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Subject: [bprlist] Real World News -- 11/08/00
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:29:55 -0500

Selected items from...

REAL WORLD NEWS 11/08/2000

Visit Real World News online at http://www.realworldnews.net

WORLD BEWILDERED BY CLIFFHANGER U.S. ELECTION
Japan's top newspaper put out a special edition, then pulled it
back. World leaders hesitated - who gets the congratulations?
The German foreign minister just shrugged his shoulders. The
cliffhanger presidential election in the United States on Tuesday
fascinated and bewildered folks around the world, where many
were waiting for word about who would take the helm in the
globe's most powerful nation.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/110800/worldreax.sml

TEAM TO PROBE MID-EAST VIOLENCE
The United States has announced the creation of an international
commission of inquiry to investigate the wave of violence that has
pitted Israeli against Palestinian since late September. Israel's
Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
agreed to the commission during a crisis summit with President
Clinton and Middle East leaders at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt last
month. Former US senator George Mitchell, who served as
mediator in North Ireland peace talks, will preside over the panel,
the White House said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_10120
00/101210 7.stm

SAUDI ARABIA OPENS BORDER WITH IRAQ
Saudi Arabia has opened its border with Iraq for the first time
since the 1991 Gulf War to facilitate exports, a newspaper
reported Tuesday. The English-language daily Arab News quoted
Abdul-Rahman al-Zamil, chairman of the Exports Development
Center, as saying the move would cut the cost of transporting
Saudi products to Iraq in half.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/1107/i_ap_1107_95.sml

BARAK: PEACE TREATY WOULD LEAD TO PALESTINIAN STATE
Israel's prime minister said Tuesday, in the clearest terms yet, that
a Mideast peace treaty would produce a "viable Palestinian state''
but he would not make concessions to the Palestinians under the
threat of violence. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Tuesday
renewed a call for the deployment of a 2,000-strong U.N.
protection force that would shield Palestinians against Israeli
troops. Arafat said he would raise the demand when he meets
with President Clinton at the White House on Thursday.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/1107/i_ap_1107_70.sml

ISRAEL WANTS TO COMPLETE WATER TALKS WITH TURKEY
Israel has decided to launch the last stage of negotiations to
purchase water from Turkey. Israeli officials said the goal is to
complete by the end of the year an agreement with Turkey for the
import of tens of millions of cubic meters of war. They said the
government has given the green light for the resumption of talks
after a delay of several months.
http://www.menewsline.com/headline4.html

ISRAEL TO U.N.: PALESTINIANS USE KIDS AS SHIELDS
United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Mary Robinson is
to begin a week-long visit to the area today, with Foreign Ministry
officials saying they will present a strong case to her about the
Palestinian's "cynical" use of children as human shields in the
recent riots. Foreign Ministry legal adviser Alan Baker said the
use of children in the violence constitutes no less than a "war
crime," and cites various international conventions to back up his
position.
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/11/08/News/News.15107.html

TESTIMONY REVEALS HOW ASSASSIN KILLED RABIN
Yitzhak Rabin's assassin arranged the bullets in his pistol to
cause maximum damage, taking into account that the prime
minister might be wearing a bulletproof vest, according to
videotaped testimony aired Tuesday on Israeli television. In the
testimony released by a court order, Yigal Amir said he shot Rabin
as the prime minister left a peace rally on Nov. 4, 1995, "to stop
the slide'' of the peace process with the Palestinians. Amir, a
nationalist, opposed handing any land to the Palestinians.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/1107/i_ap_1107_97.sml

WORLD'S 'LARGEST ROBBERY' FOILED AT BRITAIN'S DOME
British police foiled an elaborate plot to steal hundreds of millions
of pounds worth of diamonds from a display at London's
Millennium Dome Tuesday in what they said would have been the
world's biggest robbery. Scotland Yard police headquarters said
11 people had been arrested following the attempted heist --
which would have netted some 350 million pounds ($500 million) --
 in a police operation that took months to plan.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001107/ts/crime_britain_dc_4.
html

AT LEAST 12 KILLED AS GALES BATTER EUROPE
At least 12 people were killed in continental Europe yesterday as
the second storm front in a week swept in from the Atlantic
bringing vicious winds and torrential rain and leaving floods and
mudslides in its wake. In France, mudslides caused by heavy rain
claimed two lives. A 52-year-old man was killed in Nice, southern
France, and a mechanic was found dead in the town of Gap,
south-west France. In Montenegro, a family of six and a couple
were killed in Montenegro when heavy rains dislodged rocks
along a canyon road and brought them crashing down on their
vehicles.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2000/1107/wor9.htm

AIDS 'KILLS 50%' IN BOTSWANA
President Festus Mogae says Botswana must accept that at least
half the natural deaths in the country are caused by Aids-related
diseases. According to UNAids, the United Nations Aids
programme, more than one in three adults is infected with the HIV
virus. In his state of the nation address Mr Mogae said he hoped
more people would feel able to take HIV tests and destigmatise
the disease by feeling able to talk about it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1011000/10
11639.stm

CHINA IMPLANTS SPIDER GENES INTO SILKWORMS
The centuries-old silk industry faces a revolution after Chinese
genetic engineers said yesterday that they had successfully
implanted spider genes into silkworms. Mass-produced spider-
strength silk could be used in bullet-proof jackets and parachutes
as well as for ordinary clothes, scientists in Shanghai said. Dr Lu
Changde, of the Chinese Academy of Science's Shanghai Institute
for Biochemistry, said his team had succeeded in producing silk
containing spider genes after four years' work, though the
resulting silk still required fine tuning.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001136033854542&rtmo=fsrao
fws&atmo=kkkk kkku&pg=/et/00/11/8/wsilk08.html

SPACE OBJECT PROBABLY WON'T HIT THE PLANET
The sky isn't falling! Last week, scientists said a mysterious
space object had a good chance of striking the Earth. Now, in a
case of astronomic Chicken Little, they've taken back their
warnings and say there is very little threat. "This object is much
more interesting than threatening," said Donald Yeomans,
manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program. The scientists
had originally said ther was a one-in-500 chance of the object,
designated 2000 SG344, ramming into our planet in 2030.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/110700/neo.sml

RESEARCHERS TO TEST DNA OF KING TUT
Researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo said Tuesday that
they will test the DNA of Egypt's legendary King Tutankhamen to
determine the country's royal lineage and the cause of his death.
The archaeologists said they will start the project in December in
conjunction with doctors and scientists at Nagoya University and
researchers from the Egyptian government and a university in
Cairo. The team, which will be led by professor Sakuji Yoshimura
of Waseda University, hopes to identify the father of the boy king,
who the researchers say died about 3,300 years ago at the age
18. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-
bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20001108a3.htm

COPS: SON ATTACKED FOR SKIPPING SUNDAY SCHOOL
Outraged that her 7-year-old son refused to go to Sunday school,
a single mother allegedly tried to burn the boy to death in a
bedroom, police said. Karla Dee Griggs, 31, is being held without
bail in the John E. Polk Correctional Facility. She is charged with
attempted murder and child abuse, said Steven Olsen, a
spokesman for the Seminole County Sheriff's Office. Griggs told
police that the boy had refused to attend religious classes that
day at a local church, so in anger she dragged him to a bedroom
and set fire to a mattress, expecting the flames to kill her and the
boy, Olsen said.
http://www.apbnews.com/NEWSCENTER/BREAKINGNEWS/2000/1
1/07/fire1107_01.ht ml?s=syn.daily_fire1107

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Subject: [bprlist] "Christian-based movie mixes sci-fi, right-wing paranoia"
From: <owner-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:48:21 -0500

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/001106/4817499.html

Monday 6 November 2000

The Antichrist, the UN and you
Christian-based movie mixes sci-fi, right-wing paranoia
Jay Stone
The Ottawa Citizen; with files from Citizen News Services
 
 
You don't have to be a Christian to feel left out by Left Behind.

The Christian-based adventure film, which came out on video last
week in its peculiar march toward what its producers hope is
movie history, is a bizarre combination of sci-fi mystery and
biblical fundamentalism that leans on a kind of right-wing political
paranoia to make its point.

Based on a best-selling book, the movie retells the Book of
Revelation story of how true believers will be taken to heaven in
advance of seven years of torment on earth at the hands of the
Antichrist. The film translates into a strange worldwide
phenomenon in which people disappear right out of their clothes,
part of a plot that will eventually involve our old friends, the
international financiers, who are being used as tools as part of a
plot to operate the world out of the United Nations.

Such UN concepts as ending world hunger and banning nuclear
weapons seem to be part of the plot -- the Antichrist's
sweeteners, as it were -- and even Mideast peace is seen as an
ominous trend toward fulfilling the various Biblical prophecies.
Putting the UN at the centre of a worldwide conspiracy is an idea
usually associated with the far right wing of American politics, the
fringe where "peacekeeping forces" are synonymous with
"Communist-inspired gun control."

