Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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U.N. asks Israel to stop making nukes
A U.N. commission recommended that Israel refrain from manufacturing any more nuclear weapons as a step to a nuclear-free Middle East.
The U.N.’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, chaired by weapons inspector Hans Blix, released its 60 recommendations on Monday.
Regarding the Middle East, Blix recommended that most nations commit to not possessing any nuclear weapons.
However, with Israel he recommended only that it commit to not manufacturing any more weapons.
Israel is highly unlikely to agree to dismantle the 200 warheads it is believed to possess as the region’s sole nuclear power.
Israel’s agreement would be a start, Blix said.
Justice Dept. criticized over AIPAC case
The U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee slammed the Justice Department for its broad interpretation of a 90-year-old statute used to indict two former pro-Israel lobbyists.
The department is basing its classified information leak case against Steve Rosen, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s former foreign policy director, and Keith Weissman, its former Iran analyst, on a 1917 statute that criminalizes the receipt of classified information.
The statute had never been used until last year’s indictment.
In a hearing Tuesday, a bipartisan slate of senators on the committee said they were especially concerned by prosecutors’ statements that the statute could in the future be used against journalists.
“It’s highly doubtful in my mind that that was ever the intent of Congress,” Sen. Arlen Specter (R.-Pa.), the committee’s chairman, who is Jewish, told the department’s chief of staff of the criminal division, Matthew Friedlich.
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