Conference taveng::bagels

	Re: .0

	Hello Jeremy!

	This note is to disagree with many things you say.

	First of all I would like to comment on your language: "...nefarious,
	outlandish slur...", "...Altalena Rabin...", "...capitulation...".

	I believe, from what I talked with you, from what you wrote, that you
	have a ceratain position and that you try to share it and convince 
	others about that. Teaching should be done in "Darkey Noam", in a
	pleasent way, if you want your interlocutor to listen to it - if you
	want someone to listen to you.

	You may want to preach to those already converted, so you don't need 
	them to listen, and your speech would be understood and accepted by
	them - but, wouldn't it be a waste of time to convert the converted?

	We were taught that Sinat Chinam, unjustified hate, was the cause of
	the destruction of Jerusalem 19 centuries ago. We were even taught
	that Jerusalem was destroyed because they would judge according to the
	Book, and did not add an extra meassure of compassion [Lifnim mi shurat
	haDin].

	Perhaps if we all "sin" the sin of Ahavat Chinam, unjustified Love, we
	will contribute to the reconstruction of Jerusalem and Israel.

	I do believe in Peace. I think Peace can be achieved. Perhaps someone
	will call me NAIVE. I believe Ali also believes in Peace - and he may
	called NAIVE, as well, by his people. But there are thousands, hundreds
	of thousands, millions of people that believe in Peace, and perhaps they
	are naive as well, and I rather prefere to be counted with them.

	Not all Israelis are for violence. Not all settlers are for violence.
	Not LL Arabs are for violence. If the above premises were not true,
	the amount of victims - of both sides - would be orders of magnitude
	larger. Yes, I mean orders of magnitude, tens and hundreds of times
	larger. So perhaps there are Just people, "tsadikim", in Sdom. And 
	perhaps their numbers are larger than those who advocate for violence.

	Rabi Yehuda HaLevy was murdered in 1141 by an Arab horseman. In those
	same years thousands of jews were killed by mobs in Spain. And later
	expelled from there. Shall we be at peace with Spain?

	Jews were burnt and expelled from England, France, German States. Shall
	we make peace with them?

	And worst of all, the Holocaust. Millions of our brothers and sisters 
	were killed. Shall we be at war with all the World now? With those that 
	helped the murders? With those that did not give a safe heaven to the
	persecuted? With those that "only" looked to the other side?

	Or, without forgeting anything, without pardoning anything, shall we
	strive to "smith their swords into plowshares..."

	Is the tear of a Jewish mother less salty of that of an Arab one?
	Is the suffering for an Arab victim less than that for a Jewish one?

	Only Peace is the solution. The Hebrew word for peace, Shalom, comes
	from the same root as perfection and completeness. And Shalom is also
	a way to design the Allmighty. Don't you accept Shalom?

	I hate violence. And don't believe we can contemporize with that. My
	blood freezes when I see in TV a 6 small boy parading with uniform and
	a make-believe Kalatchnikow in a Palestinian act condemning the murders
	in Hebron. And I suffer as well when I see in TV an extremist Jew
	shooting the sun-collectors of Arab houses. Neither of those is the
	right way.

	I think that the alternative propopsed by the Israeli Government is 
	the only way, the only remaining option. To acieve peace and a "modus
	vivendi" with our neigbours. I believe only Peace can make this land
	thrive. 

	And this is what we all want. Isn't it?

	But, Yoshua, as you say, we cannot forget and forgive History. We have
	to enter all those agreements with an open eye. There will be many
	situations less rosy than what I want to paint - and many [I hope many,
	many more] less somber than what you depict. It is going to be painfull
	for us to look at portions of this Land of Israel being out of our grasp
	and rule, as will be hard for those Arabs, originally from Haifa and 
	Jaffo and Jerusalem and Arsuf (where Herzliya stands now), to whitstand
	them in others hands. Jews have a dear and strong connection to this 
	land, as - I believe - those Arabs that lived here. And Shalom will 
	come when we both, learn how to share it.

	Regards,

	Juan-Carlos Kiel

	P.S.: After all this arguing about peace, I could not but betry myself
	      and send a single barb - forgive me - but if you are so worried
	      about "...the Bolsheivik regime in Israel...", and if this is true
	      then would you say you made a mistake leaving the "land of the
	      free" for this "hold of the brave"? Just kidding. JCK

    Jeremy,
    
    I think that the tone of your note is inappropriate and I say that
    without taking part in the political debate: even if I don't agree with
    my friend Juan-Carlos, I do strongly agree with him that such a tone is
    unacceptable in a public note conference within DEC. The debate is
    legitimate here in Israel but certainly not outside.
    
    I suggest to delete this note and note 1388 as well.
    
    Haim

    re: .2
    
    
    For perhaps a number of reasons, living in America being one of them, I
    recognize that my opinion on the matter may hold little clout.  Even
    still, I would like to ask you to reconsider deleting these topics
    (1412 and 1388).
    
    Personally, I find it very important and enlightening to read opinions
    on such matters; even though I may strongly disagree with some of those
    opinions.
    
    I do not like what Jeremy said in .0; nor do I particularly like the
    way he said it, but it's important to understand what he's saying and
    why.  Likewise, it's important to understand what Juan is saying and
    why; and while Juan has expressed himself graciously with many laudable
    ideas, I personally don't agree with the current peace process, as I
    don't believe it will bring peace.
    
    I find the ability to learn of others opinions of GREAT value and hope
    they'll remain in BAGELS.
    
    FWIW,
    
    Steve

    I don't think Jem's notes should be deleted.  If they had personally
    attacked another noter, or been such as to expose Digital to risk of
    litigation, that would be another matter.  His opinions are strong and
    he is passionate about them.  Even if we don't agree, that's no reason
    to delete them.
    
    Sitting here in galut, I don't feel qualified to have a firm position
    on the peace process.  But I feel very uncomfortable about it.  I am
    very skeptical about most aspects including ceding the West Bank.  At
    the same time, I don't want to see the perpetuation of war, territorial
    uncertainty, and the Intifadah.  I wish I knew a better way to resolve
    the problems.  I only hope that Rabin and the others are right.  
    
    Laura

I had anticipated that the answers would be emotional. Unfortunately,
none of the things I said are fiction, neither are they ancient history.
Chairman Arafat and his very own Fatah faction *of* the PLO (imagine if
Israel were to say that this agreement is only applicable to the X faction
of the Labor Party) have been kind enough to offer replies to the previous
notes. I will B"N not respond personally to this issue anymore, since Fatah
is obviously better suited than I to answer.

I of course feel no need to say that I pray with all my heart and soul
for true peace. Nor do I question the sincerity of people such as Juan Carlos
and Ali Awkal in their desire for such. What I do suspect is that a moderate
such as Ali would would have been silenced (read: murdered) long ago by his
less moderate brethren, as have been many hundreds of others. Without further
ado, here's the PLO in their own words:

From: "MICHAEL B FREUND"  <MBF@instruct.gsb.columbia.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <iris@nysernet.ORG>
Subject: P.L.O. Quote Sheet #17

            The P.L.O. in its own words:
                (quote sheet #17)


On the peace process and the continuation of the armed struggle:

    The peace process will "not prevent the continued struggle of our
    people against the illegal actions of the Israeli occupier."
    --- from a petition signed by Dr. Haidar Abdel-Shafi, former head
        of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks with Israel,
        and other P.L.O. leaders
        (The New York Times, 26 April 1994)

    "We call for Fatah Hawks... to escalate the military operations
    against Israeli soldiers. Every Zionist in the [Gaza] Strip is
    considered a target for our military apparatus."
    --- from a leaflet issued by the P.L.O.'s Fatah Hawks in Gaza
        (The Jerusalem Post, 31 March 1994)

    "We warn our leaders to stop the negotiations with Israel."
    --- a gunman from Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the P.L.O. at
        a rally in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza
        (Associated Press, 3 April 1994)


On the continuation of the armed struggle against Israel:

    "We will return to the armed struggle."
    --- a senior leader of the P.L.O.'s Fatah Hawks in Gaza
        (Yediot Aharonot, 28 January 1994)

    "It is a revolution until victory, until victory, until victory."
    --- Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the P.L.O.
        (Voice of Palestine, Algiers, 31 December 1993)
    "Palestine is only a stone's throw away for a small Palestinian
    boy or girl."
        --- Yasser Arafat
            (Jordanian TV, 13 September 1993)

    The Palestinian flag "will fly over the walls of Jerusalem, the
    churches of Jerusalem and the mosques of Jerusalem."
        --- Yasser Arafat
            (Jordanian TV, 13 September 1993)
On Jerusalem and statehood in stages:
    "Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an
    Arab nor a Muslim."
    --- Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the P.L.O.
    (Voice of Palestine, Algiers, 2 September 1993)
"Slaughter the Jews!"
    --- chant heard in mosques throughout Gaza on 25 November 1993
        (Yediot Aharonot, 26 November 1993)

"Do everything possible to inflict human losses on the enemy side...
to make the sons of pigs taste the bitterness of losing a dear one,
to make them swim in their own blood."
    --- spokesman for the P.L.O.'s Fatah Hawks at a press conference
        in Gaza
        (Los Angeles Times, 30 November 1993)

"We will continue our rebellion against the government of dogs. We
will escalate our military attacks everywhere against the Zionists."
    --- from a leaflet distributed in Gaza by the P.L.O.'s Fatah Hawks
        (Associated Press, 29 November 1993)
"Everything you see and hear today is for tactical and strategic
reasons. We have not given up the rifle. We still have armed gangs in
the areas and if we do not get our state we will take them out of the
closet and fight again."
    --- Feisal Husseini, leading P.L.O. figure in Israel, in a speech
        that was delivered on 22 November 1993 at Bir Zeit University
        (Maariv, 24 November 1993)
"Today we have already carried out three attacks against Israeli
targets in Khan Yunes. We will carry on with our armed attacks
against Israeli soldiers until the occupation is finished in the Gaza
Strip."
    --- spokesman for the P.L.O.'s Fatah Hawks at a press conference
        in Gaza
        (Agence France Presse, 29 November 1993)
On the Palestinian police force:

    "As a Palestinian police officer, I will not hesitate to give my
    gun to anyone who approaches me and tells me he is going to commit
    an attack against the army or the settlers. I will even kiss the
    gun before and after the operation."
        --- a P.L.O. recruit from Ramallah for the Palestinian police

On the right of Jews to visit holy places in Judea, Samaria and Gaza:

    "We expect the Israelis to give us back these holy places... We
    believe in freedom of religion. But Jews won't have rights there
    because these are our places."
        --- Hasan Tahboub, head of the P.L.O.-backed Supreme Muslim
            Council (The Jerusalem Report, 16 December 1993)
On the continuation of the intifada:

    "The heroic intifada, which has entered its seventh year, is an
    extension of the 29-year-old Palestinian revolution and will go on
    relentlessly... It is continuing, continuing, continuing."
    --- Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the P.L.O.
        (Associated Press, 7 January 1994)


On Iraqi missile attacks against Israel during the Gulf War:

    "The Scuds fired by Iraq against Israel pleased us."
    --- a local leader of Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the P.L.O.
        in Gaza (International Herald Tribune, 27 December 1993)

    I think that the earlier statement comparing the Palestinian terrorists
    to American psychopaths is faulty.
    
    When a society encourages obsessive hatred and encourages violence
    againt the hated group, even celebrating it as a moral duty, we needn't
    be surprised to see the persistence of terrorism or persecution.  Nor
    should we expect it to stop until the society changes its values.  So
    persistent are these ancient grudges and the craving for land, that the
    obsessions outlast even military conquest, as we saw in the Germans
    following World War I.
    
    Consider the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, where masses of people turned
    against their perceived "class enemies," and slaughtered almost the
    entire middle class.  This wasn't the work of isolated psychopaths. 
    This was a case of massive brainwashing, modeled on the Chinese
    Cultural Revolution.
    
    Consider the actions of the Serbs in Bosnia.
    
    For that matter, consider the persistence of anti-Semitism even in
    countries where very few Jews remain, like Poland.  
    
    It is entirely possible to brainwash large groups in a society.  Of
    course there are resistant individuals; to survive they remain silent
    or emigrate.  They openly resist at dire peril.  The brainwashing is
    not logical or reasonable, it need not even have any factual basis at
    all.  Unfortunately, such is the nature of the human mind.
    
    The hated group cannot change the thinking of the obsessive group by
    reason, by concessions, by propoganda, or even by military domination. 
    The obsession, like a noxious weed, survives no matter what.  
    
    This is why I think strong, defensible borders are a necessity for
    Israel. As a pacifist at heart, I wish the situation were more
    positive.  But I think it is foolhardy to accept blandishments at face
    value when the obsessive hatred remains. 
    
    Laura

    Doesn't G-d say in the Torah that as far as He's concerned, the land
    (Eretz Yisrael) belongs to *Him* and that He has given it to the
    descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - who are (again in His view)
    aliens and foreigners in His land?  Doesn't He also say that because of
    this, no one in Israel has the right to sell (or give away) the land to
    anyone else?  Moreover, isn't the nation of Israel encouraged to accept
    the strangers in their midst (assuming of course, those strangers are
    joining themselves to Israel; not seeking to destroy Israel).   And
    doesn't Torah also say not to hate the Egyptian; because Israel was
    once a stranger in Egypt - and not to hate the Edomite because he is
    Israel's brother?
    
    How does all that get worked out practically?
    
    There must be some Arabs/Moslems who live in Eretz Yisrael and which to
    do so peacefully, in accordance with the laws of Israel (which should
    be goverened by Torah).
    
    Those that wish to do so should be allowed to do so.  For the rest,
    wasn't it also Juan who suggested a "divorce" of sorts?   And why won't
    Jordan (Transjordan) be the Palestinian homeland it was supposed to be?
    
    Is this all too simplistic, and if so - why?
    
    Steve

    This past Sunday's Boston Globe magazine had a relevant cover story
    about today's Arab mentality.  I highly recommend reading this article.
    
    The author made several points relevant to Israel:
    
    * That the Arabs, including otherwise intelligent PLO officials, are
    convinced that Israel will "melt away".  They cannot accept the reality
    of Israel because it is contrary to their mental image of what should
    and must be.  [In psychological terms, that's called denial.  Gives
    Queen of de Nile a whole new twist.  ;-)]
    
    * That the Arabs continue to see Israel as the arch-enemy and as the
    perfidious supplier of Western ideology in the region.  That this focus
    on Israel and the West allows them to not look at their own
    responsibility for their problems.
    
    * That at the same time they admire Israel for its practicality and
    ability to get things done.
    
    NOTE
    
    Neither I nor the article are saying that every single Arab fits these
    characterizations.  In fact, the article extensively quotes dissenting
    Arab intellectuals, all of whom are expatriates, btw.
    
    Laura

                The P.L.O. in its own words:
                     (quote sheet #18)


On Palestinian displeasure with the agreement:

    "I hope that the anger about the agreement will not carry over to
    the territories, but will instead be turned against the Zionist
    enemy, who raped our land."
    --- Farouk Qaddumi, head of the P.L.O. Political Department
        (Radio Monte Carlo, 5 May 1994)

    The Israel-P.L.O. agreement "will not be binding on the
    Palestinian people."
    --- Dr. Haidar Abdel-Shafi, former head of the Palestinian
        delegation to the peace talks with Israel, at a press
        conference in Jerusalem
        (The Jerusalem Post International Edition, 7 May 1994)

    "Show me who is pleased with it."
    --- Hanan Ashrawi, former spokesman for the Palestinian
        delegation to the peace talks with Israel, when asked if she
        was pleased with the agreement
        (Ha'aretz, 5 May 1994)

On why the P.L.O. signed the agreement in Cairo with Israel:

    "I am convinced that our people are now on the way to
    establishing a Palestinian state. The agreement signed in Cairo is
    the first step in establishing the state, and therefore it should
    be implemented."
    --- Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the P.L.O., in an interview
        immediately after the signing ceremony in Cairo on 4 May 1994
        (Radio Monte Carlo, 4 May 1994)

    "This is the first step towards a Palestinian state."
    --- Feisal Husseini, leading P.L.O. figure in Israel
        (Yediot Aharonot, 4 May 1994)



        This is the eighteenth in a series of quote sheets prepared by
            IRIS (Information Regarding Israel's Security)
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         This information may be reproduced without permission.

    Shalom All,
    
    I heard on this mornings radio that the Isreali military is almost 
    completely been taken out of the Gaza Strip. That the transfer of 
    Military power will be complete by the end of the week?  With the 
    apparent hatred between PLO's towards Isreal, doesn't this weaken
    Isreals ability to protect itself?  Will this really bring peace to
    area?  Most people I think don't think so.  Any comments?
    
    Thanks,
    Richard

    re .10

    	I don't know how much peace it will bring, but at least there's an
    element of "Put up or shut up" to the Palestinians.  I suppose they'll
    spend more energy finding another way to fix blame rather than working
    constructively on their problems.  At least it gets a few Israeli
    soldiers out of harm's way, reducing the direct opportunity for
    provocation and reaction.

    		David

>I suppose they'll spend more energy finding another way to fix blame rather
>than working constructively on their problems. 


	I don't know if anyone else heard it, but I just (yesterday)
	heard Arafat quoted calling for a jihad to "liberate Jerusalem".

	When called on it by Peres, he backed down to say that it
	was for a "peaceful jihad". My Arabic isn't that good, but
	I have a hard time understanding what a "peaceful jihad" is.

don feinberg

From: The Jerusalem Post, May 25.

FAIRY TALE
by STEVEN PLAUT

"Then one day, the PLO leader went just a little too far"

(The writer teaches business and economics at the University of
 Haifa.)

     Many months had gone by since PLO leader Yasser Arafat had called on
Moslems to launch a jihad and drive the Jews violently from
Jerusalem.
     Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, it will be recalled, had demanded and
received clarification.  Arafat had then smiled and explained to the press
that he meant a friendly, nonviolent jihad.  Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
had explained that the government was really upset, and
that statements like this would upset the peace process.
     It was shortly after Nablus had been transferred to PLO control that
Arafat described the Jews as money-grubbing vermin.  The PLO headquarters
denied that Arafat had made the statement at all.  The Gush Shalom
movement demanded that Israel not upset the inertia of the
peace process with any disproportionate counter-response.
     Demonstrations by the peace movement were organized across the land
under the banner, "Sticks and stones may an intifada make, but names can
never hurt us." The PLO's foreign minister then explained that in the
Middle East, with its rich commercial traditions, calling
someone money-grubbing really wasn't an insult.
     After Jenin was transferred to PLO control, Arafat was quoted as
saying that the Jewish Christ-killers should be driven violently out of
Bethlehem and Nazareth.  Despite doubts expressed by the Foreign Ministry
over whether the quote was accurate, the BBC produced expert testimony
confirming that it was indeed Arafat's voice on the tape,
which hadn't been subjected to tampering.
     This produced an emergency cabinet meeting, in which the Rabin
government expressed intense anguish and demanded a public retraction and
PLO apology.  The Women for Forgiveness congregated outside the Prime
Minister's Office, with palm branches, olive wreaths and white doves.
Arafat sent a fax expressing "regret if his message has caused
any misunderstanding."
     IT WAS after Ramallah had been transferred to PLO control that Arafat
gave a speech to the Palestine Senate in which he described the Jews as
agents of Satan and leeches sucking the blood of mankind.  The Israeli
cabinet adopted a unanimous resolution warning the PLO that
the peace process was in danger of being derailed.
     When Arafat then denounced the ritual murder of Gentile children by
Jews for Pessah, Rabin was reported to be so upset as to be in need
of medication.
     The Vatican urged that time be given for healing and reconciliation.
Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak sent a telegram explaining that Arafat had
been drinking heavily before uttering this nonsense.  President Clinton
demanded that Israel keep Arafat's rantings in their proper perspective
and let the peace process continue uninterrupted.  After all, the
alternative was for Hamas to
gain momentum.
     Things came to a head at last when Arafat gave his annual
Presidential State-of-the-Nation speech in East Jerusalem, in the middle
of which he expressed understanding for the acts of the Germans and noted
that Hitler was a fundamentally decent man with the right attitude toward
the Jews.  He later clarified his position by explaining that he favored a
symbolic and nonviolent Holocaust that
would clear the air of animosity and engender coexistence.
     The government was finally pushed beyond the breaking point.  It
was time to play hardball and teach the wily scoundrel a lesson.
     Having been left no choice, it announced that Foreign Minister Peres
was going to boycott the Palestine Independence Day ceremony and military
parade.  Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin would refuse to appear on
the same podium with Arafat in Helsinki.  And Rabin would definitely not
shake Arafat's hand at the Washington peace talks the
following week.  (c) JPFS 1994

Hi All .
This is  easy to react after knowing the facts .
I can't accept Haim's offer from note 1412.2 , I think that open discussion is 
necessary to learn the facts - how they looks from the other's eye .
The habit to " delete words from the protocol " belongs to a formal society
not open one - and as Confucius said : " When the ear don't listen , the hurt
don't catch sorrow . Since you heard , you have to pay attention . When you see
you have to judge by your hurt . (I hope my translation to Confucius means
what he meant)
I think that , that say can fit to all the articles/reactions to jeremy's notes .
I even think that Jews and non Jews outside Israel can have their own opinion 
about the Arab Terror or even to the Israelis reactions for that - without 
judging since as a Non Arab lives under military government 27 years , and as non a
"settler" that a stone smashed his new car's glass - or paint at -  least or one
of his friends/relatives died or wounded in a terror action , or under danger
for his life (as you know - stones can kill !) it is very hard to judge .
I'm not sure how many of the readers really know about the mentality of the
" players of this act "- The Arabs live in Israel as individuals and as a
society - the way good people fallow their corrupted leaders their way of life .
It isn't a good way to try to understand the " Arab Mentality " by Western way
of thinking . It is very hard to understand people that live in Nezarim or
Kfar-darom in Gaza strip and in Hebron without be there and live there . Even
people that live outside Israel sometimes can't understand the reality here so
without any " Pose " I think that Jeremy's note is important to light some
points and the reactions - to draw a picture of historic situation . (some will
say hysteric...) but we all have to know - we don't know the full picture .
1) We don't really understand the " Arab mentality" .
2) We can't know the facts about the agreement - since both the Israeli
   government and Yaser Arafat don't tell us all the truth .
3) We can just guess how the agreement will be translated to reality .
I would use the words used by Ehud Barak - the Chief of stuff - as he said
after the sign - " this is a very difficult to realize this agreement ... the
Terror won't stopped by this agreement .
Days will say who was right - the euphorists or the realists .From what we can see
- the Terror increases since the agreement , Israel " paid the price without
anything by exchange ", and all the Terror leaders - include Arafat himself
claim that the Ji'had - the holly war will continue .

About forgive or forget - It is hard to say but I really don't understand how
can anyone make any compare between the situation in Spain - 500 years ago ,
England 600 years ago , Germany 900 years ago Poland 300 years ago - to the
situation today in the middle east (even then there was a boycott for many
years not to enter to these countries). Just two weeks ago I met a guy that I
learned with in elementary school - his father was killed in a Pogrom in Tunisia
in May 15 th 1948 his both brother and sister were killed in Ma-alot terror 
attack against high school students in May 15 1974 and his bigger brother - a 
Policeman was killed in Lebanon in 1983 in a Bomb car explosion in Zor . In 
May 15 th was the memorial day of 3 of his family - " The blood isn't dry yet "
he said ," in a normal country he would get an electric chair not a Chairman 
chair ". What can anyone from the agreement signers say to him ??

About the Peace everyone speak about , I think that almost everyone in Israel
wants Peace . even the most Extremes people pray for Peace Three times every
day . I think that more then 50% of the Israeli population Don't believe that
this agreement is th Peace - A lot of them hope that the agreement will lead to
peace in the future, but I think that the key to the understand the reality 
is to listen to the other side - if I like the facts or not - Not listen
just to my wishful thinking . Like I started with Confucius I'll finish with
another  Chinese scholar - " The reality is the enemy of the dream " .

\Avri
    

          Transcript of Speech Delivered in English by 
                   PLO CHAIRMAN YASSER ARAFAT
            May 10, 1994, Johannesburg, South Africa

      Please note that this is a verbatim transcript.  Arafat's
grammar is far from perfect and therefore sometimes difficult to
understand.
      The transcript is courtesy of the Rabbinical Union for the
People of Israel and the Land of Israel.  The translation of the
Arabic terms is taken from the version published in the Israeli
newspaper, Ha'aretz (May 23, 1994).

<phrases spoken in Arabic in angle brackets>
[Editorial notes in square brackets]

      <In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate, my
brothers,> I have to thank you to give me this opportunity to come
here to pray together <and with the help of Allah> we pray very
soon in Jerusalem, <the first shrine of Islam>.  I will speak my
language in English, but I will try to do my best.
      My brothers, after the signing of the agreement, and we have
to understand that after the Gulf War the real conspiracy is to
demolish completely the Palestinian issue from the agenda of the
international new order.  This is the main conspiracy and it was
not easy because our people, as you know, had paid the price of
this Gulf War.  As you know, our community in Kuwait, which was the
biggest and richest community, peoples, have been kicked out from
Kuwait.
      Not only that, after that, we have been finished by this
initiative declared by President Bush for Madrid Conference and it
wasn't easy and we had accept to go to Madrid Conference, and in
spite of the very bad conditions, we had accepted to go to Madrid
Conference.  Why?  Not to give them the reason and the excuse to
exclude the cause of Jerusalem, because of Palestine.  This has to
be understood.  And though as for this agreement which is the first
step and not more than that.  Believe me there are a lot to be
done.
      The Jihad [Islamic holy war] will continue, and Jerusalem is
not for the Palestinian people, it is for all the Muslim people.
      You are responsible for Palestine and for Jerusalem before me
[applause], the land which had been blessed for the whole world.
      Now after this agreement you have to understand our main
battle;  it is not to get how much we can achieve from them here or
there.
      Our main battle is Jerusalem.  Jerusalem.  The cherished
shrine of the Moslems.
      This has to be understood for everybody and for this I was
insisting before signing to have a letter from them, the Israelis,
that Jerusalem is one of the items which has to be under discussion
and not to say the permanent State of Israel!  No!  It is the
permanent State of Palestine [applause].  Yes, it is the permanent
State of Palestine.
      And in this letter it is very important for everybody to know
I insist to mention and they have written, and I have this letter,
I didn't declare and publish it until now.  In this letter we are
responsible for all the Christians and the Moslem and Islamic holy
sacred places.  And I had insisted to mention the Christian holy
sacred places before the Islamic holy sacred place because I have
to be faithful to the agreement between the Caliph Omar al-Khattab
and the Patriarch Sophronius.  You remember?  This agreement
between the Caliph Omar and the Patriarch Sophronius?  For this I
was insisting to mention in this letter the Christian holy places
besides the Islamic holy places.
      And, here we are, I can't... and I have to speak frankly, I
can't do it alone without the support of the Islamic <nation>.  I
can't do it alone.  And not to say like the Jews "go and your God
to fight alone."
      No, you have to come and to fight and to start the Jihad to
liberate of Jerusalem.  Your heritage shrine.
      And this is very important, and for this, in the agreement I
insist with my colleagues, with my brothers, to mention that not
exceeding the beginning of the third year, and after, directly
after the signing of their agreement, to start discussing the
future of Jerusalem.  The future of Jerusalem.
      And you saw me why I was hesitating when I was, you remember,
the thing, you remember, the picture?  [Arafat here refers to the
May 4 signing in Cairo of the Gaza/Jericho withdrawal agreement.]
Because I was insisting to mention Jerusalem.  And I said, okay, I
don't want only from Rabin this promise, no I want this promise
from the co-sponsors [U.S. Secretary of State Warren] Christopher
and [Russian Foreign Minister Andrei] Kozirev and as a witness,
[Egyptian] President [Hosni] Mubarak.  And this has been done which
is very important for everybody to know.
      Now, here we are.  There is, and everybody has to understand
that, there is an, a continuous conspiracy against Jerusalem. 
During the next two years which had been mentioned, not exceeding
the beginning of the third year they will try to demolish and to
change the demographic of Jerusalem.
      It is very important, and this we have to be very cautious and
to put it in our priority and nothing more to be priority than
Jerusalem.  To put it in our priority, not only as Palestinians,
not only as Arabs, but as Moslems, and as Christians too.
      I have mentioned this to the Pope and to the Patriarch of
Istanbul, and the Archbishop of Canterbury.  Because I told them
that if you want to leave your holy sacred Christian places, okay,
carry on with the Israelis, with the Jews, we are not against the
Jews.  We have to remember what has been mentioned in our Koran,
"that among the nation of <Moses> there is a nation, or a part of
the nation, which believe in justice, they control."
      And for your information there are two Jewish sects in
Palestine, the Samaria [Samaritans] in Nablus and Naturei Karta in
Jerusalem, they are refusing to recognize the State of Israel and
they are considering themselves as Palestinians.
      And since this to give the proof that what they are saying is
that this it is the capital, no, it is not their capital.  It is
our capital.  It is your capital.  It is the first shrine of the
Islam and the Moslems.
      But we are in need of your support.  Everywhere.  And this is
a message for the people of Palestine from our populations in
Jerusalem, calling for you, for everybody, not only here,
everywhere.  And I am sure sooner or later we will pray in
Jerusalem together.
      This agreement I am not considering it more than the agreement
which had been signed between our prophet Mohammed and Koraish, and
you remember that the Caliph Omar had refused this agreement and
considering it <solha donia> [despicable truce], in English I don't
know what this means, <solha donia>, but I think it means the
agreement of the very low class.  I think so, yes, <solha donia>.
      But the same way Mohammed had accepted it and we are accepting
now this peace effort.  But to continue our way to in Jerusalem, to
the cherished shrine together and not alone.
      [Ed. note:  The agreement with Koraish allowed Mohammed to
pray in Mecca, which was under Koraish control, for ten years. 
When Mohammed grew stronger two years later, he abrogated the
agreement, slaughtered the tribe of Koraish and conquered Mecca.]
      And we have to say clearly and honestly that there is a very,
very, very difficult circumstances.
      I will give you one example.  You remember, after the massacre
that took place in the <mosque> of Hebron, you remember?  Twenty-
two days the Security Council, the Security Council was hesitating
to accept the resolution to condemn this massacre.  You remember? 
Twenty-two days.  You know why?  For one, one word.
      I was insisted to put in this resolution "throughout the
occupied Palestinian land, the territories, including Jerusalem." 
They were trying to bargain with me, to cancel Jerusalem.  I
refused.  And I got it in there, and you remember?
      Again, I have to thank you.  I have to thank you from my
heart.  From my heart, and I am telling you frankly from brother to
brother, we are in need of you.
      We are in need of you as Moslems, as <warriors of Jihad> [in
Arabic, Mujaheddin].
      And in this occasion I have to tell my old friend, my old
brother, Nelson Mandela, to thank him for giving me the invitation
to come to visit South Africa for the first time.  It is a part of
your struggle.  A part of your struggle I am here, and I am telling
again by your names, by the names of the Islamic <nation> that we
will be beside him and we are sure that he will continue to be
beside us.
      Again I have to say, <"and they entered the mosque as they
entered it before"> [Koranic verse] onward to victory, onward to
Jerusalem!  They will enter the mosque as they have entered it
before.
    

From: The Jerusalem Post, October 11, 1994                         

THE HAMAS ROLE

OPINION 
by DAVID BAR-ILLAN, 
Post Executive Editor

   Perhaps the most frightening aspect of the murderous sprees by
Palestinian terrorists is the government's insistence on giving them a
twisted interpretation.  Until recently, this was true of Hizbullah
attacks in Lebanon.  The government would persistently blame Hizbullah
actions on Iran, or portray the group as uncontrollable, independent
fanatics.  
     Only in recent months have some government officials and army
officers admitted that Hizbullah operations are approved by Syria, without
whose help and support the organization could not exist.  Ironically,
Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara as much as confirmed Syria's control
of the Hizbullah in his interview with Israel Television.  The only thing
the government is still reluctant to admit publicly is that Hizbullah
operations abroad, like the bombing of the
Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, were mounted with Syrian help.  
     The reason for declining to associate Syria with acts of violence is
plain enough: It is difficult to persuade Israelis that those who
are killing them are trustworthy "partners" in the peace process.  
     Not surprisingly, the government is even more eager to separate the
perpetrators of terrorist acts in Israel and the administered territories
from the PLO.  Here the process has advanced significantly: An agreement
has been signed which entails ceding control over Judea and Samaria to the
PLO.  And if the PLO is still bent on continuing the "armed struggle,"
Israelis may view an arrangement which allows enemy troops to be deployed
on the doorstep
of Israel's population centers as reckless if not suicidal.  
     In its eagerness to separate the terrorists from the PLO, the
government keeps pointing to those who all-too-happily assume
responsibility for the killings.  They are Islamic fanatics who hate the
peace agreement with the Zionist enemy, say government spokesmen, and they
thrive on poverty and hardship (which is why the PLO must be
helped to bring prosperity to the self-rule areas).  
     The PLO, on the other hand, has made a commitment to peace, says the
government.  If it has not shown any enthusiasm about fighting the Hamas,
it is because it still lacks the means with which to do battle. 
 But the Hamas is as much the PLO's enemy as it is Israel's. 
Fundamentalism, after all, threatens all the region's established regimes. 
And once the PLO acquires the proper means, it will do what is right, and
collaborate with Israel in eradicating the extremist
terrorists.  
     One need not be a great expert on Palestinian society to know how
utterly delusive this analysis is.  Of course, civilized PLO spokesmen
like Ahmed Tibi and Nabil Shaath are quick to condemn terrorist acts like
Sunday night's attempted slaughter of passersby in Jerusalem's Nahalat
Shiva pedestrian mall (which only miraculously ended with only
two dead victims.  )
     But the fact is that 70 Jews and innumerable Arabs have been killed
by Palestinian terrorists since the signing of the Oslo agreement, and
Yasser Arafat himself has never openly, personally condemned a single
killing.  To say, as Tourism Minister Uzi Baram said yesterday, that with
10,000 armed men - all acting in the name of the Palestinian Authority,
not the hated "occupation army" - he does not have the means to fight
terrorism is an to insult the
intelligence. 
     That Arafat has not been able to apprehend and punish a single
terrorist since he established his rule in Gaza and Jericho speaks for
itself.  His police know who the wanted terrorists are, and they know
where they are.  The reason they have done nothing against these
terrorists is as simple as it is obvious: They have been ordered to
leave them alone.  
     Much has been made of the possibility that one of Sunday night's
killers was a soldier in that army euphemistically known as the
Palestinian Police.  But it would be a mistake to suggest that whether or
not he had actually worn a Palestinian uniform makes a difference.  The
sympathy of this whole army is with the terrorists.  Many of the policemen
openly support Hamas, and even participate in their
demonstrations.  
     Nor is this true only of the PLO troops.  A PLO newspaper in English
published in Jerusalem by "moderate" Hanna Siniora eulogizes all Hamas
murderers killed in self-defense by Israelis, and even those killed by
accident by their own bombs, as "martyrs" of the Palestinian struggle. 
Only the hopelessly gullible can reconcile this with PLO
"condemnations" of terrorist acts.  
     The most common excuse the government makes for Arafat's
unwillingness to combat terrorism is that he may be assassinated.  The
Syrian foreign minister also said last week that Assad cannot appear to be
too eager to make peace because he may meet Anwar Sadat's fate.  Such
reasoning is nothing short of absurd.  If the present leaders so fear
assassination that they cannot act, the whole peace process is
meaningless.  If the forces opposed to it are powerful enough to dictate
its nature with threats, surely they can void it with action. 

     It is time for the government, which has finally understood the
workings of the Hizbullah, to recognize the structure of Palestinian
terrorism.  The Hamas can no more operate without PLO approval than the
Hizbullah can attack Israeli positions without Syrian consent.  In both
cases, the "fanatics" kill while the "moderates" negotiate.  The killing
serves as a threat and a reminder: Unless Israel withdraws, there will be
more deaths.  And once Israel yields to this kind of
blackmail, there will be no end to it.  (c) JPFS 1994

    This article by Eli Birnbaum was posted on the aliyah list...
    -Itzhak
    =====================================================================
    
    
    I took my son to a funeral last night. He's my oldest, and
    getting ready to join the IDF. We stood shoulder to shoulder with
    tears running freely. I had my arm around him, trying to convey
    all my love, trying to give him strength, trying to find an
    answer...
    
    All around me were young men and women, many not older than my
    son, holding tightly to one another and crying.
    Young girls who should have been out on this cool,
    clear Saturday night were spending it at yet another funeral.
    This is the second boy from my son's high school to be killed by
    terrorists. This year he has been to too many funerals of his and
    our friends and I ask myself how much more can he take? After the
    service we stood for an hour waiting to put a stone on the fresh
    grave. As if he read my mind he turned to me and said: "Abba,
    don't worry. I will come out of this even stronger than before." Around
    us
    stood every type of Israeli - religious and secular, black hats
    and knitted kippot. Maybe that's what I cried for. This week
    politics evaporated, and every heart and prayer reached out to
    that one family.
    
    Tomorrow we will be back to normal - but inside something has
    changed. For those few days when we all held hands and all held
    our breath, we saw the real greatness of this country that I call
    home.
    
    My son and I went to a funeral last night. Along with thousands
    of others we reaffirmed for ourselves the true meaning of
    Zionism. No matter what the future will bring, we know who we are
    and why we are here.
    
    
                            Eli Birnbaum
                  WZO Student &  Academics Department
                   birnbaum@jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il
    
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YESHA NEWS SERVICE, SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER 1994
(In conjunction with Arutz 7)

WEEK-LONG HOSTAGE CRISIS COMES TO TRAGIC END
	The traumatic week-long effort to locate and free 
kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Nahshon Wachsman ended in 
tragedy Friday night with the unsuccessful IDF rescue attempt 
in Bir Naballah, just 3 kilometers north of Wachsman's Ramot 
home in northern Jerusalem.  Cpl. Wachsman was kidnapped 
Sunday by four Hamas terrorists from the Bnei Atarot junction 
near Ben Gurion's Lod airport.  The terrorists were dressed as 
religious Jews and spoke fluent Hebrew.  It was only after Cpl. 
Wachsman entered the car did he realize the men were really 
terrorists.
	The terrorists beat Cpl. Wachsman and lay him on the 
floor of the car. The terrorists then drove to Jerusalem and from 
Jerusalem crossed into Samaria, continuing on to the house in 
Bir Naballah they had rented and prepared for the purpose of 
hiding their victim.
	The rented house looked like a regular dwelling place 
from the outside, but was really fortified like a fortress, 
surrounded by a stone wall, sealed with iron doors and metal 
shutters.  [Galei Tsahal, 15 October]
	The driver of the car, Jihad Yirmon from Beit Hanina, 
brought a video camera to the hideout.   The terrorists filmed 
their first video, in which Cpl. Wachsman appealed to his 
parents and to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to agree to the 
terrorists' demands.  Yirmon then took the video and Cpl. 
Wachsman's identity card and weapon.  Monday he left for 
Gaza.  (Gaza was, at this juncture, still open to movement.)
	In Gaza, Yirmon met with one of the terrorist responsible 
for organizing the kidnapping: Abu-Ali (Muhammad Ali Haraz).  
Yirmon filmed a second video at Abu-Ali's home in Gaza.  There, 
Abu-Halad, the chief commander of the operation, appeared in 
the video with Cpl. Wachsman's identity card and weapon and 
stated Hamas' demands in return for Cpl. Wachsman's release.  
This second video was the first video released.  It was 
distributed in Gaza via Reuters on Tuesday.
	It was only Monday night that Cpl. Wachsman's 
disappearance became obvious.  Monday night, friends and 
relatives of Cpl. Wachsman began searching for the missing 
soldier.  Tuesday morning the police also joined in the search.  
Tuesday evening the searching ended with Reuter's distribution 
of the video; it was confirmed that Cpl. Wachsman was in the 
hands of Hamas.  Wednesday afternoon, the second video - the 
initial video filmed in Bir Naballh -was released.
	Israeli security forces, which continued to search for Cpl. 
Wachsman in Judea and Samaria as well as Gaza, received 
intelligence on Yirmon's connections with Hamas and succeeded 
in tracking him down on Thursday.  Yirmon was arrested 
Thursday night at his home and by 5:30am Friday he had 
revealed to his interrogators all that he knew, including Cpl. 
Wachsman's place of captivity.  
	By 6:45am Rabin was notified and the decision was made 
- by the Prime Minister alone - to organize a military operation 
to free Cpl. Wachsman.  The deadline given for his execution, 
9:00pm Friday night, was just over 14 hours away.  By 2:00pm 
the special IDF unit which was to be responsible for executing 
the operation had convened to formulate their plans.
	Friday evening after dark, the army moved in on the 
house in Bir Naballah.  They saw a car parked outside and 
suspected the terrorists were preparing to move Cpl. Wachsman 
to another location.  They waited, hoping such a move would 
provide easier access to Cpl. Wachsman.  However, only the 
driver of the car, Zeharia Najib, came out.  The IDF captured him 
as he drove away.  
	After only twenty minutes of interrogation, Najib 
revealed that he was responsible for renting the house in Bir 
Naballah for the terrorists who had captured Cpl. Wachsman, 
and that he had been bringing food to the compound.  
	Najib also revealed that Cpl. Wachsman was still alive and 
confirmed all the details of the compound that intelligence had 
gathered from Yirmon.  The army decided to go ahead with 
their plans.
	The unit planned to blow down the door on the first level 
of the building, concluding that this was their best option for 
entry into the building, even though Cpl. Wachsman was being 
held on on the second level. 
	They prepared three explosive charges, but only one 
went off, and it was insufficient to blow down the door.  
Moments were lost as a second charge was prepared.  
Meanwhile they heard automatic fire coming from inside the 
building.
	As the soldiers broke into the building, they were 
confronted by the first terrorist, whom they killed.  But they 
found themselves blocked from reaching Cpl. Wachsman by 
another iron door closing off the second level.  Four minutes 
were lost preparing a charge to blow down the door.  
	The soldiers shouted to the terrorists to release Cpl. 
Wachsman and come out.  They shouted that Cpl. Wachsman 
was already dead and that they too were prepared to die.  
	As the soldiers finally succeeded in blowing in the door 
they were met by automatic machine gun fire.  The terrorists 
killed Captain Nir Poraz, leader of the charge into the house.  
The terrorists also threw grenades at the soldiers.  Twelve were 
wounded and eight still remain hospitalized.
	The unit neutralized the two remaining terrorists.  They 
found Cpl. Wachsman upstairs, slumped over in the seat to 
which he was chained.  His arms and legs were bound with iron 
chains.  He was dressed in civilian clothing and had a kefiah on 
his head.  He had been shot numerous times in the throat and 
chest.  [Yediot Ahronot, Ha'aretz & Jerusalem Post, 16 October]	

	The first ambulance to arrive on the scene was a Yesha 
ambulance from Beit Holon.  It evacuated some of the wounded 
soldiers to the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem.  [The 
Yesha Council]

CAPTAIN NIR PORAZ: FRIDAY'S SECOND VICTIM
	Captain Nir Poraz, 23, leader of the charge into the house 
in Bir Naballah to free the kidnapped soldier Cpl. Nahshon 
Wachsman, fell in the line of duty after being gunned down by 
the terrorists hiding inside.  This is the second serious loss for 
the Poraz family of Ramat Hasharon.  Nir's father, Maoz, a "sky-
hawk" flyer in the Israeli Airforce, was killed 21 years earlier 
when his plane was shot down over the Egyptian border.  
Captain Poraz was lain to rest today next to his father at the 
military cemetery of Kiryat Shaul.  [Yediot Ahronot, 16 October]

WHO WERE THE TERRORISTS?
	The terrorists immediately involved in carrying out the 
kidnapping were: Salah Jadalla of Gaza, Taisir Natshe of 
Jerusalem and Abed Alkareem Bader of A-Ram.  The terrorists 
belonged to Hamas' "Jerusalem Gang", originally a group of 
seven terrorists.  All member of this terror cell, except Jadalla, 
had private cars with yellow Israeli license plates and carried 
Israeli identity cards.  
	Two of the terrorists were killed in August during a face-
off with Israeli police near Jerusalem's Rockefeller Museum.  
The terrorists had been on their way to Jerusalem's Old City to 
kill MK Ariel Sharon's guards. Four other members escaped 
during that encounter, and one more was lightly wounded.  He 
escaped to Jericho and is still there.  Taisir Natshe and Abed 
Alkareem Bader were members of this terror cell, as was Jihad 
Yagmor, the cell's driver, who was arrested by General Security 
Services on Thursday.  
	Salah Jadallah - also known as Abu-Muhammad - was the 
leader of the Jerusalem cell.  He was responsible for organizing 
the kidnapping and murders of IDF soldiers Shahar Simani and 
Arie Frankenthal.  The Jerusalem cell was also responsible for 
helping in the terrorist attack in Jerusalem's Nahalat Shiva 
pedestrian area Sunday night.
	The Hamas leadership in Gaza responsible for organizing 
the kidnapping, Abu-Halad  (Muhammad Dif), and Abu-
Muhammad, have been on the most-wanted terrorist list.  Abu-
Halad, from Gaza's Khan Yunis, is responsible for the death of at 
least eight Israelis in the past two years.
	Residents of Beit Hanina celebrated the entrance of their 
"holy martyr," terrorist Abed Alkareem Bader, into the Garden 
of Eden Saturday.  At Bader's parents' home, sweets and liquor 
were distributed to the guests and people exchanged greetings 
of congratulations.  [Yediot Ahronot, 16 August]
	It has just been revealed that the leader of the cell that 
kidnapped and murdered Cpl. Wachsman, Abu-Halad,  had been 
released from prison three months earlier, according to the 
Cairo agreement, upon signing the form promising to refrain 
from violence and acts of terror.  [Arutz 7, 16 October]

HAMAS RIOTS IN GAZA
	Thousands of Islamic militants rioted in Gaza both 
Saturday and today.  The riots were against PLO Chairman 
Yasser Arafat and against any kind of crackdown against 
fundamentalism.  Men toting guns threatened to "make Gaza 
burn" if the crackdown continues.  The rioters also called a 
general strike to mourn the deaths of Cpl. Wachsman's three 
kidnappers.  In Nablus Hamas activists stoned IDF soldiers.
	Under pressure from Hamas, the PLO will begin to release 
some of the 300 Hamas activists arrested during the hunt for 
Cpl. Wachsman.  
	Saturday night over 3,000 Hamas activists demonstrated 
outside the Gaza prison where the Hamas detainees are being 
held.  Demonstrators hailed the abduction and killing of Cpl. 
Wachsman and vowed to continue the war against Israel, 
kidnapping more Israelis until all Hamas prisoners were 
released.  [Ha'aretz, 16 October]
	"The end of the operation, in which our heroes took the 
Zionist soldier Wachsman as a prisoner of war, was as great and 
heroic as the beginning.  It came contrary to what Zionist war 
general Rabin wanted," stated Hamas.  Although the PLO came 
to control the situation, no arrests were made.
	Over 200 "students" from Gaza's Islamic University, 
known as a Hamas stronghold, rioted today at Gaza's Netzarim 
junction.  They were on their way to the Gaza prison to protest 
the continued imprisonment of Hamas members.  The rioters 
stoned Israeli soldiers who came to contain the rioters and to 
protect the residents of the Netzarim community.  
	The IDF, after closing the junction to movement, 
withdrew into the community, leaving the PLO soldiers to deal 
with the rioters, some of whom were armed.  A resident of 
Netzarim, who went into labor as the riot was taking place, had 
to be removed from the community and brought to the hospital 
by helicopter due to the rioters blocking the road from the 
community.  [Kol Yisrael, 16 October]
	Meanwhile, Arab sources say Prime Minister Yitzhak 
Rabin called PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat late Friday and 
promised to re-opened the Gaza Strip shortly.  Rabin also said 
he would soon be in touch with the PLO about reopening 
negotiations.  [Jerusalem Post, 16 October]

ROUTE TO BIR NABALLAH UNHINDERED BY CHECKPOINTS
	It has just been reported that the route the terrorists 
took to bring Cpl. Nahshon Wachsman from Bnei Atarot to Bir 
Naballah north of Jerusalem passed along a road from which the 
IDF had recently removed its checkpoints.  Correspondent Kobi 
Finkler reports that two weeks ago the IDF took down their 
checking posts from the Shomron Pass.  These checkpoints were 
some of the posts running along the pre-1967 border.  [Arutz 7, 
16 October]


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>From: The Jerusalem Post, October 16, 1994

THE BITTER ENDING 
Opinion by DAVID BAR-ILLAN 

(The writer is the Jerusalem Post's Executive Editor)

     NATIONAL leaders must do everything within their power to rescue
hostages; but obviously they cannot do this at any price.  It is
conceivable - though not likely in view of Hamas past conduct - that
meeting Cpl.  Nahshon Wachsman's kidnappers' demands would have saved him. 
But to do so would have not only exacted a prohibitive political toll; it
would have been tantamount to sentencing an untold number of
others to certain death.  
     That leaders cannot afford to let the pressures of the immediate
emergency - or the pain of anxious families - obliterate their concern for
the future was made clear by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's own
experience.  As Ori Orr, chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee pointed out on Saturday, the release of 1,150 terrorists in
exchange for three prisoners held by terrorist chieftain Ahmed Jibril has
cost Israel dearly.  The move probably contributed more than any other
factor to the outbreak of the intifada, particularly its terrorist
manifestations, and has cost Israel more than 200 dead and thousands of
wounded.  Though motivated by the loftiest sentiments, it was an
inexcusable folly for which the country is still paying an
excruciating price.  
     Once Rabin realized that the kidnappers and their victim were not in
the Gaza District but near Jerusalem, he had no choice but to try to
rescue Wachsman by force.  It is in the nature of such operations that
their cost is high.  Even for the Entebbe rescue, the most spectacular and
successful of its kind in history, Israel paid a
prohibitive price in the loss of Jonathan Netanyahu.  
     But just as the hidden costs of yielding to hostage-takers' demands
are unacceptable, the hidden gains of displaying national resolve and
determination are incalculable.  The soldiers and civilians whose lives
have been saved by this operation will never know it; but they owe their
lives to Rabin's decision to use force.  Nor is there any doubt that the
nation's interests and security have been enhanced by it.  To say that
Wachsman and Capt.  Nir Poraz did not die in vain may sound like an
insufferable cliche at this point. 
But it is true, nevertheless.  
     Rabin also contributed to national security by finally placing the
blame where it belongs: he openly accused the Palestinian Authority of
enabling the Hamas to operate from its territory.  Calling Gaza a haven
and a base for terrorists, he made it clear that where the kidnappers hid
after abducting Wachsman was an irrelevant
detail.  
     What matters is that the Hamas headquarters, bases of planning,
operations and training and its main arms caches are in Gaza.  Under the
PLO, the District is rapidly becoming what southern Lebanon was when the
PLO ruled it in the 1970s and early 1980s. This time it is the Hamas which
is assuming the activist role, while the PLO plays the
part of the acquiescing local government.  
     With expected sanctimony, PLO apparatchiks yesterday trumpeted the
location of the kidnappers' hideout outside Gaza as proof that the
Palestinian Authority should be absolved of responsibility in the affair. 
This not only indicates that the PLO indeed has no objection to Hamas
operations in areas under Israel control.  It recalls the disingenuous
Syrian claim that Damascus has nothing to do with terrorist strikes in
Lebanon and in Israel-controlled areas, a claim which ignores that without
the shelter, support and tacit approval
Damascus affords these terrorists, they could not operate.  
     Following the Friday rescue operation, PLO spokesmen pledged that the
Palestinian Police will now crack down on the Hamas with merciless force. 
But had the PLO really wanted to stop terrorism against Israelis, 70 of
whom have been killed since the signing of the Oslo agreement (double the
number of terror victims in any intifada year),
it would have cracked down on the Hamas long ago.  
     But it is doubtful that the Arafat forces will do more than make some
massive arrests followed by equally massive releases.  The PLO is not
about to act on Israel's behalf against what Israelis call the "enemies of
peace" and the PLO views as the carriers of the torch of the "armed
struggle." Both PLO and Hamas officials have vowed that they will do
everything to avoid civil war, and they probably will.  Struggles for
power may be bloody, but an all-out PLO-Hamas war is most unlikely.  There
is too much support in "the street" for the
Hamas and its "heroic" deeds.  
     Evidence of such support could be discerned not only in Gaza - where
3,000 students of the Islamic University demonstrated with police
encouragement against the detention of 350 Hamas activists - but in
Jerusalem and the towns of the Judea and Samaria, where a general
Palestinian strike mourned the death of the kidnappers.  The very fact
that the PLO is demanding precisely what the Hamas is demanding: the
unconditional release from Israeli prisons of all terrorists, including
those convicted of murder, is indication enough that Arafat's goal is not
to fight the "enemies of peace" but to enable them to kill Israelis more
effectively.  That the PLO is making such demands after the Sunday
terrorist strike in Jerusalem, in which one of the killers was a
recently-released Hamas member, speaks
volumes about its motives.  
     If Rabin's tone in the Friday press conference following the failed
rescue operation is any indication, the government will now scrutinize
Arafat's actions more scrupulously.  Talking to The Jerusalem Post last
week, Economics Minister Shimon Shetreet pointed
to the government's quandary: 
     '[Arafat] either can control his territory or he can't.  If he can't,
then our government faces an enormous dilemma, because the public will
justifiably demand to know why we are making all these concessions to a
man who cannot live up to his part of the bargain.  If he can exercise
control but doesn't want to for one consideration or another, then the
problem for the government is greater because we are dealing with a man
who operates in bad faith.  In either case,
this is something the government cannot ignore."
     What the government obviously hopes is that Arafat will agree that
Islamic fanaticism endangers him as much as it does Israel, and that he
will join forces with Israel in combating it.  To suppose that in the
ruthless, titanic struggle between this fanaticism and the West - of which
Israel is merely one branch - Arafat will choose to align himself with the
latter, requires a leap of faith only devout
believers in imminent Utopia can make.  (c) JPFS 1994

I'm not sure it's significant, but I caught an interview with
Cpl. Nahshon Wachsman's mother on the "Today" show this morning.
They spelled the name "Waxman".

Dave

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                             WEEKLY ROUNDUP


                  **MESSAGE BY HAMAS PRIOR TO ATTACK**

     The armed wing of Hamas, Ezz-Edin Al-Qassam Brigades, has
distributed a communiqu=82 yesterday in Gaza, stressing the followings:
 o The Brigades will not give up on continuing such hard hits until all
of our Palestinian prisoners are freed.
 o The soldier is being held inside the green line, and not in Gaza.
Gaza is one of many possibilities.
 o We strongly deny the Palestinian Authority accusation of
embarrassing it, saying that this work is merely to free prisoners
after all attempts had failed. Only some of selected Fatah prisoners
are freed and there is no comprehensive plan to free all.
 o "You, dear PNA officials, had embarrassed us when you left our
Palestinian fighters alone in prison," Brigades said.
 o Some statements were directed to Arafat in which the Brigades said,
"We really don't like the way Rabin is treating you.. You Mr. President
ought to excuse us when you failed to free our prisoners by
negotiations." o "We, El-Qassam, really feel embarrassed while our
female prisoners and old respected educated fathers are been held in
confinement cells while you and others are outside preaching for fake
unjust peace..," Brigades said.
 o Our policy with the Zionists is the policy of the likes. Repeatedly
our brothers and sisters were abducted, prisoned, and tortured to
death. Oct 14,=20

                         **ALONI ATTACKS RABIN**

     Minister of Communications, Shulamit Aloni, has been making
herself heard this morning.
     The minister is stating her disapproval of mr. Rabin's taking
action against the terrorists Friday night without first consulting the
cabinet.
     Mrs. Aloni stated that the cabinet should have known of the
decision to have the IDF storm the terrorists home in Bir el-Balla.=20
     The minister approved of the action but stated the cabinet must be
included in and be aware of such decisions. (Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio,
10/16)

                      **POLL SHOWS 51% FOR HAMAS**

     Results of poll taken by Center for Palestine Research and Studies
Institute in Nablus say 51% are Hamas supporters, 55% are for Jihad,
60% are PDFLP supporters, and 70% of PFLPniks all support more "armed
operations" against Israel (presumably like the Wachsman murder). 40%
of Hamasniks oppose. Other results: 48% say economic conditions
worsened after Yassir came to town, and 32% of Gazans happy with
Palestinian Authority (Yassir) and 38% say wait and see. Submitted by Dr.
Steven E. Plaut, University of Haifa, Haifa Israel
=20
                  **JERUSALEM HAS LITTLE SIGNIFICANCE**

     A footnote: In Knesset debate this week, Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres said that Jerusalem has no military or strategic significance.
"Jerusalem is important to us as part of our Judaism." Considering the
attitude of the Rabin government towards the Jewish religion, these are
not encouraging words.
I&GN CORRESPONDENT: Dr. Aaron Lerner,=20
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)


                            **TERROR WATCH**

*Violence and unrest are the picture in the "West bank". Reports are
coming in from Ramallah, Shchem, Hevron, and Gaza. IDF reports rioting
and attacks by Arabs (terrorists) in all areas of the "West Bank".
(Channel 1 tv news..10/15..8:30pm).

* In the Northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shufat, Arab residents are
rioting. Tires are being burned in the road, and rocks are being thrown
at Jewish vehicles.

* Border police units with the assistance of helicopters are attempting
to restore order. (Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio..10/15..9:00pm).=20

* The IDF has moved armored personnel carriers to block the road to the
settlement of Netzarim. The rioting Hamas (terrorists) demonstrators
are attempting to enter the settlement.

* 5,000 Hamas members (terrorists) demonstrated this afternoon in Gaza.
They have declared a three day mourning period for the slain
terrorists.
     They are calling for a Jihad, holy war. The minarets of the
mosques were calling out for attacks on Jews wherever they may be.
Security Forces around the country are bracing for what police are
calling "possible acts of revenge". They are also demanding the release
of 300 prisoners being held by the PLO (Terrorist) police.(Gaalei
Tzahal/ army radio).

* PLO (terrorist) police are firing their weapons in the air in an
attempt to control the crowd.

* The crowd is shouting "Arafat traitor" and holding up large pictures
of Sheik Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas. (Gaalei Tzahal/Army
Radio..10/15..8:45pm).

* The funeral services for Capt. Nir poraz, killed in the rescue
attempt Friday evening, will leave Ramat Hasharon at 11:00am and
proceed to the Kiray Shaul military cemetery. (Channel 7 radio
news..10/16 ..10:00am).
* 7 IDF soldiers that were injured in the Friday night rescue attempt
are still hospitalized in Hadassah hospital in Ein Karem, Jerusalem.=20
     One of the soldiers is listed in moderate condition. He underwent
additional surgery this morning. The remaining six are listed in light
condition. (Channel 7 radio news, 10/16).

* The IDF has closed down the entire area surrounding the settlement of
Netzarim. The settlement of Netzarim is closed and residents may not
leave. One person that was injured is being evacuated by helicopter.
The IDF cannot (will not?) clear the rioters (terrorists) to allow an
ambulance access to the area. (Channel 7 radio news, 10/16).=20

* One of the terrorists that was killed in the Friday night attack was
released from prison three months ago in a good will gesture of the
Israeli government.
     He did sign the required document stating that he would not engage
in terrorism. (Channel 7 radio news, 10/16).

* IDF Chief of Staff, Lt-gen. Ehud Barak, warned Yassir Arafat tonight.
     Barak stated "if the PLO (terrorist) police are not capable of
keeping order and containing Hamas, then the IDF will have to consider
plans of entering the autonomy area and doing so". (Channel 7 radio news,
10/15).

* PLO (terrorist) police have shot out a number of loudspeakers that
are mounted in the minarets of the mosques in Gaza. PLO (terrorist)
Spokesman stated they were broadcasting anti-Arafat messages and
calling for riots. (Channel 7 radio news..10/15).

* The IDF has released the name of the elite unit that carried out the
attempted rescue operation (rarely does the IDF give out the name). It
was Sayeret Matcal, which in Hebrew means-commando unit of the General
Staff. (Gaalei Tzahal/army radio..10/15).


* Police now reporting an additional 1,500 policemen have been
mobilized to patrol the capital tonight. (Gaalei Tzahal/army radio..10/15
..11:05pm).

* The parents of Nachshon Waxman, obm, are now asking why the
government did not engage into negotiations with Hamas in order to save
their son? (Gaalei Tzahal/Army radio..10/15..12:00am).


* Reuters News Agency reports that after speaking with one of the IDF
officers that participated in the rescue effort, the explosives used to
blow open the building were not powerful enough. By the time they (IDF)
managed to gain entry to the building, there was a very small chance
for success. (Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio..10/15).=20

* 12:00am, Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio...coverage of the funeral of Sgt. (A
soldier is promoted one rank up when buried after being killed in the
line of duty) Nachshon Waxman, obm.
     Eulogies were delivered by Maj-Gen. Yitzchak Mordechai, oc
Northern Command, Rabbi Motti Alon, Rosh Yeshivat Horev, Jerusalem, as
well as other IDF commanders.
     The body of Sgt. Nachshon Mordechai Ben Yehuda Ester Wachsman was
laid to his eternal rest at 12:33am. May your memory be a blessing to
all Am Yisroel.
 May you be an advocate before the holy throne on behalf of Am Yisroel.=20
 May you be the last sacrifice.

* Nir Poraz, obm, will be laid to rest tomorrow morning at 11:00am. He
will be buried next to his father in the military cemetery of Kiryat
Shaul. (Channel 1 tv news..10/15..8:00pm).

* 500 policemen are being assigned to protect and maintain order during
the funeral of Nachshon Waxman, obm, in Jerusalem tonight. (Gaalei
Tzahal/army radio..10/15..8:50pm).

* Prime Minister Rabin has arrived at the Waxman home in the Ramot
section of Jerusalem. He was received by the crowd outside the building
with shouts of "traitor" and "you are responsible for the death, not
Arafat".

* Hundreds if not thousands of citizens have begun protests around the
capital. (Gaalei tzahal/army radio..10/15..8:50pm).

* Among the visitors that were received in the Waxman home last night
were; Maj-Gen. Yarom Yair, head of army personnel, Brig-Gen. Yigal
Pressler, advisor to the prime minister on matters of terrorism, and
Edward Edington, the Council General to Israel from the United States.
(Channel 1 tv news, 10/15).

* 8 IDF soldiers injured in the rescue operation are still hospitalized
in Hadassah hospital in Ein Karem, Jerusalem.
     A report from the medical director of the hospital, Dr. Stern, on
the condition of the injured soldiers is as follows;
     4 have been admitted to the plastic surgery unit.
     3 have been admitted to other units following surgery.=20
     6 are listed in light condition..1 is still listed in moderate but
stable condition. (Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio..10\15..8:15pm).=20

* Border police shot at a vehicle today in Hevron. The driver attempted
to run down the border policemen. They fired at the speeding vehicle
that got away. (Gaalei Tzahal/army radio..10/15..7:30pm).=20

* A Jewish driver was seriously injured when his vehicle was stoned
opposite the Blata refugee camp in Shchem.
     The driver was treated in a nearby IDF military outpost and taken
by ambulance to Bellinson hospital in Petach Tikvah. The attackers have
not been apprehended. (Radio news..10/13..3:00pm).

* An attacker that tried to stab a policeman in the center of Tel-Aviv
has been shot and killed by police.
     Initial reports state that police approached the suspicious man
who pulled a knife. Police fired a warning shot and then fired at the
attackers legs.
     A struggle ensued and the attacker was killed. No other details
available. (Gaalei Tzahal/army radio..1-/14..4:00pm).

                         **RESCUED FROM HAMAS**

     "I hope this will have a good outcome". The only person that can
relate what captivity is like by the hands of Izzadim El Kassin is Alon
Karavoni, who was rescued two years ago from the hands of these
murderers.
     "We must rescue Nachshon at any price, because these people have
no judge and no judgement, they are brutal" said Alon yesterday.
     "My heart is with family Waxman and the soldier, Nachshon. After
all I was in the same position. Only by a miracle did I get away from
     These murderous people" says Alon Karavoni, from Yavneh.
     Karavoni, 23, the only IDF soldier that is still alive after being
taken prisoner by this murderous gang, Izzadin El Kassim.
     It was Friday morning, September 18, 1992 the 21 year old soldier
was on the way from Kahan Yunis (Gaza) to his home in Yavneh. A car
with Israeli license plates stopped. In the vehicle sat three men. They
said they were travelling in the direction of Ashkelon. After a few
minutes, Alon felt something was not "kosher".
     Adjacent to Netzarim they car took a sudden change in direction,
the man sitting beside the driver pulled out a gun and pointed it at
him. He said to me, "shut up-don't speak, we are Hamas and we are
kidnapping you". "I was in shock, I knew they meant business and this
is my end" said Alon. "I saw my mother, my family before my eyes. I
pleaded for my life. They said they will not kill me, I did not
believe them".
     The terrorists drove the car into an olive grove. They ordered
Alon to undress and get on his knees. The tied him up. Alon continues
to tell his story, "then I felt the choking-and then they slit my
throat. They left me thinking that I was dead. G-d himself saved me. A
very short time after, some people passed by and found me. They brought
the army very quickly, and I was treated. I spent one month in Seroka
hospital (Beersheba) .
     I have not returned to the Gaza area since and I have no intention
of ever doing so. I still do not sleep nights. I relive the incident
all the time. I cannot travel to areas that have had terrorist attacks
in the past. I cannot take buses and I live with the fear that they
are coming to finish me off. You must remember, these terrorists have
one goal-to kill! That's what they wanted to do to me as well".
     Alon requested that the government release prisoners on behalf of
Nachshon Waxman. "I hope that he is still alive. I am following the
story in the papers and on the T.V. I am praying for the young man. It
is difficult for me to stay with this story but I pray for Nachshon
Waxman" said Alon. (Yediot Achronot 10/13, ).

                          **TERRORISTS FREED**

     Three terrorists are freed on 50,000 new Israeli shekels bail
each.
     The three are tied to Dr. Yassir Amar, a dentist, arrested for
leading a terrorist cell planning attacks against Jewish targets in
israel (Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio News, 10/6)
Note: Arrests continue in Kiryat Arba/Hevron. Innocent Jews are placed
into administrative detention. Restraining orders issued against 18
Jews.
     The government's answer..release more terrorists.

* Aman, Jordan-- The Palestinian National Conference has met and voted.
They defeated the motion to eliminate the charters call for the
destruction of the State of Israel.
 The members decided to vote on this once again only after the PLO
(terrorists) have total control over all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
 First we must deal with the problems of Jerusalem and the settlements,
 Then we will worry about the charter.=20
(Hatzofeh 10/5).

* Deep sorrow was the feeling of the Sa'adon family following the
meeting between Mazal (daughter) and the family attorney, Amir
Avrahami, and the Hamas "chief of staff", Salach Sacharah (murderer),
     The two met with Sacharah (murderer) in the Ashkelon prison after
receiving information that he may have new information that would lead
to the discovery of the missing IDF soldier Elon Sa'adon, who was
kidnapped in May 1989.
     Sacharah (murderer), 33, was sentenced to a 15 year prison term in
1989, after admitting to have headed the military wing of Hamas in the
Gaza strip.
     It was Sacharah that gave the command to kidnap and kill IDF
soldiers
     Elon Sa'adon and Avi Sasportas, obm. He stated he was willing to
give information on the condition that he is freed from prison and
provided with a safe environment in Gaza.
     The meeting took place in the presence of the prison commander,
Capt. Gunder Avi Vaknin as well as an interpreter. The terrorist did
not agree to provide any information during the one hour meeting.
     Mazal Huta (daughter) stated "a terrorist sat across from me. I
have not seen my brother Avi for over five years. It was very difficult
to control my emotions. I wanted to choke him". Mrs. Sa'adon wept. "Six
years I have been waiting. At least give me a grave to go to. How much
can I take".
     The family is now collecting funds to establish a fund that will
award a prize to anyone assisting to find Avi Sa'adon. Hamas sources in
Gaza stated that they are willing to divulge the location of his grave
on the condition that they are enabled to live in Gaza. Ma'ariv, 10/5).

Note: Mrs. Anat Cohen, arrested in Hevron by Israeli police had her
infant brought to her about six hours after being arrested. (Public
pressure pays off!!) we do not have an update as to her current
condition.

                           **VIDEO FOR SALE**
     "Sources in Gaza" stated that Hamas has requested $15,000.00 for
the video that shows the kidnapped soldier talking to his mother. On
the video it is said that Nachshon made an appeal to free the
imprisoned terrorists to save his life. YEDIOT ACHRONOT, 10/12=20

                       **PUBLICITY FOR MURDERER**

     Hamas terrorist, Abu Hussa is pictured in color in Today's
newspaper. He is sitting in a green army uniform holding his M-16
short. Hussa takes responsibility for the killing of IDF soldier Ilan
Sa'adon, Sunday's Ben Yehuda attack, and the kidnapping of Nachson
Waxman. He reiterated that he would disclose the burial site of Ilan
Sa'adon obm in exchange for prisoners. (Yediot Achronot..10/12)=20

                            **ALL MURDERED**

     As reported, ten IDF soldiers have been kidnapped by Hamas to
date, ten were killed..
 1. Avi Sassportas       February 16, 1989
 2. Ilan Sa'adon         May 3, 1989
 3. Nissim Toledano      December 13, 1992
 4. Yehoshua Freidberg   March 9, 1993
 5. Yoron Chen           August 5, 1993
 6. Ilan Levi            October 24, 1993
 7. Ehud Roth            October 24, 1993
 8. Sachar Simani        April 21, 1994
 9. Aryeh Frankental     July 7, 1994
 10.Nachson Waxman       October 14, 1994
 Yediot Achronot..10/12..page 9).

                         **REUTERS TOOK VIDEO**

     A reporter from the "Reuters agency" appears to have been the one
that took the video of the Hamas terrorists and the personnel effects
of the missing soldier. (Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio..10/12..8:20am).=20
Note:.The atmosphere in israel is one of tension and concern. The story
of Nachshon Waxman dominates the news on every station. One can feel
the tension following a few days of numerous attacks against Jewish
targets. The "peace" is getting unbearable.

* In the last 5 years there were 10 cases of IDF soldiers kidnapped by
terrorists. In 9 of the cases, the soldiers got into a vehicle with
yellow license (Israeli citizen) plates. The vehicles were occupied by
terrorists.

* The IDF has decided to cancel the new law which was intended to
prohibit IDF soldiers from hitching a ride anywhere in the country
(Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio..10/12..8:45).

* The Hebrew name of the missing soldier is; Nachshon Mordechai Ben
Ester Gittel. Those that would like to pray on his behalf, please do
So.

* 150 tombstones were desecrated on the Mount of Olives cemetery which
is located in East Jerusalem. Sephardic chief Rabbi, Rabbi Bakshi
Daron, visited the holy cemetery to see for himself what had happened.=20
     The ministry of religion requested that additional security be
placed in the area to prevent such attacks in the future. (Gaalei
Tzahal/Army Radio, 10/12.).
     The cemetery was desecrated a few days ago. 15 tombstones were
damaged or destroyed. ( update 135).

                      October 16, 1994..11 CHESVAN=20

     The question is not whether or not the IDF should or should not
have gone in. In every hostage situation, one can always argue both
sides. It is well known that israel maintains a very hard line
vis-a-vis negotiations with terrorists.
     Shomron news does not feel qualified to judge mr. Rabin's decision.
     There is not a person that would have wanted to make the decision
in his place.
     The question is, however, why did the government of Israel create
a situation that guarantees an increase in terrorism?
     Mr. Rabin you are responsible, not Yassir Arafat (murderer); you
gave the weapons to the close to 10,000 PLO (terrorist) police
officers.
     You gave them the status of "peace officers".
     You freed over 5,000 of the most vicious terrorists alive today.=20
     You and your leftist government are responsible. You continue to
turn a cheek to the terrorism that plagues our country.
     Your G.S.S. agents are working overtime to torture "right wing"
soldiers, "settlers" from Hevron and Kiryat Arba.
     You continue to enforce your police state tactics, administrative
detention, and restraining orders, barring Jews from holy cities of
Israel.
     Jews are serving life sentences for killing terrorists. Terrorists
are being freed by the thousands.
     You have chosen to team up with the master of terrorism, one who
has shown the world his disdain for democracy and human life.=20
     Let us take a look at the past week;
* Terrorist attack on Ben Yehuda mall, 2 dead
* Aryeh Chori, obm, shot to death by IDF in Hevron (accident)=20
* Tiron Pollack sentenced to one year in prison for calling Faisal
Husseini a murderer.
* Dovid Sharvit sentenced to 5 and a half years in prison for shooting
an Arab stone thrower.
* Nachshon Waxman is killed.
* Capt. Nir Poraz is killed.
* A Jew is moderately injured by stone throwers near Shchem.=20
* 88 year old Yehuda Holtzman is killed in Tel-Aviv by terrorist.=20
* A terrorist tries to stab a Tel-Aviv police officer, terrorist is
killed.
* An Arab vehicle tries to run down border policemen in Hevron; they
get away.
* Over 150 tombstones desecrated and destroyed on the Mount of Olives
cemetery in Jerusalem.
     This is only a partial listing. Mr. Rabin it has been another week
of "peace" in israel.
     You no longer have a mandate from the people. It is time to step
down. You have done more than your share of damage.
 Let someone please try and save us before it is too late!!=20

            News Analysis:Three Potential Responses to Terror
                         by Gerald M. Steinberg

     The new political relations, embodied in the Oslo Agreement and
the Gaza-Jericho accords, has forced the Israeli government to develop
new responses to Palestinian terrorism.
Historically, there have been three types of responses;
prevention, interdiction, and deterrence. Each has limitations, yet
each provides some measure of protection and reaction. In the wake of
the brutal attack in Jerusalem, staged by Hamas members from Gaza, the
government will have to take some action, and the question is which of
these three options will be chosen. Prevention is generally the first
line of defense, and is based on efforts to block the access to major
Israeli population centers, through curfews and closure. This approach
has a number of inherent limitations. It is technically impossible to
prevent terrorist infiltrations; no fence separates the Gaza Strip or
Arab cities in Judea and Samaria, and the 1.7 million Palestinians who
live in these areas. The IDF can close the main roads linking these
regions to the rest of Israel, but cannot patrol all the smaller trails
and paths.
     In "normal" periods, over 100,000 Palestinians work in Israel, and
cross for other purposes, including medical treatment, business, and
other activities. By reducing the number of Palestinians in Israel, the
threat of terror is reduced. However, for both political and economic
reasons, the government is unwilling to close these areas for long
periods. Palestinians complain that in these periods, they have no
source of income, while many Israeli employers have trouble finding
workers. Following the wave of terror in April, entry was
restricted to 9,000 workers, all over the age of 35, but this policy
did not last long.
     In addition, over 150,000 Palestinians live in East Jerusalem,
have Israeli citizenship, and are able to cross freely into the rest of
Israel. Curfews and closures do not generally apply to residents of
Jerusalem, who are also involved in terrorism. (Preliminary reports
indicate that the terrorists involved in the recent attack had help
from Jerusalem Arabs.) While prevention is passive, interdiction is
based on active policies designed to find terrorist groups. This "takes
the war to the enemy", and is consistent with the overall Israeli
military philosophy. During the intifada, intelligence sources provided
the names and hideouts of the leaders and major members of terrorist
cells. Special IDF units were sent to infiltrate cities, villages, and
refugee camps in order to capture or kill terrorist suspects. This
approach was initially successful, but not sustainable for a long
period. New terrorists are constantly recruited, it becomes
increasingly difficult to identify and capture them. With Palestinian
autonomy in Gaza and Jericho, the IDF is prevented from mounting
interdictive operations, limiting this approach for dealing with
terrorism even further.
     Deterrence, in contrast, is based on retaliation and punishment.
This policy is designed to undermine the support for terrorism by
making the overall costs too high. In the early 1950, when there are
daily attacks, deterrence was the major strategic response. In
retaliation for these attacks, Israeli forces attacked targets in Gaza
(then controlled by Egypt) and in Judea and Samaria (occupied by
Jordan). As the intensity of Israeli retaliation for terrorism
increased, the level of Palestinian attacks decreased, and also forced
King Hussein to take action against the Palestinian groups operating
out of his country.
     Since 1967, when Israel took control over Judea, Samaria, and
Gaza, deterrence has been more difficult to implement. Israel could not
bomb or attack villages or towns under Israeli control. In some cases,
the IDF responded to terrorism by striking at PLO targets in Jordan,
Lebanon, and Tunis, but as the foundation for Palestinian terrorism
moved to the territories under Israeli control, the impact of these
actions decreased. Ironically, as the Palestinian autonomy expands, the
potential for deterrence has increased. A number of military commanders
and political leaders have hinted at the possibility that, as in
Lebanon, the IDF will be forced to act against targets in Gaza.=20
Dr. Gerald Steinberg is a Senior Research Associate at the BESA Center
for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University


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             MESSAGE TO ISRAELI & GLOBAL NEWS FROM THE U.K.

Just to advise you that the interview with Edri's father hit the for
front page of the London Jewish Tribune published 13th October.=20
Keep up the good work.

We will circulate in the UK.

             FAX and Voice 1407-793-6413 or mkahl@gate.net=20
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Volume 17.4                                              October 18, 1994
Publisher: Murray Kahl=20
                             ISRAELI ROUNDUP
                               GAZA RIOTS

                  **"WE WILL BURN THE LAND OF ISRAEL"**

     "Arafat declares a state of emergency in Gaza". 10,000 Hamas
demonstrators rioted outside the Gaza prison yesterday, demanding the
release of all Hamas   prisoners. Leading the group was Dr. Machmud
I-Zahar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza strip.
   During the two hour demonstration, thousands attempted to force their
way into the prison. At 2:00pm the rioters marched to the home of slain
terrorist, Salach Abdallah (the leader of the group that killed IDF
soldier, Nachshon Waxman obm). Parades marched from the center of Gaza
to the prison. They shouted, "we are not afraid of the   prisons;
Izzadin el-Kassim-Jihad will continue". Some of the most wanted terror
ists of Izzadin el-Kassim were present as well. Their faces covered with
hoods, carrying their automatic weapons, they began to fire into the
air.
     "We will burn the land of Israel and drive out the occupiers. The
attacks will continue against Israel", they shouted. They warned Arafat=20
that he must free all the prisoners. If he refuses, this will bring
about a war between Hamas and the PLO authorities. "A great deal of
blood will be spilled" they warned.
     In an attempt to cool the mob,  Arafat ordered the release of 50
Hamas  members, among them, Dr. Ibraham El-Ya'arori, one of the Hamas
leaders. (Yediot Achronot, 10/18).

                          **PLO PRAISES HAMAS**

     "El Fajir", the PLO newspaper praised Hamas for their actions,
referring to the kidnapping of Nachshon Waxman, obm. The paper in
structed it's readers to follow  the Hamas request and observe three
days of mourning. (Channel 7 radio news,  10/17..4:00pm).=20
     Hundreds of Hamas supporters demonstrated today at the Netzarim
junction. They were supplied with organized transportation from Kahan
Yunis, arriving in buses.
     Yishuv Netzarim was closed the entire day due to the deteriorating
security situation existing on the main road outside the settlement. =20
(Channel 7 radio news..10/17..4:00pm).

     The PLO  police have already released many Hamas  prisoners that
were arrested over the last week.  "sources" quoted Yassir Arafat as
having promised the Hamas leadership that the remaining prisoners would
be released by the end of the month. (Channel 7 radio news,
10/17..4:00pm).

                     **ISRAEL & JORDAN SIGN TREATY**
                  FIVE KEY POINTS MADE TREATY POSSIBLE

     JERUSALEM (October 18) -- Five key understandings made the peace
treaty possible, a very senior official said in a briefing for reporters
Monday night, as he disclosed the main provisions of the accord.
     The five understandings reached are: The two countries will trade
small parcels of territory, and Israel would lease other areas from
Jordan; Israel agreed to yield 50 million cu.m. of water and participate
in projects that could yield 100 million cu.m. more; and Jordan agreed
that its territory would not be a launching pad for third party attacks
against Israel.
     Also, Israel will consult Jordan before it begins talks on the
future of Palestinian refugees there in final status talks with the PLO,
and the two countries will exchange embassies within a month after the
treaty is ratified by the respective parliaments. Meanwhile, Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin phoned both Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat to brief them on the accord. Mubarak informed
Rabin that Syrian President Hafez Assad is flying to Cairo today,
presumably to discuss the implications of the treaty.
     Rabin also briefed leaders of the political opposition last night
on the main points of the accord.
     Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu said that "the general direction is
positive. This shows peace can be made without unilateral concessions.
Territory can be exchanged. I still want to withhold comment on all the
specifics, however, until I study the wording.''   The official 15-page
text of the treaty has not been released.   According to the senior
official, the main provisions are:   Border demarcation: Israel and
Jordan agreed to respect the 1922 British Mandate map, while Israeli
farmers would not be forced off lands currently being cultivated. Jordan
accepted some 30 sq. km. of the Arava in exchange for these lands.
     "We gave them inch for inch. Jordan did not lose an inch of terri
tory,'' the official said. He admitted Israel wrongfully seized Jorda
nian land in the Arava, saying it was fair for Israel to trade for such
territory if it sought to keep some of these fields.  "We are not a
nation of land grabbers,'' he declared.
     Other areas will come under Jordan sovereignty, but be immediately
leased back for 25 years, with an option to renew. They are: 2,000
dunams farmed by Kibbutz Tsofar in the Arava and 800 dunams near the
Yarmuk River called Naharayim. Israeli policemen will be allowed to
enter the territory with weapons for self-defense.
     "One could have gone to arbitration," he said, "but it could have
taken years," alluding to Taba, when Israel lost its case after years of
wrangling.=20
     The official did not deny suggestions that this model of territo
rial exchange and leasing could be used as a precedent in negotiations
with Syria.
     Water: Israel agreed to yield 40 million cu.m. of Yarmuk River
water annually, and 10 million cu.m. more will be provided through
desalination of brackish water sources near the Kinneret. No water will
be taken from the Kinneret itself, as Israel fears this would be a bad
precedent in future talks with Syria.
     Beyond this 50 million cu.m., the two countries will construct two
dams on the Yarmuk and Jordan rivers.=20
     Security threats: Jordan will neither join alliances against Israel
nor will it let its territory serve as a launching pad for attacks.
Jordan also agreed that it will not allow third parties to deploy inside
its territory in ways that threaten Israel, and vice versa.
     Israel originally wanted to forbid foreign forces from ever enter
ing Jordan, but settled on more general wording to satisfy concerns that
such broad language would rule out joint maneuvers with the US.Jerusalem
Post, Oct. 18

                   **HAMAS & THE PLO FIGHT FOR POWER**
                         IDF CAUGHT UP IN BATTLE

     The honeymoon is over. The relations between Hamas and the PLO
police have deteriorated to an unprecedented low, the end result may
very well be destructive and deadly.
     The commander of  the PLO police that has acted with forgiveness
towards Hamas until the kidnapping of Nachshon Waxman obm, has now
changed his language towards Hamas.
   Among the first to feel a difference were hundreds of students that
identify with Hamas that rioted yesterday adjacent to Yishuv Netzarim in
the center of Gaza. About 400 students  came at 7:30am to Netzarim
Junction, approximately 2   kilometers (1.2 miles) from the Yishuv
itself. They came having received orders from "above" with a specific
purpose. They planned to rush the settlement. They faced six soldiers
stationed at the IDF outpost.
     Armed with bottles, steel poles, and rocks, the students attacked
the six soldiers while screaming "Allah Akbar! (Allah is great), Hamas =20
Hamas-Izzadin el Kassim". On the hill, the IDF soldiers stated: "they
had murder in their eyes. It appeared that they were ready, to charge
us, after throwing the bottles".
   The six soldiers immediately notified the IDF troops adjacent to
Netzarim. They received orders to "retreat!! and abandon the outpost".=20
In the confusion the soldiers neglected to take a case of smoke gre
nades, a map, binoculars,  And an Israeli flag.
   The angry mob (terrorists) destroyed the IDF outpost. The stone
blocks were hurled outward, smoke grenades were thrown in the direction
of   IDF soldiers, and the Israeli flag was set ablaze.
     IDF troops were brought in to the area. They were attacked with
stones, blocks and bottles. Two IDF soldiers were injured lightly. A
third soldier shot in the air attempting to distance the rioters. While
this was going on, PLO police were  brought into the area as well.
   In this instance, for the first time, the PLO police used force
against the rioters.  The PLO officers brought in buses to remove the
rioters.
   While this entire event was going on, the yishuv was locked
down.(Yediot Achronot, 24 hour section, 10/17). A women requiring
transportation to a hospital was taken by an IDF helicopter. (Channel 7
radio news summary, 10/17..1:30pm). =20

               **NACHSMAN'S MURDERER RELEASED BY ISRAEL**

     Four months ago Hamas activist Salach a-Din Gadallah, 25, was
released from the Kitziyot prison by Israeli authorities. He was one of
the   thousands released as a good will gesture to Yassir Arafat. He
immediately went underground and resumed his anti-Israel terrorists
activities.
   On Friday evening he was killed by the IDF unit that attempted to
rescue Nachshon Waxman in Bir Nabala. Halad, his brother, was killed by
Israeli security forces 6 months ago in Sheik Radu-On (Gaza). His
father, Gadallah Gadallah was one of the 415 terrorists deported to
Lebanon by Israel. He returned to Gaza together with his entire family
one year ago.
   Salach was the assistant to Eimad Ahkel, the commander of izzaim el
Kassim, (the Hamas military hit squad) who was killed one year ago. =20
Salach's brother Achmed works as a cameraman for the Reuters News Agency
in Gaza. Salach has worked for Reuters as an assistant to a cameraman.
   The father, Gadallah Gadallah was arrested by PLO   police. Three
days ago along with other Hamas activists. He was released from prison
yesterday to enable him to receive the thousands that came to pay their
respects to the families of the slain "heros". (Ma'ariv, 10/16).

                     **REUTERS EMPLOYEES ARRESTED**

     Embarrassment describes the scene at the Reuters News Agency in the
Gaza strip after the news got out detailing how several of the =20
agency's personnel were involved in the kidnapping of Nachshon Waxsman
obm.
     Four photographers and the head of the Gaza office, Tahar S'chadah,
were arrested by the PLO  police for their part in the kidnapping.
     The head of the Israeli Government Press Office, Uri Dromi, stated
yesterday that he hopes the arrested journalists were only doing that =20
which was considered permissible and within the confines of their
respective jobs. If investigations disclose otherwise, steps will be
taken against the Reuters News Agency.=20
(Ma'ariv, 10/16)

                       **THE HAMAS NEIGHBORHOOD**

     The G.S.S. (General Security Service) was not surprised when they
learned that Nachshon Waxman was being held in Bir Nabala.  =20
     The village, north of Jerusalem is one of the wealthiest in the
"West Bank". Over 50% of it's 6,000 residents are citizens of the United=20
 States.
     Many of those holding American passports live abroad and come for
their summer vacations. During the year the homes are rented out to
Hamas activists. Monies raised in the United States have been utilized
to build a school building, mosque and a medical clinic that provides =20
subsidized medical care to the area.
     Israel security sources state that the village has become a Hamas
community. One section in the eastern section is called the "Hamas
neighborhood." Sheik Jimil Cha'mimi, a leader of Hamas in the "West
Bank" lives 100 meters (300 feet) from the home where Nachshon Waxman =20
was held. (Yediot Achronot, 10/16).

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
                              TERROR WATCH
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
                   October 18, 1994, 13 cheshvan 5755

                           **ANSWER TO HAMAS**

* The answer came from MK Raful Eitan (Tzomet party-past IDF Chief of
Staff), we must put Hamas down in the ground. That was Mr. Eitan's
response when interviewed by Israel T.V. after the attempted rescue. =20

* Maj-gen. Shaul Mmofaz, the IDF commander of Judea and Samaria, will be
meeting with "settlement leaders" today in Hevron to discuss the =20
planned reopening of the Ma'arat HaMachpelah (Cave of the Patriarchs). =20
(Gaalei Tzahal/army Radio, 10/18).

* Eliaz Mimon, 23, a police officer attached to a special forces unit,
was killed yesterday afternoon at the Ashkelon interchange after being =20
struck by a pickup truck while waiting at the Ashkelon interchange for a
ride. At the same time a Volvo truck was making it's way from the
direction of Gaza. The truck, bearing blue license plates, that of a
resident of the  "West Bank" was driven by 31 year old Muchmad Salach
Muchmad Abu Hilah , from Kalkiliya. =20
     The truck suddenly crashed into a Toyota pickup causing it to crash
into the bus stop, mortally wounding the police officer. The driver of
the pickup truck was injured lightly, and the truck driver was unin
jured.
     The two injured men were transported to Barzilai hospital, in
Ashkelon. Eliaz Mimon obm, was later transported to Seroka hospital, in
Beersheba. He died of his injuries a short time later. =20
     The police first reported the incident as a road accident. Today's
news reports that the police are now beginning to believe that this was
a "terrorist attack". (Yediot Achronot, 10/18   Channel 7 radio news,
10/18).

* Deputy Minister of Defence, Motta Gur, stated that the government
hoped to open the Ma'aret HaMechpelah by the end of October. =20
     Leaders of the  "settlers" met today with IDF and government
officials to discuss future plans for the holy site.
     The Jewish leaders were permitted to pray inside the holy site
today with the IDF present.
     Security changes have not been completed to date. The final sched
ule for prayers of both Moslems and Jews must be completed. (Radio news
10/18..12:00pm.
 . . . . . . . . . October 17, 1994..12 cheshvan 5755

                   **8 YEARS SINCE RON ARAD CAPTURED**

     Ceremonies were held today in the Tel-Aviv museum marking eight
years since the capture of  IDF airforce navigator, Ron Arad. (Gaalei =20
Tzahal/army radio, 10/16).

* By order of the Ministry of Education, all schools opened classes this
morning with a memorial service for Nachshon Waxman obm and Nir Poraz
obm. (Ma'ariv, 10/16).

* Three Israelis were injured when their vehicle was attacked by stone
throwers near Kalkiliya (Shchem). No other information available.
(GaaleiTzahal/army radio, 10/15). =20
     The peace talks between Israel and the PLO are scheduled to resume
in 48 hours.  (Radio news, 10/16).

* The IDF abandoned an outpost near the settlement of Netzarim (Gaza)
after this mornings rioting by Hamas terrorists. The IDF brought in
armored personnel carriers to keep the rioters out of the community of
Netzarim.  (Radio news, 10/16).

                          **BEATEN AND RAPED**

     A Jewish tourist from Spain, 24 years old, was abused and attacked
physically and sexually by Arabs in East Jerusalem adjacent to the tomb
of  Zecariah.
     Last Shabbos (Saturday) the tourist, Chava Bounet, who has been in
Israel for two months, went to pray at the prophets tomb. Three Arab =20
youths approached her and told her to "get out. You are Jewish and this
is not a Jewish area". She left immediately, and the three followed.
      They knocked her to the ground, choked her, broke her nose, and
burnt candles on her body. The three then assaulted the young tourist
sexually.
     After being released the following day from the hospital, she
returned to the scene with police. She spotted one of the attackers, an
Arab from East Jerusalem. Police made the arrest. (Yediot Achronot,
10/14).

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                              URGENT APPEAL
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=20

     Mr. Yitzchak Edri, father of Lt. Oren Edri, suspected of being
involved in the alleged "revenge underground" has asked Shomron News to
make an appeal once again. Todate the family has raised $10,000.00
towards the Defence of Oren. They are in need of an additional
$20,000.00 to enable them to provide Oren with proper Defence council.=20
Anything that you can give to help is appreciated.
     Donations from out of Israel can be mailed to Shomron News. On the
memo portion of the check please write "Defence fund". =20
     New Israeli shekel donations can be deposited into Bank Ha'poalim.=20
Account number 283006, branch number 695, (Ramat Eshkol, Jerusalem). =20

* MK Miki Eitan (Likud) used his own vehicle this morning to block the
main road from the Erez checkpoint to "Israel proper". =20
     The Knesset member stated that  "I should not have to be sitting in
the middle of the road, the IDF should be here instead. The government
Is abandoning it's responsibility towards it's citizens.  This morning
10,000 potential terrorists are entering into Israel via the check
point". (Gaalei Tzahal/army radio, 10/17). =20

* Egged, the bus cooperative, is working together with the government
and the IDF to implement it's new policy. IDF soldiers will not have =20
To pay to ride on the public buses. This is in an attempt to encourage
soldiers to utilize public transportation and not to hitch rides.
(Gaalei Tzahal/army radio,  10/17).

* After 27 years, the Allenby bridge has become a civilian crossing. The
IDF has pulled out. The crossing to Jordan is now under the control of =20
the Port Authority.
     A new sophisticated electronic detection device has been installed
to monitor those entering and leaving via the bridge crossing.=20
(Yediot Achronot, 10/17).

* The Ohel Shem high school of Ramat Gan conducted a "referendum"
yesterday. The question: Should Israel withdraw totally from the Golan =20
Heights?  83.7% are against a total withdrawal verses 16.3% in favor. =20
     In a poll taken among teachers, 70% of the 40 teachers polled,
opposed a total withdrawal.
   In a poll among the teachers relating to a partial pullout, 77.8% in
favor and 22.2 opposed. (Yediot Achronot, 10/17). =20

                 **RECEIVED FROM THE "WOMEN IN GREEN"**

                 **media release**   **media release** =20
* Enough!  We've had enough!
* Enough of business as usual.
* Enough of capitulation to terror and their open or silent proponents
of such terror.
* Enough of make believe partners like the PLO who continue to violate
the so called Oslo accord and whose charter still calls for the destruc
tion of Israel.
* Enough of continuing negotiations with the PLO until by their actions
we concretely see that they are truly interested in the peace process.
* Enough of murderers who kill in Israel and who then walk freely about=20
in Gaza and Jericho.
* Enough of make believe distinctions between the PLO and Hamas, between
political Hamas and military Hamas. Most Arabs silently condone the
actions of Hamas and their objectives.
     The women in green will mount a continuing protest all week pro
testing against the mounting Jewish murders by Arabs (75 to date) since
entering the make believe peace accord.
     Beginning on Tuesday at 9:30am, a coffin draped with an Israeli
flag will be carried by the Women in Green, beginning on Yoel Solomon
Street and Hillel, the site of the most recent Arab massacre of Jews,
and carried throughout the streets of downtown Jerusalem. =20
   Shomron News..POB 50486 Jerusalem, Israel 91504..fax: 972-2-942310 =20


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
                           FROM THE ARAB PRESS
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

                       AlAkhbar: 15 October 1994,=20

The Heros of Alqassam have scored a security, military and moral victory

o The end was as heroic as the beginning, opposite to what the enemy
have hoped for, Taiser Alnatshah, Abdulkareem Badr and Salah Jadallah
have printed in their blood the end, and taught Rabin and the
subservients a great lesson.
o After the Brigade answered the call of Shaikh Ahmad Yassin and that of
Raced Salah to extend the period by 24 hours to give a chance to the=20
Rabin government to respond to their demands, and while the government =20
of Rabin was considering the demands and asked for the extension, the
Brigades have extended the period by 24 hours, but it seems the inten
tion of Rabin was to buy time so that his forces can free the Soldier =20
and betray the Brigades by killing the Mujahedeen. So while they were =20
announcing the agreement on the extension their forces was ready to
storm the base where the soldier is kept. The brigade soldiers have
responded to the attack by fierce fire and killed three of the attacking
force including the commander of the attack, and they wounded many
others, and killed the kidnapped soldier, and all three of the Qassam
Brigade were martyred in the attack.
o HAMAS have accused Arafat of giving leads he obtained from the =20
arrested in Gaza about the where abouts of the Mujahedeen, which =20
helped the Israeli forces to determine the location.
o Dr. Mahmoud Alzahar have criticized the position of the PA, and he =20
describe the arrests in the ranks of HAMAS as "digesting", and he =20
added that the PA have responded to the pressure of the Israeli =20
government, and they had no choice but to show force towards the Old =20
and the fathers and mothers of the martyrs and arrested. He also added =20
the people of Gaza are calling on persecuting the leaders of security =20
of the PA for standing against the well of the people. He also added
that  his organization did not do any act to embarace the PA, and he
noted   they understood our position wrongly.
o Sufian Abu-Zaydeh one of Fatah leaders in Gaza have described HAMAS as=20
 a popular movement, and he worned the PA not to hasten in pleasing the =20
Israeli government by descriminating against HAMAS. He also added, any =20
attempt to dismantle HAMAS would amount to a CIVIL war.
o A former Intelligence officer in the Israeli intellegence have noted =20
that the group which kidnaped "Faksman" have no connection with the =20
Political wing of HAMAS, and he added, Al-Qassam brigades work within =20
a sofisticated and secure communication links, and they are of groups =20
of 3 and 4. He also added, that such people carry their operation =20
knowing they will die and have nothing to lose.
o An Israeli commentator has said the operation was a success for the =20
Israeli security and for the Qassam Brigades. He said, even the =20
Israeli security new of the place and have the minute details, they =20
failed to surprise the Palestinian fighters. He also said, the   infor
mation came from Gaza, when the PPF arrested a man who gave them   a
lead about the person who gave him the video tape, this lead to a =20
phone number in Jerusalem, where the Israeli forces arrested Jihad =20
Yaghmour who under persecution lead them to the house where Faxman is =20
kept, the Israeli security watched the house and arrested Zakarya=20
Najeed, who was the communication and supply officer and hence new where
Waxman is kept. The house were fortified with explosives and the fight
ers were on a state of readiness. Israeli forces said despite the =20
large number of people envolved in the operation, they have kept a =20
secure communication channel among themselves, and the succeeded in =20
making no contacts with the political wing of HAMAS".