Left Behind stars Kirk Cameron, the former TV heartthrob, as
Buck Williams, a TV reporter for the "GNN" network who
investigates the sudden disappearance of people from earth
("This is insane. People don't just disappear."). Broad-shouldered
actor and former model Brad Johnson plays Rayford Steele, an
airline pilot who becomes involved when a good portion of his
passenger list vanishes from their seats, leaving only their
clothes. Rayford is unhappily married to a woman whom he
considers too religious; when he gets home to find she is among
those who have gone, his investigations lead him to a new
appreciation for the Bible and its teachings.

"The things your mom believed in," he says to his teenage
daughter. "The things she talked about. What if they were true?"

The message of faith is slipped into Left Behind, subtly at first,
then with full, sunlit choral accompaniment. The film was made, by
the Canadian company Cloud Ten, as an alternative to Hollywood
fare, and it is meant to appeal to Christian audiences who are
seeking a film that reflects their beliefs.

However, it is unlikely to convert many non-believers, especially
with its undercurrent of bizarre politics. An Israeli scientist has
come up with a way to feed the whole world, an invention that is
taken over by the financiers using their pull at the UN, where they
have installed a puppet Secretary General who is earning public
goodwill with his talk about feeding hungry mouths. This scheme,
which sounds fine, is really a way to fulfil an apparent biblical
prophecy about the rapture -- that is, the elevation of pure souls
into heaven -- and the subsequent evil left behind in 10 kingdoms.
A plan to raise the Temple of Solomon and thus bring harmony
among Jew and Arab is also part of the design: The seven years
of peace promised in this scheme are actually the seven years of
war prophesied under the Antichrist's rule.

If you can get past all that, the $17.4-million film has the look of a
competent made-for-TV movie. There are a few special effects at
the beginning, but most of the "action" involves people talking to
each other in rooms. As theme-based sci-fi, it's certainly a better
movie than Battlefield Earth, the big-budget John Travolta movie
based on a novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Left Behind is to open in theatres on Feb. 2, after the video has
whetted the appetites of viewers. It's a reverse of the usual
process, in which movies go from theatre first to video later. As
part of its distribution plan, Cloud Ten asks churches across North
America to sponsor screenings in their town. The company
wants the movie to be No. 1 at the box office on the week it
opens.

However, the release strategy is causing concern with Tim
LeHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, authors of the apocalyptic thriller.
They are both suing Namesake Entertainment, Cloud Ten's
partner. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, says Namesake
promised to spend more than $40 million on the movie and that it
would be released in theatres in major markets by Jan. 1, 2000.
Furthermore, it says LeHaye was promised a "meaningful
participation" in creative decisions.

Bobby Neutz, a Namesake owner, told the Dallas Morning News
that the company has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit. He said
a $40-million figure was not mentioned and that the contract gave
the company three years to make it.

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Subject: [bprlist] Infobeat News items (11/7/00)
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:07:14 -0500

*** Court: Invoking God was prejudicial

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals panel overturned a death
sentence Monday, ruling the prosecutor went too far in telling the
jury that the death penalty was sanctioned by God. The 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals said the prosecutor violated defendant
Alfred Sandoval's right to a fair trial during the penalty phase.
Sandoval was convicted in the 1984 slayings of four gang members in
Los Angeles and was sentenced to death. Among other things, the
prosecutor told jurors: "You are not playing God. You are doing what
God says." The appeals court said that closing arguments are to
explain to the jury the evidence presented at trial. Invoking God was
prejudicial, the court said. Prosecutors can seek a new penalty phase
in the case. If they do not, Monday's decision commutes Sandoval's
death sentence to life without parole.

*** Gambling convictions overturned

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court overturned a Louisiana lawyer and
gambling entrepreneur's fraud conviction for lying when he applied
for a state license, saying the state did not prove it was harmed in
the process. In the unanimous decision Tuesday, the justices agreed
with New Orleans lawyer Carl W. Cleveland that the federal mail-fraud
law does not apply to state licenses that have not yet been issued.
The license application and the application fee that went along with
it did not give Louisiana property rights that the state could then
claim had been violated, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the
court. The state only has a real monetary interest in the license
once it is granted and a business begins to generate money, she said.

*** Jury asked to trust gangs over L.A. cops

LOS ANGELES (AP) - In closing statements of a trial of four police
officers accused of framing suspects, a prosecutor on Monday urged
jurors to believe the testimony of gang members and fear corrupt
police officers more than the city's gangs. Deputy District Attorney
Laura Laesecke spent two hours summing up her case and said she would
have more to say Tuesday. Defense attorneys for the four policemen
will then deliver their arguments for acquittal before the case is
submitted to the jury Tuesday or Wednesday. The prosecution began its
closing arguments without calling disgraced former officer Rafael
Perez to testify against Sgts. Edward Ortiz and Brian Liddy and
Officers Michael Buchanan and Paul Harper. Perez, a member of the Los
Angeles Police Department's Rampart station anti-gang unit, touched
off the corruption scandal when he began talking about his fellow
officers to investigators in exchange for lenient punishment after he
was caught stealing seized cocaine.

*** Court to hear term limits dispute

WASHINGTON (AP) - A day before elections, the Supreme Court heard a
dispute Monday over a ballot issue that has fallen out of fashion in
many states - term limits. The court is expected to decide by summer
whether states can require congressional candidates to actively
support term restrictions or be branded as opponents of the cause on
state-issued election ballots. "This has been called a 'Scarlet
Letter' label," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg observed Monday. She and
several other justices asked plainly skeptical questions of a lawyer
for Missouri, which approved the ballot-label plan in 1996.
Supporters say labeling a candidate as for or against term limits
will help voters by providing more information. Opponents say the
labels are an unconstitutional limit on candidates' free speech and
an improper use of the ballot to promote an idea backed by the state
government. The lawyer for Missouri, James R. McAdams, later said
that labels might sway some voters, but insisted they still pass
constitutional muster. Also, he said, ballot labels "could combat,
rather effectively, voter disillusionment with the system."

*** Court lifts ban on U.S. Chamber ads

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Just hours after a U.S. Supreme Court Justice
lifted a ban on U.S. Chamber of Commerce television ads supporting
certain Mississippi judicial candidates, a state judge imposed a new
temporary restraining order to take the ads off the air, yet again.
State District Court Judge William Singletary issued the latest
restraining order late Monday, ruling that the ads in support of
certain Mississippi Supreme Court candidates by the U.S. Chamber
violate state election laws. Earlier in the day, U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Antonin Scalia had lifted the temporary restraining order
that was won on Friday by candidates in three state Supreme Court
races. The U.S. Chamber's ads are critical of some judges but support
others as candidates considered pro-business and aligned with its
position on legal reforms. The organization is the nation's chief
business lobby.

*** Rabin's assassin regrets waiting

JERUSALEM (AP) - The assassin of Israeli peace pioneer Yitzhak Rabin
said Monday he has only one regret - that he didn't kill the prime
minister sooner. Appearing in court five years after he gunned Rabin
down at a peace rally, a relaxed and smiling Yigal Amir chatted with
reporters before a hearing about his prison conditions. Handcuffed
and wearing a brown prison services jacket in the Beer Sheba
courtroom, not far from the prison where he is held in isolation,
Amir was asked if he has any regrets. "Yes," he replied evenly, "why
didn't I do it earlier?" Amir assassinated Rabin on Nov. 4, 1995
after a rally in Tel Aviv. As Rabin was walking toward his car
accompanied by security agents, Amir approached him from the back and
shot him twice, fatally wounding him. Amir, now 30, was sentenced to
life in prison. A nationalist, he said he shot Rabin to stop the
prime minister's peacemaking efforts with the Palestinians. Rabin,
along with his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, and Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat, won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for achieving their
first interim peace accord.

*** China to combat rise in STDs

BEIJING (AP) - Chinese officials, trying to combat a surge in
sexually transmitted diseases, will crack down on quack doctors and
set up a new center to oversee treatment, a state-run newspaper said
Monday. Sexually transmitted diseases were virtually eliminated in
China in the 1960s and '70s, but they have made a comeback: More than
8 million people are estimated to be infected, with infections
increasing at almost 40% a year, the China Daily reported. Posters
advertising STD treatments at small, often unregistered private
clinics are plastered on walls and lamp posts throughout China.
Despite the clinics' primitive facilities, some sufferers prefer the
anonymity they offer to the stigma of treatment at state hospitals
and clinics, where there is a greater chance of being recognized.
Most hospitals have no special departments for sexually transmitted
diseases and there is a serious shortage of qualified doctors to
treat such diseases, the China Daily said.

*** Saudis open border with Iraq

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia has opened its border with
Iraq for the first time since the 1991 Gulf War to facilitate
exports, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The English-language daily
Arab News quoted Abdul-Rahman al-Zamil, chairman of the Exports
Development Center, as saying the move would cut the cost of
transporting Saudi products to Iraq in half. Saudi companies have
signed contracts worth nearly $600 under an exception to U.N.
sanctions that allows Iraq to export oil to pay for food, medicine
and humanitarian supplies, the paper said. The sanctions were imposed
on Iraq to punish it for invading Kuwait in 1990.

