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Subj: Special Jerusalem Report
Date: 6/16/2002 11:01:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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Special Jerusalem Report
Barbara Richmond
Jun 16, 2002

GOOD MORNING FROM ISRAEL!

5:30 am Monday - The sun is rising over the Samarian hills and it's a beautiful morning here in Israel, clear and sunny and promising to be a hot day. We will walk in the footsteps of Joshua today in the hills of Ephraim with one of the highlights being a visit to the biblical Shiloh where the Tabernacle stood for some 369 years and where the boy Samuel was committed to the care of Eli the priest. I wish all of you could be here with us!

HAMAS THREATENS CHEMICAL ATTACK

The Jerusalem Post headlines this morning say that Hamas is threatening to use chemical weapons in future attacks against Israeli targets, claiming "slaughter will bring slaughter." Channel 2 Israel TV also reported this last night.

According to the report, Hamas issued a statement after conducting a strategic debate which generated the decision to use chemical weapons in addition to conventional bombs. "When we reach that stage [using chemical weapons], the gates will be opened to develop suicide attacks with Allah's help," the report said, quoting from the statement issued by the movement yesterday. The statement claimed that the aim is to further harm those hit by shrapnel in a bomb blast and "create a massacre."

The movement claimed that while the idea is not new, attempts to use chemicals in bombs have so far met with failure, as the chemicals used are usually inexpensive and crude agents that lose their effectiveness in the heat created by a bomb blast.

Hamas yesterday claimed responsibility for the attack near Dugit on Saturday night in which St.-Sgt. Yehezkel (Hezki) Gutman, 22, of Beit El, and Sgt. Alexei Gladkov, 20, of Beersheba, were killed and four others wounded. The soldiers had succeeded in thwarting a terrorist attack near Dugit earlier in the day after blowing up a car rigged with 180 kilograms of explosives.

RICE: ARAFAT NOT BASIS OF PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD

President George W. Bush plans to outline a new approach this week to a Middle East settlement, including a movement toward setting up a Palestinian state, the Mercury News daily of San Diego has reported. However, the policy, according to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, would not be based on Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, the newspaper said.

``Frankly, the Palestinian Authority, which is corrupt and cavorts with terror . . . is not the basis for a Palestinian state moving forward,'' Rice told the Mercury News editorial board, in the report published Friday. Without creating democratic institutions that include forces now excluded by Arafat's rule, there is not much hope for an eventual peace settlement with Israel, Rice said. ``We don't think of this as reform of the Palestinian Authority,'' said the president's top foreign-policy adviser. ``We think of this as building the institutions of a state that will be capable of actually moving to statehood.''

Rice's comments were the most detailed to date about the direction the White House is moving regarding the Middle East.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the cabinet yesterday he will not accept a provisional Palestinian state until far-reaching reforms are instituted in the Palestinian Authority. "The conditions are not yet ripe for the establishment of any type of Palestinian state," Sharon said.

Sharon briefed the cabinet on his recent trip to Washington and related to speculation that US President George W. Bush may come out, in a widely anticipated policy speech on the region this week, with a call for a "temporary" Palestinian state to be set up before the final borders and terms of a permanent state are negotiated. "There is no such beast," Attorney-General Elyakim Rubinstein told the cabinet about the idea of a provisional state.

ISRAEL BEGINS BUILDING FENCE IN WEST BANK

Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer is urging opponents of the Green Line security fence, aimed at minimizing terrorist infiltrations into Israel, not to delay its construction. However, even as work began on the fence yesterday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the cabinet at its weekly meeting he would convene a security cabinet meeting on Wednesday to discuss the issue further.

"I wish to call on all those who want to delay the establishment of this fence for political reasons not to do so," said Ben-Eliezer during a visit to the site near Kafr Salem, south of Afula, where construction work on the fence officially got under way yesterday. "Every day that passes in which this fence is not being built at maximum speed is likely to cost us more victims," Ben-Eliezer said. "This is a wall, the aim of which is to stop entry. It is quite simply... a barrier wall. There's nothing else. It is not a border," he said.

He reiterated that the fence has no political connotations, but is purely for security purposes, and that its sole aim is "to protect the lives of Israel citizens." There has been some serious opposition voiced to the fence on two counts; 1) that it may appear to be a border between Israel and a future Palestinian state and 2) it is a grim reminder of fenced ghettos of World War II Europe which hemmed the Jews into areas that became neighborhoods of deprivation and death. There are too many people alive in Israel today with strong ties to the Holocaust, having lost family members of that generation to the Nazi regime.

PRAYER FOCUS

Keep praying for President Bush as he formulates his policy toward the Middle East and pray for us as we travel through Israel that we would be a source of significant encouragement and blessing to the people of Israel.

SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU FROM ERETZ YISRAEL,

Barbara

www.foryourglory.org

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God bless,
Kindgo

Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.

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