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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Olmert: Hezbollah neutralized
Ehud Olmert said the Lebanon war had neutralized the threat from Hezbollah.
The Israeli prime minister toured a military position on Israel’s border with Lebanon on Tuesday and heard from members of top military brass about Israel’s tactical achievements in the 34-day war.
“Except for the Iranian problem, no one now threatens Israel,” Olmert said.
The comments clashed with the assessment of Olmert’s critics, who say the war was inconclusive and bolstered Israel’s enemies, including Palestinian terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip.
Study: Israelis hate the pious most
Fervently Orthodox Jews are the most hated group in Israel, a new study found.
The Gesher poll concluded that 37 percent of Israelis think fervently Orthodox Jews are the most disliked, 15 percent said the same of new immigrants from the former Soviet Union and 13 percent named settlers.
The survey, which interviewed 538 Israelis in the days before the upcoming 11th anniversary of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, also found that 47 percent believe the 2005 Gaza withdrawal was the most polarizing event in the history of the Jewish state, compared to 38 percent who named Rabin’s murder.
Harris: I’m a Jewish wannabe
U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris, the Florida Republican running for the U.S. Senate, said she’s a “wannabe” Jew.
A Washington Post profile published Tuesday described Israel as one of Harris’ “greatest passions” and quoted her as saying she is a Jewish “wannabe.”
She toured Israel in 1992 and said she was proud when Israelis addressed her in Hebrew.
Harris, who likened herself to Queen Esther in 2000 when she drew criticism as the Florida secretary of state who decided the state for George Bush, said she made her husband promise that one day they’d live in Israel.
As a girl, she said, she thought about Israel so often “I thought I was adopted for a while.”
Harris, who is trailing U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in the polls by double digits, offended some Jews when she told a Baptist publication in August, “If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you’re going to legislate sin.”
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