Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday September 18 2002 — A7 Q World Palestinians marEi ’82 massacre In brief Police say Israelis may have planted two bombs in Palestinian school yard HEBRON West Bank (AP) — Israeli police and Palestinian officials in the West Bank said they believe extremist Jewish settlers planted two bombs in a Palestinian schoolyard Tuesday One device exploded injuring five children Yehoshua Mor-Yosspokesman for the Jewish Settlers' Council said die bombing was an “immoral and illegal act” Israeli military officials said the explosion occurred near a water cooler in the courtyard of the Ziff junction secondary school south of Hebron The second bomb was found and safely detonated The Israeli military controls the junction a remote region populated mainly by Bedouins Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres’ office meanwhile said the government had rejected a Palestinian cease-fir- e proposal during a meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York The proposal by Palestinian Cabinet Minister Nabil Shaath called for an end to Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians in a first phase and an end to all attacks in the second Peres’ office said the plan was unacceptable because it would allow attacks on those not classified as civilians during its first phase That was taken to mean Jewish settlers and soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza ef groups plan TV Pro-Isra- el - - ad drive WASHINGTON (AP) — Jewish groups are starting their first American television advertising campaign and will spend more than $1 million to promote Israel’s side in its conflict with the Palestinians The ads are to run on American cable news stations in 100 cities nationwide Their message is that Israel is a democracy where Arabs Jews and Christians enjoy freedom of religion freedom of speech and the right to vote "This is really a back to basics campaign” said David Harris executive director of the American Jewish Committee one of the oldest and largest Jewish organizations in the United States “The essential element is that Israel is a democracy the only one in the region a kindred spirit of the United States” Hie AJC is funding the campaign along with Israel 21c a Silicon Valley-base- d group supported by executives of high-tec- h It the first time that Jewish organizations marks companies have begun a TV campaign in support of Israel While the ads do not mentionthe current violence in the Middle East supporters say the goal of the campaign is to build political support for Israel James Zogby president of the Arab American Institute a pro- -' Arab advocacy group decried the ad campaign theme of that “The message they build on is an age-ol- d movement: We’re like you they’re not” Zogby said “It is sub- tie in some ways but blunt and racist in others Of course I find it troubling What they're trying to do is sell an image that wjll ' cover up the real problems that exist” ‘ BEIRUT Lebanon (AP) — Billboards bearing pictures of the dead look over the mass grave of hundreds of men women and children slain by Lebanese militiamen at two Palestinian refugee camps during Israel’s 1982 invasion On the 20th anniversary of the Sabra and Chatilla massacre the survivors have little hope they will ever see justice “Each year is worse than the one before” said Mohammed Abu Rdeina who lost his father sister and other relatives in the slaughter On Sept 16 1982 Lebanese Christian militiamen entered the Beirut camps and killed 800 civilians over the next three days They sought revenge for the assassination of their leader President-elect Bashir GemayeL which they blamed on Palestinian guerrillas Lebanon which suffered 150000 deaths during its 1975-9- 0 civil war and is patched together by a fragile pact of coexistence between its Christian and Muslim communities has never prosecuted any Lebanese for the massacre Many Arabs blame Israel for the slayings noting that soldiers of its invading army stood by just outside fie camps during the killings! An Israeli commission of inquiry found Minister Ariel Sharon the architect of the invasion indirectly responsible for the mas-sacre prompting his resignation in 1983 When Sharon became Israel’s prime minister last year 23 survivors of the hias-sacfiled a war crimes complaint against him in Belgium pro-Isra- eli AP photo the Chatilla refugee camp Lebanon on Sept 6 Palestinians in Lebanon marked the 20th anniversary on Monday of the Sabra and Chatilla massacres of men women and children by Lebanese militiamen Palestinian children play in in Beirut under a 1993 Belgian law granting its courts “universal jurisdiction” over war crimes - committed elsewhere But a Belgian appeals court dismissed the complaint June 26 ruling a case could not proceed against a person not in Belgium' Some Belgian lawmakers are seeking to bolster the “universal jurisdiction” provi- ‘ 7 re tarian civil war and of provoking two Israeli invasions with cross-bordraids and many Lebanese fear the Palestinians will upset the fragile sectarian balance should they be perma- nently resettled in Lebanon Many of the 350000 Palestinians in Lebanon's 13 refugee camps are jobless 'because of the weak economy or laws that bar them from most professions Any hope of returning to their homeland that might have been raised by the Oslo peace accords has been dashed by the renewed conflict between Israel and Palestinians hope my future will be outside Lebanon” said Abu Rdeina “The Lebanese themselves cannot find jobs How can the Palestinians?’ er ld sion but Abu Rdeina puts little faith in the effort “The case is over against Sharon” he said standing in a narrow alley of Chatilla where his father pregnant sister brother-in-la- w and several cousins were killed He his mother and younger sister had become separated from the rest of the family and were freed after being taken to another location by Christian then-Defen- se militiamen Yamama Abdullah 60 said the anniversary revives memories of how she lost her family in Chatilla She said militiamen knocked at her door at 5 am lined up her family and opened fire Her husband a 1 daughter and three sons ranging in age from 3 to 14 died Five other children survived' “I was hit by bullets in my back and I lay on the ground pretending I was dead Then my husband told them ‘I am Palestinian’ so they shot him three times in the back killing him instantly” she said wip-ing at tears! 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