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>JN March 7, 2001, Vol. 9, No. 41
American Airlines Plans To Call Off Tel Aviv Flights
Arutz-7 News
The TWA Workers' Committee has protested the decision of TWA's likely purchaser - American Airlines - to suspend TWA's daily flights from New York to Tel Aviv. American's claim that "it does not make economic sense to continue the route at this time" was dismissed by the workers as being "based on other considerations." The workers noted that the JFK-Tel Aviv route earned almost $20 million in profits over the past two years and continues to fly at 80% capacity, while similar flights to Egypt and Saudi Arabia have not been canceled and implied that the reasons for the decision are likely political.
Hamas Admits Responsibility for Suicide Bombing
By BBC News
The military wing of the militant Palestinian group Hamas has said it was behind the suicide bombing that killed three Israelis and wounded dozens on Sunday.
On its website and in statements faxed to news agencies, Hamas said the bomber, 23-year-old Palestinian Ahmed Omar Alian, had got past Israeli security carrying 8.8 lbs of explosive. The group, which rejects the peace process between Israel and Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Authority, said Alian was the first of "more than 10 suicide bombers ready to strike the Zionist entity."
More attacks are expected when Israel's new Prime Minister, right-winger Ariel Sharon, takes office. He is expected to announce his new government on Wednesday. The armed wing of Hamas has claimed responsibility for most suicide bombings against Israel since the Oslo peace process began in 1993.
Sunday's bombing was the fourth this year. Israeli security forces are in a high state of alert, fearing more attacks as Sharon takes power at the same time as the Jewish holiday of Purim, which falls on Thursday night and Friday. Militants have attacked on Purim before, including a suicide bombing on a shopping center five years ago, when the many dead included children in holiday costumes.
The election of Sharon - by the largest margin of victory in Israeli political history - has enraged many Palestinians, who regard the former general as a "butcher." Though Sharon has forged a coalition with the center-left Labor party, his government will also include right-wing and religious parties.
Nazi War Criminal Brunner Being Tried a Second Time in France
By Jay Bushinsky (Courtesy of Ha'aretz)
Alois Brunner, the wartime SS officer who sent 140,000 Jews to Nazi Germany's death camps - tormenting, torturing and deceiving them in the process - will be pursued by France as long as there is the slightest evidence that he is still alive, and until there is firm proof that he is dead.
A French court came to this conclusion after hearing detailed accounts last week of how this rabid and satanic Austrian-born anti-Semite rounded up his helpless victims and made them believe that they would survive by obeying his inhuman dictates.
Brunner was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by French military tribunals, also in absentia, in 1954. This time the main charge against him was his having sent 354 Jewish children under the age of 18 to death camps. In one convoy, the children were accompanied by a 103-year-old woman, while the youngest deportee was only 15-days-old.
If the French security services follow through with the court's order not only will it complicate Paris' relations with the Damascus regime - since Brunner is believed to be living in Syria - but it will also cast a shadow on the impending visit of Syrian President Bashar Assad to the French capital.
Iran Releases Convicted Israeli Spy
By VOA News
Iranian authorities have released one of the 10 Jews convicted and jailed last year on charges of spying for Israel.
Ramin Nematizadeh left the prison in the southern city of Shiraz Monday. Officials said he received credit for time served in prison before his conviction. The arrest of Nematizadeh and nine other Jews drew sharp criticism from international aid groups and Western governments, who questioned whether any of the accused could receive fair trials under Iran's strict Islamic law.
In arguing to the contrary, the Tehran government pointed out that three defendants were acquitted. Ramin Nematizadeh originally received a four-year jail sentence, which was later reduced along with the sentences of the nine other defendants. Israel has denied any of the defendants spied for the Jewish state.
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