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Charles Krauthammer The New Middle East- The Return of Ariel Sharon Foreign Affairs Editorial The Weekly Standard Published: 02/19/2001 Imagine General Douglas MacArthur, come back to life in, say, 1980, defeating Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination and going on to become president, crushing President Jimmy Carter more resoundingly than either George McGovern or Barry Goldwater had been beaten. Well, the equally improbable has just happened in Israel, minus the resurrection. To be sure, Ariel Sharon, who won the prime ministership in a landslide, did not quite rise from the dead. After his disgrace in the Lebanon war in the early 1980s, he slowly worked his way back to political viability. Within a few years, he had been appointed to minor ministerial posts in various Israeli administrations. His final rehabilitation came when he was appointed foreign minister by Benjamin Netanyahu in 1998 and participated in the Wye River negotiations with King Hussein, Yasser Arafat, and President Clinton. But he was still considered unelectable. Not only because of his age (72) but because of his history. As a young commander in the Suez campaign of 1956, he sent his paratroopers into the Mitla Pass against orders; 38 of his men were killed, a terrible toll in a war in which total Israeli casualties were only 231. Sharon's military career was seriously damaged. In 1973, he redeemed himself on that same peninsula. With Israel reeling from the surprise Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal, he led a courageous and risky reverse-crossing of the canal that encircled the Egyptians and led to their surrender. True to his bold and erratic form, however, just a decade later he was disgraced again, leading Israel on its ill-fated Lebanon invasion and found indirectly responsible for a massacre carried out by Lebanese Christians. In fact, one of Barak's campaign slogans stressed that he was the man who had gotten Israel out of Lebanon, while Sharon was the man who had gotten Israel in. The problem for Barak, however, is that while he got Israel out of Lebanon, he also imported Lebanon into the heart of Israel: The endless guerrilla warfare, the daily killings, the roadside bombings, the drive-by shootings, the constant fear that had been the life of the soldiers rotating through Lebanon is now the life of all Israelis who live anywhere near their Palestinian neighbors. Sharon's accession to power was the direct result of this catastrophic political failure by Barak. It began last July with the diplomatic debacle at Camp David. Barak surprised not only the Palestinians but the American mediators, and indeed his own close associates, with his astonishing concessions: offering to divide Jerusalem; to give up Israel's sovereignty over its holiest site, the Temple Mount; to yield more than 90 percent of the West Bank, including the strategically crucial Jordan Valley. Not only were these concessions unprecedented, they were in direct contradiction to the campaign promises he had made just a year earlier. Why, even Leah Rabin, widow of Barak's mentor, said that Yitzhak would be "turning in his grave" upon hearing what Barak had offered on Jerusalem. But unlike his mentor Rabin, who also betrayed his campaign promises but at least brought home a piece of parchment signed on the White House lawn, Barak brought home nothing. Worse than nothing. Sensing Barak's weakness and desperation and pressing for even better terms, Arafat soon launched the low-level guerrilla war now plaguing Israel. The betrayal of his allies, the humiliation at Camp David, and finally the ongoing war-which led a wobbly Barak to offer even greater concessions-totally undercut whatever support he had in the public and in parliament. By late 2000, his government had collapsed. Going into this election, he had the support of a mere one-quarter of the Knesset. Here is where Sharon got lucky. Polls showed Barak trailing very badly against Benjamin Netanyahu, who had come back from a self-imposed political exile and was preparing to run for prime minister. Barak was 30 points behi

The attached is from the NCYI.

COULD YOU PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED? THANK YOU. ------------------------------------------------------------ NEW NIGHT KOLLEL FOR BAALEI BATIM WEEKNIGHTS 9:00 - 10:30 PM BEIS MEDRASH - YOUNG ISRAEL OF MIDWOOD OCEAN AVE. & AVE L ROSHEI KOLLEL: Rabbi Eli Baruch Shulman Rabbi, YI of Midwood; mechaber sefer binyan av, yesamach av Rabbi Mordechai Affen FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL DANIEL SPEKMAN AT: 718-377-3234 OR JUST WALK RIGHT IN TO OUR BEIS MEDRASH

Please forward to anyone who might be interested: More details about night kollel: We will be learning Arvei Pesachim (from 114a, topics of the Seder) until Pesach. After Pesach we will learn some other masechta, probably in Seder Moed; perhaps Maseches Rosh Hashanah. There will be independent learning (with chavrusos) each evening, and a shiur each Thursday night, given by either Rabbi Shulman or Rabbi Affen. Rabbi Shulman and Rabbi Affen are already learning in the Beis Medrash each evening and anyone interested is welcome to join them. Several people are already doing so.

With Gladness & Tidings of the season, We herein enclose part 1 of the Purim edition of the YIM bulletin. If you do not yet have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, you may download it for free from http://www.adobe.com The Editors

With Gladness & Tidings of the season, We herein enclose part 2 of the Purim edition of the YIM bulletin. If you do not yet have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, you may download it for free from http://www.adobe.com The Editors

FW: Missing Israeli soldiers in Lebanon

Could you please forward this to anyone in your address book who might be interested – or who might have people in his/her address book who might be interested?

