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Friday, December 09, 2005
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Mofaz: Prepare for Iran threat
Israel’s defense minister said his country should prepare non-diplomatic solutions to Iran’s threat. “The right move would be to let a diplomatic approach guide us, but we must also prepare other solutions,” Shaul Mofaz said Friday during a visit to Tel Aviv’s Hatikva market, a popular stop for politicians wanting to reach pre-Sabbath shoppers.
Iran has increased its anti-Israel rhetoric in recent months, saying Israel should be destroyed, at the same time as the Islamic republic pulls away from commitments to allow international monitors to assess its nuclear capabilities.
“The combination of extreme hatred and nuclear capabilities certainly threatens the State of Israel and Western countries,” Mofaz said.
New N.J. senator friendly to Israel
New Jersey’s governor-elect named a congressman known for his friendliness to Israel and the Jewish community to take his seat in the U.S. Senate.
Rep. Robert Menendez, chairman of the Democratic caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, traveled to Israel in August on a tour sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s educational arm. In October, he co-authored a letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas with Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio), his Republican counterpart, calling on Abbas to keep Hamas and other terrorist groups from running in P.A. elections next month.
Rabbi Marc Schneier, founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, called Menendez a leader in promoting Hispanic-Jewish cooperation in Congress. “He and his office have worked very closely with us in terms of strengthening relations among Jewish and Hispanic members of Congress,” Schneier told JTA.
Iraqi ‘code’ bans Israel
A “code of honor” binding a number of Iraqi parties vows never to normalize relations with Israel.
Signed by factions belonging to followers of Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Ja’afari, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Sunni Iraqi Consensus Front, the code brings together Shi’ite and Sunni factions. It also demands a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led occupation troops and condemns terrorism while upholding the legitimacy of “resistance.”
Elections are next week, and the code suggests how the various parties might align. Al-Sadr was the driving force behind the code, The Associated Press reported.
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