                       AlAkhbar: 16 October 1994,=20

                       Demonstartion against PPF=20

o Thousands of Palestinians have participated yesterday night in a =20
huge demonstration protesting the continuation of arrests against =20
HAMAS members. More than ten thousands have gathered infront of the =20
Central Gaza Prizon demanding the freeing of hundreds of HAMAS support
ers that were arrested by the PPF. The PPF have responded by putting
barakades blocking the roads to the prison and by closing the  roads
into the city of Gaza, preventing people from surrounding areas to
participate.
o Palestinian sources said, Palestinian youth have attacked the posi
tions of the Israeli Army protecting the settlements using stones and
empty bottles, protesting the killing of the three heros of HAMAS. The
youth succeeded in storming the Army posts and burned the Israeli =20
flags. They also destroyed the watch towers and cut electricity. The
Palestinian Police Force, rushed into the seen, shooting heavily in the
air over the heads of the demonstrators.
o Buses carrying students to the Islamic University of Gaza were=20
prevented by the PPF from entering into University Premises, fearing =20
similar demonstrations as of last night. The students have responded =20
by throwing stones on the near by Israeli forces. Dr. Muhammad Shubair =20
the deputy President questioned the motives of the PPF, and he said it =20
is not imaginable that they prevent students from studying.=20
o Yahud Barak the commander in chief of the Israeli army have threatened
to invade the PA areas in order to hit the bases of HAMAS. Barak also
said, the PA is obliged to work against HAMAS, and added if they do not
do that, we will do it even inside GAZA. He also praised the PA for
taking measures against HAMAS's supporters.
o Rabin asked Arafat to use an iron fist against the Qassam Brigades =20
in Gaza even after the Waxman operation is ended.

                       AlAkhbar: 17 October 1994,=20

                            The Three Martyrs

1- Abdulkareem Badr, from the city of Jerusalem, he was a member of an =20
Alqassam cell where two of its members were arrested and two killed in =20
a battle with the Israeli security last August, in Jerusalem. He also =20
participated in the past in kidnapping a number of Israeli soldiers.=20
2- Taiser Alnatshah also from the city of Jerusalem.
3- Saleh Jadallah, from Gaza, he is a former prisoner alleged of being =20
a Qassam Brigades member, he spent one year in Israeli jails. His =20
Father is one of Hamas leaders in Gaza, sheikh Jadallah Jadallah, who =20
along with his son was arrested by the PPF. After pressure from the =20
family sheikh Jaddallah was released to accept condolences.=20
     Two others were arrested by the Israeli Forces outside the house,
where the cell was keeping Waxman

                               Al-Akhbar:=20
                 CBS NEWS DEFAMES MUSLIM ORGANIZATIONS=20

     In an October 3 "Eye on America" report, CBS News claimed that
Muslims in America in general, and three American Muslim organizations
in particular (Holy Land Foundation, Islamic Association for Palestine,
and United Association for Studies and Research), are "prompting and
bankrolling" ME violence. Here are summary of other points of in the
report:
1) Part of Hamas funds collected by these Islamic organizations are drug
money and insurance fraud.
2) CBS falsely presented the North Texas Mosque as the headquarter of
IAP. Such inaccurate portrayal could lead to violence against Muslim
community similar to recent arson attack on a California mosque.=20
3) No one of the above Muslim Organization officials were interviewed to
counter the groundless claims of Israeli intelligence and Arafat.=20
4) No U.S. official was interviewed on camera for any part of the story.
All US-based organizations are monitored by the American government.=20
5) Islamic organizations were falsely blamed of invoking violence which
lead to burning two Chicago's synagogue. According to Chicago police
findings, the fires were set by two American Palestinian teenagers. The
two teenagers claim innocence. The case is still in court and no hard
proof found to convict them.
6) To tie the IAP to Hamas, CBS cited the fact that IAP translated a
Hamas document into English. Will Penguin Books and B. Dalton Bookstores
now be identified with the Islamic movement because they sell transla
tion of Islamic studies?
7) The use of a so-called confession by a Palestinian in an Israeli
jail. The man in question says the "confession" was coerced. Given
Israel's well-known record of abuse in its prisons, including
state-approved torture, this "confession" would not have been given any
weight if it dealt with any other issue. Would CBS accept a "confession"
from a Muslim held in a Serbian prison camp?
8) The use of "terrorism expert" Steve Emerson, whose sole claim to
legitimacy is the theory that proof of a "terrorist network" in America
relies on the fact that it is so hidden, it cannot be found.=20
9) The only people quoted directly were Israeli officials and a
pro-Israeli "expert". Why were no interviews scheduled with those
holding opposing views?
10) All of the so-called "facts" in the story are old re-workings of
Israeli government press releases and editorials.
 Action Requested: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contact Erik Sorenson: Tel:
212-975-3691 Fax: 212-975-1893 Address: 524 West 57th St, New York, NY
10019
                            **CRYING "WOLF"**

     AMMAN--Jordanian columnist, Mahmoud Rimawi, writing in al-Ra'i
under the headline "Kidnapping the peace process vs kidnapping the
soldier," argues:
     Every time a soldier comes to harm, Rabin rushes to threaten a
suspension of all agreements -- a strange, myopic, not mention arrogant,
kind of behavior, considering that opposition to the Palestinian-Israeli
settlement grows in direct proportion with the Israeli government's
inclination to obstruct it.
     But none of this has happened, which  gives opponents of the
agreement an excuse to continue their opposition as part  of their
resistance to the occupation, not as a rejection of the agreement
itself. Oct !6, 1994

    Islamic Information & News Network:[Vol.6 No.21] Jammad-ul Awwal=20

 - IDF Gen. Issac Mardakhi had said that the Southern Lebanese resis
tance forces are well trained and have high skills. He referred to the
joint PFLP and DFLP fighters who killed an Israeli officer Awfer Harosh
last month in Souther Lebanon occupied zone.
 - Hamas had condemned the massive arrests of PFLP and DFLP activists by
the Palestinian police. "Such irresponsible measures serve only our
enemy," the communiqu=82 said.
 - A new Zionist police headquarter is being built near Ibrahimi sacred
mosque to provide security for Jewish prayers.
 - The latest Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in Cairo in regard to the
Palestinian elections have failed. According to Saib Oriqat, the Israe
lis refuse the participation of all opposed political organizations and
the election of two different councils: legislative and executive.=20
- Ismail Haniah, a Hamas prominent leader, had denied establishing a
political party. "The idea is still under thorough study," Haniah said.=20
 - Zionist police said that they arrested 4 members of a terrorist cell
inside the '48 occupied territories. The police claim the head of the
cell was trained in Algeria.
- Zionist sources said that a Palestinian local police will take over
guarding duties in Nablus and Khalil.
- A UAE prince has asked the Zionist state to be the Israeli El-Al
airline administrative agent in UAE. Israeli transportation minister,
Esrael Kisar, said he received similar requests from Kuwati officials
and asked them to officially visit Israel to work out the details.=20
 - Few hundreds Jordanian and Israeli tourist officials and journalists
will participate in opening "Bisan" entry point between Jordan and
Israel on the 16th of this month.
 - Shamon Perez met separately in Washington with foreign minister of
Tunis and Oman. The Oman's meeting came a surprise to some observers.=20

                     **GESTURES AREN'T EVERYTHING**

     Members of the Rabin government have been hinting for weeks that
the Israeli public's resistance to withdrawal from the Golan will be
eroded by a series of Arab "confidence building measures" and "gestures"
to Israel.
     The first set of "gestures" were associated with the Syrian treat
ment of Israeli reporters.  The climax of this campaign came with the
exclusive interview which Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara granted
Israel Television's Ehud Yaari.  The interview was first touted as a
great success but ended up at best a dud.  The decision of Israel
Television to edit out (or as Likud leader Benyamin Netanyahu termed it,
"censored out") the most damaging if the Foreign Minister's comments
from the rebroadcast only added insult to injury as it only served to
emphasize just how embarrassed the government and its supporters were
with the interview.
     Now the old news that the Jews of Syria are free to leave and that
most have left is being packaged as a new confidence building measure.=20
It is old news because as early as 1992, before the Labor Party even
came to power, the Syrians announced that the Jews could leave.
     Regarding this "gesture",  commentator Uri Elitzur observed that
one of the advantages which evil tyrants like President Assad have is
that they do so many terrible things that all they have to do is stop
doing one of them and they earn the world's praise, much like an alco
holic wife beater might be praised for going on the wagon.=20
     But even if the gestures are heart warming, they are not particu
larly relevant to the key issue in the Israel-Syria negotiations.=20
Simply put,  President Assad can carry the missing Israeli Air Force
officer, Ron Arad, on his shoulders to Jerusalem, but this does not
affect the validity of the arguments against withdrawal from the Golan.
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate =20
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)=0C

                           THE BITTER ENDING=20
                       Opinion by DAVID BAR-ILLAN=20
          (The writer is the Jerusalem Post's Executive Editor)

     NATIONAL leaders must do everything within their power to rescue
hostages; but obviously they cannot do this at any price.  It is con
ceivable - though not likely in view of Hamas past conduct - that
meeting Cpl.  Nahshon Wachsman's kidnappers' demands would have saved
him.  But to do so would have not only exacted a prohibitive political
toll; it would have been tantamount to sentencing an untold number of
others to certain death. =20
     That leaders cannot afford to let the pressures of the immediate
emergency - or the pain of anxious families - obliterate their concern
for the future was made clear by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's own
experience.  As Ori Orr, chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee pointed out on Saturday, the release of 1,150 terrorists in
exchange for three prisoners held by terrorist chieftain Ahmed Jibril
has cost Israel dearly.  The move probably contributed more than any
other factor to the outbreak of the intifada, particularly its terrorist
manifestations, and has cost Israel more than 200 dead and thousands of
wounded.  Though motivated by the loftiest sentiments, it was an inex
cusable folly for which the country is still paying an excruciating
price. =20
     Once Rabin realized that the kidnappers and their victim were not
in the Gaza District but near Jerusalem, he had no choice but to try to
rescue Wachsman by force.  It is in the nature of such operations that
their cost is high.  Even for the Entebbe rescue, the most spectacular
and successful of its kind in history, Israel paid a prohibitive price
in the loss of Jonathan Netanyahu. =20
     But just as the hidden costs of yielding to hostage-takers' demands
are unacceptable, the hidden gains of displaying national resolve and
determination are incalculable.  The soldiers and civilians whose lives
have been saved by this operation will never know it; but they owe their
lives to Rabin's decision to use force.  Nor is there any doubt that the
nation's interests and security have been enhanced by it.  To say that
Wachsman and Capt.  Nir Poraz did not die in vain may sound like an
insufferable cliche at this point.=20
But it is true, nevertheless. =20
     Rabin also contributed to national security by finally placing the
blame where it belongs: he openly accused the Palestinian Authority of
enabling the Hamas to operate from its territory.  Calling Gaza a haven
and a base for terrorists, he made it clear that where the kidnappers
hid after abducting Wachsman was an irrelevant detail. =20
     What matters is that the Hamas headquarters, bases of planning,
operations and training and its main arms caches are in Gaza.  Under the
PLO, the District is rapidly becoming what southern Lebanon was when the
PLO ruled it in the 1970s and early 1980s. This time it is the Hamas
which is assuming the activist role, while the PLO plays the part of the
acquiescing local government. =20
     With expected sanctimony, PLO apparatchiks yesterday trumpeted the
location of the kidnappers' hideout outside Gaza as proof that the
Palestinian Authority should be absolved of responsibility in the
affair.  This not only indicates that the PLO indeed has no objection to
Hamas operations in areas under Israel control.  It recalls the disin
genuous Syrian claim that Damascus has nothing to do with terrorist
strikes in Lebanon and in Israel-controlled areas, a claim which ignores
that without the shelter, support and tacit approval Damascus affords
these terrorists, they could not operate. Following the Friday rescue
operation, PLO spokesmen pledged that the Palestinian Police will now
crack down on the Hamas with merciless force.  But had the PLO really
wanted to stop terrorism against Israelis, 70 of whom have been killed
since the signing of the Oslo agreement (double the number of terror
victims in any intifada year), it would have cracked down on the Hamas
long ago. =20
     But it is doubtful that the Arafat forces will do more than make
some massive arrests followed by equally massive releases.  The PLO is
not about to act on Israel's behalf against what Israelis call the
"enemies of peace" and the PLO views as the carriers of the torch of the
"armed struggle." Both PLO and Hamas officials have vowed that they will
do everything to avoid civil war, and they probably will.  Struggles for
power may be bloody, but an all-out PLO-Hamas war is most unlikely.=20
There is too much support in "the street" for the Hamas and its "heroic"
deeds. =20
     Evidence of such support could be discerned not only in Gaza -
where 3,000 students of the Islamic University demonstrated with police
encouragement against the detention of 350 Hamas activists - but in
Jerusalem and the towns of the Judea and Samaria, where a general
Palestinian strike mourned the death of the kidnappers.  The very fact
that the PLO is demanding precisely what the Hamas is demanding: the
unconditional release from Israeli prisons of all terrorists, including
those convicted of murder, is indication enough that Arafat's goal is
not to fight the "enemies of peace" but to enable them to kill Israelis
more effectively.  That the PLO is making such demands after the Sunday
terrorist strike in Jerusalem, in which one of the killers was a re
cently-released Hamas member, speaks volumes about its motives. =20
     If Rabin's tone in the Friday press conference following the failed
rescue operation is any indication, the government will now scrutinize
Arafat's actions more scrupulously.  Talking to The Jerusalem Post last
week, Economics Minister Shimon Shetreet pointed to the government's
quandary:=20
   '[Arafat] either can control his territory or he can't.  If he can't,
then our government faces an enormous dilemma, because the public will
justifiably demand to know why we are making all these concessions to a
man who cannot live up to his part of the bargain.  If he can exercise
control but doesn't want to for one consideration or another, then the
problem for the government is greater because we are dealing with a man
who operates in bad faith.  In either case, this is something the
government cannot ignore."
   What the government obviously hopes is that Arafat will agree that
Islamic fanaticism endangers him as much as it does Israel, and that he
will join forces with Israel in combating it.  To suppose that in the
ruthless, titanic struggle between this fanaticism and the West - of
which Israel is merely one branch - Arafat will choose to align himself
with the latter, requires a leap of faith only devout believers in
imminent Utopia can make. =20

YESHA NEWS SERVICE, WEDNESDAY 19 OCTOBER 1994
(In conjunction with Arutz 7)

HAMAS KILLS 22 AND INJURED 43 IN TEL AVIV'S DIEZENGOFF 
SQUARE
	The Hamas took responsibility for the deadly explosion in 
Tel Aviv's Diezengoff Square at 9:00 o'clock this morning.  A 
bomb planted on a #5 bus exploded in Tel Aviv's busy center, 
killing at least 22 people and injuring 43.  The potent explosion 
also caused damage to a second bus standing next to the #5.  
People on the second bus were also injured.
	Witnesses to the tragedy say the #5 bus was completely 
incinerated in the blast, with flames reaching up to 40 feet in 
the air.  Chief of Police Assaf Hefetz claims the bombing was 
probably a suicide attack in which the terrorist came on the bus 
holding the bomb and died in the explosion, but it is also 
possible that he left the bomb on the bus and exited at another 
stop.
	Four hours after the blast, emergency workers are still 
removing bodies and body parts from the wreckage.  No 
identities of the victims have as of yet been released.
	Israel Radio reported that it received a call from someone 
asking for a specific person.  When that person came on the line, 
a man, speaking in Hebrew, but with an Arabic accent, told him 
that "Megurashei HaHamas" - the Hamas activists who were 
exiled to Lebanon for a year, nearly two years ago, took 
responsibility for the attack.  
	He also thanked Israel for sending them to Lebanon 
because those exiled were able to take a course on explosives 
while in Lebanon, which prepared them for making the 
powerful bomb used in today's terror attack.
	Israel has also imposed a total closure on Judea, Samaria 
and the Gaza Strip.  [Israel Radio, 19 October]

SOLDIER STABBED IN JERUSALEM'S CENTER
	An IDF soldier was stabbed today in the center of 
Jerusalem, on the corner of Shmuel Hanagid street and Ma'alot 
street.  The soldier suffered light injuries and is undergoing 
treatment.  Police are still searching for the terrorist.  [Israel 
Radio, 19 October]
	Not long after the stabbing in Jerusalem, an Arab tried to 
stab a shop-owner in Petach Tikva.  Her screams alerted 
passers-by and they were able to save her and arrested the 
Arab.  [Arutz 7, 19 October]

ISRAELI-ARAB TERROR CELL UNCOVERED IN KFAR GELBOON
	A terrorist cell comprised of five Israeli Arabs was 
uncovered in Kfar Gelboon, on Moradot HaGilboa.  Five Israeli 
Arabs were arrested on suspicion that they place two bombs 
next to Kibbutz Ma'ale Gilboa.  The five are also suspected of 
igniting forests in the area.  All indications point to their 
affiliation with the Hamas.  [Arutz 7, 18 October]
KADOUMI CALLS FOR CONTINUED FIGHT AGAINST ISRAEL
	Correspondent Kobi Finkler reports PLO head of foreign 
affairs, Farrouk Kadoumi, has once against proclaimed that his 
organization will continue to lift up their arms in efforts to 
liquidate the State of Israel.  Kadoumi said in an interview with 
Egyptian paper Al-Mousarar, that the PLO will continue their 
struggle against Israel all the while that there still stands one 
Israeli soldier on PLO land.
	Kadoumi also said that the Hamas has every right to 
continue their violent struggle against Israel.  Also, Kadoumi 
claims the PLO will not consider changing the Palestinian 
National Charter until the last IDF soldier is removed from 
Judea and Samaria.  [Arutz 7, 18 October]

ISRAEL AND THE PLO REOPEN NEGOTIATIONS
	Israel has decided to reopen negotiations with the PLO.  
Negotiations will begin October 18 and will focus on Arab 
elections.  Israel had stopped negotiations with the PLO as a 
result of the terrorist kidnapping of IDF Cpl. Nahshon 
Wachsman two weeks ago.  [Arutz 7, 18 October]

JEWS ALLOWED INTO THE CAVE OF THE PATRIARCHES
	For the first time in eight months, heads of the Jewish 
community in Hebron were allowed to enter the Cave of the 
Patriarches and pray there.  They accompanied Assistant 
Security Minister Mordechai Gur on a tour of the cave.  IDF 
Commander of Judea and Samaria, Gen. Shaul Mofaz reported to 
the group on the new prayer arrangements in the Cave.  [Arutz 
7, 18 October]

TERROR VICTIM'S WIDOW TO BE GRANTED CITIZENSHIP
	Israel is granting citizenship to Nayela Mugrabi, 30, wife 
of Ziyad Mugrabi, slain in last Sunday's terrorist attack in 
Jerusalem's Nahalat Shiva pedestrian mall.  While Ziyad was an 
Israeli citizen, Nayela was a registered resident of Nablus in 
Samaria, and didn't hold Israeli citizenship.  The citizenship will 
allow Nayela to remain in her north Jerusalem home and to 
receive the full state-funded compensation granted Israeli 
families of terror victims.  [Jerusalem Post, 18 October]

HAMAS DEMONSTRATORS RAID IDF POST IN GAZA
	It has been reported that during the Hamas riots in Gaza's 
Netzarim junction Sunday, rioters looted an abandoned IDF post, 
taking smoke grenades and other equipment.  They used the 
grenades, throwing them at the retreating soldiers.  Witnesses 
also say the rioters, who began marching in the direction of the 
Netzarim community, were armed.  "This is not a children's 
game, this is not an ordinary demonstration where they block a 
road and sing songs.  Here we are talking about weapons," said 
Zvi Hendel, one of Gaza's community heads.  [Al HaMishmar & 
Jerusalem Post, 17 October]

SECURITY FORCES SEARCHING FOR HAMAS ASSISTANTS IN 
JERUSALEM
	Israeli security forces are searching Israel's Capital on the 
look-out for accomplices suspected of helping the Hamas 
terrorists who kidnapped and murdered IDF Cpl. Nahshon 
Wachsman last week.  The search is being concentrated in 
eastern and northern Jerusalem, where two of the terrorists - 
Taisir Natshe and Abdel Kareem Bader - lived.
	Stores were shut in east Jerusalem in compliance with the 
three-day strike order issued by Hamas to protest and mourn 
the deaths of the three terrorists.  [Jerusalem Post, 17 October]

MEDIA ALLOWS HAMAS TO BECOME "MAJOR MENACE"
	According to a Jerusalem Post editorial, the media 
coverage on the brutal terrorist kidnapping and murder of Cpl. 
Nahshon Wachsman, while enabling the country to unite 
together in support of the Wachsman family, also assisted the 
Hamas in becoming a "Major menace."  As the editor points out, 
"it was only 20 months ago that every newspaper, television 
station and radio network throughout the world was singing 
odes of sympathy and paeans of praise for the 415 Hamas 
leaders and organizers expelled by Israel after a similar 
abduction-murder of an Israeli."  The international sympathy 
for these Hamas terrorists pressured Israel into reducing the 
term of expulsion to only a year, and then letting them back in 
before the year was finished.
	The editor points out that one of the Hamas organizers 
slated for expulsion was pulled off the bus at the last moment 
because he was a journalist.  He is now one of the four Reuters 
journalists being investigated for collaborating with the Hamas, 
and is implicated in helping the Hamas prepare and distribute 
the video cassette of Cpl. Nahshon Wachsman's capture.  
[Jerusalem Post, 18 October]


PLO JOINING RANKS WITH HAMAS
	Israeli security forces are worried about the wide-
ranging joining of ranks of the PLO soldiers with Islamic Jihad.  
Correspondent Koby Finkler reports that over 100 PLO 
"policemen" have joined up with this extremist Islamic 
fundamentalist group and some of them have even sold their 
weapons to the Hamas.  [Arutz 7, 19 October]

YEHUDA WACHSMAN SPEAKS ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON
	"...My father went through a very difficult trial in the 
Holocaust, and returned to a strengthened religious belief.  Here 
I am strengthened by the soldiers that went out, in utter 
devotion to life, to offer their lives in sanctification of God for 
the sake of my son Nahshon.  
	"They went, eyes ever-watchful, to bring back my son, 
and they knew that they were offering their lives.  I am now 
the father of seven sons, of Nir [Poraz - the soldier killed in the 
rescue attempt] and his soldiers from their unit that went to 
bring back Nahshon.
	"I have three soldiers in the army, and now, suddenly, I 
am the father of even more soldiers, wonderful and strong.  
What a wonderful nation we are.  There isn't another people 
like this in the entire world.
	"I can't forget how everyone united in prayer for my son 
Nahshon.  All mothers lit a special Shabbat candle along with 
Ester, my wife.  I tremble at those who say the prayers didn't 
help.  They helped save the soldiers that risked their lives for 
the sake of my son.
	"We shouldn't look at the past.  The past was and will 
never return.  There is now and there is the future, and the 
Creator of the world will stand us in many mighty trials."  
[Yediot Ahronot, 19 October]

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Publisher: Murray Kahl 
                          "THE FRUITS OF PEACE"

                           ****BUS BOMBING****

     A massive terrorist bus bombing took place during morning rush hour
in central Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Center. Bus 5 of the Dan company on its
way to Herzliya exploded at about 9:00 AM Israel time. The explosion
took place at the intersection of Dizengoff and Frishman at about 9 AM,
when people were having morning coffee in outdoor cafe's.  Two busses
passed each other at the time of the explosion: the one with the bomb is
just half a twisted framework plus a lot of fragments, the one next to
it had its windows blown inward. The bomb, which police state was at
least 15kg (33lbs) exploded on the bus. Witnesses stated that the bus
actually lifted off the ground from the force of the explosion. The roof
of the bus was torn off and still smoldering pieces of the bus remains
were collected for analysis. A private vehicle, a Subaru, that was
passing by was totally destroyed by the blast. Initial reports are that
at least 24 people were reported killed and 47 injured.  Heavy damage
was caused to adjacent buildings.
     The first pictures released on T.V. are horrifying as they show
dead and wounded bodies scattered about and burned, smoldering bodies
are among the remains of what was once a bus.
     Rescue teams are attempting to uncover the mangled bodies and the
scattered limbs are collected by the chaplains of the IDF. Hundreds of
concerned families are awaiting the news of their loved ones. Tens of
citizens are waiting patiently on line to donate blood in the hope of
saving a life.  Two to four of the injured are reported as extremely
critical. 
     Hundreds of ambulances and emergency vehicles have converged on
Dizengoff Street, once a site that felt immune to terrorism. The center
of  Tel-Aviv has become a battle ground. Hundreds of relatives searching
for their loved once. Emergency requests broadcasted on national radio
for blood donators. Police request that all drivers of public vehicles
be on the look out for suspicious packages that may be bombs.  
     There are reports of sappers searching for another bomb and we await 
information.
     Deputy Mayor Avigdor Kahalani, an eyewitness, said the event was
"shocking and terrifying."  Police believe the attack was committed by a
suicide bomber who was on board the bus.  Two hours after the attack,
the wounded were still being evacuated.
     Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in London, heard about the attack and
immediately responded that it must have been the work of enemies of
peace. Hamas assumed responsibility for the bombing and said it was in
retaliation for the three Hamas members killed during the rescue attempt
for Nachson Wachsman this past Friday. The Israeli government closed
Judea, Samaria and Gaza until further notice, preventing Arab residents
from leaving the areas.  Rabin is returning to Israel immediately, as is
Police Minister Moshe Shachal in New York, to attend an emergency
government meeting tonight.
     Likud Party Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu said that Gaza and Jericho
have become cities of refuge for Hamas, including terrorists released
from prisoners and those who were brought back from deportation to
Lebanon last year.  He called for a closure of Gaza, a security fence
around the PLO's region in Gaza, and an end to the release of terrorist
prisoners. 

                    **AL QUDS ASKS FOR MORE ATTACKS**

     A few hours after the attack in Tel Aviv,  Radio Al Quds (PLO
Media)  broadcast a call from Syria for an increase in terror attacks
against Israel.   This station was originally jammed but now enjoys a
clear channel across the country since Communications Minister Shulamit
Aloni authorized an alternate frequency for the Palestinian Autonomy's
Radio Palestine. Dr. Aaron Lerner

                    **IDF SOLDIER HURT IN JERUSALEM**

     In the center of Jerusalem, on Maalot street (between King George
and Hanagid streets), a terrorist attempted to stab an IDF soldier this
morning at about 10:40am.
     The terrorist used a razor knife. The soldier was only lightly
injured. The attacker got away.  Radio news, 10/19).

                         **TERRORIST ARRESTED**

     An attempted knifing of another innocent victim. The terrorist
pulled out a machete. The terrorist was apprehended before anyone was
injured.
    The incident occurred in Petach Tikvah this morning.
 Radio News, Oct. 19,

                           **PEACE FOR PEACE**

     'Hatzofeh' hopes that 'the treaty will endure, even if it runs into
difficulties as a result of the reactions expected from hostile Arab
elements led by Syria.' The paper points out that 'the payment for the
treaty with Jordan is territory and water rights [and that] no payment
was demanded from the Jordanians,' and regrets that 'the Arabs are not
ready to accede to the requirement that such negotiations should not be
contingent on payment, but be based on the concept of peace for peace.'

       **GALLOP POLL SHOWS ISRAELI ATTITUDES STABLE DESPITE NEWS**

     A telephone survey performed by Gallup Israel on behalf of IMRA
(Independent Media Review & Analysis) with the participation of The
Jerusalem Post of 599 Hebrew speaking Israelis on the evenings of Sunday
16/10 and Monday 17/10 finds that significantly less than half of
Israelis (44.6%) believe that Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin should accept the Nobel Prize at the awards
ceremony scheduled two months from now.  The survey also found that less
than half of Israelis (48.5%) believe that the Rabin government took
"enough care" achieving adequate security arrangements in the
Gaza/Jericho Agreement and less than half (49.2%) believe that the Rabin
government will see to adequate security arrangements in the Golan.  
     The survey was carried out at what may be termed the lowest point
(after the Wachsman kidnapping by Hamas ended tragically) and highest
point (initialling of peace treaty with Jordan and news of the aliyah
from Syria) in the history of the Rabin government.  The survey found
only small changes in the responses between the two days.  This indi
cates that the underlying positions and beliefs of the Israeli public
cannot be substantially changed even by dramatic events.  
     For example,  the entire "gain" in going from the depths of na
tional anguish to elation was less than 5 percentage points  (42.1% on
Sunday night thought that Rabin and Peres should accept the Nobel Peace
Prize at the scheduled awards ceremony as compared to 47% after the
Jordan-Israel peace treaty).  A similar increase was observed for voting
for Labor if elections were held today:  34.1% up from 29.3% with half
of the gain coming from a drop in Likud from 21.9% to 19.5%.  
     If anything, peace with Jordan has made people more pessimistic
with regards to Gaza-Jericho.  Before news of peace with Jordan came
out, 51.9% of Israelis felt that the Rabin government took "enough care"
with security arrangements in Gaza-Jericho.  This dropped to 45.4% after
the treaty initialling ceremony. Confidence in the Rabin government's
ability to negotiate adequate security arrangements on the Golan was not
affected at all by peace with Jordan (49.2% before versus 49.4% after
peace).
     The above results indicate that the government's ability to change
the outcome of an election or national referendum via dramatic events
immediately before the vote is seriously limited.  Oct. 18, 
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate  
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)

**SETTLERS SCORN NEW MACHPELA CAVE SECURITY MEASURES**

     Jerusalem-- Kiryat Arba and Hebron settlement leaders have warned
OC Judea and Samaria Maj.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz that the government is
inviting another tragedy in the Machpela Cave. Hebron Jewish community
spokesman Noam Arnon said the new security arrangements Mofaz spelled
out to the leaders are unacceptable. These include a stipulation that
the larger Yitzhak Hall will be exclusively for Arab use except for 10
days a year.
     "`This is the first time the IDF has come to talk about the ar
rangements with us,'' Arnon said. "We said that if there is not a
supreme effort to change this infringement on religious rights, there
will be an explosion."
     Some 15 settlement leaders went with Mofaz through the cave, the
first time such a large group of settlers has been allowed there since
the massacre in February.
     Arnon said making the larger Yitzhak Hall off limits to Jews is
unacceptable for a number of reasons. "The other halls do not hold
enough people on Shabbat, there simply is not enough room to pray," he
said. "And we can not live with a situation where we will permanently be
separated from one of our forefathers [Isaac] buried there."
     Among the security devices set up in the cave are metal doors
separating the Yitzhak Hall from the other halls, and metal detectors at
the entrance to the cave that sound if anyone tries to walk in with a
gun.
     Mofaz's visit was followed by a visit by Deputy Defense Minister
Mordechai Gur, who said the cave would be opened "very soon," but would
not give a specific date.
     According to those at the meeting with Mofaz, he said the IDF's
target date for opening the cave is October 31, but that no final
decision by the political echelon has yet been made. 
Jerusalem Post, October 19 

                      **NEWS FROM THE ARAB PRESS**

Almusawar (Egypt)  30.9.94:  From an interview with Farouk Kadumi (PLO
Foreign Minister):
Q: We have heard much about the investments in Palestine.  What is the
extent of the Palestinian money invested or to be invested on infra
structure?
A: We have a Palestine Plan which has 135 projects.  The first Palestin
ian institution which was established was the Palestinian Organization
for Development and Investment with a capital of 200 million.  But how
can we invest when Israel prevents us from doing so?
Q: Has an American-Palestinian program been developed which delineates
the projects which will be invested with American money?
A: The papers have talked a lot and perhaps also in inner offices but
out in the field we don't see anything which has been written or talked
about.  
Q: What about the elections taking place in November as it was said?
A: There won't be elections in November.  The Israeli declarations of
Yitzhak Rabin and Peres emphasized that it is not easy to carry out
elections and it appears that Israel is not prepared to withdraw and
redeploy its forces on 16/12/93 as had been set in the agreement because
in their opinion they will redeploy the Israeli forces in two stages. 
The first stage will be leaving the cities and the second stage will be
a complete distancing from the cities.  They will want this [delay],
claiming that they cannot abandon the settlements, leaving them defense
less.  
Q:  Has the problem of the convening of the Palestine National Assembly
been resolved and if so, when will the meeting take place?
A: Israel demands that the Palestine National Assembly should meet. 
Israel knows that the Palestine National Assembly made a decision in
1988 to resolve the dispute on the basis of establishing two states and
that the PLO Charter does not have a word about the destruction of
Israel.  But Yitzhak Rabin wants to impose his opinion regarding the
need for a meeting of the Palestine National Assembly.  The National
Council will not convene the Palestine National Assembly at Rabin's
behest but rather on the basis of legitimate Palestinian requests.  We
will not deliberate this matter at all from within occupied territory
because this would constitute a recognition on our part of the occupa
tion.  Whether the Assembly is convened or not will be decided by the
Steering Committee and the Secretariat of the Palestine National Assem
bly with the consent of the Palestinian leadership.
Q: No elections and no convening of the Palestine National Assembly...
what is the way out of the distress?
A: We are not in distress,  Israel is in distress.  Those who have given
their backing are in distress.  We will continue in our struggle so long
as there is a single Israeli soldier on Palestinian soil.
Q: Recently have the activities of the Hamas and Jihad become more
radical?  What is your interpretation?
A: No one can complain about what Hamas and Jihad are doing.  I say that
it is the right of every Palestinian to struggle so long are there is a
single Israeli soldier on the land of Palestine. Dr. Aaron Lerner,
Associate  

      SOME OBSERVATIONS IN LIGHT OF THE ATTACK IN TEL AVIV TODAY: 

1) Cognitive dissonance n: psychological conflict resulting from incon
gruous beliefs and attitudes held simultaneously (Webster's New Colle
giate Dictionary).  This describes the Rabin government. 

Minister Yosse Sarid on Israel Radio on Wednesday afternoon:   
Sarid:  There will not be progress in the peace process unless the
Palestinian authorities insure that security is maintained.  We are
confident that they can do this.
Reporter:  Does this mean that we will break off the talks until the PLO
clamps down on Hamas?
Sarid:  No, the peace is greater than everything.  Nothing can stop the
peace.  We will not give into terror.  The peace process cannot stop.

2) The Check Posts:

*  On Monday, a Kol Yisrael reporter noted that the Erez Checkpoint is
known as "machsom berez" (the spigot checkpoint).  According to the
reporter the thousands of vehicles going through are not seriously
checked.  A Gazan interviewed in his car said that he has never been
checked and that anything and anyone can cross the checkpoint.
*  Minister Amnon Rubenstein said today that the security arrangements
at the check posts should be "reviewed" but Minister Shulamit Aloni
insists that the check post remain open.
*  Would the public countenance such an attitude in any other sector? 
Imagine if ELAL announced that they have a problem with the maintenance
regimen for their 747's such that from time to time the planes crash. 
Would the public let the planes fly while ELAL "studies" their mainte
nance program or would the jets be grounded until further notice?

3) Terror Attacks Easier to Carry Out Today:

* There is a big difference between this round of terror attacks and
attacks in the past.  The level of sophistication and frequency is
unprecedented.  This is not a handful of terrorists who managed to pull
off an attack despite heavy security.  Instead these teams enjoy easy
access to equipment, training and refuge in the Fatahlands of the late
90's 

* Gaza and Jericho where Palestinian Police are reported to be full time
or part time members of the military arm of Hamas.

* A critical factor in controlling terrorism is effective intelligence
information.  Israel lost that in Gaza and Jericho and will lose this
capability in much of the rest of Judea and Samaria when Israel with
draws the IDF from the cities and security is handed over to the Pales
tinian Police.

4) PLO Not Serious About Terrorism:

* The words of the PLO in response to the attack are cheap.  Only a few
weeks ago, on 30.9, PLO Foreign Minister Farouk Kadumi told the Egyptian
publication, Almusawar, that "No one can complain about what Hamas and
Jihad are doing.  I say that it is the right of every Palestinian to
struggle so long are there is a single Israeli soldier on the land of
Palestine."

* The PLO leadership has made it clear to Israel that they are both
unwilling and unable to fight Hamas.  The Palestinian Secret Police,
which has shown its skill in capturing and torturing suspected collabo
rators has treated the Hamas with kid gloves. 

5) The Future:

* What will happen?  In a few hours or days the checkpoints will be
reopened and, once again, we will wait for the next attack. 

* A quick poll of activists in Raanana revealed a serious change in the
relationship between the government and the people.  The activists
decided NOT to demonstrate tonight.  This is because the government has
shown itself to be much like the idols referred to in Psalms - "they
have eyes but they do not see,...they have ears and they do not hear." 
Instead there will be a prayer service in Raanana as the people appeal
to God for help.
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate  
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)

                             THE TEMPLE MOUNT
                             by Shomrom News

     Today, while listening to the evening news, we heard Feisal
Husseini asked what he thought of the fact that "settlers, leaders of
the Hevron Jewish community," were permitted to pray inside the Cave of
Machpelah for the first time since the "slaughter".
     One can only cry!! The so-called Jewish government of the sovereign
State of Israel feels the necessity to ask one of the leaders of the PLO
what he thinks about Jews praying at this holy site. While this may
endanger the peace talks, we neglected to ask permission.  
     Perhaps the time has come to speak with the Moslem WAKF. Now that
we have achieved peace with both the PLO and Jordan, the time has come
to ask if they will allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. The heart of
Am Yisroel (the people of Israel) remains in the hands of a nation that
yearns for the destruction of the Jewish Nation. How many times have we
heard the shouts of "Allah  Akbar" from the minarets? The incitement for
a jihad, a Moslem holy war against the Jews?
     While American  Jewry is still euphoric over the latest achievement
of   Mr. Rabin, the long awaited peace with Jordan, families Poraz and
Waxsman are sitting shiva for their sons. Jewish victims of Arab terror
can be found in hospitals across the country. Hamas vows to continue the
attacks against innocent Israeli civilians. Feisal Husseini is afforded
time on T.V., Baruch Marzel is not. Feisal Husseini can drive to Shchem,
Jericho and Hevron. 18 Jews that were served with restraining orders may
not.
      The Vatican is working overtime to draw up the plans for dividing
Jerusalem, the city holy to the Jewish nation. We publicly thank Yassir
Arafat for doing his utmost to save Nachshon Waxman,  May his blood be
avenged. El Fajir, the PLO newspaper called the terrorists heroes,
martyrs!!
     American Jewry, when will you wake up? Your establishment leaders
along with the Government of Israel, under the leadership of Mr.
Yitzchak Rabin, are giving Israel away to terrorists. They are endanger
ing the safety of the citizens of the land. They are forsaking the
pioneers, the builders of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Netzarim (in Gaza)
has been under siege for 48 hours! Where is the outcry? In the name of
peace, the police now call terrorist attacks criminal in nature. We must
keep the number of attacks down, we have signed an accord. We cannot
stop the terrorists,  but we can change the numbers.
     IDF soldiers sit in prison, called the "revenge underground", while
Arabs arrested with explosives and with plans for a terrorist attack in
their possession are released on bail.
     Rabbi Aido Alba endangers the country, Dr. Ibraham El-Ya'arori of
Hamas does not.
     Jews of the diaspora..you must wake up!! It is not too late to
protest the Nobel prize ceremony. Send letters, faxes, fly to the
ceremony if you can. Tell the Israeli government that you do not support
the giving away of the holy land!
     If you don't, please spare the memorials later on. We do not need
you to say kaddish!! We need you to help now. 

Freeman Center for Strategic Studies
P.O. Box 35709
Houston, Texas 77235-5709
Telephone or Fax: 713-723-6016
Email:  BSAPHIR@AOL.COM

October 19, 1994

MEMO TO: Consul General Meir Romem and Vice-Consul Ofra Farhi
FROM: Bernard J. Shapiro
SUBJECT: Terrorist attack in Tel Aviv

The Freeman Center offers our heartfelt condolences to families of the
victims of the recent atrocity in Tel Aviv. Please note the following:

1.Three days following the signing of the DOP in Washington (September 13,
1993), I had a confirmed report that Arafat had signed an agreement with
Hamas not to fight each other but save their ammunition to "kill the Jews." 
2. In the thirteen months since the agreement, the following has become
clear: (a) Terrorism has gone up (b) cooperation between Hamas and PLO is
open and clear (c) the autonomy territories of Gaza  and Jericho have become
"safe  havens" for terrorists (d) Arafat has made it perfectly clear that the
goal of the PLO is still the destruction of Israel (e) many more items could
be mentioned, but  the point is made.
3. It is time to recognize that each loss of Jewish life in Israel is not a
"sacrifice for peace" but a sacrifice to a failed and self-destructive policy
of Israel's present government.
4. It is time for you and the Israeli government to listen to the words of
Midge Decter: "To cry peace, peace when there is no peace, the prophet
Jeremiah taught us long ago, is not the expression of hope, not even
superstition, but a reckless toying with the minds and hearts of people whose
very future depends on their capacity to rise every day to the harsh morning
light of the truth."

SUPPRESSION OF DISSENT AND DEMOCRACY
Fear And Loathing In Israel and Houston
By Bernard J. Shapiro

The Rabin government is pushing the "peace process" at an ever increasing
pace despite serious reservations expressed by many responsible people.
Objective analyses of risks versus benefits for Israel's various deals with
PLO Terrorist Yasir Arafat and the projected Golan withdrawal and deal with
Syria, show nothing but danger and not peace in Israel's future. From the
standpoint of security, water supplies, Zionism and social cohesion the
present "peace process" is a disaster. 

The Israeli government's answer is to suppress the opposition and try to
silence their voice. In the clear cold light of day the plans of the
government appear totally reckless. Israeli & Global News (October 7, 1994)
reports: "Israel's intelligence leaders, realizing the implications of the
peace process on the country's security, are quitting at an alarming
rate....None want to be held responsible for events they view, as out of
control."

Israeli Chief of Staff, Lt. General Ehud Barak has clearly warned that
withdrawal from the Golan will jeopardize Israel's security. He also said
(Jerusalem Post, September 10, 1994) "IDF redeployment in Judea and Samaria
prior to and during elections for the Palestinian council will pose security
dangers to Israeli settlers using main arteries passing through city centers.
The head of the IDF military intelligence research division, Brig. General
Yaakov Ami Dror, said (Jewish Press, September 23, 1994) " Despite the
current Middle East Peace negotiations not one Arab leader has accepted the
concept of peace." Military officers, including supporters of the Rabin's
Labor Party, are more and more speaking out against the disastrous policies
of the government. Knowing that he can not depend on the regular Israel
Defense Forces to evict Jews from their homes in Judea, Samaria and Gaza
(YESHA), Rabin is setting up a special commando force. This unit is
recruiting left-wing soldiers, who have no friends or relatives in YESHA or
friends and relatives who are religious. The danger to Israeli democracy of
such a private politicized military unit should be obvious.

I received a video last week from a new group called TZEDEK TZEDEK, The
Jewish Civil Liberties Center. The video, "ISRAEL TODAY: The Impact of the
Peace Process on Democracy & Dissent, " showed in graphic detail the
suppression of civil liberties by the Rabin government. The government has
gained control of most of the major mass media, radio and television. Some
newspapers are still free but are under increasing pressure. The Jerusalem
Post, for instance, published a story about the government's plans to
withdraw to the 1967 borders. The government punished it by cancelling 1200
subscriptions to it that had been sent to consulates and embassies abroad for
decades. This not only deprived non-Hebrew speaking foreigners from reading
about Israel but also eliminated the only alternative viewpoint on government
policies from reaching Israel's diplomats abroad. The government also denied
the validity of the story, which has proven to be quite accurate as time
passes. 

The video  shows horrible pictures of Israeli police brutally suppressing
peaceful demonstrations against the government's policies. Ida Nudel, the
famous Russian- Jewish refusnik, says, "The Russian police sometimes were
quite vicious against Jewish demonstrators, but never as brutal as what is
happenning here in Israel, in a Jewish State."

She asks rhetorically, "What will the government do next to the opposition?
Shoot them?"

Recently there have been rather heavy- handed attempts to suppress the views
of an increasing number of Jews and Christians concerned with the well being
of Israel. In fact, the latest polls reflect a majority in Israel opposed to
the government's policies. (A recent poll which appeared in Yediot Aharonot
[October 7, 1994] showed Rabin trailing opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu,
37% to 50%.)  

The attempt to suppress the opposition has spread rapidly to the United
States. Being one of the more visible representatives of the opposition, I
have found myself in the eye of the storm quite often. Here is the background
to the latest attempt to suppress the opposition here in Houston: A year ago,
Nahum Dafni of Congregation Brith Shalom was organizing a panel discussion on
the Middle East "peace process." Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO
Terrorist Yasir Arafat had just signed their Declaration of Principles and
peace euphoria was very much in the air. One might even have expected Isaiah
to appear on Ted Koppel's Nightline with video clips of lions lying down with
lambs. Dafni was looking for four or five panelists divided between
supporters and opponents of the PLO deal. Anyone was acceptable except me.
Apparently word was out that I was flawed with excessive zeal for Zionism.
Others felt that I was excluded because my knowledge of the subject would
make me too tough an opponent.

Dr. Richard Rolnick was selected to represent the opposition and did an
outstanding job. I attended the program and afterward poked fun at Dafni and
the others who were "afraid to go up against me." Dafni assured me that
should they do this type of program again next year, he would invite me to
join the panel. As promised, a month ago, Dafni called me and invited me to
join the panel for a similar program at Congregation Brith Shalom, discussing
the "peace process." The other participants were: Rabbi Joseph Radinsky of
United Orthodox Synagogues; Randy Czarlinsky, director of the Community
Relations Committee; Rabbi Shaul Osadchey of Congregation Brith Shalom. Ofra
Farhi, Vice-Consul of Israel, was scheduled to make an opening statement.

Everything seemed fine and then Consul General Meir Romem returned from a
trip to Israel, where he had spent the Holy Days. A few days after his return
a  call is placed from the Consulate to Dafni informing him that Farhi could
not appear on the same platform with me. Another call apparently went to
Czarlinsky where it was agreed to ask Dafni to withdraw the invitation to me.
The fact that I had notified the members of the Freeman Center to hold the
date open for a debate on the "peace process" was to be used as a cover for
blacklisting me.  In the American political context (and in Webster's 10th
Collegiate Dictionary) debate, panel discussion, forum are pretty close to
synonymous.

Dafni called me and politely asked me to withdraw, claiming that all the
other panel members wanted me out because of my inadvertent use of the word
"debate." I politely informed Dafni that the "debate excuse" was not credible
and I refused to resign.  I then spoke with most of the participants and
discovered that they all had not demanded my ouster from the program. A few
days later Dafni called to withdraw his invitation and I confronted him with
the fact that he had misrepresented the views of the other participants. In
my view, it was clearly the Israeli Consulate that motivated the blacklist,
with the other parties acquiescing and covering up the facts. He hung up on
me.

What has just occurred here in Houston is happening all over this country and
like I have reported, even more intensely in Israel. We must decide whether
as a community, we will countenance an Israeli version of "McCarthyism" with
its blacklists right here in Houston. Freedom is usually  not  lost all at
once, but is lost a little bit here and another bit there. We wake one
morning to find it gone. The quote below, one of my favorites, is from John
Stuart Mill's book ON LIBERTY and contains a lesson for us all:

"If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and that one was of the
contrary opinion, it would be as unjust for mankind to silence that one man
as it would be for that person , if he had the power, to silence all
mankind."

Bernard J. Shapiro is the director of the Freeman Center For Strategic
Studies in Houston, Texas and editor of its monthly magazine, THE MACABEAN.

>From: The Jerusalem Post, November 15, 1994

HIS MASTER'S VOICE
by ARIEL SHARON

"When intelligence is ignored, undermined or tailored to suit the
politicians, security is in a very bad way."

(The writer, a Likud MK, is a former defense minister.)

     DURING my many years as an army commander and as a cabinet minister,
intelligence reports and fact-based evaluations were
generally made independently of the political party in power.  
     Today, unfortunately, the reverse is true.  Why?  Because in many
cases, intelligence reports indicate a totally different course of action
from the one the government is taking, and run counter to the
"information" our leaders release to the public.  
     Example: For more than a year, intelligence reports said Yasser
Arafat wouldn't fight terror, and that attacks on Israelis would
continue.  
     But what did the government tell the public?  That Arafat would
fight terror, "without recourse to the High Court of Justice." 
     Yet terror has increased, taking a heavy toll.  Friday's suicide
bombing at the Netzarim checkpoint, which killed three IDF reservists and
wounded six other soldiers, is just the latest in a string of
recent attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians.  
     Intelligence reports indicated Arafat did not intend to, or couldn't,
abrogate the Palestinian Covenant calling for Israel's
destruction.  
     But what did the premier and foreign minister tell the people?  That
Arafat had promised he would do away with the covenant very soon. 
 
     They not only ignored information from the intelligence services,
but, in addition, gave the public a dishonest picture.  
     Only very gradually have I discovered something more: that instead of
presenting the facts as they are, some intelligence officers are likely to
omit facts or simply not pass them on, for fear of harming our leaders'
party-political needs.  Or, conversely, they match evaluations to
situations, without recourse to the facts, to
suit the politicians' mood.  
     The prime minister has forcibly politicized the system.  In it,
only one voice is heard: "His Master's Voice."
     THERE COULD hardly be a graver example of the government's attempt to
whitewash reality and bend facts to suit its policy than the premier's
attempt last week to undermine and question the motives of Brig.-Gen.
Ya'acov Amidror, a senior Intelligence Branch officer
who cast doubts on the credibility of Syria's Hafez Assad.  
     But Amidror was doing no more than stating the truth.  Assad has
broken agreements, whenever and wherever he pleases.  
     In the Six Day War, in violation of the 1949 armistice agreement,
when we were still fighting on the Egyptian front and Assad (then defense
minister) thought we had weakened or were hard-pressed, Syrian
tanks attacked the northern sector of the Galilee panhandle.  
     They were repelled, and the attack resulted in Israel's
conquering the Golan.  
     In the Yom Kippur War, Assad violated the 1967 cease-fire and,
without any provocation from Israel, attacked the Golan Heights, his
forces almost crossing the Jordan River.  
     The premier flaunts the 1974 Disengagement of Forces agreement.  But
Assad breached that pact as well, by ordering the re-emplacement of
ground-to-air missiles in Lebanon in 1981, inhibiting Israeli
overflights and ignoring the "red lines" in the sector.  
     Today, Assad is violating agreements by encouraging and actively
aiding Hizbullah's forces and Palestinian terror groups to launch attacks
which cause heavy casualties to our units in southern Lebanon. 
 
     The fact that Assad is doing this in Lebanon changes nothing: 
Lebanon is Syrian-occupied.  Hizbullah's bases are in territory that
has been effectively Syrian since January 1976.  
     The Palestinian terror organizations now operating more vigorously in
southern Lebanon are all headquartered in Damascus.  In Lebanon, Assad
finds it easy to violate agreements, whereas on the Golan, it's harder and
more dangerous, because of the IDF's proximity
to Damascus.  
     What Brig.-Gen. Amidror said about Assad was honest, responsible and
professional.  And it was timely.  What it it means is that Israel
must ensure the best possible security arrangements vis-a-vis Syria. 
     There have been too many indications that our security is being
undermined.  Failures have been too many and too frequent for it to be a
coincidence.  And when the issue is IDF Intelligence evaluations, it
is very dangerous.  
     The question is: Has the rot set in even in our intelligence
community?  (c) JPFS 1994


 

>From: The Jerusalem Post, November 14, 1994                         

RABIN'S NEW CAUTION
OPINION by DAVID BAR-ILLAN
Post Executive Editor

   According to participants in Sunday's cabinet meeting, the Friday
killing of three army officers by Islamic Jihad cast an impenetrable
shadow over the proceedings.  For the first time since signing the Oslo
agreement, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin expressed doubt about implementing
the agreement in Judea and Samaria on schedule.  While there was no
intention to delay "empowering" the Palestinians in the spheres of welfare
and tourism, he said, the questions of security could not be handled in a
rush.  Negotiations on security matters may
take many months.  
     The government still believes that Islamic Jihad, like the other
rejectionists who cheered the attack at the Netzarim junction, is trying
to stop "the process," not to hasten it; and that delaying or suspending
the talks with the PLO would be tantamount to a surrender
to the terrorists.  
     But if reports from the cabinet meeting are accurate, Rabin is having
second thoughts about one part of the agreement: the withdrawal and its
security implications.  He hopes to bolster Arafat's position by giving
him control over much of the daily life of the population in Judea and
Samaria (the West Bank).  But he wishes to suspend
withdrawal until Arafat proves he can control the terrorists.  
     What this means is that the agreement should have been structured
differently; that the handover of responsibility for security should have
been conditioned on the complete cessation of terrorist activity for, say,
six months.  Now it may be too late.  To expect that the PLO will now be
satisfied with "putting out the garbage," as its spokesmen used to deride
any proposal which did not include armed control over defined territories,
is unrealistic.  But the alternative is a
prescription for disaster.  
     The danger is that again the government will be loathe to break an
agreement on which it has staked its future, even though the PLO has not
kept its own part of the deal.  If it follows past patterns, it may again
allow itself to be persuaded by PLO arguments that the
root cause of terrorism is Israel's presence in the territories.  
     The unanimity with which every Palestinian - from "moderate"  Nabil
Shaath to Hamas spokesmen - suggested immediately after Friday's killing
that dismantling the settlements would bring calm was nothing short of
startling.  Even Tishrin, the government newspaper in Damascus, urged
Israel "to learn the lesson of recent attacks, relinquish the occupied
territories and thus stop the increasing
attacks on it."
     Unfortunately, there are cabinet ministers who readily concur.  They
would probably rather talk about it only after a decent interval has
elapsed, but they are obviously itching to explain why it would be easier
to protect Israelis from "the enemies of peace" if at least some of the
settlements are removed.  That these enemies vow to fight Israel until it
forfeits every last inch of "Arab land," and that the most devastating
terrorist strike was against bus riders in the heart of Tel Aviv, not
against "settlers" seems not to impress Environment Minister Yossi Sarid. 
"We need places like Netzarim like a hole in
the head," he said yesterday.  
     But it was Rabin himself who reminded the cabinet that the majority
of terror victims were killed inside the Green Line.  Indeed, Islamic
Jihad has vowed to strike at targets not only in Tel Aviv but abroad - in
Britain, Germany and Argentina.  None of these can quite
meet the definition of "a hole in the head." 
     Rabin seems to have decided against accelerating the process,
evacuating the settlements, leapfrogging to final status talks, and
rushing into an agreement with Syria to neutralize the rejectionists - all
proposed by doves as quick fixes for the scourge of terrorism.  He seems
to have concluded that such solutions will only exacerbate an increasingly
untenable situation.  One can only hope that, if he is determined to
continue with the process, he will at least stand his ground on calling a
halt to withdrawal, until he can be sure that the redeployment of the IDF
in Judea and Samaria will not create Gaza Strips within spitting distance
of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.  (c) JPFS 1994

Yediot Aharonot reports (16 November 1994) on a speech given by
Yasser Arafat before 5,000 people in Gaza on November 15 to
commemorate what the Palestinians consider to be their independence
day. In his address, Arafat said,

    "We hope to celebrate our next Independence Day in Jerusalem, the
    capital of the Palestinian people. Today, we are celebrating our
    independence for the first time on Palestinian land, and we will
    continue to celebrate on Palestinian lands that will be freed from
    the Zionist enemy.

    We will take all open and freed land, and we will establish our
    state on those territories from which the Israeli enemy leaves. We
    will raise our flag throughout the Palestinian state."

The paper reports that "Arafat's speech was based, among other things,
on the decision of the Palestine National Council which is known as
'the phased plan.' According to the plan, the Palestinians will take
control in stages over land that is freed, through political means or
through armed struggle. The final goal, according to the plan, is to
take control over all of Israel's land."


Michael Freund
Co-Chair, IRIS

     PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, speaking before 5,000 at "Independence
Day" celebrations yesterday in Gaza, said "In 1974 the Palestinian
National Council took a decision to establish a Palestinian national
authority on any lands the Zionist enemy would withdraw from." (1974 was
the year the PNC adopted the "Phase Plan" aimed at destroying the State
of Israel in phases.) Arafat added , "We have reached the first phase
but the road is still long...we will continue to march until the
Palestinian flag flies over Jerusalem." 
     Official ceremonies also took place in Abu Dis near Jerusalem and
in honor of this day, full color posters produced by Fatah's Shabiba
Movement were posted throughout Jerusalem and Yesha showing a picture of
the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and a portrait of Arafat. The poster's
Arabic caption read, "Jerusalem is ours and nobody else's whether you
like it or not." 
     The parade in Gaza was led by Arafat's "Force 17" whose commanding
officer's name is Abu Hitler. At the graduation ceremonies in Jericho
for the Palestinian Authority's security service, it was reveled that at
least 10 of the "graduates" were released convicts guilty of multiple
murders. One is Nasser Nagi, a Fatah member who was released by Israel
in July after he was sentenced to 600 years (11 life sentences) for the
torture and murder of 13 Arabs he deemed colaboraters. This is in clear
violation o f the Oslo Accords which prohibits convicted murderers from
joining the Palestinian Authority security forces. In a speech, full of
praise for Saddam Hussein, the course's commander, Abu Fahid, said, "We
will continue the struggle until Jerusalem, Haifa and Beit She'an are
liberated." Maariv Nov 16 & Yediot Aharonot Nov 17 

                **ARAFAT NEGATES PROVISIONS OF THE DOP**

     Israel submitted an official protest to the Palestinian Authority
in response to remarks made Wednesday by PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat,
Israel Radio, KOL YISRAEL, reported. The protest came after Arafat used
the term "Zionist enemy", and other expressions which contradict the
Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles, at a graduation ceremony
for newly trained Palestinian police.
    Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said Israel's willingness to continue
the peace process with the Palestinians would be affected if the PLO
Chairman does not fulfil the obligations of the DOP. Prime Minister
Rabin, currently on a nine-day visit to the U.S., added that Israel will
reconsider the issue of Palestinian elections in the territories if the
PLO does not delete portions of the Palestinian National Covenant which
call for the destruction of Israel. Israeline November 17, 1994

     Arab League Secretary-General Ismat Abdel Maguid announced the
League would not lift the Arab boycott until Israel withdraws from all
occupied territories and adheres to all UN resolutions, Israel Radio
reported yesterday. The Arab League is the only body empowered to
abolish the 48 year-old boycott. Jerusalem Post, November 15 

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          Yesha Council of Jewish Communities   | | " | | |  |
          in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza          _|_|   |_|_|
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----------------------- YESHA NEWS SERVICE 17 NOVEMBER 1994 ------------------

(In cooperation with Arutz 7 Radio) 

ARAFAT CELEBRATES "INDEPENDENCE DAY" 
          PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, speaking before 
5,000 at "Independence Day" celebrations yesterday 
in Gaza, said "In 1974 the Palestinian National 
Council 
took a decision to establish a Palestinian national 
authority on any lands the Zionist enemy would 
withdraw from."  (1974 was the year the PNC
 adopted the "Phase Plan" aimed at destroying 
the State of Israel in phases.)  Arafat added , "We 
have reached the first phase but the road is still 
long...we will continue to march until the Palestinian 
flag flies over Jerusalem." 
        Official ceremonies also took place in Abu Dis 
near Jerusalem and in honor of this day, full color 
posters produced by Fatah's Shabiba Movement were 
posted throughout Jerusalem and Yesha showing a 
picture of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and a 
portrait of Arafat.  The poster's Arabic caption 
read, "Jerusalem is ours and nobody else's whether 
you like it or not." 
	The parade in Gaza was led by Arafat's "Force 17" 
whose commanding officer's name is Abu Hitler.  At the 
graduation ceremonies in Jericho for the Palestinian Authority's 
security service, it was reveled that at least 10 of the "graduates" 
were released convicts guilty of multiple murders.  One is Nasser 
Nagi, a Fatah member who was released by Israel in July after he was 
sentenced to 600 years (11 life sentences) for the torture and murder 
of 13 Arabs he deemed colaboraters.  This is in clear violation o
f the Oslo Accords which prohibits convicted murderers from joining 
the Palestinian Authority security forces.  In a speech, full of praise 
for Saddam Hussein, the course's commander, Abu Fahid, said, "We will
continue the struggle until Jerusalem, Haifa and Beit She'an are 
liberated."(Maariv & Yesha Council Press Release November 16 & 
Yediyot Aharonot November 17) 

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY TO RELEASE 170 
HELD JIHAD MEMBERS IN GAZA 
        Palestinian Authority Security Chief Nasser 
Yusef told Al-Quds Arabic newspaper that the 
estimated 170 Islamic Jihad members taken into custody 
yesterday may be released shortly because there are 
no laws restricting activities of political factions. 
        On Monday, Palestinian Authority soldiers broke 
up the mock  funeral for the Islamic Jihad suicide 
bomber responsible for the recent Netzarim attack 
killing 3. However, they did not prevent a 
demonstration by several hundred Islamic Jihad 
activists near the bomber's house.  "Rabin be patient, 
the Jihad is digging your grave," and "ya, Arafat, the 
Jihad killed [Egyptian president Anwar]Sadat, and the 
Jihad has not died," were among the threats chanted 
there. 
        Abdullah Shami, Islamic Jihad's most promi- 
nent spokesman in Gaza, was not  among those 
arrested despite Palestinian Authority officials 
reporting so. 
        The symbolic funeral  will be postponed 
indefinitely in order to prevent Arab bloodshed and 
preserve Arab unity, Jihad leader, Nafiz Izzam told 
An-Nahar Arabic newspaper. 
Banners, some in English ,throughout Gaza city said, 
"The Kassam battalions will continue to kill Jews." 
(Kassam is part of Islamic Jihad.) (Jerusalem Post, 
November 14-16) 


POLITICAL QUESTIONNAIRE TO IDF RECRUITS 
            Likud Knesset faction strongly criticized 
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for turning the IDF into 
a political arm when they discovered that a politically 
oriented questionnaire is being given to new IDF 
recruits in which questions appear asking them their 
opinions on the Peace Process and if they would be 
able to carry out orders against their conscience.  
Likud MK Limor Livnat labelled the questionnaire a 
vehicle which the Labor Party is weeding out people 
who don't agree with their policies.  They will use the 
results to prevent them from advancement in the 
army.  (Maariv, November 16)   

OSLO ACCORDS WORRY SECURITY EXPERTS 
          At a press conference yesterday in Tel Aviv, 
Security experts of the Jaffe Center for Strategic 
Studies expressed deep concern over the Oslo accords 
and recommended changes be made if the process 
should be continued. They  reported that the recent 
peace agreements have in no way lessened the 
Middle East arms race. (Arutz 7 Radio, November 15 
& Haaretz, November 16) 

HISTADRUT SIGNS ACCORD WITH ARAB UNION 
            The Histadrut on Monday signed an agree- 
ment with the Palestinian General Federation of Trade 
Unions, after months of clandestine meetings.  Under 
its terms, it will transfer NIS 6 million-NIS 7m to the 
Arab unions in Gaza and the territories over the next 
two years. 
          In related matters, the Histadrut is receiving 
$ 40 million in government bailouts for its financially 
ailing health fund, Clallit in order to avert a strike 
threatened by its 32,000 employees who hadn't been 
paid last month.  Despite this bailout, Clallit has 
decided to make a number of cutbacks including the 
closure of the research laboratories at Soroka Hospi- 
tal in Beersheba. (Jerusalem Post, November 15) 

HIGH COL INDEX DUE TO OSLO ACCORDS 
          Shock waves reverberated through out the 
Finance Ministry over the publication of this month's 
Cost of Living Index which rose 1.4% over last 
month. The rising cost of produce such as the 53% 
rise in the price of tomatos made up the bulk of the 
Index' rise.  Yoseph Blair, Secretary of the Produce 
Growers Association said that the Oslo accords are to 
blame for the rising tomato prices because many 
Jewish farmers, fearing imminent competition with 
Arab farmers, stopped farming 1000s of acres of 
tomato fields.(Arutz 7 November 15) 

RABIN MEETS NETZARIM RESIDENTS 
        Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin spoke to Netzarim 
residents at the entrance to the community yesterday 
and met with Gaza Coast Council Head, Zvi Hendel.          
Rabin said settlements like Netzarim will remain in 
their places at least until final negotiations are 
concluded. 
        MK Ariel Sharon (Likud) visited Netzarim on 
Monday to show his support, amid increasing calls to 
dismantle the Gaza settlement following Friday's 
terror attack that killed three IDF officers at a nearby 
road junction. 
        Earlier on Monday, in an Israel Radio interview, 
Environment Minister Yossi Sarid referred to the idea 
of Netzarim being moved, saying this is some- thing 
that will not disappear from the agenda." (Jerusalem 
Post & Arutz 7 Radio, November 15) 

TWO INJURED IN FIREBOMBING/WOMAN 
NARROWLY ESCAPES MURDER 
             Two people suffered moderate burn injuries 
when a molotov cocktail was thrown at their car 
while traveling from Jerusalem to Maale Adumim.  
they narrowly escaped before the car burst into 
flames.(Arutz 7 Radio, November 15) 
             A woman driving to Har Gilo near the Gush 
Etzion Block just south of Jerusalem was attacked by 
Arabs when she made a wrong turn into the Beit Jalla 
village  Two masked men in camouflage uniforms 
tried to overturn her car and beat it with metal 
pipes while villagers watched.  She managed to drive 
out unharmed but was in shock.  (Yediyot Aharonot, 
November 16) 
             Meanwhile, on Monday, shots were fired at 
three cars near Kibbutz Be'eri, close to the edge of 
Gaza .(Itim News Agency November 15) 

ONE WOUNDED AT NETZARIM NOW 
PARALYZED 
             Ziv Goren, 26, from Kibbutz Zikim, one of 
men injured when a suicide bomber attacked at the 
Netzarim junction has been left a quadraplegic. 
(Jerusalem Post, November 14) 

PLO POLICE CLOSE ROUTE TO TIBERIAS 
               The Jordan Valley Settlements' Committee 
warned yesterday that residents would have to take 
"unequivocal action" if Palestinian Police at Ouja 
prevent Israelis from using route 90 through that 
village, as they did Sunday night.  the route is used 
by travelers from Jerusalem through the Jordan Valley 
to Tiberias. 
                 The PLO Police apparently set up the road- 
block in retaliation for an IDF roadblock that was set 
up at another location after shots were heard on the 
Jericho bypass road. 
                  Miri Ben-Ari, a resident of Tomer, said 
she was driving home from work at 6 p.m. when she 
approached Ouja, and a PLO policeman told her she 
couldn't go through.  An altercation developed when 
IDF soldiers from a nearby roadblock came to see 
what was happening.  (Jerusalem Post, November 15) 

ARAB LEAGUE:  BOYCOTT CONTINUES 
                    Arab League Secretary-General Ismat 
Abdel Maguid announced the League would not lift 
the Arab boycott until Israel withdraws from all 
occupied territories and adheres to all UN resolutions, 
Israel Radio reported yesterday.  The Arab League is 
the only body empowered to abolish the 48 year-old 
boycott.  (Jerusalem Post, November 15) 

CBS REPORT POPULATION INCREASE IN 
YESHA 
            The number of Jews in the territories grew by 
10 percent in 1993, despite a shift away from 
government support for settlements, the Central 
Bureau of Statistics reported. The figure includes both 
births and migration. (Jerusalem Post, November 15) 

MKs TAKE INTEREST IN ORIENT HOUSE 
             Members of the Tsomet Knesset faction 
toured eastern Jerusalem on Tuesday, approaching 
but not entering Orient House. "This is sad," said 
Tsomet head MK Rafael Eitan, as he looked at the 
PLO headquarters.  "Here we see the Palestinian state 
in the middle of Jerusalem."  He claimed that the 
Labor Party is refusing to close Orient House or 
restrict political activities there because of Meretz's 
influence. "As long as Meretz doesn't let the govern- 
ment move Orient House from here or close it, they 
[the Palestinians] will continue to expand it," he said. 
           Yesterday, 3 left wing MKs, Meretz MKs Anat 
Ma'or and Naomi Chazan and Labor MK Yael Dayan, 
visited Orient House to show their support for 
continuing  the conduct of Palestinian affairs there.  
(Jerusalem Post, November 15-16) 

BAUMEL:  GOV'T IS GIVING UP ON MIAs 
            Speaking at the memorial service to mark 30 
days since the deaths of kidnapped soldier Nachshon 
Wachsman and Nir Poraz, the officer who led the 
rescue attempt, Yona Baumel, the father of Zachary 
Baumel, missing in action since the battle for Sultan 
Yakub in Lebanon in 1982, has accused the govern- 
ment of doing nothing to bring his son and the other 
MIAs home.  
            The service was held at the Horev Yeshiva 
High School in Jerusalem, where Wachsman studied 
until going into the army last year.  Later, thousands 
gathered for a prayer rally with the chief rabbis at the 
Western Wall to remember the dead and pray for the 
return of the six missing soldiers: Baumel, Rahamim 
Alsheikh, Yosef Fink, Ron Arad, Tzvi Feldman and 
Yehuda Katz. 
            "Arafat claims our sons are dead and buried 
in an area out of his control, although some of his 
men know where.  We believe they are still alive, but 
if he says he knows where the bodies are, he should 
bring them back to Israel so they can be examined 
and either shown to be our boys or not, Baumel said
         Horev principal Rabbi Mordechai Elon ex- 
plained the decision to hold the memorial service for 
Wachsman and Poraz together with the International 
Coalition for Missing Israeli Soldiers.  "For four-and-
a-half days there was no one here who didn't think 
about what Nahshon was going through at the hands 
of those beasts," he said.  "For the families of the 
missing in action, it has been...for [up to] 12 
years.(Jerusalem Post, November 15) 


GOV'T CANCELS PLANS TO BUILD 
SETTLEMENT 
            The government rescinded a decision by the 
Likud government to establish the settlement of 
Ramat Kidron between Ma'ale Adumim and Tekoa.  
A company called Davka, which had wanted to 
develop the new site, had filed suit against the 
government for not implementing the earlier decision.  
To get the suit dismissed, Prime Minister Yitzhak 
Rabin formally asked the government to cancel plans 
to build the settlement.  (Jerusalem Post, November 14) 


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From: The Jerusalem Post, November 21, 1994 
                        
MONEY IS NOT THE ANSWER
by DAVID BAR-ILLAN
Post Executive Editor

     THERE seemed to be general agreement in Sunday's cabinet meeting
about the root cause of Yasser Arafat's problems: lack of funds.  Vast
amounts were promised the future Palestinian Authority in the flush of
last year's euphoria, but little has materialized.  Neither the Arab
governments nor the Western countries have delivered on their promises. 
To make matters worse, the Republican victory in the US casts doubt on the
American commitment to grant the PLO $500 million. 

     Nor are private investors any keener.  The talk of turning Gaza into
a Mediterranean Hongkong through vast private projects has subsided if not
disappeared.  Friday's bloody riots have made such
investments even less likely, at least in the immediate future.  
     As a result, say the ministers, life in Gaza is more miserable and
hopeless than ever.  The standard of living is 25 percent lower than when
Israel left in May.  A full third of the working force is unemployed. 
Work in Israel - when lifting the closure makes it possible - is scarce. 
At best, only a few thousand cross the Erez checkpost to the Green Line -
nowhere near the 100,000 who used to
find employment in Israel before the intifada.  
     Even local industries have trouble functioning for lack of steady
supplies from Israel.  Essential services, too, are not what they used to
be.  Although Israel is still paying many of the bills, nothing works
steadily.  Even the police have not received their salaries regularly,
which seems to make a large number of policemen sympathetic to Hamas
protesters.  In sum, poverty and misery - now more widespread
than ever - are creating bitterness, despair and violence.  
     The logical conclusion, according to the government, is to pour money
- as much and as soon as possible - into Yasser Arafat's coffers.  This is
what Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, always ahead of the government's
thinking, has been preaching for more than a year.  He and his emissaries
have been trying to drum up grants, loans and investments for the PA with
zeal that fund-raisers for the United Jewish Appeal would envy.  Rich
American Jews, European conglomerates and Saudi business tycoons have all
been approached with a plea to
make the peace process work by aiding the Palestinian economy.  
     Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has made similar pleas.  A little
less subtle than Peres, he has added a threat to his pitch.  In an
interview with the London Times (published on Friday, before the Gaza
riots), he warned that unless the "contributing countries" delivered the
$2.2 billion they had promised the PA, Gaza would explode and become a
base of regional instability.  This, he said, would affect not only the
Middle East but all of Europe.  It is very easy to get to Europe from the
Mideast, particularly since there are fundamentalist
cells all over the continent, he warned.  
     Like Mubarak, Peres is urging foreign contributors to put their money
where their mouth is.  But while Mubarak has not offered Egyptian money to
save the Middle East and Europe, Peres would like to volunteer his own
country's contribution.  On Sunday he suggested that on top of what Israel
is already paying to keep water and electricity running in the Strip, the
government should find ways of giving more money to the Palestinians. 
Such generosity worries Finance Minister Avraham Shohat, who protested
that the Treasury - struggling with the threat of rampant inflation, the
demands of special interest groups and the price of vegetables - will not
be able to carry the burden of
supporting the PA.  
     If throwing money at the PA would indeed bring peace; if investment
and government aid could stabilize and persuade Palestinians to coexist
with Israel, Peres's effort would be more than justified.  But there is no
reason to believe that money would make much difference.  If the US and
Europe are reluctant to deliver on their promised contributions it is not
only because Arafat refuses to establish norms of financial accountability
in Gaza, but because they
know that not all problems can be solved with money.  
     Americans are particularly aware of the limitations of financial aid
in resolving social and political problems.  Throwing staggering amounts
of government and private funds at inner-city slums, the drug problem and
affirmative action for minorities has done little to
ameliorate intractable problems.  
     It is even less likely that the Arab-Israeli conflict can be reduced
to materialist terms.  The intolerance in the Arab world for Israel's
existence does not stem from economic hardship.  It is mostly
religiously and nationalistically inspired.  
     That only poverty and ignorance can breed the kind of hatred which
produces suicidal bombers is manifestly untrue.  The most recent such
suicide killer, who caused the death of three officers in Netzarim, was a
well-educated member of an upper-middle-class family.  In fact, most of
the Hamas and Jihad leaders are intellectuals, professionals and teachers
whose backgrounds are decidedly not
disadvantaged.  
     Nor should conditions in Gaza be blamed for a phenomenon which
plagues the Moslem world from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.  To assume
that Islamic militancy will disappear with the improvement of the Strip's
standard of living is to grossly underestimate the power and seduction of
religious fervor.  If anything, a more buoyant
economy may make the fanatics more dangerous.  
     That Peres believes in a financial solution is hardly surprising. 
 For the past decade he has been driven by a vision of a Middle East
Marshall Plan.  He clearly believes that what worked for war-torn,
devastated Europe after World War II can work for the war-torn Middle
East.  But the reason the Marshall Plan worked in Western Europe was that
all the beneficiary countries were Western democracies.  To expect such a
plan to work in the religiously fanatic, hopelessly corrupt, ethnically
riven, anti-democratic and anti-Western Middle
East is to ignore the simple realities of life.  (c) JPFS 1994

From: The Jerusalem Post, November 21, 1994

FRESH AIR 
by ELYAKIM HAETZNI 

"Jesse Helms's position is that of an America no longer naive."

(The writer, a lawyer and former MK, is a resident of the settlement 
Kiryat Arba.)

     Official circles in this country reacted to the news of Jesse Helms's
impending nomination as chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee with some trepidation.  
     Not so a substantial part of the Israeli Jewish public.  It
welcomed the Republican victory.  
     The local media dwelt extensively on Helms's position, that what
Syria really seeks isn't peace, but the Golan and American money, and that
no further funds should be pumped into the Middle East "peace
process."
     For Israelis, this was a breath of fresh air from a no-longer-naive
America, a country which won't allow itself to be
taken for a ride any more.  
     It is because of Israel's warm relationship with the US that many
Israelis do not want to see American troops on the Golan.  
     Israel gained the world's respect in June 1967, when defense minister
Moshe Dayan made his famous statement that young Americans
should not be asked to risk their lives for us.  
     And he was right.  Any country which puts its security into another
nation's hands, even a friendly nation's, is in a sorry state
indeed.  
     Suppose American soldiers got hurt on the Golan?  Our adversaries in
the US would surely bring out the old, ugly argument that now the
Jews aren't just taking their money, but their blood as well.  
     It bodes ill for the relationship between our peoples to invite
such a reproach.  
     Here's another probable scenario: Syria signs a treaty, but breaks
it, the way it tore into pieces the Taif accord stipulating
Syrian withdrawal from most of Lebanon.  
     Israel would call on the US to force Syria to abide by its
commitments.  And the US would find itself torn between its legal and
moral commitment to us and its interests in the Arab world.  Whatever
choice it made would cause painful damage to Israel-US relations.  
     The "peace process" will swallow large amounts of American money. 
 
     Syria, pouring heroin into the American market, will not easily give
up this kind of income without demanding a hefty American bribe in return. 
It will then go back to growing poppies in Lebanon's
Beka'a Valley.  
     Syria will also demand monetary compensation for obliging Israel, for
deigning to sign a treaty with the hated Zionist enemy.  But the treaty,
unlike the US's money, will soon turn out to have no
substance.  
     Nor will Israel deliver the Golan for nothing.  An American garrison
would cost a great deal.  More funds would need to go on sophisticated
electronic gadgetry (which, like most artificial
substitutes, would turn out to be unhealthy).  
     Furthermore, Syria will insist on receiving the Golan Judenrein. 
Particularly large sums will be needed to finance the dismantling of a
town and dozens of villages.  
     We're talking about highly developed industries, thriving
agriculture, a broad tourist infrastructure, and a winery of
international renown.  Compensation could run into the billions.  
     And to what end?  The US (taking money from its own poor), will reap
not thanks, but bitter Israeli resentment for having financed the
destruction of the Golan.  
     Foreign Minister Peres is pressuring the US to donate hundreds of
millions of dollars to the PLO.  
     Senator Helms might ask the CIA just how many billions of dollars
Yasser Arafat holds in secret bank accounts and other investments
worldwide.  
     He refuses to spend these funds on his people, while American,
European and Japanese taxpayers are called upon to shoulder the burden. 
(Arafat doesn't even collect taxes from his own people in
Gaza and Jericho.  )
     Day and night, our government works hard to burnish Arafat's image. 
In doing so, it is also polishing the image of someone who
calls himself "the Father of Hitler."
     Who is this "Abu-Hitler"?  He heads Arafat's personal bodyguard,
called Force 17.  The name this man has chosen - and been allowed - to
adopt says more than anyone possibly could about the real intentions
of our supposed peace partners.  (c) JPFS 1994

__________________________________________________________________________
Bernard J. Shapiro, Director
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
P.O. Box 35709                                   Telephone and Fax:
713-723-6016
Houston, Texas 77235-5709                   Email:  BSAPHIR@AOL.COM
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                     BATTLING IGNORANCE, INDIFFERENCE AND ILLUSIONS
                        Myths & Facts About The Rest In Peace (RIP) Process
=================================================================

The Middle East "Rest In Peace (RIP) Process" is now 14 months old and has
given rise to a number of myths that significantly inhibit intelligent
discussion of Israeli government policy.  Assumptions and expectations of
government leaders have proven false, yet this fact has not affected the
carrying out of a flawed policy. The Israel government seems to mirror Lyndon
Johnson in the anti-war folk song of Pete Seeger during the Viet Nam War:
"...waist deep in big muddy and the fools keep marching on." As a guide for
the intelligent reader, interested in reality, I present the following myths
and facts:

Myth: PLO terrorist Yassir Arafat will fight Hamas for us (the Israelis) and
will not be inhibited by our sense of human rights.
Fact: The PLO will not fight Hamas for Israel and any conflict between the
PLO and Hamas will be over turf and power, not to protect Israelis.
Myth: The PLO will cooperate with the IDF to control terrorism.
Fact: The PLO has not cooperated with the IDF and only acts to inhibit IDF
freedom of action. The PLO has used information from the IDF to identify and
murder Palestinians who have aided the Israelis in their fight against
terrorism. Every Hamas or Islamic Jihad terrorist arrested in big
demonstrations of action have been released quietly in the following days.
Myth: The poverty of Gaza is a breeding ground for terrorism and Hamas. 
Fact: Most members of Hamas come from the middle and upper classes. Money and
economics have nothing to do with the Islamic hatred of Jews and Israel.
 Look at the wealthy Saudi rulers. They happen to be the biggest publishers
and distributers of anti-semitic material like "The Protocols  Of The Elders
Of Zion." It is no accident that they also finance Hamas, Hizbullah, and
Islamic Jihad.
Myth: Arafat must be propped up with more money including Israeli, American,
and Jewish financial aid or there will be disaster.
Fact: Arafat has stashed $12 billion in European and Latin American banks,
real estate, and businesses. His annual income is $1-1.5 billion. Arafat is
just engaged in his normal practice of extortion and we should not help him.
Myth: Israel has no choice but to deal with Arafat's PLO, which is less evil
than Hamas.
Fact: There is no significant difference between the PLO and Hamas. Arafat
himself has his roots in the Moslem Brotherhood of Egypt which is the
pre-cursor of Hamas. Both want to destroy Israel and replace it with a new
state of Palestine from the "river to the sea."
Myth:  Peace provides more security than military power or geography.
Fact:  Peace is merely the time between wars. Indeed, there have been 1000
wars in the last 2500 years, making peace merely the interval between wars.
Lawrence Bellinson  in THE TREATY TRAP, reports that treaties are made to be
broken and can benefit only those planning to violate them by inducing in the
other party a false sense of security.
Myth: In a time of missiles, geographic barriers like the Golan and the
mountains of Judea and Samaria are of no value in the defense of Israel.
Fact:  Missiles may do great damage, including psychological, but only tanks
and infantry can conquer territory.
Myth: The "Rest in Peace (RIP) Process" has improved Israel's security, both
internal and strategic.
Fact:  The number of Israelis killed and wounded through terrorism has more
than doubled over a similar period before the "RIP Process" [98 killed in
1993-94 compared to 49 in 1992-93}. Israel's freedom of action has been
inhibited by the creation of terrorist safe havens in Gaza-Jericho.The murder
of GSS Arab agents has blinded the Israel Defense Forces. While morale in the
Air Force and Armour Corp is still high, infantry units have become
demoralized. IDF positions are overrun by the enemy without a fight. Israeli
soldiers, having been told that the "war" is over and peace is breaking out,
are refusing to risk their lives in combat. A recent survey shows that IDF
soldiers describing morale as high dropped from 40% in November of 1993 to
24.6 % in May of 1994.  More than 30% of soldiers believe that the
Palestinians think that they have defeated Israel. Israeli military
intelligence is being distorted for political purposes. The blatant disregard
for professional assessments has reached a level known only in the period
before the Yom Kippur War. Similar disastrous consequences can be predicted.
Despite impassive high-tech strategic military power, Israel is suffering
from a rapid decline in soldier morale and personal security for its
citizens.
Myth: Israel will be able to prevent a shortage of water despite losses from
anticipated withdrawals from the Golan and Judea and Samaria.
Fact: The loss of some 60-65% of Israel's water supply by withdrawing from
Judea, Samaria, and Gaza will be almost impossible to replace. Desalination
is too expensive for such huge amounts and the possibility of importing water
from Turkey is very risky. Turkey, like most Mid-East nations is under attack
by Islamists and depending on them will expose Israel to great danger. The
"RIP Process" if fully carried out will result in the destruction of Israeli
agriculture and the rapid desertification of the country. The beautiful green
vistas of Israel will turn brown and desolate as the countryside returns to
its state of neglect before the rise of the Zionist movement in the
nineteenth century.

I could go on, myth after myth, but the point is made. Unfortunately, the
Israeli government continues to operate as if its myths are reality. The
Freeman Center has compiled over 15,000 pages of documentation proving the
above facts. In our monthly magazine, THE MACCABEAN, we have published over
1200 pages of the most relevant material during the last year and a half. The
importance to Israel of making competent decisions, based on reality, about
its future is obvious. Despite this, the present government has made it a
policy NEVER to debate the facts, both in Israel and abroad. In fact, It has
tried to suppress dissent both here and in Israel. It has used the full power
of a police state to physically and verbally abuse the opposition in Israel.
It is indifferent to the truth and operates in a totally delusional manner.
As Jews who care about Israel's future, we must speak the truth to Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. And we must speak it so loud that the earth
will tremble under his feet and the heavens will hear our prayers.

Bernard J. Shapiro is director of the Freeman Center For Strategic Studies in
Houston, Texas and editor of its monthly magazine, THE MACCABEAN.
              

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                             WEEKLY ROUNDUP

                 **RABIN "WRONG ABOUT TROOPS ON GOLAN"**
     When asked by columnist William Safire why Israel needed Americans
on the Golan, Rabin appeared angry and lit one cigarette after another
and spoke loudly. The Secretary of State, who sat between Safire and
Rabin, tried to support Rabin's arguments. Rabin tried to explain the
stationing of troops in the Golan by comparing it with the forces in the
Sinai. When Safire asked Rabin about his poor performance in public
opinion polls, Rabin replied "I don't care about polls - I act according
to what I think is correct." At the end of the event, Safire said "I
have known Rabin for over 20 years and we are friends, but he is wrong
about troops on the Golan. I could not believe that I would live to see
the day that the Secretary of Sate and the Prime Minister of Israel
would agree with each other in an argument with me." 
     Rabin claimed that the multinational force on the Golan would serve
only as an observer force and will not endanger themselves for Israel's
security.
=====================================================================
Rabin justification for withdrawal from Sinai isn't transferable to the
situation on the Golan: 
=====================================================================
"Although I never expressed it to Kissinger, my military view was that
the width of the buffer zone between the two armies was of far greater
importance than a few hundred meters more or less of the IDF's
withdrawal. I wanted to rid Israel and our armed forces of the concept
of "holding a line," like the Bar Lev Line prior to the Yom Kippur War.
There was neither need nor military rationale to fight for every square
meter in the great wastes of the Sinai, as we would do if it were a
question of populated areas in the Israeli heartland. A demilitarized
Sinai would give us room for maneuver and allow Israel to take advantage
of her superiority in mobile warfare beyond the zone of Egypt's
ground-to-air missile umbrella." 
The Rabin Memoirs by Yitzhak Rabin - page 272).
Submitted by Dr. Aaron Lerner

                   **PLO HAS $10 BILLIONS IN ASSETS**

     The PLO has $10 billion in assets and an annual income of $1.5 -$2
billion mainly from illegal activities; this according to a report from
Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Services (NCIS) given to the
Government Accounting Office (GAO) the auditing arm of the US Congress.
The NCIS also termed the PLO a national security threat. The GAO report
was compiled despite obstruction from the US State Department. 
     This and more evidence countering the PLO's claim that it is broke
has prompted US legislators to request a May 31, 1994 report by the GAO
detailing PLO's assets worldwide. Interest in the GAO document comes as
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is in Washington to urge President Clinton
to speed up its promised $500 million donation to the PLO. 
     According to American Intelligence sources, the PLO participated in
a number of terrorist attacks against US targets and in 1993, after the
Gulf War, the PLO, Hamas and Hizbullah signed a pact of cooperation in
Khartoum jointly pledging to fight America and the West. The pact has
never been rescinded. (Reported by Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of
"Narcoterrorism" and "Evil Money", )
Jerusalem Post, November, 23 

                  "YOU CAN EXPECT ATTACKS EVERY FRIDAY"

     The Advisor to Yassir Arafat, Dr. Achmed Tibi, warned of continuing
attacks if the "settlers" in the area are not removed. 
     In an interview with Gaalei Tzahal, Dr. Tibi said: "I don't
understand why they are insisting on remaining in Netzarim. I have some
very bad news for you. If the settlement of Netzarim is not closed down,
you can expect attacks every Friday. Someone in the government has to
take the initiative and make the decision to close the place down. "
Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio, 11/22

                  **IDF EXPECTS MAJOR ATTACK IN GAZA**

     The IDF fears that Hamas and/or Islamic Jihad will carry out a
major attack against IDF positions in Gaza next Friday, according to an
officer who accompanied Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ehud Barak on a visit to
the Netzarim Junction today. The officer said that Hamas will defy
Yasser Arafat's leadership and display a show of force during
demonstrations expected to take place on Friday which is a Hamas
memorial day. 
     The Commanding Officer of the Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Shaul
Mofaz told Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the Cairo
Agreement puts limits on what the IDF can do to protect its positions.
"We are aware of most of the professional solutions but we cannot do
everything [we could because of] the agreement." 
     Meanwhile, there were two attacks on Israelis in Gush Katif on
Tuesday. A roadside bomb exploded near Morag and shots were fired at an
observation post near Netzer Hazani. There were no casualties at either
attack. (Yediot Aharonot, Jerusalem Post & Maariv, November 23)

   **WATER COMMISSIONER SAYS ISRAEL NEARING SERIOUS WATER SHORTAGE** 

     The State Controller has found Israel is rapidly heading for a
serious water shortage. Agriculture Minister Ya'acov Tsur said that
within 10-15 years Israel will face a yearly water shortage of 400
million cubic meters. 
    Water Commissioner Gideon Tsur reported to the Knesset State Control
Committee on Monday that due to the poor quality of the Israel's water
sources, special measures must be taken, reported. He recommends a $100
million filtering system be implemented.(Jerusalem Post, November, 22 
[Israel recently agreed to yield 50 million cu.m. of water/year to
Jordan and participate in projects that could yield 100 million cu.m.
more]

           **SUICIDE BOMBERS' EXPLOSIVES SMUGGLED FROM EGYPT**

    The explosives used in recent suicide bombing attacks including the
Tel Aviv bus attack were smuggled from Egypt via tunnels dug from Egypt
to Gaza. (Maariv, November 21)

                  **KNESSET PASSES CAPITAL GAINS TAX**

    The Knesset, by a vote of 45-30 on Wednesday, approved the capital
gains tax bill with no changes, despite a flood of phone calls opposing
it.
   The bill allows investors to choose between two taxation options a 20
percent tax with offsets of losses and a 10% tax without offsetting.
Profits from the sale of shares in mutual funds will be taxed at a 15%,
while bonds, pension, provident, and training funds will be tax-exempt.
   During the vote on the bill itself, only Hanan Porat (NRP) broke
ranks to vote for the tax; Sallah Tarif (Labor), who opposed the bill,
decided to abstain, as did Michael Eitan (Likud), who has long advocated
such a tax. Shas and Yi'ud voted for the bill; United Torah Judaism
abstained.
   Afterwards, the Likud called for a vote of no-confidence because of
the tax. Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu also promised that if the
Likud won the next election, it would repeal the tax.
   Some 160 amendments were proposed to the bill during the second
reading, but for the most part, only those of opposition MKs were voted
on since most of the coalition MKs -- under heavy pressure from the
government -- withdrew their proposals.
[Rabin promised in February that there would be no tax, and upon
announcement two months ago, the stock market collapsed. His remark at
the time was that he cannot be a "jack of all trades."]

                         **IDF MORALE DROPPING**

    IDF Morale dropped drastically, especially for those serving in Yesha
according to an IDF survey. Soldiers are influenced by the general
attitude of the Arabs that the IDF has "lost the war." 
* 75% of soldiers serving in Yesha reported they have low morale. 
* 35% felt the Arabs perceive Israel is defeated. 
* A 4.3% drop in trusting their officers 
* 19.5% drop in trust of high ranking officers. 
* 53% of the officers admitted that a lot of the field commands are not
thought out properly. 
* 86.9% reported friendly relations with Yesha's Jewish residents. 
* 49.5% said that the way the army takes care of demonstrations is too
soft. "This finding fits exactly the demand of many of the soldiers to
ease the commands on opening fire" the authors concluded.
Yediyot Aharonot, November 17

                      **PLO SOLDIERS THREATEN MKs**

    Labor MK Eli Dayan and Yi'ud MK Alex Goldfarb were threatened by eight
PLO soldiers while they were on a tour of Jewish communities in Northern
Gaza on Sunday. The PLO soldiers were only partial dressed in uniforms
and carried Klashnikov rifles. The PLO soldiers approached the MKs
outside Alei Sinai and released the safety catch on their rifles
demanding to know why they were in an area the PLO claims to be part of
the Autonomy zone. Haaretz, November 21

             **PLO & HAMAS BLAME ISRAEL FOR GAZA VIOLENCE**

    In order to avoid revenge attacks against each other, the PLO and
Hamas are blaming Israel for he weekend battle between them in Gaza.
While releasing several members of Islamic Jihad, PLO soldiers in Gaza
arrested some 20 "collaborators" in connection with the violence.
Contrary to eyewitness reports, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Hamas
spokesman Dr. Mahmoud Zahar were both adamant that their side did not
start the riot and that "collaborators" were to blame, implying that the
"collaborators" were sent by Israel to stir up the riots.
    Opinions on the street however do not concur. One speaker at the Hamas
memorial meeting on Sunday said, "The Palestinian Police did what the
Jews never did."
    Hamas staged a march in Shchem, Samaria in which participants chanted
slogans against Arafat and Israel. Maariv & Haaretz, November 21)

                          **RALLY FOR ARAFAT**

    Thousands staged a rally for PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in Gaza City
on Monday. The Fatah Hawks, Fatah's military wing participated openly
displaying submachine guns. Fatah Hawks fired off their weapons in
defiance of PLO police regulations. Gaza City Police Chief Brig. Ghazi
Jabali said they should now be considered auxiliary police. In Arafat's
address to the rally, he called for the release of prisoners, "the first
of them Sheikh Ahmed Yassin" the Hamas leader.
Jerusalem Post, November 22

      **YESHA COUNCIL CALLS FOR RESISTANCE TO UPROOTING NETZARIM**

    The Yesha Council directorate met in Kedumim on Monday to coincide
*with the tree planting ceremony honoring Christians for Israel of
Holland who have recently sold 10,000 trees to be planted in Kedumim.    
At the Yesha Council's meeting, the directorate called for resistance to
any decision that may be made to uproot Netzarim. Yesha Council Director
General Uri Ariel said a number of groups are scheduled to spend Shabbat
weekends in Netzarim like a recent group of 1000 did and said, "Netzarim
is currently the community facing the most pressure. It's important to
show our support." Jerusalem Post, November 22

**GALLUP POLL: YI'UD PARTY BETRAYS VOTERS IF IT JOINS LABOUR COALITION**

    Three quarters of the population thinks Yi'ud would be violating the
will of its voters should it join the government coalition according to
the Gallop Poll. (Jerusalem Post, November 21) 

         **LIKUD BILL WOULD PREVENT TIBI'S ADVISING PLO, HAMAS**

    Likud faction chairman Moshe Katsav will introduce bill that would
make it illegal for Israelis to serve as diplomatic, political or
security consultants to organizations that are hostile to the State of
Israel. Katsav said the bill is aimed at preventing Ahmed Tibi and
others from advising the PLO or Hamas. (Jerusalem Post, Nov. 22, 

   **NETANYAHU BLASTS RABIN FOR ATTACKS ON LIKUD "LOBBYISTS" IN US** 

    Likud Chairman Benyamin Netanyahu accused Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
of "insulting and abusing more that half of Israeli public opinion" when
he slammed Likud for supposedly lobbying in the US against sending
American troops to the Golan.
    Likud bureau chairman MK Uzi Landau accused Israel's Embassy in
Washington of painting a false picture of massive Israeli public support
for the peace process and as a result US secretary Warren Christopher
recently described the Israeli opposition to the peace process as
marginal.
    Likud said that the three former Shamir government officials, Yigal
Carmon, Yossi Ben Aharon and Yoram Ettinger are acting as concerned
private citizens and not representing Likud in their US visits just as
left wing Israelis campaigned in the US in the past. 
    Landau also accused the Rabin government of freezing out opposition
leaders from meeting with American Jewish leaders, but now Opposition
leaders are campaigning to make sure they participate in such as the
recent Council of Jewish Federations General Assembly.
(Jerusalem Post, November 22)
    In an interview in Mabat, Israel's evening news, Yechiel Leiter,
Executive Director, Yesha Council Foreign Desk, said, "That Rabin feels
the need to lash out in a vitriolic diatribe against the work of the
opposition because we have been successful in winning hearts and minds
of israel's friends throughout the US." (Mabat TV News, Nov 21)

    **WZO, MOSHAV MOVEMENT VYING FOR FAILING JORDAN VALLEY KIBBUTZ** 

    Jordan Valley's Kibbutz Na'aran, part of the financially floundering
United Kibbutz movement is planning to close for financial reasons. Both
the World Zionist Organization and the Moshav Movement want to take it
over claiming they can easily repopulate it and make it into a viable
community. Jordan Valley head David Levy said that Na'aran could easily
be repopulated by new immigrants and young couples. 
Haaretz, November 21

                 **2 LABOR MKs WANT CAIRO DEAL CHANGED**

    Leading Labor members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee, Chairman Labor MK Uri Orr and Labor MK Avigdor Kahalani
concur that the Cairo agreement should be changed because it puts the
lives of Israeli civilians and soldiers at unacceptable risk.
Jerusalem Post, November 23

              **PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS ACTIVE IN LEBANON**

    Palestinian terrorist under Syrian patronage and helped by Hizbullah
are responsible for the recent attacks on Israeli and South Lebanese
soldiers in the security zone said the outgoing Northern Command's
Commanding Officer Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Mordechai. 
    Terrorists belonging the George Habash's Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine and Naif Hawatme's Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine have participated in recent attacks. Mordechai
spoke at a ceremony at Voice of South Radio in Lebanon for the 51st
anniversary of Lebanon's independence. 
    South Lebanon Army Commanding General Antoine Lahad emphasized that
although they were celebrating Lebanon's independence, his country was
not free and was really being controlled by Syria. 
(Jerusalem Post, November 23)

       **800+ NEW RESIDENTS TO BENYAMIN REGION IN LAST 3 MONTHS**

    More than 800 new residents have come to the 31 Jewish communities of
the Benyamin Region in the last three months, reported the Central
Bureau of Statistics according to address change registration. 
Hadashot Benyamin November 15

               **LIKUD CANCEL KNESSET PAIRING OFF CUSTOM**

    Likud faction chairman Moshe Katsav announced that pairing off deals
between the opposition and the government coalition are off. 
    This ends the past custom of pairing off MK from either side to
compensate for some that were absent from the vote. Under the new
status, anyone who shows up will vote and those who are absent will not
have compensation on the other side. Labor is dependent on 61 seats out
of 120 for a majority. The opposition will attempt to defeat the
government on no-confidence motions by trying to maintain a high
attendance. Jerusalem Post, November 23

                          **NEWS FROM SHOMRON**
                    November 22-23 19..19 Kislev 5755
                 24 HOURS OF TERROR IN GAZA AND SHOMRON

 1) This morning at approximately 4:00 am, terrorists opened fire at an
IDF patrol east of Neve Dekalim, a Jewish Township. 
 2) This morning at a approximately 5:00 am, a bomb exploded near
Kibbutz Ganei Tal. The explosive device was placed east of the Kibbutz
in an area where an IDF patrol is located. A second explosive device was
discovered and safely taken apart by bomb experts.
 3) Last night near the community of Netzer Hazani, shots were fired at
the IDF patrol shortly after 8:00 pm.
 4) A few hours earlier, the same patrol (attack #3) was fired upon by
terrorists.
                             IN THE SHOMRON:
 4) Last night shots were fired at an IDF patrol near Kalandia (Northern
Jerusalem, adjacent to Atarot).
 No injuries were reported in any of the 4 attacks listed above. In all
of the attacks, the terrorists escaped. (Channel 7 Radio News..11/23
..10:00am, Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio..11/23..6:30am, Channel 7 Radio
News..11/23..1:15pm).