*** Vatican: Pope to visit Ukraine

VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican dismissed rumors that Pope John Paul
II might resign because of ill health with the announcement that the
pontiff will visit Ukraine in June. A visit to the mainly Eastern
Orthodox country has been in the planning stage for some time. There
have been bitter clashes between Orthodox believers and Catholics in
Ukraine over churches seized during the Soviet period. The Vatican
confirmed the trip Monday, after the German newspaper Bild reported
that John Paul would resign at Christmas because of poor health and
retire to a monastery in his native Poland. Speculation has been
mounting that the 80-year-old pope, who suffers from Parkinson's
disease, was considering resigning. Despite his frail health, John
Paul has maintained a strenuous schedule throughout the church's Holy
Year, which ends Jan. 5. Ukraine's Eastern rite Catholics - who
celebrate an Orthodox-style liturgy but remain loyal to the pope -
are a religious minority.

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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Leading Egyptian Newspaper raises Blood Libel
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:07:14 -0500

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Subject: Leading Egyptian Newspaper raises Blood Libel

Dear MEMRI Subscribers,

Please accept our apologies if you have recieved more than on copy of this
Dispatch. There was a problem (human error) with our e-mail distribution
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Special Dispatch - Egypt
November 6, 2000
No. 150

Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI)
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Leading Egyptian Newspaper raises Blood Libel

The Blood Libel the claim that Jews use the blood of Christians to make th e
Matzah (unleavened bread) eaten at Passover is an ancient accusation
against the Jewish people. In modern times, this claim has surfaced in the
context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In 1984, long-time Syrian Defense
Minster and Ba'athist leader, Field Marshal Mustafa Tlass, wrote a book
entitled 'The Matzah of Zion' about the 1840 Damascus Blood Libel which he
described as an historical event that was researched and verified by severa l
European Universities. More recently, in November 1999, Al-Usbu' Al-Adabi,
a weekly of the Syrian Arab Writers Association, published an article
mentioning the 1840 Damascus Blood Libel.

With the continuing Israeli-Palestinian violence, these accusations are
resurfacing. In a television debate on the Qatari based Arabic cable news
channel Al-Jazeera, the Palestinian Liberation Army Mufti, Sheikh Colonel
Nader Al-Tamimi, claimed that there can be no peace with the Jews because
they use and suck the blood of Arabs on the holidays of Passover and Purim.
In this appearance, Al-Tamimi also called for the overthrow of Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak - prompting the Egyptian government to call for a
boycott of Al-Jazeera and close its offices in Egypt.

However, Egypt's government press is in the agreement with Sheikh Al-Tamimi
about the Jewish use of Arab blood for religious worship. The government
daily Al-Ahram - the leading paper in Egypt - published a full-page article
by columnist 'Adel Hamooda entitled, "A Jewish Matzah made from Arab Blood. "
Following are excerpts from this article:

The Murder of Father Toma

"Every time I see the children of the stones in occupied Palestine as they
spring like blood from the arteries I remember my grandfather who used to
gather all the neighborhood children in his home in Alexandria to give them
candy and tell them the tale of the Jew who slaughtered a boy and made
Passover Matzah from his blood. Then, drunk with lust and barbarity, they
devoured it."

"I thought that my grandfather's story was a fairy tale like the story abou t
the wicked witch who turned children into frogs. But when I matured and
read=85 I found out that the story of the Jewish blood Matzah is true [and ]
that all its details are recorded in the Shar'i [Islamic Religious] Courts
in Damascus, Aleppo and Hama in 1840. The French Orientalist Charles
Laurand published these details in a book called The Murder of Father Toma
and his Servant Ibrahim Amara. The book was translated to Arabic by Dr.
Youssef Nasrallah and published in Cairo in 1898."

"On February 7, 1840 the French Consul-General in Damascus complained to th e
Ottoman Governor that two days earlier Father Toma went to the Jewish
Quarter=85 When his servant Ibrahim Amara discovered that Father Toma [was
missing]=85 he went to look for him in the Jewish Quarter and also did not
return=85. The police found one of Father Toma's leaflets in the shop of
Suleiman, an Israeli barber who lived near the synagogue. =85[Suleiman,]
after being whipped, admitted that Father Toma was in the Jewish Quarter
with a group of Rabbis including Moshe Behor Yehuda, Moshe Abu Al-Afia,
Yosef Laniado, David Harari, and his two brothers Isaac and Aaron. Then he
admitted that all of them went to David Harari's home. The barber Suleiman
confessed that he was invited a half-hour after sunset to Harari's home and
was asked to slaughter the handcuffed Father Toma. He said he could not do
it, but the men promised him gold and silver coins. He still did not agree
and they told him that whoever does it pleases God and will enter Paradise
and will play with the female of the whale whose meat God promised that
righteous Jews will eat on the day of resurrection."

"=85They threw Father Toma on the ground, put his neck on a basin, and
slaughtered him. They were very careful to make sure that not a single dro p
was spilled. Then they moved him to another room, burned his clothes, and
cut his body to pieces, which they put into a sack and threw to the sewage
near the Jewish Quarter."

Interrogation Excerpts

The Barber Sulieman's Interrogation
"Question: Did they pay you?
Answer: They promised to pay me if I keep silent. If I reveal it, they wil l
blame me for the murder. They promised the servant who witnessed the murde r
that they would arrange a wife for him."
"Question: At what time did the murder occur?
Answer: I think it occurred at dinner or a little after... The priest was
held above the basin for 30-45 minutes until all of his blood poured into i t."
"Question: Did blood dribble from the bag?
Answer: No they kept every drop the way they guard gold or the Talmud."
"Question: What for?
Answer: They use it to make Matzahs."

Aaron Hariri's Interrogation

"Question: How did you slaughter him?
Answer: We brought him into David's home and with everyone's consent we
killed him to take his blood. After we bottled the blood we sent it to
Rabbi Moshe Abu Al-Afia. We did it from the conviction that blood is an
essential component in the implementation of a religious edict."
"Question: How is blood used in your religion?
Answer: It is used to make Matzah."
"Question: Is the blood distributed to all the Jews?
Answer: No there is no need for it, the blood is kept with the Chief Rabbi. "

Rabbi Moshe Abu Al-Afia's Interrogation

"Question: How is the blood used? Is it put in the Matzah, is it given to
the whole Jewish people?
Answer: The blood is put into Matzah, which is not given to everyone, only
to the most Orthodox Jews. They send flour to the Chief Rabbi Yakov Antebi
who kneads the dough himself and puts the blood into it secretly without
anyone knowing it. He sends Matzah to whoever sends him flour."
"Question: Did you ask the Rabbi if he sends the blood to Rabbis in other
countries or is it for Syrian Jewish residents only?
Answer: He told me he is obliged to send blood to the Jews of Baghdad."
"Question: Was the intention to kill a specific priest or any Christian?
Answer: They wanted the blood of any Christian, but they took Father Toma
because he fell into their hands accidentally."

Talmud Permits Crimes Against non-Jews

"After Rabbi Moshe Abu Al-Afia finished his testimony he asked to convert t o
Islam, chose the name Muhammad Efendi and wrote, with his own hand, a lette r
to the Governor explaining everything that happened. He mentioned that the
use of blood for Jewish Matzahs is found in an ancient holy book [the Arabi c
name for the book is unclear] which no one renounces."

"The amazing thing is that none of the Rabbis who committed this terrible
crime repented or felt that they committed a crime. The explanation for
this is found in the Talmud=85 According to the Talmud, Jewish souls are m ore
precious to God than other souls, because the souls of non-Jews are devilis h
and resemble animal souls. They believe the non-Jews are like dogs,
donkeys, and bulls and that their homes are mangers and that they are
profane souls whose lives are worthless which is why it is permitted to
murder, slaughter, cheat, deceive, steal from, and beat them, rape their
wives and mock them."

"These [Jewish] convictions justify in their eyes, the murder of Father Tom a
and his servant Ibrahim Amara. This also explains what we see on TV screen s
where Israeli occupation armies kill children mercilessly while chewing gum
as if they are on a trip or at a ball=85 not as if they kill human beings,
rather as if they were killing stray animals in accordance with the
religious law set forth in the Talmud=85"

Israelis Using the Blood of Palestinian Children

"The bestial drive to knead Passover Matzahs with the blood of non-Jews is
[confirmed] in the records of the Palestinian police where there are many
recorded cases of the bodies Arab children who had disappeared being found
torn to pieces without a single drop of blood. The most reasonable
explanation is that the blood was taken to be kneaded into the dough of
extremist Jews to be used in Matzahs to be devoured during Passover."

"If what is written in the Talmud is implemented then every devout Jew who
keeps the Lord's edicts is forbidden to live in the cities that are holy fo r
the Jews [Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, Tiberius] unless he eats one of the
blood Matzahs. Otherwise he will be like the idol worshippers, the Muslims
and the Christians=85 whose food Jews may not eat. Whose good deeds Jews m ay
not mention, whose daughters they may not marry, and in whose tombstones
they may not touch even though they are allowed to drink from their blood =85"
(3)

Endnotes:

(1) See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 66, "Anti-Semitism in the Syrian Media,"
November 27, 1999.
(2) Al-Jazeera (Qatari), October 24 2000.
(3) Al-Ahram (Egyptian government), October 28, 2000.

