-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Hamas: Armed Conflict Only Option Audio/Video Peres Tries To Ease Concerns As Violence Continues - (Reuters) By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM (AP) - A militant Hamas leader released Sunday from a Palestinian prison in Gaza says the mainstream Palestinian leadership now agrees that armed conflict is the only way to deal with Israel. Also in Gaza, Israeli forces briefly entered Palestinian territory and destroyed two police positions before withdrawing, Palestinians said. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a Hamas leader who has been arrested repeatedly by Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s police, told The Associated Press that he was not questioned during his week in prison, and no charges were brought against him. He was detained after criticizing Arafat's Palestinian Authority (news - web sites). In a telephone interview, Rantisi said that despite his arrest, Hamas and Arafat now see eye-to-eye. He charged that ``the mentality of the Israelis is aggression against our people,'' and that Palestinians, including the Palestinian Authority, ``believe that the only way for the Palestinians is to fight to defend their people, to defend their land.'' Commenting on Rantisi's remarks, Gaza security chief Mohammed Dahlan, considered close to Arafat, said, ``We can't be partners with the Israelis as long as their aggression continues.'' During the current wave of unrest, Hamas has taken responsibility for several explosions inside Israel, including suicide bomb attacks. Hamas also said its activists have fired mortars at Jewish settlements in Gaza and villages just outside the territory. Israel charges that Arafat's official forces are cooperating with the extremist groups Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, and has demanded that Arafat dismantle the groups' military infrastructure and arrest militants as part of interim peace accords. Arafat is sending mixed signals of diplomacy and terror, said Dore Gold, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites). Releasing Rantisi ``sends the message of the latter,'' he said. Near the border between Egypt and Gaza, Israeli tanks fired machine guns to cover a bulldozer as it destroyed two buildings in Palestinian-controlled territory, said Rafah governor Abdallah Abu Sanhadna. No injuries were reported. The Israeli military said soldiers defused bombs and came under fire from Palestinians. Israeli forces then destroyed a structure used as a Palestinian firing position, saying it was in an area under Israeli control. Several times in recent days, Israeli forces have entered Palestinian territory to knock down structures and level farmland after exchanges of gunfire and Palestinian mortar attacks. The United States has repeatedly criticized the Israeli incursions. Israeli navy boats shot heavy machine gunfire late Sunday at a Palestinian police office near the Nusseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites), but no injuries were immediately reported, Palestinian police said. The building was heavily damaged. Meanwhile, Israel and the Palestinians were considering two plans aimed at bringing an end to the violence, both welcomed by the United States. The Palestinians have accepted the plans but Israel has objected to calls for a halt to construction inside Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Sharon was meeting with top ministers in his office late Sunday to formulate an Israeli response to the report that would be issued soon, Israel radio reported. Arafat deputy Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen, is to meet with Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) at the beginning of the week, said Hasan Abdel Rahman, the Palestinian representative in Washington. On Sunday, the Israeli military ordered a Palestinian school in the West Bank village of Hawara closed for three weeks, saying Palestinian officials ignored requests to keep students from throwing rocks at Israeli vehicles. Near Nablus, an Israeli man was shot in the arm when his car came under fire, and two other Israelis were lightly wounded when Palestinians fired at two Israeli cars in the West Bank, settlers and the military said. After one of the shootings north of Ramallah, settlers entered the Palestinian village of Sanjil, burned a car and part of a factory and threw stones, Palestinians witnesses and Israeli police said. In more than seven months of fighting, 441 people have been killed on the Palestinian side and 77 on the Israeli side. Censor added hate to song By Philip Smucker in Cairo Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Egypt State Information Service Briefing room - Israeli Prime Minister's Office The madness of Sharon [2 May '01] - Al-Ahram Weekly EGYPT'S top music censor has claimed to have put the vitriol in the chart-topping song I Hate Israel, which has swept across the country. Madkour Thabet, whose office of song censorship within the highly secretive Arts Censorship Bureau has the power to ban tapes deemed politically or morally offensive, said he persuaded the songwriters to toughen the original lyrics. According to the censor, the lyrics originally read "I don't like Israel" and were changed to "I hate Israel" only after his "strong recommendation". He said: "We didn't actually order that the lyrics be changed or provide the exact words, but we recommended that they be changed to better express the common feeling of the Arabic people." The tune, which repeats the line "I hate Israel, Shimon and Sharon", has proved extremely popular for its unusual mix of politics and popular music. Shaaban Abdel-Rahim, the singer, has become an overnight sensation with the song, which jumped to the top of the charts several weeks ago. The censor's claims underline the government's role in guiding anti-Israeli sentiment, despite the Camp David agreement which has kept the peace between the two countries for more than 20 years. Public expression of anti-Israeli feeling has been permitted to grow dramatically in recent months during the latest round of violence in Israel. Other prominent Egyptians have also claimed credit for the song. Awad Badawi, a poet and songwriter, said: "Abdel-Rahim stole this phrase and the idea and made a song out of it." He promised legal action to recoup lost earnings on the song. Mr Badawi claimed that he was overheard discussing the lyrics at a party. 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