                       **MODIFY CAIRO AGREEMENT**
    Three leading members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee, Chairman Ori Orr (Labor), Ariel Sharon (Likud), and Avigdor
Kahalani (Labor) have all agreed that the Cairo Agreement should be
modified.
    They concurred that, in its present form, the agreement puts the lives
of IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians at unacceptable risk, as evidenced
by the two fatal attacks at the Netzarim interchange.
J Post, 11/23

                   **SLAUGHTER PLANNED NIGHT BEFORE**
    The head of the Student's Union, Achmed Turak, stated at a gathering
yesterday that "the slaughter that was perpetrated by PLO Police was
planned the night before between the PLO Police and the Israelis". He
added that all the victims weremembers of Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and
the Popular Front.
 Hamas is planning a giant demonstration on Friday to mark one week
since the slaughter in Gaza. Yediot Achronot, 11/23..Page 5. 


                          **POLICE BRUTALITY**
    A meeting between high-ranking police officials, members of the Police
Minister's staff, and Ari Ofir who was beaten up by Israeli Police in
Kedumim on Saturday night) was held in reponse to Mr. Ofir's complaints
against the Israeli Police Department.
    The Minister's spokesman called the actions of the Policemen on
Saturday night "a local foul-up." Representatives of Betzedek, the civil
rights group, submitted a long list of violations and documented cases
of police brutality against demonstrators at right-wing demonstrations.
Channel 7 Radio News Summary, 11/23..1:15pm. 

                         **SECURITY FOR YASSER**
    PLO Security agencies have increased the security around Yassir
Arafat. They fear an attempt on his life in retaliation for last
Friday's killing of 12 rioters. Ma'ariv, 11/23. 

                             DUM DUM BULLETS
    In a meeting with PLO leaders in Israel and the "West Bank" Arafat
showed X-rays from some of the victims of Friday's violence. The X-rays
showed that some of the victims were killed by "Dum-Dum" bullets and
plastic bullets, both of which are not used by PLO Security Authorities.
The PLO leader did not go so far as to blame Israel, but he did hint at
the fact of "agents," perhaps "informers." 
    PLO sources in Gaza dismiss Arafat's statement. They blame the
shootings on members of the PLO Secret Service. According to the
sources, Arafat is attempting to ignite the flames of the internal
dispute going on in Gaza.
    Arafat appointed a five-member panel to investigate the shooting
deaths of last Friday's riots. Heading the panel is Kusei El-Abdallah,
Head of the Gaza Municipal Court. Yediot Achronot,  11/22 

                        **"THE BLOOD MUST FLOW"**
    "The blood must flow. There must be widows and orphans. Hands and feet
must be cut off, mixed with blood, and scattered throughout America in
order for the religion of Allah to stand on her feet." 
    These words were said by Fiaz Azam, an Islamic activist, at a Islamic
conference in Atlanta, in 1990. The conference was videotaped and has
become a part of the new movie, "Jihad in America" by Steve Emerson. The
movie was shown on Pulic T.V. last night in parts of the U.S.A. Yediot
Achronot, 11/22

                **PLO RELEASES MEMBERS OF ISLAMIC JIHAD**
    The PLO authorities have released an additional 20 prisoners that are
members of the Islamic Jihad. The PLO spokesman stated that they have no
evidence to show that the 20 were involved in any violation of the law.
(Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio..11/22..5:00pm).


                  **COOPERATE AND ALLOW FLAG RAISING**
    The OC Southern Commander, Maj.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz, stated that the
raising of the Hamas flag in an IDF outpost in Gaza may occur again in
tens of places. "We are in a situation that we must cooperate with the
PLO Police" said the General. (Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio, 11/22
..8:00pm).

                        **DEATH TOLL INCREASES**
    Another victim of last Friday's riots in Gaza has died of his wounds.
This brings the death toll to 16. The PLO spokesman stated that there
are still 23 persons in various hospitals in the Gaza area. 
Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio, .11/22..8:00am.

                     **CALL FOR ACTIVE RESISTANCE**
    The call came after a meeting of the Council of Jewish Communities in
Judea, Samaria and Gaza's directorate in Kedumim.
    "Active resisitance does not mean civil war, and it does not mean
taking up arms," council head Uri Ariel said after the meeting. Asked if
it means fist fights with soldiers who may come to take settlers away,
Ariel said: "I hope this government would never give this type of
order." He would not elaborate. J. Post, 11/22..Page 2 

                           **HOME DEMOLISHED**
    The IDF last night demolished the home of Tel-Aviv bus bomber Salah
Nazal in Kalkiliyah several days after the high court rejected an appeal
from the family.
    Nazal was responsible for the suicide bombing of the number 5 bus at
Dizengoff Street where 22 Jews were killed. (J. Post, .11/22..Page 2). 

                         **5 SOLDIERS INJURED**
    Five IDF soldiers from the Golani Battalion were injured yesterday in
the Security Zone. The five were injured by shrapnel from a mortar that
was fired at them in the center of the Security Zone. Four of the
soldiers were injured lightly and one is listed as light-to-moderate.
Yediot Achronot, 11/22..Page 5.

                       **IDF PROTECTION IS GOOD**
    "If someone believes that he has 100% protection that ensures that no
one will ever be hurt-this type of protection we still do not have and I
don't know where in the world it does exist. In Netzarim there is IDF
protection that has proven itself many times over." 
    These words were said by Maj.-Gen. Matan Vilnai, who until two weeks
ago was the OC Southern Commander for the IDF. Vilnai is due to begin
serving as the new Deputy IDF Chief of Staff in a few weeks. Vilnai was
referring to the rash of attacks in the Netzarim area when interviewed
on the T.V. news last night.

                    **NETZARIM IS POORLY PROTECTED**
    MK (Likud) Ariel Sharon visited the Netzarim interchange yesterday. "I
was shocked to see that even after the recent wave of attacks, the
soldiers positioned in the Netzarim outpost are still not properly
protected." Mr. Sharon went on to add: "The security of the soldiers is
being neglected for no reason. There are no protective barriers, no
fence, and the outpost is dark. There is no adequate security lighting.
Only a few short meters from their position there is a plantation (that
restricts the visibility of the soldiers). These are all things that a
junior officer has the knowledge and the authority to correct."
    MK (Labor) Avigdor Kahalani, in a meeting of the Knesset Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee, said "If this is the way it is, then it
would be bettter not to have an outpost there. I forsee a dark and
difficult time ahead with the PLO. It will be a mixture of Iran and
Lebanon."
    Mr. Sharon was asked to cut his remarks short. After getting up to
leave the meeting, he said, "I will continue what I have to say after
the next attack." Yediot Achronot, 11/22..Page 6/ Channel 7 Radio News,
11/22..1:00pm.

                       **NEW ORDERS FOR SOLDIERS**
    Soldiers now serving at the "Netzarim outpost" have received new
standing orders. They are now authorized to have a bullet in the chamber
of their weapons while on duty. This in an attempt to cut down their
response time in the event of an attack.
    The IDF Deputy Commander of the Gaza area, Colonel "M" stated that the
soldiers have also received orders that they ae not to retreat, even if
the outpost is attacked again. Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio, 11/22, 6:45am,
Radio News 9:00am.

                     **VOLUNTEERS TO HELP NETZARIM**
    The Council of Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza has decided to
bring volunteers in to help strengthen the community of Netzarim. They
appealed for right wings Members of Knesset and Rabbis to come and live
in Netzarim. 
Yediot Achronot, 11/22..Page 7.
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                    EDITORIALS FROM THE HEBREW PRESS
                       Jerusalem, 23 November 1994
    Ma'ariv believes that 'Rabin and Arafat have become Siamese twins, in
which the continued political existence of one is dependent, in large
measure, on the 'twin',' and points out that 'the breakdown of the Oslo
Agreement and the end of the peace process if HAMAS and Islamic Jihad
succeed, and Arafat falls, would also be liable to contribute to Rabin's
fall; the continuation of the process without Arafat succeeding in
putting down terrorism, is likely to produce the same result.' 'And on
the other hand,' the paper continues, 'one need not explain what a rise
to power by the Likud would mean for the PLO Chairman.' The editors note
that the Israeli Government has sought to expedite the flow of financial
aid to the Palestinian Authority, but point out that Arafat 'has yet to
submit a target plan for the contributions,' and that, as a result, the
donor countries 'have not transferred the aid up until now.' 

    Yediot Ahronot comments on the Palestinian Autonomy's financial and
economic plight and reminds its readers that 'Arafat's administration
has yet to establish economic institutions that will answer the donor
countries' minimum demands, and their economic aid has been halted.' The
paper also notes that 'rich Arabs and Palestinians have decided that the
ground in the Autonomy is not ripe for their investments.' To remedy the
Autonomy's economic distress, the editors: call on Arafat to agree to
the donor countries' demands and establish a proper financial control
structure.

    Hatzofeh says that 'Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had a fruitless
meeting with US President Bill Clinton at the White House about the
continuation of American aid to Israel, despite the President's
assurances,' which the paper believes have been necessarily weakened by
the sweeping Republican victory in the recent Congressional elections.
The paper also notes that the Prime Minister 'also obtained no explicit
assurance regarding the stationing of American troops on the Golan
Heights, following the signing of an Israeli-Syrian peace treaty.' The
editors that the Prime Minister also met with Republican leaders and
'sought their support for continued aid to Israel,' but adds that even
though the latter did not reject him, 'it is doubtful whether it is
possible to rely on the statements which they made about continued aid
as a promise on their part.' The paper concludes by declaring that even
though the new Congress has not yet convened, 'it is already possible to
see that Israel will face more than a few difficulties in the wake of
the changes in the two houses of the US Congress.'

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                HAMAS COMMUNIQUES ON GAZA MASSACRE (1/2)
ON THE UGLY MASSACRE COMMITTED BY THE SELF-RULE AUTHORITY AGAINST OUR
DEFENSELESS PEOPLE IN THE GAZA STRIP 
    The self-rule police have committed an ugly crime against our
defenseless worshippers after Friday Prayers in Palestine Mosque in
steadfast Gaza. Arafat's police opened fire from automatic weapons at
the innocent worshippers who intended to participate in a peaceful march
called for by Hamas to protest the oppressive campaigns and random
arrest campaigns carried out by the self- rule authority against our
people and brothers in the Islamic Jihad.
    Thirteen martyrs have fallen and more than 200 people have been
injured as a result of this hostile aggression. The confrontations
continue. This is a new massacre, but at the hands of those calling
themselves the self-rule authority, who have not provided anything to
our people except campaigns of oppression and torture, opening prisons
and humiliating citizens. A new massacre to add to the series of ugly
massacres committed by the occupying enemy, but this time through [the
occupying enemy's] agents and protectors.
    Hamas extends its condolences to our people and the families of the
martyrs and injured, and affirms the following:
 1) Hamas holds the weak self-rule authority fully responsible for this
ugly crime and condemns this criminal act.
 2) These ugly crimes are no different from the crimes of the Zionist
enemy and its army. They prove that the self-rule authority is nothing
more than a tool in the hands of the occupation and a way to achieve
[occupation's] goals, strike at the freedom-fighters [mujahedin] and
torture the citizens.
3) Hamas salutes the noble policemen who were keen on the sanctity of
Palestinian blood and refused the orders of the self- rule authority to
beat and shoot our people. Hamas asks all policemen and officers to not
be dragged by the self-rule authority into a civil war and a battle with
the people.
4) This ugly crime and oppressive measures will increase the masses
anger toward the self-rule authority and its humiliating dependence on
the will of the occupiers.
 5) Hamas demands that all those responsible for this massacre be tried
and punished to prove that Palestinian blood is not cheap and our people
won't accept that this crime pass without punishment.
 6) Hamas demands an immediate release of all prisoners from all
fighting Palestinian factions. They were arrested by the self- rule
authority to appease the terrorist Rabin. Hamas announces it will not
anyone to belittle our people's blood, threaten their unity and kindle a
civil war.'
                Hamas Communiques on Gaza Massacre (2/2)
                To the masses of our Palestinian people:
    Al-Qassam Brigades will not stand with its hands folded before this
conspiracy against our people...Those in the Authority who met Thursday
evening were determined to carry out the massacre ordered by Arafat
although they could have prevented the worshippers from praying or kept
away from the march or even used tear gas instead of live bullits. But,
they wanted to satisfy Rabin and to kill worshipers in the Mosque.
Therefore. Al-Qassam Brigades affirm the following:
If the self-rule authority does not want the civil war to occur, it
must:
1. Dismiss those who directly planned the incident,
 especially the traitor Nasr Yousef, the traitor Ghazi Jabali and the
suspicious lawyer Freih Abu Meddain. 
2. Release all fighters from Gaza Central Prison (Saraya) 
3. Putting all killers and criminals to trial and
 executing them as their name are well known to us. 
4. Put an end to aspects of power and - shown by the  Authority in area
and roads."
                   What happened was a national crime
First: Hamas condemns the ugly massacre and clariefies the following:
 1. Provocation began by the Palestinian police who came in hundreds and
deployed around palestine Mosque from which a peaceful march organised
by Hamas was supposed to start. 
2. During the prayer palestinian police and members of the Palestinian
Preventive Security removed loudspeakers from a vehicle assigned to
escort the march. This arroused resentment among some worshippers who
began to stone the police. After several moments the police began to
shoot heavily at the worshipers killing and injuring several of them.
 3. The PA provocation and irresponsible behavior did not stop at this.
The police arrested the injured from hospitals, prevented their families
from reaching the hospitals and from donating blood. They imposed
curfew, cut electricity and obstructed martyrs' funerals resulting in
more fatalities by the police. Furthermore, several journalists were
injured. All that happened in a way similar to the means of occupation
and its repressive practices.
4. The massacre was planned in advance. The police shot at the
loudspeakers in the mosques which were used to call on angry people to
restrain themselves and calling for calm. At the same time the
Palestinian police were ordered to continue shooting and to double
repression. 
5. The attempts to faslify facts and to spread false statements by the
PA, WAFA, and Fataha which claimed that worshippers came to the mosque
with their arms and they started the shooting at the police, were untrue
allegations. The story that a policeman was shot and killed was
fabricated by the self-rule authority. 
6. The ugly massacre constituted a violation of a Palestinian taboo i.e.
Palestinian blood and the Palestinian unanimity that arms must not be
used to resolve disputes and differences.
7. The massacre is a serious precedent in the PA and Palestinian police
file as they were dragged by the Zionist plan aiming at involving the
Palestinian people in destructive violence against which hamas has
always warned.
8.Hamas views the planned massacre as a beginning of a repressive war
and the PA bears its dangerous responsibility and reflections as it has
large security apparatuses and weapons. Therefore, the PA bears the bulk
of responsibility to stop the Palestinian bleeding and prevent
conditions from deteriorating more and more. This can only be done by
bringing criminals to trial and uprooting collaborators and betrayers.
9. Our Zionist enemy enjoyed seeying the massacre and the palestinian
blood shed by Palestinian weapon considereing this a great victory which
it sought by exercising intensive pressures on the PA and humiliating it
in order to make it curb the fighters (Mujahedeen). 
10. Hamas calls on all honest and honerable people to agree to a new
charter to forbid internal fighting among Palestinians and to forbid all
attempts to plot and drive a wedge among the sons of our people. Hamas
calls on them to move quickly to stop the Zionist plan and to bring
criminals to people's judgement and punishment. Hamas asserts that any
escalation in the internal clash will only benefit the Zionist enemy
that seeks to curb the brave resistance and to involve the Palestinian
people in dissension and fighting in order to get more concessions in
the final settlement under the pretext of security. The PA should have
paid attention to that instead of believing that shedding Palestinian
blood and slaying the sons of our people will speed the arrival of
imaginary assistance and expansion of the weak self-rule. 
10. The estern reactions and the American call for speeding up economic
assistance to the self-rule authority came as an immediate price to be
received by this authority for its role in the massacre.
10. Hamas greets Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades for their self-restraint
since the arrival of the PA and calls on them to continue restraining
themselves. Hamas calls on its fighters and all strike groups of the
various Palestinian factions to avenge the blood of martyrs by striking
the occupation soldiers and settlers in response to the occupation
authorities' involvement in the massacre through its collaborators and
by inciting the feeble authority of Arafat.
God is great...Shame and disgrace to Occupation, its collaborators and
assistants."
Al Akhbar, Nov. 23, 

                        **NEWS AND OBSERVATIONS**
                          Aaron Lerner 21.11.94
    All of the items below are from a combination of The Jerusalem Post
and "Haaretz" of 22.11.94 unless otherwise noted.
* Yoel Marcus, popular "Haaretz" columnist: "At a time that Rabin talks
of peace and coexistence and Peres talks about the new Middle East,
their partner in the Nobel Peace Prize relates to Israel as an enemy and
talks of the peace as one of the "stages" - the last stage of which is -
if I am not mistaken - throwing us into the sea...Peace with the
Palestinians is not realistic now and it may not be achievable in this
generation." ("Haaretz" 22.11.94) 
* Uzi Landau: The Israeli Embassy in Washington is painting a false
picture of massive support for the peace process in Israel. Using the
Washington embassy, Rabin is portraying the government position on the
peace process as representing the overwhelming majority of the
population. As a result, U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher
recently described the opposition in Israel to the peace process as
marginal. Landau supports the efforts of Carmon/Ettinger/Ben-Aharon but
they are acting privately and do not represent Likud. Landau is calling
for a meeting of the Likud Office next week in Tel Aviv to discuss
increasing the activity of the Likud in the U.S. so as to present the
positions of the Likud to the Jewish community and also the dangers to
the interests of both Israel and the U.S. in the stationing of American
troops on the Golan. The Israeli Embassy in Washington presents the
Likud as being opposed to peace with the Arabs. The government has
frozen Israeli opposition officials out of meetings of the American
Jewish leadership, such as the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish
Federations that met in Denver last week. In the last two years, no
Likud representative was invited. This year we actively campaigned to
go. There is nothing wrong with expressing party views to Jewish and
political leaders in the U.S. as long as it is done without slandering
the government or sabotaging its policies. Its a question of style and
degree. 
    Rabin is not acting like a level headed Prime Minister but rather like
a child who has lost his temper.
* Yigal Carmon: Rabin has crossed the line of what is acceptable in a
democracy and is using Bolshevik methods by asking that Israelis adopt
the government position blindly as is demanded in neighboring countries.
All of the Congressman I have spoken with tell me that they themselves
have heard Rabin present the very same arguments against withdrawal from
the Golan in the past.
* Peres told the Knesset Foreign Affairs Committee that the Republican
victory may lead Clinton to take a more active role in the Middle East
since his hands will be tied in domestic affairs. 
* The military role of Netzarim: While Foreign Minster Shimon Peres and
others in the Labor-Meretz Government want to clear out Netzarim from
the Gaza Strip as soon as possible, many in the military consider the
strategic presence of Netzarim a godsend. The settlement is located off
of the main North-South road which connects Gaza City to Khan Unis and
Rafiah. Under the guise of defending Netzarim, the IDF has been allowed
to maintain the forces and positions necessary to seal off Gaza City
from the rest of the Gaza Strip if and when the situation warrants. 
* Less than a month ago a public opinion survey found that almost 2/3 of
the public (63%) feel that the Rabin government is not properly handling
internal security (Yediot Ahronot 28.10).
The following are just a few illustrations to explain why the Israeli
public is so disappointed with the security situation: 
* "We gave [Arafat] detailed lists with the names of [wanted 'military']
Hamas people, and he didn't do a thing. He could have targeted only at
the activists in the Hamas 'army', but he doesn't do this."
 Senior IDF officer ("Haaretz" 15.11.94).
* "Our expectations that Arafat would rule have not been realized"
 Minister Ben Eliezer ("Haaretz" 13.11.94)
* Interview with the Chairman of the Joint Military Committee, Dov
Gazit:
q: What do you do about the sale of weapons by Palestinian Police for
use in terrorist actions?
a: We heard about it and complained.
q: The use of a weapon of a Palestinian policeman in the attack in
Jerusalem was a clear case...
a: We filed a formal complaint on that one
q: Was anything done to the policeman whose weapon it was? 
a: We filed the complaint two weeks ago, so far we haven't received a
response.
q: Are there other matters which you haven't received answers on? 
a: If I don't get an answer the matter goes to other levels. The
dynamics within the Committee are that we take every complaint filed by
them seriously and they the same. But to tell you that I am happy with
the pace of getting their answers - I am not saying. .
q: You keep saying "we will check and do something", what will will be
done? What has been done until today? On the 17th of July after the
riots at the Erez Checkpoint we handed over video tapes of police
participating in the rioting. Were any of them arrested, interrogated,
judged, removed?
a: I don't know.
* In blatant violation of the Cairo Agreement not even one wanted
terrorist has been handed over by the Palestinian Authority to Israel.
Israel has yet to receive a list of over a thousand recruits to the
Palestine Police for approval and the terrorists who Israel identified
within the Palestine Police remain in uniform. In addition, the Fatah
Eagles, Hamas, and many other group remain armed.
* The IDF and the Security Police make no effort to disarm the thousands
of Palestinians in the West Bank who have obtained weapons in recent
months. Now not only local thugs - even vegetable merchants in the
market - pull out guns and Uzis. And the IDF soldiers watch this all
from the roofs and do nothing. "Haaretz" 9.11.94

                      **SHORT ITEMS AND COMMENTS**
                        Aaron Lerner     23.11.94

   **PERES MESSAGE - ISRAEL WILL WITHDRAW COMPLETELY FROM THE GOLAN** 
    Speaking with reporters after his meeting with Syrian President Assad
in Damascus,  the President of Argentina, Carlos Mennen, told reporters
that he had personally delivered a message to Assad from Israel Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres, that Israel is ready to withdraw completely from
the Golan Heights.(Israel Radio  23.11.94)

     **"LIBERATE HAIFA, JAFFO AND JERUSALEM" SAY SUPPORTERS OF PLO**
    The main North-South Road (Route 90) from Eilat to Metullah was closed
down in Jericho for two hours as a few thousand Fatah supporter bussed
in from across the West Bank rallied in Jericho.  The rally included
organized chants calling for the liberation of Haifa, Jaffo and
Jerusalem [the disposition  of the mixed cities of Haifa and Jaffo are
not on the agenda of the current negotiations].  
    Local Fatah leaders said that the rally demonstrated the power of the
local Fatah and that they expect this to be reflected in how Arafat
treats them in the future.

                      **BEZEK WRITES OFF PA DEBT**
    The Israeli national telephone company, Bezek, has written off a debt
of NIS 11 million owed to Bezek by the Palestinian telephone company for
telephone calls from the Autonomy to Israel as well as for international
calls forwarded through Bezek.
("Haaretz"  23.11.94)

                   **ARAFAT CANCELS FRENCH CONTRACT**
    Yasser Arafat has cancelled all of the contracts for construction and
development with a leading French firm because of the remarks which the
president of the company made about Arafat. He had described Arafat as
finding "sick and exhausted" when they met. French sources said that
this action was illustrative of the problems which international
companies have in dealing within the Autonomy. ("Haaretz"  23.11.94)

             **MILITARY OPPOSED REOPENING THE TERRITORIES**
    Ehud Barak wanted to keep the territories closed but was overruled by
the politicians. Chief of Staff Lt. General Ehud Barak recommended
almost a month ago (25.10) to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee that the "closure of the territories should continue until the
Palestinian Authorities take the necessary measures to insure Israeli
security. Barak pointed that his recommendation was based on security
considerations and that it was up to the cabinet to make the final
decision. (Jerusalem Post 26.10.94)
    Since then the cabinet has decide to lift the closure on a gradual
basis. This despite the fact that the PA has not taken any measures on
the security front.

            **LIKUD CANCELS OFFSET AGREEMENT IN THE KNESSET**

    MK Moshe Katzav, the Chairman of the Likud faction in the Knesset,
announced that all offset agreements have been canceled. Until now, an
MK from the opposition could enter into an "offset" agreement with a
coalition MK so that neither would have show up to vote. The move will
force the many ministers and deputy ministers in the ruling coalition to
carry out their business on the floor of the Knesset. It will also put a
damper on the what has become perhaps the most well traveled government
in the history of the Jewish State. "Haaretz" 23.11.94

            **RABIN CRITICIZES ISRAELI PUBLIC LACK OF WILL**
    "Today when there one stabbing the people got nuts. Not that one
should not mourn the dead, but in the past these losses strengthened and
united the people, since, after all it came from the enemy. Now I fear
that this is no longer the case." ("Haaretz" 23.11.94)
    It should be noted that in the past the government participated in the
mourning. It is the official policy of the Rabin government not to send
representatives to the funerals of the victims of terrorist attacks. A
representative of the government was not even present at the recent
memorial service for those who died in the Tel Aviv bus massacre. 
                                   
           **RECENT EVENTS IN LIGHT OF THE CAIRO AGREEMENT**
1) Arms and the Cairo Agreement
The Hamas and other elements in the Gaza Strip are heavily armed and it
appears that the Palestinian Authority (PA) has no plans to address this
problem.  As PLO official Naabil Shaat told the Jerusalem newspaper,  Al
Kuds (18.11.94): "The [Palestinian] Authority will not take the weapons
from the Islamic opposition."  
Under the Cairo Agreement, the PA is obligated to take this action. 
The following are two passages from the Agreement:
         "CAIRO AGREEMENT
          Article IX The Palestinian Directorate of Police Force    ...
   2. Except for the  Palestinian Police referred to in this Article and
the Israeli Military forces, no other armed forces shall be established
or operate in the Gaza Strip or the Jericho Area.
   3. Except for the arms, ammunition and equipment of the Palestinian
Police described in Annex I, Article III, and those of the Israeli
military forces, no organization or individual in the Gaza Strip and the
Jericho Area shall manufacture, sell, acquire, import or otherwise
introduce into the Gaza Strip or the Jericho Area any firearms,
ammunition, weapons, explosives, gunpowder or any related equipment,
unless otherwise provided for in Annex I." 
The Annex of the Agreements makes it clear that the PA is obliged to
take an active role in enforcing these restrictions:
         "CAIRO AGREEMENT ANNEX I 
          Article IV  Security Arrangements in the Gaza Strip    ...
   2. Security Perimeter
      c) The Palestinian Police will enforce special security measures
aimed at preventing infiltrations across the Delimiting Line or the
introduction into the Security Perimeter of any arms, ammunition or
related equipment, except for the arms, ammunition or equipment of the
Palestinian Police, authorized through the relevant DCO."
2) The abandonment of the Netzerim outpost within the context of the
Cairo Agreement
    While Israel is not obligated to respond to incidents which threaten
lives and property,  the operative assumption of the authors of the
Cairo Agreement was that the IDF would take such measures.  While such
"incidents" would be transferred to the PA "at the earliest
opportunity", the understanding was that this would take place only
after "the Israeli authorities will take any measures necessary to bring
an end such an act or incident". 
The following is the relevant passage from the Agreement:
               "CAIRO AGREEMENT ANNEX I 
               Article VIII Rules of Conduct in Security Matters      
...
    9. Rules of Engagement
       a. For the purpose of this Article, "engagement" shall mean an
immediate response to an act or an incident constituting a danger to
life or property that is aimed at preventing or terminating such an act
or incident, or at apprehending its perpetrators.
       b. Within the territory under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian
Authority, in places where Israeli authorities exercise their security
functions in accordance with this Annex, and in their immediate
vicinities, the Israeli authorities may carry out engagement steps in
cases where an act or an incident requires such action.  In such cases,
the Israeli authorities will take any measures necessary to bring an end
such an act or incident with a view to transferring, at the earliest
opportunity, the continued handling of the incident falling within the
Palestinian responsibility to the Palestinian Police.  The Palestinian
Authority will immediately be notified, through the relevant DCO, of
such engagement steps."
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate 
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis

                          **INSIDE JERUSALEM**
                            by Yoram Ettinger
1. U.S. public opinion poll on "GIs on the Golan" (11/9/94; sponsored by
the Middle East Forum, president David Eisenhower, Jr,. executive
director Daniel Pipes): 64% oppose and 18% approve; 70% require a
Congressional approval prior to an Executive commitment. 
2. Assad's credibility according to Head of Research at IDF's
Intelligence (Knesset Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, Israeli
media 11/10/94): "...  The assessment that Assad sticks by his
commitments is unfounded... The notion that Assad is a man of his word
is a fairytale. ... He honors agreements only when they suit his
interests or when he feels threatened..." 
3. "Syrians, despite numerous Turkish attempts to persuade them to do
so, have not abandoned the PKK [Kurdish terrorists headquartered in
Damascus]...  Turkish frustration over Syrian support for the PKK, whose
main training bases are in [Syrian controlled] Lebanon's Biqa' Valley,
will increase if the insurgency gathers further momentum as it is likely
to do..." The Beirut Review, Spring '94. 
4. "Torture of political detainees reportedly remains common [in Syria]
...  Members of professional associations were believed to be still held
without charge or trial following their arrest in 1980...  It must give
grave cause for concern, that with regard to the Mideast peace process,
the world is placing so much credence in the good word of regimes that
are capable of mistreating their own citizens..." 
(Islamic Affairs Analyst, London 8/94). 
5.  "The risks of a Golan deployment are significantly greater than
those attending the Sinai mission...  The Golan abuts South Lebanon, a
major base for terrorist groups hostile to the U.S.  There is no
analogous threat in Sinai... The political relationship between Israel
and Egypt is of a different nature from what exists now -- or can be
foreseen -- between Israel and Syria...  It kept the Sinai largely free
of tension and preserved the MFO from crises or dangers...  Assad's
peace diplomacy has been grudging, not confidence building...  Treaty or
not, tension between Israel and Syria will remain high for the
foreseeable future, and any Golan peacekeeping forces will be squeezed
into a narrow area flanked by two heavily armed parties that remain
hostile and mutually suspicious...  Tension between Syria and the U.S.
[terrorism, drug trafficking, Lebanon, subversion of Turkey, Iran, human
rights] would create dangers for U.S. forces on the Golan, that do not
exist in Sinai..." (U.S. Forces On The Golan Heights, Center For
Security Policy, 10/25/94). 

                 **SHARAA, PERES TO MEET WITHIN WEEKS**

    The Saudi-owned daily's (al-Hayat) unnamed source "intimated" that
direct Syrian-Israeli negotiations would resume in Washington in
December or January. 
  The paper notes that Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal arrived in
Damascus Wednesday with a letter from King Fahd to President Hafez
Assad. 
    A Syrian presidential spokesman told newsmen the letter dealt with
the peace process and the conditions of the Arab world. He said the
president and the foreign minister discussed all tracks of the peace
process, general Arab conditions and bilateral issues.
    Al-Hayat's "reliable sources in Riyadh" say the letter Prince Saud
carried to Damascus dealt primarily with "the current situation in the
Arab world and the new political trends in the region."
    It "renewed Saudi support for the Syrian position demanding a full
Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights and South Lebanon in return
for peace with Israel -- meaning the application of the land-for-peace
principle." 

                         **RABIN the APIKORES**
                             by Murray Kahl

    As the 25th of Kislev approaches, it is appropriate that we look at
the holiday of Hanukkah and search for a message that affects our
everyday day life in a way that integrates all that is presently
happening within Am Yisrael. 
    Is Hanukkah a paradigm of an expression of freedom and a clear
declaration of our uniqueness and attachment to our living G-d? The
answer is surely yes if we search, weigh, and examine the history
underlying the holiday and understand that the Hanukkah on one level
represents a clash of diametrically, opposed philosophies that has its
predictable outcome in the defilement of the Temple by Antiochus
Epiphanes, the 8th King in the Seleucid dynasty. The military of
Alexander the Great's army created this dynasty after Alexander passed
away. It carries on his legacy. 
    We all know the story of the one cruse of oil that was undefiled, its
"undying" life, and the defeat of Lysias by Judah Maccabbee. And then
the demolition of the defiled altar, the rebuilding of a new one, and
Judah set the date of the 25th of Kislev for the rededication of the
Temple.
    To accept Hanukkah for its present significance, we must begin with
the then "global conquests" of Alexander the Great. Alexander
represented some the finest minds the western world has produced, and he
himself studied at the footsteps of Aristotle. The name attached to
Alexander's philosophies is Hellenism; it has outlasted the Greek
empire, and it is an enticing, deceiving alternative to an authentic
Jewish life. 
    Chanukah is the story of the Jewish rebellion against Hellenism.
    Romans, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, and Egyptians all fought for
the Jewish body. The Greeks were unique, as they sought the essence of
Judaism, the collective Jewish neshuma. Greek philosophers preached the
delights of a hedonistic life style, and Jewish youth, then as now,
submitted at a startling rate to this alluring way of life. They
surrendered the discipline of Judaism and submitted to the philosophical
enchantment of the brilliant Epicurean. Epicurean, a founder of the
existential school, taught the gods were remote from mankind, all that
happened was by accident, and there was no Divine guidance. His gods had
their own problems and could not be too annoyed with the human dilemma.
This philosophy, and the pressure of assimilation, was the reason so
many Jews attempted to blend in to the surrounding society, and many
went as far as attempting to surgically reverse the Brit Milah.
    Pious Jews who understood the clash between the existential culture of
the Hellenists, and the Divine scheme of HaShem, with its Divine rules,
revolted and won a victory--the victory of Chanukah. 
    The legacy of Hellenism lives on, has a life of its own, and is
unacceptable to authentic, Jewish thought. Jews have a constitution and
a bill of rights that were penned for all time: The Torat l'Chaim
(instructions for life), and it establishes our responsibilities and
dominion. Would the western world ever question the absolute separation
of mankind from his Creator's wishes as a necessary prerequisite to
democracy? It is accepted and mankind is free to interpret any of the
higher moral codes to suit himself. Morality became impossible to
define, as it is subordinated to the human, contemporary condition. A
present day label for this moral anarchy is secular humanism and its
advocates find any infringement upon their rights to pick and chose, an
abomination.
    Jewish, secular humanists cannot fathom why this complete separation
of man from his creator is unacceptable. Judaism is simply not
democratic by definition, and we do not have the right to select that
which is expedient, or vote to negate or change the Divine dictates, but
rather we have immutable rules that we follow because it is the wish of
HaShem. There is no choice, no vote, no ballots; we accept it as the
"yoke of heaven." 
    In the United States in this century, we have seen the ultimate
outcome of Hellenistic thought destroying our young, corrupting their
minds, and the resultant outcome is an ever increasing assimilation
rate.
    In Israel, we see the results of the Rabin government's surrender of
our holy sites, including the Temple mount, and again to the same
Hellenistic gods of acceptance, and assimilation. Anyone wearing a black
hat, or a kipot, is the enemy, and Yassir Arafat and associates are our
new friends.  Devout Jews are imprisoned for attempting to pray at the
Cave of Machpela, or on Temple Mount, and Muslim prisoners are released
to again murder Jews. Nonetheless, Rabin is accepted into the western
society he so desperately yearns for; he will receive his Nobel prize
along with his friend Arafat, and is complemented by Bill Clinton. Rabin
has surrendered Israel's position of the Goy Gadol and is pressing
forward to have us join the "community of nations" by relinquishing our
exalted position.      
    These are the new idols of today, far more surreptitious than those
broken by our father Abraham. They are the idols of power, money,
position, authority, and they are to be avoided when they assume the
status of fundamental goals of life. Rabin has surrendered to all these
idols.
    How can we best describe Rabin? the answer is simple. He is an
Apikores. Why this description? Simply because it refers to the
existential philosophies of Epicurean (Apikores), and it explains how
Rabin has surrendered his priceless heritage to Greek rationalism.

        **LABOR PARTY FACES ELECTORAL THREAT OF NEW IMMIGRANTS**
    Dr. Aaron Fein, an expert on public opinion of immigrant groups from
Machon Tazpit believes that the immigrant from the CIS represent a
serious threat to the Labor Party's chances in the 1996 elections. 
    Fein points out that this group played a pivotal role in getting Labor
into power in 1992 but that they did this in response to the many
campaign promises which the Labor Party failed to honor. The immigrants
have much to gripe about. For example, while unemployment rates have
declined for new immigrants, most of the highly skilled and educated
immigrants are underemployed, working in menial jobs which fail to
exploit their true potential. 
    The Labor Party will also suffer from bad timing. In the 1996 election
year, many of the immigrants will have exhausted their benefit period.
Most of the immigrants will have been in Israel too long to still
qualify, for exmaple, for the special employment subsidies. 
    The biggest shock will be in the area of housing. The majority of
immigrants from the CIS purchased apartments and are now carrying two or
more mortgages. For the first five years that an immigrant is in the
country, a good part of the monthly mortgage payment is covered by
government transfers. By 1996, most immigrants will be trying to figure
out how they will be able to make the mortgage payments and still eat.
    It should be noted that the CIS immigrants have a well developed
community. For example, there are 4 Russian newspapers published daily
in Israel - most of them carrying a right wing editorial position. This
communithyh network can be used to promote an immigrant party.
    But even if the immigrants decline to form their own party, they will
still have the power to tip the scales against Labor just as they did to
the Likud in 1992.
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate 
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)

              **EARLY WARNING SYSTEM MAY NOT PREVENT WAR**
    A "senior official" in the Rabin party in Washington told reporters
that Israel is seeking technology to allow for an early warning of
Syrian attack after an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Much
of the equipment will be mounted on airborne platforms. 
    There are a number of problems associated with relying on technology
as a substitute for strategic depth.
    Sometimes technology fails. For example, around 140 Israeli F- 16's
have been grounded as part of a world-wide recall by GE. According to
Air Force Colonel (Res.) Yitzhak Geva, while the defect in the GE motors
can be handled [by Israeli maintenance crews] it may take several
months. ("Haaretz" 6.11.94). In this case, the IAF has other planes to
provide cover while the motors are repaired. But if surveillance devices
are mounted on a jet which ends up being grounded, the equipment can't
simply be unplugged and installed in another plane. 
    But even if one ignores for the moment the high costs and technical
problems associated with keeping the equipment airborne 24 hours a days
365 days a year, it is not clear that the information provided by this
highly sophisticated gear will be enough to offset withdrawal from the
Golan. 
    The time required by Syria to shift from a defensive to an offensive
formation is not measured in days but in hours. Even assuming the best
case, namely that the moment that the shift begins that it is
immediately observed, this does not necessarily mean that Israel will
have enough time to adequately respond to the threat. 
    Proponents of withdrawal from the Golan plan to position IDF troops in
the Galilee who will be ready at a moments notice to race up the Golan
and stop the invading Syrians before they have crossed the entire
Heights (around 15 kilometers as the crow flies). 
    These troops would be aided by sophisticated missiles and bombs. They
expect that same kind of advanced weapons used in the Gulf War would
destroy Syrian tanks from the air even before the IDF started the climb
back up the Golan Heights. Yet, as Dore Gold (Jerusalem Post 27 May
1994) points out, "much of the new technology Israel would need after a
Syrian accord might not be as effective as first thought." Gold cites,
for example, a CIA finding that air attacks against several divisions of
the Iraqi Republican Guard succeeded in eliminating fewer than 20% of
their tanks (166 out of 846). 
    So Israel could not just sit back and wait to "see the white of their
eyes" before responding to a Syrian threat. The IDF would have to win
the race on the Heights.
    This brings us to an even more difficult problem: No matter how
sophisticated the equipment will be, it will only be able to tell Israel
what the Syrians did - not why they did it or what they plan to do next.
    Let's assume for argument's sake that under the terms of a peace
agreement with Syria, the Syrians commit to limiting the forces around
Damascus to a maximum of five divisions. Please keep in mind that
Damascus is a short drive from the Golan. Now if Syria were to move an
additional five divisions into that area and withdraw two others at the
same time, how should Israel interpret this information? Are the Syrians
planning to attack Israel or did someone screw up with the schedule? And
if the Syrian liaison claims that it is a mistake - can Israel believe
him? When does Israel begin its preemptive race up the Heights?
    Paradoxically, withdrawal from the Golan, by slashing the time
available to effectively respond to a Syrian threat, may ultimately
leave the IDF with no choice but to carry out a preemptive strike
against Syria even when the Syrian moves are subject to interpretation. 
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate 
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)

                      FORGET ABOUT PEACE (FOR NOW)
              Article by Yoel Marcus,  "Haaretz"  22.11.94
  (Yoel Marcus is a 'left-leaning' columnist. This article represents a
watershed for Marcus)
    This title (without the parenthesis) headlined an article which I
published in this space in July of last year.  Then, I thought that
peace with the Palestinians was far away because Arafat would not be
able to overcome the Islamic extremists, and because the Israeli
Government would not be able to deal with its own extremists. But only a
short time after the article was published, the Oslo Agreement was
signed, which seemed to refute my pessimism. 
    But what has happened and not happened in the days, weeks, and months
since then has only strengthened my assessment that (for now) we can
forget about peace with the Palestinians.  This is for several reasons:
-- The Palestinians are still not ready, following compromises and
concessions, to live side by side with us.  Not only does Arafat's weak
leadership not enjoy the support of the majority of the Palestinian
people,  he is not even capable of filling the holes in the Oslo
Agreement, such as cancelling the Palestinian Covenant. 
-- Israel is also not ready for the idea of an independent Palestinian
state being established alongside it.  And this government -- with a
razor sharp majority and liable to fall at any moment -- neither wants
nor is able to uproot the 300,0000 Jews over the Green Line (including
the Jews in greater Jerusalem), as the Palestinians are demanding. 
Thus, all of the statements about, "separation now" are utter nonsense;
meanwhile, no one has even begun to look for a solution of how to ensure
safe movement on the roads of the West Bank -- which, today, stretch for
1,000 kilometers -- during the interim settlement.
-- Not only have the agreements with the Palestinians not stopped
terrorism, but they have even intensified it.  One makes peace in order
to halt war; the Israeli citizen cannot, and will not, tolerate a
situation in which peace brings death to Dizengoff Street.  The surveys
showing the Government losing support to the opposition will testify to
this.
-- While we are focusing on a political solution, the dominant force in
the territories is religious-fanatic.  There can be no compromise
agreement with religious faith, or to be more precise, with a movement
whose platform is the Koran and for which we are heretics who must be
driven out of the country. The chance to achieve coexistence with them
is, using one of Rabin's favorite expressions, a pipedream.
    It would be worthwhile to expand on this fourth point.  Hamas and
Islamic Jihad, just to point out again, are not local forces, but are
part of an Islamic extremist movement that is growing in strength across
the Arab world, from Iran - where they are in control - to Algeria,
where they won the elections but were ousted by military force.  It is
the strength of  this movement which is leading Egypt to increasingly
sour its relations with us after 16 years of peace.  Not only is it
still deterring Assad from proceeding towards full peace and
normalization, but it is also leading him to provide patronage to
Hizballah and to shelter the leaders of Islamic Jihad from the
territories.
    In the territories, they have very wisely become the suppliers of
livelihoods, welfare, and money to Palestinians through the mosques,
clinics, kindergartens, and many other services, using the funds that
flow in from the leading organization in the Arab world.  They are
giving the Palestinians everything that Arafat cannot, including armed
struggle against Israel.  Their military organization in the territories
is very professional and very compartmentalized.  The investigation of
the Dizengoff attack showed that each of the dozen-and-half people who
were involved carried out their small part without knowing what he was
doing, or what he was giving to who and for what.  The latest attacks
indicate that Hamas is using standard terrorism materials such as TNT,
for example -- which is smuggled into the territories by various means,
including tunnels -- instead of homemade materials. 
    These extremists are not only succeeding -- to their delight -- in
weakening Rabin's peace government, but have mainly brought Arafat down
a peg as the Palestinians' leader.  The shakiness of his position, and
the danger of an internal war and the continuation of terrorism, have
lessened the desire of both the donor nations' and international
investors to put their money into projects in the Autonomy areas, which
is further weakening Arafat.  They have drawn Arafat into taking extreme
positions.  While Rabin talks about peace and living together, and Peres
talks about a new Middle East, their co-recipient of the Nobel Peace
Prize has begun to relate to Israel as a type of enemy, and to talk
about peace as part of the Plan of Stages, in which the last stage -- if
I am not mistaken - is our being thrown into the sea.
    While Rabin is dealing -- at least verbally - with his own extremists
in order to prepare the people for the concessions that will be required
in the future,  Arafat has succumbed to the extremists and is preparing
his people for a struggle with Israel.  Moreover, there is the concern
that in any cease fire which Arafat may achieve with the Hamas and
Islamic Jihad leadership he will -- out of his weakness and his
inability to subdue the extremists, whose control in the territories is
branching out -- give them a free hand to continue "the armed struggle"
with Israel.
    Peace with the Palestinians is not practical at the moment, and
perhaps is not within our generation's reach.
   
            THE ORDERS TO MURDER ARRIVE BY FAX FROM DAMASCUS
    (Article by Ronni Shaked, "Yediot Ahronot", Nov 18, 1994, p. B6) 
ISLAMIC JIHAD HAS APPROXIMATELY 30 SUICIDE ATTACKERS AT ITS DISPOSAL --
20 IN THE GAZA STRIP AND ANOTHER 10 ON THE WEST BANK. THEY RECEIVE THEIR
ORDERS FROM A SECRET COUNCIL WHICH IS IN CONTINUOUS CONTACT WITH THE
ORGANIZATION'S COMMANDER IN DAMASCUS, DR. FATHI SHAKAKI. UNLIKE HAMAS,
ISLAMIC JIHAD IS A MILITARY ORGANIZATION ONLY, FREE OF POLITICAL
PRETENSIONS.
    The name of Dr. Fathi Shakaki, a pediatrician from Rafiah who resides
in Damascus, appears prominently in the Israeli intelligence lists
regarding Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. Just as Rabin spoke about a
war of destruction and the elimination of the leaders of Islamic
terrorism, he apparently also means the 'Doctor' from Damascus -- the
founder, ideologue, political leader, and military commander of Islamic
Jihad in the territories.
    In the course of a day, the fax at his home spews out letters from
Gaza, the West Bank, or eastern Jerusalem. Some of them are reports on
security incidents.
    From his Damascus home and headquarters, Dr. Shakaki manages to
operate the Jihad organization in the territories by remote control. He
is the one who issues the orders to carry out attacks and murders. The
orders that come from his desk go to Islamic Jihad's secondary
headquarters in Britain, Germany, Cyprus, and the United States. From
there -- via fax, telephone, or courier -- these orders reach the 'Shura
Council', a secret, ten-member body which is responsible for Islamic
Jihad's military apparatus. From it, orders go out to the Jihad
murderers in Khan Yunis, Sheikh Radwan, and the Jelazoun refugee camp.
    It was in this way, apparently, that the order reached Khan Yunis ten
days ago, for the 'al-Kassam' gangs -- Islamic Jihad's military arm --
to carry out an attack in revenge for the elimination of Hani Abed, who
had been one of the Jihad's senior officials in Gaza.
    The word 'al-Kassam' is an acronym for 'forces of the Islamic Jihad'
(kuwa Islamiya Mujahidah) and also has its own meaning: 'the oath'. 
    'Al-Kassam' is a murder apparatus, comparable to HAMAS' Iz a-Din
el-Kassam battalions. In the Gaza Strip, 'al-Kassam' numbers no more
than 20 people, perhaps less. Approximately 10 other 'al-Kassam'
fugitives are circulating on the West Bank. Those who belong to this
group are devout youth, enthusiastic, brutal, fanatics. Most, if not
all, of them are ready to follow the path of Hisham Hammed, who was the
human bomb at Netzarim Junction, killing the officers Captains Hazi
Sapir and Dror Elad, and Lt. Yotam Rahat.
    The head of the organization, Dr. Shakaki, was born in Rafiah. In his
youth, he was a member of Islamic Brotherhood movement. He studied
mathematics at Bir Zeit University. In 1974, he began to study medicine
at El-Zakzik University in Egypt. There, under the influence of Egyptian
fundamentalists, he began to develop his ideas for the Palestinian
Islamic Jihad.
    After completing his studies, he began to work as a pediatrician at a
hospital in eastern Jerusalem. Simultaneously, he engaged in mobilizing
underground cells for his new organization. The Khomeinist revolution in
Iran gave impetus to his organization. Under its influence, he wrote his
book Khomeini -- The Islamic Alternative and Solution, which became a
hit among the youth in the territories.
    The Islamic Jihad organization's guiding ideology is simply
formulated: 'Our clear and strategic goal is the mobilization of the
Muslim public on our occupied soil and its direction towards a war of
jihad against the thieving Zionist entity. The armed struggle is the
only way to defeat the Jewish entity on the soil of Palestine.'
    In August 1988, Dr. Shakaki was expelled to Lebanon. Since then, he
has dedicated his time and energy to nurturing his organization --
mainly with the generous financial and logistical assistance of Iran and
the clerics of Hizballah.
    Only a few of the fugitives, members of 'al-Kassam', are known to the
security forces. On the list of West Bank fugitives -- found in the
pocket of every soldier who serves in the territories -- there are none
from the Jihad. 'This does not mean that there are no fugitives and no
Jihad operations. Even while we are talking, Islamic Jihad could carry
out an attack,' an officer serving in Judea and Samaria told me.
    When Israel evacuated Gaza, it left behind an inheritance of
approximately 20 Jihad fugitives. The security establishment estimates
that the list has not changed very much since then. This list, like the
list of HAMAS fugitives, was given to the Palestinian GSS. Until the
attack at Netzarim, Arafat's people had not made any effort to fight
'al-Kassam'. At the beginning of the week, Arafat ordered the arrest of
Jihad personnel. Too quickly, it has since become clear, because most,
if not all, of the detainees are Jihad political activists, not members
of the murder gangs. It seems that the Palestinian GSS as well, is
finding it difficult to arrest members of its military arm.
    The GSS intelligence arm in the Gaza Strip was limited after the
withdrawal. There are difficulties in gathering timely intelligence. And
if there is intelligence, it is hard to translate it into action. When
the intelligence has been given to the Palestinians, they, for the most
part, have not bothered to use it to make arrests. For example, it is
still not at all clear if the Palestinian Authority has in fact arrested
the Sheikh Abdallah Shami, one of the Jihad's spokesmen who, apparently,
does not belong to the Jihad's military apparatus, but who heads the
logistical network of collaborators who deal with hideouts, money,
vehicles, and weapons for the 'al-Kassam' apparatus. This week, even
Shimon Peres said that the IDF will act inside Gaza if there is no
choice.
    Given the restrictions presented by Gaza, the IDF is trying all
possible methods. For example, at the Kfar Darom Junction checkpoint --
inside Gush Katif, on the road linking Gaza and Khan Yunis -- on October
7, Rami Barbah, a resident of Khan Yunis and member of the Democratic
Front organization, who murdered Yossi Zindi at Moshav Bnei Ayash on
March 31, 1994, was captured. Khan Yunis is one of Islamic Jihad's
strongholds, and its activists apparently must also reach Gaza City.
    Islamic Jihad, unlike HAMAS, has no pretensions of proposing an
idealistic socio-economic platform, and does not seek to become either a
mass movement or a political movement. The Jihad is, first and foremost,
a military organization. Even so, it also has ideological leaders; Jihad
people control approximately two dozen mosques in the Gaza Strip.
Through the sheikhs and imams of these mosques, the movement carries out
'hadawa' -- religious preaching -- to give religious inspiration for the
Jihad's activities.
    Said Cana'an -- head of the Palestinian Research Center in Nablus,
which edits a monthly public opinion survey -- says that, 'The support
for the Islamic Jihad movement in the territories is minimal. On the
West Bank, it does not pass 3%, and in Gaza, it is 5% at most.'
    The peace process with the Palestinians suffered a tough blow over the
last few days, not just as a result of the attack in Netzarim, but also
because of HAMAS' joining the ruling institutions in the Autonomy areas.
Arafat, who always avoided reaching an understanding with HAMAS, was
happy to award them positions in the Authority. In the meantime, Sheikh
Hamed Bitawi, head of the Council of Palestine Religious Leaders, the
group which is supposed to grant religious legitimacy to HAMAS actions,
was appointed Vice-President of the sharia courts in the West Bank. 
    This week, it became known that Arafat intends to appoint several more
HAMAS members to positions in the Palestinian Authority -- among the
candidates slated to receive positions are several fugitives, including
Abd Rabu Abu Husa from the gang which murdered soldiers Avi Sassportas
and Ilan Sa'adon. 'There is going to be a problem here. We will need to
confront them,' security establishment officials are saying. 

Re: .35

Bernard J. Shapiro mentions among other things:

>Myth: In a time of missiles, geographic barriers like the Golan and the
>mountains of Judea and Samaria are of no value in the defense of Israel.
>Fact:  Missiles may do great damage, including psychological, but only tanks
>and infantry can conquer territory.

Two other points: 

1. Bullets are a *whole lot* cheaper than missiles,
and a good deal more available to small-fry terrorists and pot-bellied
peasants, whom the Syrian regime can claim they "can't control," (this 
is Arafat's unspoken excuse in Gaza). Although Israel can probably detect 
and may even have the political will to stop Katushias from entering 
Gaza, Rabin has intentionally turned a blind eye to the deluge of small 
arms into Gaza. Israel could not stop a similar flood into a Syrian-
controlled Golan even if she wanted to.

2. Israel has never launched an invasion over international sniper 
(small-arms) attacks. In the eyes of the world there is no justification
for such an "over-reaction" to such "minor provocation." The operation
of missiles, however, directly implicates the gov't in control, one 
reason why the Israeli-Syrian border has been one of the world's
most peaceful over the last 21 years.

Yehoshua

>From: The Jerusalem Post, December 4, 1994                     

A MACABRE RITUAL
OPINION by DAVID BAR-ILLAN
Post Executive Editor

     IT is not only the growing number of terror victims that creates
frustration and rage among the public, but the impression that the
killings have become routine and inexorable.  
     A macabre ritual seems to have developed around the murders.  Public
figures express shock at their savagery and convey condolences to the
bereaved families.  Thousands join massive, televised funerals, in which
government officials dare not participate.  Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
vows the government will not "hand the killers a victory by stopping the
peace process." And the opposition, calling for an immediate cessation of
talks, accuses the government of encouraging
terrorism by dealing with the PLO.  
     Then the country returns to its routine, helplessly awaiting the
next news of murder and mayhem.  
     Following the ax murder of Liat Gabai in Afula last Wednesday, Rabin
seemed to realize that unless the public sees some light at the end of the
tunnel, the feeling of helplessness will be replaced by outright despair. 
By way of encouragement, he said that the Islamic movements, Israel's most
virulent enemies today, are probably its only remaining foe.  In Israel
and the territories, he said, it is the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad which
attack Israelis.  In Lebanon, it is the Hizbullah.  Ergo: The enemies are
the Islamic fanatics, not the
"secular" Arabs.  
     The implications of Rabin's words are clear: The fanatics, supported
by Iran, are not only Israel's enemies, but the enemies of peace and
stability in the region.  It is in the interest of other Arabs to fight
them just as much as it is ours.  And once we all get
together and vanquish this bad lot, we'll have peace.  
     It would be nice to believe that this is so, and that the only
dangerous dictatorship in the Middle East is indeed Iran.  But it is
difficult to find confirmation for this simplistic view.  In fact,
pronouncements by two decidedly "secular" Arabs this week make a
mockery of this assumption.  
     Last Thursday, Syria's dictator Hafez Assad said that he would rather
maintain the status quo than yield to Israel's demands "which are
impossible to accept." What the Syrians so strenuously object to is
Israel's insistence on adequate security arrangements and a Syrian
commitment to a peace treaty and "normalization." That Damascus would
rather stay in a state of war with Israel than negotiate such demands
is hardly a sign of an overwhelming passion for peace.  
     Nor does it make sense to point to the Hizbullah and its sponsorship
by the Iranian ayatollahs as proof that only the Islamic militants are
Israel's enemies.  Without Assad's help, support and approval, neither the
Hizbullah nor any of the other nine terrorist organizations headquartered
in Syrian-controlled territory and
dedicated to the destruction of Israel could exist.  
     Nor is the official tone of the PLO, the organization Rabin once
expected to fight the Islamic terrorists in the territories, any less
belligerent than Syria's.  In a UN speech earlier this week, Farouk
Kadoumi, billed as the "Foreign Minister of the State of Palestine," 
returned to the rhetoric of the pre-Oslo days.  In a speech characterized
by Israel's ambassador to the UN Gad Ya'acobi as harsh and antagonistic,
Kadoumi not only demanded Israel's evacuation from all territories won in
1967 and the implementation of the Palestinian "right of return," but
blamed Israel for the increased instability and
terrorism in "Palestine." 
     It is difficult, then, to see the fight against Hamas and Hizbullah
as the battle against Israel's last enemy.  Nor is it possible to imagine
that the "secular" Arab will join Israel in its war against Islamic
terrorism.  On the contrary.  Since terrorism against Israelis seems to
achieve precisely the results it wants:  demoralization, despair and talk
of evacuating villages and towns in the territories, there is every reason
to believe not only that terrorism will increase, but that "seculars" like
the Fatah Hawks will soon openly join the competition for the allegiance
of Palestinians by attacking Israelis.  Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen.
Ehud Barak has warned that calling for the evacuation of settlements is
bound to have
precisely this effect.  
     The government's position is unenviable.  It now realizes that the
next step in the Oslo timetable is simply not implementable.  Evacuating
the army from Arab population centers will create terrorist strongholds in
every one of them, and cause a security problem next to
which the present situation will seem like a model of tranquility.  
     The government can either suspend the process, which will bring world
calumny and an open PLO return to the "armed struggle." Or it can follow
Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin's advice, skip the two-year interim
period and negotiate the final status immediately, in the hope that an
agreement with the PLO, meaning the total withdrawal
from the territories, will bring peace.  
     If the government is true to form, it will do neither.  It will drag
the negotiations on aimlessly, in the hope that the spectacular
achievements of the security services will manage to curb terrorist
activity, and that some development or another will point to happier
options.  
     And the public will pray that television news will include no
more funerals.  (c) JPFS 1994

YESHA NEWS SERVICE, WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER 1994
(In conjunction with Arutz 7)

GAZA STRIP BEGINS TO RESEMBLE LEBANON
	There are clear signs of Lebanonization in the Gaza Strip, 
says OC Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Uri Saguy.  This phenomenon is 
caused by the formation of armed militias already or potentially 
fighting each other, Saguy explains.  "Lebanonization" means an 
absence of effective central authority, political fragmentation 
caused by divisiveness and a lack of legitimacy, a proliferation 
of armed militias, and the consequential and inevitable failure 
to regulate economic life, and all these factors are currently 
present in Gaza, saguy continued.  IDF sources claim Saguy says 
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat has thus far failed to successfully 
assert his authority, combat internal opposition or ensure 
security throughout autonomous Gaza.  According to Maj.-Gen. 
Danny Rothschild, former Coordinator of Activities in Judea, 
Samaria and Gaza, Judea and Samaria are more complex 
politically than Gaza, and Arafat will have a very difficult time, 
given his current track record, of establishing his authority in 
these areas.  Despite all of the serious problems however, head 
of the Intelligence Branch's Research Department Brig.-Gen. 
Ya'acov Amidor inexplicably asserts that Arafat is irreplaceable 
as far as Israel is concerned.  [Ha'aretz & Jerusalem Post, 5 
December]

The new police commander for Judea and Samaria, Alec Ron, 
says that the IDF cannot pull out of the Arab population centers 
in these areas because places like Jenin, Ramallah and Schem 
will become just like Gaza and Jericho.  They will become places 
of refuge for car thiefs and other criminals who will run there 
after committing their atrocities in the center of the country.  
[Arutz 7, 6 December]

MINISTERS IN FAVOR OF REVISING DOP
	A number of Ministers have gone on record as advising a 
revision of the Oslo Accord, saying that there are two provisions 
currently included which are incompatible: IDF withdrawal 
from Arab population centers in Judea and Samaria and 
maintaining all the Jewish communities in their current 
locations.  While some ministers are advocating settlement 
relocation and others just temporary IDF withdrawal during the 
time surrounding the elections, a number of ministers who 
usually associate themselves with Prime Minister Yitzhak 
Rabin's position - Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Ora Namir, Ephriam 
Sneh, Yisrael Kessar and Avraham Shohat - have refused to 
claim a position.  [Jerusalem Post, 5 December]



HAMAS: WORKING ON "HUMAN RELATIONS"
	*A year and a half ago, Hamas published a book in Gaza 
which featured all the terror attacks they had perpetrated.  
	*A year ago, Hamas summoned photographic journalists 
just minutes after they had murdered three IDF soldiers in 
Gaza.  The photographers documented the soldiers laying in 
pools of their blood, and the pictures were sold on the streets of 
Gaza.  Postcards were only one shekel.  
	*The Hamas is known for documenting their activities, 
and they have a number of video tapes of terror attacks in their 
archives.  
	*Hamas terrorists are known to disguise themselves for 
processions and parades.  They dress up as IDF soldiers they 
have kidnapped and/or killed.  As the men in disguise walk 
around, the rest of the crowd attacks them.    
	*On Sunday at the Islamic University in Gaza, Hamas 
staged a performance in honor of the upcoming student 
elections.  In the performance, members of Hamas dressed up 
as the kidnappers of Sgt. Nahshon Wachsman z"l (who was 
kidnapped and killed by Hamas in October) and acted out his 
kidnapping and murder for the pleasure of the crowd. [Ha'aretz 
& Yediot Ahronot, 5 December]

MA'ALE ADUMIM AND KIRYAT GAT TO REGAIN "NATIONAL 
PRIORITY" STATUS?
	The High Court of Justice has given the state 30 days to 
justify why Ma'ale Adumim and Kiryat Gat have not been 
declared "national priority zones" while other similar towns 
have.  "National priority" status was taken away from Ma'ale 
Adumim and Kiryat Gat two years ago when the government 
revamped the classifications, claiming that only geographic 
location and not socioeconomic conditions would decide which 
towns were awarded this special status.  ("National priority" 
status makes a town eligible for several financial benefits.)  
When the High Court Justices Dov Levine, Yitzhak Zamir and 
Michael Cheshin heard that places like Afula and Beit Shemesh - 
places that are no farther away from the center of the country 
than Ma'ale Adumim and Kiryat Gat - had been awarded this 
status, the Justices then issued their 30-day order for the state 
to justify its policy decision.  [Jerusalem Post, 6 December]

RABIN CLAIMS SOME SETTLEMENTS A "CATASTROPHE FOR 
SECURITY"
	Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin called settlements in Judea 
and Samaria a security threat.  During Rabin's explaining of 
where plans currently stand regarding the promised bypass 
roads in Judea and Samaria, Rabin said that while such roads 
will help some of the Jewish communities in these areas, others 
which are more outlying will still have problems.  In a 
statement which could only be meant to lessen government 
culpability over the current security risks caused by the "peace 
process," Rabin continued on to say, "What can we do when 
some of the settlements were located for political reasons but 
from the point of view of security they are a catastrophe?" 
Rabin, purposely ignoring the full spectrum of statistics, falsely 
claimed that security has drastically improved for Israelis in 
Judea and Samaria because of the lower number of actual 
deaths in these areas.  What Rabin didn't mention is that while 
the number of murders resulting from terrorism actually 
perpetrated in Judea and Samaria has dropped approximately 
55% since 1993, the number of terror related murders within 
the 1967 border has increased by over 250% since 1993, 
meaning that the overall security in Israel has declined with 
terrorism becoming more of a problem not just in Judea and 
Samaria, but throughout the country.  Rabin also failed to 
mention the drastic increase, in the hundreds of percentage 
points,  of stone throwing, fire bomb and drive-by shooting 
attacks in Judea and Samaria since the signing of the Oslo 
Accord in September, 1993.  [Jerusalem Post, 6 December]

FATAH TENSIONS LEAD TO SHOOT-OUT IN SCHEM
	Internal tensions within Fatah led to a shoot-out in 
Schem Tuesday.  This is the second time this month that Fatah 
members have picked up their arms to solve their problems.  
Sources say that a resident of Kfar Bazaria came to the Fatah 
office in Schem an began shooting at the building.  Fatah 
members inside the building shot back and then captured the 
man, bringing him by car to Jericho.  The Kfar Bazaria resident's 
behavior was apparently a reaction to an incident in which 
members of Fatah from Schem came to Kfar Bazaria and 
physically attacked some of its people.  Four people were 
injured in the shoot-out.  [Yediot Ahronot, 7 December]

100 MEMBERS OF THE POPULAR FRONT APPLY TO JOIN PLO 
"POLICE"
	Much to the astonishment of the Popular Front for the 
Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a group which opposes the 
agreements between the PLO and Israel, 100 of its members 
have submitted requests to join up with the PLO policing force.  
One PFLP member who submitted a request said he was 
subsequently kidnapped by other members of the PFLP and 
beaten up.  He says they also shot their guns in the air above 
him.  Leaders of the PFLP claim they will "excommunicate" 
anyone who joins up with the PLO.  [Yediot Ahronot, 7 
December]

LIFE TERMERS TO GO HOME
	Israel has just allowed 150 Arab prisoners who were 
released from jail under the Cairo Agreement to leave Jericho - 
where they were to remain for the duration of their jail 
sentences - and return to their homes in Judea and Samaria.  
Over half of these prisoners were serving long-term sentences 
and some were serving life sentences.  The Palestinian 
Authority has asked Israel to allow even more prisoners to 
return to their homes.  [Israel Radio,  7 December]

IDF PATROL ATTACKED IN GUSH KATIF
	IDF soldiers were shot at today in Gush Katif.  In the 
early morning hours shots were fired at an IDF patrol that was 
moving along the Egypt-Rafiah border service road.  
Miraculously nobody was injured.  [Arutz 7, 7 December]


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              **2/3 OF PALESTINIANS SUPPORT ARMED ATTACKS**
     A public opinion poll conducted by the Survey and Polls Unit (SPU)
at the Center for Palestine Research and Studies in Nablus  on 17- 19
November 1994 finds that only a minority of Palestinians oppose armed
attacks against Israeli targets.  The poll, which includes 664 responses
from the West Bank and 412 from the Gaza Strip has a margin of error of
less than 3%.
   The following are selected results:
   With regard to the carrying out of armed operations against Israeli
targets in the West Bank and Israel (outside the autonomous areas) by
Palestinian groups: 
                                   Total      West Bank     Gaza 
I. I support these operations   
a. In West Bank and Israel         33.3%          28.2%     41.4% 
b. In West Bank only                4.5%           3.6%      5.8% 
c. In Israel only                  18.8%          19.9%     17.0%       
                                   =====           =====     =====     
   total support                    56.6%         51.7%     64.2% 
d. I don't support these operations  34.4%        36.7%     30.7% 
e. I don't know                      9.0%         11.6%      5.1% 

       The solution that I accept for the Palestinian cause is... 
a. The PLO solution (establishment of two states in Palestine: Israel
and a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza)                    
                                    49.8%         50.5%      48.7%   
b. The Islamic solution (suggested by the Islamic movements and calling
for the liberation of Palestine from the sea to the river)             
                                    38.7%          35.9%      43.1% 
c. The Jordan solution (Jordan negotiating with Israel to re-annex or
unite the West Bank with Jordan                                         
                                     5.1%           8.0%       0.5% 
d. Other                             6.4%            5.7%       7.7% 
Submitted by Dr. Aaron Lerner, IMR&A

 **FEW ISRAELIS BELIEVE RABIN AND PERES SHOULD ACCEPT NOBEL PRIZE NOW** 
     A Gallup poll sponsored by IMRA (Independent Media Review and
Analysis) finds that only 37.4% of Israelis believe that Yitzhak Rabin
and Shimon Peres should accept the Nobel Peace Prize this coming
Saturday night.  This is a decline of over seven percentage points since
Gallup first asked the same question in mid October when 44.6% said that
they should accept the Prize as scheduled.  While 17.1% believe that
Rabin and Peres should reject the prize (up from 14.9%),  39.5% maintain
that they should ask for the presentation of the Prize to be postponed
until there truly is peace (from 32.9%).  The remaining 6.0% of the 519
Israeli surveyed had no opinion.
   The telephone survey, carried out by Gallup Israel on the evenings of 
4/5 December has a standard error of 4%.
The complete results follow:
Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres were awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize.  In your opinion should Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres:
1) Refuse to accept the prize at all.
2) Ask for the presentation of the prize to be postponed until there
truly is peace.
3) Accept the prize as scheduled.
                                 Survey's Dates
                               Dec. 4-5   Oct 16-17
                              ========  =========
Refuse                        17.1%    14.9%   
Delay                         39.5%    32.9%   
Accept                        37.4%    44.6%  
Don'tknow/refuse               6.0%     7.7%      
Total surveyed                 519      599
Submitted by Dr. Aaron Lerner, IMR&A
                               DAHAF POLL:
 When asked if they thought Arafat would do everything in his power to
fight Hamas/Jihad:
          25% of Israelis said yes 
          73% of Israelis said no 
When asked if Arafat would comply with his treaty obligations:        
          23% of Israelis said yes 
          73% of Israelis said no
When asked if IDF should intervene in Gaza events:
          38% of Israelis said yes 
          59% of Israelis said no  
Yediot Acharonot, Dec. 6, 1994 

                          **LABOUR'S DOWNFALL**
     Knesset faction head Eli Dayan plans to arrange a meeting between
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Labor MKs in an attempt to improve
relations in the party.  
     The Labor Party, Dayan said on Sunday, "has inexplicably sunk into
the depths of depression and seems to have lost its way, its confidence
and almost its will to live."
     Dayan was reacting to complaints among Labor higher-ups on the way
they are treated by the prime minister, and their sense that the failure
of key policies will lead to Labor's downfall.  
     "Much of this sense of doom is exaggerated and unwarranted,"  Dayan
said.  "Our party is a master at magnifying shortcomings and
malfunctions.  If we do not rise up from this sense of despair, and do
not disconnect ourselves from this self-destruction mechanism, then we
are indeed doomed."
     Dayan added that "there are real problems in the functioning of
this government and not just cosmetic troubles."
     For example, he said, ministers don't feel they can make
independent decisions.  He also mentioned the problem of Rabin holding
so many portfolios.  "It's high time that Rabin appoints an interior
minister," he said.  
     MK Yael Dayan agreed with Eli Dayan.  "The root cause of it all is
Rabin's personality, and, given his age and nature, I doubt he will
change.  He is just not warm enough," she said, adding, "He lacks
elementary sensitivity and the ability to listen to the electorate." 
Jerusalem Post, Dec. 5, 

                **GENERALS CLEARED OF BRUTALITY CHARGES**
     Judge Advocate General Brig.-Gen. Ilan Schiff on Sunday exonerted
Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak Mordechai and Brig.-Gen. Ya'acov Orr of allegations
they issued orders to beat Palestinians while serving in Central
Command.  
      The allegations were raised during the Givati-2 trial four years
ago.       During the trial, in which Givati Brigade officers were
charged and convicted of excessive violence towards Palestinians,
allegations were made that then-OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Mordechai
and the area commander, Brig.-Gen Orr, issued patently illegal orders to
beat Palestinians even when soldiers were not endangered.  
     It took Schiff four years and Mordechai's pending retirement to
finally say that no proof was found that such orders had been given.
Jerusalem Post, Dec. 5, 

      **GOVERNMENT BLAMES SETTLEMENTS FOR DERAILING PEACE PROCESS**
     With "Gaza-Jericho First" a dismal failure, many within the Rabin
government have come to the realization that withdrawing the IDF from
the cities of the West Bank would turn the entire area into one huge
"Fatahland".  If the West Bank was located in some distant territory
hundreds of kilometers away from Israel's urban centers it might be
argued that such a Fatahland would only threaten the safety of the
Jewish settlements in the territories.  But this is not the case.  Much
of the Israeli population is literally within walking distance of what
Israeli security experts warn would become terrorist camps if the IDF
withdrew.
   The Rabin government is hard pressed to admit that the IDF is in the
West Bank to defend the lives of Israelis within the Green Line just as
much as the Israelis within the settlements.  Doing so would be to
concede that their extremist ideology which strives to withdraw to
somewhere within the Green Line is irrelevant.  Instead these officials
have chosen to use the safety of the settlements as an excuse for
keeping the IDF in place. Dr. Aaron Lerner, IMR&A

                      **HEBREW NEWSPAPERS, Dec. 6**
**Yediot Ahronot declares that 'Arafat cannot supply the goods in Gaza,
and his police are not even capable of stopping Hamas' outrageous
'performance' about the Wachsman abduction,' and asks 'on what basis are
we to assume that he will act differently in Judea and Samaria, and
uphold what he is neither capable of nor willing to uphold in Gaza?' The
editors state that 'Arafat, the master of excuses, is blaming us for his
failures,' and add that 'from our point of view, he is right. For the
one who lacks an alternative, no price is too high.'
**Ma'ariv, in its third editorial, believes that Israel Television and
the Second Channel were justified in showing the HAMAS dramatization of
the abduction and murder of Nahshon Wachsman. Regarding the
dramatization itself, the editors declare that 'this is extremist
Islam's level of morality. This is the murderous joy that beats in the
heart of many Palestinians,' and add that 'these are the pictures that
we must remember whenever we sit in air-conditioned rooms and hold
academic discussions on the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian
people.'
**Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, refers to Foreign Minister
Peres' current trip to Budapest and notes that he persists in believing
that 'an Arab whose economic situation is good, will also be politically
positive and cannot be a terrorist.' The paper recommends that 'the
Foreign Minister -- on his next visit to Israel -- have a talk with the
Director of the IDF Intelligence Branch.'
**Ha'aretz discusses the -- in its view -- murky legal status of the GSS
and says that 'the time has come for a serious and in-depth discussion
on the issue of the GSS's place in our democratic fabric. The discussion
must be done rationally and with consideration, not against the
background of any particular incident, and by taking all relevant
interests into account.' 

                     **U.S.A.: HAMAS LED FROM US?**
     FBI counter-intelligence, Treasury agents and British intelligence
are all now persuaded that radical fundamentalist groups have shifted
their command and  financial centers to the United States and Britain.
The Israeli government made  a similar claim in February, 1993 after
Shin Bet arrested two men in Jerusalem,  Mohammad Salah and Mohammad
Jarad, who were Palestinian-born Americans living in Chicago. At the
time the accusations greatly annoyed the U.S. which thought the  claim
was groundless. However, agents who have managed to infiltrate Islamist
movements in the U.S. have recently identified several financial
networks operated by extremists in the country. Between $ 20-30 million
is reportedly collected each year for Palestinian fundamentalist
movements. Agents identified one organization as the Occupied Land Fund,
originally established in Los Angeles, which changed its name to the
Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development; it then recently moved
to Richardson, Texas to hook up with the Dallas-based Islamic
Association for Palestine, a radicalist front long known to U.S.
intelligence. Interrogation of Mohammad Salah by the Israeli security
forces reportedly led to the discovery that the United Association for
Studies and Research in Springfield, Virginia housed one of the main
command centers for Hamas in the United States. According to other
sources, the Council for American-Islamic Relations in Washington, whose
director, Nihad Awad, once belonged to the Islamic Association for
Palestine.
    The FBI is also investigating what it believes to be "a major
training facility" for military personnel in a suburb near Chicago. Its
activities are said to be coordinated through a Westside Chicago mosque.
American agents noted  that all real estate and buildings around the
mosque are being bought up by front companies controlled by Islamists.
The spiritual leader of the mosque, Jamal Said, is considered a senior
Hamas operative.
Intelligence Newsletter, November  17, 1994

                          **AL AKHBAR, Dec. 1**
- The PPF Gen. Ghazi Aljabli continues to ban Jerusalem daily
Palestinian newspapers of Annahar and Alquds from being distributed in
Gaza Strip. The PNA charges Jerusalem papers of being Hamas biased. 
[More details will be provided shortly.]
- Prof. Edward Said, a prominent Palestinian thinker, had called upon
the PLO leadership to "depart and leave" Gaza.  Dr. Said called on the
Palestinian people to boycott such leadership as it is merely
"occupation executer." Dr. Said indicated that such boycott must take
higher priority to Palestinians. Dr. Said also said that he is fully
convinced "based on evidences available to him" that the PLO leadership,
in particular those of the PNA, are stubborn and unwilling to change. 
"They even don't listen to one another.  Arafat, Abou Mazen, and Abo
AlAla' don't speak to each other.  They are only interested in keeping
their funny positions and authorities."  Dr. Said said. In the meantime,
Dr. Said affirmed, "All Palestinians must not co-operate with the PA
which is merely an agent working for the Zionist occupiers.  What is
worse than this is the PA lacks the qualifications."  "Arafat was not
able to clean up Gaza street, but he was able to establish secrete
intelligence organizations that spy on one another.  It is an outrageous
matter to see Arafat banning and closing newspapers and to see him using
force and intimidation to keep Palestinians' mouth shut."

                  **SEEKING AN INTELLIGENCE STRATEGY**
     Yassar Arafat's inability to define an efficient security policy
has driven  a further wedge into policy differences between the three
Israeli intelligence services. For the first time the agencies have
appealed to the government to lay down the real strategic options of
Israeli's information gathering machine. Rather unusually, the military
intelligence service Aman and the domestic agency Shin Bet, which have
been long-standing rivals, have taken up joint cause against Mossad, the
foreign intelligence agency. Shin Bet and Aman are in favor  of
cooperating closely with the Jordanian services and of working actively
to infiltrate extremist movements (Sunni in the occupied territories and
Shi'ite in southern Lebanon). The two believe that cooperation with the
PLO and other Arab countries is secondary. This has not stopped them
from undertaking a number of eye-catching intiatives, such as Aman's
which led to high level contacts with Iraq in recent months.
    For its part, Mossad doesn't reject cooperation with Jordan but
feels that it's more important to work directly with the Palestinian
administration and isolate Syria and Lebanon. Mossad also voiced its
disapproval of Shin Bet's recent "execution" of the fundamentalist
leader Hani Abed that took place after  the Tel Aviv bomb attack. Mossad
believes that weakening Arafat in this manner will prevent him from
beefing up his intelligence services in the occupied territories and
from preserving what remains of his network in the Arab countries.
Intelligence Newsletter, November  17, 1994

**IN AN INTERVIEW PUBLISHED FRIDAY BY THE SAUDI  HAIDAR ABDELSHAFI, ONCE
THE PALESTINIANS' CHIEF NEGOTIATOR WITH ISRAEL AND NOW ONE OF THE
MEDIATORS BETWEEN HAMAS AND ARAFAT, SPEAKS OUT.**
     Riyadh-- I say that the Palestinians, regardless of their political
affiliation, have the right to resort to any means to get rid of the
occupation, including armed struggle. But the timing of any action is
important. Although Israel is obstructing the peace process, the
international community will say we have destroyed the process and hold
us responsible for its failure. So I am not satisfied with Hamas's
timing of its armed action three or four months (after the PNA took over
in Gaza and Jericho)... 
   I consider Hamas a political movement that must be dealt with on that
basis. It has an Islamic ideology, and it has the right to choose
whatever ideology it wants, like all other Palestinian political
movements and fronts. Asharq al-Awsat, Dec. 2, 1994

                      **CHRISTIAN GANG ARRESTED** 
     Seven Christians from Jerusalem's Old City, including a Greek
Orthodox priest, were arrested last week for allegedly forming an armed
gang to defend against Moslem attacks on Christian targets.
    Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby announced the arrests on
Saturday night, saying five of the seven were remanded for seven days on
Friday.
    The other two, including the priest whose accidental injury while
using one of the gang's weapons led to its being uncovered, were
released on bail, Ben-Ruby said.
    The arrests come as reports of attacks by Moslem extremists on
Christian targets in the Old City have increased in recent months. The
Christian gang was uncovered during an investigation sparked by the
hospitalization with shrapnel wounds of Father John Kodsodimitrophilos,
25, on Wednesday.
    He told police a bomb was thrown at him on the Via Dolorosa. But
police found  no signs of a bomb during a search of the area.
Intelligence tips led investigators to two homes in the Christian
Quarter, where caches containing a homemade gun, knives, spiked clubs,
and other light weapons were found. Dec. 4,   (c) JPFS 1994

            **SAUDIS TO GET INVOLVED WITH EREZ CHECKPOINT** 
     Beilin and a representative of the Saudi embassy in Washington meet
at a business conference in Aspen, Colorado, and Israel Radio reports
that Saudi interests intend to get involved in the financing and
development of an industrial park at the Erez checkpoint Mideast Mirror,
Nov  22, 1994

                           **13 YEARS LATER**
Beirut ends amnesty for bombers of US base; Hunt begins for those behind
killing of 299 Americans and French.
     In a decision likely to cause deep concern to Islamic
fundamentalists in Lebanon, the justice ministry is opening an
investigation into the suicide bombings of the US Marine base and French
military headquarters in Beirut, which killed 241 Americans and 58
Frenchmen in October 1983.
   The judicial ruling - which, according to local rumour, came after
profound  American pressure - takes away from ''Islamic Jihad'', a
satellite of the Hizbollah movement, the protection of a civil war
amnesty covering all acts of violence between 1975 and 1990.
    It also comes scarcely a month after police discovered what they say
was a CIA plan to kidnap one of the gunmen who forced an American TWA
jet to fly to Beirut in 1985 and who murdered a passenger, US Navy diver
Robert Stetham. The discovery that two Shia Muslims from Beirut's Ouzai
suburb had been following Hassan Izzedine, a former Hizbollah official
believed to have been among the hijackers, has astonished some
authorities here - not least because police say Mr Izzedine was to have
been abducted on a speedboat and put aboard a US warship.
    The opening of the justice ministry's files on the 1983 suicide
attacks, on  the US Marine and French barracks, threatens to set off a
dangerous political time-bomb. At the time US embassy officials said the
slaughter was planned by the intelligence services of Iran and Syria -
the latter now engaged in US-sponsored peace talks. Both countries
denied the charges. The bombings were claimed by ''Islamic Jihad'',
commonly regarded as a creature of the pro-Iranian Hizbollah whose
militia - under new leadership and with different military aims  - now
forms the backbone of Lebanese resistance to Israeli troops in southern
Lebanon.
    The lorry bombers died in the explosions, which were carefully timed
to go off only seconds apart, crushing most of the American and French
victims under tons of smouldering masonry. Joseph Maamari, assistant
Lebanese military procurator general, has asked a military judge, Riad
Talih, to find ''those behind'' the attacks. Followed to its logical
conclusion, the Lebanese inquiry would have to interrogate a number of
former Hizbollah leaders; but Iran will want to protect its operatives
in Lebanon, several of whom now live in Tehran. 
    Inquiries are also expected to be opened into the April 1983
lorry-bombing of the US embassy in Beirut, another ''Islamic Jihad''
project which massacred 46 Lebanese and 17 Americans, including almost
every CIA station chief in the Middle East. There are suspicions in
Beirut that the inquiry may be a back-door  response to America's calls
for disarmament of the Hizbollah. Lebanese authorities believe these US
demands are made on Israel's behalf, to reduce the  attacks on Israel's
occupation troops in southern Lebanon. 
The Independent, Dec.  1, 1994,

              **MUBARAK WARNS OF ISLAMIC THREAT TO EUROPE**
     President Mubarak of Egypt, the Arab leader seen by the West as its
main bulwark against Islamic extremism, yesterday gave a warning that,
if promised aid was not rapidly given to the Palestinians, the newly
autonomous Gaza Strip would explode and spread Muslim violence through
Europe.
   ''The Palestinian problem is not yet resolved. Just because a
document has been signed, that means nothing it has to be implemented.
My fear is that there will  soon be an explosion in Gaza, more dangerous
than Afghanistan, and that it will  affect all the countries in the
region and all the countries on their borders.'' His warning coincided
with a claim by Islamic Jihad in Gaza that more than 50 volunteers had
been recruited for suicide attacks ''in any place in which there are
Jews''
   The President was anxious to emphasise that Gaza's despair posed a
threat to Europe not just Israel, which he accused of failing to
implement key elements in the peace deal and thus encouraging anti-PLO
militants. ''Without giving the Palestinians hope, Gaza could become a
base for destabilisation that will affect not only the Middle East,'' he
said. ''It is going to affect Europe. It is very easy to go from here to
Europe, especially as you have cells of fundamentalists all over Europe
now.''
   He would not comment specifically on the claim that Britain was one
country  providing a haven for Islamic militants, but said: ''Whoever
hosts these elements and allows conferences advocating violence is going
to pay a very heavy price.'' Britain is among the nations which have
held up aid to the 850,000 Gaza Arabs until it is convinced that Yassir
Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, has set up
proper auditing procedures. 
   Mr Mubarak was outspoken in defence of Mr Arafat, speaking of him as
a prodigal son who had heeded his father's advice.
  The Egyptian leader also called on Britain and the West to reappraise
their view of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader. He argued that
the colonel was now reformed, a vital buffer against  Islamic
fundamentalism  and no longer  a godfather to international terrorism.
''He is a very moderate man. He denounces terrorism.
   Egypt is convinced, if the West pushes Colonel Gaddafi too hard, he
could be  replaced by his second-in-command, Major Abdel-Salam Jalloud,
who is known to be anxious to resume Libya's role as a terrorist
paymaster.
    Mr Mubarak was dismissive of accusations by America that Egypt had
been regularly breaking Libyan sanctions and of claims in two leading US
newspapers that his two sons, one resident in London, had been
profiteering from dubious commercial ventures, some involving Libya.
    Despite the recent resurgence of terrorist violence, including the
October 23 ambush that claimed the life of a second British tourist in
two years, the President was adamant that his security forces now had
''the criminals'' on the  run. He ridiculed a suggestion from Washington
that he should open a dialogue with the main group, Gamaa al-Islamiya.
    ''The Americans are living in another area. We made dialogue until
they started using machineguns. We could not sit any longer with folded
hands. We had to react firmly,'' he insisted.
    The image of the smooth diplomat was suddenly replaced by that of
the tough, ruthless former military man when I asked if Iran could ever
succeed in overthrowing his moderate regime. ''That,'' he bristled, ''is
one of the impossibles.'' The Times, November  18, 1994

                 **ECONOMICS 101 AND THE PEACE PROCESS**
                       by Dr. Aaron Lerner, IMR&A
     Perhaps the most important lesson in any introductory course to
economics is the concept of "sunk cost".  Simply put, the amount of
money already "sunk" into a project should not influence the decision to
continue investing.  Investment continues only if there is a reasonable
chance that the investment will pan out.
   This is not such an easy idea for undergraduates to accept. 
Politicians are no different.
   After taking power with a razor thin majority, Yitzhak Rabin decided
to make perhaps the biggest "investment" in his life.  He abandoned the
Labor Party Platform which got him elected and adopted the belief system
of the extreme Left.  Halfway through his term,  it is clear that the
Labor-Meretz government is determined to withdraw at least to the Green
Line.  I use the phrase "at least" because Rabin and the other
extremists call for complete separation between the Arabs and the Jews. 
Unless the prime minister wants to transfer the Israeli Arabs from
Haifa, Jaffa, Acre, etc., some territorial arrangement will be required
within the Green Line as well.  Whether the final Rabin solution is
"Jewish pockets" within Greater Palestine or "Arab Pockets" within
Israel, the Rabin/Peres/Beilin peace map will be a far cry from any
borders which Israel has had since its establishment in 1948. 
   If Arafat and Assad had been willing to cooperate with Rabin, part of
downtown Haifa would probably already be part of some form of
Palestinian autonomy.  But they did not play ball.
    And so today the Rabin government faces a harsh reality.  At the
Sunday meeting of the Cabinet,  military and intelligence experts
attacked Arafat one after the other.  Arafat is literally doing nothing
to stop terrorism and, if anything, has joined forces with the "enemies
of peace".  The autonomous area has become the Fatahland of the 90's
and, the experts warn,  the same will happen to any other area which is
handed over to the PA. 
   But the situation is even worse than that.  Since the start of the
"peace process",  the cancer of the PLO/Hamas has taken root among the
Israeli Arabs.  In the past, when an Israeli Arab was charged with
aiding terrorists it was headline news, today it is a footnote. 
Strategically located throughout Israel,  the Israeli Arabs can be many
fold more effective in wreaking havoc and destruction than their brother
in the Territories.  Please note that it was revealed today that the
terrorist who carried out the bus bomb massacre in Tel Aviv spent the
night before the attack at the home of Arabs in Jaffa.
   So what should Rabin do?  He invested his good name in the "peace
process" and the "sacrifices for peace" now exceed one hundred dead.
   "Gaza-Jericho First" was a test and the test failed.  Its now time
for Rabin to put the concept of "sunk cost" into practice. 

 **A WATCHFUL EYE WIDENS ON THE IRANIAN MENACE by ALON PINKAS** 
     (The debate in policy-making and intelligence circles over the
extent of the threat posed by Iran has been resolved.  Iran sponsors
terrorism and is attempting to acquire a long-range military capability.
The writer is The Jerusalem Post's Defense Correspondent)  
     Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has resolved the question of the
nature and direction of the Iranian threat, which has been the focus of
debate inside the intelligence community.  
     Last month in Washington, Rabin explicitly accused Iran of aiding
Hizbullah, partially financing Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in the
territories, and trying to destabilize the Israeli-Arab peace process.   
     These allegations were previously made abundantly clear by Israeli
officials.  
     The former and last Israeli ambassador to Teheran, Uri Lubrani, who
is now the government's coordinator of activities in south Lebanon, said
this summer that Iran's fingerprints are visibly and undeniably clear in
Hizbullah's arming and financing in Lebanon.        Air Force commander
Maj.  -Gen.  Herzl Budinger has said that the newly acquired (but not
yet delivered) F-15I jets are a qualitative strategic arm capable of
long-range operations.  He did not allude to Iran, but his predecessor,
Maj.  -Gen.  Avihu Bin-Nun, was more specific.  
     Rabin has found a sympathetic ear in Washington.  The Clinton
administration has adopted a policy of "dual containment" aimed at both
Iran and Iraq.  
     Rabin's lashing out at Iran, in addition to PLO Chairman Yasser
Arafat's accusation that Iran was behind recent riots in Gaza, was an
indication that the school in the intelligence community arguing that
Iran constitutes a serious threat is prevailing.  
     "I think that following several years of dwelling on the issue, the
facts finally had their say.  Iran is supporting fundamentalist
movements all over the Arab world, constantly subverting moderate
regimes with which we have or aspire to have a dialogue," says a senior
official in the Foreign Ministry.  
     "The Iranians want to reconstruct the radical front with religious
motivations.  They are trying to turn the Israeli-Arab conflict into a
Jewish-Islamic confrontation.  But the West still does not grasp the
full extent of this phenomenon.  
     "Germany had $5-billion worth of economic ties until recently. 
When economics are the sole driving force, common political sense is
neglected and ignored."
     Others tend to be less impressed by a potential threat from Iran.   
     Dr. Ephraim Kam of Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for
Strategic Studies wrote the chapter on Iran in the recently published
The Middle East Military Balance 1993-1994.  
     "By mid-1994 it was clear that for the next few years the
implications of the Iranian threat were relatively limited ... Only if
Iran were to acquire surface-to-surface missiles with a range that
reaches Israel, would it achieve the capacity to strike Israel from its
own territory without being directly integrated into an Arab-Israeli
war," Kam writes.  
     A former assistant director of the intelligence branch's research
department, Kam argues that Iran is motivated by a self-perceived
threat.  
     "The threat previously emanated from the former Soviet Union and
now from its immediate neighbors," Kam said in an interview.   "Iran
failed to lure the Islamic former-Soviet republics to follow its model
and is experiencing an ongoing economic crisis, which has a moderating
effect on its policies.  They are 10 years away from nuclear weapons,
and even that is doubtful." 
     But he said Iran is still sponsoring terrorism and the subversion
of moderate Arab regimes, and is also attempting to acquire a long-range
military capability.  
     Iran is a threat.  No one in intelligence or decision-making
circles disputes this, but they do disagree heatedly about how great the
threat is, and to whom.  They therefore can't agree on how Israel should
respond.  
     The debate revolves around the definition and interpretation of the
essence of this perceived threat from Iran.  
     One approach contends that Iran poses a significant political and
military threat that destabilizes the entire regime and can potentially
constitute an existential threat to countries in the Gulf.   
     The other school of thought argues that the threat is exaggerated,
that Iran is seeking to fill a regional strategic vacuum created by
Iraq's defeat in 1991, that it is at least a decade away from acquiring
nuclear capabilities and that its policies stem from its perception of
itself as an isolated country surrounded by strategic adversaries.  
     The controversy in intelligence and decision making circles here
naturally focused on whether Israel and Iran are in fact enemies. The
debate also focused on whether Israel should be the one leading
international efforts to further isolate Iran or play a minor role of
advising and alerting the international community to Teheran's real and
potential menaces.  
     Since the end of the Gulf War between Iran and Iraq, and especially
after Iraq's defeat by a US-led coalition in the second Gulf war in
1991, the Iranian threat has been a major issue on the agenda in closed
meetings held in the Prime Minister's Office, the Foreign Ministry and
in military intelligence circles.  
     In all these meetings, participants made assessments of Iran's
policy orientations and trends.       They reviewed Teheran's
conventional and nonconventional military buildup, its support of
extremists and fundamentalist groups throughout the Middle East, its
attempts to subvert moderate regimes in the region and Iran's oil
politics.  
     "But as is often the case with estimations and assessments of
political trends in a closed country and society, the conclusions varied
and a controversy evolved," says one of the participants in several
meetings.  
     For example, Iran is not listed as a direct threat to Israel in the
annual assessment submitted by the intelligence branch to the chief of
the general staff, and through him to the government. "But if you look
at other items, Iran is there," says a senior army source.  
     "The intelligence branch, as do other agencies, warns against the
spread of fundamentalism and the proliferation of nonconventional
weapons.  Iran is in the thick of things right there." 
     And there are other manifestations of the Iranian threat implicit
in various assessments, such as that of military intelligence.  "Iran is
not perceived as a direct and viable military threat to Israel, nor
should it be.  But in assessments you will see that the conventional
wisdom is that a peace agreement between Israel and Syria would break
the Damascus-Teheran connection and lessen Iran's adverse effects on the
region," says another participant in Iran-related discussions.  
     "That is a tacit, even if indirect, reference to how we perceive
Iran." (c) JPFS 1994

                     **A LONG SIGNAL FROM DAMASCUS**
        Article by Ze'ev Schiff - "Ha'aretz", 6 Dec 1994 (p. B1)
     A few months before the European Union decision to lift the embargo
on arms sales to Syria, an interesting event (connected to a serious
terrorist incident) took place behind the scenes in Damascus. The event
was related to the April 1986 attempt of a Syrian agent, Nizar Hindawi,
to plant a bomb on an El-Al flight from London to Lod.
   Hindawi, who gave the case with the bomb in it to a young
Englishwoman in an advanced stage of pregnancy, carried a Syrian
diplomatic passport. Due to the alertness of security personnel, a great
disaster -- that could have led to war between Israel and Syria -- was
prevented. What details became known were learned during Hindawi's
questioning and trial, following which he was sentenced to 45 years in
prison.
   One consequence of this affair was that Britain severed its
diplomatic relations with Syria. The Syrian ambassador and a number of
Embassy personnel who were involved were deported from Britain. The
tracks then led to the intelligence commander of the Syrian air force,
General Mohammad Khouli, who had met with Hindawi. After a time, it
became known that Khouli had been dismissed from his post. He
disappeared from the headlines and it was believed that he had been
punished by Assad. It is now clear that Khouli was never castigated, and
neither were his colleagues who had been deported from Britain due to
their involvement in the Hindawi affair. Khouli was removed only from
the headlines, and now he has been returned. It recently became known
that he was appointed commander of the Syrian air force. When this
became known to the British government, it complained to the Damascus
regime and expressed displeasure with the General's promotion.
   What the British apparently did not know is that two other Syrians
who had been involved in the affair (and who were deported from Britian)
were also promoted, in rank and position. Sayeb Sa'id, who had then
lived in London and had been responsible for Syrian airline security,
was actually a military officer with the rank of colonel. Sa'id, who had
been responsible for issuing Hindawi's diplomatic passport, has since
been promoted to the rank of brigadier. Mohammad Amura was posted,
shortly after the incident, to a senior position at the Syrian embassy
in Cyprus. His importance is evidenced by the fact that he is part of
Assad's bureau and also serves as an interpreter during Assad's
meetings.
    It cannot be inferred from this episode that Damascus has decided to
turn to the path of terror. (Incidentally, the Syrians still continue to
assert that the Hindawi affair was orchestrated by the Mossad. Syrian
Foreign Minister Farouk a-Shara also said this during his last visit to
England; the English have rejected this view.) This only attests to the
fact that Damascus is making light of what the international community
thinks about Syria's involvement in terrorism. Moreover, Syria has not
been deterred from this arrogant response, even while engaged in the
peace process, and while the United States is hesitating over whether to
remove Syria from itys list of states that support terror.
 The Syrians have another explanation. Khouli's appointment is being
portrayed as part of an internal, hierarchical struggle over the future
promotion of Assad's second son Bashar. General Ali Khaidar, an Alawite
who commanded the special forces and was close to Assad, was dismissed
as a result of this struggle; Among the missions that Khaidar had
performed for Assad were the Hama massacre and the treatment of various
opposition groups in Lebanon. His fate was a consequence of his
objection to the rise of Bashar. It was said that he also opposes
Assad's peace measures. American intelligence accepts this assessment --
but it apparently did not account for the fact that others involved in
the Hindawi incident were promoted.
   Unlike Washington, the European Union has no list of terror
supporters, and they thus rushed to remove the embargo now. But the
European Union does have a number of regulations and guidelines
according to which the sale of weapons to Syria (and other states in
embattled regions) are judged. These rules are based upon the EU's
criteria for arms exports, the principles of the Helsinki accords and
the decisions of the five powers. Each of these emphasizes that the sale
of weapons to countries supporting international terrorism must be
avoided.    The European regulations of 1992 stress that the decision
must also be based on the connection of the state procuring the weapons
with terrorist activity. In addition, no such sale should exacerbate an
existing conflict or contribute to regional instability. It would seem
that these considerations were only paid lip service when it was decided
to lift the embargo against Syria. 
   Must all this delay the peace process? No; it only points to the
Syrian regime's low level of sensitivity. It will complicate the removal
of Syria from the list of terrorist supporters -- but, on the other
hand, Syria will be encouraged by the European signal (of lifting the
embargo). For the moment, the indirect negotiations between Israel and
Syria are undergoing difficulty. Still, it would be a mistake to close
the book on peace. The negotiating tactics being used by both parties
have also added to the problem. Assad, particularly, is using a 'go for
broke' strategy. Both sides have presented pre-conditions before the
main negotiations have even begun, and this has also created a crisis
atmosphere. At the same time, it must not be forgotten that Israel and
Syria view peace as a vital interest, each for its own reasons.

