-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 --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A weekly update of news and events regarding the nation and the people of Israel Week Ending: 20 January 2001 / 25 Tevet 5761 Please feel free to forward to a friend or colleague. To subscribe, send a blank e-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "And now many nations have been assembled against you who say, 'Let her be polluted, and let our eyes gloat over Zion.' But they do not know the thoughts of the L-rd, and they do not understand His purpose; for He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor. Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for your horn I will make iron and your hoofs I will make bronze, that you may pulverize many peoples, that you may devote to the L-rd their unjust gain and their wealth to the L-rd of all the earth. [Micah 4.11-13] HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK: :: MARATHON TALKS TO START IN EGYPT :: PLANS FOR JERUSALEM :: "THE TEMPLE MOUNT IS THE HEART" :: MURDER IN GAZA :: TERRORIST CAUGHT IN TEL AVIV :: EXECUTED AGENTS THWARTED TERRORIST ATTACKS ON JEWS :: ISRAELI SOLDIERS HANDED OVER TO BIN LADEN? :: CLINTON'S PARTING OFFER :: "ISRAELI SOLIDARITY" :: ** TIME IS RUNNING OUT: PROPHECY CONFERENCE - January 31-February 2, 2001 :: MARATHON TALKS TO START IN EGYPT: Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA/PLO) will begin marathon talks Sunday night aimed at reaching a framework agreement for a final status agreement before the February 6 elections for prime minister. The high-level negotiations are expected to last from a week to 10 days and will include large delegations from both sides. PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat will head the Palestinian delegation. Israel will be represented by Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, Transportation Minister Amnon Lipkin-Shahak and Religious Affairs Minister Yossi Beilin, as well as by MK Yossi Sarid (Meretz) and negotiator Gilad Sher. Prime Minister Ehud Barak's "peace cabinet" approved Israel's participation in the talks Saturday evening, although most members expressed grave doubts about the possibility of reaching an agreement in the short time left before the February election. :: PLANS FOR JERUSALEM: Haifa University Prof. Moshe Amirav and his team of experts have completed a plan for Jerusalem for Barak that is based on the US proposal. The plan will serve as a basis for negotiations for Israel. The plan does not address the issue of the Temple Mount, since sovereignty over the site must first be agreed upon by Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Amirav said. A Palestinian team, under the auspices of PLO representative in Jerusalem Faisal Husseini, has also prepared a plan. Amirav said the two sides have met frequently, and stressed they are close to agreement on many points. Amirav said that east Jerusalem would be part of a demilitarized Palestinian state, and that Palestinian police there would be armed only with handguns. According to Amirav's plan, east Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods would be policed by the Palestinian Police; the Israel Police would remain in charge throughout west Jerusalem; and a joint Palestinian-Israeli-international police force is proposed for the mixed neighborhoods and the Old City. The international force would guard all holy sites in the Old City and deal with tourists there. The Palestinians said they are willing to participate in some joint security arrangements, and Amirav said that his Palestinian contacts have accepted the idea in principle. Israel and the Palestinians have also agreed in principle to land exchanges in Jerusalem. Amirav said that, in return for annexing Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem and mixed neighborhoods such as Beit Safafa, Israel would hand over unpopulated land to the Palestinians. In this way, said Amirav, the Palestinians would have territorial continuity. A Palestinian source said the Palestinians will ask Israel for unpopulated land in west Jerusalem in return for neighborhoods like Ma'aleh Adumim. :: "THE TEMPLE MOUNT IS THE HEART": Rabbi Yehuda Amital, co-Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion and leader of the left-wing religious party Meimad, likens the possibility of giving away the Temple Mount to a Torah law for which one should "be killed and not violate." MAKOR RISHON newspaper reports that during his Tenth of Tevet lecture to his students nine days ago, Rabbi Amital said, "Just like the life of an individual is not the supreme value, and there are prohibitions [such as idol worship] which we are commanded to uphold even at the expense of our lives, so too in our national life