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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Bush: Don’t blame Israel for Iraq
Blaming the Iraq war on U.S. support for Israel is irresponsible, President Bush said.
“One of the blessings of our free society is that we can debate these issues openly, even in a time of war,” Bush said Wednesday in an address to the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. “Most of the debate has been a credit to our democracy, but some have launched irresponsible charges. They say that we act because of oil, that we act in Iraq because of Israel, or because we misled the American people.”
Such charges “hurt the morale of our troops,” Bush said.
At odds over U.S. resolution on Hamas
Jewish groups are at odds over a congressional resolution that threatens repercussions should Hamas join a Palestinian government.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has lobbied hard in recent weeks for the bipartisan resolution, initiated by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the Republican whip, and Rep. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the chairman of the Democratic caucus. Americans for Peace Now is urging lawmakers to speak out against it.
The resolution calls for barring Hamas and other terrorist groups from participating in Palestinian Authority elections next month and warns that including Hamas in the government “will inevitably raise serious policy considerations for the United States, potentially undermining the continued ability of the United States to provide financial assistance and conduct normal relations with the Palestinian Authority.”
Documentary explores Iraq-Nazi link
A documentary exploring the Iraq-Nazi connection will air on a U.S. cable station.
“Saddam and the Third Reich,” which will first be broadcast Sunday on the History Channel, will be repeated throughout the Saddam Hussein trial. The documentary includes rare footage of the mufti of Jerusalem as the nexus between the Nazis and Iraqi fascists and the Ba’ath Party.
One of several featured speakers is investigative author Edwin Black, whose book “Banking on Baghdad” revealed the role of the mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi Arabs in the Holocaust-era Baghdad pogrom known as the Farhud. Production sources say similar documentaries are in the offing due to the wealth of information now being obtained about the connection between Arab regimes and the Nazis.
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