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Monday, October 24, 2005
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Rosen and Weissman to call Israelis
Defendants in the AIPAC classified information case plan to call Israeli diplomats and a senior U.S. diplomat as witnesses.
In motions filed last Friday, lawyers for Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two former American Israel Public Affairs Committee staffers, say they plan to call all the individuals identified in indictments as foreign officials and U.S. government officials as witnesses should the case go to trial. The Israeli embassy has also been served notice of the intention.
The indictment speaks of three unnamed foreign officials, all of whom are Israeli, JTA has learned. One of them is Naor Gilon, until this summer the chief political officer at the embassy.
It also speaks of two unnamed U.S. government officials and two unnamed defense department officials. JTA has learned that the two government officials are David Satterfield, now the deputy U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, and a deputy assistant secretary of state in 2002 when he allegedly relayed classified information to Rosen. The other U.S. government official is Kenneth Pollack, a staffer on President Clinton’s national security council who is now at a think tank.
The U.S. government has charged Weissman and Rosen under a rarely used statute that bans the relaying of classified information. Their lawyers will argue that the practice is commonplace in Washington. Satterfield and Pollack have not been charged.
Israel has said its diplomats behaved correctly in the matter and has offered the prosecution cooperation through written testimony.
Trial is set for Jan. 2.
Sharon aide praises Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas is sincere about wanting peace with Israel, a senior aide to Ariel Sharon said.
“In the meetings with Abu Mazen in which I was present, he spoke of a settlement with Israel — on his terms, of course. He does not want terror. I believe that his statements are heartfelt,” Maj. Gen. Yoav Gallant, the Israeli prime minister’s outgoing military secretary, told Yediot Achronot in an interview Monday. “But between that and implementation, there is a huge rift.”
Abu Mazen is the nom de guerre of Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority.
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