[imra] Daily digest - Volume: 2 Issue: 1339 (13 messages)

imra Tue Feb 28 00:23:40 2006 Volume 2 : Issue 1339

In this issue of the imra daily Digest:

Ilan Halimi and Israel
[Israel silent as French Jew murdered for being Jewish]
Olmert's public [fat cats]
'We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea'
[Jews can take boats]
Lebanon admits it approved weapons transfer to Hezbollah
Russian Foreign Ministry: No Agreement on
Palestinian Delegation Visit to Moscow,
Hamas asserts visit is Next Week
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights:
Security Chaos and Proliferation of Small Arms
CABINET COMMUNIQUE
Excerpts: Hamas and Christians 26 February 2006
[Close but no cigar] Qassam lands near school
[Israel increases firing at empty fields]
Palestinian Killed by [Palestinian] Gunmen in Hebron
Kadima heads split on how to treat Abbas
Moshe Feiglin Discusses His Recent Visit with Jonathan Pollard
MEMRI: Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi:
"There is a Jew Behind Me, Come and Kill Him"

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Ilan Halimi and Israel
[Israel silent as French Jew murdered for being Jewish]

Column One: Ilan Halimi and Israel
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 24, 2006
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395477657&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Ilan Halimi's barbarous murder in France should awaken all Jews to the most
significant truth of our times: Today, every Jew in the world is on the
front lines of war.

As was the case 70 years ago, every Jew today is a target for our enemies,
who shout from every soapbox and prove at every opportunity that their goal
is the annihilation of the Jewish people. From 1933-1945, the enemy was Nazi
Germany. Today, the enemy is political Islam. Its call for jihad aimed at
annihilating the Jews and dominating the world is answered by millions of
people throughout the world.

Among the lessons of the Holocaust, there is one that is almost never
mentioned. That lesson is that it is possible, and indeed fairly easy to
exterminate the Jews. The fact that the Holocaust happened proves that it is
absolutely possible for the Jewish people to be wiped off the map - just as
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hamas leader Khaled Mashal
promise.

The story of Ilan Halimi's murder at the hands of a terrorist gang of French
Muslims brings to the surface the various pathologies now converging to make
the prospect of annihilating all Jews seem possible to our enemies. First,
there are the murderers who took such apparent pleasure and felt such pride
in the fact that for 20 days they tortured their Jewish hostage to death.

This makes sense. Anti-Semitism in the Muslim dominated suburbs of Paris and
other French cities is all-encompassing. As Nidra Poller related in
Thursday's Wall Street Journal, "One of the most troubling aspects of this
affair is the probable involvement of relatives and neighbors, beyond the
immediate circle of the gang [of kidnappers], who were told about the Jewish
hostage and dropped in to participate in the torture."

It appears that Ilan Halimi's murderers had some connection to Hamas.
Tuesday, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said that police found
propaganda published by the Palestinian Charity Committee or the CBSP at the
home of one of the suspects. The European Jewish Press reported this week
that Israel has alleged that the organization is a front group for
Palestinian terrorists and that in August 2003 the US government froze the
organization's US bank accounts, accusing it of links with Hamas.

Halimi's family alleges that throughout the 20 days of Ilan's captivity, the
French police refused to take the anti-Semitic motivations of the kidnappers
into account. The investigators insisted on viewing his kidnap as a garden
variety kidnap-for-ransom criminal case, which they said generally involves
no threat to the life of the captive. The police maintained their refusal to
investigate the anti-Semitic motivations of the kidnappers in spite of the
fact that in their e-mail and telephone communications with Ilan's family,
his captors repeatedly referred to his Judaism, and on at least one occasion
recited verses from the Koran while Ilan was heard screaming in agony in the
background. The family alleges that if the police had been willing to
acknowledge that Ilan was abducted because he was Jewish, they would have
recognized that his life was in clear and immediate danger and acted with
greater urgency.

Like the police, the French government waited an entire week after Ilan was
found naked, with cuts and burns over 80 percent of his body by a train
station in suburban Paris, before acknowledging the anti-Semitic nature of
the crime. According to the press reports, the French government was at
least partially motivated to suppress the issue of anti-Semitism by its fear
of inflaming the passions of the French Muslims who make up between 10 to 13
percent of the French population and comprise a quarter of the population
under 25 years old. And yet, now that the French government has acknowledged
that the crime was motivated by hatred of Jews, it is behaving responsibly
in pursuing the murderers and decrying the attack on French Jewry.

In addition to the exterminationist anti-Semitism of Ilan's murderers and
the unwillingness of the French authorities to acknowledge the anti-Semitic
nature of the crime until it was too late, there is one more aspect of the
case that bears note. That is Israel's reaction to the atrocity. In short,
there has been absolutely no official Israeli reaction to the abduction,
torture and murder of a Jew in France by a predominantly Muslim terrorist
gang that kidnapped, tortured and murdered him because he was a Jew.

No Israeli government minister, official or spokesman has condemned his
murder. No Israeli official has demanded that the French authorities
investigate why the police refused to take anti-Semitism into account during
Ilan's captivity. No Israeli official flew to Paris to participate in Ilan's
funeral or any other memorial or demonstration in his memory. The Foreign
Ministry's Web site makes no mention of his murder. The Israeli Embassy in
Paris - which has been without an ambassador for the past several months -
only publicly expressed its condolences to the Halimi family on February 23,
10 days after Ilan was found. This, when the French Jewish community
considers Halimi's murder to have been the greatest calamity to have
befallen it in recent years; when aliya rates from France rose 25% last
year; and when Ilan's mother has told reporters that her son had planned to
make aliya soon and was just staying in France to save money to finance his
move to Israel. For its part, as Michelle Mazel pointed out in The Jerusalem
Post Thursday, the French press has noted that the Israeli media has not
given the story prominent coverage. Halimi's murder has not appeared on the
front pages of the papers or at the top of the television or radio
broadcasts.

Although appalling, the absence of an official Israeli outcry against
Halimi's murder is not the least surprising. Today, the unelected Kadima
interim government, like the Israeli media, is doing everything in its power
to lull the Israeli people into complacency towards the storm of war raging
around us. Against the daily barrages of Kassam rockets on southern Israel;
nervous reports of al-Qaida setting up shop in Judea, Samaria and Gaza; the
ascension of Hamas to power in the Palestinian Authority; and Iran's threats
of nuclear annihilation, Israel's citizenry, under the spell of Kadima and
the media, appears intent on ignoring the dangers and pretending that what
happens to Jews in France has nothing to do with us.

Israel's societal meekness accords well with Kadima's ideology. Its creed
was best expressed by Foreign Minister, Justice Minister and Immigration
Minister Tzipi Livni last month at the Herzliya Conference and is best
characterized as "conditional Zionism." In her speech, Livni explained that
Israel's international legitimacy is conditional. Unless a Palestinian state
is established in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, she warned, Israel will lose its
legitimacy as a Jewish state.

So for Livni, Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Shimon Peres and the rest
of the Kadima gang, unlike every other people in the world, the Jewish
people does not have an inherent, natural right to exist as a free,
sovereign and independent people in its homeland. For Kadima, the Jewish
people's right to self-determination in our land is conditional on our
enemies' acceptance of our right to be here.

Kadima's conditional Zionism finds expression in its policies in Judea and
Samaria. There, the gist of the government's actions is that the only people
with inherent human rights in Judea and Samaria are the Arabs.

Throughout the areas, the government, backed by the post-Zionist courts,
prohibits Jews from building on land that Jews own. Today, as Moshe
Rosenbaum, the mayor of Beit El explains, even receiving a permit to build
an extension on a standing house or additional classrooms in a school is all
but impossible.

While Olmert and Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra have repeatedly
condemned Jews for allegedly cutting down trees owned by Arabs in Judea and
Samaria, the government has said nothing and done nothing to stop the
wholesale destruction of Jewish orchards and national forests in the areas
by Palestinians. Over the past several months, in the vicinity of Gush
Etzion alone, thousands of Jewish-owned trees have been chopped down by Arab
vandals. Two national forests have been laid to waste. Busy directing their
energies and attentions at delegitimizing the Israelis who live in Judea and
Samaria, the government has ignored Israel's enemies.

And so, as Kassam attacks against Israel multiply by the day and Hamas
leaders hold Jew-hating love-fests with Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khamenaei
in Teheran, Olmert assured us Wednesday that Hamas is not a strategic threat
to Israel.

When the Israeli government itself is claiming Jewish rights are not
inherent but rather defined and granted by others, it can surprise no one
the government has ignored Halimi's murder.

Luckily for both Israel and the Jews around the world, the current
leadership is not our only option. We have other leaders, the most prominent
among them being Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu and former IDF chief of
General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon. Both of these men understand
well that the two most important lessons for the Jews from the Holocaust are
that we must never grant anyone else the authority, legitimacy or power to
define who we are or what our rights are, and we are all responsible for one
another.

