YIISA SEMINAR

THURSDAY, NOV. 1 @7 PM | Linsly-Chittenden Hall Rm. 102 (63 High St.)
The United Nations' Anti-Israel Bias and Its Relation to Antisemitism
Speaker: Hillel C. Neuer, Executive Director, United Nations Watch, Geneva

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FRIDAY, NOV. 2 @ 4:15 PM | Luce Hall Rm. 202 (34 Hillhouse Ave.)
IRAN COLLOQUIUM: Contending Visions of Iranian National History
with Daryoush Ashouri, Iranian Studies Fellow, Yale University
Hosted by the History Department and the Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center
For more information, contact cmes@yale.edu. Social hour and dinner to follow. 

SUNDAY, NOV. 4, 8:30 AM-5:30 PM | Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Rm. 102 (63 High St.)
Testimony across the Disciplines: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
25 Years at Yale
More information: www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

MIDDLE EAST

Photographs Said to Show Israeli Target Inside Syria
(Washington Post) Independent experts have pinpointed what they believe to be the Euphrates River site in Syria that was bombed by Israel last month, and satellite imagery of the area shows buildings under construction roughly similar in design to a North Korean reactor capable of producing nuclear material for one bomb a year.
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Experts: Syria cleared site hit by IAF, apparently to hide evidence
(Haaretz) A group of analysts said Thursday that satellite imagery has shown that Syria cleared a site believed to have been targeted in an Israel Air Force strike in November, in what was a speedy effort that only raised suspicions regarding the nature of the site.
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U.S.: Top Iranians direct Iraq missions
(LA Times) A senior State Department official, toughening the administration's line on Iran, said that there was no doubt the top leaders in Tehran were directing Iranian forces that the administration is holding responsible for the deaths of hundreds of U.S. troops in Iraq. Senior Iraq advisor David Satterfield said "there is no question in our minds whatsoever" that Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops "are very much under the direction and command of the most senior levels of the Iranian government. Full stop."
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SAS raiders enter Iran to kill gunrunners
(Times) British special forces have crossed into Iran several times in recent months as part of a secret border war against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Al-Quds special forces, defence sources have disclosed. UK commanders are concerned that Iran is using a militia ceasefire to step up arms supplies in preparation for an offensive against their base at Basra airport.
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Iran divided by nuclear policy power struggle
(Telegraph) Iran's regime fell into public infighting on Tuesday when 183 MPs voiced their support for the former national security chief. Ali Larijani's resignation as Iran's nuclear negotiator on Saturday revealed a crucial political rift. Observers believe that at its heart is a power struggle between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Another major victory for messianics
(Jerusalem Post) While the world catches its breath after the sudden resignation of Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, questions are being asked about the background and beliefs of his successor, Saeed Jalili. The answers, it turns out, are troubling.
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Iran stresses need for continuing dialogue
(Financial Times) The new Iranian team holding nuclear talks with the international community on Wednesday stressed the need to continue negotiating and agreed to hold a further round of talks next month. “The basic principle of the Islamic republic is dialogue and co-operation,” Saeed ­Jalili, the new delegation leader, told a joint news conference in Rome after meeting Javier Solana, European Union foreign policy chief.
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Olmert, Sarkozy see eye-to-eye on Iran
(Yahoo News) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that France and Israel share "identical" views on the threat posed by Iran's nuclear programme following talks in Paris with President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Israeli PM hits back at IAEA chief over Iran
(Space War) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday took a swipe at UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei for saying there was no clear and present danger from Iran's nuclear programme. "If ElBaradei thinks that an Iranian bomb in three years time does not bother him, it certainly worries me, even extremely," Olmert told journalists in Paris after meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Egypt's warming - and enabling - cooperation with Hamas
(Haaretz) Information recently obtained by Israel arouses suspicions that Egypt has allowed additional terrorists to enter Gaza from Sinai, despite Jerusalem's protests after it allowed 85 Hamas men - including several terror experts - to cross the border earlier this month.
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Palestinian Propaganda Coup
(Shalem) Last month, a French court heard an appeals case whose forthcoming verdict will have far-reaching ramifications for all who value truth and accuracy in Middle East news reporting. The case involves Philippe Karsenty, a French journalist and media commentator, who was found guilty of defamation after he called for the firing of two France 2 Television journalists responsible for the Sept. 30, 2000, news report on the alleged killing of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, Mohammed al-Dura, by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
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Al-Qa'eda target west from Horn of Africa
(Telegraph) In the rapidly changing battleground against international terrorism, the arid plains of the Horn of Africa are becoming a steadily more significant base from which al-Qa'eda's followers can launch their attacks. The Horn now ranks alongside the Middle East as the area of greatest concern to British counter-terrorism officials, coming second only to Pakistan, where al-Qa'eda's core leaders are ensconced.
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Iran Accuses U.S., Israel of Genocide for Manufacturing "Genetic" Weapon to "Kill Specific Peoples"
(MEMRI) An Iranian official has said that the U.S., assisted by Israel, is seeking to create a genetic and molecular bank to manufacture new types of unconventional weapons.
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Honour crime fear of Syria women
(BBC) The Syrian authorities are trying to crack down on the practice of "honor killing", and they have widespread support. About 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for an end to the practice, in a campaign backed by senior Muslim officials.
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Turkey blames US Jews for genocide bill
(Jerusalem Post) When a US Congressional committee approved a resolution recognizing the World War I-era massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide, Turkey's reaction was swift and harsh: Blame the Jews. Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said he had told American Jewish leaders that a genocide bill would strengthen the public perception in Turkey that "Armenian and Jewish lobbies unite forces against Turks."
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Survey shows global opposition to Iran - and US
(Ynet) Iran is the country most people around the world would like see having less power, followed closely by the United States, a new opinion poll, commissioned by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a new think tank on EU affairs, found. The survey, which polled 57,000 people from 52 countries, showed 39 percent of respondents wanted to see the influence of Iran diminished, compared with 37 percent for the United States.
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NORTH AMERICA

