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 people of Israel Week Ending: 8 April 2000 / 3 Nisan 5760 "My help comes from the L-rd, who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep." (Psalm 121.2-4) SYRIAN TALKS BACK ON TRACK? Talks with Syria appear to be heading toward resumption, after the US said Saturday it had received answers from Syrian President Hafez Assad to Israeli peace proposals. In another apparent sign of progress, the US also announced a surprise meeting between President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barak in Washington on Tuesday. "We have received orally a response from Assad through our embassy in Damascus," White House spokesman Mike Hammer told THE JERUSALEM POST. "But that is not what's driving this meeting with Prime Minister Barak. It's fair to say the gaps have not been narrowed on the Syrian track." He refused to comment on the content of Assad's response. In another surprise development that seemed to suggest a change in the Syrian position, Foreign Minister Farouk Shara Saturday in Cairo publicly welcomed for the first time Israel's decision to withdraw from south Lebanon by July. Shara said that Israel had been deceiving the world by saying Syria is opposed to an unconditional Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. UN TO COORDINATE LEBANON WITHDRAWAL: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak received a commitment on Tuesday from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that the United Nations will coordinate plans with Israel in connection with an expected IDF withdrawal from Lebanon by July under the provisions of Security Council Resolution 425 [the Resolution can be found thru the "Suggested Links" page at our web site. ed]. In a meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy in Geneva, Annan said the UN will use its "mandate" to implement Resolution 425 to assist Israel in evacuating the Security Zone in south Lebanon. The current contingent of UNIFIL troops in southern Lebanon would work to maintain quiet when Israel redeploys to the international border, Annan indicated, although it might be necessary to bolster the strength of UN forces there. "I will have to discuss this matter with the [Security] Council," he said. Meanwhile, Lebanon on Wednesday announced conditions for its cooperation with Israel's troop pullout from the country's south - demands that could hamper efforts for a peaceful withdrawal by summer. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said UN troops would need to help in disarming Palestinian terrorists and that the UN must guarantee his nation's territorial sovereignty. Israel's deputy defense minister rejected the new conditions and warned Thursday that without an understanding further fighting could erupt. BORDER WARS A POSSIBILITY: Continual Palestinian attacks are a real possibility if Israel withdraws from Lebanon without a wider peace agreement, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud warned Wednesday. "If Palestinian groups tried to launch cross-border attacks in the framework of their right to return home, do you think that the international forces will be able to prevent daily little wars on the borders?" Lahoud's letter asked. A group of Middle East analysts in Washington, meanwhile, offered a sobering assessment of an increasingly likely unilateral Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon this summer. "Violence is possible if not likely," said Michael Eisenstadt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. While since the 1980's Lebanon has been perceived by US policymakers as a "sideshow" to the Arab-Israeli conflict, it is bound to move to center stage come this summer, he said. Lahoud indicated Lebanon would not move quickly to deploy its own forces in the area near the border vacated by Israel and take responsibility for security. BARAK BROKE PROMISES TO YESHA COUNCIL: The Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha) has concluded that Barak has breached the accord he negotiated with them immediately after his election concerning his government's policies on settlement growth. As a result, the Council decided on Monday to establish new outposts and demonstrate at road junctions in protest of the "drying up" of Yesha settlements, Barak's land concessions to the Palestinian Authority and the PA/PLO's continued violation of signed commitments. After the meeting, settlers organized teams in various communities to recruit help for these activities in hopes of kick-starting demonstrations within a few days. A statement issued by the Council stated: "The council was ready to take responsibility for the dismantling of [specific] encampments, which led to certain confrontation with the settlers, only because it was understood that open dialogue with the prime minister in favor of the settlement program would continue ... Unfortunately we have seen in the past months that the government is drying up and freezing anything to do with the settlements." In their first high-profile action, Yesha leaders went to the Maon farm site Wednesday to oversee the construction of a new outpost there. They were evacuated Thursday morning by the IDF (Israel Defense Force). Tzviki Bar-Chai, head of the South Har Hebron Regional Council, calls for the renewal of the public struggle against the government's intentions in Yesha. "We have no other choice," he told ARUTZ-7, saying that the Maon episode may be just the opening shot of the Yesha Council's new campaign. The settlers have vowed to return yet again and will organize school field trips, tree-plantings and music concerts over the Pesach holidays at Maon. But deputy Defense Minister Sneh informed the Council that the Maon Farm would not be rebuilt, and that construction in Judea and Samaria would not reconvene as long as there are peace negotiations taking place with the Palestinians. HEBRON