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t that will make
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With a special tribute to Debbie Groner
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Southfield, Michigan
Strolling Dinner
6:30 p.m.
Honorary Tribute Chairpersons:
Herb and Babs Kaufman
Rabbi Irwin and Mrs. Leypsa Groner
Event Chairpersons:
Florine Mark-Ross and Dr. William Ross
Rabbi E.B. "Bunny" and Mrs. Shaindy Freedman
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Elise and David Schostak
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7/20
2001
24
What Cease-Fire?
Israel, Palestinians trade attacks,
dashing hopes for lasting cease-fire.
NAOMI SEGAL
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
7
Jerusalem
he cease-fire between Israel
and the Palestinians that
the U.S.-brokered in mid-
June is breaking down. The
two sides have returned to a pattern of
attack and counterattack, exactly what
the plan. was intended to prevent.
On Tuesday, the Palestinians fired a
mortar shell at Jerusalem's Gilo neigh-
borhood, the first time Palestinians
have fired mortars at Jerusalem since
their violent uprising began nearly 10
months ago. Palestinian officials said
the attack came in retaliation for an
Israeli helicopter raid earlier in the day
that killed four Hamas militants in the
West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Israeli military officials said the heli-
copter attack targeted a Hamas leader
who was planning to bomb the closing
ceremonies of the Maccabiah Games
on July 23. Tuesday's helicopter assault
also came in retribution for a terror
attack on Monday, when a suicide
bomber killed two Israeli soldiers in
the coastal town of Binyamina.
The Binyamina attack, for which
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility,
prompted Israeli tanks to shell
Palestinian military posts late Monday
near the West Bank city of Jenin.
With each new assault, statements
from each side provide little reason to
hope that the pattern of action and
reaction will end soon.
Israel's police chief, Shlomo
Aharonishky, warned Tuesday of more
attempted terror attacks by Islamic
militants. Also Tuesday, Islamic Jihad
militants vowed to continue attacking
Israel, despite a purported warning
from Palestinian Authority leader
Yasser Arafat to halt the terror.
Watching as the cease-fire they bro-
kered became increasingly meaningless,
U.S. officials were reduced to repeating a
familiar mantra — calling on the
Palestinian Authority to bring to justice
those responsible for terror bombings
and urging the Israeli government to
show restraint in the face of such attacks.
Recent days have seen increased .
diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the
Israeli-Palestinian violence, but they all
have failed.
Following Monday's terror attack in
Binyamina, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
communications adviser, Rianan Gissin,
told Israel Army Radio the suicide bomb-
ing was a slap in the face from Arafat,
who had met a day earlier in Cairo with
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
After Sunday's meeting, which lasted
more than an hour, Peres said he had
told Arafat that Israel is waiting for
seven days of complete calm before
starting peace moves. But ensuing
events provided little reason to believe
there would-be calm, or anything
close, anytime soon.
Attack On Arafat?
The Peres-Arafat meeting came on the
heels of talks last week in Ramallah
between Arafat and Sharon's son,
Omri, a meeting intended to reassure
Arafat that Israel has no plans to assas-
sinate or unseat Arafat.
The London-based publication
Foreign Report had published that
Israel has a military plan to destroy the
Palestinian Authority and expel Arafat
from the territories. Israel denied the
report, and the U.S. State Department
said the Bush administration has no
knowledge about an Israeli plan to
overthrow the Palestinian Authority.
At a news conference with Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak on Sunday,
Peres said Israel is seeking a political
solution to the current conflict, and
that it must continue the dialogue
with Arafat, "the elected leader of the
Palestinian people."
Yet Israel also has indicated that
despite its ongoing policy of restraint, it
will not tolerate continued attacks. At
the weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday,
Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer
said Israel will not allow any attack to
pass without a response — a vow that
was upheld following Monday's suicide
bombing in Binyamina.
Also at Sunday's meeting, the
Cabinet agreed to build new towns in
a southern part of Israel that it offered
the Palestinians last year in exchange
for land in the West Bank. Cabinet
Secretary Gideon Saar said all but one
minister at the meeting supported the
decision to build towns in the unpop-
ulated Halutza Sands area of the
Negev Desert near the Gaza Strip. ❑