Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Casey to oppose Santorum
Bob Casey won the Democratic nomination in the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania.
Casey, who has strong Jewish backing in his bid to unseat Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), handily defeated two primary rivals, including Alan Sandals, a Jewish attorney from Philadelphia.
Casey won some 85 percent of the vote. Sandals and another candidate, Chuck Pennachio, represented a protest vote against the national party’s preference for Casey, a conservative anti-abortion Democrat.
Casey, the son of a former governor, is leading in polls against Santorum, one of the most conservative members of the Senate.
Santorum maintains some Jewish support because of his consistent pro-Israel record.
P.A. arms funding disclosed
Millions of dollars in foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority was used to buy weapons, Israel’s Shin Bet security agency said.
The Shin Bet released a transcript Wednesday of its interrogations of Fuad Shobaki, a former Palestinian Authority financier and confidant of Yasser Arafat who was jailed in the West Bank city of Jericho until Israeli troops took him into custody in May.
Shobaki was quoted as saying that Arafat ordered the mass procurement of weapons when the intifada began in 2000. This included the purchase of arms from Iran, some of which were sent to the Gaza Strip on the Karine-A ship in 2002, only to be intercepted by Israeli naval commandos.
Shobaki was also quoted as saying that Arafat passed weapons to the Al-Aksa Brigade terrorist group via grass-roots activists of his Fatah faction.
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