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>JN Oct. 19, 1998, Vol. 6, No. 186
"Siege" By IsraelWire
An Arabic group in Washington, DC, is launching a campaign against the portrayal of Arabs and Muslims in the 20th-Century Fox film "Siege." The plot of the movie - which hasn't been released yet - revolves around a series of terrorist bombings ... allegedly by Muslims. The Council on American-Islamic Relations says the film reinforces stereotypes and links Islamic practices to terrorism.
Maryland Summit Announcement Expected
By Gil Butler (VOA-Wye Plantation, Md.)
The final day of a Middle East summit on Maryland's eastern shore
took place with President Clinton and Vice President Gore both
taking part. The talks are aimed at reaching agreements to put the
peace process -- stalemated for the past 19-months -- back on
track. Secrecy still surrounds the negotiations, which are taking
place on the grounds of the Wye River Conference Center.
State Department spokesman James Rubin says the goal is still to
complete work on an interim agreement. The main feature of the
agreement is Israeli withdrawal in return for heightened
Palestinian security. In addition there are economic aspects --
including a Palestinian industrial zone and an airport.
Israel's Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Yitzhak
Mordecai arrived at the conference site early to join the
negotiations. In answer to a shouted question, Mordecai said he
was optimistic about an agreement being reached.
In the absence of hard news, speculative reports continue to float
around Maryland's eastern shore. One -- that Clinton has
threatened to recognize a Palestinian state if Israelis do not
reach an agreement -- has been denied both here and in Jerusalem.
Bibi and Sara Went for Walk and Got Lost
By IsraelWire
Saturday, the prime minister and his wife decided to go for a long
walk on the grounds of the Wye Plantation and found themselves in
for an adventure. They lost their way and were compelled to go
through an area described as difficult to walk through, with high
bushes, thorns and no walkway. As a result, they were tardy in
their return to their room.
When they finally returned, the prime minister was said to be in
good spirits. He was quoted as saying, "Just as we got out of this
complicated situation, I hope we will see our way through the
complications surrounding the talks and reach a good agreement."
The prime minister took advantage of the weekend break from the
talks to spend "quality time" with his wife. The two went to a
nearby fish restaurant for dinner, escorted by a large security
contingent and a helicopter.
Anti-Nazi Group Demands Bavaria Detain Auschwitz Doctor
By IsraelWire
The anti-Nazi Simon Wiesenthal Center has urged the German state of
Bavaria to arrest a former concentration camp doctor living there
and investigate him on charges of war crimes and denigrating
the Holocaust.
In a letter to Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber, it said Hans Muench, 87, had admitted in an interview with the magazine Der Spiegel that he had no regrets about conducting cruel experiments on Jewish inmates at the Auschwitz camp.
Muench, who was acquitted of war crimes after the war, also told
Spiegel the Waffen-SS "hygienic service" where he worked had "ideal
working conditions, excellent laboratory equipment and a selection
of academics of world-wide reputation."
Shimon Samuels, the Center's director for international liaison,
wrote in his letter he was horrified to see "in the two weeks since
publication, there has been no official German reaction to this
outrageous glorification of the Holocaust."
"To do otherwise, as we approach the 60th anniversary of the
'Kristallnacht Reichspogrom', would be tantamount to a passive
encouragement of the contemporary forces of extremism and hate," he
wrote to Stoiber.
Samuels said Muench, in his interview in the Sept. 28 edition of
the weekly magazine, had spoken of Jews as sub-humans and praised
the notorious Auschwitz doctor Joseph Mengele, who led grotesque
experiments on inmates there that usually ended in their deaths.
"I could conduct experiments on humans that otherwise are only
possible on rabbits," boasted Muench, whose experiments included
infecting inmates with malaria to see whether they were immune to
the disease or not. "That was important work for science."
Muench also recalled how he ordered whole barracks of inmates to be
gassed if one came down with a contagious disease, remarking: "That
was the usual therapy." Muench praised Mengele as a man who was
highly intelligent and cultured and convinced that the Germans were
the saviors of European civilization.
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