Prime Ministers Netanyahu's subsequent
visit to Washington was conditional upon his acceding to American
demands. There is a great desire at present by both Prime Minister
Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat to attend a summit meeting in the hope of coming
to some agreement about their future.
Root and Branch Association in Israel, which is working actively to
have the U.S. Embassy in Israel moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, released
the following text of a letter from U.S. Senator Jesse Helms to Kaare
Kristiansen (past President of the Norwegian Parliament and former
Norwegian Minister of Oil and Energy, who resigned from the
Nobel Prize Committee when it awarded a Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat):
Dear Mr. Kristiansen, International Chairman, "Embassy
3000" Campaign: I will be honored to be designated a signatory
to the "Embassy 3000" campaign. The U.S. Congress has many
times reaffirmed its view that the united City of Jerusalem is the
capital of the State of Israel. Last year, for the first
time, the Congress successfully mandated that the United States
Embassy to Israel be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. I expect
to see a U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem up and running by the year
2000.
Israel is the only nation in the world that has been denied the right to choose its own capital. This second class citizenship among nations must end. I look forward to working with you, and with my colleagues in the Congress, to encourage all nations to move their embassies to Jerusalem, and to recognize that Holy City as Israel's rightful capital.
Sincerely, Jesse Helms
In the meantime a meeting between Prime
Minister Netanyahu and Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz cemented the
military ties between Israel and Turkey. Ma'ariv newspaper editorialized
today that "the strengthening of strategic ties with Turkey is Israel's
most important diplomatic achievement in the five years that have passed
since the Oslo agreement."
Two Hamas leaders were killed before their apparent departure to carry
out terrorist attack. After a meeting.. of Hamas leaders, the organization's
head Sheikh Yassin said that Hamas will avenge the blood of the two. A general
closure has been placed upon all of Judea and Samaria. The elimination
of the Awadallah brothers has set off a wave of "conspiracy" theories
on the Palestinian street.
American mediator Dennis Ross is still negotiating with
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat.
Palestinian spokesmen were pessimistic about the prospect
of reaching an immediate agreement for a further Israeli territorial
concession. The Israeli security forces instituted the curfew.. after
a bus carrying Jewish worshipers from Joseph's Tomb was shot at. Automatic-weapon
bullet casings were found near the scene.
Leading Palestinian Authority figure Feisal Husseini predicts a
regional war by the middle of next year. In an interview with the Paris
newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur on August 27th, the PA
Minister for Jerusalem Affairs observed that "Oslo is dead
and buried. The Palestinian youth, especially in the refugee camps,
want to start fighting again, and we are having a great deal of
trouble holding them back." He declared, "On May 4,
1999, we
will announce the independence of the Palestinian state, at which time the
Palestinian Authority will forcefully open up our borders with Jordan
and Egypt... there will be violent confrontation and death, but this time
on both sides." Anticipating a question about the Palestinians'
chances of winning such a war, Husseini answered rhetorically,
"The Israelis [are] more numerous and better
equipped... but the superiority of us Palestinians lies in
the fact that we are willing to lay down our lives, whereas for
them every death is a tragedy that society cannot bear. We have no
other solution." Egyptian leadership echoed that they would
join against Israel in the event of a war between the
PA and Israel.
A list of people killed by Palestinian terrorists in the 5 years since
Oslo (279) is larger then the number killed in the 15 years which preceded
the Oslo agreement (254). (condensed from Arutz-7 Reports Sept.11,98)
An alarming trend which was published
in the Ha'aretz Daily. They published the new trend in Israel to mark dogs
and cats with embedded data chips in the body. 80,000 pets have been marked.
The chips contain data of medical history as well as a bar-coded identity
number. There is evidence that this procedure wants to become an international
trend. Read this report from Britain.
BRITAINS stringent anti-rabies quarantine laws are to be swept aside in favor of electronic scanners and animal passports under plans to be published by the Government next week.
A scheme relying on microchip implants that can be electronically monitored, together with documentary proof that animals have been immunized against rabies and other diseases, are among a raft of proposals that could mean the demise of mandatory six-months quarantine for all imported animals.
Under the proposals, animals traveling between designated "low disease risk" countries in Europe and elsewhere would be allowed entry on condition that they were carefully screened on arrival and possibly subjected to blood tests. The Government is likely to back the proposals for a radical overhaul of the increasingly controversial quarantine system, which has been Britain's main front-line defense against rabies for nearly a century...
The Government decided in October last
year to review the current quarantine arrangements after coming under mounting
pressure from animal welfare groups and pet owners, including
Chris Patten, Britain's last Governor of Hong Kong, who complained
about difficulties in returning his family's pet dogs to Britain.
Those complaints, coupled with the decline of rabies in EU countries,
have given added impetus for the reform of the system over the past
two years... (Telegraph
Group Limited 1998,- 9.19.98).
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