CELEBRATES NEW ARRIVALS: The Hebron Jewish community is making last minute preparation for twelve new families that will most likely arrive around Passover time, living in the new structure known as Beit Nachum V'Yehuda and Beit HaShisha. Today, there are approximately fifty families in the three main Hebron complexes, Beit Hadassah, Avraham Avinu and Admat Yishai (Tel Rumeida). The announcement coincides with a recent letter from Barak to Hebron leaders, reiterating their right to live in safety and tranquility the City of the Forefathers. The letter from Barak was sent to mark 32 years since the renewal of the Jewish presence in the city, which was marked by a celebration on Monday in the Jerusalem Convention Center. THIRTY-TWO YEARS IN HEBRON! The day before Passover in 1968 a group of families arrived at the Park Hotel in Hebron. The proprietor rented them half of the kitchen, which they promptly koshered. The women and children slept in the rooms; the men and boys slept in the lobby and on the floor. It was the first Jewish Pesach in Hebron since 1936. Following the riots, massacre and exile in 1929, a small group of Jews returned to Hebron in 1931. About thirty families lived in the city until just after Passover, 1936, when they were expelled by the British. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, Jews again had access to the first Jewish city in Israel. In 1968 they officially came back home. Moshe Dayan [the same person who gave the Temple Mount to the Arabs ed], then Minister of Defense, arrived in Hebron shortly after Passover. Following several weeks of discussions he offered the group two choices: either be forcibly removed from the city, or go live in the Hebron military compound, several kilometers outside the center of the city. This building, originally a British police station, had been transformed into the Israeli military Headquarters of Judea. It was not overly conducive to a civilian lifestyle. Dayan must have expected that the young families, including women and babies, would soon throw up their arms in frustration at the poor living conditions and leave of their own accord. Dayan was partially correct. The group did eventually leave. But first they lived in the military headquarters for two and half years, until the first neighborhood of the newly founded Hebron suburb, Kiryat Arba, was completed. There was, however, a yearning to return to Hebron, to Beit Hadassah, to the 450 year old Jewish Quarter, home of the ancient Avraham Avinu Shul, to reside adjacent to Ma'arat HaMachpela (Cave of the Patriarchs). Attempts were made, again and again, all leading to failure. Only in 1979, when Menachem Begin was Prime Minister, did a group of 10 women and 40 children succeed in setting up house in the basement of the old medical center, Beit Hadassah, in the middle of the city. Living in adverse conditions for close to a year, these women and children became the nucleus of Hebron's renewed Jewish community. In 1980, following the murder of six young men outside Beit Hadassah, the Israeli government finally gave official recognition and authorization of Hebron's Jewish Community. The present Jewish Community of Hebron numbers some six hundred people, including 60 families, over 300 children, and 150 post-high school yeshiva students studying at Yeshivat Shavei Hevron in Beit Romano. The reason there aren't more people living in Hebron is simply because of lack of space. A virtual tour of Hebron on the Hebron web site: <http://www.hebron.org.il> ISRAEL SEEKS UN EQUALITY: In a move to obtain the full rights of its membership in the UN, Israel has formally asked to join a UN regional grouping of mainly European and North American countries, diplomats said Friday. After years of behind-the-scenes negotiations, Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Lancry wrote to the chairman of the Western European and Others Group asking it to consider Israel for full membership on a temporary basis. Lancry's letter was received Friday by the New Zealand mission, which currently chairs the group, diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Israel isn't a member of any regional group at the UN, which denies Israel's membership on many UN committees, particularly the Security Council. Israel is the only nation which has never served on the Security Council - - the only body within the UN with any power. Far outnumbered by the Arab states at the UN, Israel has spent years quietly trying to get into the so-called WEOG group with the help of its main ally, the US. But it had met resistance from some European countries. Earlier this year, Spain reversed its opposition and decided to back Israel's membership. Three working-level groups within the European Union followed suit, diplomats said. But membership isn't a done deal yet and it's unclear if European ministers as a whole, as well as the rest of the WEOG group, are now ready to fully back membership. US TO WITHHOLD FUNDS TO ISRAEL? The US administration thinks it is premature to deprive Israel of aid because of its planned sale of an advanced radar system to China, but has not ruled out such a penalty in the future. White House spokesman Joe Lockhart's remarks to this effect on Friday came a day after a prominent US congressman said he would try to block financial assistance to Israel if it did not cancel the sale, which the US fears could help give China a strategic advantage in any future conflict with Taiwan. On Thursday, Republican representative Sonny Callahan of Alabama, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, said he would try to withhold roughly $250 million out of some $3 billion in annual US assistance to Israel. ISRAEL RESISTED US PRESSURE IN 1960S: Former US President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, worried about a threat of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, pressured Israel in