Lebanon or through Jordan.
 
2.
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com>
Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: Thursday, May 9, 2002
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
JERUSALEM DAY
Israelis from Jerusalem and all around the country converged on their capital today to begin celebrations for Jerusalem Day - the 35th anniversary of the liberation and reunification of Jerusalem in the Six Day War of 1967. It will be recalled that Syria and Egypt spent the weeks before that conflict threatening Israel, and when it appeared that a clash was inevitable, Israel informed Jordan that it had no interest in attacking her. Jordan's King Hussein, however, could not resist entering the war against Israel, and lost control of eastern Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria for his troubles. It should further be noted that his control over these areas in 1948-1967 was recognized by only two countries in the world - Britain and Pakistan - thus that Israel's reunification of Jerusalem was a manifestation of historic justice for the city. "Photographs and paintings of Jerusalem from the mid-to-late 19th century," Arutz-7's Shai Ben-Tekoa says, "show that what is now called 'Arab eastern Jerusalem' never existed until after Zionism began."
Celebrations of the holiday today include the inauguration of the homes of the first two Jewish families to live on Mount of Olives in 2,000 years. Yesterday, two other families moved into their new-old homes in Nachalat Shimon, just 200 meters west of the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood. Yeshivat Beit Orot, a hesder yeshiva (combining Torah studies with army service) one kilometer northeast of the Old City, is one of the sponsors of these initiatives as the latest of its projects to redeem old Jewish neighborhoods in the capital. MK Rabbi Benny Elon, the former dean of the yeshiva, said that the purpose is to form Jewish "territorial contiguity" in the area, "from Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood, through Shimon HaTzaddik, to the Hyatt Regency area, to Beit Orot."
Thousands of people of all ages will attend the annual Jerusalem Day celebrations at Beit Orot throughout tonight - singing, dancing, and marching to the Western Wall. Many congregations will recite special thanksgiving prayers tonight and tomorrow in honor of the day.
Other celebrations include:
* visits to Jerusalem by thousands of students from all over the country;
* a memorial ceremony at Ammunition Hill in Ramat Eshkol with the participation of President Katzav and other top dignitaries;
* a march and agriculture exhibit by Israel's Regional Councils;
* a memorial ceremony for Ethiopian Jews who did not survive the arduous trek from Ethiopia to Israel;
* a flag-march (Rikudgalim) throughout the city, with tens of thousands participants;
* a walk around the Old City gates;
* lectures, singing, and dancing at Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav Kook;
and more.
 
3.
Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 10:37:35 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
 
900,000 Jews (and non-Jews) in 94 cities throughout the world have
participated in solidarity rallies on behalf of Israel during Operation
Defensive Shield. Jewish Agency Chairman Sallai Meridor presented these
figures appearing in a Jewish Agency report, at the last session of the
Zionist Executive, which was devoted to global Jewish solidarity and the
fight against anti-Semitism.
Over one and a half million individuals signed a petition calling for
increasing identification with Israel. Likewise, Jewish groups made hundreds
of demarches on behalf of Israel before government bodies throughout the
World (especially in North America and Europe).
Hundreds of Jewish community leaders from throughout the World came to
Israel on solidarity missions. Likewise, 9,000 individuals (mostly
schoolchildren and teenagers sent letters of support to Israel and personal
letters of encouragement and gratitude to IDF soldiers.
The United Jewish Communities of North America (UJC) created a special
emergency fund for Israel, and the International Fellowship of Christians
and Jews (whose founding president is Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein) presented the
Jewish Agency with a gift $1 m to help Absorb of assist new immigrants who
are currently arriving in Israel.
 
WEEKLY JEWISH SOLIDARITY UPDATE
8 MAY 2002
EVENTS OF 2 MAY
Belgium
Antwerp (2-7 May): Assembly of Orthodox Rabbinical Leaders and Educators
Dozens of rabbinical and lay orthodox leaders and educators convened under
the gis of the Israel Ministry of Religious Affairs and the World Zionist
Organization to deliberate on the spiritual dimension in the information war
in support of Israel and in the fight against anti-Semitism. This assembly
was followed by an assembly of European Rabbis in Brussels.
EVENTS OF 5 MAY
USA
New York
Salute to Israel attracts a million spectators: Approximately one million
individuals lined the New York's Fifth Avenue from 75th to 79th St. to view
the "Salute to Israel" Parade, which has been a tradition since 1964. This
year's parade theme was "Israel and America, Now and Forever; United We
Stand." was presented by some 60,000 marchers from schools, civic and ethnic
organizations, and religious institutions.
Kansas City
2,000 individuals took part in a rally for Israel, organized by the Jewish
Federation.
Memphis, Tenn.
A pro-Israel resolution was passed in the State Senate. A solidarity
demonstration was attended by 2,000.
Palm Beach, FL
A solidarity run for Israel was held
Australia
Perth
Some 2,500 individuals participated in a demonstration of solidarity with
Israel.
Sweden
Stockholm
The Swedish Israel Information Committee, in conjunction with the Jewish
Community of Stockholm as well as Zionist and Jewish organizations held a
rally of support for Israel in Wallenberg Square. Despite a heavy downpour,
2,500 individuals attended.
EVENTS OF 6 MAY
U.K.
London
55,00 individuals demonstrated in a mass rally of support in Trafalgar
Square. This was the largest demonstration, which London has seen in many
years. Former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was the keynote speaker.
Other dignitaries who addressed the crowd were Labour Party Legislator Peter
Mandelson, Conservative Deputy Leader Michael Ancram and Chief Rabbi
Jonathan Sacks.
 
"Jerusalem News"-32
1. Arutz Sheva News Service
- 39 TERRORISTS LEAVE BETHLEHEM
- "LIGHT" TERRORISM IN BE'ER SHEVA
- EMPTYING TUL KAREM OF TERRORISM
2. JEWS, ISRAEL AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
3. Israel's Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit Speaks on the Issue IN NYC

1. Arutz Sheva News Service
- 39 TERRORISTS LEAVE BETHLEHEM
- "LIGHT" TERRORISM IN BE'ER SHEVA
- EMPTYING TUL KAREM OF TERRORISM
2. JEWS, ISRAEL AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
3. Israel's Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit Speaks on the Issue IN NYC

1,
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Friday, May 10, 2002 / Jerusalem Day, 5762
-
 39 TERRORISTS LEAVE BETHLEHEM
After 39 days, the Church of the Nativity siege is finally over. The 13 most heavily wanted terrorists - responsible for the murder of many Israelis - left the Bethlehem church this morning, boarded a British plane for Cyprus, and are currently being held under police guard in a Larnaca hotel. They will remain there until final arrangements for their permanent custody in other European countries and Canada are worked out. There were differing reports on whether or not they would be placed in prison in their new host countries. The 13 are to remain there between three and six years, unless a Palestinian state is established first, in which case they would be permitted to enter it.
Twenty-six others of the terrorists who held dozens of Christian clergymen hostage in the church for nearly six weeks arrived in PLO-controlled Gaza today, and were greeted like heroes by the local populace. One of them said, "We agreed to leave as a humanitarian gesture With the help of Allah, we will win and liberate our land."
In the third stage of the evacuation of the church this morning, 84 Christian clergymen left the building, underwent security checks, and returned to their homes. Finally, ten left-wing activists from abroad who originally refused to leave the building were removed; deportation proceedings against them have begun. The Israeli forces have now begun to evacuate their forces from Bethlehem.
 "LIGHT" TERRORISM IN BE'ER SHEVA
Four people were injured lightly, and seven others were treated for shock, after a terrorist attack in Be'er Sheva this morning. Two terrorists arrived by taxi at a Bank HaPoalim branch; one of them blew himself up, while the other one ran away and was later caught.
Yitzchak and Esther Bavlar, the husband and wife from Bat Yam who were murdered in the Rishon LeTzion massacre Tuesday night, were buried in Holon this morning. They were the 13th husband-and-wife couple to be murdered by Palestinian terrorists since the Oslo War began; six of the couples were killed in the Pesach Seder slaughter, in which 29 people were murdered.
In Gaza, tensions are high in anticipation of the IDF's expected entry into the area to dismantle terrorist infrastructures there. Army positions in southern Gush Katif were targeted by Arabs last night; no one was hurt. In Rafiach, a bomb exploded alongside an IDF vehicle; no one was hurt, and an exchange of fire ensued.
 EMPTYING TUL KAREM OF TERRORISM
The IDF continues its anti-terrorism operations in Tul Karem today, and discovered another large explosives laboratory there last night. Suitcases full of explosives were found there, as were M-16 rifles used in attacks against Israelis. The soldiers demolished the building. In Hevron, IDF forces apprehended a senior Hamas terrorist this morning. They surrounded his house and fired into it, and he gave himself up.
 
2.
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 18:43:02 -0400
Subject: CAFI Newsletter #82
Reply-to: cafi-list@christianactionforisrael.org
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* CHRISTIAN ACTION FOR ISRAEL NEWSLETTER #82 *
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"ON YOUR WALLS, O JERUSALEM, I HAVE APPOINTED WATCHMEN"
Isaiah 62:6
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JEWS, ISRAEL AND THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT
Maggie Gallagher May 9, 2002 Townhall.com
 
I never write about the Middle East. You can't know
about everything, and the tortuous, painful politics
of the region are one area that heretofore I have left
for others, more daring or expert than myself. But
lately, as the world experiences a spasm of anti-Semitism,
and as American Jews feel more beleaguered than ever
("Crisis for American Jews," trumpets New York magazine),
I have had occasion to reflect on the reasons for my
own deep support for the state of Israel.
In America, this kind of deep support is becoming rarer.
In 1989, 69 percent of Americans supported Israel. In
the latest ABC News poll, just 41 percent of Americans do.
And the really weird thing is, as New York magazine put it,
"Even more unnerving for liberal Jews here (in New York)
has been the fact that sympathy for Israel is strongest
among Republicans. At 64 percent, they are far beyond
Democrats, only 38 percent of whom sympathize with the
Israelis." Columnist Zev Chafets explains the results
this way: "Israel's base is now located in pro-American
hawks or conservatives or Jews. Some Jews don't feel
comfortable with Jerry Falwell, but that's too bad."
How to explain American support for Israel? Like Desmond
Tutu, many people abroad aggressively blame the alleged
power of something called the Jewish lobby (in a
democracy in which Jews are just 2 percent or so of
the population). Meanwhile, Islam, designated
representative of Third World culture oppressed by
evil Western patriarchy, has become the new darling
of the liberal intelligentsia.
In PC-Speak, international alliances are supposed to
be defined in rational, secular terms. We support
Israel because Israel is a democracy, which is true,
but so are a lot of other countries. We support
Israel because Israel is a staunch ally. Which is
true, but what does it get us? With allies like
this, America hardly needs enemies. No, support for
Israel cannot be justified by the cold logic of
national self-interest. And it cannot be explained
away by calling some people hawks. Both sides in
this conflict use force of arms. A generalized
willingness to use military force does not explain
why Americans are still much more likely to
identify with Israel than, say, the Palestinian
authority.
For me, what it comes down to, right or wrong, is
a sense of religious affinity. As a Christian
(Roman-Catholic style), I believe the Old Testament
of the Bible is true. Jews are the chosen people
through whom God revealed himself to humanity.
Deeper than the ins and outs of any particular
policy Israel adopts toward the Palestinians
(which may be as right or wrong), my support is
based on an inchoate sense that if put into words
would be something like this: As Christians, we
just cannot sit by and let Islamic nations
exterminate the Jewish people. There are a billion
Muslims and only a few million Jews.
I am not sure I know how to defend this as a
national policy position. (As I said, I leave that
for the experts.) I am not trying to make a
political argument so much as explain a political
phenomenon. The uncomfortable truth for many
American Jews (who remain overwhelmingly allied to
the Democratic Party and many of whom view
Christian conservatives as political enemies)
is this: If America's alliance with Israel is to
be maintained over the long term, it will be
thanks to the Religious Right.
 
 QUOTES TO NOTE
"He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it
and kill him first"
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon - May 7, 2002
----------------------------------------
 
 
3.
EISH-L@LISTSERV.AC.IL
From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk@concentric.net>
(From: Mrk2Mkt@aol.com)
Israel's Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit Speaks on the Issue
IN NYC, 10:30 AM May 12th, at the
Center for Jewish History (15 W 16th Str, Manhattan)
The American Sephardi Federation and the Ministry of Justice of the
State of Israel are joining forces to document the financial and property
losses of the more than 800,000 Jewish refugees forced to flee Arab lands
following the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. These refugees and
their descendents comprise half the current population of the Jewish State.
Jews from Arab countries were forced to leave behind billions in
savings, businesses, personal property and real estate. Compensation for
these refugees and their progeny is critical to any peace agreement in the
region.
 
 
"Jerusalem News"-33

1. Justice and Law
2. EU Knew Palestinians Misappropriated Cash To Finance Terrorism
3. CIA WARNS OF MAJOR TERROR ATTACK
4. Washington Post Foreign Service

 
1.
Zechariah 8:23
Thus saith the L-RD of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten
men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, shall even take
hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying: We will go with you, for we
have heard that G-d is with you.'
David Brown WEBMASTER
WWW.AGIWODIWEB.COM
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter
 
Help Me. I am a Middle Eastern Jew.
(Date: 2002-05-10 19:53:20)
Topic: Justice and Law
My family lost all of their property in arab lands when they were expelled in 1948.
You can help me......
 
You can help me by following the Palestinian model. 1. Violent demonstrations
on the street calling for the return of my land. 2. Ask your governments to
have a resolution in the UN equating Islam with racism. 3. Ask your newspapers
to refer to any terroristic acts undertaken on my behalf as freedom fighting.
Any innocent Arabs should be referred to as settlers or religious extremists.
4. Tell your nations to tell the US that they will not cooperate in the war
against terrorism unless the arab states give land for peace. By acting in this
manner you all can help me regain my birthright to an oil well.
 
 
 2.
imra@imra.org.il
Diplomats Say EU Knew Palestinians Misappropriated Cash To Finance Terrorism
EUP20020509000511[0] Rotterdam NRC Handelsblad (Internet version-WWW) in
Dutch 08 May 02
Reference:
1.EU Provides Further Euro 3.5 Million Humanitarian Aid to Palestinian
Territories EUP20020508000238 Brussels Rapid Database WWW-Text English 08
May 02
[Unattributed report: "EU Knew That Arafat Misappropriated Cash"]
[FBIS Translated Text] Brussels, 8 May -- The EU has deliberately refrained
from monitoring the misappropriation of European money by the Palestinian
Authority over the past few years. EU diplomats said this on the occasion of
new Israeli accusations published earlier this week in Jerusalem. The EU has
deliberately never raised the issue of the diversion of European relief
money to finance terrorism and corruption because it feared that this would
jeopardize the resumption of the Middle East peace process, according to the
diplomats.
One EU diplomat also said that the monitoring of Palestinian leader Yasir
Arafat's budget by the IMF could not prevent European money from being used
for terrorist purposes either. "Everybody has known for quite some time now
that money ended up in the wrong hands. Officially, however, they feigned
ignorance so as not to jeopardize attempts to revive the peace process. The
IMF, too, did not want this to happen," he said.
The Israeli Government says it has evidence that Arafat used EU cash to
finance terrorism. Earlier this week, EU Commissioner Chris Patten (foreign
policy) received the Israeli evidence, which consists of a three-page
document. According to Patten's spokesman, the Commission is taking the
issue very seriously. However, the Commission's first impression is that the
evidence is not conclusive, the spokesman said.
More than one half of all the EU's international aid goes to the Palestinian
Authority. Between 1994 and 2001, the EU gave 1.446 billion euros in aid to
the Palestinians, including 256 million euros in loans from the European
Investment Bank. The EU member states also supported the Palestinian
Authority with 1 billion euros.
Last year, EU Commissioner Patten decided that there was insufficient
control on the use of EU funding. Therefore, he decided to call in the IMF
so as to regain control over the situation.
[Description of Source: Rotterdam NRC Handelsblad in Dutch (Internet
version-WWW) -- prestigious left-of-center newspaper]
 
3.
From: imra@netvision.net.il
 
CIA WARNS OF MAJOR TERROR ATTACK
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The CIA has concluded that the United States will be
rocked by a major attack from Islamic insurgents.
Officials said U.S. intelligence has assessed that the attack would probably
come from Saudi fugitive Osama Bin Laden or his allies. They said the Bin
Laden operation would seek to match the suicide attacks on New York and
Washington on Sept. 11.
Such an attack, officials said, is likely to once again target New York or
Washington. Over the last two weeks, the FBI, which works with the CIA in
the Counter-Terrorist Center, has issued two warnings of terrorist attacks.
The agency said it obtained information that insurgents have targeted banks
and shopping malls in northeastern United States.
"Now for the hard truth," CIA Deputy Director for Operation James Pavitt
said. "Despite the best efforts of so much of the world, the next terrorist
attack -- it's not a question of if, it's a question of when. The threat
that we face today from global terrorism is real, it's immediate, and it is
unlike any other we have faced before. I say this from 30 years of
experience in an intelligence function."
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Extracts Only
 
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By Jon Jeter
Washington Post Foreign Service
 
 
Friday, May 10, 2002; Page A01
 
What is taking shape across southern Africa is the perfect famine, a disastrous collaboration between nature and man that has caused the region's worst food shortage in nearly 60 years.
 
 Officials in the region say as many as 20 million people are suffering from hunger and malnutrition. The U.N. World Food Program is already feeding more than 2.6 million people in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia and other countries in the region, and agency officials say that number will at least double in the coming months as peasants finish off the meager yields from this season's harvest.
 
Overall, relief workers anticipate they will need roughly 145,000 tons of food, worth about $69 million, to plug the immediate shortfall in domestic crop production in the region. So far, donors have pledged only about $3 million.
 
 Officials with the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a coalition of 14 nations, say they will need to import 3.2 million tons of corn -- the region's staple food -- to offset the deficit, about double the amount imported last year.
 
 "We've got a full-scale famine on our hands," said Kerran Hedland, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program in Malawi.
 
A year of flooding followed by a year of drought are largely to blame for the widespread crop failure. But international donors, Western diplomats and civic organizations say the crisis has been aggravated by graft -- or at least mismanagement -- in Malawi and by political upheaval in neighboring Zimbabwe, usually one of the continent's most reliable food producers.
 
Malawian officials last year inexplicably sold the country's 167,000-ton emergency grain reserve and have not accounted for the proceeds. Officials have denied any wrongdoing and promised an investigation, but the International Monetary Fund, Britain, the European Union and other sources have frozen at least $75 million in aid payments as a result.
 
 President Robert Mugabe's seizure of white-owned commercial farms in Zimbabwe has hurt not only that country's crop yields but those of its neighbors. With one of the region's most robust agricultural sectors, Zimbabwe for years sold or donated surplus crops to other African countries that needed help.
 
 But Mugabe's violent, two-year-old campaign to redistribute farms to poor, landless blacks has disrupted farming and cut off routes used to transport food to neighboring countries. Food production in Zimbabwe has dropped by nearly 40 percent this year, according to SADC officials, and last week Mugabe joined Malawi's president, Bakili Muluzi, in declaring a state of emergency.
 
"Land acquisitions in Zimbabwe have had a dramatic effect on the amount [of food] that should have been produced in the country," said Judith Lewis, the World Food Program's regional director for eastern and southern Africa. "Much needs to be done. The time is running out."
 
The food reserve scandal in Malawi and Zimbabwe's political turmoil have compounded the problem by depleting stocks and driving up the price of corn by as much as 300 percent here in Malawi and in Zambia. What food is available is simply unaffordable to many people in the region.
 
Southern Africa has endured widespread food shortages before, most recently a decade ago when drought struck the region. But the situation now is far worse, many Africans say, partly because famished peasants are eating tree stems, sawdust and wild leaves, causing an increase in disease.
 
 The AIDS epidemic, which was only beginning to surface in southern Africa a decade ago, is deepening the misery. An estimated one of every six adult Malawians is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and hunger has accelerated the onset of debilitating diseases and even death among many household breadwinners here, according to relief and medical workers.
 
The epidemic has further cut into the country's crop production by leaving the elderly, children and orphans to care for the sick, assume the responsibilities of planting and harvesting crops, or take odd jobs for extra income.
 
 
Amid such privation, food is precious to those who have it and tempting to those who do not. When Goodson Mussa was accused of stealing corn from a field near the capital, Lilongwe, three men used a razor blade to cut off one of his ears.
 
"They beat me and spit on me, and one of them threatened to douse me with [kerosene] and set me alight," said Mussa, 33. Asked several times if he was indeed trying to steal corn, Mussa refused to answer directly.
 
"Hunger is terrible," he said, holding his hand up to his bandaged head. "What man wouldn't steal if he's watching his own children starve to death before his very eyes?"
 
 
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"Jerusalem News"-34
1. NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS JOIN THE CONDEMNATION OF THE PROPOSED SCIENTIFIC BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL
2. Protest letter from Norwegian Israelis to Larsen
3. pro-Israel articles in local news-papers

1.
From: imra@netvision.net.il
NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS JOIN THE CONDEMNATION OF THE PROPOSED SCIENTIFIC BOYCOTT
OF ISRAEL
May 6, 2002
A group of leading professors at the University of Chicago, joined by
scientists from around the world has initiated a petition in response to
calls for a European boycott of research links with Israel. The anti-boycott
petition condemns the boycott calls and urges scientists to foster and
develop further scientific ties with their Israeli colleagues. By now, more
than 1900 professors and researchers from all over the world have signed the
anti-petition and signatures continue to arrive. The list of signatories
includes many world class scientists, respected leaders in their fields of
research, among them Nobel Laureates, Fields medalists (the most prestigious
prize in mathematics), members of American National Academy of Sciences and
members of national academies of sciences in other countries. This is an
astonishing show of unity and support for Israel among scientists.
An editorial in the United Kingdom's "Nature", the leading scientific
journal, noted that "Such boycotts are misguided and should be opposed in
favour of constructive initiatives."
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish human rights NGO, with 400,000
constituent families has endorsed the counter-campaign led by distinguished
academicians and is carrying the petition online at www. wiesenthal.com
"Unfortunately the European-led efforts to sever research links with Israeli
Institution of Higher learning, is only part of a more sweeping effort to
isolate and delegitimize the Jewish State", said Rabbi Abraham Cooper,
associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Please, find below the text of the petition and a partial list of
signatories. The complete list of signatures is available at the petition
website: http://www.anti-boycott-petition.org
 
2.
Subject: Protest letter from Norwegian Israelis to Larsen To: imra@imra.org.il
Protest letter from Norwegian Israelis to Larsen
April 26, 2002
To: Terje Rod-Larsen / Den Norske Ambassade - Norwegian Embassy
From: Astrid Salvesen Shwartz
Last Thursday, April 18, 2002, will be remembered as an especially difficult
and sad day for me, my family, and other fellow Norwegians living in Israel.
The UN Organization and its Norwegian representative, Terje Rod-Larsen, have
stained their reputation and embarrassed themselves and the Norwegian
people, following Terje Rod-Larsen's biased stand on Israel.
You ask what has made April 18 such an unforgettable day and awoke my
Norwegian nationalism??? On the evening of April 18, as I was watching the
news on TV with my family, we were suddenly taken aback when Norway's Terje
Rod-Larsen appeared standing in the middle of the Palestinian refugee camp
in Jenin, describing what the Israeli Defense Forces had allegedly done and
the "unbelievable" site surrounding him.
Terje Rod-Larsen described the scene, "as if an earth quake had just hit,
the destruction, and the stench of death". Yes, Terje Rod-Larsen reported
what he saw, and there was no arguing about it. The recent events in Jenin
were indeed terrible and sad, and no doubt that many believe the same.
Terje Larsen, you did not, however, stop at that. You proceeded to view your
personal opinion by claiming that "Jenin will be remembered as a "black
stain" on this government in the history of Israel." At that point, my
stomach felt sick. I was shocked, disappointed, betrayed, and embarrassed by
your choice of words. To add fuel to the fire, you freely expressed yourself
regarding the events in Jenin, but somehow you also refrained from
expressing your views on the current situation within Israel's borders. You
chose to say what was said and chose not to say more that should have been
said. Of course, you conveniently spoke out following Israel's Remembrance
Day of its fallen soldiers and Israel's Independence Day. Celebrations were
canceled this year countrywide. Why? Over a hundred and twenty Israeli lives
were extinguished by Palestinian suicide bombers and hundreds wounded, in
the month of March alone.
Why should the people of Israel continue to suffer on a daily basis for the
fundamental right to safeguard their homeland?
Terje Rod-Larsen, you chose to act as the "Judge of the Middle East". No
other person or country, not even the United States of America has had the
"chutzpah" to take such a position. How dare you judge the Israeli people?
I am a proud Norwegian and the daughter of a wise Norwegian Naval Officer,
an Orlogs Captain. The Norwegian King rewarded my father an honorary medal
for his bravery and defense against the Nazis during WW2. I cannot begin to
think how a person of your status, a Norwegian delegate to the UN for the
Middle East, could have fallen so deep, as you have, on the day of April 18,
2002. As a Norwegian public figure, you have taken a biased stand on the
conflict in the Middle East, and you have misrepresented Norwegians
worldwide, including those living in Israel.
I have lost all due respect for you, Terje Rod-Larsen, for if your words
represent those of the UN, then all that is left to say is that it is
"unbelievable".
However, I would like to thank you, Terje Rod-Larsen, for opening up my eyes
and teaching me the true politics between Norway and Israel. Nevertheless,
being an "expert" on the Middle East, you seem to have ignored pages and
pages of facts. Thus, I cannot understand the Norwegian boycott (of Israeli
products), and more so the paradox that your wife is the Norwegian
Ambassador to Israel!
I call out to the Norwegian press and the Norwegian people back home. Please
wake up. Our country is being grossly misrepresented. We deserve better!
The Norwegian community in Israel is asking for the forgiveness of the
Israeli Defense Forces and its citizens for Terry Larsen's political
misconduct in Jenin.
The Norwegian community in Israel thanks the Israeli Defense Forces for
carefully keeping us safe and protected from ongoing Palestinian terrorism.
We are proud of the IDF soldiers and support you 100 !!!
In my opinion, the IDF and its soldiers should be rewarded with a Medal of
Honor for the battle of Jenin and the War on Terrorism.
Astrid Salvesen Shwartz Hod-HaSharon Israel
 
3.
 
From: Orjan Svensson in Sweden
 
Recently there have been several pro-Israel articles in local
news-papers. Here are some quotes:
 
Peter Edwarsson (a Christian Democrat) and a group of prominent
politicians and churchmen write April 24:
"...ansvaret f r den nuvarande situationen faller tungt p den
palestinska sidan..."
("...the responsibility for the current situation falls heavily
on the Palestinian side...")
"Vilket annat demokratiskt land som helst, skulle ha gjort det Israel har
varit tvungna att g ra, om deras medborgare utsatts f r samma terror
som de israeliska medborgarna har utsatts f r."
("Any other democratic country, would have done the same as Israel has
had to do, if their citizens would have been exposed to the same
terror as the Israeli citizens have been exposed to.")
"Det som i svenska media kommit att kallas sj lvmorsbombare ska
sj lvfallet kallas vid sitt r tta namn. N mligen terrorism med en
uppenbar avsikt att tvinga Israel till ett kraftfullt agerande."
("That which in Swedish media has come to be called suicide bombers
should of course be named with its correct name. Namely terrorism,
with an obvious intention to force Israel to forceful action.")
"Israel beh ver v rt st d i dag, inte v rt f rd mmande!"
("Israel needs our support today, not our condemnation!")
 
 
Christian Dahlgren, a local representative from the "People party" writes April 29:
"De som avskyr den judiska staten, hyser s llan sympati f r det judiska folket.
S ledes m ste vi vara vaksamma mot f rs ken att underminera Israels legimitet
i opinionen. Annars b ddas f r en upprepning av det f rflutnas fasor."
("Those who hate the Jewish state, seldom have sympathy for the Jewish people.
Therefore we must be alert regarding the attempts to undermine the legitimacy
of Israel in the public opinion. Otherwise the way is being prepared for a repeating
of the horrors of the past.")
 
 
Helge Lindquist, a local conservative politician writes May 3:
"Sharon, en g ng general och krigshj lte fr n Yom Kippur-kriget,
idag premi rminister, om n med h rda nypor, f r idag ensam b ra
skulden f r vad som h nder p V stbanken och i Gaza."
("Sharon, once general and war hero from the Yom Kippur war, today
prime minister.....is today alone blamed (unfairly) for the events in the
West Bank and in Gaza.")
"S l nge konflikten p g r borde Arafat och hans anhang f bli kvar i
husarrest i Ramallah."
("As long as the conflict goes on Arafat and his followers should
stay behind locked doors (without possibility to get out) in Ramallah.")
"Arafat r ansvarig f r b de internationell terrorism...och terrorism
mot Israel."
("Arafat is responsible for both international terrorism...and
terrorism against Israel.")
 
 
Karin Rebel-Ahlqvist writes May 4:
 
"Hur kan Israel v nta sig opartisk bed mning av ett FN, som stup i ett under
ledning av arabiska (oljerika) l nder f rd mer dem?
Det till ts ej ens vara fullv rdig medlem medan Syrien, som under Assad
m rdade 20-30 000 egna och ppet st djer terrorism, invalts i
S kerhetsr det."
("How can Israel expect an objective jugement by the UN, which unceasingly
led by Arab (oil-rich) countries, condemns them? Israel is not even
allowed to be a fullfledged member, while Syria, which under Assad
murdered 20-30 000 of its own and openly supports terrorism, has been
elected into the Security Council.")
"Jag r of rm gen att f rst hur detta folk kan v cka s mycket ont blod
- r det arvet fr n kyrkans hemska f rf ljelser? r det avundsjuka f r deras
f rm ga att verleva, att ha byggt upp en s fin demokrati? F r att de vill
ha en egen identitet?"
("I am unable to comprehend how this people (the Jews) kan invoke so much
hate - is this the heritage from the ugly persecutions of the church?
Is the reason jealousy of their ability to survive, to have built such
a fine democracy? Or is it because they want to have an own identity?")
 
 
 
 
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"Jerusalem News"-35
1. ISRAEL PLANS TO FOCUS INTEL EFFORTS ON SAUDIS
2. CHINA, SAUDI ARABIA DISCUSS MILITARY TIES
3. Pipes in NY Post on Saudi Arabia as a US rival
4. 6 EU Nations To Take Palestinians
5. Exiled Palestinian militants ran two-year reign of terror
6. Humour
7. Higher Education Minister/German delegation - Syrian/German scientific cooperation

1.
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 12:56:55 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: ISRAEL PLANS TO FOCUS INTEL EFFORTS ON SAUDIS
 
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel's government has approved a plan to expand
intelligence monitoring of Saudi Arabia.
Israeli officials said the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has
concluded that the Mossad has insufficient knowledge of the Saudi kingdom.
They said that for years Israel obtained information on Saudi Arabia from
the United States.
But the Saudis have been expanding their role in Middle East politics. This
includes both Saudi aid to the Palestinian insurgency war as well as the
prospect of Riyad developing intermediate-range missiles and weapons of mass
destruction that could strike Israel.
"Israel is not sufficiently expert on Saudi Arabia," a senior Israeli
official said. "I don't think we know enough about it. What we do know is
that something very fundamental is going on in Saudi Arabia that cuts to the
heart of the country."
 
2.
 
CHINA, SAUDI ARABIA DISCUSS MILITARY TIES
ABU DHABI [MENL] -- China and Saudi Arabia are exploring the prospect of
expanding their defense and military relationship.
The two countries have held talks on launching joint projects and the
purchase of Chinese weapons by Riyad. Other topics included Chinese
training, logistical help and joint exercises.
Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid Bin Sultan met a visiting
Chinese delegation in Riyad. The official Saudi Press Agency reported that
the delegation that visited on April 28 was headed by assistant
director-general for logistics in the People's Liberation Army, Gen. Rhu
Chiang.
"The two men discussed important mutual issues," the agency said.
 
3.
Extracts
Subject: #210: Pipes in NYPost on Saudi Arabia as a US rival To: dplist@danielpipes.org
Not Friend Or Foe
by Daniel Pipes
New York Post
May 14, 2002
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/401
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/47843.htm
 
 Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey has stated, "Much of the money for al Qaeda has come from Saudi Arabia," tying the Saudis directly to 9/11.
And since September, they repeatedly have failed Americans. They neither endorsed the U.S. attack on the Taliban, cracked down on their own bin Laden sympathizers, forthrightly acknowledged the role of Saudis on 9/11 nor made a priority of closing down the continuing financial flows to al Qaeda.
 
