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accused Israel of assassinating
Arafat but have no evidence to back
the claim. Israel has denied it had
anything to do with Arafat's death.

Suit Vs. AIPAC Proceeds
Washington/JTA A judge is allowing
Steve Rosen's defamation lawsuit against
AIPAC to go ahead. In a decision handed
down Oct. 30 and made available on Nov.
3, Judge Jeanette Clark of the District
of Columbia Superior Court narrowed
the scope of Rosen's suit against his for-
mer employer; it rests now on a single
statement Patrick Dorton, a contracted
spokesman for the American Israel
Public Affairs Commiteee,
At that time, Dorton alleged that
Rosen, AIPAC's former foreign policy
chief, had been fired in March 2005
because he "did not comport with stan-
dards that AIPAC expects of its employ-
ees.
Rosen was fired seven months after
FBI agents raided AIPAC offices in a
classified information investigation.
Rosen and AIPAC's Iran analyst, Keith
Weissman, were indicted in August 2005
on charges of relaying national defense
information; the prosecution dropped
the charges in May of this year.
During the pretrial period, motions
showed that AIPAC, while initially sup-
portive of Rosen and Weissman, had
come under U.S. government pressure to
fire them.
The judge agreed with the defendants
that earlier statements cited in Rosen's
suit, filed last March, fell outside of the
one-year statute of limitations, including
several statements Dorton made to the
JTA.
Clark also removed from the suit
members of the AIPAC board, leaving
only AIPAC and Dorton as defendants.
The judge rejected the defendants'
claims that because Rosen was a pub-
lic figure the required proof of malice
was unachievable. The judge noted
that Rosen earned a $7,000 bonus five
months after the FBI raid and two
months before he was fired.
Rosen's lawyer, David Shapiro, who
called AIPAC's treatment of Rosen "rep-
rehensible,' said he was ready to con-
tinue now to the discovery stage."We're
happy with the decision:' he said.
Dorton, speaking on behalf of himself
and AIPAC, said Clark's decision "dem-
onstrates that there's absolutely no case
here. We will continue to work toward a
complete dismissal:'

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India-Israel Defense Deal
Jerusalem/JTA Israel will supply an
upgraded air defense system to India.

Israel signed the $1.1 billion contract on
Nov. 9 during a visit to Israel by the head
of India's army, Gen. Deepak Kapoor,
Reuters reported.
The state-owned Israel Aerospace
Industries Ltd. has promised to deliver
the Barak-8 tactical air defense system
to India by 2017. Israel is India's largest
defense supplier.
In August, the Indian cabinet
approved a $1 billion deal with the Israeli
government-owned Rafael Advanced
Defense System under which the com-
pany will provide 18 of its SPYDER air
defense systems, which can intercept
missiles irfa 25-mile radius, by 2012.

Madonna, Rabbi In Rio
Rio DeJaneiro/JTA Pop star Madonna
brought a rabbi on a visit to Brazil.
Madonna landed in Rio de Janeiro on
Nov. 9 on her private jet for a weeklong
trip.
The singer brought along the Los
Angeles-based Kabbalah Centre's Rabbi
Michael Berg, her partner in the Raising
Malawi project, and who also will co-
produce a documentary to be filmed in
Rio about children and youths that over-
come poverty through music and dance,
according to Brazilian media.
Rio Governor Sergio Cabral said,
"She will visit several projects here. She
is delighted by the city and wants to be
engaged and help:

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Hezbollah Bans 'Anne Frank'
Washington/JTA Hezbollah pressured
a private school in Beirut to drop from
its curriculum a textbook containing
excerpts of The Diary of Anne Frank.
The English-language school, which
asked not to be identified, acceded to
pressure after Hezbollah's Al-Manar
television station ran a segment chiding
the school for including the posthu-
mously published Holocaust memoir in
its lessons, the French news agency AFP
reported.
Hezbollah, which Israel and the United
States consider a terrorist group, called
the diary's indusion part of an open
arena for the Zionist invasion of educa-
tion.
Attorney Naim Kalaani, a member of a
committee to ban Zionist products, told
Al-Manar the use of the book in a school
constituted a violation of Lebanon's
penal code and "tantamount to a step
toward normalization" in ties with Israel.
Hezbollah could not be reached by the
station for comment.
The Paris-based organization
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