The Middle East Media and Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent,
non-profit organization providing translations of the Arab media and origin al
analysis and research on developments in the Middle East. Copies of articl es
and documents cited, as well as background information, are available upon
request.

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From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:07:14 -0500

CROSSING A 1000-YEAR-OLD BARRIER
Pope's Trip to Ukraine Will Take Him Into Heart of Orthodoxy

ROME, NOV. 7, 2000 (ZENIT.org).- When John Paul II goes to Ukraine next
June, he will have climbed over a 10-century-old wall.

By setting foot on Ukrainian soil, he will penetrate an ethnic-cultural
area that Russians regard as flesh of their own flesh.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in "The Russian Question at the End of the 20th
Century (1994) wrote: "The Russian spirit and culture have existed for
centuries, and those who are faithful to this heritage with their soul,
conscience ... those are Russians." In "How To Reconstruct Our Russia?"
(1990), he made clear who the "faithful" were: Russia, Ukraine and
Byelorussia, one people "divided into three branches only by the unhappy
threat of the Mongol invasion and Polish colonization."

The tribes of those lands that accepted Christianity found a precious
element of cultural cohesion in Orthodoxy. Their Cyrillic alphabet, for
instance, was created by the missionaries Cyril and Methodius to adapt
Scripture to the phonemes of the Slavic tongues. In time it became the
instrument of transmission of the oral culture to the written, the most
important common patrimony of these peoples.

Following the model of Byzantium and the close relation between the Church
and empire, they also found in religion a model of state structure and the first
signs of national identity.

The great trauma came later, with the schism of 1054, which was the end of
a process of distancing that began in the seventh century, and was more
cultural than theological.

At the theological level, the spark that ignited the dispute on the Trinity was
the famous "filioque" question formulated in the Creed. In 1054 Pope Leo IX
promulgated the bull of excommunication of Patriarch Michael Cerularius of
Constantinople. The Patriarch, in turn, excommunicated the Roman Church.

The subsequent pressure exercised on Orthodox countries by the Turks
helped strengthen the Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow, which led the
greatest number of Orthodox faithful.

John Paul II's Ukraine trip will take him to a world that for 1,000 years
has looked to Moscow and whose identity is firmly rooted in Orthodoxy. The
numbers reveal this: the Russian, Ukrainian and Byelorussian faithful together
add up to 72% of all the Orthodox in the world. For a Roman Pontiff to enter
this world will be a historic event. ZE00110709

---------------------

UKRAINE TRIP COULD OPEN A PATH TO MOSCOW
Archbishop Kasper Comments on Holy Father's 2001 Journey

ROME, NOV. 7, 2000 (ZENIT.org).- The Pope's trip to Ukraine next June
could open the way for an eventual visit to Moscow, a Vatican official said
today.

Archbishop Walter Kasper, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting
Christian Unity, described the pilgrimage, however, as "very delicate." The
Vatican announced the papal trip Monday.

In an interview with the Italian newspaper Avvenire, Archbishop Kasper
said, "There is the problem of the Greek Catholics in Ukraine, who were
suppressed by Stalin, and who since 1946 have endured many sufferings.

"Almost all their bishops were killed. After regaining their liberty, the
Greek-Latin Church has been reborn. Later there were tensions with the
Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, which, fortunately, were
attenuated afterward."

Archbishop Kasper explained that the Orthodox Church in Ukraine has
divided in the last decade into "three obediences," only one of which has
remained faithful to the Patriarchate of Moscow.

"Therefore, the Pope's trip is important from the ecumenical point of
view," Archbishop Kasper said. "I hope it will contribute to improve
relations with the Russian Orthodox Church.

"However, the trip is important for the Ukrainian nation itself, which,
after the time of the Soviet Union, now lives a moment of great pride. A
people that have suffered so much see in John Paul II's visit a sign of
hope for their own future."

He added that he hoped "the Pope's visit to Ukraine might represent a step
toward Moscow. The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest Orthodox
Church and the Holy Father has a great desire to meet the Patriarch of
Moscow. A prior step might be, precisely, the solution of tensions in
Ukraine. We hope to be able to take this step forward." ZE00110703

----------------------

IRANIANS HAIL POPE'S ROLE IN INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
Officials Meet in Their Embassy at Vatican

ROME, NOV. 7, 2000 (ZENIT.org).- While religious discrimination continues
in their country, Iranian officials meeting in Rome underlined the positive role
that John Paul II is playing in promoting dialogue among all faiths.

Iranian deputies came to Rome for last weekend's Jubilee of governors and
legislators. On Friday they met in their nation's embassy at the Vatican
along with representatives of religious minorities who participate in the
Islamic Consultative Assembly.

Ahmad Bourghani, president of the Parliamentary Friendship Group between
Italy and Iran, was among the Iranian delegates. He emphasized that the
politicians' Jubilee was a privileged occasion to promote mutual
understanding between Christians and Muslims.

Non-Muslims comprise only 210,000 of Iran's 60 million people. According to
the Iranian Constitution, five of the 290 parliamentary seats belong to
religious minorities.

Christians, who number slightly more than 100,000, have the right to three
seats (one for Syrian and Chaldean rite Christians, and two for Armenian
Christians). Jews, the second minority, have one deputy, while Zoroastrians,
who number about 10,000, have one seat.

However, the "Report 2000 on Religious Liberty," published by Aid to the
Church in Need, states that apostasy from Islam is punishable by death in
the country, both for the one who causes it as well as the one who abandons
this religion.

The same report reveals that Christians are leaving the country "because
they can no longer open restaurants, small kiosks, be hairdressers or
dentists. In case of an accident, the life of a non-Muslim is worth far less
than that of a Muslim; the monetary sanction for running someone over is
more than 100 times less."

Since 1991 no Jewish periodical has been allowed to publish. The situation of
Jewish believers worsens because of their solidarity ties with their
co-religionists in Israel, which the regime's propaganda presents as "little
Satan," the report explains.

According to Human Rights Frontiers, followers of the Bahai religion were
arrested last January and February and condemned to death.
ZE00110702

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JERUSALEM'S SPIRITUAL PATRIMONY IS FOR ALL, VATICAN SAYS
Official Statement of Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue

VATICAN CITY, NOV. 7, 2000 (ZENIT.org).- A Vatican agency issued a
statement today reminding Israelis and Palestinians that Jerusalem's
spiritual patrimony belongs to the whole of humanity.

The statement by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, signed by
its president, Cardinal Francis Arinze, refers to "the importance of the Holy
City of Jerusalem for Jews, Christians and Muslims."

The Mideast has been gripped by confrontations between Israelis and
Palestinians, ignited by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon's entrance in
the esplanade of the Jerusalem mosques.

The Vatican message also expresses solidarity "with all who have lost
members of their families, and with all those who continue to suffer."

"We therefore appeal to the Jewish and Palestinian people to forgo violence
and to take up once again that dialogue, which is the only way to true
peace," the statement says. It concludes by saying that "religious leaders
must be conscious of their responsibility in this matter." ZE00110711

-----------------------

ARCHBISHOP AND GORBACHEV REMEMBER "HOLY MAYOR"
Both Praise Giorgio La Pira of Florence

ROME, NOV. 7, 2000 (ZENIT.org).- A one-time mayor of Florence, being
considered for beatification, still brings together admirers from different
worlds.

On Sunday, Archbishop François Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, president of the
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and Mikhail Gorbachev, former
Soviet leader, remembered the 23rd anniversary of the death of Giorgio La
Pira, former mayor of Florence.

The meeting, in the "Auxilium" Pontifical Faculty of Rome, came on the
same day that John Paul II celebrated the Jubilee of politicians with 12,000
governors and legislators from all over the world. Gorbachev also joined in
that event as a pilgrim.

During the celebration in remembrance of the "saintly mayor," Vietnamese
Archbishop Van Thuan said that he met La Pira in Rome in 1956 and that he
carries in his heart the "professor's" testimony of eucharistic devotion.

"This testimony was a support for me during my 13 years in prison, as the
Eucharist was the only source of strength for me to continue," the
archbishop recalled. "On the days I was discouraged, I thought of La Pira
and his testimony."

Gorbachev said that La Pira's example is very applicable today, for the
mayor knew how to combine the highest levels of ethics with political
competence. Yet, one cannot understand La Pira's prophetic intuitions
without keeping in mind his extraordinary Christian faith, Gorbachev
explained.

La Pira (1904-1977) was a jurist, politician and Christian Democratic deputy
in the assembly that wrote the present Italian Constitution following World
War II. Later he was elected mayor of Florence for 10 years (1950-56 and
1960-64).

A member of the Dominican Third Order, La Pira conceived of politics as the
privileged obligation for carrying out works of evangelical charity.

---------------

VATICAN STATEMENT AT U.N. ON PLIGHT OF REFUGEES
Archbishop Martino's Address Nov. 6 in New York

NEW YORK, NOV. 7, 2000 (ZENIT.org).- Here is the text of the statement
Monday by Archbishop Renato R. Martino, permanent observer of the Holy
See to the United Nations, before the Third Committee of the 55th Session of
the General Assembly on the "Report of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees," on questions relating to refugees, returnees
and displaced persons and humanitarian questions.