Such differences mean that Saudi Arabia cannot be thought of as an ally. Instead, it should be seen as a rival, along the lines of like France, Russia or China.
Granted, compared to those three, Saudi Arabia looks pretty unimpressive, with a population officially estimated at 22 million, a political system dominated by thousands of princes and an economy deeply dependent on oil revenues. Its culture is notoriously backward (women banned from driving), closed-minded (total censorship) and barbaric (executions as public spectacles).
Despite these disadvantages, the kingdom's rulers see themselves as leaders of the billion or so Muslims worldwide and the vanguard of a movement that eventually will vanquish and replace Western civilization, which they dismiss as corrupt and doomed.
This outsized ambition derives in part from the Saudi state being "protector of the two holy places," the cities of Mecca and Medina. In part, it emerges from Wahhabism, the extremist vision of Islam that predominates in Saudi Arabia.
Worse, as The New York Times recently noted, an ever-more radical version of Wahhabism is gaining strength in the kingdom: an "extremist, anti-Western world view has gradually pervaded the Saudi education system with its heavy doses of mandatory religious instruction [and then it] seeped outside the classroom through mosque sermons, television shows and the Internet, coming to dominate the public discussions on religion."
Anti-Western views have stuck; in particular, Saudis have shown themselves wildly sympathetic to bin Laden. One American hospital worker in Saudi Arabia reported "Saudi doctors and nurses around him celebrating on 9/11." A confidential survey found some 95 percent of young educated Saudis sympathetic to his declaration of war against the United States.
A century ago, most Muslims viewed Wahhabism as little more than an Arabian curiosity. Today, thanks to vast oil revenues well spent, a vast Wahhabi institutional structure exists to spread these ideas, so that it has become a powerful force wherever Muslims live, from Afghanistan (where the Taliban embodied this ideology) to most mosques in the United States.
 
4.
[UP]
 
6 EU Nations To Take Palestinians
 
 
Monday May 13, 2002 3:40 PM
 
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - European Union foreign ministers said Monday six EU nations will take in the 13 Palestinian militants who were freed last week from Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity and flown to Cyprus after a 39-day standoff with Israeli troops.
 
Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Belgium stepped forward to take the militants, EU spokeswoman Anna Rodriguez said as the ministers met in Brussels.
 
 
5.
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Exiled Palestinian militants ran two-year reign of terror
By Sayed Anwar
SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
TheWashington Times, May 13, 2002
BETHLEHEM, West Bank < Residents of this biblical city are expressing
relief at the exile to Cyprus last week of 13 hard-core Palestinian
militants, who they said had imposed a two-year reign of terror that
included rape, extortion and executions.
 
The gang apparently operated under the full protection of Mr. Arafat's
Fatah organization and Tanzim, its military wing.
During the 19-month uprising, they have often fired into the nearby
Israeli suburb of Gilo from church grounds and the homes of Palestinian
Christians in Beit Jala.
When Palestinian gunmen would show up at the door, Christian families
often had no choice but to let their homes be used as sniper posts and face
the consequences of Israeli retaliation.
 
 
6. Humor
From: Atlas/Janet Laster
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Dr. Chittaranjan Andrade
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 5:54 AM
To: psychiatry-research@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [psychiatry-research] Childhood as a disorder
 
Dear Colleagues,
The Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder write-up was,
unfortunately, not original; a colleague had forwarded it to me. I
don't know its original source.
 
If you liked that one, you'll love this; whatever you do, don't
miss reading the reference list.
 
Best wishes,
Chittaranjan
 
 
THE ETIOLOGY & TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD
- Jordan W. Smoller, University of Pennsylvania
 
Childhood is a syndrome which has only recently begun to receive
serious attention from clinicians. The syndrome itself, however, is not at
all recent. As early as the 8th century, the Persian historian Kidnom
made references to "short, noisy creatures," who may well have been
what we now call "children." The treatment of children, however, was unknown
until this century, when so-called "child psychologists" and "child
psychiatrists" became common. Despite this history of clinical neglect, it has
been estimated that well over half of all Americans alive today have
experienced childhood directly (Suess, 1983). In fact, the actual numbers are
probably much higher, since these data are based on self-reports which may
be subject to social desirability biases and retrospective distortion. The
growing acceptance of childhood as a distinct phenomenon is reflected in
the proposed inclusion of the syndrome in the upcoming Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, or DSM-IV, of
the American Psychiatric Association (1990). Clinicians are still in
disagreement about the significant clinical features of childhood,
but the proposed DSM-IV will almost certainly include the following core
features:
 
1. Congenital onset
2. Dwarfism
3. Emotional liability and immaturity
4. Knowledge deficits
5. Legume anorexia
 
Clinical Features of Childhood
 
Although the focus of this paper is on the efficacy of conventional
treatment of childhood, the five clinical markers mentioned above
merit further discussion for those unfamiliar with this patient
population.
 
CONGENITAL ONSET
 
In one of the few existing literature reviews on childhood,
Temple- Black (1982) has noted that childhood is almost always
present at birth, although it may go undetected for years or even
remain subclinical indefinitely. This observation has led some
investigators to speculate on a biological contribution to childhood.
As one psychologist has put it, "we may soon be
in a position to distinguish organic childhood from functional
childhood" (Rogers, 1979).
 
DWARFISM
 
This is certainly the most familiar marker of childhood. It is
widely known that children are physically short relative to the population at
large. Indeed, common clinical wisdom suggests that the treatment of the
so-called "small child" (or "tot") is particularly difficult. These children
are known to exhibit infantile behavior and display a startling lack of
insight (Tom and Jerry, 1967).
 
EMOTIONAL LiABILITY AND IMMATURITY
 
This aspect of childhood is often the only basis for a clinician's
diagnosis. As a result, many otherwise normal adults are
misdiagnosed as children and must suffer the unnecessary social
stigma of being labelled a "child" by professionals and friends alike.
 
KNOWLEDGE DEFICITS
 
While many children have IQ's with or even above the norm, almost
all will manifest knowledge deficits. Anyone who has known a real child has
experienced the frustration of trying to discuss any topic that
requires some general knowledge. Children seem to have little knowledge
about the world they live in. Politics, art, and science -- children are
largely ignorant of these. Perhaps it is because of this ignorance, but
the sad fact is that most children have few friends who are not, themselves,
children.
 
LEGUME ANOREXIA
 
This last identifying feature is perhaps the most unexpected. Folk
wisdom is supported by empirical observation -- children will rarely eat
their vegetables (see Popeye, 1957, for review).
 
Causes of Childhood
 
Now that we know what it is, what can we say about the causes of
childhood?
Recent years have seen a flurry of theory and speculation from a
number of perspectives. Some of the most prominent are reviewed below.
 
Sociological Model
 
Emile Durkind was perhaps the first to speculate about
sociological causes of childhood. He points out two key observations about
children:
1) the vast majority of children are unemployed, and 2) children represent one
of the least educated segments of our society. In fact, it has been
estimated that less than 20% of children have had more than fourth grade
education. Clearly, children are an "out-group." Because of their
intellectual handicap, children are even denied the right to vote. From the
sociologist's perspective, treatment should be aimed at helping
assimilate children into mainstream society. Unfortunately, some victims are
so incapacitated by their childhood that they are simply not
competent to work. One promising rehabilitation program (Spanky and Alfalfa,
1978) has trained victims of severe childhood to sell lemonade.
 
Biological Model
 
The observation that childhood is usually present from birth has
led some to speculate on a biological contribution. An early investigation by
Flintstone and Jetson (1939) indicated that childhood runs in families. Their
survey of over 8,000 American families revealed that over half contained
more than one child. Further investigation revealed that even most non-child
family members had experienced childhood at some point. Cross-cultural
studies (e.g., Mowgli & Din, 1950) indicate that family childhood is even
more prevalent in the Far East. For example, in Indian and Chinese
families, as many as three out of four family members may have childhood.
Impressive evidence of a genetic component of childhood comes from a
large-scale twin study by Brady and Partridge (1972). These authors studied
over 106 pairs of twins, looking at concordance rates for childhood. Among
identical or monozygotic twins, concordance was unusually high (0.92), i.e.,
when one twin was diagnosed with childhood, the other twin was almost
always a child as well.
 
Psychological Models
 
A considerable number of psychologically-based theories of the
development of childhood exist. They are too numerous to review here. Among
the more familiar models are Seligman's "learned childishness" model.
According to this model, individuals who are treated like children eventually
give up and become children. As a counterpoint to such theories, some experts
have claimed that childhood does not really exist. Szasz (1980) has
called "childhood" an expedient label. In seeking conformity, we handicap
those whom we find unruly or too short to deal with by labelling them
"children."
 
Treatment of Childhood
 
Efforts to treat childhood are as old as the syndrome itself. Only
in modern times, however, have humane and systematic treatment protocols
been applied. In part, this increased attention to the problem may be due to
the sheer number of individuals suffering from childhood. Government
statistics (DHHS) reveal that there are more children alive today than at any
time in our history. To paraphrase P.T. Barnum: "There's a child born every
minute." The overwhelming number of children has made government intervention
inevitable.The nineteenth century saw the institution of what remains the
largest single program for the treatment of childhood -- so-called "public
schools." Under this colossal program, individuals are placed into treatment
groups based on the severity of their condition. For example, those most
severely afflicted may be placed in a "kindergarten" program. Patients at
this level are typically short, unruly, emotionally immature,and
intellectually deficient. Given this type of individual, therapy is essentially
one of patient management and of helping the child master basic skills
(e.g. finger-painting). Unfortunately, the "school" system has been
largely ineffective. Not only is the program a massive tax burden, but it
has failed even to slow down the rising incidence of childhood. Faced with
this failure and the growing epidemic of childhood, mental health professionals
are devoting increasing attention to the treatment of childhood. Given
a theoretical framework by Freud's landmark treatises on childhood,
child psychiatrists and psychologists claimed great successes in their
clinical interventions. By the 1950's, however, the clinicians' optimism
had waned. Even after years of costly analysis, many victims remained
children. The following case (taken from Gumbie & Poke, 1957) is typical.
 
Billy J., age 8, was brought to treatment by his parents. Billy's
affliction was painfully obvious. He stood only 4'3" high and weighed a scant
70 lbs., despite the fact that he ate voraciously. Billy presented a
variety of troubling symptoms. His voice was noticeably high for a man. He
displayed legume anorexia, and, according to his parents, often refused to
bathe. His intellectual functioning was also below normal -- he had little
general knowledge and could barely write a structured sentence. Social
skills were also deficient. He often spoke inappropriately and exhibited
"whining behaviour." His sexual experience was non-existent. Indeed, Billy
considered women "icky." His parents reported that his condition had been
present from birth, improving gradually after he was placed in a school at age
5. The diagnosis was "primary childhood." After years of painstaking
treatment, Billy improved gradually. At age 11, his height and weight have
increased, his social skills are broader, and he is now functional enough to
hold down a "paper route."
 
After years of this kind of frustration, startling new evidence
has come to light which suggests that the prognosis in cases of childhood may
not be all gloom. A critical review by Fudd (1972) noted that studies of the
childhood syndrome tend to lack careful follow-up. Acting on this
observation, Moe, Larrie, and Kirly (1974) began a large-scale longitudinal
study.
 
These investigators studied two groups. The first group consisted of 34
children currently engaged in a long-term conventional treatment program.
The second was a group of 42 children receiving no treatment. All subjects
had been diagnosed as children at least 4 years previously, with a mean
duration of childhood of 6.4 years. At the end of one year, the results
confirmed the clinical wisdom that childhood is a refractory disorder --
virtually all symptoms persisted and the treatment group was only slightly
better off than the controls. The results, however, of a careful 10-year
follow-up were startling. The investigators (Moe, Larrie, Kirly , & Shemp,
1984)
assessed the original cohort on a variety of measures. General knowledge
and emotional maturity were assessed with standard measures. Height
was assessed by the "metric system" (see Ruler, 1923), and legume appetite by
the Vegetable Appetite Test (VAT) designed by Popeye (1968). Moe et
al. found that subjects improved uniformly on all measures. Indeed, in most
cases, the subjects appeared to be symptom-free. Moe et al. report a
spontaneous remission rate of 95%, a finding which is certain to revolutionize
the clinical approach to childhood. These recent results suggests that
the prognosis for victims of childhood may not be so bad as we have
feared. We must not, however, become too complacent. Despite its apparently
high spontaneous remission rate, childhood remains one of the most
serious and rapidly growing disorders facing mental health professional today.
And, beyond the psychological pain it brings, childhood has recently
been linked to a number of physical disorders. Twenty years ago, Howdi, Doodi,
and Beauzeau (1965) demonstrated a six-fold increased risk of chicken
pox, measles, and mumps among children as compared with normal
controls. Later, Barby and Kenn (1971) linked childhood to an elevated risk of
accidents -- compared with normal adults, victims of childhood were much more
likely to scrape their knees, lose their teeth, and fall off their bikes.
Clearly, much more research is needed before we can give any real hope to
the millions of victims wracked by this insidious disorder.
 
References
 
American Psychiatric Association (1990). The diagnostic and
statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th edition: A preliminary report.
Washington, D.C.; APA.
 
Barby, B., & Kenn, K. (1971). The plasticity of behaviour. In B.
Barby & K. Kenn (Eds.), Psychotherapies R Us. Detroit: Ronco Press.
 
Brady, C., & Partridge, S. (1972). My dads bigger than your dad.
Acta Eur. Age, 9, 123-126.
 
Flintstone, F., & Jetson, G. (1939). Cognitive mediation of labour
disputes. Industrial Psychology Today, 2, 23-35.
 
Fudd, E.J. (1972). Locus of control and shoe-size. Journal of
Footwear Psychology, 78, 345-356.
 
Gumbie, G., & Pokey, P. (1957). A cognitive theory of
iron-smelting. Journal of Abnormal Metallurgy, 45, 235-239.
 
Howdi, C., Doodi, C., & Beauzeau, C. (1965). Western civilization:
A review of the literature. Reader's Digest, 60, 23-25.
 
Moe, R., Larrie, T., & Kirly, Q. (1974). State childhood vs. trait
childhood. TV guide, May 12-19, 1-3.
 
Moe, R., Larrie, T., Kirly, Q., & Shemp, C. (1984). Spontaneous
remission of childhood In W.C. Fields (Ed.), New hope for children and animals.
Hollywood: Acme Press.
 
Popeye, T.S.M. (1957). The use of spinach in extreme
circumstances. Journal of Vegetable Science, 58, 530-538.
 
Popeye, T.S.M. (1968). Spinach: A phenomenological perspective.
Existential Botany, 35, 908-813.
 
Rogers, F. (1979). Becoming my neighbour. New York: Soft Press.
 
Ruler, Y. (1923). Assessing measurements protocols by the
multi-method multiple regression index for the psychometric analysis of
factorial interaction. Annals of Boredom, 67, 1190-1260.
 
Spanky, D., & Alfalfa, Q. (1978). Coping with puberty. Sears
Catalogue, 45-46.
 
Suess, D.R. (1983). A psychometric analysis of green eggs with and
without ham. Journal of Clinical Cuisine, 245, 567-578.
 
Temple-Black, S. (1982). Childhood: an ever-so sad disorder.
Journal of Precocity, 3, 129-134.
 
Tom, C., & Jerry, M. (1967). Human behaviour as a model for
understanding the rat. In M. de Sade (Ed.). The Rewards of Punishment. Paris:
Bench Press.
 
Further Readings
 
Christ, J.H. (1980). Grandiosity in children. Journal of applied
theology, 1, 1-1000.
 
Joe, G.I. (1965). Aggressive fantasy as wish fulfilment. Archives
of General MacArthur, 5, 23-45.
 
Leary, T. (1969). Pharmacotherapy for childhood. Annals of
astrological Science, 67, 456-459. Kissoff, K.G.B. (1975).
 
Extinction of learnt behaviour. Paper presented to the Siberian
Psychological Association, 38th annual Annual meeting, Kamchatka.
 
Smythe, C., & Barnes, T. (1979). Behaviour therapy prevents tooth
decay. Journal of Behavioral Orthodontics, 5, 79-89.
 
Potash, S., & Hoser, B. (1980). A failure to replicate the results
of Smythe and Barnes. Journal of Dental Psychiatry, 34, 678-680.
 
Smythe, C., & Barnes, T. (1980). Your study was poorly done: A
reply to Potash and Hoser. Annual review of Aquatic Psychiatry, 10,
123-156.
 
Potash, S., & Hoser, B. (1981). Your mother wears army boots: A
further reply to Smythe and Barnes. Archives of Invective Research, 56,
5-9.
 
Smythe, C., & Barnes, T. (1982). Embarrassing moments in the sex
lives of Potash and Hoser: A further reply. National Enquirer, May 16.
 
 
 
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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:08:02 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Higher Education Minister/German delegation - Syrian/German scientific
cooperation
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Higher Education Minister/German delegation - Syrian/German scientific
cooperation
http://www.sana.org/english/headlines/13.5/risha.htm
DAMASCUS May.13(SANA-Official Syrian News Agency)
Higher Education Minister, Dr. Hassan Risha, received here on Monday a
German delegation.
The Minister presented a glimpse about the new strategies and reformations
in the higher education sector in line with the march of modernization and
development under President Bashar Assad's leadership.
Dr. Risha touched upon project of supporting the field of informatics in the
Syrian Universities.
He asserted the importance of boosting the scientific cooperation between
Syrian and German Universities, particularly in fields of information,
experience exchange and the scientific researches.
In the meantime, Tourism Minister, Dr. Sa'adalla Agha Al-Qala'a met with a
Turkish information delegation.
Talks during the meeting dealt with tourism relations between Syria and
Turkey.
Dr. Qal'a indicated to tourism investment plans for increasing the tourism
institutions.
He underlined the ministry directions to develop tourism between Syria and
Turkey and exchange delegations visits.
M.Abdo/G.A.Hassoun
 
 
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Last night on MSNBC "Hardball " Chris Matthews hosted the Majority
Leader Dick Armey.  This interview was the most incredible interview I
have ever heard.  Mr. Armey stated that the land of Israel belonged to the
Jewish people, and if the Palestinians could not live side by side
with the Jewish people they need to leave.  He said outright the land of
Israel was a Jewish State, and there is plenty of Arab land to house the
Palestinians.
 
He also stated there will be a bill going to the "House" tomorrow on this
issue.
 
Mr. Armey will be under intense pressure for this bold statement. Please, if
you have never faxed or called before please make this call
now.  Call as many of your friends, forward this to as many that will take
this time to do the same.  We need to be bombarding the White
House tomorrow.  Tell Mr. Armey how much you appreciate his bold
statement!
 
Listed below is the contact information for Mr. Armey:
 
Congressman Dick Armey
301 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-4326
Tel:   (202)225-7772  Room 301
Fax:  (202)224-3121
 
Congressman Dick Armey
9901 East Valley Ranch Parkway, Suite 3050
Irving, TX 75063
(972) 556-2500
  
Zechariah 8:23
Thus saith the L-RD of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten
men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, shall even take
hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying: We will go with you, for we
have heard that G-d is with you.'
David Brown WEBMASTER
WWW.AGIWODIWEB.COM
 
2.
 
The Jerusalem Post, May 15, 2002
Group of 24 New Immigrants from Peru Arrives
by Michael Freund
Twenty-four new immigrants from Peru arrived early yesterday morning.
The arrivals underwent conversion to Judaism last December via a special
Beit Din sent to Peru by Israel's Chief Rabbinate. They had all been
living according to Jewish law for over a decade prior to their
conversion.
The immigrants hail primarily from Lima, Peru's capital, as well as the
outlying village of Trujillo. They join an additional group of 48
Peruvians who arrived on May 8. With the help of the Jewish Agency and
the Absorption Ministry, the Gush Etzion Regional Council will absorb
them in Alon Shvut and Karmei Tzur.
 
 
3.
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Wednesday, May 15, 2002 / Sivan 4, 5762
 
ISRAELI-ARABS AND TERROR
More cases of Israeli-Arab cooperation with terrorists: Two sisters from the western Galilee village of Arabeh were brought before a court in Acco (Acre) this morning for cooperating with Islamic Jihad terrorists. They are charged with providing terrorists with Israeli identity cards and with information about Israeli soldiers and citizens in their area. In Haifa today, two young Arab women from another Galilee village were indicted on similar charges regarding a planned attack in a northern-Israel shopping mall.
Galilee Region Police Commander Yehuda Solomon said today that this is not a marginal phenomenon. "It's not just an expression of protest," he said, "but real motivation on the part of young women to form connections with men with much blood on their hands." The connections are apparently initiated via the internet.
 
 RABBI BACHRACH PASSES AWAY
Rabbi Yehoshua Bachrach, noted author and educator, passed away this morning in Haifa at the age of 88. He was awarded the Israel Prize for Torah Literature for the year 5757 (1997), mainly in recognition for his several books on Bible study. Rabbi Bachrach ran the Aliyah Institution that took in many Holocaust survivor children. He was buried this afternoon in Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Chaim Druckman, head of the Yeshivot Bnei Akiva movement and a Knesset Member of the National Religious Party, spoke with Arutz-7 today about the late Rabbi Bachrach:
"I arrived in Israel [as a boy] in 1944, and I met him for the first time on the Fast of Gedaliah [early autumn] of that year. Aside from being a great Torah scholar, he was a great educator. He established the Aliyah school for these remnants and orphans, and was literally a father for each and every one. It was a home for them. His students loved him; we called him Yehoshua, out of love. We greatly admired him... He built these children and turned them into people, after what they experienced...
"He was also a great writer, and I would say that he built a special method for teaching T'nach [Bible]. His first book, Mother of Royalty, is about the Book of Ruth, which we will read two days from now on Shavuot; he was the one who revealed the deep contents of this book. It is in his merit that so many people study Ruth with his book on Shavuot. He also opened the gates for delving into Yonah, as well as the great figures of Shmuel, Sha'ul and Yonatan, and King David, and Esther... He integrates precise analyses of the text with the medrashim [Rabbinic exegesis], and shows the true depth He was an amazing personality, with great humility and true love for everyone..."
 
ANTI-SEMITISM IN PARIS, SAN FRANCISCO AND ELSEWHERE
More anti-Semitism in a Paris suburb: A group of North African youths violently assaulted five young Jews last night, and several of the latter suffered broken jaws. A local police officer reported that the attackers numbered 20 people.
San Francisco, as well, was the scene of an anti-Semitic near-riot last Thursday. Laurie Zoloth, Director of the Jewish Studies Program at San Francisco State University, says she witnessed a "hate mob" and a "large, angry crowd of Palestinians and their supporters" that surrounded a group of 50 Jews and "screamed at us to 'go back to Russia' and... that they would kill us all, and other terrible things..." Her account continues:
"[The] threatening crowd shoved the Hillel students against the wall of the plaza... As the counter- demonstrators poured into the plaza, screaming at the Jews to 'Get out or we will kill you' and 'Hitler did not finish the job,' I turned to the police and to every administrator I could find... [The police finally arrived and] could do nothing more than surround the Jewish students and community members who were now trapped in a corner of the plaza, grouped under the flags of Israel, while an angry, out of control mob, literally chanting for our deaths, surrounded us... We had to be marched back to the Hillel House under armed San Francisco police guard, and we had to have a police guard remain outside Hillel."
Ms. Zoloth further writes about a permanent atmosphere of anti-Semitism on the SFSU campus:
"I cannot fully express what it feels like to have to walk across campus daily, past maps of the Middle East that do not include Israel, past posters of cans of soup with labels on them of drops of blood and dead babies, labeled 'canned Palestinian children meat, slaughtered according to Jewish rites under American license,' past poster after poster calling out 'Zionism = racism,' and 'Jews = Nazis.' This is not civic discourse, this is not free speech, and this is the Weimar Republic with brown shirts it cannot control. This is the casual introduction of the medieval blood libel and virulent hatred smeared around our campus in a manner so ordinary that it hardly excites concern - except if you are a Jew, and you understand that hateful words have always led to hateful deeds."
While on the topic of anti-Semitism at California universities, the Wall St. Journal recently featured an article discussing a course offered at University of California-Berkeley. The course description for English R1A, "The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance" (4 credits), reads as follows:
"The brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, [ongoing] since 1948, has systematically displaced, killed, and maimed millions of Palestinian people. And yet, from under the brutal weight of the occupation, Palestinians have produced their own culture and poetry of resistance. This class will examine the history of the [resistance] and the way that it is narrated by Palestinians in order to produce an understanding of the Intifada... This class takes as its starting point the right of Palestinians to fight for their own self-determination. Conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other [classes]."
 
ANTI-ARAFAT BILLS IN CONGRESS
A bill scheduled for debate today in the US House of Representatives would severely restrict American relations with the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat. The bill, proposed by Reps. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Ben Gilman (R-NY) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ), defines Arafat as responsible for the terrorism against Israel, and stipulates that his personal possession in the U.S., as well as those of the PLO/Palestinian Authority, be frozen. The bill demands a reduction in the number of PA representatives in the US, the denial of visas and other travel restrictions on PA and PLO officials, and the downgrading of the status of PA and PLO offices in the U.S. A similar bill has been proposed in the Senate, but has not yet come up for a vote.
 
"Jerusalem News-37"
1. Concerning Dick Armey
2. AMERICA'S ASHES by Aryeh Gallin

1.
Concerning Dick Armey and our support for him one message supported us  and another message said we should not comment on internal USA political matters. In general we do not make such comments but Mr. Dick Armey is this case is saying something
that Brit-Am holds by, i.e. according to scripture the Palestinian Arabs should be expelled from the Land of Israel and Isaiah indicates that Ephraim and Judah willl work together on this matter.
 
Dear Mr. Davidiy,
Thank you so much for adding us to your newsgroup. We benefit in so many ways!
We just rec'd the "Jerusalem News-36" and acted immediately on the "Very important..." posting regarding Congressman Dick Armey's bold, righteous, reasonable statements. Wanted to let you know that the FAX# listed (202-224-33121) is incorrect and the lady who answers the line is not helpful. The number for his office is correct and you can leave a message at this number, but we wanted to put our support/views in writing. We'll go out and do some research and try to find the correct fax number. Just wanted to let you know so perhaps you can get a correction sent to the group.
Blessings,
Margie Kinikin
 
Message repeated below:
 
<< VERY IMPORTANT -- PLEASE READ AND FORWARD NOW
 
******************************************************************************
*
Last night on MSNBC "Hardball " Chris Matthews hosted the Majority
Leader Dick Armey.  This interview was the most incredible interview I
have ever heard.  Mr. Armey stated that the land of Israel belonged to the
Jewish people, and if the Palestinians could not live side by side
with the Jewish people they need to leave.  He said outright the land of
Israel was a Jewish State, and there is plenty of Arab land to house the
Palestinians.
 
He also stated there will be a bill going to the "House" tomorrow on this
issue.
 
Mr. Armey will be under intense pressure for this bold statement. Please, if
you have never faxed or called before please make this call
now.  Call as many of your friends, forward this to as many that will take
this time to do the same.  We need to be bombarding the White
House tomorrow.  Tell Mr. Armey how much you appreciate his bold
statement!
 
Listed below is the contact information for Mr. Armey:
 
Congressman Dick Armey
301 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-4326
Tel:   (202)225-7772  Room 301
 
Congressman Dick Armey
9901 East Valley Ranch Parkway, Suite 3050
Irving, TX 75063
(972) 556-2500
 
 
2.
The following notes are extracted from an article by Aryeh Galin. Aryeh is a firend of ours and a sympathizer of Brit-Am. In the past Aryeh invited Yair Davidiy
to give a series of talks hosted by the Root and Branch Organization that Aryeh heads. The talks were relatively successful and we are grateful for Aryeh's support.
 On the other hand Aryeh has his own understanding of things and we ourselves agree only with those opinions that we quote sympathetically: The same principle holds for all  people quoted by us.
 
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 01:48:48 +0200
From: "Root & Branch Association, Ltd." <rb@rb.org.il>
Subject: AMERICA'S ASHES by Aryeh Gallin
Extracts:
1. "Islamic fundamentalism" = The Saudi and Gulf State funded (with recycled U.S. and European petrodollars)
Wahhabi Worldwide Mass Murder and Missionary Movement.
 
2. The Wahhabi religion was founded by Muhammad Ibn 'Abdi-l-Wahhab (1703-92) in Arabia.
 
3. Muhammad Ibn 'Abdi'-l-Wahhab was excommunicated from Islam by the Sunni spiritual leaders of his day.
 
4. Muhammad Ibn 'Abdi'-l-Wahhab's daughter married Abdul Aziz, son of Muhammad bin Saud, leader of the
al-Saud tribe, in 1744.
 
5. Muhammad bin Saud adopted Wahhabism as the religion for his al-Saud tribe, which lived in the eastern
Arabian province of Najd.
 
6. The Wahhabi religion is just that: a new religion. The Wahhabi religion no more represents a form of
Islam than do the Druze or Bahai religions. Like the Wahhabi religion, the Druze and Bahai religions
grew out of an Islamic background, but they are all new religions separate from Islam.
 
7. From 1924-1926 the Wahhabi al-Saud tribe conquered the western Arabian province of Hejaz with its Holy
Cities of Islam -- Mecca and Medina -- from the Bani HaShem (Hashemite) dynasty. The Bani HaShem
(Hashemites) were direct descendents of Muhammad, Prophet of Islam, and the traditional guardians
of Mecca and Medina.
 
8. On September 18, 1932, "King" Abdul Aziz bin Saud, proclaimed the establishment of the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia.
 
9. Wahhabism, the religion of the al-Saud tribe, became the official state religion of the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
 
10. Since the 1960s, the Wahhabi al-Saud have been building up their religious networks in North America
and Europe through active missionary activities among local host populations.
 
11. Thousands upon thousands of people from North America and Europe have converted to Wahhabism and are
prepared to commit mass murder in the name of this religion.
 
12. There is no difference between the al-Saud ruling family and the Wahhabi "ulema" (clergy) vis-a-vis
Wahhabi mass murder attacks ("terrorism") such as those of September 11, 2001.
 
13. Attempts to remove responsibility from the al-Saud ruling family for the September 11 and other attacks,
and to transfer that responsibility to the Wahhabi "ulema" (clergy), are simply foolish attempts by the
powerful North American and European military-industrial-oil complexes to play "Musical Murder" -- of the
type that "Yasser Arafat" does with his multiple murder groups in Israel -- and cover up their own
co-responsibility in creating the Wahhabi Frankenstein monster through the business that they did with
the al-Saud and ruling Gulf State tribes....
 
14. There is no such thing as a "moderate" Wahhabi, anymore than there was -- or is -- such a thing
as a "moderate" Nazi.
 
18. The goal of the Wahhabis, like the Nazis, is world domination through mass conversion or mass
extermination.
 
19. Wahhabis only provide non-Wahhabis with two alternatives: conversion or death.
 
20. The spiritual "black fire" of Wahhabism can only be fought with the spiritual "white fire"
of G-d's Torah.
 
24. Wahhabi money flows through most Middle East studies departments at academic institutions in North America
and Europe.
 
25. Wahhabi money flows through a good deal of the Western press, such as Cable Network News, which would be
better renamed Saudi Network News.
 
26. al-Qaida is only one of THOUSANDS of Wahhabi al-Saud mass murder networks.
 
 "Jerusalem News"-38
1. HISTORICAL QUOTE
2. Arutz Sheva News Service
- ISRAEL SUNK WEAPONS SHIP
- CLEARING HULEH VALLEY ONCE MORE
3. Gunmen Kill 30, Including 10 Children, in Kashmir
4. RE: "Jerusalem News-37"
5. Israeli civilian wounded in Bet-El
6. RE: "Jerusalem News-37"

 
1.
 
 
 
Israel Update: May 2002
 
By: Aish.com Staff
 
1) HISTORICAL QUOTE
 
In an interview with the Dutch newspaper "Trau" (March 31, 1977),
PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein said:
 
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state
is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for
our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians,
Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons
do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab
national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct
'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.
 
"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined
borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I
can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the
moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a
minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."
 
 
 
"Look upon Zion, the city of our festivals; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a
peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved... For the Lord is our judge,
the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; it is He who will save us."
Isaiah 33:20-22
 
 
2.
 
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Thursday, May 16, 2002 / Sivan 5, 5762
ISRAEL SUNK WEAPONS SHIP
The Foreign Report, published in Britain, reports on an Arab arms-smuggling ship that was sunk by Israeli forces in the Mediterranean in the past two weeks. The ship was on its way from Lebanon to Gaza, laden with much weaponry, particularly katyushas and anti-tank rockets. The report says that although Israeli Intelligence was unable to discern the organization that sent the ship, it was clearly bound for the PA. The plan was for P.A. residents of Gaza to collect the weapons while disguised as fishermen.
The Israeli forces originally intended to capture the ship and put it on display, as they did in the case of the Karin-A arms ship four months ago. However, when it was learned that the 20 crewmen were armed and prepared for an attack, it was decided to simply bomb and sink the ship without a fight.
 
