desensitized" and believe "it can't hap-
pen to us."
"When we allow ourselves to he lulled
into silence when political correctness
beckons, it may be too latc,' he said.
"When we dally and thrnten and wring
our hands, but fail to do anything to
really stop" Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, "where are we then?"
Cantor listed a number of develop-
ments that concerned him, from the
Goldstone report to a Scandinavian
newspaper article earlier this year that
accused Israel of harvesting human
organs to Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez's alliance with Iran.
He added that Israel is in "dire straits"
and "mortal danger."
Cantor also said that "the case I press
before you is not a Jewish cause or an
Israeli issue, but challenges to America;'
adding that "Israel's security is synony-
mous with our own."
"I await your leadership before it is
too late he said.
Israel Or Iran?
Tehran/JTA — Iranian
President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said the
United States must
choose between Israel
and Iran.
During a Nov.11
Mahmoud
speech in Turkey,
Ahmadinejad
Ahmadinejad called
on President Obama to make a big deci-
sion about which country he will support,
the official state Islamic Republic News
Agency reported.
"The support of both Israel and Iran
can't go hand in hand:' he reportedly said.
" No change is made unless great choices
are made
Ahmadinejad said he would not "clasp
hands" in friendship with the United
States if it continued to support Israel.
The Iranian leader was address-
ing the 25th session of the Standing
Committee for Economic and Commercial
Cooperation of the Organization of the
Islamic Conference.
Meanwhile, the United States, during
a Nov. 10 session of the U.N. Security
Council, accused Iran of shipping illegal
weapons to Hezbollah. The more than 300
tons of weapons were discovered Nov. 4 by
the Israeli Navy on a German-owned ship
that originated in Iran and was heading to
Syria and Lebanon.
Syria called the charges "outrageous
lies" and accused Israel of international
piracy.
Israel filed a formal complaint with the
United Nations.
Arafat's Death
Marked
Ramallah/JTA —
Palestinians marked
the fifth anniversary
of the death of Yasser
Arafat.
At a Nov. 11 rally
Yasser Arafat
at the Palestinian
Authority headquarters
in the West Bank city of Ramallah, P.A.
President Mahmoud Abbas said peace
talks with Israel would not restart until
Israel halts all building in the West Bank
and eastern Jerusalem. The Palestinians
remain committed to a two-state solu-
tion, he said.
" A Palestinian state is a truth rec-
ognized by the world and we are now
leading a battle to have its border rec-
ognized," Abbas told a crowd of about
100,000 Fatah supporters at the rally.
It is the first large Fatah event since
Abbas announced that he would resign
as head of the Palestinian Authority.
In Gaza, Abbas' Fatah movement
accused llamas of arresting its mem-
bers in order to prevent them from
marking the anniversary of Arafat's
death, Reuters reported. Fatah had not
planned any public memorial events in
Gaza.
Arafat, who led the Fatah Party and
the Palestine Liberation Organization
for decades, died at the age of 75 in a
French hospital. The Palestinians have
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