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>JN March 2, 2001, Vol. 9, No. 38
Sharon Wants To Add "Love Of Homeland"
Arutz-7 News
Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon wants the Knesset to change the army's ethical code. In a discussion with students and youth-movement representatives, Sharon said that in consultation with the Chief of Staff he would like to add a chapter concerning the value of "love of the homeland." Sharon also said that one reason that he wants a Minister of Education from the Likud is that he wants to emphasize Zionist values such as love of the land.
One Dead, Nine Hurt Following Bomb Blast In Israel
By Meredith Buel (VOA-Jerusalem)
Israeli police are searching for more bombs after an explosion in a taxi killed one person and injured at least nine others. The explosion occurred in a minibus serving as a taxi near the Israeli-Arab town of Umm el-Fahem in northern Israel.
Police say a man badly injured in the van confessed to carrying the explosives as well as to planting a bomb that was discovered and detonated safely Wednesday in Tel Aviv. The confession prompted police to search for additional bombs.
Police say they had been following the van involved in Thursday's explosion because they suspected there was a terrorist inside. The vehicle exploded as police were about to inspect it at a roadblock.
Some of the people hurt in the blast were in the taxi at the time of the explosion, and police say most of the passengers were apparently innocent bystanders. Witnesses in cars near the van reported hearing the blast and seeing wounded people lying in the road.
In recent weeks, Israel has been on heightened alert for terrorist attacks. Bombings have increased inside Israel since the outbreak more than five months ago of a Palestinian uprising for independence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. More than 400 people, mostly Palestinians, have been injured in the violence.
Meanwhile, Israel's elder statesman and Nobel Peace laureate Shimon Peres appears certain to become the country's next foreign minister. The development came as Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon continues his efforts to form a coalition government.
The foreign minister job is one of eight cabinet positions promised by Sharon to the Labor party as part of an agreement to form a broad-based unity government.
As the deadline expired Thursday for nominations for the Labor party's portfolios, Peres was the sole candidate for foreign minister. Peres helped negotiate Israel's 1993 Oslo peace agreement with the Palestinians. Leaders of the Labor party are expected to meet Friday to formally name cabinet ministers to the new government.
Sharon defeated outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Barak in elections last month. He hopes to take power after presenting his governing coalition to the Israeli parliament next week.
Meanwhile, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for effective leadership in the Middle East to prevent the violence from intensifying.
The Associated Press says Annan also urged the international community to help millions of Palestinians pushed into poverty by five months of violence with the Israelis.
Speaking at a summit of African leaders in Libya, Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat was quoted as saying the violence and the Israeli policy of sealing off Palestinian territories has cost the Palestinian economy more than $3 billion since September.
Editor of Egyptian Weekly Dreams of Killing Sharon
Israel Faxx Staff Report
The editor of the Egyptian opposition weekly, Al-Usbu', Mustafa Bakri, described "a dream" in which he was sent by the Egyptian government to serve as a bodyguard for Ariel Sharon on the latter's visit to Egypt. So reports the Middle East Media Research Institute.
In the dream - appearing in the Feb. 12 edition of Al-Usbu' and reprinted in Al-Quds Al-Arab in London the next day - Bakri goes to meet Sharon at the airport.
"After a short while, the pig landed; his face was diabolical, a murderer; his hands soiled with the blood of women and children. A criminal who should be executed in the town square. Should I remain silent as many others did? Should I guard this butcher on my homeland's soil? All of a sudden, I forgot everything: the past and the future, my wife and my children and I decided to do it.
"I pulled my gun and aimed it at the cowardly pig's head. I emptied all the bullets and screamed: blood-vengeance for the [Egyptian] POWs, blood-vengeance for the martyrs. The murderer collapsed under my feet. I breathed a sigh of relief. I realized the meaning of virility, and of self-sacrifice. The criminal died. I stepped on the pig's head with my shoes and screamed from the bottom of my heart: Long live Egypt, long live Palestine, Jerusalem will never die and never will the honor of the nation be lost. I kept screaming at the top of my lungs until my wife put her hand on me. I woke up from this most beautiful dream and decided not to surrender to humiliation."
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