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Thursday, January 05, 2006

New effort seeks 'biblical heartland' to break away for own sovereignty

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Friday, January 6, 2006



FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Jewish groups urge:
Secede from Israel

New effort seeks 'biblical heartland' to break away for own sovereignty

Posted: January 6, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein


© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

JERUSALEM – A new movement is set to be presented next week by residents of Judea and Samaria calling for Jews there to secede from Israel and create their own autonomous Jewish entity in part to head off the possibility of further unilateral Israeli withdrawals from the area, WND has learned.

The Judea Initiative, led by northern Samaria resident Yekutel Ben Yaacov, is seeking to gather signatures from Judea and Samaria's nearly 200,000 Jews for a manifesto declaring the creation of a sovereign Jewish authority that would govern itself independently according to Jewish law and would provide its own security.

Judea and Samaria are referred to by some as the West Bank, the name coined for the area after Jordan annexed it in 1948.

The initiative aims to create the new Jewish authority in any part of Judea and Samaria, even a small settlement, in hopes of eventually ruling the entire territory, Ben Yaacov said, explaining his initiative was prompted by talks of possible Israeli withdrawals from the area.

"We can't sit around and wait until Israel sends the bulldozers to take down Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria before attempting to counter the next Israeli withdrawal. We are acting now so we can retain our rightful biblical heritage," Ben Yaacov told WND.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon withdrew Israel's Jewish communities from the Gaza Strip last summer in spite of fierce opposition from members of his own Likud party. He recently announced he was leaving Likud to start his own "centrist" party, Kadima, prompting new elections currently scheduled for March. Since then, multiple Kadima members have told reporters the new party is looking to change Israel's borders with possible withdrawals from Judea and Samaria. There have been talks of disengagements from parts of Jerusalem as well.

It's unclear as yet how Sharon's massive stroke this week and his inability to govern will affect the future politics of Israel.

Currently, Judea and Samaria, inhabited by about 2.4 million Palestinians, is considered landlocked territory not officially recognized as part of any country. Israel calls the land "disputed." The United Nations claims Judea and Samaria is "occupied" by Israel, which maintains overall control of most of the area while the Palestinian Authority has jurisdiction in about 40 percent.

Judea and Samaria remained under Jordanian rule from 1948 until Israel captured the territory in 1967 after Jordan's King Hussein ignored Israeli pleas for his country to stay out of the Six Day War. Most countries rejected Jordan's initial claim on the area, which it formally renounced in 1988.

Ben Yaacov says his Judea Initiative takes advantage of Judea and Samaria's murky legal status to argue for independent Jewish sovereignty.

"Legally it's a no-man's land. The Palestinians used that status to create their own authority, so there is absolutely no reason the Jews can't do the same thing."

Ben Yaacov's group, Mishalot Israel, is holding a conference next week in Jerusalem's Old City to present the Judea Initiative. It will then begin petitioning both private citizens and entire communities to join.

He says already he has garnered interest from local residents and some town leaders.

"The plan hasn't even been announced or presented and already I am getting a lot of phone calls from people and at least one town that wants to sign on. They are hearing about it by word of mouth," Ben Yaacov said. "The area is the site of a lot of the Bible and has had a Jewish population for centuries. We will not allow the Israeli government to kick us out."

Many villages in the Judea and Samaria area, which Israelis commonly reefer to as the "biblical heartland," are mentioned throughout the Old Testament.

The Book of Genesis says Abraham entered Israel at Shechem (Nablus) and received God's promise of land for his offspring.


Jacob dreamed of angels on a stairway leading to heaven

The nearby town of Beit El, anciently called Bethel meaning "house of God," is where Scripture says patriarch Jacob slept on a stone pillow and dreamed of angels ascending and descending a stairway to heaven. In that dream, God spoke directly to Jacob and reaffirmed the promise of territory.

And in Exodus, the holy tabernacle rested in Shilo, which is believed to be the first area the ancient Israelites settled after fleeing Egypt.

Ben Yaacov said his new Jewish authority would be "governed by Jewish law. Non-Jews, including Palestinians, are more than welcome to live there as long as they accept Jewish sovereign and agree to abide by the Seven Noahide laws, the most basic of biblical dictates."

He said the annexed territory would provide for its own security.

"A large contingent of Judea and Samaria residents served in the Israeli army. They currently defend their own settlements to a large extent. We would base ours on the same concept as Israeli security. Immediately after Israel was founded, it was attacked on all sides and it won every war because of the help of God and because of the same people we have with us."

The initiative states there are three primary reasons to form a Jewish authority in Judea and Samaria:

  • "The new Jewish authority will protect Israel from terror and enhance Israeli security. It is more advantageous to have Jewish autonomy in Judea and Samaria in place of complete Palestinian autonomy, which will give the Palestinian terrorist groups more land from which to fire Qassams and launch attacks. The Jews who remain in the area will be accepting a certain level of self-sacrifice by putting themselves in harms way."

  • "The creation of a Jewish authority will relieve tension and prevent bloodshed between Jew and fellow Jew by halting an Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. There are hundreds of thousands of Jews in the area, some of whom may use violent resistance in the face of any withdrawal. It will also alleviate some of the tension and rifts that would be created in Israeli society by any withdrawal."

  • "The new Jewish authority will offer appropriate self-determination to fulfil the national aspirations of many religious Jews in Israel. The area will be ruled by Torah law as opposed to the current anti-religious government."

    Ben Yaacov's Judea Initiative is not the first major push for Jews to secede from Israel. In 1989, the late author and Knesset member Rabbi Meir Kahane, a mentor of Ben Yaacov, attempted to found the State of Judea, a Jewish state in Judea and Samaria. That effort eventually fell through.

    "Ours is different in that we are starting small," explained Ben Yaacov. "We are not talking about our own state, just an entity or authority, however small or large it will be."

    Reacting to the news of calls for Jews to create their own authority, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told WorldNetDaily, "This is the chaos and lawlessness [the Palestinian Authority] has warned about. If the Israeli government does not get its act together concerning the settlers, who by the way are armed to the teeth and acting like a parallel authority, the price will be paid in Palestinian blood."

    Israeli government spokesmen Raanan Gissin and David Baker refused to comment on the issue.

    Said Ben Yaacov, "There may be resistance at first, but eventually people will come to understand a lot of Jews in Judea and Samaria will not go along with any further withdrawals. Now those Jews will have a solution."

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    Aaron Klein is WorldNetDaily's Jerusalem bureau chief, whose past interview subjects have included Yasser Arafat, Ehud Barak, Mahmoud al-Zahar and leaders of the Taliban.

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    Iran leader's messianic endtimes mission

    Friday, January 6, 2006



    FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
    Iran leader's messianic endtimes mission
    Ahmadinejad raises concerns with mystical visions

    Posted: January 6, 2006
    1:00 a.m. Eastern

    Editor's note: This story is adapted from the latest issue of Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the weekly, online, premium intelligence newsletter published by the founder of WND. Annual subscriptions to G2 Bulletin have been cut in half to just $99, which includes a copy of Farah's new paperback edition of "Taking America Back." In addition, monthly trial subscriptions are available for just $9.95.


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    Iranian President Mahmoud's Ahmadinejad's mystical pre-occupation with the coming of a Shiite Islamic messiah figure – the Mahdi – is raising concerns that a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic could trigger the kind of global conflagration he envisions will set the stage for the end of the world.

    While Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been making headlines lately by questioning whether the Holocaust actually happened, by suggesting Israel should be moved to Europe and by demanding the Jewish state be wiped off the face of the earth, his apocalyptic religious zealotry has received less attention.

    In a videotaped meeting with Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli in Tehran, Ahmadinejad discussed candidly a strange, paranormal experience he had while addressing the United Nations in New York last September.

    He recounts how he found himself bathed in light throughout the speech. But this wasn't the light directed at the podium by the U.N. and television cameras. It was, he said, a light from heaven.


    Ahmadinejad at the U.N.

    According to a transcript of his comments, obtained and translated by Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, Ahmadinejad wasn't the only one who noticed the unearthly light. One of his aides brought it to his attention.

    The Iranian president recalled being told about it by one of his delegation: "When you began with the words ‘in the name of Allah,' I saw a light coming, surrounding you and protecting you to the end."

    Ahmadinejad agreed that he sensed the same thing.

    "On the last day when I was speaking, one of our group told me that when I started to say 'Bismillah Muhammad,' he saw a green light come from around me, and I was placed inside this aura," he says. "I felt it myself. I felt that the atmosphere suddenly changed, and for those 27 or 28 minutes, all the leaders of the world did not blink. When I say they didn't move an eyelid, I'm not exaggerating. They were looking as if a hand was holding them there, and had just opened their eyes – Alhamdulillah!"

    Ahmadinejad's "vision" at the U.N. is strangely reminiscent and alarmingly similar to statements he has made about his personal role in ushering in the return of the Shiite Muslim messiah.

    He sees his main mission, as he recounted in a Nov. 16 speech in Tehran, as to "pave the path for the glorious reappearance of Imam Mahdi, may Allah hasten his reappearance."

    According to Shiites, the 12th imam disappeared as a child in the year 941. When he returns, they believe, he will reign on earth for seven years, before bringing about a final judgment and the end of the world.

    Ahmadinejad is urging Iranians to prepare for the coming of the Mahdi by turning the country into a mighty and advanced Islamic society and by avoiding the corruption and excesses of the West.

    All Iran is buzzing about the Mahdi, the 12th imam and the role Iran and Ahmadinejad are playing in his anticipated return. There's a new messiah hotline. There are news agencies especially devoted to the latest developments.

    "People are anxious to know when and how will He rise; what they must do to receive this worldwide salvation," says Ali Lari, a cleric at the Bright Future Institute in Iran's religious center of Qom. "The timing is not clear, but the conditions are more specific," he adds. "There is a saying: 'When the students are ready, the teacher will come.'"

    For his part, Ahmadinejad is living up to at least part of his call to the faithful. According to reports, he lives so modestly that declared assets include only a 30-year-old car, an even older house and an empty bank account.

    Ahmadinejad and others in Iran are deadly serious about the imminent return of the 12th imam, who will prompt a global battle between good and evil (with striking parallels to biblical accounts of "Armageddon").

    An institute set up in 2004 for the study and dissemination of information about the Mahdi now has a staff of 160 and influence in the schools and children's magazines.

    In Iran, theologians say endtimes beliefs appeal to one-fifth of the population. And the Jamkaran mosque east of Qom, 60 miles south of Tehran, is where the link between devotees and the Mahdi is closest.

    Ahmadinejad's cabinet has given $17 million to Jamkaran.

    Shiite writings describe events surrounding the return of the Mahdi in apocalyptic terms. In one scenario, the forces of evil would come from Syria and Iraq and clash with forces of good from Iran. The battle would commence at Kufa – the Iraqi town near the holy city of Najaf.

    Even more controversial is Ahmadinejad's repeated invocation of Imam Mahdi, known as "the Savior of Times." According to Shiite tradition, Imam Mahdi will appear on Judgment Day to herald a truly just government.

    Missed by some observers in Ahmadinejad's speech at the U.N. was his call to the "mighty Lord" to hasten the emergence of "the promised one," the one who "will fill this world with justice and peace."

    Who stands in the Mahdi's way?

    A top priority of Ahmadinejad is "to challenge America, which is trying to impose itself as the final salvation of the human being, and insert its unjust state [in the region]," says Hamidreza Taraghi, head of the conservative Islamic Coalition Society.

    Taraghi says the U.S. is "trying to place itself as the new Mahdi." This may mean no peace with Iran, he adds, "unless America changes its hegemonic ... thinking, doesn't use nuclear weapons, [or] impose its will on other nations."

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    in this issue
  • Parasha
    of the Week
  • Update on Us
  • Psalm 106:1
  • Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
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  • Funny Spelling

  • Update on Us

    Shabbat shalom.
    A Happy and a Blessed New Year to all!

    This week was wonderful! It began on Sunday which we spent almost entirely in the Presence of G-d. We worshipped at High Point Church in their 11 am service. The praise and worship was so incredible that the pastor, after coming to the pulpit and arranging his notes for his message, finally told us, "Ya'll are into what I told the folks in the early service we would see this year at High Point. If you want to hear the word of the L-rd, come to the first service, but if you want to live it out, come to this one!" He did not preach! We worshipped G-d for over two hours and it felt like only a few minutes. After the service, we went to the home of some folks we had met there last week for lunch and to another service at a Spanish- speaking church pastored by friends of theirs. There was a guest speaker that afternoon; a dear friend, Rabbi Steve Jaslow, whom we have known and loved for over 15 years. In fact, Carol & I brought the Torah scroll for his congregation back from Israel for them. Anyway, as we entered, the very first song was the same one that had captured the heart of G- d and the hearts of the people at High Point that morning.

    While pondering this, I was led to find the scriptural source of the lyrics, which were, "G-d is so good and His mercy endures forever." One place it is found is in Psalm 106. This brought to my recollection the words of another pastor friend of ours, Charles Burchett. He postured that the word of the L-rd for 2005 was found in Psalm 105 and that for 2006, we should study Psalm 106. I had actually thought this a bit contrived and trivial until faced with this dual phenomenon on Sunday. I began to read and to study this Psalm like I had never done before. I was so convinced that this is the word of the L-rd for us for this year, that I am beginning a study that will take us well into the fall; it is a verse by verse study of Psalm 106. This will not replace my Torah teachings, but will only be something that G-d is doing that I will share with you each week, bezrat HaShem (with the help of G-d).

