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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Netanyahu, Cheney meet
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu met Vice President Dick Cheney.
The leader of Israel’s opposition Likud Party met with Cheney and top senators Tuesday on a visit to Washington to explain Israel’s position on containing Hezbollah and Iran.
Netanyahu lined up behind the government during its July-August war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and this visit was similarly in the spirit of national unity.
Two top aides to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are due to arrive in Washington on Wednesday
Feinstein wants cluster bombs limited
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced an amendment to restrict the sale of U.S.-made cluster bombs.
The California Democrat, who is Jewish and a solid supporter of Israel, wants to guarantee that the weapons will “not be used in or near any concentrated population of civilians, whether permanent or temporary, including inhabited parts of cities or villages, camps or columns of refugees or evacuees.”
The amendment to the Defense Department appropriations bill, due for consideration this month, does not mention any specific country, but suggests it was inspired by a State Department investigation into Israel’s use of U.S.-made cluster bombs during the recent war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israel vigorously denies human rights groups’ claims that it used the weapons in heavily populated areas.
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