CLEARING HULEH VALLEY ONCE MORE
The Huleh Valley in the northern Galilee - the area of the former Lake Huleh - is one the most air-polluted areas in the country. This was reported yesterday at an Environment Ministry conference in the north. Local farmers continuously burn tons of unneeded branches, while the air in the valley is not easily replaced. The regional council is beginning to encourage the farmers to crush the branches instead of burning them. Legislation is also being considered.
The unusable marshy area, just west of and below the Golan Heights, was drained in the 1950's and turned into high-quality agricultural land. The story began in 1951, when the Jewish National Fund began its most ambitious land reclamation program in and around the 5-square-mile Lake Huleh. The lake was surrounded by 68 square miles of malaria-infested swamps, and it was decided to drain Lake Huleh and the swamp by rechanneling the water into carp ponds. The northern and southern ends of the lake were blasted open, creating deep channels that allowed the water to run easily into the Jordan River. By 1958 the job was completed, and the newly created Huleh Valley yielded over 20,000 acres of extremely fertile land.
 
 
3.
 
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Gunmen Kill 30, Including 10 Children, in Kashmir
 By Celia W. Dugger
 
May 15, 2002
 
NEW DELHI, May 14 In one of the deadliest attacks India has witnessed in recent years, three men disguised in army fatigues killed 30 people today and wounded 48 with sprays of automatic gunfire in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which both India and Pakistan claim.
 
It was just the kind of attack that diplomats have feared could provoke a military retaliation by India, which massed troops on the border after it blamed Pakistan-based militants for a suicide attack on its Parliament last December.
 
 India has threatened to attack if Pakistan does not halt further terror assaults and infiltrations into Kashmir by militants based there. The two nuclear-armed nations still have a million soldiers supported by heavy artillery and tanks mobilized for war along their 1,800-mile border.
 
In the attack today, which took place at Kaluchak, on the outskirts of Jammu, Kashmir's capital, the gunmen first opened fire on a busload of people, killing seven. They then dashed into the family quarters of an army camp, killing 23 more people, including 10 children, most of them 7 to 10, the police said. The assailants were killed by soldiers in an hourslong siege.
 
Indian intelligence officials said the attack was probably carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba, one of two Pakistan-based militant groups that they also accused in the December attack on Parliament, which left 14 people dead.
 
 The attack will also intensify India's demand that the United States apply whatever pressure it takes to get Pakistan, America's ally against terrorism in Afghanistan, to stop allowing militants to commit terrorist acts against India from Pakistani territory.
 
India accuses Pakistan of sponsoring extreme Islamic groups to fight a proxy war against India in Jammu and Kashmir, India's only state where Muslims are in a majority and a territory that Pakistan, an Islamic nation, also claims.
 
 India and Pakistan have fought two of their three full-scale wars over Kashmir and a third small one in 1999. Since 1989, more than 30,000 people have died in an anti-India insurgency in Kashmir.
 
 
: t r u t h o u t 2002
 
4.
 
From: Tom Alt-
Subject: RE: "Jerusalem News-37"
Chag sameach Yair,
I just want to add my extreme gratitude for your post on congressman Dick Armey. I don't get a great deal of news outside of your distributions so I would not have known of it had you not emailed it. You did the right thing! I've sent it out to a number of Jewish and Christian friends that may ultimately result in many, many people seeing and acting on this critical development. I may write the president as well.
Please keep up the superb work you do. I know it's God's will.
Shalom aleicha, Tom
P.S. I may follow up after Shavuot on the dreadful situation at San Francisco State.
 
5.
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 13:39:09 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
 
An Israeli civilian moderately to severely wounded in the Bet-El settlement
IDF Spokesperson 18 May 2002
An Israeli civilian was wounded tonight in a moderate to severe manner, when
a terrorist infiltrated the Bet-El settlement, north of Ramallah.
From an initial inquiry, it appears that around 23:00 last night, a
terrorist infiltrated the settlement, approached one of the houses and
knocked on the door.
One of the house's residents started shooting towards the terrorist. At the
same time, the settlement's civil security officer was called to the place.
Reaching the house, the officer confronted the terrorist, was stabbed, and
was moderately to severely hurt.
The security man responded by shooting towards the terrorist and killing
him.
A short while later, the wounded man was evacuated to a hospital to receive
medical treatment.
At the moment, searches are being conducted in the area.
 
6.
 
From: Steven Collins
Subject: RE: "Jerusalem News-37"
 
Shalom Yair,
For whatever its worth, I thought it was perfectly alright for you to
comment on Dick Armey's statement and to address American politics where it
affects Israel's security and affairs. Americans never hesitate to comment
on internal Israeli politics. Why shouldn't it work both ways?
Another point. We know there are various prophecies concerning Judah,
Joseph, Israel, etc. which will be fulfilled in the years ahead. God
fulfills his prophecies by moving the minds and actions of the rulers and
leaders of nations (Proverbs 21:1). Today's nations rarely have kings, so
God will work through the minds and actions of modern political leaders to
direct national events according to his will. Given that fact, I see
nothing wrong with watching what is happening in the politics of the major
nations.
Steven Collins
 
 
 
"Jerusalem News"-39
1. Arutz Sheva News Service
- SUICIDAL TERRORIST MURDERS TWO IN NETANYA BLAST
2. Yediot Acharonot
3. phenomenon of anti-Americanism in the world today, Jerusalem Post
4. Statistics
5. EUROPEAN UNION SUED BY FAMILY OF TERROR VICTIMS

1.
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Sunday, May 19, 2002 / Sivan 8, 5762
SUICIDAL TERRORIST MURDERS TWO IN NETANYA BLAST
Two people were killed this afternoon in yet another suicide terrorist attack in Netanya. Twelve days after the last one, in which 15 people were massacred in Rishon LeTzion, Palestinian terror struck at the Netanya open-market, causing the roof to collapse and causing difficulties in the evacuation of the wounded. Close to fifty people were wounded, including five in serious condition, and they were evacuated to hospitals in Netanya, Hadera, and Kfar Sava. The terrorist wore an IDF uniform.
A two-pronged terrorist attack in Gaza today led to the wounding of four soldiers, but the civilians they were escorting emerged unscathed. The incident began when a convoy of cars was attacked by gunfire near Netzarim. The soldiers returned fire, and then a bomb exploded nearby, causing the jeep to overturn.
 
2.
Yediot Acharonot (YA 24s, 15.5.02) The President of Israel held a ceremony (14.5.02) in honor of Israeli citizens who had reached the age of 100 years and more.
Two/thirds of the people in the "Century Club" are women.
The idea for the ceremony was taken from the practise of Queen Elizabeth of Britain who every year holds a similar ceremony. The Queen heard of the ceremony in Israel and sent a special blessing of her own that was translated into Hebrew and read out by the British Consul.
There are 604 people in Israel whose ages are 100 and more, 69 of whom live in Jerusalem, 66 in Tel Aviv, 62 in Ramat Gan, and the rest throughout the country.
A representative selection of the "oldtimers" were present at the ceremony. Various of the centenegarians were asked as to the secret of their longevity. They give different answers but a common theme seemed to be the exhortation to take a positive view of life, to always look on the bright side, and to avoid getting angry. They all seemed to exercise regularly, kept active, avoided overeating, but were not especially particular as to diet. Several said that longevity ran in the family.
 
3.
Jerusalem Post 16.5.02 (p. B16)article by Bret Stephens analyses the phenomenon of anti-Americanism in the world today: Amongst his conclusions:
<<Anti-Americanism is a neurosis, both political and cultural. It is a close cousin of anti-Semitism, and it is a cover for anti-Semitism....It will remain  with us, so long as Americans and Jews exist on this earth, and it will have to be combatted if Americans and Jews are to remain on this earth>>
 
4.
YA (14.5.02  p.15): Professor Manfred Green submitted a report on behalf of the Israeli Ministry of Health to the World Health Organization in Geneva:
43% of the men and 29% of the women (ages 35-44) in Israel smoke. Baby deaths in Israel are amongst the four highest ones in the world. 5.9. per 1,000
alongside the USA (7.2), Greece (6.7), Turkey (6).
Life expectancy of the Israeli male is amongst the highest in the world, the average age reaching 76.6 which is exceeded only by Sweden (77).
The average age of women reaches 80.4 which though higher than the males on an international scale is less than that of France (82.7), Spain (82.3), Sweden (82.2).
The percentage of children under the age of 17 (29.9%) is the highest in the world. The percentage of people over 65 (9.8%) is the lowest in the world.
Israel has the third largest proportion of doctors per head of population in the world.
 
5.
From: imra@netvision.net.il
For Immediate Release May 20, 2002
EUROPEAN UNION SUED BY FAMILY OF TERROR VICTIMS
Law Suit Accuses EU of Funding Palestinian Terrorism
A family of Israeli terror victims will file a N.I.S. 100,000,000 law suit
this morning, Monday May 20th, in the Tel-Aviv District Court against the
European Union (EU). The civil action arises from a Palestinian terror
attack which left the mother of the British born family, Techiya Blumberg,
dead and her husband and daughter seriously injured.
On August 5th 2001, Steven Blumberg, his wife Techiya and young daughter
Tzipora were traveling from their home in Karnei Shomron on the highway near
Kalkilya. As Blumberg maneuvered his car to overtake a deliberately slow
moving vehicle, Palestinian terrorist in the second car opened fire with
automatic weapons. The terrorist instantly killed Techiya. Steven and his
fourteen year old daughter were also grievously injured in the attack and
remain paralyzed until today. Techiya Blumberg, 35, was the mother of five
children and five months pregnant at the time of her murder.
This past October, Israeli security services arrested a Palestinian police
officer, Farid Azouni, and charged him with having participated in the
shooting. In December, the Israeli security service arrested the chief of
police in Kalkilya, Samar Abu Hania, accusing him of having planned the
attack on the Blumbergs. Both Azouni and Abu Hania were salaried employees
of the Palestinian Authority (PA) when they carried out the killing.
The law suit, which is brought by attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, alleges
that the EU has recklessly provided the PA with massive amounts of
financial aid, while knowing that the money was being diverted from its
intended civilian purposes to Palestinian terrorist groups. Following the
signing of the Oslo Accords, the EU pledged to provide funding to the PA for
civilian projects, primarily to pay the salaries of the PA's municipal
workers. The EU donates approximately $10 million a month and more than
$1.5 billion to the PA since 1994. The plaintiffs contend that Yassir
Arafat has channeled large sums of these EU funds to terrorist organizations
such as Fatah Tanzim and Force 17. Moreover, the complaint alleges that the
EU failed to undertake any steps to monitor or scrutinize how the PA was
utilizing the money.
In addition, since October 2000, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have had
to destroy buildings and institutions that were constructed using EU funds.
The EU has complained to Israel that the IDF has razed buildings valued at
more than $20,000,000. Repeatedly, however, the IDF had warned the
Europeans that it was targeting these structures because the PA had
transformed them into explosive laboratories, training bases and arms
caches. Thus, the EU was on notice that the buildings it financed were
being utilized by the PA for terrorism.
"Without the EU's reckless provision of financing to the Palestinians,
hundreds of Israeli terror victims would still be alive and thousands of
others would never have had to suffer their tragic injuries," said attorney
Darshan-Leitner, "The law suit will establish that the EU, even more than
Iran, is the biggest source of funding for the Palestinian terrorist groups
that target Israeli civilians."
FOR MORE INFORMATION: 972-8-973-3336
 
--------------------------------------------
IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il
 
"Jerusalem News"-40
 
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Monday, May 20, 2002 / Sivan 9, 5762
-VACATIONING PRISONER PLANS MURDEROUS ATTACK
MK Uri Ariel (National Union) claims that Ahmed Sa'adat, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) chief, is being held in Jericho under "vacation" conditions. Sa'adat was among the six terrorists protected by Yasser Arafat when the latter was holed up in the Mukata compound; Israel agreed that they would be released to a Jericho prison under the supervision of British and American wardens. In actuality, however, Sa'adat was allowed to work from an office in Jericho, with full freedom of movement and unrestricted communications. It came as no surprise, therefore, when Israel's television news channels reported last night that Israeli security elements believe he was behind yesterday's attack in Netanya.
Although an American consulate official said today that Sa'adat has "always, since his release from Ramallah, been under total American and British supervision," other American officials said this morning that they had accepted Israel's demand to ensure that this would be the case from now on.
 
 
 NETANYA VICTIMS
Two of the three victims in the Netanya market bombing were buried this afternoon. Yosef Haviv, 70, and Arkadi Weiselman, 40, were laid to rest in the Netanya cemetery. The name of the third victim has not yet been cleared for publication. Twenty-one of the wounded remain in the hospital, including four in serious condition and a 6.5-year-old girl with shrapnel wounds all over her body. Weiselman, who was an employee at Netanya's Park Hotel, escaped injury during the Passover Seder massacre there; 29 people were killed at the hands of a Palestinian suicide killer. Yesterday, Weiselman was not as fortunate when he chose to shop at the Netanya market. The PFLP took credit for the murderous attack.
 
 
MIRACLE OUTSIDE AFULA; WOMAN STABBED IN GUSH ETZION
Even as Israeli security officials in both the police and army warn that the effects of Operation Defensive Shield are wearing off, a suicide bombing was thwarted today five kilometers west of Afula by a citizen's alertness. He noticed a suspicious-looking Arab at a bus stop and notified the police. When the police signaled the suspect to identify himself, he panicked and detonated a bomb he was wearing on his torso. Two passersby were very lightly injured in the blast.
In another successful Israeli operation, IDF forces arrested a young Arab woman in Tul Karem this afternoon who was in the final stages of planning an attack in the Sharon region. The forces were tipped off by GSS intelligence information.
A PA Arab stabbed a pregnant woman this afternoon at the Gush Etzion junction. She was taken to a Jerusalem hospital with light wounds in her hand and shoulder, while alert civilians helped apprehend the terrorist... An Israeli citizen was lightly hurt last night when Arabs threw rocks at his car south of Jerusalem, near Husan... Gunfire was directed at an IDF patrol near the border fence; no one was hurt, and IDF soldiers returned fire...
There were several roadside shootings today, after a sharp decrease in their number following Operation Defensive Shield: Gunfire was opened on a mail truck between Shavei Shomron and Chomesh in the Shomron, causing damage to the vehicle but no injuries... Shots were also fired at a car near the Ganim-Kadim junction from within Jenin; no one was hurt...
 
 NYPD TRAINING IN ISRAEL
Five New York Police Department investigators are in Israel undergoing training to detect and investigate suicide bombers, says yesterday's New York Daily News. The paper reports that this is the first time that a U.S. police department is being trained by Israeli military and municipal police experts, "who have had to respond to scores of human bombs in the past 18 months." "We were invited by Israel to be the only police agency at a symposium focused on suicide bombers and lessons learned," NY Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly confirmed.
 
 
"Jerusalem News"-40
1. Arutz Sheva News Service
- VACATIONING PRISONER PLANS MURDEROUS ATTACK
- NETANYA VICTIMS
- MIRACLE OUTSIDE AFULA; WOMAN STABBED IN GUSH ETZION
- NYPD TRAINING IN ISRAEL

 
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Monday, May 20, 2002 / Sivan 9, 5762
-VACATIONING PRISONER PLANS MURDEROUS ATTACK
MK Uri Ariel (National Union) claims that Ahmed Sa'adat, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) chief, is being held in Jericho under "vacation" conditions. Sa'adat was among the six terrorists protected by Yasser Arafat when the latter was holed up in the Mukata compound; Israel agreed that they would be released to a Jericho prison under the supervision of British and American wardens. In actuality, however, Sa'adat was allowed to work from an office in Jericho, with full freedom of movement and unrestricted communications. It came as no surprise, therefore, when Israel's television news channels reported last night that Israeli security elements believe he was behind yesterday's attack in Netanya.
Although an American consulate official said today that Sa'adat has "always, since his release from Ramallah, been under total American and British supervision," other American officials said this morning that they had accepted Israel's demand to ensure that this would be the case from now on.
 
 
 NETANYA VICTIMS
Two of the three victims in the Netanya market bombing were buried this afternoon. Yosef Haviv, 70, and Arkadi Weiselman, 40, were laid to rest in the Netanya cemetery. The name of the third victim has not yet been cleared for publication. Twenty-one of the wounded remain in the hospital, including four in serious condition and a 6.5-year-old girl with shrapnel wounds all over her body. Weiselman, who was an employee at Netanya's Park Hotel, escaped injury during the Passover Seder massacre there; 29 people were killed at the hands of a Palestinian suicide killer. Yesterday, Weiselman was not as fortunate when he chose to shop at the Netanya market. The PFLP took credit for the murderous attack.
 
 
MIRACLE OUTSIDE AFULA; WOMAN STABBED IN GUSH ETZION
Even as Israeli security officials in both the police and army warn that the effects of Operation Defensive Shield are wearing off, a suicide bombing was thwarted today five kilometers west of Afula by a citizen's alertness. He noticed a suspicious-looking Arab at a bus stop and notified the police. When the police signaled the suspect to identify himself, he panicked and detonated a bomb he was wearing on his torso. Two passersby were very lightly injured in the blast.
In another successful Israeli operation, IDF forces arrested a young Arab woman in Tul Karem this afternoon who was in the final stages of planning an attack in the Sharon region. The forces were tipped off by GSS intelligence information.
A PA Arab stabbed a pregnant woman this afternoon at the Gush Etzion junction. She was taken to a Jerusalem hospital with light wounds in her hand and shoulder, while alert civilians helped apprehend the terrorist... An Israeli citizen was lightly hurt last night when Arabs threw rocks at his car south of Jerusalem, near Husan... Gunfire was directed at an IDF patrol near the border fence; no one was hurt, and IDF soldiers returned fire...
There were several roadside shootings today, after a sharp decrease in their number following Operation Defensive Shield: Gunfire was opened on a mail truck between Shavei Shomron and Chomesh in the Shomron, causing damage to the vehicle but no injuries... Shots were also fired at a car near the Ganim-Kadim junction from within Jenin; no one was hurt...
 
 NYPD TRAINING IN ISRAEL
Five New York Police Department investigators are in Israel undergoing training to detect and investigate suicide bombers, says yesterday's New York Daily News. The paper reports that this is the first time that a U.S. police department is being trained by Israeli military and municipal police experts, "who have had to respond to scores of human bombs in the past 18 months." "We were invited by Israel to be the only police agency at a symposium focused on suicide bombers and lessons learned," NY Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly confirmed.
 
"Jerusalem News"-41
1. Prevention of a suicide attack that was planned to be carried out by a woman, Fatah
2. Palestinians were readying 1-ton bomb for attack
3. pro-PLO demonstration
4. Arutz Sheva News Service
- SEVERAL SUICIDE ATTACKS PREVENTED
- CHIEF RABBIS CALL: BUY BLUE-AND-WHITE
5. Regarding the NYPD training in Israel ...
6. A MUST READ !!! WANT TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL AND JEWS ?
7. AL QAEDA COOPERATION WITH PALESTINIAN TERROR GROUPS

1.
Subject: Prevention of a suicide attack that was planned to be carried out by a woman, affiliated with the Fatah movement To: imra@imra.org.il
Prevention of a suicide attack that was planned to be carried out by a
woman, affiliated with the Fatah movement
IDF Spokesperson 21 May 2002
On 20.May.2002 a border police force, combined with Paratrooper fighters,
arrested in Tul Karem, Thawra Hamur, from the village of Jaba in the
northern West Bank. The 26 year old Thawra was on her way to commit a
suicide attack in Israel. She was the sixth female suicide bomber sent by
the Fatah to commit a suicide attack in Israel. It must be noted, that the
Islamic religious elders in the PA (including the Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin)
and the Islamic world (headed by the sheikh Kardawi) have published an
Islamic verdict, which allows women to commit suicide attacks.
This is a list of the female suicide bombers, prior to this case, all of
which were affiliated with the Fatah:
27.Jan.2002- Wafa Idris blew herself up outside a shoe store in Yafo St. in
central Jerusalem. As a result of the explosion a man was killed and 150
were wounded.
27.Feb.2002- Dareen Abu Aisha blew herself up at the Maccabim checkpoint,
after the car she was driving was stopped for a routine check. As a result
three policemen were wounded.
29.March.2002- Ayat Akhras blew herself up at the entrance of a supermarket
in Jerusalem, after the security guard Haim (Mino) Smadar used his body to
block her entrance. As a result, a 17 year old girl and the two security
guards were killed.
11.Apr.2002- Shifa Qudsi was arrested in Tul Karem by an IDF Force. The 26
year old Shafa was recruited by the Fatah, and was suppose to carry out a
suicide attack on 12.4.02 in Israel. In her interrogation she admitted that
she was instructed by Fatah wanted terrorists to infiltrate Israel,
disguised as a pregnant woman, and commit a suicide attack in a populated
area.
12.Apr.2002- Andaleeb Taqteqa blew herself up in the entrance of the "Mahane
Yehuda" Market in Jerusalem. As a result six people were killed and 104 were
wounded.
 
2.
 
Subject: MI: Palestinians were readying 1-ton bomb for attack To: imra@imra.org.il
MI: Palestinians were readying 1-ton bomb for attack
Gideon Alon and AP - Ha'aretz 21 May 2002
Palestinian terrorists had planned to carry out an attack using a one-ton
bomb, a senior Military Intelligence officer told the Knesset Foreign
Affairs and Defense committee yesterday. The officer did not specify the
Palestinians' target for the bombing, but The Associated Press reported that
they had planned to blow up a truck loaded with the explosives in the
underground parking garage of the Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv. The officer
said that the plan had been uncovered during Operation Defensive Shield. He
added that the Israel Defense Forces had also found documents and
intelligence pointing to plans by terrorist organizations to simultaneously
attack seven coastal cities and carry out a chain of suicide bombings in
Jerusalem in which three terrorists were to take part. The officer also told
the MKs of intelligence alerts with regard to more planned attacks.
 
3.
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 19:14:40 -0500
From: Orjan Svensson, Sweden
Subject: Re: "Jerusalem News"-40
 
Shalom,
There was a pro-PLO demonstration here a few days ago.
The demonstration was organized by some local Arabs who live here.
Mrs. Greta Erhamn, a local author of books, comments in today's issue of BLT,
a local news-paper, concerning the demonstrators:
 
("According to reasons of assylum, themselves being fled from
persecution and threat of life in a dictature state -
they scream with fists in the air and faces twisted by
hatred - death to two democracies, USA and Israel.
What a paradox.
...Israel - a small democracy's - struggle for its freedon
and the right to live is only respected when all sly
attacks...cease.")
 
Orjan
 
4.
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 18:39:27 +0200
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
SEVERAL SUICIDE ATTACKS PREVENTED
Israeli Border Guard police killed a heavily-armed Arab who had opened fire on their position this morning. It was later discovered that the terrorist also had an explosives belt strapped to his body.
Another suspected terrorist was killed on the Tunnels Highway this morning when he did not heed military instructions to stop. The forces are investigating whether he was on his way to perpetrate an attack. A 20-year-old woman from Tul Karem was arrested; she, too, was on her way to perpetrate a suicide attack.
In another form of anti-terror activity, the IDF arrested last night a total of 21 terrorist suspects, including 15 from the Shomron village of Salfit. Three brothers suspected of terrorist activities in PLO-controlled Abu Sneineh of Hevron were also arrested, as well as three wanted Arabs from villages near Jerusalem.
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CHIEF RABBIS CALL: BUY BLUE-AND-WHITE
Chief Rabbis Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron and Yisrael Meir Lau ask the public to buy Israeli products. Following a meeting with Industry and Trade Minister Dalia Itzik, who is pushing the campaign to "buy blue-and-white" (Israel's official colors), the rabbis issued a call that was read in synagogues throughout the country on the Shavuot holiday this past Friday. "In light of the economic situation," the rabbis wrote, "when factories are being closed, unemployment is growing, and many families can barely afford to put food on the table, we are commanded to fulfill the verse, 'If your brother falters, strengthen him, that he may live with you.' It is incumbent upon us to help our brothers who face financial difficulties, and enable them to live honorably before they require charity. During these days of trouble both nationally and individually, we must be careful to buy Israeli-made products."
 
5,
Subject: Re: "Jerusalem News"-40 To: Yair Davidiy <britam@netvision.net.il>
Hi Yair,
Regarding the NYPD training in Israel ...
The U.S., on a national and local level, is looking more and more
towards Israeli defensive and military methods and seeking out training from
Israel for the same. The FBI and many U.S. law enforcement agencies are now
employing the IDF's self-defense fighting techniques of "Krav Magen" (an
Israeli martial arts specialty). Krav Magen is presently being taught
throughout the U.S. by a former Israeli soldier, Guy Dar. Guy Dar has given
training sessions to the FBI, and (from what I'm reading in law enforcement
publications) Guy is in the process of giving Krav Magen training to many
other state and local law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. Krav
Magen is also being offered in joint American/Israeli efforts through
private institutions to the general public.
Somehow, we always manage to gravitate towards each other!....
Sharon
http://www.aquanet.co.il/krav-magen/method.html
http://bevsotiledkka.homestead.com/message.html
http://www.kravmagen.com/press_releases.htm
 
6.
Subject: A MUST READ !!! WANT TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL AND JEWS ? To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Dear Friends,
I have always maintained that behind the miraculous discoveries especially in fighting disease is the G-D inspired intelligence. Is it any wonder that i have personally held a lifetime love for Israel and Jewish People . I was put into the sanatorium to die of pulmonary tuberculosis at one year old ...in the very year that medical science discovered the correct combination of drugs with which to subdue the TB's ravages. Even though it went on to to bring about my present disability , ( affecting the spine and bones ) doubtless I have had all these years longer than was expected , indeed life has been a bonus for me and meant that through my children , my family lineage continues, (my two elder brothers have not had any children. ) It is only now that I learn of the great debt I owe to a Jewish medical scientist . For giving me all these years I say to Jewish People a Big Sincere THANK YOU ! ! !.
BTW apart from creating millionaires amongst them for choking us all with the oil filthy atmosphere and creating an epidemic in our country not seen since the Black Death ( Plague ) of premature death and crime rate through dealing Heroin smack with which to buy weapons to in turn murder other innocents what has Israel's enemies ever given us?.
Forwarding on the following ( courtesy of and many thanks to my good friends Rina and Judah in Israel )
with Kindest Regards.
bethany
north_pennine_rainbows@btinternet.com
 
Subject: WANT TO BOYCOTT ISRAEL AND JEWS ?
 
In these days of International calls for boycotts of Israel, I think the following is particularly relevant: The wonderful comic, Sam Levinson, had a great answer to anti-Semites:
 
"It's a free world and you don't have to like Jews, but if you DON'T, I suggest that you boycott certain Jewish products, like .....
 
The Wasserman Test for syphilis, Digitalis, discovered by Doctor Nuslin;
 
Insulin, discovered by Doctor Minofsky;
 
Chloral Hydrate, discovered by Doctor Lifreich;
 
The Schick Test for Diphtheria;
 
Vitamins, discovered by Doctor Funk;
 
Streptomycin, discovered by Doctor Woronan;
 
The Polio Pill by Doctor Sabin;
 
The Polio Vaccine by Doctor Jonas Salk.
 
 
Go on, boycott!
 
Humanitarian consistency requires that my people offer all these gifts to all people of the world.
 
Fanatic consistency requires that all bigots accept Syphilis, Diabetes, Convulsions, Malnutrition, Infantile Paralysis and Tuberculosis as a matter of principal.
 
7.
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 19:07:14 +0200
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
AL QAEDA COOPERATION WITH PALESTINIAN TERROR GROUPS
Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hizbullah are in cahoots. Representatives of the three terrorist organizations met in Lebanon at the end of March to discuss future joint terror activity, according to an ABC News report yesterday. News of the meeting came as FBI director Robert Mueller warned that terror attacks in the United States, including suicide bombings, are "inevitable." His remarks followed similar comments made by US Vice President Dick Cheney to the effect that an attack on American soil equal to or of greater magnitude than the September 11 attack on America is "almost a certainty."
It's not only Al Qaeda alone that Americans must fear. US Senator Bob Graham, chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, says that groups including Hizbullah and Islamic Jihad could be planning attacks against US targets. Graham, speaking with CNN, also confirmed reports that some two dozen people with ties to terror organizations had recently entered America hidden in container ships, and that they were on the loose.
 
"Jerusalem News"-42
1. Vatican Lawsuit Liability exceeds $1 billion in USA Courts
2. News We Doubt You've Seen - Views We Doubt You've Heard
3. Arutz-7 News
- YATOM: FUEL DEPOT BLAST COULD HAVE CAUSED WAR
- MORE P.A. TERROR KILLS 2; THREE TERRORISTS KILLED
- ISRAELI EMBASSY IN FRANCE BURNT TO THE GROUND

1.
News from Everything You Know Is Wrong contributor Jonathan Levy:
California Law Offices of Tom Easton & Jonathan Levy
Contact:
Jonathan Levy
Tel. 513-528-0586
Jlevy1@cinci.rr.com
 
For Immediate Release
May 19, 2002
 
Vatican Lawsuit Liability exceeds $1 billion in USA Courts
 
The Vatican, which has long claimed immunity to lawsuits, is now facing
claimants seeking more than $1 billion.
Insurance commissioners from Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Okalahoma,
and Arkansas have joined Holocaust victims and victims of pedophile priests
in filing lawsuits against the Vatican and Vatican Bank. The Insurance
commissioners are seeking over $600 million in a RICO (Anti Racketeering)
lawsuit that has named several top Cardinals including two former Papal
Nuncios to the United States and the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal
Sodano, as co-conspirators with convicted financier Martin Frankel in an
unsuccessful attempt to launder an incredible $150 billion in insurance assets.
Frankel who has plead guilty to 20 counts of wire fraud and one count each
of securities fraud, racketeering, racketeering conspiracy and a forfeiture
charge has been cooperating with the government in retrieving $200 million
in missing insurance assets. Frankel faces 150 years in prison and will be
sentenced next year.
Vatican officials allegedly received pay offs from Frankel and his
associates in exchange for use of a Vatican operated charity as money
laundering conduit. A Vatican monsignor, Colagiavanni, who also is facing
racketeering charges, assisted Frankel in taking over unsuspecting
insurance companies. Cardinal Laghi, former Vatican Nuncio to the USA,
received $100,000 from Frankel. The Vatican Bank, which is controlled by
Cardinal Sodano, issued a key letter of credit that Frankel used in his
insurance schemes.
The Vatican's legal problems in the US first arose in November 1999 when
California attorneys Tom Easton and Jonathan Levy filed a class action
lawsuit seeking return of gold and funds looted from Yugoslavia during WWII
and laundered by the Vatican bank post war. The wartime treasure is valued
at several hundreds of millions. Earlier this year sexual abuse victims in
the US sued the Vatican and now the insurance commissioners are seeking
restitution and penalties of over $600 million. All the lawsuits are pending.
According to co-counsel in the WWII case, Jonathan Levy, all the cases have
an excellent chance of beating Vatican immunity defenses: "The Vatican
used up its goodwill long ago, it has violated too many international laws
and laundered too much money for anyone to believe its wholesale denials
anymore. They stand to lose more than a billion dollars due to a lifestyle
of crime and corruption by their top officials."
 
For more information see:
www.vaticanbankclaims.com/press.html
www.vaticanbankclaims.com/links.html
 
2.
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 01:22:58 -0400 (EDT)
Voice of Judea News and Commentary
VoiceOfJudea@Judea.org
News We Doubt You've Seen - Views We Doubt You've Heard
 
- JEWS REPEAT OLD MISTAKES
As the White House forges a new strategic relationship with Russian
President Vladimir Putin, Jewish leaders and congressional legislators are
urging the Bush administration to press Russia to curb technology
transfers to Iran. (JTA.ORG)
 
Voice of Judea commentary:
Expecting others to do our dirty work is a dangerous game. So it was in
1981 in Iraq, so it must be today in Iran. It falls to us and only us to
prevent the Iranians from possessing the nuclear capabilities of which we
are the declared target.
---
 
GERMANY: EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ANIMALS The lower house of Parliament has voted
overwhelmingly to amend the Constitution to protect animals. The
amendment, expected to be approved by the upper house, adds "and animals"
to a clause on protecting natural resources. (Agence France-Presse, NY
Times)
 
ISRAELI SPACE AGENCY This week will see the first Israeli member of
an international manned space mission (there have been several previous
Diaspora Jewish members). ISRAEL IS ONE OF THE VERY FEW COUNTRIES IN THE
WORLD THAT HAS FULL INDEPENDENT LAUNCHING CAPABILITIES.
 
 
3.
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject: Arutz-7 News: Thursday, May 23, 2002
 
YATOM: FUEL DEPOT BLAST COULD HAVE CAUSED WAR
A major terror catastrophe, possibly the worst in Israel's history, was miraculously averted this morning - but some officials warn that Israel must respond as if the attempt had been successful. A bomb was detonated under a tanker as the truck was being fueled at the Pi Gelilot fuel depot, Israel's largest. The tanker caught fire and was heavily damaged, but the installation's fire extinguishing systems went into operation within two minutes and the blaze was quickly put out. No one was hurt. The bomb was detonated by cellular phone, and a second bomb, which did not explode, was also later found on the truck.
The tanker, which had been parked overnight in a guarded gas station in Holon, contained thousands of liters of diesel fuel. Pi Gelilot, in the Herzliya area, is situated near many major highways and homes, and the consequences of a major fire or explosion could have been widespread. The police are investigating the truck's route this morning in an attempt to determine when, where and how the bombs were placed.
 