    I pray that you are blessed in this study as I expect to be as I seek out the hidden treasures in His word and share them with those who are seeking after the sesame richness.
    Keep praying.
    Marty


    Psalm 106:1
    Western Wall

    Hallelujah! Hodo l'Adonai kiy tov; kiy la'olam chasdoe.
    We praise the L-rd! Give thanks to the L-rd for He is good; His mercy endures forever.


    Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
    Ariel and Ehud

    As we close this week, it is with great heaviness that I report that Ariel Sharon is near death. Those close to him report that even if he survives, the powerhouse of life in Israel has ended his political career. He suffered another stroke and has severe bleeding in his brain and the prognosis is grim.

    Ehud Olmert, the past mayor of Jerusalem and career politician has taken the role of leading the country through this very difficult time. With Sharon out of the picture, the upcoming elections in March are anybody's game. Likud leader "Bibi" Netanyahu now looks like the front runner, but in a nation of over 20 political parties, anything can happen in the next two months.

    So, pray like you have never prayed before. Pray for peace that surpasses understanding in the government of Israel and among its diverse population. Pray that the slippery path to peace with the Arabs will not be destroyed, but only reshaped. Pray for the family of Ariel Sharon and for all who love him. And pray that all of Israel would know the peace that can only come through knowing the Prince of Peace.
    Keep praying.


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    Please do not send us your tithe. That belongs in the storehouse in which you are normally fed. I know that a few of you feel that we are your normal place where you taste and see that the L-rd is good. To you, please do as the L-rd directs. But most of you are members of local churches and that is where your tithe belongs.

    But, we do need your support at some level. Each week, I send this message to almost 2000 people around the world. One man in the Ukraine translates it into Russian and uses it for a weekly Torah study he leads. Another in Columbia uses my teaching in Spanish in every mid week service. But of those to whom this is sent, sadly, only about 400 of you read the lessons I work on every week. Truthfully, that is enough. If only one or two were gaining something from my labor, I would continue to do so.

    To you who are there faithful, I ask that you prayerfully consider supporting us at this time. We really do need your financial support to continue to do what we have been called to do. Yes, we now have regular jobs which pay us regularly as you do. But, to continue to maintain the websites and the services that we use to reach out to you week after week, we need to have your involvement. Please become a part of these weekly meetings that are going on in Russia and in Columbia. Please be a part of all that the L-rd continues to do through our teaching. Please send a gift of life to us now. Please send it to Messianic Messages and mail it to the address in this week's email message.

    If you cannot send us a financial gift at this time, then please commit to pray for those who can that they will do so soon. And all of you, please pray for us every week when you get this message and as you do, pray for the peace of Jerusalem and that all Israel will soon recognize the Prince of Peace, whose birth we will be celebrating soon.
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    Funny Spelling

    You probably noticed that I hyphenate the Name of the Holy One, and I use an apostrophe in the Name of His Son. This is in keeping with an ancient Jewish custom of never writing the Holy Name lest it be profaned or taken in vain. I hope this is not too distracting. The One whom I serve is holy and holy is His Name.



    Parasha
    of the Week

    Shabbat shalom.

    You may click on either the picture of the Torah or on the link at the end of this article to the teaching of the weekly Torah portion, taught from a Christian perspective.

    Although most churches hear the word of G- d each week from their preacher, few of them teach from the same passage of scripture on any given week.

    In synagogues across the world, every week, the same portion of Torah and the Prophets are read. In recent years, many Messianic congregations have added a part from the Brit Hadasha, the New Testament.

    Each week, in this place, I will teach a lesson from this weekly parasha (portion). My goal is not to make you more Jewish; my goal is to make you more connected to the people to whom G-d says shall all be saved when fullness comes to the Gentiles.

    It is my prayer that this weekly teaching will give you a particular connection to those to whom you are sent to provoke to jealousy. Perhaps your being familiar with the same portion of scripture that they may be reading this week will help you to do that.

    So read The Rest of The Message to find this week's teaching from this week's portion in the Torah, Vayigash, which is found in Genesis 44:18 through 47:27...

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    Chicken Industry Plans to Test Flocks

    Chicken Industry Plans to Test Flocks
    Jan 05 7:23 PM US/Eastern
     

    WASHINGTON

    Seeking to reassure people that chicken is safe to eat, companies that raise chickens said Thursday they will test every flock for bird flu before the birds are slaughtered.

    Companies that account for more than 90 percent of the nearly 10 billion chickens produced in 2005 in the U.S. have signed up for the testing program and said it expects more to follow, according to the National Chicken Council, a trade group that represents producers.

    "We just want to assure people of the safety of the food supply," council spokesman Richard Lobb said.

    Consumption of chicken in the U.S. has held steady despite worries about a bird flu strain that has infected millions of birds throughout Asia and parts of Europe and has killed 74 people.

    The average person in the U.S. ate 85 pounds of chicken last year, compared with 84 pounds in 2004, according to the Agriculture Department.

    Chicken prices at the grocery store have dropped in recent months, mostly because production is up and exports are down, said David Harvey, a poultry analyst for the department's Economic Research Service.

    The council did not say what companies are participating, although Lobb said, "Practically all the big ones are in it." Tyson Foods Inc. has more than one-quarter of the market, followed by Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Gold Kist Inc. and Perdue Farms Inc.

    Tyson has been testing for bird flu and expanded efforts last fall, spokesman Gary Mickelson said. The company now tests all of its flocks and conducts 15,000 tests each week, he said. Pilgrim's Pride said Thursday it was joining in the testing program.

    Lobb said many companies already are testing ahead of the program's start on Jan. 16. The program is voluntary. Companies will cover the costs; the council said it does not have cost estimates.

    Georgia-based Fieldale Farms will spend "couple hundred thousand dollars a year," on testing, executive vice president Tom Hensley said.

    "It's a big number to a little chicken company in Georgia, but it's worth every cent," Hensley said. Fieldale started the tests last month.

    The plan is for 11 birds to be tested from each chicken flock, or farm. The council said the average flock has 55,000 to 60,000 chickens and that there are an estimated 150,000 flocks produced year. That would mean more than 1.6 million chickens would be tested.

    Blood test samples from 11 birds would provide a confidence level of 95 percent of detecting an infection in a flock where 25 percent of birds are infected, said a government expert, Andrew R. Rhorer. He heads the department's National Poultry Improvement Plan, which focuses on disease prevention.

    A consumer group said the testing, while a good first step, should be required of every company that raises chickens.

    "For the industry to step up like this and start the testing program is a very important improvement," said Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "But it's critical that USDA ensure that all chicken producers are complying with the same requirements."

    She urged wider testing of birds, saying "a 99 percent confidence level would be better."

    Samples will be collected on farms and tested at state or industry- certified laboratories.

    If testing turns up the most virulent form, or any H5 or H7 strain that can mutate into virulent forms, and results are confirmed by the department's premier lab, in Ames, Iowa, the flock will be destroyed on the farm, Lobb said. None of the birds from the affected farm will enter the food chain, the council said.

    The virulent form of bird flu in Asia has not been found in the U.S. and is only now spreading into Eastern Europe. Authorities there say that cooking kills the virus. Health officials in the U.S. say it is safe to eat poultry that is properly handled and cooked.

    Bird flu can spread to chickens, ducks, turkeys and other domestic birds through direct contact with infected waterfowl or other poultry, or contact with contaminated cages, egg crates, water or feed, according to the department. Even the dirt or manure on shoes, clothing or tires can be tracked from one farm to another and transmit the virus.

    In bird flu outbreaks among poultry, anywhere from 90 percent to 100 percent of the birds can die from infection. In outbreaks, poultry farms typically are quarantined and the birds slaughtered.

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    On the Net:

    Agriculture Department: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/birdbiosecurity/

    National Chicken Council: http://www.nationalchickencouncil.com/

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    06/01/2006 0:56:16
    Shalom, Pastor Dan Catlin

    **Hospital: Ariel Sharon in serious but stable condition
    **Bush 'praying' for PM; Abbas watching with 'great worry'
    **Olmert: A difficult hour for all of us
    **Economic & High-Tech Briefs

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    **Hospital: Ariel Sharon in serious but stable condition

    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will remain under heavy sedation and on a
    respirator for at least 24 more hours, and continues to be in serious but
    stable condition, the director of Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem,
    Jerusalem said Thursday, a day after he suffered an "extensive" stroke and a
    massive brain hemorrhage, HAARETZ reported.
    Neurosurgeons had fought to stabilize Sharon's condition and stop new
    bleeding detected in his brain Thursday morning, more than eight hours after
    the prime minister was rushed into emergency surgery.
    A statement from the hospital at 5 P.M. Thursday said that there had been no
    change in his condition. The hospital was to give a further update at 8 P.M.
    "The situation is still serious, but it's stable," Hadassah chief Shlomo
    Mor-Yosef said earlier, as Sharon lay in intensive care.
    "All the parameters... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part
    of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in
    the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours."
    Sharon suffered a massive stroke Wednesday and underwent prolonged surgery
    overnight to stop widespread bleeding in the brain. After the surgery, he
    was moved to the intensive care unit, where he was in "deep sedation," said
    hospital director Shlomo Mor-Yosef.
    Mor-Yosef also addressed rumors sweeping the country that Sharon's condition
    is far worse than described by his doctors.
    "I came here first to update you and second to stop the rumors that are
    flooding the country," he said. "I pledge that every change in the prime
    minister's condition will be announced in a statement by Hadassah."
    Sharon emerged from hours of surgery Thursday morning with vital signs
    showing "functional and stable" levels, and with a CT scan showing that the
    bleeding in his brain had been halted. But the prime minister's condition
    remained grave, Mor-Yosef said. "The prime minister had a CT scan that
    showed that the bleeding has stopped," Mor-Yosef told reporters at the
    entrance to the Jerusalem hospital. "He was then put in the neurological
    emergency unit for observation."
    According to Mor-Yosef, "All vital signs are functional and stable. The
    prime minister is in critical condition." There was no word as to the damage
    Sharon may have suffered.
    Last Night:
    Sharon was rushed to Hadassah Ein Karem shortly before 11 P.M. last night
    after feeling chest pains, less than three weeks after suffering a mild
    stroke. He arrived by ambulance from his Sycamore Ranch in the Negev after
    an hour-plus drive, and was taken into the hospital's emergency room, where
    he was scheduled to undergo a cardiac catheterization this afternoon.
    Sharon had finished working at 3 P.M. yesterday, after which he went to his
    ranch. He was slated to begin fasting at midnight last night in preparation
    for the heart procedure.
    A medical team gathered around Sharon, who was accompanied by his son Omri,
    as he was brought out of the ambulance, and witnesses said he entered on a
    stretcher. Shortly after Sharon had departed for the hospital, his aide
    Ra'anan Gissin told CNN that Sharon had some chest discomfort. "Apparently
    when he went back to his farm this evening he felt slight pains in the chest
    and some weakness, and in the presence of his doctor, and upon his advice,
    he said he should be taken to the hospital," Gissin said.
    A Hadassah spokesman announced that the prime minister was in the trauma
    unit, where he was undergoing a series of examinations. The hospital
    entrance was filled with police cars and security forces to prevent access
    to Sharon.
    Sharon, 77, is extremely overweight, but doctors who checked him after his
    December 18 stroke found him to be otherwise in good health. Doctors said he
    would not suffer long-term effects from the stroke, but they discovered a
    birth defect in his heart that apparently had contributed to it.

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    **Bush 'praying' for PM; Abbas watching with 'great worry'

    Get well wishes from world leaders to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon continued
    to pour today, as the prime minister emerged from eight hours of surgery at
    a Jerusalem hospital after suffering a "significant stroke" and a cerebral
    hemorrhage, HAARETZ reported.
    The Arab world displayed mixed responses to the reports of Sharon's health;
    while the Palestinian militant groups expressed satisfaction, some Arab
    commentators praised the prime minister for last summer's disengagement from
    Gaza. United States President George W. Bush said that he was praying for
    the prime minister.
    "Laura and I share the concerns of the Israeli people about Prime Minister
    Ariel Sharon's health, and we are praying for his recovery," Bush said in a
    written statement. "Prime Minister Sharon is a man of courage and peace. On
    behalf of all Americans, we send our best wishes and hopes to the prime
    minister and his family," Bush said.
    In a separate statement, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said: "Our
    thoughts and prayers are with Prime Minister Sharon, his family, and the
    Israeli people. We wish the prime minister a full recovery."
    A statement from British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that he was "deeply
    concerned" by the prime minister's illness, and had sent a "personal
    goodwill message" to Sharon, his family and Interim Prime Minister Ehud
    Olmert.
    Arab world watches closely:
    Pan-Arab satellite television broadcasters beamed out largely
    straightforward, nonstop live coverage early Thursday from outside the
    Jerusalem hospital where Ariel Sharon struggled for his life.
    Sharon's illness cast a huge shadow across the political life of the region,
    where the Palestinians were to vote in parliamentary elections January 25
    and Israel is slated to hold a nationwide vote on March 28.
    Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in Ramalllah that he was
    following Ariel Sharon's condition with "great worry."
    Other officials from the Palestinian Authority voiced concern for the future
    of the peace process in Sharon's possible absence.
    "On a purely humanitarian level we feel sorry for Mr. Sharon," said
    Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nabil Sha'ath.
    "Politically it will increase the uncertainty we are facing to get back to
    the peace process," he said. "It is highly unpredictable to tell what will
    happen."
    A Palestinian commentator on the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya network offered
    Sharon unexpected praise as "the first Israeli leader who stopped claiming
    Israel had a right to all of the Palestinians' land," a reference to the
    recent withdrawal from Gaza.
    "A live Sharon is better for the Palestinians now, despite all the crimes he
    has committed against us," said Ghazi al-Saadi.
    But a radical Palestinian leader in Damascus, the Syrian capital, called
    Sharon's health crisis a gift from God.
    "We say it frankly that God is great and is able to exact revenge on this
    butcher. ... We thank God for this gift he presented to us on this new
    year," Ahmed Jibril, leader of the Syrian-backed faction Popular Front for
    the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a small radical group, told the
    Associated Press.
    Aide praises PM's strength:
    Sharon spokesman Ra'anan Gissin praised the premier's strength. "I have been
    working with the prime minister for the last 10 years. I can tell you, he's
    a warrior, he's a real fighter. He's fought many battles in his life and won
    them all. We hope that he will win this battle as well," Gissin said.
    Israel's Ashkenazi and Sephardic chief rabbis called on Jews to recite
    psalms and pray for Sharon's health.
    "We are very, very worried," said Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, and
    prayed for "mercy from Heaven."
    The Shas party's spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, was also praying for
    the prime minister, party leader MK Eli Yishai said.
    Former prime minister Shimon Peres, who had recently left the Labor party to
    support Sharon's Kadima, said, "I am praying for his recovery."

