Media Releases - June 1999
June 1999
June 3, 1999 Move the American Embassy to Jerusalem
June 12, 1999 Tisha B’Av
June 12, 1999 China’s New Hostages
June 21, 1999 Nothing New Under the Sun

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Jerusalem, June 3, 1999

News Flash:

MOVE THE AMERICAN EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM

U.S. Senator Jon Kyl’s office telephoned the office of
American Friends of Women In Green to advise them
as follows:

1. The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives are working
out the details of an Amendment to the Embassy Relocation Act
of 1995, removing President Clinton’s ability to postpone moving
the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as that Act
requires.

2. On the floor of the Senate there will be an official acknowledgement
and appreciation of the significant role of the 10,000 signatures on the
Petitions to have the Embassy so moved which were gathered and forwarded
by the American Friends of Women In Green.

3. Accordingly, it is extremely important and critical to keep up
the work of all our members and supporters and friends of Jerusalem to
continue to obtain as many signatures as possible on these Petitions.

To obtain such Petitions please write, fax or phone the offices of
Women in Green in Israel at P.O.B. 7352, Jerusalem.
Telephone 02 5249 887 or fax 02 245 380.
or Email: michaele@netvision.net.il

In the United States and Canada write American Friends of Women In Green,
6839 Woodridge Drive, Norfolk, VA, 23518. Tel: 757 857 4708
Fax 757 857 6463 or Email: greenw3@juno.com

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Jerusalem, June 13, 1999

                                            Tisha B’Av

Dear Loyal Friend of Israel,

This week we shall begin organizing and working on our next
upcoming major project which is our annual walk around the Old
City Walls on Tisha Ba’av evening. We have made this an annual
event sponsored by Women In Green. This year Tisha b’Av evening
will start on Wednesday, after sundown, on July 21, 1999.

Last year we had over 10,000 participating in our event, but we
hope to have over 30,000 this year as we did several years ago
when we had adequate advertisements.

The project has immense significance for Jerusalem remaining
united and under sole Jewish control. This walk passes through
several Arab sectors of East Jerusalem, which presently does not
have a large Jewish presence, even though that area contains many
Jewish Historic and Biblical sites. Our permit insures that
police and army personnel will be in this area in sufficient
numbers to guarantee the safety of the Marchers, as such security
personnel have done each year.

In order for the event to be successful and to insure a large
turnout, it must be heavily advertised in the Hebrew, Russian,
French and English press and radio. Your paticipation in
sponsoring this event would give you immense satisfaction. It
affords an opportunity to bring our People together. Tisha
b’Av is a reminder of our national tragedies, among them being
the destruction of both of our glorious Temples and our exile
from this Land several thousand years ago.

To prevent such a catastrophe from occurring in our day requires
us to be eternally vigilant and to avoid divisiveness. We must
work to unify our People under a banner of national tradition
which has always united us. It is our ancient and shared Biblical
history, and achievements as a People, that has been our
motivating force in our struggle for survival.

The Tisha b’Av walk around the old City walls is an old Jerusalem
custom that has been revived by Women In Green. Women In Green
can be very proud of this accomplishment. However, we must
realize the enormous opportunity that such a custom has for our
People today. Observing this custom not only promotes the Jewish
People’s historic right to all of Jerusalem, but at the same time
serves as a basis for the desperately needed unity of our People.
When Jews join in such a Walk, they are identifying with their
ancient history and traditions, and at the same time they are
reaffirming their joint faith in their People’s historic destiny.

 Ruth and Nadia Matar

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Jerusalem, June 12, 1999

To our list,

After reading the following article, it makes us wonder even more why Jonathan
Pollard is still in jail.

Nadia
China’s New Hostages
The Washington Times
June 7, 1999
[May be Reprinted]

                  By Angelo M. Codevilla

China’s acquisition of U.S. strategic technology threatens to undo the
United States’ World War II victory in the Pacific. The Clinton
Administration’s complaisance about it can not be understood as an
intellectual error. The private interests of William Jefferson Clinton
and of his closest associates explain that complaisance all too well.

The military technology that China has acquired from the U.S. through
espionage, through U.S. companies’ stretching the bounds of cooperation,
as well as by legal means, adds up to more than the Soviet Union got a
half century ago through atomic espionage, the capture of a B-29 bomber,
and lend lease.  And yet the U.S. government has not deprived any
company of contracts. It has not punished, or even demoted,
anyone—except for the Energy Department’s security chief who uncovered
a big chunk of the espionage.  Nor has the  Administration changed
military plans to account for a China that will shortly be able to make
good on long-standing bloody threats against America.  In what may be
the most obvious indicator of the Administration’s priorities, Wen Ho
Lee and Peter Lee, who reportedly passed the most clamorous secrets, are
not even in jail.

Contrast this with the fact that the Administration vehemently insists
on imprisoning for the rest of his life Jonathan Pollard, who gave
secrets of an incomparably lower order to Israel which, unlike China,
poses no threat to America.  From the standpoint of U.S. national
security, this makes no sense.  Alas, in other terms, it makes perfect
sense.

Consider what China’s harvest of U.S. military technology will enable
China
to do.  Through cooperative satellite launch programs China acquired the
technology for accurate staging and orbital placement of large rockets,
as well as multiple satellite release.  The Clinton Administration
licensed the sale of a McDonnell Douglas manufacturing facility.  This
means that China will be able to build a force of big, mobile, accurate,
multiple warhead missiles better than
the ones we designed nearly two decades ago.  This force will be
invulnerable to any preemptive strike, and will be able to penetrate the
dumbed down “Theater Missile Defenses” that the Clinton Administration
is preparing.  As for warheads, through the efforts of Wen Ho Lee at Los
Alamos, China apparently got the entire dump on design and manufacturing
of all our major nukes,
including the W-88 warhead: 150 Kilotons delivered to within about 80
yards.  Through Peter Lee at Livermore, China apparently got the key to
testing these warheads through simulations and in a camouflage mode.
The same Lee seems to have given China the software for radar detection
of operating attack submarines.  Good-bye protection for U.S. carrier
task forces.

