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>JN Aug. 16, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 150
PA Claims 6,000 Jerusalem Buildings
By Arutz-7 News Service
The Palestinians are planning to claim ownership of 6,000 buildings in western Jerusalem under the final-status arrangements. So said the Jerusalem representative in the Palestinian legislative council, Hattam Eid. Among the buildings is the Ministry of Industry and Trade, headed by Ran Cohen of Meretz. Eid said that the Palestinians are making great efforts to prove their ownership of the buildings.
Iraq is One of Barak's Top Priorities
By IsraelWire
Over the past few weeks, Israel has thrust the Iraqi threat
high up on its list of its diplomatic and security priorities,
Haaretz reports.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein recently intensified verbal attacks
on Israel. In his July 17 Independence Day speech, Hussein called
for Israel's destruction and removal of Zionism from "Arab
Palestine."
Prime Minister Ehud Barak has been calling Saddam Hussein's Iraq a
serious threat because of the Iraqi leader's drive to obtain
chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. The Post's sources
believe that the Iraqis are continuing to make headway on gathering
know-how, equipment, experts and material for their nuclear
program.
Aryan Nations Leader Praises Furrow
By IsraelWire and Alisha Ryu (VOA-Los Angeles)
The leader of the Aryan Nations in Hayden Lake, Idaho, has praised
his racist disciple Buford Furrow as a "good soldier" - but said he
wouldn't condemn or condone his alleged hate attacks in Los
Angeles.
The pudgy, balding Buford, now charged with a heinous hate spree
that could earn him the death penalty, once worked as a security
supervisor for Pastor Richard Butler. Furrow has confessed to the
savage Tuesday shoot-up of a Jewish community center full of
children, as well as killing a Filipino-American postman,
officials say.
"Sometimes you have to do these kinds of things for the cause,"
Butler told the New York Post. Furrow allegedly told the FBI that
his attack was "a wakeup call to America to kill Jews."
Butler, the aging patriarch of the neo-Nazi white supremacist
organization, seemed to contradict himself while discussing
Furrow's alleged hate spree. At times, he praised Furrow and tried
to justify the attacks, but later distanced himself from the
specific acts of violence.
"He was a good soldier," the 81-year-old hate preacher said in an
interview at his Aryan Nations compound. "He was very
well-respected among us. "I don't know why he did what he did, but
I cannot condemn what he did - nor do I condone it."
Butler liked Furrow so much he made him a lieutenant in charge of
security at the compound. "He was a good learner, he was passionate
about the cause," said Butler. "He was very intelligent, very
sincere and quiet. He is a frustrated male like all us members of
the Aryan Nation - with the Jews and nonwhites."
Butler spoke with his German shepherd curled up underneath his
desk. He offered a rambling, racist diatribe against America,
saying the nation was "infested" with Jews and minorities who were
"destroying" the country.
Butler's group, which charges a $35-a-year membership fee and $5 a
month for dues, is one of a handful of fringe extremist groups
trying to form an all-white secessionist state in the Pacific
Northwest. But it is also the most well-known white supremacist
group.
Formed in the mid-1970s, it calls for a white revolution and the
establishment of a "white-only" homeland in the Pacific Northwest.
Member of Aryan Nations are followers of a racist, anti-Semitic
doctrine called the "Christian Identity Faith," which maintains
that whites will be pitted against evil, non-white satanic forces
in an apocalyptic battle. In this battle, the forces of
good -- the whites -- will fight the armies of Satan, represented by
the Jewish-controlled federal government.
Floyd Cochran -- a former member of the neo-Nazi group Aryan
Nations -- says most white supremacists believe the final battle
will be waged at the end of the millennium. And in preparation for
this battle, Cochran predicts there will be more Los Angeles-type
attacks in the coming months. "The fact that we are coming to the
end of the millennium, I think we are going to see quite a bit of
this type of violence."
Chabad Nixes Stamp Commemorating Lubavitcher Rebbe
By IsraelWire
The Chabad Hassidic sect has lobbied to scrap plans by the Israel
Philatelic Service to introduce a stamp in memory of the last
Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson. Chabad spokesman
Rabbi Menahem Brod told the Jerusalem Post that opposition to the
stamp was based on a 1951 letter dealing with a request to publish
a stamp honoring the founder of the movement. The Rebbe explained
it was not fitting to portray a holy man on a stamp, which is
generally discarded after use. The Rebbe also writes that the
stamping of a postmark on a stamp is also disrespectful if the
stamp were depicting a holy person.
