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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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UJC adopts Iran resolution
The United Jewish Communities adopted a resolution calling for action against Iran.
The resolution, passed Wednesday by the group’s Board of Trustees and the Delegates Assembly at the UJC’s General Assembly in Los Angeles, calls for education and media outreach to raise awareness about “the drumbeat of hostility against Israel and the Jewish people emanating from Iran” and the global threat posed by Iran’s potential nuclear capability.
The resolution, coming on the heels of a G.A. plenary at which Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu equated Iran to Nazi Germany on the eve of the Holocaust, also calls for the Bush administration to “forcefully address” Iran’s efforts at nuclear capability.
It also calls for outreach to the U.S. Congress, the United Nations and foreign nations — particularly Russia, China and members of the European Union — to express concern.
Abizaid: Israeli-Palestinian conflict poses dangers
The failure to bring about Israeli-Palestinian peace remains a major strategic danger to U.S. interests, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said.
Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command, testified Wednesday to the U.S. Senate about efforts to control violence in Iraq.
He opened his statement by saying that the dangers he outlined the last time he testified, on Aug. 3, had not changed.
“Indeed, the dangers outlined in that statement — Al-Qaida’s extremist ideology, hegemonistic revolutionary Iranian ambitions, and the corrosive effect of continued Palestinian-Israeli confrontation — represent major dangers to international peace and security for decades to come,” Abizaid said.
“American regional and international diplomatic and security policies must be articulated and coordinated to confront these problems.”
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