Friday, December 01, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Report: Lebanon bombing could be war crime
Israel’s use of cluster bombs during the Lebanon war could be considered a war crime, according to a U.N. report.
Prepared by an inquiry commission set up to investigate Israeli actions during this summer’s war with Hezbollah, the report was presented Friday to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. In addition to recommending that cluster bombs be outlawed, the commission found Israel guilty of “excessive, indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force” and of a failure to distinguish between civilian and military targets, The Associated Press reported.
Israel’s ambassador in Geneva, Itzhak Levanon, dismissed the report for failing to take account of Hezbollah’s deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians. Hezbollah also used cluster bombs during the war, but the authors of the report noted that they had been instructed to investigate only Israel’s actions, not Hezbollah’s.
Murdered ex-spy criticized anti-Semitism
Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who was murdered in London last week, was an outspoken critic of anti-Semitism in the Russian security services.
According to London’s Jewish News, Litvinenko’s friend and spokesman Alex Goldfarb said the former KGB spy wrote a book called “The FSB Blows up Russia,” in which he “condemned latent anti-Semitism within Russia’s Federal Security Service.”
Goldfarb also claims that Litvinenko’s assassination by poisoning, which Goldfarb blames on the Russian government, was partially motivated by his association with a number of influential expatriated Russian Jews, including businessman Boris Berezovsky. British authorities are investigating Litvinenko’s death.
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