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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Former President Clinton said Wednesday the United States should try to build a world of more friends and fewer enemies by following the principle that guided Americans after the devastating Asian tsunami: helping people because it was the right thing to do. At his first news conference in his new job as the top U.N. envoy for tsunami recovery, Clinton said the quick deployment of U.S. military ships and soldiers after the Dec. 26 natural disaster, the arrival of American relief workers and the donations from millions of Americans made a positive impact on worst-hit Indonesia....

Mass shows support for dozens of gays, lesbians 'Let go of anger and hate,' pastor says BY STEVE SCOTT Pioneer Press Responding to requests by families and friends of gays and lesbians, the Rev. John Clay celebrated a Mass of healing and support Thursday night at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in St. Paul. Nearly 150 people at the church at West Seventh Street and Western Avenue heard Clay call for people to love "those who aren't like us." He implored them to "listen to what it feels like to grow up in a society in which the majority is hostile"...

Ex-general Anthony Zinni joined the growing contestants seeking fame and fortune on the new "game show" called "It's the Jews!" Zinni hopes to be a star and the winning contestant by blaming the Jews or Israel for whatever mess he and others perceive in Iraq and the Arab world. No doubt, Zinni's new "fish bait" will catch a few more book offers and speaking engagements. One too many Israelis, and some of their leaders, refuse to respond to their alarm clocks. They just continue to snooze comfortably while dreaming securely about the promises made by their "dear friends", if only...

Berkeley Anti-Semitism 101By Dafka.orgDafka.org | August 7, 2003 (Dafka.org Ed: Susanna Klein, a UC Berkeley student, was attending her class in Iraqi Arabic this week when her instructor, Iraqi  Abbas Kadhim, alluded to the Protocols of Zion in class as being a real document written by Jews. The Protocols were long ago proven to be a fraud written by the Czar's secret police. In the Arab world it they are taught as fact and have even created a popular mini-series on Eyptian television produced by (you guesses it!) the Saudis. What is even more fascinating is Khadim is an ex-Iraqi...

Hatred of Jews is nothing new. It is as old as Abraham and certainly no less loathsome today than it was hundreds of years ago during the Crusades, or 60 years ago in Germany. If there has been a change, it is in the length to which anti-Semites will go to prove that they are anti-Israel and not anti-Semitic. It is acceptable, they reason, to hate Israelis without worrying that someone will call them a racist… or worse. In many ways, this hatred reached its highest point in the Holocaust, when hatred was sanctioned by a government, democratically elected to...