Volume No. 1 Issue No. 11  Date: August 2000

Republican whip Rep. Tom DeLay said that he is greatly concerned over the peace talks. "It must concern everyone that the Pre../side2nt is pushing this agreement mainly for the sake of his place in history," he said, and noted that Clinton cannot actualize his financial promises to the ../side2s without the agreement of lawmakers of both the Democratic and Republican parties. The deal that Pre../side2nt Clinton is trying to broker could cost the American taxpayer tens of billions of dollars. Your tax dollars could go toward assuring Bill Clinton a Nobel Peace prize and a place in the history books. Wouldn't you rather it go toward the Social Security system? 

 As of this writing, ARAFAT HAS NOT BUDGED SINCE THE START of the Camp David Talks. Secretary of State Albright, and Pre../side2nt Clinton have repeatedly tried to convince Arafat to give up on his demand for full sovereignty over most of the Old City.  Israeli sources confirm that Barak has made the only "concessions" at Camp David, as Arafat has not changed his positions since arriving in Camp David last week.  A Barak spokesman in Washington, Eldad Yaniv, was asked if Barak still stands by his obligation to retain a "united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty;" Yaniv answered only, "Jerusalem will be large and  strong with a Jewish majority."  

  Barak's position on Arab refugees has also suffered over the past few days. Although until now he has insisted that Israel will take no responsibility for the refugee question, he is now prepared to express "sorrow" over the "results of the 1948 war."  The Israeli Prime Minister has agreed to accept 100,000 Arabs into Israel, and an unlimited number into Judea and Samaria. 

    "Whoever lifts his hand, Heaven forbid, against the Land of Israel, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount, will be forever disgraced in Jewish history for this is a strike against the Jewish  religion." So state the two former Chief Rabbis, Shapira and Eliyahu, in a statement released today...Eitan Golan, mayor of the Yesha town of Efrat, is not happy about the reports that Barak plans to annex his town, as well as Ma'aleh Adumim and Givat Ze'ev, to Israel:  "If the annexation of Gush Etzion to Israel is good news in itself, it becomes very bad news if it means the division of Jerusalem or the abandonment of other Yesha settlements to the hands of the Palestinian Authority...We see the entire Yesha settlement enterprise as one entity.     

    It is inconceivable that some of us will be saved at the expense of the others..." Chavi Atlas of Beit El, one of seven children on a mission to Camp David to protest Ehud Barak's plan to abandon the Jews of Judea and Samaria, told Channel-7, "We were not allowed in to Camp David, but as a compromise, we wrote a letter to Barak, saying that we do not agree to his gambling on our future... We have spoken with journalists of the entire world, and told them that we 
deserve a future just like the rest of the kids in Israel...The giant demonstration of Sunday  night July 16, [with some 250,000 against the transfer of large sections of Judea and Samaria] apparently had some effect here; we were told that Barak asked several times how many people were there..."