The Middle East Peace is moving. It is very, very hopeful.
Jerusalem Post
Likud endorses referendum as Sharon slams extremists
By GIL HOFFMAN
Sharon's speech was often interrupted
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The Likud central committee voted to support holding a referendum on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza Strip withdrawal plan in a stormy session of the committee at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds on Thursday night.
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'Syria wants peace talks with Israel'
By KEN SATLOFF AND AP
BEIRUT, Lebanon
An Arab diplomat involved in efforts to resolve the crisis in Lebanon said Thursday that the Syrians want a new arrangement including resuming peace talks with Israel as part of any troop withdrawal from Lebanon.
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Car bomb explodes at Joseph's Tomb
By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN
A Palestinian police officer looks at wreckage of a car which exploded in Nablus Thursday
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A car bomb exploded Wednesday night near an IDF unit escorting Jewish worshippers back home after prayers at Joseph's Tomb near Nablus on the West Bank.
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Reading the Russian mind
By HERB KEINON
'I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia," Winston Churchill said in October 1939, coining one of his most memorable phrases. "It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
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Haaretz
Abbas asks Mubarak to help maintain truce with Israel
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Staff and Agencies
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to personally oversee that both Israelis and Palestinian factions adhere to the truce reached at last month's Sharm el-Sheik conference.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/547294.html
Egypt, Saudi Arabia seek to ease 'crisis' over Syrian pullout
By Yoav Stern and Nathan Gutman, Haaretz Correspondents, and Reuters
Egypt and Saudi Arabia are seeking to ease a crisis over international pressure on Syria to withdraw from Lebanon, Egypt's presidential spokesman said on Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/547627.html
Anti-Semitism USA
White Supremacists Target NASCAR's Daytona 500 For Major Recruitment Drive
Update: A small airplane towing a banner displaying the slogan: "Love Your Race: www.natall.com" made several passes over the Daytona 500 event. At least two white supremacists were seen distributing National Alliance literature at a parking lot near the Daytona Speedway. A white supremacist Web site claimed that at least three different fliers were handed out near the racetrack.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, February 18, 2005 … One of the country's largest and most virulent anti-Semitic and racist hate groups plans to undertake a major recruitment drive at the Daytona International Speedway during NASCAR's Daytona 500 Race on Sunday, February 20.
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FACES FORWARD: Filmmaker Confronts 'Protocols' Myth in Documentary
By JON KALISH
January 14, 2005
In the weeks and months after the attacks of September 11, 2001, filmmaker Marc Levin kept hearing from New York City cab drivers that no Jews had died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. One Egyptian driver not only repeated the canard that "Jews were warned about 9/11," but posited that the alleged heads-up was consistent with "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," the notorious fictional 19th-century account of a meeting held by Jews to plot world domination.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=kalish200501121041
MP denies making anti-Jewish slur
Jan 19 2005
By Staff Reporter, Birmingham Post
A Midland MP has condemned claims he made a "scandalous and suggestive" personal attack on Conservative leader Michael Howard, after Tories complained to the Commission for Racial Equality.
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Billionaire Liberals Seek To Fund Idea Mills
By e.J. KESSLER
January 21, 2005
A handful of ultra-wealthy Jewish liberals are resolving to do battle with conservatives by providing a big infusion of cash to progressive think tanks and idea mills.
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=kessler200501191033
Report on Global Antisemitism
U.S. Department of State
IHC Abstract
This exhaustive U.S. Department of State report on antisemitism, covering July 2003-December 2004, shows a steady increase in hostile activities towards Jewish communities, unequalled since World War II. The report opens with a general definition of antisemitism, that is “hatred towards Jews – individually and as a group – that can be attributed to the Jewish religion and/or ethnicity.” It emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between legitimate criticism of policies and practices of the State of Israel, and commentary that assumes an antisemitic character. It proceeds to divide antisemitic acts into four general categories:
1) Traditional anti-Jewish prejudice that has pervaded Europe, including ultra-nationalists and others who claim the Jewish community controls governments, media outlets, and the financial world;
2) Antisemitism that emerges from strong anti-Israel feelings;
3) Anti-Jewish sentiments expressed by Muslim communities through longstanding antipathy towards Israel and the Jews;
4) Criticism of the U.S. and globalization that tends to unjustifiably implicate Israel, and Jews in general, who are identified with both.The report goes on to make general observations of antisemitic trends in various regions around the world, noting intimidation and violent incidents are the most rampant in Europe and Muslim countries.
