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Friday, November 24, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Cluster bomb wounds two experts
Two mine-clearing experts were rushed to hospital in Lebanon after a dormant cluster bomb left behind by Israel exploded.
The experts from the London-based Mine Advisory Group, a Briton and a Bosnian, set off the bomb while clearing a field Friday. Lebanese security officials told media that the bomb was among those left behind by Israel during the Israel-Hezbollah war this summer.
Officials say that as many as 24 Lebanese have been killed by dormant bombs since the war.
Settler rabbi calls for rogue militias
A settler rabbi called on Jewish youth to set up unsupervised militias to counter terrorist rocket attacks on Israel’s South.
“We should have allowed the youth of Sderot, Ashkelon, the western Negev and anyone fit to bear arms,” Rabbi Yisrael Rozen wrote in the bulletin of the Zomet Institute, a think tank he heads in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut.
In the remarks, first reported by Ha’aretz, Rozen says Avigdor Lieberman, the settler recently appointed as Israel’s strategic affairs minister, “will be able to argue that the State of Israel has become integrated in the Middle Eastern sphere and is incapable of controlling” its militants.
Pullout cash went to unauthorized settlers
Unauthorized settlers were compensated after leaving the Gaza Strip.
Ha’aretz reported Friday that its review of compensation for settlers who left Gaza as part of the 2005 pullout found that it included dozens of settlers who moved into the region and set up outposts without government approval; only authorized settlers were eligible for compensation.
Ha’aretz quoted government officials as saying that the unauthorized settlers were given a one-time “act-of-grace” compensation, with some families receiving as much as $140,000.
BBC appoints Jewish reporters
The BBC appointed two Jewish journalists to its team covering Israel.
Tim Franks was appointed Middle East correspondent and Katya Adler will leave her current post in Madrid to become a Middle East reporter. They are the first Jewish correspondents appointed to the BBC’s Middle East team in recent years, though they’re not the first Jewish journalists to serve the BBC in the region, according to a spokesperson from the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
A BBC representative has denied that the move was an attempt to defray criticism of the agency’s alleged anti-Israel bias.
Netanyahu warns on Iran
Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran’s president is a greater danger than Hitler.
The former Israeli prime minister told the biennial conference of the Orthodox Union in Jerusalem on Thursday that unlike Hitler, whose quest for nuclear weapons followed his genocide against the Jewish people, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was pursuing nuclear capacity first.
“The future of the Jewish state is as in danger as it has ever been in the last half-century,” Netanyahu said, echoing remarks he made to the North American Jewish federation system’s annual gathering earlier this month. Netanyahu said Israel should support the American-led initiative to contain the Iranian threat, but that Israel should also be prepared if those efforts fail.
“We must use the powers that we’ve amassed to make the Jews no longer defenseless and able to shape their destiny and protect their future,” Netanyahu said. “This is the most important thing that we can do today. Everything else is secondary.”
Tycoon blames Kremlin in spy death
A Russian Jewish tycoon taking refuge in Israel said he shared documents with British authorities implicating the Kremlin in the murder of a former KGB spy.
Leonid Nevzlin, who fled to Israel in 2004 after Russian authorities charged officers of the Yukos oil giant with tax evasion, murder and fraud, said Alexander Litvinenko had shared with him evidence of Kremlin malfeasance in the Yukos affair. Nevzlin said he forwarded the evidence to British authorities. Litvinenko died in London on Thursday night, three weeks after he was poisoned.
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