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Assassinations
The national Web site Jewish.com
asked its readers this week if they
believed that Israel's policy of assassi-
nating Hamas leaders is necessary to
get the "road map" peace plan back on
track.
Of 167 respondents, 113 (67.66
percent) said the policy was necessary;
54 (32.34 percent) said it was not.
Next week's question on
Jewish.com:
Approximately how many times will
you attend religious services this sum-
mer? Daily? Weekly? Less than six
times? Probably not until the High
holidays?
Survivor Sues
AJCommittee
New York/JTA — A Holocaust sur-
vivor is suing the American Jewish
Committee over a memorial the group
is erecting at a Nazi death camp.
Norman Salsitz of Springfield, N.J.,
filed the suit in U.S. District Court in
Washington seeking an injunction
blocking the AJCommittee from dig-
ging a trench through the Belzec death
camp in Poland because it allegedly
will disturb human remains buried
there.
Salsitz lost 23 family members in
Belzec, where an estimated 600,000
Jews died.
"What is a monument? A remem-
brance of a terrible thing. You don't
remember by stepping in the blood
and the bones and the ashes," he said.
The AJCommittee denies that any
desecration is taking place, and says
the memorial has won the approval of
Israel's former Ashkenazi chief rabbi,
Yisrael Meir Lau; leading European
rabbis on a Jewish cemetery preserva-
tion panel; and other survivors of the
camp.
P.A. Denies
Hamas Blacklisting
Jerusalem/JTA — The Palestinian
Authority denied reports that P.A. offi-
cials asked the European Union to
blacklist Hamas as a terrorist organiza-
tion.
The reports, from Israel Radio and
the European Union, say that repre-
sentatives of P.A. Prime Minister
Mahmoud Abbas asked the European
Union to put additional pressure on
Hamas to accept a cease-fire with
Israel.
A senior Hamas official in the Gaza
Strip, Mahmoud Azhar, said the
European Union had no influence and
denied that the Palestinian Authority
had demanded that Hamas give up its
weapons as part of a cease-fire. "We
are not interested in the European
Union," Azhar said.
He said Hamas would agree to a
cease-fire only after Israel stopped
attacks on Palestinians.
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810 Israelis
Dead In Uprising
Jerusalem/JTA — Since the Palestinian
intifada began in September 2000,
810 Israelis and foreign visitors have
been killed and about 5,600 have been
injured.
An official with the Israel Defense
Forces told the Knesset Foreign Affairs
and Defense Committee on Tuesday
that 567 of those killed were civilians
and 243 were soldiers.
The IDF official said an estimated
2,330 Palestinians have been killed
and 14,000 injured. The majority of
Palestinians killed have been militants,
Israeli officials say.
Jews Mixed
On Bush
New York/JTA — Nearly 50 percent
of U.S. Jews approve of President
Bush's job performance, but only 25
percent would definitely vote for him,
according to a new poll.
More than 60 percent of Jews sup-
port Bush's foreign policy and 33 per-
cent support his domestic policy,
according to data collected between
January 2002 and March 2003 by the
Ipsos/Cook Political Report.
American Jewish support for Bush
was lower than his approval rating
among the general public, the poll
found.
The National Jewish Democratic
Council hailed the results, while the
Republican Jewish Coalition said the
data was so outdated as to be useless.
Only 19 percent of Jews voted for
Bush in the 2000 election, but
Republicans hope that his support for
Israel and leadership in the war on ter-
ror will attract more Jewish voters in
2004.
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