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Friday, March 15,2002

IN THIS ISSUE:

  1.    NO EQUIVALENCE
  2.    UNDER CLOUD OF TERROR, ISRAELIS STAY HOME MORE,
        AND WORRY ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN
  3.    HERE WE GO AGAIN
  4.    ARAFAT'S POLITICAL STRATEGY AGAINST ISRAEL:
        THE POWER OF WEAKNESS
  5.    JEWS USE TEENAGERS' BLOOD FOR 'PURIM' PASTRIES
  6.    QUOTES TO NOTE
  7.    HIGHLIGHT ARTICLES

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     1.    NO EQUIVALENCE

Bush's Men Should Know Better Than To Liken Soldiers To
Suicide Bombers.

Thursday, March 14, 2002 Wall Street Journal

General Anthony Zinni is returning to the Middle East
today in search of a cease-fire. On Tuesday the U.S.
sponsored a United Nations Security Council resolution
supporting a Palestinian state. And State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher has called for Israel to
"exercise the utmost restraint and discipline to avoid
further harm to civilians"--as if the difference
between Palestinian suicide bombers and Israel's
measured response isn't abundantly clear. Even
President Bush said yesterday that Israel's recent
military actions are "not helpful."

The reason for the Administration's sudden
re-engagement on the issue is no secret. Vice President
Dick Cheney is in the region trying to build support
for regime change in Iraq, and the deteriorating
Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains a sore spot in our
relations with the Arab world.

The trouble is, this activity comes just as Israel has
started to win some important victories in its war on
terror. And worse, it threatens to undermine the moral
case for our own war--a case President Bush couldn't
have put any better than he did Monday, declaring:
"There can be no peace in a world where differences
and grievances become an excuse to target the
innocent for murder."

A couple of years ago, perhaps, it was still possible
to argue that Palestinian violence was the work of a few
Islamic extremists, and that punishing Yasser Arafat
only made it harder for him to rein them in. But in the
summer of 2000 Israel offered Mr. Arafat a state, and
Mr. Arafat launched a war. The lion's share of recent
attacks have been carried out not by Hamas or Islamic
Jihad, but by the military wing of Mr. Arafat's own
Fatah movement. And after Saturday night's deadly
suicide bombing at the Moment cafe in Jerusalem,
Mr. Arafat's state radio praised the bomber as a
"heroic martyr."

In short, the targeting of innocents is Mr. Arafat's
explicit strategy to address the "grievance" of Israeli
occupation. Israel, on the other hand, has pursued a
policy of carefully targeting militants, and has been
risking its soldiers over the past week to arrest
suspects and confiscate weapons in Palestinian towns
and refugee camps. Some non-combatants have been
killed, but there is no moral equivalence here--
certainly not the kind implied by U.S. proposals for
monitors to keep peace between the two sides, or by
Colin Powell's declaration last week that "if you
declare war on the Palestinians and think you can
solve the problem by seeing how many Palestinians
can be killed, I don't know if that leads us anywhere."

The message all this sends Mr. Arafat is unmistakable:
Ratchet up suicidal bombings of Israeli civilians,
induce a military response, and the U.S. will
heavily pressure Israel for concessions.

The Saudi peace "plan," meanwhile, seems to be going
nowhere fast. Some prominent Arab state will eventually
have to take the lead in "normalizing" relations with
Israel. But if Crown Prince Abdullah were serious, he
might have presented it to Ariel Sharon as Israel's
elected leader, not to a New York Times columnist. He
might also have presented it two years ago, when it
could have made a difference, instead of urging
Mr. Arafat to reject the hugely concessionary offer
made by former Israeli Prime Minister Barak at Camp
David. Now there's even talk among the Arab League
of removing any reference to "normalization" at all.
Without that, it amounts to nothing but a demand
for unconditional surrender.

We understand the Bush Administration's concerns as
it makes the case in foreign capitals for an expansion
of the war on terror. But the White House should
understand that both strategic and moral consistency
means sometimes telling people what they don't want
to hear. To wit: The U.S. has already spent more than
a decade sponsoring talks for Israel to return to
something like the 1967 borders, and the Palestinian
grievance over Israeli occupation must be addressed
by a return to the negotiating table, not violence
aimed explicitly at innocent civilians.

