Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Now that the ill-conceived talks in Camp David have failed, all kinds 
of rifts, recriminations and hitherto papered-over fissures in 
Israeli society will reveal themselves. Israel is in for a very 
rough ride!

The domestic political scene in Israel will undergo numerous, very 
serious, alignments. The Pollard Affair, the AWAC sale to China, the 
territorial and water questions and the proclamation of Palestinian 
statehood by Yassir Arafat are all on the table. Still. Or again.

The Mideast tragedy continues, with more lives lost, more maimed 
people, more violence, more injustice. And all because Balfour lied 
in 1917 - promising the same piece of real estate that wasn't his to 
promise both to the Arabs and the Jews.

Here is part two of the Eretz Israel Weekly of July 25, 2000:

Eretz Israel Weekly:

3. BIBI SPEAKS TO THE NATION

Eretz Israel Weekly:

According to IMRA, Netanyahu opened the speech by saying, "Tonight I 
speak to you as a citizen, a concerned citizen. I say this with the 
hope that there is still time to prevent an impending divide in our 
nation, and to approach the task of the charting our common future 
from a broad national consensus. For above all we are brothers, and 
our fate is one." (...)



Zundelsite:

"Preventing an impending divide" among Israeli's fractious Jewish 
population? This is more proof that Charles Krauthammer was right 
when he talked of the "collapse of Zionism".

And ". . . our fate is one"? Remember this phrase.

Eretz Israel Weekly:

Netanyahu continued by speaking about, and criticizing, the current 
government's intentions of giving up the Jordan Valley, of allowing 
tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees into the country, and of 
dividing Jerusalem.



Zundelsite:

Tens of thousands? Israel let in almost 1 million Jews from Russia 
and elsewhere in the last ten years alone.

Eretz Israel Weekly:

(Natanyahu continued) "Yet after all the concessions that we are 
asked to make is there a real Palestinian willingness to end the 
conflict? Unfortunately much of what we see suggests that the 
opposite is true."

His speech was widely viewed as a sign he is returning to politics, 
the Jerusalem Post said.



Zundelsite:

Concessions? What concessions? 4 million Palestinians have a "Right 
to Return" - far more realistically justified than that bunch of 
descendants of the delusional myth merchants of Eastern Europe ever 
had!

Eretz Israel Weekly:

4. CLARIFYING CONCERNING JERUSALEM

In a clarifying article published by IMRA, Professor Gerald Steinberg 
of the Bar Ilan University clarifies a few misconceptions about the 
history of Jerusalem.

Professor Steinberg explains how, after the Jewish parts of Eastern 
Jerusalem were occupied by the Jordanians in 1948, "the destruction, 
desecration and systematic looting of Jewish sites continued. 
Fifty-seven ancient synagogues, libraries and centers of religious 
study were ransacked and twelve were totally and deliberately 
destroyed." (...)



Zundelsite:

Israel has bulldozed into oblivion 400 Arab villages since 1948. 
They undoubtedly contained libraries and centers of religious 
studies, churches and mosques.

Eretz Israel Weekly:

Also, when Israel and Jordan signed an armistice agreement in 1949, 
one clause of the agreement guaranteed free access to the Jewish holy 
sites in Eastern Jerusalem, mainly the Western Wall, the most holy 
place for Jews today. "This did not take place, and these clauses of 
the Armistice Agreement were never honored," Steinberg said.



Zundelsite:

How many UN resolutions has Israel broken, over and over again for 
the past 50 years? Dozens? Hundreds? And they should bellyache?

Eretz Israel Weekly:

5. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED

Minister Shimon Peres (Labor) and Likud MK Moshe Katsav were 
officially nominated as candidates for the country's next president 
yesterday. The Knesset will vote on the issue next Monday.

Peres responded to Katsav's statements that One Israel MKs will cross 
party lines and vote for him. Peres said, "If Katsav is entertaining 
the notion that One Israel's twenty-six MKs will abandon me en masse 
and vote for him, then his happiness will end on Monday," the 
Jerusalem Post said. Peres claimed that he had the support of 
sixty-three MKs, not including Shas.



Zundelsite:

Visit some of the writings of Israeli investigative journalist Barry 
Chamish to get the scoop on Peres!

Eretz Israel Weekly:

6. U.S. SELLING WEAPONS TO ARABS

The United States recently announced the sale of weapons to several 
Arab countries. ICEJ News reported that the U.S. has negotiated 
substantial arms deals with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

The Pentagon has announced the conclusion of: 1) A $900 million arms 
deal with Egypt to improve thirty-five Apache helicopters and the 
Egyptian air force's F-16 planes. 2) A $500 million deal with Saudi 
Arabia involving delivery of 500 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles.
3) A $190 million deal with Kuwait for the purchase of artillery and 
tank ammunition.



Zundelsite:

The Egyptians would be far wiser to invest these huge sums in slum 
clearance programs rather than to buy high tech toys most of their 
ill-trained pilots cannot handle in combat situations.

Eretz Israel Weekly:

The Pentagon states, according to ICEJ News, that the deals will not 
affect the balance of forces in the Middle East.

