Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News In Address, Chirac Vows To Tackle Bias Attacks
PARIS — In an indication of France’s concern over an upsurge of antisemitic incidents, President Jacques Chirac was to deliver a major speech Thursday calling on French citizens to mobilize against all forms of discrimination. A Chirac aide and a Jewish communal official told the Forward that the president intended to personally call upon French…
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News Chirac, Bush Spar Over Turkey’s Admission to the E.U.
PARIS — President Bush’s latest tour of Europe, aimed at fence mending, instead has touched off another round of Franco-American feuding, with Bush and French President Jacques Chirac trading barbs over everything from NATO’s role in Iraq to Yasser Arafat’s role in Ramallah. For many observers here, however, the most telling exchange was over the…
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News Annan Urges U.N. To Fight Antisemitism
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary General Kofi Annan’s speech here this week, delivered to the first seminar on antisemitism held at the U.N. headquarters, is being seen by some as a sea change in the way the organization has dealt with Israel and Jews internationally. Acknowledging that the U.N.’s record on antisemitism had fallen short of…
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News Bin Laden Aimed To Link Plot to Israel
In an interim staff report released last week, the presidential commission investigating the September 11, 2001, attacks shed new light on the role of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Al Qaeda’s worldview. The disclosures seem to weaken Israeli claims that the issue was only a secondary priority for Osama bin Laden, and they could rekindle the…
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News Halliburton Investigated For Iran Ties Under Veep
A Treasury Department investigation into the activities of oil giant Halliburton in Iran is looking at potentially suspicious business contacts between Iran’s oil company and Halliburton at the time it was headed by Vice President Richard Cheney. According to documents dating from 1997 and 1998, a Dubai-based Halliburton subsidiary received at least a dozen tender…
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News Agency Whisks Yemenites Away From N.Y. Enclave
Listening to officials at the Jewish Agency for Israel tell it, the quasi-governmental Israeli social-service organization staged a made-for-movie rescue last week of a Jewish family being held captive by religious fanatics. But instead of whisking endangered refugees from impoverished or repressive states in Africa, the Arab world or the former Soviet Union, the agency’s…
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News Prison Abuse Scandal May Influence Detainees’ Cases
The prison abuse scandal in Iraq could affect Supreme Court rulings in key pending terrorism-related cases, according to human rights advocates and lawyers involved with those cases. The cases pending before the Supreme Court include one filed on behalf of a dozen foreign detainees in the U.S. military facility in Guantanamo, Cuba, and two involving…
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Culture Intel Agencies Fear Iran Used Chalabi To Lure U.S. Into Iraq
American intelligence and law enforcement agencies are investigating the possibility that Ahmad Chalabi, the former Iraqi exile leader, was used by Iranian intelligence to feed Washington false information on Iraq, with the goal of tricking America into deposing Saddam Hussein, Iran’s archenemy, several intelligence sources have confirmed. Chalabi, once the darling of the Bush administration’s…
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