The definition of such violence is terrorism. It is
the very kind of anti-civilian terror as an instrument
of politics that President Bush so eloquently
condemned on Monday. Until such time as the Arab
world is ready to seek solutions by civilized means,
the U.S. has no moral alternative to standing firmly
behind Prime Minister Sharon's war against such terror.
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     2.    UNDER CLOUD OF TERROR, ISRAELIS STAY HOME MORE,
           AND WORRY ABOUT THEIR CHILDREN

Though Israelis are being urged to maintain their normal
routines during a period with almost daily terror attacks,
many citizens are finding it difficult to cope with their
worries and fears. With each hourly news broadcast, the
cloud of terror seems to be drawing closer and closer,
and escaping from the constant threat of violence is
not easy.

One day after the shooting attack on the Seafood Market
restaurant in Tel Aviv on March 5, in which three
Israelis were killed and 31 people were wounded,
patrons crowded into the renovated establishment to
demonstrate that they were unwilling to let terror
affect their lives. But it could take months to
reconstruct Jerusalem's Moment café, where eleven young
adults lost their lives and 72 others were injured in
a suicide bombing on March 9, and maybe even longer
until Jerusalemites return in large numbers to the
once-popular café.

For many Israelis, the fear of terror striking
anywhere, including in locations considered to be
relatively safe, has resulted in a desire to remain
in the safety of their own homes. Downtown Jerusalem,
where a wave of suicide bombings has taken the lives
of many Israelis over the past year, has become a
virtual ghost town and many businesses are closing
due to a lack of customers.

The Knesset passed a bill last week providing financial
compensation to Jerusalem's hard-hit businesses, but
business owners were disappointed with the low
amounts being offered to them. Above the Patriot
restaurant is a sign saying: "To our customers: due
to the terror attacks we have been forced to close."
Next to it someone added a graffiti message saying,
"See you after the war."

"The average stay in shopping malls is much shorter
now, and fast food businesses and movie theatres are
suffering," said Moshe Rozenblum, chairman of
Israel's shopping center committee. According to
Rozenblum, traffic in shopping malls, which have
comparatively rigid security arrangements at their
entrances, is down by 10%-50%, depending on location.

Fears and worries in situations like Israel's battle
against terror are not only normal, but may even be
part of a human coping mechanism, according to
Dr. Shaul Schreiber, head of psychiatric
services at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Medical Center.

"Despite the fact that we are aware of the potential
dangers, none of us wants to take into account on a
practical level that it is possible that he will go
to work one morning and die or lose a leg," he said,
reported in Yediot Aharonot.

Schreiber suggests that people suffering from
recurring panic attacks should listen to the news
less and avoid watching the bloody events depicted
on television newscasts. According to media reports,
relaxation medications have gained popularity and
are being purchased in growing qualities by the
Israeli public. In addition, special call-in
hotlines set up to discuss the fears and concerns
of citizens are handling a large number of telephone
calls.

Parents Concerned Of Security At Schools

For the first time in five decades of activities, the
Israel Scouts movement announced this week that it was
canceling its Passover field trips due to the
security situation. The Hanoar Haoved Vehalomed
movement said it was cutting some of its trips as well.
This week a school trip of students from Kibbutz
Metzuba was cut short when two members of the
kibbutz were among the six Israelis killed Tuesday
in a shooting attack on vehicles traveling along
a road in the western Galilee.

The National Parents Association voiced its protest
at what it considered inadequate security
arrangements in schools and kindergartens throughout
the country. According to a Channel 2 television
report, only institutions with more than 100 students
are entitled to an armed guard from the government.
In addition, schools are currently only guarded
until 2 in the afternoon, and any children remaining
for extracurricular activities are left unprotected.

The parents' group threatened a school strike
demanding that the government improve the security
situation at educational facilities. The teachers'
union indicated it would support such a strike but
rejected a proposal by Education Minister Limor
Livnat to shorten the upcoming Passover vacation,
citing the difficulty of coordinating the change
on such short notice. Livnat's proposal was
intended to keep the children off the streets as
much as possible.

In the interim, parents in many areas including
north Tel Aviv, Herzliya, and Raanana, are
collecting money to organize private security
arrangements for their children in kindergartens.
"The recent attacks which took the lives of many
children, caused me to understand that my children
are exposed to danger," Irit Dekel, a resident of
Maoz Aviv, told Yediot Aharonot. "When they are at
kindergarten they are easy prey for terrorists and
I cannot think about the possibility of them being
unguarded most of the day."

israelinsider.com
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     3.    HERE WE GO AGAIN

The Usual Suspects And Their Usual Idiocy On What To
Do In The Middle East...