With these missiles, China will be able to hold hostage Japan, South
Korea,
and Taiwan.  With its new knowledge of submarine detection, it will be
able to defeat any attempt by U.S. forces to help these allies.  More
important, China is gaining the capacity to back up the warning it gave
the U.S. three years ago:  interfere with our plans in Asia, and you
will lose Los Angeles.  In sum, thanks to its new technological edge,
China will not have to invade our Asian allies to tear up the
Pax-Americana that the Pacific basin has enjoyed for a half century.

Very soon then, our erstwhile allies will have to seek their security
outside the framework that has served us, them and the world so well.
We cannot know in advance how Japan will provide for itself. But odds
are that a Pacific Rim dominated by Sino-Japanese nuclear rivalry will
export more trouble than consumer electronics. So much has been lost so
very fast.  All of us will have to pay.

The inherent seriousness of these events contrasts sharply with the
Clinton
Administration’s attitude:  China has not yet deployed its new weapons.
The Chinese government’s whipping up anti-American hysteria is only for
domestic purposes.  American anti-missile defense would be
de-stabilizing.  Mr. Clinton knows that China’s new missiles are coming,
and that the Chinese regime’s public opinion campaigns are the truest
indications of its policy.  But it is enough for Clinton that two
powerful constituents, the Democratic Party’s domestic core, as well as
Chinese officials, object to missile defense.

The Clinton Administration’s attitude toward China’s spies is even more
revealing.  The Administration’s formal explanation for not even
bringing charges against Wen Ho Lee is that evidence shows only that he
downloaded the information onto a non secure computer site, which was
then accessed  by persons unknown.  By this logic no one could be
prosecuted for espionage for putting stolen documents into “dead drop”
such as a hollow tree, for later
pickup by foreign agents.  But what about Peter Lee?  He did in fact
give China our warhead testing techniques and, it now turns out, our
radar submarine location technology.  And what did the Administration
ask for a penalty?  Not one day in the pen.  Both Lees are “on the
street.”

But why?  Real trials would focus the public’s attention on the Clinton
Administration’s larger relationship with China, which has been most
profitable for some of the Democratic Party’s largest constituents and
contributors.  If, as is probable, Chinese officials also do not want
the American public to think in such terms, the Clinton Administration
may well have listened to them.  After all,
China now holds some four dozen persons fleeing subpoenas from American
courts regarding the Clinton administration’s activities. If China’s
spies were handled roughly, China might well dump a lot of anti-Clinton
witnesses into the U.S. court system.

And so, even as the Administration finds legal excuses to keep Wen Ho
Lee
and Peter Lee out of jail, it continues to scratch for excuses to keep
Israel’s spy, Jonathan Pollard, behind bars.  The heaviest items of the
official indictment against Pollard are that he gave Israel pictures of
Middle Eastern countries other than the ones the U.S. government wanted
to give, and that he gave parts of
a list of electronic surveillance addresses that the U.S. government had
withheld, as well as a host of reports about Middle Eastern countries.
It does not take expertise in national security affairs to see that
these items are in a league orders of magnitude different from the
Lees.  The differences between the two sets are so big that no mind, no
matter how dull, can confuse them.

This takes us back to our original observation:  The Clinton
Administration’s decisions about national security affairs are being
driven by private interests, loves, and hates—everything but what
should drive a serious country.
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Angelo M. Codevilla is a professor of international relations at Boston
University. He is a former staff member of the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence. Other Articles by Angelo Codevilla include Israel’s Spy
Was Right About Saddam
http://www.interlog.com/~abrooke/jp/1998/080698.htm

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Jerusalem, June 21, 1999

                    NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN!

On June 16, 1949, or exactly fifty years ago, it was reported in all
the newspapers that Moshe Sharett, then Foreign Minister of Israel, and
an eloquent spokesman of the Israeli Labor Party, publicly rejected the
intervention of the United States in matters related to the security of
Israel. Foreign Minister Sharett claimed that such U.S. intervention did
not bring peace any closer.

He further stated: ” We will not surrender to U.S. pressure, nor will
we cower from the threats of the Arabs. We very much thirst for peace
with our Arab neighbors, and friendship with all Arabs. But we will
not buy this Arab friendship at a price which threatens our security and
very survival. We will not deliver to the Arabs, because of political
pressure, what they did not succeed to take from us through their military
action.

Fifty years later, Yasser Arafat, the immoral murderer of Jewish children,
who continues to praise suicide and other bombers of innocent Jews, is
incredulously our peace partner. Arafat, no doubt in pursuit of the
sort of peace he desires, now urges NATO to bomb the Jews in the same manner
it has done to the Serbs of Yugoslavia.

Arafat continues to exploit, encourage and rely on Arab violence to
force further concessions in his battle to liquidate Israel. To this
evil man whose intentions are not peaceful, Ehud Barak is being asked to
give up, under Wye, further parts of Israel’s ancestral Biblical homeland.
Wouldn’t Prime Minister Barak thereby endanger Israel’s security and Jewish
survival?

Has the Labor Party shifted away so drastically, in just fifty years,
from our People’s Zionist aspirations throughout the ages?

 Ruth and Nadia Matar