Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Argentine Authorities Said To Seek Arrest of Iranians in 1994 Bombing
Argentine officials are said to be preparing new arrest warrants against senior Iranian leaders after prosecutors announced that they had linked them to the perpetrator of the 1994 suicide bombing of the Jewish communal center in Buenos Aries to Hezbollah. Argentine prosecutors announced last week that they had identified the alleged suicide driver of the…
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News Coordinated Intelligence Efforts Led to Terror Suspect
Information pieced together by the Forward from documents and interviews provide a rare glimpse into the hunt for a dead terrorist suspect, featuring cooperation and tensions between intelligence services and investigators as well as a possible cover-up operation by Hezbollah. In late 1999, Argentina launched secret operation “Gaviota,” with the aim of recruiting informants within…
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News French Jewish Delegation Cites Progress
Just as France was engulfed in a wave of rioting, a delegation of French Jewish leaders visited New York last week to deliver a decidedly upbeat message. In meetings with American Jewish communal leaders, members of the French delegation — representing the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, known as CRIF — described France…
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News Jerusalem, Groups Launch Campaign To Isolate Iran
In an effort to capitalize on the international outrage over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent call to “wipe Israel off the map,” Israel and several American Jewish organizations have launched a coordinated attack to isolate Iran and force Tehran to renounce its nuclear ambitions. Several Israeli officials and Jewish organizational leaders called for Iran to…
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News Israel Scores Diplomatically On Two Fronts
In a rare flurry of positive diplomatic developments for Israel, the United Nations this week passed a strong resolution against archenemy Syria and adopted a groundbreaking statement on Holocaust remembrance, the first resolution ever submitted to the world body by Israel. In Switzerland, meanwhile, steps were taken to accept Israel’s Magen David Adom into the…
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News U.S. Nixes Israel-Venezuela Arms Deal
With Israel still reeling from a prolonged dispute with the White House over military cooperation with China, the Bush administration is forcing Jerusalem to freeze a major contract to upgrade Venezuela’s American-manufactured F-16 fighter jets. The Israeli Defense Ministry suggested America’s move in a statement last week, noting that “in accordance with agreements between the…
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News Ex-officials Push Engagement With Hamas, Hezbollah
Bucking American and Israeli policy, a group of former senior American and British officials steeped in Middle East affairs have been conducting a dialogue with Hamas and Hezbollah in an attempt to bring the two militant Islamic groups into the democratic fold. The former Western officials have held two meetings in Lebanon in recent months…
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News African Deaths Spark Debate In Europe Over Immigration
Europe has been plunged into a furious new debate over immigration policies and the effects of global poverty, after being stunned by scenes of desperate Africans trying to overrun a barbed-wire fence to reach European territory. On two occasions in the past two weeks, groups of hundreds of Africans tried to storm the razor-wire fences…
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