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>JN Sept. 15, 1999, Vol. 7, No. 171
Haaretz: Barak Won't Dismantle Nukes
Israel Faxx Staff Report
Haaretz reports that Prime Minister Ehud Barak will not consider dismantling Israel's nuclear weapons as long as regional hostilities persist and will not permit an international inspection of the Dimona nuclear reactor. The newspaper published excerpts from a letter by the head of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission, Gideon Frank, to the International Atomic Energy Commission saying that "progress in the area of arms control and disarmament can come about only through political accommodation and reconciliation" in the region.
Disney Acquiesces to Arab League Pressure
By IsraelWire
Reuters reports that Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal
has been assured that the planned Jerusalem exhibit at the
Millennium Village of Florida's Epcot Center would not depict
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel as originally planned.
According to the report, the Disney officials assured Saudi
officials that the planned exhibit which was to show the
accomplishments of the Jewish State and the Jewish People would not
depict Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The planned move had
been met with threats of an international boycott by the Arab
League and officials in the United Arab Emirates.
The prince is a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and has a
high-profile international portfolio of investments in banks,
hotels, broadcasting, airlines, computers, cars and real estate.
Officials of the Arab League are still planning to send a
delegation to Florida to review the planned exhibit prior to its
opening to the public to ensure it meets the standards of the
international Muslim community and does not in any way hint to
Jerusalem as being the capital of the Jewish State. Senior
officials in the PLO Authority have stated the status of Jerusalem
may only be determined in the final status talks, which started in
Gaza on Monday evening.
Arab League officials have warned Disney that any violation of the
agreement was also a violation of United Nations resolutions and
would be met with attacks on "lucrative Disney interests."
Arab League Secretary-General Esmat Abdel Meguid told reporters in
Cairo he had received an apologetic letter from Disney CEO Michael
Eisner explaining the exhibit was not intended to offend Arabs or
Palestinians.
The official PLO Authority web site
http://www.pna.org/mininfo/statements/est_0909.htm had said:
"Walt Disney does not decide the status of Jerusalem. While the
world community recognizes that Arab Jerusalem is part of the
territories occupied by Israel in June 1967, the American Walt
Disney Company organizes an exhibition in Florida on Sept. 30, 1999
depicting Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
"By doing so, the US company determines in advance the status and
the future of the Holy City before entering final status
negotiations which listed Jerusalem as one of the most crucial
issues to be negotiated...The Palestinian Ministry of Information
considers this exhibition as constituting a reward for Israel to
its continued violations against the holy city and a support to its
non-stop attempts to Judaize the city in addition to being a cover
for its coercive and racist policies against Palestinian
institutions in Jerusalem and the residents."
Sharansky Moves to Eliminate Sabbath Laws in Tel Aviv
By IsraelWire
Minister of the Interior Natan Sharansky of the Yisrael B'Aliyah
Party came under sharp attack from members of the ultra-Orthodox
Agudat Yisrael Party for amending the law to permit entertainment
establishments to operate on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays.
Sharansky's amending of the law would permit businesses to host
educational and cultural events in response to requests and court
appeals by the Tel Aviv Municipality, which has been working to
eliminate the Sabbath laws. He defended his decision explaining
that one may not force residents to observe the Sabbath as they
desire to live otherwise.
State Department Whitewashes Arafat's Persecution of Christians
By IsraelWire
Despite overwhelming evidence that Yasir Arafat's PLO Authority
persecutes Arab Christians, the State Department's new report
on religious freedom around the world claims that the PA does not
mistreat Christians.
The report claims: "The PA does not restrict freedom of
religion...There was no pattern of PA discrimination against and
harassment of Christians...The PA makes an effort to maintain good
relations with the Christian community."
In a letter to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Morton Klein,
president of the Zionist Organization of America wrote: "There
seems to be a mindset at the State Department that Arafat should
never be criticized. The authors of this report simply ignored the
massive evidence of anti-Christian persecution by Arafat. Every
Christian and every fair-minded American should be outraged by this
State Department whitewash."
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