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To: jlallen who wrote (11965)	4/11/2002 1:11:06 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

April 11, 2002, 11:49 AM EDT RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's official television and radio stations expect to raise millions of dollars in aid to families of Palestinian "martyrs" in an 11-hour nationwide telethon that began Thursday. The ruling Al Saud family inaugurated the campaign Monday, with King Fahd donating $2.7 million, Crown Prince Abdullah giving $1.35 million and Defense Minister Prince Sultan handing out $800,000. The term "martyrs" often has been used in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to refer to suicide bombers. But the Saudi Embassy in Washington said in a statement to The Associated Press Thursday that the term as used in relation to official Saudi efforts to raise funds for Palestinians referred not to suicide bombers but to "Palestinians who are victimized by Israeli terror and violence." ........... newsday.com

To: jlallen who wrote (11965)	4/11/2002 1:17:59 PM
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(16:10) US Christians start massive prayer campaign for Israel By Ilan Chaim An American Christian leader is reviving a century-old Dutch tradition to show support for Israel and the Jewish people. Michael Evans, an Evangelical minister based in Texas who is the author ofÝseven best-selling books, launched The Jerusalem Prayer Team based on theÝCorrie ten Boom Foundation in Holland, which he also directs. The foundation has restored the ten Boom family’s clock shop in Amsterdam,Ýwhich was the site of weekly prayer meetings for the peace of Jerusalem ledÝby the Christian family from 1844 to 1944, and where they hid Jews theyÝhelped escape from the Nazis. The meetings stopped when family members wereÝarrested by the Gestapo and sent to concentration camps, where most of them died. The ten Booms were instrumental in saving nearly 800 Jews from theÝNazi death camps. ............ jpost.com

To: jlallen who wrote (11965)	4/11/2002 1:20:11 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

(15:30) Jordanian royalty load airlift aid to Palestinians By Jamal Halaby, The Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan's king and queen helped load five helicopters due to fly food and medicine to the Palestinians today. Jordan was awaiting Israeli clearance this afternoon for the helicopters to fly to the West Bank, a senior aide to King Abdullah II said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The shipment would be Jordan's third supply of humanitarian goods to the West Bank in three days. Israeli Embassy spokesman Jacob Raber said Israel was "doing its best to let the aid to the Palestinians cross into the West Bank." He declined to elaborate. The king and Queen Rania - both dressed in mourning black - each carried at least three cartons to the military helicopters at Amman's Marka Air Base. Then they chatted with officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations involved in the air lift. Reporters were kept at bay. Government officials declined to disclose the quantity of the aid, but said it was mainly medicine. Abdullah told UN and nongovernment organizations Wednesday that Jordan had faced difficulties in getting the supplies to Israel. "We are not getting a carte blanche from the Israelis, but we keep hammering on at them," he said. He said Jordan was the first country to "open up an air bridge" to the West Bank. He said unnamed Arab countries were pouring in aid to Jordan for the Palestinians. Abdullah predicted that once Israel ends the military offensive it launched March 29 on the West Bank, "we are going to be on the verge of dealing with a catastrophe there." ............ jpost.com

To: jlallen who wrote (11965)	4/11/2002 1:21:42 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

(13:45) Powell: Proud and pleased to be on ME mission MADRID, Spain - Declaring he was proud and pleased to be on a Mideast peace mission, Secretary of State Colin Powell told Israel today that its military operations against Palestinians on the West Bank would not eliminate the threat of terror. He said frustrations would remain among the Palestinian people that could only be addressed in negotiations. Powell said he spoke with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon while in Madrid to map out the meeting they will hold in Jerusalem on Friday. Asked whether he was on an impossible mission, Powell snapped: "I don't like wallowing with pessimists. It is necessary for me to go." ............ jpost.com

To: jlallen who wrote (11965)	4/11/2002 1:23:14 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

(19:20) Egyptian Foreign Minister to meet Arafat Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will allow Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher to meet with Yasser Arafat Friday in Ramallah. According to the Foreign Ministry, the Egyptians have promised to pressure Arafat to put a stop to terror attacks against Israel and to announce a cease-fire. Kol Israel radio reported that an Egyptian Ministry official claimed Maher will not be going to Ramallah because Egypt was offended for not being granted permission when they initially requested to meet with Arafat. According to the Israel Foreign Ministry, the United States is pressuring Maher to meet with Arafat. jpost.com

