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Latest news briefs from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
(JTA) - U.N. Security Council to meet on Yassin
The U.N. Security Council is slated to meet to discuss Israel's assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Tuesday afternoon's meeting comes after the United States blocked an Algerian initiative to bypass discussion and move directly to a resolution on Israel's killing of the Hamas leader.
(JTA) - Israeli troops in Gaza
Israeli troops entered the northern Gaza Strip late Monday night. The move came after rockets were fired at Israeli towns in the Negev on Monday following the assassination of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
(JTA) - Yassin first on hit list?
Israel said Sheik Ahmed Yassin was only the first terrorist leader on its hit list. "Anyone in the Gaza Strip or West Bank, or anywhere else, leading a terrorist group knows that as of yesterday there is no immunity," Internal Security Minister Tzachi Hanegbi told reporters Tuesday. He was referring to Monday's assassination of the Hamas founder in Gaza. Hanegbi did not name names, but he said terrorists who appear on television were included on the hit list an apparent reference to senior Hamas spokesman Abdel Aziz Rantissi, who is expected to succeed Yassin as Hamas' top man.
(JTA) - Security stepped up in N.Y.
Security was stepped up at synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods in New York City. The move is being taken amid fears of retaliatory strikes on Jewish targets after Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin on Monday. New York City's police chief, Raymond Kelly, said there were no specific threats behind the stepped-up efforts. But an Islamic Web site published a statement from an Al-Qaida-linked Web site vowing revenge on the United States and its allies over Yassin's assassination. Hamas members in Gaza also spoke of taking revenge on targets outside Israel after Yassin's killing.
(JTA) - Israeli Arabs protest Yassin murder
An estimated 2,500 Israeli Arabs protested Israel's assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Some of the protesters at Tuesday's rally in Nazareth held Palestinian flags and pro-Islamic flags. Some called for Hamas' military wing to avenge Monday's death of the Hamas founder. Dozens of left-wing Israelis protesting the assassination were evicted from the entrance to Jerusalem's Hebrew University.
(JTA) - Fear and loathing in Israel
Most Israelis are glad Sheik Ahmed Yassin is dead but believe his assassination will spark a wave of Palestinian terrorism. A poll by Israel's daily Ma'ariv found that 61 percent of Israelis supported Monday's assassination, and 55 percent are bracing for fiercer campaigns of suicide bombings and shooting attacks. Twenty-one percent of Israelis were opposed to the assassination, while 45 percent think terrorism will remain unchanged or will decline, Ma'ariv reported Tuesday. A separate survey by the daily Yediot Achronot found that 60 percent of Israelis favored the Yassin assassination, but a whopping 81 percent expect terrorism to rise. Meanwhile, security was increased for Israeli lawmakers following threats against public officials in the wake of the Yassin killing.
(JTA) - Yassin refused immunity?
Sheik Ahmed Yassin reportedly turned down a U.S. offer of immunity. "The United States offered Sheik Ahmed Yassin immunity from assassination in exchange for a cessation of our attacks," Hamas spokesman Sayed Siyam told the Web site of Israel's Ma'ariv newspaper Tuesday, adding that the Hamas leader had rejected the proposal. "The blood of Hamas leaders is no more precious than that of a Palestinian child," Siyam quoted Yassin as saying. U.S. and Israeli officials did not immediately comment on the report.
(JTA) - French synagogue damaged
A synagogue in southern France was badly damaged by a gasoline bomb. Congregants discovered the attack when they arrived for prayers early Tuesday morning at the main synagogue in Toulon, Yves Haddad, president of the local Jewish community, told JTA. Haddad said he didn't know whether the attack was perpetrated by Muslims, possibly enraged by Israel's killing of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, or by far-right French extremists. In the 1990s, Toulon, a city of about 150,000 people, elected an extremist mayor from the right-wing National Front Party. The city also is part of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region, where the National Front polled some 23 percent of the vote in regional elections Sunday.
(JTA) - Outpost petition lost
Israeli settlers lost their challenge against a government decision to remove unauthorized West Bank settlement outposts. The High Court of Justice said Tuesday it had rejected a petition on behalf of Havat Maon and Tal Binyamin, which were marked for evacuation by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz in January. A decision is still pending on four more outposts slated for removal. The Defense Ministry declined to say when it might move against Havat Maon and Tal Binyamin in accordance with the U.S.-led "road map" peace plan, which calls for Israel to remove all unauthorized outposts erected since March 2001.
