Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Even as Lame Duck, Blair Still Pushing for Peace Talks
During his trip to the Middle East, British Prime Minister Tony Blair provided an encouraging shove for a Hamas-Fatah unity coalition by calling for Western economic sanctions against the Palestinians to be lifted if the new government recognizes Israel and honors past agreements with Jerusalem. So is Blair, who announced last week that he would…
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News Key Labor Lawmaker Calls for Talks With Abbas
Ephraim Sneh, the leader of the Labor faction in the Knesset and a respected voice on military affairs, claims that Israel should immediately engage in direct negotiations with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. “We need to close the Palestinian file through an agreement,” Sneh told a gathering of the Israeli Policy Forum in New York on…
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Israel News U.N., Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Possible War Crimes
With more than 400 Lebanese civilians killed in recent weeks, the United Nations and leading human rights organizations are stepping up their criticism of Israel, suggesting Jerusalem could face legal consequences for its military actions. Even before four U.N. observers were killed in an Israeli strike Tuesday, senior officials from the world body were warning…
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Israel News Experts Say Hezbollah Has Global Reach
Facing an unprecedented Israeli military onslaught, Hezbollah could turn back the clock a decade and resort to terrorist strikes against Jewish and Western targets outside of Lebanon, experts warn. While it is not believed to have struck abroad since the bombing of a Jewish communal center in Argentina in 1994, the Lebanese Shiite militia has…
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News As U.N. Body Raps Israel, Bush Strategy Questioned
Following the inaugural session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, Jewish organizations are criticizing both the new body’s decision to focus on alleged Israeli violations and the Bush administration’s failure to take stronger action to head off a diplomatic debacle. Held in Geneva, the two-week meeting ended with the adoption of a…
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News Synagogues Speak Out Against Wiretapping, Torture
The country’s two largest synagogue movements are stepping up their criticism of the Bush administration’s domestic wiretapping program and treatment of detainees, in sharp contrast to the approach of the major non-sectarian Jewish civil rights organizations. Senior figures of the Conservative and Reform movements have recently called on the White House to prohibit the use…
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News Polls: Boost for Israel in Europe
Recent polls suggest that Islamic radicalism has achieved what Israeli public relations efforts never could: a significant boost in Western European support for Israel. According to two recent polls, the level of French and German support for Israel has increased significantly in the past few years. The annual Pew Global Attitudes survey found that French…
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News In Plane Sight
On its face, the nuclear deal signed by the Bush administration and India, now heading for approval before Congress, sets a good precedent for Israel. In effect, Washington is rewarding a country that developed nuclear weapons in circumvention of the landmark nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, sanctioning its arsenal after the fact because of its responsible behavior….
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