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**MUBARAK CALLS FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE MULTINATIONAL FORCE IN THE
SINAI**
     Egypt calls to replace the multi-national force in the Sinai with
observers who would be stationed on the Israeli-Egyptian border only.
    This comes as a staggering blow to Prime Minister Rabin as it
unmistakably points out the frailty of any peace agreement and is
reminiscent of 1956 when Nasser initiated the 1956 war by driving out
the U.N. representatives and began a massive military buildup that
sparked the war.
    The radical Israel have always pointed to the Israeli Egypt peace
accords as a paradigm to be copied for further peace initiatives. This
action points out that peace with surrounding belligerent Arab countries
can only be secured through the respect that only a strong military
deterrent can provide.
 Rabin's weakening and politization of the Israeli Defense Forces, his
unilateral compliance with the Oslo accords, and his attempt to
surrender the Golan as a peace gesture, have resulted only in the deaths
of Israelis, hundreds of Jews the world over, and an increasingly, 
impoverished Palestinian population who resort to deadly violence as
their answer to Israeli peace gestures.
   Rabin will arrive for his Nobel prize labeled as the man most
responsible for the deaths of Jews, after Yassir Arafat, in the last 50
years. His place in history will be a sad one and one best forgotten. 
   He cannot survive another election as all polls indicate. His
opponents now face the issue of damage assessment, as his public
pronouncements and those of his cabinet are those of men so obsessed
with a place in history that they are wiling to sacrifice the lives of
their fellow Jews as "sacrifices for peace." 
Moshe Tsvi, Jerusalem

                 **US JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN ARRIVING**  
     Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staffs,
is to arrive today on an official visit.  He will be the guest of
Israeli Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Ehud Barak.  
   IDF sources said that Shalikashvili will discuss the "security
package" that Israel is seeking from the US as compensation for possible
territorial compromises in the peace process with Syria.  They denied
that possible deployment of US troops on the Golan Heights will be on
the agenda.  
   Shalikashvili will be welcomed at an official ceremony at IDF General
Staff Headquarters in Tel Aviv.  Immediately following the ceremony, he
will meet with Barak and senior IDF officers. He is also scheduled to
visit the Ground Forces Command, the air force, and the navy, as well as
some special units, where he will be shown advanced military technolo
gies and systems.  
    Shalikashvili may also visit the Golan Heights on a "private visit,"
since the State Department does not allow official US representatives to
visit areas under contention.  A visit to the army's Northern Command is
on his official agenda, but the IDF would not confirm the Golan visit.
Jerusalem Post, Dec. 5, 
                                    
       **BEILIN SAYS REDEPLOYMENT DANGEROUS FOR YESHA RESIDENTS**
     Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin has called on Israel and the
PLO to skip over the temporary status stages of IDF redeployment and
Arab elections in Judea and Samaria and move directly to final status
negotiations for those areas.  
   According to Beilin, an IDF pullout from the Arab population centers
in Judea and Samaria would be too dangerous for the Jewish residents
living there.  Therefore negotiations with the PLO on the issue of
redeployment and elections would be very difficult.  "Negotiations on
temporary status issues in Cairo next week are likely to be a waste of
time," Beilin said.
   Beilin want all final status negotiations to be completed by the 1996
elections.  "The Likud left many settlements behind it, and therefore we
must insure that up until the elections we will fulfill the peace
process with the Palestinians, and that final status will be established
and unalterable," stated Beilin.  Ma'ariv, 1 Dec

 **NABLUS MAYOR ESTABLISHING ARAB POLICE FORCE OUTSIDE OSLO GUIDELINES**
     Nablus mayor Ghassan Shakaa has for the past two months been
employing what he calls municipal inspectors--men responsible for
traffic control, issuing court orders and other functions.  Head of the
Civil Administration Brig.-Gen. Gazi Zohar claims, however, that what
Shakaa has set up is an actual police force which engages in authentic
policing activities which impost on the military authority. 
Jerusalem Post, 1 December

               **ISRAELI I.D. CARDS FOR SALE IN RAMALLAH**
     Authentic Israeli I.D. cards are for sale in Ramallah for prices
ranging between 2,000-3,000 shekel per card.  These I.D. cards were
stolen from Israelis by Arabs from Judea and Samaria, and with a quick
change of photographs, the cards are prepared for their "new Israeli
Arab" owners.  Lod police arrested 3 Arabs from Ramallah and eastern
Jerusalem who were carrying around a pile of stolen cards and confessed
to the police where and how the cards had been obtained.  Yediot Ahro-
not, 1 December

       **FATAH TERRORIST SENTENCED TO 9 LIFE TERMS IMPRISONMENT**
     Fatah terrorist Jamal al-Bedah was sentenced Wednesday by the
Nablus Military Court to 9 life term sentences for the murders of
Israeli police officer Samih Diab and 8 other Arabs suspected of assist
ing Israeli Intelligence Authorities.  Diab was 53 when he was murdered
on his way home from work last July.  Al-Bedah, 21, is from a small
village near Tulkarem. Yediot Ahronot, 1 December
   Also, on Thursday the Tulkarem Military Court convicted two Hamas
terrorists suspected of assisting in the Tel Aviv bus bombing in Diz-

engoff Square last month. The two terrorists assisted in obtaining the
explosives, preparing the bomb used in the explosion, transporting the
terrorist who perpetrated the attack to Tel Aviv and in video taping him
before the attack while he explained what he planned to do. They also
obtained identity papers for him.  Ma'ariv, 2 December

              **PLO NOT SATISFACTORILY FIGHTING VIOLENCE**
     The PLO has not been as effective as they could be in halting
extremist  violence in Gaza, US State Department officials said Friday. 
The State Department report also expressed disappointment that the
Palestinian National Council has not yet amended its charter, taking out
those sections that call for the destruction of Israel.  AIPAC dismissed
the report, however, claiming the PLO soldiers themselves say they are
not carrying out arrests because PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat forbade them
to do so.  "When they do make arrests, they free those arrested without
interrogation or trial because Arafat wants them freed.  The head of the
Palestinian Police has said that it would be possible to impound illegal
weapons and disband illegal militia, but these things are not done
because the leadership doesn't want to carry out such steps," said an
AIPAC representative.  Jerusalem Post, 4 December

         **ARMED ARAB FROM SAMARIA CAUGHT WITHIN 1967 BORDERS**
     An Arab resident of the Samarian village Silet al-Haratia was
caught inside pre-1967 Israel, at Umm el-Fahm, carrying a loaded pistol
Saturday morning.  A second man who was with him managed to escape
police and is still being sought.  The suspect arrested has a criminal
record.  He was imprisoned for 2 life terms for the murder of Arabs
suspected of working with Israeli authorities, but was released from
prison under the Cairo agreement with the PLO on condition that he
remain in Jericho.  
   The suspect was also carrying identity papers stolen from an Israeli
citizen two years ago.  Jerusalem Post, 4 Dec.

                   **SUICIDE BOMBER CAPTURED AT EREZ**
     A terrorist planning a suicide attack was captured by IDF soldiers
at the Erez checkpoint Sunday morning.  Mohammed Ahmed Sharif was
driving toward the checkpoint.  When soldiers called to Sharif to stop,
Sharif reached into a bag attached to his chest to detonate a bomb.  The
bomb, composed of explosives and nails, failed to go off, and only the
detonator itself ignited.  The terrorist was lightly injured and no
soldiers were hurt.  Israel Radio, 4 December

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**THE PROBLEM LIES WITH THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND THE ISRAELI MILITARY
INDUSTRIES**
     Prime Minister Rabin lashed out at the judicial system yesterday.
In Mr. Rabin's words, the system interferes in the country's security. 
   Mr. Rabin stated that the terrorist that killed Liat Gabia in Afula
was to have been in administrative detention. The Prime Minister added
that had this been the case, the murder could have been avoided. Mr.
Rabin went on to add, "in the war against Hamas my hands are partially
tied. I cannot arrest potential terrorists if I do not have the needed
basis to bring the suspect before the court."
   Rabin disclosed that the terrorist, Abu El Roub was on the government
list to be placed in administrative detention, but due to legal techni
calities this was never carried out. "The terrorist served three years
in Israeli jails. Upon completion of his sentence he was placed in
administrative detention. The courts freed him after 6 months." 
   Mr. Rabin continued his address to the Labor Party Central Committee
with an attack against the Israel Military Industries. He said that four
of the mortar shells fired by Hizbullah into the north were manufactured
by Israel. They were sold to Iran several years ago. Mr. Rabin stated
that we are forced to sell arms to dubious countries to provide employ
ment to the workers of I.M.I. "Because of I.M.I. there are not adequate
supplies and proper vehicles (jeeps) for IDF troops in the north and in
Netzarim. We will no longer continue to compromise the soldiers in the
field for the sake of the workers of I.M.I." Ma'ariv, 12/2.

                    **EREZ CHECKPOINT IS WORTHLESS**
     Soldiers (in Reserve Duty) serving at the Erez Checkpoint in Gaza
announced yesterday that "the checkpoint is worthless. The terrorists
can pass with weapons with minimal effort. We are awaiting the next
attack. PLO soldiers are on duty here with no uniforms and they carry
automatic weapons. We cannot differentiate between the PLO police and
the terrorist. We do not have the adequate means to protect ourselves.
We pray the the remainder of this reserve duty will pass quietly." 
   Jay, a soldier that is standing guard at the northern border between
Gaza and "Israel proper" explains: "The equipment that we have to defend
ourselves is not adequate, especially in the winter. We are required to
check vehicles while standing outside in the pouring rain. The check is
a quick and superficial one at best. A terrorist can easily bring in a
pistol, knife, or axe. We are not spoiled but if you want to always talk
about preparedness against suicide attackers and the like, you must
equip us with the proper tools to deal with the terrorism."
   "We do not rely on the PLO Police checkpoint that checks the vehicles
before we do. They will easily permit a car bomb to pass through", he
added.
   The IDF spokesman stated that the soldiers complaints are being
investigated. Yediot Achronot, 12/2

**SINCE ARAFAT ASSUMED CONTROL, STANDARD OF LIVING IN GAZA DROPS 50%**
     According to residents of Gaza, the standard of living for the
average person in the area has dropped 50% since Yassir Arafat was
handed the rule.
   Prior to Arafat taking charge, the average car driven by Arabs in
Gaza was 15 years old. They drove mostly Peugeot 404's and Fiat 131's.
Today the average vehicle is much newer. One can see American, Japanese,
and German luxury vehicles. How does one explain this contradiction?
Most of the cars have been stolen from residents of Israel. 
   Between the Islamic College and the new Fatah building sits a giant
car lot. In the lot the car shopper can choose from American or other
vehicles.    Compact cars for the regular citizen are also available. If
one were to check the parking lot of the PLO Police one would see the
blue Chevy vans sitting next to the Chevy Blazer. The only vehicle
sitting in the lot that was not stolen was the Chevy Blazer that was
given to the PLO Police by the USA.
   The chances are very high that the police vehicle stopping the Gazan
traffic offenders to issue summonses is stolen from Israel. Last week a
high ranking PLO Police Official purchased a 1994 Mercedes Benz. The car
is valued in Israel at over 10 times the $6,000 paid by the police
official.  Even the children in Gaza can tell you where to buy the
stolen cars. Everyone seems to own one today. Ma'ariv, 12/2.

   **TERRORIST AVOIDED ALL IDF CHECKPOINTS BY DRIVING ON DIRT ROADS**
     The terrorist that hacked IDF soldier Liat Gabai to death in Afula
on Wednesday had boarded a taxi in Jenin which apparently avoided all
IDF checkpoints by driving on dirt roads according to police sources.
Jerusalem Post, 12/2.

                       **PLO TO ISSUE PASSPORTS**
     The PLO Deputy Minister of the Interior, Achmad Sa'id Tamimi,
announced that in the near future the PLO Autonomy Government will begin
to distribute "Palestinian" Passports to residents of Jericho and Gaza.
   The PLO Government has already printed 500,000 passports in Germany.
They hope to begin distribution by the end of the month. The passports
will be effective as of January 1, 1995. Three different colors will be
in use. Residents will be issued green passports. Red passports will be
for municipal employees and black passports for diplomats. 
   The passports are not a contradiction of any agreement signed with
Israel. Printed on them will be "The Palestinian Authority" and they
will be utilized as an identity card from the Autonomy area into "Israel
proper." "I believe that the passports will be honored by the nations of
the world. I think that with the progress in the negotiations with
Israel, the passports will also be distributed to residents of the West
Bank and East Jerusalem."
   The Ministry of the Interior is also preparing identity cards for
residents of Jericho and Gaza. The new I.D. cards are to be distributed
within the upcoming year. Yediot Achronot, 12/4

                          **HATE FOR THE IDF**
     "I came to basic training with a love for the IDF and left with a 
hate. I do not want to come near this army anymore.  Three weeks of
picking up cigarette butts and cleaning. Leaky tents, unsanitary condi
tions. We did not even shoot 50 bullets each. We threw one hand grenade. 
If this is the attitude of the IDF towards physicians that come to
serve, it is a real disgrace and a dishonor."
    This summation was given to a Ma'ariv reporter by Dr. Zenia Spech-

ler, a surgeon at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.  
    Spechler was one of 57 physicians that completed a limited basic
training of three weeks in the Netzarim base in the south. Most of the
physicians returned very upset and disturbed by the total waste of 
time. Every one of the 54 intends to file a complaint with the appropri
ate IDF officer.
   Dr. Mark Kaplan, 32, associated with the Levenstein Rehabilitation 
Hospital in Ranana: "From the moment we got aboard the bus until we 
completed the basic training, 18 year old female soldiers, who could
have been daughters of many of the doctors present, never stopped the
verbal abuse. They called us clowns. We were always wet from the leaky
tents. What a waste of money. The entire training could easily have been
completed within one week."
   Dr. Leonard Kinazneski, 40, a psychiatrist in the Barzali Medical
Center: It was very difficult to hear "shut your mouth," "clowns like
you", or "Doctor come and clean the cigarette butts" all the time. A
feeling existed that they were intentionally trying to degrade us all."
   The IDF spokesman has stated that the matter is being investigated. 
Ma'ariv, 12/4

                            **WHO IS NEXT?**
     Reserve soldier Leor Katzav, age 25 is a soldier in the Paratrooper
unit that lost four of its comrades at the Netzarim checkpoint. Leor has
completed his tour of duty and speaks with us.
   "Infiltrators are almost a daily occurrence at the Nachal Oz check
point. They get through the security fence almost every night. In one
particular case, 10 Hamas terrorists managed to pass into Israel via the
security fence. We captured two of them but the rest escaped back into
the Autonomy area. If this is a border crossing then we should treat it
as one."
   "There was one case where terrorists fired on workers that were
installing the new security fence. We followed their tracks and wanted
to continue the pursuit. We were informed that the PLO Police would not
permit us to enter the area to apprehend terrorists. 14 hours later they
let us in. Who do you think you can catch after 14 hours?"
   "In addition, the lives of the soldiers serving here are in great
danger. Right next to the fence are fields and orchards. The terrorists
shoot from behind trees and disappear. Why don't we place land mines
around the border like we do in Lebanon?"
  "This was the first time that we spent our entire Reserve Duty worry
ing about staying alive. We buried 4 of our own. We all were waiting to
see who was next. We were talking to one another to describe the kind of
funeral we wanted."
**NOTE..Leor Katzav is the brother of Likud MK Moshe Katazv. **
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                    HEBREW NEWSPAPERS, Dec. 4-5, 1994
     Ma'ariv declares that the Egyptian proposal is merely 'an addi
tional link in a chain of unfriendly initiatives originating in Cairo,'
and says that the multi-national force is 'the most tangible guarantee
of the existence of the peace agreement between the two countries, and
any initiative for its removal must cause astonishment.' The paper
points out that Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa is continuing to
pressure Israel to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and wonders
whether he realizes that 'this pressure is embarrassing not only Israel,
but the Americans as well.' The editors accuse Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak of 'refraining from visiting Israel and not doing enough to thaw
the 'cold peace'' between the two countries. The paper points out that
'with the change of guard in the American Congress, the massive support
that the United States grants to Egypt is no longer assured,' and says
that 'someone must hint to President Mubarak that the Jewish lobby in
Congress will be unable to help him, if he continues to scheme against
Israel.'
     Hatzofeh says that the Egyptian proposal 'is arousing deep concern
in Israel,' and 'reminds us of a different initiative from 1967, when
Egyptian President Abdul Nasser decided to withdraw the UN force from
the Gaza Strip, as part of his plan to push Israel into the sea.' The
editors dismiss Egypt's proffered explanation that it is concerned about
the cost of the force, and reminds its readers that there have been a
number of recent 'Egyptian initiatives in the international political
arena which do not point to friendly relations between Cairo and Jerusa
lem.' 'As long as this situation holds,' the paper adds, 'the multi--

national force must remain in Sinai.' The editors note that 'the United
States supports the Israeli position,' and is also 'wondering what has
brought President Hosni Mubarak to press for the withdrawal of the
multi-national force in Sinai.' 
**Two papers comment on yesterday's Cabinet meeting, in which the
ministers discussed the situation in Gaza and how to proceed toward the
next stage as envisioned in the Oslo Agreement:
     Yediot Ahronot notes that the Director of the IDF Intelligence
Branch 'warned about the danger of 'the Lebanonization of Gaza''; that
Brig.-Gen. Amidror 'warned that Yasser Arafat is not even trying to rein
in HAMAS and Islamic Jihad''; that the head of the GSS claimed that 'the
IDF will have a problem in protecting the security of the settlers if
the 'Gaza Model' is copied in Judea and Samaria'; and that Prime Minis
ter Rabin summarized everything by declaring that 'expectations we had
of Arafat have not been realized.' The editors note that nothing was
decided at the Cabinet meeting and questions why the Cabinet is sched
uled to resume its deliberations only on Wednesday (07.12.94), when the
Cairo talks with the Palestinians are set to resume the day before.
     Hatzofeh, in its second editorial, also notes that the Cabinet was
informed about the dangers of the 'Lebanonization' of Gaza, and that
'Yasser Arafat is not doing anything concrete to fight the HAMAS and
Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations.' The editors are alarmed that
several left- leaning ministers are still seeking to dismantle certain
settlements -- even during the interim stage -- despite the intelligence
briefing the Cabinet received yesterday, and that the Meretz ministers
are still similarly seeking to evacuate the Jewish community from
Hebron. But, the editors point out, Prime Minister Rabin has made it
clear that 'in the interim stage, he does not want to withdraw the IDF
from the large cities in Judea and Samaria, since this is liable to
endanger the safety and security of the Jewish settlers.' The paper
calls on the Prime Minister to 'suggest that the ministers hold their
tongues and refrain from publicly expressing opinions that aid the enemy
and, at the same time, severely harm the State of Israel.'
     Hatzofeh notes the desperate situation Syrian President Assad
following his rejection of Israel's terms. Newspapers in Damascus also
demonstrate Syria's inflexibility and incapability of making any conces
sions. The paper wonders if Assad's latest statement, just days before
the American Secretary of State's visit to the region, is meant to
'extort more political achievements before official negotiations with
Israel begin.' The paper states that, 'According to Hafez Assad, a
continuation of the status quo is preferable to accepting Israel's
demands' and adds that he has not been particularly impressed by Rabin's
threat that if the negotiations are not concluded by the end of 1995,
the entire process will be stopped.' The editors also note that many
people who were convinced that Assad wanted real peace with Israel, are
not so sure today and believe that 'if Syria is willing to continue with
the status quo -- Israel can also come to terms with this.'
     Ha'aretz analyzes Prime Minister Rabin's statement that the courts
have hamstrung him in the war against terrorism, and criticizes him for
delegitimizing the law and calling on the military courts to extend
sentences arbitrarily. The paper believes that 'administrative deten
tion, as well as the use of moderate physical pressure during investiga
tions and the use of less moderate physical pressure in an investigation
meant to prevent an attack, are emergency preventive measures which the
country uses continuously and not very sparingly in the fight against
terrorism.' The paper states that the present system, in which the
military judge reviews the cases of those being held in detention every
six months 'is supposed to prevent people, the accusations against whom
have not been proven, from being forgotten in prison,' and 'did not
inhibit the security establishment from arresting thousands of rioters
for long periods during the height of the intifada ... and does not
inhibit security elements today from arresting people suspected of
belonging to terrorist organizations or aiding them.' The paper regrets
that 'against the murderer of Liat Gabai, there were not even enough
suspicions to justify lengthening his detention.' The editors state that
the court system is not to be blamed for these types of individual
terrorist acts, and says that the Prime Minister's statement will not
'calm the public, and only gives rise to the question of whether he can
guide a nation of laws,' and 'testifies to his wavering nerves.'
     Ma'ariv notes that the Oslo Agreement has not given Arafat the
power to take control of the situation in the territories, and that
Israel has to figure out how to help Arafat without his losing face
among the Palestinians. The paper notes that Rabin will wait before
repeating 'the grave situation in Gaza,' in Judea and Samaria until he
is convinced that Arafat has control of the situation.
     Ma'ariv, in its second editorial, criticizes the incoming president
of the High Court of Justice for his overzealous attitude towards
introducing reforms which, though legal, are not consistent with public
opinion. The paper believes that it is wrong for him to force his view
on the Knesset and notes that legislation in the Knesset to reduce the
power of the Supreme Court is a natural reaction.
     Hatzofeh, in its second editorial, notes that Rafik Al-Haridi, the
Lebanese Prime Minister for the past two years, has decided to resign.
His main mission was 'the rehabilitation of the country following a
bloody civil war.' On Friday, the Lebanese government attempted to
disarm PLO terrorists in southern Lebanon, but it is unclear whether
they will agree to this without Arafat's approval. It is clear, though,
that Lebanon is not even attempting to disarm Hizballah terrorists.
     Al Hamishmar sadly notes that homelessness is now a problem in
Israel too. The paper notes that Prime Minister Rabin criticized the
Labor and Social Affairs Ministry for wasting money, but from the number
of homeless people in Israel, it is apparent that this Ministry is not
getting enough money. The paper believes that it is sad that Israel has
taken on this negative aspect of Western countries.
     Yediot Ahronot notes that the Serbs have defeated the Bosnians and
will soon create a government in the area, and that the UN and NATO
forces are preparing to leave. The editors note that the 'Muslim- Arab
World ...did not lift a finger to help' the Bosnian Muslims, just as it
has not helped other Muslims from Armenia to Kashmir. The paper also
cites the concerns shared by many that 'these defeats will lead to the
strengthening of extremist, anti-Western, fanatical Islam in countries
such as Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Indonesia, etc.'

                            JERUSALEM INSIDER
Is the Sinai precedent (of U.S. monitors) applicable to the Golan?
                            by Yoram Ettinger
     Unlike U.S. monitors in Sinai (22,000 sqm of empty desert), U.S.
GI's on the Golan (450 sqm of mountains and ravines) would be situated
some 30 miles from two of the most notorious international terrorist
bases: Damascus and Syrian- controlled Beqa' Valley. These bases host
Latin American, European, African, Asian, Kurdish and Palestinian
terrorists.
     ** U.S. personnel in Sinai are stationed along the Red Sea across
from pro-US Saudi Arabia. The Golan troops would border Lebanon, a
microcosm of anti-US violence and a source of Mideast terrorism.
     ** The Sinai GI's are hosted by Egypt's Mubarak, a pro-US leader,
highly dependent upon $2 Bn in annual US aid. A Golan force would have
to contend with Assad, a veteran of international terrorism and drug
trafficking, abuser of human rights, an ally of Iran, N. Korea and Cuba,
a ruthless occupier of Lebanon, proliferator of weapons of mass destruc
tion and a consistent violator of agreements with Turkey, Lebanon,
Jordan and Israel. Assad has demonstrated a capability to defy the US,
as evidenced by Pan Am-103 and the devastation of the US Marine head
quarters and the US Embassy in Beirut.
     ** A profound moderation in Egypt's strategic orientation preceded
the Israel-Egypt peace treaty. It stabilized the Sinai area, thus
minimizing the threats to US monitors. Assad has yet to demonstrate a
similar transformation.
     ** Unlike the stable geo-political climate of Sinai, the Golan is
situated in an explosive junction between Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and
Jordan. This area is susceptible to inter-Arab and Arab-Israeli clashes. 
     ** The Sinai monitors are located about 200 miles from Egypt's
military centers, away from the line of fire, should an Egyptian-Israeli
clash occur. The Golan force would be sandwiched between Israel and
Syria, a few miles away from the Syrian army, artillery and infantry, at
the heart of a potential line of fire.
     ** Unlike the GI's in the empty and vast Sinai, the Golan GI's
would be joined by 200,000 Syrians, repopulating the area, exposing the
GI's to terrorism and provocation.
     ** A US military presence on Egyptian soil 200 miles away from
population centers is tolerated by Egypt. A similar force, 30 miles from
Damascus, would be perceived as an infringement upon Syrian sovereignty
and soon would be pressured to leave.
     ** The US, Israel and Egypt have agreed on the purpose of the Sinai
monitors. However, for Syria the role of the monitors would be confined
to seizing control of the Golan. Upon the completion of that role, the
monitors would be targeted by Syria's proxies while Damascus retains the
element of deniability.

              **RABIN IN RACE AGAINST DEMOCRATIC PROCESS**
     "THERE'S A MANDATE FOR PEACE" - this was one of the first slogans
used by a public relations firm hired in the ongoing campaign to support
the Rabin government.  When it first became clear that Rabin was willing
to withdraw from the Golan and establish a Palestinian state in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip,  supporters of the Labor-Meretz government's "peace
process" claimed that the government was simply carrying out the will of
the people as expressed on election day.  
  For many months, representatives of the Rabin government simply
ignored questions which referred to the little blue book known as the
"Labor Party Platform".   Later on, party leaders engaged in mental
gymnastics and selective quotations to prove that the Labor Party
Platform does in fact support, or at least not oppose, the actions of
the Rabin government. 
  Over time, however,  opponents of the Labor -Meretz initiative
succeeded in their campaign to familiarize the public with the contents
of the blue  book. 
  Now Prime Minister Rabin simply says "so what?  I changed my mind." 
  But the electorate did not.  The people who brought Yitzhak Rabin to
power gave him a mandate to hold onto the Golan and to prevent the 
establishment of a Palestinian state.  And they haven't changed their
minds. 
  So today, with only two years left before the next elections, the
Rabin government feels itself under increasing pressure to make whatever
irreversible changes it can before the people have a chance to throw
them out in November 1996.
  It should be noted that the move to accelerate negotiations with the
PLO and Syria is not out of the belief that the Labor-Meretz bloc will
fare  better at the polls if they cut a deal with Assad or Arafat.  The
politicians are fully aware that they are taking these steps against the
people's will.       
  As Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin explained to reporters on
November 30th why he wanted to skip the intermediate step and negotiate
already today the final settlement with the PLO: "Nobody knows who will
win the next election...I want to leave behind a fact and not a question
mark. I want to leave behind as much peace as possible."  
(Jerusalem Post  1.12.94).  
  Will the Labor-Meretz government be able to pull this off?  If it does
it will represent the most severe abuse of the democratic process in the
history of the Jewish state.  There is no way to predict just how great
and irreparable the damage would be to the democratic ethos in Israel. 

**ISRAEL'S ROLE IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM AND THE
"PEACE PROCESS"**
     Islamic fundamentalism represents a threat not only to Israel but
to the region and the world as a whole. The ultimate goal of this
movement is to establish a religious Islamic empire spanning the entire
globe.  If the Islamic fundamentalists represented only a small fringe
element in the Middle East they would be only an anthropological
curiosity.  But they are not a fringe group: 
*  The present leadership of Iran plays a key role in the movement.  
*  The party representing the movement would be running Algeria today if
the election results had been honored.  
*  American intelligence estimates give the fundamentalists even odds at
overthrowing Egypt. 
  While today the fundamentalists can only threaten the world with
conventional weapons it is only a question of time before they succeed
in obtaining a nuclear capability.
  What then is Israel's role in the struggle against this threat?  How
does this impact the "peace process"?  
  It is crucial at the outset to recognize that Israel's existence is
not central to rising fundamentalism.  Algerian fundamentalists would
continue to struggle for power even if Israel relinquished Jerusalem. 
If the Arabs of Haifa were granted autonomy, tourists would still be
murdered in Egypt.  In fact, even if Israel ceased to exist, Iran would
still continue to devote much of its resources towards exporting the
Islamic revolution to the world.
  Simply put, there is no concession which Israel can make to the Arabs
- including national suicide - which could pacify the Islamic world
movement.
  It should also be noted that much of the support for the movement
comes from the Arab immigrant community in North America.  These Arabs
are not drawn to fundamentalism by poverty or despair but rather
ideology.  The strength of the movement in North America raises serious
doubts over the hypothesis that economic development can somehow silence
the fundamentalist threat.
  Can Israel work in open cooperation with her neighbors against the 
fundamentalists?  Such visible activity may be counter productive. 
During the Gulf War, much pressure was brought to bear to keep Israel
out of the fight against Iraq.  At the time, America's Arab allies
explained that they would be hard pressed to justify sharing the same
side as the Jewish State in a war against an Arab brother.  This
argument would be even stronger in the case of the fight against the
fundamentalists.  In the case of Iraq it was a war against another Arab
state.  The battle against the fundamentalists is in many respects a
civil war.
  Israel has two functions to play in the struggle against Islamic
fundamentalists: one is informational and the other is active.  As a
member of the Western world, Israel is well equipped to explain to the
West about the threat of Islamic fundamentalism and lobby the
governments to take measures to check this growing movement.  Israel
also can use its independent resources - both in terms of intelligence
and military strength,  to take the lead in actions against the
fundamentalist threat.
  But again,  none of this has anything to do with the "peace process". 
Syrian President Assad's belief that Israel is a part of "Greater Syria"
has no connection to Islam.  His secular state still ultimately wants to
put an end to the aggression called "Israel". By the same token,  Yasser
Arafat maintains that Palestinian Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza is
only a "stage" in the PLO program to replace all of Israel with a
secular democratic state in which, at best, Jews who lived in Palestine
before the Balfour Declaration would be permitted to remain.
  Israel therefore faces two different types of challenges to its
survival: Islamic fundamentalism which threatens the "infidels" of the
world, and neighbors who, independent of religious
considerations,  would like to see the Jewish State disappear. 
Dr. Aaron Lerner
Independent Media Review & Analysis

                    **On My Mind/ Dr. M.R. Lehmann**
                             On Brainwashing
  In the midst of the rising voices of serious, scholarly studies
dismissing the very thought of U.S. troops being stationed on the Golan
Heights, a totally unbalanced, malicious column appeared in the press
under the names of Novak and Evans. The authors attacked an alleged
"Gang of Three," Israelis who gave informative, educational talks in
Washington on the danger of stationing U.S. troops on the Golan, in
conformity with the result of contemporary polls and studies. The column
named three patriotic, public-spirited civilian experts whose advice was
well received by their audiences in the capital. It was obvious that the
column did not intend to refute any arguments, but just to spread malice
and suspicion in order to protect the promoters of placing Americans on
the Golan -- namely, the Israeli Government and its Embassy in
Washington. The tone of the column reflected pure character
assassination, and was totally lacking any rational reasons for
rejecting their arguments.
  Fortunately, any influence this nasty column may have had fizzled out
quickly, since it appeared just when a poll was released by the Mideast
Forum, headed by David D. Eisenhower, Jr. and his scholars, documenting
the evidence that the general American public is 4-to-1 in opposition to
placing Americans on the Golan. In addition to this, a 23-page blue-
ribbon report, written by twelve top American military and governmental
experts of the Center for Strategic Studies, had just been published on
this subject, which also counseled strongly against sending U.S. troops
to the Golan. This document graphically listed the enormous dangers to
U.S. and Israeli interests such a move would entail.
  Furthermore, Senators Bob Dole and Jesse Helms had just gone on
record, not only opposing stationing U.S. troops on the Golan, But also
opposing any proposal to hand over money to Syria in order to "buy" from
her a shaky peace.
  In light of all this, why would Novak and Evans, usually in the
Republican corner, oppose the overwhelming objections to placing U.S.
troops on the Golan as peace-keepers?
  I got  the answer to this puzzle in Denver, from a left-wing Israeli
journalist who told me matter-of-factly: "The Novak-Evans column was
written and arranged by the Israeli Embassy in Washington" (the means by
which this was "arranged" was not explained). Thus the manipulation of
the U.S. press can be added to the "accomplishments" of the Rabin
Government
                    A Worried Rabin on the Defensive
  Prime Minister Rabin, throughout his flight to Denver, reportedly
spoke about nothing but the growing opposition to his plan to convince
America to place its troops on the Golan. Apparently he is attempting to
establish a psychological eyewash, so he can convince the Israeli people
that they are safe when he gives up the Golan, Israel's most essential
strategic defense buffer, and it was to this end that he repeatedly
invoked the Novak-Evans column. During his press conference in Denver,
when he was questioned about the opposition to his plans, he answered:
"If troops in the Sinai are kosher, why are they not kosher on the
Golan?" Any child could answer that purely rhetorical question by
pointing to the enormous differences between the two situations.
  William Safire, the influential columnist, wrote a syndicated article
which gave unusually candid insight into Rabin's behavior. He described
his encounter with Rabin at a party, and how the Prime Minister tried to
change his mind on the matter of U.S. troops on the Golan by urging him
to read the Novak-Evans column. What a sad farce! As Rabin himself and
his people had more or less written that column, it was of course
perceived as comical that he thought he could use that column as
"evidence" to back up his policy.
  Trojan Horse Inside Orthodoxy--"Shvil Hazahav" or "Bishvil HaZahav"?
  The staunchest and most coherent block of American Jews opposed to the
dismantling of Israel has from the beginning of the process been the
Orthodox community, which has been extremely vocal and articulate. As a
sign of Rabin's desperation at his failure to convert that opposition to
his policies, his diplomats have launched a desperate effort to inject a
"Trojan Horse" into the Orthodox camp. In order for that ploy to
succeed, they cast about for a long time to find a rabbi who could
become a spokesman for the pro-Rabin policies. They finally found a
rabbi from a small New Jersey town who would be willing to issue a call
to join the Rabin camp. However, immediately after he published his
appeal, the majority of the members of his own synagogue published their
own full-page ad disowning him and rejecting his right to speak in their
names.
  This rejection did not stop him. He managed to collect the names of 19
other rabbis who signed an ad headed "Make Peace with Peace." Since
every Jew is in favor of making peace, you have to read these words
again and again before you realize their true meaning.  Their actual
message is: make peace with the dismantling of Israel for the sake of
"peace." The proponents of this program call it "Shvil HaZahav," the
"Golden Way" -- "Zahav," "Gold," being an allusion to Goldin, the name
of the rabbi in question -- but perhaps it should more properly be
called "Bishvil HaZahav," "For the Sake of Gold." Gold in this case does
not mean money outright, that would be too crude. Rather, it means all
kinds of goodies, as listed in the ad, i.e., if the Orthodox line up
with the Arafat-Peres-Beilin line, they will be given access to high-
level Israeli political figures, be allowed to participate in prominent
meetings and assemblies, gain a share in the policy making process,
"halachic" discussions, etc. These are some of the lures being offered
to the "converts." At the same time the Orthodox are facing the threat
of being "marginalized" if they do not yield their independence. Join
the gang -- or else!
                        Rabbinical Outrage at Ad
  Hundreds of rabbis who have seen the ad have voiced their opposition
to its contents, from the "centrist" rabbis, like Rabbi Emanuel Rackman,
to "right-wing" rabbis, headed by Rabbi Ahron Soloveitchik and Rabbi
Avraham Hecht and the 500 rabbis of the Iggud Harabbanim, to Rav Scha-
piro, the former Chief Rabbi of Israel, and many more. This general
opposition and criticism of those who signed the "Zahav" appeal will no
doubt soon take formal shape. To make peace with the dismantling of
Israel and its being handed over piece by piece to the PLO certainly is,
and will always remain, totally abhorrent to the Orthodoxy. The 2000
year old dream and prayer for a return to Zion and Jerusalem will not be
given up for the lures of a 2 year old secular government.
     Israel and Jewish Continuity Main Topics at Federation Assembly
  This year's General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of American and
Canada in Denver was full of firsts. You saw, for example, a high
percentage of the delegates wearing kipot. All meals were glatt kosher
and under constant supervision. Orthodox services were held twice daily
to capacity audiences. I counted over 10 men in the weekday minyanim and
15 men and about 5 women on Shabbat. The Reconstructionist, Reform and
Conservatives also held services but, of course, with much smaller
attendance. And on Shabbat, the entire Assembly took part in a Kiddush
and lunch. At the end of Shabbat a public havdalah service was held
during the final plenary session. All of that would have been
unthinkable some years ago. In those days, the mere mention of Jewish
education was anathema. But slowly over the years, the Federation has
slowly increased its contribution to Jewish education. Today some 35
percent of all Federation money is earmarked for educational purposes.
                      Grappling with Jewish Content
  As an example of the new atmosphere surrounding Jewish education, one
forum addressed the  topic "Building Jewish Identity and Continuity
Through Lifelong Jewish Learning." A very articulate Reconstructionist
rabbi dramatically lamented the total absence of "Jewish philosophy"
among his congregants. He said that "What can Judaism do for me?" is
their constant demand. His people no longer have any memories of Jewish
melodies, Shabbat meals, candle lighting or Jewish books, he said. He
classified his generation as "sh'eyno yodea l'shol" ("don't know enough
to ask"), unconcerned, uneducated Jews. His Jews, he said, forged ahead
into Christian society, unprotected and vulnerable. His talk illustrated
the crisis of the non-religious Jews, who are afraid to reach the
logical conclusion of going back to the traditional, sacred Jewish
heritage.
  An Israeli professor in the same forum was brave enough to say that
with Jewish education, intermarriage -- which he said was "only" 41
percent, not the 51 percent or 62 percent used by other experts -- could
be stemmed.  The professor, as all Israeli participants in the assembly 
-- including Rabin and Netanyahu -- came up with the magic medicine to
cure the assimilation blues: the "Israeli experience," a year or so on
Israeli soil. We who have seen some of the youngsters returning from
that experience in largely, secular Israel, shudder at some of the
results that have emerged. However, who is there to say that such an
experience can hurt? Others suggested such quicker remedies as summer in
camp -- but without saying what kind of camp.
                            Research Studies
  The GA produced a number of studies carried out by sociologists and
other authorities on the problem of Jewish continuity. One such study
carried out (I wonder what such studies cost) for the North American
Commission on Jewish Identity and Continuity. Its recommendation, as in
the case of other studies, was a call to conduct further studies! The
purpose of further research, the report said, should be "to permit a
fuller analysis of the factors which impact identity development and of
the effects of Jewish education in a variety of forms and settings. In
addition, ethnographic focus groups and other forms of qualitative
research should be undertaken to supplement, complement, and assist in
the interpretation of quantitative research findings." Pure double-talk!
  The recommendations of the authors of the various studies often were
addressed only to adult groups -- people with some remanent of memories
of Jewish values. Professional educators should be recruited, not
necessarily Jewish, to come up with state-of-the-art techniques to
disseminate "values," identity and continuity also to a generation
growing up without a Jewish environment.
                      The Yeshiva University Study
  A refreshing contrast to these lame and reluctant efforts to grapple
with the real challenge of Jewish continuity is a study published by
Yeshiva University and written by Dr. Alvin I. Schiff and Dr. Mareleyn
Schneider. To arrive at final, correct figures on the effect of day
school education on Jewish continuity they first had to dismantle such
biased and negative reports by secular Jews, who, from the start, wanted
to show that Jewish day school education is not worthwhile. Such a
report was written by Dr. Egon Mayer, a European sociologist, himself
intermarried with children active in the Christian Church. His "study"
showed that despite day school education, some 18 percent of the
graduates intermarry!
  Using painstaking interviews of thousands of day school graduates, the
Schiff-Schneider report showed, of course, the opposite, concluding: "A
Jewish day school education will ensure the eternity of our people. The
intermarriage rate drops to 7 percent for students who complete a Jewish
day school education. Educating more young Jews will do more than
lowering the intermarriage statistics. It will bring in its path a
generation of committed Jews, conscientious and dedicated Jewish leaders
and, above all, the preservation of the Jewish family."
               Israel's Contribution to Jewish Continuity
  Thus the Israeli consul general in New York, Colette Avital, gave a
talk on how Israel can contribute to Jewish continuity in the Diaspora.
Among her recommendations were bringing to the United States Ethiopian
rap singers, Israeli jazz bands and presenting lectures by leftist
Israeli authors! Dr. Amnon Rubinstein, Minister of Education in Israel,
gave a lengthy talk on the importance of Jewish education, without
mentioning that under him, Jewish education in Israel has taken a fatal
drop, in that the study of Jewish religion and history has been cut
back, the distribution of Bibles on graduation has been stopped and the
study of other religions, homosexuality, etc., has been introduced into
the curriculum.
     I got the feeling that we must wait for a change in government
before Israel can be counted on to make a constructive and positive
contribution to Jewish continuity in the Diaspora.
                          Memories from Denver
  I heard a participant at the GA say when he saw copies of the 
Algemeiner Journal available to Delegates, "Moshiach must have come --
the Algemeiner is at the GA!" In fact I was overwhelmed with how many
Jews from far distant states are reading my columns: in Seattle; Sioux
City, Iowa; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Des Moines, Iowa; Colorado Springs, Col.
and many more places. In fact the greatly increased presence of
Orthodoxy at the GA was evident everywhere -- it must be hoped that next
time, Torah Umessorah -- the primary organization running Orthodox day
schools in America -- will become part and parcel of the program. Only
such an organization can provide the answers that all American Jews are
now awakened to search for good schools, good teachers, positive
content, and direction.
     The GA also bestowed rabbinical awards. Among the recipients was
Rabbi Sol Roth of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue in New York. Rabbi Roth
also gave a talk on community building. He delivered the drasha Friday
night. I myself was invited to deliver a Dvar Torah (Torah discourse)
for Mincha -- the afternoon prayer service.
   I pointed out that the week's portion, teaches us how to confront our
enemies with; 1, diplomacy (doron; religion (tefillah); and defense
(milchamah). Unfortunately the current Israeli government has failed to
follow Jacob's teachings: 1. Their diplomacy in the Oslo negotiations
with the PLO was disastrous; 2. They are dismantling Jewish religion;
and 3. They are weakening Israel's defenses by offering to sacrifice the
Golan Heights. It is time to return to our traditional teachings.
  The most impressive experience of the assembly was the role played by
the hundreds of college and high school students -- under Hillel and
National Conference of Synagogue Youth -- who made the Shabbat meal so
memorable; their enthusiastic singing and dancing, their brief speeches
-- some of them devoted to the memory of Shlomo Carlebach.
  Equally memorable was the silent, dignified memorial service for the
victims of terrorism in Israel, Argentina and elsewhere, conducted
outside the convention hall before Rabin's speech began. A hundred
demonstrators, led by Rabbi Avi Weiss, each held a yahritzeit candle and
sang a memorial song while Rabbi Weiss slowly read the names of the more
than 100 Jewish martyrs of the "peace" process.
  It must be hopped that future GA meetings will be remembered for their
big awakening of the masses of North American Jews to the dangers of
assimilation and for a commitment to maintain true, genuine Jewish
continuity, as an educated and proud people.
           Norwegian Police Threaten Strike on Nobel Prize Day
  The Scandinavian press is reporting that the Union of Norwegian
Policemen, who are bargaining for a salary increase, are now planning a
strike to begin on December 10, the day of the award ceremony for the
Nobel Peace Prize. If this threat is carried out, the prize ceremony
will be placed in jeopardy, as very stringent security arrangements will
be necessary to secure the safety of the Prize recipients, especially
for the terrorist chief, Yassir Arafat.
   The Norwegian Government is pleading with the police union to suspend
their strike, as it feels that such an action would be an embarrassment
to the country and undermine its standing in the world.
              Hour of Ceremony Postponed Because of Shabbat
  The Nobel ceremony, if it takes place, was first scheduled to commence
at 1:00 p.m., on Shabbat, December 10, in Oslo, the Norwegian capital.
It was expected that Yitzchak Rabin and Shimon Peres would walk to the
ceremony from their hotel. This would have placed an extra burden on the
Norwegian policemen, who would have had to walk alongside the Israelis
to afford them protection.
  To ease the security arrangements, the ceremony has therefore been
postponed by the Nobel Committee to 5:0 p.m., since Shabbat will end at
4:30 p.m. Oslo time. The new schedule will naturally also facilitate the
protest actions that various activists are planning, to express their
outrage that Arafat was chosen to receive the award.
              Kaare Kristiansen to be Honored in Jerusalem
  The only member of the Nobel Committee who lived up to Norway's human
rights tradition. Kaare (pronounced Kawre) Kristiansen, resigned in loud
defiance and protest against giving Arafat the prize. As a result of
righteous stand, Kristiansen will be lauded as the guest of honor at a
banquet arranged by students of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem --
which is also going to be held on December 10. This event is expected to
attract worldwide publicity, and will highlight the civilized world's
outrage at awarding Arafat the prize.
                           Will Arafat Attend?
  It is known that Anwar Sadat refused to accept the Nobel Peace Prize
in Oslo, since under the tenets of Islam making peace with infidels is
illegal. Now there is some speculation that Arafat, too, may after all
decline to attend.
  Arafat of late has become even more vocal in his denial that the so-
called Oslo accords that he signed are a binding peace agreement, and he
has stated that he plans to violate the accords in a maximum of two
years. Accepting the Peace Prize would be inconsistent with his defiance
of making peace with infidels, including, by Islamic definition, all
Jews and Christians. If he is going to be true to his own religion and
conviction, Arafat would consequently have to absent himself from the
Peace Prize ceremony.
                     Rabin on Prize Collecting Trips
  Meanwhile, as a warm-up for the big event in Oslo, Rabin has been
spending a great deal of his time collecting prizes and decorations. In
Los Angeles he accepted the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award; the medal was
placed on him by Mrs. Nancy Reagan. After that affair he flew to Madrid,
to accept another decoration from the King of Spain. Now he is getting
ready to collect his share of the $98,000 Peace Prize in Oslo, which it
turns out he will have to split with his political rival, Peres, who
became a co-recipient at the last moment, after intensive lobbying on
his behalf was spearheaded by a well-known Jewish Nobel Peace Prize
laureate who flew to Oslo expressly for that purpose.
  It is telling to note that while Rabin has found time to travel all
over the world to collect these prizes, neither he nor any member of his
Government has felt the need to find the time to participate in the
shloshim ceremony for the Tel Aviv bus bombing tragedy, not for other
mourning ceremonies for the victims of Palestinian terror.

                            A MACABRE RITUAL
       OPINION BY DAVID BAR-ILLAN, Jerusalem Post Executive Editor
     IT is not only the growing number of terror victims that creates
frustration and rage among the public, but the impression that the
killings have become routine and inexorable. 
   A macabre ritual seems to have developed around the murders. Public
figures express shock at their savagery and convey condolences to the
bereaved families. Thousands join massive, televised funerals, in which
government officials dare not participate. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
vows the government will not "hand the killers a victory by stopping the
peace process." And the opposition, calling for an immediate cessation
of talks, accuses the government of encouraging terrorism by dealing
with the PLO. 
   Then the country returns to its routine, helplessly awaiting the next
news of murder and mayhem. 
   Following the ax murder of Liat Gabai in Afula last Wednesday, Rabin
seemed to realize that unless the public sees some light at the end of
the tunnel, the feeling of helplessness will be replaced by outright
despair. By way of encouragement, he said that the Islamic movements,
Israel's most virulent enemies today, are probably its only remaining
foe. In Israel and the territories, he said, it is the Hamas and the
Islamic Jihad which attack Israelis. In Lebanon, it is the Hizbullah.
Ergo: The enemies are the Islamic fanatics, not the "secular" Arabs. 
   The implications of Rabin's words are clear: The fanatics, supported
by Iran, are not only Israel's enemies, but the enemies of peace and
stability in the region. It is in the interest of other Arabs to fight
them just as much as it is ours. And once we all get together and
vanquish this bad lot, we'll have peace. 
   It would be nice to believe that this is so, and that the only
dangerous dictatorship in the Middle East is indeed Iran. But it is
difficult to find confirmation for this simplistic view. In fact,
pronouncements by two decidedly "secular" Arabs this week make a mockery
of this assumption. 
   Last Thursday, Syria's dictator Hafez Assad said that he would rather
maintain the status quo than yield to Israel's demands "which are
impossible to accept." What the Syrians so strenuously object to is
Israel's insistence on adequate security arrangements and a Syrian
commitment to a peace treaty and "normalization." That Damascus would
rather stay in a state of war with Israel than negotiate such demands is
hardly a sign of an overwhelming passion for peace. 
   Nor does it make sense to point to the Hizbullah and its sponsorship
by the Iranian ayatollahs as proof that only the Islamic militants are
Israel's enemies. Without Assad's help, support and approval, neither
the Hizbullah nor any of the other nine terrorist organizations
headquartered in Syrian-controlled territory and dedicated to the
destruction of Israel could exist. 
   Nor is the official tone of the PLO, the organization Rabin once
expected to fight the Islamic terrorists in the territories, any less
belligerent than Syria's. In a UN speech earlier this week, Farouk
Kadoumi, billed as the "Foreign Minister of the State of Palestine,"
returned to the rhetoric of the pre-Oslo days. In a speech characterized
by Israel's ambassador to the UN Gad Ya'acobi as harsh and antagonistic,
Kadoumi not only demanded Israel's evacuation from all territories won
in 1967 and the implementation of the Palestinian "right of return," but
blamed Israel for the increased instability and terrorism in
"Palestine." 
   It is difficult, then, to see the fight against Hamas and Hizbullah
as the battle against Israel's last enemy. Nor is it possible to imagine
that the "secular" Arab will join Israel in its war against Islamic
terrorism. On the contrary. Since terrorism against Israelis seems to
achieve precisely the results it wants: demoralization, despair and talk
of evacuating villages and towns in the territories, there is every
reason to believe not only that terrorism will increase, but that
"seculars" like the Fatah Hawks will soon openly join the competition
for the allegiance of Palestinians by attacking Israelis. Chief of
General Staff Lt.-Gen. Ehud Barak has warned that calling for the
evacuation of settlements is bound to have precisely this effect. 
   The government's position is unenviable. It now realizes that the
next step in the Oslo timetable is simply not implementable. Evacuating
the army from Arab population centers will create terrorist strongholds
in every one of them, and cause a security problem next to which the
present situation will seem like a model of tranquility. The government
can either suspend the process, which will bring world calumny and an
open PLO return to the "armed struggle." Or it can follow Deputy Foreign
Minister Yossi Beilin's advice, skip the two-year interim period and
negotiate the final status immediately, in the hope that an agreement
with the PLO, meaning the total withdrawal from the territories, will
bring peace. 
   If the government is true to form, it will do neither. It will drag
the negotiations on aimlessly, in the hope that the spectacular
achievements of the security services will manage to curb terrorist
activity, and that some development or another will point to happier
options. 
   And the public will pray that television news will include no more
funerals. 

             **RABBI IDO ELBA - A TORAH SCHOLAR PROSECUTED**
     Last Erev Pesach, which was Shabbat, Kiryat Arba Rabbi Ido Elba was
arrested along with a small group including his brother and brother--
in-law, who were on their way to daven at the Ma'arat HaMachpela (Cave
of the Patriarchs).  The army decreed that the Ma'ara was out of bounds
to Jews "forbidden military territory".  That evening, the eve of the
Passover Seder, this group was forcibly driven to a prison in Jerusalem. 
They were intentionally taken at the very time that the Seder was being
held in the Jerusalem jail, so that they arrived after it had been
concluded. As a result the Matzot, bitter herbs, etc had been finished
and none were left for them. 
   Less than a month later, Rabbi Elba's twelve year old brother-in-law
Menachem Uriel (his wife's brother) was arrested on Shabbat while on his
way to the yeshiva close to his home in the Jewish Quarter of Hebron. 
Menachem was forced into an army vehicle against his will (because he
did not wish to desecrate Shabbat) and to be driven to the Hebron Army
Headquarters.   The arresting soldiers claimed that there were only
"protecting the child".  Menachem escaped by jumping out of the vehicle.
The night following Rosh HaShana Rabbi Elba was again arrested, this
time by the Israel secret police and has since been held in prison.
   Rabbi Ido Elba, aged 33, father of three, is a ninth generation
Israeli.  He is a descendant of the famous Slonim family of Hevron.  A
member of the same family was the last Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Hebron. 
Rabbi Elba was one of the outstanding students at Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav
Kook in Jerusalem.  He was extremely studious, getting by with only a
few hours of sleep nightly.  Twelve years ago he married the daughter of
one of the first families that settled in Hebron in 1968, and has lived
in Kiryat Arba ever since.  
    Rabbi Elba is a much respected and admired citizen of Kiryat Arba. 
He is a very modest and soft-spoken person whose entire life is devoted
to Torah.  He is considered to be a brilliant student of Halacha (Jewish
religious law).
   Recently Rabbi Elba has headed a Kollel for retired men, located in
Ma'arat HaMachpela until the Ma'ara was closed after Purim.  The Kollel
later moved to the Avraham Avinu Synagogue in the Jewish Quarters of
Hebron.  Rabbi Elba headed the Kollel there until his arrest.
   Rabbi Elba was interrogated by the Israeli secret police continuously
for eighty hours, being allowed only four hours of sleep,mainly on
Shabbat and the Jewish holidays. Only after three weeks of continuous
interrogation was he allowed to meet with his lawyer for the first time,
and later with his wife and family.  He was accused of writing an
article titled "An Halachic Clarification concerning the killing of a
Gentile".  
   In spite of the fact that the article ends with the statement
(printed in large letters) that the article is not to be considered as a
rendered legal decision, but rather as a study intended for use only by
Torah Scholars, the prosecution has accused him of inciting racism.  The
Supreme Court refused to allow him to be released from prison "because
of the severity of the crime he is a danger to the public" and therefore
must be held in jail until the conclusion of his trial.  (The trial is
scheduled to begin in a month and a half, and will proceed once a week,
until concluded.  The prosecution estimates ten court sessions will be
needed to present its evidence against Rabbi Elba. In other words, he is
to be incarcerated at a minimum, until next April.)
   Ever since his detention, Rabbi Elba has been held in the Russian
Compound in Jerusalem, in subhuman conditions.  He is allowed to meet
with his family for 15 minutes a week, behind bars.  He is allowed a
weekly phone call for a duration of exactly two minutes.  His parents
bring him food daily because the kashrut conditions at the jail are not
sufficient.  
   A Kiryat Arba Rabbi wrote: "We were shocked at the accusation since
the article is only a legal clarification, as emphasized in the article
itself.  Certain excerpts of the article quoted out of context in the
indictment, including sources such as the Rambam, in order to charge him
of committing a crime, reminds us of accusations made by the Catholic
Church concerning the Talmud, in the Middle Ages. Such widely publicized
statements "slandering Christianity" led to the burning of the Talmud
and later, to the burning of those who studied Talmud.  We cannot allow
the State of Israel to outlaw certain halachic research as did the
Church in the Middle Ages.
   This year, more than ever, we identify with the story of Chanukah. 
We feel that we are fighting modern-day Hellenists. 
The Israeli government is doing everything in its power to break our
spirits.   They justify arrests and even resort to torture in order to
force confessions out of innocent prisoners, accused of crimes they
didn't commit.  For nine months we were not permitted into Ma'arat
HaMachpela.  When, at last, were allowed to return to the Ma'ara, were
forbidden to enter its largest and most important room, Isaac's Hall.
Over this period of time police beat women and children without mercy,
forcing desecration of Shabbot and holidays.  The government realizes
that the strength of the Jewish People is here in Hebron.  Our roots are
here. 
   Calev ben Yefuneh was so inspired by the spirit of our forefathers
that he was saved from the influence of the spies. 
   King David reigned in Hebron for seven years before ruling from
Jerusalem.  We pray daily that HaShem should remember the hesed of the
Patriarchs and bring the redemption to their children's children for His
sake, with love.
   Please help us in this sacred cause.    
   Rabbi Elba's trial is scheduled to begin on January 17.  His judge is
expected to be Mrs. Prokatchia, who is known among other judges and
lawyers to be an extreme leftist.  She rendered the court decision
allowing movie theaters to be open on Shabbat, thereby disregarding the
practiced and accepted status quo. 
   Every religious person ever brought before this judge has been
sentenced to unusually harsh prison terms.   
   We request that you assist in the following manner:  Please write as
many letters as possible demanding that this judge be disqualified on
the basis of pretrial prejudice, as proven by her previous decisions, to
the following:
1.  The President of the Israeli Supreme Court, Meir Shamgar, at Givat
Ram, Jerusalem;
2.  The President of the District Court, Vardi Zeller, at Salach El Din
Street, Jerusalem;
3. The Minister of Justice, David Lebaei at Salach El Din Street, in
Jerusalem.
   In addition please send letters protesting Rabbi Elba's indictment of
"inciting racism" based on a Torah clarification, that is related to
him.  These letters should be addressed to:
1.  The Legal Advisor of the Government of Israel, Michael Ben-Yair,  at
Salach El Din Street in Jerusalem;
2.  The State Advocate, Dorit Beinish, at Salach El Din Street in
Jerusalem.
   We would appreciate contributions to the Political PrisonerFamily
Fund, at the Mizrachi Bank, number 458, in Givat Shaul,Jerusalem,
Account #219714.  Contributions should be specifically marked for Rabbi
Ido Elba.  
   For further information call David at 02-961721, at E-mail
Shirel@Jerusalem1.datasrv.co.il or write to POB 636 Kiryat Arba, Israel
90100
   We pray for a modern day miracle of Chanukah, and the coming of
Mashiach soon, in our times, Amen.

YESHA NEWS SERVICE, WEDNESDAY 14 DECEMBER 1994
(In conjunction with Arutz 7)

JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY PLANS JEWISH HOUSING PROJECT 
NEAR ATAROT
	The Jerusalem Municipality is planning for large scale 
Jewish housing construction in the area between Shuafat and 
Atarot, north of Jerusalem, say City Hall sources.  This area, 
6,000 dunam (1,500 acres) large, was annexed by Israel in 
1967 and is one of the largest pieces of undeveloped land in the 
city.  The land was barred from development by residents of 
adjoining Shuafat and Beit Hanina last summer.  [Jerusalem 
Post, 13 December]

POLICE AND SECURITY FORCES ON HIGH ALERT FOR TERROR 
ATTACKS
	General Security Services (GSS) and other security forces 
are on maximum alert against possible terror attacks on such 
days as those marking the 7th anniversary of the intifada and 
the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of 
Palestine.  The GSS warns that many of the Arab terror 
organizations may try to carry out attacks against Israelis both 
in the center of the country and in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.  All 
police vacations have been cancelled, and policemen will be 
working 12-hour shift because of the high alert.  Police say they 
are planning a massive campaign over the next few days in 
which thousands of drivers and vehicles will be examined.  
[Yediot Ahronot, 13 December]

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY TO SEEK EXTRADITION
	The Palestinian Authority plans to demand the 
extradition of those responsible for murdering the wife of Fatah 
activist Ibrahim Amru last week.  Amru's wife, Rasmiye, was 
shot dead in her home and Ibrahim was lightly injured.  
Ibrahim had been convicted of murdering one of his fellow 
villagers in Dura, near Hebron, because Ibrahim suspected him 
of being a collaborator.  Ibrahim was let out of prison according 
to the Cairo agreement, and he and his wife had settled in 
Jericho.  Says Jericho's head of PLO operations, Jibril Rajoub, 
"This [extradition] should be coordinated with the Israelis.  We 
have an agreement that allows extradition, and it should be 
respected."  
	Meanwhile, Israel has requested the extradition of 
several Gazans accused of killing Israelis and is still waiting for 
the Palestinian Authority to respond.  [Jerusalem Post, 13 
December]  Two of those killers whose extradition Israel has 
demanded since the end of September are Raja Abu Sita and 
Amar Abu Sita, both of Han Yunis.  They are responsible for the 
murder of Uri Megidish in the spring of 1993.  Both are 
members of Fatah, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's wing of the 
PLO.  The PLO has so far refused to cooperate with the 
extradition.  [Yediot Ahronot, 13 December] 

IDF PREVENTS INFILTRATION FROM GAZA
	Seven Arabs from Gaza tried to infiltrate into Israel near 
Nahal Oz early Monday morning.  They were stopped by IDF 
soldiers who fired at the infiltrators, killing one.  The other six 
escaped back into Gaza.  [Ha'aretz, 13 December]

RAJOUB BEATS IDF SOLDIER NEAR JERICHO
	PLO Chief of operations in Jericho beat an IDF soldier 
Sunday night at the northern Jericho checkpoint.  Israel 
responded by keeping Rajoub from entering Israel for a number 
of hours.  The IDF considers such an attack from a leading PLO 
official to be very serious.  Rajoub denies the incident, calling it 
all a bunch of lies and claims the IDF soldier in question wasn't 
acting courteously toward him.  [Yediot Ahronot, 13 December]

THREE "COLLABORATORS" TO BE SENTENCED TO DEATH
	The three men who turned themselves in to the PLO in 
Gaza, admitting to having worked with Israeli security to kill 
Islamic Jihad terrorist Hani Abed at the beginning of November, 
will be the first to be tried by the Arab court system in Gaza.  If 
they are found guilty of being collaborators, says PLO Justice 
Minister Freikh Abu Madayin, they will be sentenced to death 
according to a Palestinian law passed in 1936.  Sources say they 
expect a quick conviction.  [Yediot Ahronot, 13 December]

SEVEN PETROL BOMBS THROWN MONDAY
	Seven petrol bombs were thrown Monday in Hebron, 
Schem and along the trans-Samarian highway.  There were no 
injuries, although one Israeli truck was burned out from the 
attack.  [Yediot Ahronot, 13 December]

IDF RESERVIST ATTACKED IN RAMALLAH
	An IDF reservist who took the wrong direction and ended 
up in the center of Ramallah was attacked with stones and 
received moderate injuries to the head.  The reservist says that 
a mob of Arabs surrounded his car stopped him from moving.  
An IDF patrol in the area saved the reservist and brought him 
to the Hadassah Ein Karem hospital where he is now undergoing 
treatment.  [Arutz 7, 14 December]

APARTMENT SALES REACH A HIGH IN ARIEL
	178 apartments were sold this past month in Ariel.  This 
is the highest number of apartments sold in Ariel per month 
since the beginning of the intifada.  Apartments in Ariel are 
going for approximately $60,000.  [Arutz 7, 14 December]


SOLDIER STABBED IN GUSH KATIF
	An IDF soldier was stabbed in Gush Katif near Gan Eital 
this afternoon.  He is in moderate condition.  The terrorist was 
caught and claims not to be connected with any particular 
terror organization.  [Israel Radio, 14 December]

FOUR ARABS ATTACK JEW AT EREZ JUNCTION AND STEAL HIS 
CAR
	Chaim Abarjel, 30, from Moshav Emunim was attacked in 
his car Monday afternoon at the Erez checkpoint at the northern 
end of Gaza by Arabs who wanted his car.  Just after Abarjel 
parked his car near the Erez checkpoint, four Arabs came over, 
attacked Abarjel, kidnapped him along with his car and sped off 
in the direction of Gaza.  Abarjel succeeded in jumping out of 
the car when they reached the checkpoint operated by the PLO, 
but instead of helping Abarjel, the PLO soldiers arrested him, 
and the Arabs who attacked him and stole his car continued on 
unhindered into Gaza.
	"I told the PLO police what had happened and asked 
them to chase after my car.  But they were indifferent to my 
requests and only reported the incident over their radios.  
Afterwards a PLO army officer came over and I told him what 
had happened.  He also would only report the incident over his 
radio.  In my car there was a 0.38 mm rifle and 20,000 shekel" 
Abarjel said.
	Meanwhile, the Arabs who stole the car crashed into an 
orchard and ran away, taking with them the money and the 
rifle.  [Yediot Ahronot, 14 December]


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Volume 20.6                                             December 15, 1994
Publisher: Murray Kahl 

                             UNCENSORED NEWS

                            **GOODBY GOLAN**
     A number of sources have contacted us concerning an impending
announcement (within two weeks) by President Clinton that he will
station American troops on the Golan.
     This action is a consummation of a number of devious actions and
done without the knowledge of Congress. Read analysis on page We urge
everyone to call their local representatives and ask that Congress hold
a full debate on the Golan PRIOR to endangering American lives.

                          **"DEAR COLLEAGUE"**
     As previously reported, Congressman Philip Crane, R. 8th District
of Illinois, examined in depth the proposal to place American troops on
the Golan Heights. Based on his information, he sent a "dear colleague"
letter to his fellow members of Congress. We are printing it in its
entirety, as it is so relevant to today's news.

                      Congress of the United States
                        House of Representatives
                            Washington, D.C.
                         DANGER!!!  "QUICKSAND"
In recent weeks, the Clinton Administration and others have discussed
the possibility of deploying U.S. troops in peacekeeping missions as
part of a Mid-East peace settlement. Specifically, these proposals would
send American men and women to the Golan Heights as part of a settlement
to return the disputed area to Syrian control.
Such a mission could have a significant destabilizing effect on the
region, but more importantly would put U.S. troops in an extraordinary
vulnerable position. If hostilities erupt, American troops would find
themselves squarely atop the most strategic position in the area, badly
outgunned and without secure escape routes, while forced to maintain an
air of neutrality. They would be, quite literally, between a rock and a
hard place. Even in the absence of a shooting war, U.S. troops would be
subject to a range of attacks--from rock throwing to suicide bombings.
Last Spring, the Task Force on Terrorism & Unconventional Warfare
distributed a reprint of a March 1994 "Security Affairs" article
entitled "U.S. Troops on Golan Quicksand?" written by Mark Langfan. This
article provides an historical perspective and an in-depth analysis of
how U.S. troops might destabilize the peace process and, more
importantly, the threats those men and women might face. In light of
recent events it is particularly timely, and I am enclosing another copy
for your review. 
I hope that before the President takes any action, he will consult with
Congress. And I hope that if Congress is asked to vote on this issue,
you will kep these issues in mind.
Sincerely,
Philip M. Crane, M. C.
                                    
                      **IDF CAN CONTAIN HIZBALLAH**
     Hizbullah is not immune to attack, and can be hit anywhere and
everywhere, IDF Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ehud Barak warned yesterday. 
     "The IDF will act prudently and do what needs to be done," added
Barak.
     In his first appearance before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee as Deputy Chief of Staff, Maj.-Gen. Matan Vilna'i
sharply criticized Chief Education Officer, Brig.-Gen. Shlomo Ben Moshe
for his interview with the Haaretz Newspaper.
     Vilna'i added, "We are in an army with many opinions. There is no
need to make them all public. His [Ben Moshe] statements were
unacceptable and we will deal with him." Shomrom News, Dec. 15, 

     **HIZBALLAH FREE TO ACT, AS IT KNOWS ISRAEL WILL NOT RESPOND**
     The Deputy General Director of Hizbullah, Na'im El-Kassim, stated
that he is certain that the IDF will not retaliate for the terrorism
against Israeli troops in the security zone.
     El-Kassim stated that due to the political situation that Israel
finds herself in with the peace process, he is certain that they will
not go on the offensive.
     When asked what his response was to threats made by OC Northern
Command, Mag.-Gen. Amiram Levin, who stated that he felt the IDF should
launch an offensive against Hizbullah, El-Kassim stated "that  these are
threats that do not scare us." Yediot Achronot, 12/13

                       **TERRORISM WILL INCREASE**
     The head of the General Security Service (GSS) warned government
Ministers that Hamas terrorism is only going to increase. The attacks
are going to become more frequent and more serious.
      The GSS head added that it is doubtful that Yassir Arafat will do
what  is necessary to put an end to the terror coming out of the
Autonomy areas Ma'ariv, 12/5.

                           **IDF FRUSTRATED**
     In the last week, two Israeli soldiers have been killed in
Hezbollah attacks in Southern Lebanon, and several others have been
injured.  This year, 17 Israeli soldiers have been killed fighting in
the border zone they control in Lebanon. There has also been some
cross-border shelling of towns in northern Israel.
     Israel used to strike back when there were attacks from Lebanese or
Palestinians within its territory. However, the "peace process" and the
latest poll results, indicating a floundering Labor government, has
paralyzed Israel's leaders. Israel's options in Southern Lebanon are
limited by an agreement, and the Israeli government says that any
response would result in terrorist attacks in other parts of the world.
     The result has been an outspoken frustration in the Israeli armed
forces and increased negative attention from a controlled media. I&GN,
Dec. 13, 

          **GENERAL AMIRAM LEVINE CALLS FOR FORCEFUL ACTION** 
     On Sunday, the chief of Israel's Northern Command, General Amiram
Levine, broke the usual dutiful silence on policy issues among military
officers.  While visiting seven soldiers hospitalized from their
injuries in the fighting, General Levine told Israeli reporters that to
stop Hizballah the Israeli army will have to defeat it on the
battlefield and that to do so his forces must be allowed to take the
initiative and attack, rather than maintain their defensive posture. 
General levine said Hizballah has had several successes recently, and he
vowed those successes will come to an end.
                      General Levine "is mistaken."
     But the general was almost immediately contradicted by Israeli
leaders.  Speaking during a visit to Japan, Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin said "whoever thinks he has a formula for resolving the
problem is mistaken."  
           Continue negotiations in spite of terrorist attacks
     The fighting in Lebanon is part of what he called the International
"infrastructure" of  Islamic terrorism.  He said an Israeli military
offensive in Southern Lebanon would only result In retaliation
elsewhere, as happened when Islamic extremists 
bombed Jewish community offices in Argentina and the Israeli Embassy in
London.  
     Prime Minister Rabin said the only way to end the bloodshed in
Southern Lebanon is to reach a comprehensive Middle East peace
settlement, and continuing negotiations in spite of terrorist attacks
[resulting in over 100 Israeli deaths in Israel] and  increased fighting
in Lebanon. I&GN, Dec. 13, 

        **FOREIGN MINISTER SHIMON PERES MAKES SIMILAR COMMENTS**
     Noting that previous Israeli offensives in Southern Lebanon have
failed to destroy Hizballah or to end the fighting.
     Peres has said that to reach a settlement with Lebanon, Israel must
first make peace with Syria, which wields considerable power in Lebanon. 
The Israel-Syria peace talks are stalled, and increased fighting in
Lebanon could prolong the stalemate. 
     There is also a broader international aspect to the problems in
Southern Lebanon.  Iran supports, and to some extent controls,
Hizballah, and it is not  likely to accept any peace accord between
Israel and its neighbors. I&GN, Dec. 13, 1994

     **RABIN HAS SECRET POLLS, HIDES RESULTS, AND CHARGES TAXPAYER**
     MK (Likud) Tzachi Hanegbi has petitioned the Supreme Court to stop
the Prime Minister from conducting private political public surveys at
the expense of the taxpayer.  He also requested that the High Court 
restrict further funding from the Prime Minister's office for the
position of "Advisor on Public Opinion."
     MK Hanegbi also requested that the Prime Minister's office release
the exact number of polls conducted since July of 1992, when the present
government took office, as well as the results of the polls.
     Supreme Court Judge, Tzvi Tal, has ordered the case be heard by a
panel of three judges of the High Court and to summon a member of the
Government's legal advisors office to the hearing.
     Prior to his becoming the Government's "Advisor on Public Opinion,
Kalman Geer held the same post for the Labor Party.  At the time
Mr.Rabin headed the Party as well and Mr. Geer conducted many public
surveys to assist in the Labor Party election campaign. Haaretz, 12/13.

           **PALESTINIANS GIVING WEAPONS TO FORMER PRISONERS**
     Palestinian police have reportedly given weapons to dozens of
former Palestinian prisoners convicted of killing Palestinians accused
of collaborating with Israel, KOL YISRAEL reported.   The weapons were
distributed on the premise that the former prisoners had to protect
themselves from retaliation by the families of the killed collaborators.
  KOL YISRAEL quotes Palestinian police chief Jibril Rajoub who said the
decision was made after the wife of a former prisoner was assassinated.
Rajoub added that he may ask Israeli police for assistance in
apprehending those who killed the woman. Israeline, December 15, 1994

                   **U.S. RECOGNIZES ISLAMIC DANGER**
     The United States is trying [unsuccessfully] to persuade the
Lebanese government to crack down on Hizballah.  Last week, Assistant
Secretary of State Robert Pelletreau visited Beirut to discuss improving
U.S. / Lebanese relations.  But a Beirut newspaper says he told Lebanese
leaders they must first get control of Hizballah and other terrorist
groups.  

                **ISRAELI LEADERS WILL NOT TAKE ACTION**
     Israel's top leaders have made clear that, for now, they will deal
with the situation in Southern Lebanon through diplomatic channels.  But
flareups such as the current one create pressure on the leaders to do
something on the ground.  And that, in turn, would hurt the peace
process they are already having trouble moving forward.  I&GN, Dec. 13, 

               **VIOLENCE ERUPTS ON ANNIVERSARY OF HAMAS**
     Four Israeli soldiers and a Palestinian were injured in three
incidents on Wednesday.  In the most serious one, in the town of
Ramallah, an angry crowd surrounded and attacked an Israeli soldier in
his car.  He had to be rescued by a hastily-dispatched army unit.  The
soldier was in fair condition at a nearby hospital.
     In Gaza, at a checkpoint between an Israeli settlement (Ganei Tal)
and a Palestinian town known as a stronghold of the radicals (Khan
Younis), a Palestinian stabbed a soldier, leaving him also in fair
condition.  The attacker was reportedly wounded and captured.  And near
another radical center in the west bank (Qalqilya), two soldiers were
slightly wounded when a roadside bomb exploded as they drove by.
     No one claimed responsibility for the incidents, but Wednesday was
the anniversary of the founding of the radical group Hamas, and Israeli
security organizations were on alert against possible attacks.  Such
incidents make it more difficult for Israeli leaders to agree to
withdraw troops from Palestinian areas, as required by the peace accord
and demanded by Palestinian negotiators.   I&GN, December 14, 1994

                 **CAMEOS FROM SHOMROM (SAMARIA) NEWS**
**A meeting at the Knesset of parents whose children died during their
military service exploded in rage yesterday when only two MKs- the
organizer, Naomi Chazan, and MK Moshe Peled, showed up for the
discussion.
     The bereaved families included children that died in army training
accidents, operational accidents or had committed suicide. 
     Chazan invited the parents to the Knesset to discuss a four-point
program starting with the launching of a public campaign for legislation
transferring the investigation of army accidents and prosecution of
those allegedly responsible for them, to a civilian authority.
     Several parents stormed out in the middle of the meeting. They had
expected members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to
attend. J. Post, 12/14
**Thirty year old Chaim Avrigal, a businessman from Moshav Emunim (near
Ashdod) was one of the fortunate ones. He escaped the ordeal in Gaza
that took place on Monday night.
     A short time after parking his car near the Erez interchange
(Gaza), four Arabs forced their way into his Volvo and drove off with
Chaim in the vehicle.    Chaim arrived at the Erez checkpoint in the
afternoon. He had a business meeting that was to be held in the
industrial area adjacent to the checkpoint. He parked his Vovlo 940 in
the gas station near the checkpoint.
     "I waited in the car. I had arranged to meet someone in the gas
station by my vehicle," stated Avrigal. "Suddenly from out of nowhere
the four men opened the vehicle, pushed me over, started the car and
drove off with me in it. I realized that we were travelling in the
direction of the PLO checkpoint towards the Autonomy area. I jumped from
the car. They kept on driving. I managed to get up and I saw an Israeli
vehicle heading towards me. I stopped the car and then pushed the driver
over and began to chase my car. When we arrived at the PLO checkpoint,
the PLO Police stopped me. I told them that the thieves were escaping
with my vehicle. They were very calm. They would not permit me to drive.
They gave a report over the two-way radio. Later on a PLO Officer came
to the checkpoint. I told him that I had a pistol and 20,000 shekels in
the car. I filed a report with the Israeli Police stationed at the Erez
checkpoint."
     Fortunately the vehicle was found in the northern Gaza area. The
gun, money, and everything that could have been stolen was removed from
the vehicle by the terrorists.
     "I don't know how I survived. It was awful. The Israeli and PLO
Police both dealt with the entire matter too slowly. They could have
been more aggressive," stated Chaim. Yediot Achronot, 12/14..Pages
10,11. 
**On the front page of today's Jerusalem Post we see a picture of a play
being performed by "student activists" at the Islamic University in
Gaza.
     The name of the play is "Waxman." The play re-enacts the kidnapping
and killing of the IDF soldier, Nachson, obm.
     Hundreds of students applauded as Waxman was portrayed as a
frightened boy calling for his mother. Jerusalem Post, 12/5.
**Police stated that they have no intention of giving up the search for
the missing ten year old, Alexandra Brandt, now missing for 20 days.
Yediot Achronot, 12/14..Page 13.
**In yet another attack against religious Jewry, Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres stated that "I do not approve of everything that King David did
throughout Jewish history." The statement caused a shouting match in the
Knesset. Several religious MK's left the session following the Foreign
Minister's remarks. (Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio..12/14..5:30pm). 
**Minister Yossi Sarid (Meretz) has voiced his support for recent
statements made by OC Northern command, Maj.-Gen. Amiram Levin. Levin
stated that the IDF needed to take an offensive position in order to
eliminate the increasing Hizbullah terrorism in Lebanon and the Security
Zone.
     Sarid stated that "statements made by the Northern Commander were
obvious to us all. I am certain that the Prime Minister was
misunderstood when he responded voicing an opposing opinion to the
Senior Commander. Haaretz, 12/14, Page 4a.
**The inquiry board that was appointed to look into the tragic Air Force
accident last week has completed its investigation.
     The board had given its report to Mag.-Gen. Herzl Bodinger,
Commander of the Air Force for his review.
     The full report will also be brought to the families of the two
soldiers that were killed, Lt. Shmuel Ben Gershon, obm and Moshe Cohen,
obm.
     The third soldier involved in the training accident is still
recuperating from his injuries. Bodinger stated that he hoped to receive
additional information from the wounded soldier when he is strong enough
to tell what happened. Haaretz, 12/14. 
**Lt. Oren Edri, alleged leader of the "Revenge Underground" is to be
released from Military prison for a three day leave beginning tomorrow
morning.
     Lt. Edri is scheduled to take the witness stand Sunday morning when
his trial resumes. (SNS..12/14).
**A new trial against Kach Movement spokesman, Noam Federman, was opened
yesterday in a Jerusalem Court.
     Federman is being charged with assault against Arabs. The incident
occurred last year when the Arabs threw stones at Federman's house.
     Noam came outside and threw bottles and rocks at the attacking
Arabs.
     No Arabs were arrested in the incident but Federman faces over one
year in prison.
     Federman stated that no government has the right to prevent him
from  protecting his home and his family. They can arrest him but this
is an unjustified act. 
Noam Federman, 12/8.
**Terrorists fired on a Border Police jeep near the Blata refugee camp,
in the Shchem area. No injuries were reported in the attack although
several bullets struck the jeep. An automatic weapon was used in the
attack. Radio News, 12/14 11:00pm.
**Security forces have made an arrest in a mosque in the Hevron Area in
the village of Dura. Sheikh Naif Rajoub was detained by security forces
as a Hamas "activist" and was among the Hamas deportees sent to Lebanon
by Israel. He is the brother of Colonel Jibril Rajoub, the head of the
PLO Secret Service. Radio News, 12/11
**IDF soldiers currently serving in Judea and Samaria have informed
Ma'ariv that they do not have proper equipment to function effectively
in this very difficult winter. They stated that the sleeping bags were
in very poor condition, they do not have enough winter coats, and they
do not have extra warm clothing to enable them to function under extreme
cold conditions.
     Official IDF sources, both from the quartermaster corps and the
medical corps, stated that there is no shortage of equipment and
clothing in the IDF .They added that the soldiers all receive adequate
equipment in the field. Ma'ariv, 12/5..Page 7.
**Replacement soldiers, sent to fill in for soldiers that are
recuperating from frost-bite, are complaining that they too are freezing
due to the lack of proper equipment.
     The soldiers stated that "there is no hot water, no blankets, and
no heated tent to warm up in. We are reserve duty soldiers. We are 35-40
years old and not able to sleep in these freezing conditions. We sleep
in a giant tent with absolutely no heating. The place is freezing and we
cannot tolerate these conditions any longer."
     They voiced their objections to the jeeps being utilized to carry
out the patrols. "The jeeps are not in proper running order. The brakes
are defective and the steering is not what it should be. We thought
about refusing to drive the vehicles.  It is irresponsible to have us
use jeeps like these."
     On of the soldiers that was present in Hevron was taken to the
hospital when he complained of chest pain and difficulty breathing.
     The soldier said that he had never done reserve duty in conditions
like those that existed in Hevron now. He said that "we are freezing to
death." Yediot Achronot,  12/12..Page 7.
**The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee has allocated 30
million shekels to complete the Ramallah bypass road. The road is due to
be completed by the end of 1994. Channel 7 Radio News, 12/12
**If you need a policeman in Israel you may have difficulty getting one.
     A motorist that witnessed a citizen beating up a police officer,
attempted to call from his cellular phone. He dialed the emergency "100"
number but it took over 15 minutes for someone to answer.
     Yediot Achronot and Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio conducted tests to
verify the information. The fastest that the phone was answered was
after 17 rings. In some cases, the emergency number was not picked up
for 30 minutes.
     When asked to comment, Commander Gabi Lest, Commander of the
Tel-Aviv Police District stated that the problem is an old one. The
emergency dispatchers are severely understaffed. Now the Police have
implemented a newer dispatch center for the Tel-Aviv district but they
do not have adequate manpower to answer the calls. 
Yediot Achronot, GaaleiTzahal/Army Radio 12/13
**In response to a statement made by Yassir Arafat, Mr. Rabin also
admitted that some Israeli weapons did fall into the hands of Hamas in
the "West Bank and Gaza." Yediot Achronot, 12/13
**Seven Molotov cocktails were thrown in the last 24 hours in Hevron, 
Shchem, and the Trans-Samaria Highway.
     On the Trans-Samaria Highway, not far from the Arab village of
Bidya,  a Molotov cocktail ignited when it was thrown at an Israeli
truck. Emergency rescue and fire vehicles responded and no injuries were
reported. The truck was completely burned.
     In Shchem yesterday morning another Molotov cocktail was thrown at
a police vehicle. The bomb ignited but no damage was caused as  it
missed its target. Yediot Achronot, 12/13
**According to MK (Likud) David Menna, the Jordanian Government is
compelled to eliminate two laws that are still part of the Jordanian
System.
    1..Anyone selling land to a Jew is to be sentenced to death.
    2..According to paragraph #3 of the civil law, any person except a
Jew can become a citizen of Jordan. Yediot Achronot, 12/6
**For the second time in a month, Fatah members opened fire on one
another in Shchechm.
     In the ongoing internal dispute in Shchechm, a Fatah member opened
fire on the PLO Headquarters in the city. Yediot Achronot, 12/7.
**100 members of the Popular Front have requested to be inducted into
the PLO Police force.
     The group opposes the agreements between Israel and the PLO. Yediot
Achronot, 12/7..Page 9.
**After an Oslo meeting with both Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin and
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Yassir Arafat stated that "Israel is
leading us to catastrophe."
     Arafat made the statement at a meeting of the PLO delegation to
Oslo. Ma'ariv,  12/12..Page 7).

                         **OPTIMISM PREVAILS** 
     PLO chief negotiator Nabil Shaath says Israel must agree to a
timetable that removes Israeli troops permanently from populated areas
in Gaza and the West Bank, before Palestinian elections will be held.
     But Israeli officials cite a number of Palestinian terrorist
attacks against Israelis in Israel and the occupied territories. 
     And they say they  cannot withdraw without setting up new, more
thorough security arrangements with the Palestinians.  
     The Israeli officials have suggested withdrawing for three days of
elections, then redeploying while Israelis and Palestinians hammer out a
new security protocol.
     Israeli officials say if the Palestinians refuse the temporary
troop withdrawal option, Palestinian elections could be delayed for up
to a year during the security talks. 
     Despite this latest disagreement, both sides say they are
optimistic about the talks.  I&GN, Dec. 14, 

              **PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY TO SEEK EXTRADITION**
     The Palestinian Authority plans to demand the extradition of those
responsible for murdering the wife of Fatah activist Ibrahim Amru last
week.  Amru's wife, Rasmiye, was shot dead in her home and Ibrahim was
lightly injured. Ibrahim had been convicted of murdering one of his
fellow villagers in Dura, near Hebron, because Ibrahim suspected him of
being a collaborator.  Ibrahim was let out of prison according 
to the Cairo agreement, and he and his wife had settled in Jericho. 
Says Jericho's head of PLO operations, Jibril Rajoub, "This
[extradition] should be coordinated with the Israelis.  We have an
agreement that allows extradition, and it should be respected."  
     Meanwhile, Israel has requested the extradition of several Gazans
accused of killing Israelis and is still waiting for the Palestinian
Authority to respond.  [Jerusalem Post, 13 December]  Two of those
killers whose extradition Israel has demanded since the end of September
are Raja Abu Sita and Amar Abu Sita, both of Han Yunis.  They are
responsible for the murder of Uri Megidish in the spring of 1993.  Both
are members of Fatah, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's wing of the PLO.  The
PLO has so far refused to cooperate with the extradition. Yediot
Ahronot, 13 Dec

                 **IDF PREVENTS INFILTRATION FROM GAZA**
     Seven Arabs from Gaza tried to infiltrate into Israel near Nahal Oz
early Monday morning.  They were stopped by IDF soldiers who fired at
the infiltrators, killing one.  The other six escaped back into Gaza. 
Ha'aretz, 13 December

                **RAJOUB BEATS IDF SOLDIER NEAR JERICHO**
     PLO Chief of operations in Jericho beat an IDF soldier Sunday night
at the northern Jericho checkpoint.  Israel responded by keeping Rajoub
from entering Israel for a number of hours. The IDF considers such an
attack from a leading PLO official to be very serious.  Rajoub denies
the incident, calling it all a bunch of lies and claims the IDF soldier
in question wasn't acting courteously toward him. 
Yediot Ahronot, 13 December

           **THREE "COLLABORATORS" TO BE SENTENCED TO DEATH**
     The three men who turned themselves in to the PLO in Gaza,
admitting to having worked with Israeli security to kill Islamic Jihad
terrorist Hani Abed at the beginning of November, will be the first to
be tried by the Arab court system in Gaza.  If they are found guilty of
being collaborators, says PLO Justice Minister Freikh Abu Madayin, they
will be sentenced to death according to a Palestinian law passed in
1936.  Sources say they expect a quick conviction. 
Yediot Ahronot, 13 December

                   IDF RESERVIST ATTACKED IN RAMALLAH
     An IDF reservist who took the wrong direction and ended up in the
center of Ramallah was attacked with stones and received moderate
injuries to the head.  The reservist says that a mob of Arabs surrounded
his car stopped him from moving.  
     An IDF patrol in the area saved the reservist and brought him to
the Hadassah Ein Karem hospital where he is now undergoing treatment.
Arutz 7, 14 December

                **APARTMENT SALES REACH A HIGH IN ARIEL**
     178 apartments were sold this past month in Ariel.  This is the
highest number of apartments sold in Ariel per month since the beginning
of the intifada.  Apartments in Ariel are going for approximately
$60,000. Arutz 7, 14 December

                    **SOLDIER STABBED IN GUSH KATIF**
     An IDF soldier was stabbed in Gush Katif near Gan Eital this
afternoon.  He is in moderate condition.  The terrorist was caught and
claims not to be connected with any particular terror organization.
Israel Radio, 14 December

      **FOUR ARABS ATTACK JEW AT EREZ JUNCTION AND STEAL HIS CAR**
     Chaim Abarjel, 30, from Moshav Emunim was attacked in his car
Monday afternoon at the Erez checkpoint at the northern end of Gaza by
Arabs who wanted his car.  Just after Abarjel parked his car near the
Erez checkpoint, four Arabs came over, attacked Abarjel, kidnapped him
along with his car and sped off in the direction of Gaza.  Abarjel
succeeded in jumping out of the car when they reached the checkpoint
operated by the PLO, but instead of helping Abarjel, the PLO soldiers
arrested him, and the Arabs who attacked him and stole his car continued
on unhindered into Gaza.
     "I told the PLO police what had happened and asked them to chase
after my car.  But they were indifferent to my requests and only
reported the incident over their radios.  
     Afterwards a PLO army officer came over and I told him what had
happened.  He also would only report the incident over his radio.  In my
car there was a 0.38 mm rifle and 20,000 shekel" Abarjel said.
     Meanwhile, the Arabs who stole the car crashed into an orchard and
ran away, taking with them the money and the rifle. Yediot Ahronot, 14
December
                     ABOVE FURNISHED BY SHOMROM NEWS

                    **ISLAM TARNISHED BY MILITANTS**
     Cairo--Islamic conference leaders are putting the final touches on
a declaration of support for embattled Muslims in Bosnia. The
declaration, drafted by Islamic foreign ministers in advance of this
week's summit, is expected to declare the U.N. Security Council's arms
embargo on Bosnia null and void.
      Bosnia's president is a special guest at the meeting of the 52
Islamic states, which represent more than one-billion Muslim in the
world.
     Conference delegates are also discussing how to improve Islam's
international image, which Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says has
been tarnished by Muslim militant terrorism.  Morocco's King Hassan
called for the conference to establish a supreme body to decide what is
tolerated and forbidden in Islam.  I&GN, Dec. 14
                                    
                   **YES, THERE ARE KINNERET PIRANHA**
     The matter came to light when Tiberias fisherman Ovadia Daddon
found a strange catch in his net a few days ago.  Daddon said he had
been fishing for the local St. Peter's Fish, but caught a small but
vicious-looking fish.  
     "It was a strange-looking fish and unknown to me.  I took one home
and fried it, and it was very tasty.  It had a mouth full of dirty,
pointed teeth, so I didn't play around with it when I took it from the
net," he said.
     It now seems almost certain that the fish with sharp teeth pulled
recently from Lake Kinneret by fisherman are in fact piranha.  
     Agriculture Ministry experts who have examined one of the specimens
caught by a fisherman are convinced it is a red piranha - one of 12
species of the carnivorous fish.  So far, six of the fish with saw-edged
teeth have been in the lake, near the Tiberias hot springs.  
     Piranha live in fresh water and are normally found in South
America, where the water temperature is at least 26 centigrade.  They
are considered to be extremely dangerous when feeding in schools. Since
the swimming season is over, there has been no panic among tourists, an
official said.  The fish are expected to die when the water turns cold. 
.Jerusalem Post, Dec. 13, 14 

                          **HEBREW NEWSPAPERS**
**Ha'aretz notes that even though there may be fewer training accidents
than in previous years as Chief of Staff Barak claims, the public's
awareness of them has grown and it has been identified as a real
problem. The special military court suggests, in its most recent case,
that investigations of training accidents be transferred to an external
body.
     The paper, noting the public's right to know about accidents,
questions whether a military body can in fact objectively investigate
military issues, especially if they involve senior officials, and claims
that it would be for the best for the public -- and for the IDF itself
-- if an outside body were involved.
**Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, refers to OC Northern Command
Amiram Levine's statement -- made last Sunday -- that the IDF must take
the initiative and attack in its war against Hizbullah, and the many
comments that have been made about it. The paper "assumes and hopes that
Levine ... will let his actions and leadership speak for him. Not
because of the content of his latest remarks, but because of the
needless comments and reactions that they have invited."
**Hatzofeh agrees with OC Northern Command Levine (see above) and says
that such a policy would "restore the IDF's deterrent power, which has
been somewhat undermined by Hizbullah." The paper declares that "the
conception that Israel must refrain from initiating operations against a
murderous organization such as Hizbullah out of concern that it might
carry out severe attacks, is astonishing," and "is an expression of
weakness and hesitation that is liable to encourage Hizbullah and
similar organizations in their despicable plots." The editors believe
that Hizbullah "must not get the impression that Israel's hands are tied
vis-a-vis its responses and initiatives against Arab terrorism."
**Yediot Ahronot, noting that Prime Minister Rabin is going to find
himself in a "tangle" when he returns to Israel regarding the capital
gains tax and other economic-related issues, concedes that Rabin has
brought these "complications" upon himself it speculates that he sought
to create this confusion, so that he will be seen as decisive when he
resolves the problem.
**Hatzofeh claims that the Israeli Bourse was created tax-free in order
to encourage Israelis to invest in it instead of investing their money
outside of Israel. Therefore, the paper contends, the sudden imposition
of tax is unfair to those who planned their investments according to the
tax-free status. The paper recounts the claims against Rabin: that he
announced that he would not impose a capital gains tax as long as he was
Prime Minister and then later did, stating that there are things which
someone in his position does not need to tell the public about. The
paper also wonders why Rabin did not make a statement while overseas
that the law is valid and will go into effect as planned, and criticizes
the Government for harming the stock exchange.

