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Thursday, December 29, 2005
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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No end in sight to Gaza ‘no-go zone’
Israel vowed to keep areas of the Gaza Strip off-limits to Palestinians until cross-border rocket attacks cease.
“The operations will continue as long as is required to ensure that the fire against us is curbed,” Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Army Radio on Thursday, alluding to Israel’s artillery barrage against areas of northern Gaza used for rocket launches.
The zone was declared Wednesday when Israel dropped leaflets warning Palestinians to stay away. Terrorist groups launched at least four more rockets, prompting the Israeli shelling.
Bulgaria pressed on Holocaust compensation
U.S. congressional representatives pressed Bulgaria on a World War II-era compensation issue.
The letter urged Bulgaria’s president and prime minister to see that the country’s Jews receive their “rightful share” of the value of a hotel built in Sofia on the site of a prewar Jewish school. Bulgaria’s Jewish community is appealing a Bulgarian court decision from July that rejected Jewish claims to nearly half the property now occupied by the Rila Hotel.
The property was confiscated in 1943, and an administrative court ruled in 1992 that the Jewish community was entitled to just under 50 percent of it.
The letter, sent last week, was signed by two co-chairmen of the Congressional Bulgaria Caucus, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-S.C.), as well as by Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the ranking Democratic member of the House of Representatives’ International Relations Committee.
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