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>JN June 8, 2001, Vol. 9, No. 95
Jordanian Man Sentenced in Connection to Tel Aviv Bus Bombing
By VOA
An Israeli court has sentenced a Jordanian citizen to 20 years in prison for attempted murder.
A Tel Aviv District Court imposed the maximum possible sentence on Abdullah Abu Jaber for planting a bomb on a Tel Aviv bus in December. The explosion wounded 14 Israelis.
The court said the 27-year-old Jordanian was working with Palestinian militants.
Israeli, Palestinian Security Chiefs to Meet Friday
By VOA News
Israeli and Palestinian officials say their security chiefs will meet Friday in an effort to bolster a fragile ceasefire.
The meeting was arranged by the head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, George Tenet, who held separate talks Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority chief Yasir Arafat Thursday.
The officials say the security chiefs will meet in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Palestinian officials say Arafat will also hold talks with U.S. envoy William Burns on Friday.
Tenet has been facing deep mistrust and conflicting demands as he tries to cement the cease-fire ordered by Arafat. That order came under threats of Israeli retaliation after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 20 Israelis in Tel Aviv last Friday.
An Israeli spokesman said Sharon demanded a halt to Palestinian terror, violence and incitement, which he said have not ceased. Israel wants the Palestinian Authority to arrest militants from the groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad that have been behind recent bombings. Palestinian officials reject the demand.
Oded Eran, a former Israeli peace negotiator and now a senior foreign ministry official, says he hoped Tenet's visit would put pressure on the Palestinians to end their uprising against Israeli occupation.
"We hope that the visits of various dignitaries from all over the world, and especially from the United States will create the pressure on Arafat to do what he was supposed to do months ago. That is to stop the violence, arrest the leaders of those who perpetrated the murders in Tel Aviv, collect all the arms that are now spread all over the West Bank and Gaza, find those factories which produced the explosives used in Tel Aviv or elsewhere in Israel. If this happens then we can move to the next stage.
Meanwhile, Palestinians say a gunfight erupted near the Gaza - Egyptian border when Israeli forces destroyed several buildings and some farmland during an incursion into Palestinian Authority areas. The Israeli army denied any incursion into Palestinian-controlled land.
In the West Bank, Israeli troops fired rubber bullets and tear gas at Palestinian stone-throwers in the divided city of Hebron. Israeli soldiers also clashed outside Ramallah with Palestinian students angry about the blockade that prevents them from reaching Bir Zeit University.
Israeli-Arab Escapes From P.A.
By IsraelNationalNews.com
"There's nothing like the State of Israel, may it be blessed." This was the tearful reaction of Israeli-Arab Yusuf Samir Wednesday night, after he escaped from the clutches of the Palestinian Authority.
Samir had been held by a branch of the Palestinian secret security services, and showed signs of being beaten. "We must be very concerned about this little country," he said. "These [Palestinians] are poison, poison, all of them are poison."
Samir, whose whereabouts Israel did not know for the past two months, said that he had been told, "We informed Israel that we are not holding you and that we don't know where you are, thus that no one is looking for you here." They accused him of being a spy, and interrogated him mercilessly.
He was recently moved to an apartment in Bethlehem, where he noticed that one of the doors was unlocked. When his guard fell asleep, he decided to try his luck, and was soon on his way to the Israeli checkpoint at Rachel's Tomb. Samir was granted asylum in Israel from Egypt in 1968, and lives on the edge of the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem, not far from Beit Jala.
Israeli Humor
Israel Faxx Staff
An Israeli Jew and a PLO sympathizer were discussing politics and religion, not the best way to have a nice chat, when the PLO sympathizer shouts " We pray every day for the destruction of Israel, for the elimination of the Jews, to end Zionism, to discount the Torah, but God only seems to answer your prayers, not ours." The Israeli interrupts, pointing out: "That is because we pray in Hebrew."
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