Friday, April 07, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Bush: Palestinians voted against corruption
The vote that brought Hamas to power was a vote against corruption, President Bush said.
“Guess what the election was based on? Corruption,” Bush said Thursday in a foreign policy speech. He rejected the thesis that Hamas’ landslide victory in P.A. legislative elections in January was an endorsement of its terrorism and opposition to Israel. He also rejected criticism that the United States should have encouraged the Palestinians to build democratic institutions before holding elections.
You “don’t necessarily have to like who wins,” Bush said. “It was a necessary part of the evolution of a state to have the Palestinian people be able to say, ‘We’re sick of it, we’re sick of the status quo. We want something different. We want a government that’s honest and we want a government that listens to our demands.’ I thought it was a positive development.”
Israel, Arabs sign on to NATO initiative
Israel and six Arab nations pledged to join NATO-led efforts against terrorism, including naval patrols.
The meeting that ended Friday in Rabat, Morocco between the western Alliance and representatives of Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Mauritania and Tunisia apparently was the first NATO meeting held in an Arab country.
Participants agreed to stop weapons smuggling and illegal immigration. Israel, Algeria and Morocco pledged to join naval patrols.
Palestinian sues P.A. for torture
A Palestinian man who sued the Palestinian Authority in the United States says its officials tortured him after he helped Israel prevent terrorist attacks.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, says Ali Mahmud Ali Shafi was kidnapped Sept. 22, 2001 in Palestinian-controlled territory and tortured for six months. Shafi, who moved to Israel in 1994 from the West Bank town of Kalkilya, returned home in September 2001 so his daughter could visit her grandmother, the lawsuit says. Before moving to Israel, he assisted Israel’s Shin Bet security service in preventing terrorist attacks, the suit says.
The lawsuit, which also names the Palestine Liberation Organization as a defendant, seeks unspecified damages on Shafi’s behalf, and says it would be impossible for him to receive justice in Palestinian-ruled territory.
Expert: Hezbollah, Hamas abusing immigration
Hezbollah, al-Qaida and Hamas are exploiting the U.S. immigration system, a border security expert testified in Congress.
Hamas, the terrorist group currently governing the Palestinian Authority, needs people in the United States to fund raise, Janice Kephart, a consultant who advised the 9/11 commission, said Tuesday. The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah used fake marriages to smuggle 200 people across the Mexican border to work in a cigarette-smuggling scheme, Kephart said.
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