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Monday, September 26, 2005
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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U.S. to Israel: Be careful in Gaza
Israel should consider the consequences of its actions in the Gaza Strip, the State Department spokesman said.
Israeli jets retaliated against Palestinian targets in Gaza over the weekend after Hamas terrorists launched rockets into Israel barely two weeks after Israel ended its 38-year occupation of Gaza.
“The Palestinian Authority has the responsibility — they have taken actions to try to prevent such future attacks,” Sean McCormack said Monday. “It is important that they take up their obligations to stop terror attacks, to dismantle terrorist organizations. We also understand Israel’s right to defend itself, but in taking actions to defend itself, we ask Israel to consider the effect that its actions may have on reaching the overall goal that all share of achieving two states living side by side in peace and security.”
McCormack said U.S. officials had discussed the situation with their Israeli and Palestinian counterparts. The Palestinian Authority warned Hamas to stop the attacks, and Hamas said Sunday evening that it would do so. Israel is waiting to see results before it declares an end to its retaliatory attacks.
Israeli legislators meet U.S. counterparts
Members of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee will discuss the Iranian nuclear threat with their U.S. counterparts.
The committee, chaired by Yuval Steinitz of the Likud Party, will meet later this week with counterparts in Congress and with U.S. defense officials. Steinitz told the Jerusalem Post that Iran’s nuclear threat will be high on the agenda.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, came a step closer Saturday to referring Iran to the Security Council for sanctions, a policy that both Israel and the United States favor.
U.S. Jew arrested for alleged Sharon plot
An American Jew was arrested in Israel on suspicion that he planned to assassinate Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Police said they planned to deport Shen’or Zalman Hatzkolevitch, a fervently Orthodox Jewish man from Brooklyn. It would mark the first time a Jew is deported from Israel for security violations.
Student kicked off newspaper
A Jewish student at the University of North Carolina was kicked off the student newspaper after she wrote an article defending racial profiling.
Jillian Bandes, 20, was kicked off the Daily Tar Heel after she wrote in a column that she wanted all Arabs to be “stripped naked and cavity-searched if they got within 100 yards of an airport,” the Forward reported. The paper’s editor originally defended the column, but later fired her, saying she had misrepresented the views of three Arab Americans whom she quoted as agreeing with her.
Bandes, the daughter of a Jewish man and Catholic woman who grew up attending a Reform temple, said that if she had to do it over again she would state her argument differently.
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