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>JN Jan. 7, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 4
Cult Members Want to Go to Greece
Israel Faxx Staff Report
Members of an American doomsday cult awaiting deportation after
allegedly plotting violent acts in Jerusalem want to go to Greece
rather than return to the United States, their lawyer said. Eran
Avital, a lawyer who represents three members of the Concerned
Christians, said his clients also told him their leader, Monte Kim
Miller, who dropped out of sight in the fall, was in London.
Avital said his clients preferred to go to Greece because other
group members are already there and they believed the U.S. would be
destroyed soon. Avital said his clients would not fight deportation
even though they would prefer to remain in Israel to await what
they believe will be the return of Jesus Christ at the millennium.
Lipkin-Shahak Favors Transfer of Golan to Syria
By David Gollust (VOA-Jerusalem)
The tone of Israel's election campaign has taken an angry turn,
with the official entry into the crowded race for prime minister by
former army Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak. The new candidate
launched a blistering personal attack on incumbent Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu -- and Netanyahu hit back.
Lipkin-Shahak has a mild-mannered image. But his comments about
the prime minister were anything but mild -- accusing Netanyahu of
stirring up conflict among Israelis and with Israel's neighbors,
and being a danger to the country.
Lipkin-Shahak is a centrist and a supporter of the peace process
with the Palestinians that has been frozen by Netanyahu. At the
Tel Aviv news conference that kicked off his campaign, he said
Israel is halfway down the road in the peace process and cannot
stop now.
He refused to rule out Palestinian statehood as a possible outcome,
or the dismantling of some Israeli settlements. Lipkin-Shahak, a
participant in talks with Syria two-years ago, said Israel cannot
have peace with Damascus unless it is ready for territorial
compromise on the Golan Heights:
"There will be no peace with Syria if there will be no compromise in the Golan Heights. It will be part of the dialogue. No doubt about it. I met the Syrian chief of the general staff a few years ago. I know the Syrian position. And the Syrian position will be discussed with us. I believe that all Israelis are fully understanding that a compromise is part of a peace agreement with Syria."
Lipkin-Shahak's comments drew an immediate and angry response from
a spokesman for Netanyahu, who called his policies obtuse. The
spokesman challenged him -- among other things -- to rule out an
Israeli withdrawal from the entire Golan Heights, which Syria
demands.
A senior Labor politician said if Lipkin-Shahak really wants to end
Netanyahu's political career he should drop out and support Barak.
The election is May 17 with a probable run-off for prime minister
two-weeks later.
Lithuanian Nazi War Crimes Trial Sputters
By IsraelWire
Lithuania's second Nazi-era war crimes trial opened Tuesday but was
swiftly adjourned when the 90-year-old defendant failed to appear
due to what his defense said was ill health.
Kazys Gimzhauskas, a former Florida resident who returned to his
native Lithuania in 1993, is accused of handing over five Jews to
Nazi death squads when he was an official in the Vilnius region
security police during Germany's World War 2 occupation of the
Baltic state.
The defense told the court Gimzhauskas was bedridden and could not
attend the trial. Prosecutors called for an independent medical
analysis.
Vilnius was one of three major capitals of pre-war Jewish cultural
life. Only some 500 remained after the war in which over 90 percent
of Lithuania's 220,000-strong Jewish community was murdered.
Newsweek on Threatened US Embassy Attack in Tel-Aviv
By IsraelWire
According to this week's Newsweek, intelligence sources say the
threat last week to the US embassy in Tel-Aviv was supposed to had
revolved around an odd collection of Iranians, Armenians, Russian
gangsters and members of the Hamas terrorist organization who were
supposed to be planning a strike against the seaside embassy
building.
One US counter-terrorism expert told Newsweek that many CT analysts
did not put a lot of credence in the threat but U.S. officials in
Israel have reason to be edgy. When the CIA was assigned to help
implement the latest Arab-Israeli peace agreement, the name of the
agency's station chief -- who, of course, has an office in the
embassy -- became public. Now a US official says the station chief
and his case officers are being watched by terrorists. Which means
an overhaul of station personnel will obviously be upcoming.
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