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Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000 / Tishrei 9, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. TENSE QUIET THIS MORNING
   2. THREE SOLDIERS KIDNAPPED
   3. ARABS BURN JOSEPH'S TOMB
   4. YESHA RESIDENT IS MISSING

1. TENSE QUIET THIS MORNING
A tense quiet reigns throughout most of Israel today, as the country waits
to see whether Prime Minister Barak's 48-hour warning to Arafat will have
an effect.  Barak said last night that it is very likely that Israel no
longer has a peace partner, but he is giving Arafat 48 hours to cease the
violence.  If it does not stop, Barak warned, the IDF would respond with
all its force.  Palestinian sources have said that they will not give in to
Barak's threats, and that if the diplomatic process has died, "it was at
the hands of Barak."  Israel Television reported last night, in the name of
several "furious" government ministers, that the 48-hour decision was made
by Barak without consulting with them.

Communications Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a former senior army
commander, says that Israel is in a situation of war, and that it is clear
to him now that the negotiating process has ended.

The lack of a U.S. veto of the UN resolution against Israel has embittered
many officials in the Israeli government.  Staffers in the Prime Minister's
Office say that Barak feels "betrayed" by Clinton, and that Clinton has
"stabbed him in the back," by not vetoing the UN resolution condemning
Israel for the war that has been foisted upon it.  Political commentators
have said for weeks that much of Clinton's recent political and diplomatic
strategies have been guided by his desire not to lose Jewish support for
either his wife Hilary's New York Senate race or the Gore-Lieberman
Presidential race; the non-veto is apparently a departure from this
practice, as it is assumed that the support of pro-Israeli votes in both
campaigns will make their feelings known.

The official U.S. explanation for the non-veto is that it would have
prevented the Americans from acting as a mediator between Israel and the
Arabs.  The Americans are even now attempting to arrange a meeting between
Arafat and Barak for immediately after Yom Kippur.

2. THREE SOLDIERS KIDNAPPED
Prime Minister Barak visited the site today from where Hizbullah yesterday
kidnapped three Israel soldiers on a routine patrol near Har Dov on the
Lebanese-Israeli border.  The terrorists took advantage of the lack of a
border fence in the area.  Prime Minister Barak was reminded by reporters
last night that during the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon last May, he had
promised to react with a "strong arm" and the bombing of vital Lebanese
infrastructures in the event of post-withdrawal Lebanese violence against
Israel. When asked if he plans to fulfill this promise, Barak said that for
understandable reasons, he could not go into details about Israel's
retaliatory plans.  He continued today with his policy of silence on the
matter.

Former GSS head Yaakov Peri, who has been entrusted with the handling of
contacts regarding the three captured soldiers, hinted that Israel would
negotiate when he said that Israel would not enter into any contacts with
Hizbullah unless a sign that the three were alive and well was
received.  Negotiations have reportedly begun with German mediators.  Barak
said that he sees Syria as bearing supreme responsibility for the soldiers'
welfare.

3. ARABS BURN JOSEPH'S TOMB
Early yesterday morning, the government ordered the army to retreat from
Joseph's Tomb in Shechem.  An agreement had been reached with Palestinian
Authority officials there, but the latter proved unable - or unwilling - to
keep their end of the agreement.  A mob of Arabs ransacked the holy site -
which served as a yeshiva for over 20 years until this past week - and then
burnt it down, and even took apart the stone dome marking the grave of the
Biblical Joseph.  Even Oslo-architect Shimon Peres had criticism last night
for Arafat and the behavior of the Palestinians in Shechem.  Peres said,
"The Palestinians made a terrible mistake in Joseph's Tomb.  They pulled
the rug out from under their feet regarding their demand for control of the
holy places, by showing that they don't know how to preserve and respect
them."

During the Israeli retreat from the holy spot that PLO gunners had targeted
for the past week - and where an Israeli soldier died of his wounds several
days ago - one Border Guard policeman was shot in the face, and was wounded
moderately. The retreating soldiers removed all holy items, including Torah
scrolls, prayer books, and Jewish texts, before surrendering the site to
the PLO.  It marked the first time that Israel had evacuated its forces
from Yesha in the face of Palestinian violence.  Barak and other top
officials implied that the evacuation was only "temporary."  It was later
reported that Arafat had given an order to restore the holy site to some
semblance of normalcy, although the extent of his authority in Shechem is
not absolute.