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/vi/200120051
LETTER FROM PARIS: Holocaust Memorial Performs A Strained Balancing Act
Holocaust Memorial Performs A Strained Balancing Act
By Boris Fishman
January 28, 2005
Paris — On Tuesday, French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated France's official Holocaust Memorial and "renew[ed] our country's promise never to forget what it proved unable to avoid." The memorial's patrons — the French government, a supporting foundation and the Jewish community, among others — intend the museum as "Europe's institution of reference for the Holocaust," a counterpart to "Washington's Holocaust Museum and Jerusalem's Yad Vashem."
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?id=2604
… more of Michael Moore Today
Family of four struggles with homelessness
Michelle and Sean Christopher, along with sons Jacob and Mason, live at the Christian Aid Center. The family has been homeless for several months, and came to Walla Walla for medical treatment for Sean.
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
When Sean Christopher left 11 years of military life in 1999, nothing in his combat training could have prepared him for his present situation.
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Bombs strike two Iraqi targets, killing 6
U.S. death toll in Iraq passes 1,500
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Bombers struck two Iraqi security targets on Thursday, killing five police officers near the Interior Ministry in Baghdad and another person in front of a police headquarters in Baquba, authorities said.
As the U.S. death toll in the war passed 1,500, Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi extended a state of emergency throughout the country for 30 days, his office said Thursday.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=1644
US display marks 1,500 war dead
Portraits of nearly all of the 1,500 US troops killed in Iraq are going on display at a New York state university.
The pictures, mostly painted by art students, stare down from a 60m (200ft) wall at Syracuse University.
"It's not about the war or politics. It's about these people who have given their lives," said Stephen Zaima, a professor at the university.
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New Zealand Herald
Anger as Bali plotter gets 30 months
Abu Bakar Bashir outside the tightly guarded court yesterday. Picture / Reuters
04.03.05
JAKARTA - Firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir could be free before the end of next year after being jailed yesterday for conspiring with the Bali bombers over the deadly 2002 nightclub attack.
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Police move to stamp out 'sick' culture
Judge Bruce Davidson said the police culture that led to this photo was 'sick'.
04.03.05
by David Eames and Louisa Cleave
Police moved swiftly yesterday to set up a sweeping inquiry into what a judge described as a "sick" culture within the force.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10113555
Stem cell transplant woman's last hope
Rein and Willy Terpstra hope a transplant of two million stem cells into Willy's brain will give her the ability to speak again and ward off at least some of the ravages of motor neurone disease. Picture / Alan Gibson
04.03.05
by Elizabeth Binning
More than anything else, motor neurone sufferer Willy Terpstra would love the opportunity to speak again - even for just one day.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10113550
Costly genetic tests for cancer worry specialists
04.03.05
by Martin Johnston and Rebecca Walsh
Medical specialists and officials are concerned by overseas companies offering expensive genetic tests to people worried by cancer in their family.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10113549
Rival royals give new life to debate on monarchy
04.03.05
CANBERRA - Royal fever has been sweeping Australia as Prince Charles and Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary criss-cross the continent this week - and republicans and monarchists could not be happier.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10113504
Korean companies help workers play on the sly
04.03.05
SEOUL - A South Korean software company has found a way to help people appear to be hard at work while they are actually playing computer games at their desks.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10113492
Keith Locke: NZ can do more to bring about peaceful, just world
Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff is in Sri Lanka today to see the tsunami relief efforts firsthand. He can be proud of the contribution New Zealanders have made there and in the other countries inundated on Boxing Day.
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