Thursday, June 22, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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U.S. revokes ‘Jerusalem, Israel’ from death report
The U.S. Embassy in Israel reportedly revoked a death report for an American citizen that listed him as having died in “Jerusalem, Israel.” The Jerusalem Post reported that Wendy Serlin of Beit Shemesh received a letter earlier this month from the embassy, revoking its death report for her father, Myron Friedman, who died in 2002.
The “Report of Death of an American Citizen Abroad” sent to Serlin shortly after Friedman’s passing listed the place of death as “Jerusalem, Israel.” Serlin says the report was revoked for political reasons: The U. S. Congress passed an act in 1995 stating that the United States should recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but Presidents Clinton and Bush have invoked a security waiver to delay moving its embassy to Jerusalem.
The revocation followed a separate case in which Serlin’s neighbors, Naomi and Ari Zivotofsky, filed a suit against the U.S. State Department in 2003, demanding that their newborn son’s place of birth be listed as “Jerusalem, Israel,” the Post reported.
The Zivotofskys submitted Friedman’s death report as evidence. Shortly after, the embassy sent Serlin new paperwork for her father’s death, with the word “Israel” deleted, the Post wrote.
U.S. officials would not comment.
Abbas calls suicide bombings ‘crime’
Mahmoud Abbas called suicide bombings a “crime” because of Muslim prohibitions on suicide.
The Palestinian Authority president made the remark Wednesday at a conference for Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Jordan, after being questioned on the issue by fellow panelist Elie Wiesel.
“First of all, as Muslims, it is a crime to commit suicide. Muslims believe that if you commit suicide, you go to hell, and that goes without saying for killing others,” Abbas was quoted as saying by The Jerusalem Post.
Palestinian terrorist groups that promote suicide bombings, such as Hamas, deny it’s forbidden by Islam, saying it’s “martyrdom” when the target is Israeli Jews.
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