It's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week!
(The Nation) Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which commences today and was organized by conservative pundit David Horowitz, is a combination of “Cheney-style anti-jihadism mixed in with old-fashioned, right-wing anti-feminism and a sour dash of anti-Semitism.” A major purpose of this week is to wake up academic women to the threat posed by militant jihadism. According to the Week's website, feminists and particularly the women's studies professors among them, have developed a masochistic fondness for Islamic fundamentalists.
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Defending Islamofascism
(Slate) The attempt by David Horowitz and his allies to launch "Islamofascism Awareness Week" on American campuses has been met with a variety of responses. One of these is a challenge to the validity of the term itself. It's quite the done thing, in liberal academic circles, to sneer at any comparison between fascist and jihadist ideology.
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No Convictions in Trial Against Muslim Charity
(NY Times) A deadlocked federal jury in Dallas did not convict any leaders of a Muslim charity who were charged with supporting Middle Eastern terrorists, and the judge declared a mistrial in what has been widely viewed as the government’s flagship terror-financing case. The case, involving the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five of its backers, is the government’s largest and most complex legal effort to shut down what it contends is American financing for terrorist organizations in the Middle East.
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A Call to Defend Academic Freedom
(Inside Higher Ed) Saying that they are fed up with “aggressive incursion of partisan politics into universities’ hiring and tenure practices,” five prominent academics have issued a call to “defend the university” and gathered dozens of backers in what they view as a new way to bolster academic freedom. While the statement identifies the problem as a broad one, it notes that many of the recent incidents have involved the Middle East.
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Wiesel says anti-Semitism a 'plague'
(Chicago Tribune) "The 20th Century was a failure [despite] all the good things that happened -- the end of colonialism, the end of official racism, the end of imperialism, communism, fascism," Wiesel told about 3,000 people in the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Chicago to celebrate the coming 15th anniversary of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "The dominant element, the dominant event, the dominant fact of the 20th Century was [the Holocaust], and that was a failure of humanity."
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EUROPE