                      **A REAL WAR IN S. LEBANON**
                             By ARIEL SHARON
  (There are many ways to keep Hizbullah off balance, constantly on the
move.)
      THERE'S a real day-and-night war going on in southern Lebanon.  It
is a clandestine war.  It doesn't get much attention, and not much is
written about it.  When there are casualties, it is briefly recalled.  
      It is being fought in difficult conditions, among forbidding
rocks, winding wadis, against a determined enemy.  
      As ever, the IDF Northern Command forces are exhibiting great
ability, outstanding operational competence and great courage.  But they
and their excellent commanders have become tools in the hands of cynical
politicians.  
      They possess immense power.  But they cannot use it, not even in a
controlled way.  They are bound by the agreement with Hizbullah which
prevents activity in civilian areas.  These areas serve the terrorists
as launching bases, lookout posts, planning centers.  And they provide
housing and a haven after their deadly attacks.         Now there is
another reason for the IDF's powerlessness, and it is the main reason:
the government wants an agreement with Hafez Assad at almost any price. 
     In Stockholm this week, the foreign minister admitted that "there
are political considerations in using IDF forces in southern Lebanon." 
     These forces are now free to operate only in the security zone
(except for special, isolated raids).  There, under the agreement, their
blood may, in effect, be spilled.  
     The terrorists in southern Lebanon, whose Palestinian component has
recently grown, are learning IDF routines and operational methods,
sitting safely in the villages or close to UNIFIL posts.  As a result of
their unobstructed observation of IDF units, they constantly change
their modes of attack, and occasionally spring new surprises. Our
soldiers are better than they are, and our commanders infinitely
superior.  But the enemy has the initiative and dictates the course of
our actions.  
     The IDF is making a mighty effort in the security zone, but the
entire front remains static.  To change this situation, we need to throw
the enemy off balance, to send a shock through its ranks. In the present
situation, we can no longer do this by hitting at its roving units in
the security zone.  While success there is important, and inflicting
casualties on the enemy is a mark of success, this in itself will not
bring about any real change in the situation.  Not even "precise,
surgical" strikes, however accurate, will succeed in throwing the enemy
off balance.  
     For this, we must keep the terrorists in a situation of constant
insecurity, constant flight, in fear of encountering the IDF on their
flanks, and the encirclement of the villages or the area in which they
take refuge.  We are talking of limited moves and frequent changes in
tactics.  
     For obvious reasons, I cannot go into detail.  But I can point to a
large variety of ways to prevent the enemy securely positioning itself
and force it to be constantly on the move, seeking new havens each day,
and thus less able to to act.  
     This is what is meant by pushing the terrorists off balance,
through limited, controlled moves.  
     TERRORISM IN Lebanon, which is under Syrian occupation, is a weapon
Assad uses to extract political concessions from Israel.  This is grave,
but understandable.  However, it isn't only Assad who is using this
terror to attain his political objectives.  Prime Minister Rabin is also
doing it.  That's terrible, and incomprehensible. Behind a heavy
smokescreen, talks are being held with the Syrians. The gap between
Rabin and Assad is very small.  Both have already agreed that Israel
will relinquish the Golan. Both have agreed on a three-year period to
complete the withdrawal.  
      The premier wants an agreement before the 1996 elections to gain
maximum advantage for himself and his party. He would like to defer the
highly traumatic issue of evacuating settlements until after the
election.  Assad fears the results of elections in Israel and wants most
of the settlements and the area evacuated beforehand. But the gaps are
small.  Between the Madrid embrace, the Oslo bows, and the Tokyo
obeisance, they will find a solution. But the government has a problem. 
The Americans aren't wild about Israel's request that they dispatch
troops to the Golan - and justly so.  So how can our leaders go on
misleading the public that security will be maintained by American
soldiers?  The game apparently needs another element - terrorism in
Lebanon.  
      That is why the prime minister's signal from Tokyo that "anyone
who thinks he has a military formula for solving the situation in
Lebanon is wrong" is no coincidence.  
      All this is added to the government chorus which, one day,
unanimously began singing: "In Lebanon, the only solution is political."
And the sought-for political solution is, of course, the agreement with
Syria, which means quitting the Golan.       So today, the government
is demanding that every father and mother in Israel choose between
jeopardizing their children's future by giving up the Golan, and
endangering their children in the army today, by forcing them to fight
in Lebanon with their hands tied. The writer, a Likud MK, is a former
defense minister.  (c) JPFS 1994
Jerusalem Post, December 15, 1994

                      THE CHANGING OF THE CHAMELEON
                             by Murray Kahl
     The imminent surrender of the Golan to Syria by the combined
efforts of Prime Minister Rabin and President Clinton indicate an
affirmation on Rabin's part to an uncaring and unwanted Marxian
philosophy that has devastated at least half the world. Clinton has been
bamboozled by this master of the double entendre and is not capable of
withstanding the onslaught of history that threatens to destroy him only
one half through his first term of office. And that is the commonality
between the two men; the very real threat of losing their role as leader
of their respective country and leader of their political base.
     Both face of the prospect of ultimate irrelevancy due to
incompetence and in Rabin's case he is the stronger, as he is still in
charge of Israel and so can wreck havoc.
     Clinton is attempting to salvage his floundering presidency by the
grand gesture, the caricature of a President Carter who feels his place
in history is secured by the Camp David Agreements. 
     Deceit is Rabin's weapon and he skillfully welds his scepter of fraud
and deception.
     Let's establish as a base line, the bombing in Buenos Aires and
watch as this puppet master makes the western world dance to his tune.
     We must remember that Israel had,  just a few weeks prior to the
bombing, severely hurt HizbALLAH in Lebanon with the  aerial bombing of
one of HizbALLAH training camps that resulted in many casualties.
HizbALLAH threatened to strike back and so they did, and while doing so
proved to Jews everywhere that Rabin's actions affect Jews the world
over. Nevertheless, we must also admit that Iran has a marginal
influence over HizbALLAH in Lebanon and it is Syria that controls their
actions. 
     Almost immediately after the bombing, Rabin accused Iran of
masterminding the event and Iranian suspects were  ubiquitous.; however,
it all quietly dropped except for Iran loudly protesting its innocence.
Iran is the bogeyman and certainly not in the foreseeable future capable
of any rational peace that does not have Islamic law as a basis.
     Why not select Iran? it was a meaningless gesture, and it certainly
did not suit Rabin to finger the true guilty culprit--Syria. There were
media reports in Europe, Israel, and the U.S. that presented adequate
information about Syrian participation in this bombing and the one two
years before in the same city. Rabin ignored all this as it did not fit
into his profile of future deification as the forerunner of a new
Marxian world of peace and contentment. To accomplish this, Rabin must
reach an accommodation with Syria and any "extraneous events" would be
brushed aside. 
      This is the same Rabin who killed his fellow Jews during the fight
for independence and his uncaring attitude for lives carried over into
later life. It was only a few years ago that he told the world how to
treat those participating in the Intifada and his solution was "break
their bones." Draco would be proud of this man as here is a true
believer.
     The deal with Syria was set a while back with the U.S. as broker
and again we see the same disregard for human life that Rabin displayed
so many times in the past. Truths are conveniences to be brushed aside
at will and laughed at when confronted with past utterances. The deal is
simple: complete Israeli withdrawal from the Golan over a period of a
few years and the stationing of American monitors patterned after the
Multi-national Force and Observers group that has been in the Sinai
since 1982.
     Clinton kept his part of the bargain and all this was agreed upon
in secret without any Congressional consultation. Early December, a
press release from Washington told us that William Perry, Sec. of State,
told Rabin in Washington that if the U.S. is asked to place troops on
the Golan, the U.S. will reduce participation in the Multi-national
Force in the Sinai. Well, it's clear Perry knew nothing of this
agreement or did he? Congress certainly knew nothing of it as witness
the  "Dear colleague" letter on the first page.
     To bolster the argument that this agreement is similar to the
Sinai, Israel's representatives have lobbied individuals at every given
opportunity. Yet, they were shot in the foot by none other than
President Mubarak of Egypt who last week insisted that the
multi-national force in the Sinai be replaced with observers stationed
only on the Israeli-Egyptian border. This same dialogue took place in
1956 when President Nasser of Egypt also called for the removal of U.N.
troops and precipitated a war.
     The U.S. has suffered a number of casualties at the hands of Muslim
extremists and there is no reason to doubt that even more will succumb.
     ** The placement of American troops on the Golan puts them within
20 miles of some of the worst Islamic terror groups found anywhere. They
will be defenseless and dealing with those who sent home 241 marines in
body bags in 1982. Israel must not only surrender the high ground, but
they will be giving up a substantial portion of their water supplies.  
     ** In 1980, two American aircraft collided attempting to rescue the
American Embassy Staff in Tehran, Iran killing eight and wounding five.
     ** In 1983, the U.S. Navy lost two jets and one pilot to Syrian
anti-aircraft fire.
     ** In 1987, an Iraqi warplane struck the U.S.S. Stark with a
missile killing 37.
     ** In 1988, the U.S.S. Samuel B. Roberts struck an Iranian mine
that wounded 10.
     ** Peacekeeping in Somalia cost the U.S. more than 40 deaths.
     The final nail was placed in the casket when  Gen. John
Shalikashvili, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staffs, visited Israel
officially a few days ago.  He was the guest of Israeli Chief of General
Staff Lt.-Gen. Ehud Barak.  
   IDF sources said that Shalikashvili would discuss the "security
package" that Israel is seeking from the US as compensation for possible
territorial compromises in the peace process with Syria.  They denied
that possible deployment of US troops on the Golan Heights will be on
the agenda.  
      Shalikashvili visited the Golan Heights on a "private visit,"
since the State Department does not allow official US representatives to
visit areas under contention.  A visit to the army's Northern Command
was also on his official agenda. 
     This "private" visit is to white wash Clinton's adventurous milita
rism into areas in which he has no expertise.
     The consequences of this venture are predictable:
** American and Israeli deaths.
** An American responsibility for Israel's security and the consequent
loss of Israeli self reliance. 
** Ultimately, the complete destabilization of the Middle East
** Far more soldiers are involved than admitted to as Pentagon officials
estimate that for every soldier on active duty it ties up  two more: One
in training for a replacement and one who returns and retrains for
another mission.
** U.S. forces would be a problem for Israel if Israel was forced into a
preemptive strike.
** All of Northern Israel would be subject to Syrian scrutiny.
** Israel's interests and the interests of the U.S. are not always the
same, and there are times, as in the Gulf War, when the U.S. would not
share intelligence information with Israel.
** Costs are expected to run into the billions long term and in this era
of a "Contract with America," money wasted on the present socialist
government of Israel has no place in a conservative philosophy. Much of
the 1.2 billion dollars given to Israel goes to support a bankrupt
kibbutzim system and the Histradut, a massive inefficient labor union.
** Israelis do not want our help. Rabin at his election represented a
minority Jewish vote and today he lags behind the opposition in the
polls.
     The conclusion is a simple one, let American troops stay home and
not involve themselves in a quagmire that has all the potential of 
destroying our unique relationship with Israel and also potentially
involve the loss of American lives needlessly. 
     Rabin may pretend to be interested in peace, and Clinton may
pretend to be a conservative, but as with Chameleons, their colors may
change; however, Clinton is still the misplaced liberal and Rabin is
still the son of Rosa the Red.

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Volume 20.7                                             December 18, 1994
Publisher: Murray Kahl 

                             UNCENSORED NEWS

      **RABIN CALLS FOR MAKING MIDDLE EAST NUCLEAR WEAPONS FREE** 
     Speaking with reporters in Tokyo,  Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 
called for making the Middle East a nuclear free zone under local joint
supervision.  Rabin noted that the International Atomic Energy
Commission was not effective and that therefore it would be better to
rely on inspections by representatives of the zone rather than teams
from neutral third parties. "Haaretz"  15.12.94
[Some observers maintain that the Israeli nuclear threat serves to
enhance the stability of the region.  Once Israel is stripped of its
nuclear potential,  the temptation would be great for the Arabs to take
advantage of their substantial numerical advantage over Israel in
conventional arms.]

            **RABIN CONCEDES ARAFAT VIOLATING COMMITMENTS** 
     In a written reply to a question by MK Zevulun Hammer,  Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin conceded that Arafat was violating his written
pledge to use only the titles "Chairman of the PLO" and "Chairman of the
PA" and not "President of Palestine".  Rabin wrote that "we will work
towards getting this and other commitments honored by the Palestinian
Authority." "Haaretz"  15.12.94. Dr. Aaron Lerner, IMR&A

                           **GOLAN FOR SALE**
     Three countries are vying for the right to place their troops on
the Golan Heights in the wake of an Israeli withdrawal.
     The United States is taking far-reaching measures to this end, even
soliciting support from liberal American Jewish rabbis to push this
position from their pulpits. In an odd and unpleasant twist of history,
Shimon Peres actually invited German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to place his
country's soldiers on the Heights. In the same week as the Peres request
to Kohl, Japan announced that it was considering putting its troops on
the Golan.
     Foreign Minister Peres's request to Kohl was part of a very strange
deal with Germany. In exchange for Israel recruiting the American Jewish
Congress to lobby for Germany's inclusion in the UN Security Council,
Germany agreed to push Israel as an associate member of the European
Community. The Congress admitted that their efforts were coordinated
with the Foreign Ministry and Peres told the German media during an
August visit to Bonn that Israel would support German entry into the
Security Council.
     While Israel's efforts have so far gone nowhere, Germany's are
bearing fruit. Both France and Britain dropped previous objections to
Israel being a partner in the European Community's research and
development programs.
     The greatest opposition to withdrawal is coming from the IDF. A
high level delegation of army officers recently submitted a report to
Rabin which recommended against a full withdrawal from the Golan.
Rabin's public demanded that the report be subdued and was furious at a
leak that appeared on the front pages of all the weekend papers. His
public response was that "he isn't required to listen to his senior
officers' advice."
     However before any withdrawal can be anticipated, Israel must
acquiesce to Syria's demand that it sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty an thus open the Dimona reactor to international inspects who
will demand an end to the Israeli nuclear program. According to
well-informed security sources, Rabin is prepared to trade all of the
Golan Heights for an agreement with Syria and throw in Israel's nuclear
option to boot.
     Rabin's willingness flies in the face of a rather disturbing fact.
This year Syria purchased a 27 MW nuclear reactor from North Korea
capable of producing its own atomic weaponry.
     The American, German, and Japanese troops might someday face a
nuclear-armed Syria well purportedly defending Israel's northern border.
I&GN, December 16

                    **US JEWS BOOST GOLAN CAMPAIGN**
     American Jewish communities are helping to finance the campaign of
the Golan Heights Residents Committee to keep the region under Israeli
rule.
     A three-member committee delegation recently returned from a
lengthy visit to the US with a promise of financial backing. "We raised
substantial sums during our visit, and we received pledges of further
financial support, with which we are very happy, especially as the
fund-raising matter was a side issue,'' said Marla van Meter, a member
of the delegation.
     "Our main reason for going was to disseminate information regarding
the Golan, and to make the American Jewish public aware of the issue,''
said van Meter, a member of Kibbutz Afik. 
     She said the money would help the committee go ahead with plans to
launch a public relations campaign, during which residents of the Golan
intend to visit cities, towns and villages throughout the country.
     Chairman Eli Malka said the committee had been receiving around $1
million a year from US Jews. He said the latest visit had proven so
successful on both the fund-raising and public relations fronts that
another delegation would be sent in two weeks.
     Van Meter said they had also met politicians during their visit to
New York, Denver, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Miami and Chicago, and that the
response was encouraging. 
     MK Ariel Sharon (Likud) visited the Golan last week and met with
leaders of the campaign. 
     Sharon maintained it would be a grave mistake for Israel to request
the presence of US troops on the Golan, and said he supported the work
of Likud colleagues in the US who are lobbying against the proposal.
Jerusalem Post, Dec. 18, 

                        **CLINTON'S BRIBE FAILS**
     When President Clinton flew to from Israel to Syria, he brought a
plan with him. Well aware that the world was watching, he intended to
bring President Assad back to Israel with him in one of the most
dramatic television events ever. Such a move, he reasoned, could change
the results of the upcoming mid-term congressional and senatorial
elections.
     In order to persuade the Syrian leader to play along, Clinton made
an offer. Not only would Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights before
the next elections but when it did, with Rabin's consent, the American
government would supply the Syrians with the best weapons in its armory,
including fully equipped F-16s. Further, Clinton promised Assad that
Israel would reduce the size of its army significantly, a vow Rabin made
to the Knesset prior to the President's arrival. For the topping on the
cake, Clinton pledged to the Syrians that they could have complete
control of Lebanon without Israeli or American interference.
     Because of opposition to peace with Israel from within his army and
recalling the murder of his peace-leaning son Basam, Assad turned
Clinton down. Clinton's trip became no more than a PR exercise and had
no effect on the mid-term elections. I&GN, Dec. 16,
                                    
                       **CLOSING DOWN THE MEDIA**
     While the world press has expressed outrage at the closing of such
Palestinian newspapers as AN-NAHAR and AKHBAR AL-BALAD by Yasir Arafat
for opposing his policies, a far greater purge is taking place within
Israel without any outside notice.
     As a direct result of exposing the less savory side of the peace
process, one Israeli paper after another has been closed, supposedly-for
financial reasons. But as Reno Tsror, former editor of the weekly
SHISHI, the latest victim of the closures notes, "Well before they shut
us down, there were offers to buy us. Even after the closure, offers
came in but our publishers wouldn't negotiate with anyone."
     First to go in the campaign to suppress free expression was
Monitin, a glossy monthly known for its superb diplomatic and military
intelligence. It was Monitin which published Mubarak's threat to rearm
the Sinai if Rabin didn't honor agreements cut by Peres and the PLO
before he assumed leadership of the Labor Party and it was Monitin which
covered Rabin's first offers to Syria to forgo the Golan Heights for a
peace agreement.
     Next out was the staff of VREYMA, a Russian-language paper owned by
MAARIV, whose editorial policy was opposed to Israel-PLO accords from
their conception. As one ex-staffer explained," Rabin called Yaacov
Nimrodi (Maariv's owner) personally and asked him to act. He then fired
all the journalists and sold the paper."
     Eight months ago in the same month, HAOLAM HAZEH and HADASHOT
closed down. Since the 1960s HAOLAM HAZEH was the primary source of
investigative journalism and is credited with first breaking the story
of the stolen Yemenite children of the 1950s. HADASHOT, owned by
Haaretz, was the only paper to expose the fraud of the 1992 elections
when Shimon Peres made a deal with the PLO to recruit Israeli Arab
voters on behalf of Labor in return for a future state.
     The final blow came in August when SHISHI, HAOLAM HAZEH'S
successor, had its life cut short. Among its last cover stories was the
revelation that Rabin had agreed to stop Israel's nuclear program for a
Syrian peace agreement knowing well that Syria had just purchased a 27
MW reactor from North Korea. A few weeks earlier in probably the most
damaging article to the Rabin government, SHISHI revealed that Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres had offered the Vatican hegemony over The Old City
of Jerusalem.
     Next on the chopping block will likely be DAVAR, the Histadrut
owned paper. Its main crime was supporting the wrong candidate for the
last Histadrut elections.
     What is left are Nimrodi's MAARIV and YEDIOT ACHRONOT of the Moses
family, and HAARETZ, owned by Amos Shocken.
     HAARETZ is Labor's outlet and will not oppose the government for
ideological reasons.
     YEDIOT ACHARANOT'S intelligence ties to Labor Shimon Peres date
from at least l984 when Noah Moses lifted a phone to Peres and had his
son-in-law, the late Amiram Nir, appointed as the Prime Minister'
advisor on counterterrorism. From that position Nir became deeply
involved in the Iran Contra affair. From the early days of the current
government, Eitan Haber, one of Rabin's most trusted aides, worked in
the Prime Minister's Office while still on salary from YEDIOT ACHRONOT.
     Yaacov Nimrodi, another Iran Contra middleman, worked with the then
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin in arranging the sale of Israelis arms to
Iran. His son, Ofer, publisher of MAARIV, is currently being
investigated for putting listening devices on the phones of hundreds of
the country's political and business leaders. As media analyst Dan Caspi
notes, "Maariv is not going to go against Rabin when he is the only
thing standing between Ofer's imprisonment.
     Rabin has used his ties not just to shut down Israel's free press
but its television news as well. Labor's appointee to run the government
television station, Moti Kirschenbaum has so politicized the news that
it has lost 80% of its viewers in a year. In a country where over 85% of
the adult population used to tune into the news every evening, less
than 25% do so today. As one broadcaster told the Jerusalem weekly Kol
Ha'ir" "We were recruited to sell peace and reflect the government's
policy only."
     On one occasion last April when the evening news covered an
anti-government demonstration, Rabin had his wife call Kirschenbaum to
warn him that, "Yitzhak is really angry." Two weeks later he presented a
ten minute feature on a typical day in the prime minister's life that
was later called, "crude political propaganda" by the press and debated
in the Knesset. Even Kirschenbaum admitted it, "was too much."
     In just one year since the peace process was announced, over half
of Israel's independent publications have disappeared and the remainder
know they have to toe the line if they know what's good for them. 
I&GN, Dec. 16

                      **OUR NEW ALGERIAN FRIENDS**
     In October Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin met in Budapest
representatives from five Arab nations at the European Union's Council
on Security. The surprising participant in the meeting was Algeria. A
short time after this meeting Algerian officials and businessmen joined
their Israeli counterparts at the Casablanca summit.
     The Algerians motive in its surprising warm approach to Israel as
of late is to join the widening circle of nations committed to fighting
Islamic fundamentalism. The Algerian government seized power after
radical Islamic parties won control of the parliament in legitimate
elections.
     The Israeli Foreign Minister's policy has been to exploit the
Algerian government's tenuous hold by offering the promises of
intelligence sharing and other goodies needed to prop up the shaky
Algerian regime.I&GN, Dec. 16,

                        **NO HOMES FOR RUSSIANS**
     Russian activist Alex Tenzer has gathered indisputable proof that
the Rabin government and Housing Minister Benyamin Ben Eliezer, has
taken 1,000 apartments that were built to house Russian immigrants have
been sold on the private market and the profits of which were placed
directly in the treasury. The issue is being publicized by Member of
Knesset Mudi Zendberg who has demanded a police investigation.
     The housing for the construction of the apartments purportedly came
from American government loan guarantees secured by Yitzhak Rabin in
September l992. The very reason the government may have had to pinch
these apartments from their intended owners was the loan guarantees
themselves. Because of the extremely high rate of interest repayments,
even Finance Minister Avraham Shochat is recommending stop taking out
further loans using the guarantees. I&GN, Dec. 16,

                       **MANIPULATING THE MEDIA**
     Israel TV reporter Nitzan Chen is being invested by Israel Police
for staging a television report on the activities of the Kach party. In
Chen's report masked Kach activists in a fake police car were seen
planning an attack against Arabs. The police complaint said that so such
operation ever took place and evidence gathered by the police supports
the claim.
     Nitzan Chen is an employee of the state-run television station
which has been accused of an obvious basis. As one example of many, a
poll conducted by the Joppa organization showed that Yitzhak Rabin
appeared on the evening news fourteen times more often than the leader
of the opposition. As a result of the slanted news, ratings have dropped
on the evening news program from 85% to less than 20% in one year.
     The media cooperation with the government reached a new peak in
October when eleven members of a so-called new right-wing underground
were rounded up. Public objection to the lack of evidence led to the
release of most within weeks of their incarceration and no solid proof
of an organized armed resistance has been established since the original
media reports. I&GN, Dec. 16,

                 **ARAFAT PROPOSES GRADUAL WITHDRAWAL**
     PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat has proposed a gradual withdrawal of IDF
forces from the West Bank, beginning in cities with no Jewish settlers,
Israeli and Palestinian officials said on Friday.
     The proposal calls for the IDF to withdraw initially from Genion
and Bethlehem. 
     The officials said he made the proposal during talks last week with
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres in Stockholm. Peres said Israel would
consider the matter.
     The withdrawal would be followed by negotiations for a redeployment
throughout the West Bank, and for Palestinian elections, initially
scheduled for last July but delayed due to Israeli concern for the
security of settlers.
     PLO negotiators meeting with Israelis in Cairo for the past two
weeks have categorically rejected elections amid any sign of Israeli
army presence. 
     Settler leaders vehemently rejected the idea, particularly the
proposed withdrawal from Bethlehem, given the town's proximity to
Jerusalem, and the fact that the main road from Jerusalem to Gush Etzion
and Hebron passes through  it. Jerusalem Post, Dec. 18, 

    **HAMAS OFFERS TO TRADE SA'ADON'S BODY FOR PRISONERS' RELEASE** 
     Hamas has offered to hand over the body of Ilan Sa'adon in exchange
for the release of several prisoners held in Israeli jails.  Sa'adon was
kidnapped and murdered by Hamas operatives.
     Abed Rabbo Abu Khoussa of Hamas' military wing, Izzadin Kassam,
called the Sa'adon family lawyer, Amir Avrahami, and made the offer
Saturday, the attorney told Israel Television. 
     However, Sa'adon's sister, Mazal Huta, said she didn't believe Abu
Khoussa. ``They're all cruel people trying to torture our family. They
know [Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin won't free the people he demanded,''
she said.  
     The offer came after Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the jailed spiritual
leader of Hamas, asked his followers earlier this month to reveal where
Sa'adon is buried. 
     Sa'adon disappeared in 1989. Israel presumes he was kidnapped by
Hamas and killed. Israel in the past has refused to release prisoners in
exchange for his body. Jerusalem Post, Dec. 18, 

                       **TEACH OUR CHILDREN WELL**
     Education Minister Amnon Rubinstein is continuing in his campaign
to change the view of Israeli highschool students. The students are
having nothing to do with it. According to an October poll in Yediot
Achronot, 76% of pupils oppose any pullback on the Golan Heights
whatsoever, 70% are against further negotiations with the PLO while 51%
insist they would disobey orders to evacuate settlements in their
upcoming IDF service.
     Undaunted by the resistance, Rubinstein forced all Israeli junior
and highschool pupils to study a booklet on the Israeli-Jordanian peace
treaty on the day of the signing and stopped classes nationwide to
witness the ceremony on television.
     Rubinstein's next project was a booklet of quotations about peace
from the Torah and Koran. The project was stopped when, "there weren't
enough quotations in the Koran to fill a page." I&GN, Dec. 16,

                        **NEXT AFRICAN DISASTER**
     In the past year, the Foreign Ministry has established a disturbing
pattern. Peace activist Abie Nahan flew to an African country in
distress. Then he returns to Israel and reports to Deputy Foreign
Minister Yossi Beilin. Beilin then sends troops to the country to
oversee a humanitarian mission. Through circumstances beyond the
soldiers' control the country descends into chaos.
     The pattern was established in Somalia, then Rwanda. In November a
new victim was added to the list, namely Zanzibar. This time, after
Nathan's visit, the Foreign Ministry approved a humanitarian mission to
fight malaria.
     Africa is not the only continent Beilin has his eye on. The Deputy
Minister of Ireland, Noel Dempsey, recently flew to Israel to meet him.
Their discussions purportedly concentrated on Ireland's participation in
the as of yet unofficial UN force for "keeping peace" in the Middle
East." In return for Ireland's cooperation Beilin offered "improved
relations with Israel." I&GN, Dec. 16,

                       **PLAY IT AGAIN, YITZHAK**
     The Middle East Economic Conference held in late October in
Casablanca, Morocco, was to have been a triumph for Shimon Peres and his
program for a "New Middle East." Three thousand European and American
private businessmen and government representatives from most Middle East
countries were supposed to hammer out joint ventures to change the
economic map of the region.
     In the end, not a deal was signed and Peres's vision was called
among other things, "pie in the sky."
     However, the real attraction was apparently Rabin. He spent much of
the conference drunk and Moroccan waiters were aghast at the amount of
liquor he consumed. Well under the influence, Rabin mumbled to listeners
that, "no sane businessman would make a deal here."I&GN, Dec. 16,

                        **THE MEDIA AND THE MAN**
     Michael Ben Yair, the government's legal adviser has spent the year
since his appointment protecting his political compatriots. He has
effectively prevented just prosecution of of religious leaders in Shas
and the NRP who have rewarded the government with unexpected support or
compliance.
     His bi-partisan behavior has gone almost totally unnoticed by
Israeli Television news. One exception was legal commentator Moshe Negbi
who strenuously objected to Ben Yair's breaches of judicial conduct. His
face is no longer seen on the nation's TV screens.
     On the other hand, cooperation brought rewards for good service. In
November, Israel Television news reporter Coby Barkai was appointed
spokesman for Ben Yair. I&GN, Dec. 16, 

                  **IDF CONTINUES ITS DOWNWARD SPIRAL**
     Soldiers of the attack force which failed in its mission to rescue
kidnapped soldier Nakhshon Wachsman have been told to keep quiet about
the failed operation. The reason is that Defence Minister Rabin and
Chief-of-Staff Ehud Barak approved the fiasco and would have to pay a
political price for the conclusions of any honest investigation.
     Nonetheless, a few soldiers are speaking out. One unnamed officer
admitted, "We were totally unprepared and the orders we received might
have cost Wachsman his life."
     The soldiers rushed the house where Wachsman was kept hostage and
planted explosives on the door. Because of poor intelligence and inept
planning the charge was too weak to move the door. Another charge was
placed, this time successfully but four minutes had passed and by then
Wachsman had been murdered.
     The coverup of the rescue operation involved political distractions
and the calling into service of another elite unit which reportedly also
failed in a trial mission.
     A few days after this fiasco, another occurred in Lebanon. This
time Hizbollah soldiers succeeded for the first time in penetrating an
IDF position, causing fifteen casualties. Most guards were not at their
posts and those who were ran for the hills when the shooting started.
     Three more were added to the list of IDF dead in mid-November when
an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber exploded a checkpoint outside the Gaza
Strip. Again, the most basic precautions were not in place.
     Barak reacted by saying nothing could be done to stop a suicide
bomber. One officer disagreed, "When has the IDF said it is helpless
before? The old IDF would have found imaginative and effective solutions
even if it meant an artillery attack on Islamic Jihad headquarters in
Gaza."
     A soldier just returned from duty in Gaza added, "It's not the same
army anymore. The soldiers are forced to cooperate with the same people
who are killing them. No one believes in what they are doing and are
becoming incompetent fighters."
     The soldier's observation's are confirmed by Zvi Malchin, a former
high ranking Mossad official, who noted, "military security isn't
prepared for changes on the ground and officers haven't been retired for
years and are out of touch with their men. It is a very bad sign.
     I'm afraid there will be attacks over and over again unless Israel
immediately improves the quality of its security forces. They aren't
good enough and they don't understand the enemy."
     According to the departing commander of the Khan Yunis brigade
responsible for security on the new border with Gaza. General Meir......
"today the IDF is forced to provide security under improbably difficult
conditions. They are permitted to take only defence actions and must
trust the Palestinian police to react to attacks. Under these conditions
the army just can't provide even a perception of security.I&GN, Dec. 16,

               **PERES APOLOGIZES FOR KING DAVID REMARKS**
     Foreign Minister Shimon Peres on Friday apologized to the leaders
of two religious parties for criticizing King David in a Knesset debate
earlier this week.
     "Peres said Wednesday that he did not approve of all of King
David's actions ``on the ground, [or] on the roofs,'' the latter being a
reference to the story of his affair with Bathsheba. 
     "The National Religious Party, United Torah Judaism and Moledet
submitted motions of no-confidence to protest the remarks. In an
apparent attempt at reconciliation, Peres sent a letter of apology to
the Shas and Agudat Israel parties Friday.
     "I had no intention of insult that which is holy to Israel, or of
causing grief to rabbis and those loyal to Israel's heritage,'' the
television quoted Peres's letter as saying.
   Despite the letter, the three parties have not yet rescinded their
no-confidence motion.
   However, Shas MKs said they accepted the apology, and will not
support the no-confidence motion if it is presented Jerusalem Post,
December 18, 1994

                     **NATANYAHU BACKS THE ACCORD**
     One of the questions that confuses observers is why Likud-leader
Benjamin Netanyahu has provided such ineffective opposition to the peace
process. Under his guidance, the party has barely made a dent in the
government's program and Netanyahu himself refuses to reveal unsavory
information or to organize public demonstrations.
     In July, Netanyahu flew to London where he was instructed not to
oppose the upcoming deal with Jordan despite its most debatable clauses
concerning water and the 300 square kilometres of land given up by
Israel in the Negev Desert. The treaty went through the Knesset without
a debate.
     In August, informed sources report that Deputy Foreign Minister
Yossi Beilin arranged a meeting between Netanyahu and two financiers
Marc Rich and Pinchas Green in Geneva, both of whom are wanted by the
FBI for tax evasion. The understanding reached was that if elected in
the next elections, Netanyahu would not rescind any clause in the
government's accords with the PLO.
     As one source in the Foreign Ministry says, "Netanyahu spent five
years as the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations. The ties he made
there are stronger than his loyalty to the ideals of the Likud."
     Netanyahu was not the only Likud leader who cut a deal with Jordan
in London. According to Yossi Beilin, Yitzhak Shamir sent a personal
envoy, Mossad agent Efraim Halevy to cosign a tentative peace agreement
arranged by Shimon Peres and King Hussein in London and brokered by the
U.S. in April l987.
     Polls show that Netanyahu would lead the Likud into power but the
same source hints that the next election may not be tabulated fairly. He
claims that by the time of the elections votes will be counted by
computer for the first time and will be unprovably rigged.
     In September, two members of the left-wing Meretz party announced
that the old system of counting votes by hand was unwieldy and proposed
a new computerized system. The government is currently investigating the
feasibility of the proposed change.
     Netanyahu's change of position regarding Jordan has left many
floundering re: Palestinians. In this weeks Jerusalem Post he is quoted
as having the following dialogue with King Hussein: "Hussein told
Netanyahu he was ver6y pleased that the likud supported the peace
treaty, for in the past, members of Likud, including Netanyahu, had
insisted that 'Jordan is Palestine.'
     Netanyahu hammered home the point that this is no longer the
Likud's position. I&GN, December 16, 1994

                            NEWS FROM SHOMRON
                    **WE HAVE A SCORE TO SETTLE..."**
     "We have a score to settle with those that participated in
yesterday's attack against the IDF reserve soldier in Ramallah. We will
do what has to be done in order to apprehend them. We will not tolerate
a situation where Ramallah is closed down by them (the Arabs) on a
permanent basis" stated a senior security official in the Ramallah area.
     The IDF will do its utmost to capture all those that were involved
in yesterday's attack. Members of the Central Command are actively
searching for the suspects. Many of the suspects were videoed and their
pictures were in all the daily newspapers. Ma'ariv, 12/15.

                          **IDF SOLDIER DIES**
     A female IDF soldier that was stationed at Wingate Institute in
Netanya, was found mortally wounded.
     At 1:15pm yesterday the soldier allegedly shot herself in the
abdomen with her M-16 rifle. She was taken to Meir Hospital in Kfar
Saba. She died in surgery.
     The Military Police has opened an investigation. Their findings
will be turned over to the soldier's family and the Chief IDF
prosecutor. Ma'ariv, 12/15.

                        **BUS SERVICE TO JORDAN**
     Jordan has agreed to a request made by Minister of Transportation,
Yirael Caesar, to start up regular bus service to Jordan. 
     Three lines have been agreed upon. They are; 1) Tel-Aviv-Amman 2)
Haifa-Amman 3) Eilat-Akaba. Ma'ariv, 12/15

                       **MORE MOLOTOV COCKTAILS**
     Near the community of Ateret (Shomron-Benjamin Regional Council)
three Molotov cocktails were thrown at a Jewish vehicle. One of the
bombs entered and ignited the car. The fire was extinguished and minor
damage was reported. No injuries were reported in the attack. 
     The vehicle belonged to the Regional Council Community Center. The
driver, a sports instructor, had three children with him in the vehicle.
They were on the way to a sport activity. 
Gaalei Tzahal/Army Radio, 12/15.

                         **A UBIQUITOUS ENEMY**
     In his attempt to convince MKs, Deputy Minister of Defense Motta
Gur stated that the government must weigh all the information available.
Gur stated that a military option against Hizbullah might result in an
attack anywhere in the world. "We are dealing with an enemy that knows
no bounderies," added Gur.
     He requested that the MKs stop using verbal attacks against the IDF
General Staff for their own political gains. Gur went on to add "We are
fortunate that our senior IDF officials are not bashful. They always
come forward and present us with their various options. There cannot be
a situation where the army has a free hand. There never has and cannot
be a free hand. The political and military must consult one another.
Yediot Achronot, 12/15

                    **HAMAS PROMISES MORE CAR BOMBS**
     Over 1,000 demonstrators participated in a pro-Hamas rally
yesterday, on Hamas Day. The demonstrators shouted "We will blow up car
bombs all over Israel." Speakers at the event promised to increase the
attacks against IDF soldiers and settlers. Israeli flags were burned at
the demonstration. The event took place in close proximity to the
community of Kfar Darom. Yediot Achronot, 12/15

                      **JUST "CHASING HEADLINES"**
     Shimon Aamar, the father of the Border Policeman that was struck by
Gibril Ragoub (Head of the PLO Secret Service in Jericho) came to
Jericho with MK (Meretz) Ron Cohen to meet Mr. Rajoub. He came to
Rajoub's office to receive his personal apology.
     A spokesman for the Border Police stated that the Police were very
critical of the meeting which was arranged by MK Cohen without notifying
the Border Police. The spokesman added that they were just "chasing
headlines" and that their actions were irresponsible and would
definitely damage the position of the Border Policemen that are assigned
to the Jericho area. Shomrom News, Dec. 16, 

                        **POLITICIZING THE IDF**
     MK (Likud) Lemore Livnat demanded that MK Ron Cohen be dismissed
from his position on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
for his irresponsible actions. Livnat said that Cohen's actions had
"politicized the IDF. "Yediot Achronot, 12/15. 

           **HIZBALLAH CLAIMS IDF REFUSES PRISONER EXCHANGE**
     A spokesman for Hizbullah has announced that the Government of
Israel has refused to make a prisoner exchange.
     Hizbullah offered to release 21 SLA prisoners being held in Lebanon
for 250 prisoners being held by Israel in the Security Zone. The
Hizbullah spokesman stated that this shows the lack of concern on
Israel's part for their "partners" in Lebanon, the South Lebanese Army.
      Sheikh Hasan Nisra'lala, the Hamas spokesman stated that the "SLA
prisoners didn't interest the Israeli government." 
Yediot Achronot, 12/15.

                      **REMOVE "AHAVAT HAMOLEDIT"**
     In the pamphlet distributed by the Educational Department of the
IDF, the section that refers to the "Ahavat Hamoledet" (Love of the
Homeland) has been eliminated. This is no longer a part of the
educational ciriculum that is given over to new inductees in the IDF. 
     The order to remove the section came from the Head of the
Educational Branch, Brig.-Gen. Shlomo Ben Moshe. 
Channel 7 Radio, News Talk Show 12/16

             **TOTAL NEWS BLACKOUT OF NOBEL PRIZE CEREMONY**
     The news blackout of the demonstrations against the Nobel Prize
ceremony was total. No information reached Israel with the exception of
continual broadcasts on Channel 7 Radio, the only non-government radio
station.
     A group of approximately 500 persons flew in to represent those
among the Jewish nation that opposed the ceremony, the giving of the
Prize to a terrorist.
     Among the group was Meir Indor, representing victims of Arab
Terrorism. Many survivors and family members of victims were present as
well. Rabbi Avi Weiss of NYC, Rabbi Sholom Gold of Jerusalem, were among
some of the leaders from around the world that came to express their
opposition.
     The group attempted to enter the Synagogue in Oslo on Friday night
to participate in Sabbath services. The Israeli security agents did not
permit them to enter. They requested that the local security forces
assist them in preventing the "demonstrators" from entering the
Synagogue; the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister were currently in the
Synagogue. The "demonstrators" were not permitted to pray inside. The
group began to hold the Sabbath prayers on the sidewalk in front of the
Synagogue. Local non-Jewish residents seeing the situation began to
light torches for the worshippers. Not long after the service began, the
area was surrounded by torches with the local residents assisting them
to continue in their prayer services. 
     The media in Israel did not mention anything about demonstrations.
The government controlled press did not provide objective coverage. The
media does not have freedom of press in "democratic" Israel 1994. 
Channel 7 Radio, News Talk Show, 12/16

                      **SECURITY FORCES ON ALERT**
     Security forces are on high alert. Today marks 6 years since the
founding of Hamas and also the second anniversary of the deportation of
450 terrorists to Lebanon.
     The IDF is bracing for what may be a difficult afternoon in Gaza.
The IDF spokeman stated that they are preparing for violence following
Friday religious services. Gaalei Tzahla/Army Radio, 12/15 

                            **SIMILAR CASES**
     Similar cases to this week's attack on a soldier in Ramallah in
which an IDF soldier lost his way and was attacked, resulted in tragedy. 
     In September of 1990, IDF reserve soldier Amnon Pomerantz, obm (an
American immigrant) lost his way returning to his base in Gaza. The
crowd assaulted the vehicle and caused the soldier to lose control and
crash into a building. They then set the vehicle on fire, burning the
soldier to death.
     The second incident was in March of 1993. Mr. Yoshua Weissburger, a
resident of the Tel-Aviv area lost his way in Gaza as well. He too was
lynched and died as a result of his injuries. Yediot Achronot, 12/16.
     The IDF has stated that the reserve soldier that was attacked after
getting lost in Ramallah acted inappropriately. Since his life was in
danger he should have used his weapon and opened fire on his attackers.
If the official investigation shows that he did indeed act
inappropriately, then he (Shmuel Meiri) will be placed on trial. 
     Mr. Meiri's wife, Simmona, stated that instead of praising her
husband for acting intelligently in a very difficult situation they want
to put him on trial.
     Senior IDF sources stated that all IDF soldiers have strict orders
to open fire in the case of a life threatening situation. The spokesman
added, "If the Border Police unit had not arrived at the scene, the
soldier would have been killed by the mob."
     The pictures that appeared in the Israeli papers cannot be
repeated. " A soldier must react to the situation", added another IDF
spokesman. 
     Shmuel's sister, Matya, stated that the IDF must stand behind its
soldiers. He was on duty and they must give him support now. He should
not be abandoned.
     President Ezer Weizman stated "It is very easy to judge the
soldier. We were not in the same situation."
     MK (Tzomet) Raful Eitan; "The soldier should have used his weapon.
It may be that the confusing messages that the soldiers receive
prevented him from firing his weapon. Soldiers do not know how to react.
The IDF has tied their hands."
     MK (Likud) Ariel Sharon; "I was not there. I cannot say why he did
not shoot. It may very well be due to the confusing standing orders that
exist today. In addition to this, the higher echelons of the IDF do not
stand behind their soldiers today. A soldier that is in danger of
physical threat must utilize his weapon and try to wound his attackers."
     Minister (Labor) Ephriam Sneh, "I have no doubt that the soldier
was in a very difficult situation. The standing orders are very clear. A
soldier in a life threatening situation must open fire." 
     MK (Likud)  Ron Nachman., "What are they going to do? put him on trial
for losing his way?" Yediot Achronot, 12/16.

                  **THIRTY ARABS ARRESTED FOR ATTACK**
     Thirty Arabs have been arrested for their participation in the
attack on IDF reserve soldier Shmuel Meiri.
     The security forces are using the video films and newspaper
pictures to track down additional suspects.
     Residents of Ramallah stated that since the area has large signs
stating that private vehicles should not enter, the soldier that was
attacked is at fault as well. Yediot Achronot, 12/16
                     ABOVE FROM SHOMRON NEWS SERVICE

                     **SYRIA CONDEMNS PEACE PRIZE**
     Damascus--Tishreen Dec. 13, a Syrian government newspaper, blasted
the Nobel Peace Prize committee Saturday and derided Yitzhak Rabin,
Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat as "`enemies of peace.''
     "The PLO-Israeli deal denied the Palestinians their basic rights,
especially the right of self-determination,'' the government daily
Tishreen said in a front-page comment.
     Israeli Prime Minister Rabin, Foreign Minister Peres and PLO
chairman Arafat will receive Nobel medals in Oslo Saturday in
recognition of the 1993 deal which gave Palestinians limited self-rule
in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
     Tishreen, under the headline "Enemies of Peace,'' said those who
award the prize ``missed the mark this time.''
     "The Oslo deal goes against the real and just peace which the
people aspire to, because it gave the Israeli aggressors a free hand to
commit more crimes,'' Tishreen said.
     "The recent bloody incidents in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
and the military blockade which was imposed on the occupied  territories
is clear proof of the failure of the Oslo deal to achieve even a mere
truce...''"How could those who adopted occupation, killing, destruction
and repression be rewarded in Oslo,'' Tishreen asked.
[For a government responsible for the massacres of thousands of its own
people at Hama and Aleppo, and on the State department's list of
governments that sponsors international terrism, to pontificate about
peace and human lives is the epitome of hypocracy.] 

           **FRENCH SCHOOLS BAR 31 MOSLEM GIRLS WITH SCARVES**
     Paris--Thirty-one girls have been expelled from schools in four
French cities for wearing Islamic headscarves in class, school officials
said on Friday. 
     Sixteen pupils were barred from classes in two lycees (secondary
schools) in  the eastern city of Strasbourg and six were expelled from a
lycee in Mantes-la-Jolie, northwest of Paris, officials said.
     In addition, eight schoolgirls were barred from classes at the
Lycee Faidherbe in the northern city of Lille, the headmaster's office
said, while an  Iranian girl of 10 was banned from her primary school in
the central city of Clermont Ferrand.
     ''Under Islamic law it's obligatory to wear the headscarf from the
age of nine,'' the 10-year-old told France-3 television. ''I started
wearing it at nine and I'll continue to wear it.''
     The recent expulsions bring to 68 the number of students kicked out
of school for wearing headscarves since Education Minister Francois
Bayrou issued a ban last September on ''all ostentatious religious
symbols in public schools.'' 
     Police and young Moslems from the Lycee Saint-Exupery in
Mantes-la-Jolie clashed last month after girls were barred from classes
for refusing to take off their scarves, which in France are seen as
symbols of  Islamic fundamentalism  and the suppression of women.
     At the time, the girls tried to block the school entrance to
prevent the 1,500 other students from going to classes.
     Another nine pupils of the Lycee Faidherbe who wear headscarves
were awaiting a decision from their headmaster and 14 others from the
Lycee Saint-Exupery were to go before a disciplinary council which would
decide on whether they should be expelled.
     The Education Ministry said the ban was achieving its goal. Only
some 600 pupils were now wearing the scarves compared to about 2,000 at
the start of the  school year in September, a spokeswoman said.
     Some 150,000 to 250,000 Moslem girls attend school in France.
Reuters World Service,  Nov.  25, 

  **PAKISTAN /SPECIAL REPORT: SUSPICION HINDERS THE QUEST FOR FRIENDS**
     Two overwhelming issues, the future of Kashmir and the country's
nuclear capability, dominate foreign relations
     Long searching for a national identity, Pakistanis are now
grappling with a  more recent phenomenon: a sense of creeping
international isolation. Since returning to power 13 months ago, Benazir
Bhutto has visited some 20 countries,  charming her fellow prime
ministers and winning badly needed loans and investment. Yet there has
been little progress towards her main foreign policy objectives:
Kashmir's accession and the resumption of US aid. 
     At home, Ms Bhutto repeatedly promises that the two-thirds of the
Muslim -dominated Himalayan state of Kashmir administered by the
arch-enemy India will  soon be part of Pakistan. Overseas audiences are
reminded of the atrocities being committed by the 400,000 troops
dispatched by New Delhi to crush Kashmir's secessionists, and of UN
resolutions providing for a plebiscite to determine whether its people
want to be Indian or Pakistani.
     Ms Bhutto may prick the conscience of an internatiomal community
she says has abdicated its responsibility, but it seems to be of little
avail. Twice this year Pakistan has been obliged to scrap, for lack of
support, plans to table resolutions at the UN condemning India's
behaviour in Kashmir. 
     "The prime minister's aim in going to the United Nations is to
generate global pressure on Delhi to negotiate," said Niaz Naik, a
former Pakistani ambassador to India and the UN. "But whenever this
pressure is applied, India ups its own on the ground in Kashmir."
     Most Western governments, including the British and American,
maintain that  the plebiscite resolutions, passed after the 1947-48
Indo-Pakistan war which partitioned Kashmir, have been superseded by a
1972 pact between New Delhi and Islamabad supposedly envisaging a
bilateral resolution.
     Moreover, while human rights may have moved up the world
community's scale of preoccupations, concern about international
terrorism and  Islamic   fundamentalism  have become far more acute.
     Pakistan insists that its backing for Kashmir's Muslims is no more
than moral and diplomatic: New Delhi alleges that it is funding,
training and arming  militant separatists - who have become increasingly
active and ruthless since 1990 - in an "integral" part of India.
     Largely as a result, Islamabad spent the first half of 1993 on the
"watchlist" of governments suspected by Washington of sponsoring
international terrorism. Last month 19 members of Congress wrote to
President Bill Clinton demanding, unsuccessfully, that it should be
listed again. They cited claims by  an Indian Muslim, recently charged
in connection with the death of more than 300 people in an unsolved
series of bombings in Bombay last year, that Pakistani intelligence
orchestrated the blasts.
    They also pointed to a Washington Post article in which Pakistan's
opposition leader, Nawaz Sharif, alleged that while he was prime
minister from 1990 to 1993 a former chief of army staff, General Aslam
Beg, had proposed trafficking in heroin to underwrite covert operations.
Government officials dismiss the bombing charges as Indian propaganda
and point out that Mr Sharif denies ever having made the accusations
against General Beg. 
     More fundamentally, they are still smarting from what they see as a
conscious, opportunistic decision by Washington towards the end of the
cold war  to ditch Pakistan, traditionally its strategic ally in south
Asia, in favour of  the more powerful India.
     Indeed Pakistanis bristle with a sense of betrayal at the abrupt
American cutoff in 1990 of economic and military aid, arguing that for
the previous 10 years they had helped to fight, at considerable cost,
Washington's war against Moscow in Afghanistan.
     The ostensible reason for the rupture was the inability of
President Bush to certify to Congress that Pakistan did not possess
nuclear weapons. It has since  emerged that the CIA was convinced as
early as 1987 that the country had crossed the "nuclear threshold".
     The CIA believes Pakistan has up to 15 bombs ready to be assembled.
A year ago the agency alleged that Pakistan had "an extensive, covert
nuclear procurement operation" under which technology had been acquired
- or sought - from several countries, including the US, China and
Germany. 
    Last August officials in Berlin said they had uncovered an apparent
plot to  smuggle weapons-grade Russian plutonium to Pakistan. This
followed hard on the heels of a claim by Mr Sharif that Pakistan had an
atomic bomb. 
    Islamabad's carefully-worded position is that while it has acquired
a "certain technical capability" in the course of its "peaceful" nuclear
programme, it has decided not to use this to make a bomb.  Nor will the
capability be relinquished, Washington has been told in no uncertain
terms, while New Delhi retains its own nuclear deterrent.
     Some US officials acknowledge that instead of advancing
Washington's non -proliferation aims in south Asia, the aid suspension,
based as it is on legislation that includes Pakistan but not India, may
have stiffened Islamabad's resistance.
     Pakistanis are also bewildered by what they see as frequent shifts
in American policy. Last year, for example, Washington finally seemed to
concede that the key to nuclear disarmament in the region lay in
resolving the Kashmir issue. This year, proliferation is the priority,
and Kashmir seems to have been  forgotten.
     "Once the core issue - Kashmir - is resolved, we can sit down with
the Indians and talk about everything else," Mr Naik says. 
The Guardian,  November  29, 1994

          **PERES CONSIDERS THE CONQUERING OF CANAAN IMMORAL** 
                           by Dr. Aaron Lerner
     Did the Jewish People have a moral right to create the State of
Israel? It is far from clear that Foreign Minister Shimon Peres believes
so.  Peres revealed that according to HIS Judaism, the conquering of
Canaan by Joshua and David has the same moral standing as sleeping with
a married woman and arranging for the death of her husband!
     It is said that Israel is one of the few places in the world where
people can get into angry arguments over things which happened millennia
ago.  The hot topic on the Israeli talk shows today was  King David and
Bat-Sheva.  It all started when Foreign Minister Shimon Peres attacked
King David's morals in a Knesset Debate on Wednesday December 14th.   
     Knesset Members attacked Rabin for questioning the morals of King
David but they missed the point.  Peres attacked King David for lack of
morals because he was a conqueror - not because of what he did with
Bat-Sheva.  And this attack on King David (and Joshua) is relevant to
the present day.  Because if,  as Peres believes,  the conquering of
Canaan by the Children of Israel was immoral then certainly there is no
moral basis for the existence of the Jewish State today.
     Here is the story:
     In the course of an exchange over the Nobel Peace Prize,  MK Shaul
Guttman from the Moledet Party said that " [King] David and Joshua
ordered us to conquer the land."  Peres took up that challenge and
replied that "Moshe [Moses] gave us the Torah.  Let's not ask what David
did on the ground and what he did on the rooftops."
     The implication and context was clear:  the conquering of Canaan by
David has the same moral standing as sleeping with a married woman and
arranging for the death of her husband!
     Shimon Peres is not alone in trying to mold Jewish history to meet
his needs.  Minister Shulamit Aloni, for example, has frequently said
that she wants to deemphasize Joshua.  
     Back to Peres: He tries to give the impression that Moses is
reflected only by the words "Love your neighbor as yourself" and "Your
were strangers in Egypt."  The fact is that Moses' approach to relations
with the nations in the Middle East would not find much support from
Peres.  Consider for example Numbers XXI  in which Moses drives out the
Amorites from Jazer, takes over the cities and then proceeds to battle
against Bashan at Edrei where the Children of Israel attacked the people
"until there were none left and possessed his [Bashan's] land."  And all
of these areas were EAST of the Jordan!
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate, IMR&A

   **STRAIGHT TALK TO AMERICANS ABOUT AMERICAN FORCES ON THE GOLAN** 
     Rumors are flying that Israel and Syria are close to finalizing
details of the withdrawal from the Golan Heights.  I use the term
"finalizing details" because it is common knowledge that the Rabin
government long ago advised Syria that Israel would withdraw from the
Golan. Negotiations now center on security arrangements and the schedule
of the withdrawal.
     But Rabin has a problem:  He promised that he would bring the
agreement to the public for their approval.  And the polls show (Rabin
has polls run for him each week) that, as the slogan goes, "the people
are with the Golan."  The military experts - including the Chief of
Staff - are also "with the Golan."  
     The public's position should come as no surprise:
     The Golan is not some far off mysterious location.  Every teenager
visits the Golan Heights as part of the circuit of annual school trips. 
The Heights are also a major tourist attraction both for skiing in the
winter and hiking year round.  As a result of this familiarity,  the
average Israel is better informed of the strategic importance of the
Golan Heights than he is about any other location in the country.
     Israelis know that from the Heights IDF forces train their sights
on Damascus.  They know that it is not good will but rather the threat
on Syria's capital city that has kept this border quiet for a
generation.  The people of Israel have climbed the Heights on foot and
by car.  No one has to explain to them how hard it would be to retake
the Golan under fire if the IDF withdrew.
     So Rabin has his work cut out for him.  
     This is where American troops come into the picture.  Rabin wants
American GI's sitting on the Golan to reassure the Israeli public.  
     Now what exactly are the troops going to be doing?  On his recent
trip to the States, Prime Minster Rabin explained that the American GI's
will be "observers".  In other words, if the Syrians start rolling
towards the Golan, the only thing these forces are expected to do is to
report the movement.  They aren't supposed to stand in the way to try to
prevent, or even delay, the Syrian forces.  Instead they are to take
cover, sit back and keep reporting.  
     That news of the impending destruction of Israel will come from
American observers is not a particularly comforting thought.  And
considering that most Israelis (both civilian and military) have serious
doubt as to whether IDF would be able to make it back up the Golan in
time to head off advancing Syrians, it certainly isn't enough to
convince the average Israeli to support withdrawal from the Golan.  
     This is where the implied meaning of the American troops comes into
play.  While Rabin may tell Americans that their boys will be observers, 
the understanding here is that they will be hostages.  Simply put, 
supporters of withdrawal from the Golan are banking on the assumption
that the Syrian can't sweep through the Golan without killing a lot of
American boys.  And, the argument goes, the U.S. would mercilessly
punish Syria for the loss of loss of American lives.
     Now its not that Rabin thinks that an American attack on Syria
would turn a war in the Jewish State's favor.  After all,  any American
response - short of a nuclear one - would come too late to help Israel. 
The prime minister hopes that Syria is also convinced that an American
response would be devastating.  
     Here we are dealing with what in probability is called a
"conditional probability":  IF Syria is convinced that it cannot invade
without killing a lot of American observers AND if Syria is convinced
that the U.S. would respond to such losses by launching a devastating
reprisal attack against Damascus THEN Syria won't attack. 
     But there is no evidence to demonstrate that Assad is convinced on
either point.  If the American GI's are only observers and do not block
the roads then why would the Syrians have to kill any of them?  By the
same token,  it could just as easily be argued, in light of recent
history, that the American response to the loss of boys will be to get
out as quickly as possible rather than to fight.
     The above leads to the worse possible outcome:  Israel withdraws
because it is convinced that the Syrians won't dare risk the wrath of
America and the Syrians invade because they are confident that they can
get away with it.  
     Israel needs a solid arrangement with Syria and not one which
relies on a combination of psychology and wishful thinking.  To insure
the stability of the region, the U.S. should refuse to be a party to
such complicated fantasies. Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate IMR&A

               **THE PEACE PROCESS -- FROM JOY TO TEARS?**
                            by Joseph Lerner*

     To surmount the current major snag in PLO - Israeli talks "Caving
In To Hamas" (December 8 editorial, The Washington Post) advises Israel
"demand that the PLO tighten up its policing of Palestinian killers". It
also advises  "Palestinians to expect Israel to keep its promise to peel
back the occupation of the West Bank".  Israel's "peel back" is ready,
subject to security conditions clearly embodied in the Israel PLO
agreements.
     In the Cairo Agreement of May 4,1994  the PLO pledged there would
be a single armed force, a heavily armed Palestinian Police, and that
only it would be empowered to have or obtain weapons, ammunition and
explosives. The Agreement authorizes four components of the Palestinian
Police and that membership in the force is contingent on Israeli
approval. Rather than comply, Arafat has moved in the opposite direction
by deputizing holders of illegal arms who support him, by adding an
unauthorized fifth branch to the Palestinian Police -- an armed morality
unit to be staffed by armed members of Hamas, and by failing to submit a
substantial number of police names for Israeli approval.
     Far more important than the "policing of Palestinian killers" is
the elimination of widespread Palestinian possession of illegal weapons
and explosives. Such weapons are regularly displayed in public. The
elimination of illegal arms is a primary responsibility of government. 
     Some Palestinians say such a round up would result in civil war. It
certainly won't be easy, but the effort must be made. The Palestinian
Police are heavily armed to support Arafat's authority. Unless he exerts
it to round up illegal arms, in the very near future these will endanger
the stability of the Palestinian government and certainly will have to
be taken into account in Israel's military preparedness and defenses
against terrorism.   
     There are additional considerations:  Arafat's failure to even
begin to round up illegal weapons and explosives has brought with it an
increase in terrorism leading Israel to severely reduce the  number of
Palestinians working in Israel. This has increased economic hardship
which fuels terrorism.  Also,  illegal weaponry deters investment. While
absence of illegal arms during an election was not spelled out in the
Cairo Agreement, it was reasonable to expect such weapons and explosives
to have been eliminated by election time. Their presence is incompatible
with sound elections. 
     Doubtless Arafat recognizes the political potential of continuing
terrorism facilitated by illegal weapons.It has already spurred some
Israeli policy makers to cave in and favor, contrary to agreements,
removing isolated settlements and, because the Palestinians appear
unable to satisfy the interim stage, to proceed directly to the final
agreements.
     Ominously, prospects for the removal of illegal arms and explosives
are not good, a situation for which the United States shares
responsibility.  Under the provisions of the "PLO Commitments Compliance
Act" and the "Middle East Facilities Act" the U.S. links the
availability of financial assistance to PLO compliance with its
commitments in the peace process. The public report on such compliance
was issued by the U.S. State Department on December 1. The PLO's failure
to even attempt to comply with it's commitments regarding elimination of
illegal arms and explosives is not mentioned. Instead, the report gives
the PLO a tender gloss enabling continued assistance.
     Unwillingness to face up to Palestinian responsibilities regarding
illegal arms and explosives will turn the initial euphoria of the
Palestinian - Israeli agreements into dreadful disappointment.  The
psalmist sings: "Those that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Though he
goes on his way weeping . .. he shall come home with joy bringing in the
sheaves."  Today we face the reverse. The peace process which began in
joy will end in tears unless the PLO meets its challenging commitment to
eliminate illegal weapons and explosives.   (December 3,1994)
_________
*Joseph Lerner, a former Washingtonian, in Jerusalem,Israel heads
IMRA-Independent Media Review and Analysis.

YESHA NEWS SERVICE, SUNDAY 18 DECEMBER 1994
(In conjunction with Arutz 7)

A WEEKEND OF TERROR IN YESHA
	IDF soldier Mori Peri, 35, from Yavneh was shot in the leg 
and lightly wounded and another soldier grazed on the cheek 
Saturday night by a PLO "policeman".  Peri will undergo surgery 
tonight to repair the damage.  Initial reports are that the PLO 
terrorist approached an IDF checkpoint at the Sufa junction in 
southern Gaza and said he would count to ten and then begin 
shooting if the IDF soldiers didn't leave the checkpoint.  
However, he began firing his rifle immediately and wounded 
this one soldier before he himself was shot and seriously 
wounded by other IDF soldiers at the checkpoint.  Arutz 7 
correspondents remind us that this is not the first occasion that 
the PLO "police" have been involved in attacks against Jews.  
During the riots at the Erez checkpoint several months ago, 
Jackie Attias, a Border Patrolman, was shot and killed by 
"Palestinian police" gunfire.  17 other soldiers and Border 
Patrolmen were wounded at the time.  [Yediot Ahronot, 18 
December]
	Also Friday afternoon, reserve officer Lt. Maimon Ben-
David, 39, was shot an injured in his arm and shoulder as he 
was driving from his home in Psagot toward Jerusalem.  The 
Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 
(PFLP) has claimed responsibility for the attack.  As Ben-David 
was waiting at the intersection where the road to Psagot meets 
the main road leading from Jerusalem to Schem, a PFLP 
terrorist walked up to Ben-David's car and shot him several 
times.  The terrorist then turned and fled.  This attack occurred 
just a kilometer from the site where Shmuel Meiri was attacked 
and nearly killed last Wednesday afternoon in the center of 
Ramallah.  [Israel Radio, 16 December]

7TH ANNIVERSARY HAMAS RALLY HELD IN GAZA
	Some 12,000 Hamas activists rallied in Gaza city Friday to 
mark the 7th anniversary since the founding of this terror 
organization.  Banned from carrying and firing weapons, many 
of the activists brought unloaded guns and tapes of gunshots 
which they played during the rally.  The Hamas demonstrators 
hung banners which read "We count the gates of paradise with 
the skulls of Jews" at the entrance to the stadium where the 
rally was held, and burned Israeli and US flags.  They also 
staged a dramatic reenactment of the kidnapping and murder of 
Sgt. Nahshon Wachsman z"l, who was killed by the Hamas in 
October.  This performance, which has become standard at all 
Hamas rallies, brought on roaring laughter and hysterical 
applause.  [Jerusalem Post, 18 December]

FATAH ACTIVISTS ARRESTED IN RAMALLAH
	Five to ten Fatah activists have been arrested in 
connection with the attack on IDF reserve officer Shmuel Meiri 
last Wednesday afternoon in Ramallah.  It has become clear, 
sources say, that Fatah was responsible for organizing and 
orchestrating the attack [Arutz 7, 18 December].  Meiri, who lost 
his way in Ramallah and ended up in the central square of the 
town, was attacked by a mob of Arabs who beat him with metal 
batons and boulders, almost killing him.  Photographs taken by 
journalists at the scene of the attempted lynch have lead Israeli 
security forces to those who were guilty of participating in the 
attack.  [Ma'ariv, 18 December]
	Security forces are having a difficult time bringing to 
justice Arab rioters responsible for attacking Jews in Ramallah 
this past month.  One Jew who was attacked last month in 
Ramallah by a mob of Ramallah residents says that only one of 
the hundreds of his attackers has been identified, arrested and 
brought to trial.  [Arutz 7, 15 December]
	Islamic Jihad leader Sheikh Abdullah Sheami of Gaza has 
called on members of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to punish 
those who were involved in the attempted lynch of Shmuel 
Meiri for letting him get away alive.  "It is upon the leaders of 
Hamas and the Islamic Jihad to punish those weak people that 
showed mercy against  the Zionist enemy in Ramallah and didn't 
spill his blood...  In Gaza this wouldn't have happened," 
exclaimed the Sheikh.  [Yediot Ahronot, 16 December]

IDF: TERROR WILL CONTINUE IN GAZA
	According to Israel security and IDF sources, terror in the 
Gaza strip will continue.  A worrisome trend is clearly 
identifiable in the Gaza strip, state security forces in their semi-
annual report.  There has been a dramatic increase in shooting 
incidents, as well as suicide and other explosive-related terror 
attacks and members of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad are roving 
armed and unhindered throughout the autonomous areas.  
[Yediot Ahronot, 18 December]  Arutz 7 says that Southern 
Command sources report 63 cases of shooting at IDF targets in 
Gaza in the six months following the establishment of autonomy 
in comparison to 15 shooting attacks against similar targets in 
the six months previous to autonomy.  Their report also states 
that autonomy areas have become places of refuge for 
terrorists.  [18 December]

HAMAS OFFERS DEAL FOR RETURN OF SA'ADON'S BODY
	Abed Rabo Abu-Hussa, a member of the Hamas terror cell 
responsible for the murder of Ilan Sa'adon five and a half years 
ago has offered to reveal the location of Sa'adon's body in 
return for the release of a number of Hamas prisoners currently 
being held in Israeli jails.  Abu-Hussa's offer was made 
following a meeting held between Sa'adon's family and Hamas 
spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin last week.  Abu-Hussa 
had made a similar offer months ago, but the exchange was not 
accepted by Israeli officials.  Abu-Hussa was interviewed 
tonight by Israeli television from his hide-out in Gaza and said 
that rather than an exchange, it would be a "humanitarian 
gesture" on the part of Hamas to release Sa'adon's body.  [Yediot 
Ahronot, 18 December]

ARAFAT'S LATEST PROPOSAL ON IDF "REDEPLOYMENT"
	PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat suggested in his 
conversation with Shimon Peres following their acceptance of 
the Nobel Peace Prize that the IDF be allowed to remain in Arab 
areas located near Jewish communities.  Arafat insists the IDF to 
begin their withdrawal from all remaining areas now, beginning 
with Bethlehem and Jenin.  In an emergency meeting in Efrat 
last Thursday evening, residents of the Gush Etzion block 
warned the government that if the IDF was to redeploy out of 
Bethlehem, they would personally take up IDF positions there.  
In an interview tonight on Arutz 7, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Rabbi 
of Efrat, reiterated this point, asserting that it was a matter of 
protecting lives.   [Ma'ariv, 16 December & Yesha Council, 18 
December]


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     *** ISRAEL TO FIRST SET SCHEDULE FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM GOLAN ***
     *** THEN DECIDE ON DEPTH OF DEMILITARIZED ZONE INSIDE ISRAEL***

 In the December 23rd issue of "Haaretz", diplomatic correspondent, Aluf
Ben, reported that after consultations with Secretary of Sate Warren
Christopher,  Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Syrian President Hafez
Assad have agreed to postpone negotiations regarding the depth of the
Israeli withdrawal and the nature of peace and normalization with Syria. 
Instead, negotiations will focus on setting up the schedule for the
withdrawal of Israel from the Golan.
     How can Israel agree to a detailed schedule for the withdrawal of
forces from the Golan when the depth of the Israeli withdrawal will only
be set in later negotiations?   
     The solution to this puzzle is simple:  It is common knowledge that
Yitzhak Rabin has already agreed to a complete withdrawal from the Golan
so the negotiating teams have no problem addressing the question of
setting a schedule for this withdrawal.  But the Israeli pull-back down
from the Heights will not be the final Israeli withdrawal within the
framework of a peace agreement with Syria.
     One element of any peace agreement between Israel and Syria will be
the establishment of a demilitarized zone.  This will be either a single
band in which no military equipment is present or a series of bands with
various limitations on the deployment of forces in each bands.  
     In the negotiations to date,  Syria has demanded complete symmetry
in the demilitarized zones.  For every demilitarized kilometer inside
Syria, they want a demilitarized kilometer in Israel. 
     Israel would prefer to have asymmetric zones so that in return for
a small demilitarized zone in Israel, the Syrians would keep their
forces out of a considerably larger area.
     As it stands today,  if Israel were to accept the Syrian demands,
the IDF would withdraw to Haifa, leaving the entire Galil undefended.
     Some commentators have noted that given the dynamics of the
negotiations and the performance record of the Rabin government in
negotiations with the PLO, it is not beyond the realm of possibilities
that Israel finds itself committed to a timetable to withdraw from the
Golan without ever having succeeded in negotiating a reasonably workable
demilitarization.   Under certain circumstance, given the record of the
Labor-Meretz government and considering its desire to establish
"irreversible facts on the ground" before the 1996 elections,  it is
possible that the IDF may actually withdraw from the Golan and leave the
Syrian troops where they are.  
     It should be noted that since the Golan Heights will be considered
part of Syrian territory,  it is possible that the Heights may turn out
to be the only demilitarized area on the Syrian side and that in return
for this, Israel will be expected to withdraw to some point in the
Galil.

             *** LABOR MINISTER:  OUR PARTY IS CONFUSED ***
     Speaking on Thursday at a meeting of the Central Committee of the
ruling Labor Party,  Labor Health Minister Ephraim Sneh called for an
urgent meeting of the Party Committee to reestablish the positions of
the Party in order to end the confusion within the Party over its views
[regarding resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict]. "Haaretz"  23.12.94
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate  
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)

    December 23, 1994..20 Teves 5755..Number 276..Update from Israel

    In yet another attempt to close down the Channel 7 Radio station the
    government of Mr. Yitzchak Rabin has made a plea to the government of
    Malta.

    Channel 7 is the only non-government controlled radio station in the
    country. Because the government will not grant the station an
    operating license, the station broadcasts from a ship outside of
    tertitorial waters. To date the ship sailed under Malta registry.

    The Foreign Ministry sent an official request to the government of
    Malta asking that they refuse to renew the registration application of
    the Channel 7 ship. The government of Malta complied with Israel's
    request. The management of Channel 7 has found another country that
    was willing to register their ship. The broadcasts continue.

    The government continues to do everything within its power to curtail
    the voice of the opposition even at the expense of freedom of speech.
    (Channel 7 Radio..12/23..9:00am-10:00am).

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            **PLO SUICIDE BOMBER ATTACKS JERUSALEM BUS STOP**
     In the terrorist bombing that took place today (Sunday), 25.12.94,
at approximately 06:10 hours, at a bus stop outside Binyanei Hauma in
Jerusalem, twelve people were injured; no one was killed.  The injured
have been taken to Hadassah-ein Kerem hospital.
(communicated by ERIC BAR-CHEN, POLICE FOREIGN PRESS LIAISON) 94.12.25
[Reports coming in are that the bomber is a member of the PLO "Police" force.]

                          **WE WERE FORTUNATE**
     Police Commander, Inspector Assaf Hafetz, reported to Gaalei Tzahal
(Army Radio) that it was very fortunate that the results of this morn
ing's Jerusalem blast were not much worse. The Inspector stated that by
seeing the damage to the concrete bus stop he knew that we were dealing
with a "very powerful" blast.
     The Inspector added that it was very fortunate that the bus which
is believed to have been the primary target, moved up a few meters just
seconds before the blast. There was no damage to the bus at all. The
adjacent concrete bus stop was totally destroyed as a result of the
explosion. Gaalei Tzahal, Dec. 25,  (SNS)

                     **SECRET TALKS IN WASHINGTON**
     Before Syrian and Israeli diplomats resume peace talks next week in
Washington -- senior military officials of both  countries met in the
U.S. capital.  V-O-A's Victor Beattie reports it signals -- what a U-S
spokesman calls -- a new seriousness to advance the peace process:
      The talks are said to have occurred this week (Thursday) at the
U-S State Department.  U-S officials remain tightlipped about the
meeting between Israeli Chief of Staff General Ehud Barak and his Syrian
counterpart -- General Hikmet Shihabi. Voice of America, Dec. 23, 1994

                      **HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES**
     Heavy fighting continued in the security zone on Saturday following
a series of Hizbullah attacks on IDF positions early Friday morning, in
which two IDF soldiers were killed and seven wounded. 
     Hizbullah said the attacks were in retaliation for the car-bomb
blast in its Beirut stronghold last Wednesday, in which a senior member
of the organization and three other persons were killed. Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin met with senior IDF officers in the North on Friday to
assess the situation, but gave no indication that a major offensive
against Hizbullah is in the offing. 
     The two soldiers killed in the early-morning fighting were St.-Sgt.
Natanel Rosenthal, 20, from Herzliya and Sgt. Guy Suda'i, 19, from Tel
Aviv. 
     The seven wounded in Hizbullah's bombardments were treated in the
field before being evacuated by helicopters to Haifa's Rambam Hospital.
Two, who suffered moderate wounds, were reported in satisfactory condi
tion and the rest in good condition, suffering from light shrapnel
wounds. 
     Six IDF soldiers have been killed and 18 wounded in the wave of
attacks by Hizbullah and rejectionist Palestinian groups within the past
month. During the same period, nine South Lebanese Army soldiers have
been killed and several others wounded in roadside bomb and long-range
shooting attacks. 
     The casualty figures are among the highest ever in the security
zone in such a short period. 
     "We are suffering blows, and we are hurting greatly," Deputy
Defense Ministry Mordechai Gur told Army Radio. "We don't deny this,
we're not hiding it."
     Hizbullah has vowed to continue the escalation until "there is a
procession of coffins from south Lebanon into Israel."
     Rabin, however, rejected calls to expand the security zone in order
to push the terrorists further back. Such a move would require deploying
more IDF troops in the area, which in turn could ultimately result in
more casualties, he said on his visit to the North. "In my opinion, the
policies [on Lebanon] are, in principle, correct," Rabin said. "The main
aim is to prevent disruptions to the activities and lives of residents
in the North and to residents of the zone, and minimize harm to them. 
     "Any attempt to reach operations that would expand the zone would
demand more forces and would allow [Hizbullah] more room to operate in
the area, and the number of casualties would increase without changing a
thing with regard to the northern settlements," he said. Rabin recalled
there had been attempts in the past to put an end to the terrorist
threat emanating from Lebanon. 
     "We destroyed Palestinian terrorism, but in its place has grown a
terror that is more difficult and fierce, which is Lebanese and not
alien to Lebanon, headed mainly by Hizbullah, as well as rejectionist
Palestinian groups which are cooperating with Hizbullah. Rabin did not
blame the Syrians for the recent escalation of violence, but said they
could curb Hizbullah and other terrorist groups operating from areas
under their control. Jerusalem Post, Dec. 25,

          **BARAK DISCUSSES MILITARY NEEDS WITH SYRIAN C.G.S.**
     Israeli Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Ehud Barak and his Syrian
counterpart, Gen. Hikmat Shihabi, on Friday discussed the main princi
ples of a possible security arrangement between the two countries,
including mutual demilitarization of territories, a senior diplomatic
source said on Saturday. 
     Two other Israeli generals, Maj.-Gen. Uri Saguy, head Intelligence
Branch, and Maj.-Gen. Danny Yatom, the military secretary to the Prime
Minister and Defense Minister, participated in the talks, apparently
held in Washington over the weekend. 
     Saguy and Yatom raised the issue of Syria's reluctance to contain
Hizbullah and curb its activities, but their Syrian counterparts denied
any involvement in south Lebanese affairs. 
     Ambassador to the US Itamar Rabinovich and Syrian Ambassador Walid
Mualem also attended parts of the meeting. Rabinovich told Israel Radio
on Saturday the talks were held in a "good and purposeful" atmosphere,
but the two sides "do not have an open and friendly relationship."
     According to Defense Ministry sources, Barak, who returned to
Israel on Saturday, conveyed Israel's military requirements to Shihabi. 
     The source confirmed that the two discussed demilitarization of
areas in the Golan Heights and lying east of the Golan in Syrian terri
tory, and force reductions in areas adjacent to those marked for demili
tarization.  Jerusalem Post, Dec. 25,

 *** C.O.S. EHUD BARAK:  GROUND FORCES DOMINATE FUTURE BATTLES ***     
        *** OUR SURROUNDINGS REMAIN THREATENING AND VIOLENT *** 
     In an interview published in the daily Yediot Ahronot on December
23rd,  IDF Chief of Staff Ehud Barak made several observations which
conflict with the New Middle East envisioned by Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres.  While Peres speaks of a future in which the Middle East will be
something akin to Western Europe, Barak told reporter Ron Ben Yishai
that "We [Israeli society] tend to ignore the fact that our surroundings
remain dangerous and violent."   
     Barak also contradicted the popular myth proffered by Shimon Peres,
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and others who maintain that in the "mis
sile age" strategic depth is no longer relevant since ground forces no
longer play a critical role.  When asked by Ben Yishai what force will
dominate the future battlefield,  Barak did not even mention the mis
siles but rather said "I am certain, that in the foreseeable future, the
heavy armored units will stand in the center of our land battles with
tanks playing the key role,  this without denigrating of course the
critical role of the air force and to a certain degree also the navy."
IMRA, Dec. 25, 1994

  ** BRONFMAN GIVES AIPAC 130 THOUSAND TO SUPPORT GOLAN WITHDRAWAL ** 
     The business newspaper Globes reported on December 12th that Edgar
Bronfman has contributed $ 130 thousand to AIPAC as part of a request
that AIPAC renew its activity among American politicians against right
wing lobbying on the issue of the stationing of American troops on the
Golan.  Bronfman is counted among the supporters of the policies of
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.  IMRA, Dec. 23, 

                 **KILLING CONTINUES IN SECURITY ZONE**
     Two IDF soldiers, Sgt. Netaniel Rosental, obm, and Guy Sudai, obm,
were killed Friday morning in a clash with Hizbullah gunmen in the
Eastern sector of the Security Zone.
     Seven soldiers were injured in the attack. Two of the injured are
listed in "moderate" condition and the remaining five are in "light"
condition. All of the injured were flown by a medivac chopper to Haifa's
Rambam Hospital.
     The battle took place at 7:00am Friday morning. Hizbullah terror
ists opened fire on IDF outposts with 120mm artillery as well as with
"light weapons." Golani soldier Netaniel Rosental was killed in the IDF
outpost. Guy Sudai, a member of an elite Air Force unit died of his
wounds on the way to Rambam Hospital. All of the seven injured soldiers
suffered shrapnel injuries while they were inside the IDF outpost.
     The mortars and light weapons fire was part of an overall plan to
take over the IDF outpost. The effort failed according to senior IDF
sources in the Northern Command. Reports state that light weapons were
fired at the outpost from a distance of 400 meters. The assault on the
outpost was filmed by the gunman. IDF soldiers returned fire with
artillery. IDF sources reported at least one Hizbullah gunman was killed
and several injured.
     At approximately 3:00 pm on Friday afternoon Prime Minister/Defense
Minister Yitzchak Rabin arrived in the area. He was accompanied by
senior IDF officers of the Northern Command in order to obtain a first
hand picture of the situation. Yediot Achronot, Dec. 25. (SNS)
     Twenty One soldiers have been killed in South Lebanon since the
beginning of 1994. Thirty five soldiers have been injured in clashes
with Hizbullah gunmen. Over 100 terrorists have been killed. Yediot
Achronot, Dec. 25 (SNS)

              **IDF WILL NOT SHOOT AT INNOCENT CIVILIANS**
     IDF Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ehud Barak returned from Washington
yesterday after meeting with Syrian Army Officers. Barak stated that "we
will continue to go after the Hizbullah terrorists." Barak added that
the IDF will not shoot into the villages where the terrorists are
seeking refuge. The IDF will not shoot at innocent civilians. 
Yediot Achronot, Dec. 25, 
[A curious comment as Muslim terrorists have historically hidden among
innocents, and we question why would the IDF shoot at civilians (under
any circumstances) if terrorists are present. This will only encourage
terrorists to hide among the civilian population] 

                 **IDF CLOSES ROAD TO PREVENT FRICTION**
     The IDF closed down road number 90 on Friday to prevent any fric
tion during the funeral service for the slain Hamas terrorist, Abrihim
Yagi, was killed on Thursday while on Road #90 heading towards the
center of Jericho. The PLO Authority blamed Israel for the murder of the
"Holy" Yagi.
     Abrihim Yagi was an active member of the Hamas death squad, Izzadin
El Kassim. The funeral service drew a crowd of about 3,000. At the head
of the crowd was none other than Gibril Ragoub, Director of the PLO
Secret Service.
     An IDF spokesman denied any IDF involvement in the assassination of
the terrorist. Yediot Achronot, Dec. 25

                       **ISRAELI ARABS WELCOMED**
     Dr. Nabil Sha'at stated that any Israeli Arab that would like to
relocate to the Autonomy area under the Government of Yassir Arafat
would be welcomed. Dr. Sha'at added that "the Israeli Arabs are an
integral part of the Palestinian Nation. They just have Israeli Citizen
ship. I was born in Tzfat (Safed)" added the Dr. "If only I never had
left things would be different today." Yediot Achronot, Dec. 25

                      **JERUSALEM VOTE THIS WEEK**
     Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin has stated that he will oppose all
efforts to introduce legislation on the proposed "Jerusalem Law". The PM
stated that this is another effort to sabotage the peace process. He
added that he understood the concern for Jerusalem but he has always
stated that Jerusalem is and shall remain the Capital of Israel.
     The Jerusalem Law was introduced by MK (Likud) Uzi Landau and MK
(NRP) Yitzchak Levi. The law states that any change in the status of
Jerusalem will require a majority of 80 MKs. (2/3 of the 120 member
Knesset) Yediot Achronot, Dec. 21, 

                        **REST IN PEACE PROCESS**
     In early August, attorney Shmuel Levinson was murdered in his
apartment in the well-to-do Jerusalem neighborhood of Rehavia by,
according to police, burglars. An officer at the scene estimated that
Levinson must have put up a strong struggle and it would have taken two
or three men to subdue him long enough to stab him to death.
     The month before, State Comptroller Miriam Ben Porat exonerated
Police Minister Moshe Shachal of charges that he ordered former Chief of
Israel Police, Yaacov Terner, to quash the investigation of Interior
Minister Arye Deri. Terner hired Levinson to reverse the decision and
presented him with documentation proving Shachal's guilt. A week
before his murder, Levinson threatened Ben Porat with a suit in the
Supreme Court if she did not review Terner's proof.
     Terner was one of the first people to be informed of Levinson's
murder. On the evening of the tragedy, he called Levinson to confirm
their next morning's appointment.
     Terner's reaction was quick and public. He said, "It is highly
unlikely that men intent on burglary are going to commit a murder.
Attorney Levinson was killed because he was representing me." In es
sence, Terner accused Shachal of murder.
     Within a week, the police turned up a suspect, a twenty-five year
old Arab junkie, with a record of petty theft. As his father said," My
son had been on narcotics since he was sixteen and was too sick and weak
to kill anyone. He is also too sick to defend himself."
     Even with a suspect in custody, Levinson's murder is steeped in
mystery. He had been called by the army for a month's reserve duty and
as was his habit, sent his family to relatives while he was away. The
day his duty was to begin, it was cancelled and Levinson was left alone
in his apartment. The "burglars" managed to kill him without attracting
any attention and this indicates to Terner that the intruders were
trained killers.
     Had Levinson succeeded in exposing Shachal and Ben Porat, the
government would have faced an enormous crisis incriminating its police
minister and the supportive Shas Party. Yet, Levinson's death is but one
in a long list of mysterious demises connected to the peace process.
     It is an open secret among the Israeli and foreign media that
Jorgan Holst, the former Norwegian Foreign Minister and the arbitrator
between Israel and the PLO did not die aged 57 naturally. His death is
commonly blamed on knowing too much about what was agreed to at Oslo.
     Mordechai Nessiyahu, the director of Bet Beryl, the Labor Party
publishing house, also knew a great deal. According to his information,
Shimon Peres had no knowledge of the Oslo negotiations and has totally
falsified his role in the peace process. A week before his revisionist
history of the Oslo agreement was to be published, his thirty year old
son died. According to his girlfriend who witnessed
the loss, "He was sitting with me and then he just keeled over dead. His
heart just stopped."
     A week after PM Rabin's trip to Moscow last June, the Israeli
Ambassador to Russia, Chaim Bar Lev was dead. Bar Lev, a Peres ap
pointee, reportedly opposed military agreements reached between Rabin
and Yeltsin.
     The same day Bar Lev was buried, so was Aharon Yariv, Chief of
Military Intelligence during Rabin's tenure as IDF chief-of-staff. Yariv
was director the Jaffee Institute think tank at Tel Aviv University and
was releasing a great deal of detailed data exposing the intentions of
Rabin's diplomacy. I&GN, Dec. 25, 

                         **THIRSTING THEM OUT** 
     Jewish residents of the Ramallah area settlements of Ofra, Pisgat
and Beit El are very thirsty and sick. Since the summer began, water has
been cut off from the settlements dozens of times without warning for
periods of up to twelve hours. And what water did arrive wasn't worth
drinking. By the end of August, fourteen residents had come down with
water-borne hepatitis.
     At that time, the residents tried to strike back. After a fifty
hour cutoff, a thousand people demonstrated outside the area Civil
Administration building where they were politely informed that their
water supply was the responsibility of a Ramallah-based Arab utility and
that's who they should be complaining to. I&GN, Dec. 25, 

                          **IDF UNDER THE GUN**
     Seldom has the IDF been under more criticism from within than in
this past summer. The assaults have come from all quarters and include: 
     - A "high ranking officer" quoted in Haaretz noted that the new IDF
personnel program calls for the hiring of hundreds of new officers in
1995. Yet because the mandate for the last program, which calls for mass
firings, has not ended, hundreds of officers are being released.
     The officer said,"The IDF is acting like a fool."
     - A report by the Gush Katif Council claims that dozens of Border
Guards, both officers and men, have requested transfers from shared
patrols with Palestinian policemen. Citing numerous attacks against them
which went unpunished by the police, the soldiers feel, "it is humiliat
ing for the IDF to continue the patrols." 
     - It is well known that the IDF is deliberately not reporting
casualties near the autonomous entities for fear of a public backlash.
On August 18, six soldiers were injured when their vehicle overturned.
The IDF reported that the soldiers were involved in a traffic accident.
The soldiers rebelled the next day and revealed that they were deliber
ately cut off and forced over a dropoff by a Mercedes taxi with Gaza
plates. 
     - Retiring General Yossi Ben Chanan surprised reporters at a press
conference he called by telling them that the IDF is getting dumber by
the year. According to his figures, 50% of lieutenant generals and 60%
of full generals have never attended military college and are leading
their troops purely on instinct.
     - MK Ron Nachman is threatening to sue General Ilan Biran, Com
mander of Central Forces, for his orders to significantly reduce the IDF
presence in the West Bank to the point of endangering Jewish life.
     Nachman claims to have documents proving that violent attacks have
increased substantially as a result of the troop reduction but the IDF
had stopped reporting the incidents.
     - In a devastating analysis of the Defence Ministry written by
longtime security analyst Reuven Padhatzur published in the weekly paper
Shishi, Defence Minister Rabin is accused of "letting his ministry fall
to pieces."
     According to Padhatzur, Rabin has totally neutralized Deputy
Defence Minister Motta Gur and leaves the running of the ministry to its
director general, David Ivri. The trouble is, Ivri is too busy acting as
chief negotiator for military affairs in the peace talks to run his
office. Further, he and IDF chief-of-staff Ehud Barak despise each other
and can agree on little. Rabin is seldom available to intervene in their
disputes, thus major issues are left unsettled.
     Padhatzur adds that Rabin has stripped the longterm civilian
bureaucrats of all power and has no advisers guiding him on policy. Once
a week, he meets with his favorite generals, most of whom are ex--

kibbutzniks like himself, and throws out his ideas. The fawning generals
then rubber stamp them into IDF policy. The result is that
the country has no longterm defence strategy.
     - The IDF's biggest coverup is that of the training accident at
Tzeelim B in which five soldiers were killed in November of 1992.
Present at the exercise and most likely its chief planner was Gen. Ehud
Barak. For almost two years, Rabin has forbidden the families of the
deceased soldiers to see evidence presented at the IDF commissions of
inquiry. This summer he took the order a step further, incredibly
banning military police investigators from receiving details of the
tragedy.
     - Despite a career as chief-of staff marred by deadly snafus and
coverups, Ehud Barak is planning a post-military political career that
he hopes will land him in the Prime Minister's office. Former Labor
Party Chairman, Nissim Zvielli says he'll back Barak's bid for power and
during a recent Washington trip, Barak met with millionaires Larry Tisch
and Edgar Bronfman in order to raise the capital needed to finance his
upcoming new career. Submitted by Joel Bannerman, Inside Israel

                  **JOINT EXERCISES WITH NEW FRIENDS**
     Defence Ministry Director General David Ivri's visit last March to
Qatar for regional peace talks continues to surprise. Last June, it was
revealed that Ivri had hooked up Israel's intelligence by modem to those
of a half dozen Moslem States as part of an agreement signed with the
Organization For the Supervision and Disarmament of the Middle East,
based in The Hague. In August, another clause of the agreement came to
light when generals from Qatar, Egypt and Tunisia shared a naval train
ing exercise in the Adriatic Sea with their Israeli counterparts. The
exact purpose of the exercise was not revealed but American, Canadian
and Italian ships, helicopters and an intelligence plane took part.
Reportedly, the joint Arab-Israeli practice naval operation was a
success. Inside Israel, Joel Bannerman

                    **BUSINESS IN SOUTHERN LEBANON**
     Two revelations from London, one from BBC Four and the other from
the Saudi-backed paper AL-HAYAT indicate that Israeli-Iraqi relations
are growing. AL-HAYAT reported that Israeli and Iraqi government offi
cials met in New York in August to discuss closer ties, while a BBC Four
reporter found evidence that Israel was allowing the southern Lebanese
port of Nakura to be used for arms smuggling to Baghdad.
     Also in August, the weekly Yerushalayim published a detailed report
proving the IDF, Mossad and Israel Police buy prodigious amounts of
drugs from Lebanese dealers and sell them to Israeli, Palestinian and
Egyptian underworld figures in return for high-level intelligence. Uri
Lubrani, governor of the South Lebanon Security Zone is quoted in the
article saying, "It's a scandal but anything goes in Lebanon." 
     Lubrani may be a part of the commercial scene as well. Last April,
the daily economic paper Globes reported he was involved in a deal that
saw Israeli cement sold to Syria via the security zone. Since the Syrian
cement industry is not reported to be in dire straits, analysts con
cluded that either it wasn't cement that was sold or if it was, it was
on its way to Iraq.

                       **FAIR EXCHANGE IN BOSNIA**
     According to an officer of the Russian Legion, Alexei Bilov,
Palestinians are offering themselves as mercenaries for the Bosnian
Muslim militias, in exchange for which, they receive training for
attacks against Israel and a base for European operations.
     Bilov commanded a Legion force that attacked a training base thirty
miles north of the Muslim town of Tuzlah. Ten Palestinians were killed
but the one captured admitted that in every Bosnian unit there are
Palestinians hardening themselves for the real war against Israel. 
Inside Israel, Joel Bannerman

                  **HEBREW NEWSPAPERS, Dec. 25, 1994**
     **Ma'ariv states that "the Government needs to understand that
public opinion will not countenance the thought that, almost every day,
there will be killed and wounded in the north," and reminds the Minis
ters that "if the Government does not put a stop to the situation, the
public will demand to put a stop to the Government." The editors point
out that the latest upsurge in fighting in southern Lebanon occurred
just as Chief of Staff Ehud Barak was negotiating with high-ranking
Syrian military officers in Washington. The paper calls on Prime Minis
ter Rabin, "to present Assad with an ultimatum: if he does not put an
end to Hizballah's attacks, we will put an end to the peace talks,"
believing that "peace is more important to Damascus than it is to us."
     **Yediot Ahronot says that "a war between Israel and Hizballah is
going on in southern Lebanon," and urges, "the Rabin Government -- which
knew how to free itself from the conceptual stalemate regarding the PLO
-- to reevaluate the overall Israeli strategy in southern Lebanon."

        **US PRESENCE ON THE GOLAN WOULD HAVE A SNOWBALL EFFECT**
                              by Dore Gold 
(The writer is the director of the US Foreign and Defense Policy Pro
ject, Jaffee Center For Strategic Studies - Tel Aviv University. Deploy
ing US troops as peacekeepers would place Israel under American protec
tion.)
     DURING his recent visit to the US, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
rebuffed mounting criticism of the possible placement of US forces on
the Golan Heights in any Syrian-Israel peace settlement. As he pointed
out, the idea of deploying Americans as peacekeepers is not new. Since
1982, the US has deployed an 800-man infantry battalion in southern
Sinai as part of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO). The
purpose of these forces is not to block an Egyptian armored thrust into
Sinai, but rather to "monitor" the force-limitation areas created by the
1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. 
     If all Rabin wants on the Golan Heights is another monitoring unit,
then what is all the fuss among American conservatives about deploying
American forces? And if all a Golan MFO will do is count tanks and
artillery pieces in limited force areas, as in the Sinai, then on what
basis can Rabin's own opposition be critical, seeing that the Sinai MFO
was instituted by the Begin government? 
     But the real problem with US forces on the Golan is not connected
with a replication of the Sinai MFO. What might start as an initial
Israeli proposal for a monitoring force could easily escalate into a far
more robust American military presence with far-reaching implications
for the future of US-Israel relations. 
     The issue of Americans on the Golan is not just a ruse raised by
the Israeli right to torpedo a Syrian-Israeli peace accord. Without
careful planning, the offer of US troops could snowball into an arrange
ment that makes Israel's security largely dependent on the decisions of
others. 
     Several factors are likely to expand the size and mission of any
American deployment.  Firstly, one of the major lessons of American
peacekeeping debacles in Lebanon and Somalia is to avoid putting un
der-equipped forces, with a highly constrained mission, in strategically
problematic situations. For this reason, it is likely that American
planners will insist that the US forces have at least a self-defense
capability. A 1993 RAND study, commissioned by the American Defense
Department, noted that this consideration will increase the size of a
Golan deployment to a 5,000-man armored or mechanized brigade, at a
minimum. 
     Secondly, the negotiating process itself could well expand the
mission of any American Golan deployment. Rabin's concept of a safe
withdrawal from the Golan Heights is predicated upon Israel achieving
highly intrusive "security arrangements" vis-a-vis Syria, as compensa
tion for the loss of strategic terrain. The RAND study made a similar
point, noting: "If Israel withdraws from the Golan Heights, preventing
the possibility of an effective Syrian surprise attack is very diffi
cult."
     Should he go to a Camp David summit in 1995, with Assad and Clin-
ton, Rabin is likely to seek to retain Israel's Golan early  warning
stations as extraterritorial facilities manned by the IDF. Assad would
look to the Sinai precedent when Israel abandoned its facilities and
withdrew lock, stock and barrel. To avoid the likely impasse in such a
scenario, Clinton could very well propose giving an American monitor
force the added mission of providing Israel with early-warning data.
Rabin would undoubtedly remember Israeli-American conflicts over the
interpretation of sensitive intelligence material. 
     In 1970, when Israel picked up the movement of the Soviet-Egyptian
SAM screen up to the Suez Canal, American intelligence analysts denied
that these violations of the recently achieved standstill agreement had
occurred. The US wanted to protect the new status quo while Israel had a
primary interest in taking action to safeguard its security. 
     Despite the fact that such conflicting interests between the US and
Israel would surface in a Golan arrangement, Rabin would be hard-pressed
to resist Clinton's offer to put the US in Israel's early-warning loop.
Thus, if "security arrangements" turn out to become deal-breakers, US
forces would be called upon to provide a substitute form of security in
lieu of Syrian concessions. If Rabin were to seek deep demilitarization
of southern Syria, as many Israeli reserve generals have suggested,
Assad would resist such limitations on his national sovereignty. RAND
took note of this problem: "A strict application of Sinai's zonal
arrangements would be unacceptable to Syria, because it would leave
Damascus relatively unprotected." 
     To avoid another deadlock, Clinton can be expected to propose to
make up the difference with a more robust American armored force, to be
interposed between the Syrian and Israeli armies: a trip-wire force that
guarantees American retaliation against Syria, if it is challenged. 
     While Rabin has long preached that only Israel should be responsi
ble for its security, by 1995 he will be so deep into the process that
he will have a hard time turning down such an offer. The difference
between the MFO monitors of Sinai and what is likely to evolve on the
Golan Heights is not just a matter of degree. The Sinai deployment of a
lightly armed monitoring battalion represents an American political
commitment to seeing that the peace process that it sponsored is carried
through. 
     But the deployment of brigade-strength armored units on the Golan
would entail Israel coming under American protection. Israel would not
just be dependent on the US for aid, it would become dependent on the US
for its defense. 
     There is a price to pay for this type of change. In September 1991,
a hostile President Bush waved before the American Jewish community
Israel's short-term dependence on American-manned Patriot batteries in
the Gulf War, during his struggle with Israel over settlements and loan
guarantees. 
     With a long-term American Golan deployment, American admiration of
Israel for its national self-reliance in defense would undoubtedly
erode. It would be tempting for a future administration to slash secu
rity assistance by arguing that it was no longer necessary, given
America's protective umbrella. 
     Some Israelis might look at the historical role of American NATO
forces in Germany, or the two US brigades in South Korea, as a model for
a successful deterrent barrier that could be applied to the Golan
Heights. The analogy, however, is incorrect. 
     During the Cold War, US forces were deployed in allied countries
against an adversarial Soviet bloc. But in a Golan mission, American
forces would not be targeted against an adversarial Syria; in fact, as
peacekeepers, they would have to observe strict neutrality between
Jerusalem and Damascus. 
     Thus, US forces might collect early warning data on Syria for
Israel, but they would also have to collect data on Israel for Syria.
And as much as they would have to plan to stop a Syrian assault on
Israel, these forces would have to prepare for the contingency of
stopping an Israeli preemptive strike on Syria. 
     In this way, American forces on the Golan Heights could pull the US
from a political position of clear strategic alignment with Israel to
one of political neutrality. In other words, Israel would lose the Golan
Heights and its exclusive strategic tie to the US as well. At the heart
of the US forces debate is the basic question of whether Rabin has a
realistic model for protecting Israeli security after a Golan withdrawal
that will be politically acceptable to the Syrian side. If such a model
exists, then the American presence on the Golan Heights could be mini
mal, like the MFO monitors of Sinai. But there is reason to be concerned
that Rabin's model may not be workable. And, failing to obtain the
security arrangements he has envisaged, he will face offers from the
Clinton administration of a more sizable American military commitment.
Jerusalem Post, Dec. 25, 1994
                                    
  **FIVE BILLION DOLLAR BRIBE FOR ISRAEL TO ABANDON THE GOLAN HEIGHTS**
      by Emmanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst and commentator

     On December 22, Sec. of State Warren Christopher invited over l00
of the American Jewish leadership, (including the Conference of Presi
dents of Major Jewish Organizations) to Washington to brief them on the
Middle East. Word preceding this meeting was that Clinton-Rabin planned
to secure American Jewish approval prior to a proclamation that Israel
would come down from the Golan Heights, and America would guarantee
Syria could not attack Israel with a protective screen of American
soldiers. This was to be sweetened with a $5 billion bribe to Israel as
described herein. In effect, another ambulatory lie was being introduced
to confuse the American public, bypass debate by the soon to-be-seated
Congress and steamroll the Israeli public. (Rabin has promised the
Israelis a referendum, but only AFTER the agreement with Syria is
signed.)     
     However, several individuals flooded the communications channels
with various "Alerts to Congress," detailing the tricky plan about to he
unveiled. Frank Gaffney, head of the Center for Security Policy, E.
Winston (this author), CIPAC, Christians for Israel PAC, and the Israeli
& Global News Network by Murray Kahl all put our information on the
Internet, alerting hundreds of legislators, activists and the White
House. When the meeting finally took place, Warren Christopher was
"suddenly" unavailable and Dennis Ross (often characterized as a Jewish
Arabist), and Martin Indyk, now named to be the next American Ambassador
to Israel, presided over the meeting. It was reported that Indyk started
the meeting by wavIng the Global News report with the Gaffney and
Winston list of coming tricks, and said that it was a lie...all lies. 
Now, when a group comprising Ross and Indyk, supported by Rabin spokes
men and Peace Now advocates, characterize information as "lies," one
must stop and think. If the master group who has brought lying to a high
state of the art says that what we said are lies, two things are possi
ble: 1. As "lie masters," they could be correct, or 2. As "lie masters,"
they are introducing a bigger lie to cover exposure of their previous
and future lies. We understand that once having been exposed, they did
not have much to say to prepare the Jewish leaders for a Golan debacle.
Instead, the 40 minute briefing turned out to be an empty, rambling
spiel about how a failing peace process was succeeding, The Jewish
leaders left the meeting confused and wondering why they had been
invited to Washington.
     The next day, as we had predicted, there was one announcement that
high level military attaches' of Syria, Israel and the U.S. would meet.
This pre-staged event was to be part of the announcement to build
confidence when Christopher, with Clinton-Rabin approval, was to pro
claim that American troops would be deployed on the Golan as part of the
Rabin withdrawal from the Golan. Only now they could NOT pull off this
coup because it would result in furious response from the about to-be
seated Congress with its Republican majority. Many Republicans and
conservative Democrats had already made known their opposition to the
use of American soldiers In an extremely hostile spot for the purpose of
giving Clinton and Rabin a showpiece "peace" for their 1996 election
campaigns.
     Next day, President Clinton officially named Martin Indyk Ambassa
dor to Israel, subject to confirmation hearings by Congress. Answers
should prove enlightening when questions are asked of Dennis Ross, a
holdover from Baker's team and often characterized as a Jewish Arabist.
Martin Indyk is an Australian. Explanations about his connection with
foreign Intelligence agencies and his Immediate granting of U.S. citi
zenship just prior to his consideration as an American Ambassador to
Israel will be interesting to hear. He was former director of the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank. Their long-delayed
study regarding placing American troops on the Golan has just been
released. They recommend a fixed time for pulling out those American
troops who are supposed to guarantee that Syria cannot attack Israel
once Israel leaves the Heights. Despite Rabin-Christopher claims that
Congressional debate on the issue is "premature," this study indicates
they don't wish their plans to place American soldiers in harm's way to
be exposed to the sunshine.     
     The same day, December 23, another piece of news broke in the
Hebrew daily, Ha'aretz.  In Israel, diplomatic correspondent Aluf Ben
said that Christopher, Rabin and Syrian President Hafez al Assad have
agreed to postpone negotiations regarding the DEPTH of the Israeli
withdrawal and the nature of the peace and normalization with Syria.
Instead, negotiations will focus on setting up the schedule for with
drawal of Israel from the Golan. As Murray Kahl in the "Israeli & Global
News" Internet alert asks: "How can Israel agree to a detailed schedule
of the withdrawal of forces from the Golan when the depth of the Israeli
withdrawal will only be in later negotiations? The answer to this puzzle
is simple: it is common knowledge that Yitzhak Rabin has already agreed
to complete withdrawal from the Golan...one element [of which] is the
establishment of a demilitarized zone....Syria has demanded complete
symmetry in the demilitarized zones." Syria has demanded that Israel
demilitarize the entire Galilee all the to Haifa! According to Murray
Kahl, "Given the record of the Labor-Meretz government and considering
its desire to establish 'irreversible facts on the ground' before the
1996 elections, it is possible that the IDF may actually withdraw from
the Golan and leave the Syrian troops where they are."
     Ha'aretz, 23.12.94 also reported that Labor Health Minister Ephraim
Sneh called the Labor Party "confused" and called for an urgent meeting
of the Labor Party Committee to reestablish the Party's positions
(regarding resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict).
     Kahl further reports that most of the media in Israel declare as
fact that top Israeli military officers (Gen. Danny Yatom, military
advisor to Rabin) are secretly negotiating with the Syrian Ambassador.
Others, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ehud Bank and Maj. Gen. Uri Saguy, Chief
of Intelligence, are speaking to U.S. counterparts about a $5 billion
package of military and intelligence systems as a SUBSTITUTE for a TOTAL
withdrawal from the Golan. The Rabin government has unsuccessfully tried
to censor these reports.  
     Part of this $5 billion deal would pay for an electronic surveil
lance system, which purportedly would take the place of Israeli observ
ers and all of their surveillance equipment now operating at the highest
levels of technology. The new trick for the Rabin government is to rely
upon the unreliable, taking information which could arrive late, not at
all or distorted, but they could tell (read "lie to") the Israeli public
that they are equally as well protected from Syrian assault by the
American surveillance team as by their excellent IDF.      
     Continue to look for tricks by Clinton and Rabin as they try to
sanitize Assad of Syria. For example: 
** They will place American troops on the Golan within easy reach of
10-12 terrorist groups resulting in casualties, hostage taking and/or
suicide bombing, which will bring an Immediate U.S. pull-out.      
** Don't be surprised to see the Sinai observation area turned into a
pre-positioning base for munitions, and men and armor for quick transfer
to the Golan.
** Watch Clinton-Rabin~Christopher make every effort to take Syria off
of the Congressional list of Terrorists States and start selling them
armaments.
** No effort will be made to stop Syria from cultivating the heroin
poppies in the Beka'a Valley in Lebanon, which supplies 20% of the drugs
on the streets of America...profits of which go to Assad's military
buildup.      
     Much of the $5 billion will, no doubt, end up in the coffers of the
political Labor Party, as did the money from the American $10 billion
loan guarantees. The Loan Guarantee money, which was to be used to
absorb Russian immigrants with jobs and housing, instead went to all
sorts of other projects, which are designed to elevate Rabin and his
Party for the coming elections (such as bailing out the debts of the
kibbutzim).      
     From a military point of view, the scam to dispense with real-time
direct Israeli human surveillance using Israeli in-place equipment is a
dangerous plan that could only be offered to an unknowing, gullible
civilian public. Those familiar with defensive military observation
clearly understand that surveillance of this sort is best done by
dedicated observers, in defense of their own homes, using inter-linked
equipment and, if possible, down-links from spy satellites for confirma
tion, and even spies planted in the Syrian military - not merely self-
declared "friends." The political flim-flam to bribe Rabin with $5
Billion is a disgusting trick, which allows Clinton to betray a
friendly, democratic ally, and for a tired old man who happens to be the
Prime Minister of Israel to sell his nation so he may stay in power.
     I somehow doubt that the Republicans and conservative Democrats now
coming into position in the new Congress will allow a $5 billion scam to
pass in these times of tight money. They also don't trust Syria or
Clinton's gaggle of advisors who are a mirror image of Rabin's Leftist
government. Since the American people just threw out a left-liberal
Congress, I must believe that the new Congress will soon dampen the
plans of Clinton on this issue.
 