Ehud Yatom, who was nominated by Ariel Sharon this year to become director of the Prime Minister's Anti-Terrorism Task Force, reacted forcefully to today\s attempted attack.
 
Yatom said that had the installation caught fire, it could have led to a war in the region. "Israel must work together with the United States in preparing its reaction," Yatom said, "as the ramifications are world-wide."
 
MORE P.A. TERROR KILLS 2; THREE TERRORISTS KILLED
For the second time in two weeks, the city of Rishon LeTzion - Israel's 4th-largest - has been hit by Palestinian terrorism. Shortly after 9 PM last night, a terrorist detonated his bomb and himself in a pedestrian mall in the heart of the city, killing two Israelis and wounding over 40. Close to 20 victims from the attack remain hospitalized, with four listed in serious condition.
 
Eyewitnesses to the attack say that the terrorist had dyed his hair blonde and wore western-style clothing in order not to arouse the suspicion of security officials. The area in the vicinity of the explosion was crowded with people enjoying a relaxing evening outdoors, including some participating in a two-day multi-player chess match.
 
 ISRAELI EMBASSY IN FRANCE BURNT TO THE GROUND
The Israeli Embassy in Paris was destroyed last night in a midnight fire. Israel's Ambassador to France, Eli Bar-Navi, reports that no one was hurt, and that the small number of security personnel in the building at the time made it out safely. Local police say that the blaze was apparently accidental, although arson has still not been ruled out. The Jewish community in France has experienced a major increase in anti-Semitism in the past several months.
 
"Jerusalem News"-43
1. Arutz Sheva News Service
- FAST-THINKING GUARD PREVENTS MAJOR ATTACK
- POSSIBLE AL-QAEDA LINK TO FUEL DEPOT ATTACK
- IRAN THREATENS ONCE AGAIN
- ALIYAH CONTINUES
2. Sharon renews pledge to bring 1 million olim to Israel
3. Swedes, Belgians told not to vote for Israel in Eurovision

1.
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@israelnationalnews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Friday, May 24, 2002 / Sivan 13, 5762
 
FAST-THINKING GUARD PREVENTS MAJOR ATTACK
The heroic actions of a security guard at a southern Tel Aviv nightclub late last night averted yet another major terrorist attack in central Israel. At about 1:00 AM, a car laden with explosives and driven by an Arab terrorist charged towards the nightclubs located on Kibbutz Galuyot Street. Eli Federman, a nightclub security guard, warned bystanders to take cover, pushed aside some others, and fired at the car. The shots apparently stopped the driver, undoubtedly saving the lives of many of the clubs hundreds of patrons. The terrorist himself managed to extricate himself from the damaged vehicle, at which point the car exploded, killing him. Federman later said that he saw the car swerve sharply out of his lane and towards the club. A half-hour beforehand, a police car drove by and reminded Federman to be extra alert in light of the security warnings.
The attack ended with one bystander injured (light-to-moderate condition), and a second person treated for shock. Police sappers defused the remaining explosives, including many pipe bombs, without incident. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a branch of PLO leader Yasser Arafats Fatah organization, claimed responsibility for the failed attack.
Security guard Eli Federman, 36, of Modiin, married with two children, is the son of Etzel fighter David Federman and brother of Hevron activist Noam Federman - who is now in police custody on suspicions related to a Jewish plot (see below) to bomb an Arab school in Jerusalem. (Noam has been acquitted over 30 times on charges initiated by the GSS.) Eilats Princess Hotel announced that it would be awarding the hero a free weekend suite, as its way of saying thank you.
 
 POSSIBLE AL-QAEDA LINK TO FUEL DEPOT ATTACK
No terrorist organization has yet claimed responsibility for yesterdays bombing at the Pi Gelilot fuel depot in Herzliya. The attack - a bomb placed under a fuel tanker with the intention of blowing up the gas installation and causing hundreds of deaths - is still being investigated at this time, with most efforts focused on terrorist groups from the Palestinian Authority. However, another direction under investigation is the involvement of al-Qaeda terrorists in an attempt at a strategic terrorist attack in Israel.
Security officials continue to warn of suicide attacks and other terrorism throughout the country. Police and army presence was increased yesterday, including more patrols and random checkpoints in key areas. Intelligence gathering has taken on a particular urgency as Israel works to prevent a possible mega-attack reportedly planned to strike a multi-story building. The attack at Pi Gelilot, police sources said, was a manifestation of the type of attack everyone is concerned about. It should be noted that earlier this month, IDF troops captured a truck laden with explosives reportedly on its way to Tel Avivs Azrieli towers, a major commercial center and the city's tallest buildings.
 
 IRAN THREATENS ONCE AGAIN
American intelligence sources report today that Iran recently conducted a successful experimental launch of its Shihab-3 missile. Its previous attempt, a number of months ago, failed and killed several workers. The Shihab has a range of 1,300 kilometers, or the distance from Iran to Israel. The sources say that Iran does not currently possess operative missiles that can reach Israel.
 
 ALIYAH CONTINUES
The Jewish Agency reports that despite the ongoing violence, 822 new immigrants arrived in Israel this week. 488 of them are from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 198 are from Argentina, 85 are from Ethiopia and the others are from France, Switzerland, South Africa, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, the US, Canada, and India.
 
2.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon renewed his pledge to help bring one million new immigrants here upon receiving an honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan University on May 21.
"Israel's Jewish character is not guaranteed and is not invulnerable. It requires immigration and the settlement of the land. It requires that we work to ensure a permanent and decisive Jewish majority, while, of course, fully protecting the rights of the minority as guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence," Sharon said. Given the rate of assimilation in the Diaspora, "we must set a supreme national goal of bringing about the immigration of a million Jewish people within the next ten to fifteen years."
(By Tovah Lazaroff - The Jerusalem Post , May 22, 2002)
 
 
3.
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 01:04:02 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Swedes, Belgians told not to vote for Israel in Eurovision
Sender: imra-owner@imra.org.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Reply-to: imra@netvision.net.il
 
Swedes, Belgians told not to vote for Israel in Eurovision
By Ha'aretz Staff Ha'aretz 26 May 2002
The Belgian and Swedish Jewish communities were left fuming by last night's
Eurovision song contest, held in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, after
their local presenters advised viewers not to vote for Israel's entry, Sarit
Hadad.
Swedes watching the national TV1 station said that the presenters announced
before Hadad appeared that Israel was not even meant to take part in the
contest "because of what it is doing to the Palestinians."
The Swedish jury did not award any points to Israel. Belgian viewers were
also advised not to vote for Israel. Its jury however awarded Hadad two
points.
Hadad, who sang "Light a Candle," finished 12th with 37 points. The Latvian
song "I Wanna" won the song contest.
Due to the Israeli song's ranking, Israel will participate in next year's
contest, to be held in Latvia.
Yoav Ginai, who wrote the lyrics for the Israeli song, told Israel Radio
that the delegation was very pleased with the result. "This is a great
achievement in light of the difficult situation, and the political nature of
the vote," Ginai told the radio.
The Israeli delegation, he said, encountered anti-Israel remarks during
their week-long stay in Tallin. "We heard very unpleasant remarks at the
hotel and during rehearsals," Ginai said.
 
Comment: The winner of the contest came from Latvia a land noted for anti-Semitism
and with a very Jewish population. Nevertheless, according to Yediot Acharonot (p.10) Sarit Hadad,
the Israeli representative, was consoled by the fact that the Latvian representative is Jewish.
If this had have been known beforehand it is doubtful if she would have been elected.
 
"Jerusalem News"-44
1. Norway's largest labour union calls for boycott of Israel
2. TWO ISRAELIS KILLED, 27 WOUNDED, SIX VERY CRITICIALLY, IN PALESTINIAN TERROR ATTACK IN PETAH TIKVA
3. "Belgium is not an Arab country"
4. Yad Vashem condemns verbal antisemitic aggression in Germany
5. Re: "Jerusalem News"-43
6. Note

1.
reported by Doug Meligren, Assoc. Press
 
Norway's largest labor union today called for a boycott of Israel...
This northern nation of 4.5 million people keenly follows the situation
in the Middle East, partly because Norwegians secretly brokered a now
tattered 1993 Israeli Palestinian peace accord &gave the 1994 Nobel
Peace Prize for the effort.
The 800,000 member Norwegian Confederation of Trade Union accused Israel
of grossly violating international law &human rights in its miitary
offensive against Palestinian areas.
The union also known as LO, urged the Norwegian government to demand
international santions against Israel if it does notwithdraw from
occupied territories &follow United Nations resolutions.
LO also urged members to boucott Israeli products, Israeli state &
embassy functions &to avoid travel to Israel. The union asked members
to show solidarity with the Palestinian people in parades &
demonstrations on May 1st, International Labor Day.
 
STAND BY ISRAEL, TELL THESE COMPANIES NO WAY NORWAY
 
Norwegian Cruise Lines, webmaster@ncl.com
 
Bumble Bee Seafood , www.bumblebee.com
 
Jarlsberg Cheese, www.swissrose.com
 
King Oscar Sardines, www.kingoscar.com
 
Crown Prince Sardines, www.crownprince.com
 
Also, to note that the man in charge of investigating Jenin just happens
to be a Norwegian.
Does anyone have any doubts what the outcome of his investigation is
going to be.
Please pass the on &also please stand up & be counted. It is too
important now.
 
 
2.
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 13:43:41 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
widlanski/medialine: TWO ISRAELIS KILLED, 27 WOUNDED, SIX VERY CRITICIALLY,
IN PALESTINIAN TERROR ATTACK IN PETAH TIKVA
By Michael Widlanski (The Media Line)
Monday, May 27, 2002 8:16 PM
Two Israeli civilians were killed Monday night and at least 27 were wounded
by a Palestinian terrorist who blew himself up inside a shopping mall area
in the Israeli town of Petah Tikva, north of Tel Aviv.
A spokesman who said he was from "The Brigades of the Martyrs of
Al-Aqsa"-the suicide unit of Yasser Arafat's FATAH organization-called up
Arab news agencies to take credit for the attack.
It was the third Palestinian terror attack on a shopping mall or public
entertainment area in Israel's coastal region in the last two weeks despite
much-publicized calls by some Palestinian leaders not to attack Israeli
civilians.
"This is a very serious attack, and we have to assume that there are other
bombers trying to attack us at this moment," said Israeli Police Commander
Ilan Franko.
He and other Israeli security sources made it clear that they do not believe
Palestinian promises to stop attacking Israeli civilian targets.
Broken glass was strewn around an ice cream parlor that seemed to be the
center of the Palestinian bomb.
 
The attack today (Monday night) also followed only a few days after a
near-calamitous terror attack on the Pi-Gelilot Refinery Depot north of Tel
Aviv in which a Palestinian bomb strapped to a diesel fuel truck exploded,
but ended miraculously without any casualties.
Police officials said that had that Palestinian bomb gone off near one of
the natural gas tanks or on a gasoline truck (not the heavier and less
flammable diesel) the results would have been no less disastrous for Israel
than the September attacks on New York and Washington.
This is because the Pi-Gelilot Refinery Depot is located less than 1,000
yards from several important highway junctions and residential neighborhoods
in Herzliya and north Tel Aviv.
 
2002 Michael Widlanski
Michael Widlanski is senior analyst at The Media Line and lecturer at The
Rothberg School of the Hebrew University. Fuller versions of his articles
are available at www.themedialine.org
 
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 17:13:00 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
 
Terrorist murders baby with grandmother in Petach Tikvah
Aaron Lerner Date: 27 May 2002
Israel Radio reported minutes before midnight that the two Israelis murdered
today by the suicide bomber in Petach Tikvah were a one year old baby and
her 60 year old grandmother.
The terrorist chose to come up to the children and mothers and grandmothers
next to an ice cream parlor/cafe and blow up.
 
3.
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 16:23:16 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
 
[Major Egyptian Newspaper:] AL-AHRAM WEEKLY 23-29 May '02:"Belgium is not an Arab country"
HEADING:"Contrary to common belief on Arab streets, Belgium is no haven for
the Palestinian cause, writes Dyab Abou Jahjah"(President of the Arab
Europeam League)
 
EXCERPTS:
"It is a government of bastards, and their country is anti- Semitic." This
was the way the Israeli mayor of occupied Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, described
Belgians ... a few months ago.
Olmert's remarks came after a Belgian court agreed in June 2001 to look into
a complaint against Ariel Sharon for his involvement in the 1982 massacres
of Sabra and Shatila. Hence the arrival of a Belgian delegation ... to meet
Israeli officials to discuss the case.
[IMRA:In February 1983 the Kahan Commission found:"...No intention
existed on the part of any Israeli element to harm the non-combatant
population in the camps". The Commission found.Sharon was indirectly
responsible for not anticipating the danger of allowing Christian
Phalangists to enter the camps. Judge Abraham D. Sofaer who presided in
Sharon's case against Time Magazine (November 1983) said: "The Commission
explicitly imposed a standard more stringent even than negligence in
evaluating the conduct of Israeli officials" (Source:"Blood Libel" by Uri
Dan, p.68. Dan reports: "The criteria for indirect responsibility, as
defined by the Kahan Commission, the judge said, were so rigorous that even
if someone couldn't meet them, that didn't automatically give him a bad
name."]
The complaint ...was the result of the hard work of the Arab European League
(AEL) and other pro-Palestinian organisations...under the umbrella of the
Sabra and Shatila Committee, over which I had the honour of presiding.
The very possibility of such a case was a serious blow to Israel and to its
image in Europe -- and caused a very real deterioration in relations between
Belgium and Israel.
[IMRA: The prime objective of bringing the complaint, regardless of how
the case would go.]
It is understandable, then, that Israeli politicians are criticising
Belgium and even talking about its legal system as being anti-Semitic, just
as it is not surprising that Arabs in the latest demonstrations from Cairo
to Beirut were shouting "Beljica Arabia" (Belgium is an Arab country),
acknowledging Belgium's support for the Arab cause.
...Israel and the Arab masses got it wrong.
In fact, just days after we had filed the complaint against Sharon, the
Belgian government started to consider changing the law that permits the
trial of officials involved in war crimes. The new rules they were proposing
would make Sharon immune from prosecution. And in the ensuing months, the
Belgian establishment has not spared any effort to take the teeth out of
this law -- in order to find a way out for Sharon.
The strategy has almost succeeded. In a similar case against the former
Congolese foreign minister, the Belgian Court of Appeal used a law from the
19th century to argue that Belgian courts can only try individuals who are
present on Belgian soil. The law they used is widely regarded as archaic and
has been superseded by new rules. For example, the law is completely
contradictory to amendments accepted by the Belgian parliament in 1993,
which permits the trial on Belgian soil of any official in the world accused
of war crimes.
When Israel expressed its opposition to the trial, the Belgian legal and
political establishment began to take measures to cause the case and the
awareness campaign that accompanied it to disappear. Despite attempts to
discredit us and portray us as fanatics and extremists, we went on to
appoint a new team of lawyers to defend the case of Souad Srour Al-Merhi,
the main plaintiff and witness, and more than 20 other victims.
[IMRA:Significantly, there is no mention of information already
available.]
In the meantime, we held numerous public demonstrations and our public
meetings drew increasingly larger crowds. As for Belgium's Jewish lobby, it
registered one defeat after another, but it was impatiently awaiting its
chance to mount a counterattack.
Then came the 11 September attacks ..., which posed our first big challenge.
The situation of Arabs in general became more difficult in the West. On 16
September, we held a demonstration to commemorate the 19th anniversary of
the massacres at Sabra and Shatila. But police banned the gathering and
claimed that it was inappropriate to commemorate anything other than the
victims of the World Trade Centre. More than 50 members of the AEL,
including myself, were arrested.
After that, we held several successful rallies culminating in a
demonstration in Antwerp on 3 April. ... after the demonstration police
using tear gas and water canons attacked groups of Arab youths. Riots broke
out and groups of youths and the police fought throughout the night.
Why did such a debacle occur in Antwerp and not in Brussels or other places?
The answer is simple. Antwerp is the stronghold of two movements hostile to
everything we stand for. It is the stronghold of the far-right Vlaams Blok
Party...has already demanded several times that the AEL be banned. Antwerp
is also the stronghold of the Belgian Jewish-lobby, which centres around the
city's highly controversial but influential diamond sector. Vlaams Blok is
the most popular party in the city, commanding 33 per cent of the vote, and
the diamond sector is vital to the economy.... .
Nevertheless, the 30,000 Arabs living in that city have the right to
demonstrate in their streets and near their homes for the issues they
consider important.
The riots of 3 April were used as a pretext to forbid a demonstration on 21
April. We applied to hold the second protest in reaction to the Jenin
massacre, but Antwerp city council unanimously banned the demonstration. The
ban was accompanied by an orchestrated campaign in the press against AEL,
and against me personally...going so far as to link us to the Al-Qa'eda
network. Other voices ...began demanding the withdrawal of my Belgian
nationality, accusing me of treason.
...we cancelled the event and instead held a symbolic gathering ...to
protest against the way our community was being treated. ...64 people,
myself included, were arrested. Even passing Arabs who had nothing to do
with the gathering were detained.
The city of Antwerp recently declared that its economy was "strongly linked
to that of Israel" and that it opposed any sanctions against the country.
So Belgium has, in making up with Tel Aviv, revealed itself to be neither
neutral, as it repeatedly has claimed, and least of all, Arab.
 
 
Comment by Brit-Am:
The above excerpt is Arab opinion indicating that Belgium
is perhaps not so anti-semitic and anti-Israel as would seem. Belgium is divided between two peoples.
The Flemish of Flanders and the Walloons. The Flemish are more Germanic and the Walloons
Celtic. The Walloons are descended from  the ancient Belgae.
In the 2nd world war some of the Flemish soldiers did not  want to fight against the Germans
and the country surrendered to the Germans. Some Flemings fought on the Nazi side. Even so on the whole
all of the Belgians helped rescue Jews and the country has a relatively good record in that regard.
In the past in a quiet way Belgium has assisted the State of Israel through economic and other co-operation.
In Belgium there exist elements of Israelite and of non-Israelite origin.
In the recent Eurovision contest the Belgian and Swedish commentators urged people not to vote for Israel
due to the Palestinian situation. Britain and France gave the most votes to Israel.
Britain  is also ambivalent at present but in the Defence and other establishments there is a lot of good will towards Israel
and co-operation at some levels in certain circumstances.
 
4.
From: imra@netvision.net.il
27th May 2002
PRESS RELEASE
Yad Vashem condemns verbal antisemitic aggression in Germany
Yad Vashem today condemned the recent use of antisemitic and xenophobic
imagery in the political debate by two figures in the Free Democratic Party,
and calls for all responsible public leaders in Germany to denounce such
verbal assaults.
In Germany public political discourse is taken seriously. This is a lesson
learned from the role rhetoric played in Nazi crimes. During the Holocaust
era, words of aggression paved the way to unprecedented public violence.
The laws passed by the Bundestag concerning expressions of antisemitism
reflect this understanding.
Elements in Germany exploit the legitimate and serious discussion about
Israel and the Middle East to pursue their antisemitic agenda. This
cynical use of democratic forums undermines the basic tenets of tolerance in
a pluralistic society. The use of antisemitic rhetoric, which for decades
was not tolerated, has again reared its head and is in danger of becoming
accepted and legitimate. The cracks in the democratic edifice have allowed
a growing number of hate mongers from all sides of the political spectrum to
come to the surface.
 
5. From: Orjan Svensson
 
Subject: Re: "Jerusalem News"-43
 
Shalom,
There were two commentators in the Swedish television during the contest,
one of which is a known homosexual.
The exact exchange of words when the Israeli contribution was introduced
was as follows:
Claes Akesson, programkommentator:
Vi narmar oss det tionde bidraget, ett
bidrag som en del menar inte skulle
fa vara med - med tanke pa hur de
hanterar sin konflikt med Palestina.
("We are approaching the tenth contribution,
a contribution which some think should not
be allowed to participate - considering
how they deal with their conflict with Palestine.")
Men nu ar de hur som helst med och
tavlar och Israel har ju haft stora
framgangar i ESC.
("But now they are here anyway and contest and
Israel has of course had big successes in ESC.")
Christer Bjorkman, musikkommentator:
Ja. Alltsa, jag har jattesvart for den
har laten. Det ar ett praktfullt peko-
ral. Och det sags att nar Sari fick
reda pa att det blev just den har
laten hon skulle sjunga, sa blev hon
sa fortvivlad att hon gick hem och
grat; och man kan nastan forsta
varfor.
("Yes. Well, I have big difficulties with
this tune. It is a big masterpiece of drivel.
And it is being said that when Sari (sic)
came to know that she would sing just this
particular song, she fell so much in despair,
so that she went to her home and started to
to cry; and you can almost understand why.")
 
Claes Akesson:
Mmmm. Sarit Hadad ar det som ska sta
pa scen och sjunga Israels bidrag -
sjunger bade pa engelska och hebreiska
faktiskt och laten heter Light a
candle.
("Mmmm. It is Sarit Hadad who shall stand
on the stage and sing Israel's contribution -
singing both in English and in Hebrew actually
and the name of the tune is 'Light a candle'.")
Christer Bjorkman:
Kompositoren har redan vunnit ESC en
gang - 1998 - och den som sjong var
den omopererade Dana International.
Kompositorens namn var den gangen
oerhort traffande, han heter namligen
Svika Pick!
("The composer has already won ESC one time
- 1998 - and the one who sang was the 'resurgeried'
Dana International. The composer's name that time
was very suiting, his name was namely Svika Pick!")
(The Swedish words "svika pick", means "to desert the male organ".)
Claes Akesson:
Melodi nummer tio!
("Melody number ten!")
Sa spelas Israels bidrag.
Claes Akesson:
Sarit Hadad, Light a candle! Det ska
bli spannande att se hur manga poang
Israel far med tanke pa det politiska
laget.
("Sarit Hadad, Light a candle! It will be thrilling to see how many
points Israel will get considering the political situation.")
Christer Bjorkman:
Ja, det blir noll fran mig i alla
fall.
("Yes, zero from me anyway.")
Claes Akesson:
Fa se hur ovriga Europa staller sig.
Vi narmar oss nu Afro-Dite.
("We shall see how the rest of Europe behave. We are now approaching Afro-Dite.")
 
 
6.
"Jerusalem News" is basically a service that provides edited excerpts from other sources.
Here and there however we have obtained and transmitted information-items  that were  "news scoops".
The service has also been praised by those who are active in the area of receiving and transmitting information.
 
 
 
"Jerusalem News"-45
1. ISRAEL LAUNCHES OFEQ-5 SPY SATELLITE
2. Analysts Paint Doomsday Scenarios, Gloom Deepens
3. Arutz Sheva: Israel National News
- 4 Murdered in Shomron Terror Attacks
- ITAMAR ATTACK
4. Sarit Hadad to receive apology from Swedish Ambassador
5. Arab Israeli attacks young girl with knife at bus stop

1.
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 15:21:28 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
ISRAEL LAUNCHES OFEQ-5 SPY SATELLITE
TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel has launched a spy satellite into space to improve
its reconnaissance of missile and weapons of mass destruction facilities in
the Middle East.
Israel launched the Ofeq-5 satellite on Tuesday at 1830 hours local time
[1130 EST] from an air force base south of Tel Aviv. Officials said the
Shavit-class booster was fired toward the west, against the orbit of the
earth. They said the move was to ensure that the satellite would fall into
the Mediterranean Sea in case of a launch failure.
The Ofeq-5, which weighs between 400-600 kilograms and manufactured by
Israel Aircraft Industries, is meant to reach an orbit at an altitude of 550
kilometers. The construction of the satellite and the launch cost $60
million.
 
Yediot Acharonot (YA): The satellite enables Israel to know what is happening in most of the Middle East.
In some cases details only a square yard in size on enemy ground may be discerned.
[This does not mean that Israel has 24 hour surveillance or that every spot is observable but some areas at some times will be and the enemy will never really know.]
 
2.
http://www.TheAge.com.au/articles/2002/05/27/1022243311391.html
Analysts Paint Doomsday Scenarios, Gloom Deepens
By Rory McCarthy May 28 2002
International nuclear experts believe technicians in India and
Pakistan are stepping up the production of weapons-grade uranium
and plutonium as the threat of serious conflict over Kashmir
intensifies.
Military analysts in Islamabad and New Delhi have begun openly
discussing scenarios in which the guerrilla war in Kashmir might
flare into a nuclear confrontation.
Zia Mian, a Pakistani physicist at Princeton University, said the
two countries were racing to expand their nuclear arsenals. "The
Pakistani uranium enrichment facilities, as far as we know, are
working three shifts around the clock," he said.
"The trouble is that both sides imagine that a nuclear bomb just
makes a bigger bang," said Brian Cloughley, a south Asia military
analyst and retired Australian army officer. "They have got no
concept of the sheer magnitude of the disaster of a nuclear
exchange. Radioactive fallout in the Himalayas would mean the
death of the subcontinent."
With 1.2 million soldiers, the Indian army is the world's
third-largest and more than twice the size of the Pakistani
force. Officers in Islamabad admit privately that in a
conventional war, Pakistan's army, although widely regarded as
better trained, could hold out for barely three weeks.
 
Pakistan has between 25 and 50 nuclear warheads, according to
Jane's Strategic Weapon Systems. India is believed to have
between 100 and 150.
Perhaps the strongest weapon in Pakistan's arsenal is the threat
of a first strike.
"Pakistan relies on first use. We have to have the option,
otherwise there would be no deterrence," Khalid Ahmed, a
commentator and former Foreign Ministry official, said.
In Rawalpindi, the military leadership long ago drew up the three
worst cases in which it might resort to its ultimate weapon. The
most likely would be a massive Indian strike into the province of
Sind, in the south, which would cut Pakistan in half. Second would
be the loss of Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, which is 30
minutes drive from the Indian border.
The final risk is the collapse of its army in the face of
overwhelming odds. Indian analysts suggest their generals are
aware that forcing Pakistan into a desperate position could be
the final trigger.
 
--Guardian
 
3.
Arutz Sheva:
Israel National News:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=24279
 4 Murdered in Shomron Terror Attacks     Four Israelis, including three teenagers, were murdered by terrorist gunfire in two attacks in the Shomron on Tuesday night.
 
At about 7:15pm, Albert (Avraham) Maloul, 50, and his cousin Herzl, were returning home to the capital after a day's work in the Shomron community of Eli, where they operate the swimming pool. As the vehicle headed south on Route 60, between the community of Ofrah and "T" Junction, shots rang out near the Arab village of Dir Dubwan. The terrorist fired from the side of the road, hitting the blue sedan with five bullets. Herzl continued driving to the nearby army checkpoint where soldiers began administrating first aid while summoning ambulances from Beit El and Ofrah. A physician pronounced Albert dead on the scene after resuscitation efforts failed. He was hit in his back by the gunfire. Herzl was transported to the Hadassah Hospital trauma unit where he was reported to be in light condition with shrapnel wounds to his back.
 
The location of the attack is the same where Ofrah resident Aryeh Hirschkovitz, 55, was murdered by terrorist gunfire on 29 January 2001 on his way home from Jerusalem.
 
ITAMAR ATTACK
A terrorist infiltrated the Shomron community of Itamar late Tuesday night cutting through the security fence, opening fire in all directions in the area of the yeshiva.
 
Yeshiva officials praised the quick response of the community's security officer and first-response unit. They succeeded in killing the terrorist, bringing the incident to an end and preventing the injuring or killing of others. Three students were killed and two others sustained light injuries. The yeshiva accommodates students between the ages of 14 and 18.
 
The terrorist opened fire at two students playing soccer near the yeshiva, killing them. Then he opened fire in the yeshiva complex, killing the third victim and wounding others.
 
The army has declared the area secure, ruling out the possibility of other terrorists remaining at large in Itamar. Yeshiva officials have notified the families of the dead and wounded. Names are not permitted for publication at this time.
 
4.
YA (29.5.02, p.22) The Swedish Ambassador to Israel is expected to apologize today to the Israeli singer Sarit Hadad for the anti-Israel comment made by the Swedish observer at the Eurovision contest. The observer in question has already aplogized.
 
5.
An Israeli-Arab youth from the village of Cabul aged 20 took out a knife yesterday and attempted to stab people at a bus station in the north. With knife drawn, the Arab approached a young girl waiting at the bus station who started screaming. The screams were heard by a passerby, Chaim Magel. The 55-year old Magel, father of seven, and grandfather of two, is a resident of Tiberias. When Magel saw what was happening he grabbed a broom from a street-cleaner who was present and charged the assailant, hitting him with the broom, and shouting, "Terrorist! Terrorist!"  The Arab fled but was apprehended by a police patrol car who heard the shouting. Chaim received a light knife wound in his hand.
YA (29.5.02, p.21)
-
"Jerusalem News"-46
1. BRITAIN LISTS SAUDIS AS MISSILE STATE
2. The Arrest of a Female Suicide Terrorist
3. ARAFAT'S MEDIA HAIL TEEN MURDERER AS MARTYR
4. 14 year old tzaddik in Ashkelon
5. Arutz Sheva News Service
- SIX TERRORIST VICTIMS BURIED TODAY
- ISRAEL LAUNCHES SATELLITE
- SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL
6. Black gold in the Gulf

1.
From: imra@netvision.net.il
 
BRITAIN LISTS SAUDIS AS MISSILE STATE
LONDON [MENL] -- Britain has listed several Middle East countries as
emerging missile threats and has termed Saudi Arabia as possessing
intermediate-range missile capability.
A report by the British Ministry of Defence listed Iran, Iraq, Libya and
Syria as developing ballistic missiles that threaten London. North Korea was
also on the list.
The report, issued jointly with the Foreign Office, said the missile threats
to Britain from the Middle East countries were not imminent. But the
assessment said London could be a target of Arab missiles by the middle of
the decade.
"A particular cause for concern is the fact that North Korea appears to be
willing to sell its missiles to any country prepared to pay for them," the
report said. "Were a country in the Middle East or North Africa to acquire a
complete long-range ballistic missile system, a capability to target the UK
[United Kingdom] accurately could emerge within the next few years."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Middle East Newsline at:
editor@menewsline.com for further details. http://www.menewsline.com/
 
2.
a. From: imra@netvision.net.il
The Arrest of a Female Suicide Terrorist, this Morning, in the town of Beit-
Sahur near Bethlehem
IDF Spokesperson 29 May 2002
Early this morning, an IDF force arrested Arin Ahmad, in the town of Beit-
Sahour near Bethlehem. Arin is a Tanzim operative born in 1982. Ahmad was on
her way to carry out a suicide terror attack inside the state of Israel.
In this arrest, the IDF prevented a terror attack against Israeli civilians
 
b. Information obtained from Yediot Acharonot 30 May 2002, p.11 Paraphrased:
Theoriah Chamamrah on 21.5.02 was arrested in the process of suicide-bombing.
The 24 year old girl looks about 16 years old and stands under 5 foot high. She was dressed up
as a high school student in a school uniform and the bomb was placed in a satchel on her back.
The girl was arrested by Israeli Security Forces on her way to commit the crime. She had been told by her operators that if arrested
she was to blow herself up even if she was unable to harm anybody else.
The captured Theoriah gave an interview and spoke somewhat bitterly against her operators. From the picture in the paper the girl looks like a quiet type of person,
relatively decent, not necessarily kind-hearted but neither malicious. She had worked as a seamstress and as a flower-arranger at local events.
She said that she volunteered for her mission not for ideological reasons but due to personal predicaments and pressures whose nature she did not disclose.
She said she did not commit suicide when apprehended because she doubted the "purity" of her motives.
She also had the impression that her operators wanted her to blow herself up simply in order that they may win points with whoever is above them.
In her opinion the Palestinian Uprising has only caused harm to the Palestinian people. She herself was unable to complete schooling since masked activists forced the children in her school out of class and onto the streets.
 