On Tuesday, Ya'alon, who is currently based at the Washington Institute for
Near East Policy, came to Jerusalem for the day to speak at a conference on
the strategic implications of Hamas's takeover of the Palestinian Authority.
There Ya'alon explained what he considers to be the key to Israel's
security. Israel, he said, has the military capability to defeat its
enemies. But for Israel to be able to take the steps it needs to take to win
the war being waged for our destruction, first we need to accept the fact
that we have an intrinsic, unconditional right to our land and our
sovereignty. Once we understand that our rights our unconditional, we will
understand that we have an obligation to wage war against those who work for
our destruction. That is, Ya'alon explained that for Israel to survive, we
need to return to our unconditional Zionism.

Sir Martin Gilbert, perhaps the preeminent British historian of World War
II, has said, "The interesting thing about history is that it always repeats
itself."

As was the case in World War II, today the Jewish people in Israel and
throughout the world is being targeted for annihilation by an enemy bent on
world domination. Ilan Halimi's monstrous murder is just the latest sign of
this disturbing reality. Today, as 70 years ago, the Jews are disserved by
poor and weak leaders who refuse to see the dangers.

But if we learn from history and we assess our options, we will see that
history needn't repeat itself. It is within our power to reverse the course
of our all too repetitious past.

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Olmert's public [fat cats]

Olmert's public

Guy Rolnik The Marker (Haaretz) 17.2.2004
www.themarker.com/eng/archive/arc_article.jhtml?ElementId=gr20040217_01e

"In some situations decisions need to be made that won't be popular with the
public. Raising bread prices is never an easy matter. It is easier to lower
prices, tariffs and taxes than to raise them." (Industry, Trade and Labor,
and Communications, Minister Ehud Olmert addressing the Knesset Finance
Committee on Monday.)

Yes, it seems we were wrong about him, Industry and Trade minister Ehud
Olmert. All that censure of his decision to hike bread prices at this time
of economic stress was misguided. Olmert, it transpires, is a courageous
politician and statesman who's under fire solely and only because he is
prepared to make unpopular decisions.

Yes, we made a mistake.

The mistake was that the popular press suddenly remembered to report on his
decisions after he touched the bread. Thing is, if you check his decisions
since he took his multiple jobs last year, you find that it's systematic
with him.

The real question is how you define "public". We think there is a
fundamental mistake right here: there are "publics" to whom Olmert lends an
ear, and if we shine the spotlight on these "publics", we'll find that his
decisions are very popular indeed. Contravening what the minister told the
Knesset Finance Committee on Monday, the "publics" Olmert heeds adore having
tariffs and prices raised, the more the merrier. Let's look at a few
examples.

1. The "public" of media company owners is a clique of a few moguls, CEOs
and interested parties I a few huge companies. This is certainly an
influential public indeed.

This public has never been happier. Since Olmert took the Communications
Ministry, life is much simpler. You go to Jerusalem armed with an expert
opinion, send a few lobbyists and Olmert sets up a deal. Whether it's to
block the long-distance market to competition or prevent cellular tariffs
from plunging, nothing stops the tireless minister when it comes to
protecting this public.

2. The "public" of cement company owners. Again this is a small club. In
fact its members also only Nochi Dankner and his partners.

The Nesher cement monopoly has been fighting for years to block dumping
imports of cement from Turkey. It applied pressure to all the Industry
ministers over the years, but all understood that when it comes to a basic
of the construction industry, which cement certainly is, raising prices
would be too harsh a blow.

Import dumping contravenes international law, if it hurts the industry in
the country importing the product. Olmert's decision could be defended on
those grounds, but it apparently no coincidence that the Antitrust Authority
opposed adding a tariff to Turkish cement.

Yet Olmert heeded his public of Nesher and did not quail.

3. The "public" of Salt Industries shareholders which consists mainly of
Dankners.

The State Comptroller bitterly criticized the Israel Land Administration
decision giving the Dankners tremendous building rights on the lands they
own. The comptroller, Eliezer Goldberg, ruled that the process leading to
the deal had been flawed and insufficient. He estimated that the
construction rights the Dankners receiver were worth $90 million. Attorney
general Elyakim Rubinstein wrote to the ILA that the agreement with the
Dankners' company Israel Salt Industries (TASE: SALT ) improperly granted
the company excessive rewards, in contravention of proper administration.

Yet Olmert stood firm, granting the Dankners their rights in defiance of the
attorney general.

4. The "public" of Coca Cola shareholders, or, actually, Mozi Wertheim, who
also owns United Mizrahi Bank (TASE: MZRH) and Keshet broadcasting.

The Finance Ministry ruled that Coca Cola Israel should not receive state
aid to relocate its plant from Bnei Brak to Ashkelon. The attorney general
also objected to the lavish NIS 70 million gift.

But Olmert shrugged off the paper-pushers, government treasurers and lawyers
alike. He lent his support to his public, namely the mayor of Ashkelon, who
wanted the bottling plant, and Wertheim, who wanted the grant.

5. The "public" of huge marketing chains and retailers is a little bigger,
this is true. It includes the major shareholders in Blue Square Israel
(NYSE, TASE: BSI), Supersol (OTC:SSLTF.PK, TASE: SAE), Strauss-Elite (TASE:
ELEI) and Osem Food Industries (TASE: OSEM).

They want Olmert to quash that pesky law forcing them to mark prices on all
products. They want shoppers to have difficulty comparing prices, which
would make it easier to raise them and widen their profits.

Olmert isn't concerned about price rises or diminishing competition, because
his attention is on his public, the powerful owners of the big retail
chains.

There are other publics to whom the minister devotes his attention. Not all
receive mention in the press. His decision to position himself as the
address for anybody not satisfied with rulings by Antitrust Commissioner
Dror Strum attests best of all to which public he is affiliated.

Behind the cases in which Olmert chose to intervene in antitrust decisions,
we may find his desire to succor this or that public smarting under from a
trustbuster slap, a public that wholeheartedly supports competition and
lower prices in somebody else's back yard

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: 'We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea'
[Jews can take boats]

'We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea'
The Washington Post Sunday, February 26, 2006; B02
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/24/AR2006022402317.html?sub=AR

[IMRA: "The answer is to let Israel say it will recognize a Palestinian
state along the 1967 borders, release the prisoners and recognize the rights
of the refugees to return to Israel. Hamas will have a position if this
occurs." = first millions of Arabs move into Haifa, Jaffa, etc.. Israel
pulls our of French Hill, Ramat Eshkol, the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem etc.
and a sovereign state is formed and then we will see.

Israel Radio reports on 26 February that Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri
explained that The Washington Post apparently made an error in translation.
Hamas does not talk about "peace in stages" but instead a "solution in
stages" (Israel Radio did not indicate if Abu Suhri laughed or simply smiled
when he use the term "solution").

Haim Ramon, who is considered the leader of the "left" side of Kadima and MK
Matan Vilnay of the Labor Party both told Israel Radio this morning that the
Haniyeh interview is part of the Hamas propaganda campaign to say one thing
to the West while they continue with their true message of committment to
the destruction of Israel to the Arab world.

http://bet.iba.org.il/index.asp?classto=142&entity_code=112861&site_code=14
]

Since Hamas won control of parliament in the recent Palestinian elections,
policymakers in Washington and Jerusalem have been faced with a dilemma: how
to deal with a democratically elected government that is also on the State
Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations. Last week,
Newsweek-Washington Post's Lally Weymouth interviewed Hamas's new prime
minister, Ismail Haniyeh, by phone in his home in the refugee camp where he
lives with his wife and 12 children in Gaza.

Were you surprised by the size of the Hamas victory?

Hamas entered the elections planning to be victorious.

Was the victory due to corruption in Fatah, the social services you provided
or the general agreement of most Palestinians with the Hamas program of
armed resistance?

The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian
Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the
Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the
corruption helped Hamas's victory.

What percent of the people voted for Hamas because of your call for armed
resistance?

Resistance is one of the reasons for Hamas's victory, but Hamas works [also]
in the political, educational and charitable fields. All these activities
helped it win.
Palestinian President Abu Mazen and the international community have put
forward conditions for dealing with Hamas: 1) recognize Israel; 2) recognize
existing agreements with Israel made by the Palestinian Liberation
Organization; 3) renounce violence. Will you agree to these conditions?

We are surprised that such conditions are imposed on us. Why don't they
direct such conditions and questions to Israel? Has Israel respected
agreements? Israel has bypassed practically all agreements. We say: Let
Israel recognize the legitimate rights of the Palestinians first and then we
will have a position regarding this. Which Israel should we recognize? The
Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956;
or the Israel of 1967? Which borders and which Israel? Israel has to
recognize first the Palestinian state and its borders and then we will know
what we are talking about.