Reuters reports (26 December) that in response to the law passed by
Israel's parliament prohibiting PLO political activity in Jerusalem,
the PLO has vowed to ignore it. Saeb Erakat, PLO official in charge
of organizing elections, told the Voice of Palestine, "Israel can
issue decisions and laws as it likes, but the aspirations of our
Palestinian people in Jerusalem are geared towards establishing our
independent state with Jerusalem as its capital."

    The Vaad Le'man Tzion (The Committee for the Sake of Zion) have
requested that an appeal be made to World Jewry. "We are asking all
concerned Jews throughout the world to fax the following letters today
or tomorrow.
Letter #1: To the office of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin: 
 Dear Mr. Rabin,
    We find it inconceivable that you, the Prime Minister of Israel, would
break your commitments to the citizens of Gush Etzion. You, who said all
along, since Oslo and Cairo, that Gush Etzion is vital to the security
of Israel and Jerusalem. How can you go back on your word? Can Mr.
Arafat dictate where and when we can build on Jewish land? Please, Mr.
Rabin, do that which is correct and that which you know in your heart is
right. Proceed with building on "Givat Tamar." 
The number for the Prime Minister's office fax is: 972-2-513-955. 
Letter #2: To the U.S. State Department:
To whom it May Concern,
    As American citizens, we are apalled that the U.S. Department of State
would attempt to interfere with the rights of Jewish citizens of the
State of Israel who wish to construct their homes on Jewish-owned land.
This is a blatant violation of the civil rights of citizens choosing to
live in the Gush Etzion area of Israel.
The number for the U.S. State Department Fax is: 202-736-4461. 

    The current dispute over the LEGAL expansion of Efrat has served to
reveal the hypocrisy of the Israeli Left and the Rabin Government. 
*  Several senior members of the government,  including ministers,  made
the barefaced lie that the land was "stolen" from the Arabs.  They did
this knowingly and fully intending to hurt Israel's image in the world
in the hopes that this would force the government to act.
    The truth is that the ownership of the land was very carefully
investigated and established by government officials after a complete
and exhaustive review of all Arab claims to the area.   
    When presented this fact by an Israel Radio reporter, Minister
Shulamit Aloni, who is an attorney herself,  replied that the government
investigations and legal procedures don't matter - the land remains
stolen land.  
* Hadash MK Tamar Gozansky was shown on Israel television hitting a
women soldier.  The soldier was trying to move the MK away for a
bulldozer which she was blocking.   The microphone picked up Gozansky
screaming "I am an MK!."
    One can only imagine how the Left and the media would react if an MK
from the nationalist parties hit a soldier.  Gozansky's action received
no attention.  As to the MK's claim that she can use her Knesset
immunity to block a bulldozer in the West Bank, this is particularly
ironic as only last year Gozansky and her fellow travelers celebrated
the decision by the Government Legal Counsel that MK's do not enjoy
immunity in the West Bank.  At the time the decision was against
nationalist MK's so that was ok - today the same rule is being applied
to her so she has apparently changed her mind.
* Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has called hundreds of thousands of
Jewish demonstrators "propellers" who "won't make me budge."  Yet the
same Rabin can't seem to stand up to a few score of Palestinian
demonstrators.
* When Israelis are killed the negotiations with the PLO continue
because the government "doesn't want to give a victory to the
terrorists".  Yet when Arafat threatens to break off the talks over a
few dunams of land this is met with understanding by the Left. 
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate, Dec. 28,  IMR&A

    Correspondent Yehoshua Meiri reports that in the past weeks the
smuggling of weapons from Sudan into the autonomous area via Egypt has
increased.  Security sources say that mortars and Katyusha launchers are
being smuggled in through underground tunnels running underneath the
border between autonomous Gaza and Egypt.  Arutz 7, 25 December 

    A Hamas leader has sent a message to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat that
Sunday's attempted suicide terror attack demonstrates that there are
many PLO "police" willing to carry out such attacks against Israelis. 
"If Arafat continues to play with the Hamas with fire, we [the Hamas]
will deliver two blows one blow to Israel and the other to Arafat," said
the Hamas leader.  Ma'ariv, 27 December

>From: The Jerusalem Post, December 28, 1994

A FAILED EXPERIMENT
by GERALD STEINBERG

"The process isn't working, but its architects are unable to
admit it."

(The writer directs research on arms control and Israeli
security at Bar-Ilan University's BESA Center for Strategic Studies.)

    A scientist who cannot distinguish between the success or failure of
an experiment should never have conducted it in the first place.
Similarly, "political experiments" must have clear criteria by which
their success or failure can be judged.
     A successful enterprise should be encouraged and nurtured, but a
total failure needs to be halted to minimize the damage.
     The negotiations, discussions and summit meetings that make up the
"Middle East peace process" constitute a very important political
experiment, one in which over five million Israelis are the subjects.
Unfortunately, none of the architects of this process have devised any
objective criteria for judging the outcome.  They cannot tell whether they
are succeeding or failing; they don't even seem to understand why
such criteria are necessary.
     Rabin, Peres, Arafat, and their American sponsors proclaim that the
Israeli-Palestinian agreements are "irreversible," and, in the long-term,
must be successful.  They and their colleagues proclaim that "there is no
alternative." (This was the theme of all three Nobel Prize addresses in
Oslo.) Thus, by definition, the Middle East peace
process is deemed a success.
     Yet with terrorism and Palestinian hatred of Israel and Jews not only
continuing but growing, any commonsense analysis of the results of the
Oslo agreement would judge it an abject and tragic failure.  The mutual
recognition agreement has not prevented Arafat and other
Palestinian leaders from continuing to preach hatred.
     The only operative clause of the agreement, which commits the PLO to
the revision of the sections of the Palestinian Covenant that call for the
elimination of Israel, is being ignored.  Similarly, the Declaration of
Principles signed by Israel and the PLO, and the Gaza-Jericho agreement
that followed, have not led to any change in
Palestinian hatred and violence.
     At best, these agreements have allowed Israeli forces to leave some
parts of Gaza, but the same results could have been obtained with a
unilateral pullout.  The Palestinian Authority has not disarmed Hamas, and
there are suicide bombers in the ranks of the Palestinian
police.
     RABIN AND Peres refer to Palestinian terrorists as opponents of the
peace process.  Each suicide bombing and attack is attributed to efforts
to obstruct Arab-Israeli conciliation.  We are told that firm military
action is impossible, because it would disrupt the
negotiations, thereby "granting the terrorists a victory."
     Once this perspective is adopted, whatever Israel does will be a
victory for the terrorists; its continued inaction allows Hamas and
its supporters to continue to kill Israelis with impunity.
     The architects of the "peace" have been able to escape a serious
accounting and evaluation by insisting on the "irreversibility of the
peace process." This claim has no foundation.
     The proverbial dustbins of history, including those in the Middle
East, are filled with agreements that have not been honored, and with
failed experiments.  (An exception is the peace treaty with Egypt, which
has lasted for over 15 years, and can be judged a limited
success, at least so far.  )
     In 1949, Israel signed cease-fire agreements with Egypt, Syria,
Lebanon and Jordan that explicitly obligated all the parties to negotiate
a permanent peace.  But once the military pressure ended,
the Arabs refused to honor these commitments.
     Defenders of the Oslo agreement argue that it is too early to pull
the plug, pronounce the patient dead, and write the autopsy.  Instead,
Rabin and Peres tell Israelis to wait "a little longer," and
the benefits will become apparent.
     Each period of failure leads to the same refrain.  The question is
how much longer, and what benefits?  Two years, and terrorist attempts and
casualties go down by half; or 20 years and terrorism is
reduced by 10 percent?
     No such predictions have been forthcoming in this experiment, in
which we are guided by intuition and self-interest.  Rabin, Peres and
Arafat have invested their political careers as well as their place in
history in this process, and the psychological barriers to the
admission of failure are very high.
     The 1996 elections will provide a reality check.  If Rabin and Peres
can convince the majority of Israelis that they have succeeded in making
progress toward peace, they will be given an additional term
to continue the experiment.
     But if the majority are ready to call the process a failure, as now
seems likely, the electorate will force an end to it - or at least force
major revisions and the beginning of a new experiment.  (c) JPFS 1994

I have received quite a few private notes over the months
encouraging me to continue posting the news items found in 
this note. Many of these items cannot be found in the 
general media due to the political leanings of the press
both in Israel and abroad. This has produced a slanted
picture of the events in Israel molded by those who control
the media. The items posted here might help to balance the
picture for the readers of BAGELS, and many have expressed
thanks for this opportunity, as I mentioned.

There is an individual who wishes to censor such news from
reaching BAGELS readers, and has threatened to go to the
Corporate Personnel Policy Manager "for corresponding action"
and/or the "management of DEC's Israel Subsidiary" if I do
not meet his demands and refrain from posting these items.

When asked why he has not objected to the other myriad political
postings found both in BAGELS and in other notesfiles, he had
no substantive answer. "So have I deemed fit," was the reply.

I request those who have voiced support in the past, as well
as readers who have not done so to speak up loudly on behalf
of free speech. I moved here two years ago and happier than
I've ever been to be living in the Holy Land of my ancestors.
However, the current regime is putting both its citizens and 
the very survival of the nation in grave danger by its actions,
in my opinion, and this is a matter of concern to supporters
of the Jewish homeland world-wide.

I am sorry to be forced to post this matter publicly, but I
was not raised in an atmosphere of political censorship and
do not intend to start now.

Yehoshua

     The worse things get the rosier Foreign Minster Peres' glasses.
Peres called the attack by Palestinian Police against an IDF patrol,
which ended in the death of four PA police "a misunderstanding." At
the official funeral of three of the police, the crowd was led in
calls  "death to Rabin".
     The following is a short list of other recent
"misunderstandings":
     * Israel is yet to receive the list of local Arabs drafted into
the Palestinian Police for approval.
     * Opposition groups, among them Islamic Jihad and Hamas, have not
been disarmed.
     * The PA refuses to honor requests for the extradition of
terrorist murderers.
     * The Palestine Secret Police operates in Jerusalem.
     * The "Passport" and PA postal stamps are in violation of the
Agreement.

     "Jerusalem's fate will not be decided in negotiations; it will be
determined by what we Palestinians do on the ground," says Palestinian
Authority (PA) member Faisal Husseini.  There are to date 43
Palestinian institutions functioning in eastern Jerusalem, creating
the infrastructure for the capital of a Palestinian state, says Likud
MK Ariel Sharon.  The PA is already taking over education in the
eastern sector of the city.  Hamas is also running an educational
network and is using the Temple Mount as a center to preach
incitement, Sharon continues.  Sharon gives five points for the
defense of Jerusalem:
*By giving the highest national priority to strengthening the city,
economically and through building infrastructure in every sector, as
the mayor is demanding.
*By stepping up building in the city and its environs, and by having
Jews populate all sectors.  We will lose any neighborhood that has no
Jews living in it.
*By transferring Palestinian institutions, including the activities of
Orient House, to Gaza.  There is now a law enabling this.
*By ensuring total security in Jerusalem, thus restoring the city's
unity.  and the size of the force needed to achieve this is
immaterial.
*By restoring full Israeli rule in Jerusalem.  Enforcing Israeli law
in the eastern part of the city would prevent the infiltrations and
control of the area by Palestinian police. Jerusalem Post, Dec. 30,  =20

RE: 1412.55 - -< Request >-

Yehoshua,

All though I've not written to you about it, I too have found
these notes of value in giving me a more complete picture of 
what is happening in Israel and the Middle East.  I think most
of us who work at Digital are intelligent enough to be able to
weigh reports and evidences and make our own decisions about 
what we read, and do not need someone to make censor what we
can access.  Please let us know how we can support your freedom
to continue entering the articles.

Leslie

The New York Times (4 January, p. A8) and Yediot Aharonot (4 January,
p.6) both report on the funeral held yesterday in Gaza for the three
PLO policemen who were killed in a gun battle with Israeli soldiers.
According to the Times, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat addressed the
crowd, and told them, "Let no one think that they can scare us with
their stronger weapons, for we have a mightier weapon - the weapon of
faith, the weapon of martyrdom, the weapon of jihad." Yediot Aharonot
notes that the crowd at the funeral chanted "Revenge, Revenge!" and
"Death to Israel! Death to Jews! Death to America!" Yediot also
quotes Arafat as telling the crowd, "Our struggle will continue until
Palestine is established, whose capital is Jerusalem."

-----------

The Jerusalem Post reports (2 January, p.1) that the PLO's
Palestinian Authority is refusing to extradite the murderers of
Israeli Uri Magidish. Magidish was murdered in March 1993 in Moshav
Gan Or in Gaza by Rajah and Amru Abu Sita, both of whom belong to
Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction of the PLO. The independent monitoring
group Peace Watch says this is a clear violation by the PLO of the
Cairo Agreement with Israel.

Michael Freund
Co-Chair, IRIS

Re: .58

<I think most
<of us who work at Digital are intelligent enough to be able to
<weigh reports and evidences and make our own decisions about 
<what we read, and do not need someone to make censor what we
<can access.

You've hit the proverbial nail on the head. There's plenty of
intelligence out there, and if anyone questions the veracity
of a report or disagrees with an opinion, let them speak up
publicly. The fact that they (actually, *he*) wish to close off 
the debate and censor news speaks volumes about their intentions.

< Please let us know how we can support your freedom
<to continue entering the articles.

Please let your voice be known here first and foremost. I appreciate
all the private email I've received as well, but please do not be
afraid of posting your feelings here. Let's defeat the Big Brother
in our midst!

Yehoshua

	Whateve my personal opinion of the postings in this string, I 
strongly defend Yehoshua's right to post them and to give us all sides of 
the issue.  One of the most valuable things about Bagels has been the 
complete spectrum of Jewish opinions and ideas that it has come to contain, 
and I would be very sad if it fell victim to either censorship or to (see 
1444.) to a proper home.

		David

	RE: .55

	Jem, I'm 100% behind your right -- the need -- to post this
	information.

don feinberg

    Since this information is readily available by mail (aka mailing lists)
    why not post the sources here. Those whom wish to read can go ahead and
    read, while those whom feel offended, or feel that it is inappropriate
    for the forum don't have to see it.
    For example the iris and shomron mailing lists from jerusalem1. Any
    others ?
    
    	Yaacov

In our release yesterday, there was a terse government release saying that 
the incident at the Gaza border in which 3 PLO policemen were shot was 
initiated by the Palestinians.
This was unusual due to its lack of information and also due the 
Government's need to send out this release.
>From sources within the military and soldiers interviewed, we have 
discovered the following:
Palestinian police hiding behind the fence separating the autonomous zone 
in Gaza prepared an ambush for Israeli soldiers. When the Israeli 
soldiers came into sight, the PLO police fired upon them. One of the 
Israelis happens to be General Doron Almog who is the Israeli 
representative negotiating with the PLO.
The Israelis were ill prepared to fight back, as they are not allowed to 
use grenades that are the most efficent weapon in this type of response. 
The Israelis did return fire and pursued the Palestinians, who had no 
identification, to a police bunker where they discovered that the 
attackers were members of the PLO police.
General Almog is a known dove and supporter of the PLO position. Due to 
his known sympathies for the Arabs, he has been the subject of much 
criticism from opponents of the "peace accords."
Because of his involvement in this action, the government will probably 
remove him from his negotiating position, and this is the reason 
information has been withheld.

Thanks again to those who posted support for free speech, And I again
request those who've sent private email to post here as well.

re: .63

<    Since this information is readily available by mail (aka mailing lists)
<    why not post the sources here. Those whom wish to read can go ahead and
<    read, while those whom feel offended, or feel that it is inappropriate
<    for the forum don't have to see it.

I don't really see the problem; those who don't wish to read the posts
have the "next" button readily available. There are lists for every Jewish
subject under the sun today...why not stop all discussion about Jewish
subjects here?

Yehoshua

    I'd also like to see the updates/information continue.
    
    What surprises me in all of this is the ignorance of the West,
    especially the United States.  It appears to be more commonly known now
    that Islam's Mohammed once made peace with an enemy to conquer that
    enemy.  Arafat is on record (videotape) by the Israeli government
    confessing to that same strategy.  I don't understand why anyone,
    especially Israel, continues to go along with this.  Maybe someone
    could shed some more light on this?
    
    thanks,
    Mike

I have been away for a couple of days, and so have not been able to 
post news of the latest furot in Israel. If true, this is my opinion
among the worst scandals in Israel's history, and it provides a clue
as to why the Rabin regime continues head-long into a suicide pact with
the devil. BTW, neither Reuters nor  _Yediot Aharonot_ are generally 
considered right-wing mouth-pieces.

This data was reported by Adir Zik of Channel 7 radio (which the regime
is desparately trying to shut down; see note 1412.47) three and 1/2 weeks
ago. At the time he challenged the regime to sue him for libel if it
could prove that the allegations were false. He received no reply. He
further poignantly noted that the *very first law passed* by the new
regime after its election in 1992 was the law legitimizing contacts
with the PLO butchers. 

Here's the report:

Yehoshua

**************************************************************************


Yediot Aharonot (8 January, p.1) and Reuters (8 January) both report
on the political firestorm in Israel over revelations contained in a
book by Abu Mazen, the PLO official who negotiated the Oslo agreement
with Israel. In the book, Abu Mazen says that a PLO official, Said
Kenan, met with Ephraim Sneh of the Labor Party two months before the
elections in 1992 that brought Labor to power. Sneh, who is now the
Israeli Health Minister, asked the PLO's Kenan to slow down the Madrid
peace talks with the Likud government and to help the Labor Party win
the elections by encouraging Israeli Arabs to vote for them. In
exchange for helping the Labor Party to gain power, Sneh
promised Kenan that Labor would open talks with the PLO on
resolving the Palestinian issue once they were elected. If the reports
are accurate, it would mean that Labor officials conspired against
the elected Government of Israel at the time to slow down the peace
process so as to improve their chances of getting elected.

According to Abu Mazen, Labor's Sneh and the PLO's Kenan met 20 times
in various places in Israel, and that Yitzhak Rabin took part in at
least one of the meetings. Abu Mazen quotes Sneh as telling Kenan, "We
in the Labor Party want the following formula: there should be no
progress in the Washington talks... Raise the issue of freezing the
settlements. That will put the Likud in a corner."

Labor Party officials have denied the charges, but they have conceded
that one meeting took place between Sneh and Kenan before the
elections. The Likud is demanding a Parliamentary Commission of
Inquiry and has turned to the Government's legal advisor to insist
that he investigate the affair. At the time the meetings took
place, contact with the PLO was forbidden under Israeli law and
carried with it a punishment of imprisonment. Likud Knesset
Member Yehoshua Matsa is demanding that Rabin be put on trial, while
others are insisting that he resign. Observers are saying that it
is potentially one of the biggest political scandals in Israel's
history.

                **LABOR DENIES PLO HELPED IT WIN IN '92**
     A powerful bombshell rocked the Israeli political arena Saturday,
with claims in a PLO leader's memoirs that the Labor Party and the PLO
collaborated to defeat the Likud in the  1992 elections.
     The opposition immediately called for a thorough investigation,
while Labor and leading Palestinian officials denied the account
published in Jordan by Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), one of the PLO's top
leaders.
     Arafat aide Ahmed Tibi said the book's controversial passages had
been inserted by an assistant, and not by Abbas himself. Abbas led the
PLO delegation in Oslo and is one of the signatories of the Oslo
Accords.
     A source in Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's office called the book
"a lie not worth commenting about,'' while Likud leader Binyamin
Netanyahu asserted that, "if true, this is the worse outrage of its sort
in the state's history, involving not only the fixing of an election
campaign, but doing so in collusion with the enemy.'' An Arabic copy of
Abbas's book,-- The Road to Oslo --, which reached Israel Radio reporter
Yoni Ben-Menachem, speaks of 20 meetings between PLO representative
Sa'id Kanaan of Nablus and Rabin's representative Ephraim Sneh. Rabin
himself, says the book, took part briefly in an April 10, 1992 meeting
at Sneh's home.                     
     Sneh denied Abbas's account unequivocally. "What is ascribed to me
is untrue,'' he said. "The question now is who is more credible, Sneh or
Kanaan? ... I examined my notes and discovered that I met with Kanaan
only once after the Labor primaries. This was at the Daniel Hotel in
Herzliya on April 6, 1992. Obviously this was a political conversation,
but there was no coordination between the sides. That assertion is
gibberish.''
     Sneh, now health minister, was then serving as chairman of the
Labor campaign to attract first-time voters. He had been head of the
civil administration and as such had contacts with prominent figures in
the territories, including Kanaan. Some scant details of the memoirs
have been published previously in Jordan and in the Ha'aretz daily.
     Kanaan changed his story Saturday night. After assuring
Ben-Menachem "every word in Abu Mazen's book is true,'' he denied that
his meetings with Sneh had "anything to do with the elections or with
seeking to influence their outcome. I met him as a friend and our talk
was very personal. He didn't even know of my relation to the PLO and
just wanted to know what our opinions in the occupied territories
were.'' Kanaan said Rabin did not participate in any meeting.   
Ben-Menachem stuck by his report, in which Kanaan testified that the
accounts in Abbas's book were true. 
     Netanyahu argued that ``these very clumsy attempts at denial and
the many different versions to explain away what is printed in Abu
Mazen's book only heighten the suspicion that there is something to
cover up. Everyone here tells a different story. They haven't
coordinated the various lies. Whoever heard of a writer totally unaware
that whole sections were inserted into his book? This is more than
absurd.''
     The book cites detailed protocols of the meetings submitted to
Abbas by Kanaan. Abbas writes that the meetings - conducted before the
repeal of the law which forbade unauthorized contacts with the PLO -
were held with Yasser Arafat's full knowledge and blessing. Rabin was
referred to by the PLO as "YR'' and the PLO signaled that it was ready
to deal with "YR or his emissary.''
     At the meeting in which Rabin allegedly took part, Kanaan
reportedly expressed PLO gratification with the Labor platform and
offered its help in securing an electoral victory for Labor over the
Likud. Rabin, according to Israel Radio, replied that he was willing to
receive communications from the PLO and that Labor was serious in its
contacts with the organization, but that word of this must not leak out.
     Sneh, according to the book, asked Kanaan to make sure there was no
public endorsement by the PLO of either Labor or Meretz, as that would
create a backlash in Israeli public opinion. He asked that the PLO not
torpedo the peace negotiations - then under way in Washington with a
Palestinian delegation under Jordanian auspices - so as to present the
Likud with a victory.
     Abbas also wrote that Sneh asked that there be no demands in the
Washington talks involving Jerusalem or the final frontiers, as these
would be likely to rile Israeli public opinion. But Sneh allegedly did
advise the Palestinians to concentrate on demanding a full halt to
settlement, to put the Likud on the spot.
     The settlements were to feature in another PLO strategy, which
Labor requested, Abbas wrote. The PLO was to call on Israeli Arabs to go
to the polling stations en masse and not to support any party which did
not endorse a settlement freeze. That would deny the Likud and the NRP
the small amount of support they had in the Arab sector, but which could
make a difference for Labor.
     Sneh allegedly told Kanaan that the Jordanian option was dead and
that a Labor government would be willing to discuss any facet of the
Palestinian problem with the PLO. The PLO, for its part, evinced great
interest in Israeli politics and asked Sneh for his evaluation of the
feud between then prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and foreign minister
David Levy.
     After the elections, but prior to the mutual recognition by Israel
and the PLO, Abbas wrote, the PLO expressed satisfaction that it had
assisted Labor's victory and that Rabin could form a coalition without
any right-wing partner. In its communications with Labor the PLO noted
that it was so interested in the elections, that it monitored the
results from five communications centers it set up for the purpose in
different countries.
     Sneh says he had known Kanaan during his military service and had
perhaps 20 meetings with him "in my entire life. The account given by
the book includes lots of imagination and more than a little malice.''   
Sneh described Kanaan as a frustrated man, "who always wanted a greater
role in Palestinian affairs and always sought publicity.'' In the two
months prior to the elections, Sneh said, he avoided meeting
Palestinians, in order to prevent damaging talk.
     Netanyahu characterized Sneh's reaction as "hesitant. It only
underscores suspicion.'' In the 1992 campaign, he stressed, the Likud
warned "on the basis of slivers of information reaching us that the PLO
was working on Labor's side. The time now is for a no-nonsense,
thorough, and reliable investigation without any cover-up and
whitewash.'' 
   Netanyahu wondered how "Sneh can call Abu Mazen a liar, when he is
one of the signatories of the Oslo Accord and the man with whom the
Rabin government dealt. If he is a liar, why did you deal with him?  Why
did you stake Israel's very security on his word?'' 
     He said he "cannot discount out of hand what Abu Mazen and Kanaan
say. It is possible to investigate the matter. If true, this is the
worst case of not only tampering with the democratic process, but of
enlisting the enemy for the purpose. Rabin called Peres's attempt to buy
power in 1990 a 'stinking maneuver,' but this smells a lot worse.''
     Netanyahu vowed "not to let this pass in silence'' and was to
convene the Likud and opposition leadership Sunday. Among the options is
a demand to set up an inquiry commission. There will be consultations
with legal experts, because of the possible felonies involved, Netanyahu
said.
     Likud MKs Yehoshua Matza and Limor Livnat were to ask the
attorney-general today to investigate possible charges of treason and
subversion.
     Shamir said he ``doubts the truth can ever be arrived at, but if
one Israeli side was willing to collaborate with the enemy to foil
another Israeli side, this indicates readiness to engage in acts that
border on treason.''
     Tsomet said it sees in the book "proof that Labor bought power in a
conspiracy with the PLO. All documents pertaining to contacts with Abu
Mazen must be revealed to he Knesset.''  
     Ben-Menachem reported that Kanaan confirmed the accounts in Abbas's
book, saying ``every word is true.'' Ben-Menachem added that the PLO is
worried the story might hurt Labor, but he described Abbas as ``one of
the more reliable persons in the PLO and it is not likely that someone
like Kanaan could dispatch so many fabricated protocols to him and live
to tell about it, if it's all a baseless lie.''

                            **ISRAEL MEDIA**
     Five papers discuss the effect on the Labor Party's standing of
both the allegations of Labor-PLO contacts and collusion prior to the
1992 elections, and the report in "Time" magazine on the internal Labor
poll that indicated a clear opposition victory if the elections were
held now: 
**Ma'ariv says that if Abu Mazen's claims regarding Labor-PLO collusion
prior to the 1992 elections are true, "we are facing the the gravest
political scandal in the history of the state," and declares that in
such a case, "the current Government will have lost its moral right to
manage the affairs of state, and must go to elections now." However, the
editors note that the Government has flatly denied the allegations, that
Likud Chairman MK Bibi Netanyahu has expressed reservations about their
veracity, and has declared that "we assume that Health Minister Dr. Sneh
[who allegedly maintained the contacts on behalf of the Labor Party] is
speaking the truth." The paper says that Ahmed Tibi's explanation that
"the protocols of the Sneh-Kanaan talks were planted in Abu Mazen's
book, are not convincing," and calls on the Government to agree to the
establishment of a parliamentary committee to investigate the matter. 
**Yediot Ahronot would like to believe that Abu Mazen's book is nothing
more than "an attempt by a disgruntled politician to change history
after the fact," yet concludes that "nevertheless, Abu Mazen's memoirs
are raising doubts that only a fundamental inquiry will be able to clear
up. Denials by those involved are not enough." The editors believe that
were the Labor Party not already in internal disarray, the allegations
contained in Abu Mazen's book would not have received so much attention,
and that how this latest crisis is resolved, will greatly affect what is
left of Labor's public credibility.
**Davar refers to Prime Minister Rabin's vociferous denial of the "Time"
magazine report, and says that "there is a large measure of parochialism
in kowtowing to the American media, as if what is whispered on Hayarkon
St. is not so worrisome." The paper notes that "Rabin is promising
'difficult decisions' this week," but adds that "up until now, he has
only partially carried out such promises." The editors believe that
"Rabin cannot overlook the increasing expressions of rebelliousness from
within the Labor Knesset faction and the Government, because his
restraint will encourage constant blackmail, and will be of no benefit
on crucial votes." The paper declares that "Rabin does not need to fight
against "Time", but against the time that is slipping between his
fingers. He must clearly strive for a secure peace with Syria, Lebanon,
and the Palestinians, lest the political infrastructure -- that has
enabled him to take the partial and hesitant steps that he has taken up
until now -- crumble beneath his feet."
**Ha'aretz says that "if the Labor Party has actually lost ground in the
public opinion polls, it is not because the Government was compelled to
withdraw the Economic Arrangements Law. There is room to believe that
the acts, "of terrorism by the opponents of the PLO's reconciliation to
the existence of the State of Israel are undermining the readiness of
the Jewish public to support the peace process," but adds that "more
than a few of those who voted for Labor two-and-a-half years ago are
dissatisfied at the slowness of the peace process." The editors also
fault the Prime Minister for a series of errors in judgement on various
domestic issues, and say that they have helped to "harm Yitzhak Rabin's
public credibility." The paper declares that "changes are not necessary
in the way that the Labor Knesset faction and the Government function,
but in the way that Yitzhak Rabin himself functions. The hour does not
call for a Cabinet reshuffle, but for a 180 degree turn in Rabin's
behavior, and in his relationship with his ministers and the main
institutions of the Labor Party."
**Hatzofeh believes that "the Labor Party's crisis did not break out
against the background of personal disputes between ministers and MK's,
it is deeper. The crisis has been caused by the failing policies of a
Government which is capitulating to PLO diktat, making concessions over
security positions in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza and on the Golan Heights,
and because of numerous items in the socio-economic sphere," and adds
that "if the Prime Minister thinks that by increasing party discipline
in the Labor Knesset faction and the Government, he can succeed in
restoring to his party the confidence that has been undermined, he is
mistaken." The paper believes that "the leftist line of the Rabin
Government is unacceptable to the public," and says that although the
Government "still enjoys a 'blocking majority' in the Knesset, this
majority does not have the support of a majority of the public." The
editors call on the Prime Minister to either call new elections or end
his coalition with Meretz and set up a national unity government.
**Ma'ariv, in its second editorial, speculates on the likelihood of a
Cabinet reshuffle, and points out that "when Rabin was at his peak, he
could reshuffle the Cabinet without encountering any serious opposition.
But then, he did not need to reshuffle [the Cabinet]," and adds that
"now that he has been weakened, Rabin must consider his steps." 
**Hatzofeh, in its second editorial, deplores MK Ran Cohen's
participation in an Arab demonstration outside Efrat last Thursday, to
protest the decision to permit construction on Givat Hazayit, and says
that Meretz "is slowly becoming a 'fifth column' inside the Israeli
Government." 

*** WHAT DID LABOR TELL THE PLO IN 1992? ***

With his popularity rating in the dumps and enough domestic and
foreign trouble to keep any politician fully occupied, the last
thing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin needs is another scandal.

This time its the PLO.  One of the PLO's top leaders,  Mahmoud
Abbas (Abu Mazen) claims in his merious issues of interest to the PLO.

Before the 1992 election, the Labor Party distributed a little blue
book titled "Labor Party Platform."  According to the book, the
Party would not withdraw from the Golan, opposed a separate
Palestinian state and ruled out foreign armies west of the Jordan
River.  The Platform further stated that the Jordan Valley and
territories northeast of the Dead Sea [where Jericho is located]
would remain under Israeli control, as would the Etzion Bloc, areas
around Jerusalem and other places in the West Bank which did not
have a dense Palestinian population.  In addition, on the same page
[11], the Labor Party committed to continuing construction
surrounding Jerusalem [including the Etzion Bloc] and in the Jordan
Valley.

During the course of the hard campaign,  Rabin wrapped himself in
the flag and present himself as "Mr. Defense".  His moving speech
AGAINST withdrawal from the Golan remains a favorite sound bite
played over and over again from loudspeakers at pro-Golan rallies.

What's the point?  Well, this is what Rabin's PR team sold to the
Jewish Israeli public to get the Labor Party elected.  The question
is: did Rabin's people tell the PLO the same thing or did they tell
the PLO the truth?  If they did, this would demonstrate that Rabin
planned all along to ditch his commitments. That the Labor Party
was elected a priori on a lie.

And the extent of that lie grows from day to day.  In fact, things
have gotten so bad that Minister Shimon Shitrit complained at the
Sunday cabinet meeting that the Labor-Meretz government was acting
like an Arab rather than Jewish one.

Without a legitimate mandate from the people, the only moral act
would be to for the Labor-Mertz government to freeze all
negotiations until new elections are held.

Some in the Left say that elections should wait until Rabin
negotiates a final settlement with Syria and the PLO.  The
elections could serve, they argue, as a referendum for the
treaties.  But the Labor Party has demonstrated that it cannot be
trusted.  If given the chance, they will create a situation in
which Israel will have to chose between immediate disaster and a
bad treaty.  Hardly the democratic process as known in the West.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
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    Jordanian Member of Parliament Abdallah al-Qaila has revealed
    that PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat asked him to encourage the
    Islamic movement in Israel to back the Labor party in Israel's
    1992 elections, reports Israel Radio (Reshet Bet, 10 January,
    1100 GMT).  Al-Qaila says he was part of a parliamentary
    delegation from Jordan to Tunis, home of PLO headquarters. 
    Arafat asked them to serve as Islamic representatives to Israeli
    Muslims.  This came as a surprise to them, he says.
    
    Al-Qaila's remarks lend support to recent claims by PLO official
    Abu Mazen that the PLO and Labor had forged a pre-election deal.
    

    	A school bus full of children was attacked by six PLO 
    "secret service men" - among them Gaza's PLO secret service 
    head Muhammed Dahlan -  near Netzarim Tuesday afternoon.  
    The men were armed and out of uniform.   They passed the bus 
    in their car, jumped out and began shouting and banging on the 
    bus with their weapons in an attempt to board.  "It was really 
    scary.  We were sitting on the bus and suddenly a Volvo passed 
    us, from which jumped out a handful of Arabs carrying 
    weapons.  They aimed their guns at us and banged on the bus 
    with them.  We thought they wanted to attack us," related an 
    11-year-old Netzarim resident who was on the bus.  The attack 
    was stopped by the IDF and Border Patrol bus escort.  A PLO 
    patrol also arrived at the site of the attack and identified the 
    attackers as members of the PLO Security Services.  [Israel 
    Radio, 10 January]
    

    	Due to faulty rigging, a remote-controlled 40 kg. bomb, 
    four times as powerful as that which exploded in Dizengoff 
    Square in October, planted near Kfar Darom failed to cause any 
    damage to the passing school bus - full of children - when only 
    7 kg. of explosives actually went off.  The bomb, hidden in a 
    donkey cart covered with oranges, was set to go off at 7:25am 
    in an area in which Egged busses and busses filled with children 
    frequently pass.  Says Gaza Coast Regional Council head Zvi 
    Hendel, this attack is just one of a series of violent incidents 
    that have been on the rise since the November clashes between 
    the PLO and Hamas in a Gaza mosque.  [Yediot Ahronot, 10 
    January]
    	According to Hendel, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gave a 
    directive to members of Fatah to "carry their weapons freely."  
    "I thought [Arafat] was trying to protect himself, but he was 
    actually trying to win public support by encouraging attacks on 
    Israelis," said Hendel.  According to statistics provided at a 
    Jerusalem press conference on Monday, there were 14 shootings 
    and explosions in the 50 days preceding the clash at the 
    mosque, and 31 similar incidents in the 50 days following.  
    [Jerusalem Post, 10 January]  Hendel also says that, according to 
    reports he has received from the IDF, a large percentage of the 
    attacks perpetrated in the region are carried out by Fatah.  
    [Yediot Ahronot, 10 January]
    	The Shas party has announced that is would not support 
    any IDF withdrawal from Arab population centers in Yesha 
    before bypass roads around these cities have been completed, 
    as such a premature redeployment would create so great a risk 
    that it would outweigh any possibility of saving lives provided 
    by the Israel-PLO agreements.  [Jerusalem Post, 10 January]
    

    
                    
    ARAFAT AND HAMAS: AN UNEASY, BUT NECESSARY, ALLIANCE
    BY JON IMMANUEL
    
    (The writer is The Jerusalem Post's Territories correspondent)
    
         When PLO chairman Yasser Arafat arrived in Gaza six months ago,
    the
    Islamic and PLO opposition feared he would suppress them to
    consolidate his one-man rule.
         They frequently assumed that Arafat's police would be more
    ruthless than the Israeli soldiers they were replacing.
         At the very outset Arafat did opt for one-man rule.  He scrapped a
    planned multiparty Gaza town council, painstakingly assembled by the
    mayor-designate and supported by Hamas, and in its place put a
    Fatah-only council.
         But the Palestinian opposition and Israeli government were wrong
    about Arafat's readiness to suppress the opposition.  Invoking the name
    of
    democracy, Arafat has allowed Hamas rallies and Hamas newspapers, and
    has
    even accepted the jeering tone of Islamic
    fundamentalists towards him.
         The key to this somewhat contradictory arrangement seems to be
    necessity. Arafat needs tacit Hamas acceptance to consolidate his role
    as
    father of the nation.  Hamas needs to demonstrate its opposition, but
    knows that it could be crushed if it opposes Arafat's Fatah police
    force too openly.
         To assert itself, Hamas increased attacks on Israelis outside the
    autonomous areas, while avoiding complications for the Palestinian
    Authority's relations with Israel by not staging attacks from Gaza or
    Jericho (at least until the week before last).
         Imad Falouji, a dark-suited young man with a clipped beard who
    edits
    the Arafat-authorized Hamas newspaper al-Watan, speaks knowingly about
    Hamas-PA relations and the armed wing of Hamas, Izzadin Kassam.
    
         In an interview at the Islamic Society, the Hamas headquarters in
    Gaza, he observes that the Islamic Resistance Movement has scrupulously
    respected Arafat's authority.  "We have no argument with
    Fatah.  We have a dialogue," he says.
         "Bullets have not been fired at joint patrols or inside the Gaza
    autonomy," he claims.  "We could have attacked [Foreign Minister]
    Shimon
    Peres [visiting Arafat in his office on December 21].  But Kassam would
    never attack him while he is here as a guest of the
    Authority."
         The avoidance of clashes with Fatah is certainly different from
    the
    situation that existed three years ago, when Arafat described Hamas as
    "Zulus" undermining the Palestinian cause.  The arrangement with Fatah
    has
    survived even the deaths of 14 people in the police-Hamas confrontation
    outside the Palestine Mosque on November 18.  This, many thought,
    heralded
    the long-expected Palestinian police crackdown on Hamas.  Hamas was
    expected to take revenge, but did not.
    Instead, attacks against Israelis increased.
         "Sad Friday," as it was dubbed in the Arabic press, reinforced the
    need for a scapegoat.  Israel, it was said, must have been responsible
    because it had the most to gain from war between Arafat
    and Hamas.  The theme was picked up at the highest levels.
         Arafat was quick to hint at Israeli collaborators in the mosque
    using
    dumdum bullets, and Hamas repeated its view that there were
    Israeli collaborators among the Palestinian police.
         But since then, Hamas attacks against Israelis have pushed the
    limits
    of this understanding.  "With Israel there are no laws of war,
    Israel does not understand law," says Falouji.
         On Christmas Day, which happened to mark the end of the mourning
    period for the Palestine Mosque dead, Eyman Radi, a policeman, left
    his home in Khan Yunis to blow up Israelis in Jerusalem.
         This contravened an understanding with the Palestinian police not
    to
    originate attacks from Gaza and certainly not from inside the
    police force.
         The bombing, which killed only the bomber, seemed designed to
    embarrass the police.  Radi's picture in uniform was released to the
    press
    by his family, who were full of praise for his action.  The Palestinian
    Authority dismissed it as the act of an isolated criminal who had been
    fired from the force because he was unstable.  But he was
    clearly helped by others.
         At the memorial meeting for Radi in Khan Yunis last week some
    3,000
    Izzadin Kassam supporters and mainstream Hamas spokesmen, such as Dr.
    Mahmoud Zahar, declared him a martyr and advocated more attacks. 
    Finally,
    many participants fired in the air in contravention of rules banning
    weapons from political assemblies.  Major Salim, a spokesman in the
    office
    of security chief Gen.  Nasser Yusef, said - several hours after the
    shots
    were broadcast around the world - that there had been no provocation. 
    "We
    did not hear of any shooting," he
    maintained.
         Last Monday, shots fired at Israeli soldiers from near a
    Palestinian
    police post caused Israeli soldiers to pursue and kill three policemen.
    One of the police shouted "Allahu Akhbar" before opening fire and being
    shot down, the soldiers said.  This is not conclusive proof that he was
    an
    Islamic radical, but if the police did not fire the first shots, as the
    Israelis claim, someone else tried to provoke an Israeli clash with the
    police.  What is incontrovertible is that Izzadin Kassam activists led
    the
    demands for revenge at the
    funerals of the policemen.
         Dr. Imad Sarraj, a Gaza psychiatrist, and as secular a Moslem as
    one
    can find, says: "Inside every Palestinian, there is a little Hamas
    supporter.  People are schizophrenic.  When they saw the soldier Shmuel
    Meiri on TV being beaten in Ramallah, they really felt sick.  It was
    terrible to see people doing this.  When it was over I would see these
    same people turn around and say, 'But really, what choice do
    we have?' The change in them was astonishing."
         What made Sarraj's diagnosis particularly chilling was that it
    later
    turned out that most of the people involved in the spontaneous attack
    on
    Meiri were not overt Hamas supporters.  They were ordinary
    people and Fatah activists, nominal supporters of the peace process.
         "One of the major difficulties of Arafat's position is that he is
    torn apart by the limits of his agreement with Israel, seen in the
    example
    of [the] settlement dispute, and the aspirations of his people
    to statehood," a diplomat says.
         Hamas exploits this problem by trashing the agreement but not
    going too far beyond the people's aspirations.
         The position of Hamas concerning talks with Israel has remained
    consistent for several years.  What they describe as their "minimum"
    position does not differ much from Fatah's own official position -
    "Israeli troop and civilian withdrawal to the 1967 borders," says
    Falouji.
    For that Hamas offers a straightforward cease-fire renewable every 10
    years "if the people consent." "Israel has two choices, a
    temporary cease-fire or no cease-fire," says Falouji.
         This is a ridiculous basis for negotiations, but Hamas does not
    offer
    to negotiate.  It wants to be the hand that directs Arafat in his
    negotiations.  "We can never negotiate directly with Israel.  There
    should
    be a third party.  And I don't mind if this third party
    is the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat," says Falouji.
         The same hand is trying to guide Arafat by poisoning the current
    agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, but in a way
    that will not offend Palestinian public opinion. (c) JPFS 1995
    
    

(The writer, a Likud MK, is a former defense minister.  In siding with
the PLO, our leaders have erased the line between moderates and
extremists in the territories.)


     The funeral procession slowly wound its way up the hillside, as
thousands marched behind Ofra's Felix's coffin last Sunday.  There was
the silence of death.  There were no sounds of sobbing, not a voice was
heard.  A hushed self-control pervaded the atmosphere.        The
mourners' faces reflected decision and determination.  From time to
time, someone would shoot a glance toward Nablus, the source of the
evil, then gaze tenderly at Mount Eival and Mount Gerizim, shrouded in
bluish mist.  Terrible pain fused with astounding beauty.  
     Most of the marchers were young.  Many were born and raised on the
hills of Judea and Samaria.  I looked into their faces and understood
that it was the end of an era.  
    No longer was there any division between moderates and extremists in
Judea, Samaria and Gaza confronting the collaboration between the
government and PLO murderers, against Jews.  
     The next day, wild Arab demonstrations against the settlements were
goaded on by leftists, MKs and ministers.  The government gave in and
froze construction work.  Perhaps it had been planned all along: 
inciting the Arabs to create a pretext for ending the construction.      
 Early Tuesday morning, the army forcibly evacuated a group of Jews who
had assembled at the spot where Ofra Felix was murdered.  A caravan
placed there was demolished.       In the evening, the army issued an
order to stop work and evacuate Jewish land within the perimeter of
Elkana, on the demand of Arabs from the village of Zawiye, known
supporters of Hamas, after they rioted.  
     Collaboration between the PLO and the government of Israel against
Jews goes on.  
     On Tuesday afternoon, eight Labor and Meretz MKs came to Jerusalem to
meet with ministers in Arafat's government.  They discussed ways to
combat the settlers' building and enlarging of their settlements.  
     In effect, it was incitement to murder Jews, carried out over a
neighborly a cup of coffee.  This is a very serious business, verging on
treason.  
     But it was nothing new; they've always done it.  
     In the '20s and '30s, the Communists, mostly Jews, incited Arabs to
slaughter other Jews.  And in the '40s, people from the left handed
Jewish fighters over to the British.  
     And the left, including the Labor Party, helped the PLO during the
war in Lebanon.  
     Arafat's people described the massive demonstrations in Tel Aviv as
"our last hope" (as cited in the Knesset on September 22, 1982).  Labor
leaders made harsh accusations against Israel to Arab diplomats.   Their
remarks were found recorded in Beirut (and quoted in the Knesset's
Foreign Affairs and Defense committee at the end of September 1982).  
     For years, leftists from Meretz and Labor traveled abroad creating
contacts with PLO headquarters, giving guidance on how to work against
Israeli governments.  
     Perhaps it really would be good to have an investigation: the GSS
could hand over the material it has, and those who aided and abetted the
enemy would finally be punished.  
     On Tuesday evening, the car belonging to Arafat's buddy Mohammed
Dahlan, head of the Palestinian "security service" in Gaza, blocked the
way of a bus taking children from the settlement of Netzarim home.   He
and four other armed men tried to board the bus, cursing and spitting
all the while, and brandishing their weapons.  Israeli
soldiers escorting the bus didn't stop them running amok.        
     The objects of Dahlan's threats were children, and the weapon he
brandished at them was one he had received from the Israeli security
establishment.  
     On Wednesday, after a wild demonstration in Samaria, Israel again
declared an end of construction work in the settlements, hinting that
construction around Jerusalem would be reexamined.  
     And Mohammed Dahlan, that "expert" in dealing with Jewish children,
and Amoun al-Hindi, responsible for the massacre of Jewish athletes in
Munich, received "VIP passports" exempting them from security checks on
our highways.

                      ISRAEL'S NPT DILEMMA
                       Gerald M. Steinberg

     In April 1995, delegates from the 167 countries which are
parties to the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will meet in
New York to consider extension of this agreement.  Article X of
the NPT calls for a conference after 25 years to "decide whether
the Treaty shall continue in force indefinitely or shall be
extended for an additional fixed period or periods".  If the
conference decides to extend the NPT, whether indefinitely or for
a limited period (an additional 25 years, for example), the
decision will be binding on all the current NPT signatories (even
those that vote against extension).
     One of the major issues surrounding this conference and the
future of the NPT is the status of Israel.  The Israeli
government has not signed the NPT, in part because it regards a
nuclear deterrent as essential to guarantee survival and, in
part, because of the failure of the NPT in preventing
proliferation in Iraq, and, it is now feared, Iran.
     Although Israel has never acknowledged the possession of
nuclear weapons, the reactor near Dimona has been producing
plutonium for many years, and Jerusalem is generally credited
with a nuclear option.  Israel is a microstate, barely
discernible on the map, and it has been subject to attack from
its creation in 1948.  Surrounding Arab armies far outnumber the
Israeli forces, and have invaded on more than one occasion.  One
Arab success will destroy the small Jewish state.  This threat
continues even with the current peace process, as Egypt, Syria,
and Iran stockpile hundreds of advanced tanks and aircraft, while
manufacturing chemical weapons and ballistic missiles.  In this
situation, polls show that 90% of Israelis view the policy of
nuclear ambiguity as vital to their survival.  This policy was
reaffirmed during the 1991 Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein
threatened to "incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons",
and was deterred by the threat of massive Israeli retaliation.
     In addition, from the Israeli perspective, the NPT system
has proven to be relatively weak and unreliable in the Middle
East.  Iraq signed the NPT, but if had Saddam not invaded Kuwait
in August 1990, and triggered the 1991 Gulf War, he would have
had a number of nuclear weapons by now.  Indeed, the NPT provided
a cover of legitimacy for Iraq's "peaceful nuclear program" and
even provided assistance to this effort.  Now, Teheran is
following a similar course, even though Iran is a long-time NPT
signatory, and the prospect of a radical fundamentalist regime
with nuclear weapons is very disturbing.  Israel knows that if it
signed the NPT, it would be giving up its nuclear deterrent,
while, in a few years, its enemies would add nuclear weapons to
the chemical agents and ballistic missiles they have already
acquired.
     Nevertheless, Jerusalem is coming under tremendous pressure
to change its policy and sign the NPT, or to at least take some
binding steps in this direction in the build-up to the 1995
conference.  Most of the pressure comes from Cairo, which has
seized this issue as a political vehicle by which to reassert its
role as the leader of the Arab world, and as a means of removing
Israel's deterrent option and restoring the Egyptian and Arab
military superiority.  The Egyptians are attempting to gain the
support of many Arab, Islamic, and non-aligned states in this
campaign.  If they succeed, and a majority of states vote against
indefinite or long term extension of the NPT at the 1995
conference, this will severely weaken or even destroy the
international non-proliferation regime.
     Despite the limitations of the NPT, Israel has clear
strategic and political interests in the indefinite extension of
this international agreement.  In addition to the failures in the
cases of Iraq and Iran, the NPT has had some notable successes.
The international nuclear non-proliferation regime has prevented
the spread of nuclear weapons to Egypt, Syria, Libya, and other
countries in the Middle East.  The NPT delayed and complicated
Iraq's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, and created an
international framework that allowed the United Nations
inspectors to destroy the Iraqi nuclear facilities after the 1991
war.  It is also possible that these norms will also provide the
basis for military action against Iran in order to prevent the
radical regime from achieving the status of a nuclear power.
These successes are clearly important to Israel, and the
government in Jerusalem has a major interest in the indefinite
extension of the NPT.
     In a broader sense, the NPT is also an important element in
international order and stability.  A world of many nuclear
powers would be highly unstable, and would undermine the ability
of the United States to intervene in regional conflicts,
including those in the Middle East.  American military, economic,
and political dominance is a key element in slowing the rise of
Islamic fundamentalism and radical regimes in the region, and in
preventing large scale warfare.  The NPT is a key element in
American foreign policy, and a number of US government
delegations have told Israeli officials that they expect
Jerusalem to contribute in some way to the success of the 1995
NPT extension conference.  As Washington's major Middle Eastern
ally, it is difficult for Israel to refuse.
     These divergent interests pose a difficult dilemma for
Israel.  The Rabin government has firmly ruled out signing the
NPT and changing the policy of "deliberate ambiguity", but it
also acknowledges the importance of indefinite NPT extension.  In
the effort to resolve the dilemma, Israel has declared its
readiness to give up its nuclear option in the context of a
Middle East agreement, which would strengthen the NPT.  A Nuclear
Weapons Free Zone would require the participation of all the
states in the region, including Syria, Iran and Iraq, and would
supplement existing safeguards with special measure designed for
the Middle East.  The Israeli proposals are being discussed in
the multilateral Arms Control and Regional Security talks that
began after the 1991 Madrid conference (and in which Canada is
playing a major role).  Iran, Iraq, Syria, an Libya are
boycotting these talks, but a framework for future action is
being developed, in the hope that political changes in these
states will also lead to policy changes.
     The best hope for NPT extension with Israeli cooperation is
to link the global regime with the specific requirements of the
Middle East.  In this way, the conditions that Israel needs in
order to give up its deterrent threat can be met in a way that
also reassures Egypt and the other Arab states.  On the other
hand, attempts to force Israel's hands without these reassurances
will damage the Middle East peace process, and will not help the
NPT.


Dr. Gerald Steinberg is a Senior Research Associate at the BESA
Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan,
Israel

YESHA NEWS SERVICE, WEDNESDAY 18 JANUARY 1995
(In conjunction with Arutz 7)

SECURITY ON THE DECLINE IN GAZA
	According to members of the Knesset security and 
external affairs committee, which toured through Gaza this 
week, security problems have become much more serious in the 
Gaza region.  "The [PLO] is not dealing with terrorists who are 
carrying out terror attacks against Israel," said Southern 
Commander Shaul Mofaz to the Knesset committee.  
	In a report given to Prime Minister Rabin, it was stated 
that over 2,000 metal rods had been stolen from Gaza's security 
fence.  "The area commanders tell us that the security situation 
is very bad.  Brig.-Gen. Doron Almog told us that the PLO police 
sit, drink coffee, play backgammon and don't do a thing against 
terrorist," said Tsomet MK Moshe Peled.  [Yediot Ahronot, 18 
January]
	Despite the substantial increase in terror attacks against 
soldiers and civilians around the autonomous Gaza region, 
Southern General Command has declared it will reduce IDF 
forces in the area.  In a meeting with local residents Monday, 
Mofaz said, "I cannot guarantee you protection on the roads."  
Mofaz also told them that there is no cooperation between IDF 
and PLO soldiers, and that IDF soldiers always have their 
weapons loaded because of the situation. [Arutz 7, 18 January]
	Meanwhile, after touring Gush Katif, Police Director Assaf 
Hefetz declared that conditions were satisfactory for opening 
the safe passage routes between Gaza and Jericho, and he is now 
waiting for the go-ahead to do so.  [Israel Radio, 18 January]

SARID: THERE IS NO "GREATER JERUSALEM"
	"There is no such thing as 'greater Jerusalem'.  Jerusalem 
is Jerusalem.  It's  borders have been set according to law and 
the rest [of the areas called 'greater Jerusalem'] are just 
'hitchhikers' that are trying to become of equal importance on 
Jerusalem's merit.  For Jerusalem's sake, we need to get rid of 
them," said MK Yossi Sarid.  "This government was built on the 
idea of a building freeze in the settlements, and anyone who 
doesn't understand this and in 1995 wants to 'unfreeze' the 
building restrictions can go find themselves another 
government...  We have enough of a headache with the existing 
settlements; we have no ability to suffer additional headaches," 
Sarid continued.
	Prime Minister Rabin also agrees that areas such as 
Ma'ale Adumim, Givat Zev and Beitar don't fall into the category 
of "greater Jerusalem" and therefore they are also subject to the 
building freeze.  Rabin continued on to say that areas such as 
Shuafat - an Arab neighborhood north of French Hill - is still 
considered to be within "greater Jerusalem" and therefore 
building can continue there without limitation.  [Yediot Ahronot, 
18 Jerusalem]

"ANTI-SETTLEMENT DAY" IN YESHA
	Yesterday was "anti-settlement" day in Yesha, with 
hundreds of Arabs protesting what they claim is unfounded 
building in Yesha's Jewish communities.  "Today begins a new 
intifada - the intifada of the land," said Maruan Barguti, Fatah's 
general secretary in Judea and Samaria, during demonstrations 
held outside the Jewish community of Psagot, near Ramallah.  
The protest was forcefully broken up by the IDF after the 
protestors refused to leave the area.  And IDF soldier was 
injured when a demonstrator threw a rock at his head.  
	The demonstrations were organized by PLO Chairman 
Yasser Arafat's chief advisor Ahmed Tibi, Maruan Barguti, 
Hanan Ashrawi, PA minister Yasser Abed Rabbo and Azmi 
Shauibi and the Palestinian National committee for the 
liquidation of Jewish settlements.  The demonstration began 
near Kohav Ya'akov, at one of the building sites of the new 
Ramallah bypass road.  After a number of confrontations with 
the IDF, in which the IDF was not able to disband the marchers, 
the protesters marched to within 500 meters of the border of 
Psagot.  
	The IDF then received orders to forcefully break up the 
march.  Protestors began throwing rocks as the IDF soldieras a level of
brutality of which I have never seen the likes, 
and we will not let it pass quietly.  The Prime Minister, who 
instructed the army to break Arab bones today, has said, in 
essence, "no" to the peace process," said Tibi.  "I am now 
warning of an escalation in violence throughout the territories 
in the coming weeks.  Starting from today, there is a new 
intifada..." threatened Barguti.  
	Hundreds of Arabs also demonstrated in Hebron 
yesterday, and tried to march to the Jewish community Beit 
Hagai, but were prevented from reaching the area by the IDF, 
who declared it a closed military zone.  There were also 
demonstrations and marches near Ariel, Peduel and Alei Zahav.  
[Arutz 7, 17 January]  
	Meanwhile, the Knesset is debating a legislation, 
submitted by Likud's Moshe Katzav, prohibiting Ahmed Tibi 
from continuing to work as Arafat's chief advisor.  According to 
Katzav, an Israeli citizen is not allowed to give council to a 
hostile source, or to a source which is engaging in negotiations 
with Israel or a foreign country, except with special permit by 
the Israeli government.  The punishment for transgressing this 
law is three years imprisonment.  [Yediot Ahronot, 18 January]

GOV'T WON'T TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST PLO ACTIVITY IN 
J'LEM
	The Knesset Interior Ministry met yesterday to discuss 
the Jerusalem Law, passed last month, which restricts 
Palestinian Authority (PA) activity outside Jericho and Gaza, 
particularly in light of a number of recent attempts made by 
the PA to conduct diplomatic activities from the Orient House in 
Jerusalem.  While committee chairman Yehoshua Matza 
suggested that criminal charges be filed against the PA 
members meeting with foreign delegations in Jerusalem, Police 
Minister Moshe Shahal recommended against such an action, 
even though it is provided for according to the new law.  "To 
turn these meetings into a criminal offense (which they now are 
according to the new law) is problematic because it is not 
always possible to prove criminal intent and without it, a case 
won't stand up in a court of law," Shahal tried to reason.  
[Jerusalem Post, 17 January]

NEW SECURITY MEASURES PROPOSED FOR TEMPLE MOUNT
	Jerusalem police plan to install an electric fence on top of 
the walls of the Temple Mount, including over the Western 
Wall.  A closed-circuit television system is also to be installed, 
to permit round-the-clock monitoring of the site.  
	Sources say the police have been considering various new 
security measures for the Temple Mount ever since the incident 
at the Cave of the Patriarchs last year.  They say the aim of an 
electric fence is to keep "intruders" from sneaking onto the 
Temple Mount.  
	Wakf director Adnon Husseini says the police have 
already spoken with him about implementing such measures.  
"We don't want anything changed at Al-Aksa.  what the police 
need to do is to go after the [Jewish] extremists [who have 
recently tried to pray on the Temple Mount] and put them in 
jail," said Husseini.  He also said that television cameras would 
be viewed as a provocation and destroyed shortly after 
installation.  [Jerusalem Post, 17 January]
	Meanwhile, the police continue to prevent Jews from 
praying on the Temple Mount, and most recently have arrested 
a group of 13 worshippers, led by Yehuda Etzion, for requesting 
to do so.  [Arutz 7, 16 January]

KAHALANI: SELL APARTMENTS IN ARIEL
	Labor MK Avigdor Kahalani says the government should 
go ahead and sell all finished apartment units in Ariel.  The 
government has not yet allowed these apartments to be 
marketed.  Kahalani, on a "study tour" of Samaria, said he is 
"astounded" that the government has not allowed these 
apartments to be sold, and that the Arabs should stop 
interfering with Israel's security and defense policies.  Kahalani 
also said that Israel should "throw Ahmed Tibi back to his home 
in Taiba."  [Jerusalem Post, 17 January]

RABIN DENIES IMMINENT IDF PULLOUT FROM BETHLEHEM
	Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin claims that the government 
is not planning an imminent IDF withdrawal from Bethlehem.  
[Arutz 7, 17 January]  Meanwhile, residents of Efrat and other 
Yesha leaders have already taken over abandoned IDF posts in 
the Bethlehem region in order to protect road passage between 
the Etzion block and Jerusalem following an IDF evacuation of 
these posts.  [Yesha Council]

IDF GENERALS PROTEST FOR BETTER SECURITY
	The strike for better security, held across from the Prime 
Minister's office, continues.  Reserve army officers, Rabbis and 
other authority figures, among them past Chief Rabbi, Rabbi 
Abraham Shapira, Reserve General Doron Rubin, Rabbi Ahron 
Lichtenshtein from Alon Shvut and Rabbi Chaim Drukman, are 
demanding that the Government upgrade the level of security 
provided for the country.  They are also demanding that Rabin 
not make any further concessions to the PLO during upcoming 
negotiations.  [Arutz 7, 16 & 17 January]


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    January 23, 1995..22 Shvat 5755..Number 344..Update from Israel
 
    **********************************************************************
 
    This Update is dedicated to the memory of the 19 victims of
    yesterday's tragic attack.
 
    We pray for the total and speedy recovery of the 36 victims still
    recovering in various hospitals throughout Israel.
 
    **********************************************************************
 
    For these fallen we mourn:
 
    1)  Staff-Sgt. Daniel Rosovski           20, Kadima
    2)  Staff-Sgt. Yechiel Sharvit           21, Haifa
    3)  Staff-Sgt. Yaron Blum                20, Jerusalem
    4)  Sgt. Maya Kopstein                   19, Jerusalem
    5)  Sgt. Daniel Tzikuashvilli            19, Jerusalem
    6)  Sgt. Avi Salto                       19, Rishon LeTzion
    7)  Sgt. Rafael Mizrachi                 19, Ramat Gan
    8)  Sgt. Eran Gueta                      20, Ashkelon
    9)  Cpl. Soli Mizrachi                   18, Ramat Gan
    10) Cpl. David Hasson                    18, Ashkelon
    11) Cpl. Amir Hirschenson                18, Jerusalem
    12) Cpl. Gilad Galon                     18, Herzliya
    13) Cpl Eitan Petetz                     18, Nahariya
    14) Lt. David Ben-Zino                   20, Ashdod
    15) Lt. Adi Rosen                        20, Moshav Bitz Aron
    16) Lt. Yuval Tuvya                      22, Jerusalem
    17) Sgt.-Maj. Anon Kadur                 24, Daliat Al-Carmel
    18) Cpl. Ilie Dagan                      18, Kochav Yair
    19) Shabtai Mahpud                       34, Moshav Tnuvot
    (Jerusalem Post Newspaper..1/23).
 
    *********************************************************************
    The injured: 36 injured, 2 of them listed as "very critical" and 15
    are listed as "critical".
 
    1)  Hillel Hospital in Hadera            13 victims
    2)  Bellinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah   2 victims
    3)  Sheiba Hospital in Ramat Gan          2 victims
    4)  Laniado Hospital in Netanya           2 victims
    5)  Meir Hospital in K'far Saba           3 victims
    6)  Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem        4 victims
    7)  Rambam Hospital in Haifa              2 victims
 
    The information on the other 8 victims is not available at this time.
    (Yediot Achronot Newspaper..1/23).
 
                                  ****
 
 
    Three steps were decided on at last night emergency cabinet meeting:
 
    1) A closure of Judea, Samaria and Gaza to "Israel proper" for Arabs.
    2) A suspension of all talks regarding the release of Arab prisoners.
    3) A suspension of talks vis-a-vis the new Gaza-Jericho road.
 
    In addition, Prime Minister Rabin is weighing the possibility of
    utilizing the option of deportation of families of suicide terrorists.
    This perhaps will deter terrorists from carrying out attacks such as
    yesterday's, the Dizengoff #5 bus, Afula bus attack and the Hadera bus
    attack.
 
    Ministers Ceasar, Sneh and Harish supported the deportation option in
    an attempt to curtail these slaughter attacks.
 
    IDF Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Amnon Shahack stated that the autonomy
    areas in Gaza and Jericho have become safe havens for terrorists.
    (Galei Tzahal/Army Radio..1/23..8:00am).
 
                                  ****
 
    One of the two terrorists responsible for yesterday's attack was
    released a short time ago from a PLO prison. He was also held in
    Israeli prisons in the past for terrorist activities. The terrorist's
    family is known as a member of Fatah. The terrorists father is a
    member of the PLO security forces. (Channel 7 Radio News..1/23
    ..10:00am).
 
                                  ****
 
    The total number of victims of Arab terror since the signing of the
    Oslo Accord has now reached 122. (Channel 7 Radio News..1/23
    ..10:00am).
 
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                       FOUR "PEACE" MYTHS
                     Dr. Gerald M. Steinberg

1)Myth: Palestinian rejectionists and Islamic radicals who
participate in or support terrorism, and reject any compromise
with Israel are few in number and lack popular support.

Reality: Following the January 23 Bet-Lid suicide bombing,
thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip (now under the
control of the Palestinian National Authority, headed by Yasir
Arafat, celebrated the brutal slaughter of the Israelis.  These
celebrations took place at the houses of the suicide bombers, who
were hailed as heros and martyrs.  Similar Palestinian
celebrations of terrorist attacks against Jews have taken place
since the 1920s.  The same hatred was exhibited in the 1991 Gulf
War, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians danced on the
rooftops while Iraqi Scud missiles were hitting Israeli cities.
Hatred of Israel, denial of the right of the Jewish people to an
independent state, and the brutality and violence and terror that
is the expression of this hatred, is widespread in Palestinian
society.

2)Myth: Economic growth, resulting from the peace process, will
lead to moderation and an end to support for terrorism among
Palestinians.

Reality: There is no evidence for the validity of this theory,
which is related to broader theories of "functionalism" in
international relations, lacks any factual support.  There is no
causal link between economic conditions and the willingness to
use violence to reach nationalist, ethnic, or religious goals.
The close economic links and integration in Yugoslavia did not
prevent the Serbs from attacking their neighbors to achieve
nationalist objectives.  The Serbs were willing to accept
tremendous economic losses in order to achieve these ideological
objectives.  Since 1967, the standard of living in the West Bank
has increased steadily, but this has not led to a decrease in
terrorism or hatred for Israel.  Similarly, there is no reason to
believe that an economic transformation of the Palestinians will
lead to moderation and end support for Hamas and the Islamic
Jihad.  Similarly, the argument that the continued access of
Palestinian workers to Israeli jobs will increase support for
Palestinian moderates is blatantly false.

3)Myth: There are no alternatives to the Oslo Declaration and the
current "peace process".

Reality: Israel can unilaterally define borders, annexing and
incorporating settlements and areas that are vital to national
security, while sealing off the other areas.  90 percent of the
Palestinian population in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) is
concentrated in three urban areas.  These can be formed into
cantons, with full internal autonomy, but without an armed police
force.  Transportation corridors between these areas (and with
the Gaza Strip) can be created, with all movement along these
corridors under strict Israeli military control.  This option is
not dependent on negotiations or Palestinian agreement and does
not require any Israeli "gestures" such as the release of
terrorists.  The physical separation of Palestinians from
Israelis will make terrorism more difficult, and will provide the
most important form of protection, and it can be implemented
unilaterally.

4)Myth: Israeli withdrawal from "occupied territory" and the
creation of a Palestinian state will lead to moderation and the
acceptance of the two-state solution.

Reality:  Palestinian and Islamic violence and terrorism is not
designed to achieve a Palestinian state; the objective is to
destroy the Jewish state.  This violence and terrorism goes back
over 70 years, long before Israel was created, and has always
been an expression of anti-Jewish hatreds.  Since 1947, the
Palestinians have rejected compromise and a two-state solution
precisely because their ultimate goal was the destruction of
Israel.  This goal is still enshrined in the Palestinian National
Covenant, and Arafat and the PLO have made no move to honor their
commitment to delete these statements of purpose.  There is no
reason to believe that any changes brought about by the peace
process, including the establishment of a Palestinian state in
all of the West Bank and Gaza, will alter these ultimate
objectives or end support for terrorism.

Dr. Gerald Steinberg is a Senior Research Associate at the BESA
Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan,
Israel (Fax:972-3-5353307; Email: gerald@vms.huji.ac.il)

1.  Yigal Carmon, who was Prime Minister's advisor on terror under Shamir
government, released a tape yesterday of a speech by Arafat in Gaza on January
1  1995 in which Yassir says, "We are all suicide bombers!"  This puts his
heart-rending dununciation of the Beit Lid massacre in perspective.
2.  There is report here that one of yesterday's bombers had been released from
 prison by Israel under one of those peace gestures to build confidence among
the Arabs and demonstrate good will.  Meanwhile, yesterday the Justice Minister
 - Meretz' David Libai - set up commission to study releasing ALL the remaining
 terrorists in prison.  The Left has been chiming away that the only reason
the Palestinioids are blowing up Jews is that they are sad at their comrades'
still rotting in prison and if Israel would just release them back onto the
streets, all this violence would end.
The Gazan released from jail who reportedly bombed the soldiers was
Anuar Sukar of Rafiach.
3.  As the IDF shut down its entire intelligence network in the Gaza Strip
due to the breaking out of peace, it has zero options for response.
4.  Understatement of the year;  President Ezer Weitzman: "Perhaps Arafat is
not the proper person with whom to sign accords."  Perhaps?
5.  In the Gaza Strip there were last night lots of parties with thousands of
festive celebrators to celebrate the great act of liberation and freedom.
6.  The blast seems to have been timed to correspond with the 50th anniversary
  of the liberation of Auschwitz, just as previous bombs were on days of
  remembrance associated with the Holocaust.  Just to make sure the Jews are
  getting the right message.
7.  Cabinet meeting yesterday to halt or limit construction in Jerusalem
suburbs so as not to upset the peace process.

====================================================================
Dr. Steven E. Plaut
Graduate School of Business
University of Haifa, Haifa Israel
Phone (972) 424-0110   FAX  (972) 424-0059
=====================================================================

            PALESTINIAN TERRORISM CONTINUES AS ALWAYS
                       Gerald M. Steinberg
     In the Middle East, it seems that the more things change,
the more they stay the same.  Over 15 months have passed since
the ceremony of September 13 1993, when Israeli Prime Minister
Rabin and PLO head Yassir Arafat signed what is known as the Oslo
Declaration.  Behind the facade of hand-shakes and smiles, for
Israelis, the realities of Palestinian terrorism, violence and
hatred of decades and generations continue.  Public opinion polls
in Israel show with every bus bombing and terrorist shooting,
support for the next stage of the Oslo process decreases.
Without a radical change, the government that negotiated the Oslo
Declaration and the "Gaza-Jericho First" plan will be defeated in
the 1996 elections.
     The basis for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was the
exchange of "land for peace"; Israel agreed to withdraw its army
from the territories captured in the 1967 war (when a coalition
of Arab states vowed to destroy the Jewish state) in return for
an end to the violence and terror.  To show good faith and get
things moving, Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip and a wide
area around Jericho.  The Oslo agreement specified the
responsibility of the Palestinian National Authority, under
Yassir Arafat, for preventing terrorism in these areas.  To allow
Arafat and the PLO to fulfill this obligation, they were allowed
to create a police force, armed with automatic rifles and other
weapons.  Yesterday's terrorists were to become today's partners
for peace, or so Israelis were told.
     It is now painfully clear, however, that these terrorists
are still today's killers, and Israel has only received more war
in return for the land it has given up.  Hardly a week goes by
without the funeral for a victim of continuing Palestinian
terrorism.  Dozens of women, men, and children -- all innocent
civilians -- have been killed in suicide bus bombs in Netanya, Tel Aviv,
Afula, and Hadera, and many more would have died had a similar
effort in Jerusalem succeeded.  The would-be Jerusalem suicide
bomber was a member of the Palestinian "police".
     In the past, the Israeli army was able to hunt down and
capture identified terrorists, but now, they can find a safe
haven in the areas under the control of Arafat and the
Palestinian National Authority.  The Oslo agreement includes
provisions for extradition, but the Palestinian authorities
refuse to respond to the Israeli requests.  Last week, Ofra
Felix, a young Israeli woman and daughter of a local rabbi, was
gunned down in cold blood in an ambush.  One of the murder
weapons was linked to the forces under Arafat's control.  In
another innocent, a Palestinian police patrol tried to ambush and
Israeli army unit.
     Beyond the continuing tragedy of the deaths of innocent
Israelis, the Palestinian response to the peace process has been
a major source of bitterness.  Here, it is also clear that
nothing has changed.  The myths, distortions and hatred that form
the very basis for terrorism and warfare continues.  For decades,
Palestinian and Arab leaders have propagated the big lie that
Israelis and Jews were outsider and colonialists.  Over 3000
years of Jewish history, and the deep connection with Jerusalem,
where King David wrote his Psalms, and with the hills and valleys
of Judea and Samaria, were ignored.  The continuous Jewish
presence in Jerusalem, throughout the centuries of exile and
diaspora, is erased in Palestinian history books.
     Nevertheless, millions of eternally optimistic Israelis
eagerly assumed that the peace agreements would change all that,
and the Palestinians would end their hostile propaganda and
accept the legitimacy of the Jewish state.  Instead, it
continues, and so does the violence these myths and distortions
create.  Before the ink on the Oslo Declaration had dried, Yassir
Arafat had declared a "jihad", or holy war, for the liberation of
Jerusalem.  In the mutual recognition agreement, Arafat pledged
to revise those portions of the Palestinian National Covenant
that refer to the goal of destroying Israel.  These words have
not been changed, and there is no sign that even this pledge will
be honored.  Instead, speaking in Arabic and before local
audiences, Arafat repeats the old slogans.  In a speech before
the Arab League, he declared, "The first goal will be the
liberation of all the occupied territories and the return of all
Palestinian refugees, Palestinian self-determination and the
establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as it's
capital."  The second goal is the liberation of the rest of
Palestine.  Instead of destroying the foundations that lead to
terrorism and violence, Arafat is reinforcing them.
     As in the past, the PLO and its leaders are focused
exclusively on their demands and requirements.  They demand
Jerusalem as a capital of a Palestinian state, they demand the
release of all the murderers and terrorists in Israeli jails (as
"a gesture of good will").  While shrilly shouting their own
demands, they have taken no action to end the attacks against
Israelis.  Unless the Palestinians recognize that in a peace
process, both sides must be able to live peacefully, this effort,
like the others that came before, will fall victim to ugly
hatreds and the inability to see both sides of the divide.

Dr. Gerald Steinberg is a Senior Research Associate at the BESA
Center for Strategic Studies, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan,
Israel

>From: The Jerusalem Post, January 23 1995               

LISTEN TO WEIZMAN!  
OPINION by DAVID BAR-ILLAN
Post Executive Editor

     President Ezer Weizman's call for the government to suspend talks
with the PLO and reassess the peace process is unprecedented.  Israeli
presidents are expected to grant pardons and meet dignitaries, not advise
the government on foreign affairs.  That Weizman ignored protocol and
spoke out following yesterday's massacre at Beit Lid is a measure of his
sensitivity to the public mood and the gravity of the
hour.  
     Unfortunately, a vast majority of the government ministers showed no
such sensitivity.  Stubbornly refusing to let facts get in the way of
their delusions, they repeated, almost uniformly, the mindless mantra that
has become their trademark: we shall not play into the
hands of the terrorists by stopping the peace process.  
     Israel can only hope that they - and particularly Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin - will be sufficiently shaken by Weizman's utterances to pay
them heed; if not because he is the president, then because he is a
certified super-dove, a Labor man who has consistently, ardently, and
unreservedly supported the talks with the PLO and the Declaration
of Principles.  
     What Weizman says is nothing more than plain common sense.  Israel
signed an agreement with Yasser Arafat, because he claimed to be the "sole
representative" of the Palestinian people and was recognized as such by
the whole world.  But, clearly, he has no influence at all over a very
substantial minority, or perhaps a majority, of the people he purports to
represent.  As Weizman put it, "Perhaps he is not the right man." 
     The main problem is that, aside from letting his security services
deliver some low-level Hamas and Islamic Jihad functionaries in the West
Bank to Israel's security services, Arafat has not lifted a finger against
terrorists.  He has acted neither against Islamic groups nor any of the
radical PLO factions, including his own Fatah Hawks, which have proclaimed
their continuing adherence to the "armed
struggle." 
     On the contrary.  In every speech he makes, Arafat praises the
"martyrs of the struggle" and the suicidal fanatics who have killed
Israelis, and his newspapers list these killers as martyrs and heroes. 
 Even after Sunday's massacre at Beit Lid, he did not do what the Oslo
agreement requires him to do: speak publicly against violence and the
continuation of "the armed struggle."
     The Palestinians are acutely aware of his true attitude, which is why
they pay little attention to his general condemnations of "the killing of
innocents" in telephone conversations with Rabin, or to
announcements of regret by his mouthpiece, Ahmed Tibi.  
     It is not as if Israelis expect him to perform miracles.  To totally
eliminate terrorism may indeed be impossible, and terrorism by suicidal
bombers is a particularly daunting challenge.  But to describe these
killers as lone fanatics against whom there is no cure is misleading. 
Suicide bombers can only do harm because they have organizations behind
them.  Without the financing, training, logistics, team work,
intelligence, and explosives provided by these organizations, they could
not operate.  And the bitter fact is that these organizations are
functioning freely, openly, and with full official sanction in the areas
under the control of Arafat's Palestinian Authority.  
     It is this open approval of terrorist activity which must give every
Israeli pause.  To excuse it by saying that Israel, too, has been unable
to eliminate terrorism is to insult the nation's intelligence.  No one
expects Arafat to "wave a magic wand," as he put it; just to combat
terrorism with all the means at his disposal.  But by now it is painfully
clear that such an expectation, touted by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres as
one of the reasons for leaving Gaza, is a ludicrous pipe dream.  
     Moreover, Arafat's own men, both Fatah Hawks and Jibril Rajoub's
police, have been systematically killing "collaborators" in the West Bank. 
Many were indeed Palestinians who provided Israel with essential
intelligence.  If Hamas and Islamic Jihad can operate with greater
efficiency today, it is because these "collaborators" have
been eliminated.  
     It is, then, ridiculous to suggest that the terrorists represent the
anti-peace forces while Arafat represents the pro-peace pragmatists, as
Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin said yesterday.  Nor does it make
sense to state that the suspension of the peace talks
would reward the terrorists.  
     The precise opposite is true.  The terrorists want Israeli withdrawal
at least as much as Arafat does.  The reason they have increased their
activities is that they have been assured over and over again by the
government that no matter what they do, the "process" and the withdrawal
will go on.  Both Peres and Rabin have repeatedly said that Palestinian
violations simply do not matter.  The process must and will continue. 
Only if the terrorists became convinced that their actions would actually
stop the withdrawal would they have to reexamine their tactics.  
     Rabin referred to Sunday's bombing as something "we knew in Lebanon."
He was probably referring to the suicidal techniques.  But the mention of
Lebanon was more relevant than he might have thought.  Terrorism against
the Israeli army in Lebanon increased in ferocity and frequency as soon as
it became clear that Israel was withdrawing. 

     The very fact that Israel was not going to be the dominant power in
the area made it an attractive target.  It also dried up many of its
intelligence sources, who felt they would rather not risk their lives for
forces that were on their way out.  The phenomenon is now apparent in the
territories.  Israel's friends have been replaced by
those who want to curry favor with the bosses of tomorrow.  
     It is to face these new facts that Weizman called for a general
recruitment of all available brainpower in the country.  The national
emergency requires the cooperation of both sides of the political fence,
he said.  But chances are his advice will be rejected.  If Peres's
pronouncements are any indication, the government is less interested in
peace than in withdrawal.  It wants to avoid ruling over
a million Arabs in the territories at any price.  
     The trouble is that the price may be prohibitive indeed.  (c)
JPFS 1995

>           <<< Note 1412.15 by TAV02::KREMER "Itzhak Kremer @ISO" >>>
>                       -< Arafat's Johannesburg Speech >-
>
>      [Ed. note:  The agreement with Koraish allowed Mohammed to
>pray in Mecca, which was under Koraish control, for ten years. 
>When Mohammed grew stronger two years later, he abrogated the
>agreement, slaughtered the tribe of Koraish and conquered Mecca.]
    
    This is the "strategy" I was referring to in my last reply in here.  I
    hadn't heard of this until about 6 months ago and I'm surprised at how
    little publicity it receives here in the West (U.S.).  All of these
    "peace" agreements should be tossed out the window for what Arafat's
    real motives are.
    
    thanks for the posting of it,
    Mike

<>           <<< Note 1412.15 by TAV02::KREMER "Itzhak Kremer @ISO" >>>
<>                       -< Arafat's Johannesburg Speech >-
<>
<>      [Ed. note:  The agreement with Koraish allowed Mohammed to
<>pray in Mecca, which was under Koraish control, for ten years. 
<>When Mohammed grew stronger two years later, he abrogated the
<>agreement, slaughtered the tribe of Koraish and conquered Mecca.]
<   
<   This is the "strategy" I was referring to in my last reply in here.  I
<  hadn't heard of this until about 6 months ago and I'm surprised at how
<  little publicity it receives here in the West (U.S.).  All of these
<  "peace" agreements should be tossed out the window for what Arafat's
<  real motives are.

Very interesting how silent the leftists are to these questions, eh?
The only answer I can think of is that leftist pride is more important than
human life or national survival. But if one of the Rabin-junta's supporter's
who read BAGELS wishes to answer, I'd certainly be interested in listening.
And I won't even demand that the note be censored or whine to Coporate
Personnel. So there!

The next note may not provide answers, but it should provide interesting
reading (unless it too is "hidden.").

Yehoshua

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                             UNCENSORED NEWS
                                   
                 **ANGRY ISRAELIS SAY PEACE HAS FAILED**
     BEIT LID JUNCTION, Israel -- At a bombed-out bus shelter alight
with memorial candles, a woman clutched a scrap of khaki she had picked
up off the pavement where dozens of soldiers had fallen in a double
blast.
     "I came here to cry,'' said Yona Tsanani, 65, from nearby Kfar
Saba. ``My heart hurts.
"    If the government continues in this manner,'' she added, ``we are
all lost.''
     Dozens of people wandered about this junction near Netanya on
Monday, while workers rebuilt the bus stop and snack bar gutted by
Sunday's explosions. Some prayed, others lit candles and cried.
     All, however, criticized Israel's autonomy accord with the
Palestinians, saying it is producing only more violence and victims.
Islamic militants opposed to the accord claimed responsibility for the
suicide bombing.
     ``We are sitting ducks,'' asked Tal Hanan, 44, from Moshav Yanuv.
``They shoot to see if we are dead, then they shoot again.''
     A busload of Americans from San Diego laid flowers next to the
concrete shell of the bus stop. On it, someone had pasted the front
page of a newspaper showing the 19 victims of Sunday's bombing, most of
them teen-age soldiers.
     The bloodshed is fueling Israeli opposition to Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin's government and its peace policies.
     "The myth that this is the price of peace is finished,'' said Eli
Dadon, 49, who lost his son in November when a suicide bomber on a
bicycle set off explosives that killed himself and three Israeli
soldiers at a checkpoint in the Gaza Strip.
     Dadon collected about three pages of signatures on a petition
against the Rabin government.
     I want to show the government how many people don't want them,''
he said. ``Send them home.''
     Sheik Abdullah Shami, spiritual leader of the Islamic Jihad
faction that claimed responsibility for the bombing, vowed Monday to
continue the attacks. AP, Jan. 24

              **FREEZE ON US ASSETS PLANNED SINCE OCTOBER**
     President Clinton has ordered a freeze on U.S. assets of 12
middle-eastern organizations and a number of individuals suspected of
terrorist activities.  administration officials say
     The groups are believed to be involved in activities aimed at
halting the Middle East peace process.  Officials say President Clinton
will discuss the action he has taken, as well as other U.S. efforts to
combat terrorism in his state of the union speech Tuesday night.  White
House spokesman Mike McCurry says President Clinton has signed an
executive order freezing the U.S. assets of 12 Middle East groups and
18 individuals believed to be involved in terrorist activities. 
     The action seeks to block financial transactions and restrict the
flow of charitable donations to those groups, which include Hamas, the
Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and the Palestinian Liberation Front. 
     Mr. Mccurry says the administration believes the organizations are
specifically involved in the effort to disrupt and destroy the peace
process in the Middle East.   The spokesman says the administration
began drawing up plans for the executive order back in October, after a
suicide bomber in Israel killed more than 20 people on a bus in Tel
Aviv.  VOA, Jan. 24,

               **PALESTINIAN POLICE VIOLATIONS REVEALED**
     After months of rumors concerning the existence of an official
report on Palestinian violations of the Oslo Accords and the Cairo
Agreement, a classified document was leaked to the press on Monday
detailing infringements ranging from major security issues to fraud. 
     The 15-page report, written by the Judge Advocate-General's office
in mid-December and signed by Brig.-Gen. David Yahav, has been
frequently mentioned by the opposition.  Although many of the
violations were known, this is the first officially compiled list.     
     Much of the report deals with the Palestinian Police.  It says a
Kalashnikov submachine gun registered to the Palestinian Police was
used in the October terror attack in Jerusalem.  Moreover, it says the
Palestinian Authority has not forwarded the names of its policemen in
Jericho and Gaza.
     According to the report, the most serious violations include the
PA's failure to respond to requests to extradite terrorists suspected
of murdering Israelis, to act against terror aimed at Israel, to pass
on the results of investigations, and to control anti-Israel
incitement.  Other violations cited in the report include:      --
**Palestinian policemen have entered areas of Jewish settlements with
no prior coordination and patrolled alone on major roads.       
**Uniformed Palestinian policemen have traveled from Jericho to Gaza
via Israel and the territories a without permits. 
**"On several occasions, Palestinian policemen have been caught
traveling in stolen vehicles," the report states. 
**Freed Palestinian prisoners required to stay in Jericho and Gaza have
traveled to the territories without permits.  The obligation to
prevent infiltrations into Israel and Egypt has not been fulfilled. 
**The PA is not acting to confiscate weapons from Palestinian civilians
even when they are carried openly. 
     The report also mentions the arrests and torture of suspected
collaborators. Jerusalem Post, Jan. 24,

   **WEIZMAN'S CALL TO HALT TALKS SEEN AS SEVERE BLOW TO GOVERNMENT**
     President Ezer Weizman on Sunday called on the government to
temporarily halt the peace talks with the PLO in response to the Beit
Lid bombing, suggested it consider military action, and hinted he
supports the formation of a national-unity government. 
     Weizman thereby broke the customary presidential silence on
matters of politics and policy.  His appeal to the government to
suspend the talks is seen as a particularly bitter blow for the
government, given Weizman's own dovish record. 
    Labor sources on Sunday night described Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and most of his ministers as "livid."
    Appearing on Israel TV's evening news program, Weizman argued that
Israel "is conducting negotiations with [PLO Chairman Yasser] Arafat on
the assumption that he is the leader of the Palestinian side.  The
government ought now to suspend these talks and tell Arafat to make a
greater effort to put an end to this slaughter.       
     "If Arafat has no influence or control - and it doesn't matter if
we talk about terrorists who come from Nablus or from Gaza - then the
talks with him ought to be halted and there must be some very tough,
hard, and thorough rethinking," he said.  "I know I am saying harsh
things and that when these words come from someone like me, they carry
no small significance."
     Weizman also took Syrian President Hafez Assad to task.  "Mr.
Assad sometimes does us a favor by talking at all.  We must tell him:
'Under your jurisdiction are terrorist outfits who proudly proclaim
their handiwork.' Before we enter negotiations, we ought to demand
greater control in this instance, too."
     A peace process, Weizman explained, "is like a battle, the battle
for peace.  If one goes through a mine field, one stops and checks and
stops again, examining the terrain astutely with proper tactics and
proper attention to the conditions.  No one just marches through,
straight ahead, regardless of the dangers, without looking around.
When one gets shelled, one needs to reassess.  In the current
situation, there has to be a review."
     Peace must always, the president stressed, "remain a lamp unto our
feet, but we must reevaluate how we attain it."
     Halting the talks will not necessarily turn the PLO into an enemy
again, he said. 
    "The PLO wants to make gains and it knows that things cannot go on
as they are now ...  We thought that following the agreement, the PLO
would better control its population and would curtail terror.  But not
only has terror not been halted; things are getting worse."      The
president cited the slogan that, "You make peace with enemies," but
noted, "The government must also make its peace with Israelis.  The
mood among the people is dark."
     There have been difficult times before, he admitted, recalling the
Coastal Road bus hijacking in 1978, when he was defense minister. 
     "It was an action we could not prevent, but we took action and
went into Lebanon.  Perhaps the prime minister and his government ought
to take time out and consider a military response," he said.       
     Labor sources expressed deep dismay at Weizman's statements.  They
said he had done irreparable harm to the party and its beleaguered
government, by giving his powerful backing to the public's anger at a
time when the government is already suffering a decline of popularity.
     Though Weizman seemed to speak off-the-cuff in the TV interview,
he carefully debunked each and every argument made by Rabin on Sunday,
sources pointed out, going so far as to dispute Rabin's assertion that
one cannot demand that Arafat control the actions of Palestinians in
the West Bank. Jerusalem Post, Jan. 23,

**RABIN DECIDES IT'S TIME TO "CRACK DOWN" ON MILITANT ISLAMIC
ORGANIZATIONS**
     Israel has launched a crackdown on militant Islamic  organizations
in the occupied territories, arresting more than 50 people and closing
at least one Islamic organization it says is a front for the radicals. 
     The moves are in response to a bombing Sunday near Tel Aviv, which
killed 19 people. 
     Israeli police and soldiers swept through the West Bank during the
past two days, arresting several prominent radicals and many others
suspected of supporting the two main terrorist organizations -- Islamic
Jihad and Hamas.  Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for Sunday's
bombing.
     In a village (El Bireh) near the West Bank town of Ramallah, not
far from Jerusalem, local Islamic officials said Israeli troops
ransacked a mosque, apparently searching for evidence against alleged
radicals. Reporters said the mosque was littered with broken cabinets
and copies of the Muslim holy book, the Koran.   
     The troops also searched and then closed offices in Hebron of a
group called the League of Islamic Scholars in Palestine. (Rabitat
olama il-islam, filistine)
               RABIN CONSIDERING A FENCE TO PROTECT ISRAEL
     Meanwhile, the Israeli government was considering a proposal to
build a fence around Israel's pre-1967 borders, plus East Jerusalem,
its suburbs and other settlements along the old border. Some officials
supported the idea as a way to fight terrorist infiltration, but others
were concerned such a move might hurt peace talks.  A Palestinian
official (Samir Abdullah) said security can come only from real peace,
not from fences.
                    PERES SAYS SEPARATE AND COOPERATE
     Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres says Israel and the
Palestinians need "physical separation and economic cooperation", and
he called on the Palestinian autonomy authority leader, Yasser Arafat,
to do more to fight the terrorist groups.    I would expect him to make
a more obvious and visible effort to stop the acts of terror and the
acts of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza.  We don't ask, from Arafat,
100 percent success, but we do ask 100 percent effort so people will
see that he is really trying very hard.
           PERES COMPLAINS PLO IGNORES HAMAS AND ISLAMIC JIHAD
     Mr. Peres complained that Hamas and Islamic Jihad openly hold
rallies in Gaza without any reaction from Palestinian police, and he
noted that in the eight months of Palestinian autonomy there have been
no arrests or trials of members of terrorist organizations. 
     He said  Israel cannot allow a terrorist base to be created in its
midst.  He indicated this thought is prominent in his mind as
negotiations continue toward expanding the Palestinian autonomous area.
     The Palestinian authority has detained many people for short
periods following terrorist attacks, but has not charged any of them
with serious crimes.  On Tuesday, the Palestinian police detained the
spokesman for Islamic Jihad in Gaza, but, as in similar cases in the
past, released him after questioning. 
     Palestinian officials have condemned the continuing terrorism and
have promised to launch a more effective campaign to stop it.
                      HOWEVER, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN
     So far, the top leaders on both sides continue to say they will
not allow terrorism or other problems such as Israeli settlement
construction to stop their effort to further implement their peace
accord.  But they admit the problems make their effort more difficult
and could bring it to a halt if they are not solved. VOA, Jan. 24,
                     **RABIN TAKES FURTHER ACTION**
     Tens of thousands of Palestinians were prevented from reaching
their jobs in Israel on Monday, as the Israeli government retaliated
for Sunday's terrorist bombing north of Tel Aviv, which killed 19
people. 
     The bombing was a setback for the peace process, but will not end
it.
                   ISRAEL CRACKS DOWN--FOR A FEW DAYS
     To retaliate for the bombing, Israel's cabinet voted late Sunday
to close the occupied territories, delay talks on releasing Palestinian
prisoners and postpone the opening of a safe passage route between the
autonomous areas of Gaza and Jericho.  But in an unusual step, it
specified that the border closing will be only for a few days, and the
carefully worded cabinet communique referred to a "delay" in the
planned prisoner releases, not a cancellation of the plan.
     The cabinet also ignored a call by Israeli President Ezer Weizman
to suspend talks on the next phase of the Israeli-Palestinian peace
plan.
                 BEST WAY TO END PROBLEM IS TO CONTINUE
     A few months ago, Israel was rocked by a more deadly bombing in
Tel Aviv.  After a delay, the peace process resumed.  In recent weeks,
Palestinians have been angry about continuing Israeli construction in
the occupied territories.  But still the talks have continued.
Officials on both sides say this time it will be the same because, as
the top leaders re-affirmed yet again just last week, they believe the
best way to end the dissatisfaction and violence is to further
implement their accord and begin to show the benefits of peace to
people on both sides. VOA, Jan. 24,

               **TERRORIST GROUP HEADQUARTERED IN SYRIA**
     Secretary of State Warren Christopher has telephoned Syrian
Foreign Minister Faruk al-Sharaa to try to get Syrian help in cutting
off support for the Islamic Jihad organization that has claimed
responsibility for Sunday's bombing at an Israeli bus stop that killed
19 people.  Ron Pemstein reports from the State Department.
     The United States has repeatedly urged Syria to stop giving safe
haven to Palestinian groups that use terror against Israel.
     Islamic Jihad says two of its members carried out Sunday's bombing
in Israel that killed 19 people.  The Jihad belongs to a Palestinian
alliance based in Damascus.   State Department spokeswoman Christine
Shelley says Secretary of State Christopher telephoned the Syrian
Foreign Minister after he heard about the bombing.
     The presence of these groups in Damascus is one of the reasons
that Syria remains on the U-S terrorism list.
     We've raised this matter repeatedly with the Syrians and at the
highest levels and yesterday, after we got the word that this had
occurred, the secretary did telephone Foreign Minister Shara after
learning of the attack. 
     We've made very clear to the Syrians the need to cease providing
safe haven for terrorist groups.
     The spokeswoman did not give Syria's response to the Secretary of
State but she notes Syria has not condemned the deadly attack in
Israel. Voice of America, Jan. 23,
     In conversations between Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich and both
Middle East peace process coordinator Dennis Ross and White House aide
Martin Indyk, an Israeli official in Washington said, "We pointed out
to the administration the need to explain to the Syrians that the fact
a terrorist organization based in Damascus takes responsibility is
intolerable, and does not go hand-in-hand with Syria's expressed
intention to have serious peace negotiations." Jerusalem Post, Jan. 24,

**EXCERPTS FROM AN INFORMATION BRIEFING [MASS MAILING] BY THE CONSUL
GENERAL OF ISRAEL IN CHICAGO TO REASSURE AMERICANS THAT AMERICAN TROOPS
WOULD NOT BE IN DANGER ON THE GOLAN.**
**Israel feels that positive results on the Syrian track of
negotiations would:
1. Stimulate a wave of normalization between the Arab world and Israel.
The American Role on the Golan
Monitoring not Peacekeeping
     As in the case of the Sinai, observers will not be stationed in a
hostile environment, but rather one characterized by an atmosphere
consistent with peaceful relations between nations. Descriptions of
U.S. trip-wire or buffer forces being placed in a Somalia-like
situation are designed purposely to mislead the public.
**Premature Debate is Harmful to the Negotiations
     The sides must be allowed to pursue the negotiations in a
constructive atmosphere.
[Quoting Rabin:]
"No doubt on the Golan Heights for 19 years we had not one act of
terror through the lines between Syria and Israel."
[Editorial Comment, Are there two Syrias? as the Rabin government
certainly can't be speaking of the Assad government.?]