Madam Chairperson: The Holy See welcomes this opportunity to take part in
the discussion of issues relating to refugees, returnees, displaced persons
and humanitarian questions and especially the Report of the High
Commissioner.

My Delegation wishes to thank the High Commissioner for that Report. As
usual, it provides a wealth of information which will be helpful to the work of
the Catholic Church through its various relief agencies. In this light, Madame
Chairperson, you will find the Jubilee Charter of Rights of Displaced Persons,
which was issued at the Vatican this past June, and is annexed to the text
of this intervention.

>From the very beginning, the work of the United Nations regarding refugees
and displaced persons has been marked by steady success and must be
applauded. People returning to their homes and homeland, being settled and
reintegrated are the commendable work of the High Commissioner.

Unfortunately, the work is not yet completed as there continue to be
situations where people are forced from their homes. This remains one of the
great tragedies of our time.

According to the Report, the number of persons of concern to the High
Commissioner increased slightly during 1999 and many of these are victims
of conflict.

The Report states that the "population of concern" increased by about eight
hundred thousand persons to 22.3 million and that 11.6 million of these are
refugees and 4.08 million are internally displaced.

Almost half, and in some places up to seventy per cent of these refugees,
are children who become refugees at the rate of five thousand per day. Some
of them have lived their entire life in a refugee camp. These are the most
vulnerable of the vulnerable and need special protection in their right to life,
security, education, health care, guidance and supervision, identity, the love
of a family and the hope for a future.

The Report also shows us that poorer countries have borne the heaviest
burden of receiving refugees. In many countries, the quality of protection and
accommodation has dramatically declined.

These countries need the solidarity of the international community,
particularly of the wealthier nations, who accept only a small part of this
burden. Without concrete signs of support, the humanitarian crises of today
will surely continue into the future.

In discussing the role of the High Commissioner, the Report points out the
fact that the protection of the fundamental rights of all people is the key to
changing the situation of refugees and displaced persons. In this light, the
Holy See continues to call for a peaceful solution of conflicts and the
recognition and respect of human dignity. The Holy See is also convinced
that the protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms must never
be conditioned by economic and political interests.

In the spirit of that recognition, the Holy See encourages the development of
a clearer system of responsibility for internally displaced persons and
welcomes the work of the upcoming World Conference against Racism,
Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Hopefully that
Conference will bring a better awareness that "... different cultures are but
different ways of facing the question of the meaning of personal existence"
(Pope John Paul II, Address to the General Assembly, 5 October 1995) and
that race, culture, religion, language or ethnic origin must never be used to
force people from their homes and homeland.

The number of people seeking refuge from war or persecution across borders
or within their own countries is staggering and assisting these victims is
increasingly complex and challenging. At a time when the movement and
insecurity of uprooted peoples is increasing globally, we also witness an
erosion of the international refugee protection regime and the erection of new
barriers to asylum.

Protection and security must be seen as the most important role of the
Office of the High Commissioner, especially at a time when there are other
international and local agencies that can provide necessary humanitarian
assistance and depend upon the umbrella of protection that only the United
Nations can provide.

Finally, the Holy See welcomes the special attention that was given to family
protection issues and the important role that the family plays in ensuring
protection and well-being of its members. It is no surprise to my Delegation
to read in paragraph 21 of the Report that "... experience has shown that the
family unit has a better chance of reintegrating in their home or integrating in
a new country than do individual refugees".

The Holy See will continue to support the work of the Office of the High
Commissioner for Refugees and will also continue to pray that there will soon
be a time in this new Millennium when we will read that the Report regarding
refugees and displaced persons has nothing to announce but good news.

Thank you, Madame Chairperson
ZE00110722

ZENIT, November 7, 2000 - DAILY DISPATCH - The World Seen From Rome
The two priorities of his political action were the struggle against
unemployment and the promotion of peace. In this regard he cultivated good
relations with political leaders of both Western and the Eastern communist
blocs. ZE00110705

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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:07:14 -0500

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Subject: [bprlist] Much Ado about 2000 SG344
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:07:15 -0500

NASA Science News for November 7, 2000

Later this century a relic from NASA's earliest space exploration efforts might
return to Earth, if current estimates are confirmed. The near-Earth object,
which follows an orbit almost identical to our planet's, looks like an asteroid
but may be an Apollo-era rocket booster.

FULL STORY at

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Subject: [bprlist] Cabinet appoints judicial commission of inquiry
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:07:15 -0500

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Subject: [imra-l] CABINET APPOINTS JUDICIAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY
Date sent: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:52:04 +0200

CABINET APPOINTS JUDICIAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)
Wednesday, November 08, 2000

[IMRA note: Political observers fear that this incident provides further
evidence that PM Barak's "planning horizon" can be measured in hours rather
than months or years. Rather than appoint a state commission of inquiry
from the outset - or at least the moment it became clear that the Israeli
Arab community would be satisfied with nothing less than such a commission -
Barak appointed a lesser investigative commission and sat back as the
Israeli Arab community repeated with an ever growing voice that only a state
commission would suffice. Just this week Barak offered to give the
investigating group some authority similar to that of a state commission but
without it being a state commission. As a result, rather than showing the
Israeli Arabs that he was sensitive to their needs by acting promptly,
Barak only showed that he ultimately bows to pressure.]

At the initiative of Prime Minister Ehud Barak, the Cabinet today
(Wednesday), 8.11.2000, decided to appoint a state commission of inquiry
- under the 1968 Commission of Inquiry Act - to investigate the clashes
between the security forces and Israeli Jewish and Arab citizens,
including those in which Israeli Jewish and Arab citizens were injured
and/or killed. The commission will be asked to inquire into the chain
of events, including the conduct of those who engaged in inciting,
organizing and participating in events in all sectors, and the actions
of the security forces. Supreme Court President Aharon Barak will be
notified of the Cabinet's decision today so that he may begin the
process of appointing the commission's members.

Prime Minister Barak said that the decision was taken following
consultations with retired Judge Shalom Brenner, who had been appointed
by the government two weeks ago to head a committee of inquiry. Judge
Brenner recommended that the committee terminate its work and that a
state commission of inquiry be appointed instead. Prime Minister Barak
also consulted with Minister Matan Vilnai who is responsible for dealing
with the Israeli Arab sector, and took note of the many appeals he
received on the matter from senior jurists and public leaders from all
sectors of the population.

Prime Minister Barak has directed the security forces to act against
those who break the law and extremists from all sectors. He added that
his obligation as prime minister of all Israelis, Jewish and Arab, is to
do his utmost to reduce tensions and foster equality, integration and a
constructive and positive dialogue within Israeli society.

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Subject: [bprlist] Israeli flag/shekel
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:09:07 -0500

JORDAN TIMES 7 Nov.'00: "Unionists use Israeli flag as doormat"
QUOTE FROM TEXT:

"The associations have been engaged in a campaign to end normal ties with
Israel under the peace accord. They have warned their 80,000 members
against making contacts with Israelis or risk being suspended. Guild
membership is a prerequisite to practice any profession in Jordan."

 FULL TEXT:

AMMAN (AP) - The professional associations have painted the Israeli flag on
the
floor at the entrance area of their headquarters, virtually forcing visitors to
step on the blue-and-white Star of David.

Saleh Armouti, head of a council grouping Jordan's 13 associations, said on
Monday the flag was painted last week in "protest against the practices of the
Zionist enemy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip."

"It is an expression of hatred to the Jews and a message that they are alien
to
us and have no right to Palestinian and Arab land. Therefore, we neither
recognise them nor their flag," said Armouti, who is also president of Jordan's
Bar Association.

The Israeli flag is painted on an area 1.2 metres-long (4 foot-long) and 60
centimetres (2-foot) in width just outside the main entrance of the professional
associations council building in Shmeisani.

The country's 13 professional associations are dominated by Islamist and
leftist groups opposed to a Middle East peaceful settlement and the 1994
Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty. {IMRA: Since all members can vote, how is it
that Islamists and leftists dominate the associations?}

The associations have been engaged in a campaign to end normal ties with
Israel under the peace accord. They have warned their 80,000 members
against making contacts with Israelis or risk being suspended. Guild
membership is a prerequisite to practice any profession in Jordan. {IMRA:
The government could change these rules by not permitting the associations
to
penalize contacts with Israel.}

JORDAN TIMES 7 Nov.'00: " Shekel not wanted here: Money changers
decide to boycott Israeli currency" By Saad G. Hattar

SUBJECT: Jordanian money changers boycott shekel.

 EXCERPTS:

AMMAN - The Association of Money Changers has ordered its members to
boycott the shekel ... . . . . Association President Motee Kabariti, in press
reports published Monday, said the decision covers Amman's 74 money
exchangers
until Israel "halts its barbaric aggression against the Palestinians."

... the shekels of Arab Israelis ... will also be boycotted.

The decision should be binding on all money changers, but other money
changers cast doubt on the practicality and ethics of such a measure.

"Almost all of my clients are Palestinians living in Israel. Shall I boycott
them and leave them without money?" asked Sufiyan Alami, owner of Al
Alami money
exchange company.

