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Life ‘Denial’ Tells Tale of Historian Deborah Lipstadt’s Epic Fight Over Holocaust
“Denial” is the true story of a Jewish woman who had to prove in court that the Holocaust had taken place, but it also has a timely message for present day society, according to director Mick Jackson. “Denial,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last weekend, recounts how Deborah Lipstadt, a prominent historian,…
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Fast Forward 95-Year-Old Auschwitz Paramedic Charged in 3,681 Murders
A 95-year-old former paramedic at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz was charged in a German court on Monday with being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people in a trial that is likely to be one of Germany’s last linked to the Holocaust. Hubert Zafke worked as a paramedic in Auschwitz from…
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Fast Forward Israel Building 40-Mile Underground Barrier To Block Gaza Tunnels
Israel has begun construction of an underground barrier along the frontier with the Gaza Strip that is meant to block cross-border tunnels built by Palestinian militants, Israeli defense and political sources said on Thursday. Since being blindsided during a 2014 war by tunnel raiders from the Hamas Islamist group that controls Gaza, Israel has stepped…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Court Scraps Municipal Elections as Hamas and Fatah Feud
The Palestinian high court in Ramallah has ruled that municipal elections scheduled for Oct. 8 cannot go ahead after a dispute over party lists and the inability to hold the vote in East Jerusalem, which has been annexed by Israel. The elections would have been the first democratic exercise in the Palestinian territories in a…
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Fast Forward Ex-Defense Chief William Cohen Backs Hillary Clinton — ‘Not Comfortable’ With Donald Trump
Former Republican U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen on Wednesday said he will likely vote for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election, citing her experience as secretary of state and former first lady. “In all likelihood, I would say yes,” Cohen who served as defense secretary under former U.S….
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Fast Forward Israel Space Boss Wary of SpaceX After Blast
The chief executive of Israeli satellite operator Space Communication Ltd said on Tuesday he wants to see “several safe flights” from SpaceX before using Elon Musk’s space firm again to launch one of his company’s satellites. In an interview with Reuters, Spacecom CEO David Pollack also said he does not know what caused the explosion…
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Fast Forward World War I Artillery Shells Unearthed as Drought-Hit Sea of Galilee Recedes
Receding waters in the drought-hit Sea of Galilee have uncovered five World War One artillery shells likely dumped by retreating Turkish troops a century ago, Israeli police said on Tuesday. A swimmer at a resort on the southern edge of the biblical freshwater lake discovered the ordnance, and police demolition experts safely detonated the shells…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Says No Meeting With Benjamin Netanyahu — Yet
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that a proposed meeting in Moscow with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be held for now. “President Putin has proposed a meeting on Sept. 9 in Moscow. I agreed to this and I was to go to Moscow directly from here,” Abbas told a joint news…
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