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issue appropriately and reach a solution
that protects the bonds between Israel
and the diaspora," the group's CEO,
Jerry Silverman, said in a July 22 state-
ment."We are also thrilled that Natan
Sharansky will be leading the process."
Interior Minister Eli Yishai, chairman
of the haredi Orthodox Shas Party, which
is a member of Netanyahu's coalition,
said last Friday that the freeze on the
conversion bill had been coordinated
between coalition member parties Likud
and Yisrael Beiteinu, but not with Shas.
"Our plan to present the conversion
law to the Knesset at the start of the
winter session, in late October, remains
unchanged," Yishai said.

Bishop Critical Of Israel
Berlin/JTA — A Palestinian bishop who
has been a harsh critic of Israeli settle-
ments and a proponent of a shared
capital in Jerusalem was chosen for a top
post in the Lutheran Church.
Munib Younan, 59, told Lutheran
leaders after his election as head of the
Lutheran World Federation in Stuttgart
on Saturday that he hoped to contribute
to building peace in the Middle East.
The Jerusalem native said his church
must dedicate itself to fighting "extrem-
ism and xenophobia, especially anti-
Semitism and Islamophobia," according
to the Deutsche Welle news agency.
He added, "The conflict in my own
home is never far from my thoughts:'
Younan, bishop of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Jordan and the Holy
Land, will head a church federation with
145 member churches in 79 countries.
Some critics have charged Younan with
being anti-Zionist. While he declared
support for a two-state solution in a 2009
interview with PBS, he also suggested
that Israeli policies were to blame for vio-
lent attacks on Israel.
"We Palestinians, Christian or
Muslim, care for the security of Israel:'
he told PBS. "But the security of Israel
depends on the freedom and justice of
the Palestinians."
In 2006, he signed "The Jerusalem
Declaration on Christian Zionism"
condemning the pro-settler Christian
movement as "detrimental to a just
peace within Palestine and Israel." The
declaration also promoted "nonviolent
resistance as the most effective means
to end the illegal occupation:'
In the PBS interview, Younan also said
that Palestinians had to understand the
trauma of the Holocaust for Jews, and
Jews and Israelis must "understand the
deep trauma of occupation in the depth
of us Palestinians. Although there is no
comparative suffering. Suffering is suf-
fering:'

New Iran Sanctions
BRUSSELS (JTA) -- European Union
foreign ministers and Canada approved
a package of stiffer economic sanctions
against Iran.
The EU sanctions approved Monday
in Brussels are similar to the new U.S.
sanctions imposed last month. They tar-
get Iran's petroleum, banking, shipping,
insurance and transportation industries
as well as nuclear-related industries.
The EU sanctions are scheduled to go
into effect immediately, according to the
Washington Post.
The Obama administration had
exerted pressure on the EU to put new
sanctions into effect.
New sanctions targeting third parties
that deal with Iran's energy and finance
sectors, as well as human rights abusers,
were approved by the U.S. Congress last
month.
The Canadian government's sanc-
tions, also announced Monday, include
a ban on new investment in the oil and
gas sector, and restrictions on exporting
goods that could be used in its nuclear
program.
B'nai B'rith Canada commended the
Harper government.
"To avoid the military option against
the Iranian regime's nuclear weapons
program, Canada and her allies need to
do everything in their power to sanction
and isolate Iran:' said Frank Dimant,
the group's executive vice president, in a
statement. "Targeting Iran's most impor-
tant lifeline, its oil and gas industries, as
the Canadian government has done, is a
very welcome development."

Answering
Israel's Critics

The Charge
The Human Rights Committee of
the Inter-Parliamentary Union,
an umbrella of legislative parlia-
ments with more than 100 member
nations, slammed Israel's Knesset
last week for its plans to deport three
members of the Palestinian parlia-
ment who reside in Jerusalem.

The Answer
The three were ordered expelled
because of proven links to llamas,
a terrorist movement that calls for
Israel's destruction and is at war
with the Jewish state.

- Allan Gale
Jewish Community Relations Council
of Metropolitan Detroit

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