Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Right Mobilizes Against Gaza Pullout As Bush, Sharon Plan To Meet Abbas
A revisionist study of Palestinian demographics — undermining the arguments for Prime Minister Sharon’s Gaza disengagement plan —was given red carpet treatment this week at several American citadels of pro-Israel support, including two conservative think tanks and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. The controversial study, which was presented this week at…
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News Jewish Officials Stay Mum On Call for Annan Ouster
UNITED NATIONS — Despite their long-standing misgivings about the world body and its leadership, America’s main Jewish groups are staying on the sidelines as United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan battles calls by American conservatives for his resignation. At the same time, the pressures on Annan to clean house appear to have strengthened the Jewish groups…
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News Spat Over Sales of Weapons Chilling Ties Between Jerusalem and Beijing
The latest crisis between Washington and Jerusalem over an Israeli weapons sale to China is now turning into a political spat between Jerusalem and Beijing. Harsh words were exchanged between the Pentagon and the Israeli Defense Ministry this week over the Harpy, an Israeli-built attack drone that had been sold to China, and then sent…
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News Israeli Terror Victims To Sue Arab Bank in America
More than 500 plaintiffs representing families of Israeli victims of terrorism are expected to file soon a multibillion dollar federal lawsuit in New York accusing the Arab Bank of Jordan of abetting Palestinian terrorist groups, the Forward has learned. A high-profile team of American and Israeli lawyers, led by Ron Motley and Allan Gerson, are…
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News U.S. Moves Against Lebanese TV Station
American authorities are set to designate as a terrorist entity a pro-Hezbollah TV station that was recently banned in France. An American official confirmed that the Treasury and State Departments were about to take such a step against Al Manar, a station based in Lebanon that has been broadcasting in America for several years. The…
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News Venezuelan Community on Edge After Police Raid Jewish School
When scores of armed police showed up early on Monday, November 29, at the Hebraica community center and Jewish school in Caracas to search for evidence related to the murder of a prosecutor, several years of quiet anguish over the deteriorating situation of Jews in Venezuela finally boiled over. Venezuelan and American Jewish leaders blasted…
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News Pro-Hezbollah TV Station Facing Ban
In an embarrassing retreat, the French broadcasting authority asked the country’s top administrative court to ban broadcasting from a pro-Hezbollah TV station less than two weeks after the authority granted the station a license. The High Audiovisual Council, known by its French acronym, CSA, said in a statement that it has requested the court to…
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News Judge Holds U.S.-Based Groups Liable for Terror
In a watershed decision, a federal judge in Chicago ruled this month that several American-based entities and individuals that allegedly supported Hamas were liable for the group’s killing of an United States citizen in Israel. Judge Arlander Keys of the U.S. District Court in Chicago said the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the…
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