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>JN Feb. 15, 2000, Vol. 8 No. 28
95-year-old Motorist in Accident
By IsraelWire
Last week, a Volkswagen being driven by an elderly motorist struck a parked Subaru sedan in Hod HaSharon. Police responding to the call were somewhat surprised to see the motorist was a 95-year-old woman whom they later learned was only permitted to drive, due to her advanced age, under the terms of her restricted license, in the immediate area around her home. Police decided to suspend her license for 60 days during which time officials will decide if they will renew her limited license.
Americans Plan Middle East Peace Assistance
By Kyle King (VOA-State Department)
U.S. officials say they plan to redouble their efforts to secure a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. The announcement comes one day after the two sides missed a key deadline to agree on the framework for a deal.
American officials have said for weeks that it would be difficult for Israel and the Palestinians to meet the Feb. 13 deadline because of the complex and emotional issues that divide them. Each side has blamed the other for the lack of progress in the talks.
The two sides had agreed to try to work out the framework of a deal this month and conclude a comprehensive peace agreement by Sept. 13. Asked if the entire process might now be set back because of the missed deadline, State Department spokesman James Rubin said he did not think so. He said the State Department's Middle East peace coordinator, Dennis Ross, is expected to return to the region at the end of this week.
Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat told reporters in Morocco that the current stalemate had created a dangerous and explosive situation. Sunday, Arafat and his Palestinian council said they would declare a Palestinian state by September - with or without an agreement with Israel.
President Weizman Won't Face Criminal Indictment
By IsraelWire
Senior Israeli legal officials indicated Monday that the state will
most likely not pursue a criminal indictment against President Ezer
Weizman pertaining to monies received from French millionaire
Eduard Sarousi.
According to statements issued Monday by State Prosecutor Edna
Arbel, the handing down of criminal indictments was most unlikely.
It was indicated that the hundreds of thousands of dollars given to
the president were given as a gift, as indicated by Weizman, and
not as bribe money or payment for services. In addition, regarding
violations of tax laws, experts have already pointed out that the
events occurred too long ago and the statute of limitations has
already passed.
Ofra Chaza Shows Slight Signs of Improvement
By IsraelWire
Singer Ofra Chaza remains in serious condition in Sheba Medical Center and on Monday evening is reportedly still on a respirator according to an IBA English News report. The internationally acclaimed Israeli singer, 46, is seriously ill as a result of complications from a flu virus.
Medical officials at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer explained that Chaza first came down with the flu but her condition deteriorated and she is now battling a systemic condition, which has compromised her respiratory system as well as other essential life-sustaining bodily functions.
Press Reported "Final Solution" But World Wouldn't Listen
By Mike Joyce (VOA-Chicago)
Almost from the moment the criminally inclined "Nazi" party was formed in Munich, it was opposed by a courageous group of that city's journalists. Many of them lost their lives opposing Adolf Hitler and his party. Author Ron Rosenbaum uncovered their heroic story while he was researching his book "Explaining Hitler" (published by Random House).
Hitler and the Nazi party found the opposition of a newspaper in their own hometown particularly galling. Rosenbaum says that newspaper was the "Munich Post." Hitler called their offices -- the poison kitchen. "They were out in the streets investigating Hitler and his party, exposing sexual scandals, financial scandals, and most of all murder scandals. They demonstrated how Hitler came to power not because necessarily he was such a great speaker or (because of) the forces of history, but to a very great extent, because he consistently murdered his political opponents. And these guys nailed him on it (reported his crimes) and, unfortunately, the world was unwilling to listen to what they had to say."
Rosenbaum calls the story -- one of the great, unreported dramas in the history of journalism. He says he was startled to discover that as early as 1931 the "Munich Post" was reporting Nazis were openly using the term "Final Solution" when discussing the Jews.
"They wrote a story called "The Jews and Adolf Hitler," in which they used the term "Final Solution." They (the Post) had uncovered from sources within the "Brownshirts," Hitler's private army, plans not only for the persecution of the Jews but for something called "the Final Solution," which was described in euphemistic terms. But, basically, they were the first to foreshadow, to predict, the kind of horror that was to come."
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