Israel has agreed to a two-state solution, signed agreements with the PLO
and withdrawn from Gaza. So will Hamas accept any of the agreements that the
PLO -- starting with [Yasser] Arafat and continuing with Abu Mazen -- made
with Israel?

Number one, the withdrawal from Gaza was based on a unilateral decision and
a unilateral plan. It was not [done] out of the generosity of Israel. Has
Israel committed itself to all these agreements? We are not war seekers nor
are we war initiators.

We are not lovers of blood. We are not interested in a vicious cycle of
violence. We are oppressed people with rights. If peace brings us our
rights, then this is good.

Do you accept the Oslo agreement signed by Yasser Arafat?

Israel has stopped completely committing itself to Oslo.

I am not asking about Israel. Are you, as the new Palestinian prime
minister, committed to Oslo?

How do you want me not to pay attention or care about what Israel says? Oslo
stated that a Palestinian state would be established by 1999. Where is this
Palestinian state? Has Oslo given the right to Israel to reoccupy the West
Bank, to build the wall and expand the settlements, and to Judaize Jerusalem
and make it totally Jewish?

Has Israel been given the right to disrupt the work on the port and airport
in Gaza? Has Oslo given them the right to besiege Gaza and to stop all tax
refunds from the Palestinian Authority?

So you will not abide by past agreements made by the Palestinians and
Israel?

I have not said that. I have said that Israel . . .

But you are not the prime minister of Israel. Will you abide by past
agreements made by the Palestinian governments and Israel?

We will review all agreements and abide by those that are in the interest of
the Palestinian people.

What agreements will you honor?

The ones that will guarantee the establishment of a Palestinian state with
Jerusalem as its capital with 1967 borders -- as well as agreements that
would release prisoners.

Would Hamas recognize Israel if it were to withdraw to the '67 borders?

If Israel withdraws to the '67 borders, then we will establish a peace in
stages.

What does that mean?

Number one: We will establish a situation of stability and calm which will
bring safety for our people -- what Sheikh [Ahmed] Yassin [a Hamas founder]
called a long-term hudna .

Does a peace in stages means the ultimate obliteration of the Jewish people?

We do not have any feelings of animosity toward Jews. We do not wish to
throw them into the sea. All we seek is to be given our land back, not to
harm anybody.
Do you recognize Israel's right to exist?

The answer is to let Israel say it will recognize a Palestinian state along
the 1967 borders, release the prisoners and recognize the rights of the
refugees to return to Israel. Hamas will have a position if this occurs.

So will you extend the present ceasefire?

I will not say yes or no. The problem is with Israel. If Israel gives us a
quiet period and stops its incursions and the assassinations, then we will
be able to convince our people to continue with a state of quiet.

How is Hamas going to run its government with the United States cutting back
funds and the Palestinian government having a deficit of $700 million? Will
Iran make up the difference?

We have an economic plan for self-sufficiency based on rationing and
protection of public money. Number two: Our relationship with the Islamic
and Arab world has shown indications that these people will support us.
Number three: The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see
the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from
the international community that they will not stop their aid.

I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that
will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the
American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they
do.

You must offer Americans some kind of assurance that you agree with
President Bush's two-state solution, that you oppose violence and suicide
bombings, that you favor peace. Can you?

All the Palestinian people would like to stop the bloodshed and take the
civilians away from this vicious cycle of violence. The problem is not with
us but with the Israelis.

Will you recognize Israel?

If Israel declares that it will give the Palestinian people a state and give
them back all their rights, then we are ready to recognize them.

Israel does not have a charter calling for the destruction of the
Palestinian state.

Our only position will be declared once Israel recognizes our right to
exist.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon accepted a two-state solution as did President
Bush. What do you say about the two-state solution?

It all starts with Israel.

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Lebanon admits it approved weapons transfer to Hezbollah

Lebanon admits it approved weapons transfer to Hezbollah
By Ze'ev Schiff, Haaretz Correspondent 26 February 2006
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/687109.html

The Lebanese government publicly admitted recently, for the first time, that
it had permitted the delivery of a convoy of arms from Syria to Hezbollah.
The United Nations responded by issuing a condemnation.

According to Lebanese sources, Lebanese soldiers halted a convoy of
arms-laden trucks from Syria at an army checkpoint in the Lebanon Valley on
January 31. However, the Lebanese Defense Ministry ordered the soldiers to
allow the convoy to proceed.

A report on this incident then reached the UN's special envoy to the Middle
East, Terje Larsen, in New York, and Larsen instructed his staff to
investigate. Eventually, the Lebanese government admitted both that it had
allowed the convoy to pass, and that the arms had been destined for
Hezbollah.

The UN then published a statement condemning the Lebanese government for
having blatantly violated UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which, inter
alia, calls for disarming the country's militias.

The arms in the convoy originated apparently from Iran. It is not known how
many trucks were in the convoy or what arms they carried.

Arms smuggling from Syria into Lebanon has been going on for years,
seemingly with the knowledge of the Lebanese government. In this fashion,
huge quantities of arms from Iran and Syria have reached Hezbollah in recent
years, including massive quantities of Katyushas and other rockets that are
stationed in batteries in southern Lebanon and are aimed at Israel.

However, this is the first time that the Lebanese have publicly admitted the
existence of these convoys, much less that it has been authorizing arms
deliveries to Hezbollah. The convoy's passage was apparently approved by the
office of Defense Minister Elias Murr, in coordination with the office of
Lebanon's pro-Syrian president, Emile Lahoud.

According to a statement published by the UN on February 13, the UN forces
in Lebanon were initially unaware of the convoy's passage, though reports of
the incident reached them later. When the news reached Larsen, he demanded
clarifications from Beirut, adding that if the reports were true, the action
constituted a gross violation of Resolution 1559. Larsen's office is
responsible, inter alia, for overseeing implemention of this resolution,
which was passed in September 2004.

In response, Prime Minister Fuad Siniora's office confirmed the convoy's
arrival, but did not specify for whom the arms were destined.

At the same time, the UN contacted the Lebanese Defense Ministry, which
informed it that the arms were destined for Hezbollah. The ministry added
that the army permitted the transfer of weapons to the "resistance" forces -
i.e. Hezbollah - in accordance with a decision made by the Lebanese
government.

Following receipt of this information, the UN published a second statement,
in which it condemned the incident as a grave violation of Resolution 1559,
expressed concern and demanded that Beirut take steps to prevent a
repetition.

Hezbollah claims that it is not a "militia," and therefore, the resolution's
demand that all Lebanese militias be disarmed does not apply to the
organization. This interpretation has also been adopted by the Syrian
government, Lahoud and several Lebanese cabinet ministers. As a result,
Hezbollah has enjoyed preferential treatment compared to other Lebanese
militias.

In contrast, the Lebanese army has at times confiscated arms shipments to
Palestinian organizations based in Lebanon. In December 2005, for instance,
after a Palestinian group with ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's organization,
Al-Qaida in Iraq, fired Katyushas at Israel, Lebanon arrested some members
of the group and confiscated their weapons.

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Russian Foreign Ministry: No Agreement on
Palestinian Delegation Visit to Moscow,
Hamas asserts visit is Next Week

Russian Foreign Ministry: No Agreement on Palestinian Delegation Visit to
Moscow, Hamas asserts visit is Next Week
www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_new/english/details.asp?name=13970

GAZA, Palestine, February 25, 2006 (IPC+Agencies)-[Official PA website]
Despite Hamas officials' declaration that a top-level Hamas delegation will
leave for Moscow next week, to hold talks with the Russian officials, the
Russian Foreign Ministry refused to comment on the date of the meeting.

In addition, senior Hamas official pointed out yesterday that a top-level
delegation will leave for Moscow next week to hold talks with the Russian
officials in an effort to obtain international legacy after its win in the
Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).

The Hamas official said that the delegation, which will be headed by the
politburo leader Khalid Mashaal, would leave for Moscow on next March 3.

Moreover, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhari told the International Press
Center (IPC) that the delegation will reach to Moscow within the first days
of March but he refused to mention the appointment.

On its part, the Russian Foreign Ministry refused to comment on the possible
appointment of the visit.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters that Russia is
going to call on the Palestinians to listen to the international brokers'
stance during the talks.

On its part, the Russian news agency Novosti reported yesterday that after
President Vladimir Putin had invited Hamas movement's leaders to visit
Moscow, it is supposed that the Russian President Putin will meet Hamas
politburo chief Khalid Mashaal in person but it is possible that the meeting
will not include the Russian President and Hamas leader Khalid Mashaal.

Furthermore, Israeli Acting Prime Minister's spokesman said that Olmert was
told on Sunday that the Russian President Vladimir Putin does not intend to
meet Hamas leaders.

The agency added that the Russian foreign ministry asserted that there is no
agreement about the timetable of the Palestinian delegation's visit to
Moscow yet.