The handwringers are at it again. Pope John Paul II has
announced gravely that he is "saddened" by the violence
in the Holy Land, and has pledged the Roman Catholic
Church's help in bringing peace. But what standing does
he have among Yasir Arafat and his fellow terrorists--
who have presided over the exodus of Palestine's
Christian population from an increasingly fanatical
society. (In their current frame of mind, it is highly
unlikely that most Palestinians would take advice
seriously from an infidel.) And the pope's credentials
among Israelis are rather compromised as well--given
that in May of last year he stood utterly silent while
Syria's ophthalmologist-dictator, Bashar al-Assad,
lectured him about the eternal guilt of the Jews for
the death of Jesus.

Kofi Annan has also weighed in--denouncing Israel for
retaliating against the relentless terrorist attacks on
its civilian population in every corner of the country
and demanding that it withdraw from its "illegal
occupation" of Palestinian lands. At least he had the
good taste not to accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing
--given that as head of the U.N. blue helmets
(the organization's "peacekeepers" in Bosnia) in the
mid-1990s, Annan helped prevent international
intervention against the worst ethnic cleansing in
Europe since the Holocaust.

In fact, the U.N.
secretary-general is almost surely responsible for
the destruction of more Muslim homes and the breaking
apart of more Muslim families than is Prime Minister
Sharon. Annan, not surprisingly, has endorsed the
recent peace proposal by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince
Abdullah (fed to The New York Times' Tom Friedman in a
desperate effort to change the subject from Saudi
Arabia's role in September 11). That proposal--which
would require Israel to give up all of East Jerusalem,
not to mention the Golan Heights--goes far beyond what
former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered
Arafat at Taba and Camp David. But the bloody events
of the last 17 months, which constitute Arafat's most
concrete response to the most pliant Israeli government
in history, have proven to just about every reasonable
Israeli that even Barak's proposals were dangerously
generous.

In fact, the rump Palestinian state that exists today
testifies powerfully enough to the dangers of
insufficient Israeli vigilance. Under the Oslo
agreements, emerging Palestine was allowed a police
force of 30,000, equipped with 15,000 rifles and
pistols and a few hundred heavy machine guns.
In other words, only enough arms to police itself.
But by now, partly as a result of Israel's withdrawal,
the Palestinians have smuggled and built sufficient
war materiel to equip a significant military force.

It does not take an especially lurid imagination to
grasp that any government of Israel will find this
intolerable. This means that Palestine--when its
borders are finally defined--must not be permitted
to abut any other Arab country, and that its ports
and airports will have to be secured against the
deadly contraband with which the Palestinians have
so deftly destroyed their most recent opportunity
for independence.

Dozens of Palestinians have committed suicide in this
latest round of terrorist warfare. But no matter
what Annan, the pope, or anyone else in the
"international community" says, Israel will not
itself adopt this macabre model of politics as
self-immolation.
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     4.    ARAFAT'S POLITICAL STRATEGY AGAINST ISRAEL:
           THE POWER OF WEAKNESS

Given Arafat's strategy of weakness, we can rest assured
that no war is precipitating in the Middle East.

By Uriah  (March 2002) [CAPITALISMMAGAZINE.COM]

Amid the surging violence in the Middle East, more and more
voices on the left are calling on the Bush administration
to take a more active role in mediating a workable détente.
Israel and the Palestinians must return to the negotiating
table, we are told, and only America can make them sit down
and talk instead of fighting.

   Moreover, a regional calm is in America's vital interest,
since the current dynamics are heading toward a new
Israeli-Arab war, which would undermine a potential
anti-Iraqi coalition; or so the argument goes.

   There is something almost sad about the way today's Left
is so resolutely out of contact with reality. The tireless
calls to "return to the negotiating table" is premised on
the now bankrupt notion that there is something to negotiate.

   In the Taba talks in December 2000, Ehud Barak – then
Israel's prime minister – offered Palestinian Authority
chairman Yassir Arafat a Palestinian state on the equivalent
of 97-100% (accounts vary on the exact figure) of the
"occupied" territories, with the eastern half of Jerusalem
as its capital. Arafat rejected the offer, however, because
it didn't provide for the right of Palestinian refugees and
their descendents to return to homes they were (probably)
forced to leave in 1948 – the so-called Right of Return,
the acceptance of which would effectively spell the
annihilation of the Jewish state as such.

