-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Tzemach News Service ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A weekly update of news and events regarding the nation and the people of Israel Week Ending: 18 August 2001/29 Av 5761 "'For I,' declares the L-rd, 'will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst. Ho there! Flee from the land of the north,' declares the L-rd, 'for I have dispersed you as the four winds of the heavens,' declares the L-rd.'Ho, Zion! Escape, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.'" Zechariah 2.5-7 Highlights Of This Week: :: SEPARATING YESHA? :: SECURITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS MIDDLE EAST SITUATION :: IDF RETAILIATES IN GAZA; BOMBING AVERTED :: OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES :: SETTLEMENT SITE OF THE WEEK :: ORIENT HOUSE WAS ESPIONAGE CENTER :: ISRAEL AND THE US TO HOLD TALKS :: SYRIA AND IRAQ ENTER INTO MILITART PACT :: ON THE NORTHERN FRONT :: EGYPT'S TROOP PREPARATIONS :: QUOTE OF THE WEEK :: SEPARATING YESHA? Ha'aretz reports that a number of politicians are setting up a movement to push for unilateral separation between Yesha [Judea, Samaria, and Gaza] and the rest of Israel. The group includes cabinet minister Dalia Itzik, and former minister Haim Ramon, both from the Labor party, along with Michael Eitan from the Likud and Dan Meridor, leader of the Center party. Separation efforts would include measures such as building a border-style fence. At present, Israeli troops man roadblocks, but the border area is largely open. Such plans would have to address how to handle the 200,000 Jewish settlers scattered throughout Yesha. Ramon said he plans to set up a public movement next month. He told the paper that nearly half of the Likud's voters back the unilateral separation plan, though it would mean removing at least some Israeli settlements from Yesha. Israeli opponents of unilateral separation say it would mean handing over large parts of Yesha to the Palestinians without a peace accord. ............................ :: SECURITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS MIDDLE EAST SITUATION: Members of the United Nations Security Council have agreed to hold a formal meeting Monday to discuss the situation in the Middle East. The decision followed hours of closed-door consultations among Council members on Thursday. The meeting will be open to non-Council members as well. The Security Council (the only UN body that has any real power) consists of five permanent members: Britain, the United States, China, France, and the Russian Federation; and 10 rotating members currently consisting of Bangladesh, Ireland, Jamaica, Mali, Mauritius, Norway, Singapore, Tunisia, Ukraine, and Colombia. Meanwhile, Israel repeated Thursday that it will oppose any attempt to send international overseers to the Mideast, increasing the likelihood that the United States will veto a new Arab-backed resolution. The draft, circulated Thursday by the 50-member Organization of the Islamic Conference, calls for an end to the Israeli "takeover" of Orient House, an immediate cessation of violence, and the creation of "a monitoring mechanism." Israel has rejected several attempts to send international observers to the region. The United States has blocked two previous attempts to send international observers - and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell indicated this week it would oppose a third attempt because of Israeli objections. ............................ :: IDF RETAILIATES IN GAZA; BOMBING AVERTED: The IDF [Israel Defense Force] launched two missiles at the Palestinian National security headquarters in the town of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip on Saturday night. The attack came in reaction for seven mortars fired earlier Saturday at Gadid - one of the Gush Katif bloc of settlements in the Gaza Strip. No one was injured by the mortars. In the early morning hours Tuesday, some twenty IDF tanks rolled into the PLO-controlled city of Jenin - which the Israeli media is now calling "Suicide Central" - and destroyed a building used by the PA/PLO police. IDF bulldozers carried out the work in the heart of the city, while ground forces and combat helicopters provided cover. Heavy fire was directed at the IDF, but no injuries were reported. Following half a day of shooting at the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer Wednesday authorized an offensive similar to the one carried out on Tuesday in Jenin. Tanks, armored personnel carriers and ground forces mobilized near Beit Jala, and a closure was imposed on Arab villages in the vicinity. But the mission never began; IDF forces withdrew. Initial reports attributed the IDF retreat to US pressure. But, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said "I decided [to halt the mission into Beit Jala] after I received certain intelligence information Yoram Levy of ITIM NEWS AGENCY reports that it was during last minute contacts between the Prime Minister's office and the Foreign and Defense Ministries that Shimon Peres demanded that his talks with the Arabs be given a chance to get them to stop shooting, and thereby obviate the need for an IDF raid to suppress the fire. Sharon replied affirmatively to Peres' request but added that the Israeli government will not tolerate any future shooting into the capital. After a day of frantic searching, Israeli police Friday located a bomb that Islamic Jihad terrorists from Jenin sought to explode in a Haifa teen night club. The bomb, containing some ten kilos [22 pounds] of explosives and hundreds of metal objects, was detonated in the Israeli Arab village of Bakr-al-Garbiya in north-central Israel. The terrorists planned to explode the bomb in a scenario reminiscent of the Dolphinarium disco bombing in Tel Aviv on June 1. Earlier in the week twenty-one people were injured in an explosion that ripped through a coffee shop in the Kiryat Motzkin suburb of Haifa in northern Israel. The blast occurred just three days after a Palestinian suicide terrorist detonated a bomb which killed 16 people in a crowded Jerusalem pizzeria. ............................ :: OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES: Haya Schijveschuurder, 8, said on Israeli TV last week that she was a "happy girl, and I want to be that way again," despite the tragedy she is facing. Out of eight family members from a Dutch immigrant family living in a Jewish community in Samaria, only Haya and two brothers remain after the horrific Sbarro pizza bombing in Jerusalem last week. "Everything that happens here, it's all a miracle, and nothing happens for no reason, and G-d knows what He's doing. He wants to tell us that we need to behave better, and that soon the Messiah will come, and that then all the dead will rise again," said Haya. ............................ :: SETTLEMENT SITE OF THE WEEK: Beitar Illit - <http://www.tehilla.com/housing/beitar.shtml>. The biggest community in the Gush, Beitar Illit's slogan is "Ir HaTorah B'Harei Yehuda" a Torah city in the Judean Hills. Beitar was first established in September of 1990 and in less than eight years has grown to a community of over 2,200 families. Update: This past week Beitar officially became a city, thanks to the signature of the commander of the central region, Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak Eitan. Beitar is now the third city in Yesha, following Ma'aleh Adumim, and Ariel. Beitar Illit currently has more than 18,000 residents and will be absorbing another 8,000 in the coming months. ............................ :: ORIENT HOUSE WAS ESPIONAGE CENTER: Minister of Public Security Uzi Landau says that the documents and databases recovered from the Orient house are being meticulously examined and transferred to the General Security Service (GSS). Investigators uncovered weapons and a vast array of documents and computer files of important intelligence information, including maps and photographs of Israeli police and other Israeli security forces in operation, and documentation pertaining to the vast ongoing illegal construction in the Arab sector of the capital. Also confiscated were files on every Jewish community in Judea, Samaria and Gaza which were to one day serve vital for PA/PLO forces in a military offensive against Yesha communities. A look at the Oslo agreements <http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00qa0> shows that opening PLO offices in Jerusalem is a blatant violation of them. The Israeli-Palestinian agreements specifically provide that Jerusalem is excluded from Palestinian jurisdiction (Interim Agreement, Article XVII.1). Moreover, the Interim Agreement states that all PA/PLO offices can only be located in areas under Palestinian territorial jurisdiction in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza (Interim Agreement Article I.7). Faisal Husseini, who died suddenly in Kuwait on May 30, was PA/PLO Minister of Jerusalem Affairs at the Orient House. DEBKAfile has learned that four men from Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Jerusalem had marched to his hotel in Kuwait to demand explanations for the disappearance of the $1.8 billion transferred to Orient House in Faisal Husseini's names between 1996 and 1998. The answer to the mystery is to be found in the scandalous nature of Husseini's affairs, as revealed in the private papers found hidden in Orient House. DEBKAfile has learned some of those secrets from sources close to the investigation of those documents. The entire $1.8 billion donated by Gulf Emirates for The Fund for the Development of Tourism and New Hotels in East Jerusalem was funneled into Hussein's private bank accounts in Switzerland and Austria. Orient House built up a vast documentary falsification and forgery enterprise to divert moneys handed over for the Palestinian cause by Austria, Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Norway, Denmark and Sweden. Another secret Husseini was anxious to keep dark was the way in which control of the security functions of Orient House had been wrested from him by Tawfiq Tirawi, the Ram'Allah-based chief of Palestinian General Intelligence. Tirawi used this lever to assert control of the security apparatus on Temple Mount as well. It added up to a coup executed by the Ram'Allah faction of Arafat's Fatah against the Jerusalem leaders and its seizure of control of the organs of power in Jerusalem. The Israeli authorities also had an interest in keeping this takeover dark, lest the Israeli public catch on to the extent to which Arafat's administration had been allowed to hold sway on the Palestinian side of Jerusalem. ............................ :: ISRAEL AND THE US TO HOLD TALKS: A senior Israeli delegation will travel to Washington next week for meetings with their American counterparts aimed at streamlining the way the two allies conduct their strategic dialogue, diplomatic sources in Israel and the US said. Among the issues to be discussed are the security situation in Israel, long-range threats from Iran and Iraq, terrorism, and Israel's weaponry needs. Due to represent Israel in the talks are Foreign Ministry Director-General Avi Gil, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's foreign policy adviser Danny Ayalon, Defense Ministry Director-General Amos Yaron, and National Security Council head Uzi Dayan. ............................ :: SYRIA AND IRAQ ENTER INTO MILITART PACT: DEBKAfile's military sources report that the Syrian prime minister Mohammed Mustafa Miro ended his three day visit to Baghdad Monday by joining the Iraqi Deputy President Taha Yassin Ramadan in signing 10 accords. Those accords formalize and cement the secret military understandings operational between the two Arab countries for the past six months, which provide mutual assistance in a regional war against Israel. DEBKAfile first exposed those understandings on December 3, 2000, the outcome of several months of negotiations between Presidents Saddam Hussein and Bashar Assad. The key points of those pacts are: A.) A mutual undertaking by both governments for each of their armies to come to the aid of the other if attacked by Israel, and B.) Combined Iraqi-Syrian command structures to be established in Damascus and Baghdad by their air forces and their missile, tank, armored ground and intelligence corps. ............................ :: ON THE NORTHERN FRONT: Iranian intelligence and Hizb'Allah forces in southern Lebanon both possess long-range missiles with nonconventional warheads which can reach as far south as Hadera, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said in an interview in the JERUSALEM POST. Hizb'Allah forces are now in possession of nearly 8,000 Katyusha missiles, the defense minister added. Senior officers in the Israel Defense Forces said on Monday that Hizb'Allah is gradually taking control over vacant UNIFIL outposts, HA'ARETZ reported. Last Saturday [11 August], Hizb'Allah raised its flag over the Ghajar outpost, close to the Israeli border. The outpost was recently evacuated by UNIFIL after the UN made a general decision to downgrade the size of the force. The officers said this is an attempt by Hizb'Allah to change the status quo in the region and use the outpost as a base for attack on Israeli targets. The officers added that Hizb'Allah is carrying out similar reconnaissance work in the nearby area of Asassiya. Meanwhile, three anti-Syrian Christian protesters appeared in military court Saturday, while dozens of others seized in army intelligence raids this week await trial, court sources said. Khattar Wadih Msallam, Mansur Eid Fadel and attorney Ziad Aswad are charged with "violence against the security forces," the sources said. The court said late Friday that 23 of those arrested were referred to the military prosecutor for "harming Lebanon's relations with a sisterly state," a reference to neighboring Syria, the effective power broker in the country. It said 18 more, including the three due to stand trial Saturday, were charged with "distributing tracts harming the reputation of the Lebanese and Syrian army and for violence against security forces." The cases of 20 more were handed over to the general prosecutors in Beirut and the Mount Lebanon district surrounding the capital for "belonging to dissolved or unlicensed associations and for gathering to cause disturbances." ............................ :: EGYPT'S TROOP PREPARATIONS: Egyptian National Security Adviser Osama al-Baz emphasized Friday night that Egypt has no intention of sending military forces to the Sinai desert if there is an escalation of Israel's actions against the PA/PLO. However, Egypt has reaffirmed efforts to bolster its military amid escalating threats in the region. Egyptian officials said President Hosni Mubarak has given the military the green light to search for required weapons and technology in preparation for any war in the Middle East, particularly with Cairo's eastern neighbor, Israel. The effort is being headed by Egyptian Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi. Tantawi said the military's priority is to be prepared for any attack. In early September, Egypt is scheduled to launch a major exercise near the Suez Canal. The exercise is meant to train the military to repel any attack from Israel. Addressing the military brass, Tantawi said that Mubarak has ordered an increase in training and in supplies. Officials said this has included requests for additional weapons from the United States. ............................ :: QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "In all the fuss over whether Peres will talk with Arafat or only his senior aides, and whether Peres will go alone or be accompanied by a senior army officer, the main point has apparently been forgotten: What exactly will Peres talk about with whomever he happens to be meeting? We've had the Sharm el Sheikh declaration, the Mitchell initiative and the Tenet document which all aimed at getting a cease-fire in place, and none of them were worth the paper they were written on." -- editorial in MA'ARIV. ............................ [Sources: Jerusalem Post, Arutz-7, Ha'aretz, AP, UN Daily Highlights, DEBKAfile, Israel Line, Voice of Judea] :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::: "For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest." 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