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Israel's national soccer team are on the brink of expulsion from the Euro 2004 qualifying campaign, according to a senior UEFA official, The Jerusalem Post learned on Wednesday. The official, speaking on condition of anonimity, said that the IFA's inability to provide the required guarantees for staging the home matches in Palermo in April, has led UEFA to consider throwing Israel out of the competition. "UEFA has been discussing the matter and its consequences during the last couple of days, and has even notified the IFA of what may happen," the source said. "Should the IFA fail to submit the...

The most revealing aspect of the anti-war march in London was what you did not see. You did not see any messages to Saddam Hussein or criticism of Iraqi policy. These earnest seekers of peace, with so many signs denouncing George W. Bush and Tony Blair, had nothing to say to Saddam Hussein; no request to please co-operate with the UN inspectors. Not one small poster asking Saddam to disarm or destroy his weapons of mass destruction. Perhaps somewhere in that million people there were some bravely asking him to "Leave Iraq and prevent war," but I could not find...

Democrats battling for political survival in races that may decide the balance of power in Congress are getting a big boost from the anti-war effort. MoveOnPAC.org, an Internet site, has raised more than $1 million in 48 hours for what it calls four "heroes" of Congress who opposed the Iraq resolution. Sen. Paul D. Wellstone of Minnesota, Reps. Rick Larsen and Jay Inslee of Washington, and Rep. Rush D. Holt of New Jersey are being rewarded as "heroes of the anti-war effort" with money to fight their opponents in these last two weeks before the election, said Peter Schurman, executive...

The Simon Wiesenthal Center sent letters of protest earlier this week expressing "disgust and outrage" to the Tel Aviv embassies of the six EU countries who voted for a virulently anti-Israel UN resolution Monday condoning Palestinian terror. Efraim Zuroff, director of the center's Israel office, warned in the letters sent to the ambassadors of France, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Spain, and Portugal that the resolution would only encourage Islamic extremists. Zuroff said ambassadors, of all people, should be aware of the nature of the terror campaign waged against Israel by Palestinian terrorists. The resolution, adopted by the UN Commission on Human...