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Friday, November 18, 2005
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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U.S.: Iran threat a disqualifier
Iran’s threat to destroy Israel disqualifies it from achieving nuclear-weapons capability, a senior U.S. official said.
“A country that threatens ‘death’ to other countries must be denied the most deadly of weapons,” Gregory Schulte, the U.S. envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, said Thursday in Vienna.
Israel, Europe and the United States want the IAEA to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council next week for possible sanctions for covering up its suspected nuclear-weapons program.
Commission looks at campus anti-Semitism
A federal commission resisted Jewish groups’ call for governmental oversight of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on college campuses.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights heard testimony Friday from the American Jewish Congress, Zionist Organization of America and the Institute for Jewish and Community Research on allegations that the atmosphere on many campuses has become oppressive, and in some cases threatening, for Jewish students. The groups want the commission to write a report and issue recommendations for some kind of federal oversight. The commission doesn’t have executive powers, but its recommendations carry weight.
Many commission members expressed discomfort with injecting government into campus life. “I am extremely nervous about administrative oversight in university campuses,” said Abigail Thernstrom, the vice chairman. However, commissioners acknowledged the problem and said they would consider an investigation.
Embassy blasts Palestinian week
The Israeli Embassy in Ireland complained to Trinity College in Dublin about a “Palestinian Awareness Week” on campus.
The letter charges that this week’s events, which include public meetings, films and a protest outside the offices of a construction firm that does business in Israel, are “less concerned with raising Palestinian awareness than with anti-Israel activity.” The embassy was particularly concerned about a scheduled debate on a proposed academic boycott of Israel.
“Palestinian Awareness Week” was held Monday through Friday at Trinity College, Ireland’s oldest university, and was organized by the Trinity One World Society. The schedule of speakers did not include anyone representing an Israeli point of view, even from the left.
Committee: Treat Israel fairly
A powerful congressional committee passed a resolution calling on the United Nations to treat Israel more fairly.
The resolution, initiated by Reps. Steven Rothman (D-N.J.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), passed the U.S. House of Representatives’ International Relations Committee on Wednesday and now goes to the full house. It calls on U.N. members to “stop supporting resolutions that unfairly castigate Israel; and promote within the United Nations General Assembly more balanced and constructive approaches to resolving conflict in the Middle East.”
Zarqawi: Jordan bombings targeted Israelis
The terrorists who struck Amman’s Radisson Hotel last week were targeting Israeli intelligence officials, terrorist mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi said.
In an audio recording, Zarqawi claimed the Radisson bomber hit a hall in which the Israelis were meeting but accidentally killed scores of Jordanians, Ha’aretz reported. “Our martyred brother’s target was halls being used at the time by intelligence officers from some of the infidel crusader nations and their lackeys,” he said. “God knows we chose these hotels only after more than two months of close observation” that proved “that these hotels had become headquarters for the Israeli and American intelligence.”
Zarqawi said Jordan was deliberately hiding Israeli and American deaths. He also threatened to decapitate Jordan’s King Abdullah II. His claim about Israeli intelligence officials is believed to be baseless.
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