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Friday, September 08, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Israel defends arms policy
Israel’s military reportedly defended its right to use weapons that some human rights groups have described as illegal.
The military’s judge advocate general recently issued a memorandum to Israeli diplomatic missions abroad empowering them to rebut allegations that illegal heavy ordnance has been used in the Lebanon war and against Palestinian terrorists, Ma’ariv reported Thursday.
“International law does not impose an absolute and all-inclusive ban on the use of these cluster bombs or white-phosphorus bombs,” the newspaper quoted the memorandum as saying.
According to the report, the judge advocate general also noted that 56 other countries, including the United States, Britain and Russia, have similar weapons in their arsenals. Military representatives declined comment.
Report: Olmert considering Shebaa handover
Israel could hand over the Shebaa Farms to Lebanon as part of the cease-fire, Ehud Olmert reportedly said.
The Israeli prime minister was quoted in Friday’s Haaretz newspaper as telling Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, that Israel could relinquish the tiny border area if the Lebanese enforce all of the cease-fire agreement, including the disarming of Hezbollah, the terrorist group that launched this summer’s war. Olmert and Lavrov met Wednesday.
When Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 to U.N. certified lines, it kept the Shebaa Farms because U.N. officials ruled the area belonged to Syria and was properly subject to Israel-Syria negotiations.
Hezbollah used Israel’s continued presence in the area as a pretext to continue attacks. Syria claimed to back the pretext, although it never formally gave up its claim to the area.
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