In The Days

The Nazi officer Klaus Barbie escaped to Bolivia; he and others got American help.

In chilling detail, the report also elaborates on the close working relationship between Nazi leaders and the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who later claimed that he sought refuge in wartime Germany only to avoid arrest by the British.

In fact, the report says, the Muslim leader was paid “an absolute fortune” of 50,000 marks a month (when a German field marshal was making 25,000 marks a year). It also said he energetically recruited Muslims for the SS, the Nazi Party’s elite military command, and was promised that he would be installed as the leader of Palestine after German troops drove out the British and exterminated more than 350,000 Jews there.

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Some say sentiment will never change; others dismiss this scornfully, reminding us of the country’s extraordinary sympathy toward Israel in the period between the Oslo Accords in 1993 and the Barcelona Conference in 1995.

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Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff is on trial in Hungary over charges filed by an alleged mass murderer. Sandor Kepiro accused Zuroff of libel, saying Zuroff should have spoken of Kepiro’s alleged war crimes as opinion, instead of stating them as fact.

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“The Holy Scriptures cannot be used to justify the return of Jews to Israel and the displacement of the Palestinians, to justify the occupation by Israel of Palestinian lands,” Monsignor Cyril Salim Bustros, Greek Melkite archbishop of Our Lady of the Annunciation in Boston, Massachusetts, and president of the “Commission for the Message,” said at Saturday’s Vatican press conference.

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Man walks past gate in Oranienburg just north
A man walks past a gate in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg just north of Berlin, in 2006.

A senior Iranian cleric, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, dismissed the Nazi Holocaust of Jews during World War II as a new “superstition” for the West, media reported on Saturday.

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Economy, violence and anti-Semitism cited as primary reasons for decline over the last decade.

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Cromitie also bemoans American military ventures in the Middle East.
“What do we do to make it stop?” he says. “We start taking things down here, you understand?” He adds: “I will kill 10 million (Jews) before I kill one Muslim.”

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One of the 2002 Bali bombers, Amrozi bin Nurhasin, on trial in an Indonesian courtroom and headed toward execution, shouted out the message he wanted his crime to convey: “Jews: Remember Khaibar. The army of Muhammad is coming back to defeat you.”

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MALMÖ, Sweden • Finally, the shouts of “Heil Hitler” that frequently greeted Marcus Eilenberg as he walked to the synagogue were too much. Fearing for his family’s safety, Eilenberg moved himself, his wife and two children to Israel.

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Nir Barkat calls UN building halt ask “racist; illegal.”

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