Meanwhile, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Sultanov received
the new Palestinian ambassador to Moscow Baker Abdel Menaem. Sultanov said,
during the meeting, that Russia is much concerned with the importance of
ensuring stability and providing suitable atmosphere to resume peace talks
in the Middle East based on the Road Map plan.

The two sides discussed the most important regional issues including the
situation in the Middle East in the light of the PLC results and the Israeli
upcoming elections. The Palestinian diplomat handed Sultanov appointment
documents.

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights:
Security Chaos and Proliferation of Small Arms

PCHR
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Security Chaos and Proliferation of Small Arms

#1 Misuse of Arms by Armed Groups
Field Update
26 February 2006

Armed Group Kidnaps and Tortures a Young Man in Khan Yunis

On the evening of Saturday, 25 February 2006, an armed group belonging to
the "Ahmad Abu El-Riesh Brigades" kidnapped Isam Dieb El-S'kafi, a 26 year
old from Khan Yunis, and tortured him.

PCHR's initial investigation indicates that at approximately 21:00 on
Saturday, a number of gunmen from the "Ahmad Abu El-Riesh Brigades,"
affiliated with Fatah, who were traveling in two jeeps, kidnapped Isam El-S'kafi
from his home on the southern end of Seiqali Street in Khan Yunis. They
took him to an unknown location for interrogation.

At approximately 23:00 on the same evening, the gunmen threw the kidnapped
man in front of the reception at Naser Hospital in Khan Yunis, firing shots
in the air as they did so. Medical sources indicated that the man had been
subjected to a severe beating, with bruising and burns sustained all over
his body.

The kidnapping is suspected to have taken place as a result of accusations
against the man relating to drugs and other issues of a moral nature.

PCHR considers this to be a very serious incident. The Centre stresses that
no one has the right to kidnap citizens and subject them to interrogation.
The Palestinian National Authority is the only entity authorized to question
citizens on matters relating to the law. The Centre calls upon the
Attorney-General to investigate this serious crime and to bring the
perpetrators to justice.

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Security Chaos and Proliferation of Small Arms
Misuse of Arms in Clan and Personal Disputes
Field Update
26 February 2006

#2 Civilian killed during a Clan Dispute in Khan Yunis

Rami Mohammad Abu Hadayed, 31 years old and from Khan Yunis, was killed on
Thursday, 23 February 2006, during a clan dispute.

PCHR's initial investigation indicates that at approximately 13:30 on 23
February 2006, an armed group intercepted a black "Skoda" traveling along
Salah E'Deen Road, near the eastern cemetery in Khan Yunis. The gunmen
fired at the driver, Abu Hadayed, and hit him in the chest, abdomen and
legs. They fled the area in a white car. The victim was taken, in a
serious condition, to the European Hospital in Khan Yunis. Efforts to save
his life failed and he was pronounced dead approximately 90 minutes after
arrival.

A number of gunmen from the Abu Hadayed clan chased gunmen in a car in
Seiqali Street in Khan Yunis. There was an exchange of fire but no injuries
were reported. It is noted that this incident is a continuation of an armed
clash between clans, which dates back to December 2005.

PCHR expresses concern over the continuing escalation in armed clashes
between clans, which is part of the ongoing problems with security chaos and
proliferation of small arms. The Centre calls upon the Palestinian National
Authority (PNA), represented by the Attorney-General, to investigate these
crimes and to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Security Chaos and Proliferation of Small Arms
#3 Misuse of Arms by Armed Groups
Field Update
26 February 2006

Member of the Izzedeen El-Qassam Brigades Killed during Training Exercise in
Gaza City

On Friday, 24 February 2006, a member of the Izzedeen El-Qassam Brigades was
killed and 2 others were injured during a training exercise in Gaza City.

PCHR's initial investigation indicates that at approximately 08:00 on
Friday, 24 February 2006, Abdel Mo'ti Abu Daf, a 28 year old from the
Zaytoon neighbourhood of Gaza City, was killed and two of his colleagues
were injured. The three are members of the Izzedeen El-Qassam Brigades, the
armed wing of Hamas.

Abu Daf and other members of the Brigades had been conducting military
training in one of the group's training sites. A hand grenade exploded by
mistake, causing the casualties.

Sources in Shifa Hospital informed PCHR that Abu Daf was killed by shrapnel
injuries that had been sustained all over his body. He was killed instantly
by the blast. The injuries of the other two hit by the blast were described
as moderate and serious.

Security Chaos and Proliferation of Small Arms
#4 Misuse of Arms by Armed Groups
Field Update
26 February 2006

Five Hand Grenades Thrown at the House of Jihad El-Batsh (lecturer)

In the early morning hours of Friday (24 February 2006), unidentified
assailants threw 5 hand grenades in the garden of the house belonging to
Jihad Shaban Salim El-Batsh, 37, in the Naser neighbourhood of Gaza City.

PCHR's initial investigation indicates that at approximately 02:00 on
Friday, unidentified assailants traveling in a civilian car threw 5 hand
grenades at an open area in El-Batsh's house. They fled the area before
police came to investigate the incident. Only one of the grenades exploded
and no injuries were reported. It is noted that the targeted house consists
of 2 floors, each split into 2 apartments. There are 22 people, including a
large number of children, living in the house.

El-Batsh informed PCHR that he works as the Administrative and Academic Dean
at Al-Quds Open University in Gaza. He had previously received anonymous
threats, relating to his work at the University.

Palestinian police have opened an investigation into the attack. At the
time of publication of this update, no information had yet become available
as to the identity of the perpetrators of the attack or the motives behind
the attack.

PCHR strongly condemns the use of force or the threat of force. In
addition, the Centre calls upon the Palestinian National Authority to exert
all efforts to put an end to crimes such as this. The Centre calls upon the
Attorney-General to investigate these crimes and to bring the perpetrators
to justice.

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: CABINET COMMUNIQUE

CABINET COMMUNIQUE

(Communicated by the Cabinet Secretariat)

At the weekly Cabinet meeting today (Sunday), 26.2.06:

1. Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said: ""Today is Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon's birthday. We all pray for him and wish him a quick recovery."

2. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz briefed ministers on current security
matters, with the focus of the past week's developments were:

* Additional achievements in the security establishment's counter-terrorism
efforts, both regarding attempts to infiltrate into Israel from the Gaza
Strip and attempts to launch rockets and plant bombs;

* Abu Mazen's giving a mandate to Ismail Haniye and the acceleration of
attempts to form a Hamas government; Hamas's efforts to bring Fatah into the
new government; the effort to raise funds in the Islamic world and obtain
legitimacy from the international community. At the same time, Abu Mazen
worked to strengthen his authority, resulting in a dual leadership.

* Defense Minister Mofaz referred to the deadlock in the international
community's contacts with Iran on the nuclear issue and Iran's continued
defiance of international pressure, including threats to respond to any
attack.

* Defense Minister Mofaz discussed the situation in Lebanon, his meeting
this morning with US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
C. David Welch, and Egyptian and Jordanian policy vis-a-vis Hamas.

3. The Cabinet discussed the recommendations of the committee that examined
the issue of shortening compulsory IDF service. The Cabinet decided:

* To adopt the principles of the report regarding the shortening of
continuing compulsory service and the compensation for soldiers whose
service is to be shortened, as detailed in the report;

* To supplement the IDF budget in order to implement the foregoing;

* The Cabinet decided to instruct Defense Minister Mofaz, in coordination
with the Justice Ministry, to draft legislation to implement the
recommendations regarding the shortening of compulsory service and the
compensation to be rendered.

Acting Prime Minister Olmert said that the State of Israel is strong and can
allow itself to find a new and correct balance between compulsory IDF
service and its value to the nation, and the fact that we are releasing a
year earlier, over time, the most vital personnel, and are allowing it to
begin studies earlier and contribute to the nation in a civilian capacity.
"It seems to me that this balance of two years' compulsory service is the
balance that the State of Israel can deal with and it is good that it does
so." Acting Prime Minister Olmert referred to the hesder yeshivas and the
haredi Nahal units: "My personal opinion is that this is a very sensitive
and important issue. I will express my personal opinion if I may - the
hesder yeshivas are a national asset that I would be very hesitant to
change, by the way. They have personnel that, for the most part, is
outstanding; they volunteers, they are very dedicated and very motivated.
These are frameworks whose services we would like to keep on enjoying
without, at this time, getting into discussions and issues that could
influence our internal stability. I do not want, at the moment, to decide,
I am only saying that my personal opinion is that the hesder yeshivas are a
national asset that has historic achievements in various areas of our
lives."

Regarding the haredi Nahal units, Acting Prime Minister Olmert said: "We are
looking for a way to change the patterns of life for a certain segment of
our population and if it really becomes clear that the haredi Nahal units
can serve as a platform for some sort of bridge to a population that has not
served in the IDF and could possibly lead them to military service, and thus
make things easier for us in other contexts, I wouldn't make light of this
either."