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    **Olmert: A difficult hour for all of us

    Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convened a special government session
    Thursday morning meant to demonstrate Israel is not facing a power vacuum as
    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon clings to life at a Jerusalem hospital, YNET
    reported.
    "This is a difficult hour for all of us and a situation we're unfamiliar
    with," Olmert said at the start of the session. "We're all praying at this
    time for the prime minister's wellbeing. From here, we're sending a hug to
    his sons Gilad and Omri, and praying for his wellbeing."
    "Arik is not only a leader, but a close friend of all of us. This is a
    difficult hour and we'll face it together," the acting prime minister said.
    Justice Minister and leading Kadima member Tzipi Livni said that "like every
    citizen in Israel, I and all other government ministers are praying for the
    prime minister's wellbeing."
    "The message coming out of this government session, beyond the prayers and
    hope, is that the government functions. I will do everything in my power to
    help the acting prime minister function, lead this government, take the
    right decisions, and I'm certain my fellow ministers will do the same,"
    Livni said.
    "The main issue in the session is that the State of Israel continues to be
    managed as a strong democracy," Transportation Minister Meir Sheetrit said
    at the session's opening. All Likud ministers, who were set to quit the
    government Sunday, are also in attendance.
    Thursday morning, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu announced the decision to
    quit the government will be suspended until further notice.
    "We're in, we have national responsibility, and this is not the time to talk
    about quitting," a senior Likud member said.
    For the time being, Olmert will be holding no less than 12 government
    portfolios, after stepping in for Sharon.

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    **Economic & High-Tech Briefs

    Governor of the Bank of Israel Prof. Stanley Fischer is calming the markets
    after they plummeted on news of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's condition,
    GLOBES reported. "So far the markets are functioning well in the light of
    the circumstances, and the Bank of Israel will continue to monitor their
    developments," said Fischer. Fischer spoke with Acting Prime Minister and
    Minister of Finance Ehud Olmert. They agreed that Israel's macroeconomic,
    fiscal and monetary policies would continue. They emphasized that
    cooperation between the Bank of Israel, Ministry of Finance and the
    government would continue as usual. The Ministry of Finance is doing
    everything possible to carry on business as usual. Ministry of Finance
    director general Dr. Joseph Bachar is coordinating activity and managing
    economic affairs. He is in continuous contact with Olmert. Bachar is also in
    continuous contact with Fischer, who is considered an economic anchor.
    Several top Ministry of Finance officials have altered their schedule to
    closely monitor economic developments, especially in the capital and foreign
    currency markets.

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    Israeli media.

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    Fw: [endtimes-news-events] The Most High rules in the kingdom of men


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    >
    > Jerusalem Newswire
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    > The Most High rules in the kingdom of men
    > By Stan Goodenough
    > January 5th, 2006
    > As I write this, Ariel Sharon is lying on an operating table in a
    > Jerusalem hospital, fighting for his life after suffering a massive stroke
    > and intense cerebral hemorrhaging.
    > The news of his collapse shocked all who heard about it, sending many
    > people to prayer for his recovery and well being.
    > Senior officials close to Sharon have expressed pessimism about whether
    > the prime minister will survive the night.
    > Speculation on all the Israeli and major international news networks is
    > rife, even frenzied, as to the impact Sharon's illness will have on the
    > upcoming Israeli elections in the short term and on the Israeli-Arab peace
    > process in the long term.
    > Sharon is "one of the most important prime ministers Israel has ever had,"
    > according to Ha'aretz reporter Ari Shavit.
    > He is "a crucial man at a crucial time," said CNN's Jonathan Mann.
    > His being incapacitated at this time "is sure to throw Israeli politics
    > and Middle East peacemaking into turmoil" predicted one of Mann's
    > colleagues.
    > "All the world's leaders are watching very closely what is happening in
    > Jerusalem," added the network's John Vause.
    > And as expressions of concern for Sharon and for the peace process were
    > being aired from the White House to 10 Downing Street and from Paris to
    > Beijing, expressions of consternation and anxiety were being voiced by
    > many "experts" at the prospect of former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu
    > being returned to power in March.
    > Sky News' Emma Hurd unleashed a stream of negative opinion about
    > Netanyahu, portraying him as an enemy of the "peace process" and the last
    > man anyone with hopes for "progress" in the diplomatic process would want
    > to see win.
    > Leftist Israeli journalist and senior fellow at the Jaffee Center for
    > Strategic Studies Hirsh Goodman described Netanyahu as a man whose
    > policies are diametrically opposed to Sharon's and under whose leadership
    > the Road Map "peace" plan would bog down.
    > Whatever those who influence opinion and policy feel about Sharon and
    > Netanyahu, the irrefutable fact is that on Wednesday morning, according to
    > polls published in the Israeli press, Netanyahu and his Likud were
    > considered almost certain losers in the upcoming elections, while Sharon
    > was believed to be a shoe in; his party enjoying the prospect of a 42 seat
    > majority and being able to move forward largely unimpeded with Sharon's
    > "disengagement" policy.
    > In the matter of just a few hours the whole picture has been transformed,
    > the predictable future has become unpredictable. Sharon is on his way
    > down. Netanyahu is on his way up.
    > In 1991, when this writer first came to live and work in Jerusalem, Ariel
    > Sharon, Israel's greatest warrior, was considered unelectable. The shadow
    > of the misnamed Lebanon War (actually Operation Peace for Galilee) and the
    > massacres carried out by Israel's allies in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee
    > camps had made the then Defense Minister loathsome in the eyes of the
    > majority of the electorate, all but assuring that he would never be able
    > to run for the premiership.
    > Back then, and in the ensuing years as the people of Israel were sucked
    > into the Oslo Process, with the resulting erosion of their national
    > security and escalation in terrorism, evangelical Christians in Israel and
    > abroad prayed for the "impossible" - that God would keep Sharon in good
    > health and place him at Israel's helm.
    > Surely "the warrior" would shatter the land-for-peace mirage and
    > re-establish Israel's security parameters, extending Jewish rule deep into
    > Israel's biblical land?
    > The "impossible" did happen. Sharon became prime minister in 2001, riding
    > into office on a wave of votes appealing for security after Oslo exploded
    > in the 2ndintifada and funerals for Israeli victims of terrorism went off
    > the charts.
    > High hopes were pinned on Sharon. They were dashed. Last year saw the
    > "father of the Israeli settler movement" abandon the Gaza Strip to the
    > Arabs in what he explained was the beginning of a process of
    > "disengagement" from the "Palestinians."
    > Sharon's willingness to proceed with the forced removal of his people from
    > their homes in Gaza pushed hundreds of thousands of Jews to prayer. Untold
    > numbers of Christians, too, went to prayer for divine intervention.
    > God-fearing men, women and children proclaimed their belief that the
    > "disengagement" would never take place; that the Almighty would step in
    > and perform a miracle.
    > The miracle never came, and just over four months ago the world watched
    > and applauded, while many believers watched and wept, as Jewish
    > communities were erased from the map of Gaza, and thousands of Israelis
    > became refugees in their own land at the hands of their own government.
    > There is no doubt that the prayers and tears reached to heaven, and were
    > heard there. God, Whose ways are not our ways, did not step in to prevent
    > the expulsion. He has, however, stepped in now.
    > As Prime Minister, Sharon was frequently heard to express his belief that
    > "no one" could tell him how to run the country; "no one" could teach him
    > what he needed to know to provide security for his people; "no one" would
    > tell him what to do.
    > This very afternoon, just hours before he was felled by his second stroke,
    > Sharon declared his intention to - after the elections he was so sure he
    > would win - continue to "disengage," letting go great swathes of Judea and
    > Samaria, Israel's biblical heartland, and pulling his nation behind a
    > "security wall" while enabling the State of Palestine to be established on
    > the other side.
    > If the medical and political experts flooding the airwaves tonight are
    > only partially correct in their estimations, this is a policy Sharon will
    > never be able to carry out.
    > He has been unseated; the reins of power have been taken from his hands.
    > As a colleague told me in reaction this evening: "It is hard to ignore the
    > fact that after so many years of being so strong, Sharon suddenly goes
    > down just months after dividing the land and promising to do so again."
    > Who will replace him? This is the question now uppermost in people's
    > minds. Could it be Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu? What about Ehud Olmert;
    > Tzipi Livni; Amir Peretz?
    > As the prophet Daniel wrote thousands of years ago, there is One Who will
    > decide:
    > He removes kings and raises up kings; (Daniel 2:20-21)
    > "[T]he Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He
    > chooses." (Daniel 4:32)
    > Our faith is in Him, not in man. May God have mercy and show compassion to
    > Mr. Sharon, restoring him to health and strength.
    > And may He raise up the man He purposes to lead Israel into the critical
    > and "uncharted" future.
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    > 2006/01/06 03:39 M 5.9 PANAMA Z= 10km 6.59N 82.27W
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    With Sharon out of the picture what's next?

    With Sharon out of the picture what’s next?
    Posted: Thursday, January 05, 2006
    - written by jerry golden

     

    No one including this Messenger knows just how this will play out one thing is certain Sharon is no longer the moving force in his new party Kadima on in Israeli politics.  Daily we will all wake to a new reality, for 24 hours in Israeli politics is a very long time.  One thing is certain no one is happy about Ehud Olmert being in charge of this country, this is a man who wasn’t able to run the city of Jerusalem and no one thinks for a minute that he is the right man for Prime Minister.  In fact he is 33 on the Likud list and the only reason he was deputy PM is Sharon knew he had 100% control over him, he is a Sharon crony with little to no backing in the Knesset.  With Sharon out of the picture Olmert will soon find himself in deep trouble within the Kadima party.   The real problem is with the election March 28th there just isn’t time for a battle for position in the Kadima Party and there is no way this ego maniac will step aside without a fight, mostly because he loves the attention it will bring him. 

     

    With all the corrupt MK’s that followed Sharon into his new Kadima Party this will create a very serious vacuum, many are by this time trying to figure out a way to ask Netanyahu for forgiveness and hopefully move back to Likud.  This will put Netanyahu into another dilemma he needs desperately to gain strength in a very short period of time in order to beat out the Labor Party before March 28th,  the only possibility for Netanyahu too become Prime Ministry is for Likud to regain seats in the Knesset.  Netanyahu has a hard battle ahead of him, not the least of them is to regain the confidence of the Israeli public as most regard him as a weak leader and the one who started this land for peace, opening the door for Oslo that brought us so much death and destruction.  I’ve heard him say he has learnt his lesson and some of us are inclined to believe that.  But then what option do we have now, with a new Kadima Party full of corruption and a Labor Party with a leader with absolutely no experience to qualify him to be Prime Minister. 

     

    The real problem will be to make the Settlers (300,000 votes) believe that he won’t destroy their Zionist dreams and force another Disengagement on them.  That he won’t divide Jerusalem and that he will deal with the Islamic Palestinian terrorists in the right way to stop this insane murdering of Jews.   He has less then 3 months to do all the above if he wants to be Prime Minister.  It seems as if God has handed him a golden opportunity by removing Sharon, knowing that the Kadima Party was built entirely around one man who the entire country knew to be corrupt.  The interesting thing is the country was still willing vote for this corrupt crime figure anyway, it took an act of God to stop it. 

     

    One thing is certain Bush is now wondering what is about to happen in Israel and if he has lost his control over the political situation.  For while he and Sharon worked hand in hand to set up a terrorist state in Gaza while at the same time telling the world that he cannot allow Iraq to become a terrorist state.  Now with Iran getting close to the point of launching nuclear missiles at Israel, possibly Turkey and parts of Europe, Israel finds itself in a struggle for the heart and soul of the nation.  With secular and spiritual forces trying to take over, it would seem that the enemies of Israel would perceive this as an opportune time to strike with all their strength. 

