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Mar. 31, 2003 Palestinian observer to UN Human Rights Commission calls for "elimination" of Israel By HERB KEINON The Simon Wiesenthal Center demanded Sunday the recall of the Palestinian observer to the UN Human Rights Commission for calling for the "elimination" of Israel. Shimon Samuels, the Wiesenthal Center's representative at the 59th Human Rights Commission session currently taking place in Geneva, wrote the UN Human Rights High Commissioner Sergio Vieira de Mello calling on him to "immediately condemn the Palestinian observer and take the necessary measures for his recall, due to his violation of the UN Charter in calling for...

Such is the richness of European culture, even its decadence is creative. Since 1945 it has produced the truly remarkable phenomenon of anti-Semitism without Jews. How does Europe do that? Now it offers Christian anti-Semitism without the Christianity. An example of this is the recent cartoon in La Stampa -- a liberal Italian newspaper -- depicting the infant Jesus in a manger, menaced by an Israeli tank and saying "Don't tell me they want to kill me again." This reprise of that hardy perennial, Jews as Christ-killers, clearly still strikes a chord in contemporary Italy, where the culture is as...

April/May 2000 In This Issue From the EditorThe Arab/Muslim Nazi ConnectionOld Man and the SeaIDF Leaving Lebanon After Assad Sinks Golan DealOslo in a RutSchedule Revised, But Same Old Issues Plague Israel-PA TalksMixing Faith And PoliticsIsrael, PA Court Pope During Holy Land TourViewpoint - Les Enfants TerriblesNews BriefsMiddle East Hourglass Top of Page Top of Page Top of Page Top of Page Top of Page Top of Page The Arab/Muslim Nazi Connection Left: A picture taken in 1943 of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini reviewing Bosnian-Muslim troops - a unit of the "Hanjar (Saber) Division" of...

King: Saudi peace idea gives Israel chance to live with its neighbours PARIS (Agencies) — His Majesty King Abdullah reaffirmed his backing for a Saudi peace initiative for the Middle East, saying Israel will have security once it resolves its differences with its Arab neighbours, not just the Palestinians, in a newspaper interview published Saturday. “Beyond solving the conflict with the Palestinians,” King Abdullah told Le Figaro newspaper, that the Saudi initiative “offers Israelis the chance to integrate in the region” and to resolve “its differences with its direct neighbours the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.” In mid-February, Saudi Crown Prince...