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>JN March 4, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 44
Terrorist Gets Life for Planning Subway Terror Attack
Israel Faxx Staff Report
Islamic terrorist Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer was sentenced to life imprisonment for his planned pipe bomb attack on a New York City subway -- to protest Israel's "harsh treatment of the Palestinian people." A United States District Court justice told the defendant that his feelings towards Israel in no way justified such an attack against the passengers of the NYC subway system. Permitted to address the court, the defendant spoke out against what he called "Israeli injustices being committed against the Palestinian people." He also took advantage of the opportunity to state the Holocaust was a Jewish lie.
Netanyahu Rejects Postponing the Election
By David Gollust (VOA-Jerusalem)
israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu rejected a proposal by
his foreign minister -- Ariel Sharon -- that the country's
political leaders postpone the May elections and form an emergency
government of unity to pull troops out of Lebanon. The Sharon
proposal to postpone the election was quickly dismissed by both
Netanyahu and his main election rival Labor leader Ehud Barak.
But officials of both major parties say a unity government is a
strong possibility after the election -- to extricate Israeli
troops from Lebanon, and deal with stalled peace talks with the
Palestinians.
Sharon said in a newspaper interview that an emergency cabinet of
the two main parties should be set up immediately to implement a
unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. Sharon is a close ally
of Netanyahu. And his proposal was widely seen as an effort to
regain the political initiative after a surprise pledge by Barak
Tuesday that if elected, he would have all troops out of Lebanon
within a year.
Netanyahu adviser David bar-Ilan said if Barak indeed has a
workable plan to end the bloodshed in Lebanon, he should not wait
until June but present it to the government now: "To announce these
things on television and to flaunt a magic formula of which nobody
knows the details of, especially after you were there for four
years is a little silly. So why don't you come and join us and see
if we can really resolve all the problems together. If not, it's
put up or shut up."
Defense Minister Moshe Arens said Wednesday that Israel should
consider scrapping the international agreement barring attacks on
civilian targets in the Lebanon conflict -- arguing that the 1996
accord ties Israel's hands in dealing with Hizbullah.
Police Prepare for Palestinian Statehood
By IsraelWire
Police are preparing for the possibility of PLO Authority Chief Yasir Arafat making a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood in May as he announced he is planning.
The police plan, called "Magic of the Melody" deals with preparing
police and border police forces in anti-terror warfare,
sharpshooters, and riot control. Special border police forces will
also train in the use of armored personnel carriers, combat in open
areas, and working more closely with Israel Defense Forces.
The plan assumes the state of Palestine will be declared with
Jerusalem as the capital. The plan is working to prepare forces for
conflicts with armed PA paramilitary forces. Police are preparing
for sniper attacks on Jewish targets in Jerusalem from neighboring
areas under PA autonomous control, rioting in the streets of the
capital.
Israelis Debate Sheinbein Extradition Case
By Arutz-7 News Service
The case of Samuel Sheinbein, the American Jew who has avoided
extradition to the US where he faces murder charges, has become a
major topic of debate in Israel. Israel's Attorney-General,
Eliyakim Rubinstein, has urged the Supreme Court to reconsider its
decision not to extradite Sheinbein, who claimed Israeli
citizenship on the strength of his father's birth in pre-state
Israel.
Rubinstein warned that the country's extradition law may be abused by
criminals seeking a haven from justice, and noted Sheinbein did
not fit the profile of citizens who would be handicapped by being
tried in a foreign country "whose culture and language they do not
know."
Sheinbein will now be tried in Israel for the murder of Alfred Tello, 19, whose dismembered body was found near Washington in late 1997. The religious Hatzofeh newspaper argued in an editorial that "Sheinbein discovered his Judaism only when he faced justice for a brutal murder...it is clear that the law needs to be enacted to prevent 'criminal abominations' from finding sanctuary in Israel."
Offering a contrary view, right-wing commentator Gary Cooperberg
argued that "Jewish Law forbids any Jewish authority to turn a
fellow Jew over to non-Jewish authorities...Israel is meant to be
a haven for the Jewish people. Even should a Jewish criminal seek
refuge here it should be given to him without hesitation, because
he is a Jew."
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