there are values for which the society and the state must place itself in danger. In our national life, there are issues that are 'red lines,' for which we must 'be killed and not violate.'" Giving up our sovereignty on the Temple Mount can be thought of as one of these, Rabbi Amital said, adding that a society that places the sanctity of life above every other single value, "will deteriorate to ethical corruption. Peace, too, no matter how important it is, is not the sole supreme value, and there are things which we may not give up even for peace." He also said that giving away the Temple Mount would lead to the detachment of masses of Jews from their Judaism, as it would be a break from "historic Judaism." Meanwhile, public figures, intellectuals and archaeologists sent a sharp letter of protest to Barak at the weekend, condemning what they say are serious violations by the Waqf [Moslem authority on the Temple Mount] on the Temple Mount site that endanger important archaeological evidence. The letter notes that in recent weeks more than 1,500 tons of rubble was removed from the site by tractors and loaded on to trucks to be dumped at undisclosed sites. Experts following the work the Waqf is engaged in say that there is no control over the areas or the depths from which soil is being excavated. The group says that in addition to other serious violations of the permits for development granted to the Waqf, a tractor fitted with a rock-breaking hammer has been used on the Temple Mount for the first time. :: MURDER IN GAZA: Israeli farmer Ronni Tsalah, 34 years old and the father of an eighteen-month- old son, was found dead Monday morning nearby his hothouse near Kfar Yam, in the area of Gush Katif. Tsalah had been kidnapped Sunday night while working in his hothouse; his car had been taken to PLO-controlled Khan Yunis, where it had been set on fire by a mob. A terrorist organization allied with Arafat's Fatah claimed responsibility for the murder. Meanwhile, the mysterious mob-style assassination of Palestinian TV director Hisham Mikki in a Gaza City restaurant on Wednesday appears to have been the work of Palestinian terrorists upset with Arafat's decision to continue negotiating with Israel and his failure to clean up widespread corruption within the PA/PLO. A new Palestinian group calling itself the "Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade" issued a statement saying its "anti-corruption" unit had killed Mikki for practicing "illegal sex, stealing money and corruption," and charged Arafat with not dealing with corrupt officials. the group is made up of dissidents in the Arafat-controlled Fatah terrorist organization. :: TERRORIST CAUGHT IN TEL AVIV: An Arab terrorist was apprehended at the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv Friday morning. The 37-year-old resident of Kalandia, north of Jerusalem, later told policemen that he had planned to kill as many Jews as possible. Four Palestinians were arrested in a Shomron village Thursday night; they confessed to having thrown firebombs and large rocks at Israeli vehicles, as well as to having set up roadblocks against Israeli traffic. :: EXECUTED AGENTS THWARTED TERRORIST ATTACKS ON JEWS: Nine Palestinian policemen stood facing Majdi Mikawi, 27, who had been convicted in a lightning trial on charges that he collaborated with Israel. The men aimed their rifles, and at the sound of “shoot” pulled their triggers. Mikawi’s body was riddled with 41 bullets. When the shooting stopped, one of the officers went over to the body and shot it one more time, in the head, for good measure. Hundreds of excited Palestinians watched the execution, while large crowds gathered outside the building and cheered when they heard the gunfire. Besides Mikawi, two others were sentenced to death, and another two to life imprisonment at hard labor, after a Palestinian national security court found them guilty of treason and giving information to Israel. Other bodies of suspected informants have been found during the week, all near PA/PLO autonomous areas. Former Israeli defense minister Moshe Arens and former deputy Shin Bet chief Gideon Ezra blasted the Barak government for continuing negotiations with the Palestinians while the Intifada continues unabated. "The government’s response essentially has to be aimed at the violence and the executions of collaborators being originated by the PA," said Arens. "The first step which should be taken is to stop negotiations with the while this violence continues." Ezra said that "first and foremost we have an obligation to those who risked their lives and gave us vital information. It is important that Israeli residents see that their lives are not hefker [worth nothing]. 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