-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: 3 March 2001 / 8 Adar 5761 Please feel free to forward to a friend or colleague. To subscribe, send a blank e-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "And the L-rd roars from Zion and utters His voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth tremble. But the L-rd is a refuge for His people and a stronghold to the sons of Israel." [Joel 3.16] HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK: :: THE TERRORISM CONTINUES :: HAMAS READY TO STRIKE WHEN SHARON TAKES OFFICE :: SHARON WILLING TO RELAX ECONOMIC SANCTIONS :: FROM THE "WE TOLD YOU SO" DEPARTMENT ... :: US SLAMS ISRAELI "HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS" WHILE PLO MURDERS COLLABORATORS :: MOSLEMS AGAINST CHRISTIANS :: SHARON CABINET COMING TOGETHER :: IDF CONSIDERS SETTLER PATROLS :: POLL: NORTH AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS SATISFIED WITH MOVE TO ISRAEL :: SADDAM AGAIN MOVES TROOPS NEAR JORDAN BORDER :: EDITORIAL: ULTIMATUM BY EMANUEL A. WINSTON :: ** UPCOMING ISRAEL TRIP/EXTRA DAY ADDED - NO CHARGE! ** :: THE TERRORISM CONTINUES: Claude Knopp, 29, of Tiberias, was killed Thursday and eight others were injured, several severely, after a bomb-laden taxicab exploded near the Israeli Arab village of Umm el-Fahm at the Mei Ami junction, HA'ARETZ reported. The security sources reported that they were on a alert Thursday morning for a car bomb which was on its way to Tel Aviv. An emergency roadblock spotted the suspected vehicle, a van, and police began a chase. When the terrorists saw a police roadblock at Mei Ami blocking their way, they detonated the bomb in the vehicle. In another attack, three Israelis were wounded - including one woman in serious condition - when Palestinian terrorists shot at them shortly after 4 PM Tuesday. The attack occurred between the north-Jerusalem industrial zone of Atarot and the Ofer army base, south of Ram'Allah. A similar attack later in the afternoon near Tulkarm miraculously produced no injuries. Palestinians shot at a passing Israeli car, but although bullets hit the car, no one was hurt. A Kfar Saba man killed in an orchard in Moshav Hagor on Monday. Police first believed the dead man was the victim of a work accident. Additional investigation revealed the man had been shot in his neck and chest. The victim, whose name has not been cleared for release, left a wife and two children. Meanwhile, Israel Defense Forces [IDF] Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz warned Friday that security forces would step up actions to prevent terror and apply pressure against terrorists and those who support them, HA'ARETZ reported. In an interview on Israel Radio, Mofaz said, "If the Palestinian Authority [PA/PLO] does not take strong action to stop the violence, Israel will be forced to make serious preparations for the future." He further warned, "If the PA does not act against the terror, Israel will be forced to act in its place, through all possible channels." ............................ :: HAMAS READY TO STRIKE WHEN SHARON TAKES OFFICE: Flyers distributed by the Izzadin al-Kassim faction of the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza on Saturday call for an escalation in attacks against Israeli targets. The flyers that were sent to news agencies stated that immediately after Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon takes office, suicide attacks will resume inside the "Green Line," adding there are suicide bombers ready and waiting for orders to begin attacks. The heightened security alert following last Thursday's Wadi Ara taxi bombing is to remain in force at least through the Purim [3 March] holiday, even in the absence of concrete information over planned terror attacks. Additional police and even some IDF units will patrol the Green Line and tighten checkpoints, in additional to the beefed-up presence of security forces in public places. The PA/PLO has recruited into the ranks of its various security organizations a number of Hamas terrorists who were released from Palestinian prisons in recent months. According to Israeli security sources, these men have already taken active roles in attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians. Last October, days after the outbreak of the Al Aqsa Intifada, the PA/PLO released dozens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists that it was holding in its prisons. Many of the released inmates had been involved in shooting attacks against Israeli targets and in the planting of bombs. It has recently become apparent that some of these former inmates are carrying out their activities while in the uniform of the PA/PLO's security organizations. The PA/PLO had recruited former inmates to its police forces before the Intifada. However, in most cases they belonged to Fatah and had carried out attacks against Israeli targets prior to the signing of the Oslo accords in 1993. Nearly all Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives have been released from PA/PLO prisons. Those still held, including Mahmud Abu-Hanud, the leading Hamas terrorist from Shechem who escaped an IDF attack against his stronghold last year, are being kept in "protective custody." In a sense the PA/PLO are providing protection for Abu-Hanud, and others like him, against possible Israeli attack. ............................ :: SHARON WILLING TO RELAX ECONOMIC SANCTIONS: Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon on Sunday sent a message to PA/PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat via visiting US Secretary of State Colin Powell – indicating Israel’s willingness to relax the economic sanctions imposed on the PA/PLO. Sharon added that funds would be transferred to the PA/PLO by Israel only after a total cessation of daily violence and terror attacks. He added that as soon as Israel saw clear signs that Arafat was truly working towards bringing an end to the violence, he would be ready to arrange a meeting between the two. The Middle East Newsline reports that Israel is allowing Iraqi supplies to enter the Palestinian areas. The move comes despite warnings by Israeli security officials that the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is using the aid to bolster support for Baghdad among Palestinians and increase coordination with the PA/PLO for any war against Israel. Diplomatic sources said six trucks loaded with medicine and equipment were cleared by Israeli authorities for entry into YESHA [Judea, Samaria and Gaza]. The trucks contained equipment and milk donated by Iraq and Qatar and which arrived from Jordan. Iraq has also pumped in more than $6 million to families of Palestinians killed in clashes with Israel, Palestinian sources said. The number is disputed by Israeli sources, who said that most of the money went to pay Iraqi agents in YESHA to purchase weapons. The EU has pledged to give $54.6 million to the PA over the next six months. The grant was agreed by EU foreign ministers, who called for a donors' conference to be held by April. ............................ :: FROM THE "WE TOLD YOU SO" DEPARTMENT ...: Imad Faluji, the Palestinian National Authority’s Communications Minister, admitted on Friday that the five-month-old uprising against Israel had been planned since the Camp David peace talks failed in July, contradicting past contentions of a spontaneous outburst from Palestinians on the street. Faluji stated it was a mistake to think that the intifada was sparked by Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon’s controversial visit to Al-Aqsa mosque compound in late September. He spoke during a PLO rally in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp outside of Sidon. He also said the PLO was reviving its "military action" groups to escalate the fighting against Israel and called for a meeting of Arab defense ministers to "face up to Israeli aggression." "The PLO is going back to the 60s, 70s and 80s. The Fatah Hawks, the Kassam Brigades, the Red Eagle and all the military action groups are returning to work," he told a crowd of nearly 2,500 people who included local Palestinian faction leaders. ............................ :: US SLAMS ISRAELI "HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS" WHILE PLO MURDERS COLLABORATORS: In a country-by-country report on human rights practices released on Monday, the US State Department said Israel had committed numerous serious abuses since the outbreak of the Intifada, used excessive force against Israeli Arabs and Palestinians during demonstrations, and poorly treated Palestinian security detainees. "It ignores the fact that Israel is engaged in a war," Ken Bricker, a spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said. "The report ignores the fact that ... the Palestinian Authority [PA/PLO] made a strategic decision to opt for violence." The Anti-Defamation League called the report "unfair and distorted" and said it ignored "ongoing incitement by the PA/PLO and the daily attacks against Israeli civilians." Meanwhile, a 37-year-old Arab man suspected of providing intelligence information to Israeli security agents was shot to death in a PA/PLO jail in the city of Shechem. The victim was arrested by PA/PLO security officials who charged him with corroborating with Israeli authorities. He was shot while in jail and died in a Shechem hospital. ............................ :: MOSLEMS AGAINST CHRISTIANS: "First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people." This is how some observers describe the strategy of the Moslems, who see as their this-worldly destiny the replacement not only of Judaism [the Saturday people] but also of Christianity. Moslem anti-Christian hatred has come to the fore in Israel; Israeli Maj.-Gen. Ya'akov (Mendy) Orr, IDF liaison for Judea and Samaria, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee this week that "vandalism of Christian graves" in the PA/PLO-controlled areas has been on the rise of late. According to Orr, some fifty Christian families from the Beit Lechem-area town of Beit Sahour alone tried to emigrate in the last month. On March 3, 1999, then-US Senator Connie Mack, who had just returned from a visit in Israel, told the Senate, "I had another profound meeting during the week. I met one evening, privately - secretly - with Arabs who were being persecuted for the Christian faith... One man [who was arrested by the PA/PLO police] was beaten and hung from the ceiling by his hands for many hours on charges of selling land to Jews, [but] he was poor and had no land. [His son said he was] held hostage to prevent him from talking with people about his faith... It caused me to ask, 'How can the people of Israel find peace when the Palestinian Authority engages in coercion and torture based only upon religious beliefs?'" In January 2000, the PA/PLO forcefully took over the Russian Orthodox church in Jericho. In July 1997, PA/PLO para-military police burst into a monastery in Hebron, beat and dragged out the monks and nuns, injuring five monks and three nuns. The Zionist Organization of American (www.zoa.org) reports that two American courts recently granted asylum to Palestinian Christian Arabs, on the grounds that they would be persecuted for their religious beliefs if they return to PA/PLO-controlled territory. ............................ *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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