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July 10th, 2009 | 18 TAMMUZ 5769
Swastikas Deface NY Synagogues
Vol. 9, Iss. 25
Pg 40
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NETANYAHU AND THE TWO STATE SOLUTION
BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF
ny manifestation of anti-Semitism is cause for concern,” says Ken Jacobson, New York Regional Director of the ADL Anti Defamation League, which is working closely with the Hate Crime Task Force in Nassau County and the New York Police Department. While the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the New York area is actually down from previous years, “every incident has an impact on the community. It’s not just a crime against an individual but against the whole community,” says Jacobson. ADL has been influential in effecting the enactment of Hate Crime legislation in 45 states, and is pushing for the creation of a federal law. The ADL works actively with key ethnic and religious communities in New York, and maintain a full international affairs agenda which includes meetings with missions to the United Nations and the many foreign consulates in New York City.
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When the front doors of Congregation Beth Shalom Chabad of Mineola, New York were spray-painted with bright orange swastikas, it was reported in Newsday. A week earlier, New York papers reported similar attacks on two lower east side Manhattan synagogues. Earlier this spring, far more serious attacks were attempted against two Riverdale synagogues.
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Israel’s Prime Binyamin Netanyahu uttered the words that Washington had been urging him to say to his cabinet for months, “two states for two peoples.” BY HERB KEINON
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's use of the words "two states for two peoples" at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting was "most certainly" the result of intensive efforts by the US to restart the diplomatic process with the Palestinians, senior diplomatic officials said. or the first time since being sworn into office 95 days ago, and on the eve of yet another meeting between Defense Minister Ehud Barak and US Mideast envoy George Mitchell, Netanyahu uttered the "magic formula" Washington had been urging him to say to his cabinet for months. The Palestinians have conditioned discussions with the Netanyahu government on an Israeli commitment to two states, as well as a settlement freeze. The conditions of that
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freeze, and what exactly it means, are being worked out in the meetings between Barak and Mitchell. Barak flew to London on Sunday for a meeting with Mitchell, their second in a week. He met with Mitchell last Tuesday in New York. Before setting off, Barak said the meeting with Mitchell was "a bid to advance a broader understanding between us and the US concerning the peace process." The peace process, Barak said, included "the regional comprehensive solution we greatly support, and also how to translate the road map - which Israel has accepted with reservations and understandings - to a way which will be agreed upon by us, the US, and the other parties, in order to move the peace process forward and to create an opening for
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MOUSAVI,THE WORLD IS WATCHING, CANDIDATE REMAINS DEFIANT BY MAXINE DOVERE
Iran has had a quasi theocracy since the ouster of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlaviby the Islamic Revolution of 1979. In June 2009, a presidential election was held. The Shiite regime is challenged as at no other time. Review: June 12, 2009, after a hard fought campaign, that some even called “Western style,” Iranian voters went to the polls in unprecedented numbers. Somehow, within four hours after the last of more than 40 million paper ballots was cast, the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was announced, allegedly in a landslide. He claimed to have received 60 percent of the vote. Iranians took to the streets as they
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