3.
imra@imra.org.il
wid/medialine: ARAFAT'S MEDIA HAIL TEEN MURDERER AS MARTYR
By Michael Widlanski
Wednesday, May 29, 2002
Palestinian state radio today called the terrorist who murdered three
teenagers before being killed himself last night a "martyr" who "was
heroically martyred while attacking a settlement built on our land.,"
The daily Palestinian newspapers Al-Hayat Al Jadida and Al-Ayyam-both
financially backed by Yasser Arafat--used almost identical headlines
treating the terrorist as a "martyr."
Further south in Beit-El, just north of Jerusalem, an Israeli motorist was
murdered and another wounded by a roadside Palestinian sniper.
The Palestinian Authority itself issued no statement even of mild
condemnation for any of the four murders because its official policy is that
Israelis living in the West Bank are legitimate targets.
"Every people has the right to resist occupation, and we will not condemn
this kind of activity," said Nabil Amr, a Palestinian cabinet minister and
close aide to Arafat, during a Palestianian television interview.
"He shot at the boys who were playing basketball, running after them to
shoot them, said Rabbi Yaakov Illis, the principal of the yeshiva high
school where the boys, between 14 and 17 years old, studied.
The rabbi said that after killing the two boys playing basketball, the Arab
terrorist invaded the school dormitories going from room to room, shooting
at students, several of whom hid under beds, but the gunman succeeded in
murdering one other boy and wounding several others.
Voice of Palestine, the official organ of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian
Authority, did not identify the Arab terrorist who killed the teenagers, but
it reported that the "operation" was claimed by Yasser Arfat's FATAH
organization, whose suicide unit, the "Brigades of the Martyrs of Al-Aqsa"
has carried out most recent attacks.
More than 20 Israelis have been murdered in attacks by Palestinians in the
last three weeks, after Israel completed an offensive against Arab terror
bases and withdrew most of its forces from the West Bank zone formally
controlled by Arafat.
But Israel has in the last ten days once again sent in troops into several
areas to make more arrests of suspected terrorists, though in much smaller
numbers than during the April offensive called "Operation Defensive Shield."
Several hundred pounds of explosives and more than 2,000 automatic weapons
were captured during that offensive, which was sparked by the "Passover
Massacre"-a Palestinian suicide attack on an Israeli hotel during the
Passover holiday service.
"The problem is that represents only about ten percent of the weapons that
the Palestinians have," said Col Moti Yogev, an Israeli commander in the
area, but some Israeli officials say the actual percentage of captured
weapons is even smaller.
Israel itself supplied Arafat's forces with many of their weapons beginning
in 1993 as part of a plan for Arafat to police the West Bank and Gaza under
the Palestinian-Israeli treaties known as the Oslo Accords.
"Washington is evading its responsibilities by helping (Ariel) Sharon with
his plans," declared Palestinian negotiator Saeb Arikat.
He and other Palestinian leaders blame Israel for "terror" that has fanned
the violence.
2002 Michael Widlanski
 www.themedialine.org
 
4.
14 year-old Yossi Cohen of Ashkelon found a bag containing 45, 000 shekel (ca. $9000)
hanging on a door. He took a 20 shekel note out of the bag, jumped in a taxi, and went to the Police.
The money belonged to a lady who had been selling tickets for the performance of a visiting Russian singer.
The lady was most grateful.
YA (30.5.02) p.24
 
5.
 
Subject: Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, May 29, 2002
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Wednesday, May 29, 2002 / Sivan 18, 5762
 
SIX TERRORIST VICTIMS BURIED TODAY
The 20-month-old Oslo Terrorism War against Israel continues, as the death of four more Israelis in two attacks last night brought the total number of victims to 508. The month of May has seen 26 civilian murders at the hands of Palestinian terrorists, and two soldiers killed by PA armed forces.
At 11 PM last night, three high school boys were murdered on their campus in the Shomron community of Itamar: Netanel Riachi, 17, of Kokhav Yaakov; Avraham Siton, 17, of Shilo; and Gil'ad Shtieglitz, 15, of Yakir. All three are from communities in Judea and Samaria. Two boys were wounded, listed in light-to-moderate condition. Three hours earlier, Albert Maloul, 50, of Jerusalem, was murdered south of Ofrah as he and his cousin were driving back to Jerusalem from Eli. One or two terrorists waited in ambush in the same place where Assaf Hershkovitz was murdered a year ago. They fired only a few shots, but one of them proved fatal to Albert Maloul; his cousin was wounded and is listed in moderate condition.
In the Itamar attack, the terrorist murderer climbed over or through the community's surrounding fence. He first shot two students standing nearby, and then ran after several other students towards the basketball court. He continued shooting, as he did when he then ran into the dormitory. One student, who was miraculously unhurt, said that as he lay hiding under his bed, the terrorist came into the room three different times and sprayed the walls with bullets. At that point, the yeshiva guard and the community security officer arrived on the scene and shot and killed the terrorist.
Rabbi Nitzan Yamin, a resident of Itamar, was a hero of the night. He later recounted, "I would say it took about 40 seconds from the time I woke up until I was outside, and then about 30 seconds until I reached the site... I took off my undershirt shirt and tzitzit (ritual fringes), because they were white and would make me stand out, and I started running towards the area. By the time I got there, Aryeh [the guard] had felled the terrorist with a bullet, but then he started to get up... I shot him a few times in the head, and took away his gun [Kalachnikov rifle]... Then we started to comb the area for a possible second terrorist... The children were in shock, but we gathered them in the Beit Medrash while we went from room to room to make sure there were no other terrorists."
The army immediately imposed a closure upon the nearby village Beit Furik. It is assumed that the terrorist, a resident of Shechem, hid out there for several hours before he attacked.
 
Yesterday's four terrorist victims, as well as two others from the Monday bombing in Petach Tikvah, were buried today. Ruthie Peled, 56 and her 18-month-old granddaughter Sinai Keinan were laid to rest in the cemetery of Kibbutz Shfayim, and Avraham Maloul was buried in Givat Sha'ul in Jerusalem this afternoon. Gil'ad Shtieglitz was a student from another yeshiva high school who had come to Itamar two days before to consider transferring there; his friends said he was "very happy" during those two days. His funeral departed from Yakir for burial in the Barkan cemetery near Ariel.
Netanel Riachi's funeral began in Kokhav Yaakov shortly after noon and made its way to the Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem. Netanel's family was one of the founding families of Kokhav Yaakov, and he was the first baby born there. Elchanan Amar, one of the students who was able to escape the terrorist's murderous fire, said that his roommate Netanel was "quiet, cheerful and always willing to help us in our studies."
The funeral of Avi Siton set off from the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva in Kiryat Moshe, Jerusalem towards Shilo, where he was interred. One of Avi's friends said, "I don't know what I'll do without him, I loved him. He always greeted everyone so happily: 'How're you doing, my brother?' - the guard, his friends, everyone. I don't know what we will do. How can we go on without him? He made everything happy... Now we have the matriculation exams. He was so happy with his high mark in the Gmara [Talmud] test yesterday... I don't know how we'll go on..."
 
ISRAEL LAUNCHES SATELLITE
Israel inaugurated its new Ofek-5 imaging satellite last night with a nationally-televised launch from the Palmachim Air Force base near Ashkelon. The satellite, a project of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) in cooperation with other Israeli hi-tech industries, was sent into space by an Israeli Shavit launcher. The satellite has the capability of high resolution imaging, with accuracy of up to almost a meter from altitudes between 370 and 600 km above the earth's surface. This means that objects as small as a meter can be identified by the experts who will be continuously reviewing the photos it transmits.
The small dimensions of the Ofek-5 - about 300 kg., with a height of 2.3 meters (7.5 feet) and a diameter of 1.2 meters - allow for maximum altitude agility over target, yielding rapid image acquisition. The satellite began last night circling the planet from east to west every 90 minutes, and has already begun returning radio signals; its operators are waiting anxiously until Friday when its first video pictures are expected to arrive.
Ofek-5's projected lifetime is approximately four years, during which time it will enhance Israel's security by giving advanced warning of potential strategic threats. In addition to the intelligence-gathering nature of the Ofek-5, the satellite can be adapted for scientific or technological missions. Ori Orr, Chairman of the Board of IAI, told Arutz-7 today, "The specialty of this satellite is that it can photograph at very high resolution. It is ours [Israel's], and we can direct it to photograph whatever we want." He said that it can be used not only for military and deterrent purposes, but also for a host of other civilian purposes. "We usually deal with bad things," said Orr, a former Deputy Defense Minister, "so let us remember that the countries that are able to launch satellites of this nature can be counted on the fingers one hand."
 
 
SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL
* Young Israel of Jamaica Estates in Queens, New York raised tens of thousands of dollars for Israel this past Monday with a 5-kilometer walk/run. Synagogue members were joined in their efforts by Jewish and non-Jewish sympathizers, including members of the Prospect Park Running Club
 
6.
townhall.com
 
Bruce Bartlett
 
May 29, 2002
 
Black gold in the Gulf
 
On April 16, Newsday, the Long Island newspaper, published a startling report that old oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico were somehow being refilled. That is, new oil was being discovered in fields where it previously had not existed.
 
Scientists, led by Mahlon Kennicutt of Texas A&M University, speculate that the new oil is surging upward from deposits well below those currently in production. "Very light oil and gas were being injected from below, even as the producing was going on," he said.
 
Although it is not yet known whether this is a worldwide phenomenon or commercially important, the new discovery suggests that there may be far more oil and gas within the earth's core than previously thought.
 
Kennicutt is not the first to suggest that vast hydrocarbon deposits may lie well below those currently known. In 1995, The New York Times reported that geochemist Jean Whelan of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts had also found evidence that oil was moving upward into reservoirs from somewhere far deeper.
 
With growing improvements in technology that are making possible oil drilling at greater and greater depths, it may soon be economically feasible to explore and produce oil from these deep deposits.
 
The existence of oil much farther below the surface than it was previously thought to exist raises new questions about the origins of oil and natural gas. It has commonly been thought that they are the decayed remains of long dead plants and animals. However, as hydrocarbons are found at extreme depths, this explanation becomes increasingly implausible.
 
Astronomer Thomas Gold of Cornell University has long been dissatisfied with the dead dinosaur theory of oil's origins. He argues that oil and gas are in fact the remains of methane left over from the earth's origin. Methane, he points out, is one of the most common minerals in the universe. When the stars and planets were formed eons ago, it was one of the central building blocks from which matter formed.
 
If Gold's theory is true, then it makes sense that we would continue to find hydrocarbons everywhere within the earth's core, and not just at the surface, where plants and animals exist. Thus the new research is at least consistent with Gold's theory, even if it still remains to be proven.
 
The new scientific evidence that energy supplies may be vastly greater than previously imagined is only the latest blow to the doomsayers. Such people have been around for 200 years, preaching that mankind has reached the limit to growth because we have found all the oil there is to be found. For at least a century, for example, the U.S. Geological Survey has consistently reported that America had only about 10 years worth of oil left.
 
In defense of the Geological Survey, it was referring only to proven reserves. These are fields that have been explored, and where estimates have been made regarding their size and production potential. But of course, exploration is a continuing process, so that new reserves are discovered all the time.
 
Economist Julian Simon long made the point that the size of proven reserves cannot be divorced from the price of oil. At current price levels, only about 40 percent of oil can be extracted from existing fields; the remaining 60 percent, which is known to exist, cannot be produced economically and is therefore not included in proven reserve estimates. However, higher prices and advanced technology can easily make it profitable to expand production in existing fields.
 
Higher prices also encourage exploration into areas that geologists strongly suspect to have oil, but where drilling costs are too high at present. Only a small portion of the earth's surface has ever been explored for oil, and there is no reason to believe that there are not many large deposits yet to be discovered.
 
If oil were really becoming more scarce, we would expect to see prices rising over time. But in fact, the real price of oil, adjusted for inflation, has been remarkably stable at around $15 per barrel. Temporary prices spikes by OPEC have not proved sustainable because they brought forth new supplies, encouraged substitution of oil with coal or gas, and stimulated conservation by consumers and businesses.
 
In short, even if the new scientific evidence about oil is wrong, one can still say that the world will never run out of it. Higher prices will always bring new supplies to market. As Bjorn Lomberg points out in his new book, "The Skeptical Environmentalist" (Cambridge University Press), $40 per barrel oil will immediately increase world reserves from a 40 years supply to 250 years because vast known oil shale deposits will become economically viable.
 
Of all the things we have to worry about in this day and age, running out of oil should not be one of them.
 
Contact Bruce Bartlett | Read his biography
 
2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
 
 
"Jerusalem News"-47
1. Arutz Sheva News Service
- CLEAN TV BILL PASSES HURDLE
- WATER SHORTAGE LOOMING
2. Our enemies the Saudis
3. A letter to Arutz-7 readers from Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
4. Terrorist attempts to ram car laden with explosives into nightclub
5. Statistics
6. Israeli Security Service
7. India
8. Holland, Sweden, Switzerland decide it is illegal for Jews to eat Jewish food – shechitah outlawed

1.
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Monday, June 3, 2002 / Sivan 23, 5762
--
CLEAN TV BILL PASSES HURDLE
The Knesset Education Committee approved today the final readings of proposed legislation banning all forms of pornography on cable and satellite television channels. Nine MKs voted in favor of the bill, sponsored by MK Yigal Bibi (National Religious Party), while only six voted for Likud MK Michael Eitan's alternative bill. Eitan's proposal would have allowed pornographic broadcasts with restrictions, such as the use of a smart card or exclusive late-night hours availability.
Committee Chairman Zevulun Orlev (NRP) had criticism of those who objected to the outright ban: "Instead of legislating punitive measures for commerce in women and sexual abuse, we must totally cleanse our society of corruptive pornography, which is the very basis for the growth of sexual harassment, pedophilia, and all other similar evils Instead of striking out at the mosquitoes, we must dry out the swamp."
 
WATER SHORTAGE LOOMING
Israel's national water supply is suffering from an overdraft of two billion cubic meters - and the country's annual consumption is a similar amount. These numbers sum up the critical state of Israel's water economy, according to a report prepared over the course of the past year by a Knesset committee. "In 1966," reports Arutz-7's Effie Meir, "then-State Comptroller Yitzchak Nebentzahl [father of the Old City's renowned Rabbi Avigdor Nebentzahl - ed. note] warned that the water situation would worsen within 15 years - but he actually understated the seriousness, and even then, nothing was done. In 1980, Israel began drawing more water than was available, and the number of residents grew steadily. The winter of '92 was very rainy, and it allowed us to ignore the problem for another couple of years - but in truth, the problem didn't go away..." In short, homes and farms could suffer from a water shortage very soon even if necessary steps are taken.
MK David Magen (Center), who heads the Knesset committee that prepared the report, told Arutz-7 today that he was not seeking to blame anyone: "We found that the crisis could definitely have been avoided, but our job was not to name names. We were looking for water, not blood..." The committee, which heard dozens of witnesses, found that part of the problem is the many government ministries - nine! - that are in some way connected with the water economy, leading to a diffusion of responsibility. The report also noted that alternative sources of water were not developed, nor was funding made available for the all-important desalination option. A majority of the committee recommended that a state of water emergency be declared, giving vast authorities to the Prime Minister.
 
2.
 
Reply-to: "devor@huji.ac.il" <devor@projectmind.org>
 
Nation & World 6/3/02
By Michael Barone
Our enemies the Saudis
Fifteen of the 19 September 11 hijackers were Saudis. Perhaps as many
as 80 percent of the prisoners held at Guant namo are Saudis. Osama
bin Laden is a Saudi, and al Qaeda was supported by large
contributions from Saudis, including members of the Saudi royal
family. The Saudis' cooperation with our efforts to track down the
financing of al Qaeda appears to be somewhere between minimal and
zero. They got us to let members of the bin Laden family scamper out
of the United States on a private jet shortly after September 11.
They refuse to provide-as almost every other country has-manifests of
plane passengers flying to the United States.
Such behavior is nothing new. The Saudis stymied the FBI
investigation of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing. The Saudis refused a
U.S. request in 1996 that they take custody of bin Laden; he went to
Afghanistan instead. They refused in 1995 to hand over Imad
Mughniyah, believed responsible for the bombing of a Marine barracks
in Lebanon in 1983. Far from aiding our efforts against terrorism,
the Saudis have worked against them-to protect the terrorists in
their own ranks. Also, the Saudis have praised suicide bombings and
raised money for the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
Government-controlled Saudi media have frequently spread the vilest
kinds of anti-U.S. and anti-Jewish propaganda.
Such has been the behavior of those the State Department has long
referred to as "our friends the Saudis." It would be more accurate to
call them our enemies the Saudis.
Freedoms? Zero for seven. The Saudis run a totalitarian society. Not
one of the seven freedoms identified by President Bush in his State
of the Union speech-the rule of law, limits on the power of the
state, respect for women, private property, free speech, equal
justice, religious tolerance-is honored by the Saudis. There is no
free speech and no freedom of religion (during the Gulf War the
Saudis did not allow President Bush to conduct a religious service on
Saudi soil), and women are restricted and physically assaulted by
religious police who prowl the streets (and, by some accounts, would
not allow teenage girls to leave a burning school, lest they not be
properly clad; 15 girls died).
But the Saudis are not content to run a totalitarian society at home;
they are trying to export their totalitarian Wahhabi Islam around the
world. Since the Gulf War, the Saudis have financed Wahhabi clerics
and Wahhabi-run mosques and schools in Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Indonesia, Western Europe, and the United States. The results can be
seen on the Edgware Road in London or Leesburg Pike in Northern
Virginia: Journalists have no trouble finding young people spouting
the most vituperative anti-U.S. and anti-Jewish propaganda and
swearing that they would fight for Islam against the United States.
The Saudis are waging war against us, financing the spread of the
idea that our free society must be overthrown and totalitarian
Wahhabi Islam must be imposed by force.
So why do some still call the Saudis our friends? Because they have
the power to keep oil prices down? That leverage is being reduced by
increased oil production by our friends Russia and Mexico. Because
they are anti-Communist? Communism is no longer a threat. Because
they are used to heeding the mellifluous advice of Saudi Ambassador
Prince Bandar? What has he done to stop al Qaeda or the propagation
of totalitarian Wahhabi Islam? Because we depend on Saudi military
bases? Despite Pentagon denials, it seems we are wisely dispersing
our forces in the gulf.
It may not be prudent yet to speak the truth out loud, that the
Saudis are our enemies. But they should know that it is increasingly
apparent to the American people that they are effectively waging war
against us. And they should know that we have the capacity to destroy
their military, presumably in a matter of hours. The Saudis' eastern
provinces, with their oil, could be given to their Shiite Muslim
majority, now oppressed by the Sunni Muslim Saudi rulers. The holy
cities of Mecca and Medina could be returned to the custody of the
Hashemites (Jordan's King Abdullah's family), who unlike the Saudis
are direct descendants of the prophet Mohammed. Let the Saudis have
the sands of central Arabia and their bank accounts in Switzerland,
hotel suites in London, and villas on the Riviera.
 
 
3.
Excerpts:
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:16:28 +0200
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Subject: A letter to Arutz-7 readers from Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
Arutz Sheva <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
------------------------------------------------
 
A letter to Arutz Sheva readers from Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
"It's Time to Stop European Union Funding of PA Terrorism"
Dear Arutz-7 Reader,
As you may know, most of the funding to Palestinian terrorist groups comes from money donated by the European Union (EU). Since 1994 the EU has recklessly given Arafat more than $1.5 billion in foreign aid. This money was initially pledged to the Palestinian Authority (PA) to enable it to pay the salaries of municipal workers, including its oversized police and security forces. But Israeli security officials have publicly acknowledged that much of this "humanitarian support" has been diverted to Palestinian terrorist operations.
Since the current war broke out in September 2000, the so-called Palestinian "police" and "security" forces have been the leading perpetrators of terrorist attacks against Israeli Jews. PA "policemen" have carried out hundreds of drive-by shootings against Israeli vehicles and dozens of suicide bombings in Israeli cities. The funding for these attacks has come directly from the European Union, which provides tens of millions of dollars to Arafat's militias. Despite Israel's strenuous objections, the Europeans continue to irresponsibly transfer $10 million each month to Arafat's coffers, knowing full well that this money is going to be used to fund murderous attacks on Jews in Israel.
Thus, the European Union has become, even more than Iran, Iraq or Syria, the main source of financial support for Palestinian terror.
 
With love of Israel,
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Adv.
mailto:nitsanad@zahav.net.il
<nitsanad@zahav.net.il>
 
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To: britam@netvision.net.il Subject: "Jerusalem News"-47 Bcc: list
Fri May 24, 8:02 AM ET
By Matt Spetalnick
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A suspected Palestinian militant tried to ram a car
laden with explosives into a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub Friday but was
killed when an Israeli security guard opened fire.
"I fired one bullet at him. He fell out of the car and blew up," the guard,
Eli Federman, told reporters. "After the blast, I shot him twice in the
head... and then moved closer and emptied the rest of the clip into his
head."
Three passersby were wounded by the blast in an area known for its nightlife
in the south of Israel's largest city.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant faction linked to Arafat's Fatah
faction, said in a statement sent to Reuters it carried out "the remarkable,
heroic martyrdom operation in the heart of Tel Aviv."
Tel Aviv police chief Yosef Sedbon said
the attacker picked a dance club packed with teenagers at 1:30 a.m. on
Friday.
"When he saw the people in front, he took his car and tried to run it into
the club," Sedbon said.
Witnesses said there was panic as the car, which stopped a few meters from
the club's entrance, was enveloped in flames.
 
5.
 
From: Israel Resource News Agency <media@actcom.co.il>
Subject: 29% of Israelis Murdered are Female while 2.63% of Pal.Arab Deaths are
Palestinian Arab Female
 
For the past two years, the media has often reported that there have been
more Arab fatalities than Israeli fatalities.
What the media may NOT have noticed is that thereb have been many more
Israeli women fatalities.
How many times have Arabs purposely exploded a bomb, detonated a roadside
bomb or blown themselves up in the presence of Jewish females?
The stats speak for themselves:
29% of Israelis Murdered are Female (see breakdown of ages):
http://israelbehindthenews.com/Archives/May-29-02.htm#baruchdayanemet
2.63% of Palestinian Arab Deaths are Palestinian Arab Females (See breakdown of ages):
http://israelbehindthenews.com/Archives/May-29-02.htm#baruchdayan
DAVID BEDEIN
ISRAEL RESOURCE NEWS AGENCY
BEIT AGRON INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL
www.israelbehindthenews.com
 
6. Yediot Acharonot (3.6.02): Avi Dickter, head of the Israeli Security Service said that recently the secret service had foiled 40 different terrorist attempts.
 
7.Yediot Acharonot (3.6.02):  India is the foremost customer of Israel for Defence products and recently received an advanced early warning radar system from Israel.
 
8.Yediot Acharonot (3.6.02): Holland has forbidden Jewish ritual slaughter of beef. The justification given was to avoid suffering of the animals even though this is doubtful and alternative methods used in non-Jewish slaughtering actually cause much more suffering. The Nazis also forbade Jewish ritual slaughter. Jews are forbidden to eat meat that has not been ritually slaughtered and prepared. Kosher meat is probably also much healthier. In Sweden and Switzerland Jewish ritual slaughtering of animals
has been forbidden for some time.
 
 
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1. Mad cow disease

Source: Yediot Acharonot 4.6.02
1. Mad Cow Disease.
The Mad Cow Disease is a disease that affects the brains of beef and then assumedly causes another disease in humans who eat the beef.
It is said to cause an agonizing death.
The connection between the two sicknesses is controversial. Nevertheless when the disease turn up in  Britain in 1996 a good portion of the cattle in Britain had to be done away with.
117 people are believed to have died because of the disease in Britain, 6 in France, 1 in Thailand, and 1 in Italy.
One case of the disease may have turned  up (in a cow, not a human) in Israel. It is still not certain.
At all events in Israel very strict veterinary standards are kept with frequent examinations and Israel has one more advantage:
Jewish Ritual Slaughtering: Cuts the throat of the beast in one fell swipe and then drains the blood out. This greatly reduces the chance of
the meat remaining infected even if the beast did have the sickness. Also the animal is examined before and after the slaughtering and if anything
is seen to be wrong the meat is thrown to the dogs.
[Exodus 22:31] AND YE SHALL BE HOLY MEN UNTO ME: NEITHER SHALL YE EAT ANY FLESH THAT IS TORN OF BEASTS IN THE FIELD; YE SHALL CAST IT TO THE DOGS.                     
Non-Kosher slaughtering on the other hand kills the animal before cutting into it, often by a blow on the head or by electrical stunning.
This can cause blood of the brain to spread throughout the body and infect it if the disease is present.
These methods also probably cause more suffering to the animal than the Kosher method does.
As far as is known so far no meat that was killed and prepared in a Kosher manner has ever been found to be infected by this disease.
Koshering  Produce does not mean that anything is guaranteed but it does increase the chances of receiving better quality.
In the USA today many non-Jews prefer Kosher products due to their usually higher quality.
 
 
 
 
 
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"Jerusalem News"-49
1. Arutz Sheva News Service
- VALOR RECOGNIZED IN TWO COUNTRIES
- TERRORISM NEAR HEVRON
- TISHA B'AV LAW
- BEILIN STARTS NEW MOVEMENT - WITH FUNDS FROM EU
- COMPLAINTS AGAINST CNN
2. End Arafat's Occupation
3. Child molestation and pedophilia

1.
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, June 4, 2002 / Sivan 24, 5762
-VALOR RECOGNIZED IN TWO COUNTRIES
Maj.-Gen. Yitzchak Eitan, Commander of the IDF Central Command, will award medals to 12 soldiers tomorrow who fought with particular bravery during Operation Defensive Shield. Among them will be two posthumous awards to Capt. Kobi Azulai and Sgt. Menashe Hava, who fell in Jenin. Other awards will be made to a deputy commander of an armored division and five paratrooper division commanders for their role in the Ramallah and Shechem battles. Several units, including the Nachal, will receive collective awards.
Tatyana Sofanova, a Russian woman who was blinded when she attempted to uproot a booby-trapped sign on a Russian highway that read, "Death to the Jews," has arrived in Israel. Her trip was arranged by Russia's Chief Rabbi Beryl Lazar, and the Union of Jewish Communities in the former Soviet Union, headed by Lev Levayev, will pick up the tab for her top-grade medical treatment in Israel. Tatyana will be treated in the ophthalmology department of Tel HaShomer Hospital.
3. TERRORISM NEAR HEVRON
Arabs from the Hevron area threw large rocks at a truck late this morning, causing the driver to lose control and the truck to overturn. The driver, who was hit in the head by a rock, was taken in serious condition to a Jerusalem hospital, and his lightly wounded passenger was taken to Be'er Sheva for treatment. The two Jewish victims are residents of the Negev. The attack occurred at the Adorayim Junction.
Another arms smuggling tunnel from Egypt to Gaza was discovered during the night. IDF soldiers discovered an opening to the tunnel in a house in Rafiach. Gunshots and explosives were directed at the soldiers, but no one was hurt.
 
 TISHA B'AV LAW
As of yesterday, national law now forbids the opening of cafes and restaurants on the national day of mourning, Tisha B'Av (the ninth day of Av). The date, which comes towards the end of the summer, commemorates the destruction of both Holy Temples and other national calamities in the past. The law was passed after Tel Aviv allowed the opening of these establishments last Tisha B'Av.
Also in the Knesset yesterday, four Shas party ministers took the oath of office and once again assumed their previous ministries. Prime Minister Sharon fired them two weeks ago after they voted against a preliminary reading of the emergency budget-cuts package. Shas leader Interior Minister Eli Yeshai promised that the ministers would support and fulfill all government decisions.
 
BEILIN STARTS NEW MOVEMENT - WITH FUNDS FROM EU
Former Minister Yossi Beilin, still a member of the Labor Party, announced last night that he was forming a new left-wing movement named Shachar (Dawn; an acronym for the Hebrew words peace, education, and welfare). Oslo-architect Beilin sharply attacked the Labor Party, and expressed the hope that his movement would include Meretz, as well as other left-wing Knesset Members, including from Labor.
 
MK Yuri Stern, chairman of the National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu Knesset faction, notes with disgust the deep European involvement in internal Israeli politics. "Beilin, who is financed by pro-Palestinian European elements," Stern told Arutz-7 this morning, "has turned himself into a foreign agent acting against the critical interests of the state of Israel. Beilin has not denied that he receives funds from the European Union. Stern said that the Knesset is set to vote on a bill, proposed by MK Uri Ariel, that would outlaw the receipt of funds from foreign states. "Thus," Stern said, "the gross interference of the European Union and others in the internal affairs of the state of Israel would be halted - and Beilin's subversion would end."
 
 COMPLAINTS AGAINST CNN
MK Avraham Hirschson has asked Communications Minister Ruby Rivlin to revoke CNN's license to broadcast from Israel. "CNN has enlisted in the cause of Palestinian propaganda," Hirschson told Arutz-7 today. "It is a tool in the hands of the [PA] because of various economic interests... It gives only one side of the coin, in a most aggressive manner..." Asked for an example, the MK noted an incident this week in which CNN interviewed a woman who had lost her mother and baby daughter in a terrorist attack, yet edited out most of the interview and produced a show about the terrorist's mother instead. "CNN is not only abusing the State of Israel, but also its citizens individually... Closing down CNN would be an important message that the citizens are important to the State."
 
2,.
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voicesunited@israelunitycoalition.com
 
 
The Jerusalem Post - May 29, 2002
End Arafat's Occupation
By Michael Freund
It is time for Israel and its supporters to finally muster up the courage to acknowledge the cold, hard truth the West Bank and Gaza are "occupied territories".
These areas are administered by a cruel and heartless regime, one that has no mercy on its perceived foes, targeting them with derision, humiliation and even military force.
Little concern is shown for the lives of the innocent, as ruthless measures are employed with the aim of driving the residents from their homes, making them so miserable that they will have no choice but to leave.
This occupation is a menace to the entire region, destabilizing it and undermining any chances for a lasting peace between Arabs and Jews. There is no choice but to bring about an end to this colonialist enterprise, and to dismantle the occupation once for and all.
Or, to put it more simply: Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian Authority have got to go.
For, if there is anyone who should be considered an "occupier" in the territories, it is Arafat and his dictatorial regime.
Over the past nine years, they have transformed large swaths of Judea, Samaria and Gaza into hothouses for terrorism and violence. They have targeted Jews living in these areas, seeking to compel them to leave by shooting at them, firing mortar rounds at their communities, detonating explosive devices as their cars pass by and invading their homes.
The PA has set new standards of corruption, misusing foreign donor money for unsavory purposes and cultivating a culture of death and suicide among their own people. They have thwarted all efforts to end the century-old Arab-Israeli conflict, preferring instead to resort to the rifle.
Under the PAs rule, the Palestinian-occupied territories have become an irritant to the entire Middle East, threatening to plunge it into another round of bloodshed and violence.
 
Regardless of what the United Nations or others might say, Judea, Samaria and Gaza are the patrimony of the Jewish people. History, quite simply, is on our side.
Hundreds of years before the advent of Islam, the territories were home to vibrant Jewish communities. David, king of Israel, was born and raised in Bethlehem, while the prophet Amos foretold the future in the hills near Tekoa, southeast of Jerusalem.
Ancient synagogues and burial sites dot the landscape, all serving as physical testimony to the Jewish presence in these areas. Politicians may lie, but 2000-year old stones do not.
Visit Shilo, capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, in Samaria. Take a look at the ruins of King Herods palace at Herodion, in Judea. Stop by the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and you will see with your own eyes that these areas were Jewish long before the sword of Islam was ever unsheathed.
 
Even after the Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed and the people of Israel sent in to exile, Jews continued to live in these areas, albeit in smaller numbers. Hebron was home to a continuous Jewish presence up until 1929. Only once their neighbors massacred them were they forced to flee.
Gaza yes, Gaza also has a long and rich Jewish history. The Hasmonean king, Yochanan, brother of Judah the Maccabee, took Gaza in 145 BCE, and his brother Shimon sent Jews to settle there. In the fourth century of the common era, Gaza served as the primary port of commerce for the Jews of the Holy Land.
Nearly forty years ago, on the outskirts of Gaza city near the sea, Egyptian archaeologists discovered a mosaic floor from an ancient synagogue. According to the inscription, it had been built in the sixth century, or 1400 years before the establishment of the PLO.
These are hard facts. They can not be denied or argued away. So, when Jews now seek again to live in these areas, they are doing so not as foreign occupiers, but as indigenous residents returning home. They are merely continuing in the paths of their ancestors, walking where they walked so very long ago.
 
So to all those who say "End the Occupation" I couldnt agree with you more. Let us remove Yasser Arafat and his regime, and return the land to the Jewish people, its original owners, once and for all.
-----------------
The writer served as Deputy Director of Communications & Policy Planning in the Prime Ministers Office from 1996 to 1999.
 
3.
From: Eliezer <ctsplus@idig.net>
Report: Pedophilia more common among 'gays'
Research purports to reveal 'dark side' of homosexual culture
By Jon Dougherty WorldNetDaily.com April 29, 2002
<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27431>
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Child molestation and pedophilia occur far more commonly among homosexuals
than among heterosexuals on a per capita basis, according to a new study.
"Overwhelming evidence supports the belief that homosexuality is a sexual
deviancy often accompanied by disorders that have dire consequences for our
culture," wrote Steve Baldwin in, "Child Molestation and the Homosexual
Movement," soon to be published by the Regent University Law Review.
Baldwin is the executive director of the Council for National Policy in
Washington, D.C.
"It is difficult to convey the dark side of the homosexual culture without
appearing harsh," wrote Baldwin. "However, it is time to acknowledge that
homosexual behavior threatens the foundation of Western civilization the
nuclear family."
Though the homosexual community and much of the media scoff at such
accusations, Baldwin who chaired the California Assembly's Education
committee, where he fought against support for the homosexual agenda in the
state's public schools says in his report that homosexual activists'
"efforts to target children both for their own sexual pleasure and to
enlarge the homosexual movement" constitute an "unmistakable" attack on
"the family unit."
Baldwin's research is substantiated in a recently completed body of work
written by Dr. Judith Reisman, president of the Institute for Media
Education and author of numerous authoritative books debunking sexual
myths, including "Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences."
 