     

    Egypt has discovered in the past 24 hours that the Palestinians are beyond control and have even had their own Egyptian soldiers killed by Palestinian terrorist on the Rafah border crossing.  But it’s no secret that Egypt has only one main goal and that is to get their army into the Sinai and as close to Israel as possible to launch the next offensive against Israel. 

     

    Hizbullah on our northern borders have been armed with a reported 15,000 missiles, and after this last little battle a month ago they discovered they needed a new type of weapon to take out the Israel tanks and they got it,

     

    Iran shipped this Russian tank killer in for the next time

     

     

     

    With Bashar Assad in deep trouble with the UN and the US he is looking at ways to heat up the Israeli war on the borders with Lebanon.

     

    In the mean time the Saudis are pouring the money into Hamas and Islamic Jihad and telling them to start killing Jews that Israel must be destroyed.  With unemployment in Gaza running over 50% the only jobs available are Hamas and Islamic Jihad.  So for many it is not a matter of religion but one of economics and if they had another opportunity they might consider it.  But that same money that pays the terrorist is also paying for the propaganda in the school systems that from kindergarten to college teaches them that all Jews must be killed.  That it is better to die for Allah than to live with the Jews. 

     

    With Sharon under life support in Hadassah Hospital and Olmert setting in the PM office not only the political situation seems to be in doubt but the survival of the country as well. 

     

    But we are talking about the Apple of God’s eye, and we Jews made a mess out of everything we have touched in Israel with Jerusalem to become the burdensome stone and cup of trembling God told us it would be.  As we move into the coming months many things will happen none of which will we like.

     

    The one thing I believe will happen outside of Israel is terrorist attacks and ecological disasters to take the eyes off Jerusalem as the Devil tries to do his dirty work.  But those of us who have read God’s Word and ask the Ruach Ha Koddesh (Holy Spirit) to show us the truth know that the real battle to set up Armageddon happens here in Israel.  God will gather His people to this place He promised them as an everlasting covenant.   For He has touched the hearts of men like myself to prepare to assist as many as we possibly can.  God has also touched the hearts of His special elect to assist and many reading this have felt that tug in the spirit to become part of this ministry. 

     

    I labor under no false misconception for the knowledge of what is about to come is a reality in my heart.  The greatest reality is the presence of God and His Spirit for there is no place for fear in His presence and daily we must strive to be in the place God has prepared for us.  There is no safer place for one to be than in God presence.  I pray for you as you read this that you will be alone with God asking Him to set your priorities in place and give you directions in all things concerning your relationship with Him for time is much shorter than any of us are aware, and even correspondence such as this could be interrupted at any time now.

     

    To be sure I’ve made my feeling known in regards to the elections this March 28th.  Any vote for any party other than Likud is a vote for disaster, for as it stands right now Netanyahu is the only possible candidate for Prime Minister who may be able to lead this country out of this mess.  And in case it hasn’t hit home to some reading this yet, when Israel goes so goes the world, for as far as God is concerned Jerusalem is the center of the world.  

     

    Pray for the peace of Jerusalem for our son Joel, for all the IDF soldiers.  Pray for all those who have come to fight the Islamic enemy.  Pray for this Ministry and your part in it.  Shalom, jerry golden


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    Fw: [answering-islam] Re: Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets A Death Sentence Here and Abroad

     
    Scientists studying the biological effects of uranium in the 1960s reported that it targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as "spectacular" and a matter of concern."

    This evidence shows that of the three effects which DU has on biological systems - radiation, chemical and particulate - the particulate effect from nano-size particles is the most dominant one immediately after exposure and targets the Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU causes a myriad of diseases which are difficult to define.

    In simple words, DU "trashes the body." When asked if the main purpose for using it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more specific:
    "I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people." ****
     
    In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know that they aren't telling us? I know that depleted uranium is a death sentence. For all of us. We will all die in silent ways.
     
    Liz
    January, 2006
     
    Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets A Death Sentence Here and Abroad
    By Leuren Moret
    At an April press conference, a group of New York Army National Guard vets raised their hands when asked if they have health problems. The soldiers, all from the 442nd Military Police Company, are complaining of headaches and fatigue after what they think is exposure to depleted uranium during their recent tour in Iraq.

    "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." - Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam"

    Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the US has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like Agent Orange, meets the US government definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Vast regions in the Middle East and Central Asia have been permanently contaminated with radiation.

    And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that "Gulf-era veterans" now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.
    This week the American Free Press dropped a "dirty bomb" on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 US military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.

    Since these soldiers were exposed to vaccines and depleted uranium (DU) only, this is strong evidence for researchers and scientists working on this issue, that DU is the definitive cause of Gulf War Syndrome. Vaccines are not known to cause cancer. One of the first published researchers on Gulf War Syndrome, who also served in 1991 in Iraq, Dr. Andras KorŽnyi-Both, is in agreement with Barbara Goodno from the Department of Defense's Deployment Health Support Directorate, that in this war soldiers were not exposed to chemicals, pesticides, bioagents or other suspect causes this time to confuse the issue.

    This powerful new evidence is blowing holes in the cover-up perpetrated by the Pentagon and three presidential administrations ever since DU was first used in 1991 in the Persian Gulf War. Fourteen years after the introduction of DU on the battlefield in 1991, the long-term effects have revealed that DU is a death sentence and very nasty stuff.

    Scientists studying the biological effects of uranium in the 1960s reported that it targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical chemist retired from the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and formerly involved with the Manhattan Project, interprets the new and rapid malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as "spectacular" and a matter of concern."

    This evidence shows that of the three effects which DU has on biological systems - radiation, chemical and particulate - the particulate effect from nano-size particles is the most dominant one immediately after exposure and targets the Master Code in the DNA. This is bad news, but it explains why DU causes a myriad of diseases which are difficult to define.

    In simple words, DU "trashes the body." When asked if the main purpose for using it was for destroying things and killing people, Fulk was more specific: "I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people."

    Soldiers developing malignancies so quickly since 2003 can be expected to develop multiple cancers from independent causes. This phenomenon has been reported by doctors in hospitals treating civilians following NATO bombing with DU in Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the US military invasion of Iraq using DU for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this phenomenon of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been unknown until now and is a new syndrome associated with internal DU exposure.

    Just 467 US personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers who served now have medical problems.

    The number of disabled vets reported up to 2000 has been increasing by 43,000 every year. Brad Flohr of the Department of Veterans Affairs told American Free Press that he believes there are more disabled vets now than even after World War II.


    They brought it home
    Not only were soldiers exposed to DU on and off the battlefields, but they brought it home. DU in the semen of soldiers internally contaminated their wives, partners and girlfriends. Tragically, some women in their 20s and 30s who were sexual partners of exposed soldiers developed endometriosis and were forced to have hysterectomies because of health problems.

    In a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects. They were born with missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune system and blood diseases. In some veterans' families now, the only normal or healthy members of the family are the children born before the war.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has stated that they do not keep records of birth defects occurring in families of veterans.


    How did they hide it?
    Before a new weapons system can be used, it must be fully tested. The blueprint for depleted uranium weapons is a 1943 declassified document from the Manhattan Project.

    Harvard President and physicist James B. Conant, who developed poison gas in World War I, was brought into the Manhattan Project by the father of presidential candidate John Kerry. Kerry's father served at a high level in the Manhattan Project and was a CIA agent.

    Conant was chair of the S-1 Poison Gas Committee, which recommended developing poison gas weapons from the radioactive trash of the atomic bomb project in World War II. At that time, it was known that radioactive materials dispersed in bombs from the air, from land vehicles or on the battlefield produced very fine radioactive dust which would penetrate all protective clothing, any gas mask or filter or the skin. By contaminating the lungs and blood, it could kill or cause illness very quickly.

    They also recommended it as a permanent terrain contaminant, which could be used to destroy populations by contaminating water supplies and agricultural land with the radioactive dust.

    The first DU weapons system was developed for the Navy in 1968, and DU weapons were given to and used by Israel in 1973 under US supervision in the Yom Kippur war against the Arabs.

    The Phalanx weapons system, using DU, was tested on the USS Bigelow out of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in 1977, and DU weapons have been sold by the US to 29 countries.

    Military research report summaries detail the testing of DU from 1974-1999 at military testing grounds, bombing and gunnery ranges and at civilian labs under contract. Today 42 states are contaminated with DU from manufacture, testing and deployment.

    Women living around these facilities have reported increases in endometriosis, birth defects in babies, leukemia in children and cancers and other diseases in adults. Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia cluster in the US over the past decade. The military denies that DU is the cause.

    The medical profession has been active in the cover-up - just as they were in hiding the effects from the American public - of low level radiation from atmospheric testing and nuclear power plants. A medical doctor in Northern California reported being trained by the Pentagon with other doctors, months before the 2003 war started, to diagnose and treat soldiers returning from the 2003 war for mental problems only. Medical professionals in hospitals and facilities treating returning soldiers were threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about the soldiers or their medical problems. They were also threatened with jail.

    Reporters have also been prevented access to more than 14,000 medically evacuated soldiers flown nightly since the 2003 war in C-150s from Germany who are brought to Walter Reed Hospital near Washington, DC

    Dr. Robert Gould, former president of the Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), has contacted three medical doctors since February 2004, after I had been invited to speak about DU. Dr. Katharine Thomasson, president of the Oregon chapter of the PSR, informed me that Dr. Gould had contacted her and tried to convince her to cancel her invitation for me to speak about DU at Portland State University on April 12. Although I was able to do a presentation, Dr. Thomasson told me I could only talk about DU in Oregon "and nothing overseas. nothing political."

    Dr. Gould also contacted and discouraged Dr. Ross Wilcox in Toronto, Canada, from inviting me to speak to Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), the Canadian equivalent of PSR, several months later. When that didn't work, he contacted Dr. Allan Connoly, the Canadian national president of PGS, who was able to cancel my invitation and nearly succeeded in preventing Dr. Wilcox, his own member, from showing photos and presenting details on civilians suffering from DU exposure and cancer provided to him by doctors in southern Iraq.

    Dr. Janette Sherman, a former and long-standing member of PSR, reported that she finally quit some time after being invited to lunch by a new PSR executive administrator. After the woman had pumped Dr. Sherman for information all through lunch about her position on key issues, the woman informed Dr. Sherman that her last job had been with the CIA.

    How was the truth about DU hidden from military personnel serving in successive DU wars? Before his tragic death, Sen. Paul Wellstone informed Joyce Riley, R.N., B.S.N., executive director of the American Gulf War Veterans Association, that 95 percent of Gulf War veterans had been recycled out of the military by 1995. Any of those continuing in military service were isolated from each other, preventing critical information being transferred to new troops. The "next DU war" had already been planned, and those planning it wanted "no skunk at the garden party."


    The US has a dirty (DU) little (CIA) secret

    A new book just published at the American Free Press by Michael Collins Piper, "The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America's Neo-Conservative Trotskyites Came to Power and Orchestrated the War Against Iraq as the First Step in Their Drive for Global Empire," details the early plans for a war against the Arab world by Henry Kissinger and the neo-cons in the late 1960s and early 1970s. That just happens to coincide with getting the DU "show on the road" and the oil crisis in the Middle East, which caused concern not only to President Nixon. The British had been plotting and scheming for control of the oil in Iraq for decades since first using poison gas on the Iraqis and Kurds in 1912.

    The book details the creation of the neo-cons by their "godfather" and Trotsky lover Irving Kristol, who pushed for a "war against terrorism" long before 9/11 and was lavishly funded for years by the CIA. His son, William Kristol, is one of the most influential men in the United States.

    Both are public relations men for the Israeli lobby's neo-conservative network, with strong ties to Rupert Murdoch. Kissinger also has ties to this network and the Carlyle Group, who, one could say, have facilitated these homicidal wars beginning from the time former President Bush took office. It would be easy to say that we are recycling World Wars I and II, with the same faces.

    When I asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret Capt. John McCarthy, who could have devised this omnicidal plan to use DU to destroy the genetic code and genetic future of large populations of Arabs and Moslems in the Middle East and Central Asia - just coincidentally the areas where most of the world's oil deposits are located - he replied: "It has all the handprints of Henry Kissinger."

    In Zbignew Brzezinski's book "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives," the map of the Eurasian chessboard includes four regions strategic to US foreign policy. The "South" region corresponds precisely to the regions now contaminated permanently with radiation from US bombs, missiles and bullets made with thousands of tons of DU.

    A Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that 800 tons of DU is the atomicity equivalent of 83,000 Nagasaki bombs. The US has used more DU since 1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs. Four nuclear wars indeed, and 10 times the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere from atmospheric testing!

    No wonder our soldiers, their families and the people of the Middle East, Yugoslavia and Central Asia are sick. But as Henry Kissinger said after Vietnam when our soldiers came home ill from Agent Orange, "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used for foreign policy."

    Unfortunately, more and more of those soldiers are men and women with brown skin. And unfortunately, the DU radioactive dust will be carried around the world and deposited in our environments just as the "smog of war" from the 1991 Gulf War was found in deposits in South America, the Himalayas and Hawaii.

    In June 2003, the World Health Organization announced in a press release that global cancer rates will increase 50 percent by 2020. What else do they know that they aren't telling us? I know that depleted uranium is a death sentence. For all of us. We will all die in silent ways.

