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>JN July 25, 2001, Vol. 9, No. 125
U.S. Citizen Convicted of Spying for Israel
By IsraelNationalNews.com
Richard Kelly Smith, 71, was arrested by U.S, officials after he spent the past 16 years hiding in Spain.
Smith is being charged with spying for Israel, selling nuclear arms parts illegally.
Israeli Teenager Shot, Stabbed To Death
By Meredith Buel (VOA-Jerusalem) & IsraelNationalNews.com
An Israeli teenager has been shot and stabbed to death in the West Bank. The body of Yuri Gushtzin was found by Palestinians near the West Bank town of Ramallah and given to the Israeli army. Israeli police said the body was found near the Jewish settlement of Beit El. Police said he was apparently kidnapped, then shot and stabbed to death.
The victim was last seen at a friend's house in the northeastern suburb of Pisgat Ze'ev around midnight, only three buildings away from his own home. In the middle of his short walk home, Arabs apparently pounced on him and brought him to the PA town of Al Bireh.
A similar murder occurred three months ago, when Stanislav Sandomirsky, a new immigrant from Russia who spoke neither Hebrew or English, was last seen leaving Jerusalem's northern neighborhood of N'vei Yaakov and was murdered in the Ramallah area.
His widow Ina told Arutz-7 that information she received at the time leads to the conclusion that after he began driving, Arabs stopped the car by causing a near-accident, forced their way in, and abducted him. Those murderers have not been caught.
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, asked by reporters if Israel planned to retaliate for the murder, did not respond.
Responding to a request by police involved in the investigation, the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court has placed a ban on publication of details surrounding the investigation as well as a photo of the victim.
Palestinians Clash with Gaza Police
By VOA News
Palestinians have clashed with their own police during a protest against the Palestinian Authority's reported crackdown on anti-Israeli militants.
Hundreds of demonstrators were involved in the clash with police Monday evening outside the Gaza City home of the head of Palestinian intelligence, Mussa Arafat. Protesters hurled stones and both sides fired shots into the air. There were minor injuries, and protesters wrecked the cars of the intelligence chief and his son.
A high-ranking Palestinian official later accused Hamas of provoking the incident and of trying to undermine the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian police have since increased their presence around the home of the intelligence chief.
The demonstration came a day after Palestinian police shot and wounded three masked Palestinians who were returning from an anti-Israeli attack in Gaza. The protesters also were seeking the release of two young men detained by Palestinian security on Sunday.
In a related move, Palestinian authorities have prepared a list of more than 50 Jews they want Israel to arrest as suspects in attacks and crimes against Palestinians. A senior Palestinian security official says he will present the list at a security meeting planned for Wednesday. The list mirrors Israel's demand for the Palestinian Authority to arrest a number of anti-Israeli activists.
Vatican Denies Access to Pius XII Holocaust Investigators
By Avi Katzman and Shlomo Shamir (Courtesy of Ha'aretz)
An international committee of historians, commissioned by the Vatican to examine the role of the Holy See during the Holocaust, has decided to suspend its work.
In a letter, the committee accused the Vatican of refusing to make available relevant documents from its archives, so the historians could no longer continue drafting their report and were suspending their work.
The committee of five includes three Jewish scholars, including Hebrew University historian Prof. Robert S. Wistrich, and two Jesuit scholars. A sixth member, Prof. Eva Flieschner, a Catholic, retired some time ago.
The Vatican commissioned the scholars in December 1999 to serve without compensation on the panel.
In their letter to the head of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, the scholars declared that after much deliberation they concluded they would have to suspend their work, specifically citing the Vatican's refusal to give them access to its archives concerning World War II. According to the preliminary report prepared by the panel, between 1938 and 1945 Pius XII was getting reports about the persecution of Jews in Nazi-controlled parts of Europe and was aware of mass deportations of Jews. But it is not clear if he or anyone else at the Vatican was aware of the plan for a "Final Solution."
Jewish sources in New York last night said the Vatican's refusal to allow access to archives relating to Pius XII's attitudes and behavior toward the Nazis and Jews in World War II was part of efforts to prevent the completion of a report that the Vatican knows will reflect badly on the late pope.
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