-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: 26 Kislev 5761/23 December 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> Instructions to unsubscribe can be found at the bottom of this newsletter. Awake, awake, clothe yourself in your strength, O Zion; clothe yourself in your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city. For the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you. Shake yourself from the dust, rise up, O captive Jerusalem; loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. [Isaiah 52.1-2] HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK: :: BARAK'S DIRTY LITTLE TRICKS :: US EMBASSY MOVE POSTPONED ... AGAIN :: HANUKKAH MARCH TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT :: IDF ANGRY AT BARAK'S PLOYS :: SUICIDE BOMBING KILLS TWO; MORE MURDERS :: UN RESOLUTION FAILS :: ISRAEL AND THE INTERNATIONAL COURT :: ISRAELI SUBMARINES PLACED ON HIGH ALERT :: HIZB'ALLAH BROADCASTS COURTESY OF ISRAEL :: ISRAELI MILITARY ACKNOWLEDGES ASSASSINS :: SAM'S CLUB SELL GLOBES WITH 'PALESTINE'; NO ISRAEL :: PETITION FOR MISSING ISRAELI SOLDIERS :: TIME IS RUNNING OUT! THE REDEMPTION PROCESS AT THE CLIMAX OF THE AGES PROPHECY CONFERENCE :: BARAK'S DIRTY LITTLE TRICKS: According to a DEBKAfile Special Analysis, this time, it was the Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak who pulled a fast one. No sooner was Shimon Peres out of the running for the February 6 prime minister's election when Israeli concessions -- whose magnanimousness so floored Palestinian negotiators and US intermediaries in Washington this week - were abruptly withdrawn. They had done their work: Israel's political doves shied from endorsing Peres's bid for prime minister or running themselves lest they undermine the chances of a deal. Exit Peres. At the Bolling Air Force Base in southeastern Washington, meanwhile, the disappointed Palestinian negotiators, upon learning of Barak's reversal on Friday, practically came to blows with their Israeli counterparts. Saturday, the five-day Middle East peace conference broke down and the delegations set off for home. A cursory face-saver was offered Clinton, in the form of a promise to report back by Wednesday, but in practice he was left clutching at empty air, amid Palestinian threats to step up the "Aksa Intifada". With only Ariel Sharon to beat at the election -- Binyamin Netanyahu was disposed of earlier in the week - an over-generous peace accord with the Palestinians would have been an encumbrance. Barak, therefore, had no compunctions about taking a leaf out of his adversary's book. Last October in Paris, when the moment came to sign a ceasefire agreement with the Israeli prime minister, Arafat went to sleep. He stood up, not only Barak, but also French President Jacques Chirac, US Secretary of State and CIA Director George Tenet. The paper was never signed. In the Sinai resort of Sharm El-Sheikh in November, he repeated the exercise. He slept until President Clinton and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak - and Barak again -- agreed to be satisfied with a verbal ceasefire declaration by the US president. This time, Barak determined he would lay the trap for the Palestinian leader. Clinton might host separate talks with Barak and Arafat within a week if they accept his peace ideas, an Israeli negotiator said on Saturday. Gilead Sher told REUTERS by telephone from Washington after meeting Clinton that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were returning home to brief Barak and Arafat on the president's proposals. What were the "promises" that Barak had made to the PLO? The concessions were to include permission for an undisclosed amount of Arab refugees to enter Israel; the transfer of 95% of Judea and Samaria; the transfer of Negev lands equivalent to the other 5%; and control of the Temple Mount and much of Jerusalem. This does not mean, necessarily, that these items will not be conceded. Every one of these items have been considered by the Barak government at one time or another. For Clinton and Barak, there is a time factor here: for Clinton, it is January 21 - the swearing-in of George W. Bush as US president; for Barak, it is February 6 - the date of new elections for Prime Minister. Dr. Ya'akov Katz, a polling expert from Bar Ilan University, told ARUTZ-7 this week that current findings show Ariel Sharon leading Barak by 3-4%: "Sharon, however, seems not to be able to pass the 40% mark, which is a problem for him; if Barak does something dramatic in the next few weeks ... Sharon's lead could easily be turned around." Katz said that the signing by Barak of a peace agreement, even if it includes far-reaching concessions in Jerusalem, could get him re-elected: "It's not because the public is crazy about Barak. But we have bitter experience