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Iran dominates AIPAC conference
Dan Gillerman: Real problem is not Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but lunatic Iran president
"In comparison, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's three-day annual policy conference largely played down the Jewish state's longstanding conflict with the Palestinians," the report added.
Dan Gillerman, Israel's Ambassador to the UN, was quoted as telling the AIPAC conference: "The real problem is not the Israel-Palestinian conflict, the threat is the lunatic president of Iran. The world must say it will not stand for the day when that crazy regime will have nuclear weapons."
Rev. John Hagee, an Evangelical leader and activist, was quoted by the Jewish News as saying: "Iran poses a threat to the state of Israel that promises nothing less than a nuclear holocaust. ... It is 1938, Iran is Germany and Ahmadinejad is the new Hitler."
However, Hagee's address was not welcomed by all, with a senior Jewish leader describing his presence as "disturbing."
"Don't these people realize what this man stands for, in terms of church-state separation, in terms of what his followers see as Israel's role in the apocalypse?" the source told the Jewish Week.
Canadian Jews seek indictment of Ahmadinejad
Meanwhile, the Canadian Jewish News (CJN) reported that the B'nai Brith's Institute for International Affairs has been busy lobbying the Canadian government to "consider a series of diplomatic and legal steps against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because of his repeated incitement to genocide of Jews."
"The institute prepared an 'indictment' of the Iranian president that was presented to officials in the Prime Minister's Office, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and to representatives of the United States and Russia last week, laying out the legal case against Ahmadinejad," the CJN said.
In the indictment, Ahmadinejad's calls for Israel's destruction were cited, as well as the conference held in Tehran for the denial of the Holocaust.
"Genocide is the most grave crime known to humanity," the CJN quoted the indictment as stating.
"Waiting for genocide to happen is not acceptable. Canada must act now against the threat of genocide Mahmoud Ahmadinejad poses."
Soon available: Boston – Tel Aviv direct "For more than a decade, local travelers have had to take not one but at least two flights to get from Boston to Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. But that may soon change," Boston's the Jewish Advocate reported this week.
Massport, the company in charge of Boston's Logan International airport, has included Tel Aviv among its list of destinations to be made available in the next few years, the report said.
"Tel Aviv is one of our top international market priorities," a Massport representative was quoted by the Advocate as saying. He
added: "There's a lot of travel between Boston and Israel that goes many different ways." The source said he expected the route to be operational by 2009.
