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Monday, October 09, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Barghouti prosecutor to think tank
A Washington think tank hired the Israeli counterterrorism prosecutor who jailed Marwan Barghouti.
Dvorah Chen started at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Oct. 5.
Barghouti is a leader of Fatah, a relatively moderate Palestinian faction, but was also convicted of responsibility for some of the worst terrorist attacks during the recent intifada.
Chen led Barghouti’s prosecution in 2004. He is currently serving multiple life sentences.
At the Washington Institute, she will write and lecture on counterterrorism legal strategies.
U.N. Watch: Make rights a priority
A group that monitors the United Nations for anti-Israel bias called on the likely next secretary-general to emphasize human rights.
Ban Ki-Moon’s priorities “must include taking a firm stand against the continued atrocities in Darfur and other areas,” U.N. Watch said in a statement Monday.
The Security Council has endorsed Ban, South Korea’s foreign minister, as the next secretary-general, virtually guaranteeing his election by the General Assembly.
U.N. Watch has sharply criticized the U.N. Human Rights Council and its predecessor, the U.N. Human Rights Commission, for focusing obsessively on Israel while ignoring human rights violations elsewhere.
U.N. Watch called on Ban to continue efforts by Kofi Annan, the current secretary-general, to confront the human rights bodies for picking on Israel.
“We hope that Mr. Ban will continue Mr. Annan’s tradition of brave and forceful critique of those groups and countries that seek to hijack the U.N.’s human rights mechanisms to advance their own biased political agenda,” the statement said.
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