WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Tzemach News Service - http://www.tzemach.org/fyi Tzemach News Service ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A weekly update of news and events regarding the nation and the people of Israel Week Ending: 19 August 2000/18 Av 5760 Please feel free to forward to a friend or colleague "Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, a people in whose heart is My law; Do not fear the reproach of man, neither be dismayed at their revilings." (Isaiah 51.7) HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK: > US: NO TREATY; NO SUMMIT > US UP TO ITS OLD TRICKS > BUSH ALSO LOOKS TO DIVIDE-UP ISRAEL > CLASHES IN HEBRON > THE CRUSADE BY HA'ARETZ AGAINST THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF HEBRON > HIZB'ALLAH CONTROLS BORDER > DECLARATION OF STATE DELAYED? > IDF ABANDONING JOSEPH'S TOMB? > PLO PR > MUFTI ISSUES ISLAMIC BAN > THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE ISLAMIC CONNECTION > PA OFFICIAL THREATENS TO BLOW UP ISRAELI CITIES > THIS WEEK IN JEWISH HISTORY > ISRAEL'S FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL > ** NOTICE ** Redemption In The End-Times Prophecy Conference Editor's Note: The TZEMACH NEWS SERVICE does not support any political party or candidate. Any reference made to any candidates or their respective parties are for informational purposes only. US: NO TREATY; NO SUMMIT: US envoy Dennis Ross told Palestinian negotiators Friday that President Bill Clinton will not convene a second Mideast summit unless there is a real chance it will produce a peace treaty. Prime Minister Barak said there is no point in holding another summit as long as Arafat remains inflexible. Arafat, who was in Japan, one of the last stops on this world tour, blamed Barak for the breakdown of last month's Camp David summit and warned that there would be an "explosion" in the Middle East if negotiations failed altogether. In his meeting with Barak, Ross "emphasized the time factor and said there was only a very narrow window of opportunity," Barak's office said in a statement [There is a "very narrow window" because Clinton will not be in office after 20 January 2001 ed]. Barak's office said Clinton would meet with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders separately when they attend the U.N. Millennium Summit in New York in early September. US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is slated to arrive in the Middle East towards the end of the month to discuss the possibility of another summit, HATZOFEH reported. Meanwhile, legislation to prevent a minority-government Prime Minister from signing international agreements has been initiated by the chairman of the National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu faction in the Knesset, MK Benny Elon. The bill stipulates that only a Prime Minister supported by 61 Knesset Members can sign such agreements. Elon hopes to gather 61 signatures for the bill and pass it into law even before the end of the current Knesset recess. US UP TO ITS OLD TRICKS: The US State Department drew sharp criticism from Israeli and Palestinian officials this week for issuing a security alert advising Americans in Israel and Palestinian areas to be on the lookout for terrorist activity. The warning issued on Wednesday stated there was "an increased possibility for terrorist attacks" and cautioned Americans against using public buses and visiting crowded areas. It also advised Americans not to remain in an area where a demonstration or altercation appears to be developing. Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA/PLO) were upset that the security alert came at a delicate time in peace talks, was based on no concrete threat, and could unnecessarily stem the record flow of American tourists heading for the Holy Land. In a move that angered Israel Faisal Husseini, PA/PLO Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, met with US Consul General Ronald Schlicher at Orient House in Jerusalem last week. The Israeli government has demanded that the PLO not use Orient House as a meeting place for foreign dignitaries as it gives the place the semblance of an established state government house. The US, it seems, does not wish to honor Israel's requests. BUSH ALSO LOOKS TO DIVIDE-UP ISRAEL: US Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush will follow President Bill Clinton's lead by trying to foster Middle East peace if he is elected president, Bush's senior foreign policy advisor said on Monday. "Governor Bush has said very much that he applauds what the president has tried to do at Camp David II ... There will be other areas of difference in American foreign policy should Governor Bush be elected president, but the Middle East would not likely be one of them," Condoleeza Rice told Israel's Army Radio. CLASHES IN HEBRON: Police arrested 10 Palestinian and three Jewish residents of Hebron Saturday, following clashes after an Arab taxi hit a Jewish child and fled the scene. An Israeli police officer had been severely beaten by a Palestinian, who was one of those detained. The army said a soldier had also been slightly injured in the scuffles. Police and security forces moved into the area and declared it a closed military zone, firing rubber bullets and shots into the