                          THE JERUSALEM INSIDER
                          by Benjamin Netanyahu
                Member of Knesset and leader of the Likud
1.Netanyahu Pledges Cooperation With Rabin On Jerusalem. Likud
leadership met with Prime Minister Rabin on 1.16.95 and pledged its
unconditional support for immediate actions required to solidify
Israel's threatened sovereignty over Jerusalem. Netanyahu recommended
accelerating and expanding infrastructure projects, implementing the
12.26.94 law prohibiting certain PLO activities on Israeli territory
and evicting PLO's security. diplomatic and other institutions from the
capital.
2.Americans Oppose US Peace Monitors On The Golan. According to a
1.3.95 poll conducted by Luntz Research 58%:35% oppose the stationing
of US peace monitors on the Golan. 73%:20% oppose it if the American
force would face the risk of terrorist attacks or renewed
Syrian-Israeli fighting. The survey of 1,000 adults, commissioned by
the Center For Security Policy. also indicates that most Americans
(66%:28%) believe that Congressional Hearings should be held before an
agreement is reached on the subject. The Luntz survey is consistent
with a 11.9.94 Fabrizio-McLaughlin poll. in which 64%:20% oppose the
deployment of US troops to the Golan. In a similar poll conducted by
the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University. a
large majority of Israelis (69%:15%) oppose the proposition.
3.Solid Israel-Syria Security Agreements Rather Than US Monitors. A
durable peace accord between Israel and Syria should maintain the
traditional burden-sharing formula between the US and Israel. Israel
should continue defending itself and other vital US interests in face
of inherent Mideast uncertainty and radicalism. while the US deploys
its forces in other essential areas in the region and its periphery. A
long-term peace should withstand potential upheavals and violence. It
should be based on sustainable security arrangements between Syria and
Israel rather than on US presence.
4.Deployment Of US GIs Or (more vulnerable) Monitors On The Golan Could
Threaten The Special US-Israel Ties. The architects of the plan to
station US soldiers/monitors on the Golan maintain that their proposal
would be as peaceful and as safe as the Sinai expedition. They
disregard Assad's record of breaking agreements with Lebanon, Turkey
and Israel, and they ignore the striking differences between the Sinai
and the Golan: Geography. Topography. Size. Regional Politics. Military
and Terrorism (Please see J.I. #7&11). The Sinai arena reduces
hostilities thus minimizing potential frictions between Israel and US
monitors. However. the volatile, violent and transient nature of the
neighborhood surrounding the Golan could engage Israel militarily even
after an agreement is signed. It would thus produce a series of
conflicting US-Israel interests, straining Israel's ties with US
monitors. It could undermine US-Israel relations as happened in 1982/3
with the stationing of the Marines in Lebanon. Similarly. the
deployment of Norwegian soldiers to So. Lebanon has adversely affected
Israel-Norway ties, especially in the aftermath of the
harassment/killing of some soldiers by Lebanese and Palestinians.

***                       ISRAELI NEWSPAPERS***
Papers comment on President Ezer Weizman's call for the suspension of
the talks with the Palestinians and for the creation of a national
unity government:
**Yediot Ahronot complains that "all day yesterday, the nation's
leadership was immersed in efforts to deflect responsibility," and says
that "President Weizman was the only person yesterday who rose to the
occasion, when he rose above political party and prestige
considerations, and suggested that the country create a united front
against terrorism. It is good that his suggestion was not accepted.
Unity is valuable only there is a common goal, and this is not yet the
situation. But it is good that there is someone who, at least, sees the
advantage of unity."
**Ma'ariv, in its second editorial, says that "when a prominent dove
like President Weizman suggests to halt the peace process, even
temporarily, it is a sign that the peace camp's confidence in the
correctness of its cause has been undermined." The paper notes that "in
order to avoid a clash with the PLO in the territories, Hamas and
Islamic Jihad have taken care to carry out severe attacks inside the
State of Israel," and believes that this shows that "the Oslo Agreement
does not ensure the security of Jews, even inside the Green Line." The
editors reject the idea of a national unity government as inherently
unworkable, and add that this means that "the Labor Government will
continue treading in the dunghill that it is stuck in, dependent on the
mercies of Yasser Arafat, who said in a speech in Gaza two weeks ago
that, 'We are all suicide-bombers.'"
**Yediot Ahronot, in its second editorial, says that "tomorrow, or the
day after, we will return to the routine of daily life, and the Bit Lid
Junction will join the list of many previous bloody milestones. The
Government will again find itself in the situation it was in on the eve
of the event: with a severe credibility problem, and with an enormous
gap between the public's feelings and its statements and measures.
Therefore, it would do well to seriously address the President's
suggestion/advice."
**Hatzofeh believes that Government ministers must have been displeased
at the President's call for the formation of a national unity
government, "because it made them face the nation's true situation, a
situation that contains security risks more serious than those which
existed before the Oslo Agreement." The paper recalls that the PLO
itself suspended the talks following the Hebron massacre, and urges the
Government "to accept the President's suggestion, suspend talks with
the PLO, and reexamine the results of the Oslo Agreement." The editors
believe that "it is becoming clear that the Palestinians' hatred of
Israel is so virulent that no solution will be acceptable to them,"
dismiss the effectiveness of imposing a closure on the territories, and
believe that "separation [of the two peoples] is impossible." The paper
declares that a national unity government could redress the problems
created by the Oslo Agreement, "which has been revealed as a political
and security failure, and which flunked its first test, that of the
continuation of Palestinian terrorism, which increased after the
Agreement."
**Ma'ariv notes that the attack occurred at almost the same time that
the main ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of
Auschwitz was beginning at Yad Vashem. The paper says that this
"reminds us that as long as Jews are killed because they are Jews -- at
Beit Lid or in Buenos Aires -- the evil spirit of Auschwitz has not
left us. The Islamic fanatics are the Nazis of our day: they are
killing Jews and threatening world peace." The editors criticize the
right's accusation that the attack was motivated by the Government's
peace policies, and points out that while, "Hamas and Islamic Jihad
want to attack the peace process, they carried out attacks before Oslo
and will continue to carry them out, until they have eliminated every
last Jew in the Land of Israel, or until we eliminate them," and adds
that "this is not the time for mutual recriminations between Jews." The
paper calls upon the Government to "mobilize world public opinion
against fundamentalist Islam, which not only threatens us, but
constitutes an existential danger to western civilization. The
suicide-terrorists from Beit Lid, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Hadera, and
Afula are the despicable arms of a world-engulfing octopus that is
trying to strangle human progress, and has chosen us as its first
target."
**Davar says that "the Oslo process is convulsing. A national unity
government would not grant the dying process new life, but would put
nails in its coffin," and adds that "if Yitzhak Rabin feels that he
made a mistake in August 1993, from his perspective, it would be better
to mobilize a majority for dissolving the Knesset and bringing forward
elections, instead of bringing the Likud into his government...or
passing the scepter to another MK in his party, and certainly not to
Shimon Peres, the spiritual father of the Oslo process." The paper
believes that "the biggest obstacle to the false charm that was signed
at Oslo is Yasser Arafat and his failures vis-a-vis Hamas. If moderate
physical pressure is not effective in enforcing Arafat's adherence to
the terms of the Agreement, another false charm is not the desired
replacement."
**Hatzofeh is at a loss for words to describe the "magnitude of the
grief and bereavement of the families whose beloved ones were murdered
in cold blood." In fact this pain is now emanating from all quarters,
faced with "a Government that does not fulfill its mission to defend
the welfare and security of its citizens." Instead of fighting
rampaging terror, the Government is "devoting its best efforts to
negotiations with terrorists to advance what they call the peace
process" -- these talks are out of place as long as terror continues to
claim the lives of so many victims. Moreover, "the Rabin government
should admit that cooperation exists between Fatah, the military arm of
the PLO, and the murderous Muslim Hamas and Islamic Jihad
organizations." The paper adds that the Government has presented the
casualties as "victims of peace, adding that peace cannot be murdered.
In reality, there is no peace, so there is nothing to be murdered." The
editors call on the Government to "dedicate the required resources to
the war on terror" and to stop its worship of Yasser Arafat. "This has
only encouraged the terrorists to continue their attacks and the murder
of Jews everywhere."
     Comment on Prime Minister Rabin's televised speech last night:
**Yediot Ahronot says that "somebody made a mistake with the calendar,
and put the Prime Minister on television with a traditional
Independence Day speech," and rejects the "tone that was heard between
the lines, as if in contrast to a strong Government, there was a people
that needed reassurance and a shot of encapsulated Zionist
encouragement." The paper declares that "if the Prime Minister had
nothing practical and substantive to say, he should not have appeared
at all," and adds that, just "as the expectations for statements with
actual content increased, the disappointment grew also."
**Ma'ariv hopes that "the Government's secret decisions on the
suppression of terrorism will be more effective and aggressive than the
decision on a temporary closure," and reminds its readers that "the
mass celebrations held in Gaza to mark the attack proves that the
devotees of Hamas and Islamic Jihad draw encouragement from the Israeli
authorities' admission of helplessness" in saying that "it will be very
difficult to prevent suicide actions." The editors believe that "in
order for the Palestinian public to compel Hamas and Islamic Jihad to
halt the attacks, it must reach the overall conclusion that terrorism
does not pay," and that "it will reach this conclusion only as a result
of a traumatic blow." Therefore, the paper calls on "Israel's security
services to take exceptional measures," and declares that "if a
sovereign government can not carry out certain operations, there are
always bodies upon which one can rely to do the work."
**Hatzofeh, in its second editorial, cites the recent murder of the
leader of Algeria's tiny Jewish community by Islamic fanatics as
evidence that fundamentalist Islam "has branches everywhere, and
threatens the security of Jews everywhere."

                           GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

             **REACTIONS FROM FAMILIES OF SUICIDE BOMBERS**
     GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip,  The families of the two suicide bombers
who killed 19 people and wounded 65 on Sunday expressed both joy and
fury at the news of their sons' death.
     The hardline Islamic Jihad said two of its "martyrs" carried out
the double suicide  bombing  which killed 19 people near the Israeli
seaside resort of Netanya north of  Tel Aviv  on Sunday.
     A statement from the group named the men as Anwar Mohammad Attiyeh
Sukkar, 23, from a Gaza City refugee camp, and Salah Abdel Hamid Shaker
Mohammad, 25, from Rafah town in the self-rule Strip.
   While the mother of Mohammad cried with joy and sadness at the news,
Sukkar's father expressed anger.
     He and other relatives threw stones and empty buckets and shouted
abuse at 300 Jihad supporters who turned up at their home on Sunday
evening with one of the group's leaders, Sheikh Abdallah al-Shami.
     Sukkar's relatives also refused to talk to reporters.
     In the Rafah district of Yibna however, Mohammad's brother praised
the attack and his mother announced the "wedding" of her son.
     "Salah, no one can replace you," she wept, adding "this is your
wedding day." White chairs were set out for mourners.
     "Just a week ago, I saw him looking at pictures of martyrs,
praising their acts," said a neighbor of the family who refused to be
identified.
     "This is an honorable act, but we were surprised -- he had no
obvious political activity," said Mohammad's brother Ahmad.
     "He was religious. He spent his time at the mosque, playing sports
at a club  and working at a physiotherapy center."
     Many people present said they had last seen Mohammad on Saturday
night, and had heard that a car had come to fetch him at midnight.
     "This is an honor for us, even though we are sad at learning the
news," said  his sister Om Alaa. Agence France Presse,  January  22,

                **ISRAELIS STAGE PROTESTS AGAINST RABIN**
     Hundreds of Israelis held demonstrations Sunday against the
government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, both in Jerusalem and at
the site of a double bomb attack which killed 18 people.
     Demonstrators carrying torches shouted "death to terrorists, death
to Arabs" and "Rabin resign."
     They also brandished banners condemning "this bloodstained
government" and "this peace which is killing us."
     Police officers were out in force in Jerusalem and at the Bet Lid
junction near the coastal town of Netanya, north of  Tel Aviv,  where
the bomb attack which also wounded 60 people took place.
     Around 300 Jihad supporters marched through a Gaza City refugee
camp in the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening to celebrate the  bombing,
chanting "death to Israel, death to the United States."
Agence France Presse,  January  22, 1995

                     **DEADLIEST ATTACKS IN ISRAEL**
     The bomb explosions which killed 18 people and wounded more than
50 at the Bet Lid junction north of  Tel Aviv  on Sunday were among the
deadliest to rock  Israel. The following is a list of other attacks:
 -- October 19, 1994: Bus  bombing  kills 22 people and wounds 40
others in  Tel Aviv.
 -- April 13, 1994: A Palestinian drives a car packed with explosives
into a bus in Hadera, northern Israel, killing five people.
 -- April 6, 1994: A Palestinian rams a booby-trapped car into a bus in
Afula, northern Israel, killing eight Israelis and wounding 44. The
attack is claimed by the Islamic Resistance Movement HAMAS
-- July 6, 1989: A Palestinian hijacks a bus on the  Tel Aviv
--Jerusalem road and drives it into a ravine, killing 16 passengers.
The Islamic Jihad in Palestine, one of the main Moslem groups in the
occupied territories, claims the attack.
-- March 11, 1978: The deadliest attack to date in Israel. An 11-member
Palestinian seaborne commando group coming from Lebanon opens fire on
two buses  30 kilometers (18 miles) from Haifa. The guerrillas take 100
passengers hostage  and head for  Tel Aviv.  They are intercepted by
Israeli security forces near the city. Heavy fighting ensues, after
which the commandos blow up a bus.  Fatah claims responsibility for the
attack, which leaves 39 dead and 80 wounded. Nine  guerrillas are also
killed.
-- July 4, 1975: A booby-trapped refrigerator explodes on a sidewalk in
downtown Jerusalem, killing 15 people and injuring 70 others. Yasser
Arafat's Fatah group and Ahmad Jibril's Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC) claim
responsibility.
-- March 5, 1975: Eight Palestinian seaborne commandos open fire on a
Tel   Aviv  beach before taking hostages and fleeing to a hotel.
Israeli forces take over the building the next day after pitched
battles which leave 18 dead, including seven guerrillas.
-- May 15, 1974: The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(DFLP)  of Nayef Hawatmeh takes schoolchildren hostage in Maalot, on
the border with Lebanon. A total of 24 civilians and one soldier are
killed during the rescue operation.
-- April 11, 1974: Three PFLP-GC commandos kill 18 people, including
eight children, in an attack on the Jewish community of Kiryat Shmona
on the border with Lebanon. The guerrillas are killed by explosives
which they carried on them after putting up a tough fight with Israeli
forces.
-- May 30, 1972: A three-member commando of the Japanese Red Army rakes
machine-gun fire across the arrival hall at  Tel Aviv's  Lod Airport,
killing 26 people and wounding 85 others. The attack is carried out on
behalf of George  Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine (PFLP). Two of the assailants are also killed while the third
is sentenced to life imprisonment by  an Israeli military court.
-- May 22, 1970: A bazooka is fired on a school bus along the border
with Lebanon, killing 12, including seven children. The PFLP-GC claims
responsibility.
-- November 22, 1968: A bomb rips through a Jerusalem market killing 12
and wounding 55.
 -- March 17, 1956: Palestinians attack a bus in southern Israel,
killing 12.  Agence France Presse,  January  22,

    Re: .79
    
    If I am not mistaken, the moderators are supposed to publish the
    explanation of why the note was set hidden.
    
    Leo

    Sorry about that, I wasn't aware that I was supposed to.
    The explanation is quite simple. The poster of .79 posted a bunch of
    articles together, the lead ones informaing and discussing the
    murderous attack in Beit Lid at the begining of the week. The contents
    of some of the articles contradicted Digital Notes policy, so with a
    heavy heart I hid the note and informed the poster. I guess he hasn't
    gotten around to re-posting the article with it's important contents.
    
    	Yaacov (Co-Moderator)

re .89

>    murderous attack in Beit Lid at the begining of the week. The contents
>    of some of the articles contradicted Digital Notes policy, so with a
>    heavy heart I hid the note and informed the poster. I guess he hasn't
  
Could you please tell us which points of Digital Notes policy were 
"contradicted"?  I can give you several notes in this conference and other
conferences which have offended me, but they still stand.

The general policy of the media in the country of shutting up mouths because 
they don't toe the Rabin-Peres-Sarid-Beilin-Tibi line does not have to be 
applied here. (There's a mixed metaphor for you.)

Please some fairness!!

        The P.L.O. in its own words:
            (quote sheet #30)


On killing Israelis:

    "Holy war is our path. My death will be martyrdom. I will knock
    on the gates of Paradise with the skulls of the sons of Zion."
    --- Ayman Radi, a traffic policeman in the P.L.O. police force,
        in a written note to his family before he carried out a suicide
        bombing in Jerusalem that wounded 13 Israelis
        (The New York Times, 26 December 1994)

On the intifada:

    "We must always remember that our enemy is the Israeli
    occupation, and it is incumbent upon us to continue to struggle
    against it through the blessed intifada... Only the intifada can
    carry our nation to a more advanced stage."
    --- Farouk Qaddumi, head of the P.L.O.'s Political Department
        (Ha'aretz, 16 December 1994)

On a Palestinian state:

    "We are going to continue the Palestinian revolution until the
    last martyr to create a Palestinian state."
    --- Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the P.L.O., in a speech in Gaza
        City marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of the
        Fatah faction of the P.L.O.
        (Agence France Presse, 1 January 1995)

On putting a halt to Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorism:

    "We will not become a tool in Israel's hands with which it can
    hit the Islamic opposition."
    --- Nabil Shaath, Minister of Planning for the P.L.O.'s Palestinian
        Authority
        (Reuters, 16 November 1994)


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    Re: .90
    
> Could you please tell us which points of Digital Notes policy were 
> "contradicted"?  I can give you several notes in this conference and other
> conferences which have offended me, but they still stand.
    
    From the "famous notes policy letter":
    "Statments that attribute improper, illegal or immoral motives or
    actions to others; statments that cast aspersions on the character or
    integrity of others or that amount to libel or slander are not
    permitted. PERIOD. In this regard it does not matter whether the
    individuals subject to the comment are elected public officials or
    directors of organizations disfavoured by the author. There is no
    "Public Figure" execption in these systems."
    
    More to the point, so and so did such is OK. "I think that so and so is
    wrong because...." is OK. So and so is a traitor, etc. is NOT OK.
    At this point in time, I am not going to go back in history and start
    deleting old notes.
> 
> The general policy of the media in the country of shutting up mouths because 
> they don't toe the Rabin-Peres-Sarid-Beilin-Tibi line does not have to be 
> applied here. (There's a mixed metaphor for you.)
    
    From the tone of the notes posted here, I don't think that they are
    "toeing" any such line. More to the point, as long as you don't start
    slandering people in the notesfile, you can voice whatever opinion you
    wish. I should also point out that even though Digital is an American
    company, the issue of freedom of speech doens't apply inside a private
    company. As such, it is legal for it to institute such policies. Other
    companies (which shall remain unnamed) forbid private e-mail/files.
    
    And for the end, I have no intention of hiding notes right and left.
    In the normal course of events, posters should adhere to the Digital
    policies and hiding notes be rare.
    
    This is not a personal issue, nor a polictical agenda. Any moderator
    who adheres to the policies would follow a similar line. Keep in mind
    that Digital is legally responsible for what goes on in the notesfiles
    AND HAS BEEN HAULED TO COURT IN THE PAST on the basis of notes
    postings.
    
    I hope this explains the issue. I would be happy to discuss the issue
    more either offline, or in another notes thread so as not to interrupt
    this one.
    
    	Yaacov (Co-Moderator)

On the front page of today's Maariv it is reported that a representative of the
 Simon Wiesenthal Center in LA discovered a book being sold in Amman Jordan
  written in 1983 by none other than Abu Mazan, Yassir's right-hand man.
In this book  Abu Mazan writes, as quoted in Maariv: "The Zionist movement
had secret ties with the Nazis.  In the Second World War there were never
six million Jews killed, but rather less than a million.  The six million
number was invented by the Zionist leaders to serve their purposes."
   The Wiesenthal Center released it for Auschwitz Liberation Day.

====================================================================
Dr. Steven E. Plaut
Graduate School of Business
University of Haifa, Haifa Israel
Phone (972) 424-0110   FAX  (972) 424-0059
=====================================================================

OFFICIAL DOCUMENT ON PLO VIOLATIONS OF OSLO & CAIRO 
AGREEMENTS
	The Attorney General's office has officially compiled a 
list, signed by  Brig.-Gen. David Yahav, of violations of the Oslo 
Accord and Cairo Agreement on the part of the PLO.  Although 
this document has been hinted at numerous times by the 
opposition, its existence wasn't confirmed until Monday when 
MK Benny Begin released the secret report to the Knesset 
Security and Foreign Affairs committee.  The document deals 
with dozens of violations ranging from major security issues to 
fraud.  Among the violations are:
	*Refusal to extradite to Israel those Arabs suspected of 
		murdering Jews 
	*Refusal to take measures in preventing anti-Israel terror
	*Conducting illegal PLO operations in Jerusalem
	*The use of registered PLO police weapons in the terror 
		attack in Jerusalem's pedestrian mall last October
	*Refusal to provide Israel with a list of all the PLO police 
		in Gaza and Jericho
	*The PLO police's use of stolen vehicles
	*PLO patrols outside of the autonomous areas
	*Taking civil authority upon itself in Judea and Samaria 
		before receiving approval by Israel  [Ma'ariv & 
		Jerusalem Post, 24 January]

POLL SHOWS COUNTRY DOESN'T FEEL SECURE
	In a recent poll conducted by "Dahaf" for Yediot Ahronot, 
more than 60% of those questioned expressed disappointment 
with the government due to feeling a lack of national security 
and poor treatment of residents of Yesha.  36% expressed 
disappointment with the government because of the 
continuation of Arab terror.  28% expressed disappointment 
because of the government's attitude toward the Jewish 
residents of Yesha.  This was followed by only 16% expressing 
disappointment for economic reasons and another 20% for other 
reasons or refusal to answer.  All those polled were people who 
originally expected good results from the current government 
and were then disappointed.  [Yediot Ahronot, 20 January]
	

ASHARA: ISRAEL RESPONSIBLE FOR SUNDAY'S ATTACK
	According to Syria's Foreign Minister Farouk Ashara, 
Israel itself is responsible for the terrorist attack at Beit Lid on 
Sunday, and that if Israel would really live up to its 
responsibilities  according to its agreements with the 
Palestinians, Judea, Samaria and Gaza would become areas of 
peace and quiet.  "Israel will never be able to join together 
peace with occupation.  They just don't go together.  Israel is 
just pretending she wants peace.  If she really wanted peace, 
she would grant the Palestinians their due rights and fulfill the 
principle of "territories for peace", also in their other paths of 
negotiations," said Ashara.  [Yediot Ahronot, 25 January]

IDF PATROL COMES UNDER ATTACK IN GAZA
	An IDF patrol came under attack Monday afternoon in 
Gaza; the patrol was shot at as it headed toward Netzarim.  
There were no injuries.  The attack took place as the patrol was 
moving out from the checkpoint in the direction of Netzarim.  
Suddenly, shots were fired at them from within autonomous 
Gaza.  The IDF patrol returned fire at the terrorists.  The patrol 
closed the area and began a search, at which point they were 
shot at a second time.  [Yediot Ahronot, 24 January]

Yaacov Fenster writes:

>    This is not a personal issue, nor a polictical agenda. Any moderator
>    who adheres to the policies would follow a similar line.

It most certainly is the result of the political agenda of the gentleman
who is pressuring the moderators into hiding these notes. Were it not for his
convenient discovery of the "notes policies," which are applied shall we
say "selectively" in notefiles, this would not be an issue. 

I'm not a big fan of hypocrisy, but I'm even less enthusiastic about
cowardice. I challenge the individual to come out in the open and
make his point or points publicly. I'm willing to stand behind everything
posted here, and/or to offer apologies and even change my whole political
outlook if disproven. Can the lurker say the same?

Yehoshua

I moderate some notesfiles and I think Yaacov is doing the only thing
a moderator can do given the situation. 

Unfortunately one individual can
create real havoc in a notesfile - it has happened elsewhere as well. I agree
that the person complaining should do so in a forum where his/her arguments
can be debated.

yoseff

YESHA NEWS SERVICE, SUNDAY 29 JANUARY 1994
(In conjunction with Arutz 7)

THOUSANDS COME TO DEMONSTRATE AT BEIT LID
	Thousands came to Beit Lid Saturday night to pay 
respects in a memorial service for the fallen victims of the Beit 
Lid attack one week ago, and to protest Israel's unquestionably 
inadequate national security.  Israel's chief rabbi, Rabbi Yisrael 
Lau, spoke before the crowds and said he had approached 
numerous heads of the Muslim leadership, asking them to sign 
along with him on a joint charter pledging the two sides to stop 
bloodshed.  Rabbi Lau said that at that point, none of the 
approached leaders had agreed to sign. 
	The Prime Minister said during a Knesset meeting today 
that terrorism has become a strategic danger.  This turned into 
a shouting match between the Prime Minister and 
Communications Minister Shulamit Aloni, who objected to 
Rabin's statements.  Rabin then accused Aloni of coming to 
represent the PLO.  [Arutz 7, 29 January]
	The Beit Lid attack has claimed its 20th and 21st victims.  
Lieutenant Ayal Moshe Levy, 21, from Ashdod, and Corporal 
Yaniv Veiser, 18, from Givatayim, were both mortally wounded 
from the attack and passed away over the weekend as a result 
of their extensive injuries.  [Yediot Ahronot, 29 January]  20 
injured victims of the attack still remain hospitalized, one in 
serious condition, two in moderate condition, and the rest 
recovering well from their injuries.  [Israel Radio, 29 January]

PLO RECRUITS "COLLABORATORS"
	According to an Israel Radio report, the PLO secret 
service is trying to recruit into its forces Arabs from Yesha who 
had in the past worked with Israeli security forces and had 
moved to within the pre-1967 borders.  The goal is to turn 
them into "double agents".  These people are being offered 
numerous incentives to cooperate with the PLO, such as: a 
substantial monthly stipend, payments to cover apartment rent, 
permission to move back to Gaza, and, after they've proven 
themselves, being completely absolved of the "stain" of having 
cooperated with Israeli authorities.  
	PLO secret service chief of Jericho, Jibril Rajoub, is also 
looking for "collaborators" living in eastern Jerusalem to recruit 
into his forces in Jericho.  Likud MK Uzi Landau has demanded a 
cessation of all cooperative efforts with PLO secret service, and 
has called for the termination of all Jibril Rajoub's influence 
within Jerusalem.  Landau has also demanded the recalling of 
all entry cards handed out to PLO officials.  [Yediot Ahronot, 29 
January]

ANTI-SETTLEMENT ACTIVISTS BURN CARAVANS AT MA'ALE 
AMOS
	The Yesha Council and the Benjamin Regional Council 
finished a secret project early Thursday morning to demarcate 
the parameters of Kochav Ya'akov, a community of 150 families 
15 kilometers northeast of French Hill, adjacent to Psagot and 
bordering El Bireh, standing on the Jerusalem-Ramallah road.  
For ten days, work quietly progressed to prepare undeveloped 
sections of Kochav Ya'akov for the building of 500 new housing 
units.  Three bulldozers were brought to the site to indicate the 
land belonging to the community, to prevent its being taken 
over by Arabs.  These building plans for Kochav Ya'akov were 
approved 8 years ago.
	Thursday afternoon, the Gush Etzion Regional Council 
placed 3 mobile homes on hill tops surrounding Ma'ale Amos, a 
community 7 kilometers from Efrat, in order to indicate the 
land belonging to the community.  Members of Gush Shalom, a 
left-wing anti-settlement group led by Uri Avineri, along with 
hundreds of Arabs from surrounding villages came to protest 
the homes, and set alight two of the three mobile units.  [Arutz 
7 & Yesha Council, 29 January]

HAMAS SELLS CASETTES PRAISING TERRORIST MURDERS
	Hamas is selling cassettes praising the terrorist attacks in 
Afula, Hadera, Diezengoff and the abduction and murder of Sgt. 
Nahshon Wachsman throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza.  The 
tapes are in popular demand and have been selling well.  [Israel 
Radio, 29 January]

THREE SOLDIERS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED FROM TERRORIST FIRE 
FRIDAY
	Three IDF soldiers were seriously wounded from Friday 
morning when they were shot at by five terrorists near 
Netzarim in Gaza.  The three soldiers were driving in a jeep 
which was escorting a school bus of children from Netzarim.  
Although the soldiers returned fire, the terrorists managed to 
escape.  [Yediot Ahronot, 29 January]

TENS OF HAMAS AND ISLAMIC JIHAD ACTIVISTS ARRESTED IN 
ABU DIS
	In an IDF and security forces crackdown in Jerusalem's 
Abu Dis neighborhood, tens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists 
from the Abu Dis seminary were arrested.  Israeli security 
forces also found on the premises a large stash of weapons, 
incitement propaganda and knitted kippot, presumably for use 
in disguising themselves.  The crackdown in Abu Dis began 
early Friday morning. 
	Also Friday morning, two Arab terrorists, one armed with 
an axe, were arrested in Hebron for attempting to attack IDF 
soldiers.  [Yediot Ahronot, 29 January]

NOVEMBER RIOTS AT GAZAN MOSQUE: PLANNED ATTACK TO 
SAVE FACE
	Israeli investigations into to November riots outside a 
mosque in Gaza city revealed that the majority of those killed 
were murdered intentionally by snipers hired for this purpose, 
and that PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's men had a pre-prepared 
list of Hamas activists to be wiped out and shot them to death 
as they came out from their prayers.  
	The decision to carry out these murders was taken by 
Arafat himself after the week before having suffered the 
embarrassment of being kicked out of that same mosque.  The 
snipers were brought to the mosque before the beginning of the 
riot, and were stationed such that at the end of prayers they 
could easily take out those on their hit list.  This was reported 
by correspondent Koby Finkler.  [Arutz 7, 29 January]

ISRAEL'S CHIEF RABBI: "NEVER IN OUR WORST DREAMS..."
	Israel's chief rabbi, Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi Doron, publicly 
attacked the peace process and the government's policies.  The 
Israeli daily "Ha'aretz" quotes Rabbi Doron as saying, "Things 
are happening now that we never dreamed of two years ago, 
even in our worst dreams.  They (the government) are relying 
and depending on the PLO, and are speaking with them about 
Jerusalem."  
	The chief rabbi of Rishon Letzion also criticized the 
coalition for its attack on Esther Salmovitch while she was 
acting Knesset chairperson last week.  The attack came to 
physical blows which barely missed Salmovitch, and only 
because she was standing on the podium, out of reach of those 
on the Knesset floor.  [Arutz 7, 29 January]

BIBI OUTSTRIPS RABIN BY 22% IN THE POLLS
	In the latest Ma'ariv poll, conducted by Motagim, the 
public opinion research institute, 50% of those polled said they 
would vote for Likud head Benjamin Netanyahu were elections 
to be held right now, and only 28% said they would vote for 
Yitzhak Rabin.  [Ma'ariv, 27 January]
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News and Comment from Israel

Aaron Lerner   30 January 1995

"It is very unpleasant to hear what I hear from the Palestinians.
They do not talk about the house in Hebron or Givat Tamar.  They
talk about Givat Ha'Universita in Tel Aviv [the campus of Tel Aviv
University].  Also in the negotiations from time to time.  In one
of the meetings I called for the head of their delegation and told
him, that if I were to record the deliberations and play it for
members of the party - not the opposition -  90% would say: end the
talks at once.  Where are you living?  What terms are you talking
with."

             Deputy Defense Minister Motta Gur
             quoted in interview with Amira Segev
             The daily "Haaretz"  January 30, 1995

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Finally found someone willing to admit it! Which "issues" for instance?

Yehoshua

Today's Yediot Achronot (Jan. 31, 1995) ran a magazine story in the 24 
hour section about Rabin's unwelcome visit to the Rina Kessin high school.

One of the students shouted at a photographer: come take my picture, 
maybe next year I too will be in a casket. 6 graduates of the school have 
been murdered in terrorist attacks over the past 2 months.

Parents also wanted to get in on the action. Many parents tryed to push 
their way in to the meeting with Rabin. They were not let in.

The students were forced to write their questions first and to submit 
them earlier. The students complained about the censorship.

    > The students were forced to write their questions first and to submit 
    > them earlier. The students complained about the censorship.
    
    Having seen the same thing required of questions for the chief of
    staff, AF commander, various politicians, mayors, etc, it doesn't seem
    to surprise me. Of course, being students/soldiers means that you are
    part of an authoritative framework ("Misgeret" in Hebrew) and they can
    get away with it. I don't think I have heard of it occurring with
    reporters or with any non-army adults for that matter.

I am guessing that we have some disagreement about land for peace; that
does not mean that I don't abhor (sp?) the terrorist attacks that are
happening with greater and greater frequency. 

If you want we can continue this off-line. Probably best not to do so in
a notesfile - any notesfile.

yoseff

Re: .102

<I am guessing that we have some disagreement about land for peace

Is there anything remotely resembling peace on the horizon for Israel,
or has the Labor/Meretz regime succeeded only in creating a huge
terrorist haven in its midst? 

When Altalena-Rabin's own ministers begin admitting that all the 
process has succeeded in accomplishing is to help coordinate PLO/
Hamas terrorism, is it time to stand up and take notice? When the
country's president speaks of "stopping to think" and "maybe we're
talking to the wrong man," does that carry any weight? What exactly
is the test as to whether a mistake was made or not? Are we waiting
until the butchers blow up another hundred people? A thousand? Ten
thousand?

Yehoshua

30 January 1995

Recent commentaries by supporters of the so-called "peace process"
point to Arafat's failure to honor the Oslo and Cairo Agreements as
a reflection of the weakness of his position.  The chairman of the
PLO, they argue, cannot fight terrorism because this would
jeopardize his leadership status.  The onus is on Israel, they
maintain, to accelerate the peace process to bolster support for
Arafat.  A strong Arafat, who can show to his people that he can
"deliver the goods" (e.g. disband the settlements, take over the
West Bank, etc.) will be able to weather the criticism which he
undoubtedly will face if he fights the terrorists.

This argument ignores the fact that Arafat's violations of the
agreements with Israel go far beyond matters which relate directly
to Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other "enemies of peace."  Arafat today
has an army of between 13,000 and 15,000 soldiers instead of the
7,000 policemen provided for in the Cairo Agreement.  Arafat
presented the list of police from overseas for Israel's approval,
but refuses to do the same with the list of local recruits. It is
estimated that around half of the arms now held by the Palestinian
Autonomy (PA) army have not been recorded with Israel.  None of
these violations have anything to do with the "enemies of peace."

Perhaps the most sinister of developments is the activity of the PA
secret police.  They have devoted their resources to destroying
Israel's intelligence capability in the entire West Bank including
Jerusalem.  The PA's agents have kidnapped, tortured and murdered
Arabs suspected of collaborating with Israel.  On January 20th, the
PA went so far as to place a Jerusalem neighborhood under curfew so
that they could carry out a house to house search for a suspected
collaborator.   At the same time, PA agents have established their
own network of Israeli Arab collaborators.

No one from Hamas forced Arafat to kill collaborators.  Islamic
Jihad did not insist that the PA smuggle in many thousands of
illegal arms.  The "enemies of peace" did not require that the PA
recruit Israeli Arabs from Jaffa to engage in clandestine operations
against Israel.

Why then is Arafat doing all this?  Doesn't Arafat really want
peace?  The answer is simple: Arafat is preparing a PLO army which
can strike at Israel from close range in the next Arab-Israeli war. 

Fighting alone, the PLO army would at best be able to exact a heavy
toll in Israeli casualties before being decimated.  But during an
Arab-Israeli war, the PLO army could serve a crucial role in
diverting IDF forces from their efforts to push back invading Arab
armies. 

Taking this into account, even if the PLO were to arrest - or even
hand over to Israel - a Hamas terrorist as a "peace offering," this
would not address the clear threat which the violations of the
terms of the Cairo Agreement represent to the future of the Jewish
state.  Within this context, the Rabin plan for "separation" -
namely handing over the West Bank to the PLO and putting up a
dividing fence - plays into the hands of the PLO.

Within half of a term, the Labor-Meretz government has succeeded
in introducing a large and growing PLO army into the Gaza Strip and
allowed the PA to decimate Israel's intelligence capability in the
West Bank and Jerusalem.  Withdrawal from the West Bank today as
part of the much-touted "separation" would allow the PLO army to
redeploy along the "green line," Israel's pre-1967 armistice lines. Rather
than bringing Israel closer to peace, "separation," as it is being described
today, could very well be another step towards the destruction of Israel.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate  
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
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You did not respond to my statement. In principle do you 
support the notion of land for peace? If not then we at minimum have 
a disgreement on that. 

yossi
 

YESHA NEWS SERVICE, WEDNESDAY 1 FEBRUARY 1995
(In conjunction with Arutz 7)

PLO PUBLICLY SUPPORTS BEIT LID ATTACK
	The PLO has come out publicly in support of the Beit Lid 
attack in which 21 Israelis were killed and over 60 wounded.  
On January 23, in the London-based "al-Quds al-Arabi" PLO 
linked newspaper, which expressed the views of the PLO 
leadership, an editorial signed by Abed Elbari Atuan praised the 
terrorist attack at Beit Lid.  The article emphasized the PLO's 
true feelings regarding its agreements with Israel:
	*"We find it hard to understand why the Rabin 
government wants to take revenge against the weak and poor 
Palestinian Authority, to freeze the talks with it.  It makes one 
think that the most important thing for the Palestinian Police to 
do - poorly trained and armed though it is - is to protect 
Israelis and settlers in Netanya and Tel Aviv...  What can they 
or others do against young men at their peak, who have decided 
to sacrifice their lives in the defense of the rights and the honor 
of their people?"
	*"The action in Netanya demonstrated good preparation, a 
high spirit of sacrifice, and the ability of simple people in camps 
full of starvation and poverty to be victorious against the Israeli 
intelligence authorities."
	*"The most important thing is that it took place outside of 
the sphere of influence of the Palestinian Authority, and the 
areas within which the Palestinian Police operates.  Therefore it 
does not embarrass the Authority."
	*"Israel can close the territories, freeze the negotiations, 
and renew the policy of collective punishment.  But it cannot, 
under any terms, prevent young people in the territories from 
blowing themselves up among soldiers and their patrols now or 
in the future..."  [Jerusalem Post, 1 February]

BEN ELIEZER: "PERSONAL SECURITY HAD DROPPED TO ZERO"
	"Personal security in Israel has dropped to zero, and so it 
is hard to move on to the next phase of negotiations with the 
Palestinians.  The nation has lost faith in the process and we 
[the government] look very bad there...  Israel is obligated to 
continue on with the peace process because the only alternative 
is the joining of two million more Arabs to the state." said 
Housing Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer in Washington Tuesday.  
He also said that an IDF withdrawal from Judea and Samaria 
would create a free-for-all regarding the more than 135 
thousand Jews living there.  
	Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin responded in anger to Ben 
Eliezer's statements, saying "it happens sometimes that a 
minister says something which is utter nonsense."  Ben Eliezer 
then clarified himself, giving assurances that he is still in favor 
of following through with Israel's agreements with the PLO.  
"We are obligated by the peace process.  An improvement in the 
status of personal security for Israeli citizens is a necessary 
condition for progress," Ben Eliezer said, amending his previous 
statements.  
	The Likud has demanded the government admit it has 
made a mistake in its agreements with the PLO, just as it 
admitted to having made a mistake regarding imposing a capital 
gains tax on the stock exchange.  [Ma'ariv & Yediot Ahronot, 1 
February]

YESHA'S RESIDENTS TAKE OVER ABANDONED IDF POSTS
	Residents of Yesha have twice within the past ten days 
manned abandoned IDF posts with the goal in part to get the 
IDF to return.  The most recent case took place Monday night at 
an outpost just north of Kedumim on the road leading to Schem.  
They IDF returned to the post a few hours later, demanding that 
the residents leave the site.  Residents say an arrangement was 
reached with the IDF in which they would be responsible for 
manning the outpost during certain hours of the day, and the 
IDF would be on the premises the remainder of the time.  The 
IDF has not presented a clear stance on the issue.  [Jerusalem 
Post, 1 February]

EDRI ACQUITTED AND RELEASED FROM JAIL
	Lt. Oren Edri, who was arrested five months ago on 
suspicion of organizing and training a Jewish underground, 
among other charges, was acquitted Tuesday and released from 
prison.  Edri's acquittal is viewed as an embarrassment to the 
General Security Services (GSS), which had singled Edri out as 
the central organizer of a Jewish terrorist underground 
developing within the boundaries of Kiryat Arba.  The court also 
criticized the GSS for its methods of interrogation and the 
conditions in which Edri was kept, saying that the GSS "should 
not pursue interrogations at the expense of individual rights."  
[Jerusalem Post, 1 February]

SHAHAK REFUSES RELEASE OF TERRORISTS FROM PRISON
	Newly appointed Chief of Staff Amnon Shahak, in 
statements made Tuesday before a meeting of the Knesset 
Security and Foreign Affairs committee, strongly rejected the 
release of terrorists from jail.  "We don't need to release 
convicted terrorists into this wave of potential terror attacks," 
Shahak said.  Shahak also revealed that Fatah has been involved 
in hostile activities against Israel since the signing of the Oslo 
accords.  
	Regarding autonomous Gaza, Shahak said that reality 
there exists in the framework of a serious tension between the 
PLO and IDF soldiers monitoring the area, a tension grown even 
stronger since the killing of three PLO soldiers in January.  
Southern command is constantly trying to neutralize the 
atmosphere, Shahak continued.  
	Regarding an IDF withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, 
Shahak said that if things are there the way they are in Gaza, it 
would be very difficult for the IDF to go back in to the Arab 
population centers of Judea and Samaria in pursuit of suspects.  
[Al HaMishmar, 1 February]

PLO "POLICE" COME UNDER "BROTHERLY" ATTACK
	The Palestinian Authority is having trouble enforcing its 
authority.  PLO soldiers that came Tuesday to enforce tax 
collection amongst a group of people in northern Gaza refusing 
to pay were physically attacked and even shot at.  The PLO 
soldiers returned fire and injured some people, but in the end 
they were able to escape.  [Arutz 7, 1 February]

SHIKAKI WARNS ARAFAT AGAINST ARRESTING ISLAMIC 
JIHAD ACTIVISTS
	Fathi Shikaki, leader of Islamic Jihad, has warned PLO 
Chairman Yasser Arafat against arresting Islamic Jihad activists.  
In an interview published in a Lebanese paper, Shikaki 
ridiculed Arafat, saying that the Palestinian Authority would 
have to arrest 90% of the residents of Gaza to put an end to his 
organization's activities.  Shikaki's Islamic Jihad is the terrorist 
organization which claimed responsibility for the massacre at 
Beit Lid.  [Arutz 7, 31 January]

YESHA'S ARAB RESIDENTS BACK BEIT LID MASSACRE
	A definitive majority of the Arabs living in Judea and 
Samaria back the massacre at Beit Lid.  According to a poll 
conducted by the Institute of Inquiry at Beit Sahur, 57% 
support the massacre, and only 32% were against it.  The 
majority of those polled also said they believed a continuation 
of terror attacks would eventually force Israel to pull back to its 
1967 borders.  [Arutz 7, 30 January]



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Re: .105

<You did not respond to my statement. In principle do you 
<support the notion of land for peace? If not then we at minimum have 
<a disgreement on that. 

There is such a thing as a moot point. The notion that any kind of "peace"
will ever come of the Oslo agreement is something that even those with
the rosiest glasses, including those in Rabin's own cabinet, are fast 
discarding. I often wonder if those who continue to support the "peace"
process read the news at all, or if they follow their own policies of
censorship and allow no news in their house that might upset their
fantasies.

When Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, it was indeed difficult to argue 
against coming to an agreement with him. First, if he wasn't sincere, then
he sure put on a darned good show; in short he completely won over the
collective heart of the Israeli people. Our current "partner" however,
has never stopped declaring his true intentions of war and more war, not
to mention backing up those intentions with actions (try actually reading
some of the material in this note for references). He has not fulfilled a 
single one of his commitments, and has declared openly on multiple occasions
that he intends on declaring the agreement null and void within two years
of its signing in any event (once he grabs all the land Rabin is willing
to throw at him voluntarily).

Nor am I talking about the historic or strategic differences between Sinai
and Israel's heartland, nor about the fact that Sadat at least ran his
country, whereas Arafat doesn't even have support of his own "people" (the
current refrain sung by the leftists is how we must understand how that it's
impossible for him to control terrorism; why on earth did you sign an agree-
ment with him in that case?)

Finally, Sadat is dead now, and Egypt is preoccupied with de-nuclearizing
Israel, while speaking of its state of readiness for the next war against 
Israel. If dozens of Jews are being killed under the loving watch of our great
friend Arafat, what can we expect when he goes to Paradise (maybe even before
120 years)?

Now it's my turn to get an answer to my question, viz:

<<Is there anything remotely resembling peace on the horizon for Israel,
<<or has the Labor/Meretz regime succeeded only in creating a huge
<<terrorist haven in its midst? 

Yehoshua

             **LABOR HAD SECRET DEAL WITH PLO IN 1992'** 
     BEFORE the 1992 elections, Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin concluded
a secret agreement with the PLO in which the Labor Party pledged to
allow Palestinian self-rule that would resemble statehood, and to lift
the ban on contacts with the PLO, according to a former senior aide to
Peres.  
     Yossi Ginat, who served as Arab affairs adviser to Peres when he
was prime minister from 1984-86, detailed Labor dealings with the PLO
in a mysteriously taped conversation with an Israeli correspondent in
Cairo, Yehoshua Meiri.  
     Meiri asserted in a 1993 article in the now-defunct Hadashot that
he witnessed Beilin meet with senior PLO official Nabil Shaath in a
Cairo hotel on January 19, 1992.  He said the meeting was arranged by
Osama Baz, political adviser to Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak.        
     In his conversation with Meiri, Ginat, who today runs Haifa
University's Arab-Jewish Center, said that Beilin, four months after
the June 1992 elections, was shuttling to Cairo to assure the PLO that
the Labor Party intended to keep its promises.  Ginat appealed to
Meiri, who then also worked for Israel Radio, not to publish Beilin's
contacts with the PLO.   
     The conversation was said to have been taped in November 1992, as
Ginat was ending three years as head of the Israel Academic Center in
Cairo.  It took place several days before the start of another round of
talks between Israel and the Palestinian delegation in Washington.  
     The recording was obtained by The Jerusalem Post, and Meiri and
Ginat acknowledged that their voices were on the tape.  They verified
large portions of the conversation, although both said they don't
recall the circumstances of their discussion.  
     On tape, Ginat tells Meiri: "If you run with this now, you will
destroy me."
     Egyptian and Israeli sources said Ginat helped establish a Labor
Party channel to the PLO in the early 1990s. In an interview in
November 1994, Emmanuel Marx, Ginat's successor at the Israel Academic
Center, told the Post that the center's sponsor in Israel, the Israel
Academy of Sciences, ordered Ginat to stop his activities.       Today,
Ginat and the center's director, Meir Zadok, deny this.  
     The Ginat-Meiri tape marks the first time a confidante of Peres
and Beilin has confirmed assertions that the Labor leadership reached
an agreement with the PLO prior to the 1992 Knesset elections. 
Jerusalem Post, Feb. 5, 

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                           13 December 1994 

   RE: PALESTINIAN VIOLATIONS [OF THE MAY 4, 1994 CAIRO AGREEMENT] 

1. This is a report on Palestinian violations and infringements, based
on documents provided to us by the Office of the Coordinator for
Activities in the Territories, by Command for Supervision Coordination
and Control for the Gaza Strip Area, and by the Military Intelligence.
The report is also based on data derived from documents which have been
provided to us on an ongoing basis.
     Each reported violation or infringement is accompanied by a brief
legal analysis of the provisions of the Gaza-Jericho Agreement
(henceforth "the Agreement"), which is pertinent to the violation or
infringement.

2. It is emphasized that this report does not purport to encompass all
violations [of the Agreement] on the part of the Palestinian Authority
and its personnel. This report does not include violations which appear
particularly esoteric, nor violations which were evidenced by specific
incidents which occurred in May or June, soon after authority was
transferred and before the other side had undergone even rudimentary
organization procedures (mostly, these involve aberrant behavior on the
part of Palestinian policemen).
     Furthermore, we have not been receiving any data regarding
economic infringements from the Ministry of Finance so that our report
on infringements in this area are based mainly on Military Intelligence
documents as well as on day-to-day reports and correspondence on the
subject which we have encountered in the course of our work. We assume
that there have been additional violations and infringements in these
areas of which we are unaware.

                        MILITARY INFRINGEMENTS

3. Details of these infringements is based mainly on a report of
infringements which was prepared by the Assistant Command for
Supervision Coordination and Control for the Gaza Strip Area and on
material which was appended to his letter (the letter and its
appendices are [not] enclosed), including additions based on reports by
Military Intelligence. Also included are topics which came up in the
framework of the Legal Committee.

4. REQUESTS TO EXTRADITE SUSPECTS WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN GRANTED BY THE
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY 
     Two requests of this nature were presented to the Palestinian
Authority, regarding the following suspects: the murderers of the late
Uri Megidish (first request: 29 September 1994) and the murderers of
the late Gil Rave and Shlomo Kapach (first request: 28 August 1994).
These requests have yet to be granted. Additionally, an informal oral
request was made to extradite individuals suspected of attacking an
Israeli at Kfar Yona. 
     Legal analysis: Section II.7 of Annex III provides that Israel is
entitled to demand that the Palestinian Authority apprehend and
extradite a person suspected of committing a crime which falls within
Israeli jurisdiction, if the penalty for the crime is 7 years or more,
and on condition that the arrest warrant accompanying the demand be
issued in accordance with a request on the part of the
Attorney-General. Paragraph F provides that a party who is served such
a demand must make the arrest and must hand the suspect over to the
party making the demand.

5. HANDLING OF TERRORIST ACTIVITY DIRECTED AGAINST ISRAEL AND AGAINST
ISRAELIS
     The question of whether the Palestinian Authority is fulfilling
its obligations to act so as to prevent terrorist action against Israel
is a subjective question and requires a political evaluation of what is
expected from the Authority in this regard. 
     With regard to investigation of terrorist activity, again, a
subjective question arises as to the degree of seriousness of these
investigations.
     Another issue is reporting on investigations in progress. The
Palestinian Authority has not been providing reports about
investigations. A formal request for an update regarding the status of
investigations re four incidents of Israelis killed or injured in the
Gaza Strip was addressed to the Palestinian Authority in the framework
of the talks held by the Legal Committee on 27 November 1994.
     Legal analysis: Section XVIII of the Agreement provides that the
two sides will take the necessary steps to prevent terrorist
activities, crime and hostility directed at the other party and will
take appropriate legal action against transgressors. The Palestinian
Authority's obligation to prevent hostilities directed toward [Israeli]
settlements is particularly emphasized. 
     Section I.5 of Annex III provides, regarding offenses against
Israel and Israelis carried out within the borders of the Palestinian
Authority, that the Palestinian Authority must investigate and
prosecute suspects and must report to Israel the results of such
investigation and any relevant legal proceeding. 

6. FAILURE TO PREVENT INCITEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL 
     There have been many incidents of rabid incitement against Israel
and the Palestinian Authority has failed to intervene in order to
prevent their occurrence.
     Legal analysis: Section XII of the Agreement provides that Israel
and the Palestinian Authority will refrain from hostile propaganda
directed at one another and will take legal steps to prevent incitement
by organizations, groups or individuals within their jurisdiction. 

7. PRESENTING A LIST OF POLICEMEN 
     The Palestinian Authority has, to date, failed to present a list
of policemen appointed from among the residents of the Gaza and Jericho
area.
     Legal analysis: Section III.4(3) of Annex I provides that the list
of Palestinian [policemen], whether foreign or local, will be agreed
between the sides.

8. ARRESTING ISRAELI CITIZENS 
     A number of incidents have been reported in which Israelis have
been arrested by the Palestinian Police. A list of 13 such incidents
was submitted to the Palestinian Authority in the course of discussions
in the Legal Committee which took place on 27 November 1994.
     Legal analysis: Section VIII.4(3) of Annex I provides that
Israelis are not to be arrested by the Palestinian Police under any
circumstances. The Palestinian Police is entitled only to detain an
Israeli who is suspected to have committed a crime, until an Israeli
entity or Joint Patrol arrives. A similar provision is contained in
Section II of Annex III.

9. DETAINING ISRAELI VEHICLES IN PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY TERRITORY 
     We do not have evidence of concrete incidents (Military
Intelligence's report does provide a number of examples, including
incidents in which the vehicle [flew] an Israeli flag and a demand was
made that the flag be removed).
     Legal analysis: Section VIII.4(A) of Annex I provides that Israeli
vehicles travelling within Palestinian Authority territories may be
detained by Palestinian Police for the purpose of checking licenses and
identifying [documents]. The Palestinian police is not entitled to
detain an Israeli vehicle for any other reason. Section II.2(D) of
Annex III provides that the Palestinian Authority may take steps
directed toward Israeli vehicles which were involved in committing a
crime or which constitute an immediate hazard to public health or
safety. In such an event, the Palestinian Authorities are required to
provide immediate notification of the incident to Israel.

10. DETAINING ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES AT ROADBLOCKS
     The frequency of occurrence of this phenomenon is diminishing,
according to data supplied by Command for Supervision Coordination and
Control for the Gaza Strip Area.
     Legal analysis: Section VII(6) of Annex I provides that the
Palestinian Police must not arrest an individual in a uniform belonging
to Israeli military forces, and the same applies to Israeli military
vehicles. According to Section II(4) of the Agreement, the Israel
Police Force and other Israeli security forces fall within the scope of
"Israeli military forces". 

11. PASSAGE OF PALESTINIAN POLICEMEN WITHIN BLUE AREAS [marked blue on
maps]
     There have been incidents of passage of Palestinian policemen
within areas of [Israeli] settlement without prior coordination with
Israel. Command for Supervision Coordination and Control for the Gaza
Strip Area data [suggests] that the frequency of occurrence of these
violations is diminishing. (A Military Intelligence report states that
Palestinian police attempted to make contact with Israeli
"collaborators" in the village of Dahaniye).
     Legal analysis: Section V of the Agreement provides that the
territorial authority of the Palestinian Authority does not extend to
areas of Israeli settlement and to military sites. Section III.1(A) of
Annex I provides that the Palestinian Police is responsible for public
order and internal security only in those areas which are within the
Palestinian jurisdiction and that the Palestinian police will act
accordingly. 
     Other provisions in the Agreement clearly stipulate that
Palestinian policemen on duty are not entitled to enter areas of
Israeli settlement and military sites.

12. INDEPENDENT ACTIVITY OF THE PALESTINIAN POLICE ON LATITUDINAL ROADS

     The Palestinian police have been operating independently on
latitudinal roads, i.e. not within the framework of the Joint Patrol.
Again, this violation was most common soon after the Palestinian
Authority came into effect, but it still occurs. 
     Legal analysis: Section IV.7 provides that latitudinal roads and
responsibility for security belong to Israel. Israel can carry out
independent operations and, in parallel, Joint Patrols are to operate
under the direction of an Israeli vehicle. Correspondingly, independent
Palestinian operation on these roads is forbidden.

13. MOVEMENT OF PALESTINIAN POLICE IN CAMOUFLAGE UNIFORMS 
The Palestinian police travel in spotted uniforms in Judea and Samaria
     Legal analysis: Section III.5(3)(5) states that the Palestinian
Police are to have distinctive uniforms.     We are informed that
during the JSC talks, an agreement was reached whereby Palestinian
policemen would only wear uniforms of certain colors and it was
determined that, in any event, movement of Palestinian police in
spotted uniforms would be forbidden.

14. PALESTINIAN POLICE PERSONNEL TRAVELLING WITHOUT PERMITS 
     There have been incidents in which Palestinian Police personnel
travelled from Jericho to the Gaza Strip area (via Israel and the Judea
and Samaria area) without permits.
     Legal analysis: Section III.1(B) of Annex I provides that movement
of Palestinian policemen between Gaza and Jericho will take place in
accordance with the provisions of Article IX of the Annex which
pertains to the Safe Passage [road between Gaza and Jericho]. Section
IX.2 provides that a permit for the Safe Passage, or a permit to enter
Israel, are mandatory as a condition for passage [between Gaza and
Jericho]. As of yet, the protocol for safe passage has not yet been
implemented and therefore, the usual rules apply, namely, that entrance
into Israel (even if only for the purpose of passing between Gaza and
Jericho) requires an entry permit.

     With respect to movement within Judea and Samaria, residents of
Jericho are entitled to move freely in Judea and Samaria, as stipulated
by the laws of Judea and Samaria, which include the obligation to carry
identification papers. However, the Palestinian police is forbidden to
operate in [Judea and Samaria] and therefore, Palestinian police in
uniform do not enjoy any right of movement there.

15. USE OF STOLEN VEHICLES BY THE PALESTINIAN POLICE
     On several occasions, Palestinian police personnel have been
detected driving stolen vehicles.
     Legal analysis: These actions on the part of the Palestinian
police negate the spirit of the Agreement and the concept that
underlies the establishment of the Palestinian police. Chiefly, the
following sections are relevant: Section XIII(2) of the Agreement
provides that Israel and the Palestinian Authority will cooperate in
combating terrorism, including property crimes against vehicles;
Section III.2 of Annex I provides that the Palestinian police and the
Israeli Police Force will cooperate and assist one another regarding
criminal matters. 

16. USE OF ARMS BY THE PALESTINIAN POLICE FORCE IN A TERRORIST ATTACK
IN JERUSALEM
     A Kalashnikov [assault rifle] belonging to the Palestinian Police
was employed in the course of a terrorist attack in Jerusalem on 9
October 1994. The rifle was brought over the Allenby Bridge [from
Jordan]. This matter was first raised with the Palestinians on 11
October 1994.
     Legal analysis: Section XI of the Agreement stipulates that
provisions which pertain to the structure of the police force,
including its arms, will be set forth in detail. Annex I, Section III.5
indeed sets out in detail the type and number of arms which are
authorized for use by the Palestinian Police. It is clear that those
arms which are permitted to enter the [Gaza] area in accordance with
this section are intended for use only by the Palestinian Police and
any other use is a violation of the Agreement. However, our burden of
proof is to show that the [Palestinian] police's arms were knowingly
provided to terrorists. If only negligence is found to have occurred,
it will be difficult to take exception to the incident (see also the
matter of arms stolen from the Israel Defence Forces as mentioned in
Section 6, above). In this instance, we may only request that the
matter be investigated.
     Other relevant provisions are those of Section IX(3) of the
Agreement and Section VIII.3 of Annex I which stipulate that private
persons are forbidden to carry guns and that each side undertakes to
enforce this prohibition.

17. [Failure in] SUMMONING WITNESSES TO TESTIFY IN COURT 
     By a letter dated 28 September 1994, the Palestinian Authority was
requested to serve subpoenas on witnesses residing in Gaza whose
testimony was required in proceedings before the military court at Erez
and the military court of the Southern Command. These requests were not
honored.
     Legal analysis: Section II.9 of Annex III states that when a
summons for testimony is issued by an Israeli court for a person within
the area of the Palestinian Authority, the summons will be issued by
the Palestinian Authority which will be responsible for enforcing the
summons by means of the Palestinian Police.

18. PRISONERS RELEASED IN THE JERICHO-GAZA AREA WHO TRAVEL TO JUDEA AND
SAMARIA
     A number of prisoners who were released on condition that they
remain in the Jericho area, as well as prisoners who were transferred
to Gaza Prison, were caught within Judea and Samaria without permits.
Among those transferred to Gaza, some were pardoned by the Palestinian
Chairman. One of the prisoners even claimed that he had been drafted
into the Palestinian Intelligence who had equipped him with arms.
     Legal analysis: Section XX(1) of the Agreement provides that
prisoners who are given over to the Palestinian Authority, within the
framework of "trust-building steps", will be required to remain within
the Gaza Strip and Jericho area during the entire period of their
sentence. It appears that approval of the Palestinian Authority (or
even turning a blind eye) regarding passage of released prisoners into
Judea and Samaria is a violation of the Agreement.
     Drafting an ex-convict into the Palestinian Intelligence
contradicts the provisions of Section III.4(3) of Annex I according to
which the list of Palestinians drafted by the Palestinian police will
be by mutual consent between the parties and according to which persons
convicted of a serious offense or of terrorist activity will be
excluded from the Palestinian police.

19. FAILURE TO PREVENT INFILTRATION TO ISRAEL AND EGYPT
     Infiltrators have been found crossing the border between Egypt and
Gaza and between the Gaza Strip and Israel. 
     Legal analysis: As regards infiltration of Israel through the
Green Line, Section IV.2(C) of Annex I stipulates that the Palestinian
Police will act to prevent infiltration.
     Regarding infiltration to Egypt, the Palestinian Authority is
generally obliged to prevent criminal offenses.

20. NAVAL VIOLATIONS
     There have been instances of Palestinian boats penetrating areas
which are limited for sailing (Areas K and M), in which the Palestinian
Coast Guard took no preventative action. Furthermore, there were
instances in which the Palestinian police itself strayed out of its
region of entitlement in Area L.
     Legal analysis: Section XI.1 stipulates areas for sailing and
defines areas M and K in which no sailing is permitted, other than that
of the [Israeli] Navy (paragraph (A) (1) (C)); an area L in which
sailing is limited (paragraph (2) (B) (1)). Section XI.2 provides that
the Palestinian Coast Guard will operate up to 6 miles from the shore,
and in special circumstances, up to 12 miles from the shore.

21. CIVILIANS BEARING ARMS
     This issue was not mentioned in the Command for Supervision
Coordination and Control for the Gaza Strip Area document. Other
reports state that the Palestinian Authority does not attempt to disarm
Palestinian civilians, even if the civilians openly display their arms.
     We have recently found that the Palestinian Authority has been
issuing permits for bearing arms to its residents which permits, in all
probability, were not coordinated with Israel in advance. 
     Legal analysis: Section VIII.8 of Annex I provides that each side
is to enforce, as to the civilians within its jurisdiction, the
prohibition on holding and carrying arms without a permit. Paragraph
(3) of the same Section entitles the Palestinian Authority to issue
licenses to carry pistols to civilians within its boundaries, but only
in accordance with arrangements to be drawn up in the JSC.

22. MALTREATMENT OF "COLLABORATORS"
     This issue is not dealt with in the Command for Supervision
Coordination and Control for the Gaza Strip Area document. Various
reports have indicated that the Palestinian Authority has been
arresting suspected "collaborators" and interrogating them, and there
have even been instances of brutality.
     Legal analysis: Section XX(4) of the Agreement provides that the
Palestinian side must find a solution for the problem of Palestinians
who were in contact with Israel and until such solution is found, the
Palestinian side undertakes not to prosecute these Palestinians and not
to harm them in any way. False arrests and humiliating and painful
interrogations negate the [Palestinians'] obligation not to harm the
"collaborator"s. 

23. THE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE REPORT INCLUDES SEVERAL ADDITIONAL TYPES
OF SECURITY VIOLATIONS WHICH ARE BRIEFLY DESCRIBED HERE:
     A. Instances in which Palestinian policemen aimed their arms at
Israelis, cocked the guns and, on occasion, even shot at them. 
     Legal analysis: The Palestinian police lacks authority to arrest
Israelis, as described above, and therefore also lacks authority to
take steps to apprehend suspects. Furthermore, Section VIII.9(C) states
that use of arms is permissible only in situations of life endangerment
or endangerment of property and even then, only as a last resort after
all other efforts to solve the problems by other means have failed.
     B. Instances in which Palestinian Police vehicles broke through
Israel Defence Force roadblocks in the Jericho area 

     Legal analysis: According to the Agreement, the Palestinian
Authority has no authority to act outside of Gaza and Jericho and,
therefore, Palestinian policemen are forbidden to enter the Judea and
Samaria area in uniform and/or in Palestinian police vehicles. Within
the Judea and Samaria area, the Israel Defence Forces is responsible
for security, including the authority to set up roadblocks and to
detain vehicles and the Palestinian police must obey the soldiers'
orders as must any other person in that area.
     C. An instance in which a Palestinian police vehicle drove from
Jericho toward Uja without escort
     Legal analysis: Section V.1 of Annex I stipulates that Israel is
responsible for Road No. 90 which crosses Uja. This also applies to the
road which connects the Jericho area to Uja. Consequently, the
Palestinian police have no authority to travel this road. 

                        ECONOMIC INFRINGEMENTS

24. The list of violations set forth herein is based on the document
generated by the Office of the Coordinator for Activities in the
Territories and on Military Intelligence reports as well as on various
documents on various topics which were received by our offices.

25. ACTIVITIES OF PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY ENTITIES WITHIN THE JUDEA AND
SAMARIA AREA (PERTAINING TO TOPICS FOR WHICH RESPONSIBILITY HAS NOT YET
BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY) 
     There are many examples of this type of violation, both in
civilian matters and in security matters. 
     Activity is particularly evident in municipal matters, in that the
Palestinian Authority's official, Saib Arikat, directly imposes his
authority in the Judea and Samaria area, for example by changing the
status of the local councils, issuing instructions to the chairmen of
local councils, by calling upon the residents of the Judea and Samaria
area to present themselves to the Palestinian Authority's office for
various reasons, etc. 
     Another domain in which there has been flagrant and continuous
activity is with regard to the Palestinian intelligence personnel, and
chiefly Jibril Rajoub, who travel within Judea and Samaria and issue
direct orders to persons there.
     Furthermore, there are also instances in other domains in which
authority has been wielded in Judea and Samaria, for example in giving
licenses to businesses to operate there. Also, some instances have
occurred in which offices of the Palestinian Authority have been set up
within Judea and Samaria, such as branches of the Statistics Center, a
transfer office in Ramalla, etc.
     Furthermore, there is less flagrant activity which mainly consists
of Palestinian Authority personnel putting in appearances in Judea and
Samaria, as in the framework of tours, work meetings, lectures and
attending ceremonies.
     Legal analysis: Section V of the Agreement limits the authority of
the Palestinian Authority to within Gaza and Jericho and its personnel
do not have authority to act outside of these areas. 
     The Agreement regarding preparatory transfer of authority in Judea
and Samaria (henceforth -- the Judea and Samaria Agreement) sets out in
detail the authorities to be transferred to the Palestinian Authority
in each domain and states that the Military Government and the Civil
Authority will continue to carry out their responsibilities in domains
which have yet to be transferred (Section VI.5).

26. ACTIVITIES OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY WITHIN JERUSALEM OR
PERTAINING TO JERUSALEM
     This topic requires an investigation vis a vis the Foreign
Ministry in view of the vagueness of the various agreements reached in
this matter.
     Legal analysis: As stated, the Palestinian Authority is forbidden
to exert its authority outside of the areas which have been transferred
to its jurisdiction. Regarding Jerusalem, the Declaration of Principles
and the Judea and Samaria Agreement stated specifically that the
Palestinian authorities have no authority in the matter of Jerusalem
(see also the above discussion).

27. DISREGARDING LEGISLATION FROM THE PERIOD OF ISRAELI GOVERNMENT     
     The Al Kuds newspaper ran a notice according to which the
legislation carried out since 5 June 1967 is to be disregarded. The
notice was formulated such that it could be understood to apply even to
Judea and Samaria. In actual fact, there have since been a number of
pronouncements which indicate that the Palestinian Authority personnel
do indeed disregard security rulings.
     Legal analysis: Section VII (9) of the Agreement provides that
legislation which was valid in Gaza and Jericho at the time the
Agreement was signed, will remain valid unless it is amended or changed
in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement, i.e. after being
approved in the Legislative Committee.        

28. UNAPPROVED LEGISLATION [and regulations]
     Various reports indicate that the Palestinian Authority makes
rulings in various areas which are not submitted to the Legislation
Subcommittee for approval. The Palestinians have been claiming that
this is draft legislation and that final legislation has yet to be
published. However, reports from the Advisor for Arab Affairs in Judea
and Samaria indicate that recently, the first edition of an official
Palestinian newspaper has been published which includes laws and
administrative decisions of the Palestinian Authority's chairman.
Furthermore, we know that, in certain areas, the Palestinians operate
in accordance with law which differs from the law which was in effect
before authority was transferred. Therefore, one of the following is
true: either corrective legislation was issued without transferring it
to the Legislation Committee, or the existing legislation is not being
followed, contrary to the provisions of the Agreement, as discussed in
Section 27 above. Thus, for example, a District Court was formed in
Gaza, a step which requires a legislative change.
     Legal analysis: Section VII of the agreement states that the
Palestinian authority will devise its own laws, primary and secondary,
will submit them to the Joint Committee for Legislation as a condition
for the laws coming into force. 

29. REPLACING PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY LEADERS WITHOUT EXCHANGING LETTERS
     There have been a number of incidents in which members of the
Palestinian Authority's government have been replaced without
notification to Israel. For example, the appointment of Hassan Tahbou
to be responsible for the Ministry of Religion and termination of
Faisal Husseini's responsibility for this domain (according to his [the
latter's] own testimony).
     Legal analysis: Section VI(3) of the Agreement indicates that the
changes in the makeup of the Palestinian Authority will be effected by
means of an exchange of letters between the PLO and the Israeli
government.

30. PRODUCING DOCUMENTS WHOSE HEADINGS READ "PALESTINIAN NATIONAL
AUTHORITY"
     The Palestinian Authority has been using this title  at various
occasions, in official letters, forms, etc. Military Intelligence
reports indicate that this name has been used even for international
Agreements which the PLO has signed (with UNESCO). 
     Furthermore, the Arab version (unofficial) for the same Agreement
bears the words "State of Palestine".
     Legal analysis: In the Declaration of Principles, Appendix II
provides that a "Palestinian authority" will be set up in Gaza and
Jericho. The Authority was established in Section II of the Agreement
by that name. There is no basis for use of the term "National
Palestinian Authority" and use of this term is a violation of the
Agreement. Use of the term "State of Palestine" negates the Declaration
of Principles (see Section I thereof) and agreements which followed it
which clearly indicate that [the Palestinian authority] is not being
established as a country but rather as a self-rule for an interim
period and that the name "Palestine" is not to be used. Rather, the
terms "Palestinian self-rule" or "Palestinian Authority" should be
used.

31. AN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH A CITY WATCH IN NABLUS
     The Palestinian authority attempted to establish a city watch in
Nablus which set up a training course in Jericho under the auspices of
the Palestinian police, without permission from the Civil Authority and
without coordination with the civil authority. 
     Legal analysis: As explained above, the Palestinian Authority
entirely lacks authority for matters of security in Judea and Samaria.
Furthermore, even municipal authority were not transferred to the
Palestinian Authority so that there is not even the slightest basis for
establishing such a watch. Establishing the watch in Nablus is, in and
of itself, a violation of the legal provisions in Judea and Samaria.

                           CIVIL VIOLATIONS

32. The list of violations listed here is based, mainly, on a list
prepared by the Office of the Coordinator for Activities in the
Territories.

33. TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR WAQF MATTERS IN JERUSALEM AND IN JUDEA
AND SAMARIA
     The Supervisor of Religion in the Palestinian Authority stated
that his office is responsible for the holy places in Jerusalem, in
addition to his role as Chairman of the Supreme Moslem Council.
Furthermore, the supervisor (who calls himself "Minister of Waqf and
Religion") has seized responsibility for the [illegible] system in
Judea and Samaria (in the aftermath of Jordan's announcement
withdrawing from this struggle), and the same applies to the
[illegible] in Jerusalem (parallel to Jordan).
     Legal analysis: Section V of the Agreement restricts the authority
of the Palestinian Authority to within Gaza and Jericho and the
Authority and its personnel have no authority to act outside of that
area. Regarding Jerusalem, the Declaration of Principles specifically
states, in a comment [illegible] to Section VI, that the Palestinian
Authority has no authority whatever. A similar provision appears in
Section III(2) of the Judea and Samaria Agreement.
     Religious matters have not yet been transferred to the Palestinian
Authority regarding the Judea and Samaria area and therefore, its
representatives, as such, lack authority in Judea and Samaria. However,
difficulty arises regarding actions of an entity with two separate
identities -- the Palestinian Authority and the Supreme Muslim Council.

34. REQUISITIONING PASSPORTS WITH FORMAT OTHER THAN THAT AGREED UPON
     The Palestinian Authority has requisitioned passports from a
German printing press which differ in format from the provisions in the
Agreement, including special passports for VIPs and service passports.
     Legal analysis: Section II.B.27(F) of Annex II entitles [the
Palestinian Authority] to produce a Palestinian passport whose format
is specified in detail in Addendum C to the Annex. Deviation from this
[illegible] is a violation of the Agreement, as is producing special
passports. Producing service passports can even be regarded as
exercising authority in the realm of foreign relations, which negates
the provisions of Section IV.2(A) of the Agreement which states that
the Palestinian Authority have no authority in this realm.

35. FORGING DOCUMENTS IN ORDER TO GAIN ENTRY TO ISRAEL
     There is a widespread phenomenon of forging documents (such as
summons of labor courts, medical committees, summons to hospitals,
etc.) in order to gain entry to Israel, as well as forging of driving
licenses, insurance licenses, and so on. The Palestinian Authority has
not been addressing the forging phenomenon. Furthermore, there have
been instances in which employees of the Authority have themselves been
involved in forgery (for example, an instance in which names of
students appearing in lists certified by the Coordination Office for
entry into Israel were changed).
     Legal analysis: The Agreement does not include any special
provisions on the subject of forgeries, however, it is obviously a
criminal offense and there are provisions [in the Agreement] 
which oblige the Palestinian Authority to aid Israel in its war against
crime (for example, Section XII(2) of the Agreement), as detailed
above.
     Forgery on the part of the Palestinian Authority in its dealings
with us constitutes non bona fides implementation of the Agreement and
contradict the spirit of the Agreement and its objective of building a
relationship of trust between the sides (see, for example, the
Introduction to the Agreement and the Preamble to Sections XII and XX).

36. ILLEGAL BUILDING NOT MONITORED AND NOT ENFORCED
     Within the Palestinian Authority, buildings are under construction
which negate the arrangements for planning and construction provided by
the Agreement. 
     Legal analysis: Section VI of Annex I provides various limitations
on planning and construction close to the Green Line and to the
latitudinal roads. Lack of enforcement on the part of the Authority and
consequent deviations from the Section's stipulations are a violation
of the Agreement.

37. ESTABLISHING A TEMPORARY PORT IN GAZA
     The Palestinian Authority has begun construction work on a pier in
Gaza which will serve as a temporary port, without prior coordination
and without providing appropriate plans for consideration by the Joint
Committee for Planning and Construction.
     Legal analysis: Section XI.4 of Annex I provides that establishing
a port in Gaza will be a subject for negotiation between the parties.
Hence, the Palestinian Authority is not entitled to establish a port
independently. Furthermore, the Palestinian Authority has not provided
Israel with a copy of its plans for the port, negating the provisions
of [illegible] II.B.32 of Annex II, which relates to planning and
construction. 

38. DISTRIBUTION OF STAMPS, CONTRARY TO THE AGREEMENT
     The Palestinian Authority has been distributing stamps in Gaza on
which national symbols appear such as the word "Palestine" and "mil", a
currency.
     Legal analysis: Section II.B.25(B) of Section II includes
provisions regarding the form of the Palestinian stamp. According to
this Section, the stamp must not bear the word "Palestine" but rather
the phrase "Palestinian Authority", national symbols are not to appear,
and a coin will appear which will be legal tender in the area. The
"mil" is not legal tender, according to the provisions of Section IV.10
of Annex IV.

39. FAILURE TO PROVIDE LAND REGISTRY RECORDS TO THE COORDINATION OFFICE
     The Palestinian Authority has not transferred to the Coordination
Office the original Land Registry records which pertain to land within
the Jewish settlements and military installations. A request to return
these records was rejected by the Palestinian Authority who argued,
inter alia, that it is not obliged to return these records by virtue of
the Agreement.
     Legal analysis: Section II.B.22 of Annex II states that the
Palestinian Authority will gain authority regarding registration of
land, except for the Israeli settlements and military installation
areas. Section II.A.2 states that all documents required for the
functioning of the Palestinian Authority will be transferred to the
Authority. Those portions of the Registry which pertain to land which
remains under Israeli responsibility were not intended to be
transferred to the Palestinian Authority, however once they were
transferred, for technical reasons, the Palestinian Authority's refusal
to return them constitutes lack of bon fides implementation of the
Agreement, although it is not in violation of any specific provision of
the Agreement.

40. FAILURE TO PAY WATER DEBTS TO MEKOROT CORPORATION [ISRAELI WATER
COMPANY]
     The water debt to Mekorot Corporation has yet to be paid. 
     Legal analysis: Section II.B.31(3) of Annex II provides that the
Palestinian Authority will provide payment to Mekorot to cover the cost
of water supplied from Israel and the costs of supplying the water to
the Palestinian Authority. Failure to pay these costs constitutes a
violation of this Section.

41. SENDING DEFECTIVE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE FROM GAZA INTO ISRAEL
     The Palestinian Authority does not provide veterinarian
supervision of the agricultural produce leaving Gaza for Israel and
consequently, shipments including rotten eggs and vegetables watered
with sewage water, etc. were sent [to Israel].
     Legal analysis: Section VIII.2 of Annex IV provides that the
veterinarian and plant protection services of the two sides are
responsible for supervising plant and animal diseases within their
borders. Section VIII.3 provides that these authorities will apply
uniform standards to Israel and the areas [territories?] and will act
to prevent spreading of animal and plant diseases. Regarding
veterinarian matters, there are additional provisions which limit
delivery to Israel of animals and their produce (including eggs)
without a permit certifying that the produce meets the required
veterinarian standard. 

42. PASSING OFF ISRAELI PRODUCE IN GAZA
     "NECA 7" [a well-known Israeli brand] soaps and deodorants which
are local imitations [of the genuine Israeli produce] have been
manufactured in Gaza.
     Legal analysis: Section IX.4 of Annex IV, relating to commerce,
states that the sides will cooperate in preventing deceptive practices.
Section IX.3 states that the sides will act to the best of their
abilities to prevent damage to the other side's industry.

43. PALESTINIAN FUND FOR TREATING TRAFFIC ACCIDENT VICTIMS NOT YET
FOUNDED
     Legal analysis: Section XI.2(a) of Annex IV states that the
Palestinian Authority will set up a statutory fund to compensate
traffic accident victims who lack insurance compensation for bodily
injury.

44. ISSUANCE OF INTERNATIONAL DRIVING LICENSES
     The Palestinian Authority has itself issued international driving
licenses, contrary to the arrangement whereby these documents will be
issued only by MEMSI [Israeli equivalent of AAA]. Furthermore, the
licenses issued included the heading "Palestine".
     Legal analysis: The position of [Israel's] Ministry of
Transportation is that issuance of international driving licenses is an
act which falls within the realm of foreign relations and consequently,
the Palestinian Authority is not entitled to issue international
driving licenses according to Section VI.2(A) of the Agreement which
provides that the Palestinian Authority has no authority as regards
foreign relations. 
     Regarding use of the heading "Palestine", see above, Section 41. 

45. DISTRIBUTION OF NEW LICENSE PLATES
     The Palestinian Authority has been distributing new license plates
in the Gaza strip area without reporting to the Ministry of
Transportation.
     Legal analysis: In the summary of the discussions held in the
subcommittee for transportation, a format for vehicle license plates
within the Palestinian Authority was reached and it was decided that if
the Palestinian Authority should request a different type of license
plate, this matter will be coordinated within the framework of the
committee.

                   FOREIGN RELATIONS INFRINGEMENTS 

46. This list of violations in the realm of foreign relations is based
on a report prepared by the [Israeli] Military Intelligence. 

47. APPOINTMENT OF ZUHADI EL KIDRA, WHO ALSO SERVES AS THE LOCAL
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PLO, AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PALESTINIAN
AUTHORITY IN EGYPT 
     Legal analysis: Section VI.2(A) of the Agreement provides that the
Palestinian Authority does not enjoy any authority whatever as regards
foreign relations. The exceptions in the Agreement relate to the PLO
rather than to the Palestinian Authority. 

48. Morocco has opened "liaison offices" in Gaza. Its representative
will submit a writ of allegiance to Arafat. 
     Legal analysis: Section VI.2(c) of the Agreement provides that
foreign countries may establish representation within the borders of
the Palestinian Authority in order to implement agreements with those
countries which the PLO signed on behalf of the Palestinian Authority,
according to the provisions of paragraph (3) of the same section. In
this instance, no agreement exists with whose implementation the
[Moroccan] office has been charged. Therefore, establishment [of the
Moroccan office] is a violation. 

49. The PLO representative in Moscow has signed a security cooperation
protocol with Russia. According to the protocol, the Russian Foreign
Ministry will train Palestinian crews in security matters.
     Legal analysis: Section VI.2(B) of the Agreement categorically
states those instances in which the PLO is entitled to bind itself in
international agreements on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
Agreements for security cooperation are not included in this list.

50. "Palestine" has joined the International Council of Airports. This
apparently is to be interpreted as the Palestinian Authority becoming a
member of the Council. 
     Legal analysis: As stated, the Palestinian Authority has
absolutely no authority in foreign affairs. Regarding the PLO, joining
[the Council] is not one of the foreign relations areas which it is
entitled to deal in on behalf of the Authority. 
     Furthermore, Section XII of Annex I which relates to avionics
clearly indicates that the Palestinian Authority is not entitled to
join ICAO (International Civilian Aviation Organization), and instead,
that any matter which requires action vis a vis this organization will
be carried out through Israel or through any other country which is a
member (see paragraphs 5 and 10 of the Section). It should be inferred
that the Palestinian Authority lacks the authority to join other
international bodies which deal with avionics.

                                SUMMARY

51. The list of violations in the present document does not purport to
include all violations on the part of the Palestinian Authority, either
intentionally or through oversight, and, on the other side, it does not
include only those substantive violations of principle which justify
discussions at the highest levels. 

52. The purpose of this document has been to present, in concentrated
form, all principal violations since the Agreement was validated,
except for violations which ceased or were corrected prior to
preparation of this document. This document can serve as a basis for
various documents pertaining to violations, with different
cross-sections [?], either more general or more specific, as needed.

53. If this document is used in a presentation to the Palestinians, we
recommend that the Israeli side equip themselves with detailed
documents which include data and examples of the violation [at issue],
in anticipation of a possible argument on the part of the Palestinians
that the complaints have no basis in facts, and in order to prevent the
Palestinians from "sending the ball back to our court".

54. In order to allow continued treatment of violations, it would
appear to be necessary to formulate a mechanism which assembles all
violations on an ongoing basis and to identify an entity who will
determine how violations should be treated. 

David Yahav
Aluf Mishne [corresponding to Col.] 
Assistant Chief Military Judge's Advocate
for International Law

Distributed courtesy of Shalom L'Dorot [Peace for Generations]          
              
Bialik 125, Rmat Gan Israel  52523 Tel 972-3-6133544/Fax 972-3-6132484 
IMRA, 

                 **ARAFAT: WE ARE A NATION OF JIHAD**
     Voice of Palestine Radio February 14, 1995
     Salem Abu Saleh reports from Hebron:
     Arafat emphasized, in a telephone speech which he gave at a
ceremony in memory of the martyrs of the massacre in the Cave of the
Patriarchs, which was held on February 14th in the afternoon in the
Hall of the Academic's Union in Hebron, that this is an additional
historical day in the history of Palestine and the Palestinian people
on this land. He said: "We are laying today the first brick on the way
to establishing our Palestinian state, whose capital is Jerusalem,
despite the ridicule of certain sides. The path is long and hard, yet
the Palestinian people say wholeheartedly that this land is not just
Palestinian, but rather also Arab."
     "We raise today the memory of the martyrs of the massacre in the
Cave of the Patriarchs and the martyrs of Limassol [the reference is to
those killed and wounded when the "Boat of Return" which was to leave
Cyprus on February 15, 1988, blew up - IMRA]. The blood of the martyrs
were not spilled in vain. Our nation is a nation of sacrifice, struggle
and Jihad."
     After that spoke Deputy Minister Ahmad Said Altimimi who said:
"The blood of the martyrs cries out to us from the ground until we
liberate the homeland and fly the Palestinian flag on the towers of
Jerusalem."
     After that spoke the head of the Organization of Revolutionary
Palestinian Fighters in Hebron, Mai Smarta. Many cables praising the
role of the martyrs in the march towards the homeland reached the
ceremony. Many personalities from all of the institution gave speeches.
     After prayers in the afternoon in the Cave of the Patriarchs,
there was an additional historical ceremony in memory of the martyrs of
the massacre, at which many of those speaking emphasized that the month
of Ramadan is a month of sacrifices, bravery and struggle. 
     Palestine Television (Palestinian Autonomy) February 14, 1995: 
     The Mufti of Jerusalem [appointed by Arafat - IMRA] called for the
Arab and Islamic world to support the Palestinian struggle to get back
Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied territories. The Mufti said that
the Israelis are interested in changing Jerusalem demographically and
culturally by Judaizing it.
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate 
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)

            **SYRIA THREATENS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION**
     DAMASCUS-- Arab League chief Esmat Abdel-Meguid and Syrian Foreign
Minister Farouq al-Shara urged Israel on Tuesday to sign the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty to pave the way for Arab endorsement of the
accord.
     Syria's government daily Tishreen renewed Syria's warning that
Israel's failure to sign the treaty would encourage Arabs to acquire
weapons of mass destruction.
     A Syrian spokesman said Shara and Abdel-Meguid also discussed
Syria's peace talks with Israel and issues related to Arab
reconciliation during a meeting at the foreign ministry in Damascus.
     It was stressed during the meeting that Arab states should not
sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) before Israel signs it. This
will be the only way to make the Middle East area free of the mass
destruction weapons, especially the nuclear arms," the spokesman said.
     He said the NPT would be one of the main issues on the Arab
League's ministerial council meeting due to be held in Cairo next
month.
     "Israel has never signed the treaty, which runs out this year, and
the Arabs, led by Egypt, have taken the opportunity to lobby against
the special nuclear status Israel has acquired."
     Reports say Israel has about 200 nuclear warheads but the Israelis
argue that they face a potential nuclear threat from countries such as
Iran, Iraq and Libya, which are not part of the Middle East peace
process.
     Tishreen said Israel should sign the nuclear pact.
     "Israel's preservation of nuclear weapons constitutes a direct
threat to the security, stability and existence of Arabs. It also foils
the chances for peace in the region and paves the way for a new arms
race," Tishreen said.
     "No one should imagine that Arabs will continue to submit to the
nuclear threats of Israel and its blackmail without thinking about
acquiring similar and deterrent weapons," Tishreen said.
     "Israel brought the nuclear weapons to the Middle East region. Its
refusal to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty creates the objective
circumstances to spread the nuclear weapons and other kinds of mass
destruction weapons in this sensitive region," the paper said.
     Syria opened peace talks with Israel in 1991 as part of the
Arab-Israeli peace talks but no tangible progress was achieved. The
negotiations stalled over withdrawal from the Golan Heights, captured
by Israel in 1967, and future ties.
     Syria's government newspapers on Tuesday quoted Adnan Omran, the
Arab League's assistant secretary-general who is handling the nuclear
issue, as expressing regret that Washington was pressuring Arabs to
sign the treaty despite Israel's refusal to do so.
     "If no action is taken against Israel's nuclear policy, there
would certainly be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East," Omran said.
     Abdel-Maguid, who arrived in Damascus on Monday, is to meet
President Hafez al-Assad before heading to Lebanon. His visits are part
of a tour to all Arab countries begun last month in an attempt to
restore Arab solidarity shattered by the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
     Hopes that Arab leaders could meet in a summit during celebrations
marking the 50th anniversary of the Cairo-based organisation next March
were dimmed after Abdel-Meguid's tour of the six oil-rich Gulf Arab
states last January. Tishreen, I&GN, Feb. 15, 

           **EGYPT BLOCKING ISRAEL'S TIES WITH ARAB WORLD**
     EGYPT'S insistence that Israel sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT) is blocking the development of relations between Israel
and the rest of the Arab world, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin reportedly
told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday. 
     "There's an ill wind blowing in the Egyptian foreign ministry,"
Rabin was quoted as saying. He added however that he hoped this is just
a "temporary" bad patch. 
     Egypt and the Arab League secretariat, meanwhile, have drafted a
treaty that would make the Middle East a zone free of weapons of mass
destruction. 
     The treaty, submitted to representatives of Arab states at a
meeting in Cairo Tuesday, is designed to include Israel and Iran,
alongside all 22 members of the Arab League. 
     Under the present text, it would come into force only when eight
core states sign and ratify it. These are Jordan, Israel, Iran,
Algeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt. 
     Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak proposed such a zone in 1990, but
Egypt has not previously formalized it in a treaty. 
     The idea has again come to prominence as Egypt, Israel and the
United States maneuver over extending the NPT, which runs out this
year. 
     The draft treaty comes close to being a regional alternative to
the NPT, adding chemical and biological weapons. 
     In Damascus Tuesday, Foreign Minister Farouk Shara said that Syria
will stick to its "firm position" not to sign the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty unless Israel does. 
     An editorial in the government-run newspaper Tishrin said
dismantling Israel's nuclear weapons was "a prerequisite" for an
Arab-Israeli settlement. Failure to do so would the Arabs to seek
"identical deterrent means," it said. 

            **POLICE DRAG LEVINGERS FROM HOME INTO COURT**
     Rabbi Moshe Levinger and his wife Miriam, removed by dozens of
policemen from their Hebron home Wednesday morning, were dragged into
Jerusalem Magistrate's Court in the afternoon and charged with
assaulting police officers in 1994.
     ``You are an instrument of this Bolshevik system. You, the police
and the left have sold your souls to Satan. You all are persecuting
Jews and releasing terrorists. You are all the children of Stalin, and
you, judge, are cooperating with all of them,'' Miriam Levinger,
dragged into court by six policemen, shouted at Judge Haya Ben-Ami, 
     According to the indictment, the couple attacked a three policemen
near their home, after their children told them they had been struck by
the policemen.
     Levinger, according to the indictment, struck the police officers,
and then laid down on the ground and refused to get into the police
van. Miriam Levinger is accused of attacking an officer, biting him,
and laying under the wheels of the van to prevent her husband's arrest.
     When the police van brought Miriam Levinger to court, she refused
to leave the vehicle. Once she was dragged into court, she refused to
sit on the defendant's bench, and told the judge she did not recognize
the authority of the court. The Levingers refused to respond to the
indictment, and a hearing was set for the end of June.
     Ben-Ami criticized the way Miriam Levinger, 60, was brought into
court, saying she gave instructions to the police that if she refused
to come into the court, the hearing could be held in her absence.
     ``The manner in which Mrs. Levinger was brought here, dragged by
every limb, with parts of her body exposed, is not acceptable to me.''
     At the same time, Ben-Ami wrote that this does not justify
Levinger's behavior.
     Police took the couple from their home to the court after they
failed to show up in court last month, police spokesman Boaz Goldenberg
said. He said police arrived at the Levinger home early in the morning,
and - after the Levingers refused to open the door and neighbors in the
Avraham Avinu complex threw rocks, eggs, and water at them - the police
broke the door down.
     Five of the neighbors were arrested.
     Goldenberg said the police were working under a court order to
bring the couple before a judge.
     Goldenberg said the police were sent there the night before and
asked the couple to come to court this morning. According to
Goldenberg, Levinger said that ``if the police come to take us, they
will be met by rocks.''
     ``Police came with clubs, hammers, and everyone who tried to get
near was pushed aside by force,'' Hebron resident Orit Struck told Army
Radio, charging that the police used excessive force. ``They dragged
out the rabbis wife in a shocking manner, while the Arabs were
watching.'' 