He saw the boycott as "counterproductive and running against the
Palestinian cause." . . . Established in 1991, the money changers body
groups 100 members throughout the Kingdom. ... .

Dealing in the shekel was introduced six years ago when Jordan sealed a
peace treaty with Israel.

Jordanian banks have not taken similiar measures.

Banks with branches in the Palestinian territories deal in three major
currencies: The Jordanian dinar, US dollar and the shekel.

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Subject: [bprlist] Gov't plans to double Jewish population in Galilee
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:23:44 -0500

 Wednesday, November 8, 2000

Gov't plans to double Jewish population in Galilee

                  By Mazal Mualem
                  Ha'aretz Correspondent

The Prime Minister's Office and Defense Ministry are working on a plan to
double the Jewish population of the Misgav region of the Galilee within the
next five years, in response to last month's severe rioting by Israeli Arab
residents of the region.

The plan will be brought to the cabinet for approval soon.

There are currently 28 Jewish communities in the Misgav region, with some
10,500 residents (2,800 families). Most of these towns have less than 200
families, and some contain only a few dozen families. Such towns can easily
be expanded to hold hundreds of families on the basis of existing master
plans, so the proposal does not call for establishing any new Jewish towns.

The central Galilee region as a whole is home to 55,000 Jews, in Misgav and
Carmiel, and 300,000 Arabs, in 22 local authorities.

This is but one of several steps the government is considering in response to
the rioting, which shut down major roads for hours at a stretch and included
attempted attacks on Jewish towns. Another is a new plan for the defense of
Jewish villages that are near Arab population centers.

The current proposal is based on a plan prepared by the Misgav Regional
Council three years ago, which never got off the ground. If the plan is
successful, it will be used as a model for other regions of the country.

Erez Kreizler, the head of the Misgav Regional council, said the region
suffered particularly during last month's riots because so many of its villages
are so small, and they are all isolated from one another. However, he said,
the plan does not reflect a demographic war, but rather the belief that a larger
population will contribute to the economic and social development of the
region as a whole - including the Arab towns.

"When we devised this plan three years ago, we were focused on the
problems we face in the economic and social sphere," he said. "We thought
it necessary to increase the size of the Jewish population, out of a belief that
a stable socioeconomic infrastructure is the basis for coexistence. The
motives were less ideological. But following the events of October, the
urgency has grown. These events reinforced what we have been saying all
along: Large towns are better able to withstand such situations.

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Subject: [bprlist] PLO and Syria cut out of Rabin's last speech
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:25:41 -0500

 Wednesday, November 8, 2000

PLO and Syria cut out of Rabin's last speech

                  By Akiva Eldar
                  Ha'aretz Correspondent

Crucial passages in Yitzhak Rabin's final speech, which referred to the PLO
as a "partner for peace" and spoke of the possibility of peace with Syria,
have been edited out of official versions of the speech which appear beside
memorials, in official publications, and in booklets provided to schools an d
youth movements.

These passages have also been left out of screenings of Rabin's speech at
the annual rallies held in his memory.

In the first of the removed passages, Rabin says: "There are enemies of
peace who are trying to hurt us with the aim of torpedoing the peace. I wan t
to say plainly: We have found a partner for peace among the Palestinians -
the PLO, who was once an enemy and has ceased terror."

In the middle of the next paragraph, he says: "It will also be possible to
achieve peace with Syria." This sentence, too, has been removed.

Staff at the Rabin Center for Peace were surprised to hear that these two
passages were even missing from the version of the speech posted on the
center's Internet site. They explained that the center had relied on the ve rsion
appearing in an anthology of Rabin's speeches edited by his former bureau
chief, Eitan Haber. Haber claims to be equally surprised by the missing
passages, and says he has no idea who is responsible for their removal.

                            =A9 copyright 2000 Ha'aretz. All Rights Reserve d

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Subject: [bprlist] PA blocks Christopher as committee chairman
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:27:46 -0500

 Wednesday, November 8, 2000

PA blocks Christopher as committee chairman

Northern Ireland peace broker George Mitchell to head fact-finding panel

                  By Aluf Benn
                  Ha'aretz Diplomatic Correspondent

The Palestinian Authority has succeeded in preventing the appointment of
former U.S. secretary of state Warren Christopher as head of an internation al
fact-finding committee to investigate the violence in the territories.

Israel had favored the choice of Christopher, but the PA charged that he wa s
too pro-Israeli.

Instead, the White House announced yesterday, the committee will be
chaired by former Democratic senator George Mitchell, who helped broker
the peace agreement in Northern Ireland. The other members will be former
Republican senator Warren Rudman, former president of Turkey Suleyman
Demirel, Norwegian foreign minister Thorbjorn Jagland and Javier Solana, th e
European Union's top security official.

In Jerusalem today, the security cabinet will begin discussions on a plan f or
disengagement from the Palestinians, the main points of which were
presented to ministers yesterday by Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh.

Meanwhile, in a bid to ward off the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian
state, Prime Minister Ehud Barak sent a letter yesterday to prime ministers
and heads of state throughout the world, asking them to "put Mr. Arafat on
record regarding his responsibility to live up to the commitments he
undertook to halt the violence and to refrain from unilateral actions."

Israel, wrote Barak, wants to return to the negotiating table on the basis of
the Camp David understandings, with the goal of bringing about the creation
of a viable Palestinian state. Such a state, he said, would be a stabilizin g
factor in the region, but unilateral Palestinian actions would undermine bo th
"regional stability and global interests.

=A9 copyright 2000 Ha'aretz. All Rights Reserved

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Subject: [bprlist] Ha'aretz: IDF says Arafat failed to issue clear
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:30:30 -0500

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: [imra-l] Ha'aretz: IDF says Arafat failed to issue clear cease-fire orders

Ha'aretz: IDF says Arafat failed to issue clear cease-fire orders

Ha'aretz Services (Bulletin) 8 November 2000

Army authorities said Wednesday that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser
Arafat has failed to give clear cease-fire orders to the heads of his
security services, Israel Radio reported.

The authorities said the Palestinian security officers "are not taking
determined action to stop the firing against Israelis." An Israeli woman was
killed and a man injured Wednesday morning when their car was ambushed by
three gunmen on the Egyptian border near Rafah, in the most serious of
several shooting incidents Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

In a Gaza meeting last week, Arafat promised cabinet minister Shimon Peres
he would act to reduce the shooting against Israeli soldiers, civilians, and
settlements.

[IMRA: Since the meeting Minister Peres continues to defend Arafat in
meetings with foreign officials and in interviews with the international
media, claiming that Arafat had in fact issued cease-fire orders and
attributing the continuing violence to problems that Arafat was having in
imposing his will in the field.]

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Subject: [bprlist] U.S. voters barred from faxing in their ballots
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:31:56 -0500

Wednesday, November 8, 2000

U.S. voters barred from faxing in their ballots

                  By Tamar Hausman

Americans who showed up to vote by fax at the American Embassy in Tel
Aviv and the American Consulate in Jerusalem were turned away if they were
not registered voters in one of ten U.S. states. A Ha=92aretz story reporte d
yesterday that all U.S. citizens living in Israel could vote at the last mi nute
by fax. The error occured because the American Embassy spokesman,
Larry Schwartz, told a Ha=92aretz reporter that all U.S. citizens in Israel  could
vote by fax. An official at the consulate in West Jerusalem corrected the
error today. In any case, Americans who came to the consulate in Jerusalem
were told that it was too late to vote because ballots had to be postmarked
by yesterday morning in Tel Aviv. Schwartz did not return calls for comment .
The ten states that allow faxed ballots are Alaska, New Jersey, Kansas,
Louisianna, Montana, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah and
Washington State.

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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) [imra-l] Ha'aretz: Arafat's Fataf plans to repeat "mode
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:35:59 -0500

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: [imra-l] Ha'aretz: Arafat's Fataf plans to repeat "model of Joseph's Tomb" in clashes at Thursday Rachel's Tomb prayers
Date sent: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:47:27 +0200
 

Ha'aretz: Arafat's Fataf plans to repeat "model of Joseph's Tomb" in
clashes at Thursday Rachel's Tomb prayers

Ha'aretz (Bulletin) 8 November 2000

Activists of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement plan to state violent protests
against the planned opening Thursday of the Rachel's Tomb shrine in
Bethlehem to Jewish worshippers, Army radio said Wednesday.

It said Fatah planned to use the "model of Joseph's Tomb" in trying to
disrupt Jewish worship at the site, closed since the early days of the
current violence.

Palestinian attacks on the Joseph's Tomb in Nablus eventually forced the
Barak government to evacuate the settlers and soldiers there, turning the
site over "temporarily" to Palestinian control.

A Palestinian mob then vandalized the Nablus site.

The decision to open the site on Thursday, by tradition the anniversary of
the day of the matriarch Rachel's death, was reached Monday in a compromise
with Hebron settler women who occupied the site in a "pray-in".