"The rate of homosexual versus heterosexual child sexual abuse is
staggering," said Reisman, who was the principal investigator for an
$800,000 Justice Department grant studying child pornography and violence.
"Abels data of 150.2 boys abused per male homosexual offender finds no
equal (yet) in heterosexual violations of 19.8 girls."
 
"The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) recently
boasted that although homosexuals are less than two percent of the
population, three-fourths of the people who decide the content of the front
page of the New York Times are homosexual," Reisman wrote.
 
"Jerusalem News"-50
1. Arutz Sheva News Service
- MOSLEM TERRORISTS BLAST ISRAELI BUS, 16 DEAD
- WARNING TO EUROPE: STOP APPEASING TERRORISM
- HOLLAND BANS SHECHITAH, BECOMING THE 6TH COUNTRY IN THE EU TO INITIATE STARVATION OF JEWS FOR OPERATION "POLITICALLY CORRECT JUDENREIN"
2. THE YAKUZA -- GANGSTERS WITH AN AGENDA AND A CAUSE

1.
arutz-7@IsraelNationalNews.com
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Wednesday, June 5, 2002 / Sivan 25, 5762
 MOSLEM TERRORISTS BLAST ISRAELI BUS, 16 DEAD
After a week of relative quiet - the security forces thwarted several attacks, and no one was killed (though one person was seriously wounded yesterday) - Palestinian terrorism returned with fierce vengeance this morning. At least 16 people - 13 of them soldiers - were murdered when a car bomb packed with explosives exploded alongside a passenger bus at the Megiddo junction, between Hadera and Afula. Some 50 people were wounded in this latest attack, and were transferred to Afula's HaEmek, Haifa's Rambam, and Hadera's Hillel Yaffe hospitals. Of the 25 who remained in the hospital for more than several hours, eight are in critical or serious condition and three are listed in "moderate" condition (which might mean irreversible damage to internal organs or the loss of a limb).
The explosion took place around 7:15 AM when Egged bus #830 traveling from Tel Aviv to the Kinneret sea-side city of Tiberias. The bus had left Tel Aviv at 5:50 AM and was packed with Israeli soldiers traveling to various army bases in the northern part of the country. Some of the passengers were hurled - safely - out of the bus by the force of the blast, while others remained trapped inside the flames. The explosives-laden car was totally destroyed, though it was ascertained to have been stolen from Lod in February. The bus was totally burnt and reduced to a skeleton of charred metal. The flames seriously hampered rescue efforts, while small explosions - probably bullets from the soldier-passengers' weapons - continued to be heard from inside the burning bus for several minutes after the blast. The car was loaded with what the police called a "very large" explosive, as well as many of the usual metallic fragments, nails, and bolts designed to increase the carnage.
 
The IDF began moving tanks, covered by combat helicopters, into the northern Shomron city of Jenin from three directions this afternoon. The army believes that the car bomb arrived at the Megiddo Junction from Jenin, less than 15 kilometers to the southeast. Defense sources that this is not necessarily Israel's response to the Megiddo bus attack, "which will yet come."
 
WARNING TO EUROPE: STOP APPEASING TERRORISM
"You're next, buddies." So said Chen [pronounced khen, and meaning grace or favor] Keinan this week, addressing herself to the European audience in an interview with CNN. Chen, whose mother and baby daughter were murdered in a terrorist attack in Petach Tikvah nine days ago, said, "You are appeasing terrorism! And you hope that if you tolerate it, and try to understand its motives, and you give it reasons, whatever they are The more fear you show, the faster it's going to be on your doorstep - and then, G-d help you, because you gave it legitimacy."
 
HOLLAND BANS SHECHITAH
The government of Holland has banned kosher slaughter, becoming the sixth European country to do so. The local Agriculture Ministry informed Jewish community leaders there that they would no longer be permitted to slaughter cows in a kosher manner [shechitah] because of its "cruelty" to the animals. Deputy Foreign Minister Rabbi Michael Melchior, the former Chief Rabbi of Norway, says he is not convinced that concern for the animals is the real motivation behind the new regulation: "They simply don't want foreigners and they don't want Jews. I won't say that this is the only motivation, but it's certainly no coincidence that one of the first things Nazi Germany forbade was kosher slaughter. I also know that during the original debate on this issue in Norway, where shechitah has been banned since 1930, one of the parliamentarians said straight out, 'if they don't like it, let them go live somewhere else.'"
Melchior also says the cruelty accusations against shechitah are simply untrue: "The Torah forbids cruelty to animals, and the shechitah process ensures that the animal loses consciousness immediately. We have been dealing with this issue for many years, and there are many scientific studies that back us up."
M.E., a religious Jew from Holland, does not appear worried: "The main concern is whether there is kosher meat in the store or not... Of course the principle of the matter worries me. But I have heard on the inside that it was not done as a matter of policy, but rather just a few individuals who were able to convince the government to make this decision..."
 
2.
Extracts:
From the Rumor Mill News Reading Room
http://www.rumormillnews.com
Patriotlad <PatriotladG@netscape.net>
Tuesday, 28 May 2002, 11:28 p.m.
THE YAKUZA -- GANGSTERS WITH AN AGENDA AND A CAUSE
"Japan has a flourishing and rather romanticized underworld ...
gangsters called Yakuza.
"The belief is still common among ordinary Japanese that the Yakuza
preserve venerated customs and virtues that in mainstream society
have yielded to modernity;" writes Karel van Wolferen, in his
landmark work The Enigma of Japanese Power (1987). "Nor do they seek
to hide what are, being eminently recognizable in their dark blue
double-breasted suits, white ties and dark sunglasses.
"Yakuza are accustomed to protection from people in high places.
Both before and after the war they were used by the corporations to
help break strikes. Large and famous firms with impeccable
reputations are not above using them for intimidation ....
Considering how much can be accomplished in Japan by intimidation, it
should be no surprise that some Liberal Democratic Party [L.D.P.]
politicians used to take the precaution of having gangsters attend
political rallies.
"The world of the Yakuza borders on and partially blends with that
of the rightists, who portray themselves as the only true patriots.
"Throughout the 20th Century police and corporations have used
gangsters to counterbalance Marxist influence. [Right-wing leader]
Kodama Yoshio mediated between the L.D.P. and Tokyo gang bosses in
organizing an army of over 30,000 Yakuza and rightists to help the
police preserve order during the scheduled visit of President Dwight
Eisenhower [in 1960, but the visit was cancelled due to fears of
Marxist demonstrations and violence].
SHINKO SHUKYO -- THE NEWLY ARISEN RELIGIONS OF JAPAN
Religion and political power are deeply interlaced in modern Japan,
despite the country's supposed prohibitions and restrictive laws
separating 'church' from the 'state.' An older Buddhist sect called
Tenrikyo, founded "during the late Tokugawa period, dominates an
entire city (Tenri) and has a university, schools, an ethnological
museum, a historical library and missionaries ... doctors in the
Third World." Van Wolferen also writes that some of these "new
religions" have become very rich and powerful.
"The best known among them, Soka Gakkai, is of political
significance of its size;" van Wolferen notes that they have six
million members in Japan and perhaps as many as ten million more
around the world. This Buddhist sect controls the Komeito or Clean
Government Party, with an important minority in the Japanese
legislature. So, too, the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon has
made tremendous inroads in Japan.
"Japanese Moonies are hardly less fanatical than their western
counterparts. By infiltrating parts of the political and academic
worlds -- aided by the large fund they have available for buying
favors. by their intimidating practices and by their fervent anti-
communism -- they have become highly influential. The Moonies", wrote
van Wolferen in 1987, "advocate the need for greater Japanese
independence through remilitarization."
THE YAKUZA AND THE KOREAN MINORITY
"Although they do not advertise the fact, the gangs [of the Yakuza]
are indeed among the few Japanese organizations that welcome members
of the minority Burakumin and Koreans." Van Wolferen notes that the
Burakumin, or "hamlet people," i.e., outcasts, are mainly
concentrated in the Kansai region "around Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe, and
in Shikoku." Thus it follows that the Yakuza have successfully
recruited many of these 'outcasts,' who are otherwise
indistinguishable from regular Japanese people from those cities.
Koreans living in Japan also face discrimination, and they do look
different, and they are easily accepted into the Yakuza and into
doomsday cults like Aum Shinrikyuo -- Supreme Truth -- and, of
course, Unification.
Writing in 1996 for the Channel1.com website, Ted Daniels observed
that the Supreme Truth Buddhist cult seemed to have borrowed many of
its members and much of its 'doomsday' ideology from the Soka
Gakkai: "Armageddon involved the defeat of Buddhism by Christianity,
except for Aum's elect. This idea is familiar in Japan from the work
of Kanji Ishihara, who has been quoted in Aum Shinrikyo's
publications. Ishihara was a Kwangtung officer and 'prophetic
[Nichiren Buddhist] guru' who created the puppet Manchukuo state in
China in the 1930's, as a base for this final global struggle, and is
still 'revered' in Japan's most powerful religious movement, Soka
Gakkai.
Daniels asserts that the Supreme Truth Buddhist cult has simply
taken the principles and tenets of Soka Gakkai directly
into 'militancy,' and his descriptions of the cults membership
rituals closely parallel the 'initiations' conducted by various gangs
in the Yakuza. The effect was and is the same: to submerge the
individual in the group identity and to add their mentality to the
group, thus producing both comfort and a sense of belonging for the
cult -- or gang -- members. This sense of belonging is extremely
important in modern Japanese society.
Daniels adds that the leaders of Supreme Truth followed the same
plans which helped build the Soka Gakkai, while preaching that the
moral and spiritual decline of Japan would "be reversed in a world
war which would crush 'materialist powers', leaving the way free for
Lotus Sect Buddhists to establish Dai-san Bummei, a third
civilization based on Buddhism.
"Soka Gakkai poses as a pacifist sect," writes Daniels, "but this
doctrine reveals what Archipelago calls its true purpose: a
cataclysmic war of annihilation against the Christian West and the
Islamic world. It predicts an opening of hostilities around the turn
of the millennium, in the climax of a century-long struggle with the
US, leader of the West.
"It is an interesting parallel that some Japanese business leaders
call their foreign trade policy and overseas expansion a 'hundred
year war'." Daniels notes that the Soka Gakkai was earning $2 billion
per year in the early 1990s, from members' contributions and
bequests.
 
The Ted Daniels article is no longer on Channel1.com but is stored
in the Google archive at: http://216.239.37.100/search?
 
"Jerusalem News"-51
1. Arutz Sheva News Service
- THE START OF THE RETALIATION - OR THE END?
- SHOT IN BINYAMIN REGION
- FOLLOW-UP ON SHECHITAH IN HOLLAND
2. A mother's protest By FRIMET ROTH

 
1.
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Thursday, June 6, 2002 / Sivan 26, 5762
 
THE START OF THE RETALIATION - OR THE END?
Leaving their options open and observers in suspense, IDF forces left Ramallah this morning after a six-hour raid into the Palestinian Authority capital in retaliation for yesterday's terrorist slaughter in Megiddo. Some 50 tanks entered the city during the night, surrounded Arafat's Mukata headquarters, and blew up several buildings there, including the Mukata prison, the military intelligence building, and several smaller structures. The bridge connecting Arafat's residential quarters and his offices was also destroyed. During the battles, two Arabs were killed, including an officer of Arafat's personal guard.
 
Diplomatic sources in Jerusalem,  say that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is not interested in a stronger reaction before his meeting with U.S. President George Bush in Washington next Monday. Sharon would rather concentrate on heading off a possible American diplomatic initiative involving a full withdrawal from all of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, in return for the removal of the "Right of Return" from the negotiating table.
 
SHOT IN BINYAMIN REGION
A 20-year-old Jewish male is listed in serious condition this afternoon after he was shot by Palestinian terrorists between Shilo and Ofrah. The victim was driving alone from Eli towards Jerusalem when he was shot at the Haramiya Junction, the site of at least two major terrorist attacks during this Oslo War: On Nov. 14, 2000, Sarah Lisha (a mother of five from N'vei Tzuf), and two young soldiers Elad Valenstein and Amit Zana were murdered - the three were murdered while driving in two separate cars; and seven soldiers and three civilians were shot and killed by a sniper on March 3 of this year.
 
 FOLLOW-UP ON SHECHITAH IN HOLLAND
A headline in yesterday's report wrongfully implied that Holland had banned *all* shechitah (kosher slaughter of animals). The article itself noted that slaughter of "cows" is no longer permitted, but in fact this must be further qualified to say that only the slaughter of "large bulls" is no longer permitted.
Furthermore, the Jewish Community of Amsterdam has informed Arutz-7 that it is in fact "fighting" the new regulation, and that its representatives are "protesting fiercely against [this] change of attitude towards shechitah, which has a 365-year old history in Amsterdam." The Jewish Community of Amsterdam states that the Dutch Department of Agriculture has broken its promises to allow shechitah to continue without interruption, and that Jewish representatives have been in contact with officials on this matter for several months.
 
2.
 
Subject: Frimet's article in today's Jerusalem Post To: roth@runbox.com
 
http://www.jpost.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid=1022691090735
 
In case the link above to the online edition of the Jerusalem Post does not work, here is the text.
 
A mother's protest
By FRIMET ROTH
Jun. 6, 2002
 
Last month, three US Congressmen flew to Israel on a morale-boosting mission. Among their encounters was an evening spent with several Israeli parents of terror victims. My husband and I told them about Malki, our 15-year-old daughter who was murdered in the Sbarro bombing last August. "Americans support you and feel your pain," they assured us, and I wanted to be convinced.
 
But it wasn't easy. Back at home, a recent New Yorker article about the Palestinian Authority's Sari Nusseiba referred to him as a "voice of restraint." It related his view of suicide bombings: "People are so desperate, so crazy, so resentful, that it is natural to expect more of this." This is restraint?
 
On television, I heard American journalists stoking the ebbing Jenin fire. Arafat had already back-tracked on the massacre claim and reduced the death toll from 500 to 56. But he was now crying "war crimes" and the media gamely joined him. Of course, with Israel's losses at 23, it looked most like a straight-out battle. But, sssh... Using that term would mean apologizing.
 
Israelis have grown accustomed to biased news reports. I have even become inured to coverage that minimizes the tragedy of Malki's death.
 
Yet reading the latest issue of New York Magazine my armor cracked. I learned of American Jews who took to the streets with Palestinians; Jews who claim to care about Israel and embrace Judaism. I saw their "End the Occupation" and "Sharon = Hitler" placards.
 
I realize how easy it must be to judge a cause by its supporters, rather than on its own merits. After all, many pro-Palestinians happen also to be committed to fighting a myriad of worthy battles: globalization, child labor, domestic violence, animal abuse, sexual and racial discrimination, environmental pollution. Could they be so wrong on this one?
 
Well, simply put: yes. Many of them have been deprived of information that is readily accessible to us here. For instance, are they aware that the Jenin accusations are just the latest in a long line of libels? A previous case arose in 1983 when droves of Palestinian schoolgirls fainted in class and were rushed to hospital. The Israelis stood accused of having poisoned and thereby sterilized them in order to stem the Palestinian demographic growth. After its investigation disclosed no evidence whatever of poisoning, Israel concluded that this was an episode of mass hysteria, something not unheard of among teen girls. By then, all of the nearly 1,000 "victims" had been released from hospital, healthy and well.
 
Nevertheless, the uproar persisted. Palestinian doctors echoed the diagnosis of poisoning. The US ambassador to the UN even leveled similar accusations on her government's behalf. International organizations entered the fray from the start and proved unstoppable. Red Cross representatives conducted their own investigation. They unearthed no evidence of poisoning either, but an ambiguous report was the best they could produce. While it raised no anti-Israel allegations, it also failed to declare Israel innocent.
 
Fifteen years later, Yasser Arafat's wife, Suha, concocted a fresh libel of her own, which she unveiled at a ceremony in Hillary Clinton's honor. Israeli poisoning by depleted uranium was causing cancer among her people, she claimed. While the speech won Suha a kiss from the First Lady, the libel never really took off. But in damaging Israel's image, it achieved its goal.
 
Libels are an adjunct weapon intended to clear the way for terrorist attacks. They grab headlines and depict Israel as evil. Their eventual disproof, on the other hand, goes unnoted. The Palestinians rely on them in order to practice their barbarism with impunity. And little wonder. The hundreds of Israeli intifada victims are evidence that the strategy works.
 
Today I received a new book published by Israel's Ministry of Education. It is entitled "Target: Israeli Children Scores of Israeli Children Have Been Deliberately Murdered by Palestinian Terrorists". The booklet includes my own Malki's photo and a few lines about her. But with a toll of 70 children killed and 720 wounded in this war so far, space was limited. "Malki was filled with joie de vivre and was liked by all her friends," it says. But it fails to mention her passion for classical music and the magical way she played the flute. Nor does it note that she taught herself to play guitar and lugged one everywhere. Her friends tell us that she loved to pull it out and initiate folk-singing anytime and anyplace.
 
MALKI'S MURDER has been vividly re-enacted by Palestinian children. A video-tape, repeatedly aired on television, shows them enthusiastically destroying a Sbarro replica emblazoned with the words "Sbarro" and "Kosher" in Hebrew.
 
Until the Palestinian school system undergoes fundamental change, there can be no peace. As long as their theater of terror, like the Sbarro reenactment, is an encouraged activity for youth, my own children will not be safe. The steady supply of suicide bombers many of them mere teenagers will continue so long as Palestinian Arab leaders offer their people nothing but empty promises.
 
But positive change is nowhere on the horizon. The old priorities seem more entrenched than ever. A case in point: the Palestinian Authority wish-list submitted this month to the European Union. According to a report in the German weekly Die Welt, high on the list was the sum of $ 20 million (out of a total of nearly two billion) to purchase weapons for the Palestinian police. Funds for health and education, the article pointed out, were low priority items.
 
Suicide bombers are being nurtured by the more than 50 percent of Palestinians who still support this tactic. They do not sprout "naturally" as Sari Nusseiba would have us believe. Only after the Palestinians decide to channel more money into instruments of music instead of into weapons of war will we see progress and that grant they are about to receive from the Europeans would be a good place to start.
 
To those protesting Jews, let me say this: Much is in your hands. The Palestinians need your support to continue their reign of terror. They are relying on you to believe their libels. Your empathy with the Palestinian-Arab cause gives them carte blanche to murder more civilian Israelis. Please pause and consider this before you next reach for your placards and head for another anti-Israel rally. Then perhaps, one day, children on both sides will devote themselves to music and friendship the way my precious Malki once did.
 
New York-born Frimet Roth is a freelance writer and mother residing in Jerusalem. Her oldest daughter was among those murdered in the Sbarro terror attack in the center of Jerusalem in August 2001.
 
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"Jerusalem News"-52
1. Israel – Stand and deliver!
2. Arutz Sheva News Service
- EREZ RUND, 18, OF OFRAH, BURIED TODAY
- SHARANSKY: THE ANSWER TO TERRORISM IS MORE JEWISH TOWNS
- ISRAELI ASTRONAUT PLANS FOR SHABBAT IN SPACE
- CAMPAIGN TO MOBILIZE CHRISTIAN SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
3. Voice of Judea News and Commentary

1.
From: Ken Graydon <kennygee@bigpond.com.au>
ISRAEL STAND AND DELIVER!
Ken Graydon
The State of Israel is not a political entity but part of a promise made by the ETERNAL to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses.
The events in the Middle East are not just current affairs or events staged to fill up the television news they are the unfolding, before our very eyes, of Scripture prophecy.
There can be no land for peace solution. The land belongs to the ETERNAL it has been gifted to the Israelite people (not only Jewish people) and may not be given away.
This has been demonstrated in the fact that the land only flourishes when Israelite people live there otherwise it reverts to desert.
The Oslo Accord, which has now become the Oslo War, cannot deliver peace. It is an interesting sidelight to Norways position that all goods from Israel have to be specially marked. What happens next? Jewish people wearing a yellow star? Europeans have short memories!
The Oslo Accord has no relevance when compared to the Covenant put in place by the ETERNAL and reinforced at Sinai. The ETERNAL has even put in place exactly the right kind of opponent to Israel in Yasser Arafat.
This is a person who calls on a million martyrs (suicide bombers) to die in Jerusalem while pretending to espouse peace. A man with a blood soaked CV of terrorism, corruption and murder. A man of death.
The State of Israel needs a Torah observant leader who will publicly state that all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza belong to the Israelite people. ETERNAL gave it to them and they intend to keep it. There is a place for a Palestinian state its currently called Jordan, which was taken over illegally by the Hashemite people when they were chased out of Saudi Arabia. Palestinians are illegally occupying land in Israel which they will never own.
A Torah observant Israel will be a place of life. The Torah is the book of life. This is the only successful strategy against terrorism life wins over death! America cannot and will not, in its current thinking, win a war against terrorism. A Torah observant America could. This is the life versus death struggle.
America wants to rely on power, money, hardware and stuff to wage a war of hearts and minds. The lessons of Vietnam have not been learned.
The State of Israel is being distracted by its relationship with America the summons to the White House, the constant stream of travelling salesmen, the threats and promises. None of these offer a solution, they muddy the waters and play into the hands of the implacable foe the people of death.
The Arafat people offer death who has ever heard them offer a policy on health care, pensions, welfare, education, the arts or trade? Their religion offers a reward of attentive virgins in paradise, I dont know what it offers female adherents, it is a way of death. Families of suicide bombers are paid rewards by philanthropists such as Saddam Hussein of Iraq, they are praised by their neighbours and clergy.
A Torah observant leader is needed now in Israel to claim the land in an unequivocal way. Nail the flag to the mast. Seek the security that obedience to the ETERNAL brings.
This should be our prayer program that the ETERNAL will find an obedient, Torah observant and courageous leader for Israel really soon. A leader for life to stand against the people of death and do the will of the ETERNAL.
kennygee@bigpond.com
Parts of this item were inspired by an article published by Tzemach News Service, Cutting the Cord, written by Professor Paul Eidelberg..
 
2.
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Friday, June 7, 2002 / Sivan 27, 5762
EREZ RUND, 18, OF OFRAH, BURIED TODAY
In what was described by an Israel Radio reporter as a "particularly sad funeral, if such a thing exists," hundreds of Ofrah residents and others heard eulogies and accompanied 18-year-old Erez Rund to his final rest. He was shot yesterday afternoon while in a car from Eli to Ofrah by a Palestinian terrorist waiting in ambush on the hill to the west of the north-south highway. Erez was a high school senior on his way home from Eli, where he had gone to check out the pre-military yeshiva he was considering attending next year. A youth leader in the Bnei Akiva movement, he is survived by his parents and three brothers. "Erez, you know that I don't talk much," his father said at the funeral, over the sound of much sobbing in the background. "You were the one who spoke for me. You were the one who brought life to our home, who made jokes, who always smiled. How will we be able to live in this house without you?"
Erez is the sixth Ofrah resident to fall victim to Arab terrorism and aggression in the past two years. Over 20 people have been murdered by terrorists along and near the route between Shilo and the Assaf Junction turn-off to Beit El.
 
SHARANSKY: THE ANSWER TO TERRORISM IS MORE JEWISH TOWNS
The answer to terrorism lies in increased Jewish control over the Land of Israel, says Housing Minister Natan Sharansky, speaking at the foundation ceremony for a new town in the Galilee. Har Yatzpur, northwest of Mt. Gilboa, is one of 12 new towns that Sharansky hopes to establish in the Negev and Galilee. Sharansky said that the new northern town is strategically located to prevent terrorists from getting to cities such as Hadera and Afula from Jenin. The town is to be populated by approximately 1,000 families, with 120 housing units to be built in the first stage.
 
ISRAELI ASTRONAUT PLANS FOR SHABBAT IN SPACE
Col. Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, will be taking off as part of the crew of NASAs space shuttle Columbia in July. In addition to the intense pre-flight training he has undergone - he will serve as a payload specialist - Ramon is also preparing for Shabbat observance in space. He has asked local Florida rabbis when he should commemorate the weekly day of rest, in light of the fact that he will see the sun "rise and set" each time he circles the Earth - every 90 minutes. While Col. Ramon does not identify himself as particularly religious, the London Sunday Telegraph quoted him as saying, I feel I am representing all Jews and all Israelis. There have been Jewish astronauts in the past, but Ramon is the first to insist on observing kashrut and Shabbat.
One of the Torah scholars consulted on the issue, Rabbi Levy Yitzchak Halperin, has ruled that Ramon is exempt from the Sabbath prohibitions, as he will not be experiencing Earth time.
Ramon, of Tel Aviv, is married and has four children. From 1994 until his selection for the NASA mission, he was head of the Department of Operational Requirement for Weapon Development and Acquisition of the Israeli Air Force.
 
 CAMPAIGN TO MOBILIZE CHRISTIAN SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
A new campaign called Stand for Israel aims to mobilize 100,000 American churches and one million Christians to express solidarity with Israel. The campaign will be run by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and Ralph Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition.
Rabbi Eckstein, whose Fellowship last year presented a $1 million check to the Jewish Agency for use in immigrant absorption, says, Jews are only now beginning to understand the depth of support they have among conservative Christians. Once the potential of this immense reservoir of good will is fully comprehended by the Jewish people..., you will see support for Israel in the United States swell dramatically. Reed said, America has always cherished its friendship with Israel, and religious conservatives and evangelical Christians are among its strongest supporters." The Stand For Israel campaign will include a web site, fax alerts, a media campaign and a briefing for Christian leaders with Israeli representatives.
 
3.
Voice of Judea News and Commentary
VoiceOfJudea@Judea.org
 
Saturday night, 4 soldiers wounded, 2 seriously after Arab terrorist
penetrated into the "settlement" of Yitzhar, in the Shomron. The terrorist
was killed in the exchange of fire.
Friday night, 3 people were killed in Carmi Tzur, a "settlement" near
Halhul, north of Hebron. One of the victims murdererd in the attack was
Yael Shorek, who was 9 months pregnant.
Voice of Judea Commentary:
www.jewishlegion.net
ISRAEL NEEDS YOU AND YOU NEED ISRAEL
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"Jerusalem News"-53
1. GERMANY -- PEACE EVALUATION 2002
2. Arutz Sheva News Service
- EREZ RUND, 18, OF OFRAH, BURIED TODAY
- SHARANSKY: THE ANSWER TO TERRORISM IS MORE JEWISH TOWNS
- ISRAELI ASTRONAUT PLANS FOR SHABBAT IN SPACE
- CAMPAIGN TO MOBILIZE CHRISTIAN SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
3. Voice of Judea News and Commentary
4. Israel – Stand and deliver!

1.
From: Millennium1 <razbo@ozemail.com.au>
World News Headlines
 
GERMANY -- PEACE EVALUATION 2002
As Der Spiegel reported, several German scientists published on Thursday their yearly evaluation on world peace. In it, they heavily criticized the military politics of the United States. Any positive success of the military offensive in Afghanistan was also questioned. As the war continues, figures of civilian deaths are unknown, the terror network has been destroyed, and its leadership has not been captured. The scientists encourage Europe to determine its future role independently and to build up its civil and military possibilities, but not in dependency to the United States. They also warn not to continue showing unquestioned support and solidarity for the United Sates, as this would not be in accordance with European interests.
 
 
 
2.
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Friday, June 7, 2002 / Sivan 27, 5762
EREZ RUND, 18, OF OFRAH, BURIED TODAY
In what was described by an Israel Radio reporter as a "particularly sad funeral, if such a thing exists," hundreds of Ofrah residents and others heard eulogies and accompanied 18-year-old Erez Rund to his final rest. He was shot yesterday afternoon while in a car from Eli to Ofrah by a Palestinian terrorist waiting in ambush on the hill to the west of the north-south highway. Erez was a high school senior on his way home from Eli, where he had gone to check out the pre-military yeshiva he was considering attending next year. A youth leader in the Bnei Akiva movement, he is survived by his parents and three brothers. "Erez, you know that I don't talk much," his father said at the funeral, over the sound of much sobbing in the background. "You were the one who spoke for me. You were the one who brought life to our home, who made jokes, who always smiled. How will we be able to live in this house without you?"
Erez is the sixth Ofrah resident to fall victim to Arab terrorism and aggression in the past two years. Over 20 people have been murdered by terrorists along and near the route between Shilo and the Assaf Junction turn-off to Beit El.
 
SHARANSKY: THE ANSWER TO TERRORISM IS MORE JEWISH TOWNS
The answer to terrorism lies in increased Jewish control over the Land of Israel, says Housing Minister Natan Sharansky, speaking at the foundation ceremony for a new town in the Galilee. Har Yatzpur, northwest of Mt. Gilboa, is one of 12 new towns that Sharansky hopes to establish in the Negev and Galilee. Sharansky said that the new northern town is strategically located to prevent terrorists from getting to cities such as Hadera and Afula from Jenin. The town is to be populated by approximately 1,000 families, with 120 housing units to be built in the first stage.
 
ISRAELI ASTRONAUT PLANS FOR SHABBAT IN SPACE
Col. Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, will be taking off as part of the crew of NASAs space shuttle Columbia in July. In addition to the intense pre-flight training he has undergone - he will serve as a payload specialist - Ramon is also preparing for Shabbat observance in space. He has asked local Florida rabbis when he should commemorate the weekly day of rest, in light of the fact that he will see the sun "rise and set" each time he circles the Earth - every 90 minutes. While Col. Ramon does not identify himself as particularly religious, the London Sunday Telegraph quoted him as saying, I feel I am representing all Jews and all Israelis. There have been Jewish astronauts in the past, but Ramon is the first to insist on observing kashrut and Shabbat.
One of the Torah scholars consulted on the issue, Rabbi Levy Yitzchak Halperin, has ruled that Ramon is exempt from the Sabbath prohibitions, as he will not be experiencing Earth time.
Ramon, of Tel Aviv, is married and has four children. From 1994 until his selection for the NASA mission, he was head of the Department of Operational Requirement for Weapon Development and Acquisition of the Israeli Air Force.
 
 CAMPAIGN TO MOBILIZE CHRISTIAN SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
A new campaign called Stand for Israel aims to mobilize 100,000 American churches and one million Christians to express solidarity with Israel. The campaign will be run by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and Ralph Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition.
Rabbi Eckstein, whose Fellowship last year presented a $1 million check to the Jewish Agency for use in immigrant absorption, says, Jews are only now beginning to understand the depth of support they have among conservative Christians. Once the potential of this immense reservoir of good will is fully comprehended by the Jewish people..., you will see support for Israel in the United States swell dramatically. Reed said, America has always cherished its friendship with Israel, and religious conservatives and evangelical Christians are among its strongest supporters." The Stand For Israel campaign will include a web site, fax alerts, a media campaign and a briefing for Christian leaders with Israeli representatives.
 