See http://tinyurl.com/pamsb for further details.

4. The Cabinet discussed the establishment of a directors-general team to
formulate a multi-year plan on establishing the "Halutza Dunes" settlement
area. The Cabinet instructed the team to formulate a multi-year coordinated
working plan on establishing a settlement area in the Halutz Dunes,
including the communities of Halutzit 1, Halutzit 4 and Be'er Milka. The
plan will refer to budgeting, timetables, project management, project
implementation, and coordination with the relevant government ministries.
Prime Minister's Office Director-General Ilan Cohen will chair the
committee; other members will include - inter alia - the directors-general
(or their representatives) of the Negev and Galilee Development and the
Construction and Housing ministries, and the Director of the Finance
Ministry Budget Division (or his representative). The team will coordinate
with the directors-general of the relevant ministries and will submit the
plan to the Cabinet within 30 days.

This decision is in continuation of Israeli government policy to strengthen
settlement in the Negev.

The communities of Atzmona and Netzarim see the planned communities of
Halutzit 1 and Halutzit 4 as their permanent communities in which they may
develop agriculture, desert tourism and other sectors.

See http://tinyurl.com/pamsb for further details.

5. The Cabinet discussed the funding of rescue units in outlying areas; see
http://tinyurl.com/pamsb for further details.

6. The Cabinet discussed certain publicly funded bodies that are turned into
private companies; see <http://tinyurl.com/pamsb> for further details.

7. Health Minister Yaakov Edery, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister
Ze'ev Boim and other senior officials briefed ministers on preparations
regarding bird flu.

8. The Cabinet appointed National Infrastructures Minister Ronni Bar-On to
chair the Ministerial State Comptroller's Committee.

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Excerpts: Hamas and Christians 26 February 2006

Excerpts: Hamas and Christians 26 February 2006

JERUSALEM POST 23 Feb.'06:"Christians under cover" by Lauren Gelfond
Feldinger
QUOTES FROM TEXT:
"While locals and analysts doubt Hamas will enforce a strict Shari'a
religious law, the Christian community is proceeding with a 'just in case'
caution."
"One issue that is underreported is what the bishop calls ''property
abuse', instances when a Muslim steels the property of a Christian"
"Attornwy Justus Reid Weiner recently published a report via the
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs that says Palestinian Christians also
frequently underreport violence and harassment, including sexual harassment
and rape."
"The plight of Christians is not known to Palestinian human rights
organizations"
"analysts predict that Hamas's hunt for financial stability and
international recognition and legitimacy is likely to keep it more
moderate - at least for the time being"
"Local Christians there (Nablus) also helped elect Hamas city council
candidates"
" ' If there are any changes they will be gradual and with the people's
approval' "
"peple will observe self censorship as a defensive measure
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EXCERPTS::
Palestinian educator Dr. Maria Khoury geared up for the winter chill with
what was at the time a meaningless purchase: a black silk scarf with silver
stripes to drape around her neck.
But now, on her daily excursions from the West Bank's Taiba to nearby
Ramallah, the scarf serves as a political symbol of the changing times.
"Since Hamas took over, I cover my head in Ramallah," she says. "I don't
feel comfortable."
In the largely cosmopolitan Ramallah ... 10 percent of the population,
Christians are becoming less and less visible.
The first time that Khoury ran into her local parish priest there with her
head covered, he raised his eyebrows and laughed.
"I see more and more women covered up," Khoury says ... for now, it's
preferable to play it safe and assimilate on the street, even if she would
never choose to cover her head otherwise.
"Years ago I even used to go in short sleeves," she says. "You'd have to put
a gun to my head to get me to wear short sleeves now."
With fear of government-supported religious coercion on the rise since
Hamas's unexpected win in January's Palestinian elections, Christians across
the West Bank and Gaza Strip are keeping a low profile, with eyes wide open.
Though no changes on the ground have affected their rights as of yet, they
are watching carefully and anxiously to see if an already precarious "church
and state" separation in Palestinian government is about to disintegrate.
...: If Hamas follows on its founders' path to fight Israel and install
strict Islamic religious rule, Palestinian Christians stand to become a
legally subjugated minority inside Palestinian society, while suffering
further conflict with neighboring Israel.
A small minority, estimated to be between one to two percent of the total
Palestinian population, Christians have long been in an awkward position,
managing a balancing act of simultaneously being insiders and outsiders.
. . ..
... they are an ever-shrinking minority ... trying to fight for religious
equality and oppose violence as a means of legitimate struggle, without ...
alienating themselves from the larger Palestinian population. Intermarriage
between Palestinian Christians and Muslims is a rare, sensitive and
sometimes risky issue.
Further exaggerating the balancing act ... is an insecure relationship with
western Evangelical Christians, who fervently support Israel, leaving
indigenous Palestinian Christians on the other side of the security fence
sometimes feeling neglected or like the enemy ... .ospels.
. . .
While locals and analysts doubt Hamas will enforce a strict Shari'a
religious law, the Christian community is proceeding with a "just in case"
caution.
ALCOHOL IS one of the things on the minds of Christian and secular
Palestinians these days - not because the society drinks very much, but
because it is an at-risk symbol of freedom in a secular society, a symbol
that was tolerated under the largely secular Fatah leadership.
Though in Gaza alcohol was banned in recent years and only smuggled in,
legal alcohol ... can be found across the West Bank in many areas with
Christian populations ... .
. . .
People are hoping for order, and not only freedom, he added: "Before Hamas
there were problems, people shooting in bars and nightclubs for stupid or no
reasons. [Lawlessness] and chaos is not only a problem for Christians, but
all minorities, rich and poor."
In Taiba, a solely Christian neighborhood with fewer than 2,000 residents,
the only micro-brewing plant in the Middle East and the only Palestinian
beer brewery is finishing the last touches on its first non-alcoholic beer.
"It's a good time to launch," says Nadim Khoury, head of the Taybeh Brewing
Company.
Not only is a non-alcoholic beer a respectful and careful nod to religious
Muslims, but the product is also good for Palestinian economic interests, a
fact that Hamas is unlikely to ignore, he says: ... .
. . .
OTHER SYMBOLS of religious and social freedom, from secular dress to
coeducational schools and the right to opt out of a mandatory Islamic
religion and history test for students, are on the list of rights that
Christians are talking about in the wake of the Hamas win.
But the issues they aren't talking about are even more critical, says an
area bishop who spoke to The Jerusalem Post on condition of anonymity.
"The situation is complex, very delicate, very sensitive. Tensions between
Christians and Muslims revolve around social and criminal issues, but there
are also religious issues, strong and sometimes harsh issues ... Fear of
revenge, isolation and misunderstanding keeps them from speaking up. There
are many prejudices, and it can be dangerous. For this reason, and sometimes
to protect the family's honor, sometimes things are not reported."
One issue that is underreported is what the bishop calls "property abuse,"
instances when a Muslim steals the property of a Christian, he says. "It's
important to add that on occasion this happens with the help of other
Christians, who get paid off to report when a family is on vacation."
Attorney Justus Reid Weiner recently published a report via the Jerusalem
Center for Public Affairs that says Palestinian Christians also frequently
underreport violence and harassment, including sexual harassment and rape.
And tensions are always high when Christians feel their neighborhoods or
holy places are being violated, like after a September attack on 14
Christian family homes in Taiba. A local priest, Father Raed Abu Sahliyeh,
told The Palestine Report that 14 young men from Deir Jreir were arrested,
but released in exchange for calm.
The attack took place after a Muslim woman caught having an affair with a
Christian man was purportedly killed by her family in an "honor killing,"
and angry neighbors came out to target the relatives of the Christian man.
Villagers reported hearing the rampagers saying, "Let's get the Christians."
Palestinian security forces were delayed from intervening, held up at
Israel's Beit El checkpoint, making the Christians feel abandoned by their
Muslim neighbors and by Israel. But their religious leader spoke cautiously.
"The attack by the young men of Deir Jreir was a violent, unjustified and
barbaric reaction, but it should not be taken as an attack by a Muslim
village against a Christian village," the priest told local newspapers,
adding that such events have happened previously and with worse results,
including deaths.
"I reject the newspapers and the people who spoke about an attack by Muslims
against Christians,... We are Arabs, we are Palestinians and we are
Christian since 2,000 years. ... This mistake between two people should
not poison the relations between Muslims and Christians. Those who are
playing this dirty game should calm down. ... .
The plight of Christians is not known to Palestinian human rights
organizations, says Bassam Eid, director of the Palestinian Human Rights
Monitoring Group. "I'm quite sure there are some troubles or clashes but
they do not represent a trend," he says. "Our organization has never
received information about discrimination; we have only heard rumors, which
seem exagerated. If there is persecution or discrimination, the Christian
community must raise it at once to Christian Palestinian Legislative Council
members and to rights organizations."
.... Thirteen Holy Land patriarchs and bishops sent a statement to Hamas on
February 1, congratulating the Palestinians on their democratic performance,
and offering cooperation toward "justice and peace in a nonviolent way,
whether in regard to foreign relations [or] the rule of law together with
full religious freedom." They also offered prayers for "the Holy Land with
all its inhabitants, Palestinians and Israelis, be they Muslims, Christians
or Jews."
Days later, delegations of Christian Arabs from Israel appealed to a Vatican
assembly for aid for Holy Land Christians, to help stem further emigration
and despair. ... . .
"The whole Palestinian people is suffering because of the general situation,
but Palestinian Christians suffer twice as much," says Palestinian
theologian and psychologist George Khoury, who recently emigrated to the
United States.
... analysts predict that Hamas's hunt for financial stability and
international recognition and legitimacy is likely to keep it more
moderate - at least for the time being.
"Hamas is trying so hard to be accepted internationally that they will work
even harder than Fatah in this direction," says Palestinian journalist and
commentator Daoud Kuttab.
"In Bethlehem, Palestinian Christians had some real problems with the way
the PA dealt with some of their complaints. The current feeling is that
Hamas will do better in this direction. [Shari'a being imposed] is a risk,
although I don't think at present it is a big risk. Hamas barely won in real
terms and so they don't have anything close to the 2/3 majority they would
need to make such changes."
Palestinian legislation currently reserves six local seats for Christian
candidates to help govern their own cities, and in the cities with the
largest Christian populations, Ramallah and Bethlehem, Hamas voted as well
for the local Christian candidates, a point Kuttab says also underlines a
Hamas awareness of Christian concerns.
. . .
When protests broke out across Gaza after the publishing of the Muhammad
caricatures, Muslim gunmen associated with Fatah threatened local Christians
and their churches. But when word got out to local Hamas leader Mahmoud
Zahar, he astounded locals and internationals by paying a visit to a
Catholic church to apologize and offer the protection of his own military
forces.
. . .
Fatah gunmen then returned to the Catholic grounds there, armed this time
with red carnations, to apologize for their comrades' transgressions.
Later, members of the Greek Orthodox church joined their Muslim neighbors in
Gaza City for a peaceful solidarity protest against the caricatures.
In Nablus in December, the Hamas-affiliated Mayor Adli Yaish told The
Jerusalem Post that he planned to uphold one of his campaign pledges: to run
Nablus as a city for all its citizens. "Our slogan is Nablus for all, which
means Christians, Muslims, Samaritans and people from the villages," he
said. Local Christians there also helped elect the Hamas city council
candidates, who won a sweeping majority.
Randa Siniora, a Palestinian lawyer and head of Al-Haq, a Palestinian human
rights watch group, explains that Hamas will be very careful not to step on
the rights of Christians, even though Shari'a remains one source for
legislation.
"It was shocking, stunning that Hamas won. We saw the worries of Christians
and also secular Muslims who want a separation [of church and state]. But
Hamas has other priorities and will postpone addressing these issues [of
Shari'a]. There are some voices for Islamization, but they have been shut
down. ... . Hamas is pragmatic; it knows that if you touch these issues it
could be detrimental, even catastrophic for them."
If there are any changes they will be gradual and with the people's
approval, she added.
"If you look at the basic Palestinian law, it clearly outlines respect for
religion and religious practice. Laws about family status will affect only
Muslims. Shari'a is tricky, it can be interpreted in many ways ... . In
Palestinian law it's hard to drop Shari'a as a source."
Palestinian society itself may also put up a fight against strict Shari'a,
as locals are considered much more liberal than many other Arab populations
...where Christians routinely complain of discrimination, coercion and
violence under Shari'a.
ACROSS THE WEST BANK, local Christians, the secular and other minorities are
waiting to see whether agreements signed by Yasser Arafat will be upheld,
like the year 2000 agreement between the Holy See and the PLO guaranteeing
freedom of religion, and the Palestinian "Basic Law" passed by the PLC in
1997 and ratified by Arafat in 2002.
... the Basic Law says: "Islam is the official religion; the respect and
sanctity of all other heavenly religions shall be maintained; the principles
of Shari'a shall be a major source of legislation; all Palestinians are
equal under the law and judiciary, without discrimination because of race,
sex, gender, religion, or political views; freedom of belief and performance
of religious rituals are guaranteed [unless] they violate public order or
public morals."
Though Siniora doesn't think Hamas will go so far as to attempt to control
the way people dress or participate in drinking or secular activities in
public, she does think people will observe self censorship as a defensive
measure.
"I think people will censor themselves," she says. "Young people usually
celebrate Valentine's Day at Bethlehem University. This year [after the
elections] they didn't, but nobody censored them. This [self censorship] is
more dangerous because it is creating changes on the ground."

