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Fast Forward Cartoon Depicts German Minister as Nazi in Greek Paper
Germany condemned on Friday a cartoon published in a Greek leftist newspaper close to the new ruling party in Athens that depicts Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in a Nazi uniform making comments that invoke the Holocaust. In the cartoon, carried in the daily Avgi (The Dawn), mouthpiece of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ Syriza party,…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel Supports to Netanyahu’s Speech as Poll Shows Americans Oppose It
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is lending his support to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech to Congress on the dangers of Iran’s nuclear program – an address that has antagonized the White House and divided American Jews. An outspoken New Jersey Orthodox rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, said on Thursday…
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Fast Forward ISIS Holds Israeli Arab as ‘Mossad Spy’
Islamic State said on Thursday it was holding an Israeli Arab who had posed as a foreign fighter in order to spy for Mossad, an account denied by Israel and by the man’s family, who said he had been kidnapped. In an interview published by Islamic State’s online English-language magazine Dabiq, Muhammad Musallam, 19, said…
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Fast Forward Bob Simon Dies in Car Crash — Award-Winner Stoked Israel Controversy on ’60 Minutes’
Veteran CBS News correspondent Bob Simon, whose decades-long career included covering major overseas conflicts and surviving Iraqi prison, was killed in a car accident on Wednesday in New York City, police and CBS said. He was 73. A longtime member of the network’s “60 Minutes” on-air team, Simon was a passenger in a hired car…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Insists Congress Speech Is On
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fending off criticism at home and abroad, said on Tuesday he remained determined to speak before the U.S. Congress next month on Iran’s nuclear program. “I am going to the United States not because I seek a confrontation with the President, but because I must fulfill my obligation to speak…
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Fast Forward No Jews Included in 8-Member German Anti-Semitism Commission
(Reuters) — Jewish groups in Germany sharply criticized a new government commission on anti-Semitism on Tuesday, saying the lack of a single Jewish member on the panel was scandalous and pledging to set up a rival body. Germany’s interior ministry set up a group of experts last year to help fight anti-Semitism and boost Jewish life…
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Fast Forward Ed Sabol, Football Filmmaker, Dies at 98
Ed Sabol, founder of NFL Films, died Monday at his home in Arizona. He was 98. The NFL made the announcement on the league’s website. Sabol was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2011 for revolutionizing sports television. His company is owned by the NFL and produces most of the league’s behind-the-scenes video…
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Fast Forward Dominique Strauss-Kahn To Testify About Hooker Sex Parties
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief who was tipped to become French president before being accused of sexual assault by a New York maid in 2011, will testify to a criminal court on Tuesday over his alleged role in sex parties with prostitutes. The allegations that he participated in a French sex ring have dogged…
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