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>JN Sept. 1, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 162
Daylight Saving Time
Israel Faxx Staff Report
Daylight Saving Time will end Friday at midnight. All clocks are to be moved back one hour to 11 p.m. The Summer Time Law requires a six month advance notice to change the dates for Summer Time, therefore Interior Minister Natan Sharansky was not able to alter this year's changeover, however he intends to extend Summer Time next year.
NYPD Blue Kills Boro Park Jew
By Arutz-7 News Service
Hundreds of Jews demonstrated in Boro Park, in Brooklyn, Monday
night after police shot and killed a 31-year-old mentally-unstable
Jew. The police were originally called by local residents to
investigate claims that the man, Gideon Busch, was threatening
children.
When Busch brandished and hit one of the officers with a hammer,
and did not respond to tear gas, four officers fired at least 12
bullets at him and killed him. The demonstrators burned tires and
blocked traffic at a main Boro Park intersection in a show of rage
and sorrow that lasted into the early morning hours.
Prisoner Agreement Expected Before Albright Arrives
By Ilene Prusher (VOA-Hebron)
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have yet to reach agreement on
the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails -- the last
dispute holding up resumption of the Wye River peace accord.
When Falastin Abu Ali's father was her age, he killed an Israeli.
At age 22, Mohammed Ibrahim Abu Ali shot dead an Israeli settler
here in the West Bank city of Hebron, a place where Arabs and Jews
live in uneasy proximity.
That was when she was three years old. Now, nearly two decades
later, she thinks the time has come for her father to come home.
Whether he will is at the center of the dispute that is holding up
an agreement to resume implementation of the Wye River accord,
which was frozen late last year.
Palestinians want Israel to release what they call political
prisoners as part of the oral agreement attached to the deal. But
Israel has said that no Palestinians with what it says is "blood
on their hands" will be allowed to go free -- and that limits the
number of prisoners eligible for release.
"I was deprived of my father 19 years, and I think it's the time
for my father to come back to me. In that period, it was struggle
period, it was war period, but now it's peacetime, and
he should return back to me."
At the signing of the Wye accord in October 1998, Israel agreed to
release 750 prisoners in three stages. But with no "fine print"
to refer to, each side has its own interpretation of what that
means.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he would not
release any Palestinians convicted of killing or maiming Israelis.
He said so-called common criminals would be released so that Israel
could meet the quota.
Of the 250 released late last year, 100 were called "security
prisoners." The other 150 were prisoners convicted of crimes like
car theft and burglary. This time, the Palestinians say they want
650 prisoners released.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak faces pressure from aggrieved
families who are opposed to releasing Palestinian prisoners before
their sentences are complete. For Israelis who have lost loved
ones in terrorist attacks, the anticipated prisoner release is
an emotional issue.
Esther Wachsman, an Israeli who lost her son, Nachshon, after he
was kidnapped by the Islamic militant group Hamas in 1994, tells
audiences it is immoral for Israel to consider releasing
Palestinian convicts.
"It is insufferable to me, as a bereaved parent, it is an
unbearable thought, that my beautiful, bright, talented, precious
child, should have given his life, his most precious possession,
for God forbid, an unworthy nation or immoral country. I must
speak out and act out to the best of my ability, so that justice
and integrity, moral values are observed through democratic process
in our country. Only thus can I make my son's life and death more
meaningful."
Palestinian and Israeli negotiators are said to be moving closer to
reaching a deal on the prisoner issue, as well as on a timetable
for further Israeli redeployments from the West Bank.
State Department officials had hoped all of those details would be
wrapped up in time for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's
visit to the region, beginning late this week.
Pleasing both sides will not be easy. Mrs. Wachsman's son is
never coming home. But Ms. Abu Ali is already dreaming about a
homecoming party, and is planning ways to start making up for lost
time."
Virtualjerusalem.com Launches Internet-Based Radio Station
Israel Faxx Staff Report
Virtualjerusalem.com has launched vjradio.com. Today, listeners can preview the first 24-hour, online Jewish radio station airing live from Jerusalem with hourly news bulletins in English, an eclectic mix of Jewish and Israeli music and features. For those who like to whistle while they work, vjradio.com's array of Israeli contemporary, Jewish classics, Sephardi, Ladino, cantorial and chassidic music.
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