Dr. Joseph Lerner, Co-Director IMRA

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: [Close but no cigar] Qassam lands near school
[Israel increases firing at empty fields]

Qassam lands near school

Mofaz orders army to boost retaliations to rocket barrage, warns terrorists
may step up attacks to affect elections
Ronny Sofer YNET 02.26.06, 16:37
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3221204,00.html

The barrage of Qassam rockets from the northern Gaza Strip continued over
the weekend, with one rocket landing some 50 meters (164 feet) from an
elementary school in a community in the Gaza vicinity.

Another Qassam hit near Moshav Mavki'im just south of Ashkelon, next to a
gas station. There were no casualties or damage in either of the attacks.

The Red Dawn alarm system failed to go off to warn of either attack,
apparently due to the dust and haze.

The rocket that landed near the school caused panic and fear in the
community. The mother of a pupil at the school told Ynet that after the
disengagement from Gaza she kept her daughter home from school because she
was afraid of attacks.

"Then I understood that you can't keep on like this, and since then I'm
living in fear," she said.

"I keep asking, how long will this go on? Every time there is some excuse
about why they don't do anything, and today too we understood that the army
doesn't really do anything. Even when the army operates, it fires into open
areas," she added.

Mofaz: Terror organizations plan to influence elections

"The situation is getting worse. Every morning I fell like I'm in a game of
Russian roulette when I send my daughter to school with butterflies in my
stomach and full of anxieties," she concluded.

On Sunday, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz instructed the IDF and Shin Bet on
Sunday to step up operations against terrorist organizations, especially
Qassam rocket cells in the Gaza Strip.

During Sunday's Cabinet meeting, Mofaz noted that the terror organizations
planned to carry out attacks to influence Israel's upcoming elections. "I
have instructed (security forces) to increase alertness ahead of the
elections. Owing to the increase in Qassam attacks, I have instructed to
boost the pressure and increase the offensive (against those responsible),"
Mofaz said.

The defense minister also said that "terrorist elements continue their
actions uninterrupted, with Islamic Jihad emerging as the leader of these
efforts. The alert level is high - we have intelligence on 10 planned
attacks in Israel."

Mofaz brought the ministers up to speed on the IDF's recent operations in
Nablus, and reported army forces have so far nabbed 20 prominent terror
activists and uncovered a substantial amount of weapons and two explosives
labs.

"The targeted killing strategy will continue in the West Bank, and we shall
find our way to the doorstep of each terrorist and terror mastermind," Mofaz
stated.

In a meeting Sunday with Assistant U.S. Secretary of State David Welch,
Mofaz said that "the recent talks between Hamas and Iran as well as Khaled
Mashaal's visit to Tehran were aimed at securing the support of the Iranians
and at forming an alliance with Iran, a thing that would help bring the axis
of evil of Iran-Syria-Hizbullah-Hamas here."

"We know of plans to tighten relations between Hamas and Hizbullah, which
may institutionalize Iranian control over the Palestinian Authority. This we
cannot accept," Mofaz added.

Shmulik Hadad contributed to this report

First Published: 02.26.06, 16:17
Latest Update: 02.26.06, 16:37

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Palestinian Killed by [Palestinian] Gunmen in Hebron

PCHR
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

Security Chaos and Proliferation of Small Arms
Extra-Judicial Execution of Citizens Suspected of Collaboration

Field Update
27 February 2006

Palestinian Killed by Gunmen in Hebron

On Sunday morning, 26 February 2006, the body of Kamel Yousef Khalil
El-Edra, a 35-year-old from the village of Yatta (south of Hebron), was
found in an open area in the governorate of Hebron. It was later learned
that the victim had been the target of an extra-judicial execution by an
armed Palestinian group, for suspected collaboration with Israeli security
services.

