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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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House protects new red ‘crystal’
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation copyrighting the Red Crystal, the symbol that allows Magen David Adom to join international Red Cross bodies.
Israel’s first-responder organization was admitted to the societies in June after the “crystal” — a diamond — was accepted as a compromise for non-Christian and non-Muslim countries that preferred not to use the red cross or red crescent.
The copyright protection legislation, passed unanimously Tuesday, is a critical step in ensuring proper use of the new emblem.
Chirac to Israel: Stop Lebanon overflights
French President Jacques Chirac told Israel to stop its air force flights over Lebanon.
Chirac made the demand in talks Wednesday with visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, his spokesman said.
France also reiterated its stand that Hezbollah must immediately release two Israeli soldiers whose abduction July 12 sparked a monthlong war this summer.
Livni told reporters in response that Israel needs the Lebanon overflights to monitor continued arms smuggling to Hezbollah, a violation of the U.N.-brokered truce that ended the war.
Israeli overflights are also prohibited.
APN meets Syrian envoy
Americans for Peace Now met with Syria’s ambassador to the United States.
The meeting last week between the dovish pro-Israel group and Imad Moustapha did not produce any breakthroughs.
Moustapha repeated Syria’s call for a resumption of talks with no pre-conditions; APN reiterated U.S. and Israeli demands that Syria end its support for terrorist groups.
However, a meeting between a Syrian official and a group with roots in Israel is unusual.
APN and its sister organization, Peace Now, want Israel to explore recent Syrian calls to restart peace talks.
Carter fellow resigns over book
A Middle East expert resigned from Emory University’s Carter Center over former President Carter’s new book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.”
In a letter to the media Tuesday, Ken Stein distanced himself from Carter and the center’s recent activities, and emphasized that he “had nothing to do with the research, preparation, writing, or review of President Carter’s recent publication.
Any material which he used from the book we did together in 1984, ‘The Blood of Abraham,’ he used unilaterally.”
Carter’s new book “is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments. Aside from the one-sided nature of the book, meant to provoke, there are recollections cited from meetings where I was the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show little similarity to points claimed in the book,” Stein wrote.
“Having little access to Arabic and Hebrew sources, I believe, clearly handicapped his understanding and analyses of how history has unfolded over the last decade.”
Stein, who was associated with the center for 23 years, will keep his positions in Emory’s history and political science departments and his directorship of the university’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel.
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