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Chaldeans Rally Against
Massacre In Iraq; Detroit
Jews Stand In Solidarity
At least a thousand people marched in
support of the plight of Chaldeans in
Iraq on Nov. 8 in front of the McNamara
Federal Building in downtown Detroit.
Similar demonstrations took place in
Chicago, Phoenix, California and other
places including London, Toronto and
Paris.
Earlier that day, more than 100
people attended a press conference at
St. Toma Syriac Church in Farmington
Hills. A number of speakers related the
tragic events of Oct. 31 — dubbed Black
Sunday — when 58 Christians were
killed in a terrorist attack by Muslim
fanatics. Scores more were injured during
the attack, which took place in a Catholic
church.
"This was for our Christian commu-
nity in Iraq what 9-11 was in America,"
said Msgr. Toma Behnama.
Recently re-elected U.S. Rep. Gary
Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, was
among those who spoke at the press
conference. "It's very important that we
are gathering here today:' he said, calling
the violence "horrible
atrocities."
"This has been
ongoing under the
watchful eyes of the
U.S. and Iraqi govern-
ments," said Wisam
Naoum, one of the stu-
Wisam Naoum
dents who organized
the rally.
Robert Cohen,
executive director of
the Jewish Community
Relations Council of
Metropolitan Detroit,
told the IN: "In the
Jewish tradition, these
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words of comfort are
said to those who have lost loved ones,
`Ha'makom yenahern etchem betoch
she'ar avelei Tziyon vi'Yerushalayim.'
May God console you among the other
mourners of Zion and Jerusalem."
"Detroit's Jewish community:' he
added, "stands in solidarity and sad-
ness with our Chaldean friends and
neighbors. Our two communities have
much in common. We are immigrants
or the descendants of immigrants. We
are minority groups who have proudly
joined and contribute richly to the
American experience. Also, we fear for
the safety and wellbeing of our peoples
who remain in their ancestral home-
lands. And we together call upon our
government to help protect them."
Terrorist attacks on innocent men,
women and children are cowardly,
heinous acts, Cohen said. "They are
obscene when they take place in a house
of worship — any house of worship."
In recent weeks, he said, we have seen
the attack at Our Lady of Salvation Syriac
Catholic Church, the shipment of bombs
to synagogues in Chicago and the des-
ecration of a mosque in the West Bank.
"These acts may be committed in
the name of God, but they are attacks
against God;' he said. "We pray with you
for an end to such things, for healing,
and for a peace that people of all faiths
deserve."
U.S. Settlement
Freeze Proposal
JERUSALEM (JTA) --
Benjamin Netanyahu said
he'd present to his Cabinet
an expected US. offer of
incentives to freeze Jewish
settlement construction
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in the West Bank.
Netanyahu
After meeting last week
in New York with U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton for seven hours,
the Israeli prime minister
told his Cabinet in its
weekly meeting Sunday
that he'd bring any pro-
posed deal on a freeze to
Hillary Clinton Cabinet members.
"This proposal was
raised during my talks with Secretary
of State Clinton. It is still not final; it is
still being formulated by Israeli and the
American teams;' Netanyahu told the
Cabinet. "I insist that any proposal meet the
State of Israel's security needs, both in the
immediate term and vis-a-vis the threats
that we will face in the coming decade'
The Obama administration reportedly
has offered, in exchange for another tem-
porary settlement freeze, to supply 20 F-35
stealth fighter jets to Israel in a deal worth
$3 billion; to veto all U.N. Security Council
and international resolutions that criticize
or delegitimize Israel; and to provide Israel
with additional security guarantees once a
peace deal with the Palestinians is reached.
The U.S. deal requires Israel to halt all
construction in the West Bank for 90 days,
including on building work in process, and
stipulates that the United States will not ask
for an extension of the new freeze.
A 10-month Israeli freeze on construc-
tion in the West Bank ended on Sept. 26.
President Obama has said he believes that
he can help Israel and the Palestinians
agree on final borders for Israel and a
Palestinian state during another three-
month settlement construction freeze.
At a meeting of Netanyahu's Likud Party
ministers before the Cabinet meeting, at
least four ministers, including two vice
premiers, reportedly expressed vehement
opposition to another West Bank construc-
tion freeze.
Palestinians leaders reportedly also
are against the deal because it does not
include a freeze on construction in eastern
Jerusalem. The United States reportedly has
not consulted with the Palestinians on the
deal it offered to Netanyahu.
minister spent the weekend at the ranch in
the Negev desert after being moved there last
Friday, according to reports.
Since shortly after suffering a massive
stroke when he was prime minister, Sharon
has remained in a Tel Aviv hospital. The
weekend trial was deemed a success; Sharon
is expected to be returned to the ranch in
coming weekends to test the possibility of
moving him back home permanently.
Teen2Teen:
Executive Editor: Keri Guten Cohen
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U.S. Weapons In Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The United States
will store an additional $400 million in
emergency military equipment in Israel.
The new equipment, which will arrive
in Israel over the next two years, will
be available to Israel in the event of an
emergency. It will bring to $1.2 billion the
amount of American military equipment
being stockpiled in Israel by 2012.
Congress approved the storage of
new weapons in Israel last month, but
the story was first reported this week in
Defense News magazine by its Israel-based
reporter, Barbara Opall-Rome. The agree-
ment between Israel and the United States
includes the conditions under which the
Israel Defense Forces may use the equip-
ment, Haaretz reported.
Israel used some U.S. stockpiles of
weapons during the Second Lebanon War.
The new equipment includes smart
bombs and other precision weaponry,
according to reports, and can be used by
U.S. troops anywhere in the world.
Fulfillment
Ariel Sharon
Comatose Sharon
Visits Ranch
TEL AVW (JTA) -- Ariel
Sharon was returned to
a Tel Aviv hospital after
spending a weekend at
his ranch for the first
time since he fell into a
coma in January 2006.
The former Israeli prime
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