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Top U.S. Jewish Group Calls for Global Condemnation of Palestinian Violence
(Algemeiner) Last week, three Israelis - including a three-day-old infant - died and more than a dozen were wounded as a result of Palestinian attacks in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Chairman Arthur Stark and Executive Vice Chairman and CEO Malcolm Hoenlein said on Friday, "We await the international community's forceful condemnation of these terrorist outrages against innocent citizens, but we know from past history that it will be, at best, slow in coming, except from the United States." The previous week, "the members of the United Nations were unable to summon the necessary conviction, decency, and moral clarity to condemn Hamas, an organization which has claimed responsibility for a number of these attacks, which has...planned and undertaken thousands of terrorist acts targeting civilians over the last 30 years. We support the Israeli government's decision to take all necessary and proper steps to safeguard the lives of its citizens and to keep them from harm."