air to disperse the crowds. By Saturday night calm had returned to the city, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) said. Earlier in the day, following Sabbath prayers, two women were attacked by Arabs who used slingshots who to shoot rocks at them. One of the women was hit in the ear and the other on her arm. The attacks took place a short distance from Ma'arat HaMachpela, the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs. Exactly 71 years ago Saturday, 67 Jews were brutally murdered in cold blood in Hebron. The British police forces, composed of a British officer and mostly Arab police, did absolutely nothing to stop the attacks. Some of the police actually participated in the massacre. Seventy one years later Jews are still being attacked by Arabs in Hebron. Over the last few weeks a woman was sexually assaulted and others were attacked by rock-throwing and metal-flinging Arab terrorists. Saturday's attacks, against women and children, took place on the only road available to Jews in Hebron. For further information, along with pictures, on the 1927 attack see the Hebron website: http://www.hebron.org.il/pics/tarhome.htm. THE CRUSADE BY HA'ARETZ AGAINST THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF HEBRON: The following are excerpts from an article by Hebron spokesman Noam Arnon published in Friday's MAKOR RISHON. "This newspaper [HA'ARETZ], advertised as a newspaper for 'thinking people,' decided to begin a private crusade against Hebron's Jewish community. The campaign began with a front-page article on Thursday, August 10 - which was Tisha b'Av! It continued with a lengthy article in the HA'ARETZ Friday supplement, which accompanied a vitriolic editorial, the same day. The campaign didn't stop there. The following Sunday, August 13, HA'ARETZ printed an equally vicious article written by Gideon Levy, attacking Hebron. ... All of these articles blamed Hebron's Jews for intentionally initiating attacks against Arabs. These charges were backed up by anonymous sources, usually quoted as "high-ranking officers." The newspaper's left-wing opinions are well known, but it is usually a fair and professional publication. However, it seems that when the subject is Hebron, the hate is so enormous that it overrides any attempt at truth, fairness and objectivity. ... The front page headline on August 10 (Tisha b'Av) blares, 'An escalation in Hebron: Increasing violence by settlers against Arabs and soldiers.' This headline is based upon deliberate, transparent fabrications. For example, one of the deeds attributed to Hebron settlers is, 'five Israeli soldiers were injured by marbles shot at them by Jewish children.' This is simply not true! The article's author, Amos Harel, intentionally lied. The commander of the Hebron region, Colonel Noam Tivon, told me personally that this is false. ... Similar is the attitude towards Hebron's young women. The newspaper decided to break with its traditional policy that supports women's rights and women's honor. Hebron's women are different. Arabs who sexually harass and victimize Jewish women are rewarded by the newspaper. Even writer Ada Ushpiz, who wrote a venomous account against the Jews, quotes such obscene Arab curses against the Hebron women that they aren't fit to be printed. However, rather than condemn the instigators, she "understands" them, and even justifies them ... as a 'cheap outlet for the hopelessness of the young Palestinian men.' Do you comprehend? This is not related to as sexual harassment. Rather, this is only an 'expression of hopelessness.' Complaints of sexual attacks and harassment issued by Jewish women are spoken of as events that 'allegedly' happened. The word 'allegedly' explains everything. Remember: today Jews may use one road, and one road alone, the length of which is one and a half kilometers. All other roads are closed to Jews, since the 'peace accords' were implemented. ... The Arabs are incited by a hostile media which doesn't shy away from lies, distortion and overt one-sidedness, to create a public atmosphere of incitement, aimed at retroactively justifying each and every attack on us. HA'ARETZ'S journalists do not let the facts confuse them. Gideon Levy proposed to President Moshe Katzav that he come visit Hebron on a Shabbat, in order to witness the 'wailings' of the Jewish settlers. Gideon Levy does not speak with doing - he came to visit on Shabbat. On that day, to his great surprise, the settlers did absolutely nothing (as is usual to whomever is familiar with the facts.) But the Arabs also know how to wail, and wail they did. They flung metal rods at women walking back from Shabbat prayers that Friday night. There wasn't any reaction, not from the army, and not from the Jewish residents. But Levy did not bother to tell this to his readers because it doesn't fit his political opinions, which are already well known. ... Fortunately though, the Jewish Community of Hebron is not dependant upon HA'ARETZ newspaper or others of the same predilection. We will continue doing what has to be done, with G-d's help, as we have in the past, forever." HIZB'ALLAH CONTROLS BORDER: Hizb'Allah terrorists on Monday blocked a detachment of UN peace-keepers in south Lebanon from investigating a Lebanese government complaint of an Israeli border violation. The