Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Iran Fights West on Warrants for 1994 Bombing in Buenos Aires
While the confrontation between Western powers and Iran centers most visibly on Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and its meddling in Iraq, the tension is also playing out in the arcane world of Interpol, the international criminal police organization. Early next month in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, Interpol’s general assembly will vote to confirm a decision…
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News Bush Administration Loses Again on Terror Financing
It was supposed to be the mother of all terrorism financing cases. Government prosecutors had worked for years to prepare for the trial of what was the largest Muslim charity in America, the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Reconstruction Relief and Development, on charges of providing material support to Hamas. But this week, after a…
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News Turkish Jews Decry Armenian Genocide Bill
In its bare-knuckled lobbying to defeat a congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide, Turkey has gained a valuable ally: its own Jews. Last week an advertisement from the “Jewish community of Turkey” was published in the conservative Washington Times and was quickly passed around the capital by Turkey’s lobbyists. The ad warned that the overwhelming…
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News Divided Bosnia Puts Forward a Jewish Face
United Nations – More than a decade after the end of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s vicious civil war, ethnic and religious divisions in the country remain stark. The Balkan nation effectively exists as two autonomous mini-states, one for Christian Orthodox Serbs and one for Muslim Bosniaks and Roman Catholic Croats. The hybrid form of government has…
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News From Royal Advisers to Far-Left Militants, Moroccan Jews Embody Coexistence
Casablanca, Morocco – On a recent mild Sunday evening, a few dozen middle-aged, crisply dressed guests convened at the Jewish community center in this bustling metropolis, where half of the country’s Jews live. They had come to honor Georges Berdugo, an elderly Jewish lawyer who was being given a royal lifetime achievement award. Standing on…
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News ‘The Israel Lobby’ Goes International
After hitting Europe earlier this month, “The Israel Lobby” is preparing for a frontal assault on the Muslim world. The controversial book by American academics Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, who accuse the pro-Israel lobby of hijacking American policy, hit bookstores in Europe in September and soon will be published across the Arab world and…
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News French Court Takes a Fresh Look at Intifada’s Most Violently Disputed Image
Paris – A French judge reignited a long-running controversy last week over the coverage of the shooting of Mohammed al-Dura, a Palestinian boy whose televised death in 2000 became an iconic image of Israeli brutality and a rallying cry across the Middle East. Judge Laurence Trébucq ordered France 2, a French television network that aired…
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News Western Countries Look To Skirt U.N. on Iran
While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was grabbing the spotlight this week at the United Nations’ General Assembly, Western diplomats were warning behind the scenes that they will circumvent the world body in order to economically pressure Tehran to halt its nuclear weapons program. European officials in particular have ratcheted up their rhetoric in recent weeks,…
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