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>JN Nov. 16, 1998, Vol. 6 No. 206
Arafat Invites Queen Elizabeth to Bethlehem
By IsraelWire
PLO Authority chief Yasir Arafat has extended an invitation to Britain's Queen Elizabeth to attend millennium celebrations in Bethlehem, the town where Jesus was born. "We have invited Her Majesty and His Royal Highness (Prince Philip) to the celebrations of 2000 years of the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem.
CIA Director Threatened to Resign Over Pollard
By EmergencyNet News
CIA Director George Tenet President Clinton that he would resign
from the intelligence agency should spy Jonathan Pollard be
released.
Citing administration sources, the New York Times said that Tenet's
close ties to the Wye River talks between Israeli and PLO leaders
would have affected the CIA director's credibility within the
agency if Pollard had been handed over to the Israelis.
The US intelligence community has great animosity against Pollard
because of the breadth of the spying he allegedly committed. They
say the fact that Pollard spied for a US ally should not be a
factor in considering any release.
Clinton was reportedly considering an Israeli request to release
Pollard when Tenet said he would have resign if the spy was handed
over to the Israelis.
Arafat Modifies Threat to Declare a State
By Ross Dunn (VOA-Jerusalem)
In Israel, Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat has attempted to calm
fears about his plans to declare an independent state for his
people. This followed warnings from Israel any such unilateral
decision would make all peace negotiations null and void.
Arafat says an independent Palestinian state will bring Israelis
and Palestinians closer together by acting as a bridge of "love and
peace."
In a half-hour broadcast on the "Voice of Palestine" radio, he
said statehood for the Palestinians would serve to promote
development and stability in the region, good neighborly relations,
and bring about mutual benefits.
His moderate speech followed a sharp response from Israel to an
address he gave Saturday in the West Bank town of Nablus, where
he pledged to establish an independent state May 4, the date when
negotiations with the Israelis are due to end.
David bar-Illan, a senior advisor to Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu, warned a unilateral move to establish a state would kill
the peace process and force Israel to annex large areas of the West
Bank.
The warning was issued as Israeli police sealed off a theater in
east Jerusalem Sunday and stationed troops outside to prevent a
Palestinian political gathering. Israeli troops also surrounded
Orient House, the unofficial PLO headquarters in Jerusalem.
Both buildings are located in east Jerusalem, home to most of the
city's Arab residents. This part of Jerusalem was seized by Israel
from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war and the Israeli government
says the area will remain forever under its control.
But Palestinians see east Jerusalem as the capital of their future
independent state. The fate of Jerusalem is supposed to be
negotiated as soon as the latest agreement between Israel and
the Palestinians, signed at the White House last month, is carried
out.
Visiting American special envoy Dennis Ross is talking to both
sides in an effort to get them to stick by the accord. The accord
calls for Israel to hand over an additional 13 percent of the West
Bank to Palestinian self rule. But this is conditional on the
Palestinian Authority halting attacks by Islamic militants against
Israeli citizens.
Widow Claims Her Husband Was Victim of Dentist's Fraud
By IsraelWire
The Ramle Civil Court has remanding dentist Chaim Connell,
suspected of taking hundreds of thousands of shekels from kidney
patients when he promised them transplants in Prague, Czech
Republic.
A resident of central Israel brought a complaint that her husband,
ill with kidney disease, was a victim of Connell, and that because
he did not receive a transplant, died.
An investigator for the police central region's fraud division told
the court of the fraud conducted by the dentist. Among his
testimony he told that the dentist underwent a kidney transplant in
Tel-Aviv's Assouta Hospital, and not in Prague, as he told his
victims.
To the kidney patient, who needed a transplant, and later died, he
suggested a transplant in Prague, as he had supposedly undergone
himself. For "arranging" the operation Connell received $40,000 in
advance. Afterwards he kept making excuses why the operation was
not scheduled.
The police fraud squad discovered that the company supposedly
arranging the Prague transplants was in reality owned by Connell
and his wife. The court stated that Connell is most probably
guilty of the crimes the police suspect him of.
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