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Friday, January 20, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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German FM: Israeli nukes don’t justify Iran
Israel’s nuclear program does not justify the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, Germany’s foreign minister said.
“This excuse which you call ‘double standards’ does not justify allowing us to see a nuclear power which will worsen the situation,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Thursday in Egypt during comments on Iran, according to Yediot Achronot’s Ynet Web site. “Rather, we should use all possibilities to eliminate nuclear proliferation.”
Israel is pushing for sanctions on Iran, which is believed to be developing nuclear weapons and has called for the destruction of the Jewish state.
Activists: Museum should acknowledge Arab anti-Semitism
A group of activists has asked the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington to do more to acknowledge Arab anti-Semitism.
The fledgling organization, “Holocaust Museum Watch,” believe the government-funded museum should present an exhibit to highlight Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism, both during the Nazi period and today. It criticized the museum Wednesday for not condemning recent anti-Semitic comments by Iran’s president, until pressured to do so.
Carol Greenwald, who started the organization, said it was not until she handed a letter out at the museum’s annual dinner that the museum acknowledged Mahmoud Ahmandinejad’s comments. A spokesman for the museum did not respond to requests for comment.
Hundreds attend funeral for Israeli Arab
Hundreds attended the funeral of an Israeli Arab killed by Israeli police. Friday’s funeral for Nadim Milham, 28, went off peacefully, Ha’aretz reported, though police had been on alert for fear of rioting.
“Our goal is not to riot,” Knesset member Ahmed Tibi was quoted as saying by Ha’aretz. Instead, he said, the Arab community wanted to “express our anger over the way the police treat us like the enemy. The goal isn’t to create disturbances, but to show solidarity with the victim’s family.”
Police, who say they shot Milham after he brandished a weapon during a search of his house, have requested an investigation into the incidents and met with Arab community leaders. Milham’s family say he was shot in cold blood.
Russian minister condemns Jackson-Vanik
Russia’s foreign minister said U.S. laws tying Russia’s trade status to human-rights conditions were an “unfair use of economic levers to political ends.”
Sergey Lavrov criticized the Jackson-Vanik laws Friday, which were used to punish the former Soviet Union for its policies prohibiting Jewish emigration. Lavrov suggested the policy, hailed by American Jewish groups, does not comport with international law.
Russia has sought an end to the restrictions — a step that has garnered some Jewish support — but Congress has yet to act.
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