4. YESHA RESIDENT IS MISSING
The whereabouts of Hillel Lieberman, 36, from Elon Moreh near Shechem,
continue to be a mystery.  He arrived at Sabbath prayer services in his
hometown at 8 AM yesterday morning, and upon hearing of the burning down of
Joseph's Tomb, he turned around and left the synagogue.  Lieberman is one
of the founders and administrators of the Yeshiva at the site, and in the
words of a fellow townsman, "he has a very deep personal connection to the
holy site."  When he did not return within a few hours, search parties from
the town were dispatched.  An IDF helicopter participated in the search,
but residents say that the search has not been carried out in
full-force.  After morning Shabbat services, a large group of Elon Moreh
residents walked towards Shechem and conducted a quiet protest prayer vigil
for the destroyed holy site.  Friends of Lieberman, a United States citizen
and a father of five, say that they last saw him walking in the direction
of the town's exit.

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Subject:       Arutz-7 News: Tuesday, October 10, 2000

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Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2000 / Tishrei 11, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. BARAK "EXTENDS" ULTIMATUM
   2. NO NATIONAL-UNITY GOVERNMENT
   3. ANAN CALLS KIDNAPPING "VIOLATION"
   4. HILLEL LIEBERMAN'S FUNERAL

****SPECIAL INSERT: interview with YAEL LIEBERMAN

1. BARAK "EXTENDS" ULTIMATUM
At the special Cabinet meeting that began late last night and ended
early this morning, Prime Minister Barak announced that he was
ordering the IDF and the security forces to "step up and expand their
areas of activity in defense of Israeli citizens and soldiers by all
appropriate means."  The 48-hour ultimatum that Barak issued 60 hours
before was not mentioned.

Barak also stated that final-status negotiations with the Palestinian
Authority will resume only after the violence of the last ten days has
ceased, but implied that he would not wait for the end of the violence
before attending a summit meeting with Arafat regarding a cease-fire.
Barak explained that the ultimatum had served the purpose of bringing
world leaders such as UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan and the Russian
Foreign Minister to the region, and he is therefore willing to give
more time to the diplomatic efforts before acting on his ultimatum.

He later explained that he sees no way out of the current problematic
situation other than peace agreements with the Arabs, which is why he
is willing to consider a summit meeting with Clinton and Arafat even
before the violence stops.  He said, however, that he knows nothing of
such a summit, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa similarly said
that no summit is foreseen.

The Yesha Council, after a special meeting last night, called on Prime
Minister Barak not to attend another "summit of humiliation" with
Clinton and Arafat.  The Council also demanded the opening of all
roads in Yesha; the appointment of a full-time Defense Minister in
place of Ehud Barak; and a return of the army to Joseph's Tomb in
Shechem.  The special Council meeting was attended even by members who
generally do not take part in regular Council business, such as the
mayors of Har Adar and others.

2. NO NATIONAL-UNITY GOVERNMENT
A national unity government, which had seemed a distinct possibility
on the eve of Yom Kippur in light of the emergency situation facing
the country, now seems to be far from reach.  Leaders of the
opposition parties met today, and decided that Prime Minister Barak
was "toying" with them; they decided to vote for a preliminary reading
of the proposal to dissolve the Knesset at today's Knesset Law
Committee session.  In the event, the Law Committee vote ended in a
draw, meaning that the resolution did not pass, but will be decided by
the Knesset itself three weeks from now.

The opposition leaders, after their meeting, had strong words of
criticism for Prime Minister Barak.  They had originally hoped, said
Yisrael B'Aliyah leader MK Natan Sharansky, that Barak would make
genuine efforts to form a unity government, but "we see that his
statements to this end were just a way of scaring Arafat.  Since there
is no way of bringing about unity, there is no other choice but to go
to new elections." Prime Minister Barak himself said today, at a
memorial ceremony for the Yom Kippur War fallen, that "we won then not
because of our weapons, but because of our spirit of unity - a spirit
which seems to be in danger today."

Likud leader Ariel Sharon said that his party would support whatever
steps the government takes against the Palestinian violence, but not
its policies.  Shas leader Eli Yeshai said bitterly, "Barak continues
to take advantage of all of us.  He says one thing, then changes his
mind, then does something else...  He is weakening the deterrent
ability of the State of Israel!"

