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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Carter leads Palestinian election monitors
Former President Carter is leading a delegation of monitors to the Palestinian elections.
Carter is heading the 80-member joint Carter Center-National Democratic Institute delegation, which also will include former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, former Albanian President Rexhep Meidani and former Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio. Civic leaders from Palestinian American and Jewish American groups also are part of the team monitoring Wednesday’s legislative elections, which already have been beset by violence and charges of corruption.
Separately, Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) is leading a small official U.S. delegation.
Abbas to Syria: Shut down terrorists
Mahmoud Abbas asked Syria to shut down the offices of Palestinian terrorist groups, the U.S. State Department said.
Spokesman Scott McCormack said the refusal of Syrian leader Bashar Assad to heed the Palestinian Authority president was an example of Syrian recalcitrance.
“President Abbas has asked President Assad to close down the offices of those Palestinian rejectionist groups headquartered in Damascus,” McCormack said Tuesday. “He hasn’t done so. As a matter of fact, he’s done just the opposite,” McCormack added, noting that Assad last week allowed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to meet with the terrorist groups during a visit to Syria.
Legislators urge Presbyterians to shun Hezbollah
A bipartisan slate of eight members of Congress urged the Chicago chapter of the U.S. Presbyterian Church to stop meeting with Hezbollah.
“We urge you to rethink this policy of continued contact with people responsible for the murder of 258 Americans and the citizens of other members of the United Nations,” said the letter, initiated by Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.).
The Chicago City Council last month condemned Rev. Bob Reynolds, the Chicago Presbytery executive, who led a group to a meeting with the terrorist group in Lebanon in October. Reynolds later said he regretted the visit because Hezbollah, which continues to seek Israel’s destruction, used it “for political purposes.”
Barghouti´s political prospects limited
Marwan Barghouti will not be able to serve in the Palestinian Authority Cabinet from prison, Israel’s internal security minister said.
Gideon Ezra said that Barghouti, a jailed West Bank militiaman who heads the Fatah faction’s candidate list for Palestinian Authority parliamentary elections Wednesday, will not be able to carry out any future ministerial duties. “He won’t be a minister from prison. Who can be a minister from prison?” Ezra told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
Once touted as a potential successor to the late Yasser Arafat, Barghouti, 46, was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to five life terms for orchestrating terrorist attacks by the Aksa Brigades.
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