3.
Voice of Judea News and Commentary
VoiceOfJudea@Judea.org
 
Saturday night, 4 soldiers wounded, 2 seriously after Arab terrorist
penetrated into the "settlement" of Yitzhar, in the Shomron. The terrorist
was killed in the exchange of fire.
Friday night, 3 people were killed in Carmi Tzur, a "settlement" near
Halhul, north of Hebron. One of the victims murdererd in the attack was
Yael Shorek, who was 9 months pregnant.
Voice of Judea Commentary:
www.jewishlegion.net
ISRAEL NEEDS YOU AND YOU NEED ISRAEL
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4.
From: Ken Graydon <kennygee@bigpond.com.au>
ISRAEL STAND AND DELIVER!
Ken Graydon
The State of Israel is not a political entity but part of a promise made by the ETERNAL to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses.
The events in the Middle East are not just current affairs or events staged to fill up the television news they are the unfolding, before our very eyes, of Scripture prophecy.
There can be no land for peace solution. The land belongs to the ETERNAL it has been gifted to the Israelite people (not only Jewish people) and may not be given away.
This has been demonstrated in the fact that the land only flourishes when Israelite people live there otherwise it reverts to desert.
The Oslo Accord, which has now become the Oslo War, cannot deliver peace. It is an interesting sidelight to Norways position that all goods from Israel have to be specially marked. What happens next? Jewish people wearing a yellow star? Europeans have short memories!
The Oslo Accord has no relevance when compared to the Covenant put in place by the ETERNAL and reinforced at Sinai. The ETERNAL has even put in place exactly the right kind of opponent to Israel in Yasser Arafat.
This is a person who calls on a million martyrs (suicide bombers) to die in Jerusalem while pretending to espouse peace. A man with a blood soaked CV of terrorism, corruption and murder. A man of death.
The State of Israel needs a Torah observant leader who will publicly state that all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza belong to the Israelite people. ETERNAL gave it to them and they intend to keep it. There is a place for a Palestinian state its currently called Jordan, which was taken over illegally by the Hashemite people when they were chased out of Saudi Arabia. Palestinians are illegally occupying land in Israel which they will never own.
A Torah observant Israel will be a place of life. The Torah is the book of life. This is the only successful strategy against terrorism life wins over death! America cannot and will not, in its current thinking, win a war against terrorism. A Torah observant America could. This is the life versus death struggle.
America wants to rely on power, money, hardware and stuff to wage a war of hearts and minds. The lessons of Vietnam have not been learned.
The State of Israel is being distracted by its relationship with America the summons to the White House, the constant stream of travelling salesmen, the threats and promises. None of these offer a solution, they muddy the waters and play into the hands of the implacable foe the people of death.
The Arafat people offer death who has ever heard them offer a policy on health care, pensions, welfare, education, the arts or trade? Their religion offers a reward of attentive virgins in paradise, I dont know what it offers female adherents, it is a way of death. Families of suicide bombers are paid rewards by philanthropists such as Saddam Hussein of Iraq, they are praised by their neighbours and clergy.
A Torah observant leader is needed now in Israel to claim the land in an unequivocal way. Nail the flag to the mast. Seek the security that obedience to the ETERNAL brings.
This should be our prayer program that the ETERNAL will find an obedient, Torah observant and courageous leader for Israel really soon. A leader for life to stand against the people of death and do the will of the ETERNAL.
kennygee@bigpond.com
Parts of this item were inspired by an article published by Tzemach News Service, Cutting the Cord, written by Professor Paul Eidelberg..
 
 
 
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"Jerusalem News"-54
1. JORDAN TIMES
2. BRITAIN STILL SUPPLIES ARMS TO ISRAEL
3. Excerpts from an Arab web site
- Part I: Why We Fight the U.S.
- Part II: The Blow Against the U.S. Will Come from Where Least Expected
- Part III: The Islamic Justification for Al-Qa'ida's Jihad Against the U.S.
4. U.S. Citizen arrested in connection with terrorist plot

1
From: imra@netvision.net.il
 
+++JORDAN TIMES 12 June '02:"Majority of Palestinians now see Israel's
elimination as goal"
QUOTES FROM TEXT:
" A majority of Palestinians believe the aim of their 20-month uprising
should be to eliminate Israel ... not just to end Israeli occupation."
" 68 per cent ... approved of suicide bombings, down slightly from 74
per cent in December."
" 66 per cent said the occupation army's brutal attacks increased their
backing for suicide bombings."
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2.
From: imra@netvision.net.il
BRITAIN STILL SUPPLIES ARMS TO ISRAEL
LONDON [MENL] -- Despite a suspension of defense relations by other European
states, Britain appears to have increased the supply of weapons and
components and training to Israel.
British ministers said the government continues to grant export licenses for
British military products and components to Israel. They said 18 licenses
were approved over the last three months, including during the period of
Israel's military offensive in the West Bank.
Officials said export licenses granted for Israel increased by nearly 50
percent last year. They said the government approved 276 Standard Individual
Export Licences in 2001 as compared to 191 in 2000.
British Trade Minister Nigel Griffiths told parliament last month that the
licenses issued between Feb. 18 and April 22 covered a range of goods on the
government's military list of exports. The minister would not disclose the
exports, but stressed that Britain would not deliver to Israel any weapons
that could be used against the Palestinians.
 
 
3.
 
Note: the following excerpts from an Arab web site are quotations from a Muslim source.
On the one hand it indicates that there is nothing much anyone can do
but this is not so.
 
For a start we could all start to try to become better people, that always helps and very often the very decision
to attempt to change for the better can have an awesomely powerful effect.
 
 
Studies indicate that worrying to much about the news can be unhealthy.
If the message below depresses or frightens you, delete it.
we do not always have to be aware of all the details.
 
The Bible is more interesting and in many ways more up to date.
See our book "Ephraim" where we warned that according to the Book of Hosea the Lost Ten Tribes headed by "Ephraim" (UK and USA)
and the Tribe of "Ephraim" especially were in danger of a great calamity  due to too close an association with  a side represented by "Muchmad" (Mohamet-Islam)
which side has a great hatred for Ephraim.
 
When we first made this warning things were just "lovey-lovey" between the Muslims and the Anglo-Saxons
and nobody foresaw the present quandary.
The first edition of "Ephraim" was copyrighted in 1995.
 
 
 
 
From: voicesunited@israelunitycoalition.com
http://www.israelunitycoalition.com
voicesunited@israelunitycoalition.com
 
 
 
MEMRI - June 12, 2002
 
'Why We Fight America':
Al-Qa'ida Spokesman Explains September 11
and Declares Intentions to Kill 4 Million Americans with Weapons of Mass Destruction
 
Al-Qa'ida spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith, originally from Kuwait, recently posted a three-part article titled "In the Shadow of the Lances" on the website of the Center for Islamic Research and Studies, www.alneda.com. Following numerous hacking attempts after the international media reported that the site was linked to Al-Qa'ida, its address was changed to http://66.34.191.223.
 
Recently, the site published an article by Ayman Al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's deputy and leader of the Egyptian Jihad organization. However, the Saudi London-based Arabic-daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that the article had already appeared in the Al-Mujahiddeen publication.(1) The following are excerpts from Abu Gheith's article:
 
Part I: Why We Fight the U.S.
"...Perhaps the [Islamic] nation is waiting for one Al-Qa'ida man to come out and clear up the many questions that accompany any communiqu?, message, or picture [concerning September 11], to know the truth, the motives, and the goals behind the conflict with the Hubal [one of the pre-Islamic Ka'ba idols - referring to the U.S.] of our generation..."
 
"Why is the world surprised?! Why were millions of people astounded by what happened to America on September 11? Did the world think that anything else would happen? That something less than this would happen?!"
 
"What happened to America is something natural, an expected event for a country that uses terror, arrogant policy, and suppression against the nations and the peoples, and imposes a single method, thought, and way of life, as if the people of the entire world are clerks in its government offices and employed by its commercial companies and institutions."
 
"This goes for every man - let alone when the man in question is of those who believe in Allah, in Islam as a religion, and in Muhammad as Prophet and Messenger, and anyone who knows that his religion is unwilling to allow him to be inferior and refuses to allow him to be humiliated."
 
The Entire Earth Must Be Subjected to Islam
"How can [he] possibly [accept humiliation and inferiority] when he knows that his nation was created to stand at the center of leadership, at the center of hegemony and rule, at the center of ability and sacrifice? How can [he] possibly [accept humiliation and inferiority] when he knows that the [divine] rule is that the entire earth must be subject to the religion of Allah - not to the East, not to the West - to no ideology and to no path except for the path of Allah?..."
 
Part II: The Blow Against the U.S. Will Come from Where Least Expected
"
 
"America is the head of heresy in our modern world, and it leads an infidel democratic regime that is based upon separation of religion and state and on ruling the people by the people via legislating laws that contradict the way of Allah and permit what Allah has prohibited. This compels the other countries to act in accordance with the same laws in the same ways... and punishes any country [that rebels against these laws] by besieging it, and then by boycotting it. By so doing, [America] seeks to impose on the world a religion that is not Allah's..."
 
"America, with the collaboration of the Jews, is the leader of corruption and the breakdown [of values], whether moral, ideological, political, or economic corruption. It disseminates abomination and licentiousness among the people via the cheap media and the vile curricula."
 
"For 50 years in Palestine, the Jews - with the blessing and support of the Americans - carried out abominations of murder, suppression, abuse, and exile... The Jews exiled nearly 5 million Palestinians and killed nearly 260,000. They wounded nearly 180,000, and crippled nearly 160,000."
 
"Due to the American bombings and siege of Iraq, more than 1,200,000 Muslims were killed in the past decade. Due to the siege, over a million children are killed [annually] - that is 83,333 children on average per month, 2,777 children on average per day. 5,000 Iraqis were killed in one day in the Al-'Amiriya shelter alone. Are these statistics of military installations???!!!!"
 
"In its war against the Taliban and Al-Qa'ida in Afghanistan, America has killed 12,000 Afghan civilians and 350 Arab Jihad fighters, among them women and children. It annihilated entire families from among the Arab Jihad fighters while they were in their cars, when the American Air Force bombed [them] with helicopters and anti-tank missiles, until nothing remained of some of them except scattered body parts."
 
"In Somalia, America killed 13,000 Somalis and [its soldiers] carried out acts of abomination on [Somali] boys and women."
 
Muslims Have Suffered from the U.S.'s Standing with Christians
"America's standing with the Christians of the world against the Muslims has stripped the camouflage from its face. Much can be said about this regarding the Sudan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Kashmir, Macedonia, Bosnia, and other tragedies. America's siege on the Islamic countries as punishment for their rebellion against its laws has transgressed all limits, and Muslims have suffered economic losses that outstrip the imagination."
 
"... The banner is being waved openly, and now there is 'only a trench of belief' and 'a trench of heresy.'"
 
Part III: The Islamic Justification for Al-Qa'ida's Jihad Against the U.S.
 
"According to the numbers I noted in the previous section of the lives lost from among the Muslims because of the Americans, directly or indirectly, we still are at the beginning of the way. The Americans have still not tasted from our hands what we have tasted from theirs. The [number of] killed in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were no more than fair exchange for the ones killed in the Al-'Amiriya shelter in Iraq, and are but a tiny part of the exchange for those killed in Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, the Philippines, Bosnia, Kashmir, Chechnya, and Afghanistan."
 
We Have the Right to Kill 4 Million Americans
"We have not reached parity with them. We have the right to kill 4 million Americans - 2 million of them children - and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands. Furthermore, it is our right to fight them with chemical and biological weapons, so as to afflict them with the fatal maladies that have afflicted the Muslims because of the [Americans'] chemical and biological weapons."
 
4.
The  U.S. citizen who was  arrested in connection with an "unfolding terrorist plot" to explode a radioactive dirty bomb in the United States, Abdullah al Muhajir, was originally a   named  Jose Padilla, of Chicago.
He is a former Puerto Rican street gang member of  Chicago who converted to Islam while in prison in the early 1990s.
Padilla trained with al Qaeda and was planning an attack in the United States.
 
A source (YDW) tells me that in many prisons in the USA in order to get released you have to undertake a rehabilitation program.
The source says that, Very often the only program really available for black prisoners is run by Muslims and involves converting to Islam. The Islamic programs
really do rehabilitate people as far as overtly criminal lifestyles are concerned. Because of their success prison authorities have come to rely upon them.
He says that Islam is also spreading amongst "Hispanic" prisoners for similar reasons.
 
 
Brit-Am also receives letters from prisoners often accompanied by requests for free literature that we usually supply.
In some cases further correspondence reveals the prisoners concerned to be '"no-goods." In other cases we get the impression
that the people in question should not have been put in jail in the first place.
One person said he was serving a seven-year sentence for illegal possession of firearms. If  true and this was his only offence the sentence seems extreme to me.
In this day and age it is only natural that a person seek means to defend himself somehow if he ever has to.
I personally consider myself a Biblically-oriented, conservative, right-wing inclined, puritanically-inclined type who is in favor of much stricter law enforcement everywhere BUT it should also be as fair as possible.
 
I was once put in jail for 42 days because of a debt to the Government.
Relatively speaking our conditions were considered to be reasonable BUT I did not like it, at all.
I still think it was not justified.
I have acquaintances who have suffered from far more serious miscarriages of justice than I did, so it does happen.
Not everybody is a "Joseph"  who can build himself up from bad experiences through faith and goodness. The average person is more likely to deteriorate
under incarceration.
You could also suggest that all suffering is due to sin in some way or other and this may be true on one plane. On the other hand we are commanded to do justice, to acknowledge the truth, to help the poor and needy, not to obstruct the stumbling, and to look after ourselves, our families, communities, and nation.
God has made us responsible and thus placed the tools of our redemption in our own hands.
We have an obligation to do what we can for our own good and for the good of others.
 
"Jerusalem News"-55
1. ARAB OIL EMBARGO DEEMED AS INEFFECTIVE
2. Terrorists infiltrate Harsina
3. What's in a name
4. Arutz Sheva News Service
- WHAT TO DO WITH SUICIDE TERRORISTS' LOVING FAMILIES
- U.S. AGAINST GREEN LINE PARTITION
- QUOTE OF THE DAY
5. Dr. Yossi Beillin: Israel's Shadow Foreign Minister? To Whom is Beillin Beholden?

 
1.
From: imra@netvision.net.il
ARAB OIL EMBARGO DEEMED AS INEFFECTIVE
ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Arab oil experts are arguing that an embargo will no
longer be effective.
The experts, attending an energy conference in Abu Dhabi, said Arab League
members could no longer be counted on to enforce such an embargo of Israel
and the West. They said the Arabs are threatened by emerging oil
competitors, particularly Russia, that would make up for the shortfall.
Over the last few months, Iran and Iraq have pressed for an oil embargo of
Israel and the United States. Iraq ended oil exports under United Nations
supervision for one month in a demonstration of solidarity with the
Palestinians.
But the experts said Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have no plans to follow Iraq's
example. They said a Gulf Arab oil embargo would severely weaken those two
countries at the time when their dependence on the West is greater than
ever.
 
2.
News from Hebron
The Hebron Press Office
June 20, 2002
1:30 am
1. Terrorists infiltrate Harsina
At about 1:00 reports were received that terrorists infiltrated the Givat HaHarsina neighborhood of Kiryat Arba. The terrorists shot at the Yeshiva High School, which is located on the northern outskirts of the neighborhood. No one was injured and the terrorists fled. Security forces found hand grenades and an M-16 rifle at the scene. The security forces began a chase after the terrorists, one of whom was located and killed near the fence surrounding the neighborhood. The second terrorist reportedly escaped.
 
3.
From: Dan Ness
Subject: What's in a name
Dear Friend,
The irony of irony! Yesterday the suicide bomber that blew apart a bus on the way from Gilo to Jerusalem and murdered 19 Israelis and wounded 50 was named
Muhammad al-Ghoul
Need I say more.
Pray for Jerusalem.
Lahitraoat,
Dan
 
4.
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, June 18, 2002 / Tammuz 8, 5762
WHAT TO DO WITH SUICIDE TERRORISTS' LOVING FAMILIES
MK Uri Ariel (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) submitted legislation this morning for the punishment of those who encourage, aid or abet suicide murderers. The proposal calls for deportation of the family of all suicide terrorists, and the confiscation of the family's property.
It was reported here yesterday that Hamas terrorist Mahmud Hasan Al-Abed, aged 24, appeared in a video with his mother in which he informed her of his plans to "kill and be killed." Her joy at hearing this news was surpassed only by that she felt the next day when she heard that he had in fact been killed, and had also killed two soldiers in the process. Similarly, the father of today's murderer praised his son for his actions.
In the United States, a prominent Jewish communal leader and Washington attorney has raised a storm by calling for the execution of family members of suicide bombers in order to deter future attacks. New York journalist Yigal Schleifer reports that Atty. Nathan Lewin, a possible candidate for a federal judgeship and a legal advisor to Orthodox Jewish organizations, suggests that Israeli and American authorities announce that first-degree relatives of suicide terrorists will be executed unless they immediately denounce their kin's act and refuse any financial compensation. Reform leader Rabbi Eric Yoffie and National Jewish Partnership for Social Justice director Jeremy Burton came out against Lewin's idea, calling it "reprehensible and beyond the parameters of morality in Jewish ethical thinking." Lewin says, "If executing some suicide-bomber families saves the lives of even an equal number of potential civilian victims, the exchange is ethically permissible."
 
U.S. AGAINST GREEN LINE PARTITION
The Bush Administration is against Israel's construction of the partition wall/fence along or close to the route of the Green Line. A State Department spokesman expressed objections last night to the partition "if it is meant to mark the border between Israel and a future Palestinian state." He said that final-status issues such as borders must be solved in negotiations and not by the "unilateral attempts of one side to set facts on the ground."
 
 
****QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Ineffective, unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky half-measures lead to more violence. However, complete, fully-thought-through, professional, well-executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead."
-- USMC Gen. (ret.) Richard E. Hawley, rebutting the oft-heard assertion that "violence leads to more violence."
 
 
5.
From: "Israel Resource News Agency, Jerusalem, Israel" <media@actcom.co.il>
Dr. Yossi Beillin: Israel's Shadow Foreign Minister? To Whom is Beillin Beholden? David Bedein, Israel Resource News Agency, Beit Agron Press Center, Jerusalem, Israel www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com
On June 2, 2002, Dr. Yossi Beillin called a rally to launched his new movement - "Shachar", which will undoubtedly represent a continuation of Beillin's activities in the ECF - the Economic Cooperation Foundation. ECF was founded by Beillin more than 10 years ago, while Beillin was in the opposition, in between the National Unity government of Peres-Shamir, 1984-1990 and the government of Rabin-Peres, 1992-1996, when Beillin played a crucial role in foreign policy decision making power in both governments. In its formal declaration of principles, submitted to the Israel Registrar of Non Profit Organizations of the Israel Minister of Interior in January, 1991, the ECF declared that its aim was to facilitates allowing for the intervention of the European Union in any negotiations that would take place between Israel and the Arab world. The terms assistance or involvement are not used - The word intervention is used, even though advocacy of European "intervention" runs contrary to the policies of all Israeli governments not to allow any foreign entity to intervene in the internal matters of Israeli foreign affairs.
 
 Indeed, from documents received and perused by "Makor Rishon:, it can now be reported that on October 29th, 1999, the EU provided a retainer of 400,000 Euro to the ECF [i.e. Beilin] for the year 2000. The ECF was also funded during the years 1992-1994, by the Norweigan government through its then minister of State Affairs, Mr. Terje Larson, who was the initiator of the Oslo Peace Talks, and also the host of the negotiations that went on between Yossi Beillin and Arafat advisor Abu Mazen, which produced an unofficial and unsigned agreement that was reached between Beillin and Abu Mazen, which formed the basis of the as yet unknown understandings that launched the Oslo agreement between the Israeli government and the PLO in 1993.
The ECF [i.e. Yossi Beilin] also received funding from foundations based in Europe, the US and Canada, including the Ford Foundation, which maintains close ties with the State Department, and the Kahanoff Foundation in Canada, which is closely connected with the Herzog family in Canada. Meanwhile the ECF also receives funding from the Fredrich Ebert Foundation - a political foundation associated with the SPD party in Germany. Funding from foreign governments for political purposes has caused a stir in the Israeli political arena.
 
 EU documents examined by [Israeli Newspaper] "Makor Rishon" showed that the EU uses Beillin as the ultimate decision-maker for the destination of the funding. One of these documents, From October, 1999, noted that Dr. Yossi Beillin had advised the EU to fund the "Four Mothers" organization, the seemingly spontaneous grass roots movement that. Organized the movement for Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon.
 
 Avivit Ish-Am reports that foundations often transfer funds to the ECF [i.e. Beilin's organization] which are designated for Palestinian purposes, because they trust that the ECF will transfer the monies to their intended sources.
 
The ECF takes credit with hammering out the wording of the Mitchell Report, which puts the onus of the outbreak of violence on Israel, even if it does not blame Sharon's visit on the Temple Mount in September 2000 as the reason for the outbreak of violence. The Mitchell Report was compiled during the period that Beillin served as Justice Minister in Barak's government, and issued while Sharon was prime minister, in May 2001. 3. Planning the final status of the Palestinians, which is directed towards building a framework for peace following the signing of any formal agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. The ECF adopts European models of trans-border cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians. One example is the 1999 "Cooperation South" project between the municipalities of 70 cities from the Haifa region and Jenin. That ECF initiative is funded by the German government. 4. The ECF deals with the internal issue of the Israeli Arabs. In cooperation with the Palestinians and Jordan, they are working on a long-term plan to integrate the Israeli Arabs as a national minority into Israeli society. In a taped interview with a foreign journalist in August 2001, Beillin affirmed that he initiates negotiations with the Palestinians on all levels even though he knows that that "there is no talk of peace" in the Arab society and that "there are no peace activists among the Palestinians". Beillin blames this state of affairs on the current political system of the PA. Nevertheless, Beillin believes that it is possible to simply overlook this fact, and it in no way stands in the way of his tireless efforts to continue with his peace initiatives together with Avraham Burg, who is among the founders and activists of ECF as well as Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
 
 EU sources confirm that Peres has advised the EU to fund ECF projects.
 
According to Ravid Druker, author of the best selling book "Ehud Barak - Test Results "
"The ECF were able to produce a framework for regional security even after Ehud Barak's exit from the political arena. The framework involves a discreet political cooperation between Jordan, Israel and the PA. Jordan sent senior ex-generals, and the negotiations took place under the full knowledge of King Abdullah. Representing the Israeli side were Yair Hirshfield and Ron Pundak who were joined by security men such as Colonel (res) Baruch Spiegal, who was the deputy coordinator of the Israeli government's operations in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinians were also involved. The Belgium government sponsored and funded those meetings."
 
The most astounding fact in all of this is that, according to Druker, the ECF reached an agreement with the differing parties in which they "agreed upon bringing in a international troops [to oversee a peace agreement]. . and that according to the agreements, these troops will be made up of Europeans and Americans with a specific mandate given by the Security Council." Ravid's investigations fit closely with the reality of Beillin's meetings which took place throughout May, 2000, in London. Beillin, Burg, MK Naomi Chazan and former Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin Shachaff met with senior PLO officials and the PA in London and in Dublin and continued to lay out a framework involving all the issues concerning the present negotiations. Ravid Druker reveals in his book that under Barak's government, Beillin sought after the Foreign Minister office for himself. Although he had to make do with Justice Minister it would seem that Beillin has annointed himself as the self-nominated Foreign Minister of Israel dealing in delicate and far reaching negotiations which have serious implications for the people of Israel who have never elected him to office. Beillin regularly enters areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority to negotiate with Arafat and other PA officials there, even though the area is a defined as a closed military zone and even though Beillin is neither a member of the Israeli government or the Israeli Knesset. The Israel Ministry of Defence, under the control of Israel Labor Party Leader Ben Eliezer and the GSS, under the control of Prime Minister Sharon, have done nothing to muzzle Beillin or to stop him from conducting his negotiations. The question remains: to whom is Beillin beholden?
Translated from Makor Rishon, June 7, 2002
for full text contact: <media@actcom.co.il>
 
 
Comment by Brit-Am: Simply put the EU together with elements in the USA and elsewhere (but not necessarily representing Presidential levels) is bankrolling a group of prominent
leftwing Israelis headed by Yossi Beilin to negotiate with the PLO and the end result is intended to be the presence of EU or other international troops in Israel, taking control. This group is under some unpublicized obligation to the EU and to some degree has its steps dictated by the EU.  Significant Anti-Israel activities undertaken in Israel by Left-wing Israelis have been funded and directed by the group in  question.
 
"Jerusalem News"-56
1. Arutz Sheva News Service
- THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL IS CRYING
- NEW GALILEE TOWN
- FOX NEWS IN ISRAEL
2. Cellphones can ring changes in the brain

1.
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Thursday, June 20, 2002 / Tammuz 10, 5762
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL IS CRYING
Israel has suffered several tragedies in the past two days, including the following:
* Seventeen people killed in Tuesday's Gilo bus blast.
* Seven people killed in yesterday's French Hill blast, including the classmate of two 11th-graders killed a month ago in a terrorist attack in Itamar
* Two soldiers killed in fighting late yesterday afternoon in Kalkilye
* Two soldiers killed last night in a car crash in the north - one of them the son of the well-known Jerusalem educator Rabbi Eitan Eisemann.
* One soldier killed Tuesday in a military training accident.
* A boy who was wounded in the Beit Yisrael terrorist attack in March of this year died of his wounds last night.
 
NEW GALILEE TOWN
The cornerstone for a new community in the Gilboa Region - north of Shomron and east of the Jordan River - was laid today in an impressive ceremony. The name of the new town is still up in the air; it will be either Yitzpor, named after the stream that runs below it, or Michal, after the daughter of King Saul. Mt. Gilboa, where the king and his son Jonathan met their deaths, already has two other communities named after King Saul's offspring: Meirav and Malkishua, as well as Kibbutz Maaleh Gilboa.
Some sixty religious and non-religious families have already signed up to live in Michal/Yitzpor, which will be an ecological town: Its sewage will be recycled, there will be no asphalt roads, no concrete castings, and the like.
 
FOX NEWS IN ISRAEL
In direct response to recent remarks by CNN-founder Ted Turner equating Palestinian terrorism and Israeli self-defense, Israeli satellite television company YES rushed up negotiations with Fox News, and the latter network became available to Israeli viewers this afternoon. "I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism," Turner said, falling in line with a familiar pattern of perceived anti-Israel bias on CNN. Israel Radio reported that even before Turner's comments, Israel's cable and satellite companies had registered high public demand for Fox News, because "they consider its coverage of the Middle East more balanced than CNN's." Yonah Wiesenthal, Deputy Chairman of YES for marketing and content, said that the channel number allotted to Fox, 25, was purposely made close to that of CNN, 26, in order to symbolize that there is an alternative to CNN.
One of the first Fox interviews Israeli viewers saw today was with Alon Pinkas, Israeli Consul-General in New York. Pinkas said that Arafat's condemnations of terrorism are not enough: "We've had enough of those. What Israel needs to see is actions, and there is no question that if he wanted to, he could stop the terrorism. He has 35,000 armed policemen!" Asked if possibly Arafat no longer had influence on the terrorists, Pinkas said, "Then he should go home. He can't talk peace all day and then say he can't control his people. Can you imagine if one of the states rose up against the federal government, and the President would [excuse it by saying that] the governor of North Dakota or Alabama can't control his people?!"
Other Israeli bodies have strong criticism of CNN as well. Yesha Council spokesman Yehoshua Mor-Yosef faxed a letter yesterday to Jerusalem Bureau Chief Mike Hanna, breaking off all contact with him: "In light of CNN's repeated lack of objectivity and professionalism regarding the Israel-Arab conflict [Mor-Yosef wrote], and especially the scandalous remarks made by Mr. Ted Turner yesterday, I must inform you that the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza has decided to cease cooperation with CNN and with its correspondents." Communication Minister Ruby Rivlin was also angered at CNN. He said yesterday that its coverage of Israel "has passed all limits and red lines," and that if Turner had made his comments in Israel, he would have been declared "persona non grata."
 
2.
Cellphones can ring changes in the brain'
 
June 19 2002 at 07:54PM
[Reuters]
 
Helsinki - A study by scientists in Finland has found that cellular phone radiation can cause changes in human cells that might affect the brain, the leader of the research team said on Wednesday.
 
But Darius Leszczynski, who headed the two-year study and will present findings next week at a conference in Quebec, said more research was needed to determine the seriousness of the changes and their impact on the brain or the body.
 
The study at Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) found that exposure to radiation from cellular phones can cause increased activity in hundreds of proteins in human cells grown in a laboratory, he said.
 
"We know that there is some biological response. We can detect it with our very sensitive approaches, but we do not know whether it can have any physiological effects on the human brain or human body," Leszczynski said.
 
A possible link with Alzheimer's disease
Nonetheless the study raises new questions about whether cellular phone radiation can weaken the brain's protective shield against harmful substances.
 
The study focused on changes in cells that line blood vessels and on whether such changes could weaken the functioning of the blood-brain barrier, which prevents potentially harmful substances from entering the brain from the blood stream, Leszczynski said.
 
The study found that a protein called hsp27 linked to the functioning of the blood-brain barrier showed increased activity due to irradiation and pointed to a possibility that such activity could make the shield more permeable, he said.
 
"(Increased protein activity) might cause cells to shrink - not the blood vessels but the cells themselves - and then tiny gaps could appear between those cells through which some molecules could pass," he said.
 
Leszczynski declined to speculate on what kind of health risks that could pose, but said a French study indicated that headache, fatigue and sleep disorders could result.
 
'Where the truth is I do not know'
"These are not life-threatening problems but can cause a lot of discomfort," he said, adding that a Swedish group had also suggested a possible link with Alzheimer's disease.
 
"Where the truth is I do not know," he said.
 
Leszczynski said that he, his wife and children use mobile phones, and he said that he did not think his study suggested any need for new restrictions on mobile phone use.
 
 Comment by Brit-Am: Ear-phones that used to be thought to decrease radiation actually increase it by a factor of up to 10!
Cellphones for many people today are almost indispensable. Common sense suggests we use cellphones mainly for short messages
and hold most of our long conversations on the regular ones.
 
"Jerusalem News"-57
1. 5 Killed including Mother and 3 children
2. Palestinians prevented from entering Jordan

1.
Subject: News from Hebron: Final UPDATE: 5 Killed including Mother and 3 children To: hebron_today@hebron.org.il
News from Hebron
The Hebron Press Office
June 21, 2002
1:00 am
Five people were killed tonight by one Arab terrorist: a woman and 3 of her children. Two other children were wounded and are in critical condition. Another Itamar resident was killed when he came to the aid of the family. Four others were wounded.
At about 9:15 one terrorist infiltrated the southern side of the Itamar community near Shechem and started shooting in all directions. He entered a house and killed the mother and three of her children. A member of the Itamar emergency squad reached the house and was also killed by the terrorist. An elite army unit broke into the house and killed the terrorist. Two of the family's children hid under beds and were unhurt. Two others were slightly wounded and two other children were critically wounded. A ten year old boy is being operated on tonight. Two soldiers were also moderately injured. A bullet hit a gas tank, causing a fire which burned down the house.
The family's father was not home at the time of the attack.
Itamar, a community of about 60 families, is very close to Elon Moreh and Shechem. Three weeks ago, terrorists infiltrated the 'Hitzim' yeshiva at Yitzhar and murdered 3 young yeshiva students.
 
2.
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:50:14 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Palestinians prevented from entering Jordan
The Jerusalem Times (Palestinian Publication) 20 June 2002
King Hussein Bridge - The Jordanian authorities at King Hussein Bridge are
preventing Palestinians from crossing over to Jordan under the pretext of
the Palestinians not having permission from the Jordanian Interior Ministry.
During the last six months thousands of Palestinians have been refused entry
to Jordan and forced back to the Israeli side by the Jordanians. The
Jordanian government, afraid of a flood of refugees, has tightened its entry
procedures and limited entry to those who are studying in Jordan at the
moment or those visiting for medical reasons. The new regulations state that
every Palestinian has to get permission from the Jordanian Interior ministry
before they can enter Jordan.
 
 "Jerusalem News"-58
1. News Highlights: Burying the dead.
2. Atom bomb for Egypt.
3.Prayers attacked:
4. Arnold Roth
5. Not by the blood of innocents by Nathan Cherny
6. Comment by Brit-Am

1.News Highlights: Burying the dead.
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Friday, June 21, 2002 / Tammuz 11, 5762
FUNERALS FOR FIVE ITAMAR RESIDENTS
Rachel Shabo and three of her children were buried today in heartrending funeral ceremonies in their hometown of Itamar. Thousands of people were in attendance, many of them weeping and sobbing at the sight of the four bodies lying side by side following their cruel murder by an Arab terrorist last night, and at the sight of the mourning father, Boaz, and his four remaining children.
Neighbor Yossi Tuito, who heads the local emergency alert team, attempted to come to the family's aid, and was killed as well. He leaves a wife and five children, including a 5-month-old, and was buried after the Shabo funeral. He was a first-grade teacher and worked with troubled youth.
Boaz Shabo and his oldest son Yariv stood outside the remains of their house late last night, crying and embracing in face of the tragedy that had befallen them. The calamity began around 9 PM last night when the terrorist infiltrated the town and started shooting in all directions. No one was immediately hurt, and he then ran to the Shabo family house, which he entered and began his murderous spree. Soldiers and Border Guard police arrived and encircled the house, and the exchange of fire continued. Some soldiers bravely entered the house, forcing the terrorist upstairs while they rescued the children inside. The house caught fire when one bullet hit a gas balloon, and much of the house was burnt. Two policemen were hurt in the exchange of fire, one moderately. At one point, the terrorist jumped from the second floor, and was shot and killed.
Their wife/mother Rachel, 40, and three of her seven children - Neriah, 15, Tzvikah, 12 and Avishai, 5 - were murdered. Two other children in the family, Aviyah and Asah'el - were wounded, one of them seriously. Neriah was a student in the Hitzim Yeshiva High School, which lost three students three weeks ago in a terrorist infiltration, as well as another student two days ago in the French Hill attack.
One part of the roof of the family house was blown off by the grenades, and the other part of the roof was burnt by the fire. "The walls are all charred," related Rabbi Moshe Goldschmidt, a teacher in the Hitzim Yeshiva. "I don't think there's anything left for the survivors to take out" Many of the speakers at the funeral, including Rabbi Moti Elon, Rabbi Natan Chai, and the deceased mother's brother Tzvi Halamish, spoke of Rachel's kindness and her willingness to help anyone and everyone: "How could such terrible people come in and just start shooting people like that? And little 5-year-old Avishai, as frail as a bird, who could be blown over with a wisp of wind - how could someone come along and kill someone like him?"
 
