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Attack A Hoax?
Paris/JTA — French authorities suspect
that an alleged anti-Semitic attack on a
woman and baby near Paris last week
was a hoax.
Police investigating the July 9 inci-
dent, in which a woman claimed six
youths scrawled swastikas on her stom-
ach, sliced off her clothes and over-
turned her baby carriage on a train, said _
there were a number of contradictions
in the woman's account.
No witnesses have come forward to
corroborate her story of the attack,
which allegedly occurred on a normally
crowded mid-morning suburban train.
Also, video surveillance cameras on the
platform where the woman claimed her
attackers left the train failed to identify
the alleged perpetrators.
According to police sources, the
woman has a history of filing com-
plaints, none of which has been pursued
by investigators. The attack was widely .
condemned in France, with demonstra-
tions against anti-Semitism organized in
Paris and others scheduled for later this
week
In an unprecedented action, National
Assembly Speaker Jean-Louis Debree
suspended a parliamentary debate so
legislators could attend one of the rallies.
The woman was placed in 48-hour
police custody. The police are expected
to wrap up their probe of the incident
in the next few days.
Calls To White House
Washington/JTA — Hadassah members
tried to call the White House en masse
to protest President Bush's policy on
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stem cell research.
About 1,500 members of the women's
Zionist organization attempted to call
the White House at the same time from
the group's convention in Phoenix, but
many received busy signals or the calls
did not go through.
Hadassah is seeking expanded federal
funding for stem cell research and wants
additional stem cell lines to be available.
President Bush allowed for research
using existing stem cell lines in 2001,
but few of those lines are viable now,
and the potential for progress from stem
cells has grown.
Meanwhile, scientists at the Hadassah
Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center
in Jerusalem announced that implanting
human stem cells into the brains of rats
had,alleviated Parkinson's-like symp-
toms. Dr. Binyamin Reubinoff said his
research is the first to show that human
stem cells can replace damaged neurons
in an animal, model.
Argentina Terror Recalled
New York/JTA — An American Jewish
Committee delegation will participate in
the 10th commemoration of the AMIA
center bombing in Argentina.
Led by its.president, Robert Goodkind,
the AJCommittee delegation will pres-
ent a letter to Argentine President
Nestor Kirchner stressing that thousands
of people around the world are awaiting
answers about the massacre. The corn-
munity center was bombed , on July 18,
1994, killing 85 and wounding 300.
The U.S. House of Representatives is
expected to condemn the 1994 attack
on an Argentine Jewish center and raise
concerns about its investigation.
The resolution, introduced by Rep.
lleana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., calls on the
U.S. and Argentine governments to
bring those responsible for the bombing
in Buenos Aires to justice. The resolu-
tion is expected to be voted on in the
next few weeks. The July 18, 1994,
attack on the AMIA community center
killed 85. "It has been 10 years since
violent criminals perpetuated this horri-
ble crime, and yet no one has been
brought to justice," Ros-Lehtinen said.
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THE ISSUE
Reports in the Israeli press charge that
diplomats in several European capi-
tals are attempting to resuscitate
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's
image. One need only look at his
recent record to challenge this effort.
BEHIND THE ISSUE
Even though Arafat has been con-
fined to his headquarters building in
Ramallah for two years, he has har-
bored wanted terrorists there, been an
apologist for Al Qaida and given
speeches advocating violence and the
"armed strut le.” Prior to the Iraqi
war, he was accused of alerting the
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the end of the Jewish majority in
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