---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:57:33 +0300 From: Arutz-7 Editor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: Friday, July 14, 2000 Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com> Friday, July 14, 2000 / Tammuz 11, 5760 TODAY'S HEADLINES: 1. CONCERN OVER SECRET CAMP DAVID TALKS 2. FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR HUGE RALLY 3. ATOP THE TEMPLE MOUNT 4. QUOTES, MISQUOTES, AND IMPLICATIONS 5. DOCTORS STRIKE ENDS 6. SPECIAL PRAYER 1. CONCERN OVER SECRET CAMP DAVID TALKS "Without far-reaching concessions by Israel, there will not be an agreement," a senior Israeli delegation member at Camp David said today. The Likud demands that Prime Minister Barak return to Israel from Camp David, and report to the nation on the concessions that are being referred to. Despite the media blackout on the talks, Israeli papers report that Barak has offered Arafat free passage from Abu Dis to the Temple Mount, free of any Israeli presence. Arafat, it is reported, has turned down the offer, and insists on full sovereignty over the Old City. Likud MK Limor Livnat said today this is the first time that the issue of Jerusalem is on the negotiating table. Other issues being discussed include a transfer of almost 100% of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians; the sides are entertaining the possibility of exchanging certain heavily-populated Jewish areas in Yesha - particularly around Jerusalem - for other areas within pre-1967 Israel. 2. FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR HUGE RALLY All Jewish stores in Judea and Samaria will be closed Sunday afternoon, to enable their workers - and customers - to attend Sunday night's giant demonstration in Tel Aviv against the give-away of Judea, Samaria, and parts of Jerusalem. The Bnei Akiva youth movement has canceled its Saturday night activities, so that members may plan for the rally. Volunteers are making house-to-house rounds, reminding residents of the demonstration, signing them up for organized transportation, and asking them to encourage their relatives and friends to attend. The Likud has called upon all its supporters to attend the event. 3. ATOP THE TEMPLE MOUNT Damage to the Temple Mount caused by illegal Moslem construction continues - although at a reduced pace. A stretch of land dozens of meters long has been dug out, tiled, and turned into steps leading down into Solomon's Stables; the dirt there, containing artifacts never uncovered from the times of the Holy Temples, was hauled off by Palestinian Authority trucks and disposed of. Photographs of the damage can be viewed at <www.har-habayt.org>. Israel Antiques Authority director Amir Drori said that the government has basically turned a blind eye to the Waqf's construction works, while preventing the Antiques Authority from acting against them. 4. QUOTES, MISQUOTES, AND IMPLICATIONS An article by Associated Press Writer Ron Kampeas entitled, "West Bank Settlers Divided," quotes several Jewish West Bank settlers - who maintain that they were misquoted. The article claims that "a division has arisen in the settler movement between those who know they are likely to keep their homes, and those [who are likely to be uprooted]." Kampeas quotes "settler pioneer" David Zohar as saying, "The idea of one settlement movement is over… We're split." As an example of this "split," Kampeas quotes long-time Ma'aleh Adumim resident Shmuel Bar-Shalom as saying, "Small settlements, 10, 20 families, were created as provocations… They have no right to exist.'' Both of the above "spokesmen" deny the quotes attributed to them. Bar-Shalom told Ron Meir on Arutz-7's "Now Until Midnight" program last night that he "categorically denies" the quote, and that the word 'provocations' "never passed my lips." Kampeas, who also spoke with Meir last night, stood by his quote, but minutes later, the second "settler" quoted - David Zohar - also appeared on the show and similarly denied saying that which was said in his name: "I said that the nation is split - if he understood from this that the settlement movement is in trouble, then he is mistaken… he took the words out of context." The interviews with Kampeas, Bar-Shalom, and Zohar can be heard at <http://www.israelnationalnews.com/engclips/140700/ap-ron-kampeas.ram>. Meir Indor of the Terror Victims Association - whose researchers brought the AP article to Arutz-7's attention - said today, "What made us sit up and take notice is that these two people [Zohar and Bar-Shalom] are well-known in the settlement movement, and we knew that they would not make statements of this nature. We can only wonder how many misquotes there are that we *don't* notice!… We have had bad experience with foreign news agencies who assume that Israelis don't read their foreign reports and don't check the accuracy of their quotes. Now, however, the internet helps us keep tabs on this much more easily." In a related item, Reuters has been cited for implying that a Yesha resident said something he did not. Megan Goldin wrote this week that Beit El resident Baruch Gordon "said that if Barak brings a peace deal back from the Camp David summit, then settlers will wage the sort of protests that tore Israel apart in 1995, the year a right-wing Jew shot Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin dead for agreeing to trade land for peace with the Palestinians." Upon reading the article, Gordon said that he was "incensed at the connection made between my words and the assassination of Rabin. I said only that settlers would in fact respond with strong protests, similar to those held when Rabin was Prime Minister, and nothing more. I am disappointed that the writer chose to make other, more sinister implications." 5. DOCTORS STRIKE ENDS The Israel Medical Association and Finance Ministry officials finally agreed to end the four-month old doctors strike last night, and signed an agreement of principles to that effect. Doctors' wages will be decided by a binding arbitration committee if negotiations fail to do so, while the doctors agreed not to strike during the next decade. Among other conditions agreed upon is that doctors' wages will increase by 13.2%. 6. SPECIAL PRAYER According to a ruling by the Rishon Letzion and former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, the following special prayer should be added to the Shome'a Tefillah blessing in the daily Amidah: "Respond to us, O G-d, respond to us, and preserve the Land in the hands of the People of Israel; and all those who plan to give away even a small part of the Land to foreigners, thwart their plans and frustrate their plans, for You hear the prayers of all..." In addition, Rabbi Eliyahu said that two extra candles should be lit during pre-Shabbat candle-lighting, and the following prayer recited: "May it be Thy will, our G-d and the G-d of our fathers, that You will have mercy upon us and our children and on the nation that dwells in Zion and in the Holy Land, on the holiness of the People of Israel, on the holiness of the Land, on the wholeness and security of the nation and the Land - especially at this time, when a great danger hovers over us in the Holy Land. Master of the Universe: Act for Your sake, and not for ours. Act so that Your great and awesome Name shall not be desecrated among the nations, and bring us deliverance. "And all those who plan evil against Your nation, the House of Israel - frustrate their counsel and spoil their designs, and may they be the subject of the fulfillment of the verse, "Fear and dread shall fall upon them, by the greatness of Thy arm they shall be stilled as a stone" (Ex. 15,16). And let the verse be fulfilled, "Scatter them, and a wind shall carry them away, and a storm shall disperse them, and you [Israel] shall rejoice in the L-rd, and be praised in the Holy One of Israel" (Isaiah 41,16). May our eyes behold Your return to Zion with mercy, Amen, may it be Thy will." 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