Saturday, November 25th, 2006 | Post a comment
BERLIN – A “witches brew” of Islamic fundamentalists, left-wing intellectuals and neo-Nazis is causing a new resurgence of anti-Semitism to spread across Western Europe and must be tackled, one of the continent’s leading experts on the subject has told The Jerusalem Post in an exclusive interview.
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Saturday, November 25th, 2006 | Post a comment
SYDNEY’S gay community has an infection rate of HIV that is similar to that of countries in Africa.
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South Korean officials have confirmed that an outbreak of bird flu in the country’s southwest was caused by the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus.
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Saturday, November 25th, 2006 | Post a comment
MOSCOW (AFP) – The head of Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom will visit Iran on December 11 to discuss economic cooperation between the two countries.
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Friday, November 24th, 2006 | Post a comment
Sometimes you really can tell a book by its cover. President Jimmy Carter’s decision to title his new anti-Israel screed “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” (Simon & Schuster, 288 pages, $27) tells it all. His use of the loaded word “apartheid,” suggesting an analogy to the hated policies of South Africa, is especially outrageous, considering his acknowledgment buried near the end of his shallow and superficial book that what is going on in Israel today “is unlike that in South Africa—not racism, but the acquisition of land.” Nor does he explain that Israel’s motivation for holding on to land it captured in a defensive war is the prevention of terrorism. Israel has tried, on several occasions, to exchange land for peace, and what it got instead was terrorism, rockets, and kidnappings launched from the returned land.
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Friday, November 24th, 2006 | Post a comment
Besides lower costs, nation boasts pool of educated, English-speaking workers
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Ninety-three percent of Israelis see terrorism as a major problem, a recent poll analyzing worldwide concern over terror revealed.
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Friday, November 24th, 2006 | Post a comment
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 23 — With an anti-Syria fury that recalled the aftermath of the assassination of the former prime minister Rafik Hariri, hundreds of thousands of people poured into this capital on Thursday for the funeral of the government minister slain Tuesday, Pierre Gemayel.
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Friday, November 24th, 2006 | Post a comment
Current scientific evidence is strong enough to justify using folic acid as a cheap and simply way of reducing heart disease and strokes, researchers have said.
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Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near an Iraqi army post. The soldiers did not intervene, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said.
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