   In short, in the Taba talks, Israel offered everything
it can possibly offer, short of its own dismantling, but its
offer was dismissed. Against this background, it is hard to
understand the various attempts to have the two sides
"sit down and talk."

   Talk about what?

   There is nothing to talk about. This is a sad outcome
indeed for the long and laborious peace process. We would
all rather the outcome be different. But there is no point
in pretending that the Taba talks never happened. There is
no point in pretending there is something to negotiate.
What exactly is Israel supposed to negotiate?
The terms of its assisted suicide?

   Moreover, the worry about a conflagration issuing in
an all-out war between Israel and the Palestinians, which
would indeed be contrary to American interest, is misguided.
It is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the
Palestinians' modern strategy.

   On 14 May 1948, the U.N. voted to recognize the Jewish
state. The next morning, five Arab states simultaneously
invaded the nascent country, then counting little more
than 600,000 citizens. Against the odds, Israel won that war.

   What ensued was a series of wars in which the Arab
world attempted to get rid of Israel by the power of force.
Needless to say, that didn't work. But Israel's ever
growing military domination of its neighbors, while
cutting short the dream of booting the Jews out of the
Middle East by the power of force, gave birth to a new
strategy: if the Jews cannot be booted out by the power
of force, they shall be boot out by the power of weakness.

   The power of weakness is of course something we are
well acquainted with in America. There is a whole segment
of American society – which we may dub the Jesse Jackson
Americana – that made weakness its chief resource.
(It is unsurprising, then, that among the numerous dogmas
of the academic left, there is that list of the
Officially Oppressed, which always counts as its first
members the Palestinians and Jesse Jackson Americans.)

   The obvious corollary of the new strategy is the
politics of victimization. The idea is to devise an
endless list of grievances; forsake any positive
initiative in favor of a permanent posture of indignation;
and routinely rehash a thoughtless mantra of mistreatment,
injustice, and Allah.

   (For an example of this thoughtless mantra, one need
only consult the opinion piece recently published under
Arafat's name in the February 3 New York Times. There is
no way Arafat actually penned those grammatical sentences;
but the important thing is that he signed at the bottom.
By the way, on February 20, the Jerusalem Post reported
that the piece was authored by former US consul general in
Jerusalem Edward Abingdon, who now heads a lobbying firm.)

   Given Arafat's strategy of weakness, we can rest
assured that no war is precipitating in the Middle East.
Appearing the defenseless victim, assaulted and overpowered,
is essential to Arafat's strategy. To embark on an
all-out war, in which the Palestinians might come across
as a forceful threat, would be contrary to that strategy.
It would require an overall evaluation of the current
strategy and a reversion to the previous hope to deal
with the Jewish state by the power of force.
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     5.   JEWS USE TEENAGERS' BLOOD FOR 'PURIM' PASTRIES

In an article published by the Saudi government daily
Al-Riyadh, columnist Dr. Umayma Ahmad Al-Jalahma of King
Faysal University in Al-Dammam, wrote on
"The Jewish Holiday of Purim."
Following are excerpts of the article:

Special Ingredient For Jewish Holidays is Human Blood
>From Non-Jewish Youth

"I chose to [speak] about the Jewish holiday of Purim,
because it is connected to the month of March. This
holiday has some dangerous customs that will, no doubt,
horrify you, and I apologize if any reader is harmed
because of this."

"During this holiday, the Jew must prepare very
special pastries, the filling of which is not only
costly and rare - it cannot be found at all on the
local and international markets."

"Unfortunately, this filling cannot be left out, or
substituted with any alternative serving the same purpose.
For this holiday, the Jewish people must obtain human
blood so that their clerics can prepare the holiday
pastries. In other words, the practice cannot be
carried out as required if human blood is not spilled!!"

"Before I go into the details, I would like to clarify
that the Jews' spilling human blood to prepare pastry
for their holidays is a well-established fact,
historically and legally, all throughout history.
This was one of the main reasons for the persecution
and exile that were their lot in Europe and Asia at
various times."

"This holiday [Purim] begins with a fast, on March 13,
like the Jewess Esther who vowed to fast. The holiday
continues on March 14; during the holiday, the Jews
wear carnival-style masks and costumes and overindulge
in drinking alcohol, prostitution, and adultery.
This holiday has become known among Muslim historians
as the "Holiday of Masks."

How the Jews Drain the Blood From Their Young Victims

"Who was Esther, and why the Jews sanctify her and act
as she did, I will clarify in my article next Tuesday,[1]
Allah willing. Today, I would like to tell you how
human blood is spilled so it can be used for their
holiday pastries. The blood is spilled in a special
way. How is it done?"