(JTA) - U.S.: Yassin killing 'troubling'
The Bush administration called Israel's assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin "deeply troubling." "We find the consequences of this action, in terms of raising tension and making it harder to pursue peace efforts those are things of concern to us," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Monday. White House spokesman Scott McClellan had earlier said Israel had a right to defend itself and noted that Yassin had personally been involved in terrorism. Later in the day, McClellan's office called journalists to tell them that they were "on the same page" as Boucher and repeated his admonition that Yassin's assassination was "deeply troubling."
(JTA) - Sharon-Bush summit in April
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will present a finalized withdrawal plan to President Bush on April 14. A senior Israeli official traveling with Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, who is in Washington to meet with top U.S. officials, said the dimensions of the withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank would depend on the "political payoff " Israel gets from the Americans. That apparently was a reference to Israeli demands that the United States recognize Israel's right to keep three West Bank settlement blocs. The official said the April 14 date was contingent upon U.S. and Israeli negotiators finalizing details of the withdrawal.
(JTA) - Federations aid Falash Mura
Several U.S. Jewish federations are giving financial aid to Ethiopians claiming Jewish ancestry. The $248,000 grant announced Monday comes in the wake of the death of Lloyd Rigler, a major Los Angeles-based funder of the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry. The federation money will go toward Rigler's feeding program for children and pregnant and nursing women in Ethiopia. "This will not complete all the funds we need for the program, but it will make a huge difference," said the group's executive director, Barbara Ribakove Gordon. Half of the grant comes from the UJA-Federation of New York; the remaining half will come from the federations of Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Metrowest, N.J., Philadelphia and Washington.
(JTA) - Desecration of Muslim gravestones condemned
The central organization of British Jewry condemned the desecration of Muslim gravestones in London. Henry Grunwald, president of Britain's Board of Deputies, called the damage to about 40 headstones last week unacceptable. "We send our deepest sympathy to the Muslim community," he said. Muslim leaders said the vandalism resulted from a backlash against Islam in the wake of the Madrid train bombings earlier this month.
(JTA) - Canada pressed on suicide bombings
Four Canadian lawmakers are urging the country's government to define suicide bombings as crimes against humanity. The lawmakers, representing political parties across the political spectrum, called on the government to include suicide bombings in the country's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act. "Those who plan, organize, inspire and recruit people to perpetrate suicide bombings that target civilians, in public places, are committing vile and unjustifiable acts," the four lawmakers said in a joint statement. "Canadian law must be made more explicit so that those who engage in such acts are charged with crimes against humanity."
(JTA) - Clashes in Sweden
Pro- and anti-Israel demonstrators clashed in Sweden on Sunday night. Swedish police arrested many of the anti-Israel protesters, some of whom threw rocks at police, Israel Radio said. Some of the rioters in Stockholm reportedly wore kaffiyehs.
(JTA) - Hungarian exhibit opens
An exhibit on the Holocaust in Hungary opened in Budapest. The "Hidden Holocaust" exhibit, which opened late last week, focuses on all those persecuted by the Nazis: gypsies, gays lesbians, the mentally retarded and Jews. The exhibit opened on the 60th anniversary of the German army's occupation of Hungary. On April 15, Hungary's first Holocaust museum is slated to open in Budapest.
(JTA) - Jewish museum nixes 'Maus' exhibit
The Sydney Jewish Museum declined an offer to house an exhibition focusing on Art Spiegelman's "Maus." The Australian Association of Holocaust Survivors and Descendants advised the museum that the exhibition on the 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning work would be too distressing for its members. The museum also is home to a Holocaust museum. "Maus" is a two-volume cartoon work telling the story of the Holocaust, the events preceding it and its impact on survivors and their children. The exhibition opened this week at the Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne.
(JTA) - Australian radio station censured
An Australian radio station was censured for making light of Auschwitz. The Australian Broadcasting Authority found that Melbourne's popular Nova 100 FM station breached the commercial code when it ran a segment of its "Dilemma" competition in which entrants were put in the position of having to choose between saving their mother or their child from the Auschwitz gas chambers. No action will be taken against the station after it apologized twice on air. The president of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, Michael Lipshutz, said, "They offended the community and went beyond the pale of decency." JTA END
(JTA) - U.N. Security Council to meet on Yassin
The U.N. Security Council is slated to meet to discuss Israel's assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Tuesday afternoon's meeting comes after the United States blocked an Algerian initiative to bypass discussion and move directly to a resolution on Israel's killing of the Hamas leader.