the mid-1960s to promise not to develop nuclear weapons. But the strategy failed, with a White House emissary sent to Tel Aviv reporting back to Washington that Israel is a tougher bargainer even then the Soviet Union. Israel refused to make a commitment it considered dangerous to its national security, according to classified documents released Monday by the US State Department. At stake was a drive by Israel to acquire US weapons. Johnson and his advisers agreed to sell US tanks to Jordan while advising Israel that it should buy tanks it wanted from Germany or Britain. The US, Israel was told, would not even consider a weapons sale unless Israel accepted four conditions: 1) Tell its US supporters that Israel accepted sale of tanks to Jordan; 2) Promise not to develop nuclear weapons; 3) Agree to Atomic Energy Agency inspection of its facilities; and 4) Agree not to take pre-emptive action against Arab projects to divert Jordan River water. When Israel would not budge, despite what was described as a Rusk presentation that was "to the point of rudeness," Johnson decided to sell Israel military equipment comparable to what the US was providing Jordan. In return, Israel promised in March 1965 not to be the first nation to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East, and the US promised to sell Israel military equipment comparable to what Jordan was receiving if the buckling German deal fell through. CHILDREN SUFFER AT ARAFAT'S HANDS: The PA/PLO is denying medical assistance to three Palestinian children suffering from Gaucher's disease, a rare inherited illness, because the company willing to provide the treatment is Israeli. Genzyme, the manufacturer of the drug, said the company was offering the drugs free of charge and requesting in return that the PA/PLO provide a formal letter saying that it would meet in the future to discuss long-term treatment for the children. Despite months of effort, the PA/PLO has failed to provide the necessary letter. UPDATES: Regarding the whitewashing of the ambulance for the Pop's visit, Moshe Kempinski (JERUSALEM INSIGHTS: www.shorashim.net): "The official explanation was that this was standard procedure and that in fact it was done in every country. This was done, as it was felt to be unsightly tohave an ambulance following the pope's entourage. I tended to believe this report and then I watched the Pope's visit in Gaza. And sure enough ... right after the Pope's car -- after two security cars -- was an ambulance with a bright Red Crescent -- the Muslim Red Cross. On the Net: Magen David Adom http://www.magendavidadom.org American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org International Committee of the Red Cross http://www.icrc.org International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cross Societies http://www.ifrc.org Reagarding the article last week about the PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION, a letter from AISH.COM states: "As you may have heard, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com are selling THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION. This book is proven to be a total fabrication, a libelous forgery purporting to be the discussions of Jewish leaders plotting to take over the world and reduce non-Jews to slavery ... PROTOCOLS is the forerunner of modern anti-Semitic literature and has been a major weapon in the arsenals of hate groups around the world. Hitler cited it prominently in MEIN KAMPF and made it an official centerpiece of Nazi propaganda. Now PROTOCOLS is being sold by credible companies like Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com, lending legitimacy to these lies and empowering hate mongers to continue their evil ways. What can you do? Sign the petition at: <http://aish.com/issues/protocols_petition.asp>, calling on these companies to cease being a partner in this fraudulent venture that has cost thousands of lives. The petition will be presented to the CEO's of Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com. THIS WEEK IN JEWISH HISTORY: This material has been adapted from BEYOND TIME AND HISTORY by Eli Birnbaum 4 April 1909: Hashomer, the first Jewish self-defense organization is founded to protect Jewish settlements in pre-state Israel. Many of its members were recent arrivals from Russia who had organized self- defense organizations in Russia during the progroms five years earlier. It was eventually absorbed into the Haganah. 5 April 1533: Pope Clement VII, in an effort to stop the Inquisitions, acts against new Christians in Portugal, and issues the "Bulla de Perdao", essentially a pardon for all past offenses. Unfortunately the pope died a few years later and the Inquisition was officially established. 5 April 1775: Pope Pious VI, partly in reaction to the reformation issues the "Editto sopra gli ebrei". This proclamation of Pious VI reinstituted all former anti-Jewish legislation. The forty-four clauses included prohibition of possessing Talmudic writings, erection of gravestones, forbidding Jews from passing the night outside the ghetto, under pain of death, and more. The regulations were in effect until the arrival of Napoleon army 25 years later. 7 April 1933: The term "Nichtarier" ("non-Aryan") became a legal classification in Germany. This made it "legal" to discharge Jews from positions in many of the professions. (Sources: JERUSALEM, POST, ICEJ, ARUTZ-7, ISRAELWIRE, H-PPF, AP, HA'ARETZ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tzemach News Service "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 is a ministry of Tzemach Institute for Biblical Studies <http://www.tzemach.org> 'TNS.' may be reproduced & distributed in any form. Please give proper credit. Send comments to 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 ] <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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