incident drew attention to Israeli concerns that Beirut has left the radical Shi'ite terrorist faction in control of the immediate border area, where it will be able to continue organizing violent protests which harass IDF soldiers and field workers near key border crossings. Israel charges these actions violate UN resolution 425, which requires Lebanon and the UN to restore security and stability in south Lebanon. DECLARATION OF STATE DELAYED? According to many reports it's all but final: The September 13 target date for the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state has been postponed largely due to the lack of international sup port for such a move. Some observers say that a state will be declared on November 15. IDF ABANDONING JOSEPH'S TOMB? An official IDF spokesman has dismissed the Yesha Council's claim that the Tomb of Joseph in Shechem will be soon transferred to full PA/PLO control. In response to a question posed by ARUTZ-7 correspondent Haggai Huberman, the spokesman said that he "does not know of any such initiative." The denial is not being taken seriously by Yesha leaders, who note that a meeting has been scheduled between army officials and the administration of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva located there to discuss the future of the compound. According to information obtained by the Council, Prime Minister Ehud Barak has already instructed the security establishment to prepare for the transfer of the Tomb and the Shalom Al Yisrael Synagogue in Jericho to PA/PLO control. The arrangement will allow for the entry of Jews into the tomb compound, but no IDF soldiers will be permitted to remain there. Speaking with ARUTZ-7, Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva director Yehuda Leibman said that army officials have been visiting the site over the past few days to study possibilities for further security reinforcements." PLO PR: The celebrated explosure of a Hamas explosives laboratory in Shechem was a well-planned PR trick on the part of the PLO, which was also helpful to the government of Israel. In fact, the laboratory contained only agricultural products and pharmaceutical materials, according to a story in KOL HAZMAN, MA'ARIV's Jerusalem supplement. MUFTI ISSUES ISLAMIC BAN: The Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Shiek Ikrima Sabri, has re-issued an Islamic religious ruling forbidding Arab residents of east Jerusalem from seeking Israeli citizenship, following reports the number of applicants has significantly increased. Figures released by the Interior Ministry show that the number of applications for Israeli citizenship by east Jerusalem Arabs has nearly doubled over the last year. In the first half of 2000, the ministry received 183 applications, compared to 98 for the same period in 1999. In reaction, Sabri revived a ten-year-old "fatwa" banning the practice and warned Arab residents of the city not to seek Israeli citizenship, saying it implied recognition of Israel's claims over the city. Such rulings often carry a penalty of excommunication from Islam, although it is not clear how the top Palestinian cleric would punish violators. In response, Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert called on Barak to immediately announce that Israel will automatically grant citizenship to any Arab living in east Jerusalem who applies. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE ISLAMIC CONNECTION: A speaker featured Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles -- Maher Hathout -- is a known supporter of terrorism and harbors clear anti-Israel views. Hathout is a senior official of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), an organization that has earned the criticism of leading Jewish organizations because of its sympathy for terrorist groups. The Zionist Organization of America notes that the President of the American Jewish Congress wrote on June 30, 1999, that the MPAC "condones terrorist acts;" similarly, the Anti-Defamation League announced in December 1998 that it would not co-sign public statements with the MPAC because of the organization's refusal to issue "a clear-cut denunciation of terror." (FORWARD, Dec.4 ,1998) At the National Press Club on June 18, 1998, Maher Hathout stated that the Hizb'Allah terrorist organization "is fighting for freedom...This is legitimate." In response to America's attack on terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan in August 1998, Hathout said: "Our country is committing an act of terrorism. What we did is illegal, immoral, unhuman, unacceptable, stupid and un-American." Specific examples of MPAC's antagonism towards Israel abound. The MPAC Affairs Council co-signed a public statement on September 17, 1993, which called for Israel's dissolution. It noted that "the establishment by force, violence, and terrorism of a Jewish state in Palestine in 1948" was "unjust" and "a crime." MPAC thereupon vowed to "work to overturn the injustice." Meanwhile, the American Muslim Alliance chapter in Massachusetts held what it called a "successful" fundraiser for First Lady Hillary Clinton at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston on June 13, 2000. AMA Massachusetts Chair Tahir Ali said afterwards, "We are attempting to send an important message to all AMA chapters: we