 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Der Krieg ist der Vater der Dinge. -HERAKLIT
Volume 2 Issue 83 * Jerusalem, Israel
20 Av, 5761 * August 9, 2001
Inside:
1. Int'l Hebron observers passed information to Tanzim
2. Turkey-Israel: What "strained relations"?
=======================================================================
Gamla HomePage: http://www.gamla.org.il/english
Want to subscribe? : http://www.gamla.org.il/english/sub.htm
=======================================================================
GAMLA Note: We have noticed that one of the subscribers of this newsletter (now reaching close to 10,000!) is from the TIPH organization in Hebron! Read the following article and ask yourself why they subscribe to our newsletter...
9 August 2001
Members of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) have reportedly passed sensitive information onto Tanzim militia members in the city, according to senior IDF officers.
The TIPH observers gathered and passed information on IDF troop movements and details on the city's Jewish residents onto Tanzim militiamen, Israel Radio reported.
Lists and photographs detailing troop reinforcements and organization were also reportedly passed on to the Tanzim.
Reserve Major Yigal Sharon, former commander of the IDF's Hebron brigade, was not surprised by the allegations. He said there have been Israeli suspicions over the past six months that TIPH observers were handing information over to Palestinian elements.
Sharon said such intelligence information can cause potential damage to Israel and endanger the lives of soldiers in the field.
The TIPH office in Hebron has not yet responded to the accusations.
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon"s one-day visit to Ankara Wednesday capped long and fruitful negotiations leading to a breakthrough strategic partnership between Israel and Turkey. Given Turkish geography and national religion, prime minister Bulent Ecevit could do no less than criticize his guest for his handling of the Palestinian question. But Sharon was given ample opportunity to rebut the criticism, and so level the small bump in the road to this epic relationship with the least possible pain to both sides.
DEBKAfile's military and Turkish sources note that it took far less time for the two leaders to dispose of the really cardinal issues and sign a series of pacts covering the co-production of Israel's anti-missile Arrow missile, the sale of Israeli Popeye and Popeye Turbo cruise missiles, and the continued deployment of Israeli air, naval and ground forces in Turkish bases, including new ones already under construction, according to DEBKAfile's sources, under the supervision of US Air Force engineers.
After a successful joint US-Turkish-Israel air exercise this summer over southern Turkey, the Israeli and Turkish leaders were able to move forward swiftly to coordinate Israeli and Turkish air defenses under a joint command for guarding the skies over the eastern Mediterranean, northern Iraq and western Iran.
What this adds up to is a series of sweeping military accords which for the first time in Israeli's history permits the IDF to operate in the Middle East out of bases located in a Moslem country against Arab aggressors, be they Syrian, Iraqi or Iranian.
WEBMASTERS: "Gamla" has now added, at the top of our homepage, a News Ticker. This will bring updated, real time headlines of breaking news to our users. You can easily take the code from a special page (see URL below) and add this ticker to your page. Every time we update the ticker - you will see the updates!
To get the code (only 10 lines!) - go to:
http://www.gamla.org.il/english/news/code1.htm
GAMLA: News and Views from Israel
http://www.gamla.org.il/english
Readers have written us that this newsletter is becoming more important for them in these hard times. As such, we have decided to put out more editions than in the past. As such, we would like to reach more users, and call on any of you who can help.
This can be done in these ways:
1. Putting up notices in community centers and synagogues with our WWW
address (see below)
2. The same for community newsletters.
3. Going in to the many forums and posting our address
4. Recommend our site to others you know on the Internet
In order to do this simply, please visit our homepage at:
http://www.gamla.org.il/english/index.htm
and click on the "Tell your friends" button on the left hand menu.
Calling all commercial concerns and private sponsors! The "Gamla" staff is continuing important activities both on the web and in Israel and planning many others. Now is NOT the time to rest and become complacent, as much work still needs to be done.
We are now looking to find sponsors for this newsletter and our web site.
For more information, please email now to:
Please state whether you are a cmmercial or private sponsor, and we will get back to you promptly.
It may be - "Now or Never"!
You too can contribute to "Gamla Shall Not Fall Again":
Personal checks can sent to the Gamla address below:
Gamla Shall Not Fall Again
Givon Hahadasha
Israel 90901
Hazak V'Amatz!
The GAMLA Staff
kokhaviv publications > The Israel Archive
© Copyright 1999 - 2001 kokhaviv publications