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>JN Jan. 18, 2002, Vol. 10, No. 12
Israel Tightens Blockade, Palestinian Gunman Killed
By VOA News
The Israeli army has tightened its blockade of five Palestinian towns and killed an armed activist in an anti-Israeli militia group. The slain man was Khamis Ahmed Ali Abdullah, a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed faction linked to the Fatah movement of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat.
Israeli sources said a commando unit encountered Abdullah near a Nablus refugee camp and opened fire. Palestinian sources said there was an exchange of gunfire. He was the second member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade killed this week. The group has claimed some of this week's shooting attacks against Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank.
Israel has responded to the upsurge in attacks by sealing all the main towns in the northern part of the West Bank - Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm, and Qalqilyah. Israel's security cabinet approved the step in an overnight meeting.
Netanyahu Calls For End To P.A.
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the Palestinian Authority should be dismantled.
He told Israel Radio that he plans to address an upcoming meeting of the Likud Central Committee and will call for a vote against the establishment of a Palestinian state, similar to the statement released earlier this week by the party bureau.
Netanyahu explained there was no chance of obtaining peace in the region as long as Yasir Arafat stood at the helm of the PLO, and that steps must be taken towards his removal.
The former PM also said that it is no secret that he aspires to become prime minister once again, "but I don't want to inherit an already-formed government. I plan to take bold steps if I am elected, including in the economic and social spheres, and this can only be done when a government is newly-formed."
Palestine Post Archives Now Online
By Israel Faxx Staff
Created in 1998 to advance the use of information technology in the study and research of the Humanities, the Laura Schwarz-Kipp Institute conducts projects in the digitization of printed primary resources (making printed texts available online) techniques of information retrieval imaging and the use of image databases in different disciplines of the Humanities text analysis and tagging software.
The Palestine Post (1932-1950) project is currently available online at http://kipp.tau.ac.il/
This is the flagship project of the Kipp Institute. Historic newspapers provide a window into the past that is accessible to everyone, and often contain information that cannot be found elsewhere.
(This is the third version of the Palestine Post, and one which is compatible with Windows. The next version of the Palestine Post (version 4) will be compatible with Macintosh as well as Windows.)
Papers Reveal Nazi Aim: End Christianity
By Edward Colimore (Courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer)
"Take over the churches from within, using party sympathizers. Discredit, jail or kill Christian leaders. And re-indoctrinate the congregants. Give them a new faith - in Germany's Third Reich."
More than a half-century ago, confidential U.S. government reports on the Nazi plans were prepared for the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and are now available online for free - some of them for the first time.
These rare documents - in their original form, some with handwritten scrawls across them - are part of an online legal journal published by students of the Rutgers University School of Law at Camden.
"When people think about the Holocaust, they think about the crimes against Jews, but here's a different perspective," said Julie Seltzer Mandel, a third-year law student who is editor of the Nuremberg Project for the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion.
"A lot of people will say, 'I didn't realize that they were trying to convert Christians to a Nazi philosophy.'...They wanted to eliminate the Jews altogether, but they were also looking to eliminate Christianity."
Mandel said the journal would post new Nuremberg documents about every six months, along with commentary from scholars across the world, on its Web site at www.lawandreligion.com.
The material is part of the archives of Gen. William J. Donovan, who served as special assistant to the U.S. chief of counsel during the International Military Tribunal after World War II. The trials were convened to hold accountable those responsible for war crimes. The documents are part of the collection of the Cornell University School of Law library, which has about 150 bound volumes of Nuremberg trial transcripts and materials. They are housed at the school and are being cataloged.
