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Sunday, April 16, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Moussaoui assails U.S. support of Israel
Zacarias Moussaoui said U.S. support for Israel is one of the main reasons he hates the United States.
Speaking late last week at his sentencing trial for conspiring with Al-Qaida in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Moussaoui said “the Jewish state of Palestine is a missing star in the American flag. You are the head of the snake for me. If I want to destroy the Jewish state of Palestine, I have to destroy you.”
Speaking to prosecutor Gerald Zerkin, Moussaoui said he and other Muslims want to “exterminate” American Jews.
The current hearings will determine whether Moussaoui faces the death penalty.
Pollard-Barghouti swap in the works?
American and Israeli officials denied reports that Israel plans to offer to free a jailed Palestinian militiaman if the United States grants clemency to Jonathan Pollard.
Army Radio reported Sunday that Israel would make the proposal to swap Pollard for Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life prison sentences for orchestrating Palestinian terrorist attacks, after Prime Minister-elect Ehud Olmert forms a government.
According to the report, Israel believes that the United States could be interested in seeing Barghouti go free in a bid to bolster his Fatah faction against the Palestinian Authority government under rival Hamas.
U.S. and Israeli officials denied the report.
Barghouti’s lawyer, Jawad Boulos, welcomed the proposed swap.
Israeli Arab eyes Jerusalem
An Israeli Arab leader said Jerusalem will become an international Islamist capital.
“Jerusalem will soon be the capital of a Muslim Arab Caliphate, and all efforts by the Israeli establishment to Judaize the city will amount to nothing,” Sheik Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, told a weekend rally in Kfar Kassem.
Salah, who was briefly accused by Israeli authorities of funding Palestinian terrorist groups, also said the Jewish state was planning to replace the Al-Aksa Mosque in Jerusalem with a Third Temple as part of a plot hatched in coordination with the United States.
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