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Friday, October 21, 2005
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Peres: Syrian leadership needs to change
Shimon Peres called for change in the Syrian leadership after a U.N. report implicated a top Syrian official in the murder of Lebanon’s former prime minister.
“If it is true that the government is involved in the murder, this will shake up the rule of the Assads,” Israel’s vice prime minister told Israel Radio, referring to the family that has run Syria for decades.
The U.N. report by Detlev Mehlis, a German prosecutor, quotes a witness who said Assef Shawkat, the Syrian intelligence chief and President Bashar Assad’s brother-in-law, forced a man to record a claim of responsibility for Rafik Hariri’s death 15 days before the former Lebanese prime minister was assassinated. Hariri was leading efforts to wrest Lebanon away from Syrian control.
The Associated Press reported that the U.N. Security Council is preparing a new resolution critical of Syria. The last resolution, after Hariri’s death, helped force an end to Syria’s occupation of Lebanon after three decades.
U.N. to show film on Holocaust
The United Nations will run a film commemorating the role of the Holocaust in the U.N.’s founding.
The seven-minute film will be shown on a continuous loop in the visitors’ lobby of U.N. headquarters in New York starting Monday, according to the Ad Hoc Committee for an Effective U.N. Response to Anti-Semitism, which previewed the film. U.N. officials say a permanent exhibit on the Holocaust will be built once renovations are completed at U.N. headquarters.
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