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    Leuren Moret is a geoscientist who has worked around the world on radiation issues, educating citizens, the media, members of parliaments and Congress and other officials. She became a whistleblower in 1991 at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab after experiencing major science fraud on the Yucca Mountain Project. An environmental commissioner in the City of Berkeley, she can be reached at leurenmoret@yahoo.com.


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    Fw: URGENT - ISRAEL IN CRISIS - PLEASE PRAY

     
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    Dear Robert,

    Due to the health crisis of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, former Mayor of Jerusalem and a friend of the Jerusalem Prayer Team, Ehud Olmert, has become the acting Prime Minister of Israel. Please pray for him.

    While mayor of Jerusalem, my dear friend Ehud Olmert flew to Dallas, Texas to speak at the first Jerusalem Prayer Summit. As acting Prime Minister, Ehud desperately needs the prayers and support of the Jerusalem Prayer Team, as does the nation of Israel.

    As you know, Israel faces crises on several different fronts. Iran looms large on the horizon due to the threats made against Israel by the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In Ahmadinejad’s opinion, the tiny nation of Israel should be “wiped off the face of the earth.” With his rush to possess nuclear weapon capabilities, Admadinejad could be armed and even more dangerous within the next 12 months. The missiles are ready to launch.

    Not only is Israel facing the threat from Iran, but closer to home, there is the threat of 10,000 missiles and 100,000 Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and now, al-Qaeda terrorists next door in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territory.

    Please pray today for Prime Minister Sharon, for acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and for the nation of Israel.

    Should I have to go to Israel quickly, I would like to be able to take your words of support and comfort to Mr. Olmert and the nation of Israel. You may send a brief email of support to jpteam@sbcglobal.net.

    These are perilous times for Israel and for the world. I did not realize when God called me to a 21-day fast just how important this time would be.

    America is asleep. We must launch a national campaign to awaken this nation. It is imperative that I hire a media company to book network shows to get the word out about the crisis with Iran, the threat to Israel and America, and to mobilize millions of prayer warriors (Esthers and Nehemiahs). The simple fact is that one nuclear suitcase bomb in Tel Aviv could kill half a million Jews. Please send your largest gift today to help us launch this campaign.

    Your ambassador to Jerusalem,

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    Pastor to Pastor, Focus on the Family, Ministries

     
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    This was mailed to me and received today......very interesting, sources are;; Pastor to Pastor, Focus on the Family, Ministries Today, Charisma Magazine, TNT Ministries and a few other respected ministries.
     
    1,500 pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout or contention in their church.
    4,000 new churches begin each year, over 7,000 churches will close.
    50% of pastors marriages will end in divorce.
    70% of pastors constantly fight depression.
    80% of pastors and 84% of their spouses feel unqualified and discouraged in their role as pastors.
    95% of pastors do not regularly pray with their spouse.
    70% of pastors do not have a close friend, confidant or mentor.
    50% are so discouraged that they would leave the ministry if they could, but have no other way to make a living.
    80% of pastors surveyed spend less than 15 minutes a day in prayer.
    70% said the only time they spend studying the Word is when they are preparing their sermons.
    Almost 40% polled said they had a extra-marital affair since beginning their ministry.
    80% of seminary and Bible school graduates who enter the ministry will leave the ministry within the first 5 years.
    80% of pastor's spouses feel their spouse if overworked.
    80% of adult children of pastors surveyed have had to seek professional help for depression.
    90% of pastors said their seminary or Bible school training did only a fair to poor job preparing them for ministry.
    85% said their greatest problem is they are sick and tired of dealing with problem people, such as elders, deacons, worship leaders, worship teams board members and associate pastors.
    90% said the hardest thing about ministry is dealing with uncooperative people.
    70% of pastors feel grossly underpaid.
    80% of pastors wives feel left out and unappreciated by the church members.
    90% said the ministry was completely different than they thought it would be before they entered ministry.
    70% felt God called them to pastoral ministry before their ministry began, but after 3 years of ministry, only 50% still felt called.
    80% of pastors spouses wish their spouse would choose another profession.
    80% of pastors' wives feel pressured to do things and be something in the church that they really are not.
    The majority of pastors; wives surveyed said that the most destructive event that has occurred in their marriage and family was the day they entered the ministry.

    Fw: Stratfor Public Policy Intelligence Report

     
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    PUBLIC POLICY INTELLIGENCE REPORT
    01.05.2006

    From Divestment to Dialogue: Driving Trends in Corporate Campaigns

    By Bart Mongoven

    Under pressure from student groups and human-rights advocates, the University of Michigan announced Dec. 30 that it will divest its endowment from the Coca-Cola Co. The divestment will have little impact on the company itself, since the university owns only a small percentage of Coke's shares and the shares sold off will dissipate quickly into the market. The symbolic value of the move, however, is important: This is a statement by a credible institution that those pressing for divestment are correct and that Coke, in its eyes, has done something wrong. In this case, the university claims Coca-Cola is unwilling to look further into claims that the company was involved in the murders of labor agitators in Colombia throughout the 1990s, or objectionable water-use issues in India.

    As the University of Michigan was making its announcement, a coalition of religious investors -- the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) -- unveiled a slate of resolutions they have put forward to be voted on at Wal-Mart's annual shareholder meeting in June. The ICCR resolutions reflect a wide range of social, ideological and labor-oriented complaints that have gained public attention over the past 18 months -- including Wal-Mart's policies governing health care, equal opportunity advancement and executive compensation. ICCR members plan to use the shares they own to confront the company about certain practices, to engage in a dialogue with senior management and to bring their demands to the attention of other shareholders.

    These two strategies reflect two extremes of ways shareholders can communicate with management. At one end of the spectrum, the action by the University of Michigan harkens back to the history of divestment campaigning -- which was particularly strong in the United States during the 1980s as dozens of universities and religiously oriented retirement funds divested from companies doing business in South Africa. The number of shareholders taking such action was significant -- and when combined with boycotts and other forms of pressure, it changed corporate attitudes toward doing business in apartheid-era South Africa.

    Since the end of apartheid, however, divestment campaigns have rarely succeeded in changing company or global policies, and the popularity of divestment strategy among activist groups, consequently, has waned.

    Although the ultimate goal of corporate campaigns has always been to provoke public outrage, activists as varied as the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and ICCR have come to realize that it is a lot easier to foster exasperation and eventual weariness among targeted executives than to actually get American consumers to feel or act on anger about something other than the price and quality of the products they buy. Furthermore, it is much more likely that a corporate change will occur if pressure is put on systemic practices, rather than -- as in the anti-Coke campaign -- through allegations of a particular incident, details of which can be argued back and forth.

    Therefore, the popularity and effectiveness of shareholder activism has grown in the past five years in the context of a more flexible strategy of engagement by critics with their corporate targets. More and more often, activists who object to a corporation or a specific corporate practice are looking for ways to open up dialogue with corporate management. They view these conversations as critical to two important goals:

    1. Winning important concessions that bring society closer to their preferred public policy; and

    2. Gaining recognition as a legitimate voice and a credible opponent.

    The first goal is axiomatic. The second represents the most interesting recent change in how critics of corporate policy are beginning to shift the rules by which most companies and observers have played.

    For instance, RAN -- which began as a direct-action group focused on saving the rain forest from timber companies -- long was viewed as a fairly typical radical organization. It blocked roads and hung banners from buildings accusing various corporations of acts of malfeasance. Over time, however, the organization began seeking ways to engage the corporations that they were criticizing, rather than simply haranguing them from a distance. RAN discovered it could be a far more successful organization when it had strategies in place both inside and outside the target corporation -- with different initiatives appealing simultaneously to the public and to management. RAN certainly remains radical -- and it is apparently proud to maintain that characterization -- but it is also now working back-room deals with major financial institutions against which it never ran a public campaign, never hung a banner. In the corporate world, RAN is increasingly an inside group.

    This raises a critical question whose answer will be determined, if experience is any guide, during the next 18 months or so: Can a group remain radical while playing an "inside" strategy?

    Answering this question requires, in part, explaining what we mean by "radical." We do not use this term to designate those who "hang off a bridge with a sign" or "blockade a ship or a road." Instead, it is a statement about the organization's objectives and outlook. Radicals can wear Birkenstocks, but they also can wear suits. If a group's overarching objective is dramatic, such as a fundamental restructuring of society or the overthrow of contemporary norms, we consider it radical. If its objective is to work within the system for reform of the system, it is not radical.

    For example, some climate change activists would like to see hybrid vehicles take over the market -- and they are realists. Others fight in hopes of making the automobile extinct altogether. They are radicals. Some corporate campaigners would like to see corporations bound by codes of conduct. They are realists. Others would like to see the current understanding of corporate law and the rights of businesses to free speech revoked in favor of a politicized public charter. They are radicals.

    This question is not important for nomenclature purposes, but rather because many groups, including RAN, label themselves as "radical" because that positions them in a certain stratum among nongovernmental organizations, and they need to maintain that public identity to ensure a continued flow of funds and energized volunteers. Unlike an individual, however, a group must fight to maintain an image of being "radical." And of course, this generates a question that now is beginning to be examined in various activist circles: Can a group that expends significant energy in making deals with companies be viewed as radical?

    For now, however, ICCR is succeeding with little pressure from the activist community to take a more radical stance toward businesses.

    After years of refining its approach, ICCR has achieved a powerful combination of idealist objectives and realistic methods. The approach did not always appear practical, but after years of filing resolutions and giving speeches in annual shareholder meetings before generally antagonistic boards of directors, the tone has begun to change. ICCR now shrewdly couches its arguments in terms of financial risks and benefits to a target company. While it would be easy to assume that the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke (the group that organized the University of Michigan divestment campaign) would just as soon see the entire soft drink industry go bankrupt as change its labor and water policies, company representatives and shareholder activists have been building communication and trust on the shared vision of leading Coke to a position of influence and leadership on corporate responsibility issues.

    Further illustrating the success of this strategy, Ford and Disney provided speakers who were featured at ICCR's annual conference last fall. Increasingly, resolutions are being withdrawn by activists following dialogue aided by PowerPoint presentations in conference rooms, rather than going to a shareholder vote while people dressed in animal costumes scream outside the building. Yet the screamers and costumes and pranks and full-page ads in The New York Times remain an intrinsic part of the shareholder activism approach. Without the risk of such publicly unpleasant or embarrassing activities, the leverage waged by activists in the boardrooms eventually would fade.

    As ICCR-style engagement becomes more entrenched, we likely will see a gradual shifting in norms of corporate behavior -- an area where the bar has been set by codes of conduct and attitudes made transparent through sustainability reports that become ever more revealing and specific. Yet at the same time, the ideal of stakeholder empowerment -- the notion of lending a voice to the disenfranchised yet affected people within the sphere of activities of corporations -- will appear to be compromised to the point of betrayal as the shareholder activists seem to become a brokers of power in their own right, with all the attendant suspicion this brings. Shareholder activism will never convince Coca-Cola to admit fault or change policy in relation to the abuse charges in Colombia and India.

    Ultimately, a new outsider voice for the concerns of civil society will arise in opposition to the insider socially responsible investment movement, with a new strategy for engagement. This strategy will not be campus activism tied to divestment campaigns -- these are the tools of the past. The tools of the future have not yet developed sufficiently to be completely understood, but they will surface in large part as a critique of engagement approaches. The proponents of these strategies will have learned from what has worked in the past, and will build on successful styles. Eventually, we will see challenges arise to engagement as the predominant activist tool for policy change, and the result may be an advocacy style far closer to that of radical animal rights activists than to ICCR.

    This new breed of activists will have to make the case that the capitalist system itself cannot be salvaged and needs to be disrupted -- perhaps even violently. The successes of groups like ICCR, however, will lead corporations toward new levels of responsibility, making it more difficult for radicals to appeal to the center with stories of abuse. Ultimately, the new radical breeds likely will fail to gain sufficient traction to emerge as a significant player in public policy.

    Therefore, what we are observing now is precisely what the most radical opponents of cooperative engagement currently fear most: its success.

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    Fw: [Freemanlist] Martin Peretz - Peace after Sharon

     
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    Jewish World Review Jan. 5, 2006 /5 Teves, 5766
    ‘Peace’ after Sharon
    By Martin Peretz



    http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | "The only thing that's going to solve this," Steven Spielberg told Time magazine, "is rational minds, a lot of sitting and talking until you're blue in the gills." This, I suppose, is what goes for heavy thinking in Hollywood.

    Imagine Dreamworks negotiating with Paramount if the lat! ter were continually shooting up the former. So maybe before the Israelis and Palestinians sit down with each other  —  as they've done innumerable times over the years, at Camp David and Oslo and secret hideouts for very long periods, even producing hopes that many credulous folk took for real  —  the Palestinians should sit down just with one another and decide whether they truly are a nation and what that nation promises its people. And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd have been a pushcart.

    The fact is that, as no-nonsense Golda said many years ago, the Arabs of Palestine don't behave like a nation. No, this doesn't mean they shouldn't have a state. All kinds of rumps have states, and just about every one of these states is represented at the United Nations  —  where many of them cover for each other over the mortal crimes they inflict on their own populations, like Libya for Sudan, or, for that matter, China for virtually every violato! r of human rights on the planet. Actually, a fictive Palestine has already been counted as a virtual member state for decades, and this has given first Arafat and now his successors the standing to hijack the proceedings of the General Assembly so that much of its business has been devoted to how awfully the Jews treat the Arabs. And, in any case, haven't the Palestinians already declared their independence at least twice?

