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VOLUME 48 NO. 10
THURSDAY, MARCH 10,1994 27ADAR 5754
24 PAGES $.75 PER ISSUE
JESS JA WIN: Deflection, Reflection and Backlashll Rage GfeCtS Ministers’ Suggestion
The Whitewater case against President and Hillary Clinton
has been mixed with an enormous amount of political blood as
partisan foxes continue to delve into the president's past of 16
years ago.
President Clinton or his wife have not been charged with any
crimes—criminal or civil. Yet the political foxes, who are savy
and sniping, are using every trick in the book to make certain
that an appearance of a crime is apparent.
There is reason for the Great Deflection.
First and foremost is the fact that the 1996 presidential
campaign has long been started. Clinton had his honeymoon
with his adversaries. It was much shorter than the proverbial
100 days. His opponents were out to get him within 30 days
after he assumed office. First he had the Gays in the Military
diatribes against him. Compromise ensued and the decks were
cleared. Following that, or maybe in unison with it, was the
abortion issue which never really quieted but made him look like
a monster against pro-life. How about NAFTA where even
members of his own party revolted or the Battle of the Budget?
Put all of these in the mixmaster and keep adding a dash of
Whitewater blood and what do you get? Deflection. Deflection.
The main deflection is to put the President’s Health Reform
plan into the political garbage disposal. Make it look suspicious
jess jawin
to Remove Settlers from Hebron
By David Landau
Jerusalem—A sizeable number
of Israeli Cabinet ministers favor
the forcible dismantling of the Jew-
ish settlements inside the West
Bank city of Hebron.
They favor the measure because
of fears there will be further vio-
lence in Hebron following the Feb.
25 murders of at least 40 Palestin-
ians at the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
Israeli settlers and their political
supporters reacted with rage at re-
ports suggesting that seven out of
nine ministers who spoke at the
weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday
are in favor of removing the ap-
proximately 400 settlers currently
living among 70,000 Palestinians
in Hebron.
A spokesman for the Hebron set-
tlers, Noam Amon, said a decision
to dismantle the settlements was
“inconceivable.”
Re ha v am Ze’evi, leader of the
right-wing Moledet party, said it
would spell “the end of Zionism.”
West Bank settlement leaders
said there would be a widescale
campaign of civil disobedience if
the government made any attempt
to evict the Hebron settlers.
Environment Minister Yossi
Sarid of the left-wing Meretz party
said it was possible the decision
would be taken at the Cabinet meet-
ing next Sunday.
There are 42 Jewish families liv-
ing in three closely guarded sites
inside Hebron: Beit Hadassah, Tel
Romeida and the Avraham Avinu
Synagogue Complex. And about
150 youngsters study at a yeshiva
in the city.
Some of the residents are affili-
ated with the staunchly anti-Arab
Kach and Kahane Chai movements,
both of which were inspired by the
late Rabbi Meir Kahane.
Residents are guarded by Israel
Defense Force troops night and day.
One of the two ministers who
opposed the eviction of the Hebron
RAGE p. 17
Corpus Christ! Jewish Community Council
Building Firebombed on Night of Purim
The Shalom of the Sabbath
was pierced and desecrated Fri-
day, February 25, when two
molotov cocktails were tossed
through Corpus Christi’s Jewish
Community Council at 750
Everhart Road.
One of the home-made bombs
exploded on impact after crash-
ing through the windows. Flames
spread immediately. Arson in-
vestigator Jim Nelson estimated
that it caused about $50,000dam-
age.
Speaking for the Corpus Christi
Jewish Community Council,
Evelyn Feltoon, president, said
the Council represents 400 Jew-
ish families in Corpus. She called
the incident “frightening” and
added: “There has never been
anything like this done at the Com-
munity Council before.”
The perpetrators used the shel-
ter of near midnight to try to de-
FIREBOMB p. 17
Security Forces, Palestinians Clash; PLO
Hews to Demand on Armed Observers
By Cynthia Mann
Jerusalem—Violence continued
over the weekend as Palestinians
clashed with Israeli security forces
in the territories and Arab youths
took angrily to the streets in Jerusa-
lem.
In the wake of the murders of
some 40 Palestinian worshipers at
a Hebron mosque, at least two Pal-
estinians were killed after clashes
in the Nablus area last Friday, mili-
tary sources confirmed, while at
least seven were wounded in sepa-
rate incidents on Saturday.
In Washington, a Palestine Lib-
eration Organization official, Nabil
Sha’ath, held meetings last Thurs-
day and Friday with state Depart-
ment officials, including Secretary
of State Warren Christopher.
One Palestinian official said late
Friday that (he Palestinians thought
the meeting with Christopher
“wasn’t satisfactory.”
A sticking point was the wording
of a U.N. resolution currently un-
der consideration that would con-
demn the Feb. 25 killings in Hebron.
A State Department official said
late last Friday that the United S tales
and the PLO had not come to any
agreement on the resolution.
The Palestinians think the reso-
lution should include mention of
Jerusalem when referring to the
territories, but the United States
did not agree, according to a Pales-
tinian official, who said Christo-
pher and his aides “adhered to their
declared position."
The State Department official
said the United States had not
agreed to anything outside the
SECURITY P. 17
Analysis from Washington: Denouncing the Extre
Ists
By James Besser
Advocates of stronger black-Jew-
ish relations routinely talk about
the points of commonality between
the two communities—arguments
that are sometimes based more on
i
italgia and wishful thinking than
on hard facts.
But on one unfortunate point,
there IS a striking similarity that
may help explain some of the ten-
sions that have mushroomed since
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KhalkJ Abdul Muhammad
Nation of Islam official Khalid
Abdul Muhammad made his now-
notorious speech at Kean College
in New Jersey last November.
Leaders of both communities find
it embarrassingly difficulty con-
demn their own extremists; al-
though they are perfectly willing to
attack racism and bigotry in OTH-
ERS, they have a hard time when it
comes to delegitimizing the bigots
in their own ranks.
This dynamic was particularly
vivid in the past week as Jewish
groups began trying to come to
terms with the ugly reality of the
Hebron massacre.
Mainstream Jewish organiza-
tions were quick to decry the mur-
derous rampage of Dr. Baruch
Goldstein, and to offer condolences
to the victims’ families; most
groups even refrained from bal-
ancing their denunciations of this
act of Jewish terrorism with the
usual reminders of the Arab vio-
lence that continues to threaten the
lives of countless Israelis.
But there was a noticeable reti-
cence when it came to condemning
the melange of religious and politi-
cal extremists in Israel who either
supported Goldstein’s actions out-
right, or developed elaborate ratio-
nalizations for his demented as-
sault.
And there was an equal restraint
ANALYSIS p. 21
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