-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Tzemach News Service - http://www.tzemach.org/fyi A weekly update of news and events regarding the nation and the people of Israel Week Ending: 6 Cheshvan 5761/4 November 2000 Please feel free to forward to a friend or colleague If you like this newsletter, click below to Recommend-It(r) to a friend <http://www.recommend-it.com/l.z.e?s=320552> "For the day of the L-rd draws near on all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you. Your dealings will return on your own head." (Obadiah 1.15) HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK: > THE TERROR CONTINUES > SECURITY TIGHTENED AROUND SHAS LEADER > ** NOTICE ** REDEMPTION IN THE END-TIMES PROPHECY CONFERENCE > WASHINGTON CONFERENCE? > DAY OF PRAYER > WHAT ABOUT ISRAELI RELIEF? > PA/PLO USE ANTI-TANK ROCKETS IN BATTLE FOR FIRST TIME > HATRED BUILDING AGAINST JEWS WORLDWIDE > QUOTES OF THE WEEK > BOLD LIES BROADCAST BY VOP > RED CRESCENT AMBULANCES SERVE MANY FUNCTIONS > CYBER TERRORISM INCREASES > SOME QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE-EAST > CRASH COURSE IN MIDDLE EAST HISTORY, PART 1 THE TERROR CONTINUES ...: In addition to the daily bombings, shootings, riots and rock throwings, there were a number of out-right terrorist attacks this week. Two people were killed and ten injured in a car bombing attack near the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on Thursday. The two who were killed were: Chanan Levy, 33, and Ayelet-HaShachar Levy, 28. They were not related; however, Ayelet-HaShachar Levy was the daughter of National Religious Party head Rabbi Yitzchak Levy. The Islamic Jihad movement took responsibility for the attack. Maryk Gavrielov, whose body was found near Ramallah, was brutally murdered in the same type of mob-lynching as were the two soldiers three weeks ago. HAKOL MEHASHETACH NEWS AGENCY reported that three Tanzim [Fatah] agents forcibly removed Gavrielov from the Ramallah restaurant in which he was dining. They took him to an area outside the Ramallah Post Office, where a Palestinian mob tortured him and shot him with dozens of bullets. The lights in the area were turned off and photographers were banished. Gavrielov's corpse was mutilated, then burnt. At a press conference, the Deputy Commander of the Judea-Samaria Police District said that the victim was tortured before he was killed, and that all signs point to a particularly brutal lynching carried out for nationalist reasons. Yet another mutilated body - tied up and with multiple stabbing wounds - was found Monday in the Beit Jala-Gilo area, and was transferred to Israel by the Palestinian Authority. The body had Arabic slogans carved into the victims back. He was later identified as Amos Machluf, 30, who was last seen on Friday night when he left his home in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo to take out the garbage. One Israeli was murdered, and another is in very serious condition, after they were shot in the head Monday by a Palestinian terrorist. Esh-Kodesh Gilmor, 25, of Mevo Modiin, died of his wounds, while Itai Suissa, 22, of Jerusalem, is in very serious condition. The terrorist attack occurred as the two, wearing bulletproof vests, were serving as guards at a National Insurance Institute building in east Jerusalem. SECURITY TIGHTENED AROUND SHAS LEADER: Both the police and the General Security Service have intensified security around Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef. Police even canceled some of the rabbi's slated appearances due to the death threats issued Friday by Hamas terrorist leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. The reason for the death threats: the Shas decision to provide the Barak government with a parliamentary safety net for the next few weeks. ** NOTICE ** NOTICE ** REDEMPTION IN THE ENDTIMES PROPHECY CONFERENCE Deadline is January 1, 2001 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; Louis Beres, professor of political science and international law at Purdue University; Ken Garrison, Pastor of Fellowship Church and Director of the Tzemach Institute for Biblical Studies; and a leading rabbi from the settlement movement. The conference will take place January 31 - February 2, 2001 at the Sheraton Orlando North Hotel in Orlando, Florida. Information may be found on our website: http://www.tzemach.org or email us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WASHINGTON CONFERENCE? Prime Minister Ehud Barak will meet with US President Clinton this week if there is no "major escalation" in Judea, Samaria and Gaza - or "serious" attacks inside "little Israel." So reported Barak's office Saturday night. IMRA notes that the office did not provide casualty guidelines to indicate how many dead/wounded is considered a "serious" attack nor the criteria for what would be considered a "major escalation" in Yesha. Clinton has called upon PLO chieftain Yasser Arafat to meet with him on Thursday in Washington, and sources close to Arafat opined that the invitation would be accepted. DAY OF PRAYER: The Ichud HaRabbanim (Rabbis Union), led by former Chief Rabbi Avraham Shapira, has set next as a special day of prayer in synagogues all over the world. At a gathering this past week, the rabbis declared, "The rights and obligations of the Nation of Israel to sovereignty over the Land of Israel and to the settlement of the Land are an eternal command by the Creator to the entire Nation, for