PCHR's initial investigation indicates that at approximately 16:30 on
Saturday, 25 February 2006, an armed group attacked the house belonging to
Ahmad F'hieli, in the village of Bani Na'em (east of Hebron). Members of
the household tried to confront the gunmen, who opened fire, wounding two of
the house owner's sons. The gunmen then kidnapped the Kamel Yousef Khalil
El-Edra, the son-in-law of the house owner. In the early hours of Sunday
morning, the Israeli Liaison Office informed its Palestinian counterpart
that there was a dead body lying in an area between Yatta and Bani Na'em. A
Palestinian police force went to the area and found the body of El-Edra. He
held an Israeli ID card and the Palestinian police handed the body to the
Israeli occupation forces.

PCHR expresses concern over the continuation of extra-judicial executions
perpetrated by armed Palestinian groups against suspected traitors. This is
the second such crime documented by PCHR over the course of the last 3
weeks. On Wednesday, 8 February 2006, the body of Yaser Mohammad Hassouna
(35, from Beach Camp in Gaza) was found near the Community College in the
Tal El-Hawa neighbourhood, in the southern area of Gaza City. Examination
of the body revealed that he had been beaten severely on the head, his body
was covered with burns and internal bleeding had occurred in the chest area.
The crime remains unsolved. However, there is information indicating that
an armed group was behind this incident, killing the victim for suspected
collaboration with Israeli security services.

PCHR condemns these two crimes, and:
- States that these crimes are a form of extra-judicial execution
and a flagrant violation of human rights.
- States that it is the responsibility and duty of the Palestinian
National Authority and its branches to deal with those suspected of
collaborating with Israeli Occupying Forces. This process must be conducted
within the framework of the law, ensuring the legal rights of suspects.
This includes their right to a fair trial.
- Reiterates its strong rejection of the death penalty under any
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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Kadima heads split on how to treat Abbas

Kadima heads split on how to treat Abbas
By Aluf Benn Haaretz 27 February 2006
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/687508.html

A public disagreement has arisen among Kadima's leaders regarding how to
deal with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told Israel Radio yesterday that Abbas is
"irrelevant." But Shimon Peres, who is number two on the party's Knesset
slate, said yesterday at a function in Miami that "Israel must continue to
talk with Abu Mazen [Abbas], since he is responsible for contacts with
Israel and for the Palestinians' foreign policy."

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz are thus
far siding with Livni, telling American envoy David Welch yesterday that
Jerusalem refuses to see Abbas as the "good guy" and Hamas as the "bad
guys." All three ministers told Welch that the PA is a single entity, and
that Abbas is not an independent actor at a time when Hamas has a
parliamentary majority, will be forming the government and is the party of
Abbas's deputy.

Olmert told Welch that Israel cannot conduct a dual policy - one toward
Abbas and one toward the rest of the PA.

Livni told the American envoy that "Abu Mazen cannot be a fig leaf for a
terrorist entity. When the PA is headed by a terror organization, it becomes
a terrorist entity. No distinction can be made between the PA and Abu Mazen,
on one hand, and Hamas on the other." Livni added that the international
community must deliver a strong message to Hamas.

Mofaz warned of the danger of Hamas cozying up to Iran and Hezbollah, "which
would help bring the axis of evil here."

"We are focusing our efforts on isolating Hamas for as long as it refuses to
accept the conditions set by Israel and the international community: to
reject terror, recognize Israel, honor all agreements and abrogate its
convention [calling for Israel's destruction]," Mofaz continued, adding that
the Palestinian government will "pay the price" if terror against Israel
continues after the new government is formed.

Welch responded that the U.S. will not give money to an entity headed by a
terror organization, but also said that the Palestinian population should
not be made to suffer. He said that money for humanitarian purposes would
continue to be channeled to the Palestinian people.

In response to reports of a disagreement between Welch and Israeli
officials, the American Embassy in Tel Aviv released a statement saying that
Welch had a "productive visit" during which he had "excellent exchanges of
ideas" with the Israelis, and that the two governments agree on the way
forward.

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Moshe Feiglin Discusses His Recent Visit with Jonathan Pollard

Moshe Feiglin Discusses His Recent Visit with Jonathan Pollard
Transcript of Interview with Yishai Fleisher and Alex Traiman

Originally Aired on Arutz7 - February 14, 2006.
Transcript posted to the web February 28, 2006.

Click here to listen to this interview:
www.jewishisrael.org/asx/asx66/A7_feiglin_140206.asx

YISHAI: You're listening to IsraelNationalRadio.com. Yishai and Alex, the
dynamic duo, the two proud Jews hanging out in the studio here in Beit El,
Israel, home of the stairway to heaven.

you know what time it is. It's time to think about the real issues that
shape and move this country, where it's going and what it's doing and
there's nobody better to analyze the situation, where we're going and what
we're doing than Moshe Feiglin from Manhigut Mondays, but it's Tuesday.

Moshe, welcome to the program.

MOSHE FEIGLIN: Good afternoon.

YISHAI: It's good to have you on with us.

Moshe, you just returned from Chutz l'Arutz, from outside of the Land of
Israel, and you visited a dear friend of the Jewish people and his name is
Jonathan Pollard. You visited Jonathan Pollard in jail.

First of all, how many visitors does Jonathan Pollard get? A lot?

MOSHE FEIGLIN: I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think he gets a
lot. It's a procedure that you have to go through and, on the other hand,
not so many people are aware that it can be done. I think it should be
done.

YISHAI: Why do you think it should be done? Why do you spend your time
visiting Chutz l'Arutz visiting Jonathan Pollard? What's the point?

MOSHE FEIGLIN: We may be, both of us, living today because of him. He
saved us and as a punishment we let him -- we're letting him rot in jail. I
feel obligated to him and I wish the State of Israel would have felt the
same.

YISHAI: In the Likud primaries you guys put out, Manhigut put out a
beautiful little flyer that had a letter written from Jonathan Pollard
saying that he backs you as the candidate to lead Likud.

I wonder out loud like this: Is it smart for him politically to back you?
Doesn't he want to, let's say, reach out to the majority of the people of
Israel?

Why would he back the -- what some people perceive as an extreme
right-winger in the Likud as opposed to trying to curry favor with people
like Ehud Olmert?

MOSHE FEIGLIN: First of all, he's a very brave man and if I would have
thought that Yehonatan is putting himself in danger, I wouldn't have asked
him even though it was, of course, his decision, but I personally don't
think that there is any difference, meaning my feeling is that nothing good
can come out of the existing politicians in Israel and that's why I felt I'm
not putting him in any danger.

ALEX: Let's not forget that Jonathan Pollard has been in jail for 20 years
already.

MOSHE FEIGLIN: 21.

ALEX: If he wanted to curry favor from the Israeli government, that could
have been done already over the past two decades.

MOSHE FEIGLIN: That's exactly what I'm saying. I believe Jonathan Pollard
is in jail because of Israel, not because of the United States.

Therefore, I don't see any difference if he's coming out in favor of Feiglin
or anyone else. Israel today is the biggest enemy of Yehonatan Pollard.

YISHAI: That's a very painful statement. I know that Jonathan Pollard did
seek asylum in the Israeli embassy in Washington and --

MOSHE FEIGLIN: He was thrown out of the embassy.

Look, he was not the only one that the Americans wanted Israel to let go
from the embassy and fall into their hands. There was another one, Aviam
Sella, a high ranking officer that worked with him at the same time in the
same embassy.

Israel betrayed a Jew, Jonathan Pollard, and kept -- and fought and kept and
saved the Israeli, Aviam Sella. That's the whole story.

That's the bottom line. Israel is the state of the Israelis, not the state
of the Jews.

I'll tell you more than that. Again, I'm talking for myself. I'm not
talking in Pollard's name. I'm just telling you how I understand the
situation.

The basic dream of the (secular) Israelis was to aspire become something
else instead of Jews. Let's be "Israelis" instead of Jews. Let's be like
the Americans. Then along comes the Jew from America and saves the Israelis
from the Americans! In other words, Yehonatan destroyed the whole "dream"!
So, who needs him here?

YISHAI: His life itself has been destroyed. If it's true that he destroyed
somebody else's dream, I guess the dream of his normal life has been
destroyed. He sat 21 years in jail.

You get to see him. What state is he in? North Carolina?

MOSHE FEIGLIN: Yes. Butner, North Carolina.

YISHAI: You got to see this man. Describe to us, please, what you see
there, what you see when you try to go visit Jonathan Pollard.

MOSHE FEIGLIN: You expect to see after 21 years -- a very, very hard thing
that he went through. He went through torture and horrible things were done
to him. You expect to see a broken man and you find the complete
opposite -- the other way around.

You find a brilliant person, very strong. I cannot describe how amazed --
I'm already the second time, but even though I already saw it once, now my
second visit, the guy -- Jonathan Pollard is a brilliant man. He has what
to say about everything. He has an opinion. He brings records from the
bible, from history, from all kinds of other directions, very knowledgeable,
very smart, very strong and a very good man; a very good and important Jew.