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Subject: [bprlist] YNET: Israeli Arabs attack telephone and electric repair crews
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:30:50 -0500

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: [imra-l] YNET: Israeli Arabs attack telephone and electric company repair crews
Date sent: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 17:00:28 +0200

YNET: Israeli Arabs attack telephone and electric company repair crews
 
Aaron Lerner Date: 8 November, 2000

The website of Yediot Ahronot, wwww.ynet.co.il, reports that this
afternoon Israeli Arabs in the Western Galilee village of Araba threw
rocks at a Bezek telephone crew. The crew was not hurt, but the
rioters warned that the crew would face even harsher violence if it
stayed.

At the same time, a repair crew from Israel Electric repairing lines
damaged during the rioting in the Israeli Arab town of Um al Fahm was
attacked. The car of the repair crew was lightly damaged and the
crew rushed to evacuate.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director
IMRA Media Review & Analysis)
(mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
Tel 972-9-7604719/Fax 972-3-5480092
INTERNET ADDRESS: imra@netvision.net.il
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Subject: [bprlist] Religion makes resurgence in academia
From: Jim Hopton
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:38:11 -0500

Religion makes resurgence in academia
Turnabout in spiritual interest sparked by political involvement in
faith-based initiatives, more funds
http://www.detnews.com/2000/religion/0011/08/a11-139829.htm
By Teresa Watanabe / Los Angeles Times

    In Pennsylvania, researchers are documenting how religion keeps young
people from drugs and delinquency. In Cambridge, Mass., professors are
pondering how faith propels environmentalism and inner-city economic
development.
   And in one of the world's most religiously diverse laboratories --
Southern California -- scholars are visiting sacred sites such as Sikh
gurdwaras, Buddhist temples and Armenian apostolic churches to scrutinize
the powerful role that religion plays in the lives of new immigrants.
   Across the United States, scholars have begun to promote a new paradigm
in academia: Religion matters.
   Once a largely forgotten factor in social research, dismissed by those
who believed that society would inevitably secularize and cast spirituality
aside, religion is a hot field of inquiry. Until recently, a long-standing
academic bias against religion has blinded many scholars to its powerful
role in shaping private lives and the public culture.
   "While millions, even billions, of people view so many different human
concerns through the lens of religious faith, this crucial subject remains
one of the most understudied social phenomena of the 20th century,"
Princeton University President Harold Shapiro said last year.
   That's changing. Driven by funding opportunities, a national spiritual
resurgence and growing political interest in faith-based initiatives, more
people than ever are studying religion. No longer confined to schools of
divinity, religion is being increasingly probed in departments of sociology,
political science, international relations, even business schools. The
research is expected to "significantly reshape the social sciences," said
Jon Miller, a University of Southern California sociology professor.
   More foundations are funding religious research. The Ford Foundation, for
instance, launched a religion program in 1997 and has doled out about 50
grants totaling $10.5 million. Foundation President Susan Berresford added
the program after she repeatedly encountered people in her global travels
troubled by "deep moral uncertainty" amid rapid modernization and
globalization, said Constance C. Buchanan, the foundation's religion
officer.
   Other major funders include the Lilly Endowment and Pew Charitable
Trusts. Pew recently launched a multimillion-dollar initiative to create 10
academic Centers of Excellence to study the intersection between religion
and international relations, urban affairs, American democracy and other
contemporary issues.
   "Religion was often seen as soft, too ephemeral to be included in serious
scholarship," said Kimon Sargeant, a Pew program officer. "We want to help
provide a broader public understanding that religion can be a remarkable
force for common good."
   The resurgent interest in religion marks a startling turnabout for
academia -- sociology in particular. Although many early sociologists were
Christians active in the 19th-century social reform movements, religion lost
its academic luster in the 1950s, USC's Miller said.

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Subject: [bprlist] Clinton Falsely Claims that Arafat Wants to Stop the Violence
From: <owner-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 18:39:21 -0000

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From: BSaphir
Date sent: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:31:17 EST
Subject: Clinton Falsely Claims That Arafat
Desperately Wants To Stop The Violence
To: freemanlist@lists.io.com

News Release
The Zionist Organization of America
Jacob & Libby Goodman ZOA House Phone: - 212-481-1500
4 East 34th St. New York, NY 10016 Fax: 212-481-1515
e-mail: email@zoa.org Web Site: www.zoa.org

November 7, 2000 Contact: (212-481-1500)
ATTN: News Editor

Clinton Falsely Claims That Arafat "Desperately Wants To Stop The
Violence"

NEW YORK - President Clinton has again publicly praised and defended
Yasir Arafat, falsely claiming that the Palestinian Arab
leadership "desperately" wants to "shut this violence down."

President Clinton made the statement in a radio interview in Chicago
on November 6, 2000 the Reuters News Agency reported.

The Israeli government has said that, in fact, Arafat is responsible
for the continuing violence, and the Zionist Organization of America
(ZOA) has strongly criticized Clinton for whitewashing Arafat's role
in continuing to organize and incite the violence against Israel.

In a letter to President Clinton, ZOA National President Morton A.
Klein wrote: "If Arafat so 'desperately' wants to stop the violence,
who doesn't he tell his people to stop shooting? Why doesn't he
appear on television and announce that anyone who stones, shoots,
stabs or bombs Israelis will be arrested? Why doesn't he fire the PA
police officers who are taking part in the shooting? Why doesn't he
outlaw Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and confiscate their tens of
thousands of weapons? Why doesn't he stop releasing terrorists from
prison? Why doesn't he instruct the PA's television, radio, and
newspapers to stop promoting anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hatred and
violence? Why doesn't he announce that the PA will no longer pay a
$2,000 reward to any family whose child is killed while attacking
Israelis? Why doesn't he fulfill any of the obligations he undertook
in the Oslo, Wye, and Sharm el-Sheikh accords?"

The ZOA president continued: "President Clinton, by whitewashing
Arafat's behavior, you encourage him to believe that he can continue
using violence against Israel without suffering any consequences. Is
that what you want your legacy to be--do you want to be remembered as
the president who encouraged terrorist violence against America's
ally, Israel?"

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Subject: [bprlist] PA: No under-16s should demonstrate
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 13:57:33 -0500

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Subject: PA: No under-16s should demonstrate
Send reply to: moza@butterfly.mv.com
Date sent: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:50:38 -0500

              (11:10) PA: No under-16s should
               demonstrate

               According to Palestinian Authority official Yasser Abed
               Rabbo, the PA is trying to stop children under the age of
               16 from participating in demonstrations against Israel so
               that they will not get hurt.

               In a letter to the human rights organization, Betselem, he
               said the PA is carrying out an information campaign in its
               schools against the participation of children in
               demonstrations, Israel Radio reports.

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Subject: [bprlist] Outrage about Democrat mailer signed by Clinton
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 13:57:33 -0500

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Subject: Outrage about Democrat mailer signed by Clinton
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Date sent: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:49:42 -0500

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7 2000

                 ELECTION 2000
                 California in frenzy
                 over voter fraud
                 Many outraged about Democrat
                 mailer signed by Bill Clinton

                 By Julie Foster
                 =A9 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

                 In California, where it is illegal in most cases to
                 ask voters for identification at the polls, there is
                 a growing uproar over a Clinton-signed mailer
                 urging Latinos to bring an unofficial paper
                 "voter identification card" to the polls,
                 potentially allowing non-citizens to vote.

                 First reported by WorldNetDaily yesterday in a
                 column by Editor Joseph Farah, the ID card is
                 attached to the mailer, which was paid for by
                 the California Democratic Party.

                 "While every election is important, the
                 November 7th election will determine our
                 future for the next decade, and beyond," the
                 letter reads. "The stakes are high for America's
                 Latino families. And California is the critical
                 battleground." It goes on to explain the purpose
                 of the "voter identification card" attached to the
                 letter. "Here is your personal Voter
                 Identification Card. Sign your name, then detach
                 your card. Bring your card with you to your
                 polling place on Election Day. It will help your
                 voting go more smoothly."

                 Bob Mulholland, campaign adviser for the
                 California Democratic Party, at first denied the
                 party sent mail targeted at certain racial groups.
                 After he was read the letter, however, he
                 acknowledged that a computer program is used
                 to sort information obtained from voter files by
                 category. In this case, newly registered Latinos
                 were targeted for the mailer received in many
                 households over the weekend. Voter files are
                 accessible to campaigns, political parties and
                 recognized research groups that request the
                 information from county registrars.

                 But at least one recipient of the letter in Los
                 Angeles County is not a U.S. citizen and so is
                 not eligible to vote, despite the president's letter
                 and ID card. The 20-year-old recipient and her
                 mother, both from Guatemala, have spent
                 several years haggling with the Immigration
                 and Naturalization Service over obtaining their
                 citizenship, but have not yet been successful.
                 And she insists she has never registered to vote.

                 "It is absolutely illegal for a non-U.S. citizen to
                 register to vote or vote in an election," said Shad
                 Balch, spokesman for California Secretary of
                 State Bill Jones. "The voter file is accessible for
                 political purposes, so it is possible the
                 Democratic Party was able to obtain the voter
                 file."

                 However, if a recipient of the president's letter
                 is not a citizen, questions arise as to the source
                 of the California Democratic Party's information,
                 since, as Balch indicated, the California
                 Secretary of State's office would not have any
                 information on the woman.

