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Monday, January 30, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Jewish group backs talks with Hamas
A Jewish group called for talks with a new, Hamas-led Palestinian government.
In a statement, Jewish Voice for Peace called the rise of Hamas a “matter of great concern to every Jewish group,” but said negotiations are the “only way”out of the current conflict.
“It is not more acceptable for the Palestinian Authority to refuse to talk to Israel than it is for Israel or the U.S. to refuse to talk with the legitimately elected representatives of the Palestinian people,” the group says.
Israel refuses to talk to Hamas until it renounces terrorism and recognizes Israel’s right to exist, a position backed by the United States.
Spielberg defends his film
Steven Spielberg lambasted members of the Jewish community who came out against his film “Munich.”
Speaking as part of a roundtable in the latest Newsweek magazine, Spielberg said criticism leveled at him and screenwriter Tony Kushner over the depiction of Israel’s hunt for the Palestinian masterminds of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre is unfair. Some American Jews, he said, “have grown very angry at me for allowing the Palestinians simply to have dialogue and for allowing Tony Kushner to be the author of that dialogue. ‘Munich’ never once attacks Israel, and barely criticizes Israel’s policy of counterviolence against violence,” he said. “It’s the most questioning story I’ve ever had the honor to tell. For that, we were accused of the sin of moral equivocation. Which, of course, we didn’t intend — and we’re not guilty of.”
The controversy, Spielberg added, “made me feel a little more aware of the dogma, and the Luddite position people take any time the Middle East is up for discussion.”
Google to expand in Israel
Google is planning to start a resource and development center in Israel.
Sergey Brin, who founded the Internet search giant, told Ha’aretz about the step at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Google has already opened a marketing and sales branch in the Jewish state.
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