the entire Land, throughout all the generations. The weakening of this faith and vision that has taken root among some of our people has led to the abandonment of this way of truth, and to the abandonment of parts of the Land of our Life in the hands of foreigners - which has brought danger and catastrophe upon the entire nation." [Editor's note: I would like to invite all of our Christian brothers and sisters to join in this time of prayer. This is where G-d's heart is - Israel, even the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.] WHAT ABOUT ISRAELI RELIEF? The United Nations says it will ask donors for about fifty million dollars in emergency humanitarian aid for Palestinians. The head of the UN Palestinian Relief Agency Peter Hansen said the money was needed to buy food and medicine and to help Palestinians barred from getting to work in Israel. He told a news conference in New York that thirty million dollars was needed for Gaza and another twenty million for Judea and Samaria. Due to the violence perpetrated by Arafat and the PLO, thousands of Israelis are not able to leave there houses for supplies. For instance, the lives of inhabitants of the Jordan Valley town of Vered Yericho have turned into a nightmare since the beginning of the violence a month ago. they barely leave their homes, and food and other deliveries are irregular; their electricity - the regular supply of which is still awaiting a repair by the Israel Electric Company - is cut off intermittently by the Palestinians who temporarily control it. There has been great economic damage, as the army refuses to grant protection to the farmers who are working the fields there. In northern Jerusalem's industrial zone of Atarot, the situation is not much better. Some 150 factories and businesses there are in danger of imminent collapse, as the only road to the area that has not been closed off by the Palestinian violence is one that has not yet been fully paved. Many of the 4,000 workers simply have not shown up for work over the past weeks. Arsons, burglaries, and rock-throwings at company vehicles are some of the problems the companies face. In addition, Palestinian customers are simply not paying their bills, and the PA/PLO has now declared a boycott of Atarot goods. Atarot business-owners are demanding that Atarot be recognized as a "confrontation line" area, similar to the northern towns during the Lebanese hostilities. PA/PLO USE ANTI-TANK ROCKETS IN BATTLE FOR FIRST TIME: YEDIOT AHRONOT reported Tuesday evening that for the first time the Palestinians have used anti-tank rockets in battle against Israel. The Palestinians fired the anti-tank rockets along with heavy machine gun fire at an IDF convoy on the Karnei Netzarim road. The IDF returned fire. Television and news reports after the incident declined to explore the possible implications of the introduction of this equipement by the Palestinians into the battle. HATRED BUILDING AGAINST JEWS WORLDWIDE: Anti-Semitic incidents worldwide have increased as much as 20-fold since the current violence erupted five weeks ago, according to an Israeli cabinet minister. The current "hatred campaign" throughout the world was characterized in some countries by the issuing of fatwas (religious edicts) by Muslim leaders saying it was a "religious duty to kill as many Jews as possible," he said. More than 300 assaults on synagogues and Jews have been reported worldwide during the past month, compared to an average of 10-15 attacks a month in normal times. Attacks have included attempts to burn down synagogues, the throwing of molotov cocktails and physical attacks on Jews. They have occurred in the US, Canada, South America, Europe, South Africa, Morocco and Uzbekistan. Normally, threats against Jews are included in the tally of recorded anti-Semitic incidents. But these have become so commonplace they can not practically be registered now. The internet has also become a "new and vicious vehicle" for disseminating anti-Semitic sentiments. QUOTES OF THE WEEK: "There is no room for compromising ... Israel's days are numbered." (Ikrimi Sabri, the Arafat-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, quoted in AL-HAYAT AL-JADIDA, 05 October 2000) "When I watch CNN and BBC, I think that we're being punished for being strong because they never explain why we have to protect ourselves, and they make it sound like we just like shooting Arabs. And they never seem to show the Israelis who have been killed and hurt very badly by bombs, gunfire and even rocks thrown at them." (Gavy Friedson, an 11-year-old American boy who lives with his family in Jerusalem.) BOLD LIES BROADCAST BY VOP: For the third time in a day, a news bulletin interrupted the Arabic music on the VOICE OF 'PALESTINE' radio: Israeli jets had just bombed the 'West Bank' town of Bethlehem, the report said. "'The Israeli criminals have fired missiles into the homes of innocent Palestinians,'" a breathless correspondent said. "'Palestinian blood is flowing in the streets! Oh god, god, how can the criminals kill our innocent children?" A trip to the town immediately after the report, however, found no evidence of an attack. An hour earlier, another breathless VOICE OF 'PALESTINE' correspondent had reported that Hebron was "'under siege" by armed Jewish settlers who were "'shooting Palestinian women and children." A visit to Hebron found calm and quiet there, too. Same thing in the town of Shechem, where the