Jewish rights organization opens EU affairs office to boost fight against anti-Semitism
(International Herald Tribune) The European Union must focus on eradicating anti-Semitism, the international Jewish rights organization B'nai B'rith International said as it opened an EU affairs office. Attending the opening, Israeli Minister of Social Affairs Isaac Herzog said Holocaust denial is an essential issue in Europe. All EU member nations have laws against Holocaust denial.
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Hundreds join Hungary far-right "guard", take oath
(Reuters) Six hundred people, wearing black uniforms and insignia which critics say are reminiscent of the Nazi era, took an oath of loyalty to defend Hungary as members of a far-right "guard". The Hungarian Guard was launched in August with 56 members and drew widespread criticism because of its uniform and use of a red-and-white striped flag linked to the fascist Arrow Cross regime which sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to death camps. The guard, backed by the far-right Jobbik political party, denies it is anti-Semitic and says it is a civic group which wants to preserve Hungarian culture.
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Jewish leader: party winner of Swiss elections is bordering on anti-Semitism
(European Jewish Press) The populist and xenophobic right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), which was the biggest winner of general elections on Sunday, is bordering on what can be considered as anti-Semitism, said Alfred Donath, president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish communities (FSCI).
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Belarus: Lukashenka Comments Draw Accusations Of Anti-Semitism
(Radio Free Europe) Israeli Ambassador to Belarus Zeev Ben-Ari told RFE/RL's Belarus Service that Lukashenka was drawing on an old, derogatory anti-Semitic stereotype. Lukashenka's speech "alluded to the myth that I thought had died, at least among the progressive part of humanity," Ben-Ari said. "This myth sees the Jews as untidy and dirty people who smell bad -- and is undoubtedly anti-Semitic."
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Israel slams Belarus leader for anti-Semitism
(Reuters) Israel slammed Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko for anti-Semitism after he said Jews "don't care" for the places they live in, but said on Friday it did not plan to recall its ambassador to the country. Israel said it would reprimand the Belarus ambassador to the Jewish state but stopped short of recalling its own representative in the former Soviet country -- a step Israeli newspapers said it had considered.
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Ukraine president to discuss anti-Semitism spike
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Ukraine's president will meet Jewish leaders to discuss Ukraine’s recent spike in anti-Semitic attacks. The meeting, set for the president's office in Kiev, comes on the heels of widespread Jewish criticism of government inaction regarding the mounting attacks against Jews and other minorities in the country.
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Brown expresses importance of battling anti-Semitism
(Jerusalem Post) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown expressed the importance of combating anti-Semitism and revealed a desire to visit Israel in the near future in an interview with London's Jewish News. Brown said that he was expecting a report following an "All Party Inquiry into anti-Semitism" in May.
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Double Standard Watch: Oxford Union is dead
(Jerusalem Post) YIISA Speaker Alan Dershowitz writes, “This is an obituary for the Oxford Union, which claims to be one of the most famous and distinguished debating societies in the world. The reality is that it is no longer a debating society at all; it has become a propaganda platform for extremist views, primarily of the hard-left. It has now stopped even pretending to present both sides of controversial issues.”
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WEEKLY QUOTES (Source: Canadian Institute for Jewish Research)

We've got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that, if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. - U.S. President George W. Bush, pushing for a third round of UN sanctions against Iran, at a news conference last week. This move faces resistance at the UN from Russia, a veto-holding member of the UN Security Council, whose president, Vladmir Putin, has recently made statements against being tougher on Teheran. (National Post, Oct. 22)

“The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its present course, the international community is prepared to impose serious consequences…. The United States joins other nations in sending a clear message: We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.” ­ U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, emphasizing the importance of continued U.S. involvement in the Middle East, and insisting that the stability the U.S. seeks it not the kind that “simply keeps a lid on” problems. According to Cheney, a more stable Middle East depends on responsible conduct by countries in the region, including respect for neighbours’ sovereignty and compliance with international agreements. “If you apply all these measures it becomes immediately clear that the Government of Iran falls far short and is a growing obstacle to peace in the Middle East,” Cheney said. The Vice-President’s remarks earned him a round of applause at a Washington Institute for Near East Policy retreat. (National Post, Oct. 22)

“Iran will not retreat one iota…. We are in favor of talks, but we will not negotiate with anyone about our right to nuclear technology.” ­ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking from state trip in Armenia,  hours before the talks between Saeed Jalili, Iran's new negotiator, and the European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, in Rome. Iran’s former chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, dismissed speculation that his resignation last week stemmed from differences with his president, Larijani’s resignation from the post he had held since 2005 and his replacement by a mid-ranking deputy foreign minister and political protégé of Ahmadinejad has elicited surprisingly harsh criticism in Iran. Larijani had been a political rival of Ahmadinejad in the 2005 presidential race. ( New York Times, Oct. 24)

“The president has decided to make this one of the highest priorities of his administration.” ­ Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, trying to quell concerns that the Bush administration is only paying lip service to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Rice called a Palestinian state "absolutely essential" not just to Israelis and Palestinians but also to the U.S. national interest. "We, frankly, have better things to do than invite people to Annapolis for a photo-op," she added, for the first time publicly confirming the planned location for the meeting. Both Abbas and Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, whom Rice met on Sunday, have said they hope the conference will be a launching point for formal talks on Palestinian statehood. Meanwhile, the American government is planning to transfer $410 million to the PA in an effort to strengthen its president, Mahmoud Abbas, and prime minister, Salam Fayyad. The Bush administration has come to Abbas' aid in the struggle against Hamas for public support, and is seeking to prove to the Palestinian people that choosing the path of peace pays off. Half of the American aid will be directed at infrastructures, $35 million will be transferred to the Food and Employment Bureau of the United Nations Refugees Works Agency, and the remainder of the money will be combined with the PA's continuous budget. (Reuters, Oct. 16; Ynet News, Oct. 24)

