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Anti-Israel Jewish Lawmaker
Regrets Anti-Jewish Remark
LONDON (JTA) — A British Jewish
lawmaker has apologized for insulting a
fellow Jewish lawmaker and Labor Party
member during a debate in the House of
Commons last week.
During a debate
on plans to change
the law of universal
jurisdiction, Gerald
Kaufman turned to a
lawmaker sitting next
to him and said, "Here
we are, the Jews again,"
as pro-Israel Labor
Gerald
lawmaker
Louise
Kaufman
Ellman rose to refute
a claim by the Labor Party's Ann Clwyd
that the lawmakers were trying to change
the law — making it more difficult to
issue an arrest warrant against a sus-
pected international war criminal — to
appease the Israeli government.
An arrest warrant was issued in
December 2009 for former Israeli
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni after she was
scheduled to visit the country to speak
before a Jewish organization. Livni did
not make the trip.
The comments by Kaufman, who is
Jewish but known for strong anti-Israel
views, were picked up by a neighboring
lawmaker's microphone.
Peres To Unveil
Bibi Peace Plan?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli
President Shimon Peres on a visit to
Washington reportedly will present the
outlines of a peace
plan that Prime
Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu expects to
unveil in May.
Peres was in
Washington this week.
Israeli media
claimed Peres will meet
Shimon Peres
with President Obama
and present the outlines of the plan.
Palestinian Group Rips Hamas
On Civilian Hiding Of Rockets
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian
human rights group in the Gaza Strip
condemned the storage of rockets used
against Israel in civilian populated areas.
The Palestinian Center for Human
Rights, in a statement posted on its Web
site last week, called on the Hamas-
controlled government in Gaza to
investigate three incidents of homemade
rockets exploding in densely populated
civilian neighborhoods, causing heavy
property damage and injuring six
Palestinians, including a baby.
The center also noted that "members
of the Palestinian resistance continue to
store explosives or to treat such explo-
sives in locations close to populated
areas. This poses a major threat to the
lives of the Palestinian civilians and con-
stitutes a violation of both International
Human Rights Law and the
International Humanitarian Law."The
statement did not condemn firing of
rockets on Israeli citizens, however.
Safed Teens Indicted
For Torching Arab Cars
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Jewish teens
from Safed have been indicted for setting
fire to two cars owned by Arab students.
The teens allegedly were revenging
the murder of five members of the Fogel
family in the West Bank Jewish settle-
ment of Raman They deny the charges.
Jailed Palestinian Engineer
Denies Knowledge Of Shalit
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian
engineer secretly captured in Ukraine
and jailed in Israel denies having any
knowledge of captured Israeli soldier
Gilad Shalit.
Didar Abu Sisi, a Gaza electric power
plant engineer, has been held in an Israeli
prison for more than a month after being
arrested in Ukraine
by Israeli agents. Sisi,
42, reportedly was
visiting Ukraine with
his Ukraine-born wife
and their six children
in order to apply for
Ukrainian citizenship.
During a hearing
Didar Abu Sisi
last week in Petach
Tikvah District Court
to extend his remand, Abu Sisi denied
that he had any knowledge about Shalit,
who has been held by Hamas in Gaza for
five years after being captured in a cross-
border raid.
Abu Sisi has internal information on
Hamas, though he is not directly linked
to Shalit's kidnapping, Defense Minister
Ehud Barak asserted on Israel Radio.
Corrections
• The contact information for flautist
Eugenia Zukerman's performance as
part of the Vivace Series at Birmingham
Temple in Farmington Hills 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 9, is (248) 788-9338, (248)
661-1348 or wwwvivaceseries.org .
•"Body, Mind Event To Help Kadima,"
(March 31, page 46) should have iden-
tified the beneficiaries of the fund-
raiser as Kadima's Child and Adolescent
Program and the Miya Jo Must Home.
The phone number to seek assistance
from Kadima is (248) 559-8235.