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December 3, 2010
AIPAC Rejects Obama Plea To Support START
According to Nathan Guttman in the Forward and Ron Kampeas at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, AIPAC is in agony. It desperately wants to support the US-Russia START treaty aimed at limiting nuclear warheads because the treaty would greatly advance Israel\’s security.
Investigators believe negligence, not arson, caused wildfire in the north
Two male residents of Daliat al-Carmel were released on Friday after having earlier been arrested on the suspicion that they had attempted to ignite fires in the Carmel hills region. After being questioned by police, it became clear that the two were not responsible for the acts they were suspected of. The initial inquiry conducted by fire investigators has pointed to negligence, not arson, as the cause of the largest wildfire in Israeli history.
Coverage of Carmel fire [VIDEO]
Uncontrolled Carmel fire leads to the evacuation of more than 17,000 Israelis in Northern Israel Friday. Watch video footage here:
Israel fire update: Uncontrolled, 42 dead, 17,000 evacuated
The fire raging in northern Israel was still out of control as the sun set on Friday, with 42 people reported dead.
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg’s Son Responds
This commentary has a relatively restricted purpose. I do not propose to critique the entire book, but merely to focus on where the book interacts with the case of my parents, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Harry Gold may have provided significant testimony at my parents’ trial, but the story of his interactions with Klaus Fuchs, Abraham Brothman, Alfred Dean Slack and Miriam Moskowitz took up a much greater part of his life. Also, his testimony at the Brothman-Moskowitz trial in November of 1950 was much more extensive and, in some ways, much more significant for assessing how much of what he said after confessing to the FBI was true. I will not address those issues.
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