    Now, it's not as if the Palestinians agree as to who represents them, not by a long shot. A significant percentage believes there is nothing to talk about anyway, except possibly the practical details of Israel's dissolution. Of course, the Israeli government negotiates with the Palestinian Authority, mostly under the auspices of Washington, although for some reason Russia, the European Union, and even the United Nations are occasionally made to feel that they are also playing hostess. But the P.A. has very little authority, and it seems sometimes t! o revel in its helplessness, likely as an explanation of why it can't enforce the few arrangements to which it has agreed. It's not surprising that, in such a circumstance, the peace-process interlopers are always looking for someone else to jump start the process.

    For years, the liberal professoriat in America had anointed Edward Said in the role. But he turned out to be a yarn spinner: His much retailed personal history of exile was intricately fabricated. Then there was Hanan Ashrawi who has plumb disappeared, more or less, with the death of Peter Jennings and the disappearance of Ted Koppel.

    All through this period, there was also the truly upright personage of Sari Nusseibeh, made to compete with these two unguent-incendiaries. Nusseibeh is, after all, a serious intellectual (B.A. from Christ Church, Oxford; PhD from Harvard) and a genuinely moderate man. He shows up at whatever meeting is convened to advance the peace process with Israel. Alas, he carrie! s little weight among his own. He knows this himself, the point having been amply made when he was beaten up at his own Bir Zeit University during the first intifada.

    So, in the year when the Palestinians were finally sorting out what happens after Yasir Arafat, Nusseibeh was my neighbor in Cambridge crafting a memoir with some trusted scribe at the Radcliffe Institute. His alleged sins are not all his own. His family was widely respected through the ages, which is why its members have been custodians of the keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre since the twelfth century. They were especially trusted by the British and the Jordanians, in itself transgressions according to the other dominant locals, especially the Husseinis  —  from which tree both Arafat and Haj Amin, the notorious Hitler ally installed by the Crown's ever-accommodating Jewish High Commissioner as the first "Grand" Mufti of Jerusalem, hailed. The Husseinis still carry enormous weight among th! e clans and tribes of Palestine, sort of capo de capo.

    You don't hear much about these bewildering social formations until a long-festering inter-family (or intra-family) feud suddenly erupts and blood is shed, as it has recently with special regularity in Gaza. Journalists and academics somehow think it patronizing to recognize these antiquarian kinship groups with their raw emotions as political actors when their rhetoric strains so pompously to modernity. It would be especially insulting since their Jewish antagonists are the quintessential carriers of progress in the Middle East, those damned Zionists with their advanced science-based economy, independent judiciary, free press, hi-tech military in which individual soldiers still take responsibility and command respect, and promotion in the ranks by competence and ingenuity in the defense activities of the state.

    But political allegiances among the Palestinians are cemented by just those more primitive ! ; —  which is to say, primal  —  ties. G-d only knows why you can talk about these with regard to Sicily but not when it comes to Palestine. In any case, the truth is that Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Aqsa, the Popular Resistance Committee, and other armed gangs and ganglets of the national movement, such as it is, are each defined partly by ideology, partly by bloodlines. A whole village may vote for the headman's pick, which until he tells you is anyone's guess.

    The withdrawal from Gaza by Israel was supposed to be a test. OK, not of everything but of something. Take your pick. That the hudna (ceasefire) would hold. It didn't. Islamic Jihad hadn't even signed on to the contract. It carried out several successful terrorist attacks and day in, day out launched rockets from Gaza deeper and deeper into pre-1967 Israel. But, in a way, even more serious is the fact that the most protracted war by Qassam projectiles was waged by armed elements of Fatah, ! the P.A. president's own political party.

    What about security undertakings with regard to Gaza's border with Egypt?

    Again a failure.

    Weapons and terrorists have surged, not seeped, through the frontier that is also "guaranteed" by various European well-wishers. Is there elemental public order on the streets?

    Not at all.

    What about the assumption that there would be sufficient pressure from the Palestinian public for the P.A. to feel obliged to take control of the streets? Not enough pressure or not enough will to take control. The P.A. is still the most heavily armed force in Gaza. No matter: Militias battle police, police battle other police, gangs brawl with other gangs; there are revenge killings, aimless killings, kidnappings, bombings, clubbings, mutilations, some pointless, some unmistakably pointed. Chaos rules in Gaza, utter mayhem. "It appears as if Gaza has degenerated into anarchy," explains CNN.

    There has ! been a steady outflow of pro-Palestinian NGO personnel from the Strip, some out of panic, some from a realization that the Palestinian revolution, so called, is animated by bloodlust. According to The Times of London, one British aid worker who was recently held hostage by gunmen for three days told her kidnappers, "I came to work with these people and I feel like I've been stabbed in the back." Is this the future of Palestine?

    The present P.A. seems desperately to want to find an excuse for postponing parliamentary elections in Gaza and the West Bank. It may have found a pretext in Israel's stated refusal to allow voting to take place in Jerusalem since Hamas, which fundamentally rejects the existence of Israel, would be on the ballot. But the real reason is that the Abbas crowd fears that it will be utterly upended by Hamas.

    Another reason is that, even if Fatah wins, the habitually corrupt present leadership will be demoted by the younger (not so young, ac! tually) cadres who forced their way on to the party's slate by threatening to run their own if they were not given favored spots. At the head of their list is Marwan Barghouti, serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for as many acts of mass murder.

    How has all this registered in Israel? The fact is that almost no one any longer believes in a negotiated peace with the Palestinians. Not because sensible and humane Israelis can't imagine a fair divide of the land between the river and the sea. But because Gaza has truly shown them that there are  —  let's be perfectly frank  —  no Palestinians with whom to treat. Oh, Israel will bargain on this point and that, so far as George Bush insists and pushes Jerusalem. So, even when Palestinian rockets slam into Israeli towns and villages and army bases, the Sharon government will agree to some formula for Palestinian travel between Gaza and the West Bank, as it is about to do. But the government knows! that, whatever security assurances are given for this unprecedented passage, they will not hold  —  as not a single security assurance from the Palestinians has ever held. There is no dispute: This is the record.

    The unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza was a wager on the sanity of the Palestinian polity. The betters lost. I still believe that it was a wise move, but for purely Israeli reasons. Still, Israel may find that its forces will have to re-enter Gaza to deliver punishing blows to the Palestinians who cannot win but hold their own population hostage to their bellicosity. It even may be that Israel will decide to pit the local inhabitants against their captors, which it could do by turning off  —  for an hour or many hours a day  —  the electricity it has continued to provide to Gaza despite unrelenting provocation. It is remarkable that Israel has resisted so long taking what must be a very tempting step.

    All this has consequences for the West Bank. Sooner or later, and particularly if there is a withdrawal from the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, rockets and missiles will be as common there as they are in Gaza and Lebanon. Already, Al Qaeda has claimed (and Israeli intelligence has confirmed) that it was responsible for at least one rocket attack on Israel proper. The Hezbollah tie to Iran, with its imminent nuclear designs and delirious president, only exacerbates a very precarious situation. In any case, those who casually promote the notion that Israel should disengage from here, there, nearly everywhere close to the 1949 lines are proposing that the Jewish state commit suicide. Virtually the entire country, including Ben Gurion Airport, would be vulnerable to even simple weaponry. I'm afraid that sitting and talking until you're blue in the gills won't quite do.

    Fortunately, the Israeli population is as undeceived as its present government  —  and its future on! e, too.
     
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    ISRAEL'S NAPOLEON
    By David Basch
                           
    We all wish Ariel Sharon well. About that there is no
    disagreement. About what there is disagreement is his policy of
    creating a new Arab state on Israel's territory. It is the
    equivalent of creating a fox den within a hen house. So
    astoundingly stupid does such an idea seem, that it needed a
    rooster with charisma and unusual leadership quality to make the
    hens follow along with it. And this is what happened in Israel.

    Just because you get such a leader with hypnotic powers over the
    people -- the Germans had such a leader in Hitler -- does not
    mean that this leader knows what he is doing.

    Consider the realities against Sharon's policies. To begin with,
    the Arabs that would be benefited by this policy are dedicated to
    Israel's destruction, both in terms of national fervor and
    religious zeal. It happens to be against Islam for Muslim-Arabs
    to support peace with Israel, "a non Muslim interloper into their
    region." So the new Arab state that Sharon's policy would
    establish would be irredentist in trying to get all of what is
    now Israel and it would be at war with Israel from the first
    moment of its existence.

    Another factor to consider is that the Arabs are not just some
    powerless minority but constitute a mass numbering more than 200
    million people. Israel's 5.5 million Jews constitute a speck as
    compared to this. The only way that Israel could survive against
    such a horde is to enjoy a strong hold on its land along with
    geographic conditions that make it r! uinous for the enemy to
    attack and thereby discourages this. Sharon's policy of reducing
    geographic space for maneuver is not very helpful in this.

    Not only does Israel need to have this robust physical integrity
    but it needs also to strengthen itself internally and spiritually
    through the dynamic of its Judaic culture that made Israel's
    existence possible in the first place. To renounce and gut the
    Judaic claim to its lands and the culture which undergirds it is
    self defeating. Yet this is what Sharon's policies are based
    on, not holding back and routing the Arab hordes that make war on
    Israel.

    Look at it this way, if the values that Israel stands for are
    nothing more than liberalistic democracy, this life style can be
    attained by living in L.A., Florida, or New York. What need is
    there for an Israel in the first place to be located in a
    dangerous area of the world? The point here is that the
    Birobidzhan that Sharon and the ! Leftists wish to transform Israel
    into will have no staying power and will cultivate a population
    whose highest ethos and aspiration is to emigrate to the U.S.
    fleshpots.

    But how is it possible that super Sharon, the great general could
    be wrong about his policy of surrender to the Arab enemy? After
    all, doesn't he know what military strength is and what Israel
    needs to do to stand against the enemy since he has been such a
    great war hero? Sure, that was true in the past but that does not
    mean that when Sharon gets away from military battles he knows
    what is a proper strategic policy for Israel the nation. Consider
    an even greater general, Napoleon.

    Whatever you can say about Sharon as a general and a leader, you
    can septuple for Napoleon. When Napoleon decided to mobilize
    600,000 French troops in an invasion against Russia, who could
    have stood up to him in criticizing his policy? What fool could
    say he knew more than Napoleon! ? Yet his Russian policy turned out
    to be a disaster. He lost almost 600,000 French soldiers in that
    debacle. The only difference between Napoleon and Sharon is that,
    while even after Napoleon sacrificed hundreds of thousands of his
    soldiers, he did not jeopardize the existence of France,
    but Sharon's failure would lead not merely to the destruction of
    Israel's soldiers but to the destruction of the Israeli nation as
    well.

    And so when someone tells me that General Sharon should be
    followed blindly the way the German people followed their Fuehrer
    and the French followed Napoleon, I will demure since even those
    supposedly great leaders were capable of making grave mistakes.

    We already see that Sharon's surrender of Gaza at the cost of
    billions to the Israeli people has swiftly led to the creation of
    a dangerous Arab base in Southern Israel that offers a platform
    for Arab rocketry deep into Israel. Israeli cities that once
    consider! ed themselves to be safely within Israel are now under
    the shadow of Arab rockets. This does not auger well for Sharon's
    policies.

    So where are the vaunted Jewish smarts that I had been raised to
    think was the fact? It is indeed uncomfortable when I find around
    me wildly enthusiastic supporters of "Sharon the mighty" who have
    no patience to consider in detail what is actually happening and
    what is the downside of what is going on in Israel.

    Don't these hero worshipers know that at least half the generals
    lose their wars? A leader with that kind of odds for a nation is
    not much to cheer about. 1.4.06

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    Fw: Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew Press 5-Jan-2006


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    Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew Press 5-Jan-2006
    05/01/2006 14:24:23
    Shalom, Pastor Dan Catlin

    **Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew Press

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    5 January 2006

    Haaretz - http://www.haaretz.com Ma'ariv - http://www.maariv.co.il Yediot
    Aharonot - http://www.ynet.co.il Globes - http://www.globes.co.il Hazofe -
    http://www.hazofe.co.il Jerusalem Post - http://www.jpost.com

    Haaretz writes: "In our desperate efforts to find "good" Palestinians, we
    have defined Fatah, whose affiliates play a very significant role in suicide
    attacks and missile launchings, as a partner for peace. The unilateral
    approach, espoused by a majority of the public, states that the Arabs,
    including those like Abu Mazen, do not want to achieve peace with Israel,
    even in the distant future. So what logic is there in continuing to
    differentiate between "evil" terrorist organizations along the lines of
    Hamas, and "less evil," or even "good," ones along the lines of Fatah, which
    has several affiliated terrorist organizations that continue to murder Jews
    and spread anarchy in the Palestinian Authority? And if unilateral steps are
    necessary because there's no chance of reaching an arrangement even with
    Fatah, then perhaps a Hamas victory in the elections is actually preferable.
    If Hamas gets into power, perhaps the self-delusion will stop, and it will
    be clear to everyone - the United States, European Union, UN - who is
    fighting against whom. And maybe, just maybe, when Hamas is forced to make
    decisions on a governmental level, and is required to feed, heal, and
    provide services to an entire population, it will be forced to change ways."

