...Some recent words of peace from Israel's peace partners: "We carried out the longest intifada in history--they [the Israelis] should know that we can start it again...We, the Fatah and the PLO, are ready to fight a new battle of Karameh every single day..." (Yasser Arafat, Jordan Times, March 20, 1999) ... "The battle for Jerusalem is near" (Palestinian Authority cabinet minister Faisal Husseini, Al Hayat Al Jadeeda, March 14, 1999) ... "We think the Jewish danger threatens the Palestinian and Arab lands just as the American danger threatens the Arab and Islamic nation" (the PA newspaper Al Hayat Al Jadeeda, March 8, 1999) ... "We are right to believe that the rifle is a means of life and not death" (Arafat adviser Othman Abu Gharbiya, Al Hayat Al Jadeeda, March 1, 1999)...
...Thugs hired by Labor Party leader Ehud Barak physically assaulted supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv, the Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported March 19. "Barak's people scored a knock-out victory in the campaign they are running alongside the election campaign of their candidate," Ha'aretz correspondent Amira Segev reported sardonically. "The battle began hours before the start of the tour, with the violent assault by thugs from one of the South Tel Aviv neighborhoods hired by Barak's people on people from the market who refused to take down signs supporting Netanyahu that they had put up with the help of Likud people. These hired people began their expertise in this field with Amnon Shahak during his famous tour of the Hatikvah neighborhood, continued with Yitzhak Mordechai on his tours of Carmel Market, Bat Yam and Holon, and yesterday, surprise surprise, they cleaned the area for Barak. The battle continued with a misinformation campaign regarding the cancellation of the tour and a planned delay in its start, in order to thin out the presence of Likud people in the area and ended with the complete control of the area by activists from the Barak headquarters, who drowned out, with nonstop singing and megaphones, the calls 'Bibi, Bibi' and 'Ehud abandoned'. 'Because of the violence of the Barak people our people ran away' Gilead Ardan, #26 on Avigdor Liberman's Knesset list, said his voice shaking. 'I hear that and I am full of pride,' said a senior member of the Barak campaign, 'this time we won't go as weaklings and the message of strength will also come from us'"...
...At a conference in March, marking the
formation of a joint Arab Knesset list including the Islamic
Movement, and some members of other Israeli Arab
parties, Israeli Arab Knesset Member Abdel Malek
Dahamshe declared: "We will liberate Jerusalem from the Zionists,
the enemies of mankind. Whatever the Zionists
do, won't help. Jerusalem will remain Arab and it will
be liberated from its conquerors." Dahamshe was
chosen to head the new joint Arab list..
...A new organization, called the "Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions," has been staging demonstrations in Israel against the demolition of illegally-built Arab homes (it has not, however, protested the Israeli government's demolitions of Jewish homes built without permits, as happens all the time). The leader of the Committee is veteran radical Jeff Halper, who teaches anthropology at Hebrew University. Halper is perhaps best known for his 1983 proposal that Ethiopian Jewish immigrants be prevented from living in Kiryat Arba, near Hebron. Halper's campaign for the Jerusalem City Council that year was a collosal flop; he received just 479 votes out of the more than 134,000 that were cast...
...The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee reports that after a CNN reporter recently referred to Hezbollah as "terrorists," the ADC "contacted CNN and was assured that CNN would not repeat this characterization, and that an internal memorandum had been distributed throughout the staff which corrected the error"...
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