(JTA) - Israeli troops in Gaza
Israeli troops entered the northern Gaza Strip late Monday night. The move came after rockets were fired at Israeli towns in the Negev on Monday following the assassination of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
(JTA) - Yassin first on hit list?
Israel said Sheik Ahmed Yassin was only the first terrorist leader on its hit list. "Anyone in the Gaza Strip or West Bank, or anywhere else, leading a terrorist group knows that as of yesterday there is no immunity," Internal Security Minister Tzachi Hanegbi told reporters Tuesday. He was referring to Monday's assassination of the Hamas founder in Gaza. Hanegbi did not name names, but he said terrorists who appear on television were included on the hit list an apparent reference to senior Hamas spokesman Abdel Aziz Rantissi, who is expected to succeed Yassin as Hamas' top man.
(JTA) - Security stepped up in N.Y.
Security was stepped up at synagogues and Jewish neighborhoods in New York City. The move is being taken amid fears of retaliatory strikes on Jewish targets after Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin on Monday. New York City's police chief, Raymond Kelly, said there were no specific threats behind the stepped-up efforts. But an Islamic Web site published a statement from an Al-Qaida-linked Web site vowing revenge on the United States and its allies over Yassin's assassination. Hamas members in Gaza also spoke of taking revenge on targets outside Israel after Yassin's killing.
(JTA) - Israeli Arabs protest Yassin murder
An estimated 2,500 Israeli Arabs protested Israel's assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Some of the protesters at Tuesday's rally in Nazareth held Palestinian flags and pro-Islamic flags. Some called for Hamas' military wing to avenge Monday's death of the Hamas founder. Dozens of left-wing Israelis protesting the assassination were evicted from the entrance to Jerusalem's Hebrew University.
(JTA) - Fear and loathing in Israel
Most Israelis are glad Sheik Ahmed Yassin is dead but believe his assassination will spark a wave of Palestinian terrorism. A poll by Israel's daily Ma'ariv found that 61 percent of Israelis supported Monday's assassination, and 55 percent are bracing for fiercer campaigns of suicide bombings and shooting attacks. Twenty-one percent of Israelis were opposed to the assassination, while 45 percent think terrorism will remain unchanged or will decline, Ma'ariv reported Tuesday. A separate survey by the daily Yediot Achronot found that 60 percent of Israelis favored the Yassin assassination, but a whopping 81 percent expect terrorism to rise. Meanwhile, security was increased for Israeli lawmakers following threats against public officials in the wake of the Yassin killing.
(JTA) - Yassin refused immunity?
Sheik Ahmed Yassin reportedly turned down a U.S. offer of immunity. "The United States offered Sheik Ahmed Yassin immunity from assassination in exchange for a cessation of our attacks," Hamas spokesman Sayed Siyam told the Web site of Israel's Ma'ariv newspaper Tuesday, adding that the Hamas leader had rejected the proposal. "The blood of Hamas leaders is no more precious than that of a Palestinian child," Siyam quoted Yassin as saying. U.S. and Israeli officials did not immediately comment on the report.
(JTA) - French synagogue damaged
A synagogue in southern France was badly damaged by a gasoline bomb. Congregants discovered the attack when they arrived for prayers early Tuesday morning at the main synagogue in Toulon, Yves Haddad, president of the local Jewish community, told JTA. Haddad said he didn't know whether the attack was perpetrated by Muslims, possibly enraged by Israel's killing of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, or by far-right French extremists. In the 1990s, Toulon, a city of about 150,000 people, elected an extremist mayor from the right-wing National Front Party. The city also is part of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region, where the National Front polled some 23 percent of the vote in regional elections Sunday.
(JTA) - Outpost petition lost
Israeli settlers lost their challenge against a government decision to remove unauthorized West Bank settlement outposts. The High Court of Justice said Tuesday it had rejected a petition on behalf of Havat Maon and Tal Binyamin, which were marked for evacuation by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz in January. A decision is still pending on four more outposts slated for removal. The Defense Ministry declined to say when it might move against Havat Maon and Tal Binyamin in accordance with the U.S.-led "road map" peace plan, which calls for Israel to remove all unauthorized outposts erected since March 2001.
