Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Terror Wave Leaves Leaders Scrambling
As world leaders scrambled this month to make sense of a seeming upsurge in deadly terrorist attacks around the globe, Israeli policymakers were struggling over how best to portray their nation’s place in the mayhem. In response to the attacks, some Israeli officials were suggesting that Palestinian strikes against Israel were part of the worldwide…
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News Human Rights Watch To Increase Focus on Terrorism
Human Rights Watch announced that it is creating a new senior position to handle terrorism issues, leading one right-leaning Israeli watchdog to take credit for the move. The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor issued a statement last week giving credit for the move to its own reports, which alleged an anti-Israel bias on the part of Human…
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News Israeli Report Calls Argentina Bombing Payback for ’92 Raid
A quasi-governmental Israeli body has acknowledged formally that the 1994 bombing of a Jewish communal center in Argentina, in which 85 people were killed, may have been an unanticipated consequence of Israeli military actions in South Lebanon. The acknowledgement came in the second annual report of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, a Jerusalem think…
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News Times: Israeli Agents Are in Iraq…Maybe
Buried in the middle of a short July 14 news story about Turkey’s request that Iraq extradite two Islamists held at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, The New York Times made a stunning allegation: Israeli intelligence officials are operating in Iraq. The story, written by the Times correspondent in Istanbul, Sebnem Arsu, mentions in its…
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News Blair To Push for Mideast Talks In Response to July 7 Bombings
In the wake of last week’s London bombings, British Prime Minister Tony Blair is likely to increase his calls for American involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian issue, according to international experts, diplomats and Jewish activists. “Blair will absolutely push harder for a two-state solution,” Crispin Black, director of Janusian Security Risk Management in London, wrote in…
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News Effort Eyed To Combat Divestment
In an effort to combat the growing mainline Protestant efforts to divest from Israel, a leading Jewish civil-rights organization is weighing the creation of a new interfaith coalition uniting liberal and conservative Christians. A key piece of the plan, being considered by the American Jewish Congress, would be the recruitment of liberal Protestants to protest…
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News African Poverty Surging on Communal Agenda
With a G-8 summit and a wave of worldwide protests shining a sudden global spotlight on African poverty, several major American Jewish organizations are taking steps to put the continent’s troubles high on the agenda of Jewish advocacy and planning in the months ahead. The American Jewish Committee confirmed this week that it is moving…
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News Iraq Allows Jews To File Property Claims
A new Iraqi law allowing Jews worldwide to file claims for lost property is being hailed by advocates for the rights of Jews expelled from Arab countries — but only a tiny percentage of Jews from Iraq qualify for compensation. Justice for Jews From Arab Countries, a coalition of major Jewish organizations, praised the newly…
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