correspondent reported that Israeli troops were "'burning homes." No such thing, residents there said. Despite Israeli demands that it stop inciting the public, the VOICE OF 'PALESTINE' radio, controlled by Arafat's PLO, is delivering a daily diet of news, commentary and propaganda aimed at rallying the Palestinian masses into a confrontation with Israel. Nationalistic songs, anti-Israeli commentary and flowery tributes to Palestinians killed in clashes with Israelis are being broadcast around the clock, and they appear to be more popular than ever. [Editor's note: Question for consideration: A few years ago, 'Christian' broadcaster Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) stated it had made a contract with the PA/PLO to equip three PA/PLO TV stations in Ramallah, Jericho and Gaza. Is the PLO station in Ramallah the same one that is owned by TBN? TBN owner Paul Crouch has stated "... And some folks got out of sorts with me a little bit because we went and shook hands with Mr. Yasser Arafat. Listen, I'll shake hands with anybody that let me built a TV station. O.K.? ... If the devil got a TV station and he'll let me put a program on it, I'll do it! Yes, sir. And take it over ..."] RED CRESCENT AMBULANCES SERVE MANY FUNCTIONS: The IDF strongly condemned the phenomenon of Palestinian firing at Israeli targets from within Red Crescent medical buildings and ambulances. The IDF spokesman noted that the Palestinians shot from within both the Ramallah Red Crescent building and an ambulance in Wednesday night's attack on Psagot. The Zionist Organization of America released a series of press reports this week showing that Palestinian Authority ambulances are being used to carry weapons to Arab rioters attacking Israelis. On October 30, Red Crescent ambulances were used to ferry Palestinians to protests with the IDF near the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip.On October 27, a Red Crescent ambulance arrived in the midst of a gun battle between IDF soldiers and Palestinian gunmen near the village of Kafr Klil near Nablus bringing armed Palestinians who joined the fight. ISRAEL RADIO correspondent Nissim Keinan reported recently that he observed the situation at the Carni checkpoint. "At one point Israeli forces shot straight up into the air to scare away the mob. Now even though the soldiers shot straight up in the air, hitting no one, four Palestinain ambulances came up to the crowd with sirens wailing for the benefit of the cameras and proceeded to evacuate a few fake wounded." CYBER TERRORISM INCREASES: The security situation in Israel continues to shake up the high-tech business community, as conferences are being put on hold and websites are being moved out of the country. Web development firm Webstyle Internet Solutions said it is moving all of its Israeli-based hosting to the United States due to what it called "the serious threat" of "cyber-terrorism" now affecting Israeli-based server sites. Last week, attacks shut down several corporate and government sites in Israel, including the Israeli Foreign Ministry site and Israeli ISP Netvision. Online terrorism can be the bombardment of requests to a specific site resulting in denial of service and causing the site to crash. SOME QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE-EAST Ken Garrison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Pastor - Fellowship Church, Director - Tzemach Institute for Biblical Studies Q: Does the outbreak of violence in Israel indicate an end to the Oslo Peace Accords? A: The Oslo Peace Accords were a fantasy from the very beginning. This fantasy was woven by Clinton, Arafat and the apostate leaders of Israel like Rabin, Perez and Barak. These "so-called leaders" wove their fantasy around the intentions of Yassar Arafat and his band of thugs. Mr. Arafat is probably the more honest of the group. At least in Moslem lands, he has always been candid and truthful about his intentions. He has consistently announced his intentions of gaining control of Israel step-by-step in the sequence of (1) the Temple Mount, (2) Jerusalem, (3) Biblically significant areas of Israel and (4) finally, all of Israel. He also announced repeatedly that he would use diplomacy as long as that advanced his aims and then he would turn to war. The present outbreak of violence just indicates that he has made that inevitable turn. His "peace partner" repeatedly chose to ignore his true aspirations. Anyone who now speaks of the "peace process" has to be a complete fool. All anyone has to witness is the enormous, vile hatred manifested in the aroused crowds of Moslems in Ramallah, Nazareth, Gaza, Shechem or Jerusalem to understand that they will never, of their own volition, embrace peace with Israel. The only thing that have kept them involved thus far has been the continual surrender of real territory by the Israelis. They always knew, of course, that there would be a limit to what Israel was willing to forfeit. The shameful withdrawal from Lebanon, made earlier this year by Barak, convinced the Palestinians that the Israelis were no longer willing to pay the price of the struggle. The great victory of the Hizb'allah inspired the Palestinians to make the decision to attempt to achieve ultimate victory by the same means. Q: Did Ariel Sharon Provoke the Moslem Response by His Visit to the Temple Mount? A: Perhaps we should ask just exactly what Ariel Sharon did on the Temple Mount. Did he purposely enter and