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Subject: FW: Is this how it will end?!?!?! WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 28 (news services). Marking the end of Zionism's "territorial phase," the Barak government today announced the launching of a new virtual Israel to replace the physical Israel. In a gala ceremony at the White House to celebrate the launching of a new bid for Israeli-Palestinian peace, Prime Minister Barak explained that all Jews living in Israel would be expelled to make way for a new Arab state of Palestine, but expelled Jews would be compensated with web sites in Israeli cyberspace. The new state of Israel can be found at www.postzionism.com. Palestinian Chairman Yassir Arafat welcomed the belated recognition of Palestinians' legitimate national rights, but asserted that he could not accept the proposal, as a true peace could be realized only after the end of the Zionist occupation of other areas of the world such as the United States. Outgoing President Bill Clinton expressed his regret at the Palestinian decision, but asserted that the new proposal could provide the basis for continued negotiations. "This will involve some sacrifice by Israelis," acknowledged Barak, "but it's worth it for peace." As a good faith measure, Barak handed the Knesset building over to the Palestinians, who celebrated by torching the building and then turning it into a mosque. Barak also announced that if the Palestinians do not accept the deal, Israel will begin unilateral implementation. President Clinton, hosting the ceremony on his final day in office, beamed as he explained how he launched the peace bid. "At first, we proposed that Israel and the Palestinians split sovereignty in the Holy Land, with Israel getting sovereignty underground and the Palestinians getting sovereignty from the ground up," he said. "But the Palestinians objected on the grounds that that would imply a Jewish connection to the land. I suggested that Israeli sovereignty be restricted to six feet below surface level and under, but the Palestinians wouldn't budge; they said that Zionist occupied graves would poison Palestinian water. Finally, [Israeli Foreign Minister] Shlomo Ben Ami came up with the cyberspace idea, which I think will lead to a breakthrough." The head of Israeli military intelligence, Amos Malka, heartily endorsed the deal. "As a non-political body, we've always told the government that there is no military solution, and the only way to ensure that Palestinians stop attacking us is not to be physically present in the region." He added a caution that extremist Israeli terrorists could seek to derail the peace deal by engaging in violent name-calling against Barak. Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin sharply rebuked Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon for his war-mongering comments that the deal involved the destruction of the state of Israel. "Sharon is an ugly hook-nosed money-grubbing Jew who prevents peace by supporting the racist belief that Jews should continue to exist," Beilin said. "If we don't want to fight forever, we have to face the fact that our continued existence, especially in the Middle East, is an unbearable provocation." Despite the peace talks, tensions continued elsewhere in the world. French police arrested several Jewish residents of Paris who verbally attacked Palestinian demonstrators. A French police spokesman explained that the Jews aggressively shouted "Stop!" at Palestinians who had peacefully demonstrated by firebombing a synagogue and stoning its worshippers. Barak expressed hope that peaceful relations could be restored after French Jews were transferred to cyberspace. Activists of Peace Now announced that they would soon begin daily protests against Parisian Jews for continuing to block peace by occupying synagogues. Meeting in an emergency session following the attack, the United Nations Security Council voted to condemn Israel and to dispatch observers to determine why Israel was responsible. Shortly before the White House ceremony, a Palestinian hacker broke into www.postzionism.com and tried to crash the site. In response, Yassir Arafat proclai

Middle East Madness (washingtonpost.com) Home | Register Web Search: News Home Page Nation World Metro Business Washtech Sports Style Education Travel Health Home & Garden Opinion Columnists - Donna Britt - David S. Broder - Richard Cohen - E. J. Dionne Jr. - For the Record - Fred Hiatt - Jim Hoagland - David Ignatius - Robert Kagan - Michael Kelly - Colbert I. King - Michael Kinsley Charles Krauthammer - Mary McGrory - Courtland Milloy - Ombudsman - Geneva Overholser - William Raspberry - Stephen S. Rosenfeld - Robert J. Samuelson - George F. Will - Marjorie Williams Editorials Letters to the Editor Outlook Weather Weekly Sections News Digest Classifieds Print Edition Archives Site Index Middle East Madness E-Mail This Article Printer-Friendly Version By Charles Krauthammer Friday, January 12, 2001; Page A25 A lame-duck American president and a dead-duck Israeli prime minister (opposed by three-quarters of his parliament and running 28 points behind in preelection polls) are racing to try to change the Middle East landscape before they are both consigned to political oblivion. There has not been an exercise of diplomacy this irresponsible -- a breathtaking mix of narcissism and self-delusion -- since Munich 1938. President Clinton and Prime Minister Ehud Barak are leaving the Middle East closer to a violent explosion than at any point in 30 years. Iraq has moved an armored division westward to be ready to join a general Arab war against Israel. Iran has threatened Israel with an "astonishing and unexpected" response (implying a chemical or biological missile attack) should Israel retaliate against Lebanese guerrillas who have been launching raids into Israel (this after Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon). On Jan. 1, Barak himself advised the Israeli army to begin making preparations for a major war. Clinton and Barak call this progress, and are now desperate to codify the state of ruin they have brought the region so that their