Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Cheney to address AIPAC
Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to headline this year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference.
The vice president will speak at the conference’s closing session on March 7, “America and Israel: The View from Capitol Hill.”
Also speaking at the policy conference are Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the new majority leader, and John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Olmert: Ahmadinejad’s an anti-Semite
Israel’s Ehud Olmert called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an anti-Semite.
“The president of Iran, with all of his statements, is a heinous anti-Semitic phenomenon. He is an Israel-hater,” the interim prime minister told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday.
Olmert said Iran, which is believed to be months away from acquiring the knowledge to make nuclear weapons, must be stopped. But he did not discuss any direct Israeli military options, endorsing U.S.-led diplomatic pressure on Tehran.
“I do not think that we have to state on the world stage what we will do and what we will not do,” Olmert said. “We must prevent Iran from reaching a technological know-how — with everything that entails — and the international community has the tools to deal with this.”
Italian mayor pressed after rally
Italian Jewish leaders and politicians called for the resignation of a mayor who took part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration.
After participating in Saturday’s demonstration in Rome, Mauro Bertini, the Communist mayor of the town of Marano, suggested that the world would be a better place without Israel. Israel, he said, was a “punch in the stomach of humanity.”
The president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Pierferdinando Casini, called the remarks “shameful and irresponsible” and apologized to Israel.
Authorities in Rome, meanwhile, have opened a criminal investigation into a group of demonstrators who during the rally burned Israeli and American flags and chanted slogans favoring insurgent attacks against Italian armed forces in Iraq.
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