“The campaign of intimidation against Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip has entered a new and dangerous phase. We have called upon our members not to comply with the Hamas request.” ­ Naim Toubasi, chairman of the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, commenting on the decision of Hamas to issue its own press cards to journalists operating in the Gaza Strip. The move is seen by many Palestinian journalists in the Gaza strip as an attempt to intimidate them and control the news coverage from that area. “Now Hamas will decide who can work as a journalist and who can’t…Obviously, Hamas is not going to issue press credentials to anyone who does not support them. And I know many journalists here who might have to start searching for new jobs,” said one journalist who wished to remain anonymous.  (Jerusalem Post, Oct. 17)

“We can no longer tolerate the fact that the United States and the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq have done nothing against the PKK [Kurdistan Workers’ Party] and still want to prevent us from attacking the PKK camps in northern Iraq ourselves.” ­ Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, warning the U.S. that Turkey is prepared to retaliate for a weekend Kurdish guerrilla ambush that left 12 Turkish soldiers dead and another eight missing. With 100,000 troops poised on the Iraqi border, and with military leaders urging an attack against the PKK, the Turkish PM had little patience for U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s requests that Turkey delay any action “for a few days”. The U.S. fears that a Turkish raid could destabilise the region, which has been one of the few successes of the effort to bring order to the country since the 2003 invasion. “If this means that relations with the United States will suffer, then that is something we will have to accept. We are prepared to pay the price,” added PM Erdogan. (National Post, Oct. 22, 23)

“I think everyone realizes that NATO took on a responsibility [to Afghanistan]. We have to succeed…. It would be a disaster for world peace and justice if a modern professional alliance such as NATO will fail in a country like Afghanistan.” ­ Dutch Defence Minister Eimert van Middelkoop, warning against a failure in Afghanistan. Van Middelkoop is hosting a two-day meeting of the 26-member alliance, which starts today, just as the Dutch cabinet is supposed to decide whether or not to renew the mandate of its 1,500 soldiers stationed in the volatile region of Uruzgan. (Globe and Mail, Oct. 24)

SHORT TAKES

CANADA: IRAN’S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CRIMINAL (Toronto) Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board has decided that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran) committed crimes against humanity in employing secret jails, torture, and violence against dissidents. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and most of his cabinet were Corps officers, at one time, effectively making them suspected war criminals under Canadian law. The Board’s decision concerns Sayed Amin Hoseyni Bob Anari, a former member of the Guard who was refused refugee status in Canada. The U.S. and Canada are considering adding the Guard to their lists of outlawed terrorist groups. (National Post, October 24)
 
JAZIRI DEPORTED DESPITE APPEAL (Montreal) A Montreal Imam, Saïd Jaziri, who has been living in Canada under refugee status for the last decade, has been deported to Tunisia. His refugee status was revoked when he was discovered to have lied about having a criminal record in France. Although Jaziri fears persecution in Tunisia, and Amnesty International appealed the decision, the Canada Border Agency confirmed the departure of his flight. (CanWest News, October 23)

U.S. PANEL: SHUT VIRGINIA-BASED SAUDI SCHOOL (Washington) In a report released last week, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom criticized international schools run by the Saudi government, making particular mention of the Islamic Saudi Academy in Fairfax. The commission’s 2006 analysis of Saudi textbooks found a ninth-grade book that said violence toward Jews, Christians and others is sanctioned by God, and a 12th-grade text that reads “the hour [of judgment] will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.” The school’s acting director-general, Abdulrahman Alghofaili, claimed that school officials had ripped the offending pages from their Saudi-sponsored textbooks during a curriculum revision last summer, but the Saudi government has prohibited the commission from examining the books. U.S. Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) plans to introduce a resolution in the House of Representatives requiring the State Department to close the school, which has two campuses catering to 1,000 students, until the textbooks can be seen. As the academy is operated by the Saudi government, it requires permission from the State Department to be in the United States. (JTA, Oct. 24)

PLOT TO KILL OLMERT FOILED (Jerusalem) Yuval Diskin, director of the Shin Bet, revealed Sunday a failed plot to assassinate Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on his way to a meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in June. The five members of Tanzim, a terrorist faction of Fatah, were still in the early stages of their preparation when they were discovered. Suspects were arrested by both Israeli intelligence and PA security, but the Palestinians released their suspects after they admitted to the plot. At Israel’s request, they have been re-arrested. (Ha’aretz, NYT, Oct.22)