Rabbi Yitzchak Levy, leader of the National Religious Party, told
Arutz-7 today:  "We would like very much to go to a unity government,
but Barak apparently feels that it is not necessary.  We greatly
regret the way he is running things.  He is showing that we simply do
not have a partner for a unity government.  Before Yom Kippur, he told
us that right afterwards he would start talks on national-unity, but
last night he announced that he is going a different way - talks with
Clinton and Arafat, instead of determination and unity within the
nation.  We hope that he will wake up, and that even if he does not go
for a national unity government, that he at least issues strong orders
to the army to restore order...  And in addition to everything else,
he is continuing his secular revolution - this is simply
unbelievable."

3. ANAN CALLS KIDNAPPING "VIOLATION"
UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan has accused the kidnappers of the three
Israeli soldiers on the Lebanese border of a blatant violation of UN
Resolution 425, under which Israel withdrew from Lebanon and was then
to have enjoyed peaceful borders.  Anan said that he knows that the
soldiers are alive, although Hizbullah has so far refused to allow the
Red Cross to visit them.  Bloodstains of the Israeli soldiers were
found on the site of the kidnapping.  Barak, who met with Anan today,
said afterwards that Israel reserves the right to respond to the
kidnapping of the three soldiers on the Lebanese border.  Hizbullah
demands the release of terrorists imprisoned in Israel; details will
be forthcoming.

4. HILLEL LIEBERMAN'S FUNERAL
The funeral of Hillel Lieberman, who was murdered by Palestinians on
Saturday, will depart tomorrow from Elon Moreh for Yitzhar, a Shomron
community where he had requested to be buried.  Lieberman had said
that if "anything happens to him," he would be buried next to his
friends Shlomo Libman and Harel Bin-Nun; the two were murdered in
August 1998 in an Arab terrorist ambush while they were patrolling
around Yitzhar.  Lieberman was the seventh Israeli victim of the Rosh
HaShanah Arab Assault that began almost two weeks ago.  Palestinians
of Shechem continued to destroy the Tomb of Joseph yesterday, and even
to build a mosque atop the ruins of the yeshiva, despite promises by
PA leaders that they would work to rebuild the holy site and allow
Jewish prayer there.


****SPECIAL INSERT: interview with YAEL LIEBERMAN

The following is an abridged transcript of an Interview with Yael
Lieberman, widow of the murdered Hillel Lieberman.

Haggai Segal: When did Hillel's connection with the site of Joseph's
Tomb begin?

Yael Lieberman:  Ever since I know him, at least...  I had the
privilege of being his wife for 15 years, and there was not a day when
the name of Joseph and the yeshiva were not mentioned in a meaningful
way.

Q: What did he do in the yeshiva there?  Did he teach, study...?

A: He simply studied.  He filled himself with Torah, with Torah
concepts, he was simply full, I felt that his body couldn't hold all
of it, and that it was time for him to go teach, but he had this
humility and felt that he was not yet ready: "What, I should go teach?
Me?  Not yet, not yet.  I know that Joseph's task in Egypt was to
raise the materialistic to spiritual levels, and to redeem the people
of Israel from the gates of impurity - but first I have to reach the
level of Joseph..."   When we first met, he said, "I have arrived
here, in the Land of Israel, and I will never leave! This is my first
and last stop!"  He was on his way directly to Elon Moreh, to be near
Joseph's Tomb.  I looked up at him, he was so tall - not only
physically, but in his ideas, and he was able to sweep me along with
the ardor of his conviction..."

Q. I understand that on Shabbat morning, when he heard about the
destruction of Joseph's Tomb, he began to walk towards Shechem - where
exactly was he headed?

