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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Peretz backs ceding Jerusalem areas
Israel’s Labor Party chief proposed ceding areas of Jerusalem to the Palestinians.
“We should consider giving up some Palestinian villages, and even neighborhoods” in and around the capital, Amir Peretz told Israel Radio on Tuesday, saying this would ensure “absorbing as few Palestinians as possible into Israeli territory and preserving Jerusalem’s Jewish character.”
Peretz said he favored allowing Arabs from eastern Jerusalem to vote in Palestinian Authority legislative elections later this month. “Not allowing them to vote for the Palestinian Parliament would imply we want them to vote for the Knesset,” he said.
Poll: French see Sharon as war criminal
Nearly 58 percent of French voters in an online poll said they consider Ariel Sharon a war criminal.
Out of 369,439 who voted between Saturday and Tuesday afternoon in the poll conducted by the Le Nouvel Observateur newspaper, 57.9 percent consider Sharon a “war criminal,” while 42.1 percent see him as “the De Gaulle of Israel.”
Security chief sees inaction in olive-tree attacks
An Israeli security chief blamed a lack of vigilance for the failure to stop settlers from attacking Palestinian olive trees.
At a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee session Tuesday where the recent vandalism of West Bank orchards was raised, the chief of the Shin Bet, Yuval Diskin, said there had been advance warning that radical settlers might carry out the attacks. The Shin Bet passed the information to the police and army forces in the West Bank, but it was greeted by “eye-rolling” and inaction, he said.
“This is symptomatic of a failure to enforce the law, especially when it comes to the hilltop youth,” Diskin said, referring to radical West Bank settlers.
The Yesha council has denounced the attacks in which hundreds of trees have been cut down, but some have suggested the vandalism could have been staged by Palestinians for propaganda purposes.
‘Red Ken’ not going to Jewish party
London’s controversial mayor is unlikely to be invited to celebrations later this year marking the 350th anniversary of the readmission of Jews to England.
According to the London Jewish Chronicle, Ken Livingstone’s refusal to apologize for comparing a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard is the main sticking point. Livingstone faces possible disciplinary action for this name-calling.
He also is fiercely critical of Israel, has called Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a war criminal and courted an Egyptian cleric who is openly anti-Zionist.
Trying to make amends, he recently held a reception to celebrate Chanukah.
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