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Outraged Belgian Jews Threaten Suit against Arafat


(Jerusalem Post)- Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Belgium's Jewish community is "extremely angered" by a Supreme Court ruling that Ariel Sharon can be tried for war crimes in Belgium, according to Betty Dan, head of the Brussels-based Radio Judaica. "Seven years after his arrest we still have not put the child murderer Jacques Dutroux on trial, we have not caught the killers of (former deputy prime minister and Socialist party leader Andre) Cools, we never found out who was behind the series of terror attacks on supermarkets in the 1980s, but we take the time to judge the whole world," Dan said. She said a Belgian Jew who was hurt in a bombing attack on the main synagogue in Brussels in 1982, for which the PLO took responsibility, is planning to press charges against Yasser Arafat.
2003-02-14 00:00:00
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