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Pope: West Bank fence is a symbol of 'stalemate' Posted: 13 May 2009 12:06 PM PDT Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday branded the West Bank separation fence as a symbol of "stalemate" between Israel and the Palestinians, urging both sides to break a "spiral of violence". ...

U.S. man sentenced for stealing NGO funds for Palestinians Posted: 13 May 2009 11:33 AM PDT The former executive director of the American Task Force on Palestine has been sentenced to eight months in prison Wednesday for stealing more than $100,000 in contributions to the nonprofit. ...

Australian Holocaust denier sentenced to prison Posted: 13 May 2009 10:32 AM PDT An Australian who has denied the Holocaust occurred was sentenced Wednesday to three months in prison for defying an order to stop publishing anti-Semitic material on his Web site. ...

Germany finds Demjanjuk 'fit enough' to remain in prison Posted: 13 May 2009 08:13 AM PDT Suspected Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk is physically fit enough to remain in custody at Germany's Stadelheim prison, local officials said Wednesday. ...

OPINION / Criticizing Pope Benedict's Yad Vashem speech misses the point Posted: 13 May 2009 08:03 AM PDT These are strange, almost Kafkaesque times in Europe: Many find it more offensive to call someone an anti-Semite than to act like one and the Shoah has been drafted as a tool of anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists. Iranian President Ahmadinejad's latest Hitlerian speech got semi-positive reviews in parts of European mainstream press, some of which said he was "sort of right." ...

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