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May 19, 2011

Jewish groups plan ads for Bibi visit

Jewish Journal May 19, 2011

A number of Jewish groups are planning wide-reaching ads timed for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\’s visit to Washington. J Street paid for a full-page advertisement in Thursday\’s New York Times featuring an appeal by about 90 leading Israelis, including retired generals, noted scholars and prize laureates, calling on Israel to recognize Palestinian statehood and negotiate a deal with the Palestinians based on 1967 lines. The ad already has appeared in Hebrew in Israeli newspapers.

Israel denies Russian spy charges against military attache

Jewish Journal May 19, 2011

Russian government claims that Israel\’s military attaché to the country was spying are unfounded, the Israeli army said. \”The IDF Military Attache and Ministry of Defense representative in Russia, Col. Vadim Leiderman, was held back by a surprise investigation by the Russian government last week on suspicion of spying,\” said a statement Wednesday by the IDF Spokesman\’s office. \”He was taken to the headquarters and released after a short while due to diplomatic immunity because of his position.\”

Maryland enacts Holocaust train bill

Jewish Journal May 19, 2011

Maryland enacted a law requiring the French national railroad to publish its Holocaust-era records if its U.S. subsidiary is to receive a state contract. Under the law Gov. Martin O\’Malley signed Thursday, the French rail company SNCF must catalog and put online records relating to its transportation of 76,000 Jews and other prisoners from the suburbs of Paris to the German border from 1942 to 1944.

Obama: 1967 borders with swaps should serve as basis for negotiations

Jewish Journal May 19, 2011

President Obama said the future state of Palestine should be based on the pre-1967 border with mutually agreed land swaps with Israel. In his address Thursday afternoon on U.S. policy in the Middle East, Obama told an audience at the State Department that the borders of a \”sovereign, nonmilitarized\” Palestinian state \”should be based on 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.\”

FULL SPEECH: Obama on Israel, Middle East

Jewish Journal May 19, 2011

I want to thank Hillary Clinton, who has traveled so much these last six months that she is approaching a new landmark – one million frequent flyer miles. I count on Hillary every day, and I believe that she will go down as of the finest Secretaries of State in our nation’s history.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigns from IMF

Jewish Journal May 19, 2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned as managing director of the International Monetary Fund following his arrest and imprisonment on charges of sexual assault.

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