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Palestinian Strategy: "Catastrophic" Terrorism
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"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh was not alone. As many as 400 American Muslims have received training in Pakistani and Afghan jihad camps since 1989. (U.S. News) Tourism represents the largest sector of the West Bank economy and the third-largest industry in Israel. Tourism revenues in Israel have shrunk from $4.3 billion a year to just $2.1 billion, according to the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. (Christian Science Monitor) According to Raphi Salem of J2JNetwork, while investment is down all over the world, investment in Israeli high-tech companies remains comparatively higher than in other countries. Security-related companies, telecom, software, high-tech and biotech are big industries. (Newsweek) Hillel -- The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life has launched a proactive advocacy-training program to teach students to counter a well-organized and well-financed anti-Israel campus campaign. Some 350 students were flown to Israel to prepare themselves for the coming battle for the hearts and minds of college students over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (New York Jewish Week)
News Resources - Israel and Mideast:
Early Wednesday morning, a car bomb exploded next to a bus full of soldiers and civilians traveling from Tel Aviv to Tiberias, killing at least 16 people and wounding at least 40, 10 seriously. The gas tank of the bus exploded, engulfing the vehicle in flames while many passengers were trapped inside. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility and told Hezbollah television that the assailant was from the Jenin area. The Prime Minister's office placed direct blame on Yasser Arafat. (Ha'aretz/Maariv) Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi, Chief of Military Intelligence, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the terrorists who attacked the Park Hotel in Netanya on Passover had planned to use a cyanide bomb that would have led to an enormous number of deaths. (Maariv) Ehud Yaari first revealed this story in Cyanide Bombs. (Simon Wiesenthal Center) Prime Minister Ariel Sharon lobbied for the upcoming meeting with President Bush before the U.S. formulates its new Middle East strategy. The Sharon visit also comes amid growing concern of possible pressure on Israel from Washington to agree to a time line for the diplomatic process to ensure regional quiet prior to any possible U.S. action against Iraq. (Jerusalem Post) Kobi Azoulay, 30, volunteered for reserve duty and insisted on serving in Jenin. He was killed while evacuating injured soldiers under heavy fire. (Israelinsider)
Global Commentary and Think Tank Analysis
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We don't need Egypt to be our policeman, we need it to be our progressive -- to lead the Arab-Muslim world into modernity. Egypt is the center of gravity of the Arab world, but it has been stagnating to a degree that smaller Arab countries are now passing it by. (New York Times) Leaks from Yasser Arafat's office to Palestinian newspapers indicate that all the talk about reform of the Palestinian Authority security system has produced no real change -- not even cosmetic ones. Not only will the security branches remain intact, but the same commanders will remain. (Ha'aretz) The defeat of the Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian armies in a mere six days, 35 years ago, is superbly documented in Michael Oren's new book Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. The Oslo negotiations were premised on the assumption that the Arabs understood the futility of trying to destroy the Jewish state. But as recent events have so vividly proved, Israel's land-for-peace exchange precipitated aggression, not acceptance, by the Arabs. (Jerusalem Post) Abdul Rahman Yasin tried to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993 and was never caught. Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn were the original target, but it was changed to a more efficient one since "The majority of people who work in the World Trade Center are Jews." (CBS) Several of the hijackers, including their suspected ringleader, Mohamed Atta, are reported to have looked at crop dusters in Belle Glade, Fla. A doctor in Fort Lauderdale said that he had treated one of the terrorists for what, in retrospect, he believes was cutaneous anthrax. (National Journal) It's the grown-ups who promote Palestinian children's violent behavior. (MSNBC) A British company is producing an educational CD-Rom that encourages Muslim children as young as five to "kill" Israelis. Board of Deputies of British Jews spokesperson Fiona Macaulay noted: "This CD is the sort of material that breeds violence and hatred." (Independent-UK)
Journalists Manipulated by Totalitarian Palestinian Regime
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