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Netanyahu To Nasrallah:
'Stay In The Bunker'
Jerusalem (JTA)
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu told American
Jewish leaders — and Hezbollah leader
Hassan Nasrallah — that Israel is strong
and can defend itself.
Netanyahu, speaking
Feb. 17 at the Conference
of Presidents of Major
American Jewish
Organizations meeting
in Jerusalem, responded
to Nasrallah's threat
earlier in the day that
Benjamin
Hezbollah would take
Netanyahu
over Israel's Galilee
region in a future war.
Nasrallah also threatened to harm senior
Israeli leaders.
"Just today, Hezbollah's leader
announced that he intends to conquer
the Galilee. I have news for you: He won't,"
Netanyahu said.
"Anyone hiding in the bunker should
stay in the bunker," the Israeli leader con-
tinued, switching from English to Hebrew.
Netanyahu said Israel would be pre-
pared no matter what the outcome of
unrest in Egypt and other Arab countries.
"I cannot simply hope for the best:' he
said. "I must also prepare for the worst."

—

Dershowitz Aids Wikileaks
In Twitter Defense
Washington (JTA) — Alan Dershowitz has
joined an effort to keep U.S. authorities
from reviewing Twitter accounts related to
the Wikileaks case.
The U.S. Justice
Department in December
subpoenaed the social
network site to obtain
communications between
the documents leaks site
and its followers.
Wikileaks, which
Alan
solicits inside informa-
Dershowitz
tion from governments
and corporations, last
year obtained a massive cache of internal
U.S. State Department exchanges. A num-
ber of the exchanges have led to strained
diplomatic relations.
Dershowitz, a premier U.S. constitu-
tional lawyer and a passionate defender of
Israel, said his role would be restricted to
the Twitter matter.
"I'm currently in this case because I
believe that to protect the First Amendment,
we need to protect new electronic media
vigorously," he said after a news release from
Wikileaks announced his hiring.
Dershowitz told CNN that he was acting as
an adviser to the team of Wikileaks founder
Julian Assange, but not as his lawyer.

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Bedouin Villagers Clash
With Foresters In Negev
Jerusalem (JTA) -- Residents of a
Bedouin village razed more than a dozen
times clashed with workers from the
Jewish National Fund who came to plant
trees in the area.
Six people were injured in clashes
Feb. 17 in the unrecognized village
of Al-Arakib in the Negev, and three
were arrested for throwing rocks, Ynet
reported.
Other reports said that the Israel
Land Administration came Thursday to
demolish structures in the village for the
16th time since July 2010.

Obama Taps Jews
For Diplomatic Spots
Washington (JTA) — The Obama admin-
istration has tapped veteran Jewish diplo-
mats Mara Rudman and Marc Grossman
for senior posts.
President Obama
is nominating
Rudman to the top
State Department
post administer-
ing assistance to the
Middle East through
the U.S. Agency
Mara Rudman
for International
Development.
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Marc
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the Palestinians against attempts by
congressional Republicans to roll back
some Palestinian aid.
Grossman reportedly is set to
replace Richard Holbrooke, who died
in December, as the administra-
tion's top envoy to both Pakistan and
Afghanistan.
A career diplomat until he retired in
2005, Grossman has served in senior
State Department positions and was
the ambassador to Turkey in the mid-
1990s.

An injunction against JNF and the
Land Administration to halt forestry
work on the village's land was canceled
last month by the Beersheba District
Court, though the judge suggested that
work should not resume because it
"serves the public's interest."
Residents rebuild their homes follow-
ing each demolition.
In the first demolition order car-
ried out last July 27, some 1,300 police
escorted Land Administration officials
into Al-Arakib before dawn, removing
the area's 300 residents before razing 45
structures, including homes and chicken
coops.

Jewish Team Suspended
For Non-Jewish Players
London (JTA) — A soccer team was
suspended from a Jewish-only league in
London after fielding non-Jewish play-
ers under false names.
A referee in the Maccabi Southern
Football League became suspicious
when two players for the Holy Mount
Zion team, who were registered under
Jewish-sounding names, were called by
other names by their teammates.
The players' true identities were dis-
covered by looking up their Facebook
profiles. Six more players on the team
have been asked to prove they are
Jewish.
The team's manager told the London
Jewish Chronicle that he turned to non-
Jewish players because he did not have
enough Jewish players to field the team.

'Crusader Of Tolerance'
Gets Medal of Freedom
New York (JTA) — Holocaust survivor
Gerda Weissman Klein was among 15
Americans to receive the 2010 Medal of
Freedom from President Obama.
"As an author, a histo-
rian and a crusader for
tolerance, she has taught
the world that it is often
in our most hopeless
moments that we dis-
cover the extent of our
strength and the depth
of our love Obama said
Gerda
about Klein during the
Weissman
award ceremony at the
Klein
White House.
Klein, who worked in
slave labor and concentration camps until
she was forced to take a 350-mile death
march at the end of World War II, recently
founded Citizenship Counts, a nonpartisan
organization that is committed to educat-
ing middle- and high-school students on

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