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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Tough talker in trouble
An Israeli soldier is under arrest on suspicion of threatening to assassinate Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
The conscript was taken into custody Wednesday night after comrades serving with him at a checkpoint outside the Gaza Strip reported that he had inquired how to get to Sharon’s nearby desert ranch. Asked why he wanted to know, the soldier allegedly replied, “So I can go and shoot him.” It was not immediately clear whether the soldier would be arraigned or how he would plead to charges.
Last week’s killing of four Israeli Arabs by an army deserter has stirred concern that other soldiers could turn their weapons against authorities before next week’s Gaza withdrawal.
N.Y. politician enters Gaza
A prominent New York politician entered the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, just days ahead of Israel’s withdrawal from the territory.
State Assemblyman Dov Hikind declined to comment on how he managed to get into Gaza, which Israel has declared a closed military zone, though he said he plans to stay at least until Tisha B’Av, the Jewish fast day that begins Saturday night. “It’s the bottom of the ninth, two outs, an 0-and-2 count,” Hikind told JTA by phone from Gaza, using baseball terminology, but “I don’t see moving vans outside people’s homes.” He added, “They’re not leaving. They’re not packing. They just have this faith — I don’t know where they get it from — that something can happen at the last minute.”
Hikind said he was not in Gaza to protest, but rather to be with friends and because “these are remarkable, remarkable moments to witness.”
Hikind’s district includes a Brooklyn neighborhood with a large population of fervently Orthodox Jews.
http://jta.org/
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