To: jlallen who wrote (11965)	4/11/2002 1:25:15 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

(08:00) Barak agrees to help Israel's PR By Gil Hoffman Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has asked his predecessor, Ehud Barak to join the country's information effort. Barak met with Sharon at the Prime Minister's Office for an hour yesterday and agreed to join fellow former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu as a PR emissary of the government. "Prime Minister Sharon and his predecessor discussed various ways in which the latter might continue his involvement in the State of Israel's information efforts in light of the information war now being waged around the world, in parallel with Israel's war against the infrastructures of terrorism," the two said in a joint statement. In a related story, leaders of the American Jewish community have announced plans to hold a major rally this Monday in Washington, DC, in what organizers hope will be the largest demonstration in support of a Jewish cause since hundreds of thousands rallied for Soviet Jewry in the 1970s and 1980s. ........... jpost.com

To: jlallen who wrote (11965)	4/11/2002 1:31:28 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

Quote · Unquote "I came through a month and a half of fighting in Ramallah unscathed and then this happened...I never thought this would happen to me so close to home." A 20 year old Israeli reserve soldier injured in the April 11 bus bombing in northern Israel. ----------------------------------- "The bomb is a clear message that our people will not surrender and will not give up. To (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon and his ministers and generals, we have shown that there is no 'Defensive Shield.'" Ismail Abu Shanab, a Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, claiming Hamas responsibility for the bus bombing. jrep.com

To: jlallen who wrote (11965)	4/11/2002 1:35:47 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

......... The Bush administration is far from being the worst international offender, but it is the most influential. And it has been guilty of long months of, to put it kindly, misjudgment. It has required Israel to sit back and sustain terror attack after Palestinian terror attack -- a series of murderous strikes over the past 18 months that, proportionately, now dwarf even the unthinkable horror of September 11 -- while it geared up for its assault on terrorism elsewhere, in Baghdad. The administration boasted of its success in bringing down one repressive, terror-fostering regime, the Taliban, and killing its most dangerous activists, while spearheading international protests when Israel attempted to limit the terror-inciting potential of another, the Palestinian Authority, and to eliminate its terror-recruiters, bombmakers and gunmen. Even after September 11, it failed to ratchet up the pressure on Arafat to smash Hamas and Islamic Jihad. And if America showed it could tolerate terrorism perpetrated against its one staunch ally in the Middle East -- blandly urging Arafat to "do more" to halt the bombings he was himself inciting, while demanding that Israel stop chasing gunmen and bombers inside Palestinian territory -- then much of Europe and, needless to say, of the Arab world, were more than ready to go the extra step and legitimize the human bombs. How dare President Bush, as yet another bomber struck in central Tel Aviv on March 30, hours after Arafat had again spoken of sacrificing a million martyrs on the road to Jerusalem, still prattle about the need for both sides to strive for peace. ""’.............. jpost.com

To: jlallen who wrote (11965)	4/11/2002 1:39:06 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