                 The Guatemalan woman does have a driver's
                 license, but Department of Motor Vehicles
                 records are sealed, thus preventing the
                 California Democratic Party from obtaining
                 personal information from that agency. It is
                 possible the woman inadvertently registered to
                 vote when she obtained her driver license, as
                 voter registration information is included in that
                 paperwork. But she claims she obtained her
                 license from Sacramento -- not Los Angeles --
                 using special forms due to her status with the
                 INS, thus decreasing the likelihood of an
                 accidental registration.

                 WorldNetDaily is in the process of verifying the
                 20-year-old's registration status with the Los
                 Angeles County Registrar's office. Should the
                 woman turn out not to be registered, Balch said
                 he does not know how the Democrat Party
                 obtained its information.

                 The spokesman, who indicated the secretary of
                 state's office is aware of the Clinton mailer,
                 confirmed that should any non-citizen take the
                 paper ID card to a polling place, he or she
                 would not be able to cast a vote since there
                 would be no record of the person on the voter
                 registration lists maintained by poll officials.

                 Nevertheless, there is a scenario in which votes
                 may be cast with the aid of the Clinton card.
                 According to Charles Bell, general counsel for
                 the California Republican Party, if a voter has
                 recently moved to a new precinct and attempts
                 to vote at the polling place for his new location,
                 he is required to show identification, as his
                 name will not appear on the new location's
                 voter registration rolls.

                 Such is the case with Clinton's paper ID cards.
                 Were the young Guatemalan woman to appear
                 at her polling place with the card, she may
                 indeed be allowed to vote -- regardless of
                 whether her name appears on the list of
                 registered voters for that precinct.

                 Generally speaking, it is illegal in California to
                 require voter identification and proof of
                 nationality at polling places. In fact, no one can
                 bring evidence of any kind to a polling place
                 challenging any voters' eligibility. Such
                 challenges can be made only to the registrar of
                 voters and only after registration has taken
                 place, Bell said.

                 In other words, there is no mechanism in
                 California to prevent non-citizens from
                 registering.

                 That system has led to rampant abuse, resulting
                 in blatantly fraudulent registrations uncovered
                 by the Institute for Fair Elections, a non-profit,
                 non-partisan citizen group dedicated to
                 exposing voter fraud. Karen Saranita, president
                 of the corporation, decried the failures of
                 California's voter registration requirements.

                 "There are no verification requirements. The
                 only thing election officials are required to
                 verify is that it is an actual address," she said.

                 Saranita's institute investigates elections
                 nationwide and reports its findings to
                 government officials and the media. The group
                 has found registered "voters" named
                 "Absolutely Nobody," "Lot O. Money," "Boy
                 Toy" and "Punk Rock Freddie," to name just a
                 few. Specific to the Golden State, "God" is
                 registered in North Hollywood, and "Jesus
                 Christ" is a voter in Santa Monica.

                 Unfortunately, according to Saranita, "Nobody
                 cares." She appeared on "60 Minutes" the
                 Sunday before the 1996 election, but the story
                 generated little response from the public.

                 "I think until there is a big race -- a high profile
                 race where the results have actually been
                 changed by fraud -- nothing will change," she
                 predicted. "The government is not good at
                 taking preventative measures."

                 The activist said she gives credit to California
                 Rep. Steve Horn, who attempted to pass
                 legislation in Congress several years ago that
                 would have required the use of Social Security
                 numbers for voting. The measure failed.

                 Saranita described the farcical treatment of
                 elections by the government compared to other
                 regulated activities.

                 An election, she said, is "the only
                 government-conducted activity where the
                 citizen is not only not required to provide ID,
                 but it is against the law to ask them for ID when
                 they register to vote. You can't pay your taxes,
                 you can't apply for a farm subsidy, you can't
                 apply for a federal student loan -- in LA County,
                 you can't get a license for your dog -- unless you
                 show ID. Yet, the government does nothing
                 about it, the people seemingly don't care and
                 nothing changes, except it gets worse."

                 Saranita said her group is watching today's
                 election closely.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_fosterj_news/20001107_xnfoj_californi
a.shtml
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Subject: [bprlist] No Beard, No Service, Citizens Told
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 13:57:33 -0500

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Subject: No Beard, No Service, Citizens Told
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Date sent: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:56:24 -0500

Monday November 6 9:01 AM ET
 No Beard, No Service, Citizens Told

 KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban will not provide any services
 to men without beards, residents of the capital Kabul said Monday.

 A decree issued by Taliban's reclusive leader Mullah Mohammad Omar,
 copies of which were pasted at the gates of various government ministry
 buildings, said citizens without beards would not be considered for jobs or
 any other services.

 ``Growing beard is the tradition of Islam's Prophet Mohammad that must be
followed by Muslims,'' the decree
 said.

 The latest decree from the Taliban, who rule 95 percent of the war-battered
country, is part of its efforts to turn
 Afghanistan into the world's purest Islamic state.

 Soon after sweeping to power more than four years ago, the Taliban
announced that beard-growing was
 compulsory.

 The radical movement, which sprang from religious schools mostly in
Pakistan, has drawn criticism from the
 international community, including some Islamic countries, for its hardline
policies, including restrictions on the
 activities of women.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001106/od/beard_dc_1.html
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Subject: [bprlist] November 15 "final" date for declaring Palestinian state
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 13:57:33 -0500

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Subject: November 15 "final" date for declaring Palestinian state:
official
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Date sent: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 09:00:53 -0500

November 15 "final" date for declaring Palestinian state: official

AMMAN, Nov 7 (AFP) - November 15 is the "final" date for declaring a
Palestinian state, the deputy speaker of the Palestine National Council
(PNC) said in statements published Tuesday.

"The Palestine National Council will declare a Palestinian state during its
meeting in Gaza on November 15," Taysser Qub'a told the Jordanian
economic daily Al-Aswaq.

"There will be no delay in declaring the state and this is final," he said.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has repeatedly vowed to announce the
borders of an independent state in the year 2000, even unilaterally in the
absence of any peace accord with Israel.

Arafat said last week the central committee of his Palestine Liberation
Organisation would meet before November 15 to discuss the creation of a
Palestinian state.

"I do not know what the central committee will decide," Arafat said. "We are
democratic, and what the central committee decides will be respected."

The Palestinian leader threatened to proclaim an independent state on
September 13 but delayed the announcement after he received no suppport
for this action from world leaders.

September 13 was the target date for a final accord with Israel which failed to
be met.

November 15 is the anniversary of the PLO's 1988 declaration of
independence, made in Algiers during the intifada or popular uprising against
the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip which ended with the
Oslo accords of 1993.

The Palestinians want to set up the capital of their state in east Jerusalem,
the mostly Arab sector of the disputed city annexed by Israel in 1967.

Arafat's Palestinian Authority currently has full or partial control over some 40
percent of the West Bank and total control of around 70 percent of the Gaza
Strip.

Qub'a meanwhile said that the current anti-Israeli intifada that erupted in
September "will continue until the liberation of all the land in accordance with
international legislation".

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's principal adviser, Danny Yatom, warned
Saturday that Israel would hit back militarily, politically and economically if
the Palestinians unilaterally proclaim an independent state.

Copyright 2000 by Agence France-Presse
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Subject: [bprlist] Radio Analysis and Excerpts: Addendum
From: "Moza"
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 13:57:33 -0500

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Subject: [imra-l] Radio Analysis and Excerpts: Addendum - No
indication on Voice of Palestine of policy to keep kids from violent
demonstrations
Date sent: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:59:27 +0200

Radio Analysis and Excerpts: Addendum - No indication on Voice of
Palestine of policy to keep kids from violent demonstrations

November 7, 2000

Prepared by Michael Widlanski, lecturer at the Hebrew University, doing
doctoral research at Bar Ilan on Palestinian broadcast media.

Israel Resource News Agency
Beit Agron Int'l Press Center
Jerusalem, Israel
tel. (+972-2) 623-6368 or cellphone (+972-53) 710-737
http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/

The Voice of Israel and the Jerusalem Post reported this morning that the
Palestinian Authority had informed the B'tselem Movement (that monitors
Israeli human rights abuses) that it would try to keep children under 16
years of age from participating in demonstrations that might turn violent.

   Btselem told Voice of Israel that PA Information and Culture Minister
Yasser Abd-Rabbo assured B'tselem that the PA had begun a campaign to
prevent children from being drawn into violent confrontations.

HOWEVER, ON VOICE OF PALESTINE RADIO THERE WAS NO SIGN
WHATSOVER OF THIS
CAMPAIGN.

   VOP DID NOT MENTION EVEN ONCE THE PROBLEM OF CHILDREN
GETTING WOUNDED AND
SOMETIMES KILLED.

   INDEED, MINISTER YASSER ABD-RABBO, WHO APPEARED IN A LIVE
INTEVIEW WITH
VOP THIS MORNING AT 7:40 AM, DID NOT MAKE ANY COMMENT AT
ALL ABOUT THE
CHILDREN IN VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS OR RIOTING.

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