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Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat on
Monday.
He was referring to a March deal
whereby Hamas and other armed
factions in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip agreed to honor the truce
declared by Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas and
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
the previous month.

Berlin Memorial Toothless

Berlin/JTA — One of the driving
forces behind Germany's new
Holocaust memorial dropped her
plan to place the tooth of a
Holocaust victim there.
At the Berlin memorial's dedica-
tion on Tuesday, Lea Rosh
announced her plan to put a tooth
she found at another memorial, at
the Belzec extermination camp, in
the new Berlin installation. That
outraged members of Germany's
Jewish community.
Meanwhile, a vandal scratched a
swastika into one of the 2,711 steles
at the Berlin memorial May 12, the
first day it was open to the public.

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Washington/JTA — A Florida Jewish
businessman bought Britain's most
revered soccer team.
Malcolm Glazer bought a control-
ling stake in Manchester United on
May 12 for nearly $1.5 billion.
Many ManU fans expressed outrage
and protested the sale to a foreigner.

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Jerusalem/JTA — Israel's Cabinet
extended regulations limiting citi-
zenship eligibility for Palestinians
who marry Israelis.
By a vote of 16-2 on Sunday, a cap
placed on the Civic Law in 2002 was
approved. That means that only
about half of some 1,200 mixed
families divided by the past 4 1 /2
years of violence can be reunited.
Israeli officials called the measure a
security precaution meant to prevent
the infiltration of potential terrorists
from the West Bank and Gaza Strip,
but some observers suggest there is
another motive: reducing the demo-
graphic threat posed by the growing
Arab population in Israel.

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Glazer has a reputation for cutting
costs and raising ticket prices, but he
is credited with making a success of
his Tampa Bay Buccaneers football
team, which won the 2003 Super
Bowl.

Congress Against Boycott

Washington/JTA — A U.S. lawmaker
asked Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice to sever U.S. ties with British
schools that voted last month to
boycott Israeli universities.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.,
wants schools and professors who
abide by the boycott to be made
ineligible for U.S. grants and
exchanges.
Haifa University has threatened to
sue the Britain's Association of
University Teachers, and Bar-Ilan
University, the other school slated
for boycott, has opened a Web site
to build support.

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Israel's

Critics

The Charge

Israel's military oppresses the
Palestinians.

The Answer

Israel is in a war against terrorists.
War's cruelties include destruction,
roadblocks and disruptions to the
economy and education. To defend
itself, Israel must arrest terrorists
and thwart, sometimes with deadly
force, those in the act of executing
terrorist attacks.
But Israel's army is civilian con-
trolled by a democratic government
that punishes its own lawbreakers
and has strict rules of engagement
to protect civilians.
Israel has agreed to every cease-
fire and peace initiative. The war
will end on the same day that the
Palestinians end the terror.

— Allan Gale, Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan Detroit