Let me tell you something. When Yehonatan Pollard, B'zrat Hashem, will come
to Israel, we need him even more than he needs us to save him. We really
need that man here. We need his talent.

YISHAI: Mark from Boston has just put up on the virtual studio Jonathan
Pollard's address in jail and it's Jonathan Pollard, 09185-016, FCI Butner,
PO Box 1000, Butner, North Carolina, United States of America 27509-1000.
If you need that information again you can find it right now in the virtual
studio or you can e-mail me and I'll give you that information again.

The question is what are his surroundings? Is it the world of a prison?
How did you get to see him?

MOSHE FEIGLIN: You go through security checks and through a lot of gates
and many, many bars. You have to be scanned.

I brought my new book to give him as a present, my new book that I dedicated
especially to Yehonatan Pollard. I thought I'll be able to give it to him
directly. I couldn't. I had to just show it to him and then the book was
taken away. It has to be sent by the publisher to the jail. They have to go
all through it. A person from the American intelligence has to sit there
(at the meeting) all the time, listening to the conversation. It has to be
in English.

I don't know. After 21 years, I don't know what kind of secrets he has but
the whole procedure is really -- and he's -- don't forget,
there are no furloughs over there (Ed: in Israel, prisoners get weekend
furloughs to go home), no -- when the Americans are holding a person in
jail, he's in jail. He's not going out of there.

YISHAI: I know what you mean.

MOSHE FEIGLIN: One important thing I think people are not aware. Esther
Pollard does not get a penny from the State of Israel, not a penny,fom the
Defense Ministry, nothing. The State of Israel denies Yehonatan Pollard
completely. We are betraying Pollard every day again and again.

The fact that the Supreme Court of Israel just decided that he does not
deserve to be a Prisoner of Zion, it's crazy. He was good enough -- America
was putting us in enough danger to send Pollard, to put him in jail for 21
years; but for us it is not enough to call him a Prisoner of Zion! This is
ridiculous!

ALEX: Just to acknowledge this status for him (is to show)that he's a
person who is important to us which really -- I mean, it could otherwise be
meaningless. But even just a show of some support, anything, the Israeli
government can't even do that.

YISHAI: Jeffrey Cohen from Hillside asks what can the Jews of the US do for
Jonathan?

MOSHE FEIGLIN: Look, I met a lot of Jews in the United States that feel
uncomfortable with the situation of Yehonatan Pollard and that's a very --
we know that behavior of Jews from Jewish history, but every Jew in America
and all over the world should know that he is (potentially) the next
Jonathan Pollard.

Yehonatan Pollard is over there because he's a Jew; and denying Jonathan
Pollard, thinking (that in) this way, it's not going to get to you, that is
a big mistake. When you fight for Yehonatan Pollard you are fighting for
yourself, and maybe in America even more than in Israel.

YISHAI: There are right now two Jonathan Pollards on the way, Steve Rosen
and Keith Weissman from AIPAC. Moshe, I worked with these guys. I was
there for a summertime and I got to meet them and I saw their dedication to
Israel.

They are being set up again to go to prison for many years for what? For
again trying to save Israel, for again trying to save Jews, for doing normal
things, and they are being set up by the American government and again they
are being denied support by AIPAC and by the Israeli government. It's in
the making. We're going to have Pollard II and III soon in jail if we don't
do something about it.

MOSHE FEIGLIN: There is no quantity in injustice. There's only quality.
And when you are letting it happen with one Yehonatan Pollard, it's going to
get to the masses. It's going to get to your doorstep. You can be sure
about that. It's going to get to the doorstep of each one of us.

When we deny a Jew, when we betray a Jew who sacrifices himself for us, it
means we're losing our dignity, we're losing our honor and we are going to
be the next in line.

ISHAI: I wanted to ask you. When you show up there, when he sees your
face, does it make him feel good, does it make him feel better? Did that
meeting for the two hours that you were there with him, did that give him
strength?

MOSHE FEIGLIN: Look --

YISHAI: You got to be in the same room?

MOSHE FEIGLIN: Yes.

YISHAI: That's good. I thought you were probably separated.

MOSHE FEIGLIN: It used to be worse. Now he's in a prison what they call
medium. There are two, as far as I understand, there are three kinds of
prisons in America. He used to be kept in the worst one, maximum security.
Now he's in medium security and in this at least we can hug each other.

YISHAI: Did that give him koach (strength), do you think?

MOSHE FEIGLIN: Look, it was incredible about this man that you do not give
him koach. He gives you koach! It's something that everybody says, but
about Yehonatan Pollard it's really true.

He spoke, from the two hours and 15 minutes that we sat over there, he spoke
maybe two hours. He gave me a lot of chizuk, a lot of new ways to look at
the situation.

He's unbelievable, unbelievable. I really -- I'm sure, I know, I got from
him much more than he could ever get from me.

YISHAI: And his mental and physical health?

MOSHE FEIGLIN: I don't know about his physical health. I hope it's good.

YISHAI: Does he look good, though?

MOSHE FEIGLIN: He's standing on his feet. He's standing on his feet and
talks clearly and looks clearly. I'm not a doctor. I can assure you on his
mental point of view, it's better than mine.

YISHAI: All right. Very good. We're glad to hear that he's at least alive
and there's much more to do and I recommend to people to check out the
Pollard website www.jonathanpollard.org and to reach out to Jonathan, to
reach out the Esther Pollard to see if they can help and we've got to keep
going and the fact that he supports you means there are people out here in
Israeli politics that are still very much interested in getting this Jew
free. -30-

See Also:

One Tough Jew (My Second Visit With Jonathan Pollard) by Shmuel Sackett
http://www.jonathanpollard.org/2006/022506.htm

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: MEMRI: Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi:
"There is a Jew Behind Me, Come and Kill Him"

Special Dispatch - Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project/Antisemitism
Documentation Project
February 28, 2006
No. 1102

Leading Islamist Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi: We are Fighting in the Name of
Islam...This Jihad is an Individual Duty of the Entire Muslim Nation...They
Fight Us With the Torah...We Should Fight Them With the Koran: "There is a
Jew Behind Me, Come and Kill Him"

The following are excerpts from a television program with Sheikh Yousef
Al-Qaradhawi, aired on Qatar TV on February 25, 2006. Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi is
head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, president of the
International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS), and the spiritual guide
of many other Islamist organizations across the world, including the Muslim
Brotherhood.

TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1052 .

Yousef Al-Qaradhawi: "Our war with the Jews is over land, brothers. We must
understand this. If they had not plundered our land, there wouldn't be a war
between us."

[...]

"We are fighting them in the name of Islam, because Islam commands us to
fight whoever plunders our land, and occupies our country. All the school of
Islamic jurisprudence - the Sunni, the Shi'ite, the Ibadhiya - and all the
ancient and modern schools of jurisprudence - agree that any invader who
occupies even an inch of land of the Muslims must face resistance. The
Muslims of that country must carry out the resistance, and the rest of the
Muslims must help them. If the people of that country are incapable or
reluctant, we must fight to defend the land of Islam, even if the local
[Muslims] give it up.

"They must not allow anyone to take a single piece of land away from Islam.
That is what we are fighting the Jews for. We are fighting them... Our
religion commands us... We are fighting in the name of religion, in the name
of Islam, which makes this Jihad an individual duty, in which the entire
nation takes part, and whoever is killed in this [Jihad] is a martyr. This
is why I ruled that martyrdom operations are permitted, because he commits
martyrdom for the sake of Allah, and sacrifices his soul for the sake of
Allah.

"We do not disassociate Islam from the war. On the contrary, disassociating
Islam from the war is the reason for our defeat. We are fighting in the name
of Islam."

[...]

"They fight us with Judaism, so we should fight them with Islam. They fight
us with the Torah, so we should fight them with the Koran. If they say 'the
Temple,' we should say 'the Al-Aqsa Mosque.' If they say: 'We glorify the
Sabbath,' we should say: 'We glorify the Friday.' This is how it should be.
Religion must lead the war. This is the only way we can win."

[...]

"Everything will be on our side and against Jews on [Judgment Day]; at that
time, even the stones and the trees will speak, with or without words, and
say: 'Oh servant of Allah, oh Muslim, there's a Jew behind me, come and kill
him.' They will point to the Jews. It says 'servant of Allah,' not 'servant
of desires,' 'servant of women,' 'servant of the bottle,' 'servant of
Marxism,' or 'servant of liberalism'... It said 'servant of Allah.'

"When the Muslims, the Arabs, and the Palestinians enter a war, they do it
to worship Allah. They enter it as Muslims. The hadith says: 'Oh Muslim.' It
says 'oh Muslim,' not 'oh Palestinian, Jordanian, Syrian, or Arab
nationalist.' No, it says: 'Oh Muslim.' When we enter [a war] under the
banner of Islam, and under the banner of serving Allah, we will be
victorious."

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