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Friday, October 13, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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ADL presses pope on Iran
The leader of the Anti-Defamation League asked Pope Benedict XVI to help protect Jews from Iranian threats.
Abraham Foxman, the ADL’s president, made the comments Thursday in a meeting the pope held in Rome with an ADL delegation.
The pope told the delegation that the church condemns anti-Semitism, but did not make any specific reference to Iran, Reuters reported.
Envoy: Iran should watch action on N. Korea
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Iran’s leaders should take note of the Security Council’s treatment of North Korea.
“I am sure they’re watching in Tehran what we do on this North Korea resolution,” John Bolton told reporters Thursday at U.N. headquarters in New York. “And I hope they watch closely.”
Bolton’s comments came amid Security Council discussions on a resolution responding to North Korea’s claim to have tested a nuclear device earlier this week.
The United States expects a vote on the resolution by the end of the week.
Anti-rocket systems said years away
Israel is not expected to have defense systems against tactical rockets within the next four years, a newspaper reported.
The Jerusalem Post on Thursday quoted unnamed military officials as dismissing Defense Minister Amir Peretz’s pledge that Israel would develop means of shooting down Hezbollah and Palestinian rockets within two years.
According to the officials, it will take at least twice as long to develop a system that is reliable and inexpensive enough to deploy along the Lebanese and Gazan borders. Two anti-rocket projects are being considered, one Israeli and the other American.
Comments on Israel harm Canadian pol
A leading Canadian politician is under fire after calling an Israeli bombing of a Lebanese town this summer a war crime.
The co-chairwoman of the Toronto campaign of Michael Ignatieff, a candidate to head the Liberal Party, withdrew her support after Ignatieff recently commented on the bombing of Kana.
“I was a professor of human rights, and I am also a professor of the laws of war, and what happened in Kana was a war crime,” Ignatieff said. Some in the international community say the attack, which killed many civilians, violated international law, but Israel says Hezbollah was launching rockets from Kana before the attack. Initial accounts said some 56 people were killed in the attack, but the number was later halved.
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