Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2338-1001419075-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 25 Sep 2001 05:00:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4283 invoked by uid 510); 25 Sep 2001 11:58:15 -0000 Received: from n28.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.78) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 25 Sep 2001 11:58:15 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2338-1001419075-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.4.56] by f19.egroups.com with NNFMP; 25 Sep 2001 11:57:55 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 25 Sep 2001 11:57:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 8765 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2001 11:57:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 25 Sep 2001 11:57:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 25 Sep 2001 11:57:52 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id EAA23616 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 04:57:52 -0700 Message-Id: <200109251157.EAA23616@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 04:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:The.Israeli.perspective] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com Monday, Sept. 25, 2001 / Tishrei 7, 5762 ------------------------------------------------ TODAY'S HEADLINES: 1. PERES AND ARAFAT WILL MEET, AFTER ALL 2. ANOTHER JEWISH WOMAN MURDERED BY ISLAMIC TERRORISTS 3. CEASEFIRE VIOLENCE CONTINUES 4. PRIME MINISTER SHARON WILLING TO GRANT ARABS PALESTINIAN STATE 5. JEWS UNDER TALIBAN 6. SNEH: BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY "STABBED ISRAEL IN THE BACK" 7. ARAB EXHIBITION GLORIFIES THE MURDER OF JEWS 8. OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF ISRAELIS AGAINST PERES-ARAFAT MEET 9. MORE CLOSED MILITARY ZONES IN SAMARIA 1. PERES AND ARAFAT WILL MEET, AFTER ALL Despite the murder of yet another Jewish woman this morning, and despite the fact that some 4/5 of the Israeli public is against a Peres-Arafat meeting, and despite the fact that MK Tzvi Hendel notes that "there is no American pressure, except for that exerted by Colin Powell, on Israel to hold such a meeting" - it now appears that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has allowed Foreign Minister Peres to meet with PLO terrorist chief Yasser Arafat tomorrow evening. The two announced that the meeting would take place "in the near future and at the appropriate time." It appears that the two wish the meeting to take place before the Wednesday night-Thursday holiday of Yom Kippur. Some reports, however, say that the meeting will take place immediately after Yom Kippur. Although Sharon reacted to today's murder with the shrewd observation that "There is no ceasefire," and although he has been insisting on 48 hours of total quiet before allowing Peres to meet with Arafat, he apparently was cowed by Peres' threats to "go on vacation" and veiled threats of American disapproval. In a private talk this morning, the two agreed that Peres would meet with Arafat tomorrow in Gaza. Arafat, for his part, has said that he will be glad to meet with Peres at any time, in the knowledge that such a meeting would grant him legitimacy as a peacemaker as the world gets set to battle terrorism. 2. ANOTHER JEWISH WOMAN MURDERED BY ISLAMIC TERRORISTS Early this morning, Sal'it Sheetreet and her husband Barak, of Kibbutz Sdei Eliyahu, were attacked by Arab terrorist gunfire while traveling on the main northern Jordan Valley highway. Sal'it, 28 years of age, was killed almost instantly by gunfire to her head and was buried in the Sdei Eliyahu cemetery. Barak, the driver, was lightly injured by ricocheted fragments. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the murder. The terrorists overtook the Sheetreets' vehicle as it passed the Arab village of Bardla at approximately 6:30 AM, and opened fire. The attack took place only a few hundred meters from an IDF checkpoint, but the soldiers manning the post heard nothing. After being alerted by passing Arab residents to what occurred, the IDF and security services attempted to track the attackers, who apparently fled into Palestinian Authority-controlled territories. The Sheetreets were on their way to distribute sweets to soldiers from their kibbutz serving in the area before continuing on to Jerusalem. Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi expressed surprise that there were any Palestinian vehicles on the Jordan Valley highway, as his proposal to forbid such travel on the road was approved by the government after the last terrorist attack there. Area residents said that they had not noted any reduction in Arab traffic on the route and that, "judging by the fatal results," the orders are not being sufficiently enforced. Reacting to the attack, Ra'anan Gissin, the Prime Minister's media advisor, said that Israel sees PLO leader Yasser Arafat as responsible for the murder. The attack, he said, re-sets the 48-hour "quiet" period that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he would insist upon before a meeting between Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Arafat. Gissin said this, of course, before it was announced that the 48 hours had become 36 hours and that Peres and Arafat are scheduled to meet tomorrow night. 