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Netanyahu: Freeze
For Recognition
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu said he would
reinstate a West Bank construction freeze
if the Palestinians recognize Israel as a
Jewish state.
Netanyahu made the offer Monday in
a wide-ranging speech at the opening of
the Knesset's winter session.
"If the Palestinian leadership will say
unequivocally to its people that it rec-
ognizes Israel as the homeland of the
Jewish people, I will be ready to convene
my government and request a further
suspension;' Netanyahu said. "Just as the
Palestinians expect us to recognize their
state, we expect reciprocal treatment:'
The Palestinian Authority issued a
statement rejecting Netanyahu's offer
immediately following the speech.
ADL's Anti Israel List
NEW YORK (JTA) -- A Jewish organization
is on the Anti Defamation League's top 10
list of anti-Israel groups in America.
Jewish Voice for Peace, based in
Oakland, Calif., was on the list released
Oct. 14 by the ADL of the most influen-
tial and active anti-Israel groups in the
United States. It was joined by Act Now
to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER),
the Al-Awda Council on American-
Islamic Relations, Friends of Sabeel-
North America, If Americans Knew, the
International Solidarity Movement, the
Muslim American Society, Students for
Justice in Palestine and the U.S. Campaign
to End the Israeli Occupation.
"While there are hundreds of groups
that organize and participate in various
anti-Israel activities, we have identified
the largest and most well coordinated
anti-Israel groups:' said Abraham Foxman,
ADL's national director. "These groups are
not promoting peace; they are spreading
propaganda to assault Israel's legitimacy.
We want Americans to know who these
groups are and what it is they really stand
for, which is to delegitimize the Jewish
state
The ADL exposes the groups in a new
online report that also examines the
dynamics of the U.S. anti-Israel movement
and the ability of the most prominent
groups to organize events, attract sup-
porters and forge relationships with like-
minded organizations.
The Jewish Voice for Peace refuted ADL's
claims, saying in a statement that the
organization advocates for human rights
for both Palestinians and Israelis. The
organization recently drafted and orga-
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Netanyahu called the deal a "trust-
building step?' He said that such recogni-
tion was not a precondition to talks for
Israel.
The prime minister said that he has
floated the idea to the Palestinians, who
have not been responsive to the idea.
"The United States is attempting
other means to ensure that the talks take
place,' he said.
Netanyahu pointed out that Israel
enforced a 10-month building freeze in the
West Bank "with determination and with-
out compromise,' adding, "Unfortunately,
the Palestinians wasted those 10 months
as well. Now they demand that we con-
tinue the moratorium as a condition to
continuing the talks. I hope they are not
doing so to avoid making the real deci-
sions necessary for a peace agreement?'
In saying that a peace agreement must
nized a petition signed by more than 150
American and film artists in support of an
Israeli artists' boycott of performing in the
West Bank.
Attorneys Seek
Pollard Clemency
JERUSALEM (JTA) --
Attorneys for Jonathan
Pollard filed a new peti-
tion for clemency, the
Jerusalem Post reported.
The petition, filed last
Jonathan
Friday, asks President
Pollard
Obama to commute
Pollard's life sentence to
his time served, which is 25 years. It does
not ask for a pardon. Pollard was a civilian
U.S. Navy analyst who was convicted of
spying for Israel.
Late last week, former Israeli lawmaker
and intelligence officer Rafi Eitan asserted
that the United States violated a verbal
agreement with Israel to release Pollard
after 10 years. Eitan said Pollard remains
jailed in part on secret charges that were
later discovered to have been perpetrated
by Russian mole Aldrich Ames. Ames was
arrested in 1994.
The request comes as four U.S. Congress
members — Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass.,
Bill Pascrell, D- N.J., Edolphus Towns,
D-N.Y., and Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., —
prepare to send a letter that has been
circulating in Congress to Obama seeking
clemency for Pollard.
Proposed Loyalty Oath
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Thousands of
Israeli Jews and Arabs demonstrated in Tel
Aviv against a proposed loyalty oath for
include a strong security arrangement,
Netanyahu pointed out that Israel previ-
ously had peaceful relations with both
Iran and Turkey, with whom Israel's rela-
tions have "deteriorated against our will?'
The statement by the Palestinians said
they would return to peace talks in
exchange for a freeze on building in the
settlements.
"The issue of the Jewishness of the
state has nothing to do with the matter:'
said Nabil Abu Rdainah, a spokesman for
PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
The statement by the Palestinians
said they would return to peace talks in
exchange for a freeze on building in the
settlements.
"The issue of the Jewishness of the
state has nothing to do with the matter:'
said Nabil Abu Rdainah, a spokesman for
PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
new non-Jewish citizens. The protesters
marched Saturday night carrying signs
reading "Jews and Arabs refuse to be
enemies" and "In Nuremberg it also began
with legislation!"
Many of the demonstrators were from
the Arab-Israeli Hadash Party and the left-
wing Meretz Party, which co-sponsored
the march under the banner "Together
Against Racism — Arab and Jewish
March for Democracy?'
The proposed amendment, which
would require non-Jewish candidates
for citizenship to pledge loyalty to Israel
as a "Jewish and democratic state was
approved last week by Israel's Cabinet by a
vote of 22-8. The amendment advances to
the Knesset's legislative committee before
moving on to the full Knesset.
Last Friday, the main body of American
Reform rabbis opposed the loyalty oath
in a statement saying that it "would turn
Israel into the very kind of country which
historically Jews themselves have rightly
cursed for their unequal treatment of non-
Christians and non-Muslims."
"Already this legislation has sent a mes-
sage to the 20 percent of Israel's citizens
who are not Jewish that they indeed are
permanently 'other, further reinforcing
the message of those who would deny that
there could ever be co-existence between
Jew, Muslim and Christian in a Jewish
state the Central Conference of American
Rabbis' statement says. "Its enactment
would strengthen the enemies of Israel
and thus, compromise not only its Jewish
democratic character, but its security and
ultimate future as well.
"More than symbolic loyalty statements,
Israel needs its non-Jewish citizens as
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