EITAM AT FUNERAL: THE LION OF ISRAEL IS PREPARING TO POUNCE
The newest government minister, National Religious Party leader Brig.-Gen. (res.) Effie Eitam, spoke yesterday at the double funeral of Noa Alon and her granddaughter Gal Eisenman in Ofrah. The two were among the seven victims of Wednesday's Palestinian terrorist attack at Jerusalem's French Hill junction. Addressing the hundreds of mourners, Eitam said:
"...I look up at you [Arabs] on the hilltop, and I see your large houses, and your closed shutters... We know that behind those shutters, you are now happy - [but it is] the happiness of Philistines, the joy of the uncircumcised, the merriment of little people. You are happy at our sadness - but your joy is too soon. For we know who you are. You are the sons of Balaam, the sons of 'bela' (destruction and deceit), the sons of 'bli-am' (no people), the sons of 'bliyaal' (wickedness, worthlessness), and the sons of 'bli eretz' (no land). You are experts of impurity, cursedness, and evil...
"But - even if you stand on every hilltop around, and even if you enlist all your powers of cursedness and evil [in terrorizing Israel], you know - and we know that you know - that we are the blessed. You know that we have returned home for our rendezvous with the Lion of the World and the Lioness that is our Nation.
"You know that your ancient and evil father, Balaam, took up his discourse and said [in this week's Torah portion, Numbers 24], 'Alas, who shall live when He does these things.' Rav Yochanan taught that this means, Woe unto whichever nation is around when G-d comes to redeem His children - for who would ever try to put his cloak between a lion and a lioness?"
"Woe unto you! You will not be able to live here when you place a barrier between us and our Land, between us and our Torah, between us and our Father in Heaven!
"There are moments when this lioness appears to you to be weak, torn, bent - but within this crouch, this bent-over position, is being formed our jumping-off position; our muscles are being flexed and our spirit is being strengthened. And when we pounce on you - and it will happen - when we come with vengeance against your terrible evil, woe will be unto you.
"You perhaps don't know who we are, and why we are here. Sometimes, it's not even sufficiently clear even to us, and it is your evil that helps us to filter out the light from our darkness. But, the hidden roar is already starting to be heard - the roar of pain of the Lion of the World, the roar of terrible vengeance against those who stand in the way of this great process of 'perfecting the world' and 'perfecting mankind' that we are now in the midst of.
"In the middle of this, are people - a grandmother and granddaughter, a young man, young women, a pregnant mother - who die 'al kiddush HaShem' (for the sanctification of G-d's Name), on this long and very difficult road home, on which we see many graves on the hillside.
"We here, and all of Yesha, and the entire Nation of Israel, we are all flexing our muscles, and our spirit - and we will pounce. We will make a reckoning with you. And this terrible loss of life will become a call for life, for the strength of eternity.
"And you, Gal and Noa, who are joining this row of graves - you are the roots of a great tree, a strong nation, and we will continue along this way that leads to G-d's House, and we will not tire, stop, or weaken. We'll wipe our tears, we will strengthen each other, we will be friends united, and we will merit a great victory and great life of faith. We promise you that with our great faith, we will win."
 
2.
Atom bomb for Egypt.
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 15:28:39 -0400
From: imra@netvision.net.il
 
[IMRA: Late fruits of Israel-Egypt Treaty?] German newspaper: Egypt is
trying to obtain nuclear weapons - using uranium from Sinai
By Ha'aretz Service 22 June 2002
[IMRA: Ever since Israel traded the Sinai for a "cold peace" with Egypt it
has been cited by "land for peace treaty" as a model to be repeated with
Syria and the Palestinians. The fact that Egypt directed billions of US aid
money (Egypt's reward for agreeing to the land for peace treaty swap) to buy
advanced American weapons in its efforts to reach parity with Israel was
conveniently ignored. One shudders to think that when Menachem Begin agreed
to trade land for peace treaty he not only inadvertedly provide Egypt the
ability to upgrade its army but also, by leaving the Sinai, access to
natural uranium for made-in-Egypt nuclear weapons.]
Western security establishments have reached the conclusion that Egypt is
taking measures to obtain nuclear weapons, the German daily Die Welt
published on Saturday. According to the report, Egypt intends to mine
natural uranium in the Sinai Peninsula and enrich it to weapons' grade
material with the help of Chinese technology. The material would then be
used on long-range missiles.
The paper also said that Egypt had in the past few years considered
obtaining enriched uranium from several African countries.
Die Welt stressed that Egypt has denied the existence of any military
nuclear project, and that the International Atomic Energy Agency, located in
Vienna, confirmed that it has no information on nuclear developments in
Egypt. The paper claimed that despite the denial, there have been increased
hints that Cairo was stepping up its attempts to attain and enrich uranium,
so as to be able to produce nuclear weapons in the future.
On January 23, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak set out for an official trip
to China. During the visit the two countries signed an agreement on
cooperation. Most of the details of the agreement have remained
confidential, although security sources believe that the agreement between
the two countries regards cooperation on matters of research, development,
use of uranium sources, and especially "Chinese aid for mining natural
uranium in the Sinai Peninsula."
 
3. Prayers attacked:
From: hebron@hebron.org.il
Subject: News from Hebron: Bomb explosion Friday night//Pix from Itamar funeral
News from Hebron
The Hebron Press Office Saturday June 22, 2002
Bomb explosion Friday night
On Friday evening at about 9:00 a bomb was detonated on the road between Kiryat Arba and Hebron near a group of worshipers returning to Kiryat Arba from evening prayers in Hebron. The bomb was attached to a gas balloon about 100 meters from the southern entrance to Kiryat Arba and was detonated via a cell phone. One person was slightly wounded. An Israeli army vehicle was also damaged.
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See pictures from the funerals of the Shabo family and Yosef Twito HY"D, on Friday June 20th
[http://www.hebron.org.il/itamarfuneral.htm]
 
Comment by Brit-Am: In Hebron is the Cave of the Patriarchs where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob alongside Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah are buried.
This is the second most important site (after the Temple Mount) for the People of Israel. It is customary on Friday night for people from Kiryat Arba
to go by foot to the Cave of the Patriarchs, pray the evening service and return. It was these prayer-goers who were attacked.
I did a lot of my research from Kiryat Arba and "The Tribes" was written there. I used to accompany the prayer-goers to the Cave of the Patriarchs on Friday night,
Shabbath, and sometimes during the week. I can testify that the local Arabs were often violently hostile and provocative.
They did not want us praying at the Cave of the Patriarchs.
They did not want us praying anywhere.
 
 
4. Arnold Roth
Yair Davidiy reports:
Recently I was sitting in a cafe in the center of Jerusalem and actually discussing Brit-Am affairs with a friend when a handsome, distinguished-looking,
gentleman with a sympathetic demean approached me. He was Arnold Roth, a close friend from my student days in Australia. Arnold now lives in Israel.
He has a large family that includes healthy very successful children as well as a daughter who is blind and requires special attention. Arnold directs a Pharmaceutical
company in Jerusalem. You could say that life has been good for Arnold along with a fair measure of tribulation.
Recently one of Arnold's daughters (I say, "one of", but as parents we all know that each one is in their own unique way, the "only" one) was sitting in a cafe with her girlfriends. A Palestinian "martyr" entered the cafe and blew himself up along with the daughter of Arnold and the beloved ones of many others. The restaurant in question was the Sbarrro.
Arnold's wife wrote the article we posted  in  "Jerusalem News"-51 (item 2).
 Frimet Roth's article:
http://www.jpost.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid=1022691090735
 
Ever since the incident  Arnold and his family have never really recovered.
Each one of the statistics, each one of the numbers, of the terrorist attacks involves a personal tragedy.
In some cases we knew the victims or our children and friends did.
We cut ourselves off and become callous because that enables us to function and do what we can to better the situation.
 
We received the following message from Arnold. It is an article he thinks worth reading. Read it but also take note of our own comment
at the end,
Yair Davidiy.
To: roth@runbox.com
 
Dear friends:
 
As I'm sure you know, there are some very moving opinion articles circulating in the wake of the awful events through which we are passing here in Israel. But this one, by Nathan Cherny, a oleh from Melbourne living in Israel, a doctor who has devoted himself to the treatment of pain in the most afflicted of cancer patients, is stunning in its clarity and power. I urge you to pass it to your circle of friends and contacts. It appeared in today's Melbourne Age.
 
Good wishes,
Arnold
 
5.
Not by the blood of innocents
By Nathan Cherny
June 23 2002
Source: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/22/1023864514518.html
 
That I care for the wellbeing of tens of Palestinian cancer patients and their families is irrelevant. As a Jew living in Israel, and, more specifically, Jerusalem, I am a potential target worthy of maiming or assassination. That is the miserable nature of the Palestinian struggle for self-determination.
 
That I am here to recount these thoughts is by sheer virtue of timing. Minutes after I passed through the Patt intersection en route to the Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, bus 32 was exploded by a young suicide bomber. Almost everyone on the bus was killed. Shrapnel killed and maimed pedestrians and the drivers and passengers of adjacent vehicles.
 
Besides caring for Israeli and Palestinian cancer patients, I teach medical students a course in palliative medicine; the care of patients with incurable illnesses. At any one time, I usually have 10-15 students; Jews and Palestinians together. Among my group is a wonderfully bright, sensitive and caring 24-year-old woman: Shelly Nahari. Wednesday's tutorial was cancelled. Instead my students were learning the harsh realities of acute grief as they attended the funeral of Shelly's 22-year-old sister Shiri, who was killed in the carnage that I had barely escaped.
 
Jerusalem is small and the circle of my patients, colleagues and their families is wide. In this week alone, I have shared one degree of separation from four miserable tragedies.
 
Dr Eisenman is a young opthalmologist at Shaare Zedek. His wife, mother-in-law and five-year-old daughter and 18-month-old son were waiting at the bus stop in northern Jerusalem under brilliant blue skies when a man jumped from a passing vehicle and ran toward them. As his belt exploded he showered all those in proximity with gore and a malicious salad of bolts and nails. The storm of shrapnel did its intended job. In a sweep, Dr Eisenman's young daughter and mother-in-law were killed. His infant son is in intensive care. This afternoon, his injured wife by his side, he buried his young, golden-haired daughter next to her beloved grandmother.
 
Devora Margalit is a community nurse who helps cancer patients, and others, cope with stoma. Helping people cope with the whole new world of bags to collect their wastes is unromantic but vital work. In her former days she was a hospice nurse caring for the terminally ill. In the past days she has needed all her skills in pain control to help nurse her 15-year-old son, who received burns to 50 per cent of his body. His school had a project tending a cherry orchard and, along with three other 15-year-olds, he set off a booby-trapped gas canister at the exit to the orchard. For now, the pain is the challenge. It is controlled with a portable morphine pump. The future holds years of work managing skin grafts and scars.
 
In the eyes of the Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and Fatah, all of this is a justifiable expression of national self-determination. In their eyes, the path to statehood is, quite legitimately, strewn with the bodies of children, pensioners and bus drivers. If they had their way, it would be strewn with my body as well.
 
Mr Arafat's denunciations ring hollow. The paper trail uncovered by the Israeli forces show, beyond reasonable doubt, that he is directly and intimately involved with the provision of funding to the militias responsible for this civilian carnage. You can't call for a million martyrs to liberate Palestine and still call yourself a peacemaker.
 
Zero tolerance is what is called for. If there is a responsible Palestinian leadership, let them join forces with the Israel Defence Forces in eradicating this sick and pernicious element in their society. In becoming the symbols of the battle for Palestinian independence, these elements undermine the legitimacy of the Palestinian cause; for they present the Palestinians as a fundamentally uncivil, lawless, cruel and undeserving society.
 
Suicide bombings, murder and vilification serve only to delegitimise the cause and distance the prospect of an independent Palestinian state. A community and a nation that tolerates and condones such behaviour is fundamentally unworthy.
 
As long as I, my friends, colleagues, patients and their children are targets; the Palestinians cannot be entrusted with all the responsibilities of statehood.
 
I know that things can be different. I work with Palestinians; as patients and as colleagues. Our relationships are warm and mutually supportive. Indeed, in the awful darkness of the past 18 months these relationships have been a vital part of my coping. I know, from my experience, that there is the real potential for love and respect. Though we may have political differences, we appreciate the potential for mutual benefit through cooperation. This is the human thread that sustains my hope.
 
Ultimately then, I support the emergence of a Palestinian state; but my support is conditional. It is conditional upon the prospect of living, in security and trust, side by side with a civil and humane Palestinian society; in respect and cooperation.
 
The ball is in their court.
 
Nathan Cherny is an Australian-born oncologist and palliative medicine specialist who works with Israeli and Palestinian patients.
 
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6.
Comment by Brit-Am: Brit-Am is also in principle not against a Palestinian State under appropriate conditions BUT such a State has to take in all the Palestinians
and should be located somewhere in Brazil or Argentina or the neighborhood. Optimally such a State should be set up after anybody who has ever voiced support for
anti-Jewish terrorist attacks or assisted terrorist organizations in any way has been released  from the burdens of this world.
 
 
"Jerusalem News"-59
Contents
1. European Union Aid Goes for War
2. Danish Protests Against Temple Mount Desecration
3. Khazar Find in Sweden
 
1. European Union Aid Goes for War
From: imra@netvision.net.il
How European Union Aid Goes for War
COP/JCenter 23 June 2002
Newly translated documents captured during Operation Defensive Shield
describe how the PA diverts foreign aid money for terrorism and corruption.
Follow the Money: $6 Million a Month for War
Each month the PA receives millions of dollars in foreign aid. The EU
provides $9 million and the Arab states $45 million, according to a decision
by the Arab League of October 2000.
A part of these funds goes directly to the armed militias of Fatah. The
salaries of all PA workers -- from clerks to police and security forces --
are listed in dollars but paid in shekels. The official exchange rate is 16%
lower than the going market rate. The PA pockets the difference, to use
however it wishes, without the donor states realizing that their funds are
being diverted for other purposes.
The PA pays $40 million in salaries each month -- half goes to the
security forces. The exchange rate difference brings in an estimated $6.4
million every month, which is believed to go directly to the Al-Aqsa
Brigades and the local, Fatah-run, weapons and ammunition industries.
The EU is aware of these financial irregularities and has asked the PA
to allow the International Monetary Fund to supervise its finances.
Top PA Officials Enjoy Perks
+ Palestine Legislative Council chairman Abu Alla recently completed
construction of his new villa in Jericho, at a cost of $1.5 million.
+ Yasser Arafat used PA funds for a wedding gift of $50,000 to the son of
his friend, Nabil Amro, former minister of parliamentary affairs.
+ The son of Planning and International Cooperation Minister Nabil Sha'at,
studying in France, had his stipend doubled.
+ A deputy of Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabo received $100,000 to
help build a house.
+ In Hebron, the police levy a "protection" tax of $50 a month on grocers
in the shuk.
+ In Tulkarm, a businessman paid $100,000 to one of the intelligence
services after his brother was arrested on suspicion of cooperation with
Israel. After the payment, the brother was still not freed.
+ A gas station owner in Jericho reports that security personnel fill up at
his station and never pay.
+ Representatives of the PA have taken over land belonging to the Orthodox
Church in Bethlehem, forging ownership documents.
+ A senior Tanzim activist who raped and murdered a young girl in Bethlehem
was freed thanks to his friends and sufficient cash.
+ Arafat's economic advisor, Muhammad Rashid, controls gasoline and
concrete interests, has partial ownership of the Jericho casino, owns a
flour mill in Gaza, and is involved in other projects in industry and
tourism.
Translation and synopsis of "PA Officials Celebrate with Public Funds,"
Jacky Hogi, Maariv, 20 June 2002,
http://images.maariv.co.il/cache/ART308484.html
 
2. Danish Protests Against Temple Mount Desecration
 
We received this some time ago and overlooked it since it was buried with hundreds of other messages on academic matters.
It was posted to another list and then re-sent to us:
The message is still pertinent.
From: Yigal Levin <Yigal-Levin@utc.edu>
I recieved this from another list and am posting it as received, since I
think that it should be in the interest of all people of culture.
==============================
I'm writing to you as the deputy chairman for the Danish Society of
Biblical Archaeology. We have from time to time observed the ongoing
destructions of un-investigated archaeological remains from the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem. I know this can be a hot issue, but I do want to raise
it in a quiet and nonprovocative way in this context.
The reason for this address is that we would ask you as an individual and
as the institutions, you represent, to raise the problem of these
destructions of archaeological material and put it on the agenda of the
World Heritage Conference, which is due to be held in Budapest late June
2002. What has been destroyed, can of course no longer be re-established.
However, future destructions might possibly be avoided, if this Conference
could voice a clear protest against religiously and politically motivated
destructions of archaeological remains, both in Jerusalem and elsewhere.
And Arab authorities in Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories might be
motivated to show more care about non-Islamic remains, if a leading
authority for preservation of the World Cultural Heritage could react
expressly against the last three years of damage in connection with the
Temple Mount.
The whole world raised a sharp protest against the recent Taliban
destructions of unique Buddha figures. And yet those figures were well
known, scientifically described and thoroughly analysed. But in case of
the Temple Mount, archaeological remains that never have been investigated
at all, are just thrown away or given over to the Black Market.
The Danish Society of Biblical Archaeology is only a tiny organization.
Our voice will easily be disregarded. Therefore we appeal to you to join
us for a common voice in raising this issue to the Conference in Budapest.
Yours sincerely
Knud W. Skov,
deputy chairman of the Danish Socity of Biblical Archaeology
M. theol./Youth-college-teacher (sba@israel.dk)
Hedem=F8llevej 29A, DK - 8850 Bjerringbro, tlf.: (+45)86685090
Se more abt. SBA and find a link for the ongoing destructions an the
Temple Mount through <http://www.sba-dk.dk/>http://www.sba-dk.dk
 
 
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Dr. Yigal Levin
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga TN 37403-2598
U.S.A.
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3. Khazar Find in Sweden
 
 A Viking treasure trove was discovered  on the Swedish Island of Gotland about 4 years ago.
The treasure was found on a farm belonging Bieron(?) Angstrom and is now being displayed. Amongst the items is a silver
coin dating ca 830-840 CE from the Kingdom of the Khazars. It bears an inscription in Arabic saying "Moses is the Emissary
of God" instead of the usual Arabic "Mohomed is the Emissary  of God". 
YA 24sh. 24.6.2 p.6,
The coin is extremely rare. Most of the coins in Scandinavia
(and even in England?) from that period may have been minted in the Khazar Kingdom but these were usually imitations of Arabic coins from the Middle East.
The Khazars were very important but finds that can be traced to them are not easy to come by.
Around the time spoken of and somewhat early there was a small but influential Khazar colony in Birka in Sweden.
 
 
"Jerusalem News"-60
1.
From: Arutz-7 Editor <feedback@IsraelNationalNews.com>
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Wednesday, June 26, 2002 / Tammuz 16, 5762
-ARRESTS AND EXPLOSIVES IN HEVRON
IDF forces register important achievements in Hevron and elsewhere as Operation Determined Stand continues. Some 40 important wanted terrorists were ferreted out of their hiding places in PA headquarters in Hevron over the past two days, and ten more are assumed to still be there. The forces also found hundreds of explosives in the building; they also found over 100 in PA Intelligence offices in Hevron, including some of the type used against IDF forces in southern Lebanon. IDF sources say they were surprised to find such explosives in Hevron.
Heavy exchanges of fire were reported outside Arafat's Mukata complex in Ramallah. Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler notes that unlike in Operation Defensive Shield, where the army concentrated mainly on PA cities, "the forces are now also going into many villages and refugee camps, looking for weapons caches and the like."
The IDF found yet another underground arms-smuggling tunnel between Israel and PA areas in Gaza today. The forces blew up the tunnel, which was dug 15 meters deep into the ground... Near Shechem, Israeli forces arrested a long-time wanted PFLP terrorist, Mahmoud Isa, who was involved in the suicide attack in the Netanya outdoor market, in which three people were murdered. He also planned the recent brutal attack that tore apart the Shabo family and took the life of Yossi Tuito... Five terrorists were apprehended in a village near Tul Karem... PA Arabs threw four explosives at Israeli forces near Shechem and Balata; no one was hurt and no damage was caused...
The British "Foreign Report" reports that the six terrorists arrested two days ago near Beit Shemesh were on their way to carry out a suicide attack in Zechariah. This is a community only three kilometers from a site in which Israel stores hundreds of Jericho missiles and nuclear bombs. The attack was thwarted thanks to sound intelligence information and a police search.
 
 BUSH: ISRAEL CAN DEFEND HERSELF
While the White House attempts to play down the pro-Israeli aspects of U.S. President George Bush's speech of two nights ago, Bush himself continues to make remarks sympathetic to Israel. He was asked, upon his arrival in Canada for the G-8 summit, about Israel's anti-terrorism offensive in Hevron, and said, "Everyone has the right to defend themselves..."
 
 BELGIUM CAN'T TRY PM SHARON
The Belgian Court of Appeals ruled today that Ariel Sharon cannot be tried in a Belgian court on charges of responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres. The three-judge panel ruled that a Belgian court has no jurisdiction on charges of this nature as Sharon is not physically in the country. Israeli lawyers in Belgium were particularly pleased with the ruling, in that it was not based on Sharon's immunity as head of state and therefore clears other Israelis charged on similar grounds. These include then-IDF Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan.
About 900 Moslems were slaughtered by Christian Phalangists in southern Lebanon 20 years ago, and Israel was assigned indirect responsibility because of its alliance with the Christians. Sharon was Israel's Defense Minister at the time. Family members of the victims brought suit against Sharon, and though they may theoretically appeal today's decision to the Belgian Supreme Court, Israeli lawyers were very satisfied in today's "closing of the door" on the case.
 
2.
 
Saudi Arabia's Role
 
Washington Times Editorial - June 25, 2002
In Monday's speech on the Middle East, President Bush emphasized that "every leader actually committed to peace" must "stop the flow of money, equipment and recruits to terrorist groups seeking the destruction of Israel. Although he did not mention Saudi Arabia by name, Mr. Bush's comments on this score were directed most certainly at that regime. The Saudis have played a key role in financing the infrastructure of terror responsible for the past 20 months of suicide bombings and other attacks against Israel.
 
Perhaps the most perverse aspect has been the regime's fund-raising campaign to aid the families of Palestinian terrorists who blow themselves up aboard Israeli buses and in pizzerias, cafes, discotheques and shopping malls. In April, the Saudis raised $109 million to assist the families of these Palestinian "martyrs." But that may only be the tip of the iceberg. Writing in the Weekly Standard, Stephen Schwartz, quoting the Saudi Embassy's web site, reported several months ago that the kingdom had pledged $400 million for this purpose. At "$5,300 per martyr, that works out to about 75,000 martyrs, suggesting that the Saudi princes anticipate a lot more suicide bombings," Mr. Schwartz wrote.
 
Israeli military intelligence officials recently released documents captured during raids on terrorist hideouts and Palestinian Authority (PA) offices in the West Bank detailing Saudi Arabia's role in financing Palestinian terror. The documents "come in many flavors. They include Saudi government and accounting schedules showing the amount of money paid to individual Palestinians and their families, with the names of suicide bombers and others who carried out armed attacks against Israelis highlighted," Kenneth Timmerman reported in Insight magazine. "They include correspondence between Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority and the Saudi government that discusses the payments. They also include a damning letter from the Saudis complaining that the Palestinians had exposed the secret financial ties by allowing the publication of a Feb. 19 report in the PA publication al-Hayat al-Jedida thanking Saudi Arabia for assisting the families of terrorists killed in attacks on Israelis.! " Nor have the Saudis been helpful on other fronts. This month, for example, the Saudis stepped up their efforts to ensure that no Israeli-made products are brought into the royal kingdom.
 
3.
 
None of Israel's good deeds will go unpunished
 
George Jonas
National Post
 
Saturday, June 15, 2002
 
The article in The Jewish Times sounded the pained tone of liberalism betrayed. It outlined how living standards had improved for the Arab population in the occupied territories since 1967. It listed the educational, medical and economic advances that two decades of Israeli presence had brought to the Arab population of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and of the Gaza Strip.
 
Apparently, life expectancy rose from an average of 48 years in 1967 to 62 years in 1986. Infant mortality declined from 90 per 1000 babies to 45 per 1000. The Arabs had no university in the region under Jordanian rule; Israel had built five. The percentage of those with nine or more years of education doubled from 19% to 38%.
 
Before the Israeli presence in Gaza, only 18% of homes had electricity and 14% had running water; by the mid-'80s, the numbers rose to 88% and 51% respectively. The percentage of homes with household appliances of any kind used to be a mere 5%. In 1986, it was 30% for washing machines, 60% for refrigerators, and 80% for stoves.
 
The figures filled the writer of the piece with pained bewilderment. Why, Israel had been magnanimous with its enemies. In 22 years it doubled the living standards of people who "wanted little else than the destruction of the Jewish State." And what did Israel receive in return? Terrorists, rioters, stone-throwers and a bad press throughout the world.
Complete article at:
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/site/story.asp?id=5FEBD0AD-471E-4C64-A4FC-18E355098DB8
 
 
Copyright 2002 National Post
 
4.
From: Sharon Lindstrom
Subject: Fw: Special Report on CNN
----- Original Message -----
From: Honest Reporting <action@HonestReporting.com>
 
As nursery schools throughout the world hold graduation ceremonies for
their young students, a school in Gaza had a unique ceremony this month.
Click on http://www.jislamia.org/news/new04.htm to view terrifying photos
of Gaza toddlers burning Israeli flags, marching in uniforms with toy guns
to liberate Palestine, dressing up as Hizbullah leaders, and even raising
their "bloody" hands in solidarity with the disembowelers of two Israelis
in Ramallah.
The text is in Arabic, but the pictures are worth a thousand words.
HonestReporting will provide a translation as soon as possible. Meanwhile,
share the photos with your local media outlets.
 
5.
=======================
Subject: Hitler and the Palestinian Arabs
Chuck Morse
www.chuckmorse.com
June 25, 2002
Hitler and the Palestinian Arabs
Pro Palestinian spokespeople play bait and switch to the charge of
Jew-hatred as the motivating factor behind suicide bombings with
sanctimonious stock lectures on Christian complicity in the Nazi Holocaust
against the Jews. They blame Israel for occupation without explaining why
Muslims, where they maintain substantial populations, seem incapable of
living peacefully in countries they dont control such as, besides Israel,
Lebanon, Cyprus, and elsewhere. These premises are false on three counts.
Nazism was not Christian but neo-Pagan, Moslem imperialism today echoes Nazi
aggression, and Arabs share a historic complicity in the Nazi Holocaust. In
fact, understanding Arab support for Nazism places the present Israel-Arab
conflict in its proper context.
Britain was so concerned with Nazi inroads into the Arab world in 1938, the
eve of World War II, that they issued the infamous White Paper limiting
Jewish immigration to Palestine, contributing to a locking of Jews into a
Europe that was being overrun by Hitler. Former British Prime Minister Lloyd
George, in a 1939 address, called the White Paper An act of national
perfidy that will dishonor the name of Britain. The White Paper violated
international law as established by the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the
Faisal-Weitzmann agreement of 1919. These agreements, recognized by the
world community, supported the creation of a Palestinian Jewish State and
encouraged Jewish immigration. Emir Faisal, heading the Arab delegation to
the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, had formally recognized the future Jewish
state in a signed document that explicitly called for Jewish immigration to
Palestine. Nevertheless, the British gave into pressure from the anti-Jewish
faction led by the Grand Mufti.
Haj Amin al-Husaini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was a major
participant in the Holocaust. On July 1, 1937, the British appointed
Mufti asked the German Consul-General of Palestine to what extant the
Third Reich was prepared to support the Arab movement against the Jews.
Following this meeting the Mufti was visited in Palestine by Adolf
Eichmann who was getting "acquainted with the country and the life and
to establish contact with people." Around the time of Eichmanns visit,
a prolonged and organized campaign of atrocities against the Jews of
Palestine was launched.
Around this time, The Mufti became a paid agent of the Nazi Abwehr and was
put in charge of counterintelligence and sabotage. When the British stopped
an Abwher shipment of arms to the Mufti in Palestine through Saudi Arabia
and Iraq, the Mufti re-located to Baghdad where he directed Arab and Nazi
finance, diplomacy, and propaganda. In 1941, the Mufti inspired a pro-Nazi
coup in Iraq led by General Rashid Ali. Collaborating with his masters in
Berlin, he would declare a Jihad against Britain, which he called the
greatest foe of Islam. The British backed a successful countercoup and the
Mufti proceeded on to Berlin where he was appointed by the Nazis as titular
head of a Nazi-pan Arab government in exile.
November 21, 1041 the Mufti met with Hitler and recorded the following in
his diary:
The Mufti..The Arabs are Germany's natural friends... They are therefore
prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to
participate in a war, not only negatively by the commission of act of
sabotage and the instigation of revolutions, but also positively by the
formation of an Arab Legion. In this struggle, the Arabs were striving for
the independence and the unity of Palestine, Syria and Iraq. ... Hitler...
Germany was resolved, step by step, to ask one European nation after the
other to solve its Jewish problem, and at the proper time direct a similar
appeal to non-European nations as well.Hitler.Germany's objective would
then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab
sphere under the protection of British power. The moment that Germany's
tank divisions and air squadrons had made their appearance south of
Caucasus, the public appeal requested by the Grand Mufti could go out to the
Arab world.
 
Hitler and the Mufti were planning to first exterminate the Jews of Europe
and then the Jews of the Middle East. The Mufti, who visited Nazi death
camps several times, organized support for the Nazis from amongst Muslims in
Russia, the Balkans, and the Middle East. He headed the Arab Bureau in
Berlin where he directed a massive network of Arab-Nazi collaborators. He
organized tens of thousands of Bosnian and Albanian Muslim into military
units known as Handschar divisions which carried out atrocities against
Yugoslav Jews, Serbs and Gypsies, and he attempted to organize an Arab-Nazi
Legion. Handschar fighters would be discovered battling against Israeli
independence in 1948.
In 1943, in a speech in Berlin, the Mufti stated:
The Treaty of Versailles was a disaster for the Germans as well as for the
Arabs. But the Germans know how to get rid of the Jews. That which brings us
close to the Germans and sets us in their camp is that up to day.
 
On 1 March 1944, in a radio broadcast to the Arab people from Berlin, the
Mufti stated:
"Arabs! Rise as one and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews
wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves
your honor."
The Mufti initiated some of the most virulently pro-Nazi and Jew-Hating
broadcasts in history. Declared a war criminal at Nuremberg, he would spend
the rest of his life living in opulence in Cairo. His broadcasts, pamphlets,
intelligence network and sabotage against Israel would continue after his
death in 1974. In his memoirs, he wrote, "Our fundamental condition for
cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from
Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit undertaking to
allow us to solve the Jewish problem in a manner befitting our national and
racial aspirations and according to the scientific methods innovated by
Germany in the handling of its Jews. The answer I got was: 'The Jews are
yours."
Chuck Morse
Salem Radio/WROL-Boston
 
6.
From: imra@netvision.net.il
4,208 injured, 561 killed, 13,421 attacks 29 September 2000 through 24 June
2002
IDF Spokesperson 25 June 2002
http://www.idf.il/daily_statistics/english/6.gif
Injured: 2,992 Civilians + 1,216 Security Forces = 4,208 Total Israeli
Injured
Killed: 385 Civilians + 176 Security Forces = 561 Total Israeli Killed
Total Attacks*: 6,358 West Bank + 6,470 Gaza Strip + 593 Home Front =
13,421 Total
* Does not include attacks with rocks or firebombs.
 
7.
Subject: News from Hebron:I
 <hebron_today@hebron.org.il>
Israeli forces active in Hebron
Late last night Israeli security forces reentered the Arafat-controlled areas of Hebron, arresting wanted terrorist suspects. According to latest reports, the Israel Defense Forces captured the former Israeli military headquarters in Hebron, presently used as the PA military headquarters. They are searching the building for arms caches, terrorists, and PA documents. Arafat army forces opened fire on Israeli soldiers and three Arabs were killed in the fighting, including two 'palestinian police' and one 'security officer.' Several Arabs were wounded. Over 40 'palestinian police' surrendered to the Israeli troops.
Throughout the city a number Israeli security forces captured a number of wanted terrorists and discovered a bomb factory. Weapons and explosives, including 'suicide-bomber explosive belts' were found and confiscated. A curfew was declared throughout the city and the military operation is continuing this morning.
Firebomb attack
At about 10:00 last night a firebomb and rocks were hurled at Israeli soldiers stationed near Beit Hadassah. No one was hurt.