successors cannot escape from it. Except that both Clinton and Barak see not ruin but progress. The new objective, says a State Department official, "is to get a new buoy or anchor" -- some official American statement summarizing the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations -- "that states what we have achieved." Achieved? These two men have taken a situation that was tense but nonetheless stable and torched it. Last July, in a desperate search for some legacy, Clinton tried to force a peace agreement at Camp David. Clinton was driven by narcissism. Barak was driven by delusion: the belief that if only he could make enough concessions, Yasser Arafat would sign on the dotted line and lie down with lambs. The problem is that Arafat is no fool. He saw weakness, haste and desperation -- and refused. Barak made astonishing concessions, giving up the Temple Mount, dividing Jerusalem, relinquishing the Jordan Valley, which protects Israel from attack from the east. Arafat not only said no, he never made a counter-offer. Instead, he started a little war to put even greater pressure on Israel. Barak's response to subsequent bus bombings and shooting into Israeli neighborhoods was to make even more concessions. Clinton, hoping for that Nobel Prize-winning photo-op, traveled from one futile meeting with Arafat to another begging for a cease-fire. Arafat, leader of a tiny, corrupt ministate, repeatedly -- and with impunity -- spurned the pleas of the leader of the supposedly hegemonic power in the Middle East. The result? Clinton has recklessly devalued the power and prestige of his office. There was a time when the visit -- and the word -- of an American president meant something in the Arab world. Today it means nothing. But while Clinton damaged only American prestige, Barak has irrevocably damaged Israel's security. And in return for what? Arafat's position is unchanged from where it was seven years ago when the Oslo accords were signed: 100 percent of the West Bank, all of East Jerusalem for his capital and, fatally, the resettlement of 4 million to 5 million Palestinians in Israel, thus in a single stroke demog

The Jerusalem Post 1/18/01 THINK AGAIN: The Orthodox connection By Jonathan Rosenblum (January 18) A rather unusual solidarity mission arrived in Jerusalem this week. The 160-member mission, sponsored by Agudath Israel of America, arrived without fanfare or advance publicity. Even the hotel in which the visitors were staying did not note their presence. They did not show the flag around the country or even visit nearby Gilo. The only thing that the group did was study Talmud in the Renaissance Hotel for three days. Each day began at 6:30 a.m. with the study of the daily folio of Talmud and ended at 10 p.m. Though a number of the participants have rabbinic ordination, none of them earn their livings as rabbis. They are businessmen and professionals and their participation in the three-day yarchei kalla (religious retreat) entailed taking a full week off from business. What did they come for if not to be updated on the security situation? Why did they have to travel 9,600 km to sit and learn Torah? The mission was above all a deep expression of the participants' faith that the world ultimately runs, not according to inviolable laws of nature and ineluctablec laws of history, but according to the will of God. Nowhere is that so true as in the Land of Israel, which the Torah describes as that land "upon which God's eyes rest from the beginning of year until the end of the year." The Torah contrasts the Land of Israel to Egypt. The latter draws its water from the Nile, while the inhabitants of the Land are completely dependent on rainfall. That dependence reminds us constantly of our reliance on God. Torah learning, says the Talmud, "protects and saves." And there is no Torah learning like that of Eretz Yisrael. Its very air is said to make wise those who pursue knowledge. By coming now, the participants in the mission affirmed their belief that nothing they could do would have such a profound effect on the situation of their fellow Jews as learning Torah in the Land of Israel. THE PARTICIPANTS in the yarchei kalla were able to forgo the usual solidarity mission itinerary precisely because their bonds to Israel are so strong. They had no need to publicly manifest their identification with the plight of Israel's Jews by coming now; they and their children never stop coming. Nearly everyone on the mission is a frequent visitor. Almost without exception, they have children currently studying or who have studied in Israel, and many have children and grandchildren living here. A few years of study in the great yeshivot of Israel is today de rigeuer for American yeshiva students. The Mirrer Yeshiva alone has 1,000 unmarried foreign students and at least an equal number of married ones. Well over 5,000 unmarried young Orthodox men and women are presently studying in Israel. And there are at least an equal number of young marrieds living here. Many of them will settle here permanently. During the worst days of the current intifada fewer than 10% percent of those students returned home, and all but a few come back immediately after Succot. At a time when El Al was canceling flights to Israel right and left, it had to add flights on October 28 and 29 to accommodate all the returning yeshiva students. Even Tuvia Grossman, the yeshiva student pictured on the front page of The New York Times bleeding profusely after having been stabbed and having his head cracked open with a rock by a group of Palestinian teenagers who dragged him and his two friends from a cab on the way to the Kotel, returned as soon as he completed physical therapy. The thousands of Orthodox parents who left their children in Israel, despite the horrifying pictures and State Department advisories, did so not because they are unconcerned about their children's safety, but because they are convinced that the benefits of study and living in Israel far outweigh any dangers. THE INTENSE Orthodox connection to Israel begins in early childhood. Every Orthodox child, from a very early age spends much of his emotional, imaginative life in Eretz Yisrael. At six or seven, he or s