ISRAEL’S ANTI-MISSILE SYSTEM READY BY 2010 (Washington ) Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, announced last week that a new missile-defence system could be ready by 2010 that would neutralise short-range rockets. Iron Dome, developed by an Israeli firm, will be the response to the crude Palestinian rockets launched from Gaza. David’s Sling, a joint U.S.-Israeli project, will counter the medium-range missiles Hezbollah fired from Lebanon in 2006. Finally, Israel’s Arrow II, already operational and designed to minimise the threat of future Syrian or Iranian ballistic missile attacks, will be improved to intercept several missiles at once. (Ha’aretz, Oct. 18)

ISRAEL-HEZBOLLAH SWAP INTEL (Jerusalem) As part of a negotiation process for the release of two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, abducted in July 2006, Hezbollah provided Israel with documents written by Ron Aradan IAF navigator missing since his plane went down over Lebanon in 1986. In exchange, Israel released one of five Hezbollah guerrillas in its captivity and returned the bodies of two others, while Lebanon returned the body of a drowned Israeli civilian. Israel remains firm, however, that Samir Kuntar, convicted in 1979 of murdering a Jewish family, will not be part of a deal for the two Israeli soldiers, as Hezbollah requested. Also, a Hamas-confirmed report in the Saudi newspaper Aukaz claims that Israel is offering to release two hundred prisoners, instead of the thousand Hamas requested, for Gilad Schalit, kidnapped in June, 2006 by Hamas terrorists from Gaza. (Ha’aretz, Oct. 16, 18, 22; Jerusalem Post, Oct. 18)
 
GROUP DEMANDS RELEASE OF RABIN’S ASSASSIN (Jerusalem) On the 12th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the Committee for Democracy, a group of Israelis, is calling for the release of his life-imprisoned murderer “in the name of human rights”. Yigal Amir shot the prime minister during a peace rally on November 4, 1995. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, “I will take every action so that Yigal Amir spends his whole life in jail. That’s where he belongs and nowhere else.” (National Post, October 23)
 
IRAN’S JEWS OFFERED MONEY TO MAKE ALIYA (Jerusalem) Offering cash incentives and claiming that Iran’s tiny Jewish community is in grave danger, Evangelical Christians in the U.S. have helped convince dozens of Iranian Jews to move to Israel in recent months. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, a charity that funnels millions of dollars in donations to Israel every year, is promising $10,000 to every Iranian Jew who comes to Israel, said the group’s director, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein. Eckstein said his group has helped to bring 82 Jews to Israel since the project began this year, and hopes to bring 60 more by year’s end. Iran, a Muslim nation of 65 million people, has about 25,000 Jews -- the largest group in the Middle East outside of Israel -- who are the remnants of a community with Biblical origins. (Jerusalem Post, Oct. 22)
 
STUDENTS IN IRAN PROTEST SENTENCES FOR THREE ACTIVISTS (Teheran) Students from different universities gathered at Amir Kabir University to protest the three-year sentences issued last week for activists and AKU students Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghassaban, the student news agency ISNA reported. Authorities accused the three of publishing articles insulting to Islam. The students denied the charges, claiming the publications had been forged to frame them. Mansouri’s mother said in August that the three men were tortured at the notorious Evin prison in Teheran, where nine accused murderers, including one woman, were hung recently. The mass hanging came after a relative lull in executions during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan which ended on Oct. 13 in Iran. The new hangings bring to at least 221 the number of executions carried out in the country this year. (Jerusalem Post, Oct. 22; NYT, Oct. 23)

TURKISH MAN SHOT CROSSING EGYPT-ISRAEL BORDER (Sinai) Egyptian border police shot a man as he and six members of his family attempted to cross the border into Israel. The Turkish man was called to stop, but failed to comply. He died Friday in an Egyptian hospital. Also, Monday, two Turkish teenagers were seriously injured as they tried to cross into Israel to find jobs. Israel estimates close to 3,000 people, mostly Africans, have attempted to reach the Israeli border from Egypt in search of employment. (Jerusalem Post, October 19)

MISTRIAL IN HAMAS-FUNDING CASE (Dallas) U.S. District Judge A. Joe Fish was forced to declare a mistrial in the case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five of its officials for allegedly funneling over $12,000,000 to Hamas. The case, involving 197 counts, years of investigation, two months of testimony, and more than 1,000 exhibits, required 19 days of deliberation. While a majority of the jury favoured acquittal, three members told the judge that they did not agree with the acquittals of the defendants. Federal prosecutor James Jacks said the government will re-try the case. (Investigative Project on Terrorism News, Oct. 22; National Post, NYT, Oct. 23)