A:  Because this is Arutz-7, a station which he loved, I would like to
tell you in just a few words how our morning went that day.  I awoke,
and found him already reading Tehillim (Psalms), preparing to go to
the synagogue.  I said, I see you didn't sleep so well?  [Ed. note:
There were rumors that an evacuation of Joseph's Tomb might be
imminent.]  He said, 'With G-d's help, Yom Kippur is ahead of us.  Do
you want to learn something with me?'...and he began to read aloud
from the writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane:  "I am the son of a nation
that wandered close to 2000 years without its own homeland, that was
persecuted without end, that was never allowed to develop in its own
land...  but today, thank G-d, we have a state that can defend itself
with its own army and is steeped in its own culture...  am I ready to
allow this Jewish state to, democratically, become a Palestinian
state, to nullify the Law of Return [enabling automatic citizenship to
any Jew who immigrates], for it to cease being a Jewish state?" He
asked me what I thought of this, and he kept on reading, and talking,
and I said to him, 'Hillel, with G-d's help, the people will arise and
become strong, and we will pray well on Yom Kippur...'  and then he
asked if I wanted to hear just one more short passage for Yom Kippur,
and I said, 'Of course, I'm all ears,' and he read a passage from the
Book of our Heritage [Sefer HaToda'ah] about why we wear a kittel
[white robe] on Yom Kippur:  [The passage explains that on Yom Kippur
we should imagine ourselves being purified by repenting of all our
sins in front of the Heavenly Court - but that for angels, it is too
late to do this, as true regret and repentance does not work after
death, but only during life.]  Let us therefore take it upon ourselves
[he continued] to truly accept upon ourselves to do only good...  He
then went to immerse in the mikvah, came back, put on his kittel and
his tallit [prayer shawl], which does not have the customary black
stripes, but is - like him - only white and pure, and he went off to
shul, looking like a pure-white angel...  At shul, someone told him
that the House of Joseph was in flames - and, and - the 'vessels just
broke.'  He apparently went out - his name is Hillel Eliyahu, and he
used to tell me that he is usually Hillel, but that sometimes 'I am
Eliyahu, the one who demands G-d, who demands justice, who demands
peace...' - and so he simply went off like Eliyahu "by a storm up to
Heaven."

Q. What, he just went there by some instinct -

A. No, not by instinct! - it was him!  If there is no Joseph's Tomb,
then there is no Hillel!  If he would have returned home, I would have
been totally confused.  I would have said, Excuse me, I don't
understand, Joseph's Tomb is burning there, and you're here?  I
wouldn't have believed it, I wouldn't have believed it.  I am actually
in shock that he was the only one who did it.  Everyone sees him as
exceptional, but I think everyone else is the exception - what,
Joseph's Tomb is in flames, and we should sit down and eat chulent?!"

Yael Lieberman then recounted how the Torah scrolls that were saved
from Joseph's Tomb were covered with pure white covers, which Hillel
had bought the week before.  "[This was a symbol that] all of Israel
was mourning that day, was praying for the upliftment of the House of
Israel, was fasting for him [on Yom Kippur]...  that he should be the
last sacrifice - no, he was not a sacrifice, he was simply a pioneer
for the People of Israel, running to tell them to wake up, to tell
them to turn in this direction..."

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Arutz Sheva News Service
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Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2000 / Tishrei 12, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. ARABS AMBUSH AND FIRE ON JEWISH FUNERAL PROCESSION
   2. TERRORISM REARS ITS HEAD
   3. BARAK COMING CLOSER TO UNITY GOV'T
   4. WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE?
   5. GLIMMERS OF LIGHT REFLECTED IN U.S. MEDIA
   6. GORE-LIEBERMAN ADVISOR PRESENTS ARAB DEMANDS

1. ARABS AMBUSH AND FIRE ON JEWISH FUNERAL PROCESSION
The funeral procession of Rabbi Hillel Lieberman, attended by well
over 1,000 people, was attacked by Palestinians this afternoon.  The
two-pronged ambush attack included rifle shots from the Arab village
of Kafr Kalil and a barrage of rocks on the participants.  Two Jewish
women were lightly wounded by the shots, and were evacuated to the
hospital.  The Jews responded with gunfire, and large army
reinforcements, including a tank, quickly arrived.  Army snipers and
submachine guns fired towards the source of the fire in Kafr Kalil.
When the Palestinian firing did not abate, helicopters and additional
tanks were sent in.  Many ground forces were deployed in the area.
After the funeral ended, Arabs fired upon IDF forces from another
direction, and the army prevented the participants from leaving
Yitzhar for about an hour.  The shooting died down about two hours
after the beginning of the attack.