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Arutz Sheva News Service <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com> Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2001 / Sh'vat 13, 5761 .... 8. AMERICAN-JEWISH OBJECTIONS TO POSSIBLE BUSH CANDIDATE FOR U.N. American-Jewish leaders are urging President Bush not to name Rita Hauser American Ambassador to the United Nations, in view of Hauser's pro-Arab positions. A letter from the Zionist Organization of America to the President details some aspects of the Hauser record, including the following: * In June 1994, she attacked Congress for insisting that Arafat comply with his Oslo obligations. In 1992, after then-Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin deported 400 Hamas terrorist leaders, Hauser publicly declared that "the U.S. must push for return of all deportees." * In 1988 she attacked the Republican Party platform - which was widely considered pro-Israel - for being "negative" and "hostile to accommodation and compromise." That same year, five years before Oslo, Hauser and others met with Arafat in Sweden and reported that he was a "moderate." * She lavished praise on the intifada of the late 1980's, noting the Palestinian "willingness to sacrifice," their restraint in using lethal weapons, and more. She similarly had praise for the late Syrian dictator Hafez Assad. In 1989, she said that the fact that "Arab-Americans are learning to use both clout and money" is "basically for the good, because it creates a better balance." The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and confidential information and is intended only for the use of the individual and/or entity identified in the alias address of this message. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby requested not to distribute or copy this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone or return e-mail and delete the original message from your system. Thank you.

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Meet Barak's Legacy . . . By Charles Krauthammer Friday, February 9, 2001; Page A29 Landslides are rare in Israel. The political landscape, while hopelessly fractured, is as stable as the local geology. Israel has so long been frozen in an insoluble existential dilemma -- how to deal with enemy neighbors whose most fervent hope is Israel's destruction -- that for almost two decades the country has remained quite evenly split between right and left. When former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was defeated 56 percent to 44 percent in the last election 21 months ago, this was deemed so severe a rebuke that he immediately gave up not only his leadership of the Likud Party but his membership in parliament, and indeed politics altogether. (He recently came back.) This week's political burial of Prime Minister Ehud Barak, however, makes Netanyahu's defeat look like a Bush-Gore squeaker. Barak was slaughtered. To lose by 25 points (62.5 percent to 37.4 percent) in such a finely balanced political system as Israel's is to suffer a repudiation that can only be termed epic. Barak had come into office with a reputation as a brainy, supremely self-confident thinker with secret plans to bring peace within 15 months. He turned out to be a grandiose fool. He offered to give away critical strategic assets (such as the Jordan Valley) and profound national symbols (such as the Temple Mount) without popular or parliamentary support, in complete contradiction to his own campaign promises, and, fatally and most foolishly, in return for nothing from the Palestinians. Well, not nothing. He got an ongoing four-month-old guerrilla war in the heartland of Israel. His is a record of bad faith and incompetence with little parallel in the history of modern democratic states. For all of his bravery as a soldier, Barak turned out to have no resolve, no bottom line as a national leader. Barak offers peace. Arafat gives him war. Barak responds with bluster, threats and ultimatums -- all hastily recanted -- followed by yet more concessions offered under fire. Israelis are tired, and desperate for peace. But they are a brave people and they don't like to be played for fools. Barak's cowering response to Palestinian violence, rebuffs and insults (such as denying the Jews' connection to the Temple Mount, their holy of holies) was more than Israelis could take. What is important to understand about the election, however, is that this was a rejection not just of Barak, but of his chimerical "peace process." Remember: Barak was going to bring his peace treaty to a referendum. Well, he never got a treaty. But everyone knows the positions he offered and the concessions he made. That was the issue in this election. That is why he lost by an astounding 25 points. Yet even that underestimates the depth of revulsion for the phony peace he kept claiming was just around the corner. Barak was so afraid of an up or down vote on his peace policies that he contrived a quasi-referendum that would pit him against Ariel Sharon, a man who is anathema to enormous numbers of Israelis. Through the cynical maneuver of suddenly resigning the prime ministership in December, he forced an election in which the voter could not say "No" to Barak without saying "Yes" to Sharon. Yet so calamitous has Barak's tenure been that even Sharon -- of all people, Sharon -- won the greatest landslide in Israeli history. Sharon is the most improbable Israeli prime minister ever elected. He is old (72), widely feared and twice disgraced. There is not one Israeli in 10 who would have written in his name if given a free choice for prime minister. Barak's final legacy is to have made Sharon prime minister. Barak's accomplice in this, of course, was Arafat. Arafat will soon begin complaining -- loudly, bitterly and surely violently -- about the man he just helped elect. Indeed, the very morning after the election, Sharon visited the Western Wall and declared that Jerusalem is indivisible. Arafat is undoubtedly discomfited. Too bad. He had almost two years with the most dovish Israeli leader in history,