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To: SOROS who wrote (376)	7/23/2001 2:47:28 PM
From: intothefray3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5569

SOROS, It is true that the 9th of AV is a huge day for Israel. With things the way they are in Israel this is certainly a day to watch. Amazing history. I have been waiting to see what this year brings. good to see your post. Kevin

To: SOROS who wrote (376)	7/24/2001 7:06:01 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 5569

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To: SOROS who wrote (376)	7/30/2001 5:03:25 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5569

asia.dailynews.yahoo.com Sunday, July 29 10:22 PM SGT Israeli riot police, Palestinians clash at Jerusalem holy site JERUSALEM, July 29 (AFP) - Israeli riot police stormed one of the world's holiest sites in Jerusalem on Sunday after Palestinians rained stones down on Jewish worshippers following a provocative rally by extremist Jews. A widely feared bloody showdown was avoided but 18 Palestinians and 15 Israeli police were wounded as one of the most solemn days in the Jewish calendar became a lightning rod for Palestinian frustration and rage. Police used tear gas and stun grenades to quell the violence which erupted around an ultra-nationalist group's bid to lay a symbolic cornerstone for a new Jewish temple, seen by many Arabs as an Israeli bid for control of the city. But the police invasion set off a fresh wave of Palestinian and Arab anger, as tension remains at fever pitch following the death of more than 660 people since the Palestinian uprising began on the very same spot 10 months ago. Twenty-eight Palestinians were arrested in the clashes, which were not as violent as had been feared after Islamic and Arab leaders urged Palestinians to turn out en masse to defend the spot sacred to both Jews and Muslims. "We're now in control of the situation," Jerusalem police commander Mikki Levy told army radio several hours after the clashes erupted. Tension had been building for days after Israel's supreme court gave the Temple Mount Faithful movement permission to bring the stone to the edge of Temple Mount, known to Arabs as al-Haram al-Sharif. The group has long wanted to build a Third Jewish temple at the site, but the court gave the group permission only to bring the 4.5 ton marble stone to the edge of the Old City, from where it was quickly carried away by truck. The group was then blocked by police from entering Temple Mount, where thousands of Jews were praying at the Western Wall, all that remains of the biblical First and Second Jewish temples. But Palestinian outrage over the cornerstone ceremony spilled over as dozens of people began hurling stones at the worshippers, who were evacuated when the riot police stormed in. They were allowed back hours later. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's top aide Nabil Abu Rudeina said the Israeli government bore full responsibility for the "provocations of radical Jews." "They are playing with fire and will only plunge the region into a religious war. It is a pure provocation and a blatant challenge to Arabs, the Muslim world and the international community," he told AFP. The Old City lies in east Jerusalem, claimed by the Arabs as the capital of a future Palestinian state but held by Israel since 1967. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whose controversial visit to the site in late September while opposition leader set off the Palestinian uprising and helped sweep him into office, regularly vows Jerusalem will never be divided. "The police and Ariel Sharon are scared of Arab threats ... but the day of the building of the temple is drawing near," Temple Mount Faithful leader Gershom Salomon shouted through a megaphone after being barred from the site. Abu Rudeina reiterated the Palestinian plea for international observers to monitor the deteriorating situation amid fears the collapse of a mid-June ceasefire and the ongoing violence to could lead to all-out war. At their summit in Italy last week, the Group of Eight leading industrial nations called for "third party monitoring," which Israel opposes as an unacceptable "internationalisation" of the conflict. In towns across the West Bank, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in protest at the temple stone-laying ceremony, some burning Israeli flags and in one case an effigy of Sharon. Two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinians were injured as heavy fighting broke out near the West Bank town of Ramallah, while two other Palestinians were hurt in a separate shooting in the Gaza Strip, sources said. Israeli tanks fired on Palestinian security positions from the village of Surda north of Ramallah as an intense exchange of gunfire pitted Israeli troops and Palestinian security men, Palestinian witnesses said. An Israeli officer was slightly injured in Hebron after gunmen opened fire from the Palestinian neighbourhood of Abu Sneinah, the Israeli army said. Two Palestinian farmers were also injured by Israeli fire near Karni, a crossing point between the Gaza Strip and Israel, hospital sources said. Palestinian sources said Israeli forces opened fire without provocation, but the army said its troops were responding to an attack on soldiers travelling between Karni and the flashpoint Jewish settlement of Netzarim. Police also said a bomb hidden in a water bottle blew up in a pub in Tel Aviv late Saturday, but caused no injuries.