Ramallah Plus Ehud Yaari Arafat’s house arrest should be temporary. The threat of expulsion must hang over his head constantly. THE MILITARY CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED BY ISRAEL in the territories over Passover must reach a decisive conclusion. If the operation is stopped half-way by yet another diplomatic quasi-formula, it will be a cardinal failure in Israel’s battle against the Palestinian terrorists. Israel should not expect applause -- there won’t be any -- and mustn’t be put off by condemnation from the international community. It is absolutely imperative to carry on with the showdown until Israel has obtained its goal: the collapse of the terrorist onslaught that has now reached new peaks with four or five suicide bombers setting out every day. Though most, fortunately, are intercepted, those that get through are exacting an intolerable price. The government need not order the reoccupation of the entire territories. Who wants that anyway? It will be enough to impose stricter containment around the Gaza Strip and to "clean out" parts of Bethlehem and Hebron. There is no need to retake quiet towns like Jericho. The main objective should be to wipe out the commands of the armed militias in Ramallah, the intifada capital, and to flush out the fugitives all the way to Nablus. The army doesn’t have to go into that city either, but only to tighten the encirclement around it. Tul Karm, Qalqilya and Jenin can be dealt with by means of intermittent incursions, like those we have seen already. In other words, between the two options of affording the Palestinian Authority complete immunity as before and total reoccupation, there lies a third path that is less dangerous, and undoubtedly more effective than the methods tried so far. It will be critical to maintain the hold on Ramallah over time. Ramallah is the nest where most of the attacks on Jerusalem are hatched, the terrorist nerve center of the West Bank. Paralyzing the terrorism industry there will place a wedge between the Hebron Hills and Samaria, and put a spoke in the wheel of the terror machine as it has been functioning over the past 18 months. Israel must also start to look upon members of the political echelon in Ramallah and elsewhere -- those that shape and direct the attacks or provide the ideological justification for them -- as candidates for arrest or even expulsion. Some of Yasser Arafat’s cronies who came with him from Tunis, for example, have become arch-inciters to terror. There is no reason not to deport types such as Sakhr Habash (Abu Nizar), the veteran ideologue of the armed struggle. Israel must convey the message that such behavior comes with a price. Nor would any great disaster befall us if one or two members of the PA cabinet were among them. The same goes for Arafat himself. The house arrest under which he was being held at press time should only be a temporary measure until another decision is taken about his future. The threat of expulsion must hang over his head constantly. And he ought to be totally secluded from his subordinates, which means no cellphones either. jrep.com

To: jlallen who wrote (11965)	4/11/2002 1:43:20 PM
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Rowhani deplores Israeli crimes in West Bank Tehran, April 10, IRNA -- Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Hassan Rowhani said on Wednesday that grounds are prepared for close cooperation between the Iranian and Indian national security councils to draw up a common strategy following a visit paid by Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to Iran last year. In a meeting with Indian Ambassador to Iran, Pripuran Singh Haer, Rowhani said that the two countries need consultations on regional and global issues to foster cooperation "The Islamic Republic of Iran attaches special importance to India and believes that boosting the level of political, security and defensive cooperation will be useful for peace and stability in the region," Rowhani said. He said that Iran and India exercised good cooperation to help bring about the new situation in Afghanistan. He called for bilateral cooperation to help with reconstruction of Afghanistan, campaign against drug trafficking and replacing poppy cultivation with other crops. "Though, the United States has raised the slogan of campaign against terrorism, but unfortunately, the US is supporting the state terrorism of Israeli prime minister who is perpetrating crimes every day in the Palestinian cities of Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm," Rowhani said. All nations should voice concern about the atrocities being committed by Sharon, he said adding that the world is suffering from double standard and discrimination in the international resolve to fight terrorism. "In addition to the Zionist crimes, the world is witnessing the US administration's ignorance of the international law, its unilateralism and dictatorship that are detrimental to the global peace and security," SNSC secretary said. irna.com

To: jlallen who wrote (11965)	4/11/2002 1:44:47 PM
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Iran and Iraq have exchanged 98% of PoWs: Press Tehran, April 10, IRNA -- Tehran and Baghdad have exchanged 98 percent of their prisoners of war (PoWs) from the 1980-1988 Iraqi-imposed war, press Wednesday cited Iran's head of the office in charge of PoWs and those missing in action, Abdollah Najafi, as saying. The two neighboring countries have swapped 99,766 of their PoWs since the end of the destructive war, Najafi said, adding some of the Iranian prisoners in Iraq had either died or been martyred while in captivity. "The bodies of 1,200 Iraqi PoWs who have died of natural causes will also be handed over to related officials of that country," the Persian daily Hamshahri quoted him as saying. The issue of prisoners of war and those missing in action (MiAs) has been one of the major stumbling block to the normalization of ties between Tehran and Baghdad since they ended the war with a ceasefire. The Islamic Republic says some 2,500 of its forces are still held in Iraqi prisons and refutes Baghdad's claims that it holds nearly 30,000 Iraqi soldiers. The two sides are also to determine the fate of those prisoners who have sought asylum in their respective countries and do not want to return to their country of origin. .......... irna.com