must support all who have [Muslim] interests at heart, regardless of what part of the country they are running in." Early this summer, it was reported that Ms. Clinton had raised tens of thousands of dollars from associates of Yasser Arafat. A private fund-raising reception on May 12 at the Washington mansion of Hani Masri, a close confidante of Arafat, reportedly raised more than $50,000. Yigal Carmon, President of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), said that his organization has done extensive research on the Masri family's control of the Palestinian Development Investment Co. and its ties to Arafat. During the 1980's, Hillary served on the board of the New World Foundation, funneling money to the PLO, which at the time was recognized as a terrorist organization. In February 1996, Hillary hosted a reception at the White House for leaders of Hamas-supporting groups such as the American Muslim Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations. In January 1998, Hillary hosted a White House reception organized by Muslim leaders who defended militant Islamic fundamentalism and supported radical Islamic groups. PA OFFICIAL THREATENS TO BLOW UP ISRAELI CITIES: "We are capable of blowing up Israeli cities." So said PA/PLO Communications Minister Imad Faluji Wednesday. He added that the Palestinians will not be satisfied with attacking military targets, but would strike at "Israel's heart." Faluji made the comments in a mourner's tent set up in Kfar Surda north of Ram'Allah, in the wake of the death of village mayor Abu Mansour, who was killed by IDF gunfire Tuesday night. ARUTZ-7's Haggai Huberman reports that the Arab man was killed when a contingent of IDF Duvdevan unit soldiers entered the village to carry out a mission. Soon after their entry, the soldiers were fired on from on top of a roof within the village. The soldiers returned fire, fatally wounding the gunman. Although local Arabs claim that Abu Mansour was afraid that someone was trying to break into his home -- and HA'ARETZ reported this morning that they were attempting to arrest the man's son for suspected terrorist activity -- IDF commander Col. Gal Hirsch told KOL YISRAEL Wednesday that the soldiers were not headed in the direction of the house at the time. "I have no idea why he fired on our men," said Col. Hirsch, "but when someone fires on us, we fire back." THIS WEEK IN JEWISH HISTORY: 13 August 1942: For the first time, Swiss police hand over to the Germans Jewish refugees who had entered Switzerland "illegally." 16 August 1929: Although warned by the Zionist Executive that the Arabs were preparing to attack the Jews of Jerusalem in massive riots, High Commissioner Sir John Chancelor refused to cut his vacation short. After Friday prayers the day after the ninth of Av, two thousand Arabs attacked Jews praying at the Western Wall. The British Government refused to condemn the attack. ISRAEL'S FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL: * Pre-state: Arab attacks on existing Jewish communities: 1921, 1929, 1936-9, 1947. * War of Independence: 1948-9 * Fedeyeen attacks: 1949-56 * Sinai Campaign -- 1956 * PLO formed and modern terrorist war begins against Israel: 1964. * Six Day War: 1967 * War of Attrition at the Suez Canal: 1969-70 * Yom Kippur War: 1973 * International terrorism e.g. Entebbe: 1976 * Lebanese wars: 1978 and Operation Peace For Galilee: 1982 * Intifada: 1987-to present * Iraqi SCUD Attacks: 1991 * PLO/Labor/Meretz Peace Offensive: 1992 - War by Appeasement and Deception This material has been adapted from articles by Bernard J. Shapiro and "Beyond Time and History" by Eli Birnbaum ** NOTICE ** NOTICE ** REDEMPTION IN THE END-TIMES PROPHECY CONFERENCE We at TZEMACH NEWS SERVICE believe that these are the "last days" predicted millennia ago by the Hebrew prophets. Therefore, a conference is being convened by the Tzemach Institute and Fellowship Church to explore ways of promoting cooperation in the redemption process between leaders of the faith community of Israel and Christian Zionists in America. Those Israeli and Christian leaders participating in this conference are prepared to discuss, in frank terms, real areas of cooperation that have been tested and proven fruitful over the past several years. We invite you to come and join us with others in this endeavor. We are sure that you will return home truly blessed and with a fresh vision for godly righteousness burning within you. Conference presentations include: * The redemptive process as seen from an Israeli perspective and a Christian perspective. * The importance of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in the redemption process. * International response to the redemption process. * Spiritual warfare in the midst of the nations. Conference participants include Gershon Salomon, leader of the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement; Yohanan Ramati, Chairman of the Jerusalem Institute for Western Defense; Ken Garrison, Pastor of Fellowship Church and Director of the Tzemach Institute for Biblical Studies; and a leading rabbi from the settlement movement to be announcement later. The conference will take place January 31 - February 2, 2001 at the Sheraton Orlando North Hotel in Orlando, Florida. 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