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• Turkey: World is turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear weapons
• Study: Anti-Semitism in Europe hit new high in 2009
• Australia FM: We need more time on Dubai passport probe
• Lech Kaczynski, a staunch friend of Polish Jewry
• The Arab position on the Holocaust

Turkey: World is turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear weapons Posted: 11 Apr 2010 10:31 AM PDT Turkey's prime minister said Sunday that the world is turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear program and that he intends to raise the issue at the nuclear summit in Washington. ...

Study: Anti-Semitism in Europe hit new high in 2009 Posted: 11 Apr 2010 08:43 AM PDT The worldwide increase in anti-Semitic attacks following Israel's 2009 incursion into Gaza hit the U.K. and France the hardest compared to all other European countries, according to Tel Aviv University's watchdog on anti-Semitism. ...

Australia FM: We need more time on Dubai passport probe Posted: 11 Apr 2010 05:22 AM PDT Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Sunday he needed to further deliberate on the alleged fake passports used in January's Dubai hit after receiving the initial police report about the case, the French news agency AFP reported. ...

Lech Kaczynski, a staunch friend of Polish Jewry Posted: 11 Apr 2010 12:55 AM PDT Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who died Saturday in a plane crash in western Russia, was a former anti-communist activist who teamed up with his twin brother to take his country in a nationalist, conservative direction. ...

The Arab position on the Holocaust Posted: 10 Apr 2010 09:08 PM PDT One sometimes encounters the Palestinian argument that there is a basic injustice in the fact that they appear to have to pay the price for Europe's crimes during the Holocaust. It's true, of course, that Nazi Germany and its allies, and not the Palestinians, are those guilty of perpetrating the Holocaust. Nonetheless, any argument that links the establishment of the State of Israel exclusively to the Holocaust ignores the fact that modern Zionism preceded the annihilation of the Jews in World War II, even if the Holocaust clearly strengthened the claim for Jewish sovereignty. ...

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