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>JN March 6, 2000, Vol. 8, No. 42
Teacher Admits Sex with Her Students
By IsraelWire
A 37-year-old high school teacher from the Sharon area has admitted that she has sexual relations with her high school students, telling police investigators that there is mutual consent, the students are young and good-looking, and, "why not?" She admitted that she carried out romances with her high-school students, who, she claimed, were physically and emotionally adults.
Cabinet Votes an IDF Lebanese Withdrawal
By Jenny Badner (VOA-Jerusalem)
The Israeli Cabinet has voted unanimously to withdraw its forces from south Lebanon by July, but says it wants to carry out the redeployment within the framework of a peace agreement.
The cabinet had unanimously approved Prime Minister Ehud Barak's plan to withdraw armed forces from south Lebanon by July of this year. After a lengthy cabinet debate on the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon, the government said it prefers to carry out a withdrawal in the framework of a peace agreement.
Barak says he would like to pull soldiers out of Lebanon as part of a peace agreement with Syria. In its decision, the government appears to have opened the door for the possibility of a withdrawal without a peace treaty.
Israel occupies a self-styled security zone in south Lebanon, which it says it needs to protect towns near its northern border from rocket attacks by Hizbullah (Party of God) gunmen. Recently, public pressure has mounted on the Israeli government to pull its soldiers out of south Lebanon.
Israel and Syria resumed peace negotiations late last year, but the talks are currently stalled. Barak says Israel and Syria have had no direct contacts, and he does not know when peace negotiations will resume.
Diplomats from the United States and other countries have been working behind the scenes in an attempt to bring Israel and Syria back to the bargaining table.
Palestinian State will be Declared in September
By Jenny Badner (VOA-Jerusalem)
The Palestinian Authority says a Sept. 13 deadline for a permanent peace treaty with Israel is final. The Palestinians say that if no agreement is reached by that date, they will declare the establishment of a Palestinian state.
In a statement after its weekly cabinet meeting, the Palestinian Authority stressed it will not postpone the deadline to reach a final peace agreement with Israel.
Israel and the Palestinians set Sept. 13 of this year as the date for concluding talks on reaching a permanent peace treaty. The Palestinians said in the statement: "This is a final date and it is not possible to extend or delay that deadline." Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, under heavy pressure from the international community, postponed the declaration of an independent Palestinian state last year. Israel and the Palestinians missed a self-imposed deadline last month for reaching a framework accord on a peace agreement.
Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak have set September as the deadline for signing a final peace treaty. Negotiations are currently stalled over a dispute involving the latest Israeli handover of 6.1 percent of the West Bank to the Palestinians. Arafat wants the transfer to include areas close to Jerusalem. Such a move would likely cause an uproar among the Israeli public -- and so far, Barak has refused to hand over any land near Jerusalem.
Yassin Ordered Terror Attacks
By IsraelWire
The terror cell that was broken up by Israeli commandos in Taiba last week was acting upon direct orders from Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin. PLO Authority Preventive Security Force agents over the weekend arrested two of Yassin's bodyguards who are reportedly directly tied to the events in Taiba.
It is now being reported that the Hamas terrorists were to have perpetrated a major terrorist attack in the Gush Dan area of Israel on Sunday morning (March 5) but at the last minute, instructions were received from Yassin's office not to delay and move up the attack to Thursday (March 2). Due to intelligence data, which led Israeli Yomam commandos to the Taiba home where the terrorists were preparing the explosive devices, the attacks were foiled and four terrorists were killed and one arrested. There are also reports that the major attack was to have taken place Feb. 27 but due to "logistical problems" the attacks were placed on hold.
The 62-year-old terrorist leader is said to have personally given the green light for the attacks and is in continuous contact with Hamas officials abroad, including Khaled Meshal, who is described as a Hamas' political leader in Jordan. Meshal survived a botched assassination attempt by Mossad agents during the previous Netanyahu administration.
Yassin has also been in Israeli custody twice in the past, once in 1984, when sentenced to a 15-year jail term, but was released following 11 months. The second time was in 1989, when he was sentenced to life in prison.
Since his release, Yassin continued to orchestrate anti-Israel terror attacks, including a planned 1998 kidnapping of an IDF soldier who was to be taken to Egypt and used as a negotiating chip to obtain the release of terrorists imprisoned in Israel.
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