    The Jerusalem Post wrote, prior to PM Sharon's emergency hospitalization:
    "The inadequacy of our quasi-constitutional "Basic laws" has again been
    demonstrated in answering the question of who stands in for the prime
    minister when he is incapable of fulfilling his duties. The decision to have
    Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stand in for the three hours or so that
    Sharon is expected to be incapacitated by anesthesia today seems obvious,
    but required last-minute negotiations between Sharon, the cabinet secretary
    and Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz. Who should be the one to disqualify the
    prime minister, and on what evidence? Plainly, there is obviously much
    constitutional work to be done on this issue."

    Yediot Aharonot likens Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Kadima to former
    French President Charles DeGaulle and the political movement he founded in
    the late 1950's. The editors evaluate the possible effects of the latest
    corruption allegations against Prime Minister Sharon.

    Hatzofeh strongly criticizes a decision by a Holocaust victims support group
    to cut off services to thousands of elderly Holocaust survivors in Israel,
    ostensibly due to cuts in its funding from the Finance Ministry.

    [Yaron London wrote today's editorials in Yediot Aharonot.]

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    Fw: Acting PM Olmert's remarks at the start of special Cabinet meeting - Jan 5, 2006


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    Acting PM Olmert's remarks at the start of special Cabinet meeting
    (Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

    Following are Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's remarks at the start of
    the special Cabinet meeting this morning (Thursday), 5 January 2006:

    "Today, Thursday, we are holding an extraordinary Cabinet meeting in light
    of the state of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's health. At this time, we are
    all praying and full of hope for the Prime Minister's quick recovery. We are
    all closely monitoring developments in these difficult hours and our eyes,
    and those of the entire world, are directed towards the hospital in the hope
    of seeing the Prime Minister, who has been in so many previous battles,
    emerging from this battle as well and taking his seat here.

    Throughout last night and this morning, I have been in contact with the
    people at Prime Minister's Bureau and hospital staff and I have been updated
    on the situation at the hospital. I also received the necessary security
    updates. This is a difficult and unusual situation. The strength of the
    State of Israel will know how to deal with it.

    Naturally, this will be a short meeting. Attorney-General Meni Mazuz will
    brief the Cabinet. After the meeting we will all go back to running the
    affairs of state and we will continue praying and hoping for good news from
    the hospital.

    On behalf of all ministers, I embrace Gilad and Omri, Arik's beloved sons,
    and pray with them for their father's recovery. Arik is not only Prime
    Minister and a leader but is the good friend of all of us. This is a
    difficult time and we - all of us - will be up to the task."

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    Fw: A7news: Hospital Director Dispels Rumors: Sharon is Alive, Unconscious

     
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    Thursday, January 05, 2006, 5 Tevet 5766
    Editor: Hillel Fendel
    Headlines:
     1.  Hospital Director Dispels Rumors: Sharon is Alive, Unconscious
     2.  Olmert Holds First Cabinet Meeting Next to Sharon’s Empty Chair
     3.  Ehud Olmert: Israel´s Acting Prime Minister
     4.  Kassams Continue, Egypt-Gaza Border Open
     5.  Israel´s Neighbors Warned "Not to Take Advantage"
     6.  Prayers for Sharon
     7.  Olmert Demands Taxes on Donated Items for Israel’s Needy
     8.  Sharon Suffers Massive Stroke
     9.  World Waits as Sharon Fights for Life
     10.  Sharon in Critical But Stable Condition After 7 Hour Operation

    1.  Hospital Director Dispels Rumors: Sharon is Alive, Unconscious
    By Hillel Fendel

    The Director-General of Hadassah Hospital, Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, spoke to reporters at 2 PM this afternoon and told them that the rumors of Sharon's death are not true.


    "The Prime Minister's condition is stable, but still serious," he said. "All the vital signs that we measure are in accordance with what we expect after an operation of this type."

    "Part of the required treatment at present," Mor-Yosef said, "is to retain low pressure within the skull, and this requires deep anesthetization for at least the coming 24 hours."

    "My purpose in telling you this is, first of all, to keep you informed, and also," Mor-Yosef then added emphatically, "to put to bed the rumors that are sweeping the country. As director of Hadassah, I pledge that any change in the Prime Minister's condition will be reported to you."

    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's condition deteriorated critically upon his arrival in the hospital Wednesday night, and he underwent an emergency seven-hour operation to stop the massive bleeding in his brain. Following the surgery, his condition was described as "serious," then "very serious."

    It is noteworthy that virtually every interview on public television and radio begins with the interviewee saying that he is "praying for Sharon's full recovery." Most interviewees and their interviewers even add that they "join the entire country" in praying for the Prime Minister. As news of Sharon's operation became known, Army Radio reported that "spontaneous prayer quorums" had sprouted up at the Western Wall to pray for Sharon. This appeared to be a case of wishful thinking, however, as web-photos of the holy site, backed up by eyewitness testimony, showed very sparse attendance at the Wall - except for several press photographers making a rare visit and photographing the worshipers from various angles.

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    2.  Olmert Holds First Cabinet Meeting Next to Sharon’s Empty Chair
    By Hillel Fendel and Scott Shiloh

    “This is a difficult time for all of us,” said Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the emergency cabinet meeting he led Thursday morning.The meeting was unusually short, and no decisions were made.

    “Arik is not just a leader, but a close friend to us all," Olmert said. "We all hope that Arik, who has won many battles in his life, will emerge from this one as well, healthy and whole."

    Olmert conducted the meeting next to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s empty chair, which was placed as usual at the center of the long cabinet conference table.

    Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz clarified today that Sharon is still considered to be only "temporarily" unable to fulfill his duties, meaning that Olmert is still only a "substitute" Prime Minister. The "temporary" period ends automatically after 100 days - but in any event, the national elections are only 82 days away.

    Mazuz explained that the "temporary" period could also end based on a clear medical prognosis about Sharon's condition. In any event, Mazuz clarified that the elections will be held on March 28, as scheduled.

    An unprecedented amount of power has now been concentrated in the hands of Ehud Olmert. In addition to serving as prime minister, he also holds the powers and portfolios of 12 government ministries. The ministries were recently vacated by the Labor Party ministers, and Sharon had not yet appointed their replacements.

    At a meeting of police and security leaders today, it was decided that if the Prime Minister passes away, they will be the first to be informed. This, in order to enable the police and Shabak (General Security Service) to prepare for various situations, ranging from the expected arrival of throngs of citizens to the hospital, up to total preparedness of the security establishment for internal and external threats.

    It was further decided that a total curfew would be declared on the Arab-populated areas of Judea and Samaria. Army forces are to be thickened in Judea and Samaria, and specifically around Gaza, from where Kassam rockets are expected to be fired in response to the news.

    Likud party leader MK Binyamin Netanyahu has suspended his decision that Likud ministers must leave the government. That decision was supposed to take effect on Sunday, after Prime Minister Sharon’s heart catheterization which had been scheduled for today (Thursday).

    “We’re still in [the government]," a senior Likud official said. "We have a responsibility to the country, and this not the time to discuss resignations." Netanyahu himself said that all politicking should be put on hold for a few days.

    Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, #2 man in the Likud, said, “This is a painful and difficult time for the Israeli people. The hour is difficult and complicated.”

    Education Minister Limor Livnat (Likud) said, “We are praying for the prime minister’s recovery. The Likud is represented at the cabinet meeting and will be here in the future.”

    Agriculture Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud), one of the only opponents of the disengagement who remained in Sharon’s Cabinet, said, “The Likud will stay in the government to assist its new head.” He described Sharon as “a great fighter who is now lying powerless, and we are all praying for his welfare.”

    Justice Minister Tzippi Livni (Kadima), to whom Sharon was reportedly planning to grant a very high place on the party's Knesset list, said, “The message coming out of today’s cabinet meeting, aside from hoping and praying, is that the government is functioning. I will do everything I can to help the Acting Prime Minister function as leader of this government, and to make the right decisions. I am certain that the other ministers will do the same.”

    Rabbi Yitzchak David Grossman, Chief Rabbi of the development town of Migdal HaEmek in the lower Galilee, visited Sharon's hospital room this afternoon. Rabbi Grossman, who spoke to Sharon yesterday afternoon, moved from Jerusalem's insulated Meah She'arim quarter over 30 years ago straight to Migdal HaEmek, is the founder and head of the Migdal Or yeshiva institutions, in which over 6,000 students - mostly from underprivileged homes - study.

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    3.  Ehud Olmert: Israel´s Acting Prime Minister
    By Hillel Fendel

    Finance Minister Olmert, Israel's Acting Prime Minister, was the first to signal Ariel Sharon's leftward tilt, calling over 2 years ago for a withdrawal from most of Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

    Aged 60, Olmert was born in a small town called Nachalat Jabotinsky near Hadera, of which his father was one of the founding members.

    Married with four children, Olmert graduated Hebrew University, where he studied psychology, philosophy and law. He was a military correspondent for the IDF magazine BaMachaneh, and served in the 8th through the 14th Knessets (1974-1999) as a Likud MK, and again in the current Knesset, the 16th. He was Health Minister under Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir in the early 1990s, and served in several Cabinet positions in the current government.

    In 1993, then-MK Olmert ran against popular Teddy Kollek for the position of Mayor of Jerusalem, and defeated him. Olmert's campaign slogan was "Olmert - Because the Time Has Come" - a hint to Kollek's advanced age. This slogan was remembered with irony two weeks ago, after Olmert's new party leader - none other than Kadima founder Ariel Sharon - suffered a mini-stroke at the age of 77, prompting questions about Sharon's physical fitness to govern.

    Olmert served simultaneously as a Knesset Member and Jerusalem Mayor for five years, until the late 1990s, but by the time his term in office had ended, the law had been changed and such double service was not permitted. He chose to give up his Knesset seat, running for and winning re-election, and continued in the mayor's office until 2003, when he ran again for Knesset.

    He did not receive great support from the Likud membership, however, which chose him only to the 32nd slot on the list of Likud candidates; polls taken the week before the elections gave the Likud between 31-33 seats. In the event, the Likud won 38 seats, and Olmert became a Knesset Member once again.

    Despite Olmert's poor showing, Prime Minister Sharon appointed him to the position of Minister of Industry and Trade, and more significantly, to that of Deputy Prime Minister - the position that has now made him Israel's Acting Prime Minister.

    Ehud Olmert became the Likud's left-wing marker in late 2003, when he preceded Ariel Sharon's announcement of the planned disengagement from Gaza with an about-face of his own. In what was later viewed as the flying of a trial balloon for Sharon's new position, Olmert told the Yediot Acharonot daily that he favored a unilateral withdrawal from nearly all of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, including the uprooting of almost all the Jewish communities there.

    Olmert all but agreed that the only differences between his approach and that of the left-wing were that it would "sear his heart" to give up parts of the Land of Israel, and that he would not give up the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem.

    Olmert's positions of the last two years thus contrasted strongly with his previous ideology, as he grew up in an atmosphere of love for the entire Land of Israel. His father Mordechai was an MK of the 3rd and 4th Knessets, a founder of Betar in Harbin China, a founder of two towns in the Land of Israel, and Head of the Settlement Department of the Herut Movement.

    Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin, who also grew up in a Herut-party home, expressed disgust at Ehud Olmert's new positions. Rivlin said at the time that Olmert reminded him of the absolute turnabout of his hareidi-turned-secular cousins: "When they became not religious, they went all the way - not only driving on the Sabbath, but also eating pig."

    In November 2003, Trade Minister Olmert antagonized the nationalist camp with his decision to facilitate the European Union's taxation of Yesha-made goods by ordering the city of manufacture to be listed on every Israeli product.

    With the announcement that Olmert had been named Acting Prime Minister, the Shabak (General Security Service) immediately increased security around him. The area around his home in Jerusalem has been declared a "sterile" area.

    Olmert spoke briefly with reporters late Wednesday night, saying only that he was "very very sad," and that he would go to his office the next morning to run the affairs of state. Olmert will convene a Cabinet meeting at 9 AM, facing a political situation unprecedented in Israeli history - a minority government run by a member of a party in formation with elections less than 12 weeks away, among other question marks.

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    4.  Kassams Continue, Egypt-Gaza Border Open
    By Ezra HaLevi

    Kassam rockets continue to fall, the Gaza-Egyptian border lies open, and armed kidnappers seem to be showing some discretion in Gaza as to who they take into custody.


    Six Kassam rockets struck Sderot on Wednesday evening, and two more landed near Ashkelon, injuring two people. This, despite the creation of a security zone on the site of destroyed Jewish towns in northern Gaza.

    The Kassams that struck Sderot fell, once again, very close to a gas station on Road #34. Police say a direct hit could have detonated underground gas storage tanks and would have been devastating. Three rockets were also fired Tuesday night, one of them impacting near the same gas station.

    Sderot residents ran for cover as the Red Dawn early warning system sounded its sirens several times throughout the night Tuesday and again Wednesday evening. The system alerts residents of an incoming missile, giving them half-a-minute to find cover.

    Dozens of rockets have been fired as Sderot in the past week. IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz told the Knesset Defense Committee Tuesday that the security zone created in northern Gaza was only designed to protect Ashkelon’s power station, and not the residents of Sderot and the western Negev.

