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Sunday, December 18, 2005
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Bush pressed on Saudi aid
A U.S. congressman called on President Bush not to waive a congressional ban on U.S. aid to Saudi Arabia.
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) authored language in this year’s Foreign Operations Appropriations bill that prevents the united States from sending money to Saudi Arabia unless the president can ascertain that the country has cooperated in the war against terror. Last year, the president waived the ban.
“Saudi support for terrorist groups from Hamas to Al Qaeda directly contradicts your assertion that Saudi Arabia is cooperating with the war on terror,” Weiner and nine other members of Congress wrote in a letter to Bush
Israeli Arab lawmaker blasts Zionism
An Israeli Arab lawmaker said he would never recognize the Jewish state.
“Israel was the biggest daylight robbery of the 20th century. I will never recognize Zionism, even if all the Arabs do so. We will not give up on Palestine,” Azmi Beshara was quoted as saying over the weekend by the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir. Beshara, who traveled to Lebanon without the required Israeli government approval, heads the National Democratic Assembly, a predominantly Arab faction in the Knesset. “The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is not a demographic conflict, but a national conflict,” he was quoted as saying. “We are the original residents of Palestine, not those who came from Poland or Russia.” Beshara, who was speaking at a book fair in Beirut, made a rhetorical demand of Israel’s Jews: “Return Palestine to us and take your democracy. We the Arabs are not interested in it.” There was no immediate reaction from the Israeli government to the remarks.
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