defile the mosque or shrine? He did not. Did he cause physical harm or did he verbally assault any Moslem there? He did not. What he did was expose the hypocrisy of the position of the Israeli government in their pursuit of the "peace process". The Barak government proclaimed that they maintained sovereignty over the Temple Mount while gradually relinquishing that sovereignty to the Moslem authority, i.e., Yassar Arafat. In fact, the previous government of Netanyahu had done the same thing. By his presence on the Temple Mount, Ariel Sharon demonstrated Israeli sovereignty there. The Moslems who had already concluded that Israel had long since relinquished sovereignty there were infuriated and they unleashed their fury on the Israelis worshiping below. Q: Why Do the Moslems Feel so strongly about the Temple Mount? A: This is an important question that few have bothered to investigate. The answer is simple. The Temple Mount is important to Moslems only because it is important to Bible believing Jews and Christians. This is true because one of the most important tenets of Islam is that it must be demonstrated "superior" to any other religion. The mosque and the shrine coupled with Moslem sovereignty on the Temple Mount demonstrate that Islam is superior to Judaism and Christianity. The Moslem cry is "Allah Akbar". Most naive reporters translate this as "God is Great". Actually, the term means "Allah is greater" - Greater than the God of Israel, Greater than the God of Christianity. No geographical site in the world has the Biblical significance of the Temple Mount. Indeed, it is virtually the only real "holy" site. Abraham called it the place where God will see (Genesis 22:14). David saw it as the site of house of the Lord and the altar of burnt offering for Israel (1 Chronicles 22:1). The first and second temples were built here. God declared that His name would be established at this site forever (2 Chronicles 7:16). It is the site where Jesus worshiped. It is the site of His death, resurrection, ascension and of His promised return. It will be the site of His reign in the age to come. We must conclude that this site has enormous significance for any Bible believer. Obviously, Moslems understand this better than most Jews and Christian do. Only by control of this site can Allah be demonstrated "superior" to the God of the Bible. Again we must establish the crucial point, the Temple Mount is important to Moslems only because it is important to Bible believing Jews and Christians. Q: Is this Conflict the Preparation for Armageddon? A: The leadership of the United States is in one of its most uncomfortable positions when faced with this issue? Righteousness demands that the United States should be squarely allied with Israel in this conflict. However, this nation has allowed itself to become more and more dependent on OPEC oil. We received a wake-up call through the oil embargo following the "Yom Kippur" war of 1973. We failed to heed that call. Instead of developing energy independence, this nation has become increasingly dependent on Moslem controlled oil. The lure of short term, economic growth and prosperity is more than any U.S. administration can resist. As a result, policy will be determined not on the basis of righteousness but on the basis of whatever is necessary for the promise of continued economic prosperity. We may hear empty official statements which appear to support Israel, but in reality, the nation will act in response to Moslem demands. The major media sources of this country will follow suit, and together with government sources, will deceive the American people. It is in this way that I believe God is calling the United States down into the valley of Judgment (Joel 3:1-2). It is happening now. You will have to exercise great discernment to avoid being drawn into this judgment. It is your sons and daughters that will fill up that military array marching up to Har Megiddo (Armageddon). Believers must take a stand on a solid Biblical position and clearly announce that position now. CRASH COURSE IN MIDDLE EAST HISTORY, PART 1: NATIONHOOD AND JERUSALEM * Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE -- 2,000 years before the rise of Islam. * Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967. * The Jews have had dominion over the land for 1,000 years, with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years. * The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 CE lasted no more than 22 years. * For over 3,000 years, Jerusalem has always been the Jewish capital. * Jerusalem has never once been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. * Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Jewish Bible. * Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran. * King David founded the city of Jerusalem 3,000 years ago. * Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. * Jews pray facing Jerusalem, wherever they are in the world. * Moslems pray with their backs toward Jerusalem. This material has been adapted from www.facts4peace.com (Sources: ARUTZ-7, IMRA, AP, HA'ARETZ, ISRAEL RESOURCE NEWS AGENCY, ISRAEL.INTERNET.COM, ISRAELWIRE, ISRAEL LINE) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest." Isaiah 62.1 Tzemach News Service (TNS) is a ministry of Tzemach Institute for Biblical Studies (http://www.tzemach.org) Lee Underwood *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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