SPOTLIGHT ON THE RABIN GOVERNMENT ...Rabin's coalition ally, Meretz MK and self-proclaimed civil rights champion Dedi Zucker, has proposed legislation to restrict the right of Israel's president to express his opinion. Stung by President Ezer Weizmann's criticism of Rabin's concessions to the PLO, Zucker has authored a bill to bar the president from saying anything that falls "outside the realm of what has been generally accepted for the President of Israel to comment on within the jurisdiction of his office"... ...Shulamit Aloni, Rabin's Minister of Communications, told Israel Radio on September 28 that she favors releasing imprisoned Arab terrorists because they are "freedom fighters who were fighting for the liberation of their land." Aloni said she opposes releasing Ami Popper --an Israeli who carried out a revenge attack on Arabs-- because "he is a murderer"... ...Rabin's coalition ally, the Meretz Party, has launched a campaign of advertisements on the sides of Israeli buses, featuring the slogan "Who will cause the evacuation of Hebron?--Meretz"...

...Yediot Ahronot reporter Nahum Barnea, a Rabin supporter, revealed in an October 13 expose that the Labor Party hired goons to heckle Likud rallies and stage phony warm receptions for Yitzhak Rabin in 1992. According to Barnea, toughs organized by leftwing activist Yamin Suissa were given an 80,000-shekel bonus for staging a photo-op in which they hugged Rabin and kissed him on the cheeks in Jerusalem's Talpiot market... ...The man chosen by Rabin to head the Jewish Agency's department for North American aliyah has called for changing the Law of Return in order to keep "right-wing extremists" from entering Israel. Gad Ben-Ari, who formerly served as Rabin's media advisor, declared in September that "we must protect the Israeli population from right-wing extremists...The government must give us the authority to filter out extremist elements...We must rethink the Law of Return"...

ON MEETING ARAFAT (Continued from p.6) does history help with any precedent for this moral apostasy. One can earnestly pray that there is a special corner of hell for Jews who legitimate their enemies--but here on earth there is no comfort for those who are appalled by these amoral sycophants. Ruth King is a member of the Executive Committee of Americans for A Safe Israel. FOOTNOTE IN HISTORY (Continued from p.10) agenda of Israel's Arab citizens. Israel will then have fully fulfilled her contribution to the PLO Grand Strategy for the step-by-step elimination of the "Zionist entity." Irving Kett is a retired U.S. Army Colonel.

ZIONIST CONGRESS (Continued from p.1) for a New Right, truly a new center, which will offer an embracing political philosophy, and a serious political program for the construction of what most of the Jewish people wishes to see--a State of Israel which is at once truly strong, truly free, and truly Jewish. A Zionist Congress will afford us an opportunity to address the serious political situation that faces Israel and the Jewish people. It will bring those in the nationalist camp together and provide them with an opportunity to develop a positive program. There are already a number of organizations willing to join in this endeavor. This will be a coming together of religious leaders, Jewish intellectuals, and Jewish activists in the United States and the world. We will develop a Jewish educational outreach program. This in no way competes with already-existing religiously-based outreach programs. Rather, it will complement them. A Zionist Congress will serve as a reaffirmation of world Jewry's support for a Jewish state based on Jewish values and Jewish religion. It will encourage the Israeli electorate, who will see that there is broad support for a truly Jewish state. At this point, to an Israeli, the reaction of world Jewry to the "peace process" must be yet another reason for despondency. A Zionist Congress will have an additional benefit on Capitol Hill. An organized nationalist movement will encourage those congressmen who look on the "peace process" with skepticism to come together as a congressional caucus. This caucus will give essential support to the Israeli people as the current situation deteriorates. We must begin the process now. Herbert Zweibon is chairman of Americans for A Safe Israel.

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