Don’t tell me Muslims aren’t fascist

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From Italian Book Fair’s Plans to Honor Israel Lead to Protests: The selection of Israel as guest of honor at this spring’s International Book Fair in Turin has set off a furious debate among Italian, Israeli and Arab authors and intellectuals, including calls to boycott the event, Italy’s largest annual gathering of the publishing world. Those opposed to the decision say that offering such an honor at a fair opening in May, when Israel will celebrate its 60th anniversary as a nation, is to ignore its policies toward Palestinians. “A prestigious event like the book fair can’t pretend it doesn’t

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The Cynical Use of Israel in Italian Politics

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From The Cynical Use of Israel in Italian Politics: Italy presently has a left-wing government. Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema was one of the strongest opponents of Israel when he was prime minister in 1998-2000. A few decades ago the Italian Left started to use the conflict as a strategic instrument to build domestic political alliances. It is not by chance that the radical shift in the EU’s stance toward Israel occurred in a declaration at a 1980 conference in an Italian city, Venice, which demanded the creation of a Palestinian state. It was issued when the PLO still explicitly said

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It’s not too late to convict Nazis

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From JPost: Despite the more than 60 years that have passed since the Holocaust, the number of Nazi war criminals being convicted is on the rise, a report released Thursday by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles shows. Nineteen Nazi war criminals were convicted over the last year,up from 16 a year earlier and five the year before that, according to the center’s seventh annual report. Fourteen of the 19 Nazis found guilty last year were convicted in absentia in Italy. The report slams Germany, Austria and Poland for failing toachieve “any progress” against the war criminals over the

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