              ** "ALMOST EVERY DAY THERE IS AN ATTACK"**
     This was Foreign Minister Shimon Peres explanation of why the Rabin 
Government Cabinet had a dinner party the same day a cab driver was murdered 
in a terrorist attack. (Army Radio February 14, 1995) 
Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate 
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)

      **ABANDONMENT OF COLLABORATORS - ABANDONMENT OF MORALITY**
                  by *Aaron Lerner February 15, 1995
     When Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets with Yasser Arafat to
discuss Israel's demands that the Palestinian Authority (PA) fight
terror, one of the most brutal forms of focused terrorism is not even
addressed. That is terror against Arab "collaborators". 
     The Arabs who provided Israel with critical life saving
intelligence information now find themselves abandoned by the Jewish
State as they are hunted, tortured and murdered by Arafat's secret
police. Arafat's dragnet already reaches the entire West Bank and
Jerusalem and is now spreading out to include Israeli Arab communities
as well. Much of the blame for this deplorable development can be
attributed to the Rabin government.
     It did not have to be this way. The Cairo Agreement specifically
addresses the situation of the collaborators and states that "Until an
agreed solution is found, the Palestinian side undertakes not to
prosecute these Palestinians or to harm them in any way." (Article XX
paragraph 5).
     Yet from the start, Israel ignored the treatment of collaborators
by the PA. Even when Palestinians were kidnapped and dragged to Jericho
for questioning, torture - and even execution, the Israeli authorities
chose to avert their eyes.
     The Rabin government did not simply remain silent: they took a
critical step which sent a clear signal to the PA as to just how Israel
really feels about the collaborators. At the start of the talks
regarding the release of terrorists, Israel insisted that it would not
allow for the release of terrorists "with blood on their hands". The
phrase "blood on their hands" was initially taken at face value: all
murderers would not be released.
     But as the negotiations proceeded and the prisons began to empty,
Israel revised its definition of blood to exclude murdered
collaborators. And so, the terrorists who tortured collaborators to
death were released by Israel while those responsible for Jewish deaths
remained behind bars. The message to the PA is clear: murdering
collaborators is an acceptable activity - just don't kill Jews.
     The Israel Arab community has picked up on the message and has
taken a very strong stand against the collaborators. Israeli Arab
leaders say openly and repeatedly that they consider the
collaborators to be "traitors to their people". This leads of course to
a most unpleasant question: Would these Israeli Arabs consider it
immoral for an Arab from Jaffa to help foil a terrorist attack against
Jews?
     The abandonment of the collaborators has already cost Israel
dearly. Israel's intelligence capability within the Autonomy has been
decimated and the situation in the West Bank is deteriorating rapidly.
But the damage caused by the abandonment of the collaborators goes far
beyond the loss of intelligence information. Deserted by Israel, many
collaborators are now under pressure to "atone" for their past by
participating in terrorist attacks against Jews. 
     The terrorist from Katabiyeh, who brutally hacked to death a girl
soldier in Afula a few months ago told the court that he did so in
order to prove to members of Arafat's Fatah organization that he is not
a collaborator. He knew that Israeli prison was safer than the torture
chambers of the PA.
*Dr. Aaron Lerner, Associate 
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)

SNS News Service
May 16, 1995..16 Iyar 5755..Number 474..Update from Israel

The Ministry of Interior has sent an official letter to the Head of the Kiryat Arba Local 
Council, Mr. Tzvi Katzover. The letter  notified Katzover that Hevron resident Baruch 
Marzel is to be taken off as a member of the council due to his past criminal record 
and association with Kach. Marzel was elected to his position in the last local 
elections and is two months away from the completion of his term.

Mr. Katzover stated that he was outraged by the governments latest act against 
Marzel. Without even speaking about Mr. Marzels personal traits and good deeds, 
this is a first. Never before has an elected official been thrown out of office due to his 
political leanings.

Marzel stated that he will run for re-election in two months once again. He also 
announced that the seat will be filled by Noam Federman. This should make their 
day. This is a total violation of the democratic process. The administrative detentions 
and Bolshevik policies of the Rabin government continue.

Note** Both Marzel and Federman have been the subjects of the Rabin government 
harassment policies. They have served administrative jail terms [not sentenced for 
having committed any crimes. They were deemed a danger to the public safety]. 
Marzel was acquitted of all criminal charges against him last week. This was the third 
time that the governments cases against were thrown out of court for insufficient 
evidence. In last weeks State Comptrollers report, the continued police brutality, 
illegal and unjustified arrests, and administrative detentions were condemned as a 
gross violation of civil and human rights. (SNS/Hevron..5/15).

				****

It has been learned that IDF troops are drilling to counter Israeli [Jewish] 
demonstrations.

Special units are training and actually going through exercises to break up Jewish 
demonstrators. (Channel 7 Radio News..5/15..1:15pm).

				****

Three members of Chai Vekaiyam have been released from jail after having been 
arrested on Sunday for attempting to pray on Jerusalems Temple Mount on Sunday. 

The Jerusalem Magistrates Court Judge requested that they sign a declaration stating 
they would not attempt to go onto the Mount for the period of one month. The three 
defendants refused to sign but were released nevertheless.

				****

Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert lashed out at Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin after his 
statement promising not to confiscate any more land for building in Jerusalem

Olmert stated that when the dispute broke out in Efrat several months ago, Rabin 
stated that this is Efrat and not Jerusalem. (In the Efrat land dispute, the government 
conceded to Arab demands to halt building on Givat HaTamar and decided to build 
a smaller neighborhood on nearby Givat HaZayit.

Olmert stated now the fight over land has reached Jerusalem and the Prime Minister 
has conceded once again. (Channel 7 Radio News Summary..5/15..1:15pm).

				****

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				INCITEMENT TO JUDAISM

		A graphic first-hand account of police brutality in Jerusalem.

			 by Dina Moskowitz (Jerusalem, Israel)


Today, May 4, 1995, Yom HaAtzmaut (Independence Day) of the State of Israel, the
47th anniversary of the realization of the sovereignty of the Jewish people in
their own state, in their own land.  I meet with members of the Chai veKayam group,
led by the very capable Yehuda Etzion, with the intention of going to pray on the
holiest site of the Jewish people - Har HaBayit - on the birthday of the Jewish
state.  The place about which Motta Gur, in the heat of the battle to liberate
Jerusalem in 1967, shouted triumphantly:  "Har HaBayit is in our hands!"

We are 13 men and 2 women.  We make our way along Chabad St. in the Jewish Quarter,
through the Moslem Quarter, down Via Dolorosa to the "Ghawanima Gate", one of the
smallest and most well-hidden entryways to Har HaBayit, near the Arab cotton shuk. 
It had been decided in advance to leave some people outside the gate, including us
2 women; but that all of us would recite Tehillim together at the same time.

I stand/sit just outside the gate with E., the other woman, to recite Tehillim. 
Jewish and Arab police start dragging, pushing and throwing our men off Har HaBayit
through the gate, one by one.  The men sit on the ground just outside the gate and
continue reciting Tehillim, wrapped in tallitim.  The police watch in exasperation
and desperation for about 5 minutes and call for reinforcements.  Several officers
yell at us to get up and leave.  Nobody does.  Then the beating and kicking begin -
in earnest.

I see men and boys being beaten and kicked in the head and every part of the body. 
One older man, heavy-set, is mercilessly beaten and kicked at the hand (and foot)
of a policeman who is - at most - born a Jew.  In horror I watch him getting kicked
and pummeled in his head and everywhere else that could be reached, while he is
already lying helpless on the ground.  He is so badly beaten that he can't get up,
so the police forcibly drag him away, and he cries out in pain and anguish as they
do.  I see other men and boys getting slapped and punched as well.  I see a tallit
with blood on it.

Suddenly I feel a tremendous slap on my right cheek.  I scream out in shock and
some pain.  I have no idea where it came from.  E. gets hit, too, and her tichel is
ripped off.

E. and I are the last ones to leave.  The police warn her that it would be a pity
to have to use force, so she gets up voluntarily (I'm already standing), and we
leave together, unarrested.

We decide on the way out to file a complaint at Kishle (the police station just
inside Jaffa Gate) against the police brutality we were victim to, even though we
can't point a finger at anyone specific.  We arrive at Kishle, where all the men
are already being held.  We are told to wait for the officer responsible for taking
complaints, who never shows up.  We decide to leave.

I go to the restroom and return, only to find out - that E. and I are under arrest!
I ask why, and the "Jewish" cop - Shlomo - tells me we're being accused of
assaulting a policeman!  I can barely hold back a chuckle at such an absurd charge
- - - especially concerning E., the petite and delicate mother of 5, not really the
cop-beating type.

Shlomo tells me that if I don't surrender my ID card to the police and go upstairs
to the interrogation hall, I will be accused of being sent by Arafat to carry out
an attack!  (Under other circumstances, I would have laughed that one off.)  In
shock, we go upstairs to a dreary hall, where one of the arrested men is also being
held.  We are forbidden to talk to him.  Our man manages to slip me a note to
deliver on the outside.

In the end, E. and I are forced to wait 3 1/2 long hours to get interrogated,
without any food or contact with the outside.  Shlomo explains why he's upset with
us, and I suggest it's because of our incitement to Judaism by daring to exercise
our right to pray on our holiest site.  He doesn't take very kindly to my
explanation.

I refuse to sign the statement of charges against me, which include disturbing the
peace, cursing an officer and refusing to leave when asked.  All of the charges are
patently false, trumped up against E. and me only after we came to file a complaint
against the police!  Finally the police return our ID cards and release E. and me
after we sign a guarantee to appear in court if necessary.  But as of this writing,
the others are being held for at least 48 hours.

I learned first-hand today that experience is the best teacher.  I was witness to
the total Chilul Hashem and disgrace of the worst kind of fascist police brutality
against Jews, whose only "crime" was praying on Har HaBayit.  I saw beatings and
violence that would turn the stomach of the most unflinching person.  I saw
cowtowing to the Ishmaelite enemy and tremendous fear of the Arab reaction.  I saw
Arabs with self-satisfied scorn in their eyes, gathering around to watch religious
Jews getting crushed, beaten and humiliated by Jewish police in the Jewish state. 
AND I AM ANGRY!

What happened to me personally today isn't important.  The point is that I was an
eyewitness to the worst kind of Jewish self-hatred.  This was Israeli "democracy" 
in action!  A "democracy" which does not include freedom for Jews in the Jewish
state to worship at their holiest site - is no democracy!

It is vital that Jews worldwide know the truth about what passes for democracy in
the modern-day Jewish state.  A great outcry from the heart must be heard against
this officially sanctioned terrorism by Jews against Jews, at the holiest of
places.  This outcry must reach the very throne of HaKadosh Baruch Hu!

By the next Yom HaAtzmaut, may we all be privileged to see the turning of Israel
into a truly JEWISH state.  May we all be privileged to see the removal of the
Ishmaelite abomination from Har HaBayit and the building of our sacred Beit
HaMikdash, putting Har HaBayit back into our hands - this time for real, and for
all time! 

                SHULAMIT ALONI PUSHED AWAY FROM SPEAKER'S 
                       ROSTRUM AT PARADE BREAKFAST
                        By Dr. Manfred R. Lehmann


     The traditional breakfast before the Salute-for-Israel parade on
Sunday, May 21st was totally marred by the unscheduled appearance of
Shulamit Aloni who was selected by the Israel Embassy to represent the
Israel Government. 
     When the news of her appearance became known late on Friday, the
Parade committee decided that even if she appeared at the breakfast she
would not be allowed to speak because of her controversial role in Israel.
Nevertheless, shortly before the breakfast began, Ambassador Itamar
Rabinowitch telephoned the leadership of the Parade that unless Mrs. Aloni
would be allowed to speak no member of the Israeli diplomatic corps would
appear at the breakfast. Faced with this "hold up" some of the committee
gave in and permitted her to speak. 
     When news of her impending speech became known, the spontaneous
reaction was to stage dramatic protests against her. Therefore, when she
ascended on the stage, pandemonium broke out. A large number of guests
immediately walked out, the majority booed and heckled her, with calls of
"traitor," "Aloni get out," "Aloni Balogne" and stronger ones. The climax
came when, after a few sentences by her, the Chairman of the Parade Mr.
Jack Avital climbed up on the stage, and bodily pushed Mrs. Aloni away
from the Podium. Security men of the Consulate immediately interfered and
blows were exchanged. 
     Some leaders of the Committee, such as Sam Domb, felt compelled to
apologize for the incident, Mrs. Aloni was unable to finish her speech,
and had to be escorted out. Her scheduled participation in the Parade was
canceled. She was not seen anymore near the Parade. Instead she attended a
women's seminar chaired by her close friend, the chair of the Americans
for Peace Now Letty Pogrebin.
     It was generally felt that Ms. Colette Avital, Consul General, a
close friend of Mrs. Aloni, made a serious miscalculation in sending Mrs.
Aloni to the breakfast. She should have known, as a diplomat, the climate
in the American Jewish community and should have known that Mrs. Aloni was
not acceptable as a representative of the Government of Israel. For the
sake of the record, there is no truth whatsoever to the rumor circulated
in Israel that Mrs. Aloni was injured. I walked out with her together with
her security guard while she conversed freely with others, perfectly
healthy.
     Many took note of the fact that some months ago that Mrs. Aloni,
joined some Palestinian members of the Knesset who booed General Lahat
when he appeared in the Knesset. She is therefore, hardly in a position to
criticize others who boo her.

                 HUGELY SUCCESSFUL JERUSALEM 3000 CONCERT

     After the Parade, over 30,0000 people gathered in Central Park to
attend a 2-hour Concert for Jerusalem 3000 and for the settlements in
Yesha. The chairman of the Concert Dr. Manfred R. Lehmann opened the
concert with an expression of thanks and appreciation for the Senators and
Congressmen who introduced Bill S.770 for the recognition of Jerusalem as
Israel's capital and for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Dr. Lehmann
singled out Senators Bob Dole, Daniel Inouye, D'Amato, Kyl, Hels, Newt
Gingrich for special thanks. His remarks were met with thunderous
applause. After him Professor Walid Pharis, leader of the World Lebanese
Organization spoke with assurances of full support by the Christians in
Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, the Sudan for a strong Israel, with Jerusalem as the
undivided Jewish capital under 100% Israeli sovereignty. He also expressed
opposition to U.S. troops on the Golan Heights and the payment of funds to
the PLO. He spoke in the name of over 18 million Christians in Moslem
countries. He received tremendous applause.

The entertainment was rendered by Avraham Fried, Cantor Yosi Malovany and
many others.

My friend Jake Livni sent this report from NY:

The story that Aloni has been spreading is far from accurate.
I was there when it happened.  I was sitting with Beth Gilinsky
of the Jewish Action Alliance about 15 feet away from Minister Aloni.

When she was introduced, there was booing from people throughout 
the audience.  She spoke a bit and smiled and laughed at the booing
(she seems to thrive on the stuff).  Interestingly, like Arafat,
she says different things to different audiences.  Unlike in Israel,
in NY she told people that she has always proudly lived her life 
'by the Book'.  Who was she trying to kid?

Jack Avital walked onto the stage and approached her.  The bodyguard,
stepped between them and Avital jumped forward.  I didn't even see him
touch her, though others say that he pushed her away by the shoulders.

The press has been reporting that she was hit in the abdomen.  
It never happened.  I heard from Israel that Aloni spoke from NY 
to Israel Radio, telling about her injuries and medical care.  The 
only medical care she needs from Sunday is psychiatric.

She really does thrive on this.  She has taken a relatively minor
incident and, with the help of the media, inflamed it into a major
affair.  I was standing next to Sam Domb when the Kol Yisra'el 
reporter (with his tape-recorder) tried to put words into Domb's 
mouth.  Mr. Domb carefully avoided getting sucked in by the reporter. 
(I recall Bush administration people giggling over the new Clinton
admin people making mistakes in handling the press; the experienced
staff knew when the press was setting up inexperienced, new White
House spokesmen.)  A moment later someone asked if Mrs. Aloni was hurt, 
and the reporter said that she was just fine.

What I find fascinating about it is how the media manages it and 
how the powers that be milk it - even in the presence of hundreds 
of eye-witnesses who will swear the opposite!  She was plainly hardly
even shoved, but the Left has turned this into another "evil settler,
anti-peace" libel, with enough Aloni Baloney in the press that those
who weren't actually there might actually believe it.  It's an amazing
process to actually witness in person!

The battle for Israel is beginning to heat up among Jews around the
world.  As usual, I loathe the idea that Jews have to fight each other for
the retention of our homeland, but, alas, it must be done.  With the likes
of Shulamit Aloni running around North America spouting her brand of
universalist humanitarianism, we of the Zionist persuasion are left with
little choice.

Humanitarians, especially Jews among them, often spout their humanist
message in an effort to divest the Jews of their own humanity.  Shulamit
Aloni is no different.  Her efforts are well documented as she wastes no
opportunity to remind Jews, and the rest of the world, of how evil we are
and how plainly oppressed are the murderers of our people.  This week,
she took her message to New York.

In honour of the annual Salute to Israel parade, a member of the Israeli
government generally addresses a couple of hundred guests at a pre-
parade breakfast.  members of the Israeli diplomatic staff in New York
attend, and the Salute to Israel begins by saluting these representatives in
person.  This year, Shulamit Aloni was selected by the New York
Consulate to represent Israel along with several staff members from the
Consulate and the representation to the United Nations.  As aloni
ascended the podium to speak, she became the subject of verbal assaults
from many of the gathered guests due to her rejection of all that is
Zionist.  Indeed, the event organizers initially refused to allow her to
speak because of how ill she represents the Jewish State.  Yet, due to
unyielding pressure from the Consul-General in New York, Colette
Avital, they relented.  Avital, you see, is a "good friend" of Aloni's,
according to a press report I saw.

During the melee that erupted when Aloni began to speak, she apparently
was shoved aside and punched in the stomach.  Blame was placed on a
religious organizer of the event, who has denied attacking Aloni.  Once
again, the right is out to get Aloni -- at least in her mind.  She was so
visibly injured that she walked out on her own power, without even
bending over in pain, talking to bystanders as if nothing had happened.

I am not going to comment much on these events.Suffice it to say that
while I abhor physical violence, it is perhaps fitting as a taste of what
religious Jews must put up with every time they try to hold a legal
demonstration or pray at Judaism's holiest site.  I have never heard Aloni
complain about the treatment they receive.

What I will comment more thoroughly on is the response to the alleged
attack from Ambassador Avital.  She was quoted as saying, "It is very
sad when Israeli diplomats and Israeli officials must be protected by
police from Jews.  We have arrived at a situation that no one would have
predicted, and security is not the only matter that should concern us."

Ambassador Avital shows here how firm a grasp on reality she has.  She
has hit the nail right on the head.  She is absolutely correct.  The
problem is that in addition to being correct, she has also shown herself
to be one of the most selfish representatives it has ever been Israel's
misfortune to have.  Why should Israeli diplomats and politicians be
subject to any life other than that to which they subject their own
citizens?

We have indeed arrived at a situation that no one would have predicted
five years ago.  An Israeli government, duly elected with one of the
widest margins between Labour and Likud in recent memory, has seen
fit to divide the country against itself, to divest the military not only of
its power, but of its morale, and of its mission, to sell out the country to
its most-hated enemy, and to offer one tenth of its citizens on the altar
of political appeasement and national suicide.  Israelis are being killed on
the street in numbers unheard of before this government took office. 
Jerusalem, the very heart of all that is Jewish, is being bargained away
for a flimsy and worthless piece of paper.  The vilest creature on the face
of the planet is preparing to parade on the city of peace and the rivers of 
milk and honey.  Security is, indeed, not the only matter that should
concern us.  National survival is at stake the very lives of Israel's brave
citizens is being snuffed out at will.  And Rabin gives us a government
that seems not to care.  The government that includes Shulamit Aloni.

It is very sad that Israeli diplomats and officials must be protected by
police from Jews.  It is even sadder that the Israeli police do not protect
Jews from Arab marauders and a governmental death wish.  The incident
in New York is largely one of the government's own doing.  If Jews
cannot feel safe in their own homeland, Jews everywhere will become
desperate.  They will lash out at those icons that represent all that has
gone wrong with Israel's leadership.  They will attack in order to attain
for themselves the security and the life the government is supposed to be
guaranteeing.

If Jews cannot be protected by Israeli police, then Israeli leaders will
likely need to be protected by police from these Jews.  It is a shame that
with Ambassador Avital's penchant for realism, she does not realize that
reality bites.  Often those that create an unfavourable situation are those
to be bitten first.  I can only hope that Rabin realizes this and ends the
madness before someone really gets hurt.  That is, of course,
notwithstanding 145 dead Jews since Oslo.

23-May-1995

   I really have to confess that I am not up on all of this and don't
   who Aloni is, or why she is such a controversial person.  Could 
   someone fill me in please?

   This is a side note:  One of the previous notes sort of lumped together
   humanitarian and humanist.  Though the words sound similar, they 
   really represent two different things.  Someone can be a humanitarian, 
   concerned about human welfare, without being a humanist - one who sees 
   humanity as sort of the center of creation, or looks at the world very 
   secularly, omitting G-d from the picture.

   Leslie

    Re: .118
    
    >I really have to confess that I am not up on all of this and don't
    >who Aloni is, or why she is such a controversial person.  Could
    >someone fill me in please?
    
    Hmmmm...I'll have to watch my tongue on this one, because there is
    no shortage of censors out there (as you can tell from the number
    of replies set to hidden in this note). 
    
    Where to start? I guess even agents of the Regime would not disagree
    with the observation that she is a fanatical leftist, having advocated
    not only statehood for Arab terrorists, but even giving away land
    *within* the pre-1967 boundaries. She has even bucked the official
    policy of her own far-left Meretz party, advocating a return to a
    split Jerusalem. She regularly viciously attacks anything that remotely
    smacks of Judaism or Jewishness: e.g. ridiculing Jewish ties to the
    Tomb of the Patriarchs (you know, guys like Abraham and Isaac),
    Joseph's Tomb, the Bible... 
    
    The Meretz party has held the balance of power since 1992, and for all
    intents and purposes *is* the current government of Israel. Aloni began
    as the Minister of Education (no less!) and has since been transferred
    responsibilities for Arts and Communications. 
    
    Ms. Aloni, as czar of the Israeli media is obviously a very powerful
    figure, and since all Israeli media are government-controlled, it's
    a small wonder that this has been such a media-fest, featuring non-
    stop below-the-belt attacks on the nationalist and Jewish camp (for
    the fabricated "punch" of a single individual). She has milked it 
    for all it's worth. These same media have *nothing* to say, when
    daily Jews are beaten senseless for seeking to pray in their holy
    sites or for expressing their political opinions (surprise, surprise!).
    
    Hope this answers the question.
    
    >One of the previous notes sort of lumped together
    >humanitarian and humanist.
    ...
    >without being a humanist - one who sees
    >humanity as sort of the center of creation, or looks at the world very
    >secularly, omitting G-d from the picture.
    
    I'm not sure what note this was, but Aloni certainly belongs to the
    latter camp, the reason for which Israel is currently being pulled
    into the sewers IMHO. 

    That sewer seems to be an international one.  1996 should be an
    interesting year with major elections in Israel, the United States,
    Russia, and the EUC.
    
    The gulf between promises and performance is not unique to the U.S.
    The following 1992 pre-election promises have been broken by Rabin:
    
    1. Negotiating with the PLO.
    2. Protection of Jewish residents in the settlements of Judea, Samaria,
       and Gaza.
    3. Never allowing the creation of a PLO state.
    4. Never surrendering the Golan Heights to Syria.
    5. Preservation of a united Jerusalem under Israel's sovereignty.
    
    Mike

    Re: .120
    
    Apropos of your observation about "broken promises" (will the moderator
    allow the word "lies" to get through?), here is an op-ed by my friend
    Bernard Shapiro. Many are now demanding of the Likud (opposition party)
    that when the current Meretz regime finally topples next year that the
    leaders be put on trial for the many crimes they have committed against
    the nation, first and foremost on their cynical and cavalier actions on
    the Eternal City. 
    
    Topple they will. The question is what will be left when the dust
    clears. Anyway, here's Bernard:
    
           Tears come to my eyes not out of love and reverence for Zion,
           though I have that in abundance. Tears come because I have
           evidence that Israel's leaders have already abandoned
           Jerusalem. As they plot with their PLO partners to dismember
           the very heart of Israel, they make pronouncements of undying
           fealty to their united capital. It is all a lie, a deception --
    the
           Jerusalem cover-up is in full swing. For the sake of Zion I will
           not be silent, and for Jerusalem's sake, I will not rest. Here
    is
           my story.
    
           The truth of what I write is easily discernible by any
    interested
           party. The Oslo Agreement (Declaration of Principles --
           September 13, 1993) clearly states that the Palestinian
           Authority is required to maintain its government offices in Gaza
           or Jericho (Annex II, Article 5) and in the Gaza-Jericho
           Agreement (May 4, 1994, Article III). A principal aim of these
           two clauses was to prevent the Palestinians from locating their
           government offices in Jerusalem.  Despite very public violation
           of these rules by the Palestinian "foreign minister" at Orient
           House in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin chose
           to ignore the situation. When pressed on the issue, he claimed
           he needed additional legislation to act against the
    Palestinians.
           The Knesset passed the requested legislation granting the
           prime minister powers to enforce the law.
    
           Eight months have passed and Rabin has done nothing to
           protect Jerusalem from Palestinian encroachment. The
           Freeman Center has just received photographic evidence and
           documents proving that the movement of Palestine Authority
           offices into Jerusalem has increased from the highly publicized
            foreign ministry' to a total of nine ministries: (1) The
    Palestinian
           Ministry of Religious Affairs (2) The Palestinian Energy Center
           (3) The Palestinian Bureau of Statistics (4) The Office of the
           Mufti of Jerusalem (5) The Palestinian Economic Council for
           Development and Reconstruction (6) The Palestinian
           Broadcasting Corporation (7) The Orient House (Foreign
           Ministry) (8) The Palestinian Health Council (9) The Palestinian
           Housing Council.
    
           When Rabin tried to expropriate (with compensation) 132 acres
           of barren land in Jerusalem, the Palestinians objected and
           threatened violence. Five Arab Knesset members threatened to
           bring the government down with a no confidence vote. Rabin
           again backed down and refused to stand up to Arab threats.
           There were several painful lessons learned from that
           experience. First we learned that the Rabin government
           depends on Arab approval to govern. While he has had an
           operating majority with Arab consent in the Knesset for
           sometime, the public had not quite understood how non-Jewish
           the government was until now. The other lesson was much
           more subtle and some may have missed it. Land in parts of
           Jerusalem became accepted by the government as Arab
           National Land and not private land suitable for expropriation.
           Actually any student of Islam would explain all land that had
           once been under Moslem control was forever Moslem Land. By
           that definition, all of Israel is Moslem Land forever and Jihad
           requires continuous struggle to liberate it.
    
           It is illustrative to listen to what the Arabs say about
    Jerusalem
           among themselves. PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, in a message
           to mark Land Day on March 31, 1995, said: "We promise you,
           oh our great nation, and we promise you, oh our pure martyrs,
           that we will continue the revolution until the victory and until
    the
           flag of my country flies over the towers of Jerusalem. This is a
           revolution until victory." And here is more Arafat (May 6,
    1995):
           "Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the
           capital of  a state of Palestine." Did you notice that he said
           Jerusalem and not East Jerusalem?  Sheikh Ikrameh Sabri, the
           P.L.O. Mufti of Jerusalem (Al-Sharq al-Awsat, 7 April 1995)
           "Jerusalem is under occupation and the Moslems of the world
           should liberate it by jihad and put it under Islamic and Arabic
           authority. The  jihad is not just a war jihad - we are talking
           about all means to get back Jerusalem."
    
            In reference to the Jerusalem 3000 celebrations, an official of
           the Palestinian Authority, told The New York Times (May 28,
           1995): "This alleged celebration is without precedent, an act of
           theft in broad daylight, before the eyes and ears of the world,
    of
           the features and identity of the holiest city in the world.
    Israel
           has no right....to seize (Jerusalem) on fictitious grounds that
           have no proof and are refuted by historical facts."
    
           Most members of the Jewish community take our rights in
           Jerusalem for granted and fail to see that they are under
    assault
           by the Arab/Moslem world and aided by a less than vigorous
           defense by the current Meretz/Labor government. When
           Republican Majority leader Bob Dole started mobilizing
           senators to support a bill to move the American embassy to
           Jerusalem, Rabin told his embassy staff in Washington to
           discourage the effort. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and
           his  poodle' Yossi Beilin spread the word that such a move by
           Washington would damage the "peace process." It was an
           absurd stand which soon faded. The embassy was to be in the
           western part of the city and any Arab objection certainly
           revealed that they wanted both halves of the city and
           recognized no part as being rightfully Israeli.
    
           On May 26 in honor of Jerusalem Day, the Israeli Cabinet
           issued a five point statement of support for Jerusalem.  Item #3
           says: The Cabinet will act to strengthen the status of united
           Jerusalem as the exclusive capital of Israel, and will fight any
           attempt to impair this status. This sounds quite positive but
    the
           reality on the ground is much different. Israel's Foreign
    Ministry
           has very quietly encouraged discussions with Arab intellectuals
           from Bir Zeit University on methods of dividing Jerusalem to
           give part to the Palestinians.
    
           When all the evidence is examined dispassionately, it becomes
           obvious that the government is covering up its plan to abandon
           Jewish Jerusalem in favor of some kind of bi-national entity.
           Government claims to the contrary should be judged by the
           accuracy of Rabin's campaign promises not to negotiate with
           the PLO; not to recognize a Palestinian State; and not to come
           down from the Golan. It is not by chance the Oslo Agreement
           placed the issue of Jerusalem at the end of the negotiations. It
           seems clear to me that  once the Israeli public has been forced
           to give up Judea, Samaria, Gaza, and the Golan they will be
           asked for one more sacrifice. Without Jerusalem, the Arabs will
           never agree even to this pseudo peace. Rabin will implore his
           people to take one final step for peace. He won't tell them that
           there will be other steps after Jerusalem. The Arabs will keep
           extending the goal posts. Their future demands: the "right" of
           refugee return; compensation or return for abandoned property
           in Israel; half of Israel's water supply; Judaic antiquities
    found in
           Palestine; Judea, Samaria, Gaza, Golan and even Jerusalem
           must be Judenrein (free of Jews). And more...
    
           Now you know why I weep. Will you join me in the battle to save
           Jerusalem from the dangers outlined above?
    
           "For Zion's sake I will not hold My peace,
           And for Yerushalaim's sake I will not rest." (Yeshayhu 62.1)
    
           Bernard J. Shapiro is director of the Freeman Center For
           Strategic Studies in Houston, Texas  and editor of its monthly
           magazine, THE MACCABEAN. (MAY 28, 1995)
    
    
            

    a favorite song of mine is Isaiah 62 put to music.  Here's an excerpt:
    
    "For Zion's sake, I will not keep silent
     For Zion's sake, I'll not hold my peace
     For Zion's sake, for Y'rushalayim
     I will not rest, I will not rest
    
     I've set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem
     They shall never hold their peace
     Day or night, all you who call upon the Lord
     Call upon the Lord for Zion's sake
    
     I've set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem
     They shall never hold their peace
     Day or night, all you who call upon the Lord
     Take no rest, give Him no rest till He makes
     Jerusalem a praise in the earth
     A praise in the earth"

    SNS News Service   
     "No Land Sales"
    June 18, 1995..20 Sivan 5755..
    Number 506..Update from Israel
    
    The PLO Authority has decided to uphold a law that permits anyone 
    selling land to Jews to be killed.
    
    The statement was made by PLO Minister of Justice, Freih Abu Medein, 
    after his meeting last week with Israeli Justice Minister David Liba'i.
    Liba'i 
    asked the PLO Minister to explain the law. Medein stated that he was 
    simply quoting from the Jordanian law books. He also added that the law 
    was still in effect in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
    
    According to the spokeswoman for Minister Liba'i, after being pressed 
    further on the matter, Medein added that the PLO would see that the 
    law is enforced. (J. Post..6/16..Page 3).
    
    				****
    Shot were fired this morning at the Morag Junction (Gaza) at 
    approximately 8:00am this morning. The terrorist opened fire with a 
    Kalashnikov automatic weapon. No injuries were reported in the attack. 
    No further details are available. The terrorist escaped to Rafiach. 
    (Channel 7 Radio News..6/18..10:00am).
    
    NOTE: There used to be an IDF outpost at the Morag Junction but it 
    was removed by the Israeli government by request of Yassir Arafat.
    
    				****
    
    Shots were fired this morning at a Jewish home in Netzarim (Gaza) at 
    approximately 9:30am. A young woman and her daughter were in the 
    house at the time of attack. No injuries were reported in this, the
    second 
    terrorist attack in Gaza within 90 minutes. (Channel 7 Radio 
    News..6/18..10:00am).
    
    				****
    
    A border fence approximately 7-9 kilometers in length is planned to 
    separate between Kfar Saba and Kalkilya. This is part of the IDF
    pullout 
    that is planned for July 1, 1995. This will put Kfar Saba directly
    adjacent 
    to the "border" with no IDF presence. (Jerusalem Post 
    Newspaper..6/16..Front Page).
    
    				****
    
    MK (Meretz) Dedi Zucker made an appeal at last week's conference of 
    Party leaders in Nazareth. Zucker stated that everyone must do their 
    utmost to reverse a decision by the Islamic Movement to boycott the 
    1996 Knesset elections. Zucker added that without the Arab vote, Mr. 
    Rabin will not be re-elected.
    
    Yassir Arafat is also doing his utmost to convince the Islamic leaders
    to 
    reverse their decision. (SNS/6/18).
    
    				****
    
    Several members of the Chai Vekaiyam group were arrested this 
    morning after they attempted to pray on the Temple Mount in 
    Jerusalem's Old City. 
    
    Several attempts were made by Jews to pray on the Mount over the last 
    week. They were all arrested by Israeli Police. (Galei Tzahal/Army 
    Radio..6/18..12:00pm-SNS..6/18).
    
    				****
    

    After the latest Katyusha attacks on northern Israel by Hisbulla
    last week, the Hizbulla leader  warned that such attacks
    continue until Israel came to a settlement with Syria (i.e. withdraws
    from the Golan Heights). Others noted that the opposite is likely
    to ensue--a resumption of daily Syrian sniping at low-lying Israeli
    villages under the Golan.
    
    Whoops--just re-read the item...turns out it wasn't a warning by
    the Hizbulla leader at all. Just a friendly invitation by our
    own Prime Minister Yitz "Altalena" Rabin to Hizbulla and Syria
    to keep up the attacks in order to convince the Israeli people
    not to vote against the Golan withdrawal. 
    
    Whew--now I feel better.
    
    Yehoshua 

    The Golan Heights are extremely critical for military strategy.  Many 
    military experts state that Israel's only defense, if surrendering the
    Golan Heights, will be a nuclear strike.
    
    Mike

    From: Nadia Matar (n) <nmatar@jer1.co.il>
    
    The media release will be followed by a short postscript about what 
    happened at the scene.
    
                      MEDIA RELEASE
    
    Shimon Peres plays fast and loose with the public.  He has no respect for 
    their intelligence.  Peres tells us that when the Irish Foreign Minister 
    Spring disregards Peres' request that Spring does not visit Orient
    House, it is a perfectly acceptable rebuff of the Jewish People.  As usual,
    Peres deceitfully then explains away to our public that Spring is only paying
    a courtesy call, and not an official visit to a PLO office in Jerusalem.  
    Peres did not mention that the Faisal Husseini the Irish Foreign Minister 
    is visiting, still maintains a murderous intent to destroy the Jewish 
    People , as did his Grand Mufti great uncle, an ally of Hitler, whom
    PLO Husseini still refers to as his role model.  Spring speaks bluntly;  he
    is treating the PLO the same as the State of Israel;  he is even-handed in 
    dealing with murderers and the State of Israel.
    
    Women in Green does not accept this Irish "blarney".  They will protest
    to the Irish Foreign Minister that he is not being even-handed when he visits 
    the murderous Husseini at Orient House.  When he visits this PLO 
    headquarters in Jerusalem, he is siding with the PLO in their recent claims 
    for part of ancient Jewish Jerusalem.  Therefore he will find the Women in 
    Green outside that infamous location telling him what Peres should have 
    told him: SHAME ON YOU , Mr Spring.  You have learned nothing from history; 
    you can't be "even handed" with Hitler admirers.
    
    This demonstration will take place at ORIENT HOUSE
            MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1995, at 4:15 pm
                            
                         Nadia Matar- Women for Israel's Tomorrow         
                               ("Women in Green)
    
    POSTCRIPT:
    
    Nadia Matar, was brutally attacked, choked, and falsely arrested and jailed 
    by a repressive Labor government Police Force during this legal 
    demonstration.  She was released two and a half hours later when several 
    Knesset Members led by MK Dov Shilansky intervened in her behalf.
    What has become a familiar police tactic, to unjustly incarcerate the 
    leader of the Women in Green, in their attempt to break up a demonstration 
    and to suppress dissent, was employed once again by this Rabin- Peres-
    Shachal junta.
    
    

    In a meeting of the home of the great Kabbalist, Rav Babba Baruch, the
    Rabbi stated that Hafez El-Assad will 
    not merit seeing peace between Israel and Syria. The Rabbi added that
    he will die prior to the signing of the 
    peace accord between the two countries. 
    
    The Rabbi concluded by adding the death of Assad will totally change
    the political picture of the area. (Yediot 
    Achronot Newspaper..6/20..Page 7).
    
    

    PEACE WATCH REPORT:  THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY HAS FAILED TO DISARM
    FIVE ARMED MILITIAS IN GAZA IN VIOLATION OF THE CAIRO AGREEMENT
    
    The following is the complete text of the press release issued by
    Peace Watch on June 21, 1995
    
    Peace Watch issued a report today assessing the Palestinian
    Authority's (PA) efforts to control illegal and unlicensed weapons
    in the autonomous areas.  The report is being published over a
    month after the expiration of a 14 May 1995 deadline set by the
    Palestinian Authority for individuals to turn in their weapons,
    register them or face arrest.
    
    The report notes that the Cairo Agreement of 4 May 1994 obligated
    the PA to take three steps to limit civilians' access to weapons:
    disarm all armed militias, such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the
    Fatah Hawks; confiscate all unlicensed weapons from individuals and
    groups; and issue licenses for pistols to individuals with a
    demonstrated need to own them only after reaching an agreement with
    Israel on the necessary modalities.  Peace Watch found that in all
    three areas, the Palestinian Authority has failed to fulfill its 
    obligations.
    
    >From 4 May 1994, after the signing of the Cairo Agreement and the
    deployment of the Palestinian police, through the announcement of
    the deadline on 11 April 1995, the Palestinian Authority took
    virtually no action to disarm individuals or militias operating in
    the autonomous areas.  Even since the passage of the 14 May 1994 
    deadline, few steps have been taken to confiscate illegal weapons.
    
    Peace Watch found that, in violation of the Cairo Agreement, at
    least five militias continue to remain armed in the areas under the
    jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority, in addition to the
    Palestinian police and the Israeli army.  
    
    The five are:
    1) Fatah Hawks
    2) Hamas
    3) Islamic Jihad
    4) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
    5) Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)
    
    Despite their obligation to enforce a ban on these groups
    regardless of political affiliations or loyalties, Palestinian
    officials have stated publicly that they would not act to disarm
    them.  The report also notes that the Palestinian police have
    issued gun licenses to senior members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad,
    including Dr. Mahmoud Azahr, a leading Hamas spokesman, and
    Muhammed al-Hindi, a prominent Islamic Jihad official.
    
    Peace Watch found that, since the announcement of the deadline of
    11 April 1995,  the Palestinian police have thus far confiscated
    just a few dozen weapons.  A similar number have been voluntarily
    handed in by civilians to the PA and, after the 14 May 1995
    deadline expired, there was only one known instance in which the
    Palestinian police located an illegal arms cache.
    
    According to the report, recent statements by Palestinian
    officials, such as Minister of Justice Freih Abu Middein, to the
    effect that members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad will be allowed to
    keep their unlicensed weapons as long as they are stored at home,
    contradict the Cairo Agreement.  Under the terms of the accords,
    the Palestinian Authority is obligated to enforce a ban not just on
    the carrying of unlicensed weapons in public, but also on the
    possession of such weapons as well.
    
    The report reveals that Palestinian officials claim to have granted
    licenses for firearms other than pistols, such as light automatic
    weapons, in violation of the Cairo Agreement.  In addition, it
    appears that the Palestinian police issued licenses for weapons
    prior to reaching an agreement with Israel on the necessary
    modalities, which would also constitute a violation of the accords.
    
    Peace Watch sought to assess the extent of weapons proliferation in
    Gaza, noting that Israeli and Palestinian  officials have offered
    estimates of the quantity of firearms ranging from 1,500 to as many
    as 40,000.  The number of weapons in Gaza has most likely increased
    in the past year due to smuggling.  It should be noted that even if
    the lowest figure offered,  that of 1,500 weapons, is correct, it
    means that virtually every Hamas and Islamic Jihad military
    activist has access to at least one weapon, and in many cases far
    more.
    
    Peace Watch is issuing the report on weapons control as part of a
    comprehensive assessment of the Palestinian Authority's efforts to
    prevent terror.  Future reports will examine other elements of the
    campaign against terror.
    
    

    Apparently choking Nadia Matar is not enough; the police did so as part
    of her arrest last week, during a legal demonstration.
    
    Apparently arresting her without cause on six occasions is not enough.
    
    The police have now filed a second and separate criminal complaint 
    yesterday, against her and another Woman in Green leader, charging them 
    with beating up Israeli policemen several months ago.
    
    That's one way to crush a group who is opposed to giving up historical
    and vital parts of our Promised Land.  Use the police and government
    lawyers to falsely and continually prosecute the leaders of the group 
    that are critical of this government's policies.  The huge legal costs 
    involved to defend against these unjust and fabricated criminal charges 
    in separate criminal cases is knowingly beyond the financial capacity of 
    those charged, and of Women in Green.  This callous government thus uses 
    public agencies to falsely prosecute government detractors, knowing that 
    the costs of an able legal defense cannot be borne by the limited finances 
    of Women in Green, a voluntary non-profit organization.
    
                                 Ruth Matar, Women in Green
    

    As in the last several years, the Women for Israel's Tomorrow (Women in 
    Green) have organized, together with several other groups, to say
    Eichah in front of the Prime Minister's home both in Jerusalem and in 
    Tel Aviv. In Jerusalem, in accordance with an old Tisha B'Av custom, we 
    then walked around the walls of the Old City.  There were approximately 
    5,000 people who participated in those Tisha B'Av arrangements last year.
    
    Because of the present grave developments threatening Jerusalem, we have 
    planned a very massive turnout of our people here in Jerusalem on Tisha 
    B'Av night.  This year we will be saying Eicha not only at the Prime 
    Minister residences, but in other cities in Israel as well.
    We also are planning to say Eicha outside of the Israeli consulates on 
    Sunday morning, August 6, 1995,in many cities abroad, including Washington, 
    New York, Chicago, Philadelphia ,Los Angeles and Toronto. (Details will
    be e-mailed in the near future.  If you are able to organize an Eicha
    reading in front of the Israeli consulate in any other city than those
    mentioned, that would be wonderful. Please be in touch with us about it.)
    
    In Jerusalem, since the planned Walk will take us through a large segment 
    of East Jerusalem, the message carried by such a walk is that the whole 
    city is one, indivisible and an integral part of the Jewish capital. 
    It is a combination of a religious and nationalist message, particularly
    suitable to Tisha B'Av.  We are reaching out to all elements of the 
    population, secular and religious, and the haredi community as well.  It 
    is a non-political event, and the decorum of this solemn Jewish Holy day
    will be strictly observed.
    
                           Shalom from Israel!
    
                                  Nadia Matar,
                         Women for Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)
                              nmatar@jer1.co.il
                              fax: 972-2-9932595 or 972-2-245380
    

This is a repost sans the police officer's (for lack of a better term)
name. Please note Uzi Baram's response.

Yehoshua

SNS News Service     "Hevron's Heroes"
July 18, 1995..20 Tamuz 5755..Number 545..Update from Israel



As reported in previous Updates, approximately 30 children (minors)
residents of Hevron, were placed under arrest on Saturday night after an
"illegal demonstration" in front of the IDF Headquarters in the area.

The children spent one night in prison, without their  parents and family
members. Crowds of supporters began to gather at Jerusalem's main
police detention center, the Russian Compound, to show their support for
the young heroes.

The children refused to cooperate with police and would not let
themselves be fingerprinted or photographed.

At approximately 4:30pm on Monday, July 17, the group was released
after signing bail and being photographed. They were never fingerprinted.
The police detained the children despite an order  issued by a Jerusalem
District Court to release them.

                                ^^^^

The police brutality and the campaign against the Jewish Community of
Hevron continues. A group of approximately 40 American tourists (Jews
and gentiles) joined the families of the prisoners in the Jerusalem Court to
show their support for the young detainees. The Courtroom was filled to
capacity and additional supporters were forced to remain outside. A Police
spokesman announced the Court room was too full and ordered everyone
to exit.

Without permitting the crowd any time to move, a group of policemen
charged the crowd, hitting and pushing people down.

Many of the American tourists apparently did not understand what was
going on, they did not speak Hebrew. One tourist from Texas, Mr. Walter
Zackes, 70, approached Police Inspector **name deleted**, the officer in
charge, and asked him what was going on. The police Inspector punched
the seventy year old man in his face. Zackes fell over , his glasses falling
from his face. Police then attempted to step on his eyeglasses.  Mr.
Zackes attempted to protect his glasses and pick them up. His was only
kicked and punched again.

The seventy year old tourist was taken by ambulance to Hadassah
Hospital (Mount Scopus) in Jerusalem where he is undergoing tests. He is
reported to be suffering from multiple bruises on his face, chest and
abdomen as a result of the police brutality.

                                ^^^^



The Response:
Minister of Tourism Uzi Baram stated that this is the way to deal with
settlers. American tourists should not be getting involved with internal
Israeli affairs. (SNS/Hevron..Hevron News Briefs..7/17).

                                ****

Both sides have reached a dead end in the talks between Israel and the
PLO in the Ganei Carmel Hotel in Zichron Yaakov. The issue is who will
be in charge of the water supply.

Both sides state there will be no compromise on this issue. (Galei
Tzahal/Army Radio..7/18).

                                ****

Israeli Inspectors have announced that since the government's pullout
from Gaza a little over a year ago, the quality of the water in the area has
deteriorated significantly.

The Inspectors added that since the PLO has assumed responsibility for
the water in Gaza they have opened several new wells. Unfortunately,
they [PLO] have not assigned any official body to monitor the water
coming from these wells. (Channel 7 Radio News..7/18..1:00pm).

                                ****

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The recent the Psak Halacha by a group of Hesder Yeshiva Rabbis
has brought to the forefront of the public debate a number of other
sensitive and critical issues.  The fact that the Psak Halacha in and of
itself is not the most critical problem was most eloquently expressed
by an IDF Reserves General who stated that the Psak Halacha was
merely a "symptom" of the disease.  That is to say, it is merely an
expression of a number of deep and distressing problems.  It is
incumbent upon us, if we are to extract any meaningful lessons from
this current affair, to relate to it in such a manner.

The first point which must be addressed is the issue of what is a
democracy versus other forms of government (such as dictatorship or
theocracy).  A democracy is by definition a system of government
wherein the will of the public is expressed, usually through duly
elected representatives.  Within such a system, elected representatives
must continually remain aware of their constituents' wishes and can be
removed from office if they violate the public trust (e.g. US President
Nixon for Watergate).  A democracy is not a system in which a once
elected official can contravene the very principles for which he was
elected.  He cannot do what is diametrically opposed to his campaign
promises unless there were some compelling or extenuating
circumstances which he can convince, or at least justify his actions to
the populace.

A perfect example of a democratically elected official having to go
back on his campaign promise is that of US President George Bush
and his infamous, "no new taxes" pledge.  Though later in his term he
became convinced that he in fact had to raises taxes, he did go to the
national media to justify himself.  In contrast, Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin in violating his campaign promise that, "going down
from the Golan is equivalent with abandoning a vital Israeli security
interest", publicly announced that the Prime Minister has the right to
lie when necessary.  And if this wasn't enough, he told angry
constituents that they "could spin like propellers" but he would remain
stubbornly inattentive.

Such an attitude closely approximates that of an absolute dictator.
Unfortunately, such authoritarian government policy has already met
with grim consequences in this country.  Take, for example, the tragic
case of the Altalena in 1948.  A ship full of Jewish compatriots with a
differing opinion than that of the ruling party who thus justified
bombing and sinking it.  Ben Gurion justified the outright murder of
his fellow countrymen on the principle of "maintaining democracy."  It
is precisely such types of government which simply invite radical
public reaction which ranges from demonstrations to civil
disobedience.

The most noble form of civil disobedience - in that it is not motivated
to simply disrupt public life - is that of conscientious objection.  This is

the condition in which an individual (or group) may refuse a dictate on
the basis that it is against their moral sensitivities.  This has been
accepted practice in democracies such as that of the USA where in
fact many conscientious objectors were given deferrals from military
duty during their countries' wars.

In our generation we have been witness to the unfortunate
consequence of following an order just because it was "an order."
The lesson learned from the Nuremberg trials of the Nazis who
justified their barbarity precisely because they were "just following
orders" is that that is simply no excuse for immoral behavior.  Thus
the objection raised by the detractors of the current Psak Halacha on
the basis that one must always, above all, follow orders is a wholly
invalid one.  For if an order is immoral than one MUST disobey, lest
he give up his identity as a human being.

The next logical question is: what is "moral"?  Morality is by definition
the evaluation of right and wrong by a set of ideals.  For God-fearing
Jews, the Torah, which is believed to embody the will of the Creator,
defines what is good and what is evil.  The current Psak Halacha, as
with any Psak Halacha, is a reasoned interpretation of Torah law,
which in this case, states that it is immoral to remove Jews from army
bases or private homes in the land of Israel. One could rationally
argue, however, that removing Jews from army bases or private homes
in the land of Israel is not immoral.  Torah interpretation, as with any
legislative system, is complex and accounts for many circumstances
such that one Halachic legislator could in fact come out with a
legitimate yet differing opinion than another legislator.

Finally, many in the public storm have questioned the very legitimacy
of Religious legislators to cast their opinion into the political
spectrum.  This they claim would be tantamount to having the
Democracy turn into a Theocracy.  Others claim that religious leaders
have no right to be involved in matters of a purely political nature.
Religion, they claim, is confined to the realm of ritual.

The Jewish religion is one in which it defines for its followers a
complete life philosophy.  A cursory glance of its codes of law (e.g.
Shulhan Aruch) reveals instruction from how to get out of bed to how
to be buried and includes everything in-between.  Among the myriad
of codified laws, are many pertaining to conduct in war as well as laws
relating to living in the land of Israel.  The famous commentator,
philosopher, and legislator, the RAMBAN went as far as to say that all
the laws in the Torah are meant to be fulfilled in the land of Israel, thus
promulgating not only "how" to live but also "where".  From this it
should clear that the Jewish religion is hardly concerned with just
"ritual".

As a opposed to a Democracy which is to be run according to the will
of the people, a Theocracy is a government which is run by the will of
religious law.  Now if some segment of the population of a
Democratic society binds itself to religious law, then by the definition
of democracy its voice MUST be represented.  A government which
allows the expression of religious opinions, like those of the current
Psak Halacha, is a far cry from Theocracy.  In fact not allowing such
voices to be heard smacks of Dictatorship.



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Amidst all the bruhaha last week over the Halachic ruling
condoning soldiers' right to disobey orders to evacuate
Jewish towns, Sarid was asked how this differed from those
who condoned disobeying orders to serve in Lebanon in 1982.
With characteristic arrogence he dismissed the comparison,
and declared that he personally certainly could condemn
the rabbis without compunction, because he had never participated
in such calls to disobedience.

Do you suppose he'll admit his hypocrisy when confronted
with the following article?

Yehoshua

This is the Red Line

by Yosse Sarid and Yair Tzaban

Op-Ed column -  Yediot Achronot  27/6/90

[Supporters of the Rabin government have fiercely attacked those
who suggest that IDF soldiers refuse to carry out orders to uproot
Jewish settlements.  The following article, written by two Leftist
politicians who are now both ministers in the Rabin government,
warns that they and their followers would refuse orders to
TEMPORARILY remove Arabs from their homes -  IMRA]

In light of the suggestion of Geula Cohen to uproot complete
villages from their place until the completion of the harvest, we
want to tell all of the transfer supporters - it is our obligation
to say and we call on you to read our lips.  We are speaking slowly
and clearly, and not only in our name.

We have a question:  who hates this land more - those who burn its
forests and fields or those who destroy houses and empty villages
and exile, and when does the land cry out for more?

And we have an answer:  those who send a fire in one field are
liable to burn the entire country, and those who would exile one
village - men, women and children - is liable to carry out a
complete transfer.

In order to remove a bride from the wedding canopy, an old man from
the shade of the fig tree and a baby from his cradle and to exile
them to the Jericho desert, someone has to carry it out.

So that there will be no misunderstandings between us and it is not
said that we did not warn you in advance:  we will not obey the
order to transfer, and our children and pupils will not obey them.
Geulah Cohen, Rehavan Zeevi and Meir Kahane will have to somehow
carry out the work of the exile by themselves, while we stand in
their way and lie in the roads.

We oppose the refusal to serve in the territories, and even the
nationalist right knows that without us there is no other dam
holding back a flood of conscientious objectors.  But the day that
the transfer order is given, which is a totally illegal order, will
be the day that orders are refused.

To everyone interested in knowing what our red line is - with this
we mark one point on this line, and from now on it cannot be
mistaken.  This is where it passes, by villages which are not
silent."
                            Yosse Sarid and Yair Tzaban

Translated by Dr. Aaron Lerner
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
Tel 972-9-904719/Fax 972-9-911645
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Title: Jewish Action Alliance calls for immediate (US) Congressional
investigation into illegal use of foreign funding by PLO as revealed by
28 top-secret documents.


PLO "PECDAR" (see history below) documents reveal (PLO Chairman) Arafat
misppropriation of millions in foreign monies to advance illegal activities -
including major allocations for Arafat's mother-in-law to open a Jerusalem
propoganda center.

New York, July 18, 1995 - The Jewish Action ALliance is calling for
an immediate investigation into illegal use by the PLO of foreign
funding, as disclosed in shocking top-secret documents obtained by memebrs
of the (US) House of representatives.

Jewish Action Alliance president Beth Gilinsky stated: "We are
deeply troubled that a recently disclosed series of letters between
Muhammed Nashashibi, the PLO/PNA Minister of Finance, and the
Palestinian Economic Council for development and reconstruction (PECDAR)
proves that Arafat's political agenda is to enrich his henchmen. We want
an independent audit as well as an immediate suspension of all aid
until this has been resolved. In addition, we call for an immediate
and full investigation of this travesty by the House Select Committee
on Intelligence and other appropriate Congressional bodies, such as the
Senate Foreign relations and House International relations committees."

According to Congressman Jim Saxton of New Jersey, as reported in the
(House) Congressional record of June 28, 1995, the top-secret documents
are "request from the Secretary of the Treasury of the PLO and the PNA
to PECDAR for the transfer of funds to specific projects that are in
direct violation of the peace agreements. Further, responses from PECDAR
to the PLO confirm that Arafat's instructions were followed and
the money were (sic) indeed transferred."


These documents reportedly prove that the PLO has diverted funds to:


- arrange clandestine funding to illegaly acquired land in Jerusalem as
part of the "consolidation of the foundations of the Palestinian
State... while concentrating on Jerusalem in order to soldify our
foothold there ... (Nashahshibi, Document 2)

- arrange clandestine funding ($12 million) to illegally purchase
apartments in Jerusalem for loyal PLO supporters.

- illegally establish a Palestinian propaganda and disinformation center
run by Raymonda Tawil, (Arafat's mother-in-law) designed to turn
Western public opinion against Israel. PECDAR's response stresses
that Raymonda Tawil was thanking Arafat in person for the funding.

- illegally invest in a computer company owned by Ali and Mazan Sha'at,
the sons of Dr. Nabil Sha'at (the PLO's key negotiator with Israel).
Subsequently, after the funds were provided, "Dr. Sha'at was nominated
by Arafat to the PECDAR board ... to ensure that no one individual
would have a full understanding of the totality of the funds available
and their actual use."

- funnel $20 million to clandestine political activiies inside Israel
to strengthen pro-PLO forces, including Members of the Knesset.

- secretly transfer funds to establish clandestine firms overseen
by Arafat lovalist Jamil Tarifi throughout the West Bank. These firms
would appear privately owned and would create "effective control
over the commercial market."

- order Arafat loyalist Dr. Amin Hadad to establish companies under
private auspices. Those monies were transferred to Haddad's private
accounts. (Documents 8, 9, and 10)

- create a PNO-controlled employment of Palestinian Arabs. Nashashabi
writes that a chicken farm was set up in order to divert Palestinian Arab
workers from internationally-controlled development programs. Arafat
instructed PECDAR (through Nashashibi) to secretly transfer $1.5 million
from "special accounts" to the private accounts of Ibrahim Qa'rin. This
would ensure that the PLO/PNA remains as the primary employer
of Palestinian Arabs.

PECDAR was created on Novemebr 4, 1993 as an independent body whose
purpose was to distribute foreign donor funds free of interference
by Arafat and the PLO/PNA. PECDAR, which is supposed to be supervised
by the World Bank, released, according to Saxton, an internal chart
depicting it as being "directly subordinate to the PLO/PNA. Moreover
the entire leadership of PECDAR is comprised of Arafat loyalists."

Nashashibi is quoted as saying in Document 1 (August 1994) that Arafat
ordered that PNA's activities push Arabs inside Israel toward "the
establishment of the Palestinian State that includes the city of Jerusalem."
Dr. Ahmed Tibi is in charge and the funds were deposited in his secret
personal accounts abroad. Thus the secret documents prove that Arafat
has taken concrete steps, using millions in foriegn funds, to realize
the goals of the Palestine National Covenant which calls for the
destruction of Israel and the establishment of a Palestinian Arab
state with its capital in Jerusalem.


Rep. Saxton further reports that "the duputy chairman of PECDAR
acknowledged that the PLO signed the peace agreements with Israel
primarily in order to get foreign funds. He explained, 'The money
is the carrot for signing the peace agreement with Israel and
we have signed.'"

     ----------

The Jewish Action Alliance has contacted key political figures
and will fight for an investigation of this issue and of the
cover-up of the General Accounting Office's secret report on PLO
assets and income. The Alliance is also concerned about the ability of
the World Bank to properly monitor and oversee the distribution
of aid through PECDAR and other aid groups. Congress is currently
considering reauthorizing millions of US taxpayer dollars to
the PLO.


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>From: The Jerusalem Post, <jpost@elronet.co.il>, July 19 1995

IT'S ALL IN THE HISTORY BOOKS
by ARTHUR COHN

"None are so blind as those who won't see."

This article was extracted from an address to the annual dinner of the
Religious Zionists of America, in New York.

(The writer is a film producer.)


COULD anyone imagine any country in the world negotiating with a group -
and supporting it financially and politically - despite the group's
repeated declarations that its aim is the elimination of that country?

     Two weeks ago, I spent an evening in a private house in Los Angeles
with Faisal Husseini. Husseini openly admitted that it is "absolutely
impossible" to obtain a majority within the PLO to dump the Palestinian
Covenant.  At the same time, he made the Palestinians' purpose crystal
clear: the creation of a Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital.
"A Palestinian state without Jerusalem is
completely out of the question," Husseini said.
     Why don't we learn from history?  Nazi Germany's intentions were
no secret, yet they weren't taken seriously.
     The deal with the PLO was sold to Israelis as a way of ending terror
and bringing true peace.  However, since the Oslo agreement was signed,
Palestinian terror has claimed twice as many "victims of
peace" as during any year of the intifada.
     Even Ezer Weizman - truly the president of all Israelis - has
admitted that Israel signed an agreement that doesn't work: "It became
a bloody process, and with bloody processes, we don't achieve peace."
     IF THE Zionist national homeland weren't Israel but Spain, 20 times
its size, Israelis wouldn't think twice about letting the Basques and the
Catalonians break away.  Were it Turkey or Iraq, more than 60 times
Israel's size, the Israelis wouldn't make any fuss about
granting independence to the Kurds.
     But after giving up Sinai, Israel is so tiny that there is scarcely
any room left to relinquish military control.  An Israeli withdrawal to
the pre-1967 borders - Abba Eban's "Auschwitz borders" - could severely
endanger the existence of the state, which today makes up just 23 percent
of the area of the original Palestine Mandate (three quarters of Mandatory
Palestine were given to Jordan, a state
with a majority of Palestinians).
     Unfortunately, many Jews are being unrealistic.  They don't see
what they don't want to see.
     Meetings with Arab representatives take place, and there are ongoing
conferences in committee and synagogue settings, in the US
too.
     But when was an Israeli ever invited to a mosque?  Have Israeli
representatives been invited to appear on Arab TV programs?  Is there
an Arab organization comparable to Peace Now?
     Only a few weeks ago Yasser Arafat, addressing Arab students,
declared: "You are young generals who opposed Israeli generals in the
intifada; you are brothers of Abu Jihad, and through you I will
complete the way to our homeland."
     Environment Minister Yossi Sarid was recently honest with Israelis,
telling them what the government should have been saying from the moment
the Oslo agreement was signed: Once the IDF redeploys away from the Arab
population in Judea and Samaria, there will be a Palestinian state in the
territories that Israel won in the 1967 war.

     And what will happen if a separate state is established in the West
Bank under the PLO?  The answer is obvious.  As soon as Israel withdraws
from the territories and Arafat marches in, there will be an immediate
outcry among Galilee Arabs, who up there in the north of the
country make up practically half of the population.
     Calls for making Galilee part of the Palestinian-Arab state would be
heard - and the longer they lasted, the more they would constitute
a new casus belli.
     Is anyone naive enough to believe that Arafat would tell his brothers
in Galilee that they must remain faithful citizens of the Jewish state,
that the homeland of the PLO in the West Bank is big
enough, needing no expansion?
     A new uprising would begin in Nazareth and Jaffa.  And the Arabs who
left in 1948 and in 1967 would demand the right to return, further
undermining the stability of the Jewish state.
     Said Fatah leader Abu Nazir: "If we call for the establishment of a
Palestinian state, this is our strategy which should lead to the
establishment of a state in the whole of Palestine.  We have a policy
of various phases and of various stages."
     The PLO was not founded in 1964 to liberate Hebron and Nablus,
because these towns had already been "liberated." It was founded to
liberate Tel Aviv, Haifa and the Negev.
     If Israel withdraws to the pre-1967 borders, it could signal the
beginning of the end of the state.  (c) JPFS 1995



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>From: The Jerusalem Post <jpost@elronet.co.il>, July 24 1995

UNACCEPTABLE BRUTALITY
Editorial from July 24, 1995

     THIS is not an easy country for the police.  In addition to all
their usual duties, they have to worry about terrorist acts, riots
and unruly demonstrations.  Keeping cool, restrained and fair in the
face of provocation and constant tension must be difficult.
     Yet it is the duty of law enforcement agencies to overcome such
difficulties, and it is not enough that most policemen do.  A few acting
brutally and illegally can destroy the confidence of Israelis
in their government.
     In an article in a Hebrew daily yesterday, author Haim Guri described
how a border policeman, talking to a 15-year-old Arab near the wall of the
Old City, suddenly savagely kicked him in the stomach.
 Only the intervention of his comrades prevented further mayhem.
     Quoting his daughter, who witnessed the incident with him, Guri
ruefully wrote "He would have never dared act like this in west
Jerusalem." This is, of course, the conventional wisdom, which maintains
that police brutality is directed exclusively against Arabs.
 Many also seem to believe that if police abuse Jews, it is but an
extension of what they practice on Arabs.
     But 10 years ago, well before the intifada, Hebrew University
criminologist Menahem Amir deplored not only the increase in police
brutality but its ubiquity.  It is being applied to all, regardless of
religious, national or ethnic affiliation, he said.  Today, the kind of
despicable incident described by Guri is rare.  Far more frequent are
incidents of brutality intended to intimidate opponents of
government policies.
     Last month, Nadia Matar, leader of a militant but peaceful protest
group known as "Women in Green" (which includes Ida Nudel in its ranks),
was physically assaulted by the police.  She had broken no law.  In fact,
she had not even reached the location, opposite Orient House, of the
demonstration she had intended to lead.  A diminutive woman, Matar was
grabbed from behind by a brawny policeman who choked her with a wrestling
hold until she fell to the ground.  He then dragged her to a waiting
police car, brought her to a police station at the Russian Compound and
kept her there for six hours.  No charges
were ever filed.
     On Saturday night last week, a 14-year-old boy was nabbed by
policemen in civilian clothes as he was walking down the street in Hebron.
The incident so resembled a kidnapping that the army was called to search
for the police vehicle, assumed to be stolen, in which he had been
abducted.  The boy's parents, never notified of the arrest, found out
about it by accident.  At the police station the police denied their boy
was there.  He was released only in the early
morning hours, after long hours of pleading by his mother.
     The next day the police stopped a minibus full of girls aged 13 to 19
in Kiryat Arba.  One of the girls, attempting to open a window, pushed
away the hand of a police officer who tried to stop her.  Shouting that
she had attacked him, the policeman, yelling threats and
cursing, slapped and beat her and the other girls on the bus.
     The girls were then brought to police headquarters in Jerusalem,
where a few women, waiting for the release of other detainees, noticed
their crying.  When told of the beatings, the women began chastising the
police, to which the lawmen responded by assaulting them too.  One of the
women, Rivka Zarbiv was thrown against a vehicle and sustained head
injuries.  She was then beaten to the ground and severely kicked,
suffering kidney damage.  Both she and another woman in the group were
hospitalized.  The others endured slaps, kicks and fist blows.
     (According to the Jerusalem paper Kol Ha'ir the police's only comment
when asked about the incident was that the women could complain if they
wished.  Seven women, including a pregnant woman and two girls of 13, have
filed complaints at the Justice Ministry's
department for the investigation of police misconduct.  )
     The next day, a group of elderly men and women, mostly American
citizens, were gathered outside the same headquarters to inquire about
detainees.  Suddenly, an order to evacuate the area was given.  When the
group did not move fast enough the police severely beat them with
batons and fists.  One 70-year-old suffered head injuries.
     Perhaps more worrisome than the police's conduct is that they
routinely claim their victims had assaulted them, and they even give out
false information to the press about police injuries.  It is a measure of
their cynicism, moral corruption and contempt for the law that they
believe the public and the courts are gullible enough to buy stories of
assaults by 13-year-old girls and 70-year-old men on
hulking policemen.
     Many on the political right believe that such conduct indicates a
deliberate government campaign to suppress dissent and discourage protest.
The sight of policemen outnumbering a score of demonstrating women,
roughing them up and arresting them for no apparent reason tends to
confirm such suspicions, despite continued police brutality
against others.
     But above and beyond the political implications, the police brass and
Police Minister Moshe Shahal must realize that law enforcers who beat
teenage girls and elderly men belong not in the police force but in a
rehabilitation center for sadists.  And those who knowingly keep them on
the police force belong not in senior public posts but in the
dock.  (c) JPFS 1995

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>From: The Jerusalem Post <jpost@elronet.co.il>, August 20 1995


AMAZING ROLE REVERSAL
by ARIEL SHARON

"Talk on one side, action on the other. It's truly incredible."

(The writer, a Likud MK, is a former defense minister.)

     FOR some years now, Jews traveling in Judea, Samaria and Gaza
have mostly been using the main roads; even the IDF has avoided the
rural districts now designated Zone B. Many Arab villages haven't seen
an Israeli soldier for months.
     Traveling on these roads today, one often hears the sounds of
firing.  Not joyous fusillades at weddings.  Target practice.
     The traveler will also note many vehicles carrying Palestinian
"security personnel" (terrorists recruited by the Palestinian Authority),
and communications equipment not previously seen.  All
this is in flagrant violation of the law.
     The Palestinians are gearing up for the time the IDF withdraws from
urban centers and reduces its activity in rural areas.  Even before the
Palestinian force of 12,000 armed men approved by the IDF for the first
phase has begun to operate, the Palestinian intelligence
services have 3,000 to 5,000 operatives in the field.
     And while our opposition factions prattle away at useless meetings
and introduce endless no-confidence motions in the Knesset, the
Palestinians are organizing to seize the area in one fell swoop.  Thus we
have talk on one side, action on the other.  It is a reversal
of roles that is nothing short of incredible.
     This week's event at Beit El was the first of its kind.  A
Palestinian mob, organized on PA orders and with reporters in tow,
destroyed the structures erected by Beit El residents, burned an ark
containing prayer books, and set an Israeli flag on fire.
     The preparations for this pogrom were known to the security forces,
but they stayed away.  Their main concern wasn't to arrest the
rioters, but to locate and arrest the Jewish defenders.
     The Palestinian gangs, wasting no time, are training, deploying and
waiting.  Arafat has been assured that the government will act against the
Jewish residents, so that the territories may be handed
over empty when the IDF forces withdraw.
     Many people have wondered why only one woman and four children were
guarding Beit El's new neighborhood.  The fact is that the "settlers" are
working people.  They include doctors, nurses, educators, engineers,
production workers, computer operators,
businessmen, and scientists.
     They cannot by themselves bear the brunt of daily security and earn a
living for their large families, and also hold the hills around their
towns and villages.  Once Palestinian armed forces enter the
area, these hills will be vital for their protection.
     They need help.

     THE STATE of Israel has always felt committed to the defense of Jews
wherever they may be.  Accordingly, Israel has acted to defend
Jews in Europe, Latin America, North Africa, the CIS, everywhere.
     In my childhood, during the pre-state era, our parents volunteered to
guard settlements whose security was more precarious than that of our
moshav.  Volunteers continued guarding vulnerable
settlements even after the creation of the state.
     I remember David Ben-Gurion's call for volunteers to aid the
immigrant villages; the proud, immediate response came mainly from
veteran moshavim.  It was all so natural.
     There are 4.2 million Jews living within what used to be the Green
Line, and another 150,000 in zones annexed to Jerusalem.  All must now
help the 150,000 settlers in Judea and Samaria.  Jews living
abroad should send volunteers.
     True, the IDF hasn't yet withdrawn.  But this can change within a
short time; and we must prepare for it, in case these communities are
abandoned by the government.
     Every community must know what area is needed for its defense;  every
district council must be familiar with the zones which would provide
contiguity between the communities themselves, and between them and
Israel's population centers.  They must determine the routes which must be
secured against armed Palestinians.  They must organize themselves and the
volunteers, know the goals, study and rehearse.
All this takes time.  It must start now.
     The government should be helping this activity.  But this is a
government whose foreign minister enjoys spending four days with Arafat at
Taba, and then saying, "Hebron is very important to Arafat."  He hasn't
found four hours, four minutes, or even four seconds to talk
with Jewish residents of Hebron.
     And if not the government, the opposition should be helping to
organize the volunteering.  Surely the opposition must know that the
Jewish towns and villages in Judea, Samaria and Gaza are the last line
of defense before the armistice lines of 1949.
     To help the Jewish residents across the Green Line doesn't mean
forming an underground or an armed militia.  It means defending and
preserving life.  Nothing could be more legal, moral, honorable, or
right.  (c) JPFS 1995

 settlers in Judea and Samaria.  Jews living
abroad should send volunteers.
     True, the IDF hasn't yet withdrawn.  But this can change within a
short time; and we must prepare for it, in case these communities are
abandoned by the government.
     Every community must know what area is needed for its defense;  every
district council must be familiar with the zones which would provide
contiguity between the communities themselves, and between them and
Israel's population centers.  They must determine the routes which must be
secured against armed Palestinians.  They must organize themselves and the
volunteers, know the goals, study and rehearse.
All this takes time.  It must start now.
     The government should be helping this activity.  But this is a
government whose foreign minister enjoys spending four days with Arafat at
Taba, and then saying, "Hebron is very important to Arafat."  He hasn't
found four hours, four minutes, or even four seconds to talk
with Jewish residents of Hebron.
     And if not the government, the opposition should be helping to
organize the volunteering.  Surely the opposition must know that the
Jewish towns and villages in Judea, Samaria and Gaza are the last line
of defense before the armistice lines of 1949.
     To help the Jewish residents across the Green Line doesn't mean
forming an underground or an armed militia.  It means defending and
preserving life.  Nothing could be more legal, moral, honorable, or
right.  (c) JPFS 1995


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>From: The Jerusalem Post <jpost@elronet.co.il>, August 24 1995

STERILIZED FROM ABOVE
by URI DAN & DENNIS EISENBERG

"The General Security Service is better off without Arafat."

(The writers are authors of The Mossad: Secrets of the Israeli Secret
Service and other books on the Middle East.)

     MONDAY'S suicide bus bombing in Jerusalem's Ramot Eshkol
neighborhood did more than shatter the lives of many of the
passengers.  It brought an abrupt end to the idea - created by the
Rabin government and supported by a pliant local media - that Yasser
Arafat is a trustworthy partner in the "peace process."
     Not even the latest outrage, however, appeared to move Foreign
Minister Peres who, on Monday night, eulogized Arafat's intelligence
services on TV.
     When, with a flourish, Arafat recently "arrested" potential suicide
bomber Wael Nassar in Gaza's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, Ha'aretz reported
government ministers saying: "Arafat has shown that his actions have
gained him a high rating as a partner.  Ministers
called the shoot-out a 'mini-Altalena.'
     This comparison between Menachem Begin's IZL fighters - shelled and
killed on their ship on the orders of Ben-Gurion, after helping create the
State of Israel - and Hamas fanatics dedicated to Israel's
destruction is, to put it mildly, shameful.
     To laud Arafat as a true partner is disingenuous, as Rabin knows full
well.  How often has Justice Minister David Liba'i called on the PLO
leader to hand over known Palestinian murderers of both Jews and
Arabs to Israeli courts?  These requests have been totally ignored.
     "There is honor among thieves," as a senior security man put it.
"Why should Arafat, who almost daily calls for a jihad to wipe out
Israel, hand over men regarded as heroes by his own supporters?"
     The euphoria radiating from the government and the General Security
Service after the staged Gaza raid and Nassar arrest was shattered hours
after the Gaza closure was lifted by the unexpected Jerusalem bus attack.
The attack came as a great surprise to the GSS chiefs, as did the suicide
bombings in Ramat Gan last month, Beit Lid
in January and the Dizengoff attack last October.
     WHAT HAS happened to the excellent GSS?  After all, it still has
experienced and dedicated field personnel.
     The rot began to set in when its commanders were ordered to cooperate
with Arafat's generals.  They were told to treat the PLO men with the same
trust and respect as exists today between Israel and
Western security agencies.
     As the British Independent pointed out on August 6, "Colonel Mohammed
Dahlan, (Arafat's security chief) has developed close relations with the
Israeli intelligence services, even though most of his men are largely
Fatah Hawks and former long-term prisoners of the
Israelis."
     This collaboration between the GSS and Arafat's men would be a farce,
were it not so tragic.  It has already cost hundreds of
Israelis killed and injured.
     There are 3,000-4,000 PLO intelligence personnel in Judea and Samaria
(not including Jericho), 500 or so in Jerusalem, and more in
Gaza.
     How is it that they heard nothing, saw nothing and said nothing
about the Ramot Eshkol and other attacks?
     The GSS has been sterilized from above.  By relying on Arafat's
domestic intelligence service, it cannot provide the country with
vital information - the only sure answer to terrorism.
     Suicide bombers need scores of support personnel.  One cannot strike
at the people who recruit, train and despatch the bomber on his
(or her) errand of death if one lacks intelligence information.
     And Israel isn't getting it.  Rabin has documentary evidence,
which he is keeping from the public, to prove it.
     It is common knowledge that Rabin has been told by his security
chiefs that there is no genuine collaboration from any of Arafat's 10, if
not more, armed groups.  The widely proclaimed arrests, gun fights, etc.,
are followed by a cynical release of prisoners within days or a
week or two after the showcase, cosmetic arrests.
     All this ballyhoo is just a smoke-screen to mislead the public into
thinking that Arafat is now as pure as snow. Nothing must be done to
demolish the trust in Arafat that Rabin needs to sustain his blood-soaked
peace process, and the withdrawal from increasing areas
of the country.
     Rabin's dependence on Arafat was revealed to two Israeli journalists
this week when he said: "If I knew of a plot to kill
Arafat, I would warn him of the danger immediately."
     Even Robert Fisk, hitherto one of Arafat's greatest champions, said
of the PLO chief in The Independent (August 6): "Under the pretext of
stamping out terrorism on Israel's behalf, he is running a dictatorship
with the approval of the Israelis and the United States."  Fisk added that
this is a dictatorship that would meet with "the
approval of Saddam Hussein."
     Fisk went on: "Arafat, who styles himself 'President of Palestine,'
is turning into just another Arab despot ...  with the almost total
approval of the Israelis and the US ...  The Israelis don't want a real
[Palestinian] democracy because Arafat might lose
elections."
     It is clear that there is a campaign by the government to mislead
the public.
     Last week's TV "water-libel" story about Jewish settlers stealing the
precious liquid from the taps of Hebron Arabs exemplifies the lies being
fed to the public.  In the same way, to compare the Gaza antics in Sheikh
Radwan to the Altalena is also a libel, made worse in that
it came from government ministers.
     The irony of it is that Rabin was one of those who carried out
the order to shell the Altalena. (c) JPFS 1995

 and despatch the bomber on his
(or her) errand of death if one lacks intelligence information.
     And Israel isn't getting it.  Rabin has documentary evidence,
which he is keeping from the public, to prove it.
     It is common knowledge that Rabin has been told by his security
chiefs that there is no genuine collaboration from any of Arafat's 10, if
not more, armed groups.  The widely proclaimed arrests, gun fights, etc.,
are followed by a cynical release of prisoners within days or a
week or two after the showcase, cosmetic arrests.
     All this ballyhoo is just a smoke-screen to mislead the public into
thinking that Arafat is now as pure as snow. Nothing must be done to
demolish the trust in Arafat that Rabin needs to sustain his blood-soaked
peace process, and the withdrawal from increasing areas
of the country.
     Rabin's dependence on Arafat was revealed to two Israeli journalists
this week when he said: "If I knew of a plot to kill
Arafat, I would warn him of the danger immediately."
     Even Robert Fisk, hitherto one of Arafat's greatest champions, said
of the PLO chief in The Independent (August 6): "Under the pretext of
stamping out terrorism on Israel's behalf, he is running a dictatorship
with the approval of the Israelis and the United States."  Fisk added that
this is a dictatorship that would meet with "the
approval of Saddam Hussein."
     Fisk went on: "Arafat, who styles himself 'President of Palestine,'
is turning into just another Arab despot ...  with the almost total
approval of the Israelis and the US ...  The Israelis don't want a real
[Palestinian] democracy because Arafat might lose
elections."
     It is clear that there is a campaign by the government to mislead
the public.
     Last week's TV "water-libel" story about Jewish settlers stealing the
precious liquid from the taps of Hebron Arabs exemplifies the lies being
fed to the public.  In the same way, to compare the Gaza antics in Sheikh
Radwan to the Altalena is also a libel, made worse in that
it came from government ministers.
     The irony of it is that Rabin was one of those who carried out
the order to shell the Altalena. (c) JPFS 1995











































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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>From: The Jerusalem Post <jpost@elronet.co.il>, August 24 1995

STERILIZED FROM ABOVE
by URI DAN & DENNIS EISENBERG

"The General Security Service is better off without Arafat."

(The writers are authors of The Mossad: Secrets of the Israeli Secret
Service and other books on the Middle East.)

     MONDAY'S suicide bus bombing in Jerusalem's Ramot Eshkol
neighborhood did more than shatter the lives of many of the
passengers.  It brought an abrupt end to the idea - created by the
Rabin government and supported by a pliant local media - that Yasser
Arafat is a trustworthy partner in the "peace process."
     Not even the latest outrage, however, appeared to move Foreign
Minister Peres who, on Monday night, eulogized Arafat's intelligence
services on TV.
     When, with a flourish, Arafat recently "arrested" potential suicide
bomber Wael Nassar in Gaza's Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, Ha'aretz reported
government ministers saying: "Arafat has shown that his actions have
gained him a high rating as a partner.  Ministers
called the shoot-out a 'mini-Altalena.'
     This comparison between Menachem Begin's IZL fighters - shelled and
killed on their ship on the orders of Ben-Gurion, after helping create the
State of Israel - and Hamas fanatics dedicated to Israel's
destruction is, to put it mildly, shameful.
     To laud Arafat as a true partner is disingenuous, as Rabin knows full
well.  How often has Justice Minister David Liba'i called on the PLO
leader to hand over known Palestinian murderers of both Jews and
Arabs to Israeli courts?  These requests have been totally ignored.
     "There is honor among thieves," as a senior security man put it.
"Why should Arafat, who almost daily calls for a jihad to wipe out
Israel, hand over men regarded as heroes by his own supporters?"
     The euphoria radiating from the government and the General Security
Service after the staged Gaza raid and Nassar arrest was shattered hours
after the Gaza closure was lifted by the unexpected Jerusalem bus attack.
The attack came as a great surprise to the GSS chiefs, as did the suicide
bombings in Ramat Gan last month, Beit Lid
in January and the Dizengoff attack last October.
     WHAT HAS happened to the excellent GSS?  After all, it still has
experienced and dedicated field personnel.
     The rot began to set in when its commanders were ordered to cooperate
with Arafat's generals.  They were told to treat the PLO men with the same
trust and respect as exists today between Israel and
Western security agencies.
     As the British Independent pointed out on August 6, "Colonel Mohammed
Dahlan, (Arafat's security chief) has developed close relations with the
Israeli intelligence services, even though most of his men are largely
Fatah Hawks and former long-term prisoners of the
Israelis."
     This collaboration between the GSS and Arafat's men would be a farce,
were it not so tragic.  It has already cost hundreds of
Israelis killed and injured.
     There are 3,000-4,000 PLO intelligence personnel in Judea and Samaria
(not including Jericho), 500 or so in Jerusalem, and more in
Gaza.
     How is it that they heard nothing, saw nothing and said nothing
about the Ramot Eshkol and other attacks?
     The GSS has been sterilized from above.  By relying on Arafat's
domestic intelligence service, it cannot provide the country with
vital information - the only sure answer to terrorism.
     Suicide bombers need scores of support personnel.  One cannot strike
at the people who recruit, train and despatch the bomber on his
(or her) errand of death if one lacks intelligence information.
     And Israel isn't getting it.  Rabin has documentary evidence,
which he is keeping from the public, to prove it.
     It is common knowledge that Rabin has been told by his security
chiefs that there is no genuine collaboration from any of Arafat's 10, if
not more, armed groups.  The widely proclaimed arrests, gun fights, etc.,
are followed by a cynical release of prisoners within days or a
week or two after the showcase, cosmetic arrests.
     All this ballyhoo is just a smoke-screen to mislead the public into
thinking that Arafat is now as pure as snow. Nothing must be done to
demolish the trust in Arafat that Rabin needs to sustain his blood-soaked
peace process, and the withdrawal from increasing areas
of the country.
     Rabin's dependence on Arafat was revealed to two Israeli journalists
this week when he said: "If I knew of a plot to kill
Arafat, I would warn him of the danger immediately."
     Even Robert Fisk, hitherto one of Arafat's greatest champions, said
of the PLO chief in The Independent (August 6): "Under the pretext of
stamping out terrorism on Israel's behalf, he is running a dictatorship
with the approval of the Israelis and the United States."  Fisk added that
this is a dictatorship that would meet with "the
approval of Saddam Hussein."
     Fisk went on: "Arafat, who styles himself 'President of Palestine,'
is turning into just another Arab despot ...  with the almost total
approval of the Israelis and the US ...  The Israelis don't want a real
[Palestinian] democracy because Arafat might lose
elections."
     It is clear that there is a campaign by the government to mislead
the public.
     Last week's TV "water-libel" story about Jewish settlers stealing the
precious liquid from the taps of Hebron Arabs exemplifies the lies being
fed to the public.  In the same way, to compare the Gaza antics in Sheikh
Radwan to the Altalena is also a libel, made worse in that
it came from government ministers.
     The irony of it is that Rabin was one of those who carried out
the order to shell the Altalena. (c) JPFS 1995

 and despatch the bomber on his
(or her) errand of death if one lacks intelligence information.
     And Israel isn't getting it.  Rabin has documentary evidence,
which he is keeping from the public, to prove it.
     It is common knowledge that Rabin has been told by his security
chiefs that there is no genuine collaboration from any of Arafat's 10, if
not more, armed groups.  The widely proclaimed arrests, gun fights, etc.,
are followed by a cynical release of prisoners within days or a
week or two after the showcase, cosmetic arrests.
     All this ballyhoo is just a smoke-screen to mislead the public into
thinking that Arafat is now as pure as snow. Nothing must be done to
demolish the trust in Arafat that Rabin needs to sustain his blood-soaked
peace process, and the withdrawal from increasing areas
of the country.
     Rabin's dependence on Arafat was revealed to two Israeli journalists
this week when he said: "If I knew of a plot to kill
Arafat, I would warn him of the danger immediately."
     Even Robert Fisk, hitherto one of Arafat's greatest champions, said
of the PLO chief in The Independent (August 6): "Under the pretext of
stamping out terrorism on Israel's behalf, he is running a dictatorship
with the approval of the Israelis and the United States."  Fisk added that
this is a dictatorship that would meet with "the
approval of Saddam Hussein."
     Fisk went on: "Arafat, who styles himself 'President of Palestine,'
is turning into just another Arab despot ...  with the almost total
approval of the Israelis and the US ...  The Israelis don't want a real
[Palestinian] democracy because Arafat might lose
elections."
     It is clear that there is a campaign by the government to mislead
the public.
     Last week's TV "water-libel" story about Jewish settlers stealing the
precious liquid from the taps of Hebron Arabs exemplifies the lies being
fed to the public.  In the same way, to compare the Gaza antics in Sheikh
Radwan to the Altalena is also a libel, made worse in that
it came from government ministers.
     The irony of it is that Rabin was one of those who carried out
the order to shell the Altalena. (c) JPFS 1995











































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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        The following editorial by Likud Knesset Member Ze'ev Begin
appeared in the Jerusalem Post on August 14.

ARAFAT'S TRUE JOURNEY
by ZE'EV B. BEGIN

"For Arafat, Galilee too is occupied territory."

(The writer is a Likud MK.)

     A year-and-a-half ago, in Davos, Switzerland, Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres told his friend Yasser Arafat: "You were a terrorist -
today you are an ex-terrorist".
     "At first he was surprised," Peres said later, but "then he suddenly
understood what I had meant".  Last month, Peres again surprised the
Palestinian Authority chairman when he declared in the Knesset that Fatah
had put down its arms and turned from a terror organization into a
political party.  Soon after, Peres climbed one additional step in his
rehabilitation scheme - he declared from the Knesset podium that the
government of Israel had turned Fatah from
being a terrorist organization to one which now fights terror.
     Arafat does not need these bluffs, but Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
does.  Faced with Israeli citizens who slowly grasp the significance of
extending the Gaza and Jericho terror cities to terror havens in Judea and
Samaria, Rabin needs to whitewash Arafat.  "They even get killed fighting
terrorism," the premier excitedly remarked, referring to the usual
in-fighting among Arab armed gangs in Gaza as
well as in the refugee camps in Lebanon.
     Reflecting the collective wisdom so typical of a group under stress,
government officials declared that after the Kfar Darom suicide bombing,
"the coin finally dropped" in Arafat's head, and he
started to crack down on terrorists.
     SOME crackdown.  What Arafat really understood was that he has to go
through the motions in order to satisfy Rabin.  Following the Wadi Kelt
murders, Arafat dramatically announced the detention of the Popular Front
leadership in Gaza.  Three days later, those arrested were released,
reporting that they had not been interrogated.  Arafat does not intend to
disarm Hamas, neither does he plan to extradite to
Israel murderers who fled to Gaza.
     Arafat has also not stopped inciting his local audiences, supporting
the murder of Israelis and the use of suicide attacks.  In a memorial
rally, for the head censor in Gaza on June 19, Arafat declared: "We shall
continue this long and difficult jihad, the road of martyrdom, the road of
sacrifice ... this hard jihad, the road of those killed, the road of
victory, the road of glory, not only for our
people but also for our Arab and Islamic nation".
     In a meeting of the Women's Union of Palestine four days earlier,
Arafat lauded Dalal Mugrabi, who participated in the atrocious attack on a
bus on the coastal highway in 1978: "The commander, the star, one of the
heroes who carried out the landing on the beach.  She was the commander of
the group which established the first Palestinian Republic inside a bus
..... the woman we are proud of and brag about
....."
     Where does the republic, established in a blood-covered bus, lead to?
To the continuation of terrorism inside Israel.  Arafat's eyes already aim
at the Galilee, beyond the PLO flags above his capital, Jerusalem.  This
goal he clearly expressed in a memorial to Knesset member Tawfik Ziad,
held in Gaza.  Al Nahar (July 17) described how Arafat commanded the
summud (clutching to the land) of the "internal
Palestinians" (the Arabs residing in Galilee).
     He lauded Ziad's tenacity in his struggle for the Palestinian land
(again, in Galilee, Israel).  On TV Arafat is seen, quoting Ziad's poetry:
"I shall not forget the things you said, 'with my eyelashes I shall pave
your road of return' ", and he added: "Rest in
peace, for we shall complete the journey."
     Economics Minister Yossi Beilin recently exposed the real intention
of the government when he declared that the goal of the talks with the PLO
is not to stop terror, but to attain peace and to
stop the occupation.
     The government knows, then, that even after "occupation"  terminates
and "peace" is on earth, terrorist attacks against Isarel shall continue.
For Arafat, Galilee too is occupied territory, and the "external
Palestinians" will continue to assist the "internal Palestinians" to
liberate it, in the way of the martyrs, until the
journey is completed.  (c) JPFS 1995


in
peace, for we shall complete the journey."
     Economics Minister Yossi Beilin recently exposed the real intention
of the government when he declared that the goal of the talks with the PLO
is not to stop terror, but to attain peace and to
stop the occupation.
     The government knows, then, that even after "occupation"  terminates
and "peace" is on earth, terrorist attacks against Isarel shall continue.
For Arafat, Galilee too is occupied territory, and the "external
Palestinians" will continue to assist the "internal Palestinians" to
liberate it, in the way of the martyrs, until the
journey is completed.  (c) JPFS 1995



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                The Shards of Illusion
                    by: Yehuda Poch

Frequent readers of this column will by now be well acquainted with my
Zionist leanings, and with my strong desire to move to Israel and help
my people retain our homeland for future generations.  Until now, all I
have done is write about the problems being faced by the Zionist
adventure -- problems presented or clarified by the policies and
pronouncements of the current regime in Israel.  During the past month,
however, I have taken it one step further.  I travelled to Israel to lay the
groundwork for my impending aliyah.  I went in search of a job, of
housing, and of the basis for my big move.

During the trip, however, I was terribly shaken by what I saw in Israel.
Of course, I had been reading the news stories during the past two years
of the deteriorating political situation and the apparent glee of the regime
in seeing the situation deteriorate even further.  I have been reading, and
I have been reacting through my writings.  I have been studying political
science in an effort to understand how any government could turn their
back so completely on the wishes of the people who had elected them,
and destroy the very foundations of the State's existence.  None of what
I read, none of what I wrote, and none of what I studied, prepared me in
the least for the situation I actually encountered when I set foot on Israeli
soil and opened a newspaper.

During five years of campus activism, and three years before that in high
school, I had heard the line repeated ad infinitum that Israel is the only
true democracy in the Middle East, and therefore is deserving of
American patronage.  I now find that this is a myth of horrendous
proportions.  No less than four times during my three week stay in Israel
did the police exhibit unprovoked brutality toward peaceful
demonstrators.  Horses were used to trample elderly men, women, and
children who were walking silently on the sidewalk carrying signs.
Police officers used police vehicles to purposefully run over
demonstrators in the streets, and then to leave without offering assistance
to the injured.  Civil rights of protestors, not to mention those who were
only marginally involved or bystanders, are no longer paid any heed in
the pursuit of government policies that have been proven to be
detrimental to the country.

The Rabin junta completed a framework for the second-stage agreement
with the PLO during my trip.  This agreement was debated briefly by the
cabinet and passed over the objections of three cabinet ministers, to
whom the Prime Minister responded by saying "I don't need to listen to
your objections".  Rabin then also disclosed that he has absolutely no
intention of bringing this agreement to the Knesset for debate, out of fear
that he would lose the vote.  Democracy has thereby been totally
dispensed with in Israel.

Also during my stay, the leader of the left-wing extremist party, Meretz,
ordered the broadcasting equipment of the only religious radio station,
which is also the only voice of the opposition, to be destroyed.  It is the
purview of the left to champion human rights in most scenarios, but in
Israel, it is precisely they who are the first to trample on them.  Without
the Freedom of expression by the press, democracy cannot function.  This
same lunatic, Shulamit Aloni, has also called for the most elite troops in
the Israel Defense Forces to be disbanded simply because they are
religious, and have decided to obey their rabbis' edict to refuse orders
that run counter to their conscience.  If only German army units had done
this in World War Two, how many more Jews would be alive today?

Visiting teenagers touring the Old City of Jerusalem with Israeli flags had
the banners ripped from their hands by Israeli police out of fear that the
Arabs would react strongly to the flag-waving.  Isn't it ironic that in the
heart of all Judaism is the only place in the world where a Jew must fear
for waving an Israeli flag, while at the same time the enemies of the Jews
are free to do what they want.

During the last week of my trip, a mob of roving Arabs fell upon a
Jewish town in central Israel burning and looting everything in their path.
A synagogue was destroyed, its Torah scrolls taken out and burned.  Tens
of Jewish children were injured, stones were thrown at women, and
nearby buildings were broken into, looted, and in some cases, destroyed.
In any other country in the world, this would be called a pogrom.  In
Israel, the police and army took an hour to respond.  During that time,
the local security chief, not a member of the national forces, fired his gun
into the air in an effort to disperse the mob.  Another resident fired his
gun also, hitting one of the mob and killing him.  When the police finally
did arrive, the two residents were arrested, and no moves were made
against the Arabs.  When a similar incident took place in a Brooklyn
slum neighbourhood, the police chief was forced to resign, and the mayor
lost his re-election bid.  In Israel it is another footnote to add to the
history of the fall of Israel.

In the midst of all this, two events grabbed my attention.  The first took
place on Tisha B'Av.  Even though the fast began immediately follwing
the Shabbat, when most people were unable to travel great distances to
hear the reading of the book of Lamentations customary on that night,
150,000 people still showed up at the Western Wall to cry, to pray, to
mourn our national loss.  An additional 50,000 people showed up in front
of the Prime Minister's residence to take part in the reading of
Lamentations at a program organized by the Women In Green.  At this
program, the reading was followed by several divrei torah (sermons)
given by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, and by Nadia Matar.  The whole group
then walked, en masse, to the Old City, and walked along the Promenade
above the walls of the Old City, converging on the Western Wall at
around midnight.

The second event took place a couple of days later, during the afternoon
rush hour.  Demonstrators from around the country convereged on the
country's major highway intersections at prcisely 5:30 and blocked the
roads.  The police had been forewarned of these demonstrations, and had
made it plain that they would prevent traffic from being blocked and
would arrest anyone who attempted to get in the way.  The threats went
unheeded, and the efforts of the police proved unsuccessful.  More than
fifty main intersections across the country were closed down by the
demonstrators.  At the entrance to Jerusalem from the Tel Aviv highway,
the police were waiting with hundreds of officers in an effort to keep the
road open.  The demonstrators never showed up to this particular
intersection, and the police, by their sheer numbers alone, ended up
blocking the traffic by themselves.  Over 100 demonstrators were
arrested, and all but one of them were released within a few hours.  At
precisely 7:30, all the demonstrators left the roads, and traffic resumed.
The traffic problems were not as bad as they could have been, since
advisories went out on the radio before the deomnstrations started, and
most people stayed at work late.

That these two events took place, and that such a high number of people
took part in them, renewed my hope in the ultimate victory of Zionism
and democracy over those in the Israeli government who would destroy
both.  What scares me no end is that such desperate measures are even
necessary in a land where the Zionist dream was so far on the way to
being realised.

What is perhaps the worst part of all of this is that no effort is being
made in the Knesset to bring this government down and force early
elections.  No contingency exists for this possibility.  Indeed, no special
session of the Knesset was requested by the opposition to discuss the
police brutality or the absence of democratic rights in Israel, nor was a
motion of no confidence even suggested.

It is not even surprising any longer when a bus gets bombed in Jerusalem
and Jewish bodies are strewn all over the place.  Rabin not even
attempting to visit the scene is not surprising.  His delay in the
negotiations with the PLO is more insulting than if he had merely carried
on as if nothing happened.  Shimon Peres claiming that these are just the
victims of peace is such an old line that I don't even hear it any more.
The arguments are all there: peace has no such thing as victims, how
many victims do you expect will result from this misconceived notion of
peace, how quickly do you hope to give all the Jews over to our
enemies?  The calls of the realistic President Weizmann to stop the
negotiations permanently go unheeded, and the popular demonstrators are
left to cry in the wind.

For the first time in the history of Israel, it is demonstrably outside the
interests of Israel, as defined by the Israeli government, for Jews to live
there.  The Zionist dream has been killed by the Israeli government.
When demonstrations begin to annoy the government, the first people
that Rabin,  Peres and Aloni lash out at are the settlers, the religious
zionists, and the American immigrants.  It is no accident that these three
groups are the ones most vocal in their opposition to the policies of the
Rabin regime.  For it is they that have the most to lose.  The holiest sites
of Judaism are all under direct threat from this regime, as are the homes
and communities of one tenth of Israel's Jewish population.  Americans,
and other immigrants of choice come to Israel to take their place in the
Zionist adventure and realize the dreams of a hundred generations of
Jews.  They perceive the dangerous course the Rabin regime has set for
Israel, and feel threatened by it.  They react, and are then termed
anarchists.

The old adage has been proven true: if the Arabs stop trying to destroy
Israel, it will destroy itself.  Jews are now easily more secure in most
countries in the world than they are in Israel.  This all is the tragedy of
Israel, and like most other tragedies it has been brought on the nation by
the deadly combination of Yitzchak Rabin and Shimon Peres.

What I saw in Israel this month pained me greatly.  I am watching the
potential demise of the dream of a Jewish renaissance in Israel.  Most
tellingly, I watch from the Diaspora.

22-August-1995

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