ISRAEL TO USE COMMANDOS AGAINST HEBRON JEWS
[IMRA: Israel's legal authorities do no "dispute" that the "disputed Jewish
neighborhood in Hebron" is Jewish. The courts did not rule that the Jewish
homes that had been occupied by Arabs after the Arabs slaughtered Jews in
Hebron should be returned to the Arab occupiers. Instead they ruled that
the particular Jews who took up residence in the Jewish homes did so in an
improper way and thus they should be removed - with the courts recognizing
the rights of Jews, following proper procedures, to move in after the group
of Jews now in the homes left. There was every indication that a smooth
transfer of the homes could take place that would meet the legal issues
raised but AG Mazuz insisted that the removal of the Jews take place
independently of other Jews moving into the homes.

Many believe that AG Mazuz took this position because he expected that once
the Jews were removed from their homes that the authorities could then claim
that Jews cannot return to the homes out of "security considerations".]

JERUSALEM [MENL] -- Israel has decided to use its top counter-insurgency
units in the effort to destroy a tiny Jewish neighborhood in the West Bank.

Security sources said acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved a
proposal for the deployment of army and police commandos to expel and
dismantle an unauthorized Jewish neighborhood in Hebron. The sources said
the commandos would be employed to overcome what was expected to be fierce
Jewish resistance.

"The decision reflected the priority of the government over the next two
weeks," a security source said. "The government has based its credibility on
the destruction of this illegal outpost."

The disputed Jewish neighborhood in Hebron has been comprised of apartments
and storefronts abandoned by Palestinians. Eight Jewish families live in the
storefronts at the edge of Arab market in the West Bank city.
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