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Friday, September 22, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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House resolution calls for border force
Top U.S. foreign-relations legislators initiated a resolution urging Lebanon to allow international troops along its border with Syria.
The resolution is sponsored by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ International Relations Committee; Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the committee’s ranking member; Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of its Middle East subcommittee; and Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.), its ranking member.
The resolution urges Lebanon’s government “to request without delay a robust international force deployment on the Lebanese border with Syria, so as to prevent the re-supply of weapons to Hezbollah.” Lebanon has been reluctant to ask international troops to patrol its border, fearing Syrian reprisals. Israel believes Hezbollah will rearm and prepare for future war if it is allowed to replace the missiles it used in this summer’s war with Israel.
The non-binding resolution appears to backtrack from Lantos’ earlier warning that he would exercise his prerogative to delay assistance to Lebanon unless it secures the border.
Jewish Dems score Jewish GOP contender
Jewish Democrats called on a Jewish Republican running for Congress to refrain from “hate-filled” attacks on his Muslim opponent. Republicans appear to be using Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison’s “religion as a weapon to question his patriotism,” the National Jewish Democratic Council said in a statement Friday.
The statement singled out Alan Fine, Ellison’s Jewish opponent in the Minneapolis district, and Jewish Republicans in general. Fine and his party have focused on Ellison’s past associations with the Nation of Islam. Ellison, who has won Jewish endorsements, now repudiates the Nation of Islam’s often anti-Semitic message and says he regrets not examining it more closely 10 years ago, when he was associated with the group’s Million Man March.
Fine has called Ellison “a person who believes the Jews are the scourge of the earth” and, in a debate, appeared to mock Ellison’s Muslim name, Mohammed.
“Jews are taught in our laws and traditions that a person is forbidden to be cruel and not forgive,” the NJDC said. “Republican Jews who attack Keith Ellison do not represent the mainstream of the American Jewish community, and they owe all of us an apology for invoking their Judaism in this shameful partisan hack job.”
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