Attached is an agreement for mechiras chametz. If you would like me to arrange mechiras chametz for you, please print this out, fill it out, and bring it to me. (Please don't send it to him by mail; mail service is not entirely reliable these days. I know I'm always getting other people's mail delivered to me; I can only assume that some of my own mail is likewise "gangling aglay".) Bear in mind that it is preferable that you should already own whatever chametz you plan to sell before you bring the agreement to me.

Rabbi Shulman will be available for Mechiras Chametz weekdays, beginning Monday, March 26, immediately after Shacharis (7:30 minyan) and each evening from 8:45 until 9:15 - except Tuesday evenings, when we have the Gemara shiur. He will also be available on Motzei Shabbos, March 31, right after maariv and Sunday April 1 right after the 8:30 shacharis minyan.

This is a time of year when people often buy new utensils for Pesach. You may, therefore, find the attached information useful. EBS

From: Stuart Cohnen <Stuart.Cohnen@...> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:48:23 -0500 Subject: KAJ Pessach list The KAJ (K'hal Adath Jeshurun of Washington Heights) commonly known as Breuer's, has again made its Pessach list available to the web. It can be found at a new home, www.kajinc.org. Chag Kosher V'soma-ach Stuart Cohnen (stuart.cohnen@...)

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Subject: Fwd: Award to Conrad Black HonestReporting Communique 15 March 2001 "AWARD WINNER: PUBLISHER CONRAD BLACK" * * * Dear Friend, Rarely does a major newspaper publisher publicly censure one of his prized writers. But last week, media mogul Conrad Black heavily criticized Taki Theodoracopulos, a columnist at Black's own British Spectator. The background to this public haranguing is as follows: On February 24, in discussing President Clinton's pardon of financial fugitive Mark Rich, Taki declared: "The way to Uncle Sam's heart runs through Tel Aviv and Israeli-occupied territory," and "America was not as yet Israel-occupied territory." Taki used the Rich case as a pretext to condemn Israel for attacking "rock-throwing youth with armour- piercing missiles" and "shooting at kids." On March 3, The Spectator's publisher, Conrad Black, responded full force. "Taki's reflections were indefensible," Black wrote. "He expressed a hatred for Israel and a contempt for the United States and its political institutions that were irrational and an offence to civilised taste. In the process, I am afraid he uttered a blood libel on the Jewish people wherever they may be." Black's lambasting continued: "In both its venomous character and its unfathomable absurdity, this farrago of lies is almost worthy of Goebbels or the authors of the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' The Jews, according to Taki, have suborned the US government, direct that country's military like a docile attack dog, and glory in the murder of innocent or mischievous children. He presents the universal Jewish ethos as brutish, vulgar, grasping and cunningly wicked." Black's strong words sent ripples of fear through the ranks of anti-Israel journalists throughout the world. Black sits astride one of the world's largest newspaper empires -- the Hollinger Group (http://www.hollinger.com) -- which includes The Spectator, Daily Telegraph of London, Chicago Sun-Times, Montreal Gazette, Jerusalem Post, and others. His newspaper holdings in Canada represent an estimated one-third of Canada's entire daily circulation. In recognition of this highly unprecedented and bold public stand, HonestReporting is proud to confer upon Conrad Black our "Monthly Award for Honest Reporting." Just as it is important to criticize media bias, it is also important to single out for praise examples of media honesty. But there's more. Publisher Black went beyond taking Taki to the woodshed; he protested the overall British media and government treatment of Israel -- singling out HonestReporting targets BBC and Guardian. Black wrote: "[Taki's] opinions are not greatly more extreme than those of large sections of the British media which habitually apply a double standard when judging the Israelis and Palestinians. Behind the spurious defence of merely seeking justice for the Palestinians, most of the relevant sections of the BBC, Independent, Guardian, Evening Standard and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are rabidly anti-Israel. I doubt that most of the people involved would be hostile to someone merely because that person was Jewish, though some would, but they are almost all, wittingly or not, stoking the inferno of anti-Semitism." But Black didn't stop there. He also lambasted Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, according them sole blame for the violence: "Israel, after an unconscionable length of time, and with the exact borders still in dispute, has accepted the principle of two states in the territory it once hoped to occupy itself. The Palestinians have not accepted the right of the state of Israel to survive. They do not accept the Israelis as an indigenous people and still think of them as foreign colonial occupiers like the British, the Turks and the Romans. This and the implosion of Arafat's authority among his own people, and not the actions of the Israelis, are the sources of the present impasse, and every knowledgeable observer of the Middle East knows it." Black continues: "The West Bank is now governed by groups of thugs, and Arafat has been afraid to go there for seve

Here are some practical guidelines for erev pesach on Shabbos. Stay tuned for further developments in this fast-breaking story.

The guidelines I sent yesterday contained the following omission: After disposing of all chametz, kol chamira should be said. Attached is an updated version of the guidelines in which this omission has been rectified.

sorry, forgot attachment.