In order to allow the funeral procession to continue safely, army
jeeps were interspersed with the mourners' cars along the route to the
cemetery in the Shomron town of Yitzhar.  The funeral departed from
Rabbi Lieberman's hometown of Elon Moreh after eulogies by Rabbi
Zevulun Lieberman of New York, the deceased's father; Elon Moreh Rabbi
Elyakim Levanon; and former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu.

Rabbi Hillel Lieberman was murdered by Palestinian Arabs this past
Shabbat; after being told that Joseph's Tomb was in flames, he
attempted to make his way to the holy site.  His wife Yael told
Arutz-7 yesterday, "If there is no Joseph's Tomb, then there is no
Hillel!  If he would have returned home [after hearing the news of the
destruction], I would have been totally confused.  I would have said,
'Excuse me, I don't understand, Joseph's Tomb is burning there, and
you're here?'  I wouldn't have believed it, I wouldn't have believed
it..."

2. TERRORISM REARS ITS HEAD
Prime Minister Ehud Barak appeared at the Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee today, and warned that the Palestinian Authority's
wholesale release of Hamas terrorists from prison in recent days has
increased the danger of terrorist attacks.  This follows the
announcement by Hamas last night of a general call-up of its fighters,
as part of its efforts to "escalate" the intifada.  Hamas leaders
criticized Arafat for calling for an end to the Palestinian-initiated
violence against Israel.

An Arab from Gaza was stopped at the Erez Checkpoint this afternoon,
on his way to carry out a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.

Three Palestinian Arabs attempted to infiltrate the Shomron town of
Bat Hefer this afternoon; soldiers shot and killed one of them.  Arabs
opened fire on Israeli targets near Jenin and Hevron; one soldier was
wounded, and the army returned fire.  Gaza Arabs threw a grenade at
the police station in Gush Katif, but caused no damage.  Shots were
fired at an Israeli car south of Tapuach Junction, north of Eli; no
one was hurt.  A woman passenger was injured in Jaffa today when an
Arab-thrown object hit her bus.

For the first time in two weeks, the siege on the town of Netzarim in
Gush Katif was lifted today, as several convoys of cars made their
careful way to the Kisufim checkpoint at the Green Line this morning.
Most of the passengers were children, on their way to school for the
first time in two weeks.

3. BARAK COMING CLOSER TO UNITY GOV'T
Prime Minister Barak made his most open call yet for a national-unity
government, when he called upon opposition leader Ariel Sharon today
to "lay aside all differences and to seriously consider the
establishment of a unity government."  Earlier today, almost all Likud
leaders made particularly sharp statements against such a government,
in light of what they felt was Barak's "toying" with them.

Arutz-7 correspondent Haggai Huberman reports that Barak feels that
the concessions that he offered in Camp David are now truly "null and
void" - not because Arafat did not accept them, but because the events
of the past few days have convinced the Israeli public not to accept
them.  "For instance," said Huberman, "Barak's agreement to accept up
to 100,000 Arab refugees can no longer be justified, after the
violence of the Arabs of the past days.  In addition, to hand over any
form of control of the Temple Mount would be unacceptable, Barak now
feels, after the Palestinian desecration of Joseph's Tomb."  Huberman
added, however, that Barak expressed this privately to his aides, "but
he does not want to go public with them, because he still wants to
preserve the option of making these concessions if things change.  We
know Barak, and we know that things can change with him from hour to
hour."

Also today, Barak informed the Cabinet that in accordance with Basic
Law: The Government, the following ministers who have been serving as
acting ministers up until now will today become permanent ministers:
Housing Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer will serve also as
Communications Minister; Justice Minister Yossi Beilin will serve also
as Religious Affairs Minister; Minister Chaim Ramon will serve as
Interior Minister, and Finance Minister Avraham Shochat will serve
also as National Infrastructures Minister.

4. WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE?
Former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Shomron told Arutz-7 today his opinion
of the Palestinian violence:

"The calm [as of this morning] could well be temporary, because the
Palestinians are using their capabilities to fight against terror only
for their own interests.  Although [the late Prime Minister] Rabin
said that it's to our advantage for Arafat to be entrusted with the
fight against terrorism, because he can do it 'without the civil
rights group and the courts bothering him,' we see that they only do
so when it's in their interest.  But whenever they feel they are not
getting what they want, they turn on the violence - in order to get
the sympathy of other Arab countries and the world."