(JTA) - U.S.: Yassin killing 'troubling'
The Bush administration called Israel's assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin "deeply troubling." "We find the consequences of this action, in terms of raising tension and making it harder to pursue peace efforts those are things of concern to us," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Monday. White House spokesman Scott McClellan had earlier said Israel had a right to defend itself and noted that Yassin had personally been involved in terrorism. Later in the day, McClellan's office called journalists to tell them that they were "on the same page" as Boucher and repeated his admonition that Yassin's assassination was "deeply troubling."
(JTA) - Sharon-Bush summit in April
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will present a finalized withdrawal plan to President Bush on April 14. A senior Israeli official traveling with Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, who is in Washington to meet with top U.S. officials, said the dimensions of the withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank would depend on the "political payoff " Israel gets from the Americans. That apparently was a reference to Israeli demands that the United States recognize Israel's right to keep three West Bank settlement blocs. The official said the April 14 date was contingent upon U.S. and Israeli negotiators finalizing details of the withdrawal.
(JTA) - Federations aid Falash Mura
Several U.S. Jewish federations are giving financial aid to Ethiopians claiming Jewish ancestry. The $248,000 grant announced Monday comes in the wake of the death of Lloyd Rigler, a major Los Angeles-based funder of the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry. The federation money will go toward Rigler's feeding program for children and pregnant and nursing women in Ethiopia. "This will not complete all the funds we need for the program, but it will make a huge difference," said the group's executive director, Barbara Ribakove Gordon. Half of the grant comes from the UJA-Federation of New York; the remaining half will come from the federations of Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Metrowest, N.J., Philadelphia and Washington.
(JTA) - Desecration of Muslim gravestones condemned
The central organization of British Jewry condemned the desecration of Muslim gravestones in London. Henry Grunwald, president of Britain's Board of Deputies, called the damage to about 40 headstones last week unacceptable. "We send our deepest sympathy to the Muslim community," he said. Muslim leaders said the vandalism resulted from a backlash against Islam in the wake of the Madrid train bombings earlier this month.
(JTA) - Canada pressed on suicide bombings
Four Canadian lawmakers are urging the country's government to define suicide bombings as crimes against humanity. The lawmakers, representing political parties across the political spectrum, called on the government to include suicide bombings in the country's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act. "Those who plan, organize, inspire and recruit people to perpetrate suicide bombings that target civilians, in public places, are committing vile and unjustifiable acts," the four lawmakers said in a joint statement. "Canadian law must be made more explicit so that those who engage in such acts are charged with crimes against humanity."
(JTA) - Clashes in Sweden
Pro- and anti-Israel demonstrators clashed in Sweden on Sunday night. Swedish police arrested many of the anti-Israel protesters, some of whom threw rocks at police, Israel Radio said. Some of the rioters in Stockholm reportedly wore kaffiyehs.
(JTA) - Hungarian exhibit opens
An exhibit on the Holocaust in Hungary opened in Budapest. The "Hidden Holocaust" exhibit, which opened late last week, focuses on all those persecuted by the Nazis: gypsies, gays lesbians, the mentally retarded and Jews. The exhibit opened on the 60th anniversary of the German army's occupation of Hungary. On April 15, Hungary's first Holocaust museum is slated to open in Budapest.
(JTA) - Jewish museum nixes 'Maus' exhibit
The Sydney Jewish Museum declined an offer to house an exhibition focusing on Art Spiegelman's "Maus." The Australian Association of Holocaust Survivors and Descendants advised the museum that the exhibition on the 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning work would be too distressing for its members. The museum also is home to a Holocaust museum. "Maus" is a two-volume cartoon work telling the story of the Holocaust, the events preceding it and its impact on survivors and their children. The exhibition opened this week at the Jewish Museum of Australia in Melbourne.
(JTA) - Australian radio station censured
An Australian radio station was censured for making light of Auschwitz. The Australian Broadcasting Authority found that Melbourne's popular Nova 100 FM station breached the commercial code when it ran a segment of its "Dilemma" competition in which entrants were put in the position of having to choose between saving their mother or their child from the Auschwitz gas chambers. No action will be taken against the station after it apologized twice on air. The president of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, Michael Lipshutz, said, "They offended the community and went beyond the pale of decency." JTA END
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