Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Swedish Right Delivers on Security Funding
The new center-right Swedish government has announced that it would cover the majority of the rising security costs of the country’s Jewish institutions. In a move aimed at sending a reassuring message to Sweden’s small Jewish community and a warning to Muslim radicals, the new Cabinet pledged to pay $424,000 of the community’s $707,000 security…
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News Siding With White House, Groups Back Bolton
In the first post-election battle between the Bush administration and the Democrats, the Jewish community is standing behind the president as he pushes the candidacy of John Bolton for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Despite the declared hostility of Democrats and several moderate Republicans, the White House has formally put forth the reappointment of…
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News Groups Side With Bush on Bolton
In the first post-election battle between the Bush administration and the Democrats, the Jewish community is standing behind the president as he pushes the candidacy of John Bolton. Despite the declared hostility of Democrats and several moderate Republicans, the White House has formally put forth the reappointment of controversial diplomat John Bolton as the U.S….
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News Report on Bosnian Murders Fuels Debate
A French media report published last week is sparking claims that the United States was partially complicit in the 1995 destruction of three Bosnian Muslim enclaves, protected by the United Nations. The report, which appeared in the magazine Paris-Match, drew on an interview given by former American diplomat Richard Holbrooke to a Bosnian television station…
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News Group Slams Ortega Ahead of Nicaraguan Vote
Three days before Nicaragua’s November 5 presidential election, a Jewish-affiliated group issued a statement blasting the front-runner and eventual victor, leftist Daniel Ortega, for being a child abuser. U.N. Watch, which is connected to the American Jewish Committee, expressed “concern that an individual credibly accused of incest and child abuse is a candidate in this…
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News U.S. Set To Raise ’94 Attack
The Bush administration is planning to ratchet up pressure on Tehran at the United Nations by invoking the recent Argentine indictment of top Iranian leaders in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish communal center in Buenos Aires. Several sources told the Forward that Washington intended to highlight Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism to convince reluctant…
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News Ayalon Sets Sights on Leadership of Labor Party
After heading Israel’s Navy and internal security services and spending his early retirement campaigning for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ami Ayalon believes that his unique combination of security credentials and peace advocacy can propel him to the helm of the Labor Party — and from there, with luck, to the prime minister’s…
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News Argentina Issues Iran Indictment
In a long-awaited indictment, Argentinean prosecutors have accused the top Iranian leadership of masterminding the 1994 bombing of the Jewish communal center in Buenos Aires and asked the judge in charge of the case to issue arrest warrants against seven Iranian leaders, including former president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani. The indictment reprises most of the charges…
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