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>JN Sept. 21, 2001, Vol. 9, No. 154
Demand for Chinese-made U.S, Flags Skyrockets
By VOA News
A flag-making factory in eastern China has put workers on extra shifts to keep up with what it says is huge demand for American flags after last week's terrorist attacks.
The Shanghai Mei Li Hua Flag company makes flags for sale in the United States. Immediately after the September 11 attacks, it received an emergency order for a half-million American flags. The company's manager said the U.S. retail price for some of the flags has increased five-fold since the attacks.
Dozens of Israelis Remain Missing in NYC
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Over 130 Israelis in the United States have still not made contact with their relatives in Israel, although Foreign Ministry officials feel that most of them were not harmed in last week's terrorist attacks there.
In addition to the two Israeli passengers - Alona Avraham and Daniel Levin - who were on the hijacked American planes last week, the body of Haggai Shefi was identified; he had been in a World Trade Center tower during the attack, and was buried in New Jersey. The body of Shai Levinhar, who was also known to be there at the time of the attack, has not yet been identified.
Prime Minister Sharon was asked by a Jerusalem Post interviewer if we was concerned that the U.S. might push Israel to the side. Sharon answered, "I have made it clear to the administration, as well as to a list of countries in Europe, that while stability in the Middle East is important to them and is very important to Israel, we will not pay the price for that stability. We will simply not pay it.
"If you ask me whether Israel will make concessions so that one Arab country or another will take part in the coalition, the answer is an emphatic no... We are willing to help, even without being asked. There is already a network of very close contacts. If we are asked to be open partners of the coalition, I will certainly bring that to the cabinet, and it will be approved. If the relationship will continue as it is now, with strategic and intelligence cooperation - informal - I have no problem with that. There is no matter of honor here."
Israeli Intelligence Blames Iraq
By IsraelNationalNews.com
An article in the prestigious Jane's Foreign Report states that Israel's military intelligence service suspects that Iraq is the country behind the massive attacks on the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The Israeli sources claim that for the past two years Iraqi intelligence officers shuttled often between Baghdad and Afghanistan, meeting with Ayman Al Zawahiri, an Egyptian senior member of Bin Laden's organization who is named as his possible successor, and also established strong ties with Hizbullah's Imad Mughniyeh, considered by Western intelligence agencies as the most dangerous active terrorist today.
Jane's quotes its Israeli source as saying, "We've only got scraps of information, not the full picture - but it was good enough for us to send a warning six weeks ago to our allies that an unprecedented massive terror attack was expected. We believe that the operational brains behind the New York attack were Mughniyeh and Zawahiri, who were probably financed and got some logistical support from the Iraqi Intelligence Service."
Continuing Violence Threatens Mideast Ceasefire
By Meredith Buel (VOA-Jerusalem)
Palestinian gunmen have killed an Israeli woman during an ambush in the West Bank, and Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip. The continuing violence is threatening to undermine a ceasefire.
Police said Palestinian gunmen fired at a car near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, killing an Israeli woman and seriously wounding her husband.
The couple's three children were riding in the backseat of the family car and witnessed the attack. The children were not hurt. The family lives in a Jewish settlement near Bethlehem.
In another incident, the Israeli military says Palestinians threw a grenade at an army post in the Gaza Strip. Soldiers opened fire and one Palestinian man was killed. Five soldiers were slightly wounded in the grenade attack. The violence is threatening to derail a cease-fire, called earlier this week by Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat.
Israel responded by withdrawing tanks and troops from Palestinian-controlled territory and promising to halt military strikes. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the continuing violence shows the Palestinian Authority "did not live up to its commitment."
Continued fighting in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could make it more difficult to recruit Arab and Islamic states into such a coalition.
Dore Gold is a senior foreign policy advisor to Sharon. "Well there is no question that Israel has made a priority of trying to address America's concerns with the needs of coalition building and for that reason it has taken risks for peace. But at the same time, when its civilians come under repeated attacks, Israel can not sit on its hands, it can not simply not respond."
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