Included in the Egyptian deal is a $400 million program for the 
conversion of Apache helicopters into the new AH-64D model. The 
second part of the deal is for 311 AN/APX-113 advanced airborne 
identification systems to be installed on F-16 aircraft, enabling 
Egypt better access to the so-called friend-or-foe codes denied to 
Israel in the 1991 Gulf War.



Zundelsite:

Sure. Sure. Can cows fly?

Eretz Israel Weekly:

These arms deals come shortly after the Clinton Administration and 
the Congress exerted enormous pressure on Israel in recent weeks to 
force Jerusalem into canceling a similar AWACS plane contract with 
China, saying it endangered American forces in the Straits of Taiwan. 
The United States, however, never asked Israel if the deals with the 
Arab states would endanger Israeli forces or civilians.



Zundelsite:

This was technology most of which was illegally obtained by Israel to 
begin with, copied or transferred outright against US wishes and 
stipulations.

And ". . . the US never asked Israel"? Talk about being delusional!

Eretz Israel Weekly:

7. U.S. PROFESSOR ABOUT POLLARD AFFAIR

Angelo Codevilla, a U.S. professor who has served as a Senate staffer 
with access to classified intelligence, has accused the U.S. 
intelligence community of lying about convicted Israeli spy Jonathan 
Pollard.

The Middle East News Line reported that Codevilla said that Pollard 
was a low-level naval intelligence analyst without any access to 
sources or codes that could damage U.S. security.



Zundelsite:

Just like that - and brazen as can be! And these people actually 
wonder why some people develop a dislike for some of them?

Eretz Israel Weekly:

"What he gave out was satellite pictures. These pictures were no 
different in terms of sources from what the U.S. was still giving to 
Israel. The U.S. was still giving Israel pictures of southern and 
western Syria. Pollard was giving them pictures of eastern Syria and 
Iraq."



Zundelsite:

He also apparently gave the Israelis codes, decoding keys and names 
of US agents or contacts - as well as US contingency plans in the 
area.

Eretz Israel Weekly:

Codevilla accused former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, U.S. 
intelligence and prosecutors of lying when they assert that Pollard 
provided huge amounts of information to Israel. He said that Pollard 
only handed over seven briefcases of information to Israel.



Zundelsite:

"Only" seven briefcases? One little microfilm can hold hundreds of 
pages of info. How many microfilms or microfiches can 7 briefcases 
hold?

Eretz Israel Weekly:

Codevilla said Weinberger, a former senior executive of the Bechtel 
company, which constructed numerous factories in Iraq that later made 
chemical weapons, had long advocated a pro-Saddam policy.



Zundelsite:

Is that spin-doctoring at its most obvious - or what?

Eretz Israel Weekly:

"[Pollard] gave to Israel U.S. satellite pictures of these factories, 
together with U.S. intelligence assessments of what these factories 
were doing. These pictures and intelligence assessments contradicted 
what the U.S. government was officially telling Israel. So the 
Israelis were coming to America, and in official meetings were 
calling people like Weinberger liars, which of course these officials 
did not appreciate," Codevilla said.

(For more information on Jonathan Pollard, go to 
http://www.jonathanpollard.org)



Zundelsite:

A few paragraphs ago it was "only satellite pictures". Now it is 
suddenly "intelligence assessments" - down to the capabilities of 
individual factories.

Eretz Israel Weekly:

8. INCREASED IMMIGRATION IN 1999

Some 77,000 people immigrated to Israel last year, Ha'Arertz said. 
Quoting figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics, the newspaper 
reported that the 1999 numbers were a four year high. The total 
number of immigrants during the 1990s was 956,319, which was the 
largest number to ever arrive in one decade since the founding of the 
State of Israel in 1948.



Zundelsite:

This gives us an idea of what "alien body" is transplanted into that region.

Not one of these immigrants "returning home" under the Law of Return 
has any right to be there by any logical, legal, internationally 
accepted standards.

Eretz Israel Weekly:

In the first half of 2000, 27,600 immigrants reached the country, 
which represented an 8% decline from the same period last year. Most 
of them, 24,500, came from the former Soviet Union.



Zundelsite:

If these people can "return" to this area because a fairytale claim 
is made that 2,000 years ago they were expelled - then the Sudeten 
Germans, the Silesians, Pommeranians, East Prussians, the 
Memelländers, the Baltic Germans, the Volga Germans, the Mennonites 
driven out of the Ukraine, the Rumanian and Hungarian Germans all 
have a far more well-founded right to return to their ancestral 
homelands.

And if they can't return, they have at least the right to be 
compensated in the same generous terms extracted at gun point from 
the Germans after their defeat - either by those who expelled and 
robbed them, or by those who formulated and adopted this ethnic 
cleansing policy in Yalta, Teheran, Casablanca and especially at 
Potsdam in 1945-46.

That day will come! And many will remember!


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Thought for the Day:

"I don't want to take too much of your time, but I want to end my 
speech with a slogan that hangs over my bed in Arabic. It says, 'La 
tastaw7ishu tareeq el-7aq, min qilit es-sa'ireen fihi' and that 
translates into, 'Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people 
walking on it.'

"I think our future is going to be the future of truth, and we're 
going to walk on that path, and we're going to fill it with 
travelers."

(Fadia Rafeedie, Arab student in America)




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