3. CEASEFIRE VIOLENCE CONTINUES In addition to this morning's murder, Palestinian violence continued last night and this morning in other ways as well. An IDF post north of Ramallah and the industrial zone of N'vei Dekalim in southern Gaza came under terrorist gunfire, and grenades were thrown at IDF posts in N'vei Dekalim and near the Rafiach border crossing to Egypt. Arabs shot at IDF troops near the town of Gadid, and terrorists firebombed a Border Police patrol north of Jerusalem. This afternoon, a fire truck was attacked by gunfire near the Shomron community of Psagot, north of Jerusalem; no one was hurt. Early this evening, Palestinians opened fire and threw a number of homemade grenades at an IDF force on the Israeli-Egyptian border near Rafiach. The soldiers fire; no injuries were reported. A bus carrying Knesset Members of the Shas Party was attacked by stones on its way to Hevron this afternoon. The MKs visited the holy city in a show of solidarity, and also paid a condolence call in Kiryat Arba to the parents of Sarit Amrani, the mother of three who was murdered by terrorists five days ago. The MKs expressed support of the Hevron residents' demands for security and development, and said that Peres must not meet Arafat while shooting continues against the Jewish homes in the city. Security forces apprehended a terror cell in the Arab village of Marda in the Shomron this afternoon. The suspects are alleged to have committed several terrorist attacks, including the August 7th murder of Zohar Shurgi, 40, of Moshav Yafit. Zohar, who left a wife and three children, was shot to death on the Trans-Samaria Highway between Tapuach Junction and Ariel, near Marda. ******************************************************* New expanded on-line gallery. Papercut designs & Ketubot. <a href="http://www.jewishuniverse.org/tracking/cfjp.asp">http://www.jewishuniverse.org/tracking/cfjp.asp> ******************************************************* 4. PRIME MINISTER SHARON WILLING TO GRANT ARABS PALESTINIAN STATE Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stated last night, in an address to the Teachers Union, that Israel is willing to grant the Palestinians an independent state. "Neither the Turks nor the British nor the Jordanians nor the Egyptians" offered to create a Palestinian State, said the Prime Minister. Israel is willing to do so, he said, if the Palestinians prove that they can enforce peace in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Sharon said that PLO leader Yasser Arafat has made a serious effort to reduce the warfare: "He even went to Rafiach to bring quiet to that area - something he has never done before." [Ed. note: A Channel Two news report directly from the nearby IDF's Tarmit outpost, where at least 20 grenades were hurled at the soldiers, indicated that Arafat had not been particularly successful.] The Yesha Council reacted to the Prime Minister's comments by saying that "only a blind and callous leader" would offer the Palestinians an independent state, "as the territory already in their control has become a hotbed of terrorism and a base for suicide bombers." Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi stated that the proposal is in contradiction to the coalition agreement, and that such a radical proposal was never brought to the ministerial cabinet for approval. 5. JEWS UNDER TALIBAN As the world prepares for a military onslaught on Afghanistan, and as the last of the Western journalists leave the country, Arutz-7 spoke yesterday with Naftali Cohen, who immigrated to Israel from Afghanistan 25 years ago. Cohen described his recollections of the land of his birth and his thoughts about the warfare it is soon to face. He immigrated with the last wave of Afghani Jews, from the period of 1975 to 1982, at the age of 17. "I have mixed emotions about the apparently upcoming attack," Cohen said. "On the one hand, like many Afghani expatriates, I have sympathy for those Afghani Moslems with whom I was friendly." Known for their fundamentalist brand of Islam, the Afghanis are divided into two groups, Sunnis and Shi'ites. Naftali said he encountered anti-Semitism primarily from the Shi'ite sector of the populace, who "hate the Jews more than the Sunnis do." One thing he is sure about, however, is that the invasion of Afghanistan by U.S. ground troops will not be easy. "Look at the Soviets," he said, who were essentially defeated by the Afghanis. Air strikes, on the other hand, will cause great suffering to the Afghani populace, while the Islamic terrorists have many inaccessible hiding places. Media reports indicate that there remain only two Jews in Afghanistan, Yitzchak Levy and Zevulun Siman-Tov, both of whom live in Kabul. Naftali Cohen told Arutz-7 that he spoke with Siman-Tov recently, who is a businessman with freedom of movement into and out of Afghanistan. Both Siman-Tov and Levy have family in Israel. 6. SNEH: BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY "STABBED ISRAEL IN THE BACK" Much like his French counterpart last week, the British Foreign Secretary painted Israel as a catalyst of terror rather than one of its main victims. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said yesterday, on the eve of an unprecedented visit to Iran, that international terrorism is fed by the "fury in the Moslem world over the suffering of the Palestinian Arabs." Straw is due to arrive today in Iran, with the apparent intention of getting that Moslem state to join the international coalition against terrorism. The Foreign Secretary will stop in Israel on Tuesday. Transportation Minister Ephraim Sneh, in an angry reply to Straw's comments, said that they portray Israel as a cause of terrorism rather than a victim of it. An exasperated Sneh repeatedly called such comments on the eve of the British Foreign Secretary's trip to Iran "a stab in the back to Israel." Iran is known to be one of the chief sponsors of international terrorism through the Hizbullah and other organizations. 7. ARAB EXHIBITION GLORIFIES THE MURDER OF JEWS A replica of Sbarro's Pizzeria in Jerusalem, complete with the "kosher" sign over the doorway, was the centerpiece of an exhibition in the PA town of Shechem, marking the first anniversary of the opening of the current PLO-led terrorist campaign against Israel. Fifteen Israelis were slaughtered in a suicide terrorist bombing at Sbarro's last month. As part of the exhibition, a performance artist wearing fatigues, a mask and replicated explosives enters the "Sbarro" and sets off a simulated explosion. The aftermath is imitation body parts and pizza strewn about the display. Typically, suicide bombers leave video recorded statements before setting off on their final journey. That, too, is recreated with another piece of installation art. Through dark windows visitors can see human figures wearing clothing indicating that they are suicide bombers, holding a gun and a copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book. According to one of its organizers, quoted by the AP news service, the exhibition is to encourage the visitors that the Jews will suffer as long as the occupation continues. However, laying bare the deeper meaning of the exhibition is a final installation that brings to life an ancient, well-known oral Moslem tradition forming the basis of Moslem law and philosophy. Behind a large rock stands the figure of Jewish man, identified by his distinctively Orthodox clothing. A recording plays from inside the rock, "O believer! There is a Jew behind me! Come and kill him!" 8. OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF ISRAELIS AGAINST PERES-ARAFAT MEET Several polls taken over the past few days show that an overwhelming majority of Israelis do not support a meeting between Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO leader Yasser Arafat. A Channel Two poll reported on last night showed that 85% of those polled objected to such a meeting. Similarly a self-selected poll on the Israeli MSN website indicated that more than 76% of 7000 respondents voted against the meeting. Irrespective of Israeli public sentiment in the matter, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said that calling off the meeting, as happened yesterday, could lead to an increase in terrorist attacks. Media reports indicated that the U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell called Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in an attempt to pressure him to allow the Peres-Arafat meeting. According to Knesset Member Tzvi Hendel (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu), "the only person in the Bush Administration pushing for a meeting between Peres and Arafat is Colin Powell. There is no American pressure for a meeting." The Prime Minister's Office also has denied that there is any American pressure. Shimon Peres, on the other hand, has publicly taken the opposite tack. According to MK Hendel, "There never was such a high level of sympathy for the State of Israel in Congress and in the American media as there is today. Whoever says that there is American pressure is lying." Hendel believes that the meeting would only cause tremendous damage to Israel and prevent it from acting to dismantle the Palestinian Authority. "We all know that the overwhelming majority is against Peres. Even at the Labor Party meeting today everyone criticized him," said Hendel. 9. MORE CLOSED MILITARY ZONES IN SAMARIA The area between the Palestinian Authority-controlled towns of Tul Karem and Jenin has been declared a closed military zone. The IDF's O.C. Central Commander Maj.-Gen. Yitzchak Eitan ordered the change as a result of the increasing number of terrorist attacks stemming from the areas of Jenin and Tul Karem. The practical result of the closing of the zone is that only persons with identification attesting to their residency in the area will be allowed to pass through. Violators will be immediately arrested and face criminal prosecution. In addition, the open-fire orders in the case of perceived threats to soldiers or civilians in the zone will be relaxed. PLO leader Yasser Arafat, responding to the decision to close the zone, said that it constitutes a dangerous escalation, both militarily and politically. Arafat told reporters in Gaza that he is acting to prevent the closures of zones, which he said is intended to isolate various areas of Samaria from each other. The Palestinian Authority has called for Arabs in the isolated areas to confront the Israeli soldiers "with all available means." An unnamed source in the Authority told the Voice of Palestine that the Israeli move is "racist" and dangerous enough to lead to regional conflagration. 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