    In southern Gaza, armed terrorists used a bulldozer to knock down the concrete walls along the Gaza-Egypt border, opening the previously guarded passage to throngs of local Arabs from both sides that began crossing back and forth unchecked. Two Egyptian soldiers were killed and 37 injured before the 3,000 Egyptian troops stationed at the border chose to retreat rather than fire at the infiltrators. The border has previously been the site of intense IDF anti-smuggling efforts. Since Israel’s unilateral withdrawal, however, the transport of heavy weaponry and drugs over the border goes unhindered.

    Elsewhere in Gaza, armed Fatah terrorists tried to kidnap the parents of Rachel Corrie, the American ISM activist who died while protesting IDF activities in Gaza in 2003. Once the terrorists were informed of the Corries’ alliances, they moved on.

    Overnight Wednesday, security forces arrested eight wanted terrorists in Judea and Samaria. Three Islamic Jihad terrorists were apprehended in the village of Dir Al-Atzun, near Tul Karem, one PFLP terrorist was caught in the Jenin slums, and four Hamas terrorists were captured near Bethlehem and Ramallah.

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    5.  Israel´s Neighbors Warned "Not to Take Advantage"
    By Hillel Fendel

    Raanan Gissin, a close advisor to Prime Minister Sharon, said he would not advise any of Israel's neighbors to take advantage of the emergency situation Israel faces.

    "There is no vacuum here," Gissin told reporters at the hospital. "Ehud Olmert is the Acting Prime Minister, and the IDF is ready and strong."

    As Mr. Sharon was being operated on, at least eight Kassam rockets were fired by Arab terrorists in Gaza at the Sderot and south-of-Ashkelon areas. No casualties or damage were reported.

    With Olmert taking over the Prime Minister's duties as of Thursday morning, much of Israel's political scene has become very unclear. Technically, Olmert can make every decision a regularly elected Prime Minister can make, but the spirit of the law is that he must act with restraint, and not make far-reaching decisions. He is faced with the uncertainty of his new Kadima Party, which was founded by and based almost totally on the personality of Ariel Sharon. National elections are less than 12 weeks away and Kadima has no list of Knesset candidates - nor a mechanism for choosing one.

    The only development that may be able to be counted on is that the Likud ministers will not resign from the government this Sunday. They had planned to quit at the behest of Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu himself resigned from the government five months ago, just before the disengagement, but Ministers Naveh, Shalom, Livnat and Katz remain.

    Palestinian Authority Vice Chairman Nabil Shaath said, "On a personal level, we express sorrow at that which has happened to Sharon." He warned, however, that "politically, it will increase the uncertainty we face in anticipation of the renewal of the peace process." Most observers had predicted that terrorism against Israel could be expected to be strongly renewed following the PA elections three weeks from now.

    Violence directed against PA Chairman Abu Mazen increased in Gaza on Wednesday. Two Egyptian soldiers were shot dead after a mob of Gazan Arabs stormed across the Gaza-Egyptian border, known as the Philadelphi Route. The militants had mounted a show of force throughout Wednesday after one of their leaders was arrested for his involvement of the kidnapping of several foreigners. The PA police have been unable to control the outbreak of violence, and some policemen have initiated some violence themselves.

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    6.  Prayers for Sharon
    By Hillel Fendel

    Tzfat's Chief Rabbi says that, after seeing the destruction of Gush Katif, he is not praying for Sharon's welfare - but that Sharon has many merits. A Gush Katif rabbi is more forgiving.


    Speaking on Arutz-7's "Preparing for Redemption" internet Hebrew radio program, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu of Tzfat said, "Whoever saw the destruction in Gush Katif and northern Shomron, can't pray for Sharon's recovery. On the other hand, I am not happy about his condition, and we must remember that he has many merits."

    Rabbi Yosef Al-Nekaveh, who was expelled from his home in N'vei Dekalim five months ago in the framework of Sharon's disengagement plan, disagrees. He angered some of his former and current neighbors in publicly calling for prayers on behalf of Sharon. "Sharon fought for the Land, and did much for the State," Rabbi Al-Nekaveh told Israel Radio, "and despite our disagreement on the disengagement plan, we should pray for him."

    Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef of Shas rushed to call for prayers for Sharon last night. Shas leader MK Eli Yeshai said yesterday afternoon, before the beginning of the current medical emergency, that news of new evidence against Sharon in what is known as the Schlaff-Kern bribery affair should not have been released this week. "Publicizing that news right before his scheduled catheterization [originally set for this morning -ed.] was like puncturing the tires of his ambulance," Yeshai said.

    One man who was ripped away from his Gush Katif home this past summer said, "I would like to see how you would act upon hearing that the man who destroyed your home and threw your family - and 1,700 others - into the street had become very ill."

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    7.  Olmert Demands Taxes on Donated Items for Israel’s Needy
    By Debbie Berman

    Acting Prime Minister and Finance Minister Ehud Olmert demanded last month that taxes be paid on charity items recently donated by American Jews to help Israel’s needy population prepare for winter.

    Olmert's act raised a storm of angry criticism from Israeli and U.S. Jewish leaders, and has also created an unusually tense diplomatic climate sparking claims that trade treaties between Israel and America have been breached.

    According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Olmert made the decision to enforce an old, outdated law demanding a 28.5% tax and an additional airfare tax on U.S. charitable donations to Israel’s poor. The donations, which include medical supplies, clothing and toys, were the result of a charity drive in Jewish communities across the U.S. aimed at delivering the contributions to Israel in time for the holiday of Chanukah. While Olmert's staff refused to grant a reduction in the taxes that would allow the release of the charity items, Olmert himself took part in a press interview at a Tel Aviv soup kitchen, in an apparent move to publicize his concern for Israel's poor and needy.

    A spokesperson at Olmert's office in the Ministry of Finance claimed the decision was made to protect Israel's second-hand garment industry:
    “The law is explicit and has been in effect for decades. It is designed to protect the Israeli second-hand garment industry. If American donors want to assist Israel’s poor, they should send money and have clothing purchased in Israel for donations. The Ministry has looked into the matter at the very highest level of the Office of the Minister himself. The law to tax charitable donations is explicit, and no reduction of any kind can be considered. The American donors should have considered this consequence prior to engaging in so ambitious an undertaking.”

    Israel Textile Union Chairman Ramsi Gabai denied the above claim:
    “There has not even been a second-hand garment industry in Israel for 30 years. It is an absurdity to suggest that taxing American charity in any way defends the Israeli garment industry, or that such protection is at all desired by the Israeli textile industry. There is a Free Trade Agreement with the United States on all garments, which certainly covers charity if it covers items sold for profit. We ourselves at the Textile Union have a very large and successful program for the member firms to donate excess clothing inventory to charity. Are we to be taxed on our charity to the needy next?"

    A spokesperson at the U.S. Embassy expressed frustration at the audacity of being taxed on charitable donations:
    “There is no exemption from the Free Trade Agreement ratified with the State of Israel that would permit taxation of American citizens donating charity. The contention seems more bizarre than weak. The United States need not specifically include in its Free Trade treaties the self-evident inclusion of charitable donations for emergency relief in addition to commercially sold goods for profit. Did the Indonesians charge taxes on American charitable relief from the tsunami? Did India tax American charity donated after the killer monsoons? Did the Chileans tax American donations after the earthquake?”

    Due to the unresolved crisis, more than 30 tons of donated clothing, toys, and medical supplies intended for Israel’s needy have been stranded for three weeks in warehouses at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport. The California-based donors who organized the charitable drive are not willing to pay the heavy tax imposed by Olmert's office.

    Labor Party Economic Advisor and Knesset candidate Prof. Avishai Braverman attacked Olmert's decision and the entire Sharon Administration for its continued "callous and heartless" policies:
    “We have become a truly heartless people during the Sharon Administration, to my deep regret. How blatant can the present government be in its mistreatment of the poorest citizens? ... This is much more than simple stupidity; it is a basic lack of humanity."

    MK Effie Eitam (National Union) attempted to reassure American supporters of Israel that the Knesset would never allow Olmert's decision to stand:
    “There has never been a Knesset – Likud or Labor, right or left, capitalist or communist - that has ever contemplated taxing American charity to Israel’s neediest. There never will be such a Knesset. Please do not let this temporary madness stop your wonderful efforts in assisting our neediest citizens. They should not be left to suffer for the stupidity of the present administration."

    Many American Jewish leaders, who have traditionally been among Israel’s greatest supporters, voiced their anger at the situation. These included Rabbi Norman Lamm, the Chancellor Emeritus of Yeshiva University, as well as Rabbi Pesach Lerner, the Executive Vice-President, National Council of Young Israel Synagogues.

    "It is the obligation of the American Jewish community," Rabbi Lamm stated, "not to remain silent to this outrage but to openly confront the Israeli government with the loud message: this is completely unacceptable. It is unacceptable in terms of all common decency. It is unacceptable in terms of all Western culture, and it is particularly unacceptable in its violation of every tenet of Judaism."

    Rabbi Lerner said, “It is unheard of that donations of anything, especially clothing for children and adults who need such clothing to keep warm, should be held up by a government for customs taxes when that government and its agencies should themselves be supplying such assistance. The Jewish people are known for their concern for others. This government action is shameful."

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    8.  Sharon Suffers Massive Stroke
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    9.  World Waits as Sharon Fights for Life
    By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu and Hillel Fendel

    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been on the operating table for over 5.5 hours. Reporters from around the world are awaiting word outside the emergency room of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.

    The Prime Minister is on a respirator and has been anesthetized, undergoing an emergency operation for what doctors term "significant cerebral bleeding." Information on his condition is sparse, as only the operating team - three of the most senior surgeons in the country - has first-hand knowledge of the current situation. Aides close to Sharon and the hospital staff say, and their body language implies, that the situation is quite serious.

    In general, the outcome of an operation of the type being performed on the Prime Minister is greatly in doubt. One website medical encylopedia states, "The outcome varies highly. Death may occur rapidly despite prompt medical treatment. Recovery may occur completely or with a permanent loss of some brain functions."

    Dr. Yonatan HaLevy, the Director of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, said shortly after 2 AM - over two and a half hours after the beginning of the operation - that the longer the operation continues, the more serious the situation appears to be.

    Sharon complained earlier Wednesday evening of a headache and pains in the chest and hand. He was then taken by ambulance from his home at the Shikmim Farm near Sderot to Hadassah Ein Karem in Jerusalem, arriving fully conscious at around 11 PM. However, his condition deteriorated almost as soon as he arrived, and he was quickly taken to the operating room.

    The operation could take up to several hours and "is not simple," doctors said.

    Sharon's personal physician, Dr. Shlomo Segev, accompanied him to the hospital. Doctors announced at around 11:30 PM that the Prime Minister had suffered a "significant" stroke, and later said that there was "significant" bleeding in his brain.

    Aides said that after consultations with the office of Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, the Prime Minister's powers were transferred to his deputy, Finance Minister Ehud Olmert.

    The Prime Minister, who is to turn 78 in February, suffered a mild stroke on December 18, and was to undergo surgery Thursday morning for a procedure to close a small hole in his heart. The planned procedure is considered routine, with only a small measure of risk. The small hole in his heart of about one-eighth of an inch, a common birth defect, was discovered after the mild stroke, which left him unconscious for several minutes.

    The assumption has been raised that the medicines prescribed for Sharon after the stroke, including blood-thinners, may have led to the hemorrhaging. It was emphasized, however, that the prescription of such medicines was totally indicated by accepted medical practice.

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    10.  Sharon in Critical But Stable Condition After 7 Hour Operation
    By Scott Shiloh

    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is in critical but stable condition after undergoing brain surgery for more than seven hours following a cerebral hemorrhage.

    After the surgery, Sharon was transferred to the intensive care unit in Hadassah Ein-Karem hospital.

    The director-general of Hadassah, Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, said that Sharon’s vital signs were stable. A CT scan showed that extensive hemorrhaging, which had caused the prime minister’s situation to deteriorate shortly before arriving at the hospital Wednesday night, had stopped.

    Mor-Yosef refused to comment on the extent the bleeding might have damaged Sharon's brain. Persons close to the prime minister have reported that it is unlikely that he will be able to return to his position as Prime Minister of Israel.

    Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said at a cabinet meeting convened Thursday morning that he hoped the prime minister would be able to recover from surgery and return to work.

    The bleeding in Sharon’s brain may have been caused by blood thinning medication he was taking after suffering a minor stroke three weeks ago.

    Sharon was rushed to Hadassah hospital after feeling ill at his Negev ranch. According to early reports, it appeared that Sharon had suffered another minor stroke. Some reports said the prime minister was talking on the phone on his way to the hospital.

    Upon arriving at the hospital at approximately 11:00 P.M., Sharon, who was already unconscious, was diagnosed with a cerebral hemorrhage. At about midnight, doctors began a seven hour operation to stop the bleeding.

    At 4:45 A.M., another CT scan was performed to observe the results of the operation. When additional hemorrhaging was located, doctors resumed the operation, which ended Thursday morning.

    Sharon, who will be 78 next month, was scheduled to undergo a catheterization to close a hole in his heart on Thursday. Doctors attributed Sharon’s recent stroke to complications from that hole, a birth defect which had previously gone undetected.

    Prime Minister Sharon is not expected to fully recover from last night’s stroke.

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