"For this holiday, the victim must be a mature
adolescent who is, of course, a non-Jew - that is, a
Christian or a Muslim. His blood is taken and dried
into granules. The cleric blends these granules into
the pastry dough; they can also be saved for the next
holiday. In contrast, for the Passover slaughtering,
about which I intend to write one of these days, the
blood of Christian and Muslim children under the age
of 10 must be used, and the cleric can mix the blood
[into the dough] before or after dehydration."

The Actions of the Jewish Vampires Cause Them Pleasure

"Let us now examine how the victims' blood is spilled.
For this, a needle-studded barrel is used; this is a
kind of barrel, about the size of the human body,
with extremely sharp needles set in it on all sides.
[These needles] pierce the victim's body, from the
moment he is placed in the barrel."

"These needles do the job, and the victim's blood
drips from him very slowly. Thus, the victim suffers
dreadful torment - torment that affords the Jewish
vampires great delight as they carefully monitor
every detail of the blood-shedding with pleasure
and love that are difficult to comprehend."

"After this barbaric display, the Jews take the
spilled blood, in the bottle set in the bottom
[of the needle-studded barrel], and the Jewish cleric
makes his coreligionists completely happy on their
holiday when he serves them the pastries in which
human blood is mixed."

"There is another way to spill the blood: The victim
can be slaughtered as a sheep is slaughtered, and
his blood collected in a container. Or, the victim's
veins can be slit in several places, letting his
blood drain from his body."

"This blood is very carefully collected - as I
have already noted - by the 'rabbi,' the Jewish
cleric, the chef who specializes in preparing these
kinds of pastries."

"The human race refuses even to look at the Jewish
pastries, let alone prepare them or consume them!"[2]

[1] In the second part of the article (March 12),
the columnist tells the story of the Book of Esther
and concludes, "Since then, the Old Testament, the
Jewish holy book, requires the Jews to glorify this
holiday and show their joy.  This joy can only be
complete with the consumption of pastries mixed
with human blood."
[2] Al-Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), March 10, 2002.
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The Middle East Media Research Institute www.memri.org
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     6.    QUOTES TO NOTE

        "The facts of September 11 made no impression
        whatsoever — either of remorse or of fear that
        most of the killers were Arabs from the Gulf and
        so might invite American reprisals. Listening to
        the Kuwaiti anger you would think that 19 Americans
        had blown up 3,000 Muslims in Mecca and Medina,
        along with 20 acres of the downtown, while in the
        immediate aftermath the American government had
        lectured the grieving Gulf States about their
        improper policies concerning Israel —
        rather than vice versa."

Victor Davis Hanson - National Review
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson031102.shtml

ANOTHER MUNICH?

The analogy that came to most Americans' mind on Sept. 11
was Pearl Harbor. But the perpetrators, not surprisingly,
see matters differently. The excellent Middle East Media and
Research Institute translates an online column by
Abu Ubeid Al-Qurashi, an al Qaeda "activist," who says the
attack was another Munich.

That's Munich 1972, not Munich 1938. The reference,
of course, is to the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and
a German policeman at the Summer Olympics.
Al-Qurashi writes:

     "In truth, the Munich operation was a great
      propaganda strike. Four thousand journalists and
      radio personnel, and two thousand commentators and
      television technicians were there to cover the
      Olympic games; suddenly, they were broadcasting
      the suffering of the Palestinian people. . . .

      While the Munich operation failed to accomplish its
      goals, the New York raid was very well planned, and
      accomplished its planners' goals in full. It
      painfully challenged America, and was an
      unprecedented slap that had, and will still have,
      ramifications for the entire world. Unlike the
      Munich operation, which was limited and had
      limited national demands, the New York raid had
      broad goals and aspirations; it rang the bells of
      restoring Arab and Islamic glory."
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     7. HIGHLIGHT ARTICLES

PALESTINIAN PARADES AND ISRAELI TEARS
Last Saturday, shortly after midnight, Channel 2 broadcast
footage of hundreds of Palestinians marching in a celebratory
parade. The participants waved banners and jumped up and
down in excitement as they applauded the latest news update:
a suicide bomber had blown himself up outside a cafe in
Jerusalem - Eleven innocent families had been torn apart,
their loved ones taken from them in an instant of terror
and death. And all the Palestinian marchers could do in
response was cheer.
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