with the Israeli public, in that whenever a major or dramatic step is taken, the public gives credit to the one who carries it out - without paying attention to how dangerous it may turn out to be a few months from now." :: US EMBASSY MOVE POSTPONED ... AGAIN: Clinton has again decided that for reasons of 'national security', the American Embassy in Israel will not be moved to Jerusalem under his watch. American law stipulates that the administration must move its embassy to Jerusalem by May 1999. The president, however, may waive moving the embassy if he certifies it is in American national interests. Clinton has signed such waivers since the law passed in 1995. :: HANUKKAH MARCH TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT: During the holiday of Hanukkah, on the first day of Tevet (27th December), at 9:00AM, The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement will hold an important event and demonstration. The event will start at the Tombs of the Maccabees at Modi'in (40 Km [25 miles] from Jerusalem) and will continue to the Biblical city of Jerusalem and to the Temple Mount, Gilo (a Jewish suburb of Jerusalem close to Bethlehem) and then to Rachel's Tomb. Temple Mount Faithful leader Gershon Salomon stated, "The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement calls on everyone in Israel and all over the world to be with us on this godly event with their prayers, hearts and thoughts." EDITOR'S NOTE: I would ask that all those who have a heart to, on Tuesday night - December 26, to pray for the Temple Mount Faithful in this important march. Also pray for Israel that eyes would be opened and the spirit of the Maccabees would arise in the Land. If you are so moved, the Faithful will be gathering around 9:00 AM (Israel) - 2:00 AM Eastern Time (US). You can pray as they start their march. Meanwhile, the sit-in strike on the Western Wall steps entered its thirteenth day Friday. Yehuda Etzion and colleagues, sitting at the staircase leading from the Old City's Jewish Quarter to the Western Wall, are protesting the ban on Jewish entry to the Temple Mount. Israel's police have not allowed Jews to enter Judaism's holiest site since the beginning of the violence shortly before Rosh HaShanah, almost three months ago. :: IDF ANGRY AT BARAK'S PLOYS: The IDF (Israel Defense Force) is angry at Barak for putting his political agenda ahead of national security. As elections approach, it seems that the officers will be left alone in the arena. It seems that as much as the officers are angry at having "tied hands," they are more troubled about the loss of interest - in the government as well as among the public. A senior officer serving in the territories claims that the "instructions we're receiving now border on negligence, in the best case." According to him, "two weeks ago we said we wouldn't tolerate shooting at settlements. Now it's a daily occurrence. We take risks that have no purpose, while Arafat is not positioning his system to prevent attacks." No one in the IDF will specifically say so, especially when the chief of staff cautions his generals against making any political statement in light of the elections, but some of Barak's moves are interpreted by many officers as a political survival tactic whose chances of success are slim and whose results may be catastrophic. In this context, the assessment of Military Intelligence is a sharp one (contrary to the opinion of some ministers involved in the contacts): Arafat has no incentive nor intention of achieving a political compromise now. :: SUICIDE BOMBING KILLS TWO; MORE MURDERS: A Palestinian terrorist Friday walked into a roadside cafe near Mehola carrying an explosive device and promptly detonated the bomb he was wearing. The rest stop is located several kilometers south of Bet She'an. Two Israelis were killed and three other wounded. Eliyahu Cohen of Modi'in was murdered Thursday night by Palestinian terrorists as he was driving along the highway to Givat Ze'ev. The murder occurred along a major artery connecting Jerusalem and Modi'in with the Tel Aviv area; the terrorists escaped to the PA/PLO village Bitouniya, outside Ram'Allah. Jewish worshipers were distanced from the Western Wall for almost a half-hour Friday when Moslems began throwing large rocks at a nearby police contingent and at the Western Wall plaza. The Arabs attempted to break through from the Temple Mount - where they held this year's last Friday prayers of the month of Ramadan - towards the Western Wall area. The police, who had granted control of the Mount to the Waqf during the Friday prayers, were close to taking over the Temple Mount, but at the last minute the Waqf was able to restore calm. *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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