Israel's daily business newspaper, Globes, editorialized today, "The
flaws of Oslo are now known to anyone who takes the trouble to take a
close look...  Perhaps those who made Oslo should be punished
electorally."  But the paper then adds, "However, anyone who pretends
that there is an alternative to Oslo must first prove that he hasn't
been abducted by aliens from outer space."

Atty. Elyakim Ha'etzni of Kiryat Arba, a former Knesset Member from
the now-defunct Techiyah party, believes he has an alternative.  He
told Arutz-7 yesterday,

"When England's Prime Minister Tony Blair saw that the Irish had
violated the peace treaty by not turning over their weapons, he simply
cancelled the peace agreement, and dismantled the government that had
already been formed for Ireland...  Should we then go back and take
over Shechem and other Palestinian cities?  I'll tell you:  There were
two World Wars with Germany.  During the first one, the Allies did not
take over Germany, and about twenty years later, the world faced
another war, in which 50 million people were killed.  This time, the
Allies conquered and took over the enemy country, and a very ugly
three years of suffering for the German people ensued - and now we
have a prosperous, peace-loving Germany."

5. GLIMMERS OF LIGHT REFLECTED IN U.S. MEDIA
Excerpts from an article by Lee Hockstader in yesterday's Washington
Post, describing various reactions of disappointment among Israel's
peace camp at the recent violence:

"Israel's peace activists... are in retreat.  Jolted by the violence
of the last two weeks and stunned by the hatred they see driving the
Arab rioters, many Israeli peaceniks are concluding that the cause
they embraced years ago has been a failure...  For some peace
activists, it was a rude awakening to observe the depth of hatred
among Palestinians, especially in the Palestinian media, which have
called on Arabs to attack Israeli army positions and sacrifice their
children's blood if necessary.  'Something in me snapped. Something in
me broke,' said Tali Amnon, 26, a graduate student at Tel Aviv
University. 'If they can call their children to fight, there is no
peace process. Maybe we're really at war and it's only us stupid jerks
on the left who don't know it.'"

In another article of today's edition of the same newspaper, Charles
Krauthammer writes:

"The doves [in Israel] are stunned.  Avraham Burg, speaker of the
Israeli parliament and one of the architects of the Labor government's
bend-over-backward peace proposals, writes perplexedly, pathetically:
'Do we really understand what is going on? After everything was given,
there are still demands on the other side.'  'Suddenly we discovered,'
he continues plaintively, 'that what we mean by peace--which is mutual
reconciliation--is not being met by the other side.'  Suddenly? Where
has he been for seven years?... "

Yet another Washington Post article in today's edition, by George
Will, states:

"Barak may be the most calamitous leader any democracy has had.  He
risks forfeiting his nation's existence...  Barak has made territorial
concessions no previous government contemplated, including the
sparsely populated and strategically vital Jordan valley.  He has
thrown away longstanding U.S. support for an undivided Jerusalem.
Under Barak, Israel's rights in its own capital are negotiable. And
what has Barak's policy bought?  Only Arafat's promise to reject
violence, which is akin to Hitler's promise, after Munich, to make no
more territorial claims in Europe...

"[Oslo architect Shimon] Peres is puzzled.  If Arafat had behaved like
a bourgeois politician, Palestinians 'could have escaped the poverty'
they still suffer, and could have built 'a modern life.'  But Peres is
hopeful: 'If somebody would tell you in 1944 that within one year you
can have a different Europe, that you can have peace, I think everyone
would be laughing. But look what happened.'  Yes, look.  What happened
one year after the worst year in Jewish history was the *defeat*
[emphasis not in original] of those vowing to eradicate the Jews."

6. GORE-LIEBERMAN ADVISOR PRESENTS ARAB DEMANDS
A senior adviser to the American presidential campaign of Al Gore and
Joe Lieberman is now lobbying the State Department to reduce military
aid to Israel.  James Zogby, who was appointed last week as Senior
Advisor to the campaign on Ethnic Americans, has praised the Hizbullah
terrorist group as "the Lebanese armed resistance;" Hizbullah is now
holding three kidnapped Israeli soldiers.  The Washington Times
reports that Zogby, who has been accused by the Anti-Defamation League
of "crude anti-Semitism," recently led a delegation to the State
Department "to present a series of demands on behalf of
Arab-Americans.

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