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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Lieberman projected to win
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman was projected to keep his seat.
CNN projected Lieberman´s win over Ned Lamont, the cable TV magnate who used anti-Iraq war sentiment to best Lieberman in the Democratic primary. Lieberman, who backed the Iraq war, ran as an independent but pledged to vote with the Democratic caucus.
Exit polls suggested Lieberman, the first Jew to feature on a viable presidential ticket in 2000, garnered 60 percent of the Jewish vote and Lamont garnered 40 percent.
Lieberman had drawn significant pro-Israel funds and Jews from around the region went to Connecticut to help get out the vote.
WJC meets with Chinese president
World Jewish Congress President Edgar Bronfman met in Beijing with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
The two met Tuesday to discuss international affairs, including the Iranian threat to Israel and the rest of the world.
Bronfman and WJC Secretary-General Stephen Herbits also met with the Chinese vice minister of foreign affairs, according to a WJC news release.
The meeting was part of a weeklong mission to Asia and Europe.
Withdrawal around Ghajar
Israeli forces withdrew from areas around a village straddling Israel’s border with Lebanon.
UNIFIL, the peacekeeper force in southern Lebanon, said Tuesday that soldiers’ positions around the northern part of Ghajar had withdrawn, leaving only the garrison inside the part of the village that falls inside Lebanese territory.
Northern Ghajar was the only part of Lebanon that Israel did not give up when it withdrew forces from former Hezbollah strongholds last month as part of a U.N.-brokered cease-fire.
Former Israeli PM speaks out on Iraq
Israel’s former prime minister expressed doubts about the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
Speaking at Indiana University recently, Ehud Barak cited Iraq’s deterioration into civil war, adding: “The U.S. presence is more and more a part of the problem and not the solution,” according to CampusJ.com.
Barak further warned that “democratization may lead to a radical Shia government.”
A former ambassador to Israel in the Bush administration, Daniel Kurtzer, also expressed reservations at his alma mater, Yeshiva University.
“The longer the U.S. is bogged down in a war which is not getting better and we’re not winning, the longer the U.S. will not be able to turn its attention to issues of greater importance,” Kurtzer said.
Olmert seeks Lebanon talks
Ehud Olmert said foreign emissaries are trying to arrange peace talks between Israel and Lebanon.
“Things are going to happen in Lebanon,” the Israeli prime minister said in a Channel 2 television interview aired late Monday.
“Two senior world leaders are working at my behest to try to create the conditions for my meeting Siniora, and I am personally in touch with them.”
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, while favored by the United States, has rebuffed several public peace overtures by Jerusalem since Israel’s recent war with Hezbollah.
He has said Lebanon would be the last Arab nation to make peace with Israel.
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