Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Jews score in primary races
Jewish candidates scored victories in primary elections across the United States.
The right to run in November’s general election in the U.S. House of Representatives was won Tuesday by Gabrielle Giffords and Ellen Simon in Arizona, both Democrats; Steve Kagen in Wisconsin, a Democrat; Paul Hodes in New Hampshire, a Democrat; and Alan Fine, a Jewish Republican in Minneapolis who will face Keith Ellison, a Democrat who could become the first Muslim in Congress.
Rep. Bernie Sanders, an independent, handily won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Vermont, and Eliot Spitzer, New York’s attorney general, came one step closer to the governor’s mansion by easily picking up the Democratic nomination.
Douglas Gansler won the Democratic nomination for attorney general in Maryland, where Rep. Ben Cardin won the Democratic primary for a Senate seat.
Winning the Democratic nomination to replace him was John Sarbanes, a Greek Orthodox lawyer married to a Jewish woman, who is raising his children as Jews.
In Rhode Island, Sen. Lincoln Chafee, a Republican and Israel’s toughest critic in the Senate, had national party backing in his successful bid to fend off a pro-Israel rival.
Terrorist´s release weighed
Israel indicated a willingness to consider releasing a jailed Lebanese terrorist as part of efforts to retrieve two soldiers held hostage by Hezbollah.
After Hezbollah’s chief, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, reiterated Monday that the soldiers abducted July 12 would not be freed unless there was an exchange including the release of Samir Kuntar, Israel’s defense minister, Amir Peretz, indicated this was not out of the question.
“The matter of Kuntar is on the agenda and will be considered,” Peretz told Army Radio on Tuesday. Jerusalem previously had ruled out releasing Kuntar, who is serving a life sentence for a 1979 terrorist attack in which he murdered a father and child, while another child was smothered to death in hiding from the killer.
Hezbollah also is demanding amnesty for two dozen Lebanese held in Israeli jails, including gunmen captured in the recent war.
Israel could be out of Lebanon soon
Israel hopes to have all its troops out of southern Lebanon by Rosh Hashanah.
Israeli sources said Wednesday that the last Israeli troops were expected to be out of former Hezbollah strongholds by Sept. 22, if handovers of territory to foreign peacekeepers and the Lebanese army go as planned.
Israel already has removed most of its specialized troops from the battlegrounds, but regular forces remain to ensure Hezbollah does not retake positions lost during the war.
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