Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Europe’s Leaders Confront Antisemitism
The recent bombings of synagogues in Turkey and an attack on a Jewish school in France appear to have jolted European leaders into action against antisemitism. After the school near Paris was burned down last week, French President Jacques Chirac announced the creation of a special inter-ministerial entity to deal with antisemitic incidents. Italian Prime…
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News U.S. To Support Rare Israeli Resolution
UNITED NATIONS — The administration has indicated that it would vote in favor of the first resolution introduced by Israel to the United Nations General Assembly in 27 years. The resolution, which is on the protection of children, was to be formally introduced in the third committee of the General Assembly on Wednesday in response…
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News Washington Seeking To Reduce Number of Anti-Israel Votes at U.N.
UNITED NATIONS — The United States is embarking on the most comprehensive campaign in years to reduce the number of anti-Israel resolutions routinely passed by the United Nations General Assembly. Top State Department officials, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, have lobbied capitals, ministers and diplomats in recent months to reduce the number of votes…
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News Legislators Focus On Jews Who Fled From Arab Lands
A group of American lawmakers has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives calling for recognition of the plight of the 900,000 Jews who fled Arab countries after 1948. The congressional move is part of a larger campaign by Israel and its supporters here to link the fates of Jews and Arabs who fled…
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News In Argentine Poverty War, an Uphill Fight
BUENOS AIRES — Tamara Potaz always thought the first important decisions of her young life would come when she had to choose between becoming a violinist, a luthier or a sound engineer. Her parents had good jobs, the family lived in a large apartment, teenage life in bustling Buenos Aires was fun and Potaz figured…
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News Legislators Focus On Jews Who Fled From Arab Lands
A group of American lawmakers has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives calling for recognition of the plight of the 900,000 Jews who fled Arab countries after 1948. The congressional move is part of a larger campaign by Israel and its supporters here to link the fates of Jews and Arabs who fled…
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News Former CIA Director Calls for Tougher Policy on Syria
Washington should send an American aircraft carrier to the Syrian coast, summon strongman Bashar al-Assad aboard, chide him vigorously for sponsoring terrorism, meddling in Iraq and pursuing weapons of mass destruction — and take special care to confront him over Syria’s occupation of Lebanon. So says the CIA’s former director. “Besides terror-related activities, there is…
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News Cheney Taps Syria Hawk As Adviser On Mideast
Despite mounting criticism of the administration’s Iraq policy, Vice President Dick Cheney appears to be ratcheting up his commitment to the circle of neoconservative intellectuals who helped spearhead President Bush’s war policy, adding one of its most controversial proponents to his national security staff in a little-noticed move last month. David Wurmser, a neoconservative scholar…
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