RIGHT WING DEMONSTRATION
NOTE: SOUND INTERFERENCE AT BEGINNING OF TAPE / TIME CODE INCORRECT COVERAGE OF A RIGHT WING RALLY IN ISRAEL. 00:00:00 GV OF THE RALLY. ONE SIGN READS: RABIN GOVERNMENT = JUDENRAT. 00:03:00 INTV W/ ISRAELI GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. HE SAYS THE PROTEST CENTERS AROUND THEIR CALL FOR A FIRMER STANCE AGAINST RISING PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE. CUTS OF THE HIGHLY VOCAL RALLY. NETANYAHU ADDRESSES THE GATHERING. NIGHT. 00:18:00 GV OF A PROTEST MARCH. NIGHT. CI: DEMONSTRATIONS: POLITICAL, ISRAEL.
Gaza Settlements - Gaza settlers promise to sabotage Sharon plan
NAME: TAPE: EF04/0406 IN_TIME: 20:14:17 DURATION: 4:09 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: Gush Katif, Gaza, 13 April 2004 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: 1. Pan from entrance of settlement to nearby Khan Yunis Palestinian refugee camp 2. Flowers at entrance of settlement 3. Centre of Neve Dekalim 4. Israeli flags and flag of Gaza settlement 5. Father walking with children 6. Mother with baby buying clothes 7. Mother with baby 8. People in supermarket 9. Pan from sign saying: "Gush Katif doesn't depend on Bush" to people coming out of supermarket 10. Shops in centre 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eran Sternberg, Neve Dekalim resident: "I think Sharon made this plan only for himself because he's under very hard personal circumstances right now and this is a very miserable situation that such a glorious commander in the past in the army deteriorates himself to such a position. But this a the truth. We are sure In the (past) 30 years we are used to hearing a lot of talk of expulsion of creating "Judenrat" (referring to Nazi collaboration before World War II) in the Gaza Strip, of committing ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip. We are quite sure, because of the last year, this plan on Sharon will also just disappear and nothing will happen. we will continue to expand ourselves, we continue to absorb new families because this is the natural thing that we know to do. We are Jewish people on Jewish home in Jewish land, that's it." 12. House being built 13. Various of building 14. Various of children playing on playground 15. Neve Dekalim houses and zoom out to building 16. Exterior house of Moshe and Rachel Saperstein, Neve Dekalim residents 17. Bullet hole outside house 18. Establisher of the Sapersteins 19. SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Saperstein, Neve Dekalim resident: "I tell Mr Bush, Mr Bush, take your five billion dollars that Mr Sharon wants to ask your for and use it for another purpose. You are bogged down in a war in Iraq, you have people who are homeless in America, we don't want your money, we don't want to be expelled, we don't want to leave, we don't want to go to another place, use the money wisely. You know that this is the land of Israel and if you Mr Bush, if you are the person who's going to aid and abet the expulsion of the Jewish people of the land of Israel, this is how you are going to go down in history." 20. Various of children playing football STORYLINE: As Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was looking for a sign of approval from President George W. Bush for retaining a large chunk of the West Bank in an eventual accord with the Palestinians, Jewish settlers vowed to sabotage the plan. Sharon's hope was that Bush would accept the his contention that Israel's security required recognition of "new realities" on the West Bank. Thus, Sharon would gain implicit US backing for retaining several settlements in the territory, particularly large blocks near Jerusalem. Eran Sternberg, a Neve Dekalim settler, said he believed Sharon's move was a means of deflecting attention from the financial scandal, he is embroiled in. Known as "the Greek Island affair," it is alleged that Sharon's son Gilad received large sums of money on his father's behalf from David Appel, an activist in Sharon's Likud Party who was trying to promote a tourism project in Greece during 1999 and to promote the re-zoning of urban land at Ginnaton, near Tel Aviv. Sharon allegedly was asked to use his influence to push both projects, although neither came to pass. Meanwhile the Palestinians, who want to establish a state in all the West Bank and Gaza, are wary of Sharon's plan, which also includes pulling out of Gaza, and fear he is sacrificing Gaza and parts of the West Bank as a prelude to keeping other areas. If Sharon gets his way, it would mark a major US concession on how much land Israel should yield in exchange for peace with the Palestinians. Bush wants to tie any Israeli pullback in Gaza as tightly as he can to fulfilling his promise of establishing a Palestinian state through Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that are called for in a US-backed "road map" for peacemaking. Rachel Saperstein, another settler, said Bush called on Bush not to accept any of Sharon's plans. She believes Bush should concentrate on the war in Iraq and domestic problems rather than support what she calls the 'expulsion' of the Jewish people. Sharon has promised to shut down 21 settlements in Gaza, but how much of the West Bank he was willing to relinquish, and how many of its approximately 220,000 Jewish settlers he would move, are questions he avoided. About 92,500 of the 220,000 settlers live in the blocks that Sharon has listed as those he wants to keep.