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>JN Sept. 13, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 169
Israel's Population Increase
Israel Faxx Staff Report
The Central Bureau of Statistics reports Israel's population stands at 6,145,000, of which 4,847,000 are Jews (79%), 922,000 Muslims (15%), and 376,000 Druze, Christians, and others (6%). Israel's population increased by 2.4% last year, the same as the year before. Immigration accounted for 35% of this growth, compared to 34% the year before. The Jewish population rose by 88,000, for a growth rate of 1.8%, the same as the year before.
10th Israeli Arab Arrested in Hamas Terrorist Conspiracy
By IsraelWire
As the police and the General Security Service continue to
investigate the Sept. 5 car bombing attacks in Tiberias and Haifa,
a 10th suspect was placed in custody over the Rosh Hashanah
holiday. All of the suspects are Israeli Arabs with ties to the
Israel Islamic Movement.
GSS officials involved in the investigation indicated the attack
was linked to the Hamas terrorist organization. The information has
the security establishment concerned since the persons who assisted
and the terrorists killed in the attacks are all Israeli citizens.
Senior Police Commander: Attacks Thwarted
By IsraelWire
The commander of the Jerusalem Police District, Yair Yitzhaki, said on the eve of the Rosh Hashanah holiday that several terrorist attacks were thwarted during the days prior to the New Year's holiday. Although the senior commander pointed out that one of the attacks was to be carried out in a major city, he declined to name the city.
According to Arutz-7, the bombs used in Tiberias and Haifa Sept. 5
may have detonated prematurely since they were prepared in the PLO
Authority autonomous areas which did not change clocks from
daylight saving to winter time. Therefore, when the suitcases
were given to the terrorists who live inside of "Israel proper,"
the cases exploded one hour earlier than planned since Israel had
already changed over from DST.
Egyptian Gov't Newspaper: Murder All American Jews
By IsraelWire
An Egyptian government newspaper has published an article praising
Buford Furrow, the neo-Nazi who shot up the Jewish Community Center
in Los Angeles last month, wounding five people, four of them
children.
The Zionist Organization of America is urging the Clinton
administration to use the $2-billion-plus Egypt receives in US
military and financial aid each year as leverage to persuade
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to publicly repudiate the article
and fire the newspaper's editor, a government appointee.
The article, in the Aug. 13, issue of the Egyptian government
newspaper Akhbar Al-Yom [which has a circulation of over 700,000,
and is the weekend edition of the government daily Al Akhbar]
stated that Furrow "has a goal to annihilate the Jewish race in the
United States. I ask God to assist him in his efforts to attain
this goal. Let us all join together saying, 'May it be God's
will'."
In a letter to Mubarak, ZOA President Morton Klein wrote: "An
Egyptian government-newspaper has endorsed the goals of Adolf
Hitler, by publishing an article calling for the murder of all
American Jews, including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
State Department officials Martin Indyk and Aaron Miller, National
Security Advisor Sandy Berger, the United States Ambassador to
Egypt, Daniel Kurtzer, 10 United States Senators and numerous
members of the House of Representatives. It is ironic to note that
all of these individuals have supported American aid to Egypt.
"We call on you to publicly repudiate the article and fire the newspaper's editor. Otherwise, the American public will find it hard to understand why Egypt should continue receiving $2-billion in American taxpayers' money each year."
An article in the July 15th Al Ahram Weekly, called Jews "a
parasitic people" (and charged that) "their army annexes any
Arab land, and they call the territory extending from Pakistan to
Morocco a 'security zone.'"
A recent report by the Anti-Defamation League, "Anti-Semitism in
the Egyptian Media, Spring 1998-Spring 1999," concluded:
"Anti-Semitism continues to thrive in the Egyptian media.
Derogatory images and harsh accusations against Jews and Judaism
have persevered through bad and good times.
"Anti-Semitic stereotypes continue to be prevalent in cartoons,
caricatures, opinion columns, and other media, where Jews are often
depicted as dirty, hook-nosed, money-hungry world dominators.
Comparisons of Israel (both Likud and Labor governments) with the
Nazis, denial of the Holocaust and traditional libels are also
common.
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