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>JN Oct. 27, 1998, Vol. 6, No. 192
Iraq Accuses Israel of Dropping Crocodile Eggs:
Israel Faxx Staff Report
The Associated Press reports an Iraqi newspaper, Babil, owned by
Odai Hussein, President Saddam Hussein's oldest son, says that
Israeli spies have put crocodile eggs into two lakes in northern
Iraq. That ploy follows the release of "large quantities" of cobra
snakes near Iraqi forces in the north. Adnan Mufti, a
representative of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which controls
the area around the lakes of Dokan and Darbandi Khan, called the
report "silly and stupid propaganda. How can one do that in lakes
where thousands of our people live and eat from their fish?" he
said from Cairo.
CIA to Enforce Israeli-Palestinian Wye Accord
By Jim Randle (VOA-the Pentagon)
The recently signed peace agreement between Israel and the
Palestinians calls on the Central Intelligence Agency to make sure
the two sides are keeping their promises. This new, more visible
role for the intelligence-gathering agency worries the head of the
Senate committee that oversees intelligence matters. But a former
senior CIA official who is an expert in the Middle East says the
agency can serve a key role in the peace process.
Sen. Richard Shelby says the CIA has played a quiet,
behind-the-scenes role in Middle East diplomacy for many years.
But Shelby says the new agreement reached last week in Maryland
gives the agency a more visible, and he believes more dangerous
role. He says the spy agency is supposed to find out what is going
on, not arbitrate between sides, serve as bodyguards, or implement
policies.
Shelby calls the role change "troubling," and plans to hold
congressional hearings on the matter. "This is an expanded role for
the CIA and I believe it is expanding the mission and I believe it
will put people in danger. The basic mission of the CIA is not to
do this, is not to go out in the open, not to be visible, not be an
enforcer of policy but to be intelligence gatherers."
Netanyahu Defeats Knesset No-Confidence Action
By Ross Dunn (VOA-Jerusalem)
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has overcome his first
parliamentary challenge following the signing of a new peace accord
with the Palestinians. But the Israeli leader has been put on
notice that his opponents intend to try again to force him out of
office.
Netanyahu defeated a no-confidence motion Monday in the Knesset,
the 120-member Israeli parliament. The opposition Labor Party
supported the prime minister in rejecting a motion by the
ultra-nationalist Moledet party, which opposes the new
land-for-security deal with the Palestinians, reached last week in
Maryland.
The no-confidence vote failed -- eight votes in favor, to 21
against, with 15 Knesset members abstaining. Leaders of the Labor
party, which supports the peace process, say they will support
Netanyahu when the full Knesset begins voting next week on the new
accord with the Palestinians.
Monday's slaying of an Israeli security guard in the West Bank town
of Hebron is raising new doubts about whether violence could delay
implementation of the agreement. Hours after the Jewish victim was
shot to death, Israeli police found the body of a Palestinian man
near a Jewish settlement in the Nablus area. A caller said the
Palestinian was slain as an act of revenge for the incident in
Hebron.
Spielberg's Shoah Work Eyed for Berlin Memorial
By IsraelWire
The incoming German government wants a video history of the
Holocaust created by film director Steven Spielberg to form a
central monument to the 6 Million Jews killed by the Nazis. Under
the plan, part of the Shoah Foundation, a library of over 50,000
videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors put together by
Spielberg, would be housed on a site next to Berlin's Brandenburg
Gate, the Tagesspiegel reported.
Germany in September awarded Spielberg its highest honor, the
Federal Cross of Merit, for his work in preserving the memory of
the Holocaust. Spielberg directed a 1994 film on the Holocaust
called "Schindler's List."
Outgoing Chancellor Helmut Kohl favored a design by New York-based
architect Peter Eisenman which envisages a graveyard-like labyrinth
of some 4,000 concrete pillars on the Brandenburg Gate site. But
Germany's Jewish community has also been divided on the project,
which needs backing from Bonn, the Berlin state and a citizen's
group set up to promote the project.
Berlin Jewish leader Andreas Nachama said in Die Welt, he had
proposed setting up a school for world religions on the site and
said he would be speaking to Naumann about his proposal next month.
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